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For those who haven't heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a forty-one-minute bonus episode available, on Judy Collins’ version of this song. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Erratum For about an hour this was uploaded with the wrong Elton John clip in place of “Saturday Sun”. This has now been fixed. Resources Because of the increasing problems with Mixcloud’s restrictions, I have decided to start sharing streaming playlists of the songs used in episodes instead of Mixcloud ones. This Tunemymusic link will let you listen to the playlist I created on your streaming platform of choice — however please note that not all the songs excerpted are currently available on streaming. The songs missing from the Tidal version are “Shanten Bells” by the Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” by A.L. Lloyd, two by Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, three by Elton John & Linda Peters, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow” by Sandy Denny and “You Never Know” by Charlie Drake, but the other fifty-nine are there. Other songs may be missing from other services. The main books I used on Fairport Convention as a whole were Patrick Humphries' Meet On The Ledge, Clinton Heylin's What We Did Instead of Holidays, and Kevan Furbank's Fairport Convention on Track. Rob Young's Electric Eden is the most important book on the British folk-rock movement. Information on Richard Thompson comes from Patrick Humphries' Richard Thompson: Strange Affair and Thompson's own autobiography Beeswing.  Information on Sandy Denny comes from Clinton Heylin's No More Sad Refrains and Mick Houghton's I've Always Kept a Unicorn. I also used Joe Boyd's autobiography White Bicycles and Chris Blackwell's The Islander.  And this three-CD set is the best introduction to Fairport's music currently in print. Transcript Before we begin, this episode contains reference to alcohol and cocaine abuse and medical neglect leading to death. It also starts with some discussion of the fatal car accident that ended last episode. There’s also some mention of child neglect and spousal violence. If that’s likely to upset you, you might want to skip this episode or read the transcript. One of the inspirations for this podcast when I started it back in 2018 was a project by Richard Thompson, which appears (like many things in Thompson’s life) to have started out of sheer bloody-mindedness. In 1999 Playboy magazine asked various people to list their “songs of the Millennium”, and most of them, understanding the brief, chose a handful of songs from the latter half of the twentieth century. But Thompson determined that he was going to list his favourite songs *of the millennium*. He didn’t quite manage that, but he did cover seven hundred and forty years, and when Playboy chose not to publish it, he decided to turn it into a touring show, in which he covered all his favourite songs from “Sumer Is Icumen In” from 1260: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Sumer is Icumen In”] Through numerous traditional folk songs, union songs like “Blackleg Miner”, pieces by early-modern composers, Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs, and songs by the Beatles, the Ink Spots, the Kinks, and the Who, all the way to “Oops! I Did It Again”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Oops! I Did it Again”] And to finish the show, and to show how all this music actually ties together, he would play what he described as a “medieval tune from Brittany”, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt”] We have said many times in this podcast that there is no first anything, but there’s a reason that Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention’s third album of 1969, and the album other than Unhalfbricking on which their reputation largely rests, was advertised with the slogan “The first (literally) British folk rock album ever”. Folk-rock, as the term had come to be known, and as it is still usually used today, had very little to do with traditional folk music. Rather, the records of bands like The Byrds or Simon and Garfunkel were essentially taking the sounds of British beat groups of the early sixties, particularly the Searchers, and applying those sounds to material by contemporary singer-songwriters. People like Paul Simon and Bob Dylan had come up through folk clubs, and their songs were called folk music because of that, but they weren’t what folk music had meant up to that point — songs that had been collected after being handed down through the folk process, changed by each individual singer, with no single identifiable author. They were authored songs by very idiosyncratic writers. But over their last few albums, Fairport Convention had done one or two tracks per album that weren’t like that, that were instead recordings of traditional folk songs, but arranged with rock instrumentation. They were not necessarily the first band to try traditional folk music with electric instruments — around the same time that Fairport started experimenting with the idea, so did an Irish band named Sweeney’s Men, who brought in a young electric guitarist named Henry McCullough briefly. But they do seem to have been the first to have fully embraced the idea. They had done so to an extent with “A Sailor’s Life” on Unhalfbricking, but now they were going to go much further: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves” (from about 4:30)] There had been some doubt as to whether Fairport Convention would even continue to exist — by the time Unhalfbricking, their second album of the year, was released, they had been through the terrible car accident that had killed Martin Lamble, the band’s drummer, and Jeannie Franklyn, Richard Thompson’s girlfriend. Most of the rest of the band had been seriously injured, and they had made a conscious decision not to discuss the future of the band until they were all out of hospital. Ashley Hutchings was hospitalised the longest, and Simon Nicol, Richard Thompson, and Sandy Denny, the other three surviving members of the band, flew over to LA with their producer and manager, Joe Boyd, to recuperate there and get to know the American music scene. When they came back, the group all met up in the flat belonging to Denny’s boyfriend Trevor Lucas, and decided that they were going to continue the band. They made a few decisions then — they needed a new drummer, and as well as a drummer they wanted to get in Dave Swarbrick. Swarbrick had played violin on several tracks on Unhalfbricking as a session player, and they had all been thrilled to work with him. Swarbrick was one of the most experienced musicians on the British folk circuit. He had started out in the fifties playing guitar with Beryl Marriott’s Ceilidh Band before switching to fiddle, and in 1963, long before Fairport had formed, he had already appeared on TV with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, led by Ian Campbell, the father of Ali and Robin Campbell, later of UB40: [Excerpt: The Ian Campbell Folk Group, “Shanten Bells (medley on Hullaballoo!)”] He’d sung with Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: [Excerpt: A.L. Lloyd, “Tom’s Gone to Hilo” ] And he’d formed his hugely successful duo with Martin Carthy, releasing records like “Byker Hill” which are often considered among the best British folk music of all time: [Excerpt: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, “Byker Hill”] By the time Fairport had invited him to play on Unhalfbricking, Swarbrick had already performed on twenty albums as a core band member, plus dozens more EPs, singles, and odd tracks on compilations. They had no reason to think they could actually get him to join their band. But they had three advantages. The first was that Swarbrick was sick of the traditional folk scene at the time, saying later “I didn’t like seven-eighths of the people involved in it, and it was extremely opportune to leave. I was suddenly presented with the possibilities of exploring the dramatic content of the songs to the full.” The second was that he was hugely excited to be playing with Richard Thompson, who was one of the most innovative guitarists of his generation, and Martin Carthy remembers him raving about Thompson after their initial sessions. (Carthy himself was and is no slouch on the guitar of course, and there was even talk of getting him to join the band at this point, though they decided against it — much to the relief of rhythm guitarist Simon Nicol, who is a perfectly fine player himself but didn’t want to be outclassed by *two* of the best guitarists in Britain at the same time). And the third was that Joe Boyd told him that Fairport were doing so well — they had a single just about to hit the charts with “Si Tu Dois Partir” — that he would only have to play a dozen gigs with Fairport in order to retire. As it turned out, Swarbrick would play with the group for a decade, and would never retire — I saw him on his last tour in 2015, only eight months before he died. The drummer the group picked was also a far more experienced musician than any of the rest, though in a very different genre. Dave Mattacks had no knowledge at all of the kind of music they played, having previously been a player in dance bands. When asked by Hutchings if he wanted to join the band, Mattacks’ response was “I don’t know anything about the music. I don’t understand it… I can’t tell one tune from another, they all sound the same… but if you want me to join the group, fine, because I really like it. I’m enjoying myself musically.” Mattacks brought a new level of professionalism to the band, thanks to his different background. Nicol said of him later “He was dilligent, clean, used to taking three white shirts to a gig… The application he could bring to his playing was amazing. With us, you only played well when you were feeling well.” This distinction applied to his playing as well. Nicol would later describe the difference between Mattacks’ drumming and Lamble’s by saying “Martin’s strength was as an imaginative drummer. DM came in with a strongly developed sense of rhythm, through keeping a big band of drunken saxophone players in order. A great time-keeper.” With this new line-up and a new sense of purpose, the group did as many of their contemporaries were doing and “got their heads together in the country”. Joe Boyd rented the group a mansion, Farley House, in Farley Chamberlayne, Hampshire, and they stayed there together for three months. At the start, the group seem to have thought that they were going to make another record like Unhalfbricking, with some originals, some songs by American songwriters, and a few traditional songs. Even after their stay in Farley Chamberlayne, in fact, they recorded a few of the American songs they’d rehearsed at the start of the process, Richard Farina’s “Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” and Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn’s “Ballad of Easy Rider”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Ballad of Easy Rider”] Indeed, the whole idea of “getting our heads together in the country” (as the cliche quickly became in the late sixties as half of the bands in Britain went through much the same kind of process as Fairport were doing — but usually for reasons more to do with drug burnout or trend following than recovering from serious life-changing trauma) seems to have been inspired by Bob Dylan and the Band getting together in Big Pink. But very quickly they decided to follow the lead of Ashley Hutchings, who had had something of a Damascene conversion to the cause of traditional English folk music. They were listening mostly to Music From Big Pink by the Band, and to the first album by Sweeney’s Men: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “The Handsome Cabin Boy”] And they decided that they were going to make something that was as English as those records were North American and Irish (though in the event there were also a few Scottish songs included on the record). Hutchings in particular was becoming something of a scholar of traditional music, regularly visiting Cecil Sharp House and having long conversations with A.L. Lloyd, discovering versions of different traditional songs he’d never encountered before. This was both amusing and bemusing Sandy Denny, who had joined a rock group in part to get away from traditional music; but she was comfortable singing the material, and knew a lot of it and could make a lot of suggestions herself. Swarbrick obviously knew the repertoire intimately, and Nicol was amenable, while Mattacks was utterly clueless about the folk tradition at this point but knew this was the music he wanted to make. Thompson knew very little about traditional music, and of all the band members except Denny he was the one who has shown the least interest in the genre in his subsequent career — but as we heard at the beginning, showing the least interest in the genre is a relative thing, and while Thompson was not hugely familiar with the genre, he *was* able to work with it, and was also more than capable of writing songs that fit in with the genre. Of the eleven songs on the album, which was titled Liege and Lief (which means, roughly, Lord and Loyalty), there were no cover versions of singer-songwriters. Eight were traditional songs, and three were originals, all written in the style of traditional songs. The album opened with “Come All Ye”, an introduction written by Denny and Hutchings (the only time the two would ever write together): [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Come All Ye”] The other two originals were songs where Thompson had written new lyrics to traditional melodies. On “Crazy Man Michael”, Swarbrick had said to Thompson that the tune to which he had set his new words was weaker than the lyrics, to which Thompson had replied that if Swarbrick felt that way he should feel free to write a new melody. He did, and it became the first of the small number of Thompson/Swarbrick collaborations: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Crazy Man Michael”] Thompson and Swarbrick would become a brief songwriting team, but as much as anything else it was down to proximity — the two respected each other as musicians, but never got on very well. In 1981 Swarbrick would say “Richard and I never got on in the early days of FC… we thought we did, but we never did. We composed some bloody good songs together, but it was purely on a basis of “you write that and I’ll write this, and we’ll put it together.” But we never sat down and had real good chats.” The third original on the album, and by far the most affecting, is another song where Thompson put lyrics to a traditional tune. In this case he thought he was putting the lyrics to the tune of “Willie O'Winsbury”, but he was basing it on a recording by Sweeney’s Men. The problem was that Sweeney’s Men had accidentally sung the lyrics of “Willie O'Winsbury'” to the tune of a totally different song, “Fause Foodrage”: [Excerpt: Sweeney’s Men, “Willie O’Winsbury”] Thompson took that melody, and set to it lyrics about loss and separation. Thompson has never been one to discuss the meanings of his lyrics in any great detail, and in the case of this one has said “I really don't know what it means. This song came out of a dream, and I pretty much wrote it as I dreamt it (it was the sixties), and didn't spend very long analyzing it. So interpret as you wish – or replace with your own lines.” But in the context of the traffic accident that had killed his tailor girlfriend and a bandmate, and injured most of his other bandmates, the lyrics about lonely travellers, the winding road, bruised and beaten sons, saying goodbye, and never cutting cloth, seem fairly self-explanatory: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Farewell, Farewell”] The rest of the album, though, was taken up by traditional tunes. There was a long medley of four different fiddle reels; a version of “Reynardine” (a song about a seductive man — or is he a fox? Or perhaps both — which had been recorded by Swarbrick and Carthy on their most recent album); a 19th century song about a deserter saved from the firing squad by Prince Albert; and a long take on “Tam Lin”, one of the most famous pieces in the Scottish folk music canon, a song that has been adapted in different ways by everyone from the experimental noise band Current 93 to the dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the comics writer Grant Morrison: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Tam Lin”] And “Matty Groves”, a song about a man killing his cheating wife and her lover, which actually has a surprisingly similar story to that of “1921” from another great concept album from that year, the Who’s Tommy. “Matty Groves” became an excuse for long solos and shows of instrumental virtuosity: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Matty Groves”] The album was recorded in September 1969, after their return from their break in the country and a triumphal performance at the Royal Festival Hall, headlining over fellow Witchseason artists John and Beverly Martyn and Nick Drake. It became a classic of the traditional folk genre — arguably *the* classic of the traditional folk genre. In 2007 BBC Radio 2’s Folk Music Awards gave it an award for most influential folk album of all time, and while such things are hard to measure, I doubt there’s anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of British folk and folk-rock music who would not at least consider that a reasonable claim. But once again, by the time the album came out in November, the band had changed lineups yet again. There was a fundamental split in the band – on one side were Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, whose stance was, roughly, that Liege and Lief was a great experiment and a fun thing to do once, but really the band had two first-rate songwriters in themselves, and that they should be concentrating on their own new material, not doing these old songs, good as they were. They wanted to take the form of the traditional songs and use that form for new material — they wanted to make British folk-rock, but with the emphasis on the rock side of things. Hutchings, on the other hand, was equally sure that he wanted to make traditional music and go further down the rabbit hole of antiquity. With the zeal of the convert he had gone in a couple of years from being the leader of a band who were labelled “the British Jefferson Airplane” to becoming a serious scholar of traditional folk music. Denny was tired of touring, as well — she wanted to spend more time at home with Trevor Lucas, who was sleeping with other women when she was away and making her insecure. When the time came for the group to go on a tour of Denmark, Denny decided she couldn’t make it, and Hutchings was jubilant — he decided he was going to get A.L. Lloyd into the band in her place and become a *real* folk group. Then Denny reconsidered, and Hutchings was crushed. He realised that while he had always been the leader, he wasn’t going to be able to lead the band any further in the traditionalist direction, and quit the group — but not before he was delegated by the other band members to fire Denny. Until the publication of Richard Thompson’s autobiography in 2022, every book on the group or its members said that Denny quit the band again, which was presumably a polite fiction that the band agreed, but according to Thompson “Before we flew home, we decided to fire Sandy. I don't remember who asked her to leave – it was probably Ashley, who usually did the dirty work. She was reportedly shocked that we would take that step. She may have been fragile beneath the confident facade, but she still knew her worth.” Thompson goes on to explain that the reasons for kicking her out were that “I suppose we felt that in her mind she had already left” and that “We were probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, though there wasn't a name for it back then.” They had considered inviting Trevor Lucas to join the band to make Denny more comfortable, but came to the (probably correct) conclusion that while he was someone they got on well with personally, he would be another big ego in a band that already had several, and that being around Denny and Lucas’ volatile relationship would, in Thompson’s phrasing, “have not always given one a feeling of peace and stability.” Hutchings originally decided he was going to join Sweeney’s Men, but that group were falling apart, and their first rehearsal with Hutchings would also be their last as a group, with only Hutchings and guitarist and mandolin player Terry Woods left in the band. They added Woods’ wife Gay, and another couple, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, and formed a group called Steeleye Span, a name given them by Martin Carthy. That group, like Fairport, went to “get their heads together in the country” for three months and recorded an album of electric versions of traditional songs, Hark the Village Wait, on which Mattacks and another drummer, Gerry Conway, guested as Steeleye Span didn’t at the time have their own drummer: [Excerpt: Steeleye Span, “Blackleg Miner”] Steeleye Span would go on to have a moderately successful chart career in the seventies, but by that time most of the original lineup, including Hutchings, had left — Hutchings stayed with them for a few albums, then went on to form the first of a series of bands, all called the Albion Band or variations on that name, which continue to this day. And this is something that needs to be pointed out at this point — it is impossible to follow every single individual in this narrative as they move between bands. There is enough material in the history of the British folk-rock scene that someone could do a 500 Songs-style podcast just on that, and every time someone left Fairport, or Steeleye Span, or the Albion Band, or Matthews’ Southern Comfort, or any of the other bands we have mentioned or will mention, they would go off and form another band which would then fission, and some of its members would often join one of those other bands. There was a point in the mid-1970s where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport Convention while Fairport Convention had none. So just in order to keep the narrative anything like wieldy, I’m going to keep the narrative concentrated on the two figures from Fairport — Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson — whose work outside the group has had the most influence on the wider world of rock music more broadly, and only deal with the other members when, as they often did, their careers intersected with those two. That doesn’t mean the other members are not themselves hugely important musicians, just that their importance has been primarily to the folk side of the folk-rock genre, and so somewhat outside the scope of this podcast. While Hutchings decided to form a band that would allow him to go deeper and deeper into traditional folk music, Sandy Denny’s next venture was rather different. For a long time she had been writing far more songs than she had ever played for her bandmates, like “Nothing More”, a song that many have suggested is about Thompson: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Nothing More”] When Joe Boyd heard that Denny was leaving Fairport Convention, he was at first elated. Fairport’s records were being distributed by A&M in the US at that point, but Island Records was in the process of opening up a new US subsidiary which would then release all future Fairport product — *but*, as far as A&M were concerned, Sandy Denny *was* Fairport Convention. They were only interested in her. Boyd, on the other hand, loved Denny’s work intensely, but from his point of view *Richard Thompson* was Fairport Convention. If he could get Denny signed directly to A&M as a solo artist before Island started its US operations, Witchseason could get a huge advance on her first solo record, while Fairport could continue making records for Island — he’d have two lucrative acts, on different labels. Boyd went over and spoke to A&M and got an agreement in principle that they would give Denny a forty-thousand-dollar advance on her first solo album — twice what they were paying for Fairport albums. The problem was that Denny didn’t want to be a solo act. She wanted to be the lead singer of a band. She gave many reasons for this — the one she gave to many journalists was that she had seen a Judy Collins show and been impressed, but noticed that Collins’ band were definitely a “backing group”, and as she put it “But that's all they were – a backing group. I suddenly thought, If you're playing together on a stage you might as well be TOGETHER.” Most other people in her life, though, say that the main reason for her wanting to be in a band was her desire to be with her boyfriend, Trevor Lucas. Partly this was due to a genuine desire to spend more time with someone with whom she was very much in love, partly it was a fear that he would cheat on her if she was away from him for long periods of time, and part of it seems to have been Lucas’ dislike of being *too* overshadowed by his talented girlfriend — he didn’t mind acknowledging that she was a major talent, but he wanted to be thought of as at least a minor one. So instead of going solo, Denny formed Fotheringay, named after the song she had written for Fairport. This new band consisted at first of Denny on vocals and occasional piano, Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Lucas’ old Eclection bandmate Gerry Conway on drums. For a lead guitarist, they asked Richard Thompson who the best guitarist in Britain was, and he told them Albert Lee. Lee in turn brought in bass player Pat Donaldson, but this lineup of the band barely survived a fortnight. Lee *was* arguably the best guitarist in Britain, certainly a reasonable candidate if you could ever have a singular best (as indeed was Thompson himself), but he was the best *country* guitarist in Britain, and his style simply didn’t fit with Fotheringay’s folk-influenced songs. He was replaced by American guitarist Jerry Donahue, who was not anything like as proficient as Lee, but who was still very good, and fit the band’s style much better. The new group rehearsed together for a few weeks, did a quick tour, and then went into the recording studio to record their debut, self-titled, album. Joe Boyd produced the album, but admitted himself that he only paid attention to those songs he considered worthwhile — the album contained one song by Lucas, “The Ballad of Ned Kelly”, and two cover versions of American singer-songwriter material with Lucas singing lead. But everyone knew that the songs that actually *mattered* were Sandy Denny’s, and Boyd was far more interested in them, particularly the songs “The Sea” and “The Pond and the Stream”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “The Pond and the Stream”] Fotheringay almost immediately hit financial problems, though. While other Witchseason acts were used to touring on the cheap, all packed together in the back of a Transit van with inexpensive equipment, Trevor Lucas had ambitions of being a rock star and wanted to put together a touring production to match, with expensive transport and equipment, including a speaker system that got nicknamed “Stonehenge” — but at the same time, Denny was unhappy being on the road, and didn’t play many gigs. As well as the band itself, the Fotheringay album also featured backing vocals from a couple of other people, including Denny’s friend Linda Peters. Peters was another singer from the folk clubs, and a good one, though less well-known than Denny — at this point she had only released a couple of singles, and those singles seemed to have been as much as anything else released as a novelty. The first of those, a version of Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” had been released as by “Paul McNeill and Linda Peters”: [Excerpt: Paul McNeill and Linda Peters, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”] But their second single, a version of John D. Loudermilk’s “You’re Taking My Bag”, was released on the tiny Page One label, owned by Larry Page, and was released under the name “Paul and Linda”, clearly with the intent of confusing particularly gullible members of the record-buying public into thinking this was the McCartneys: [Excerpt: Paul and Linda, “You’re Taking My Bag”] Peters was though more financially successful than almost anyone else in this story, as she was making a great deal of money as a session singer. She actually did another session involving most of Fotheringay around this time. Witchseason had a number of excellent songwriters on its roster, and had had some success getting covers by people like Judy Collins, but Joe Boyd thought that they might possibly do better at getting cover versions if they were performed in less idiosyncratic arrangements. Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway went into the studio to record backing tracks, and vocals were added by Peters and another session singer, who according to some sources also provided piano. They cut songs by Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “You Get Brighter”] Ed Carter, formerly of The New Nadir but by this time firmly ensconced in the Beach Boys’ touring band where he would remain for the next quarter-century: [Excerpt: Linda Peters, “I Don’t Mind”] John and Beverly Martyn, and Nick Drake: [Excerpt: Elton John, “Saturday Sun”] There are different lineups of musicians credited for those sessions in different sources, but I tend to believe that it’s mostly Fotheringay for the simple reason that Donahue says it was him, Donaldson and Conway who talked Lucas and Denny into the mistake that destroyed Fotheringay because of these sessions. Fotheringay were in financial trouble already, spending far more money than they were bringing in, but their album made the top twenty and they were getting respect both from critics and from the public — in September, Sandy Denny was voted best British female singer by the readers of Melody Maker in their annual poll, which led to shocked headlines in the tabloids about how this “unknown” could have beaten such big names as Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black. Only a couple of weeks after that, they were due to headline at the Albert Hall. It should have been a triumph. But Donahue, Donaldson, and Conway had asked that singing pianist to be their support act. As Donahue said later “That was a terrible miscast. It was our fault. He asked if [he] could do it. Actually Pat, Gerry and I had to talk Sandy and Trevor into [it]… We'd done these demos and the way he was playing – he was a wonderful piano player – he was sensitive enough. We knew very little about his stage-show. We thought he'd be a really good opener for us.” Unfortunately, Elton John was rather *too* good. As Donahue continued “we had no idea what he had in mind, that he was going to do the most incredible rock & roll show ever. He pretty much blew us off the stage before we even got on the stage.” To make matters worse, Fotheringay’s set, which was mostly comprised of new material, was underrehearsed and sloppy, and from that point on no matter what they did people were counting the hours until the band split up. They struggled along for a while though, and started working on a second record, with Boyd again producing, though as Boyd later said “I probably shouldn't have been producing the record. My lack of respect for the group was clear, and couldn't have helped the atmosphere. We'd put out a record that had sold disappointingly, A&M was unhappy. Sandy's tracks on the first record are among the best things she ever did – the rest of it, who cares? And the artwork, Trevor's sister, was terrible. It would have been one thing if I'd been unhappy with it and it sold, and the group was working all the time, making money, but that wasn't the case … I knew what Sandy was capable of, and it was very upsetting to me.” The record would not be released for thirty-eight years: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “Wild Mountain Thyme”] Witchseason was going badly into debt. Given all the fissioning of bands that we’ve already been talking about, Boyd had been stretched thin — he produced sixteen albums in 1970, and almost all of them lost money for the company. And he was getting more and more disillusioned with the people he was producing. He loved Beverly Martyn’s work, but had little time for her abusive husband John, who was dominating her recording and life more and more and would soon become a solo artist while making her stay at home (and stealing her ideas without giving her songwriting credit). The Incredible String Band were great, but they had recently converted to Scientology, which Boyd found annoying, and while he was working with all sorts of exciting artists like Vashti Bunyan and Nico, he was finding himself less and less important to the artists he mentored. Fairport Convention were a good example of this. After Denny and Hutchings had left the group, they’d decided to carry on as an electric folk group, performing an equal mix of originals by the Swarbrick and Thompson songwriting team and arrangements of traditional songs. The group were now far enough away from the “British Jefferson Airplane” label that they decided they didn’t need a female vocalist — and more realistically, while they’d been able to replace Judy Dyble, nobody was going to replace Sandy Denny. Though it’s rather surprising when one considers Thompson’s subsequent career that nobody seems to have thought of bringing in Denny’s friend Linda Peters, who was dating Joe Boyd at the time (as Denny had been before she met Lucas) as Denny’s replacement. Instead, they decided that Swarbrick and Thompson were going to share the vocals between them. They did, though, need a bass player to replace Hutchings. Swarbrick wanted to bring in Dave Pegg, with whom he had played in the Ian Campbell Folk Group, but the other band members initially thought the idea was a bad one. At the time, while they respected Swarbrick as a musician, they didn’t think he fully understood rock and roll yet, and they thought the idea of getting in a folkie who had played double bass rather than an electric rock bassist ridiculous. But they auditioned him to mollify Swarbrick, and found that he was exactly what they needed. As Joe Boyd later said “All those bass lines were great, Ashley invented them all, but he never could play them that well. He thought of them, but he was technically not a terrific bass player. He was a very inventive, melodic, bass player, but not a very powerful one technically. But having had the part explained to him once, Pegg was playing it better than Ashley had ever played it… In some rock bands, I think, ultimately, the bands that sound great, you can generally trace it to the bass player… it was at that point they became a great band, when they had Pegg.” The new lineup of Fairport decided to move in together, and found a former pub called the Angel, into which all the band members moved, along with their partners and children (Thompson was the only one who was single at this point) and their roadies. The group lived together quite happily, and one gets the impression that this was the period when they were most comfortable with each other, even though by this point they were a disparate group with disparate tastes, in music as in everything else. Several people have said that the only music all the band members could agree they liked at this point was the first two albums by The Band. With the departure of Hutchings from the band, Swarbrick and Thompson, as the strongest personalities and soloists, became in effect the joint leaders of the group, and they became collaborators as songwriters, trying to write new songs that were inspired by traditional music. Thompson described the process as “let’s take one line of this reel and slow it down and move it up a minor third and see what that does to it; let’s take one line of this ballad and make a whole song out of it. Chopping up the tradition to find new things to do… like a collage.” Generally speaking, Swarbrick and Thompson would sit by the fire and Swarbrick would play a melody he’d been working on, the two would work on it for a while, and Thompson would then go away and write the lyrics. This is how the two came up with songs like the nine-minute “Sloth”, a highlight of the next album, Full House, and one that would remain in Fairport’s live set for much of their career: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth”] “Sloth” was titled that way because Thompson and Swarbrick were working on two tunes, a slow one and a fast one, and they jokingly named them “Sloth” and “Fasth”, but the latter got renamed to “Walk Awhile”, while “Sloth” kept its working title. But by this point, Boyd and Thompson were having a lot of conflict in the studio. Boyd was never the most technical of producers — he was one of those producers whose job is to gently guide the artists in the studio and create a space for the music to flourish, rather than the Joe Meek type with an intimate technical knowledge of the studio — and as the artists he was working with gained confidence in their own work they felt they had less and less need of him. During the making of the Full House album, Thompson and Boyd, according to Boyd, clashed on everything — every time Boyd thought Thompson had done a good solo, Thompson would say to erase it and let him have another go, while every time Boyd thought Thompson could do better, Thompson would say that was the take to keep. One of their biggest clashes was over Thompson’s song “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”, which was originally intended for release on the album, and is included in current reissues of it: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman”] Thompson had written that song inspired by what he thought was the unjust treatment of Alex Bramham, the driver in Fairport’s fatal car crash, by the courts — Bramham had been given a prison sentence of a few months for dangerous driving, while the group members thought he had not been at fault. Boyd thought it was one of the best things recorded for the album, but Thompson wasn’t happy with his vocal — there was one note at the top of the melody that he couldn’t quite hit — and insisted it be kept off the record, even though that meant it would be a shorter album than normal. He did this at such a late stage that early copies of the album actually had the title printed on the sleeve, but then blacked out. He now says in his autobiography “I could have persevered, double-tracked the voice, warmed up for longer – anything. It was a good track, and the record was lacking without it. When the album was re-released, the track was restored with a more confident vocal, and it has stayed there ever since.” During the sessions for Full House the group also recorded one non-album single, Thompson and Swarbrick’s “Now Be Thankful”: [Excerpt, Fairport Convention, “Now Be Thankful”] The B-side to that was a medley of two traditional tunes plus a Swarbrick original, but was given the deliberately ridiculous title “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie”] The B. McKenzie in the title was a reference to the comic-strip character Barry McKenzie, a stereotype drunk Australian created for Private Eye magazine by the comedian Barry Humphries (later to become better known for his Dame Edna Everage character) but the title was chosen for one reason only — to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the song with the longest title. Which they did, though they were later displaced by the industrial band Test Dept, and their song “Long Live British Democracy Which Flourishes and Is Constantly Perfected Under the Immaculate Guidance of the Great, Honourable, Generous and Correct Margaret Hilda Thatcher. She Is the Blue Sky in the Hearts of All Nations. Our People Pay Homage and Bow in Deep Respect and Gratitude to Her. The Milk of Human Kindness”. Full House got excellent reviews in the music press, with Rolling Stone saying “The music shows that England has finally gotten her own equivalent to The Band… By calling Fairport an English equivalent of the Band, I meant that they have soaked up enough of the tradition of their countryfolk that it begins to show all over, while they maintain their roots in rock.” Off the back of this, the group went on their first US tour, culminating in a series of shows at the Troubadour in LA, on the same bill as Rick Nelson, which were recorded and later released as a live album: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Sloth (live)”] The Troubadour was one of the hippest venues at the time, and over their residency there the group got seen by many celebrities, some of whom joined them on stage. The first was Linda Ronstadt, who initially demurred, saying she didn’t know any of their songs. On being told they knew all of hers, she joined in with a rendition of “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”. Thompson was later asked to join Ronstadt’s backing band, who would go on to become the Eagles, but he said later of this offer “I would have hated it. I’d have hated being on the road with four or five miserable Americans — they always seem miserable. And if you see them now, they still look miserable on stage — like they don’t want to be there and they don’t like each other.” The group were also joined on stage at the Troubadour on one memorable night by some former bandmates of Pegg’s. Before joining the Ian Campbell Folk Group, Pegg had played around the Birmingham beat scene, and had been in bands with John Bonham and Robert Plant, who turned up to the Troubadour with their Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page (reports differ on whether the fourth member of Zeppelin, John Paul Jones, also came along). They all got up on stage together and jammed on songs like “Hey Joe”, “Louie Louie”, and various old Elvis tunes. The show was recorded, and the tapes are apparently still in the possession of Joe Boyd, who has said he refuses to release them in case he is murdered by the ghost of Peter Grant. According to Thompson, that night ended in a three-way drinking contest between Pegg, Bonham, and Janis Joplin, and it’s testament to how strong the drinking culture is around Fairport and the British folk scene in general that Pegg outdrank both of them. According to Thompson, Bonham was found naked by a swimming pool two days later, having missed two gigs. For all their hard rock image, Led Zeppelin were admirers of a lot of the British folk and folk-rock scene, and a few months later Sandy Denny would become the only outside vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin record when she duetted with Plant on “The Battle of Evermore” on the group’s fourth album: [Excerpt: Led Zeppelin, “The Battle of Evermore”] Denny would never actually get paid for her appearance on one of the best-selling albums of all time. That was, incidentally, not the only session that Denny was involved in around this time — she also sang on the soundtrack to a soft porn film titled Swedish Fly Girls, whose soundtrack was produced by Manfred Mann: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “What Will I Do With Tomorrow?”] Shortly after Fairport’s trip to America, Joe Boyd decided he was giving up on Witchseason. The company was now losing money, and he was finding himself having to produce work for more and more acts as the various bands fissioned. The only ones he really cared about were Richard Thompson, who he was finding it more and more difficult to work with, Nick Drake, who wanted to do his next album with just an acoustic guitar anyway, Sandy Denny, who he felt was wasting her talents in Fotheringay, and Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band, who was more distant since his conversion to Scientology. Boyd did make some attempts to keep the company going. On a trip to Sweden, he negotiated an agreement with the manager and publisher of a Swedish band whose songs he’d found intriguing, the Hep Stars. Boyd was going to publish their songs in the UK, and in return that publisher, Stig Anderson, would get the rights to Witchseason’s catalogue in Scandinavia — a straight swap, with no money changing hands. But before Boyd could get round to signing the paperwork, he got a better offer from Mo Ostin of Warners — Ostin wanted Boyd to come over to LA and head up Warners’ new film music department. Boyd sold Witchseason to Island Records and moved to LA with his fiancee Linda Peters, spending the next few years working on music for films like Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange, as well as making his own documentary about Jimi Hendrix, and thus missed out on getting the UK publishing rights for ABBA, and all the income that would have brought him, for no money. And it was that decision that led to the breakup of Fotheringay. Just before Christmas 1970, Fotheringay were having a difficult session, recording the track “John the Gun”: [Excerpt: Fotheringay, “John the Gun”] Boyd got frustrated and kicked everyone out of the session, and went for a meal and several drinks with Denny. He kept insisting that she should dump the band and just go solo, and then something happened that the two of them would always describe differently. She asked him if he would continue to produce her records if she went solo, and he said he would. According to Boyd’s recollection of the events, he meant that he would fly back from California at some point to produce her records. According to Denny, he told her that if she went solo he would stay in Britain and not take the job in LA. This miscommunication was only discovered after Denny told the rest of Fotheringay after the Christmas break that she was splitting the band. Jerry Donahue has described that as the worst moment of his life, and Denny felt very guilty about breaking up a band with some of her closest friends in — and then when Boyd went over to the US anyway she felt a profound betrayal. Two days before Fotheringay’s final concert, in January 1971, Sandy Denny signed a solo deal with Island records, but her first solo album would not end up produced by Joe Boyd. Instead, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens was co-produced by Denny, John Wood — the engineer who had worked with Boyd on pretty much everything he’d produced, and Richard Thompson, who had just quit Fairport Convention, though he continued living with them at the Angel, at least until a truck crashed into the building in February 1971, destroying its entire front wall and forcing them to relocate. The songs chosen for The North Star Grassman and the Ravens reflected the kind of choices Denny would make on her future albums, and her eclectic taste in music. There was, of course, the obligatory Dylan cover, and the traditional folk ballad “Blackwaterside”, but there was also a cover version of Brenda Lee’s “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Let’s Jump the Broomstick”] Most of the album, though, was made up of originals about various people in Denny’s life, like “Next Time Around”, about her ex-boyfriend Jackson C Frank: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Next Time Around”] The album made the top forty in the UK — Denny’s only solo album to do so — and led to her once again winning the “best female singer” award in Melody Maker’s readers’ poll that year — the male singer award was won by Rod Stewart. Both Stewart and Denny appeared the next year on the London Symphony Orchestra’s all-star version of The Who’s Tommy, which had originally been intended as a vehicle for Stewart before Roger Daltrey got involved. Stewart’s role was reduced to a single song, “Pinball Wizard”, while Denny sang on “It’s a Boy”: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “It’s a Boy”] While Fotheringay had split up, all the band members play on The North Star Grassman and the Ravens. Guitarists Donahue and Lucas only play on a couple of the tracks, with Richard Thompson playing most of the guitar on the record. But Fotheringay’s rhythm section of Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway play on almost every track. Another musician on the album, Ian Whiteman, would possibly have a profound effect on the future direction of Richard Thompson’s career and life. Whiteman was the former keyboard player for the mod band The Action, having joined them just before they became the blues-rock band Mighty Baby. But Mighty Baby had split up when all of the band except the lead singer had converted to Islam. Richard Thompson was on his own spiritual journey at this point, and became a Sufi – the same branch of Islam as Whiteman – soon after the session, though Thompson has said that his conversion was independent of Whiteman’s. The two did become very close and work together a lot in the mid-seventies though. Thompson had supposedly left Fairport because he was writing material that wasn’t suited to the band, but he spent more than a year after quitting the group working on sessions rather than doing anything with his own material, and these sessions tended to involve the same core group of musicians. One of the more unusual was a folk-rock supergroup called The Bunch, put together by Trevor Lucas. Richard Branson had recently bought a recording studio, and wanted a band to test it out before opening it up for commercial customers, so with this free studio time Lucas decided to record a set of fifties rock and roll covers. He gathered together Thompson, Denny, Whiteman, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Mattacks, Pat Donaldson, Gerry Conway, pianist Tony Cox, the horn section that would later form the core of the Average White Band, and Linda Peters, who had now split up with Joe Boyd and returned to the UK, and who had started dating Thompson. They recorded an album of covers of songs by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Johnny Otis and others: [Excerpt: The Bunch, “Willie and the Hand Jive”] The early seventies was a hugely productive time for this group of musicians, as they all continued playing on each other’s projects. One notable album was No Roses by Shirley Collins, which featured Thompson, Mattacks, Whiteman, Simon Nicol, Lal and Mike Waterson, and Ashley Hutchings, who was at that point married to Collins, as well as some more unusual musicians like the free jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill: [Excerpt: Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band, “Claudy Banks”] Collins was at the time the most respected female singer in British traditional music, and already had a substantial career including a series of important records made with her sister Dolly, work with guitarists like Davey Graham, and time spent in the 1950s collecting folk songs in the Southern US with her then partner Alan Lomax – according to Collins she did much of the actual work, but Lomax only mentioned her in a single sentence in his book on this work. Some of the same group of musicians went on to work on an album of traditional Morris dancing tunes, titled Morris On, credited to “Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield”, with Collins singing lead on two tracks: [Excerpt: Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield with Shirley Collins, “The Willow Tree”] Thompson thought that that album was the best of the various side projects he was involved in at the time, comparing it favourably to Rock On, which he thought was rather slight, saying later “Conceptually, Fairport, Ashley and myself and Sandy were developing a more fragile style of music that nobody else was particularly interested in, a British Folk Rock idea that had a logical development to it, although we all presented it our own way. Morris On was rather more true to what we were doing. Rock On was rather a retro step. I'm not sure it was lasting enough as a record but Sandy did sing really well on the Buddy Holly songs.” Hutchings used the musicians on No Roses and Morris On as the basis for his band the Albion Band, which continues to this day. Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks both quit Fairport to join the Albion Band, though Mattacks soon returned. Nicol would not return to Fairport for several years, though, and for a long period in the mid-seventies Fairport Convention had no original members. Unfortunately, while Collins was involved in the Albion Band early on, she and Hutchings ended up divorcing, and the stress from the divorce led to Collins developing spasmodic dysphonia, a stress-related illness which makes it impossible for the sufferer to sing. She did eventually regain her vocal ability, but between 1978 and 2016 she was unable to perform at all, and lost decades of her career. Richard Thompson occasionally performed with the Albion Band early on, but he was getting stretched a little thin with all these sessions. Linda Peters said later of him “When I came back from America, he was working in Sandy’s band, and doing sessions by the score. Always with Pat Donaldson and Dave Mattacks. Richard would turn up with his guitar, one day he went along to do a session with one of those folkie lady singers — and there were Pat and DM. They all cracked. Richard smashed his amp and said “Right! No more sessions!” In 1972 he got round to releasing his first solo album, Henry the Human Fly, which featured guest appearances by Linda Peters and Sandy Denny among others: [Excerpt: Richard Thompson, “The Angels Took My Racehorse Away”] Unfortunately, while that album has later become regarded as one of the classics of its genre, at the time it was absolutely slated by the music press. The review in Melody Maker, for example, read in part “Some of Richard Thompson’s ideas sound great – which is really the saving grace of this album, because most of the music doesn’t. The tragedy is that Thompson’s “British rock music” is such an unconvincing concoction… Even the songs that do integrate rock and traditional styles of electric guitar rhythms and accordion and fiddle decoration – and also include explicit, meaningful lyrics are marred by bottle-up vocals, uninspiring guitar phrases and a general lack of conviction in performance.” Henry the Human Fly was released in the US by Warners, who had a reciprocal licensing deal with Island (and for whom Joe Boyd was working at the time, which may have had something to do with that) but according to Thompson it became the lowest-selling record that Warners ever put out (though I’ve also seen that claim made about Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle, another album that has later been rediscovered). Thompson was hugely depressed by this reaction, and blamed his own singing. Happily, though, by this point he and Linda had become a couple — they would marry in 1972 — and they started playing folk clubs as a duo, or sometimes in a trio with Simon Nicol. Thompson was also playing with Sandy Denny’s backing band at this point, and played on every track on her second solo album, Sandy. This album was meant to be her big commercial breakthrough, with a glamorous cover photo by David Bailey, and with a more American sound, including steel guitar by Sneaky Pete Kleinow of the Flying Burrito Brothers (whose overdubs were supervised in LA by Joe Boyd): [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Tomorrow is a Long Time”] The album was given a big marketing push by Island, and “Listen, Listen” was made single of the week on the Radio 1 Breakfast show: [Excerpt: Sandy Denny, “Listen, Listen”] But it did even worse than the previous album, sending her into something of a depression. Linda Thompson (as the former Linda Peters now was) said of this period “After the Sandy album, it got her down that her popularity didn't suddenly increase in leaps and bounds, and that was the start of her really fretting about the way her career was going. Things only escalated after that. People like me or Martin Carthy or Norma Waterson would think, ‘What are you on about? This is folk music.'” After Sandy’s release, Denny realised she could no longer afford to tour with a band, and so went back to performing just acoustically or on piano. The only new music to be released by either of these ex-members of Fairport Convention in 1973 was, oddly, on an album by the band they were no longer members of. After Thompson had left Fairport, the group had managed to release two whole albums with the same lineup — Swarbrick, Nicol, Pegg, and Mattacks. But then Nicol and Mattacks had both quit the band to join the Albion Band with their former bandmate Ashley Hutchings, leading to a situation where the Albion Band had two original members of Fairport plus their longtime drummer while Fairport Convention itself had no original members and was down to just Swarbrick and Pegg. Needing to fulfil their contracts, they then recruited three former members of Fotheringay — Lucas on vocals and rhythm guitar, Donahue on lead guitar, and Conway on drums. Conway was only a session player at the time, and Mattacks soon returned to the band, but Lucas and Donahue became full-time members. This new lineup of Fairport Convention released two albums in 1973, widely regarded as the group’s most inconsistent records, and on the title track of the first, “Rosie”, Richard Thompson guested on guitar, with Sandy Denny and Linda Thompson on backing vocals: [Excerpt: Fairport Convention, “Rosie”] Neither Sandy Denny nor Richard Thompson released a record themselves in 1973, but in neither case was this through the artists’ choice. The record industry was changing in the early 1970s, as we’ll see in later episodes, and was less inclined to throw good money after bad in the pursuit of art. Island Records prided itself on being a home for great artists, but it was still a business, and needed to make money. We’ll talk about the OPEC oil crisis and its effect on the music industry much more when the podcast gets to 1973, but in brief, the production of oil by the US peaked in 1970 and started to decrease, leading to them importing more and more oil from the Middle East. As a result of this, oil prices rose slowly between 1971 and 1973, then very quickly towards the end of 1973 as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict that year. As vinyl is made of oil, suddenly producing records became much more expensive, and in this period a lot of labels decided not to release already-completed albums, until what they hoped would be a brief period of shortages passed. Both Denny and Thompson recorded albums at this point that got put to one side by Island. In the case of Thompson, it was the first album by Richard and Linda as a duo, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Today, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, and as one of the two masterpieces that bookended Richard and Linda’s career as a duo and their marriage. But when they recorded the album, full of Richard’s dark songs, it was the opposite of commercial. Even a song that’s more or less a boy-girl song, like “Has He Got a Friend for Me?” has lyrics like “He wouldn’t notice me passing by/I could be in the gutter, or dangling down from a tree” [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “Has He got a Friend For Me?”] While something like “The Calvary Cross” is oblique and haunted, and seems to cast a pall over the entire album: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “The Calvary Cross”] The album itself had been cheap to make — it had been recorded in only a week, with Thompson bringing in musicians he knew well and had worked with a lot previously to cut the tracks as-live in only a handful of takes — but Island didn’t think it was worth releasing. The record stayed on the shelf for nearly a year after recording, until Island got a new head of A&R, Richard Williams. Williams said of the album’s release “Muff Winwood had been doing A&R, but he was more interested in production… I had a conversation with Muff as soon as I got there, and he said there are a few hangovers, some outstanding problems. And one of them was Richard Thompson. He said there’s this album we gave him the money to make — which was I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — and nobody’s very interested in it. Henry the Human Fly had been a bit of a commercial disappointment, and although Island was altruistic and independent and known for only recording good stuff, success was important… Either a record had to do well or somebody had to believe in it a lot. And it seemed as if neither of those things were true at that point of Richard.” Williams, though, was hugely impressed when he listened to the album. He compared Richard Thompson’s guitar playing to John Coltrane’s sax, and called Thompson “the folk poet of the rainy streets”, but also said “Linda brightened it, made it more commercial. and I thought that “Bright Lights” itself seemed a really commercial song.” The rest of the management at Island got caught up in Williams’ enthusiasm, and even decided to release the title track as a single: [Excerpt: Richard and Linda Thompson, “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight”] Neither single nor album charted — indeed it would not be until 1991 that Richard Thompson would make a record that made the top forty in the UK — but the album got enough critical respect that Richard and Linda released two albums the year after. The first of these, Hokey Pokey, is a much more upbeat record than their previous one — Richard Thompson has called it “quite a music-hall influenced record” and cited the influence of George Formby and Harry Lauder. For once, the claim of music hall influence is audible in the music. Usually when a British musician is claimed to have a music ha

