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Confidence isn't something you're born with, it's something you build. And no one embodies that truth more than Erika Cramer, The Queen of Confidence.In this deeply moving episode of Before You Bloom, Erika shares her extraordinary journey, from a childhood marked by trauma, abuse and foster care to joining the US Army as a teenager, experiencing devastating loss, and spiraling into a cycle of toxic relationships and alcoholism. After a near-fatal car accident left her with a broken back and widowed at a young age, Erika knew she needed to change her life. She moved to Australia, healed from her past, and rebuilt her future from the ground up.Now, as the founder of The Queen of Confidence, Erika runs a 7-figure global business empowering women to reclaim their self-worth. In this episode, Erika opens up about what it really takes to break free from self-doubt, navigate fear, and rewrite your story. In this episode, Erika also opens up about her latest book, Becoming Magnetic, a no-BS, real-talk guide to unlocking the power within you. In a world where so many hustle for approval, Erika teaches women how to magnetise confidence, opportunities, and success without apology. Through raw insights, practical steps, and mindset shifts, this book is your roadmap to stepping into your power and owning the space you were born to take.If you've ever felt stuck, unworthy, or afraid to take up space—this conversation will leave you feeling fired up, fearless, and ready to become magnetic.Find Erika : Website & Her NEW book

Aug 7, 2024On this episode of the Bill Alexander Show, Bill talks with Geri Jewell. Geri is best known as Cousin Geri on the NBC sitcom, The Facts of Life. She was the first person with a disability to have a regular role on a prime-time series. She began her career doing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Store in 1978. In 1980 she performed at the 2nd Annual Media Access Awards, where she was introduced to Norman Lear by producer, Fern Field. After her groundbreaking role on Facts she has appeared on such shows as The Great Space Coaster, the Emmy award-winning movie Two of a Kind, Sesame Street, 21 Jump Street, The Young and the Restless, Strong Medicine, and the HBO hit series, Deadwood, which she also received Emmy consideration for. She also co-starred in the independent film "Night of the White Pants" and was featured on the FOX series, Alcatraz. When Geri is not working in television, she is a highly sought after motivational speaker and trainer in the areas of diversity, disability, and GLBT issues. Her training has taken her to such companies as Hewlett Packard, Master Foods, Johnson Wax, AT&T, Amgen, Mass Mutual, and Raytheon. She has also trained such government agencies as The C.I.A., The U.S. Treasury Department, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Army. She is famous for her uncanny ability to captivate the hearts of her audiences by using humor to facilitate attitudinal change. Geri brings to her presentations her personal experiences in life, which in turn allow people to gain insight into the prospect of seeing disability in a totally different light, creating hope where there is none, and joy where there is pain. She has never forgotten her roots in comedy. She has appeared on many of cable comedy shows, including Evening at the Improv on A&E, and Stand Up Spotlight on VHI. She has opened for Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, and Judy Collins. She has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, E! Hollywood True Story, and ABCs 20/20, and A&E's Biography. All in all, Geri enjoys a thriving career. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the 1992 Founders Award, the 2005 Independent Living Legacy Award, and the 2006 Victory Award. Her NEW autobiography, I'm Walking as Straight as I Can received the 2012 Gold Award by the Independent Publishers. She also received the 2013 Golden Halo Award, and the 2013 UCP Life Without Limits Award. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-bill-alexander-show/support

