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You love a good deal. We all do. But somewhere along the way you started negotiating the one thing that was never supposed to be on the table — your worth.It often does not feel like shrinking. It feels reasonable, easy to work with, not too much and that is exactly what makes it so dangerous for the woman who has already built something real.In Episode 312, we break down the three places high-achieving women quietly negotiate against themselves — in their careers, their relationships, and their sense of self — and why the most successful women are often the ones most invisible to their own pattern.This is your No More Drama moment.WHAT WE GET INTO:Your Career — The Financial Receipt Nobody Wants to Look At Your Relationships — The Emotional Math Nobody Is Doing Your Sense of Self — The One That Goes the Deepest TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Your Worth Is Not Negotiable01:07 Welcome and Get Present01:58 The Self Negotiation Habit03:08 Mary J Era to No More Drama06:03 Where It Shows Up at Work08:08 Where It Shows Up at Home10:20 Losing Yourself Over Time12:39 Where The Root Starts14:05 Catch the Flicker and Shift18:57 Final Pep Talk and Wrap UpYour Self Love 2 Step Remix for This EpisodeStep 1 — Catch the flicker. Notice the moment right before you downplay yourself. Just notice it. Name it.Step 2 — Say the real thing to yourself first. Before you bring anyone else the edited version, say what you actually want but stop pretending you do not know.Step 3 — The YOU Step. Get still. Get quiet. Ask yourself: what is my heart telling me to do next? That is your next right aligned step.

In March of 2023, We talked with Author and Good Friend Bob Gonzalez about his book: A Flicker in the Water. Well a week ago, the Old Man caught up with Bob to check on what he's been doing, where he's headed and to talk a little Football and Baseball. Here is that conversation! Be sure to get Bob's book, "A Flicker in the Water" and check out his webpage: flickerinthewater.com.  Later Gators and Happy Fishing!!!   *Visit our webpage where you can catch up on Current / Past Episodes: www.theoldmanspodcast.com     *Contact us at: theoldmanspodcast@gmail.com     Checkout and Follow the Writings of Shonda Sinclair here: Roaming the Road (of Life):https://www.shondasinclair.com/   *TOMPodcast Music Shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/TOMPodcast/   *Catch The Old Man's Co-Hosting gig on "The Savaged Unfiltered Show with Michael Gardner": https://open.spotify.com/show/0MnP9HAD9wNnpCjRJG0tyC?si=343f60b106784463 

Lisa Flicker discusses how the latest jobs report underscores a shift from cheap capital to human capital, placing greater emphasis on leadership and the return on people. She explains how higher borrowing costs are elevating talent as a key competitive advantage, while AI is expected to enhance productivity rather than replace strategic roles. The conversation highlights how this shift could reshape business models and drive higher growth expectations.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

In honor of Hulu's new show Not Suitable For Work, Jake and Gareth solve a couple workplace nightmares. First, they confront a rogue whistler in an open-floorplan office. Then, they smoke out a booger bandit.Want to call in? Email your question to helpfulpod@gmail.com.PATREON: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodIf you're enjoying the show, make sure to rate We're Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.Advertise on We're Here to Help via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

If you've ever wondered why some brands just seem to "stick" while others fade into the noise, the answer might have less to do with budget and more to do with brain science. On this episode of the Agents of Change podcast, I sat down with MichaelAaron Flicker, CEO of XenoPsi Ventures and co-author of Hacking the Human Mind, to dig into the behavioral triggers behind some of the most iconic marketing campaigns in history. The best part? These aren't strategies reserved for Fortune 500 companies. MichaelAaron breaks down exactly how small and mid-sized businesses can put these same psychological principles to work today. https://www.theagentsofchange.com/624 Need help with your branding, website, or digital marketing? Reach out to me (Rich Brooks!) today at https://www.takeflyte.com/contact

In recent years there has been a resurgence of serial publishing on Internet platforms. In this episode Mick Donahue and Andy Patton talk with Jonathan Rogers about serial publishing. Mick and his wife Rachel are is the co-founder of the new serialization platform, Flicker.Press. Andy, besides being the Rabbit Room’s Director of Content, is the author of the serialized novel The Ill Starred Knight, published on the Royal Road platform under the pen name Ix.Support the show: https://therabbitroom.givingfuel.com/memberSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this inspiring episode of Reading with Your Kids, Jed welcomes Michael J. Wish, author of the middle-grade nonfiction book "Quantum Physics for Kids." Mike shares how a challenge from a fellow teacher—and a disappointing existing kids' book on the topic—pushed him to prove that even the "hardest" science can be explained to 8–12-year-olds with clarity, humor, and heart. Drawing on his college teaching experience, Mike walks us through a kid-friendly version of quantum physics, from the "purple disaster" (the ultraviolet catastrophe) to Max Planck's radical idea that energy comes in tiny, discrete packets. He explains how this strange, subatomic world helps us understand glowing hot metal, stable atoms, and why the universe doesn't behave the way our everyday intuition expects. More than just science, Mike and Jed dig deep into mindset, resilience, and learning. Mike argues that success isn't about being "a math person," but about developing "aggressive curiosity" and the willingness to struggle with hard ideas. He shares how he practices this with his own daughter—pushing just past frustration, but stopping before misery—and why failure is really "learning happening right now." He also talks about imposter syndrome, his first humble word-search book, and the joy of hearing a 10-year-old read Quantum Physics for Kids cover-to-cover in one night. Later in the episode, Jed invites listeners to enjoy a listen-back conversation with author Cynthia Harmony about her beautiful picture book "A Flicker of Hope," which weaves together monarch butterfly migration, Mexican culture, and a touching story of family separation and reunion.