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It's a look at Flash Comics#1 from January 1940 with the first appearances of The Flash, Hawkman andJohnny Thunder, plus Cliff Cornwall and The Whip!  You can follow the show@ComicsLloyd on Twitter or send an email to ClassicComicsMBL@gmail.com.   You can find me on Twitter @MattB_Lloyd andat www.dccomicsnews.com where Iwrite reviews and edit news stories. You can also check out mychapter in “Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought.”https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Gotham-Universe-Political-Thought/dp/3030057755“Black Panther andPhilosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer the World?”https://www.amazon.com/Black-Panther-Philosophy-Blackwell-Culture/dp/1119635845/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2F69N3WJBZMF3&keywords=what+can+wakanda&qid=1642053514&sprefix=what+can+wakanda%2Caps%2C256&sr=8-1 “Batman's Villains andVillainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives On Arkham's Souls”https://www.amazon.com/Batmans-Villains-Villainesses-Multidisciplinary-Perspectives-ebook/dp/B0C5SHX9BJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=D49SBV4K1UQD&keywords=villains+and+villainess+arkham&qid=1695406720&sprefix=villains+and+villainesses+arkaham%2Caps%2C284&sr=8-1 I've also submitted my essayon Silver St. Cloud to be included in “Batman, Also Starring….”  Also look out for the forthcoming “ComicsLit.” series from members of the Comics in Motion family, and Anachronistic Comics a DIY anthologycomic in which I have writer/artist/creator credits. Flash Comics #1 Notes Flash Comics #1 at DC Fandomhttps://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Flash_Comics_Vol_1_1 The Whiphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_(character) Gardner Foxhttps://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Gardner_Fox/Writer 

This week- where in the world is it illegal to walk around naked? Who wrote the song “I Write the Songs”? The answer will surprise you! WHO was the first woman to take the bar exam? Listen, laugh, and learn with Nick & Roy www.nickandroy.com Brought to you in part by Tom's Place in Kensington Market in Toronto.

Dave and Milt jump back to February 21, 1976, to explore the Billboard Top 10 hits. The duo analyzes songs ranging from ELO's 'Evil Woman' and the Eagles' 'Take It to the Limit' to disco classics like Donna Summer's 'Love to Love You Baby' and Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing.' They introduce a playful segment featuring AI-generated Milt as a quizmaster. Songs are substituted, moments from TV and film are highlighted, and nostalgic stories are shared, all culminating in Paul Simon's classic '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' being crowned the top hit of the week.   Topics   01:14 Listener Shoutouts and Feedback 06:48 Spotify Troubles and Legal Issues 08:33 Time Travel to February 21st, 1976 21:08 Top 10 Songs Countdown Begins 41:51 Neil Sedaka's Unique Chart History 42:55 Debating the Song's Intro 43:19 Neil Sedaka's Career Resurgence 44:29 Exploring Other Chart Oddities 45:07 Nirvana's Unplugged and Other Remakes 47:03 Neil Sedaka's Kids Songs 48:10 Parody Songs and Phone Industry 50:50 Eric Carmen's All By Myself 58:26 Barry Manilow's I Write the Songs 01:04:53 AI and Music Trivia Challenge 01:16:07 The Miracles' Disco Hit 01:22:46 The Groove and Horniness Vibes Continue 01:23:34 Germany and TV Show Recommendations 01:24:29 Donna Summer's Breakthrough 01:24:59 The Extended Dance Remix Revolution 01:25:38 The Controversy and Impact of 'Love to Love You Baby' 01:31:35 Hot Chocolate's 'You Sexy Thing' 01:38:38 Rhythm Heritage and TV Theme Songs 01:44:00 Paul Simon's '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' 01:53:07 Recap and Reflections

Send us a textEp 557: Exploring Sexual Self Discovery in Midlife and Kinky Queer Erotic Writing with Anna Sansom: Reclaiming Desire and Writing to Your Edges.Join Ruan Willow as she delves into an intimate conversation with Anna Sansom, a midlife, kinky queer writer whose work spans erotic fiction and personal essays on sexuality and relationships. Anna shares her journey through the transformative power of masturbation and how it became a spiritual practice that saved her life. Her latest anthology, "Sex Meets Life," is a collection of stories from 17 diverse authors exploring the intersection of sex and life's challenges. (affiliate link) Book "Sex Meets Life" https://amzn.to/4h10staDiscover Anna's insights on the importance of self-exploration, the reclamation of desire, and the significance of writing to your edges. This episode is a celebration of diversity, inclusivity, and the power of storytelling in understanding our sexual selves. Don't miss Anna's captivating reading from her anthology, a piece that will leave you reflecting on your own journey of sexual discovery.