Market Proof Marketing · Ep 298: Building Certainty For The Uncertain Builders with Julie JarnaginIn this episode, Kevin Oakley is joined by our very own Julie Jarnagin to talk about her new book Building Certainty! Julie gives us an inside look into what she believes to be the most valuable takeaways as well as her reasons for writing this book in the first place. Content can be a source of pain for builders, but Julie has simplified the process and created a guide to make it that much easier!Kevin and Julie discuss:Her NEW book "Building Certainty" which you can buy here!What chapters Julie thinks will benefit builders the most.Kevin appreciates in chapter two there is a list of things to “talk about” which kills the excuse that builders usually have when it comes to creating content.The value of the table of contents, why it's helpful and how it works like an index.Building certainty with your brand for your customers. It's not about you, it's about whether or not your customers feel that you can take care of them.Questions? Comments? Email show@doyouconvert.com or call 404-369-2595 and we'll address them on the next episode. More insights, discussions, and opportunities in the Market Proof Marketing Facebook group.Subscribe on iTunes > https://now.doyouconvert.com/mpm-itunesFollow on Spotify > https://now.doyouconvert.com/mpm-spotifyListen On Stitcher > https://now.doyouconvert.com/mpm-stitcherA weekly new home marketing podcast for home builders and developers. Each week Kevin Oakley, Andrew Peek, Jackie Lipinski, Julie Jarnagin, and other team members from Do You Convert will break down the headlines, share best practices and stories from the front line, and perform a deep dive on a relevant marketing topic. We're here to help you – not to sell you!Transcript: KevinAll right. She thought we had already talked about it. And we did. Everyone knows now the building certainty by Julie has been written, but I was like, No, the people need a full interview of just you. There's not an audio book currently, right?JulieNo, not an audio book.KevinSo for those of of those people in the audience who are more like my kids, prepping for school by listening to their books are supposed to read over the summer, I don't know how I feel about that, but some people might need some more like insight in an audio format in order to encourage them to do something that apparently no one does anymore, which is actually read a book.JulieI love it. Well, this is fun. I've never done it from this side. I mean, obviously I'm on the podcast pretty regularly, but never in this seat before where you're interviewing, I guess me. So this is.KevinFirst of all, we have to celebrate and I think we did this a couple times on social media, but people are buying your book. Yes. They read it and implement it. You know, fingers crossed. Hopefully you do good for your business and good for your career. But people are buying the book. It's already it's already fantastically successful, number one, in Amazon under real estate for new releases.KevinI think for long. So who knows? Yeah, I like the fact that you get equally nervous discussing such things as I do.JulieYeah, I know, I know. Well, it's a world like, I don't know. Some people know I used to write fiction, so I have fiction books out, but this is the still different. So this has been fun and it's been fun seeing people say, Oh, I bought multiple copies for my team. It's just it's been fun and the support has been great.KevinYeah. All right. Well, let the hot seat begin. The pleasantries are over.JulieOkay, I'm ready.KevinAnd my main question for you is there are nine, ten, ten chapters in the book. Are there a couple of chapters where you feel like not not the ones that are your favorite to write or you learn the most when you're researching or looking into something, but that you feel like people need. Like a lot of times a little more context.KevinWhen you work with 80 different homebuilders around the country, people are always like, How do you know what to talk about or insight? Because we just you can tell what people need. This was definitely something that people needed. But what are there particular chapters that you think people need more than more than others? When you look at what what folks are doing in today's landscape?JulieSure. One is that probably the shortest chapter. Well, except for the last one, just kind of worksheet. But chapter five is all about like, what do we prioritize? I think what we see with a lot of builders that we're like, Hey, how's content going in the room? Because it encompasses so much and then they just don't know which of those many things that are out there should I actually be working on.JulieSo it's about how to assess what you're currently doing, look at the needs of the company, look at what's out there in the future and how to actually figure out like, okay, what do we actually need to focus on right now and what do we need to start putting into place for the future? So that's kind of a short, quick chapter, but it's also helping them focus in on out of all these things we've talked about in the book, what what do I do first?KevinYeah, I think if you focus on those things that are most important, then you can start building momentum. And a lot of times people just get stuck. And like I talked to someone yesterday, well, we we partner with a company right now to help us create content. I talk to them for a half hour and then four or five weeks later they'll give me something in writing about what we talked about that she's just like, it just feels so slow and hard and it doesn't seem like this is the right, right way to be going about it.KevinSo I think we need to send them a copy of the book and I'll be helpful. But I agree. I think people don't. They're often disillusioned by response to content out of the gate. Mm hmm. I go I always go back to the podcast regularly. Now it gets 500 listeners per episode or so, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.KevinI think the first like six month, well, first two months. Anyway, that we did the podcast, there was like 30 to 50 people and you're like, Is all this worth it? All this prep and getting the technology in place and all the rest. So if you focus on what's most important and the reason why is most important, hopefully it gives you momentum to keep going.KevinSo I love that one. Is there another one that you like? Yeah.JulieI think just the beginning of the book that kind of lays out what is content, why do we need it and just kind of a foundation, because it is a word that people throw around. And so some people, when they think of content, they think of social media and some people think of content and they're just thinking renderings and photos on my site.JulieBut it's all of those things and more and I think I'm a very analytical person. I like a list. So in a way, a lot of the beginning of the book was just breaking things down into pieces where even if some of these things you just know from being in your role, it also is seeing it all in a structure of what topics are we going to cover, what mediums are we going to use, you know, photos, videos, whatever.JulieHow are we going to distribute it then? How are we going to analyze it? It just kind of lays it down in a framework that you can start wrapping your arms around because it's just large.KevinYeah, I think chapter two could have been its own like book in a way as well, which is just what topics should we cover? Which I thought you might say that one, but here's, here's my answer anyway. Why? Number two is extremely important and useful, but I wouldn't have picked it either, is the answer really is stop thinking that everything around you is boring or mundane and just relent to the fact that you need to talk about it all.KevinYou need to have content related to everything. So in chapter two starts on page 22, ends on page 46, and has all I mean, the table of contents anyway, alone. There's two and a half pages of things you can talk about. So that's, that's like excuse wiped away. There is no excuse of, well we don't have anything to talk about.KevinWe're just a fill in the blank. We're just a first time home builder and all these people say this to us. Well, I only build 20 luxury homes a year. Well, I only build on your lot. And that's like, stop saying only. It's all interesting to to a certain audience.JulieAnd the reason I included all of those two is because I think we get stuck in one thing, like, Oh, I've done a million walkthroughs of my house and I've done a million testimonials. It's like there's other you can take the same things and take a different angle at them. I think the real magic that comes in all of these topics is when you start combining more than one topic.JulieSo if you want to feature a floor plan, well how about also grab, you know, people who've lived with that floor plan and you're mixing the people, the homeowners and the floor plan. So a lot of it is just like kind of walling all those topics out on the table. So then you can start mixing and matching and instead of having to use your mental capacity to think of those topics, you can start using that creativity to then put together new and unique things to solve your problems and engage customers and all those good things.KevinAnd I think the fact that people go down that habitual path is a clue to actually the right answer with some with some nudging to get out of a rut is like I remember your former employer. There is this period of time where like every I don't know, I seem like every couple of days or once a week there was a Matterport walkthrough with an audio example and you went through a whole bunch of that, that library because you developed a process and a framework and the strategy and a why.KevinAnd once that momentum got going, it was relatively easy to keep it going. And I think that's what I really enjoy about the book, is it kind of unlocks that, Yeah, just do that. But on a on a different tangent from a different perspective or for a different purpose, again, like the same piece of content, the same advertising channel can be used for multiple reasons.KevinAnd I go to my generally least one of my least favorite forms of media in billboards of a billboard can be a complete brand message, or it can be a turn right here. Message the neighborhoods right around the corner. It's the same. It's the same platform, but used for a different purpose. And that changes everything about how you're thinking about it.KevinSame thing when it comes to content. Am I trying to educate someone? Am I trying to motivate someone? Am I trying to just not be boring? Because this is a complex subject and I need to break it into pieces that people want to absorb. I think it's just a fantastic, fantastic resource. Now, I can't remember I asked you this on the podcast or not, but it's worth asking again, when you wrote this, did you envision people going through it from beginning to end first and then using it as a resource to kind of get back around where you need it?KevinBecause it is I would say it's very snackable in that sense of like, again, you're like, I don't have time to read 130 pages.JulieYeah, I really have two ways I think about it being is, number one, somebody who's been in their role for a long time, they know what content is, but they just need that little bit of like inspiration and, you know, to get them on stock, like you said. And that way it would be very good to just grab the pieces you need and flipping through it as you're, you know, you're stuck on something to possibly spark something.JulieThat's one reason I left the whole when somebody was helping me with the formatting, they put that whole huge table of contents in and at first I was going to remove it and then I was like, You know what? It's actually going to be really helpful for somebody because it almost works like an index. It's like an index that the first of the book, because if they are struggling with maybe some storytelling content and they're wanting to get ideas for that, they can go straight to that part to talk more about their people in their company and their culture and all of those things.JulieThen on the other hand, it's also going to be a good resource for somebody comes in new to your department from another industry, and you just need to get them up and running like you're our new social media person. But I've never been in homebuilding. I feel like it also will give those people just a good foundation to read it cover, to cover and just, you know, have a beginning place of this is this is the basics of content and where to start and where to start looking.JulieAnd it just gets them up and going faster. So I think it does more than one thing.KevinYeah, I would agree with that. I as you, as you were just talking, I was remembering the dummies books, the series.JulieYeah.KevinFor Dummies.JulieOh. And it's yellow.KevinAnd it's yellow. So I was like, you know what? This is almost like content marketing for dummies. Not not in, like, the condescending sense of the word, But there were certain topics where I would buy those books. For those of you who, like the other day, someone didn't know the song Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. So I am constantly reminded of how old I am.KevinThe dummies series was on every topic known to man, and it was kind of like in textbook format, but it tried to be entertaining as much as possible around every subject matter. But there were. There were some of those I would buy like Calculus for Dummies in college that was clearly just like, I need I need a supplemental.KevinLook at that topic. Go read it. Okay, I'm good. It was a reference piece for me. And then there were others where you just from cover to cover. You're like, I just need to start at the beginning and be led all the way through. And the same book could be used either way. So I think that's important. Okay.KevinWhy the name building certainty?JulieWell, I totally ripped that off from Kevin Oakley.KevinHe was giving you a given.JulieYeah, he. He promised he wouldn't sue me for that. So I think it was Summit's a couple of years ago.KevinYou're 29.JulieAnd part of your message was what is marketing? It's building certainty through content. So we were looking at content and marketing from that, from that viewpoint. So then when I start working on a book and started working on title, I just took that for you. And I think right now it is always what content should do. But right now, more than ever in the markets that we've been in is that's what we have to use it for.JulieYeah, it's the basics of like, what do we build, Where do we build it? What does it cost? That's, that's number one. You need to have that. Your website needs to have the basics. That's number one to content. If you don't.KevinThink it's worth, it's worth repeating slightly differently for everyone. Is pricing on your website is content that build certainty in one direction or another. And so even something as mundane as some companies have every price and then a909 for like even that there there needs to be thought put into it. I used to joke with people all the time, you know, when you just when every price change or adjustment this is in 2008 2000 and 2010 and we would publicly change pricing to match market versus promotions like you can't just every price change can't be ten grand or five grand or 15 because well, that clearly communicates to someone paying attention forever, subconsciously as someoneKevinis when, you know, sticks their finger up in the air. I think 10,000 less like why is it always around number round numbers are too convenient in something as complicated as what we do. It's just one. One small example of everything is content that can build certainty.JulieYeah, all the basic stuff. And then just building certainty with with the rest of it. The story building, you know, telling your story, talking about your brand. All of that in the end isn't just to talk about yourself because nobody cares. Nobody cares about your brand and your what they care about is that, you know, you're going to take care of them and that you're going to solve their problems.JulieSo it's looking at all your content from that different angle. Then it's just, you know, I'm going to slap something up there about us. It has to be about the home buyer.KevinAbsolutely. I think like the other day, my brother in law was in town from Sweden and he's he's watching all the cruise ship documentary things on the on Smithsonian Channel. And I saw ads for the first time in a while on television. And it was just every time there was commercial break extra, extra, extra, which if you don't know what extra is, it's just an office chair and it's from all accounts, like I love the chair that I have.KevinIt's fantastic. I have no desire for additional chair. But they talk about this chair in words and in depth that my brother in law was just like, You see this chair? This chair is like the best chair in the world. I go, I mean, it looks like it's cheap materials with a massage and heat function to me and it's chart and they're charging like triple what they should.KevinBut it just goes back to that. The care like that is a lot of times what people are thinking of what they want. Marketing to do is to increase absorption, increase the sales volume of a company. But there are a lot of people listening where your company is not really in that game. Your company's in the business of maximizing revenue per unit sold or margin.KevinIt's a higher end product. And so if you're talking about like if you're can you imagine buying something from what's like the cheapest furniture IKEA. Yeah like well yes an IKEA is unique in that they've really overindexed in the amount of content to help people understand what it is they're getting in a digital format. In particular, they're one of the first to have like air show this thing in your house.KevinBut we can still use IKEA if you are going to buy a sofa from IKEA or a sofa from Pottery Barn or I don't know, Henry Don Like if the amount of written content and imagery and the quality of such is on par, you would never buy it. You know, it's only the the overall and I think that's the other word that I think if I want to suggest book number two is in the series of content is something around the idea of curation because that's I just I think that more and more of that is that's what five chapter five is really about.KevinIt's like, why, why this and not that? And so it's it's both breadth and depth, but also curating it for an intended audience with that intended purpose.JulieYeah, I mean, I think the book is proof that there's plenty of plenty of things to talk about, plenty of ways to do it. It's then taking a step back and looking at what's most important for your home buyer and what's most important for the home builder, for whatever where you are in the in the market. So I think that's what I see with builders.JulieSometimes they're jumping out in front of things, trying to do content before just pausing it. Does that have to be a big, huge thing? Pausing, thinking through messaging, thinking through the final goal. Look at the what is the goal of this content and then working backwards through creating it.KevinAnd I think one of the final like master level things to uncover and understand that sometimes you're creating content as a marketing team that's not for you at all. Meaning it's not for the website, really. It and everything should be there. But I would say a good portion of the content I created in my career prior to coming over to do Convert was creating content specifically for the use of of others in a 1 to 1 interaction framework here.KevinHere is content that helps a salesperson overcome a specific objection as a proof source, as a packaged, curated solution to an objection that they need some help overcoming. It's not, it's not it's almost usually not the broadest possible audience that you can you can reach because it's hard to do that really, really well. And this is where I'm thinking about people like Tilson who have done such a good job, really going narrow and deep in their subject matter to create a really loyal and and devoted audience and what they do.JulieI mean, kind of on that, on that same realm, what I also see is people who create a great piece of content and then it goes out in one specific place for one specific moment. And it's like, why? Like I see this, this is great. Did you send it out in an email? Did you give it to your sales team?JulieIs it somewhere on your website? You know, it's just using those great things. You guys create in more places so more people get eyes on them.KevinYeah, the number of times we still hear Where is this on your website? Oh, it's not. It's just on our YouTube channel or just on on Instagram. And we're like, Huh, What? Yeah, And strange. Still still some challenges to overcome. Awesome. All right. Well, we look forward to giving a copy of this to everyone who's coming to the summit.Kevin350 additional copies there. Julie will be around to sign and engage. And you're going to talk a little bit more about the book as well. So, yeah, this is this is a big one. I I've had now seven people, I think just that I didn't even know that they were buying it. They just send me a picture. Is there a contest going on that I don't know?KevinWhy are people sending me pictures of them holding your book? Then maybe they maybe they need your number. So they're like, Look, I got it. This is awesome. Like, great. Tell you.JulieThey're excited.KevinYeah, yeah, yeah. That's fantastic. All right, well, thank you from the industry for for spend all the time and energy to put this together We need it.JulieYeah. Thank you. And most of all, as I was writing it, really, the only goal was to add some value for it to be something that you guys could use and be homebuilder specific. I've read a ton of marketing books and content books. It's like, Well, that's cool, but doesn't really fit. So really, that's all it's for is just for, for you all to get some, get some good ideas out of it.KevinYeah. So we can't wait to see all the stuff that people make. Hmm. Yes. Friendly kick in the tush. Mm hmm. On the ball.JulieNo excuse.KevinAll right, Awesome. Go get your copy and link in the show notes. Tell us how you're using it as well. We can share that with others and give them ideas of of how you're using. I have heard of book clubs and and the like, and there's some other term there that I'm missing. But people are doing it in little groups, too, which is fun to see.KevinAll right. Thanks, Julie.JulieAll right. This is fun. Thank you.KevinThanks for joining us. On another episode of Market Proof Marketing can't wait for the next one or looking to connect with other new home marketers. Become a member of our private community, the UIC all access, which is 100% free and always will be, get exclusive content not shared anywhere else. Access to private events and the ability to join a marketing impact group with other marketers like you around the country.Visit our link in the show notes or members. Do you convert dotcom to join? All opinions expressed by me Andrew Peek, Jackie Lipinski and our cast mates are solely our own opinions. 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Neuroscientist Mona Sobhani made a profound and brave inner journey. It amounts to a transformation, an awakening. She used to be a hardcore physicalist. Around 2018, in the midst of a life crisis, she began questioning the tenets of conventional western science. They didn't hold when it came to explaining many nonphysical human experiences. So, she dove into the literature, did dozens of interviews and wrote a book about everything she learned and experienced on the way. ”I eventually became much more open minded”, she says. ”But I had an ego struggle. It's hard to let go of this box of beliefs. You just ignore things that don't match the beliefs. That's how the human mind is built. My mind was constantly being blown, with each interview I did.” Mona's ”Old me” would have dismissed someone's story about a spiritual experience as imagination or misinterpretation. Her ”New me” will listen with curiosity and compassion. Everybody experiences the world in a unique way. It comes down to the first-person sentient experience, which is the hard problem of consciousness in science. ”In neuroscience, we don't have any way of measuring how it is to be you or me. You just have to take people at their word”, Mona says. ”Consciousness is the beginning, the middle and the end. What else is there? You can't really tell somebody that they didn't experience something, even though we do that all the time.” She soon realized that you have to ignore a lot of evidence to make the physicalist paradigm work. ”And that's not a very good model.” Mona Sobhani thinks there might be a paradigm shift underway in neuroscience. New papers present theories that say consciousness could be an energy field and that there is an interaction between the field and the brain. Some physicists today say things that intuitives have said for a long time and that are found in ancient texts. Mona's book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena, is packed with references to scientists, philosophers, studies and books. It covers every conceivable spiritual field. She has herself acquired personal experience from many of them, like intuitive readings, meditation, breathwork, psychedelics, astrology and tarot. Psychedelics can broaden your consciousness vastly, she says. ”The boundaries between you and the rest of the world get blurred.” ”It's such a big problem that neuroscience only focuses on the everyday waking state.” It is difficult to find incentives for truly novel research in our current system, according to Mona. There is much bias and inertia. Scientists who apply for a grant must follow old research closely. ”You can only move just a little bit further. You must not shock the reviewers. True innovation is not rewarded.” The media is tainted with a similar bias. And when scientists communicate, it is often ”a disaster”, Mona says. ”They often say 'there is no evidence for that', but that is misleading. What it really means is that it hasn't been investigated. But the readers never know that.” Mona's website Mona's book

