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Jesus reveals God's offer of loving mercy to sinners. To accept this gift, we must identify and admit our failings. Recognizing our sins enables us to further cooperate in our redemption. Sin can be understood and categorized in several ways, but every sin wounds our nature and damages our relationships with God and neighbor. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 1846-1853. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

This episode is brought to you by Redefining Wealth LIVE. Join me for the transformational experience that will challenge the way you think about success, wealth, and well-being. Redefining Wealth LIVE is where purpose-driven individuals come together to gain clarity, alignment, and momentum in creating lives that truly reflect their values. If you're ready to break free from default thinking and step into a more fulfilled, abundant life, don't miss this event. ✨ About This Season: Redefining Love 2.0 This season of Redefining Wealth is dedicated to redefining what love really means — beyond romance and into how we love ourselves, others, God, and the lives we're creating. We're exploring what it looks like to love without leaving yourself behind — through relationships, self-trust, reciprocity, obedience, and the Six Pillars of Wealth. Subscribe and journey with us as we learn to love without self-abandonment and honor who we are becoming. Episode Summary Welcome back, Purpose Chasers! After a 10-week summer break, Patrice returns to the Redefining Wealth podcast with the foundation for a brand-new season: Redefining Love 2.0. This season begins with a powerful truth—love should never require you to leave yourself. Patrice explores how easily self-abandonment can disguise itself as sacrifice, loyalty, keeping the peace, or even faith, and challenges us to redefine love in a way that allows us to remain honest, whole, and connected to who we are becoming. Building on last season's conversations about alignment, Patrice introduces what it means to move when life gives you a “pebble” instead of waiting for the rock or boulder. Throughout this season, she'll explore love far beyond romance—from relationships, reciprocity, and governing decisions to how we care for our bodies, steward our money, honor our capacity, pursue our purpose, and trust God enough to release what no longer belongs. This is an invitation to love yourself enough to keep meeting who you are now—and to build a life that supports that version of you.   Questions to Ask Yourself: Where have I been calling self-abandonment love, loyalty, or sacrifice? What “pebble” have I already heard but haven't trusted myself enough to honor? What do I genuinely want now, apart from what I wanted years ago or what others expect of me? Where am I over-giving, shrinking, staying silent, or abandoning myself to keep the peace? What would it look like to love others deeply without leaving myself behind?   Want to Redefine Wealth for Yourself? Start Here:

Ginny Yurich sits down with Danish dad, author, entrepreneur, and longtime unschooling parent Jesper Conrad for a wide-ranging conversation about fatherhood, family, creativity, and building a life around what matters most. Jesper shares how his wife's battle with leukemia changed the trajectory of their family, eventually leading them to embrace full-time travel, homeschooling, and a more intentional way of living. Jesper opens up about his own struggles with anger and frustration as a father and why he believes dads need more opportunities to talk honestly about parenting, vulnerability, and their relationships with their children. He explores the importance of attachment, repairing relationships after difficult moments, and moving away from control and power struggles. They also dive into Jesper's wonderfully eclectic approach to life—from writing books and carving spoons to building businesses and creating podcasts—and the value of learning by doing. Plus, Jesper offers powerful encouragement for homeschooling and unschooling families: stay a parent first, protect your child's curiosity, trust the learning process, and remember that you don't have to have the entire journey figured out before you begin. Learn more about Jesper here! ** A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them out below:  Fora Travel: Become a Fora Advisor today at Foratravel.com/1000hours  My Green Mattress: Visit www.mygreenmattress.com  and save 15% on your order during  their Labor Day Sale. Plus, use code 1000hours for an additional $10 off your cart total when you purchase any mattress. BetterHelp: Visit  www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS  today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit www.quince.com/outside and get free shipping and 365 day returns IXL Learning - Head to www.ixl.com/1000hours to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Whisker - Take care of your cats while taking an additional $50 off bundles with code 1000HOURS when you shop www.whisker.com/1000HOURS  Muzzle Sleep Tape - Go to MuzzleSleep.com and use code 1000HOURS for 10% off.  Zenni Optical- Go to www.zenni.com/podcast  and use code PODCAST15 for 15% off your first order, plus free shipping on all U.S. orders over $65. Active Skin Repair - Don't forget to put this in your first aid kit! Visit ActiveSkinRepair.com and use the code 1000HOURS to save 20% on all Active Skin Repair products. Boll & Branch - Get 15% off your first order plus free shipping at BollAndBranch.com/1000hours  with code 1000hours Ka'Chava - Go to https://kachava.com and use code 1000HOURS for 15% off your first order. Fora Travel - Become a Fora Advisor today at Foratravel.com/1000hours  Hey Polo - Protect your loved ones without spying on them. Go to heypolo.com/1000hours or use code 1000HOURS and get 40% off your first year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Joe Boot is joined by Dr. Stephen Lloyd and Paul Garner of Biblical Creation Trust to discuss the importance of biblical creation for understanding the Christian faith and the gospel. They explore the relationship between creation and redemption, the historical Adam, the origin and meaning of death, and the challenges posed by theistic evolution. They also consider how abandoning a biblical doctrine of creation can affect the church’s understanding of Scripture and the coherence of the biblical story. The conversation then turns to the wider implications of creation for Christian engagement with contemporary culture, including questions of human identity, gender, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the nature of scientific knowledge. Joe, Stephen, and Paul discuss the need for Christians to recover a confident and intellectually rigorous engagement with science, developing positive models of creation that take both biblical revelation and the evidence of the natural world seriously. At the heart of the discussion is the conviction that creation is not merely the backdrop to redemption, but a foundational part of the Christian worldview and the gospel itself.

Episode 542 / Hew LockeHew Locke OBE RA (b. 1959) received an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1994. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate, London, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; and British Museum, London, UK, among many others. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Here's the Thing which opened at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, in 2019 before traveling to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. In March 2022, Locke presented The Procession, The Duveen Hall Commission for Tate Britain, London, UK, which later travelled to The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Locke unveiled Gilt, the Façade Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in September 2022.His groundbreaking show, Hew Locke: what have we here?,opened at the  British Museum, London, UK, in Fall 2024. Hew Locke: Passages, the largest solo exhibition of Locke's work to date, debuted at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, and is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX through September 13. Locke will take part in the 2027 edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster with an installation in the Haus der Niederlande at the Krameramtshaus, Münster, Germany.(photo credit: Hugh Glendinning)

There has been no shortage of dizzying shifts in American foreign policy since Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. But perhaps none have been as surprising as the shift on China. In his first term, Trump helped create a hard-line consensus centered on fears of a growing threat. Now, he seems much more interested in striking deals—as he presumably will be when Xi Jinping comes to Washington later this month. Many analysts of U.S. China policy have reacted to this reversal with dismay. But Jessica Chen Weiss sees it as an opportunity to forge a more sensible approach. Weiss, a professor and the faculty director of the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a former State Department official, has warned of the dangers of zero-sum thinking about China in a series of essays for Foreign Affairs. Her most recent essay, in the September/October issue, focuses on the myth and the reality of China's critical mineral dominance. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Weiss on August 31 about what China wants—which is also the title of her forthcoming book—and what U.S. foreign policy can do to meet those ambitions without resorting to dangerous confrontation. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview.

