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Most people fear a $43 million debt. Harvey Firestone called it “invigorating.” When his company faced collapse in 1920 and his executives panicked, Firestone seized control. He fired the sales manager, slashed prices 25%, and personally ran the sales department. It worked—not because he managed through fear, but through clarity.   Firestone was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company—an outsider who built one of America's iconic industrial empires by doing the opposite of what everyone else did. This episode isn't about tires. It's about how Firestone quietly built one of the great businesses of the 20th century by asking two deceptively simple questions: Is it necessary? Can it be simplified?  This episode breaks down the invisible principles behind Firestone's success: positioning over talent, inputs over outcomes, discipline over drama. If you lead a team or simply want to lead yourself better, this story is a masterclass in building enduring advantages.   This episode is for informational purposes only and is based on Men and Rubber: The Story of Business by Harvey Firestone.  Check out highlights from these books in our repository, and find key lessons from Firestone here—⁠⁠⁠https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-harvey-firestone/ (03:00) PART 1: The Best Businessman I Ever Knew(06:50) The Vanilla Extract Lesson(10:23) When Premium Doesn't Matter (12:05) PART 2: Right Beneath the Wheels(14:21) The Back of an Envelope(16:36) If Two of Us Stay, Neither Makes Money(18:39) Betting on what Doesn't Change(20:55) The Accidental Breakfast(24:53) The Third Option (28:19) PART 3: The Innovators Dilemma: Pneumatic Tires(32:24) The Ford Connection: A Partnership of Outsiders(35:23) Navigating the Crisis(37:17) The Underdog's Advantage(39:24) The Million Dollar Milestone(43:10) Weathering the Panic of 1907(45:55) The Simplicity Imperative (51:25) PART 4: The Ship-by-Truck Revolution(54:31) The Boom That Hid Everything(56:11) The 25% Solution(01:01:42) Cutting to the Bone (01:04:25) PART 5: Why He Never Stopped(01:06:54) The Human Element(01:08:09) The Legacy (01:10:05) Reflections, afterthoughts, and lessons Upgrade—If you want to hear my thoughts and reflections at the end of all episodes, join our membership: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fs.blog/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get your own private feed. Newsletter—The Brain Food newsletter delivers actionable insights and thoughtful ideas every Sunday. It takes 5 minutes to read, and it's completely free. Learn more and sign up at ⁠⁠⁠fs.blog/newsletter Follow Shane on X at: x.com/ShaneAParrish Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors was an immediate success and is considered one of the best management books written by CEOs of his era. Before his book, we'd probably have to go back to Henry Ford's autobiography to find a management book of this popularity.And then there's Harvey Firestone's book, which CFO Bookshelf considers a gem. Originally published in 1926, the great people behind the Farnam Street blog have republished Men and Rubber, and the author's message is as relevant now as when he published it.During this episode, we hit some of the big themes in this book:Money, capital, and planningThe key to selling and no superstarsTreating people right and employee ownershipDeep thinking and decision-makingTaking time off and Ford's vagabondsClick for the show notes at CFO Bookshelf.

After previously closing their mansion, a struggling couple returns to host a wonderful buffet to start the new year, but have things really changed for the better?December 1932 – January 1933, Christmas and holidays brings plenty of activities. E.T. Stotesbury and Eva Stotesbury are back in Philadelphia but not at their large mansion Whitemarsh Hall celebrating both Christmas and New Year before heading down to Palm Beach. Plenty of people are looking at the wealthy, unaware what they might be truly hiding as others try to recover from financial losses by several means.Other people and subjects include: Doris Duke, Barbara Hutton, Nanaline Duke, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Louise Van Alen, Daisy Van Alen, James “Henry” Van Alen, Eleanor Van Alen, John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Cobina Wright, Henrietta Hartford, Huntington Hartford, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Alice Vanderbilt, Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi, Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton, E.F. Hutton, Princess Roussadana “Roussie” Mdivani Sert, Helena McCann, Louise Brooks Howard, Christine Cromwell, Anna Dodge Dillman, Frederick Vanderbilt, Louise Vanderbilt, Charles Lindbergh, Constance Morrow, President Franklin Roosevelt, New Deal reforms, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Simon Guggenheim, Otto Kahn, Charles Schwab, former U.S. Ambassador Charles Dawes, Sailing Baruch, Jr., Coco Chanel, Lanvin, Lotte Lehmand, Not Out parties, debutantes, teas, buffets, Christmas playlet, Manhattan Derby, burlesque polo match, hob by horses, Voice of Young America book, taxation, IRS – Internal Revenue Service, Robert Mann, Mrs. Wilmer Biddle – Elizabeth Southall Clarke, Albert Davis, Marianne Davis, Princess Anita Stewart de Braganza, Mrs. Moses Taylor, Julia Berwind, Prince Colonna, Mrs. Nicholas John Brown, Nicholas John Brown II, John Nicholas Brown III, labels, monikers, richest baby, wealthiest baby, richest pony, richest girl in the world, richest U.S. heiress, richest unmarried women, retiree list, financial secrets, open knowledge, Lindbergh baby kidnapping, Starr Garden Recreation Center, Barclay Hotel, Montparnasse, Whitemarsh Hall, Malmaison, *El Mirasol & Playa Riente not mentioned but referenced, Harvard University, Hotel Plaza, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Newport, St. Moritz, Paris, Rome, New Year 2024, changes, Powerball 2024 winner, Michigan lottery, Jeffrey Epstein List, rumors, salacious news, implosions, resilience--Extra Notes / Call to Action:New York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.comThe fee is $12 each, live with one week access after.Monday, January 22nd, 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel Part 1: A New Standard of Luxury (pre-1929), Come learn more about the Astor family dispute behind the famous hotel and its construction as well as the hotel's influence on luxury travel and fine dining. Connections to the Titanic as well as other events and famous people will also be explored. But all good things come to an end.https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-i-a-new-standard-of-luxury-webinar-registration-780312454557/Monday, January 29th, 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York Part 2: Manhattan's Grandest Hotel (1931-present), The second version of this fine luxury hotel comes during the dawn of new era which will bring new challenges and excitement. A lingering Astor family connection adds to the saga until a new family the Hilton dynasty rises and takes over. More celebrities and events will add to allure of this hotel. Finally, updates reveal the recent renovations, an auction, and the future for the third incarnation.https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-ii-manhattans-grandest-hotel-webinar-registration-780312524767/Share, like, subscribe--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: Kansas City Kitty by The Rhythmic Eight, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20sSection 2 Music: The Charleston by The Savoy Orpheans, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20sSection 3 Music: Hep! Hep! Jumpin' Jive by Nat Gonella & His New Georgians, Album Dance CrazyEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

From humble beginnings in Akron, Ohio, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company grew to become a global powerhouse in the transportation industry. Now the history of the company and its pioneering founder, Harvey Firestone, lives on through the Firestone Archives – one of the most robust corporate archives ever assembled. More than 120 years of chronicled history includes correspondence with U.S. Presidents, detailed journals of intimate friendships with innovation icons like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, photos and memorabilia from extreme glamping adventures, and a whole lot more. Join Gloria Caples, Firestone's brand manager, Jennifer Andreola, lead archivist from History Factory, and THRIVE host Keith Cawley to learn about the importance of the Firestone Archives and what interesting items have been preserved.

In 1918, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and naturalist writer John Burroughs took one of many long distance road trips together. The combination of their unique forms of genius, especially when viewed against the backdrop of WWI and the Influenza pandemic, makes it possible to see just how critical their curiosity was to every form of success they achieved. In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Wes Davis. Wes has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University and taught at Yale for nearly a decade. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Nation. Wes is also the author of multiple books, one of which is the recently released ‘American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs' - and that book will be the focus of our conversation today. In this interview, Wes talks about some of the unique characteristics of these consequential historical figures and sheds light on how we can learn from their mindset today: Why the ability of Ford and Edison to thrive in the industrial and natural worlds was part of their collective genius How unique and changeable the social and business landscape was in the early 20th century Whether Ford, Firestone, and Edison were, in fact, Sourcing Heroes in their own right

“For men like Ford, Firestone, and Edison, whose success in the world had given them access to any thing they might want, these impressions [of the great Smoky Mountains] had a value beyond calculation.” American Journey, p. 276  In 1918, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs took a long road trip in the eastern United States. They slept under the stars, cooked outside, and made their way through the countryside, meeting people, investigating curiosities, and deepening their friendships as they went. That story, and the events leading up to and following after it, serve as the focus for American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs, a new book by Wes Davis. In this episode of Dial P, Kelly Barner shares her impressions from American Journey:  Just enough of the story of this journey and the friendships formed on it to provide context Observations about how business and society have changed in the 105 years since Ford, Firestone, Edison, and Burroughs took to the road Inspiration to look at things a little differently by maintaining a balance of innovation and time in nature   Links: Kelly Barner on LinkedIn Dial P for Procurement on AOP

Some of the most important moments in the lives of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison weren't their inventions or business successes. It was their road trips through the most remote, rustic parts of America. Between 1916 and 1924, Ford, Edison, Harvey Firestone went on a number of camping trips. Calling themselves the Vagabonds, they set up campsites, took photographs, and fixed cars themselves. They were also joined by famous naturalist John Burroughs, an elderly writer with a large white beard who looked like a gold prospector.The relationship began in 1913 between Burroughs, then 75, and Ford, nearly 50, and enjoying a banner year for the Model T. Both men were influenced by the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, but they disagreed about the role of the automobile in American life.To Ford's chagrin, Burroughs wrote in an article in Atlantic Monthly that the automobile “was going to kill the appreciation of nature”; Ford believed it would open up facets of America that most people could not access. In response, Ford sent Burroughs a new Model T, which indeed changed the old naturalist's life by prompting him to set out on wide-ranging road trips beyond his Hudson River homestead. Meanwhile, Ford and Edison, who had both “imbibed” the rural values of the Midwest, and Firestone, “the head of the largest tire manufacturing concern in the country,” were long-standing friends, busy plotting numerous new business ventures.Their road trips became increasingly ambitious to San Francisco, the Adirondacks of New York, and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Davis chronicles the memorable road trip of summer 1918, when the fast friends—who held wildly different views about the impending war—drove from the Allegheny range through West Virginia and into the “rustic magic of the Great Smoky Mountains,” all in the spirit of curiosity and exploration.To discuss these journeys, and the long-lasting impact it had on Ford, Edison, and 20th-century America, is today's guest Wes Davis, author of “American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and John Burroughs.”This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3101278/advertisement

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone were joined by other innovators of their day to explore America in what was their idea of roughing it as campers. They came to West Virginia twice and documented their love for its beauty while being hailed by locals as they swept through Mountain State communities with their own personal flair.

On this debut episode of Big Blend Radio's 4th Monday "ROAD TRIP RADIO" Show, writer, historian, and former Yale University professor Wes Davis discusses his new book, “AMERICAN JOURNEY: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and John Burroughs." Out now through through W. W. Norton & Company, "American Journey" is a nostalgic portrait of rural America, and the touching story of the friendships that sprang up among automobile tycoon Henry Ford, naturalist John Burroughs, inventor Thomas Edison, and tire industrialist Harvey Firestone as they took road trips together in Ford's miraculous vehicle, exploring parts of rural America that had been largely inaccessible. Special thanks to The Lion & The Rose Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, North Carolina. More: https://www.lion-rose.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this debut episode of Big Blend Radio's 4th Monday "ROAD TRIP RADIO" Show, writer, historian, and former Yale University professor Wes Davis discusses his new book, “AMERICAN JOURNEY: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and John Burroughs."  Out now through through W. W. Norton & Company, "American Journey" is a nostalgic portrait of rural America, and the touching story of the friendships that sprang up among automobile tycoon Henry Ford, naturalist John Burroughs, inventor Thomas Edison, and tire industrialist Harvey Firestone as they took road trips together in Ford's miraculous vehicle, exploring parts of rural America that had been largely inaccessible.  Special thanks to The Lion & The Rose Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, North Carolina. More: https://www.lion-rose.com/ 

On this debut episode of Big Blend Radio's 4th Monday "ROAD TRIP RADIO" Show, writer, historian, and former Yale University professor Wes Davis discusses his new book, “AMERICAN JOURNEY: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and John Burroughs." Out now through through W. W. Norton & Company, "American Journey" is a nostalgic portrait of rural America, and the touching story of the friendships that sprang up among automobile tycoon Henry Ford, naturalist John Burroughs, inventor Thomas Edison, and tire industrialist Harvey Firestone as they took road trips together in Ford's miraculous vehicle, exploring parts of rural America that had been largely inaccessible. Special thanks to The Lion & The Rose Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, North Carolina. More: https://www.lion-rose.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We continue our deep dive into Henry Ford, the American Industrialist, and examine the childhood roots of his deep-seated anti-Semitism. During his elaborately stage camp outings with notables Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, Ford shared his dark side and Burroughs made note of it.You can buy Chuck's original book "Get the Lead Out" by clicking this link: https://www.bkstr.com/ramapostore/product/get-the-lead-out--custom--428867-1Please remember to tell your friends and family about our podcast and feel free to email us with some of your own stories at: cstead@ramapo.edu

Tara Andringa, Executive Director of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) joined Grayson Brulte on The Road To Autonomy Podcast to discuss developing and maintaining public trust in autonomous vehicles and trucks.The conversation begins with Tara discussing how PAVE is working on developing public trust of autonomous vehicles. I really like to think of it as a conversation with the public. Every single person is a stakeholder in transportation, and so what we want to do is let everyone have a voice in thinking about what the future of our transportation system looks like. – Tara Andringa One of the biggest hurdles to over come on the road to developing public trust in autonomous vehicles is misleading headlines that erode public trust in the technology. This is one of our biggest challenges right now. – Tara Andringa These headlines are eroding public trust as they are confusing ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) with autonomous vehicles, which is causing confusion with the public. Some individuals are over-trusting that the ADAS system will operate like an autonomous vehicle, meaning that they will not have to pay attention when the vehicle is driving, potentially leading to tragic situations. One reason these headlines are being printed is the amount of traffic that they generate for news outlets. While the traffic leads to higher ad revenue, the headlines could potentially lead to unfortunate events and an overall erosion of public trust in autonomy. It's much easier for them to write self-driving car then it is to say a car that under limited circumstances with an attentive human behind the wheel can handle some driving tasks. That just does not roll off the tongue. It gets simplified to really dangerous results. – Tara Andringa It is very important to point out that you cannot buy an autonomous vehicle today and that all autonomous vehicles are currently operated as part of a fleet. To try and clear the confusion, PAVE partnered with AAA, J.D. Power, The National Safety Council, SAE International and Consumer Reports on the CLEARING THE CONFUSION: Common Naming for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems document. There are two different naming issues and I really want to distinguish between them. One is that we need clear language for what is available today and the other issue is that we need clear language to distinguish today's technology from future technology. – Tara Andringa With over 40 different names for Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), consumers are unsure of what the technology can do, potentially causing confusion. The is why the common naming document is so important. Perhaps the common naming document can be transferred into emojis that everyone around the world no matter what language they speak can understand what it means.There are examples from history that can help pave the road with trust. One example is The Vagabonds, a group composed of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs who made yearly camping trips in Ford vehicles between 1916 and 1924 with the goal of developing trust in the automobile. A more modern example is what Voyage did in The Villages to develop trust of autonomous vehicles with the residents of the community. When you really give people exposure to the technology, they start thinking about it in a much more real way. – Tara Andringa Building upon history, a diverse group of members from leading startups, to established automakers to insurance companies to non-profits, to software providers came together to form PAVE with the goal of developing public trust in autonomous vehicles and trucks.Wrapping up the conversation, Tara shares insights on how communities and Governments are preparing for the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. Follow The Road To Autonomy on Apple PodcastsFollow The Road To Autonomy on TwitterRecorded on Tuesday, August 23, 2022See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What Makes Edison and Ford Winter Estates a Good Neighbor...Visitors to the Edison and Ford Winter Estates will enjoy more than 20 acres of historical buildings and gardens including the 1928 Edison Botanical Research Laboratory. Open to the public since 1947, Edison Ford is a National Register Historic Site and is one of the most visited historic home sites in America.Stroll back in time through twenty acres of gardens and experience what the Edisons created during their many winters in Southwest Florida. Towering ficus trees planted by Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone stand tall in the former research gardens. The site contains more than 1,700 plants representing more than 400 species from six continents.To learn more about Edison and Ford Winter Estates, go to: https://www.edisonfordwinterestates.org/Edison and Ford Winter Estates2350 McGregor Blvd.Fort Myers, FL 33901239.334.7419Support the show

