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On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Peter Martone @drsleepright, an educator, injury prevention specialist, and chiropractic expert who has spent the last 25 years transforming health by helping people sleep better through spinal alignment. After a personal injury led him to uncover a surprising link between poor sleep posture and chronic health issues, Dr. Martone developed what he calls the “Corrective Sleeping Position” a method that supports spinal health, optimises vagal tone, and enhances parasympathetic nervous system function. We dive into how nervous system imbalances impact fertility, why improving sleep is about who you become, and how simple shifts in your sleep setup can profoundly change your energy, hormone regulation, and overall wellbeing. Dr. Martone also introduces his animal sleep avatar test and shares practical advice on how to align your body and mind for optimal healing, starting in bed!   Key Takeaways:  The autonomic nervous system plays a central role in fertility, especially the parasympathetic (rest and digest) system. Correct spinal alignment during sleep can reduce nerve interference and improve organ function, including reproductive health. Many fertility challenges can stem from imbalances in vagal tone and nervous system inhibition. Dr. Martone's “Corrective Sleeping Position” helps improve heart rate variability and promotes deeper healing at night. Sleep isn't just about rest—it's about becoming a better, more aligned version of yourself. Guest Bio: Dr. Peter Martone @drsleepright, is an educator, injury prevention specialist, and patient care health practitioner with over 25 years of experience in improving biomechanics and overall wellbeing. As a chiropractor and exercise physiologist, he has long held the belief that spinal structure directly impacts the function of the central nervous system, and that interference in this system is often at the root of chronic health issues. Today, Dr. Martone uses this foundational principle to help people achieve W.A.Y. Better Sleep, a transformative approach that supports healing through sleep posture and nervous system alignment. His groundbreaking techniques have been featured on CBS, NBC, Fox News, and more than 50 international podcasts. Dr. Martone now travels the country teaching individuals how to reclaim their health, starting in bed. Websites/Social Media Links: Dr. Peter's WebsiteFollow Dr. Peter on Instagram Check out Neck Nest here —------------- For more information about Michelle, visit www.michelleoravitz.com To learn more about ancient wisdom and fertility, you can get Michelle's book at: https://www.michelleoravitz.com/thewayoffertility The Wholesome Fertility facebook group is where you can find free resources and support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2149554308396504/ Instagram: @thewholesomelotusfertility Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewholesomelotus/ Transcript: [00:00:00] Episode number 334 of the Wholesome Fertility Podcast. My guest today is Dr. Peter Martone. Dr. Martone is an educator injury prevention specialist and patient care health practitioner who has been focused on improving patients biomechanics for over 25 years. During his private practice as a chiropractor and exercise physiologist, Dr. Martone always believed that the structure of your spine affects the function of the central nervous system, and this interference is at the root cause of most of the chronic problems people face. Dr. Martone now uses this principle as the cornerstone to help people get WAY better sleep. His techniques have been featured on C-B-S-N-B-C, Fox News and over 50 international podcasts. He currently travels the country teaching people how to regain their health in the bed by getting [00:01:00] way better sleep.  Michelle Oravitz: Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Marone.  Dr. Peter Martone: Thank you so much for having me. I can't wait to dive in. Michelle Oravitz: Me too. So I'm really intrigued. We have not had a chiropractor yet on the show. However I love chiropractic work and I also believe. That it can help a lot with the nervous system. And I often talk about the nervous system and how that impacts fertility. So I'm really excited to have this conversation. And before we get started, I would love for you to give us a bit about your background and how you got into the work that you do, and especially when it comes to [00:02:00] sleep.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah. Wow. That's like a, it's a big zigzag. A lot  Michelle Oravitz: It always is.  Dr. Peter Martone: we  Michelle Oravitz: It always  Dr. Peter Martone: wait. I never thought up. I never like, woke up one day and said, oh, you know what? I'm gonna be in the most exciting field of my life. I'm gonna be in the sleep industry. Like, it's so, it was like so boring. But you know, it, so what I was, I'm a chiropractor, I'm an exercise physiologist, a nutritionist. I've always loved the to help people. Improve their function and quality of life by changing their lifestyle. So I was, I was, I was big on helping people, what's called balance, the autonomic nerve nervous system. So there's, in our, in our system, we have organs and our organs are typically not controlled by like the conscious nerves that controlled by like autopilot stuff, which is the sympathetics and the parasympathetics. So what I found a long time ago is that most people when they have chronic illness or dysfunction. They have an imbalance within that autonomic nervous system. So I [00:03:00] spent a good part of my first 15 years in practice helping people balance their autonomic nervous system until finally, and I always had bad back, which isn't really what brought me to chiropractic. What brought me to chiropractic is I got adjusted once and my stomach problem went away, and, and I'm like. I'm a chiropractor, I have a bad spine, and I was in a little bit of an injury mountain biking, and I finally herniated my disc. So I was in the emergency room. I'm sitting there saying, how can I come to this? I've been helping people with back pain and wellness, and I'm now hooked up on Dilaudid because I'm in the emergency room because I'm, I was just, my back finally failed. And in your own brain? at a subconscious level, I felt like I was a failure because I'm like, how can. I not help myself, so not a really good place to be. And then, so out of big lows, a lot of times you can learn from those. And, and I have a very [00:04:00] competitive mind, so I'm like, I gotta figure this out. I have to figure out why I had disc issues and, back problems. So I started reviewing x-rays. I reviewed 3000 x-rays and I found a pattern. And that pattern was I had loss of cervical curve in my neck. And, and due to an adaptation, which I found is that it, it adapts with a, what's called a SOAs, major muscle spasm in your lower back, and the SOAs attaches directly to a disc. So I'm like, holy Mac, maybe I had a neck issue, no pain in my neck. Maybe I had neck issue all this time, and it was messing with my lower back. So I'm like, well, how do I fix that? I've been getting adjusted. I'm like, the only time I can do it is a one third of my life. I ba basically do nothing and that's sleeping. So I started to cha, I was always a side sleeper. I curled up in a ball and my back was always twisted. I had shoulder issues and I'm like, you know what? I bet you it's alignment when I'm sleeping. So I started [00:05:00] to put pillows under my neck and I started to force myself to sleep in a specific position, which we now call the corrective sleeping position. Then once I started to. Have my patients sleep in those positions. Now, their chronic issues I've been dealing with, they're needing me so much less because their body's healing really at night while they sleep, which now, hence now another 10 years later. I am in the sleep industry after 25 years of zigzag, right? Michelle Oravitz: That's so interesting. And so how have you noticed that impact? Well, actually let's take it back to like why chiropractic works, not just for the spine. I think people think, just like you said, you went for for back pain or for the stomach pain, or you ended up getting your stomach issues resolved. People don't, may not realize that chiropractic work. Can impact [00:06:00] internal organs, systems and other things other than just your back.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah. So let's look at, so this is gonna be a really different way for people to think, okay, but I'm going to make it and break it down into a very simple analogy. If you go to into a room and there are lights in the room, and then you take the dimmer switch and you dim the switch down to 50%. Somebody walks into this room, they're like, wow, it's really, it's not light in this room. Now what you would do is you go to the Dimmi switch and you turn it up. Well, now in our current paradigm, people don't even look at the dimmi switch as the problem. They look at the light bulb, which is the organ. Nobody looking at the nervous system going to that organ. They all look at the organ. So they'll put new bulbs in there. They'll put a transformer in there that puts more energy at the bulb when. The pressure, the, the, the li the, the dim switch being down is an issue. [00:07:00] So the spine is basically your fuse panel to the body and, and it's set up where these nerves come out of these holes in the spine. And if the spine's out of alignment or your hips out of alignment or your neck's out of alignment and you have these curves, you're putting pressure on a nerve. There's research that's been done. Pressure equal to the weight of a quarter on a nerve will cause a nerve to malfunction by 60%, leaving it only with 40% function. So think about that. If the nerve is only functioning at 40%, how can the organ be healthy? And nobody on the planet looks at that as cause of disease, except chiropractic. Everybody looks at it like, oh, you just get your spine adjusted 'cause you're in pain. I was never in the industry for pain. And I tell my patients, listen, I'm a little different. I said, look, I wanna help you with the pain, but if you are walking with one shoe on and one shoe off, you're gonna have back pain. If I just focus on [00:08:00] your back and I don't create it, don't fix the imbalance, then you're just gonna be dependent on what I do. And that's the same thing. Now, when we help our clients with chronic illness and fertility and breathing issues and digestion issues, the first thing we do is align the spine, turn up the dimmer switch. Then we see what happens. Internal organs. Michelle Oravitz: Interesting. And so what I know that obviously. Because I know in Chinese medicine there's so many different reasons that cause one thing, so we look at the root cause for fertility conditions. What have you seen so far? I.  Dr. Peter Martone: That is so great. So that's a great question. Now when within our sleep system we the, the, I guess you can say the crust. That, that connects all the, all the other, like everybody give anything that most of the experts tell you, you can Google, right? Oh yeah. Room temperature and beds and all this stuff. It's all [00:09:00] Googleable. But the crust that holds all of the, be the missing pieces, the crust, and that's, we live our life through our nervous system and everything we say, do function, feel, happens through that system. So when you look at fertility, don't look at it as the infertility, as the issue. That's the outcome. Look at it as. What controls fertility? People would say hormones, right? What controls hormones? Nervous system. Okay. What specific nervous system? That nervous system is called the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is your thrive nervous system verse, your survive nervous system, which is your sympathetics. So you can either run from a tiger and you're in survive 'cause your body needs to get away from it. You can sleep and thrive. So our bodies thrive at night and survive during the day. So it needs to be a balance. The three systems that are controlled by your Thrive system. And when you have infertility, you have [00:10:00] an issue with all three of these systems. It's immune system, it's digestive system. It's reproductive system, so anybody that has an issue with one or of them has an issue with all three of them because you have an issue with parasympathetic inhibition. So, so it's not that you're just all sympathetic dominant because you're, you know, you're, you're super excited, you're inhibited because you're dimmer switch is down 50% and nobody's addressing it. So most of the time what we see with our, our patients that have infertility, they have issues at the atlas, which is right at the brainstem, and it's due to loss of function there, or it's down in the Coio plexus, which is in the, which is in the, in the, in the coic, which is in the pelvis. So a lot of times it's pain associated, but there's also digestion issues. There's eczema, there's skin issues, there's all of these other issues. But all, all that's telling us is the nervous system imbalance. Michelle Oravitz: That's interesting. It's interesting that you pointed [00:11:00] behind the ears because that's where you can stimulate the vagus nerve.  Dr. Peter Martone: Correct. That's, that is the reason why, 'cause it's true to the carotid sheath. There's three nerves that go through there. It's the vagus, the glossopharyngeal, and the spinal accessories. So, lot, lot of times if, if a, a woman has infertility, she has definitely a loss of cervical curve, but. Her hands might fall asleep or she has a thyroid issue also because of that forward posture, or she gets reflux because of the upper portion of the stomach is also addressed by the carina, which is, you know, the cough reflux Michelle Oravitz: Interesting. And do you see this for men? Men as well?  Dr. Peter Martone: I do, but a different manifestation of symptomatology. A lot of times that's gonna be a low testosterone. That's gonna be like especially with men with the prostate is a, is a big issue at that area, but men, women, some, a lot of times will have it. We're, we're seeing it now more than ever in women. I have my own theories on it, actually. I believe it's covid [00:12:00] vaccine, but they we're seeing a lot of heart palpitations, so we're seeing a lot of imbalance within the arrhythmia of the heart. That's why I am I have these rings on. I always measure my heart rate variability and that's what  Michelle Oravitz: Oh yeah. I love that. The HeartMath.  Dr. Peter Martone: clients. Yeah, absolutely. Michelle Oravitz: Yeah, so, so talk about that. I talk about it a lot too, but I always like to get different perspectives. 'cause I feel like even if it's the same topic, if somebody else talks about it, you might get something different. So,  Dr. Peter Martone: This is so great. So the, so just to understand what heart rate variability is, is your heart needs to beat. And when you're running from a tiger, your body wants a very rhythmic beat so that the muscle in the brain can really consistently know the amount of sugar that the organs are getting, right? So the, so when you're sympathetic dominant, which means you're in survival, you have a very rhythmic heart rate, which means if you, let's say, have a a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute, every second you have a beat. And that's what [00:13:00] people think is good. That is really bad to have that chronically because you put the same stress on the heart and the heart will fail. So when you're, when you're in thrive or you're parasympathetically dominant, your body's ready for anything. So the heart rate is very in irregular interval. So instead of every second, maybe it's 0.75 seconds. Then the next one is 1.1 second. Then the next one's 0.5 seconds. Then the next one's 0.8 seconds. So it's done. So you're, you're spreading the stress around the heart, which is a very healthy thing to do for the heart. But what that's telling us is when you are, when your heart rate variability is high, your parasympathetic dominant. When your heart rate variability is low, you're sympathetic dominant. So most people that have dysfunction, especially in the, in the autonomic nervous system or in the parasympathetic nervous system like fertility, they're going to have low HRV readings because they're going to be [00:14:00] sympathetic dominant. Whether it's due to parasympathetic inhibition because you're, you're turning, you're putting pressure at the brainstem on the vagus nerve, or it's due to you just so stressed that you never turn this on into weak muscle, whether it is, you can analyze that through these trackers and then, and then we can then, let's say meditate and then connect the subconscious brain to a scent every time you meditate and then take a heart rate variability reading. Then know what improves your high rate variability during the day, then connect you to a scent any other time. That's a scent. So when you smell the scent, your HRV comes down and then you can start to retrain the  Michelle Oravitz: It's an association.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yes. Michelle Oravitz: That's interesting 'cause I've said that before. You know, that's what in India they used to put the incense on during meditation. So immediately when you smell it, it puts you in that state so that it's quicker to get into a deeper state of meditation. And it's kind of [00:15:00] interesting how really the heart becomes so adaptive when we're in this rest and digest mode. The parasympathetic. And it's also more creative in a sense because it's not, it doesn't act predictably. It's creative based on the needs, And that's  Dr. Peter Martone: becomes creative when  Michelle Oravitz: and your body becomes creative,  Dr. Peter Martone: then yeah, the mind becomes creative because you're taking the blood from the, what I call the immature, ignorant child brain, right? Or the Yeah, the, the, the, the  Michelle Oravitz: reptilian  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah. Reptilian brain. And it starts to transfer it to where really, where you can get true inspiration and innovation in, in, in, in that, in the back portion of the brain. So you can, you can start to think better and consequently. You, we, my, my daughter's now working on one of my companies and she's like, dad, I don't care what's mindset mastery? Because we have five core elements of sleep. I'm like, honey, mind [00:16:00] mindset mastery is like everything, right? If you, if you can master your thoughts, remember thoughts, create an adaptation within the nervous system. So if you want to. Be sympathetic, dominant, fair anxiety, financial stress, relationship, stress, hate, envy. Those are sympathetic emotions. If you want parasympathetic emotions, focus on gratitude, love, caring, prayer. Those are parasympathetic emotions. So if you can master the mind and focus the thought, which you can. Then you can focus the neurology, which is the real step in bringing back control in chronic illness. Michelle Oravitz: So fascinating. I love this topic and I love how you could look at it in so many different ways, but there's so many different schools of thought and they all kind of point to the same thing, even like ancient. Teachings and then now some of the current [00:17:00] research that's coming out. And it's fascinating because it really is something that can be measured, like you said, with the heart rate variability and also the heart brain coherence, and that they do actually communicate, you know, there's a communication between the two and the fact that people do have a choice in this, I think that that is often missed. I think that people don't realize that they actually have a choice.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah, and I think that that's, you know, that is a great. Way to say it, right? You do have a choice. And, and like I told my daughter, I'm like, you have a choice on what to think, right? And, and, and, and what we focus on is what we become.  Michelle Oravitz: Mm-hmm.  Dr. Peter Martone: When you are looking like, think about this. So I'm not, we haven't even talked about sleep. I've only talked about my intention. My intention is balance, the autonomic nervous system and health. Sleep is, you can't just put your head on a pillow. Buy. Buy a new what? Buy a new pillow. Buy a new [00:18:00] bed, buy a new sleep supplement and get better sleep. So what we talk about is who do you have to become to do what you need to do during the day? And then sleep is a byproduct of living a healthy life in our intention is everything. Our intention is balance in the nervous system. Yes, I wanna help you sleep, but I didn't enter the sleep industry to make you a better sleeper. I'm there now. I entered the sleep industry to allow you to become a healthier individual. So who are you when you're waking up? I want that to be a better version of you, A more energetic version of you. So we have this animal sleep avatar test that we have people take. It's a free test. And what animal do you sleep like? And then based on what animal you sleep, like I can give you. The tips specific to how you sleep and tell you how you need to fall asleep because each animal needs to fall asleep differently. Michelle Oravitz: That's fascinating. That's so, so I'd love to hear how you approach sleep altogether, like how [00:19:00] your method works to doing that. You'd mentioned obviously figuring out really how you sleep, what type of animal but how do you really help people? What are the different steps you take them through?  Dr. Peter Martone: So the, the, so think about, think about the, let, let's look at sleep as an analogy. This is a analogy that we're actually putting into our way Better Sleep program now is think about it as a, a battery charger. Okay? First thing you do with the battery charger or a charger is you have set up. So first have to set it all up, plug it in. You have to, you know, do a whole bunch of stuff to set up. Set up is how you fall asleep. Okay? I have three steps. It's called the triune of sleep, so we put people to sleep. Then we have the five core elements of sleep, which is when you're sleeping, are you waking up refreshed? How much. Is your energy being recharged? Are you only recharge it from, you know, zero to 25%, [00:20:00] 25 to 50%, 50 to 75? Or are you waking up like me? You are freaking ready for the day because your battery is so full. So most of the time where, where it, it's too complicated to dive into the five core elements 'cause there's just so much. That you have to do. It's, it's, it's, it's be, do, have, it's changing your life, eating right, being fit, and thinking well. So, so we, we have different roadmaps on every month. We change a different lifestyle habit to be, make somebody become healthier and then a better sleeper. But I think really where, where the most applicable advice I can give you right now is the setup in talking about what we call the triune of sleep. This is what 99% of the people on the planet get wrong. And this is why really my first step was figuring out the triune. And then the other step, you know, is different. So the triune of sleep is [00:21:00] this. You have three things at play when you need, when you're falling asleep, you have the body, the need, the needs of these three things, the needs of the body. The needs of the subconscious brain and then the needs of the conscious brain. Okay? The body wants alignment. It just doesn't want to be in pain. It just, it needs to be in a pain-free situation. The average person tosses and turns 20 to 40 times a night because the body's in pain. That's it. That's why we toss and turn, so. The next thing is the subconscious brain. The subconscious control sleep. The body pain will interfere with sleep or the subconscious control, sleep, the subconscious need. Safety. The sub body just wants to feel safe and protected. I grew up in Malden, Massachusetts and it was on a busy street, and every once in a [00:22:00] while the kids would bang on my window to play a prank. I was on the front, front porch, so I thought when I went to sleep I was going to get abducted every single night. So the only reason I could, I would be able to fall asleep is I'd have to put all my stuffed animals around me. I'd curl up in a ball to feel safe, then I would be able to fall asleep. So think about that. When you put your kids to sleep, there's subconscious need for sleep, and the reason why they wanna sleep with you is safety. And now the. The conscious brain, it's where everything screws up. It's like, oh my God, I wanna feel comfortable. You're not comfortable 'cause the body isn't comfortable. What you mistake for comfort is safety for the con subconscious brain. So the conscious brain screws everything up. So we have a whole host of things that we do to get people mindset mastery, to get them out of their consciousness, and we can go over some of those. So to set the try put, most people put themselves to sleep with their conscious brain thinking they're comfortable. We want to [00:23:00] reverse the triune, put the body in an aligned position. I, I'll show you that in a second. It's called the corrective sleeping position. This position inherently is unsafe for the subconscious brain. That is where people take an animal sleep avatar test to develop to, to identify the amount of safety that needs to be created by each avatar. So you have a gorilla and armadillo and an ostrich. Ostrich, it wants to stick its head under the ground. Right. It is so timid. You know, that's where abuse relationships, those are timid, timid people that need so much safety created. You know, when you sleep, it's gonna be very difficult to get them to sleep in a line position. Then you have the armadillos, which are like 60% of the population. They curl, they, they, they need safety, but they curl up in balls. They, they like to have their, you know, on their side with that pressure on their  Michelle Oravitz: That's me.  Dr. Peter Martone: And then I can tell 'cause your head's tilted [00:24:00] and then, and then  Michelle Oravitz: Oh, is it  Dr. Peter Martone: it is, and then when, and then the gorillas, they can, you know, they can fall asleep anywhere. So, so depending on what avatar you are, then we give you advice and tips based on your avatar to  Michelle Oravitz: husband's a gorilla  Dr. Peter Martone: yeah. Right.  Michelle Oravitz: anywhere  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah.  Michelle Oravitz: with his mouth open.  Dr. Peter Martone: And then and then, and, and then, and then from there, then we teach you to, to shut down the conscious brain. Michelle Oravitz: Got it. That's interesting. So what's the proper position?  Dr. Peter Martone: All right. Is this, is this on video?  Michelle Oravitz: Well, it is for some people  Dr. Peter Martone: Okay. So then what you'll do is  Michelle Oravitz: you guys could check, check it out on YouTube if you wanna check this out.  Dr. Peter Martone: and then you explain what I'm doing. Okay.  Michelle Oravitz: Mm-hmm.  Dr. Peter Martone: Alright, so the position is typically, hold on, I gotta, I don't, I've shorted an out outline. Alright, I'll  Michelle Oravitz: Okay. He's moving away from his mic, so I'll have [00:25:00] to explain. I.  Dr. Peter Martone: Okay. All what I have right now is I have a a neck nest. That's the pillow we created, but you can do this with a soft down pillow or, and, or, you know, any type of  Michelle Oravitz: so he's got basically a pillow. that looks like it's gonna support his neck, Right?  Dr. Peter Martone: Yep. So the one thing with sleep is, or, or anytime you support something in the body, you weaken it. I, that's why, you know, sneakers or art supports, it weakens the foot. Back support weakens the back chair. Support weakens the back. A pillow defined as a support for your head. Anytime you support your head, you weaken the cervical curve. So what you wanna do is you wanna support the neck, but let let the head hang off the back of the pillow so it's not supported  Michelle Oravitz: So basically just have a pillow for your neck.  Dr. Peter Martone: And then you don't want the head supported because the weight of [00:26:00] your head will cause a, a sense of distraction. And that distraction will reinforce the curve in the neck, aligning it, improving vagal tone, improving the function of the vagus nerve. So just by sleeping in this position, you're gonna improve higher rate variability by 10 to 30%. Michelle Oravitz: Interesting. Okay, so he's basically laying on his back and he is got something that looks like a bolster, but it's soft and it surrounds his neck. He put, he has it supporting his neck and it surrounds on the side, and then his head is not supported behind it. It's just laying back.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yes. And that's, that's the design that we created with the Neck Nest. So I'll, this is, so I'll show you now how to do it with like a sound. It would be. It has to be a soft, soft pillow. This is what I used before we created the ness. So I, I would put pillows on their edges [00:27:00] and see a pillow is support for your head. You do not wanna support your head when you're sleeping on your back. You want to support your neck and allow the head to hang off the back. Michelle Oravitz: Okay, so now he's using it with a pillow, but having the pillow on its side, so it's basically not laying flat and it's a very soft pillow, so he's able to adjust it.  Dr. Peter Martone: of your head is unsupported. That is really, really, really important. Michelle Oravitz: That's interesting. I'm gonna try that.  Dr. Peter Martone: It's,  Michelle Oravitz: I'm gonna try that.  Dr. Peter Martone: That's awesome.  Michelle Oravitz: So you gotta train yourself to be a back sleeper.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yes. Well, you have to train yourself to fall asleep in that position. Remember, when you are trying to start to get to that type of mindset where you gotta be a back sleeper, you're not in control. All you have to train yourself to do is fall asleep in that [00:28:00] position and go take your animal avatar test, and then it'll tell you how to, how you need to create safety to start in that position because you won't be able to shut off the brain. Actually, you know what? Let me give you another tip. Because this is important. If you're gonna start to fall asleep in this position, a lot of times people will feel like they're falling backwards or they, they, they'll, they'll, they'll lose their breath because their body does not like that extension, because of the vestibular. You feel like you're, you know, you, you're, you're, you're,  Michelle Oravitz: you're not supported.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah. Yeah. Your, well, your body your body's brain or valid system doesn't like it. So you can use either a bed wedge or something and sleep slightly sitting up.  Michelle Oravitz: Mm-hmm.  Dr. Peter Martone: another way that I do this  Michelle Oravitz: So he's saying to put a bed wedge if that's the case. If it makes you feel uncomfortable Or not safe and supported, you can use a bed wedge. [00:29:00] And then on top of that, use that neck support that he was mentioning before.  Dr. Peter Martone: if you don't have a bed wedge, which a lot of people don't, you can put two pillows. See how I have two pillows down there Michelle Oravitz: Yeah. So instead of a bed wedge, you could put two pillows to support your back.  Dr. Peter Martone: and then  Michelle Oravitz: So that it elevates you  Dr. Peter Martone: And then you're sleeping elevated. Michelle Oravitz: got it. Yeah. So you could elevate yourself to make That, an easier way to fall asleep. Interesting. Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah. that  Michelle Oravitz: you got me curious. And that helps your vagus nerve and it helps get you in parasympathetic mode, which helps your hormones. Gets you in creative mode, which of course the physical creativity is your fertility. Dr. Peter Martone: And that you can't Google,  Michelle Oravitz: No, that's really fascinating. So how can people find this or really find out how [00:30:00] to like learn all of these amazing techniques?  Dr. Peter Martone: they can take they can go to Dr. S-L-E-E-P-R-I-G-H-T, that's dr. Sleep right.com. They can take a free animal sleep avatar test and then, then you're in our world, you'll get some you'll get anytime we do like sleep things, you can do that. And then there you can find out about our programs. And then if you wanna dive deeper and, and look into Neck Nest, there's you can get a link for to Neck Nest from there. Michelle Oravitz: That's so interesting. Dr. Peter Marone. This is really, really fascinating. I've never had anybody come on here and talk about it with also, I mean, first of all, talk about this subject, but also with such a unique approach to sleeping.  Dr. Peter Martone: Yeah, thank you. It's we put a lot of, a lot of sleepless nights into it and you know, now it's, it's act two, it's, my mission is to change the way the world sleeps. Helping them get way better sleep. And the way [00:31:00] is awakening the full potential of a well-rested, aligned you and the you's important. It's who do you need to become to have the be be the best version of you? And, and it's, it's not, I wanna have it right. I want to have better sleep. Then you're just gonna go from what to what? To what, to what to what. And it's like, who do you need to become to change your mind to be able to get there? Michelle Oravitz: Yeah. And so really the idea is getting into that state and the new habits will help you stay asleep.  Dr. Peter Martone: It's, it's, it's amazing how it, once you start to work on the drills of the 10 minute sleep ritual, which is putting yourself to sleep for the setup. Then the five core elements of what you do during the day is fun because now you're just becoming healthier and  Michelle Oravitz: Right. Feel more arrested,  Dr. Peter Martone: gonna make you a better sleeper. As long as you get the, if you don't plug the, the charger in you,  Michelle Oravitz: then you're grumpy. you don't wanna learn anything.  Dr. Peter Martone: exactly.[00:32:00]  Michelle Oravitz: We don't wanna be grumpy,  Dr. Peter Martone: No  Michelle Oravitz: we wanna feel good. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast and sharing this amazing information. And so, so you gave them the email. Is there, I mean the website, is there any other place that people can find you or learn  Dr. Peter Martone: We're, we're on Instagram at Dr. Sleep Wright. We're on TikTok now. We just had one thing go over a million views.  Michelle Oravitz: Oh, cool.  Dr. Peter Martone: It's. Sleep. Right. So, Dr. Sleep Wright is the is the brand that you'd be able to find me on. Michelle Oravitz: Fantastic. Well, thank you so much Dr. Martone for coming on. today. This is a great conversation.  Dr. Peter Martone: Thank you for having me. Michelle Oravitz: Awesome. [00:33:00]   

In this episode, Mary Sullivan, co-founder of Sweet but Fearless, talks with Sandy Saburn, Chief Strategic Alliances Officer at Gifted Travel Network, about the ever-evolving world of luxury travel. With a background as a career coach, marketing expert, and business consultant, Sandy made a bold leap into the travel industry—and now she's helping others do the same. She shares insider insights on why more people are choosing to work with travel advisors, how the industry has shifted toward curated, experience-driven travel, and why today's most sought-after trips go beyond what's Googleable. If you've ever dreamed of working in travel, she also breaks down how to get started as an advisor or entrepreneur in the field. Life is short—so why wait to book those dream experiences? Sandy Saburn is the Chief Strategic Alliances Officer at Gifted Travel Network (GTN), a fast-growing, female-led company in the high-end travel industry and innovative host agency in the travel industry.   If you found this episode inspiring, please subscribe, like, and leave a comment.   MORE ABOUT SANDY SABURN LinkedIn: Sandy Saburn Website: Gifted Travel Network FREE: Mindset Blocks: How to Overcome Them and Beat the Odds as an Entrepreneur ABOUT SWEET BUT FEARLESS: Website - Sweet but Fearless LinkedIn - Sweet but Fearless