Barry Manilow (/ˈmænɪloʊ/ MAN-il-oh; born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans six decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Looks Like We Made It", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You", "Weekend in New England", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)". Manilow has recorded and released 51 Top 40 singles on the Adult Contemporary Chart, including 13 that hit number one, 28 that appeared within the top ten, and 36 that reached the top twenty. Manilow has released 13 platinum and six multi-platinum albums.[2] Although not a favorite artist of music critics,[3] Manilow has been praised by his peers in the recording industry. In the 1970s, Frank Sinatra predicted: "He's next."[4] As well as producing and arranging albums for himself and other artists, Manilow has written and performed songs for musicals, films, and commercials for corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi Cola, and Band-Aid. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (winning once) as a producer, arranger and performer a total of fifteen times (and in every decade) from 1973 to 2015.[5] He has also produced Grammy-nominated albums for Bette Midler, Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson, and Sarah Vaughan.[6] Manilow has sold more than 85 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's bestselling artists.[7][8][9] PICTURE: By PhilipRomanoPhoto - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140854561

Send us a textSeason 4, Episode 535: Queer Erotica and Drag: Embracing Spicy Art Forms with Titus Androgynous. Join Ruan Willow in this captivating episode as she dives into the world of queer erotica and performance art with the talented Titus Androgynous. Titus, a transmasculine, non-binary writer and performer from Toronto, Canada, shares their journey through various art forms, including burlesque, drag, and erotica writing. With works featured in acclaimed publications like Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year and Listen to Your Skin, Titus brings a unique perspective on gender, sexuality, and the art of performance.In this episode, Titus discusses the intersection of gender performance and erotic storytelling, exploring how embracing different gender expressions can be both freeing and empowering. They share their experiences as a drag king and the challenges of leaning into sexiness on stage. Titus also reads their story "Demon Lover," a poignant tale that intertwines themes of mental health, anxiety, and sensuality.Quote from Titus Androgynous: "No one was going to take me seriously until I took myself seriously."Guest Bio: Titus Androgynous (they/them) is a transmasc nonbinary writer and performer from Toronto, Canada. Their queer erotica has been included in several publications including Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 6; Listen to Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer and Self-Love; and I Write the Body: Queer and Trans Kink, Desire and Defiance. Titus has performed and created pieces in genres including burlesque, sketch comedy, clown and Shakespeare. They have been performing nationally and internationally as a drag king since 2013. Titus is one of the founding authors of Theo Reads, the newest and best place to read spicy stories online.Book: (affiliate link, podcast may earn a commission) Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 6 https://amzn.to/3CHdrRi00:01:30 " You're also a singer and an actor and you do spicy art forms00:02:28 " we can talk about gender and performance00:09:06 " You know that some people will be reading these stories as a form of sexual play00:10:55 " Is there really a difference between drag and burlesque00:14:38 " I'm going back a bit about gender and Gender performance00:19:34 " There's no room for improv in burlesque because you're working with music00:20:25 " For the writing you really have to trust yourself. For the presentation you have to wait00:21:55 " A lot of fiction focuses on that young age and the newness of that00:25:42 " Would you be willing to read something for us? Absolutely. So this is a piece that will be available on Theo Reads00:42:49 " When you sit down to write something, what's the first thing that grips you00:44:05 " Do you consider yourself more of a pantser or a plotter00:49:20 " Community involvement versus watching with someone else and watching their reactions00:54:31 " How many times do male authors get sold compared to female authors00:56:42 " Theo Reads01:01:26 " People are judging those books by their cover, rightheadliner appSupport the showSubscribe for exclusive episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1599808/subscribeSign up for Ruan's newsletters: https://subscribepage.io/ruanwillowhttps://linktr.ee/RuanWillowI Dare You book https://books.ruanwillowauthor.com/idareyouthesaturdaysexchallenge

It's October and so you finally get a Halloween themed media episode to round out the month. First we talk about Robert Louis Stevenson and his book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. We discuss some of the major themes as well as some of the many, many, MANY movie depictions that have been done of it. Then we talk about the incredibly amazing metal album by A Wake in Providence titled I Write to You, My Darling Decay. And we end with happy news about the increase in early voting. Enjoy and have a happy Samhain!    Show Notes:    Robert Louis Stevenson:    Robert Louis Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson  RLS website: https://robert-louis-stevenson.org/  Fanny Stevenson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Stevenson The Lighthouse Stevensons: https://www.historyhit.com/the-lighthouse-stevensons-how-one-family-lit-up-the-coast-of-scotland/ The Speculative Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speculative_Society  William Henley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley  The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson   Project Gutenberg ebook of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42/pg42-images.html Gothic fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction  Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde  Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: https://www.britishlibrary.cn/en/works/jekyllandhyde/  Dualism in the Victorian Age: https://britlitsurvey2.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/dualism-in-the-victorian-age/  MOGP:  I Write to You, My Darling album stream w/lyrics in video description https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMc1tGG-JA&list=PLMJGV7p_FGBW2JGxXjBphgPzyrP-VJXby Interview with vocalists D'Andre Tyre and Adam Mercer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fnnin_99w Sundry links to magical grimiores referenced in the album https://archive.org/stream/a-book-of-the-office-of-spirits/A%20Book%20of%20the%20Office%20of%20Spirits_djvu.txt https://archive.org/details/ac_goetia/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/lesserkeysolomo00laurgoog/page/n7/mode/2up Happy News: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/more-than-600000-vote-by-mail-ballots-received-in-florida-elections-offices/ GoFundMe for Shannon: https://www.gofundme.com/help-shannon-grover-with-medical-expenses    Email: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod  Patreon page for documentary: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glassboxpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlassBoxPod  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/  Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com  Venmo: Shannon-Grover-10  

Support Common Prayer Daily @ PatreonVisit our Website for more www.commonprayerdaily.com_________________PentecostYou shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. - Acts 1:8 ConfessionOfficiant: Let us humbly confess our sins unto Almighty God.People: Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against your holy laws.We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and apart from your grace, there is no health in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us. Spare all those who confess their faults. Restore all those who are penitent, according to your promises declared to all people in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, that we may now live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of your holy Name. Amen.Officiant: Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen. Invitatory & PsalmsOfficiant: O God, make speed to save us. People: O Lord, make haste to help us. Officiant & People: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. VeniteAlleluia. The Spirit of the Lord renews the face of the earth: Come let us adore him. Alleluia.Come, let us sing to the Lord; *let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.For the Lord is a great God, *and a great King above all gods.In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *and the heights of the hills are his also.The sea is his, for he made it, *and his hands have molded the dry land.Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *and kneel before the Lord our Maker.For he is our God,and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!Alleluia. The Spirit of the Lord renews the face of the earth: Come let us adore him. Alleluia. Psalm 18: Part IIlove you, O Lord my strength, *O Lord my stronghold, my crag, and my haven.My God, my rock in whom I put my trust, *my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge;you are worthy of praise.I will call upon the Lord, *and so shall I be saved from my enemies.The breakers of death rolled over me, *and the torrents of oblivion made me afraid.The cords of hell entangled me, *and the snares of death were set for me.I called upon the Lord in my distress *and cried out to my God for help.He heard my voice from his heavenly dwelling; *my cry of anguish came to his ears.The earth reeled and rocked; *the roots of the mountains shook;they reeled because of his anger.Smoke rose from his nostrilsand a consuming fire out of his mouth; *hot burning coals blazed forth from him.He parted the heavens and came down *with a storm cloud under his feet.He mounted on cherubim and flew; *he swooped on the wings of the wind.He wrapped darkness about him; *he made dark waters and thick clouds his pavilion.From the brightness of his presence, through the clouds, *burst hailstones and coals of fire.The Lord thundered out of heaven; *the Most High uttered his voice.He loosed his arrows and scattered them; *he hurled thunderbolts and routed them.The beds of the seas were uncovered,and the foundations of the world laid bare, *at your battle cry, O Lord,at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.He reached down from on high and grasped me; *he drew me out of great waters.He delivered me from my strong enemiesand from those who hated me; *for they were too mighty for me.They confronted me in the day of my disaster; *but the Lord was my support.He brought me out into an open place; *he rescued me because he delighted in me. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. The LessonsProv. 7:1-27A Reading from the Book of Proverbs.My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend, that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense, passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart. She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait. She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him: "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you! I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen; I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love. For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. He took a bag of money with him; he will not come home until full moon." With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. Right away he follows her, and goes like an ox to the slaughter, or bounds like a stag toward the trap until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life. And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. for many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.Officiant: The Word of the LordPeople: Thanks be to God. 21. You are GodTe Deum laudamusYou are God: we praise you;You are the Lord; we acclaim you;You are the eternal Father:All creation worships you.To you all angels, all the powers of heaven,Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise:Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,heaven and earth are full of your glory.The glorious company of apostles praise you.The noble fellowship of prophets praise you.The white-robed army of martyrs praise you.Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you;Father, of majesty unbounded,your true and only Son, worthy of all worship,and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.You, Christ, are the king of glory,the eternal Son of the Father.When you became man to set us freeyou did not shun the Virgin's womb.You overcame the sting of deathand opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.You are seated at God's right hand in glory.We believe that you will come and be our judge.Come then, Lord, and help your people,bought with the price of your own blood,and bring us with your saintsto glory everlasting. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. 1 John 5:13-21A Reading from the First Letter of John.Iwrite these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. If you see your brother or sister committing what is not a mortal sin, you will ask, and God will give life to such a one-- to those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin that is mortal; I do not say that you should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not mortal. We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them. We know that we are God's children, and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.Officiant: The Word of the LordPeople: Thanks be to God. 16. The Song of ZechariahBenedictus Dominus Deus - Luke 1: 68-79Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; *he has come to his people and set them free.He has raised up for us a mighty savior, *born of the house of his servant David.Through his holy prophets he promised of old,that he would save us from our enemies, *from the hands of all who hate us.He promised to show mercy to our fathers *and to remember his holy covenant.This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham, *to set us free from the hands of our enemies,Free to worship him without fear, *holy and righteous in his sightall the days of our life.You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, *for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,To give his people knowledge of salvation *by the forgiveness of their sins.In the tender compassion of our God *the dawn from on high shall break upon us,To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, *and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. The CreedI believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. The PrayersOfficiant: The Lord be with you.People: And also with you.Officiant: Let us pray The Lord's PrayerOur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. The SuffragesShow us your mercy, O Lord;And grant us your salvation.Clothe your ministers with righteousness;Let your people sing with joy.Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;For only in you can we live in safety. Lord, keep this nation under your care;And guide us in the way of justice and truth. Let your way be known upon earth; Your saving health among all nations. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; Nor the hope of the poor be taken away. Create in us clean hearts, O God; And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.Take a moment at this time to reflect and pray for the needs of others. Proper 2Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness keep us, we pray, from all things that may hurt us, that we, being ready both in mind and body, may accomplish with free hearts those things which belong to your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.A Collect for PeaceO God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in your defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries; through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.A Collect for GraceLord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought us in safety to this new day: Preserve us with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.For MissionAlmighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. ThanksgivingsThe General ThanksgivingAlmighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.A Prayer of St. ChrysostomAlmighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen. ConclusionLet us bless the Lord. Alleluia, alleluia.Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia. Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.Ephesians 3:20,21

Monday, March 14, 2022 "When you do wake up from CPR though, is your first thought why am I naked?" We're introduced to Miki proper by way of Australia, Britain, our old pal Phil, and good old fashioned American floating oil rigs (well futuristic oil rigs five years in the future anyway). Miki and Phil both join the call for good times and three of the differentest movies to come together in a single podcast. Good good times. 0:00 -- Intro11:21 -- Walkabout39:55 -- Extra homework47:34 -- Quadrophenia1.15:23 -- The Abyss1.39:52 -- Contact business and Patreon pitch meeting and event reminder1.46:00 -- Awards and rankings2.51:22 -- Future business3.03:55 -- Outro and outtakesHey! Be sure to watch Clueless, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion for next time! Time is short!Hey! Roger Ebert review of Walkabout!Hey! See Miki in Beargarden's "I Write the News"!Hey! Dogs in Space exists!Hey! Hear Jon's name in the Trekking Through Time and Space podcast!Hey! See the Radiohead "No Surprises" video!Hey! Sting's "Russians" Insta!Hey! Leave us a voicemail at (801) 896-4542!Hey! We're somewhere on Spotify now!Hey! Subscribe in iTunes!Hey! Check out the Facebook page and vote on the next category!Hey! Check out Jon's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Check out Roy's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Email us at yoursminetheirspodcast@gmail.com! Send new topics! Send new theme songs!

It's Episode 57 of the Friday Night Karaoke Podcast, and the theme of the week was #FNK70s! It's time to dust off those bell-bottoms for #FNK70s week! Groove into the heart of the disco era with your favorite 70s jams. Whether you're a "Dancing Queen" or a "Rocket Man," the FNK community grabbed their mics and showed us how they are "Stayin' Alive" with the classics. Be a "Super Trouper" and bring some "Hot Stuff" to the party—let's "Get it On" and fill the FNK airwaves with the soul of the 70s! Can you dig it? FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE ALONGSIDE HOSTS MIKE WISTON AND JOE RUBIN: James R Isaac III with Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel Brett Arellano & Stace Williams with Stop Dragging My Heart Around by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty Nanna Katajamäki with No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley Jeff Matusicky with I Write the Songs by Barry Mailow Cynthia Van Belle with Fire by The Pointer Sisters Ram Trukkz with Dust in the Wind by Kansas Jennifer Adams & Eric Dubrofsky with Horse With No Name by America Mike Wiston with Anarchy in the UK by Sex Pistols Joe Rubin & Dana LaValle with You're the One That I Want by Grease Love what you hear? Join the official Friday Night Karaoke FB group, a completely negativity free karaoke destination, and be part of the action! www.facebook.com/groups/fridaynightkaraoke. Hope to see you there!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Pippa and Dr. Sindiwe Magona discuss the collection of essays that she has recently published called “I Write the Yawning Void”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley wishes a happy 80th birthday to iconic singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, who was born on June 17, 1943. Manilow is currently performing a residency in Las Vegas where you'll hear hits like “Mandy,” “I Write the Songs” and “Copacabana.” He briefly spoke to Jason in 2015 for what was then thought to be his farewell tour at the Verizon Center, now called Capital One Arena in Washington D.C.. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley wishes a happy 80th birthday to iconic singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, who was born on June 17, 1943. Manilow is currently performing a residency in Las Vegas where you'll hear hits like “Mandy,” “I Write the Songs” and “Copacabana.” He briefly spoke to Jason in 2015 for what was then thought to be his farewell tour at the Verizon Center, now called Capital One Arena in Washington D.C.. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TOM BENN chats to Paul Burke about his quasi-crime novel OXBLOOD, teaching creative writing, book prizes, being/not being a film maker and avoiding the nostalgic postcard. Oxblood: Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover.Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good.TOM BENN's first novel The Doll Princess was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Dagger. Benn's creative nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review and he won the BFI's iWrite scheme for emerging screenwriters. His first film Real Gods Require Blood premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film at the BFI London Film Festival. Oxblood was awarded the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Originally from Stockport, he teaches on the UEA Crime Fiction Creative Writing MA and lives in Norwich.RecommendationsDanya Kukafka Notes on an Execution Juniper Fitzgerald Enjoy Me Among My RuinsJames Clarke Sanderson's Isle (July 2023)Pat Barker Blow Your House DownPaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023&CWA Daggers 2023

The Sharvette Mitchell Radio Show | www.Sharvette.com Glenda Moton is the author and contributing editor of two books: “Hopes and Fears: Learning Academically in a Covid-19 Environment” and “iRead, iThink, iWrite”. Both books have received media press and “Hopes and Fears” has received numerous features including TIME Magazine, Grand Canyon University, The Miami Herald, WLRN, WSVN news, and many more. Glenda's mission is to inspire, equip, and empower educators and students beyond the classroom. Moreover, Glenda is a Certified Professional Life Coach. She received her certification from Breakthrough Coaching and Leadership Academy (B.C.L.A) in May 2021 and she is the founder of “Restore Hearts, Inc.” ✔Meet our host: Sharvette Mitchell is a Marketing Consultant that helps entrepreneurs tell the stories of their businesses through marketing so that they enrich their lives and grow their businesses. She does this by focusing on their visibilities strategies, positioning, and personal branding with one on one consulting, group coaching programs based on her trademarked framework, THE PLATFORM BUILDER®,  speaking engagements,  book collaborations, and producing conferences & retreats.  Since 2008, Sharvette has hosted a weekly internet talk radio show  - The Sharvette Mitchell Radio Show. She has been seen on CBS 6, The CW Network, and featured in publications such as Huffington Post & AARP.   

In this episode, Vicki Atkinson, Brian Hannon and Wynne Leon talk about how writing helps us think and more than once and maybe even get us out of a jam or two. We, the overly-absorbed, over-thinkers who swirl and retread in our own infinity loops of what-ifs and quandaries, and then can hopefully write our way out of those loops. We talk about being part of the writing community in general and the team that makes up the Heart of the Matter. Folks who enjoy telling stories…swapping giggles and epiphanies…all with an eye toward inspiration and greater good. It's podcast time to shoot the breeze about the compulsion to create and to tell stories. Show notes can be found at the Heart of the Matter site at Episode 8: I Write...Because I Wonder

Melissa Murphy is not only a children's author, Executive Director of the Bryan Museum, but also the founder of the iWRITE Literacy Organization! Melissa is passionate not only about childhood literacy but also about igniting a passion for children to become published authors! This year they are setting a world record!! Tune in to hear how iWRITE is changing lives of children.

In this episode, Susan and Sinéad revisit a book which haunted both their childhoods - Catherine Storr's 1958 fantasy classic Marianne Dreams. We get deep inside the symbolism of this brilliant little book, discussing the nature of dreams and fantasy and how stories contain universes. Come with us as we watch Marianne and Mark battle their way past the Watchers... Sit with us on the grass as we ask ourselves what the enigmatic ending of this book is really trying to say... And try not to laugh at Sinéad's visceral terror reactions to the Terrible Awful Very Scary Things in this book (stones! With *eyes*!)Referenced in this podcast:"Musty Books: 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr (1958); a blog article on The Haunted Generation with Bob Fischer, July 6, 2020"I Write to Frighten Myself": Catherine Storr and the Development of Children's Literature Studies in Britain; Kimberley Reynolds, Children's Literature in Education 50, 449-463, 2019Fear and Evil in Children's Books; Catherine Storr, Children's Literature in Education 1, 22-40, 1970The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images, TaschenOur podcast bookshop in Ireland is Halfway Up the Stairs: www.halfwayupthestairs.ieIn the UK, check out our storefront on: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclaimer: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our newest show on Impact Radio USA, we bring back to life the "LIVE SINGING" segments and the "NAME THAT TUNE" contests that were originally heard LIVE on "Dr. Paul's Family Talk" radio show! As these are the two most popular segments from "Dr. Paul's Family Talk" radio show, we decided to package them into a new show, entitled "Impact Music" (Hijinks, Hilarity, and Frivolity!). Today's episode features:  "I Write the Songs" (LS)"Little Sister (LS) "Old-fashioned Love Song" (LS) We hope that you enjoy this show as much as you have enjoyed all of our other shows! "Impact Music" (Hijinks, Hilarity, and Frivolity!) can be heard on our radio station at 8:00 am ET and 10:00 pm ET seven days/nights a week. Enjoy!

In our newest show on Impact Radio USA, we bring back to life the "LIVE SINGING" segments and the "NAME THAT TUNE" contests that were originally heard LIVE on "Dr. Paul's Family Talk" radio show! As these are the two most popular segments from "Dr. Paul's Family Talk" radio show, we decided to package them into a new show, entitled "Impact Music" (Hijinks, Hilarity, and Frivolity!). Today's episode features:  "I Write the Songs" (LS)"Little Sister (LS) "Old-fashioned Love Song" (LS) We hope that you enjoy this show as much as you have enjoyed all of our other shows! "Impact Music" (Hijinks, Hilarity, and Frivolity!) can be heard on our radio station at 8:00 am ET and 10:00 pm ET seven days/nights a week. Enjoy!

•A multiple award-winning singer, songwriter, musician worship leader, music teacher and Chicago Sock Ambassador Paulette Triplett. She was trained by her mother along with her siblings in hymns in 4-part harmony. •Since the age of 10 to her current age she had penned over 3000 songs. She started a music publishing company under BMI in 1985 called “I Write 4 The Glory Of God Music.” Paulette has served as Minister of Music for various denominations for over 40 years. •She has a New Single which will be released May 21, 2022entitled “I'm A Miracle”. And is a co-host for the podcast “Prophetic Voices.” •Please send me an email sharing your thoughts about this show segment also if you have any suggestions of future guests you would like to hear on the show. Send an email to letstalk2gmg@gmail.com •You may also “like” and share the episode. And you may Subscribe so you will be alerted when the newest show is published. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letstalk2gmg-ansonia/message

"When you do wake up from CPR though, is your first thought why am I naked?"We're introduced to Miki proper by way of Australia, Britain, our old pal Phil, and good old fashioned American floating oil rigs (well futuristic oil rigs five years in the future anyway). Miki and Phil both join the call for good times and three of the differentest movies to come together in a single podcast. Good good times.0:00 -- Intro11:21 -- Walkabout39:55 -- Extra homework47:34 -- Quadrophenia1.15:23 -- The Abyss1.39:52 -- Contact business and Patreon pitch meeting and event reminder1.46:00 -- Awards and rankings2.51:22 -- Future business3.03:55 -- Outro and outtakesHey! Be sure to watch Clueless, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion for next time! Time is short!Hey! Roger Ebert review of Walkabout!Hey! See Miki in Beargarden's "I Write the News"!Hey! Dogs in Space exists!Hey! Hear Jon's name in the Trekking Through Time and Space podcast!Hey! See the Radiohead "No Surprises" video!Hey! Sting's "Russians" Insta!Hey! Leave us a voicemail at (801) 896-4542!Hey! We're somewhere on Spotify now!Hey! Subscribe in iTunes!Hey! Check out the Facebook page and vote on the next category!Hey! Check out Jon's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Check out Roy's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Email us at yoursminetheirspodcast@gmail.com! Send new topics! Send new theme songs!Download this episode right here!

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 355, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Aussie Odds And Ends 1: In 1993 Sydney beat out Beijing by 2 votes to get to host this, 7 years later. Summer Olympic Games. 2: Australia became a commonwealth in 1901, but this group didn't become citizens until 1967. Aborigines. 3: Nevil Shute's novel "A Town Like Alice" is set during this war. World War II. 4: Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed one of these carried off and killed her baby, was wrongly convicted of murder. Dingo (wild dog). 5: Group that had a 1982 No. 1 hit in the U.S. singing "I Come From A Land Down Under". Men At Work. Round 2. Category: Biblical Names 1: When the following song went gold, so did the chains across this composer's chest:. Isaac Hayes. 2: According to the nursery rhyme, he was born on a Monday and buried on Sunday. Solomon Grundy. 3: At this man's inaugural, Mathew Brady took the first photo of a president being sworn in. Abraham Lincoln. 4: In 1818, she "gave birth" to the world's most famous monster. Mary Shelley. 5: Pro basketball's MVP in 1979, '82, + '83. Moses Malone. Round 3. Category: Bruce Willis 1: This Bruce Willis film premiered in 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center. Armageddon. 2: Little Richard performed the ceremony when Bruce married this woman. Demi Moore. 3: The title of the third film in this series starring Bruce Willis as cop John McClane added "With A Vengeance". Die Hard. 4: Bruce thanked Al Pacino and The Three Stooges when he picked up an Emmy in 1987 for his work on this TV show. Moonlighting. 5: The first feature film Bruce starred in was this dating comedy that also starred Kim Basinger. Blind Date. Round 4. Category: Famous Last Words 1: An unemployed soldier, 1821:"Josephine!". Napoleon Bonaparte. 2: A pilot, 1937:"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet...". Amelia Earhart. 3: A social leader, 1965:"Let's cool it, brothers!". Malcolm X. 4: A monarch, 1603:"All my possessions for a moment of time". Queen Elizabeth I. 5: A poet, 1953:"I've had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record". Dylan Thomas. Round 5. Category: I Write The Songs 1: He's the answer, my friend to who wrote Peter, Paul and Mary's "Blowin' In The Wind". Bob Dylan. 2: He wrote "Blinded By The Light" and "Fire", which were hits for Manfred Mann and the Pointer Sisters, respectively. Bruce Springsteen. 3: He co-wrote the songs "Copacabana" and "Could It Be Magic", but not "I Write the Songs". Barry Manilow. 4: We've got nothing but this for Otis Redding, who wrote the song, Aretha Franklin's first No. 1 hit. Respect. 5: This singer-songwriter of "Doctor My Eyes" had a highly publicized breakup with Daryl Hannah in the early '90s. Jackson Browne. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

In this episode - How many pieces of wood are used to make an average violin? What Canadian astronaut recorded an album in space?  Did Barry Manilow really write “I Write the Songs”? Listen, laugh and learn with Nick & Roy.

