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In November of 2010, police entered the Ohio home Tina Herrmann shared with her boyfriend Greg and her two children, 13-year-old Sarah and 11-year-old Kody. All of the residents of the house were missing, in addition to Tina's best friend, Stephanie Sprang. Evidence inside the home indicated a brutal slaughter had taken place there; however, neither of the missing people nor their bodies could be found. Shoeprints from 13-year-old Sarah were found leading to a car missing in the garage. If Sarah made it out alive, she was now in the clutches of a monster who had a 24-hour head start on them. Listen to this week's episode to learn the bizarre and heartbreaking case of "Inside The Hollow Tree."Get ad-free, early releases, plus exclusive Members' Only episodes not available to the public by joining our Patreon group. Go to www.tntcrimes.com or www.Patreon.com/tntcrimes to learn more.IG & Facebook: @hardcoretruecrimeSources: 1) "The Girl in the Leaves" by Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard, and Larry Maynard2) Court Records3) Dispatch.com - "What was in the home and mind of the killer Matthew Hoffman?"

Job Seekers alert!  Join us for an in-depth conversation with Sarah Baker Andrus the Founder and CEO of Avarah Careers.  In this episode, you will learn: √ How work has changed since Covid. Learn the meaning of “hoteling” √ Why “It's not who you know, it's who you choose to meet”√ About the importance of networking√ Why it is best to approach the job search with “do I want to work here?”√ What the biggest barriers are in the job search√ The importance of a plan√ Tips for the job interview√ What to look for in a study abroad experience√ How to switch jobs√ How to prepare for changes or jobs that do not exist√ If Sarah would bungee jump!Join Our Podcast Email List!   Follow Our Podcast:Website: Listen To Our Podcast HereYouTube Channel   Twitter   LinkedIn  Facebook   InstagramAll Things College and CareerMeg's LinkedIn   Bobbie's LinkedInACADEMIC & CAREER ADVISING SERVICES:Visit Website:  Academic and Career Advising ServicesSchedule an Appointment with Academic & Career Advising ServicesEmail Meg:  meg@academicandcareeradvisingservices.comShow Notes:Visit Sarah's Website:  Avarah CareersSubscribe:  10 Days to Jump-Start Your Job Search

At White Labs, they have everything down to a science - literally! White Lab manufactures liquid yeast for beer. Their team of scientists have created more than 200 strands of liquid yeast...and they do it with the help of technology. What You'll Learn:How White Labs is using NetSuite and RF-SMART to manufacture and distribute liquid yeastHow RF-SMART can be used in every step of the process: from receiving to manufacturing to picking!If Sarah and Haleigh can become beer drinkers after allAdditional Resources: Read the Blog: Automation Tips for NetSuite ManufacturersListen to Episode: The Components of Great Customer ServiceLearn more about NetSuite: RF-SMART for NetSuiteWho You'll Hear: Kathryn Small, Project Manager, White Labs - Kathryn has been at White Labs for seven years. In her time there, she has served in many different capacities, including leading their NetSuite implementation.Haleigh Thomas, Senior Strategic Account Executive, RF-SMART - Haleigh is an account executive with RF-SMART, and has a long-standing relationship with White Labs. She's been with RF-SMART for nearly five years, and has helped hundreds of customers on their journey to inventory accuracy.Sarah Archer, Content Marketing Specialist, RF-SMART - Sarah has been a team member at RF-SMART since 2018. She is the host of this podcast and the YouTube series Q&A. Sarah is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Communication at the University of North Florida. Sarah loves working at RF-SMART because of the many opportunities to lead and advance in her career!

Q&A with actor Hope Lauren. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company. The bucolic tranquility of Greylock, N.H., is upended when a massive vein of coltan, an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech, is discovered under the town. Lydon Industries swoops in with plans to extract the mineral and wipe Greylock off the map. With her friends and family in danger of losing their homes, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper vows to stop Lydon's bulldozers. Sarah enlists her friends in the fight, but there seems to be no way to stop the town's impending demise -- until Sarah proposes an oddly intriguing solution: Greylock could declare independence. If Sarah and her friends can convince the town to vote for independence, Greylock would gain international sovereignty and could protect its land for good. After a federal judge agrees that Greylock isn't -- and never was -- part of the United States, the town becomes a new nation. Now, Sarah and her allies must confront an even more daunting task and build a country from scratch.

We have a tendency to fall back into sin, doing the very thing we know is wrong. When we seem to “get away” with a sin, the temptation grows to try it again. Genesis 20 records that for a second time Abraham lied about Sarah’s status—calling her his sister, rather than his wife. It’s possible that they used this technique regularly, “everywhere we go” (v. 13). Having no reason to doubt Abraham’s word, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for Sarah, and rather than admitting his lie, Abraham let her go. Whether Abraham recognized it or not, the stakes were higher this time. When they were in Egypt, Sarah was barren (see Genesis 12). But as they moved to Gerar, Sarah was fertile. The long-awaited promised son would be born within the year. If Sarah spent even one night with Abimelech, Isaac’s paternity could have been called into question. The entire covenant was on the line. God did not allow Abraham’s folly to muddle matters (v. 6). His sovereignty is on full display throughout this narrative. God appeared in a dream to Abimelech at just the right time. He opened Abimelech’s heart to receive the message with humility and fear. God, thus, kept Sarah from spending the night with Abimelech and protected the clear paternity of Isaac. He closed and opened the womb of all the women in Abimelech’s household (vv. 17–18). He even blessed Abraham abundantly through Abimelech in spite of his ruse. And He worked through Abraham to make Himself known to the people of Gerar. Grace upon grace! What a wonderful reassurance that God will keep His covenant. He will carry out His plan. He is able—in spite of us.