It's cast bios time, baby! Grant's season of “The Bachelor” is almost upon us, so it's time to get to know the 25 bachelorettes who will be vying for his heart. We've got 6 New Yorkers, 5 health care workers, 4 women who aspire to have marriages like their parents have, 3 women with totally superfluous vowels in their names that make them very Googleable, 2 women with the last name Gupta, and approximately 0 body diversity. But hey – at least there are a handful of women over the age of 30? And they're all looking for one thing: a man who isn't a giant liar. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1st show of the new year! We talk about AEW returns at World's End, Omos winning Noah gold, New Years Evil, Netflix coming next week, When Penta should debut, Slutty 90s HBK, Our wrestling predictions for this year & much more! ____ 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline- in US & Canada Crisis Text Line: Text Hello to 741741 Trevor Lifeline: 866-488-7386 or text "START" to 678678 Trans LifeLine: 877-565-8860 Please feel free to subscribe to our Youtube channel! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ShEliteShowcase Twitch: twitch.tv/sheliteshowcase Thank you to Justin for making ALL of the Intro music for our shows! Justin: @heeltactics_ on Twitter https://jlanonthebeat.bandcamp.com/ https://linktr.ee/ShEliteShowcase https://www.sheliteshowcase.com Katie: @KatieWrasslin13 on Twitter Savannah: @Y2Garcia_ on Twitter & Instagram

Send us a textHello, passionate cruisers! This is Paul and this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, I am delighted to welcome a special guest, Colleen McDaniel. Among the global cruise personalities, we are blessed to host, today, I am honored to welcome another one of those Googleable individuals (is that a word...yes) we occasionally have the honor to host. Colleen McDaniel is Editor-in-Chief of Cruise Critic. She considers cruising to be a true passion, having traveled the world by water – from Alaska, the Caribbean and Hawaii, to Europe's rivers, Antarctica and Africa – on ships of all shapes and sizes. I first “met” when I featured her husband John Roberts of In the Loop Travel in my book Cruising Interrupted  amzn.to/3seFU8y.When not cruising, Colleen loves running, biking, hiking or anything that keeps her moving. Living in Colorado makes it easy to get outside and stay active. She's also a fan of craft beer, and science fiction movies and TV. Trying craft beers in cruise ports all over the world has become a passion. She'll talk your ear off about hair bands from the '80s and anything related to "Doctor Who." A Wisconsin native, Colleen roots for the Green Bay Packers – she's a team owner. (As I am a football fan, I definitely want to ask her about that.)She's regularly quoted as a cruise expert in media outlets across the country, including The Associated Press, Good Morning America, TODAY, CNN, FOX Business, CNBC, The New York Times, Travel + Leisure and Skift.Relying on ship wifi is slow, unsecure, sometimes not available & at foreign ports travelers don't want to pay their carriers' high fees. Save $ with GigSky! Get a data package usable on the ship & in ports. Link to GigSky: https://gigsky.pxf.io/nloxor. For a 10% discount use code: joyofcruisingSupport the showSupport thejoyofcruisingpodcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2113608/supporters/newSupport Me https://www.buymeacoffee.com/drpaulthContact Me https://www.thejoyofcruising.net/contact-me.htmlBook Cruises https://bit.ly/TheJoyOfCruisingPodcast-BookACruiseUS Orders (coupon code joyofcruisingpodcast)The Joy of Cruising https://bit.ly/TheJoyOfCruisingCruising Interrupted https://bit.ly/CruisingInterruptedThe Joy of Cruising Again https://bit.ly/TheJoyOfCruisingAgainIntl Orders via Amazon

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Unlock the secrets to skyrocketing your business through YouTube with Roger Wakefield, Tony's returning guest and YouTube sensation who has amassed over 612,000 subscribers. Learn how Roger became a YouTube giant and advertised his plumbing business, using authenticity and relatability as his secret weapons. He candidly shares his initial struggles with marketing companies and the pivotal moment that changed his trajectory. Roger unveils actionable strategies to leverage YouTube for your own business growth. He explains his personal roadmap for harnessing YouTube's potential, from researching successful channels to hiring the right coaches.  Additionally, Roger and Tony discuss the critical role of meaningful relationships and give tips on how to become a better public speaker. Roger emphasizes the importance of a strong online presence and his mission to make you and your business "Googleable." His newest endeavor is designed to empower small businesses to manage their online visibility more effectively. This episode is a comprehensive guide to mastering YouTube, public speaking, and digital presence for business success. Key highlights: YouTube Implementation Strategies for Business Growth Mastering Public Speaking Techniques Learning From Successful Business Leaders Googleability for Business Success Building a Strong Online Presence Episode resources: Episode 129 - How YouTube Could Amplify Any Business with Roger Wakefield Connect with Roger Wakefield: Website: rogerwakefield.com YouTube: youtube.com/rogerwakefield LinkedIn: Roger Wakefield Instagram: therogerwakefield Connect with Tony Whatley: Website: 365driven.com Instagram: @365driven Facebook: 365 Driven LinkedIn: Tony Whatley

This week is a talent partnership special with St James's Place Ever wondered how financial advisers can make a monumental impact on women's lives, particularly those navigating high-stakes divorces? Listen as we sit down with Ceri Griffiths from Willowbrook Financial Planning, who has carved out a unique niche advising women divorcing multi-millionaire CEOs. Ceri's journey from a broad clientele to a highly specialized practice offers invaluable lessons on the power of niche marketing, strategic networking, and mission-led content. She shares her experience and expertise in financial abuse, narcissism, and conflict-free divorce practices, shedding light on the complex dynamics of high-net-worth divorces.Discover how Dan Priestley's coaching transformed Ceri's approach to business, helping her identify and target the specific needs of her clients. Ceri talks about the unique challenges women face divorcing wealthy and powerful men, and her mission to eliminate financial vulnerability and empower women to become money savvy. The discussion highlights the importance of finding a target market that aligns with one's personal and professional goals and the role of impactful content in articulating a clear vision. Learn the nuances of navigating financial advisory relationships, especially in cases involving narcissism and financial abuse, and the supportive role advisors can play in these difficult times.Ceri also delves into her innovative approach to business development, moving away from traditional networking to building a strong online presence through LinkedIn and other social channels. She shares insights on creating meaningful connections with like-minded professionals and the value of being "Googleable" through strategic content such as podcasts and blogs. This episode is a must-listen for anyone in financial planning considering niching down, as it is packed with actionable advice on specialization, client relationships, and building a business that not only thrives but also makes a significant difference in the lives of its clients. If you are interested in joining the St James's Place Academy  - Click here Begin your financial planning career journey todayWhether you are looking to become a paraplanner, administrator, mortgage and protection adviser or financial planner, the Financial Planner Life Academy is for you. With limited entry-level job roles, giving yourself the best financial planning career education, will not only kick start your financial planning journey with relevant qualifications and skills, but it'll also help you achieve success much faster.&nbsBe sure to follow financial planner life on YouTube for extra content about a career within Financial Planning HIT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON! If you're looking to start your career in Financial Planning, check out the Financial Planner Life Academy hereReach out to Sam@financialplannerlife.com in regards to sponsorship, partnerships, videography or career development.

Y'all, in this episode Jimmy Lewis and the LibSoc team pop a can of ice cold, bubbly facts having to do with code we identify by number, salacious gossip about aluminum can production, and other nerdy, super hot, but totally SFW topics. You won't want to miss this one! Nerdiest nerd fact: 76% of aluminum ever manufactured is still in use today Canned wine is cool. Best Pizza in ALX is Benny's bc it's GIANT Bathroom aesthetic: Jula's! (Jimmy and his mom get it!) If you didn't want to be Indiana Jones, were you even a Millennial? Friends in Low Places is quality 1990s karaoke. (Not you, Chris Gaines.) That one Waterfront installation that could hear you! Boat Parade at Christmas Joss's Buffy is an acceptable answer Barbara Lee worked for Shirley Chisholm and used to hang out w Black Panthers Is Rent Trap a thing? It's Googleable, but there's no Wikipedia entry, so we cry Mandela Effect. We have old pipes. ECCAP Pg 9 of the , tracking greenhouse gas ECCAP Figures 17 and 22 show the effects of flooding and heat on most vulnerable communities JamesLewisVA.com

In my second returning guests group chat, I delve into the complex world of therapy with colleagues David Teachout and Christine Sefein. We explore the concept of therapeutic neutrality and its relevance in today's therapy landscape. Is therapy dead? How are therapists able to maintain neutrality in an age of biases and cultural influences? And what are the limits to neutrality?We discuss the ethical obligation of therapists to disclose their opinions and biases to clients. How does this disclosure impact the therapeutic relationship and the client's journey towards healing?We touch on the delicate balance between safety and challenge in therapy, highlighting the importance of creating a space where clients feel secure yet encouraged to grow. What happens when clients bring in past experiences that shape their perceptions of therapy? How do therapists navigate these preconceptions and build trust with their clients?The conversation takes an intriguing turn as we address the ethical implications of therapists having a public presence. How does being Googleable impact the therapeutic relationship? And what are the boundaries and responsibilities of therapists in the digital age? Join us as we unravel these thought-provoking questions and explore the evolving landscape of therapy in today's world. Tune in to discover the answers to these compelling inquiries and gain insights into the intricate world of therapy.Christine Sefein Wolk, LMFT, is a US-based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in grief and trauma work. She has experience in various settings including residential facilities, outpatient treatment, and private practice. Christine has held positions such as Clinical Director and Clinical Supervisor. As Teaching Faculty at Antioch University, she discusses the ideological capture of therapy training in her book chapter in Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Anti-therapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice. She is also a co-host on the Critical Therapy Antidote Podcast, exploring psychological trends with fascinating guests. Join CTA.David Teachout is a mental health therapist and photographer, exploring the link between creativity and mental flexibility. Previously a Christian fundamentalist, he now embraces a diverse understanding of humanity. With masters degrees in forensic psychology and counseling, he is pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology. Visit his blog and podcast at www.lifeweavings.com and www.humanitysvalues.com.Books mentioned in this episode:The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkCynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Anti-therapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice[00:00:00] Is therapeutic neutrality dead?[00:05:27] Therapeutic Neutrality and Informed Consent.[00:10:27] The relevance of childhood in therapy.[00:14:42] Trauma and resilience in therapy.[00:19:24] Victim mindset vs resilience mentality.[00:22:50] Chronic illness and social perception.[00:25:35] The Just World fallacy and fear of mortality.[00:31:45] The elements of therapeutic relationship.[00:33:45] Therapeutic relationship boundaries.[00:37:27] Trauma-dumping in therapy and relationships.[00:40:57] Depth vs brief therapy and the medical model.[00:42:02] The impact of prior experiences on transference.[00:46:07] Gender-affirming care for minors.[00:49:09] Public presence and perceptions.[00:52:21] Assumptions about the therapist.[00:55:26] Therapy versus consultation.[01:03:33] Porn addiction and attraction.[01:04:47] Porn addiction debate.[01:09:04] Therapy and criticism. To support this show, please leave a rating & review on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe, like, comment & share via my YouTube channel. Or recommend this to a friend!Learn more about Do No Harm.Take $200 off your EightSleep Pod Pro Cover with code SOMETHERAPIST at EightSleep.com.Take 20% off all superfood beverages with code SOMETHERAPIST at Organifi.Check out my shop for book recommendations + wellness products.Show notes & transcript provided with the help of SwellAI.Special thanks to Joey Pecoraro for our theme song, “Half Awake,” used with gratitude and permission.Watch NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care (our medical ethics documentary, formerly known as Affirmation Generation). Stream the film or purchase a DVD. Use code SOMETHERAPIST to take 20% off your order. Follow us on X @2022affirmation or Instagram at @affirmationgeneration.Have a question for me? Looking to go deeper and discuss these ideas with other listeners? Join my Locals community! Members get to ask questions I will respond to in exclusive, members-only livestreams, post questions for upcoming guests to answer, plus other perks TBD. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Ian chats with Real Estate's Martin Courtney on the occasion of their beautiful, un-Googleable new record, Daniel. COP "DANIEL" NOW REAL ESTATE ON TOUR THIS SPRING

This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, I am delighted to welcome a special guest, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo. Among the global cruise personalities, we are blessed to host, today, I am honored to welcome another one of those Googleable individuals we occasionally have the honor to host. Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, the Chief Executive Officer of Celebrity Cruises from 2015-2023 is admired across the cruise industry for her accomplishments during her tenure at Celebrity, and she is a role model to women leaders and aspiring leaders beyond cruising. The legion of women, and men, interested in the leadership lessons of Lisa's brilliant career is about to grow significantly, because today February 20, Lisa's new book, Making Waves, A Woman's Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart, and Courage is released. So, besides being fortunate to be able to host someone of Lisa's stature on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, we get to do so on the launch day of her new bestseller-to-be!‘It's the stuff dreams are made of to start at the bottom and make it to the top. But that's what happened to theVice Chairman of External Affairs for the Royal Caribbean Group and Former CEO of Celebrity Cruises Lisa Lutoff-Perlo who got her start in an entry-level sales position selling cruises door-to-door to travel agencies in New England and then found herself running a multibillion-dollar global company.' Lisa Lutoff-Perlo is a high-impact leader in the travel and hospitality industry, whose vision and strategy not only propelled Celebrity Cruises to achieve transformational financial results as a brand within the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. portfolio but also dramatically increased the number of women in leadership roles throughout the Celebrity brand. Her passion for building extraordinary ships, creating unique experiences, and opening up the world through travel has brought recognition and countless awards to Lisa and Celebrity Cruises. Lisa and Celebrity have achieved global impact, earning her a reputation as a trailblazer bringing transformation, diversity, and inclusion into the travel and hospitality industry and onto bridges of ships.Support the show

Joy unpacks what Social Bloat is (a term she coined) and how to build social skills and your talent, to be more discoverable to your audience, potential clients and connections.  In a world gone wild with AI, how can we authentically create and present ourselves as real life humans with experience, to forge greater opportunities? It's a skill to be developed, a craft and an opportunity to listen keenly and get up to speed on how to be seen on socials and make digital assets - when you don't want to be an influencer, go viral or be an instant celeb!  A great listen for entrepreneurs and employees seeking to break out of the box, to create their own opportunities and new connections.  Joy's Instagram https://instagram.com/joypereiracreative  Love Listening? Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/joypereira Joy's Website www.joypereira.com Joy's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-pereira-43428025/   Music by Twinmusicom

The federal government has reached a deal with Google to pay Canadian media companies. We'll see if Taproot makes the cut. Meanwhile, city council makes a cut to the proposed budget adjustment increase.Here are the relevant links for this episode:Budget News Release: City Council confirms fall budget adjustments Edmonton city council approves 6.6% property tax hike for 2024 Jennifer Rice 'Hostile work environment': Former staff accuse Edmonton city councillor of bullying amid high office turnover Audio recording of Edmonton councillor Rice's argument with staff reveals turmoil in office Keith Gerein: Edmonton Coun. Jennifer Rice has no one to blame but herself for her failures in office Edmonton mayor 'deeply concerned' about bullying allegations against councillor Rice 'Toxic and abusive': Former staffers accuse Jennifer Rice of bullying while Edmonton councillor dodges questions Warehouse ParkProject aims to entice families, spur developmentBill C-18 Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act Mack's interview with Jessica Ng on CBC Edmonton Connor McDavidEdmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid named one of NHL's stars of the weekEl NiñoNo-snow November: El Niño could mean a warm and dry winter for EdmontonThis episode was sponsored by the University of Alberta Sustainability Council, the School of Urban and Regional Planning, the Edmonton Metro Region Board, the City of Edmonton, Coun. Ashley Salvador, and Coun. Michael Janz. Strong Towns is coming to Edmonton for a Dec. 13 event and Dec. 14 workshop. This is a unique opportunity to take part in a growing dialogue on sustainable, economically resilient urban development in Edmonton. Keynote by Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn. Tickets are $30 for Dec. 13 and $22 for Dec. 14. (You can go to one or both.) Speaking Municipally listeners can get 50% off with the offer code TAPROOT, while supplies last.Speaking Municipally is produced by Taproot Edmonton, a source of curiosity-driven original stories, curated newsletters on various topics, and locally focused podcasts, all in the service of informing Edmontonians about what is going on in their community. Sign up to get The Pulse, our weekday news briefing. It's free! ★ Support this podcast ★

It feels like every digital offer nowadays if "made in China" quality and it ticks me off. Honestly, it ruffles my feathers more than it probably should, but when I know there are people spending their hard-earned money on these offers and 75% of them will feel like it was a waste... it irks me hardcore. Especially when it is SO EASILY AVOIDABLE! Now, I am not talking about the small percentage of people who buy, but then do no work. Or who hires someone and expects the service provider to do it all while they do nothing but complain about getting little to no results. These are NO ONE'S Ideal Customers so they aren't even counted in this analysis I am offering, lol. I am talking about the low effort, low-quality, easily-Googleable info-laden offers out there with overinflated pricing because they have positioned themselves as experts (the whole "expert thing is also a Hot Take but that's a different topic for a different episode" I am about to lay some scientifically backed, proven truth on you that will hopefully help you differentiate the green and red flags in offers you are thinking about spending money on. Alright, let's dive into the episode! ________ Don't forget to screenshot this and tag me @thecourtneyrogers.co if you got any value from it! To

Discover the power of working with a Destination Management Company (DMC). Crothúr Murphy, Owner and Managing Director of Crafted Ireland, provides insight into the immense value that DMCs bring to the travel industry. Learn the role of a DMC and how they can create unique and personalized experiences for clients. From helicopter rides to private lunches and exclusive access to historical sites, Crafted Ireland goes above and beyond to create extraordinary moments. Crothúr explains the multitude of benefits of working with a DMC, the challenges they face, the importance of trust and communication between the DMC and the travel advisor, and much more. Tune in to learn all about the world of DMCs from the perspective of a quintessential example of a specialized DMC! About Crothúr Murphy: Crothúr Murphy, Owner and Managing Director of Crafted Ireland, embarked on his career in hospitality as a driver guide, laying the foundation for his profound connection with Ireland's landscapes and culture. Drawing from this invaluable experience, he envisioned and established Crafted Ireland, a luxury Destination Management Company (DMC). Crothúr's unwavering passion for his homeland shines through as he curates bespoke travel adventures that showcase Ireland's rich culture and natural beauty. Committed to responsible tourism, he creates lasting memories for travelers seeking authentic Irish experiences. Craftedireland.com Today we will cover: (03:15) Crothúr's background in the hospitality industry and Crafted Ireland (07:20) The role of a destination management company (DMC) (13:45) Leveraging creativity and enhancing Googleable experiences (16:00) How a DMC can advocate for the client's experience (19:30) Building trust between advisors and DMCs (22:35) The value of having a DMC in emergency situations (25:55) Working with difficult clients and red flag behavior (31:45) Reasons for declining a client (34:15) Turnaround time for itineraries (37:20) Understanding the pressure on both sides of the industry (42:45) How to communicate desired luxury touches to a DMC (47:15) Thoughts on DMCs charging fees (53:20) Trusted FIT Services and financial health of DMCs COMING SOON → Black Friday Sale: www.tiquehq.com/blackfriday (code: BLACKFRIDAY) TIQUE x Solstice Collective: Get $250 off your initial service commitment https://www.solstice-collective.com/tique _____ JOIN OUR NICHE COMMUNITY: https://www.tiquehq.com/join-niche FOLLOW ALONG ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tiquehq/ CHECK OUT OUR SERVICES & PROGRAMS: https://www.tiquehq.com/

Join us as we pull back the curtain on the travel industry, revealing the significance of trust-building and the rewards of attending Virtuoso Travel Week. Ever met someone who looks nothing like how you pictured them? That's what makes face-to-face meetings during these events so fascinating – familiar voices finally match faces. Guest Ashish Sanghrajka, a dear friend and travel enthusiast, shares his valuable insights into these networking opportunities, demystifying the ways we use emails and personal interactions to foster long-lasting relationships with both clients and suppliers.Ever been caught between packing too much and too little for your travels? We've got you covered. Ashish and Robin spill the secrets on how to pack light, from the magic of one carry-on bag and a backpack to the power of rubber bands and Velcro wrap cords. Never again leave behind that crucial prescription medication or, heaven forbid, your passport. But travel is more than just packing and trust-building; it's an intricate art of planning, timing, and experiencing. We wrap up with a look into the meticulous world of luxury adventure planning with Cline & Co Travel Consulting, known for crafting un-Googleable experiences. Buckle up, this episode is packed with useful insights to transform your travel game.Thanks for joining us on today's episode of The Intrepid Traveler podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate and review our show to help us reach even more aspiring travelers. Don't forget to check out our website, visit us on Facebook, Instagram or follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our latest epic travel adventures! Use the following links when planning your own travel!TRAVEL INSURED INTERNATIONALMEDJETVIRTUOSOPROJECT EXPEDITION

This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast, welcomes a special guest. In The Joy of Cruising  books, all the passionate cruisers I write about are special—whether they are “ordinary” cruisers with extraordinary stories, or “Googleable” individuals such as TV personalities, Grammy winners and nominees, a Hall of Famer, and UK's first non-royal, non-celebrity cruise ship Godmother. Today I am honored to welcome one of those Googleable individuals: Joseph Farcus, a veritable legend of cruise ship design, and author of the book, Design On the High Seas. I featured Joe in my new release The Joy of Cruising Again in a section called “The Fun Ships.” Joe's entrée into the world of cruising was in 1975 when the architectural firm he worked for, Morris Lapidus Associates, was engaged by Carnival Cruise Line to work on its 2nd former liner to add to its Mardi Gras. Morris Lapidus, renowned for its design of Miami's famed Fontainebleau Hotel, was commissioned to design the ship, which was renamed Carnivale, for its transformation into a cruise ship. Joe oversaw much of the work as the project manager on board at the shipyard and designed Carnivale's theater. By the time Carnival purchased its 3rd ship, a passenger/cargo ship that would become the Festivale, Joe had left Morris Lapidus. Joe approached Ted Arison, founder and CEO of Carnival, in an effort to obtain his first contract as an independent architect. Joe eventually got the contract to design Festivale, and it was a massive success, positioning the Fun Ships to launch their first build of a new ship, the Tropicale. Joe landed the contract to design the Tropicale and went on to design the next 30 Carnival ships. In 2000, he also began designing for Costa Cruises, Carnival's Italian subsidiary and designed 11 ships for them. Joe's last ship where he led the design for a Carnival ship was the Magic in 2011. He designed the Costa Diadema in 2014 before retiring later that year. Support the show

Girlypop, you're in for a surprise today! I've been keeping a verrry big secret from you and I'm finally ready to share it in this podcast episode. I've said it to a few people behind the scenes, but never openly so I'm pretty nervous! I don't want to spoil anything here, but you should know that it surrounds why my students all say they feel like they've never taken a program like mine before and they feel like my mentorship rocks their world. I'm always one to say we should be leading the tough conversations and say it loud and proud, so I'm taking my own advice and starting the conversation around something really important today. Dive in if you're feeling intrigued - I promise it's a good one! In this episode, I'm spilling the tea on: My biggest secret! My thoughts about the secret, people who've done things differently to me and why I feel the industry pushes something that's not necessary The promises I'm making to you as a mentor Episode Breakdown [03:03] My number one piece of feedback [04:43] Revealing the secret [06:53] What I've done in my business instead of [11:30] My thoughts around [32:56] My first promise to you: you'll always get fresh content [34:48] My second promise to you: support & love [35:36] My third promise to you: no conforming to typical standards [36:11] My fourth promise to you: no Googleable content [36:40] My fifth promise to you: I'll make you a better founder [37:16] My sixth promise to you: no “be me” method [38:03] My seventh promise to you: I won't be a yes woman [38:51] My eighth promise to you: I won't just blindly give you strategies Resources & Links In My World LIVE OFFERINGS Apply for the Sales Expert Minimind Apply for the 6F7F Mastermind July Cohort // Over 50% sold out  Join the No Figures to Six Figures Signature 8 Week Group Program waitlist LOW TICKET & FREE Purchase the replay for The Social Experiment - 2 Hour Live Event Sign up for The CEO Atelier: Our FREE vault of over 20 lessons, downloads & guest speakers LET'S CONNECT FURTHER Join me on Instagram: DM me “Close Friends” to be added to the list See everything else at my website, natashazoryk.com YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Episode 12. Top Reasons Why Industry Leaders Consistently Hire Me Episode 17. 15 Hard Truths on Being a Coach/Mentor/Service Provider Episode 21. How Clients Invest $20K+ in Less Than an Hour of Finding Me

Google us, we show up. In this episode we talk about WWE, AEW, Video Games, Hookah, Vape and more! Happy Birthday Amanda trends on Twitter!

When I decided to obey a divine command to step away from social media, I had no idea that it would be the beginning of a journey full of unexpected revelations. Little did I know that this break would bring me clarity and peace, and challenge me to rethink my reliance on social media - inspiring me to create a brand that was authentically mine. If you're feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the amount of time and effort you're putting into trying to grow a sustainable photography business without relying on social media yet not seeing any tangible results, then you are not alone! Highlights in this episode: Discover the benefits of a 45-day social media detox for enhanced personal growth and clarity. Uncover the power of brand authenticity in expanding your photography business without relying on social media. Learn practical strategies to tackle social media addiction and achieve a balanced marketing approach. Understand the importance of prioritizing SEO and client experience for long-term business success. Recognize the role of mindful social media usage in preventing burnout and promoting intentionality. Key takeaways: Delete social media apps from your phone to take a break from the constant noise and distractions. Focus on SEO, podcasting, and improving your life and business during the social media break. Build a unique and authentic brand to showcase what makes you special as a photographer. Create a bangin' client experience that treats your clients like valued and appreciated humans, leading them to want to promote your name. Work on becoming more Googleable by incorporating keywords into your website, blogging regularly, and setting up a Google Business account. Download the free PDF How to Run Your Photography Business in 15 Hours a Week or Less to learn how to manage your time effectively without relying on social media. Place a 15-minute restriction on your social media apps to limit your time spent on them. Turn off push notifications for social media and email apps to avoid constant distractions. Message Brittnie on Instagram to share your thoughts on cutting down social media time or taking a break completely. Learn exactly what you need to be doing in order to run your photography business in 15 hours a week or less. Get the PDF. You deserve to have a passionate advocate and a creative thinker by your side to help you build your dream business. If you're ready to take the guesswork out of building a profitable business that fits your life - without hustling every ounce of your free time - it's time to invest in a coach. Learn more about 1:1 coaching. Connect with Brittnie: Website: brittnierenee.com/photographers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittnierenee_photo/

Eric Nash of Feels Like Weezer and The Almost Famous Minute joins Rob this week as Sally tells Harry how she really feels.

