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Exercise keeps you fit and young. This is scientifically proven. But what exactly happens in the brain when we exercise regularly? And why is exercise even effective against memory loss and Alzheimer's? In an interview, Dr. Odette Leiter, a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland and an expert in systemic brain rejuvenation, explains why. - Bewegung hält fit und jung. Das ist wissenschaftlich belegt. Aber was genau passiert eigentlich im Gehirn, wenn wir uns regelmäßig bewegen? Und warum wirkt Sport sogar gegen Gedächtnisprobleme und Krankheiten wie Alzheimer? Darüber sprechen wir mit Dr. Odette Leiter. Sie ist Neurowissenschaftlerin an der University of Queensland und befasst sich mit der systemischen Verjüngung des Gehirns.

On the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with David Gaspar, CEO of The Bail Project, for a powerful conversation about the inequities of America's bail system. The discussion opens with an exploration of how cash bail disproportionately punishes poor and marginalized communities, while offering little real protection to the public. As Gaspar explains, the system often criminalizes poverty, untreated trauma, mental health crises, and substance use, leaving people jailed not because they pose a danger, but because they cannot afford freedom. Gaspar shares his own remarkable journey through the criminal legal system. At 22, he was arrested and pressured into accepting a plea deal he didn't fully understand, leading to a wrongful sentence and a decade behind bars. While incarcerated, he earned his GED, taught himself the law, and eventually won his own freedom through a self-written appeal to the state Supreme Court. That experience, he notes, fuels his determination to ensure others don't face the same despair without access to support and fairness. The conversation highlights the devastating ripple effects of pretrial detention. Losing a job, housing, or custody of children can happen within days or weeks behind bars, destabilizing lives long after release. Gaspar underscores that what people need most is not punishment, but stability and opportunity to move forward. He points to the $14 billion spent annually on detaining legally innocent people as a moral and fiscal failure, arguing those resources could be redirected toward real solutions like housing, treatment, and community support. Throughout the interview, Gaspar makes the case for reimagining pretrial justice—moving away from “assembly line” bail hearings toward meaningful due process and investments in services that actually promote safety. With stories of resilience and redemption, including clients who have rebuilt their lives after release, Gaspar emphasizes that human potential doesn't vanish because of a mistake or hardship. Instead, with compassion and support, people can and do thrive.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured  In states like West Virginia, you need over 1,200 hours of training and multiple exams just to cut hair—but to become a magistrate judge, all you need is to be 21, have a GED, and a clean record. These judges set bail, issue warrants, and preside over criminal cases without ever stepping foot in law school. Is this common-sense accessibility or a dangerous lowering of standards in the justice system?

The CEO, who learned to read at the age of seven and earned his GED at 21, has just shared the spiritual practice that changed everything in this week's Get Yourself Optimized episode. Calvin Bagley's journey from educational isolation to healthcare entrepreneur (serving 60,000+ clients) reveals how becoming "the observer" of your thoughts—rather than fighting them—unlocks both personal transformation and business success. His approach combines practical wisdom from "The Power of Now" with deep spiritual principles, creating a framework that works whether you're overcoming imposter syndrome or scaling a company. Calvin's memoir "Hiding from the School Bus" chronicles how he transformed childhood trauma into entrepreneurial strength. The lessons apply whether you're healing from your past or building your future. Check out the full conversation now! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/530.

Strip Club King: The Story of Joe RednerCharismatic to some and revolting to others. Joe Redner owns one of the most famous nude clubs in America, the Mons Venus. Meet the man that has been arrested over 140 times, earned his GED in jail at age 40, and has run for local public office 7 times.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

What does it take to turn hardship into purpose—and purpose into impact? This week on Living the Authentic Life, we sit down with Anna Reger, Founder & CEO of FlipLok, serial entrepreneur, humanitarian, and one of Houston Woman Magazine's 50 Most Influential Women of 2024. From growing up in a challenging Houston neighborhood to overcoming childhood trauma, Anna's journey is fueled by resilience and her motto: “Never give up.” She went from earning her GED to graduating from the University of Houston and building a career as a passionate leader, devoted mother, and innovative problem-solver. In this inspiring conversation, Anna shares: - How her latest venture, FlipLok, is revolutionizing safety in schools, homes, and public spaces. - Why living with purpose is the foundation for authentic leadership. - The role family, community, and giving back play in her success. - How she's built businesses—and a legacy—by staying true to her values. Why authenticity, grit, and service are the keys to lasting impact Whether you're an entrepreneur, community leader, or someone navigating your own challenges, Anna's story is a powerful reminder that success isn't just about achievement—it's about leading with heart, building with purpose, and creating a safer, stronger world. Stay Connected: Don't miss out on any updates or exclusive offers. Follow us on our social media channels: Facebook Instagram Pinterest Thank you for visiting The Vintage Contessa & Times Past. Subscribe to our channel for a glimpse into the world of luxury living, insights into the authenticity process, and much more. Embrace the luxury of the past and present with The Vintage Contessa & Times Past.

In dieser Episode sprechen Mark und Fabian über die unsichtbaren, aber wirksamen Mechanismen von Statussymbolen in Organisationen. Warum gibt es sie? Was leisten sie – und wann richten sie Schaden an? Die beiden beleuchten Denkfehler rund um die pauschale Abschaffung solcher Symbole, differenzieren zwischen Status, Macht und Einfluss – und werfen einen ehrlichen Blick auf eigene Privilegien bei intrinsify. Dazu gibt's wie immer Persönliches aus dem Alltag und einen spannenden Zwiebelschäler für Freunde von Wetten und des Finanzmarkts.Inhalte dieser Episode:• 00:58 – Check-In: „Welches Buch würdest du mitnehmen, wenn du fliehen müsstest?“• 04:09 – Blick in die Küche: Mark über digitale Entgiftung im Urlaub, Hüttenwanderung in den Alpen und Camper-Life in Wales• 10:55 – Verschält – Denkfehler der Woche: Warum Statussymbole nicht per se schädlich sind – und wie sie Orientierung geben können Mark erklärt u.a.:• 45:00 – Zwiebelschäler: Mark empfiehlt die Plattform Polymarket – eine Art „Wetten auf Weltgeschehen“ mit erstaunlich präzisen Prognosen z.B. zu Zinsentscheidungen oder politischen Ereignissen.

Ich begrüße Sie zur September-Ausgabe der Talk Noir. In John Verchers Kriminalroman "Umnachtet" steht Xavier „Scarecrow“ Wallace, ein MMA-Kämpfer jenseits der Dreißig, vor dem Kampf seines Lebens. Allerdings kann er es nicht länger leugnen, dass er seinen Kampf gegen die chronisch-traumatische Enzephalopathie, bekannt als Boxerdemenz, allmählich verliert. Im Nebel von Gedächtnisverlust, Migräne und Paranoia tut Xavier alles, um in Form zu bleiben, als er der Anruf kommt, der ihn wieder in den Ring schickt.

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In dieser Folge spreche ich darüber, warum persönliches Wachstum im Kopf beginnt, aber im Körper entschieden wird. Viele sammeln Wissen, planen Veränderungen und denken sich Ziele zurecht. Doch wenn der Körper müde, entzündet, unausgeschlafen und kraftlos ist, bleibt Umsetzung ein Wunschtraum. Leistung braucht Energie, stabile Nerven und funktionierende Exekutivfunktionen (Fokus, Selbstkontrolle, Entscheiden). Genau diese werden durch regelmäßige Bewegung, guten Schlaf und eine durchdachte Ernährung messbar besser. Medizinisch ist der Zusammenhang eindeutig: Bewegung steigert u. a. die Ausschüttung von BDNF (ein „Düngemittel“ fürs Gehirn), verbessert Mitochondrienfunktion und Insulinsensitivität und stärkt damit Gedächtnis und kognitive Flexibilität. Eine randomisierte, kontrollierte Studie zeigte sogar, dass moderates Ausdauertraining die Größe des Hippocampus - dem Zentrum für Lernen und Erinnerung - innerhalb eines Jahres um rund 2 % vergrößert und das Gedächtnis verbessert. Das ist echte Neuroplastizität durch Training. Auch mental zahlt sich Bewegung aus: Schon geringe Dosen körperlicher Aktivität gehen mit einem deutlich niedrigeren Depressionsrisiko einher - ein weiterer Grund, warum „erst der Körper, dann der Kopf“ in der Praxis funktioniert. Am Ende bleibt die klare Botschaft: Nur wer seinen Körper im Griff hat, hat auch sein Leben im Griff. Wenn du dir eine spürbare, nachhaltige Veränderung wünschst, hol dir Unterstützung in meinem Performance Coaching - mit klarer Struktur für Training, Power Food, Schlaf und Stressmanagement. Sichere dir jetzt dein Erstgespräch und starte heute mit 20–30 Minuten Bewegung: zügiger Spaziergang, leichtes Krafttraining oder Radfahren. Keine Ausreden - aufstehen, bewegen, Momentum aufbauen. https://andreas-trienbacher.com/coaching/ __________________________

I tougt I taw a puddy cat - or was it the infused seltzer? We spin Shut Up Shuttin Up off 1996's Victor, by Lerxst.If you haven't heard Al play lead in a while, check this one out - and bring some wine!SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDSScratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here: Schatz's Scratch List ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(And say it 5 times fast!)ABOUT THE SHOWThe show...it's a quick fix to help soothe your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushRash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - your itch to hear Rush music - get a dose of new tunes by Ged and Al with your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushRash ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠clinicians, Chaz N Schatz.A random choice wheel of Alex's post-Rush sthuph, with Geddy's solo record thrown in for good measure. We hoist a shot in memory of The Professor, and proceed to listen to whatever we spin.The Scratch List - go see these bands and scratch that itch to hear Rush music live!Rush news, general nonsensical disorderly conduct, lack of regard for correctness or truth, and reckless endangerment of your whole-brain. This is one of two podcasts dedicated to increasing opioid release in your anterior insula, your anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and your posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), in addition to the basal ganglia and the thalamus...and all that implies.  Blah, blah...RushRash. SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDSScratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah!⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here: ⁠Schatz's Scratch List⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠(And say it 5 times fast!)GO BONELESSCertified boneless in the state of Ohio by the Boneless Podcasting Network. Go Boneless. Boneless Makes a Better Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Den Siegern gelingt die Verankerung des Narrativs vom imperialen DeutschlandEin Standpunkt von Wolfgang Effenberger. "Die Geschichte wird von den Siegern geschrieben" – ein häufig zitierter Satz, der sich in Deutschland mächtig und nachhaltig entfaltet hat. Insbesondere wurde die Darstellung Deutschlands als imperialistische Großmacht nach beiden Weltkriegen maßgeblich von den Siegermächten geprägt und tief im kollektiven Gedächtnis Europas und der Welt verankert. Dieses Narrativ hat nicht nur die Wahrnehmung deutscher Geschichte und Identität beeinflusst, sondern auch politisch und gesellschaftlich tiefe Auswirkungen auf Deutschland selbst gehabt. Vor allem den Briten gelang es, das Bild vom „imperialen Deutschland“ zu etablieren, und es gilt, aufzuzeigen, welche Funktion diese Narration erfüllt hat und welche Folgen dies für Deutschland und seine Erinnerungskultur hat.Maßgeblich an diesem "Erfolg" beteiligt war der heute noch von Vielen als Pazifist und Anhänger der sozialistischen Fabian-Society gefeierte britische Propagandist und politische Intellektuelle H.G. Wells (1866–1946).Die wirkmächtige Propagandaarbeit des Briten H.G. WellsH.G. Wells war vor allem für seine Science-Fiction-Romane wie „Die Zeitmaschine“ und „Krieg der Welten“ bekannt. Weniger bekannt, aber von großer Bedeutung für die geistige Neuausrichtung Deutschlands nach 1945, ist Wells' Rolle als Propagandist und Popularisierer von Weltgeschichte. Seine Werke zielten darauf ab, Nationalismus, Militarismus und die überholten politische Ordnungen der Gegner des Empire zu überwinden und stattdessen ein universales Geschichtsverständnis im Sinn eines anglo-amerikanischen Imperiums, wie es Cecil Rhodes vorschwebte, zu fördern. (1)So wie Rhodes oder Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) träumte H. G. Wells (1866–1946), von einem perfekten Weltstaat mit einem»ethischen System«, welches »die Fortpflanzung dessen begünstigt, was in der Menschheit fein, wirksam und schön ist – schöne und starke Körper, einen klaren und mächtigen Geist und einen wachsenden Wissenskörper – und ... die Fortpflanzung von niederen und unterwürfigen Typen, von angstgetriebenen und feigen Seelen, von allem, was in den Seelen, Körpern oder Gewohnheiten der Menschen gemein, hässlich und bestialisch ist, kontrolliert“ (2) Der irische Dramatiker George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) nahm offenbar für die eugenische Verbesserung der Menschheit sogar Gaskammern in Kauf:»Wir sollten uns verpflichtet fühlen, sehr viele Menschen zu töten, die wir jetzt am Leben lassen, und sehr viele Menschen am Leben zu lassen, die wir gegenwärtig töten. Wir sollten alle Ideen über die Todesstrafe loswerden müssen ... Ein Teil der eugenischen Politik würde uns schließlich zu einer umfassenden Nutzung der Totenkammer verhelfen. Sehr viele Menschen müssten aus dem Leben gerissen werden, nur weil es die Zeit anderer Menschen verschwendet, sich um sie zu kümmern.« (3) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die sechs Episoden von "Takopi's Original Sin" haben es in sich. Die vielleicht beste Adaption des Jahres scheut nicht davor zurück, schonungslos die Seiten der menschlichen Natur zu zeigen, die selbst Kinder berühren. Und manchmal von ihnen ausgehen. Eine vollständige Adaption mit angenehmer Länge, der Kontrast der Themen und des fröhlichen Oktopoden und die großartigen Animationen: das konnten wir nicht einfach nur in einer Season-Besprechung behandeln. Für Lukas passte außerdem die Adaption von "The Flowers of Evil" dazu. Auch wenn die komplett rotoskopierte Animation mindestens gewöhnungsbedürftig wirkt, bleibt sie zumindest im Gedächtnis. Und verstärkt auch das vorherrschende Gefühl dieser Geschichte von Jugendlichen, die in der Enge ihrer Kleinstadt zwischen Konformität und Ausbruch schwanken: eine Stimmung, die gleichermaßen unheimlich wie bedrohlich wirkt. Leider lässt sich die Adaption ein wenig zu viel Zeit und kommt gar nicht zum relevanten Teil, der Takopi gut ergänzt. Schade.

