Podcasts about Finding Me

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Roxanna are discussing: Bookish Moments: shifts in our reading and brain farts Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: reading Canadian elbows up style The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  1:55 - Ad For Ourselves 2:01 - Currently Reading Patreon 7:03 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week 7:25 - CR Season 7: Episode 24 12:21 - CR Season 7: Episode 36 12:26 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri 12:51 - Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 14:18 - Our Current Reads 14:24 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Roxanna) 18:57 - Coven by Soman Chainani (Kaytee) 19:10 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani 23:32 - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (Roxanna) 28:55 - The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Kaytee) 29:17 - Fabled Bookshop 33:28 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 34:03 - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (Roxanna) 38:26 - Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell (Kayee) 38:40 - Schuler Books 44:56 - Reading Canadian 48:48 - Canada Reads 48:51 - The Giller Prize 49:21 - The Push by Ashley Audrain 50:06 - Room by Emma Donoghue 50:18 - The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue 50:29 - The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue 52:01 - The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester 53:18 - Women Talking by Miriam Toews  55:00 - Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley 55:08 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 55:57 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan 56:49 - Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 56:53 - Three Holidays and A Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley 57:02 - Much Ado About Nada Uzma Jalaluddin 57:32 - Five Little Indians by Michelle Good 1:02:20 - The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan 1:03:40 - Lucky by Marissa Stapley 1:06:24 - Meet Us At The Fountain 1:07:05 - I wish there was an easier way to export and download kindle notes and highlights. (Roxanna) 1:08:57 - I wish to press Happy Place by Emily Henry. (Kaytee) 1:09:00 - Happy Place by Emily Henry   Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. May's IPL is a new indie to the rotation - Dog Eared Books in Ames, Iowa. Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

It is book club Tuesday; We're discussing Viola Davis biography , Finding Me. I would like to also take this time to send my condolences and healing energy to one of family members Sharice Porter. She was a love , light and will be missed dearly.

Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Nitu Bajekal, MD, to discuss women's health—a health topic with insights that everyone can benefit from, regardless of gender.Dr. Bajekal is a Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in London with nearly 40 years of experience in women's health. Specializing in Lifestyle Medicine, Menopause, PCOS, Endometriosis, and complex gynaecological issues, she is also a skilled laparoscopic and robotic surgeon. A Fellow of the Royal College and recipient of the Indian President's Gold Medal, Dr. Bajekal is one of the UK's first board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physicians.She has contributed to the UK's first plant-based nutrition course at Winchester University and co-authored the chapter on women's health for Plant Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice (2022). Dr. Bajekal has lectured globally and spoken at events such as Holistic Holiday at Sea. Passionate about educating women, she runs a voluntary service to promote healthier lifestyle choices among schoolgirls and women.Dr. Bajekal is the co-author of Living PCOS Free (2022) and Finding Me in Menopause (2024), offering practical, lifestyle-based approaches to managing PCOS and menopause. For more information, visit www.nitubajekal.com and follow her on Instagram and TikTok (@drnitubajekal).ResourcesBook:  Living PCOS FreeBook: Finding Me in Menopause FactsheetsPlant-Based Health Professionals UK PCOS factsheet  Rotterdam PCOS guidelines PEN PCOS resource Dr. Nitu Bajekal's SocialsWebsiteInstagramTik TokPlant-Based Canada's SocialsInstagram FacebookWebsiteX / Twitter @PBC_orgBonus Content from University of GuelphCheck out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you'll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. uoguel.ph/pbn.Thank you for tuning in! Make sure to subscribe to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast so you get notified when new episodes are published. This episode was hosted by Stephanie Nishi RD, PhD.Support the show

On this episode of Currently Reading, Mary and Roxanna are sharing their favorite reads of 2024. We are excited to give them the reins for a full episode, and they bring some awesome reads for you to add to your TBR! Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  1:24 - Mary and Roxanna's Reading Year In review 2:06 - Mary read 84 books in 2024, 59% print, 24% digital, 17% audio 2:54 - Mary read 71% adult, 16% middle grade, 7% young adult and 6% new adult 4:29 - Currently Reading Patreon 7:45 - Roxanna read 70 books in 2024, 19 were 5-star reads. 8:18 - Roxanna read 81% fiction, 19%  nonfiction 9:09 - Both Mary and Roxanna want to increase their POC/Diverse reads im 2025. 10:48 - Mary and Roxanna's Top Reads of 2024 10:57 - The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (Roxanna #10) 12:15 - The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews 13:23 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon (Mary #10) 14:39 - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 15:22 - Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Roxanna #9) 16:51 - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz 17:45 - Death in the Dark Woods by Annelise Ryan  (Mary #9) 17:51 - A Death in Door County by Annelise Ryan 20:33 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (Roxanna #8) 21:13 - The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das 23:52 - Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison (Mary #8) 26:27 - It's Easier than you Think by Sylvia Boorstein (Roxanna #7) 30:18 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Mary #7) 30:56 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram 31:19 - Winter Hours by Mary Oliver 32:03 - Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark (Roxanna #6) 34:58 - The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer (Mary #6) 35:09 - The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer 37:24 - Margot's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (Roxanna #5) 40:05 - The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman 41:52 - Heir by Sabaa Tahir (Mary #5) 43:47 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 46:44 - Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (Roxanna #4) 50:12 - The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Mary #4) 53:38 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lovado (Roxanna #3) 54:02 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 54:04 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 57:00 - The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury (Mary #3) 58:59 - Be Ready when the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (Roxanna #2) 1:02:08 - The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop 1:02:25 - The Baddest Bitch in the Room by Sophia Chang 1:04:36 - A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Mary #2) 1:08:22 - Matrix by Lauren Groff (Roxanna #1) 1:08:39 - Search by Michelle Huneven 1:11:15 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Mary #1) Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. January's IPL is a special episode in partnership with All Things Murderful and a total mystery and thriller stack from Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

The second annual Few of Our Favorite Things episode has arrived! Friend of the Pod Justin Hentges returns, and we share personal stories and reflections on our cherished books, movies, music, and experiences from the past year. We aren't just highlighting new releases, but the gems that have brought us joy and comfort regardless of their release date. We also bring you a heartwarming Christmas story with Santa and magical snow globes, spreading hope and resilience to those feeling vulnerable in this uncertain times. From Ronan Farrow's gripping "Catch and Kill" to Emmanuel Carrère's poignant "V13: Chronicle of a Trial," we discuss the year's most impactful books that have left us contemplating the dark corners of media and politics. We also explore the intriguing connections between business, government, and personal stories through the insightful narratives in Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway's "The Big Myth" and Viola Davis's powerful autobiography "Finding Me." And, we curl up with our favorite TV series like Rowan Atkinson's "Maigret" and the heartfelt "Heartstopper." These stories serve as a reminder of the importance of diverse perspectives in enriching our understanding of the world. Our conversation also takes some unexpected turns as we find joy in the children in our lives, and the sense of community that emerges during uncertain times. We reflect on the cultural impact across generations and the significance of empathy and compassion. As the holiday season approaches, we send you a heartfelt Happy Holidays! Related:Counterpoint PodcastCounterpoint Podcast-------------------------Follow Deep Dive:InstagramYouTube Email: deepdivewithshawn@gmail.com Music: Majestic Earth - Joystock

Join us for a candid conversation with the esteemed Dr. Nitu Bajekal, a leading OBGYN, as she shares her profound knowledge and personal experiences with perimenopause and menopause. With nearly four decades in women's health, Dr. Bajekal offers invaluable insights into how these life stages can vary widely across different ethnicities. She also opens up about her personal journey, revealing the challenges she faced and the inspiration behind her book, "Finding Me in Menopause." This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to better understand these significant transitions from perimenopause to menopause and the need for support and understanding for women while they're in this phase.Discover the truth about menopause symptoms and the solutions available, as we explore the critical role of hormonal changes. Dr. Bajekal addresses common skepticism around hormone therapy, emphasizing its significance in managing symptoms such as hot flashes and mood changes. We offer practical advice on lifestyle adjustments, from improving sleep quality to stress management, that can enhance well-being during menopause. The conversation also highlights the long-term impact of menopause on women's health and the need to embrace this life stage gracefully.In the realm of exercise and nutrition, learn how strength training can combat osteoporosis and reduce cancer risks, while a plant-based diet can effectively manage menopause symptoms. Dr. Bajekal shares the powerful health benefits of soy and other plant-based foods, along with the importance of workplace support for menopausal women. This episode aims to foster a more inclusive and supportive environment for women experiencing menopause, both in the workplace and beyond. Tune in for guidance, encouragement, and a wealth of knowledge from one of the leading voices in women's health.Her social channels Instagram, TikTok to connect is @drnitubajekal. Be sure to follow @vaipkumar more of these wonderful offerings.Send us a textBuzzsprout Get your podcast launched!Start for FREEEnjoy PIOR Living productsEnjoy PIOR Living products at a 20% discount and free shipping on orders over $75 Code FLF20OurPlace CookwareShop versatile, aesthetic cookware sets/appliances from OurPlace. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showVideos on YouTube channel.Follow host Vai on socials - Instagram , YouTube, LinkedIn for thought leadership content. Head to my website for enlightening blogs & service offerings.This podcast comes to you from Listen Ponder Change LLC, founded by Vai Kumar.Every support the show contribution is much appreciated !!Subscribe https://www.buzzsprout.com/1436179/support and help us amplify our voice and reach!

This week on group chat, we have Lindsey Hein and Peter Bromka. Episode Rundown: CIM Recap Indoor track kicks off strong in Boston Honolulu Merrie Mile NAZ Elite cuts and the evolution of that team Media suggestions: Finding Me by Viola Davis Will and Harper

Finding Me involves getting to know the Heavenly Father intimately. Reference Scriptures include Genesis 1:1; Psalms 31; Isaiah 41:10; Proverbs 3:5.. these are only a few…. as you begin your walk of intimacy through reading Holy Scriptures, you will begin journey of listening to God, the Father.. the Holy Spirit will guide you to truth .. be blessed on your journey.-For more from Dr. Alex check out books by Dr. Alex Young -“Healing To Prosperity: Restoration through God's Way and Purpose”; “Love Revealed: Renewed Through God's Love” ; and Faith Walk: A Journey to Self-Discovery available on Amazon. Also check out new children's picture book- Makeba's Faith (teaching young minds about faith, ages 4-8). Also check out Alex on IG -alexyoungphd

In this episode, Dr. Aimee welcomes Dr. Nitu Bajekal, a renowned Ob-Gyn and women's health expert, to discuss her two insightful books, Living PCOS Free: How to Regain Your Hormonal Health with PCOS and Finding Me in Menopause. Dr. Bajekal shares her personal journey through menopause, debunks common myths, and emphasizes the power of medical knowledge for self-empowerment. She also introduces six lifestyle pillars to optimize health: quality sleep, stress reduction, regular exercise, avoiding risky substances like alcohol and tobacco, building a supportive social network, and following a nutritious diet. Dr. Bajekal addresses navigating perimenopause and early menopause, focusing on fertility concerns and the potential benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).  For further resources, links to her books, and educational fact sheets, you can connect with Dr. Bajekal on these platforms: Instagram: Dr. Nitu Bajekal on Instagram TikTok: Dr. Nitu Bajekal on TikTok Website: Dr. Nitu Bajekal's Official Website Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Do you have questions about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, November 18th, 2024 at 4pm PST (7pm EST), where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

In this episode of The Egg Whisperer Show, I'm thrilled to welcome Dr. Nitu Bajekal, an incredibly experienced obstetrician and gynecologist with nearly 40 years in clinical practice. Known by many as "Dr. Magical Bajekal," she brings invaluable insights into the world of menopause, PCOS, endometriosis, and complex vulval issues. We dive deep into the topics of perimenopause and menopause, discussing why recognizing these phases is so essential for women's health. Dr. Bajekal shares how menopause is diagnosed and highlights the powerful role of lifestyle medicine and plant-based nutrition in managing symptoms. And, we discuss her new book, Finding Me in Menopause: Flourishing in Perimenopause and Menopause using Nutrition and Lifestyle. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Dr. Bajekal's website Dr. Nitu Bajekal's book: Finding Me in Menopause: Flourishing in Perimenopause and Menopause using Nutrition and Lifestyle Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Do you have questions about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, November 18th, 2024 at 4pm PST (7pm EST), where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Join Kendall, Andrew, and Angelique for another episode of We're Booked Up! This time they're discussing Finding Me, an autobiography by Viola Davis. After listening, head over to the Off the Shelf blog and share your thoughts on the episode. And be sure to check out Hope United Survivor Network for more information on domestic abuse and how you can Give Hope.   Music provided by: https://www.purple-planet.com

Gave myself a birthday break and you guys access to the extended version of Finding Me by Viola Davis.Also, included this poem that I am turning to right now for hope, comfort, and grit:Still I Riseby Maya AngelouYou may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?'Cause I walk like I've got oil wellsPumping in my living room.Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise.Did you want to see me broken?Bowed head and lowered eyes?Shoulders falling down like teardrops,Weakened by my soulful cries?Does my haughtiness offend you?Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold minesDiggin' in my own backyard.You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise.Does my sexiness upset you?Does it come as a surpriseThat I dance like I've got diamondsAt the meeting of my thighs?Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI riseI rise.******How do we choose grace and compassion? In her heartbreaking memoir, Viola Davis opens up about her abusive childhood and the adversity she faced as a Black actress. My friend, Ngoc Anh, and I discuss her unparalleled talent, strength in her convictions, empathy and how she encourages us to reflect on what holds us back in our own lives. Through her life story, we see that though the journey to self-discovery is often difficult, it's worth it.  Listener discretion advised: this episode contains mature language and sensitive discussion topics including sexual assaultIf you have any comments or questions, please connect with me on Instagram or email babesinbooklandpodcast@gmail.com. I'd love to hear your suggestions and feedback!Link to this episode's book:Finding Me by Viola DavisOther ways to support/connect with Viola Davis:Viola Davis IMDBInstagramTranscripts are available through apple's podcast app—they may not be perfect, but relying on them allows me to dedicate more time to the show! If you're interested in being a transcript angel, let me know. This episode is produced, recorded, and edited by me.Special thanks to my dear friend, Ngoc Anh. You're my honorary big sis and I'm so lucky to know you!Xx, Alex

Lisa's journey to midlife is not uncommon. She checked all the life boxes - education, marriage, kids, career - only to find she still felt lost. Somewhere along the way she'd lost that curious, confident and excited-about-life young girl.   Lisa's dark night of the soul happens when her mom dies very quickly and unexpectedly and her job as a teacher becomes unbearable. Change feels like her only option. She shares all the trials and tribulations of navigating this new phase of midlife, starting a career over again, dealing with menopause, becoming an empty nester (or bird launcher as I like to call it) and allowing herself to dream of bigger and better things. Lisa is such a beautiful example of bringing energy and inspiration to midlife.  Lisa is the host of Transforming 45 where we recorded another conversation with her as the host interviewing me. Listen here on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.  You can also find Lisa on Instagram here. 

Request a topic- Send me a text!From Viola Davis's book "Finding Me" I read a quote "All I got is me and that is enouogh" and I talk about this quote in the episode. Listen up.FEEL BETTER TODAY, Sign up for a Free Mini SessionTired of fighting? Book your free mini session to feel better today and finally stop fighting.#stopmanipulating #stopscreaming #stoppeoplepleasing #ajahnbrahm #byronkatie #brookecastillo #abraham #louisehay #esterhicks #momsonlife #raisingboys #parenting #gentleparenting #respectfulparenting #son #kids #raisingkids #parent #raisingmen #love #bestparenting #mom #mother #mothersonquotes, #motherson #teenmom #theydontneedme #momlife #angrymom #podcast #relationships #stopnagging #workingmom #struggling #momof4 #momofboys #momoftwins #familyof6 #hockeymo #soccermom #wholefoodsmom #calgarymom #stopyelling #canadianmom #russianom #stopnagging #teenmom #parentingcoach #selflove #stopcontrolling

Lisa talks in-depth about the beloved comedy and memoir Yes Please by Amy Poehler. This is a hilarious book - though only some things don't work as well on the page they might in standup. The New York Times addresses how much of the book is filler with empty pages for writing notes and parts of scripts in the book.  Books discussed:  Finding Me by Viola Davis In Pieces by Sally Field

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: reading routines and meeting local authors Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: the journey from season one to season seven of Currently Reading The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  1:27 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 5:49 - Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman 6:17 - Changing Hands bookshop 6:18 - Poison Pen bookshop 9:58 - Our Current Reads 10:11 - Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson (Meredith) 11:55 - Novel Memphis 15:56 - Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg (Kaytee) 16:03 - Libro.fm 18:13 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 19:56 - The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller (Meredith) 28:42 - Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce (Kaytee) 33:46 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (Meredith) 38:18 - The Silence of Bones by June Hur (Kaytee) 39:53 - Garcia Street Books 41:13 - The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi 41:58 - Deep Dive: The Journey of Currently Reading 46:40 - Currently Reading Patreon  56:13 - Meet Us At The Fountain 57:06 - We wish to grow the listenership of the Big Show with YOUR help! (Meredith AND Kaytee) *Help us to grow our listenership by sharing a link to the podcast with at least one readerly friend (or maybe a non-readerly friend who WANTS to get into books but doesn't know where to start). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/currently-reading/id1435363675 Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. August's IPL comes to us from The King's English Bookshop in Utah! Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Lisa discusses her first five star book of the year – Finding Me by Viola Davis. This is a powerful and touching memoir written by Davis. She delves into her childhood of poverty along with domestic abuse and sexual abuse that enclosed her family. For more information, find Lisa on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and her website.*The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives compensation.