Welcome back to the Whole View, episode 4-1-1. (0:27) Does 411 still exist as a resource you can call? This week, we have a really amazing question from Holly. The topic is one that has been bouncing around in Sarah's head for a while. When she talks to someone about how she eats, it can be tricky to navigate what vocabulary to use. So now seems like a really good time to dig into this, especially given the recent podcast name change.   Listener Question Holly writes, "Hey ladies, I’m a long time listener of the podcast and I hope by telling you both how awesome you are that you will answer my question. (2:02) Just kidding! But I know it can’t hurt and it's true! Really, thank you both for all the work you do to keep us in the know. I have been finding the Covid shows so helpful and I feel like I get to rant with you both. On to my question, Sarah I noticed your new book has non-paleo and non-aip foods in it and I know the podcast name has changed, so... do you both even still follow a paleo diet? I would love to know what your diets look like now. Also, what do you both recommend now for all of us looking for general health guidelines, if Paleo is no longer the ‘thing’? Thanks again for all you do!   P.S. Sorry Sarah if you cover this in the book, I admittedly have just done a quick scan, and I promise to read it soon.   Sarah's New eBook Sarah completely forgot to tell our podcast listeners that she just launched her Gut Microbiome eBook. (3:01) The book that Holly is referring to is Sarah's new Gut Health Guidebook. Sarah has been working on a Gut Microbiome book for about six years now. She started this book before writing Healing Kitchen. Healing Kitchen was a book writing tangent, and then Paleo Principles was a second book writing tangent. Since Paleo Principles came out, this book has been Sarah's singular focus. She was wrapping it up earlier this year and then when covid hit, it caused a delay in the publication process. Sarah still doesn't know when it will come out, but her guess is that at this point it will be sometime in 2021. As soon as she found out that this was not going to be the late 2020 book she was pushing for, Sarah took the cohesive storyline of diet and lifestyle and package that up into an eBook. The way that the Gut Microbiome book was coming together made it clear that it couldn't be one book the way Paleo Principles is. Sarah is taking the companion cookbook and is also going to create an eBook out of that content. That will launch late this summer. So the Gut Health Guidebook is now live and you can package it together with a preorder of the cookbook. Sarah is offering a special discount for anybody who wants to do that. To find the offer, see here.   From Stacy's Point of View Stacy and crew just got back from being in the wilderness for a week. (6:24) She won't call it camping because it is more glamping. They prepped a lot of food before they left and cooked over the fire each night. It is interesting for Stacy to think about this question in the context of having just been on that trip. The different kinds of foods that they took this trip versus previous glamping trips Things were very similar, with some exceptions. As we talk about what they are each now doing and why, those points will weave in. Years ago they did not take gluten-free graham crackers for example. Stacy made Paleo chocolate chip cookies and then they made marshmallows and used those homemade creations for s' mores. She also wants to note for perspective that it has been over ten years since both Stacy and Sarah started their journey into what she would call a health awakening. They started with this idea of paleo, but that health awakening really started when Cole was born and Stacy was breastfeeding for the first time. This is when Stacy realized that what she was eating was going directly into him. That transitioned over many years until the birth of Wesley, and that was the point in which Stacy realized that her body was responding to certain foods in a way that was hurting her children when nursing. Stacy has learned from her body what she tolerates vs. thrives on. It is also interesting in this world of covid, how we need our bodies to be thriving and to be as strong as possible. Where you is where you are, and there is no shame in where you have been or where you are going. When we talk about diet we talk about how you choose to eat your food. We are not talking about a fad diet, a way that you eat for short-term results. This has always been a key concept on this show. It has always been about a lifestyle. If you focus on what feels best for you and listen to your body, you can find a way to live a balance in your life to not think about food as something as anything other than fuel.   Healthy Living Stacy wants to refer everyone back to episode 358 on Intuitive Eating. (11:16) This show is very representative of our thoughts on anti-diet and intuitive eating. On this episode, we share how you can incorporate this into a way of healthy living. There is a response that your body has to certain foods, and to ignore that is not beneficial to your long-term health. But how can you incorporate those foods without it being a diet that you punish yourself for? This turns food into a reward, which isn't good either. If you find yourself in a place where food has that kind of control or thought pattern, please go back and listen to that episode. It will really tell the full picture of what we are going to dive into with the way we fuel and nourish ourselves. We try to optimize thriving, while still representing the emotional importance of some of that stuff.   From Sarah's Point of View Sarah loves how Stacy framed the way that her healthy awakening journey began because Sarah's started with Adele. (12:33) In her first pregnancy, she has gestational diabetes and she managed her blood sugar really well with careful measuring. When Adele was one she realized that she was getting that same sickish feeling every time she ate. Sarah still had her blood sugar testing supplies and one day after lunch decided to test her levels. Her levels were 200, which is the cusp between pre-diabetes and type-2 diabetes. She does not recommend this at all, but Sarah never told her doctor. Sarah felt so much guilt around this reality as she was intimately aware of the consequences of diabetes. So that day was the day that she changed her diet, and she went to the thing she knew. Sarah went low-carb, and in many ways, the last ten years has been a road of recovering from that stretch of low-carb. She was able to lose weight and normalize her blood sugar levels and blood pressure. She had markers showing her that she was healthy, but her autoimmune diseases were getting worse. It was a tradeoff. When Sarah's youngest daughter was closing in on two, it was actually the autoimmune flairs that brought her to paleo. Sarah's immediate was response was that paleo was crazy, but as she dug into it the science made sense. Once Sarah got into it, she went cold turkey with it on August 31, 2011, which helped a lot of things. However, it didn't help everything so for her New Year's resolution that year she started the autoimmune protocol. At that time AIP was very poorly defined. So Sarah defined and established what AIP was and is now, at the same time she was doing it. Sarah was very influenced by Dr. Terry Wahls TEDx presentation.   