For many of us, a formal education about sexuality begins during puberty and only really gets going during adolescence. But in reality, exploration of our bodies and relationships can begin long before that — as early as our first years of life. So how can we set kids up to feel empowered, safe and free from shame when they are older? A sexuality educator shares advice for parents and caregivers on navigating some of the common challenges that come up as kids are learning about their bodies and relationships. Plus, a writer breaks down her childhood to determine where shame and desire became intertwined.Meet the guests:- Nadine Thornhill has a doctorate from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and is one of the hosts of the web series “Every Body Curious”- Tyler Wetherall is the author of "Amphibian"Review the podcast on your preferred platformFollow Embodied on Instagram Leave a message for Embodied

0:30 - Mike Koolidge fills in for Dan 9:28 - The Truth About Today 27:30 - Rep. Amy Murri Briel 59:22 - Senior elections correspondent for The Federalist, MD Kittle, on what happened and how to prevent another ‘Screwy’ Milwaukee Elections Debacle 01:17:54 - George Mason University’s Jack Salmon looks for The real reason Americans are fleeing blue states for Florida and Texas. Follow Jack on X @_JackSalmon_ 01:33:09 - President of the Institute for Liberty, Andrew Langer, explains What JD Vance Gets Wrong About Hamilton. Andrew is also host of The Lunch Hour Podcast 01:50:45 - CNN’s very first Special Assignment Correspondent and retired consultant for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, Chuck DeCaro: America is winning the air war and losing the information warSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Department of Justice is in crisis. The bedrock principle of non-interference, once held sacrosanct by administrations of both parties, has been jettisoned. The Attorney General has directed the Department to represent the President and his agenda above all else. Thousands of attorneys and professionals have left or been forced out as leadership pursues personal and political grudges at the President's open direction. What reforms can be instituted to restore the department's independence? What can be done by Congress or outside organizations to bring oversight to the abuses taking place within the department? What can future administrations do to restore the Department's professionalism and reputation?Join the Progressive Legal Movement Today: ACSLaw.orgHost: Diane Furstenau, Director of Policy and Program, ACSGuest: Rachel Rossi, President, Alliance for Justice (and Panel Moderator)Guest: Rupa Bhattacharyya, Legal Director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown LawGuest: Stuart Delery, Partner, Gibson DunnGuest: Stacey Young, Founder & Executive Director, Justice ConnectionLink: Blanche won't pledge DOJ independence from Trump, by Andrew PantaziLink: How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience, by Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin RicherLink: How Trump is weaponizing the DoJ to ‘bully, prosecute, punish and silence' his foes, by Peter StoneVisit the Podcast Website: Broken Law PodcastEmail the Show: Podcast@ACSLaw.orgFollow ACS on Social Media: Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | LinkedIn | YouTube-----------------Broken Law: About the law, who it serves, and who it doesn't.-----------------Production House: Flint Stone MediaCopyright of American Constitution Society 2026.

What happens when the church stops trusting herself to help her own people—and hands the job to the therapist's couch instead? In the 1970s, one pastor's book sold a quarter of a million copies by daring to say pastors and elders were still competent to counsel their flocks from Scripture alone. In this first episode of a four-part series, Dr. Jared Poulton joins Jared Luttjeboer and Dr. Alan Strange to trace how the biblical counseling movement was born out of a head-on collision between the rise of secular psychology and the church's calling to shepherd souls—and why the "alphabet soup" of counseling organizations it spawned still shapes what pastors, elders, and even your church library look like today. Whether you've never heard the term "nouthetic counseling" or you've read every Paul Tripp book on the shelf, this episode will change how you see the counsel happening in your own congregation. Next episode: the man behind it all.Learn more about the Institute of Reformed Biblical Counseling. Find Dr. Poulton's new book here.

As tokenized assets move into real-world testing, institutional investors need to understand how they could affect existing payment systems, settlement processes, risk controls, and operating models. What can real-world testing teach financial institutions about the next stage of digital markets? In this episode, Paul Fahey speaks with Justin Chapman, Group Head of Strategic Partnerships, Digital Assets and Financial Markets at Northern Trust, and Paul Abraham, Chief of Investment Services at Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, about Project Acacia. They cover a live use case connecting a tokenized carbon credit with traditional cash settlement, what institutional investors are learning about tokenized assets and digital cash, and why hybrid infrastructure may remain part of financial markets as adoption develops. Key points: How Project Acacia tested tokenized assets alongside traditional payment infrastructure and settlement processes Why institutional investors are studying tokenization before broader adoption reaches their operating models How digital cash, tokenized equities, and different settlement models may develop across jurisdictions Where tokenization may improve liquidity, collateral use, operational efficiency, and risk visibility Why trust, liquidity, security, and regulatory clarity remain central to wider institutional participation And more! Connect with Justin Chapman: LinkedIn: Justin Chapman About Justin Chapman: Northern Trust: Justin Chapman Connect with Paul Abraham: LinkedIn: Paul Abraham Website: Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation About Paul Abraham: Paul Abraham is Chief of Investment Services at Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC), which provides superannuation products and services to Australian Government and Australian Defense Force employees. He joined CSC in 2005 and brings more than 30 years of financial services experience, with previous roles spanning chartered accountancy, asset management, and financial planning across Australia, London, Tokyo, and Singapore. Paul is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and holds a Master of Financial Management from Australian National University and a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) from Charles Sturt University.

In this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Dr. Joe Boot is joined by Dr. Stephen Lloyd and Paul Garner of Biblical Creation Trust to discuss the importance of biblical creation for understanding the Christian faith and the gospel. They explore the relationship between creation and redemption, the historical Adam, the origin and meaning of death, and the challenges posed by theistic evolution. They also consider how abandoning a biblical doctrine of creation can affect the church’s understanding of Scripture and the coherence of the biblical story. The conversation then turns to the wider implications of creation for Christian engagement with contemporary culture, including questions of human identity, gender, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the nature of scientific knowledge. Joe, Stephen, and Paul discuss the need for Christians to recover a confident and intellectually rigorous engagement with science, developing positive models of creation that take both biblical revelation and the evidence of the natural world seriously. At the heart of the discussion is the conviction that creation is not merely the backdrop to redemption, but a foundational part of the Christian worldview and the gospel itself.