John Ziegler Jr. has rubber running through his veins. The third generation of a 102-year-old tire business, John Jr. grew up busting tires at his family's Ziegler Tire retail stores in Canton, Ohio. After graduating college, he worked for a short time at a Firestone store, yet the family business, which claims to be one of the first and oldest Firestone dealers, called him back. A jack of all trades, John Jr. has worked on the retail, commercial and wholesale side of Ziegler Tire's growing business, and now serves as the company's vice president. Over the years, Ziegler Tire has grown to include three wholesale centers, two retread plants, 16 commercial centers and seven retail locations.From growing up in the business, John Jr. has plenty of stories about Ziegler Tire's growing pains and triumphs and has met tire industry greats along the way, including his friend, Johnny g. In this episode of Johnny g & Friends, sponsored by Firestone, John Jr. delves into:- Why he didn't come back to the family business right away after graduating college (1:40)- Keys to Ziegler Tire's longevity in the tire business, advice he received from generations before him and what he has passed down to his son (3:59)- His mentors over the years and the people that shaped his life in the tire industry, including his cousin, Bill, president of Ziegler Tire, his Uncle Harold who got him into IndyCar racing, the Grismer Tire guys and the group of tire dealers from “The Tabernacle of Golf" (7:23)- Challenges Ziegler Tire has undergone in its 102-year old history, including surviving the Great Depression, and how those challenges shaped its culture and DNA (12:32)- Memories Johnny g and John Jr. have shared over the years from the “Gamarama” at the New Orleans Superdome, Johnny g's Chicago Bears coat, trips to Japan, experiencing the Monaco Grand Prix and IndyCar races (15:17)- How Ziegler Tire became a Firestone dealer with one of Harvey Firestone's first salesman signing on brothers Oliver and Harold Ziegler as dealers of the brand (19:33)- Why Zieglar Tire has stuck with the Firestone brand and why they didn't carry another brand until the 1970s (21:40)Listen here or subscribe to Johnny g & Friends on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. Firestone Tires: https://firestonetires.com/

Destination Unknown Tour Date:  11/21/20 Edison Ford Winter Home, Ft Myers, Florida Elizabeth takes us to southwest Florida and city of Ft. Myers.  In 1885 following the death of his first wife, Thomas Edison decided that he wanted to get away from the cold, miserable New Jersey winters.  He purchased 13 acres of land on the bank of the Caloosahatchee River and built his home. Henry Ford, who once worked for Edison, built his winter home directly next door to Edison's.   Already a successful inventor and businessman, Edison saw America's growing dependence upon foreign-made rubber products and wanted to change it.  In a partnership with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, the trio built a botanical workshop focused on developing American-made rubber.  After 17,000 unsuccessful trials, his workshop discovered that Leavenworth's Goldenrod could be bred to produce the desired results. Food and Travel Nation with Elizabeth Dougherty  Now on iHeart Radio.  Listen to the LIVE feed of the entire show every Saturday morning at 8am. (ET)  Have a suggestion for a future "Destination Unknown" send it to: Elizabeth@FoodNationRadio.com

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Starting with Harvey Firestone in 1900 and then the founding of Bridgestone by Shojiro Ishibashi in 1931, our company has been creating and advancing tire technology for more than a century. And while our vision is to become a sustainable solutions company by 2050, tires will continue to play a critical role as the foundation of our North Star business model. In this episode, THRIVE host Keith Cawley talks tires with Riccardo Cichi, President and Chief Sales Officer at Bridgestone Americas, and Karthik Ulagappan, Operations Manager at Bridgestone Americas' Warren County plant in Tennessee, to to help listeners better understand the evolution and investments related to Bridgestone's defining product.

Today we celebrate the woman who donated her entire orchid collection to begin the Belle Isle Conservatory. We'll also learn about a woman who Burpee honored with the naming of a Marigold. We hear an excerpt from a garden diary for this week of March. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a very delightful book that teaches how to make your own floral cocktails. And then we’ll wrap things up with a little story that shares five favorite perennials for country life.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. 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William often had the help of a small staff of gardeners and the team worked together to show many of Anna’s orchids at the Detroit Flower Show. A charming article about Anna’s orchids highlighted William’s expertise this way, “With a fine brush, [William] transferred the pollen of one gorgeous flower to another. The seed pod of the fertilized flower would contain a quarter million seeds, a few hundred thousand of which would be planted and half of them would bloom nine years after spring. Because the modern orchid grower studies the ancestry of his plants... [William] can predict their possible forms and colorings and qualities. But exactly what will happen,  [William] must wait nine years to learn. Until recently the orchid breeder could count upon no more than five percent of selected seeds surviving to germinate. Now the famous Cornell University method has raised the life expectancy of orchid seeds to 50 percent. With this method seeds are sown in a propagating jelly, which looks like library paste. It is composed of chemicals, salts and nutrients made from seaweed. [Each year, William] will cross but one, possibly two, pair. [William] will save perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 seeds and plant half of them…  Five flasks filled with the Cornell agar jelly [are] sufficient to fill a small orchid house with bloom. [And] Each flask [is corked with cotton and covered with a glass and] hold[s] [between] 500 to 1,000 seeds, fine as star dust,  In ten months flecks of green appear on the thick, white gelatine within the flask. Minute seedlings are ready for the outside world, where, for eight or nine years more, they must face the hazards of life. Drafts, germs, insects, diseases, changes in temperature, careless hands would destroy them. Little pots filled with a special orchid moss, known as Osmunda fiber, are prepared, perhaps 10 or a dozen, for the benches of the private orchid house. The grower transfers the bits of green, washing off the jelly, scattering the thousands of seedlings, like chopped parsley, over the smooth, spongy surface of the moss. Years pass. The infant plants are moved from the nursery to less crowded quarters. Weak individuals are discarded. Finally, each survivor stands alone in a pot, guarded, sprayed, scrubbed with soap, watered and fed, by day and by night, in controlled degrees of heat and humidity.” Before Anna died, she made arrangements for her orchid collection in the event of her death. And in April of 1953, Anna’s entire orchid collection - all 600 of them - to the Belle Isle Conservatory owned by the city of Detroit. Built in 1904, the domed conservatory had gradually deteriorated. Without Anna’s gift and the commitment of 450,000 to renovate and improve the wooden structure with aluminum beams, the 50-year-old glass-domed building would have likely met its end. The very month Anna’s orchids were gifted, the conservatory was renamed as The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory. Today the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory is the oldest continually-running conservatory in the United States - and people just refer to it as the Belle Isle Conservatory.   March 5, 2012 Today The Akron Beacon Journal shared a story about some of the wealthiest women in Akron Ohio during the Victorian era. One of the women profiled was the gardener, composer, songwriter, and philanthropist Idabelle Firestone. As you might have suspected, Idabelle was the wife of rubber baron Harvey Firestone. In 1929, Idabelle generously started the Idabelle Firestone School of Nursing at Akron City Hospital with a founding donation of $400,000. A lover of gardens and gardening, David Burpee of Burpee Seed fame even named a marigold in Idabelle’s honor. Idabelle incorporated gardens and nature into her musical compositions. Ida even wrote a song called “In My Garden,” which starts out with someone missing their sweetheart and then ends with this verse: A garden sweet, A garden small, Where rambler roses Creep along the wall. Where dainty phlox and columbine Are nodding to the trumpet vine. And now each flower is sweeter dear I know it’s just because at last you’re here. Idabelle was a kind woman and a reporter once wrote, “Idabelle Firestone doesn’t need a grand mansion to be a lady. She’d be a lady in a shack.”   Unearthed Words [March is] the watching month, the month in which to watch the ground for the bright spears of green of daffodil and iris, and for the bloom of species tulips; for the snowdrop, the earliest crocus, the color in the stem of shrub and tree. [And] the first injunction for every month of the year should really be this: keep a garden notebook. If this has not been started in January, then this is the time to buy the book and make the first entries. — Mrs. Francis King (aka Louisa Boyd Yeomans King), The Flower Garden Day by Day, March 1 and March 2   Grow That Garden Library Floral Cocktails by Lottie Muir This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is 40 fragrant and flavourful flower-powered drinks. In this book, Lottie helps us learn to take flowers from the edge of the glass as a garnish and make them the star of the show - the main focus for gorgeous and flavorful libations and beverages. Lottie’s recipes include a heady honeysuckle syrup, a fabulous raspberry and scented geranium drink, a lavender gin, a nasturtium rum, a gorse flower syrup, and a rose petal vodka, just to name a few. Lottie was the perfect author for this book because she is the creator of The Midnight Apothecary pop-up, a unique cocktail bar set in a roof garden in London. Lottie’s creativity with flowers has evolved into glorious cocktail creations for gardener mixologists. This book is 64 pages of plant-powered cocktails created to delight your senses and feature your favorite blossoms from your own home garden. You can get a copy of Floral Cocktails by Lottie Muirand support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $5   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart March 5, 2017 On this day The Herald-Palladium out of Saint Joseph, Michigan shared an article called “Flowers for the Country Border” by Maureen Gilmour. In this article Maureen shares a glimpse of farm life - a busy lifestyle where Maureen says, “With all the chores to do, few have time to sweat the details, seek perfection or create glossy magazine looks.” And so, the perennials that make it on the farm are tough and dependable and require little fuss. As Maureen says, “In early farms and ranches, the first perennials [were] the stalwart wildflowers of range and prairie. Planted from gathered seed, or roots transplanted to the yard from wild stands, these big bold perennials took hold and flourished. They have proven to take the worst conditions and survive, to bring color, wildlife, and flavor, without toxicity to pets, livestock or kids.” Next Maureen recommends five favorite perennials for country life: 1.Bee Balm “Monarda didyma is a vigorous North American native perennial ...  In the colonies, it’s foliage was an alternative to boycotted tea after the Boston Tea Party.”  2. Blanketflower “Gaillardia pulchella grows low and dense, producing flowers heavily, and then self sows for many new volunteers next year. This species is not as picky about soil quality for success” 3. Purple Coneflower “Echinacea purpurea is best known as a supplement, but this is the finest native for borders.” 4. Shasta Hybrids “This plant is … a curious hybrid invented a century ago by Luther Burbank. Snow white flowers of the original have many size variations, with the original proving as long-lived and resilient as many natives.” 5. Fennel “This popular kitchen garden herb produces tall plants with umbelliferous flower heads that fill the air with these delicate forms late into the winter. The plants will flourish so they grow together into a dense mass. This blocks sunlight to the soil beneath so weeds are less likely to sprout.”   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

On February 11th, 1929, the very first broadcast of The Edison Hour took to the airwaves over NBC's Blue Network from their WJZ New York City studios. With Edison's company manufacturing radios, it was thought to be a good idea to help promote their product by bringing concert music to the air. This special first broadcast was in honor of Thomas Edison himself, who was celebrating his 82nd birthday. Edison (seen here that very day with President-Elect Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone) was in Fort Myers, Florida working on new rubber experiments. During the broadcast, a feed was relayed to Florida where Edison addressed the American listening audience live on-the-air. This is what he said. (Special thanks to Mr. Jerry Haendiges for supplying the full audio of the episode in fantastic quality).

Welcome to the fifth episode of Aull About History, the local history podcast from The Dominion Post in partnership with the Aull Center, a branch of Morgantown Public Library. Follow along as we explore the rich history of Morgantown and North Central West Virginia. In this episode, historians Nathan Wuertenberg and Mike McClung look back on a visit to Morgantown almost 100 years ago by some pioneers of the American road trip. The visitors in question? None other than Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison facetiously known as 'The Vagabonds.'Music in this episode, courtesy of the Free Music Archive:"Frog In The Well" by Lucas Gonzehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lucas_Gonze/Ghost_Solos/LGonze-GhostSolos-FrogInTheWell"Dance of the Priestesses of Dagon Saint Sans" by the Victor Herbert Orchestrahttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Victor_Herbert_Orchestra/Edison_Cylinders/victor_herbert_orchestra_-_edison_cylinders_-_1911_-_dance_of_the_priestesses_of_dagon_saint-sans"Dream Medley (Naughty Marietta intermezzo)" by the Victor Herbert Orchestrahttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Victor_Herbert_Orchestra/Edison_Cylinders/victor_herbert_orchestra_-_edison_cylinders_-_1911_-_dream_medley_naughty_marietta_intermezzo

