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Today's poem is I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough.The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We'll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we're going back into the archive to revisit Ada Limón's time as host. Today's episode was originally released on January 31, 2022. In this episode, former host Ada Limón writes… “One of my favorite mysteries of the universe is what turns us on and why? When I talk with anyone about crushes and sensual pleasures and desires, what always impresses me is that everyone is different. We desire different things. Different attributes turn us on and make us ready to rip our clothes off and run through the streets. It makes sense that that's the case. Everyone is so unique. Every crush is so unique. In today's irreverent poem, we see an exploration of what the speaker finds sexy. It blooms into a whole new imaginary world, all in the service of desire.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

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这期节目中集结了诸多我喜欢的元素：由 Jamie xx 新作启发组成开篇的 mini set；一伙爵士音乐人（Jeremiah Chiu 和 Anna Butterss 领衔）组成新的即兴小组；久未见的音乐好友鱼翅发来留言，介绍新 mixtape 并问候《周末变奏》的听友；还有忙碌的工作间隙，与喜欢的音乐人 Luna Li 进行的电话采访：她的第二张专辑《When a Thought Grows Wings》于8月底面世，非常适合这渐浓的秋意。

I Imagine, Rent Airline Clothes, Pray For Neighborhood, BONUS CONTENT: UFOs; Quotes: “Evil is getting older and bolder.” “Narcissism has a really hard time not showing off.” “It's nice to put yourself in a more humble space.”

I don't know if I've ever read a book quite like John Blake's "More than I Imagine."The subtitle is: "What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew"John is a senior writer at CNN. In this conversation, John and I talk about:his very difficult childhood growing up in West Baltimore in the 60's and 70'show he grew up disliking white people even though his mother was white, in part because he was told after his mom disappeared that her family disliked black peoplehow meeting his mother at age 17 for the first time began to broaden his understanding of racial differencehis view that facts don't change people, relationships dothe point that an emphasis on relationships does not mean policy changes aren't necessary, or that everything can be fixed through relationships or interpersonal kindnesshis wild ghost storyhis roller coaster faith journey, and how interracial churches were the demonstration of faith's reality he needed to believe in Christianityhow there was a "golden age" of racial integration in America's schools from the early 70's to the late 80's, but how America believed a lie that it wasn't working and how we have now resegregated to 1968 levels, much of that due to our own choiceshow he believes racial integration is crucial to how our country grows stronger, and how our pulling apart and into racial segregation is causing many of our problemsThis book is a great, great read. John is a great writer, and his story is incredibly personal and well told. It's riveting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Series 2 Episode 13 of The Penteract Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin.In this episode, Anthony Etherin and Teo Eve discuss the history of the alphabet. Topics include hieroglyphs and the rebus principle; the evolution of letterforms; runes and lost letters; the impact of the printing press and of digital media; and the alphabet's future.Also discussed are Teo's Penteract Press books, The Ox House and I Imagine an Image (coming 2024), as well as their upcoming Beir Bua Press book On Shaving (March 2023). Purchase A is for Ox by Lyn Davies (Folio Society, 2006) here.  Follow this podcast on Twitter and discover more about Penteract Press by visiting its website and its Twitter.Support the show

Laurel Handfield, author and founder of Happy Island Press, has written over 50 children's stories including  My Pretty and I Imagine. As a young black girl growing up in America in the 70s and 80s, Laurel struggled with self-esteem because all of the pretty girls had light skin, blue eyes and looked different from her, which created deep-rooted insecurity. In this episode, Lindsey and Laurel discuss meaningful and actionable ways that we can help our children work through the insecurities that they face with presence, love, and intentionality in the conversations and actions we portray. Follow along with Laurel on Instagram @happyislandpress Follow along with Lindsey on IG @livingeasywithlindsey

IMAGINE…. yourself fulfilled because all your wishes and dreams came true. All the ones you made on a twinkling star when the sky was dark and impossibilities were few. IMAGINE…. all of your passions aimed at the highest twinkling star above pulling your passion from the deep within you from the seed called love. With eyes closed tightly yearning to be heard you know that an innocent child's prayer flies higher than the birds......... That is a picture painted by every child. Do you remember when your dreams were full of hope and doubt was a fairy-tale too wild to imagine? The world would be different if God only answered the prayers that were made before we were twelve. Think about what the world would look like if those dreams were never shelved. Presents would decorate every child's lap while stepping stones to somewhere over the rainbow would adorn the sky while animals would be happily watching close by. Peace would be a must everywhere in the world and we would all be best friends every boy and every girl. The streets would be paved with cotton so soft that when we got tired we could fall asleep right on the spot. Playing in the park would be mandatory every day and little children would never get lost because angels would help them find their way. On every street corner there would be dealers but, in a different way; marbles for jelly bean and pretzel stick after a long day of play. How so very different the world would be if God only answered our prayers before we forgot how to climb that old oak tree. Everyone would be rich in spirit and wealthy and no one would be alone, unhappy, sad or by themselves. And all colors of the world would unite as brother and sister hand and hand. Whenever the world's children spoke in any language we would all understand by God's grace. Answering every child's call because we are all a part of the human race,. The truth would be known beyond the fog, that we are all created in love and there is only one true God. But, the reality is that our prayers change nearly every day and perhaps God likes it this way. But, I do miss the beauty of innocence on display whenever a child kneels to wish and pray. I IMAGINE the world would be a much more beautiful place if we continued that way. To dream and pray like a child, back in the day. for more check bluntreflections.com

Today's poem is I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough.