More on Sarah's Journey So she used her knowledge base to understand how foods interact with the human body, throughout this entire experience. (18:36) And she has never stopped continuing to learn. As Sarah has continued to learn, she has continued to tinker with her diet. Over the years this has turned into something that she doesn't know if paleo is the correct label to describe how she eats now. The term paleo, as is typically defined, is still defined as what you don't eat. Sarah doesn't believe that what you eliminate makes a diet healthy or not. It is actually the foods that you eat that is what determines whether or not that diet is healthy. And it is the nutrient density that serves as the primary criteria as to whether or not a diet supports health. Eliminations are things that you add on top of that to address specific health challenges or goals. Sarah's diet has really expanded over that time. This started in October of 2012 with methodical reintroductions after having followed the AIP for about 10-months. A lot of those reintroductions were successful. When she started the AIP Lecture Series in 2019 she realized that she was scared to reintroduce beyond what she had already done. Sarah was so comfortable with where she is at that she didn't want to reintroduce anything further and run into possible setbacks. However, she realized that she really need to change her mindset around that. When you can expand your diet to allow for nutrient expansion, that is making strides towards improved health. This microbiome research has solidified Sarah's feelings towards a lot of the foods that the paleo diet has been criticized for eliminating. Legumes and rice are two examples that Sarah highlighted.   Where Paleo Fell Short One of the things that paleo has failed in terms of serving its community, is the way it has lumped foods together. (23:19) The framework of the diet says no grains, no dairy, no legumes, and no processed foods. Sarah feels that it is unfair to lump all of those foods together. There are some terrible grains, and there are actually some grains with science to back their different benefits. This is true for legumes as well. When you look at the gut microbiome you can see very clearly which grains and legumes benefit the gut microbiome and which don't. So as Sarah was pulling together this information, she started methodically challenging legumes, dairy, tomatoes, and switched from white to brown rice. What worked has become very moderate additions to her diet. Sarah's diet is still mostly vegetables, fruit, and a moderate serving of protein. Introducing these other foods requires a more nuanced approach. It requires being able to not lump everything together and select what to eat carefully. If we take this nutrient-density approach, then we are eating what we need to thrive, and it changes how we tolerate some foods that might have antinutrients, but ultimately have a lot of valuable nutrition to provide the body. Stacy thinks that there are a lot of things that we have talked about on this show that are all over the place if you are trying to track when and how Stacy and Sarah's journies unfolded.  We know this sounds very complicated. However, doing simple things like meal planning help to make sure that you have certain foods on your meal plan several times a week will simplify the process. For Stacy, it can be something as simple as making homemade tuna salad.   Stacy's Journey Stacy and Sarah have had a similar approach. (29:57) However, Stacy will admit that her approach is a lot less focused on as many nutrients as Sarah is committed to. If Sarah's is more paleo 80/20, Stacy thinks her approach is more 75/25. However, it is also important to understand that her goal is no longer weight loss. She lost 134 pounds at the peak of her weight loss, but she only got to that number of the scale one day and she did it through disordered eating. Stacy justified the disordered eating with intermittent fasting. As a result of her habits, she had digestive distress which caused nutrient deficiency, and she had a thyroid nodule and a huge flair. Sarah and Stacy, along with a medical professional, had to work to help Stacy restore her health during that period. It got really bad healthwise and she needed to recover. Not just gut health had to recover, Stacy's body was in a bad place. In 2015, Stacy asked the question, is your paleo challenge justifying disordered eating?  This was controversial because at the time many were doing paleo challenges every other month as a "normal" part of their diet. Stacy pointed out that this is not being paleo, and eating to incorporate a nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory lifestyle. This is using paleo as a yo-yo diet. The more Stacy became aware of what was happening to her and many others in the community, it was where Stacy and Sarah started talking about metrics of health. There was also a lot of fatphobia in the community.   More on Stacy's Journey From Stacy's perspective and awakening in all of this is still very health-focused. (32:19) Stacy wants health, wellness, and longevity for her family. Her original goal with starting Paleo was that she had such low energy and wanting to play with her kids. Thinking about that original goal and where she is at today, Stacy feels that food enabled her to have the energy she needed to get more active. She is worlds apart from where she was in terms of her energy levels and wellness in general. Stacy did put on weight as she came out of that low-carb, paleo period. That was her starved, it was not a real weight. Stacy ended up rebounding and reaching a really good place until she injured her back, which then she couldn't move for a year. Stacy put on weight from that period of time, but she has maintained a significant amount of that weight that she originally lost. However, Stacy really doesn't weigh herself due to her history with how she equates her worth to that number on the scale. Body positivity and self-love have become very important to Stacy as she optimizes her health. Stacy looks at food and asks herself, "is what I am consuming going to give me wellness and longevity?" And sometimes that is the motivating factor she needs to not get ice cream or whatever it is. This comes from a much different place, one without deprivation and punishment and those kinds of things that Stacy did for so long. And it is not linear. For Stacy, she didn't flip a switch and was fixed. These are habits that she has to consistently work on and quarantine has not been easy.   Nutrivore This is where Stacy has really changed her mindset, as she first and foremost thinks of herself as a nutrivore, someone who prioritizes nutrient density. (35:49) Stacy recognizes that they can't have a diet of only white rice, but if they are sick and that is the only thing they are able to keep down, how can they optimize it? They can put in grass-fed ghee, cook the rice in bone broth, put kept on top, and then for their next meal find something else like sweet potatoes to fill the carb cravings. Stacy does focus on adding nutrient density and vegetables to what she describes as a gluten-free, corn-free, legume-free, and night-shade free diet. She would love to be able to eat those foods, but they don't agree with her body. Stacy is not dairy-free in the same way that Sarah is. She can tolerate more dairy, but not every day. The dairy that Stacy tolerates is fat only forms. Stacy feels that there is a big difference in the thought process from where they were, to where they are now.   