Today we celebrate the man who named the lipstick tree and was known as Florida's Burbank. We'll also learn about the incredible work of an extraordinary Russian botanist who was tragically sentenced to death on this day in 1941. And we honor the life of the "Father of Hybrid Corn." Today's poetry is all about a favorite summer crop: tomatoes. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a witty and poetic book about Gardening and Life. And then we'll wrap things up with the story of a Marvel character near and dear to gardener's hearts. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news.   Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart   Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy. Curated News What is Cottage Garden Style? And How to Achieve It... | The Middle-Sized Garden "And, as for garden plants – well, it has been difficult to source exactly the plants we want. We have had to compromise on color and style. Friends have been saying things like ‘I wouldn’t normally buy scarlet pelargoniums, but they were the only ones I could find.’ In theory, cottage garden style started when low paid farm workers filled their gardens with vegetables, herbs and fruit trees for their own use. What are the rules of cottage garden style? There aren't any. That's the whole point. There's no need to plant in threes and fives, or in drifts or to think about color combinations – unless you want to."  The Middle-Sized Garden: if your garden is bigger than a courtyard but smaller than an acre.   Sowing Biennial Flower Seeds In June And July | Higgledy Garden "The biennials in the Higgledy Seed Emporium have all be chosen to be admirable in the vase. We also have a strong leaning to the old fashioned. *Honesty (Common name) or Lunaria (so named because it's pale seed pod discs resemble the moon).  *Sweet William. Sweet Williams just rock! That's all there is to it. They smell amazing…look amazing and are all-round good eggs. Like all biennials, they are a piece of cake to grow from seed. *Foxgloves. Once again, a white foxglove 'Alba 'is a pretty essential bit of kit for the home florist... Don't be without it.  *Hesperis. I love this flower…one of my favorites of all the flowers I have ever grown. Simple…pretty…easy to grow…"    Alright, that's it for today's gardening news.   Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1926 The Green Bay Press-Gazette posted an article titled, "Ice Cream Grown on Vine in the yard of Former Kentuckian." The article was about the fabulous Colonel Henry Wallace Johnston, who, until the age of 50, had operated a hardware store in Lebanon, Kentucky. At midlife, he moved to Homestead, Florida. And, in 1912, Henry created a 20-acre estate he called Palm Lodge Tropical Grove. Henry was a character. He enjoyed dressing the part of a tropical explorer, wearing a tropical outfit complete with a white helmet, and looking as if he had just finished playing Jumanji. Henry became known as the Wizard of Palm Lodge or Florida's Burbank (a nod to California's Luther Burbank), and he added over 8,000 incredible specimens of tropical fruits and flowers - many not found anywhere else in America. Truly, Palm Lodge gained Henry worldwide recognition. And, although Henry never traveled outside the United States, he was a natural marketer, and Palm Lodge's impressive reputation brought the plants to him. Henry's story includes the following spectacular facts: He grew almost all of his plants from seed. He coined the name "lipstick tree". He grew a rare flower that produces a perfume called the "Scent of Lilith." He grew the Dumb Cane tree or dieffenbachia from Cambodia. He would tell folks that if they bit into the leaves, their tongue would be paralyzed for six weeks. He successfully cultivated rubber plants. Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford brought back rubber plants from Madagascar, but only Henry's plants had survived. He grew the Palestine Tree, and he wrapped the fruit in cellophane while on the tree to protect against insects. The fruit was used in religious rituals by rabbis, and Henry would send it to them. He grew the Gingerbread Palm, and the palm's fruit tasted of gingerbread. He furnished almost all of the plants for the State of Florida's tropical exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair. He produced nearly 300 different types of fruits and jellies and packaged all of them at Palm Lodge. He was a master of the aloe vera plant, and he planted a 15-acre aloe field. By 1920, Henry was regularly harvesting the leaves and bringing them to Miami, and each one had to be individually wrapped to stop the spines from making the jelly ooze out. He loved to tell about a plant he called "the ice cream vine," botanically known as the Monstera Deliciosa. The fruit resembles a giant ear of corn minus the husk and tastes like a combination of banana, strawberry, and pineapple. Henry's Palm Lodge of Florida was a showplace, and there was no charge for admission. Homestead Florida's chamber of commerce advertised that 30,000 people, including botanists, visited the Lodge every year. And, one day, after 2,000 or so guests had passed through the gardens, the register revealed that Henry Ford had visited, unnoticed in the crowd.   1941 Today a Soviet court sentenced the extraordinary twentieth-century Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov to death by firing squad. Worried about the world's plant biodiversity, Vavilov became a dedicated plant collector, and he had the foresight to build the world's first seed bank in St. Petersburg. Nikolay's life's mission was something he called a "mission for all humanity" and it was tied directly to his drive to build the seed bank: Vavilov wanted to end world hunger and famine, and he planned to accomplish this ambitious goal through science. And he hoped to breed super plants that would be both nutritious and hardy so that they could be grown even in the most challenging locations on the planet. During his life, Vavilov had enjoyed Lenin's support. Vavilov's big ideas knit perfectly together with Lenin's desire for a socialist utopia. But after Lenin died, Vavilov was on the outs. His family was made up of accomplished scientists, and they were considered part of the bourgeoisie and scorned. The events that lead to Vavilov's sentencing and ultimate death had to do with Vavilov's critique of a fellow scientist. Vavilov had publicly criticized a geneticist named Lysenko, who had Stalin's backing. And so, on this day in 1941, Vavilov was sentenced to die. But Vavilov never faced the firing squad. Instead, he died of starvation two years after receiving his sentence. Today, the Vavilov Institute houses over a quarter of a million specimens and is a living monument to Nikolay Vavilov ― the scientist who wanted food security for all of humanity, yet ironically died of starvation in the basement of a Soviet prison.   1942 Today newspapers announced the retirement of the "father of hybrid corn," George Shull. An Ohio farm kid, George was a noted botanist who taught at Princeton University for 27 years. George's work resulted in a one hundred and fifty million-dollar increase in the value of US corn as a result of his crossing pure line varieties with self-fertilized corn. George's uber-productive hybrid yielded ten to forty percent more than ordinary corn. Like many plant breeders, George never made a penny from his creation.   Unearthed Words Today's poetry features a favorite summer plant: the Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum)   You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. — Mario Batali, American chef and writer   It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. — Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist   Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and homegrown tomatoes. — John Denver, American singer and songwriter, Home Grown Tomatoes   Now, you see, the poetry I like is... experimental.  'Doesn't have the rhyme' kind of stuff.  Like this famous poem by Walter Charles Walter.  The poem is called: 'They Were Delicious'. (Mr. Simmons begins reciting the poem while Harold steals Mr. Simmon's lunch and starts to eat it.) I have eaten the tomatoes, that were on the window sill were you saving them for a special occasion I apologize they were delicious so juicy so red — Walter Charles Walter, They Were Delicious From Hey Arnold by Craig Bartlett. Read by Mr. Simmons (This Walter Charles Walter poem is a parody of William Carlos Williams' poem This is Just to Say)   Grow That Garden Library The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach This book came out in 2013, and the subtitle is Lessons on Gardening and Life. And one of my favorite cookbook authors, Anna Thomas, said, "As I read this witty, revealing, sometimes poetic confessional I felt I understood for the first time what a garden could be - a work of art, a source of pleasure and solace, an object of beauty, a provider of nourishment. And why Margaret calls the plot she tends 'my monster.' This is the story of a real relationship: Margaret and her garden, a love story." This book is 288 pages of Margaret's stories about gardening - culled from thirty seasons of growing and learning what works and what does not. You can get a copy of The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $3.   Today's Botanic Spark 1963 Today the Marvel comic botanist Samuel Smithers became Plantman when lightning struck his plant raygun, giving it the power to control and animate all plant life. After losing his duel with the Human Torch in the botanical garden, Plantman was taken to prison. In his last storyline, Plantman transformed into a giant plant monster and attacked the city of Los Angeles in retaliation for humans polluting the world. In his final moments, Plantman was defeated by Ironman. Here's one of Plantman's more famous lines: "Do not speak to the Plant Man of power! Mine was the genius that gave the semblance of life to unthinking plant tissue! There can be no greater power than that!"

Today we celebrate the birthday of a Russian Count who funded an expedition that led to the discovery of the California poppy. We'll also learn about one of the country’s most beloved naturalists. We celebrate the life of the second woman to be professionally employed as a botanist in the United States. She died 100 years ago today. We also celebrate a nurseryman whose passion for plants was sparked with the gift of a Fuschia. Today’s Unearthed Words feature words about rainy, windy April. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about a little cottage that you might find inspiring as you spruce up your own nest this season. And then we’ll wrap things up with a little poem about trillium - which is also known as Wake Robin. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today’s curated news.   Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart   Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy. Curated News Gardening for Resilience By Lysa Myers “If you’ve ever tried to grow a garden, you’ll know that your first efforts are seldom as successful as you’d hope. Conditions are seldom ideal, no matter how carefully you plan. You will mess up seemingly simple things; even experts do. However, there are ways to approach gardening that will improve your ability to weather those mistakes. Good soil is crucial Dirt is dirt, right? Sadly, no. If I had it to do over again, I’d have spent that first year amending the heck out of the soil. Choose some plants for quick wins Grab something quick like an herb garden, a planted lettuce bowl, or a strawberry planter from your local gardening center, so you can get those first nibbles right away. There’s a psychological factor to getting an immediate reward that will help you be more resilient in the face of inevitable garden setbacks. Look for what grows well in your area Not all plants grow well everywhere. Some of the things that struggle in your climate might surprise you. It certainly did me! Grow plants you love to eat Whatever happens with our current crisis, I hope that more people take up gardening as a means of self-care and... I also hope that if this sort of advice can help make early gardening experiences more enjoyable, more people will take this on as a long-term hobby or lifestyle change rather than a stop-gap measure. I want you to love working with plants as much as I do!”   Today’s to-do is to add a magnifying glass to your garden tote. The best gardeners throughout our history have looked closely at their plants - often using magnifiers of some fashion. Get up close and personal with your plants and increase your intimacy with your garden by looking at it through the lens of a magnifying glass. Now’s the perfect time to add one to your garden tote. As with every garden tool - you won’t use it if it’s not handy.   Alright, that’s it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1754  Today is the birthday of a man who was the foreign minister of Russia, Count Nikolay Rumyantsev. In 1815, he funded the round the world scientific voyage of the Rurik which included the poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso ("Sha-ME-So") and a doctor/surgeon named Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. Two years later, in 1817, the Rurik ended up in the San Francisco Bay area where it planned to reprovision. During their stay in San Francisco, Chamiso discovered the California poppy, which he named Eschscholzia californica after his friend Johanns Friedrich Von Eschscholzia. In 1903, the botanist Sarah Plummer Lemmon put forth a successful piece of legislation that nominated the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California. And here’s what the botanist Alice Eastwood once said about the poppy: “The Eschscholzia so glows with the sunbeams caught in its chalice that it diffuses light upon the other flowers and the grass. This poppy will not shine unless the sunbeams on it, but folds itself up and goes to sleep.”   1837  Today is the birthday of the Naturalist, poet, and philosopher John Burroughs (books by this author) was born on a dairy farm in Roxbury, outside of Boston on this date in 1837. He was sent to the local school, where his desk was next to that of Erie Railroad Robber Baron, Jay Gould (the son of a nearby neighbor). When Burroughs struggled in school, Gould would bail him out. Called “John o’ Birds” for his special admiration for birds, Burroughs loved the natural world. One of the four vagabonds (a reference to an annual camping group that included Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, and Teddy Roosevelt) Burroughs drove a Ford which was an annual present from Henry Ford. John Burroughs wrote about what he knew and loved best: the land around his homes in the Catskills of upstate New York. The area included a stream called “The Pepacton" - today it is known as the "East Branch of the Delaware River". Burroughs was great friends with Walt Whitman (Books by this author) whom he loved dearly. Of Whitman, Burroughs reflected: “[Meeting] Walt was the most important event of my life. I expanded under his influence, because of his fine liberality and humanity on all subjects.” Here’s a fun fact: Whitman gave Burroughs a little marketing advice on his first book, Wake-Robin. Burroughs recalled "It is difficult to hit upon suitable titles for books. I went to Walt with Wake-Robin and several other names written on paper. '"What does wake-robin mean?” he asked "It's a spring flower,' I replied. "Then that is exactly the name you want." Here’s the beginning of “Wake-Robin by John Burroughs” “Spring in our northern climate may fairly be said to extend from the middle of March to the middle of June… It is this period that marks the return of the birds…. Each stage of the advancing season gives prominence to certain species, as to certain flowers. The dandelion tells me when to look for the swallow, the dog-tooth violet when to expect the wood thrush, and when I have found the wake-robin in bloom I know the season is fairly inaugurated. With me this flower is associated, not merely with the awakening of Robin, for he has been awake some weeks, but with the universal awakening and rehabilitation of Nature." Wake-robin is the common name for trillium. Trilliums are in the Lily Family and they carpet the forest floor in springtime. They have a single large, white, long-lasting flower that turns pink as it matures. One last memorable fact about Trilliums. Most of the parts of the plants occur in threes: 3 broad flat leaves, 3 petals to a flower, and three sepals (the part that enclosed the petals, protects them in bud, and supports them in bloom). During Burroughs’ time, The Tennessean and other newspapers advertised “English Wake-Robin Pills: the Best Liver and Cathartic Pills in Use!” and they were 25 cents per box. Burroughs died at the age of 84 years - fourteen more than the biblical allotment of man. He was on his way back to the Catskills after undergoing abdominal surgery in California. Burroughs just wanted to see home one more time. Burroughs' nurse and biographer were with him as he made the trip by train. After a restless attempt at sleeping, he asked: “How near home are we?” Told the train was crossing Ohio, Burroughs slumped back and passed away. In 1937, the 100th anniversary of Burrough’s birthday celebration was held at Hartwick College in New York. Music was furnished by the college a cappella choir who sang Burrough’s favorite song, “Lullaby” by Brahms. Supreme Court Justice Abraham Kellogg presented this tribute: "When the trees begin to leaf and the birds are here when the arbutus, laurel, and wildflowers are blooming and nature is clothing herself with beauty and grandeur, turn ye to your library and in a restful attitude read 'Pepacton' and you will acquaint yourself as never before with John Burroughs, the scientist, the naturalist, the poet, and the philosopher.” It was John Burroughs who said, "Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as talk from the textbooks in the schools; but study by yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight."   1920  Today is the anniversary of the death of the botanist Kate Brandegee. Kate was the third woman to enroll at Berkely’s medical school and the second woman to be professionally employed as a botanist in the US. After getting her MD at Berkley, she found starting a practice too daunting. Thankfully, Kate’s passion for botany was ignited during med school. She had learned that plants were the primary sources of medicine, so she dropped the mantle of a physician to pursue botany. Five years later, she was the curator of the San Francisco Academy of Sciences herbarium. While Kate was at the academy, she personally trained Alice Eastwood. Later, when Kate moved on, Alice was ready to take her place - Kate was a phenomenal mentor. During her time at the academy, in surprise development at the age of 40, Kate had “fallen insanely in love” with plantsman Townshend Brandegee. Equally yoked, their honeymoon was a 500-mile nature walk - collecting plant specimens from San Diego to San Francisco. The couple moved to San Diego where they created a herbarium that was praised as a botanical paradise. The collecting trips - often taken together, but sometimes individually, would be their lifelong passion - and they traveled through much of California, Arizona, and Mexico at times using the free railroad passes afforded to botanists. Despite poor health, Kate loved these experiences. In 1908, at the age of 64, she wrote Townshend a letter, “I am going to walk from Placerville to Truckee (52 miles!)” In 1906, when the Berkeley herbarium was destroyed by an earthquake, the Brandegees single-handedly restored it by giving the school their entire botanical library (including many rare volumes) and their plant collection which numbered some 80,000 plants. Thanks to Townshend's inheritance, the couple was financially independent, but they were also exceptionally selfless. The Brandegee’s followed their plants and books to Berkley where Townshend and Kate worked the rest of their lives pro bono. Botanist Marcus Jones said of Kate, “She was the one botanist competent to publish a real [book about the native plants of California].” But Kate had delayed writing this work. Kate was 75 when she fell on the University grounds at Berkeley - she broke her shoulder. Three weeks later, she died.   1909  Today is the birthday of Graham Stuart Thomas. GST was fundamentally a nurseryman and he lived a life fully immersed in the garden. His passion was sparked at a young age by a special birthday present he was given when he turned six: a beautiful potted fuchsia. In 2003. his gardening outfit - including his pants, vest, and shoes - as well as a variety of his tools (including plant markers and a watering can) were donated to the Garden Museum. GST was best known for his work with garden roses and his leadership of over 100 National Trust gardens. He wrote 19 books on gardening. Ever the purposeful perfectionist, he never wasted a moment. What do folks have to say about GST on social media? Here’s a sampling: Pachysandra ground cover - A GST classic! My mom gave me a Graham Stuart Thomas for my first gardening book, so very special Our best selling plant of 2015? At number 1 (drum roll) - Eryngium Graham Stuart Thomas. Flower spike on yucca in a border. GST used them as punctuation marks in design. Love being married to someone who knows what I mean when I say, “Bring me Graham Stuart Thomas"   Unearthed Words   April cold with dripping rain Willows and lilacs brings again, The whistle of returning birds, And trumpet-lowing of the herds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet   Oh, how fresh the wind is blowing! See! The sky is bright and clear, Oh, how green the grass is growing! April! April! Are you here? — Dora Hill Read Goodale, American poet and teacher   A SENSITIVE PLANT in a garden grew,  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,  And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,  And closed them beneath the kisses of night. The snowdrop, and then the violet,  Arose from the ground with warm rain wet, Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall,  And narcissi, the fairest among them all, And the hyacinth, purple and white and blue,  Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose,  The sweetest flower for scent that blows;  And all rare blossoms from every clime,—  Grew in that garden in perfect prime. And the sinuous paths of lawn and of moss,  Which led through the garden along and across,  Some open at once to the sun and the breeze,  Some lost among bowers of blossoming trees, The plumèd insects swift and free,  Like golden boats on a sunny sea,  Laden with light and odor, which pass  Over the gleam of the living grass; And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest." — Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet, The Sensitive Plant   Grow That Garden Library The Bee Cottage by FrancesSchultz The subtitle to this lighthearted book is “How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happiness” and the book was published in 2015. This book was inspired by Frances's popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house that she calls Bee Cottage. Frances had intended this book to be a decorating book, but it evolved into so much more. It's a memoir combining beautiful photos of Bee Cottage inside and out - and a compelling personal story - Frances's story. This book is perfect for this time of year when we're trying to come up with all kinds of ideas for our home and garden. It’s loaded with inspiring images and snapshots. In this book, Frances shared what she learned during all her renovations of Bee Cottage. We get a sneak peek into how she decided each area of the house and garden would be used and furnished. From a personal standpoint, Frances came to discover that, like decorating a home or planting a garden, our Lives must adapt to who we are and what we need along the way. And, I love this little poem that Frances uses to start out her book - along with a picture of one of her garden gates it's got a little bee cut out at the top of it.) The poem goes like this: He who loves an old house Never loves in vain, How can an old house, Used to sun and rain, To lilac and to larkspur, And an elm above, Ever fail to answer The heart that gives it love? Next, Frances shows a picture of her cottage before it became Bee Cottage. “ It was a little run-down but it had curb appeal but not much love”. And she wrote, “I felt a bit that way myself.” And here's the how the story of Bee Cottage starts: “I'd planned to make Bee Cottage the perfect place to begin my second marriage. I'd bought it with my fiance's Blessing. It was great for us and for his two sons. Though the house was old and needed work, I relished the prospect. if only I'd been as optimistic about the marriage, but the story of Bee Cottage begins, I'm sorry to say, with heartbreak. After the wedding invitations were sent, after gifts received, after the ridiculously expensive dress made, after deposits paid, after a house bought... I called it off. I wish I could say he was a jerk and a cad, but he wasn't. He was and is a great guy. The relationship failed because we were just not a fit. And there I was with a house and the dawning that everything I had dreamed it would be would now be something else entirely.” And that is the beginning of the Bee Cottage story. This is a great and light-hearted book for this time of year as you're making plans for your own nest. If you're looking for a nice escape from the heaviness of this time we're living through, this book would be an excellent choice. It’s lovely. You can get a used copy of The Bee Cottage by Frances Schultz and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $4.   Today’s Botanic Spark In honor of John Burroughs’ first book, Wake-Robin, I found a little-known poem by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter (Books by this author) called The Wake-Robin. Rebecca was a descendant of Gene Williams Palfrey who served with George Washington and served as ambassador to France. When she was 28, she became the wife of a Chicago minister named David Utter. Thereafter, Rebecca worked beside David as a missionary and she coined the now-popular term “Daughter of the King” in one of her more popular poems. Here’s The Wake-Robin by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter. THE WAKE-ROBIN (or trillium) When leaves green and hardy From sleep have just uncurled — Spring is so tardy In this part of the world — There comes a white flower forth, Opens its eyes, Looks out upon the earth, In drowsy surprise. A fair and pleasant vision The nodding blossoms make ; And the flower's name and mission Is "Wake, robin, wake !” But you're late, my lady, You have not earned your name ; Robin's up already, Long before you came. You trusted the sun's glances, To rouse you from your naps; Or the brook that near you dances At spring's approach, perhaps ; Your chamber was too shady, The drooping trees among ; Robin's up already, Don't you hear his song? There he sits, swinging, ‘ In his brown and scarlet cloak, His notes like laughter ringing ; Tis plain he sees the joke. "Accidents will happen,” Laughs robin loud and clear ; "If you think to catch me napping, Wake earlier next year!"