Das ist das KI-Update vom 03.09.2025 unter anderem mit diesen Themen: KI-Chatbot Grok nach Elon Musks "Korrekturen" immer konservativer ChatGPT soll sicherer für Menschen in psychischen Krisen werden Mistral erweitert Le Chat um Tool-Anbindungen und Gedächtnis und DeepL stellt eigenen KI-Agenten für Unternehmen vor Links zu allen Themen der heutigen Folge findet Ihr hier: https://heise.de/-10630252 https://www.heise.de/thema/KI-Update https://pro.heise.de/ki/ https://www.heise.de/newsletter/anmeldung.html?id=ki-update https://www.heise.de/thema/Kuenstliche-Intelligenz https://the-decoder.de/ https://www.heiseplus.de/podcast https://www.ct.de/ki Eine neue Folge gibt es montags, mittwochs und freitags ab 15 Uhr.

In meiner Kinder- und Jugendzeit in Thüringen begann die Schule immer am 1. September. Im Juli und August waren Ferien und dann ging es wieder los. Aber ehrlicherweise verbinden ich und viele Menschen hierzulande dieses Datum eher mit dem Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs 1939. Das Datum ist eingebrannt in unsere Geschichte und in unser einzelnes und kollektives Gedächtnis. Seit den 50er Jahren ist er Antikriegstag und in den 2000ern hatte man das Gefühl, eine breite Friedenspolitik in Europa wird den Frieden auf lange Zeit sichern.Leider wissen wir seit den russischen Überfällen auf die Krim und die Ukraine, dass der Krieg wieder da ist und die Bedrohung wieder näher rückt. Eine wirkliche Friedenspolitik scheint nicht mehr möglich, wenn ein Aggressor nur durch militärische Gegenmacht aufzuhalten ist. Das ist echt entmutigend. Die Botschaft des Papstes zum kommenden Weltfriedenstag am 21.9. lädt die Menschheit dazu ein, die Logik von Gewalt und Krieg abzulehnen und sich für einen echten Frieden einzusetzen, der auf Liebe und Gerechtigkeit basiert. "Dieser Frieden muss unbewaffnet sein, das heißt, er darf nicht auf Angst, Drohungen oder Waffen beruhen. Und er muss entwaffnend sein, in der Lage, Konflikte zu lösen, Herzen zu öffnen und gegenseitiges Vertrauen, Empathie und Hoffnung zu schaffen. Es reicht nicht aus, zum Frieden aufzurufen; wir müssen ihn in einer Lebensweise verkörpern, die jede Form von Gewalt ablehnt, sei sie sichtbar oder systemisch."Unbewaffnet und entwaffnend – welche Forderung in einer waffenstarrenden Welt. Aber wir sollten uns trotzdem nicht entmutigen lassen, uns um Frieden und Versöhnung zu mühen und auch immer wieder um Frieden zu beten und zu bitten. "Der Friede sei mit euch allen", war der Gruß des Auferstandenen Christus an seine verängstigten Jünger. Dieser Zuruf des Friedens gilt auch für uns heute.

In der Geschichte des Vertriebs gibt es eine kaum zu überschätzende Größe: die Sympathie. Während sich viele auf Fakten und Zahlen stützen, lehrt die Erfahrung, dass Sympathie Türen öffnet und Beziehungen stärkt. Robert Cialdini, ein Meister der Psychologie, hat untersucht, wie die manipulative Macht der Sympathie subtile Verbindungen schafft und sogar Entscheidungen beeinflusst. Haben wir uns jemals gefragt, warum der Nachbar, der immer freundlich grüßt, plötzlich die erste Wahl wird, wenn wir seine Dienstleistung benötigen? Nicht nur zuhören, sondern mitreden? Hier: https://stephanheinrich.com/skool   Sympathie ist oft der entscheidende Faktor, der trockene Fakten in warme Beziehungen verwandelt. Laut Cialdini kann ein freundliches Lächeln oder ein ehrliches Interesse mehr bewirken als lange Stunden mit Angeboten und Diagrammen. Wir werden anders wahrgenommen, wenn wir Sympathie zeigen - das steigert die Chance, im Gedächtnis zu bleiben. Persönliche Geschichten und kleine erlebte Details schaffen Nähe und Vertrauen. In einer Welt voller Konkurrenz bleibt der sympathische Verkäufer in Erinnerung, während andere vielleicht nur als Namen auf einem Papier verweilen. Der Einfluss der Sympathie manifestiert sich oft in den kleinen Dingen, die wir vielleicht für unbedeutend halten. Das Ziel ist nicht, als der netteste Verkäufer dazustehen, sondern als derjenige, den man gerne wiedersehen würde. Die Macht einer sympathischen Begegnung sollte nicht unterschätzt werden. Wie oft haben wir uns gewünscht, dass persönliche Verbindungen uns überraschend Türen öffnen? Abschließend sollte man immer den Wert der Sympathie im Vertrieb im Auge behalten. Für weitere Einsichten zu diesem Thema und um Ihre Sympathie-Fähigkeiten zu verfeinern, lesen Sie den vollständigen Blog-Artikel https://stephanheinrich.com/vertriebspsychologie/sympathie/

In dieser Episode sprechen Fabian und Lars über triviale Tipps für Führungskräfte und was daran problematisch ist.Anlass ist ein Artikel im Harvard Business Manager über Schiedsrichter-Legende Pierluigi Collina, der dort sieben Führungstipps gibt. Außerdem geht's um Teamarbeit bei intrinsify, eine defekte Klimaanlage in Barcelona – und am Ende gibt's einen kraftvollen Musiktipp auf die Zwölf.Inhalte dieser Episode:03:00 – Check-In: Was kam dir in letzter Zeit sinnlos vor?09:00 – Blick in die Küche: Lars über das letzte Teammeeting bei intrinsify und wie Wachstum durch kluge Entstrickung möglich wird14:00 – Verschält – Denkfehler der Woche: Warum triviale Führungstipps in Artikeln wie „Sorgen Sie für Vertrauen“ nicht helfen – und wie sich echte Führung stattdessen entwickeln lässt.

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Send us a textNach dem späten Unentschieden gegen den VfB Stuttgart II und der großen Runde im letzten Podcast trifft sich diese Mal eine Rumpftruppe mit Ersatzmoderator Peter. Als Gäste sind mit Flo und Thomas Enn dieses Mal zwei Redaktionsmitglieder mit dabei. Gemeinsam besprechen sie vor allem das Spiel im GWS, blicken aber auch voraus auf die dritte Runde im Toto-Pokal in und gegen Illertissen. Am Ende ergibt sich noch ein kurzer Exkurs in die Welt der Würste und der Metal-Musik.Ein Punkt in der Nachspielzeit gegen StuttgartDie Führung der jungen Schwaben aus der ersten Hälfte egalisierte Sigurd Haugen in der letzten Minute der Nachspielzeit. Schlussendlich teilten sich der VfB Stuttgart II und der TSV 1860 München am Samtag im Grünwalder Stadion die Punkte. Über alle Einzelheiten rund um die Partie sprechen in Folge #226 Thomas Enn, FloBu und Peter. Dazu gehört nicht nur das fußballerische Geschehen auf dem Platz, sondern auch die Stimmung sowie die viel diskutierte Schiedsrichterleistung. Auch die Stimmung im Löwenkosmos wird zum Thema.Vorschau FV Illertissen: Toto-Pokal beim TitelverteidigerAbschließend geht es wie gewohnt um den nächsten Gegner und das ist in diesem Fall der FV Illertissen. Zum 3.Mal treffen die Niedersachsen und die Kampfmannschaft der Löwen aufeinander. Bislang spricht die Gesamtbilanz für den TSV 1860. Im letzten Aufeinandertreffen im Pokal musste man sich aber geschlagen geben, was sich tief ins Gedächtnis der Sechzig-Fans eingebrannt hat. Ob die Sorgen vor den Pokal-Experten berechtigt ist, wird sich am Samstag ab 14 Uhr (sechzger.de Liveticker) zeigen.Der sechzger.de Talk #226 als Video und PodcastOb Video oder Audio - den sechzger.de Talk gibts für Auge und/oder Ohr. Um keine Folge zu verpassen, könnt Ihr uns natürlich gerne auf YouTube bzw. diversen Podcast-Plattformen abonnieren:SpotifyApple PodcastsSelbstverständlich freuen wir uns auch über jede positive Bewertung, über Kommentare und über Eure Verbesserungsvorschläge.Vielen Dank für Zuhören! Wir freuen uns, wenn ihr uns abonniert und natürlich auf eure Bewertungen sowie Rückmeldungen :-)Hier gehts zur Homepage von sechzger.de! So könnt ihr unsere Arbeit unterstützen. Der sechzger.de Talk auf Youtube

In this episode host Marc Goldberg interviews Rogue Community College (RCC) and Southern Oregon University (SOU) graduate Jahna Thompson, Rogue Community College president, Dr. Randy Weber and Director, Postsecondary Success at The Ford Family Foundation, Denise Callahan. Jahna emphasizes the value of strong faculty mentorship and advising from her student experience at both Rogue Community College and SOU with a unique lens of having taught in her field of study at both institutions as a faculty/professor over the past year. She elaborates on her academic journey that began taking GED prep classes at RCC and after completing her Bachelor's and Master's degrees, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Immunology & Infectious Disease at Washington State University.President Weber reflects on Jahna's interview and describes specific college efforts through responsive programming, student supports and community partnerships that have helped increase enrollment and improve retention and completion outcomes for students, including those who enter the college taking adult education courses. Denise highlights the Foundation's impactful postsecondary education work across Oregon,  particularly in rural communities, through Foundation investments, scholarships and research. She describes how the Foundation's work supporting over 1000 postsecondary education students annually across Oregon through scholarships helps inform the organization's policy and research work and shares more on the recently released Oregon by the Numbers report by the Foundation that offers a detailed profile for each of Oregon's 36 counties. The All In: Student Pathways Forward podcast is a part of Oregon's participation in the National Skills Coalition SkillSPAN network.