Welcome to episode #1035 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). At a time when marketers have more data, more technology and more precision than ever before… consumer trust, attention and loyalty somehow feel more fragile than ever. Few people are exploring that paradox more deeply than MichaelAaron Flicker. An entrepreneur who started his company at just fourteen years old, Michael has spent years studying the intersection of marketing, behavioral science and human decision-making (he runs an agency, vventure capital firm and leads several other businesses). His book, Hacking The Human Mind - The Behavioral Science Secrets Behind 17 Of The World's Best Brands (along with co-author Richard Shotton), examines how brands shape perception, influence behavior and build emotional resonance… often in ways consumers barely recognize. In this conversation, Michael and I explore the growing divide inside modern marketing itself… between performance-driven optimization and the enduring power of emotional storytelling. We unpack how AI, algorithms and recommendation systems are quietly reshaping consumer agency, why the illusion of choice may be more powerful than choice itself, and how platforms increasingly mediate not just what we buy… but how we think. Michael (who also has a great podcast, The Consumer Behavior Lab) argues that while technology has evolved dramatically, human behavior has not. Scarcity, status, social proof, storytelling and emotional connection still shape our decisions… even when we believe we're acting rationally. We also discuss the dangerous temptation for marketers to chase short-term metrics while neglecting the deeper work of building lasting brand value, trust and cultural meaning. Along the way, we get into Amazon's invisible persuasion architecture, why many direct-to-consumer brands plateau, the ethical tension between persuasion and manipulation, and how AI may transform marketing from an art form into an escalating behavioral arms race. What emerges is a fascinating conversation about power, psychology and the increasingly intimate systems shaping modern commerce… and whether brands still truly understand the humans they're trying to reach. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 1:00:58. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Listen and subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Listen and subscribe over at Spotify. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Thinking With Mitch Joel. Feel free to connect to me directly on LinkedIn. Check out ThinkersOne. Here is my conversation with MichaelAaron Flicker. Hacking The Human Mind - The Behavioral Science Secrets Behind 17 Of The World's Best Brands. The Consumer Behavior Lab. Richard Shotton. Xenopsi. Follow MichaelAaron on LinkedIn. Chapters: (00:00) - Introduction to Marketing and Behavioral Science. (03:03) - The Paradox of Modern Marketing. (06:02) - The Role of AI in Consumer Decision Making. (09:00) - The Illusion of Choice in E-commerce. (12:05) - The Evolution of Marketing Metrics. (15:07) - The Changing Landscape of Brand Power. (18:12) - Understanding Human Behavior in Marketing. (20:59) - The Symbiotic Relationship Between Brands and Platforms. (24:02) - The Impact of Globalization on Consumer Choices. (33:28) - Brand Value and Consumer Loyalty. (38:16) - The Importance of Services in Marketing. (41:39) - Case Studies and Anomalies in Brand Success. (50:24) - The Role of AI in Marketing and Persuasion. (57:51) - The Shift to the Intimacy Economy.

