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In this episode of Partnerships Unraveled, we sit down with Christopher Jones, National Vice President of Partner Channels at GTT, to unpack how he's leading a bold transformation of the company's indirect strategy. From restructuring roles to removing internal silos, Chris shares how GTT is redesigning everything around one principle: making it easier and more rewarding, for partners to do business.We explore how GTT is building a channel model fit for complex, global enterprise customers, including:Why they redefined the role of channel sales directors to focus purely on partner relationshipsHow a fully integrated customer success model eliminates channel conflict and accelerates deal velocityThe surprisingly powerful role of compensation accuracy in earning partner trustHow cross-functional buy-in, from product to finance, is enabling true partner-first executionWhy being “boring and predictable” is GTT's secret weapon for long-term partner loyaltyChris brings deep experience from across the channel to reveal what it takes to build a scalable, sustainable partner motion that actually lives up to the hype.If you're looking to scale your partner program with clarity, integrity, and speed - this one's for you.Connect with Christopher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-jones-47392b/_________________________Learn more about Channext

Émission du 27/05/2025 présentée par Amaury de Tonquédec avec Cécile Aboulian, Directrice Equity Capital Market chez In Extenso Finance et Pierre Schang, Gérant de portefeuille actions chez LFDE, responsable des pôles France et Environnement. Vos questions en live : Qu'est-ce que les intérêts composés et comment en profiter ?Quand faut-il prendre ses profits en bourse ? Où réinvestir ?L'année dernière a été la plus chaude jamais enregistrée. Comment s'exposer à la thématique du réchauffement climatique en bourse ?Small Caps : comment s'exposer tout en limitant les risques ? Comment trouver la bonne société ?Bourse : un avis sur la valeur GTT ?Quelles sont les valeurs françaises à fort potentiel ?La QUESTION CASH : L'investissement “casino” et l'actif à conserver 10 ans.

Guyana is defined by its dense rainforest. Culturally connected to the Caribbean region, it has become a richer country due to its oil production and GDP per capita. But it has high levels of poverty. Especially in the rural areas. One person with an understanding of connectivity from his years in the satellite and telecommunications industries decided to go back home to tackle this fundamental issue, which is central to ICF's purpose. Born in one of the poorest regions of Guyana, executive Andre L. Jones started WANSAT Networks to provide connectivity and development to the rural areas where he grew up. The story is a great one. Inspiring. How he approached the project is instructive to any rural district seeking to go on a journey toward Intelligent Community status. Andre L. Jones co-founded WANSAT Networks, Inc. to provide connectivity to underserved and unserved areas in his birth country of Guyana. Born in one of the poorest regions of the nation, he witnessed firsthand the challenges that rural communities faced due to their isolation. When oil was discovered in Guyana, for example, the nation experienced rapid economic expansion, but the benefits did not reach many rural areas. Andre turned the years of expertise in the satellite communications industry he had developed as a successful businessman in the United States toward the problem, securing vital partnerships with leading companies operating in the region like Intelsat, Viasat and Telefonica. Through these partnerships, WANSAT was able to deliver connectivity to remote regions unreached by fiber and terrestrial networks, providing those isolated communities with access to essential services and communication options. WANSAT has installed satellite terminals in remote communities throughout Guyana, allowing previously unconnected citizens to access the government's telemedicine program, including remote consultations and general healthcare access. This connection is a lifeline for remote villages, providing timely diagnoses and medical advice that were previously out of reach. WANSAT connectivity also facilitates distance learning, enabling rural students to participate for the first time in programs such as the government's GOAL initiative. Students in remote areas now have access to educational resources and opportunities that were once unimaginable, leveling the playing field and fostering a brighter future for these communities. Guyana's gold mining industry has been another major beneficiary of WANSAT connectivity. Miners, who often face prolonged isolation from their families, now benefit from satellite internet that keeps them connected to their loved ones. This connectivity not only enhances social cohesion, but also improves workplace safety and personal security, mitigating the extreme hardships that come with long separations. To ensure that WANSAT's connectivity offerings continue to benefit communities throughout Guyana, Andre has established training programs to equip local youth and former defense personnel with the knowledge of how to install and maintain satellite systems. He actively collaborated with Guyana's largest telecom provider, GTT (now One Communications), to ensure sustainable development and increased regional participation in the nation's rapid economic growth. For Andre, WANSAT is not simply about technology, but about ensuring that no one is left behind in Guyana's economic transformation.

Global secure connectivity provider GTT is having a rebirth, if you will, gaining plenty of attention for hiring Lumen alum Sara Seegers and AT&T vet Chris Jones to be two of the most prominent faces of its channel program. The Channel Futures podcast, Coffee with Craig and James, caught up with them to learn about GTT's re-energized dedication to the channel and the opportunities that lie ahead for the company's partners.

(We were made aware that this original posting had the last section DROPPED accidentally)...here is the full episode! Ahhh...TECHNOLOGY! *This is why AI will likely replace our production team...Just kidding production team, just kidding).Episode Details:Well, we typically focus on ONE or maybe TWO publications to highlight and review. However, in this episode, which we have decided to call, “Survey said…!”, we will go through some common and REAL WORLD “mental battles”regarding what is and what is not part of a diagnostic criteria. These are every day OBGYN things that we KNOW, but when asked to define them…we can easily get ourselves confused. We are going to clear these up…Game Show style!  First, when only one abnormal value is found in the two-step, 100-gram GTT,  it is called borderline GDM, or impaired glucose tolerance. But what is it called when there is an abnormal (failed) 1-Hour 50 gram, but completely normal 3-Hr 100-gram GTT? Is this also called “impaired glucose tolerance”? We….the Survey Said…! (Yep, we'll get to that). Secondly, does the criteria for Preeclampsia with Severe Criteria include platelets of 100,000 or not? The Survey Said…! (Yep, we'll cover that). We will also review the numbers for MVP oligo, for a “normal” postmenopausal ES, and MORE! Listen in for details!

The GTT program is excited to have a representative from Innosearch.ai Visiting us to introduce an innovative accessible shopping page! This platform brings together products from multiple companies, all designed with accessibility in mind. It offers an inclusive shopping experience tailored for individuals using assistive technology, ensuring a seamless and empowering journey for everyone. Join us to learn how this cutting-edge tool makes online shopping more inclusive, efficient, and enjoyable for all. 

Well, we typically focus on ONE or maybe TWO publications to highlight and review. However, in this episode, which we have decided to call, “Survey said…!”, we will go through some common and REAL WORLD “mental battles” regarding what is and what is not part of a diagnostic criteria. These are every day OBGYN things that we KNOW, but when asked to define them…we can easily get ourselves confused. We are going to clear these up…Game Show style! First, when only one abnormal value is found in the two-step, 100-gram GTT, it is called borderline GDM, or impaired glucose tolerance. But what is it called when there is an abnormal (failed) 1-Hour 50 gram, but completely normal 3-Hr 100-gram GTT? Is this also called “impaired glucose tolerance”? We….the Survey Said…! (Yep, we'll get to that). Secondly, does the criteria for Preeclampsia with Severe Criteria include platelets of 100,000 or not? The Survey Said…! (Yep, we'll cover that). We will also review the numbers for MVP oligo, for a “normal” postmenopausal ES, and MORE! Listen in for details!

Vous ne savez pas dans quoi investir en Bourse ? Des gérants vous donnent des idées de valeurs, secteurs, matières premières... Aujourd'hui, ce sont Antoine Fraysse-Soulier, responsable de l'analyse des Marchés chez eToro, et Guillaume Di Pizio, responsable de la gestion chez Dauphine AM.

The @BrokenPencilBC (Suave4Mayor x @DanjahOne) keeps 2025 moving right along, starting by calling out almost half a century of heaux $#!t—no thanks to GTT. Also on deck, VKM pays for freedom, Raw on Netflix sets the year off with a bang (and boos), some long-awaited returns, and The Rock goes Corporate—with liquor, plus more.  Check your preferred streaming home & set a reminder. Like. Rate. Share. Most importantly, Subscribe for auto-delivery. https://pods.link/brokenpencilbc   Available on all streaming platforms. #BrokenPencilLogic #WitDaShyt #YouCantWriteThis #PriceJustWentUp #MarkMyWords #FTCF #WCW #WWE #NXT #AEW #ROH #ImpactWrestling #NJPW #NWA #Podcast #NowStreaming #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Pandora #TuneIn #prowrestling #CerwinVega

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Ce vendredi 11 octobre, Virginie Robert, présidente de Constance Associés et Pierre Schang, gérant de portefeuille actions chez La Financière de l'Echiquier, se sont penchés sur les titres Pinterest, Euronext, GTT et ID Logistics, dans On achète ou on vend ? dans l'émission C'est Votre Argent présentée par Marc Fiorentino. C'est Votre Argent est à voir ou écouter le vendredi sur BFM Business.

On May 22, 2024, we summarized a then soon-to-be-released ACOG CPU on Screening for GDM in Pregnancy and Postpartum. That CPU was officially released July 2024. That update endorsed the possibility of immediate postpartum GTT testing with a 75-gram OGTT. Now, on September 19, 2024, authors from UT Houston have published a systematic review/meta-analysis on this subject. In this episode, we will review what this data is and what it isn't. Listen in for details.

Send us a textIn this episode we discuss 10 JDM car myths that almost everyone has heard. Does mud on your car make it more aerodynamic? Does your A/C use gas? Is the Skyline banned because its too fast? These and more on this weeks episode of the Right Hand Drive Guys Podcast.Socials @RHDGUYSMerch - HTTP://RHDGUYS.COM

In today's episode let's talk about what a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is, and why I am using it to check for gestational diabetes compared to the traditional glucose tolerance test (GTT). . Schedule a FREE Discovery Call with me here:https://yourlifenutrition.org/nutrition-coaching-application/.Come join our private accountability group, the Goal Getters Group, for all things health, wellness & nutrition! You'll get sample weekly meal plans, recipes, weekly group coaching calls and access to our exclusive Blood Sugar, Wellness, Mindfulness & Movement Challenges to help support you and keep you accountable on your health & nutrition journey AND get access to private messaging with me, your dietitian!Click the link below to join the Goal Getters Group today!https://your-life-nutrition-goal-getters.mn.co/plans/417799?bundle_token=956d00b8819113662d2af66ad9e7049f&utm_source=manual.For health & nutrition tips, recipes & more - follow me on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourlifenutrition/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourlifenutritionrdn/Email: Brittany@yourlifenutrition.orgShop my Favorite Products!**I am an Amazon Affiliate and may earn commissions on qualifying purchases.

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we discuss the different shops in the USA that work on Nissan Skyline GTRs. Mostly good, a few bad. Listen along and learn where to take your skyline. Socials - @RHDGUYSHTTP://RHDGUYS.COM

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we layout the 3 major Konbini in Japan. 7 Eleven, Family Mart, and Lawson. We discuss the pro's and con's of each, and list our favorite. Listen along and learn what we are missing here in America.Socials @RHDGUYSMerch HTTP://RHDGUYS.COM

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It's an all-new format for this week's GTT, but a format that VGM podcast fans may find familiar! We've taken this concept, along with the blessing of Darryl Bowers aka The Last Rican, and we're bringing you the first ever episode of the GTT VGM Fight Club! Johnny and Jessie are facing off in a battle of bangers to decide who has the greatest VGM taste and it's up to our live viewers on Twitch to decide! We hope you enjoy! Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond, TheKerrigan and HCO! 0:00:00 Welcome to GTT VGM Fight Club! 0:08:13 Hypnospace Outlaw - I Am the Chowder Man 0:12:37 Super Lesbian Animal RPG - STAR ☆ POWER 0:22:51 Bloody Roar 3 - Dangerous Expectation - Prologue 0:26:43 Penny Time - Neon 0:35:16 Final Fantasy VIII - The Man With the Machine Gun 0:38:52 Foxy 2 - Main Theme 0:44:52 The Messenger - The Frozen Dark (Glacial Peak) 0:47:28 F-Zero X - Silence (Dream Chaser) 0:55:38 Sonic Mania - Chemical Plant Zone Boss ~ Mean Bean Machine 0:58:46 No More Heroes 2 - Philistine 1:15:50 Sky Shark - Stage 4

The theme is WET GAMES and the GTT gang handles it with about as much maturity as you'd expect! Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond and TheKerrigan! 0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune! 0:05:44 VGM Threesome! 0:08:45 Threesome Game 1 Reveal 0:17:00 Threesome Game 2 Reveal 0:25:53 Threesome Game 3 Reveal 0:29:27 Game 2 0:33:21 Game 2 Reveal 0:41:47 Game 3 0:50:52 Game 3 Reveal 1:05:50 Game 4 1:12:34 Game 4 Reveal 1:28:08 Game 5 1:32:30 Game 5 Reveal 1:47:28 This Game's Winner Is...

Niall Mackey, the Commercial Director at Topsec Cloud Solutions, joins the show this week as we take an inside look at how businesses cope in the aftermath of a hack. Niall is a tech industry veteran with over 35 years of experience with Topsec, Nokia, Interoute (now GTT) and Bank of America. With Topsec, Niall looks at commercial opportunities and influences the direction of service development to ensure they continue to bring value to their customers. Topsec have been pioneering cloud-based email and web security for more than two decades, servicing the government, healthcare, engineering, and IT sectors. In this episode, Niall sheds some light on the gradually-then-all-at-once impact felt by a business undergoing a cyber attack, from social engineering and phishing to ransomware attacks. We talk through the psychological impact on those who were keeping watch, how those teams pick up the pieces, and the impact on customer trust. LINKS: Connect with Niall Mackey on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niallmackey/ Learn more about Topsec Cloud Solutions: https://www.topsec.com/ Leave a review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1455819294 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4F8uOLxiscYVWVGEfNxTnd MoneyNeverSleeps newsletter on Substack: https://moneyneversleeps.substack.com/ MoneyNeverSleeps website: https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/ Email us at info@norioventures.com Follow on X(Twitter): Pete Townsend: https://twitter.com/petetownsendnv MoneyNeverSleeps: https://twitter.com/MNSshow Follow on LinkedIn: Pete Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-townsend-1b18301a/ MoneyNeverSleeps: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28661903/admin/feed/posts/

GTT is trying out a new format that may have been lifted from a VH1 panel discussion show from 25 years ago, but ignore that, we've each brought our picks for the greatest superhero games of all time! We rank em, debate em, and ask our live audience to vote on the final list! Enjoy the discussion and be sure to join in live if we do this a second time! Follow us on twitch.tv/GameThatTune for live episodes of GTT! Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond and TheKerrigan!

Ce vendredi 29 mars, William Higgons, président d'Independance et Expansion AM, et Pascal Seivy, directrice commerciale chez Lombard Odier, se sont penchés sur les titres GTT, Stellantis, ALD et Catana Group, dans On achète ou on vend ? dans l'émission C'est Votre Argent présentée par Marc Fiorentino. C'est Votre Argent est à voir ou écouter le vendredi sur BFM Business.

