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Probably for the first time ever…we make a tribute to great state of Mississippi. Known for being the birthplace of American blues and home to many talented musicians. In the line of this show, I shine lights on soul, funk, boogie and some jazz-fusion…from artist, bands, and record companies all hailing from the Magnolia State. It's all vinyl show…enjoy it! 1.Tyrone Davis - In the mood '79 2.Jerry Butler - Would you mind '80 3.Natural High - I think I'm falling in love with you ‘79 4.Teddy Edwards - Eleven twenty three '74 5.Jasmine feat. Cassandra Wilson - Dream street ‘81 6.Mose Allison - Love for sale '66 7.Little Milton - 4-59am '77 8.King Floyd - Do you feeling '73 9.King Floyd - I feel like dynamite '75 10.G.C. Cameron - If I ever lose this heaven '76 11.James Bradley - I can't enough of your love '79 12.G.C. Cameron - You're what's missing in my life ‘77 13.Dorothy Moore - Ain't that a mother's luck '76 14.Mary Wilson - Red hot '79 15.Natural High - Time is wasting '79 16.Power - Hott '82 17.Bobby Rush - Do the do '77 18.Jerry Butler feat. Heaven & Earth - Ask me what you want ‘82 19.Freedom - Stacked back '81 20.Bo Diddley - Bite you '74 21.Fern Kinney - I'm ready for your love '83 22.Denise LaSalle and Satisfaction - E.R.A. '81 23.Sho-Nuff - Don't use me up '82 24.Tyrone Davis - Burnin' up '79 25.Natural High - Reachin' out '79 26.Freedom - Get up & dance '79 27.Rufus Thomas - Funkiest man alive '73

Hi my loves! In this episode of IOYS, we talk all about the relationships we should be staying in, love based fighting vs fear based fighting, and more. I hope you take something from it and soak in all the goodness healthy relationships have to offer! Socials:; Instagram: Sierrainphotos Tiktok: Averagesisi

Keskustelemme mangojen kansista ja kansikuvista sekä siitä, mitä kaikkea niillä voi tehdä. Ajankohtaisina aiheina puhumme mangan rastereita valmistavan firman IC:n haastattelusta sekä siitä, miten Hunter × Hunterin tekijä Yoshihiro Togashi kertoi julkisesti yhden sarjalleen suunnittelemista lopetuksista. Lukujonossa kokeilemme Golden Kamyun tekijä Satoru Nodan uutta sarjaa Dogsred, jossa entinen taitoluistelija aloittaa koululaisjääkiekon Hokkaidolla. --- Kommentoi | Bluesky | Mastodon | X | Instagram --- (01:03) – KUULUMISET: JOULUKALENTERIT - Maaretin Mastodon-ketju ja Bluesky-ketju jäätelöjoulukalenterista - Missing Link -blogin joulukalenterit löytyvät tällä hetkellä blogin yläpalkista - Mangakartan joulukalenteri (13:01) – MANGAKANNET: ESITTELY (14:55) – MANGAKANNET: TEHTÄVÄT - Jakso 56, jossa puhuimme siitä, miten mangan lukemisen kokemus muuttuu kun lukee luvuittain tai pokkareittain - Yona of the Dawn -kannet - The Geek Ex-Hitman -kannet - Fullmetal Alchemist -kannet - Jakso 84, jossa puhuimme sarjasta ja sen kansista - Spy x Family -kannet - Jakso 53, jossa puhuimme sarjasta ja sen kansista - Komi Can't Communicate -kannet - Delicious in Dungeon -kannet (28:40) – MANGAKANNET: POSEERAUKSET VS TILANNEKUVAT - FMA-juhlaomnibusjulkaisun kannet edustavat huonointa poseerauskannen tyyppiä: kussakin kannessa on hahmo pönöttämässä ilman mitään lisäajatuksia - Inuyasha-kannet - One Piece -kannet - The Promised Neverland -pokkarin 14 kansi - I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die -kannet - Jakso 92, jossa puhuimme sarjasta ja sen kansista - Yatta-tachi-sivusto julkaisee kansikuvalliset listaukset kunkin kuukauden aikana julkaistavista manga- ja ranobepokkareista - Tilannekuva luo tunnun siitä, että se nappaa luonnollisen hetken hahmojen elämästä: - A Side Character's Love Story -pokkarin 8 kansi - Hitorijime My Hero -pokkarin 14 kansi - Poseerauskuva taas tuo vaikutelman siitä, että se on nimenomaisesti kansikuvaksi aseteltu: - Matcha Made in Heaven -pokkarin 7 kansi - Joskus kansikuva on ikään kuin sarjan maailman sisällä otettu valokuva: - Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead -pokkarin 12 kansi - Grand Blue Dreaming -kannet - …ja takakannet jatkavat tilannetta koomisesti (kuva) - Kansijoulukalenterin luukku 17, jossa puhuimme pokkarin 6 kannesta - Shadows House -pokkarin 5 kansi (41:22) – MANGAKANNET: JATKUVUUS KANSIEN VÄLILLÄ - Nana-kannet muodostavat jatkotarinan - Useamman pokkarin kansikuvat voivat muodostaa yhtenäisen kokonaisuuden: - The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You -pokkarien 14-16 kannet (kuva) - One Piece -pokkarien 99-101 kannet (kuva) - One Piece -pokkarien 21-22 kannet (kuva) (44:27) – MANGAKANNET: ERI VERSIOT KANSIKUVISTA - Stray Dog's Night -pokkarin alkuperäinen japanilainen kansi (NSFW) - …ja Renta-palvelusta löytyvän julkaisun kansi (NSFW) - …ja Manga Planet -palvelusta löytyvän julkaisun kansi (50:23) – MANGAKANNET: TUHMUUDEN TASOT KANSISSA - Yurisarjassa NTR: Netsuzou Trap kannessa tytöt katsovat kameraan - Incitant Porno eli Senwaku Porno, jonka kannessa tuhmailu on hyvin esillä (NSFW) - Naisille suunnatuissa tuhmemmissa sarjoissa näkee usein päähenkilöllä “voi minua avutonta“ -ilmeen: - Josei-esimerkki Happy Marriage?! - Josei-esimerkki I Can't Refuse S - Josei-esimerkki Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts - BL-esimerkki Kochi muite, ai - BL-sarjojen kannet toisaalta kertovat, ettei sarja ole ihan kauhean tuhma tai että fokus on romanssissa enemmän kuin petitouhuissa: - Classmates - Anti-Romance - Monet Ogeretsu Tanakan kansikuvat eivät ole erityisen eroottisen näköisiä, vaikka sisältö useimmiten onkin - Citrus -kannet (58:38) – MANGAKANNET: VAIHTELEVAT KANSITYYLIT SARJAN SISÄLLÄ - Joskus sarjojen kansikuvat eivät tunnu kuuluvan yhteen: - How Do We Relationship? - Vinland Saga - Joskus sarjan kansityyli muuttuu sarjan edetessä tarkoituksellisesti osana kansisuunnittelua: - Flowers of Evil - Blood on the Tracks - Happiness - My Hero Academia -kannet ovat sekalaisia, mutta niitä yhdistää amerikkalaisia supersankarikansia matkiva tyyli - Kansi 15, joka on tosi tylsä - Kansi 29, joka on tosi siisti ja luo odotuksia - Jakso 59, jossa puhuimme pettymyskansista kuulijakommenttiosiossa - Me & Roboco -kannet parodioivat tunnettuja Jump-kansia (01:07:10) – MANGAKANNET: YHTENÄINEN KANSITYYLI LUO IDENTITEETTIÄ - One-Punch Man -kannet - Kansijoulukalenterin luukku 23, jossa puhuimme pokkarin 8 kannesta - Land of the Lustrous -kannet - Kansijoulukalenterin luukku 14, jossa puhuimme pokkarin 3 kannesta - Toistuvateemaisia kansidesigneja: - Pandora Hearts, jonka pokkarin 20 kannesta puhuimme kansijoulukalenterin luukussa 20 - Blue Period, josta kansineen puhuimme jaksossa 57 - Spy x Family - Tylsää, jos kaikki kannet ovat käytännössä sama kansi: - After the Rain - Kowloon Generic Romance - Ranskalainen kustantaja oli pitänyt näitä kansia liian tylsinä - Nana & Kaoru, josta kansineen puhuimme jaksossa 80 - Jenkkikansissa ei vaihdu edes väri - Jatko-osa Nana & Kaoru Last Year - Kuroshitsuji-kansissa meinattiin tippua tähän, kun alkusarjassa Sebastian oli joka kannessa, mutta sitten pokkarissa 6 on selvästi päätetty muuttaa suuntaa, kun on käynyt selväksi, että pitkässä sarjassa saman hahmon kierrättäminen ei toimi - Assassination Classroom on aika toimiva esimerkki - Goodnight Punpun -kannet - Petteri muisteli tässä sarjan japanilaisia kansia - Ajin taas ei ole kovin toimiva esimerkki - Life-kannet - Tekijän toisessa sarjassa Limitissä on onnistuneemmat kannet - Karneval-kannet - Wild Adapterin alkuperäiset kannet, joita käytettiin Tokyopopin jenkkijulkaisussa - Ichijinshan uudet kannet - Myös Arian kansissa kuva on vaakasuuntainen - Saiyukin alkuperäiset japanikannet - Lännessä tunnetaan vain yhtenäisemmällä tyylillä tehdyt uudemmat kannet (01:28:25) – MANGAKANNET: VÄRIMAAILMAT JA SARJAKUVARUUTUKANNET - Alice in Murderland -kannet - Please Tell Me, Galko-chan -kannet - The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All -kannet - Kiss x Sis -kannet - Jenkkijulkaisuissa on toisinaan ollut tapana rakentaa omat clipart-tyyliset kannet, joilla halutaan häivyttää teoksen mangamaisuutta, jotta se olisi houkuttelevampi sellaisille sarjakuvaharrastajille, jotka eivät pidä mangasta: - Ping Pong: japanikannet / jenkkikannet - Black Jack: japanikannet / jenkkikannet - Dororo: japanikannet / jenkkikannet (01:32:02) – MANGAKANNET: KANSITAITTO JA KEHYKSET - Vinland Saga -kannet (jenkkijulkaisu) - Kuroshitsuji - Delicious in Dungeon - Witch Hat Atelier - One Piece - Teemukissan Mastodon-kommentti siitä, miten sarjan kehykset alkavat hukkua hahmojen alle - Hana to yume -brändin japanipokkarit näyttivät ennen hyvin samoilta sarjasta riippumatta: - Fruits Basketin japanilaiset kannet - Suomijulkaisu - Jenkkijulkaisu - Ouran High School Host Clubin japanilaiset kannet - Jenkkijulkaisu - Yona of the Dawnin japanilaiset kannet - Jenkkijulkaisu - Uudemmissa sarjoissa brändiyhteneväisyys on väistänyt sarjakohtaista kansi-ilmaisua: - Takane & Hana, josta kansineen puhuimme jaksossa 16 - Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, josta kansineen puhuimme jaksossa 85 - Liselotte and the Witch's Forest -sarjasta on olemassa japaniksi sekä vanhanmallisia tiukasti brändättyjä että uusia sarjakustomoidumpia pokkareita (kuva) (01:39:00) – MANGAKANNET: KANSITAITTO JA NIMILOGOT - Fujoshiluolan Maijan Desucon Frostbite 2017 -luento BL-tarinoiden kansista (YouTube) - Moderni japanilainen kansitaittotyyli asettelee usein nimitekstit pitkin poikin kantta ja/tai hyvin kevyesti ja ilmavasti: - Koi janai nara namae wo tsukete - Zeichou! Nouzei-ka daisan shuunou-gakari - Blue Flag - And Yet, You Are So Sweet - Toisinaan tämä heijastuu myös jenkkijulkaisuihin: - Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You - In the Clear Moonlit Dusk - Vanitaksen kirjan japanipokkareissa nimilogo mahtuu pystysuuntaisesti kuvan viereen - …mutta jenkkipokkareissa nimilogo seilaa milloin missäkin ja yrittää olla peittämättä mitään - Ranobehenkiset kannet poksahtelevat joka suuntaan - Let's Buy the Land and Cultivate It in a Different World - Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge - As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World - Acca 13 -kannet - Dear Gene -kansi (01:47:45) – MANGAKANNET: SELKÄMYKSET - Maaretin Mastodon-postaus siitä, miten mukavaa Bookwalker-sovelluksessa on luoda sarjoille omia kustomoituja kirjahyllyjä - Tupla- ja triplapokkareihin mahtuu isommat ja hienommat selkämyskuvat kuin yksittäispokkareihin: - Karneval (kuva) - Girl Friends (kuva) - Aron morsianten jenkkijulkaisut ovat isoja ja kovakantisia, joten selkämyskuva tulee hienommin esiin niissä kuin suomalaisissa pokkarijulkaisuissa (kuva) - Tokyopopin logouudistus ei näytä kauhean kivalta hyllyssä – huomaa myös selkämysten tahattomat värivaihtelut (kuva) - Neon Genesis Evangelionin selkämykset (kuva) - Death Noten jenkkijulkaisu ei näytä kivalta, koska värit ovat synkät ja rankat (kuva) - Salapoliisi Conanin selkämyskuvien jatkotarina (kuva) - Dragon Ballin Aku Ankan Taskukirja -tyyliset pokkarista toiseen jatkuvat selkämyskuvat – eurooppalainen erikoisuus, joita japanilaisista pokkareista ei löydy (kuva) - Jakso 73, jossa puhuimme siitä, miten Crunchyroll uudelleenbrändäsi ostamansa ranskalaisen Kaze-kustantajan pokkarien selkämykset ja lähetti ilmaiseksi kuluttajille näiden pyytämät irtokannet vaihdettavaksi vanhoihin pokkareihin (01:56:16) – MANGAKANNET: YHTEENVETO - Magi-kannet - Orient-kannet - Shibuya Goldfish -kannet (joissa jättiläiskultakalat syövät ihmisiä) - Don't Call It Mystery -kannet ovat aika epäinspiroivia - My Lovey-Dovey Wife is a Stone Cold Killer (02:00:47) – RASTERIFIRMA IC:N HAASTATTELU - Linternauten haastattelu (ranskaksi) - Mangakoiden onnittelutervehdyksiä IC:lle (japaniksi) - One Piece 59:n lukijakysymysosiossa Eiichiro Oda kertoo käyttävänsä sarjassa kolmea IC:n rasterikuviota (kuva) - Shounen-sarjoissa on tyypillisesti vain muutamaa erilaista rasteria (kuva, One Piece) - Shoujo-sarjoissa taas käytetään enemmän erilaisia ja näyttävämpiä rasterikuvioita (kuva, Takane & Hana) (02:18:46) – HUNTER x HUNTERIN HYLÄTTY LOPETUS - ANN: Togashi Yoshihiro Reveals Hunter x Hunter Manga's Possible Ending in Case He Passes Away - Jakso 68, jossa puhuimme viimeksi Hunter x Hunterin tekijä Yoshihiro Togashin terveysongelmista (02:24:47) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTEJA EDELLISIIN KESKUSTELUIHIN - Jakso 92, jossa Maaret valitti kuulijakommenttiosiossa Vanitaksen kirjan käännösratkaisusta vampiiri - Jarmon Mastodon-kommentti jatkoksi Devilman-keskusteluun - Dorohedoro - Dai Dark (02:28:09) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTI: SARJASUOSITUKSIA - Komi Can't Communicate - Maaretille sopivat paremmin dramaattisemmat ja realistisemmat autismikirjokuvaukset, kuten Given, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury ja Loving Yamada at Lv999 - Titaanien sota - Attack on Titan: Junior High - Attack on Titan: Harsh Mistress of the City - Fairy Tail - Sweetness & Lightning - Toinen samanhenkinen ruoanlaittosarja Takasugi-san's Obento - Jakso 83, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You - Tomokazu Sugita - Yuuichi Nakamura - Kenjirou Tsuda - Junichi Suwabe - Atsumi Tanezaki - Aoi Yuuki (02:46:35) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTI: SPY x FAMILY - Jakso 90, jossa puhuimme animesarjojen länkkärisovituksista - Jakso 53, jossa puhuimme Spy x Familystä (02:50:36) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTI: VAIHTOEHTOJA GOOGLE PODCASTSILLE - Podcast Addict - Pocket Casts - Castbox - Mangakartan nettisivujen Kuuntele-osiosta löytyy podcast-sovellusvinkkejä (02:55:29) – LUKUJONOSSA: DOGSRED - Dogsred Manga Plus -palvelussa - Jakso 51, jossa puhuimme Satoru Nodan aikaisemmasta sarjasta Golden Kamuy - Dogsred on reboot Nodan Golden Kamuyta edeltäneestä sarjasta Supinamarada! - ANN: Golden Kamuy's Satoru Noda Reveals New Ice Hockey Sports Manga's Title DOGSRED - Paikallinen Sasuke ei tule toimeen päähenkilön kanssa (kuva) - Päähenkilö osaa temppuja joita muut eivät (kuva) - Sarja kertoo avuliaasti miten jääkiekko toimii (kuva) - Jakso 32, jossa puhuimme nettisarjakuvasta Check, Please! 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Well gang, we've officially reached the halfway point of Gerry's season of Golden Bachelor, and it's already abundantly clear that massive amounts of heartbreak are just around the corner. Join Ivana and Lisa as they discuss it all...from Kathy and Theresa's ongoing drama, to an invigorating group date with a game of Pickle Ball, and an adventurous four wheeling one-on-one with Leslie. There were a lot of highs-- we got our first "I'm falling in love with you!"--but it was very clear (judging by the preview for the rest of the season) that Gerry is going to break a lot of hearts while also experiencing an insane amount of heartbreak as well. Grab those snacks and bevvies, there is much to unpack!            Music: "Hot Shot" by scottholmesmusic.com Logo design: Wendi Griffiths Have a question? E-mail us at hungryrosespod@gmail.com ,  or visit our instagram @hungyrosespod we'd love to hear from you!!

The gang discusses last week's results and goes deep into one host's feelings for Chris's fantasy football skills.