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In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the new element of a science fiction or speculative fiction narrative. SF narratives from the Americas that rewrite archival material about colonization and first contact have begun an imaginative project of decolonizing that novum. In Zac's words, the "novum" has been part of our definition of science fiction since Darko Suvin first offered up the concept of part of his critical assessment of SF. This idea of "novelty" is linked to conquest and colonialism through the figure of the New World, i.e. the post-1492 Americas. Thus untangling the relationship between colonialism, novelty, and science fiction must pass through the historical record of the conquest. One way to do this is to focus on SF that deeply engages the archival record of the XVIth century in the Americas: texts and artworks that use speculation to depart from the knowledge that things didn't quite occur the way the dominant paradigms would lead us to believe, and to imagine other futures linked to past moments of historical contingency. In the episode, Zac references an incredible list of writers and theorists, including Edmundo O'Gorman and Walter Benjamin, Saidiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Destrucción de todas las cosas by Hugo Hiriart, and “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The transcript lives here as a WordDoc and here as a PDF. Zac's book, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas (Northwestern University Press 2025), is a comparative study of Latin American science fiction and narratives of the sixteenth century conquest of the Americas. It moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period's historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. You can read a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Zac Zimmer works as an Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His research explores questions of literature, aesthetics, politics, and technology in the Americas.In addition to his current research on the cultural infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department, he teaches classes on Latin American literature, science fiction, ethics & technology, and the poetics of California infrastructure. The image for this episode is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the birth of a sun-like star, retrieved from Flicker for High Theory by Lili Epstein. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the new element of a science fiction or speculative fiction narrative. SF narratives from the Americas that rewrite archival material about colonization and first contact have begun an imaginative project of decolonizing that novum. In Zac's words, the "novum" has been part of our definition of science fiction since Darko Suvin first offered up the concept of part of his critical assessment of SF. This idea of "novelty" is linked to conquest and colonialism through the figure of the New World, i.e. the post-1492 Americas. Thus untangling the relationship between colonialism, novelty, and science fiction must pass through the historical record of the conquest. One way to do this is to focus on SF that deeply engages the archival record of the XVIth century in the Americas: texts and artworks that use speculation to depart from the knowledge that things didn't quite occur the way the dominant paradigms would lead us to believe, and to imagine other futures linked to past moments of historical contingency. In the episode, Zac references an incredible list of writers and theorists, including Edmundo O'Gorman and Walter Benjamin, Saidiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Destrucción de todas las cosas by Hugo Hiriart, and “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The transcript lives here as a WordDoc and here as a PDF. Zac's book, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas (Northwestern University Press 2025), is a comparative study of Latin American science fiction and narratives of the sixteenth century conquest of the Americas. It moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period's historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. You can read a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Zac Zimmer works as an Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His research explores questions of literature, aesthetics, politics, and technology in the Americas.In addition to his current research on the cultural infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department, he teaches classes on Latin American literature, science fiction, ethics & technology, and the poetics of California infrastructure. The image for this episode is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the birth of a sun-like star, retrieved from Flicker for High Theory by Lili Epstein. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the new element of a science fiction or speculative fiction narrative. SF narratives from the Americas that rewrite archival material about colonization and first contact have begun an imaginative project of decolonizing that novum. In Zac's words, the "novum" has been part of our definition of science fiction since Darko Suvin first offered up the concept of part of his critical assessment of SF. This idea of "novelty" is linked to conquest and colonialism through the figure of the New World, i.e. the post-1492 Americas. Thus untangling the relationship between colonialism, novelty, and science fiction must pass through the historical record of the conquest. One way to do this is to focus on SF that deeply engages the archival record of the XVIth century in the Americas: texts and artworks that use speculation to depart from the knowledge that things didn't quite occur the way the dominant paradigms would lead us to believe, and to imagine other futures linked to past moments of historical contingency. In the episode, Zac references an incredible list of writers and theorists, including Edmundo O'Gorman and Walter Benjamin, Saidiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Destrucción de todas las cosas by Hugo Hiriart, and “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The transcript lives here as a WordDoc and here as a PDF. Zac's book, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas (Northwestern University Press 2025), is a comparative study of Latin American science fiction and narratives of the sixteenth century conquest of the Americas. It moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period's historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. You can read a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Zac Zimmer works as an Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His research explores questions of literature, aesthetics, politics, and technology in the Americas.In addition to his current research on the cultural infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department, he teaches classes on Latin American literature, science fiction, ethics & technology, and the poetics of California infrastructure. The image for this episode is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the birth of a sun-like star, retrieved from Flicker for High Theory by Lili Epstein. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the new element of a science fiction or speculative fiction narrative. SF narratives from the Americas that rewrite archival material about colonization and first contact have begun an imaginative project of decolonizing that novum. In Zac's words, the "novum" has been part of our definition of science fiction since Darko Suvin first offered up the concept of part of his critical assessment of SF. This idea of "novelty" is linked to conquest and colonialism through the figure of the New World, i.e. the post-1492 Americas. Thus untangling the relationship between colonialism, novelty, and science fiction must pass through the historical record of the conquest. One way to do this is to focus on SF that deeply engages the archival record of the XVIth century in the Americas: texts and artworks that use speculation to depart from the knowledge that things didn't quite occur the way the dominant paradigms would lead us to believe, and to imagine other futures linked to past moments of historical contingency. In the episode, Zac references an incredible list of writers and theorists, including Edmundo O'Gorman and Walter Benjamin, Saidiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Destrucción de todas las cosas by Hugo Hiriart, and “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The transcript lives here as a WordDoc and here as a PDF. Zac's book, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas (Northwestern University Press 2025), is a comparative study of Latin American science fiction and narratives of the sixteenth century conquest of the Americas. It moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period's historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. You can read a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Zac Zimmer works as an Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His research explores questions of literature, aesthetics, politics, and technology in the Americas.In addition to his current research on the cultural infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department, he teaches classes on Latin American literature, science fiction, ethics & technology, and the poetics of California infrastructure. The image for this episode is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the birth of a sun-like star, retrieved from Flicker for High Theory by Lili Epstein. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the new element of a science fiction or speculative fiction narrative. SF narratives from the Americas that rewrite archival material about colonization and first contact have begun an imaginative project of decolonizing that novum. In Zac's words, the "novum" has been part of our definition of science fiction since Darko Suvin first offered up the concept of part of his critical assessment of SF. This idea of "novelty" is linked to conquest and colonialism through the figure of the New World, i.e. the post-1492 Americas. Thus untangling the relationship between colonialism, novelty, and science fiction must pass through the historical record of the conquest. One way to do this is to focus on SF that deeply engages the archival record of the XVIth century in the Americas: texts and artworks that use speculation to depart from the knowledge that things didn't quite occur the way the dominant paradigms would lead us to believe, and to imagine other futures linked to past moments of historical contingency. In the episode, Zac references an incredible list of writers and theorists, including Edmundo O'Gorman and Walter Benjamin, Saidiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Destrucción de todas las cosas by Hugo Hiriart, and “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The transcript lives here as a WordDoc and here as a PDF. Zac's book, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas (Northwestern University Press 2025), is a comparative study of Latin American science fiction and narratives of the sixteenth century conquest of the Americas. It moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period's historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. You can read a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Zac Zimmer works as an Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His research explores questions of literature, aesthetics, politics, and technology in the Americas.In addition to his current research on the cultural infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department, he teaches classes on Latin American literature, science fiction, ethics & technology, and the poetics of California infrastructure. The image for this episode is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the birth of a sun-like star, retrieved from Flicker for High Theory by Lili Epstein. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the new element of a science fiction or speculative fiction narrative. SF narratives from the Americas that rewrite archival material about colonization and first contact have begun an imaginative project of decolonizing that novum. In Zac's words, the "novum" has been part of our definition of science fiction since Darko Suvin first offered up the concept of part of his critical assessment of SF. This idea of "novelty" is linked to conquest and colonialism through the figure of the New World, i.e. the post-1492 Americas. Thus untangling the relationship between colonialism, novelty, and science fiction must pass through the historical record of the conquest. One way to do this is to focus on SF that deeply engages the archival record of the XVIth century in the Americas: texts and artworks that use speculation to depart from the knowledge that things didn't quite occur the way the dominant paradigms would lead us to believe, and to imagine other futures linked to past moments of historical contingency. In the episode, Zac references an incredible list of writers and theorists, including Edmundo O'Gorman and Walter Benjamin, Saidiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Destrucción de todas las cosas by Hugo Hiriart, and “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The transcript lives here as a WordDoc and here as a PDF. Zac's book, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas (Northwestern University Press 2025), is a comparative study of Latin American science fiction and narratives of the sixteenth century conquest of the Americas. It moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period's historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. You can read a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Zac Zimmer works as an Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His research explores questions of literature, aesthetics, politics, and technology in the Americas.In addition to his current research on the cultural infrastructure of technosystems, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group, part of UCSC's Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department, he teaches classes on Latin American literature, science fiction, ethics & technology, and the poetics of California infrastructure. The image for this episode is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the birth of a sun-like star, retrieved from Flicker for High Theory by Lili Epstein. Image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Springtime brings the sound of a woodpecker, like the Northern Flicker, drumming on a hollow surface. Members of the woodpecker percussion band announce their territory and attract mates, as they pound away on metal roofs or gutters. Drilling holes in tree trunks calls for some specialized tools, and the North Flicker has them: big claws, two toes pointing forward and two backward, and a stiff tail to prop itself up. More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks.  BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week's mindful moment invites you to slow down with something beautifully simple: watch a candle flicker. Light a candle and sit quietly for a few minutes, letting your attention rest on the gentle movement of the flame. Notice how it responds to the air, how it dances and steadies. You can let your breath soften to match its rhythm, or simply observe without trying to control anything. If your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the flame. There's something almost hypnotic about this practice—it draws you into the present moment without effort. No complicated meditation technique required. Just a flame, a breath, and your willingness to pause. This small habit can become a quiet anchor in your day — a moment to pause, breathe, and return to the present without needing to stop everything you're doing. Little moments like this add up. And often they're the beginning of something bigger.

Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Independence News/discussion Our commitment to Windows quality Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US Free consulting We were asked about whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS. See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Independence News/discussion Our commitment to Windows quality Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US Free consulting We were asked about whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS. See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Vintage Culture is back for more Affairs with Kolsch, CamelPhat, Rafael Cerato, OMRI, Max Styler, Solee, Tiga and more... 1. Max Styler, Vintage Culture, Ali Love - Freaky1 00:00:002. Mathias Winnfield - Something Cool 00:04:183. OMRI, Vintage Culture - Rock The Beat 00:08:184. Max Styler ft. AdApt - One More (Solomun Remix) 00:12:335. Magdalena (DE), Mila Journée - Caution 00:16:336. OMRI, Vintage Culture - I Need It 00:20:037. Mita Gami & Rafael - What Is Luv 00:25:118. EdOne, Beswerda - Lahn 00:29:229. Oliver Koletzki - Logic 00:32:4810. CamelPhat, Rafael Cerato, Mike Trix - Miami Bass 00:36:3411. NO STATIC - Nothing Is (Under Control) (Short) 00:41:2612. Luch - Siren's Flicker 00:44:4813. Kolsch - Get Lost 00:49:3314. Solee - Ritmo 00:53:3315. Tiga - FRICTION 00:57:15