Welcome to Lovely Monday Motivation where I share 1 self-love tip and answer 1 self-love question. This week's self-love tip is to allow yourself to receive. The more open and willing that you are to receive gifts, whether it is from your friend or the Higher Power, the more prosperous you will be in the gifts that you receive. In simple terms, the more open and willing you are to receive, the more you are allowing yourself to get. There are many layers that could get in the way of this. One reason may be that someone doesn't feel as though they deserve goodness and abundance. Another reason may be that they have had a lot of challenges in the past and created an assumption that because they have had challenges in the past, they will continue having challenges in the future. Here are two methods that I've found to work for my clients and I: Write out on a piece of paper a letter to the Higher Power that you are willing and able to receive gifts with joy and grace. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and visualize yourself receiving an abundance of gifts. For both of these methods, there are two key points to keep in mind. The first is that when you are writing or visualizing, create the feeling inside that you are already prosperous and have gratitude for receiving. One way to ignite this feeling is to ask yourself, “How would I feel if I had this right now?” and see what comes up for you. The next point is that when you do receive, accept it easily and happily. My self-love question this week is from Dee. She asked, “How do we love ourselves best when we feel overwhelmed and stressed out by pressure?”. This is a really amazing question, Dee! Thank you so much for asking. This answer has two parts. The first thing that I recommend is to remember that you are exactly where you are meant to be in your journey. Overwhelm and stress is usually caused by living in the future. Bring yourself back to the present moment and trust the process. Then, make a plan. What works really well for me is to write everything out and organize it in a way that I can see the full picture. Then, depending on my timeline, I'll organize my tasks by time and rearrange them as needed so that when I look at the whole plan, it is 100% doable and motivating. The next thing that I suggest is to consider if this thing that is causing you so much overwhelm and stress is worth it? I'm being really serious here. There are definitely things in your life that you need to prioritize. I want to acknowledge that. But if you are under constant stress, this is a recipe for deteriorating mental health and eventually, physical health. If you don't have time for your needs, something needs to change. I previously had worked as a childcare nanny and I loved my job a lot. I had a strong emotional connection to the children and wanted to always be there for them. At the same time, I had no time for my own needs or self-care. Even getting groceries was really hard. This kind of situation is harmful to anyone and leaks our power. If this is you, reclaim your power back! It might hurt at first and can be hard, but you have to fulfill your own needs first before you give energy to other people. That is simply how you have a healthy life. Thank you so much for tuning in, if you liked it please leave a like and comment and also share it with someone whom you feel could benefit from this information!

Well, after a rather abrupt end to relay-Sean's with minister Edward, I had to consider a new direct-Sean for this Bod's Pod Casting of Magic. The Good News is, the Letter from Canada's Registrar General confirms that it does not register or hold authority of People. One of the reasons for the War of Words with Edward is his belief that the state presumes to hold a claim of right over the Value of One's Life by Way of the Live Birth Record's registration - despite the fact he is reading a letter from the Registrar General's Office directly stating it does not. That has always been My belief because if it were, it would be a contract of bondage and slavery which could never be legally binding anyway, never Mind the fact that the individual is not even consciously aware enough at the time of its creation to have any legal capacity to contract. The 'War of Words' with minister Edward was beneficial for Me in other Ways because prior to the Letter from the Registrar, I may have enjoyed debating Edward on the Matter. But I am not going to waste time disputing a point that has already been clearly established by the office responsible for those records. So now I can speak to People from a perspective of knowledge, not belief. At the very least in Canada, the state "does not register or presume to hold authority of People". The commercial system works the same Way in every country, so My presumption is that the same is True everywhere. Our voluntary participation is required. This podcast introduces some of the things I Will be tall King about in what Will now be the beginning of Season 2. I Will also be including a new series called "Letters out Loud", which Will be a collection of the Letters I have sent to Canada's government read by Me, along with the response (if any) and an explanation of the Letter, why I Write the Way I do, and other additional insights. The compilation Will eventually comprise an audio record of My Common Law efforts to dissolve My public Trust in government, re-Telling My Story in audio format. I may also read some of My Blog Posts in Part or in whole to revisit some of those Ideas in more detail. www.vondehnvisuals.com has over 1,100 Blog Posts Writ and an International Record of all My Letters to Canada's elected representatives and service agents. I'm very excited about this relaunch, I believe You Will find much of Value here, and I hope You do. Thank 'King You' for being here. Blessings,

Matthew Bannister on Baroness O’Cathain, the successful businesswoman who became Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre in London but left after losing the confidence of staff and artists. Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed in the Apollo command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Sharon Matola, the former lion tamer who became an environmentalist in Belize, establishing a zoo to care for the country’s rare and rescued animals. Jim Steinman, the songwriter whose masterwork “Bat Out Of Hell” became one of the best-selling albums of all time. Producer: Neil George Interviewed guest: Lord Faulkner of Worcester Interviewed guest: Sir Nicholas Kenyon Interviewed guest: Lou Nicolait Interviewed guest: Andrea Polanco Interviewed guest: Meat Loaf Interviewed guest: Don Black Archive clips used: The Farming Week: Radio 4, TX 1.8.1987; Woman's Hour: Radio 4, TX 17.10.1989; 13 Minutes to the Moon: World Service, TX 15.5.2019; Naomi's Nightmares of Nature: CBBC, TX 2.7.2014; Simon Bates interview with Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, recorded circa 1993, TX unknown; World at One: Radio 4, TX 21.4.2021; I Write the Songs - Series 3: Radio Wales, TX 12.3.2016