Alena received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Michigan State University in 2011 as well as a certification in Music Learning Theory at the Early Childhood Level from University of South Carolina. Alena began working as the Music Director at the renowned Los Angeles Elementary and Early Childhood educational institution: Hollywood Schoolhouse in 2011. In June 2019 Alena premiered her critically acclaimed and highly reviewed “Swiped The Musical,” an inspiring musical romantic comedy about online dating, which premiered June 21st at The Hudson Theatre in Hollywood for the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Swiped The Musical received the Fringe's Encore's extension award for the success of its initial run.Alena co-founded Unicorn Music Academy in January 2020 to open up the young people's hearts and minds to the music around them and give them the tools they ned to organize their ideas and create freely. Most recently Alena has been writing, recording and producing with artists at Homegrown Recording Collective. In November 2021 Alena and her writing partners Catriona Fray and Danny Pravder traveled to New York City to produce a new work titled “Divine Feminine Soul” at The Duplex. CATRIONA FRAY is an artist, teacher, and one of the co-creators and producers of Homegrown Recording & Collective. Her music transcends the spirit into an earthy, soulful Gospel/Worship/R&B/Pop experience. Her first single “Do I Believe In Love” was released in August 2021, recorded at Homegrown Recording, and is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube! Her NEW single “No Fear In Love” is now released on all platforms as well! ​ She is a graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, where was she was a featured soprano in the UCLA ScatterTones a cappella group, traveled around the country singing at the White House, opened for Grammy Award winning Pentatonix, and filmed with recording artist Jojo in a national commercial for Freeform. ​ She has worked on two Kathleen Marshall (three-time Tony Award director/choreographer) productions Mamma Mia at the Hollywood Bowl and Sweet Charity as Rosie. Her favorite leading roles include the Witch in Into the Woods, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, and Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde. NYC Off-Broadway concert credits include, Swing 46, Town Hall, Feinstein's/54 Below, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and The Duplex, where she produced, created, and starred in her own cabaret The Melody Plays On: No One is Alone to help raise awareness and donations for the local domestic violence awareness non-profit "Never Alone Again,” and more recently debuted a piece of original material “Divine Feminine Soul”. During the pandemic, she directed/choreographed/music directed a musical revue for a children's theater (socially distanced and masked), taught musical theater classes, and founded Catriona Fray Studios for the Performing Artist. She teaches piano, guitar, voice, acting, dance, musical theater script writing/songwriting, and yoga to students of all ages! Manoela is a native of Rio de Janeiro, violinist and multi-instrumentalist who has established herself in LA as an exceptionally versatile artist. Classically trained, she has a strong passion for improvisation in jazz, blues, and rock genres and is an active composer and arranger. Notable live performances and recordings include Janelle Monáe, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Kygo, Renée Fleming, The Tenors, Common, Deltron 3030, Amanda Palmer, Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra, Frank Ocean, Marco Antonio Solís, Gloria Trevi, and a Quincy Jones benefit with Lang Lang. In addition, Manoela has been featured in films, TV shows and commercials, and regularly plays as a solo guest violinist with local acts. Her music has been heard in the most prominent halls across the country, including Hollywood Bowl, The Forum, Greek Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Website: https://www.homegrownrecording.com/

My Special Guest Today is Nikita Ivosevic. She is known globally as "Nikita From Croatia" Nikita is a professional Singer-Songwriter, actress, and dancer from Rijeka City Croatia, She's also a Healer and an exorcist. Her NEW album is "Stronger Love" - Pick it up on Apple Music Instagram: @nikita_ivosevic facebook.com/nikita.ivosevic/ YouTube & Apple Music

James Lott Jr has an uplifting conversation with Tracy Taris. Her NEW book is out now: Many Voices, One Truth.Goto AMAZON!Tracy Taris, a licensed marriage & family therapist, experienced her own personal demons as she battled doubt, fear and anxiety which stemmed from negative childhood internal and external influences and voices. As the eldest of six children, Tracy was given a daunting amount of responsibility over her siblings that motivated her to become outspoken. Being a non-conformist caused her to be labeled as “evil.” As an adult, she also endured a family tragedy that brought up a deep fear of early death. Determined to break free and help others, Tracy earned a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology while learning to identify and eliminate personal confusion and chaos caused by negative messages. She discovered healing through Jesus Christ's love and guidance. In her therapy practice, she offers healing techniques to her clients struggling with psychological and relational suffering. Healingmindandspirit.com

Mistress discusses changes in the Network and Cougar Life with Her New 27 year old boyfriend Aswell as being a future guest on Rita's Show in the Cougar Zone

Madame X is a singer and songwriter, from Texas. Her New style and voice will remind you of Maxwell, Lauryn Hill, Musiq Soulchild and Texas very own Erykah Badu. Her song "The sun and her Kisses" is a fan favorite. We had the opportunity to interview this young confident woman.

PART 2 - Author, Photographer and Interior Designer Robin Laughlin lived in the country in Italy in 1999 to see what life would be like without any distractions. Her New book "Losing It In Italy" chronicles her time there.  As we learn in the interview things got lonely and she learned about who she was and what mattered. She shelved the book after first writing it and went on to work on movies and houses, eventually getting brain cancer. After learning how to read and write again she rediscovered the manuscript in her computer in 2020 and finished it.  This is Part 2 of our interview with Robin.Buy her book here: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/losing-it-in-italySupport the show

Author, Photographer and Interior Designer Robin Laughlin lived in the country in Italy in 1999 to see what life would be like without any distractions. Her New book "Losing It In Italy" chronicles her time there.  As we learn in the interview things got lonely and she learned about who she was and what mattered. She shelved the book after first writing it and went on to work on movies and houses, eventually getting brain cancer. After learning how to read and write again she rediscovered the manuscript in her computer in 2020 and finished it.  This is Part 1 of our interview with Robin.Buy her book here: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/losing-it-in-italySupport the show