00:00.00 mikebledsoe All right welcome to Monday morning with Mike and max Today we're gonna be talking about education and you know what this is a bit of a taboo subject because when I get in the conversations with the average. Person and I make certain comments about the education system a lot of people get very protective of it and they they get a little little scared around it and they want to reject things and and 1 of the things that I have to remember in those conversations is that. I am standing from a perspective that's very different than the perspective that they're holding and when that's the case we really need to stare step people into the conversation versus just saying well that's stupid so max and I are going to take a ah. 00:47.90 Max Shank KA. 00:54.75 mikebledsoe Stab at the conversation of Education. Hopefully we can help ah expand people's ideas about this and maybe change perspectives and maybe you're listening and you share the same perspective and we're able to help you put it into words more clearly so that you can share with others. As well and this was this conversation was inspired by the show we did last week where max was talking about how he would do things different with Education. So We decided to go deeper with it. Good to have you max. 01:32.76 Max Shank It's great to be here Mike I think what I'd like to start off by saying is that there is a monumental difference between school and education education is the process of learning. Which is essentially like cheating. That's how humans have been able to become so dominant because we've been able to ah compound our acquired knowledge intergenerationally over long term I think schooling. Especially public schooling and even university has been a colossal failure in almost every way does more harm than good and I think the reason that people get so triggered and defensive when you make a comment like that is because they don't want to feel. Silly for having wasted their time having gone through that system themselves and especially if they have kids that they have put through that system. They don't want to feel like they have abused their children which they probably have so those are the 2 main reasons that people get charged up. When you make a comment like school is probably 5% efficient use of time. There are a few things that are useful about school but most of it is done in such a destructive manner for both the body and mind of a child. So those are the reasons that people get triggered schooling itself is a colossal failure education is the most powerful tool you have to increase your leverage which is going to allow you to have a greater impact in life with lower effort or less work There's a great. Mark Twain quote that says I never let schooling interfere with my education and I think that describes perfectly what we're talking about so there's a big big distinction big difference between school and education. So. Ultimately, it is your responsibility to educate yourself. It is your responsibility to educate your kids and then it is their responsibility to educate themselves beyond that and I think tying into our concept of freedom and personal responsibility. That's. 1 of the biggest errors is when you outsource your education you are priming yourself for propaganda and brainwashing and just essentially you end up in obedience school is what it becomes rather than an actual education that allows you to be more. 04:19.91 Max Shank Self-reliant and contribute in a constructive way. 04:24.29 mikebledsoe Yeah, when I think about I mean there's a few other distinctions to make here. So the distinction between education schooling you've made well another one that um stands out to me is Dr Andy Galpin he he always says that. Know the difference between education and training and the what he witnesses is the average student walking through the door at cal state is expecting training from a college university whose job is to educate. 05:00.43 Max Shank A. 05:01.88 mikebledsoe And and the point of education especially like a liberal Arts education is to is this is this is the way it was set up is that the wealthy would send their kids here so they could broaden their horizons. They could broaden their their scope of knowledge into many different areas. And then after they attended University They then entered the workplace and they were able able to enter the workplace being more cultured having more total information but not necessarily going to school unless you're going to become a doctor or lawyer or or something like that. Ah. 05:37.18 Max Shank No. 05:39.13 mikebledsoe A lot of so a lot of people have basically ah in in regard to college. They've confused education with training and it's not training and so some of these expectations around. Oh I'm going to go to college and then I'm going to get a job that's paying me close to 6 figures. 05:46.42 Max Shank H. 05:58.46 mikebledsoe You have 0 training All you have is education and so it's ah the the learning is going to happen when you start training or when you start actually doing so I like to have that as a distinction. As well. The just because so many people think they should should have that job and yeah, you're gonna have to get your training after college and which also brings me to ah a. A phrase. That's really stuck with me for a long time which is learning is behavior change and there is ah there are so many the education system the way that people have been educated have been really rewarded for memorizing and regurgitating. And they've mislabeled that as learning. So What I notice is a lot of people. They'll you'll start talking to them. They go I know I know I know we know this because max and I are both Educators. We tell somebody and they go I know I was like why aren't you doing it if you know it. And it's because they read it and they know it and so they almost get they the problem with education system is it rewards you with good grades a pat on the back like you did something good by memorizing it and then you go Oh I should get a reward for memorization. 07:27.81 Max Shank Right. 07:29.45 mikebledsoe And so people are very confused about why they're not getting a reward in the real world for just knowing shit and you be if you really live your life which I've really taken this on for myself that learning is behavior change if your behavior didn't Change. You don't get to say that you learned it. 07:47.70 Max Shank Um, yeah I Really like that a lot I think the collapse distinction between training ah and education was that what you said between education and training. 08:01.19 mikebledsoe Education and training. Yeah. 08:05.32 Max Shank That's huge. That's huge um because you can go to welding school and you will learn a craft and you are now trained as a welder but the concept of broadening your horizons or as Charlie Munger calls it. The mental lattice work which I really like so you can borrow. Different ideas from a variety of topics and subjects and sources is really beneficial to your overall knowledge. But I also like the concept there of if the behavior doesn't change. You didn't really learn and it. Kind of makes me think of bf skinner classical conditioning right? If you if the behavior changes then learning has taken place. But if the behavior doesn't change then it has not ah that's. 08:55.64 mikebledsoe Right? And and going to your point in the beginning is the school has become Ah, it's ah it's obedient school because what's the primary thing that people are learning. And they're learning to follow directions. They're learning to be at a specific. Yeah, be here at this Time. Don't do all these things do all these other things. Ah yeah, there are like you. So. Also said there's 5% of it is useful information. 09:14.86 Max Shank Repeat What I say when I say it to you. 09:33.78 mikebledsoe And I think that people tend to focus on the 5% because they want to protect I mean their identity right? because if you come out and say hey you you got screwed over by this education system which you believe so strongly in. 09:41.13 Max Shank Exactly. 09:52.00 mikebledsoe Because it's the only thing you know? Ah yeah, it could be. It's It's a blow to the identity Ego does not like to have that conversation and I'm curious max. What was what was your education. What was ah what was your education experience like. 10:02.62 Max Shank Yeah, and. 10:11.12 mikebledsoe Growing up. 10:11.25 Max Shank Oh hellacious of of or pertaining to hell. Ah it. It was awful. Um, you know when you're a child the last thing in the world you want to do is sit in a desk and listen to someone who you don't like. Try to teach you something you don't care about for long long periods of time so it was horrible I almost got held back for bad bad handwriting ah made me think I was stupid and I mean once again I don't remember. 95% of the stuff I learned because that's not how that's not how memory works you know, even if you read a book and enjoy the book. You're not going to remember most of it unless you start using it and applying it in your everyday life and it is a tough pill to swallow. To recognize that you may be wasted 12 years of your life having your creativity and critical thinking skills essentially beaten out of you on some level but conversely. If. You don't accept that then you won't change your behavior so you have to sort of accept that before you can move on in a new and more constructive way. That's like that sunk cost fallacy. Oh well I did this for so long. Let me just do it a little bit more. So. Elementary school. Ah really traumatizing high school all the way up I did go to college before dropping out and it was it was really smart I didn't even have much left. To finish my spanish and economics degree. But I'm really glad I dropped out because it just proved ah how true that sunk cost fallacy is and it was almost better in terms of my actual learning and belief in that reality like. Am I going to spend another semester and a half to finish this degree when I have no intention of using it and I realized no so I went full hog into the career that I did enjoy that I was enthusiastic about and the gym that I had opened up. 12:28.50 mikebledsoe Beautiful. Oh we boat dropped out of college to run a gym and. 12:30.89 Max Shank Yeah, yeah, yeah, well and I I you know I I bought my house Thanks to book sales but I also failed English in high school. 12:46.90 mikebledsoe You know? yeah I think that um. 12:48.60 Max Shank So clearly I don't know how to write. 12:52.71 Max Shank And the incentives the incentives are backwards right? So we've established that it's obedient school but there's no incentive for the teacher to do anything other than get you to behave yourself while in class and repeat back through rote Memory. Wrote memorization what she taught you. There's no advantage.. There's no incentive there for her to teach you. How to think critically because of the way that we measure is kind of like ah yeah, whatever, whatever way that you measure is. Going to affect the tactics that you employ. So if you're measuring Memorization. You're not really going to be incentivized to build critical thinking skills or expansive questioning. Um same as the incentive for college. You know there's no incentive for them to ensure that you get a good paying job and actually the only incentive there is to continue to increase the price of college because student loans for college are one of the only things you can. Get a person that young with that bad of credit to engage into a contract in I mean they're essentially like raping kids of their future by getting them to take out huge student loans that they can never default on due to bankruptcy So The incentive structures are. Um, completely backwards through the entire schooling process. 14:31.67 mikebledsoe Yeah, by the way if if it sounds like we're just doing a lot of bashing we we do have solutions for each one of these things that we're gonna discuss we want to. We want to get all the problems out there first and one of the things that struck me is you know. The the rope memorization regurgitation is a really strong focus on what to think and as you were saying you know critical thinking skills. That's more about how to think and how to work your way through problems and we have an entire society that. Is easy to control because they're just told what to think if you if you log into Google Apple Facebook watch television listen to radio. They're repeating to you what to think about, but they're. Not telling you how to think about it. It's usually ah telling you what to think and then why you should worry about it and why you should be afraid of it and so this is it's a very fear drivenve experience in our culture right now and recognize this with. 15:34.92 Max Shank 11 15:47.32 mikebledsoe My girlfriend especially she. She's got a master's in psychology and she's a certified you know, Psychotherapist and she did all the education racked up the student loan debt and she's very good at what she does like there. There's there's a lot of benefit out of it. But she's also since since her and I met and she's been swimming around the world of coaches who may not necessarily have finished their degrees which I know some coaches that were psychology majors but then just decide not to you know, go all the way or whatever it is and so. 16:14.74 Max Shank And. 16:25.44 mikebledsoe Um, now we get into this realm where people don't have you know certifications that fall under a board of ethics run by a bunch of academics and there was so much she I've heard this from her and many other people who have ah. Ah, ah, not certifications. But they have these credentials that could be taken away by a board. You know like a medical board or this or that and so what she shared with me is being in college. There was so much emphasis on. 16:52.30 Max Shank Right? well. 17:02.73 mikebledsoe You could lose your license for this. It's license not certification. You could lose your license for this lose your license for that like all the she said there was just so much fear and there was like if you don't follow these very specific rules then you're gonna lose your license and then you won't be able to work ever again and then she starts meeting everybody who. 17:04.23 Max Shank Small cut. 17:20.96 mikebledsoe Nobody has a license and they make good money and they get great results for their clients and she experienced ah ah quite a bit of frustration around that and ah, you know and there's so many things that she has because she went through. Like it was the perfect way for her to go she needed to go through that for many reasons part of it is you know, no one in her family had gone to college and her finishing at College made a big impact on the family you know and and there's there's all these. There's all these. 17:42.67 Max Shank No. 18:00.30 mikebledsoe Cultural narratives that really drive that but what I'd like for her to get to and I think she's getting there which is being really appreciative for the education she received but also recognizing it that its limitations and and going beyond. Ah. 18:09.42 Max Shank And. 18:17.97 mikebledsoe Where those limitations were at which which I've witnessed her due and I I hope that most people can do that? Um, yeah. 18:24.12 Max Shank That's a tricky thing is changing resentment into gratitude when you know, full well with the benefit of hindsight that there was a much better way. But if you're not feeling that way your whole life. You're probably not paying attention. Like if you can never think back and go like there was a better way I could have done that than I want whatever you're having this can you imagine. 18:46.70 mikebledsoe Yeah. Yeah, yeah, and one of the things that I also see missing in school that that really occurred to me after I got out of college was I remember taking a counting class in my first semester back to school after I was in the Navy and. I got a quarter away of the way through and the and the drop date was approaching and and I dropped the accounting clause because I was gonna get like a d in it or something and I had never gotten such a poor grade on anything and then um I go and i. 19:16.44 Max Shank Ah. 19:25.56 mikebledsoe Go on to physics you know a couple semesters later and do just fine which if you talk to most people accounting is way easier than physics for for most people. What I recognize when I look back? Ah what I really enjoyed about physics was the there was so much Context. This is why we're doing this. This is the practical application of this This is why we're learning this and when I sat down in the accounting class I was like all right. These are credits and these were debits. There was no and this this this teacher was so this accounting teacher was so. 19:55.71 Max Shank Context. 20:02.48 mikebledsoe Ah, popular for having it being a difficult class or you he was like pride prided himself on weeding people out of business school and I look back I was like it's just a bad teacher like come on you So proud of you Idiot like. 20:11.72 Max Shank What an asshole. 20:20.93 mikebledsoe A good teacher would be educating their students really well and giving them the tools to succeed but this is I think this is one of the dangers of you know I met a lot of ah I'm not saying that they're all like this but I met a lot of people who were. In the education department so they went to school specifically to become a teacher so we have to remember that the education system. It's not one of those things where we could just introduce new curriculum into the system and it would solve it because part of the problem is the teachers grew up in a. Memorize and regurgitate environment. They don't have the critical thinking skills in order to pass them down and I think that's at the core is really the problem. Um, you know there's a lot of problems but like. You can't expect the teacher that doesn't have critical thinking to be able to teach critical thinking. 21:20.83 Max Shank Right? And unfortunately because the system is so entrenched and there's 10 year and there's um teachers who do really well actually become ostracized by the rest of the teachers. And I think the core problem with schooling the absolute core problem is the lack of incentive because if we talk about what the purpose of education is which is what the purpose of schooling should be It should be that you are. Self-reliant able to contribute understand value and values and because there's no connection. There. There's no incentive for the teacher to be able to do that. There's no incentive for the college to. Do a good job. Once they've gotten your tuition money. That's the biggest problem is there's ah, no incentive or sometimes there's actually a backwards incentive so you need to allow competition to happen with education. And there was actually a really good um thing that John Stossel did about education with regard to letting the free market help elevate the best teachers to the chop and I guess there's this. I want to say he's like a south korean guy. Um, who is a multi multi-millionaire I think like tens of millions of dollars because his lectures are so well attended both in person and online and actual learning is happening and. So that's part of it. But also if there was some correlation to how well the students do afterward. Um, just like if you offer coaching I'm sure you've offered coaching with a guarantee before hey I guarantee and yeah I mean that like like ah right. 23:20.33 mikebledsoe Oh yeah, yeah, it's a conditional guarantee so you have to show us the work you did that we prescribed. Otherwise you're not getting your money back. 23:28.54 Max Shank Yeah, right? But imagine though like that is that's an insanely good deal like if you pay me five k for coaching I guarantee that if you do what we say that you will get 10 k back like whoa. Are you kidding me. You have all the incentive to do a great job. They're bought in so they have all the incentive to do a great job I mean talk about a win-win and so that's my core point is the incentives are backwards and people respond to incentives more than anything else and that's why I like the. The ancient ah Roman ah bridge builder having to stand underneath the bridge when the first guys drive over it and they're like ah carriages I think that's that's essentially. 24:16.42 mikebledsoe Seeing him. 24:22.94 Max Shank How everything should be done. Is there needs to be an incentive for the people who are doing the work and the reward needs to also go to those who are incentivized to do so that's the core problem across the board. 24:34.20 mikebledsoe Yeah, on your point 1 more out which is cost and the cost is soared and the quality has diminished over time I think it's at least in the the college university experience. The the government came in and basically subsidized through grants and they ah they stood behind loans. They guaranteed loans so that these banks would start lending money to people that have poor credit scores or have no credit. 25:10.34 Max Shank Their children their children. 25:10.60 mikebledsoe Or just too young to even know what they're getting themselves into yeah and so the education loans are predatory in nature for one they predatory loans I everyone I know that's got over $ $100000 in debt when I talk to them about. Experience of going into the financial aid office. It's always the same They're just always trying to max them out and the people in the financial aid office. They don't know any fucking better either. They're just doing what they're told they're not thinking they didn't they weren't taught to critically think they don't understand what's going on. They think they're doing a good thing. 25:41.83 Max Shank It was just following orders. 25:46.66 mikebledsoe Um, and and the the ah the cost as skyrocketed because these are guaranteed by the government. You can't be Bankrupt. You can't bankrupt your way out of these. So It has incentivized the schools to raise their rates because more people can get loans so simultaneously. Yeah, so the schools have raised their rates without actually making improvements to the education at all I Imagine it's just made the administrative. 26:12.73 Max Shank Guaranteed. 26:22.73 mikebledsoe Portion of the school much fluffier. Um, there's tenured professors that are in ah in a fluffy environment and in some way due to these things. So The football teams are probably getting you know, really great stadiums built who the fuck knows but um. Yeah, the the cost is to me is really disgusting in how much people are spending on education with what they get out of it and that is just long term debt. So it's. Pretty sickening. 27:00.87 Max Shank Predatory is the correct word I think use the word predatory I think that's exactly what it is I think the guy Mike Roe who hosted dirty jobs and now has a foundation called micro works. Really has done a good job in illuminating the destructive cultural expectation that says oh going to university means you're good and if you're a welder and electrician that makes you bad and I'm falling back to the same examples. But. You know plumber there's nothing wrong with being a tradesman shoot I knew a guy who became a truck driver when he was 18 by the time he was 27 he owned like 3 or 5 semi trucks and he was basically retired you know so this whole idea that you need to be part of the intelligentsia is. Such a fallacy and it's very destructive because of course children they just want to be loved they want they want to get positive attention. So um, kids will do whatever gets them positive attention I mean the more interviews you listen to the the great people. In their fields. It's usually that they got positive attention for whatever it is they were doing. 28:19.63 mikebledsoe Yeah, and another part of um, you know the the grants and the guaranting of the loans has basically made it possible for people who would not normally go to college to go to college and. With that has been the lowering of standards for accepting people to schools and so college education hasn't become special and it used to be special and now because everybody's going and the standards are lower. It's just kind of. It lowers the overall experience of what colleges it no longer stands out like the batch but the Bachelorsard's degree is what the high school diploma used to be.. It's It's not. It's not anything that's gonna make you stand apart and so we end up with just people that are in school into their mid 20 s or. Early 30 s just putting off actually getting their life started. 29:19.15 Max Shank And with the exception of a few careers. It's totally worthless. It's for most careers, you'd be better off working and earning money when you're like 1412 1416 you know you can you can become an apprentice. For something when you're in your teens and by the time you're 18 have lots of money saved up and have a valuable skill and if you have a good mentor a valuable skill that you know how to sell and there's no better security than that. Ah, valuable skill that you know how to sell. 29:59.30 mikebledsoe Yeah,, let's let's get into that So What are the now. What I want to do is I Want to talk about the important things that are that we should be learning So What should exist and. Education and then after we talk about the different things that are important. We can roll into how we would design an education system that included these things and excluded all the bullshit. So. What do you got Max. What are the important things for us to learn. 30:30.96 Max Shank First off I just want to reiterate why? what? What were you trying to learn. Why is it important we have self reliance and contribution. We have value and values and we have physical and mental health. I think that pretty much covers what you would hope to learn right? Is there anything else. You can think of I think that's basically it. 30:56.42 mikebledsoe Um I like that as ah as a context I started thinking about the things that like specifically when I think about what's commonly thought of being created in school is reading writing arithmetic. Ah. 31:10.90 Max Shank O. 31:14.38 mikebledsoe If you can if you can read and write you can you're going to be able to and if you can comprehend what you read at a high level you become more literate so that the more you can comprehend the better. You can comprehend the more literate you become which allows you to grasp information at much faster speed. But also be able to produce it and share it. So um, the reading and writing are super important there if you can I Really think I mean this this trumps math if you can read, you can learn anything. You can go anywhere if you can read really? well. Um, that's. 31:46.49 Max Shank Agreed agreed. 31:52.67 mikebledsoe To me is the primary thing I'm a little biased I'm sure because like I I have ah a super high reading comprehension but I look at my life and I see how beneficial that has been It's probably because I was homeschooled. And basically around seventh or eighth grade I was learning everything on my own so it was was kind of like forced into reading comprehension. Um. 32:15.72 Max Shank Whole words usually make or break your life your ability to communicate with other people and cooperate with other people is totally dependent on your ability to express and interpret both. Ah. 32:20.81 mikebledsoe You know. 32:35.49 Max Shank Actual language and body language. So it it is the ultimate skill and we are the ultimate social emotional creature. So there's no question that word is important I have it split up into word number and movement basically and. 32:49.63 mikebledsoe E. 32:54.10 Max Shank That will give you the mental and physical health that will also allow you to understand the concept of value and if you understand the concept of value. You know that value is relative to the individual like you know, bottled water at Coachella. Is very valuable but bottled water on you know, an iceberg is is next to a ah pure stream is not that valuable at all. In fact, it might even be detrimental. You'd pay nothing for it. So that's really the the crux of it. So. With number I have it split up into economics engineering and music is how I would teach numbers econ so you can learn about risk reward cost and benefit. There's some accounting in there of course and then engineering. Would be where like physics and geometry and structures would come into play. So I think that covers most of the practical uses for numbers and I'm sure that our listeners would have other ideas of how that work I think music is. Ah, really good thing to ah teach people because it's actually pretty easy and the amount of effort required versus the benefit you get both ah psychologically and physically is very high so that would be number and then for words. You would want logic and rhetoric history to know what worked and what should be done differently Ww and Dd and then ah learning about programming. Learning about how humans are programmed learning how to program yourself using language learning about the power of stories and storytelling and maybe most importantly, learning how to craft an offer and sell that offer. And I think that really covers a lot of the word skills that a person might need. And lastly we have under movement I have meditation under movement because it's sort of the um I think stillness is actually a pretty useful. Exercise and then we have wrestling striking gymnastics and Ballgames and I think that would cover like 95% 35:41.39 Max Shank Of what you need in order to be able to deliver value which allows you to be self-reliant and contribute and it would also enhance your mental and physical health and still leave lots of time left over for. Recreation and leisure and rest and play which I think are also non-negotiables. 36:06.61 mikebledsoe Yeah, one thing I would add to that be law I think there's yeah, no manmade laws. The um, those. 36:13.36 Max Shank Law like physical laws or so so crime crime and punishment. 36:25.30 mikebledsoe Yeah, really I mean people people be don't understand how law works They don't understand I mean going back to because that falls under the the word category for you because law is just an opinion. 36:38.94 Max Shank Yeah. 36:44.32 mikebledsoe By a certain group of people that they then Hire Policy. You know they create a policy Hire Policy enforcers to make sure that everybody complies. Um. And most people are very confused about the law so it leaves it leaves law in the hands of very few people people people get involved politically in ways that they don't understand. 37:11.36 Max Shank O. 37:18.77 mikebledsoe Don't understand the implications of what's going On. Ah and they don't know how to make a change. They don't know how to how to change the law or take advantage of the law or to interpret the law and I think this is something I started learning some of that when I was in high school. I was I was blessed enough to have been exposed to constitutional law and take that high school and I was homeschooled so I got to study a bunch of shit that other people never I talked to anyone who went to public school. No one talked about constitutional law. Even though that's the entire basis of our culture So culture is made up of language in the most concrete version of culture is the laws that are written down and people are going around enforcing those laws I mean it doesn't get more concrete than that outside of. 38:12.54 Max Shank Or else That's a strong incentive. 