Venture capitalist Li Jin left Andreessen Horowitz to start her own firm, Atelier Ventures. She started Atelier to fund a specific vision of the world: a world in which people are able to do what they love for a living and to have a more fulfilling and purposeful life.In addition to being an investor, Li is a prolific writer and podcaster, producing not only a newsletter but also writing articles for major publications.Find out whether you should really be writing content every week, or whether your effort is better spent on longer-form, epic articles. Should you be publishing in your newsletter, or in publications like Harvard Business Review?Li and Nathan don't just talk about content, they also get deep into business models for your newsletter business, with Li sharing her perspective as the founder of a venture fund. Don't miss Li's unique combination of deep investment knowledge and artistic creativity!Links & Resources Andreessen Horowitz - Software Is Eating the World LiveJournal: Discover global communities of bloggers who share your unique passions and interests. Myspace Zynga The Nathan Barry Show 028: Packy McCormick – How Much Are 30,000 Subscribers Worth? Evernote Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders The Nathan Barry Show 023: Tiago Forte – Building a Second Brain & Lessons From a $1M/yr Newsletter The Nathan Barry Show 017: David Perell – Mastering Twitter to Grow Your Newsletter and Make Money Li Jin's Links Newsletter: Li's Newsletter Website: Atelier Ventures Podcast: Means of Creation Twitter: @ljin18 LinkedIn: Li Jin Episode TranscriptLi Jin: [00:00:00] What are your goals and what is the content that you're creating and why are people subscribed and reading it? The business model needs to fit what your content is, who the audience is, who the creator is, what the platform is. All of those things need to be aligned. Direct user monetization is totally in vogue in the form of donations, ad hoc payments, subscription payments.It's always charging the user for something. Nathan: [00:00:28] Today's episode is with venture capitalist Li Jin. So Li was at Andreessen Horowitz, and then she recently left to start her own firm, Atelier Ventures. We talked about a lot of things that I find interesting, like business models for your newsletter, for example, should you monetize through a paid newsletter sponsorships or what she does through running a venture fund?We get into whether you should write content, you know, consistently every week, or should you publish it once a quarter and put out these incredible long form posts we get into writing about, or excuse me, writing for publications like Harvard Business Review versus your own newsletter. There's so much good stuff in here.So I'll just get out of the way and we'll dive right in.Li, welcome to the show.Li Jin: [00:01:14] Thank you. Thanks so much for having me, Nathan.Nathan: [00:01:17] Okay. So I want to dive in and just immediately talk about revenue models, all of that, because you have this tweet that I just loved, that it was like dying, laughing when I saw it. And the gist of it is I have a paid newsletter. It's my monthly LP update. You were talking about how either those business models is everything else.And I imagine saying like me, why don't you launch a paid newsletter? So could you talk through how you think about, you know, your business and what you meant with that week?Li Jin: [00:01:50] Yes. So I joke that my LP update, which I send out quarterly as a email is basically my paid newsletter. And I think it's, it's basically a riff on the joke that we used to make about a16z, which is the firm that I used to work at the VC firm that I used to work at. We used to joke that it was a media company that monetized through venture capital because a 16, Z as a firm is so prolific in creating content.They have a podcast, actually, a network of podcasts, the blog. they have a series of different clubhouse shows now as well. they just do a ton of different media and content creation activities. And so people used to joke like, Oh, this is actually a media company that happens to monetize through venture capital.And I think of myself now as kind of a miniature version of that, where I'm a solo. Content creator. and I monetize through venture capital. Like that is my revenue model. I have a venture capital fund that I raised last year, called . And that is, you know, my day job. That's where I spend the majority of my time.And then the content that I put out into the world, It's free. It's, it's mostly free for founders to consume. It's really designed to help them build companies, and to guide them and their strategies. And I don't monetize the content at all. And the way that I monetize the content is through investing in the best companies that come as a result of the content creation.So, yeah, that was, that was the Genesis behind, the tweet. And so the LV newsletter, I mean, the LPs are like the investors in the fund and that's how I monetize it.Nathan: [00:03:33] Yep. That makes sense. And I think once you have this attention, Then there's so many ways that you can monetize it. I was talking with Trey, remember who wasn't a past episode. we were talking about how people have alluded to Nike being like they're just an ad agency who happens to realize that the best model to monetize is through, you know, shoe and apparel sales, but really their core strength is advertising and marketing.And so I think there's plenty of examples of people who have, like, the. Have this audience and then an unconventional way of earning a living.Li Jin: [00:04:09] Yeah, precisely. And I think to build on that. Like there's a lot of examples of newsletter writers who do a similar thing where they're operating a syndicate. Like I think Packy who you've had on the show has a syndicate that he invests in deals through. there's other newsletter writers. I know that angel and fast Lenny Rachitsky is a very active angel investor too.So yeah, a lot of them are sort of blending different business models because newsletters are such a great vehicle to, to build an audience. To get reader attention, to communicate your thoughts into the world and kind of mind-meld with a lot of really interesting folks. And then the best way to monetize that might not be through a straight up subscription or pay.Well, it might be having upside in the businesses that they built. and I think. Content creators are having that realization too in the broader content creation ecosystem beyond just newsletters. So now I'm seeing content creators from the Tech-Talk Instagram, YouTube worlds, getting into investing angel, investing into startups, because that is a way that they can monetize the brands and the attention that they've built and also diversify themselves beyond just being a single content creator.Nathan: [00:05:28] Yeah. I mean, it's, it's wild when you see it. Like, I think. You know, a lot of people in the, the acting movie world have, are doing it now, but like Ashton Kutcher was pretty early with startup investing and, you know, he's taking this money and fame and attention that he has and putting it into to startups.And you know, now it feels like everyone's got, you know, some sort of started that they're involved in or a liquor brand or something else where they're basically saying, saying like, yes, in addition to. Getting paid millions of dollars to show up in this movie or to sponsor this brand on TED talk or, you know, like do a sponsored spot for the brand new talk.You know, why don't I have equity? And I'm curious where you see that going. Do you think that trend is just going to continue?Li Jin: [00:06:15] Yeah, I think in any crowded market with a plethora of different options that folks can choose from brand is going to matter brand as a differentiator matters. and so. Like venture capital is no different from that. There's so much capital available right now for founders. Founders probably get like a ton of inbound offers to give them capital.And so founders are now in a position of being able to choose, like who do I actually want to accept capital from? and I think I first heard this from first round capital. one of the partners there said like something like. venture capital is a product that you buy with your company's equity.And so yes, as a founder, you're choosing which product to buy with your equity, your equity is worth something you can purchase like a venture capital investor to work with through that equity. And so, the implication for VCs is like, how do I, how do we make our product the most attractive product and how do we distinguish ourselves and be the, the venture capital provider of choice for founders. And this was actually one of the driving factors behind me announcing my fund a couple of weeks ago on product hunt was tapping into this ethos of actually investors are products. We are building products. We have to provide differentiated value to founders just as they are trying to build differentiated startups, to compete in a crowded landscape of different software.So I think content creators, getting into investing is just another it's emblematic of this. It's like, how do, how do we differentiate our capital from all the other capital that's available out there? And especially in the consumer world when consumer attention is now so scarce and spread so thin across so many different options, having.Captive consumer attention and having distribution into consumers, it's such a huge leg-up for any consumer company and content creators represent that they represent so much built-in distribution power into, tons of different consumers. And so I hear from founders all the time, like they want to bring in content creators into the round, and they sometimes have specific criteria of like content creators who have a big following among, you know, Gen Z on TikTok or, um, moms on TikTok if they're selling some sort of children's education products.So they're identifying like who are the end consumers I'm trying to reach and what are the con who are the content creators that can help me reach those, those people.Nathan: [00:08:58] And are they in those cases they're taking, It's not a straight advisor deal in that case. Right. It's there, it's still taking investment from the influencer or from the fine and then saying, but really the money is just the table stakes. Now it's like to differentiate, what else are you going to provide as far as access to the audience or whatever else is that right?Li Jin: [00:09:21] Yeah, the way that it's structured is, it, it, there's no like, one single way that it's structured. It can be sometimes just an advisory agreement, that we're all used to, or it could be a combination of advisory. Plus like investment to the company and with dollars. or sometimes it's just, you know, a normal equity investment into the company.I think founders usually for, that the Creek is an investor into the business because then they have more skin in the game. but you're right. That like, it's more about having access to their distribution and their brand than the actual dollar amount itself.Nathan: [00:10:01] That makes sense. Were you always thinking about, like as you left a16z starting your own fund, or as you started a new newsletter and all of those things, did you pursue kind of all that rate, like the whole range of options for how you could monetize.Li Jin: [00:10:16] the, the plan was always to start a fund. So I knew that going in. I mean, again, I guess, going out that was always the plan and, Aye. But in tandem to that, I also kept creating content, which was an activity that I had been doing when I was at a16z. And even before, like I I've always been very active in writing online and writing publicly.A lot of people don't know this, but I kept a food blog throughout college, where I would Chronicle like all of the meals and things that I would cook. and before that I was blogging about like my everyday life. Very boring, in high school and in middle school. So I've always been a very prolific writer.And so, as I've been on this journey of, building my own fund and, and getting started investing, I've just continued to create content and primarily written content because that is the format that I feel most comfortable in.Nathan: [00:11:23] Yeah, that makes sense. I think a lot of people, you know, you have this like overnight success type of story, and then you dig back and it's like, yes, but I've been creating content consistently for. I don't know, a decade or two.Li Jin: [00:11:39] Yeah, I I've been writing Daily. Like I first started writing Daily. I remember this moment. Very clearly. I moved to the US when I was six years old from Beijing. And before that, I didn't know English. So I learned English in first grade through ESL classes, and I happened to win a diary, a physical diary.It was a Lisa Frank diary, like multicolored, rainbows, plus dolphins on the cover. I won that at an afterschool bingo game in the first grade at the same time that I was learning English. And I started writing in this diary every single day. as a six year old and throughout my childhood, I just went through so many different physical diaries, like I wrote consistently every day and then the internet happened and I went onto the blogging platforms.But yeah, writing has like been a consistent daily habit for over 20 years.Nathan: [00:12:38] Yeah, that's wild. What was the first blogging platform that you went on to was that LiveJournal or my space?Li Jin: [00:12:43] I think it was Zynga.Nathan: [00:12:45] Yeah, I didn't, I published on LiveJournal, butLi Jin: [00:12:49] I was on LiveJournal to you. LiveJournal was great. LiveJournal was what I used in high school. It was where all the cool kids were.Nathan: [00:12:56] yeah. I'm trying to think what happened to LiveJournal. I actually hadn't thought about LiveJournal before this moment. Didn't.Li Jin: [00:13:03] I, you know, I tried to dig up my old LiveJournal and all of my old things, and I think it's been deleted like after some period of inactivity, I think they just deleted everything. So it can't find it so that like, it represents years of memories, which I'm quite sad about. So I think there's still value in keeping a physical diary.If you want to remember your life.Nathan: [00:13:27] I think there's things that on one hand like that I've published on LiveJournal that I would love to have. But I'm also very thankful that the broader internet isLi Jin: [00:13:37] Right. Yes. It, it was very like it's, it's doc's proof basically because they deleted everything on our behalf.Nathan: [00:13:45] Well, maybe taking a step back. I think there's a lot of people who have built a newsletter in are trying to decide. The best way to monetize it. and haven't thought about investing, or maybe they're thinking about like, Oh, maybe they like me right now. Right? Because of my Content, I get asked to invest in a few things.And so I do a little bit of angel investing, but I'm curious what advice you have for someone who is now going, Oh, I have 10, 20, 30,000 people on an email list. they're starting to be this deal flow. You know, is starting a syndicate or maybe even becoming a full-time investor of direction with resilience.Li Jin: [00:14:32] so I think you really have to consider, like, what are, what are your goals and what is the content that you're creating and why are people subscribed and reading it? Like, I think the business model needs to fit all of those things. So I talk about the concept of like, business model fit, like the business model needs to fit, like what your content is, who the audience is, who the creator is, what the platform is, all of those things need to be aligned.So I think right now is a moment in which like, Direct user monetization is totally in vogue and every platform is introducing new direct user monetization features, typically in the form of like donations, ad hoc payments, subscription payments. but it's always charging the user for something. And I, I actually don't think that that fits every writer.There are actually lots of different business models that you could play with and experiment depending on who your audience is and what the content type is. like I think Packy is very successful doing sponsorships and like if he moved to subscriptions like that would block access for a lot of people that he's able to reach.Right now through sponsorships. I think there can even be like new business models that get invented that we haven't even seen yet. That could be really well aligned with writers. so for instance, there's a platform called mirror, mirror.xyz. Is the name like a reflection mirror. and it's a crypto blogging platform.So they're built on crypto rails and you, so you can program all sorts of different new business models that previously hadn't existed. So recently there was a really interesting experiment that a blogger, named John Palmer ran where he actually crowdfunded his, his essay, his upcoming essay. And so, people were able to.Place bids and crowdfund his essay. And he ended up raising $13,000, but the people who were crowdfunding it didn't just do it. So out of altruism, they did. So in exchange for tokens that they could then trade and that represented ownership in the essay itself. Which is really interesting. so that's like a new business model that gets unlocked by crypto, which previously hadn't existed.So, so I'm interested to see more of these experiments happen in the future that aren't, you know, one size fits all because I think the subscription business model is really great for writers who are writing consistently, who are delivering consistent kind of constant value to their audience, but it doesn't work for everyone.Nathan: [00:17:11] Yeah, that that makes sense. And like, in this case, if you were to. Not publish for a few weeks. That would be entirely. That would be totally fine because your business model isn't dependent on that extent or like continuous value.Li Jin: [00:17:24] Exactly. Yeah. I think the issue right now is like, For writers who write a really high quality piece, maybe two or three times a year. There's no good viable way for them to monetize that. Like, they can't really justify a subscription. Maybe they couldn't collect donations, but like that just depends on people feeling very generous and charitable.And so the only good way to monetize that kind of cadence of writing right now is like through investing, I think, through being a venture investor, But yeah, like I think that type of writing also deserves a good business model.Nathan: [00:18:03] Makes sense. I think the biggest point for someone listening in is that there's the business models that you see at face value of like sponsorships, or, you know, paid subscription access probably are the two most common. And then it's also like, and there's so many more possibilities and I'm always the most fascinated by the businesses where you're like, wait, I know they make money, but how do they make money?And when you really think about it often there's some other, you know, side thing, like for example, I know the people over at link fire and they provide these like little landing pages when for artists, you know, so Taylor Swift comes out with her new single here's a single page that has all of the links right.To. iTunes, Spotify, et cetera. You know, they're used by all the major labels and you go to their site and they make money through subscriptions. You've paid 15, $20 a month to use their service, but they actually make a lot of money through the affiliate revenue from iTunes and Spotify, and for all that for driving the traffic.And so, you know, just really encouraging people to dig under the surface a little bit and, and at least consider some of the less obvious business models.Li Jin: [00:19:15] Yeah, absolutely.Nathan: [00:19:19] I think that, well, I want to shift gears a little bit. There's, an article that you wrote, titled the creator economy needs a middle-class I'm curious one, let's start on the research side. That is like a, a there's like quick blog posts that you can write. You know, you have an idea, you write it out, you fire it off.And sometimes they really resonate. Other times they don't, And, you know, maybe it's like three hours or five or 10 hours that goes into that. this post is the opposite of that. And I'm curious, what is your research process look like? How do you go about writing a substantial piece like that?Li Jin: [00:19:56] Yeah, I would definitely say like, all of the writing that I have published is not of that sort it's of the like a hundred hours went into this, or like, that's why I only published like four times a year. it's because I work on each piece for like two, three months. So, yeah, a lot of research goes into these things.There's a lot of time I speak to a ton of people. I have a ton of people read them, critique them, offer different angles and perspectives. and so, yeah, I, it takes a really long time. It's like writing a thesis in school. how this one came together was. So I had written a piece like a year and a half ago called the passion economy and the future of work when I was still working at Andreessen Horowitz.It's a blog post that was. I think pretty widely read and a lot of founders, were really positive about it. But one of the critiques that I got in the aftermath of the publishing that piece was, this is great. And like so optimistic and like very positive. And we really want to have this come true, but it feels like, it feels like this is only a viable, viable path for so few people like.There's only so few people who can even make a living this way and who can participate and be successful in the passion economy. like, is this too optimistic? Was there feedback? And that question has been like in my mind ever since then, like, because as an investor, I want to back things that touch millions of people like that can, you know, transform society and how we work, not just enable a thousand people or 10,000 people in order.To to monetize. so I've always been really interested in like, how do we actually unlock the ability for many, many more people, like tens of millions, hundreds of millions, of people to be able to participate in the passionate economy and to be able to do what they love for a living. So the piece was inspired by that.And, in order to write this, I had to go very broad initially and like study, how did the middle-class come about in the real world? Like I looked at. The history of this country and like how, we got started in the trends around inequality in the middle class, in all developing countries and, and.Developed countries, Europe, the US et cetera. I looked at like policies. I researched specific policies that we had passed in order to encourage the growth of the middle class. And that contributed to like rising wages in the middle of the 20th century. I looked at unionization, deregulation, the trends like since the 1970s and the shareholder revolution, like so much research went into this.And it was very like concisely summarized in the end piece and piece really focused on the crater economy. And how does the crater economy, support and middle, but yeah, there was, there was a ton of background research that went into it and it was informed by stuff in the broader world as well.Nathan: [00:23:09] Lot of questions about that, the first one is what's the reason. That you take the approach of say like for flagship pieces of content a year versus maybe some of the more traditional advice of like publish super consistently, you know, every Monday at 10:00 AM or something like that.Li Jin: [00:23:28] I mean, I kind of do that because I use Twitter. And so Twitter is like my kind of ongoing, I Write tweet storms. And like, these are just my quick thoughts. It's nothing like super groundbreaking, but it's like interesting and thought provoking. And like, I'll just publish that on Twitter. for my long form pieces.I don't know, that's just kind of the bar that I hold myself to. And like, I think things are more evergreen when they go really deep and when they are extremely cohesive and pull in so many different strings and like just give rise to so many more questions and lines of thinking. and that's the type of style that I think.I, I prefer to write in, and I feel good about my content when I publish it. there's a lot of like stuff that I don't publish that never sees the light of day. That is perhaps of the sort that like I could quickly publish if I wanted to be more frequent in my writing. But I just don't think that they're groundbreaking enough.Like my bar is kind of like, does this get people to see the world in a completely different way? You can't do that so often, like it's hard to do that regularly, every single all week. but that's kind of just the bar that I've given myself as a writer, because I want my pieces to have longevity. I want it to be like, every time I'm in someone's inbox, they feel like they must like clear their calendar and feed this thing.And in order to. Maintain that relationship with my audience. Everything has to be really good.Nathan: [00:25:06] Yeah. I definitely, I have a few pieces that I've written that. Are sort of that those flagship pieces of content, like for me, it'd be the ladders of wealth creation and then the billion dollar creator where, you know, they really, they come together over a long period of time. It's usually like it started 18 months ago with a conversation with a friend that kind of sparked something and then it sort of iterates from there.But I can't get any consistency towards those ideas, you know, it's definitely when they come in and they, you know, I shaped them for a long time. So I'm curious. Do you maintain a list of like these ideas that might turn into something or what's, what's sort of the notes process on that side?Li Jin: [00:25:50] I do the notes process is really disorganized. So it exists like in my brain, I have a list in my brain of things that I'd like to write. Sometimes that list gets dumped into Evernote, but not really consistently. sometimes I'll think of something like really late at night when I'm not in front of my computer.I'll just like, jot it down in my phone or like text myself. so the ideas are kind of scattered around, but they're there, they're there somewhere. And. Sometimes I catalyzed by either like an external thing or something internal that I read. and that just inspires me so much. I feel like, okay, now is the time to take that idea into like, actually.Build a piece around it and, and, and write it out, that there's like way more ideas that I have that never turned into one of those flagship pieces and only a small percentage of them actually get written out. I actually think like for everyone, who's saying like there's too much writing in the world, like there's too many newsletters.I actually think there's like way more ideas that should be written out that currently aren't just because writers don't really have the time to do it.Nathan: [00:27:02] What I love that of the. The bar that you're setting for one of these flagship pieces being like you should finish reading it and your worldview should be different, or you should at least have all of these questions about your current worldview.Li Jin: [00:27:15] Yeah, it changes someone's life.Nathan: [00:27:24] What do you think about, you know, where are you published these pieces? Right. Because a lot of people would say has to be on my site. I need the, The search rankings, the backlinks and all of that. And you're going like, no, I'm going to publish it on the Harvard Business Review.Li Jin: [00:27:41] Yeah. I, I, I've been sort of like, I've evolved in my thinking around this. well, so firstly, like when I was still working at Andreessen, everything had to go on their blog. So, I published on their blog and so a lot of my older pieces are still at dot com. since then I've been utilizing my own newsletter, my Substack newsletter as mine primary channel. and I like that because I think the ethos of having like access to your readership and being able to reach them directly without any sort of intermediary, I think that's great. especially since like the way that I typically reach people is through Twitter and through this algorithm, like that feels a little shaky and unsteady.And so if I can collect people's emails, that's awesome. and then. HBR HBR came about in like the most random of ways, honestly. I hadn't been intending to publish it at HBR. I was intending to just go through my newsletter as normal. And then at the last minute, basically when the piece was already done, I sent it to an HBR editor that I knew, and I was like, Hey, what do you think of this?And, and his response was, this is great. I would love to publish it. So can you hold your newsletter? and, and I, I basically, I was like, okay, like, let's test this out. Cause I think HBR, like HBR is one of those publications that I would be willing to bend on my, like, Collect user emails rule. Like they have huge distribution, they have way more page views than my newsletter gets.And so I thought it was, it was a worthwhile experiment to run. And so, yeah, I gave them that piece. I also publish it in my newsletter that same day as well. but I I've been driving traffic to the HBR version and, you know, the response to, to that has been so interesting, because. When people read the piece in HBR, I think they just immediately viewed it as more legitimate than when I published in my own newsletter.People were like, Yeah. People were like, Oh, this piece must be so good. It's an HBR. And I was like, have you read any of my past writing? Are you saying it's not good? Like, cause it's, it's the same bar as I always have had for myself. It's just that this one happened to get picked up by HBR. It's like, my, all of my writing is like best, but like for some reason, because it's an HBR, I think a lot of people just viewed it differently, which has been absolutely fascinating.And it kind of throws a wrench in the whole creator economy, narrative, right? Because we're all about institutions over individuals and how like a personal brand is so much more powerful than like an institutional brand. But I firsthand experience that when I'm affiliated with this like powerful institution of Harvard Business Review people to take me more seriously, or at least there is a segment of people who took me more seriously.Nathan: [00:30:47] Well, I think it's what you're talking. I think about brand being the most important thing. And, you know, HBR has this brand, you even, you walked through the airport and it's like, HBR has top reads all of this stuff. And so we know that the content is going to be really high quality and, and the packaging does matter, right?The packaging of the being an HBR versus, being on your blog or a newsletter Substack, like. And you're just immediately in that of that caliber. And so it's interesting. I'm curious if you think more authors are going to be pushing them to publish their content, you know, there, the Atlantic, you know, some of these other like publications that sort of have an increased amount of credibilityLi Jin: [00:31:32] I think they should. I think they should. Just as we kind of diversify our different revenue, streams and business models as creators, I think we should also diversify where we publish content. in order to expand our reach. It's, it's sort of like the idea of, Content collabs that we do with other creators.Like how do we leverage each other's audiences in order to grow? I think, writers can accomplish the same by. Distributing elsewhere and tapping into an established publications audience. so I think if there is a publication that writers really admire that they think. Could be, harnessed for audience growth, where that publication probably has a large base of users who would also be interested in your writing.I think it's definitely worthwhile to do that. I don't think it needs to be done constantly and like exclusively. I don't really believe in doing anything like all like the same all the time. but I think here and there, like writers can choose to leverage other platforms for growth.Nathan: [00:32:42] What were some of the results that you got from it? Was there anything unexpected or, Li Jin: [00:32:46] So the one unexpected thing was like people who I thought already really liked my writing were like, wow, this is so good. Like.That was one thing. like my brand, although I thought it was like already a legitimate, it was clearly not as legit as HBR's Franz. I, yeah, I did get incremental new subscribers from it because my, my publication was linked at the bottom. I think it also, it, it was an interesting experiment for them.Cause I think their reader base is not as Silicon Valley centric as probably our information diet. Like we are reading all these blogs and like all of these sub stocks constantly and thinking about like the creator economy, I think a lot of their readers probably saw it and thought like, what is a creator?Like what is, what is the CR what is the greater economy? so I'm not entirely sure if like, My target audience mapped to theirs. there were definitely some comments of like, this is so abstract and like out there, and like first we need to define what a creator is. so that was really interesting.Cause I think. I think HBR is one of those publications that has such a broad reach across the planet. Like there's middle managers in Europe and in the middle East who are reading HBR and might not be as like deep in this particular particular topic. Whereas our motion as newsletter writers is to go really deep and to be really aligned with this particular niche and not write for the public audience, but to write for like our specific single target audience.So going to, A more general readership target, targeted publication. it kind of taught me that I am kind of like inhabiting this little bubble.Nathan: [00:34:44] Well, one thing I was just thinking about is that you kind of have two different, demographics that you're serving right. On one hand, you have the, the companies that you want to invest in, right? So if they're reading your newsletter and someone's thinking about, okay, I'm ready to raise then.They're already a fan of you. And so your, your capital to come in has a significant advantage over any other VC fund, but then you have the other side of, you need to go raise from LPs. And so I'm wondering if being in a place like the Harvard Business Review or something else, or other places you might put your Content might actually help attract, new LPs.Li Jin: [00:35:24] What's really interesting is that I've found that to not be true, like LPs don't go on Twitter by and large, and they don't read some stock newsletters that are written by practitioners by and large. And so. It was, it was really interesting, honestly, in a ton of my conversations with traditional LPs, they didn't know where to create our whys.They didn't know what the passionate economy was. They like never visited, you know, the blog, the a16z blog, like all of these concepts they had never heard of. And like, they. Never saw my Twitter. Like they, they might not even have a Twitter account. and so they're, they're kind of like inhabiting their own ecosystem and I'm not entirely sure, like what I need to write or like what topics I need to cover to reach them.I would say like among founders, like the stuff that I write does have an audience and like is widely read, but the LP stuff, like the Content has given me no advance.Nathan: [00:36:25] That's interesting. Cause like I have this ideal that maybe it would give an advantage, butLi Jin: [00:36:32] I would love that, but that's not the case.Nathan: [00:36:36] And raised from LPs, is it, you know, just a lot of introductions and meetings and that's the whole thing,Li Jin: [00:36:43] It's a lot of relationships, introductions, warm instructions, getting your LPs to introduce each more LPs. It's such a, yeah, it's a really fascinating like opaque worlds. None of them publicize themselves. You don't know who they are, how much they invest, what they're interested in. They're not like on Twitter broadcasting that they're actively investing.They're very private about it a lot of times. so it's yeah, it, it, it's, it's a whole separate universe. It's actually really, really fascinating.Nathan: [00:37:13] Yeah, well, I've been at, this is going back to the side of running a venture fund, but what have been some of the hardest aspects of it?Li Jin: [00:37:21] Everything.Nathan: [00:37:25] It's not, you know, VCs, don't just kick back and, you know, like Write random pieces and live an easy life. It's actually challenging.Li Jin: [00:37:34] Yeah, the, the thing pieces are definitely part of, but that is done like middle of the nights and weekends and on Christmas day, like that's when I do my writing. And then during the day, it's like a ton of pitch meetings, founders meeting with portfolio companies. It's, it's just this constant onslaught of like everything that you need to do constantly.No everything about it, husband. Like a really interesting exercise and I've, I've been going through it for the first time of year, because this is my first fund. Like I used to work at a firm that had 200 people. And so I didn't have exposure to all of the different elements of running a VC fund. I didn't, I didn't use to have to fundraise.I never had to talk to LPs. I never had to, there were like teams internally that. Supported portfolio companies after the investment team decided to invest. And so that was also less a part of my job before and now I have to do literally everything. so yeah, everything has been challenging. Like fundraising was challenging.Keeping on top of all of the deal flow has, is, is like immensely. This huge, it's a huge time commitment. then making time to support your portfolio companies. Is this other big, like. Pocket of, where we spend our time and then, and then just like a company as well. We never stopped thinking about fundraising and like the future fundraises, I thought it was like, you raised the fund.You could just like, go deploy the fund. And then someday in the future, distantly, like you you're like, Oh, I have to raise another fund. I'll go do that. But it never ends actually. It's just like having a startup, like we it's like you close fund one. Then at that time, a ton of people are like, Oh, you have a fund.Like, let me invest in you. And then you have to like, keep them warm. So the second fund, and then like you close that. And then the third fund, like you never stopped thinking about that side, which is, yeah, it takes up a ton of like mental resources. In addition to like the core Day job of deciding where to put capital.Nathan: [00:39:43] Yeah. So for anyone listening in who is currently a founder has been considering being a VC regresses. In fact, not greener.Li Jin: [00:39:53] Well, I think the grass, I don't know, the grass may be a little bit greener because if you're able to raise the fund, you have like this built in revenue stream for the next 10 years, which is nice. and you don't have to deal with like, All of the, like the scale of the people issues that you have to deal with is not the same as like scaling a huge organization.But it's definitely not a walk in the park.Nathan: [00:40:19] Yeah. I believe that, I mean, just a little bit of, we were talking a little bit before we started recording a little bit of angel investing that I've done thinking about like eight or nine, investments. And even then I've been like mediating things between founders and stuff like that. And there's just wherever you turn in, in the wonderful world of business there's issues to deal.Li Jin: [00:40:41] Yeah, exactly. There's, there's no easy jobs unless you've like inherited something. I think.Nathan: [00:40:48] Another interesting thing that you've been doing, that I'd love to talk about is your course on building for the creator economy. what, what sparks, why to create the course and, and hasn't been going so far.Li Jin: [00:41:00] Yeah, absolutely. So the backstory is. Well, two things. One is like, I've been asked to write a book, create a course, like do more Content by basically everyone. Everyone is constantly asking me to like, write more, publish more like synthesize my thoughts more. And I've always been kind of pushing back on that, like, I don't have the time to write a book right now or teach a course or like, you know, build more content.But like I knew that the demand was there. And then coupled with that, I invested, end of last year into a new platform that Goggin Biani and West cow co-founded it still does not yet have a name named TBD, so we shall call it. And what's this new company. So I invested in going in with this new company, which is a platform to help experts.Builds and offer cohort-based courses. And so, when I was chatting with them about the company and the idea and the fundraise and everything, we were brainstorming about how it could be really good for me to be one of their initial instructors. And, you know, there's this initial instructor batch on their platform actually has all sorts from their cap table.Like me, Lenny saw hell pump, we're all investors in this company. And so. It's kind of like where we're, co-creating the platform with them and, you know, flagging issues as they come and really, helping them to realize like here are the opportunities to build better products. and so that was how the course came about.It was the combination of both, this platform making it much easier for me and taking a lot of work off my plate in terms of the logistics and everything behind the scenes of. Creating this course. plus the fact that like I knew that there was market pool for it, and the creator economy is such a huge area of interest right now.But I felt like there wasn't a really good cohesive, sequenced, like package of information that was all like very carefully curated and packaged together into something really useful for founders. So I decided to build it myself.Nathan: [00:43:14] It's, it's been fun to see all the cohort based courses come together and, and, you know, Yeah, it was basically on his name is terrible. He's been on the podcast before Tiago Forte, Tiago done with, Building a Second Brain. And, it's just amazing to see in David Perell as well, right. With the two of them together with Write of Passage. it's been amazing to see the different business model and it'd be like, So much more effective than even everyone was doing three years ago or five years ago of like, here's all the videos you go through it, you know, maybe it's a $300 price point, but most people drop off or something.And so in this case, you're seeing a thousand dollar price point or 2000, or I think I just have one that somebody launched it, you know, it's a $5,000 for the course and it's starting to really feel like, Oh, this is an in-depth. Uh, it's like a serious college class, you know, whereLi Jin: [00:44:17] Yeah.Nathan: [00:44:18] Everybody else and, and everything.Li Jin: [00:44:20] And I think people are, it's really interesting. The variation in prices, right? Because a newsletter is basically priced at. A hundred dollars per year, roughly that's probably the average price point of a newsletter, like $10 a month, a hundred per year. The typical CBC is priced at like a thousand dollars.So 10 times the yearly revenue that you're getting from a newsletter subscriber. And so over the course of a year, are you communicating just as much content as the course provides? Probably. And so what does that Delta, what does that 10 X Delta representing? I think it's representing. Accountability, like accountability of actually getting through the content rather than just getting access to the content and not going through it.I think it's community, of like light like-minded peers who are going through the content in the course with you, who also enhance the learning experience. And then I think it's the direct line of access to the expert, the course instructor who's. Whose brain that you're tapping into in a very direct way, versus like having, like reading a newsletter by them, it just feels a little bit more, impersonal and less direct. And so I think that's what the GAP in prices represent, but it is really interesting to see. Especially firsthand now that I have this course, and I've also been, co-writing a paid newsletter with the guys at the, everything, every bundle, just to see like the huge chasm in price points, like there's.Just huge variance in price points and how profitable each activity is. And, yeah, I think we'll see more people start to have our cohort based courses. And I, I hope that like more creators realize that this is an option. I would caveat that it is like a ton of work to create a cohort based course.Like I've probably put. A hundred hours into the content development for this thing. Like, I didn't have a Christmas last year because I was building out slides and doing research for this. so it, it is a lot of work, but it's pretty high ROI.Nathan: [00:46:34] Yeah. Well, I like what you said about. Making 10 X the, I guess it'd be the ARPU, the average revenue per user, you know, a thousand dollar course versus a a hundred dollars a year subscription because one of them, you have to show up 52 times a year with high quality Content. And then the other one, you have to do a whole ton of prep work.But you can. You know, you can reuse that you can run the course multiple times a year or multiple years. and then you probably like, as you're in the middle of this now, you know, you're, you're dedicated. It probably is your primary life. in addition to it's your other full-time job as youLi Jin: [00:47:15] Yeah. Yeah. When you run the course, that basically is all consuming of your life and in the weeks leading up to it, it's pretty intense as well. Whereas I think writing a piece of content, you kind of do it on your own schedule. If you get busy, it's like, Oh, I'll just do it next weekend. I'll write it next weekend.You can't like delay the chorus because it's on everyone's calendar and there's a start date to it. And that. You know, you've accepted student's payment, you have to deliver the course. And so there, there's also accountability for the instructor to, to create all of the content in a way that doesn't really exist for a passive subscription.Nathan: [00:47:54] right. How'd you think about the price point on it? What did you debate price that you settled on?Li Jin: [00:47:58] 1250. Yes. It's 1250. I, it was determined in conjunction with, Gargan and Wess company team. They should really find a name. And I think, it was, I mean, it felt premium. Cause I think all of the other courses that they've run so far were less than that. but like it felt fair because, For a few reasons. One is like, there's a ton of original content that I haven't talked about written about. Like it's, it's brand new from my brain.Like these are students who are accessing it for the first time out of like any people on earth. So that's pretty special. secondly I think it has real business value to people like it, it, the Content has the ability to really shape company strategies and to like inform the products that they're working on at the time.And that they're building. And so what is the ROI, if you're able to make a better business decision than you were before, like that's really high ROI. so the price point ultimately felt fair to us. I was a little bit nervous about it. Like, are people willing to pay this much, especially since I'm already pretty prolific in terms of, podcasting and writing and to my surprise, it was like wildly, wildly oversubscribed. And honestly, I think we could have probably charged more, but I don't, you know, I don't want to go too high, especially for the founders that I'm targeting. I think there's also opportunity to like better price discriminate in the course world. Like for founders, I would love to offer a discount or have them be sponsored or something versus for investors and VCs who want to take my course, like I want to Jack up the price because they could probably pay anything.Nathan: [00:49:48] That's interesting. If, if, if you said, you know, the price for the course is $2,500. but if you're an early stage founder, you know, apply here, we want to make sure that you're serious. You're all of that. but apply here and you can take it for a thousand dollars or something like that.Li Jin: [00:50:04] And that's what schools do. That's what universities do through financial aid, through need-based financial aid is they perfectly price discriminate every single student based on their capacity to pay. We just don't think of it that way.Nathan: [00:50:16] Right. Oh, that's fascinating. How does the course fit into the rest of your business model of, you know, how do you think about how it intersects with the investing and everything else?Li Jin: [00:50:28] Yeah. I think if it has like, hopefully a really great way for me to build relationships at scale, with a bunch of really high quality founders and to tangibly provide value to them, such that I become their investor of choice. So it definitely has that intersection with my day job. but beyond that at a broader level, beyond just the relationships that I'm forming with my students who represent a ton of early stage founders, I think it also has been this amazing opportunity for me to crystallize my thinking and to put down a lot of thoughts that have been swirling in my mind, but like we're kind of disorganized honestly, and, and weren't structured in any sort of cohesive way and it helps me.Crystallize and sharpen my own thinking such that I'm able to better like guide my existing portfolio companies or better able to offer value to the companies that pitch me.Nathan: [00:51:18] I like that. Okay. Last question. On the, on the course side, you had the application side, right? When someone, they can't just come and buy it, you have to goLi Jin: [00:51:27] Correct. There was an application process.Nathan: [00:51:29] How did that play out? And what was the reasoning behind it?Li Jin: [00:51:31] So the application process was because we wanted to cap the course. We want it to cap the course at a number that felt kind of still intimate and it wouldn't be like, 10,000 students in the course live learning from me. so it ended up, so right now the course is 150 students. So we reached like the hard cap, and we got way more than 150 applications.And so we had to unfortunately turn people away and. You know, tell them to stay tuned for the second cohort. timing TVG. So the reason why there was an application is because for a cohort based course, you need to have constraints on capacity because like people are paying for your attention and your time and access to you.And that access can't be scaled, infinitely.Nathan: [00:52:23] That makes sense. I imagine it would also play a role in conversion rates as well, because as someone fills out an application, they're probably getting more invested and then there's, there's next between that. And when they actually have to pay, and then there's also this feeling of like, Oh, you got accepted in.Okay, now I shouldLi Jin: [00:52:41] Yeah.Nathan: [00:52:42] Pay and right. There's the accountability side of it. Okay. Now I should follow it through and actually make it happen.Li Jin: [00:52:47] It was, yeah, there was such interesting things that happened that I learned throughout this application process. One is, well, the application was actually kind of involved. Like they had to put in a lot of information. And so I thought like, Okay, well, we'll probably get really high conversion off the application.Like if you went through this form, this type form, like you're probably in, but that wasn't the case. Not everyone actually confirmed after the application. So there was a bit of drop-off like, I think every time you add a step there's drop-off, and then, what was the other thing I was going to say?The other thing was like, every time there was a milestone or a checkpoint to get through, like the application from application to like. Conversion or acceptance to conversion. Like people shared those moments on social people, screenshotted their emails. And they were like, I got accepted into this course and I was like, this is mind-boggling that like, you're basically tweeting about like paying a content creator.And like, and, and like celebrating that, like usually people don't celebrate giving a content creator money for something like that's pretty rare, or like it's even rare that people tweet about like buying a product. But like for this course, I don't know. It, it it's like college admissions people. It is a milestone.And so it became a milestone. Like we created a milestone for people and it continues to this day because the course is happening right now. People are tweeting about like just finished workshop one. And it was, you know, it was awesome here. All of the things that I learned, like everything has become like a milestone and it's, it's honestly incredible to see.Nathan: [00:54:29] Yeah, that's amazing. Well, we should leave it there. I love the chat for a long time, but where should people go to follow you and learn more about the fund and subscribe to your newsletter?Li Jin: [00:54:39] Yeah. So the fund website is atelierventures.co. My personal newsletter is li.substack.com. People can also follow me on Twitter, that's probably my most active content sharing channel. I'm @ljin18 on Twitter and yeah, I think that's about it. Thanks so much for doing this.Nathan: [00:54:59] All right, thanks. I'll see you later.Li Jin: [00:55:01] All right. Take care.