Niall Mackey, the Commercial Director at TopSec Cloud Solutions, joins the show this week as we take an inside look at how businesses cope in the aftermath of a hack.   Niall is a tech industry veteran with over 35 years of experience with TopSec, Nokia, Interoute (now GTT) and Bank of America.  With TopSec, Niall looks at commercial opportunities and influences the direction of service development to ensure they continue to bring value to their customers.  TopSec have been pioneering cloud-based email and web security for more than two decades, servicing the government, healthcare, engineering, and IT sectors.   In this episode, Niall sheds some light on the gradually-then-all-at-once impact felt by a business undergoing a cyber attack, from social engineering and phishing to ransomware attacks.  We talk through the psychological impact on those who were keeping watch, how those teams pick up the pieces, and the impact on customer trust LINKS: Connect with Niall Mackey on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niallmackey/ Learn more about TopSecCloud Solutions: https://www.topsec.com/ Leave a review and subscribe on  -Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1455819294 -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4F8uOLxiscYVWVGEfNxTnd -Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvaaHrJjizUEd0-93mjCKsQ MoneyNeverSleeps newsletter on Substack: https://moneyneversleeps.substack.com/ MoneyNeverSleeps website:  https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/ Email us at info@norioventures.com Follow on X(Twitter):  -Pete Townsend: https://twitter.com/petetownsendnv -MoneyNeverSleeps: https://twitter.com/MNSshow   Follow on LinkedIn: -Pete Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-townsend-1b18301a/ -MoneyNeverSleeps: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28661903/admin/feed/posts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moneyneversleeps/message

In the latest episode of the Seatrade Maritime Podcast, we dive into the digital transformation of the maritime industry with Francois Hanat, Digital Innovation Manager at Ascenz Marorka.Join our host Dan Chapman, Head of Media at Seatrade Maritime, as they navigate the solutions Ascenz Marorka is providing to vessels across the globe.Francois shares the company's mission to harmonise economic and environmental objectives, offering a broad spectrum of digital tools designed to optimise ship operations, enhance safety, and reduce CO2 emissions.With over 20 years of experience and more than 1,400 ships equipped, Ascenz Marorka, backed by GTT's six decades of maritime expertise, presents a unique one-stop shop platform for vessel performance management.Whether it's LNG carriers or offshore operations, Francois illustrates how their solutions are not just about technology, but also leveraging human expertise.Listen now!If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to ensure you don't miss our latest uploads. Feel free also to recommend the show to a friend or colleague that you think would enjoy it. For the latest news on the shipping and maritime industries make sure you visit www.searade-maritime.com or subscribe to our newsletter.Don't forget to join the conversation and let us know what topics you want us to cover in future on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn

The “traditional“ Parkland management protocol for GDM included the immediate initiation of medical therapy for those with abnormal fasting blood sugar, in addition to another additional value, on the 3 hour GTT. These patients were automatically labeled as A2 GDM at time of diagnosis, rather than waiting the 1 to 2 weeks of nutritional/diet therapy. Does fasting hyperglycemia on the 100g GTT truly predict the need for subsequent medical therapy? In this episode, we will summarize new data on this subject from AJOG MFM published on February 17, 2024. Does immediate medical therapy after GDM diagnosis improve overall maternal/neonatal outcome? It's a complicated answer, and we will review it in this episode.

The all-new GTT is here and we're starting off with a music-loaded freeplay episode! We're trying some new things, playing some old favorites, and as always, having a lot of fun and taking nothing seriously! 0:00:00 Welcome to Game That Tune!! 0:04:20 Opening Quick Round! 0:12:54 Game 1 0:20:01 Game 1 Reveal 0:30:06 Game 2 0:39:06 Game 2 Reveal 0:46:08 Game 3 0:54:26 Game 3 Reveal 1:04:19 Game 4 1:10:58 Game 4 Reveal 1:24:33 Game 5 1:31:57 Game 5 Reveal 1:46:11 Game 6 2:02:49 Game 6 Reveal 2:08:53 This Game's Winner Is... 2:14:58 Bonus Music/Outro Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond and TheKerrigan! Check out our 24/7 VGM stream for our always-on, always taking requests, fun and interactive radio station featuring games we've used on the show!

In episode 19, Sarah walks us through her 7 year learning and unlearning around pregnancy and birth which led to her choosing a homebirth for her 2nd baby, Quentin. In the 7 years, Sarah experienced many challenges, including hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), postnatal anxiety, an ultra sound drama and an IGUR (Intrauterine growth restriction) scare. So many of these anxieties were created and perpetuated by the many attempts to pathologise and medicalise birth.  Homebirth story begins approx 45:00Links to people/business/resources for this episode:What is HG? https://www.hyperemesis.org/about-hyperemesis-gravidarum/Sara Wickham GBS resources https://www.sarawickham.com/topic-resources/group-b-strep-resources/The Great Birth Rebellion Podcast on GBS  https://www.melaniethemidwife.com/podcasts/the-great-birth-rebellion/episodes/2147792078Solaine Douglas Nutritionist - Gestastional Diabetes and the GTT https://solainedouglas.com/2022/04/25/the-oral-glucose-tolerance-test-ogtt-alternatives-with-solaine-douglas/The evidence around Ultra Sounds (or rather, lack of)Birthing Instincts Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/297-the-light-dark-sides-of-ultrasound/id1552816683?i=1000599733024The Great Birth Rebellion https://www.melaniethemidwife.com/podcasts/the-great-birth-rebellion/episodes/2147903261CTG evidence and problems https://www.sarawickham.com/topic-resources/fetal-monitoring-research-resources/The risks of coached pushing https://www.better-birth.co.uk/post/guided-vs-spontaneous-pushingHomebirth Australia Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/212985225383780/Types of cord insertion (placenta) https://sfbirthdoulaandplacentaencapsulationservices.com/birth-blog/2015/8/22/placenta-variationsPerinatal and postnatal depression and anxiety support https://panda.org.au/Resources for IUGR and scans here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vSSerYXB6XBsrd4B1sZwVGhdKRwvBqHa?usp=sharingCHAPTERS03:11Choosing the Public System and Hyperemesis08:18Induction and Hospital Experience13:24Epidural and Pushing17:34Postpartum Experience and Mental Health20:11Finding Out About Second Pregnancy28:15Considering Home Birth34:34Misdiagnosis and Confirmation of Pregnancy38:58Telling Family and Friends45:33Support from Sister-in-Law and Mother48:21Education and Pre-Birth Counseling49:19Preparing for the Birth52:10Clearing the Mind53:07IUGR Scare54:44Preparing the Space for Birth01:13:45Going into Labor01:18:13Labor Intensifies01:25:14Transition and Pushing01:29:58Baby's Arrival01:36:08Birthing the Placenta01:37:01Exploring the Placenta and Baby's Size01:37:56The Birth of Quentin01:38:46No Tearing and Empowerment01:39:17Perception of Birth and Recovery01:40:14Empowering Women's Birth Experiences01:41:06The Impact of Continuous Care01:41:21Gratitude and ConclusionSupport the show

Episode 18 is from Jess in NSW who shares her homebirth after (traumatic) c-section (HBAC) story. An incredible story, with unfortunately a lot of drama, including problems getting a referral to a private midwife, issues around the GTT and GDM & then shockingly, after needing to transfer to hospital after Jacob was born, was treated horribly in hospital & was denied seeing or holding freshly newborn Jacob face-to-face for THREE days because of totally unaccetable reasoning surrounding Jess having COVID-19. Homebirth story begins approx 28:50Links to people/business/resources for this episode:Calmbirth https://calmbirth.com.au/Obstetric Violence & Sexual Assault in Maternity Care "Obstetric violence often focuses on labor and childbirth even when referring to maternity care, which includes pregnancy, given that these are moments in which women are particularly vulnerable to health care abuse and over-medicalization, or non-medically justified obstetric interventions, e.g., episiotomy and caesarean section. Other important components of obstetric violence are dehumanization and non-consensual care, as well as overall conversion of biological processes into pathological ones."https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778012221140138https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre/more_news_stories/study_finds_one-in-ten_australian_women_have_experienced_obstetric_violencePostnatal anxiety https://panda.org.au/articles/postnatal-anxiety-signs-and-symptoms/Birth Debrief with Core & Floor Restore https://coreandfloor.com.au/products/birth-debriefBirth Time Doco  https://www.birthtime.world/The Unbelievable Tactics of teh Formula Industry on The Midwives Cauldron https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BsQomw00EvZ5NWfYPTbEA?si=9258a8e558ec4e15CHAPTERS: 01:00Jess's traumatic first birth experience02:25Jess's home birth after caesarean story08:11Jess's experience with gestational diabetes14:49Jess's caesarean birth experience20:30Decision to have a home birth33:36Options for home birth43:36Difficulties with GP and referral45:28Care with private midwife48:17Preparing for birth and moving houses49:40Midwife's Holiday and Breach Position51:14Turning the Baby53:03Miscarriage and ECV56:14COVID Diagnosis58:08Collaborative Care and Home Preparation01:00:32Onset of Labor01:04:57Pushing and Birth01:09:40Baby's Breathing Difficulties01:13:00Separation and NICU01:21:39Postpartum and Frustrations01:28:17Reflection and Future Birth PlansSupport the show

Welcome to our “OB Smorgasburg” episode, where we have a CORNUCOPIA of topics. Well, maybe not a full cornucopia… But a mini-cornucopia. In this episode, we will address 2 recent publications that really are my “pet peeves“ about medical data! One is from the US Preventive Service Task Force, and the other has to do with “timed intercourse”. You have to listen to this! Then we will get into new data regarding the association of 1 abnormal glucose value on the 3 hour GTT with adverse neonatal outcomes. And lastly, is there such a thing as “organic” 50 g glucose challenge? Let's get into all this information…Now!

August Absurdity has ended and a new king reigns over GTT! Johnny has the power to do whatever he pleases, so of course he chose a freeplay! Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! We're debuting the all-new VIP experience at GTTRadio.vip and we've got GTT GEMS, MIXTAPES, all new MOVIE COMMENTARIES and more stuff in the works, so check out the page and consider supporting the show as we attempt to grow and create more great stuff! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond and TheKerrigan! Check out our 24/7 VGM stream for a radio station featuring games we've used on the show! We've loaded up over 1,000 soundtracks in our stream and have more coming all the time! New episodes of Game That Tune record LIVE on Wednesdays at 9 PM EST on numerous platforms: YouTube Twitch Facebook The show takes podcast form and becomes available for download Tuesday mornings! Find it on Apple Podcasts or GameThatTune.com and enjoy! We always want to hear from you, especially if you have a request! Email us at GameThatTune@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or on our new social media platform GameThatTune.Club

Get the what, how and why on the 6.0L LS-powered Nissan Frontier, aka Navara from owner/builder Stephen Dorrick of @LOJConversions.Use ‘PODCAST75' for $75 off your first HPA course here: https://hpcdmy.co/hpa-tuned-inA 700hp+ 6.0L  LS engine owing around 6k USD powered this rather porky 4720lbs (2100kg) chassis to 2nd place in the GTT @optimabatteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational at @semashow. Build wise forged @MAHLEGroup pistons and @Lunatipower connecting rods are used along with @KingBearings engine bearings, ported LS3 head and aftermarket cams. The twin @BorgWarnerCorporate Airwerks  S257 SX-E run around 13psi but there is room to go up to 20psi on occasion thanks in part to the use of an E50 flavoured ethanol fuel blend.A @haltech Elite 2500 manages the engine with an I/O expander to increase sensor inputs for a well set up and nicely prioritised engine protection strategy. This Nissan is AWD with the use of a TR6060 mated to a transfer case from a Chevy Blazer which gave Stephen an easier job of using the likes of a Y62 Patrol rear diff with that rear end seeing 70% of the torque split.The LS retains a wet sump, however, it has been modified and an Accusump is fitted for extra insurance and with essentially only @vikingperformance2574 Berserker coil-overs fitted there are plans to upgrade much of the suspension components in the future to remove excess compliance as well as a focus on weight reduction.

AUGUST ABSURDITY isn't the only tradition we have here on GTT! We're continuing our annual tradition of getting at least 3 months behind on GTT GEMS, the Patreon-supported show featuring awesome tunes from game releases 30, 20, and 10 years ago! If you like the show, then you should support the show at Patreon.com/GameThatTune! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, PhoenixTear2121, BeastPond and TheKerrigan! 0:00:32 Welcome to GTT GEMS! 0:02:05 May 2013 0:06:33 Poker Night at the Inventory 2 0:16:29 Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move (3DS) 0:24:01 Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS) 0:32:13 Metro: Last Light 0:43:50 Call of Juarez: Gunslinger 0:49:40 May 2003 0:54:11 Enter the Matrix 1:04:28 Lufia: Ruins of Lore (GBA) 1:14:07 Lost Kingdoms II (GCN) 1:25:43 Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA) 1:35:51 WarioWare Inc. Mega Microgame$! (GBA) 1:44:04 May 1993 1:47:51 MechWarrior (SNES) 1:58:55 Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (SNES) 2:10:12 Super Turrican (SNES) 2:25:26 Final Fight CD (SCD) 2:44:33 Kirby's Adventure (NES)

Welcome to The Living Rewired podcast, where we explore the dynamic world of fitness, business, and personal growth. In this episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Daniel Lowry, an esteemed guest and the founder of GTT Performance Centre in Hobart, Tasmania. With his extensive experience in the fitness industry, Daniel has become a trusted mentor for personal trainers and an expert in training the general population. Drawing from his background in the military, fitness business and managerial challenges as a business owner, Daniel shares invaluable insights and strategies for success in the ever-evolving fitness industry. We dive deep into the intricacies of running a fitness business, discussing effective methods for client acquisition, building strong relationships with clients, and creating a thriving gym environment. As a mentor to personal trainers, we explore the importance of ongoing education, staying up-to-date with industry trends, and fostering a supportive community within the fitness industry. Throughout our conversation, we also address the training needs of the general population. Daniel shares his expertise on tailoring workouts to individual goals and abilities, emphasising the significance of creating sustainable and enjoyable fitness routines. Extra Stuff: Follow Jack on Instagram - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/living_rewired_/ Follow GTT Performance Centre on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gtt.performance.centre/ Visit GTT Performance Centre's website - https://www.gtt.com.au/ Bonus: Tune into the GTT podcast where Jack appeared as a guest on Dan's Podcast back in 2020 during lockdowns - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1L5pwRf7eIthRxkXwFf6Hy?si=XqPs3rSdRJKWAUO4MElpbA