38:15.79 mikebledsoe Yeah, or else. So I think that I think that law is is really powerful to to learn and another thing is most of the things that people avoid in this world that keeps them from being wealthy I had this conversation with one of my friends this weekend. Is people are scared to learn anything administrative in nature people due to avoiding administrative load ah remain poor They they don't engage with what's happening financially with and with their taxes. They don't know how to. 38:49.31 Max Shank So. 38:52.36 mikebledsoe They're afraid of it and they just you know whatever the accountant says I don't really know how to how to engage in that administratively and a lot of people confuse law with Administrative. There's a lot of administrative stuff going on if you just do these things that you're not going to be subject to certain laws because you went through these. Certain administrative Processes. So this happens with real estate this happens with what what we're seeing in the the crypto markets right now there's a lot of there's a lot of really complex and sophisticated administrative things that are built in a society right now that. 39:11.40 Max Shank Ah. 39:28.85 mikebledsoe The only people who really get the benefit of it are the people who are willing to engage in that administrative load and are willing to learn the complexity of it and so I see the administration falls under government and governance and law. Whether it's coming from a government or the governance is coming from a smaller institution. These things are all important to know about if you want to participate in society and make a difference in it. 39:50.27 Max Shank The. 39:58.98 Max Shank It's like how you want to? It's like how to manage your life. Basically right? because you know don't hate the player hate the game better yet. Just ah, don't hate anything just ah play the cards you're dealt. But you're right I mean law is so deliberately complex to obscure the truth accounting rules are so deliberately complex to obscure the truth tax rules, etc. But you can complain about how it's unfair. Which it is or you can learn the language of those pursuits and I think the fact that we don't teach kids about accounting and taxes and law in high school is a frigging crime. 40:50.69 mikebledsoe Yeah, well be too many people learn it. They might get they they might start thinking for themselves. That's a problem so we won't go. 40:59.71 Max Shank Well, they might realize how bad everyone's being screwed I mean that's why we also that's why we also don't get ah a transparent pie chart with a list of how tax dollars are being spent because we would all go like are you fricking kidding me. Like you couldn't you couldn't imagine a more egregious misappropriation of funds. But once again that is taboo because people are under the fantasy. That it's being spent well if their tax dollars are going to a good cause and so in order to come to the realization that they're being catastrophically mismanaged wasted or maybe even ah used for ah sinister acts. 41:51.57 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 41:53.53 Max Shank Right is horrifying. 42:00.63 mikebledsoe So horrifying. Alright, so we know we know what we want to learn so I don't have children yet. But I'm planning on it. Um I was homeschooled I feel very blessed for that I think. 1 of the things that people are mostly concerned about and it comes homeschooling is you know the social interaction piece and I said this last week is you know the 3 big things we want to learn that the reason we want to learn things is so we can benefit our health our wealth and our relationships. And ah, you know a lot of times people think about you know, homeschoolers being isolated and and I had plenty of opportunity I my parents hired tutors along with some other parents. So I would go to a latin teacher with 3 other guys once a week we would study latin. Um I had an algebra tutor I had a spanish tutor and I was getting little social engagement in these small groups throughout the week so I wasn't without a social structure. It was just different and I think I actually developed very well because of that because I actually spent more time. Amongst adults that I did with kids who are my own age who probably weren't as mature and had I been in that environment I would have behaved less maturely as well. So I had ah I was able to mature pretty quickly due to that. Um. And I know one thing that's really emerged. That's really exciting is this past couple of years. The kids weren't allowed to go to school and they all had to sit at home and and ah, they're basically being homeschooled. 43:46.12 Max Shank Right. 43:54.49 mikebledsoe By parents who may not even be interested in it or they're having to work a job and can't give them the attention and it just created this this whiplash in a way and you know they they started letting kids go back to school here in Texas and Florida you know the kids. Everything's pretty much back to normal when it comes to going to school sometimes I have mass sometimes they don't depends on the school here in in Texas and ah, but my friends in California who have children what they've done because California laws are so insane. Ah. Is ah a lot of these teachers have left these these really great teachers have left these amazing schools because they're tired of all the mandates as well and these parents have gotten together and they go oh there's 6 families. Getting together. We're all going to contribute $20000 to this teacher for the year the teacher gets paid more the kids get more attention that the ratio of parent a teacher is just right? The parents are in a constant conversation with the teachers. And there's not just one teacher to 1 group of kids. There's multiple teachers that have specialties and different things and so these kids are are and it's and it's very it's become very communal and what we're gonna what we're gonna be witnessing over the years is there's a ah decentralization of. Everything everything's being decentralized and so a lot of people are not going to like that because it's so different than the way it's been but education is becoming decentralized and it's gonna be very community oriented and when things decentralized things tend to become tribal and what I mean by that is. There are small cultures. There's these subcultures that start forming these bubbles I'm part of a subculture where I live we all have you know we we all share the same beliefs and all that kind of stuff and when you know we have kids and bring them up through that culture that's going to be that way. And we need to be good with other people having their own bubbles and their own beliefs and their own cultures. That's perfectly fine. That's what makes this world such a beautiful place. Um, but what I I see in the future is the reason this teacher can get paid much more. You know it could be making 6 figures and. Not working for the school. So the teacher makes more money it costs the parents less money to send their kids to school because're not paying for all this administrative bullshit and the administrative bullshit basically gets in the way of having a direct relationship with the teacher and it gets in the way of community because it's sets a centralized humane and control. 46:35.28 Max Shank Right. 46:42.61 Max Shank And no direct incentive either yet, you need to have um, correlated incentives. Otherwise you're always going to get a worse result. You're always going to get corruption. You're always going to get. Ah. 46:47.34 mikebledsoe And the incentives are yeah are broken. 47:02.44 Max Shank Like lobbying. For example, we're we're going to. We're going to convince the rule breakers to give us better rules I mean that's just that's just crazy. 47:05.19 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 47:13.45 mikebledsoe so so I started throwing out a solution. that's that's 1 big broad solution. We didn't talk about how kids should be school choice. 47:19.84 Max Shank School choice. Yeah school choice is the ultimate solution because if you want to send your kid to public school and you have what you consider a good public school and you're well-informed then hey you know more power to you but you have to have that choice. Which allows for competition so that the let's just say like the destructive schools don't have a monopoly on the hearts and minds of kids. It's ridiculous. 47:49.98 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, how would you handle the 8 hours of sitting in 1 spot as a child. 47:57.10 Max Shank You you don't I mean what could possibly be worse than sitting in a chair that is horizontal with a desk that is horizontal. It's catastrophically bad. You're looking straight down all the time. Or you're looking at the teacher talk. Ah I think for the body. It's awful. You know you could you could do you could do 100% of schooling outside if the weather was good. You could do most schooling outside depending on the weather just with like a. A notebook or a tablet of some kind I mean it doesn't have to be a fancy ipad or anything like that. You know we forget that you pay a premium for a luxury brand like that. But you could go to Walmart today and for like eighty bucks get a tablet that can connect to the internet. And write notes and has a little pen on there. So. 48:55.83 mikebledsoe For all my friends kids were the school gave them Macbooks once covid hit like all the kids got macbooks I know well you're welcome kid. 49:05.43 Max Shank Wow you and I paid for those. Ah, yeah, and obviously someone won big on securing that contract too. So that that's that sort of ah backwards incentive is par for the course and a lot of it has to do with transparency. 49:18.51 mikebledsoe Oh yeah, for sure. 49:29.19 Max Shank I think that's the main attraction of cryptocurrency. For example, especially like blockchain technology is that it's so transparent. Ah there isn't anyway, we don't want to get on that topic too much but when it's transparent and you know where everything's going. It's really difficult for there to be those. Dirty dealings behind the scenes and those backwards incentive structures. So I think that sitting in a desk, especially ah a single desk most of the day is. 1 of the worst things you could do to a kit to their posture to their eyesight to their skin to their body I mean it's horrible. You know if you don't see it as child if you don't see it as child abuse then you like don't understand physiology. 50:12.84 mikebledsoe Well, the other thing is is. 50:21.37 mikebledsoe Yeah, and the other thing that I've done a lot of work in the emotional realm and one of the things that I recognize is the emotional body and the physical body are so intertwined These are not different these are and. 50:21.90 Max Shank At all. 50:41.36 mikebledsoe And if you put kids in an environment where they cannot move and they're experiencing anything emotional that they're not allowed to express because you're not allowed to express yourself emotionally in class you gotta be quiet. You can't you know if you're crying. We're gonna. 50:53.91 Max Shank And right? yeah. 50:59.33 mikebledsoe You You know, get rid of you somehow or get you to settle down if you're if you want to be happy and Laughing. You can't do that either. So Not only is there this retardation of physical movement but ah of being in touch with the emotional body. So What I see. Problem with the desk is it's yeah, it's the the emotional body also gets stunted in this so you get the the physical body and the emotional body are suffering by being in this and while the physical body and the emotional body are being minimized. 51:17.99 Max Shank Eq goes down. 51:35.57 mikebledsoe We are then putting most of our attention on the memorization and regurgitation and so we end up in honoring and really I guess holding on a pedestal. The. The intellectual part of being human as being the most valuable so we've got 20 years of education telling us that what's in our mind is what's truly important and that our body and our emotional body are not as important you won't be valued in Society. If you have that So what we have is a bunch of people who have very poor development physically poor development Emotionally who have an overdeveloped psyche in a lot of ways that is that they identify as who they are and that that. Creates a very controllable population. It's a very,. It's very easy to create sheep in that in that case. 52:41.60 Max Shank All being taught by an obedience teacher who has no skin in the game for how well they do in life. 52:51.11 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 52:52.80 Max Shank Even even with the best of intentions I've I've met teachers who are amazing I've also met teachers who couldn't be worse and even if you have really good intentions. It doesn't mean that the action is good I Think that's. 52:57.84 mikebledsoe I. 53:11.00 Max Shank Something that I've really come to think about a lot as I study history as I Observe what's going on in our culture Good intentions doesn't doesn't make the action good if your intentions are good. It doesn't mean what you're doing is good. So Even with the best of intentions you can like horribly abuse a lot of people. 53:29.65 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 53:35.33 mikebledsoe The the truth is in the results I talk to people about this which is somebody wants to start getting defensive of you know I speak frequently about the the medical system being fucked up and you know what people refer to as the health care system. Being fucked up and they're like well you know and they want to defend it I'm like all we have to do is look at the results I don't want to hear about why you think this is a good idea or not or people want to defend very specific actions when I go look I don't I'm not look. That action. You know was a good theory and it was put in place and all that but it didn't work out the way we wanted to work out. You know the american healthcare system is failing. How do we know? record breaking diabetes cancer mental health the heart disease people. That ah number one killer in the United States right now. Fentanyl overdose. So ah, prescription drugs. 54:37.86 Max Shank Number 1 even above and beyond like heart disease that would surprise me. 54:44.30 mikebledsoe I I Saw a new thing I think it became number one definitely beats Covid but um. 54:50.44 Max Shank Maybe number one? No well, there's ah, there's a lot of iffy numbers around testing and things like that and the amount of deaths and cases there but we don't want to get ourselves censored. 55:01.35 mikebledsoe Everything? Ah yeah, all arms. Ah yeah, if you're getting censored. 55:09.50 Max Shank That's always a good sign by the way if ah if someone's trying to censor certain topics. They're probably doing it with good intentions. 55:16.98 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, so so we really got to look at the results and so anyone who still is hesitant to agree with us. Ah just look at the results you know or the results of the education system. What kind of what kind of people are going out into the world. Seems pretty chaotic to me at this point. Um, what I mean I too many too many kids to one teacher these classrooms with 30 kids 1 teacher. What? What's the number you'd like to see. 55:46.28 Max Shank I well here's the thing I think if the structure were different that would be fine that'd be fine if if kids worked with each other in groups and they were learning things that were useful. Things that were important and interesting to them. Um, then you wouldn't need to have that teacher giving one thirtieth of her attention to everyone all the time it could be done in more of like a ah circuit style. 56:20.70 mikebledsoe Um. 56:22.54 Max Shank So I think the number of students to the teacher is relevant but it can work a lot of different ways. Ah no question, no question if you have ah a 1 on 1 relationship you're you're gonna get more. 56:29.36 mikebledsoe You. 56:41.19 Max Shank Information transmitted there you're going to get more direct and immediate feedback which can be very beneficial. Um, ah so I think 1 to 30 is not necessarily a problem but it is a problem especially with the structure that we have it in. You know everybody in an individual desk. We got 95% fluff. The rest of it is not really um, taught in a way that is principles based It's more rote memorization based so um, yeah, part of the reason that's no good is. Because of the structure we have in place ah school school choice though is the solution and unfortunately the worse we like dumb down the. 57:20.81 mikebledsoe Got it? yeah. 57:38.17 Max Shank School system the more ah like pork belt barreling the more like fluff we throw in there due to lobbying and teachers unions and stuff like that and the less incentive at play you just create are ah wider wider and wider chasm between the haves and the have-nots because if then. You know going to public school is actually worse and worse and worse for a child that makes the gap between that and a private school or a free choice school bigger and bigger. 58:09.43 mikebledsoe yeah yeah I think about how I teach and we break you know Um I'm teaching adults so they learn the information on their own. They they try to apply it. Um, but then they also meet with a pod I put people in groups of a pod of 6 and that pod of 6 is led by 1 of my coaches and you know they're usually got more than no more than 25 or 30 people they're managing at a time but only 6 at a time. 58:32.57 Max Shank This. 58:48.20 mikebledsoe Is what they're managing and so I really like that that group of 6 I I grew up learning in in groups of 6 or or less I see a lot of value in that I do like what you were saying you know one teacher could be handling 30 kids if there was a certain rotation going on. But I think most teachers are managing like 150 kids and 30 at a time. So I think that and and the other thing we have to also think about is you know the age if you're if you're 3 4 5 6 7 eight years old you probably need that constant supervision. There needs to be a teacher all the time present or most of the time present you know I think it's really silly for thirteen fourteen Fifteen year olds to be under constant supervision of a teacher for 8 hours a day. It's I'm a big believer in. 59:31.71 Max Shank A. 59:45.69 Max Shank But. 59:46.61 mikebledsoe Like let's sit down for 60 to 90 minutes to focus on a topic as a group and then go go fuck off for an hour. You know, go go ah go to recess. Go move your body go play. Do something you enjoy. If you want to study more if you want to learn more about it and continue to have the conversation. Great. But I'd like to see an environment where like as kids get older that they get more autonomy over their time and how they spend it and. Giving them the space to research and learn about things that they're curious about instead of having this need to cram all this useless information in your head so that you know the teacher can meet their quota the way to pause it real quick. 01:00:31.50 Max Shank Um, yeah, sure. Yeah, so what we need is interest and incentive. Basically. 01:00:40.12 mikebledsoe Hear the door knocking go. 01:00:49.19 Max Shank Like if if you're interested in something and you're incentivized. You'll do it. That's that's what I've noticed with coaching adults as well is if you're interested and incentivized. There's no limit to the energy and enthusiasm that you'll have and if you. Reinforce that sense of ah contribution that good feeling you get when you share with others. It allows you to have this abundance of psychic energy which I think you and I agree you and I would agree is 1 of the main roadblocks. For adults in success in their business. It's not because they don't know how to do arithmetic. It's because there are personal blocks. Ah psychologically and emotionally right. 01:01:42.64 mikebledsoe Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Um, how how do you approach teaching children to we. We talked a lot about memorizing and regurgitating as as not learning, but just as it is what it is. 01:01:54.65 Max Shank Right. 01:02:00.54 Max Shank Right. 01:02:02.19 mikebledsoe How do we teach like what would be your idea of how to teach kids. How to think for themselves. 01:02:07.31 Max Shank So I have ah I have a very controversial method. What I do is I have a pocket full of marshmallows and then I carry a long stick and if they do something I like then they get a marshmallow and if they do something I don't like then I hit them with the stick and I'll. I'll trick them. Ah, into just blindly believing what I say and if they do blindly believe what I say then I hit him with the stick and if they ask for context then they get a marshmallow I'm a little bit old school. Ah no I mean I. 01:02:45.13 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:02:49.75 Max Shank I Think ah, encouraging curiosity and question asking is very valuable. Um I think relating everything back to how you're going to be able to liberate yourself and contribute. Is very important there needs to be context with the content. You can't have just content. You want to reinforce how learning to read will allow you to learn anything Else. You have to reinforce how ah economics and accounting are. Going to help you become wealthy so you don't have to worry about living paycheck to Paycheck. So I think having context with content and encouraging curiosity are probably the most important things when it comes to teaching kids. Um. The other thing is trying to have something physical in the world rather than just ah, verbal or visual something that they can hold in their hands I think is really valuable and making it a little bit more kinesthetic. 01:03:58.40 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's ah ah well the the interesting there is um I read I read this book last year called Metaphors that we live by and it Yeah, do you. 01:04:11.60 Max Shank I have that book. Yeah. 01:04:15.61 mikebledsoe And it does a really good job of mapping out how the the mind works in Metaphor. So ah, the when we when we talk about if we talk about inflation the way that it's structured in a sentence. Makes it out to where we're creating inflation as a person you know inflation is bad and it's gonna come get you and all these types of things just as an example and so we tend to take Concepts and we we say the mind is a. Is an engine or a machine.. It's like that's not actually True. You know we we could think about it as a process but most people don't That's too conceptual So Most Concepts are made that we make sense of those concepts by ah, assigning Them. Ah. 01:04:58.40 Max Shank Right. 01:05:13.25 mikebledsoe It's a metaphor to something we can physically see and touch and and feel and all that kind of stuff and so to your point if there is a lack of of 3 D experience if there's a lack of what's going on then. I Think these when you when you're learning Concepts and you don't have the metaphors locked in well enough you you are going to you. You run the risk of just living in the conceptual world which I call the fifth dimension and. 01:05:49.10 Max Shank Yes. 01:05:51.19 mikebledsoe World of concepts the fourth dimension being our 3 dimensions that we exist in in this particular moment and then add time and for the fourth dimension fit dimension being concepts and so what we end up with is a bunch of people who are lost in their heads. 01:06:10.34 Max Shank And. 01:06:10.71 mikebledsoe And just doing you know mental masturbation that never know how to to practically apply these things and I have suffered from that a bit myself. So I I get it. But that's something that I think you're spot on I think the solution to that is a lot of hands On. Learning like I learned geometry and trigonometry in my high school years but the real application which was way simpler than what I was learning in the books by the way was going on the job site with my dad and renovating houses and having to cut pieces of wood that were going to fit. 01:06:45.50 Max Shank Okay. 01:06:49.79 mikebledsoe This angle over here and this angle over there and we were doing the math it Trigg made so much sense to me being on the job site. You get me in a book and all of a sudden. It's stop it. It doesn't it doesn't mean as much but again because I have the I have the carpentry background. 01:07:05.69 Max Shank It's not rich. 01:07:09.11 mikebledsoe I do understand trick really well I was able to get into physics really well because I I so I can take the conception when I and I've had practice making it practical. 01:07:19.84 Max Shank Well and you know you bring up a really good point like pract I'm one of the most practical people I've ever met because I tend to think that if something is superfluous. You can do it for fun but otherwise it should be. Cut out like there's no reason for any of that unless you're specifically like trying to just have fun. So when I have the 3 categories of you know, word move and number there's a lot. You actually still have a lot of time left over so you could have part of schooling be woodworking and plumbing and learning a little bit about electric circuits and having these very practical schools like how about cooking and once again, we don't want to. Rely 100% on the state to teach your kid because they will ah do the worst job possible because there's no incentive for them to do a good job so having practical skills acquired that are not only. Ah. Applied in that moment but also applied for the rest of your life is hugely valuable. So I think um, that idea of no content without context would be. Like 1 of the most important things because you need someone to emotionally and intellectually buy in and apply that knowledge once they've realized that it's valuable. 01:08:59.99 mikebledsoe Yeah, that also solves the problem of the fluff. The the useless information that is made important when you have context I think about history and how much history is taught and it's like. 01:09:10.34 Max Shank A. So much fluff. 01:09:17.62 mikebledsoe This battle happened at this point and whatever and you know on the test you got to make sure that you got the right battle in the right year and all that kind of shit and it just makes no sense and um. 01:09:24.18 Max Shank Right? It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's rote memorization with no idea for like why are we learning this. It's so we don't repeat the mistakes of history and history is all about how human beings clump together and cooperate or. 01:09:35.26 mikebledsoe Right. 01:09:43.56 Max Shank Or don't cooperate how they resolve their differences How you know that that kind of thing I agree. 01:09:47.79 mikebledsoe Yeah, and so we could study the the purpose of studying history. The the grand context there which isn't taught school is yeah, don't repeat the mistakes and what's made us better. How do we do more of that and how does this. Why are we learning what we're learning today. How does that apply to today's environment and where we're going and what what are the pitfalls and and I I would you know when I have kids that conversation is gonna it's gonna be a conversation. You know what do you think about how that applies to what's going on in our world right now. 01:10:10.44 Max Shank Right. 01:10:23.52 Max Shank Hello text. 01:10:24.85 mikebledsoe This and that and and talk it through. 01:10:29.89 mikebledsoe Um, how would you incentivize creativity. What do you? What are you laughing about. 01:10:42.50 Max Shank I'm just thinking about ah the the teachers who hear this who are going to hate my fucking guts and yours too probably, but but they'll hate me more after I say this next thing is it doesn't seem hard. It actually doesn't seem difficult at all. Once you add context to every piece of content and once you cut away all the fluff. There's not that much. You need to know to understand value and values and when I say value and values I Basically just mean understanding that value is relative understanding that you have to deliver value. To be able to exist within this societal framework and values to me essentially means like volunteerism like non-coercion Morality like we talked about before like if you if you don't like someone that's fine but don't punch them in the face. 01:11:28.89 mikebledsoe Oh. 01:11:39.20 Max Shank Ah, however, if they attack you then ah go ahead and make sure you win that battle in some way, don't steal. Don't lie like it's very simple stuff. But. 01:11:46.10 mikebledsoe Yeah. 01:11:53.29 Max Shank It's not a lot of stuff. It's more important to reinforce those things with practical application and context. That's what I was laughing about. 01:11:58.12 mikebledsoe Yeah I on that I want to make sure that we have ah some type of solution for each thing we we named as a problem we we're talking about ah the the school system is stifling creativity. So. 01:12:06.54 Max Shank Yeah, can you repeat it I I was off in my own little world. There. Those are the. 01:12:17.28 mikebledsoe What? Ah how would you enhance? what would you do to help enhance creativity in children you were teaching. 01:12:22.66 Max Shank I Suppose asking leading questions to how you could apply something. You know that seems unrelated to something that we're learning right now would be a good way to do it. 01:12:38.70 mikebledsoe Yeah. 01:12:42.10 Max Shank Um, asking what other ways could you try to solve this problem. Um I think music and art would be Useful. Creativity is a tricky thing because. If we try to nail down a definition. What does creativity really mean um, like an unexpected solution like if you say in sport someone came up with a really creative play. It would be something that you haven't really seen before it would be. Something that maybe you've seen elsewhere applied in a new way right? So I I think encouraging knowing what that means and then encouraging that behavior and recognizing that's what innovation is would be useful. 01:13:24.90 mikebledsoe Yeah, one one of the ways I like her. 01:13:35.59 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, I like the idea of well you know I train entrepreneurs I train people to be entrepreneurs basically and an entrepreneur is just a problem solver at the end of the day is. 01:13:44.50 Max Shank Right. Yeah. 01:13:53.49 mikebledsoe A problem in the world and you're gonna create a solution. So I really like the idea like creating an environment where creativity is enhanced by putting problems in front of them without the without saying solve it inside of this context but obviously. 01:14:10.74 Max Shank 2 01:14:13.24 mikebledsoe This problem solving this problem it. The problem itself creates its own boundaries and so if I'm solving a very specific problem then I have to take all this creative energy that might be going in random directions and then focus it down into this one solution and I think that. 01:14:25.85 Max Shank The. 01:14:32.62 mikebledsoe Being able to approach different types of problems and then apply all this other knowledge that that exists in other Contexts and then see the the principles overlap and the relationship of those principles into this New. Ah. New context if you can do that then you're you're gonna be really well Off. So It's I think putting a I think putting problems in front of kids and letting them work it out in their own way and just see what happens also allowing them to be. 01:14:57.69 Max Shank Ah. 01:15:08.12 Max Shank That's that's a great point. 01:15:10.69 mikebledsoe Kids just allowing kids to be curious and study what they want I mean ah the way I've thought about approaching is like you know what? I'm gonna make sure that my kids do math for like twenty thirty minutes a day I'm gonna make sure they read and write for twenty thirty minutes a day. It's like reading writing arithmetic. 01:15:12.84