It didn't feel right to have a month full of women's voices (with very few exceptions) this month and not include Carolyn L. Robinson. She has seven incredible collections, they are so good I read all 7 in one sitting one night. ANYWAY this is revisiting and reading (in no particular order) poems from her most recently published collection I Write to Keep Me Sane. And I love this one. Please enjoy and consider supporting or following her on whatever social media platforms you prefer! --- 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/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/support

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON WATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE We all know what songs are made of: Music & Lyrics (or at least most have lyrics). When you see credits for a song written by more than one person, or say for a musical, they'll always list who wrote the music (sometimes called the ‘composer') and who wrote the lyrics. So it would stand to reason that all good songs have both good music and good lyrics, right? NOPE. EXCEPTIONAL songs – those great, legendary, perennial classics, or the unsung, obscure works of genius – THOSE do have both good music and good lyrics. But a good song, even a great song, doesn't have to have good or great lyrics to work. WHY? Because of the eponymous definition of what we're talking about every week: MUSIC. Music is music because of the MUSIC. Without the music side – the composition itself, songs with lyrics are just poems – often not even good poems; and songs without lyrics are … well … nonexistent. Do I prefer good lyrics? Yes, absolutely. Some of the songs I really like have lyrical gems in them, or are on the whole very well written. And I make sure every song I WRITE has the best possible lyrics in the context of what I'm trying to achieve. But there are other songs I like that have average to maybe not so great lyrics, and yet those songs are still good-to-great. On the flip side of that, there are TONS of songs that have good to great lyrics – sometimes even genius lyrics – whose music does not support that quality. The music for those songs is simply there to serve the lyrics, and the end result is often unexceptional, dull, unmemorable. If the music to a song is good, I'll tap into the lyrics and appreciate them at their level. I'll want to understand and connect more. If the music isn't good, I don't care what the singer is singing about. There's no connection for me. It may as well be a decent or second-rate poem, or someone's diary entry. I guarantee you the songs that you most remember are the ones that have great music, no matter what the lyrics are. And the songs that speak to you – your heart songs – have lyrics that speak to you THROUGH THE MUSIC. The music is the medium. The music transmits the message deeper and more effectively than words alone could. It's one facet of a philosophy I have that when you're creating music, every aspect of it should be in service of the song. It's a topic I'll get more into in a future podcast. When someone is speaking in ANY way – speech, interview, conversation, acting, voice over, spoken word performance, the WAY that person says what they're saying is even more important than the words themselves. Why? Think of it this way: Give three people the same exact speech. One reads it with no vocal inflection – flatlined. One reads it with some meaningful inflection, some attempt to create some texture in the sound and flow of the words – the average speechifier. One reads it dynamically, with full inflection and more importantly full connection to the words and the meaning. With the first speaker, you'd be too bored to engage or remember or last to the end. With the second, you'd probably get the gist, and come away with something valuable, but it won't be that memorable or that connected to your personal experience. With the THIRD speaker, you will remember. You will connect like they're speaking directly to you. You might even be inspired... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nick-dematteo/support

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew CarnegieToday I’m going to share with you what I do at the beginning of each new year and why I do this. I consider this to be what I call "smart goals", not just regular goals because you're not only setting your intentions, but you're taking manifesting action. SMART goals. Manifesting is basically a "resolution" ANY day of the year, not just for each January month. But, in order to ManiFAST (Manifest Faster), I perform this specific type of manifesting action...listen to find out, and below are my smart goals for this year. Let's do this together! Make your smart goals list as well and share it with me.Publish a third best-selling bookEdit my fourth book already writtenHave more TV interviews and podcast interviews to teach an additional 100,000 souls how to ManiFAST: Manifest Faster.Partner with a high-profile company that focuses on self-help, spirituality, and success.Be interviewed by Brene’ Brown, Gabby Bernstein, and Stephen Colbert (pipe dreams!)Continue my journey towards a healthier body and life (I'm so thankful for all my progress thus far)Manifest an extra $17,000.00 so I can move into a home that has a quiet and friendly neighborhood.Every goal and desire in the list above I am ManiFASTing because every time I "Write into Reality" it emerges with ease into my physical sphere. I now surrender to the "how" and "when", and I'm available to ALL blessings coming my way. Thank you, Universe!Want to ManiFAST? Grab the best-selling books, "Don't Feel Stuck!" and "Don't Feel Stuck in Love!", available via Audible, Kindle, and paperback!XOXO JaclynInstagram: @themanifestit Manifest It!®

Thanks for visiting G Slade's Indie Music Podcast this week. Today's episode is sponsored by G Slade, indie music artist. Check out his new album "Raised In America". You can find G Slade on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and most other platforms. Visit http://gslade.com/ (http://gslade.com) for more! Remember that you can hear all of the songs played on the podcast by following and listening to the Official Spotify Playlist for the show. It's called https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PoJoDpU2BtdxnXMwT74Fa?si=dXkaOxNwT5-JzvWifj8kCQ (Featured On G Slade's Indie Music Showcase). It's hard to find a better mix of indie music. Today's guest is SHOWTXME_2SH9 I had a most excellent time talking life, music, philosophy, motivation, and much more with this most talented individual. Sit back and enjoy two and a half hours of insight and good music. From his official soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/user-355040135 (https://soundcloud.com/user-355040135) "Born and raised in Southside West Philly (Philadelphia) Music has always been one of my biggest motivators! The songs I WRITE. The music I CREATE, is a small glimpse of some chapter In MY LIFE." See more and show some love on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/showtxme_2sh9/ (https://www.instagram.com/showtxme_2sh9/) ==================================================== Thanks again for checking us out. See even more of us online at: WEB >> http://gsladeshow.com/ (http://gsladeshow.com) Instagram >> https://www.instagram.com/gslademusicpodcast/ (https://www.instagram.com/gslademusicpodcast/) Twitter >> https://twitter.com/gslademusicpod1 (https://twitter.com/gslademusicpod1) RSS Feed >> https://feeds.captivate.fm/gsladeshow/ (https://feeds.captivate.fm/gsladeshow/) Interested in being a guest on the show? Slide into my DM's on Twitter or Instagram! It's all about spreading the joy and love for indie music. Thanks so much for stopping by!

L'undicesima puntata di Tech is it commenta le novità Apple. I nuovi MacBook Air, MacBook Pro e Mac Mini con processore Apple M1, il lancio di macOS Big Sur, le conseguenze del passaggio dai chip Intel ad chip Apple Silicon. Ne parlo con due professionisti: Antonio Dini, saggista, giornalista, autore del canale Telegram e della newsletter "Mostly, I Write", e Roberto Pezzali, giornalista e coordinatore editoriale di DDay.it. → Note della puntata: https://riccardo.im/podcast/apple-silicon/ Tech is it 11 è un podcast più lungo del solito ma che si può dividere. Nella prima parte, commento con Antonio Dini gli aspetti più concettuali del cambio di piattaforma: come leggere queste novità e cosa ci dice la storia di Apple? C'è ancora senso di appartenenza tra i suoi utenti? Con Roberto Pezzali parliamo di tecnica: consumi, vincoli termici, eGPU, xcode e i problemi di compatibilità del software non Apple. Apple MacBook Air, MacBook Pro e Mac Mini saranno disponibili in Italia dal 17 novembre. La distribuzione del sistema operativo Apple BigSur inizierà il 12 novembre 2020. Per domande e considerazioni potete inviare un messaggio su Telegram o Whatsapp al 351 8516089.

In this episode, I shared all the new project and goals updates while also reading a few poems from "I write to keep me sane" by Carolyn L. Robinson (who celebrated the release of this collection with me on the podcast earlier this month). To purchase the journal I mentioned at the beginning of the episode (or check it out!): https://vertellis.com/products/vertellis-chapters To purchase I Write to keep me sane: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=I+write+to+keep+me+sane --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/support

In this episode, Author, poet, and overall wonderful voice of creativity, Carolyn L. Robinson comes on the podcast to talk about her latest collection "I Write to Keep me Sane" for more of her work or to purchase your own copy of this excellent collection check out https://www.facebook.com/lovepoet18/ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8912608.Carolyn_L_Robinson https://www.instagram.com/lovepoet18/ https://www.amazon.com/I-Write-Keep-Me-Sane/dp/B08DBVR229/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=I+write+to+keep+me+sane&qid=1599846733&sr=8-1 --- 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/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/support

First solo episode in a little while. I'm back in business. 100gecs-hand crushed by a mallet (remix) feat. Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens, Nicole Dollanganger Ppcocaine-Ddlg Hamilton Cast-Take a Break Wonder Years-Woke Up Older Kanye West-Wash Us in the Blood feat. Travis Scott Phoebe Bridgers-Moon Song Illuminati Hotties-Will I Get Cancelled if I Write a Song Called “If You Were a Man, You’d Be So Cancelled” Ice Nine Kills-Love Bites (feat. Chelsea Talmadge) Neil Young and Crazy Horse-Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) Follow James on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamespcrowley Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamespcrowley68 Newsletter: https://jamescrowley.substack.com/ https://jamespcrowley.com/ Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

What do I WRITE about MUMBAI RAINS.⛈❤..I just want to YOU to LISTEN to IT.

***Το podcast ηχογραφήθηκε πριν την κρίση Covid-19*** Με τον Γρηγόρη συζητήσαμε για: Το ψυχοθεραπευτικό ταξίδι και για το θεραπευόμενο και το θεραπευτή. Γιατί ο κόσμος ξεκινάει θεραπεια Το Σύνδρομο της Ελληνικής Οικογενειακής Πολυκατοικίας Παραδείγματα από θεραπείες Το πρώιμο τραύμα και πώς αντανακλάται στις επιλογές μας και στις σχέσεις Η επαφή με τον ανώτερο εαυτό Τα βιβλία του Γρηγόρη Βασιλειάδη Εξομολογήσεις ενός Ψυχοθεραπευτή, Εκδόσεις iWrite Πόσο Αντέχεις την Αλήθεια, Εκδόσεις Εν Πλω Το Ψυχοθεραπευτικό Ταξίδι, Εκδόσεις iWrite

Η πληγή της απόρριψης είναι μία από τις 5 πληγές της παιδικής ηλικίας. Είναι μία πληγή που πονάει, που αιμορραγεί και που εμεις σκαλίζουμε συχνά θαρρείς και θέλουμε να δούμε αν πέρασε. Η απορριψη μας πονάει γιατι αναζωπυρωνει ενα παλιό παιδικό τραύμα. H μητέρα μου μαθαίνει πώς να αγαπάω και να σχετίζομαι και ο πατέρας με μαθαίνει πώς να αγαπιέμαι. Ο ρόλος της μητέρας και του πατέρα στην απόρριψη. Η σημασία της παιδικής ηλικίας στην απόρριψη. Η σημασία των ορίων στη διαχείριση της απόρριψης. Πώς θωρακίζομαι από την απόρριψη Όσο δεν χρειάζομαι απεγνωσμένα την έγκριση των άλλων, τόσο περισσότερα την έχω. Τα βιβλία της Νέλης: Μαθήματα στη Γλώσσα της Αγάπης, iWrite (Μόλις κυκλοφόρησε!) Και τώρα οι 3 μας, Εκδόσεις University Studio Press

AV Education — I Write, Said Fred: Fred Khumalo, according to one of his publishers, has been described as a ‘reluctant Zulu’, ‘clever black’ and an ‘equal opportunity offender’, but for Amabookabooka he is one of South Africa’s leading story tellers - who blends history and fiction into thrilling novels. He’s written 11 books. His first, Bitches Brew, turned 15 this year. His latest is The Longest March, which tells the tale of 7000 Zulu miners who walked for 10 days from Johannesburg to Ladysmith in 1899. Fred took this historical event and added a love triangle. He then showed that he’s not 'all talk and no walk' and followed in the footsteps of the miners, making the 350km journey by foot. He talks to us about the similarities between writing and walking, how he's keeping sane during the lockdown, and the worst person to be isolated with (spoiler alert: this person's name starts with an 'S' and ends with a 'teveHofmeyr').

I had to come to terms with the fact that writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it. I would not commit adultery, but I wanted to write a whole book about an affair. I know it sounds simpleminded, but I actually had to have a conversation with myself about this in the beginning, convincing myself that it was alright to depict this affair. - Jonellen Heckler The post S5E4 – Is it Okay if I Write _____? appeared first on Writing Roots.

Accomplished musician and small business owner Lachy Doley is a world-leading expert on the Hammond Organ. He's also Jimmy Barnes's keyboard player and he played for Powderfinger back in the day. He's no slouch! In this very honest and open interview he shares how he makes a living from one of the world's toughest industries.   A little bit more about Lachy Doley … Righto, so a few years ago, this fellow by the name of Lachy Doley sent me an email (out of the blue) saying he listened to my show when touring, and that he loved it so much that he'd gone ahead and wrote, sang and recorded a new intro and music bed for me. I took a listen, loved it, and have been using it ever since.  I then rang to thank him and offer to get him some work. He politely replied that he was busy enough as he was Jimmy Barnes's keyboard player. For oversea's listeners, I'll explain who Jimmy Barnes is during the interview, suffice to say he's no slouch … and neither is Lachy. In fact, he's one of the world's leading Hammond Organ aficionados.   “My ultimate goal is to win people over so that they'll have enough of a connection to you the person or artists that they'll want to buy your music, merch, tickets to gigs … as soon as you put out anything they just want to get it. That's what I'm always aiming for.”    - Lachy Doley   So why am I interviewing a well-established musician on this show? And why are they even listening to a show like this? Because Lachy is a small business owner just like you ... and whilst he's played with some of Australia's biggest bands including Barnsey and Powderfinger … he also has his own band and he constantly has to hustle for live gigs, to sell more CDs, merch … put simply, he too has to make a living.   Now this is a very honest chat in which we cover: How he built his profile How he manages to bring his A-game to every gig Why he sent a heart-felt email to his listeners and what impact it had Plus he talks about the multitude of revenue streams he's created in order to make a living    As a wannabe rockstar myself, I started off by asking Lachy to indulge me by explaining what it's like to walk out on stage to tens of thousands of screaming fans …   Here's what caught my attention from my chat with Lachy Doley: I loved Lachy's honesty and transparency. When was the last time you let your guard down in front of a customer, employee or supplier? Would you even dare? I love the fact that Lachy has multiple revenue streams including an e-Course, (print on-demand merch). I've linked to both in the show notes. And I love the fact that he's segmenting his email list when people sign up.   What was your main take-away from this chat?   “I was so inspired by Powderfinger and their work ethic … they were a huge democracy. They were always doing meetings, they were just on to it all the time.” - Lachy Doley   Here's that email Lachy sent back in 2017 THE TRUTH ABOUT MY CAREER, FAMILY AND THE RELEASE OF MY NEW ALBUM #LOVELIGHT I'm not gonna lie. I'm still doing it tough at the moment with all the shit that went down last year regarding the cancelled 6 week Europe tour with Glenn. So more than just letting you guys know that the preorders are open for the new album, I wanted to ask you all a few questions and tell you bit about what's going on here. Firstly I gotta thank all you guys once again for being such a great support to me, my music and ultimately my family. I started recording and performing as the Lachy Doley Group in 2010 and apart from Jimmy Barnes I haven't really done any work as a session player with anyone else since. Playing with Jimmy Barnes has pretty much gotten me through these years. The Lachy Doley Group has only cost me money. like lots of money! And that's not even mentioning the time I spend working on it. I mean I've been working my fucking ass off, every spare second I've had for the last 6 years to get it to where it's at and it's talking it's toll on my family, myself and my mental health. I mean I: Write the music (time) Perform the music (time) Record the music (time and heaps of money) Mix the music (time) Master the music (time) Then I market the album (stupid amounts of time and money) I also pay a publicist to market the album (I can't say exactly the amount, but it's thousands) I send the albums off to radio, blogs and magazines around the world (stupid amounts of time and money, especially overseas radio stations, everyone wants a physical copy and postage is nuts) This album makes 4 Studios albums and 2 Live albums plus a DVD since 2010 (WTF?) I book all the shows , except overseas (so much time) I promote the shows (stupid amounts of time and money) I video a lot of the shows (so much money and setup) I edit the videos of the shows (so much time) I promote them on Facebook (So much time and money) I built and update my website (Lots of time, some money for hosting) I design all the artwork and posters (time) I tour manager everything. Which I'm absolutely hopeless at. (time) Public Liability Insurance (money) My Europe tour of 2015 ended up costing me $6000 dollars. Having said that. My Europe 2016 tour broke even. So that was good :-) I ENGAGE WITH ALMOST EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME on fb, email, twitter and alike. But now I've got over 28,000 Facebook likes, this adds up to ten's of hours a week just replying to people but unfortunately doesn't do anything for my hopeless financial situation. I give out so much advice to musicians via comments and private messages it's bordering on crazy. But I have to say I really do love this part of everything. It's just so many hours. On top of this I haul around a stupidly OVERSIZED HAMMOND ORGAN and WHAMMY CLAV all the around the world and then put in every single bit of energy and conviction into every performance, I feel like I'm gonna faint sometimes. Not to mention the cost of maintenance and petrol on my van when it's running over 15,0000 kms a year SO…. when you find yourself home after driving 12 hours straight from an incredible week away playing 5 awesome shows to standing ovations at Woodford Folk Festival but you simply can't pay your mortgage and feed the family that week. It's time to really think hard about WHETHER THIS IS ALL WORTH IT. Sadly, There's no work with Jim at the moment as he's doing his book tour and the small amount he has coming up is directly when I've booked my new Album tour. BAD TIMING Don't get me wrong I know I've achieved so much and I know I'm a great product. Infant everyday someone comments to me about how well I'm doing or how I'm just killing it at the moment. This makes me feel good for second but because I know that it's totally not the case it really brings me down further. I'm still flat broke, actually broker than ever. I'm seriously this close to just giving up and finding a real job. But I've got to see this new album and it's tour through.  So i wanted to ask a few things: If you do enjoy my music, watch my videos, learn from my videos or get something good from what I do, would you consider helping me to keep them coming by becoming a member of my VIP membership group. It's a bit like CROWDFUNDING by a more spread out and sustainable version. All the info is here at www.lachydoley.com/vip please watch the video and see if it's something you'd like to be apart of :-) Otherwise if you're planning to buy a copy or preorder of the new album at some point. Would you mind doing it now as I'll get the funds almost immediately AND it'll help my chances of charting on the week it's released. You can do that here www.lachydoley.com/bandcamp If you're in Australia, Please come to one or more of my shows and book early so the venues don't freak about whether anyones coming. 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  Derek Loudermilk-  Derek Loudermilk: My mission is to help 1 million people lead the most interesting lives imaginable and maximize their contribution by thinking strategically about their careers To that effect I: -Write about and teach skills (like creativity, storytelling, networking) that make us future proof. See my latest book "SuperConductors: Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen". -Teach people how to become thought leaders and run businesses they can travel the world with. -Host the Art of Adventure podcast to collect stories and lessons from adventurers and entrepreneurs about business around the world and peak human performance -Tell inspiring stories on stage about adventure and business -Organize events and adventure retreats for people to have life-changing experiences and personal breakthroughs Websites: derekloudermilk.com/photography derekloudermilk.com/coaching/ Listen to another #12minconvo  

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“It was such a joy to sit down with Houston’s literary treasure, Melissa Williams on @StylingSocialJustice! Melissa shared her life-long love for reading, where her true inspiration came from to (you’ll never imagine) and why she is so passionate about literacy now, especially when it comes to children. So many of us support her work with iWrite but in getting to really talk to her, it was clear that her work extends beyond the page and into the hearts and imaginations of little minds everywhere. Houston is certainly lucky to call her ours! Tune in now for this week’s episode of #StylingSocialJustice!”

