Podcasts about fifth step

We have Emmy & BAFTA winning actor Martin Freeman joining us for dinner this week! And he may have a filthier mind than me! In the midst of rehearsals for his new play, mum served up a delicious Ginger Pig lamb with an array of gorgeous sides for Martin. We heard all about his love of musicals (especially West Side Story), how he nearly became a professional squash player in his youth, how he gave up being a vegetarian after 25 years, what it's like being the youngest of 5 children, and we hear about the exciting new play he is starring in with Jack Lowden. We laughed throughout this whole episode, Martin was a total dream dinner party guest (even if he had given up puddings for lent!). Martin's show ‘The Fifth Step' opens at ‘@SohoPlace' on 12th May and runs through to the end of July. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back! And we've got loads of recommendations that we've been jotting down since the last season. As always, send us your ideas to our instagram @makingthecutpodcast.Cache Cache - https://cachecachelondon.com/Birdman - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/Simply Piano - https://join-piano.hellosimply.com/Forest Feast - https://forestfeast.com/Street Shirts - https://www.streetshirts.co.uk/Better Man - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14260836/The Fifth Step - https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43712-the-fifth-step Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Joe McDonald as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this session, Joe discusses the spiritual delight that can come after completing a fifth step. For many, the first time may bring feelings of being unburdened, though sometimes it may add a burden. Joe reflects on his own experience, feeling dead in spirit but eventually recognizing the joy of spiritual awakening when it was pointed out to him by another.Taking someone through a fifth step can be transformative for both people involved, especially when one helps another unpack their experience. In AA, there's an acknowledgment that helping others in their journey allows us to feel a shared sense of delight in the process, even if we were initially unaware of it.To support and learn from journeys like Joe McDonald, please like, comment, and share. Subscribe to our channel and join us every Thursday at 7 p.m. Arizona time for discussions on the AA steps and transformative real-life stories. Your engagement helps us reach and assist others on their path to recovery. Make sure to subscribe for more powerful recovery insights and join us live for the full step experience with spiritual discussions every Thursday night at 7 p.m. Arizona time.Join us for more inspiring recovery stories and transformative insights.Check out our website at: www.positionofneutrality.orgYouTube:http://www.youtube.com/@positionofneutrality721Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositionOfNeutralitySpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3mGbAbcacTs83RhMsv6FmY?si=6531e7adfdbb480eRSS: Position of Neutrality | RSS.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@interactivestepexp?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc#PositionOfNeutrality, #JoeMcDonald, #BrianReinhart, #WayneGiles, #EricReinhart, #DeniseMcDonald, #JoeTeaches, #BigBookAA, #ISEJourney, #Step5AA, #Step6AA, #Step7AA, #LGBTQRecovery, #SpiritualAwakening, #PersonalGrowth, #RecoverySupport, #HigherPower, #HealingJourney, #TransformativeMeetings, #AAprogram, #RecoverySteps, #OvercomingAddiction, #SpiritualGrowth, #EmotionalHealing, #CourageInRecovery, #SelfReflection, #FaithInAction, #RecoveryJourney, #LivingSober, #SerenityInSurrender, #RecoveryCommunity

In this episode, I talk about how often I hear about people having bad experiences with Step Five. And I share some of my beliefs about why this is. Here is my Instagram. Get my books on Amazon! 

Höstterminen är igång och vi pratar skräckminnen från sommaren, Kingnyheter, förväntningar på den tredje filmatiseringen av Salem's Lot, men någon sorts fokus landar på The Fifth Step från novelssamlingen You Like it Darker.

Daina is a Holistic Fatigue & Stress Resilience Coach helping busy professional women break free from low energy using her unique holistic health approach that blends personalized nutrition, energy elevation strategies and stress regulation tools to reduce brain fog and overwhelm so they can create sustainable growth within their career.She helps women uncover the root cause of what creates long-term fatigue for simple yet sustainable energy optimization by balancing hormones, shifting nutrition mindset, and accounting for natural changes in women's health. Social Media Handles:(use only what you want)Website (www.theenergizedwoman.com)Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/the.energized.woman/Boost Your Energy Naturally Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/189302188326236/Pinterest for The Energized Womanhttps://pin.it/1r7SNbiIf you want to connect and know more about me and my podcast: Leap of Healthyou can find me at :www.alexbalgood.comFacebook @AlxBalgood and @leapofhealthwithalexbalgoodInstagram @AlexbalgoodYoutube @AlexBalgoodBuy on Amazon Book: Parents, Our Greatest Teachers by Alex Balgood available on paper bag & kindle version and Barnes and Noble Books#alexbalgood, #alwaysmoving, #author, #morefiber, #gutbrain, #healer, #healeverything, #healing, #intuition, #intuitivehealing, #leapofhealthpodcast #quantumhealing, #nutritioncoach #massagetherapy, #artheals, #airquality, #soundhealing, #healingslowly, #functionalmedicine, #fertility, #sunlighttherapy, #Circadianrhythm, 

Clive Anderson is joined by comedian Jason Byrne who returns to Edinburgh for his 28th consecutive Fringe with No Show, a performance that will be totally new each night. Playwright and actor David Ireland's award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American have had success across the world. His latest play The Fifth Step stars Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder as they navigate the road to recovery. Shetland comedian Marjolein Robertson's show titled O is full to the brim with blood as she explores her fascination with her own funeral and her near death experience. My English Persian Kitchen is the true story of losing a homeland, and building a new life and community around the tastes and aromas of an Iranian kitchen. Isabella Nefar chats about starring in the play, and cooking on stage. With music from Scottish violinist and composer Catriona Price and Two Hearts, AKA New Zealand's hottest comedy pop-music duo Laura Daniel and Joseph Moore. Presented by Clive Anderson Produced by Caitlin Sneddon

Andrea, who's story appears in the July Prison issue of Grapevine, talks to Don and Sam about getting sober while incarcerated. She recalls a women who brought a meeting into the facility saying to her "you don't ever have to feel this way again," and it made a huge impact on her. Andrea also tells about giving her Fifth Step to a guard. Andrea helps answer a question in "A Newcomer Asks" as well.While we provide the podcast at no charge, we do have expenses. Grapevine is the only AA entity that does not accept contributions, so to support the AA Grapevine Podcast, please subscribe to Grapevine Magazine in print, online, or on the Grapevine app. You can also provide a subscription to someone in need through our "Carry the Message" program or purchase books or other items at aagrapevine.org/storeYou can email us at podcast@aagrapevine.org. To record an Ask-It-Basket question or a recovery-related joke, call 212-870-3418 or email a voice recording to podcast@aagrapevine.org

Es werde Licht! Der Stephen King hat eine neue Sammlung mit 12 frischen Geschichten veröffentlicht: Ihr wollt es dunkler. Und die haben wir direkt gelesen und legen nun jeweils unsere Flop 3 und Top 3 fest. Erst im Gespräch finden wir selbst heraus, wer welche Storys gewählt hat, und das sei schon gesagt: die Listen sind nicht deckungsgleich. Viel Spaß mit der neuen Folge! Timecodes und Kapitelmarken 00:00:00 - Einleitung 00:10:09 - Laurie 00:16:50 - Two Talented Bastids 00:20:22 - The Dreamers 00:24:18 - The Answer Man 00:31:56 - Finn 00:37:22 - The Fifth Step 00:40:59 - Red Screen 00:48:34 - Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream 01:00:23 - Rattlesnakes 01:13:15 - Teaser Stephen King: Ihr wollt es dunkler Übersetzt von, äh, 10 Leuten?! Heyne, 736 Seiten, 2024 Gebundene Ausgabe: 28 Euro E-Book: 19,99 Euro Originalausgabe: You Like It Darker Scribner, 512 Seiten, 2024 Taschenbuch / E-Book Ausblick In der nächsten freien Folge geht es um dieses Buch: James Islington: The Will of the Many S&S/Sage Press, 640 Seiten, 2023 Noch keine deutsche Ausgabe angekündigt In der nächsten Bonusfolge geht es um dieses Buch: James Herbert: Die Ratten Übersetzt von Joachim Honnnef Heyne, 220 Seiten, 1988 Erstausgabe als Die Killer-Ratten, Pabel, 1975 Nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich Originalausgabe: The Rats Pan, 209 Seiten, Neuauflage von 2011, Erstausgabe 1974 Neben der monatlichen Bonus-Buchbesprechung erhalten Abonnent*innen eine Bonusfolge von Falko, in der er mit anderen Leuten aus der Buchbranche ein Gespräch führt oder andere Themen behandelt. Für 10-Euro-Abonnent*innen schreibt Falko die monatliche Fortsetzungsgeschichte "Krallen im Hohlforst", die als Text und MP3 verschickt wird (aber nicht in den Podcast-Streams eingestellt wird).