If you are in a position of leadership, you hold tremendous power. Your greatest duty, your greatest honor, is to help develop the people who are in your sphere of influence. They're all different. Harvey Firestone, the tire guy, said, "The growth & development of people is the highest calling of leadership." Check out this quick episode, use the perspectives and be a better leader. Be sure to subscribe and share episodes you think are useful for someone else.

On February 11th, 1929, the very first broadcast of The Edison Hour took to the airwaves over NBC's Blue Network from their WJZ New York City studios. With Edison's company manufacturing radios, it was thought to be a good idea to help promote their product by bringing concert music to the air. This special first broadcast was in honor of Thomas Edison himself, who was celebrating his 82nd birthday. Edison (seen here that very day with President-Elect Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone) was in Fort Myers, Florida working on new rubber experiments. During the broadcast, a feed was relayed to Florida where Edison addressed the American listening audience live on-the-air. This is what he said. (Special thanks to Mr. Jerry Haendiges for supplying the full audio of the episode in fantastic quality).

From the publisher: Jeff's book tells the fascinating story of two American giants—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life. In The Vagabonds Jeff Guinn shares the story of this pivotal moment in American history. But he also examines the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford’s reputation, even as Edison’s diminished. The automobile had come of age and it would transform the American landscape, the American economy, and the American way of life. Guinn brings to life this seminal moment when a new industry created a watershed cultural shift and a famous businessman became a prominent political figure. The Vagabonds is a wonderful story of two American giants and the transformation of the country. Martin's interview with Jeff Guinn was recorded on September 18, 2019.