In Episode 175, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and I explore our favorite Micro Genres for 2024. Over the past year, we've continued to refine our reading tastes and identify specific themes and types of books that resonate deeply with us. This year, Susie and I have a curated list of 10 all-new Micro Genres, along with standout books from each category. It's another big episode with tons of great book recommendations! This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). CLICK HERE for the full episode Show Notes on the blog. Cold War Espionage (Sarah) [3:19] Sarah Red Widow by Alma Katsu | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [4:49] Red London by Alma Katsu | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [4:50] Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [5:10]  The Charm School by Nelson DeMille | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [5:20]   Red Notice by Bill Browder | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [5:47] The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [6:01] Susie The Sisterhood by Liz Mundy | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [6:26]  Angsty Motherhood (Susie) [7:21] Sarah Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould | Amazon | Bookshop.org [12:00] Susie Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:38] Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo | Amazon | Bookshop.org [10:04] Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [10:37] When I Ran Away by Ilona Bannister | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [10:53]  Little Prisons by Ilona Bannister (currently unavailable in the US)  [10:54]  Landslide by Susan Conley | Amazon | Bookshop.org [10:57] The Push by Ashley Audrain | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [11:00]  Memoirs About the Demise of a Marriage (Sarah) [12:18] Sarah How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key | Amazon | Bookshop.org [13:26] You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [13:52]  A Beautiful, Terrible Thing by Jen Waite | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [14:11]  Bankruptcy by Janet Lombardi | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [14:14]  Susie Untamed by Glennon Doyle | Amazon | Bookshop.org [14:49] Pandemic Stories (Susie) [15:26] NOT Based on the COVID-19 Pandemic & More Dystopian [15:49]  Sarah Wanderers by Chunk Wendig | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [17:43]  Susie Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [16:06] The Dog Stars by Peter Heller | Amazon | Bookshop.org [16:20] The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller | Amazon | Bookshop.org [16:41]  Severance by Ling Ma | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [17:07] The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [18:20]  With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Background [18:28]  Sarah 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [20:37]  Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [20:40]  Susie Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [18:37]  Day by Michael Cunningham | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [19:17]  Tom Lake by Ann Patchett | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [19:47]  Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [19:49]  Other Books Mentioned Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult [21:09]  Invisible Son by Kim Johnson [21:14]  This Is My America by Kim Johnson [21:19]  The Measure by Nikki Erlick [22:03]  Did She Actually Say That?! (Sarah) [23:03] Sarah Miracle Creek by Angie Kim | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:18]  Happiness Falls by Angie Kim | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:19]  The Push by Ashley Audrain | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [24:55]  All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [25:14]  Sociopath by Patric Gagne, PhD | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [25:42]  Susie The Change by Kirsten Miller | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [26:15] On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [26:32]   Books Revolving Around Generational Trauma (Susie) [27:34] Sarah Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent | Amazon | Bookshop.org [31:24]  Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [31:28]  What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [31:52]  The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [31:54] What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, MD PhD | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [31:57]   Susie Grown Women by Sarai Johnson | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [29:08]  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [29:58]  The Postcard by Anne Berest | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:27]  Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:50]  All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir | Amazon | Bookshop.org   [30:53]  Swift River by Essie Chambers | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:56]  Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshanathan | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [30:59]  Co-Ed Friend Groups (Sarah) [32:18] Sarah The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:17]  Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [33:29]  The Ensemble by Aja Gabel | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [33:39]   All Together Now by Matthew Norman | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [33:47]  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [34:01] The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [34:14] Susie The Celebrants by Steven Rowley | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [34:36]  Who We Are Now by Lauryn Chamberlain | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [35:16]  Peace, Love, and Rock n' Roll / Books Set in the '60s & '70s (Susie) [36:58] Susie The Women by Kristin Hannah | Amazon | Bookshop.org [38:09]  Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop.org [38:31]  Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [38:57]  The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead | Amazon | Bookshop.org [spp-timestamp time=”[39:11]″]  All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [39:39] Last House by Jessica Shattuck | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [39:53]  Surprisingly High-Quality Celebrity Memoirs (Sarah) [40:33] Sarah Open by Andre Agassi | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [41:05]  Spare by Prince Harry | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [41:07]  Open Book by Jessica Simpson | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [42:16]  Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [43:11]  Becoming by Michelle Obama | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [43:15] Only Say Good Things by Crystal Hefner | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [43:21]   Susie Born a Crime by Trevor Noah | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [44:19]  Other Books Mentioned The Woman in Me by Britney Spears [41:45]  The Many Lives of Mama Love by Laura Love Hardin [43:33]  Look Backs (Susie) [44:38] Sarah City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon | Bookshop.org [48:11] Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney | Amazon | Bookshop.org  [48:33]  Victim by Andrew Boryga | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:06]  Susie The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:30] The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker | Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:03] Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:08] Absolution by Alice McDermott | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:30] Other Books Mentioned Happiness Falls by Angie Kim [47:47] 