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How can investors gain a competitive edge when seeking deals in the hospitality sector? How can hotels use AI to improve the guest experience? And how can hospitality operators use AI to run hotels more efficiently? AFIRE CEO Gunnar Branson explores the topic with the co-founder and managing partner of AWH Partners, Russ Flicker, about how his $2 billion hospitality platform leverages proprietary data and AI to make smarter decisions. When used correctly, Flicker says, AI can help investors to focus on the right deals, optimize operations, and enhance the guest experience. The idea is to turn information into actionable insight and competitive advantage. LINKS Visit the AWH Partners website https://www.awhpartners.com/ To hear the globe's top experts discuss opportunities in US property markets, register for future AFIRE conferences: Summer Conference 2026 in Tokyo https://www.afire.org/events/tokyo26/ KEY MOMENTS 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Russ Flicker on AWH Partners 01:45 AI and data-driven hospitality investing 02:56 Submarket focus vs. traditional comp sets 05:00 Evaluating hotel metrics and amenities 06:33 Balancing gut instinct and data 09:14 Building a data-first culture 12:28 Hospitality market trends 15:05 Transaction constraints and rising costs 16:59 AI for deal focus and operational efficiency 18:22 AI in revenue and guest experience 21:36 Understanding customer behavior 24:40 Privacy, data protection, and AI tools 27:45 Future outlook for hospitality 29:43 Closing remarks

U.S. alcohol consumption is slowing as health‑focused trends reshape drinking habits. MichaelAaron Flicker highlights the rise of sober curiosity and “zebra striping,” reflected in earnings pressure at Brown‑Forman and Diageo (DEO). While U.S. sales face economic headwinds, Flicker notes that global demand, ready‑to‑drink products, and non‑alcoholic options are helping sustain the category.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Options involve risks and are not suitable for all investors. Before trading, read the Options Disclosure Document. http://bit.ly/2v9tH6DSubscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

Yotto blends beats and melodies, featuring fresh selections from Jamie Stevens, Township Rebellion & Cioz, Julian Wassermann, Joris Voorn & Ferry Corsten, Adam Beyer & GENESI, ANOTR, and more.Odd One Out Intro 00:00:00 1. Jamie Stevens - Tassolem (Guy J Remix) 00:00:332. Township Rebellion & Cioz & Onset Music Group & Zandimaz - Maphupho 00:08:413. Luch - Siren's Flicker 00:12:214. Marvio & Althoff - Disorder On You (Alican Remix) 00:18:045. Nordfold - Together 00:23:146. Julian Wassermann - Exo Human 00:28:367. Marc DePulse - Rabimmel 00:32:558. Joris Voorn & Ferry Corsten & Moonman - Don't Be Afraid 00:37:569. Adam Beyer & GENESI ft. Aya Anne - DNA 00:42:0910. Sickboy - Cowboy 00:47:4411. ANOTR - Talk To You 00:50:5412. Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad (Yotto Rework) 00:54:24

Is modern technology draining your body and spirit by hijacking your attention and circadian rhythm?Josh Trent welcomes Tristan Scott, EMF expert, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 796, to reveal how EMFs and artificial light disrupt circadian rhythm, mitochondria, and melatonin, why modern screens keep us locked in fight or flight, how nature and light function as biological nutrition, what his concussion taught him about neuro sensitivity and human awareness, and why creating technology aligned with nature may be essential for the future of human health, creativity, and consciousness.Daylight ComputerA new kind of computer, designed for deep focus and wellbeing. Daylight computer is a distraction-free operating system with everything you need, and nothing you don't.Write like on real paper, with a matte finish and textured surface that provides a natural, tactile writing experience, a glare-free notepad for the next chapter of your life.Live Paper feels like magic, with super-smooth scrolling and interactions across all your apps. Daylight redefined what a paper-like display can do, so you can focus without compromise.Get Yours Here + Save $50 with code WELLNESS In This Episode, Tristan Scott Uncovers:(01:16) Living off-grid in Wyoming for 3 months(06:07) Why biohackers overestimate our knowledge(13:40) Why children have almost no chance against screens(19:22) Blue light vs. sunlight: the missing infrared problem(28:19) San Francisco vs. wilderness: energy vampires(34:12) Signal vs. noise: why no one is intuitive anymore(44:43) Flicker and blue light put your cells in danger mode(50:58) "Grass-fed computing" — light as medicine(01:01:23) Tinnitus, electro-hypersensitivity, and hidden symptoms(01:10:04) The Maharishi Effect: 7,000 meditators lowered crime 16%(01:21:40) The three timelines: Luddites, cyborgs, or conscious technology

In this 100th episode, MichaelAaron and Richard look back on their favorite moments from the podcast so far, including standout brand case studies like Guinness and Aperol, and key behavioral science principles like the generation effect and reverse benchmarking. They also share a preview of what's ahead.