It's Lerxst Day! Alex Lifeson turns 72, and what better way to mark the occasion than to let him completely hijack our wheel with the addition of all 11 glorious, weird, and wonderful tracks from 1996's Victor. Because of course he wasn't content to just chase tones and deliver bizarre spoken-words in live settings (and under bags) in Rush — he had to release an album that's part prog fever dream, part jazz club, part stand-up routine, and somehow all Alex. Bubbles is a HUGE fan of this record, we think...And as fate, or the Wheel would have it, we land on “At The End” — the brooding “death song.” Perfect for his birthday, right? Somewhere, Lerxst is raising a glass, laughing his head off, and probably playing Strip and Go Naked just to mess with us.So here's to you, Alex Zivojinovich..er, Lifeson. Happy 72nd, Lerxst! (Assuming Schatz got the math right…)SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDSScratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here: Schatz's Scratch List ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(And say it 5 times fast!)ABOUT THE SHOWThe show...it's a quick fix to help soothe your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushRash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - your itch to hear Rush music - get a dose of new tunes by Ged and Al with your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushRash ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠clinicians, Chaz N Schatz.A random choice wheel of Alex's post-Rush sthuph, with Geddy's solo record thrown in for good measure. We hoist a shot in memory of The Professor, and proceed to listen to whatever we spin.The Scratch List - go see these bands and scratch that itch to hear Rush music live!Rush news, general nonsensical disorderly conduct, lack of regard for correctness or truth, and reckless endangerment of your whole-brain. This is one of two podcasts dedicated to increasing opioid release in your anterior insula, your anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and your posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), in addition to the basal ganglia and the thalamus...and all that implies.  Blah, blah...RushRash. 