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How can you be holy?Perfection is our goal because Jesus commanded it. It is possible because His Word shows us seven successive steps to attain it.Support the show

Welcome to this enlightening episode of "The Daily Reprieve," your go-to podcast for essay, speaker meetings, workshops, and conferences with personal stories and strategies for overcoming addictions. We invite you to dive deep into a vital aspect of your recovery journey. In this episode, we discuss the meaningful proceedings and implications of 'Step Six' from the Twelve Steps Program. Let's accompany our speaker as he shares from the Big Book of AA, illustrating the importance of step five and its profound impact on our spiritual progression. We examine the concept of a 'step five and a half,' an essential check-in point to ensure we're fully ready to progress on our journey towards recovery. The speaker underlines the key lessons from the Fifth Step promises and emphasizes the essence of soul-searching exercises we undertake at this junction. We then delve into the life-changing promises that 'Step Six' holds. As we navigate the maze of our personal shortcomings, the speaker offers captivating anecdotes and insights into identifying defects of character, managing ADHD in recovery, and challenging our boundaries. We unravel the virtue of honesty and the willingness to let go, understanding that it's not about reaching perfection but about continuous spiritual progress. The episode concludes with uplifting shares from Angelo and Samuel, underlining the importance of admitting powerlessness and further illuminating our path in recovery. We invite you to listen in, subscribe, and support us on our mission to inspire and assist others on their journey towards recovery.

Today we are going to learn the fifth step in mastering basic multiplication facts using games.

In this episode of Cracking Addiction, we delve into the crucial fifth step of the twelve-step program. Join us as we explore the significance of admitting our wrongs to God, ourselves, and another human being. Here's a breakdown of the key takeaways from this insightful conversation:Admitting our wrongs to another human being takes courage: Sharing our faults with someone else can be scary, as we fear their judgment and acceptance. However, it is essential for healing and growth.Accountability and introspection: The fifth step requires us to take accountability for our actions, acknowledging our wrongs and guilts. It involves recognizing cognitive distortions and working through defences like rationalization and blaming others.Balancing self-compassion and growth: While The Fifth Step may seem like a process of self-loathing, it is important to maintain a balanced view. Recognizing our positive qualities helps us build self-esteem and fosters the process of forgiveness and redemption.

He is God, and We Are NotBy nature, we are control freaks. We pray for divine healing, but only after our physician shakes his head and says, “Well, there's nothing left to do but pray,” and our medical insurance runs out. We claim Matthew 6:33, where Jesus promises to meet all our needs, but again, only after we max out our credit cards and can't make the minimum payments. In other words, we try to fix everything our way, in our own strength, and ask no one for advice or help. It's only when we come up short that we pray and ask the Lord to bless our efforts (emphasis on our) or get us out of the jam we seem to have stumbled into again. This is not a life of surrender. Nor does it acknowledge the sovereignty of God. The fifth step in surrendering your life to the Lord demands trusting completely in His goodness, grace, mercy, and especially— His sovereignty. Remember, He is God (and all that entails), and we are not. And the sooner we learn this truth, the closer we are to fully surrendering, and trusting Him.Surrendering our lives fully to God requires trusting in His sovereignty— meaning He is in complete control and His plans are always best. But what does it really mean to trust God's sovereignty? And why is absolute submission to His supreme plan vital for fully yielding our lives to Him? Let's explore the meaning of God's sovereignty, some biblical examples of surrender, and the reasons why relinquishing control to His authority brings peace and purpose to our lives.Defining God's SovereigntyTrusting in God's sovereignty means believing He reigns supreme over everything, including you and your circumstances. He has divine plans and purposes far beyond our human comprehension (Isa. 55:8-9). It's acknowledging that nothing happens without His permission, and He can, and will, use any circumstance, good or bad, to grow us in maturity and glorify Himself.Surrendering to His sovereignty requires faith that God's way is perfect, even when life feels random or senseless or anything but perfect. We must believe He cherishes us unconditionally and understands precisely what we need in every situation, even if what He knows we need is not what we have been praying for. We must be fully convinced that God is not only “able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Eph. 3:20), but that He is also willing, as a loving Father who adores His children. And when He moves in His sovereign manner, we must know and rest in the truth that His perspective surpasses our limited human insight, and He knows best— even when we can't see it or doubt His goodness.Some Biblical Examples of SurrenderThe Scriptures are full of examples of those who faced trials greater than ours, and trusted in God's sovereignty. Job suffered excruciating losses— his family, fortune, reputation, and health, yet declared in worship, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Even during unimaginable grief and agony, Job trusted God's good purposes rather than questioning His supreme authority, even when he didn't understand what God was doing.Abraham is another well-known example. God instructed him to do the unthinkable, to sacrifice his promised son Isaac— Abraham's only hope and future (Gen. 22). Though undoubtedly grieved and confused, Abraham obeyed God's command by trusting the Lord had a purpose he could not yet grasp. And God, in His sovereignty, honored Abraham's faith by providing another sacrifice instead of Isaac and blessing him beyond measure.Even Jesus surrendered to His Father's sovereign will. When facing the horrific pain of crucifixion, He prayed His will would be aligned with His Father's sovereign purpose, “Not my will, but yours,...

On this episode of They Walk Among America… The shocking murder of two doctors goes unsolved for years. The story of what happened only comes to light when a member of a confidential group goes against the grain and tells the police what they know. But even with evidence supporting a confession made to many, privilege can trump the truth…. *** LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED *** ‘They Walk Among America' is a Law & Crime podcast network production.This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.Researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann. Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.MUSIC: Aurora by FeatherlandThings Gone Wrong by MomentsThe Birth of A Planet by FallsEchosong by Cody MartinRunner by FallsFleeting by Alice In WinterDark Cloud by Ian KeloskyCaffeinated Marimba by JCarAtonement by Alice In WinterDarkness Approaches by Louis LionAt The Stroke Of Midnight by MomentsTension Rising by Third AgeShadow Passage by Cody MartinAlmost Awake by Joshua SpachtThe Pain of Losing Love by Kurtis ParksA Dark Past by Wicked CinemaFor more information, visit https://lawandcrime.com/podcasts/ or https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are looking for mixing tips on topics like *How do you mix vocals? *How do you process vocals step by step? Then check out EP 106 of the Inside The Mix podcast where I do a Producer Kickstart Music Production Audit of Andrew Wood AKA Rogue FX. ******* Get your FREE copy of my Producer Growth Scorecard: https://www.synthmusicmastering.com/Prepare to be whisked away into the vibrant, pulsating world of retro wave synth pop. I sit down for an enlightening chat with my pal, Andrew Wood, who you might know better as RogueFX. We dive deep into his inspirations rooted in the swirling soundscape of the 80s and early 90s, and get an exclusive peek into his thrilling new concept EP 'The Fifth Step'. This musical journey is set in a dystopian future plagued by pandemics where memories have been turned into 'mind trips' by shady organizations. Sound fascinating? Well, there's plenty more where that came from!Next, we switch gears and venture into the technical terrain of vocal production. Ever wondered how to give your vocals that extra oomph? We'll lay out the significance of preamps and emulations, and reveal how something as simple as a doubler plugin can add a whole new dimension to your sound. And if you're looking to turn up the heat, you will want to hear about the Black Box saturation plugin and the innovative opportunities that iPad Pro's QBS offers. Finally, we delve into the art of vocal mixing techniques and effects. We help you navigate through equalizers, reverbs, delays, de-essers, compression, and gain-clipping. But it's not all about the tech, as we also reflect on the importance of not over-processing vocals and strategic use of multiple compressors for varied levels of compression. So pull up a chair, plug in those headphones, and prepare for a deep-dive into the world of music production. After all, you might just stumble upon your next big musical idea.Click here, to listen to Rogue FX: https://roguefx.bandcamp.com/ Support the show► ► ► WAYS TO CONNECT ► ► ► Send a DM through IG @insidethemicpodcastEmail me at insidethemixpodcast@gmail.comBOOK your FREE Producer Potential Discovery Call! ✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸Are you READY to take your music production to the stratosphere? Book a call with me: https://calendly.com/synth_music_mastering/virtual-coffeeTHANK YOU to the Patreon Supporters✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸✸Join the exclusive Inside The Mix Patreon Community here: https://www.patreon.com/InsideTheMixPodcastThanks for listening & happy producing!