If you have found yourself wondering "is this it?" or questioning your career as a physician, you will be comforted and inspired by Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown's story.As an employed physician, she was doing well for herself, by definition. But she felt unsettled and unsure. She didn't have another idea for a business, but she knew she needed more. And after listening to the EntreMD Podcast, she had a hunch that whatever she needed was within the EntreMD Business School.Her hunch was spot on! She joined and is absolutely thriving ... she's become the go-to in her area and was even interviewed on ABC recently. She's partnered with Babycenter and, this isn't for everyone, but she turned in her resignation for employment and is going all in on her business starting in June!To have the freedom to choose that is the gift that EntreMD Business School aims to give through its education and support specifically for physician entrepreneurs. Learn more about EBS and Dr. Funke's journey in today's quick podcast episode.// COMMUNITY: EntreMD Private Group on FacebookJoin a group of physicians who have decided to build profitable businesses, so they have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on their terms.https://www.facebook.com/groups/entremd// FOLLOWFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/drunachukwuInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/drunachukwuYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@DrUnachukwuTikTok -  https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.unaLinkedIn - www.linkedIn.com/in/druna// WORK WITH MEEntreMD Business School - https://www.entremd.com/business

Hey hey loves! The Creatress podcast is getting a rebrand! We will now be Girl Chat Collective; THE place to get the lowdown on all things related to the female experience from crushes, to strange period symptoms, love, and women's health. We're going to dish on all things girl talk to all of your "Googleable" questions. The first episode comes out February 17th at noon EST. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/katiewilliams/message

On this episode of The Score, we look at cheating from a different angle than we have before. Our guest is Dave Tomar. From 2001 to 2010, Dave worked as the ultimate ghostwriter. He was a contract cheater. He wrote thousands of college essays, reports, and even master's degree thesis. After a decade of putting words into other people's work, Dave Tomar put the cheating life behind him. He's since written two books about his experiences. Dave Tomar (05:26): Well, I saw quickly that this type of service was popular with my classmates. But I had no idea how large the demand was, and when you start working for these companies, suddenly it's not simply that you're getting paid to write, it's that you have more writing work than you can handle, which was a unique and exciting position for me to be in, honestly. Dave Tomar (07:58): Yeah, it was a bit of a barter system as well on the college campuses. But no, the real difference was that while I was charging between $10 and $20 a page, both independently and while working for online companies, the online companies were charging twice that. I would get half of it, but that was the model for profitability. As an independent contractor, I would get half, they would get half, so I was essentially learning that I could have been charging twice as much on campus. However, it was worth splitting the proceeds because the work was so plentiful.Kathryn Baron (09:19): About what did you earn a year?Dave Tomar (09:21): I probably started when I went full-time earning just a little over $30,000, which so you know, was a raise from my legitimate job. By the end, bear in mind, inflation now applies, but this was 2010, I think I earned about $66,000 in my peak year. Kathryn Baron (10:00): Do you have any sense of how many independent contractors like yourself there are working for these companies? Dave Tomar (10:07): Certainly thousands. Every company that I've worked for has a different size pool. Some of them, you could tell was a couple of dozen, but others were sort of these broad online syndicates where when you get a sense of the surface level of this industry, there are big faces looking out to customers, but there maybe 20 of them affiliated with the same writing pool. The back door that I worked in for one company was a name that you would never see in public, but they pulled in assignments from a couple of dozen different outlets that are pretty well-known, and so that was a pool of hundreds. Now, when you get to the real essay mills, which are some of the lower-grade ones that might be operating overseas with even fewer rules, they could be working with stables of thousands. Dave Tomar (11:11): The smaller companies would actually reach out to you with individual assignments. They'd say, "You interested in this one? You interested in this one?", which is a bit of a clunky model, but I certainly have worked that way. The best companies that I have worked for use an automated system. You go onto a page like cheat.com and you order your assignment, and it automatically shows up on a board that I and hundreds of other writers have access to. As soon as it shows up, it tells me when it's due, what it's about, what the college level/graduate level is, and how much I'm going to get paid to do it, and you click the right button, and it goes into your box and you are responsible for it. From there, have it done by the deadline. Dave Tomar (16:19): Now, this one's really important, and I have to pull attention to the fact that when I read the typos and the grammatical errors in there, I don't do so to mock this student, I do so to point out that this is a master's-level student, and this is how their written communication appears. You can't help but look at that email and say, "This person really lacks the academic qualifications to write the assignment that they're outsourcing." It's an important point that I like to make a lot, which is that this desperation. This is not to dismiss the ethical implications of this conversation, but from a practical standpoint, this guy could not write this assignment, and that's just a fact. Dave Tomar (18:58): The rule is this, and this is an important thing to note about these paper-writing companies as well, revisions are important, repeat business is important, satisfied customers are important. Dave Tomar (20:09): I worked with students through a full course, a full semester, three years of a program, you name it. If you're working with a student on a thesis, or a dissertation, I know professors always say, "Well, how is that even possible? We're constantly meeting, and they have to defend this and there's feedback." Well, it's good-paying money because you are basically the student's just a liaison between you and the professor at that point. Professor gives some feedback, the student brings it to you, and I say, "Okay, well, I got to work on my thesis a little." That was how that process worked, so repeat business was important. Writer requests were very common. Not only that, but once you start buying assignments and submitting them in somebody's voice, a savvier student knows not to raise red flags, so sticking with the same writer is usually a good idea. Dave Tomar (21:24): Yeah. Well, it helps for students that go to school like the one that I did because Rutgers University was so large, and in so many contexts, so impersonal that it was maybe nobody's looking. I witnessed it enough with my customers at Rutgers that it was a very, very easy thing to get away with when you're dealing with graders and TAs and the professors teaching the course, but you never have once interacted with this person. That's a very commonplace thing in a larger school. Now, I'm not saying that is the scenario always, but just as an example of how easy that might actually be to get away with. Kathryn Baron (22:08): Well, this is a huge business, and I have to say, I was flabbergasted at how many of these companies exist. You list in one of the books, I think The Complete Guide to Contract Cheating (https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Contract-Cheating-Higher-Education/dp/B0B45C7LNJ), at the end, you have a list of about 470 cheating companies. You make a note that this is just a partial list. They operate like any other business. I looked up one company on the list at random and it made no attempt to obscure what it's selling. Kathryn Baron (22:59): Yeah, and I thought, "How do these companies avoid detection when the way they're just so obvious and blatant with their advertising?" Dave Tomar (23:12): Well, first of all, you can't avoid detection because that's poor marketing. It's really, visibility is actually extremely important. …Number two, and most importantly, this is the thing I do my best to impress upon educators at every single turn. It is very, very common and understandable to think of this as this sort of black market for papers. Dave Tomar (24:16): Sure, it's a shady business, but it's not like drug dealing where these people are lurking in the shadows. It is an out-in-the-open business. It operates like an out-in-the-open business. Dave Tomar (25:20): These are real companies, and they operate real companies and if we think of them as these shady black market/drug-dealing type of companies, then we undermine their danger. I paid taxes when I did this job, they paid taxes. It was very normalized, workaday sort of life with customer service, and everything else. While there are certainly shady companies out there, I think that's probably true of every industry, those are not the ones that are going to survive in the long run. The companies that I worked for 20 years ago are still there and there is a reason. Kathryn Baron (35:30): Did you ever hear back on what grades you earned? Dave Tomar (35:35): No, not really. It's funny. I know I read an email where the customer requested that they needed to have a certain grade. However, it was our official policy that we didn't guarantee grades. As a matter of fact, to get back to the legal language, we made it very clear that these were study guides and that they were by no means meant to be submitted in a classroom, and so if you did that, then the consequences were really on you, and if you told me you didn't like the grade you got, then you have violated the conditions of our agreement. Kathryn Baron (36:13): Oh, gosh. Well, yeah, that's kind of like Chegg saying, "This is just to help you understand how to answer the question." Dave Tomar (36:19): A hundred percent like. That's exactly what it is. Dave Tomar (37:40): As we led with, anytime anybody would ask what I did, I'd say, "Well," very frankly, "I help students cheat for a living." And people were just filled with questions about that. It took me a while to connect the dots that "Wow, people don't realize this goes on." It is very much out in the open. I was always very much out in the open. The companies are very readily Googleable. It was news to me to find out that people in education specifically were just not aware.

Are you that person?  If you're not, you definitely know someone who is!

This week T.C. and Riq discuss who should buy WWE, oldest active wrestlers, best Flo Rida themes, excessive bleeding in wrestling matches, Prison Dom Mysterio, and the Bloodline sabotaging Sami Zayn. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ykwrestling/message

This week's episode of Good Girls Get Rich is brought to you by Uplevel Media CEO and LinkedIn expert, Karen Yankovich. In this episode, Karen discusses 3 easy ways to build your credibility. Credibility is one of the best things a brand can have. How do you build credibility? Here's how.  #GoodGirlsGetRich We want to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave us a message on Speakpipe or email us at info@karenyankovich.com.   About the Episode: How credible are you? This is one question that sends chills down many people's spines.  Let's be honest for a moment, do you like it when people question your credibility?  Credibility is one of the best things a brand can have. A credible brand wins the day all the time. Many of us still need to learn how to go about building our credibility. In this episode, I share three easy tips to help you build credibility and help your brand stand out from your competition.  Build your LinkedIn Profile: If you are not on LinkedIn, you miss many things. Your competitors have the time of their lives with clients you could be serving. One of the best things you should do for your brand after listening to this episode is to create a LinkedIn profile that is irresistible to your target audience. Make it about them. Media: I cannot insist enough on how much media boosts your credibility. You can make use of paid or earned media. Have a budget for paid media and a monthly plan to appear on earned media like podcasts, magazine interviews, etc. Check out this episode with Rhonda Swan for more information. Testimonials and Recommendations: To boost your credibility a notch higher, you need to become a collector of testimonials. When someone says something nice about what you do, use it as a testimonial (with their permission). Be bold and ask people for testimonials. Also, ensure you have them on your LinkedIn and your website. LinkedIn carries more weight. Would you like to hear more? Listen to this episode.   Episode Spotlights: Where to find everything for this week's episode: http://karenyankovich.com/220 A little story: A life experience [05:43] How to build your credibility [07:26] Take care of your LinkedIn profile [07:27] Media: paid and earned media [10:00] Testimonials and recommendations [12:26]   Magical Quotes from the Episode: "We live in a world of everything's Googleable. The person with the best brand wins, period." "People are not coming to you; you must go after that media." "Testimonials and recommendations give you so much power."   Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Episode 211 with Rhonda Swan Sign up for the She's LinkedUp Masterclass Join my free Facebook Group if you have any questions about today's episode   Help Us Spread The Word! It would be awesome if you shared the Good Girls Get Rich Podcast with your fellow entrepreneurs on Twitter. Click here to tweet some love! If this episode has taught you just one thing, I would love if you could head on over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you're moved to, kindly leave us a rating and review. Maybe you'll get a shout out on the show!   Ways to Subscribe to Good Girls Get Rich: Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe via PlayerFM You can also subscribe via Stitcher Good Girls Get Rich is also on Spotify Take a listen on Podcast Addict

Is everything really Googleable? There's tons of information that can be found via search, but there will always be gaps of information that can transform someone's life that isn't going to be found through a search engine. Instead these gaps can be filled when we have conversations with experts or people who've had real-life experiences, who can then inform us about the best course of action to take. In this episode, I'll share why conversations often lead to clarity. Free Book Toolbox: bit.ly/booktools Let's work together! Book a sales call -> https://tinyurl.com/4naa5nkz Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_ideatoink  

What is Googleable? Why did Ebony become a hybrid publisher? What is a hybrid publisher? Ebony Nicole is the founder and CEO of Ebony Nicole Smith Consulting, LLC, a boutique writing, and publishing company based in Rochester, New York. She is a writing coach and publishing engineer to faith-based men and women who desire to release the book God gave them. She is a 2015 ROC Awards nominee for Author of the Year, recipient of the 2019 and 2020 Kingdom Visionary Society Honors award, Mayoral Recognition for Small Business in Rochester NY 2020, and a recipient of the 2020 100 Successful Women in Business award. She is a 10x author and helped over 40 aspiring and seasoned authors write and publish their books. Ebony Nicole has launched over 100 aspiring authors on their journeys to becoming published authors with her Bold Writer's Strategy Writing Masterclass. An author by passion, transformational speaker by experience, and a woman of God by calling, Ebony Nicole wears many hats. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/editorknowsbest/support

In ep 106, we bring back a very important episode, "How My Side Business Generated 300k With No Ad Spend." This episode will give people a breakdown of what small businesses will be able to do when they don't have a large budget and you may not be able to run ads. These are strategies you can implement that will allow you to start carving out space within your niche and start building authority and awareness of your brand.  Creating content and learning how to be Googleable allows your business to be found when most of your competitors cannot be found online for the exact same products or services you might be selling. To learn more about "Becoming Googleable", check out our upcoming workshop.   Want to learn more about building your digital presence and monetizing your platforms? Check out KeronRose.com. Stay up to date on the Digipreneur FM podcast by checking out the website and subscribing to our push notifications or Email Lists.

In ep 105, we break down exactly why your business needs to be Googleable. Think about this, whenever you have a question, your back is hurting, you need to find out who got standing desks for the office, or you have a question about insurance, the first place people tend to go with their questions or queries. There begins the customer journey.  Check out the upcoming workshop "Becoming Googleable" as we show you how to have your business show up in the search engines and increase your discoverability.   You can also learn more about building your digital presence and monetizing by checking out KeronRose.com. Don't forget to subscribe to the email list on the Digipreneur FM website to stay up to date on all things related to the podcast.

We're taking a week off from parent and child relationships, but in the meantime, we wanted to share an incredible episode of a podcast we love, Curious State. Curious State is all about uncovering unexpected answers to un-Googleable questions. This episode asks the question, "What's it like in the Pixar writers' room?" If you or your child is obsessed with Pixar movies, you're going to love this episode! And if you do, subscribe to Curious State wherever you listen to Project Parenthood.Subscribe to Curious State: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | More Apps

Top secret! We're talking about NDAs, non-disclosure agreements. What's an NDA? It's an agreement between you and the company saying that you won't share information about the company outside of the company. These are shared whether you're an employee or a contractor. Sometimes you sign an NDA when you're interviewing, which means that whatever you learn during the process you can not take back to your current employer. If you're working on a secret project at work, your NDA says that you don't tell anyone about what you're working on. At least not the details of it. So, what do you do when someone asks what you're working on?? Kat advises you make a joke like, “I'd tell you, but then I'd have to..”. You can tell people that you can't wait until it becomes public and you can talk more openly about it. You can also say to people, “There's a lot going on at work, and maybe if you Google it you can figure it out.” Internal Use Only means do not forward, and if you don't listen, you could find yourself in legal hot water. Sometimes, when talking about things that are top secret, we have to realize that not everyone has the same amount of knowledge, so fishing to see who knows what could get you into hot water. If you know about something that isn't public knowledge, you don't want to be asking about it in case you make people curious and they find out things they should not know about. On your first day, make sure to ask for a copy of everything you sign and make sure you take the time to read it. Always know what you're signing and make sure you can honor it. When you leave a company, it's ok to ask for your signed documents. You will want to review them for non-solicitation language (and time limits -- for example, you may not be able to refer someone from that company for 12 months without violating your agreement) before you refer someone from there. Be informed to make sure you honor everything you've signed. If something is Googleable, it's in the public domain, but if it's not, it's probably under NDA and you don't want to be the leak -- so keep it to yourself!

Are quizzes and puzzles dying in the era of the internet - where any answer is seemingly a click away - or can they be Google-proofed? This week, we ask our in-house crossword expert to tell us what types of questions create answers that are hard to search for, how a puzzle question should be structured, and what features make for a good puzzle. We also discuss what makes something un-Googleable and consider the implications for human knowledge sharing. If listening to this podcast doesn't make want to go to your next local pub quiz night, nothing will. A few things we mentioned in this podcast: - Quizmaster devises Google-proof questions to stop pub quiz smartphone cheats https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/quizmaster-devises-google-proof-questions-to-stop-878011 - Google-ability and Google ability http://ken-jennings.com/blog/archives/46 - ‘How Google Works', according to Google developers (note: this doesn't tell you how Google works) https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/how-search-works - The ‘Tip of my Tongue' subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ - Cognitive Engineering podcast: Why do we like puzzles? https://alephinsights.com/podcast/2021/01/why-do-we-like-puzzles For more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com or to get in touch about our podcast email podcast@alephinsights.com Image via BristolLive

First Sunday | Googleable by The Drunken Knights

This week the girls answer the listeners assumptions about them including whether they are UBER rich, who was popular in high school and who's really the nice one. The girls also discuss the #Freebritney/#BritneyFreed movement and the times when being Googleable paid off.   Visit www.TheHydrojug.com with code MODEL for 10% off Produced by Dear Media

This week: new albums from Hollie Smith and '68, and Electric Six unlock their inner RSL covers band. Also: two kinds of (other people's) music, more brass than class, the Guardian's lost-and-found section, Squires on the A-League, tears before bedtime, the Boss can't count, un-Googleable bands, coherence of purpose, things we can do without, Doc's favourite album of 2017, Ladyhorse, I've been to Goodna but I've never been to me, A Very Paul Kelly Christmas, Staffo's Patreon yarn with Ash Naylor, lord of the flies, lawnmower fuel and shamlessly shilling for contra.  Next week: Lisi, Warbly Jets and Even bring the new new. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we've reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The dynamic duo is back this week with lukewarm and just below boiling hot takes on a few topics we feel a way about. Starting off we share love and appreciation for the late Michael K Willams. After that it's basically an Unrefined hour. The things we don't understand about the why behind people's social media questions...when it's easier to google or just not a thing you ask strangers for. Would you take 500K untaxed cash or a dinner with Jay-Z? Hint...THE MONEY...Every Time! Morg also takes a stand on men and their inability to be good friends with anyone. From there we talk horse medicine being used as a covid virus cure according to not science.  You know we are good for a few tangents so listen up and get unrefined one time! Grab a red cup and pour up! 

It should be obvious by now that Google can provide the answer to virtually any question anyone has, but that's just not obvious to everyone.Invariably, someone in your network ends up being the one that gets asked these questions and if that's you, have we got a suggestion for you! The next time you get those obviously Googleable questions, send them to LMGTFY!

It stands for Let Me Google That For You: http://lmgtfy.comType their question into the search box and click on the Get Link button to get started.Once you have the link, send it to the person that could use a gentle tutorial on how Google can easily provide the answers to the question that they asked much faster.The cool thing is that when they click on the link you sent them, the LMGTFY website will literally take them through the steps to ask the question on their own.This is one of the fun and educational tools that everyone can enjoy!

In this episode the guys discuss UFO's, Talking to Aliens, Carnival Courage, Charles Grodin, Burger King's Ch'King chicken sandwich, White Castle, Wing men, and much more..... And by the way We're Googleable!!!!