I'm falling in love with my hobby farm

Looking for a unique and challenging gravel cycling experience? Look no further! In this episode of the podcast, host Craig Dalton introduces the founders of Gray Duck Grit, an exciting grass roots gravel cycling event in Southern Minnesota. Joining Craig are Kris Jesse, Nate Matson, and Mark Jesse, who share their passion for gravel cycling and the origin story behind Gray Duck Grit. Kris Jesse discusses her journey into gravel cycling, inspired by a friend's social media post, and her background in distance running. Mark Jesse, having participated in the Day Across Minnesota event and other ultra-endurance events, shares his love for gravel cycling's magical moments in solitude. They also delve into the details of the challenging 240-mile Day Across Minnesota event, which takes riders on a scenic route from Gary, South Dakota, to Hager City, Wisconsin. The founders highlight the unique aspects of Gray Duck Grit, including atypical distances and the creation of an ultra-endurance event. They discuss the beautiful terrain of the Driftless region near Northfield, Minnesota, where the event takes place, and the challenges riders may face, such as unpredictable weather and relentless winds. The episode wraps up with a discussion about the event's inclusive atmosphere, its charitable aspect in supporting Fraser of Minnesota, and a warm invitation to join the Gray Duck Grit experience. Topics discussed: Introduction of Gray Duck Grit founders The inspiration behind Gray Duck Grit  The Day Across Minnesota event  The challenging terrain of the Driftless region  Weather conditions and preparation  Inclusivity and the event's charitable aspect  If you're a gravel cyclist seeking an unforgettable adventure and an opportunity to push your limits, Gray Duck Grit is the event for you. With its scenic routes, challenging terrain, and an inclusive atmosphere, this event promises an experience like no other. So, buckle up, find some dirt under your wheels, and join the Gray Duck Grit community. Episode Sponsor: Dynamic Cyclist (code: THEGRAVELRIDE for 15% off all plans) Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: [00:00:00]Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. [00:00:28]Craig Dalton (host): This week on the podcast. I welcome the founders of a grassroots cycling event in Southern Minnesota called gray duck grit. It's happening this upcoming October 6th and seventh. Yes. I said two dates in there because there's multiple distances. They're offering a 333 mile race, a 222 mile race. Uh, 111 mile race. And a 69 mile race. Each of these distances has a significance. That we'll learn about during the conversation with this trio. This is the first time I've had three guests on at one time. There's a lot of fun. I wanted to push the podcast out as early as possible. To give anybody in the Southern Minnesota and surrounding area, an opportunity to jump on this event. It looks like a lot of fun. It's presented by the angry catfish bicycle shop and has a lot of great local sponsors and supports a great cause. Before we jump in i do need to thank this week sponsor dynamic cyclist The team at dynamic cyclists offers video based stretching and strengthening and mobility routines focused on cyclists. As you can imagine from their name. They just recently dropped an updated injury prevention program. The one I like to follow, which is the six week low back injury prevention program. It's always timely. Getting an update from my friends at dynamic cyclists. Because it reminds me that I have absolutely no excuse. To not fit these 10 to 15 minute routines into my day. I waste 10 or 15 minutes doing something not productive for my body. So it's a constant reminder that I should be stretching. I've dedicated myself this year to try to strengthen my lower back. In particular to improve my longevity as a cyclist for these long gravel cycling events. And I've found the stretching routines, particularly the injury prevention routines of dynamic cyclists to be super helpful. It's very focused on what we need as gravel, cyclists for me. It's tight hip flexors. It bands everything around my low back seems to draw everything in a tight bundle if I'm not careful. So having access to a content catalog of different stretching routines has been super important to me and motivating to just kind of frankly, get off my ass. And do the stretching I need to do. If you're interested in giving it a shot, dynamic cyclist always offers free access to, I think, a week's worth of content. For you to check out what they're doing. I'm on an annual plan. If you're interested, just use the code, the gravel ride, and you'll get 15% off. You can do month by month. If you're just someone who wants to do it in the winter. Or they've got a pretty affordable annual plan. That's just kind of the easiest thing to do. To make sure it's always there. When you need it. So head on over to dynamic cyclists.com and remember the code, the gravel ride for 15% off. So with that business behind us, I want to welcome mark Jesse, Chris, Jesse, and Nate Mattson to the show. Hey guys, welcome to the show [00:03:44]Kris Jesse: Thank you. It's great being here. . [00:03:47]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: So let's get started by just, let's go around the room, maybe starting with Chris and just talk about, um, a little bit about your backstory and then we can get into, I'm going to blub it, flub it every time. Gray duck grit. [00:04:03]Kris Jesse: Great at grit. You got it. Um, I would love to start. Uh, it's kind of funny. Um, I fell into gravel cycling from, um, just seeing a post on Facebook. A friend of mine, he was going to ride this crazy ride across Minnesota. 20 some miles, um, called, um, the dam day across Minnesota. And, um, my background really is, uh, distance running. And so that is where I came from. Um, that's my passion. Um, I'm reaching Saturday. I'm heading to Utah tomorrow now, where it'll be my almost 40th marathon. And so I'm really, uh. runner at heart. And I thought, Ooh, I can do this, this gravel, uh, cycling. And so, um, after seeing his post, signed up quickly and then did my first 50 mile gravel ride and sold my race registration for that long one. So really it is, uh, that's kind of my cycling, uh, background a couple of years ago, but now just fell in love with it. Like it's my peaceful time. Um, uh, as you'll hear, Minnesota has amazing gravel, uh, to ride and to be, um, had, and so I just love it. I'm falling in love with it and kind of transitioning to just cycling. So that's my, my background. Um, [00:05:24]Craig Dalton (host): Well, I've got lots of questions about Minnesota, I'm going to table them for a minute to allow everybody to introduce themselves. So Nate, how about you? How did you get into cycling? Do you have a running background as well? [00:05:35]Nate Matson: Uh, wow. I do actually a little bit. Um, so I actually have a triathlon slash running background and, uh, it's kind of a curious fitness person and I, I fell into gravel cycling because I got injured and I couldn't run, so I leaned more into cycling. And through this one specific friend of mine, he, he also did the dam the day across Minnesota. And he was like, yo man, you should come out with me and we'll start gravel cycling together. So I got in with him, we started going out almost every weekend. And that is how I met Mark was actually on a gravel ride. So there you go. And, uh, I can run now, but I run a lot less and I cycle a lot more. [00:06:23]Craig Dalton (host): All right, Mark, your turn. [00:06:25]Mark Jesse: Yeah, I, uh, you know, Chris, Chris is a friend of ours who, who did sign up for the dam. Um, that was sort of my introduction to gravel cycling as well. Um, and, uh, it just. I went out and participated in the dam and 2019 that was my first big ultra endurance events and gravel cycling. Prior to that, it was a 50 miler with alongside Chris, as she mentioned, and it was. During that 2019 day across Minnesota that I realized how magical gravel cycling is and, um, you know, being in the middle of nowhere, not having any bearings as to what direction you were headed. All I knew is I was following, following this trail of blinking red lights and, um, it was, I would look up and all I could see were stars and it was one of the most magical. Moments I've ever experienced on a bike and yeah, go ahead. [00:07:31]Craig Dalton (host): Amazing. I'd love to just learn a little bit more about Day Across Minnesota, because that seems like it's, you know, it's the origin story of, for the three of you, and it sounds like you had friends who were drawing you into it. How long of a ride is it? And what is it? What is the experience like? [00:07:46]Mark Jesse: It's, it's a 240 mile distance. It starts in, it started, um, it is no longer for the record. Um, but when, when it was in existence, it started in Gary, South Dakota, and you would make your way across the state of Minnesota and you would end up in Hager city, Wisconsin, um, and Trenton Ragar is the. Race director. He is also the current race director of the filthy 50, which he was his first events. And, um, and I believe that started in 2013, um, uh, the filthy 50. So the dam was a five year event that took place and I participated in 2019 and 2020. [00:08:28]Craig Dalton (host): Okay. And how long does an event like that take a sort of average cyclist? [00:08:34]Mark Jesse: Well, you know, my first year, it took me 22 and a half hours. Uh, there is a cutoff, um, of 24 hours. So the expectation is that you would, to get an official finish time, right? You would need to finish, it starts at midnight on Friday and it would end on mid at midnight the, uh, the following day, Saturday. So that was the format. Um, and it was, it was pretty, it was a pretty amazing event. [00:09:00]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: And with those kind of early experiences that drew you into the sport, did you subsequently travel outside Minnesota to do events to kind of get an idea of what the flavor was in other territories? Or have you mostly been participating in Minnesota based events? [00:09:15]Mark Jesse: I. Haven't done a ton of official, uh, races or events outside of Minnesota. I did the Redfield Rock, Redfield Rock and Roll down in Iowa, my hometown or my home state, um, last year, and that was a heck of a challenge. Um, but I did a lot of other, um, I did some gravel cycling in Florida. I've done some gravel cycling in California and, um, mountain biking, uh, in Arizona and Oregon and places like that. Um, so I've done. Um, some cycling, some pretty long distances as well, um, over several days, but nothing necessarily official in other states as of yet, but I definitely plan on doing more of that because how can you not, there's just so much to be had now, right? [00:09:59]Kris Jesse: hmm. [00:10:04]Craig Dalton (host): to those longer Distance events right from the get go, whereas a lot of people come into the sports, you know, being conjoled to do their first 25 miler and then 50 miler, et cetera. So it's going to be interesting as we talk about your event, the distances that you offer as they're a little bit atypical from what I see out there in the world, with the exception of some of the, you know, the well known ultra endurance races. [00:10:30]Mark Jesse: Well, I think that has a little bit to do with our running background. Um, I, I also came from the running background. I, I have 17 marathons under my belt, I guess. Um, so the, our fitness level was there, I think. And so it was a, it was a, wasn't the difficult transition to make, um, because we had motors. We just had to. You know, adjust the legs a little bit and get those legs and those muscles used to pedaling as opposed to running. So it wasn't a difficult transition. And I grew up on bikes, typical 80s era child did, you know, so. You know, it wasn't, I was very comfortable on the dirt growing up in Iowa on a, on a giant RS 940, 12 speed on gravel was a lot more difficult than riding a high end carbon gravel bike on, on, you know, the gravel around most anywhere else. Right. [00:11:28]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah, yeah, for What made you guys think about coming together to put an event on? I mean, you've participated in events, you've seen the hard work, but there has to be something that really made you have this burning desire to put in the hard hours, the money, etc., to create an event. [00:11:48]Nate Matson: I'm going to give this to Mark, but I just want to say before he gives a very official answer that we were, we were just having a lot of fun riding our bikes together, you know, and, uh, we, we knew that we were riding with some really good people and we just loved, loved that the way it made us feel. And, uh, I saw marketing sort of a glimmer in his eye. So when, so when he started talking about this ride, uh, when he invited me to be part of it, it was not really, I mean, it was a surprise, but it also oddly made sense to, [00:12:26]Craig Dalton (host): Got it. [00:12:27]Mark Jesse: Yeah, that was, you know, I didn't know what was going to come of this idea I had to, um, consider doing something like this. Um, you know, it all, it all went, it all dates back to, so the, here's the official origin, uh, origin story going back to 2018, I was running the Anchorage. Anchorage mayor's marathon in Anchorage, Alaska, along with Chris here. And I was experiencing some heartburn, um, during the first few miles and it, and it subsided, I took some Tom's because Chris would, would carry Tom's with her as, as we run marathons. And so I took some times it subsided, but, um. And, and I ended up finishing, but I was really sluggish. Um, and when I finished the, the world was spinning. I thought I was going to kind of faint or pass out, but I just sat next to a food truck and gathered my bearings. But to make a long story short, about two weeks later, I went for a run, just a recovery run. Um, that was maybe a week later and I ran two blocks and I. Thought my heart was gonna pop outta my chest. It was just not good. And I knew something wasn't right. So I, I went to the doctor and, um, it, it, I just ended up having, um, essentially I was diagnosed with a 90% blockage of my coronary artery. And, and here I ran that marathon with that blockage. Um, so, you know, it was a miracle that I even survived it. And, um, had a, had a stent placement. Um, and I. Fully recovered, but it was during that when they were reading, anytime you go in for something like this, they, they read all the possible outcomes and that really freaked me out. I, I, and so I made this promise to myself that if I, if I make it through that. I want to focus more, not just on myself and to, you know, be in better health. It was a genetic thing for me. It wasn't because of my diet. It wasn't because of my fitness, I wanted to do more for others while I had this time, um, available to me moving forward and. I didn't know what that meant, but I knew that I wanted to do something. And so then it was just a couple of years later, um, doing the dam, I wanted to prove to myself that, Hey, I'm not, I'm not be, you know, I'm not too far gone. I can still do this. You know, I'm not, I don't, I didn't want to live my life in fear of never being able to participate in something I loved, which was that, that endurance, um, activity, because, you know, it was through running that I fell in love with endurance sports. Um, not just what it does for me physically, but it's, it's cathartic, it's therapeutic, you know, um, just like it is for people who ride bikes, you get out there and, and you forget, and you, and you solve a lot of the problems that you're, you're going through and that you're experiencing. Um, it's just a very special thing to experience. And so, um. That was the, the, um, the start of it really. And, um, COVID came and went, I saw some events come and go. And then the day across Minnesota, the, the gravel event that really, um, caused me to fall in love with gravel cycling, um, they announced Trenton announced that it would be their last event in 2021. And, um, or their last year of doing it. And I just felt like, you know what, there was a void that could be filled. And, and we are by. No means trying to be the damn, um, that isn't our intent, nor is that our goal. But I do feel like there is a demographic of, of cyclists out there that would truly appreciate what I appreciated in, in doing an event that is an ultra endurance events. So that's what we have created. And. Um, it started out by doing some Strava group rides with some of the friends that I, I, I followed on Strava. I announced it, um, a couple of weekly rides and lo and behold, I, I, I met some new people. Um, and I met Nate, I met a guy named Greg Simogyi, um, in the process. Sam and some other people. And, um, it was just a great experience just meeting these people who basically we like the same band, you know, and you're not strangers when you like the same band, you know what I mean? [00:17:00]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. Exactly. Well, thank you so much for sharing that story, Mark, and thank God you're still around to share it. It is a takeaway, I think, for all of us to think about, you know, how big of a void, if you're an endurance athletic participant, how big a void it create in your life. To not be able to do that thing, because as you stated eloquently, for so many of us, it's rolling meditation. It's where we process a lot of things that go on in our lives. And I know as someone who's faced challenges in my life, like the idea of managing the rest of my life without endurance athletics would be a real difficult pill to swallow. [00:17:44]Mark Jesse: Exactly. I mean, when I'm having a tough day, when I'm stressed out, the very first thing I think about as, as far as how am I going to deal with this, this stress, this anxiety, this pressure I'm feeling, I got to get on my bike. I got to go. And it's, it's the pressure relief valve. Um, you know, radiators have them. Why can't we have them? Um, so, um, you know, it's, it's, um, you know, on, on those days I go out on my bike or when I was running, I'd go run and I finish up, you know, after 25, 30 miles on my bike, it's rainbows and butterflies after that. So, um, it feels good. [00:18:23]Craig Dalton (host): there something specific about Northfield, Minnesota? Is that where y'all live? Or is it just where you knew of amazing terrain? [00:18:34]Nate Matson: I'll, I'll take this one and Mark, please interject or Chris. Um, so Northfield is awesome. First of all, it's a great, it's a great little city that it's a college town with. Coffee shops and a lot of green space, and there's a great bike biking culture there. Um, but it's also close to what is known as the Driftless region, uh, of Minnesota, which basically, uh, it's not just Minnesota, by the way, it's Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, parts of Illinois. And basically there were icebergs around this part of the world, uh, uh, during the ice age, except in the Driftless area, there weren't, so it's a very like specific little region. And that is full of caves and rivers and valleys and buttes and really, I think it has like more freshwater streams than anywhere else in the country. And it's just like this little pocket, this little area and Northfield sits right on the edge of that. So it's kind of like the gateway to this really beautiful sort of bucolic scene. And uh, it's a, it's a gravel cycling haven for sure. It's wonderful. [00:19:45]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: gotcha. So if you're a gravel cyclist in Minnesota, in sorry, Minneapolis, you might on occasion go down there as a starting point for a [00:19:52]Kris Jesse: Right. [00:19:52]Nate Matson: Totally. So Northfield, uh, is about 45 minutes. [00:19:55]Mark Jesse: from Minneapolis. So it's, it's [00:19:57]Nate Matson: So it's, it's a really, it doesn't take all day to get there. You just, you know, put your bike in the back of your car. You drive down, you can have a great ride. Mark and I were down there last weekend. So it's, it's an awesome place to be. And they have the infrastructure for cyclists there. [00:20:13]Mark Jesse: infrastructure and [00:20:14]Craig Dalton (host): all those geological attributes you described sound wonderful for gravel cycling. How does it actually translate to What the terrain feels like when you're riding, what kind of gravel, how would you describe it to people coming from out of state or out of the area in terms of how they would equip their bike and what they should expect? [00:20:33]Mark Jesse: it was really [00:20:34]Nate Matson: Well, it was really fast last weekend in parts, you know, uh, we were cruising. Uh, and at the, so when you're, there's also lots of farm roads and fields. So you can be. You know, being passed by combines and tractors, uh, one minute, then you can go down in these valleys. And you might experience something completely different. Uh, and, uh, Minnesota is known as a pretty flat state, but in the Driftless region, it's constant hills. Um, I think the, the, the 333 mile route that we have that, which Mark will talk about, I think that has almost 20, 000 feet of climbing. So, cause it's just constant up and down and up and down. And in those hills, like it can get pretty. Pretty chunky, pretty chunky. But what's really cool about the water runoff is the, the, a lot of the roads never really, uh, flood or wash out. You might get wet, but you won't have to carry your bike. [00:21:25]Mark Jesse: you won't have [00:21:26]Craig Dalton (host): Okay. So Mark was sort of describing how, you know, his passion for the sport, you guys started to get together. You find other members of the community. You have this interest in maybe putting on an event. What happens next? You form an entity. Do you set a budget? How do you get the original, the first version of the event off the ground? [00:21:50]Mark Jesse: Well, I, you know, we, we get, you get together at a bar over some drinks is how you do it. Right. That's, that's the right way to do [00:21:57]Nate Matson: That's what happened. [00:21:59]Mark Jesse: but before I did that, I, I reached out to Trenton, the filthy, filthy 50 and Dan race director. And I asked to get together with them and just go over my idea. And, and I figured if he liked it, then it gave me, it was going to get, and he may not know this and, and I apologize Trenton, but if, if he liked it, um, it was my green light to, to move forward. And, [00:22:24]Craig Dalton (host): can can I interject and ask a question about Trenton and the dam? Was it, he was just sort of tired of doing it or was there some logistical problem with doing the event? I'm just sort of curious what, since it was such a important event in your lives to see it end, if you understood what the end story of that event was. [00:22:45]Mark Jesse: I, I would, I hesitate to really comment. I just know that the, he had, you know, he's, he's, you know, uh, middle aged. He has a lot going on. Uh, he has, you know, a wife and kids, um, and he's, he's, he's a dad. And so, you know, he, he probably wanted. Maybe part of that back and, and already, you know, really 50. That's a very successful event. That's that sell, they sold out, I think, in, in less than 24 hours, a thousand registrations this year. So it's very popular. Um, and, and he's. Killing it with that event and um, you know, maybe he thought that it was something that you know, it isn't done done I don't think he he did announce that it was gonna be the you know, the last year But I get the impression he isn't done done with it. I have a feeling it could be resurrected at some point and the website still exists so and he does Encourage people to do it on their own, um, and, and he will record, uh, you know, um, any times in, in the record books or, you know, official times. So, you know, it is still a thing, um, it isn't gone forever, but, um, you know, I have a feeling it might come back. I don't want to suggest that it will, but, um, but yeah, that's, that's sort of, um, what I do know about, you know, it not being around. I, I don't want to. Speak for Trenton, but [00:24:12]Craig Dalton (host): got it. No, thanks for that with what I've seen about gray dot grit and the number of distances you do that first night at the bar. Maybe you had more than enough drinks because instead of just saying we're going to do 100 kilometer race. You actually offered a bunch of different distances and they're not short distances. [00:24:32]Mark Jesse: I'm a bit obsessed with the number three. I don't know if you could tell, um, you know, three ones, three twos, three threes, three is, you know, and numerology represents completion, uh, three strikes in a baseball game, three outs, um, nine, nine players, three outfielders. You know, nine innings, it's, it's, it represents completion. And, and I kind of being a baseball geek growing up, um, I, I, uh, it just made sense to me that, why not, you know, uh, 111, that's, that's no walk in the park. The 69 or that Nate and I rode last Saturday is no walk in the park. It's going to challenge you. [00:25:17]Nate Matson: We thought it was going to, you know, we thought it was going to be 70 miles. And we were both like, this is so much harder than we thought it was going to be. It was a reality check for sure. [00:25:29]Craig Dalton (host): So for the listener, just to put a pin in it, you've got a 69 mile race, 111 mile race, 222 mile race, 333 mile [00:25:39]Kris Jesse: Yes. [00:25:40]Nate Matson: Yeah. And as he's telling us these numbers over a beer, again, I could see his eye glistening. Like you could just kind of tell, like it's, it's happening, you [00:25:49]Mark Jesse: It's the mad scientist look. [00:25:52]Nate Matson: like, we can make this [00:25:53]Kris Jesse: And Craig, that doesn't mean I'm always like, what about a 50 miler? What do we think? And I'm not giving up that yet, that request. [00:26:03]Craig Dalton (host): I'm just imagining the kind of orchestration required, and I've seen the start times on your website from, I think it was 10 a. m. Friday for the 333, 9 p. m. for the 222, and then you start the next day for the 111 and the 69 Is the idea that theoretically everybody should be finishing around the same time? [00:26:25]Mark Jesse: Yeah, that was sort of the, the idea, right? Is that no matter when you started, you could be riding next to someone who just is a, is like they, they, they don't even know where they are because they're riding in the three 33 and, and you're, you're in the last 10 miles of your, your one 11 or your 69 mile route. Um, so to have that, you know, there is something special when. You know, by by the time you're coming around through the road to Burma, which is a section of the route just north of Northfield, um, When you, when you're coming back home, um, in the last 10 miles, um, there's something pretty cool anytime you come across someone on a bike and you know that they're doing it too, right? And so there's that instant bond that you have with that person and you've never met them before. You don't know their name and you may forget their name, but you're a brother now, or you're a sister of theirs because it's when you're out there, your family. [00:27:27]Craig Dalton (host): When you're starting at the, at the 333 mile distance. Are you offering aid stations? What type of infrastructure exists for those riders who are going to be doing it 24 plus hours? [00:27:43]Nate Matson: we, we definitely had aid stations and I would say last year was also a learning experience for what we need to offer writers and when in the sort of level of support that we should give them. Uh, I don't know, Chris, if you want to talk [00:27:56]Kris Jesse: I can, [00:27:57]Nate Matson: we learned a lot last year. [00:27:59]Kris Jesse: did. We did. I do the nutrition for the aid stations and I think what's unique about Great Oak Grit is that we do actually have, and we are thoughtful about our nutrition. I know, you know, and that's kind of what some gravel races are about is you're on your own and you know, we may supply a water stop. Or, you know, throw out some pizza or donuts or whatever. But, um, you know, so we are, uh, thoughtful about our aid stations and, um, have like, um, like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and pickles and things like that, that we had last year. Um, this [00:28:34]Craig Dalton (host): so even if I'm out in the middle of the night somewhere, [00:28:37]Kris Jesse: Yeah. So you will, you'll find us. Yep. Yeah, we'll have an aid station for you. And this year, um, we are, we were sponsored, we're sponsored by Kodiak and so we'll have like protein balls and then NOM nutrition and they're right out of Utah, um, Salt Lake City, kind of a new hydration. And so we'll have that, um, we're going to be really purposeful about the, and thoughtful about that long distance. Distance, yeah, nutrition, and so we'll have these aid stations set up for all the distances and, um, yeah, we'll have things like that and the finish and start. So we're really excited that we're able to do that, [00:29:15]Craig Dalton (host): that's great. Yeah, it's interesting as you sort of think about the spectrum of like bikepacking, [00:29:19]Mark Jesse: packing [00:29:20]Craig Dalton (host): Grand Depart, just start and fend for yourself. To something like this, where maybe somebody who may be a little bit intimidated to go off by themselves and forage and worried about, you know, if they're going to get the nutrition and hydration they need to be able to do an event like yours and have that infrastructure around, maybe a good starting point for people who want to. Attempt their first ultra distance event. [00:29:43]Mark Jesse: their first [00:29:44]Nate Matson: definitely, [00:29:44]Mark Jesse: Right. Definitely. Yeah. [00:29:46]Nate Matson: we also have fire pits. So [00:29:48]Mark Jesse: Minnesota in [00:29:50]Nate Matson: in October is cold and you never know, uh, what the weather's going to be. It could be, it could be 60 degrees. It could be 30 degrees. So it, it, we really don't know yet. So we're prepared. Um, but we had, we started a couple of fires last year and that was one of the things that riders, especially the 333 riders, where they were. By the fire just sitting there, you know, uh, heating up and we could tell that why not let's keep doing [00:30:18]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. Yeah. [00:30:19]Nate Matson: a vibe. [00:30:20]Mark Jesse: the year before our first event, um, so this would be 2021, yeah, 2021, uh, that very weekend, it was 70 degrees and sunny the weekend of, uh, you know, a year prior. So in Northfield and, um, you know, it ended up being a little bit colder than that. Um, but, um, and it, it does definitely impact at what. You as, as a cyclist and what you should prepare for. Um, but we're going to assume that we're going to have 70 degrees and sun this year. Um, and, but if we don't be ready, you know, [00:30:58]Craig Dalton (host): Was there, um, was there a reason for choosing an October event date? [00:31:02]Mark Jesse: it's beautiful. It's peak autumn foliage in Minnesota. So if you geek out on autumn foliage, if you appreciate, if you like Thomas Kincaid paintings or Bob Ross paintings come to Northfield in October, because you're going to see it. And you're going to see it like every other turn. It's absolutely beautiful. [00:31:23]Kris Jesse: that's another, in this region, this area, Craig, it's so beautiful. It's, it's just that fall crisp and you see, you know, you just look out in the leaves and the trees and it's really nice, [00:31:37]Nate Matson: It definitely has like Sunday morning PBS specials. You know, vibes when you're riding around, it's just really beautiful, you know, and there's tons of farmland and you'll be cycling past cows and [00:31:51]Craig Dalton (host): Is it a lot of, a lot of farm roads or are you getting onto narrower trails? [00:31:57]Mark Jesse: There's some pretty narrow roads. Um, there's some roads that you're going to go down and it's like, how, how do, how do cars pass each other on this road? You know, um, they're pretty, we have some MMRs, um, and, uh, yeah, some, that's the thing about it is despite how, um, remote it can be and how narrow some of the roads are, um, when it, it isn't a course that's going to punish you as far as the surface. Um, and, and we love unbound, um, but we're not going to, you know, if there's a storm the night before, you're not going to have to hike your bike three miles. Um, it drains very well. So, um, there's, there's the course, the distances are going to punish you more than anything. Um, the surface will not [00:32:42]Nate Matson: And the wind potentially, the wind can definitely be brutal. Um, and relentless until you get into a valley, then you get some, uh, some peace, but if it's a, if it's a windy day, that can be. [00:32:56]Mark Jesse: like any, like anywhere. [00:32:57]Nate Matson: any ride, but there's not a lot of tree cover in parts of the ride, so you're really open. [00:33:03]Kris Jesse: I always say if you're not cursing the race director halfway through your ride, they didn't do something right. [00:33:10]Craig Dalton (host): yeah, that's for sure. I haven't done an endurance event that I haven't wanted to curse the event organizer. Uh, man. So as you guys were thinking about creating this event, and maybe this goes to kind of Minnesotan cycling culture, were you thinking about, we're building a race and we want a competitive front end. We want lycra clad athletes to come all over this. Or did you have a different orientation? And maybe if it's differs from year one to year two, let me know. But I'm just curious because there's kind of, there's no right or wrong answer here. It's just curious, like what the intention was. [00:33:47]Mark Jesse: The intention was to get people to push themselves beyond what they think they're capable of. Because that's what my experience was. When I did the dam the first year in 2019, I had no idea if I could do it. And when I finished, I realized that was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. And then like, two days later, I'm, and I was thinking to myself, I got to do that again. And I did it. And I improved by five hours on my time the following year. And I realized I can't be the only one who feels this way. I'm also not the fastest, you know, out there. I'm a middle of the pack type of rider. Um, there are people I know who are far faster than I am. I ride with them pretty regularly. Um, Our motto and, and our, our mindset is you should ride your ride, ride your ride. That's literally everywhere on our social media, on our website, because it isn't up to me to tell you, Craig, how you should ride. Um, coming from a different background, a different experience, life experience. Some people are overcoming cancer. I'm coming from my own health issues, as I've talked about. Um, people ride for, uh, uh, for every person out there is a different reason that that person's on a bike and we want them to take away from our event, whatever it means to them, if you want to race it, race it, take first, make a name for yourself, do something that, you know, is going to the event. Thank you. You know, make you happy. If you just want to finish, do that. If you don't know if you're going to finish, do it anyways. Challenge yourself, push yourself. Exactly. Even more reason to do it than the person who might podium. [00:35:40]Nate Matson: And Mark will be there to cheer on every one of them too, by the way. It's kind of a magical thing to see Mark at a finish line. It's its own meme waiting to happen because he's there cheering. Literally every person on who crosses the finish line. It's, it's so great. [00:35:58]Mark Jesse: I can't, I want to see every person finish. Like every single person. I truly, I truly give a damn about every single person that's out there. Um, I'm thinking about what they're experiencing. I'm hoping that they're experiencing what I experienced. I'm hoping they don't experience what I've experienced in the dark moments because you do go to dark places literally and, and, and mentally as well, but it's how we come out of those dark places that changes who we are and, and, um, and we're, we become better for that. [00:36:29]Craig Dalton (host): What's the rough breakdown between the different distances, if you guys had to guess, in terms of the number of participants? [00:36:37]Mark Jesse: it dropped significantly as, as we go, you know, you know, we're, we're like right now about half our participation, just over half our participation or registrations thus far this year with our new 69 mile route. We didn't have that last year. This isn't, this is a thank you and ode to those who did participate last year because we only had. 69 official registrations last year. So that's why we have a 69 miler. Um, it isn't for what maybe other people might think it is. It is because we had 69 participants for the record. Um, but when you go past and when you get past that, yeah, it starts to drop off. We have about half of that for the one 11 right now. So, um. And, and then, you know, the 222 I think is our crown jewel, quite honestly, because you get pretty deep into that driftless region and you're going to be riding overnight. Riding overnight is, is something I think anyone who's, who's thinking about, um, you know, going beyond that 100 mile distance. It's, it's just surreal. I can't even describe it. I can't find the words to describe it. It's so special to me. [00:37:48]Craig Dalton (host): I to say, that's the slippery mental slope I've been going down lately. I've done plenty of night riding. But I've never asked my body to ride completely overnight, short of a 24 hour kind of team mountain bike event. And there's a curiosity there from talking to other people I know about like, what will happen when I have to ride all night? [00:38:11]Kris Jesse: Right. [00:38:12]Nate Matson: and there's something just so spooky and beautiful about rolling out in the middle, uh, of the prairie, basically, or the farmland with crystal clear skies. It's the moon, the stars, and you're, you're just kind of like, to Mark's point, you just take it in and you never forget it. And then just seeing them kind of roll out into the darkness. We're all wondering, I hope this all goes okay for everybody because, because they literally disappear. It's amazing. [00:38:45]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. [00:38:45]Mark Jesse: And, and that's why, you know, uh, where was I recently? I had on a damn jersey. Um, and I can't remember where it was. It was at an event and Oh, a young, a young guy came up to me. He's like, I want one of those pointing at my Jersey. And I'm like, Oh, I can't do it anymore. They don't, they don't sell them anymore. You can't get it. You know? And so, but he knew what having that Jersey meant. Um, and, and every, every time I see someone with that Jersey on, and this, this, the dam can't be the only event like this. Right. Right. But. Anytime you see someone with that kit on, there's a respect level. You know, it's kind of like You know, something that it's like you've been through, you've been through something together. It's a bond. [00:39:33]Craig Dalton (host): I think that's one of the interesting things in digging into your event. You guys starting out with these four distances, I think it creates sort of this aspirational journey for athletes attending to say, Oh, I'm going to do the 69. Oh, that went well. I think I can do the 111. I think I can do the 220 and just sort of inspiring people to go up. So not surprised at all to hear that kind of percentage breakdown between the different ones, but it's going to be curious to see how it changes over time. And from return participants, do they come back and do the same thing or are they changing their distances? [00:40:11]Mark Jesse: We found that there are, uh, a good number of people who, who didn't, uh, the one 11 last year and they're, they're trying for the two 22 this year. Um, or maybe they're doing the one 11 last year and they dropping down to the 69. Um, you know, it goes both ways, but I guess the, the, the idea behind it for me was. To especially this year with a 69 miler is to send a message that, Hey, we know we're not the 30 mile distance. We know we're not the 50 mile distance. There are plenty of other events and group rides that do offer that throughout the spring and summer months. We're towards the end of the season. Um, and we're hoping that people can maybe work up to that. And, and if the 69 miler seems like a lot, maybe we can be the final hurrah for you this year. Um, and, um, but you know, we're at the end of the season and, and people who are looking to do something beyond what they did last year, or maybe they haven't done a 200 miler this year or ever, maybe the 222 is what they're, they're, um, hungry for. [00:41:17]Craig Dalton (host): exactly. As the athletes complete the event, what kind of experience do they arrive to in Northfield when they hit the finish line? Are you building a kind of festival type atmosphere? [00:41:30]Mark Jesse: It is, it's definitely fest, it's definitely festive. Um, you [00:41:35]Craig Dalton (host): know we get Mark's hug first, [00:41:37]Nate Matson: It's Mark with a [00:41:38]Craig Dalton (host): then, [00:41:39]Nate Matson: bullhorn. It's Mark with a bullhorn. First of all. [00:41:42]Mark Jesse: yeah, uh, if, yeah, we should hand out earplugs as they're crossing the finish line, cause I feel like I am, they're kind of almost turning away from me, their heads to maybe, [00:41:52]Nate Matson: No, it's great. [00:41:53]Mark Jesse: I get excited about it, you know, I'm passionate about it, which is why we're here, but, um, because I've been there, I know what that feeling is and it's just like. Such a relief. I'm so glad this is over. And then it's just, we just want to be, we're all happy. One of the, one of the, um, one of the, my favorite moments is, is a gentleman who crossed from last year is, he crossed, he was one of the last people to finish. Um, maybe the last, within the last dozen or so people who finished and He finished, I, I ran up to him as I did with all the other, uh, finishers and I put my arm around him and his head was hanging. And I'm like, Oh, this, he's not in a good place right now. And maybe he's even upset. What's he going to say to me? How dare I, you know, kind of like I was expecting, expecting something negative. And he looks up at me and he says to me, you, you are proof that perception can become reality. And I had no idea. I like tears. I just had tears because I, I felt that from him, you know what that meant. And then he reaches in his wallet, who I've never carried my wallet with me, but this gentleman had his wallet on him and he reached in and pulled out a hundred dollar bill and handed it to me. He's like, I love what you're doing and I want to do more. And he said, you're changing gravel cycling. And obviously more tears. So that was very, it was very unexpected. Um, but it was, it was very special. And that's one of the moments I remember the most. [00:43:31]Craig Dalton (host): Amazing. If a listener was attending this year's ride in October. Is there anything else you'd want to share with them about how to prepare to be successful at the event? [00:43:46]Mark Jesse: That's a tough one. Be prepared to do something that you've never done before. Um, it's, it's as, as. Difficult as it can be physically, it's just as much mentally, but at the end, when you finish, you're gonna, it's gonna be one of the most rewarding experiences, I think, that a lot of people ever experience in their life. Um, you know, we do have big aspirations, um. We, um, we just want it to be, we, we're, we're sharing our, our, you know, our labor of love with the world we're, we're creating something, our own flavor of gravel. Um, this is our version of what a gravel, what, if we were to, you know, if we wanted to do an ideal event or create one, this is our version of it. Um, you know, we want to, we want to be all inclusive. We want to, um, you know, we give women 20 percent off their entry automatically just because you're a woman, because we want to create that diverse space. We want it to be an all inclusive event, as inclusive as we can be, despite the challenge, right? We realize that the challenge itself is not necessarily inclusive. It isn't all welcoming. Right. But we're hoping that people can understand and they get our message that, Hey, it's okay to challenge yourself and to push yourself. There's nothing wrong with that. Um, that's a healthy thing to do. And, um, That's, you know, that's what we want people to, I guess, maybe get out of it is, is that, that experience. And, um, as far as the prep, just, you know, put it in as many miles as you can. And, you know, quite honestly, we had, I had a cyclist email me the other day saying, Hey, you know, I signed up for this, this distance this year. And they, and they did participate last year. Right. But he's like, I signed up for this distance this year and I just don't have the training. I didn't, I'm not where I thought I would be. When I signed up, is there any way I could drop down to the, to the, you know, shorter, shorter of the next shorter distance and I gladly obliged him and, and made that accommodation for him. Um, you know, that's, that's what this is about is being able to, to, um, you know, do, do what you can do and, um, Yeah, let's ride your ride. [00:46:11]Kris Jesse: And watch the weather. [00:46:14]Nate Matson: I would say prepare for the weather too. Pragmatically be ready for anything almost, you know. Especially if you're flying in from another state. [00:46:24]Kris Jesse: Yeah. [00:46:25]Nate Matson: Be prepared for 72 or 32. [00:46:30]Kris Jesse: Or both. [00:46:31]Nate Matson: Or both! Yeah! [00:46:33]Mark Jesse: You could, there is a possibility of, of, yeah, maybe one day there, you know, we had a 20 degrees swing from yesterday's weather to the, to today. Yesterday it was in the 90s and, and today it was, I think it may have hit 70, maybe not. [00:46:50]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: Yeah. Well, guys, I love the energy of the three you are putting out there in the world. Um, if the event translates through your love of what you've intended to put on and what you're putting out there to the Minnesota cycling community and anybody who comes in to sample it, I'm sure it's going to be an amazing event this year and I can't wait to hear about it after the fact. [00:47:12]Kris Jesse: Thank you, Craig. [00:47:13]Mark Jesse: Yeah, thank you. We, we just. Yeah, we're just trying to build on, on everything that people here in Minnesota have already, you know, the foundation it's, it's rich, rich history of cycling with, with all the companies that have come out of here. Um, the, the cyclists, uh, you know, current pro cyclists as such as chase work, who's out there. He took second at gravel worlds just recently. Um, he's a great ambassador of the sports and he's a great, you know, home hometown talents. [00:47:42]Kris Jesse: my coach [00:47:43]Nate Matson: And her coach, [00:47:45]Kris Jesse: think he's a great guy. [00:47:48]Mark Jesse: but, you know, instead of just, you know, solely focusing on ourselves. Um, as athletes and endurance athletes and gravel cyclists, you know, we want people to know that, you know, this is a fundraiser. This is, you know, we are giving a portion of the proceeds to Frazier of Minnesota, which is a mental health nonprofit, and they, um, help families, um, who have, um, You know, children with autism, um, they have a school for those individuals as well. Um, they also help other people with mental illness and other disabilities. So, you know, when going back to, if I could just say just briefly, going back to why and, and that promise I made, that's the doing things for others. [00:48:28]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah, [00:48:29]Mark Jesse: Um, so yeah, you're gonna, you know, we, we do charge a fee. But know that every person involved with this event is a volunteer. I didn't pocket a dime from last year. In fact, I paid a little bit, you know, out of my own, out of my own pocket at the end of the day. But the point was, was we wanted to do something good for the community and give back in, in meaningful ways that, you know, in ways that are going to leave, you know, positive ripples throughout our communities. [00:48:56]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. Thanks so much for making sure that you mentioned that because I was remiss and not asking you about the Frazier charitable donation and just another, another reason to flock to this event. Everyone. [00:49:10]Mark Jesse: Oh, well done. [00:49:13]Nate Matson: Uh, man! [00:49:15]Mark Jesse: We have a spot Open [00:49:16]Nate Matson: Perfect! Yeah! Thank [00:49:20]Mark Jesse: so, yeah, and, and people can find out more these, if they just go to www.gr grit.com. That's our website. You can find us on Facebook at GR Grit, Instagram on at gr grit. Um, and just check us out, you know, um, we just, we, we want people to, uh, It's just, we're just trying to share what Minnesota has to offer and, and continue that, that amazing community that is already here and share that with the rest of the world. [00:49:46]Craig Dalton (host): Thanks you guys. Have a great evening. [00:49:48]Kris Jesse: Greg. [00:49:48]Mark Jesse: Craig. Thanks for having us. [00:49:52]Craig Dalton (host): That's going to do it for this week's edition of the gravel ride podcast. Big, thanks to Nate, mark and Chris for coming on and telling us all about. Gray duck grit. It sounds like an amazing grassroots event out there in Minnesota. I love the challenge of those various distances. I wish there was something like that in my neck of the woods. Just something that year after year I could go back to and kind of up the distance and challenge myself in different ways. You'll hear from another upcoming podcast. I'm super curious about riding overnight. As I mentioned briefly, I've done it in some 24 hour. Mountain bike races, but I've never fully written the night. I've always sort of been part of a team and jumped in and done a lap or two while it's dark out. Anyway, go check out gray dot grit on the website. You can learn everything you need to know. And if you do it, make sure to ping me. I'd love to hear about it. Big, thanks to this week. Sponsored dynamic cyclist. Remember use the code, the gravel ride. You get 15% off any of their plans and they've got a free one week trial. So no excuse other than like me laziness for not stretching, but give it a try. I think you'll enjoy it. If you're interested in supporting the show, ratings and reviews are hugely appreciated and go a long way in the podcast game. Also, if you have a moment share this podcast with a gravel cyclist, you know, that's another great way to help out as well. Until next time. Here's to finding some dirt under your wheels   