Have you ever played the board game, Monopoly? Were you successful at buying properties, and charging people rent? Did you go from buying and selling the little green houses to bigger houses? Did you dream about becoming a successful real estate agent, making billions, winning the game, and retiring at an early age? You’re not alone.  Today, I am talking to Pat Hiban, a real estate agent who got better over time to have an illustrious career in the real estate sales business. Pat practiced what he preached and like most agents, bought houses and then rented them out. At 46 years old, Pat retired from selling homes for commissions to living off the income he made from the real estate that he purchased.  You’ll Learn... [02:45] Labeled as Learning-Disabled: How Pat overcame it, and didn’t let it bother him. [03:35] Go Getter: Don’t reinvent the wheel. Listen and copy others to sell houses.  [04:09] Done is better than perfect: Things don’t need to be perfect, but need to get done. Hire others to make them perfect and fix problems. [05:58] Building a Billion-Dollar Business: One sale at a time, one staff member at a time, one commission at a time. Get rich quick is a slow process and takes discipline. [07:54] What holds people back from growing their business? Themselves. There's someone else that has the same goals, but there's no difference between them. [11:00] What’s going to happen? You're going to quit affirming and focusing on your goals, or they’re going to come true.  [13:25] Unwilling to Give Up: Entrepreneurs tend to have tenacity and relentlessness.  [14:31] Are they not setting goals? Or, are they setting goals and failing? If they don't have any goals, they're never going to get anywhere.  [15:30] GoBundance: Find accountability partner for positive peer pressure to set goals, create affirmations for each goal, and make sure each goal and objective gets done. [19:42] Why people fail to succeed? They give up too soon and don’t establish proper mastermind.  Tweetables Stick with Superpower: Getting business, doing business, and making money. Done is better than perfect. To get rich quick is a slow process. Get rich slowly to succeed.  Your circumstances are a direct result of your goals and how often you review them. Resources Pat Hiban on Facebook Pat Hiban on Instagram GoBundance Tribe of Millionaires Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Robert Kiyosaki The Secret Movie Jim Rohn DoorGrowClub Facebook Group DoorGrowLive DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrow Website Score Quiz Transcript Jason: Welcome, DoorGrow Hackers to the DoorGrow Show. If you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, interested in growing your business and life, and you're open to doing things a bit differently, then you are a DoorGrow Hacker. DoorGrow Hackers love the opportunity, daily variety, unique challenges, and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it, you think they're crazy for not, because you realize that property management is the ultimate, high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and the residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management businesses and their owners. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change the perception, expand the market and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. I'm your host, property management growth expert, Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow. Now, let's get into the show. And today's guest, I'm hanging out with Pat Hiban. Pat, welcome to the show. Pat: Good to be here, Jason. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I'm excited to be on DoorGrow.  Jason: Give everybody a little bit of background on you and how you got involved with real estate. Help them understand who Pat is. Pat: That's a big question as far as who Pat is. It's easier to say how I got involved in real estate. I went to college and I got a degree in sociology. I was going to be a probation officer and I couldn't get a job. What happened was I became an agent, a real estate agent, a poor one in the beginning. I sold 10 house in my first year, made $13,000. Over time, I got better, and better, and better, and I went on to an illustrious career in the real estate sales business. I did practice what I preach and like most agents, I bought houses along the way and then I rented them out.  I played monopoly a little bit, sold the little greenhouses, bought bigger hotels, shopping center, lots of apartments, things like that. Then, at 46 years old, I retired from selling real estate homes for commissions, and just live off of the income from the real estate that I purchased currently. Jason: One of the things in the bio that you've mentioned is you're labeled with a learning disability at the age of eight. Maybe you could share a little bit about that and how you overcame. Pat: Basically, I was learning-disabled. It was all a label. At that point, just like anything, I didn't let it bother me. When you're 8 years old, or even 10, or even 16, you're not conscious of any of that. You're really unconscious of it until later in life when your parents tell you about it.  I got a 2.3 GPA in college. I didn't really think of myself as being really smart. I really saw myself more as a go getter. Someone who would actually be able to do whatever somebody told me to do. My office managers would tell me, "Pat, this is what you need to do to sell a house or to get a listing," I would actually listen where 99 of 100 other agents wanted to try it their own way or reinvent the wheel. That's how I grew everything in my life. It's just by copying off other people. Jason: You've had a lot of success where a lot of other agents haven't been able to experience success or they eventually folded in and just gotten out because they just couldn't make it. What do you attribute to being different? Is it just that you would listen and learn? Or do you have a little bit more tenacity and bite than most people? Pat: One of my favorite quotes is, "Perfect is the enemy of done." I never really had to have things perfect, but I always had to have things done. I think that served me in that I would get them done. If they weren't perfect and there was a problem, I would hire other people to make them perfect for me so that I could stay in my superpower, which would be getting business, doing business, making money.  It was like what Robert Kiyosaki always says, "The B students works for the C students." That's true with me, I think. I'll be able to get it done. I'll be able to come up with the idea and implement a copy of it to somebody and implement it, then just hire other people along the way to make it perfect or better. Jason: I love that idea of, "Perfect is the enemy of done," which is funny because I say to my clients of a whole training video that talking about it and getting their websites launched. I say, "Done is better than perfect," because once it's done, it can make money. It can do its job. If you're waiting for perfect, it takes forever. Let's get into the topic on hand, which is building a billion dollar business. How do you build a billion dollar business? Pat: How do you build a billion dollar business? One bite at a time. That's like an elephant [...]. It's crazy. With me, it's just one sale at a time, one staff member at a time, one commission at a time. With regards to properties and property management, it's the same thing. One unit at a time, one door at a time. You're just building on that. That would be the answer to the question.  So many people today want to get rich quick. The truth to the matter is to get rich is a slow process. You got to know how to get rich slow. If you know how to do that, you're going to succeed. About a decade ago, there's a movie out called The Secret. The whole half of the movie was talking about what you need to do to become a millionaire is to sit there and basically just tell yourself, "I am a millionaire. I am a millionaire. I am a millionaire." There's a great quote by Jim Rohn. He says, "Affirmation without discipline is delusion." What Jim meant by affirmation without discipline is delusion is you can sit all day and be like, "I am a millionaire. I am a millionaire," but at the end of the day, if you don't earn a dollar and save a dollar, you're never going to have a million. It really should be, "I save $10 a day, I save $10 a day." Or, "I earn $20 a day and save half." Whatever it is, the point is, you need to add discipline.  Jason: For those listening, they're struggling in their business or they’re wanting to grow their business, what do they need to realize that it's maybe holding them back? Pat: Themselves. The answer is themselves. There's someone else in another state, another country, that has the same goals, and aspirations as them, that's so far ahead of them already this year. There's no difference between them. As a matter of fact, that person somewhere else may be disadvantaged compared to them in some way. Meaning, they don't have the money, or they don't have the skills, or they don't have the degree, or they aren’t the right race, or the right sex, whatever the case maybe. They may be disadvantaged in many ways, but I guarantee you that there's tons of amount there that are way ahead of you with the same goals as you and there's no difference between you two. Jason: Yeah. We could hold on to our story and excuses or we can get results. We're the one creating our own blindspots. If we're the ones that creating our own blindspots, we're the ones that's holding ourselves back, then how do we see that? Pat: What you have to understand is how psychology and how people are raised, and how most people are raised. I'll speak for America or North America. The average two-year old boy hears a negative statement from his or her parents or people older than him 16 times for every one positive statement. They might tell that little boy, "Don't touch that." "You're doing it wrong." "Wipe your face, you're messy," anything that's negative. None of that is positive.  By the time you're 18 years old, your subconscious mind is conditioned to believe that you can’t do stuff because you're doing all these things wrong. The only way to reverse that effect on your subconscious mind is to work on your subconscious mind. That's where you basically take goal-setting to whole another level where you actually set goals which everybody's listening to this probably has goals set. You reduce those goals to ridiculous.  I just talked about earlier, whatever it is you want to do, let's say you want to buy a house once a year or buy a house a month, that means you need to look at 20 everyday. You set your goal to that. Then, you create an affirmation around it for your subconscious mind that says, "I analyzed 20 deals a day." If you analyzed 20 deals a day, your mind believes that you're supposed to be analyzing 20 deals a day, and your mind believes that you're supposed to be buying one house a month, then it's going to happen. You can't help it. Either one of two things are going to happen. I guarantee it. Either you're going to quit, meaning you're going to quit affirming, you're going to quit reading your goals, you’re going to quit focusing on your goals. Or number two, it's going to come true. I believed that if you focus on that goal everyday, whatever it is, buying a house, and you focus on what you need to do to get into that goal everyday, it will happen. You will actualize it. I think that's how you overcome the subconscious mind of yours that’s not believing that you’re worthy, not believing that you ever will be a millionaire. I never really had much of a doubt that I would do well, that I will be rich. I was lucky and I was naive enough. A lot of people struggle with that. They don't have that naivety. The way to work around that is reprogramming your subconscious mind but not just in glorious goals. Not just in big goals, but in how you're going to actually act to get to that big goal. Jason: I like this idea. You're saying if you have a big goal, you have to break it down into the smallest action, the action that you're going to be taking on a daily, consistent basis. Then, you create an affirmation connected to this. That affirmation is just basically that you're completing this microcommitement, this action. Like, "I'm going to cold call this many owners to see if they're out of state. To see if I can get them on for business. I'm going to do whatever." It needs to be a daily, consistent, action. I'm going to go to this many real estate network. I'm going to commit to that. Breaking down into the smallest action, "I'm going to take this many agents out for lunch and have a conversation with them. Hopefully, we meet the referrals." They need to start setting some micro commitment and creating affirmations that they're saying regarding these to affirm that they're doing it. Then they need to live with integrity and take action towards those affirmations. Pat: Absolutely. Jason: Say, somebody's doing the affirmations. They're believing in themselves. They're taking these micro commitments. Then you said they're either going to quit or it's going to come true. There's this tenacity that I sense in you, this relentlessness, that I think a lot of entrepreneurs carry, that they're just unwilling to give up. If you're unwilling to give up, eventually, the universe just got to cave to you because you're relentless. Eventually, you're going to get it. Pat: And giving up is hard. You don't want to give up on the ultimate goal, but you’re going to have to change how you get there. Things are going to pop up on your way. You're going to have to go around them. Some people would say that would be quitting but it's not really quitting. You're just doing things in a different way all the time. Jason: Right, like course correcting. Pat: Course correcting, yeah. Jason: You've worked with quite a few different entrepreneurs and business owners. What advice would you give to those listening that you would typically give out for those that are wanting to move towards goals and they're struggling to figure stuff out on their own? What would you recommend to them? Pat: Are they not setting goals? Or are they setting goals and failing? Jason: That's a good point. What if they're not setting goals? What if they don't have any goals right now? Pat: Silly. Then they don't have any goals. They're never going to get anywhere. I have goals since day one. I can't imagine life without goals, even today. Most people don't have goals. That's why they're in a situation that they are. Your circumstances are a direct result of your goals and how many times you review your goals.  Jason: Got it. First off, they've got to set some goals, then they need to review these on a regular basis.  Pat: Daily. I would add something. Maybe have an accountability partner. One of the things we do at GoBundance, The Tribe of Millionaires is we have what we call peer partners which are people in the tribe that keep each other accountable. If they're goal is to call 20 out of state owners everyday, they text them, and say, "Did you call 20 today?" Then, we have GoBuds, which are about four to five GoBros that are in The Tribe of Millionaires that meet on a bi-weekly basis to talk about their goals, talk about where they're at, what they've done, and what they haven't done, that sort of thing, and it works. The point missing would be the accountability aspect. Not only set goals, not only create a subconscious affirmation for each goal big and each goal small, meaning the act-oriented goals, the discipline-oriented goals, but bring accountability around those discipline-oriented goals to make sure that they get done. Jason: Got it. They need to be accountable with somebody. If they're accountable to one, then the likelihood of them actually it is probably none. Pat: [...] works so well. Jason: It's probably because they have a coach, right? Pat: Yeah. They have to go in and step on a scale every week or every day. They have to write down and track what they put in their mouth. If you do that and someone's looking at it, it works. But if no one's looking at it, you're not looking at it, you're not stepping on the scale, and you're not writing down what you eat, chances are you're not going to lose weight.  Jason: Yeah. I worked out with a trainer for a solid year to get in shape. He had me fill out a spreadsheet. Every time I showed up (like once a week), he was pinching me with things to measure my body fat. There was no hiding. He was like, "I could tell you didn't eat right this week," or, "I could tell you're not getting enough sleep because you're retaining water." He’s just tell these stuff. He's done these with so many people. Same thing with working with any business coach that I've worked with. There's this level of accountability, that I'm checking in with them. I know I'm going to be talking into them and say they're going to ask me, "Did you keep your commitments? Did you do what you said you're going to do?"  I think there's that positive pressure. We're so good at applying negative pressure to ourselves. I think it's rare for us as entrepreneurs to apply pressure in a lateral or a positive way among our peers or among our people that their goal is to level us up. We firmly are really good at attracting people around us to tell us that we can't do things, that it's difficult, that maybe we should get a job. We've all heard these things as entrepreneurs. We really do need to have some sort of accountability. We need friends, we need partners, we need those that are in our corner. We need a coach, we need mentors. We need people that believe and can support us in our objectives. Pat: I agree. That's why we created GoBundance. That's why we do what we do and why there are over 220 members now, why our retention is extremely high. It's just because of that accountability piece. Your life just amplifies when you put it out there in front of other people. Jason: Got it. I love the idea of adding an accountability partner. It’s a simple buddy system.  Pat, I appreciate you coming here on the DoorGrow show. Is there any other advice you'd love to share related to how people can get out of their own way, start working towards building the legacy that they want, and building the finances that they want? Pat: I'm sure everybody here has heard of the classic book, Think and Grow Rich.  Jason: You said, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill? Pat: Yeah. What Napoleon Hill did is he just went around rich people. He asked them, "How did you get rich? What are your habits?" There was a newspaper article that said Napoleon Hill had to break it down into two things. He actually asked for one thing, "Why people fail to succeed?" He said, "I don't have one but I have two." He said, "The first thing is they give up too soon." They're about to hit the gold and they stop digging. He said, "The second one is they fail to establish a proper mastermind." He was the one that came up with the mastermind concept. He had a mastermind with Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford. These are all big name people. They would hang out, grilled marshmallows at a fire, and share secrets.  That's how we came to write our latest book which is Tribe of Billionaires. I want to give everybody on the show an opportunity to get a copy of this if I could. You can get a free copy by going to tribeofmillionaires.com and all you've got to do is pay the shipping. It's a story of a guy who loses touch with his father. For 20 years, he doesn't see his dad. Then, his dad dies and he has to settle the estate. He sees the pallbearers of his dad's coffin. They're six guys. They're all billionaires and multimillionaires.  He scratches his head because he's like, "I thought my dad was a deadbeat. How are his pallbearers billionaires?" Then, he's lucky enough that in order to get his estate, his dad wants him to spend a week with all these rich guys. What ensues are lessons that he learned. He journals about these lessons after spending or during his weeklong time with these six pallbearers. That was what Tribe of Millionaires was all about. You can get it on Amazon for $20. You're welcome to have it for $7 or free. All you're doing is paying $7 shipping. You just go to tribeofmillonaires.com. Jason: Perfect. All right, I appreciate that. Check out tribeofmillionaires.com. It sounds like a really good story that teaches some lessons regarding money, finances, and growing your business. I appreciate you sharing that, Pat. Any other words you want to share before we let you go? Pat: Nope. I'm easy to find. Luckily, my last name is not really popular. Just type in Pat Hiban. You can find me in multiple places. Follow me on social media, Instagram, Facebook, everywhere. Jason: Perfect. Pat, thanks for coming on the DoorGrow Show.  Pat: My pleasure. Jason: There you have it. Check it out and get a free copy of the book. You said you can go to tribeofmillionaires.com.  If you're a property management entrepreneur that's wanting to grow your business, if you're looking to connect with other entrepreneurs, wanting some accountability from me as a coach, and some support, I recommend you reach out to DoorGrow. We would love to help you grow your business.  Until next time, to our mutual growth. Bye, everyone. You just listened to the DoorGrow Show. We are building a community of the savviest property management entrepreneurs on the planet, in the DoorGrow Club. Join your fellow DoorGrow hackers at doorgrowclub.com. Listen, everyone is doing the same stuff. SEO, PPC, pay-per-lead, content, social, direct mail, and they still struggle to grow. At DoorGrow, we solve your biggest challenge getting deals and growing your business. Find out more at doorgrow.com. 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Topics The fifth chakra (aka throat chakra) is called vishuddha in Sanskrit Tim is singing, Talk About It by Funky Town: https://youtu.be/ax68rWI4Tuk (https://youtu.be/ax68rWI4Tuk) Vishuddha translates to pure, established, thoroughly settled A person with a healthy throat chakra does not randomly give opinions without prior knowledge The location of the throat chakra is in the neck, brain stem area, in particular in the medulla obloganta This makes the throat chakra all about communication and coordination internally (within ourselves) and externally (within our community) The Waterboy movie can be found here: https://amzn.to/2YMPVha (https://amzn.to/2YMPVha) Our C1 vertebrae is our atlas which supports our universe, just like the mythological Titan who was tasked with supporting the heavens on his shoulders Our vagus nerve originating at our medulla obloganta is the most important nerve in terms of coordination between our three brains The story of the famous Vagabonds (Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs) that Tim talks about can be found here: https://youtu.be/ObKE1m3EmdE (https://youtu.be/ObKE1m3EmdE) The most powerful form of communication is listening Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith can be found here: https://amzn.to/2H7TB2i (https://amzn.to/2H7TB2i) One of the ways to stimulate your throat chakra is through singing, whether it is good singing or bad singing :-) Gargling with coconut oil is another way to stimulate your throat chakra The element associated with the throat chakra is the ether, or space Space is what allows for communication and coordination of the other four elements to take place Mutual listening allows for the creation of common ground between two parties The color is blue and the crystals are aqua marine and blue sapphire Breathwork with retention after inhalation, or exhalation, or both, is a very powerful strengthener for the throat chakra For your Neck Stretches practice go here: https://squareup.com/store/training-courses/item/neck-stretches-teacher-training?square_lead=item_embed (https://squareup.com/store/training-courses/item/neck-stretches-teacher-training?square_lead=item_embed) In terms of food, think fasting, think honey The planet is Mercury, the day is Wednesday The mantra is ham, pronounced hum Humming is very good for our vagus nerve and so is laughing :-) Resources Brought to you by Paleo Ayurveda - Ayurveda Designed for Thriving Learn to practice Neck Stretches here: https://squareup.com/store/training-courses/item/neck-stretches-teacher-training?square_lead=item_embed (https://squareup.com/store/training-courses/item/neck-stretches-teacher-training?square_lead=item_embed) Learn more about Sanskrit with Nicolai Bachman’s book, the Language of Yoga: https://amzn.to/2lihxYI (https://amzn.to/2lihxYI) Paleo Ayurveda's Training Library can be found at: https://squareup.com/store/training-courses (https://squareup.com/store/training-courses) The Spartan Mind Strength Calendar: https://spartanmindstrength.com/events (https://spartanmindstrength.com/events) For YA & AAPNA Registered Instructors Earn non-contact CEUs here: https://squareup.com/store/training-courses (https://squareup.com/store/training-courses) Disclaimer All information provided here is for informational and educational purposes only, and is not to be construed as medical advice or instruction. No action should be taken solely on the contents of this Podcast. Please consult your physician or a qualified health professional on any matters regarding your health and well being or on any opinions expressed within this Podcast. You assume all responsibilities and obligations with respect to any decisions, advice, conclusions or recommendations made or given as a result of the use of this Podcast.   Support this podcast

July 29, 2019 - What do you get when two icons of the Industrial Revolution pile into a Model T and speed off to look for America? A one-of-a kind road-trip, peppered with Jazz Age characters like Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, President Calvin Coolidge, and hardscrabble fiddler Jep Bisbee. Gassing us up for this journey is Jeff Guinn who brings us The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip. Then as now, time spent stuck in a car brought frayed nerves and zany mishaps -- literally bumps in the road -- but there's no better way to get the cut of someone's jib.  Jeff Guinn is an award-winning former investigative journalist and the bestselling author of numerous books. They include Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, and, The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral Find more about our guest at his Simon & Schuster author page or toss him a like on Facebook.

Here's a little primer on mulch placement. Keep mulch away from the bases of plants and trees. Trees can be harmed or killed by mulching too heavily around the trunk. Perennials and other plants can be smothered or damaged by heavy mulch around the crown as well. Mulch is a wonderful tool in the garden, but it pays to pay attention to placement.   Brevities #OTD Today in 1926, the Green Bay Press-Gazette posted an article titled, "Ice Cream Grown on Vine in yard of Former Kentuckian." The article was about the fabulous Colonel Henry Wallace Johnston who, until the age of 50, had operated a hardware store in Lebanon, Kentucky. At midlife, he moved to Homestead Florida. And, in 1912, Johnston created a 20 acre estate called Palm Lodge Tropical Grove. He even liked to dress the part; wearing a tropical outfit complete with a white helmet and looking as if he had just finished playing Jumanji. Known as the Wizard of Palm Lodge or Florida's Burbank (a nod to California's Luther Burbank ), Johnston began adding over 8,000 incredible specimens of tropical fruits and flowers, many of them not found anywhere else in America. Palm Lodge gained him widespread recognition. And, although Johnston never traveled outside the US, he was a natural marketer. Stories about Johnston include the following: He coined the name "lipstick tree". Rarest among his plants was a flower that produces a perfume called the "Scent of Lilith." Johnston grew the Dumb Cane tree or dieffenbachia from Cambodia. He would tell folks that if they bit into the leaves, their tongue would be paralyzed for six weeks. Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford brought back rubber plants from Madagascar, but only Colonel Johnston's plants survived. Johnston's Palestine tree fruit was wrapped in cellophane while on the tree to protect against insects. The fruit was used in religious rituals by rabbis. Johnston's gingerbread palm's fruit tasted of gingerbread. Johnston furnished almost all of the tropical exhibit for the state of Florida at the Chicago World's Fair. All of Johnston's plants were grown from seed. Johnston also produced nearly 300 different types of fruits and jellies all packaged on site. One of Johnston's specialties was the cultivation of the aloe vera plant. He grew a 15 acre aloe field and by 1920 was regularly harvesting the leaves and bringing them to Miami, individually wrapped to stop the spines from making the jelly ooze out. And yes, one of Johnston's plants was something he called "the ice cream vine," botanically known as the monstera deliciosa. The fruit resembles a large ear of corn minus the husk and tastes like a combination of banana, strawberry and pineapple. Johnston's lodge was a Florida showplace and there was no charge for admission. Homestead's chamber of commerce showed that 30,000 people, including botanists, visited the lodge every year. One day, after 2,000 guests had been received, the register revealed that Henry Ford had passed unnoticed in the crowd.     #OTD On this day in 1941 a Soviet court sentenced the prominent Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov to death by firing squad. Vavilov never faced the firing squad. Instead, he died of starvation in a Soviet prison two years after receiving his sentence.     #OTD Today in 1942, newspapers announced the retirement of George Shull. An Ohio farm kid, Shull was the noted botanist who taught at Princeton University for 27 years. His work resulted in a $150M increase in the value of US corn as a result of his crossing pure line varieties with self-fertilized corn. Shull's hybrid yielded 10 to 40 percent more than ordinary corn. Shull never made a penny from his creation.   Unearthed Words   Here's a poem from Emily Dickinson called Answer July. In the poem, Dickinson speaks to July directly and July responds by pointing out that the hot summer is the fulfilled promise of spring. Answer July – Where is the Bee – Where is the Blush – Where is the Hay? Ah, said July – Where is the Seed – Where is the Bud – Where is the May – Answer Thee – Me –       Today's book recommendation: Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History by Diana Wells Wells investigates the names and meanings of trees, sharing their legends and lore. As Wells says, "Our long relationship with trees is the story of friendship. The human race, we are told, emerged in the branches of trees and most of us have depended on them ever since for food, shade, shelter, and fuel."   Today's Garden Chore Incorporate a wheelbarrow garden into your garden plans. Take an old wheelbarrow, drill some drainage holes in the bottom (very important!) and up-cycle it into a beautiful, portable planter that is perfect for flowers, herbs, and small edibles.     Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart Today in 1963 the Marvel comic botanist Samuel Smithers became Plantman when lightening struck his plant ray gun, giving it the power to control and animate all plant life.  Plantman dueled with the Human Torch in the botanical garden and lost. He was taken to prison. In his final storyline, Plantman transformed into a giant plant monster and attacked the city of Los Angeles in retaliation for humans polluting the world. In his final moments, Plantman was defeated by Ironman. Here's one of Plantman's more popular lines: "Do not speak to the Plant Man of power! Mine was the genius that gave the semblance of life to unthinking plant tissue! There can be no greater power than that!"     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