I am a mentor for the Notion Advanced track of Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain, Cohort 12. This is the cleaned up audio of the first of 5 mentorship sessions with Q&A at the end. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yY46bq527SyDCI3IgzMNrkumOnrhYwI9VeuhdGqr3Dg/edit?usp=sharingTimestamps Intro [00:00:28] Why Build A Second Brain [00:07:58] Content Recap [00:09:32] Breakout Session [00:11:53] The CODE methodology [00:15:44] Q&A: Work vs Personal Capture Apps? [00:18:11] Q&A: Should I Capture Googlable Stuff? [00:19:55]  Q&A: Physical Book notes? [00:22:48] Q&A: Starting for the first time [00:24:23] Q&A: How to turn notes to action? [00:25:53] Q&A: Processing Notion vs SimpleNote [00:28:36] Capture Thinking [00:31:47] Q&A: Podcast Notes? [00:33:41]  Q&A: Grabbing notes on the go [00:37:06] Q&A: I dont like any of my apps, what do I do? [00:43:46] Q&A: Security & Privacy [00:46:31] Q&A: Triaging Information to be Productive [00:49:35] Q&A: Outdated content [00:51:46] Question: Defining Dealbreakers [00:53:25]  Transcript swyx: [00:00:00] So we're here for BASB week one capture and I'm Shawn also known as Swyx. And I was part of cohort 10 and I'm back again to try to go through the new content. I know that Tiago has re-recorded a bunch of this stuff. Some of the content has changed and also just meet people. I think that you know something best when you teach it. So I do encourage you,  as you go through this journey to try to teach it to your friends or family members and you retain that much better as well.  Intro [00:00:28] Okay. A little bit of self intro, and then we'll go into the specifics. I'm going to basically try to recap the stuff that we covered this week, and then try to get some feedback from you and get you talking amongst yourself. On some of the questions that were raised this week.  So hey, I'm Swyx I blog at swyx.io, I am a finance guy, turned developer. That's a long story. I just compressed there. We used to work at Netlify AWS, that's Amazon web services for the non-technical people. And now I'm currently head of developer experience at Temporal dot IO. I helped to run the React-TypeScript CheatSheet, which is one of the ways in which I build a second brain which is very specific for developers. Probably a bunch of you here are developers. I see Glenn is using reveal dot JS and I also wrote the coding career handbook as my capstone for building a second brain last year. So, part of the reason why this is a notion advanced course, even though I'm like not a huge notion expert is because we are very focused on trying to get people to produce output. So not just getting comfortable with the habits but also producing by blogging, speaking, and writing and hopefully making money. I'm very keen on helping people to make money with their second brains. Okay. So, I'm from Singapore. These are the pictures that I, I tweeted this once basically saying Singapore's that would kind of Asia. It's not usually so super overexposed like this, so don't come here and be super disappointed. But it does look pretty great. It does have a lot of manmade slash nature blended with it. And it is home for me. So, happy to answer any questions about Singapore. Alright. So here's a brief history of my blogging. This is me in 2016. Nobody knows about this.  I never talked about this. This is me on medium writing, trying to get into the whole content creation game and not really having much results. So this is my attempt at thought leadership and not really, and just engaging with stuff that I thought was interesting.  I was very into voice user interfaces because I coded an Alexa skill and at the time Alexa was going to be this huge thing is going to take over the planet. Yeah. And then just kept blogging and then just like fell off. And I think a lot of people here probably have some experience of this where like you tried to get started, didn't go anywhere and then you just stopped. And I think it's very authentic and original And I'm here to say that I'm one of you, I've definitely been there. The first real hit was when, because I started reading and listening to Ben Thompson got a bit lost in Ben Thompson's universe. And so decided to make a map. And so I applied some of my data analysis skills.  this was my first hit because it focused on a person and a prominent person at that, and it solves a problem for myself that other people had. And that was my first real breakthrough, like all these previous ideas were just things I had in my head that nobody cared about. And then. When you focus on such a small, specific topic as one person. And it's such a small specific question as how do you rank things? You perform a service that other people are interested in because I also had that same problem. So I think that was the beginning of my journey as to how do I productionize this second brain or like writing system towards building a network, towards building a reputation for myself, and then just making things that people want to read. So since then I have become a reasonable React/TypeScript/ JavaScript developer, happy to talk about tech stuff after the one hour, because we try to keep this general and inclusive. But this has probably been one of my major projects, which essentially running the community documentation for React and TypeScript developers. I teach a thousand people a day, React and TypeScript off of this thing. And it's literally my second brain of how to react and TypeScript and people from Uber, Microsoft, Airbnb, you name it, they've all contributed and taught me stuff as I have taught them. It's just really great when you start to do these advanced forms of second braining I call this open source knowledge in the way that people can give back. So second brain is, is often very one way. And when you can open source your knowledge it can be very powerful. So happy to talk about that as well, but I'm just giving you a brief overview of like what I do. I also have been focusing a lot on marketing, right? Every time you do something, you should also tell people that you've done it otherwise does it really exist. So framing it in things in ways in which people understand, and then tagging people who have had the exact pain points really starts to accelerate your growth as someone who learns in public.   I also have been getting pretty steadily into the personal blogging. This is me getting serious last year in January, and then going from 20,000 uniques to 35,000 and now 40 ish. This is April. But with occasional, really big spikes, I think something you suddenly everyone should understand about blogging is that. It's a very hits driven business, and you put out your it's a very common phenomenon to put out all your effort into something and then have it fall completely flat and then spend two hours on a rant and then just see that go viral. The effort is completely disconnected with the results and you should be okay with that because ultimately you're working through something. You're trying to log something for yourself. And it's it's always a side benefit or side effects if other people feel the same way too. I do definitely preach the idea of having a  public second brain as something that is a single-player game that can optionally become multiplayer. But if you start off only evaluating it as a multiplayer game that where nobody plays with you, then you're likely to not continue playing that game.   And then finally I also started writing for money, right? So I as part of my BSB cohort, 10 capstone, I decided to write a book. I launched it after BSB ended. I gave myself two weeks, it took her two months to write. And then it started making money. By launch day. Cause I did some pre-sales and made 25 K, after about a couple months and got to 50 K across the a hundred K a few months ago. And it's still going and I'm still doing a fair amount of marketing on that. So if anyone here is interested in writing a book and self publishing this is the place for you as well.   Finally the, my new project this year has been audio notes which is, I think a pain point of a lot of people going through BSB. They're like I listen to a lot of podcasts and there are no good tools to do podcasting notes. I am not here to say that I have the right answer, but I have a answer and I'm trying to make it work. It is a personal podcast where I clip selections and share it with friends and publish it. And sometimes it gets picked up by the people who are in the podcasts and that is a very rewarding way to do audio notes as well. So happy to talk about that.  Great. So a couple of ground rules here. So I don't like this idea that people say, there are no stupid questions there obviously are if you just it's enough people people ask really weird shit, but it's okay. It's okay to ask them here. We are all learning and sometimes if you have them on your mind other people do as well. And what's important is that there are no consequences and you're not judged. And you really genuinely have them. And that's fine. I have them too.  Rule number one. People do this a lot with BASB. You paid a lot for this course. Tiago is a very organized and smooth presenter. And you might think that you might have to do it. Perfect. Don't because you will fail. I don't do it perfect. I don't even use notion very well. But try to do it often, it's more about the habit rather than having like clean and, perfectly organized notes. Rule number two which is the third rule. I'm not an expert here, I'm just the facilitator, right? Like, so I'm just trying to help you in your journey. I've been on this journey as well. And I can't speak to everything. I will say "I don't know" a lot and that's okay. Because someone else here in this group might know the answer and I just here to connect with people. Why Build A Second Brain [00:07:58] Okay. So a little bit of a survey question. I just want to see where people are at. We have about 86 -Oh my God. 86 people here. Why do you want to build a second brain? That's let's see it in the chat. That's see see a bunch of Zoom chat responses. We'll do a couple of breakout sessions later as well. Just based on the assignments that you've been given, but I just want to see why people are here. Why did you do this course? If you're a second time person here, a lot of the advanced people are second timers, why did you do it again?  Okay. Jose says get peace of mind. Glen says to put things out there, Peter says manage the flood of incoming information. I don't know if you can see this. If I put the chat on the screen, I think you can't because the zoom doesn't work like that. Elaine says to sharpen the saw that's a reference to the seven habits of highly effective people. Thi says, create a point of view, which is very, very good. That's something that we picked up this week on the perspective economy.  John Harkness, I want to start producing more instead of endlessly learning new and cool things. Yes. We're done with this whole information overload and we need to productionize ourselves. Exactly.  Emma a says, I have a lot of interesting projects that I never finished and never show anyone else.  Ian says, how does the newsreel for explorations and rabbit holes?  There's a lot here and it's, I'm sorry. I can read out every ones. But yeah, these are all, these are like really great lessons. Sometimes I think Building a Second Brain is very much like the behind the scenes process of productionizing. But you start from abundance when you do this. You start from a bank of knowledge. So when you want to productionize you can really pull things together very, very quickly, and that's how I blog as well and write stuff.  Content Recap [00:09:32]  I'm going to briefly recap I don't know if this is useful for people so let me know. If like I view this as like a TA being part of the, this little mentor group, which is that let's recap what we learned this week.  I really liked this phrase, the prospective era that Tiago had where he recapped where we came from, we used to have a space economy where we were trading on physical resources. And then we had a time economy. Then we had an attention economy. And now that every spare second of our attention has been gobbled up. We're in a Perspective economy where the more important thing is that. Because we're flooded with information all the time. And I love this analogy because we're flooded. What do you do in a flood? You seek the high ground. And for us seeking the high ground is having a point of view from which you can look down and see everything in perspective rather than being overwhelmed by all the water around us.   Okay. So that's the first part, which I really like which is a little bit of the why. Why a second brain. But that's just a toggles perspective. And I think part of the reason why I want to hear about your perspectives is that we all have different approaches when we come to this thing and we all have different perspectives. It's a very personal point of view. So I really liked this quote as well, point of view is that is essentially a human solution to information overload in a world of hyper abundant content point of view will become the scarcest of resources which is very meta because you're going to have to develop a point of view on building a second brain. There is 30 mentor sessions and like two thousands, I don't know, little information, bits and items on the forums. You're getting information overload here. So, that's why I want you to have a point of view on building a second brain as well.  The other thing that we're going to cover is the 12 favorite problems. This is something I like a lot as well. I covered this in my own book, which is the Richard Feynman quote. If you already did this then great. I know that I actually did not do the whole exercise when I when I went through BSB the first time. But just a reminder too, to Chuck them here. This is your assignment for this week. Go onto building a secondary, not circle that. So, and throwing your toffee reforms. I would say that, in keeping with rule number one, which is don't try to do it perfect, do it often. You don't need 12, right? Three is good. Eight's good. You don't need 12. But you should have some amount of problems that you revisit time and time again, and you slot information into those problems. Cool. This a little workshop session now. So what I'm going to do is to break y'all into working groups and you can share with each other on your 12 favorite problems, we have 86 people here. Breakout Session [00:11:53] So we're going to try to make this I'm going to try to make this small, so I'm going to try to break people into 10 groups. Should we do that? And then  let's talk about, let's talk about what our top favorite phones are and share them. All right. And then we'll meet back in about three minutes.  I'll share one of mine, which is something I've been collecting for a long time. Maybe I should share this after people come back as well, but how do I ask better questions? That's my one, that's one of my favorite problems. It's I've been pursuing this for a long time.  Frank Amaya: [00:12:20] There's a few books around that, right? Like the power of questions. Yeah. There's a Tony Robbins talks a lot about how the quality, like he has a lot of really cool stuff on question asking  and the whole of the NLP work is on question asking and the idea that everything we think every thought is a question. So that's the question, but you can't not answer your question when you ask it. Yeah, it's kinda cool.   swyx: [00:12:42] Yeah, I don't even know what books there are on this topic. I've just been collecting other people's questions essentially.  Okay. Does anyone hanging out here have questions on this week's material? Or just want to say hi, you can unmute yourself  Okay. This is Ted smiley. How are you doing? Hey,  Speaker 1: [00:12:56] dad just saw I'm a student and I'm trying to become a data scientist. And I thought that that second brain would actually be a great tool for helping me to become, helped me to get my hands around all the information that's coming at me at one time and to be able to. In the future, it'd be able to answer questions and help with programming, setting things up, setting up my GitHub and other things like that. What are key things for a second brain in that area?  Well GitHub's pretty good. I think a personal blog, you're a developer you figure out how to put everything on a single domain and start publishing, small things that you learned. I can show you Ted. This guy, Josh Bradshaw has this as his repo where he has all his TILs, like Today I learned. When you learn something, when you learn some new snippet of code stick it somewhere. So if you are someone who codes and you're going to put together a second brain, you might as well make it public and you can categorize it according to CSS, elixir, dev ops Python. You probably do a lot of Python or R whatever. And just put in on your TILs. It doesn't have to be huge. It can just be a little code snippet like that. And that makes it reusable for you. But also it's extremely valuable to other people. And there's 10,000 people who've starred this repo.   Frank Amaya: [00:14:07] What you're doing is great. I think people just love seeing different approaches, so there's no right way, like you said, right? They're just your way.  swyx: [00:14:14] So people are falling back. We've got 10 more seconds for those who were away, I hope you had a good discussion on what your favorite problems are. I certainly would love to hear them and I will be seeing them on the circle forum. So, we don't have to go over there more here. I just want to, for those  during the break, I shared a little bit about one of my favorite problems, which is how do I ask a better question? I think that you asked the poor question and you get a poor answer. And I think a lot of the systems that we have set up for ourselves today are set up to give us very good answers right away to the questions that we ask. But sometimes it's limited by the quality of the question. It's a little bit like the Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy when  the aliens built earth to find the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything and they found the answer was 42. But then they were like, okay, but what's the question to that. And, and so I think that's very much what I'm seeking to, to build here. I'm finding the question to life, the universe and everything.  Okay. Christopher Horn says, how do we expand beyond our ability to ask questions? In other words, have the second brain ask the question. Wow. That is, that is deep. Christopher. I have no idea work on it, let us know.    So I'm going to keep going. We're still recapping a little bit about this week. I've been told that actually a lot of people, a lot of you might have already done a mentor sessions during the week. And so this may be a bit redundant which throws my plan off a little bit, but we'll just keep going. And we'll share a bit more and if you want to know more about how I do stuff feel free to just throw the question in the chat as well. And I can answer as well. The CODE methodology [00:15:44] Okay. A lot of the course is structured around code. And this is a little bit of my recap for you. And I think it's very easy and it's very common for people getting into the second brain movement to start devolving into discussion about tools like, Oh, what's your setup? What's your stack, if you're a developer. And a lot of what Tiago does is he doesn't, he talks about workflow rather than tool for the developers in the room. I think it's very comparable to Hashi Corp, which is this idea that you have, you don't try to port over everything. You just have a portable workflow pretty similar to the react native as well. If you if you tried to write once, run anywhere, you end up with Java. If you try to learn principles once, and then be able to write them anywhere, then you end up with react native, which is a lot more portable in terms of programming paradigm. Basically the tools will come and go. But the creative process is timeless and he's trying to teach the creative process. And so it's captured, organized, distill, and express. We're going to write things down and this, this week we're focusing on writing things down, right? Really just the capture habit, which I think a lot of people apart from Tiago, but also  a lot of other productivity authors focus a lot on then we're going to go into organized, distill and express. I think express is something that we're. In this group going to focus a lot on, because I want you all of you to produce, I'll put right to blog, to speak, to draw, produce videos and to write a book or something like that. Make a podcast, whatever. I really like these, this image as well that, like, this is a little bit about why we do things. I, I realize now that a lot of you have already covered these concepts, so I don't need to TA this as much as I was planning. I do like the point of what to capture because it's also very tempting and I'm an infovore just like you are it's very tempting to capture everything, right? There's this concept of like, what if I could track every single website I've ever visited and store them somewhere. And a lot of them are crap and you never really wants to see them again. So I think having a point of view on what to capture, make sense and for Tiago it's:  is it inspiring? Is it useful? Is it surprising? Is it personal?  And you have some sort of filter to a first degree of what you don't capture, which is things that are not useful, not surprising, not inspiring, so on and so forth. So having those rules makes a lot of sense. And but also I think it makes you have a trigger, right . Every habit needs a trigger, like when X happens, then Y so the moment you have the aha feeling, that's inspiring. Write it down, right. The moment you're like, I wish I knew this that's useful. Write it down. Especially when you're wrong, that's a point of opportunity to learn. And if you don't learn when you're wrong, then you're going to repeat it again.  Q&A: Work vs Personal Capture Apps? [00:18:11]  Okay. You know what, let's just stay  in this room. And have someone speak on has anyone tried to capture stuff? What have you been capturing and what's your pain points? And  share our experiences in this big room. Speaker 1: [00:18:21] Hi I can quickly go. So one of the pain points I've seen is that  I've tried oxygen and all of these other apps narrow down to a markdown- based app or plan. But the problem is that I find that I can switch over to Evernote, which fixes a lot of the gaps for me. And I am genuinely going to give it a shot, but the problem or the concern I have with Evernote is that I also have a lot of journal personal stuff that I write down, which I feel comfortable doing in a day one or a note plan Canada, which has all been stored locally.  And that's where I feel like, okay, now I have two apps and now how do I bring all of these thoughts together without losing my privacy? I want to give Evernote a shot, but I don't know if I ever feel comfortable enough to get my personal thoughts, raw thoughts into Evernote.  swyx: [00:19:02] So I'm curious what other people do with their journals versus their note taking. I have two apps. I do my journaling in one notes where there's a password feature and nothing else goes in there. And so even if someone, pwns my Notion, or like I leave it unlocked and someone accesses it and they don't find my journal, the best unit of isolation is just at the app boundary. Yeah.  Speaker 1: [00:19:22] But then do you ever worry that you may have some thoughts that may eventually lead to a blog post or an article that you've been thinking about? Like those things are getting lost. Do we ever worry about that since it's not part of your quote unquote second brain?  swyx: [00:19:34] Well, I mean, it's not hard to run a search twice. So no if you're recording anything that could potentially be public and future, that should go in  your public ish second brain, that you wouldn't mind anyone coming across and seeing it. And then the journal is private and will probably never, you'll never publish. That's fine. But you, do you want search on all of them in case you do need something in the future? For what's?  Q&A: Should I Capture Googlable Stuff? [00:19:55] Who else has like capture pinpoints or just want to talk about the stuff that you've been capturing? Speaker 3: [00:19:59] I can go Shawn, I've been thinking what to do when there is a specific piece of information that is easily Googleable. Like you can search and find it perfect for offers the usual with stack overflow type of question. Yeah. I feel really bad when I have to research it. Instead of in my personal second brain, I have to go into Google again and get the same thing. I was wondering how you personally deal with that. And if there is value in the first time you search it, you capture it.   swyx: [00:20:33] This is an important problem, I think. So the my quick answer is if you captured the first time you search it, that's probably too high fidelity. It's going to be very noisy and there's gonna be a lot of stuff that you only look up once and  you never need again. So I have this rule, which I call these three strikes rule for blogging. Where basically, I just tell you to wait for three strikes. Because the first time is like, you just heard about this idea and the second time you're like still trying to evaluate its usefulness and you're explaining it. And the third time you're like it's increasing probability every single time you refer to this idea or you look it up that you're really going to need it again in the future. So then you should start writing it and you should share your own authoritative link on it. And even if it's a pretty easy Googleable piece of information. You definitely have your own perspective on it. And there's a nice cleanness to just Googling, like your take on something. So, so, you can use the Google thing on like site colon. This is like a Google filter. Right. And it just only searches your site. Right. So when I, when I need to add Monaco editor, I just go to my source. Cause I wrote it. I had explained things that would make sense to me, even though I forgot how to do any of this. It would just lay it out in exactly the way that I would want it. And that's useful to someone because that's. People are going to find it because of you. So the way I, the way I phrase it for developers again, is to proxy the top stack overflow answer. And then the other usefulness is to have them indexed in some kind of central fashion, right? So, when I need anything related to TypeScript, I go here and I go like, Hey, what is a useful use case for passing both props? I could Google this, but because it's all organized in the way that I see fit it's useful to me and it's probably useful to others as well. So, marketers actually have a term for this. They call it a swipe file. So if you, you also see this for design and marketing and it's all the same concepts, right? Good marketing HQ. There we go. So this is a swipe file. Anytime I need something on referral marketing, I can go here and I can just say how did Hilton DoubleTree do referral marketing for word of mouth? And that, that gives me an idea of how to do my stuff. Right. So if you collect a swipe file of like just resources, you can look up any of these individually, but because they all, they're all in one place and they're all things that you've personally approved and written up. You not only remember them better, but people can find it as well  Q&A: Physical Book notes? [00:22:48]  do people have other thoughts on like capturing I I'm trying to focus it on the topic of the week, but also you can just ask me stuff about what I do for VSB. Speaker 4: [00:22:57] Yeah. I have a question. So yeah, I like to read physical books. I'm sure there's other people here who also like to read physical books and the difficulty with that is that when I'm reading, like in bed, like before I go to bed, I'll like highlight stuff. I'll, write notes and comments on the side of the book, but then like what's a good time to capture that into my second brain, should I do it like after I finished entire book. Or should I do it like right away, but I would prefer not to like take out my phone and, lose sorta like my context in the book. So I'm trying to figure out that for myself.  swyx: [00:23:31] So I have a confession, which is, I don't read much physical books.  I do prefer  the PDF in the minimalism of  not having to decide what to do with the book after I'm done with it. What do people do? Let's, let's throw it out to the group here. What do people do for a physical book note taking read wise, someone says, okay. I don't read physical books. We're in a post paper economy.  Frank Amaya: [00:23:50] Shawn Joyce has her hand up  swyx: [00:23:53] Joyce.  Speaker 3: [00:23:53] Yeah, no, I read physical books all the time and I have that exact problem is I'll be in a place where I'm comfortable and I'm not going to disturb my my train of process. And I'm just marking things down in the light or using post-its and I use the review process. So if I'm doing it at night and I'm, don't want to disturb what's going on when I get up in the morning and  I'll do a review and  they stay with me for it. They'll stay with me for a couple days. That's how I do it. Thank you. Thanks SREs. Yeah. Thanks.  Q&A: Starting for the first time [00:24:23] swyx: [00:24:23] Leslie also has something to say  Speaker 2: [00:24:25] Hi! Yes. I had a question about, basically I'm starting this for the first time. I'm very excited. I'm getting tons of tips about how to organize the things I'm consuming from now on. But I have so much information from that I've already been collecting from over the years. I'm just wondering what you would recommend for organizing what we already have.  swyx: [00:24:49] I mean this is the start of your capture habit,  I know you're fresh to this and  there can be a lot. Again, rule number two, don't try to capture everything, right. Just have a repeated process of it and look at this as an infinite game, rather than a finite one. Fortunately all of you are in the cohort where you have unlimited access to all future cohorts, so you can come back again whenever you want. So don't feel like you have to capture it, find something useful that you can put into practice and then practice it and then keep going, right? You're not here to capture everything because that's not your job. Your job is to work on yourself. I know the anxiety that comes with  Oh, I'm not getting everything. And there's like 200 conversations going on in circle reading all of them. Don't try and just find the thing that you really want to work on it, which is why there's this whole focus on the top favorite problems,  find out what you're here for and focus on that. And other people have other agendas that they're pursuing and you don't have to be in every conversation. Right.  Speaker 2: [00:25:40] Okay. Thank you. I just have one follow up with everything that we are capturing. There's so many, so, so much good advice around which types of contents I love the idea of what inspires me. What's personal to me. What surprises me, things like that.  Q&A: How to turn notes to action? [00:25:53] But do you have a way of turning basically what you consume into an action item? Ooh.  swyx: [00:26:00] Do I have a way of turning what I consume into an action item? So for me, my action item is blogging right now. That is the way I express myself, that's the way I could produce public output. There are other forms, tweeting videos. Talks. But they all secondary to blogging, cause I think that's the most scalable form of human output. So I have a list I can show you. I know that you all want it to be perfect. And I think there are some consultants out there who  really impose a lot of imposter syndrome. I'm here to show you the negative example of how imperfect it can be and still work. This is the way I blog. This is how I compiled my newsletter every week. It's just I want to talk about this in my newsletter and I just throw the link there. These are my blog posts, ideas. I, and I drafted in here in simple note. Very minimal not very structured. I do have knowledge bases, right? So, I think Frank in the comments Leslie was saying next week we'll actually learn about how to organize stuff. So we're not even at the organized stage yet. We're at the capture stage. This is the capture week where you're just training on having the habit, the trigger and the action, the trigger is, is it surprising? Is it interesting? Is it  what were the other two personal and I forget the other one, but is it noteworthy to you? Then make sure to write it down to the point of  when I come across something interesting, I will pause what I'm doing and not taking any other information until I've captured it because there's no point to absorbing more information and forgetting it all. It's really about getting over that mindset of having to capture everything, because we're no longer talking about, drinking from the fire hose.  We're having a point of view and we're trying to collect things.   So the second brain people have been giving us some help in terms of like, how to mentor. So I've been catching resources, just like that  in Notion. And for me, it doesn't exist. It's not real until I blog about it.  I think catching without an intent I can feel a bit lost. Like what's my real goal here. And having anintent of this is the blog post that I'm going to write, which is what's the difference with your mentor, coach, teacher facilitator. It's just literally word for word exactly what they taught us, but I didn't really know this and I think it's useful for other people. So I'm going to write it. I'm going to write it up and I'm going to live through it and add some personal experience. And that will be it. Having a goal of like I'm capturing this to do something is, is more helpful to me than just pure capturing everything and never doing anything with it. Speaker 2: [00:28:13] Amazing. Thank you so much. And I do think I jumped the gun a bit, but with trying to learn what we're going to be learning next week, but thank you so much. That was really helpful. swyx: [00:28:22] Absolutely. First of all, you can jump ahead if you want. It's all available there. But yeah, you'vegot a long, long road ahead of you. If you do this right, you're doing this for hopefully the rest of your life. So, yeah, you don't have to do it perfect , just do it often.  Okay. All right. Please go next. Q&A: Processing Notion vs SimpleNote [00:28:36] Frank Amaya: [00:28:36] So Tom has his hand up and, but one question or one idea, some, some of the attendees may have come to know or ask questions around notion. So, or perhaps to get more of your perspective around notion. Yeah. I, it there'll be any questions perhaps that people will ask that they have around notion or just that topic. If we can focus them on that, at least for the little bit of the session here.  swyx: [00:29:01] Yeah, we have the room until like for another seven minutes and then I can go into the 30 on like personal questions. So let's take some notion questions now. And then those people who are just here for that can can go and the rest can stay on in lines or whatever it was got. Notion questions. Gina says, can you give an overview of your capture and processing of info in notion? Thanks, Gina also I'm it says, how do you decide what goes in simple note versus notion? I like this question a lot. I think Amit, you were talking about the local first idea. I don't care about local first because I don't, I'm not that privacy focused as long as it's behind a password lock. I'm happy with that. So OneNote is my secure journaling thing, and it doesn't intersect with anything else that I do. A simple note is cross-platform and faster than notion is. So this is simple note and it is simple. It's simple. It really is. It's almost too simple and that's how you want it to be. You want to not give yourself a choice of should I bold this? Should I make this red? Should I meet this italics, screw all that. Just write stuff down and don't screw it up. Don't let anything get in the way of that. And that's what sticks for me. Other people they have beautiful motions and it really sparks the creative joy for them. So please don't let my, the way I do things affect you too much. But  that's how I do it. So simple note just has raw material. Notion has my startup focus. I am a head of department in a startup so I do concentrate on collecting a lot of focus areas on all these topics.  A lot of these are just in case meaning that I essentially use Notion as a buffer between the stuff that comes in serendipitously and when I need them because often those times do not match up. But what does help is for example when I need some advice and cold emailing, these are the things that I have personally approved for myself that I can just go, I'll go through and call the mill. I do my, in my own community. This is gonna, this is going to look super overwhelming to you. So please don't don't feel like you have to do this. Part of my book is that I've run a community where I do resources like this.  In fact, the cold email resources have been, I've been working on for a while as well. So I will come here and add them and write them up as I go over time. That's part of how I think aboutNotion. I do definitely try to publish some of these. So when I worked at AWS I actually curated this as a service to my community as I learned about AWS myself. And that's it, you can learn a lot about AWS, just going through these resources and that's great. Then for me, I have a scratchpad in notion where these are the ways in which I draft blog posts. So here, this is a talk that I did. So I literally just structured the talk and then it turned it into 30 minutes off react summit. This is a blog post that I just sent out yesterday to my newsletter. And I it's all drafted in notion. And people can leave comments if they want. Actually I realized that if you want to send up, send a, probably Buffalo's do it in Google docs because more people have it's a, just a better commenting feature in Google docs. And most people are logged in already. But yeah that's how we decide between simple notes and notion.  Capture Thinking [00:31:47] Frank Amaya: [00:31:47] Shawn, can you walk us through  your captured thinking and specifically a notion like your workflow and if after doing that, if you can maybe show how you capture podcasts notes. I think a lot of people want to know like how you got to what you just showed us, but maybe the process that got you there.  swyx: [00:32:03] The thinking is just  is this the thing I want to blog about? For me having an intent to my capturing is very important. So, what's the blog title and then attach all the discussion points and the relevant links to that title. So, yeah, this is it. I mean, when I so I have, I have I have a, another resource again. It's all it makes sense in my head. I am more of a messy person. So I'm not as minimalist as some other folks who do really well on YouTube. But it works for me.  Frank Amaya: [00:32:28] Is there a chance you could show us like how you're using maybe the capture tool in ocean or how you get this into your notion environment?  swyx: [00:32:35] Like these are this is essentially a project, right. And then these are resources. So  it's loose PARA. And then the 12 questions. And then it's very loose PARA. And then I have a personal finance stuff I have, and then a scratch pad for myself. I don't use the notion capture tool mainly because it's too broad for me. Like either I get the point of the article or I haven't read it at all. And if I got the point on the article, I can summarize it for myself. And that summary is way more useful.  I think this is covered in one of the weeks. I'm not sure which week, but he has a few levels of progressive summarization. So I, I tend to just skip the first level.  That's like in week three. First of all, when you first come across something you have like Ronald's, then you bold passengers and highlight passages and mini summary and remix. I basically go  either I'm at layer one or zero, and then I go straight to layer four. The other stuff is too intermediate for me so I don't really do that. And the mini summary, like I can go down the summarization stack if I need more and quite often I do, but all the links to the resources are already there. That is the amount of work that I want to do for my note-taking. And probably I could do better at that, but that's what I do right now. Yeah. Okay. Did I have, I feel like I lost some questions.  Q&A: Podcast Notes? [00:33:41]  How do I capture POS podcasts and notes to notion? I do not. So, podcast notes go here. And they're literally like the five minute clips that I want to highlight and model upon. And that every day, once a day,  I clip that and produce it. So this is, I've been doing this for probably a hundred ish days now. And these are just clips of Hey, I really like this interview. This is an origin story of a CEO, which I thought was really inspiring.  But that's about it as far as podcasts notes go. I think if they relate to a particular topic that I'm interested in, for me hiring, I do a lot of literally, this is the link to the podcast and I took notes on that podcast. And that's about what I, that's where I leave it. Because then this will go into my own company's hiring docs as an input, but podcasts notes, like that's those are the two dimensions  in which I have them. So personal notes if they're focused on the topic. But this makes us in together with text notes and for specific podcast stuff that I want to share with other people and just say Hey I really liked this Andrew Wilkinson story on his first job that was really crappy. I'm going to clip it and then make it shareable with other people. Eventually over time I would just have this resource of everything that I found interesting and people can go through that find they find a lot of value from it. But again, it's an example of a potentially multiplayer game that I win as a single player game, just because I had just had a record of everything that I have listened to. Frank Amaya: [00:34:57] Well, so you're at the top of the hour in case anybody did.  swyx: [00:35:00] Yeah. Well, I hope this session was useful. It's my first time doing this. But we'll, we'll get better over time and I'm definitely gonna drop in on other mentoring sessions to see how they do stuff. But yeah you can email me if you weren't comfortable asking questions. Here you can email me I'm at swyx.io, so I guess  Frank Amaya: [00:35:16] well, there's some comments coming in saying there was a great idea of clipping. Yeah,  swyx: [00:35:22] thanks for that. So I do a lot of interviews as part of the nature of my job. This is my email address, by the way, if anyone, anyone here can email me questions, I'll them async. But yeah, I do a lot of interviews. And so what I do is actually and this is my finance side showing I rehypothecate my session. So every weekday I do five minutes, five minutes, five minutes. And then every weekend I would drop a longer form chat. So people who follow me can just literally catch up on everything that I've been doing outside of my own personal output. I like this idea of  going onto other people's channels, other people's YouTube and podcasts, and B being a guest. So people hear about you and you get a nice energy to bounce off of, to create content and then bring that all into your own site. So that you have one central place for people to discover you and go deep on yours and your stuff. So that's what I do. Yeah.  People asking about how I clip use audacity. It's a free open source app has a little bit of a learning curve, but there are any number of tutorials on YouTube to learn how to do it. And literally I'll go something like this. And then I'll move stuff around. I actually, I did this in my audition for the BASB mentorship, but literally I'll just be like, play this. Okay. This is cool. Cook that, click that, and then move it around here. Like you learn all the shortcuts really quickly and you can make a, it doesn't take that much effort. And it's a really nice productive experience for me because it's a small win that I can knock out every day, no matter how bad my day is. I know I can do this. I have a huge backlog of interesting content in when I revisit the content, I learned it over again. And I can knock it out in 30 minutes and it's, that's a win for me. So I like this. I like having a Keystone habit essentially as a creator. No matter how stuck I am in blogging mental health, how how bad my media work has been. I can do this and I can call it a win. And it's, it's something that's mine. Q&A: Grabbing notes on the go Speaker 1: [00:37:06] Yes. I had a question because I learned a few seconds ago. Well, my question is regarding to the notes to notion how they capture the notes. But my main question is related to that. How notion or what is the best technique or the best tool. To grab notes on the way, because for example, something that happens to me, it's driving and sometimes an idea came to my mind related.  I'm going to go to person. And then I got that idea, but if I don't write down at that moment, then I forgotten that sometimes I forgot that idea and just say, miss a chance to solve a big problem,  but doing that, it's a kind of a book because it's not too easy to just go with mama while I'm putting in there. I'm gonna start using draft apps because he has something willing to watch. Just wondering if exist, any other technique or tool or something to only capture notes quickly on the way. So it dropped off. So  swyx: [00:38:08] is it this one they have on screen? Is it drafts get dressed up? So first of all, someone, somebody in the chat said don't know shit and drive. I endorse that. So thanks Benjamin for that. It's true.  Drive safe.  Frank Amaya: [00:38:24] Can I answer this question? Yeah, please. Because I just, I'm pretty excited about this. I just I had a session on Friday and Tammy, one of another fellow BSB or mentioned a notion actually has widgets. So I just installed a widget earlier today so I can share what that looks like. It's okay. I think I'm going to stop sharing what you're sharing. But there, this could be really useful for what you were just asking about Sergio and I'm going to you see it. So this is my phone that I just found a way of showing it. And what you'll see here is the whole idea of a, of a, of an inbox. Oh, you can have your favorites widget. And instead of the way that you could easily come in on the plus, okay, that's do it. That'll put it in. You can add a new private page at the bottom. So that's one way that you can address that. The other thing is the fast, quick add, like what you're saying, you're on the go, let's say you have your inbox and I'm going to minimize this. You could easily create a new page in here, and then you have the ability to add it. So  the thing that was slowing us down with notion was the quick add using widgets and customizing needs to what you need is definitely gonna improve  your workflow. As easy as just putting a little plus sign and then just doing different stuff in here . So it's just, it's really something that I'm playing around with, but this is solving that one issue that I've just been struggling with. And a lot of us, which is how can we get information fast inside of a notion without as fast as maybe some of these other tools that we're using.  Yeah, I'd definitely recommend exploring that because that might improve your flow and  I'm not sure if you saw it here, but let me share it again inside of the, let's see, so I'm sharing my phone and scary right. Chain because I didn't carry it, any of that stuff, but we'll, you'll see at the bottom right corner. There's that little. Plus the, so if it's in two clicks, I can easily come in here and start adding. And one of the things you can do is, it's tied to, Hey yeah, this is, these are some of the ideas that I'm capturing right now, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If you don't, if you're on the go and you can't really write right now, but you can speak it. I mean, you see what the power here now you can start integrating many of these other things that you're talking about and go, so you're using your phone. It also works for Andrew. They checked out right now, but yeah, here's the note period, next line, new line et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, just something for you to consider. Oh, that's perfect. I  Speaker 3: [00:40:45] would try the widget thing. Just, I was using only the widget, a single icon and you just access, but the other one with the plus sign, this is the kind of the thing that I am looking for. And this is for that. Thank you so much, friend.  swyx: [00:41:04] And then someone should blog about it.  Always turn it into output, right. Yeah, every time you have  some TIL that is something that you learned. And I learned that too. I didn't know about this, so this is great. Yeah, but I, I personally use simple note just because I find it a bit faster. I I've been very, like I'm very performance oriented and any latency in notion just really ticks me off. Yeah.  Speaker 3: [00:41:23] Actually I started, well, just something to share with everyone, with the drafts apps in iOS. I have the app for the watch. And so you'll say I'm moving here on a star, you'll sit through it in the notes. You'll just take it to there. And then when I get into my whole disability gate, certain amount of bandwidth to go PM pays the notes inside of notion. But, well, I think so with that, the one that Frank show us will be a better, I think as much. Yeah. Frank, do you know if it's available on an Android? It was asking. It is, I'll put,  Frank Amaya: [00:41:55] I'll put a link in right down for both of them, because I just saw, I just literally sent this acuity, not like an hour 70 for the call started. So that's, I'm pretty excited about that. I'm also pretty excited about testing automation with notion. I know that's been one of those things that a lot of us have been looking for, but it's, it's there as a workaround, not, not out of the box and not but I use here's a, the Twitter link, I think for the widget feature, what I was impressed. And I was like, I think I'm the notion guy, right. But this came out in November of last year was like, what is this? Like, how can I, but in the call Friday again, another student mentioned, and I was like, see, because that's what these sessions do. They just bring up a bunch of stuff that we just didn't see. But yeah. And I'll put the, the notion widget, there was a notion VIP guy willing to not, he wrote about it. And I think he did a really good kind of little explanation  swyx: [00:42:44] there. So I'll put that. Yeah. Bottom line is the capture habit is super important and yes, I've had those ideas that come in and then I like 10 seconds later. I'll  lose it. And it was, it would have been like a big unlock for me at work or some big insight. And I just totally like, it just, it's just gone. So I'll literally like if I, if I hear something, if I have a thought in my head while I'm showering, I'll just  jump out of the shower, dripping wet and go write it down. That's how seriously I take this caption capture thing. So I, I highly recommend if you're driving, stop driving, write it down, keep driving. But  it really, that is important to it to capture stuff because you will, was it have an Alexa in your bathroom? Yes, that's if I were not in COVID yeah, I don't have a lot of control over my living space right now, but yes. I think so. So when I was a Alexa developer, I try to basically make an Alexa notes app and then they, the API didn't let you record any amount of length of detail. Maybe they've opened it up since but it'd be nice to capture notes through Alexa. I don't think the allow you to do it very long. So I wanted to like, Nick, could you record a podcast through Alexa? And I think there's a limit of 30 seconds. Cool. All right.  Q&A: I dont like any of my apps, what do I do? Speaker 3: [00:43:46] Well, my question is mainly around the struggle with expression, like actually putting the things out there and having more of a. Engineering or technical mindset,  for example I'm now using bear as a note taking app Alexa mainly right in markdown, but then every time I use it, I'm getting a little bit of discontent that I can't use certain key bindings that I'm used to using programming. And I think I should look into researching, like, how do I use another system? So then the same with producing, like blog posts or something like, then I'm on creating a aesthetic sign, I'm setting up all these things. And then whenever I just try to do one thing, it brings up then more questionable like research questions, like, should I, and then I fall a bit in the trap of not actually putting something out there, the same with certain topic or blog posts. Like it brings up so many sub questions. So something to. Mitigates more, I guess the feelings of like, there is a way I want to do it. And there is a lot of things yeah, if that makes  swyx: [00:44:53] sense in some way. So you actually having is real and it's not just, and I think developers are very aware of, of that. You have, you essentially have a bunch of dependencies that you're not super happy with, but you gotta get stuff out. If it's, if you, if you don't produce, then it never existed, right? Like it's, it's almost like getting 90% of the way there is almost like 0% if from the outside world. So I definitely. I think that having tools that you enjoy is important because that that's an input to your writing. And if you start having any friction at all, then you're not gonna enjoy the process of writing. So, you got to keep looking for tools to keep trying all of them. What's great in, in BSB is essentially you have a community that has tried out every tool out there. So just go into the forums and look for like what other tools that's partially your issue is why I like him? Well, no I actually have also tried to code my own CMS using vs code. That's why I I had that blog post about Monaco because I use Monaco to write my own CMS. And I, I miss, I miss a lot of the niceties in NCO in in vs code. But ultimately when you find something that's good enough, it's not going to be perfect. And then you ship and you start to, you have to figure out where you draw the line on what is a deal breaker for you, or like, I cannot keep writing on this unless I have this and everything else just. Be okay with it and be okay with the imperfection because it's good enough for a lot of other people. Sorry, Diana. And I don't, I don't know if that's the answer they go looking for, but all right. I met Monica is the core library behind vs code. It is the editor tooling that is written in each model, script and CSS. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, Glenn, if you have any followups let us know in the comments. But otherwise I'm just going to go ahead to read. I think Reb had next and then I think your next, Hey,  Q&A: Security & Privacy [00:46:31] Speaker 2: [00:46:31] Thanks for the session so far. I know you mentioned that you're not going to be that interested in local first and that's fine, but just curious if you, or Frank or anyone like from BSB not been through so many cohorts, 70 kind of guidance. So my problem is basically around security and privacy, because my employer has strict like requirements. So I can't really just send stuff to the cloud. And then, so that was torn and that's the reason I took the course to try to figure out a solution is I could either have a, kind of a set of apps for my second brain for my personal stuff, which I'm okay with sending some of it or most of it to the cloud and then have another one, for my profit, my employer, and then trying to bridge the gap. Right. So there's some overlap. And so like for example, like some example could be like, if I figured it out, very simple example, like how to provision a VM in AWS, I could write out all the notes from my employers in my those notes. But there's a lot of stuff I could just take, which is just general stuff. Right. It's just but then I, now I don't have dry cause if I copy paste it and all this, because I'm repeating myself. Right. So, sorry, a bit of long winded, but wanted to give you some context.  swyx: [00:47:35] So what's the question.  Speaker 2: [00:47:36] Do you have any guidance for like a local first, second brain with also having workflows for separating personal and employee stuff? So I could  swyx: [00:47:45] take my personal stuff with me. Yeah. Gotcha. So Glenn has a bunch of answers actually in, in the chat. So there is a circle and a meeting around using Emacs org mode. So, yeah, I've heard a lot of good things about work mode. Actually. You might want to check that out. I would also check out foam which is the vs code version of Rome. Like the wrong tools, the, the, the thing would be app with the backlinking obsidian also supports McDonald city is local first. There's a bunch of these that are local first. Absolutely. You have your pick of choice tools for these. Yeah, a lot of people are using obsidian. I'm actually, I'm interested by obsidian, but for me cross-platform is very important. Like I'm, I'm on my phone as much as I am on my desktop. So, I cannot have my tools be separate for those things. They need to be the same thing. I know. I know. I know. Okay. Okay. So yeah, what's the other, I think that was it. I mean, yeah, it looks like Glen's, Glen's really up in there. So talk to Glen. Speaker 2: [00:48:35] Yeah. I mean also like if there's working examples, but yeah. I'll follow up on the messages in the chat because there's, task management, North node Mattamy is just like one part of it. Like, there's no read wise local first for example. Right. So you got to figure out like all those parts of the flow chart. Right. That's where I am right now. So, but yeah, I'll, I'll follow up with the chat  swyx: [00:48:53] and yeah, the back is like dry, like in coding is also overrated, right? Like I think there's a movement against dry. It's fine to repeat yourself, especially if you're repeating yourself a maximum of twice, like who cares? Like just copy and paste. It's, it's fine. It's cheap. And also I think be aware that to me, I view my work notes as a, as a thin outer layer around my own thick set of personal notes, because that one will last with me for life. Whereas the work one is just wherever I'm currently working and that will go away. And so you want to minimize that to just projects that you're specifically working on for work. Yeah. And that's going back to like how you're expressing and you touched, showed like your notion, like standards, all procedures and all that stuff. Right. I appreciate that. Okay, cool. Cool. Thank you. Q&A: Triaging Information to be Productive [00:49:35] That's a head to uni.  Speaker 4: [00:49:36] Hi, Karen. First of all, thanks for your time for investing in power growth. My question is more around, more like a general one. So it might be a little bit related to Parra. I haven't watched it yet, but after you capture all this amazing information, I'm curious how you do cocoa. How's you do the triage process. So starting like for when you do it to, while you do, especially with the mindset of productionizing, this content, my hypothesis, my assumption here is that probably depending on which phase you're in, in terms of productionizing, your content, maybe your triage process might be different. So I'm just curious after you kept your old those things. How do you, yeah, how do this triage things to put, okay, this is going to, that I might be used for this future blog. I might be used this for the current blog. I wonder how this whole year process looks like, does this question  swyx: [00:50:23] make sense? You need, you can't have too many just in case items, essentially. Like it's very easy to try to collect everything and just like, I might need this one day. And then just add them with  an unmanageable pile of stuff. This is why it's important to have those tough favorite problems or to me  those could equivalently be the 12 blog posts that I'm currently working on. And then you're slotting information there. Anything that doesn't fit either you would have to let it go pretend you never even came across it at all.  And you need some filter. You cannot, you just, you cannot try to capture everything like don't try. So is it currently relevant to a project they're working on or not? If it's not is it worth starting a new project over compared to all the other things that you're currently working on? If you've got too much going on, you gotta drop it. You gotta let it go.  Speaker 4: [00:51:04] I think that's honestly great answer. Yeah, that makes sense. I think probably I was thinking more like capturing. Yeah, cause you can basically what the solution, not a solution, but the approach you are taking here is that you have a set of the project that you're currently working on and you're capturing the information that maps to it. And then you keep evolving around it. Once that project is called, you might add on a little more and they kept her on other information from the different lens. swyx: [00:51:26] Yeah. And it's not just projects para is projects, areas, resources, and  you can accumulate any number of resources as well. So, yeah, so for me,  but the more you are able to limit it, the more, the deeper you can go rather than broad. And to me that is more rewarding because it's too easy to just spread all over everything and try to be interested in everything. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay.  Q&A: Outdated content [00:51:46] Speaker 3: [00:51:46] I said, Oh, I'm sorry. My mute was on a lovely session. Learned loads. I have a quick question regarding research I've next insight collect a lot of information. So what I've faced is I've collected information and I've saved it someplace. So when I want to do like make a blog on it or write a report on it, I feel that since some time has passed, so that research might be outdated. So I go back to Google, do the research once again. So the process of collecting it, saving, it becomes redundant after a certain period of time for me or what should be the thought process or the mind shift I can change. So regarding that, I would like your opinion of kids,  swyx: [00:52:30] right. Stuff becomes outdated you said? When you, when you collect notes? No,  Speaker 3: [00:52:33] like suppose I'm researching on a particular topic, which I want to make my notes on. Suppose six months have passed. I feel like in six months there would have been more research conducted on that particular topic. So I go back to Google research again and collect more information, switch, take a continuous cycle. swyx: [00:52:52] Yeah. That makes sense. I think that's pretty normal.  Speaker 3: [00:52:56] That's pretty normal. Right. Okay.  swyx: [00:52:58] Awesome. I do like building reusable resources, right?  The react and typescript cheatsheet that I showed you if it's outdated, just delete it. It's on the history somewhere if you need it. But having a materialized view of everything that's currently relevant that's what we're going to is for someone coming across it for the first time is extremely valuable. People don't do that. People always do logs of here's what I came across today. Here's what I learned today. That's useful, but it's not structured. And structure is almost as important as content. Awesome. Perfect. Thank you.  Question: Defining Dealbreakers [00:53:25]  Speaker 4: [00:53:25] I mean, this was great, but you mentioned with regards to tools to define your deal breakers. And I mean, just new to this, I've been, distracted by so many different shiny, bright object tools, for me, I think that's extremely powerful just to define your deal breakers. Like you talked about how cross-platform is important and things like that. Well, that's going to immediately eliminate certain tools. So yeah, defining deal breakers was a big  swyx: [00:53:55] help. Thanks. Thank you. I think something that Tim Ferris is famous for. I don't know if he came up with this, but it's a definitely powerful concept, which is making one decision that eliminates a hundred other decisions. So if you, individually, if you evaluated each tool from scratch then it would take a lot of time. But if you had an understanding of your own needs and deal breakers, then you can rule out entire categorie