Sarah's Implementation of a Nutrivore Diet Sarah has something very similar. (38:16) Prior to covid, when Sarah ate in a restaurant she would say she is gluten-free, dairy-free, and soy-free. These are things she knows she can't do.  The term that Sarah most resonates with now is nutrivore. This best describes Sarah's approach because she looks at food as providing her body with the resources it needs to do all the things it wants to do.  And those resources are nutrients. By adopting the term nutrivore, instead of saying "I eat these foods and not these foods", I'm saying that the primary goal of my diet as a whole is to supply my body with all the essential and non-essential nutrients it needs to thrive from my food. That is the goal.  You can basically fit junky calories into your diet if the bulk of your diet is made up of super nutrient-dense foods.  Because those junky calories at that point are not taking away from meeting that goal of getting all of the nutrients that your body needs. This helps us get away from food labels of good vs. bad, and gets into what is the quality of my diet?  Did I meet my nutritional needs today? And did I meet those needs today with some energy deficit?  Sarah likes that this moves us away from stigmatizing foods.  However, it still recognizes foods that aren't good for anybody.  Sarah doesn't believe that everyone needs to be strictly gluten-free. As we get away from demonizing foods, we can get back to the thing that is most important.  Meeting the body's nutritional needs is a top priority.  From there you can layer eliminations on top of that, or add additional nutritional focus on top of that to meet specific health challenges and goals. For example, Sarah thinks of AIP as a sub diet of a nutrivore approach. There is now emerging science showing that the gut microbiome really needs a minimal amount of carbohydrate.  This amount is probably at least 150 grams a day, if not 200 grams a day.    How to Describe It If Sarah were to describe her diet to someone who was serving her food, she would describe it as gluten-free, dairy-free, and soy-free. (43:44) If she was talking to her neighbor who wanted to make some dietary changes she would probably use the word nutrivore. Sarah would then talk about the importance of eating a lot of vegetables, higher-quality meat, more seafood, eating fruit, eating a serving of mushrooms a day, and a palm-full of nuts a day.  She would also talk about snout-to-tail eating. Also why soaking legumes is still a best practice.  The focus would be on eating more nutrient-dense foods and allowing them to displace the foods that aren't doing us any favors.  Rather than eliminating foods that are put into this 'no' category.  Stacy thinks this perspective is helpful.  It is helpful to be reminded of what our ultimate goal is. We are then able to ask, ok, how do we get there in a sustainable way.  If you are overly restrictive and you can't stick with that, it isn't good either.  How can you optimize without boomeranging to the other side?   Customization Stacy wants to point out a few more things that are unique to her since she doesn't have a gallbladder. (46:05)  She has to pay particular attention to fats. Matt and Stacy have added more olive oil and avocado oil, and use less lard.  They also eat gluten-free treats.  Stacy doesn't do oats, and they don't do legumes in their family. They do have brown rice pasta about once a week. If Stacy does have a meal of rice or pasta, she does try to ensure that she has a veggie-rich meal on that day to make up for the overall vegetables and nutrients that she is trying to achieve every day.  She also tries to move her body.  It is about how she feels, and she has to listen to her body.  Sarah doesn't feel bad about cooking brown rice pasta at all. Especially after going through the gut microbiome researching and learning about how good rice is for the gut microbiome. It is not a base food because it doesn't have a ton of nutrition, but in the context of a meal that incorporates other nutrient-dense options, it becomes a good contribution.  Stacy mentioned this blog post on casserole prep. She also takes supplements of daily collagen but doesn't drink broth as often as she use to.  Stacy also takes liver pills, vitamin D and magnesium.  She is also adding mushrooms with more intention these days.  Stir-fries are a favorite these days, as Stacy finds it easy to add nutrients to these dishes.  Stacy has added things in, but it hasn't been as thoughtful as Sarah's process.  However, she is very aware of what they are adding and what they are or aren't doing.  Stacy strives to be mindful of balance because social and emotional wellbeing in terms of sustainability and disordered eating has been so impactful to Stacy.  She has had to really learn to listen to her body and really find a balance on how she feels in terms of digestion and energy, more than anything else for it to work long-term. It is important to Stacy to not feel bad or to go off the rails. This can be hard if you come from a place of dysmorphia or eating disorders or any kind of stuff like that. For Stacy, she has worked on that stuff and gone to therapy and become self-aware. If you are struggling with this stuff, you can't just solve it in a vacuum.  When there is emotions around your food, you do have to address the emotion or else you will never solve the problem.   Closing Thoughts One of the things that have allowed Sarah to embrace the term nutrivore is to develop a healthier relationship with food. (1:01:03) Just like when we first adopted paleo, nine to ten years ago, that was always going to be a lifestyle.  It has evolved, and her diet has expanded. While Sarah thinks of it as nutrivore, you could also call it AIP maintenance phase, or paleo plus, or 80/20.  There are other labels that we can use, but it is still a lifestyle.  It is about lifelong health and hopefully improving her longevity.  This still includes getting enough sleep, managing stress, living an active lifestyle, and nature time. These are all still pieces of the health puzzle for Sarah.  But what she has been able to do by shedding the dogmatic rules that have been associated with the paleo diet for so long is to develop a healthier relationship with food. One of the side effects this has had is that portion control is much easier, which has always been a real struggle for Sarah.  This healthier relationship with food has allowed Sarah to regular her cravings and appetite. Getting beyond paleo has allowed Sarah to fix some of the food relationship problems that she was still having on the paleo diet.  Stacy and Sarah have been talking about doing some changes on the show for a long time, and you are seeing some of them with the name change of the show.  They are planning to let go of their G-rating soon, so that they can relax a bit on things. Stacy and Sarah's true unfiltered thoughts on things will be coming through in the next few weeks.  That is it for this week's episode.  Thank you for listening, and we will be back next week! (1:07:20)