In today's episode of Welcome to Cloundlandia, we speak about the importance of making bets and guesses in today's shifting environment and how the eight profit activators form the foundation of any successful business.   SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Have you ever thought about how taking risks and making educated guesses can impact your life and career? This podcast explores just that, drawing from personal experiences like dealing with an Alzheimer's diagnosis and the COVID-19 pandemic.. If you're looking to build a successful business, you'll want to check out this podcast. It breaks down the eight profit activators that every successful business needs and how they work together to create a powerful blueprint for success. When it comes to running a business, finding the right target market is key. One way to do that is by writing a book that draws in prospects. It's all about knowing your audience. Even with all the changes happening in the world today, the eight profit activators discussed in the podcast remain relevant no matter what situation you're in. Did you know that the Shekel currency has a fascinating history? This podcast explores that, as well as the exciting advancements being made in chat and AI applications. Want to boost productivity on your team? Consider integrating AI to handle tedious tasks, freeing up team members to focus on the things they're best at. Combining AI with the Working Genius concept and the idea of 'Thinking About Your Thinking' can take your team's performance to the next level. This podcast dives into how it all works. Speaking of the Working Genius concept, the podcast also discusses how the Working Genius website can be used to better understand individual and team dynamics, especially when combined with AI integration. Taking the time to reflect on personal experiences can lead to valuable insights and self-awareness, which can ultimately improve decision-making and creativity. As technology continues to advance and change our lives, there's a growing desire to systematize the predictable while humanizing the exceptional. It's a general human aspiration for the 21st century. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT Dean Jackson Mr Sullivan. Dan Sullivan How are? Dean Jackson you. Welcome to Cloudland, thank you very much, i usually just hit on recent. Dan Sullivan I just hit. Usually hit on recent phone call and you're usually there. But I was in London all week and Babs and I were face face, face timing it all week. Dean Jackson So I was looking for your number that. Dan Sullivan I could share. Dean Jackson Well, how was your whirlwind adventure? Dan Sullivan Well, it was great Babs couldn't go. She had she developed a really bad, you know sore throat for a couple days before and she just thought that the overnight flight would not do her any good. Dean Jackson No. Dan Sullivan So, anyway, i kept the trip short. I arrived on Monday morning and I flew out on Friday, but we had an all day. we had an all day session. We had a morning workshop for anybody who would want to come you know which mostly signature. And then there were some 10 times people And then in the afternoon I did it just for 10 times and free zone And as a great treat, evan Ryan and Keegan Caldwell were both in London. Dean Jackson And they came over. Dan Sullivan they came over for the day, so I spotlighted them. Oh very nice. We're just. We're starting with Keegan, i was starting with Evan. Our whole company is going to go through a six to two hour Zoom program on. AI. Ai is your teammate, okay, and so that starts in the near future. Those who are above my security clearance will be handling the exact details. And then I had Keegan talk about the IP, and that was, that was a treat, and so it went really, really well. You know we had about 80 in the morning. they had scheduled train strike in Britain on Thursday, so I suspect we probably lost about 40. And at least I scheduled it tonight. I hate when somebody strikes without any advance. Dean Jackson Let you know we're not. we're not coming in on Thursday. Yeah, yeah. Dan Sullivan So and the UK's train country, because it's got very dense population. And of course they have they have a lot of well, they have the tube. The tube was fine but that's more or less inside London, But the outer, you know when they come from one of the outer towns or cities and they take one of the trains. Dean Jackson And and. Dan Sullivan But in the afternoon I did the whole thing for three hours on. Get your best guesses and bets, which is a. It's a real wake up call. It's a wake up call for a lot of people that. I said you know the people who are predicting this and predicting that. You know, in the world today they're guessing, actually they're. They're making a guess and they want to do it persuasively so that you'll bet on their guess. You know and that. that is my definition of marketing You try to get other people to bet on your bet on your guess. Dean Jackson I like this a lot. Yeah, i wanted to talk a little about that. That's a part of the new book. Dan Sullivan It's part of the new book. The three rules are everything's made up, nobody's in charge, life's not fair. And if you put that, if you put that together, then there's a whole series of other things that flow out of the putting the three rules Everything's made up, nobody's in charge, life's not fair. Nobody's stopping you from nobody's stopping you from making stuff up Right. And every everybody, everybody who sees or experiences you're making up some new, might feel that that's not fair. And that's not fair, yeah, if you're doing that, but you're not responsible for how you feel, how they feel, right. Dean Jackson Right, right, yeah, so so amazing. So a very was your. How was that message kind of received in London? What's there? what's on their minds? What kind of guessing and betting are they doing? Dan Sullivan Yeah, well, you know, we immediately take them into an exercise where they just look at their you know their, their life and their career, you know. so what are the best guesses? you didn't. it wasn't certain at all, you were just guessing that. I might want to go in this direction, so, but you're basing it on certain signals that you're picking up from the world in which you live. And you say you know, i think, i think if we did this, we would get a reward for our effort And and then there's certain other guesses, which are possibilities that you actually bet on. You know, and you know and we've discussed this before of different things that you and I have been the past bet on, which has more or less brought us to where we are right now. Dean Jackson And I've been reflecting on, you know, going back again over the, i've been identifying them as chapters. You know periods where I think that there's like distinct, like vector points in about every four years. For for me, if I go all the way back to 1980. And even drew before that, but from 1980, you know, from 80 to 84, my kind of high school years, and 84 to 88 was really well, those whole eight years were really all about tennis and the last four in Florida. Then, you know, coming back 88, to two chapters in a row really of real estate, my real estate career in that beginning, And I just look at how neatly it fits into the things. And there's been some wild card chapters too in there, like I looked at, i think, about my mom being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, you know as a wild card chapter that was really four years from diagnosis till she passed. And then I look at we're in the middle now of 2023, which at the end of this year the COVID, you know chapter will have been four years. We've been in this chapter, which I think we're finally, you know, on the tail end of closing that chapter now, fingers crossed right. And so, looking back at those things, it's kind of an interesting, just looking at that rhythm, that there's a lot of those things that there's no way to have seen more than two chapters ahead. What's actually? Dan Sullivan going to come. Dean Jackson Like I looked at a lot of the things that we're doing right now. We're not even like conceivable back four chapters ago. It's not possible. But I think you can make pretty good guesses and bets in that four year timeframe. You know, with a you can see contextually where things are going to go. But I look at it that you know, we, in the context of the big change, all the things that were happening from 1900 and 1950, those were sort of you know, you could see them coming in a way right. Because they were all just furthering advancements of things that were. The seed of them was already in place And you could. You could have predicted, once electricity was set in, that people are going to go. This is pretty, pretty, pretty good. Let's get it everywhere you know and once people you know, once you crack the code on moving pictures, that's just and radio. what if we combined moving pictures and the radio and we could send them through the airwaves? you know all those things were, the seeds of them were were there, and I look at it now and I wonder, you know, looking at it right now, in the cup of where we are, what you know, it seems much foggier initially to kind of think out 25 years. I mean nothing seems too outlandish now when you start to think like, will we be, will we be teleporting in 25 years? I mean, who knows, you know? I mean it's so, so crazy. Dan Sullivan Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. I came across a term and it was from a very, very early kind of commentator on the impact that technology has and it's just looking at it the other day, and it's by a French. Call him a philosopher, and Jacques Loll that's the name, and he wrote a book in 1980, which was called The Technological System, and he said that there's some very identifiable characteristics that technology has, and the one that kind of got to me around the area of guesses and bets is one called causal, causal progression, and in you know, sort of simple terms, what it means is that when you have a capability, you tend to try to push that into a, you try to push that into a very impactful kind of resource that you have you have a capability, And then you're lining it up best guesses who will be eager to take advantage of this capability, okay, And then, and you know, and that's where bets come in, because the way they show their interest is actually by betting on you. And that feeds. that's like that feeds the confidence that you have about this particular capability is of being useful. So if I take you back 1988, that's not 88, but maybe would 98 be a better, because that would be 25 years ago 25 years yeah. Yeah, so what capability did you already have at that time? that was your bias. You almost had a bias for what kind? of opportunities you're looking for, because you can match up that capability with an opportunity. Dean Jackson So I had the framework for what is the eight profit activators then, but already you know I had the framework, the underlying system of that, as I saw that as a universal kind of bedrock system that identified what are the things that are going to be absolutely true Like. If you look at each of the eight profit activators, you still no matter what this concept of a before unit, a during unit and an after unit, underlined with the, you know, accepting a single target market and compelling prospects to call you and educating and motivating and making offers, those things were. I saw those as the universal, you know, the contextual truth that is not going to change. Dan Sullivan Well, it's kind of like a supply wheel and. I said each. You know the eight profit activators. One of them is necessary but, with just one of them, you might not get much action or result from it. So it's actually a stack. You know, there's a sort of people are calling things stack, but these are habit, these are capability and habit activators that you're talking about, but they're all integrated into a single system where, if you improve on one of them, the improvement is felt by the other seven. Dean Jackson And every element of a business fits within those in the marketing of a business fits in that framework. Dan Sullivan So that was the beginning of it And I really And this is the basis of the blueprint, the breakthrough blueprint, the breakthrough blueprint. Dean Jackson Yes, applying these eight profit activators, overlaying it on top of your business to create a blueprint for breakthrough is you can have a breakthrough by dialing in the perfect target audience Or shifting your focus to It's perfectly dovetails with the largest check concept. If you think about if we were just to select a target market of your largest check clients, let's lock that in. Now we'll move on to profit activator too. Notice what would compel your largest check prospects, if they're invisible or visible prospects, to raise their hand and say I'm interested in this. And this is where a book comes into play, that I look at a book as the And. I go to profit activator tool to get and identify in a conversation with your ideal prospect, and so overlaying this idea of visible prospects versus invisible prospects is The way I describe that is, if your prospect is chiropractors, those are, those are visible prospects and you can get a list of them and point to them. There's one, there's one, there's one, there's one. You can see who they are specifically. But if you're a chiropractor, your prospects are invisible because you can't get a list of people who just woke up with a twisted back this morning or pulled their backs in the garden yesterday or those things. So you have to draw those people out towards you And that's where a book is like the ideal thing If you've got a book that says on the title, beyond cover, exactly what somebody wants. I work, you know Dr Milke, the podiatrist in Milwaukee I think he's in 10 times, so I've been working with him for some time now but we did a series of books and one of them is the planter fascitis solution, and so we advertise that book on Facebook in a radius around his practice, around his office there, and people raise their hand and say, oh, i want the planter fascitis solution. And now he's in conversation with someone who's his ideal prospect. So that level of I just look at applying those things, that, as we look back, and I think about the conversation that you and I had 10 years ago that led to the Breakthrough Blueprint live event was what is the thing that would be fascinating? Dan Sullivan and motivating, fascinated and motivate you for your whole life. Dean Jackson Yeah, for 25 years And here we are, you know, 10 years later, and I'm still fascinated and motivated by the idea of applying the eight profit activators to all kinds of businesses. It's fascinating. Dan Sullivan Well, here's an interesting thing about predictions. I mean, i just passed my 79th birthday, so 1944, i was born And I would say that in my entire conscious experience, which started around 1950, we are in the midst of the greatest amount of multidimensional shifting that I've seen in my entire life, and it's taking place on the economic level. It's the same thing on politics, social, cultural and geographically, demographically almost anything that any area by which things are organized to make things you know have sense and have direction and everything. All those things are shifting And I think they're shifting in fairly unpredictable ways. In other words, we don't know what it's going to have. But just to go back to your process, it seems to me that it really doesn't matter what's happening. There will be individuals for whom they're looking for a system that identifies at any given time their profit activators. Dean Jackson That's exactly right, it doesn't matter It doesn't really matter. Dan Sullivan It doesn't really matter who it is, what industry they're in, where they live now. Now that we have Zoom, and so my sense is that, but the thing about it is that you're not really, really. you're way past the question. I wonder what individuals in the future will be looking for, because they'll be looking for you, regardless of what they're doing and what their situation is. Dean Jackson Yeah, i mean, that's really, I think, the. Dan Sullivan Profit is not a brand new notion. Exactly. Dean Jackson I wonder what the history of profit I mean you mentioned. I have a recollection of you mentioning something about the history of profit making And Well. I mean As a concept. Dan Sullivan Yeah, i mean it's got to be, in a certain sense, not necessarily the word. They wouldn't necessarily have that word because that's peculiar to the language, but yeah. But I mean I just can't imagine, when you have a growth of a human community, that there's the thing that somebody knows how to provide something of value that returns them more than they spend to deliver what they're delivering, or I mean, that's not the core of entrepreneurship, right? Well, I think it's the core of humanity. I think it's the core of humanity, And that I mean it took a long time to get to a point where you could have what we call a currency to have a currency, you know, i mean where you had that understanding of money and you actually had a vehicle, a money type vehicle, that you could do it. I mean, that's fairly recent, so this you know, goes back from what I understand, goes back a couple of fourth, I'll say 4,000 years. It was called the Shekel, It was created in the Middle East and what's Mesopotamia? So which is in the Iranian kind of the Iranian, if you're going east Iran and you know, and Pakistan and everything, And but for a couple of thousand years the grain barley was used as a medium of exchange. You know I think it was 2000 years and that would take us right up to, you know, maybe 3000 years ago, you know so, 1000 BC, and I think that that's when what's now called Mesopotamia created a coin that had a hundred It was. You could take bits. They would divide it into sections and you could snap off. It's made of silver and you could snap off one of the little pies you know so they'd have it pie, and then you know if you gave to him. That was called two bits. You know two bits for really. Dean Jackson Oh, really Okay. Dan Sullivan Six bits. Yeah, that's for our term, but yeah, and you know, and that was a capability then you know, people didn't have to take a wagon load of barley. The reason why barley is barley is a main ingredient of beer And so it was a food, but it was also a grain which, even till this day, can grow on soil that has a high salt content. Okay, Wheat wouldn't do it, Rye wouldn't do it, Oats wouldn't do it, but barley did it. So it was a very durable food. You know you could pay things with the barley, But Peter Zion talks a lot about this in his latest book. You know the end of the world is just just beginning. Yeah, And but anyway. But in the background, regardless of what you're using as a medium of exchange, people are looking for profit. Dean Jackson That's an interesting thing I've been loving. I've been calling the. You know what we've been playing as the cooperation game, you know that we've, since we banded together to say you go do the hunting and I'll be the gathering, we'll meet back at camp. you know that, that that level of collaboration, is that the core of it. But interesting, I mean. I love those kind of thoughts. So, even though no matter where the we kind of all the excitement and all the sort of game changer feeling is when all the attention at the spotlight goes on one particular element of it, you know, like every all eyes right now, of course, are on chat And that's where all the attention, the whole you know the flock has, you know, descended on on this. All the attention is on it And but I think it's really like that's one piece of the big thing I don't know where. You know it's hard to predict. Maybe I'm saying that maybe it's not hard to predict, but it feels uncertain how to, how to predict what the 25 year, you know path of AI and chat, and I think it's what that go, you know yeah, and you can. Dan Sullivan you can, you know, you can support your statement there by just going back to when the microchip was just being talked about in the early 70s, Maybe 75, there was a growing awareness of this thing which had been developing really since the Second World War. Yeah, you know that there was a invention where you could process information on the invention And then, if you go forward, from 75 to 2000, you know 98 was the cell phone you know and and you you already had the internet by them and you had apps. You had apps by them. I think those would have been hard to predict in 1975. Dean Jackson Absolutely. Yeah, i mean, you know where you went from there. If you look at the evolution that was calculators and and digital watch, i'm not saying that there wasn't someone. Dan Sullivan I'm not saying there, but there wasn't someone or a number of people who weren't predicting. I'm just saying it was making no real impact. Dean Jackson Yeah right. Dan Sullivan Exactly General public's point of view, you know and now, you know, but even here with the chat, gpt and the other AI applications, because there's really hundreds of these out there that are very specific uses- of AI. And that people say well, the whole world knows about it. And I said I'll eat billion. I'll eat billion. Dean Jackson What about? Dan Sullivan the three. What about the three million who don't don't really have steady, reliable electricity, you know? Dean Jackson you think they're? Dan Sullivan chatting. You think they're chatting about it. You know you think they're talking about this. And I said and the other thing is that virtually all the news about this and the development and the investment, you know, the explosion of investment that's going into these It's, it's all in the English language. You know, i don't think for example, i just came back from the UK and very little awareness is not being written up in London as a boatload of different kinds of newspapers. I'm seeing anything about AI, you know, and even our day with strategic coach clients last Thursday in London. They brought it up because Evan Ryan was there, so I had him talk about this And he said a whole bunch of people got, came up and said boy, you know, this is taking me kind of by surprise. These are speaking people. So my sense is. You know that it's fairly, fairly specific. Let's say maybe 50 million, 50 million people who are probably English speaking Americans. English speaking Americans, you know, and they're. I don't see the Canadian government talking about it. You know, and you know I get the national every day than the national post And you know not much, talk about it, not much. You know few articles here, a few articles here. But if you go to the Wall Street Journal any day, you know which, you know there's probably 15 or 20 articles of one kind on it, yeah, yeah. Dean Jackson And you just see all the. Dan Sullivan So I think this is an interesting. I think this is profoundly unfair, mm, hmm. Dean Jackson What do you think? Well, what's the summary of of Evan's take on this Like, where's he uniquely thinking? Dan Sullivan Well, he said that the technology is meaningless unless you examine the teamwork that you want to improve. Dean Jackson Mm, hmm. Dan Sullivan He says just learning how to do chat, g, p, t without applying that to teamwork probably isn't going to get you anywhere. Dean Jackson Mm, hmm, yeah to a, as he did from the start. some examples of how it could be an exponential in teamwork. Dan Sullivan Well, again what we're, the way I understand it, starting because you know these are very, very high on the hierarchy decisions, you know so you know, I'm informed that a decision has been made. Dean Jackson I'm talking about my company Yeah yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah, and I'm not joking. You know I'm not joking, because, no, i get it, but the you know the 12 hours have to be freed up because we want at least 80% of our team members to be on those calls. You know, so there's a schedule, there's a scheduling project that has to go. We have to find, you know, we have to find he's doing it on zoom. So it's not a question of his availability. I mean, he's the one who offered, you know, this. offered in the sense that he said would you pay for it? And we said, would you pay me for this? And we said, yeah, we really would. And but one of the big things is we're just going after what people are actually working on. So we're going to have sort of a little research project. It's kind of like in the beginning of the program we asked you to take a quarter you know a normal quarter, 13 weeks And just write down every activity that you do, personal or business. Okay, so we have an inventory and then we put it through a filter. where is this an activity where you're incompetent, or their activities here, where you're actually incompetent but you're kind of forced to do them just out of necessity, and then so incompetent because these aren't doing you any good and they're wearing you out and you're not getting any projectivity from it, but you're still doing it, yeah, and then. And then it'd be like Dean Jackson you know doing all the electrical and plumbing work in his house. You know, probably, probably, yeah, yeah. Or Dan Sullivan driving you know doing pickups and delivering. And then we get to competent where you're, you know your average. You know you're probably good as a lot of people, but it's a chore, you know. And energy you know it's an energy sucking chore. Then you get to excellence and that's where you have real skills. You're above. You know you're better than other people, but there's no spark for you. There's no spark for you, you know. And if you look to head five years and you were still doing just as much of this as you are now, even though you produce excellent. You produce excellent results that went, like you, up that and that. And then there's unique ability and this is the thing that just totally energized you. You can do it all day. At the end of the day. Right, you go eight, 10 hours and you've got more energy than when you started to the day and you're totally. You're so good at this. You don't understand why other people aren't. You know, you just do this and this and this. See how this fits together. You know, like that. And now, they don't see it at all. They don't see it at all. Right. And then the other thing is it's the most valuable thing that people want to pay you for when you're doing this mysterious, easy, easy thing. And so and so we're going to do the same thing with the AI project with Evan. We're going to get everybody to inventory. We're just going to mostly look at work, but we'll include, you know, outside of work and just say, and he's going to give us a series of categories, you know, where you just identify activities that are repetitious, they're always required and you always have to do them, but they're repetitious, and that if there was a machine teammate who could do this in a matter of seconds or minutes, where it takes you hours or days go after that and introduce the AI solution to this. So that would be one where AI is a teammate and the goal would be over six weeks to get you know, probably identify. 80% of of can quite quickly be taken care of by the AI teammate. Dean Jackson Oh, this was great. Dan Sullivan I mean, that's a really good way to think about it. No, i think we'll take a big productivity jump because we have we have a goal that we're at a certain number right now, you know, and it's it's not the highest revenues we've had That was in 2019, but it's a less than a million away. You know it's less than a million away. So and and so we're saying well, if we went 10 times with that, because we've gone 10 times in in 15 years, 15 years ago, when we were one tenth what we were last year one tenth of that So in 15 years we went 10 times And but do that without adding more than another 20 individuals to the payroll. Yeah, yeah. Dean Jackson That's exciting Yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah, And then you'll learn all sorts of things how work gets set up, how, you know, how does, how does this work come into existence? anyway, you know, and and you start developing standards that you know we really shouldn't be, even bringing work like this into the company. Dean Jackson You know it can be done outside Someone's talking about it way of of thinking. he attached their team, his whole team, with and gave them bonuses for figuring out how to replace themselves with AI and and the new tools, kind of thing. Dan Sullivan Yeah, i think the the languaging is really important. You don't talk about replacing yourself. No, exactly, you're replacing an activity and making it automatic that you don't like doing and nobody really likes doing it. Yeah, and that wasn't. Dean Jackson I think I said it wrong. It's automate your, your, your role. Yeah, Because it's yeah, replacing yourself. So yeah, that's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's like maybe that's the thing, It's not a multiply yourself, that's a better framing. Dan Sullivan Yeah, right, yeah, i think that, i think that AI, yeah, yeah, i mean, that's what all the scary movies are about Yeah. And and you know, and a lot of the predictions you know are about that. you know there aren't going to be this or aren't going to be that. And I and I've had occasion to bring up Cyrus McCormick with mentioning you as the thinker here, and I said you know, those 16 other people who now didn't have to do backbreaking work were now freed up to do more specialized work in a growing society. Dean Jackson And they were able to get back to you. Yeah. Dan Sullivan Yeah, so. so the delivery of the food which was required for the entire population from the you know the the harvesting wheat was simplified and made possible with just a farmer or a person on, you know, on the seat of the reaper, with the, you know, with the mule or with the work of 14 men. Dean Jackson Yeah, yeah. Dan Sullivan What was the actual number? was it 14? Yeah, 14 men. Dean Jackson One, yeah, one man with a reaper could do the work of 14 men. Dan Sullivan Yeah, see, yeah That's, that's an enormous savings, but those people were freed up, i mean yeah, not like you know, they were clutching onto that job dearly You know they wanted to take a job. They were taking our jobs, you know, and you know I was planning to do this every year for the next 30 years. You know, and and and you know is that that there's this you know the the thing, like humans aren't adaptable. You know there's a profound belief among people who think about these things from a theoretical standpoint, that, you know, if this happens, human beings won't be able to respond to it. You know, and I said, well history. History says you're not paying attention, people do. They immediately jump, you know, to some new. Dean Jackson That's an interesting framework to really think about. You know, certainly 25 years, you know the runway or whatever, but certainly in the next four years that's. I think that's why they really refer to. I think what Peter Diamandis kind of talked about is the near-term force, the able future, which is, i think it's much easier to make five-year guesses than that kind of thing. Dan Sullivan Yeah, but you know there's a surprising number of the predictions at A360 that were made at our first conference 2011,. that really aren't, you know, like you know VR for one thing is less. VR, you know, and you know it's almost like people are saying, no, i wasn't pushing that. You know I was not a member of the Communist Party. You know I mean it's almost like they're saying no, no, no, you know, it's everything like that. But I remember people standing up there and said you know, the first one's going to be right under Los Angeles. It's going to go from the northern to the south, it's going to go right from, you know, the airport right to the San Fernando Valley right. And then they ran into something called property rights. Right, right, Yeah, yeah and they thought, oh, the city will just override them. And I said well, you know, it's a constitutional issue. It wouldn't be decided in Los Angeles, it would be decided in Congress, you know or the Supreme Court. And you know. But people project a new thing and all is going to give way to it. It is so important And, but I said, wouldn't there be a big traffic jam right where you try to get on the tunnel and really being a traffic jam, you know. I said you know. Just because you can visualize something and you can see yourself taking advantage of it, doesn't mean that you know that Newton's third law will move aside for you. Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. Yeah, but the two that seem to have really really gone even further than was predicted were AI, which I think. I think I was surprised by the chat GTT thing because I didn't know there was something that could be that easy for individuals. I knew that you know large organizations were using it and everything else, but that kind of surprised me. And the other thing is regenerative medicine and you know, using our own stem cells to repair things and to cure things and turning skin cells into any other kind of cell. That to me That's like cracking. That's, like you know, being able to capture and channel and direct electricity. Dean Jackson That seems to me to be a major, really major major thing. But there's the AI combined with that. Dan Sullivan Yeah, ai, that translated where you. They can literally take the cell signals, you know, the signals from the body. They can actually, because we have an electric impulse and they can read. They can duplicate this electronically and then test those electronic signals as if they were actually cells in the body. And they can do 10,000 tests in a time that a manual test takes. Dean Jackson And. Dan Sullivan I said no, that's, that's super. Dean Jackson And I think that's what's going to come like. I think we're going to end up in a sent power situation, like the chef masters, in that the biggest winners of the AI kind of advanced or not the one it's not going to be just AI on its own, it's going to be AI paired with a, you know, with an individual. It's a top flight individual powered with AI that's going to make the biggest impact Absolutely. Dan Sullivan Yeah, it's like. my next quarterly book is called training, training technology like a good dog And I say, you know, a tough guy with a tough dog will beat another tough guy who doesn't have a dog, Exactly and rather than just, or just the dog alone, you know? yeah, that's true, and the dog will be the one who announces the fight. Dean Jackson That's so funny. Yeah, I realized we left last week on a bit of a cliffhanger with the working genius thing. I wondered if you had been able to do your working genius. Dan Sullivan Yeah, it's really good. It put me in a bind because I have other people sign me. I want to, and Patrick Lindsay only you know. I mean he's very well read around our office regarding teamwork and everything like that. So I know who it is now. Yeah, i was going to do it that night, but Becca, who does all this stuff for me, said that she would sign me on when we got back from London. She was busy with a lot of things, and so it's a project. It's a project that will be done this week. But you know, I found the website. It seems like another filter that we can use for, along with Colby and the Strength Finder and Print. Dean Jackson Oh, i think it's fantastic in that. Yeah, i would put it in. I would put it right up there with Colby in terms like Colby is most what is very useful and I think that if I were to rank the four of them. I would put that working genius right up there at the top. More useful than just Strength Finder and more useful than Print. Yeah, they're all a big. I don't think you can ever have too much self-awareness, but I think having the you know, i think usable team dynamic awareness is great. James Drage sent me over. I had my whole team do it and he sent me a. You know, they have charts that show where your team genius is in terms of which team members like. If you're looking to put together a project and you need a, i guess the ideal is that you have someone in each of the components the wonder, invention, the discernment, galvanizing, enablement and tenacity that you've got someone who's a genius at that involved in that process. Yeah, you know the head of that division of it. So it's really neat to see the dynamics of how people can work together, you know. Dan Sullivan Yeah. Dean Jackson Yeah. Dan Sullivan Well, anyway, yeah, So anyway, work proceeds. you know, fly me. you know, 3,000 miles away, and my priority list for the day changes. I got it. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, yeah. London is the greatest walking city that I've ever. Dean Jackson Oh man, you know, one of my favorite memories is our that when we ended up in London at the same time and we spent hours wandering around, Yeah we took that long hike out to that bookstore. Dan Sullivan Yeah, And then we, and then we made our way back to a favorite restaurant of ours one. Dean Jackson Greek street. Right And then yeah, that London's perfect for that. I mean, that was yeah it was. It was dry and sunny kind of the poolside but sunny but there was no rain during the walk. The walk reaches there. Dan Sullivan Yeah. Dean Jackson Yeah. Dan Sullivan But anyway, i'm going to inquire about that And I've got a real project now with that, in advance of starting the AI Azure teammate program. We should have all the staff actually do this working genius exercise. Dean Jackson I think that would be a nice filter And I wonder that's a really interesting thing is that's a nice framework to think how can, how can AI help with? Dan Sullivan That's how we've pre-app your working genius. Yeah right, exactly. Dean Jackson That's an interesting that's a really interesting combinator. It's a triple play. Your unique ability Well, you can work at AI and working genius. Dan Sullivan Yeah, it's kind of funny. You could add the triple play to it. So we got three things. You got the AI as a teammate, working genius and the triple play. I think that would be a nice trifecta. Dean Jackson Yeah, wow, that's all thinking about your thinking. I came up with a new term, dan. I'll plant the seed because I know we're coming up at the top of the hour here. It went so fast this time It always does, but this one's particular, you know, we've been talking about and I've been thinking about the mainland and the land here, but what I've really discovered is I was rereading thinking about your thinking, the small book. We recently had our flood and all the that required us moving things around, and I found a copy of my your small book, the thinking about your thinking. I thought that you know there's a third element of this that I've been calling Dean Blan dia, which is the inner world of thinking about my thinking and spending time there as a destination. And something you said, you know you said it kind of a couple of years ago, whenever you went on, you know, going off TV and stuff, the same thing stuck out at me. I don't know exactly how you said it, but you basically said I realized that what's going on in my own mind is far more interesting and valuable than anything going on in that, on that screen, in that box. Dan Sullivan Yeah. Dean Jackson And how did you articulate? What was the the thought behind that? Because that that it stuck with me for all these years when you said that, yeah, Well, i think you do that too. Dan Sullivan I mean that that both of us, fairly young and like I think, developed the ability to do that, amuse ourselves and entertain ourselves and educate ourselves without needing needing too much outside help and that, and you know, and We've stuck with that a lot. You know way, way beyond what Most people would say. Well, i used to have Interesting times when I when I had time you know where I would just think about things and everything else. Yeah, of course you know I had to go to school and then I had to go out and get a job Right we started, started to pay him and of course I haven't done any kind of thinking like that and I said, yeah, you know, i got you know on a path when I was, you know, somewhere around eight years old, where this was way more interesting. Than anything that I was encountering. The other thing I noticed is that I was interacting with adults and They didn't see how to do this. They didn't seem to do it because when I would bring up You know what was going on when they were eight years old and they were born 1910 or something, and I said wow, wow. And they said geez, i haven't thought about this, you know, it's I. He says here right me to think about think about things that I haven't thought about, and then afterwards They would comment to my mother When they matter her. You know, dan asked questions and they Makes me remember things that I haven't really remembered and I said well, you know, you know and I said hmm. If that had happened to me, I would have been thinking about it. I mean, if that was happening in the world, happening in the world at that time, boy. I all over it, you know and everything like that, and it struck me that people weren't really reflecting On how they were thinking about their experiences. They were affecting on the experience, but they weren't reflecting on how they were thinking about the experience. And so, and that didn't bother me, and because I always like having Secret, unfair advantages- Mm-hmm, i Love that. Dean Jackson I've been thinking you do the? oh, i really do. I've been monitoring and thinking now about You know, my my constant you're. My present thought is less screen time, more dean time. But that's really the thing is, the more I think about just even putting the screen down and just going inside and playing around in in Dean land is a. There's a lot more beneficial stuff going on in the land. Dan Sullivan Yeah, then The other you know, you know who we're really. The organization that was that we both had extensive experience with. That was really on to this way back, you know, 40-50 years ago and as the four seasons. So tell yeah, and they have a motto about their company that we Systematize the predictable, mm-hmm, and so that we can humanize the exceptional. Yeah, and That seems to describe a general principle that Would take advantage of any new technology which allowed you to systematize the predictable. You know, to free up people so that they could be Exceptionally human in any situation and I think that's what we want to do. I mean, i think that's a, that isn't just a Organizational strategy. I think that's That could be. You know, in the 21st century that could be a general human aspiration. You know, i want to get freed up from Doing machine-like work. Dean Jackson I don't want to do machine-like work, you know right. I don't want to. Dan Sullivan I don't want. I don't want to be given tasks where I'm expected to be machine-like I. I'm just not going for that anymore. Dean Jackson Right, i Love it. Yeah, well, i noticed, so I noticed. Next week is Says no Dan podcats on my calendar. Dan Sullivan That's right. Dean Jackson That's right because traveling, we're flying. Dan Sullivan We're flying on Sunday to Chicago. So okay, yeah, so we have. You know, we have the first in person a free zone that week, you know on Thursday, okay and, but we're flying in and we, you know, we Have to see the team and there's all sorts of things, and I have all sorts of. I guess yeah, but the but. The big thing is that The one thing that's not predictable is How people are going to think about the next 25 years. You know you know, predictable, because, right, you know each person's kind of responsible. or Using their own Brain to figure out things. Yeah, yeah and my sense is that Making predictions 25 years from now based on Present priorities and that, i think, doesn't give you much insight, mm-hmm. Dean Jackson I Think gives you directional, you know in some way. But but it's certain, i mean to know it gives you comfort when you start into look at well, what do we know that's going to be true 25 years from now. You know. Dan Sullivan That's really the thing, men are still going to be shaving that's exactly the warm Buffett model, right? Dean Jackson That's exactly yeah yeah, Yeah and yeah, and land things and. Dan Sullivan Yeah, yeah, people are still going to be eating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think yeah, yeah, well, i mean, there's definitely entertaining. Yeah, what do all people do, you know, around the planet? Well, not everybody shapes, you know. But right, yeah, so But, given the market that you're after is there, you know, we know. I do know alcohol is gonna play a big part of it. Now, they're direct, you know They may buddy, one of the signs that an ancient Gathering of humans was actually human is pottery. Dean Jackson So they'll find shards, pottery shards and when they examine the shards. Dan Sullivan You know what they always find on the shards alcohol, alcohol, great, exactly. Dean Jackson Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah, why did humans Create pottery? Dan Sullivan well, yeah, you know, to have something they could make the alcohol and save the alcohol. They're their mushroom bruise, right Yeah. Dean Jackson Yeah, i mean, they just do this to have pottery they did it right they can. Dan Sullivan They could make drinking alcohol a little bit more predictable. All righty, okay, dan. Well, i will. I'll be here in two weeks, yeah, and we'll be back, yeah, in two weeks. Dean Jackson So we're going to see Jeff. Maddowff's play The end of men, the end of next week. Dan Sullivan So it opened with its first pre-order. So it's a pre-order. So it's a pre-order The end of men, the end of next week. So it opened with its first proof preview Last night. Dean Jackson So they have a week of previews. Dan Sullivan They have a week of previews where they're just, you know, making scene shifts and making adjustments to the script and you know, and everything else, and they have about five or six of these and People, they have audiences for them. The other thing is that audiences can come in and see everything else, and then they, then they have two last ones Where they're locked down Okay, so that all the changes have been made, and then the last two of the previews is It's locked down. Now, this is the play, and then they have opening night, which is the 14th, and we're going down the 16th. Dean Jackson Oh, very nice, that's so great. Yeah, all right. okay, i will talk to you soon. You.