In this episode of The Attacking Scrum, host Ged is joined by author and rugby writer Seimon Williams to tackle the WRU's controversial proposal to cut the number of professional teams in Wales down to just two. Will this bold restructure strengthen the men's national team or gamble away the game's future? We explore whether Dave Redding is betting it all on this plan, the potential impact of Super Rygbi Cymru, and what the changes could mean for the women's game in Wales. Essential listening for anyone who cares about the future of Welsh rugby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our guest this time, Elizabeth Gagnon is all about Tea. However, as you will discover, her Tea is not mostly the drink although at the end of our episode we do learn she does like some teas. For Miss Liz, as she is most commonly known, Tea stands for Teaching Educational Awareness.   Miss Liz's life growing up was hard. She was sexually abused among other things. It took her awhile to deal with all the trauma she faced. However, as she and I discuss, she made choices to not let all the abuse and beatings hold her back.   She tried to graduate from high school and was one course away from that goal when she had to quit school. She also worked to get her GED and again was only a few units away when life got in the way.   Liz's story is not to her a tragedy. Again, she made choices that helped her move on. In 2010 she began her own business to deal with mental health advocacy using her Tea approach. Liz will tell us all about Tea and the many iterations and changes the Tea model has taken over the years.   I am as impressed as I can be to talk with miss Liz and see her spirit shine. I hope you will feel the same after you hear this episode.   Miss Liz has written several books over the past several years and there are more on the way. Pictures of her book covers are in the show notes for this episode. I hope you enjoy hearing from this award-winning lady and that you will gain insights that will help you be more unstoppable.     About the Guest:   Elizabeth Jean Olivia Gagnon, widely known as Miss Liz, is an international keynote speaker, best-selling author, and the visionary behind Miss Liz's Tea Parties and Teatimes. A fierce advocate for mental health, abuse awareness, and peacebuilding, she's recognized globally for her storytelling platforms that empower individuals to share their truths “one cup at a time.” From podcast host to humanitarian, Miss Liz uses her voice and lived experience to ignite real change across communities and cultures.   A survivor of extreme trauma, Miss Liz has transformed her pain into purpose by creating safe spaces for open, healing conversations. Her work has earned her prestigious honors, including an Honorary Doctorate for Human Rights, the Hope and Resilience Award, and the World Superhero Award from LOANI. She's been featured on over 200 platforms globally and continues to lead through her podcast, social impact work, and live storytelling events.   Miss Liz is also a multi-time international best-selling co-author in the Sacred Hearts Rising and Unstoppable Gems book series. She's the creator of the TeaBag Story Award and the founder of her own T-E-A product line—Teaching Educational Awareness through fashion, wellness, and personal development tools. With every word, event, and product, Miss Liz reminds us that healing is possible, and that we all hold the power to be a seed of change.   Ways to connect with Elizabeth:   Social media links my two websites www.misslizsteatime.com www.misslizstee.com All my social media links can be found on those sites. Or my linktree.  https://linktr.ee/Misslizsteatime     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to talk to Miss Liz Gagnon, and I'm really interested to hear why she likes to be called Miss Liz instead of Elizabeth, or any of those kinds of things. But Liz also has some very interesting connections to tea, and I'm not going to give away what that's all about, but I'll tell you right now, it's not what you think. So we'll, we'll get to that, though, and I hope that we get to have lots of fun. Over the next hour, I've told Liz that our podcast rule, the only major rule on this podcast is you can't come on unless you're going to have fun. So I expect that we're going to have a lot of fun today. And Liz, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We are glad you're here.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:09 Well, thank you so much, Michael for having me. It's an honor to be here. I can't wait to dip into the tea and get everybody curious on what we're going to be spilling. So,   Michael Hingson ** 02:19 so how did you get started with the the name Miss Liz, as opposed to Elizabeth or Lizzie or any of that kind of stuff.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:28 Well, I have all those names too, Michael, I'll bet you   Michael Hingson ** 02:31 do. But still, Miss Liz is what you choose.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:35 Actually, Miss Liz was given to me at the age of four the same time my cup of tea was given to me at the age of four by my Oma. I that she just had a hard time saying Elizabeth. She was from Germany, so she would just call me Miss Liz. Miss Liz. And then I knew, Oh boy, I better move, right.   Michael Hingson ** 02:52 Yeah. If she ever really got to the point where she could say Elizabeth, very well, then you really better move.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:59 Well, she used to call me Elvira too, and I didn't like that name Elvira. Yeah, I don't know how she got Elizabeth from a viral but she used to call me a vira. I think maybe it was because her name was Avira, so I think it was close to her name, right? So, well,   Michael Hingson ** 03:17 tell us a little bit about the early Miss Liz, growing up and all that stuff, and little bit about where you came from and all that.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 03:25 Well, I come from a little town called Hearst, Ontario in Canada. It's about maybe 6000 population. I'm going to guess. I was born and raised there until the age of I think it was 31 when I finally moved away for the last time, and I've been in the East End, down by Ottawa and Cornwall and all that stuff since 2005 but My early childhood was a hard one, but it was also a strong one. I A lot of people will say, how do you consider that strong? I've been through a lot of abuse and neglect and a lot of psychological stuff growing up and but I had my tea, I had that little Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole that I could go down once in a while, just to keep me moving and keep me strong, right? So, yeah, my story was, was a hard one, but I don't look at it as a struggle. I look at it as as stepping stones of overcoming Stuff and Being that voice that I am today,   Michael Hingson ** 04:29 struggle, if you if you're willing to talk about a struggle, how   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 04:35 I was sexually abused by my uncle at the age of four, and then other family members later on, in couple years later down the road, but my uncle was the main abuser, and I became impregnant by my uncle and lost a daughter to stillborn. So there was a lot of shame to the family. Was not allowed to speak at this child for many, many years, I finally came out with her story. After my father passed, because I felt safe, because my family would put me into psychiatric wards when I would talk about my little girls,   Michael Hingson ** 05:06 wow, yeah, I, I don't know I, I just have very little sympathy for people who do that to girls, needless to say, and now, now my cat, on the other hand, says she's abused all the time, but that's a different story,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 05:25 right? But I strongly believe, Michael, that we all go through challenges and struggles in life to have our story, to be that voice where we are today, like like yourself, right? Had you not gone through what you went through, you would not have the story that you have   Michael Hingson ** 05:42 well, and I think that it also comes down to what you decide to do with the story. You could just hide it, hide behind it, or other things like that. And the problem is, of course, that then you don't talk about it. Now, after September 11, I didn't go through any real counseling or anything like that. But what I did do was I and my wife and I discussed it. We allowed me to take calls from reporters, and literally, we had hundreds of calls from reporters over a six month period. And what was really fascinating for me, especially with the TV people who came. I learned a whole lot about how TV people set up to do an interview. We had a Japanese company with two or three people who came, and that was it up through an Italian company that had 15 people who invaded our house, most of whom didn't really seem to do anything, and we never figured out why were they. They were there. But it's fascinating to see how   06:46 extras, Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 06:49 extra, the extras, yeah, but we but it was very fascinating. But the point was that the reporters asked everything from the most inane, dumb question to very intelligent, wise, interesting questions, and it made me talk about September 11. So I don't think that anything could have been done in any other way that would have added as much value as having all those reporters come and talk to me. And then people started calling and saying, We want you to come and talk to us and talk to us about what we should learn from September 11 lessons we should learn talk about leadership and trust in your life and other things like that. And my wife and I decided that, in reality, selling life and philosophy was a whole lot more fun and rewarding than managing a computer hardware sales team and selling computer hardware. So I switched. But it was a choice.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 07:48 Yeah, it is a choice, right? Michael, do you, do you stay in the self pity, or do you rise from it, right? And a lot of people were like, Miss Liz, how can you be so good hearted and open to people that have hurt you so bad? And I always said, since I was a little girl, Michael, I would not give anybody what others gave me. Yeah, you know that that little inner girl in me always said, like, you know what it feels like. Would you like somebody else to feel this way? And the answer is no.   Michael Hingson ** 08:16 And with people like your uncle, did you forgive them ever? Or have you,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 08:21 I forgive them for myself. Yeah, I that's how you do. You know, I'm not forgiving you and coming for your Sunday dinner and having roast beef and pretending that it was all fun and games. When I was younger, I had no choice to forgive him and to be around him, because that's how my parents were. You know, don't bring shame to the family and as a minor. Well, you you know you obey your parents and that, and I hate that word, obey I hear. You know, I grew up in a time where you respect your elders, right? Whether they were good or bad, you respected them. It was Yes, sir, yes, ma'am. You know whether they hurt you or not, you just respected these people. Do I? Do I have respect for them today, absolutely not. I pray for them, and I hope that they find peace within themselves. But I'm not going to sit in and apologize to somebody who actually doesn't give to to tune darns of my my apology, right? So my words?   Michael Hingson ** 09:23 Well, the the bottom line is that respect is something that has to be earned, and if they're not trying to earn it, then you know, why should you respect? On the other hand, forgiveness is something that you can do and and you do it and you move on, yeah, and   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 09:40 a lot of people don't understand the real forgiveness, right? They always tell me, Miss Liz, you haven't forgiven anybody. And I said, Yes, I have, or I wouldn't be where I am today, guys, yeah, if I wouldn't have forgiven those people for myself, not for them.   Michael Hingson ** 09:55 Now, see, that's the difference between people and my cat. My cat has no self pity. She's just a demanding kitty, and I wouldn't have her any of that. Oh, she's she's really wonderful. She likes to get petted while she eats. And she'll yell at me until I come and pet her, and then she eats while I'm petting her. She loves it. She's a cutie. She's 15 and going on two. She's great.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 10:17 Oh, those are the cute ones, right? When they stay young at heart, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:21 oh, she, she does. So my wife passed in 2022, and now stitch, that's the cat's name, sleeps up next to me. And so that works out well, and she was named stitch when we got her, not quite sure where the name originally came from, but we rescued her. We were not going to keep her. We were going to find her a home because we were living in an apartment. But then I learned that the cat's name was stitch, and I knew that that cat weren't going to go nowhere, because my wife had been a quilter since 1994 you think a quilter is ever going to give up a cat named stitch? So stitch has been with us now for over 10 years. That's great. Oh, wow. And there's a lot of love there,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 11:03 yeah. And, you know, these little connections, right? The Universe sends us, you know, the names and all of that. They send us pets as well as guidance. You know, my little guy is Tinkerbell, and everybody thinks that she's still a kitten. She she's going to be 12 in September, so, but she's still a little tiny thing. She kept the name. She just wants to be a little Tinkerbell. So   Michael Hingson ** 11:24 that's cool. What a cute name for a kitty. Anyway, yeah, well, so you, you grew up? Did you go to to college or university?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 11:34 No, I got out of school. I was half a credit away from high school graduation. I became pregnant for the second time, and then I got married at 18. While it was more or less I was I had no choice to get married or or I would have, my father would have took my daughter from me, my oldest, who is alive, and I I had already lost one, and I wasn't losing a second one. So I got married. I did go back to adult school in 2000 I got I was one exam away from getting my GED, and that night, I got a beating of a lifetime from my ex husband, because he didn't want me to get ahead of him, right? So, and then I went back again to try and get my GED three other times, and I was always four points away from getting what I needed to get it. So I was just like, You know what? The universe doesn't want me to have this piece of paper, I guess. Yeah, and I'm not giving up, right? I'm just it's not the right timing and maybe in the future, and it's always the y and s string that gets me the four point question guys on the math exam that gets me every time, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 12:49 oh, well. Well, I always thought that my wife, in so many ways, was was ahead of me, and it didn't ever bother me, and it never will bother me a bit, just things that she would say, creative things, just clever things. She clearly was ahead of me, and I think she felt the same way about me in various ways, but that's what made for a great marriage. And we we worked off each other very well, and then that's kind of the way it really ought to be. Oh boy, ego, ego gets to be a real challenge sometimes, though, doesn't   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 13:24 it? Oh yes, it does. So   Michael Hingson ** 13:27 what did you do when you didn't go off and end up going to school?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 13:32 I became a mom, and then I did the mom role, right? I grew up in a kind of like a redneck, hillbilly kind of family where the accent kind of kicks in once in a while. You know, it was barefoot and pregnant, you take care of the kids, cook and clean and be the wife and just obey. Once again, that word obey. You know, I grew up with that word a lot, and that's why you don't like that word. I'm surprised I'm even using it tonight. But, yeah, so it was just take care of the family and just live. And eventually, in 2005 a lot of things happened with my children and myself, and we just left and started a new life. In 2006 I felt ill. I was at work, and my left arm went numb, and I thought I was having a heart attack or or that they were checking me since I was little, for MS as well, because I have a lot of problems with my legs. I fall a lot, so we're still looking into that, because I'm in the age range now where it can be diagnosed, you know, so we're so in 2006 I became ill, and I lost feelings from my hips down where I couldn't walk anymore. So I had to make some tough choices, and I reached out to my family, which I kind of. Figured I'd get that answer from them. They told me to get a backbone and take care of my own life and stop because I moved away from everybody. So I turned to the foster care system to help me with my children, and that was a hard choice. Michael, it took me two and a half months. My children sat down with me and said, Mommy, can we please stay where we are? We we have friends. You know, we're not moving all the time anymore. I saw it took a while, and I signed my kids over legal guardianship, but I made a deal with the services that I would stay in the children's lives. I would continue their visits twice a month, and be at all their graduations, be at their dance recital, anything I was there. I wanted my children to know that I was not giving up on them. I just was not able to take care of them in my   Michael Hingson ** 15:50 home. Did they accept that?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 15:53 Oh, they did, yeah, and it was a bumpy road. The first five years. Was a lot of adjusting, and we were really close. I got to pick the foster homes, which is not usually the way it works. So and my children went through a lot of abuse as well. My ex husband was very abusive, so I knew that my daughter needed to be around horses. She loved to be around horses, so I found her home that had horses. And my other two children, I found a home where they had music, and music was really important to me, because music is what saved me as well during my journey, right? I turned to music to to get through the hard times. So yeah, the first five years was it was adjustments, and really good, and we got along. And after that the services changed, new workers came in, and then it became a nightmare. There was less visits happening. There was an excuse for a visit. There was oh, well, maybe we can reschedule this, or if we do them at five in the morning, can you show up? And of course, I was showing up at five and going to bed as soon as the visit was done, because I was by myself, so it was a journey, but and I I am grateful for that journey, because today me and my older kids, who are adults, were really close, and we're building that bond again, and they understand the journey that Mom had to take in order for them to have a home.   Michael Hingson ** 17:24 They understand it and accept it, which is really obviously the important thing,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 17:30 yeah. But it's been, it's been rocky. Michael, like, you know, we've had our ups and downs. We've had like you You gave up on us. Like, you know, we've had those moments. But my children now becoming adults and becoming parents themselves. They see that. They see what mom had to do, right?   Michael Hingson ** 17:47 So are you able to walk now and move around?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 17:51 Oh, yeah, I was. It took about six months for me to learn how to walk again. I still have a limb from time to time. A lot of people call it my penguin little limp, because I limped like a little penguin from time to time, because my what happened is I went through so much trauma in my life constantly that I they diagnosed me with conversion disorder, which is not really well known to to a lot of people. And what it does is it shuts the body down, so I have no control over when my body says it's going to take a break. It just says I'm going on holidays, and you just gotta deal with it. So there's days where I can't walk, right? There's days where I can't talk. It sounds like I'm drunk. My sight is blurred, plus I'm already losing my sight because of genetic jerusa and stuff like that as well. So, but I mean, it took everything in me to push myself. And what pushed me was I had this nurse that was really rough with me, and she would give me these sponge baths, and she would slam me into the chair. And I told her, I said, next week, you will not be slamming me in that chair. And the next week I got up and I took three steps, and then the next couple hours, it was four, five steps, six steps. And I was like, I got this. I know I can do this, but it took six months, Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 19:15 but still, ultimately, the bottom line is, no rugby or American football for you. Huh? Nope. Okay.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 19:24 No, not you know, not yet. Anyway, well, maybe you never know, right? I'm still young. I'm only 51 you never know what I'm going to be doing next year. I always tell everybody, Miss Liz is always on an adventure.   Michael Hingson ** 19:36 So yeah, but I'm I'm not, I'm not an advocate of going off for rugby or football, but that's all right, do whatever works.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 19:42 Well, I'd like to watch football   19:45 that's different. I'd like to   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 19:47 check those boys out once in a while. Well, yeah, but yeah, no, I You just never know where I'm gonna go, right? Only the good universe knows where it's putting me next   Michael Hingson ** 19:58 year. So, so what kind. Of work. Did you did you do and, and what are you doing now? How to kind of one lead to the other?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 20:08 Actually, I started my business in 2015 of Miss Liz tea times. It was a fundraising Tea Party, but it started in my home. All I did was have a bunch of ladies over and celebrate strong women. And one lady really liked the layout that I did, and she's like, Can we do this in the community? I was like, I don't know. Let's try it. You know, if we don't try, we don't know. And then I went to the community for, I think, three years, we raised over $5,000 for different services that helped me along the way as well, and places that needed money for serving the community. And then we went virtual. When covid hit. The podcast came along, and I did that for five years, and I burnt myself out doing that. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl, so you either get nothing at all, or you get it all at once. So and and now I'm I've been writing and working on stuff and working on an E commerce business with a new way of serving tea, keeping people on their toes and wondering what's coming next. Uh, children's book is coming out soon. Uh, poultry book. So I've just been busy writing and doing a lot of different things.   Michael Hingson ** 21:14 What did you do before 2015 for worker income? Or did you   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 21:18 I worked in gas stations, chambermaid kind of stuff like that, something that wasn't too educated, because my ex husband didn't like that stuff, right? Don't try and be a leader. Don't try and be in the big business world. I'm sure he's his head is spinning now, seeing all the stuff that I'm doing, but that's on him, not me. So, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 21:41 yeah, absolutely, alright, let's get to it. Tell me about tea.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 21:49 Well, tea, tea started at four, and it was my OMA that gave me a cup of tea. And everybody thinks it's the beverage. It's not the beverage. We did have a cup of tea. So there is a beverage, there is a beverage involved. But she gave me words, and when I was little, I didn't understand these words. She said, reflect, recharge and release. And she came from the war in Germany, and she said the first thing I had was a cup of tea when I came to Canada, and she just knew that I was going to have a hard life. She knew that the family was kind of, you know, they had their sicknesses and addictions and stuff like that, so she just knew. And I was a quiet kid. I was always in the corner humming and rocking myself and doing stuff by myself. I didn't want to be around people. I was really loner. And she gave me these words, and these words resonated with me for years, and then I just kept hearing them, and I kept hearing Tea, tea. I know sometimes I'd be sitting in a room Michael by myself, and I'd be like, Okay, I don't want a cup of tea right now. Like, I don't know what this tea is like, but it was like the universe telling me that I needed to get tea out there. And I knew it wasn't a beverage. I knew it was. OMA gave me words. So we gotta bring words to the table. We gotta bring the stories to the table. She was giving me a story. She was telling me to stay strong, to recharge, to reflect, release all of the stuff that all of these things take right, to overcome stuff. You know, we have to reflect on the journey that we were put on, and recharge ourselves when we overdo ourselves and release, releasing and letting go of things that we know will never, ever get an answer to. So,   Michael Hingson ** 23:32 so you, what did you do with all of that? I mean that those are some pretty deep thoughts. Needless to say.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 23:38 Yeah, so I, I started with the tea time at home, and then when I went to the podcast, I would ask people, What is your tea? And then people were like, Miss Liz, I don't even like tea, like I'm a coffee drinker, or I like a good beer, or I'm just like, Okay, well, you don't even have to like the beverage. Like, it's not about the beverage. It's about our past, our present and our future. That's what the tea is, right? We all have that story. We all have the past, the present and the future, and how we how we look at it, and how we defined our stories, and how we tell our stories. So that's where the T is.   Michael Hingson ** 24:10 But you came up with words for the acronym eventually, yes, yes. When did you do that? And what were the words   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 24:20 I came up with the words I believe in 20, 2016 2017 and for me, it was teaching. I wanted to be a little kindergarten teacher when I was a little girl. So T was teaching right and teaching myself that the past was not going to define my future story. He was educational. I again. I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to educate people. I wanted to educate myself. Even though I didn't have those degrees and I didn't go to school and universities, I could still educate myself. I could still reach out. I could still research. I could still find answers myself. And a was awareness, just bringing awareness that our lives are different and. Can change them, right? Nobody can define how our stories end, except for ourselves. Yeah, and the A, A was awareness, and the awareness that, you know, that we can bring any form of awareness, good, bad or ugly, you know, and I bring a little bit of all of it through my stories, and through, through the the overcoming that I've had, right is, it's an ugly story. There were bad things that happened, but there are good results in the end, yeah, because had I not gone through what I went through, Michael, I would not be here having this conversation with you tonight,   Michael Hingson ** 25:37 or it'd be a totally different conversation, if at all you're right, absolutely. So you you deal a lot with being a mental health advocate, and that's very understandable, because of all of the things that that you went through. But what kind of really made you decide to do that?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 25:58 Mental health advocate was deep in my blood since 2010 when I went to the pharmacy and gave them all my medication and said, I no longer want any of this because they had me so numbed with antidepressants and painkillers and stuff that I didn't even know I had children. People were telling me, your kids are coming for a visit. And I was like, why are you telling me I have kids? Like I'm a kid myself, like I was going backwards. And I didn't know that I was married, that I had children, but my kids names were and I was just like, like, When is mom and dad coming to get me? Like, I was like, I was so messed up, Michael. And I was just like, I'm not doing this anymore. Um, August 29 of 2009 I brought my medication, and I said, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm taking ownership of my life. I'm being the advocate of my life. I do not need these pills. Yes, it will be hard, yes, I've got trauma, but there's another way of doing this.   Michael Hingson ** 26:55 Well, you're clearly a survivor, and you've made choices that demonstrate that by any standards, and obviously a mental health advocate, what do you think are some of the major misconceptions that people have about mental health today that they also just don't seem to want to get rid of?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 27:15 Well, a lot of people have this conception that if you take a pill, it's going to go away. You're healed, you know, and then they get hooked on pills, or they get hooked on this is easy fix, right? Like I said this afternoon in another interview, I did this certain this afternoon. Michael, you know, we get these diagnosis, but doctors don't really sit with us and explain the diagnosis to us, they don't really understand. They don't really explain the side effects of the pills that they're giving us, and then themselves, may not even know the full aspect of those diagnosis. They just put you on a checklist, right? You check A, B, C and D, okay. Well, you have bipolar. You got DCE and you got D ID, like, you know, it's charts, so we're not really taking the time to understand people. And mental health has a long way to go, a lot of a long way to break the stigma as well, because mental illness, most of it, cannot be seen. It cannot be understood, because it's inside the body, right?   Michael Hingson ** 28:23 Yeah. And a lot of people don't want to look and analyze that and try to help truly deal with it.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 28:32 Yeah. A lot of people will judge what they don't understand or what they're scared of understanding,   Michael Hingson ** 28:39 which is why it's fascinating, and we've had a number of people on unstoppable mindset who believe in Eastern medicine and alternative medicine, as opposed to just doing pills. And it's fascinating to talk to people, because they bring such insights into the conversation about the human body, and many of them have themselves, used these alternatives to cure or better themselves, so it makes perfect sense, but yeah, we still don't tend to want to deal with it. Yeah?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 29:17 Well, anything that's uncomfortable, right? We don't want to really face it, right? We want to run from it, or we want to say, Oh, it's fine. I'll get to it next week, and then next week comes to next month, and next month comes to next year, and you're still dealing with the the same trauma and the same pain, right? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 29:35 Well, so tell me about tea time with Miss Liz, because you've developed that. You've brought it into existence, and that obviously also helps deal with the mental health stigma. Tell me about that?   29:50 Well, I just   Michael Hingson ** 29:51 one question, but, well,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 29:53 I just really wanted to meet people, and I wanted to hear their stories, you know, because it gets lonely once in a while. And you're always telling your story, right? So I wanted to get other stories, but I didn't want to just deal with mental health. I wanted to deal with grief and abuse and things, everything that I've lived with, right? And it all goes back to trauma, like all three of them, abuse, grief, mental health, it deals with trauma in some form. And then I got, I got hooked to a bunch of people that found Miss Liz on on the airwaves, and then connected with you, Michael, you were a guest on Tea Time. Yeah, my last season, and, you know, and I got to go down a bunch of rabbit holes with a bunch of cool people. And tea time was just a place for everybody, just to come and share, share what they were doing and why they were doing it, right? So a lot a lot of the questions that I asked was your younger self way? What? How do you see your younger self to your older self, and why are you doing what you're doing today? And a lot of people are writing books because writing saved them through hard times in life as well. And a lot of mental health back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, were not spoken of. You know, it was really hush hush. Oh, that person's just a rebel, or that person's just a little crazy once in a while, or has too much to drink from time to time. So mental health wasn't really spoken about in those those decades, right? So,   Michael Hingson ** 31:27 yeah, and you know, but I hear what you're saying about writing, and you know, I I've written now three books, and I've learned a lot as I write each book, and I think there's a lot of value in it, but also it's more than writing, although writing is is a way to to really do it from the most personal standpoint possible. But as as you've pointed out, talking about it is also extremely important, and talking about whatever, whether it's a bad thing or a good thing, but talking about it as well as writing about it is is valuable, because if we take the time to do all of that, we'll learn a lot more than we think we will well.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 32:13 And there's so many different genres of writing, right? There's horror, there's fiction, there's non fiction, there's children's books, you know, but those are all storytellers too, in a different way.   Michael Hingson ** 32:24 Well, they are and and again, it's the the point is, though, that when you take the time to write, you really have to think about it, probably even more than, sometimes, than people, when they just talk about things. And as you're writing, like I said, you learn a lot no matter what genre of writing you're doing, you're putting yourself into it, and that, in of itself, helps educate and teach you   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 32:53 absolutely, you know, and I learned so much from a lot of the authors that were on Tea Time, You know, little tricks and little ways of making skits and scenes and characters and names for their characters. And I'd be like, well, where'd you get that name? And they'd be like, I don't know what, just a childhood name that was stuck with me for a long time. I really liked meeting authors that wrote their memoirs or stories, because I'm a person that likes truth. I'm a truth seeker. You know, if it doesn't, it doesn't match up. I'm just like, let me ask you more questions. Let me take you down this rabbit hole a little more. So,   Michael Hingson ** 33:35 yeah, well, a lot of people tend to not want to talk about their journey or talk about themselves, and they feel unseen and unheard. How would you advise them? What would you advise them to do?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 33:51 I felt that way for many years. Michael, growing up in the in the situation that I grew up in, right? You did, and I wrote my first book. I was a co author in the Sacred Hearts rising series by compiled by Brenda Hammond in Alberta. And her book, hear me, kept reaching out to me. I kept hearing I didn't even know what the book was. It was just the title was hear me. And I kept saying, I want people to hear me. I want I want to be heard like, I want people to know this, like I'm tired of living in silence, you know, just to keep everybody hush hush, because everybody's comfortable. So I reached out to Brenda, and that's how my writing journey started. Was with Brenda, and I wrote my first chapter in there, and and it just continued to the ripple effect into other books and other anthologies and other people. And I find that the universe is guiding me, like bringing me to the people that I need to see. You know, like meeting you. Michael, like, had I not started a podcast and met Mickey Mickelson, I would have never met you. Michael, so Mm hmm.   Michael Hingson ** 34:54 And he continues to to be a driving force in helping a lot of authors. Absolutely.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 35:00 Absolutely, yeah. I'm not even sure how Mickey found me. We had a video call, and the next thing I knew, we were working together for three years, and I got to meet incredible authors through Mickey. Creative edge, and it's, it was one of the driving force of Tea Time with Miss Liz.   Michael Hingson ** 35:19 I can't remember exactly how I first heard of Mickey, either, but we we chatted, and we've been working together ever since.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 35:29 Yeah, Mickey is pretty awesome. I still keep my eyes on Mickey, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 35:36 and for those who don't know, Mickey is kind of a publicist. He works with authors and helps find podcasts and other opportunities for authors to talk about what they do and to interact with the world.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 35:50 Yeah. And then I got Yeah. And then I got to meet other people that found me on the airwave, through my press releases and through me speaking at different events. I had other people reach out with their authors and their members and all of that. And I got to meet some really incredible people, like I've had doctors on Tea Time. I've had Hollywood directors on Tea Time. I've had best selling authors like yourself Michael, like, you know, I got to meet some really incredible people. And then I got to meet other people as well that were doing movements and orphanages and stuff like that. We reached over 72 countries, you know, just people reaching out and saying, Hey, Miss Liz, can we have tea? And absolutely, let's sit down. Let's see what? Where you gotta go with your tea?   Michael Hingson ** 36:35 So you're in another season of tea time right now. No,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 36:39 I'm not. A lot of people are asking me to come back. I don't know if I will come back. I am working on, like I said, the E commerce drop shipping company for Miss Liz. I'm working on children's book. I'm working on poultry. I'm doing a lot of interviews now for my own books, daytime books and stuff like that. But I am reconsidering coming back maybe for a couple surprise podcast interviews. So   Michael Hingson ** 37:07 well, tell us about the E commerce site, the store.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 37:11 Well, that was supposed to be launched on my birthday. I like to give myself birthday gifts because I'm by myself a lot. So two years ago, I gave myself the tea books for my birthday. And this year I was supposed to give the E commerce drop shipping, where we opened a second branch of Miss Liz's tea, where we changed the letter A to E, so T, E, E instead of T, E, A. But if you look at my OMA, who comes from Germany, T in Germany, is tee, so we're still keeping almost T, we're just bringing it in a different way. And   Michael Hingson ** 37:45 what does it stand for? Do you have definition   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 37:50 of it for the for this T? We have transcend embrace and envision. So transcend beyond the story that we all tell. Embrace Your embrace the journey that you're on and envision your dreams and visions that you can move forward.   Michael Hingson ** 38:07 So how's the E commerce site coming?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 38:11 It's coming along. We got a couple of hiccups. I just want to make sure that everything is good to go. We have over 100 different products, and again, we do not have the tea beverage on the site. So you guys can see that Miss Liz is staying true to herself, that it is not about a beverage, but we do have an inner journey happening. So you'll have to check that out. So we have some some candles and some journals, some fashion that Miss Liz has created. So there's a lot of cool things that you'll see, and then we have some collaboration. So if any of the businesses out there would like to collaborate with missus, because I'm big on collaboration, we can maybe come up with a brand or or a journal or something that we can work two brands together to create a bigger inner journey for people   Michael Hingson ** 39:02 to enjoy. Is the site up.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 39:05 It was up, and we had to take it down because there were some glitches in it, and I wanted to make sure that it so we're hoping that it's going to be going for June 1. I don't like to set dates, because then I get disappointed, right? If something comes up. So it was supposed to be May 17, guys, and I know that a lot of people were looking forward to it. My children were looking forward to it because of the fashion. And there's something for everyone on on the new website, for children, for parent, for mothers, for fathers, for family. So I wanted to make sure that everybody was included.   Michael Hingson ** 39:41 Tell me about some of the fashion things.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 39:44 So we have inner journeys. So I had an eating disorder from the age of 12 Michael, so I had a body image all the time. So I wanted to make sure that we felt beautiful about ourselves. So we have some summer dresses. In there, we have some swimwear. Swimwear was another thing that I didn't really like to wear growing up. I like to be covered a lot. So we and then we have undergarments for people to feel beautiful within themselves. And then we have hoodies and T shirts. But we have messages, little tea messages from Miss Liz.   Michael Hingson ** 40:23 Now, are most of these fashion things mainly for women, or are there some men ones on there as well?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 40:28 No, we have men. Men have stories too. So there, there's, I thought. So, yeah, we have men in there. We and we have, I'm really big on having men share their stories, because I have a son. I've said this on many platforms. I would want my son to have the same services that his mother has. So of course, there's a men where in there, there are children's wear in there as well, and there's some puzzles and some diamond art and all of that. So there's a little bit of everything in there.   Michael Hingson ** 41:00 So how do you use all of the different mechanisms that you have to promote awareness? I think I know the answer to this, but I'd like you to tell how you're promoting awareness, mental health and otherwise awareness.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 41:15 I think the way that I'm promoting myself and my brand, Michael is just show up and be yourself, believe in yourself and stay true to yourself, be your real tea, you know. And the way that I'm branding and marketing it is, I'm breathing different. So when you hear tea, you think the beverage right away. Well, then when you hear Miss Liz, you know, Miss Liz is not bringing a beverage. So right over the way you're getting different, right? And I like to keep people on your toes, because they think that they might know what's coming, but they don't know same as, like the fashion, where you might think you know what's coming, but then you'll be like, Whoa. This is not what I was thinking.   Michael Hingson ** 41:54 And you and you put as you said, sayings and other things on there, which help promote awareness as   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 41:59 well. Absolutely, yeah, and it's simple phrases that I use all the time. You tell me, I can't, and I'll show you I can. You know, it lives in you. These are some of the brand messages that I have on my on my merchandise. Also, men have stories too simple phrases. You know that we just gotta make awareness. It's so simple sometimes that we overthink it and we overdo it, that we just gotta keep it simple.   Michael Hingson ** 42:28 Mm, hmm. Which? Which make perfect sense? Yeah. So you, you talk a lot about mental health. Have we made improvements in society regarding mental health, and how do we do more to represent marginalized voices? Oh,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 42:50 we got lots of work to do. Michael, we're not even close, you know, we're just on the touch of the iceberg for mental health. We have all these organizations that are competing with each other instead of collaborating. I think we would really make a huge difference if we started working together instead of against each other. Or my service is better than your service. Let's start just collaborating together and working together as one. You know that all this division in the mental health world is what's causing the distractions and the delays in services and and getting help? You know, I think we just need to start working together. And collaboration is not weakness. It's not taking somebody else's product away. It's working together. It's teamwork. And I think we need more teamwork out there.   Michael Hingson ** 43:41 We also need to somehow do more to educate the governments to provide some of the funding that they should be providing to help this process.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 43:51 Absolutely, and I think the statuses need to really be looked at. They're not even close.   Michael Hingson ** 43:59 Yeah, I I agree there, there's a long way to go to to deal with it,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 44:04 absolutely. You know, just throwing numbers out there to have numbers, but not actually getting the real factual information out there can cause a lot more damage.   Michael Hingson ** 44:17 So if you could shift one mindset regarding mental health, what would it   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 44:24 be? Oh, good question. Michael, hmm, that we're not alone, okay, because a lot of people with mental illness think they're alone, but we're actually not alone. There's, there's a lot of people out there that are feeling the same thing as us,   Michael Hingson ** 44:47 and that's a mindset that people have, that we need to to deal with. We need to change. We need to teach people that the reality. Is there a lot of people, whether they've experienced the same things as as any individual has or not, isn't the issue. But there are a lot of people who do want to be more welcoming, and there are a lot of people who could learn to be more welcoming than they are   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 45:18 absolutely Well, I think it starts with a conversation, right? Having these conversations, a lot of people don't want to talk about mental health because they don't want to know the truth. They just want to know what society says, right, what the system say, what the services say, but they're not actually advocating for themselves. I think if we all started advocating for our mental health, we would make the impact and the change as well,   Michael Hingson ** 45:45 yeah, but we need to really, somehow develop a collective voice and Absolutely, and that's part of the problem. I know that with the world of disabilities in general, the difficulty is that, although it is probably well, it is one of the largest minorities, maybe the second largest in the world, depending on whether you want to consider women the minority. Although there are more women than men, or men the minority, the reality is that the difficulty is that there are so many different kinds of disabilities that we face and some that we don't even recognize. But the problem is that everyone totally interacts within their own disability to the point where they don't find ways to work together nearly as as much as they can. And it doesn't mean that each disability isn't unique, because they are, and that needs to be addressed, but there's a lot more power if people learn to work together   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 46:46 exactly. I'm with you, with that, Michael, because there's so many disabilities that you don't see right, that you don't hear about, somebody will talk about a new diagnosis that nobody knows about or is unaware of, like when I, when I talk about conversion disorder, a lot of people don't know about it, and I'm just like, check it out. You know, I'm a lady that actually has crazy papers, so if I go a little crazy on people, I can get away with it. I got the paper for it, right? So, but the thing is, the doctors, they they need more education as well. They need to be educated as well, not just the society, not just the public, but also the doctors that are working in those   Michael Hingson ** 47:29 fields. There's so many examples of that. You know, website access for people with disabilities is a major issue, and we don't teach in most schools, in most places where we where we have courses to instruct people on how to code, we don't really make making websites inclusive and accessible a major part of the courses of study, and so the result is that we don't tend to provide a mechanism where people shift their mindset and realize how important it is to make sure that their websites are fully inclusive to all. It's the same kind of concept. Yeah.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 48:12 Well, I think we all could learn a little bit more, right when we when we all get to this point where we we've learned everything. I think that's where society gets ignorant towards disability, right? You know, living with disability myself, Michael, I've had a lot of people say, Well, you look fine. There's nothing wrong with you. Why? Why? Why you like this? You know, why? And my answer is, why are you that way? Why are you judging something you're not seeing? You know, it's just like in grief, you don't see grief. It lives within us. You don't see abuse. The person is usually living within a home that is told what happens in the home. Stays in a home, you know, or they they try to mask it and hide the real truth, right? Yeah, and that, and that's a form of trauma as well, because we're being told to hush. So then when we start speaking, well, then we start doubting ourselves, right? The self doubt kicks in, oh, maybe I shouldn't say that, or I shouldn't do that, or I shouldn't, you know, be there. So you start to self doubt everything. I did that for many years. I self doubt why I was in a room with a bunch of people, or why I was speaking at that event, or why I wrote in that book, or and then I was just like, You know what? I am enough, and we all are enough, and we all can be seen in a different light. My   Michael Hingson ** 49:41 favorite example illustrating some of what you're talking about is that I had a phone conversation with someone once, and arranged for them to come to our apartment. I was on campus at the time, living in an on campus apartment, and the guy came out that afternoon, and I answered the door and he said, I'm looking for Michael Hinks. And I said, I'm Michael. Hanks, and his comment was, you didn't sound blind on the telephone. Now, I've never understood what it means to sound blind, but whatever. Wow. Yeah, it's, it's amazing, you know. And I was polite enough not to say, Well, you didn't sound stupid on the phone either. But yeah,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 50:22 right, that that would, that would be something I would say. Now, back in the day, I was a little mouse, now I'm a lion, and I'm just like, oh, yeah, right. Like, tap for Taft man, like,   Michael Hingson ** 50:33 Well, yeah, but there, there are ways to deal with things like that. But it, it still worked out. But it was just an amazing thing that he said, yeah,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 50:43 it surprises me what some people say. Sometimes I'm just like, Really, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 50:50 So you've done well, a lot of international speaking. Where have you traveled to speak?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 50:55 I spoke in Detroit in 2020, 20 or 2021, I can't remember the year Michael, but I spoke at the Sean fair tour, and I spoke on tea, of course, and my journey, and my story and my journey on how I'm just a different woman who wants to come to the table and make a difference. I just want to show people that if as long as we're trying, we can make a difference, as long as we're showing up, tired, broke, frustrated, we're making a difference, you know? And that's, that's my message to everybody, is just show up, just be you, and not everybody needs to like you, you know. I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I don't want to be everyone's cup of tea.   Michael Hingson ** 51:38 Mm, hmm. You can only do and should only do what you do, yeah, but   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 51:44 And yeah. And then I'll be speaking in October. I just spoke at an event here in Cornwall, in my local area, for empowered to recovery with Jay Bernard. Bernard, and in October, I'll be speaking in North Bay for an elementary student, my sister and she actually went to school with my sister. She actually found me through my books. And she's she runs this youth group, and she'd like me to go speak to the youths on empowerment and and and the tea, of course,   Michael Hingson ** 52:16 always worth talking to kids. It's so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. And the neat thing about the most neat thing about speaking to children is there's so much more uninhibited. They're not afraid to ask questions, which is so great.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 52:32 I love questions like, I I love when I talk to people and they have some questions like, What? What is this tea that you keep talking about? And I'm just like, the tea is just the grab guys. It's just to get you hooked. It's like going fishing and catching a good fish, like, I put the hook in the water, and you all come and you join and you have a tea with me.   Michael Hingson ** 52:56 But still, children are so much more uninhibited. If, if I deliver a talk, mainly to kids, even kindergarten through sixth or seventh grade, they're much more open to asking questions. Sometimes they have to be encouraged a little bit. But boy, when the questions start, the kids just keep coming up with them, which is so great.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 53:20 Great. It's that ripple effect that first person to break the ice, to ask the first question, and then it just rolls.   Michael Hingson ** 53:26 It's a lot harder with adults to get them to to do that. Yeah, and it is. It is, even then, though, when adults start to ask questions, and the questions open up, then we get a lot of good interactions, but it is more of a challenge to get adults to open and ask questions than it is children. And it's so much fun because you never know what question a child is going to ask, which is what makes it so fun, too, because there's so much more uninhibited   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 54:01 and the imagination of a child. I love speaking like what my granddaughter, she's four, and the conversations we have about dragons and tooth fairies and and good monsters, because I don't like bad monsters, she knows grandma doesn't like bad monsters, so we talk about good monsters. And it's just the stories, the imagination, that opens up new, new ways of seeing things and seeing life. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 54:29 you've gotten a number of awards, humanitarian awards, and and other kinds of awards. Tell me a little bit about those.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 54:36 Honestly, Michael, I don't know how I got those awards. I was just being myself, and I guess a lot of people nominated me for stuff, and they were just like, you gotta check this. Miss Liz out, you know, and even some awards, I'm just like, Why me? You know, all I did was be myself. I'm grateful for them, I and I appreciate the awards. But. I don't, I don't want to be known for the awards, if that makes any sense.   Michael Hingson ** 55:03 Mm, hmm, I understand well, but you've been successful. What does success mean to you?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 55:10 Success means showing up for myself.   Michael Hingson ** 55:14 Tell me more about that.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 55:17 Of course. You know, success is different for everybody, right? Some people want the million dollars they want. They want the best seller they want. You know, they want the big business. They want the big house. For me, success is just showing up. Growing up. Nobody showed up for me. So I knew at a young age I had to show up for myself, and that was my success story. Was just showing up. There's days I really don't want to be here. I'm just tired of showing up, but I still show up tired, you know. So that's my success story, and I think that's going to be my success story until the day I die. Michael is just show up.   Michael Hingson ** 55:58 Well, there's a lot to be said for showing up, and as long as you do show up, then people get to see you, right? Yeah, which is, which is the whole point. And again, as we talked about earlier, that's the choice that you made. So you decided that you were going to show up and you were going to be you, and you also talk about it, which is, I think, extremely important, because so many people won't, not a criticism. But last year, I spoke at the Marshfield, Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival in April of 2024 and it was a and every year they hold this festival, and it's a celebration of American history. One of the people there was a secret service agent who rode in the car right behind JFK when he was assassinated, and it took him 45 years before he could talk about it. It was that traumatic for him, and he just wasn't able to move on. Eventually he was able to talk about it, and he was at the festival, as I was last year, and did speak about it. But it's it is hard, it is a major endeavor and effort to make the choice to show up, to to face whatever you have to deal with and move on from it or move on with it. I, you know, I talk about Karen, my wife passing, and I will never say I move on from Karen. I continue to move forward, but I don't want to move on. I don't want to forget her Absolutely. And there's a big difference between moving on and moving forward. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. Michael, no, that's it.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 57:45 You know, we look at life differently, right? Different perspectives and, and that's the whole thing with the T is looking at life differently. We all have a past, we all have a present, and we all have a future, right? And it's how we look at our past. Do we stay stuck in our past, like a lot of people are, mislead your in the past? No, I'm not. I speak of the past, but I'm not in the past. I'm in the present moment, and my trauma is real and it's raw, and I'm dealing with it, and I'm healing from it. And the future, I don't know where the future's taking me. I just buckle up and go for the adventure and see where it takes me. If it means writing another book or it means taking a trip or getting a job in a third world country, that's where I go. I'm, you know, moving forward from all of the trauma that I've lived through. I don't want to forget it. Mm, hmm. A lot of people like I would you change anything? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't change a single thing.   Michael Hingson ** 58:45 There's a difference between remembering and being aware of it and being bitter and hating it. And I think that's the important part,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 58:53 yeah. And speaking of the past is not it's not a bad thing. It because the past is part of us, right? We were little kids once upon a time like there, you know, not everything was all bad. There was good moments. You know, there was more bad times for me than there was good, but there were good moments. I had good memories of spending with my grandparents on the farm and, you know, playing in the wrecked up cars and pretending I was a race car driver and stuff like that, you know, playing in the mud, making mud pies, putting them in the oven. You know, these were good memories that I have, you know, so those are what I hold on to. I hold on to the good stuff. I don't hold on to that heavy stuff.   Michael Hingson ** 59:33 Well, at least at this point, what do you see in the future for Miss Liz   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 59:39 travel? I so want to travel. I, you know, I've traveled the world, well, 72 countries, in this rocking chair. I would like to take this rocking chair in person. I would like to have a stage. I would like to have people come and talk and share their stories on a miss Liz's platform stage. That is the goal for Miss Liz.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:01 To travel and to really meet people from a lot of new and different places,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:00:07 absolutely, and meet all the guests I had on Tea Time. That is one of my goals. So when the universe gets on my good side, maybe I'll be traveling and meeting you face to face one day, Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:18 or we'll travel up there when, when we can, I know right now there are many challenges because of our governments putting roadblocks in the way. I've applied to speak at several events in Canada, and I've been told right now, well, the political situation, political situation is such that we can't really bring anybody in from the United States. And, you know, I understand that. I I think that there's so much to add, but I also understand that they don't want to take those chances, and that's fine.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:00:48 Yeah, we've been told the same, no traveling, vice versa. There's so, you know, it will calm itself down. We just got to give it some   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:57 time. It will, you know, it isn't going to go on forever, and we'll just have to deal with it. Well, if you had the opportunity to go back and give your younger Miss Liz some advice, what would it be? Drink More tea. Drink More tea of the liquid kind or the other kind.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:01:17 No. Drink the real stuff like drink, the beverage, drink the real stuff. Like, you know, speaking of tea all the time, you know, my favorite tea is jasmine tea. I wish I could drink more jasmine tea, but when I drink jasmine tea, it brings it brings back a memory of my Uma, and it it's hard for me so but drink more tea, like, actually sit down and have more conversations with OMA and see what else OMA had in   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:44 the back there for her. Yeah. Well, there you go. Well, I, I must say, I've never been a coffee drinker, but I got converted to drinking tea years ago, and I've been doing it ever since. My favorite is PG Tips, black tea, and I can get it from Amazon, so we do it.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:01:59 That's a good one too. Yeah, I'm not a real big tea drinker, but guys, I do know a little bit about tea.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:06 Well, I drink it more because it's a hot drink and it's got less calories than hot chocolate. Otherwise, I would be drinking hot chocolate all the time. But after September 11, I tend to clear my throat a lot, so drinking hot beverages helps, and I've just never liked coffee like I've learned to like tea, so I drink tea.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:02:26 Yeah. What's for you? Yeah, he's good for you. Look what it did to me. It made me who I am today.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:32 There you are in so many ways. Well, I want to than