As I was preparing for today’s show, I kept thinking about this quote from John Burrows: "... One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own moods and feelings; he is sensitive to the verge of the horizon: cut those trees, he bleeds; mar those hills, and he suffers."   Think about your own landscape. If it is an outlying part of yourself, what does is reflect about your mood and feelings? Controlled and manicured? Wild and wooly? Relaxed and comfortable? Unsure or confused?   Where are you at today? Where were you a year ago? 5 years ago? 10 years ago? Where do you want to be this season?   We are not static. As my youngest son said to me the first time he ate spaghetti sauce on his noodles, “People can change, Mom.” We are not static… and our gardens aren’t either.   Brevities Naturalist, poet and philosopher John Burroughs (books by this author) was born on a dairy farm on this date in 1837. He was sent to the local school, where his desk was next to that of Erie Railroad Robber Baron, Jay Gould (the son of a nearby neighbor). When Burroughs struggled in school, Gould would bail him out. Called “John o’ Birds” for hisspecial admiration for birds, Burroughs loved the natural world. One of the four vagabonds (a reference to an annual camping group that included Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, and Teddy Roosevelt) Burroughs drove a Ford which was an annual present from Henry Ford. John Burroughs wrote about what he knew and loved best: the land around his homes in the Catskills of upstate New York. The area included a stream called “The Pepacton" - today it is known as the "East Branch of the Delaware River".   Burroughs was great friends with Walt Whitman (Books by this author) whom he loved dearly. Of Whitman, Burroughs reflected:   “[Meeting] Walt was the most important event of my life. I expanded under his influence, because of his fine liberality and humanity on all subjects.”   Here’s a fun fact: Whitman gave Burroughs a little marketing advice on his first book, Wake-Robin.  Burroughs recalled   "It is difficult to hit upon suitable titles for books. I went to Walt with Wake-Robin and several other names written on paper.  '"What does wake-robin mean?” he asked "It's a spring flower,' I replied. "Then that is exactly the name you want."   Wake-robin is the common name for trillium. Trilliums are in the Lily Familyand they carpet the forest floor in springtime.. They have a single large, white, long-lasting flower that turns pink as it matures.  During Burroughs time, The Tennessean and other newspapers advertised English Wake-Robin Pills Tho best Liver and Cathartic Pills in use. Price 25 cents per box.   Here’s the beginning of “Wake-Robin by John Burroughs”   “Spring in our northern climate may fairly be said to extend from the middle of March to the middle of June… It is this period that marks the return of the birds….  Each stage of the advancing season gives prominence to certain species, as to certain flowers. The dandelion tells me when to look for the swallow, the dog-tooth violet when to expect the wood thrush, and when I have found the wake-robin in bloom I know the season is fairly inaugurated. With me this flower is associated, not merely with the awakening of Robin, for he has been awake some weeks, but with the universal awakening and rehabilitation of Nature."   At the 100th anniversary of Burrough’s birthday celebration was held at Hartwick College. Music was furnished by the college a cappella choir who sang Burrough’s favorite song, “Lullaby” by Brahms. Supreme Court Justice Abraham Kellogg presented this tribute:   "When the trees begin to leaf and the birds are here, the arbutus, laurel and wild flowers are blooming and nature is clothing herself with beauty and grandeur, turn ye to your library and in a restful attitude read 'Pepacton' and you will acquaint yourself as never before with John Burroughs, the scientist, the naturalist, the poet and the philosopher.” Burroughs died at the age of 84 years - fourteen more than the biblical allotment of man.  He was on his way back to the Catskills after undergoing abdominal surgery in California. Burroughs just wanted to see home one more time. Burroughs' nurse and biographer was with him as he made the trip by train.  After a restless attempt at sleeping, he asked “How near home are we?” Told the train was crossing Ohio, Burroughs slumped back and passed away.   The third woman to enroll at Berkely’s medical school and the second woman to be professionally employed as a botanist in the US, the intrepid Kate Brandegee died on this day in 1920.  After getting her MD at Berkley, she found starting a practice too daunting. Thankfully, Kate’s passion for botany was ignited during med school.  She had learned that plants were the primary sources of medicine, so she dropped the mantle of physician to pursue botany. Five years later, she was the curator of the San Francisco Academy of Sciences herbarium.  While Kate was at the academy, she personally trained Alice Eastwood. Later, when Kate moved on, Alice was ready to take her place - Kate was a phenomenal mentor.   During her time at the academy, in surprise development at the age of 40, Kate had “fallen insanely in love” with plantsman Townsend Brandegee.  Equally yoked, their honeymoon was a 500 mile nature walk - collecting plant specimens from San Diego to San Francisco. The couple moved toSan Diego where they created a herbarium that was praised as a botanical paradise. The collecting trips - often taken together, but sometimes individually, would be their lifelong passion - and they traveled through much of California, Arizona and Mexico at times using the free railroad passes afforded to botanists.   Despite poor health, Kate loved these experiences. In 1908, at the age of 64, she wrote Townsend a letter,   “I am going to walk from Placerville to Truckee (52 miles!)”   In 1906, when the Berkley herbarium was destroyed by an earthquake, the Brandegees singlehandedly restored it by giving the school their entire botanical library (including many rare volumes) and their plant collect which numbered some 80,000 plants. Thanks to Townsend's inheritance, the couple was financially independent, but they were also exceptionally selfless. The Brandegee’s followed their plants and books to Berkley where Townsend and Kate worked the rest of their lives pro bono.  Botanist Marcus Jones said of Kate, “She was the one botanist competent to publish a real [book about the native plants of California].” But Kate had delayed writing this work.  Kate was 75 when she fell on the University grounds at Berkley - she broke her shoulder.  Three weeks later, she died.   Unearthed Words In honor of Burrough’s first book - Wake-Robin, I found a little-known poem by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter (Books by this author) called the Wake-Robin. Rebecca was the wife of a Chicago minister named David Utter. She was a selfless missionary who coined the term “Daughter of the King” in one of her more popular poems.  Rebecca was a descendant of Gene Williams Palfrey who served with George Washington and served as ambassador to France. Here’s The Wake-Robin by Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter.   THE WAKE-ROBIN (or trillium)   When leaves green and hardy    From sleep have just uncurled — Spring is so tardy    In this part of the world — There comes a white flower forth,    Opens its eyes, Looks out upon the earth,    In drowsy surprise.   A fair and pleasant vision    The nodding blossoms make ; And the flower's name and mission    Is "Wake, robin, wake !” But you're late, my lady,    You have not earned your name ; Robin's up already,    Long before you came.   You trusted the sun's glances,    To rouse you from your naps ;     Or the brook that near you dances At spring's approach, perhaps ;    Your chamber was too shady, The drooping trees among ;    Robin's up already, Don't you hear his song ?   There he sits, swinging, ‘    In his brown and scarlet cloak, His notes like laughter ringing ;    'Tis plain he sees the joke. " Accidents will happen,”    Laughs robin loud and clear ; " If you think to catch me napping,    Wake earlier next year ! "   Today's book recommendation The John Burroughs Association was formed to preserve his legacy.  Every April, on the first Monday, they gather in New York City to present the John Burroughs Medal, John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and Riverby Awards to the authors, illustrators, and publishers of the best published nature writing.  This year’s winner is:   A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of The Greenland Ice, by William Glassley, published by Bellevue Literary Press, 2018   A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of The Greenland Ice is a rich literary account of six expeditions to Greenland, where the author sought (and found) Earth’s earliest signs yet of plate tectonics, the slow-motion movement and collisions of continents. Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world that holds the secrets of our planet’s deepest past, even as it accelerates into our rapidly changing future. The book bears the literary, scientific, philosophic, and poetic qualities of a nature-writing classic, the rarest mixture of beauty and scholarship.   William E. Glassley is a geologist at the University of California, Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, focusing on the evolution of continents and the processes that energize them. He received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, and is the author of over seventy research articles and a textbook on geothermal energy. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.   Other notable recognized authors include Rachel Carson for her book The Sea Around Us and Aldo Leopold for A Sand County Almanac.   Today's Garden Chore Today’s to-do is to add a magnifying glass to your garden tote. The best gardeners throughout out history, have looked closely their plants - often using magnifiers of some fashion. Get up close and personal with your plants - Increase your intimacy with your garden. As with every garden tool - you won’t use it, if it’s not handy.   Something Sweet to revive the little botanic spark in your heart One last memorable fact about Trilliums. Most of the parts of the plants occur in threes: 3 broach flat leaves, 3 petals to a flower, and three sepals (the part that enclosed the petals, protects them in bud, and supports them in bloom).  

One of the all-time great self-help books has to be Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I still have my battered old copy of the book, which I bought in the Philippines in the 1980’s. Written in the 1930s by Hill while working in the White House for President Roosevelt during the dark American depression years, it still inspires people 90 years on. This book is the daddy of all self-improvement books selling well over 10 million copies and still selling. It claims to have made thousands of people millionaires and I know people have turned their lives around after reading this book and taking action. One of Hill’s mentors, Andrew Carnegie, started him on a 20-year quest to study and write about what makes people successful and gave him his secret, which Hill cleverly sprinkles throughout the book without specifically revealing it. Carnegie, then the richest man in the world worth over 400 million and still one of the all-time wealthiest men when his wealth is adjusted for inflation, introduced Hill to the likes of Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. He went on to give most of his fortune away setting up thousands of Carnegie libraries in America and Britain. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are following in Carnegie’s footsteps. The brilliant title, “think and grow rich”, is actually a little deceiving because it suggests that you can merely “think” and grow rich. I remember reading: First you have to decide on exactly how much money you want. Secondly, you must decide what you will give in return for the money, as there is no such thing as something for nothing.   There’s always a catch! However, if you read the book, you’ll discover that it’s packed with practical ideas and advice to help you accumulate wealth and riches – whatever that means to you. The author never suggested that you could just sit there meditating and think and grow rich. Ohm, the money will come! Hill specifically refers to many steps including, organised planning, specialise knowledge, taking decisions, masterminds, goal setting and taking action to start a small business or getting a better job. Interestingly, some of the small business ideas are not dissimilar to the sort of things you would do as a start-up entrepreneurial today. Napoleon Hill writes about how to start in a service business, which is ideal for somebody with little or no capital. That’s still true today. He even offers bookkeeping as an example of a good service to start with. Even today, most businesses need a good bookkeeper just as much as they need an accountant. When I was in business, we always struggled to find a good bookkeeper and had to pay well to find a good one. Other useful tips he gives are getting help writing a better CV so that you can get a higher paid job and gaining specialist knowledge as opposed to the general knowledge taught in schools. He also talked about people bringing business ideas to venture capitalist and becoming overnight millionaires. Some of the chapters were a little weird, but overall the advice is still relevant even by today’s standards. Hill cleverly mentions the one ‘big secret’ placed throughout the book, but doesn’t tell what it is! You have to read the book to find it.   Nowadays, it is far easier to get started in business with the advent of the digital age. Fortunes have been made faster than ever before. We have so many tools at our disposal that you can get on business within a day with no premises, leases or staff. More training and specialist knowledge – from courses on getting started in property or setting up an Amazon store - is available than ever before. You don’t need years or even months to learn new skills.   If you would like to learn how to increase your earning power and expand your wealth, drop me an email to charles@charleskelly.net   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