Many people, investor or not, dream of traveling the world while having the freedom of location independence. And that’s all many of those people will ever do—dream. A great deal of said individuals will choose to not look past the self imposed limitations they have placed for themselves whether it be finance, mindset, or current circumstances.   In the case of our guest, Sarah Weaver, she began her real estate investing career without the intention of ever becoming an investor. Despite her skill and aptitude for the job, Sarah suddenly felt that in order to scale and grow her business as an agent, she had to be tied down to one place. This would be a defining moment for her in life.   Not two weeks after realizing she had been bitten by the travel bug, she began working for a company that allowed her to work remotely. Since then, she has not looked back. She has lived on four different continents and is slowly but surely approaching her 50th country to visit!    As a matter of fact, at the time of this recording, she is halfway across the world in New Zealand managing her units from a van, #vanlife, helping aspiring investors to get started doing what they love, and looking to further grow her portfolio regardless of what curveballs life throws at her. She works for a broker helping to connect real estate agents and investors together, while traveling as a digital nomad.   Some key takeaways from our conversation with Sarah: 1) When renting by the room (House Hacking or traditional investing), you can use a current tenant as a property manager. There’s already trust between you both because they have been renting from you, and they are going to be more pragmatic about choosing new, potential tenants because they are the ones who are going to be living with them. Sarah wouldn’t recommend this for every property and every situation, but if you can play your cards right, there is a great deal of leverage to be had. 2) Have real estate agents and other personnel on the ground as your eyes and ears. As much as you can look at neighborhoods on Google Maps and research crime in a given area, you won’t really know how those areas feel until you are there in person. Neighborhoods can change dramatically (for better or worse) and Google Maps doesn’t update regularly. But what if you can have other, more knowledgeable people do that for you? That’s what your team is there for! Use their professional insight to create winning scenarios. 3) “Buy the damn ticket and at least try it!” For those that want to work/invest remotely, don’t let your fear or discomfort stop you from giving yourself the opportunity to. Don’t sell your car and all your belongings right away, but give yourself a few weeks to try it. AirBNB makes it so easy nowadays to live in a fully furnished unit so there’s really never been a better time to make this dream a reality. If you feel you’re tied down to a desk, ask your boss to give you a trial run working remotely for a month. Just be an amazing employee during that month and go from there! Just like becoming an investor, get pre-approved then take action.  4) Figure out what you want, see what your options are, and pick one. Whether it be traveling, buying a property, or making a career change, there’s nothing more saddening and aggravating to the three of us than seeing someone with a lot of potential waste it through paralysis by analysis. Sometimes, all you really have to do is look at the cards you are dealt with and roll the dice.   If Sarah could go back and talk to her 16 year old self, she’d tell her, “It’s all going to be better than you imagined… the world is going to be so good to you.” An unexpected benefit of real estate investing, Sarah said, was being able to dream bigger than she ever thought possible. A piece of advice Sarah would tell her friends looking to get started in real estate would be to “Buy a house. Get pre approved and just do something. Your first deal is never going to be your best deal… [just] make sure it’s not your worst deal.” Sarah recommends using Wunderlist to help you keep track of tasks within a neat, digital to-do list. She recommends reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, as well as Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath to help you get your mindset bigger for your business.   If you’d like to get in touch with Sarah, visit: www.addictedtoroi.com or follow her on Instagram @sarahdweaver

I’m reading from chapter 4 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. For more information, please visit PrisonProfessors.com EF 4.3 / Chapter Four: 1990-1992 Months 37-57 ******* I’m excited to see Bruce, my mentor. He’s a bear of a man, big in every way, and through our correspondence we’ve built a friendship that has deepened. I look forward to our weekly exchange of mail and quarterly visits. He now lives in Chicago, having recently retired as a professor. He continues to use his immense talents, and he gives of his wisdom generously with hopes of making societal contributions through his teachings. Bruce introduced me to his wife, Carolyn, who sometimes accompanies him on visits, and through correspondence I’ve met his daughter and sons. The bad decisions of my past don’t matter to him. My efforts to become a good citizen define me in his eyes. He strives to round out my cultural education by exposing me to art, opera, and theater, and he often stresses the importance of fully investing oneself in the community. Although Windward and other prisoners here don’t understand the motivations of a man like Bruce, I see joy in his expressions as he describes the experience of helping others reach their potential. After the guards at the desk clear me, I walk down the stairs and through the aisles toward where Bruce sits. An aging athlete, he stands to embrace me and I notice his white hair is a little thinner than the last time we met, though his eyes still shine a brilliant blue. He played as an offensive lineman in college football and it’s easy to see how his size and strength would’ve powered open huge holes for his running backs. “How’ve you been?” I ask. “I’m well,” he tells me, then says that he heard from Mark. “He told me to send you his regards,” Bruce says, embracing me. “What’s he doing?” Mark was released from prison through parole. With the restrictions that prohibit felons from communicating with each other, I’m losing touch with him except for periodic updates from Bruce. “He’s working for a friend who owns retail clothing stores, doing well. A guy with his moxie always has a place in sales.” “No more school for him then? He’s not going to finish his degree?” “I don’t think so. He’s putting his life back together and his plans probably don’t include much more classroom time.” “That’s all I’m doing, putting in classroom time, and I’m grateful for every minute of it.” Bruce reaches over the table to tap my arms. “You’re steady at the gym I see. How much are you benching now?” I beam with pride. “I’m hitting 315 for triple reps, feeling stronger.” I tell Bruce about my schedule, how I’m now working out twice a day, once before breakfast and a second time during the lunch hour. “When are you eating?” “I eat at work,” I explain. “Avoiding the chow hall is still a priority for me. That’s where the chaos in here begins, with the racial segregation and the politics, meaning which power group sits in which section. My parents and sisters send me money for commissary, so I buy packs of tuna, soups, other foods that I eat at work.  