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Jahrgang 1934, Fernsehntalkmaster, Entertainer und Produzent. Er war der Pionier des Kochshow-Booms im deutschen Fernsehen. Mitte der 90er startete seine Sendung "Alfredissimo". Mit seiner lässigen und unnachahmlichen Art ist der Moderator und Fernsehkoch vielen im Gedächtnis geblieben. Alfred Franz Maria Biolek erblickt im tescheslowakischen Freistadt mitten im Krieg 1934 das Licht der Welt. Seinen Geburtsort, das heutige Karwin, in dem Deutsche, Tschechen, Polen, Schlesier und Juden zusammenleben, empfindet der niedliche Bub mit Sepplhut als Paradies seiner Kindheit, aus dem er früh vertrieben wird. 1946 wird die Familie aus Niederschlesien vertrieben und findet Unterschlupf in Waiblingen bei Stuttgart, wo sein Vater als Rechtsanwalt weiterarbeitet. Der Tod des älteren Bruders und die Schulzeit in den frühen Jahren prägen ihn. Nach dem Abitur 1954 studiert er Jura in Freiburg, München und Wien. Nach dem Staatsexamen arbeitet er in der Kanzlei seines Vaters - wechselt jedoch zu einer größeren Kanzlei und wird Mitglied der Münchner Boheme. 1963 holt ihn das ZDF als Justitziar zu sich. Doch schon bald wechselt er in die Redaktion des Magazins „drehscheibe“ und steigt wenig später als stellvertretender Unterhaltungschef des ZDF auf. Dann aber verläßt Alfred Biolek den Sender und wird Produzent bei der Bavaria Film in München. Berühmte Unterhaltungshows und Talkformate wie “Am laufenden Band mit Rudi Carrel“, „Kölner Treff“, „Bio’s Bahnhof“, „Bei Bio“, „Mensch Meier“ und„Boulevard Bio“ gehen auf sein Konto. Zuletzt kochte er in „alfredissimo“ und gab zahlreiche Kochbücher heraus. Für all das wurde er mit Preisen und Auszeichnungen geehrt. Zudem war er Honorarprofessor an der Kunsthochschule für Medien in Köln und Gründer der „Alfred Biolek Stiftung – Hilfe für Afrika”. Am 23.07.2021 ist Alfred Biolek im Alter von 87 Jahren gestorben. Playlist: Tina Turner - What's Love got to do with it? Sammy Davis Jr. - New York New York Betty Roché singt George Gershwin - Summertime Helen Schneider - Sah ein Knab ein Röslein stehn (Live) Helen Schneider - Just like a Woman Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights W.A. Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte - Ouvertüre Robert Schumann - Träumerei Diese Podcast-Episode steht unter der Creative Commons Lizenz CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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On this week's program, WYCE Station Manager Phil Tower welcomes Jamon Alexander, President + CEO, WMCAT (West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology) Jamon joined WMCAT in 2015 and now leads the organization's work to provide access to opportunity as president & CEO. Previously, he was the director of workforce development at WMCAT, where he spent several years growing WMCAT's Adult Career Training Program.Jamon shared with us how WMCAT provides a culture of opportunity for people to make social and economic progress in their lives and community. They fulfill the mission through visual arts and tech engagement, workforce development, and social enterprise.For years, WMCAT has created access to opportunity for teens, adults, and families through their Arts + Tech programs, through their workforce development programs and career training, and leadership development. Jamon also spoke about WMCAT's unique Step Year programming, which is a unique mix of college and career exploration, self-discovery, and connections to employment pathways in a variety of sectors. Step Year is tuition-free and is open to Kent County adults 18-24 with a high school diploma or GED.Learn more: WMCAT ONLINE