Hacking the Human Mind authors Richard Shotton and MichaelAaron Flicker reveal ways brands exploit human psychology and how we can use this to our benefit!Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1273What We Discuss with Richard Shotton & MichaelAaron Flicker:Five Guys built a $1.6 billion empire on a single insight: doing one thing exceptionally well signals expertise. The company's refusal to add chicken, salads, or ice cream is strategic proof that specialization creates perceived mastery in the consumer's mind.Counterintuitively, the "goal dilution effect" shows that adding more benefits to your pitch actually weakens it. When tomatoes were described as preventing cancer and improving eye health, people rated the cancer benefit 12% lower, suggesting that focus beats feature-stuffing every time.As a species of "cognitive misers," our brains evolved to conserve energy, so we rely on mental shortcuts rather than deliberate analysis. Brands that understand these heuristics work with human nature instead of against it, making persuasion feel effortless rather than forced.Environmental cues shape our experiences more than we realize. Classical music makes wine taste more expensive, heavier cutlery makes food seem more premium, and tempo controls how fast we eat. Our senses are constantly being orchestrated without our awareness.Next time you're pitching yourself or your idea, resist the urge to list every qualification and benefit. Pick your strongest single message and let it breathe. Your audience's brain will reward clarity with credibility, turning restraint into your most persuasive tool.And much more...And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: SimpliSafe Home Security: 50% off + 1st month free: simplisafe.com/jordanRag & Bone: 20% off: Rag-Bone.com, code JORDANProgressive Insurance: Free online quote: progressive.comHomes.com: Find your home: homes.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Note: If you're only hearing Mike, delete and redownload the file.Today's authors promise to teach us the behavioral science secrets behind 17 of the world's best brands. Join Mike & Cory as they consider the marketing of the world's biggest brands.Support the ShowNeuYear Focused CalendarCraft + CommerceBandersnatch by Diana Pavloc GlyerHacking the Human Mind by Richard Shotton & Michaelaaron FlickerRuby coffee roastersSnickers Feast adThe Social DilemmaBookworm #198: Scarcity Brain by Michael EasterIntentional by Chris BaileyThe Overthinker's Guide to Making Decision by Joseph NguyenGhost Town Living by Brent UnderwoodMike's Rating: ⭐⭐Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Here's an audio-only interview with Vint creator and Blur Busters contributor William Sokol Erhard, where we deep dive his awesome video software. The focus of the conversation is 24p video, BFI and interpolation (NOT the soap opera effect kind :p), however much of our discussion crosses over with gaming. And we even cover NVIDIA's new Pulsar technology a bit as well! Basically, if you're a video nerd, this is a must listen!William just put Vint on sale, so if you're curious to try it, now's the time:  https://willse.itch.io/vintHere's the Steam link if you prefer that:  https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448910/Vint_Realtime_Video_Interpolation_and_CRT_Emulation/Here other links to William's work:Blur Busters Recommended Posts:  https://blurbusters.com/flicker-vs-framegen  /  https://blurbusters.com/frame-gen...and here's links to some of the other things we discussed:TruCut Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNh7YFv3SQRtings motion: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/research/motion-cadenceFlicker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold1000Hz: https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-future-1000hz-displays-with-blurfree-sample-and-hold/Audio on Film: https://youtu.be/tg--L9TKL0ILossless Scaling:  https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/Pulsar Announcement:  https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/g-sync-pulsar-gaming-monitors-available-january-7-2026/Battle(non)sense's Pulsar Video:  https://youtu.be/d6-EQoCJVFkMadVR: https://www.avsforum.com/threads/madvr-labs-unveils-next-gen-envy-video-processors-with-full-hdmi-2-1-support-and-8k-support.3332222/?post_id=64181367&nested_view=1#post-64181367MadVR Demo:  https://youtu.be/zTdpRVr7ggQAlejandro G. Iñárritu director of The Revenant:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327944/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WillSESteam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448910/VintBlog: https://www.willse.me  /  https://www.willse.me/vint/Social Media:  https://bsky.app/profile/williamsokolerhard.bsky.socialWork experience: https://about.willse.meVint development focus poll:https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?t=14435Sample Vint Interpolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLhlFFI0f8Vint Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lZbp6H6Q0 

A funny and touching episode Oh My Dog! to kick off your new year - with our brilliant dog expert Simon Parry-Moreno joining us for advice, reassurance and some genuinely eye-opening answers (including whether dogs communicate by blinking).Before Simon arrives, Jack takes us through his lifelong history with dogs - from Barney the Basset to the childhood dog who most reminds him of Dolly, and Grace with one of her much-adored corrections for Seann.See Seann live: https://www.seannwalsh.com/Dont forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: http://tiny.cc/pjwu001Email us and send in your voice notes: hello@omdpod.comFollow us on IG: @omdpod @juniperomdWe're halfway there but please keep signing and sharing - SIGN THE CAMP BEAGLE PETITION: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73657800:00 Intro and happy new year00:19 Mildred falls in love with one of Jack's gifts00:54 Sara's doormat from Seann finally arrives02:00 Dolly loves Christmas and yet another comment about her not walking04:15 Ice, cold weather and why Juniper isn't going out05:15 Seann asks Jack for his full dog family history06:10 Seann's mind is completely blown06:30 Jack's incredible stories and how Barney the Basset started it all09:09 Juniper joins in and Jack shares a childhood photo with Flicker, who reminds him of Dolly10:47 Back to the same person who asks Jack about Dolly every single day11:45 Seann's confession about Mildred and the Celebrations14:01 More of Jack's childhood stories and how bonkers kids really are14:30 Sara's children and the great Sudocrem fiasco15:28 Miles Jupp's son at age three17:00 Why Wylda finds Seann annoying18:39 Correcting Seann on something from a previous episode19:41 Grace delivers the much-needed correction via voice note21:23 Debriefing Seann's made-up dog breed thanks to autocorrect22:32 Jane's message that went wrong23:44 Welcoming dog expert Simon Parry-Moreno24:05 Update on Strudel, textbook training and learning from Leia26:00 Do dogs communicate through blinking?28:05 How much time to train a four-month-old puppy each day31:30 When it's OK to leave a puppy and an older dog36:33 Why overexcited dogs are a problem38:00 Jack on how we anthropomorphise our dogs40:30 Seann gets put out and threatens to start a new podcast41:43 Sylvia's email about her dog nudging her down the stairs44:35 Simon's top piece of dog advice45:20 Saying goodbye to Simon46:09 Signing off… Jack loses the script and blinks it#OhMyDogPodcast #DogExpert #DogTrainingAdvice #DogBehaviour #DogPeople #PuppyAdvice #FunnyPodcast #JackDee #SeannWalsh #Comedy

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Michael explains that people often struggle because "adding and adding must be more effective," yet humans are "more confident when just one advantage is presented." He shares that Five Guys succeeded because they "only do burgers and fries" and that "if you say you are best at one thing most of all, they're more likely to believe that." He emphasizes that "buyers…have a top force-ranked prioritization of the most important thing," and focusing on the thing you are "best in the world at" is "more believable and more memorable." On pricing, he notes that "thinking is to humans like swimming is to cats. They can do it. They just prefer not to," and the brain "uses twenty percent of the calories in your body." He explains that humans rely on shortcuts and that price is "a relativity game." He describes how Red Bull "broke the comparison" by avoiding the soda can format and launched at "two dollars and fifty cents" instead of one dollar. He explains left-digit bias: "Forty-nine ninety-nine is going to be a much more attractive price than fifty dollars," and that ending in a seven "feels much more specific." He describes how indulgent framing changed behavior: "sweet sizzling plant-based beans and crispy shallots" increased selection "twenty-five percent more," while "light and low carb" suppressed it. He states that appealing to the emotional side "will always feel more indulgent and will always be more appealing," and that consulting services should focus on "what does the buyer really want" and how to communicate emotionally, not only rationally. On scarcity, he shows that breaking enjoyment boosts desire. Pumpkin Spice Latte sells because "they decided to make it for a limited time only," and the shorter deadline in a voucher study produced a "four and a half times increase." He warns that in professional services "you have to be careful that it's still believable." Time scarcity rarely works; instead, "we only have three seats left in this class" or "we only have room for two more clients to onboard this quarter." Michael explains that nostalgia reduces price sensitivity, noting people were willing to pay "three times more" when feeling nostalgic. He says social connectedness lowers price concerns: "there will be less pricing sensitivity when there's higher social connectedness." He points out that many consultants think this is about likability, but "that's not actually what the science says is happening." He introduces the publicity principle — "if someone revealed what you were doing, would you be ashamed or embarrassed by it?" — and the grandma principle: "if you had to tell your grandmother the way you landed that big account," would you feel proud? On humor, he explains that humor creates "higher attention," "higher positive emotions," and "higher purchase intent," but jokes must reinforce the brand or they become "the vampire effect." He shares the pratfall effect: a small blunder "makes you even more likable," showing that "a little bit of a blunder can make you a little bit more likable." He highlights powerful examples such as "good things come to those who wait," "we're number two so we have to try harder," and "the taste you hate twice a day." He explains that concrete ideas outperform abstract ones. People remembered "rusty engine" and "white horse" far more than "impossible amount" or "subtle fault." He says consultants should avoid abstract language and "draw a picture in people's minds" so ideas are "much more easily remembered." Michael emphasizes that "every word matters." He shares how Patagonian tooth fish became Chilean sea bass and saw a "thirty fold increase," and how one verb changed perceived car-crash speed from "forty point five miles per hour" to "thirty one point eight." He notes buyers are "light users of our industry" and that consultants may be "choosing words that leave a totally different impression." He explains the illusion of effort: showing effort raises perceived quality. Participants rated a poem higher when told it took "eighteen hours" instead of four. He warns consultants that AI can lower perceived effort unless they "show your effort that went into using AI." Get MichaelAaron's book, Hacking the Human Mind, here: https://shorturl.at/zV3HW Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Action, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