Today we finish up the story of FBI intimidation by Nancy Pelosi's Gestapo police agency.  Learn what we citizens can do toprotect ourselves if we ever end up confronted by the Deep State Authoritarian goones.  Get educated on our rights and responsibilities as citizens of this country.  Stand against tyranny and walk in faith.Gary Duncan  0:32  Don't you think a judge that issues that warrant? Should have been smart enough to see that your picture? And the picture that they had? was not you? I mean, they're the FBI, they should be able to distinguish from that and tell us how did they get ahold of you? How did they know? To find you? Of all people? Did they have a surveillance camera on you? at all? Or where or you know, on the ground? Or what? Well, according to Marilyn Hueper  1:06  their own? Sure, according to their own testimony, when they were raiding us, they have footage of everybody who is there, and I'm sure they have outside footage to which I asked them about and like, hey, look at your cameras, I'm sure you can see that I was outside of the Capitol and never inside, I can tell you that my approximate time of arrival. But what they communicated with me at the time, and now that the application and word have been made public so that I can look at it and rebut it. They had, they have a like a tip line, an anonymous tip line or a tip line where people can call in and they have on the FBI website, they have like most wanted postings in January six of the primary concern, there are live photos of people from video footage inside that they're looking for that they claim they don't know the identity of. So apparently someone called in and told them that I resemble this, this woman photographs two to 58225. A, or sorry, yeah, two to five a, that and it was somebody an employee from Alaska Airlines, according to the David, so they didn't tell me that at the time. But they said yeah, we've had positive ID, you've been positively ID, which sounds very official. But it's actually not what it means is that, but he called me said, that person kind of looks like somebody I saw recently, they could be the same person. They're considering that a positive ID. I resemble a lot of people I resemble particularly a lot of people in my family, probably a lot of people who have Irish descent who are Caucasian and aged and with brown hair. And I happen to have a black coat that day. They are based on this tip. I think this person even told them that they had been on our Instagram, and found my husband's post on Instagram of me from behind with brown hair and a long black coat at the Capitol. And so they were able to put those two pieces together. And then in the affidavit, it actually says that they've pulled my Alaska driver's license. And the FBI determined that I was the same person from the photograph of the woman inside. But they didn't list who this random SBI is, which isn't really a person. So there had to be a real man or woman who looked at that, and decided that which is amazing to me because I could look at their photo, and very quickly, you know, mentioned to them when I finally saw a photo during the raid because they were looking for the clothing that they said I had been wearing. And I said, Well, first of all, I already told you it wasn't inside the Capitol. So I don't appreciate being called a liar. So let's stop that discussion. And second of all, you have a picture of this person, and you haven't shown it to me. And Can I see it? And I grabbed it from them. And I said, Well, obviously I hate her because I've always been jealous of women who have detached or laughs I have attached your loves. So obviously that's a problem. And second of all, she's wearing a sweater. I don't even own a sweater, you have to see me wearing a sweater that ugly with snowflakes on it. So, and then I and I held it up and I and I held that beside me this little Xerox copy. And I said I'm sitting right here. And we can look me Marilyn Hueper  4:39  at me and grab the Xerox back to searching. And so that's when they laugh because I thought they don't even Gary Duncan  4:49  grim ruins. Yeah, so I hope we start with the part where you held the picture up. That's where he cut out. Marilyn Hueper  4:58  Oh, held, oh, I held the Xerox app that one of the agents was carrying around and looking for clothing and etc, that this woman had been wearing. And she asked me, where's this clothing that you are? She showed me a picture. Where's this clothing? And I said, like, well, first of all, I don't wear sweaters, you have to pay me to wear a sweater that ugly with snowflakes on it. And secondly, I have attached your lips, she has to be attached to your love. So obviously, I hate her. But is this who you think I am? And I grabbed the Xerox from her and I held it up next to me. And I said, Can we both agreed this is two different people. I'm sitting right here, we can throw because look at me, two different people. And the agent stared at me, didn't say anything, and then grabbed the Xerox back and went back to their searching. And so when they finally departed, I thought I like to admit you're in the wrong house. And who should I send my receipts to for your damage and inconvenience? And they went an answering they said, yeah, we don't do that. And I said, well, what's the next step? They said, as you'll, you'll hear from us. So when they laughed, I thought, I still have no assurance that they are going to admit that we're two different people. So I decided I'm going to go on my husband's Facebook account, post. From that day, post a photo of the woman from that day that they think I am and get my affidavit, my true experience out there. Not it's not a legal affidavit, because I haven't didn't press it into court yet. But get my public affidavit out there and get before they take control of the narrative because I was afraid they're trying to cover for somebody and they were going to make me be this person. Right. And so before they this thing, and bring me into somebody and keeping me in their web conspiracy, I wanted to bring it before the public because I felt like that was the safest thing I could do to protect myself. Yeah, Gary Duncan  7:03  that's good. And like you said in the first episode is that Washington and Nancy, and all those people, they're setting a narrative that the media is running with, like a lot of things they're doing right now. But they're setting a narrative that the low information voter is going to hear and see. And they're going to determine that everybody's guilty without any due course of real truth. And so what would you say to Christians, as we look at this and see how, within, who knows how many years or a lifetime or whatever, that instead of just being something political or patriotic, it could be just because we believe in Christ, or we believe that, you know, certain things that we believe as Christians is not. We don't, we don't agree with abortion, things of that nature. Because then that could be classified as hate speech. And next thing, you know, we've got the FBR coming into our house, because we posted something somewhere, saying that abortion was was wrong. And it's not right. So how, what would you say back to create, to prepare ourselves for that? Is there a way to prepare, Marilyn Hueper  8:26  I think we're at an apex. I believe there is I believe that first, we need to repent because we've reached this Apex because we've left a vacuum, we have believed a lie that I believe we believed a lie that we're supposed to just wait for a Messiah to come and fix everything, or to rescue us from the earth. And yet he gave us instructions at his departure to disciple the nations. And we have been stages and being. So when we vacate culture and government, then we leave a vacuum for other forces that don't have in this case, don't have the common vision of the founding fathers that affirmed God-given rights in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And it I believe, what's happening is you have actors and people in the background and legislatures that have bought into the idea that we the people need to not be aren't fit to be governing a republic that they need the few and the elite to tell us what to do. And the way they're getting around. The Constitution and the protections afforded for us in the Bill of Rights is bypassing these executive order things about The fight on terrorism and if they can, they can really label us as terrorists, I believe that what we need to do is we need to remember who we are. We need to repent for not standing in the gap for our nation, and that we are not Rome. We are not a Roman Republic, that the Messiah's people were under that didn't have a voice and and had to submit, we have rights. And we, our Constitution, our bill of rights, affirm our God given rights, and now we have a duty to execute those. And departing and being silent, is just poor stewardship on our part, it's horrendous stewardship, we have to get back in there and do our role, which means that when these things are happening, we need to learn how to press our voice into the court. And the legislature can pass and even the executive branch can pass all kinds of manners of law, where they derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That's us. We have to object, we have to take it to the court, we have to say this is not appropriate. But first, we have to know who we are. We have to repent for not walking in who we are and executing the duties that we've been given. Gary Duncan  11:17  How would you say go about knowing who we are as far as reading our constitution? Here's one thing I get some blowback sometimes because people know I tend to might be political, somewhat. I think there's an adverse reaction to Christians being political. And when you say political, it means to me it means standing up for our constitution and not, you know, just bowed down and, and just don't want to get into there because it's political. Well, you know, like, abortion is political to some people, you know, and it's and it's really nice. It's a life or death issue. Christians need to get political. Yeah. Marilyn Hueper  12:01  Well, and political, political, I agree, see is kind of a dirty word, it feels, you know, politics feels like synonymous with corruption and special interest. What I was, is that we focus on Kingdom Government, because that's our brain. And we're supposed to be preparing the way for his turn. So our role is to walk with integrity ourselves, to be involved locally. And in things like this not to let not just be armchair critics, they're training us to sit and yell at our television, that doesn't do anything, even yelling on your social media doesn't do anything away our system is designed, you have to learn how to press it into a court. That's where it has authority, where your voice as a man or a woman of God, especially if you can press your affidavit of truth is that's how all of these things are done. Any accusation against you has to be brought forth by a man or woman through that affidavit and learn how to bring it into the court, or any case you feel might be being pressed against you, or against others that you believe or are being oppressed wrongly. So we have to all learn a little bit of the law because otherwise, we empower lawlessness. So if we're just going to be armchair quarterbacks, then we are not stepping in on to the field, we're not on the field, we're still observers, we have to get on the field to have our voice heard through the constitutional method that's been afforded us. And so we're going to have to become educated, we're going to have to, you know, watch a few fewer sitcoms that night, we're gonna have to take some effort, or they're gonna take that as a cent because they drive the just powers through the consent of the governed. If all we are as armchair quarterbacks, then we have not accessed the path to dissent. We're only yelling at ourselves. So it's up to us. We have to get in there. So I have a website for I'm going to be sharing what happened and there's a lot to learn and I don't want to share and guide anybody into a dangerous direction want to share safe things like knowing what to do when they show up at your door? What are your rights because I didn't know I we asked, Can we make a phone call? They said no. And then we were like, Okay, good. We were kind of bluffing anyway because we wouldn't know who to call. Like, things like that. We don't know what does that means? I don't have an attorney on speed dial. I don't know anybody's phone number to call And now, you know, as we're in the process, as my counsel says, call anybody who doesn't that you know, and trust that doesn't have a gun to their head, right, then they're gonna be able to help you discern the situation. It doesn't have to be an attorney. It doesn't have to be a lawyer. Anybody who hasn't had a gun to their head and isn't handcuffed at the moment that you believe is has sense, is a trusted voice in your life. Just call them because you need someone to bet your circumstance with. And then the other one we asked is, you know, you have a warrant? Yes. Can we see it? Oh, yeah, you'll get to see it, you'll get a coffee even? Well, that's not the way it works the way it is. And when I finally demanded, like, I'm not going any further until I see this warrant, everything stopped. And they brought the warrant to me. So I learned even in this preliminary encounter, where I had no idea what my rights were that when my gut said like, this is not okay, I need to see your warrant. Everything stopped. And they did what I said. So we have more power in these situations than we know. And the purpose is to keep us ignorant. So don't access it. So when I said that all of a sudden, weren't was produced, I said, great. It appears I have some time on my hands, I'm going to be reading this and they immediately took it away. They're also not allowed to do that. But again, I didn't know what I would be looking for. So I didn't insist on getting it back. Now I know what they were cuz I was like, Why don't they want me to read it? Obviously, they don't know how ignorant I am that I won't know what's legal or not legal. But now I know that the warrant was only on the property, it was the search warrant, there was no more for them to interact with us at all. And so we had no obligation to be talking to them whatsoever. Marilyn Hueper  16:59  Now I know. So I would like to help educate other people. So you aren't getting buffaloed into Yeah, giving information that you don't need to without support and counsel that you're rightful should have? Gary Duncan  17:12  Oh, yeah, Marilyn Hueper  17:13  that's the starting place. They need to know how to handle themselves. Gary Duncan  17:16  Right, getting educated not. And that's, I guess, one of the things people might say as well. I don't plan on ever getting, you know, FBI agents come to my door, and I'm sure you didn't either. You know, Marilyn Hueper  17:29  I would say they're naive. And maybe, yeah, maybe it won't be FBI, maybe there'll be other, you know, enforcement agencies, or many abounding right now. And the same principles of knowing your rights apply in all those situations, whether it's a traffic stop, or whether it's TSA, at the airport, or whether it's a trooper, or, you know, wherever you might encounter someone from the executive branch and enforcement, enforcement officer, the rights are you the same all the way through. So you can prepare yourself, in some ways, small ways, and then you know more when you're being treated appropriately and when you're not. And that's really important because otherwise, we get hornswoggled. And they aren't required to tell you the truth at all. They have no burden on them to be truthful, the burden is all on you. So they actually have permission to tell you untruths, to get you to speak and potentially incriminate yourself. So if they say, blow in this breathalyzer, and we won't use it, even if you blow over, don't believe them? has them like fabulous, can you put that in writing, please? It's fine it or, you know, like the FBI agents to her saying, you know, just share with us you only have a misdemeanor trespassing, we're not going to arrest you today. Just share with that, too. Who are you hanging out with that day? That's completely not true. They absolutely wanted to arrest me that day, every intention and desire to arrest me that day. So they don't have to tell you the truth, but anything you say will be used against you. And anything you say will become a report. Any informal chat they want to have with you There's nothing informal about it. A 302 report will be created and everything that you shared will be on there. And if they start redefining terms of my goodness, they took the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as evidence against us. A completely unmarked unread pocket copy that they themselves in the legislature still print and hand out to all of us. So if they can use that as our evidence against you. They can use pretty much anything, you just need to not be talking to them without counsel. Gary Duncan  20:08  That's very good. Yeah. Because we saw what happened to General Flynn when he had just a casual conversation with two FBI. Marilyn Hueper  20:17  Absolutely. We Gary Duncan  20:17  weren't going to we're just here to have just an informal conversation. It's unfortunate that we have to have this distrust of our government. But Marilyn Hueper  20:29  it is no way. And I think that's a big thing that we have to get over. And I still grieve. And I think people, the men and women at the January 6, there were a lot of people grieving because our current state of our affairs of our government is so much different than we were led to believe and that we naively wanted to think could be true. If I look at it, the more I read the founding fathers and their documents, I feel like they would be yelling at us and saying, what the heck are you thinking? Why would you ever book that we told you from the beginning, never trust the executive branch, never trust enforcement? Don't trust your legislators? If, if you could trust that we wouldn't put all these protections in? What are you thinking wake up people? So I think we just have to make up for the reality of the nature of humans when they have power when men and women have power, which is the thing that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And they're garnering more and more power. And we are the authorizing agents, we need to start shutting that power down. And we have to learn how we do that lawfully. And I believe that's you're learning how to access, primarily putting our affidavits into the record, even just that which basically, an affidavit is a fancy word for meaning, writing down what was true in your experience and signing at the bottom and saying, This is true to the best of my knowledge, and I reserve all rights to the event and just putting that into the court records. It's just that has so much power, that's one of the most powerful things we can do. We need it. We need eye witness. There are so many eyewitnesses that January sixth, we need their affidavits on record, because otherwise, we let them write the history books, Gary Duncan  22:30  which we do a very good job of letting them write. Marilyn Hueper  22:35  We aren't good that armchair politics. Gary Duncan  22:38  So you've you're going to be you say you're going to be putting out a website for the purpose of getting those people that that want to tell their testimony. I know we talked about we do people stand website you have out Marilyn Hueper  22:50  it's a public affidavit. It's my public, making public the truth of my experience. Now, if people were inside the Capitol, you're in a very vulnerable, much more vulnerable position than people who never entered the Capitol, I would consider that a public affidavit. That's because I believe it's also important to be public. Because this is a war. Bethink of it. The war is for the minds of the people who have the power and that's We the People, according to our founding documents, the government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, if they can win our minds in opinion, to acquiesce to their ridiculousness, then they've won the battle. So I believe that we the people who know the truth, and believe and understand that we're called by God to help bring forth good healthy government, and, and participate in the process, not just be cheerleaders or people in the stands, one of the ways we can do that is by not necessarily fighting on Facebook and Twitter. But finding ways to actually post your experience in a meaningful way on the blog or something or I would like to, I would like to start a place. Have a link in my website to a website where people who have eyewitness experience that was at January 6, who was not inside the Capitol, because of those people in a very vulnerable position. They need only to be putting their affidavits into the court, not out into the public purview to be messed with. But the 2000s of people are out there hundreds of 1000s who have eyewitness experience, and their experience isn't being shared, it's not accessible. And so we can't count at this Unknown Speaker  24:49  public Marilyn Hueper  24:52  the narrative that's being created by others. So if we can counteract that in some way have I Imagine having a website where hundreds of 1000s 1000s and 1000s of those are available for people to scroll through and help correct. They're like, Oh my gosh, okay, that many people are having that many similar experiences of not in an insurrection of just people lawfully hanging out at a rally and respectful fashion, that does a lot to correct the record. And then if those who are are willing, I believe the most effective place to place those as into the record, wherever this has is being experienced, or whatever the case number is, and I'll be looking for that, to press those into the records called pressing into the record, which basically just means having it on file that 1000s of people are saying, No, that's not what happened. No, that's not what we experienced. This is what we experienced. This is what we saw because the courts are where we buy the organization of our government. That's where the redress that's where the correction needs to be made. Otherwise unrebutted affidavits on their part declarations, if we don't read about them in the courts, they stand as the fact we assent to them by our silence. So those are two places, I'd like to see us moving and training ourselves up on how to behave, walk-in honor, but also walk in strength and truth when we encounter someone from law enforcement or the executive branch. So I think those are my kind of three focuses there right now. And then we're going to be approaching those with from we the people stand dot or g.org. And honestly, we've been accosted so many times, in the last two months, it's been difficult too, to even post but now I feel like there's I'm learning. And I've pressed things into the record. I've gotten things into the court clerk, and I'm learning enough that I can start educating and helping others how to do it, because yeah, now that we're on the TSA, list and other ways that we're being harassed, it's difficult to know how to, they're hitting us all so fast right now does mask mandates with shot records, threats with? Yeah, all of this stuff, they're hitting all of us so fast that, that we don't know how to respond. It's hard to collect ourselves. But it also means that they aren't letting us forget the peril that we're in. And that's the good part. So we don't want to become paralyzed because of the continuous assault. But we do want to stay alert and become forward actors or to act as acting aid, movers because we the people are the ones with the ultimate authority. Gary Duncan  27:57  Great, good. Good. Well, one last question would be, how has your life changed? Between and we've heard a lot about it, how it's really changed. But what when you look back at where you're at right now and from this, from your pre-January six life to your post-January service life, what is the biggest thing you're taking away from that? Marilyn Hueper  28:28  I would say pre-January six, I was under the impression that my duty primarily was to show up. Before January 6, I would say I believe that my primary responsibility as a lawful American was to show up at the polls and vote, to educate myself before that, cast an educated vote, and then go back to my life. And I had, it was on them because they had been duly elected. And now they needed to run with the ball and I go back to my life. Now I understand, I believe the true way that our documents are set up, and it always felt wrong because it felt very powerless. Because they would say one thing and then they show up there and they do something very different. Now, I would understand that we are not just the adjudicators that the election is not just oversight at the election counting, we're the adjudicators every day in our life. So when we encounter that, as the superior rights that are affirmed for us in the Constitution, it's our duty to challenge that and to bring it to the attention of the court or to the agency that's executing. So it's a much more active role. It takes work, it takes commitment, but in all honesty, if we the people aren't willing To do it, that we weren't ready to have a nation that is a republic, we're ready to be the lawful oversight because there's responsibility just like I have a business, and I hire people to help me in that, but if I just hired them, and then only check on them every two years, only check on them every two years, that's not gonna work out. So great. We have to be in there active all the time, not just from our, our yelling at our televisions, but we have to be in there in the ways they recognize which is in the courts, learning how to press things into the record, learning how to bring things to the attention-getting active in your local groups that are doing. Otherwise, they're right, we're ready for it. So we have to decide, it's ours to win, and it's ours to lose, we have to decide if we're going to get in and be a part of it. Gary Duncan  30:56  Yeah, and we're fixing to come into a big challenge with these endless committee meetings of January 6, and we're gonna see how that narrative is going to be framed. And, you know, we got over 500 people in jail. So they're going to take the 500 that are in jail, and they're going to swipe everybody, like you said, that big nit, of the 502 million people that were at the mall, and now they're all going to be assumed to be insurrectionist terrorist, you know, whatever the term they're gonna transition to now, after these hearings, Marilyn Hueper  31:36  and they do have guns, and they are showing us that they're willing to use force to take us with no charges and hold us in detention, with no recourse with no access to counsel. So there, it's a bullying tactic. So they're bullying the people who were there into silence because you don't want to be identified with one of these because you could be next. The lie in that is that if you're silent now, I guess a lot like Esther, right. And in the season of, we are all Esther's right now in our nation, we are the Esther's every man or woman is an Aster in the way our documents are designed. So if we're silent, don't think that they're not going to include you in the sleep. It just means that you're not going to get to participate in the solution. Because I believe Messiah has. He wins, he wins. And that means we win. But the decision we have now is are we going to be here, well done good and faithful servant. You stood in the gap. You were clear when unrighteousness was happening, you did the work and you pressed your voice into the record, you took some risks if we're looking for safe. And I think that's, you know, something we have to get over. If we want to have the nation you believe and that we were offered by the founding fathers we were offered it, and one of the founding fathers that are you have Republic now if you can keep it. And that's what we have to decide, are we willing to take the risks, rather than just quote How lovely it is that they all took the risks? Are we willing to take the risks, because if we aren't willing to take the risks, then we aren't going to be able to, we aren't going to be worthy of having a republic? But it does mean you know like for us we have already assented to the Lord that we're willing to take the risks. And that was before they showed up at our door. We said like, Hey, we can see that things are wrong. Something is terribly wrong. And we are available. We don't know what that means. We don't know what that looks like. We're not educated to know what we're supposed to do. But if you want to use us, we're available. And that means, you know, if you're signing up for service with the ultimate executive branch, you don't exactly have to get to pick where He sends you. So when they showed up at our door, I was kind of like, Okay, well, assignment accepted. Yes, sir. So you just walk it. So I think we all need to make ourselves available. And it might mean, you know, very uncomfortable things. It might mean a scary thing, but the one thing I would say is that we've talked about this last night. It sounds really scary from the outside isn't intense at each intersection where things are happening. It can be scary in between because you don't know what the next movies are. But at the same time, we feel very covered. We feel very empowered by the, by the Lord somehow or the presence. I mean, we joke about it all the time. We're just in the middle, you know, we're on the E-ticket ride at Disneyland. We don't know. Sometimes you scream, and it's scary. And sometimes you're looking at the scenery, and it's great. It's just gonna be whatever it's gonna be. So if we're going to call ourselves ambassadors of the kingdom, and if we're going to call ourselves followers of Messiah, you know, they're examples in the newer testaments. They were pretty painful examples. So we're gonna have to be willing to be uncomfortable. But I would say even if you're not willing, they're gonna make you uncomfortable anyway. They already are making us uncomfortable. Yeah. It's Yeah, now or later, either on your terms or on their terms. Gary Duncan  36:00  That's very good. Very good. Well, Marilyn, it's been a pleasure talking with you. I know that this is a continued journey for you guys. And we'll definitely stay in contact and find out How's it going, and, and all that, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about it too and get the word out and it won't people. Just being aware, to wake up. Yeah. So this has been Gary Duncan with faith and freedom Fridays in Maryland. It's been a pleasure. Again, thank you so much, and blessing. Stay in there. Godspeed.    

