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The establishment is trying to rewrite history by using Erika Kirk as a sympathetic puppet for a massive political and ideological machine, all while she lies about her background and pretends she has no interest in politics. Destiny Rezendes joins Stew to expose the bizarre staging, the deep-state ties, and the fabricated facades surrounding the post Charlie Kirk era that everyone is supposed to just blindly swallow. Dani Love from WFF News joins Stew to break down the mind blowing, hidden anomalies in the official narrative surrounding the tragic events at UVU, exposing the chilling footage of Charlie Kirk's final moments in that SUV. John Jubilee joins Stew to break down incredible real life success stories and interviews about achieving ultimate vitality without grueling gym routines. Discover how cellular hydration and the Energize Health protocol can completely transform your body, eliminate chronic health issues, and give you your life back in just weeks. Independent investigation means refusing to let the establishment rewrite reality or hide what really happens behind closed doors. Watch the explosive, recovered body-cam footage of our most dangerous fugitive hunts as we cut through the lies and deliver the uncompromising truth you won't see anywhere else Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Twenty-five years ago, a group of senior Eritrean politicians known as the G-15 called for democratic reform. Eleven were arrested and accused of treason. They have never been put on trial, and their families still do not know where they are. Human rights groups, including the UN, consider the G-15, prisoners of conscience and have been calling for their release.Among the detained was former defence and foreign minister, Petros Solomon. Two years later, his wife, Asther Yohannes, was also arrested. Focus on Africa host, Nkechi Ogbonna, has been speaking to their daughter, Hanna Petros Solomon about her search for her parents, and UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea, Dr Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker about the fate of those detained.Presenter: Nkechi OgbonnaProducers: Fana Negash and Carolyne JothamTechnical Producer: Jonathan MwangiSenior Producers: Priyanka SippyEditors: Daniel Dadzie, Maryam Abdalla

Human activity has disrupted the innate capacity of Earth's natural systems to create a stable, healthy climate and atmosphere. The solutions are hiding in plain sight, inherent in the web of biological diversity that creates the conditions conducive to life. In this episode from our Nature's Genius Series, Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, describes how the world's fourth largest economy is putting natural systems at the center of its bold policies and practices to help restore the biosphere and, in turn, sustain the long-term habitability of planet Earth for human civilization. This is an episode of Nature's Genius, a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. Visit the series page to learn more.

Paula Goldman has been thinking about the role AI should play in our workplaces long before the current boom. As Salesforce's first Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer, she has spent years helping one of the world's largest technology companies determine how powerful technologies can be developed and deployed in ways that earn trust and serve people. Her work has included building ethical frameworks, establishing safeguards, engaging employees and stakeholders, and helping make ethical decision-making part of how technology gets built—not something added after the fact. Goldman argues that ethics is not a checklist; it is a mindset and a culture in which people throughout an organization take responsibility for the consequences of what they create. Now, as AI moves rapidly toward autonomous agents capable of taking action, Goldman is focused on a bigger question: How do we make AI work for people rather than simply make people work differently for AI? Her new book, Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work, explores that question. Rather than viewing the future as a contest between humans and machines, Goldman envisions a workplace that is “human elevated”—one in which AI takes on more of what machines do well while people contribute more of what makes human judgment valuable. That requires leaders to rethink jobs rather than simply automate existing tasks. It means deciding where AI belongs, where human judgment must remain central, and how employees can develop the skills to work effectively with increasingly capable machines. Goldman has argued that the old idea of keeping a “human in the loop” is no longer sufficient as AI becomes more autonomous. The better model is “human at the helm”: people remain accountable for determining how AI is used, interpreting its output and making consequential decisions. The conversation also explores what happens when technology begins to resemble a colleague, why humans so readily attribute intelligence and agency to machines, and what leaders need to understand about creativity, discernment and common sense that cannot simply be automated. Most importantly, Goldman challenges leaders to look beyond the immediate promise of productivity. If AI is going to transform work, the critical investment is not only in the technology. It is in people—their skills, AI fluency, judgment and ability to know when a machine should be trusted and when it should not. For leaders trying to navigate AI without losing sight of the people who make their organizations work, Goldman offers a compelling argument: the future of work should not be about replacing human beings with machines, but about using AI to elevate what people are uniquely capable of doing. The post Paula Goldman: Why “Human at the Helm” Must Replace “Human in the Loop” appeared first on Mark C. Crowley.

Octavia Martinez joins Stew to dissect the strategic defamation lawsuit filed against Candice Owens, exposing the alarming connections between newly formed law firms and political power players. And down the dangerous legal precedents being set around private figures, implied defamation, and the ongoing war against independent journalism. JP Sears joins Stew to break down the shocking new satellite imagery out of Gaza and examine the deep layers of global deception shaping our world. The entire deep state control grid is falling apart at the seams as everyday people finally see right through their desperate, sloppy theater. The Artist Known As Jess joins Stew to break down how the ruling class's manufactured narratives and weaponized systems are completely failing before our eyes. Uncover the loosely regulated pet food industry and learn how natural functional foods are offering a second chance at life for aging and sick animals. Find out how the powerful Coriolis Versa-Color mushroom extract is helping pets overcome catastrophic conditions and severe immune challenges. President Trump and tech leaders have officially changed the name of AI to super intelligence while launching America.gov as a centralized portal for citizens. JD Sharp joins Stew to expose how this infrastructure, paired with mass tracking and surveillance networks, creates a dangerous digital kill switch.   Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Too much empathy is not always a good thing. Human empathy is highly selective, which means it's not always "fair" or objective. Fortunately, there are ways to be empathetic, more fairly. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-problem-with/202605/the-problem-with-empathyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathyhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200930-can-empathy-be-bad-for-youSupport the BDS movement.organize clothing swaps with your friends.Get free resources from Annas Archive.Join your local DSABecome a READING PARTNERRead Julie's Medium Blog.Support JULIE (and the show!)Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.Info on War Tax Resistance.Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief FundThe opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog.Support JULIE (and the show!)Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOKSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Day 2961 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain and today is Day 2961 – Theology Thursday – “I Decree and Declare”: Why Social Media Proclamations Are Pagan, Not Biblical Christianity Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2961 Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps!   I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2961 of our Trek.   The Purpose of Wisdom-Trek is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Our current series of Theology Thursday lessons is written by theologian and teacher John Daniels. I have found his lessons short, easy to understand, doctrinally sound, and applicable to all who want to learn more of God's Word. John's lessons are available on his website, theologyinfive.com. Today's episode is:  “I Decree and Declare”: Why Social Media Proclamations Are Pagan, Not Biblical Christianity. In the age of social media, it has become increasingly common to see posts framed as exercises of spiritual authority rather than prayer. Statements such as “I proclaim that no one in your family will die in the next fifty years in Jesus' name,” “I decree and declare financial breakthrough within twenty-four hours,” or “If you type ‘Amen,' you will receive an unexpected blessing this week” circulate widely and are often shared without hesitation. These declarations are usually presented as acts of faith, sometimes even as obedience to God. Yet beneath their positive tone lies a worldview that is not merely unbiblical but fundamentally pagan. This is not the prayer life of Scripture. It is speech-magic dressed in Christian language. The issue is not simply modern excess or theological sloppiness. These proclamations revive an ancient belief that spoken words themselves possess creative power and that reality can be shaped through confident speech. Scripture does not merely nuance that idea. It directly contradicts it. Biblical Christianity stands in opposition to the notion that human words can compel outcomes, even when God's name is invoked. The First Segment is: Pagan Speech-Magic and the Illusion of Control. In the ancient world, speech was commonly viewed as a mechanism of power. Incantations, spells, charms, and ritual formulas were believed to manipulate divine forces or alter cosmic order. Whether in Mesopotamian incantation texts, Egyptian magical spells, or Greco-Roman magical papyri, the assumption remained consistent: correct words, properly spoken, could force reality to comply. The gods were treated as reactive, and the universe as programmable, provided the speaker possessed the right knowledge or authority. Scripture rejects this worldview entirely. Yahweh is not manipulated, summoned, or compelled. He does not respond to technique, formula, or volume of confidence. He acts according to His will alone. This is why biblical law and prophetic literature consistently condemn sorcery, divination, enchantment, and magic. These practices are not merely immoral behaviors. They are theological crimes, because they attempt to seize an authority that belongs exclusively to God. The second segment is: Imagers, Not Creators: The Limits of Human Authority. Scripture does teach that humanity was created as God's imagers, appointed to represent His rule within creation. Humans are given real authority, but it is delegated, bounded, and derivative. Imaging God means reflecting His character through obedience, stewardship, and faithfulness. It never means sharing His divine attributes. Even though mankind was created to be His imagers, Scripture is clear that only Yahweh can create something from nothing. That distinction is decisive. Humans act within creation. God alone calls creation into existence. No biblical text ever portrays a human, prophet, apostle, or believer as possessing the power to generate reality through speech. Whenever human authority is exercised in Scripture, it operates only in submission to God's revealed will and never independently of it. The third segment is: Only Yahweh Creates by the Power of His Word. Genesis establishes a boundary that Scripture never relaxes. Creation itself unfolds through divine speech. God speaks, and reality exists. Light appears because God commands it. Order emerges because God wills it. Life forms because God decrees it. No creature assists. No angel participates. No human imitates. Creative speech is presented as a uniquely divine act. Psalm 33 reinforces this truth by declaring that the heavens were made by the word of the Lord and that creation stands because He commanded it. Isaiah goes further, portraying Yahweh as the one who speaks and brings forth what He declares, while explicitly denying that any other being shares that authority. This is not poetic exaggeration. It is theological definition. Creative speech belongs to God alone. It is not shared with humanity, not even with God's imagers. Human words carry weight, influence, and consequence. They shape relationships, convey truth or falsehood, and lead toward wisdom or destruction. They do not possess ontological power. When humans claim that their declarations shape reality itself, they are not exercising biblical faith. They are attempting to imitate a divine prerogative. That impulse is not Christian. It is pagan at its core. The Fourth Segment is: New Thought as a Modern Carrier of an Ancient Pagan Idea. The nineteenth-century New Thought movement did not invent manifestation theology. It stripped ancient speech-magic of ritual language and repackaged it in psychological terms. Instead of spells, it spoke of affirmations. Instead of gods, it spoke of “the universe.” Instead of ritual authority, it emphasized belief and mental alignment. When this system entered Christian spaces, it adopted Christian vocabulary while preserving pagan assumptions. Declarations replaced prayers. Confidence replaced submission. Speech replaced petition. Phrases such as “name it and claim it” or “speak it into existence” assume that human words activate creative power. That assumption directly contradicts the biblical teaching that only Yahweh creates by command. This is not a Christian overstatement. It is a foreign worldview smuggled into the Church under familiar language. The Fifth Segment is: Scripture Forbids Declaring the Future Apart From God's Will. James 4 directly confronts the presumption behind these proclamation practices. James rebukes believers who speak confidently about tomorrow as though it belongs to them. The issue is not planning or hope. It is authority. Scripture teaches that the future does not respond to speech. It unfolds according to God's will. Biblical faith does not declare outcomes. It confesses dependence. Pagan systems attempt to control the future through words. Biblical faith entrusts the future to God. The distinction could not be sharper. The sixth segment is: False Assurances Have Always Marked False Prophets. Jeremiah 23 condemns prophets who proclaim peace, safety, and prosperity when God has not spoken. Their sin is not optimism. It is authority theft. They speak from their own imagination while claiming divine endorsement. Modern social media proclamations follow the same pattern. Promises of health, wealth, and protection are declared without covenant context, repentance, or obedience. The medium is modern. The offense is ancient. Speaking future outcomes in God's name without His command is not faith. It is false prophecy. The Seventh Segment is: Words Carry Moral Weight, Not Creative Power. Proverbs 18 verse twenty-one does not teach that words create reality. It teaches that words shape consequences. Speech can heal or destroy, encourage wisdom or cultivate ruin. Scripture never teaches that human words override divine will. If they did, suffering would disappear wherever believers spoke boldly enough. Yet Christ promised tribulation, not immunity. The apostles suffered not because they lacked faith, but because God's purposes extended beyond immediate comfort. The eighth segment it: Biblical Prayer Rejects Pagan Control. The prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane dismantles speech-magic completely. Jesus does not decree escape or declare deliverance. He asks, and He submits. If the incarnate Son does not use prayer as a mechanism for control, then any theology that teaches believers to do so is fundamentally unchristian. Prayer is not command. It is submission. The ninth segment is: The Spiritual Danger of Paganized Christianity. Manifestation-style proclamations are dangerous precisely because they appear spiritual while reshaping faith into technique. They train believers to expect control rather than trust, success rather than endurance, outcomes rather than...

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Alicia Lyttle.