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Send us a textThis Holiday train has done left the station yall!! And I got some introductions to make. Meet Will Barrios, the founder of Tatro® Toys, a Louisiana-based company specializing in, inclusive, and magnetic, hand-built, or, customizable, playsets designed to foster creativity. After a pandemic-related pause, Barrios is currently in a soft-relaunch phase, focusing on diverse, modern family representation with a planned full, product, launch, in, 2026. Key Details About Tatro Toys:The Concept: The toys are designed for children (and adults) to create, mix-and-match, and tell stories, using magnetic, soft-touch, foam-based materials.Founder: Will Barrios is a certified play expert with a background in design and, production, who began, developing, the concept at age 10.New Direction: The 2026, relaunch emphasizes, diversity, featuring, characters, that, represent, Two-mom, families, Two-dad, families, single, parents, multiracial, families, and, gender-diverse, characters.Find their Brand NEW product, FLICKER over on their website at tatrotoys.com. He is adorable and our kids love him! Flicker LAUNCHES SOON! FIND HIM AT www.tatrotoys.com__________________________Then we welcome a local, New Orleans hero. He'd slap me if he knew I'd introduce him like that but it's true, y'all. Listen.Dan Forman is the co owner of this miraculous recovery center located now on BOTH sides of the lake here in New Orleans and Slidell. At NOLA Detox & Recovery Center, we understand that addiction is complex and deeply personal. Our treatment programs address the physical and emotional sides of recovery, blending medical expertise, evidence-based therapies, and the comforts of home.Whether you need inpatient care, outpatient flexibility, or a safe medical detox, we're here to help you or your loved one take the next step toward lasting recovery.Dan's story is so incredibly inspiring. Listen to the light behind his message of hope. Of resilience. Of empathy. You're the light Dan! And I am glad to know you. He also shares some personal tidbits around his own Hanukkah Holiday!  And if you or someone you love is in need of help this holiday season or any other day of the week, Nola Detox is here. Visit them at www.noladetox.comThank you to our family of amazing sponsors! STATE FARM® INSURANCE AGENT Leigh Ann Arcuri https://ridewithla.com/ Ochsner Children's HospitalWww.ochsner.orgRouses MarkersWww.rousesmarkets.comSandpiper VacationsWww..sandpipervacations.comCafe Du Monde www.shop.cafedumonde.com The Law Firm of Forrest Cressy & James Www.forrestcressyjames.comComfort Cases Www.comfortcases.orgNew Orleans Ice Cream CompanyWww.neworleansicecream.comERA TOP REALTY: Pamela Breaux plbreaux@gmail.com

Here's a playlist featuring musicians paying tribute to where they come from, geographically or artistically... The playlist features Emiliano D'Auria; Dayna Stephens; Charles Lloyd; Jérémie Lucchese; James Newton. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/21657081/Mondo-Jazz [from "Chasing the Flicker" to "Reincarnation of a Lovebird"]. Happy listening! Photo: Evan Goldstein.

In a world often filled with darkness, the birth of Jesus is God's radiant reminder that light has come—and that light lives in us. Join us as we dive into our Christmas sermon series entitled Arise & Shine: The Christmas Story. Christmas is the story of His illumination and the invitation for us is to arise and shine!