As we end our exploration of the virtues, we learn about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These gifts perfect our virtues and increase our ability to respond to God's guidance and inspiration. The fruits of the Holy Spirit perfect us, are signs of a life lived in the Spirit, and are “the first fruits of eternal glory,” as the Catechism tells us. Our cooperation with the Holy Spirit sustains and perfects our moral life, enabling us to live a more full and joyful life. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 1830-1845. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

A few weeks ago, conservative online discourse was focused on the price of a burrito. Yes, the Vice President of the United States, along with the right's most celebrated minds, were arguing over whether a burrito should cost $20.Beneath the viral posts was a serious question: why does it feel like the American Dream keeps getting more expensive? Me and my wife certainly feel the squeeze on the cost of groceries, housing, and everyday necessities.We own a house, but homeownership is increasingly out of reach for young Americans. The problem has become existential, and Congress is once again debating how to tackle affordability.To figure out what to do about this deeply pressing issue, I spoke with John Gibbs, Director of the Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. We chatted about what's really driving America's affordability crisis, how we get more American families in homes, and what policymakers can do to make it happen.

This is Episode 1 of Faith in Every Footnote, a mentorship podcast for graduate students. All 10 episodes of the series can be found on the Faith in Every Footnote show on Apple Podcasts, as well as on Spotify and YouTube.As a preview of the series, this episode is being shared on the Maxwell Institute Podcast. In this inaugural episode of Faith in Every Footnote, Spencer Fluhman, historian and former director of the Institute, joins Rosalynde Welch, Shawn Tucker, and graduate student co-host Noah Adams to discuss what it means to be a disciple-scholar. Together, they explore how scholarship centered on Jesus Christ can deepen discipleship, build Zion, and bring greater purpose and joy to graduate study.

It's Wayback Wednesday, with another interview from our archive dating back to June, 2009. This week, it's our first interview with Dr. Judd Burton from 2009 about his book on the Nephilim, Interview With the Giant.First released November 22, 2009DESPITE NEAR-UNIVERSAL skepticism from mainstream science — and most Christians — Judd Burton, director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology, believes that the giants of Genesis 6 are to be taken literally.In fact, he suggests in his new book Interview With the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim (www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/interview-with-the-giant/7519958), that the Nephilim may have planted the roots of mankind's earliest known civilizations.We discussed the evidence for the existence of the Nephilim, both biblical and extrabiblical, their impact on the ancients, and their influence on the world today.Follow us!• X: @viewfrombunker (https://x.com/viewfrombunker) | @sharonkgilbert (https://x.com/sharonkgilbert) | @derekgilbert (https://x.com/derekgilbert)• Telegram: t.me/gilberthouse• Substack: gilberthouse.substack.com | sharonkgibert.substack.com• YouTube: @GilbertHouse (https://youtube.com/@gilberthouse) | @UnravelingRevelation (https://youtube.com/@unravelingrevelation)• Facebook.com/viewfromthebunker

Sponsored by the Institute for Functional Nursing. Learn more about our programs at www.fxnursing.com. The Functional Nurse Podcast is celebrating its 100th episode! In this milestone episode, Dr. Brigitte Sager reflects on the evolution of functional nursing—from the early conversations that inspired this podcast to a growing movement of nurses and nurse practitioners bringing root-cause, holistic, and personalized care into healthcare. With that foundation established, Brigitte looks ahead to an important next chapter: strengthening the evidence for functional nursing through research, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and meaningful patient outcomes. Brigitte explores how nurses and nurse practitioners can help shape the future of functional medicine by asking better clinical questions and studying what actually improves patient care. She shares ideas for DNP projects, PhD research, capstones, quality improvement initiatives, patient-reported outcomes, and practice-based research—including nutrition assessments, functional medicine screening tools, group visits, nurse coaching, access to care, patient satisfaction, and clinician outcomes. She also discusses the Institute for Functional Medicine's approach to studying the complete functional medicine care model and why systems thinking, antecedents, triggers and mediators, modifiable lifestyle factors, and personalization matter when evaluating functional care. Whether you're currently in nursing school, considering an advanced degree, or simply want to help transform healthcare, this episode invites nurses to help build the evidence that can move functional nursing forward. IFM's research page

Lotus buys LotusLotus Tech has bought Lotus Advanced Technologies to become one singular Lotus once again. It's all very complex, but thankfully there's this story from Top Gear for reference.Hyundai and Genesis aim for massive Range ExpansionTha's range of cars, not range of vehicles. The Korean manufacturing giant is planning 41 new cars in Europe by 2030 according to Autocar.EVs and SUVs May Or May Not Be To Blame For Potholes, Say ExpertsA report for the Institute of Civil Engineers says SUVs and EVs are being unfairly blamed for causing more wear and tear to Britain's roads. Other experts disagree. This Autocar article looks at arguments from both sides.New Volvos Can Talk To Each OtherA new software update allows Volvo EX60, EX90 and ES90 to share notifications of large animals and pedestrians on the road among themselves, so they can warn drivers before they can see them. Autocar explains the boundaries and how the system works.Continental e-Cycles TyresContinental is developing a tyre that recycles used tyres into a fresh, low rolling resistance tyre. It's still a concept, and there are hurdles. Electrive explains.NEW NEW CAR NEWS -Vauxhall Corsa GSEVauxhall has launched an electric hot hatch, and despite the electric powertrain the reviews sound like it's a very traditional fast Vauxhall - Quick point-to-point, but not as refined as its rivals. It costs from £32,995 and you can find all the detail in this Evo article.Geely MonjaroGeely is bringing a new, larger PHEV SUV to the UK. The Monjaro is bigger than the Starray and about the size of a Skoda Kidiaq or Peugeot 5008. It has a predicted “engine off” range of 81 miles and is predicted to cost int he low £40ks.BYD Ti7Prices have been announced for BYD's Defender and Land Cruiser-alike. It's an AWD PHEV with a combined range of 441 miles, 74 of which are “engine off”. There are 7 seats, it's available in some attractive, if expensive, colours, and it will cost from £47,995 when orders open in November for January delivery.LUNCHTIME READ: PetrospectAndreas Petros' excellent blog is always worth a read, and this week he's written about the new iteration of The Grand Tour and previous iterations of Top Gear and how the essence of the latter will be very difficult to ever recapture.LIST OF THE WEEK: Classic Cars With Memorable GraphicsIt appeared in my feed just as Friend of The Show Jim Magill sent me a photo of a near-naked Yaris GRMN, so I couldn't not include this Classic & Sports Car list of 25 classic cars with memorable graphics. There's no shortage of awesomeness, and yet I think I may have chosen it…AND FINALLY: Fisker Oceans of New YorkThe Fisker Ocean is dead, long live the Fisker Ocean. Listener Damien Scully (who's behind the excellent Name That Car daily car identification game) sent us this story about the Fisker Ocean taxis in New York. I also mentioned the Ocenas of NYC website and BlueSky account trying to capture a sighting of every one.