Naza, a film by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, features interviews with 24 members of elite intelligence units in the Israeli military describing the mechanics of carrying out remote, indiscriminate mass killing in Gaza. Since news spread of a 25-minute standing ovation for the film at the Venice Film Festival, it has provoked intense debate, with some Palestinians expressing criticism of the way that Israelis' confessions have made the genocide more “real” in the West than Palestinians' own testimony. Meanwhile, in Israel, the film has elicited disturbing incitement against the filmmakers (who currently remain abroad), and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to revoke the filmmakers' citizenship.What is the unique function of cinema focused on the perpetrators of genocide? How do we understand the concept of “evil” in listening to the voices of the murderers? And can these testimonies provoke a reckoning within global Jewry? To discuss these questions, Arielle Angel speaks with two filmmakers: Rami Younis, Palestinian journalist and co-director of the film Lyd, about the city in historic Palestine, now in the south of Israel; and Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, about the Indonesian genocide.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Links and Further ReadingNaza, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel SzorThe Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and AnonymousLyd, directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland“Gaza before and after: New Google Maps imagery shows destruction of the Strip,” José A. Álvarez and Anna Navarro, El PaísMosab Abu Toha's post on X“‘NAZA' is forcing Israelis to reflect. But we Palestinians are not your mirror,” Ayat Abou Shmeiss, +972 Magazine“The moment a human life becomes ‘collateral damage,'” Mahmoud Mushtaha, +972 MagazineMairav Zonszein post on X“Palestinian Suffering Must Pass Through an Israeli Voice to Be Heard,” Hanin Majadli, HaaretzRami Younis's interview with Hany Abu Assad at Palestine Cinema“Watching 'NAZA' Shocked Me. So Did What Its Creators Left Out,” Raviv Drucker, HaaretzRaviv Drucker interviewing Yuval Abraham“'It hurts me' - Guardiola vows to speak up on conflicts,” Shamoon Hafez, BBC“‘Violent and baseless raid': Human rights group demands probe of police over Umm el-Fahm wedding,” Yoav Etiel, The Jerusalem PostRegister for JC Live!Register for the New Jewish Institutions Skill-building Boot Camp!Transcript forthcoming.

Trucking bought the AI,  Now SHOW ME THE DAMN MONEY! AI is recruiting drivers. Reading contracts. Building RFQs. Automating workflows. Booking freight. And every trucking-tech company suddenly has “AI” somewhere in the pitch. Cool....RIGHT? DOES ANY OF IT ACTUALLY MAKE THE CARRIER MONEY? On this episode of Brake Check, Charles skips the keynote buzzwords and puts trucking's AI boom to the test. First, Christy Choice from Tenstreet takes us inside the recruiting machine. Where should AI replace busywork? Where should a HUMAN still pick up the phone? Is lower driver turnover actually better retention, or are drivers simply staying put because the freight market has them trapped? And what are carriers already paying for that they barely use? Then FreightWaves truck-tech analyst Thomas Wasson joins us fresh off Trimble Insight 2026 in San Diego. We're digging into AI agents, TMS automation, recruiting technology, driver tools and what real carriers like Alvis and Spartan are actually doing with this technology after the demo ends. Forget “efficiency.” HOW MUCH MONEY DID IT SAVE? Forget “automation.” WHAT WORK DISAPPEARED? Forget “AI-powered.” PROVE IT.... Because with diesel around $6.38 a gallon and margins already getting squeezed, carriers don't need another expensive screensaver with a monthly subscription. They need technology that EARNS ITS DAMN KEEP. SOUND OFF: What's one job inside a trucking company you would happily hand to AI TOMORROW...and what's one job you would NEVER let it touch? #Trucking #AI #FreightTech #TruckDrivers #TruckingIndustry #Tenstreet #TMS #Automation #Logistics #FleetManagement #BrakeCheck ⁠Follow the Brake Check Podcast⁠ ⁠Other FreightWaves Shows⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 272, Coffey talks with Amie Fox about inclusive recruitment as a skills-first strategy — and why getting disability inclusion right across the hiring lifecycle unlocks better outcomes for all types of diverse talent. – HRSOUTHWEST October 11-13, 2026 – Good Morning, HR listeners can use the promo code 2026-CoffeyGMHR-100 to save $100 on an HRSouthwest full conference registration at https://hrsouthwest.com!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ They discuss inclusive recruitment defined as removing intentional and unintentional barriers so the best-skilled candidate can move through the process without obstruction; honest, specific job descriptions that reflect actual role requirements rather than aspirational proxies and that allow unqualified candidates to self-select out; disability as the inclusion starting point — with the disability community twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled peers despite being frequently over-educated; the average $300 cost of a reasonable accommodation in the US and available government funding through state and county workforce boards to offset it; skills-based hiring as the most equitable screening approach because it focuses on demonstrable job-relevant competencies rather than credential proxies; AI and assistive technology as equalizers for candidates and employees with disabilities, enabling participation and independence in ways previously unavailable; designing the application process intentionally — including accessibility of job postings, assessments, and office environments — to remove barriers before the interview stage; how to handle disability disclosure in interviews, ask practical accessibility questions, and kick the elephant out of the room without legal risk; the medical model versus social model of disability and why moving past fear of offense is the key to unlocking genuine inclusion conversations; and onboarding as the most critical retention tool — including pre-start communication, 90-day planning, accommodations setup before day one, and maintaining connection so new hires know where the bathroom is. Good Morning, HR is brought to you by Imperative—Bulletproof Background Checks. For more information about our commitment to quality and excellent customer service, visit us at https://imperativeinfo.com.If you are an HRCI or SHRM-certified professional, this episode of Good Morning, HR has been pre-approved for three quarters of a recertification credit. To obtain the recertification information for this episode, visit https://goodmorninghr.com.ABOUT OUR GUEST Amie Fox is the Founder of A Fox Consulting, a trainer and keynote speaker who helps founders, HR and operations leaders in growing organisations build practical people systems that improve employee engagement, manager confidence, and business performance. She moved into this work after a portfolio career across communications, training, fundraising, corporate responsibility, and operations exposed her to how differently people experience workplaces. A key turning point was struggling to find early employment as a visually impaired woman, which shaped her understanding of hidden barriers, workplace design, and the importance of systems that help people perform at their best. Her credibility is grounded in recent and current roles: she set up A Fox Consulting, serves as a non-executive director at Vision Ireland, and has held senior CSR and operations roles at organisations including SCOPE Eyecare & Healthcare. Through her consulting, communications, fundraising, and inclusion work, she has contributed to projects with organisations such as McDonald's, Telefonica, Deloitte, Novartis, Abbott, Newstalk, and John Sisk & Sons. Amie's work is built around the employee life cycle as the foundation for better people performance. She supports leaders and managers through coaching, training, and mentoring designed to maximise employee engagement and performance across each stage of that life cycle. Her book Mind the Blind Spot: Decision to Done and her FoxBuzz framework are practical manifestations of her central thesis: when people feel good, they perform at their best — but that idea only becomes useful when translated into clear routines, structures, and systems that work in boardrooms and in daily operations. Amie can be reached at:Website: www.afox.ieLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amie-fox-a3420333/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/consultingafox/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AFoxConsulting ABOUT MIKE COFFEY Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, licensed private investigator, business strategist, HR consultant, and registered yoga teacher. In 1999, he founded Imperative (https://www.imperativeinfo.com/), a background investigations and due diligence firm helping risk-averse clients make well-informed decisions about the people they involve in their business. Imperative delivers in-depth employment background investigations, know-your-customer and anti-money laundering compliance, and due diligence investigations to more than 300 risk-averse corporate clients across the US, and, through its PFC Caregiver & Household Screening (https://pfcinformation.com/) brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies. Imperative has been named a Best Places to Work, the Texas Association of Business' small business of the year, and is accredited by the Professional Background Screening Association. Mike shares his insight from 25+ years of HR-entrepreneurship on the Good Morning, HR podcast (https://goodmorninghr.com/), where each week he talks to business leaders about bringing people together to create value for all stakeholders. Mike has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence by FW, Inc. and has twice been recognized as the North Texas HR Professional of the Year. Mike serves as a board member of a number of organizations, including the Texas State Council (https://texasshrm.org/), where he serves Texas' 30 SHRM chapters as State Director-Elect; Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County (https://workforcesolutions.net/); the Texas Association of Business (https://txbiz.org/); and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce (https://www.fortworthchamber.com/), where he is chair of the Talent Committee. Mike is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) through the HR Certification Institute and a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). He is also a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) and teaches multiple times each week. Mike and his very patient wife of 29 years are empty nesters in Fort Worth. LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Define inclusive recruitment as a skills-first, barrier-removal process and apply a five-stage framework — advertising reach, accessible information, application design, interview structure, and onboarding — to identify gaps in an existing hiring process. • Explain why disability inclusion serves as a foundation for broader inclusive hiring, and describe how accommodati...

The robot boom is attracting big money. But who actually gets paid when the machines get to work?In this Mere Mortals Robotics episode, I explore the robotics money map: the market's size, the major players, and the economics that could determine what gets deployed between now and 2029.From NVIDIA, Alphabet and Amazon to Figure, Unitree and Boston Dynamics, we look beyond humanoid headlines to industrial robots, warehouse automation, autonomous machinery and robots working in our homes.This is me learning in public, testing ideas and trying to understand where robotics becomes genuinely useful.Recorded in September 2026. Company valuations and market figures reflect the discussion at that time. Cost examples and deployment scenarios are illustrative assumptions, rather than company quotes or guaranteed forecasts.CHAPTERS00:00 Introduction: mapping the robot economy01:36 Industrial robots versus humanoids03:13 What counts as the robotics market?04:08 Factory robot growth towards 202905:42 China's role in robot adoption07:17 Service robots and transport08:09 Automation and global supply chains09:31 Big tech and the robotics money map11:06 Specialists, humanoids and autonomous machinery13:22 Who pays for robots to learn?15:12 The potential AI–robotics feedback loop16:20 Can robots learn before arriving?17:46 Getting more from existing robots19:13 Why reliability compounds across a job21:29 The cost of a useful robot hour23:16 Human support and fleet failures25:23 Obsolescence and resale risk26:16 Who keeps the savings?27:35 What could actually be deployed by 2029?29:36 More robot output, less supplier revenue?31:13 Insurance, risk and deployment plans32:30 Home robot subscriptions and useful hours33:20 Different countries, different opportunities34:06 Five metrics that would change my mind35:03 What needs to happen next?36:20 Closing thoughtsWhere do you think robots will become economically useful first: warehouses, factories, mining or our homes? Let me know below.Subscribe for more Mere Mortals conversations exploring robotics, AI and the future of work.#Robotics #HumanoidRobots #RobotEconomyConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspodsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcasts/ Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/K99e8fysBnTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspodsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcasts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcastsValue 4 Value Support:V4V: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/supportPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/meremortalspodcast

Title: Signal Discipline: How Brands Use AI, Customer Signals, and Memory to Build TrustHost: Nick Brunker (Managing Director of Experience Strategy, VML)Guest: Adam Troyak (Managing Director, VML & WPP Enterprise Solutions)OverviewIn an era where AI makes capturing and storing customer data easier than ever, why are 77% of organizations reporting that AI adoption has outpaced their governance?In this episode of Human Centered, host Nick Brunker welcomes back Adam Troyak to unpack Signal Discipline—the strategic framework that separates customer care from customer surveillance. Adam breaks down why the biggest competitive advantage in AI isn't gathering more data, but developing the judgment to know what to remember, what to forget, and what to say out loud.Key Takeaways & Topics Covered:Data vs. Signals: Why functional data (clicks, browsing history) belongs to tech infrastructure, while first-party signals (human needs, self-disclosed preferences) belong to experience strategy.The "Surveilled" Trap: Why over 80% of tech spend lands in the high-data/low-trust quadrant—and why restraint is the true fix.The 5-Layer Signal Model: A step-by-step breakdown of Signals, Context, Memory, Trust, and Relationships.The Memory Policy Engine: How to build the "middle layer" in your tech stack that programmatically decides when data should persist, decay, surface, or be forgotten.Cross-Functional Alignment: Bringing the CIO, CMO, and Chief Risk Officer into the same room to map the 25 key "trust-bonding" moments in the customer journey.Read more of Adam's written pieces on Signal DisciplineThe Drum

Первые полсотни выпусков DKT записаны в этой самой комнате. Потом переезд, и мы ушли в окошки. В этот раз получилось вернуться: приехал в отпуск, и мы записали ещё один выпуск с той кухни, где всё начиналось. Три камеры, заваленный горизонт и возможность смотреть друг другу в глаза, а не в квадратик. Выпуск новостной, накопилось за несколько месяцев. О ЧЁМ ВЫПУСК • Forward Deployed Engineer: не замена DevOps, а карьерное ответвление. Тебя целиком отдают одному клиенту, зарплаты доходят до полумиллиона, Amazon вложил в направление миллиард. • MCP стал stateless: sticky session больше не нужна, сервер уезжает на Lambda или Cloudflare Worker. • Почему MCP аккуратнее, чем голый CLI: Вася перепутал staging и prod, сказал агенту «давай destroy базу», и оно всё ушло. • SpaceX купил Cursor за 60 млрд, а доля Cursor за год упала с 40% до меньше 20: Codex перевернул рынок. • Четыре уровня зрелости с агентами: вайб-кодинг, spec-driven, AI DLC и автономность, она же Dark Factory. • Dark Factory Саши живьём и сколько она стоит: 20 строк кода и 1300 строк markdown на одну задачу. • Amazon ECS дробит GPU: инстансы G6f, минимум одна восьмая карты NVIDIA L4. • AWS Frontier agents в GA, Meta выпустила Muse Code, Linux 7.1 и Argo CD 3.5 одной строкой. • The Human in the Loop is Tired: куда девается удовольствие от работы, когда сложное делает агент.