    Women haven't always been part of the political landscape. Trailblazers like Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor fought for the right to represent their country, make laws that make us all more equal, and inspired generations of women to get involved in politics, like me. Justice O'Connor's career inspired me to change my major in college from biology to political science. I couldn't wait to be involved in electing the next great role model for future generations of girls and inspiring them to fall in love with politics like I did.    Today, I'm discussing my journey from aspiring politician to Political Contessa, and the candidate I'm falling in love with and hope to see elected. I recount how I adopted a different political ideology than my Democratic family. I share my first political love, Senator Al Demoto, and his ability to get things done for his constituents. I highlight Governor Jane Swift's in-office pregnancy and how it showed me how to balance work and home life gracefully. I recount my time working with outstanding candidates like Carrie Healy and Beth Lindstrom. I also discuss why I support Nikki Haley's presidential candidacy, why her experience makes her the perfect candidate for the job, and what I think she'll be able to accomplish if elected.   “All these young women give me so much hope of what could happen in the future and how women could actually be part of the political process and make a difference.” -Jennifer Nassour   This week on Political Contessa:   My political pivot away from my family of Democrats The mentors who shaped me The idols who inspired me to become a lawyer and politician Why Nikki Haley is my top choice for 2024 How Nikki Haley's background makes her uniquely qualified to be President     Awaken Your Inner Political Contessa   Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Political Contessa. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.   Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google Podcasts   Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media. And if you've ever considered running for office – or know a woman who should – head over to politicalcontessa.com to grab my quick guide, Secrets from the Campaign Trail. It will show you five signs to tell you you're ready to enter the political arena.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this fun episode I get the pleasure of sitting down with August, guitarist and vocalist of the Chicago-based pop punk band Goodbye Sunshine. We chat about forming the band, writing light-hearted and short songs, how he got into punk rock through his sister, recording w/ Joe Queer, teaming up w/ Larry Parker and River Monster Records, and working on their new EP, “People Will Like You When You Stop Being Yourself.” We also talk about his upcoming trips to Wisconsin and Las Vegas, playing w/ the Repellents, recording of Goodbye Sunshine's debut EP “Keep Failing, You're Doing Great,” the over saturation of the Chicago scene, and playing outside of the city more. The conversation also discusses working w/ Little Lost Girl Media, playing the T1 Fest in Chicago, and their upcoming shows for the rest of the year. So sit back and get down w/ this episode of TIJAP. *** (songs by Goodbye Sunshine included in this episode are: “Hide and Seek,” “Smokestacks,” “Plugger,” and “Timber, I'm Falling in Love.” - used w/ permission.) ***

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WILD is a podcast about growing up… kind of. About those big and small moments that transform us forever. About how sometimes we come out on the other side of chaos or adversity with scars, but we come out stronger.WILD is back for season two. This season, it's all about love with co-hosts Erick Galindo and Megan Tan. You heard Megan's pandemic love story in season one. This time, Erick tells Megan a fictional love story, inspired by the wildest thing he once did for love... It starts with an invite on a cross-country road trip with the woman who stole his heart. Join him and Melinna Bobadilla, Gabrielle Ruiz, and Atsuko Okatsuka. Does Erick find his one true love? Listen to WILD Season 2: I Think I'm Falling in Love now.   Support WILD and other LAist Studios podcasts by donating now at LAist.com/join    Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/WILD  Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring the show! This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

WILD is a podcast about growing up… kind of. About those big and small moments that transform us forever. About how sometimes we come out on the other side of chaos or adversity with scars, but we come out stronger.WILD is back for season two. This season, it's all about love with co-hosts Erick Galindo and Megan Tan. You heard Megan's pandemic love story in season one. This time, Erick tells Megan a fictional love story, inspired by the wildest thing he once did for love... It starts with an invite on a cross-country road trip with the woman who stole his heart. Join him and Melinna Bobadilla, Gabrielle Ruiz and Atsuko Okatsuka. Does Erick find his one true love? Listen to WILD Season 2: I Think I'm Falling in Love now.   Support WILD and other LAist Studios podcasts by donating now at LAist.com/join    Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/WILD  Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring the show! This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