Denverites are a complex bunch, and a new poll from the Colorado Polling Institute reveals some fascinating contradictions. On one hand, they're feeling safer than ever before, but on the other, they're increasingly negative towards their mayor. This episode delves into the details of the poll, which shows a surprising shift in the way Denverites identify themselves politically, with a growing number of voters calling themselves socialists. But what does this mean for the city's future, and how does it relate to the mayor's favorability ratings? We'll explore these questions and more with Lori Weigel, the Republican half of the polling team at the Colorado Polling Institute.In this episode, we discuss the latest poll results, which reveal a city in flux. From the rise of socialism to the challenges facing the city's business community, we're getting a glimpse into the minds of Denverites. We'll talk about the city's transportation issues, including the rollout of Waymo self-driving taxis and the East Colfax rail project. And we'll explore the city's top concerns, including homelessness and affordability.One of the most striking findings from the poll is the growing number of Denverites who identify as socialists. This shift is particularly notable among young Democrats, who are increasingly disillusioned with the city's leadership. We'll also discuss the city's transportation issues, including the rollout of Waymo and the East Colfax rail project, which has faced significant pushback from local businesses.If you want to stay ahead of the curve in Denver politics, you won't want to miss this episode. Join us as we explore the latest poll results and what they mean for the city's future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week I'm joined by Professor Sophie Scott, neuroscientist, stand-up comedian and Deputy Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, and someone who has dedicated her career to one of the most underrated forces in human life, laughter.We explore the science of laughter, why it matters more than we think, and what it is actually doing to our brains, our bodies and our relationships.Professor Sophie Scott is a Fellow of the Royal Society and one of the UK's leading voices on the neuroscience of laughter and communication. She has been named among the UK's top 100 scientists and is known for making complex science accessible and joyful including through her own stand-up comedy. She has spent decades studying why humans laugh, when we laugh and what happens in the brain when we do.What we explore together:-Why laughter is a social behaviour first and a response to humour second -What rats, chimpanzees and cows can teach us about why we laugh -What laughter actually does to the brain and body and why it is so good for us -Why we are 30 times more likely to laugh with other people than alone -The difference between fake laughter and real laughter and how your brain knows the difference -Why laughter is one of the most powerful tools we have for connection and resilience -What stand-up comedy taught a neuroscientist about human behaviourLove, Sarah Ann

The greatest of all the theological virtues is charity. Fr. Mike explains that charity, or love, is to love God above all things for his own sake and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This includes loving our enemies and also obeying God's commandments, two actions that are not always easy. Most importantly, today's readings remind us that true charity is not loving the Father as servants in fear or as mercenaries looking for a reward but rather as his beloved children responding to him who "first loved us." Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 1822-1829. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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Drew's book link: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-Surv...Fortitude Ranch (Survival Community) website https://fortituderanch.com/about-2/Colonel Drew Miller (USAF, Ret.) is an honor graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Master's and PhD in Public Policy and Operations Research from Harvard University. He served as an Intelligence Officer, then Plans and Programs Officer in the Air Force, a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and in the Department of Defense Senior Executive Service.  He is the President of the Collapse Survival Institute and CEO of Fortitude Ranch, the largest survival-community network in the United States, and the author of Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse:  Political, Military, Foreign Policy, and Preparedness Reforms Vital for Our Survival.Drew's goal is to warn Americans that government is not providing honest warnings of the high and rapidly increasing risk of collapse disasters like an H5N1 pandemic, loss of the electric grid, AI being used to help bad people develop new Weapons of Mass Destruction, and super-intelligent AGI soon likely to start exterminating pesky humans according to top experts.  Government is killing Americans now with bad, often unconstitutional programs, protecting only top government/elected officials in a collapse, with Executive Orders authorizing government agencies to seize food and resources from private citizens in a collapse.Major changes in public policies, foreign and military policies, and preparedness are vital now if we are to survive in the Age of Collapse.#news #politics #politicsnews #survival #survivalskills #war #ai #pandemic

Originally released March 29, 2022. New Kindred episodes will drop starting in October 2026.In this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Kate Stafford about her work and research focusing on the song of the superlative Bowhead Whale.Kate dives into the challenges of declining sea ice and sound pollution that these mysterious and massive whales face in the Arctic waters.And she shares her deep love and fascination with the intricate and unique song of the Bowhead Whale.Show Notes:Four Paws InstagramArticle discussing Aspartic Acid RacemizationTonal Singing with Lalah HathawayInupiaq NationBowhead Whale Ear Wax. Photo by Stephen Trumble.The samples of Bowhead Whale songs heard in the episode were recorded by Dr. Kate Stafford.Support Dr. Kate Stafford and the amazing research she is doing by donating here.Please leave a note in the payment section with Dr. Kate Stafford's name to make sure it goes directly to her research. Thank you.