Last week we talked about what to say and more importantly, what not to say to people who are grieving and this week I would like to talk about something that I have Googled. On more than one occasion since November when Tess died. And that is “what is a grief timeline”. It’s a very unsatisfying Googleable answer. So let’s talk about it.   Show notes: http://tamihackbarth.com/episode85/

This week on The Localist, Carrie is diving into the sometimes-scary world of business finances. Money can be stressful, emotional, and overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be! Carrie was inspired to talk about this after participating in a SharkTank-like contest at a local high school. A lot of the projects had a common theme: underestimating how much funding their ideas would need. And this common theme isn't specific to high school students; many entrepreneurs underestimate the funding they'll need as well. Carrie then introduces the Rollwagen Theory of Accounting (disclaimer: Carrie is not an accountant!). Carrie points out that the math is actually pretty basic, the terminology is Googleable, and there is a simple formula to figure out profit. Carrie wraps up with the value of dividing money into buckets, the importance of having a solid business plan, and how you can still pursue your dream if the numbers don't add up.  Mentioned in this episode:  Infomedia  Banks Academy  Create Birmingham's CO.STARTERS The Big Pitch - REV Birmingham  Piper & Leaf Tea Co.  Bham Burger Battle  James Spann  Church Street Coffee and Books  FreshBooks  Wave  The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Business  In Search of the Perfect Store Front with Jackie and Lyndsy on The Localist Podcast  Southern Living  @ThinkLocalist on Instagram CarrieRollwagen.com

Underunderstood is recruiting a team for the legendary 90FM Stevens Point TRIVIA! contest. It’s a three-day event from April 16-18 where teams from anywhere compete to answer arcane, nearly un-Googleable trivia questions. If you’re interested in participating with Underunderstood’s team, email us at hello@underunderstood.com with the subject “Trivia,” and we’ll add you to a special Discord channel and set you up with all the details you need. The article and video that started it all (“it” being Underunderstood’s fascination with Stevens Point and TRIVIA!) More information about the contest: https://www.90fmtrivia.org/AboutTheContest.pdf We are going on break and will be back with more episodes for season 5. (But as always, there will be a new episode of Overunderstood every week on our Patreon.) In the meantime, here are some podcast recommendations from the hosts and other Underunderstood listeners. Similar to Underunderstood: Endless Thread, Decoder Ring, Every Little Thing, You’re Wrong About, Endless Thread, the Bobby episode of Heavyweight, Oh No Ross and Carrie Not that similar to Underunderstood: Twenty Thousand Hertz, Potternaught, Flash Forward, Podcast But Outside, The Culture Journalist, Plant Crimes

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How do you deal with it? 06:40 - What service do you guys use for video storage and optimization? I am currently building out a side project that will require some video hosting so I figured I would ask the experts. 15:22 - I’m trying to teach myself web development and I’m having problems making up the logic for my personal projects. I would have to watch YouTube tutorials or look at other people’s code in order to implement simple features to my website and I’ve been feeling pretty stupid for not spending the time to think of it. I feel like I’m missing out on knowing how to problem solve for myself whenever I copy other people’s code and try to understand them afterwards. 19:27 - I just landed my first web development job after following The Odin Project and building personal projects for about a year. It tripled my income so I am incredibly excited! I have been using a PHP framework which was developed by one of my coworkers and has no documentation. In order to understand the code, I either have to read a bunch of source code or ask one of the other developers questions. While I am doing well, I can’t help but feel as if I am working way too slow and asking way too many questions. I assume this is imposter syndrome and lots of people deal with it, but how would you suggest dealing with this type of anxiety? 25:11 - Monorepos, yes or no? 29:43 - As a brand new self-taught web developer, how would you know if you’re ready to apply for junior positions? 32:03 - Will there ever be a .eat domain or are the pre-order sites just ripping you off? Would like to know who decides what TLDs are possible or not. 35:26 - I’m currently employed as a fullstack developer but want to build a portfolio for future job hunting. Would you say it’s ok to reference a project or two from an employer? My problem is that the only projects I have outside are mostly just smaller tools built for myself for fun. 39:29 - Should developers always use their real first and last name when presenting themselves as a professional online (e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, Github, personal site). Or is it acceptable to use a fake last name for example? My wife is quite conscious about privacy online, so would prefer I retain some anonymity. But also, my last name is a bit generic, and not very Googleable. I thought having a more snappy and interesting name would help me stand out, and be easier to find with a quick Google. You guys both have awesome names that are very unique and are hard to forget. 43:59 - How do you find time to work and keep up with updates and libraries etc. having a wife & kids? 46:06 - I am a beginner in making course content. I am trying to create a programming tutorial, but every time I try to record some tutorials I have to compromise on audio quality. 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What would it be like to have your day job, a night job and your dream job, all rolled into one? Our guest today certainly knows. Bobbie Carlton, is the founder of 3 companies. Carlton PR & Marketing, Mass Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. Mass Innovation Nights (MIN), a social media powered new product showcase that has launched more than 1500 new products which have received a combined $4+ billion in funding.  Innovation Women, is an online “visibility bureau” for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women. In this episode we talk about her many businesses, including two new acquisitions, and we learn about Crowd Promotion. By activating your community of supporters and helping to build a community that they enjoy being a part of, everyone wins. Listen in! Social media handles https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovation-women https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiecarlton/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-lioness-group https://www.linkedin.com/company/mass-innovation-nights https://www.facebook.com/innovationnights https://www.facebook.com/innovationwomen https://www.facebook.com/Carlton-PR-Marketing-453088091447668 https://www.facebook.com/LionessMagazine https://twitter.com/BobbieC https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiecarlton/ ………………………………………………………….……………………………………………………. Thank you to our March Sponsor: &Marketing U Solopreneurs and small businesses often struggle to create effective digital marketing programs. It's hard to know where to start, what to prioritize, how to sift through confusing information and solutions that seem too good to be true. Agencies and full-time marketing employees are expensive! &Marketing U is a modern marketing course with all the tools, education, and accountability you need to grow your business without that extra set of hands or high overhead costs. You will learn exactly what you need to do to execute a concrete marketing strategy by dedicating just 2-4 hours per week. &Marketing U will help you execute: Strategy, Messaging, Content Marketing, SEO, Social Media, Paid Digital Advertising, and more. You'll have access to on-demand resources, live courses, group coaching sessions, community forums and networking, plus the exact templates and tools you need for success. Our CPO took this course and one of the biggest benefits we gained was developing a competitive strategy that aligned our social media playbook and website to generate highly qualified leads. For all the tools, education, and accountability you need to grow your small business at a fraction of the cost of hiring a traditional agency or additional employees, go to:  www.and-marketing.com/u, and use the code SHOCK to receive 10% off any program!  

Half a trillion coral, ReefBot update, and The Others Pt. 2 The Shrimp Chronicles. This week Peter informs us his tank is fine and doesn't elaborate beyond that since we have a ton of notes this episode. Jeremy is in full prep mode for this weekend's frag show but making additions as well adding in an awesome Blue Throat Trigger and a Lawnmower blenny. All this and more on Episode 153 of the Reef News Network! RNN Listener Coupon Codes: Marine Depot 10% off your order REEFNEWS Reef Kinetics - $50 off ReefBot RKLOVESRNN Show Watch 2021 CT Frag Farmers Market FFM Road Trip March 5 & 6th Multiple Locations Come out and see Jeremy at the Marine Science Magnet School in Groton, CT if you are local. Powered By: Fritz Aquatics: www.fritzaquatics.com ReefBreeders: www.reefbreeders.com Sicce: www.sicce.com/en/ Media Partners: Reefs.com: https://reefs.com/ Bahama Llama Coral: https://www.youtube.com/c/BahamaLlamaCoral Reef2Reef: www.reef2reef.com News: Peter: For the first time, scientists have assessed how many corals there are in the Pacific Oceanand evaluated their risk of extinction. While the answer to how many coral species are there? is Googleable', until now scientists didn't know how many individual coral colonies there are in the world. In the Pacific, we estimate there are roughly half a trillion corals, said the study lead author, Dr Andy Dietzel from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University (Coral CoE at JCU). This is about the same number of trees in the Amazon, or birds in the world. The results are crucial for the research and conservation of corals and coral reefs as they decline across the world due to the effects of climate change. http://bit.ly/RNNnewsPeter153 Jeremy: ReefBot uses traditional reagent based method to autonomously measure the levels of the most common parameters in your tank. It currently measures Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, Nitrate, Phosphate, Nitrite, Ammonia, Copper and Iodine with more parameters added regularly. Upgraded features Needle Reach The needle can now reach most of the reagents in the vials allowing you to perform more tests before refilling. Design upgrade Minor changes were done on the design of the ReefBot V2 to give it a smoother look than the ReefBot V1. Reset Button A reset button was added to the ReefBot V2 which was not found in it's younger version. Device communication 0/10V communication protocol for 3rd party devices. New Actuator The ReefBot V2's uses an upgraded mechanical design that allows it to test your tank's parameters and return the results even faster than the original ReefBot! We replaced the old actuator with a new one that is more sturdy and reliable. More precision The ReefBot V2 is more precise in testing in which it has higher resolution titration tests with a precision of 0.001 milliliter (1l ). Quieter The ReefBot V2 is ever more silent as we are trying to keep your testing as smooth as possible. http://bit.ly/RNNnewsJeremy153 Remy's Bahama Llama Tip of the Week: Testing! Main Topic: The Others Pt. 2 Last time we focused Sea Stars and Crabs. This week we will go over the Shrimp we find to be interesting for our collective tanks. Shrimp Fantastic natural scavengers and incredible behaviors give shrimp this amazing draw for many of us. From symbiosis with fish for protection/housing and cleaning services to hunting pests or just adding a different element to your system there are plenty of reasons to add a single or multiple shrimp to your system. Outro: Please like our Facebook and Instagram pages as well as subscribe to the Podcast Reef News Network: www.reefnewsnetwork.com Reef News Road Trip: https://bit.ly/2LZfoKd . Instagram: ReefNewsNetwork Hashtags to follow #ReefNewsNetwork , #RNN , #RNNnation Listener Calls: Go to: www.reefnewsnetwork.com click the tab on the right side of the page to leave us a voicemail. Reviews/Ratings: Reviews and Ratings help us reach new heights and continue to produce quality content, let us know how we are doing.

Hi there friends So today, I wanted to talk about understanding the syntax of JavaScript. Now, I most of us when we're learning JavaScript, we are introduced to each part of syntax and some of its capabilities and we just kind of learn about that syntax through experience of working with it and there's nothing wrong with that approach that's pretty like the the best way to learn anything is really just practical application. But there are often things that you skip over when you just focus on practical application ofThe of knowledge And especially if JavaScript is the first language that you learn maybe because it does borrow syntax from other languages. Maybe there are things that you just don't know are possible or don't really have a good good grasp on because you don't understand the fundamentals of that syntax in particular. So what I'm going to suggest to you is that anytime you see some syntax that you're not super familiar with or you think it's one way but things aren't working the way that you expect or something like that. Anytime you see something syntax? I want you to copy that code. Into a tool called AST Explorer dot net. It's AST is an acronym for abstract syntax trees, which does sound pretty complicated but I promise you that it's nothing magic. It's something that you can learn but go to AST explorer.net paste in the code on the editor on the left and on the right side, you're going to see a representation of that code in what's called an abstract syntax tree. You can represent it as like an JSON object or something. And each element of syntax.Has a particular node name and a type and as you click around you should be able to see the name of the AST node for the part of the code that you're looking at. And so AST Explorer can be a really great way for you to get an understanding of what the different parts of the code represent for the computer and it can also help you get an idea of like, oh this is called an import specifier, but then when I do this with an object that's called an object pattern. So, maybe those two things like the structuring and imports are not the same.Thing which they aren't So you can go ahead and try some of that. And you'll get a little deeper understanding. The other nice thing about this is that it makes those things Googleable. So instead of saying, hey what's that thing at the import statement or whatever. You can say I want to learn about import specifiers and then you can Google around about that. So, hopefully that's helpful to use kind of interesting to play around with AST explorer.net. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you have a stellar day and we'll see you in the future.