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The rarest of JBU episodes, in which Sam and Sierra give relatively direct advice to three people with dating questions. This week we're tackling questions like: "What should I do when I think I'm falling in love but know I shouldn't?" "How do I move on from making a mess out of dating my best friend?" "Why does dating suck so bad? And how do I make it suck less?" Join us on Patreon and check out our special new years office hours on 12/29! SUBMIT: justbreakuppod.com FACEBOOK: /justbreakuppod INSTAGRAM: @justbreakuppod TWITTER: @justbreakuppod BLIND DATE: Interview with a Vampire Just Break Up is a production of Du Vide Media. Make sure to check out all of our amazing shows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The episode kicks off with Holli insisting Barry is her twin….but quickly Jeanna swoops in to manage her and get the show back on track.  Tell us your happy song?  Could it be I'm Falling in Love by The Spinners? Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder?  Happy by Pharell Williams?  Just thinking about your happy song produces dopamine in your brain and improves your mood.  Your happy song anchors you into happy memories.  Music is proven to shift your energy.  This is helpful to alzheimer's and dementia patients.  Through music these patients can connect to memories which are lifelines to higher functioning.  Acoustic ceuticals which is where music is used as medicine.  See Alzheimer's patient Henry come alive in YouTube link below. Musical powerhouse, Barry Goldstein, is in the house to talk about how his music evolved from structured composing to decomposing so that he could reconnect to the original intention of love and joy with music.  He surrendered to the process, calling in something greater than himself and magic was created.  It came forth in a meditative trance state.  Entrainment is when your internal rhythm can synchronize with the external.  Your heart can synchronize to the metronome.  The Sacred heart beat process - stop everyday and check in - your heart has the answers so check in with your inner symphony.  Barry's book The Secret Language of the Heart: How to Use Music, Sound, and Vibration as Tools for Healing and Personal Transformation contains the process and so much more! Above all, trust your own guidance.  Trust your heart to select the music best for you. More about Barry: Barry Goldstein's musical experience spans many styles and genres from Co-Producing the Grammy Award winning track ” 69 Freedom special with Les Paul for Best Rock Instrumental in 2005, to providing ambient music for Shirley Maclaine. Barry has composed and produced for Television, Film, Major record labels and Top Ten Recording artists. In addition, as an artist, Barry reached the Billboard top ten albums on the New Age Charts with New York Times Best Selling Author Neale Donald Walsch. Barry ‘s CD “Ignite the Heart” recently won the Coalition Visionary of Resources Award for best World Fusion album of 2015.   Barry is a musitarian whose passion is utilizing music, or as he calls it, “The Universal Language of Love as a vehicle for transformation. As a performer, Barry has touched audiences with music from his critically acclaimed series “Ambiology” and his inspirational albums “The Moment” and “Shine. He has composed and produced music for New York Times best selling authors:Dr. Daniel Amen, Gregg Braden, Neale Donald Walsch, Dr Joe Dispenza, and Anita Moorjani In addition he has composed live music for Doreen Virtue, Michael Beckwith, James Van Praagh and Colette Baron Reid. Mr. Goldstein has hosted several radio show's, written articles and facilitates workshops on utilizing music, sound and vibration in the healing process.   Barry's music is being used in hospitals, hospices, cancer centers, and medical practices. Barry is a keynote speaker for medical conferences and is a sought-after speaker for New Thought conferences presenting cutting edge research on how music is being utilized for medical conditions. In 2019 a team of researchers from major universities will be studying Barry's music to determine health benefits. LOA Uncorked Assignment: Join the LOA community, subscribe at www.loauncorked.com Play your “happy” song each morning to start your day Podcast References: Website: https://www.barrygoldsteinmusic.com/ Barry's book:  The Secret Language of the Heart: How to Use Music, Sound, and Vibration as Tools for Healing and Personal Transformation  https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Language-Heart-Vibration-Transformation/dp/1938289439/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2UW9AYSD7EZBM&keywords=barry+goldstein&qid=1669355140&sprefix=barry+goldstein%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-3 Henry Alzheimers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HLEr-zP3fc Courses:  https://www.thesoundoftransformation.com/chakras https://www.thesoundoftransformation.com/heartofwell-being https://www.themusicofgratitude.com/musicaofgratitude As always, thanks for listening and we look forward to sharing more LOA badassery conversations with you!  Please consider leaving a review and subscribing or dropping us a note to say hi and share your thoughts. www.loauncorked.com  l  loauncorked@gmail.com  I  Insta: @loauncorked  I  FB: loauncorked

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Happy Sunday! We hope you enjoy this episode where we talk about the third book in the WITSEC series by Ashely N Rostek.    Also come check out our socials to see everything we are getting up to outside the podcast plus all podcast related updates. https://linktr.ee/JOMPage   Colt is my comfort. He's the first one to hold my hand when life becomes hard. Creed is my support. He always has my back, is always ready to help me battle the world or my insecurities. Keelan is my joy. He effortlessly makes me laugh and exudes a light even when days become dark. Knox is my strength. He holds me together even when I want to break. Each of my guys is a great man and each fills a missing piece of my broken soul. I'm falling in love with them. Maybe I already have. The question is, do they love me back? I'd cherish every moment if they did. It's what you do when you hear a clock constantly tick in the back of your head. I know it's my gut warning me that I'm on borrowed time. Something bad is going to happen. And my gut has never been wrong. ***WARNING This is a reverse harem romance. Contains violence, graphic killing, foul language, and sexual content. Some parts may be triggering. Love Me is book 3 out of 4 in the series.***

Si & Veronica are wishing they were in Amsterdam for tulip season for episode 227! Gabby and Rachel have tough decisions to make this week with hometowns on the horizon, and Gabby goes hard out of the gate with sending Nate home. Rachel's 1:1 date with Zach goes much better and he secured the first “I'm falling in love with you” and hometown rose. The group dates this week sexy and gassy, with Gabby's men being tortured by a dominatrix and Rachel's men having to compete for the Cheese King title. Covid strikes the most hyped up contestant, Logan, and he pretty much disappears into the ether after a cocktail party cancellation. Our ladies are headed to the homes of their men! Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick are pushing back their NYE wedding. Pilot Pete and Kelley Flanagan may be back on again over a year after their messy breakup.  (Bachelor talk ends at time marker 39m:13s) Posh Spice's kid has an additional last name now, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham. The controversial age gap relationship between Florence Pugh and Zach Braff is no more. Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney are having a much messier split including cheating allegations and domestic assault charges. Emrata may already have a new man… and that man may be Brad Pitt. Vee went “Yikes!” to the drama surrounding the “Don't Worry Darling” cast and if Florence and Olivia Wilde were ~actually~ feuding. Join us for what is always a good time and leave us a rating and review for a shoutout! Follow us @thefuturebachelor on Instagram! Thanks to you all who have subscribed! -- For fun, great music updated weekly, follow FUTURE BACHELOR on Spotify!   ***SLAPPER OF THE WEEK*** "Time After Time" by Lauv -- Follow us on Instagram!

Programmation musicale consacrée aux nouveautés musicales du continent africain et de sa diaspora.Dans sa chronique des nouveautés musicales de la semaine, Lincey Sibai nous parle du Burkina Faso, du Cameroun, du Nigeria et de la Guadeloupe. Et, dans la séquence Génération Consciente, Jean Hubert Nankam, initiateur de la plateforme « monopinioncompte ». Il présente un webinaire qui sera organisé, le 12 août 2022, dans le cadre de la Journée internationale de la jeunesse. Ce webinaire regroupera 100 jeunes d'Afrique francophone qui exprimeront leurs rêves, leurs attentes, leurs aspirations sur des thèmes précis. Wally B. Seck feat Viviane Reuguine tass Tenor feat Innoss'B Mamiwata Tayc feat Soprano Combleuse de rêves Boddhi Satva feat Jojof the jungle Lagos vibes Badi & Boddhi Satva Virgil abloh Ami Yerewolo Ounta Teddy Benzo Bantou Keny Arkana Jeunesse du monde Yaniss Odua Destinée Teddy Benzo feat R.King Africain Valérie Tribord feat Ariel Sheney et Claudy Siar Replay The Spinners Could it be I'm falling in love

On this week's Let's Talk About… episode, Elise sits down with Danielle Ruhl-Thompson.You may know Danielle from Season 2 of the hit Netflix series Love is Blind, a social experiment where contestants look for love and get engaged, all before meeting in-person. Danielle is from Chicago, Illinois and works in advertising. Elise and Danielle talk about life before the show, her experiences on Love is Blind, being married to Nick and gives advice for newlyweds. She also openly speaks about her mental health journey and the advocacy work she does.“And I remember walking out of a date crying, and I think it was like the third day where I was like, I'm falling in love. And I think we both kind of like expressed that we were falling in love and, and it's weird because like day four, we decided to be exclusive. So, I was like, I think you're my boyfriend now, like explicitly in the sense where it's like, we didn't want to waste anyone else's time.” Danielle tells Elise on Let's Talk About.In this Episode we talk about:Life before + after the showWhy it's important to talk about Mental HealthAdvice for newlywedsResources:Read the show transcriptFollow Danielle on social media: @dnellruhlCheck out our websiteFollow us on social media: @style_canada Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, legendary Muscle Shoals bass player David Hood talks about recording Willie's classic 1974 album Phases and Stages with his fellow Swampers, focusing on his favorite track on the record, “(How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again.” Phases was, of course, named Willie's finest album ever by Texas Monthly, and it prompts memories from Hood on the fabled R&B producer who brought the project to Muscle Shoals, Jerry Wexler; the mere two days they took to cut it; and the weird moment when Willie first walked into the studio.

Pull up a chair while I gush about one of my favorite dishes, posole, the importance of identifying your Why before starting your cottage bakery (or anything, for that matter), the beauty in risk taking, and how I'm falling in love with being an organizer of a community maker's market here in Denver. The post Posole, Cottage Bakery Pt. 2, Community Markets appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Pull up a chair while I gush about one of my favorite dishes, posole, the importance of identifying your Why before starting your cottage bakery (or anything, for that matter), the beauty in risk taking, and how I'm falling in love with being an organizer of a community maker's market here in Denver. The post Posole, Cottage Bakery Pt. 2, Community Markets appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Tora thinks he's FALLING IN LOVE?! My patrons and I are discussing episode 75-77 of Midnight Poppy Land by Lilydusk! Support Lilydusk on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lilydusk The StoryTinker Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midnight-poppy-land-70-its-woodchipper-time-with-girl/id1521195137?i=1000531974488 MUSIC CREDIT: Isabella LeVan https://www.instagram.com/isabellalevan https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mHmktHG4sbkGsCORnaNT3?si=Nx2DvyOGQyatxudvD3ik9Q Connect with Girl Wonder:  My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlwonder My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTk-JbxxAnf5TKyeCchNRHA twitter.com/girlwonderpod instagram.com/girlwonderpodcast Email: girlwondersquad (at) gmail (dot) com Buy me a coffee: http://ko-fi.com/girlwonderpodcast

EPISODE 1 - “Whatever We Can Do To Help”Greetings Super friends! Welcome to Superman & Lois & Pals. I'm Henry Bernstein and alongside me is my favorite super pal, Professor Sam Brody. It's been about 6 months since we've recorded. We have seen each other in person where we did a super hero media thing. We saw Spider-Man No Way Home together! I also got to show you my Superhero action figure collection and my extensive DC Comics library.I want to thank the more than 1100 people who downloaded our little pod. This started as an outlet for me to talk about Superman on TV and we really appreciate you for listening to us!Let's talk about Superman and Lois Season 2S02E01 - “What Lies Beneath?”Directed by Gregory Smith Writing Credits:Brent Fletcher and Todd HelbingThree months after Nat's arrival, things start to settle down. Sarah returns from camp and gives Jordan the cold shoulder, Clark and Lois fight, Lana throws herself into a mayoral campaign, Superman comes to terms with Sam's replacement, and earthquakes shakes Smallville. Things we wanted at the end of last season:Better costume - done. S looks brighter, and is set within the costume. The costume moves a bit when he moves around showing that he's not wearing the fake padding anymore. Much more form fitting. As much as I like 5 o'clock shadow Clark, I still want clean shaven Superman.Stories that make sense - kind of but the angry Lois thing, eh.3 months later:Lois - So are we to believe that Lois has just been an asshole to sweet, kind, sensitive, patient Clark and her CHILDREN for 3 months with zero explanation? DOesn't sound like the Lois we've gotten to know. Her explanation was totally reasonable but THREE MONTHS?! “Dad, how long is she gonna be like this?” That's some intense shit for a family. Lois is kinda acting like a moody teenager. It just wasn't realistic to me that everything Clark said to her she found annoying. And the argument they had was just completely unreasonable. She's short with Jordan but then mad when he doesn't go into details about Sarah. Who cares that he got arrested at Atlas Pond? Who cares that he doesn't want to talk about it? He's being respectful. Really interesting stuff with Lois' mom being a deadbeat and abandoning her and Lucy. That would definitely harden someone like Sam. This isn't something we've heard about before so it came as a bit of a surprise. Seemed odd though that a couple that previously had amazing communication, would take 3 months to have this talk. I guess Clark has super-patience as one of his powers. IronsWhat have John Henry and Natalie been doing for 3 months? Why did John Henry have to stop Natalie from running and hugging Lois? Clark - Awesome dad, awesome partner. The way in which I fell in love with Bitsie Tulloch last season, I'm falling in love with Tyler. He gets this character. His talk with Lois is so supportive and his talk with his boys was so sweet and hilarious. When Jonathan mouths, “mom,” I laughed. Clark's super smell thing with Jordan's cologne. Super funny thing that Jonathan's girlfriend said the same advice as clark and he's just like “stupid teenagers.” and then being like, “oh Jonathan Come on!” when Lois is pissed about catching Jonathan with Candace. Superman - BANGER of a way to show some Super feats. Superman lifting a freaking sub and the North Koreans saying, “Superman saved us” is just pure joy. I was smiling ear to ear. Rescuing people from an earthquake is also so super. I'm enjoying the conversation about whether Superman is just for America or not. I sort of like this soft spoken, thoughtful General Anderson. What was affecting Superman's super-senses? Kryptonite? Who were those Super beings? X-Kryptonite soldiers?Cushings - Gotta say, I'm a little disappointed that Lana is just running this stranger's (to us) campaign and she's not running herself. I like Clark and Kyle bonding a little. Sarah's weirdness around Jordan is totally relatable. And I don't really care. I love that Smallville is cashing in on Superman to help the economy. Love the JLGL cut out of Superman.Doomsday - It looks like they're going to do some comic-accurate stuff. But I feel like we've seen Doomsday recently with BvS crap and Krypton. 