“In order to serve our family, to serve our friends, to serve the community, we have to serve ourselves.” Self-care is no longer a luxury, It's a necessity. What's more, as a culture, we desperately need to transform our definition of self-care. It's not all luxury massages and delightful bubble baths! Instead, self-care is about asking for help and getting support from your ‘village' so you can overcome the common inhibitors of time, guilt, shame, and negativity bias. Jaime McFadden is an international self-care specialist, health coach, and thought-leader on cultivating a lifestyle of guilt-free wellness. She's also the host of the What's The Word podcast. I recorded this conversation LIVE on Memorial Day Weekend at Feast It Forward festival in Napa. I was so inspired by Jaime's story of holistic self-care backed by a village of support. Jaime is a bold, vibrant soul with masses of energy. I was mesmerized by her story and her vision. In this episode, she shared publicly for the first time the life experiences that took her to the brink and inspired her to bring a self-care message to the world. Don't miss it! “I'm going to choose me for the rest of my life, no matter what that takes.”As a busy mom and successful entrepreneur, Jaime's story is proof of what's possible when we choose ourselves. With the right support, you can hold a lot! For example, Jaime was in full-on book launch mode during the Feast It Forward festival. Her NEW book WAVES of Self-Care is out now. Jaime wrote this book to inspire people to dig deep and discover what they need to enhance their well-being, one baby step at a time. Here's an overview of all the awesome things we got to chat about. Redefining the word selfish. Why do we sometimes need to hit burnout before we'll ask for help?Life is precious. Surrendering the need to hold on. How Jaime's childhood dreams, premonitions, and visions pushed her to the brink. The power of micro-choices on the recovery journey. Experiencing life as a wave. How our presence sparks a ripple of impact. The healing power of self-care. And more…In a world where so much is demanded of us, prioritizing self-care and asking for help is one of the most empowering things we can do. I hope this beautiful conversation with Jaime inspires you to build yourself a village and prioritize your self-care. “The best way that we can present ourselves to the world is when we've actually been a little selfish.” Contact Info:InstagramBuy Jaime's book >>> WAVES of Self-CareWe thrive on your feedback, so if you've enjoyed this show, please rate us and leave us a review. And don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of my favs is BACK! Author Mary Marantz, otherwise known as the author, I want to be when I grow up, is here to talk about what it means to have “Slow growth, but Strong roots.” Her NEW book just hit availability, and you would be giving yourself a giant hug if you go purchase it right now! Grab a cup of something because she's serving us a full course meal with this episode! @Kerrie_Oles www.unlockedministries.com

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Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Today's Sponsor is Quip Electric Toothbrush. Get yours now !!! GetQuip.com/standup Carissa Byrne Hessick is the Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she also serves as the director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project. Before joining the faculty at UNC, she taught at the law schools of Arizona State, Harvard, and the University of Utah. Her work on the criminal justice system has been published by the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, and numerous academic journals. She also has one of the most informative and useful Twitter accounts for anyone interested in criminal justice. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her New book is PUNISHMENT WITHOUT TRIAL:WHY PLEA BARGAINING IS A BAD DEAL 33mins Chris Regan is a comedy writer who won five Emmys during his seven seasons on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Chris currently writes for Fox's long-running animated hit Family Guy, and previously worked on The Jeselnik Offensive, The Burn with Jeff Ross, and Lopez Tonight. He also contributed to the best-selling America: The Book, was the author of Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions, and co-authored the humor book “Shatner Rules” with William Shatner. He recently had the great honor of delivering the commencement address at the Ithaca College graduation ceremony. Def a great follow on twitter  Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe   Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page  

Tracy Goodwin is an internationally known voice command coach and voice analyst. She helps successful professionals and entrepreneurs unleash their greatest asset, their real voice so they can use their voice with confidence, command a presence, captivate their listeners, and make a bigger impact with their message. Tracy is the owner of Captivate the Room. Her business has served thousands of celebrities, thought leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and state supreme court justices over the last 30 plus years with her signature methodology, the Psychology of the Voice™ which transforms voices from the inside out. Tracy holds B.F.A. and M.A., and taught voice for Mike Nichols at the New Actor's Workshop in NYC and has coached actors on numerous Hollywood TV shows. Her New and Noteworthy podcast Captivate the Room gets thousands of downloads a month and she has been featured on over 60 podcasts. She has published numerous articles and the book Captivate the Room with Your Voice. Tracy is a highly sought after speaker on stages globally.   In this episode you'll hear: How your voice is being processed in your audience The first step to take if you to reveal your voice What you can do to feel more confident The worst mistake you can make to keep your listeners attention How to show up and captivate with the best version of you Follow Tracy on Instagram @Captivatetheroom Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn  Follow Tracy on Facebook Listen to Captivate the Room Podcast Learn how today's online experts are experiencing rapid growth while working less Want help with your ads? Click here and apply to work with us!  Do you know about launch cycling? I created a BRAND NEW program to help entrepreneurs get OUT of stress and into alignment to have quantum results. This program is for high achievers, coaches, and CEOs who are ready to lead aligned businesses that get their time BACK, make more money, and have an impact. Join the wait list now to get more information on the program! Tag me while you're listening on Instagram!  @nicoleculver If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you, I would love to hear your biggest takeaway!  Take a screenshot of you listening and post it to your Instagram stories and tag me @nicoleculver  For more show notes visit nicoleculver.co Subscribe & Review in iTunes Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you're not, do that today.  I don't want you to miss an episode.  Click to subscribe in iTunes!  I would be super GRATEFUL if you left me a review over on iTunes, too.  Those reviews help other people find my podcast.  Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and tell me what your favorite part of the podcast is.  Thank you!   