Pablo Picasso & Francis Bacon. Da müssen wir natürlich hin und natürlich ist man von der Wucht der Bilder ein bisschen eingeschüchtert. Sogar wir "Alte Hasen" müssen das erst einmal verdauen. Ohne Schnörkel kommt sie daher, diese Ausstellung, die schon lange im Kopf des Kurators Michael Peppiatt herumschwirrte. Gemeinsam mit Gunhild Bauer konnte das Projekt nun in der Basteihalle der Albertina unter dem Titel: "Picasso - Bacon. What it feels like to be human" realisiert werden. In dieser Ausstellungsbesprechung kommt unter anderem heraus, welcher der beiden von uns beiden favorisiert wird. Vorweg: wir kommen einander nicht in die Quere. Wir wünschen viel Spaß beim Hören der Folge und beim Besuch der Ausstellung ... Kontakt: redaktion@gieseundschweiger.at Redaktion: Alexander Giese Musik & Produktion: Matthias Jakisic Sprecherin: Sarah Scherer Cover: Markus Lettner

What does it take to protect Africa's natural heritage across highly fragmented landscapes? In this episode of The Think Wildlife Podcast, Anish Banerjee is joined by Yolan Friedmann, CEO of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, for an in-depth conversation about the conservation of lions, cheetahs, and African wild dogs. Yolan explores the ecological importance of large carnivores, which influence ecological processes and habitat structure by affecting prey populations. Conserving these endangered species therefore helps preserve these trophic cascades and supports broader biodiversity conservation. For Yolan, these species are part of Africa's natural heritage because they belong to its living ecosystems and hold enduring meaning for the people who share those landscapes. Protecting them therefore involves more than preventing extinction within individual reserves. Large carnivore conservation also depends on maintaining the ecological processes that allow populations to persist: dispersal, the establishment of new territories, breeding and genetic exchange.Yolan explains how habitat fragmentation, fences and expanding human land use restrict those processes. A population may increase inside a protected area while remaining dependent on intervention if its offspring cannot disperse. In South Africa, the Endangered Wildlife Trust responds by carefully selecting and moving cheetahs and African wild dogs between suitable reserves. We discuss how this approach relates to metapopulation conservation, and why Yolan describes it more precisely as managing populations across disconnected reserves.Human–carnivore conflict is another central theme of this discussion. Livestock losses can have severe consequences for households, while game farmers may also view predators as a threat to wildlife-based livelihoods. Yolan discusses using animal tracking and targeted alerts to anticipate conflict, alongside the relationships EWT staff build with farmers and local communities. We consider the distinct needs of cheetahs, the social organization and extensive range requirements of African wild dogs, and the opportunities and setbacks in expanding wild dog ranges.We also examine the particular challenges facing cheetahs and African wild dogs: habitat requirements, genetic management, the social structure of wild canids and the extensive space needed for wild dog packs to disperse. Yolan reflects on the achievements and setbacks of range expansion in South Africa before returning to the episode's central question: how can endangered wildlife conservation keep Africa's natural heritage ecologically functional and meaningful for future generations?Time Stamps00:00 Introduction02:14 Evolving Approaches to Endangered Species Conservation 03:23 Threats to Africa's Natural Heritage05:19 The Role of Large Carnivores and Trophic Cascade07:32 Growing Challenges of Human-Carnivore Conflict09:22 Using Technology to Prevent Conflict 10:54 Building Trust with farmers and communities12:53 The Challenges of Cheetah Conservation: Habitat and Genetic Diversity14:11 Managed Population Approach to Cheetah Conservation15:48 African Wild Dog Ecology and Perceptions18:29 Restoring Wild Dog Populations in South Africa20:42 Why Wildlife Is Part of Africa's Natural Heritage22:08 Supporting the Endangered Wildlife Trust23:30 Reflections #NaturalHeritage #LargeCarnivoreConservation #BiodiversityConservation #TrophicCascades #MetapopulationConservation #LionConservation #Cheetahs #AfricanWildDog #WildCanids #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredWildlife #EndangeredWildlifeConservation #EndangeredSpeciesConservation #CheetahConservation Get full access to The Think Wildlife Podcast at anishbanerjee.substack.com/subscribe

What if nearly losing your life became the catalyst for reinventing how you lead? In this episode of The Coaching Hub, I'm joined by Claire Brumby to talk about living and leading with M.A.G.I.C., mindset, awakening, gumption, intuition and charisma.Claire is an award-winning entrepreneur, keynote speaker and accredited leadership coach. She built the healthy snacking brand Scrubby Crisps from a kitchen table idea into an internationally recognised product range, pitched it on Dragons' Den, and now coaches ambitious leaders to unlock confidence, clarity and high performance.She shares her "sliding door moment", a life-threatening pulmonary embolism that reshaped everything, and why she believes leadership needs to prioritise humanness, psychological safety and authenticity. It's an invitation to forget "normal" and lead in a way that's human-first and uniquely your own.Key topics covered:00:00 Intro: Meet Claire Brumby03:13 The role of growth mindset in facing challenges04:01 Cultivating a mindset to learn and grow from adversity09:12 Breakdown of the M.A.G.I.C. acronym10:25 How leaders can cultivate a growth mindset11:05 Innovation and positive disruption in mindset12:13 Changing leadership styles and influence of past role models13:29 Drawing out and transforming limiting beliefs in coaching16:08 The discomfort and value of self-reflection17:40 Removing the mask: authenticity in leadership and life21:08 Human skills as competitive advantage in the age of AI28:04 Urgency of authenticity, living and leading with conviction29:11 Progress over procrastination: addressing fears that hold us back About Claire BrumbyClaire Brumby is an internationally respected motivational and leadership speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, Dragons' Den alumna and creator of the leadership MAGIC Framework™. Having built award-winning FMCG brand Scrubbys, Claire combines hard-earned commercial experience with a bold, human approach to leadership. She works with organisations including Bupa, L'Oréal, Amazon and Kellogg's, challenging outdated leadership and helping leaders become more human, intuitive, and courageous, without sacrificing commercial performance. Connect with Claire:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairebrumby/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theclairebrumbyAbout Ruth Kudzi:Ruth is the founder of Optimus Coaching Academy and a well-respected and successful coach, speaker and author who has worked across sectors including leadership, career and more recently business and mindset. She has over 10,000 coaching hours and has completed hundreds of hours of training and coaching supervision. Ruth is an MCC-level coach with the ICF and is our course director and CEO. Prior to becoming a coach, Ruth was a senior leader in education. Find out more here: https://ruthkudzi.com/ Book:How to Feel Better: 4 Steps to Self-Coach Your Way to a Happier More Authentic You eBook : Kudzi, Ruth: Amazon.co.uk: Books Connect with Ruth: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RuthKudzi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ruthkudzi2/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruthkudzi/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthkudzi/ Podcast: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-hub-podcast About Optimus Coach Academy:Optimus offers best in class coaching training for individuals and corporates. If you want to know more about what we offer: https://optimuscoachacademy.com/coach-training We also offer business support as standard at Optimus, find out more here: https://www.optimuscoachacademy.com/ Connect with Optimus Coach Academy: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Optimuscoachacademy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/optimuscoachacademy/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/optimuscoachacademy Produced by Winter Audio.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Damon Haley Co‑founder of Glow and Flow Beauty, discussing his transition from entertainment and sports marketing into the beauty-supply industry, his mission to elevate service for Black and Brown communities, and the franchising model he is rolling out nationwide. Hosted by Rushion McDonald on Money Making Conversations Masterclass, the conversation highlights Haley’s business philosophy, community-driven approach, and long-term vision to create ownership opportunities through franchising.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Damon Haley Co‑founder of Glow and Flow Beauty, discussing his transition from entertainment and sports marketing into the beauty-supply industry, his mission to elevate service for Black and Brown communities, and the franchising model he is rolling out nationwide. Hosted by Rushion McDonald on Money Making Conversations Masterclass, the conversation highlights Haley’s business philosophy, community-driven approach, and long-term vision to create ownership opportunities through franchising.

Lea Files joins Stew to exposes how the upcoming "Genius Act" and Tether are privatizing the American dollar and transferring monetary sovereignty to offshore entities. National File publisher Noel Fritsch joins Stew to break down how the entire political establishment operates as controlled theater. Dive deep into the insider planning documents, the reality of compromised organizations, and why the mainstream narrative is entirely manufactured. Leonarda Jonie joins stew to expose the massive immigration scams, deep state corruption, and spiritual warfare destroying our heritage and communities. They want you wired, tracked, and spiritually disconnected through toxic, classified microwave radiation that destroys your cells from the inside out. James from True Shield joins Stew to expose the ultimate digital bio-weapon and learn how to shield your home before it is too late! JD Sharp joins Stew to unpacks how the matrix uses synchronized media attacks and manufactured controversies to deflect from real accountability. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

This week, Jake and Bob continue their conversation about the wounds that can form between parents and children. They discuss how legitimate human needs can become disordered when we no longer trust that those needs will be met and how these wounds can then quietly shape the ways we relate to our spouses, children, friends, and parents. Bob shares how his mother's childhood wounds affected him and how his own protective responses later surfaced in his marriage. Jake also reflects on his relationship with work, his struggle to receive help, and discovering the ways he unknowingly carried patterns from one generation to the next. Recognizing these patterns in our own lives can open the door to greater freedom, healing, and deeper relationships.    Key Points: Sin is contrary to what it means to be fully human and can diminish our capacity to live according to our nature. The family is the primary environment in which a child learns what it means to be human. Wounds can come from things that should have happened but didn't or from things that should not have happened but did. Healthy desire is an essential part of love and human maturation. Human needs give rise to desires, while unmet and wounded needs can lead those desires to become disordered. Wounds can move through generations as parents' unresolved wounds influence their children and those children later carry similar patterns into their own relationships. We can also wound our parents when our own protective patterns cause us to withdraw, become overly busy, fail to communicate, or resist receiving their love. Healing does not necessarily mean constantly digging into the past but can involve noticing subtle movements in the heart and giving the Lord permission to reveal what needs attention.   Resources:  Episode 125: Forgiveness & Transformation    Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:16 Becoming Fully Human 06:55 Our Families Form Us First 09:05 Understanding Desire, Needs, and Wounds 16:18 Examples of An Anatomy of A Wound 30:08 Seven Fundamental Needs 40:17 Wounding Our Parents   Connect with Restore the Glory:  Instagram: @restoretheglorypodcast  Twitter: @RestoreGloryPod Facebook: Restore the Glory Podcast   Never miss out on an episode by hitting the subscribe button right now! Help other people find the show and grow in holiness by sharing this podcast with them individually or on your social media. Thanks!

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Damon Haley Co‑founder of Glow and Flow Beauty, discussing his transition from entertainment and sports marketing into the beauty-supply industry, his mission to elevate service for Black and Brown communities, and the franchising model he is rolling out nationwide. Hosted by Rushion McDonald on Money Making Conversations Masterclass, the conversation highlights Haley’s business philosophy, community-driven approach, and long-term vision to create ownership opportunities through franchising.