I want to thank you for listening and for subscribing to Faster Than Normal! I also want to tell you that if you're listening to this one, you probably listened to other episodes as well. Because of you all, we are the number one ADHD podcast on the internet!! And if you like us, you can sponsor an episode! Head over to https://rally.io/creator/SHANK/ It is a lot cheaper than you think. You'll reach... about 25k to 30,000 people in an episode and get your name out there, get your brand out there, your company out there, or just say thanks for all the interviews! We've brought you over 230 interviews of CEOs, celebrities, musicians, all kinds of rock stars all around the world from Tony Robbins, Seth Godin, Keith Krach from DocuSign, Danny Meyer, we've had Rachel Cotton, we've had  the band Shinedown, right? Tons and tons of interviews, and we keep bringing in new ones every week so head over to https://rally.io/creator/SHANK/ make it yours, we'd love to have you, thanks so much for listening!  Now to this week's episode, we hope you enjoy it! —— Sharon Pope is the co-founder and CEO of shelpful, the instant accountability service that pairs you with a real-human buddy to help you build good habits (they nudge you and hold you to big habits like getting exercise, or small tasks like taking out the trash on time). Prior to starting shelpful, Sharon was a startup executive for 15 years, running marketing and product. She advised startups at the famous startup accelerator, Y Combinator, and was Chief Marketing Officer at ZeroDown, Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), GoBank and Loopt. Prior to that she managed PR and content for a range of tech companies at leading San Francisco-based PR agencies. Today we learned how she started her super helpful company Shelpful, how she learned that for her, exercise is medicine, and how she was using her ADHD as a superpower, even before she was diagnosed. Enjoy! In this episode Peter and Sharon Pope discuss:   2:17 - Intro and welcome Sharon, founder of Shelpful  2:50 - What prompted you to come up with this kind of idea? 4:12 - It seems like it's one of those things that truly requires getting to numbers of scale, right? 5:20 - Tell us about what kind of tasks people are using this for? 7:15 - What's the difference between what you do versus someone just saying, Hey Alexa, tell me to drink some water in 30 minutes? 8:17 - Is there an accountability/human trust balance happening here? 10:10 - Why do you think that we don't allow ourselves give ourselves the same respect that we give to other people?  11:35 - As this grows do think that you can find a category for pretty much anything? 13:07 - Is it a monthly subscription; how does it work? 13:48 - So if you are a shelper you're basically on call like full-time? 14:50 - What is the one thing that you know about yourself now, that you didn't know before you got diagnosed with ADHD, that has helped change your life? [How can people find you?] @shelpful on TikTok  INSTA  and Facebook and of course via www.shelpful.com 16:25 - Thank you Sharon! Guys, as always, we are here for you and we love the responses and the notes that we get from you; so please continue to do that! Tell us who you want to hear on the podcast, anything at all; we'd love to know.  Leave us a review on any of the places you get your podcasts, and if you ever need our help I'm www.petershankman.com and you can reach out anytime via peter@shankman.com or @petershankman on all of the socials. You can also find us at @FasterNormal on all of the socials. It really helps when you drop us a review on iTunes and of course, subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already! As you know, the more reviews we get, the more people we can reach. Help us to show the world that ADHD is a gift, not a curse!  16:57 - Faster Than Normal Podcast info & credits   — TRANSCRIPT:  — I want to thank you for listening and for subscribing to Faster Than Normal! I also want to tell you that if you're listening to this one, you probably listened to other episodes as well. Because of you all, we are the number one ADHD podcast on the internet!! And if you like us, you can sponsor an episode! Head over to https://rally.io/creator/SHANK/ It is a lot cheaper than you think. You'll reach... about 25k to 30,000 people in an episode and get your name out there, get your brand out there, your company out there, or just say thanks for all the interviews! We've brought you over 230 interviews of CEOs, celebrities, musicians, all kinds of rock stars all around the world from Tony Robbins, Seth Godin, Keith Krach from DocuSign, Danny Meyer, we've had Rachel Cotton, we've had  the band Shinedown, right? Tons and tons of interviews, and we keep bringing in new ones every week so head over to https://rally.io/creator/SHANK/ make it yours, we'd love to have you, thanks so much for listening!  Now to this week's episode, we hope you enjoy it! — My name is Peter Shankman. You are listening to Faster Than Normal. We are going to be talking about ADHD in all forms of neurodiverse today on this episode. And I am thrilled. That you are here. I have recorded an episode of in about two weeks. It has been a while. So it's great to be back. It is a, I don't know what day it is. It's Thursday. I believe it was a gorgeous day, outside, a little cold here in New York city, but still beautiful. And, uh, it is lovely to be with you today, wherever in the world you happen to be including Portland, Oregon, where our current guest is from.  Let's just say hi to Sharon Pope. Sharon Pope is the co-founder and CEO of a company called. Shelpful It's an instant accountability service that pairs you with a real human buddy to help you build good habits. They nudge you. They hold you to big habits to get you exercise, and small tasks like taking out the trash on time.  5 years, running marketing and product. She advised startups at the famous startup accelerator, Y Combinator, and was Chief Marketing Officer at ZeroDown, Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), GoBank and Loopt. Prior to that she managed PR and content for a range of tech companies at leading San Francisco-based PR agencies. I love the idea because it's well, well needed and way overdue. Sharon, welcome to Faster Than Normal and first off, tell us what prompted you to come up with this kind of idea other than just finding another thing to do during COVID. Yeah. Thank you. It's really great to be here Peter. Um, yeah, I started this to solve my own problem. So I was, I think for my whole adult life, um, I'm 38 now. Um, was 37 when I started Shelpful. I I've really struggled with this kind of 10:00 PM feeling of  Looking down at my to-do list and realizing I did everything for everyone else, including work, and my two kids and all the “me” completely just fall off the list. So, you know, I to work out for like 20 minutes and that just got blown off because an email came in and that just drew me in. And so, I mean, after struggling with it forever, I tried to build a bot for it, like in 2018 and it sucked, I had kind of a fever dream one night and I was like, oh my gosh, we could do this with real people. So I put up a site overnight, convinced my friend to do it with me and that same week we launched the first version of Shelpful, um, to just try to answer that problem for everyone else, that people kind of needed more support and could use a real human accountability buddy, kind of sitting on your shoulder and saying, Hey, you said you were gonna work out at 8:00 AM. It's time to work out. I'm gonna ask you in 20 minutes, if you did it or not. And that kind of thing was what I needed desperately. And I felt like I wasn't alone.  I love the concept. It seems like it's one of those things that truly requires, um, uh, getting to numbers of scale. Right. You know, if you don't have enough people willing to be the accountability buddy then you gotta problem. Right. And so we have our own, we're kind of structured more like an Uber. So we find the accountability buddies. We train them. I mean, we've found some amazing people who. Are way better than I was in the early days. Uh, just having strong empathy and note-taking, and following up with you and we have them, we staff them, um, you just have to sign up and we put you with them. And honestly, as I dug more into this and looked at what else is out there, everything else requires you to just go find a friend. So you either find a friend in your real life, or you ask your mom to tell you to do something, or you go to Reddit and say, or Twitter or Google and say like somebody, please be my accountability buddy! And the answer is silence. And so that's kind of why we feel like this is working because the people who really need it, get it fast and you're instantly within a day you feel support like you've really never known.  Tell me about, um, what kind of tasks people are using this for? Cause for someone with ADHD, I mean, this seems like an easy and easy way to, to, to kill a lot of birds with one stone. What are people primarily using it for?  Right. So the thing that I was solving mostly was the health stuff, right? Like getting movement in and like planning my lunch instead of freestyling my lunch. For instance, when we saw people signing up, the first things were those things, for sure. But also things like. Help me remember to pay my bill. Um, can you remind me to take my trash out on Tuesday nights? Um, like the small, like kind of any range of things that falls off your list you could ask for help with; also just the habit of making it to do list in the first place. Right. So make sure I do my to do list every night before the next day, so that I can go into the day with, with fresh eyes and a clear idea of what I'm gonna do. Um, when we saw people starting up, we left, we left it really open-ended and now we have a bit more structure because we've seen what people ask for, but the open-ended thing we still get to this day. If people writing in saying I have ADHD and I could use a help with this because I forget to drink water. And I forget to do really simple things that may seem easy to other people, but aren't easy to me. Um, and I think as I, as I told you, that was really eye opening to me because I thought this was a problem that I kind of uniquely had. Cause I was quirky. And when people started saying that, it was this big ton of bricks that hit me, that I realized I actually had ADHD or I, you know, at that point I kind of had all this flashback of me asking doctors throughout my life, why I have to wait to the last minute to do things. And, and they just said, oh, well, you're good at your job, or, oh, you get good grades and you just don't have, you don't have this. Um, and so it was really eye opening to me because my mentors actually ended up kind of telling me that this was working for them. And it was because of the same reasons it worked for me. Tell me why, and I'm just playing devil's advocate here. Um, why couldn't someone just, What's the difference between what you do versus someone just saying, Hey Alexa, tell me to drink some water in 30 minutes?  It's a really good question. I have had a notification on my calendar to meditate since 2017 and I've done it once. Um, I think that we, I mean, especially, I mean, people have ADHD. We have a million notifications and snoozing them gives us zero guilt and makes us think zero seconds about it. It's gone. I snooze the notification and it's out of my life and I'm going back to whatever else I was doing. It's really different when you have a real person on the other end. So if you have a shopper, you know, Chanel, we call them shelpers our accountability buddies, you know, she knows asking you, Hey, did you know, have you drank water? Like how many ounces are you? If you ignore her, you feel kind of guilty, but the guilt kind of works in your favor because it's fueling your own habit, right?  Is there a, well, that was my next question. Is there sort of a, I don't wanna say, I don't wanna call it guilt cause I don't want to put it down. Cause having to kinda build it out is not sensitive to be embarrassed, but is there a word I'm looking for a, a…. I don't want to disappoint my accountability. Like, you know, I. Have a trainer at the gym at five 30 in the morning, because I'll probably go to the gym if I didn't have one, but I might not work out as hard.  Right.  Right. And so he makes sure I do so is it? And if I don't, he calls me on it and I don't want to, you know, I don't want him to think that I'm a loser and not doing it.  So is there, is there that level of, have you seen that at all? Have you seen people like, oh yeah, I love this. Because again, for lack of better word, it shames me into making sure that I'm doing.  Right. I mean, there, I shame, shame, disappointment. All those I think are, are mixed in with even just the word accountability, right? Somebody is waiting for you and asking you, and they're just there on the other end. Just kind of like hanging in the balance until you answer them, or you show up at the gym or you show the evidence that you did your to do list. So the fact that it's a real human, I mean, This is something we can all relate with, right, If somebody, if you're doing something for somebody else or in, in community with somebody else, you're much more likely to do it. And I can relate with you, Peter. Like I, the best and healthiest times in my life were admittedly. Pre-kids when I had like a, every single morning workout group that I went to and if I was late, everyone would be delayed in getting like the run around the block that we started out with. I, that, that fear of letting someone else down. Was yes. Maybe shame isn't the greatest word, but it works and it, and I felt good at the end of it. And it wasn't something that stuck with me and made me feel sad. It made me feel good. Cause I got the energy I needed from a workout.  In this case and not in a negative way, but why don't you think we place other people's feelings and not wanting to hurt their feelings or, or, or not show up and disappoint them above our own. I know that if I wake up every day and do an hour of hard workout for 10 minutes on the treadmill or Peleton, whatever, you know, it's going to be beneficial to me. Right. But I don't give myself the same. I don't offer myself that same ability, uh, to, to not disappoint myself that I might offer it to someone I'd have to meet someone else. Why do you think that we don't allow ourselves give ourselves that same respect that we give to other people?  Right. If only I had had the answer for that!! I feel like that's what, I've the question I've been asking myself for a decade, right? Like, and I, that's what I think that. That's that's why shelpful. That's why we created Shelpful, because it's the fact that there's somebody else invested in your personal health and habits on a daily, hourly minute level basis. It, it, it triggers that part of your brain wants to do something for others or that, that get stuff down because somebody else's depending on you. And I mean, that's, that's, you know, for me, a thousand percent why I would get something done over just the fact that it's good for me. Um, I know it's good for me. I could tell you the calories and pretty much any food. I know, I know workouts to do, like I know how to work out, ..but the question is, do I do them just because they're good for me. And that's what I've always struggled with.  Do you think that, um, as this grows, I mean, the categories you have right now are pretty much anything, you know, you can find me accountability, buddy, for virtually anything. Are you breaking it into certain sections or certain, how does it work?  Yeah. So we started out thinking, okay, let's start with health. Right. Cause that was my personal thing. And um, it felt like from my marketing background, like start with a niche and expand and we found really, really early people were clamoring and kind of yelling at us like, well, the reason I don't get my workout done is because this happens that I also need help with. Right. So we're not just the reason we don't get things done. Isn't because we are bad or just go sit in front of the TV. It's because the life happens and makes the other things not work. So we ended up just kind of blowing it up and within like a week of launching and making it just be like, well, you tell us what you need help with. Um, any habits that you want to form our buddies, our shelpers can hold you to they're really. Uh, limit and it's almost, self-limiting like, so Peter, if you came in and said, I want help on 20 things. Well, the shop would probably say, well, let's start with a few so that you don't just snooze me and just put me away or turn off your phone. Like let's kind of start working through it. But once you get a few things established. You could always add on, like while I watched, after I washed my face, I want to like, some people have skincare as, as a goal, right? So after I care for my face, I want to do 20 squats. So you can kind of just keep layering on habits to the ones you've already established a few, and it really is limitless. Is it a monthly subscription; how does it work? Yeah, it's monthly. We have a weekly option too, um, like as, as low as $13.75 a week. And then for month it's a little over $50. Um, and it, yeah, I mean, it feels, people are feeling like it's a really good value cause you get, um, Monday through Friday, basically unlimited access to your shelper so you're kind of just text them and anytime you have an update, they usually respond pretty quickly. And then they nudge you along based on kind of habits that you've established. So you want to work out Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 8:00 AM you're going to get a ping from them saying hey, time to work out, um, and a follow up to make sure you did it. Um, so you.. and then weekends are a bit quieter because shelpers are human, um, so they kind of recharge their batteries on the weekends and then hit it full force again on Monday.  So if you are a shelper you're basically on call, it's like a full-time.  It is, it's a really, it's a flexible gig, right? So they, um, they end up working. I mean, depending on how many have just a couple hours a day. Um, but they are able to, we have technology, we're a technology company, as well as the service. So we have helpful technology that helps them plan and, um, take notes and get things organized. So they're not having to be glued to their, their phone, but they have. The ability to work from their mobile phone. Um, so people who are shoppers are people who really appreciate flexibility. So, um, you know, imagine caregivers stay at home moms, um, hairstylists, we have a few, so people who are- it's a gig, but they're just these naturally empathetic people who are, who care a lot and have great memories and are skilled note takers and they, they really make it happen for their members.  It sounds fascinating. A shelters.xom?  www.SHELPFUL.COM  Sorry. My bad. I meant shelpful, shelpers the people who work at ShelpFul. Awesome.  What is the one thing that you know about yourself now, that you didn't know before you got diagnosed with ADHD that has helped change your life? Wow. Um, I think so.. starting, I started this company in March, kind of had the lights go on in my head that this is something I had in, I don't know, April and by May I had a diagnosis in my hand. Um, I now know that for me, exercise is medicine. Um, it's not something that's optional for me. It actually changes the whole way my day goes. Um, and so now that I'm able to look at it as that I've actually been able to be successful in making it happen. Um, and I, I've joined a shelpful group, which is, we also have a group product. Um, and that allows me and I have group and they hold me accountable to it too. So I have what, you know, I'm trying to put a focus on making sure that I have that fuel that I need. Um, and that awareness of ADHD actually helped me just reframe how I looked at that.  What an awesome answer, thank you Sharon. Very cool.  Guys. You've been listening to Faster Than Normal, our guest today is Sharon Pope. She runs a phenomenal company that I'm falling in love with more & more called Shelpful, and I am definitely check it out. You can find it a www.Shelpful.com you can find me @petershankman and @fasternormal and on www.FasterThanNormal.com anywhere you grab your podcasts, the book. On Amazon. It's actually, I think it's fourth printing, which blows my mind. I get emails every day that people really liked what they were reading and I helped them and it just makes me so happy. I love, I love that. So I will keep doing that for as long as I possibly can. Guys, that feel free to reach out, say hi, tell us any guests that you'd like to see on the show. We'd love to hear you. Anyone who sends me any info tells us of the guests, whether we use them or not. I will send you a shank point, uh, for those who don't know. Uh, it's a long story. I'll tell you another time, but I say anyone who sends guest info to me, I will send you a brand new shank point is currently trading around 10 bucks a coin. It is a cryptocurrency, and it's a lot of fun for some of the ADHD. It's fun because you have to stop yourself from watching everything. Oh, it's up? It's down. Okay. Anyway, squirrel!! Sharon. Thank you again, guys. Thank you for listening. We will see you next week. Have a wonderful week. Stay safe, stay happy. — Credits: You've been listening to the Faster Than Normal podcast. We're available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google play and of course at www.FasterThanNormal.com I'm your host, Peter Shankman and you can find me at petershankman.com and @petershankman on all of the socials. If you like what you've heard, why not head over to your favorite podcast platform of choice and leave us a review, come more people who leave positive reviews, the more the podcast has shown, and the more people we can help understand that ADHD is a gift, not a curse. Opening and closing themes were composed and produced by Steven Byrom who also produces this podcast, and the opening introduction was recorded by Bernie Wagenblast. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you next week. 