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #162 with Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University, Dr. Anna Lembke.[i] Visit the episode website here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pu82wZRZwo Watch the interview with visuals on YouTube here. Backstory and Introduction 0-13:00 minutes Interview with Dr. Lembke 13:00-49:45 Follow Dr. Lembke https://profiles.stanford.edu/anna-lembke To See Past Episodes of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/ In Today's Episode, you will learn: ✔︎ About the addictive nature of social media, as well as why people become addicted to certain behaviors and substances. ✔︎About her 30 Day Dopamine Fast: An 8 step process that she suggests to help us to reset our brains if we have had a surplus of dopamine in our brain due to over-indulgence that helps many people "kick their bad habits" to the curb.  ✔︎ What is happening in the brain when we experience withdrawals when we try to stop a habit or behavior and how to overcome this uncomfortable feeling for increased happiness, mental health and awareness. ✔︎What exactly is the pleasure/pain balance and why we should all be able to recognize when we are getting too much of a good thing. ✔︎How to return to whatever it is that you enjoyed in moderation. You may have seen her in the Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma [ii] where she discusses the addictive nature of social media, explaining that it taps into “our basic biological imperative to connect with other people—that directly affects the release of dopamine and the reward pathway” (32:35 The Social Dilemma) and she warns us that “there's no doubt that a vehicle like social media which optimizes this connection between people is going to have the potential for addiction.” Dr. Lembke is more concerned with our children and her children (who appear in the documentary with her) and on today's podcast, she will arm us with the knowledge that she shares with her own children daily.  Her book Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked and Why It's So Hard to Stop[iii] (2016) is a good overview of what addiction is, and the dangers of prescription drugs. Her NEW book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence[iv] that was just released last month, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain…and what to do about it. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our own productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. My vision is to bring the experts to you, share their books, resources, and ideas to help you to implement their proven strategies, whether you are a teacher working in the classroom or online, a student, or parent working in the corporate space. This week's interview with Dr. Anna Lembke on her NEW book Dopamine Nation is based on true stories of her patients falling prey to addiction and finding their way out again with stories that many of us might find to be shocking, but she explains that “they are just extreme versions of what we are all capable of.” (Dopamine Nation) When reading this book, or listening to this interview, I encourage you to think about your own life, your behaviors and what you might be running from since we are all running from something and like we have mentioned many times before on the podcast, awareness is the key to making any behavior change that can have a lasting impact on our productivity and results. My hope is that we can all take an honest look and find places where we might be leaking energy, to close those gaps, and redirect that energy towards our goals. We covered the topic of addiction at the start of this year with Aneesh Chaudhry (EPISODE 102)[v] on “Mental Health, Well-Being and Meditation: Overcoming Addiction Using Your Brain” and I first mentioned Dr. Lembke on episode #157[vi] “Overcoming Digital Addiction Using Neuroscience” after a discussion with our friends about technology use led me to Dr. Lembke. This episode was a popular one, with over 700 downloads in the first few days of release. Then when I posted that I was working on this episode, over Labor Day weekend, I had many messages from friends and colleagues who shared with me that they were very interested in this topic. I think this is something that we should all be aware of, since most of us also have not ever had any training on the topic of addiction, yet we all know someone who struggles in some way. We can also learn so much about ourselves with this information. Understanding how chemical, behavioral, and even digital addictions are formed/broken can help us all to navigate our lives, with a deeper level of awareness that can close up those gaps where we waste energy, to improve our productivity. Medical Disclaimer: Just a reminder—I would consider myself a researcher, sharing preventative and supplemental ideas and strategies related to the most current research on the brain, health and wellness education. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have about your health and remember that you should never disregard medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you learn through this podcast. Keep in mind, Dr. Lembke recommends her 30 day dopamine fast for people with less severe addictions and anyone who is struggling with a serious drug or alcohol addiction should seek further treatment from their medical provider. Back to the episode… Dr. Lembke's book, Dopamine Nation shows us what happens when we get too much of a good thing, but we can use this understanding to counteract the effects of this neurotransmitter in our brain, bringing us back to balance, and productivity.  PART I The Pursuit of Pleasure  In part 1 of the book, called The Pursuit of Pleasure, Dr. Lembke gives some examples of “how we are constantly trying to distract ourselves from the present moment to be entertained” and “that we're all running from pain—we'll do almost anything to distract ourselves from ourselves” and that “we've lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort.”  When I thought about this part of the book, I couldn't agree more thinking of all the times I grab my phone to distract myself from something, anything difficult that comes my way, instead of staying in the present moment. Chapter three goes deeper into the  science of brain chemistry, discussing two key features of the effects of dopamine: the brain's tendency to seek homeostasis, and the development of tolerance PART 2 Self Binding: Dr Lembke describes some encounters with her patients, and how to keep addictive behaviors under control. She covers Dopamine Fasting with an ACRONYM to help us learn how to use her 30-day Dopamine Fast to reset our brains. Dr. Lembke will explain her 30-day Dopamine Fasting Plan for people with less severe addictions, where she often sees people return to their “drug of choice” in a controlled way.   30 Day Dopamine Fast  Data: what are  you using, how much, how often? Objectives: what does it do for you? Problems: or downsides does it cause?  Abstinence: stop using it for a month and see what happens Mindfulness: be prepared to feel worse before you feel better  Insight: abstaining from our drug of choice gives us incredible insight that we cannot see without stopping. What did you learn? Next Steps: moving forward without the drug/behavior even when you miss it. Can you do that? Experiment: Go back out into the world, experiment and see what works and what doesn't.   If there is something that you want to change in your life, try going without it for 30 days, and see what happens. Only you will know if this will work for you or not. Dr. Lembke noted that “even when moderation is achievable, many of her patients report it's too exhausting to continue, and they ultimately opt for abstinence in the long haul” (Dopamine Nation). PART 3 The Pursuit of Pain: Dr. Lembke explores the opposite side of the equation: seeking out things that are painful, in order for the brain to tend to increase feelings of pleasure immediately afterward in an attempt to regain homeostasis. Explains the “pain” side of addiction and the importance of finding balance, radical honesty and self-awareness because “people who lean too hard and too long on the pain side of the balance can also end up in a persistent dopamine deficit state.” (Dopamine Nation) After releasing EPISODE 157 that explained Dr. Lembke's work and her 30 day dopamine fast, I almost wanted to move on past this topic, as I say often, there are entire podcasts dedicated to addiction[vii], and they do a much better job than I ever could. But there is another reason I would rather skip it, and that's because it's a difficult topic. It's much easier to move on past it than talk about something I'm still trying to learn and understand myself, because we weren't taught this topic in school for us to know how it to handle it when it shows up in our life. I remember the extent of my education on this topic was in 9th grade, when our PE teacher said, “don't drink alcohol to cover up your problems.” I remember she appeared to be uncomfortable with the topic, but it's an important one. If you ask anyone, we all know someone who suffers with a chemical addiction (alcohol or drugs) and since this topic was never a part of our schooling, it's easy to criticize what we don't understand, let alone recognize it in our own behaviors. When I first encountered someone with an addiction, around 20 years ago, I couldn't understand why they couldn't just have one or two drinks and call it a night. Why did they have to keep going? What's going on in the addicted brain?  This was years before we could type our questions into Google and get hundreds of articles to help us (like Dr. Lembke's work, or even Dr. Amen's work on the addicted brain), so I would go to our local library and find books that explained addiction to gain some understanding. I wish Dr. Lembke's first book was there, as it wasn't easy to navigate this topic. Not being the type to sweep anything under a rug, I found some ideas and solutions for this person to enter into a local rehab program[viii] to get further help, but this opened up a can of worms with a problem that was never discussed and made me really popular in that family, but this understanding gave me a new level of awareness that would help someone else years later. This awareness helped my husband with one of his best friends from high school who called one day to confide in him that he had a heroin addiction, and was entering a faith-based rehabilitation program, but wanted one of his friends to know what was really going on with him. His initial reaction would have been to say “what the heck is wrong with you? Heroin addiction? Are you an idiot? How did this happen?” but because of all that time I spent researching at the library, I explained to him how addictions happen, often beginning innocently (using pain killers after a surgery) or in his friend's case, using uppers to help him through his busy days). This explanation helped him to talk with his friend with more understanding and his friend did well in recovery, helping many others for a few years, until one day, it beat him, and he was gone. I know this is a complex topic, often resulting in death like we saw with my husband's high school friend, or we see with celebrities who have been unable to break the cycle, and the pandemic has magnified this issue for those who were stuck in their homes for all of this time, but with the understanding of our brain in mind, my hope is that this topic no longer is swept under the rug, but talked about openly to find solutions with our brain in mind. Let's meet Dr. Anna Lembke and explore her new book, Dopamine Nation, together to gain a deeper understanding for those who struggle with serious addiction, to those with less severe, and see if her 30 day Dopamine Fast could be a solution to tighten up the gaps and improve our productivity. Welcome Dr. Lembke, thank you so much for agreeing to speak with me on the podcast today. I've got to tell you that before I hit send on your email to invite you on the show as a guest, I thought twice, a bit nervous about you actually replying and saying yes because I knew I needed to talk about a topic that I have avoided going deeper into, but at this point, It was obvious that I couldn't  avoid it any longer, so thank you for agreeing to speak with me so quickly, allowing me to be more authentic and open. Dr. Lembke, before we get to the questions I have on your most recent book, Dopamine Nation, I wanted to ask a question that ties into where I first saw you, in the movie The Social Dilemma (which scared the living daylights out of me) where you talk about how “social media is a drug—that directly affects the release of dopamine and the reward pathway”[ix] and you talk about how with all of your knowledge and experience, you are still worried about your own kids and their time spent using these apps. I know your kids are a bit older now since that film was released, but what did you tell your kids DAILY about how our brains respond to certain apps on our cell phones? NOTE: This question sums up everything I want to ask you in this interview, and that at the end, we can come back to your answer here, and I know it will sum everything up perfectly. I launched this podcast helping educators and those in the workplace to understand how to apply the most current neuroscience research into the classroom and workplace because it's so important, and many of us need this information, but it wasn't taught to us in school. Either was the topic of addiction, and this is why I thought it was so important to reach out to you, because your first book on this topic, Drug Dealer MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop (2016)[x] explains what is addiction and who is at risk, Dopamine Nation goes beyond chemical addiction (drugs and alcohol) to understanding the Social Dilemma you spoke about in the Netflix movie and beyond that with how our brains respond to anything we do to escape “even minor forms of discomfort.” Q1: So diving into your book, Dopamine Nation, I thought I'd seen it all, but I'm sure there's a lot you see in your practice that shows to what extent we distract ourselves from whatever it is that's painful in our present moment. You give some good examples that drill down this point, and I thought about how often I use my phone to distract me from difficult times in life (From serious life challenges to minor things). I know we can all think of what we do to escape from life, but can you explain why not being In the present moment and dealing with life's challenges as they come up (whether we are using our phones as an escape/drugs/alcohol, romance novels, binge watching Netflix, whatever it is we do) only make our challenges worse?  Q2: I think I've got an understanding of what happens to our brain when we are in a dopamine deficit. Would it be accurate to say this is what happens when we cut something out that we liked, and experience withdrawals? 2B) What happens to our brain when we overindulge? I had never heard of the idea that you mention in the article one of my friends put on the windshield of my car[xi] about how too much pleasure (with our phones, or video games or whatever it is) can tips us towards feeling pain. I'm not sure I have ever felt this, or I'm not aware of it. What is the pleasure /pain balance and how do we know we have had too much of a good thing? Q3: But you say there's good news, and that our brains can reset if we do what you call a dopamine fast (30 days away from whatever we were doing) and our brains can go back to balance or baseline. With the young man who was playing video games, he went back to doing what he enjoyed by modifying his behavior and making sure he kept his work and gaming separate. You talk about after the 30 days, that you experiment and see what works and what doesn't. I know an alcoholic can't after a month of abstinence go back to “controlled” drinking (as much as they would like to). How does the dopamine fast work and is there something we should watch out for to make sure our brains don't get flooded with dopamine again?  Dopamine is not the only neurotransmitter involved in reward processing, but most neuroscientists agree it is among the most important. Dopamine may play a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the pleasure of the reward itself. Wanting more than liking. The more dopamine a drug releases in the brain's reward pathway (a brain circuit that links the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens, and the prefrontal cortex), and the faster it releases dopamine, the more addictive the drug. Q4: When I saw your rewards and dopamine chart that show how much dopamine is released with chocolate vs sex vs drugs, and you say that learning “also increases dopamine firing in the brain.” Where would learning or other healthy habits fit on your rewards/dopamine release chart? How can we be sure we are not being “indulgent” with healthier habits like learning/exercise? In your article[xii], the young man who played video games was able to go back to playing video games with a modified schedule. Then I read about how the brain changes with high dopamine rewards. (Experience dependent plasticity). Does this mean that high reward behaviors you can't limit, and you can never go back to them? Don't we eventually experience tolerance with all behaviors, and over time would find them boring anyway? (Your example reading your novels they were never as exciting as the first read, or when we rewatch a Netflix series we loved, it's never as good as the first time). Where does tolerance fit into the equation? Experience Dependent Plasticity The brain encodes long-term memories of reward and their associated cues by changing the shape and size of dopamine-producing neurons. For example, the dendrites, the branches off the neuron, become longer and more numerous in response to high-dopamine rewards. This process is called experience-dependent plasticity. These brain changes can last a lifetime and persist long after the drug is no longer available PART II Self-Binding chapter four: Dopamine Fasting chapter five: Space, Time, and Meaning chapter six: A Broken Balance? Q5: Can you explain your ACRONYM for DOPAMINE and what happens to our brain when we take a month off of using our drug of choice? Dr Huberman[xiii] said it really well in his recent interview with you, the first 10 days suck. Why does this dopamine deficit feel so bad? “A week would be good, but in my experience, a month is usually the minimum amount of time it takes to reset the brain's reward pathway. If you don't feel better after four weeks of abstaining, that's also useful data. That means the cannabis isn't driving this, and we need to think about what else is. So what do you think? Do you think you would be able and willing to stop cannabis for a month?” Younger people recalibrate faster than older people, their brains being more plastic. Furthermore, physical withdrawal varies drug to drug. It can be minor for some drugs like video games but potentially life-threatening for others, like alcohol and benzodiazepines. Mindfulness practices are especially important in the early days of abstinence. Many of us use high-dopamine substances and behaviors to distract ourselves from our own thoughts. When we first stop using dopamine to escape, those painful thoughts, emotions, and sensations come crashing down on us. Q5B) Why does tolerance occur? Dr. Lembke, I could spend the next week asking you more questions, but know I've got to wrap up this interview. Q6: To close out our questions, I wanted to give something for our listeners to be able to apply on this topic. I know that you openly talk about something you stopped doing in the book that you enjoyed, and I was on the tail end of letting go of a habit that I loved when someone put the article on my car about your 30 day dopamine fast, showing me how important it was to understanding this at the brain level.  Going back to the first question I asked you, “what do you tell your kids daily about dopamine/the pleasure/pain balance and dopamine deficit and the risk of addiction” what should we all know dopamine, and breaking free of its hold over us? Q7: Final thoughts? What should we all know about Dopamine Nation? Thank you very much for your time today. I will put the links to Dopamine Nation in the show notes, and for anyone who wants to reach you, is the best way through your Stanford website? Thank you Dr. Lembke. BIO: PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (GENERAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY-ADULT) Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Lembke was one of the first in the medical community to sound the alarm regarding opioid overprescribing and the opioid epidemic. In 2016, she published her best-selling book on the prescription drug epidemic, "Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Her book was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). "Drug Dealer, MD" combines case studies with public policy, cultural anthropology, and neuroscience, to explore the complex relationship between doctors and patients around prescribing controlled drugs. It has had an impact on policy makers and legislators across the nation. Dr. Lembke has testified before Congress and consulted with governors and senators from Kentucky to Missouri to Nevada. She was a featured guest on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, MSNBC with Chris Hayes, and numerous other media broadcasts. Using her public platform and her faculty position at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Lembke has developed multiple teaching programs on addiction and safe prescribing, as well as opioid tapering. She has held multiple leadership and mentorship positions and received the Stanford's Chairman's Award for Clinical Innovation, and the Stanford Departmental Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Lembke continues to educate policymakers and the public about causes of and solutions for the problem of addiction. Look for her new book, "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021). FOLLOW DR. ANNA LEMBKE:  https://profiles.stanford.edu/anna-lembke https://tedx.stanford.edu/lineup/anna-lembke https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/drug-dealer-md   FOLLOW ANDREA SAMADI:  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreaSamadi   Website https://www.achieveit360.com/   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samadi/  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Achieveit360com   Neuroscience Meets SEL Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2975814899101697   Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreasamadi   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasamadi/    RESOURCES: https://tedx.stanford.edu/lineup/anna-lembke Reward Pathway in the Brain Khan Academy Lesson https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/processing-the-environment/drug-dependence/v/reward-pathway-in-the-brain REFERENCES: [i] https://profiles.stanford.edu/anna-lembke [ii] The Social Dilemma Full Feature Netflix Movie Published on YouTube August 17, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqR_e2seeM [iii] Drug Dealer MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked and Why It's So Hard to Stop https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Dealer-MD-Doctors-Patients/dp/1421421402 [iv] Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke August 24, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence-ebook/dp/B08KPKHVXQ [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #102  “Mental Health, Well-Being and Meditation: Overcoming Addiction Using Your Brain” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/aneesh-choudhry-on-mental-health-well-being-and-meditation-overcoming-addictionusing-your-brain/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #157 on “Overcoming Digital Addiction Using Neuroscience” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-overcoming-digital-addiction-using-neuroscience/ [vii] 15 Best Addiction Podcasts for 2021 https://www.choosingtherapy.com/addiction-podcasts/ [viii] https://www.bannerhealth.com/es/services/behavioral-health/treatment-programs [ix] The Social Dilemma Full Feature Netflix Movie Published on YouTube August 17, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqR_e2seeM [x] Drug Dealer MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop (Nov.15, 2016) https://www.amazon.com/Drug-Dealer-MD-Doctors-Patients/dp/1421421402 [xi] Digital Addictions are Drowning Us in Dopamine by Dr. Anna Lembke. (Saturday August 14/Sunday August 15, 2021) https://www.wsj.com/articles/digital-addictions-are-drowning-us-in-dopamine-11628861572 [xii] IBID [xiii] Dr. Andrew Huberman's Huberman Lab Podcast https://hubermanlab.com/dr-anna-lembke-understanding-and-treating-addiction/