What if the loudest truths in your life have been arriving as whispers all along? In episode 276 of Joy Found Here, transformational mindset coach Kathleen Huebner shares how a difficult divorce and a mysterious moment on a walk in the woods led her to write her bestselling book, Whispers Within Us. For Kathleen, the real work isn't chasing constant noise or forcing outcomes—it's learning to slow down, get quiet, and trust the signs, synchronicities, and inner nudges that have been trying to reach us the whole time.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(03:27) Welcoming Kathleen Huebner to the show(03:47) Life after divorce: the path into yoga, spirituality, and coaching(05:45) Writing Whispers Within Us: the whiteboard process and a 3.5-year journey(09:03) Recognizing signs and synchronicities—and the feathers that connect her to her late father(12:57) Training with the Napoleon Hill Institute and uncovering limiting beliefs(16:50) The "seven layers deep" method for surfacing emotional trigger points(20:16) The audible whisper on a forest walk that gave the book its name(24:39) Letting go of outcomes and embracing "tower moments"(30:33) Finding gratitude in turmoil and trusting the magic(38:18) Setting boundaries with technology and finding quiet in a noisy world(48:29) Where to find Kathleen, her book, and a second book on the horizonKathleen Huebner is a transformational mindset coach, certified yoga instructor, and bestselling author of Whispers Within Us. A Founding Ambassador for the Napoleon Hill Institute and Certified Wellness Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she helps clients move past limiting beliefs to realign mind, body, and spirit. Her divorce inspired both her book and her "From Mrs. to Miss" mastermind for divorced women reinventing their lives. Based in Wisconsin, she coaches clients worldwide and is currently writing a second book.In this episode, Kathleen traces her path from divorce through yoga certification and Napoleon Hill Institute training, sharing how these experiences opened her up to noticing "whispers" — signs, synchronicities, and intuitive nudges. She recounts the origin of her book's title and her three-and-a-half-year writing process, then unpacks her coaching philosophy: uncovering childhood-rooted limiting beliefs, her "seven layers deep" questioning technique, and the value of active listening. She shares practical tools for slowing down—unplugging from phones, time in nature, gratitude practice—and describes her mastermind structure. She closes by sharing where to find her and confirms a second book is underway.Connect with Kathleen Huebner: WebsiteInstagramFacebookYouTubeGet Kathleen's books!Let's Connect:WebsiteInstagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers homelessness and mental illness with Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos, senior scientist with the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.She has served in several administrative roles, including vice-chair, clinical and innovation (2017-2022) and co-Director of the Division of Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems (2012-2017) in the Department of Psychiatry, as well as physician-in-chief at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (2016-2022), psychiatrist-in-chief at St. Michael's Hospital (2011-2016) and medical director, Inner City Health Associates (2017-2011).Dr. Stergiopoulos completed her medical training at Dalhousie University and residency training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She holds a MHSc in health administration from the University of Toronto's Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and completed director's education training at the Rotman School of Management. The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:Define homelessness and housing insecurity and identify key social determinants that shape health outcomes in this populationUnderstand how homelessness intersects with mental health, substance use, trauma, and barriers to care and recoveryEvaluate clinical and systems-level approaches to improving care in the interdisciplinary practice and trainingGuest: Dr. Vicky StergiopoulosHosts: Dr. Sena Gok, Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY2), Dr. Angad Singh (PGY3), Dr. Sophie Gregoire-Mitha (PGY2)Audio editing by: Dr. Sena Gok

Homeopathy has evolved considerably since Hahnemann's time. The materia medica has expanded, new methods of case analysis have emerged, education has changed, and new questions continue to push the profession forward.But what can change—and what can't?Recording together in Copenhagen, Denise and Alastair return to some of the foundational principles of homeopathy and ask what they mean for modern homeopathic practice. If only one similar disease can actively occupy the organism at a time, what does that mean for the totality of symptoms, single-remedy prescribing, complex disease, and the search for the “simillimum”? And what happens when prescribing moves away from those principles?From there, the conversation widens: How should homeopathy evolve? What would Hahnemann have done with thousands of remedies available to him? Where is there room for innovation in case analysis, materia medica, provings, and homeopathic education? And before we keep expanding the system, are there parts of what we already have that need to be better understood, verified, or revisited?It's a wide-ranging conversation about homeopathic philosophy, prescribing, Hahnemann's Organon, the history and future of homeopathy—and the difference between developing a system and changing the principles that define it.References mentioned in this episode:Samuel Hahnemann, Organon of Medicine — particularly Aphorisms 26–50 on similar and dissimilar diseases and complex disease, and Aphorism 211 on the role of disposition in remedy selectionSamuel Hahnemann, The Chronic DiseasesConstitution and By-Laws of the International Hahnemannian Association (1880)AIH Consensus Definition of HomeopathyStrange Rare Peculiar is a weekly podcast with Denise Straiges and Alastair Gray of the Institute for the Advancement of Homeopathy and the Academy of Homeopathy Education. This season, we're focusing on truth — what it means to Aude Sapere (“dare to know”) in homeopathy today. From Hahnemann's original insights to the realities of modern practice, research, and education, Denise and Alastair bring over 50 years of experience to conversations that challenge assumptions and invite curiosity.

Season 7 of Problem Solved kicks off with Guy Primus, an industrial engineer whose career has taken him from technology and business to Hollywood, virtual reality, entrepreneurship and AI.Primus joins Problem Solved to talk about the systems-thinking mindset that has connected his unconventional career and why defining the right problem may be more important than solving it. He shares how an early lesson from Georgia Tech professor Don Ratliff helped him understand the possibilities of industrial engineering, and how those same skills later influenced his work at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks and in the entertainment industry.  The conversation explores the intersection of creativity and engineering, using AI to accelerate innovation, understanding the human side of technology, and finding opportunities to apply analytical thinking in unexpected places. Primus also reflects on entrepreneurship, leadership and the importance of combining what you're good at with what genuinely interests you. Learn more about The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)Problem Solved on LinkedInProblem Solved on YouTubeProblem Solved on InstagramProblem Solved on TikTokProblem Solved Executive Producer: Elizabeth GrimesInterested in contributing to the podcast or sponsoring an episode? Email egrimes@iise.org

Corey Koedel, Director of Education Policy at the Show Me Institute, joins Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge to unveil new data showing Missouri public school districts expanding administrative staff despite declining student enrollment. Koedel highlights regional examples like Rockwood, Parkway, and Fox, urging parents to utilize the Institute's interactive dashboard to hold local school boards accountable. Listen to The Marc Cox Morning Show live on 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis or stream worldwide on the free Audacy App! #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #CoryKoedel #ShowMeInstitute #EducationReform