Find your voice - Episode 8 - Memoirs of an Anxious Mind - Cos KyriacouTagline: "To HIM its just a game, playing with my mind. An easy target for HIM, he always seems to find. He always seems to be there to put me in my place, lurking and scheming like a puff of smoke up in my face..."Cos is a talented Poet who has found his voice by utilising the power poetry in speaking about his depression and anxiety. Riddled with many trials and tribulations growing up Cos has battled with suicidal thoughts from time to time.Now determined to conquer his mindset working on his health, thoughts and gifts he is looking to help those struggling with mental health illness more.Alongside this, Cos is also a qualified Accountant and Personal Trainer and this is just some of his hidden talents. He kindly shares one of his poems, HIM, in this podcast and I am sure once you hear this you will follow him over on his instagram channel to learn more about him and hear so many more powerful poems.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cmklifestyle/ (Personal)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfullfitness/ (Movement#JustDeuIt & #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so like many of myguests I get really really passionateand excited to try and support them andI suppose that's the beautiful thingabout this show because it's real peopledoing real things just like me and youI'm really trying to make a differenceand today's guest is no differenttoday's guest goes by the name of Kosand I do apologize in advance but Ican't pronounce their surname but you'regoing to get all of that in the shownotes but what's important about thisindividual is what they've been throughin their life and I suppose even moreimportant than that is how they'vetackled their adversity they've tackledtheir mental health their depressiontheir feelings of suicide and reallycome out on the other side and now whatthey're doing is making an impact tohelp other people and that's just mykind of person and I'm sure it'sprobably your kind of person too so Ithink it's important that rather thanyou listen to me whoo yes once again Ihave a cold I think that's gonna be atheme of this show let's jump straightinto this interviewokay so firstly I just want to thankcause for coming on to the show todayand for all you listeners who are heresupporting our movement so my friend howyou doing today good morning I'm goodnot as early as you Baba fantastic youlike to hear you well we've had a bit oftechnical issues and it is slightlyearlier than normal so excuse our voicescool so you've heard the introductionI've explained cause his story but whatI want to know well I think what thelisteners want to know is more aboutyourself from you and I think it'simportant that they can get tounderstand your story youjourney and how you basically progressthrough life and ended up where you aretoday so if you wouldn't mind my friendif you could just give us a rundownbasically of the life of cause the lifeof course easily hey I think it's bestto start where I am now and then kind ofgo through how I got here so I'm aqualified charted accountant soundsriveting ah no he says exciting as itsoundswhoo guys recently qualified in Decemberand in the new year I've gone part timeto kind of tramp pursue my own endeavorsin life so starting from the beginning Iwas stopped when I was born because I'mquite old now or in my own eyes I'm oldbut I don't like to use the word sufferbut I've had anxiety my whole life andnow been listening to your your showshaven't they been amazing by the way Iappreciate that thank you just listen toyour different guests you know strugglesthey've had to go through and obstaclesthey face for me I've always felt itdifficult to kind of ask for helpbecause I've had I've had such a goodlife in something upbringingand the situation I'm in I've hadamazing parents I've never had to askfor anything not that was slow in anysense but I was given everything Ineeded clothes water the essentials andthat but from an early age I just felt Iwas different kind of like I had thesevoices in my head I used to think it wasit was good it was someone else I reallydon't know what it was and I find thiswent through life with it at school Inever really felt like I fit in whereason the outside poori it probably seemedlike I was that guy good at his workgone along with people but I kind ofquiz my anxieties I threw myself into mywork so I think into studying into beingthe best I can in that sense so I justdidn't feel comfortable socializing Ididn't feel comfort with myself and thensaw some much easier CSIS etc I left forsix oneI changed sixth one then and that's whenI started to spiral a bit looking backnow it's funny because I can see all mycatalysts I can see why I feel the way Ididwhere is at the time I just had no ideawhat's going on I'm just in my own mindso for me what gets me a look is changeand uncertainty and new things andespecially socializing in in newenvironments so change into a new sixthform with people I didn't know newsubjects just threw me off completelyand it might sound stupid some peoplebecause this is such a simple thing butfor me the biggest fact thing anyone canhandle is their own mind and that'ssomething I've always struggled with yesI might not have had big thermal in mylife a lot of people have but a lot ofpeople live in with their own minds andtry about that every day and people needto appreciate thatit is hard for a lot of people mm-hmm soyeah went to I went to six-month pickingup from then and firstly was extremelyhard for meI was probably on the debts ofdepression where it's back then I thinkwe know what the pressure was so Ididn't really see as that I just felt itwas me so my family helped me through alot I got through a levels my secondyear beta it was great because I wasmore comfortable in my environment andthen applied for university got goodgrades and got into UCL to studyeconomics and I think at UCL was thefirst time I really but I understandwhat the pressure was I start to gothrough it so I'm still living at hometraveling to London every day and justdidn't feel like I fit in they're alwayscomparing myself to others that I wasn'tgood enough to be there and then Istarted getting suicidal food so I standon train tracks and my mind we kill himto jump and yeah I in my mind I've - Iknow myself cuz I've never had thosethoughts before and I'm in the past I'venever when I've heard people who commitsuicide or taken her own life I've neverunderstood it but in that moment and nowI've been through it that's the onlyplace you see confort is by not beinghere not being with your mindWow is that is that kind of a thing thatyou've you've convinced yourself that itwould just be better off yeah a hundredpercent it's like you explore differentoptions so when I start to feel anxiousor when I'm gonna extremely the prostateI start to looklook at the fact that across the greenon the other side so I was at UCO and Iwas saying to my momI'm gonna quit I'm just gonna get jobI'm gonna apply to a different Union I'mgonna do this I'm gonna do that I alwaystry and wash one away because then allthat anxiety all that all that hurt willbe gone and over you place intosomething new so that's the first time Istarted seeing a counselor Britt at UCoh and while I was at UCL I write toanother university again seeing that thegrass is green on the other side justwant to get out of it so I startedstudying for my exams at UCL it's aboutApril time and then I've gotconfirmation that I was given anotherplace at Royal Holloway University I'vebeen sorry okay and I thought to myselfyou know what it's not worth the toiletturn won't burn through I'd literallywrite vice for all my exams the weekly Iwas gonna sit there but I decided that'sit I'm not sitting them because I justwant this this kind of cloud to be overso I quit or I gave up UCL andstraightaway I just felt that count hasbeen liftedI felt so good then I was like you knowwhat this is what I need like my nextuniversity is gonna be amazing I'm gonnafind so yeah that summer was great andthen September moved up to roll away tostop my new course and in the same thingstarted comparing myself to others newsituation a lot of social anxiety Ididn't go out a lot in my first year andlike I'd hear people in the kitchendrinking and stuff and I just be in myroomjust with my own thoughts Wow and I'mglad today I have amazing friends andamazing flat I'm still in touch with andthat's friends with your good may aswellfears off so she helped me through a loteven if she doesn't know it and bygetting my first year of uni I wasthinking I need to apply to another uniit's gonna be better on the other side Ineed to take my course something to dothis I applied for a job and luckily youknow I was convinced to stay I lost myfirst year went on to the second yearand that is the biggest term like mylife is the second year I just spiraledout of control just in myselfamong thoughts just not being able tocall or be in social situations withpeople my first day my room up my mum mysister would always come and visit me tomake sure I was okay because they wereextremely worried about me of courselike I used to lock myself in my roomthen and research how to end my lifebecause it's the only way I can see anend to it and I knew how wrong that thatwas and the the only thing that stoppedme from ever doing it then was yes myfamily like what we do to them but I'mactually getting emotional saying thissorry man please take your timebut yeah the most it's really silly butthe thing that stopped me was I wouldn'tend my life right and my parent wouldhave to look after me and like her in astate where I think people looking aftermyself yeah sorry man no no I can onlyimagine what what you're going throughbecause my level of desire is nothingcompared to your level of depression andwe spoke briefly before we had thisinterview that you know it took the best8 years of my mom's life away and Ithink unless you live with somebodywho's going through or somebody it's sodifficult because from the surface Imean you look at your Instagram you lookat yeah the way the way you conductyourself your poetry which you're goinglater on in the interview it's just likethis kind of depression you know youjust know isn't no more that is itnormally is somebody you can relate tobut it's it's amazing how some it's notsomething so simple but something likeyour mind can just completely just yetturn your world upside down and it's oneof my favorite quotes ever and Iprobably say to myself at least six orseven times a week not because I do itbut because it just helps with thingsinto perspective and it's comparison isthe thief of joy you said that you hadins ie from a very young age and I meanI'm 32 now and I'm kind of peeling backthe onion layers using an analogy ofwhen I started getting anxiety and Ithink yes having reflected and lookingback at myself I'm able to find certainmoments in my life like when I was sixor seven I was atshit I was actually quite anxious thenand then maybe that's really kind ofsnowboard have you been able to in yourcurrent situation not be able to lookback and find these key triggers or haveyou always just known yourself to beanxious no a hundred percent if I knewone who I knew now about myself I couldhave controlled a lot of what happenedto me and not let it happencould you elaborate so my anxieties mycatalysts are changed like newsituations where that's a new job newUniversity a new subject I'm studyinguncertainty so I'm a perfectionist as Isaid before I used to put myself into mywork and just try and excel at that soif I'm not the best at something I startto get anxious might sound stupid butthat's just the way I am so it's notstupidso you've always had this in psyche yeahand now you knowing what you know nowyou've said you can obviously look backand think I could have changed stuffwhat kind of things I mean I'm thinkingpractical things here for somebody who'smaybe a little bit younger thanourselves who's going through thismoment they're just constantly anxioushave changed like yourself and being inthese kind of environments what wouldyou kind of say to them now the onenumber one thing does has helped me themost about anything is talking about itso talking about how you feel because Iwould often just keep everything balledup inside me and whereas today I'm openas hell honesty oh are you guys to swearon this podcast may you can do whateveryou want thank fuck for that that's finesome people might not like that but youknow sometimes it's one of the only waysyou can express it sometimes one or twoepisodes myself sonot a problem mate so yes second year ofuniversity extremely down I went to sawa doctor there who prescribed me afterdepressants and I'm back then I hadnever taken a tablet in my life not evena paracetamol just nothing I was justagainst putting foreign substances in mybody so I got prescribed down to theirpresence I went and got them but I didnot take them and I came back home forChristmas and I was just so so bad oneday my dad leave she just got me in thecar drove me off the sorry and when hemom didn't say hello to any of myhousematesjust went in my drawer guys I depresswe drove all the way back home to NorthLondon and I started taking them andthey helped me massively they're therethey're a tool for helping you they'renot a magic pill that's gonna makeeverything go away could you have to putyou have to put other things in yourlife that's gonna help you get throughbut they definitely help just balanceout the chemicals in your brain and theway you think think mm-hmm and so Istarted taking them must I've seen atherapist as well and then I startedgoing to the gym again so I was injuredat the time I got really depressed theymy substitute but I had a fun injuryokay that's unique yeah so I couldn'treally lift weights and so as soon asthat healed in the new year that's likea gym again I started feeling good Istopped them seeing my therapist eventhough he advised me to carry on and Ifinished my second year third year wasgreat really enjoyed it when I almost Ihad finished uni over to 1/2 percent offat first which again I beat myself upagain about don't beat yourself up todayI by the time I was in tears thatliterally so fun and and then yeahapplied for a job took me eight monthsto get a job and I had no idea what todo with my life was planned foreverything in anythink mmmgot over Owen into accountancy and thenstart here and then things that Ispiralling down again so and evenprobably even deeper depression I had inmy second year and the extreme thatsuicidal thoughts I just didn't knowwhat I want to do with my lifeespecially working full-time andstudying and studying for something youdidn't you didn't really want like Ididn't know if I wanted to be anaccountant up in all this effort into itwhat am i what am i giving to otherpeople what I'm given to the world bybeing an accountantthat's just how and I just didn't see medoing anything else so I I said to mymom not gonna quit and the Khan teachI'm gonna quit and do this and quit anddo that and my mom bless her she she'shelping me a lot but I know howfrustrating it is she understands fullyjohnstad 3 but I know how frustrating isto try and help someone who nothingseems to help themselves and you can seethe same things happening again in termsyou wanted to just change again to a newsituationso I stopped taking as the presents whenI was at Union swell after that Sigmaperiod and I was at work I cited themagain I'm slicing the therapist againand a major thing that helped me getthrough if I did not do this I would nothave qualified to try to count and I maynot be alive today I'm being honest withyou I told him what I told myself aboutmy depression so I went spokes inmanagers I went spoke the partners inthe firm and they were so so good aboutit honestlythat's brilliant like they helped memassively they put things in place forme and I felt I could go and talk topeople about it more mm-hm so yeah itwas tough as hell and I qualified aboutthis December just gone so I'm currentlyin the process of coming up mad for thepresents fantasticI'll be off them in about two weeks I'vedefinitely felt some side effects butthey start to wear off and I'm feelinggood about life now and the mostimportant thing about anything thatbeing through mum I don't like to usethe word happy up being through it I'mkind of I'm glad for which taught me andso six months ago if I was doing thispodcast review I know I was in tears alittle bit before but I would not beable to talk about this with withanybody whereas now I don't give a fuckI put it on Instagram I talk abouttrying to speaking about their feelingsespecially especially as a man today inthe society there's so much manypressures a lot of stance what about 100percent mate it's a it's an ego maybesurprise thing I don't know what it iswith guys we don't realize thatvulnerability is actually a truestrength and I spoke about thispreviously again I'd recommend if youcan listen to Lewis Howes I think he'sgot a book the mask of masculinity andit's a fantastic book because I think asguys you're doing something there thatis something that we don't do and I'mnot stereotyping it but how many of usreally talk about stuff when we feel ohbecause it's a bravado thing isn't it wecan't show weakness we can't show thatwe're feeling down or low and I thinkthe reason I was really interested ingetting you on this show is or becauseyou've touched on something there so wespoke about the social enterprise thatI'm working on with mywe're going to get back to mental healthand awareness the first question askedthough was what do you want like if weraise awareness is it money is it likematerialistic things what kind of thingswould make you guys feel better and shesays somebody should talk to you andthat brings us to the whole thing thatwe spoke about prior to this episode isI'm gonna open up just centers I'm gonnahire them for the day get people who aregoing through it people who haveovercome it to just maybe talk about itand I know that might sound like such asimple thing from the outside but you'vetouched on it now as wellthe world needs to speak it's thesimplest of things look us I say toeveryone I don't see anxiety as anillness this is my this is my personalopinion yeah everyone has anxiety butjust different levels of a spectrumdepression is the lowest of the low thusthat that's an illness that's somethingyou can you need to case of our but thedifference between me and the guyssitting next to me the only differencebetween us is I can talk about it now Italk about it that's the only differencethe guy still has anxiety 100% differentmaybe different levels different aspectsin his life but he just doesn't talkabout it that's the difference and bytalking about it which you've been doingmore openly now and some of it's throughyour poetry is all which is fantastic aswell have you genuinely seen like ashift in like your overall moods and didthe severity of your laws as well Oh100% like if I have a load they know ifI don't know they in the past I comehome and I keep all my stuff where it'sI come home now and thank what my sisteris my rock honestly I would not behonestly hands-down I would not be aliveabout her today and she has she's notbeen through depressiontouchwood and thank God but even so ashard it was for her to help me she wasjust there to listen even if she didn'tunderstand she was just there to listenand put small things in place to me forme and so yeah I remember this one timeat university when I was when I was homefor that Christmas when I was really badI had an essay to write and I told her Ijust can't do it I'm gonna quit but sheliterally sat down with me and made mewrite for five minutes at a time when wego and have a break and come back onwrite for five minutes so that's amazingyeah she's been amazing and you'refortunateto have that because there's so manypeople out there you may not necessarilyhave that kind of support network aswell yeah because like you've touched onit's an illness and it's because it'snot physical because it's not like yourthumb for example or yeah you knowsomebody's leg broken or something it'sit's internal and again because peoplearen't speaking what we're doing iswe're masking everything with it with itwith a smile or Facebook post orInstagram post but deep down we'verarely know what somebody's goingthrough exactly it's just scary and Ithink I think living with it is scary soI can only imagine what you're goingthrough so again I just want to saythank you for for really sharing thestory no problem I just want to say umthank what I've not been in the pressdate for about two and a half years nowyes I live with anxiety but I am knowingthat press date and I'm I will fight mymy utmost not to go back there and helpanyone else to come out absolutely andI'm not I'm not in a position to giveyou any advice having not been throughwhat you've been through but yeah thenthere's a simple quote we use it for ourfor our business that me or mom aregoing to start it's okay not to be okayyeah I don't know it sounds simple butit's so important that we understandthat because myself I mean I don'tsuffer with depression but I will wakeup on it on a Monday or a Tuesday itcould be any day of the week and I willbe in an absolute funk and I'm like whydo I feel like shit like nothing's gonewrong like you know my health is they'remy wife's happy my mom's finethere's nothing actually happened inthat day I've slept well but then youknow what you just you just feel reallylow and you got like no motivation andstuff and I used to beat myself up aboutthat because I just think I've got somuch stuff to do I need to change theworld I need to do this at least getmyself up now it's kind of like Iliterally say that quote to myself it'sokay not to be okay and all I'll do ison that particular day or do stuff likeI'll go to the gym I'll try and keep mynutrition as well as possible becauseobviously that helps your mind andeverything I try and speak with my wifeor my brother or my mom in the day justto kind of cheer me up and I might stillbe in a bit of a funk to the end of theday but the next day it all washes overrather than me dwelling on it and thenhating myself like throughout the weekthat kind of makes sense so it'sfantastic that it's been like two and ahalf years and there for yourself comingoff it but if you ever do find yourselfperhaps going a bit lower just knowthat listen mate you've come out of itso many times yeah kicking and fightingyou're doing great that it will be okayand you'll be alright you next thing Iappreciate I know and and such know whatyou said I've learned that saw so ondays from the rule of and you you won'tknow why but you just have to take sometime out for yourself and on those dayseven today I've made wake up and I mightfeel a bit low I know I know deep downthere is something causing that maybenot the day before maybe not on that daybut a week my ass something I didn'ttackle where it was on my to-do listwhich is still bugging me yeah orsomeone I didn't talk to or someone Isaid something to which is bugging mebugging me now and why I feel low so Ipersonally I think there's always a rootcause somewhere it's not always easy tofindmmm there's always something that'sthat's led you to feel that way I thinkyou're right there somebody elsementioned this actually I think it wason Episode three and it's about findingthat that deep meaning and I thinkbecause we're so most of us wake up inthe world whatever is on our phone or Iemail a job it will it will dictate ourdate we very rarely get time to sit backand actually reflect upon our life ourcircumstances in our situations and Ithink if we could do that probably haveless of those days because it isprobably a cumulative effect of thingspropping up and then you've got thislevel of like I don't know burden oranxiety or something that will kind ofjust hit you on one day and you'resitting there thinking what's going onhere but it's actually like you saidpossibly something that's that'shappened a few days ago that's powerfulso the funny thing is it's like there'sno like magic secret is there they'renot I mean if there was then the worldwouldn't struggle a bit like Fitnessyeah if we had the magic pill nobodywould be obese and it's kind of findingI suppose did you touched on it earlierhis voice you've got this toolkit nowyes the the antidepressant tablets helpyou control the chemical imbalancethat's going on but you've also got atoolkit of stuff that you've probablyhad through your therapist yeah thosewho probably gives you different toolsthat you can literally bring out as andwhen you need them because that's kindof how my mom explains it as well ahundred percent like I'm kind ofreinvent the tools they gave me to workfor meso something that I do massively when Ifeel extremely anxious I don't if you'veseen on my Instagram or that bar splitpage into and I'm one on one side Iwrite my negative feelings and emotionsand on the other side I write a healthypoint of view and it just helps meconceptualize how I'm feeling it kind ofbrings you out of my brain onto paperand kind of I can actually write down adifferent way of or view in it mmm yeahyour Instagram is brilliant and you'regonna get the oddest friend requests bythe way because I've asked my mom tofollow your Instagram because some ofyour stuff is like I can't get some ofit like I get like 80% of it send mebecause I've lived with my mom my momwas like my best well she is my bestfriend and and I'll sin what he's donelike taken away from her life so it'skind of I know that if she can read yourmessages and listen to your poetry Imean you know huh no gtv sorry yourstories your Instagram stories it willhelp and it resonate with her so yeahI'm obviously gonna put all the linksfor the listeners as well to know yoursocial medias at the end of it because Ithink it's really important that you'veseen someone who's yeah you you're notfully 100% over it at the minute butyou're dealing with it and you'redealing with it in the best way and eachtime you're getting better betterequipped and hopefully somebody who'sprobably earlier down the journey theycan benefit from yourself and this isthe whole point of this podcast is thatthey can learn from your your experienceof suppose and hopefully change theirlife for the better sooner exactlythat's that's the thing like I am NOTI'm not perfect I'm not free to stormyou never will because life justfrustrate you all the time I've come andbut the only thing I can do is just tryand help people through how I try tohelp myselfmmm and you are so yeah just try and beas real as I can on Instagram you knowlet people know how much it days becauseInstagram is a is a fake world really itisn't it's a highlight reel is which iswhy I appreciate like your content sokeep that going buddy I'm gonna switchthe pace a little bit now so I know someof the stuff that you do on a dailybasis but I think it's important for thelisteners who have heard about yourstory to understand what your dailyroutine is like so I'm a big bigbeliever that we are the results of thethoughts we tell ourselves and reallyhabits and so what's your daily routinefrom the moment you wake up to themoment you go to sleep well or every dayis different and I'm not gonna I can'tlie to you hmmI don't have a daily routine I'm stilltrying to work out myself in terms of Iknow what what would work well for mebut I haven't put it in place so I'velistened to one of your podcast one ofyour early ones about the guy who usedthe miracle morning that's right yeahchin very good friend yeah I knew thatwas a great podcast by the way thank youso yeah I bet the miracle morning thingwas last year and I started putting alot of things into practice in themorning not felt great and but thenexams came around again from my accountsand I just fell off it well I havecertain things I do during a week ratherthan a daily routine a daily routine issomething I'm working on in 2019 okay Ineed to incorporate meditation I need toincorporate leaving my phone out of myroom in the end of the day because thatjust adds to anxiety mm-hmm so thingsthat I do on a weekly basis to try andhelp me and relieve my stress is numberone you probably see a lot on InstagramI love my Costa Coffee yeah I love goingthere by myself taking a book readingmaybe writing some poetry just sittingthere watching the world and just beingcomfortable in my own thoughts I love myalone time now and another big thingdaily is Jim obviously so I usuallythrough that after work and it literallyjust puts me in a difference day ofnight it's almost like meditationabsolutely almost like meditation andyou're just there with your own thoughtsmusic in or not and you're justconcentrating on pushing the way upyou're not thinking about your pastdecisions you made you not think aboutthe future you're just in that momentthere and then so that helps memassively another daily routine mealprep obviously every morning but yeahI'm I'm still learning I'm stilllearning about routines and I will haveit together soon but like you've toucheddown there even myself my routinechanges from like year to year becauseyou always you're almost tweaking it soI've done the whole waking up at 4:00a.m. and then working my ass offbut then what would happen is at twoo'clock in the afternoon you not crashand let's sleep for like an hour and ahalf because I'm absolutely knackered sothen I was like this is pointless and sothen I mixed it up and now it's likeI'll wake up at 6 or 7 it depends onbasing my day so if you'll get an earlypodcast or I forgot like an investormedium or something like that then I'lltweak it but generally speaking I don'treally care what time I wake up becauseI believe it's what you do in the daybut you've got some great habits inthere like like the gym the meal prep Imean that you're feeding your bodyyou're feeding your mind there so it'sabout utilizing your time and takingchunks out of the day where you canreally be productive in terms ofwhatever your end goal is and a greatbook that I've read that is gonna helpme put that my favorite Wiens practiceis called the room of the rhythm of lifeby Matthew Kelly the rhythm of life okso I know you you follow my mindfulfitness page yeah yeah I do I'verecently just started following thatyeahthat's that's in the making and mytherefore mindful fitness is stemmingoff that book really so what walks aboutin that book is you have essential meansin life to survive so you have you haveoxygen you have a young Ward so you needthose things or you will diebut what people often neglect is theirlegitimate needs and there's four ofthese and we collect them because we'retoo busy day today which is sofast-paced in our lives and but thosefour needs our physical needs sonutrition and exercise emotional needswhich is relationships with people wherethat's going to get coffee with a friendtalking someone haven't talked in a longtime then you have your spiritual needsa bit harder to define for me it's justbeing being comfortable yourselfspending some alone time with throughmeditation going for a walk in natureand the fourth one is intellectual needswhich is knowledge and learning newthings and we often neglect a lot ofthose and one trying to do is encompassthose in my life and try and help peopleencompass those in this because when oneof those things are off that's when youranxiety will spike yeah yeah that's sointeresting that's powerful I'm gonnaI'm gonna attach that book actually therhythm of life by Matthew Kelly you saidyeah yes brilliant Kay I'll add that toobviously you're you've got to Instagrampages as well would you at the bottom soI'll have a look at that I appreciatethat buddy thank you look into thatfantastic okay sothe next question is about adversity andwhat I want you to do is if you could goback in time and think of a time thatyou faced great adversity but youpersevered through it so just oneparticular time and I want you toexplain how you won obviously theadversity to how you got through it andthree what are the lessons that youtaught you at the end of it oh JesusChristget your thinking cap on okay my figuredyou know you know I said to you beforethis podcast you sent me the questionsin that and I was gonna happen littleread about them you haven't read all ofyou know what last night yeah I upgradedmy iPhone on Saturday and it deletewhatsapp conversations lost by a 10o'clock and I was like sheets messagesjust suck up do it which is why I thinkthis episode so far is so intriguingfascinating because everything you'resaying is if you know it's not youhaven't scripted it out it's literallyjust you speaking from the heart so Ialways find that more authentic thereason I do give the questions thatbefore is just because some peoplesuffer with is ie exactly okay well youhear anyway the question has been askedjust have a have a few moments again anydead time and stuff I can always edit ithow so I'll probably cost me becauselike a particular situational momentbecause there just been so many my lifeand I've had to come out of wellprobably my latest one is justqualifying as a child accountant loadsof adversity faced there whether it waswork just not seeing myself was goodenough in septal workout producing theknowledge that I have and just comparingmyself to others that within my firmsort of thing and yet having to go backon antidepressants was a big blow for meit helped me massively enough if anyoneis taken out to the presence there'sabsolutely nothing against them I was ona about 20 milligrams a citalopram ifany of you listeners know just stop givethem the information and I've been onthat for about three years since I likemy jobthere's no comment and slowly slowly Iwas prescribedten just before Christmas so 10milligrams taking one every day for twoweeks and then I take one every otherdayfor two weeks and now I'm in a processof just taking two tablets a week forthe next two weeks and I'll be off themand yes I defects for anyone gran outthere there are massive side effects soI did feel a lot more rumination comeinto play so just kin stuff very a lotmore emotional and very snappy er peopleclose to me I love my family so Iapologise to them on here I'm sure Iunderstandyeah and very very tired and lethargicbut now honestly I feel amazing honestlyI really do feel good brilliant mateokay so the next question it's we'regoing to get to happiest if I show youso today it's a memory but but the nextquestion is what is your biggest fear mybiggest fear is probably going back intoa depressed state massively that's mybiggest fearand the fear of that I think helps mekeep keep out of it and is that throughyour daily discipline like the stuffthat you doing the stuff you you'resaying to yourself 100% like things Isay to myself just be more open andtalking now and actually feeling like Ihave something comments to pursue like Ihonestly believe I've been through whatI've been through for a reason aseveryone will probably say but I'm onthis earth not not to be an accountantlike I love my job and I love the peopleI work with but my true calling is justto help people help themselvesjust bring me talking about experiencesand everyone can do that and you will doyou helping me and I've gone through itmyself even just some of the stuff yousay you know it's making so much moresense but we are a result of the thingswe tell ourselves then just on thatpoint I think that's really importantit's something I'm trying to get my momand anyone on all going through thatsimilar situation to do as well becausea very very quick example a little bitabout myself is yeah suffering withanxiety and be shy I've always basicallywalked looking at the floor kind of likewith a hunchback if you can kind ofimagine that so my hands in my pocketand I've never really making eye contactwith anyone and I'm just kind of walkingand I remember recently I think it wasabout two weeks ago we went for somefood and I saidmy friends I hadn't seen for about sixmonths and he goes have you gottentaller and I was like what like pubertywhen a long time ago me and he was likeno you've gotta be like taller and I waslike well I've always been this tall soI'm like I'm just six foot eight sixfoot and I was kind of like just thesame height as in and you kind ofshocked and what I realized was so I'vebeen doing like affirmations and tellingmyself stories every single morning ispart of my morning ritual and one of thethings is I am confident I am no longershy I am and I would say well theseempowering words to myself and withoutrealizing it without even thinking aboutit my physical body had changed which Ijust find fascinating that's somebodywho I've known for like the best part of16 years had come up to miss it manyou've just grown a few inches but it'sbecause my demeanors changed now mychest is proud and that there's no levelof arrogance or anything in that it'sjust I'm just confident knowing myselfand I'm not this shy anxious person whoscared the world or what people will sayabout me I'm comfortable in my own skinand the other thing about you is you'regoing to the gym and you're gettingbigger so that's probably right myfoodstuffs I do try and eat outbrilliant so we spoke about your fearwhat is your motivation then what keepsyou going even on the days when you'rein a funk for example lucky gentlemanwhat keeps me going is knowing I'm herefor a bigger reason than myself mmmdeep down when I still help him myfamily around me helping friends helpingpeople I don't even know and that reachout to me not try not good as much as Ican but just believed I found somethingcaught truly believing and anyone outthere like I know how hard it is to notknow your purpose it like be being a jobor be a plan for job in a union not knowwhat what a fuck you want to do of yourlifeyeah and it doesn't matter how would youget it I believe one day we'll justspark like if you asked me a year agowhat when I do I have no idea andwhereas things have just lightssparking and you know pulling into placeand that will happen for you it's justabout whether you're you're willing totake the risk to go and pursue thosedreams that's all it is I love that thatis so true and I think I always urgepeople now so even like my youngerbrotherI urge people to just try new things anddo different things because 12 monthsago May being a podcast host wasprobably the last thing I'd ever want todo other than it'll be an out of a planeI mean and I'm at I'm actually debatedwhether I'm gonna do that in the nextyear or so jumping out the plane safelyshould we say yeah trying anything crazyobviously with it with all this rightpeople around but it's weird how you howyour passion just develops my actualpassion now is like you said it's makingthat true impact it's making thatdifference in life so yeah the beautifulthing with that is is forcing me to comeout of my comfort zone hence doing apodcast hence putting myself out thereon social media and doing this podcastopening that business with more mommiesit's crazy to think that I would havebeen doing this because I just didn'tthink I would so I think you've hit thenail on the head there people shouldjust go out there take that risk trustthat it will fall into place because Itruly believe it won't but at the sametime everyone's journey is different sojust because it's falling I think inplace for somebody out there he doesn'tnecessarily mean it's going to be thesame for you it could be at 22 or itcould be at 50 but don't don't comparebasically what I'm trying to say exactlybecause I've people might look at me andsay oh he's a qualified accountant hesaw it for life now I'm just I've chosento go part-time comma salary you knowmoney doesn't money you need itunfortunately you need money but I'mfocused on my happiness right now whenI'm going part-time to to actually gofor what I truly want to do okayfantastic so there you've heard thebuzzer and we are now in the fun part ofthis show so this is a quickfire 60seconds where I'm gonna be asking costsall sorts of wonderful and weirdquestions and the beautiful thing is hehasn't read the show notes so you haveno idea what I'm gonna ask him andthey're not the same questions as alwaysI do like to mix it up a little bit butso please are you ready buddy I'm readyokay we're gonna start in 3 2 1okay the ability to fly or be invisiblefly money or fame fame singing ordancing singingNetflix on YouTube that thinks Marvel orDC I don't watch evil okay Batman orSuperman Superman favorite TV show everoh Jesus Christ soprano would you ratherhow you will die or when you were dyingwhen I would die love or moneylove books or movies books if you couldsit with one person in the world for anhour who would it be my sister yourworst fear growing up getting older whatis your biggest addiction Instagram ifyou could abolish one thing in the worldwhat would it be depression yourfavorite song ever compete J : Drake anysongs French or Spanish Spanish pizza orsteakthey comedy or horror comedy and thelast one which is completely randomwhich is wizards which is the funnything is I wrote these like a long timeago so I'm looking at it myself to getwhat okay brilliantthe answer about your sister as well Ithink I think she's gonna love to hearthis back I'm sure you tell her anywayon a daily basis but if you're anythinglike me sometimes I shy away fromtelling the people I love the most Icare for him so much and it's probablysomething that I should do as well butso we run to the one but last questionand this one's always about reflectionbecause I always believe hindsight is awonderful thing and upon reflection wecan always think of ways to get to wherewe are quicker easier or we lessheartache and we wouldn't be the peoplewe are today if it wasn't for theprocess I've been through so what I wantto know is if you could go back in timeto that one moment where you reallystruggled and suffered with adversityand you could just whisper something inyour ear knowing exactly what you knownow what would you say say to yourselfoh I probably tell myself to tell peoplehow you feel and because yeah it'sextremely hard even by looking back andeven the you for today it's hard toexpress how you feel whether that'sbecause you're gonna be mocked on socialmedia your friends won't understandbecause of different maturity levels ahyeah just be just just talking about howyou feel just talk about it I love thatand I want to get you to do if you don'tmind one of your poems now I thinkbecause you've been through it youcouldn't you can hear the passion inyour voice as well are you just beforeyou start this are you thinking aboutdoing books or ebooks or anything onthatOasis I want to release a bookpoetry book and also I'm in a process oftrying to gather to do like spoken wordevents okay um so I wanna go and performpoetry and and yeah it's funny how Ionly started writing I used to writepoetry a lot for Mother's Day cards uhmy mom she's probably got loads of poemswhich is quite handy because every timemy sister would ask me what we shouldget my mom article I'll just write whatlast year I went to Cyprus and mygranddad was writing poetry in Greek Ohwhat just about turmoil he's beenthrough in his life and stuff I wentover to Cyprus by myself actually justto save my grandparents for a coupleweeks and I thought you know what maybeI should try writing down stuff as wellso it's the one I'm gonna read is thefirst one I wrote in Cyprus some of someof them when I write them I can kind ofI don't feel this way anymore but cankind of go back to how I felt and writethe emotions down which is yeah yeahwhich is quite good for me and so yeahthe one I'm gonna read this the firstone ever wrote when I started writingproperly and it's called him him love itlet's go all right so here miss just thegame playing with my mind an easy targetfor him he always seems to find healways seems to be there to put me in myplace lurking a scheming like a puff ofsmoke all up in my face and I are closedmy eyes praying that he'll go but in themorning he's still there he always seemsto show he follows me constantly like ahovering dark cloud I turned to look atmelook at him in the face sometimes and hesmiled was also proud what did he wantfrom me what about done a question everyday my whole life he seems to have takenand he's here to stay but one day itseems to click and I look all aroundhe has no physical presence so how canhe be so profound that's when I realizedI'm living in the past and future withmy other thinking mind an easy targetfor him he'll never ever find Wowthat is powerful yeah and there that'sthat's about depression may that's atalent there you know you've got may gotmany talents you work out well you'vegot the accountancy going for you you'vegot this poetry going for you yeah andif your aim is to like change change theworld for the better and help people whohave been through similar situation toyourself like you know it's going to beexcited understand I mean people likeand we've never actually met in personbut with people like you is voice allabout as well I appreciate that and it'sthe reason I love doing this is becauseafter after speaking with somebody Ialmost feel like a new level ofconnection if that make sense so it'slike I see you like as a friend now Imean I've probably spoken to more indepth about personal stuff than I dowith some of my friends and butgenuinely like my hand is here if younever need it if ever there's anythingthat I can help you with in the futureif ever there's times that you feel andor anything because it is about justhelping each other up because there'sgoing to be times where I might needthat for example yeah 100% you know I'mhere absolutely hit me a messageabsolutely I appreciate it and you justkeep doing what you're doing because Ithink you're gonna you gonna inspire somany people and like I said my mom'sgonna be fun in you hopefully today Ididn't tell you yesterday so alrightI'll look up no pages yeah she typesquite funny I was always left for thembecause she taught me like the onefinger thing and it doesn't always makesense but I just think it's importantbecause I think any age any demographicsor whatever it is your message is justtrue we are at the last question now forJenny and this is a question that Iasked all of my guests and it's if in150 years time science is unable to saveus and we are no longer about and allthat exists is a book and this book isabout the story of your life it's astory that you've written moving on fromnow up until the day that you sadly passaway what I want to know is firstly whatdoes a blurb say about you I a summaryto make someone you really want to pickthat up and think actually I'minterested in this person and secondlywhat would you call the title of yourbook OhI think my book would have to be apoetry book rather than biography andthe title of the book I think would bememoirs of an anxious mind and the blurI don't think would say too much at allit would just say I don't even know apoem perhaps that could kind of sum upyour yeah a poem that sums up or just aman in his mind just an anxious mindfull stop just something plain andsimple and the poetry and the poems willspeak for themselves about thesituations about the feelings andemotion that's powerful I think you alsolisten to episode one I thought youmight have not been getting this by herewhy keV and the beautiful thing withKevin's as well because he's my boxingtrainer he's a lovely chap but he alsodoes poetry as well yeah and I just findit I find it fascinating because likekeV you do poetry and I listen to acouple of years as well and we're in theprocess of kind of resurfacing himbecause he's got him in like normalbooks and I'll say maybe you could selfpublish it get it out there because Ijust feel like really hit yourheartstrings so it's powerful buddy it'sbeen an absolute pleasure I just want tothank you for your time again andapologies for the stuff in the morningobviously it took us about 30 minutes toget skies it's got going but at leastyou managed to find your voice yeah theshameless plug there from the morningbut what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna putlinks to all your social medias that Iknow but if there is anything else oranywhere else you want people to findyou because I think it's important thatpeople can follow your journey andpeople can learn from you learn from youyou can maybe help them if you wouldn'tmind where's the best place to find youthe best place for me is probably mypersonal Instagram page which is cmklifestyle and then my other page whichis up and running and I want to stop ita lot more up there as my businessexpense is mindful fitness spelt withdouble L and actually spoke incorrectlyby accident but actually actually worksreally well now and you know there'sactually a funny turn on Instagram youcan only one person can have a name inthe worldyeah for a name so mindful fitnessdouble-l was taken so I originally hadto call it mindful doc fitness and Ifound the woman she was in a miracle anda person who had mindful fitness and thename and I said to my friend I'm gonnamessage her and ask her if I can haveher name like we can switch and wouldlike don't be silly she's not gonna dothat so I sent her a long message I seethem two at the MS they're like Iliterally spilled out my heart out toher and asked if we could swap names umand I've got a message the next morningand she said she'd be happy to for $50so I sent over fifty dollars a night andshe's got mindful dot fitness sofantastic yeah see that it's all of itsall about sliding into DMZI love that okay um are you active onany anything else or should we juststick to Instagram for now Instagram fornow and then I'll be expanding prettysoon fantastic and obviously once peoplecan finally find you on thereyou're quite active in terms of yourstory so they can obviously fun of yourjourney I'll be finding your journey mayit's been an absolute pleasure speakingto you this isn't going to be the lasttime you speak but obviously offline ifI can help you in any way and vice versaI'd like like you're helping me you'rehelping my mom as of today and you'll behelping many other people as well so Iwant to say thank you to you and to thelisteners at home thanks for listeningand remember this podcast is absolutelyfree so all we ask in return is for youto share this with a friend and drop usa five star review over on iTunes havean awesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Jiří Charvát je (nebo byl) copywriter, bloger, spisovatel, moderátor, performer a dvojnásobný vítěz mistrovství České republiky ve slam poetry. Jirka je multipotenciální jedinec, v pracovní kariéře byl šéf copywriterů v Seznam.cz. Později si však uvědomil, že honba za kariérou není to, co by ho naplňovalo. Nyní se věnuje převážně psaní. Jeho blog iWrite vyhrál blog roku a napsal knihy Eskejp: Na útěku z kanceláře a Qejci: Existenciální sperma komiks. V rámci Jirkova zaměření je tak tento podcast trochu kreativní freestyle na témata improvizace, vědomí, spiritualita, ale i psaní a další kreativní tvorba. V tomto podcastu se dozvíte například: Jak se introvert naučil vystupovat před stovkami lidí Jak ho ovlivnily psychedelické zkušenosti Jak je spojená improvizace  a kreativita Proč není dobrý nápad snažit se být chytrej O čem bude nová knížka a mnohem více… Odkazy a další informace z podcastu naleznete na webu Proti Proudu.