Besides that, I can barter my writing or typing skills for sandwiches from guys who work in the kitchen. Great culinary experiences aren’t my priority now.” Bruce nods his head and smiles. “What did you think of the Monet prints?” To teach me about art Bruce sends postcards and magazine articles. He describes the great museums of the world and writes that he looks forward to walking through the Prado with me in Madrid, the Louvre in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He buys me subscriptions to The New Yorker and Smithsonian. “When you get out I’ve got a whole world to show you. You can visit the Stratford Festival with Carolyn and me in Canada. We’re there twice a year to celebrate the performances of Shakespeare plays.” “That’s what I need to talk with you about. Getting out.” My time in the visiting room is limited so I feel compelled to turn our conversation to something of more immediate importance. “I’ve got to be thinking about what I’m going to do after I graduate next year.” “How can I help?” “Well, a lot’s been on my mind, but I need other people to make things work. I can’t succeed without your help.” “What’s on your mind?” I explain to Bruce why and how I need to build a coalition of support. “Do you want help raising money to hire a lawyer?” Bruce misses my point so I try to elaborate. “The people who become a part of my network must join me because they believe in me, like you. I’m not interested in buying support by hiring lawyers. What I need to think about is earning support, building new friendships and relationships with people who will support my efforts to earn freedom. I’m not trying to get out now, but I’m trying to position myself for 1997, when I’ll have 10 years in.” “How should we start?” “Well, one thing I need is support from someone inside the Bureau of Prisons.” I explain my relationship with Ms. Stephens and the ways that she has intervened for me on a local level to smooth out complications with her colleagues who block me from receiving library books and other resources I need for my education. “What I need is the same kind of help from people who have national influence in the system. The obstacle is that I don’t have any direct contact with them. The leaders of the BOP are all in Washington and to them I’m just another prisoner, a number. Ms. Stephens cares because she sees how hard I work, and she goes the extra mile to help me succeed. She believes in me, just as you do.” “How can someone in the BOP help you?” “I’m not going to be able to make the progress I need from this prison. There’s way too much violence here and it’s getting worse.  We’re on lockdown at least once each week. I want to stay here until I earn my degree, but at some point after graduation I need to transfer, and I need to transfer to the best spot in the BOP for continuing my education. I’ll need help to identify where that place is and then I’ll need help getting transferred there when the time is right.” “So what’re you thinking?” “I read an article in an academic journal by Sylvia McCollum,” I explain to Bruce. “She’s the Director of Education for the entire Bureau of Prisons. Her article describes how she created a new policy that makes it mandatory for all federal prisoners who don’t have a high school equivalency to participate in GED classes. I want to build a relationship with her, to get her support. But I can’t just write her a letter because to her I’m simply another drug dealer in prison.” “That’s not true,” Bruce counters. He always sees the good in everyone and dislikes my cynicism. “She’s going to see the record you’ve been building, your progress in college.” I shake my head, disagreeing. “It’s not enough. The culture in this organization is one that trains staff members to consider prisoners as something less than human beings. She’ll only see me as a prisoner, a drug dealer, scum. I need to do something more, something to distinguish myself. I was thinking that we could write an article, a response to her article from the perspective of a prisoner and his mentor. It should describe how the GED is one step toward preparing for release, but it’s hardly sufficient.  Men who leave prison should emerge with values, skills, and resources that will truly translate into success, and a GED isn’t enough.  The Bureau of Prisons should use incentives that will encourage more prisoners to continue their education with college or vocational training.” “And what’re we going to do with the article? Send it to her?” “That’s how I need your help. Not only will we have to write the article, I need you to arrange publication. It would be one thing for me as a prisoner to write an article and send it to her. Big deal. On the other hand, if I were to write an article together with you and send it to her, that would carry more weight, more influence because not many prisoners cultivate mentorships with distinguished professors. But the best approach, I think, would be to write an article that we publish together, as the professor and the prisoner. That’s one way I would stand out, one way that she would remember my name, see that I’m different.” Bruce nods his head and agrees to help. When he returns to Chicago, he promises to make inquiries at the various peer-reviewed academic journals to see what steps we must take to submit an article for publishing consideration. It’s a process that will take several months, which suits my schedule well, as I need that time to finish my undergraduate work. “What I also need,” I tell Bruce before he leaves, “is a list of all the law schools in the United States. I need to start writing letters to see if any of the schools will allow me to earn a law degree through correspondence.” “So you’re still set on law school?” “I’m set on earning an advanced degree, something, anything more than a bachelor’s. I’m going to need unimpeachable credentials that people respect, like yours.” Bruce is a role model and I’m eager to follow his leadership, to emulate his commitment to society. He told me how he and Carolyn were volunteering their time on weekends to help homeless people in a Chicago shelter write résumés that would facilitate their prospects for employment. Bruce and Carolyn give of themselves, without expectation for return or desire for recognition. Success for Bruce comes when his efforts lead to another person’s independence or happiness. I’m determined to prove myself worthy of his generosity, of the trust and the investment he’s making in me. ******* This hard plank of steel I’m lying on influences my thought process. I’m locked in this small room with another man who uses the toilet and flushes a few feet to the right of my head. What Bruce and Carolyn do to make life better for so many people gives me a different perspective on humanity.  I know that my motivations lack the purity of Bruce’s, as I’m so much more pragmatic. I want out, so there’s always a selfish component to my actions, and that somehow cheapens them in my mind. I contemplate Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a concept I learned about in sociology. Until a man satisfies his most basic needs he can’t evolve. My primary need is liberty, and decades may pass before I leave these walls. Everything I do up until then must prepare me for freedom. Perhaps when I’m free from concrete and steel I’ll be able to emulate Bruce more completely. I want to live as that type of a good, kind man. But I don’t know how to reconcile this desire to live with the kindness and generosity of spirit that Bruce exemplifies with the need for survival in a predatory environment. My philosophy courses have broadened my perceptions, explaining man’s purpose, his relationship to society, his quest for personal fulfillment and enlightenment. I’ve embraced lessons from Aristotle and Sun Tzu among others. Aristotle advises those who follow him “to know thyself,” while Sun Tzu emphasizes that it is equally important “to know thy enemy.” Know thyself and know thy enemy. I wrestle with these