Fluent Fiction - Hebrew: Seagull Snatch: A Falafel Fiasco and Friendship's Flicker Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/he/episode/2025-12-06-08-38-20-he Story Transcript:He: השמש החורפית החלה לרדת לאיטה מעל חוף גורדון בתל אביב.En: The winter sun began to slowly set over Hof Gordon in Tel Aviv.He: נועה, רעבה אחרי יום עמוס בטיולים בעיר, פנתה אל אחד הדוכנים וקנתה לעצמה סנדוויץ' פלאפל חם.En: Noa, hungry after a busy day of sightseeing in the city, turned to one of the stalls and bought herself a hot sandwich falafel.He: היא מצאה מקום נעים על החול, קרוב לים, והתיישבה.En: She found a pleasant spot on the sand, close to the sea, and sat down.He: איתי, אחיה הצעיר של נועה, לא היה רחוק ממנה.En: Itai, Noa's younger brother, wasn't far from her.He: הוא אהב לחפש סערות בתורן ולא פעם גם ליצור אותן.En: He loved searching for storms when they came and often created them himself.He: חברה של נועה, שירה, עמדה לצידה.En: Noa's friend, Shira, stood by her side.He: היא הייתה מעשית וידעה תמיד איך למצוא פתרון לכל בעיה.En: She was practical and always knew how to find a solution to any problem.He: כשהשניים ראו את נועה מתיישבת סוף סוף לאכול, החיוך על פניה היה גדול.En: When the two saw Noa finally sitting down to eat, the smile on her face was big.He: אבל לפתע, כשתפסה בידה את הסנדוויץ' והחלה לנגוס – הגיע שחף חמדן, חטף את הסנדוויץ' משדהּ ועף משם במהירות.En: But suddenly, as she grasped the sandwich and began to take a bite, a greedy seagull swooped in, snatched the sandwich from her hand, and flew away quickly.He: נועה פערה את פיה בתדהמה.En: Noa's mouth gaped in astonishment.He: היא הסתכלה על איתי ועל שירה, לא יודעת אם לצחוק או לבכות.En: She looked at Itai and Shira, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.He: אבל שירה לא היססה.En: But Shira didn't hesitate.He: "נועה, יש לנו עוד חלה מהאריוחת ערב של חנוכה," היא אמרה.En: "Noa, we still have a challah from last night's Hanukkah dinner," she said.He: "הכנסי לעסקה עם הדוכן.En: "Make a deal with the stall.He: בטוח שהם יסכימו."En: I'm sure they'll agree."He: האחים הסתכלו זה על זו ואז התחילו לפעול לפי תוכניתה של שירה.En: The siblings looked at each other and then began to act according to Shira's plan.He: הם החלו לשוחח עם מוכר הפלאפל, שהסכים להחליף את הסנדוויץ' החסר בחלה.En: They started talking with the falafel vendor, who agreed to exchange the missing sandwich for the challah.He: ידו התל אביבית על העליונה, והוא הציע לנועה סנדוויץ' חדש עם חיוך.En: His Tel Avivian hand prevailed, and he offered Noa a new sandwich with a smile.He: בסופו של דבר, נועה התיישבה על החול שוב, עם סנדוויץ' פלאפל חם חדש בידיה.En: In the end, Noa sat on the sand again, with a new hot falafel sandwich in her hands.He: איתי ושירה הצטרפו אליה, שלושתם צחקו יחד והדליקו את הנרות של החנוכיה שהביאו לים, האור הלוהט מרצד ברקע השקיעה.En: Itai and Shira joined her, and the three laughed together, lighting the candles of the chanukiah they had brought to the beach, the flickering light glowing against the sunset backdrop.He: הם ישבו יחד, צוחקים ומשוחחים.En: They sat together, laughing and chatting.He: נועה הבינה כמה חשוב להיות יצירתית ולא לתת לדברים להוציא אותך משלווה.En: Noa realized how important it is to be creative and not let things take you out of your peace.He: השלושה גילו שהמשמעות האמיתית של החג היא לא באוכל, אלא בחברות, באור ובשמחה שהם יוצרים ביחד.En: The three discovered that the true meaning of the holiday is not in the food, but in the friendship, the light, and the joy they create together.He: כל סנדוויץ' נוסף על החוף הפך לסמל של חברות ואור חנוכה.En: Each additional sandwich on the beach became a symbol of friendship and the light of Hanukkah. Vocabulary Words:winter: חורפיתset: לרדתsightseeing: טיוליםpleasant: נעיםstorms: סערותpractical: מעשיתgreedy: חמדןswooped: חטףastonishment: תדהמהdeal: עסקהvendor: מוכרprevailed: על העליונהflickering: מרצדglowing: לוהטbackdrop: רקעcreative: יצירתיתpeace: שלווהdiscovered: גילוmeaning: משמעותfriendship: חברותjoy: שמחהsymbol: סמלsandwich: סנדוויץ'exchange: להחליףsolution: פתרוןcandles: נרותholiday: חגswallowed: החלה לנגוסhesitate: היססהseagull: שחףBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fluent-fiction-hebrew--5818690/support.

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Gustavo Dantas is a 6th degree BJJ Black Belt under Andrew Pederneiras. Gustavo has studied Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for more than 30 years, with 26 years at the Black Belt level.Gustavo is the founder of GD Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, the founder of the Arizona Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu League and the co-founder of Jiu-Jitsu Tribe, a non-profit that helps at-risk youth and adults in impoverished communities through Jiu-Jitsu.Gustavo is also a podcaster, a mental coach, an MMA veteran with a record of 2-0, an ADCC veteran, multiple-time National Champion, multiple-time World Champion, and multiple-time Masters World Champion.Heath Flicker is a 3rd degree BJJ Black Belt under Gustavo Dantas, a fellow co-founder of Jiu-Jitsu Tribe, the tournament director of the Arizona Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu League, a philanthropist, and an entrepreneur.Watch & Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/TheBJJFoxcastFollow us on Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/thebjjfoxcastFollow us on TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@thebjjfoxcastFollow us on Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/thebjjfoxcast

A quiet school night turns strange when an 11-year-old locks himself in the bathroom, crying that something stomped up behind him. In the mirror, he sees a figure—pure white, human-shaped, with horns and a star on its chest. Weeks earlier, the lights in that same room cut out for a full ten seconds. Coincidence—or the first warning? His mom believes him, keeps him calm, and starts looking for answers while trying not to plant scarier ones. Next, we head to a Wisconsin basement where two siblings test their nerves: moving shadows, a whispered “no” captured on an EVP app, drained flashlights, and a long night of invisible taps to the face—while the dog sleeps in another room and every normal explanation falls apart. Then a dream that feels too real: a listener bitten in a nightmare, followed by four crows standing silent in the road the next morning. Bad dream and weird birds—or a message that showed up twice? Love real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:

Get THE Leftover Pieces APP & don't miss anything! CLICK HERE TODAY -- No heroics required. A window of light, a seven-minute finish, and a two-sentence check-in can turn a spinning day into a survivable one. Journal prompt: “What I'm keeping from this month is…”Your Personal Flicker–Brick–Step Plan (Rough-Day Ready) On the days when suicide loss surges—the date you didn't mean to remember, the song that blindsides you, the blame-loop at 2 a.m.—you don't need pep. You need a plan that can meet the wave.Rough days deserve a plan you can run on muscle memory. Start with a flicker that honors your grief, not erases it: stand by a window, touch their bracelet or photo, say their name and yours. Let that cue your rebuild—one small brick that steadies a body carrying trauma: a 7-minute shower; light a candle and breathe a longer exhale; clear the memorial corner's surface so it feels gentler to approach; text one survivor-friend “no fixing—just witness?” Then take a step that carries them forward with you: add one line to your witness log about a memory; schedule the support group link for tonight; send a two-sentence check-in to another bereaved parent. This isn't moving on. It's moving with.Choose-your-energy menu:Hollow (low): Stand by a window holding their item (or hand on heart). Say, “I miss you, and I'm breathing.” Five long exhales. If tears come, that's capacity doing its job; you're done for today.Healing (medium): Do the flicker and one 7–10 minute brick aimed at activation (shower; clear one square; light candle + 3 rounds of 3-3-6 breath). When the timer dings, stop. Drink a full glass of water.Becoming (higher): Run all three: flicker → brick → step that carries forward (add a memory line, send the group RSVP, message a survivor ally for a 10-minute call). Save a pinned note titled “Rough-Day Plan: name • candle • 7-min shower • text Jess.”As we end today: Pre-deciding isn't performative strength; it's trauma care. A grief-true plan—speak their name, regulate your body, take one carrying-forward step—cuts through shame and gives the wave somewhere to go. Keep the structure, flex the pieces. On the worst days, being held by three simple moves is courage.Exhale. Keep what serves you; leave the rest. I'll be here again tomorrow.