When it comes to healing the body and mind, there's an unspoken language. It requires understanding the deeper signals our bodies send. The language that's often overlooked. Until now.   ⁣On this episode of the HIListically Speaking Podcast, nervous system medicine practitioner, Kardin Rabin, shares his own journey through chronic back pain that left this body worker looking for ways to transcend and transform. What he found were synchronicities that not only opened the door of pain to purpose, but lead him on a journey to help himself and others regulate an often dysregulated nervous system.  Discover the Secret Language of the Body with actionable steps to help you Heal through Awareness, Interruption and Redesign.  And find out how a chance meeting with Bessel van Der Kolk at a coffee shop changed his life. Plus, an offering of tools and support that puts true healing within reach. ⁣ ⁣ CHAPTERS/KEY MOMENTS⁣ 00:00 Intro⁣ 6:51   Opioids, Grief and generational pain 11:51   Chronic Pain and Trauma⁣17:20  Emotions and Pain Relationship⁣21:10  Exploring Trauma and Healing Through Books ⁣22:35 Bessel van der Kolk in a coffee shop⁣24:42 The Secret Language of the Body  ⁣32:42 HEAL and SOMIA Program⁣49:49 Serendipitous Encounters ⁣53:44 Rapid Fire Game⁣59:00 Conversation closing thoughts⁣01:03:27 Hilary close and information ⁣ ⁣ PREFER TO WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE?⁣ Subscribe  https://www.youtube.com/hilaryrusso ⁣Grab a copy of “The Secret Language of the Body: Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind”⁣ Hardcover:  https://amzn.to/4bUvGiV (Amazon)⁣ Audiobook:  https://amzn.to/4ehuYxY (Amazon)⁣ Kindle: https://amzn.to/4b1zWfw (Amazon)⁣ ⁣OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED⁣The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van Der Kolk, MD⁣https://amzn.to/4ccbU28 (Amazon)⁣ ⁣Healing Back Pain by John Sarnos, MD⁣https://amzn.to/4bZdK78 (Amazon)⁣ ⁣Get the Heal Program: Holistic Nervous System Regulation 10 Week Course⁣ https://programs.somiainternational.com/offers/XJAdTfnN/checkout ⁣ CONNECT WITH KARDEN⁣https://somiainternational.com https://www.instagram.com/kardenrabin https://www.instagram.com/somiainternational ⁣ ⁣HEALING IN YOUR HANDS. HAVENING WITH HILARY⁣ https://www.hilaryrusso.com/havening CONNECT WITH HILARY⁣ https://www.instagram.com/hilaryrusso https://www.youtube.com/hilaryrusso https://www.facebook.com/hilisticallyspeaking https://www.tiktok.com/@hilisticallyspeaking https://www.hilaryrusso.com/podcast Music by Lipbone Redding https://lipbone.com TRANSCRIPT⁣ Full transcript at https://www.hilaryrusso.com/podcast ⁣ 00:05 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ This process of healing trauma, of healing chronic stress, of healing nervous system disorders, absolutely requires a non-verbal approach through the unspoken language of the body. ⁣ ⁣ 00:21 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Your nervous system needs you and I wish I knew this Correction correction. I wish I understood this is what I mean when I was struggling with my own chronic pain, when I had my jaw surgery, when I was on the healing journey because, let me tell you, at 15, it was a doozy and every year following that, I just did not have the tools right. And as we get older, we experience more of these snap crackle pops in our body. It happens, it's life right. ⁣ ⁣ 00:49⁣ But here's the deal that pain in your body, that trauma that is making you want to run for cover because you don't feel safe. It's actually a signal. It's a signal, it's a call and you're hearing it and yeah, you've done the work. I get it. That's why you check in on this podcast week after week. You've done the work and you're like why am I not healing? Why am I feeling this way? Well, you've come to the right place, because it's all about finding the right support and people that will guide you on that journey, Like my friend, nervous system medicine practitioner, Karden Rabin. What's up, my friend, it is so good to have you here. ⁣ ⁣ 01:25 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Hi Hilary. ⁣ ⁣ 01:26 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ We talk so much before we press record and every time we have a conversation it's like I feel like we're just two kids in high school hanging out, chilling and just having a good time, because really, I mean, first of all, we get pretty giddy talking about the nervous system together, so we're totally geeking out. But, there's a reason for it. We're here on this planet to do something to help people, right? ⁣ ⁣ 01:49 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Yeah, to just vibe so well with someone who speaks your language and who helps you get it out there. ⁣ ⁣ 01:55 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yeah, and you're doing that. You're doing that as co-founder of SOMIA, the HEAL program that you have Now, this new, incredible, unbelievable book that is just paving the way. That's the secret language of the body. Yes, please show that. Regulate your nervous system, heal your body and free your mind. We're going to have a link to that in the podcast notes for all you folks. And look good, golly, miss Molly, I'm so glad you're here because we need you and we need what you're doing. So thanks again for being here. ⁣ ⁣ 02:23 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Thanks for having me. ⁣ ⁣ 02:24 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ You have your own story. I think a lot of people like to know what brings you to the kind of work that you do, especially when you're dealing with the nervous system, the brain, the mind, anything like that, or just our body in general. And there's such a good story behind you. And listen those of you turning in. Carter and I haven't known each other forever. In fact, we have a newer friendship. But I love that because you align with people. We met at the Heal the Healer event conference two-day event and I was just like, oh my gosh, he's my people and he's going to be yours too. But I want you to share your story so people truly understand how you got into this work. ⁣ ⁣ 03:01 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Yeah, okay, can truly understand how you got into this work. Yeah, okay, can I do it like memento style? Maybe it won't be in like sequential order, but we'll bop around a little bit. Yeah, okay. So I originally thought my story started with my own debilitating chronic back pain, because that is kind of the nice starting place in terms of starting around the age of 22,. I am 39 now. ⁣ ⁣ 03:26⁣ I began having bad bouts of low back pain, which was kind of humbling and humiliating for someone who was a very well-trained body worker who was making his living getting other people out of pain, and for the next 10 years or more, maybe more like 12 years I worshipped at the throne of basically structure and function. So if I could just get someone's body aligned the right way and moving the right way, really clean, really perfect, yada, yada, yada either my clients or myself that would solve the pain, because that's how I was taught. That would solve the pain because that's how I was taught. I was taught basically and by the way I'm going to be a real a-hole right here that we're basically some I don't know steampunk robot thing from 1642 that has no brain or software or just some mechanism and as long as it's lubed up and put together rightly, it will work correctly. And it turns out that, although there's some truth to that, it's also bullshit. We're not a mechanism first, we're a nervous system first. We are a human with feelings and emotions and a brain and, moreover and I didn't know this at the time, because this is not what I had been taught the only organ in your body, the only organ in your body responsible for pain at all times, is your brain and your nervous system. That's it. I'll say that again. The only organ in your body at all times that's responsible for whether you have pain or not is your brain and your nervous system. And it makes errors right, like we've all, for example, had something brush our leg and go ow right, and we look down and it was just this, like maybe it was a thorn right, it wasn't a really big deal. There'll be other times where we'll get like burned or something while we're busy doing something and we won't even notice how badly we got burned. We'll see that we have some wound later on, right. Also, people will often be in like athletic events. They'll sprain an ankle. It'll be swollen as heck. They won't even notice it till the evening. The brain is making choices and decisions about pain all the time, and we're going to get a lot more into that, guys. ⁣ ⁣ 05:46⁣ But essentially here I was trying to fix things mechanically and functionally for myself and my clients, sometimes being successful and sometimes not. And I went on like this for 10 or 12 years and each time my quote unquote back would go out, I would be bedridden, often for days out. I would be bedridden, often for days. I would have electrical storms of pain in my groin and my abdomen. I would have bilateral shooting pains like ice picks down into my calves, and it was threatening my livelihood, my life. I was no longer wanting to go out and do things, social things. I couldn't go on trips. My entire life started being defined by managing my incessant pain and again, it was not progressing with any of these conventional techniques Osteopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, body work, you name it. Uh, ayahuasca ceremonies, um and uh. I was. ⁣ ⁣ 06:51⁣ This is where we'll go in the kind of memento stuff. I realized that I was marching down the same path towards drugs and surgery that took my mother from me when I was 21. That took my mother from me when I was 21. So my mom had had a back injury in her early 30s and she had gotten a double spinal fusion, which is a type of surgery where they fused L2, l3 and L4 in her back, and but even though she had it repaired, it was still hurting her and the next 20 years of her life was organized around managing this pain. And this was the mid 80s and 90s. And, Hilary, I'll give you three guesses. It begins with O and ends with opioids. What was the standard of care for my mother during that time Opioids. ⁣ ⁣ 07:44 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yeah, opioids, I can't even imagine. ⁣ ⁣ 07:47 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ My mother was prescribed 12 Percocets a day. That'd kill a horse, folks, it'd kill a horse. Yeah, 12 Percocets a day Went from specialist to specialist, surgeon to surgeon and year after year it was just those opioids, opioids. We're not going to go into my trauma and stuff right now, but growing up with a mother who was managing her own pain and was on 12 percocets a day, that I thought was normal. Like didn't everyone's mom just pop a dozen pills a day? Long story short is that a body can't do that forever, and so my mom died at 54 years old, when I was 21, of basically complications of long-term opioid use. Here I was, 12 years later, having done everything in my power by becoming healthy and a body worker and fit to avoid her fate, and I was marching towards it myself. ⁣ ⁣ 08:48 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Our ancestral trauma. I mean, that's something I'm sure you deal with a lot too in the work that you do. But it's so much about us wanting to stop that ancestral trauma and it's a push-pull theory, right, Like we're saying I'm stopping it now, I'm not getting on that track, and we wind up falling into that if we're not too careful, you know, get the wake up call Well it was also total bypass, right. ⁣ ⁣ 09:11 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Yeah, it was no coincidence that my embodied pain, my symptom presentation due to my repression of my stress and trauma and dysregulation presented like my mother's right. So I just want to say here that genes are not everything, folks, when it comes to chronic illness Like yes, they might say you have a congenital or a family predisposition to rheumatoid arthritis or back pain or depression. And it's like yes, and you actually have nervous system modeling from generation to generation to generation. So, like when we talk about nurture versus nature, you know, when a child has chronic pain modeled to him for his entire childhood, then when his symptom presentation comes up, brains are social organs and they're often going to manifest their dysfunction precisely the way they were modeled to. So I got lucky, and the way I got lucky was in the midst of my chronic pain and hypocrisy. I was teaching anatomy and physiology to a yoga teacher training down on long island uh, basically laying on my back with my legs up the wall during every teaching segment because of how much misery I was in. ⁣ ⁣ 10:28⁣ And in the home of the owner of the studio there was John Sarno's healing back pain. ⁣ ⁣ 10:36⁣ And if your audience has never heard of John Sarno. He was an MD in New York City. He was a pioneer in this field. He really didn't know jack about trauma or modern neuroscience, but he was a great investigator and deductor and what he saw was that he'd have patient after patient come into his office and that the orthopedic and mechanical models or functional models that tried to explain their pain. He was like this is all bullshit and it's inconsistent and what's going on here should not be causing this person's hip or low back to be in such agony, but instead what he consistently saw were personality types, specifically in his case of repression, and type A perfectionism, which led to this consistent presentation of embodied pain. And then he educated his clients about what was going on in their mind body and then sometimes referred them to therapy and they got these miraculous improvements in their pain because this was the guy who said no, what's going on here is with their brain and their emotions, not with some inflammatory response in their low back or herniated disc. ⁣ ⁣ 11:51⁣ And so I found, his book found me, and for the first time in five years I had a significant of almost an 80% improvement in my pain from just reading his book. ⁣ ⁣ 12:04 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Which book was that? ⁣ ⁣ 12:06 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ This was Healing Back Pain by John Sarno. ⁣ ⁣ 12:07 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Grab that book, grab your book. ⁣ ⁣ 12:09 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Exactly, and even though this thing was book, the first edition of this one was 1991. And again, we've progressed quite a bit from what John was talking about, because he was looking at this stuff with the lens. He was trained in the 30s, but the point is it's still a valuable book. This book saved my life and initiated me into this entire space of helping people heal chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraines, ibs this constellation, this galaxy of mind-body disorders that have their root in trauma, dysregulated nervous system and something we can talk more about, which is conditioned responses. And I guess there's a lot more to my story. But that's how I got here, hilary. ⁣ ⁣ 12:59 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ We're glad you're here because I feel like everything we go through and a big part of this podcast is the trauma to triumphs right, and if we're using our triumphs well, we're here to share with others how to take care of themselves. You know it's it's. It's like the your, your upset could be somebody else's survival guide. You know what you went through, so it sucks that we have to go through some of this stuff, but we learn from each other, you know. So your story could be someone else's survival guide and is. And then the work that you're doing is continuing to help other people not just survive but live well. ⁣ ⁣ 13:36⁣ And I think, going back to what you said just a few minutes ago, learning that you could be doing all the trauma healing in the world. You can be doing everything to get your symptoms in alignment deal with your IBS, deal with your migraines, autoimmune problems but again, why do you want to deal with it? How do you get unstuck? And I think that's something I would like for us to talk about is like, how do you move beyond managing these things and actually find the healing? Because we hear the word manage a lot. Let's befriend it, let's manage it. People are just like I'm freaking tired of feeling the migraine and the pulsating in the back of my head or my stomach being in knots, and I'm eating all the anti-inflammatory foods out. Okay, it's more than that. So how do we take it to the next level? ⁣ ⁣ 14:25 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Yes, right, because I like to say that we come to this work to repair but we stay with it to transcend Right. So I think we're using very similar language, right. ⁣ ⁣ 14:34⁣ So nervous system trauma very similar language, right. So nervous system distress, trauma, chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation. That's like this. Through line between them, they're sort of what make the soil ripe for symptoms ranging from chronic pain to cfs to uh, to gut issues, to autoimmune issues, um, but, like I said, they make it ripe. ⁣ ⁣ 14:57⁣ So if your nervous system is basically in survival mode which is what trauma and chronic stress do to it we're all very familiar with when we're stressed out, when we're at our limit, the way we snap right, we like maybe snap at our kids, snap at our spouse, lose it at work. We're all very clear. Most of us can see our behavioral dysregulation. We might not be able to do something about it, but we see it. I am 100% literal here when I say your immune system, your nervous system, your cellular response is doing the same fucking thing in your body. Okay, so when you're not stressed out and the annoying person comes by, you're able to deal with it, but when you're stressed out, you snap at them. When you're stressed out and dysregulated and gluten comes through your belly, you snap because you can't deal with it, Because the entire system is at that point outside its window of tolerance outside of its capacity to absorb more. So what is basically a benign irritant, again, unless you have celiac. But like gluten, like environmental allergens, like dairy, like all these foods your body has been, by the way, become sensitized to and your own fear is driving it. These symptoms that present themselves largely have to do with your physiology responding in a completely dysregulated and hyperbolic way, in the same way that you're behaviorally responding hyperbolic and dysregulated to relations. There is no difference. Your mind, your body, your relationships and your cellular experience don't differentiate folks. So that's number one. That's the first part of what's driving symptoms, and so learning how to recondition your body, your nervous system, your immune system, your pain response system to have more regulated responses to internal stimuli is a parallel but separate skill set than learning how not to explode at your husband or snap at your kids and regulate in real time, relationally. ⁣ ⁣ 17:20⁣ I want to say one other thing is that what tends to happen is conditioned responses. So my low back pain actually began again. The gun was kind of loaded by my mother's modeling. But I started CrossFit when I was 25. And I did it because I wanted to get strong and they and I you know CrossFit's freaking hard. I have this background of. I was a sickly asthmatic child and I ended up using shame and self-criticism in my teens to make myself fit because I was so embarrassed and again ashamed of my own weakness. So fitness was already associated with feelings of shame and pushing so hard and so much self-criticism to drive me forward. Now, at 25, I go into CrossFit. ⁣ ⁣ 18:14⁣ They subject me to some ridiculously hard and inappropriate workout of deadlifts right, by the way, but this is what everyone needs to understand. I got an injury doing that, but the injury happened in parallel with a huge amount of shame and fear and pressure. The body learns a conditioned response. You think that what you see is when you go back to deadlift a few months later oh, this hurt my back again. Deadlifts hurt my back. ⁣ ⁣ 18:48⁣ Actually, what then happens is that any time your body starts to feel intense feelings of shame or intense feelings of pressure, those emotions became part of the conditioned response that create pain symptom. ⁣ ⁣ 19:02⁣ So you're looking at activities, but the special sauce of nervous system dysregulation and getting out of symptoms is to look at what emotional state your nervous system is in when you're experiencing symptoms, because it's that emotional state that's become associated with the symptom. So, instead of Pavlov ringing his bell to make the dog salivate, all those dogs might have to do now is feel shame and they'll salivate. So again, instead of the deadlift, making my low back hurt, a situation of having a lot of deadlines and maybe disappointing my boss, and feeling pressure and shame, holy shit, my back is hurting or my migraine started or my gut issue got worse. So I just threw a lot at you, Hilary. But where I'm getting at is that when we're dysregulated, our internal physiology has the same dysregulated responses inside our system as we have relationally outside our system to other people. And, moreover, chronic symptoms are the result of conditioned responses happening between emotional states and symptoms. ⁣ ⁣ 20:12 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ It's so important for us to know this and I'm glad you went into this. I think you gave a lot of different scenarios and examples If someone's coming to this for the first time and it's like whoa, whoa, whoa information overload. That's why we're here, because your book and I want to get into this again, the book that's been released is the secret language of the body regulate your nervous system, heal your body and free your mind. We're going to actually add that into the listen notes so you can grab it. But also for some of us who have maybe done a little more work maybe we're a little further on and maybe not you might've just heard of another book similar to which is the Body Keeps the Score right. That's Levander Colt's book, who you have a direct relationship with as his body worker, by the way. I mean just working with one of the most famous people that deal with the nervous system and regulation. Can we talk about that a little bit, because I think that's really important, even how that even happened, that synergy right there. ⁣ ⁣ 21:10 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Yeah. So, similarly to how I said, I got really fortunate, really blessed, really lucky to stumble into John Sarno's book right when I was on the precipice of having surgery. That book threw me into learning so much more about the mind, about the body, which took me into repressed emotions, which then eventually took me into trauma and somatic experiencing. Into trauma and somatic experiencing, I start exploring this world of basically how stress and trauma create physiological issues and, of course, I eventually stumble into Bessel's book. I keep all of these really close by. ⁣ ⁣ 21:46 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yeah, you got like a library sitting right next to you. ⁣ ⁣ 21:49 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Right there, right there. They're all always here. And so Bessel's book is remarkable, because if you've read it, it has that gift of you being like, oh my God, this explains my suffering. ⁣ ⁣ 22:01 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ This is me right. ⁣ ⁣ 22:02 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ This is me. I see now how my trauma, or my neglect, has created this and that and the science that he brings into it, the understanding that he brings into it into it. The understanding that he brings into it. And he also goes on further to show how, for example, people who have experienced traumas that their own immune system has higher markers for autoimmune processes, right Like trauma has caused that immune system to attack its own body more often. ⁣ ⁣ 22:35⁣ It's like it's stitched or connected so many dots and there's something beautiful and special when a book makes you feel seen, and so I read his book and it's part of this collection of books that I'd say Bessel, Peter Levine, who wrote Waking the Tiger, and he's the founder of Somatic Experiencing, Gabor Mate when the Body, body says no, and many other ways. That's stitching together this science and art of what's going on here, of how so many of us are sick from trauma, nervous system dysregulation and then Hilary. It had to be less than six weeks after reading his book. I'm sitting in my local coffee shop, Six Depot, here in West Stockbridge. ⁣ ⁣ 23:16⁣ I live in the Berkshires shout out yeah, holla, right, go get some cold brew and this dude walks in and I don't know what made me look up or glance at him or hear his voice and I was like, did Bessel van der Kolk just walk into my coffee shop? And I never do this? And I was so embarrassed but I, like, I went up and fan boyed right and I was like, um, I simply said, you know, Hi.  Are you Bessel van der Kolk? And he goes, yes, and I go. Well, I just needed to tell you I recently read your book and it was revelatory and I'm just so grateful to you and for your work. And, uh, you, you know, thank you, and he goes. Oh well, you know, thank you for letting me know. I'm really glad about that. And his wife is next to him and she goes who are you? ⁣ ⁣ 24:05⁣ And I go. Oh, I'm Karden and I'm a body worker and I have a clinic here in town and she goes. Well, we've just recently relocated out here to the Berkshires. We've been looking for a new body worker here because they had moved from Boston and I know like what Just happened. ⁣ ⁣ 24:26 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ And. ⁣ ⁣ 24:27 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I know what it was like, what just happened, who orchestrated this? Am I about to get punked or something Right? And you know, the rest is history. Within a couple weeks they came into the clinic, we hit it off and we're dear friends. I've been seeing Bessel now as a client for five, six years and he's obviously become a dear mentor and he was instrumental in supporting me during the process of writing the Secret Language of the Body and that's how Bessel and I know each other. But also the reason why Bessel was so supportive of this book is that he wrote a book called the Body Keeps the Score that this process of healing trauma, of healing chronic stress, of healing nervous system disorders absolutely requires a nonverbal approach through the unspoken language of the body. And that's why our book is called the Secret Language of the Body. ⁣ ⁣ 25:33⁣ Because if you're like, wait, did Karden just say that my emotional state has to do with my low back pain or my migraines or my IBS? What the hell is he talking about? It's like that fish who's in water. You ask a fish how's the water Like? What are you talking about? Right, they don't know they're in water. ⁣ ⁣ 25:48⁣ It takes training to get out of your head, out of your endless cognitive loop and actually tune in to the sensations, emotions, experience and information that come from your autonomic nervous system in your body. And that's what we teach people. We teach people to become aware of this universe of activity going on just below their chin. And, as you can become aware of that secret language, it's like being able to. It's like people are speaking Italian around me. Oh my God, I can't believe people are speaking Italian around me. And then, once you can speak it, once you can start hearing it, you're like oh my God, I just learned a couple words of Italian. Now I can ask where the bathroom is, right. Or now I can say you know what's your name, right, right. Or now I can say you know what's your name, right. You can actually start navigating a foreign country when you have the language. Well, you can start navigating, influencing and mastering the foreign language of your body once you start speaking it I love how you put that. ⁣ ⁣ 26:48 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ That is such a brilliant way of thinking about it that it's it's like, um, emerging into the culture, right. So emerge into the culture of your own body. Emerge into the culture of your own body, right. Learn the language of your body. That's brilliant. That's a really great way of putting it. How does this book differ from Bessel's book? Because Bessel's book is not very layman, it's very scientific and it is such a good book. But how is yours different some years later? But how is yours? ⁣ ⁣ 27:15 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ different some years later. Bessel's book is extraordinarily, like I said, relevatory. And then he does review five very powerful treatment approaches that you can try to do with a therapist, like EMDR, internal family systems, neurofeedback. But ultimately the book is not a manual on how you can begin healing yourself. It has changed the course of the world, and again it then refers you to things you could do. ⁣ ⁣ 27:47⁣ But for those who want to read that book and like me and probably like you, Hilary, like, instantly hit it, like, how do I start healing this now? Right, that's what our book does. So our book has almost 100 practices in it and the entire manuscript is organized around a process that we call AIR, and the AIR approach stands for awareness, interruption and redesign. Right, you have to become aware of the conversation that's happening in your body. Right, that's the first thing. If you can't hear it, if you don't even know Italian is being spoken around you, you're SOL. All right, now you're listening. Right, but how do you influence? Well, you have to be able to start speaking it and you have to start interrupting it, because your body is a pattern recognition and habit repetition. Pattern recognition and habit repetition machine. It does not change by itself, it just repeats its old, tried and true patterns, even if those patterns are destroying your life and your health. So you have to learn how to interrupt and go. Yo, shut up. You must stop doing this for a minute. Can we have a conversation, please? ⁣ ⁣ 29:06⁣ And so our book starts with letting you hear the language. That's number one. Number two is a whole variety of techniques, from top-down cognitive behavioral techniques to bottom-up polyvagal techniques that allow you to interrupt the dysregulated conversation. And then the redesign component is basically even trauma, as sacred and meaningful as it is, is a constellation of shitty habits built on trying to help you survive, and you have to redesign those habits. And so that's the third step is redesign to create new neural pathways, new responses, and so that's the big difference between the body keeps the score and the secret language of the body. The body keeps the score, blows your mind with like the world is round, right, and then the secret language of the body says and this is how you build a sailboat and how to navigate it. ⁣ ⁣ 30:01 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I love it and the fact that there are so many different approaches and techniques that you're sharing. And look, before I came into the work of Hhavening⁣ ⁣ 30:09⁣ techniques, I had no idea what it was. I'm like what is this Hhavening thing? It's learning about something new. See if it works for you. There might be 100 ideas in there of what you can do, but choose what works for you. It doesn't mean you have to implement 100 of them. Find the ones that work for you, cherry, pick and choose what works for you, because it's all bio individuality. So, again, we're going to share that book. We'll share them all. ⁣ ⁣ 30:33⁣ But I really want to focus on your book because it's now, it's present, it's current, it's new, and with new thoughts come new possibilities, and that's the secret language of the body Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, free your mind. And if you think that this episode will touch, move and inspire somebody and someone's like oh my gosh, not only am I going through this, somebody else is, pay this forward, pass this conversation along, leave a rating review. It lets people know that this episode exists. With Karden, we're going to certainly have more conversations. I do not doubt that Karden and also you are giving away the first module of your online nervous system program HEAL, for free. Hello people, Grab it now. ⁣ ⁣ 31:18⁣ That's all I'm saying Grab it now. Is HEAL, an acronym. ⁣ ⁣ 31:21 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ No, heal's not an acronym. It's what we want to do. We want to heal folks and you know I wanted to call it CURE. We ended up calling it HEAL. But as you said at the beginning of this program, Hilary, jen and I, we do not have a program built on managing symptoms F that we do not have a program built on managing symptoms f that we have a program built on healing symptoms like gone, bring it, I'm serious bring it like gone, so and that, when and that if and when, because part of healing especially when your nervous system's regulation is not like always being perfect, right, that's not how life works. ⁣ ⁣ 31:57⁣ But if you do have a dip and you do like, oh, my low back's coming down or my belly's coming back a little bit, you know exactly what to do. You know exactly why you take that sacred symptom, as we often call it, because it's a messenger saying up, up, up, up up. You are moving into that dysregulated zone again. Maybe you've made some life choices that aren't quite right, maybe survival parts of yourself from the past have reestablished control and the progress you made has been diminished. So your symptoms, not only do they mostly go, they go away, but when they do arise, they are this powerful signal that says, oh course, correct, we're doing the things that we're not supposed to do for ourselves. So yeah, and so it's called Heal Foundations. You can go to somiainternational dot com. That's one place you can find Heal Foundations, also at Karden Rabin, following me on Instagram and going to my link tree. ⁣ ⁣ 32:54 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ That's where all? ⁣ ⁣ 32:54 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ the good stuff is, but you can learn how to dive right into this immediately. ⁣ ⁣ 32:59 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ We're going to share all of that in the list notes of the podcast because people need to know that they can get the book, they can get the programs, they get the free, free, that course, the first part of the course, just so they can see if this is right for them. Right, but I mean, giving it a shot is better than not doing it at all, right, so we're going to share all of that. I'm curious. Amen, amen to that. So, mia, speaking Italian, the moment you were talking about learning about a different language in the body, it brought me back to when I first asked you how do you say the name of your course? ⁣ ⁣ 33:34 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ And you're like, so me like the Italian word, so Mia yeah, like it makes me wanna go into into the song. ⁣ ⁣ 33:40⁣ So can we talk about that for a minute, cause we haven't even touched on that yet of the impact of the course, of the HEAL program, and SOMIA is what holds it all together. And SOMIA is an international nervous system and somatics platform that is designed to teach anyone how to master, to really understand, to become intimately connected, to influence and transform their own mind, body and nervous system, and not just through a collection of practices but through a profound understanding and application of principle. Because mastery isn't monkey see monkey do. Mastery isn't just being really good at the vagus techniques or really good at the internal family systems or parts work process. It's beyond that. It's understanding how the system works so that you are so kind of intimately aware that you're like, oh, I'm gonna, I know what. I, I need this right now. Like you were saying, Hilary, I don't need a hundred techniques, this is the one that's appropriate right now. So that''s what Somia exists for to educate the world about through the means of the course and our other offerings. ⁣ ⁣ 35:07⁣ And then SOMIA community is called the Healing Collective. ⁣ ⁣ 35:11⁣ So inside the course itself we have these absolutely wonderful mentors, and all of our mentors came to our program, came to work with Jen and I when they were bed bound with illness, with a symptom list that was terrifyingly long, from CFS to post-viral syndromes, to ectopic heartbeats, to mast cell activation system. ⁣ ⁣ 35:37⁣ These folks were in dire straits and they used nervous system regulation in our program to get their lives back. And, as you know, Hilary, often when you've found something that transforms your life to such a degree, it becomes your calling to pay it forward right, and so our healing collective is held by those mentors, and we have online forums of fellow self healers who are on the path just like you. There are Q&As with the mentors that help you each step of the way through the healing process, through the practices, through mastering the understanding of how you work, and then, of course, jen and I are present as well. So Mia really does want to bring more people together in real life to do this healing process part of your collective and it's not about one collective, it's about the Odyssey right. ⁣ ⁣ 36:51 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ The Odyssey it is, and I love everything that you're doing. I really feel that you're. This journey and everything that you've been through and you know this, I don't need to tell you this, but it feels good to say it is that everything you've been through has brought you to where you are, so that you can serve others. And the more we can do for ourselves, the more we can help others on their journey. And one other thing you need to have a podcast, and if you don't do a podcast, you need to at least do voiceovers with that voice. I know you've been told that before. ⁣ ⁣ 37:18 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I do. You're stroking my ego with my sisters and my wife would please ask you not to do. The audio book is read by me and Jen, so I read the narrative and the explanatory parts and then Jen reads the practices. It's a really nice duet of I guess baritone and soprano. ⁣ ⁣ 37:37⁣ So that's my first foray, so I'll get to podcasting another time, but I was actually just really thinking about your expression, that from trauma to triumph, and so something that I really want to offer for you and all your listeners is that if we move past the nervous system for a second and start simply with the idea of energy, chi, or a term that I like, which is called life force, most folks know now and I hope, if they don't hear this from me that all of your survival patterns, all of your coping responses, all of your trauma responses, are extraordinary efforts by your mind and body, by your nervous system, by your life force to protect you and keep you alive. And it's wildly powerful, like if for a moment you didn't criticize your trauma response and just looked how potent it was. Like, holy shit, look at all of this energy that mobilizes to protect me. You know like it's so powerful it could light up a city. You know, and it feels that way sometimes in your body. Yet when it is stuck, when it's patterned and habitualized by trauma into survival, it is life force that's trapped in a very dark and unhelpful place. And the beauty of this work is that, as you recognize it and you're able to liberate that life force that's in the trauma response and then redesign it, that same volcano of energy that's been deploying for your entire life to keep you protected, safe and surviving. You get to reclaim that life force for triumph, for living, for creativity, for fucking crushing it at life. ⁣ ⁣ 39:51⁣ I'm 100% serious about this, that the greatest victory of my healing journey has not been getting out of pain although that's been fucking dope not to be in pain. Dope not to be in pain. It's been the reabsorption and feeling of how vital and bright I can be, how amazing my body can feel, how much love I can feel right, how much joy I can feel. And I just want to. I just want to repeat that, guys, when we say from trauma to triumph, it is about taking that life force and reabsorbing it into beautiful, amazing, profound and delicious aspects of being alive, rather than just surviving. And it's there in you already. It's just doing things that aren't helpful anymore and it's really amazing to transform it. It's already there. ⁣ ⁣ 40:45 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ And it's possible, it's more than possible. You listen to this episode and suddenly you were going to. It could be the click in your head that you needed to know, oh, almost like when you picked up Bessel's book or John Sonnero's book or any, or somebody's going to pick up your book. It could be that one little aha that you've been waiting for. And don't ignore those signs. That's the thing. It's like. Our body knows, our gut, that whole force inside us knows it. Sometimes it's just we need to catch up with it a little bit. Right inside us knows it. Sometimes it's just we need to catch up with it a little bit right and be like was that was? ⁣ ⁣ 41:22⁣ that eagle that you know, like the eagle story that you shared before. Like is this eagle telling me a whole thing about this building that I'm working in? And it was a different message that you got and we talked about that trauma to triumph, trauma to triumph like triumph, trauma to triumph. ⁣ ⁣ 41:37⁣ My friends, you explained it so and it's so lovely to have you share it that way and use everything you're doing to kind of well not kind of to actually be in alignment with what this podcast is about but also just the conversation as friends, like I get it and I love it, and I love that we're sharing it. So, once again, we will share everything about the book. We're going to share that course, that free introduction to the course. You know more about SOMIA now and HEAL and everything that Karden is putting out there. Real quick, I do want to ask you one question and then we're going to play a little game real quick. How did you and Jen come? ⁣ ⁣ 42:13 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ together. That life is a combination of being at cause and also, if not, trusting, listening to the universe, right? David Goggins is an example of an invincible man at cause, right, which is amazing, but it's a huge amount of work and it's all on you. It's a hard way to live, right? So when I say at cause, we do have to do work, folks, we have to develop ourselves, we have to seize opportunities. When they're there, we can't expect that things fall in our lap, but we also, if, like, things are really in our way making it so hard, maybe there's something to listen there. And also, when things are put into us in a silver platter, maybe there's something to listen there. ⁣ ⁣ 42:59⁣ So, although I have done so much work to learn about trauma and somatics and healing the nervous system, it all started in the most random way of John Sarno's book Finding Me on my friend's bookshelf the studio owner's bookshelf, right. So I just want to illustrate that I love the blend of our own efforts moving us forward, but also so beautifully capturing the moments of good fortune of COVID, right, because COVID hit in like March of 2020. Some of you might remember, some of you may have never heard of it For about like six months a hot minute this social media app called Clubhouse took off. ⁣ ⁣ 43:53 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Oh God, what happened to Clubhouse People still? ⁣ ⁣ 43:54 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ have it Right, like why do you even have an account? Yeah, we're not getting to why it failed, but when it was busting it was Boston. Yeah yeah um, a friend of mine for weeks insisted Karden, you got to get on clubhouse, you got to get on clubhouse and I told him to f off. Over and over and again I was like I don't have the bandwidth to take on another social media platform. I don't even like being on the one I am and he's like no, you got to do it and like you, you know, Hilary, he's like Karden . ⁣ ⁣ 44:19⁣ I would pay to make you stop talking, but people love hearing you talk. You need to get on that thing. You're best talking. And I was like, ah fine, so anyway I get on Clubhouse and I end up loving it, I end up loving it. ⁣ ⁣ 44:35⁣ Colleague and teacher, charlie Merrill, who's a brilliant physical therapist in this neuroplastic pain space, like of solving pain through the brain, because that's where it's actually caused by he's great Guys. You should look up Charlie Merrill and follow him on Instagram. He and I ran a show on Clubhouse Weekly called Ask the Pain Guys For the short-lived Clubhouse Ask the Pain Guys For the short-lived clubhouse For the short-lived clubhouse. And it was. We loved it. Right, people would come into the clubhouse and we would talk about neuroplastic pain, about conditioned responses, about how the brain's responsible for pain, and we would have people would be able to come on stage and ask questions about how to deal with X, y and Z injury or pain process. And it was great. ⁣ ⁣ 45:26⁣ And during this time, jen, who you know, we knew nothing of one another. ⁣ ⁣ 45:28⁣ She was in London recovering from a year and a half of being horribly sick and bed bound with chronic fatigue syndrome, pots, mass cell activation syndrome, mitochondrial dysfunction like the entire menu of catastrophic nervous system dysregulation and collapse. ⁣ ⁣ 45:48⁣ And she had made about. She was in the midst of healing through various nervous system techniques and she, that same day that I was running the show with charlie, she downloaded the app, hopped on for the first time ever, stumbled into the room of ask the pain guys, listened to our conversation, asked a question. We had a little good exchange on Clubhouse. She signed off, never went back on Clubhouse again, but she sent me a DM through Instagram to follow up on the conversation in Clubhouse and then we hit it off on Instagram. She became a client and then she became my friend and my colleague and my partner and we, this entire movement of Somia, of the HEAL program, of the thousands of people that we've helped, of the secret language of the body. None of this would have happened ever if she and I hadn't collided when we should have never, ever collided in a million years for 30 minutes on Clubhouse. ⁣ ⁣ 47:06 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ That's crazy, so we have to really say thanks to Clubhouse. It's like being in a bad relationship and you're like, oh, I don't know why that happened. And then you're like, oh wait, that led me to this right. ⁣ ⁣ 47:18 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Exactly Clubhouse. That was the bad relationship that led me to this right. Exactly. Clubhouse, that was the bad relationship Exactly and COVID. ⁣ ⁣ 47:23⁣ Thanks for locking us all in home for a year and a half, so that we had to be on this app because we had nothing else to do, right? So, yeah, that's how Jen and I met and we are clearly long-lost siblings. But yeah, that's the magic of that, that's what I'm saying. And then to seize it, to then do it, to go for it once it was there. But, once again, success is a mysterious thing, isn't it? ⁣ ⁣ 47:53 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I love that you share that story. It's so inspiring. I mean, especially when you told me that you wrote the book in 100 days. You know, as someone who's sitting here finishing my book and submitting my proposals and stuff, I'm like, oh God, a book is supposed to take me years and I'm a writer, right. But it's all the synergy, it's all the alignment and things, just just trusting that everything will work out, not just writing a book, but just the people that come into your life, the situations. You have, a lot of synergies that have happened in your life and we can manifest to the day as long. Right, Manifesting is great, but I think a lot of it is just releasing, letting go, surrendering, trusting, but also like having a clear idea of like I know I'm here for something more. I know I'm here for something. This shit did not happen for no reason. I say that all the time. I'm like those days when you're in the shit, you're like it's gotta be for something, Gotta be for something it really does. ⁣ ⁣ 48:49 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ It really does and I invite you know if you're alive, it means that you also have diamonds in your life, and what that means. And what that means and what I think can be a really nice practice is to to maybe close your eyes. Or, the next time you're in a shower, close your eyes and think about every wildly improbable instance that has led you to where you are, where you are still alive or you're in like. Despite all this hardship, you have this remarkable partner right or a job, and what I want you to look at is those improbable moments of like yeah that wouldn't have happened if I hadn't gone to the coffee shop at that fucking moment of that day. ⁣ ⁣ 49:42⁣ Well, in my instance, bessel van der Kolk, freaking, wandered in right. But we all have these moments. Hilary, can you think of the ones you have? Like just the countless like you and I bumping into each other at Joshua's right, like just that how sweet of a thing, you know. And when you start looking at that, like how sweet of a thing, you know, and when you start looking at that there is a kind of haven that wraps itself around your body and your skin. You almost get goosebumps in a good way, where you're like, holy shit, these diamonds. None of them quote unquote should have happened. None of them happened because I made them happen. They happened because life stumbled them into me. ⁣ ⁣ 50:25 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Oh God, we are so in alignment. I say that all the time. I don't say that, I say that life is a falling into. We fall into these moments. I love that you say that because it's just. It's amazing how things happen and sometimes we can't explain and we don't need to have answers. Sometimes, not having the actual answer or proof positive is the answer. The answer is just be happy that it's happening right. ⁣ ⁣ 50:54 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Just be happy. ⁣ ⁣ 50:57 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I mean, I think about that event that we did Heal the Healer and I know you and I have done many events other than that, but that event was really something special and I do want to give a shout out to Joshua Rosenthal for that, because whether you went through IIN or not, which is the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, you know each other somehow, whether you live in the shires, as you call it. I love that, which I'm looking for real estate, like tomorrow. There's something about that event that just brought a lot of people together and so much synergy with folks, because we're all on a healing journey forever. You know, we're always looking to better ourselves and and just feel better and be better. ⁣ ⁣ 51:36 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ That event was was one of those moments, I have to say, for me it really was and and like, like that whole audience was in cindy, like it was so nice to just walk into a place where you're like these are my people, that's what we're here for, everyone wanting to make a contribution, everyone being thirsty for learning more about this. ⁣ ⁣ 51:55⁣ And I'd also say, the kind of quantum leap of none of this trauma stuff was really really being talking about what two or even four years ago Right, but it's definitely not five or 10 years ago or this is just the next wave, and I get that and I hear it and there's a lot of bullshit out there the velocity with which this knowledge is circulating and that people are incorporating the nervous system and trauma component into their overall health picture, to add it to the Venn diagram or really, as I like to think about it, it is the background to the entire diagram, like food, fitness, all these other things. They float on top of the nervous system. So it's like let's start dealing with that. It was just so great to see it all clicking so well there, and so I applaud Joshua for putting that together for having us and for just being a leader in the space. ⁣ ⁣ 52:52 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yeah, he definitely is that pioneer in that space and it's one of those things that brings people together. So we could talk for hours and I imagine we're going to have many more conversations, but for the benefit of your time and mine and those who are like all right, I need to park my car. I keep going in circles wanting to. I have so many people that say that they're like. ⁣ ⁣ 53:14 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I hope they're doing that, or they're like Jesus. Will this, will this guy stop? ⁣ ⁣ 53:19 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Oh no, I do not think that's it. I've had people that are like I actually took the long way to work because I was listening to the podcast. So those are those moments. I love that. So what I want to do with you real quick is play a game. I do this with those on the show on the show, so loosen yourself up. I'm going to throw out a word and some of these words well, all these words are those words that you've said during our conversation. ⁣ ⁣ 53:42 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ We're not going to do like a rap battle, are we? ⁣ ⁣ 53:44 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ We're going to do a rapid fire word association. ⁣ ⁣ 53:48 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I can already feel my freeze response starting, so let's try it. ⁣ ⁣ 53:55 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I know a book you can read that might help you with that. All right, here we go. Here we go, all right. ⁣ ⁣ 54:03 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Biohack. ⁣ ⁣ 54:06 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Lotus. ⁣ ⁣ 54:08 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Vegas. ⁣ ⁣ 54:10 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Helpful. ⁣ ⁣ 54:12 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Somatic. ⁣ ⁣ 54:15 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Everything so me, yeah, pasta, everything so me pasta. ⁣ ⁣ 54:25 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I'm sorry had to uh traumatic, healable emotional always two words nervous system everywhere author Two words nervous system. ⁣ ⁣ 54:43 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Everywhere. Author Me yeah, you and heal. ⁣ ⁣ 54:47 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Now. ⁣ ⁣ 54:50 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ You're like a little kid, You're like that's me. ⁣ ⁣ 54:57 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ My identity has not caught up to the fact that I wrote a book. ⁣ ⁣ 55:01 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Not just wrote a book. Like wrote a book, that's really doing well. That's true, that's true, yeah, and you have a huge publisher behind you. You know not that you have to. Don't want to discourage people that might not have publishers, or self-published, because putting a book out there and putting your knowledge out there is amazing. But let's just give credit where credit is due. ⁣ ⁣ 55:24 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I'm going to age myself. I appreciate that I'm going to age myself, though, so I got interviewed by the BBC a week or so ago about the book and it was a guy named Gavin. ⁣ ⁣ 55:36⁣ Uh, Ggavin Ramjaun had me on, you know, and he and he starts the interview out by like, he's like we've got a nervous system medicine practitioner, Karden Rabin, here, but that's like how does it feel to be flying up the book charts, right? And I was like, ah, I feel like I'm on like some Casey Kasem interview, you know, with the top 100, you know and I was like hallucinating. ⁣ ⁣ 55:57⁣ I'm like, is this my life? Is this, like you know? And so, yeah, you know, the book cracked the. The book has been released in the UK and it comes out in the United States a couple weeks later, so there's a slight difference. So we cracked the UK Amazon top 100 for all books. So that means like we're up against war and peace and the Hunger Games and the Hungry, hungry Caterpillar and that was really awesome. But yeah, like I said, I you're right, I've written this book, but like I still don't, I still haven't caught up to the fact that I've written it. ⁣ ⁣ 56:27 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yeah, I think that's just you staying empathetic and compassionate and being the true person you are, like you can be a best selling author. And being the true person you are, like you can be a best-selling author, an Academy Award winning actor, you know whatever. Like give someone a title, that's fine, but when the day is done, you come into this earth naked and you leave it naked, so-. ⁣ ⁣ 56:46 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ You sure do. ⁣ ⁣ 56:47 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Right. So it's appreciating every day. ⁣ ⁣ 56:50 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ If your people are wondering, like whether this is me now, this is me in the course this is me now. ⁣ ⁣ 57:02 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ This is me in the course. This is me. If you're in a live thing, I don't really shape, shift too much. I'm this guy, I love that. I love that. So is it just a course, or do you? ⁣ ⁣ 57:07 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ still take clients one-on-one, I mean, besides Bessel, right, right. So my private practice is currently closed to new clients. I do not have an open one-to-one practice at this time. Closed to new clients. I do not have an open one-to-one practice at this time. What we do do is we're continuing to train more and more mentors to be able to support the student body, and then the course is taught in one of two ways. ⁣ ⁣ 57:27⁣ There's the self-study version, which is what most people do and it's what you have to start with. But the self-study version, again, is supported by that healing collective. And then Jen and I, a couple times a year, will run 12-week intensives where for those who have completed the HEAL program, it's an intimate group and it's live with Jen and I every week for 12 weeks. It's such a remarkable experience. Oh, I imagine it's remarkable because of what being in relationship does folks Like? If you know anything about trauma healing or the polyvagal system, that human connection, the ventral, vagal response, being in community as human mammals we find safeties in others. We can make so much progress healing on our own, but when we become a pod and when we're swimming in the same direction, 90% of the healing that happens in that happens because of the absolutely beautiful and authentic sharing, vulnerability and triumph of the fellow participants, and Jen and I just have to literally support and scaffold the unfolding of that process and it just blows my mind every time. ⁣ ⁣ 58:50 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I love it. I am so excited to share this because I can think of a handful of people well, handful. I can think of way more than that that would benefit from this, but people who are close to me that I know would benefit from it. Quite frankly, I'm curious. ⁣ ⁣ 59:04 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ Hey, you might have to join us for that party. Hill yeah Right. ⁣ ⁣ 59:08 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I love it. I love everything about it. Thank you so much for being here, sharing your gift, sharing just the knowledge you have, but just your own story, because it is going to help somebody else many people, I imagine. But do you have any final thoughts you'd like to share with those tuning in? ⁣ ⁣ 59:24 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ I feel like you've had a lot of them, but Well, we went back to you know when the word game. I warmed up as we went through. ⁣ ⁣ 59:31 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I want to say two things, I think. ⁣ ⁣ 59:33 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ When you said biohack, I said lotus, we're gonna, we're gonna delete that. Because when you said biohack, what I really wanted to say was, um, and the reason why I wanted to say is that we do not heal ourselves through a collection of biohacks. Remember what I said earlier, that you know, mastery is a profound understanding and application of principles. And if we bring it back to the language analogy of speaking Italian, you can think of biohacks as, like you know about like nine or 10 phrases, and they can be really useful. Where's the bathroom? How do I get to the piazza? You know my name, is what's your name and my age, and with like with 10 or so biohacks or pieces of language, you can, you can, you're doing okay, right, you can correct things, you can get around. But it is a thousand miles away from true fluency and I would really invite your listeners to take that into heart, that the goal is exquisite, intimate, painful, transcendent, triumphant fluency with your humanity, with your being, with your nervous system, with your history, with your emotions, with all of it, and through that fluency you can understand it with a huge amount of empathy. But then you can also begin to lead it, you can carry the conversation, you can direct it, you can run for office, you can start a business right, like what you're capable of. When you can speak instead of just say a couple phrases. It's the biggest difference in the world. ⁣ ⁣ 01:01:20⁣ So stop looking for just more practices. Folks. Find folks like Hilary and I and the other people who are teaching you how to see the forest, not just the trees right, that's the kind of training that you're looking for. And the last thing I think you said in that lightning round was now right. That's the kind of training that you're looking for. And the last thing I think you said in that lightning round was now right. You said heal and I said now, like, timing comes for all of us, but if you can just remember, I said it was a combination of being at cause and having the universe stumble into you. Like, right now, something might be stumbling into you and my invitation for you is to say yes and try it and do it. ⁣ ⁣ 01:02:02 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yes, Standing in the tension of that moment is like right before the change happens. You know you're like you're, you're aware you're in the A. It's the awareness. If you weren't aware you'd'd be. Like hands are flailing and you're doing whatever right. You're in it, you feel it, it's happening. ⁣ ⁣ 01:02:21 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ That's had I not gone up had I not fanboyed on vessel van right. So again the universe brought it into me. You best will walk into the cafe. But had I given into my fear and my embarrassment and not fanboy, I would not have one of the most important relationships in my entire life. Oh, I felt that so say yes, y'all, like in those moments when the universe has has thrown you an easy pass. Fucking catch it and run with it. ⁣ ⁣ 01:02:55 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Yeah, get out of the ego way, that fear of being rejected. It's really what it is. ⁣ ⁣ 01:03:01 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ It's so much easier than working hard for everything all the time. ⁣ ⁣ 01:03:04 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Right, I don't have to work for a living. ⁣ ⁣ 01:03:09 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ So those are my final thoughts, Hilary, and next time we talk, I think it would be fun to talk about, instead of recovering from pain. It'd be really cool to maybe talk about relationships, because that's, I think, another massive space. Oh, I'm all over it. ⁣ ⁣ 01:03:23 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ All right yeah. ⁣ ⁣ 01:03:24 - Karden Rabin (Guest)⁣ We'll do that next time, all right so? ⁣ ⁣ 01:03:27 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ On that note, thank you so much for saying yes to this conversation and the many conversations we've had just in a short amount of time, because I'm just glad you said yes conversation, and the many conversations we've had just in a short amount of time because, uh, I'm just glad you said yes. I'm just gonna leave it at that. I'm going to close on that. Now, that is how you close a conversation. You have been handed a huge gift by Karden, so I do not want you to waste a moment. Take advantage of it as soon as possible. I've not only shared how you can connect with him, I'm also sharing a few special links so that you can take advantage of Heal program and offer from me to you. Just for tuning in to the HIListically Speaking podcast, you can even tell him that Hilary sent you plus grab a copy of that book. Do not waste any time. ⁣ ⁣ 01:04:21⁣ The Secret Language of the Body. Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, free your mind. All of that is in the listen notes of this episode. You're also going to find information on how to connect with me and learn more about how you can put healing in your own hands with Hhavening techniques Because, like I said, like we talked about during this conversation. It's about finding what works for you. You have lots of options, loads of possibilities and plenty of support. If this conversation touched, moved and inspired you in any way, consider paying it forward. Pass it along to somebody else who might find value in it and listen, share your thoughts in a rating or review, wherever you're tuning in, because that conversation and those thoughts, those thoughtful responses will help others find this episode and heal hHolistically. ⁣ ⁣ 01:05:12⁣ HIListically Speaking is edited by 2Market Media, with music by Lipone Redding and supported by you. So thank you. On that note, just a reminder that these traumas in our lives, there are triumphs just