OK, so it appears that the hopes and dreams of many were dashed this week with the release of the picture from the new Disney Aladdin on a magazine cover. All I can say is the questions and comments are seriously bad. With some saying it looks like a bad porn parody and others saying it looks as camp as a float at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Oh Disney, don’t kill another movie, please, if anything, just stop before you traumatise the children. Oh the humanity.Wow, the fur starts flying early this week as the Professor tells us how disappointing Day Z 1.0 is after the one year, oops sorry FIVE years of waiting. It appears we have a contender with Star Citizen for biggest flop, or is that Fallout 76? Dang, games are just starting to get worse, not better, what ever happened to the games we were promised in cartoons and anime? Trust me when I say that this is one to listen to as the Professor is really upset about this, even becoming a grumpy old man and wanting to fix the blessed thing.DJ brings us information about the cast of voice actors for the new Dark Crystal series being developed by Netflix. Buck is reserving the right to be fully grumpy and indignant about the epic failure if they get it wrong. Hopefully it will be good.Buck brings us news about musical and sound engineering for cars. That’s right, to help people know that an electric car is coming manufacturers are employing specialists from the music industry to deliver the perfect noise for the cars of the future. Of course this raises questions of “Tuning” cars in the future, will the American Presidential tank play the Imperial Death march as it drives down the road or the Star Spangled Banner.EPISODE NOTES:Day Z 1.0 is now on Steam- https://dayz.com/article/general/dayz-1-0Netflix’s Dark Crystal prequel series- https://au.ign.com/articles/2018/12/17/netflixs-dark-crystal-prequel-cast-age-of-resistance-taron-egerton-nathalie-emmanuel-mark-hamillMusical Cars- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-12-16/electric-car-sounds-purr-engines-musicians-changing-cities/10606972Games currently playingProfessor– Day Z 1.0 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/221100/DayZ/Buck– LEGO The Hobbit - https://store.steampowered.com/app/285160/LEGO_The_Hobbit/DJ- Darksiders 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/606280/Darksiders_III/Other topics discussedDean Hall- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Hall_(game_designer)Day Z 1.0 results on Steam- https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/a72ooi/free_to_play_review_results_74_negative/Fallout 76 now launching loot boxes- https://www.techspot.com/news/77903-fallout-76-might-getting-loot-boxes.htmlTwo-point hospital the game- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Point_HospitalMy Friend Pedro the game- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Friend_PedroAustralian Game Awards 2018 nominations- https://stevivor.com/news/australian-games-awards-2018-finalists-announced/Australian Game Awards 2018 results- https://press-start.com.au/news/2018/12/20/all-the-winners-from-the-australian-games-awards/Hollow knight the game- http://hollowknight.com/Lisa Henson- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_HensonFirst look at live action Aladdin with Will Smith as Genie- https://variety.com/2018/film/news/first-look-will-smith-genie-aladdin-remake-1203093253/Mark Hamill- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_HamillSlipstream the movie- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(1989_film)Helena Bonham Carter- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bonham_CarterSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd:_The_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street_(2007_film)Enid- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_(film)Enid Blyton- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_BlytonBlade Runner anime series- https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18118112/blade-runner-black-lotus-anime-cowboy-bebop-ghost-in-the-shellMagnificent 7 TV Movie- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471019/Jetson’s Car sound effect- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdWswvLPdE0Wilhelm Richard Wagner - Flight of the Valkyries- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOYlgvI1uEEdward Elgar and A. C. Benson – Land of Hope and Glory- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tW0QqiT2LUUN regulation keeping silent cars- https://www.unece.org/info/media/presscurrent-press-h/transport/2016/new-un-regulation-keeps-silent-cars-from-becoming-dangerous-cars/doc.htmlInner Circle - Bad Boys (Theme From Cops)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBD8M3WFrAwAmerican Pop songs through Google Translate- https://www.fastcompany.com/3036603/what-american-pop-songs-sound-like-after-google-translate-butchers-themSacagawea’s translation and communication cycle: Shoshone to Hidatsa to French to English- http://sacagaweaftw.weebly.com/translation--communication.htmlEnterobacteria phage λ or Lambda phage- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_phageDr Who episode - Last Christmas- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Christmas_(Doctor_Who)The Muppets Christmas Carol- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Christmas_CarolFamous Birthdays18 Dec 1922 - Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. Notable contributions include the discovery of the bacterial virus λ, the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction, the development of replica plating, and the discovery of the bacterial fertility factor F (F plasmid), born in Bronx, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Lederberg18 Dec 1943 - Keith Richards, English guitarist and songwriter (The Rolling Stones), born in Dartford, Kent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richards18 Dec 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws), born in Cincinnati, Ohio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg18 Dec 1954 - Ray Liotta, American actor (Goodfellas, Field of Dreams, John Q & Hannibal), film producer, and voice actor, born in Newark, New Jersey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Liotta19 Dec 1915 - Édith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], chanteuse (Little Sparrow), born in Paris, France - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith_Piaf20 Dec 1868 - Harvey Firestone, American industrialist and founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company ("where the rubber meets the road"), born in Columbiana, Ohio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_S._Firestone20 Dec 1917 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm21 Dec 1795 – Jack Rusell, known as "The Sporting Parson", British vicar of Swimbridge and rector of Black Torrington in North Devon, was an enthusiastic fox-hunter and dog breeder, who developed the Jack Russell Terrier, a variety of the Fox Terrier breed, born in Dartmouth, Devon -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Russell_(priest)Events of interest18 Dec 1719 - Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children" - https://www.onthisday.com/day/december/1818 Dec 1961 - The Tokens earn a #1 hit with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tokens-earn-a-1-hit-with-the-lion-sleeps-tonight18 Dec 2009 - James Cameron's "Avatar" starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, released in the US, becomes highest-grossing film of all time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)18 Dec 1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia - https://www.nutcracker.com/about-us/history-of-nutcracker18 Dec 1843 – Charles’ Dicken’s story “A Christmas Carol” is published - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-christmas-carol-is-published19 Dec 1972 - Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-lunar-landing-mission-ends22nd December 1964 - First flight of SR-71 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. - https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/22-december-1964/IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

Join host Sarah S. Uthoff as she breaks down for you the history and the connections behind Henry Ford's living history masterpiece. Greenfield Village is a living history site that rescued or recreated important buildings all around the country -- and a couple from Europe too. Learn about Ford's plan for the museum indoors and out, Ford's connection with schools, and why "history is bunk." Also learn how Ford's Museum is part of a larger story having to do with Abraham Lincoln, John D. Rockefeller, Harvey Firestone, Thomas Alva Edison, Herbert Hoover, and Walt Disney. Plus, why you need to add the Henry Ford to your list for future Laura Ingalls Wilder trips!

In 1914, four influential men — Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs — loaded their automobiles with camping gear and embarked on the first of several historic road trips. They called themselves the “Vagabonds,” and they toured places like the Everglades, the California coast, and the forests of Vermont for two weeks nearly every summer for 10 years. The white-bearded Burroughs chronicled one such trip — the Vagabond journey to the Great Smoky Mountains — in a chapter of his book "Under the Maples."  Show notes, music credits, and more at www.nationalparkpodcast.com/vagabonds.

Crystal is the founder of LeadingUp Consulting, a consulting firm based in North Carolina focused on advancing student achievement by strengthening teachers and school leaders. Crystal is a 25-year veteran of North Carolina schools and universities – serving in multiple roles from teacher to Principal to course instructor of Elementary Education at North Carolina State University. Prior to her career in education, Crystal also served in the United States Air Force.   In her free time, Crystal loves to run and work out, especially with her big goofy dog, Cooper. Crystal and her husband love to travel when she’s not spending time with their son, Matthew, a junior at East Carolina University.   "You get the best out of others, when you give the best of yourself.”   -Harvey Firestone   Crystal Scillitani Show Highlights How to act with honor and integrity The importance of family outside of biological families Taking care of one another Noticing people and developing future leaders You get the best out of others, when you give the best of yourself Leadership … being a part of the solution. Seeing people as people Stay off your phone for the first hour of every day Are you volunteering? What are you doing for rest? Surround yourself with competent people Being too quick in the decision making process is a mistake to avoid   Crystal Scillitani Resources:   Leading Up Consulting   Give & Take    Scrum   22 Best Books for School Leaders      Show Some Love BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE! LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW   Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn SHOW SPONSORS: ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE) You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/   Mastery Leadership Institute Have you ever thought, “Educators are great at collecting data — but how do teachers use that data in real time?” This Mastery Leadership Institute is an intensive, three-day professional development retreat facilitated by nationally recognized principals. Educators will be immersed in full-day workshops focused on strategies to effectively use data to target interventions, personalize learning, and evaluate instructional efficacy. Attendees are part of a dedicated cohort  that will meet in monthly coaching sessions with other like-minded educators from across the country. Transform the data culture in your school and get your teachers using data in just two days, with proven strategies like the 48-hour Challenge. True school transformation is only possible when educators are empowered to use the data they collect to immediately impact teaching and learning. Learn more about the Mastery Leadership Institute including upcoming dates and locations here.   Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

To better understand the primary quadrants of self-awareness, Dr. Perrodin examines an exemplary article written by Tasha Eurich, PhD, of Harvard Business Review.  She wrote “Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Research suggests that when we see ourselves clearly, we are more confident and more creative. We make sounder decisions, build stronger relationships, and communicate more effectively. We're less likely to lie, cheat, and steal. We are better workers who get more promotions. And we're more-effective leaders with more-satisfied employees and more-profitable companies (Eurich, 2018). THE RESEARCH STUDY. David applauds the study of self-awareness for spanning 10 separate investigations with nearly 5,000 participants.  Surveys and interviews contributed to the development of multi-rater reliability.  The study surfaced the constructs of job satisfaction, empathy, happiness and stress. TWO TYPES OF SELF AWARENESS. Across the studies researcher Eurich examined, two broad categories emerged: (1) internal self-awareness which represents how clearly we see our own values, passions and aspirations; and (2) external self-awareness, which means understanding how other people view us. THE FOUR SELF-AWARENESS ARCHETYPES. Dr. Eurich identified the self-awareness quadrant as: Seekers, Pleasers, Introspectors and Aware.  Even though most people believe they are self-aware, only 10-15% of people studies actually fit the criteria. David explains the characteristics of each archetype and explains the lack of member checks as the inherent flaw to Introspectors. MEMBER CHECKS 100 YEARS AGO. Dr. Perrodin shares the fascinating account of “The 4 Vagabonds” of Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and John Burroughs.  From 1915-1924, these industrial moguls (Burroughs was a naturalist, however) made several “treks” to the country to “rough it” and debate career and life around the campfire. WHAT VERSUS WHY. David concluded that the study noted that “why” is a surprisingly ineffective self-awareness question.  Research has shown that we simply do not have access to many of the unconscious thoughts, feelings, and motives we're searching for. The better question to ask is “what” as it will help one to examine and understand process as why tends to focus on outcomes and assigning blame. FOLLOW DR. PERRODIN: Twitter @SafetyPhD and subscribe to The Safety Doc YouTube channel & Apple Podcasts RSS feed. SAFETY DOC WEBSITE & BLOG: www.safetyphd.com David will respond to comments & emails. The Safety Doc Podcast is hosted & produced by David Perrodin, PhD. ENDORSEMENTS. Opinions are those of the host & guests and do not reflect positions of The 405 Media or supporters of “The Safety Doc Podcast”. The show adheres to nondiscrimination principles while seeking to bring forward productive discourse & debate on topics relevant to personal or institutional safety. Email David: thesafetydoc@gmail.com LOOKING FOR DR. TIMOTHY LUDWIG, PHD? Dr. Perrodin's “Safety Doc Podcast” negotiates school and community safety. To be informed about industrial safety, please contact Appalachian State University Professor Dr. Timothy Ludwig, PhD, at www.safety-doc.com.  Article cited: What Self-Awareness Really is (and How to Cultivate It) by Tasha Eurich (2018). Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2018/01/what-self-awareness-really-is-and-how-to-cultivate-it

If you enjoy these podcasts please subscribe on YouTube at https://youtu.be/k9wGGJ1BxSk. Henry Ford's Mirror of America is one of the most awe inspiring collections of early film ever assembled. Ford had a high dollar film studio in place to gather footage for newsreels and documentaries about his business and about America at large. Compiled here are the most precious pieces of that great archive. This documentary documents the American lifestyle and how the automobile was quickly changing it. But far more than the history of the automobile and automobile manufacturing is shown. Of special interest are scenes of Coney Island, 1915 Model T, assembly line manufacturing, World War 1, and Ford himself in meetings with various luminaries like Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and others. Henry Ford had a tremendous impact on America, and this film is a testament to his influence and historical standing, since the content ranges through all aspects of early 20th century America. Henry Ford's Mirror of America is an essential record of American cultural history. Source Link https://archive.org/details/HenryFordsMirrorOfAmerica Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions Footage downloaded and edited by Jason Roeseke at PublicAccessPod producer of Public Access America Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJb YouTub

On this date in 1946, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released in the United States. Here are some things you may not have known about the classic Christmas movie. It’s based on a story called “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern, who wrote it in 1939. After failing to sell the story, he made it into a Christmas card and send copies to friends and family in 1943. One of these cards came to the attention of a producer at RKO Pictures, which bought the story intending to make it into a movie starring Cary Grant. RKO shelved the project after three unsuccessful screenplay attempts were made. Director Frank Capra read the story and saw its potential. His production company bought the rights and the three screenplays for $10,000. Capra worked with a team of writers, including Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling and Dorothy Parker. The popular belief is that the role of George Bailey was all but written for Jimmy Stewart, however film historian Stephen Cox claims that Henry Fonda was also considered. The part of Mary was offered first to Jean Arthur, Olivia de Havilland and Ginger Rogers before it finally went to to Donna Reed. Vincent Price and Charles Bickford were considered for the part of the villainous Mr. Potter, who was eventually played by Lionel Barrymore. Filming took place largely at RKO’s studio in Culver City, California and the RKO movie ranch in Encino, California. The only filming locations that remain intact are the home that the Martini family buys in the film, and the gymnasium at Beverly Hills High School with its swimming pool under the gym floor. It’s widely believed that “It’s a Wonderful Life” was originally a box office flop and was dislike by critics. However, this isn’t entirely true. The film made $3.3 million dollars in 1947, placing it 26th among more than 400 films released late in 1946 and in 1947. The reviews were mixed, with Time magazine and Variety praising it, and the New York Times and New Yorker magazine panning it. It went on to be nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Capra and Best Actor for Stewart. It won an Oscar for technical achievement for a new method of simulating falling snow. It lost the Best Picture Oscar to “The Best Years of Our Lives.” The single event that made the film a Christmas classic didn’t happen until 24 years after it was released. In 1974, the company which owned the rights to the film didn’t properly renew the copyright. This allowed the film to be shown inexpensively on hundreds of local television stations. The film was believed to be in the public domain until 1993, when Republic Pictures proved that it still owned the film rights to the original short story, and because of that, to all derivative works, including “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The movie is now licensed to NBC, which shows it twice during the Christmas season, including on Christmas Eve. Our question: Which television villain was inspired by the character of Mr. Potter? Today is unofficially Cathode-Ray Tube Day, Games Day, and National Sangria Day. It’s the birthday of tire magnate Harvey Firestone, who was born in 1868; author Sandra Cisneros, who is 62; and actor Jonah Hill, who is 33. Because our topic happened before 1960, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. This week in 1968, the top song in the U.S. was “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye. The No. 1 movie was “Oliver!,” while the novel “The Salzburg Connection” by Helen MacInnes topped the New York Times Bestsellers list. Weekly question What was the first broadcast network in the United States? Submit your answer at triviapeople.com/test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at triviapeople.com. We'll reveal the correct answer on Friday’s episode. Links Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or our website. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please consider supporting it through Patreon.com Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Potter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2009/12/22/the-martini-house-from-its-a-wonderful-life/ https://www.checkiday.com/12/20/2016 http://www.biography.com/people/groups/born-on-december-20 http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1968_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_1968 iOS: http://apple.co/1H2paH9 Android: http://bit.ly/2bQnk3m

This week we share a couple of really big success stories.  One of my former coaching clients was the epitome of a stressed out dentist for years before he discovered how getting more productive led him to such great increases that he could go to 3 day weeks.  He even had so much free time on his hands that he took up serious tournament bass fishing. His story is NOT unique for those who have the fortitude get their practice productivity house in order.  Great things can happen.  Hear his story plus a bonus story about another great productivity success. In this episode you will learn: The lengths you need to go to protect the environment in your practice, including letting team members go who may be good at parts of their job, but drag down the whole team.  If you have the guts to do what’s right for the practice, you create an atmosphere where you can burst through your current plateaus. How Dr. Brian finally got serious and actually increased his production while decreasing his weekly patient schedule to 3 days per week and how you can start down the path to Weekly 4 Day Vacations Each and Every Week. How to set the stage for our Practice Achievement Formula And Much, Much More… (#) The Dr. Chris Griffin Show – Season 1 Episode 12 “To think accurately, you must separate facts from mere information.” Now who said that? Welcome to the Dr. Chris Griffin Show. Your resource for leveraging systems and technology to easier workload, increase productivity and provide you with the time off you deserve to live the life of your dreams. It’s time to practice productivity in the passionate pursuit of a better life with your host, Dr. Chris Griffin. The Dr. is in. Hello everybody. Well if you had a little trouble with that one is because it’s a bit of an obscure quote but don’t let that fool you because the quote itself comes from the one, the only, Mr. Napoleon Hill. Now Napoleon Hill, and I’m sure you guys know who he is but I’m just going to go over this for the folk in the back row who may or may not have read his most famous book. He wrote a book called “Think and Grow Rich”. Now “Think and Grow Rich” appears on the top 10 reading list of all business books of all time that I’ve ever seen every list I’ve ever seen has it up there. And he basically studied the lives and got to be really personal friends with some of the biggest shots of his time in the world. This is to name a few of them. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, John D. Rockefeller, Charles Schwab, Woodrow Wilson, okay? W. Wrigley, the list goes basically on and on. It’s a who’s who of his snapshot in time and he studied these folks and bold down what he found what was like their essence of success into first, a gigantic book called “The Law of Success in” 16 lessons. And later, a more condensed version called “Think and Grow Rich”. And he’s just if you have not read it, go buy it, go read it. Now it’s a little bit out there at times but the concepts, the basic principles are absolutely rock solid. And the reason that I used him and that book as an example today because one of my favorite chapters in the book is called “Accurate Thought”. And what he’s trying to get across is that you absolutely must find a way to separate facts from pieces of information but it’s basically separating facts from fiction when you’re making good decisions. And that affects each of us every single day. And I get into that a little bit is we go back and we listen in a little fly on the wall back in Oklahoma City, in my recent lecture there. And we’re going to talk about that then we’re going to head into some other really cool topics. We’re going to talk about some hiring, some firing. And then how we became by some, coined the most productive Dental office in America. So sit back, relax, enjoy this little segment. And we’ll see you on the back end. Alright, Okay. So I told, I was told in the back I need to...