Her son was murdered and husband killed in an accident. Her Husband Died in a Motorcycle Accident. Years Later, Her Son Was Murdered. Teri Busse Refused to Let Loss Define His Life. Supporting articles about this and much more from  Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast in platforms like Medium , Blogspot and Linkedin. The former paramedic, firefighter, and corrections officer speaks about her son Rylee James, thirteen days of uncertainty, sober recovery, and the difficult work of rebuilding after tragedy. The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast social media like their Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , Medium and other social media platforms. Teri Busse spent more than 25 years in emergency services and public safety. As a paramedic, firefighter, and corrections officer, she encountered people during some of the most frightening moments of their lives. The Podcast is available for free on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast website, also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, iHeartradio and most major podcast platforms. #LawEnforcementTalk #Free #Podcast #Radio She understood emergencies from the responder's side. She knew that a family might remember every word spoken during a crisis, even when the person delivering those words had already moved on to the next call. Then Busse became the family member waiting for answers. Years before her son's death, her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident. Busse struggled with alcohol after losing him. She entered sober recovery a few years later and has remained sober for many years. Her son was murdered and husband killed in an accident. In February 2022, she faced another loss. Her son, Rylee James, had been murdered. What followed became the subject of her book, 13 Days of Silence: A Mother's Voice from the Ashes. It is the story of a young man's death, a mother's search for answers, and a criminal case that grew far beyond what she could have imagined. A burned vehicle near Leavenworth In February 2022, a burned vehicle was discovered near Leavenworth, Kansas. Human remains were found inside its trunk. The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast, is available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and other major podcast platforms. The interview is also featured across Facebook and Instagram. At first, Busse received inquiries from law enforcement about a car. The questions were vague, but she feared something was terribly wrong. Rylee was missing, and the passage of time brought no reassuring explanation. Then came a request for dental records. For thirteen days after her last contact with Rylee, Busse waited for official confirmation. She had years of experience around emergencies, investigations, and people in crisis. None of it could prepare her to wait as a mother for news about her own son. Her son was murdered and husband killed in an accident. The eventual confirmation gave the remains a name. It also made the loss irrevocably real: Rylee James was dead. The phrase “thirteen days of silence” describes more than a period on a calendar. It marks the distance between fearing the worst and hearing it confirmed, days filled with questions that could not yet be answered. When a son becomes part of a larger case The investigation into Rylee's murder became tied to one of Kansas's early state-level RICO prosecutions. The case expanded beyond a single killing into allegations involving a broader criminal enterprise. According to Busse's account, two people charged in connection with Rylee's killing accepted plea deals. Another was acquitted. The episode is available across major platforms including their website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, with highlights shared across their Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn profiles. Those outcomes are part of the legal record. For Busse, they are also part of a deeply personal story about what a family hopes to learn from the justice system and what it may still be left wondering afterward. A prosecution must address charges, evidence, and the people accused. A mother has other questions, too. She wants to know what happened to her son. She wants his life to be understood as more than the circumstances of his death. That tension runs through 13 Days of Silence: A Mother's Voice from the Ashes. Busse writes from the position of the person who lived through the waiting, the confirmation, and the years that followed. Her book keeps Rylee at the center of a story that could otherwise be told only through investigative files and courtroom proceedings. Her son was murdered and husband killed in an accident. He was her son before he was a victim in a murder case. He remains her son after the case. The responder on the other side of the call Busse's career gives her account an unusual perspective. For more than two decades, she worked in roles that required her to act when other people were overwhelmed. Paramedics, firefighters, and corrections officers are expected to stay focused under pressure. They assess situations, make decisions, and carry out their responsibilities while the people around them may be frightened or grieving. Busse knew that world. But knowing how emergency and public safety systems operate did not make her own experience predictable. She still had to endure uncertain phone calls, long waits, and the painful gap between what she feared and what anyone could officially tell her. Her story shows how differently a crisis feels depending on where a person stands. From inside an emergency response, the next step may be clear. For a family waiting for news, each unanswered question can fill an entire day. The Podcast is available for free on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast website, also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, iHeartradio and most major podcast platforms. A recovery that began before Rylee's death Busse's experience with loss did not begin in 2022. After her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident, she turned to alcohol. She later entered sober recovery and has maintained her sobriety for many years. She speaks about that history because recovery is part of her life, not a separate chapter that ended before Rylee's murder. When she faced another devastating loss, she did so as someone who had already spent years working to remain sober. There is no simple formula for living through grief. Busse's account offers her experience: a life marked by painful events, sustained recovery, and the continuing choice to speak honestly about both. Her son was murdered and husband killed in an accident. “These days, I write and speak about grief, trauma, recovery, resilience, true crime, and what happens when life doesn't go remotely according to plan,” she says. That work reaches beyond one book. Busse is an award-winning author, screenwriter, speaker, podcast host, and psychology graduate student. Her projects include the screenplay When Silence Never Ends and the podcast 13 Days of Silence: Living in the After. The title of that podcast points to another part of her story. The thirteen days ended when Rylee was identified. Living in the aftermath did not. Keeping Rylee's name in the story True crime accounts often focus on the investigation: the discovery, the charges, the plea deals, and the verdict. Those details matter. They explain what happened in court. Busse also asks people to remember whose life was lost. Her book is a mother's account of the days before confirmation, the proceedings that followed, and the grief that continued when the public's attention moved elsewhere. It is her way of speaking about Rylee as more than “ashes and evidence.” On the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast, Busse discusses her son's murder, the criminal case, her husband's earlier death, and her long journey in sober recovery. She also talks about writing and speaking after loss, about finding a way to tell a story that remains painful because the person at its heart remains loved. Her son was murdered and husband killed in an accident. Rylee James was a son. Teri Busse wants his name, and his humanity, to remain at the center of the conversation. Listen to Teri Busse's interview on the free podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and the show's website. Her book, 13 Days of Silence: A Mother's Voice from the Ashes, shares the story from her perspective. Please share this conversation on Facebook or Instagram so others facing grief or working to sustain sober recovery can hear it. The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast, is available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and other major podcast platforms. The interview is also featured across Facebook and Instagram. This episode of the show is brought to you in part by Mars Men. You hit your 30s and 40s, and things start to feel different. Now that I'm in my 60s, I've really noticed the change. My energy drops faster. Recovery takes longer. Workouts don't have the same impact they once did. Most importantly, what worked for me in my 20s simply doesn't work anymore. So, I started looking for answers. Honestly, the testosterone-support space can be confusing, and much of it sounded sketchy. I don't want to become a professional bodybuilder. I just want to look and feel more like the old me. Thankfully, I found Mars Men, and I couldn't be more grateful. 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You can get the ebook for free at www.LetHealthy.com Listen to the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast on their website, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and most major podcast platforms. Get the Free Clubhouse App, it is Drop In Social Audio. Think of it as your own talk radio show on your phone, and best of all it is free. Be sure to look for me and follow me, that's John J Wiley or @letradioshow you can do all that here. The Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast social media like their Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , Medium and other social media platforms. You can contact John J. “Jay” Wiley by email at Jay@letradio.com , or learn more about him on their website . Find a wide variety of great podcasts online at The Podcast Zone Facebook Page , look for the one with the bright green logo. Listen to the free Podcast on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show website and through major platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 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In this episode of The Fearless Mindset Podcast, host Mark Ledlow reconnects with Army veteran and marketing professional Ron Owens, owner of Phame Marketing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ron shares what he is seeing among small and medium-sized businesses as economic uncertainty, changing consumer behavior, and tighter budgets force leaders to become more intentional about how they spend their marketing dollars. He emphasizes that fear-driven decisions can create costly blind spots, while strong strategy, experienced guidance, and a clear marketing roadmap can help businesses position themselves for sustainable growth.Ron also explains why simply posting on social media or buying ads is not the same as having a marketing strategy. Effective marketing starts with understanding the audience, identifying what makes a company uniquely valuable, and connecting with customers emotionally before overwhelming them with facts and features. The conversation also covers fractional CMO support, branding, referrals, digital credibility, podcasts, local marketing, social media awareness, and why relationships, trust, community, and face-to-face interaction remain essential in business.Learn about all this and more in this episode of The Fearless Mindset Podcast.KEY TAKEAWAYSStrategy comes before execution. Posting content, running Google ads, or hiring a social media manager can waste money if there is no clear roadmap, defined audience, or desired outcome behind the activity.Differentiate instead of copying competitors. Businesses need to identify what they do uniquely better. If your marketing could easily carry a competitor's logo, customers have little reason to choose you.Understand what motivates the customer. Buying decisions are often emotional first and analytical second. Marketing should connect with what customers feel and want before leading with features and data.Make the customer the hero. Instead of focusing on how great your company is, position the business as the guide that helps customers solve problems and achieve what matters to them.Referrals still carry enormous weight. A recommendation from someone a prospect trusts can open the door, while a strong website and digital presence help validate that recommendation.Build locally before expanding. Start hyper-local and establish credibility in your own market before trying to grow regionally or nationally.QUOTES“Every decision you've ever made, you made emotionally, and you have justified it analytically.”“We all wanna triumph at something. We all wanna win at something.”“There's nothing more powerful than a referral.”“Your marketing's got to elevate and substantiate your position in the marketplace.”“You gotta own your backyard and win your backyard before you're gonna have credibility outside of your yard.”“Human behavior's undefeated.”Get to know more about Ron Owens:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phamefounder/To hear more episodes of The Fearless Mindset podcast, you can go to https://the-fearless-mindset.simplecast.com/ or listen to major podcasting platforms such as Apple, Google Podcasts, Spotify, etc. You can also subscribe to the Fearless Mindset YouTube Channel to watch episodes on video.

When you use an AI tool, how much time do you spend correcting it? And would your customers be willing to do the same?Kendra Vant, Chief Product Officer at Tapi, joins Randy Silver to explore the “reliability layer”: the people, checks and engineering that make AI products dependable. She explains why enthusiastic AI users often provide that layer themselves, and why product teams can't assume their customers will.Kendra shares four questions to ask before building AI into your product, from who catches mistakes to what reliability costs at scale. They also discuss designing for failure, the technical literacy she expects from product managers, and why faster prototyping makes experienced judgement so valuable.Chapters00:00 Introducing Kendra Vant02:51 The gap between an AI demo and a reliable product06:12 Accuracy, consistency and the user as the reliability layer13:31 Four questions to ask before building AI into your product18:27 Sponsor: Jira Product Discovery19:01 Planning for failure and protecting customer trust24:06 Customisation, pricing and the cost of scaling26:37 Do product managers need to learn to code?31:40 How Tapi uses AI to experiment and build33:25 Why small teams have an advantage35:05 Product judgement and the experience gap38:08 Using AI to maintain legacy code39:41 Ask better questions, write down answers and test your thinking43:11 Where to follow KendraKey takeawaysFind the work your users are doing for the AI. Correcting answers, refining prompts and spotting mistakes can make a tool feel more reliable than it is. Consider whether your customers have the time, motivation and expertise to do that work.Make someone responsible for reliability. Establish who specifies, builds and operates the checks around your AI. An impressive demo can conceal the fact that nobody owns this work yet.Price the whole product. Human review, additional models, guardrails and ongoing maintenance all affect the cost of delivery. Check whether your reliability layer remains commercially viable as usage grows.Design for the moments when it fails. Saying a model is wrong 15% of the time prompts a different conversation from saying it is 85% accurate. Identify the consequences for customers and plan how the product will recover.Build your technical literacy. Kendra expects product managers to be comfortable interacting with Git and learning from the codebase. Understanding how software works helps you ask better questions and collaborate with engineers.Recognise the value of experience. Faster tools increase what teams can build, but recognising flawed suggestions still requires judgement. Kendra raises an open question: how will newer practitioners develop that judgement as the work changes?Use writing to sharpen your thinking. Break difficult problems into smaller questions, write down your answers and explain them to a colleague. The gaps often become clearer when you have to articulate your reasoning.We're refreshing The Product Experience and want your input. Take our two-minute survey and help shape where the show goes next! Our HostsLily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She's currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Randy Silver is a Leadership & Product Coach and Consultant. He gets teams unstuck, helping you to supercharge your results. Randy's held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury's. He participated in Silicon Valley Product Group's Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events. You can join one of communities he runs for CPOs (CPO Circles), Product Managers (Product In the {A}ether) and Product Coaches. He's the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager's Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon's music stores in the US & UK.

After a full series exploring what product managers should retain, and rethink, in the age of AI, Matt and Moshe sit down for an honest wrap-up. What did we learn, what changed our minds, and where do humans still matter most?In this special episode, we look back at the conversations on human judgment, empathy, vision, strategy, and stakeholder alignment, then connect them to our own day-to-day experiments with AI. Moshe shares what he learned while building and publishing his new mobile app, Mental Health Wallet, using tools like Kiro. Matt reflects on building an agentic orchestration product, and where AI has genuinely helped sharpen strategy and execution.The big takeaway?AI can dramatically accelerate product work, but speed, output, and confidence are not the same as understanding. The PM role is not disappearing. It is shifting toward stronger context-setting, better judgment, deeper customer understanding, and more intentional collaboration.Join Matt and Moshe as they reflect on:Rebecca Douglas's conversation on human judgment and empathy, and why product managers still need to interpret ambiguity, understand users as people, validate AI outputs, and decide what not to buildJohn Fontenot's perspective on vision and strategy, including why AI can be a powerful thinking partner but cannot fully own long-term direction, strategic tradeoffs, market context, or business accountabilityJoy Adamson's insights on stakeholder alignment, and why trust, relationship-building, incentives, organizational dynamics, negotiation, and emotional intelligence remain deeply human workHow AI can support product work through research synthesis, organization, ideation, prototyping, requirements, competitive exploration, and strategic feedbackWhy AI-generated advice can sometimes feel like generic validation, and how better context and sharper prompts lead to more useful strategic feedbackWhy market context, competitive insight, and business goals still need to come from humansThe changing balance between AI and human involvement across different product activities:Human judgment and empathy remain deeply human-ledVision and strategy can be increasingly AI-assisted, but remain dependent on human contextStakeholder alignment is heavily human, because trust, incentives, relationships, and politics cannot be fully automatedWhy user interviews and real customer conversations remain more valuable than AI-generated “users” or synthetic feedbackHow the importance of human involvement may shift by company stage, team size, and the number of stakeholders involvedThe potential future of product work, including AI agents, agent marketplaces, new workflows, and changing expectations for PMsAnd much more!You can connect with us and find more episodes:Product for Product Podcast: http://linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast Matt Green: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgreenproduct/Moshe Mikanovsky: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky Note: Any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not not represent the products mentioned in any way.Please leave us a review and feedback ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe is just around the corner. But what if our anxiety stems from an event that's already completely destroyed an old world? What if the real cataclysm was the introduction of those computers and smartphones, and our current political, cultural, and social crisis is just our way of merely dealing with the fallout?So argues the political theorist James Poulos, who is my guest in Episode 7 of Season 6 on Madison's Notes. Having earned his PhD in government at Georgetown University, he was a founding editor of The American Mind, Return, and Frontier, where he is currently editorial director. The author of The Art of Being Free (2017), Human, Forever (2021), I Know This Sounds Crazy (2024), and an upcoming book called, Golden Age Problems, he recently wrote a Palladium Magazine essay called, “The Dostoevskian Moment,” which we use along with Human, Forever to discuss the digital technology crisis.Along the way we discuss media theorists like Marshall McLuhan and Jean Beaudrillard, the American political tradition, post-Cold-War civilizational states, cryptocurrency and AI, digital sovereignty, the modern camps fighting over technology among effective altruists, vitalists, gnostics and post-humanists, conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy, the Pink Police State, why Mars colonies are safer for humanity than Lunar ones, and the genius of David Lynch.Hosted by Ryan Shinkel, Madison's Notes is the podcast of Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. The transcript for this interview is available on the JMP substack page, “Madison's Footnotes. Please share and enjoy. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Last month, we took Uncover the Human out into the community with a pop-up podcast at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado gala.The theme for the evening was “The Voice of Our Youth,” so we invited guests to share what brought them there and why supporting young people's voices matters.In this special episode, you'll hear from people connected to Big Brothers Big Sisters in many different ways—board members, staff, mentors, former Bigs and Littles, and supporters. Their stories are different, but together they point to the importance of connection, consistency, and creating space for young people to be seen, heard, and supported.