If you're the proud owner of a pair of ovaries, and you're “of a certain age” you may have noticed that things are starting to change. Could it be…perimenopause??? It can be hard to talk about perimenopause and the menopause transition…not the least of which is that there is still such a ridiculous stigma about women getting older. Like it's a “use by date” in society and as a woman in her mid-40s, I want to help contribute to a mindset shift around this important transition in our lives.  We need to educate ourselves about how are bodies are changing and how we can best facilitate that change, so I'm thrilled to welcome Dr Nitu Bajekal MD, a UK-based OBGYN BACK on the pod, in honour of her newest book, Finding ME in Menopoause. Dr Nitu is an advocate for reproductive health for all humans, and this episode is a deep dive into what perimenopause and menopause actually is, the signs and symptoms to discuss with your physician as well as a look at evidence-based lifestyle medicine - sleep, movement and nutrition - that complement traditional care. Hormone health is definitely a trending topic - filled will all sorts of wacky ideas about how to care for yourself during this transition so we're going to cover everything from how perimenopause presents itself to why hormone tests are generally useless during this time as well as the confusing around hormone therapy and why the microbiome is so important for hormone balance! On this episode we chat about: Perimenopause vs Menopause How perimenopause shows up in the body Dr Bajekal's own experience with early menopause What we get wrong about menopause hormone therapy Brain health: is it perimenopause or your lifestyle? Why you probably don't want to do a hormone test How the gut microbiome affects your hormone balance Why soy is so important for hormone health The question of weight gain in menopause Support the Pod! We couldn't make this podcast happen without the support of our amazing listeners…and our sponsors! Today's episode is sponsored by Bio-K+ Probiotics, a leader in evidence-backed probiotics. Go show them some love at www.biokplus.com  I love hearing your feedback on these episodes to be sure to join the conversation on our instagram @theallsortspod @desireenielsenrd @drnitubajekal as well as in our Nutrition with Desiree community. If you love this episode, please share it with your friends and family, or take a minute to rate, review or subscribe on your favourite podcast app. We appreciate EVERY. SINGLE. LISTEN!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing: Bookish Moments: fun new hobbies and maybe not having a bookish moment Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: our love for all things memoir The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  1:39 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 8:06 - Our Current Reads 8:14 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood (Mary) 10:29 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune 11:58 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine 12:29 - Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Kaytee) 12:40 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer 15:47 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune 16:47 - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Mary) 19:55 - An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond (Kaytee) 20:03 - Booktenders 24:51 - A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall (Mary) 28:26 - @ginnyreadsandwrites on Instagram 28:44 - Fairyloot 29:07 - Pango Books 30:16 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson 30:34 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross 31:53 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Kaytee) 32:10 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel 35:29 - Deep Dive: Our Love For Memoirs 36:10 - Sarah's Bookshelves 39:49 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss 41:43 - My Life in France by Julia Child 42:30 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling 42:32 - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling 42:46 - Bossypants by Tina Fey 42:51 - Spare by Prince Harry 43:12 - Becoming by Michelle Obama 43:42 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe 43:47 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg 44:04 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (young readers' edition) 44:59 - Waypoints by Sam Heughan 45:31 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 46:20 - As You Wish by Cary Elwes 46:58 - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes 47:50 - Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly 47:55 - Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly 48:06 - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan 48:10 - These Precious Days by Ann Patchett 49:04 - Soil by Camille T. Dungy 49:15 - An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken 50:29 - Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder 50:37 - What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman 50:43 - After This by Claire Bidwell Smith (amazon link) 50:58 - Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland 51:15 - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottleib 51:30 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 51:53 - A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter 52:02 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider 52:52 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 53:05 - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 53:12 - A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg 53:43 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton 53:45 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 53:48 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore 54:03 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 54:15 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt 55:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain 55:21 - I wish to press the Ember Quartet series, starting with Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. (Mary) 55:30 - Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 56:52 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 56:53 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 57:22 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 58:38 - My wish is for more bookish board games. (Kaytee) 58:47 - By the Book game Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. April's IPL comes to us from A Room Of One's Own in Madison Wisconsin! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Roxanna are discussing: Bookish Moments: pastries while reading and huge bookish hangovers Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: the ways our reading lives and changed and expanded over time The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  1:32 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 3:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 4:45 - All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Releases June 25, 2024) 7:30 - Our Current Reads 7:36 - The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg (Roxanna) 14:09 - The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson (Meredith) 18:09 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich 21:54 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang (Roxanna) 22:51 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 26:06 - Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (Meredith) 27:14 - Caraval by Stephanie Garber 31:22 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (Roxanna) 31:51 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 31:54 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 36:23 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett (Meredith) 41:24 - Deep Dive: Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time 47:27 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 48:07 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty 49:55 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino 50:39 - 10 Things To Tell You podcast w/ Sara Hildreth 50:42 - @fictionmatters on Instagram 53:36 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 53:45 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 55:48 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang 58:55 - A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark 1:00:32 - Meet Us At The Fountain 1:00:45- I wish everyone knows about shepherd.com (Roxanna) 1:00:52 - Strong Sense of Place podcast 1:01:17 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 1:03:19 - Shogun by James Clavell 1:03:28 - CR Season 1: Episode 14 1:04:45 - I wish more people would read Shogun. (Meredith) 1:05:18 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. March's IPL comes to us from our Anchor store An Unlikely Story! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Dr Nitu Bajekal, MD is a Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in London,UK with nearly 40 years of clinical experience in women's health. Her special interestsinclude Lifestyle Medicine, Menopause, PCOS, Endometriosis, period problems, complexvulval problems and medical education. She is a keyhole surgeon with experience inlaparoscopic procedures including robotics.She is a Fellow of the Royal College and recipient of the Indian President's Gold medal.Dr Bajekal is one of the first board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physicians in the UK. She haswritten the women's health module for the first UK plant-based nutrition course atWinchester University. She has co-authored the women's health chapter for an academicbook for health professionals (Plant Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Sep 2022)She is a speaker at Holistic Holiday at Sea (HHAS), speaking on menopause, PCOS andwomen's health issues.Dr Bajekal is passionate about educating women, providing reliable medical and lifestyleinformation for the general public, doctors, workplaces, and schools. She runs a voluntaryservice set up to educate, energise and empower schoolgirls and women to make lifestylechoices to help improve their own and their families' health.Dr Bajekal is the co-author of Living PCOS Free (Hammersmith Health Books, 31 Mar. 2022) a practical guide to managing Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) with proven lifestyle approaches alongside western medicine. She has written this book with her daughter, Rohini Bajekal.Her new book, Finding Me in Menopause (Sheldon Press) is out on 25th April 2024 and available for pre-order now:https://www.sheldonpress.co.uk/titles/dr-nitu-bajekal/finding-me-in-menopause/9781399810227/Website : https://nitubajekal.com/Studies Discussed in this episode:https://pcrm.widen.net/s/kbrn2p6mqx/capital-wavs-iihttps://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/75/7/500/3902926https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874068/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1534735413502076 https://thefirstmess.com/2020/05/27/sticky-ginger-tempeh-recipe-coconut-rice/ https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/guidance/menopause-workplace-guidance-employers https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cncr.35172