Podcast Preview! Follow at bit.ly/PodcastThe First Step is to have a desire that makes you excited just thinking about it.The Second Step is to believe that you can achieve your goal because if you don't think you can, you won't make any effort to change your situation.The Third Step is to put your goal in writing.The Fourth Step is to determine your starting point to set goals within reach and avoid making the mistake of aiming too high right out of the gate.The Fifth Step is to determine why you want to achieve your goal and write it down.The Sixth Step is to identify a date in the future when you set out again to achieve what you want.The Seventh Step is to identify the obstacles separating you from your goal, what habits you will need to change, and why you still need to accomplish your desire.The Eighth Step is to determine the skills and information you will need to learn; for example, if you want to become an actor, it would be a good idea to enroll in an acting class or improve your diction.The Ninth Step is to determine what people you will need around you.The Tenth Step is to draw up an action plan; a plan is a list of actions you'll need to complete to get from where you are to where you want to be.The Eleventh Step is to visualize your goal often as if you have already achieved it; this will help you overcome any limiting beliefs you may have.The Twelfth Step is not to give up! If your goal is fundamental before you start working on it, you must promise yourself that no matter your problems or difficulties, you will persevere until you achieve it.Now you need to create an Action Plan.#DanielPink #DavidSchwartz #Drive #GreatestSalesman #ThinkandGrowRich #NapoleonHill #UnlimitedPower #AnthonyRobbins #Drive #DanielHPink #Mandino #Napoleon #OgMandino #Pink #Robbins #Schwartz #ThinkingBig #ThinkingBig #DavidSchwartz #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #EmpowerYourMomentum #ReadABookThat'SAllAboutTakingAction #ScottAllan

Today we are going to discuss the fifth step in mastering addition math facts.

In episode #88: Vinny shares his experience with the fifth step from the perspective of being a sponsor or being in a workshop as a guide for people. His experience with the fifth step has been "wide, bumpy, not a straight line, and it's also been exciting."

In episode #87 - David M. shares how there is no doubt in his mind that his problems began when he was a child. "I grew up with a powerful, abusive father." After David admitted to God, to himself, and to his sponsor the exact nature of our wrongs, he broke free from the heavy load he was carrying his entire life.

In this episode, we cover Step Five of the Twelve Steps Codependents' Guide To The Twelve Steps, Melody Beattie STEP 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs Quote #1 - “To begin that process, it is imperative that we unearth, release, get rid of, and be done with shame, fear, guilt, secrets, and anything else inside us that bothers us, causes us to feel less than, weighted down by burdened by, and bad about ourselves. The way to do that is by opening our mouths and getting it out. It is a simple but effective way to begin healing ourselves. We simply tell the truth about ourselves to ourselves, to another person, and to God in an attitude of self-responsibility, acceptance, and forgiveness. There is something magical, but frightening, about opening our mouths and telling the truth. There is also something healing about it. An important part of this healing process we're going through is reconnecting to ourselves, our Higher Power, and other people. Being honest about ourselves is how we do that.” (p85 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #2 - “We also need to make certain that the person with whom we share our deepest secrets will hold our confessions in confidence.” (p88 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #3 - “If it's bothering us, we need to talk about it. And the more it bothers us, the more shame and self-hatred it causes, the more it controls us and our lives, the more important it is to bring it out.”(p88 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #4 - “One guiding rule for all my Fifth Steps has been this: Whatever it is I most don't want to discuss is what I most need to talk honestly about. To be healed, whatever I am most afraid and ashamed to share is probably what I most need to share at the time.”(p88 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #5 - “It is much easier to be the one people reach out to that the one reaching out.” (p89 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #6 - “I've also learned something else. Until I'm entirely ready to accept who I am, what I feel, what I want, and what myself is telling me, I cannot achieve intimacy. When I am ready to take that same risk with people that I took when I walked into that Fifth Step room, I will have the kind of relationships I'm seeking. I'm not talking about confessing my sins to people. I'm talking about sharing my deepest secret -who I am.”(p90 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie) Quote #7 - “The solution to this problem is the same. Whatever I most don't want to talk about, whatever it is I most don't want to admit, is what I immediately need to tell someone, someone safe, someone I trust. I need to get it out of me and into the light, so I can be set free.”(p92 Codependents' Guide, M. Beattie)