Guest: Yoshito Darmon-ShimamoriBook:  The Parents' Guide to Raising Multi-literate ChildrenWebsite:  Library4Multilinguals HOST of the PLAYFUL CHINESE Podcastis Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett and many parents and children know her as "Miss Panda."You can visit Miss Panda and explore her resources at  Miss Panda Chinese. Her NEW book is First Mandarin Sounds: an awesome Chinese word book that helps parents to guide kids to acquire first Chinese words and essential Mandarin sounds in a playful and literacy-building approach. The theme music for the podcast is composed and performed by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett "Miss Panda." The title of the song is “Hello Nǐ Hǎo” and it is the title song in the “Let's Learn Mandarin Chinese with Miss Panda!” MP3 and streaming album and you can listen to the album on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, GooglePlay, and all major streaming platforms.   Music credit: (interview)"Somewhere Sunny" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. Dr. Christine Montross is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a practicing inpatient psychiatrist and performs forensic psychiatric examinations. She completed medical school and residency training at Brown University, where she received the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry and the Martin B. Keller Outstanding Brown Psychiatry Resident Award. Her New book Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration She received her undergraduate degrees and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Michigan, where she also taught writing classes as a lecturer following graduation. She was born and raised in Indianapolis. Dr. Montross's first book, Body of Work, was named an Editors' Choice by The New York Times and one of The Washington Post's best nonfiction books of 2007. Her second book, Falling Into the Fire, was named a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For. Her latest book, Waiting for an Echo, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also named a New York Times Book to Watch For, a Time Magazine Book to Read in July and an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month. She has also written for many national publications including The New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, Time Magazine, The Washington Post Book World, Good Housekeeping and O, The Oprah Magazine. Dr. Montross has been named a 2017-2018 Faculty Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, a 2010 MacColl Johnson Fellow in Poetry, and the winner of the 2009 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Emerging Indiana Authors Award. She has also had several poems published in literary journals, and her manuscript Embouchure was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Constitutional Law Scholar, author, professor and now podcaster as well as close personal friend of mine Eric Segall joined me to talk about the remaining challenges to the election outcome by the Trump Campaign and the consequences of the damage already done Buy his books.  Follow him on twitter Listen to his new Podcast Supreme Myths Eric J. Segall graduated from Emory University, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the research editor for the Law Review and member of Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Chief Judge Charles Moye Jr. for the Northern District of Georgia, and Albert J. Henderson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After his clerkships, Segall worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, before joining the Georgia State faculty in 1991. Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others. Segall's op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24 and all four of Atlanta's local television stations. He has also appeared on numerous local and national radio shows. Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

**This episode is brought to you by MuteSix, Honeycomb Credit, and Fenix Commerce**   “Even in our darkest moments, beautiful things can happen,” says Mia Jestina, Founder of Wellthy, a brand that makes sustainable jewelry from recycled metals. In December 2019, Mia had a car accident that required her to undergo two surgeries. Despite her spinal injury and the challenges of the pandemic, she launched her brand. It turns out that her accident brought painful changes in her life. But it also gave her a new focus and led to her a greater sense of self-realization. Mia says that it may be scary to step out of your comfort zone. So, one needs a strategy to refrain from negative thoughts. She advises entrepreneurs to understand current as well as upcoming landscapes. A growth mindset and business positioning are necessary. She talks about: * Why she is grateful to her husband * Overview of the brand * Her spinal injury and pandemic timeline * Experience with painful changes * Her New focus * How a negative loop becomes addicting * Advice for new entrepreneurs Join Ramon Vela and Mia Caine as they break down the inside story on The Story of a Brand. For more on Wellthy, visit: https://shopwellthy.co/ * OUR SHOW IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF MUTESIX. MuteSix is the leading agency in performance marketing. They have been in this space for nearly eight years, growing and scaling the world's most recognizable e-commerce brands with breakthrough creative, targeted media buying, and data-driven results in every step of the funnel. They're currently offering listeners a FREE omnichannel marketing audit. Their team of auditors will perform a deep dive analysis into your current marketing efforts and identify which strategies might be budget wasters and which strategies will improve performance. The audit covers all digital marketing channels, including Facebook, Google, Email, Amazon, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, Influencer, Programmatic, and Website CRO. For your free digital marketing consultation, visit: mutesix.com/storyofabrand * This episode is also brought to you by Honeycomb Credit. With Honeycomb Credit, you can transform your customers into your biggest brand advocates by giving them the chance to lend directly to your growing business. Brands looking to expand nationally, buy equipment, or launch a new product have used Honeycomb to get the funds they need while engaging their customers in a whole new way. Learn how to level up your customers today visit https://www.honeycombcredit.com/brand * This episode is also brought to you by Fenix Commerce. Folks, we all know delivery and shipping are a major pain. Fortunately, with FenixCommerce, you can now deliver a better customer experience AND improve conversions up to 14% by providing personalized actual delivery dates and options directly on your Webstore. And post-purchase, stay on top of things with Fenix proactive delivery alerts. FenixCommerce - the leading AI-powered SaaS platform Retailers trust to optimize the entire order, shipping, and delivery experience. For more details, check out fenixcommerce.com

HAPPY PRIDE SEASON, QUEER CREATIVES! On this week's episode, Renessa goes on a bisexual rant! And our guest this week is the beautiful Sherry Vine—a drag legend with 30 years under her sequined belt! She’s toured the world with her all-live singing and comedy shows, is the star and writer of She’s Living For This (which you can watch on Hulu), numerous movies, shows, and awards. Her NEW show, the Sherry Vine Variety Show is out on OUT TV and features Alaska Thunderfuck, Bob the Drag Queen, Jackie Beat, Bianca del Rio, Alec Mapa, and more.  We hear all about the new show, living in working own LA during the pandemic, creating her own path with her craft, starting a theatre company in NYC in the 90s, her inspirations, doing drag for as long as she has, collaborating with other artists and newer drag queens, and adapting and evolving as a creative professional. Show links:Email your bisexual and pansexual questions to Renessa at renessa@thequeercreative.com! Bisexual Resources: https://biresource.orghttps://bi.org/enSherry Vine: http://sherryvine.comThe Shery Vine Variety Show:Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-sherry-vine-variety-show/umc.cmc.33pvnry6de77wdysfgc0xh2tmOUT TV: https://outtv.ca/sherry-vine/Follow Sherry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misssherryvine/Follow Sherry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissSherryVineFollow Sherry on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100050224820534