In this episode Jeffrey chats with Terrence about his tough upbringing, lengthy prison sentence, ultimately landing a job on Wall Street then starting his own firm after release, and the adaptation of his autobiography into a feature film. Learn more: Host: Jeffrey M. Zucker Producer: Kait Grey Editor: Nick Case Recording date: 12/6/23 Terrence: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrence-gallman-9b08101a/ https://www.instagram.com/terrencelgallman/ https://www.facebook.com/terrence.gallman.3 GIG Group: https://giggroupinc.com/ https://www.instagram.com/urbanren/ https://twitter.com/urbanren1 Other resources: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Me-Personal-Journey-Rediscovery/dp/1495928780 https://www.amazon.com/LOVES-JOURNEY-Road-Less-Traveled/dp/1481951238 https://www.amazon.com/WALL-STREET-BONDS-URBAN-RENAISSANCE-ebook/dp/B07KSMY4PR Bio: CEO at GIG Group, Gallman currently leads GIG Group whose mission, shared by its benefactors and sponsors, is deeply rooted in the spirit of inclusion and seeks to provide a wide range of “high-exposure/resume-building” jobs for underprivileged communities and provides an opportunity for those communities to participate and integrate in the Global and Domestic Financial Markets, starting with local Financial Institutions in community partnership with GIG. Gallman is also AUTHOR of Love's Journey: The Road Less Traveled, Wall Street Bonds: The Urban Renaissance, JUSTUS screenplay, and the autobiography FINDING ME, the subject of the upcoming feature film "NO RIGHT WAY,” written by Clay Ayers - longtime writer for Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 18:26 - Early Career 21:51 - Sentencing 30:43 - Leaving Prison 35:07 - After Prison 49:58 - GIG Group 58:40 - Mentor 59:54 - Ask Jeff a Question 1:05:04 - Most Grateful for 1:06:06 - Snap Your Fingers 1:10:54 - How to Support