Jim Barnard is the campus pastor at LifeGate Church in Denver, Colorado. Jim shares the story of learning to deal with grief and loss, gathering community, and finding hope in the middle of suffering. Throughout his journey, the communities around Jim have shaped his heart by encouraging him to be hopeful and deal honestly with his emotions while struggling with his wife's illness. In the midst of that illness, Jim explains the ways God has been faithful to provide even things that were deemed impossible like having a child. Please listen and share! Stories Jim shared: The joys of being a campus pastor at a mobile church Giving his life to Christ as a 10 year old and his family falling apart a week later The youth pastor who valued him enough to invest in him Why you need to be a mentor Meeting his wife at a new church The health problems his wife Alisha developed three months into their marriage Moving into ministry as a career Crying in an elevator while giving up the dream of having a child Having a baby with 75 people in the waiting room Sensing God's call to move while holding his newborn son Writing about his wife's condition Great quotes from Jim: It was really challenging to find those people to mentor me. I don't know what to do with what God's given me but I need to find people who know what to do. Our story is our greatest evangelical tool. Resources Jim mentioned: Quest Church of St. Louis Romans 5:1-4 Jim's blog I Write to Save My Wife Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. The post Jim Barnard Finds Hope in Suffering through Community appeared first on Eric Nevins.

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Written about a time when she was hospitalized for depression, Yiyun Li's Dear Friend, from My Life, I Write to You in Your Life is a combination of memoir and essay.  She believes that cherished writers saved her from sorrow and suicidal ideation.

H πρώτη μέρα του Fantasmagoria κύλησε εντυπωσιακά. Στήσαμε το τραπεζάκι μας κοντά στην είσοδο του φουαγιέ, ετοιμάσαμε τα συμπράγκαλα μας και κάναμε μία βόλτα ανάμεσα στους πάγκους καλλιτεχνών, εκθετών και εκδοτικών οίκων.Ο χώρος ήταν γεμάτος με πολύ πράγμα που μπορείς να ανακαλύψεις. Βιβλία από ξένους και Έλληνες συγγραφείς, γνωστά και άγνωστα καινούρια αλλά και πιο παλιά. Σάββατο μεσημέρι ο κόσμος ήταν αρκετός ώστε να μπορείς όταν θα βρεθείς μπροστά από ένα πάγκο να μιλήσεις με τους συντελεστές και να συζητήσεις για την δημιουργία του κάθε βιβλίου ή project και στο τέλος να φύγεις με ένα ενυπόγραφο αντίτυπο.Εμείς είχαμε την ίδια εμπειρία. Συναντήσαμε συγγραφείς που έχουμε διαβάσει και έχουμε γράψει για αυτούς και είχαμε την ευκαιρία να μιλήσουμε για τα βιβλία τους αλλά να γνωρίσουμε και νέο κόσμο με ιδέες και όρεξη και τα αποτελέσματα αυτών των συναντήσεων θα τα δείτε με το καλό στις επόμενες εβδομάδες...Μπροστά από το μικρόφωνο, την πρώτη μέρα του Fantasmagoria, πέρασαν 7 καταπληκτικοί άνθρωποι, οι οποίοι ζουν και είναι αφοσιωμένοι στο βιβλίο και δη στο φανταστικό:Τάσος Τσιπίδης - UrNOVLO Τάσος παρουσίασε την ελληνική startup της ομάδας τους, μια ιστοσελίδα η οποία είναι ένα μέσω δικτύωσης για συγγραφείς, αναγνώστες και εκδοτικούς. Η κουβέντα κύλησε γύρω τόσο απο την εταιρία, την αγορά, τα νέα features που ετοιμάζουν και πολλά ακόμα!https://www.urnovl.co/#!/Αθανάσιος Βασιλάκης - Time TravellerΟ Θάνος έφερε την ενέργεια του και μας μίλησε για την μοναχικότητα του καλλιτέχνη, την εξαλογία που έγραψε μέσα σε ελάχιστο χρόνο, την κοινή μας αγάπη για anime και manga και τον εκδοτικό οίκο που δημιούργησε.http://www.timetraveller.grΗλίας Φουντούλης - Κάτι Χαμογελάει στις ΣκιέςΗ πρώτη φιγούρα που αναγνώρισα μέσα στο φεστιβάλ. Ο Ηλίας, γνωστός από την εκπομπή Cooking με τον Μαλιάτση, εκτός των άλλων, ασχολείται και με τη συγγραφή από τα εφηβικά χρόνια και μας μίλησε για την ανθολογία τρόμου/μυστηρίου που κυκλοφόρησε μέσα από τον οικογενειακό τους εκδοτικό αλλά και την διαφορά ανάμεσα στο διήγημα που συνέγραψε στα 16 με το τελευταίο του 20 χρόνια μετά. Φυσικά δεν μπορέσαμε να μην μιλήσουμε για το youtube αλλά και το ελληνικό παραδοσιακό γιαούρτι!https://www.politeianet.gr/books/9789609659024-fountoulis-ilias-chroniko-ekdoseis-kati-chamogelaei-stis-skies-262279Λευτέρης Κεραμιδάς & Ευθυμία Δεσποτάκη - Άρπη Μετά από πολύ καιρό βρήκαμε την ευκαιρία να γνωρίσω και από κοντά την Ευθυμία και μαζί με τον Λευτέρη να μιλήσουμε για την ομάδα Άρπη, που δίνει βάση σε ένα fantasy με έντονες ρίζες στην ελληνική παράδοση, κουλτούρα, μυθολογία. Συγγραφείς και οι δύο, την Ευθυμία την έχω απολαύσει στα Πνεύματα, με αστείρευτη φαντασία και δεξιότητα, με την κουβέντα μας να είναι ότι πρέπει για έναν φαν του fantasy.http://arpiwriters.gr/Άρτεμις Βελούδου - Τριλογία ΕφιάλτεςΗ Άρτεμις μας παρουσίασε την τριλογία της που κυκλοφορεί από τις εκδόσεις Πηγή - I Write και μας μίλησε για το πως τα βιβλία της, άγγιξαν το γυναικείο κοινό με το ρομαντικό στοιχείο τους, αλλά δεν άφησαν ασυγκίνητο το αντρικό που βρήκε το μυστήριο και τη φαντασία που έπλεξε η ίδια, άκρως ενδιαφέρουσα.http://iwrite.gr/bookstore/%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF-%CF%88%CF%85%CF%87%CE%AE%CF%82/Λένα Κικίδου - Και Μετά όλα ΆλλαξανΗ Λένα μας μίλησε για το δεύτερο βιβλίο της που κυκλοφορεί από τις εκδόσεις Anima, για το πως γράφει όταν είναι στα down της και πόσο της αρέσει να μπολιάζει ένα αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα με supernatural στοιχεία.http://www.protoporia.gr/kai-meta-ola-allaxan-p-432341.htmlΕπικοινώνησε μαζί μας:monkeybros.grboss@monkeybros.gr6971977414Support: monkeybros.gr/shop

H πρώτη μέρα του Fantasmagoria κύλησε εντυπωσιακά. Στήσαμε το τραπεζάκι μας κοντά στην είσοδο του φουαγιέ, ετοιμάσαμε τα συμπράγκαλα μας και κάναμε μία βόλτα ανάμεσα στους πάγκους καλλιτεχνών, εκθετών και εκδοτικών οίκων.Ο χώρος ήταν γεμάτος με πολύ πράγμα που μπορείς να ανακαλύψεις. Βιβλία από ξένους και Έλληνες συγγραφείς, γνωστά και άγνωστα καινούρια αλλά και πιο παλιά. Σάββατο μεσημέρι ο κόσμος ήταν αρκετός ώστε να μπορείς όταν θα βρεθείς μπροστά από ένα πάγκο να μιλήσεις με τους συντελεστές και να συζητήσεις για την δημιουργία του κάθε βιβλίου ή project και στο τέλος να φύγεις με ένα ενυπόγραφο αντίτυπο.Εμείς είχαμε την ίδια εμπειρία. Συναντήσαμε συγγραφείς που έχουμε διαβάσει και έχουμε γράψει για αυτούς και είχαμε την ευκαιρία να μιλήσουμε για τα βιβλία τους αλλά να γνωρίσουμε και νέο κόσμο με ιδέες και όρεξη και τα αποτελέσματα αυτών των συναντήσεων θα τα δείτε με το καλό στις επόμενες εβδομάδες...Μπροστά από το μικρόφωνο, την πρώτη μέρα του Fantasmagoria, πέρασαν 7 καταπληκτικοί άνθρωποι, οι οποίοι ζουν και είναι αφοσιωμένοι στο βιβλίο και δη στο φανταστικό:Τάσος Τσιπίδης - UrNOVLO Τάσος παρουσίασε την ελληνική startup της ομάδας τους, μια ιστοσελίδα η οποία είναι ένα μέσω δικτύωσης για συγγραφείς, αναγνώστες και εκδοτικούς. Η κουβέντα κύλησε γύρω τόσο απο την εταιρία, την αγορά, τα νέα features που ετοιμάζουν και πολλά ακόμα!https://www.urnovl.co/#!/Αθανάσιος Βασιλάκης - Time TravellerΟ Θάνος έφερε την ενέργεια του και μας μίλησε για την μοναχικότητα του καλλιτέχνη, την εξαλογία που έγραψε μέσα σε ελάχιστο χρόνο, την κοινή μας αγάπη για anime και manga και τον εκδοτικό οίκο που δημιούργησε.http://www.timetraveller.grΗλίας Φουντούλης - Κάτι Χαμογελάει στις ΣκιέςΗ πρώτη φιγούρα που αναγνώρισα μέσα στο φεστιβάλ. Ο Ηλίας, γνωστός από την εκπομπή Cooking με τον Μαλιάτση, εκτός των άλλων, ασχολείται και με τη συγγραφή από τα εφηβικά χρόνια και μας μίλησε για την ανθολογία τρόμου/μυστηρίου που κυκλοφόρησε μέσα από τον οικογενειακό τους εκδοτικό αλλά και την διαφορά ανάμεσα στο διήγημα που συνέγραψε στα 16 με το τελευταίο του 20 χρόνια μετά. Φυσικά δεν μπορέσαμε να μην μιλήσουμε για το youtube αλλά και το ελληνικό παραδοσιακό γιαούρτι!https://www.politeianet.gr/books/9789609659024-fountoulis-ilias-chroniko-ekdoseis-kati-chamogelaei-stis-skies-262279Λευτέρης Κεραμιδάς & Ευθυμία Δεσποτάκη - Άρπη Μετά από πολύ καιρό βρήκαμε την ευκαιρία να γνωρίσω και από κοντά την Ευθυμία και μαζί με τον Λευτέρη να μιλήσουμε για την ομάδα Άρπη, που δίνει βάση σε ένα fantasy με έντονες ρίζες στην ελληνική παράδοση, κουλτούρα, μυθολογία. Συγγραφείς και οι δύο, την Ευθυμία την έχω απολαύσει στα Πνεύματα, με αστείρευτη φαντασία και δεξιότητα, με την κουβέντα μας να είναι ότι πρέπει για έναν φαν του fantasy.http://arpiwriters.gr/Άρτεμις Βελούδου - Τριλογία ΕφιάλτεςΗ Άρτεμις μας παρουσίασε την τριλογία της που κυκλοφορεί από τις εκδόσεις Πηγή - I Write και μας μίλησε για το πως τα βιβλία της, άγγιξαν το γυναικείο κοινό με το ρομαντικό στοιχείο τους, αλλά δεν άφησαν ασυγκίνητο το αντρικό που βρήκε το μυστήριο και τη φαντασία που έπλεξε η ίδια, άκρως ενδιαφέρουσα.http://iwrite.gr/bookstore/%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%B2%CF%8C%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF-%CF%88%CF%85%CF%87%CE%AE%CF%82/Λένα Κικίδου - Και Μετά όλα ΆλλαξανΗ Λένα μας μίλησε για το δεύτερο βιβλίο της που κυκλοφορεί από τις εκδόσεις Anima, για το πως γράφει όταν είναι στα down της και πόσο της αρέσει να μπολιάζει ένα αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα με supernatural στοιχεία.http://www.protoporia.gr/kai-meta-ola-allaxan-p-432341.htmlΕπικοινώνησε μαζί μας:monkeybros.grboss@monkeybros.gr6971977414Support: monkeybros.gr/shop

Have you ever felt adrift and alone, as though you don’t belong to any one community? Have you ever been to a foreign country, and not known the language? Have you ever set out to learn a new skill or area of knowledge and been left frustrated by being unable to grasp the skill as quickly as you would have liked? In Other Words is centered around the themes of identity, alienation and belonging. As we discuss this book and the author’s use of language to traverse these difficult topics, we invite you to consider your own life and your own feelings of identity and belonging. 00:00-2:40 Intro and Summary of the Book2:41-6:48 The Lake Metaphor: Facing Challenges6:49-12:31 The Pocket Dictionary: Security Blankets12:32-15:20 Language as a Relationship15:21-23:15 The Locked Gate Opens: Jumping off into the Unknown23:16-33:58 The Gardener: Importance of Imperfections33:59-42:01 Discipline in Learning42:02-45:52 Being Comfortable with Self45:53-47:49 Why do I Write?47:50-52:48 Never Reaching Perfection52:49-58:25 It Will Never Be Enough58:26-59:18 Outro and Next Episode

Have you ever felt adrift and alone, as though you don’t belong to any one community? Have you ever been to a foreign country, and not known the language? Have you ever set out to learn a new skill or area of knowledge and been left frustrated by being unable to grasp the skill as quickly as you would have liked? In Other Words is centered around the themes of identity, alienation and belonging. As we discuss this book and the author’s use of language to traverse these difficult topics, we invite you to consider your own life and your own feelings of identity and belonging. 00:00-2:40 Intro and Summary of the Book2:41-6:48 The Lake Metaphor: Facing Challenges6:49-12:31 The Pocket Dictionary: Security Blankets12:32-15:20 Language as a Relationship15:21-23:15 The Locked Gate Opens: Jumping off into the Unknown23:16-33:58 The Gardener: Importance of Imperfections33:59-42:01 Discipline in Learning42:02-45:52 Being Comfortable with Self45:53-47:49 Why do I Write?47:50-52:48 Never Reaching Perfection52:49-58:25 It Will Never Be Enough58:26-59:18 Outro and Next Episode

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your Depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your Depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your Depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses (215)383-3811 and wear your depends grandma hey will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Back on the scene with comedy that will have u peeing in your paints.Dj Ljezzle and the B Team ( J4B, K Scott, Sheda B, E Dubbs and I Write) bring back that old B Shop flava with a new twist. Get ready for some action cuz they just dont give a f#*k. Call in and be heard by the masses and wear your depends grandma.They will be waiting to hear from you.....

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we travel back in time and analyze two big hits from the 1970s. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Divine Fits and The Raveonettes. Show notes: - Recorded at More Lost Time world headquarters - The return of song analysis - Learning more about Rupert Holmes - "Escape" tells a depressing tale in a lighthearted way - Seeking a new soulmate through the personal ads - Song ends with a wacky twist - Jay used to belt out Holmes' "Him" in the newsroom of the college paper - He sings the guitar solo to save money - Digging into the rest of the album - Rupert writes about anything like, say, his answering machine - Holmes did a lot of work in theater and TV - Wrote songs for "A Star is Born," the Streisand-Kristofferson movie - "Him" as performed by Barry White - Clearly inspired by Manilow - "Copacabana" was a huge disco hit - Everything was coke-fueled in the '70s and '80s - Manilow's go-to move was the sweeping ballad - Manilow's "Bermuda Triangle" was a clear inspiration for Rupert - Barry found a winning formula - Gotta love the irony that he didn't write "I Write the Songs" - We Manil-OD'd - Bonehead of the WeekMusic:Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice The Raveonettes - She Owns the Streets Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The Divine Fits song is on the album A Thing Called Divine Fits on Merge Records. Download it for free from Chromewaves. The Raveonettes song is on the album Observator on Vice Records. Download the song for free from KEXP. The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.

Charlotte View proudly welcomes book-author and Editor-in-Chief of Enjoy Life Magazine, Lakesha Woods. During this interview, she will talk about Enjoy Life Magazine ... the column she writes "Mind, Body & Soul" and the up coming book "The Revelation of Real Love" Short Link: http://tobtr.com/s/3511275 Lakesha Woods is a Writer, Socialite and Entertainer. She writes about things that are common; everyday issues in her life. Through Enjoy Life Magazine, Lakesha writes the editorial column Mind Body & Soul. She's written several poems, essays and commentaries that have been published in literary magazines, online publications and in compilations with other authors. Her story doesn't stop there! Lakesha's latest projects include a lyrical songbook, "A Beautiful Way With Words"  and the book "The Revelation of Real Love" which is a compilation of short stories and poems and Love Spells. Some of her well noted articles include: "All My Good Days", "Everybody Needs a Break", "Nature's Way", "I Write" & the poem "What About My Heart". Please visit her website for booking information: www.lakeshawoods.com Enjoy Life Magazine: www.enjoylifemagazine.com