With a lifelong passion for the paranormal and history, Nic Beauchamp founded the Tri-City Ghost Hunters Society in 2009. Since forming the group, she has presented at libraries and universities across the state of Michigan with the goal of educating individuals on the paranormal and expressing the importance of preserving history through investigation. She has had the honor of co-lecturing with renowned paranormal researcher John E.L. Tenney, and her work has been featured in dozens of national and international publications. In 2015, she wrote a guest editorial for TAPS Paramagazine and was featured on Beyond Reality Radio, where she was recognized for her hard work and dedication to the paranormal by Jason Hawes, the star of Travel Channel's Ghost Nation. Her NEW book Ghost of Bay Cities, Michigan is out now and I can't wait to talk with her! All that and Lisa Morton with a new Ghost Report this week on Ghost Magnet with Bridget Marquardt.    #GhostsOfBayCity #HauntedMichigan #HauntedAsylums

From being a singer and songwriter in big cities to falling in love with a man and the land in rural America, Eliza’s story reveals one possibility after another. She epitomizes being a “possibilist” always asking “What can we do if this is where we want to get? How could we do a version of what could be?” Eliza brings sparkle to this podcast through her engaging story-telling about “listening to the small voice inside that says something has to change” and knowing that is a clue to your authentic self and how possibilities will find you. And for Eliza, living in a place where there are 3 people per square mile, that has even included making music with a famous ex-rocker!Eliza Blue is a shepherd, writer and folk-singer. In addition to her weekly column “Little Pasture on the Prairie,” which is carried by twelve different publications, she is a regular contributor to South Dakota Public Radio and Prairie Public Radio with her monthly series: Postcards from the Prairie.Her first book, Accidental Rancher, a collection of essays about her transition from urbanite to ranch hand, came out in 2020. Other writing credits include a recent New York Times Op/Ed about ranch life. Her New television show for SDPB, Wish You Were Here, a traveling concert series celebrating rural life, debuted in January 2021. Her creative work and story can be found at www.elizablue.netEliza, her rancher husband and two children live in rural northwest South Dakota along with the lambs, chickens and a donkey.

Máiréad Monday's special guest this week is the brilliant and beautiful AVA, solo artist and CELTICWOMAN pal! Éabha McMahon has a unique Irish Traditional style of singing known as Sean Nós. We have the Chats Choons and Craic about the importance of music, our culture, and our families of musicians! Her NEW song LOUD is out now!

Signs & Symbolism chat with Jill Rhiannon, Melanie Channell & Karen Tants. Jill Rhiannon compiled "Reading Between the Signs, an Anthology of Signs & Synchronicities". Melanie Channell & Julie Ann Guthrie-Smulson are Co-Authors of pieces in the Anthology. Karen Tants was also a contributing Co-Author  as well as the editor of this book, other books (including Julie's book Master In The Making) & other anthology series. Melanie Channell is a Tarot Life Coach, Numerologist, Reiki Master, Chios Energy Healing Teacher, crystal healer, and angel healer. She is a co-author of three Amazon best-selling anthology books and is currently working on her own book on Numerology, healing, and reading number sequences.  Her New class The Numbers Speak - Learning to use Numbers for Healing and Guidance was just launched this Monday 6/29/2020.http://www.heartworksnow.comwww.facebook.com/HeartWorksnow/Karen Tants is an editor, ghost-writer, and author at Healing Pen Publishing, where she offers editing, formatting, cover design and social media graphics for self-publishers of personal books and anthologies. She has helped to support many bestselling authors and compilers to get published. Karen loves her dream job of helping others to share their own voice, get their books to print-ready, and to successfully navigate the publishing world.Karen has so far co-authored in eight anthologies and has plans to write her own fifth book in the not-too-distant future.Karen has a background in healing and is a Usui Reiki and Seichim master practitioner/teacher (since 2006).www.heavenawakenings.onangelswingsreikiwww.facebook.com/karen.tantswww.facebook.com/intuitiveediting/www.facebook.com/The-Wisdom-Portal-www.facebook.com/templeofpeaceangels/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/spiritualalchemyenergy)

Socio Critic, Multimedia Artist and great friend of mine Bad Dominicana graced this episode with her thoughts on 'La Raza Latina', very important misconceptions of race that Residente of 'Calle 13' has exemplified on social media, the social brackets of Black Latina Artists Tokischa and Gailen La Moyeta, Her New single 'U Could Be' Bad Dominicana zahira.co Venmo: ZahiraKelly patreon.com/bad_dominicana U Could Be by Bad Dominicana on All Digital Platforms Reggaeton Con la Gata Subscribe to youtube.com/c/reggaetonconlagata Merch at etsy.com/shop/reggaetonconlagata Learn at reggaetonconlagata.con Follow instagram.com/reggaetonconlagata Support at patreon.com/reggaetonconlagata Cash.app/reggaetonconlagata 

Enjoy Máiréad Mondays with my special guest today, Chloe Lowery, star of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rocktopia on Broadway and solo artist! Her NEW album, "THE IN-BETWEEN," is out now!

Very excited to have Chloë Agnew of supergroup, Celtic Woman, joining me today! Her NEW solo album "REIMAGINED" is out now! Also joining me today is the design force and team behind Celtic Woman; the amazing Caroline Burke Nesbitt of 'Designedly' to chat about the new CD "CELEBRATION", out now!

In this Podcast I interviewed Celia Kibler, a Childhood Behavior Expert & Author. Celia holds a BS/Human Ecology Education and is Certified in Nutrition; Sleep Science; Brain Fitness; Personal Training/Kids; Lifestyle Weight Management; Radiant Child Yoga & Laughter Yoga. Her New book, Taming the Toddler: The Ultimate Parenting Manual will be released in May 2020. We spoke about 5 steps to stop yelling at your kids and tips to handle your family during the quarantine.

Episode 023 - The Journey of Becoming A Working Mama with Lorraine Murphy  Welcome to the latest episode of One Woke Mama with Lorraine Murphy. I’m lucky enough to chat to Lorraine Murphy, who some of you might remember from the first iteration of my podcast - The Wellness Project - where we explored all things business and baby. If you aren’t sure of who Lorraine is let me share a bit about her - Lorraine is an award winning entrepreneur, best selling author or three books now, speaker and mentor.Her NEW book, Baby, You’re Remarkable inspired today’s conversation designed to support you to calm the chaos, to get and stay organised and how to blend running a biz or working alongside being a mama. This is the book that Lorraine had wished for when first toying with the idea of starting a family alongside running her own multi-million dollar business.How to thrive with both babies - business and her real baby. Her book is candid. Real - full of truths and stories that will inspire and support you.It’s not a book of tips and specific guidance but it is a book full of insights, life hacks and ideas designed to be “cherry picked” based on you and your unique family and circumstance. Lorraine and I dive into some big stuff: Preparing for the arrival of a new baby and becoming a working mum. The challenges and struggles she faced and what she learned from that journey. The stress and pressure she felt in planning to have a family when things didn’t go to plan. What she has learned about combing work with motherhood and so much more. This is definitely one for you if you are a working mama, considering returning to work, starting or running your own business or even not yet a mama and wondering how the heck you are going to do it all. I highly recommend going back to episode #17 in my previous podcast (still available in iTunes just scroll down!) or go here: www.claireobeid.com/episode17 Show notes: Visit Lorraine here: www.lorrainemurphy.com.au Get her new book here: https://lorrainemurphy.com.au/baby-youre-remarkable/ Say hi to Lorraine on instagram here: www.instagram.com/lorraineremarks and connect with me on insta too: www.instagram.com/claireowellness It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to One Woke Mama - join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us. Love + light, Claire

I have Kateri Ewing on the show with me today. We talk about the impact John Ruskin has had on us as artists, about her work and teaching, and about her unique point of view on drawing and learning to see. We touch on many things here- I cannot wait for you to take a listen! Stay until the end for a beautiful reading of one of her poems and for some notes for my listeners participating in this month's Fésole Club! #fesolebranstock --- Find Kateri Ewing's work here: Personal website: https://www.kateriewing.com/ Her NEW drawing book: "Look Closer, Draw Better: Expert Techniques for Realistic Drawing" https://www.amazon.com/Look-Closer-Draw-Better-Techniques/dp/1631596225 Instagram: @kateriewing, @kateriewingart Courses on Blueprint: https://shop.mybluprint.com/painting/classes/startup-library-painting-with-watercolors/475128 Courses on Craftsy: https://www.kateriewing.com/craftsy Courses on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kateriewing Kateri on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kateriewing --- Sources Mentioned: Ruskin's works: The Elements of Drawing, The Nature of Gothic, The Laws of Fésole, and Unto This Last Charlotte Mason Volume 1, Home Education Andrew Wyeth ---- Follow me on Instagram at: @bestowingthebrush Like Bestowing The Brush on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bestowingthebrush/ Send comments, questions, & Fésole Club entries to: bestowingthebrush@gmail.com --- Intro and outro music: Hard Boiled- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography

Michelle Tillis Lederman is an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach, and author of four books, including the internally recognized The 11 Laws of Likability. She was named by Forbes as one of the 25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch. A former NYU professor, financial executive and recovering CPA, she now works with organizations and individuals to help them build real relationships for greater results through her company, Executive Essentials. She has worked with clients ranging from government to academia to non-profit to Fortune 500 companies, including Madison Square Garden, Citi, Johnson & Johnson, Ernst & Young, Michigan State University, Sony, and The Department of Environmental Protection. She has been featured on CBS and MSNBC, and in the NY Times, Forbes and Working Mother magazine. Her NEW book  “The Connector’s Advantage: 7 Mindsets to Grow Your Influence and Impact" -- launches in synchronicity with the release of THIS Thrive LOUD episode (March 5, 2019).  "Wonder Twin Powers...Activate!!" as Michelle and Lou connect on Thrive LOUD!  *** Connect to Lou Diamond:  www.loudiamond.net Subscribe to Thrive LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast  