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Barings Europe Select Trust co-manager Will Cuss talks about all things Europe in this week's podcast. He gives us a brief overview of inflation in the Eurozone and comments on some big moves in the commodities market. Will also discusses how the energy availability risk looks set to decrease with a combination of a new energy source – Middle East gas – coming onstream, alongside growing investment in renewable energy sources. He describes the USPs the team looks for in buying opportunities and tells us how corporate engagement informs and helps to identify companies that can do well in any sort of economic backdrop. Will concludes by highlighting why GTT, Gerresheimer and Accelleron have made it into the portfolio. What's covered in this episode:An overview of the European economy including commodity pricesHow two new proposed energy supply sources will ease current pressures How the team identifies companies that will do well in any economic environmentHow risk is defined and buying opportunities in a volatile marketsThe reasoning behind exiting holding Thule Group AB and why the team is sticking with Elis SAThe impact of near-shoring and/or fringe-shoring and reworking energy supply linesHow and why Gerresheimer AG is back in the portfolioWhy Accelleron Industries AG looks like being a long, strong holdMore about the fund:Barings Europe Select Trust invests in small and medium-sized companies and is run on what is known as a GARP (Growth at a Reasonable Price) basis. The four-strong management team has a detailed and thorough process, looking at both the growth and quality aspects of a company before making a bespoke valuation for each holding based on a five year outlook.Learn more on fundcalibre.comPlease remember, we've been discussing individual companies to bring investing to life for you. It's not a recommendation to buy or sell. The fund may or may not still hold these companies at the time of listening. Elite Ratings are based on FundCalibre's research methodology and are the opinion of FundCalibre's research team only.