  "What if your biggest career breakthrough started with a failed dream?" In this compelling episode of Kent Hance: The Best Storyteller in Texas, Kent sits down with Vicki Hollub, the trailblazing CEO of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) and the first woman to lead a major U.S. oil company. From her humble beginnings in Bessemer, Alabama, to commanding global energy operations, Vicki shares a deeply personal and inspiring journey of grit, perseverance, and vision. Listeners will be captivated by stories of: Her father's relentless pursuit of carpentry perfection and how it shaped her work ethic. Her mother's magnetic personality and GED triumph, teaching Vicki the power of human connection. A surprising pivot from music to mineral engineering, sparked by a French horn and a brutally honest professor. Her eye-opening assignments in Russia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, revealing the universal values shared across cultures. The bold moves that led to Oxy's dominance in the Permian Basin, and the visionary leadership of Steve Chazen and Armand Hammer. Facing gender bias head-on in the field, and the importance of having advocates—not just mentors—in your corner. With memorable quotes like, “Sometimes we don't tell people how impactful they are to us until they pass away,” and “Trust is such a powerful thing,” this episode is a masterclass in leadership, resilience, and staying true to your values. Whether you're a student, a professional, or just someone who loves a good story, this episode will leave you inspired and energized.

Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft nimmt Andreas Scheuer wegen möglicher Lügen im Maut-Untersuchungsausschuss ins Visier. Das ist gut so, passiert aber reichlich spät und erhellt nur einen winzigen Ausschnitt seines politischen Sündenregisters. Dass der CSU-Mann verurteilt wird und hinter Gittern landet, erscheint leider abwegig. Andernfalls müssten einige mehr prominente Fälle von Gedächtnisverlust im Amt justiziabel werden. WieWeiterlesen

„Hoffen wir, dass bei der nächsten Gedenkfeier in zehn Jahren, 2015, die Erfahrung des GULag in unser kollektives europäisches Gedächtnis eingegliedert worden ist.“ — Jorge Semprún, Buchenwald-Rede 2005 Heute, 20 Jahre später wirkt dieser Satz wie ein dringender Appell: Während die nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen fest im gesellschaftlichen Bewusstsein verankert sind, bleibt die Erinnerung an kommunistische Gewalt bis heute deutlich weniger präsent. Welche Ursachen hat diese Asymmetrie – historisch, politisch, gesellschaftlich? Und was bedeutet das für die europäischen Erinnerungskulturen? Welche Perspektive ist möglich, die weder die Verbrechen des NS-Regimes und die Shoa relativiert noch die Gewaltgeschichte des Kommunismus verharmlost? Wir wollen im Podiumsgespräch aus Anlass der Unterzeichnung des Hitler-Stalin-Pakts vor 86 Jahren der Frage nachgehen, wieso die beiden großen totalitären Ideologien und Regime trotz des Wissens um die Massenverbrechen der kommunistischen Diktaturen so unterschiedlich erinnert und behandelt werden.

Working At Perfekt off Geddy Lee's 2000 solo release My Effin Headache...or My Favorite Headache if you're so inclined.This is a found, lost and recovered episode, dropped out of sequence. You want to hear our big RUSHFest recap episode AFTER this. So if you haven't heard THAT yet, listen on! If you HAVE heard it, listen anyway, as this is a song you probably haven't heard in a while if you're telling the truth.SCHATZ'S SCRATCH LIST - RUSH TRIBUTE BANDSScratch your itch to hear RUSH music played live by going to check out any of these great RUSH Tribute Bands - these bands are keeping the community and the music alive - the most current, curated, and rockin' list of RUSH Tribute Bands in the world! Yeah!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here: Schatz's Scratch List ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(And say it 5 times fast!)ABOUT THE SHOWThe show...it's a quick fix to help soothe your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushRash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - your itch to hear Rush music - get a dose of new tunes by Ged and Al with your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushRash ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠clinicians, Chaz N Schatz.A random choice wheel of Alex's post-Rush sthuph, with Geddy's solo record thrown in for good measure. We hoist a shot in memory of The Professor, and proceed to listen to whatever we spin.The Scratch List - go see these bands and scratch that itch to hear Rush music live!Rush news, general nonsensical disorderly conduct, lack of regard for correctness or truth, and reckless endangerment of your whole-brain. This is one of two podcasts dedicated to increasing opioid release in your anterior insula, your anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and your posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), in addition to the basal ganglia and the thalamus...and all that implies.  Blah, blah...RushRash. 

Joseph Schultze's life looked nothing like the path that would eventually lead him toward prison. Growing up in Binghamton, New York, he had a loving home — but also parents battling cocaine addiction. Forced to take care of them while still a teenager, Joseph dropped out of high school and developed crippling anxiety. A car accident became the turning point that pulled him into painkillers, harder drugs, and a spiral of crime that racked up multiple larceny charges. Facing years behind bars, Joseph took a chance on New York's infamous shock program — a grueling alternative to prison designed to break inmates down physically and mentally. #AddictionRecovery #PrisonStories #ShockProgram #OvercomingAddiction #TrueCrimePodcast #AddictionAwareness #LifeAfterPrison #RecoveryJourney Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Get 50% off the Magic Mind offer here: https://www.magicmind.com/IANB50. #magicmind #mentalwealth #mentalperformance Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Use code LOCKEDIN for 20% OFF Wooooo Energy Buy Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction & Early Addiction 00:50 Meet Joe: Hometown and Upbringing 02:00 Parents' Punk Rock Past & Family Struggles 04:04 Childhood Stories 07:00 Parents' Arrest 09:45 Family History & Normalcy Amidst Chaos 12:26 Dreams for the Future & Sports 13:51 Struggles in School and Dropping Out 14:44 Hitting Rock Bottom in High School 17:17 The GED, New School, and Finding Purpose 18:35 Early Jobs & Anxiety Takes Over 19:37 Battling Severe Anxiety and Isolation 21:18 Emerging from Anxiety 22:26 Family Crises and New Responsibilities 23:54 Balancing Business, Love, and Parental Care 27:32 Becoming a Parent: Breaking the Cycle? 32:30 The Accident That Changed Everything 36:56 Raising a Daughter 40:40 Understanding His Parents 42:58 Losing Prescription Access 45:39 Descent Into Heroin and Selling Possessions 47:59 From Using to Dealing & Living the Fast Life 52:40 Boosting: Shoplifting to Survive 57:07 Life of Boosting: Escalation and Arrests 01:04:04 Legal Trouble: Juggling Charges and Addiction 01:11:49 The Downward Spiral: High-Speed Chases & More Crime 01:18:19 Identity Theft & First Long Jail Stint 01:26:32 Jail, Withdrawal, and Hitting Bottom 01:36:08 Back to the Streets: Meth, Cars & Escalation 01:42:17 Caught Again: The End of Bonnie & Clyde 01:44:55 State Time: Programs & Military Boot Camp 01:56:41 Shock Program: Getting Broken Down to Build Up 02:08:08 Completing Shock & The Path to Recovery 02:13:13 Staying Sober, Rebuilding Life & Family 02:20:00 Lessons Learned & Final Thoughts 02:25:52 Outro & Gratitude Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most agents think more leads = more success. Wrong. The fastest way to fail in real estate is chasing 8+ lead sources and mastering none. In this episode, Brendan Bartic reveals the Expert Listing Lead Funnel—the exact 4-step system top agents use to scale listings without burnout.