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Welcome to the Recruitment Hackers Podcast. A show about innovations, technology and leaders in the recruitment industry. Brought to you by Talkpush the leading recruitment automation platform. Max: Hello everybody. And welcome back to The hacks from max,  our recruitment podcast for recruitment hackers and people who're interested in accelerating recruitment. Today we have a really exciting guest joining us who is not coming strictly from the world of recruitment and talent acquisition. But in fact, from the world of sales, Tito Borht is the founder and CEO of AltiSales, which is one of the leading sales development providers to the startup and tech world in the U.S. I met him in San Francisco a few years back, and I've been following him ever since on social media. Which he has turned into a hiring engine for his company. Tito, welcome to the show. Tito: Thanks Max. It's good to be here.Max: Thanks for coming. So on this show we talk a lot to Talent Acquisition professionals and we present content for people who are hiring thousands and thousands of people.And yesterday I was talking to somebody who hires 10,000 people a year. Your business is at the different end of the spectrum but I think that's what you've done at AltiSales can be really inspiring for companies of all sizes which is leveraging your voice on social media in order to attract exceptional talent. So that's where I'd like to take the conversation to. but first before we get going tell us a little bit about yourself.  What is the AltiSales.Tito: Cool. Yeah. Quick background here. So I started a sales development consulting and outsourcing company back in 2012. The idea came 2011 started really doing work 2012. And we're a really fun company to work for. I mean, we are a distributed company. We have employees and I think at one point we had like nine countries, I think now we're like seven different countries. A lot of people work from home. We have cool things happening like the quarterly president's club.So every, three months, everybody who's hit their goals for the company is flown over to a cool destination. We've done things like Cancun, Mexico, the Bahamas and places like that, we get the team together and we spend about a long weekend, with one another, just enjoying ourselves, getting to know the rest of the team and so on and so forth because the rest of things are just managed via Zoom. So we're really interacting, just via video conference.Max: So with this pandemic in place, no more quarterly president's club. I ImagineTito: Yeah, we're punting the President's Club for the future. So everybody who's qualified in Q1 and now is qualifying in Q2 is going to join me the same one  at some point and we're going to make it bigger and better once we can travel. But yes, coronavirus has ruined a little bit of the fun, you know, I sometimes joke with the employees and I say, you know, maybe the way we will run this is we'll just do president's club like this. Max: Ooh. Yeah. For those who are listening, Tito just switched on his zoom background with the Palm trees. Yeah, I think this is the closest, a lot of people have been to the beach, sad times.  But  you know, I mean, I don't want to talk about sales efficiency, but for Talkpush. We're spending less time traveling and more time selling, actually. Maybe you've seen the same thing.Tito: Yeah, that's right. I think companies that are commonly remote are doing so much better than the usual company. And then companies that are usually in house are struggling to figure it out. At the beginning it was figuring out their setup, meaning what do I need at home to be able to have the basic equipment so I can work.But nowadays it's productivity, you know, it's not easy to transition from working at the office to working from home and not wanting to take a nap from noon to 3:00 PM, right. Or whatever it is. Max: I already took mine.  So we're good.  Nothing wrong with taking a few naps, by the way. I mean, that can also be a productivity tip. but yeah, maybe not a two hour one.  I do think if you want to accelerate your time to nap, a glass of wine at lunch really,  does the trick. Tell us about AltiSales, the type of profiles that you're hiring for and maybe, you know, when you started this company how did you come up with a recruitment process  that was gonna speak to your values? That was going to speak to the kind of people you want to work with?Tito: Yeah. So it was funny because the company, the first thing we set up was based in LA Paz, Bolivia, and we hired half of our team in the U S and we offered them all expenses paid to Bolivia. This was  back in 2012.  And then we hired a few people locally in Bolivia, and we built a hybrid team, righ, of native Americans living in Bolivia for six months, doing some work and then some local people that would be more or stable throughout the years in terms of being able to work with us. Unless, because the visas get more complex the longer you want to keep people out of the country and working there.So, I think at the beginning it was very much trying to figure it out.  Where do we post in these different countries? What countries want to use websites like Indeed versus Craigslist versus local, even newspapers or stuff like that.  Finding the people with the basic requirements, like for us, we're an English we're speaking company. Then our main, you know, language is going to be English across the board.  But, then there are some teams that speak Spanish more than English. For example, we have a good amount of people in Latin America.  So the early days I think it was more figuring it out and understanding where to post and what to post,  in different places.But then as years went by the strategy evolved and nowadays we actually find about 80% of our employees directly through social media. I mean, LinkedIn is probably the biggest place. They come inbound. So, I post something about us recruiting and we just started getting applications, which is awesome.And then the other 20%, I think, comes from regionally sourced through current employees that understand their local countries and we know where to post. So we want to hire somebody in Colombia. We have somebody there that will tell us where to post. Somebody in Costa Rica, somebody in Bolivia, somebody in Argentina, we have all these different countries where we know what are the common places, where English speaking people, would be looking at.Max: You know, the good job boards and marketplaces. You were talking about the sourcing strategy from a posting and then how it moved to social media. In a bigger company you have let's say 20 or 30 people working in recruitment. You'd have half the team doing sourcing the other half doing interviewing.And then within the sourcing team, maybe you'd have a team that's dedicated to social media storytelling and answering questions. And if they're big enough, maybe they even have a chatbot, like the one we provide in order to handle these inquiries. I guess your time has, over the years, you've shifted more of your time into social media and into storytelling because you realized that it was gonna save you money on advertising or was it more about changing the quality of the traffic? How did this come about? Tito: Yeah I wish it was as strategic as you would make it seem. I think the way it worked is I just, I'm a very open and transparent person. So I started sharing a lot of things on social media, and I write blogs on LinkedIn and Sales Hacker about  how to run a company, better everything from commission structures to, you know, whatever, like SDR to handles some things that are very specific to my industry. But, I also share a lot about company culture. Like how do you build promotion paths? And how do you compensate your people?And why you should do president's club and why SDRs matter and blah, blah, blah, and things like that.And that's just attracted my audience, like the type of people that I hire align with those beliefs and they read my blogs and you know, my information online and they say, that's a company I'd love to work for. And then obviously it does have additional benefits. Like everybody working from home, you know, allows us to have a very broad market.So I don't need to be trying to recruit somebody in San Francisco or somebody in Boston or somebody in Texas.  You know, I can go and say, it doesn't matter where you work. It doesn't matter where you live. If you align with our mindset, apply. We hire everywhere and anywhere.Max: Yeah, that's, that's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. This is especially applicable for a company that is open to hiring remote, because when you're doing social media, you're investing your time in building content. You can't really decide where it ends up. It might be consumed anywhere in the world.And so you don't want that to be lost  Did you find that, you said 80% of the traffic or your hires now come from LinkedIn and what is it Instagram? What other channels are you using? Tito: Yeah. LinkedIn is maybe the place where we get the most sales development reps, just because of the following. We just got, god, I think 40 or 50 resumes from people in Latin America through just having our teams post on Instagram. I put a post, my employees, follow me on Instagram and share the post. And because they're regionally located and they have friends or friends of friends, they said we're recruiting. Help me spread the word. Here's what we need. Basic requirements ping me for a link to the job post. And then we got like 50 people in like two or three days and we wanted to hire two. We hired one very quickly. They had all the exact skills and requirements that we're looking for. It's an entry level position, but they were experienced already.They knew more about the world of data research than we expected to find and they were great. So, yeah, for us, it works really, really well. The more you grow outside your main city, the more valuable social media recruitment becomes. Because, as you said, you can't pick where they're going to read your content and therefore, the more open you are to hiring internationally or outside your HQ, the better Max: There are a lot of companies right now, which as a response to the pandemic have decided,  we're going to be working from home from now on, and this is how we're going to operate going forward. Even for positions that we thought were desk bound we've made the switch completely.So I think they're going to have to look at, let's maybe switch off some of our span  on the job boards and the CareerBuilder and Indeed and move some of that into investing, into creating quality content that people will share and reshare, et cetera — on LinkedIn. Your content is super targeted to the sales development community and it's almost like, it's got a very distinct voice where you sound like you're an industry lobbyist; that you're fighting for the little guy. Which is a great way to get some, I guess, attract certain types of profiles. I Imagine this kind of strategy could be replicated well for companies that hire a particular professional, a particular type of professional. Could be for a company that's hiring lawyers or maybe a company that's hiring sales insurance professionals or recruiters. If you have a big staffing firm, we could replicate that and get inspired from from your content.Do you think that would work?Tito: I think so. I think that this is applicable to  any company. And again, it depends. Who's writing the content? I think that if the content is coming from the CEO and it's a company wide kind of a mindset. It can apply to any company and it can apply to any position.Right? The idea that we take care of our employees, like I tell my team, I say, you know, 20 years down the road, you're going to look back at your career. When you think what was my best career decision I've ever made, if that decision wasn't to join our company, then I failed as a leader. And I repeat that several times and we operate with a mindset of that being the case.So we're really investing in coaching and training and helping our team do better and learn more and, you know, grow us as employees. They really appreciate it. I mean our employee turnover is almost nonexistent. I've only had, in the last three years, two employees leave our company voluntarily.Got another two or three due to low performance, which you know, will happen.  We tried training them forever and things didn't work. But well, truly, for a company with 25 employees having churn, I don't know, maybe six or seven employees in three years. it's something that we're proud of.Max: That's pretty outstanding. Either you're doing something right or you're hiring the worst performers in the market, they can't find a job elsewhere. Just kidding. I've had a few departures myself over the last year. Which you know, was always disappointing, but  mostly the people who left because they wanted to start their own company and they have a new startup, a new venture. And, you know, I take a little bit of satisfaction in knowing that I helped them to learn the trade and gain the confidence to become entrepreneurs themselves. So that's the kind of attrition I'm okay with, I guess. Tito: Yeah, that's right. I say that to my team all the time. I say if you're leaving, I actually just the one person where we recruited via social media recently, especially Instagram helped us a lot as our team shared.She's moving to the nonprofit world. So. That was her passion. She worked, you know, in Washington, in DC for a nonprofit before and now her old boss contacted her saying, if you want to come back, we're hiring remote and I can hire you regardless of where you are. She's in South America, as she said, I'm taking that one also because the pay they were offering her was way higher than she was making Latin America. She was getting essentially a U.S salary in Latin America. Max: So the nonprofit world, plus the salary. That's hard to beat. It's hard to fight against that. Tell me about, how do you feel about how your recruitment work has evolved over the years? What are some of the remaining pain points? You've solved around the issue of sourcing and you've got a good pipeline of candidates coming in, and it sounds like you could probably scale it up.I mean, I know you're still a relatively small business, but I would imagine that you could find potentially hundreds of sales reps to hire globally with a social media first strategy. I don't think that there's any limitations there because the universe is so big. but what are some of the limitations on your end where you feel like, wow, I wish this didn't take so much time? Or where do you think are still some of the opportunities or the pain points today? Tito: Yeah, that's so funny. When you say pain points, I can say I smell your sales sweat. Only people who have done enough sales would ever talk about  pain points. When I talk to my friends I don't talk in pain points. I talk in challenges or whatever, you know,  Max: I don't use challenges. I use pain points. Tito: Yeah. So like, hey, you know, team meeting! Okay, here are my pain points. What are the difficult parts? I mean, one of the things that we've done well is get way more strict on the process that we go through to make sure our candidate is qualified.Like we're going to do both the culture fit and a skills test. The skills test for the SDRs is we actually give them a bunch of online resources. We say go watch these videos, go read these things and then come back and, build a sequence of phones and emails and show us that you can do the work and you can do it well.And they need to pass that test in order to do well, so we're testing for both, their ability to learn quickly through only resources. And their ability to execute well, once they've learned something. So that that's helped us a lot. We do the same on our data research team. We have a few tasks, they gotta do an Excel, as part of the interview process and so on and so forth.so those scale pretty well and then our team retention is so good that  we don't need to hire a bunch of people. We're hiring five or six per year and we can get very strict on  quality. It's kind of the opposite of how most people think. Most people think, what's the minimum amount of money I can pay my employees while still being competitive in the market?And what's the minimum I can train them while they evolve their career? What's the minimum number of promotions I can give while they'll still not leave? And I think about it the complete opposite way, I think what's the maximum amount of effort I can put towards an employee while still making it profitable? And have that employee grow as much as possible within the company? How do I maximize the employee experience? So as a sales guy and a sales development person, my background is in psychology and I'm always thinking the opposite. I'm always thinking how do I maximize the experience of any other person interacting with us? When you look internally. I think about it in the exact same way. How do I maximize the employee experience? How do we maximize the fact that after them being with us for three months, they say, holy cow, that onboarding was incredible. Their training is incredible. I'm being helped. Employees make mistakes, how you treat them, how you manage your team… This great book called Radical Candor helps with that employee communication. It talks about like rockstar mindset versus superstar mindset and being radically candid. So we apply a lot of these principles to make sure, first, that our current employees are incredibly happy, and second, how do we find the people who will fit the skills that we're hiring for? And also fit the culture we are hiring for? If we hire the right person they're going to stick with us for many, many years.So, that's the mindset behind our recruitment strategy. Max: Well, it's lovely to be able to be so picky, Tito. And I think that your psychology background, that's what you said, that's what you studied in school?Tito: Decision neuroscience.Max: That sounds a little heavier than just psychology. Psychology is the most common major for people working in talent acquisition and HR, and they're very much focused on employee happiness. I think people who exercise that empathy muscle will have a bright future. I think that most of the challenge in recruitment and talent acquisition has moved away from how do we reduce the cost per lead as much as possible,  because it's really easy to get volume, actually, today. I mean, you can always buy volume. Your system sounds like you spend more time optimizing around that initial assessment and figuring out that very hard thing, which is can, somebody research and be curious,and solve problems in the course of that recruitment process.Is the interaction with the candidates happening over email, Skype? Or what are some of the tools you use?  Tito: It varies. I mean, when we've recruited internationally, number one is, do I have good enough English to be able to work on the team? So literally people send us a WhatsApp message. We ask them, you know, to do X, Y, Z, or introduce themselves or pitch something.And, and we just want to gauge the quality of their English, which is important.  Max: Do you eliminate anybody who uses the word pain point?Tito: Definitely, discarded, immediately. Forget about them. Joking aside, we do look at what are the basic skills that we need for the employee. And we've mostly recruited positions that are fairly entry-level and we grow our people.So, our managers internally, we recruited one SDR manager and he's grown a lot within the company, has gotten so much better. And then everybody else has been promoted into their leadership positions. So we really hire from the ground up and evolve our people and make them better than keep them in the company.So yeah, I really enjoy building it from the ground up. Increasing the loyalty rather than, like you said playing the game of lowering our cost per lead. What I want to do is maximize what I call ROTI and this I learned from a mentor of mine, Matt Cameron. This ROTI is return on time invested.Max: I know Matt, I met him in San Diego, before the crisis.Tito: Nice. He's amazing. All his trainings are great. But, the way you think about it is, how do you make sure that any employee joining your company or who's already at your company — when they look at all the options they have, they can go work other places, or whatever else. How do we maximize a return on their time invested?We're asking them to invest another two years. When I talk to an employee I'm like, why are you going to be here two years from now? What is this job giving you that makes it the best idea to be here for the next two years? And for some of them it's financial, Oh, I can make the most money here than anywhere else, because I'm going to work on my sales commissions, whatever, and our commissions are great. For other people,  growth learning, the opportunities. For other people as a job, flexibility for other people it's our management style, the lack of stress of the job, because we're very results oriented. Not, you know, time and effort oriented. Max: Sorry, don't mean to interrupt. I was thinking that those questions are questions that we'd love to get honest answers to. But when you ask a question like that, sometimes the candidate will just tell you what they want you to hear. And you know, they'll come up with some sort of cookie cutter answer about, Oh, I'm trying to blah, blah, blah, help you help me. It's hard sometimes to get honest answers, maybe it's because your team has been trained on this radical candor communication that helps you to  get more out of it. It's  a little bit harder with candidates. Tito: Yeah. You can't do it in the first interview. Right? You're not going to ask them, why do you want to join AltiSales? What's your ROTI? But, once you've gone through a couple of interviews and you're about to offer the job, and this will happen, they say, I have another three job offers. And we say, okay, great. Why in the world would you join us? Why wouldn't you go somewhere else?So, we're not saying justify the fact that you want to join us. I say justify the fact that you don't want to join anybody else. What makes us special? If we give you a job offer, would you take it? And why would you? I mean, isn't every job the same? And then what is funny is this is a little bit of reverse psychology, right? They'll do the opposite. It'll be like, Oh no, Tito, here are the three things I love about your company. I love that you're international. I love that I can work from home. I love this. I love that. And I really want to join you. And I say, are you sure? They're like, yes. I'm like, okay, so if I give you this job offer right now would you take it? They're like I would, I'm like, you already have it. That's it. Sign here. Right?And then with your employees you also want to be constantly talking about it. So like our managers to every employee, they ask him, what is your mindset? Are you in rockstar mindset or are you in superstar mindset? Superstar mindset means you want to work hard long hours. You want to get a promotion. You don't mind coming in early, leaving late. You're going to be assigned more responsibility.You want to expand your responsibilities beyond your primary area of expertise. You want us to train you and coach you and guide you and help you grow. If you're in rockstar mindset you're the opposite. You just want to do your job really well. And some people are rockstar mindsets with orientation about money. You're a sales rep. You just want to sell as much as you can. You don't want to learn about sales management. You don't want to learn about marketing. You don't want to learn about any of these. I'm going to sell day in and day out and make my money. And other people are rockstars oriented towards time off, they say, I'm just gonna come here, I'm going to do my work. I want to work six hours a day then I have to take care of my kids, or I love playing golf and go play golf twice a week. Or I want to do XYZ outside of my job. Dude, I'm getting married. I got to plan a wedding. I got stuff to do. I can't be working 10 hours a day, screw that.So we understand how employees think, how they behave, what they're looking for. We try to optimize the manager's efforts to help them achieve in the next few months, whatever they want to achieve, or they can be rotating. So monster in some quarters, they're in a rockstar mindset, some quarters they're in superstar mindset, and then they can shift back and forth and the managers learn how to manage to those mindsets. Max: Very good. Well, I don't know about the rest of the audience and our listeners, but personally, after, after hearing you. I kind of feel like applying for a job at AltiSales, just to see how I would fare in the recruitment process. I'd like you to try that reverse psychology on me in interview number three. And I think there was a lot to pick there not just for me, but for any company that wants to hire in sales. So thanks for sharing all those nuggets of wisdom, Tito.Tito: Of course, man, my pleasure. Unfortunately, you wouldn't be qualified to join us because you said pain points. Max: All right. Well then I won't or maybe,  I'll use one of my aliases and see how far I can get through. Thanks Tito, and , looking forward to meeting in person again when traveling is permitted.Tito: Well, let's make it happen. Thanks Max. Max: Cheers.Max: Awesome inspiring chat with Tito Bohrt Founder of CEO of AltiSales. Please check out AltiSales and add Tito to listen to his insights on how to build a sales development team. His content is the driving engine behind his recruitment. I think, a lesson for anybody who wants to build a large scale operation, large or small, especially if you're going to hire remote teams.Thank you, Tito. Hope you enjoyed it. If you want to hear more interviews with thought leaders in the recruitment space, subscribe to the Recruitment Hackers Podcast, leave us a review and invite your friends. Thank you. See you soon.