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Bonnie Hewitt, the founder of Posh Notions, an upcycling business based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania shares her pivotal moments from being diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, among a lot of her chronic illnesses, to founding Posh Notions and winning the Two-Minute Drill contest in the US. Bonus content next: How She Met Her (Famous) Mentors! 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Find out what's the coupon code on the episode or in the episode transcripts!  Hint: Mediaboard25 https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=glee   Transcript:   Bonnie: I didn't even realize that that should have been a wake up call. The shift that I've made from how sick I am to I'm healing in a couple of years is phenomenal because unfortunately there's a lot of people that get the condition than I have, and it's completely crippled them.The Glee: Hey Zesties! Welcome to the gleeful talk show where we share zesty stories to cultivate the happiness and hero within. I love hearing stories about overcoming adversity. It really inspires me to look beyond the gray skies and see. That there is a blue sky behind it. Our guest today has been diagnosed by a chronic illness, which left her at temporarily paralyzed over time. She has been diagnosed with numerous chronic conditions. She was previously an accountant, but because of her circumstances, she was unable to come back to the corporate world. But instead she built a world of her own turning illness to business to greatness. Please help me welcome Bonnie Hewitt. Hi, Bonnie. Welcome to the show. Bonnie: Hi, I'm so happy to be here. I'm excited to get started. Glee: Yeah. Thank you? for coming in the show. So, I've mentioned earlier that you have a business right now. It's called posh notions. And I am very curious. What was your life before having posh notions so Can you help us understand a bit more on your life story before Posh Notions? Bonnie: Yeah, so I started Posh Notions in 2016, so I've quite a life built up before that. So I had a semi-normal childhood, had some trauma here and there. Labeled high, strong at a very young age. And so I ended up having my first child pretty young. I was 21 when I had him. He's 21 now. So and then I had my daughter a couple of years after that. And at that point I had been, actually been in a car accident. I actually completely forgot about this, but I was in a car accident and I was told I couldn't work. So I decided I was going to go back to school. And I got my degree in accounting. Only because I knew I would be good at it. Not because it was like my passion or anything. But I did that. And I was done with school. They were, I think like five and three. And I worked in the field for a few years. I worked for some corporate banking and some private small accounting firms and in 2011 So my husband and I had separated and I was a single mom at the time I was raising both my kids. They were nine and 11. And out of nowhere I got really, really sick and ended up in the hospital temporarily paralyzed, like you mentioned, with a condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome. And it was basically like having a stroke and it was what I call the first part of my healing journey. I saw, like I said, I was a single mom. I was working from home at the time. I was an accountant. My oldest is on the autism spectrum. So I was managing all his care and really just trying to do everything by myself and not taking good care of myself, pumping a lot of caffeine. And I tell people, it was kind of like my body's shut me off, like a surge protector, because had I kept going the way I was going, I probably wouldn't know. Gone much further, I'd lost a ton of weight. I was definitely underweight at the time and I remember coming home from the hospital and trying to go back right back to work. The next day online and realized, realized very quickly. So yeah. having this illness, like I said, it was like having a stroke, so I had to learn to walk and talk and eat and type and do all, all my gross motor skills, fine motor skills that were gone. My reflexes were gone, so I kind of had to start from scratch and I was in the hospital for a few weeks. And when I did come home, I, all I wanted to do was get out of the hospital. So when I got home, I just tried to go right back to my life and was like, oh, and kind of like, that was a blip let's move on. And really, that's not what ended up happening. my body couldn't hack it. my cognitive thinking. Severely impaired. I couldn't remember things. I couldn't learn new things. So working as an accountant, doing bookkeeping and, you know, taxes and stuff, it was really difficult to try to do these things because I couldn't focus. I couldn't concentrate and I couldn't really make sense of a lot of things. So it was shortly after that maybe a month or two that I ended up actually being, let go from my job because I couldn't do what they needed me to do. And I got better. And then I hit like a plateau to where I wasn't getting any better anymore. So that was like What I should have been kind of a wake up call and I tell people it really wasn't a wake-up call. Unfortunately, I just kept trying to go back to my old life and, you know, take care of my kids and go back to work. My husband and I have reconciled. And I just, this didn't allow it to be the teaching experience initially that maybe I should have. So that was 2011. I had my third child in 2013, about a year and a half after getting sick. And you know, was taking care of a new baby trying to do things to bring in a little bit of money. I was trying to flip on eBay, do some reselling and whatnot. And then in 2016, I got pregnant with my fourth child, very unexpectedly. He is our miracle baby, for sure. And. I knew that I had to try to do something cause my husband was working, but our fourth child was on the way we, financially we're pretty strapped. And I got a cutting machine for my birthday which cut various materials. So like paper and vinyl and different things and started to make decals for my husband's the team that he was on. Just trying to see if I could bring in a little bit of money. And then later that year around Christmas time, a good friend of mine asked me if I could make a t-shirt for her son. And I was like, I don't know if I could give it a shot. Let's see. And really that was the first time I had made a piece of apparel and that was the very beginning of learning how to make custom apparel for people. And a few months after that was when I ended up launching posh notions, making custom apparel for businesses and organizations, custom pieces for individuals. So yeah, that's kind of how I got to launching Posh Notions. Glee: yeah. I wanted to go back a little bit on about the the syndrome that you mentioned. So was it because you were just not taking care of yourself at that time. That's why you had that syndrome and multiple chronic illnesses that at that point in time. Bonnie: So the Guillain-Barre was kind of like a kickoff and it's a rare syndrome. not taking care of myself, made me more susceptible to it. So people sometimes get it after like being sick with the flu or they get other things that can set it off. I think just not taking care of myself was kind of like the catalyst or allowed me to, to be susceptible to this thing. What happened after that was like, I was diagnosed with multiple conditions after that. So once at one point they said, I didn't have Guillain-Barre. One doctor said there was no way that I could healed that fast from something. So they decided that I didn't have it. So there was kind of back to the drawing board and the doctors were bouncing between trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with me. Because when I came home, I was riddled with pain. I was fatigued. I was sleeping 16 hours a day. I couldn't walk up my steps. I had to crawl. I couldn't lift up a pot of water. So all my strength was gone. So they initially diagnosed me with fibromyalgia. And then after I had my third child, they told me I ended up having rheumatoid arthritis. And it was like, once they started giving me these diagnoses, they just kind of snowballed. And it was like, well, now you have this and now you have this and now you have that. And now I have this whole list of things That are all, auto-immune conditions. And I kinda just, I don't, like I say, I ignore them, but I don't really focus too much on when they give me a new diagnosis. Cause it's really not changing anything about how I feel. And I'm already doing all of the things that I need to do, with my diet and exercise nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, yoga, like all of these different things. So like I said, I just had two new diagnosis diagnoses last year and I was like, okay, now what? Like, I'm just going to keep pushing forward and taking care of myself the best that I can, because really that's all I can do. The medications haven't worked for me, we could talk about that if you want. But yeah, it's been, it's been an interesting journey the past. It's been almost a decade now, so it's an interesting journey. Glee: wow. Very, strong woman, indeed. I can't imagine, like, what was your, biggest motivation to keep on going. Bonnie: So I think initially it was, I'd wanted to get the hell out of the hospital. Right. I just, I didn't want to be there. And then most of it centered around my kids because I'm I still am the, like the default caregiver my husband and I, like I said, reconcile, but I do like on the mom, And so it had a lot to do with, with them and being able to do things with them, being able to do things for them, but showing them not to quit, but at the same time, I have always just had a push forward mindset. I've had so many things that have happened from childhood. And so now that it was always just kinda like, I was always onto the next thing. And now I'm actually, it's funny because I'm actually unraveling that now I've been reading a lot of books and kind of realizing that not letting myself feel things and kind of just plowing right through everything that happened. Wasn't necessarily the, the healthiest way to do things and kind of learning healthier coping and mindset techniques to push forward, but not to have to keep relearning these same lessons over and over and over again. Cause that's, that's what ended up happening to me. A lot of the things that were happening to me were very closely related. And it was like, I just wasn't getting it. Like I said, that first part of my healing journey should have been a wake up call. So stuff just kept smacking me in the face. Like, Hey, are you going to listen? Are you going to listen to me? It's like, no, no, no. It wasn't until 2017 that I finally kind of started to listen and say, okay, I kind of, I think I might know what's going on here. I didn't even realize that that should have been a wake up call. And so five, six years later, like it didn't Dawn on me that like, Hey, maybe this isn't the life that you're supposed to be living. Maybe you're not supposed to be doing all those things. Maybe this is a redirect and you're supposed to be going in this direction, but you're fighting it, you know, that kind of thing. it's been amazing. These past three to four years have been the best part of the whole thing. To be honest with you, lots of learning.  Glee: so you mentioned when you were just starting out with posh notions and, when you were sewing masks, I read that during the COVID time and you, you also had arthritis arthritis that moved your spine too.It was, really another setback with when you even just started. So how, was that experience? Bonnie: so I'm going to start in 2017, because this was really a pivotal moment for me. So I have mental health history that precedes my physical health history. A lot of depression, anxiety, a lot of trauma. I'm not going to go into specifics started in childhood and that preceded getting sick physically getting sick I had been seeing a psychiatrist regularly. I was on probably a dozen psych meds. And up on this one down on that one, on this one, off that one, like it just, this medication rollercoaster for years, same thing happened with when they diagnosed me with the rheumatoid arthritis, so that would have been 2013, a few months after my third child was born. I refused medication at first because I was nursing. So I didn't take any medication for that. And so he was two years old and the same thing happened with that. I was taking this medication that made me sick. I took a different medication, had a large reaction. One of them wants to far as who I actually had a psychotic breakdown. Like I was clinically psychotic diagnosed with psychosis from this medication and had to stop that immediately. I kept having all these experiences with medication. And finally told that doctor, my rheumatologist, like let's just stick with the prednisone and it's the only thing that's not bothering me. It helps just enough for me to function during the day. And I didn't want to take anything else. 2017, I had an an interesting visit with my psychiatrist, where I had been going in there complaining month after month after month for, I don't know how many years about frustration and anger and rage and depression and anxiety, all these different things. So he keeps, like I said, up in one night, taking on away, what am I replacing it? On this rollercoaster and this particular day, it was, it was an October, 2017. And I remember this very vividly cause like three different things happened all in a very short period of time. I had surgery and I saw him and I broke my ribs all in a matter of like a month. But I went to see him. I was telling him about this like unexplainable rage that I was having. Like I was getting angry about the dishes and about, kids not picking up. Basic mom stuff, but I was getting super angry and I was frustrated because I hurt and I was tired and I kept having to do these things. So all this was kind of cumulative and he said, well, it could be this one medication you're taking. And I don't mention that name when I talk about this, because I know it helps lots of people. Well, and I, just looked at him because I had been taking this medication for 15 years and I have been telling him the same things over and over again for like 15 years, I was like, I'm done. I quit. And I never went back to see him. I guess I quit all my meds. I am not recommending anybody do this on their own. I spent the next month or two months tapering off because I'd been on and off so many different things. I knew how to take her off the medications. I knew what to look for. And that day. I actually just realized this just recently, like I took my power back that day. I took the responsibility for my own wellbeing and my healing that day. And that was really the second part. I call it my healing journey because it was the second pivotal moment where I was like, nobody is going to be able to do this for me. Nobody knows my body the way I know my body, the doctors are experts of medication, but they're not experts in my body. They're not feeling what I feel and all of these different things and decided that I was going to figure out a better way to do this. Or at least something better than what I had been dealing with. Glee: Yeah. exactly. when you, have entered this Two-Minute Drill, I think it's, a contest in the states cause I'm here in Australia and not very familiar with it. cause this was one of the, big things that happened on your, business how it kickstarted more So could you give us a bit of overview, how, it went. Bonnie: So before, I posh notions is making t-shirts for businesses and organizations, mostly and working with David and mentoring with him and March, everything shuts down. So there's no need for what I was doing. But at that point I had a couple of different people come and ask me to make custom masks. And I'm like, no, I don't know how to sew.  I have no interest in sewing. And then the third person came and I was like, I believe in the law of three. I was like, I have to at least attempt this. And I was talking to David. I was like, you think this is something I could do. Do you think this would work? And he was like, absolutely. So that was an April and a couple of weeks after that. And in a couple of weeks, I learned how to sew on a broken sewing machine and some vintage materials and some t-shirts and opened up my Etsy shop and did fairly well and was working with all of these vintage materials. Cause at that time, getting supplies was near impossible and super expensive. So my mom was going to all of her friends that didn't sew anymore and was kind of bringing me boxes and boxes of materials, because they were selling elastic for like $4, which is normally like 10 cents. So that's to give you just a frame of reference, it's like a, I dunno, like a 4000% markup for something like that, something crazy. So she's bringing me, I was, and I'm falling in love with all these vintage materials and I'm making all of these new things out of this old material, and I'm just loving the whole process of making skirts and pillows and all of these different things. I'm learning once I learned how to sew I just wanted to make everything. So later in August, I was so in really late one night and all sudden popped into my head. Like, I wonder if I could build a business bonnie_hewitt_aka_posh_notions-2021-6-25__20-5-22: upcycling Bonnie: And I scribbled down some notes and went into private coaching session with David again, a couple of days later. And I was like, do you think this is something that I could do? And of course he gives up. Absolutely. Okay. So then, and it kind of just sat there the idea while it was still sewing and doing things, but I didn't really know how to take the next few steps in building this business that I wanted to build. So I just kept writing down all of my ideas and kind of keeping track of them. While at the same time he was doing two minutes drill contests on, I think like YouTube or Instagram, Where the idea is is you have two minutes to pitch your business idea and they've got like four or five contestants or whatever, and the best pitch wins. he's got his own criteria about, what the best pitch means. They decided to take it to global TV. So he starts talking about it. In our, private coaching sessions and on social media and whatnot. And I kind of hinting around and asking questions about it, but never really seriously thinking that I was going to do this because I didn't feel like I had any business doing something like that. Like, I didn't feel like I belonged. I didn't feel like I had what I needed. Like I didn't have this huge business. I didn't have NFL backers and, you know, million dollar contracts and all these things that these people I'm listening to pitch had, but I was still interested by, by the whole thing.  in late October, early November, we were in a private coach coaching session. And he's telling everybody, like, if you haven't signed up to pitch to, compete you need to get your, your applications in. And that means you Bonnie. And like calls me in front of the whole group. And I'm like, okay. I was like, I guess I have to do this. So I went ahead actually waited three more days, but then I went ahead and filled out the application. It's funny because I was still thinking like, I'm just going to do this because I told them I was going to do it. Right. Like, I'm asking all these questions, I'm honest, at least fill out the application. I had no idea what to expect. And in the application it asks you for your target audience. And I'm like, I don't know. I've been trying to figure this out for like six months. And all of a sudden it came to me and I typed it out. And then it asks you for like a mini pitch, like a short pitch, Again, I'm like, I don't know when all of a sudden it comes to me and it was like, it was like the universe delivered. Like I finally, said, okay, I'm going to do this. It was like, the universe gave me exactly what I needed in that moment. And I submitted the application. I was like, all right, cool, I'm done. Let's go. I don't have to worry about this anymore. And I went to sleep and didn't think anymore about it. And a few days later I got an email saying that they accepted me and I'm running around my house screaming. My husband's looking at me and said, what are you talking about? I'm texting my friends. And they're like, what are you talking about? Look, I'm going to be on TV. That's all you need to know. I will explain the rest later. And then I had to write a pitch and writing the pitch. It was super interesting. the only thing I was focused on at that point was not embarrassing myself and David and just doing the best I had. Like I never, in a million years would have ever thought, like, I didn't think I belonged there, but alone. Was I going to win something like this? It was just do the best you can. So we don't embarrass anybody. And so right. My pitch and I'm practicing, I recorded myself like 400 times during this pitch to get the timing just right. And the day comes and our power goes out and we have no power, like a half an hour before I'm supposed to log in. The power comes back on and we've still got no internet. And I'm like, alright, I don't know, universe do your thing. I was like, I'm going to get finished, getting ready, asked my son to keep an eye on my computer. I was like, it's either going to happen. Or it's not like I did the best I could. And getting here about five minutes before I was supposed to log in the power camp or the internet and back on. And is it recording something like this for TV is a lot of standing around and I got to listen to everybody else's pitches and I'm like, well, that one was really good. And that one was really good. And that was fabulous. I'm listening to all of the constructive criticism or feedback, and kind of make mental notes of these things. Like I said, these guys have this one guy had an NFL support, like people that work for the NFL backing his products, wearing his products and my turn bonnie_hewitt_aka_posh_notions-2021-6-25__20-5-22: comes Bonnie: And I give my pitch and I'm like, again, I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, I'm done. Okay, cool. I just gotta stay in here and wait for them to tell me that, finish up and do the questions. And then, then I'm all done. And I listened to the last couple that went after me go and it dawned on me that I was the only person on the show that hadn't gotten any negative feedback or any like constructive criticism or anything like that. And I was like, wait a minute. like, did I actually, no, there's no way I've pulled this off. So the producer comes on and he goes, Ken, everybody's giving their pitches. And whoever has will be the only one that pops up on the screen and everybody else stay tuned because we have questions. We want to ask you some standing there. And it's like, all of a sudden I see my face pop up and I'm like, I'm try not to freak out and scream because my family's downstairs. Glee: of the camera. Bonnie: I'm like, and I was like, you keep saying, I was like, staring like this, trying not to. Freak out on yeah. On TV. And they come on and they, rehash the pitch and they congratulate me and I'm doing a standard is facing. Thank you. And thank you. Like I'm trying not to cry. And but it was funny cause I had to wait up here for like another hour and a half after that, before I could go down and tell my family. So I'm just kind of standing here with them. Okay. Okay. Okay. Like trying to process what just happened because it's not fully sinking in and I go downstairs finally and I tell it was crazy. It was funny. I actually, at one point, cause my, my internet connection was so bad. My I don't know if you got to watch the show or not, but the video was so pixel. Yeah. Like you couldn't really see me through a lot of it. So they asked me to rerecord and every recorded like four more times and it wasn't working out. They did end up using the pixelated video. So it's on it's on Amazon prime. It was on live on Bloomberg TV in January, but stuff on Amazon prime, if anybody wants to watch it, it was a seasoned one episode three. But  it was so funny cause I went downstairs and my eight year old son is like my biggest cheerleader and I go out and I tell him and he's jumping up. Then I saw excited. My husband was like, congrats. And And I go outside and I must have completely lost my mind. Cause I went on social media and made a video and like blabbed to everyone that I won. And I wasn't supposed to tell anyone because it didn't air for another six weeks or seven weeks or something. I got a call from the team and they were like, you need to take that down. And I was like, okay. My mistake, I wasn't thinking straight. I was so excited and it's funny now, but I was done. Somebody likes terrified for three days that they were going to disqualify me. Right after going through all of that, I was like, see, I screwed it up. I was like, I should've never did that. Like you know, that negative self-talk started creeping in, like, what were you thinking? You should have never done that. It all worked out. It was fine, but it's just funny how even without somebody saying something to you, sometimes our mind makes stuff up. Right. To tell us that we're not good enough, we don't deserve this, that we don't, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all these different things. So I know that's something that I've definitely struggled with. The majority of my life. And I've been working really hard the past, like probably like year, year and a half to kind of eradicate that. So Glee: Yeah. I can, I can relate to that as well. I have a similar thing in very negative about myself and all that. It's, it's pretty hard to take it out. Like if you've been living with that mentality over the past, like the whole of your life, right. It's pretty needs like maybe strong will to be able to, slowly take out that negativity. Bonnie: Yeah. You have to do a lot of replacing. for me, one of the techniques that I use is called negative habit loop triggers. So basically when you have a negative habit and it's on a loop, so you're telling yourself this stuff over and over again, I use that as a trigger. So to kind of explain that, if you're constantly telling yourself, you know, I can't do this or this isn't gonna work out or whatever, those negative habits are the triggers for replacing with positive. So now what I try to do is when that starts, I use that as a, triggered it to switch to something positive. Like I got this, like I was using an example. I was helping a woman with anxiety and I was explaining to her, she has kids, I've obviously have four kids. And I was telling her how, at one point it was really difficult to get my youngest two to go to bed. And it was just a constant struggle. And I would come up the steps multiple times and I go, I can't do this. I just can't do this anymore. I can't do this. You know what I'm saying? This to myself, I can't do this anymore. And finally, I had to flip it to when I would start to say that was, I got this. It's going to be okay. They're going to lay down. Even if I didn't fully a hundred percent, believe it all the time. It was still better than because saying I can't, I can't, I can't was this self-fulfilling prophecy where I would end up having a meltdown. I they'd be crying. I'd be yelling and like really wasn't handling the situation. Right. So replacing that at the very least kind of neutralized, then the negative self-talk that I was having. And eventually I was able to completely replace that with it's going to be okay, I got this now it's not a hundred percent, it's not a hundred percent for anyone, but it's much better than feeding that constant negativity to yourself. I've actually been reading actually read a few books this past couple of weeks and somebody that's really good at mindset shifts is Gabby Bernstein. I've read one of her books. And then I read Wayne Dyer book and I'm reading another one of her books all in the past two weeks after that, the fire that I told you about, I was really struggling with fear and having, fearful negative thoughts. And I had already owned the book. I just hadn't read it yet. And I was led to pick that book up. two days after we had the fire and I was like, wow, this is perfect timing. Because the title of the book is Universe Has Your Back Transforming Fear to Faith. And I'm like this couldn't be more perfect timing for me to find this book on my bookshelf. it all has to do with mindset. And also what you're kind of what you're attracting into your life. Because if you're constantly feeding yourself negativity, you're going to be attracting negative stuff into your life. And if you can make that shift, it literally changes, changes your, whole life, your mind, your world, everything like that. The shift that I've made from how sick I am to I'm healing. All of this just in a couple of years is phenomenal because unfortunately there's a lot of people that get the condition than I have, and it's completely crippled them.The same amount of time, you know, and it's different for everyone, but I'm just saying that I really feel like the mindset work that I've done and healing. The inner me, not just the physical me has had it played a huge role in the fact that I'm not getting worse. that goes for anybody trying to accomplish anything, whether it's physical healing, building a business, landing, a job, you know, being successful inner voice if it's out of sync, if you're not feeling inspired, if you're not feeling in spirit and, and not religiously just connected to something other than yourself you're going to have a really hard time. Making positive connections with being successful and all of those different things. Glee: I love it. your story and what, you're sharing to us right now. It's very generous of you to share your story to us and inspire us because, as you've mentioned, what you experienced was such a roller coaster journey the, I couldn't even imagine it myself. Like it's really hard and look at what you are now, what you've, you've come out of that. flood or something, you know, that drowned you. So, it's a very inspiring story and I'm very happy to share it with the listeners. And now I'm very curious and wanting to know what's next for posh notions. What are your next plans? Bonnie: It's funny. A lot of people ask me that when I first aired and I was doing a lot of interviews. And I found it very overwhelming at that point, because I was like, I wanted to have all these amazing things to tell people, right? Like I'm doing this and I'm going to do this. And I I've planned for this. And I planned plans last because people are like, you just won this amazing prize and you were on TV. Like always amazing things must be happening for you now. And I did like a backslide, honestly. I was like, I don't know. It was like, I want to do this. I want to do this. I want to do this. I wanted this. And the show most definitely opened up lots of different things for me. And I got to meet some amazing people and I'm so grateful for all of that, but it wasn't like I had an instant knowing that I was going to do XYZ. However, I still have plans to build this upcycling company. I am building a a voucher program and to the company that's going to help give clothesto underprivileged kids a lot of kids get bullied because of their clothing, whether they come to school with holes in their clothes, or they're dirty, or they're too small or whatever the case is to fairly simple problem that as a community, we can help many, many, many kids without spending a ton of money. And it's something that I think will help a lot with these kids. I was one of those kids. I struggled with that as a child being picked on constantly. Another part of that is helping people who don't necessarily want to start a business of cycling, but aren't happy with the other options out there. I plan to hire people and have all of our up-cycling and product creation done. In-house so that these people who are creators can have a steady income, you know, salary benefits, all of those great things and get to do what they love. Because I really feel like when people are doing what they love, they do it much Nobody wants to sit a job that they hate all day. And not very many people want to do a great job at something that they don't really like to do. So those are two parts of it. the other huge part of it is the fact that we're going to be reducing the impact of the waste that's being thrown out on the environment by reusing materials we're going to be able to, drastically help and cut back on the amount of things that are thrown out. The one big thing I'm working on right now is we took down, we had one of those easy set pools. So it was just literally a massive piece of vinyl that you fill up with water. And when part of it breaks or something happens, she throw this massive sheet of plastic that can't be recycled into the trash. And I can't even imagine how many of them they're made to be disposable. Unfortunately. Yeah. So I sh I cut ours up into sheets and I'm going to make tote bags out of it one way or another. I'm still trying to figure that out. I've been working with it here and there. However, right now I'm really working on myself. I'm investing in myself, I'm learning as much as I can. We're on summer break here. And so all of my kids are home. Actually. My my only daughter is off at college right now. But I am spending as much time doing what I call adapt and overlap, which is constantly adapting to what's kind of going on with my family, but also overlapping activities. So there are certain things I can do outside that I work on with the t-shirts and whatnot stuff is opening back up. So I plan to be making more. And working with other organizations to make their branded apparel. but the biggest thing is not stressing about what's next. It's the biggest thing I'm doing right now, as I had to learn, that was a huge four months of learning to stop stressing and stop trying to constantly intellectually figure out what that is, because once I kind of let go and surrendered, like all 2020, it was a year of surrender for me when I surrendered and let go, all of these amazing things just started coming. I was still working on things, but I wasn't stressing about how it was going to figure everything out. It was like, I want to do this. And you know, think of a couple of different ways that I would like to do. But it never ended up working out exactly how I planned. It was something, somebody would say something or I would see something somewhere else in the answers. Like I said, even with the pitch, we're just kind of delivered to me. I know a lot of people don't believe in this quote unquote woo stuff, but I'm telling you it works. it's been amazing. And I'm saying again, from reading these books to kind of fine tune this, but for example, right before summer started, I had been asked that same question and I was kind of stressing about it. And I was like, I talked to a mentor of mine and I was like, look, this is what I'm stressing out. And the stress was what was blocking me from figuring out what it was that I wanted to do next, because I was just stressing about it so much. And as soon as I stopped stressing about, I briefly mentioned the unbreakable campaign was something I was working on after meeting bonnie_hewitt_aka_posh_notions-2021-6-25__20-5-22: Evan Bonnie: I had an interview a couple of weeks ago. And someone in Evan's ecosystem did the interview and he came to me a few days later and he was like, I want to talk to you about your unbreakable campaign. Now I've had this thing on hold for almost two years because I couldn't manage it all by myself. And I kept saying, when I'm ready, I'll bring it back. and I'm going to work on it and I'm going to have a partner. And this is it's going to work out. The man was literally delivered to me. He does all of the stuff that I don't like to do. All of the technical stuff, all of the backend stuff, all the website stuff, all of these things that were whole email campaigns. It was holding me up from being able to deliver value to people and to help people, because I was so caught up in those details at that point in time, and now it's happening and we're getting ready. We a rebrand and we're getting to do a relaunch. Like everything that I've wanted to do with this is, is now happening all because I let go of thenotion of just the stress and that I had to do everything by myself. But I can't stress enough how important it is to A) take care of yourself. B) to reduce stress as much as possible, see, to have fun with what you're doing. I know some people are going to be rolling their eyes, hearing me say that I rolled my eyes a hundred times I heard it too. Cause I'm like, how am I possibly supposed to make this fun? But you've got it. Find something. If it's not your job, find something fun every day, something little, even if it's only two minutes, something you enjoy something that gives you satisfaction, something that makes you feel good because that's really the most important part. Glee: Thank you. Bonnie was,  I know that as you mentioned, they are simple steps, but it's really, it's hard to do right. As well, if, especially, and that's why we need people maybe mentors or our friends or people like you, who will inspire us to, and remind us to do these things. Because if we don't get reminded, sometimes we forget Bonnie: Yeah. I forget. Which is why I think I led got led back to these books because I was allowing myself to get stressed out by something that I'm not gonna say it's not important, but it was, stressing out because people were in shock. Like people were, yes, people were interested in what I was going to do and I couldn't figure it out. And I was letting that stress me out. And really all stress is as your perception or perspective about something, that's happened because a lot of other people would have been super excited to have so many ask them what's next. And maybe they had it all figured out and that wouldn't be stressful for them at all. But my perception of it at that point, and for a few months was when people were asking me if that means I'm supposed to have it all figured out, that must mean that I'm supposed to have it all figured out. Why don't I have this all figured out? What am I supposed to be doing? I don't know. You know, and it was this huge snowball effect of one person's comment or two people's comments made me feel like I was less than worthy. Right. I wasn't enough. I wasn't doing enough. I wasn't thinking enough. I didn't have things planned enough. Just it was all this judgment that wasn't even there. Like I was making this up in my head, which again, that's where the unnecessary stress comes from is nobody said any of that to me. That's that was how I perceived their questions. You know what I mean? Glee: Ah, yeah. Yeah. I get what you mean? and thank you for your authenticity on, saying that because if I would have been on your shoes, it would be like, I have to think what's next so that I can say, you know, something but telling it right now to us, that you don't have things figured out yet, not everything is laid out yet, not on your head. So, it's a huge reminder that to everyone that even if you had this big thing going on, it's not that you're a hundred percent knowing what's the next step. What's the next plan. Right? So it was, it was great. Thank you for that. Bonnie: You're welcome. In another point to that was now talking with you about it. Part of the reason I didn't have things figured out is of, I never expected to win like that. Wasn't part of my plan. So it was like, here you go. Here's all these amazing gifts and these, all these amazing services. And I'm like, I don't know what to do with any of this stuff that, that wasn't, you know, I didn't have that plan. And I'm so grateful for everything the way that it unraveled, because I got to learn so much. But like I said, I didn't I just planned to show up. I hadn't, I didn't plan to come away winning. like I said, I'm grateful. I'm not at all. Like, man, that shouldn't happen or anything, but it could've been in my game plan. Cause that's not how I was thinking. And that's another good point too, showing up and having positive intentions and a lot of times universe delivers you way more than you could have ever expected. Especially when it's not going according to your plan, because that definitely wasn't mine, you know?  Glee: the universe have bigger plans, well, if we show up right. Bonnie: absolutely, I'm learning that over and over and over again, but it all comes down to surrendering and, being positive and surrender doesn't necessarily mean what a lot of people think. I think it means surrendering just means to believing, putting your ego aside. And this is another thing I struggle with is I'm always worried about trusting and how strong I'm going to be, how strong my body's going to be. Am I going to be able to keep up? And that's what this last, the fire and reading these books has taught me, is it's not myself that I need to trust and it's in the universe and the bigger plans that the universe or God, or whoever, whatever you want to call it has for you is going to work. If you surrender kind of your ego to that. So I just wanted to explain that because surrender didn't make any sense to me, so Glee: Yeah. Lovely. Thank you. Thank you so much. Bonnie it's so refreshing, to hear about someone saying surrender and not in the surrender terms that we know usually is that I get it. So yeah. Before we wrap things up, I wanted to ask you some few questions, not kind of related to this to the topic more of, on, about you. What are the top five songs on your playlist that you can't live without? Bonnie: wow. So Because I'm really bad at remembering names, actually. Okay. I'm working on getting better at yes. I'm working at getting better. I'm not going to say I'm bad. I'm working at getting better at remembering names of things. So I'm going to cheat because I have my phone sitting right here. Cause I know what songs they are and I don't remember the names of them. well, I like all kinds of genres, but I liked those songs or when you turn them on, you can't help but move. And I don't necessarily mean like you have to dance, but like I feel low energy, physical energy. So often that if I can turn something on like that, it like instantly makes me want to get up and move and do stuff and get motivated. So I'm going to look through here. Glee: Sorry for putting you on the spot right there. Bonnie: One is one is Firestarter. I remember that one. by the prodigy right here right now by Fatboy slim was another one. I like super bloom. I don't know if you've heard that song by Mr. Wives. It's a really uplifting song in my opinion. Watermelon sugar is another one that for some reason, it's newer by Harry styles and then my all time favorite song and not because it gets me motivated, but it's, the story behind it is by the band from way back in the day called Candlebox and I'm going to, oh, the name of the song is far behind. That's I think my all time favorite song. But the story behind the song and the song itself is really touching. Glee: And so if you have, let's say there's no, COVID right now. if you have to jump on a plane and go to a place, which place would that be? Bonnie: It's funny. Cause I always used to say Australia, I always wanted to go to like Australia, New Zealand, which is where you are. Yeah. I think though right now I would end up in California, which sounds funny, but everybody that whose energy that I want to be around. It's pretty much in California or easily accessible from California at this point. Um, so I think that's where I would go is because of the people. Glee: great. Thank you for that little game that we had. So where can our Zesties find you and Posh notions? Bonnie: so I am literally Posh notions across social media. So Instagram, Facebook, Twitter everywhere and PoshNotions.com and I'm also on Etsy at posh notions. And right now, we are re launching it's now called unbreakable stories. So we're just getting started with the social media and Unbreakable stories is to have people sharing their stories, to help uplift and empower other people going through the same things. So it's kind of to help give them a roadmap and support, especially in the early days after being diagnosed with something like what I have chronic illness, or after going through a trauma we're building basically an on a huge online support system. So UnbreakableStories.Com I believe is the website. If anybody's interested in checking it out, it's literally, we haven't even announced, announced it yet. So it's just in the very beginning. But it's a really great project and it has our hearts behind it. And it's something that I've been waiting to bring to life fully for the past two and a half years now. So I'm super excited to be getting that off the ground with my partner, Terry.  Glee: We're looking forward to that one,Bonnie, as well as the next products we're off partial notions. So thank you so much again for your time and for your generosity and authenticity in this, episodes that I'm having here at Gleeful talk show. So thank you. Bonnie: thank you so much.