Eric Rieger  0:00  Hello gut check project fans and KB MD health family. Thank you so much for joining us. This is episode number 41. I'm Eric rigger here with my co host, Dr. Kenneth Brown. HowKen Brown  0:11  are you doing Dr. Brown? I'm doing great, Eric. Episode 41. We're back to check project we kind of dabble between COVID this one is not it's not a COVID episode. This one's gonna be a very informative episode. And it might not be the most lighthearted topic. It might not be something but it's going to save lives. So I want anyone who's listening to this to realize what we're going to talk about is something that's pertinent in the in the media right now, and we're going to help people and that's a little teaser.Eric Rieger  0:44  Well, so a couple weeks ago, what prompted where we are today is Chadwick boseman. Young man actor. He succumbed to colon cancer now. He has a different story that talks about how he kept it under wraps and really No one knew that he was sick and he battled this issue after being diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. He dealt with it for four years. And really it's kind of remarkable how he just wanted to go on living a normal life and and you know, Godspeed to to him and his family. What a what a hard thing to do but what a soldier he was for him and his family to carry on and try to live a very normal life. But really what it did for me being that I'm I'll turn 45 this year. It made me look at myself and my friends and just be reminded that young and younger people are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. And it's happening at a large clip far more frequently than it did decades ago. And we'll use and I think that you will also will use around 1990 ish is kind of a marker or delineation of when things started to change in these trends. But why don't you tell me Can what you think whenever you've begun to notice the trend of younger and younger adults showing up for colonoscopies and we've, we've, we've found cancer, we found cancer together with some of our own patients.Ken Brown  2:18  You know, you and I were talking about this and All right, so first of all, Chadwick boseman. I think one of the things about his very tragic death is what a badass. Okay? This is a guy that can act at a level that very few can get to. This is a guy that I mean, the the movies he's been in the people he's portrayed, he's been amazing and then to find out later that he was actually dealing with some of the stuff while it was going on. Absolute badass and leisure. While he was essentially dying. He was doing charitable work going out meeting with children. We're dying and everything and never once was like, Hey, this is what I'm doing. This all came out after his death. That is so amazing. And you and I were talking and I'm like, Oh my god, I did this article came out this article came out and you told me you're like, Hey, I was listening to the radio. And they were talking about Chadwick. And I really feel like he was a gastroenterologists and me as somebody that puts these people to sleep. We have to do this. And I was like, Yeah, but everybody was doing it. And you're like, No, we just need to do this because it's there. And now when I sit there and look back at how I have been trying to fight colon cancer, I'm like, wow, one of the greatest people that could move this topic that we're going to talk about, which is why in the world that a 43 year old man died of colon cancer. I want to give a why to that. Yeah, we're going to talk about todayEric Rieger  3:58  without questions. So it's there's really no right way to set the table here. And so forgive us here on the show if we kind of jump at different ways on how to approach this issue or colorectal cancer has been appearing far more frequently in the last two and a half decades for younger people and by younger people. It's not or it wasn't, it wasn't normal for people to have colorectal cancer before the age of 40 at all. And and now, we've seen in the last few years where the screening age has moved basically for all insurance carriers from 50 down to 45. And this is to basically capture those who need preventative intervention before it's too late. And go ahead.Ken Brown  4:44  Oh, no, I was just gonna say that's exactly it. You and I live this world. We talk it all the time. And now because a super likable, lovable person that was taken before his time brings light to something You and I talk about every single day, we screen people young, we find young cancers. So for me, it's like, that's, it's horrible that that happened. But we want to prevent it. And that's what this show is about. It's about finding the science, it's about talking about it. And maybe even if just one person sends their child to go get screened sooner, even if just one person listen to this, says, you know, what I've been ignoring the symptoms of my stool looks a little different, meaning it's narrow, possibly, there's little bit of blood on the toilet paper, possibly, there's something else well, then everything that we do is worth it because we have one person to go ask their doctor and say, I want to make a change. Chadwick boseman, was a tragic death. But the problem is, is that this is a trend of a growing number of people below the age of 50, who are developing colon cancer, and he had stage four colon cancer. This is horrific, it's horrible. And as two people that prevent this cancer. It's, it's, it's a timing thing. And that's what this is about.Eric Rieger  6:08  No question and this isn't isolated and he's not even remotely the first high profile person to die at a young age from colon cancer. If we all know who Katie Couric is her husband, James Monaghan, he died at the age of 42. In fact, I think the the GI Center in New York affiliate with the Presbyterian Hospital, there's actually named for him cheap, donated quite a bit of money to help them advance the research not only for colorectal cancer, but to start the trend of people starting to detect it earlier. So honestly, kudos to Katie Couric and and the foresight that she saw that my husband should not have died from this and he shouldn't have. We just didn't know that someone is at that age at the age of 42. Back then, which has been over 20 years ago. Yeah, that could have that could have happened. So let's get down to some of the many different things that maybe could contribute to why someone wouldn't go get checked, I'm going to leave the science part of discovering the colon cancer to you. But as someone who's 44, what are some of the reasons why someone might not go when they should go. And we'll get to the symptoms a little bit, but there's just some, some normal or abnormal things that have had have occurred over the last few years that may be contributing. Our sources of food have continuously changed quite a bit as a person who was born in the 70s. And a kid of the 80s best food was normal in learning about GMOs. Who knows no one's really made all of the connections and of course, there's a lobby that wants is more or less to somewhat ignore some of the things that could be the the key factors to allow Our body to grow these tumors etc. So, there's no doubt though, that if you were to compare my childhood with my parents who their generation does not have a high incidence of colorectal cancer, when they were in their 40s, there's obviously some type of environmental change, somehow. And I would say that food may have played a part and then there's some other things. One would be males. Traditionally, males just don't go to the doctor when there's signs and symptoms that should be sending them there. I mean, we know that here with with artron to our biggest purchasers of artron. teal, are women. Even if it's for the men in their lives, they actually are the ones who purchase are drawn to more often because they recognize the symptoms and they know that something number one should be done about it. And number two, we'll do the investigation to find out what can be done. It's just it's just facts, but something else that happened was really, really eye catching and a lot went back to that radio program that we were listening to.Ken Brown  9:04  Yeah, so let me just stop right there because this actually started it. Tell me about the station you listen to and what they were talking about you showed up to work. So one of the beauty I was gonna say one of the beauties I should be one of the beautiful things that happens with you and I work together in one job where we take care of patients and we work together another job, but we've got this business, right, we're helping improve longevity, health, anti aging, all this stuff without trying to but when you showed up that day, you're like, hey, on the and I'll just let you run with it. Because when you start talking about it, I went,Eric Rieger  9:42  Wow, that's cool. So I often hear in DFW Dallas Fort Worth, I listen quite often to the ticket. It's a long time standing sports radio station. However, if you're passing through if you've never listened to before, it's quite common that it's really just guy talk and They of course have Yeah, they they have sports that they feature on there but for for I would say most of the programming it's really just funny stuff that guys find funny and or interesting. But on my drive in sounds like cast. Yeah. does sound a lot like our podcastKen Brown  10:22  but on my drive into work they make fun of my vlogs a little on their on the ticket because we do that occasionally.Eric Rieger  10:28  Yeah. Mike if they knew you, you know they would so or if they covered jujitsu, they could probably have have Mike on there. I've got a storyKen Brown  10:35  about that related to this. So yeah, I'm gonna we're gonna tie all this in. It's all coming in. It's all gonna comeEric Rieger  10:41  together. A lot of loose strings here, folks, but we're going to pull this together I promise. So all my drive into work. Then users, which is the early morning program, Jr. Miller, who's one of the hosts happened to be reading about how blown away he was. A Chadwick boseman his demise and he is One who has openly expressed that he's dealt with various digestive issues. He's a super athlete. He's a cyclist, a long distance runner has been for years very, very, very fit. But he has always been very, very in tune with what he perceives his body does best with diet, sleep, exercise, etc. Well, he began to read through a few different stats and statistics and most of them weren't that surprising about the mail about the changing in our food, but one of them was just in arguably, it's like, we've got to do something different here. We've got to tell people to go and get help. What he mentioned was a study that they had done over thousands of different patients on the average time from the symptoms. So that could be bloody stool or diarrhea, change in bowel habits, etc. And I'll let cannot let you get to that in a moment. But when the onset of symptoms First occur to the time of diagnosis. They used a marker at the age of 50. So if you were younger than 50, the time from the first onset of a symptom to the day of diagnosis was roughly 217 days. So let's just say that on the first day, there was a there was blood in the stool. It's on average, which means some people go much, much longer, on average, 217 days for someone under the age of 50, to go and see a doctor, then be diagnosed that they actually have colorectal cancer. Now, just compare and contrast that to 50 and above. It's just under 30 days, it's like 29 point something days. That amount of time is critical. It's almost one full or it's almost one or 10 times The amount of days over it's like roughly eight point something times. And in that amount of time cancer is that's just allowing cancer to go and recruit more cells and area for to continually grow and become far more cumbersome and unfortunately spread. That's when it becomes dangerous. So when I've told you that number, I can remember you looking at me this was just a weekend half ago, two weeks ago, looking at me saying, Wait, what did you say? And I said, they just said it. That's what's on my mind. 217 days versus 29. That's, that's really life and death. And it's just an amount of time where people didn't take the symptoms seriously enough to go and seek help from the right person. And then the next thing What if they did go and see a doctor? And what if they didn't happen to go to a gastroenterologist right away, but now you've got a smaller caveat that still some people Certainly don't mean any harm, but it's just not normal for someone to show up at the age of 34 or 29 stained, they've got blood and stool. Oh, we had a small interruption there regardless. So, in essence what we have are these people are young adults, and they have been ignoring symptoms, but now they've gone to go and find someone to help them. There's another caveat here. Sometimes the person they go to may not be a gastroenterologist and is probably just not used to seeing someone who is young, having cancer. So oftentimes, when a young person goes, What's contributing to that high number that 217 days, they may go to a doctor and say, I've experienced some rectal bleeding. I think I've seen some blood in his stool. Not always, but sometimes Someone may say, Well, you're 29 you're, you're 33 it's just not normal for someone your age to have cancer. Let's see if this resolves. Let's, you know, check a blood level to make certain that you're not anemic, etc. But it's just one more small thing that will delay diagnosis. And that's the problem. And can you know this if it's, if it's going to be more time, unfortunately, it's just more time for the cancer to take hold and be more difficult to combat.Ken Brown  15:21  Alright, so you're exactly right. And this just shows that sharing information. You heard this on a radio station into work to work with me, right? We talked about it, we're like, oh my gosh, so I started looking into this. And it's estimated that 12% of all colon cancers will be in people younger than age 50. Eric Rieger  15:40  Wow.Ken Brown  15:41  Age 50 has been the screening recommendation. For many years, the screening recommendation, spoiler alert has now been moved to 45. And so we'll get into all of that later. But the most important thing for me is that that means that 18,000 people will end up with colon cancer below. The age of 50 this year that may ignore symptoms. And when we talk about different races, unfortunately, African Americans are at a 20% higher risk, Eric Rieger  16:14  correctKen Brown  16:14   into a lot of different things about health care, availability, about different things like that. But this is our job is to prevent that. And then now there's studies showing that younger people have much more aggressive cancer also much more aggressive cancer with a worse prognosis. A survey was published in 2019 that found that 67% of colon cancer patients saw at least two doctors, many saw four doctors before a colonoscopy was recommended. So everything that you're saying is totally backed by science. Patients will often ignore the symptoms as well, as the doctors will downplay the symptoms that were reassurance which Generally, is the way I was taught. But now we're seeing the shift. Now we realize the youngest person I've ever diagnosed with colon cancer was 19, the oldest person was 89, where it was treated, meaning we treated it and cured it.Eric Rieger  17:16  Right? Ken Brown  17:17  So I have a 19 year old kid with rectal bleeding. And I said, Hey, we should just take a look anyways, found rectal cancer, and 89 year old, I was like, we really shouldn't do this at your age. But, Eric Rieger  17:29  and let's highlight something really quick. You don't traditionally see anybody who's under 18. So the margin of how low that could even go for you is one year. So you've basically hit the entire span of your patient population that you routinely See, which is thousands of patients a year. You basically seen colon cancer as young as they come. And it should be alarming.Ken Brown  17:54  It's it's super alarming because think about this now for if you're an individual is what it is. If you're a healthcare provider if you're an insurance provider, oh yeah, you're part of the healthcare system if this trend continues by 2030, so nine years from now, we're going to end up or 10 years from now, but somehow had 2021 of my I'm just trying to get rid of 2020 so fast, I just done with it,Eric Rieger  18:31  understand and do.Ken Brown  18:33  So, in 2030 32% of all colorectal cancers diagnosed will be in people younger than age 50. If we allow this to continue, now, if we allow this to continue now, three years ago, do you remember that when Ricardo Brey so Ricardo Brey was a good friend, he has a jujitsu gym, he's a he's a world champion in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I was so taken Backed by a study that was published in 2017, that showed for the first time ever, a younger generation was developing cancer in higher proportions than their parents. And so Millennials are having more colorectal cancer than their parents. that's never been seen before in any other generation. I went so far as to bring Jiu Jitsu mats and we brought Ricardo Brio. I encourage everybody to go to my YouTube page, Kenneth brown MD, where you can see Ricardo basically kicked my ass in the name of colon cancer, which is if if you're watching it, he throws me around like I'm like, like 90 pounds. At that time. I think I was 215 I mean, I'm 215 now so I was a little bit thicker. I was like, stronger back then I was working out more because COVID got in the way of things, but I was solid 215 220 back then, and he picked me up like I'm nothing. That's what we want to do. We want to cut out polyps like they're nothing so that people do not develop any type of cancer and that's what something like this so if you're bored even if you don't enjoy talking about colon cancer you can see me get my ass kicked by Ricardo soEric Rieger  20:10  well and it was it was a it was a fun taping and I love the way that that Ricardo was screaming out and not calling you can or Dr. Brown I just kept calling you polyp as he was chasingKen Brown  20:20  you. Yes. kept calling me polyp. So you're exactly right you show up listening to this very unfortunate Chadwick boseman passed away of stage four colon cancer, our job, literally Our job is to prevent this. That's what we do every single day.Eric Rieger  20:39  And and just to put it into context, it's not your exactly run about the more aggressive nature because sometimes in some instances, some people may say that, well, there's an increase in cancer but but not so much death if this is not the case. There is a belief set from the American Cancer Society there's a 51% Increase, and young cancer patients under the age of 50. Since only 1994, it's only 26 years ago. And knowing that the death rates in this group are also rising death rate meaning more good notes with cancer ended up dying than those who are but a per per person per diagnosis are dying versus those who are diagnosed in the pool 15 above. So much of that is just timing. They are more aggressive. So it's just that much more important that we figure out the first onset symptom to go to someone who will be aggressive and making certain that you don't have something more sinister or serious thanKen Brown  21:48  I can believe it's up to you. So the people that have attention deficit disorder and want to get off, what are the symptoms they should look for and if you have any of these symptoms, just talk to your doctor. I heard a podcast where even if your doctor says Don't worry about it, I'm gonna worry about it send me to a gastroenterologist. WhatEric Rieger  22:06  are those symptoms? No, it's always going to be blood in the stool. And that could be a dark Tari stool out of out of nowhere and sometimes honestly, they kind of steak bleeding from in and around the rectum. So bright red blood on the toilet paper or in the air or in the stool, definitely, and abdominal cramping. So sometimes if in Tell me if that's wrong, but I think sometimes when we've had folks they've had kind of unrelenting cramping and they don't know how to describe it. And I've often seen you start with them before they are before we actually do the procedure and try to get them to kind of localize it or show you where it is. So abdominalKen Brown  22:47  discomfort is is something so bleeding, abdominal discomfort, and talk about the stool. ribbon stools is what I'm getting atEric Rieger  22:54  here. Yeah, ribbon stools, and basically it's basically a change in the shape of the stool. itself because it will come out kind of flattened or something like that it's mechanical, it means there's a polyp or something causing an obstruction and pushing on it.Ken Brown  23:09  And then if you're a family reunion and you bump into aunt Betsy, who says, Yeah, just had like colon cancer removed.Eric Rieger  23:17  Yeah, if you've got a family member, and no more than two removed, you definitely want to be checked out and early. Don't wait.Ken Brown  23:25  So these are all Googleable, but this podcast is about trying to figure out the next level. So the question is why. So the study that was done in 2017, the authors of the study, you know, the the main finding was that millennials have higher incidence of colon cancer than their parents. Their conclusion was, we don't understand why. Eric Rieger  23:46  Sure.Ken Brown  23:47  So I started looking at this when you said that about listened to the ticket. So why, and I started thinking you said at the beginning of this show, our diets have changed, things have happened, whatever. So Let's talk about that. Okay, let's talk about possibly why. Now, this is not my research. This is me looking at other scientists that have done this. But as we always do, if it makes clinical sense, and physiologically I see it that the body can do this. And then anecdotally, I see it in my practice, I feel very strongly that these kind of things correlate. So even if somebody says, well, there's no large randomized placebo controlled trial on this, and that, if it makes sense, and we see it on a day to day basis, if I had the time, I would publish the two together. And that's what we're doing right now. This is a unpublished study in the form of a podcast, where we get to look at your beautiful hair while we doEric Rieger  24:53  I mean, debatable, depending on who you're asking. Alright,Ken Brown  24:56  so you got me thinking about this. And so I started finding some different studies. And so I thought A study that really looked at younger people that ate high fat food and high carbohydrate food. So whenever we talk about the standard American diet, the sad diet, it's, it's it's the two together. It's not that one is bad or the other is bad. But somehow when you combined refined carbohydrates with poor fats, it's a it's a recipe for disaster. And that unfortunately, is what most of the food that is easily accessible for a lot of people. So high fat, high carb study in younger people showed something kind of interesting, significant dysbiosis meaning it affected their micro biome. So their micro biome.com got changed and became very narrow. On other podcasts. We talked about the microbial diversity, meaning you want to have a lot of different ones when you eat a high fat high carbohydrate refined diet, you narrow your microbiome, they linked this to causing obesity. In the original 2017 study, they tried to say that maybe it's obesity causing the cancer. And so the key is that the dysbiosis can alter an epigenetic phenomenon. And what that means is your microbiome can turn on genes in your body. Keep that in mind. So the microbiome is super important. And then I started thinking, well, is this just a US phenomenon? Found multiple studies in other countries where they're having increased risk of colon cancer as well with that? So this got me thinking. And at least there's a clue to all of this. If the microbiome plays a role, and we know that when you disrupt the microbiome, you epi genetically predisposed to forming pre cancerous lesions, right? polyps. So that's what you and I do for a living, we remove polyps and that effectively cures colon cancer. A really interesting study came out in 2019 in March where they looked at mice and you and I talked about this because I threw a fit that one day at the endo center where we offer sodas, pops or cokes depending on your vernacular and what part of the country you're at. If you're in the Midwest, I guess it's a pop sodas northeast coke South Georgia, Georgia southeast Yeah.Eric Rieger  27:38  Oh, and just so y'all know, this is this is just water. This is Waterloo. Yeah.Ken Brown  27:46  Yeah, I'm pretty. I'm pretty adamant. So if you're a parent and you're listening to this, pay very close attention to this part, because nobody's discussing why Millennials are having higher colon cancer and I'm trying to figure it out. One way The hint is it affects the microbiome. I'm not feeding your microbiome, the appropriate thing it predisposes you to polyps. Then using that logic, a group of scientists took mice that were knockout mice, meaning that they were predisposed to having polyps. And then what they did is they gave them the equivalent of one can of soda of high fructose corn syrup. So basically the amount of high fructose corn syrup and one can of soda, they get to the mice daily, not like a whole can to a mouse, the equivalent of a tiny little can to a mouse relative to what a human would drink if they drank a what, however many ounces how many ounces is that Waterloo, that you're in that eight? Well, thanks 12 Yeah, so 12 ounce can and so they figured out that polyps love high fructose corn syrup cancers And polyps then when I say polyps What I mean is early cancer. So that goes with all cancers, colon cancers, the thing we're talking about today, this goes with all cancers. Cancers love sugar, they love the fuel, they grow quicker than your other cells, they need that fuel. So these guys showed that when you give high fructose corn syrup, the rates of cancer and polyps was super high compared to those that did not get the high fructose corn syrup. And they even thought about the whole obesity thing. And they said, No, we're only going to give one can these mice will not become obese. We're just going to see what just the high fructose corn syrup does. And what they showed is that when you eat fructose, unlike glucose, glucose is imported into the cell through a glucose transporter frutos is passively absorbed. through what's called the glute five transport system. Why is that relevant? As it turns out, you can overwhelm the glute five transport system really easy. So if you're like, Ah, he's been too nerdy about this stuff. If you happen to be a triathlete or a marathon runner and you're on your run drinking guru trying to give yourself energy, because it was always shown that fructose can be absorbed quicker, and then you'd end up having diarrhea. After the second or third pack of this. You've overwhelmed your, your fruit dose absorption ability. problem is when you have high fructose corn syrup, which is a refined form of fructose, which is a whole separate discussion on how maybe that is the root cause of a lot of our, our metabolic syndrome probably. Yeah, so this blew my mind when You drink too much. And it's not very much at all. I'm talking less than a can a day. That fructose doesn't get absorbed. The high fructose corn syrup doesn't get absorbed and goes to your colon and digested where they showed. That's where polyps and cancers adapt. They love that stuff. And they say, bring it here, bring it here. I want that. And so now we bring the microbiome back in. Now we've got a microbiome that's being fed high fructose corn syrup, they start sending signals to the brain that says we want more of that. The polyp is like, Oh, yeah, we want more of that also. Oh, yeah. And these researchers showed that the that the fruit dose gets converted into a fatty acid that promotes tumor growth. In fact, it'll actually read wire the polyp to the point that it will prefer high fructose corn syrup. So if you are doing this on a regular basis, you're setting yourself up for a serious problem. They have shown that there's actually something called the Warburg effect. And the Warburg effect increases something called glycolysis, which leads to increase fatty acids in these tumors, which promotes metastasis. Remember, so metastatic disease is the spread of a spread of cancer. Yeah, spread of cancer. So it's the beginning of this. We're talking about a very young, incredible actor who developed colon cancer and then we said that it's more aggressive. And then the studies where they looked at it said, we don't know why. I don't know if they have Not looked at this yet. Is it possible that part of the standard American diet, which uses high fructose corn syrup, not just in sodas, oh, everywhere, every read, it's in freakin bread. If you open a package, you're getting high fructose corn syrup. Eric Rieger  33:17  Yeah.Ken Brown  33:18   So if you're a parent, and you're listening to this, for gosh sakes, don't allow your kids to have sodas, pops, coach, whatever it is, that is your vernacular. Stop that right now. Because what you're doing is you're allowing your, you're allowing your kids microbiome to change to want more of it, which then tells the polyps, they change, to preferentially metabolize that grow and spread. When we sit there and say that we're, it's Think of it as a parasite power In cancers are parasites, do you feed the parasite to allow it to grow? Or do you starve the parasite? So it goes away? We tend to feed these parasites that grow. And if somebody says, Oh, well, it's probably because the obesity which is the whole thing, everybody goes back to obesity. Oh, it's obesity must be because Americans are are overweight. There was a 2019 study that published that showed overweight obese teenagers had a depletion of beneficial bacteria. And they had dysbiosis. Yeah, I personally think as a gastroenterologist that what we're doing is we're self selecting bad bacteria narrowing the microbiome, and then that microbiome gives us clues to go out and have more of this. They send signals to your brain that says we want more sugar. The easiest quickest sugar to get is high fructose corn syrup. So It's kind of a trick because I'm sitting there, we started out talking about young people having colon cancer. And then the question was always, how does this happen? So, I truly believe that if you protect your microbiome, and you avoid some very simple things, and then you go, oh, when I start looking at labels, it's a whole lot harder than what it looks because if you're if you're OPG, if you're opening packages, you're getting high fructose corn syrup. And it's I just found it interesting becauseEric Rieger  35:35  it's sad. It's sad that it's that it's crept into our normal normal eating habits. I mean, it really really is and not we're not innocent in our house I I try in most cases we're successful with the boys that they don't consume it but you it's it's difficult and what's crazy is I think that my both of my sons incidence of consuming high fructose corn syrup is a fraction to probably their peers, but it doesn't really matter. And then you put it best when you said, should you feed the parasite or deny its ability to grow? And what's kind of crazy is that I think that even in the back of our minds, some people have justified allowing an action thinking, well, if there's ever a consequence, there'll be so much further down the road that things may be different at that point. This is the bell. People are getting cancer much earlier and is in a system that they never had it before. So things are different. If you have a child.Ken Brown  36:41  I don't care how old that child is. And you look over right now and they're sticking a straw in a juicy box. They're cracking up a soda they're doing over grab that thing. Look and see if there is high fructose corn syrup in it. Because or even sugar, lots of sugar but the sugar is The kicker about the high fructose corn syrup is that they these guys figured out that what ends up happening is that the, the polyp in the tumor prefers it and they end up converting it quicker of these very detrimental molecules. You're better off doing straight sugar than y'all are doing high fructose corn syrup in regards to colon cancer in probably all cancers, because it Now the one thing that is really unique about this study is that if you overwhelm your body's ability to absorb it, then you're going to preferentially feed the colon polyps because it's going to go to your colon,Eric Rieger  37:42  it's leftover you leftover. You can't use it, the cancer will love it. And make no mistake when at least the way that I've always understood tumor growth. It's it's growing. It's growing rapidly. It's it's a high metabolism set. Have cells which are doing all they can to grow and expand. And what they're also doing is creating more pathways for blood vessels to form called angiogenesis but blood vessels so that they can get their hands on free energy. Guess what high fructose corn syrup is? It's just free energy to them, and allow them to even grow faster, to grow bigger.Ken Brown  38:25  And oh, it's not free energy. It's turbo. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's terrible. It's what they want. They're like, Yeah, let's do this. So if you happen to be African American, you have a higher risk. If you happen to have anybody in your family first or second degree generation that had polyps or colon cancer, it's higher risk. So if you're turning around right now and you had a colonoscopy, you're like, I'm fine. I'm 50. You look at your kids and you go, they're at higher risk. Holy cow. I had my colonoscopy. I'm a responsible adults. I'm 50 years old, had the colonoscopy, and I look over at my 15 year old I'm like, Oh, no. Wait a minute, they're at higher risk than I am. Yeah, this is nuts. We've never had this discussion with kids before.Eric Rieger  39:07  No, No, we haven't. And and I'm do so by the end of the year I'm doing I'll be 45 I hit the new threshold. Thankfully, they've moved it back five years and I haven't had any symptoms that if I have I mean, guess what, I wouldn't be any different. I would have been someone who's ignored and not paid attention or, or something like that. But I don't believe that I've had a symptom yet. I haven't had a close family member yet. That's sad. But all that being said, I am keenly aware that my environment my food supply is honestly it's it was vastly different as a young person than what my parents had fast foods. and different things like high fructose corn syrup are far more abundant.Ken Brown  39:55  What was the whole thing you were talking about the original Dr. Pepper that that one town in Texas we were just talking about?Eric Rieger  39:59  Oh, Dublin. Yeah, Dublin, Texas had the, to my knowledge, the last location of where Dr. Pepper was still made with real sugar at least domestically, right? Yeah. And they produced it and Dr. Pepper ended up shutting them down I guess about six or seven years ago. And it was because they began to distribute what they called the Dublin Dr. Pepper to other retailers and they didn't want them to do that because essentially it was competing with with the the main source licensed bottlers. So Dublin still produces sugar containing sodas, but they don't use high fructose corn syrup. I don't drink sodas at all, so directly doesn't affect me, but I'm with you. If you're going to still consume sodas, number one, limit them but number two, try to find somebody who doesn't have high fructose corn syrup.Ken Brown  40:56  I'm guilty of this in the sense that I don't drink sodas but if I But if i put a condiment  on something, a hamburger or something I'm eating I don't I don't look at the label and go oh my gosh, then you start looking and they all got it. They all got it. They all got it like okay, just know every single time it's okay everything you know we get the back to the moderation thing but just know if you got a critter grown in ya, if you got a little parasite called a colon polyp, and you're doing that it's loving it and growing.Eric Rieger  41:23  And definitely Oh, you know, it's gonna be I know what else inside knows some of your favorite brands. If you said comment on burger This is perfect. Some of America's favorite brands like Heinz ketchup, for instance, they've actually been listening. And it's not the biggest seller yet but even even it on the shelves of Walmart, they oftentimes will feature either organic or no high fructose corn syrup ketchup. So some of these brands really do want to help make the change that the truth is until more people buy them and consume them. They're not going to produce them. They are a company like anything else. They want to see the numbers. They want to see if it latches on. If it resonates with people and that thing, oftentimes people don't. They don't appreciate that there's a new choice out there and how important it is to be made aware of why there is a healthier option offered a job, because I'm like this.Ken Brown  42:20  Yeah, let's just reiterate. let's just recap what just happened on this because I think generally you and I joke around a little bit more on this podcast, but this is not a joking matter. Now, you got a situation where a cancer a generation before is now having higher incidences of a cancer that we thought was an older person's cancer. Yeah. Why is that? Who knows? I believe that there is data to suggest that consuming certain foods affects that. One of those things could be high fructose corn syrup, and making sure that you have proper microbial diversity meaning feed your microbiome. what it wants with polyphenols, insoluble fibers, the stuff that we talk about every single show. Now we're talking about here's how to save not just your life, but the next generation,Eric Rieger  43:15  your kids without question your kids. Well, what a, it. I'm glad that the ticket had this topic. This is something that we will probably even have to touch on again. But it's Make no mistake. It's always alarming when someone comes through and they're on their follow up colonoscopy with us because they've just beaten cancer and you look and their age and I'm thinking of someone in particular is only 26. It doesn't. It's It's It's not fair, but I'm glad that that person didn't ignore the signals from three years ago. And that person is more than likely and wasn't out of shape wasn't obese. You don't have to be obese. You don't have to do a lot of Things Oh, I thinkKen Brown  44:00  that's what I think that's what took everybody back with Chadwick. Yeah, this is a is a solid fit Dude, that got taken down by stage four colon cancer. And you know, it's part of our humanity to say, well, it's not going to be me but as a physician and you in healthcare that puts people to sleep, we see stuff and we just go it's it can happen to anybody. So why would you stack the deck against yourself when it's so easy to do a couple simple changes. So we're gonna do this. Just don't drink sodas. Please do me one favor, just don't drink sodas.Eric Rieger  44:41  Challenge yourself, see how good your pantry see how many things may you go to throw everything out but be conscious of it whenever you go shopping again. I mean, it's it's, it's hard. I mean, it's not easy to go and tell everyone to turn over all of their their food inventory. But for The most part eating fresh vegetables and meat, it may sound boring, but there's there's a reason behind it. And yeah,Ken Brown  45:05  yeah, you're for it. And so I had this argument with somebody who just woke up and post off of this week actually, we got the same discussion. And she, she said, Can I have my Can I have my diet Doc, Diet Coke, whatever. It doesn't matter what brand. I think it was Diet Coke. And then I was like, ah, just as bad. And that's another thing that people don't realize, remember when I was on my microbiome? Oh, yeah. now realize that people that drink diet soda. So if you're over here going, Oh, thank God, I don't have any of the regular stuff. Guess what the preservatives and the sugar sweeteners in there, you don't absorb your microbiome breaks it down. And you have a higher incidence of getting obese and having type two diabetes, if you do the fake stuff, so you're not getting out of the woods on that one either. Not only thatEric Rieger  45:56  you actually and completely not even gi related diets. Is contribute to the imbalance of phosphorus and calcium in the body. You actually can it can induce early stage onset of osteoporosis. I mean, it's, it's not your friend, I don't know. Tell us to say it. It's it's not you're rolling the diceKen Brown  46:18  when we sat there talking about this if you were if you were submitting a diet soda to the FDA is a drug you're like, Ah, this drugs you know, they were rejected and say you're gonna cause more harm than goodEric Rieger  46:30  unless their lobby was really strong. Well, hey, Ken has always certainly appreciate it. That's really all that we have for young people and colon cancer get. Don't ignore the symptoms. Again, those symptoms are blood and stool bleeding from the rectum the abdominal cramping. If you have a family member blood family member that has had colon cancer problems like that before Ken Brown  46:54  or polyps or polyps.Eric Rieger  46:56   Uh, yeah, polyps Thank you. Don't ignore it. Don't ignore ItKen Brown  47:00  ranges to caliber abdominal discomfort if you have this it is your right to talk to your doctor about it and it's also your right to go I'm I would like this evaluated because peace of mind and Oh, totally forgot my colonoscopy is on YouTube we put it there so that you can see that it's not a big deal. So I would like to put to the audience there. How should we do Eric's colonoscopy? Should we fill it live? Should we do it with lubrication Should we do it with sedation? Let's uh you know, I see you as the David Blaine of colonoscopies where Yeah, well I'm gonna make aEric Rieger  47:40  I'm really glad that we talked about all of this stuff beforehand.Ken Brown  47:44  I think that we could top David Blaine's little holding on to the balloon thing we could do it 15,000 feet possiblyEric Rieger  47:54  chair that imagine will probably live streaming on some platforms. I'm not familiar with like Myspace. A Snapchat so we'll just see what happens.Ken Brown  48:05  Regardless, I think I'm doing for my colonoscopy this year your do Dr. ackermans. Do a guest you know the, the Yeah, substitute co host. He's do we should have a colonoscopy Palooza someday where we just show. I mean, we both try to practice what we preach. And I try for the most part eating healthy, unfortunately. Oh my. Did we comment on my tie dye shirt here? Yeah,Eric Rieger  48:31  not yet. But you is that does that done by the famous CarlaKen Brown  48:35  as some of the famous Carla who also happens during COVID to becoming a badass Baker. And so I sit there and say that I practice what I preach, but when I come home from work, and she's like, Look, Bobby I made lemon bars and you know, it's your daughter offering it to you and you're like, Okay, I'll humor you and you're like, oh, they're so good. Eric Rieger  48:54  is with real sugarKen Brown  48:57  with real sugar, which is also something that I try to actively avoid but when your sugary little daughter offers it to you and she worked hard at it, you'd it's hard to ignore. And then you're like, Oh, it's got a shirt. She's like, Can I tie it? And I was like, Yeah, whatever. I'll throw it out. I'm like, Oh, it looks awesome. I love it. I'm gonna wearEric Rieger  49:14  a Carla in your daughter should also know that you get comments every Friday that you wear those tie dye scrubs, everyone loves them. Those are awesome. Well, I think that'll do it. Please Like and Share. If you've got a younger family member that you just want them to be aware of this, send it to them, send them this video. Hopefully we can just get through to them. It just takes a little bit of time. They don't even have to watch the whole thing to start getting the gist of the information. But anyhow, so gut check project, Episode Number 41. Young people, unfortunately was showing up with colorectal cancer too. If you get symptoms, go get checked out like and share, check out our sponsors, Dr. Brown anything else?Ken Brown  49:54  No, that's it. I just think that it's a I consider it an honor that you and I get The opportunity to save lives the way that we do I consider it an honor that we can be on a platform like this and tell people because once again, one person thinks of something and says, You know what, I'm gonna go ahead and do that, then it's all worth it.Eric Rieger  50:14  Yep, absolutely. We'll see y'all next time. That was Episode 41. Take care. Ken Brown  50:18  Take care.