You are going to love this week's guest, Crystal Stine.  In this episode we chat about: Her NEW book (releasing this week) called Holy Hustle Real Talk behind the process she went through to write a book and how she experienced rejection in the book proposal process (and why she is SO thankful that her original book idea didn't get approved!). Hurdles she overcame to write her book Broken friendships & how she found her tribe Where the dream "Holy Hustle" came from and what it means to her (and what she prays her readers will glean from it). Tips for someone who wants to launch a ministry or business How to find your voice in your writing & speaking How to be OK with your message, even if it has been done before Why it's important to get in real life community PLUS, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the post and enter to WIN a copy of her book, Holy Hustle! Primally Pure Skincare is the sponsor of this week's podcast episode and they have a coupon code for YOU!  I have searched high and low for an all natural deodorant that doesn't leave me smelling worse that I started (the struggle is real). I finally found one from Primally Pure and I am doing the happy dance for days over here. I've also tried several of their other products that I love as well. Use code realtalkrachael for 10% off your order for the month of June ONLY. Real Talk tees for SALE! For two weeks ONLY, this super fun slouchy tee (my favorite) from She Creates in Joy is on sale!  You can also grab the tank too! The Real Talk with Rachael podcast gets a portion of the sale of each shirt so you are supporting the show as well.  To enter to WIN a copy of Holy Hustle, head to this post: www.rachaelgilbert.com/holyhustle

Where do I begin 2017 has been a transitioning year for NIGHT TALK with JOE ROXX we will be LIVE streaming live feed Video & Audio 2018 and it will be an exciting year for us. NIGHT TALK with Joe Roxx has thousands of Listeners and Viewers because of our motto "NIGHT TALK with JoeRoxx 60 minutes of commercial free nonsense and background noise" PERIODIt is extremely hard to have FAME and NO Fortune but through it all Dennis AKA The COACH & Kimberly NIX Murray AKA The DUCHESS have stuck with NIGHT TALK for Fame and NO fortune. On a side note Mary Milhone AKA MARY ROXX has come to her senses and rejoined us we are happy to have her back. Special thanks to AIMEE CHIOFALO for Wine Talk https://www.facebook.com/Winetalk444/ and her show ROCK TALK Tuesdays 11 PM Eastern Also want to thank RONNY B "Drop It Like It's SEXY & RANDAL WARINER "Beautiful Lady in a BLACK MERCEDES" for their continued support. This Week on NIGHT TALK with JOE ROXX our Special Guests wereJANET ZIPPER Life Coach ,Radio Host, AuthorKASY SPEAR Best selling author SHOW HOST on HER NEW show on ARMED RADIO coming January 2018and my SHOW BROTHERGLENN SPILLMAN Host of SPORTS INSIDER and Cellar 13 FILMS Don't Forget to CHECK OUT EYA'S NEW VIDEO 'DANCING ALONE FOREVER" fan page https://www.everythingeya.com/HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE SEE YOU IN 2018

Where do I begin 2017 has been a transitioning year for NIGHT TALK with JOE ROXX we will be LIVE streaming live feed Video & Audio 2018 and it will be an exciting year for us. NIGHT TALK with Joe Roxx has thousands of Listeners and Viewers because of our motto "NIGHT TALK with JoeRoxx 60 minutes of commercial free nonsense and background noise" PERIODIt is extremely hard to have FAME and NO Fortune but through it all Dennis AKA The COACH & Kimberly NIX Murray AKA The DUCHESS have stuck with NIGHT TALK for Fame and NO fortune. On a side note Mary Milhone AKA MARY ROXX has come to her senses and rejoined us we are happy to have her back. Special thanks to AIMEE CHIOFALO for Wine Talk https://www.facebook.com/Winetalk444/ and her show ROCK TALK Tuesdays 11 PM Eastern Also want to thank RONNY B "Drop It Like It's SEXY & RANDAL WARINER "Beautiful Lady in a BLACK MERCEDES" for their continued support. This Week on NIGHT TALK with JOE ROXX our Special Guests wereJANET ZIPPER Life Coach ,Radio Host, AuthorKASY SPEAR Best selling author SHOW HOST on HER NEW show on ARMED RADIO coming January 2018and my SHOW BROTHERGLENN SPILLMAN Host of SPORTS INSIDER and Cellar 13 FILMS Don't Forget to CHECK OUT EYA'S NEW VIDEO 'DANCING ALONE FOREVER" fan page https://www.everythingeya.com/HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE SEE YOU IN 2018

Hosted by Deborah O'Brien: Today I had the pleasure of talking with Cynthia Mazzaferro,the author of Amazon's #1 Best Selling self-help book, Powerful Beyond Measure. Cindy explains how her book can help readers explore their past,empower their present, and envision their future.This book would make a great Christmas present for anyone on your list. Get a copy of the book for yourself and claim your power within for a healthy and happy new year!Link: Powerful Beyond Measure 3 Steps to Claim Your Power Within for a Happy & Healthy Life available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or at your favorite bookstore. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683501500/Don't forget to claim your SIX BONUS Book Gifts found on page xxx. Cindy also offered you a FREE GIFT, Join her on her upcoming Powerful Beyond Measure SummitClick here to sign-up: www.PowerfulBeyondMeasureSummit.com and listen to the 26 Experts speak on how to Awaken to your Power Within where All Things Are Possible!I'm so delighted to announce that Cindy is joining New Earth International (internet/television) Network. Her NEW weekly show airs Tuesday night at 8 pm (Eastern), 5 pm (Pacific) www.CynthiaMazzaferroShow.com starting Dec 27, 2016 with her premier soft opening. Cindy's first guest will be Karen Bradshaw who has experienced a lot of LOSS in her life and will share her beautiful song and musical composition, While On My Knees. You won't want to miss it!

Hosted by Deborah O'Brien: Today I had the pleasure of talking with Cynthia Mazzaferro,the author of Amazon's #1 Best Selling self-help book, Powerful Beyond Measure. Cindy explains how her book can help readers explore their past,empower their present, and envision their future.This book would make a great Christmas present for anyone on your list. Get a copy of the book for yourself and claim your power within for a healthy and happy new year!Link: Powerful Beyond Measure 3 Steps to Claim Your Power Within for a Happy & Healthy Life available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or at your favorite bookstore. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683501500/Don't forget to claim your SIX BONUS Book Gifts found on page xxx. Cindy also offered you a FREE GIFT, Join her on her upcoming Powerful Beyond Measure SummitClick here to sign-up: www.PowerfulBeyondMeasureSummit.com and listen to the 26 Experts speak on how to Awaken to your Power Within where All Things Are Possible!I'm so delighted to announce that Cindy is joining New Earth International (internet/television) Network. Her NEW weekly show airs Tuesday night at 8 pm (Eastern), 5 pm (Pacific) www.CynthiaMazzaferroShow.com starting Dec 27, 2016 with her premier soft opening. Cindy's first guest will be Karen Bradshaw who has experienced a lot of LOSS in her life and will share her beautiful song and musical composition, While On My Knees. You won't want to miss it!

Guests this hour include - Stacey Dash (author/actress), and James Hirsen "On Hollywood". -Mark talks about the soundtrack of our lives. Can you enjoy music, despite the political lyrics they have? -Then, Stacey Dash joins the show to talk with Mark Larson about speaking up for conservative values, where our country is headed, the left wanting her to support her heritage as it relates to politics, and where her life turned around. Her NEW book: “There Goes My Social Life…” -AND James Hirsen and Mark discuss southern rock n’ roll, walls of Trump are destructive BUT, the D.N.C. this year will have an insurmountable fence!

-Then, Stacey Dash joins the show to talk with Mark Larson about speaking up for conservative values, where our country is headed, the left wanting her to support her heritage as it relates to politics, and where her life turned around. Her NEW book: There Goes My Social Life.

Are you paying attention to the numerous infractions your child engages in? There is a principle that says, “Whatever you pay attention to, you get more of!” Make sure you are watering the flowers, not the weeds. Do you want more misbehavior or more on track behavior? The answer to that question will tell you which behaviors to give your full attention and excitement to. Dr  Lynne Kenney is a mother of two, a practicing pediatric psychologist at in Scottsdale, AZ, and the author of The Family Coach Method. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. Her NEW co-authored book BLOOM: Helping children blossom with Wendy Young Combines her love for motor movement and brain development, Dr. Lynne's newest endeavor, Play Math, is helping children ages 6-11 learn their math facts with playground balls and hoola-hoops for better algebraic thinking.   Bloom focuses on providing your children with the words and actions they need to develop better cognitive, social and emotional skills without punishment.

Family Therapy and more with Dr. Lynne Kenney here on Word of Mom Radio. Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., is a mother of two, a practicing pediatric psychologist at in Scottsdale, AZ, and the author of The Family Coach Method. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. Her NEW co-authored book Time-In not Time-Out is available this Spring on Kindle. Combining her love for motor movement and brain development, Dr. Lynne's newest endeavor, Play Math, is helping children ages 6-11 learn their math facts with playground balls and hoola-hoops for better algebraic thinking. Join us for a great conversation on May 9th at 11amPT/2pmET and give us a call at 646 595 3163. Today our show sponsors are Safety First Bags and If Not You, Who. Visit our Word of Mom Radio website to find out more about our MOMpreneur Made/MOMpreneur Approved product and service providers. Be sure to follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook and email us at wordofmomradio@gmail.com with questions, comments and if you would like to share with us here on BlogTalkRadio. Word of Mom Radio ~ sharing the wisdom of women.