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Mentioned in this Episode:Jonah's blog: https://jonahaangeles.medium.com/Jonah's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2dU930a...Jonah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/channelsurfcinema/ To learn more about the Get Psyched Mission:You can Get Psyched on...InstagramTwitterFacebookYoutubeCheck out my friend and fellow creator PME On Spotify(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:Provided by Otter.aiDJ Psyched  0:07  I'm DJ Psyched, and you're listening to the Get Psyched podcast. Let's Get Psyched together.I'm DJ Psyched, you're listening to the Get Psyched podcast. And today we're getting psyched with Jonah, we're gonna be talking a bit about writing. So just to start things off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do, and specifically, I guess what you do with writing,Jonah Angeles  0:32  okay, my name is Jonah. I do a lot of things. Writing being one of them, one of my favorite things to do, I publish on medium. So I do poetry and nonfiction pieces. And yeah, I really enjoy writing. It's one of my passions, it sounds really cliche to say that but you know, as a writer, it's important to, to be passionate, I think. And to imbue your work with that passion, because that's where the good stuff is. And I write about anything and everything. on medium I've been writing about, you know, experiences at university, kind of like, pseudo memoir, stuff, I shouldn't say pseudo, like, kinda like memoir stuff, non creative nonfiction pieces, about my time at university to, you know, photography, which is another one of my hobbies. Also, I read about aliens. I've written two articles about aliens. And I'm not some kind of conspiracy theorist. I guess some people might label me that, but I don't want to get lumped into a niche. So I very intentionally write about various subjects. Which I mean, could also be a disadvantage for, for me as a writer on medium because I think it is important to find a niche, or find some, just some comfort zone or some, some field or domain that your readers will expect. It gives your readers something to expect from you, I guess. But with me and, you know, knowing me and my various interests and my ADHD, it's impossible to fixate on one thing, or to stay on one topic for a long period of time. As you probably know. Quite a, quite a divergent thinker. And I jump from one topic to another. And that definitely shows with my writing. But I guess what ties it all together is that I try to write from, from my voice. And that's something I've developed for years is a unique style and a unique voice. Otherwise, what separates my writing from everybody else's writing, right? It's, it's my style and my voice that I've developed over, over years.DJ Psyched  3:15  Nice. And you wanted to say a little bit more about the multi disciplinary aspect, cuz I think that's pretty big for how your writing ends up being. Because I think when you are multi disciplinary, and you do a lot of different things, it kind of shows through in your writing.Jonah Angeles  3:31  Yeah, um on medium, which is, you know, the good thing about publications, or platforms like medium, I don't want to call medium a publication because it's more so a platform for publications and for published writing, and self publishing. I can add images, and header images, and, you know, body images or like images into the body of the text of an article. And oftentimes, they're my own photos and my own graphics that I've designed for the article. So it makes it more my own thing, I guess. And it makes it more of a product of, of, of my multiple disciplines that I practice. So as I mentioned, I'm into photography as well. I'm into Visual Art and graphic design. And I'm also a podcaster I have my own podcast Overthinker's Anonymous. And I shout out my articles on on my podcast. So I guess my, my published works are linked in a way and it's nice to have multiple platforms too, like Instagram, and a medium account, and a Twitter and the Facebook where you can link to all these multiple works. I don't know it's it's nice to have that um, The thing that ties them together, that aspect of it that ties them together, makes them exist in relation to each other. So that it's it's like I'm creating, like a network of works. Or a world maybe, if that doesn't sound too grandiose?DJ Psyched  5:20  No, yeah, no, I completely understand because I think we're very similar in all those aspects like, I definitely am a writer myself, but I don't only write like, I just couldn't either. I don't think I could stop myself in doing just one thing, like I considered briefly to cut myself from the podcasting world so that I could focus on my writing. And I just couldn't do it. Like, I just couldn't give it up. I enjoy doing it too much. And I think that, with that, I end up like, if I pick something up, because I'm very prone to picking up a new kind of art, or whatever, instead of replacing the old stuff, I've learned to just kind of make like everything connected in its own ways. And I think in that way, we're kind of similar, because my podcast and my website and everything, it's all under a similar name. And it's kind of become like a theme, in a sense, although everything is very different. I try to tie it together. So would you say that everything that you do your podcast, the writing, anything else you create, is it all? Like you said, it's like a world so it's all it's all connected, right? Is what you're saying? Like, it's not like, these are separate things that you're trying to do? You're trying to make it one big thing that do you see as a reflection of yourself, do you see as a mission or something, because I kind of see mine as a very small reflection of myself, because obviously, it's not 100%. me, but I like to think that it's also a mission. So like, with your world, what are you trying to create, exactly, do you know?Jonah Angeles  6:44  I don't know exactly. Because I feel like they're all reflections of me. But they're not. As you said, there, there may be partial reflection reflections, they're not like the whole me. I don't want to define myself by what I do. By my work. I've said that many times in the past, that I'm not trying to establish my identity through my through my work. I guess I'm just trying to, like we said on on my podcast on episode 10 of Overthinker's Anonymous, we kind of ended off on the note that the meaning of life is to create something that lasts. So I think that's kind of what I'm trying to do. I, I guess the real answer is, though, that I don't think about it too much. I just do things and I, I don't think about the big picture as much as I think about, you know, what I, every single thing that I do, I put 100% of myself into it. But I don't think about my entire legacy, or my entire body of work as being one thing or one world. But I guess it's my, my content, like, my footprint, or my my I how would you? my garden, maybe my online, online garden of work. Because it sounds better than body of work. It sounds more glamorous, I think having a garden of work. And with a garden, you can have multiple different types of flowers blossoming. And the conditions have to be right, right? The temperature has to be right. You tend to it. And I don't know, I think it's important to revisit it and not just, you know, frivolously throw things out into the void and see what sticks. You know what I mean? I think it's important to preserve what you what you've made, and enjoy what you made and share what you've made. Yeah, because I feel like we live in we live in a world where it's all about content creation, content creation, content creation. And it seems the trend seems to be that you, you make stuff and you just throw it out there and you just kind of forget about it. And you're on to the next thing. That's something I don't necessarily buy when is just like, I believe that these things should last. And if you're not making things that last, you're making things that are just, you know, going to get your attention for maybe five minutes. And then it's on to the next thing and you forget about that Tik Tok or, you forget about that tweet. You know, I don't know I maybe I'm maybe I'm putting too much value into every single piece that I make. But I believe that, you know, we're creating things that are going to be there are going to outlast us. So that's what I have in mind is, you know, the future like posterity. How am I going to be perceived by future generations, by my children, and my children's children, if I have children, or like, by, by by The future. How is the future gonna perceive me? How are, how are the aliens gonna, gonna perceive me? You know, like, what are they going to infer about the life I lived and the kind of person that I was, you know, where my mind wandered? You know, the things I thought about? what I studied? You know, what I dealt with in life? Whatever I've been through?DJ Psyched  10:30  Yeah, that definitely makes sense. And I guess what I'm wondering is then, as a writer, like, do you have any certain goals for yourself? Like, maybe not like in the sense of like, Oh, well, I don't know, in the sense that you like you said, You like to make things that last and are meaningful, do you have any very specific goals? Because I know that you've talked about different writing projects that you worked on? I think you talked about it when we did the podcast together. So is there anything like you would really love to do like, I mean, personally, I read somewhere in a book once, a book I really love, that they said, like writing a book is one of the best things that you could do for yourself and preserving your legacy. Is that something that you also think as a writer, like long bodies of works?Jonah Angeles  11:13  Oh, yeah. 100%. I'm writing a book, fiction science fiction novel. And it's kind of on one level, it's, it's a dystopian, utopian/dystopian, or, as Margaret Atwood would call it Ustpopian novel. But on another level, it's it's kind of a allegorical autobiography, especially Book Three, part three. I don't want to spoil too much, but like, Part Three mirrors a lot of my life. And it gets very real, I guess it gets very personal. Even though the character isn't necessarily me, it's, it's kind of like an avatar for me. And I do have an avatar in the novel, like, one of my main characters, William, William Blue, is essentially, who I would be in that world had I existed in that world that I'm writing in, that I'm writing about in the year 2033. Yeah, he's, he's essentially just... Oh can you hear me?DJ Psyched  12:21  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  12:23  He's essentially just a mirror of me, I guess, but not not. Again, like we said earlier, a partial mirror, not, not a whole reflection of who I am. And he's definitely not one to one, a one to one translation of, of my personality. He's definitely his own being his own character. And he's got his own personality. But I feel like if you were to study this novel, that I'm writing, if you were to analyze it, you'd probably be able to pick out a lot of my life, and, you know, my experiences within the novel. So I think that's just been my goal for a long time is writing is writing this novel? I've been writing it since I was 19. So it's about eight years in the making. And yeah, it's it's kind of like, a mirror of my life, but not really. So an allegorical autobiography, as I said, and yeah, it's a lot about a lot of it is about finding yourself too and figuring it out figuring out this whole life thing in in a larger than life world with larger than life characters. But um, yeah, that's basically the gist of it.DJ Psyched  13:51  Yeah, well, that's awesome. I think I've done very similarly with my writings actually had this weird thing for a while, where every short story I wrote the main character's name started with an L, just because mine does like almost all of my main characters from anything that I wrote, like in college, their name started with an L. And I felt like I always put a part of myself into the characters, I feel like that kind of made them more real to me, and made me resonate with the story more. So I guess what I want to ask you is what would you say you write for? Because personally, when I write, I think my writing becomes one, reflection for myself. Like, I feel like there's so many times that I've started writing and just had grand epiphany is why I stand by writing and I love to write, like, whether I post the writing or not, sometimes I'll just journal to write for myself. So I think like writing for me is like a sense of reflection, but it's also a form of expression and trying to explain myself to others. So what inspired you to start writing and what do you see writing as for you like, what, what is writing to you?Jonah Angeles  14:56  Oh, yeah, I was really well put. I'm going to steal some of your words and say reflection and expression. Because like, yeah, reflection, like through journaling, and through like my own just free writing or like sometimes I do poetry, free writing poetry. It's a way to externalize your thoughts, right? It's a way to look into your, your minds activity, or like, look into the information that's passing through your mind. And processing it in a way where you can reflect on it and even analyze it in a way that's different from just thinking about your thoughts. There's something about writing something down and then actually viewing it from an outsider's perspective or like, even from the audience, an audience perspective. Because really, when you're journaling, you're your own audience, and you're writing for yourself. And, yeah, it's just a way for me to reflect and I guess, better understand myself better better understand the workings of my own mind. It's also on another side it's expression. So it's a way for me to, I guess, express myself as simple as that. No reason to overcomplicate it further than self expression. And creating something beautiful, creating something meaningful, insightful, entertaining. I love to entertain and, I guess, provoke thoughts and provoke feelings or evoke feelings and people evoke feelings of beauty. For me, writing is also about the the artistic, the artistic arrangement of words. I really love, you know, literary authors like Oscar Wilde. Nabokov, like and then poets like William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, and like, those are just a handful of many, many authors that inspire me to create beautiful language. And there's so many ways language can be beautiful. You can write about you know, love, you can write about nature, you can write about sci fi, or even dark, Gothic, grotesque things, and still make it poetic and beautiful. For me, personally, I like to find the middle ground between poetry and prose. And one of the articles that I posted on medium called Welcome to your life now in Ultra HD, which I had a feeling that you were gonna bring this up anyway. But like that article experiments with like poetic prose with like, short, punchy paragraphs that are, um, you know, like, brevity is the soul of wit, like Oscar Wilde says, so like their brief punchy thoughts that express a lot with very little. And the whole article is a 14 minute read, but it's just full of those punchy thoughts. You know what I mean? And I feel like it makes it more easy to consume too, especially in today's world where the short form is more favored, I guess, you know?DJ Psyched  18:52  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  18:54  And that's why I like to write more like just punchy, punchy sentences, rather than long form paragraphs. But I don't want to pigeonhole myself into that kind of writing either. I do write long paragraphs too. It's just depends on the article and wherever the article needs. And whatever the individual each individual paragraph needs, right? Like to bring it back to the topic though. Writing is just about reflection and artistic expression to me, personal reflection, introspection. And yeah, and then expression, reflection and expression. That's my answer.DJ Psyched  19:41  Yeah, and, I mean, I think that's like what a lot of like art is, is like expression and reflection. So is writing one of like you said, it's like one of your big things, what made  writing so specifically, a thing to focus on. I know you do a lot of things, but you do, you were very passionate. You were very passionate about talking about writing. So I'm wondering, what is it specifically about writing that entices you. And what maybe inspired you to choose writing is something to really focus on?Jonah Angeles  20:13  Um, that's a good question. I've always been a big reader, I've always loved reading. It's one of my first loves my mom used to read to me, and instilled this love of prose and literature, even poetry. But it was more so like books, like storybooks. And works like Harry Potter. Or, you know, Lemony Snickett's a series of unfortunate events.DJ Psyched  20:42  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  20:43  Or, you know, she used to, well, specifically, Harry Potter and children's books like that, like, my mom used to read that to me when I was young. And I just always appreciated the written word. Um, and I've always just wanted to myself write magic into it, like, write like magical words, you know, there's, there's magicto  language, there's like, when you come across a passage that really hits you, there's magic there, you know, that, like a passage, that gives you chills, or this feeling that you just read something that was true, or something that was really resonated, something that really resonated with you,  Or even something that rocks your world, you know, that I get those feelings when I read, like, just really good writing. And I want to I want to be, I want to be responsible for that feeling for invoking that feeling in people. Yeah, I don't know how else to describe it. And I don't know what else to say about that. Because it's, it's very intuitive to me. It's just, it's just in my nature to write. And I guess, yeah. I've always been immersed in literature and stories. And, you know, as much as I love movies, like stories are rooted in oral tradition, right and like, language, stories are rooted in in verbal communication, or just linguistic communication. And yeah, I love telling stories. And making people feel things. Yeah.DJ Psyched  23:03  Definitely. And I think that that is something I think a lot of a lot of writers can say is that it kind of just comes naturally after a while, especially when you have a love for reading originally. So one thing so that part I think, comes naturally to a lot of people too. And one thing I find interesting because when I, when we first like, I don't know, online met, I guess you say when when we met through Reddit and like, ended up like doing these podcasts together. I thought your concept was really interesting and pretty, like relatable. The Overthinker's Anonymous thing, just kind of letting yourself talk about whatever you want kind of making a free flow space. And I see that in your writing you also don't hold yourself back, which was something I really resonated with because like, I agree that having like a niche is really important for a lot of creators, but I personally have a hard time with that too. That's why I create so many different kinds of content. So how how did you go about like, was it easy and natural for you to get that kind of, I guess, concept flowing? Like, was it just like oh, yeah, if I'm going to make something clearly it's going to be very free like this, it's going to be whatever topic I want or did it take you a while to find yourself to where you are now like to come up with the podcast? Do names and stuff come easily to you? Or was this something that you tweaked over time?Jonah Angeles  24:23   Hmm. I love how you shovel on these, you pile on these questions and just spark up these these networks of thought these neural networks in my mind. And now I'm like, experiencing analysis paralysis of where where I'm going to go. This is kind of, this is very on brand for me as an over thinker to just not know where to take the conversation next. But um, can you can you rephrase the question?DJ Psyched  24:59  Yeah, definitely. So, as far as being a creater goes, I think a lot of people yeah, tend to have, do you got an answer? Or do you want me to try and explain it?Jonah Angeles  25:08  Um, I, I feel like it, it's always it has always come naturally to me. Like, just creating just, and not limiting myself to one thing. In terms of names, I feel like names come naturally too, I feel like I just discover my process or my process is one of discovery. I, I tend to find the words, as I write them. And I tend to find stories as I write them, I tend to discover a podcast as I record it, I don't have a set plan, I'm more of a gardener than an architect in terms of like that classic distinction that writers make between like plotting a story and, like, plotting it from, like making blueprints, of where a story is going to go or a roadmap, as opposed to being a gardener and just planting seeds and seeing what sprouts. That's not to say that I don't like planning though I do like to plan, but not to the point where it restricts me because like you said, I, I don't really want to carve out a niche. Because that would feel too restrictive. And I personally just, I personally just want to discover things as they as they happen. Like, it's, it's the spontaneous side of me wanting to, I guess, develop works, without imposing too much expectation, or too much of my desires of what I want a work to be. Because with with my novel, for example, with my medium articles, I might have an idea. But you know, that idea might change or transform or evolve into something else entirely. And I'm not going to stop it from doing that. I like to just, again, discover what a thing is, or what a thing wants to be, it sounds strange, because it's almost like I'm treating it like a living being separate from myself. But to me, that's kind of what it is, on some level. It's kind of like, a child, you know, like, that I'm raising, I'm not going to impose too much of my own expectations on a piece of writing, or on a on a work of a piece of visual art. I'm going to help it develop into what it is, if that makes sense. DJ Psyched  27:57  Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense. How long, I should have asked this question earlier, actually, how long have you been writing? And on top of that, just so it's not too complicated how long have you been writing? And since you started writing, has there, has there been any big things that you've learned maybe about yourself, or about the craft or anything that maybe you wish you knew back when you started?Jonah Angeles  28:21  Um, I've been writing since I was very young. I guess I've been writing my whole life. I, to be honest with you, because like, as I said, my mom read to me when I was younger, and she'd also write down stories that I tell I orally, just say stories. They'd come to my head, and she'd write them down for me. And we staple them together in little books. And I think it's so awesome but once I was able to start writing, I would do that myself, I just write I'd staple these pages together and write stories. I think I might have been like three or four years old at that time, or whenever, whenever, whatever age it was, where I was capable of writing stuff down with a pen or a pencil. That's when I first started writing stories. But um, so yeah, when I say my whole life, I don't know, I've always I've always been a storyteller. And yeah, I've always done that. For as long as I can remember, I've always written short stories. I, I know in junior high, I developed an obsession with reading short stories, and publishing them online for online communities. I really just grew up in the perfect time to be a writer, you know, I am a child of the internet age, I was born in the 90s so you know, I kind of grew up on the internet, as a lot of people have in this day and age, but I found a writing community, or writing website called Storywrite, I don't know if they still exist, but they were kind of like wattpad before wattpad is I think, Wattpad is like the big, big name now in the community, Like a community based, an online community based on sharing your writing, I might be wrong. There might be another one, out there other than, like, you know, medium and in terms of short stories, like, I feel like wattpad's the main one, am I wrong? I think,DJ Psyched  30:40  No, I think wattpad is the main one.Jonah Angeles  30:42  that's the name that comes to mind when you think of like sharing short stories online, right?DJ Psyched  30:46  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  30:46  I used to write for wattpad, too, when wattpad got big. And, yeah, and I've always just been a writer, and did I answer all of your questions?DJ Psyched  31:00  Well, the the part that I'd really like to focus on at the end of this podcast is kind of what have you learned? Like, is there any lessons anything big that stood out to you?Jonah Angeles  31:09  Okay, and if there's anything that I wish I would have known,DJ Psyched  31:13  yeah.Jonah Angeles  31:14  in the past, um, honestly, I wish I would have implemented a structure like made  more time for writing way back when. But I don't know, it's, it's not that big of a deal now. Because like, I do make time for writing. Now I do sometimes, well, I try to make an effort to, you know, carve out some time in my day for writing. But back, then I didn't have a routine, I didn't have any notion of setting aside time, I guess well, back then at that same time back then I did have more time to write. So it's kind of a moot point at this point. To say that I wanted, I should have made more time for writing when I did have a lot of time for writing and I did spend a lot of time writing, but maybe more of, like, I guess, for people listening to this, who want to get into writing, I think having a routine and carving out time to write, rather than just writing when you feel like writing, which is what I've always done for most of my life, up until recently. Up until the past few years. For me personally, as a writer, it really helps to have time, time out of your day, dedicated just to writing. I also feel the best times to write are, and this is just my personal preference is either when I wake up, or when I'm about to go to bed. So either really early in the morning, or really late at night, because that's when the ideas are more accessible, in my opinion, or even after I meditate. If I could go back in time, I taught myself to meditate more. And try to find ideas through that through meditation, because that silence is the default mode network, right? It takes you out of the default mode network of your everyday mundane way of thinking, and, you know, puts you in a state where you're more open and more, I guess, you attract more ideas. Because I, to bring it back to the idea that these works are kind of like separate beings from you, like I believe I do is are also alive in a sense. And doing things that take you out of your default mode network, like meditation, or even going for a walk, or anything that puts you in a flow state will put you in a mindset for finding fishing out these novel ideas, so to speak.DJ Psyched  34:11  Yeah, that's actually a really good point that you bring up having one like a routine for writing. I think that's something that a lot of people lack, including myself, I definitely have been trying to etch in more writing time because I do think that I used to do the same thing. And I still do a lot of the times like I just write whenever I'm just in the mood, but that kind of can sometimes leave me with periods of time where I'm not writing. And I completely agree on the walking thing. That's actually one of I think, not just walking but finding that time to mentally just be in the writing or just be with yourself and just being out of the chaos of the world because I find that the times that is hardest to write is like during the day like you're completely right if you write during the day, you have all These worries in your head, you got work to think about, there's all there's always chores to do around the house. And it's just there's too much going on. And it's hard to like writing is something you have to be in, you have to be very present in the moment. You can't write and multitask, you can't write when there's other things you're thinking about doing. It has to be in that moment, just writing. And I think, like you said, like a flow state. I think writing is one of the easiest ways to get into a flow state. Because I find that once I actually get myself down, and I start typing out, everything else, it doesn't matter for those few minutes.Jonah Angeles  35:34  Yeah, yeah, it's, it's like, you also have to just let yourself go, you just have to let go. That's a big part of the process is not rereading what you just wrote, and then judging it, because that's something I tend to do, too, is having, like typing out a paragraph and then rereading it, and thinking, Oh, that sounds stupid, why'd I write that? And it's better to just let yourself write until, until you run out of words. And then also, don't judge yourself too harshly for what you wrote. Because it's not like, every word you write, or every sentence you write is going to be gold. That that has, that takes a process to, in order to make something that's in order to make gold when it comes to writing it. It takes a lot of time and effort and energy. But I guess, part of the whole letting yourself go thing is also that ties into the whole discovery aspect of my process is just exploring it, there's an exploratory aspect to that. And just, you know, finding, finding ideas, because they're out there, you know.DJ Psyched  36:56  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  36:56  And, and not criticizing them too much. Because that's when you're overthinking that's that's when the thinking too much. happens when you when you think too much you inhibit yourself from creating gold. It's it's alchemy, really, you know, I guess that's what writing is to me. So I should have said that earlier because that's more dramatic and more, more poetic is to call writing alchemy. DJ Psyched  37:21  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  37:22  Because Yeah, you're, you're really creating gold out of like, the building blocks of reality, which is language.DJ Psyched  37:29  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  37:31  or information. Yeah. DJ Psyched  37:36  Sorry, I just lost my thought.Jonah Angeles  37:38  That's okay.DJ Psyched  37:42  What were you saying? Because I think I can find it again.Jonah Angeles  37:45  Oh, let's find this thought this runaway away thought. alchemy, gold, building blocks of reality, this is very philosophical and metaphysical to say.DJ Psyched  38:01  yeah, what I was gonna say was that, it pertains to something you said a while ago, is like not controlling what you do, but kind of letting it be what it wants to be. I think that the importance to me at least of meditating, or being in a very calm and clear state, when it when creating anything, but especially with writing is that usually, I'll have an idea, right? Just a small idea, a very small idea when I go into writing, I usually don't even try to like have a set title when I start writing. Because if I already deem, what the work is going to be, it's going to sound to forced, what I try to do is just like, have the vague thought, like, what is it that I'm trying to say here? What is it that I'm trying to write, and just start writing and usually, like, I'd say, 99% of the time, when I just let myself write, based on one thought, it'll come out completely different than I envisioned it when I started writing. And it's whenever I try to make a writing too specific like over plan it, that it doesn't end up sounding good to me, or it doesn't end up feeling real. Like it has to be like, when I'm sitting there writing, I'm in such a clear state, and I just let it be, or else I feel like, it just becomes obvious that I overthought the whole piece and the the point, usually, I when I say a concept, I mean, I have just a vague concept. As I'm writing. The epiphany happens, and you can almost see it in my writing that moment where I realized what the point is, because I don't have a word limit or anything. It's not like I ever write and I'm like, Okay, I need to write this many words. I'm just like, I need to write until I get whatever the point is. And I don't know what the point is usually when I start something, but by the end of it, I'm like, Okay, I understand the point. Now my readers can understand the point. This is where it finishes. Do you have any kind of like process like that for your writing that you do or is free handing, like a big part of your process too?Jonah Angeles  39:53  Yeah, definitely. I do like to have titles and overarching concepts and basic direction, a  single direction, at least, or maybe a, let's say, let's say I'm going down a highway. I'd like to be going north, rather than going like North and then going trying West, like I like to stay in one direction and see where that takes me. DJ Psyched  40:22  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  40:24  Or I just switched lanes and try another, try another direction, or switch switch highways maybe. Or this is this whole thing this whole metaphor is infinite. There's so many places you can, you can take your writing and it helps to have structure and constraints. I took a writing class in university, one of my favorite writing classes, actually called story games. And I was gonna shout out my professor Thomas warden. He's dope from the University of Alberta. Yeah, I was a creative writing minor, by the way. Just thought I dropped that piece of information for the listeners. Yeah. Sorry, for the big for the long pause. I'm realizing that your listeners don't know a thing about me. So yeah, I graduated from University of Florida with a psych degree, major in psych and minor in creative writing. And I took a class called story games. And that class is all about writing within constraints, and within certain sets of rules. So what was the name of the, the the Ulipo? Hold on the Ulipo I think I'm butchering the pronunciation, but it's a it was a, this was a gathering of French speaking writers. In a university. I don't know if they were, I don't know if they were they were based but um, Oh, is it the college? The pata physic, it's a French college, it was a subcommittee called Ulipo. Kind of like a student group, I guess. And they practice writing within constraints and different structures and just ways, ways in which you can, like, I guess, restrict yourself as a writer, in order to create because if you if you have no restrictions, and you're just totally free to write about whatever you want, it can be difficult to settle in on or to hone in on on a one overarching theme or idea or direction or point. But if you have, if you write within a certain set of rules, or a certain structure or a certain technique, maybe like to give you an example. Maybe maybe you want to write from the perspective of,  of an animal, or, you know, first person like you, as a writer, you have certain narrative modes, right and points of view, you can view those as constraints. But like, you can even take it a step further by, you know, writing of a constraint, they're constraints. Here, I'm looking on the Wikipedia page, s plus seven or sometimes called n plus seven. So you replace every noun in the text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. So for example, call me Ishmael, some years ago, becomes call me Islander, some yeggs ago. Y E G G S. Interesting. So this is obviously like a game you can play with your writing. But that can lead into maybe a new story idea, or you know what I mean? There's also, one of the techniques I used was using tarot cards to plot out a story. And you don't have to, like, necessarily write about save. Maybe you drew, you know, seven of pentacles. You don't have to write about like Pentacles or seven. You can maybe write about a night or a character who found like, seven, sometimes seven items or like seven macguffins. And went to, I don't know, a hotel, or what, a space station or I don't know you can there's so many sources of information around you. You know what I mean? And I guess one of the if you're to take away any, anything from this rambling it's that ideas are all around us. And if you restrict yourself with certain rules, you're able to better allow those ideas to flourish maybe. Does that make sense?DJ Psyched  45:26  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  45:28   Yeah, please cut that. Please edit that down. Totally, totally lost my train of thought as I was speaking. And yeah, but it's hard to explain without concrete examples. But like, even even rhymes, rhymes are a form of constraint. And you can choose a certain rhyming pattern or even like Shakespeare's use of what's it called, Iambic parameter. That's another example of a constraint about what you said about titles, I think titles are a good way to add limitations to what you want to write. And I guess, there could be a delicate balance there of like, not restricting yourself too much with a title because the title is obviously going to influence what you're writing about. And I, I come from, like, I guess where we differ, I come from the standpoint of liking to work with titles and finding the story from the title. But at the same time, I do like the other way around to where you don't have a title and you find the title after you write the piece. Yeah. But if I'm doing it the first way, where I have a title, and I'm finding the piece with the title in mind, that title isn't concrete, it can be subject to change, too.DJ Psyched  47:03  Yeah. And, and that's kind of what I meant more. So it's not like I don't ever have any title when I start writing. But whenever I write, I put a title down that I know I'm not going to keep because I think the title is going to be influenced by what ends up happening in this, in whatever I'm writing, because there have been times where I like I have a title, and then the concept is in it. And when I finish, either there's some phrase that really stands out to me in it, or some concept that really pushes through and I'm like, okay, the title will reflect the piece better if I change the title at that point. So I understand what you're saying. Because I mean, if I were to just sit there and write and just be like freehand absolutely no concept, I think none of the blog posts, I make whatever makes sense. But having like, certain limitations, and I think that's where the concept of like a niche or like, for me, I guess I like to think of it as, like a fluid genre when I write, because there are like, certain topics that I like to speak on. Like, I think, for me, personally, nonfiction is a big thing, because I'd like talking about growth and topics in life. But I think what's what's important to me is not to restrict myself from allowing myself to bring other things in. Because I think, while having one concept is, is vital, honestly, for writing, because if you go too many places, your piece isn't going to make sense. And it's going to be harder to enjoy while reading it. There's got to be like that one central theme. But what I like to think of it as if we're going to use the highway analogy is like, you've got a highway you're riding on, but you still want like pretty scenery around that highway.Jonah Angeles  48:36  Yeah. True. I like that. I like that. And you want you want the ride to be exciting. Yeah, to and you don't want it to be predictable.DJ Psyched  48:49  Yeah, and I think like with this analogy, to me, the most essential thing is that one, the story starts somewhere, right? You got to get in the car at some point and then go down the highway and there's got to be a destination because I think the biggest problem I had when I first started writing is that I never really stopped the car anywhere. It's just like, the highway ended and the car never stopped. So it feels like the ride has to stop you know, like it doesn't make sense to go on a road trip with no end.Jonah Angeles  49:16  Right. Makes sense. Yeah, I really like that. DJ Psyched  49:23  So I guess my last big question that I want for you is do you have any like Golden Nugget I guess something vital you'd want people to take away from this. Maybe something about you or something about writing you know, I'm gonna give you free rein to go wherever you want with this.Jonah Angeles  49:44  Okay, well, as I mentioned, I do want to bring up that no death no fear book by Thich Naht HanhDJ Psyched  49:51  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  49:53  Who is a famous for writing about meditation and Zen and Buddhism. And, yeah, I think one of the passages I was reading, right before this interview was how, in order for certain flowers to blossom, during the season, the conditions had to be right. And that's kind of like a metaphor for a lot of things to me, not just life. But for writing, like you got to have, the conditions have to be right. And there's a lot that you can control in relation to that in relation to putting yourself in the right writing mindset, or, you know, doing what you can in order to arrange the conditions in order to make the stars align, so that your writing can be it's best, I guess, to put out your best work, and I think what I've learned is the best writing. Or the best times, for me to write is when I'm actively living my life. And I know it's hard to live your life, quote, unquote, during a pandemic, but for me, the the right conditions of writing is for when I'm, you know, live having experiences that inspire me, or talking to people that inspire me, or going places that, you know, challenged my, my everyday perceptions, or my everyday, my default mode network that, you know, places that put me in a flow state places that show me new things that give me new experiences. I don't know when I'm, when I'm having the time of my life, when I'm falling in love, or when I'm getting my heart broken. You know, that's when I get a lot of really good material. For good art, is when I'm, you know, living my life, I guess it's the best way for me to put it. It's the most general way for me to put it and I know it's very abstract. ButDJ Psyched  52:11  yeah,Jonah Angeles  52:11  that's, that's when the right conditions are, one of the right conditions for good writing. and good material is when I'm living my life, and I'm not holding myself back from living. I have to gain experiences in order to transmit those experiences into my work. Because if I'm just sitting on my ass, like in my room, or in my workspace, trying to come up with ideas, staring at a blank page. Well, you know, there's only so much I can pull from if I'm not living my life, you know what I mean?DJ Psyched  52:47  Yeah, I completely, completely agree. I think that is where all the best art comes from, when you're living, truly living and experiencing and making the art afterwards. You know, like, letting that be a guide for creating because I mean, art is a reflection of life, life is a reflection of art, yada, yada, but, but I think it's important to live and experience. I think that's where the best art comes from, I think it'd be impossible, honestly, in my opinion, to create if there wasn't anything you're going through, because I mean, everything I create, and I think any creator who's doing it because they love it, and is not doing it as a motivation of money or something. The reason you do it is because you're you want to create something relevant, something that you can relate to something other people can relate to. And you can only make something relevant if you're living.Jonah Angeles  53:39  Yeah, the human experience, right? We're all pulling from the human experience. Assuming that you're human and listening to this, if you're an animal or an alien, I guess you can write about the animal or the alien experience, too. But um, yeah, like, in order to, to plant seeds in your writing, you need to have the seeds planted in you. Does that make sense? That, it's kind of weird metaphor.DJ Psyched  54:05  Yeah,Jonah Angeles  54:06  I have the image of like, flowers sprouting up for my ears. And, you know, my, my nostrils and whatever orifice you want to name put. DJ Psyched  54:17  That would make a cool photo. Jonah Angeles  54:19  That'd be an interesting photo. Yeah, that's a good idea. I have to write that down for later. But yeah, in order to write about life, you had to live your life. Because that's what's interesting. That's what's that's what people like to read is, you know, they like to see themselves. People like to see themselves in what they read in the characters that they read. Or they like to relate to what they read. And I mean, or I do personally. DJ Psyched  54:51  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  54:53  That's where I, where I experienced firsthand is when I read something that resonates with me that I feel like I have experienced that too. Or I feel like I can put myself in this character's shoes or this narrator shoes and really understand what they meant, or what what the writer meant when they wrote that thing. Because a lot of the time, like good writing speaks about things that are universal, or things that are commonly experienced by humans. And as far as I know, it's just us humans who make literature, but maybe I'm being ignorant.DJ Psyched  55:33  Completely agree. Well, yeah. Thank you for all of that. Jonah Angeles  55:40  Yeah, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome.DJ Psyched  55:43  For Sure.Jonah Angeles  55:43  Thank you. Thank you for having me. And thank you for sharing your that we share too.DJ Psyched  55:53  All right. Well, yeah, I guess our main following the, I guess, metaphor of the podcast we did on your page, which I want to let you get, have a moment if you'd like to just shout out that podcast again. So everyone knows where they can find you after this?Jonah Angeles  56:09  Yeah, that podcast is called Overthinker's Anonymous. It's available on Spotify and anchor and wherever you get your podcasts, I think, except for except for Apple podcasts, but I could be wrong. I think it might actually be on Apple podcast. just haven't haven't checked. Yeah, don't quote me on that. Yeah.DJ Psyched  56:32  All right. Well, thank you again for being on again. And stay psychedJonah Angeles  56:39  Stay psyched. DJ Psyched  56:40  Thank you so much for listening. The intro and outro beat us on this podcast was made by my friend and producer PME. He's super talented, so make sure to check him out. His links are always in the description. And as always, let me know what you're getting psyched about. I do this podcast because I think getting psyched is done best when we do it together. So please let me know and until next time, stay psyched.