In Episodes 43 & 44, I had the privilege of interviewing Lois Wolfe (Director) & Board of Trustee members Robert Wheeler, John Blakeman & Don Gfell, who help operate the Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace Museum in Milan, Ohio of the Edison Birthplace Association, Inc., a private, non-profit organization. Connect with the Outstanding Ohioans show on Facebook, Itunes, or Stitcher After the death of Thomas A. Edison from complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, opening his birthplace to the public as a memorial and museum became the private project of his wife, Mina Miller Edison, and their daughter, Mrs. John Eyre Sloane. The Edison Birthplace Museum opened on the centennial of the inventor's birth in 1947.   Here are some of the highlights from our conversation: the history of the Edison family in this house what brought the Edison family to Milan, Ohio, "the Silicon Valley of the Midwest" during its heyday how Thomas Edison was shaped by the environment of the town and diversity of the people present background on Edison's "formal" and "informal" educations, and the influence of his mother and sister in his development some of the mischief Edison got into as a child how Thomas Edison is the personification of the American Dream, and why learning about his achievements is so needed in America today how Thomas Edison considered the greatest invention to be "the mind of a child" and how he used his "child-like" curiosity to solve problems and connect the dots through invention and improvements how Edison combined an inventive spirit with the sense of the marketplace, and how he learned this lesson his greatest invention should be considered creating the first Research and Development Company to serve mankind. his leadership ability with his team and ability to mastermind with other prominent businessmen/inventors how adults and children alike can promote an environment and mindset of innovation  Some resources to learn more about Thomas Edison or mentioned in the interview: Innovate Like Edison:  The Five-Step System For Breakthrough Business Success by Michael Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh by James Newton Henry Ford's Greenfield Village To contact the Edison Birthplace Museum, you may do the following: website Facebook page Email  Phone at (419) 499-2135 Thank you for listening.

In Episodes 43 & 44, I had the privilege of interviewing Lois Wolfe (Director) & Board of Trustee members Robert Wheeler, John Blakeman & Don Gfell, who help operate the Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace Museum in Milan, Ohio of the Edison Birthplace Association, Inc., a private, non-profit organization. Connect with the Outstanding Ohioans show on Facebook, Itunes, or Stitcher After the death of Thomas A. Edison from complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, opening his birthplace to the public as a memorial and museum became the private project of his wife, Mina Miller Edison, and their daughter, Mrs. John Eyre Sloane. The Edison Birthplace Museum opened on the centennial of the inventor's birth in 1947.   Here are some of the highlights from our conversation: the history of the Edison family in this house what brought the Edison family to Milan, Ohio, "the Silicon Valley of the Midwest" during its heyday how Thomas Edison was shaped by the environment of the town and diversity of the people present background on Edison's "formal" and "informal" educations, and the influence of his mother and sister in his development some of the mischief Edison got into as a child how Thomas Edison is the personification of the American Dream, and why learning about his achievements is so needed in America today how Thomas Edison considered the greatest invention to be "the mind of a child" and how he used his "child-like" curiosity to solve problems and connect the dots through invention and improvements how Edison combined an inventive spirit with the sense of the marketplace, and how he learned this lesson his greatest invention should be considered creating the first Research and Development Company to serve mankind. his leadership ability with his team and ability to mastermind with other prominent businessmen/inventors how adults and children alike can promote an environment and mindset of innovation  Some resources to learn more about Thomas Edison or mentioned in the interview: Innovate Like Edison:  The Five-Step System For Breakthrough Business Success by Michael Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh by James Newton Henry Ford's Greenfield Village To contact the Edison Birthplace Museum, you may do the following: website Facebook page Email  Phone at (419) 499-2135 Thank you for listening.

Joe and Yanik pull back the curtain and share the story of how they started their highest level groups The #1 secret top performers and wealthy entrepreneurs know about getting smarter and super-connected (This is the same secret that historic tycoons like Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and Thomas Edison discovered...) The REAL reason successful people join high level networks, masterminds, and adventure groups Joe shares his "Better Your Best Contest" model formula that leads to members who have more success and pay you more money What Joe said to billionaire Sir Richard Branson at a private dinner that caused Richard Branson to want to be friends with Joe Yanik takes you behind-the-scenes of his Mastermind Groups, Retreats and Maverick Business Adventures (and the 3 keys that make Yanik's groups so powerful) What's the easiest way to set up your own high-level mastermind or network group? Joe and Yanik discuss their most effective strategies and models... Joe uncovers the rarely-revealed factors that cause high-level, influential individuals to bond and build relationships What Genius Network is all about and why the top entrepreneurs and direct response marketers in the world are members of it "The $250,000 Guarantee": Why Joe gives people who join his Genius Network one of the boldest 10x guarantees available anywhere

APOSTLE TALK  -  Future News Now! WWW.REALMIRACLES.COM with Prince Handley TRIANGLE OF SUCCESS: THE SECRET FORMULA You can listen to this message NOW.Click on the LibSyn pod circle (top left). Give it 30 seconds to load. Listen NOW ... or download for later. For INSTANT REPLAY, go to:  www.blubrry.com/prophecy/ After you listen to this message, you can scroll down for all messages previously in the Archives (with Show Notes). RSS PODCAST     TRIANGLE OF SUCCESS: THE SECRET FORMULA MUSIC / INTRO What would you like to attain for the Lord in your ministry, your life, your family, or your business that you have not been able to attain in the past? What is on your wish list? What would you change about your present situation? What are your pains and unfulfilled wants?   The Psalms minister to us to help and direct, as well as to evoke worship. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart." The Hebrew word for "delight" is "anag" and it means to be "pliable" and also to "delight yourself." In other words ENJOY the MESSIAH. Have fun with the Lord, and don't be so tight or bound up that you can't express pleasurable emotion toward Him. If you enjoy him and have pleasurable emotion toward Him, He will grant you the petitions of your inner most being, even your thoughts and intellect. No matter how much you've been used by God in the past ... no matter how much Bible knowledge and training you have ... and no matter how much favor you have with people, there are three (3) things that can make you MORE SUCCESSFUL or break you: Friends; Thoughts; and, Time.   The Holy Bible tells us: "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken." [Ecclesiates 4:12] Learn to ENJOY the Lord and to engage yourself positively in the three (3) areas above. FRIENDS Who are your close friends and associates? Do they contribute to your intellectual and spiritual well being? There are four (4) types of relational space: Public; Social; Personal; and, Intimate.   Public space is usually the space that's 12 feet and beyond. But it can be as close as the cashier at the grocery store. In an elevator it might be closer. Social space is usually four to 12 feet and would normally be experienced at settings like school or social activities. Eye contact and gestures help feed it. Personal space is usually 18 inches to 4 feet and normally found in friendship type relationships. Intimate space can be from touching to 18 inches and is usually experienced with someone who knows the challenging aspects of your life. There is also "naked" space which refers to "emotional" space. This is a relationship, or situation, where your level of vulnerability is very high. Today, there is a lot of teaching, and many books being written, on the subject of mentoring. However, remember that Jesus is the only perfect mentor. He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother! It's easy to be hurt in the fast paced world we live in today; but even in tribal areas where I have ministered there is hurt and hatred; sometimes decades and centuries old. In the USA there has long been a series of stories, songs, and cartoons about the Hatfields and McCoys, feuding families in the hill country. Many people think it is a fictional story made up by writers; however, it is true. In 1878 Randolph Hatfield allegedly stole a pig (swine) from the McCoy family. Eleven (11) people were killed in the 10 years between 1882 and 1892. Recently, after 125 years, the two families signed a document - a covenant before Almighty God - publicly forgiving and releasing each other.MUSIC Proverb 13:20 tells us, "He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." I am sure you know this already, but examine your friendships. Do NOT associate closely with those who have a problem with anger, laziness, talk too much, or are loose with their morals. Also, do NOT associate with those people who keep reminding you of past sins you've already dealt with and for which you've asked forgiveness. They may even be relatives, or those who have been in close relational space as outlined above. These people are doing what God won't even let Satan do: they are going beyond the BLOOD of Christ. The whole intent of the devil using them (even though they may not be cognizant of it) is to put you into a negative spin, to bring you down from the heavenly places (Colossians Chapter Three). It is the devil's attempt to take you back into a place from which you have been forgiven, cleansed, and delivered! A reality check for the future: look at your friends. Associate with other dreamers! I would rather be alone with Jesus than to be with someone who didn't motivate and encourage me. I want to be with people who sharpen my skills and intellect ... who "fan my flames" and enlarge my vision. Three of the greatest inventors the USA has produced used to spend recreational time together in the woods and on picnics: Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and Henry Ford. Associate with the right people. If you don't have anyone with which to associate, then email me your dreams and aspirations, or your problems. I will be glad to share with you. We are all working on the same team with the same goals. Send your email to: PrinceHandley@gmail.com. MUSIC THOUGHTS Whether you realize it or not, you are moving in the direction of your thoughts. Proverb 23:7 tells us "For as he thinks in his heart so is he." The Hebrew word here for "thinks" is "shaar" and is a primitive root which means "to split or open" and to act as a "gatekeeper." Don't open your mind to every thought that comes along? Satan is a liar and the father of lies [John 8:44] and he has a mind oriented strategy to kill you, to steal from you, and to destroy you [John 10:10]. The devil has two main weapons: deception and lies. Your thoughts, like dreams, can come from three (3) sources: God, yourself, or the enemy. If you believe lies from Satan or accusations from people, then you put barriers in your life. Do NOT dwell on them, but realize their source. Defamation of character and an evil report – especially after a person has repented and asked for forgiveness – is out of the pit of hell. It is one of the things that is an abomination to God. [ Proverbs 6:16-19] Do not be a part of it. If someone is attacking you in such a manner, then pray and ask God what you should do about it. He may not have you do anything about it, as the accuser will be severely dealt with by the Holy Spirit. God still has GOOD things for you. When one door closes, God always has a NEW ONE! "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." [Jeremiah 29:11]   Let God's thoughts fill your mind with life, hope, and positivity. Dwell on creative aspects of life and ministry. "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." [2 Corinthians 10:5]   Refuse to retreat. Ask God to give you NEW IDEAS, new thoughts, and creative imagination to reach the world for Messiah. Sometimes I tape large blank sheets of paper 27 by 34 inches (68.6 by 86.4 cm) on my walls just to write down new ideas to reach nations and people for Messiah Yeshua. I have found that either just after, or during, a major attack from the enemy, the Lord usually blesses me with dynamic ideas for reaching mass multitudes with the Good News of Messiah. So when negative thoughts or attacks come my way, they are a "sign" that the enemy is scared, trying to discourage me and get me on a negative bent. The enemy, being a spirit being, probably can recognize an anointing building up – ideas that will be formulated in my mind by the Holy Spirit – which will do great damage to the kingdom of darkness. Therefore, I rejoice for the glory of God that will soon be manifest to people in the tribes and families of the world! How great is our God?! I encourage you to do the same; never back up ... stand still and listen to God's directions ... then advance ... and SEE the salvation of the Lord. MUSIC When the children of Israel were trapped by the Red Sea with Pharaoh and 600 chosen chariots of war hot on their heels, Moses said to them: "Do not be afraid. STAND STILL, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. And the Lord said to Moses, 'Why do you cry to me? Tell the children of Israel to GO FORWARD'." [Exodus 14:13-15]   Hundreds of years later, Jahaziel prophesied to the children of Israel with similar instructions from the Lord: "You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, STAND STILL and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear or be dismayed: tomorrow GO OUT AGAINST THEM, for the Lord is with you." [2 Chronicles 20:16-17]   TIME Previously I discussed the importance of time. We learned that we need the Holy Spirit to anoint our time. Our lives are made up of basic segways of days, in between which we sleep and obtain rest from the Lord. And, every seventh day is ordained from the Lord to bless us as a day of rest. [Isaiah 58] During our waking hours we need to spend quality time talking to the Holy Spirit. The Bible depicts the Spirit as a dove. In Israel the dove was the turtle dove: a beautiful symbol of love, peace, gentleness, and innocence. "And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him (Jesus)." [ John 1:32]   To understand the Holy Spirit more, we should learn what a turtle dove is like.  Turtle doves never fight. Pigeons do. Turtle doves don't like noise. Pigeons do. Turtle doves like to be alone. Pigeons like crowds. Turtle doves are not territorial. Pigeons "bully" each other. Turtle doves can't be trained or domesticated. Pigeons can be. Turtle doves mate for life. Pigeons often have multiple partners.   Now if you want to be close to the Holy Spirit, to have wonderful communion with Him, observe His ways. Then, prepare a nesting place in your heart for the Holy Spirit! Spend quality time with Him. The more you honor Him, the more He will honor you! The Holy Spirit is God's agent on earth to supply the resurrection power of Christ! Learn to ENJOY the Lord so He can give you the desires of your heart. Engage yourself positively and wisely with: Your friends; Your thoughts; and, Your time of fellowship with the Holy Spirit.   I pray this teaching will help you. Now you know the formula: The Triangle of Success. Your friend, Prince Handley Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai. 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Harvey Firestone is a speech therapist whose career has included five U.S. military services, as well as schools, colleges, motion pictures, an extensive radio career, and lecturing. To view some of his publications visit http://www.mshausa.org/MSHAradio/111108.htm

Harvey Firestone is a speech therapist whose career has included five U.S. military services, as well as schools, colleges, motion pictures, an extensive radio career, and lecturing. To view some of his publications visit http://www.mshausa.org/MSHAradio/111108.htm

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