In this episode Nick unpacks the importance of Church wide email and text (sms) messaging. What is the role of these common marketing practices? Does it have a place in church? How should your church, in 2023, approach it? Along with what role does the church website play in all of this? All that and more in this episode! Follow Along on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pjecCnd8FVFCenWharf2g TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@clasonnick?lang=en Show Notes & Transcripts: http://www.hybridministry.xyz/039 TikTok E Book: https://www.hybridministry.xyz/articles/ebook SHOWNOTES Step 1: YouTube: https://www.hybridministry.xyz/035 Trailer: https://www.hybridministry.xyz/034 Planning Center People: https://www.planningcenter.com/people HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/ SMS Marketing Rules and Regulations: https://act-on.com/blog/sms-marketing-regulations/#:~:text=The%20Telephone%20Consumer%20Protection%20Act%20(TCPA)%20is%20a%20United%20States,sending%20them%20marketing%20text%20messages TIMECODES 00:00-02:46 Intro 02:46-08:43 Email and Text Messaging's Place in Church Communications 08:43-15:19 What is Email Marketing for Churches? 15:19-17:57 What should you expect from Email Marketing? 17:57-22:05 What is SMS or Text Message Marketing's place in churches? 22:05-23:22 The Role of your Church Website 23:22-24:20 Outro TRANSCRIPT Nick Clason (00:00): Well, hey there everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Hybrid Minister Show. I am your host, as always, Nick Clason. So excited to be here with you. And in today's episode, we are going to be talking about email and text messaging. So you're like, wait a minute, hold on. I thought that this was the sixth part, church social media framework for churches in 2023. And yes, you would be correct. And then you're thinking, wait a minute, I email and text. That doesn't count. And actually I think it does. And so we're gonna dive into that why I think it matters, why I think you should be utilizing it for your church and why it can be beneficial. But before we do, if you don't know, we are on YouTube every single episode. So hey, to everyone watching on YouTube, it's good to see you over there on video. Nick Clason (00:54): If you're just listening to this in your ear holes, click the link in the show notes to head on over to YouTube to take a look, to watch, to even to subscribe. That'd be amazing. We'd love to have you over there. If you discovered us on YouTube or on shorts, we wanna let you know that we are also on website and we have a podcast. And so you can head to http://www.hybridministry.xyz. This is episode 39, so http://www.hybridministry.xyz/03. If you click that direct link, it will take you very specifically to this episode with transcripts for this episode, or if you just head to that website and head over to the blog section. There are two articles there, both with links to free, completely free resources to help you and your church navigate this social media landscape that we are in, including the ebook. Nick Clason (01:40): Have I already ruined my church's TikTok account by what I've done and what I've posted? No, you should download it so that you know exactly what to do from start to finish all the way through. Uh, and maybe you know what you're doing, but maybe you have some volunteers or some staff and you, uh, want to help them understand what they're doing. You can put that ebook in their hands and it will help take them from a complete novice to an expert on TikTok in just a few short steps. And so that is a resource that we hope that will be beneficial to you. And, uh, hopefully something that, you know, that you can use and utilize for years and years to come, or at least for this year probably, because TikTok will then make an update and we'll have to update the book along with it. Nick Clason (02:22): Um, if you find that helpful or if any of this helpful a share or a rating or a review would be incredible, it would just be your way of helping, uh, us get the word out, um, and letting your friends know that, hey, this is something that's useful, beneficial, and I am, uh, listening to it and you should as well. So without any further ado, let's dive into email and text messaging. Okay, so email, texting. I thought we were talking about social media. Well, if you go all the way back to the very first episode of this, and if you haven't had a chance to listen, um, you can go back. We dropped a trailers like a two-part trailer on kind of previewing this and then also the first episode, um, on YouTube where we sort of like laid the framework. But one of the things that we talked about was we talked about this idea of a funnel. Nick Clason (03:08): And so if you are watching, you'll see me try to create one with my hands, but a funnel kinda like a triangle, right? The top is wider. You're gonna catch more people and the bottom is more narrow. Uh, the thing that most churches don't understand is that they actually start probably, um, depending on your marketing strategy. And I know that churches probably bach at that term marketing in some cases, but, um, churches almost always start with people more mid to bottom of the funnel. And so what then becomes tricky is you already have a very committed group of people that are already very deeply invested in your organization. They're just not, um, you're just not getting people on the top of the funnel, especially if you're a church that's, that's dying or hasn't seen new, um, people, you know, come through your doors in a while. Nick Clason (03:55): And so social media might be one of your avenues to try and do that. And it very much can be YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, all four of those phenomenal platforms. But in order to, and also might I add before I continue on, they're great marketing platforms too. Like some of the best marketing that our world has ever seen, cheapest marketing that our world has ever seen. So you can utilize those two year advantage. However, email and texts, I think are ways to drive people down the funnel more. Um, once they've found you on Instagram, once they found you on YouTube, once they've found you on t TikTok to drive them down the funnel more, um, and then ultimately become more and more, um, super fans of you. And I know that's not what we're trying to do in church, uh, but before they become a committed Christian, cuz ultimately the goal is to drive them to become a deeper, more devoted disciple of Jesus. Nick Clason (04:51): But if they're just discovering you on social media for the first time as a church, uh, you just want them to like you, right? You just want them to trust you as a church. You just want them to think your content is useful, beneficial, um, and helpful to them in their life. And so you just wanna drive them deeper and deeper. And so maybe you offer them something free like an ebook or maybe you offer them something, um, you know, like a checklist that they can get, uh, on their own and they, they sign up for an email list or a text messaging list or something like that and you drive them deeper down the funnel, right? And so that you a little bit, you gotta think about it, you might have a couple different tracks kind of going on. And that's what like super next level marketers do is they have like this, this track of people that are already their contributors or people who've already bought things and they got people who are just like in an awareness sort of like track trying to like discover more about your company. Nick Clason (05:39): Okay? But here's the thing about email, and here's the thing about text is that they cost almost $0 to facilitate, uh, especially if you're like not looking to go full out, you know, become like a business on this. You're just trying to become a church to supplement what else you have going on on social media where some of these other platforms, yeah, you can do them all for free, but to really get some of that like, like legitimate organic, um, or I'm sorry, not organic, but some of that legitimate like far-reaching reach that people are often looking for. If you wanna like have an amazing Easter ad or something like that, you're probably gonna have to put some dollars behind it. And that's true just about everything in life. If you want something that is incredible and is gonna work for you to the best of its abilities, it's gonna probably be behind some sort of premium paywall, whether that be a tech service or an email service. Nick Clason (06:34): However, as a church, you probably already have some of these tools at your disposal that you may or may not be tapping into depending on how much know-how you have. Cuz just about every church in America, um, has or should have some sort of church management software people, uh, a people software, a data captures sort of thing, you know, church, community builder, the rock, whatever. All of those have email, um, woven into it as well as text messaging woven into it. However, are they the most useful and beneficial advantageous of, you know, taking those emails, creating a funnel type content, moving people through a pathway and a process just depends if you kind of know, if you know what you're doing on there. So let's dive in a little bit more on that before we do a couple of just quick hitter stats so that you're aware of why text messaging and email can be so effective in your church today in 2023. Nick Clason (07:31): First thing is this, 94% of people on the internet use email. 94%. That is crazy, right? That is more than TikTok. That is more than Facebook. That's like a wider adoption percentage of people. Almost everyone on the internet has an email account. Furthermore, 75% of adult users on the internet say that email marketing is their preferred form of marketing, which is fascinating because I don't think that we often think of email or texts as, as sexy as some of these other social media type platforms. But, uh, three, three quarters of people that use the, uh, internet so that they would just prefer email marketing to be done to them via email. The return on investment, the ROI is higher on these platforms, texting and email than they are on other social channels. And then finally, text message, open rates can go as high as get this, are you ready for it? Nick Clason (08:31): 98%. So let's dive in. Let's unpack what's going on here and why this can be so important and advantageous for your church. All right, so what is email marketing? If you were to just go on and you were to, to Google email marketing, there's a potential that you could get kind of lost in the weeds of, of terminology and words that are maybe not super familiar to you. But at its core, basically email marketing is an opportunity for an organization to connect regularly with its fans and at a church level, right? Like maybe they're not fans, but it's an opportunity for us to connect with members of our congregation. There's a lot of ways that churches actually believe it or not, have a upper hand on some companies with email marketing. And the reason of that is because they, like I said, they already have kind of a core base of people. Nick Clason (09:24): We already have a core base of people that we are pulling from, all right? And so it's not solely dependent upon us to craft and curate and build our own email list from zero. We already sort of have a base that we're starting with. And that's, that's an amazing place to be and that's an amazing advantage that we as a church, I I think sometimes we lament our, our position in the space. Like, oh, what was us? We're just a church, blah, blah, blah. Like, we have advantages that like other companies don't have. We're often handed email list with already done work for us. And so we just need to steward that well and continue to build upon that. And so I think that there's a, there's a space and a way to do that. Um, the church, like right, oftentimes we might have a hard time with social media or marketing or websites, but in this particular case and in this particular space, I think the church might actually have an upper hand. Nick Clason (10:15): So who is email marketing for you might be asking. It's for, honestly, it's for everybody. We said 94% of internet users say and claim that they have an internet account or an email account on the internet. So yeah, you should be using email in your church, you should be sending out regular updates. And here's the thing, um, and we're gonna talk about this a lot in the next episode, but if we have stuff on social media, we can use our email to supplement, to push, to promote people towards what we're already doing online so we can help connect our people, especially in our church, to what we're doing online. And then we can use online to help connect people to our email marketing list to help connect them to our church, our local body, our local assembly. Okay, so how do we start this? What do we do? Nick Clason (11:03): If you're like, okay, great, I'm in, I'm sold, what do I do? Well, first and foremost, if you're part of a church, you're probably watching this as a church, you know, social media manager, a youth pastor or a volunteer who's been handed the reigns of running social media on your church, what are you supposed to do? In most cases, like I said, I believe most churches, um, probably do, and if they don't, they probably should have some sort of church management database system. You know, I currently at the church, I'm at used church Community builder. In the past I've used Rock, I've used, um, uh, we've used ACS realm, we've used planning Center people. These are all different ones that I've used in different places. I've been in my, my ministry, my life. Uh, the reality is you probably want to at least start there because there's going to be the vast majority of your data, of your people, of your email addresses living and existing in there. Nick Clason (11:59): And depending on the, uh, decision making prowess of people, there are gonna be people who in your church, who've already invested in that, paid for that and want you to be using it. I think that that's a great place to start. Um, what if your church doesn't have a database? Well, I definitely would encourage you to do it, and I know that there are some free ones out there. I know that Planning Center people, I believe, at least when I looked at it, this is like five plus years ago, but they said that they would be forever and always free. Um, there are other modules, which is part of the, the downside is like you can get all your data in planning center people, but then to use it for giving or to use it for events or whatever, like those aren't free. And so for them to pair and work well with each other, uh, you have to start paying. Nick Clason (12:46): And so that's the downside. However, let me just say my favorite, the planning center you pay like individually, so like a giving is a, a different price and events is a different price and registration is a different price and services is a different price and all these things, it, it adds up quickly. However, let me just say it's, it was my favorite database I ever worked with, ever, ever, ever. Um, I currently, and most churches I feel like have adopted like c b Church community seems to be a really popular one. Um, very much not my favorite one. It's, it's good, it's sleek, it's got web interface, that's fine. But like on the email side, on the marketing side, and I know that, um, if you guys have been around from the very, very beginning listening to our podcast, if you go back and listen to episode one, the episode like seven or eight, I had a co-host, his name was Matt, he moved and his new job wouldn't really allow him to, to be on this podcast regularly. Nick Clason (13:39): So we've sorta, um, amicably parted ways. He's doing his thing, I'm doing my thing. But Matt was a marketing a marketer first that worked in a church. And I know that his big thing was that databases don't always give him what he wanted as a marketer. So as a marketer, like someone who works in the business space, what he recommended was HubSpot. Um, and that is, that's for making money for businesses and churches are built, uh, with a different, um, need on those church management softwares. And he thought that we could do everything we needed to do for churches in HubSpot. Now, um, to, uh, you know, to push back on that a little bit, he might not have known everything that we needed as churches, right? Like for example, HubSpot might not have a baptism date field in the church community in the like database thing, right? Nick Clason (14:33): But it is, it will give you everything that you need for email addresses, websites, you can create ClickFunnels, you can create, uh, all types of things where you can very easily capture someone's name and email address and then move them down a pathway or a process. And that's what Matt was trying to do at the church that we were both at in Chicago, at Parkview. Ultimately, that's part of the reason why he ended up stepping away. And myself as well. We just, we, he couldn't get people on board with the idea. All that being said, you, if you don't have something, you should have something and you should at least start with exploring some of these free ones. So I'll drop some of these links in the show notes, uh, HubSpot, I'll drop planning center people in the, in the show notes so that you have those things to check out. Nick Clason (15:16): Um, hopefully that's something that's useful and beneficial to you. What should you expect? The, the one main thing I want you to know is that you should not get discouraged by what seems to be low email open rates. So according to studies that have been done for years and years and years, the average email list open rate is 21.3%, which I get that seems crazy low, but when it pertains to email marketing, if you're anywhere in that range, you are succeeding. Surprisingly. I know it's crazy. Uh, this is why delivering things like valuable content with interesting subjects and things that are gonna actually cause people to actually click open the emails is so important. I mean, just think about it for yourself, right? You probably get inundated with emails and you probably just bulk delete them. You're not gonna open them. That's exactly why email openers are at 21.3%. Nick Clason (16:07): That's why it's important to be creative with your subjects. So a couple of things, send it from a person. I've found, uh, if you send it from such and such baptist church.com, uh, this week's announcements that is so easy to ignore, I'm sorry, no offense, no one cares about your announcements enough to open your email list because they're also swimming through their child's elementary school email list and they're Cole's coupons that they're getting. And like all these things, right? They don't care. But if you send it from Pastor Jim and he says, this one key thing helped me grow my faith, all of a sudden you're like, wait, what was that? I wanna know what Pastor Jim's, one key thing to growing in his faith was maybe I should click open that. And then what that is is that's a short little blurb and then boom it to link out to a YouTube short or a full YouTube message that you've done. Nick Clason (16:54): All of a sudden, wait a minute, now we're cooking with gas. See what I'm saying? And if you're not just always only capturing moments from your sermons, then when you send it to your church, people who have already maybe seen that because they've already attended your service. However, keep in mind, at least in most churches I've been to the average person attends 1.4 times per month. So that means they probably more than likely didn't see the sermon. So that is not a bad strategy. However, if you have the bandwidth in time to create something more like a podcast or something else or some other like, um, some other resource that explains more to them, that's gonna be even more valuable. Where your pastor's sitting down having a conversation with another person on staff or a host and he's talking through some of these things and it's maybe sermon related or sermon adjacent, but not just sermon. Nick Clason (17:43): So that's an example of how you can start to kind of bump your email open rates, think through sending it from an actual person and think through crafting sub uh, subjects that spark and evoke curiosity. So that's email marketing. What's text message marketing? So same thing, short message service or sms. You probably heard that before. Marketing is another word to just say text message marketing, but it's a form of marketing that businesses use to send promotions to customers via text message. There's three main benefits of SMS messaging as far as I can see. Number one, it's fast, okay? As opposed to waiting and hoping for people to discover your content and social media, you post it, you kinda wait, you see, does this thing hit the lottery tickets? Do the views go up? SMS messaging your fans, followers, people that likeactually post SMS hap uh, messaging happens almost instantaneously. Nick Clason (18:37): Secondly, the open rates are ridiculous. Open rates are an alarming 98%, which compared to email marketing seems like a messaging hack that is almost too good to be true and you might be right. And then finally, response rates are also good too. You can send a message and rates are are good. Around 45% of people say that they respond to text messaging, uh, messages compared to only about 7% of click rate through email marketing statistics. So those are some of the, um, upsides. Who is it for? Well definitely for, for I think younger people in your church, gen z, gen Alpha, who may only have like an email address to create an account. Um, and they don't, they only like nominally check it. Um, also for parents, um, for people in your church, people, almost everyone has a cell phone these days so you can use it. Nick Clason (19:27): The downfalls of it though can be tricky because you are gonna be navigating some red tape and I will drop a link in the show notes for more of that. Um, and kind of how to navigate that so that you don't get in trouble with like, um, the government and people who are trying to regulate text messaging and text messaging marketing. Um, but while that 98% open rate seems like something you may want to take advantage of it, you also want to be careful not to abuse it either. For example, um, I order my t-shirts from an, actually this is one of those t-shirts, um, from an online t-shirt company and I clicked up, I clicked on a text messaging thing, um, when I ordered to get like a discount and they text me every single day. I ignored them honestly, like I'm not, but the thing is, I'll probably go back and order from them. Nick Clason (20:12): And so when that time comes, I'll scroll back through my messages and see are they offering any sort of promo right now before I go back in order. However, you gotta be careful to not blur that line. So I would suggest probably somewhere between one and two times a week a absolute maximum, maybe even less. But you can, again, if you add value and you send something that's interesting, people are going to be much more inclined to open it. If you're just listen to me. If you're just sending announcement after announcement after announcement about in-person event, in-person event, in-person event, they're not interested in that. However, if you're like, Hey, have you seen this hilarious TikTok that we just posted? Check it out. People might be more inclined to click through some of those things that may seem unspiritual to you. You just have to weigh the benefit of it. Nick Clason (20:59): Cuz here's the thing, if you do send that a few times and that becomes something that people look forward to, then when you do send something meaningful and valuable, they're actually going to click on it and not ignore it because you've sent them things before that seem normal that aren't just invitations back to the church picnic. So the best way to start, I would say, is to build this through your database. Um, some databases require weird things like ours, church community builder, they require needing to know the carrier. So like Verizon at and t, um, others, you can, you can collect them through other text messaging services that you pay per text or whatever. Um, whatever the case may be. A great place to start is probably your church database cuz you've already gotten permission to collect some of that data and so thus to then start parcelling off and using some of that, uh, is not a bad place to start with already a base of people. Nick Clason (21:50): Just make sure that someone has a hook into being able to sign up for a text messaging service if that's something that, uh, they're gonna be able to want to do. Like I said, there are some rules for it. So make sure that you check those out. Link in the show notes. Last but not least, I would definitely be remiss to not mention website. You wanna have a website, um, not necessarily an app and um, our friend Brady Sheer talks about this all the time, so go search stuff on him about church apps. But you wanna have a good mobile friendly website that you can sort of operate as your central stop for everyone in your church and they can know that they can always go to that website and they can get the information that they need. So then your email and your text messaging things are not your primary vehicles and drivers of communication. Nick Clason (22:38): And so if someone's like, crap, where's that information? They're not having to dig back through emails and be like, is that the one? Is that the one? Is that the one? They can know that they're gonna go to your website and it's gonna be useful and reliable. And so I'm not gonna talk much on that cuz that's gonna sort of be the glue to everything in the next episode. But we can't, um, we cannot neglect and we cannot forget to talk about the importance of a good mobile friendly website that people can access on their phones at just about any given time in the world. That links and curates and pulls together all of these social media, email, tech, all these things and they all sort of swirl in and the website is your central spot where all of those are pointing back too. Well, hey everyone, thanks again so much for hanging out in this episode. Nick Clason (23:26): I hope you found this info about email and text messaging helpful. I know I didn't give a lot of like very like, Hey, go to this website and do it because a lot of it is gonna be dependent upon your church. So start exploring, start having those conversations and if they're not existing, hey, guess what? You are the pioneer of this. Don't let it die like it is your, uh, you. This is something that you can steward and that you can take to help spread the message of Jesus to both the people in your church. Drive them deeper down that funnel to be more devoted followers of Christ as well as helping people outside of your church connect more and more with your local church. You are doing an incredible work. Keep it up. Um, and don't forget as always to stay hybrid.