In this episode of the Compendium we delve into a harrowing case of Ariel Castro. Today I will be telling Adam a story of a man who seemed ordinary but orchestrated one of the most notorious kidnapping cases in recent memory.Our focus today lies not just on the sinister acts of Castro but more importantly, on the remarkable journey of resilience and survival of his victims—Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus. Their stories of endurance and strength in the face of unimaginable adversity are not only a testament to the human spirit but also raise profound questions about the nature of justice and the human mind.This episode is not just about a tale of captivity. It's a narrative that challenges our understanding of human nature, of what it means to survive, and of justice itself. We promise to shed light on the darker corners of the human psyche and the indomitable strength of the human spiritWe give you the Compendium, but if you want more, then check out these great resources:_"Finding Me" by Michelle Knight – A memoir of survival and hope."Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland" by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus."The Lost Girls" by John Glatt – An in-depth account of the Ariel Castro kidnappings."Captive: 308 Days in Cleveland" – A documentary featuring interviews with survivors.Support the showConnect with Us:

Welcome to LFTR Episode 40 - Book Club (#2) where we're talking about a bunch of the books Jamie and Clay have read over the past 20 weeks and a bunch of recommendations from our listeners and friends. Highlights (other than books) include:* A cocktail that tasted like hand soap* Happy Holidays from Christmastown* A recommendation for “old” people learning to snowboard* Continuing our NE Travel series - Maine: Camden, Bangor and a couple Harvest Hosts + a holiday weekend travel hack* LFTR Bookclub is a club for people who like booksBooks we talk about:* A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J Maas* A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J Maas* A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J Maas* A Cout of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J Maas* A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J Maas* Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng* The Sun is a Compass, Caroline Von Hemert* Into the Wild, John Krakaur* Unraveled, Katie Brown* To Shake the Sleeping Self, Jedidiah Jenkins* Forager, Michelle Dowd* Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder* Allergic, Megan Wagner LloydLFTR listener recommendations:* Finding Me, Viola Davis* Outlander Series* Century Trilogy* Heaven and Earth Grocery Store* Before the Coffee Gets Cold* Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree* Foster, Claire Keegan* The Echo of Old Books, Barbara A Davis* Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid* The Last Chairlift, John Irving* 1000 White Women, Jim Fergus* I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca MakkaiLinks:* Mission Ridge Ski Resort* South Mexican Restaurant* Yodelin Broth Company* Pepper Hill Farm* Maine TradeHers Farm Get full access to Letters From the Road at lettersfromtheroad.substack.com/subscribe

Today's topic was inspired by Viola Davis' book "Finding Me" In the book Viola talks about meeting Will Smith for the first time on set. Will asked Viola "Who Are you?" Which we understood as "What has driven you to become the person you are today?"We took the question and answered it for ourselves. Let's get into it! More about the hosts:Tabitha Brown is the world's favorite mom and auntie! She is an Emmy Nominated actress and show host, a 2 time New York Times Best Selling author and a 4 time NAACP Image Award winner. Follow Tabitha Brown: https://www.instagram.com/iamtabithabrown/https://www.iamtabithabrown.com/Chance Brown is a father, mentor, retired police officer, entrepreneur, and youth basketball coach. If you ask him, he'll tell you he is a professional human! Follow Chance Brown: https://www.instagram.com/teamchancebasketball/Subscribe to the YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TabithaBrown

Fair warning: this 5 books I loved in 2023 episode will read a little like a book review. It's a great gift guide but perhaps the biggest take-away for us all is in the review of titles. I won't make you wait. I'm going to share them all in the beginning. The titles are like trends on skinny jeans or cropped tops and high-waisted tights. I didn't love either of those. With these I'm less judgmental but certainly curious. This says a lot about what sells today. Because of course, don't judge a book by it's cover… but we do. The image, the title, the subtitle all matter a great deal. An agent, a publisher and editors all rely on data about sales to determine what will sell.  So these 5 titles…. 5 Books I Loved in 2023 (or coming soon!)  Younger for Life -Dr Anthony Youn The subtitle of this book is Feel Great and Look Your Best with the Science of Autorejuvenation. You'll hear more on the book from the author himself in an episode titled Younger for Life with America's Holistic Plastic Surgeon. But truly if you're on TikTok, this is also a TikTok, YouTube and Instagram favorite plastic surgeon.  He's a funny, and clearly knowledgeable surgeon whose mission is to turn on the power of your own body instead of turning to the knife.  This one is coming out just after the New Year. We'll link to it and share a special 21-day challenge we can only hint about now too! Pre-orders for that book will come soon so watch for it! Forever Strong -Dr Gabrielle Lyon  We will of course link to previous episodes with Dr Gabrielle. She worked with Dr Donald Layman who, if you are into the science of protein for longevity and preserving muscle with weight loss, appears as an author of many of the studies since the late 90s.  Dr Lyon has made the information more mainstream and positively opened the subject of obesity again in a new way. It's not a fat problem, it's a muscle problem.  Forever Strong came out earlier this fall and it's one for everyone in your family. The science can only fill so much of a book. The rest of the content is recipes supporting one means of staying strong, eating protein. You'll find descriptions of exercise protocols as well as the long list of references used throughout the book.  Young Forever -Mark Hyman Do you see a theme here yet? And we're not done!  This book explores the biological hallmarks of aging, their causes, and their consequences—then shows us how to overcome them with simple dietary, lifestyle, and emerging longevity strategies. You'll learn:  How to turn on your body's key longevity switches  How to reduce inflammation and support the health of your immune system  How to exercise, sleep, and de-stress for healthy aging  How to eat your way to a long life, featuring Dr. Hyman's Pegan Diet  Which supplements are right for you  Where the research on aging is headed Mark Hyman is 63.  Spoiler Alert: 5 Books I Loved in 2023 Reveal What We Want Younger You -Dr Kara Fitzgerald  If you're new to the power of your epigenetics, that is your daily habits, to either accelerate or decelerate, in fact reverse age, then this is for you.  We all have cancer cells within us. We don't all get cancer.  Some of us have genetics that predispose us to obesity. I do. But I'm not obese. Why ? Is it exercise? Nutrition? What specifically about your DNA and your habits could change things for you?  Dr. Fitzgerald shares the diet and lifestyle plan that shows you how to influence your epigenetics for a younger you. In Younger You you'll learn:   It's not your genetics that determines your age and level of health, it's your epigenetics  How DNA methylation powerfully influences your epigenetic expression  The foods and lifestyle choices that most affect DNA methylation  Simple swaps to your daily routines that will add years to your life  The full eating and lifestyle program, with recipes and meal plans, to reduce your bio age and increase vitality   How to take care of your epigenetic expression at every life stage, from infancy through midlife and your later decades   Outlive - Peter Attia  This book is what Dr Attia describes as the opposite of biohacking but one has to wonder. Isn't biohacking based on science (we'll link to a recent episode where I discuss biohacking you probably are doing even if you don't know it)?  There are a lot of things inside this book I love top but of course the top : • Why exercise is the most potent pro-longevity “drug”—and how to begin training for the “Centenarian Decathlon.” Then there is:  • Why you should forget about diets, and focus instead on nutritional biochemistry, using technology and data to personalize your eating pattern. • Why striving for physical health and longevity, but ignoring emotional health, could be the ultimate curse of all. Bottom line on the titles of these health books I loved in 2023 (and 2024)... We are clearly obsessed with anti-aging. Even if the authors are not, the words “young” and “younger” are high volume search words. Enough so that agents and publishers agree they will sell. So whether it's ageist or not, we collectively seem to want it. Applause to Dr Lyons and Dr Peter Attia for busting barriers of age with choice of works Forever Strong and Outlive.  One book not mentioned here but on my nightstand right now is, Finding Me, by Viola Davis. She's a masterful storyteller and I'm only about a third of the way through but have newfound respect for each of the roles she's played.  Other Episodes You Might Like:  What Is BioHacking https://www.flippingfifty.com/what-is-biohacking/  Your Protein Needs, Your Optimal Body Composition https://www.flippingfifty.com/your-protein/ Behind the Scenes with America's Holistic Beauty Doc Now! https://www.flippingfifty.com/beauty-doc/ Resources: Stronger: https://www.flippingfifty.com/get-stronger-2023/ Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/flipping50

Wendi, Ann, and Mariana discuss EGOT winner Viola Davis's powerful and inspiring memoir "Finding Me."

Today, we have something truly special to share with you on Book BFFs. We're about to deep dive into the story of Erika Obando, a distinguished TEDx International Speaker, Author and Master Certified Life Coach. She is the Founder & CEO of TPE Coaching & Consulting and is known for her unwavering commitment as an advocate for living a life of purpose. Drawing from her own remarkable story of overcoming unthinkable hardships, Erika dedicated herself to guiding others on a path towards understanding their own power and uncovering their true potential. Her mission revolves around empowering individuals in rewriting their life stories, embracing their roles as the Authors of their own narratives. We will be discussing "Finding Me" by Viola Davis. Get your copy here! (paid link) Amazon - https://amzn.to/476j31pEpisode Resources: Erika Obando | https://erikaobando.comErika Obando |  https://www.instagram.com/erika_obando_/Book BFFs Video: Instagram |   https://www.instagram.com/bookbffs/Website | https://www.bookbffs.comTikTok |  https://www.tiktok.com/@book.bffs

Show notes: You know what's better than reading one good book? Reading a pair of good books! Today, we're talking about book pairings that we love and why we think the books go well together. It's fun to read about similar themes or character arcs but from different perspectives. We hope you enjoy our picks!    Click here to join us on Patreon for exclusive bonus bookish goodies! Get our monthly overflow and new books episodes, our newsletter, and more. Plus, supporting us in this way just shows that you love what we do! Find the time stamped show notes below with links to all of the fun things we mentioned.   Something Bookish: [1:59] S: We got rid of our website. Check out the RTL Substack instead. [3:02] M: RTL t-shirt - see them in action here!   Book Pairings We Love: [4:36] S: The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley and No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister [5:39] M: Let Him In by William Friend and Home Before Dark by Riley Sager [6:55] S: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and The Daydreams by Laura Hankin (Bonus pairing rec: The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton) [8:37] M: The Troop by Nick Cutter and Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay [9:54] S: The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren and The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen [11:23] M: The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey and Making a Scene by Constance Wu [13:18] S: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin and The Door to Door Bookstore by Carston Henn [14:52] M: The Night Swim by Megan Goldin and Know My Name by Chanel Miller  (Bonus pairing rec: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson) [16:38] S: Unprotected by Billy Porter and All Boys Aren't Blue by George Johnson (Also mentioned: Finding Me by Viola Davis) [18:02] M: Elevation by Stephen King and Thinner by Richard Bachman Want our show notes delivered right to your inbox? Join our RTL Substack so that you'll get a link for every single book we mention with no extra work. It's free! Follow RTL on Instagram: @readingthroughlifepod Follow Sarah on Instagram: @sarahhartleyco  Follow Mia on Instagram: @fastlifeinslowlane   * The books noted above contain affiliate links. This means that we may get a small kickback if you purchase through our links, at no additional cost to you.  

Having coached CEOs at companies like Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter, Kim Scott knows a thing or two about modern leaders. Her expertise sheds light on how modern leaders often mistakenly resort to authoritarianism – inadvertently transforming themselves into workplace jerks. In this episode, Kim shares how to lead effectively, avoid the pitfalls of being too aggressive or too nice, and create healthier, more productive workplaces. Kim Scott is a New York Times bestselling author, CEO coach for Fortune 500 companies, and the co-founder of Radical Candor – a Silicon Valley company that helps organizations create healthy cultures, build cohesive teams, and achieve collaborative results. In this episode, Dart and Kim discuss:- How to simultaneously care for and challenge your team- The difference between radical leadership and aggressive leadership- How to level power dynamics for effective interpersonal communication- Creating a fairer and more reasonable workplace- Optimizing work for collaboration instead of coercion- The dangers of viewing employees as commodities- Identifying and responding to bullying, bias, and prejudice at work- And other topics…Kim Scott is a New York Times bestselling author, keynote speaker, team leader, and CEO coach for Fortune 500 companies. She has guided CEOs at renowned companies such as Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Twitter. She was previously on the faculty of Apple University and led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Kim co-founded Radical Candor, a Silicon Valley company that helps organizations create healthy cultures, build cohesive teams, and achieve collaborative results. Her expertise is reflected in two of her latest books, Just Work and Radical Candor.Kim holds an AB in Slavic Literature and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Earlier in her career, she co-founded and led business development at various startups, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, and even started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.Resources mentioned:Radical Candor, by Kim Scott: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kick-Ass-Without-Humanity/dp/1250103509 Just Work, by Kim Scott: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Work-Prejudice-Bullying-Inclusivity/dp/1250275709 Burn It Down, by Maureen Ryan: https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Down-Complicity-Change-Hollywood/dp/B0BGMM3NZJ Beyond Measure, by Margaret Heffernan: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Measure-Impact-Small-Changes/dp/1476784906 The Core Value Equation, by Darius Mirshahzadeh: https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Finding Me, by Viola Davis: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Me-Memoir-Viola-Davis/dp/0063037327 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy: https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Karenina-Leo-Tolstoy/dp/0143035002 Connect with Kim:www.RadicalCandor.comwww.JustWorkTogether.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimm4/ 

What if there was a way to do what many have unsuccessfully tried and accomplish many think impossible: to invest in low- economic neighborhoods, benefit the community, and actually make money at the same time?   In this case, the idea of making money while doing good isn't about bringing an innovation to market that will solve a universal problem like accessible clean water, or provision of quality health care and education, or economic uplift of living wages with affordable work-force housing.  In fact in the case of urban renewal, it is all of those things and more.   We are on the threshold, if we do this right, that history will look back on this time as the turning point for an urban renaissance.  This is replay of a popular episode from 2020 where I interviewed best selling author  Terrence Gallman and we were all excited about the potential for urban renewal as as result of the Opportunity Zone tax exemptions offered in the 2017 tax reform laws.  We went on to continue to look for opportunities to uplift those disadvantaged communities that had been left behind in the economic prosperity that has helped so many other communities thrive.  That became the GIG opportunity to provide a resource portal of tools for aspiring entrepreneurs and those that want to increase their financial understanding to gain access too.  It also is core to the story that will be the redemption story that will be told with the release of No Right Way.   The episode wraps with a live chat with Terrence about the current state of affairs and how he has built a coalition of partners committed to the urban renaissance.  Stay tuned to hear how you can share in the financial success of GIG.  Watch original on youtube:   https://youtu.be/H6pZu0QR26M Terrence Gallman is an economist and the esteemed author of Wall Street Bonds: The Urban Renaissance, a book about a financial and social revolution that could raise up the people and the GDP at the same time.   To learn more and connect with Terrence, find him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theurbanren  GIG http://giggroupllc.com Karen Rands is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing: Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.  She is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.  Karen is an enthusiastic speaker on these topics for corporations, economic development groups, angel investor networks, and professional  business networks.   About Karen https://www.karenrands.co/about-karen-rands/ Visit http://Kugarand.com and click on the Services tab, to learn more about the Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System™.  Read about the Due Diligence Services, Investor Relations, Capital Strategies, Capital Access, and Capital Readiness Coaching serviced offered by her firm, Kugarand Capital Holdings.  The Compassionate Capitalist Show™ is a Podcast on YouTube.  Please visit and subscribe and share.  It is great to watch Karen and her guests live, in action.  The whole library of podcasts and interviews since 2020 can be found there by category or chronological. https://bit.ly/CCSyoutubepod    Imagine the feeling of investing in a way that had massive impact and a potential pay you back 10x your money. The time is now to find out if Angel Investing / CrowdFunding Investing is the wealth creation strategy for you.  Take action on Karen's offer to learn how to invest with confidence in entrepreneurs and sign up (FREE FOR NOW) the new Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizing System. http://dothedeal.org  

This episode talks about Vell's year of being scammed for money by fake friends, Grillz by Scotty, and Citi Bank. The Good Read for this episode is SFinding Me (Oprah's Book Club) by Viola Davis This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you. Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you. What's Popping in Vell's World consists of Nike Run Club Half Marathon training, LeBron James x iPromise Academy, and Drake Buys Tupac's Crown Ring for $1.01 Million At Auction. Follow on ⁠Facebook⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ @VellsWorldPodcast. Email vellsworldpodcast@ldmonger.com with any comments, questions, or concerns you want mentioned in our upcoming episodes. To sponsor an episode, send us an email. Don't forget to subscribe, tell a friend, and follow on all social media platforms. You can leave a voice message and become a monetary supporter for as little as .99 cents on the anchor. Fm. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vellsworldpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vellsworldpodcast/support