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Wir sind im Urlaub. Statt einer neuen Episode präsentieren wir euch daher eine unserer Lieblingsepisoden: In dieser Episode sprechen Janusz und Manuel darüber, welche Momente ihr Leben verändert haben: Janusz erzählt von seiner Flucht aus Polen, seiner ersten Gitarre, seinen ersten Berührungen mit der Philosophie und einem dramatischen Unfall. Manuel spricht über seine Auslandsjahre in den USA und Polen, über seinen ersten Computer und über seinen beruflichen Einstieg bei Easy German.   Transkript und Vokabelhilfe Werde ein Easy German Mitglied und du bekommst unsere Vokabelhilfe, ein interaktives Transkript und Bonusmaterial zu jeder Episode: easygerman.org/membership   Sponsoren Hier findet ihr unsere Sponsoren und exklusive Angebote: easygerman.org/sponsors   Intro Video: Culture Shock: Austria (Easy German Podcast 402 Live in Vienna)   Thema der Woche: Momente, die unser Leben verändert haben We Asked Germans For Moments that Changed Their Life (Easy German 507) How Janusz Escaped From Poland (Easy German 416) Wie Janusz nach Deutschland kam (Easy German Podcast 64) Eure Fragen zu Janusz' Geschichte (Easy German Podcast 65) Vom Lkw-Fahrer zum Medienproduzenten (Easy German Podcast 160)   Wichtige Vokabeln in dieser Episode die Flucht: Aktion, bei der jemand einen Ort schnell verlässt, oft um Gefahr oder Verfolgung zu entkommen etwas prägen: einen starken und dauerhaften Einfluss auf etwas oder jemanden haben einreisen: Betreten eines Landes, oft im Kontext von Reisen oder Migration der Austauschschüler: Schüler, der für eine bestimmte Zeit in einem anderen Land zur Schule geht, um die Kultur und Sprache zu lernen das fotografische Gedächtnis: die Fähigkeit, Bilder, Seiten oder Szenen sehr detailliert und präzise nach nur kurzer Betrachtung zu erinnern sich auskurieren: sich vollständig von einer Krankheit oder Verletzung erholen   Support Easy German and get interactive transcripts, live vocabulary and bonus content: easygerman.org/membership

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Kem. Platinum-selling R&B artist, author of Share My Life

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Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Reverend Dr. Adrian Booth Johnson. Founder of the Woye Bra Initiative under the nonprofit Infinity Global Empowerment. Former executive at Coca-Cola and U.S. Department of Energy. A passionate advocate for women’s empowerment in Africa, especially in Ghana. Known affectionately as “Reverend Granny” in African villages.

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Reverend Dr. Adrian Booth Johnson. Founder of the Woye Bra Initiative under the nonprofit Infinity Global Empowerment. Former executive at Coca-Cola and U.S. Department of Energy. A passionate advocate for women’s empowerment in Africa, especially in Ghana. Known affectionately as “Reverend Granny” in African villages.

In Episode 68, hosts Houston Blackwood and Kailah Dozier talk with David Walters, Vice Chancellor of Adult Education and Correctional Education for the Alabama Community College System to discuss the vital role of adult education in Alabama's workforce development.David shares how programs like the GED, High School Diploma Option Program, and digital literacy certifications are creating new opportunities for adult learners across the state. From improving economic outcomes to supporting justice-involved individuals, this conversation dives into how education and workforce training go hand-in-hand to change lives and build stronger communities.If you're interested in how seamless educational pathways, practical skill-building, and collaboration are shaping Alabama's workforce, this episode is for you.

Con cada página estudiada y cada noche sin dormir, Sarai de los Santos llevaba en su corazón un sueño: graduarse de GED® y ver el brillo de orgullo en los ojos de sus padres. Hoy su historia es un recordatorio de que, cuando amas lo suficiente, no hay obstáculo que pueda detenerte. Escucha toda la entrevista en este episodio del podcast de Comunidad Exitosa.Comienza a estudiar con nuestros cursos de GED aquí: https://www.comunidadexitosahispana.com/ged-por-materiaSíguenos en WhatsApp para que no te pierdas ninguno de nuestras actualizaciones: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9eJdp05MUfIwbY2O3RÚnete a la membresía de este canal para seguir superándote por un costo mínimo:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmphD-POeoQZLGvBYB2u1A/joinSomos un canal cuyo objetivo es ayudar a las personas que viven en Estados Unidos a obtener el titulo de GED.

Was war noch mal das Thema? Ach ja – Insel des Vergessens!  In dieser Folge nehmen wir euch mit auf eine kalifornische Gedächtnisreise mit Justus, Peter und Bob – und nein, wir haben nicht vergessen, warum wir genau diese Folge besprechen: Sie ist der Gewinner unseres Folgen-Votings!  Also bevor auch wir alles vergessen (inklusive dem, was ein Fragezeichen überhaupt ist), haben wir uns sofort hingesetzt, um über André Marx' Folge 186 der drei ??? zu reden. Freut euch auf Spannung, Palmen, Paranoia – und ein paar sehr seltsame Erinnerungslücken. Vielleicht war Olaf einfach nur hungrig? Vielleicht war Tom zu lange im falschen Film? So hat Sebbo das Stroh gelassen? Vielleicht… ach, hört einfach selbst.

Join me on a thrilling journey as we delve into the fascinating world of fantasy legends from the 1960s! In this episode, we're counting down the most iconic protagonists from Ged to Gurgi, exploring their origins, unique qualities, and the impact they've had on modern fantasy. Get ready to revisit the fantastical heroes that shaped a generation. Sit back, relax, and let's embark on this epic adventure through the fantasy legends of the 1960s!#FantasyForTheAges #Fantasy #SFF #FantasyFiction ##BestFantasy  #BookRecommendations #TBR #ReadingRecommendations #booktube #booktuberWant to purchase books/media mentioned in this episode?The Book of Three: https://t.ly/lsJwQThe Castle of Llyr: https://t.ly/c63Q8James and the Giant Peach: https://t.ly/QSb_QKothar — Barbarian Swordsman: https://t.ly/oteCJThe Serpent: https://t.ly/HD1ZUTaran Wanderer: https://t.ly/RgfkgThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen: https://t.ly/9LScXA Wizard of Earthsea: https://t.ly/KMQT4The Wizard of Lemuria: https://t.ly/HyHQXA Wrinkle in Time: https://t.ly/cAK14Ways to connect with us:Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyForTheAges  Follow Jim/Father on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13848336-jim-scriven Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jMWyVJ6qKk Follow us on "X": @Fantasy4theAges  Follow us on Blue Sky: @fantasy4theages.bsky.socialFollow us on Instagram: fantasy_for_the_ages   Follow us on Mastodon: @FantasyForTheAges@nerdculture.de Email us: FantasyForTheAges@gmail.com  Check out our merch: https://www.newcreationsbyjen.com/collections/fantasyfortheagesJim's Microphone: Blue Yeti https://tinyurl.com/3shpvhb4 ————————————————————————————Music and video elements licensed under Envato Elements:https://elements.envato.com/ 

While in prison, Sean chiseled away at his reputation by first earning his GED, a proud moment. Seeking his education, Sean found change uncomfortable but he kept at it and has a success story to tell.

We've had so many new listeners lately, we thought we should share this episode from last year, discussing the most frequently asked questions about homeschooling! Whether you're a homeschooler or know someone who is, people often have a lot of questions about homeschooling. What is it? How does it work? How do homeschooled kids differ from their publicly schooled peers? Today, we're tackling all the most frequently asked questions about homeschooling! SHOW NOTES: Visit our website at www.happyhomeschoolerpodcast.com If you have any questions or comments, please email us at happyhomeschoolpod@gmail.com Visit Transcript Maker and get your 14-day free trial! Like our page and join our group on Facebook! Follow us on Instagram! 00:07:01 - "Is it legal?" 00:10:10 - "How do homeschoolers graduate?" 00:11:50 - "Do you have to have a degree to homeschool?" 00:15:40 - "Should a homeschooler take a GED?" 00:17:33 - "How do homeschoolers get into college?" 00:21:25 - "How do homeschoolers get a diploma?" 00:22:30 - "Can homeschoolers take standardized tests?" 00:25:15 - "What about sports?" 00:26:33 - "Can homeschoolers go to prom?" 00:31:43 - "How do homeschoolers date?" 00:34:17 - "Can I homeschool through high school?" 00:38:50 - "Do I need to keep records and grades?" 00:40:48 - "Will my kid be weird?" 00:45:46 - "What curriculum should I use?" 00:48:41 - "Can I get a tax break for homeschooling?" 00:48:57 - "Do I need to use an accredited homeschooling program?" 00:49:14 - "How much does it cost?" 00:49:31 - "How do I get started?" The Happy Homeschooler Podcast is a Transcript Maker Production. It is hosted by Holly Williams Urbach, Melody Gillum, and Jennifer Jones, produced by Matthew Bass, and edited by Norah Williams. Our logo is by Norah Williams and our music is by The Great Pangolin.

Procrastination does not necessarily stem from laziness or disorganization. Sometimes, we put off important tasks to cope with negative emotions associated with their outcomes–perfectly understandable but highly undesirable when it comes to complex college applications and strict deadlines. Amy and Mike invited education consultant Michelle McAnaney to understand how to manage procrastination in the admissions process. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Why do students procrastinate? Are there any benefits to procrastination? How does procrastination affect the college admissions process? What are the three types of college procrastinators? What can parents do to help their procrastination-prone student manage the task of applying to college? MEET OUR GUEST Michelle McAnaney is the founder of The College Spy, a full service independent educational consulting firm that assists students and families across the US and internationally with the college selection and application process.  Prior to founding The College Spy, Michelle was a school counselor and educator for more than 15 years, including serving as the Director of Guidance at two high schools, an adjunct college professor and a GED tutor. Michelle holds a master's degree in school counseling and a bachelor's degree in human development. She completed UC Irvine's certificate program in educational consulting and is a MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) Certified Practitioner and a NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner. Michelle visits many colleges each year so that she has first-hand knowledge of the colleges and universities her clients will be considering.  Find Michelle at https://thecollegespy.com/ LINKS 8 Tips to Avoid Procrastination Could Procrastination Actually Be Beneficial? Some Experts Say Yes. Podcast - The College Spy RELATED EPISODES HELPING TEENS FIGHT PROCRASTINATION EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN TEENS THE THREE CORE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND TEST PREP  MAKING TIME VISIBLE ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright, Roots2Words, and College Eagle. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros and LEAP. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, get in touch through our contact page.  

“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” – James 1:27 (ESV) You've probably heard this verse if you've ever been to an adoption or foster care training, attended a conference that discussed child welfare, or even just sat through your fair share of sermons. The message of this verse couldn't be clearer: God cares deeply about the most vulnerable, and we should too! My guests for this conversation know all about this calling and are here to talk about what it can look like in practice. David and Julie Zimmer have been married for 15 years and are parents to four children together—three by birth and one through foster care. David is the Head of Production and Promotion at Sovereign Grace Music in Louisville, KY. Julie volunteers at BSide U 4 Life, a local pregnancy care center in downtown Louisville, where she supports vulnerable families by offering childcare to parents attending GED, parenting, and Bible classes. David and Julie are passionate about foster care and dedicated to standing in the gap for children and families in need. In this episode, you'll hear about the emotional challenges that come along with fostering, the importance of investing in your marriage, the necessity of acknowledging our limitations, and much more. Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/david-julie-zimmer-274/

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Reverend Dr. Adrian Booth Johnson Founder of the Woye Bra Initiative under the nonprofit Infinity Global Empowerment. Former executive at Coca-Cola and U.S. Department of Energy. A passionate advocate for women’s empowerment in Africa, especially in Ghana. Known affectionately as “Reverend Granny” in African villages.