As we are rolling through December and getting closer to the New Year, today’s show is especially relevant. We’re talking about getting clarity and discernment about your life purpose and staying in alignment with that purpose. My guest today is doing incredible work around this topic, so I’m excited to share it with you! Dr. Bradley Davidson is a former student of mine over a decade ago in UTD’s executive coaching program. Bradley has been a coach for over ten years and currently leads a group of internal coaches at a major financial services firm. On the side, he has a private coaching and spiritual direction practice. Bradley has a passion around life purpose and how we, as coaches, can help clients create clarity around their life calling. Creating the connection between what we do and why we’re here establishes a different kind of energy, and the connection is one that our clients need to learn how to achieve. Bradley has created a download of the major findings from his dissertation research around the roles of caching and the discernment of calling. You can find the link for it in the Resources for this show. Bradley has completed extensive training and certification in spiritual direction at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, and he holds the senior-most human resources certification from the Society of Human Resource Management and the Human Resources Institute. Bradley is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, and he brings his incredible research to us today on the show. Show HIghlights: ●    How Bradley chose the topic for his dissertation ●    How Bradley identified his “createdness” and developed his mission statement ●    How Bradley became a coach and decided to get his doctorate ●    How Bradley conducted the research for his Ph.D. ●    The universal drive (and struggle) to identify your purpose ●    Two key concepts of Bradley’s research findings: ○     1. Components of the coaching process that support the discernment of calling ○     2. Characteristics of great coaches who support clients in discernment ●    The concept of looking inward to assess strengths ●    The key to success: the coach’s ability to make the discernment real and tangible ●    Examples of Bradley’s work with clients on discernment: journaling and compiling “your river story” ●    The secret to thriving is to look inward and connect your purpose to the needs of the world ●    Why the coachee has to have a desire for change and a willingness to be honest and open ●    Why a coach has to be open to his/her discernment ●    Brad’s model for discernment: ○    L--Look inward ○    I--Imagine the possibilities ○    F--Form a strategy ○    E--Executing the strategy ●    Results that Bradley sees with his clients Resources: Thrivinity (http://www.thrivinity.com/) Live And Lead On Purpose (http://www.liveandleadonpurpose.com/)   Get Brad’s download here (https://afocusonresults.coachesconsole.com/star-coaches-resource-download---dr.-bradley-davidson.html)