thoughts. I know I must thoroughly understand my strengths and weaknesses. I must use every resource God has given me to become stronger and to grow. Likewise, I must understand my enemies. In my case, the enemies are a corrupting environment, demeaning perceptions, and ugly prejudices I will encounter in the decades ahead, perhaps for the rest of my life. Responsibility to triumph over a system that is designed to extinguish hope and to perpetuate cycles of failure rests with me. Solely. ******* I’m grateful that Bruce takes the time to visit the American Bar Association in Chicago. He sends me a package of information that includes addresses to every ABA accredited law school in the nation. All of the schools I’ve written to have responded with disappointing news that the ABA prohibits law schools from allowing students to earn law degrees through correspondence. But there’s a sliver of hope that comes in a letter from Dr. Al Cohn, a professor at Hofstra University’s graduate school. Dr. Cohn wrote that my letter impressed the Dean of Hofstra’s law school, and the dean forwarded the letter to him. Although Hofstra can’t allow me to earn a law degree without attending school there, Dr. Cohn’s letter indicates that he might consider waiving the residency requirement if I pursue a graduate degree. Hofstra has never admitted a prisoner before, he admits, but he admires my determination to educate myself. If I earn my undergraduate degree with an acceptable grade point average, propose an acceptable area of study in which I can specialize, and complete a probationary period of conditional admittance, he will waive the requirements of taking the Graduate Records Examination and on-campus residency. Wow! Dr. Cohn tells me that Hofstra will allow me to earn a master’s degree if I meet those requirements. I’ve read that roughly 30 percent of American adults have earned university degrees, but fewer than 15 percent have graduate or professional degrees. My aspirations are not to become a lawyer, necessarily, but to earn credentials that others respect. I’m certain that the higher my level of achievement, the more I’ll be able to build a support network, one that will help me transition from prisoner to citizen. As I contemplate Dr. Cohn’s letter I can’t help but think of Mick Jagger, the rock-and-roll legend. He sings that you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. I may not earn a law degree, but with the opportunity extended by Hofstra University I know that nothing is going to stop me from earning a master’s degree. ******* I pass my fifth Christmas in prison. It’s now 1992, I’m 28, and in only a few months Mercer University will award my undergraduate degree. This is a big deal for me. Out of more than 2,500 men locked inside USP Atlanta’s walls, I’m the only one to receive a degree. In fact, Mercer hasn’t awarded a degree to any prisoner since I’ve been in Atlanta. I’m inspired by other men who used their knowledge and prison experience to make significant contributions, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn whose eight years in a Russian prison was followed by three years in exile. His hardship awoke his muse, resulting in such classics as A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and his opus, The Gulag Archipelago, exposing readers from around the world to Russia’s oppressive prison life. Eight years, whether in Russian prison camps or the United States penitentiaries, is a long time. Through his literature Solzhenitsyn made monumental contributions to society and earned a Nobel Prize, and he inspires me. As crazy as it sounds, a seed is taking root, and I feel the bud of this thought that maybe, through hard work, I can transform the decades I’ll serve in here into something positive.  I’ve begun to accept that I may serve my entire sentence, and I need more examples like Solzhenitsyn’s. Not knowing what I can do for 21 more years, I continue reading about other men who served long sentences. One such prisoner was Nelson Mandela, the black South African activist locked in prison for 27 years by white authorities between 1962 and 1990. That length of time is comparable to what I may serve, and I take heart that multiple decades did not destroy Mandela. On the contrary, it strengthened his resolve, evidenced by his influence in ending the oppressive policies of Apartheid, and by the position he now holds as a world leader, revered throughout the international community. ******* I don’t know what it means to be an intellectual like Solzhenitsyn or a leader like Mandela, but I know what it means to face decades in prison. I also know what it means to be a man, and recently I’ve met a woman who’s reminded me of all I’ve been living without. Her name is Sarah, and she’s a lawyer. We met by chance two months ago when we were in the visiting room at the same time. My father had flown in just before Christmas to spend a weekend with me. Sarah was visiting another prisoner I knew. Under the pretense that I might need some legal advice I asked Sarah for her business card. Yet having lived for so long in an abnormal community of only men, I wanted a woman in my life more than I wanted to know anything about the law. The dance of seduction begins when I write to her, initiating an exchange of letters. She writes back. At first the correspondence is bland, tame, harmless. Soon the letters between us grow in frequency and in complexity. They’re handwritten now, not typed. I learn that she earned her degrees from NYU, that she contemplates starting her own law firm, and that she’s 30. I also know that she named her cat Snuggles, that she rollerblades, loves aerobics, and is recovering from a broken heart. She’s vulnerable. Through our exchange of letters, I’m coming to know Sarah the woman, and in my world, any connection with a woman is a gift. Desire creeps into me, threatens me. I’ve been successful in repressing or ignoring these urges that have been dormant for so long, but now they keep me awake. I remind myself where I am, what I went through with Lisa, and the goals I’m working so feverishly to complete. But another fever takes hold. Every day I ache for a letter from her, for something, any kind of sign that lets me know where this is going, how much I can escalate the heat. I don’t remember what I wrote in the letter she should’ve received today, and like a teenager, I wonder whether I went too far, revealed too much. She must know what’s going on with this exchange of letters, that I want her. It’s mail call and the guard just flicked her letter beneath my door. I see her stationary, her handwriting, and I pick up the envelope. She wrote her words yesterday, making it an exchange of three letters this week. I’m on her mind.  In the words she chooses I catch some suggestive double meanings. My confidence grows. We’re flirting and we both know it, and I want to see her again. I’m a man in the desert and she’s my oasis. I graduate next month. Mercer University is honoring me with a ceremony. I can’t travel to the campus, so my commencement will take place inside USP Atlanta, in the chapel. A hundred other prisoners will participate, receiving GED certificates or certificates for completion of basic education classes. Even though I’m a class of one, I’m invited to speak as valedictorian. Mr. Chandler authorized me to invite two visitors, and I’m choosing my sister Julie and Sarah. If Sarah accepts it may be the sign I’m looking for, confirmation that the desire I’m feeling is mutual.  