In this mind-expanding episode, John sits down with MichaelAaron Flicker—entrepreneur, behavioral science strategist, and CEO of XenoPsi Ventures, where he oversees a portfolio of nine companies. He's also the co-author of Hacking the Human Mind: The Behavioral Science Secrets Behind 17 of the World's Best Brands, a must-read for anyone serious about sales, branding, or influence.They explore how behavioral science drives real-world buying behavior, why most sales tactics miss the mark, and how we can ethically use psychological principles to build trust, guide decisions, and grow businesses. From Five Guys' focused menu strategy to the Sunken Cost Fallacy of Amazon Prime, this episode is packed with real-life behavioral insights sellers can use right now.If you're ready to move beyond outdated tactics and understand how emotion, perception, and decision-making truly work, this one's for you.Are you interested in leveling up your sales skills and staying relevant in today's AI-driven landscape? Visit www.jbarrows.com and let's Make It Happen together!Connect with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbarrows/Connect with John on IG: https://www.instagram.com/johnmbarrows/Check out John's Membership: https://go.jbarrows.com/pages/individual-membership?ref=3edab1 Join John's Newsletter: https://www.jbarrows.com/newsletterConnect with MichaelAaron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelaaron-flicker/Check out MichaelAaron's Website: https://xenopsi.com/ Also Check Out These Links:https://hackingthehumanmind.com/https://www.xenopsi.com/michaelaaronflicker.phphttps://theconsumerbehaviorlab.com/podcast-overview.php https://theconsumerbehaviorlab.com/masterclass.php

Want to get more clicks? More sales? More clients? Then understanding why humans act the way they do will help. In his new book, Hacking the Human Mind, author Michael Aaron Flicker shares dozens of psychological "hacks" that copywriters should understand before they write copy. Michael Aaron is our guest for this episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast. Click the play button below, or scroll down for a full transcript.   Stuff to check out: Hacking the Human Mind by Michael Aaron Flicker The Copywriter Club Facebook Group The Copywriter Underground Full Transcript: Rob Marsh: Want more responses, sales, and customers? Let's hack the human mind. This is The Copywriter Club Podcast. Several months ago, I was fortunate enough to get an advanced copy of a book called, Hacking the Human Mind. Now… if you have a book and want me to read it, giving it a title like Hacking the Human Mind and including ideas and insights from behavioral science, neuro marketing, and psychology is pretty much guaranteed to get my attention. But this book goes one step farther by looking at marketing in the real world then searching for the psychology that explains why something works. The approach basically flips the usual marketing tactic to-do list from: here are a bunch of psychological triggers… exclusivity, scarcity, risk removal, curiosity and so on… make sure you include them all into your sales process, and instead look for what works already and figuring out why it works. That's a bit different from the usual approach. So I asked one of the authors, Michael-Aaron Flicker to talk with me about some of the concepts from the book.  We talked about the Pratfall or Blemish effect and how to turn a product flaw into an asset. There are very few perfect products in the world, so understanding how to use this effect in your copy is incredibly useful. We also talked about how to address product changes in a way that doesn't generate backlash. We've seen customers revolt against design and formulation changes over the last few years—Kraft Mac and Cheese did it the right way. And to hear that story, you'll have to keep listening to this episode. Another idea we talked about is offer simplicity… we're often tempted to stack feature on feature and then benefit upon benefit. We do this to pile on the good stuff and make our offers more valuable to our clients. But the actual effect may be the exact opposite. Again, to hear how that works you'll want to keep on listening. One thing Michael Aaron points out that it takes more than knowing about a particular psychological effect or persuasion trigger, often you need to find new and innovative ways to use these triggers. Before we get to my discussion with Michael Aaron, this episode is brought to you by Research Mastery. Research Mastery is the one-stop program or course that will change your writing for the better. Instead of just organizing words, you'll have the tools and strategies you need to truly understand your customer so they relate to your offer and buy more often. Research Mastery digs into the 4 critical areas of research… if you miss one of them, your research just isn't complete. And it includes the A.I. tools you need to do research faster, more effectively, and more profitably. You can learn more about this unqiue program at thecopywriterclub.com/researchmastery  And now my interview with Michael Aaron Flicker. Transcript summary coming soon.

MichaelAaron Flicker is founder and CEO of XenoPsi Ventures, a brand incubator that generates millions in annual revenue and celebrates four-time Inc. 5000 honors. Launching his business at 14, MichaelAaron has expanded XenoPsi into nine thriving companies—including DTC success story Wellow ($20 million in revenue, self-funded)—while also consulting for Fortune 500 clients and co-authoring Hacking the Human Mind. Flicker's work centers on applying behavioral science to marketing, growth, and brand strategy, making him a go-to advisor for high-growth businesses and political campaigns alike. On this episode we talk about:   Starting and scaling a brand incubator from a teenage side hustle to a portfolio of top-performing businesses   How behavioral science transforms marketing, product, and political campaign strategy (from “Chilean Sea Bass” to iPods)   Critical psychological biases every marketer should know (naming, concreteness, social proof)   The art/science of making products memorable and believable—why one clear message beats a laundry list of features   Applying behavioral insights ethically (and knowing when to simplify so your message lands with real customers) Top 3 Takeaways 1.  Understanding and leveraging behavioral science is key to building memorable brands and driving growth in any industry.2.  One clear, concrete message about your product will outperform complicated “lists”—clarity is persuasive and sticky.3.  Ethical marketing means matching your product's strengths to people's real needs, using behavioral tools to open minds rather than manipulate. Notable Quotes   “The simple words we use make a big difference—the way you describe and brand your offer is as important as the product itself.”   “If people can't picture a result, they won't remember or believe it—concreteness is four times more effective than abstraction.”   “Every business is in the persuasion business—behavioral science is the best way to understand what truly influences people.” Connect with MichaelAaron Flicker:   LinkedIn: MichaelAaron Flicker   Website: XenoPsi Ventures   Book: Hacking the Human Mind   Podcast: Behavioral Science for Brands ✖️✖️✖️✖️

In the third hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Score football analyst Dave Wannstedt to share his takeaways from the Bears' win against the Cowboys on Sunday. Wannstedt also went to the whiteboard to detail how the Bears executed a flea flicker to perfection for a touchdown in a win against the Cowboys on Sunday.

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Score football analyst Dave Wannstedt, who went to the whiteboard to detail how the Bears executed a flea flicker to perfection for a touchdown in a win against the Cowboys on Sunday.