Ashley joins us today from Australia sharing her three birth stories and how she learned to truly trust herself. Driven out of the hospital due to discrimination and not being able to find support from home birth midwives, Ashley decided to go for a free birth. With a special scar, two previous Cesarean surgeries, a big baby, a high BMI, and a history of gestational diabetes, Ashley accepted all of the risks and was able to reap the beautiful benefits of undisturbed home delivery. Ashley shares with us her journey to acceptance when things didn't go the way she planned, but also how to persevere through to fight for the story she wanted. She now hosts The VBAC Homebirth Stories podcast and is a Homebirth/Freebirth Mindset Coach inspiring other women to have the courage to take back control of their birth stories!Additional LinksAshley's InstagramThe VBAC Homebirth Stories podcastHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode DetailsFull TranscriptMeagan: Hello, hello. Welcome to The VBAC Link. This is Meagan Heaton and we have Ashley here with you. Can I just tell you? She is amazing and you're going to want to listen to this episode 5 million times and then when you're done listening to it 5 million times, you're going to want to check out her Instagram and watch her videos 5 million more times because she is amazing and such a wealth of knowledge. We reached out and said, “Hey, we want to share your story on the podcast. We think it's going to be an amazing episode.” I don't think. I know it's going to be an amazing episode. Review of the WeekBefore we do that, I'm going to get a review per usual and remind you that if you would like to leave a review, we are on Google and Apple Podcasts. You can email us. Shoot us a message on Instagram. We love to add your reviews to the queue and read them on the podcast. This specific review is from Ana Neves and it says, “I've been preparing for my VBAC ever since my C-section, and listening to the stories in this podcast has not only taught and informed me all about the different options, but also inspired me. I know that when the time comes, I will be prepared and feel the power of the great and courageous people who shared their stories here.” Oh, I love that. “The great and courageous people.” Oh, I love that. I love that so much. Thank you so much for sharing your review and like I said, if you have a review to share and you want us to know how you feel about the podcast and all of these great and courageous people, please leave us a review. Ashley's StoriesMeagan: Okay, Ashley. I am so excited that you are here. It's been interesting from now in recording, we've had Australian people on the podcast a lot. It warms my heart and makes me so happy and makes me feel like I probably need to go to Australia now because one, I am obsessed with all of the knowledge you guys have on birth and I actually really like the way that birth is in Australia in a lot of ways. But I am just so honored to have you here with us. Ashley: Thank you. I am so excited to be here. That was such a beautiful, warm welcome so thank you very much for having me. Meagan: Yes, oh my gosh. I'm serious. I just love listening to you too. I just love your guys' accents. My Utah accent is pretty lame, but yeah. So let's turn the time over to you. I am so excited because I feel like I've heard little things, but I'm excited to just hear it right now with you. Go ahead. Ashley: Okay. So let's start from the first babe then. Basically, I went into that one expecting that I was going to have a vaginal birth because my mum had vaginal births, and all of the women before me did too. My mum had me in 7 hours. I was the first baby. My sister is two, so mum said, “If you have medication, you're weak. You've just got to suck it up.” So I had this, “If she could do it, I can do it.” I had this, “I'll have the epidural if I need it” sort of vibe. A lot of my friends had babies before me. They had children when they were 17-18. By the time I had mine, I was 28. I was newly married and I had watched all of my friends. They told me all of their birth stories and things. They had all had vaginal births. I thought that Cesarean birth was really for celebrities basically because when I was in high school, it was Posh Spice who was having this C-section and things like that. It was a trendy thing to do. It wasn't something that normal people did. It was an expensive thing that rich people did. Meagan: Like in Brazil. That's how it's viewed in Brazil. You are high-class if you have Cesareans. Ashley: Yeah. I mean, I went to the GP before I got pregnant and checked on my levels to make sure. I have always had a high BMI, so the doctor said to me, “The only thing I recommend is that you lose some weight because you might struggle to conceive,” so I went in knowing that there may be a hardship there. Some of the women in my workplace at the time had multiple miscarriages. My mother-in-law had 7 before my husband, so I went in with that kind of, “We'll see what happens, but it could take a while.” So I conceived within the first month of trying so that was a shock, but also so exciting. Super exciting. It was a month before my wedding, so I got sick just after my wedding for my honeymoon and all of the fun games and after that, I was just like a sloth dying because I got HG. I got HG and it was just 20 weeks of basically a challenge. Meagan: Yeah, miserable. Ashley: It was hard. I was so excited to be a mom. I couldn't wait from the time I conceived to birth the baby and have the baby in my arms. That's all I wanted. I went to the hospital and there was a bit of a mix-up between when I went to the GP and had the GTT, the test for gestational diabetes. The doctor told me that I didn't have it. I went to a hospital because that's what they do. You go to a GP and they just send you to the local public hospital and that's the one that you are allowed to go to, but they didn't really discuss any of the other avenues like private, or midwives, or homebirths or anything like that. So I went excitedly to my first appointment. I waited for over an hour and I saw some random gyno-obstetrician and they said to me, “You've got gestational diabetes so you'll be seeing us.” I was like, “No I don't. I don't have gestational diabetes.” “Yes you do,” she said and I burst out crying. It was this big thing. Basically, the difference was if I had birthed or if I had gone to the hospital in Brisbane which is the next suburb over, I wouldn't have had gestational diabetes but in the hospital that I went to, they were up with the times with the lower numbers because that was cycling at the moment. It was 2014. I had gestational diabetes and that meant that I had so many more appointments. It meant that I was only with obstetricians. It meant that I had to go to nutrition or a dietician. It was just so many appointments. It was out of control. From a very early stage, I was told, “You're going to be induced and you're going to be on insulin.” As soon as I was diagnosed, I was told, “You're going to be on medication.” Meagan: No talking about it. Ashley: “Yeah, let's see how this unravels and we're not going to start you on the pill, we're just going to go straight to insulin for you,” so it was kind of like they had already decided my fate. I was really excited to have an induction. It meant that I got a date for my baby and I was going to have my baby early. When I spoke to the other ladies in the GD who were getting induced, the lady said to me, “It's all good. I was induced and I had my baby in 5 hours.” I was like, “Awesome. Awesome.” I don't know what number baby that was for her because when it comes to induction, I know now that it really matters whether it's your second or if you've had a vaginal birth before, then an induction probably isn't going to land you with a C-section. I ended up getting my date, coming into hospital, and having no discussion. I kept asking, “Can we have a birth discussion?” It was always, “Next week. Next week. Next week.” There was no discussion about what happens at birth or really what to expect or any niceties or anything. It always felt quite cold. It was like the people didn't even want to be there, the junior obstetricians, it was like they were doing their time so to speak. It just wasn't a pleasant experience. I was expecting my first baby and I just felt like another number. Meagan: Yeah. It wasn't warm and fuzzy at all. That's for sure. Ashley: No. I just felt like it didn't feel right. It just felt really not nice. Meagan: Yeah, impersonal. Ashley: Yeah, exactly. I basically went in for my induction and my husband came in with me. That was a couple of days of having gels and people putting their fingers up and continued monitoring and just very uncomfortable. I found after they had done all of that process that my cervix was right shut up. It wouldn't open up. They said, “Okay. We are going to try and put the balloon in there.” That was the most excruciating pain. Meagan: Especially when you're not dilated. Ashley: It was excruciating and I was in so much pain. The doctor and midwife made out that I was making a big fuss because I was responding that it was painful, so they gave me a lot of gas and I was pretty much tripping out. It was really trippy. Meagan: Like nitrous oxide?Ashley: Yeah. I just felt like if this is how painful it is to put this thing in, how painful is labor going to be? How am I going to handle that if I've just been through two days of this? I think that I had a cannula in my hand as well because I couldn't really go to the bathroom without assistance from my husband. It was really getting uncomfortable. I had something up inside me. Meagan: Or poking you or something all of the time. Ashley: Yeah, exactly. So another night in the hospital we slept and then they said, “If it doesn't open and it doesn't drop out by the morning, then we'll talk about it.” I wasn't allowed to eat. I had to fast. Meagan: That's going to serve your body well. Ashley: I know. It's really cool. It's like they give you so much amazing care in the hospital to set you up for this amazing birth, and I woke up and it was still in there and nothing had changed. I felt really defeated and I felt like my body was broken like there was something wrong with me. Nobody had ever discussed or told me that there is a high failure rate to this or that this procedure can fail or that you may not be a great candidate for this procedure. Meagan: Or more time. More time can make you a different candidate statistically and raise your BISHOP score. Ashley: Yeah, they obviously did the BISHOP score and they would have seen that I wasn't a good candidate for this. They would have known that when they did all of these things to me. Now I see that as my body is so amazing that you tried to do all of this stuff to my body and my body was like, “Hell no.” Meagan: Nope. I'm keeping this baby in. Ashley: Clam shut, yeah. The junior doctor came in and she said, “Look. We recommend that you come in tomorrow for more monitoring. Go home and come back on Monday and we'll start the process again.” I was like, “What do you mean you're going to start the process again? This was really torturous.” I said, “What's the difference between a day or two? My body's not going to respond any differently. Can I just come back in two weeks?” I'm 38 weeks at this point and I'm like, “I'm not even 40 weeks. Can I come back in 2 weeks when I'm in labor?” Meagan: And a first-time mom.Ashley: Yeah, because my mom had me and my sisters right on 40 weeks, so I'm just expecting the same. She said, “No. You can't.” I was like, “Oh, okay.” She said, “No, you can't do that.” I said, “Okay.” She said, “You know what? We're just about to have an obstetrician meeting, so I'll go in there and I'll ask the consultants what they think and I'll come back with a plan.” “Okay,” I said because she also did talk about my option of being a Cesarean on the Monday and I said to her, “Look. I'm going to be honest with you. There's no way in hell that you're going to get me to come in for elective surgery. It's just not going to happen. I never wanted to birth like that and I don't want to.” She came back and she said– they obviously spoke about what I had said and they made for me later a plan to push me in the way they thought that I was going to bend the most, so they said, “Look. We've bumped all of the surgeries for the day and we're going to book you in as priority because we feel like you should be having this baby now.” I was kind of like, “Okay.” So they were bumping all of these surgeries. There were people sitting out in the waiting room waiting to have their babies, but they were going to bump me to have my baby first. I had my sister in the room who was a surgery nurse who had been pushing me to have surgery the whole time because she was traumatized. I'd been fighting her the way through like, “No. I don't want to do that. I want to have a vaginal birth.” I was so exhausted and my husband only had 5 days off of work, so he had to return in a couple of days. I had my in-laws at my house babysitting my dog and I was promised a baby. I feel like at that point, I was just like, “Okay, well if that's what you think, then okay. I'll do it.” I signed this 3-page waiver form by the way, which I was really scared of. I was like–Meagan: What am I doing? What am I signing?Ashley: My sister is getting me prepared. She just finished a shift from working upstairs in nursing and she organized for herself to get in there, so it was going to be my husband and her. They never allowed a third person, but because she worked there and knew people, she was able to weasel in. She's getting me ready like a good nurse. She's so excited. She gets to be a part of it and I'm just recording a video of, “If I die, tell my baby I love my baby.” I am so petrified. I've got video and photos and I just look at the photo and it's like me trying to look excited, but actually, I'm like, “Holy crap. This is really scary and I don't want to do this.” Meagan: Why is everybody so excited and I'm terrified? And why is no one talking to me about this? Ashley: Because I'm giving up control. They're not getting the knife, but I am. It's really scary if you've never had surgery. It's not something that we do every day and it's not something that I had ever gone through before. So off I go into surgery and it's really good that my sister was there because she got to take a lot of photos and she got to be a part of it. Meagan: That would bring some comfort maybe. Ashley: Yeah, I felt like they would step up a bit as well because they knew that it was one of their own in there and I was one of their own. She took a lot of photos and things like that, but when they were doing the spinal, no one can be in the room. I just remember feeling so petrified and shaking and looking into this big man's eyes who was holding me and thinking, “You look like a nice man. Keep me safe.” This midwife came around and she was like, “You look like a deer in headlights” because it was like all of these lights shining down at me. I'm in this crazy room with surgery stuff. I'm really scared. I'm petrified, but I went through the whole process and the obstetrician and everyone, it was Christmastime. It was early Christmas. It was December 5th and they were all having their Christmas party that night, so they were all very happy talking about the Christmas party. “You're going to the Christmas party? I'm going to the Christmas party.” I thought, “Well, they're not fast. They're not stressed. They're very happy. They're starting their day. I'm the first one. They're excited about the Christmas party.” It didn't feel very personal. I definitely didn't feel included in the process. They were just talking among colleagues. Meagan: I can so relate. So relate. Ashley: It's horrible. Meagan: Yeah. They were talking about the snow outside and how depressing it was because the one just gotten back from Hawaii. He was like, “Oh, I came back to snow.” I was like, “I'm right here. Can we talk about my baby? Can we talk about me?” Ashley: Yeah, it's very impersonal. I mean, it's one thing at the dentist to be chatting it up. I don't mind it at the dentist if they're chatting or something, or the orthodontist or something, but yes. I thought, “At least they're calm.” The baby was born in no time and then announced, “It's a baby girl.” I just thought, “Oh, can I go to sleep now? I'm not really interested in this. I'm very time. I'm shaking. This is not a great experience.” I just turned around and said, “Can I go to sleep? I don't want to hold the baby.” It's uncomfortable anyways, but I can't really hold the baby. I'm shaking. I've never really had that many drugs in my system before and off to recovery we go basically. That's a new experience as well. Yeah, it wasn't a great postpartum experience in the hospital. It was quite a negative experience with the night midwives, so I was really excited to get out. I left a day early because I just did not want to have to put up with the night staff. My husband wasn't allowed to stay. Meagan: Oh, why? Ashley: So in our hospital in the public system, some of them have got 4 or 5 to a room, so I was in a 4 or 5 to a room. They don't allow husbands to stay. I couldn't get out of bed. Meagan: I didn't know that. That's like old school.Ashley: It is old school. A lot of them are getting upgraded now because obviously, it's better to have your own room and stuff, but that's where I was lumped. No one wants to birth there because no one wants to share a room, but if you're in the catchment, that's where you get stuck unless you go private. So he got booted out at 10:00 at night, and then I was left with this witch of a midwife who every time my baby cried, she was like, “Oh, look. You're just going to have to sleep with the baby on your belly because I can't be coming back here to get the baby all of the time.” I was like, “But it's not guidelines. I'm not allowed to sleep with my baby with my chest. I can't sleep and it's stressing me out.” In my head, I'm saying those things, but yeah. It was horrific. The next morning, my husband came and I was letting loose at him. I was like, “Why weren't you here? The baby and I haven't slept.” I was so stressed. I mean, think about it. Being awake for 3 days, having been in the hospital for a long time, and then having gone and had major surgery, you're left on your own with this baby with barely any support. No one telling you what to do, trying to breastfeed with your nipples getting ripped by the way. Meagan: Pretty much abandoning you. Pretty much. Ashley: Basically. So the second night, I stayed and sorted that out, then I went home the next day. I did have a bit of a thing with the midwife. She was on again, so I ran down to the bathing room and I hid from her because– okay. One thing you should know about me is that I am a highly sensitive person, so something that someone might say to someone may not affect them as much as it would affect me. Meagan: It triggers you. Ashley: It really upsets me and being in a vulnerable position, I need someone who's gentle, nurturing, and loving. So I ran away and I hid in the bathing room with my baby. I was trying to work out why she was crying. I had fed her. I swaddled her. I changed her. I was really trying to work it out. She could hear the baby screaming and obviously thought that I was not looking after my baby. I said, “Look, I'm just trying to figure out what's happening here.” She's like, “You just need to hold her.” I was like, “No, I just need to figure out what's happening because I've got to go home with this baby and work this out.” She's like, “Why don't I take the baby and I'll look after the baby so you can get some sleep?” I'm like, “No. That's not happening.” I was so against this woman. She was like, “Here's your medication. Take your medication. I've been looking for you,” and then she sent another colleague down to come and check on me and try to convince me to give the baby up. But what I discovered by sticking to my guns and doing what I felt was intuitively right for me was that my baby was pulling her arms out of the swaddle and that was waking her up. So I put her in a little zip-up and from then on, she slept through the night. My husband came the next morning right on the dot. I had a shower. Baby was sleeping. He's like, “Where's the baby?” I'm like, “She's sleeping,” feeling like a million dollars. “I've got this. I've got this and we're checking out today.”Meagan: Yep. Get me out of here. Ashley: I went home and we struggled with breastfeeding. I got some really bad advice from one of the nurses that came to my house so I felt like a double failure. By 6 months time, I was mixed feeding to just formula feeding and I felt like a real failure. I let her down. I hadn't birthed her the way– I didn't feel like I birthed with, “When I had my baby,” or “When my baby was born.” I didn't say “When I birthed,” because I didn't feel a part of the experience. It happened to me. It wasn't inclusive to me. I just felt completely excluded. So I knew when I was going to have my second, I was having a VBAC for sure because I knew there was a thing possible. I knew about VBACs and I said to my GP, “What's the timeframe between babies?” She said, “24 months between birth and birth.” That was the thing then or whatever. I said, “Fine. I'm having 24 months.” I literally started trying within 24 months, whatever it was, 15, or whatever. I fell pregnant the second time. I was having a VBAC and I think I joined the VBAC group in Australia. I started learning all of the stuff, becoming informed and advocating. I knew that this time I wasn't having an induction because that's what caused me a C-section. I knew that I wanted to try to avoid GDM because that's what I thought was the lead-up for the induction rush. I didn't realize that my weight was obviously pushing against me so much. I didn't understand the reasons why or some of the discrimination that happened in the hospital at that point. I did the early GTT test and I passed that. I was like, “Yes. Maybe this is going to be different.” I'm going to show them. I'm educated. I know what I want. I'm informed. I'm also a people pleaser so I'm trying to get them on board with me. I'm trying to get them to agree with my decision. I'm trying to get them to be a part of my team and cheer me on and get excited.I'm just kind of getting met with obstetricians who were like, “VBAC is great and it's the best way to birth your baby.” I'm like, “Yes. This is amazing.” Meagan: You're like, “Thank you. This is what I want to hear.” Ashley: “But not for you.” I'm like, “What? Not for me?” “Well, for you, we recommend a planned Cesarean.” “Okay.” They never really spoke in plain language or explained it to me. It was only through digging and digging and digging and asking and asking and asking that I was finally able to get some answers. I essentially ended up getting gestational diabetes at 20 weeks, so then I wasn't allowed to see midwives because I had asked to see midwives and they said, “If you get GD, we won't release you.”Meagan: It disqualified you. Ashley: It disqualified me from seeing midwives. I said, “Look, you're a surgeon. Can I just see you if I need surgery?” The thing with GD is that there is a GD counselor and somebody that you report to outside of them, so why do I need to see you because you're not a GD expert or specialist? I actually see somebody. Why is a midwife not capable of looking after me? It doesn't make any sense. They're just trying to pull in all of the patients to keep their bellies full and make sure they've got jobs. I was gutted. I was absolutely gutted. I only failed by .1 on one of the tests and I wish I had known back then that I could have redone it and I probably would have passed it. It was really disappointing and I was like, “Oh, goodness me.” So I was diet-controlled through that time. I say diet-controlled because that's the readings that I gave them. I wasn't really diet-controlled but I was being a bit of a rebel because I was getting the same numbers as I was with my first baby and I was on insulin with her and insulin didn't do much. I thought, “Well, what's the difference going to be if they're the same numbers? She came out healthy and had no sugar problems or anything.” I kind of started to think, “Is this GD thing a bit overrated? If I was in a different hospital or a different country—”Meagan: I was going to say if you went somewhere else like last time, would it have been different or would it actually have been GD as well? Ashley: If I had gone somewhere different and I knew this because I was part of the GD community and I had friends that were birthing in Brisbane who were even having to keep below higher numbers than me. They had much higher numbers than me, so I thought, “You're with a private obstetrician and you're getting different information than me,” so I started to clue on that. And then also, when I was doing my readings on my fingers, I would get a different reading on this one to this one, so I started questioning, “If this one's .5 difference to this one, how accurate is this measuring?”Meagan: Yeah, interesting. Very interesting. Ashley: So it was very scary for me to do that because nobody's doing that and every time you're going there, they're like, “Dead baby. There was a woman who had gestational diabetes and her baby died.” And I was like–Meagan: You hear these and you're like, “What?” Ashley: I was like, “How did she die? How did the baby die?” They said, “Oh, we can't disclose that information. You're telling a room full of women with gestational diabetes that a baby died and the mum had gestational diabetes. She could have been hit by a car for all we know and you're using it to fearmonger us, but you're not willing to tell us how the baby died. It could have been negligence on the hospital's part. It may not have been GD related at all.” Meagan: Yeah, she just had it. Ashley: She just had it, so I found that quite disgusting and all of those things started to really add up. The more that I saw in the VBAC community, the more that I saw this was happening around Australia, the more I was determined to advocate and fight which is really hard for a highly sensitive person, but I got a student-midwife. I got the head midwife to come to my appointments. I had a student-doula who was a dear friend of mine and I started to grow a team around me. I refused to see one of the doctors at one point and wanted to speak to the best, most amazing doctor in the hospital, so the midwives set me up with the nicest obstetrician who still didn't support me to have a vaginal birth, but he was nicer to deal with. I mean, I had some crazy conversations with some of the obstetricians during that time. One of them was a junior and she said to me because I didn't want to have continuous monitoring. I just wanted to have the doppler. She said, “You know what my boss says? He says that if you don't have continuous monitoring, then you're basically free birthing in the hospital.” I looked at her and I was like, “You're crazy.” At this point, free birth to me was crazy and she was telling me that because I'm in a hospital and if I'm not doing that, then I'm free birthing. And I thought, “But I'm getting checked with a doppler by a midwife. I'm with obstetricians.” That is absolutely insane, but it goes to show the kind of mentality and the thought process that goes through the fact that they don't know how to be with women. They don't know how to observe and watch a woman. Now, my mindset is the complete opposite way. I see things in a different light than how they would see. They rely on machines whereas they don't rely on that connection. I'm the type of person that relies on human-to-human connection and I've listened to people and I love stories. That's how we learn. We don't learn about humans by watching machines. I started to learn about the inaccuracies of their machines and some of the equipment that they were using. It made no sense to me to have continuous monitoring when I knew that one obstetrician would send me to surgery for the reading whereas another one with maybe more experience who may be older and more chilled would be like, “Yeah, that's nothing.” If the results are at that rate, then that's not beneficial to me because then I'm putting my fate on whether I get a choppy-choppy obstetrician or a chilled, relaxed one on the day. So that was kind of my thinking. I didn't do growth scans this time. I didn't see the point in me having a growth scan to tell me that I was having a big baby. My first was 3.7 at 39 weeks. I knew this one was going to be 4 kilos and I said, “Look, I'm happy to birth a 4.5-kilo baby out of my vagina,” which is almost 10 pounds for your listeners and they just wanted to do Cesareans on 4-kilo babies as well as inductions. It was always about induction and I found out the reason why they wanted to do induction. They wanted to manage me. They weren't a tertiary hospital, one of the bigger ones, and so I found out that the junior obstetricians wouldn't be comfortable doing or maybe confident or capable of doing an emergency Cesarean on someone of my size, so I said, “That's fine. Just send me to that hospital or that hospital. Let's just do this. If it's a staffing issue, I don't want to stretch it out.” They just laughed at me. It can't be a big deal then, can it? If they're not willing to send me to a different hospital. We had so many conversations and it was anxiety-inducing. I would cry on the way to the hospital. I would cry on the way home. I'd have to get my fight on and I even had a conversation with an obstetrician that said to me, “We'll fight about that later.” I said, “That's exactly right though isn't it? It's a fight, the fight.” Meagan: Yeah, we'll fight about that later. That right there. Ashley: He goes, “Oh, I didn't mean fight. I don't mean fight.” I go, “Yeah, but no. You do.” Meagan: But you just said that. Ashley: But you do. Meagan: You're like, “Yeah, I can tell that you're not agreeing with me and you're telling me that if I want something else, I'm going to have to fight with you.” Ashley: And so I'm hearing about this informed consent and I'm like, “Informed consent.” I'm fixated on what would get them to be on my side. I've learned about informed consent. They legally have to support me, right? But that is just the fast in my opinion, in my experience, they wouldn't know what informed consent or working with a woman, it just blows my mind. I didn't realize that at the time, but there were a lot of conversations that were happening about my weight. “You're not going to be able to. It's harder for bigger women like you.” I would leave conversations thinking, “I'm not going to be able to birth my baby out of my vagina because I'm big.” Meagan: They were shaming you. Ashley: Yeah, basically I was told by an obstetrician that, “She's not a fatist, but—.” I was like, “I've never heard someone say ‘I'm not a fatist.'” I don't even know what that means. I had some really interesting conversations because I was asking questions and I was asking questions because I was asking so many questions. Every time I went to an appointment, the obstetrician would say to me, “Ah, I see you're having a repeat Cesarean,” and that would spike adrenaline. Read my book. Read my book. You would know that I'm having a VBAC and then, “Oh, well do you know the risks of VBAC?” Yes, I do. “Oh, you really do know the risks, but we still recommend that you have a repeat Cesarean,” and I would have to go through that every single time. Meagan: So discouraging. Ashley: It was a nightmare. By 36-37 weeks, I had received a phone call and they said, I could feel the smugness and a smile through the phone, “Oh, we're not willing to take the risk. You're going to have to go to a different hospital.” I was just horrified. I was so scared. I've just been kicked out of hospital because nothing has changed with me.”Meagan: But because