What if the symptoms we associate with PMOS are actually signs of a much bigger metabolic picture? In this episode of the IRH Clinician's Corner, Margaret Floyd Barry sits down with one of IRH's most esteemed faculty members, Sara Fields, to unpack a major shift in women's health: the renaming of PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) to PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome). Together, they explore what this new name truly means for clinicians and clients alike, why it's a long-overdue change, and how it reflects a deeper understanding of the metabolic and endocrine complexities behind this common condition. Inside this episode, we explore: Why PCOS is becoming PMOS The symptoms practitioners may be missing Insulin resistance as a key driver The gut–hormone connection Essential testing for suspected PMOS Addressing root causes, not just androgen levels The Clinician's Corner is brought to you by the Institute of Restorative Health: https://instituteofrestorativehealth.com/ Upcoming Event: Margaret Floyd Barry is teaching a free session on September 15 for practitioners who want a smaller, structured offer to bring new clients in the door. She's walking through how to build a challenge-style entry point using CGM data, tested across real client volume in her own corporate wellness practice. If you've been asking too much, too soon, of new clients before they know you, this is worth an hour. Register Here! Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/instituteofrestorativehealth/ Join our email list here: https://instituteofrestorativehealth.com/join-our-email-list/ Book a call with the admissions team to continue your training: https://instituteofrestorativehealth.com/study-with-us/?utm_source=email Connect with Sara Fields: Website: https://sarafieldswellness.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarafieldswellness/ Timestamps:  00:00 Expanding the conversation on diagnosis 08:48 Shifting focus to endocrine aspects 12:33 Patient involvement in global initiative 22:06 Understanding insulin resistance in PCOS 25:56 Hormonal Imbalances in PMOS 28:55 PCOS diagnosis criteria updates 34:59 Gut Health and Hormonal Balance 40:45 Importance of gut testing 48:43 Developing client treatment protocols 52:02 Addressing sleep apnea in PMOS 58:32 Connecting the dots on symptoms 01:03:26 Broadening diagnostic perspectives Guest bio:  Sara Fields has been an instructor with IRH since March 2019. She teaches and mentors across all four levels—GI Healing, Hormones, Blood Chemistry, and Clinical Mastery—and has played a supportive role in the organization's leadership team. Sara has been immersed in the world of food and nutrition for over 20 years. Her journey has taken her through organic farming, sustainable agriculture, specialty food retail, and, ultimately, to certifications as a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (2014) and Restorative Health Practitioner (2015). Her passion for the tools she learned at IRH led her to become the very first intern and, eventually, a lead instructor for all of the courses. In her private practice, Sara Fields Wellness, she and her team take a gut-centric approach to supporting clients with chronic and complex health concerns, including skin conditions, autoimmunity, digestive issues, and metabolic challenges. She has also developed and taught fertility and prenatal nutrition classes for a local childbirth education organization, hosted community wellness meetups, and taught garden lessons at her children's elementary school. Keywords: functional health practitioners, polycystic ovarian syndrome, PCOS, PMOS, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, metabolic health, endocrine system, reproductive hormones, insulin resistance, blood sugar dysregulation, testosterone, DHEAS, sex hormone binding globulin, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, estradiol, progesterone, ovulatory cycles, cardiometabolic health, gut health, microbiome, estrobolome, estrogen detoxification, beta-glucuronidase, visceral fat, lipid panel, hs-CRP, adrenal hormones, HPO axis, blood testing Disclaimer: The views expressed in the IRH Clinician's Corner series are those of the individual speakers and interviewees, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute of Restorative Health, LLC. The Institute of Restorative Health, LLC does not specifically endorse or approve of any of the information or opinions expressed in the IRH Clinician's Corner series. The information and opinions expressed in the IRH Clinician's Corner series are for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. If you have any medical concerns, please consult with a qualified healthcare professional. The Institute of Restorative Health, LLC is not liable for any damages or injuries that may result from the use of the information or opinions expressed in the IRH Clinician's Corner series. By viewing or listening to this information, you agree to hold the Institute of Restorative Health, LLC harmless from any and all claims, demands, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with your participation. Thank you for your understanding.  

Susan Spence of the Institute for Supply Management® joins Manufacturing Talk Radio to review the August 2026 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. Discover what the latest Manufacturing PMI® results reveal about demand, production, new orders, employment, inventories, supplier activity, pricing, and the overall health of U.S. manufacturing. This monthly conversation goes beyond the headline PMI number to explain the economic trends affecting manufacturers, supply chains, business leaders, and the broader economy. Follow Manufacturing Talk Radio for expert analysis of the ISM Manufacturing Report every month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of The Logbook, our History of Motorsports Series features Arthur Carlson, Director of Archives and Research Operations at the Revs Institute, outlining a major expansion in automotive archival preservation and access. He describes Revs' new, highly secure Archives and Research Center in Naples, Florida; the scale of its holdings (including the Revs Digital Library's ~724,000 photos, plus extensive books, periodicals, film, audio, art, and automobilia); and plans for a high-end digitization lab and modular researcher workspace. Carlson explains partnerships using AI and machine learning for car and facial recognition to generate richer metadata across hundreds of thousands of images, plus an oral history initiative with the University of Kentucky leveraging transcription, translation, and linked data. He also details renewed digitization uploads, new acquisitions, returning internships, and a proposed consortium (“G.A.R.A.G.E.”) to create shared discovery and digitization standards across institutions. ===== (Oo---x---oO) ===== 00:00 Arthur Carlson, Introduction 01:43 Revs Library Origins 02:49 New Archives Facility 04:24 Digitization and Access 05:23 AI Car Recognition 08:26 Face Recognition Finds 10:15 Oral History Initiative 13:17 New Collections 15:19 "G.A.R.A.G.E." Consortium Vision 18:07 Audience Q&A 25:02 Closing Thanks and Sponsors ==================== The Motoring Podcast Network : Years of racing, wrenching and Motorsports experience brings together a top notch collection of knowledge, stories and information. #everyonehasastory #gtmbreakfix - motoringpodcast.net More Information: Visit Our Website Become a VIP at: Patreon Online Magazine: Gran Touring Follow us on Social: Instagram This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.

Was it just a matter of time before circumstances caused the flooding disaster in Nepal? Alton Byers is a mountain geographer and a faculty research scientist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He specializes in applied research, high altitude ecosystems, glacier hazards, and implementation of integrated conservation and development programs in the Himalayas, Andes, and East African Highlands. He's told the Associated Press that climate change is affecting the structure of mountain geology around the world.