Diego enlists Dianne's help in getting a message to Dona. Finellen forces Tosh's hand, as it were, in establishing an apricot trade. Athena provides gems to the group before they travel down and get themselves rooms in Tripps. Parsimu ale is abundant and costly there, but for good reason. Río travels to the Fifth Step alone and tries to get a read on Lady Misnyl, who either loves Río or absolutely hates her. Back on the Sixth Step, Diego is introduced to puggmus as he starts his day job.

This is "My Fifth Step: The Lonely Little Girl Who Cried Love," from "The Addict's Guide to the Universe: A Roadmap to Recovery," by Emily Sussman, LCSW. All rights reserved by the author. For more information, visit theaddictsguidetotheuniverse.com.

Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books (Goodreads).

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"...Maybe the first thing to recognize is that holding on to pain, resentment, and anger, doesn't change the situation. Doesn't change. The other person doesn't set you free. All you end up doing is keeping yourself stuck in suffering and miserable. " Episode Summary: On this episode of SoulTalk, you will learn 6 practical steps to forgiveness that will change your life. Forgiveness is an act of power and freedom that sets you free. As human beings living this human experience, we have all been hurt, as well as hurt others.  By holding ourselves accountable and learning to forgive ourselves, we unlock the ability to extend the act of forgiveness and empathy to people around us. Listen and learn how forgiveness helps you reclaim your personal power and allows you to live a life of freedom and happiness.   Timestamps: (1:59) - Topic of Forgiveness (3:58) - Forgiveness for who? (6:15) - First Step to Forgiveness (7:00) - Second Step to Forgiveness (10:30) - Third Step to Forgiveness (12:53) - Fourth Step to Forgiveness (14:41) - Fifth Step to Forgiveness (18:55) - Sixth Step to Forgiveness   In This Episode You Will Learn: 6 Steps to Forgiveness How to let go of pain and resentment. Why revenge is not important. How to unlock self love with forgiveness. How to stay committed to your forgiveness. The importance of fully immersing yourself in your feelings. Some Questions I Ask: What is forgiveness? At what point does forgiveness meet spirituality? What would you need to believe in order to act that way? How do we deal with unresolved feelings ? What are you still judging yourself for? What do you need to forgive within yourself? "All you end up doing is giving the other person power and energy over you and nothing. Let me repeat nothing. And no one is worth your freedom, your happiness, your joy..."   Get in Touch: Email me at kute@kuteblackson.com Visit my website: www.kuteblackson.com   Download the full interview transcript HERE.   Events with Kute Blackson: Join me on a life-changing journey in Bali this December. Apply here: www.boundlessblissbali.com Missed the Surrender Summit? There's still time to purchase the Upgrade Package for lifetime access to the interviews and more here: www.thesurrendersummit.com.