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Brian Haney, VP of The Haney Company, talks all about life insurance and how each type can benefit your family in many ways you probably don't even realize! Resources mentioned: Paycheck Budget Spreadsheet www.budgetsmadeeasy.com/spreadsheet When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink (aff link) https://amzn.to/2AfnayF Full Transcript: Welcome to the money mindset podcast, where you will find the inspiration and motivation. You need to manage your money better. So you can stress less and live the life you want. This is Ashley with budget, sweet, easy in the money mindset podcast. Today, we are talking to Brian Haney, who's the vice president of the Haney company, whom he deals With all things insurance. He also has a podcast that's called that's my financial guy. So you can go listen to him as well. But before we dive into his interview, that is all about different types of insurance that your family needs, and some benefits and pros and cons to different insurance policies. Go get the Paycheck Budget Bpreadsheet, so you can get started on managing your money better so that you can get all these little financial things in order so that you can live with financial peace. And that's what insurance also gives you. It gives you financial peace for your family, so that you know, that, you know, heaven forbid, something happens to you that your family will be taking care of. So let's welcome Brian, and jump into all about insurance. Hi Brian, thank you so much for being with us today. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. And we're going to dive into insurance and different kinds that you need and maybe some that you don't need. But before we jump into that, can you kind of just kind of give us a little bit of background about yourself? I'd love to, so I've been in the financial business for really the majority of my career. She's 16, 17, 18, many, many years, but just, you know, a couple interesting twists and turns to my life. I, I studied journalism in college. So, uh, and I graduated early with a BA in journalism and kind of, you know, had aspirations, I guess, to be the next Tony Kornheiser or be in sports broadcast or who knows what, um, and came back to where I grew up, uh, Washington D C area only to realize that essentially the journalism journalism industry is not maybe as a straight path towards stardom as I would have liked. And so none of those kind of opportunities popped up unless I wanted to live in the closet for the first five or six years of my, my adults. So I quickly became open to other, other possibilities and actually, uh, got an opportunity to, to become a, a licensed banker and a private banker. And so that kind of helped me establish, I mean, that was my entree into the financial arena and it also helped me, um, get a really solid foundation that I think, and I sets me apart now many, many years down the road because having understanding about deposits, loans, um, investments like having all of that really understanding all of those various components, I think really adds significant value. So, I mean, I've coached people on setting up checking accounts and, you know, all the ins and outs of every kind of credit product shake a stick at. So, Mmm, that helps now just current day. Uh, I work with my, my father and my younger brother. We, uh, uh, are the three principles of the Haney company, which is a multi multiline, uh, kind of financial services company. And actually the majority of our clients are concentrated in the association industry. It's probably 70% of our clients. So it's a pretty interesting industry target. And we do everything from benefits, retirement plans, commercial insurance, property, and casualty. And then, okay, we work with, you know, the executives kind of families. And that's where we kind of do individual things, whether it's insurance or financial planning or investments and that kind of stuff. I also work with them also work with business owners. That's the second kind of minority concentration, um, and business owners of all walks of life. So that's the other part that's, you know, a lot of fun and I've kind of specialized in along the way. Yeah, so you help businesses kinda like figure out their, um, packages to like offer their employees and things like that. Yeah. That's probably one of the biggest things that we do when we work with a business. You know, I mean at first of all, I love stars. I love a business in any stage, but, um, I think in the kind of the business owner in the passion alignment for me is really seeing a business kind of go through its life cycle. And, you know, it's, it's analogous almost to a child that grows up and, you know, it goes off to college and gets married. It's, you know, you get to see owners and, and, you know, small to medium sized companies that just have incredible passion and see their ideas come to fruition and then, you know, and help them kind of walk through that experience and make it as successful and profitable as possible. And that's Mmm. So it's just a lot of fun, you know, I mean, anybody that has the creative element to being able to be in the financial business, I think has a good appreciation for, for that particular type of a relationship. Not that associations don't have their own beauty and awesome newness to them, but, you know, they exist apart from the people that work for them and run them. So that's where I have a special place in my heart for the, for the solopreneur and the small business professional. Oh yeah. Cause it takes a lot to run a small business. And especially when you're trying to navigate insurance benefits For your employees and stuff, I can imagine it's a very different than, you know, a large scale business or corporate corporation. So I'm sure it's really interesting to see that growth too, you know, like seam from starting out to, um, growing and becoming successful. Cause, uh, I can tell you from owning a business, that's a stressful journey, but it's fun now. No, it sure is. And you're right. What do families need to know about different kinds of insurance, but let's specifically talk about for now life insurance. Like what do families need to know? So it's a fantastic question. And when I talk about insurance, I try to, you know, first of all, I, my, my joke used to be in certain networking events that, you know, I was an interpreter and people would be like, Oh, what language do you know? And I say, no, no, no, I, I interpret financial ease into English. And that's that couldn't even be more appropriate than when it comes to insurance. I think insurance in general is certainly highly misunderstood. It's not something that any person in any walk of life kind of, you know, there's not an educational course that you take in college that makes you equipped. Um, there's, there's really a lot that that's just missing in general educational circles. And you know, you don't roll out all of a sudden, you know, you turn a certain age and now you've figured it all out. So I try to just, you know, I try to talk about, um, the function of, of, uh, you know, of insurance or really kind of any financial instrument, because that makes it, I think, real and personal. So when I, when it comes to, you know, a family, a, you know, a married couple, maybe with kids or early stages of life, the hopes, dreams, and aspirations at that family has to grow up, roll together, see the kids off to college and all the other stuff. That's kind of the lifestyle framework that they are operating under. And yet we live in a, you know, a crazy world. I mean, we're in this COVID-19 pandemic crisis now as, as a unfortunate current day example of just the kind of stuff that can come out of nowhere. And so there's a risk to that lifestyle, to that dream that if one of the two parties doesn't make it home for whatever unfortunate reason, everything about that family changes. And so that's life insurance, I think in very, very practical and real terms, life insurance to me is really about the relationships that we value the most and what we would be wanting to be the best scenario that had we lived had I lived, had my spouse live, or we would be working hard to see that play out life insurance should come in then and at least provide for some sort of a financial means to try to have that play out since unfortunately that party is no longer going to be there to do it themselves. And so I kind of want to just start there as, as a, you know, a beginning framework to connect to something that can seem very arbitrary. Um, I don't think it is at all, I think is probably one of the most personal things that a couple, um, can really be considering because of, and I can say this, unfortunately in, in, you know, as many years as I've been in this industry, I've had to walk through delivering death claims and I've had even personal friends, um, pass away well before their time. So I've just seen too much to feel like I can water it down at all. Like, it's, it's really important, powerful and meaningful. Absolutely. And whenever like my husband and I, um, we're figuring out like how much life insurance for us to get, um, you know, we figured out, okay, well, how much would we need for, to cover, uh, to pay off the mortgage and you know, how much would we want to say for each kid for college, you know, still have, you know, all those things covered and you know, the other one not have to go back to work right away if they don't want to, you know, all those kinds of things. And that's, you know, just kinda like what you said, um, what our longterm goals are and still be able to accomplish that. So that's kind of how we came up with our number as well. So is there a number that you recommend, um, families to, um, shoot towards? I mean, of course I'm sure it depends on like their health conditions and age and stuff and what they can actually afford for life insurance, but is it, you know, is there like a standard number, like 10 times their annual income or just, you know, a baseline, a million dollars or something like that? Yeah. I mean, it's, it is the perfect follow up question and I, you know, actually I think you you've touched on a few Mmm really helpful measuring rods that, that kind of give some of us a tangible example, but the reality is that every scenario is a personal a decision. Um, because obviously we're all going to have different means and different goals and desires. And so, you know, I commonly say these are some of the components that traditionally are considered when you're coming up with that value. So I think it's more important just to think of it in terms of how you might go about doing the math rather than having a particular number or threshold in mind. Cause that makes it a lot easier for you to know, frankly, once you come to the number, how you got there. And so, um, and, and by the way, just as a total aside, but something that can be very interesting for somebody that's, you know, wanting to Google weird things, the, um, you know, a very, Oh, I opening place to learn a lot about life insurance, really the replacement value of human life is, um, with wrongful death attorneys, because of that part of the legal industry, their entire job is to quantify somebody's life. And it is amazing what, you know, what it goes into that kind of a calculation that Ben has to go to a courtroom setting and, you know, is, is and subject to, um, legal proceedings in terms of what the financial recourse is in a wrongful death. And it's unbelievable. So if you really want to, you know, get a crazy number and see how scientific you're going to be about to check that out, but, you know, two more rational, realistic ways to go about it. Um, you know, that there's that lost earning the capacity that I think is the big, um, wrapper that goes around this. And so, you know, common ways to come to numbers. Well, how many years might the earning person that we're, you know, you know, whether it's the spouse, husband, wife, it doesn't matter. Mmm. How many years might they be working? What's their current compensation. And then you can create, you know, a framework for that projecting that out. And then, you know, some other things that again are commonly into the consideration that help you quantify this, certainly any debts that you would, you would want to pay off, always a good thing to have, um, uh, you know, in mind and again, yeah, the, the expense of college, which, uh, in terms of things that have outpaced inflation is, is one of the top of the list. Cause the cost of, um, you know, college education is, is Crazy these days. So that's sometimes a number that number in and of itself can be bigger than what you got to pay off in terms of your mortgage balance. No kidding. I did a mortgage calculator the other day for all three of my kids and my youngest is two. So I mean, it was insane. I'm like, there's no way I'm ever going to be able to save that much for three kids. It was crazy. I don't even want to think about it. Yeah. It's yeah. It's not fun. And yet it is. And then we all just cross our fingers as parents and hope that they'll get scholarships and not have to worry about Yeah. Like the guys you're going to trade school. Cause that's all I'm going to be able to afford my man. Yeah. So, I mean, those are, those are kind of the, you know, the, the three most significant threads are replacing, lost earnings, you know, handling any kind of debts to create the best kind of cashflow scenario for their surviving spouse and kids. And then certainly the most significant expense outlay is, you know, wanting to make sure your kids have the funds to go to whatever school that you would want them to be able to go to. And I think that, that, you know, pulling that all and seeing what kind of a number, uh, that equates to, and then like you said, well, all right, now that we have kind of an idealized number, how do we look at the options for protection and what types of life insurance might you want to be considering? And then that also might, you know, again, depending on underwriting and expense, you may move the number. Um, if that, you know, if some of the costs for, you know, the full amount of protection maybe seem, uh, out of reach or would hurt your budget and wouldn't allow you to do other things financial, because you should never have, you know, I'm sure you see this a lot. You should never have a number for insurance that literally makes it hard for you to do other really, really critically important things in your budget. So, um, making, making it have the right space in your budget is, is very key. Yeah. We, whenever we were looking at, um, life insurance policies, like for my husband, it was pretty expensive. Um, cause he's a bigger guy. And so what we ended up doing instead of like a normal 20 year term, we ended up having to do 15 years so that we could have the amount that we wanted. And then the, you know, with the goal of like saying are more at the, by that 15 years, our mortgage would hopefully be paid off. Um, and so we'd be a little bit more covered at the end of that term. So, um, just like you said, we kind of took in the, the figure was more important, um, than necessarily that five year gap. So that's how we, um, figured that out. Now we know you mentioned like, um, replacing loss income. Now what about a stay at home? Like if somebody is a stay at home mom or a dad, um, do they still need life insurance, You bet. And, um, and by the way, kudos to you all for making sure that you kept the right number. Cause I think I agree and that's so important. Like the, the amount of protection I think is, is the most important thing about it. So, you know, figuring out how long you have that is, is oftentimes a secondary consideration when you're juggling it. So that's, that's great to hear and, and, you know, um, the idea that because a spouse doesn't have an income that they pay taxes on means that if they weren't around that they don't have some sort of a residual value is crazy. Cause I can tell you my amazing wife, who's been, um, you know, who stayed at home for awhile. She's raised our amazing daughter and is now, you know, we've been homeschooling her for the last two years and just being, I mean, just been incredible, but what it would take for me to function to replace her [inaudible] is probably a bigger number than I even like to think about. And so I think [inaudible], you know, when, when you don't have that inherent income number to try to, which is usually a big part of that baseline, then it's still important to consider really the lifestyle that you're going to perpetuate. And in some respects, if you want to get a more, you know, a strategic number, depending on what your kids are, I mean, you can start to look at what's the benchmark for a full time live in nanny or something like that. I mean, if you really are that concerned about coming up with a number, go ahead and use that. Not daycare use a live in nanny and what that would cost an okay. Or something like that. You'll find out that that's really, you know, it's a full time salary in and of itself. If you're trying to now have to unfortunately replace, you know, your, your spouse. So, you know, um, I absolutely, you know, my wife has a healthy amount of insurance on herself just because, you know, I, I would, I would easily be lost without her, but then also there is, there would be a significant financial burden. And I think a lot of times that's probably an area where I find, um, couples maybe, uh, I would say, yeah, make, make a mistake in not recognizing both parties as equally as they should. And it's not to suggest that you certainly don't need to have the same amount on, on, on each person. But, um, you know, I've, I've seen a lot of times where the, the, you know, the income that the working spouse loads up and then literally has little to nothing, um, for the stay at home spouse. And that's a real significant risk because forget the money. If you play the scenario out, what would happen if God forbid something happened to the say at home spouse, the impact to your lifestyle and your ability to continue earning the same way that you were when you know that spouse was still there running the show is, is night and day different. And so the reality is there is a significant financial impact. And so it is, it's really important to make sure that you assess both sides of the equation. And there again, you know, you can find some easy ways to quantify that and come up with a number that is reasonable. Now, what about, um, people that have life insurance through like their job, is that enough? Or should they get like extra life insurance? Also a fantastic question. And, um, I always kind of in, in most of my client interactions, I kind of consider life insurance through work of bonus. And so can it factor into your total calculation? Yes, it can, but the reason why I consider it a bonus and what I mean by that is that you don't want to count on it is this because you don't control that policy. The employer does. And, and, and frankly, I don't like trying to use current day stuff as almost like a scary example, but you know, in, in this pandemic, you are seeing a lot of small businesses now being significantly financially impacted. And so business owners are having to look at the benefits and the cost of maintaining those benefits. And, you know, maybe if they have had, you know, disability and life and medical and all the other stuff, and they're trying to save money, they could turn around and say, well, look, we're going to try to continue medical, dental, and vision, but we can no longer do disability in life. Cause just, we need to find ways to save money. And if that happens, then that coverage is gone with, you know, you did nothing to participate in that decision. So, you know, um, I just think it's very important to know, um, how, how that should factor in, but how much credence you actually give that. Cause sometimes you might have a generous amount. Maybe you have, you know, two times a good salary. And so the number can be a very real number. Um, but I just, you know, I don't, I counsel most people don't put a significant amount of emphasis on that because there's so many ways that that can change that are a beyond your control or just, let's say you change jobs and all of a sudden what you used to have, you don't have it, you know, so there's, there's just, um, there's too many variables that make that, that particular part of your benefit, something that's, you know, hard to really count on as rock solid for a long period of time. So, you know, I, I, I tend to say take it a diminimous amount. Um, if you want to factor it into your calculation and say, well, at least I have this much, it counted in this way. So not to spend that's and that's viable and that's, and that's important. But, um, I just, I don't, I don't like setting people up to overestimate how beneficial that can be. Cause again, I've seen it unfortunately too many situations where you know, it, it wasn't enough or it wasn't what they thought it would be. Yeah. And with, you know, so many people losing their jobs right now. I mean, that's that insurance is instantly gone and then you don't have any coverage. So, so what kind of life insurance should like the average family get or does it kind of just depend on their situation? That's an awesome question. And I, and I like, um, I like answering it in terms of understanding a little bit more about the financial instruments and how they can function because there's really two types of life insurance. Um, so I'm going to paint and big broad brush strokes, and then I'll try to get a little bit more detailed, the two main types there's there's term insurance. And I think the easiest way to look at term is we, you know, we understand a mortgage, right? It's a certain dollar amount that we have for a stated period of time. That's a great way to think of term insurance. You have a stated benefit amount for a stated period of time. Um, [inaudible] probably, that's the best way I think, good to use that type of policy is to assign it and align it with something that, you know, has, you know, a start and an end, because then it makes total sense why you would, you would match the insurance to that risk. Mmm. Permanent insurance comes in a lot of different forms, so that the two main ones though is his whole life insurance. And then there are variations of what's called universal life. Um, and there's a couple of different types of universal life. And I, you know, I think it would be a, uh, you know, an entire other session for another it again and all that. But permanent insurance is, is valuable in a couple of ways because it goes beyond now just being about this death benefit that can get paid out to someone else. Now it's also a policy that, that actually becomes an asset and builds value for you. And there's a lot of reasons why that in and of itself can be very valuable and important, um, as well as just the need for having coverage. Because I think a lot of times the average family that I know underestimates how long they're going to need insurance for and how much they're going to need, because we kind of think, you know, it's very natural to think everything's going to play out this way that we hope it will. I'll make more money over my earning years. I'll pay my mortgage off. My kids will go off to college. I'll be an empty nester and I'll have a ton of assets and I'll be fine. Right? That's the most common thing that I'm told. And that's an, and again, I hope to God that that plays out and, you know, many times it might, however, that doesn't mean that the need for life insurance goes away, even if that plays out. And so I think that from the insurance standpoint, it's just really important for families to understand that your insurance needs your life insurance needs will change over time and you can change the types of policies that you may have or the structure, but please don't, um, think that, you know, at some point you just don't need it anymore because the reality is that that's probably not the case. So you, you, you may very much want to consider at some point, keeping at least a certain amount, you know, kind of in perpetuity until you die. Which since, you know, I left my crystal ball at the shop. I don't know what that date is for me. Probably not for you either. So most people don't, you know, most people don't have that in mind. So therefore you do need to have something that'll last as long as you do, but I want to, I want to take a very brief moment just to talk about the asset component of permanent life insurance, because this is where there can be a lot of times where this is an opportunity we're insurance becomes a vehicle that allows people to actually save successfully for other things that they might otherwise be saving for apart from life insurance. This is where if you structure it correctly in the right circumstances, life insurance can actually be a very helpful vehicle in somebody's financial framework. Um, because you can use the way that it grows as, you know, an asset that then, you know, maybe some of those funds get used for college expenses, um, or, you know, a wedding down payment or what have you. So, Mmm. There's a, there's a significant, uh, argument in case that can be made to, to also find value in using it as that type of a financial asset and a resource, um, for intermediary purposes as well as retirement. So it's, it's a very valuable, valuable, and an underutilized asset. So how does that work then if it's kinda, if you're able to take money out of it, but it's also life insurance. Like if you take the money out, does that reduce the death benefit or is it kind of like two things in one it's the, it's the wonderful, my favorite asterix, it depends, right? It depends. So what I mean by that is it depends on how you structure the policy and what type of a scenario you're taking the money out in some of the basic components to what that looks like though. Um, and I, and I do want to, you know, I'm not a CPA, I just play one on TV. So there's there's tax components. Um, that the way that cash value life insurance is treated from a taxation perspective. It's very similar to how I Roth IRA is treated. So the funds that get built up, you're not taking a deduction for the money that goes into an insurance policy into a life insurance policy. However, when you take those funds back out, um, especially up to that kind of principle value, that's all tax-free back to you. It's a return of, they consider a return of principle and that's, there's a lot of value in that, right? From a tax man. You can borrow against the policy so you could take out a loan and again, then you're taking out a loan against your own asset. So that there's value in that if you wanted to use it that way, you can, um, you don't necessarily have to pay those loans back loans against the life insurance policy are also considered tax-free. So, Mmm. You know, the, the main structures that really make this helpful is, you know, I can take a, I can take as just a regular cash distribution out. And assuming that, you know, the amount I've put in is still more than the amount I'm taking out. I don't, I shouldn't have a taxable consequences of doing that depending on how much is in there and how much I put in there could be some impact to the death benefit. And so that's why you really want to you of want to know what that all looks like, and you want to be mindful with how it's structured, but that doesn't mean that that makes it a bad scenario. It just means that that's, you know, you're taking some of the policy values out that have, you know, also that carry with them and assign portion of that death benefit value. So, you know, that's part of the trade off, but it doesn't mean that it's, you know, it's a bad way to use it. Mmm. But there's a lot of more affluent people and clients that I work with on a regular basis now that really because of that tax component are, are, are using life insurance in a very strategic way. So may make sure that they maintain that, that need in, in perpetuity, but really as a, is that an after tax way to build wealth, because unlike a Roth IRA where you can get phased out of it, there's no cap. Um, so you can really use it as a strategic vehicle to build a lot of wealth, uh, and have it the, in a tax advantage, um, bucket that then you can turn around an access and retirement. And the coolest thing I like to tell this story, because most people don't understand In the retirement scenario for life insurance, if you structured the policy correctly, which is which most people have, then the policy gets to what's called a and I hate using terminology. It's called paid up. That essentially means that the policy has enough value in it, that it should be able to self fund or self perpetuate, whether you put more into it or not. That's a very cool place to get to, because what that does is that unlocks part of the death benefit for you in a very strategic way in life. Insurance is the only financial instrument where you get access to, okay, a bucket of money that you didn't have apart from the money you put in. So the death benefit of a life insurance policy is really just a promise to pay someone a set of money, right? That's someone can be your beneficiaries when you die, but it can also be you while you're alive in the form of accelerated loans. So that's why the power of it is an asset is that you can access the bucket of money that you built into the policy. That's your cash value, but in retirement, you may also be able to start to draw down that death benefit as well for income purposes. Mmm. So it's just, it's really awesome. Uh, I know I've probably spent a lot more time on that than you might've wanted me to, but I, I like to talk through these things because I find that these are very commonly misunderstood or things that people didn't even know about life insurance. Yeah. I mean, cause I've never heard some of this and, you know, uh, whole life or, uh, I keep forgetting what you call it, cash value, life insurance, like it has such a bad rap. And so I was curious, uh, you know, why, why, what the benefits of it were. So can you just kind of talk about what are some of the common misconceptions about it? Cause I'm sure that there are, um, some out there you've probably already kind of touched on. No, there definitely are. You know, I think, um, I'll try to touch on maybe three. I think the first one is if, if, when you're talking about the difference between term and permanent insurance, if you just consider the premium as the cost and that's what you're then comparing term and permanent, that's, that's a fallacy because they're two different things. One is a financial instrument that has value in the other isn't right. Um, and by the way, just as a, as a, there's an interesting statistic, about 2% of term policies ever pay out a death benefit, 2%, that is a shockingly no number. And the reason why that is, and the reason why term is great for the insurance company is because there's a shotgun, you know, low number. Most people do not keep the term policies and therefore don't have that coverage dynamics or the insurance company isn't paying anything out and they've kept whatever amount of money you've you've given to them months. That might be an acceptable trade off. But it's just important to think about that who really wins in those scenarios. But so just looking at it from a premium comparison standpoint, I think people can get hung up on, well, you know, universal or whole life is more expensive than term. Well, that's not how you assess it, right? The reality of that is the mortality cost is probably the same or very close to the same, right? So the actual cost of insurance is probably the same, what you have with a universal or a whole life, a cash value policy is you have a portion of that. That's going into an account that builds value. So that's kind of misunderstanding. Number one, I think number two, and, you know, two and or three are wrapped up in one in the same is that I don't think people really understand how it works as an asset. Um, so I'll have, uh, I'll, I'll hear people say, well, you know, the performance in these policies are terrible. Well, first of all, as a general statement, that's not accurate, but as a more practical matter, then you're, you're, you're going back to that. Well, are you comparing apples to apples? Are you looking, are you looking at something that, you know, most cash value policies or guaranteed policies? I mean, there's not a market component to them, so there's no inherent volatility or risk to the funds. So if you're comparing that type of financial instrument to a mutual fund portfolio, for example, that can go down in value. That's not an accurate comparison either. Right? So that's, I think the other part where I see a lot of just, you know, these generalizations, you got to really look at well, what are we really comparing? And is that a valid basis for comparison? And I think the last part is, is how it works functionally. Like I was describing it to you. People don't understand that you can access the death, benefit your policy and take that money out while you're alive. That's huge. I mean, there's no other financial instrument on the planet that lets you, that has a, that additional bucket of money there and B lets you use it. Right. So I think that that's the part that you, you don't, most people don't recognize how powerful that can be and why, you know, there's a lot of ways that you may want to use this as some part of your savings and wealth building strategy and that's not right for everybody. And obviously there's no one right. Insurance policy for everybody anyway. But I think that, um, just dismissing it or kind of hearing certain things that just because enough people say it means that it's, you know, it sounds like it must be true. Well, that's not, it's not always the case. So, you know, I gotta say, I mean, I, I, you know, for us, for our family, you know, we're probably longterm have at least, you know, 15, 20% of our income in retirement and will come out of life insurance because, you know, once you cross a certain earning threshold, I can't put money into a Roth anymore. So where else can I get that kind of growth and tax treatment? What other instruments are available to replicate that well, life insurance, you know, so there's, there's a lot of reasons why finding a way to structure it and use it as an asset can be very, very, very valuable. Um, as long as you don't just kind of get, I think, hung up, hung up on these common misunderstandings and misperceptions about it. Well, and I think just like anything else, uh, you know, you need to do your research and figure out what's best for you and your family. And I had never really thought about it. Um, you know, as a strategy for building wealth, like you said, you know, and I've heard more people talk about like putting money in your HSA, kind of the same concept, you know? And so like to me, that's just like another thing that you can do once you get to that point of building wealth. And like you said, other strategies for, you know, when you can't do certain things, when you make too much money or if you just need another vehicle to save. So, you know, I hadn't really thought about it that way. So you've definitely opened up my eyes to more options. Well, let me, let me give you one more example. That's really appropriate for anybody that's ever in engaged in college planning and college funding. If, if, if that's ever something that you're thinking about, then you're going to be familiar with a little form called FAFSA, right? And so the premise or the, the understanding, one of the things that you're addressing when it comes to that kind of stuff is countable versus noncountable assets, right? And how certain assets have more weight against you and others as well. The cash value of life insurance policies is, is a noncountable asset. And so that may mean it can be a very valuable way to accrue funds in that domain. And you can use that. The cool thing is there's no restrictions on what you use, the life insurance money, the cash value for you don't have to wait until a certain retirement age. The money's there it's yours. If you needed it, you you're 20 now and you fund your kids in at 38, you're taking some of that money out. That's fine. That's another common area we see. Yeah, it is being used, uh, in a very strategic way as an asset for, you know, these types of purposes. Cause there's, like I said, that's, that's a very tangible reason why, if I'm thinking about all these vehicles that I'm going to be setting money aside for and how the day will ultimately impact, you know, my child's ability to either get consideration rate or what have you. It's a very commonly used one. Mmm. And may play a very, very valuable role. So just as a, again, another thing that I, you know, most people don't even think about that. They're like, why would I, what are you talking about? Why would I, why would life insurance have anything to do with college funding? But it's, again, it's just knowing how an asset works. I think it's really weird that, you know, why it's something that you just, and do you want to have an educated conversation with somebody that really understands it and you know, can help you see it as an, as an option that you can either, you know, engage with or rule out. Cause it may not be right for you. Well, I'm really glad that you brought that up because a lot of people don't realize that for FAFSA. Like if you, if your kid wants to get any kind of funding that they look at your assets and that whether you like it or not, you will, you may have to contribute to their college fund or they just don't go. And a lot of people do not realize that they're like, well, I'm just not gonna, you know, they can pay for it themselves. Well, you don't get to decide that the government decides how much they can have in student loans. Otherwise you get parent loans. So I'm really glad that you brought that up because I had not thought about that aspect of it for saving for college and like how, cause I've thought about it. Like, okay, well, if you know, my house is paid off by then, I don't have any debt. Like they're going to say, I have to pay all of it. You know what I mean? Like it's certain to freak me out and I've, you know, I've got a nine year old, a six year old and a two year old. I'm like, how am I, how am I going to put all these kids through college? So now you've got me thinking of some more, more ways. So put some money aside. So I'm really glad you brought that up because you know, I, I've had some painful conversations with people that, you know, their kids as a senior and they don't have any money saved and they realize, Oh, I make too much money. And they think that I can afford a thousand dollars a month for college that the, you know, the government and, you know, FASFA or my kid can't go, yeah. People don't realize that you don't get it aside unless you know, your kid, a bunch of money saved Well and it's, and it's really scary what you've described because you can be doing so many things right financially. But then when you come to this juncture in your life, it's like you fall off a cliff. You're like, Whoa, wait a minute. You clearly don't know how, even at a certain income or asset level where all the rest of the money goes, it's not like it just goes under my mattress and it's just there, you know? Yeah. And you know, I've seen so many stories and it's heartbreaking of people that are close to retirement age, and now they have $200,000 in student loans for their kids and they don't know how they're going to retire. So, um, you know, I'm glad that you brought that up because I think, you know, having more options and, and being able, having knowledge and being able to plan ahead of time is so crucial. And at least just mentally preparing yourself for, Hey, I'm going to, I'm going to have to contribute. Or my kids don't go to college, like go ahead and mentally preparing yourself for that. I mean, of course we don't know what will happen by then maybe, you know, everybody I'm freaked out. Well, you know, it's true. Mentally prepare and then hopefully try to financially prepared as best you can. Yeah, exactly. So, um, you know, you've, you've given me a lot of things to think about. Um, but do you have any just last pieces of advice or your number one tip for, um, life insurance and you know what we need to know about it? Yeah, no, I think it sounds really corny, but seek professional help. Um, because you want to work with someone. I think I know for myself and I think it's fairly common for a lot of the people that I've talked to and work with. Right. We all are trying to make the right financial decisions for ourselves. So it's not a lack of desire or effort. Usually that's standing in our way. Usually what, what challenges us is we don't understand. Right? We don't understand maybe the variables, the options. We don't know how to see the equation the right way. And that's why it's really important to work with a professional in some capacity that that can help you understand the decision you're trying to make. And then, you know, lay out the options that are available so that you can execute with confidence. And I think that that's, that's always my, you know, my hope for as many people as possible, whether they work with someone like me or anybody, but there's, there's a ton of really great professionals out there. But do don't feel, um, like Google is the answer because Google is, it can, it can be a little bit scary. Some of the stuff that they put out there that they consider advice, um, and you can't Sue Google by the way, if you follow it's advice and it doesn't work, don't try it. You know, it's, I think finances and money sometimes because of how personal it is, you know, people tend to feel like they don't want to talk about it. And so that's, I guess the other side of that hope is that, you know, don't, don't, you know, it's not like you're going to a therapist for something that you you're really don't want anybody to allow me. This is just common stuff. And everybody needs to be able to, I think, get the benefit a really helpful, healthy advice because that's an empowering experience and then there's nothing better. And I, and I know, you know, this in all of the work that you do with your clients, right? There's nothing better than feeling good about making good financial decisions and being able to see how you're lining the dominoes up so that they fall the right way in your life. Oh, absolutely. That's, that's always my hope and whether it's life in drones or anything else just, you know, work with, with a professional or serious or professional in, in, you know, make sure that you can get that confidence that I understand the decision that I need to make and the options that are available to me. And I think I've found the right one. Oh, absolutely. And you know, no matter how much research that you do on your own and general advice that you read or get, you know, your situation just like you said is personal. And so what works for me may not work for you or, you know, tweaking things here and there, but getting a professional opinion and an outside perspective is crucial because, you know, you're in the weeds, you know, you've got all this emotional decisions to make and you need that outside perspective as well. You nailed it. I'm so glad you said that. So, and also at the end of every podcast, I ask everybody what their favorite nonfiction book is, you know, just self-development or something light and entertaining. Um, do you have a favorite book? I have a lot and there's a lot competing for that title favorite. So I'm going to give one that has just been that it's, it's somewhat recent and it's for anybody. It's a fascinating read. So the book is called when, and it's by an author named Dan pink. So super easy to remember Dan pink, cause that name stands out. Um, and the book is called when it is, I could not put it down. I could not put it down. He just, what it's about is he talks about your chronotype and it's, and it's a book about how understanding, how you, you know, you perform throughout a day and what type of Kronos have, whether you're, you know, a morning person, an evening person, or kind of a middle person, how really understanding that impacts when you're going to perform well, when you want to avoid certain things. I mean, it's just, it's a topic that I never would have in a million years thought I'd be interested in, be I'd want to read an entire book on. So fascinating. And I got to tell you like so much practical wisdom in terms of, you know, any, anybody that's looking to just optimize their own performance. You have to read this book. I promise you if you do, you will thank me for it. Um, yeah, it's, it's a great read. So check it out when Dan pink, thank me later. Well, thank you for that suggestion. I'll add it to the list. Now I do appreciate you coming on today and, you know, taking the complicated insurance and making it easy for us to, I understand, and given me some new ideas, um, and for people that want to maybe reach out or learn more about your, if they have any questions, um, how can people find you? Yeah, great question. So probably three ways. So, uh, the website for our company and all of our contact information's on theirs is www dot the Haney company, just all spelled out.com. And then, um, I have a podcast it's, that's my financial guy. So if you search any podcasting platform, that's my financial guy. You'll find me. It's the only one with that title. Um, and, and actually the website WWF that's my financial guy.com is where all, where all that can be hosted. So you can find it either way. Um, and then we also, uh, are at the Haney company on Twitter as well. So any one of those three ways you should be able to find me. I'm very, I'm very Googleable as well. I have a good LinkedIn profile and all that kind of stuff, but those are the, probably the three easiest ways to get ahold of me. Well, thank you. And we will link to everything in the show notes as well. So people can just click on there and find you as well, but definitely go check out his podcast and I appreciate you taking the time to speak with us today. No, it was great. Great being on. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks. All right. Before you go and check out Brian's podcast, don't forget to go crab your paycheck budget spreadsheet so you can get your finances all in order and know exactly what bills to pay out of each paycheck so that you can get your finances organized and get that financial piece that goes along with knowing what to pay and when, and then of course, make sure that you have your proper insurance coverage. You make sure that you are taking advantage of term life insurance, get your family covered and get all your ducks in a row. All right, guys, I will talk to you guys in the next episode. Special Guest: Brian Haney.