Mit Lars Schulze (Whaaat AI) Staffel #13 Folge #10 | #Marketing_021 Der Podcast über Marketing, Vertrieb, Entrepreneurship und Startups *** https://whaaat.ai https://havelvalley.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsschulze *** Lars Schulze blickt auf mehr als 30 Jahre Erfahrung im Digital Marketing zurück und berichtet von seiner ersten Gründung während des Studiums an der TH Brandenburg und seinen weiteren spannenden Stationen bis heute. Im Mittelpunkt des Marketing From Zero To One Podcast Interviews steht sein Startup Whaaat AI, das mit spezialisierten KI-Agenten kleine Marketingteams bei Strategie, Content-Erstellung, Social Media und weiteren Marketingaufgaben unterstützt. Lars erklärt, warum trotz zunehmender Automatisierung der Mensch weiterhin eine wichtige Rolle spielt und "Human in the Loop" für ihn entscheidend bleibt. Außerdem ging es um Growth Hacks, neue Ansätze rund um GEO Marketing, KI-generierten Content, sein langjähriges Engagement für die Gründerszene in Brandenburg, das "Havel Valley" und seine Perspektive auf Studium und Karriere im KI-Zeitalter. *** 02:29 - Erste Gründung im Studium 04:15 - Aus den Internet-Pionierzeiten zu Zanox 07:59 - Die Idee hinter Whaaat AI 11:08 - Remote-Work und neue Arbeitsmodelle 15:43 - Der erste LinkedIn-Agent von Whaaat AI 19:50 - Agenten, Use Cases und Zielgruppen 22:37 - Onboarding von Kunden 26:34 - Warum Human in the Loop wichtig bleibt 28:41 - Trends, Daten und Content-Optimierung 31:23 - Das Team hinter den KI-Agenten 32:47 - Pricing und Geschäftsmodell 37:25 - KI-Agenten statt Marketingmitarbeiter? 40:21 - Content deutlich schneller erstellen 42:04 - Die beliebtesten Whaaat AI Agenten 43:54 - Die Zukunft des Marketings 49:32 - Warum Growth Hacks immer schwieriger werden 53:34 - Whaaat AI eigenes Marketing 55:44 - Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) 57:05 - Brandenburg an der Havel und das Havel Valley 01:02:42 - Studieren im KI-Zeitalter *** Die Zeitangaben können leicht abweichen.

In Episode #119 of The Executive Commute, Jayson Krause is joined by educator and human flourishing advocate Steve Rice to explore what it means to live, work, and lead from the inside out.   Steve shares how his own path moved from achievement, external validation, and a career that did not feel like an authentic fit toward a life centred on calling, purpose, and work as an expression of who he is. He describes the difference between living from the outside in and the inside out, and why fear often remains present when people move toward meaningful growth.   The conversation explores Steve's faith-informed view of human flourishing, including the shift from achieving to receiving, the role of spirituality and historical wisdom traditions, and his distinction between positional and possessional leadership. Jayson and Steve also examine how those ideas translate into organizations through human empowerment, spaces for ideas, and cultures that help people become more fully themselves.   They discuss the Office of Possibilities, Humanitas, disruptive innovation, and why new ideas may need to be built separately but in service to the larger organization. Steve also explains why human flourishing is not simply self-improvement, using the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly as a metaphor for becoming something fundamentally different rather than polishing the current version of yourself.   The episode closes by connecting human flourishing to AI and the future of work. Steve argues that technological progress should be paired with an equally intentional effort to rediscover what it means to be human, framing this moment as the beginning of a possible human revolution.   Episode timestamps:   00:02 Human flourishing, innovation, and humanpreneurship 00:31 Steve Rice's path to human flourishing 03:16 Learning to listen to your life 04:41 When work becomes joy 05:35 Is your work an expression of who you are? 07:59 Saying yes to a calling 09:58 Making fear your ally 12:39 Preparing people for an unknown future 14:00 Drawing out what is already inside people 16:14 Vertical versus horizontal living 17:49 Spirituality beyond religious language 20:13 The Office of Possibilities 22:47 Rediscovering desires beneath obligation 23:10 A practical 10-minute reflection practice 24:59 Achieving versus receiving 30:15 Agency, participation, and relationship 35:53 Positional versus possessional leadership 37:42 The personal and societal cost of outside-in living 39:25 When the vertical informs the horizontal 43:53 Human empowerment versus exploitation 45:40 Building an expression-driven culture 48:10 An Office of Possibilities inside an organization 49:16 Building a human flourishing academy 51:49 Why the work of flourishing is messy 54:53 Building innovation on the edge 57:35 Separate, but in service to the organization 59:16 What human flourishing actually means 1:03:46 Why a better version of yourself is not enough 1:07:03 Human flourishing and organizational flourishing 1:09:52 Will AI help or hinder human flourishing? 1:11:45 The business case for human flourishing 1:16:38 Exploitation versus expression 1:17:06 The human revolution 1:20:29 Where to learn more about Steve Rice 1:21:29 Leadership through the lens of human flourishing   Prefer to watch? Find the full video episode of The Executive Commute on the Level 52 Inc. YouTube channel.   Subscribe to Level 52 Inc. on YouTube for full conversations, clips, and more leadership content.   Follow Jayson Krause LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-krause/

Dr Emily Anhalt is an American psychologist who developed the concept of a gym for mental health after researching 100 leaders and 100 psychologists who treated leaders. From that work, she identified seven factors for assessing how emotionally "fit" we are. That concept should get every leader's attention. Does anyone seriously believe leadership is going to become easier, slower and less stressful? I certainly don't. Many of us grew up in the "harden up" era. Soldier on. Suck it up. Grit your teeth and bear it. That approach may have got us through previous decades, but today's leaders operate amid vastly greater technological change, business speed, global connectivity and organisational complexity. We spend considerable time thinking about physical fitness. Perhaps we need to start taking our emotional fitness just as seriously. In Part One, let's look at three areas: understanding our emotional triggers and biases, recognising the emotions of others, and finding comfort in discomfort. Why do leaders need emotional fitness? Leaders need emotional fitness because greater business complexity and pressure place constant demands on how they respond to stress, conflict and other people. Leadership isn't becoming less stressful, so relying purely on toughness and endurance is unlikely to be enough. Previous generations often celebrated the leader who simply pushed through every difficulty. There is certainly value in resilience, but emotional fitness requires more than enduring pressure. Leaders influence everyone around them. When the boss becomes angry, defensive or frustrated, the impact spreads through the team. When the leader remains composed, listens and responds thoughtfully, that behaviour also influences everyone. The objective isn't to eliminate emotion. That would be impossible and probably undesirable. The objective is to become more conscious of our emotional responses and more skilful in determining what happens next. Like physical fitness, this requires practice. Do now: Start treating your emotional responses as a leadership capability that can be deliberately strengthened rather than simply accepting, "That's just the way I am." How can leaders identify and manage their emotional triggers? Leaders need to recognise the "Hot Buttons" that trigger emotional reactions and learn to create a small gap between the trigger and their response. That gap can be enough to prevent an impulsive reaction becoming an unnecessary conflict. This is familiar territory for me because I teach a course called Disagree Agreeably. We examine the triggers that get the temper rising, blood pressure pulsing and body heat climbing rapidly. My wife assures me my temper is getting shorter as I get older. She is probably correct. There never seems to be any shortage of things capable of irritating us. The important point is that we may not be able to prevent the irritation. What we can work on is our response. Rather than allowing the emotional trigger to immediately produce an emotional reaction, insert what I call a cushion. That gives the brain a chance to catch up with the mouth. Do now: Identify your recurring Hot Buttons. Knowing what regularly sets you off gives you a better chance of controlling what happens when someone presses one. How can leaders stop themselves reacting emotionally in difficult conversations? A short, neutral "cushion" statement can act as a circuit breaker between an irritating comment and the leader's response. The purpose isn't to agree with the other person; it is to buy enough time to choose a considered response. Suppose somebody says something that immediately gets your blood boiling. Our natural tendency may be to fire straight back. Instead, try saying something like: "Thank you for raising this topic. It is an important one." That takes me about four or five seconds to say. Those few seconds can be enormously valuable. They give me time to overrule the impulse to launch forth with the first thing that pops into my head and instead find a more considered response to whatever nonsense my interlocutor has been sprouting. The cushion neither diminishes the issue nor inflames it. It simply creates space. Do now: Prepare one or two neutral cushion statements in advance so you don't have to invent them when somebody has already pushed your Hot Button. Why should leaders try harder to understand the emotions of others? Leaders should remember that people's behaviour may be influenced by pressures and problems we know absolutely nothing about. A little more empathy can help us respond with greater patience rather than immediately judging someone against our expectations. There is a saying I have always liked: "Remember everyone in life is carrying a heavy load." I was reminded of this while recovering in hospital from a near-death experience with pneumonia after spending six days in the Intensive Care Unit. It gave me plenty of time to reflect. One conclusion was that I should become less judgmental and less intolerant of other people. We see wealthy, famous and prominent people who appear to possess everything, yet their lives can still be filled with difficulties. Money and status don't insulate anyone from trouble. Their heavy load may simply look different from ours. Do now: When somebody's behaviour irritates you, remind yourself that they may be carrying a heavy load you cannot see. What does empathy mean for leaders in everyday situations? Leadership empathy means allowing for the possibility that there is more behind someone's behaviour than the behaviour we can immediately observe. It doesn't mean accepting poor performance or abandoning standards. Leaders naturally have expectations. We expect people to behave professionally, deliver their work, communicate appropriately and honour their commitments. When they don't, frustration can arrive very quickly. But what if we don't know the whole story? An employee may be dealing with family problems, financial pressure, relationship difficulties or other burdens they don't want to discuss at work. A colleague who seems unusually abrupt may have something serious happening elsewhere in their life. We don't have to become amateur psychologists or pry into everyone's private affairs. We can simply resist immediately assuming the worst. Remembering that "everyone in life is carrying a heavy load" creates a small mental adjustment. That adjustment may produce a much better leadership response. Do now: Maintain your standards, but add curiosity and empathy before jumping to conclusions about why someone is behaving as they are. How can leaders become more comfortable with discomfort? Comfort with discomfort develops gradually by accepting short-term difficulty in pursuit of a larger goal. We don't suddenly become comfortable with difficult situations; we progressively strengthen our ability to deal with them. Human beings are naturally wired to avoid discomfort. Just look at the enormous number of gadgets designed to make our lives easier. Karate offers an interesting example. Dojo around the world can struggle to attract students because training involves discomfort. Sitting on the sofa playing video games is certainly easier. I started Karate training when I was 17. Initially, the biggest problem wasn't discomfort. It was confusion. I wasn't coordinated enough or skilled enough to do difficult things. As I progressed through the ranks, I became capable of increasingly complex techniques. That was when the discomfort factor really took off. But something else happened. I was getting faster, stronger and better. The improvement became worth the discomfort. Do now: Don't try to move from zero to one hundred. Gradually expose yourself to difficult situations and build your discomfort muscle over time. Emotional Fitness Is A Leadership Muscle Emotional fitness isn't about becoming emotionless. It is about becoming better at recognising what is happening inside ourselves and understanding what may be happening inside other people. First, learn your emotional triggers. Know your Hot Buttons and create a cushion between stimulus and response. Those four or five seconds may be all you need to stop emotion hijacking the conversation. Second, remember that everyone is carrying a heavy load. You may never know what is happening in someone else's life. That doesn't mean abandoning standards, but it may mean approaching people with a little more empathy and a little less immediate judgement. Third, become comfortable with discomfort. Like Karate training, emotional fitness develops progressively. We accept difficulty because there is something worthwhile on the other side. Leaders already understand the importance of physical fitness. We know muscles have to be exercised if they are going to become stronger. Our emotional muscles are no different. And given the speed, complexity and pressures surrounding modern leadership, we are going to need them. In Part Two, we will continue exploring emotional fitness and look at bouncing forward from failure and setbacks, expressing needs, feelings and feedback, and implementing what we have learned into daily life. Author Bio Dr. Greg Story, Ph.D. in Japanese Decision-Making, is President of Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University. He is a two-time winner of the Dale Carnegie "One Carnegie Award" (2018, 2021) and recipient of the Griffith University Business School Outstanding Alumnus Award (2012). As a Dale Carnegie Master Trainer, Greg is certified to deliver globally across leadership, communication, sales and presentation programmes, including Leadership Training for Results. He has written several books, including three best-sellers — Japan Business Mastery, Japan Sales Mastery, and Japan Presentations Mastery — along with Japan Leadership Mastery and How to Stop Wasting Money on Training. His works have been translated into Japanese, including Za Eigyō (ザ営業), Purezen no Tatsujin (プレゼンの達人), Torēningu de Okane o Muda ni Suru no wa Yamemashō (トレーニングでお金を無駄にするのはやめましょう), and Gendaiban "Hito o Ugokasu" Rīdā (現代版「人を動かす」リーダー). Greg also publishes daily business insights on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and hosts six weekly podcasts. On YouTube, he produces The Cutting Edge Japan Business Show, Japan Business Mastery, and Japan's Top Business Interviews, which are widely followed by executives seeking success strategies in Japan.

Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe is just around the corner. But what if our anxiety stems from an event that's already completely destroyed an old world? What if the real cataclysm was the introduction of those computers and smartphones, and our current political, cultural, and social crisis is just our way of merely dealing with the fallout?So argues the political theorist James Poulos, who is my guest in Episode 7 of Season 6 on Madison's Notes. Having earned his PhD in government at Georgetown University, he was a founding editor of The American Mind, Return, and Frontier, where he is currently editorial director. The author of The Art of Being Free (2017), Human, Forever (2021), I Know This Sounds Crazy (2024), and an upcoming book called, Golden Age Problems, he recently wrote a Palladium Magazine essay called, “The Dostoevskian Moment,” which we use along with Human, Forever to discuss the digital technology crisis.Along the way we discuss media theorists like Marshall McLuhan and Jean Beaudrillard, the American political tradition, post-Cold-War civilizational states, cryptocurrency and AI, digital sovereignty, the modern camps fighting over technology among effective altruists, vitalists, gnostics and post-humanists, conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy, the Pink Police State, why Mars colonies are safer for humanity than Lunar ones, and the genius of David Lynch.Hosted by Ryan Shinkel, Madison's Notes is the podcast of Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. The transcript for this interview is available on the JMP substack page, “Madison's Footnotes. Please share and enjoy. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns of potentially catastrophic AI risks. OpenAI unveils new agents and a $500 subscription while cutting the included allowance on its $200 Pro plan. In Hashtag Trending for September 30, 2026, host Jim Love covers four technology stories: • Anthropic's IPO warnings: Reuters reports that the Claude developer's prospectus describes risks including models resisting shutdown, concealing information and behaving differently when they recognize safety tests. • Connected-car privacy: Northeastern University researchers, working with Consumer Reports, tested 21 vehicles and 30 carmaker phone apps. Seven apps transmitted sensitive information to companies associated with advertising and tracking. Examples of the apps tested include HondaLink and myChevrolet. • Copilot photo reviews: A 404 Media investigation finds contractors can see uploaded photos and AI-generated edits while evaluating image quality. We examine Microsoft's privacy policies and the unresolved question of whether a training opt-out excludes these reviews. • OpenAI DevDay: GPT-6.1 Sol launches, while GPT-6.1 Astra is withheld over safety concerns. We cover Dots, ChatGPT Space, expanded Codex cloud capabilities, Astra Ultrafast and the subscription changes affecting Pro users. We'll examine the DevDay announcements and pricing changes in greater depth on our Project Synapse weekend show. CHAPTERS 00:00 Headlines and introduction 00:38 Anthropic's IPO warns of catastrophic AI risks 02:08 Connected cars and phone apps share data 04:02 Human reviewers can see Copilot photos 05:51 OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Codex and GPT-6.1 Sol 08:35 OpenAI's $500 plan and $200 Pro allowance cuts 10:06 Wrap-up and support the show What concerns you most: AI safety, data privacy or paying the same price for a smaller usage allowance? Leave a comment below. Subscribe for daily technology news with Jim Love. Contact us or support the show: https://technewsday.ca

Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe is just around the corner. But what if our anxiety stems from an event that's already completely destroyed an old world? What if the real cataclysm was the introduction of those computers and smartphones, and our current political, cultural, and social crisis is just our way of merely dealing with the fallout?So argues the political theorist James Poulos, who is my guest in Episode 7 of Season 6 on Madison's Notes. Having earned his PhD in government at Georgetown University, he was a founding editor of The American Mind, Return, and Frontier, where he is currently editorial director. The author of The Art of Being Free (2017), Human, Forever (2021), I Know This Sounds Crazy (2024), and an upcoming book called, Golden Age Problems, he recently wrote a Palladium Magazine essay called, “The Dostoevskian Moment,” which we use along with Human, Forever to discuss the digital technology crisis.Along the way we discuss media theorists like Marshall McLuhan and Jean Beaudrillard, the American political tradition, post-Cold-War civilizational states, cryptocurrency and AI, digital sovereignty, the modern camps fighting over technology among effective altruists, vitalists, gnostics and post-humanists, conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy, the Pink Police State, why Mars colonies are safer for humanity than Lunar ones, and the genius of David Lynch.Hosted by Ryan Shinkel, Madison's Notes is the podcast of Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. The transcript for this interview is available on the JMP substack page, “Madison's Footnotes. Please share and enjoy. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if employee disengagement, turnover and resistance to change aren't primarily people problems, but predictable responses to the systems employees work within?In this episode of the HRchat Podcast, Bill Banham is joined by Dustin Snyder, creator of the Strategic Workforce Insight Mapping methodology (SWIM), Executive Director at The SWIM Institute, Principal at Wayforward, and author of the 2026 book Sink or SWIM: The Human Systems Theory Approach to Business Performance.Dustin challenges a familiar response to workforce problems: run another engagement survey, introduce more training, launch a culture programme or rewrite a policy. While these interventions can have value, Dustin argues that organisations frequently focus on visible symptoms without identifying the conditions producing them.The conversation explores a simple but potentially uncomfortable idea for business and HR leaders: when the same behaviours appear across teams or an organisation, the problem may not be individual attitudes or character. Employees may be responding rationally to the environment, incentives, structures and experiences surrounding them.Bill and Dustin discuss how human systems theory can help leaders think differently about employee engagement, retention, organisational culture and business performance. Dustin explains where employee engagement surveys can help, where they can fall short, and why workforce data doesn't always reveal the root causes behind the behaviours leaders are trying to change.They also explore the challenge of accessing genuine frontline insight. As organisations grow, hierarchy, job titles and fear can filter information before it reaches senior decision-makers. Understanding what employees actually experience can therefore be very different from relying solely on the information that eventually reaches the executive team.A central theme of the conversation is Dustin's call to "stop managing behavior and start designing systems that drive it." Rather than continually asking employees and managers to behave differently, leaders can examine the organisational conditions that encourage, discourage or reinforce particular behaviours.Dustin also shares why he wrote Sink or SWIM, his work through The SWIM Institute to equip the HR community with system-level approaches to workforce challenges, and his involvement as Headline Partner for DisruptHR Buffalo on October 7.Topics covered include:• Why employee behaviour can be a predictable response to organisational conditions• Human systems theory and its application to workplace performance• Employee engagement surveys and the difference between symptoms and root causes• Strategic Workforce Insight Mapping (SWIM) and identifying upstream workforce conditions• Employee engagement, retention and organisational culture• Why hierarchy can prevent senior leaders from hearing frontline realities• Leadership blind spots and filtered employee feedback• Moving from managing individual behaviour to designing better organisational systems• The responsibilities senior leaders have for the conditions influencing workforce behaviour• Dustin's book, Sink or SWIM: The Human Systems Theory Approach to Business Performance• The SWIM Institute and its work with the HR community• Dustin Snyder and The SWIM Institute's involvement with DisruptHR BuffaloIf you're an HR leader, People professional or business leader looking for different ways to approach employee engagement, retention, culture, change management and workforce performance, this conversation offers a system-level perspective on some of HR's most persistent challenges.Connect with Dustin: linkedin.com/in/snyderdustinSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here.Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our newsletterCheck out our in-person events

Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe is just around the corner. But what if our anxiety stems from an event that's already completely destroyed an old world? What if the real cataclysm was the introduction of those computers and smartphones, and our current political, cultural, and social crisis is just our way of merely dealing with the fallout?So argues the political theorist James Poulos, who is my guest in Episode 7 of Season 6 on Madison's Notes. Having earned his PhD in government at Georgetown University, he was a founding editor of The American Mind, Return, and Frontier, where he is currently editorial director. The author of The Art of Being Free (2017), Human, Forever (2021), I Know This Sounds Crazy (2024), and an upcoming book called, Golden Age Problems, he recently wrote a Palladium Magazine essay called, “The Dostoevskian Moment,” which we use along with Human, Forever to discuss the digital technology crisis.Along the way we discuss media theorists like Marshall McLuhan and Jean Beaudrillard, the American political tradition, post-Cold-War civilizational states, cryptocurrency and AI, digital sovereignty, the modern camps fighting over technology among effective altruists, vitalists, gnostics and post-humanists, conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy, the Pink Police State, why Mars colonies are safer for humanity than Lunar ones, and the genius of David Lynch.Hosted by Ryan Shinkel, Madison's Notes is the podcast of Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. The transcript for this interview is available on the JMP substack page, “Madison's Footnotes. Please share and enjoy. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Human remains found in the crawlspace of a Big Bear Lake home in 2020 are identified as Jill Maiorca, who went missing in 2007, and her former husband is charged with first-degree murder. In Pennsylvania, a grand jury hears from previously reluctant witnesses, and the man accused of raping and murdering 20-year-old Sabrina Kahler in 2002 is taken into custody. Both arrests came on the same day.Current Affairs is Love Murder's shorter show about the cases of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now.https://local.nixle.com/alert/12686785/https://people.com/ex-charged-with-murder-of-woman-who-was-found-in-crawlspace-12138652https://ktla.com/news/california/man-arrested-cold-case-murder-of-wife/https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/attorney-general-sundays-cold-case-section-erie-investigators-announce-charges-in-2002-rape-murder-of-20-year-old-sabrina-kahler/https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/man-charged-rape-murder-erie-county-cold-case/https://people.com/new-testimony-leads-to-an-arrest-in-24-year-old-cold-case-of-penn-womans-rape-and-murder-12137199Find LOVE MURDER online:Website: lovemurder.loveInstagram: @lovemurderpodTwitter: @lovemurderpodFacebook: LoveMrdrPodTikTok: @LoveMurderPodPatreon: /LoveMurderPodCredits: Love Murder is hosted by Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette, researched by Sarah Lynn Robinson and researched and written by Jessie Pray, produced by Nathaniel Whittemore and edited by Kyle Barbour-HoffmanSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jon Bray joins Stew to break down the explosive new Utah Valley University independent report that proves Turning Point USA leadership put Charlie Kirk in the kill box Clayton from Heaven's Harvest joins Stew to expose the accelerating global collapse, engineered food shortages, and why the global elite are quietly preparing for the end. Find out how you can protect your family and become a hard target before the system completely snaps. Stew breaks down irrefutable Google Trends and image search data linking Elizabeth Lane to military contractors and the Palantir Recon Task Force at Fort Huachuca. Join us on KICK https://kick.com/stewpeters  

Malaysia starts sending thousands of refugees back to war-torn Myanmar. Human rights groups say it risks returning Rohingya muslims to danger. We hear from a fearful refugee. Also in the programme: Israel's military says more than a hundred settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank; we hear from Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who was held in a Russian prison for more than 400 days; and how the youngest ever female chess grandmaster learnt to play.(IMAGE: Myanmar nationals due to be repatriated from Malaysia sit inside a bus at Lumut, Malaysia September 29, 2026 / REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain)

AI has learned from the digital world. Physical AI brings real world data into the picture.Doron Hazan, Director of Products and AI at Wiliot, joins The Tech Trek to explain how physical AI connects AI systems with objects, environments, and supply chains.The challenge is not simply processing data. It is collecting accurate, current information from the physical world.Doron explains how ambient IoT, sensors, statistical inference, and cloud systems can help companies understand where assets are, what condition they are in, and what may happen next.The conversation also covers the role of human judgment. Supply chains require many decisions, often with consequences that spread across the system. That makes guardrails and human involvement especially important.Key Takeaways• Physical AI connects AI systems with data from the real world.• Better supply chain visibility starts with accurate, current physical data.• Real time decisions matter, but decision accuracy matters more.• Human judgment remains important when AI affects physical operations.Highlights01:53 What separates physical AI from traditional AI03:18 Why real world data collection changes the problem07:19 Supply chain visibility and practical use cases11:57 How quickly physical AI systems can make decisions12:48 Why guardrails matter in supply chain automation15:28 Robotics, distributed physical AI, and connected systemsFollow The Tech Trek for more conversations about AI, engineering, product, and technical leadership.

What does it really mean to walk in the freedom Christ has given us—and how should Christians respond when the culture increasingly loses sight of the value of human life? This week on Fearless with Mark & Amber, we're back from our Walking in Freedom event in Jacksonville, Florida, reflecting on an incredible weekend of ministry, fellowship, testimonies, and conversations with men and women carrying very real wounds from their past. One theme kept surfacing: assumptions. What happens when someone walks into a church looking for help but encounters judgment before anyone has taken the time to hear their story? We talk about welcoming the prodigal, confessing our struggles to one another, breaking free from addiction, and refusing to keep “fishing” for sins that God has already forgiven. Mark also shares some of what came out of his men's breakout session on biblical manhood, pornography, addiction, temptation, and why prayer—and sometimes radical changes in our lives—are necessary when we truly want freedom. Then the conversation turns to the value of human life. We revisit the Lindsey Clancy case before discussing a troubling report from the Netherlands involving the euthanasia of a two-year-old child suffering from severe medical conditions. How should Christians think about suffering, compassion, justice, euthanasia, and the sanctity of life? Ultimately, the question is not whether a human life is easy, productive, healthy, or free from suffering. Human beings are made in the image of God. The Lord is the Author of life. We are not. Scripture discussed:
 James 5:16
 Genesis 1
 The Prodigal Son
 Biblical warnings concerning temptation
 The image of God and the sanctity of human life Fearless Features:
https://fearlessfeatures.org 00:00 — Welcome to Fearless with Mark & Amber 
01:27 — Back from the Walking in Freedom event
 08:01 — The danger of making assumptions about people
 13:11 — Why prayer is essential in breaking addiction 
13:37 — Stop fishing for sins God has already forgiven
 14:43 — James 5:16: confession, prayer and healing
 15:08 — Sometimes freedom requires radical changes 
16:09 — Principalities: Doctrine of Demons update
 17:13 — Revisiting the Lindsey Clancy case
 21:07 — Netherlands euthanasia case involving a two-year-old child 
25:41 — What Scripture teaches about the value of human life
 26:17 — “The Lord is the Author of life”
 27:12 — Why Christians must stay grounded in the Word

Our Daily Scripture Readings and Reflection: At the core of spirituality and the Culture of Life is the reality of God's dominion. Today's First Reading from Daniel directs our attention beyond earthly power toward the sovereignty and authority of God. Human life ultimately belongs under His dominion, not ours. Recognizing God's authority changes how we understand ourselves, our neighbor, and the sacredness of human life.