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Step 5 - 'We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." The Fifth Step is the key to freedom. "The initial examination of ourselves usually reveals some behaviour patterns that we don't particularly like. However, facing these patterns and bringing them out in the open makes it possible for us to deal with them constructively. We cannot make these changes alone. We will need the help of God, as we understand Him and the addiction recovery 12-step fellowship of our choice." (Big Book - Step Five.)

Today we explore the fifth and final yama - aparigraha. The translation is non-possessiveness, or non-clinging, which in the chakra system we might experience as the act of letting go. In the Buddhist traditions, it's often said that clinging or grasping is the cause of unnecessary suffering and it is only when we learn to let go that we can find peace. Aparigraha, in the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, invites us to incorporate that practice into our lives every day to help us find our true nature, or highest self. We'll take a look at what this practice means and might look like in modern life, why it's so difficult to do, and how we might be clinging to things without even realizing it. If you're interested in learning more about the clothing brand I referenced in the show, you can find it here: ZYIA Active with Angela Each week, we'll continue to learn tools and ideas that we can use to move closer to our highest selves! You can connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, and if this show is helping you in your life, consider joining the Patreon page for bonus content (meditations, videos, etc.) and to support the mission of the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sarah4544/message

Below are links to the other videos in this Business Development Skills Series:Part 1: How to Create Your Ideal Client Profile: https://youtu.be/Vr9aElsgqcoPart 2: How to Find Prospects for Sales: https://youtu.be/SAHb5OEXs9oPart 3: How to Create a Lead Magnet: https://youtu.be/ZQy4s5GaWg8Part 4: How to Qualify Leads in Sales:  https://youtu.be/rPn31zUlGeIPart 5: How to Nurture Leads for More Sales https://youtu.be/nH5yJ3EZGg8Part 6: Your B2B Selling System https://youtu.be/saOovfmz4R0Timestamps:00:00 How do you nurture sales leads?00:47 Story About How Dave Lorenzo Missed Out on Million in Sales01:23 Do a Weekly Email to Your Audience of Prospects02:27 Use Direct mail to Follow-up with your Sales Leads03:11 If you Want to Convert More Leads Send an Email with a Video04:06 To Close More Deals Follow-up Your Email and Direct Mail with a Phone Call04:41 Send a Personalized Email to All Prospects as the Fifth Step in Your Follow-up Process05:51 The Secret To Massive Success with Sales Follow-up

The fifth step of the 12 step recovery program states that we, “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” This vital exercise begins to provide emotional, mental and spiritual relief. Join us as we discuss this invaluable step.

Welcome to this Right On Time Minisode. For this episode, where we are talking about some practices I am implementing right now around gratitude, and expanding my money mindset. Because, about a month ago, I recognized that I had some scarcity stuff coming up. We're experiencing growth in the business. Things are going well. We're reinvesting in the business, and I identified, still, some scarcity, some lacks, some reactions, when I was like, ooh, are we going to do that? Ah, ah, ah, I'm not sure. So I picked up a book... Actually, first up, I implemented an approach, where I am writing down my goals for the year, every single day for 30 days, to see what comes up, to step into that, to remind my subconscious, and to reprogram my thoughts around the goals that I'm working towards in case there's any scarcity around that. And there is, I can confirm. But I'm getting better. It's getting a little bit more comfortable, and I'm seeing the way forward a little bit more clearly every day. The second thing I am doing every day is I am writing down 10 things I am grateful for and why. This comes from a practice recommended in the book, "The Magic" by Rhonda Byrne. Actually, my hairstylist recommended it. She had it on her station, at her space, when I was getting my hair cut, and we just had a lovely conversation, and I mentioned something she's like, "Actually, I'm reading about it right now. Check this out." So I immediately picked up the book. I'm really enjoying the gratitude practices that Rhonda recommends in the book. So I've been writing down, every day, for the last week, 10 things I am grateful for. And not just what I'm grateful for, but also the why. Why am I grateful for it? I am grateful for great weather because it perks up my energy, I feel better all around, and I can be outside, right? One simple example. It's simple, the weather, great weather. Nothing big is happening there, but you can capture everything on these gratitude lists. The second thing I am doing every day is I am recognizing, I have this in a place where I can see it and read it frequently, that the gift of health is keeping me alive. And interestingly, I had a little bit of a reaction to this one, like, yes, yes, it's true. The gift of health is keeping me alive, but I have chronic migraines that I'm dealing with. I've got a headache almost every day, not quite every day, and they're going down, they're going down, but it prompts nausea. It prompts all sorts of things for me. So reading this, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna read it because I am indeed grateful for the gift of health that is keeping me alive. And, I will take a little bit more of that. So we're gonna keep it going. The other thing that I am doing every night, as a part of the recommendations in this book, to expand our capacity for abundance, and to increase our gratitude. And there, of course, all sorts of benefits for our health, for our life that comes with a gratitude practice, is at the end of each day, I'm holding a rock, and I am saying the thing I am most grateful for from the day. The thing that I'm most grateful for from the day, and just saying, thank you, thank you, thank you for whatever that thing may be. And lastly, the thing that I am doing is, I wrote on a $100 bill, I wrote on and $100 bill, on this sticker. I didn't actually write on the $100 bill, that I am thankful for all of the money I have been given in my life. Not just that I'm receiving right now, but all the money I have ever received. I am thankful for that. And in the book, Rhonda prompts you to think through all the things that you are grateful for, or that you've ever received, right? That you are grateful for, like the shoes that I didn't have to buy when I was a kid, the house that I had over my head when I was a kid, the Mercury Grand Marquis, a very big car that my parents gave me to drive to school and back when I was a kid. So what are all of those things that you've ever received that have money, that led to you having something, and being taken care of? And it could be vacations, it could be necessities, it could be anything across the board, but all of the money I've been given in my life, I am thankful for. And I'm looking at that several times a day, 'cause this is just near me, by me, as I sit and work, and while we talk. And Rhonda actually recommended you put this on a $1 bill. That felt pretty comfortable. I didn't have a $1 bill. I happened to only have a 100 in my wallet. I sometimes keep a $100 bill in my wallet. And, so I put it on the hundred, and that made me feel a certain way. Am I really news? Like, am really gonna leave this out. Should I use this for something? Do I need to use this for something? So, all sorts of questions came up that I just tucked aside, and I'm going with it. So, that is next to me. I wanted to share this with you today in this minisode, in case you have identified that you are coming up against some blocks, some scarcity, some limits, even if they are just in our head, right? Around the abundance that is coming to you and the growth that you are experiencing, or will be experiencing in your business. Even just writing down my goals every day, which is where this journey started 15 days ago, has been expansive. I'm settling into that. And now I'm layering in these gratitude practices, and I'm finding all sorts of stuff is bubbling up. So you've got to let me know if you try this, what comes up for you as well? Let me know, because business, growing a business, and growing in our life is strategic, and it is tactical, and there are specific things that we do to grow our businesses. And, there are all sorts of other stuff that is coming with us as we grow the businesses that we picked up along the way in our life, that we picked up as kids, that we picked up in college, we picked up all of these ideas of what is and what should be. But part of what will happen as we are growing businesses, is we're gonna have to unpack some of that. We're gonna have to identify what doesn't serve us or support us in our growth and on our journey anymore, and we're gonna have to put some new practices in place. So, these are a few new practices to test out. Check out "The Magic" if you are curious about the rest of the gratitude practices. I'm only a week or so in, and there are 30 days of gratitude practices that build in the book, "The Magic". So, let me know if any of this resonates for you, or if you grab the book and you decide to go on this journey as well, because, my friend, we are in this together, and I'm so excited for everything you are creating. You are Right On Time!     Highlights: 0:18 Scarcity stuff coming up 0:42 First step: Implementing an approach 1:18 Second step: 10 things 1:26 “The Magic" by Rhonda Byrne 2:00 Why am I grateful for? 2:27 Third step: recognizing the why 3:27 Fourth Step: holding a rock 3:51 Fifth Step: the $100 bill 6:19 Layering gratitude practices 7:10 Identifying and new practices to test out 7:35 30 days of gratitude practices     Thank you for listening! Want more information and tips? Bookmark ambermccue.com/blog and follow Amber on Instagram: @AmberMcCue