Anna Jordan meets Piers Linney, an entrepreneur, investor and former Dragon on Dragon's Den. We discuss the most memorable pitches from the show as well as Piers' first foray into entrepreneurship.    Be sure to visit SmallBusiness.co.uk for more articles on starting a business and raising external finance. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Want to read the interview instead? Hello and welcome to Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk. I’m your host, Anna Jordan. Today we have Piers Linney, an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for his time as a Dragon on Dragon’s Den. We’ll be talking about Piers’ enterprising beginnings and how you can drive your small business forward, even during difficult spells.  Anna: Hello Piers. Piers: Hi Anna. Anna: How are you? Piers: Very good. Anna: Great. OK, as the intro suggests, I’d like to go back a bit. As we know, it’s easier for entrepreneurs to get started earlier and reach a larger audience, helped by the likes of selling platforms like eBay and Depop. But you were just as entrepreneurial, even when you were a teenager – that was before the introduction of social media, apps. I understand that you used to sell the Sunday papers, but you bypassed the… Piers: Ah, you’re going way back now! [laughs] Yup, yup, I did. So, you bypassed the newsagent because you saw a gap in the market there and you want to the wholesaler and distributed the Sunday paper around your neighbourhood. Piers: Yes, so, just going back to your earlier point. The fact that you can start a business more easily these days – there are platforms that help you in terms of distribution – it doesn’t mean you should. It’s still about the idea. What I learned early on – I’ve always been fascinated about business, really – I grew up in a village in Milltown, so a lot of the neighbours had their own businesses. I didn’t really know anybody who had a job in terms of getting up in the morning and going off to work. They were builders, joiners, jobs that you work with your hands. Maybe owned a quarry. I sort of thought: ‘Right, I had a job’ which was my paper round, which paid £5 a week. If I was late it was £4.50, which shows you how long ago this was. And I thought: ‘This is just a mug’s game’. It was very cold up in the north in those days. Global warming’s made it easier. And I thought: ‘What can I do?’ So, one morning on a Sunday when they [the newsagent] didn’t deliver, my dad said to me: ‘Could you get me my paper? I don’t want to get out of bed.’ And I said: ‘OK, I’ll go and get it for you.’ And he gave me 50p. I said: ‘Hang on a minute, that’s pretty good money compared to what I’m earning on my paper round.’ The next-door neighbour said to me: ‘Oh, can you do the same?’ My dad was telling him about the new service. And I thought: ‘Hang on, there’s something in this.’ I flyered my whole neighbourhood and built a paper round. I was earning £15-£20 on a Sunday morning for doing a bit of a longer paper round, but it was first entrée and my first understanding that if you find a niche and you find a product or a service that somebody wants and it adds value to their lives, and they’re willing to pay you more than it costs to deliver that service, i.e. it’s profitable, then you can create value and – in this case, it was a small example – some wealth. I used that money to buy my first and very expensive BMX. And through that I understand that the idea’s great and the execution clearly, but what it also came down to is a lot of hard work and graft. I Imagine it must’ve taken quite a bit of confidence as well at that age. How did you approach the wholesaler and how did they respond to you? Piers: I’ve never lacked self-confidence and it’s probably something that’s helpful in being an entrepreneur. Becoming confident or becoming a leader in many ways is something that can be instilled in you or you can be born with it, or it’s something you can learn. In the military, they can train leaders. I was always confident, and I could see the opportunity to make money. And again, the wholesaler, all he got was another customer, it just wasn’t a newsagent. His bundle of papers, rather than drop it outside a newsagent, was dropped off at someone’s house, at a residential address. He didn’t really care – he was just making a bit more money.                 I understand that your mother set up her own business after retiring from nursing in the NHS, I’m sure that was some kind of inspiration to you.   Piers: People say to me: ‘Who are your role models in life?’ I’ve never had formal mentors. My initial role models were my parents. My dad was a Mancunian working-class lad who got into Cambridge on a scholarship, so he was bright. Then after that, it was people that I worked with. I’ve always worked with people who are more senior that are better than me. Then after that, I’ve always tried to hire people that are better than me. I’ve had three meetings today and they’ve all been with people that know more about something that I’m looking to get into. And that’s really important because you never have all the answers. The world’s moving so quickly now and the market is so dynamic that you can’t be expected to have the answers. And if you think you have, you’re probably wrong. What would you say in terms of small businesses being able to hire better talent? Perhaps because they’re nimbler, they can innovate at a faster rate. Would you agree with that? Piers: I’ve been through this quite a few times where you’ve got a small business and you want to attract talent. Now, a couple of things: the first one is that, really, you shouldn’t be concerned about where talent resides. If you want to have a talented forklift truck driver, they probably need to live reasonably close to your warehouse. But if you’re looking at the creative economy and tech-based businesses, talent can live anywhere now. It doesn’t matter. The idea of a city even is arguably unnecessary going forward into the future. Don’t worry about where talent is, just go for the best talent. You’ve then got to be more creative to access more talent because they’re going to have more people talking to them, they might have a nice cushy job in a big company. You’ve got to be more creative about how you bring them onboard, about renumeration. If you’ve got a company you intend to sell or float one day, you can offer people shares. You shouldn’t give shares in a company that’s intending to be a lifestyle business forever – unless you’re going to make money in dividends. Think about how you’re going to add value to their lives. A lot of the entrepreneurs I come across think that these senior people who are joining them are doing them a favour. But you’ve got to remember that you’re doing them a favour actually because if they didn’t want to leave corporate life and do something more interesting and entrepreneurial where they have a better work-life balance, they wouldn’t be talking to you. And when you bring people onboard – no matter who they are, how talented they are – think very carefully about handing out shares. Make sure that when they leave, for whatever reason, you can get them back. But the talent is out there. And the other thing about talent that I’m very passionate about is diversity. There’s a pool of talent. If you’re looking for people who look like you, have the same religious beliefs as you, same sexuality as you, they live in the same area and went to the same school as you, you’re limiting your talent pool. Don’t do that. You need to think about diversity in all of its forms, especially in terms of thought as well, to access a broader and deeper talent pool. That’s the competitive advantage. There’s a huge amount of talent out there. I’m a trustee of Nesta as well, the innovation charity, and if you look forwards, the research about robotics and AI, menial jobs and even jobs such as accountants and lawyers [are at risk]. Software’s pretty good at adding up numbers, it’s pretty good at looking at datasets and applying logic to it. It’s not just Uber drivers and forklift truck drivers that have got a problem; it’s the professions. So, creativity is what differentiates us from the machines. And the talent you access in the future is going to have that creative edge. My mantra is that you’ve got to have a plan, but your plan has to have some growth in it. Add some creativity, some innovation, some differentiation to your product or service to attract different customers. Having no plan for growth, in a world that is changing very quickly, is a very bad plan. You wake up one morning, and you find your market, your customers, your product, your supply chain – something’s changed which means that you’re no longer relevant or you no longer have a profit margin. Anna: I was actually reading an article about ice cream vans the other day and they seem to be a type of business that – there are some that have moved forward but a lot of them are in the same types of vans, still doing your normal vanilla with a Flake and they haven’t moved on and they’re wondering [why they’re falling behind]. Piers: They should be doing smoothie vans! Anna: Yeah! Piers: It doesn’t matter what you do, 20-30 years ago – I’m generalising now – you could do that. I don’t think it’s a wise plan these days – ice cream van, corner shop, tech company, it doesn’t matter – to rest on your laurels. You’ve got to keep talking to your customers about what it is they want so you understand change, ideally before it happens.                        You’ve spoken a bit about instilling the values of entrepreneurialism. How are you doing that with your two daughters? Piers: Another interesting thing I’m quite interested in is the future of work, the future of employment. Dell has some research that says in 30 years, 85pc of the jobs that exist don’t exist today. There’s other research that says ten years out, half of them don’t exist today. You’ve got an education system that’s training your children to enter a world that the teachers don’t understand, that I don’t understand. It’s very difficult. They’ve got to equip kids with these sorts of skills and keep them as a rally car, as I call it, to the unweighted so you could go left or right as you go over the brow of the hill – and that’s hard to do. My daughter – I’ve got a daughter called Tiger. I got called into school, actually, by the head teacher. She said she’s been selling things at school and they need to talk to her. I thought she’d made a couple of quid. I asked what happened and the teacher said: ‘She got some erasers and she was making them funky and selling them on at a margin.’ I asked how much money she made and she said £60. They said that I need to tell her off and I refused. I take the point about taking money off the other kids, maybe there should be some kind of bartering, but I’m not going to punish my daughter for being entrepreneurial and making some money – that’s all she’s ever seen me do! Anna: Exactly. Do you know who her dad is?! Piers: It was quite interesting to see that. I bring them up to – they’re young, so I don’t really sit them down and go over how to start a business with them. But I think they get it, that my view is that – especially when they enter the labour market – is if you can, work for yourself. It’s got its problems, you sacrifice, it’s got its risks, but at the end of the day you’re masters of your own destiny. You seem to have a knack for identifying emerging markets as well [Piers launched cloud tech firm Outsourcery before the cloud was popular]. What kind of emerging markets do you see coming up?  Piers: I was into the telecoms which was the tail-end of that, really, the particular way it was done. I was into cloud and cloud is the way things are now. Since then I’ve been looking at what I do next. I made some investments, some work and some don’t, and I’ve been looking at doing something big, something disruptive. I’ve been looking at wellness, so health, fitness and now I’m looking now more at going back almost into what I know, which is markets, SME services. I’m trying to disrupt those because a lot of them just have not changed, even since I was in them ten years ago. And even ten years before that, they haven’t changed. I think there’s an opportunity in there in services for small to medium-sized businesses to disrupt markets.      Coming on to everybody’s favourite, Dragon’s Den. I’m sure you would’ve had a lot of pitches in your time on the show, but which was the most memorable one for you and why? Piers: There’s two, I suppose. I’ll give you the negative, funny one first. That was Bathomatic, which was a chap that turned up wanting £1m or £2m for 20pc and he had a product which pretty much filled a bath and dropped some rose oil in it. I said I’ll do that myself actually. I don’t need to spend £15,000 on something that turns a tap on and off. We asked what the money was really for. He had this pretend plaque/device that didn’t really work, it was a mock-up, and he said he needed a floor in the Shard for the marketing suite. You laugh at that, but I’ve heard about entrepreneurs who have got equally bonkers ideas and raised money from people. That was one of the comedy moments. The most interesting one for me was a company that at the time was called Lost My Name and now it’s called Wonderbly. That was the leading producer of personalised children’s, it was books, now it’s increasingly content. They raised investment from the likes of Google and other venture firms, and they’ve been growing. I was one of the first to do real tech on Dragon’s Den. There were four or five Israeli entrepreneurs walked in the Den and they all had their venture capital term sheet and I thought: ‘What’s there not to like?’ They knew what they were talking about and that’s been very successful. So hopefully out of Dragon’s Den I’ll make some money because it’s like a portfolio – some work, some don’t, some you lose money, some make money. Anna: Yeah, it was as you were saying as well, personalisation is a huge market and growing, as is tech, so combine that – Piers: Personalisation is everywhere now. I’ve met lots of founders recently and whether it’s books or baby’s clothes, technology allows you to do that now. It was very hard, very expensive to do this. Companies like the Moonpigs and all those kind of people in the world and the moo.coms, personalised greetings cards and business cards, is normal now. It was very hard to do a decade ago, so personalisation is somewhere where you can really add value. People want to see personalisation, they want to see provenance, they want to know the founder’s story. The new consumer that’s beginning to amass disposable income, they want to see more, they don’t want to have some clever advert that’s sold on something they don’t really want. But increasingly, people are interested in – not all sectors – but they’re interested in where did this product come from, who’s put it together, what’s the ethos of that business – how do they treat their customers, their employees, the environment – locally, globally. That’s what you need to think about because especially on the eco side of things you’re seeing now that the Millennials, whatever you want to call them – Gen Z – Millennials now have the… Anna: Hiya! Piers: Like yourself. Millennials are mid-level managers in most companies now, they’re moving up, because they’re getting older. And they are changing the way in which products and services are consumed – because these were little things that didn’t matter too much, they were seen as ‘got to have it for the marketing’. Now you’ve got to have it because if you don’t have it, they’re not going to buy your product or service. Anna: And it’s so easy to research as well. So, if there’s something you fall down on, people can research it. Boom – there you go. Piers: That means you have to be transparent about it as well.  Because if you’re not, people are going to start asking questions. You don’t have to be, always. There are lots of people that make good money out of businesses that don’t do any of this. They just found a product. I mean, mobile phones. I used to be in mobile, and people made a lot of money out of it and the service was pretty awful. But at the end of the day, they had a product that selling it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Because it was an amazing new product that everyone wanted, nobody had one, so you couldn’t really go wrong – and those markets haven’t really changed much since. At the time of recording, it is Small Business Advice Week. This year it’s running from 2nd-8th September. First off, it’s a little bit difficult to get around this topic and it may very well change by the time the podcast goes live. What advice do you have for small businesses to prepare and operate in the event of a no-deal Brexit? Piers: Well, the problem with that is that we don’t know what a no-deal Brexit means. That’s the bad thing about it: we should not be in this position. The economy depends upon entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship and innovation. And having a period of time where – and I’ve seen this – on a large scale and also on a small scale, where investment, decisions, sales cycles, things have been delayed. That slows the economy down and it has slowed the economy down and that’s going to continue. And even if we end up with a no-deal, and it’s been said that over time, we’re all dead. So, if you’re looking at it in one year it’s probably bad but in five years, ten years, things change and water will find its level again. But there’s going to be a period of time where the innovation in the UK, the economy and entrepreneurs are being stifled. And I don’t care what the outcome is, we should never have been put in this position. So, in terms of answering your question, it’s very hard. It actually makes sense, and I hate saying this, it does make sense in many ways to delay investments. Maybe in terms of marketing or looking overseas or EU relationships or your supply chain. Just give it a week. It was worse six months ago, at least now you’re looking at maybe days and weeks. It’s a very hard question to answer. Anna: It is, isn’t it? Piers: It’s incredibly frustrating. Anna: Yeah, we’ve had so many people ask. Piers: There’s no easy answer to that, sadly. Possibly something a little more positive. What is the most common question you get and what advice do you give small business owners in return?    Piers: One thing I’m talking about this week a lot is financing. I’ve worked in the US quite a lot and you look at entrepreneurs there and even small business owners, the ones who aren’t looking to grow exponentially, it’s about if you need to grow a business sometimes, your net income, your profits, don’t provide sufficient capital to fund your growth aspirations. You need to raise money. That could be debt, it might be equity. It depends where your business is in its life cycle and its profitability, and your balance sheet. And a lot of UK entrepreneurs, it seems, are afraid of raising external finance. So, raising external finance isn’t for everybody, but given the numbers are 70pc-80pc of UK businesses would rather forego growth than raise external finance, that needs to change. I don’t know exactly how much, but by changing it you can put more into the engine of the UK economy, and how these businesses grow. And that’s really simplistically about understanding your options. There are lots more options now: peer to peer lending or challenger banks or angels or angel funds, crowdfunding. There’s lots more ways you can raise capital which you couldn’t do five, even three years ago in some cases. Go and look at the options if you need to grow, understand them and then it comes down to a contract. Be happy with the terms of that contract and the small print. Can you lose your business, can you lose your shirt? Are they draconian terms? This is where you need a good lawyer, I’m not joking about that either. When someone hands over a term sheet or a document for debt (or a shareholder agreement if you’re looking at equity), you need to understand exactly what that means for you and not just if things go well. You need to understand what happens if things don’t go well. Extreme examples – there’s no point having an investment agreement where you are restricted, you have a veto of you raising debt and equity if you need to raise more because they can hold a gun to your head, essentially. There’s no point having documentation for your start-up which says that in year four, you will hit this EBITDAR number (Earnings Before Interest, Depreciation, Amoritisation and Restructuring or Rent costs) or they have swamp rights. They can take over the board and fire you. They’re extreme examples, but I’ve seen them. Both professionally and I’ve seen them in things put before me as well. So, understand the detail and the small print and make sure that if things don’t go to plan, you know where you stand. And I’ve known one example recently where someone built a business, they had a 12 million evaluation, they raised £2-£3million and within a month, they were out. They missed some sales target. But don’t be afraid of raising finance if you want to grow because otherwise in many, many cases, you can’t really grow. Anna: Well, that’s it from me unless there’s anything else that you’d like to add. Piers: No - we’ve covered some ground there. Anna: Thanks for coming on the show, Piers. Piers: It’s a pleasure. Anna: You can find out more about Piers at pierslinney.com. You can also visit smallbusiness.co.uk for more information on starting and growing your own business. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Until next time, thank you for listening.   