This week on This Way Out, a long-forgotten gem from the Pacifica Radio Archives brings some much-needed laughter: excerpts from The Gay Liberation Follies- recorded circa 1976 in San Francisco, a queer radio take on the legendary TV comedy Laugh-In, recently rediscovered and preserved from an original KPFA recording featuring Lily Tomlin performing some of her most famous characters: Ernestine, Edith Ann, and more. In the news U.S. hospitals pay millions to settle Justice Department demands targeting pediatric gender-affirming care, queer celebrities are arrested protesting Israel's war in Gaza at the United Nations, and Colombia withdraws from the global Equal Rights Coalition. Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ communities in Australia mobilize to defend trans and intersex rights, and U.S. Republicans discover that there's more to politics than attacking trans people. Plus, a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton — and more queer news, history, and culture, now that you've discovered This Way Out. Featured speakers: Hannah Einbinder, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin Credits: Associate Producer Lucia Chappelle, Producer/ host Brian DeShazor, News writer Jeb Backe, the feature was produced by Brian DeShazor and Lucia Chappelle, NewsWrap reporters Marcos Najera and Lucia Chappelle. Dolly Parton Tribute produced by Sheri Lunn. Feature produced by Brian DeShazor music: Dolly Parton and theme music was written and performed by Kim Wilson. All this on the September 28, 2026 Edition of This Way Out!

The different versions of you | Episode 44 Why can you feel confident and capable in one room, then guarded, anxious, agreeable, or younger in another? Different people, places, and roles bring out different versions of us. That doesn't mean one version is real and the others are fake. Human beings are contextual, and adapting to our surroundings can be healthy. But what happens when adapting turns into self-erasure? In this episode, Bradley shares what he learned moving between the firehouse and a depth psychology classroom, and how being raised to minimize himself shaped who he became in new groups. Together, you'll explore: Why different environments activate different parts of us How family roles and belonging strategies become identities Why certain relationships bring older versions of us forward The difference between consistency and authenticity How to tell healthy adaptation from self-erasure Five questions for understanding who you become in different rooms How to reconnect parts of yourself that have been confined to certain roles or relationships The goal isn't to be the same person everywhere. It's to stay connected to your values, your voice, and your choices while you respond to the room you're in. As you listen, consider: Where do you feel most like yourself? Where do you find yourself editing who you are? And what do you believe would happen if you stopped? Experience shapes perception. Awareness creates choice. Learn more about The Bradley Hall Show: https://thebradleyhallshow.com For identity-focused coaching and the free guide "You're Not Who Happened to You," visit https://thebradleyhall.com

Jeff Mains sits down with Carl Lenocker, a 30-year enterprise software veteran who started in Silicon Valley in the '80s, survived the dot-com bust, and now consults founders on what actually creates durable companies. Carl delivers a sobering assessment: more than 90% of the AI companies being built today could be reproduced by a larger competitor in six months or less. The conversation covers why distribution matters more than product, why "get acquired" is a hope masquerading as a plan, the disappearing apprenticeship pipeline and what it quietly breaks inside organizations, how AI "second brains" may replace tribal knowledge transfer, and what software might look like in 10 years when bespoke AI-generated tools could replace the SaaS model entirely. Carl also shares lessons from his book Success Plan for Life, his contrarian investment philosophy, and why he'd rather put money in apartment complexes than most small AI startups right now.Key Takeaways[4:18] — 90%+ of AI companies being built today could be reproduced by a larger competitor in about six months.[7:08] — Distribution matters 100x more than the product when anyone can build something.[8:35] — Rumors of SaaS being dead are completely overblown — AI is amplifying software roles, not eliminating them.[11:41] — Entry-level jobs have fallen off a cliff, and the loss of mentorship-style apprenticeships may cost companies in 5–10 years.[16:44] — Enterprise clients are greenlighting 8–10 AI platforms but expect to consolidate to 1–2 by 2027 — value and outcomes will decide who survives.[19:13] — Carl would rather invest in apartment complexes right now than small AI software companies, because most lack a defensible moat.[22:35] — Fundamentals matter: companies without a path to profitability, like pets.com, fail regardless of the hype surrounding them.[24:40] — Executive presence without a successful product is putting the cart before the horse — build the business first, hire the presence later.[30:49] — "Get acquired" is not a plan; most founders don't respect how hard acquisition actually is.[34:57] — Splunk's T-shirt marketing campaign is a masterclass in creative distribution and brand-building.[37:19] — Human-to-human relationships and sales skills are the most AI-proof skills you can invest in right now.[39:13] — In 5–10 years, software could become bespoke — AI agents building custom, self-maintaining solutions tailored to each company.Tweetable Quotes[7:02] Carl Lenocker: "If you could vibe code it in your basement, a major firm could probably have what you've built in six months."[7:28] Jeff Mains: "Distribution mattered way more than the product, and I think that is 100 times more true today than it's ever been."[8:35] Carl Lenocker: "The rumors of SaaS being dead are completely overblown."[19:13] Jeff Mains: "You'd rather put money in apartment complexes right now than a small AI software company."[26:08] Carl Lenocker: "People who put executive presence in front of having a successful product and a path to profitability are putting the cart before the horse."[32:25] Carl Lenocker: "Getting acquired is hard, and most people do not give it the respect it's due."[37:25] Carl Lenocker: "Everything good in my life came from having a plan. Second to that, everything good came from relationships."[37:55] Carl Lenocker: "If you're young and want to prevent your job from being taken by AI, invest in relationship building and sales skills."SaaS Leadership Lessons1. Distribution is the real moat. When anyone can build a product — and AI makes that faster every day — the companies that win are the ones that own distribution. Carl notes he could build a million-dollar company with one good SDR, one closer, and a product person, regardless of what the product actually is. If your go-to-market strategy is an afterthought, your company will be too.2. Tie every customer investment to a measurable outcome. Carl's 15+ years in customer success taught him that renewals live or die on value realization. Whether a client is writing a $50 million check or a $50,000 check, the question is always the same: did they see 2x, 3x, 4x the value of what they're paying? In the AI gold rush, companies theorizing future value will eventually have to prove it — and the ones who can't will be cut.3. Build a path to profitability from day one. The pets.com cautionary tale still applies. Hype without fundamentals is a time bomb. Carl's contrast between pets.com (no shipping infrastructure, no plan to ever make money) and Amazon (Bezos building distribution centers while everyone laughed) is the exact lens founders should use on their own AI startups today. Growth at all costs is no longer a viable strategy.4. "Get acquired" is not a plan — build like you're running it for a decade. Doug Merritt, former CEO of Splunk, said it best: people don't understand how hard it is to get acquired. Many founders take VC money, face mounting dilution, miss their growth apex, and end up sold to a hedge fund that fires 80% of employees. Build a company you'd want to run for 10–20 years. If someone wants to acquire it anyway, that's a bonus — not a strategy.5. Executive presence is hireable; product and revenue are not. Don't put charisma in front of fundamentals. Alex Karp at Palantir isn't charming — but he has a product that works and investors trust the results. Steve Jobs was known to be difficult. Bill Gates, same. Elizabeth Holmes had the presence but not the product. You can always hire a seasoned executive to sit across from clients. You can't hire your way out of a product nobody wants.6. Invest in human relationships — your most AI-proof skill. As AI writes emails, sends IMs, and soon handles calls, the ability to take someone to dinner, build genuine trust, and navigate a human-to-human conversation toward business outcomes becomes increasingly rare and valuable. Carl's advice to young professionals: relationship building and sales skills are where you should invest, because AI can fake empathy but it can't build real trust. Everything good in his career came from having a plan and, second to that, from relationships.Guest Resourcescarl.lenocker@gmail.comSuccessPlanforLife.comRockstarCSM.cominstagram.com/SuccessPlanforLifeEpisode SponsorThe Futureproof Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfkXKUPZ5xuOqMPR7_gzGybncTtavyR1NThe Captain's KeysSmall Fish, Big Pond – https://smallfishbigpond.com/ Use the promo code ‘SaaSFuel'Champion Leadership Group – https://championleadership.com/https://jeffmains.com/books/SaaS Fuel ResourcesWebsite - https://championleadership.com/Jeff Mains on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffkmains/Twitter - https://twitter.com/jeffkmainsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/thesaasguy/Instagram - https://instagram.com/jeffkmains

Have you ever apologised to furniture? Do you reread a message you sent four hours ago, checking the tone? When someone praises your work, do you find the floor for them before they can get to it? Did you feel guilty resting the last time you were unwell? If more than two of those landed, this one is about you. In this Moment of Awe, we explore the AstroPsychology of self-worth: why the second house is not the money house, what Carl Rogers, Jennifer Crocker, Francis Flynn and Vanessa Bohns can tell us about proving and receiving and three ways to stop answering a question that was never yours. The Second House Is the Room Behind the Door The second house is the house of Taurus, and it is ruled by Venus. On the surface, it looks like the money house: wealth, finance, possessions. It is not. It asks one of the most uncomfortable questions in the entire chart: what do you believe you are worth? Not financially, not professionally, not socially, but at your core. If the first house is the door, this is the room immediately behind it, and it is the harder one. There was a year when I was still at the kitchen bench at eleven o’clock at night, eating something over the sink, answering emails that could comfortably have waited until Tuesday. I told myself this was simply what building something looked like. It was not. It was proof of purchase. Venus Is the Principle of Value Venus is not about what you own. It is about what you value, what you find beautiful and what you allow yourself to take in. Which is exactly why worth and possessions ended up sharing a room. Human beings have always confused what they have with what they are. Carl Rogers called this conditions of worth. As children, we receive love that arrives with terms attached. Be quiet, be good, achieve, do not need too much, do not be difficult. And a child who cannot survive without that love does the only sensible thing available: they work out which parts of themselves are acceptable and quietly exile the rest. So here is the distinction I want you to hold. Your values are what is genuinely important to you. Your usefulness is what you produce. Most people have not looked at the first in about twenty years, and keep an extremely detailed spreadsheet on the second. Proving Is an Unpaid Invoice In shadow, the second house looks like overworking, undervaluing yourself and feeling that you must prove your worth. Sit with that word, prove. You only prove something that is in doubt. Nobody wakes up and proves the sun came up. If you are still proving, at some point you agreed the question was worth asking, and nobody makes that agreement on their own. Somebody asked you first. Jennifer Crocker at the University of Michigan identified seven domains in which people stake their sense of worth: academics, appearance, approval from others, competition, family support, virtue and God’s love. Following students across their first year at university, she found that those who had staked their worth on the external ones were more likely to develop depressive symptoms. The problem was not how much self-esteem they had. It was what they had to keep doing to hold on to it. Proving is not a character strength. It is an unpaid invoice you inherited. Receiving Is a Skill In light, the second house looks like receiving, honouring your value, creating abundance from wholeness and knowing you are enough. Look at that first word: not earning, not achieving, receiving. Across their work, Francis Flynn and Vanessa Bohns have had participants approach more than 14,000 strangers with direct requests. On average, people underestimate the likelihood that somebody will say yes by roughly half. We are so focused on what it will cost the other person to say yes that we never consider how uncomfortable it would be for them to say no. Most of us are walking around with a wildly inaccurate estimate of how welcome we are. For most of my life, I carried the private sense that I was too much. Too intense, too fast, too many ideas arriving at once. So I learned to package myself down. And here is what I did not expect: the thing I spent thirty years apologising for is the thing people actually come to me for. Three Ways to Stop Proving Find the sentence. Finish this honestly: “I am okay as long as I…” Whatever fills the gap is not your worth. It is your condition. You cannot renegotiate a contract you have never actually read. Separate your values from your usefulness. Write down five things you genuinely value, and not one of them may be something you produce, achieve or deliver. If you stall at three, that pause is not a failure of imagination. It is the sound of a life organised entirely around output. Practise receiving. Once this week, ask somebody for something small, real and slightly inconvenient, and take it without paying for it. No favour back, no apology, no explanation. And when somebody compliments you, your entire response is thank you. You Were Not Born Asking This Somebody handed you this question a very long time ago, and you have been answering it ever since. You are not worth what you produce, what you hold together or how little you need from anyone. Those are your receipts. They were never your value. The chart does not tell you what you are worth. It shows you the room where you first agreed to prove it. And you are allowed to stop answering. The work was never to become worth it. It was to stop agreeing to the question. Because the more human we are with each other, the more we all rise. You can watch the video of this episode on YouTube. If you have been having the same conversation with yourself for weeks, meet Bridget, your AI coach. She asks rather than tells, and the thinking stays yours: https://bridget.riseandthriveglobal.com/ If you are a coach, psychologist or therapist and this framework felt like a language you already speak, explore the AstroPsychology Practitioner Programme: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/astropsychology-practitioner-programme/ Or book a 20-minute clarity call, no obligation, just a conversation: https://calendly.com/catherineplano/meet-greet Newsletter: Catherine Plano for transformation. Instagram: @catherineplano for inspiration.