Join your host Dr. Matt Driscoll and his guest, Sarah Derrenbacher founder and owner of Evolvability, as they discuss leadership and Flow State. In this episode you will learn: 1. Sarah's story and how she ended up running her own business. 2. What is flow and why is it important? 3. How does flow tie into leading? 4. Are we born leaders or can we become a great leader? 5. What attributes does a great leader exemplify? 6. What is one tip we can work on today to become a better leader? 7. What is one tip we can work on right now to bring us closer to flow state? 8. The books and resources Sarah recommends on flow and leadership. 9. How does Sarah "Win the Day?" 10. Sarah's ideal client and the types of people she works with. 11. You can connect with Sarah and get more info on her practice at her website: https://evolveability.co/ or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evolveability/ 12. If Sarah has a friend coming to Rochester, who has never been here, where is she taking them? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-matt-driscoll/support

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Hello, Man, it's late. It's like 1:30 in the morning, Saturday night. Sarah's not the only one who is burning the midnight oil these days. Actually, Sarah's not here this weekend and I have too readily reverted to my bachelor days, my very unhealthy bachelor days. Late nights, video games and cheap food. If Sarah left me alone long enough she would return home to find me, somehow both shriveled AND bloated. I remembered a line Captain America says! "I am Steve Rogers!" he says it to Groot! This is a good episode of DWD. I hope you enjoy. As always we talk about a bunch of other cartoons. Cartoons like Alias the Jester where I realize I know nothing about them and Sheep In The Big City, a cartoon I hadn't thought of in 15 years. I watched a bit of both for clips. Sheep = good, Alias = no good. Next week, the first of our big eps come out. Looking forward to your reactions. I hope you like it. We never got into this podcast games to meet 'big' names but it's really a nice perk. Who would be your dream guest on our show? Stay Dangerous, Michael xoxoxox     Maybe donate a few dollars to our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/itsaduckblur There's heaps of cool gifts and bonuses for those that join! Come and see our website: www.itsaduckblur.com Buy our merch at: www.redbubble.com/people/itsaduckblur/shop Email us on: itsaduckblurpodcast@gmail.com Please rate and review 'It's A Duck Blur: Let's Get Dangerous' on iTunes or Stitcher. It helps other people find the show. For more Michael, follow him on Twitter: @meandmyeasel For more Sarah, follow her on Twitter: @why_in_the_heck OR her podcast Sperging Out For more Michael AND Sarah listen to Pop Quiz Hot Shot with Michael Williams, also available on iTunes, Stitcher and where all good podcasts are sold.

I'm excited to share this conversation with my friend Sarah Bowling about her life-changing ministry Saving Moses, that gives hope and help to moms and babies in some of the darkest and poorest places on the planet. About the Ministry:  In 2009, Sarah Bowling traveled to Ethiopia where she found two baby girls, Sarah and Ruth, abandoned in a field. She brought them to an orphanage, hoping to find a safe home for the babies. The orphanage refused to care for the twin baby girls. Nobody would love and care for these babies. If Sarah hadn't intervened, they would have been left for dead in the field. Sarah found that many organizations and orphanages simply cannot afford to care for babies. This age group requires so many more resources and individualized attention than older children that most orphanages are forced to refuse care to babies. And Saving Moses was born. We are passionate about saving the most helpless and vulnerable population: babies. About Sarah:  Sarah Bowling is a Bible teacher, international speaker, author and pastor. She co-hosts a daily television program with her mom, the esteemed Marilyn Hickey, and founded the international nonprofit Saving Moses to provide resources for children in need. Sarah and her husband, Reece, co-pastor Encounter Church in Denver, where they live with their three children. Connect with Sarah: SavingMoses.org SarahBowling.me InStepBook.com MarilynAndSarah.org Facebook Twitter (@SarahBowling) For additional show notes, visit ShaunTabatt.com/206.

Jennifer Connelly is cast in one of her first starring roles as Sarah, a teenage girl who has grown tired of her stepmother and father leaving her home alone to babysit her infant brother, Toby.  In a bout of exasperation, she wishes him away, and inadvertently summons the vain and moody Goblin King of myth, Jareth (played by David Bowie), who kidnaps the baby and steals him away into his fantasy realm.  There, the baby boy remains hidden in a dangerous castle in the middle of an ornate labyrinth. If Sarah wants a chance at getting the brother she really didn't want to go back, she must traverse the enigmatic trail before midnight, or the Goblin King gets to keep Toby forever.