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On this episode of the Healthy, Wealthy and Smart Podcast, I welcome Keats Snideman on the show to discuss the non-traditional path to physical therapy school.  Keats Snideman is a results-driven Rehab and fitness professional with over 20 years in the Fitness/Athletic Performance and bodywork industry and most recently the field of physical therapy. In this episode, we discuss: -How Keats’ background in health and wellness enhanced his learning in PT school -The personal and professional pros and cons of being a non-traditional PT student -The benefits of diversity within a PT cohort -Time and resource management to avoid burnout -And so much more!   Resources: Keats Snideman Twitter Keats Snideman Instagram Keats Snideman Facebook Reality Based Fitness Website Email: ksnideman@gmail.com   For more information on Keats: Hello, my name is Keats Snideman and I am a results-driven Rehab and fitness professional with over 20 years in the Fitness/Athletic Performance and bodywork industry and most recently the field of physical therapy. My educational background includes a doctorate in physical therapy from Northern Arizona University (PHX Biomedical campus) and a B.Sc in Kinesiology from Arizona State University. Other certifications and titles held include: Certified Strength & Conditioning Coach (CSCS), Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist (COMT, through OPTIM Manual Therapy), a Strong First Gyra (SFG) Level 1 Kettlebell instructor, a certified Kettlebell Functional Movement Screen Specialist (CK-FMS), a certified neuromuscular therapist (CNMT), and a licensed massage therapist (LMT) in the state of Arizona.   Read the full transcript below: Karen Litzy:                   00:01                Hi Keats, welcome to the podcast. I'm happy to have you on. So today we're going to be talking about the non traditional path to physical therapy school. And the way we're kind of defining this nontraditional path would be you didn't graduate from high school, go to undergrad and right into physical therapy school. So there was some time off in which you had a completely different career. Well, yeah, a different career and then decided to go into physical therapy school a little later in life. And I use that in quotes when I say that. So what I would love for you to do Keats is can you kind of tell your story to the audience so they get to know you a little bit more? Keats Snideman:           00:45                Yeah, absolutely. So like a lot of PTs, I have a fitness background, I ran some college track, got into working out and decided to become a personal trainer. This was like mid nineties, so quite, quite a long time ago. And that sort of led me down a little bit into the sort of functional fitness was kind of becoming a thing kind of in the 90s. And people who are beginning to use that word function a lot.  I have a twin brother also in the fitness world and we got exposed to a gentleman named Paul Chek. He's the guy who kind of popularized the Swiss ball, the physio ball doing the weight training on it, standing on it, doing all that crazy stuff. This was in like 97 to 99. And Paul Chek was also very rehab oriented, not a physical therapist himself, but started opening my eyes to sort of the world of sort of biomechanics and you know, it's sort of high level physiology, and started reading, you know, more technical sort of physical therapy type books and it really interested me and I was like, wow, there's more there than just being a personal trainer. Keats Snideman:           02:00                So I sort of made a decision at that point that I wanted to go on and get, I think it was a masters degree. Most of the programs at that time.  But then life happens. Got married, had our first child. I had my own business and eventually I went back to school to finish my bachelor's degree at Arizona state university. And really had the idea of going kind of into PT school pretty quickly after that. Had another child, open up a different location for my business. And time just goes by, you know, very, very quickly. And the next thing I knew it was 2012, 13. I was like, if I don't go to school now, I'm never gonna do it. But all the time through that I ended up getting a massage certification or I got in the early two thousands. Keats Snideman:           02:47                So I started putting my hands on clients who needed it. I started getting some soft tissue clients and basically really trying to find out, you know, what's the best way to use that tool? Cause I wasn't really like a massage person per se. I kind of came into the sort of the manual therapy body work world as more of a fitness person. How could I get somebody out of pain is pretty much the number one thing why people were seeing me so that I could get them more active to get them more mobile, that really fits in to what a lot of physical therapy does. Sort of our modern understanding of pain as it's changing that the therapy is just sort of a, you know, like a brief reset to try to then help, you know, we get that window of opportunity to try to make a change. Keats Snideman:           03:43                And so that, you know, that finally allowed me to make the decision to go to school because I want to be able to do more than just what a massage therapist can do. And more, you know, I wanted to be able to do, if I want to do a joint mobilization or manipulation like a chiropractor could do, you can't do that as a massage therapist. And so that was the final decision. I closed up my shop, I went back to school, I bit the bullet. It was a very challenging road, but even with the family and everything and I got through it, finished a few years ago and here I am. Karen Litzy:                   04:18                And I mean that's quite a story and we'll get into some of your words of wisdom and advice for other people who might be in the situation where they have a family, they have children, they don't know if they can do this because it is very time consuming. But before we get to that, I would love to know if you could name a couple of your top struggles during PT school that you were obviously able to overcome. Cause you did graduate, you're now a physical therapist. So give us some of your struggles and what you did to help get over them. Keats Snideman:           04:53                Absolutely. So I would say the first thing that was really, really the hardest for me and my program was at Northern Arizona university. And we were the first class to be sort of accelerated instead of a three year program. It was a two and a half year program. So we didn't get really a lot of breaks. So the coursework I think was condensed a little bit more. And so that meant a little bit higher level of information that we were obtaining. So that first semester was a bit like hazing for me. I've constantly been learning and taking continuing education courses my whole career as a massage therapist, personal trainer, strength coach. But I wasn't quite prepared for the onslaught, sort of the drinking from a fire hose type of thing, if you will, that that first semester did. Keats Snideman:           05:42                And I end up getting a C I think in pathophysiology, which was, it was like in memorizing a thousand PowerPoint slides and two every two weeks. It was brutal. And that put me in academic probation. You can't get a C in PT school. I mean, are you going to get many of them C B’s and above? And so that was, you know, I was worried, I thought, man, am I gonna flunk out? You know, I just started after all this, you know, what am I going to tell my family? This is terrible, but I got through it. The rest of my grades were actually quite good after that. But if you haven't been sort of in the academic setting for a while, you've really got to kind of give yourself a little bit of an adjustment time and not be so hard on yourself to the expectations for like getting these great grades needs to be tempered because it's intense. Keats Snideman:           06:35                Obviously you went through it. The amount of information that a physical therapy student will be exposed to is pretty insane. I know medical doctors get a tremendously crazy amount of sort of, you're sort of a general as first, but I think PTs have gotta be some of the broadest sort of scope practitioners out there and me, it was sort of like med school light, you know, a lot of our classes are actually with PAs because we were actually kind of getting sort of the university of Arizona medical curriculum that was given to the PAs at NAU and we were sort of teamed up there with them and some of the occupational therapists as well. So that was my biggest struggle was just the amount of information was just overwhelming. But once I kinda settled in and really focused more on comprehension and learning instead of just getting good grades, I've never been a grade person. I couldn't really care less, unfortunately you need to get good enough grades to pass and then not get kicked out of the program. But I've always been about, I want to understand. So I think if someone who hasn't been in school in awhile, kind of a non traditional student like myself, you've gotta be easy on yourself and you've got to give yourself time to adapt and to adjust to that, just that amazing, wildly overwhelming amount of information that you can get, especially in that first semester, that first year. Karen Litzy:                   08:07                And how did you balance the amount of information, the studying the comprehension. And I liked the fact that you said you're there to learn and comprehend, not just memorize, but that was in PowerPoint slides which I think is great advice for anyone. But how did you balance this with a wife and two kids? Keats Snideman:           08:27                It wasn't easy. I wouldn't really say that you can, it's not balanced and you know, the family has to be on board. Obviously my kids are a little bit older. My wife obviously she knew how much this meant to me, so she was very supportive. I wasn't able to be as involved with my kids and their sports and stuff. So there's definitely sacrifices. You can't pass PT school. Even if you're just a single younger person who doesn't have any problems, your life will not be balanced if you are in any doctoral program, especially one like physical therapy. So I wouldn't say I really balanced it, but when I had the time and I needed, because you can't just study, study, study, study, you will literally burn yourself out and there comes to a point, kind of like a sponge that's just saturated with water. Keats Snideman:           09:15                It won't take any more. It just doesn't work. So you have to give yourself little breaks more frequently. And for me, you know, I grew up sort of this ADD never got diagnosed until I was an adult. That's even more important cause I think my executive functioning skills burn out very, very quickly. So I do very well with like the Pomodoro technique where I do like 25 minutes and then take a five minute break or maybe that's 15 minutes, right? Things like that where you do like little mini sprints rather than a marathon of learning. So you give yourself time to get into what's called like a diffuse mode of sort of learning where you have the focus mode, where you're really putting a lot of effort, but then you gotta just walk away, go for a walk, juggle play ping pong. We played a lot of ping pong. If you have a ping pong table and you're like, that really got me through school. I love ping pong. I love it. I have a thing on the table in my house. And just doing something completely different. I'm very much into exercise activities, sprinting, little mini workouts, little mini resets. I feel that helped get me through it. You can't just sit there for hours upon hours and hours. You will just literally just be wasted time. Karen Litzy:                   10:35                Yeah, that is wonderful advice and I think that carries over nicely even when you start working as a therapist as well. Great advice. Now let's talk about some of the positives of going back to school as a nontraditional student. Keats Snideman:           10:58                Yeah. Well for me, there's a lot of positives because I had already been working with people for so long as a personal trainer, a strength coach and a massage therapist and sort of a hybrid of all those kind of at the same time that I've been dealing with people for so long. And a lot of these young millennials that are just, you know, like you talked about more traditional which is definitely a good way to do it. Don't get me wrong, I kind of wish I had done that, but they don't have sort of the life experience and the ability to deal, I think with a lot of the psychological and more of the interpersonal issues that will come up when you're dealing with people in pain and dealing. Like once you lived a little bit longer, I feel like you just get it a little bit more. A lot of people in PT, at least sort of in traditional outpatient or even acute, they're a little bit older and I feel like you can relate to them a little bit better. Keats Snideman:           11:51                And it helps me to think about something like soft skills that the professors would talk about and I'd be like, wow, I guess I'm kind of lucky in that respect because I'm older. I kind of already have had to develop those over the years. Those interpersonal communication skills and they would tell, you know, my classmates, these younger sort of millennials that it doesn't really matter what you get. Like, yeah, you got to pass the boards, you gotta pass this, you gotta be smart. But you know, being first in your class, like it doesn't mean you're necessarily gonna be the best therapist. And nobody's going to ask you, Hey, Karen, you know, can you tell me what you got on your NPT boards, et cetera? Oh no, that's too low. I want to work with this person over here. Keats Snideman:           12:36                Or Hey, what'd you get in your patho though? First? Because it doesn't matter, right? You've got to get through it. You can always, you don't need to memorize everything, just you need to know it enough to pass the test. But the most important thing in physical therapy is your ability to empathize, to be empathetic and to deal with another human being that you're dealing with. And I felt like as an older student that was something I kind of already had. So that was like a big plus I think. And when I'm working with my a little bit older clients and patients, I think that helps. So that's a big plus that you can't really get except through time and going through all those different sort of client and patient interactions over the years that will sort of, you know, cause you have these fits sometimes with clients, they don't work well. You don't always buttheads so you develop a certain amount of grit that I think as a bit of an older student you don't have to develop as much as the newer, younger ones. Karen Litzy:                   13:45                I think that’s a huge positive. I mean experience counts. Experience counts. What other positives did you find even maybe as you were going through the program or looking back on it now? Keats Snideman:           14:03                Well for me with my background and there were other students in there that were like in their thirties. There was one other guy in his forties, you know, it was like the real grandpa. He, you know, he was a little younger than me. But my background was in fitness and in massage. So I had already kind of educated myself a lot on anatomy and physiology. Since we had this sort of medical curriculum. We spent like six weeks or something on the organs and the guts and I didn't really know that too well, so that was pretty hard. But the rest of this stuff sort of with my background wasn't too hard in terms of it's like I felt like I had already prepared myself for that. Contrary to popular belief, you go to PT school more to learn about differential diagnosis and how to not really hurt somebody, you know, it's more like med school light than it is about, like, I'm going to become sort of a mild personal trainer. Like you don't spend a ton of time on the ins and outs of exercises. Keats Snideman:           14:57                They sort of say, well you're going to get that in your rotations. So a lot of people who are more non traditional that had come maybe from like insurance or a different world, they didn't have a much of an exercise background as me. They were really looking for that in school and we didn't get that as much. It's not really what it's about. You get that more on your rotation. So I felt like my previous background had made up for that gap that we weren't going to get in school. I had already sort of gone through the sort of the painstaking self studied it just really sort of figure out like you know, which exercises are appropriate for all the different muscle groups and movements and doing sort of like a needs analysis for the sport or the activity. Keats Snideman:           15:52                Cause that's not really what you're getting in PT school. And I think people don't always understand that they think they're going to learn like everything about exercise. And that's kind of not what it's about. It's more like I keep saying sort of like this being sort of a primary care provider light. You know, and now most States have direct access. So, you know, like taking blood pressures, understanding cardiovascular concerns, understanding pharmacology and like the basics of like protecting, these are real things that are very important that that's what I got out of PT school the most was sort of that thing being sort of, I'm trying marry care provider and the exercise stuff is sort of secondary. Karen Litzy:                   16:40                Yeah. So because you had had this other career before you came into PT school, you were able to kind of be on top of your game I guess. And like you said, you were able to fill in some of those gaps in PT school with what'd you already knew. So that is obviously a huge positive. Any other positives that maybe if someone out there is thinking, Hmm, maybe I want to go into PT school, but I'm like over 40 or I'm over 30 or 35, you know, or I'm married, I have kids. Were there any other positives that maybe not even related to physical therapy but maybe spilled over into your home life or your personal life? Keats Snideman:           17:19                Well I think it was good for my teenage boys to see that even as an older adult that, you know, the amount of effort they saw, how much I was putting into it, how much it meant to me to just to show them that if you put in the work at any age, like you can still do some pretty cool things. And, you know, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I mean, I think the younger brain learns a little quicker. I don't think there's a lot of debate about that. You can still do it. So for me, I think the positive was it gave me a sense of belief that if I'm really determined that I can find a way. So gave me like a new level of confidence in myself that I have the grit that I have, that I had to take the GRE three times. Keats Snideman:           18:09                And for those who don't know, that's the graduate record examination that's put on by the people who create the SAT. So it's sort of a SAT for college grads and I hadn't done like high school math, since like 80s and early nineties. So, you know, I did well on those other parts, but I just couldn't remember like basic stuff. I had to get the book. So it gave me sort of a new level of confidence that, you know what, even when things are really tough and you feel like you can't get through, like you can and you know, and you just got to kind of plow through it, like the time will go by anyway. And you just gotta figure it out. How can you work with yourself? To try to, you know, accomplish the goal as challenging as PT school at any age. Keats Snideman:           18:54                It's challenging but definitely harder if you have a family you've been out of sort of that test taking mode. I used a lot of like some of these other like apps where it sort of makes you keep doing the ones that you're not good at. Cause you do have to memorize some stuff for the test. Let's face it. But if you take the time and you're just, you don't be so hard on yourself, you can get through it, you will get through it. Karen Litzy:                   19:25                Absolutely. And now again, the question I ask everyone on the show is, and I feel like you kind of just answered it, but I'm going to ask the question anyway because maybe you have a different answer, but what advice would you give to yourself, your pre PT self knowing where you are now in your life and in your business and in your work? What advice would you give to your pre physical therapy school self? Keats Snideman:           19:54                Well I think I was very hard on myself for like initially doing poorly in that first semester especially in that pathophysiology class. But I really thought that I could get through it easier. You know, I just thought like, Oh, this, you know, this is going to be good. I've already sort of learned a lot on my own. I sort of underestimated. So I scheduled my sort of personal training and my sort of my whole clientele in a way that was not realistic. So, you know, working I think is good if you can do it, but giving yourself sort of the permission to say no to certain things that this is an important commitment. And that, you know, not to beat myself up that I'm not earning as much as I could potentially earn by working more because this is an important goal and I need to focus, you need to get it done. Keats Snideman:           20:56                There'll be plenty of time to work after, but I did work throughout my whole schooling. I was trying to bring in a couple thousand dollars a month, you know, for my own clientele. And I did, but that was about probably about a third of what I had originally sort of thought I could do. So I did have to take out a little more loans than I wanted to, but once I sort of realized that it's okay, that sort of like lowered that stress levels for myself, that just is a huge commitment that I've put on myself that I can do, I could commit to all these different elements. And there's only so much time in a day. Like, you know, there's only so much energy you have, you know, sort of like money in a bank. You don't have the, we call it like units of energy. Keats Snideman:           21:40                I don't have a hundred units of energy for school and a hundred units of energy for my family and a hundred and some energy for my clients. I have a hundred units total and that's what I sort of figured out. So I would give myself the advice then manage your units, you know, manage your physical and emotional capital because there's only so much and you just have to be realistic. And I just, I was not realistic with myself with what I thought I could do versus the reality. And once I sort of kind of had that sort of come to Jesus moment, I was better cause I was okay with it. Karen Litzy:                   22:13                Well I think that's great advice. So giving yourself permission to prioritize things in your life and doing it all to 100 percent. Excellent advice. Now is there anything else that you wanted to let the listeners know before we sign off about being that nontraditional student in physical therapy school? Keats Snideman:           22:34                I think we need more non traditional students. I mean I think it only helps the programs. I think if any of my classmates that are listening to this, hopefully they are, they can agree. I think a lot of people appreciated me in the class because I would ask the questions. I find if I didn't, interesting kind of being with sort of this younger generation, it's like they're just programmed and it's kind of like robots that just like get the information, figure out how to you know, memorize it, regurgitate it on a test, move on. And it's more about like passing and getting to the next level than it is about mastery and comprehension and not a lot like questions are asked about things that I thought maybe that the teachers explained that were confusing. So I would ask the questions, I'd be like, well what about this and what about that? Keats Snideman:           23:32                And because I'd been in the real world for longer. So I think having that older student and maybe some people thought it was a little bit annoying and that's okay. I'm okay. To me, I’m that guy, because I think it was helpful for the betterment of the class. And when you have somebody who's lived a little bit longer, like you just don't care as much. You just, if something's important to ask, it's important. Like you don't have to go, Oh, I'm not going to ask cause I don't want to like offend anybody or you know what I'm saying? So like having those little more seasoned, non traditional students, I think it spices things up a little bit. And I felt that I kind of provided that for my class and it really sort of, it kinda helps sort of broaden the curriculum by bringing in more real life experience of working with people. Keats Snideman:           24:25                Not that I was a physical therapist, but I was working with people in pain, working with people who had weakness and you know, fitness issues, which is what we do a lot in PT regardless of your setting. So that's my advice is that if you’re really, really passionate about helping people in that domain, that we need more nontraditional, a little bit older students in these programs because it really helps to just sort of broaden the scope because of what we can bring with our experience as everybody else in the class. Everyone has their own experiences. Even, I mean young, middle age, older, it's all good. Like to have a variety instead of just everybody being the same. Like I'm all about diversity and I think we should just embrace more diversity. And like I saw something on the news, I think it was the other week on CBS or something and it was some guy like he was like a car mechanic and he went back to school like in his late fifties and he got his medical degree that just like, I love it. That's stuff just like juices me up and he's bringing all his experience to that program. That must have been really neat for the other students. Karen Litzy:                   25:37                Yeah, I could not agree with you more. And now where can people find you if they want to chat about your experiences or if they have any questions for you? Keats Snideman:           25:47                Yeah, I'm a pretty Googleable guy. I've got a couple of websites that are sort of in shambles right now, but if you just Google my name, Keats Snideman, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter and Instagram. I think it's a @coachKeats and then I think it's Keith Snideman is what I'm on for Instagram. I'm trying to figure out this whole social media thing. For my own business. I do a combination of PR and work and then just my own, I'm too much of an entrepreneur to work full time for anybody else. But if anybody wants to email me, it's ksnideman@gmail.com. I love helping people who are non traditional to sort of, you know, make the decision. I mean it's not for everybody, but if you're on the fence, I talked to people frequently who sort of find out about me and I would love to talk to you about it. Karen Litzy:                   26:43                Awesome. Absolutely, all of that information will be in the show notes for this episode at podcast.healthywealthysmart.com so that people can one click and get to you in any way possible. Perfect. We'll have it all there. So Keith, thank you so much for taking the time out while you're here in New York, dropping your son off at NYU. Keats Snideman:           27:01                I know. Crazy. Yeah, it's been a blast. I'm so glad we got to meet up today. I've always wanted to, you know, talk to some other PTs when I come out here and I'm just, yeah, I'm very, very glad that I was able to get on your show. I've been a big time fan of your podcast when I was a student. I'd share it with my fellow classmates. Your doing an amazing job of just getting amazing people and concepts out into the world. Karen Litzy:                   27:26                Well, thank you very much. And, I again, thank you for taking the time today and everyone else have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.   Thanks for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Make sure to connect with me on twitter, instagram  and facebook to stay updated on all of the latest!  Show your support for the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes!

In this episode, we answer... One of the goals assigned to me when I was hired at my current company is to train a new junior systems engineer so he can develop a broader skill set and gain some experience on the systems engineering side (he was performing desktop support duties previously). However, even though the Junior SE doesn't have any experience in that area, he regularly argues with me about the "correct" way to do something. I feel that I spend more time arguing with the junior guy than actually implementing new things and managing the environment. I'm not sure how to handle this. I'm willing to teach, but it's challenging to teach when you're constantly being questioned about if your way is correct or not, especially by someone with no experience in the field. What should I do? My manager has addressed this type of behavior in the past with the JSE, and we've both talked to him directly about these issues, but it keeps happening.  

“When we are free and able to focus on our highest values and undertake meaningful work, we become better human beings”  Since starting his first business at 22 years old, Jason Graystone has successfully built and run multi-million-pound businesses both in the service sector and online. At age 24, Jason found a love for investing. A combination of passive investing and speculation in the financial markets allowed him to adopt a powerful wealth acceleration strategy, helping him achieve complete financial independence and making him a millionaire in his late 20's.  Jason's contribution in the financial education space has been recognised as being radically transparent and transferable. His refreshingly honest and insightful approach to helping other investors and traders succeed has since been commended by Forbes magazine which he has been featured in for his innovative work towards trader development.  A large part of his trading success was built on a foundation of becoming a business owner first. His obsession with statistics and data is what he believes has led him to discover the missing links in today's trading education.  Jason has a vast global successful trading community made up of serious traders and investors who are part of the Tier One Trading platform. Jason believes that everyone deserves to live an inspired life. Listen now as Steven meets Jason head on to talk about his journey, past present and future.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  At an early age, Jason was made to believe that those with money were a negative force, mainly due to the deprivations of the area he grew up in. But instead of embracing this belief, Jason chose to find out more and became determined to ascend.  Jason displayed an entrepreneurial mindset from the off, turning a single-handed car-washing enterprise into a thriving local business, and by doing so, affording himself the opportunity to buy a bicycle he'd been coveting.  Often, being poor, whether financially or in your mindset, can lead to bitterness and resentment towards those with means. Steven and Jason both believe that these figures should be seen as inspirational.  Investments for Jason are all about innovation, technology and lifestyle. In his view, bricks and mortar are all things that decay over time, and so he resists the urge to invest in them. He prefers to sink his time into furthering advances in ideas and services.  Jason sees cryptocurrency as the future of all currency, even going so far as to speculate that the pound will be obsolete one day. Facebook's own currency, in particular, is one to watch.  Jason wants to change people's attitudes towards money, wealth and on 'being an entrepreneur'. He believes that education is fundamentally flawed when it comes to these things. We are taught that we must work for forty-five years and then retire on whatever we manage to save, little realising that through investment and creativity, we can sometimes retire much sooner.  Jason has always reinvested ten per cent of his income on self-development, whether that's seminars, webinars or events. Networking is key to investment. Build systems into your business that allow it to grow and flourish. Always be on the lookout for ways to grow.  Being transparent forces you to be more honest. If you imagine that Google is watching everything you say or do online and that everything you put out there is “Googleable”, then you'll more than likely be successful.   For those wishing to get into trading, Jason advises patience and education; learning about the process, and watching others in action, or as Jason puts it “learning about the breathing patterns of the market”. Build your trading system into your current life, instead of the other way around.  Trading is 20% technical, and 80% psychology. It's all about checking your emotions and holding your nerve. It won't suit everyone. It's about developing the discipline to follow your pre-defined trading strategy every day. A good trade is one that meets the rules that you've tested regardless of the outcome.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You don't talk like your parents. That's because I don't want to be like my parents' ‘By using money the right way, you can actually free up your time. There's a smarter way to make money' ‘I believe in investing in life' ‘It's what I call esoteric information'  ‘Entrepreneurs want free time'  ‘When you're free to focus on more meaningful stuff, you're a better human' ‘At the end of the day, we all want certainty'  ‘Consistency is everything in trading'  ‘If you want to increase your level of self-development, go through your incomes and outgoings, see where you can make savings, and spend it on a webinar a week or a coach or a book'  ‘The more you share, the more you grow'   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Steven Sulley Study Podcast Tier One Trading Jason Graystone's Website Always Free Podcast   ABOUT THE HOST  The Steven Sulley Study is my take on success. My view is you should have multiple focuses to be a well-rounded individual. Success shouldn't be just one thing like money, for example, it should also consist of a healthy fit lifestyle and thriving relationships.  As a person who has made a success in life and also made huge cock-ups I feel I can offer suggestions and tips on how to become successful or at least start your pursuit. My 'Study' has taken resources from reading and education plus being around, my perception, of successful people and I, know a lot of successful people from all walks of life.  My 'Study' coming from my experiences in business, investing, sales (my core background), training, boxing and education has enabled me to become well rounded and successful and I will help you in these key areas too.   CONTACT METHOD Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode, Ebony is joined again by "slightly delusional Star Trek fangirl" Francine Crockett, aka Spock Jones. Rather than make more easily-Googleable errors about TOS continuity, Ebony decided it was better to bring back an actual Trek expert (a "trek-xpert," if you will) to break down for us all the ins-and-outs of this week's journey to Talos IV. Join us as we break down our reactions to this episode's deeply emotional moments; the welcome upgrades to the Talosians and Tellurites; and whether Giorgiou could be any more perfect. Shout out to @cezar_turcanu for sharing his Red Angel theory. Go watch the short Trek"Calypso" and you'll know what we're talking about!

In this episode, we bring you a full dose of entertainment and cinema. Rajyasree discloses her illegal access to cinema, while Abhinandan's habit of name- and place-dropping is pointed out by Aditi, our Awful & Awesome enthusiast.Sekhri and Sen review Call Me By Your Name, which was banned from being shown at the Beijing Film Festival for no good reason. And they discuss James Ivory's comment on the lack of full frontal nudity and normal sex scenes in the film.According to Sen, “The film stars a very beautiful man called Armie Hammer whom we've seen play the Winklevoss twins in the Facebook film, it also stars Timothée Chalamet, whom we saw in Lady Bird as the rebel boyfriend." She also gives us a sneak peek of the plot, “Timothée Chalamet plays a boy called Elio whose father is a professor. Armie Hammer plays Oliver, is a graduate student of Elio's father...It's about the love affair that starts between both of them” and is an “extremely well scripted, beautiful film”. Sekhri and Sen also discuss the significance of the year 1983, which the movie is set in.There's also talk of why the trailer of Nude was in the news and why it was pulled from the International Film Festival Of India in November. According to our Awesome & Awful duo, the film has a “spectacular trailer”. Sekhri says, "It makes you watch the film. The plot unfolds with a brilliant cast, it's beautifully shot with perfect lighting. It has a promise to make a political statement but not an in your face sort of political statement.”There's a little insight about the trailer of the film, Dundee, with Sekhri giving millennials a bit of context about Crocodile Dundee which was a pop culture phenomenon when he was in school (in the Dark Ages).Then, of course, there's the man for all seasons, Salman Khan's Being Human summer campaign – Look Good Do Good - where he promotes people who are trying to change the world by doing noble things. Sekhri says, “Salman Khan is ‘looking good' and others are ‘doing good'”…The purpose of this campaign is to change Salman's image.”Unsurprisingly, Tetley's green tea advertisement starring Deepika Padukone is Sekhri's favourite campaign of the week. There's an interesting anecdote from Sekhri about Tea and Egypt!There's also Anurag Kadhyap's Karta, a short film presented by Kashyap and directed by Randeep Jha – which Sen quite enjoyed. The pièce de résistance though, is a musical rendition of a Punjabi song by Sekhri, while commenting on Punjab government's proposal to set up a committee to eradicate vulgarity from Punjabi songs. And there's Sen's question with an un-Googleable answer (or so she hopes) at the end.Much to look forward to this time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Comic Adam Ray joins Jared on this week's Tuesday episode of The JTrain Podcast, to read your emails and answer questions about having a money limit on a secret santa gift, having a guy disappear after dm'ing you about a date, and still being on dating apps while seeing someone casually. Check it out, and enjoySponsored by: Brooklinen (brooklinen.com code: jtrain) and Rothy's (rothys.com code: jtrain)Subscribe to the JTrain Patreon now at www.patreon.com/jaredfreidtwitter.com/JTrain56 // twitter.com//adamraycomedy / instagram.com/classicshelbReleased by: Jared Freid

In this episode, we bring you a full dose of entertainment and cinema. Rajyasree discloses her illegal access to cinema, while Abhinandan’s habit of name- and place-dropping is pointed out by Aditi, our Awful & Awesome enthusiast.   Sekhri and Sen review Call Me By Your Name, which was banned from being shown at the Beijing Film Festival for no good reason. And they discuss James Ivory’s comment on the lack of full frontal nudity and normal sex scenes in the film.According to Sen, “The film stars a very beautiful man called Armie Hammer whom we’ve seen play the Winklevoss twins in the Facebook film, it also stars Timothée Chalamet, whom we saw in Lady Bird as the rebel boyfriend." She also gives us a sneak peek of the plot, “Timothée Chalamet plays a boy called Elio whose father is a professor. Armie Hammer plays Oliver, is a graduate student of Elio’s father...It’s about the love affair that starts between both of them” and is an “extremely well scripted, beautiful film”. Sekhri and Sen also discuss the significance of the year 1983, which the movie is set in.There’s also talk of why the trailer of Nude was in the news and why it was pulled from the International Film Festival Of India in November. According to our Awesome & Awful duo, the film has a “spectacular trailer”. Sekhri says, "It makes you watch the film. The plot unfolds with a brilliant cast, it’s beautifully shot with perfect lighting. It has a promise to make a political statement but not an in your face sort of political statement.”There’s a little insight about the trailer of the film, Dundee, with Sekhri giving millennials a bit of context about Crocodile Dundee which was a pop culture phenomenon when he was in school (in the Dark Ages). Then, of course, there’s the man for all seasons, Salman Khan’s Being Human summer campaign – Look Good Do Good - where he promotes people who are trying to change the world by doing noble things. Sekhri says, “Salman Khan is ‘looking good’ and others are ‘doing good’”…The purpose of this campaign is to change Salman’s image.”Unsurprisingly, Tetley’s green tea advertisement starring Deepika Padukone is Sekhri’s favourite campaign of the week. There’s an interesting anecdote from Sekhri about Tea and Egypt!There’s also Anurag Kadhyap’s Karta, a short film presented by Kashyap and directed by Randeep Jha – which Sen quite enjoyed. The pièce de résistance though, is a musical rendition of a Punjabi song by Sekhri, while commenting on Punjab government’s proposal to set up a committee to eradicate vulgarity from Punjabi songs. And there’s Sen’s question with an un-Googleable answer (or so she hopes) at the end.  Much to look forward to this time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An experimental podcast of little bundles of love. I'd love you to send me a love letter, and you can do so at http://www.loveletterspodcast.tumblr.com/ Written by @jonisoit and narrated by @lizduckchong.

Do you like being confused? Do you like being confused while listening to your broken iPod that's stuck on shuffle and it decides when the song starts and stops? Do you like doing all that while being overcharged for popcorn? Well then have I got the movie for you. Also... if you're gonna give your movie a title...make it something Googleable. Might as well call it Track 01 Unknown Artist if you're gonna call it 'Sing' I gotta type buzzwords in the description just to hope I get hits, like: Animation Comedy Music Animals Cartoon. We review Sing from Illumination Entertainment and it doesn't go well. Direct Download

And now, episode 7 of the least Googleable metal podcast on the net. This one is fairly low down and gritty; a lot of sludge, doom, and blackened dreariness. Also, there are two return bands to the podcast with Sweden's 2 The Gallows and their country-mates Murdryck. Yes, I play a lot of Swedish music here on Another Metal Podcast, but I can't help it, most great metal seems to come from there. Have we figured that one out yet? Fear not, I still manage to fit Hungary, Germany, the UK, France, Norway, and even Pennsylvania into this episode's mix, so we're quite well rounded.

Jordan Paldino interviews Caws Pobi local Portland writer, producer of music, rapper and musician. The two discuss the music of Drake, Eminiem's fall from grace, speculate on the age of Chuck D, and what has happened to music lately (specifically Slick Rick). Coffe may be spilt on certain previous guest's tables or maybe just a nice conversation about music happens. Caws Pobi can be found on Soundcloud, Facebook, and is Googleable, where as Jordan Paladino well you can call him Al.

Crush On Radio celebrates Mother’s Day by talking about artists with mothers! Also, we talk about dance-punk, dumb band names, Justin Timberlake, Boy Bands, listening to pop music, Michael Jackson, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, American Dad, Roger Waters solo albums, … Continue reading →

Abe waxes philosophic about the clips of the week, piracy and the nature of participatory culture... Now the RIAA can take your stuff.