Today's conversation is for you if you can't seem to lose weight no matter what you do. Perimenopause and menopause change your body and sometimes it feels like overnight we just start piling on weight!Monique Class is a board certified family nurse practitioner and co-founder of The Center for Functional Medicine. She recently spoke at the Institute for Functional Medicine's Annual International Conference in San Diego and we were thrilled to watch her presentation about using lifestyle changes, botanicals and GLP-1 medications to lose stubborn weight. We learn:Lower estrogen levels during perimenopause and menopause trigger insulin resistance, poor carbohydrate metabolism and a shift toward inflammatory belly fat.Fullness relies on gut-to-brian chemical signaling that requires slow eating to activate; eating too quickly causes overeating before the 15-20 minute signal registers.Eating daily fiber and fermented foods for 10 weeks lowers inflammation and permanently alters the gut microbiome to naturally boost satiety.Low-dose “micro-dosing” reduces cravings and turns off global inflammation. Rather than quitting abruptly, medications must be slowly de-escalated alongside permanent behavioral changes.How botanicals can be used to enhance GLP-1Moving or walking for 15 minutes right after lunch and dinner tells the cells to burn food for fuel rather than store it, increasing glucose hit rate by 25 percentCeasing all food intake 3 hours before going to bed prevents the body from storing unmetabolized food as fat.Connect with Monique:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moniqueclassfxmed/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monique-class-ms-aprn-bc-436260a0/Shop the Functional Moms Podcast Supplement Store, 25 PERCENT OFF top quality brands:https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/functional-moms⁠*DISCLAIMER: We do not prescribe supplements or provide personalized medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider before starting any new supplement, especially if you take prescription medications, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have a medical condition.Connect with the Functional Moms:https://www.instagram.com/functionalmomspodcast/https://www.tiktok.com/@functionalmomspodcastSUBSCRIBE on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@functionalmomspodcast/#menopause #perimenopause #glp1 #weightloss #menopauseweightgain #ozempic #mounjaro #wegovy #functionalfedicine #hormones #womenshealth #over40 #midlifehealth #weightlossjourney #functionalmomspodcast #nursepractitioner #hormonalweightgain #metabolichealth #botanicals #weightmanagementThe views expressed are those of the guest and this conversation is intended for general informational purposes only. The podcast and its associated materials should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

A desire for the Kingdom of heaven and eternal life is at the heart of the virtue of hope. Fr. Mike breaks down the definition of the theological virtue of hope and explains how it protects us from discouragement and selfishness. By placing our trust in Christ's promises, we are free to love the people around us and endure all circumstances because we know that God is faithful. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 1817-1821. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

Khutbah: The blessings of Allah 100% of your donations today goes towards the means of providing accessible Islamic knowledge to people around the world: supportqalam.com. Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/qalaminstitute Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/qalaminstitute Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/qalaminstitute Subscribe on Youtube: youtube.com/user/qalaminstitute

The Names : EP 40 – Al Muqit 100% of your donations today goes towards the means of providing accessible Islamic knowledge to people around the world: supportqalam.com. Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/qalaminstitute Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/qalaminstitute Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/qalaminstitute Subscribe on Youtube: youtube.com/user/qalaminstitute

The Tafsīr Podcast: EP 118 – Surah Al-Baqarah (Ayah 253) 100% of your donations today goes towards the means of providing accessible Islamic knowledge to people around the world: supportqalam.com. Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/qalaminstitute Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/qalaminstitute Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/qalaminstitute Subscribe on Youtube: youtube.com/user/qalaminstitute

Gen. Jack Keane, a retired 4-star general, the chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and Fox News Senior Strategic AnalystTopic: Iran attacks U.S. forces following latest strikes in Strait of Hormuz Bryant Acquaro, CEO of Alliance OrthopedicsTopic: Ocean/Monmouth County Spotlight John Solomon, award-winning investigative journalist, founder of "Just The News," and the host of “Just the News, No Noise” on the Real America’s Voice networkTopic: sHouse intel chief heading to 9/11 hallowed site imploring vigilance against AI and drone attack Chris Grollnek, Retired Police Detective Corporal, Active Shooting Expert, and founder of the Active Shooter Prevention ProjectTopic: Shootings in Trenton and Chicago Arthur Lih, Inventor & CEO of LifeVac and the author of "Sorry, Can't is a Lie"Topic: Motorcycle trip Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D. Communities Development CorporationTopic: Chicago shooting; "I feared AI would leave my community behind. Now I see a path to prosperity" (Fox news op ed) Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow in the new Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American FreedomTopic: Letitia James; Legality of President Trump's tariffs on CanadaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 43rd season of the NYS Writers Institute kicks off Wednesday with a conversation with singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant. The 9thannual Albany Book Festival is Sept. 26 and a great lineup with dozens of literary events, films, etc.We get a preview now with Paul Grondahl, the Opalka Endowed Director at the NYS Writers Institute.

Don't get to the end of this year wishing you had taken action to change your business and your life.Click here to schedule a free discovery call for your business: https://geni.us/IFORABEDon't miss an upcoming event with The Institute: https://geni.us/InstituteEvents2026Shop-Ware gives you the tools to provide your shop with everything needed to become optimally profitable.Click here to schedule a free demo: https://geni.us/Shop-Ware-Free-MonthTransform your shop's marketing with the best in the automotive industry, Shop Marketing Pros!Get a free audit of your shop's current marketing by clicking here: https://geni.us/ShopMarketingProsShop owners, are you ready to simplify your business operations? Meet 360 Payments, your one-stop solution for effortless payment processing.Imagine this—no more juggling receipts, staplers, or endless paperwork. With 360 Payments, you get everything integrated into a single, sleek digital platform.Simplify payments. Streamline operations. Check out 360payments.com today!In this episode, Lucas and David are joined by Trey Holley, a shop owner from Thomaston, Georgia. Trey shares his journey from being a lifelong mechanic to learning the ropes of business ownership, highlighting the unique challenges faced in small Southern towns. The conversation touches on the importance of supporting fellow shop owners rather than viewing them purely as competitors, and Trey offers insight into the work-life balance struggles that led him to prioritize both his health and the building of a strong, supportive team.00:00 Atlanta airport's massive scale03:41 Long walks at airports06:27 Thunder Valley racetrack experience10:30 Southern business challenges with generosity13:29 Overwhelmed by business demands19:09 New guy in town setting up20:59 University town business challenges22:34 Building Industry Relationships26:46 Discussing business challenges with spouse31:14 Discussing labor cost strategy35:32 Quality control and final checks38:55 Balancing work and family time40:33 Dealing with family anxiety44:57 Balancing multiple responsibilities47:21 Discovering the Enneagram for Communication49:12 On choosing the right people