PEACE is the signature of the Manifestors, I found it very beautiful, inspiring one. I feel like talking about it today, as I woke up in the morning in peaceful presence. I Imagine how each Manifestor is the potential of being deep pool of peace that touch the heart of the each person that pass by it. I wander, I remember what lad me to this peaceful morning, and what drives me to keep on cultivating it. I wish you Manifestors, to move towards your peace, through active, attentive passionate state, out the the love to you-self. Bar

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These few verses I Imagine have perplexed many. But they do not have to. The question is obviously a rhetorical one - Jesus never lied, but some may believe he had from the surface reading of the text. This episode should hopefully make the matter clear. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thegospelofrepentance/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thegospelofrepentance/support

This episode we look into that whole Abraham and Isaac fun time at the mountain. I Imagine it was much like taking your dog to the vet. "But son you love the mountains!" "yes but." "C'mon now - God's waiting." "God will be there?" "....sure" www.bensound.com @accordtostupid - Twitter Accordingtostupid@gmail.com

Step back in time to the days when DJs played vinyl, glow-sticks lit up the dancefloor and galloping bass-lines ruled the clubs... let's go all the way back to The 90s! Here are some highlights from my set at the Nov 2013 PUMP party at The Midnight Shift in Sydney! http://DJDanMurphy.com - check out my website for heaps more music & contact details. 1. In The Evening - SHERYL LEE RALPH 2. Show Me Love - ROBIN S 3. Spice Up Your Life (morales carnival club mix) - SPICE GIRLS 4. Better The Devil You Know (almighty mix) - KYLIE MINOGUE 5. There's Nothing I Won't Do - JX 6. Joy (mondo's pussycat mix) - STAXX 7. Another Night - REAL MCCOY 8. Coconut - DANNII MINOGUE 9. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (miami mix) - MADONNA 10. Fee Fi Fo Fum - CANDY GIRLS ft. SWEET PUSSY PAULINE 11. You Lift Me Up (hi lux vox mix) - REBEKAH RYAN 12. Theme From S-Express - S-EXPRESS 13. Dreamlover (def club mix) - MARIAH CAREY 14. Passion - AMEN 15. I Imagine (eddy fingers mix) - MARY KIANI 16. Vogue (house mix) - MADONNA 17. Stop - SPICE GIRLS 18. ...Baby One More Time (davidson ospina mix) - BRITNEY SPEARS 19. Don't Stop Movin' - LIVIN' JOY 20. I've Been Thinking About You - LONDON BEAT 21. Just A Little Bit (motiv8 mix) - GINA G 22. Opposites Attract - PAULA ABDUL • http://facebook.com/DJDanMurphy • http://twitter.com/DJDanMurphy • http://soundcloud.com/DJDanMurphy

On New Year's Day last year, I was priveleged to play at Johan Khoury's Day Wash party. For those who don't know it, it is a wildly successful party run by Johan & his production team & is held at Chinese Laundry in Sydney. It is a day party (hence the name)which is both indoors & outside. There are at least 4 separate dance spaces with a variety of DJ's & musical styles. When Johan asked me to play, he wanted a camp, vocal, happy sound for the courtyard. I thought 'Hmmm! I can do that'. So here is Part 1 of the set I played. Part 2 to follow. Anthony 1/ "HAPPENING ALL OVER AGAIN" (Wayne G. Club Mix) - LONNIE GORDON 2/ "I JUST WANNA DANCE" (Wayne G. Circuit Anthem Mix) - ALISON JIER 3/ "GET ME BODIED" (Hex Hector Club Mix) - BEYONCE` 4/ "WHEN LOVE TAKES OVER" (Hommer Remix) - DAVID GUETTA ft. KELLY ROWLAND 5/ "EVERYBODY DANCE" (Tony Moran Club Mix) - DEBORAH COX 6/ "DON'T FORGET ABOUT US" (Tony Moran & Warren Rigg Dancefloor Anthem) - MARIAH CAREY 7/ "RAY OF LIGHT" (303 Dreams Remix) - MADONNA 8/ "I IMAGINE" (EFM Extended Club Mix) - MARY KIANI 9/ "SO EMOTIONAL" (Wayne G. Heaven Anthem Mix) - WHITNEY HOUSTON 10/ "ALL OR NOTHING" (Almighty Definitive Club Mix) - CHER