"The Steps have helped me regain freedom from what other people expected me to be... Come all the way in and give yourself a chance - you just don't know what miracle is waiting for you on the other side" -- Ajai S.IT'S OKAY TO BE METime after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. . . . they have turned to easier methods. . . . But they had not learned enough humility. . . .ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 72-73Humility sounds so much like humiliation, but it really is the ability to look at myself—and honestly accept what I find. I no longer need to be the "smartest" or "dumbest" or any other "est." Finally, it is okay to be me. It is easier for me to accept myself if I share my whole life. If I cannot share in meetings, then I had better have a sponsor — someone with whom I can share those "certain facts" that could lead me back to a drunk, to death. I need to take all the Steps. I need the Fifth Step to learn true humility. Easier methods do not work.Need the Daily Reflection Book?Visit our web siteRead about Recovery on our BlogVisit our Facebook GroupFollow us on TwitterSupport the Podcast:- On Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailyreflection- On PayPal: https://paypal.me/dailyreflectionIf you're struggling with alcohol or addiction, or wondering how to stop drinking it's helpful to know that there's a solution that has worked for millions of people. The Daily Reflection Podcast provides hope, and inspiration through the shared experiences of people that have found a way out. 

FREE AT LASTAnother great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility —a word often misunderstood. . . . it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 58I knew deep inside that if I were ever to be joyous, happy and free, I had to share my past life with some other individual. The joy and relief I experienced after doing so were beyond description. Almost immediately after taking the Fifth Step, I felt free from the bondage of self and the bondage of alcohol. That freedom remains after 36 years, a day at a time. I found that God could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.Need the Daily Reflection Book?Visit our web siteRead about Recovery on our BlogVisit our Facebook GroupFollow us on TwitterSupport the Podcast:- On Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailyreflection- On PayPal: https://paypal.me/dailyreflectionIf you're struggling with alcohol or addiction, or wondering how to stop drinking it's helpful to know that there's a solution that has worked for millions of people. The Daily Reflection Podcast provides hope, and inspiration through the shared experiences of people that have found a way out. 

WALKING THROUGH FEARIf we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76When I had taken my Fifth Step, I became aware that all my defects of character stemmed from my need to feel secure and loved. To use my will alone to work on them would have been trying obsessively to solve the problem. In the Sixth Step I intensified the action I had taken in the first three Steps -- meditating on the Step by saying it over and over, going to meetings, following my sponsor's suggestions, reading and searching within myself. During the first three years of sobriety I had a fear of entering an elevator alone. One day I decided I must walk through this fear. I asked for God's help, entered the elevator, and there in the corner was a lady crying. She said that since her husband had died she was deathly afraid of elevators. I forgot my fear and comforted her. This spiritual experience helped me to see how willingness was the key to working the rest of the Twelve Steps to recovery. God helps those who help themselves.Need the Daily Reflection Book?Visit our web siteRead about Recovery on our BlogVisit our Facebook GroupFollow us on TwitterSupport the Podcast:- On Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailyreflection- On PayPal: https://paypal.me/dailyreflectionIf you're struggling with alcohol or addiction, or wondering how to stop drinking it's helpful to know that there's a solution that has worked for millions of people. The Daily Reflection Podcast provides hope, and inspiration through the shared experiences of people that have found a way out. 

RESPECT FOR OTHERSSuch parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on ourself, but always considerate of others.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 74Respect for others is the lesson that I take out of this passage. I must go to any lengths to free myself if I wish to find that peace of mind that I have sought for so long.However, none of this must be done at another's expense. Selfishness has no place in the A.A. way of life. When I take the Fifth Step it's wiser to choose a person with whom I share common aims because if that person does not understand me, my spiritual progress may be delayed and I could be in danger of a relapse. So I ask for divine guidance before choosing the man or woman whom I take into my confidence.Need the Daily Reflection Book?Visit our web siteRead about Recovery on our BlogVisit our Facebook GroupFollow us on TwitterSupport the Podcast:- On Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailyreflection- On PayPal: https://paypal.me/dailyreflectionIf you're struggling with alcohol or addiction, or wondering how to stop drinking it's helpful to know that there's a solution that has worked for millions of people. The Daily Reflection Podcast provides hope, and inspiration through the shared experiences of people that have found a way out. 

In today's episode I'm diving into the fifth thing you need to do if you want to make four-figures right now.We'll be diving into:-How to cultivate a positive mindset-Using the pandemic to become a resilient entrepreneur-Learning problem-solving to build a sustainable and scalable businessLinks mentioned in this episode: Links mentioned in this episode: https://socialbusinessbosses.com/mmchallenge

In part five of our seven-part series on the steps of Alchemy, our hosts look to investigate the process of Fermentation and its effect on the spiritual evolution of an individual. This step marks the beginning of the work in The Above and represents a spiritual death and re-birth. Support the show

In part five of our seven-part series on the steps of Alchemy, our hosts look to investigate the process of Fermentation and its effect on the spiritual evolution of an individual. This step marks the beginning of the work in The Above and represents a spiritual death and re-birth. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/knowthyselfpodcast?fan_landing=true)

content: Dec 21, 2017 · podcast: Feb 12, 2021 Audio (MP3): 20171221 - I can be a fruity butterfly If you're not familiar with AA's Twelve Steps, don't worry none. Just follow along and you'll get the gist. When I worked Step One I was in horrible, emotional pain. Nightmarish pain that’d wake me up at night. Day in and day out pain unlike anything I’d felt in my life. And that pain was with me up until after I’d worked my Fifth Step. Then after Step Seven I started to really feel that peace, that everything was gonna be okay. That overwhelming and underlying good feeling that comes from walking a spiritual path. When I started making my Eighth Step list I wasn’t motivated by pain so much anymore to finish the steps. I was motivated because I wanted something more than what I’d always had in life. I wanted more of the happiness that I’d been given. I was still willing to do whatever it took to stay sober but the willingness came from a different place. For maybe half of my life I’ve been unhappy. Discontent with how my life was going, what I was doing. Sitting where I do now I know that unhappiness is on me. Sure, I was just doing what I knew how to do but I’d made myself miserable. I wanted something more from life and I knew that making the Eighth Step list and making my Ninth Step amends would help change fundamentally who I was. I’m passive in life and stepping outside of myself, going beyond my limitations was something I knew I could do. And it all started with asking god for help. And being willing, of course. ... So when I got home from work today I tried to take a nap but I just couldn’t rest for whatever reason. I went downstairs and the cats were yelling because their food bowl wasn’t full enough. Then the robot vacuum tangled itself up in the Christmas tree skirt and was about to tumble down the stairs. With not getting a nap and the cats and the vacuum, I was losing my patience. Ugh. Plus, I hadn’t had dinner yet. So then I’m eating cereal and trying to read my meditation books, snap me out of whatever funk I’m in. I picked up the first one and rolled my eyes. Ya, I know about that. I picked up the second one and was like, “fuck I’ve read all of this before.” I felt like the disgruntled person that I’d been most of my life. Restless, frustrated, and overall just discontent. When I picked up the third one it’s about a caterpillar on a leaf. YES. It sounded a straightforward bell, something simple that I could latch onto. A concept without complex thoughts and overly wordy spiritual truths. So the caterpillar spends much of his life eating the same leaves, day in and day out. But then something happens and it grows into something more, it turns into a butterfly. It can fly wherever it wants, sample the sweet nectar from a whole world of flowers. It’s not limited to the leaves that it’s always had. It’s been graced with a newly found freedom. It got me thinking that I can eat the same leaves I always have. I can have my same life. I can be constantly frustrated and throwing my hands up in the air. Or I can let go and do something different. Be something different. I can be a fruity butterfly. I got on my knees afterward and prayed, asked God for help, help me live that better kind of life. That I know about. After I said my prayers the cats came over, trying to love on me. And then I gave them some love back. Life’s just not about me. When I get outside of myself and do for others, life takes on a new meaning. One that feels full. Even though I’ve been sober I still need to pray for willingness, still need to pray for help. It’s that old saying that “just because I got sober doesn’t mean I get to stay sober.” Sometimes the dysfunction kicks in and I just want to give up, hide from my responsibilities, and not deal with life. But really I don’t want that life anymore though. I’m willing to do whatever it takes just like I became willing to make my amends. I want my life to have meaning, to have purpose. I want it to be big. Cosmically big. Butterfly big. #advancedsoul #twelvesteps #diariespodcast Add a comment! Got 30 seconds? Take the super duper, quick and easy podcast survey! Please. 😊 Love the show? Make a donation! Because you're the best. 💖 tcrbang.com · Instagram · Facebook · YouTube View original