☎️ Actor, Writer, and Producer Kenyon L. O'Brien dials in this week. First we reminisce on Woody's and the early 2000's Philly party scene and how much the social scene has evolved. For the interview, Kenyon talks about how we got to the Talks With Myself series which is a spin off of a spin off. Finding Me led to the Triangle Web Series, which was created to spotlight members of the ballroom community. In this series Kenyon plays Brandon- a character he wasn't initially connected to but would later grown to love. Following Finding Me and TWS the creator Roger Omeus, Jr. wanted to create a series that brought back some of the supporting characters. So the Deka Log Chapters was his inspiration. Talks with Myself was chapter one. After we unpack some of the heavier themes from season 3, Kenyon closes with how the ballroom community has impacted his life. IG @kenyonlobrien Talks with Myself Subscribe to OmeProTV IG & YouTube @OmeProTV

Segunda-feira, 12 de junho de 2023. Eu sou Leo Lopes e este é o Castnews, o podcast semanal de notícias para podcasters. Aqui você ouve, toda segunda-feira pela manhã, um resumo das principais notícias sobre o mercado de podcast no Brasil e no mundo. A chegada do YouTube ao topo das plataformas mais usadas pelos americanos pra ouvir podcast, o possível vazamento de dados de usuários da Anchor e a demissão de mais 200 funcionários ligados à área de podcasts do Spotify estão entre as principais notícias que você vai ouvir nesta 19a. edição do Castnews! NOTÍCIAS: 1 – E parece que os investimentos pesados do YouTube em podcast estão finalmente dando frutos, segundo o relatório mais recente da Cumulus Media com a Signal Hill Insights.  O estudo revelou que o YouTube, nesse momento, é a plataforma mais usada para consumir podcasts nos Estados Unidos, invertendo as posições anteriores do pódio e tirando a liderança do Spotify e da Apple Podcasts. Cerca de 29% dos entrevistados disseram que o YouTube é a plataforma que mais utilizam, enquanto o Spotify teve 17% da preferência e a Apple 16%. O relatório levantou vários dados importantes, e algumas das principais conclusões foram que: O YouTube é amplamente consumido por ouvintes novos, antigos e heavy users. Além disso, o público de podcast do YouTube tem a tendência de ser composto principalmente por homens e pessoas mais velhas. O público do YouTube não está exclusivamente vinculado a essa plataforma, mesmo que ela seja a preferida. Ouvintes recém-chegados têm uma preferência maior por assistir a videocasts, enquanto os ouvintes com mais de quatro anos de experiência preferem o podcast raiz, exclusivamente em áudio. A pesquisa pode ser encontrada na íntegra lá no nosso portal em Castnews.com.br, com muito mais conteúdo, informações e detalhes sobre o papel que o YouTube tá desempenhando na nossa indústria. Ler a notícia completa 02 – Se você é usuário do Anchor, presta muita atenção aqui, que essa notícia é importante: segundo o site InformationAge, cerca de 14 mil registros contendo nomes de usuário, e-mails e senhas de contas da Anchor, que atualmente se chama Spotify For Podcasters, foram divulgados em um fórum russo de hackers. Até o momento o Spotify não se pronunciou sobre o possível vazamento. A gente sabe que a segurança digital é um assunto sério, e que esse incidente é uma grande ameaça, especialmente pros podcasters que usam as mesmas credenciais em outras plataformas. Então a recomendação que foi dada pelo Podnews e que a gente faz questão de reiterar aqui, é que os usuários devem alterar suas senhas pra se proteger de um possível ciberterrorismo, e é claro, utilizar senhas diferentes em todos os serviços que assina. Ler a notícia completa 03 – E os investimentos das plataformas de podcast em inteligências artificiais, não param.  A AdsWizz, empresa dedicada à tecnologia de áudio, tá testando novas ferramentas de narração de anúncios baseadas em IA's para os anunciantes. O objetivo é criar anúncios de áudio interativos e personalizados, além de fornecer uma melhor segmentação do público, e maior eficácia das campanhas publicitárias. Enquanto isso, a Buzzsprout e a Podium anunciaram o Cohost AI, o robô que gera automaticamente show notes, capítulos, recomendações de títulos, transcrições e muito mais. A intenção da Buzzsprout é diminuir o tempo que os podcasters gastam na pós-produção dos episódios, pra que eles possam focar em outras etapas do processo, especialmente aquelas que necessitam de trabalho humano – como, por exemplo, criar uma conexão real com os ouvintes. Que, cá entre nós, ainda é uma coisa que a gente faz muito melhor que as máquinas. Ler a notícia completa Ler segunda notícia AINDA EM NOTÍCIAS DA SEMANA: 04 – O podcast “A mulher da casa abandonada” do jornalista e podcaster brasileiro Chico Felitti foi destaque no The Washington Post. Olha aí, um podcast brasileiro fazendo barulho lá fora! Muito legal. O Washington Post contou todo o conteúdo do podcast, que investiga a história de vida de uma mulher misteriosa e de uma mansão abandonada no bairro de Higienópolis, em São Paulo. Eles também comentaram o sucesso e a repercussão do podcast aqui em terras tupiniquins, com opiniões divididas sobre a Margarida, que é a personagem principal dessa narrativa. Enquanto ela ainda enfrenta acusações nos Estados Unidos, algumas pessoas aqui no Brasil veem a Margarina como uma possível vítima dos acontecimentos. O Chico Felitti comentou sobre o assunto no podcast Café da Manhã da Folha de SP, falando sobre como o podcast evoluiu, e como acabou criando narrativas paralelas devido ao seu alcance e também o interesse público. Ler a notícia completa 05 – E em uma parceria no mínimo interessante, o Palmeiras e a Canon inauguraram o primeiro estúdio de podcast de um clube de futebol no Brasil. A Canon é um dos nomes mais conhecidos na fabricação de câmeras e equipamentos de imagem, e agora é uma patrocinadora oficial do Palmeiras até dezembro de 2024. O estúdio vai ser utilizado para a gravação do Palmeiras Cast, o podcast oficial do clube, que conta com a participação de jogadores do elenco atual, ídolos e outras personalidades interessantes pros fãs de futebol. É, o Palmeiras aí fazendo um movimento inteligente em pegar carona no crescimento do podcast pra fortalecer a marca do clube, e de quebra criar entretenimento pros fãs também. Qual será que vai ser o próximo time a fazer algo parecido? A gente vai acompanhar por aqui. Ler a notícia completa 06 – E parece que as polêmicas envolvendo a estratégia de podcasts do Spotify estão longe de acabar. Depois dos cortes de 6% dos funcionários no começo do ano, e da saída da executiva Dawn Ostroff da divisão, agora o Spotify demitiu mais 200 funcionários, justificando as demissões como sendo “parte de um realinhamento estratégico na divisão de podcasts”. O anúncio foi feito pela vice-presidente do Spotify, Sahar Elhabashi (pronún. “Sar-rár Ela- Bá-shi), em um memorando aos funcionários. Segundo ela, os afetados pelos cortes vão receber “pacotes generosos de indenização”. Ela também disse que o Spotify está focado em entregar ainda mais valor para os criadores de conteúdo e pros usuários da plataforma. Um comportamento meio controverso que a gente segue acompanhando por aqui. Ler a notícia completa E MAIS: 07 – Essa semana tivemos novidades sobre o funcionamento do Apple Podcasts com o sistema iOS 17. Lá no portal foram compiladas todas as melhorias que o iOS 17 vai trazer pro Apple Podcasts. Além da correção de bugs e melhorias de desempenho, a atualização também vai contar com uma sincronização mais rápida entre dispositivos, controles aprimorados pra gerenciar a fila de reprodução, e muito mais.  Se você é um usuário dos produtos da maçãzinha, vale a pena conferir e colocar em prática todos os incrementos da última versão do iOS. Ler a notícia completa 08 – E se você quer que o seu podcast suba algumas posições no ranking do iTunes, eu tenho boas notícias. Não é segredo nenhum que alcançando uma posição mais alta nas paradas do iTunes, o seu podcast vai ter maior exposição e credibilidade, atraindo mais ouvintes. Pensando nisso, a equipe do Castnews fez uma análise dos fatores que influenciam diretamente na popularidade do seu podcast; desde a quantidade de downloads, até as avaliações do iTunes e assinaturas.  Tudo vai estar destrinchado lá no portal, com dicas pra usar todas essas ferramentas ao seu favor. Então não perde tempo, não deixa de conferir o post, e comece ainda hoje a aplicar as dicas pro seu programa crescer cada vez mais. Ler a notícia completa HOJE NO GIRO SOBRE PESSOAS QUE FAZEM A MÍDIA: 09 – Você sabia que a atriz americana Viola Davis é co-fundadora de uma produtora de podcasts? Pois é, ela é dona da gravadora Ashe Audio Ventures, que acabou de assinar um contrato exclusivo com a Audible. Depois do sucesso do audiolivro “Finding Me”, a Audible fez questão de catalogar oficialmente os podcasts originais da Ashé Audio Ventures, e agora as empresas vão trabalhar juntas pra que a produtora alcance audiências globais. A Viola Davis já declarou que tá muito entusiasmada com essa parceria, e que não vê a hora de explorar e celebrar histórias de uma maneira nova e significativa. Que ambas as empresas tenham sucesso nessa parceria. Ler a notícia completa 10 – A premiação Australian Podcast Awards, desenvolvida pela plataforma iHeart, tá de volta em 2023 com nada menos do que 30 categorias de prêmios. O APAs reconhece e celebra o talento e conteúdo de podcast da Austrália, com gêneros desde True Crime até Comédia e Relacionamentos. Os vencedores vão ser anunciados em novembro depois da seleção dos indicados por um painel de jurados especializados. Ano passado foram mais de 45 juízes escalados pra avaliar quase 700 inscritos. Será que os número desse ano superam? Tomara que sim, a gente vai acompanhar também! Ler a notícia completa SOBRE LANÇAMENTOS: 11 – Vamos falar de lançamento de equipamentos primeiro: a Speech Processing Solutions lançou dois novos produtos da linha Philips VoiceTracer: a caneta de gravação de áudio DVT 1600 VoiceTracer e o gravador de áudio DVT 2015 VoiceTracer. A caneta oferece gravação discreta com microfone 360° sensível e interface USB-C, enquanto o gravador é portátil, possui excelente qualidade de som, longa duração da bateria e capacidade de memória expansível. Os produtos devem chegar em breve às lojas Philips. Se eu fosse um detetive particular ia querer umas três canetinhas dessas, só pra garantir. Ler a notícia completa 12 – O Chelsea Football Club lançou um novo podcast chamado “The Blueprint: How Chelsea FC Changed Football”, que explora as histórias não contadas dos bastidores do clube de futebol inglês. A série tem oito partes, cada episódio tem cerca de 40 minutos, e a intenção desse novo programa é preservar a verdadeira história do Chelsea FC, desde a sala de reuniões até o vestiário. O clube já tem um podcast oficial com mais de 130 episódios, mas nele é discutido mais a parte do esporte mesmo, e que oferece atualizações semanais sobre o desempenho das equipes. O The Blueprint é um projeto novo e mais histórico. Então, se você é um torcedor do Chelsea ou um fã de futebol curioso, não deixa de conferir a história do time no “The Blueprint”. Ler a notícia completa RECOMENDAÇÃO NACIONAL: 13 – E pegando carona no lançamento anterior, a recomendação da semana também envolve história: você não pode perder o podcast “Geopizza”, produzido de forma independente pelos amigos Rodrigo Zottis e Alexander.  O Geopizza tem episódios quinzenais e apresenta temas relacionados à história e geopolítica num storytelling muito interessante. O podcast já falou da guerra dos canudos, de busca de vida extraterrestre, dos movimentos de ódio nos EUA, e muito mais. É um programa de colocar pra tocar e aprender muita coisa legal – e também algumas bizarrices – sobre o que as pessoas já fizeram e ainda fazem socialmente. Tenho certeza que você vai se identificar com algumas coisas ali. Então não deixe de conferir o Geopizza no seu agregador de podcast favorito, que você vai entender porque toda história acaba em pizza. Ouvir o podcast E não se esqueça que aqui no Castnews você sempre pode divulgar vagas de trabalho dentro da indústria de podcast. Podem ser vagas remuneradas ou pra participação em projetos. Precisa de um apresentador? Um editor? Um designer pra fazer suas vitrines? Manda pra gente no e-mail contato@castnews.com.br que essas vagas vão ser publicadas toda semana na nossa newsletter. Além disso, se você quiser que o seu podcast seja sugerido por aqui, você pode mandar uma pequena apresentação, um press kit do programa, e se a gente gostar ele aparece aqui na recomendação da semana. E essas foram as notícias desta décima nona edição do Castnews! Você pode ler a íntegra de todas as notícias e assinar a newsletter semanal em castnews.com.br. Ajude o Castnews a crescer espalhando o link deste episódio em suas redes sociais e assinando o feed do podcast para receber em primeira mão os episódios assim que forem publicados. Você pode colaborar com o Castnews mandando seu feedback e sugestões de pauta para o email podcast@castnews.com.br. Siga também o @castnewsbr no Instagram e no Twitter e entre no canal público do Castnews no Telegram para receber notícias diariamente. O Castnews é uma iniciativa conjunta do Bicho de Goiaba Podcasts e da Rádiofobia Podcast e Multimídia. Participaram da produção deste episódio Bruna Yamasaki, Eduardo Sierra, Izabella Nicolau, Lana Távora, Leo Lopes, Renato Bontempo e Thiago Miro. Obrigado pelo seu download e pela sua audiência, e até semana que vem!

Hi Life Coach, Are you tired of scribbling ideas on random pieces of paper and struggling to keep track of them? Have you been told to simply write things down in order to organize your coaching ideas, only to find yourself drowning in a sea of scattered notes? It's time to try something different. In this episode, I'll show you how an Idea Tracker can revolutionize your coaching practice and help you reclaim your productivity and organization. No more wasted time searching for lost ideas or feeling overwhelmed by a disorganized system. It's time to take control and implement a system for keeping track of your ideas so you can stop wasting time searching for things.  Your Idea Tracking Coach, Tracy Hoth In this episode, you will be able to: See the immense value an Idea Tracker imparts on a coach's workflow and organization skills. Explore options at your disposal like the Idea Tracker fitting. Gain the expertise to effectively accumulate ideas and inspirations within one comprehensive platform, ultimately so you can find what you need in seconds (the definition of organized!) Consider implementing a user-friendly Idea Tracker, complete with organized tabs and categories. "We're not writing anything down. We're going to our idea tracker and we're putting it where it goes so we can find it when we need it." - Tracy Hoth The key moments in this episode are: 01:30 - The Challenge of Keeping Track of Ideas, 03:19 - The Solution: Idea Tracker, 08:56 - Idea Tracker Details, 13:42 - Getting Started with an Idea Tracker, 15:04 - Benefits of Using an Idea Tracker, 16:17 - Creating an Idea Tracker, 16:50 - Using an Idea Tracker, 17:29 - Call to Action. The resources mentioned in this episode are: Purchase your Idea Tracker here for only $9. My three favorite memoirs: Finding Me by Viola Davis https://amzn.to/3OyXWPs Educated by Tara Westover  https://amzn.to/43h2AWv The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls https://amzn.to/3BNZGg7  Connect with me:  Learn → https://simplysquaredaway.com/  Connect → tracy@simpysquaredaway.com  Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/tracyhoth/  FREE File Naming Formula Cheatsheet →  https://bit.ly/3Ztn5g6  Get Time Freedom with a Systemized and Organized Business → http://bit.ly/40IkFLK   FREE Workshop: 3 Secrets to Organize Your Digital Files → https://training.simplysquaredaway.com/3-secrets-workshop   

On this episode I am excited to have friend of the pod, Tennette Correia with me to discuss our first Book Club pic! We will talk about, "Finding Me," the memoir by Viola Davis. We will share our thoughts on the extreme poverty Viola grew up in, the racism she has faced throughout her life, the challenges of growing up in addiction and the theme of forgiveness. If you would like to read Viola Davis' book, find it here: https://a.co/d/coFq8sgWe will end our episode with a Drop of Zen and I will guide you through a meditation on forgiveness. If you like this episode and would like to help this podcast grow and reach more listeners here's what you can do to help: Subscribe! You can do this on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.Share your favorite episode with a friendRate and review the podcast by going to your podcast app. Not sure how to do this? Drop me a DM or email or search how to rate and review podcasts on youtubeYou can email me at: YourZenFriendPod@gmail.comor find me on instagram @YourZenFriendPodPlease join our private Facebook group where we connect throughout the week by going to: : www.facebook.com/groups/yourzenfriend/For more information on Lauren's counseling services check out: www.LaurenCounseling.com