We are at Hometown dates already and we meet the families of Michelle, Rachel, Bri and Serena. And as expected, the parents had some tough questions for Matt! Did anyone cave under the pressure? Plus, one of the women falls HARD for Matt in an unplanned way! We discuss that and who the final 3 are along with our predictions of who the final 2 will be on this Leslie Lois - Unfiltered podcast. Let us know who your picks are for final 2 and who do you want to see as the next Bachelorette! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

I just moved and have been taking in how different this new place is. The good, the bad, and everything in between… and the little things that I'm falling in love with. Sometimes it takes a change, a transition, to give us that fresh perspective we need to motivate our work and keep on going. We may need another person's eyes to help us see the little things we're missing. Having a new view can give you just the shift you need to enliven your work or life.   Music, production, and editing by Greg Best.

On this episode of Back to Reality, Lily and Brandon review the second episode of the Bachelor's Listen to Your Heart, breaking down all of the drama that took place. They talk about the difference between "physical cheating" and "emotional cheating," and what it means to say "I'm falling in love with you." Tune in to also hear their opinions on the love triangles (or rectangles) in the house, and which of the couples they see making it all the way to the end. Finally, Lily and Brandon hand out their roses for the night. Will they accept? Make sure to follow @backtorealitypodcast on Instagram and @backto_reality on Twitter! Intro and Outro: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jeff Altstadter USGA Director, Open Championships Public Relations joins the Work in Sports podcast!Hi everybody I'm Brian Clapp Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the Work in Sports podcast.You were probably wondering this morning, it's the day after Christmas will Brian publish a podcast?Alright you probably weren't wondering that.But I figure many of you will be travelling to visit family, maybe meeting your significant others parents for the first time, maybe you are stuck in a car with your racist grandmother for a few hours… and what better way to spend the time than by calming your nerves and centering yourself with the peaceful sounds of my voice.Yes I am overvaluing my impact on your life… but it's Christmas, I'm having fun.As you listen to this, I am likely putting together one of the myriad gifts for my kids. Very excited that we got a family ping pong table and if I am not putting together gifts right now, I am likely crushing my 7-year old with some overhand smashes. Take that!More importantly the learning never stops. We're on episode one hundred and forty something and I don't know about you but I keep learning more and more from each interview I conduct. There is so much knowledge to gain, and I promise you the more and more you listen, the more confident and qualified you will become.You'll have a plan for your future and ways to make it a reality and I think that is so important.For those of you who have also been joining is on the Facebook live sessions – game on! I'm falling in love with these things so we will be keeping it up. Bring your questions each Thursday at 7:30pm EST on our Work in Sports facebook page for an engaged and enthusiastic live session!As you've probably recognized December has been a month of greatest hits, some of the best episodes of 2018 brought back to life for all of you new to the show who maybe haven't dug that deep into the archives.In January we'll be hitting it hard with some incredible interviews I have lined up:Kurt Svoboda University of Michigan Associate Athletic DirectorMailynh Vu Cleveland Indians Assistant Director of Talent AcquisitionMelanie Newman – broadcaster with the Frisco RoughRiders and one of five women in the country professionally calling play-by-play in professional baseball Tiara Brown – Charlotte Hornets manager of Corporate Social ResponsibilityIan Graham, San Diego Padres Human ResourcesVincent Pierson, Minor League Baseball Director of Diversity and InclusionLewie Pollis, Philadelphia Phillies Director of Research and AnalyticsLee De Leon – Purdue Executive Sr Associate Athletic DirectorI mean that's a bang up list!  As we finish out 2018 – I'm bringing back my interview with Jeff Altstadter, USGA Director, Open Championships, Public Relations. Jeff has worked in PR for the Phoenix Coyotes and New Jersey Devils…and since 2012 he's been the lead guy with the USGA.Great interview, very informative – listen in.Happy holidays everyone – see you in 2019!

It's a pleasure to welcome a man known by a single name: Kostas. A native of Greece, he moved to the United States when he was 7 years old. Kostas is a singer-songwriter and has been writing songs for 40 years. Although h released an album entitled XS in Moderation on Liberty Records, he's most known for the songs he wrote recorded by other artists.His first #1 hit song was “Timber, I'm Falling in Love” recorded by Patti Loveless which was also her first #1. He co-wrote a number of songs recorded by Dwight Yoakam such as "Ain't that Lonely Yet" and co-wrote songs with Yoakam. A diverse number of recording artists have cut Kostas songs including Etta James, Travis Tritt, Martina McBride, Marty Stuart, Trisha Yearwood, George Strait and others. It's an honor to present a rare interview with Kostas and we hope this isn't his only visit on The Paul Leslie Hour. Support The Paul Leslie Hour by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-paul-leslie-hour

S14 E6 Week 6: Virginia is for Lovers & Meltdowns   On this episode, we're discussing week 6 of #TheBachelorette while chatting about Leo's sleeper potential & why he's been purposely buried by production (do you see him making hometowns?), when the unbuttoned dress shirt look goes too far, what "I'm falling in love with you" really means, how to lose a debate, predictions regarding Colton & Becca's future, a fresh perspective on Jordan's portrayal this season via the Citrus County Chronicle, Chris's remarkable inability to "read the room", vampires getting down at goth parties, Christen Whitney's runner-up performance on 'The Proposal' & much more. Connor & Chris, we'll see you fellas in Paradise! #Happy4thOfJuly   Support the podcast & check out our new website @ www.eandgpodcast.com   Our show is made possible because of our listeners & by far, the best way to support us (no matter how much you give) is by setting up a monthly donation through PayPal. On our website, there are also options to make a one-time contribution & ultimately, every dollar received will go towards our goal of doing ‘The E & G Podcast' full-time. Thank you for helping us transform this dream into a reality!   Setup your monthly donation or make a one-time contribution through Venmo @ http://www.eandgpodcast.com/support   Follow & tag us on social media @eandgpodcast @geoffkeith & @iangulbransen   Email us questions & feedback @ eandgpodcast@gmail.com   Leave us a voicemail on the E & G hotline @ (818) 853-2055   Listen to an Audible book for free! Thanks to our friends over at Audible (an Amazon company) we're excited to offer listeners 30 days of ad-free membership, plus a FREE audiobook that's yours to keep regardless of whether you continue your trial. Just be sure to use the following link when signing up @ http://www.audibletrial.com/eandg   Finally, be sure to use promo code ‘EANDG' to receive an exclusive discount on all merchandise, thanks to our awesome sponsors: 10%-off @ www.ForTheBiteReasons.com, 10%-off @ www.ClothingByOWL.com & 20%-off @ www.PuppiesMakeMeHappy.com

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Aprillian, Leeta and Rogueslayer with new chatroom monitor Marzana and Surprise Host iscuss another week of playing World of Warcraft, Blizzard's great MMORPG. With segments by Grand Nagus and Big G. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a WoW Pet or an Authenticator.http://ctrlaltwow.blogspot.com/2015/06/ctrl-alt-wow-episode-427-help-me-im.htmlListener contributions are awesome and welcomed. Contest Ongoing send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play WoW, either as an altaholic or dealing with it in your family life to being placed in a drawing for a Blizzard pet or a physical authenticator.