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2021-01-25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ****** A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It may not have been edited, so errors may exist. Closed Captioning: https://otter.ai/u/DuzdMw-Tyke8tcfrryDy5uTHXig ****** For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ****** If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting Audio Dharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ****** This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

Pobierz audycję w pliku mp3W 403. odcinku podcastu Radio SK przed mikrofonem usiedli Hubert "Mando" Spandowski (StephenKing.pl) oraz Sebastian "Burial" Kubańczyk (Kingowiec.pl) aby na chłodno podsumować wszystkie ważne kingowe wydarzenia mające miejsce w zeszłym roku.0:01:50 - książka "Jest krew..." (osobny podcast)0:03:53 - opowiadania "Fifth Step" i "On Slide Inn Road"0:11:14 - komiks "Śpiące królewny"0:16:21 - wysyp audiobooków: "Jest krew...", "Carrie", Buick 8", "Historia Lisey", "Desperacja", "Talizman", "Czarny Dom"0:18:32 - filmy i seriale: "Outsider" (pierwsze wrażenia, osobny podcast), "Dzieci kukurydzy", "A Creepshow Animated Special" (osobny podcast), "Bastion" (pierwsze wrażenia), polskie wydania na nośnikach0:41:30 - wydarzenia różne: drugi sezon serialu "Eli Roth: Historia horroru" (osobny podcast), antologia "W cieniu Bangor" (osobne podcasty: 01, 02, 03), film dokumentalny "Stephen King: Zło konieczne" (osobny podcast), wysyp figurek0:51:42 - Joe Hill: seriale "NOS4A2" (osobny podcast) i "Locke & Key" (pierwsze wrażenia, osobny podcast), komiksy "Dying is Easy" i "Hill House Comics" (pierwsze wrażenia, tom 1), książka "Gaz do dechy" (osobne podcasty: 01, 02, 03)1:01:01 - najlepsze i najgorsze w 20201:07:30 - podsumowanie roku i Radia SK1:11:20 - kingowe prognozy na rok 2021

content: Sep 4, 2017 · podcast: Dec 29, 2020 Audio (MP3): 20170904 - Relapse and Reservations Video (MP4): 20170904 - Relapse and Reservations After I’d been sober for a number of years I relapsed. It wasn’t something that I thought was gonna happen. And also, it didn’t “just happen” either. So with that being said I feel qualified, I feel confident, I feel like I’m able to talk about relapse overall. I have experience with it. I didn’t have any deep, dark, dank secrets. I didn’t hold anything back when writing my Fourth Step and I didn’t hold anything back when sharing my Fifth Step. I made all of the amends on my Eighth Step list. I was more spiritual than I’d ever been my whole life. So why did I relapse? Because I quit going to meetings. I quit hanging out with people in recovery and hung out instead with “normal” people. that drank like normal people do. We had a lot in common those “normal” ones, similar interests and so on. We could bond over things I couldn’t with people in the meetings. And really we alcoholics aren’t that much different from them. I’ve known plenty of “normal” people who had resentments, who’d been plagued with fear their whole life, who felt lost and couldn’t find their way. Anyways with my relapse, somehow I had convinced myself that I was okay, that me drinking was okay. Plain and simple: I’d lost touch with where I’d came from. And I write this because I hear people talk who say that the reason alcoholics relapse is because they have reservations. And I think it’s bullshit to say that everyone who’s relapsed didn’t work the steps to their full ability.[1] I’ve heard that in meetings. And further I’ve known people who have relapsed or were in the midst of a relapse who were and still are more spiritual, more kind, more compassionate and caring then those 20+ year sober guys who think they know it all. And obviously something is lacking in their program if they’re up there pounding their fists at the soapbox about a relapse they never had. Yes, some people do relapse because there’s a secret that they don’t want to tell or they never found the humility or willingness to make a certain amend or whatever. But that’s not fucking everybody. Okay, obviously I have some emotion behind this but just to be clear, just because you’ve never relapsed that doesn’t mean that you can come along and tell me that I didn’t do something right the first time. Or that you can make some broad assumption, or borderline accusation against everyone who has relapsed. Be careful with airs of intolerance or ones of arrogance. They’ll get you in trouble. Further, you’re the authority on your recovery, not mine. And further still, my relapse doesn’t discount my previous recovery. It doesn’t wipe the sobriety slate clean or take away the decade plus I was sober. It only makes my recovery now that much better. And lastly while I’m picking bones… Who cares if I would have been sober for over 25 years if I hadn’t relapsed. I’m not keeping score. Why are you? #alcoholism #twelvesteps #diariespodcast #diariesvideo Okay, I concede to the fact that I fell down on Step 12 before I relapsed. Step 10 and 11, too. But not working steps 1-9 to the best of my ability didn’t have anything to do with my relapse. ↑ jimi hindrance experience · Sep 4, 2017 at 9:11 pm Because he has enlightenment as his aim, a bodhisattva-mahāsattva is so called. I still have Walter Becker on my mind but I was very struck by your comments, as usual. “Bodhisattva” is of course a rockin’ lil’ number by Steely Dan. In other news, I feel like I’ve said these things before. I’m not thinking plagiarism, just that you are so completely in tune with things I’ve thought for a long time. I am super-qualified on relapse. $m.wand.ajax_click=true;$m.wand.lightswitch=true; keamoose · Sep 5, 2017 at 4:29 pm I don’t expect I’ll ever really understand this, but the way you write about it always just sounds so honest that it makes it more ok for me to talk about the stuff I have issues with. $m.wand.ajax_click=true;$m.wand.lightswitch=true; tcr! · Sep 5, 2017 at 5:17 pm Somewhere in one of my recovery books it says something along the lines of, “when sharing our pain if it helps just one person with their pain then it was worth it.” I’m happy that my sharing is helping with your sharing 😊 $m.wand.ajax_click=true;$m.wand.lightswitch=true; Add a comment! Got 30 seconds? Take the super duper, quick and easy podcast survey! Please. 😊 Love the show? Make a donation! Because you're the best. 💖 tcrbang.com · Instagram · Facebook · YouTube View original

Written by Dr. Earle M. from San Francisco, who got sober in June of 1953, this story was printed in the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions. Earle was a very active member of AA throughout his life, spreading its message of hope to those he touched in his medical practice, as well as countless alcoholics he met during his many world-wide travels. In his first year of sobriety, Earle met Bill W. in New York, became close friends, and frequently visited Bill and Lois at their home, Stepping Stones. Earle referred to Bill as one of his sponsors and is said to have taken his Fifth Step with Bill. Over the years, they discussed Bill’s bouts with depression and their shared interest in spiritual practices and quests for serenity. In an interview published in the October 1995 edition of The Grapevine, Earle recounted a request that Bill W. made of him prior to Earle’s extended visit to southeast Asia. He quoted Bill as saying, “"Do me a favor. When you get over to Asia, see if you can investigate firsthand, the various religions in Asia. That means Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and Confucianism and ancestral worship and the whole shebang." And he said, "Stay in contact with me and maybe we can find something in those religions. After all, we've taken from William James, we've taken from all the Christian religions. Let's see what these others have." Dr. Earle M. was sober 49 years when he died in 2003 at the age of 92. Howard L, sober since January 1, 1988, presents this inspired reading of the Big Book and encourages listeners to revisit earlier podcast episodes that feature the main chapters and stories in the First Edition of the Big Book. Enjoy listening on our website, BigBookPodcast.com, or download and subscribe to the podcast for free at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If you have a minute, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Also join our facebook group, Big Book Podcast Listeners, where you can share your thoughts and experiences with fellow listeners.

Caroline takes the stage at the Friends of Frank Sinatra impersonator's club, hoping to send a message to Jimmy Foss with his favorite song.

The Friends of Frank discover NYC tour guide Caroline Cates sneaking into their Sinatra impersonator's nightclub with a record shard in her pocket - and a clue to the thief who stole - and return - their records. "I love this podcast, smart and funny!!" Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann "A must-read for lovers of romantic comedy, independent spirits, classic myths and the magic of music. – Vivek Tiwary, Broadway Producer; Author, THE FIFTH BEATLE.