I won't do what they want me to do and I'm being stern in following my heart. Ashley: Yeah, because I won't submit. I've told you from day one what I'm going to do, but I suppose the rate of success with that tactic is probably 99%, I'm probably the 1% of women who actually says, “No. I actually will not fall for your trickery.”Meagan: Yeah, okay fine. I'll leave. Ashley: I was so determined, so then I went to a different hospital and it was a newer hospital. They had birthing pools. I was hopeful that I might get in a birthing pool. You get your own room in the postpartum. I was excited. They had informed consent signs. The receptionists weren't fighting each other. This first one that I went to was pretty rough down there. They were lovely and polite. I thought, “Oh, this feels nice. Maybe I'm going to have a different response,” and I did. I saw an amazing midwife on entry. She was like, “If they're not going to allow you to do this, you advocate and you can make a complaint. That's disgusting how you were treated.” I thought, “Oh, wow. This is the best thing.” I saw an obstetrician. They were supportive. They wanted to do some of the same things, but they respected me. I felt like I was seen as a human. They would ask me questions and they would go and ask a consultant and the consultant would agree with me. I was like, “Wow, I am ticking boxes here.” I made some compromises because I was vulnerable. I did a growth scan and they found out that baby was about 4 kilos. Meagan: Like you already guessed. Ashley: I knew that at 39 weeks. I said, “That's fine.” “Oh, we recommend induction.” I said, “Yeah, I know you do. I'm not doing it.” That's what caused me the C-section last time. I'm not doing it. We went through the study at 39 weeks. I said, “That doesn't apply to me. It doesn't apply to me. I'm not in that study. It doesn't mean anything to me.” I don't know how you can have a study saying that it's going to work better on someone at 39-41 because you're not doing the same people. You're not doing induction on someone at 39 weeks and then going, “Hey, let's try it again at 41 or whatever it is.” You're doing different people. I don't want to know about it. I don't care about it. They said, “Okay, well I'll talk to the consultant. We'll look at the scan,” and then she came back and said, “Yep, you're fine. There's no fat on the shoulders, so yep. That's fine.” But if I hadn't said that, I would have been booked in for an induction, right? I would have just said, “Let's go, yep.” I sat there on the weekend with my husband shaking like a leaf again having to advocate for myself. It isn't an easy thing to do. Every time I have to raise my voice, I'm putting adrenaline into my body. I'm not raising like screaming, but I'm having to raise my voice. My baby would have been under attack the whole pregnancy essentially. I eventually get to the due date. A week before my due date– it was a couple of days before my due date– my midwife turns to me at the last appointment. She was training in the hospital last time, so I was really grateful that she was willing to come with me and support me even though she wasn't going to get her book signed off for this birth. And on that appointment, she said to me, “Look, my daughter's booked a holiday for me, so I'm going away on your due date. Are you going to have this baby soon now?” I was like, “Oh my goodness. You've just fought with me the whole time and now you've turned into them trying to get me to have my baby before my due date because it suits you.” Yes. I was heartbroken and I was so angry. I decided then and there I was not going to invite her into my birth space even if it was sooner because she had betrayed me on every level. I went into that appointment and the obstetrician didn't recommend it, she said, “Do you want to do a cervical stretch?” A sweep and I said, “No, I don't.” I turned to the midwife and said, “What do you think?” She was like, “Yeah, why not?” Of course, she said that because it gets the baby out quicker. So again, you've got to be careful about who you're with because if you're relying on people who've got a different agenda, you've got to take their advice or their opinion with a grain of salt. But I was a little bit interested myself. I'd never had a stretch or a sweep like that before. I was a bit interested. I was worried that I was going to go over due dates and I was willing to wait for 40+10 and I was getting a bit stressed like, “Oh, what if it goes longer?” You start to freak out at that point. There's a bit of pressure and with what I'd been through, I had the stretch and sweep. She said, “You're 3 centimeters and you're stretchy.” I was like, “Wow. Wow. Last time, they couldn't even– I was closed up.” Meagan: Get a Foley in. Ashley: Yeah. So I was so excited. I started to get some niggles and lose some mucus and a bit of blood and things like that. Two days later, I went into labor. She said to me, “If it does nothing in the next couple of days, then the baby wasn't ready to come. If it happens, then the baby was always going to come,” sort of thing. Now, obviously, what's the point in doing them if the baby is going to come and it does nothing but disturb? I mean, my complete mindset changed and flipped. But yeah, I went into straight labor. I was so excited and so proud of myself. I'm in labor this time. I never knew if my body was broken after all of the fearmongering and talk. I was just so proud of myself. It was exciting. I had adrenaline pumping through me. I was shaking with fear and excitement. I was going to wait the whole day to go in. I was going to essentially go to hospital when my baby's head was coming out. As soon as I went into labor, I was like, “Yeah. I think I should go to the hospital.” I was adamant the whole time I wasn't going in until I was ready to push and as soon as I was in labor, I was like, “Yep. Okay, it's time.” Meagan: Let's go. It's exciting. You're like, “Okay, let's go have this baby.” Ashley: Yeah, and it was fast and hard. When I go into labor, it's not any prelabor, it's just that this is on. I dilate pretty quickly. When I got to the hospital, I was 5 centimeters. They were really surprised at how I was doing because I was quite calm and quiet. They were like, “Oh.” I got eventually into the birthing suite. My doula came and set up the room really pretty. I went into the shower and had a midwife assigned to us. She just sat down and read my birth plan and was happy with everything. She wouldn't let me in the birthing pool of course because I was over 100 kilos even though they've got a hoist for bigger people if they need to. They're just not comfortable with bigger people in the birthing pool. I just did my thing and I said, “I don't any doctors to come in. I don't want anyone annoying me or harassing me.” And I just labored for a few hours until I felt like there were some waters or something I could smell and feel. The midwife said, “Do you want me to check you?” I said, “Yeah. Yeah, we'll see if the waters have gone.” She said, “Yeah, the waters have gone and yeah, this is a little fore bag so would you like me to break that?” I said, “Well, if you think so, okay.” At this point, my education had gone to the point of getting past the induction. If I had gotten into spontaneous labor and I saw a midwife because everything was raving about midwives, I'm going to be fine. This baby's going to come out of my vagina okay. I didn't know anything about birth really. I just knew what not to do. I'm probably not going to have an epidural, but I'm open to it. You shouldn't break the waters, but I don't really understand why. But I wasn't having my waters broken. I was just having a little bit of my waters broken. And then came the tsunami and it was my entire waters. It was all over the bed and it was all warm. I was like, “What is happening?” She had either–Meagan: So your bag never really did break until then. Ashley: No, yeah. Yeah. Yes. And there's some other information. She's like, “Oh, we'll put the screw on the baby's head.Meagan: The FSC, fetal scalp electrode? Ashley: We call it the clip. Meagan: A clip. Ashley: Yeah, some call it the screw. I call it the screw. It's a little clip and it barely hurts. That was one of my compromises from not having continuous monitoring. I said, “If I have that, then I can be mobile.” That was the compromise and negotiation. Then, I found myself locked to a machine by the way because it wasn't mobile at this point. Then as soon as I got off the bed, there was a decel, so I was back on the bed. I was in excruciating pain at this point. I come out of my nest in the shower where I was able to breathe through everything and I was standing upright. Now there was a bit of fear happening because there was a decel that she didn't recover from quickly enough, so then the obstetricians and everyone had to come in. They were kind of like, “Oh, C-section,” talking about it already. I said, “No. I don't want to talk about it. The baby's fine. Just let me do my thing.” “Okay, okay,” and then they hounded me to get a catheter in my arm even though I didn't want one. I said, “No, I don't want one.” It's really painful and I don't want it. She said, “Oh, come on. We'll just get one in.” I said, “Okay, fine. Just do it then. Just leave me alone.” So she put it in and I'm walking around with this thing coming out of my vagina, this thing in my hand and I'm out of the zone and really finding it hard to get back into how I was feeling. Meagan: Your space. Ashley: Yeah, my space. I must have been in there for an hour or two, maybe a bit longer. By this point, they've told me that I'm 10 centimeters on one side, 8 centimeters on the other and there were a couple more decels and maybe one more and they were saying things to me that I don't understand. They were like, “You've got an anterior lip. It's swollen. You're 10 centimeters on this side and 8 centimeters on that side. Your baby's asynclitic. Your baby's up high.” They're looking at me and I'm like, “I don't know.” Meagan: You don't know what any of that means. Ashley: I'm 10 centimeters. The baby is going to come out right any minute. I'm just like, “Is the baby's going to come out soon?” I was starting to feel some pushy pains as well, so my body was pushing a little bit too and then I think I went back into the shower and I called in my husband because he was a weak link and I knew he would do what I said. I was like, “I want an epidural.” And the epidural was there within 10 minutes. I knew that would happen. They wanted me to have an epidural on arrival because of my said. I went to the anesthesiologist appointment and they looked at my back and said, “No, you've got a fine back.” What they're worried about with bigger people is that there can be fat over the spine. I said, “Okay, well I've got a fine back,” which I thought would be fine because I never had any problems with the C-section. They said, “But we still recommend an epidural on arrival.” I was like, “Okay. Well, at least I understand why.” The thing is that I'm trying to get information from them so I can make informed choices, so if it's in my best interest, then I will say yes and I will do it. But if it's in the best interest of you to make your life easier, then I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to put myself or my baby at risk to make your life easier. I understood that an emergency C-section was a higher risk than a planned C-section. I understood that induction was a higher risk. I knew all of the before things and the choices. What I got stuck with is I didn't understand physiological birth. I hadn't done any research on that. So they were talking to me gobbledygook, all of these things were happening. I just never thought that this could happen. I never ever thought this would happen to me. My mom had me in 7 hours. What is happening? What are these things that are happening? Now I'm on the bed. I'm stuck on the bed because I've chosen to have an epidural and now I've negotiated because we have had a couple of decels. I've negotiated for myself what I think is a pretty sweet deal which I realize is actually a really bad deal of vaginal examinations every hour. The normal standard practice is about every 4 hours and I'm like, “Okay. How about if we just check every hour and see if there is any progress?” They're like, “Yeah, that sounds great.” Every hour, they come into me and they're saying, “No change. Baby's up high. No change. We recommend C-section. These are the risks if you wait.” They were talking to me about the risks that would happen in a Cesarean, not about the risks that would happen in a vaginal birth if I wait. So it was very biased. I was like, “Okay, so what happens if I wait to have a vaginal birth?” They were like, “Well, we just recommend a Cesarean.” I feel like I'm in a room stuck with the enemy. I said to my doula, “I don't trust them. I feel like they know what they're talking about, but I don't know any different either.” My doula was a student doula and it's not like I came in there with a midwife who is on my team. I'm looking at the midwife and I'm like, “Are you going to help me?” I'm realizing that she's team obstetrician. I mean, I've never met her before. She was just working there. I'm thinking, “This is not what was sold to me in the VBAC group if I see a midwife. Midwives are amazing, blah blah blah blah.” What I actually missed was that independent midwives that are not working in hospital have more free reign are the midwives that everyone's raving about. I'm thinking it's just random midwives, any midwives are awesome. And not every midwife's awesome because you've got different personalities. You've got different experiences. You've got different passions and every person is different just like you can find an amazing obstetrician. You can find an amazing personal trainer, but they're not going to suit everybody or everyone's needs. And they have a bias against different people based on color, based on gender, based on size, based on the way that you look. If they can identify with you, they are going to be more attached to the story and fight and advocate a bit more. If they're not really into you, they're going to be like, “Oh well. I'm not going to lose my job over this,” sort of thing. I've learned all of these things since. Eventually, after about 6 hours, I had another decel. I think I had about 3 in total. It wasn't a huge amount. Meagan: Yeah, and how low were they? Do you remember? Ashley: I don't remember. The problem was that she wasn't coming back as quickly as they would have liked. Meagan: Prolonged. Ashley: Yeah, it was prolonged. I also didn't know at the time that the epidural also slowed down my contractions too. I only know this from getting the hospital notes which is quite common with epidurals as well. Eventually, I just said, “Okay, fine. I'm fine. I'll go.” After the last one, it felt like my baby was at risk. If someone is coming to you every hour saying, “This is the risk. We recommend that,” eventually, you just give up. I think I had been in labor for a total of 12 hours at that point. The first labor I had ever had and off I went. As I was going out, the midwife said to me, “It's okay. I had a home birth planned, but I ended up in a Cesarean. You'll be okay.” I was like, “See? You never would have been on my team because you hadn't even had a vaginal birth yourself.” I looked at her and I was like, “That was the worst thing you could have ever said to me at that point.” I was like, “Just because you had one and you're okay with it doesn't mean that I'm okay with it.” It was the worst thing. She obviously thought it was really supportive, but I felt so betrayed. So off I went and I had my surgery. Everything started to go downhill. My husband got rushed out of the surgery with my baby and you could just feel that it was intense. I said to my husband, “I love you. Look after the baby. I think I'm either going to lose my uterus or I'm going to die.” Meagan: Were you hemorrhaging? Ashley: Basically, the story that they tell me, I'm not sure if I believe it, but even if it is true, it is what it is at the end of the day. One of the risks that they were worried about is when a baby descends too much, there's a– you know this yourself– there's always a risk of a special scar happening because there's more risk of a tear or them having to cut more. So that's what they were informing me about the whole time. They knew about the risk and they were trying to stop– Meagan: But they kept saying that baby was high, right? Ashley: They told me that baby was high. They said that when the baby came out, she flung her arm up and ripped it down to my cervix. Meagan: Oh, okay. Ashley: Now, how does that happen when a baby is up high? If she's up high, how is she ripping down to my cervix? Now I think about that. How does that happen? Because my cervix was fully dilated. Meagan: Yeah, except on that one side. Did it ever finish? That swelling, that edema, did it go down? Ashley: Not that I know of. What they told me was nothing had changed positioning in that. Then when I looked at the notes when I got the notes, he laid out, “I saw that the positioning had changed.” She had come down a station, but they never communicated that to me. I have a feeling that she was probably down a bit further than they had put because, on the paperwork, they also said I was only 7 centimeters. There was no mention of an anterior lip, so they fudged the papers a little bit and weren't honest. I mean, if you're going to make a few little changes, then obviously, there's a reason for that. It obviously looks better on paper. Meagan: That's what happens all of the time. The patient will hear one thing, then on the op reports, it's a little different. So we always encourage you to get your op reports. It's sometimes hard to read but get your op reports. Ashley: It is hard to read. You know, they put it on the board too here in Australia what you are and at what time, so the information is there for me to look at the whole time while I'm in labor, so it's not that one person just said it, it's literally on the board for you to see. I was quite upset when I saw some of the notes. I went through the notes. I've been through them multiple times now and I was just trying to learn. I was Googling, “What does this mean and what does that mean?” because I don't know the medical jargon. I'm learning all of the things and I'm looking at Spinning Babies. I'm looking at everything and trying to learn after the fact, but essentially what had happened was apparently, she had flung around there, tore my uterus down to the cervix and then they needed to call in a specialized team to come in and resolve that problem that they had created. The surgery went on for a number of hours and it was a very challenging surgery. I wanted to crawl out of my body essentially because I had been laying there for so long. It was just a horrible experience. I was reunited with my baby. She was born at 6:30. I was reunited with them at about 12:00 at night, so I had been in labor from 4:00 in the morning and then I was breastfeeding her because my husband advocated for her to be breastfed. So that meant that she had her sugars checked. They were fine, so they were happy for her to wait for me. I was really, really glad that my husband advocated for me. I was so tired when I got out of surgery and I was back in this hot room. I was sweating profusely. There was no aircon. Some of the rooms, even though it was new, didn't have aircon. I ended up in a room with no aircon and it was so hot. I had to have a midwife stay with me and do observations every 15 minutes to check me. I didn't end up in the ICU, but I lost 3.1 liters of blood. I had blood transfusions in the surgery, all of the stuff in the surgery to keep me awake, and all of that. I really wanted to go under, but they wouldn't put me under because I had been eating. It wasn't a great experience and I came out very traumatized from that experience. I ended up having PTSD with flashbacks. I was crying for months. I felt broken. They told me to never have a vaginal birth again, and that I could have two more babies so that was amazing. I was like, “Well, you must have done a good job if you think I could have two more,” but they must be born Cesarean. I was like, “Okay, no problems.” I was so grateful to be alive after that experience. I was trying to make sense of what had happened. The next few years, that was my mission to try to make sense because I've gone from a space of you're not allowed to have a vaginal birth to what happened, trying to understand what happened, and then planning our future because we wanted four children total. So I almost never had any more children. For 6-12 months, I was done. I was never going to go through that again. I was a broken person. I was really struggling, but I trained as a postpartum doula and I started to want to help women in breastfeeding and the things that I knew that I could support because I ended up breastfeeding that baby for 12 months and I felt like a success at that regard. I learned a lot about breastfeeding. I wanted to share my voice and help women, but I wasn't well enough to help women in the birth space because I felt like a failure. I was trying to learn and I wanted to be in a space where I felt safe. This was trauma and challenges were happening and this was me being able to help people and make a positive out of a negative essentially. And then I found you guys. I found your podcast and I was like, “This is amazing,” because you were the first place that was promoting VBAC after two Cesareans. Back then, nobody was having VBAC after two Cesareans let alone multiple now that we see happening. I think a lot of it has to do with your podcast because when you hear women's stories and you hear the statistics and you can actually hear other women doing it, that was the start of me getting hope and realizing that there was another way. Meagan: Oh, that just gave me the chills. Ashley: Thank you so much for your podcast. Meagan: I have a sweater on right now, but literally it just went up my arm. Ashley: Awesome. It is really nice to know that if I didn't come across your podcast, I probably wouldn't have taken that next step, so it is life-changing to hear other women's stories and have that resource. The fact that you guys had the stats and everything, I was very much in the stats trying to move through special scars. I eventually had gone onto Special Scars, Special Hope. Meagan: Such a good group. Ashley: Yeah, so amazing and started to connect with other women who were having worse scars than me. They were birthing on classical scars. I was like, holy moly. I think it was ACOG or maybe RANZ of New Zealand and Australia. They said it was okay to labor on a scar like mine because I had a vertical scar down to my cervix. That's the low-risk special scar. I was like, “If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.” Look at these people saying that. All of the obstetricians that I had spoken to because I had a meeting with an obstetrician. I had met with so many midwives who knew about the system. They said to me, “Look. They are going to be petrified of you coming to the system.” It was really good to get that feedback and from my own experience, they wouldn't allow me to have a VBAC let alone a VBAC after two Cesareans with a special scar and high BMI. I started to really try to uncover, so I met with an obstetrician from that hospital and she basically said to me, “Look, you're a square peg trying to fit in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole.” I looked at her. I didn't understand that. I had never that and I have never been referred to as that kind of person. I quite like doing what normal people do. I was looking at her. I'm like, “What are you talking about?” She just said to me, “Basically, I ended up with this surgery because the surgery who was working had decided that because of my weight, that that was all that I was capable of or that was the path that I was going through.” That was really the first time that I've felt like my weight has actually held me back or I've been discriminated against. When I look back at the fact of how I was treated and the conversations I was having, it was obvious that it was happening the whole way through, I just was so naive to it that it was happening in my face and I didn't even realize it because the thing is that I understand that being of high weight can put you at risk for all of these things. I'm looking at it from their point of view, but I'm not actually sometimes looking at it from Ashley's point of view. I understand their concern and I understood all of the medical stuff because I had listened to them. I had asked questions. I had read their policies for obese people. I understood that it was discrimination. I didn't understand it at the time. I didn't understand that they probably weren't seeing me as a human as maybe they would have if I was a skinny version of myself. We probably would have had a different conversation. They probably would have been cheering me on and holding my hand and saying, “You're an amazing VBAC candidate. We support you. We probably still want to do all of these things to you, but we're not going to kick you out of hospital.” That's the difference when I hear women's stories. Oh, she's allowed to get in the water bath and she's allowed to have a beautiful birth. She doesn't have to bend over backward and do a cartwheel and it's because she looks a certain way or she was really lucky because she got an obstetrician that was amazing. There are all of these things that have to line up. That's what has propelled me on my journey to find home birth as an option. Meagan: Home birth, home birth. So you talked about stats. You were on this mission of stats, so you went out and you found the stats about VBAC after multiple Cesareans, two Cesareans, special scars, found some stuff, said, “Okay, this seems acceptable,” and then you started a home birth. Based off of your own research, for you, you felt completely comfortable starting this journey. Ashley: No, I didn't. Meagan: Okay. Ashley: I didn't. I mean, I had to work through the fears with the stats and I was comfortable with home birth and the idea of home birth. I understood that home birth was as safe as birthing in a hospital and I understood that if I was birthing with a midwife I would have a medical person with me. Now, the next challenge that came for me was that I couldn't find a home birth midwife who would support me. I feel like I leveled up. I was leveling up the whole time. It was like, now you've got a VBA2C. Now you've got a special scar. Let's work through this. What do I feel comfortable with? What am I willing to take on? Okay, okay. That's doable. That's doable. I can work through that. What's the next thing? Oh yeah, the next thing is this. Okay, what am I going to do with that? A home birth. Okay, a home birth feels like a safe option. I can do this. I can do that. I can do that. Okay, that's going to be the best thing for me. I'm not going to go back to hospital. Meagan: I love that you said that. I can do this. I'm comfortable with this. You kind of have to go through that with anything. In life in general, but especially with this birth, you went through it and you were like, “Okay, yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. Now, here I am.” Ashley: Yeah and I was seeing a psychologist at the time for all of the things to help me lose weight actually. My GP, I wanted to lose weight. I've been overweight my whole life. I wanted to lose weight. I went to a nutritionist and she was like, “You know everything. I think it's emotional.” I've got childhood stuff going on. I worked with him and I said, “The way that I feel about the hospital system, is this right?” He's normalizing my experience for me and saying, “You're perfectly normal.” I'm trying to say, “Am I having a trauma response here? I don't want to go into a home birth because I'm having a trauma response,” because the obstetrician said to me, one of them, she's like– she wasn't the best obstetrician for the debrief. She said to me, “You've got a risk of special scar, a 7% rupture rate.” I said, “That's a little bit different from what I found in Special Scars, Special Hope where they are looking at women.” I said, “Have you got any statistics?” She's like, “No.” I'm like, “So how can I trust that what you're saying is correct then?”Meagan: Well then, where'd you get 7%?Ashley: Exactly. She's like, “Look, if you find any doctor who's willing to support you, then they're not the doctor for you. I'm telling you what is the safest thing for you.” I was challenging her because at this point, I'm angry. I'm so done. I'm so done. I've just been through hell because of you people and I want to get information. I don't want to hear your judgments. She said to me, “If you find a doctor, then basically they're not right. They're doing the wrong thing.” I said, “So you're the best doctor in the whole world? You know everything right? You're the best and you know the best then? So if I find another doctor who says yes then they're wrong and you're right, that's what you're saying?” She was just looking at me. She was like, “I just feel like what you're going to do is you're going to keep looking until you're going to find someone and then you're going to put yourself at risk.”I'm like, “That is exactly what I'm going to do.” Meagan: You're like, “Well, I'm glad you feel that way.” Ashley: I should have sent her a postcard after my free birth and said, “I freebirthed. Thank you for driving me to this.” It is amazing the conversations you have when you really do have conversations. You can see where they're coming from and how very different their views are. Some of the fears and worries that they have are not about you and your baby. They are about themselves and their career, but the information I didn't know about her was that she was actually the head of obstetrics and she just lost her title and her job. She'd been bumped down. The reason why I went to her was because she supported breech birth in hospital and she was very vaginal friendly. She did support me. She was the consultant I saw on the paperwork that supported me to have a vaginal birth, but in the timeframe of me organizing to meet up with her, the information that I didn't know that I found out later was that she lost her job because she had supported somebody to have a breech and there was a poor outcome that the parents accepted, but somebody else had basically complained about. The only thing is that breech is so risky they say even though it's not. She's one of the radical obstetricians so she had been punished and so she was coming from a space of where she was. It's really important to know that information. You never know where they are in their career or how they are feeling, so she might have been really bitter at the time and negative and feeling like there was doom and gloom in the world. It was really shameful when I was speaking to my doula friends and they were like, “Oh really? She was so amazing.” I'm like, “Yeah, well maybe she is amazing but not for people like me. Maybe she supports this person because they've got a thin body and because of me, she's like, ‘No. I wouldn't touch you with a 10-foot pole,'” because it's too risky for her and for her job also. They are up against it as well in the system and that's something I have learned. My next mission was that I needed to find a midwife who was going to bat for me, not somebody who was going to be worried about losing their career because they come after the midwives too that are home birthing. So I had gone to the free birth podcast as well and I was listening to their stories. I was like, “They're a bit out there for me. I'm not brave enough to do that. That's a bit radical.” Eventually, my husband was the one that talked me into a free birth when we couldn't have a midwife to support me. It