On today's episode I have some fun updates including how I'm currently working on a project with a former Your Zen Friend guest. I will also tell you about an upcoming interview I'm excited to bring you. Then I will talk about cultivating self compassion and share with you a short exercise I like to practice when I am having a difficult day. We will end our episode with a Drop of Zen and I will guide you through a loving kindness meditation. If you like this episode and would like to help this podcast grow and reach more listeners here's what you can do to help: Subscribe! You can do this on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.Share your favorite episode with a friendRate and review the podcast by going to your podcast app. Not sure how to do this? Drop me a DM or email or search how to rate and review podcasts on youtubeI hope you'll join us for our Book Club Read: "Finding Me," by Viola Davis.https://a.co/d/coFq8sg Read "Finding Me," and then submit your questions or comments and I might read yours on the air on our Book Club discussion that will be released on Tuesday, March 21st. You can message me by sending me an instagram direct message, email me or message me on our private facebook group. All of those links are below. You can email me at: YourZenFriendPod@gmail.comor find me on instagram @YourZenFriendPodPlease join our private Facebook group where we connect throughout the week by going to: : www.facebook.com/groups/yourzenfriend/On this podcast I mention:Young House Love Instagram: @younghouseloveBlog: https://www.younghouselove.com/Game: "What Do You Meme?" https://a.co/d/fHMhvREMiddlebury Furniture https://www.middleburyfurniture.com/The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristen Neff, PH.D.Kristen Neff's Self Compassion Quiz: https://self-compassion.org/self-compassion-test/For more information on Lauren's counseling services check out: www.LaurenCounseling.com

On this episode I am excited to have an interview with my friend, fitness instructor and studio owner, Jeanine Parsons. We talk about how she came to work in the fitness industry, what led her to open her own fitness studio and how joining a fitness studio can help you reach your fitness goals and have fun working out. Before we get to our interview I will share how I keep myself moving and grooving and working out on a regular basis. We will end our episode with a Drop of Zen (a short guided meditation). I will guide you through a mediation on cultivating self compassion.If you like this episode and would like to help this podcast to grow and reach more listeners here's what you can do to help: Subscribe! You can do this on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.Share your favorite episode with a friendRate and review the podcast by going to your podcast app. Not sure how to do this? Drop me a DM or email or search how to rate and review podcasts on youtubeI hope you'll join us for our Book Club Read: "Finding Me," by Viola Davis.https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Me-Memoir-Viola-Davis-ebook/dp/B099WXTZGM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=finding+me&qid=1676247515&sr=8-1 Read "Finding Me," and then submit your questions or comments and I might read yours on the air on our Book Club discussion that will be released on Tuesday, March 21st. You can message me by sending me an instagram direct message, email me or message me on our private facebook group. All of those links are below. You can email me at: YourZenFriendPod@gmail.comor find me on instagram @YourZenFriendPodPlease join our private Facebook group where we connect throughout the week by going to: : www.facebook.com/groups/yourzenfriend/For more information on Lauren's counseling services check out: www.LaurenCounseling.comJeanine's Bio:  Jeanine Parsons lives in Newtown, CT with her husband Jim and their four children. Jeanine was a former professional dancer who trained as a fitness instructor after starting her family. Some of the fitness classes Jeanine has taught include: Body Pump, P90X, Insanity, Pilates, TRX and Boot Camp. After taking her first Barre class Jeanine was hooked and knew this was what she was looking for -- a way to incorporate dance, Pilates, and yoga into a fitness program that helps others build long, lean, beautiful muscles.After receiving her certification in Barre, Jeanine began pursuing her dream: To open the very best Barre studio in Newtown, CT!  Barre Boutique, is centrally located on Route 25 (Main Street) and is a warm, inviting, and welcoming space. Find Jeanine on Instagram: @barre.boutique Or check out her fitness studio's website: https://www.barreboutiquect.com/

On today's podcast I will share some relationship makers and breakers when it comes to adults relating to tweens and teens. And I mange to talk about Gunther Gebel-Williams.  He is one of the most famous wild animal trainers of all time. Think of a blond man in an opened sequined shirt with some tigers and that's him! Listen in to find out how I compare Gunther and his lion taming to parenting tweens and teens. Gunther Gebel-Williams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Gebel-WilliamsRelationship breakers I discuss are:Being reactive when your children share something with youTelling tweens and teens they can't have a boyfriend or girlfriend  until they are a certain ageForbidding tweens and teens to be friends or romantic partners with a particular personRelationship makers I discuss are:How to be neutral with your facial expression and tone of your voice when your tween or teen tells you something that shocks or upsets youHow to respond to shocking or upsetting information in a way that keeps your child sharing with youQuestions to ask when your tween or teen tells you they like someone or are "going out, " with someoneHow to help your tween or teen set healthy relationship perimeters with friends and boyfriends or girlfriendsHow to help your tween or teen come up with relationship deal breakers for their friendships and romantic partnersHow to help your tweens or teens navigate difficult conversations with friendships or romantic partnersHow to help your tweens or teens to navigate how to move forward when a friendship or romantic relationship endsI hope you'll join us for our Book Club Read: "Finding Me," by Viola Davis. https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Me-Memoir-Viola-Davis-ebook/dp/B099WXTZGM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=finding+me&qid=1676247515&sr=8-1 Read "Finding Me," and then submit your questions or comments and I might read yours on the air on our Book Club discussion that will be released on Tuesday, March 21st. You can message me by sending me an instagram direct message, email me or message me on our private facebook group. All of those links are below. In our Drop of Zen today (our short guided meditation) I will lead you through a short guided meditation. If you like this episode please subscribe! It also will help others to find this podcast when you leave a 5 star rating and review. If you have a question, comment or an idea for a future episode please reach out. You can email me at: YourZenFriendPod@gmail.comor find me on instagram  @YourZenFriendPodAnd be sure to join our private facebook group where we keep the conversation going in between episodes: www.facebook.com/groups/yourzenfriend/For more information on Lauren's counseling services check out: www.LaurenCounseling.com 

Behind the Mic is revisiting audiobooks that are up for the 2023 Audie Awards. The Audie Awards are the Oscars of audiobooks and shine a spotlight on excellent audiobook performances. We're starting with an audiobook that has already won a Grammy this year — Viola Davis's FINDING ME. Davis's electric memoir is up for an Audie Award in both the Audiobook of the Year and Narrated by the Author categories, and it was on AudioFile's list of Best Audiobooks of 2022. Learn more about this audiobook in host Jo Reed's conversation with AudioFile's Michele Cobb. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Harper Audio. Explore a full list of this year's Audie Award finalists, along with audiobook reviews and sound samples, at theaudies.com Behind the Mic is supported by Brilliance Publishing who recently released The Survivalists, a sharp, funny novel by Kashana Cauley. An ambitious Black lawyer has dreams of making partner, until she falls for a coffee entrepreneur and moves into his Brooklyn brownstone with his doomsday-prepping roommates. Packed with tension, curiosity and optimized soy protein bars, The Survivalists is a darkly funny novel by Kashana Cauley, a former writer for The Daily Show and Pod Save America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 65th Annual Grammy Awards delivered some big surprises and even bigger snubs! At last night's ceremony, Viola Davis finally rounded out her EGOT status after she won for the narration of her memoir, “Finding Me.” And in another huge win for Black women, Beyoncé became the most decorated Grammy winner of all time when she was awarded for her work on "Renaissance." But Queen Bey's history-making win also came with a huge loss - she was overlooked for the evening's top honor, Album of the Year, which went to Harry Styles for his chart-topping "Harry's House." This is her fourth time losing in the category, and fans and critics are not happy about it. We love to see Bey score a record-breaking Grammy win - but what's it gonna take for this woman to win Album of the Year already?!Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the final hour, Dan Bernstein and Laurence Holmes were joined by Football GM podcast co-host Randy Mueller to discuss why Bears general manger Ryan Poles should be "dredging up" as much interest as he can in the team's No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft, quarterback Justin Fields' need to progress as a pocket passer and more. Later, Holmes quizzed Bernstein on the list of artists who have earned EGOT status -- the grand slam of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony over a career. Actress Viola Davis won her first Grammy on Sunday for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir, “Finding Me.”

Our 2022 year-end reading roundup continues today with our Best Books of 2022 Genre Awards with Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits). We reveal our Overall Best Books (Fiction and Nonfiction) and we have a full breakdown by genre, including: Best Literary Fiction, Best Backlist Read in 2022, Best Romance, Best Brain Candy, Best Genre Mash-Up, and more! Plus, this year I'm sharing the winners for these same genres as chosen by the Sarah's Bookshelves Live Patreon community! This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Announcements Check out my 2022 Holiday Gift Guide! My 2023 Reading Tracker is out! This year, the Tracker will ONLY be available to $7/month Superstars patrons (i.e., I will no longer be selling it for $14.99 here on my website). Learn more about the Tracker here and become a Superstars Patron to purchase here! Highlights My thoughts on 2022 for the podcast — including top episodes based on download stats. Overview of Susie's and Sarah's 2022 year in reading — including trends and stats. Favorite books of the year: overall and by genre, including the SBL Patreon Community's picks. 2022 Genre Awards [18:13] Sarah The Measure by Nikki Erlick | Amazon | Bookshop.org [18:42] Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:18] The Golden Season by Madeline Kay Sneed | Amazon | Bookshop.org [26:39] Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett | Amazon | Bookshop.org [28:19] Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop.org [30:36] Dilettante by Dana Brown | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:35] Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister | Amazon | Bookshop.org [37:27] Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:53] Bad City by Paul Pringle | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:27] Never Simple by Liz Sheier | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:20] The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:01] Upgrade by Blake Crouch | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:52] More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez | Amazon | Bookshop.org [56:22] The One by John Marrs | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:02:51] Susie Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver | Amazon | Bookshop.org [20:04] Solito by Javier Zamora | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:53] Vladimir by Julia May Jonas | Amazon | Bookshop.org [27:15] Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Amazon | Bookshop.org [28:53] Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli | Amazon | Bookshop.org [31:10] Cover Story by Susan Rigetti | Amazon | Bookshop.org [34:21] Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor | Amazon | Bookshop.org [38:16] Trust by Hernan Diaz | Amazon | Bookshop.org [40:16] Dilettante by Dana Brown | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:45] Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:57] The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:24] The Measure by Nikki Erlick | Amazon | Bookshop.org [51:59] The Change by Kirsten Miller | Amazon | Bookshop.org [53:07] Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett | Amazon | Bookshop.org [54:57] Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson | Amazon | Bookshop.org [56:48] All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir | Amazon | Bookshop.org [58:44] We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:00:49] The Storyteller by Dave Grohl | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:03:08] Patrons Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Amazon | Bookshop.org [23:06] Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Amazon | Bookshop.org [23:14] Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon | Bookshop.org [25:41] Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan | Amazon | Bookshop.org [36:11] Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:21] Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez | Amazon | Bookshop.org [41:17] Bad City by Paul Pringle | Amazon | Bookshop.org [43:53] Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:33] Book Lovers by Emily Henry | Amazon | Bookshop.org [49:06] Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel | Amazon | Bookshop.org [51:36] The Measure by Nikki Erlick | Amazon | Bookshop.org [52:31] Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree | Amazon | Bookshop.org [53:46] Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak | Amazon | Bookshop.org [54:23] Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris | Amazon | Bookshop.org [55:43] Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett | Amazon | Bookshop.org [58:00] All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:00:04] Beartown by Fredrik Backman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:03:54] Other Books Mentioned Love & Saffron by Kim Fay [9:41] People Person by Candice Carty-Williams [9:51] Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley [11:09] Flight by Lynn Steger Strong [11:12] Trespasses by Louise Kennedy [11:13] The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab [20:45] The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller [20:53] Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid [23:36] The Winners by Fredrik Backman [23:47] Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott [25:50] I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy [25:57] Honor by Thrity Umrigar [29:40] Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson [29:50] The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka [29:53] Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid [30:44] Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt [35:47] The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb [39:17] The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell [42:04] These Precious Days by Ann Patchett [43:38] How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis, LPC [44:42] Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid [47:13] Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez [49:19] The Bodyguard by Katherine Center [49:22] Dark Matter by Blake Crouch [50:02] Recursion by Blake Crouch [50:03] The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger [51:50] How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu [52:22] Babel by R. F. Huang [52:42] A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross [53:55] The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna [54:03] Hide by Kiersten White [54:25] Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon [55:38] Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez [57:54] The Cartographers by Peng Shepard [58:14] The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes [1:00:27] The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes [1:00:31] Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow [1:02:24] These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant [1:04:20] Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh [1:04:36] Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer [1:04:44]

Our 2022 year-end reading roundup starts today with Best Books of 2022 Superlatives with Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits). This year, we're splitting our wrap-up into two episodes: Superlatives and Genre Awards (coming in mid-December). We have 17 Superlatives categories for you, including Most and Least Deserving of the Hype, Biggest Surprise, the Book I Hated that Everyone Else Loved, and more! This post contains affiliate links through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Announcements Check out my 2022 Holiday Gift Guide! My 2023 Reading Tracker will be coming out in early December! This year, the Tracker will ONLY be available to $7/month Superstars patrons (i.e. I will no longer be selling it for $14.99 here on my website). Become a Superstars Patron here! Highlights Our best books of the year from 17 categories, including: Most and Least Deserving of the Hype Underrated Gems Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction on Audio The Book You Flew Through Biggest Surprise Best Heartwarming Book A 2022 Book You Missed, but Plan to Read 2022 Superlatives [5:27] Sarah Carris Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop.org [7:13] Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Amazon | Bookshop.org [7:16] Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown | Amazon | Bookshop.org [9:39] Bad City by Paul Pringle | Amazon | Bookshop.org [13:30] More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez | Amazon | Bookshop.org [17:33] Cover Story by Susan Rigetti | Amazon | Bookshop.org [20:08] Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon | Bookshop.org [24:07] The Winners by Fredrik Backman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [28:20] Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Amazon | Bookshop.org [31:09] The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb | Amazon | Bookshop.org [34:27] The Local by Joey Hartstone | Amazon | Bookshop.org [37:31] Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli | Amazon | Bookshop.org [41:48] People Person by Candice Carty-Williams | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:18] Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett | Amazon | Bookshop.org [43:53] Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:51] Love and Saffron by Kim Fay | Amazon | Bookshop.org [48:47] Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver | Amazon | Bookshop.org [52:08] Susie Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Amazon | Bookshop.org [6:17] The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:12] When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:17] Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors | Amazon | Bookshop.org [11:21] Trust by Hernan Diaz | Amazon | Bookshop.org [15:31] Every Summer After by Carley Fortune | Amazon | Bookshop.org [19:23] Solito by Javier Zamora | Amazon | Bookshop.org [25:28] We Spread by Iain Reid | Amazon | Bookshop.org [26:48] Can't Look Away by Carola Lovering | Amazon | Bookshop.org [32:37] The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton (December 6, 2022) | Amazon | Bookshop.org [35:52] The Winners by Fredrik Backman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [39:44] Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver | Amazon | Bookshop.org [40:40] Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:54] We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:11] Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:14] Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:17] This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub | Amazon | Bookshop.org [47:57] Babel by R. F. Kuang | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:44] Other Books Mentioned Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid [7:24] The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (December 6, 2022) [12:51] Vladimir by Julia May Jonas [19:10] The Measure by Nikki Erlick [23:30] Beartown by Fredrik Backman [28:39] Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering [32:42] Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering [32:43] The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz [33:31] The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz [33:33] Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton [36:00] Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh [38:30] About Susie Boutry Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books she read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend's blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of her own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.

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Today on the show we had the icon and legend Viola Davis stop by for the first time, and she spoke on her new book "Finding Me", her relationship with parents, Michelle Obama and more. Also we had TV Personality Ziwe stop by where she spoke about her show Ziwe getting a season 2 Iconic Celebrity Interactions, Industry Roots and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a student that sent a racist prom invitation.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Viola Davis on finding herself. It's hard to imagine the Academy Award-winning actress survived the childhood she did. Bullied at a young age for being different, Viola now realizes the power — and the potency — of those differences. Viola joins Hoda for an intimate conversation on overcoming trauma and how to shape your own future, one leg of the relay race at a time.

The Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis traces her career in Hollywood back to a single moment of inspiration from her childhood: watching Cicely Tyson star in the 1974 movie “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.” “I saw excellence and craft, and I saw transformation,” Davis tells David Remnick. “And more importantly, what it planted in me is that seed of—literally—I am not defined by the boundaries of my life.” In a new memoir, “Finding Me,” Davis writes of a difficult upbringing in Rhode Island, marked by poverty and an abusive father. She pursued her dream of attending the prestigious Juilliard School, but felt alienated by a white-focussed approach that left little room for her background or identity. She talks with Remnick about how she grew past these early challenges, the lingering impostor syndrome that many successful people experience, and how she prepared to play Michelle Obama in the series “The First Lady.” Plus, the cartoonist Liana Finck, a regular presence in The New Yorker, explains how a ride on the Long Island Rail Road gets her creative ideas flowing; she can work among people without anyone talking to her.