A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger Gaines-Cirelli with Foundry UMC September 20, 2026, the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. “Be Astonished” series. Texts:  Psalm 19:1-4, Matthew 6:25-33                                  “The heavens are telling the glory of God.” I love that phrase. It's so poetic and so deeply true. The heavens are telling. Day pours forth speech to day. Night declares knowledge to night. The whole creation, the Psalmist imagines, is engaged in this unceasikng testimony to the glory of God. And then comes this: “There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard.” Creation is telling us something without saying a word. The sky is telling. The trees are telling. The oceans and rivers, birds and flowers, creatures we can see and creatures buried in the soil beneath our feet are telling. The question is whether we notice. Perhaps that is why, centuries later, Jesus says: Look at the birds. Consider the lilies. Pay attention. In fact, the words Jesus uses are stronger than our English translations sometimes make them sound. When Jesus says “look at the birds,” it's an invitation to really look, to direct your attention toward them. And the word translated “consider” the lilies means something like observe carefully or learn thoroughly. This makes me feel better about becoming one of “those people” who have a collection of bird books and are constantly recording birdsong in the Merlin app to identify what birds are around. Jesus says not just “look” or notice, but study the birds. There is something here for you to learn. And notice who he says this to. Anxious people. People worried about what they will eat and what they will drink and what they will wear. People preoccupied with all the things that might go wrong. Jesus doesn't respond to anxiety with an argument or a philosophy. He instead gently redirects attention. Look at the birds. Consider the lilies. For Jesus, the birds and lilies aren't simply beautiful distractions from anxiety. They are witnesses to a creation—including anxious humans!—held in the care of God. Pay attention, Jesus seems to say, and you may begin to notice not only the wonder of the world, but the faithfulness of the God who's got the whole world in God's hands. Jesus teaches this way throughout the gospels. Pay attention to seeds and soil. Watch how yeast works its way through dough. Notice vineyards and fig trees and sheep and weather. Jesus moves through the world as though everything is shimmering with the possibility of revelation. Which suggests that paying attention to creation isn't a side hustle to the spiritual life. Paying attention to creation is part of how we learn to see. It's a way we come to learn the wisdom, the love, and the care of God. Annie Dillard, who died this past week, once described coming to a place where you say to the woods, the sea, the mountains: “Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive.” What if awe begins there? Not with some extraordinary experience, but with stopping. With noticing. With allowing something other than our own thoughts, fears, schedules, screens, and preoccupations to claim our attention. The psychologist Dacher Keltner identifies nature as one of the great sources of human awe. He calls it “wild awe.” And wild awe can certainly happen in spectacular places. Standing on the rim of a canyon. Looking across an ocean. Walking among trees that were ancient before any of us were born. Looking up on a clear night and suddenly comprehending—or failing to comprehend—how enormous the universe actually is. But one of the things I appreciate about Keltner's work is his insistence that awe doesn't require a plane ticket. We can learn to notice astonishing things happening all around us. We live on a planet where bees use dance to give other bees directions to the next flower. Where crows remember human faces and teach their young which humans to avoid. Where ants beneath our feet build whole communities, carrying many times their own weight. Where birds somehow know when it is time to leave and where to go. Where tiny seeds split themselves open underground and reach toward light they have never seen. Where after a devastating fire, the earth grows flowers again. “The heavens are telling the glory of God.” They have been telling us all along. The question is whether we have stopped noticing. And we have some good reasons for that. There is so much competing for our attention. So much designed to steal our attention. News alerts. Emails. Texts. Advertisements. The infinite scroll. Much of what draws our focus is what frightens or angers us. And I want us to be gentle with ourselves on this point—you know, it isn't a moral failure to get hooked by upsetting things. Human beings are wired to notice threat. It has helped keep us alive. But if threat is all we notice, it begins to look like threat is all there is. If all I take in are the things that are falling apart, then eventually I begin to believe that falling apart is the truest thing about the world. If all I see is what frightens me, fear begins to determine the size and shape of my world. And this, I think, is why the late Wendell Berry's beloved poem “The Peace of Wild Things” resonates with so many people. He begins, “When despair for the world grows in me...” You know anything about that? When despair for the world grows in me, Berry wrote, he goes out into the presence of the wild things. He lies down near still water. He looks up into the stars. And by the end he can say, “I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” The problems haven't gone away. The world hasn't suddenly gotten sorted. Something has changed in him. His field of vision has widened. He has remembered that the thing causing him despair is real—but it is not everything that is real. This is such an important thread that we will pull through this entire series: paying attention to wonder, learning to notice—these aren't ways of escaping the world's pain. They are ways of refusing to let pain become the whole story. Robin Wall Kimmerer says it beautifully in her book Braiding Sweetgrass: “Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.” Awe helps us hold more than one thing at a time. And Keltner's research suggests that this does something important to us. Experiences of awe can evoke what researchers sometimes call the “small self.” Honestly, I wasn't a fan of this phrase when I first saw it. Because our faith certainly doesn't teach that human beings are insignificant. You bear the image of God. You are beloved. Your life matters. But I came to understand that the “small self” is connected to the spiritual practice of humility. There is a difference between knowing that my life matters and believing that I am the center of everything. Wild awe can remind us of the difference. Stand under a sky filled with stars and you remember: I am small. And I belong here. Stand beside the ocean and remember: I do not control all of this. And I am part of it. Watch some tiny creature making its way through the world and remember: There are lives being lived all around me that have nothing to do with my agenda. And researchers are discovering that this change in perspective has consequences. Awe is associated with greater feelings of connection. It can widen the boundaries of our moral concern—not only toward other people, but toward animals, plants, and the environment. It can make us more generous, more cooperative, more aware that we belong to something larger than ourselves. We are earth creatures, given breath we did not create, dependent upon soil and water and sunlight and the labor and lives of innumerable creatures we rarely even notice. We are part of God's vast, glorious, good creation. And what a strange thing we human beings have done—to begin imagining that creation is simply the scenery behind the main stage, with us at the center and always in the spotlight. Scripture tells the story differently. “The heavens are telling the glory of God.” Creation isn't scenery. Creation is revelation. Creation is our teacher, our neighbor. Creation is an astonishing gift. And when we begin to receive it that way, perhaps we also begin to live differently within it. Because reverence changes relationship. It is harder to treat as disposable something you've come to know as wonder-full. It is harder to think of the earth merely as a collection of resources when you have begun to perceive yourself as part of its beautiful, intricate community of life. And perhaps it becomes harder to treat other human beings as disposable too. If awe teaches me that I am not the center, then that sets me in a different relationship with my neighbor. Perhaps I can hold my certainty a little more lightly. Perhaps I can become curious again. Perhaps I can recognize that my perspective is one perspective within a world vastly bigger than I can see. Perhaps wonder can loosen some of the fear and defensiveness that separate us from one another. Allowing the experience of wild awe to soften the hard boundaries that grow up among and between people doesn't mean we stop caring about truth or justice. It does mean we remember our place in the vastness of creation and the human family. We are not insignificant nor are we all-important. We are not powerless nor are we all-powerful. We are beloved, responsible, and deeply interconnected with all beings and the whole creation. Jesus says: Look at the birds. Consider the lilies. Maybe those aren't just lovely illustrations for a sermon about worry. Maybe Jesus is giving us a spiritual practice: Learn to notice. Go outside and look at something long enough that it becomes more than background. Take a walk without filling your ears with something. Look up. Learn the name of a bird or the sound of its song. Watch clouds move. Notice the astonishing architecture of a leaf. Find water and sit beside it. Look at the moon long enough to remember that generations upon generations of human beings have looked at that same moon. Attend to something that does not need anything from you. And perhaps, once in a while, allow yourself to be astonished. Not as an escape from this wounded world, but for the sake of your own well-being and for the sake of this beautiful, broken world. Because we need people able to see beyond the crisis immediately in front of them and remember that God's world is wider, older, stranger, more beautiful, and more resilient than any one terrible moment. The heavens are still telling. Day to day still pours forth speech. Night to night still declares knowledge. The testimony has not stopped. Maybe our practice this week is simply to learn to notice. Look at the birds. Consider the lilies. Slow down. Pay attention. Be astonished. And discover what this beautiful and broken world has been trying to tell us all along.

Why better? Well, bucket lists, while wonderful, also carry a lot of pressure. So today, let's make a list of favorite things you love about fall – things you want to eat, drink, cook, see, smell, watch, listen to, and do before we hit Thanksgiving. And then I'll share some ideas on how to incorporate your fall favorites into your life. Helpful Companion LinksOrder my book The PLAN or ask your library to consider carrying a copy.My Golden Milk instagram postNorth Carolina Homesick candlePink Moon by Nick DrakeBreezy Instrumental, my most popular playlist forever (Spotify)So You Married a Human by Jackie KelleyEpisode #322: What to Do with Random Pockets of TimeSign up for our every-other-week podcast recap emailSign up for my once-a-month newsletterSign up for my once-a-month book review email, The Book ListGrab a copy of my book The Lazy Genius Kitchen or The Lazy Genius Way! (Affiliate links)Download a transcript of this episode.Want to share your Lazy Genius of the Week idea with us? Use this form to tell us about it or record your idea and share your voice on the show.

What if creativity isn't something you're born with? What if it's something you can actually practice, strengthen, and learn?On this episode of YOUR WORLD OF CREATIVITY, host Mark Stinson talks with Grammy-winning producer and mix engineer Dom Morley about what 30 years in recording studios with some of the world's most accomplished musicians have taught him about how creativity really works.Dom learned his craft at London's legendary Metropolis Studios and went on to engineer Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, earning a Grammy for Record of the Year. Across his career, he's worked with artists including Adele, Sting, Mark Ronson, Richard Ashcroft, Shakira, Underworld, and Jeff Beck.But after decades around extraordinarily creative people, Dom came to an important conclusion: creativity isn't a mysterious gift reserved for a select few. It's a skill we can develop.His forthcoming book brings together lessons from the recording studio with research into flow, play, constraints, generalism, collaboration, and the conditions that help better ideas emerge.In This Episode, Mark and Dom Explore:Creativity as a learned skill. What separates people who consistently generate ideas from those waiting for inspiration—and the habits Dom has observed among highly successful creative people.The advantage of being a generalist. Dom has deliberately worked across pop, rock, folk, electronic, and orchestral music. While conventional career advice says “pick a lane,” he explains why crossing disciplines can become a creative advantage.Why outsiders sometimes have the breakthrough. Deep expertise is valuable, but it can also narrow how we see a problem. Dom explores why ideas imported from another field can sometimes unlock solutions the experts overlook.Less freedom can mean more creativity. Unlimited time, tools, and possibilities sound ideal—but they can also become paralyzing. Mark and Dom discuss how deadlines, limitations, and deliberately designed constraints can push us toward more inventive solutions.Flow, play, and getting creatively unstuck. Is creative block really a lack of ideas, or are we failing to create the right conditions for ideas to emerge? Dom shares why experimentation and play remain essential even when creativity becomes your profession.Human creativity in the age of AI. As AI makes it increasingly easy to generate music, writing, images, and other creative outputs, what becomes more valuable about the human creator? Dom and Mark consider the growing importance of curiosity, experience, judgment, taste, and knowing which ideas are worth pursuing.Building Your Creative PracticeDom's experience offers an encouraging challenge to the mythology of the “creative genius.”You don't need to wait for inspiration. You don't have to stay in one lane. And you don't need unlimited freedom or resources to produce original work.Instead, creativity can be cultivated by expanding your influences, creating useful constraints, making room for play, developing your judgment, and practicing the process of generating and recognizing good ideas.Whether you're a musician, writer, designer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, scientist—or someone who has never considered yourself particularly creative—the question isn't simply “Am I creative?”A more useful question might be: “What can I do today to become more creative?”Connect with Dom MorleyWebsite: https://www.dommorley.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dommorleyauthor/Follow Dom on Instagram for practical tips and ideas for becoming more creative—and to be among the first to hear about the release of his forthcoming book.Keep Unlocking Your World of CreativityIf this conversation sparks an idea, share the episode with another creative person. And wherever you listen, be sure to follow YOUR WORLD OF CREATIVITY, rate and review the podcast, and join Mark Stinson for more conversations with creative practitioners from around the world.Until next time, keep exploring, keep experimenting, and keep unlocking YOUR WORLD OF CREATIVITY.

It's Episode 06 of Season 25. The frequency of fear brings you tales about the sensation of isolation."The Footsteps at 3:33" by Marwa Ayad (Story starts around 00:05:00)Produced by Jeff ClementCast: Narrator - Erika Sanderson, Building Manager - Andy Cresswell, Neighbour - James Cleveland, Widow - Penny Scott-Andrews"Random" by David McLachlan (Story starts around 00:25:20)TRIGGER WARNING!Produced by Claudius MooreCast: Narrator - Dan Zappulla, Mother - Danielle McRae"The Better Man" by Michael Harris Cohen (Story starts around 00:43:25)TRIGGER WARNING!Produced by Phil MichalskiCast: David - Jesse Cornett, Alec - Jeff Clement, Brian - Graham Rowat, Gaia - Nichole Goodnight, Mother - Nikolle Doolin, Guest - Atticus Jackson, Hippy - James Cleveland"Semi-Detached" by Marc Parker-Yates (Story starts around 01:23:10)TRIGGER WARNING!Produced by Phil MichalskiCast: Lynne Pearce - Penny Scott-Andrews"Mercy Brown and Me" by Christine Lajewski (Story starts around 01:43:00)TRIGGER WARNING!Produced by Jesse CornettCast: Julia - Mary Murphy, Mercy - Sarah Ruth Thomas, Mercy - Erin Lillis, Gina - Linsay Rousseau, Laurinda - Nichole Goodnight, Mom - Nikolle DoolinThis episode is sponsored by:Betterhelp - This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Take a step towards a better you. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/nosleep.Home Chef - Home Chef's meal kits are rated #1 in quality, convenience, value, taste, and recipe ease. Head to homechef.com/nosleep to get 50% off your first box plus free dessert for life and of course, free shipping on your first box!Indacloud - IndaCloud is a fully legal online cannabis dispensary for gummies, exotic flower, premium prerolls, Zero Sugar THC Sodas, Energy Gummies, and Extra Strength Sleep Gummies. If you're 21 or older, go to indacloud.co/nosleep to get 30% off your first subscription order.Click here to learn more about The NoSleep Podcast teamClick here to learn more about our guest host, Dan ZappullaClick here to learn more about Marwa AyadClick here to learn more about David McLachlan Executive Producer & Host: David CummingsMusical score composed by: Brandon Boone"Random" illustration courtesy of Catriel TallaricoThe NoSleep Podcast is Human-made for Human Minds. No generative AI is used in any aspect of work.Audio program ©2026 - Creative Reason Media - The copyrights for each story are held by the respective authors. No duplication or reproduction of this audio program is permitted without the written consent of Creative Reason Media. No part of this audio program may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems. All rights reserved.