Happy Holidays Clowns! In our last episode of 2022, we start by discussing this year's Halloween and two of our hosts' birthdays. Then comes a much-awaited segment, celebrity smash or pass, and later, we go down undah for a round of Bikini Bottom smash or pass. Ever wanted to know if we would smash Larry the Lobster, Elon Musk, or Khloe Kardashian? Now's your chance to find out and play along! Next, we debate what everyone's thinking but no one want to talk about -- tipping and splitting the bill. You would think that would be our episode's big debate, but instead one of the biggest debates in GTT history comes from our shower food discussion. Two hosts agree that certain foods will taste better in the shower, while one host holds steadfast in their beliefs that only Laffy Taffy should be eaten where you bathe. The conversation hops to the captivating question of which celebrity would win in a headbutt fight, and with some real heavy hitters -- Tyra Banks, Yo Gotti, Plies, Tory Lanez, Ne-Yo, and Rihanna -- this is sure to cause some heated debate amongst our listeners. We round out the episode with a huge proposition, and introduce the Grab the Tomatoes Fuck a Fan Challenge! You guys will not wanna miss this one. Here's to more squelching in 2023! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grabthetomatoes/support

You wanna thump your bible and talk about John 3:16? Well on GTT 316, we're exploring the world of fighting game music! Hell yeah we're featuring tunes from some of your favorite anti-smoking games, as well as other classics from the extreme 90s! Get ready to hear about the tentacle plant grappler, the elephant god fighting game, the best bathroom fights in movie and gaming history, and finally meet a GTT legend! Tune in for all this and more capital GUUD action! Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! We've got GTT GEMS, MIXTAPES, all new MOVIE COMMENTARIES and more stuff in the works, so check out the page and consider supporting the show as we attempt to grow and create more great stuff! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Lance Riviere, Damian Beckles, Bradford Stephens, Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, Grimmory, PhoenixTear2121, & UnsaddledZebra! Check out our 24/7 VGM stream for a radio station featuring games we've used on the show! We've loaded up over 1,000 soundtracks in our stream and have more coming all the time! New episodes of Game That Tune record LIVE on Wednesdays at 9 PM EST on numerous platforms: YouTube Twitch Facebook The show takes podcast form and becomes available for download Tuesday mornings! Find it on Apple Podcasts or GameThatTune.com and enjoy! We always want to hear from you, especially if you have a request! Email us at GameThatTune@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or on our new social media platform GameThatTune.Club

The ACOG recommends universal screening for gestational diabetes between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy with occasional early screening for those at high risk. Is there an advantage to completing the 1-hour 50 g GTT while fasting? First studied in the 1990s, a new publication further validates the original study results. In this episode we will summarize this new publication soon to be released in Obstetrics & Gynecology (the Green journal) and discuss the paradox/conundrum of GTTs while fasting.

Subsea cable operators face the unique challenge of balancing future capacity demands while deploying and maintaining cable systems meant to last 25 to 30 years. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer for Global Cloud Xchange, joins the podcast to discuss new technologies for future-proofing subsea cables, and examines which regions are exhibiting the most growth in bandwidth demands.You can download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here.Here are a few topics we covered:Background on Jim Fagan and Global Cloud Xchange. (00:25)GCX's managed services business. (04:01)Impact of the pandemic on GCX's business. (06:12)Regions where GCX is experiencing growth and partnership with Equinix. (09:03)Subsea cable management across international waters. (11:50)New and emerging subsea cable technologies. (15:01)Logistical and equipment management challenges to operating and managing subsea cables. (17:55)Related stories and links:Ciena's Brian Lavallée on Tonga's tussle with a broken submarine cableThe Buildout: More 'GREAT' news for Spectrum, Yellowstone Fiber goes liveTrans-Pacific subsea cable set for $2.5B construction boom400G roundup: GTT upgrades; Telstra's new subsea cableSubsea players plot quake-detecting sensors Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know with a theme like this, one might mistake GTT for a very negative show, but we assure you, this episode is about games that suck IN A GOOD WAY. Join us in Discord and at GameThatTune.club! Check out our Patreon page! Patreon.com/GameThatTune is the home for exclusive content! We've got GTT GEMS, MIXTAPES, all new MOVIE COMMENTARIES and more stuff in the works, so check out the page and consider supporting the show as we attempt to grow and create more great stuff! Special thanks to our ABSURD FAN tier Patreon producers: Lance Riviere, Damian Beckles, Bradford Stephens, Daniel Perkey, Taylor Y, Sam L, Grimmory, PhoenixTear2121, UnsaddledZebra, Aakadarr, and TheKerrigan! Check out our 24/7 VGM stream for a radio station featuring games we've used on the show! We've loaded up over 1,000 soundtracks in our stream and have more coming all the time! New episodes of Game That Tune record LIVE on Wednesdays at 9 PM EST on numerous platforms: YouTube Twitch Facebook The show takes podcast form and becomes available for download Tuesday mornings! Find it on Apple Podcasts or GameThatTune.com and enjoy! We always want to hear from you, especially if you have a request! Email us at GameThatTune@gmail.com, find us on Facebook or on our new social media platform GameThatTune.Club

We're back! This week on GTT, we're talking about the changes within GTT going forward, the ACL World Championships, an awesome interview with ACL Pro Erick Davis and our expert interview with Lily Duenas who helps us with self care and personal growth. Hear about Whitney's experience playing in coed with Anthony Noyes and Nicole's experience playing in the pro qualifier!Are you ready to improve your cornhole game? Grab our FREE presentation to learn how you can improve your cornhole game! https://www.wethrivetoo.com/improvecornholegameLinks:Kids Throw Too New Website: https://kidsthrowtoo.com/Girls Throw Too Website: https://girlsthrowtoo.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276040074164229/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GirlsThrowTooInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlsthrowtoo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ZZ9IXFbzMohv-lpWmzw9QTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@girlsthrowtooWhitney on IG: https://www.instagram.com/wingram/Michelle on IG: https://www.instagram.com/michellehastiethompsonhttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/michelle-hastie-thompsonhttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/eatlessSign up for INSTANT ACCESS to this free online event to learn the 3 Things Every Cornhole Player Must Improve If They Want To Be Their Besthttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/improvecornholegameSupport the show

Welcome back to another episode of Girls Throw Too! This week it's just Whit and Steph since Meesh is on her way home from working the GTT tent in Ventura. After the girls talk about their week in Cornhole, we're joined by ACL Pro Seto Soto. He is an OG ACL Pro and has been playing for 10 + years. For “off the boards”, we're joined by Dr. Dalton Combs. He works to understand why people do what they do, and to help them change. He tells us some things us Cornhole players can do to keep our stamina up and prepare for those long tournaments. Are you ready to improve your cornhole game? Grab our FREE presentation to learn how you can improve your cornhole game! https://www.wethrivetoo.com/improvecornholegameLinks:Kids Throw Too New Website: https://kidsthrowtoo.com/Girls Throw Too Website: https://girlsthrowtoo.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276040074164229/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GirlsThrowTooInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlsthrowtoo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ZZ9IXFbzMohv-lpWmzw9QTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@girlsthrowtooWhitney on IG: https://www.instagram.com/wingram/Michelle on IG: https://www.instagram.com/michellehastiethompsonhttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/michelle-hastie-thompsonhttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/eatlessDr. Dalton Combs: https://www.tiktok.com/@tdaltoncSign up for INSTANT ACCESS to this free online event to learn the 3 Things Every Cornhole Player Must Improve If They Want To Be Their Besthttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/improvecornholegameSupport the show

Pregnancies affected by pregestational (also called preexisting) diabetes has significantly improved over the past several decades as insulin management improved and tighter glycemic control is achieved with glucose monitors. Diabetes in pregnancy is classifed as followes:   ●Type 1 diabetes (autoimmune beta cell destruction, usually leading to absolute insulin deficiency): a. Without vascular complications b. With vascular complications (eg, nephropathy, retinopathy, hypertension, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, etc) ●Type 2 diabetes (progressive loss of insulin secretion, often in the setting of insulin resistance): a. Without vascular complications b. With vascular complications (eg, nephropathy, retinopathy, hypertension, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, etc) ●Gestational diabetes (diabetes of during pregnancy and not clearly overt [eg, type 1 or type 2 diabetes]) ●Other diabetes (eg, genetic origin, drug- or chemical-induced) This episode focuses on type 1 and type 2 diabetes in pregnancy and the principles of management.     Our practice website can be found at: Maternal Resources: https://www.maternalresources.org/ Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Please consider leaving us a review.  Our Social Channels are as follows Twitter: https://twitter.com/integrativeob YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/maternalresources IG: https://www.instagram.com/integrativeobgyn/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IntegrativeOB    

Tisha Schuller welcomes Alice Jackson, former president of Xcel Energy - Colorado, to the Energy Thinks Podcast. Since the recording of this episode, Alice has been promoted to chief planning officer and senior vice president of System Strategy at Xcel Energy.Tisha and Alice discuss:·      Xcel's affordability and reliability guardrails around energy transition efforts;·      Three strategic principles for engaging employees amid the transition;·      Team development and the natural tension of balancing current and future system needs;·      The value of listening to communities to find a shared path forward;·      Xcel's dedicated workers and the pride they have for delivering life essential services; and,·      A huge solar project!Listen here for the Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition podcast mentioned in this episode.Alice started working in GTT and IT positions at companies including Enron Energy Services and Oxy, Inc. before becoming director of energy ventures at Oxy in 2004. She became the regional VP of rates and regulatory affairs at Xcel in Amarillo, TX in 2011 and served in the same position a few years later in Denver, CO. While in Denver in 2016, Alice earned the title of VP of strategic revenue initiatives, which she held until May 2018 when she became president of Xcel in Colorado. She also has been a board member of the American Red Cross (donate here) since 2015. Alice has a B.S. in management information systems from Texas A&M University and has completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.Subscribe here for Tisha's weekly "Both Things Are True" email newsletter. Follow all things Adamantine Energy at www.energythinks.com. Thanks to Lindsey Slaughter, Adán Rubio, and Michael Tanner who make the Energy Thinks podcast possible. [Interview recorded on May 6, 2022]

Tisha Schuller welcomes Alice Jackson, former president of Xcel Energy - Colorado, to the Energy Thinks Podcast. Since the recording of this episode, Alice has been promoted to chief planning officer and senior vice president of System Strategy at Xcel Energy.Tisha and Alice discuss:·      Xcel's affordability and reliability guardrails around energy transition efforts;·      Three strategic principles for engaging employees amid the transition;·      Team development and the natural tension of balancing current and future system needs;·      The value of listening to communities to find a shared path forward;·      Xcel's dedicated workers and the pride they have for delivering life essential services; and,·      A huge solar project!Listen here for the Coal at Sunset: A Colorado Town in Transition podcast mentioned in this episode.Alice started working in GTT and IT positions at companies including Enron Energy Services and Oxy, Inc. before becoming director of energy ventures at Oxy in 2004. She became the regional VP of rates and regulatory affairs at Xcel in Amarillo, TX in 2011 and served in the same position a few years later in Denver, CO. While in Denver in 2016, Alice earned the title of VP of strategic revenue initiatives, which she held until May 2018 when she became president of Xcel in Colorado. She also has been a board member of the American Red Cross (donate here) since 2015. Alice has a B.S. in management information systems from Texas A&M University and has completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.Subscribe here for Tisha's weekly "Both Things Are True" email newsletter. Follow all things Adamantine Energy at www.energythinks.com. Thanks to Lindsey Slaughter, Adán Rubio, and Michael Tanner who make the Energy Thinks podcast possible. [Interview recorded on May 6, 2022]

Welcome back Cornhole fans! This week on Girls Throw Too, Meesh commits to getting a tattoo on her arm drawn by her 6 year old son. Whit's daughter let her friend cut her hair… but it actually looks really good! The ladies touch on their favorite binge worthy tv shows, including “Love is Blind”, “Ozarks”, “Yellowstone”, and more. You might start to see some other guest hosts on the GTT podcast as Whitney finds her place in the Cornhole world. The Kids Throw Too Tournament is less than a month away! We added more activities including 2 blind draws for adults AND a cornhole clinic for the kids. This week's player spotlight is ACL Pro Eric Tscherne, learn about his fascinating career and background. Later on we talk with expert Brenda Miller. She talks about how she helps people become more joyful and find peace.Links:Kids Throw Too New Website: https://kidsthrowtoo.com/Girls Throw Too Website: https://girlsthrowtoo.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276040074164229/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GirlsThrowTooInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlsthrowtoo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ZZ9IXFbzMohv-lpWmzw9QTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@girlsthrowtooWhitney on IG: https://www.instagram.com/wingram/Michelle on IG: https://www.instagram.com/michellehastiethompsonhttps://www.wethrivetoo.com/michelle-hastie-thompsonSupport the show

Get a FREE look into one of our 4 shows in GTT backstage! Sign up for a 7-day free trial at GTTBackstage.comThis week for Mondays with Meesh we talked about... How to be more present in life without feeling like it's your job to do soWhat to do about the infamous question "What's for dinner"How to deal with "all the things" we have to do as adult womenHow to deal with our spouse's hobbies that take up too much time without making them resentful of usHow to help our children feel confident and safeSubmit your question for next week by leaving a voicemail or text to 443-408-8297Support the show

Guest ProfileName: Jasmine LeFloreWhat They do: Jasmine LeFlore is a New Business Pursuits Principal Project Engineer at Collins Aerospace where she is responsible for technology inorganic growth strategies, bid-to-capture initiatives, and technical proposals, processes, and budgets. Company:  Greater Than TechNoteworthy: Winner of the 2020 Women of Color STEM Community Service in Industry Award, Jasmine co-founded the non-profit Greater than Tech (GTT). GTT offers workshops, development programs, competitions, training and STEM camps. The STEM camps focus on robotics and computer science for ages 11 – 13.BioJasmine LeFlore is a New Business Pursuits Principal Project Engineer at Collins Aerospace. She is responsible for technology inorganic growth strategies, bid-to-capture initiatives, and technical proposals, processes, and budgets. Prior to her current role, Jasmine gained experience in development project engineering for commercial aircraft, first as a component integrated product lead in 2015, a supplier management engineer in 2017, then the chief of staff to the VP of engineering in 2019.Throughout her engineering career, Jasmine has been inducted into multiple talent accelerator cohorts and recognized with numerous companies for focusing on results, championing company culture, and diversity and inclusion. Zealous to create impactful change, she has been instrumental in DEI. Jasmine now sits as the Vice-Chair of the African American Enterprise Board of Collins Aerospace Employee Resource Group. She also went on to Co-found a nonprofit called Greater Than Tech (GTT), where she specializes in teaching girls of color the intersectionality of engineering and business for them to be the next technology business leaders of the future. GTT is committed to instilling the importance of self-efficacy, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial mindsetConnect with Jasmine LeFlore! “Everybody can tell you how to do, they never did it” correction: Already Home – Jay-ZWebsite: www.greaterthantech.orgEmail: jasmine@greaterthantech.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/JasmineMLeFloreInstagram: greaterthantech.sdClubhouse: JasmineMLeFloreLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-leflore/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuuCz5NCEmbOad8VrK3IznA