Day Break | SOCIALISM, DEI AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA --- 00:00 - Monologue 19:20 – Sheriff Richard Mack (Ret.), former Sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), and co-author of The Democrat Murder of America. Mack discusses the rise of democratic socialist candidates following another primary victory in Oklahoma and what he sees as the growing influence of socialism in American politics. He examines his concerns about socialist policies, individual liberty, constitutional government, and the direction of the country. 38:18 - Monologue 47:19 – Ryan Morgan, military and foreign affairs reporter for The Epoch Times. Four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Morgan discusses the Pentagon's renewed examination of the operation and the decisions surrounding it. He looks back at what went wrong, questions of accountability, and the lasting national security and foreign-policy consequences of the withdrawal. 57:37 – Will Hild, Executive Director of Consumers' Research. Hild discusses the rapid expansion of AI data centers and argues that consumers have too often been overlooked in the race to build the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence. He examines electricity costs, grid reliability, energy demand, and how getting the data-center buildout wrong could undermine America's competitiveness in the global AI race. 1:06:35 – Rey “R.T.” Treviño, President of Pecos Country Energy, a privately owned oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Fort Worth. Treviño discusses President Trump's announcement of a U.S. agreement involving Venezuela and its enormous oil reserves, examining what greater access to Venezuelan crude could mean for American energy markets. He also provides an update on the Strait of Hormuz and the implications for global oil supplies, prices, and energy security. 1:16:45 - Monologue 1:25:48 – Trevor Polo, Executive Director of Protect Life Michigan. Polo discusses the future of Michigan's pro-life movement following the passage of Proposal 3 and whether supporters can persuade enough voters to eventually repeal it. He examines the movement's messaging, strategy, and efforts to change public opinion on abortion in Michigan. 1:35:49 – Valerie Huber, President and CEO of the Institute for Women's Health. Huber discusses the international debate over how governments and institutions define the term “woman” and the Trump administration's efforts to influence that debate globally. She examines the implications for women's rights, international policy, healthcare, and the broader dispute over sex and gender. 1:44:47 – Paloma Chacón, Principal Deputy Spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State. Chacón discusses the State Department's move to revoke approximately 200,000 visas as part of the administration's immigration and national security enforcement efforts. She also addresses actions targeting groups the administration has linked to Antifa and designated or sanctioned on terrorism-related grounds. --- Check out our brand new podcast, 'Forgotten America'... Episode 24 is live NOW at Steve Gruber on YouTube! Link below: https://youtu.be/UrGZQdE62jA

Ahoy, howlers! We're back in the Institute and things are about to get bloody. This week we cover chapters 29 through 35 of Red Rising — Titus's execution, the Howlers officially forming, the siege on House Minerva, and the gut-punch reveal that finally catches up to Darrow when Cassius learns the truth about his brother. We scream, we theorize, we debate whether Fitchner is secretly Mad-Eye Mooney, and we watch Darrow build an army out of the one group nobody else wanted. Heads up — this episode was originally recorded for our Patreon, so the format's a little different than usual, but don't worry, it's still 100% spoiler-free for where we are in the book. Want episodes the second they're recorded instead of waiting for the public rerelease? Join us on Patreon, where this whole read-through is archived and ready to binge. Merch (stickers, totes, and more) is on our website — Patreon members get 15% off. Subscribe to our Patreon for instant access to the rest of Red Rising episodes → https://www.patreon.com/c/lamebcpod Website→ https://www.lamebookclubpod.com/ Merch → https://www.lamebookclubpod.com/category/all-products Patreon → https://www.patreon.com/c/lamebcpod IG → https://www.instagram.com/lamebookclubpod/ Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2exV4FVCLeN7mYfxcNs9cB?si=36805589642e442c Apple → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l-a-m-e-book-club-podcast/id1703598706 PODCAST BUSINESS ENQUIRES: lamebcpodcast@gmail.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We are continuing on with the theme of providing a behind-the-scenes look at the University's EMS Institute.  This episode, the crew talk about the Institute's event medicine support capabilities.  From supplemental staffing to communications and patient documentation technology, public screenings, as well as unique medical equipment needed on site, the Institute is prepared.

What did Dr. Deming really mean when he said to "cease dependence on mass inspection"?    In this episode, Balaji Reddie and host Andrew Stotz unpack why one Ford manager's decision to fire his inspection team missed the point entirely. They explain how inspection can help leaders understand and improve the process, rather than simply sort good from bad.    They also explore why Deming's 14 Points must be understood as a system, including his evolving call for cooperation and win-win thinking among employees, customers, suppliers, and even competitors. Whether you are new to Deming or have studied his work for years, this conversation offers a sharper way to think about quality, systems, and improvement.   TRANSCRIPT 0:00:02.0 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as we dive deeper into the teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Today I'm continuing my discussion with Balaji Reddie, an educator and trainer in the teachings of Dr. Deming and quality management generally. Balaji, how are you doing today?   0:00:25.1 Balaji Reddie: Oh, I'm doing good. We're meeting after a small little gap, and in the interim I think a few things happened. One of the major things, I think you and I were really happy to see that Bill Scherkenbach sent us a lovely photo. So Bill, if you're listening to this, thank you so much, of course we thank you for the photo. We mentioned the last time or rather when we were speaking that I said that there used to be a group of people that used to meet over the weekend. I don't know what the actual protocol was, but all of the so-called core Deming people, you know, like Gipsie Ranney and Nida Backaitis, I hope I'm getting the names right, Barbara Lawton. And I remember Henry Neave saying he was a part of that. So I didn't see that in the photo. So, maybe one of the weekends he was there over in America and so he was there because he mentioned this. And so Bill very kindly said what it was christened. It was christened the Cosmos Club. And then he shared a photo. So Bill, thank you so much. And also helping us identify most of the people in that photograph. If sometime we could share it with the Deming Institute, if they could show it as part of the... If ever we convert this into some kind of video later on with some slides and things like that, they could add that in.   0:01:53.0 Andrew Stotz: Yeah, it's still wonderful.   0:01:53.7 Balaji Reddie: That was wonderful. Yes.   0:01:54.9 Andrew Stotz: It's a great picture. In fact, I'm gonna just make sure that I download it for today's episode.   0:02:00.9 Balaji Reddie: Yes, yes.   0:02:01.7 Andrew Stotz: Because I'll supply it to the Institute and ask Bill if we can use it. Let's see.   0:02:08.4 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, I mean, I presume that he would want us to ask, but he is very big-hearted. I think he wouldn't mind at all.   0:02:14.7 Andrew Stotz: He looks like a spring chicken in that picture. [laughter]   0:02:17.2 Balaji Reddie: Oh, yeah, all of them. There was Joyce Orsini too there. It was nice to see the whole jing-bang gang, as they call them, [laughter] the Cosmos Club. But wonderful. So, yes, so last time we were discussing point number one and we saw his interpretation in the broadest sense of constancy of purpose. I shared also what he was saying towards the end of his life that he said, "Create and publish the statement of the aims and purposes of the company or other organization." So he was envisioning that it's no longer one company. It's a family of companies working together. And so there has to be something that binds all these companies together because today's business is very complex. The family is actually globally dispersed. And so there has to be a common thread that links all of these organizations together and that has to be the statement of purpose. Why do we exist? Each could have their own, you know. Because that's what Deming said in the word interdependent components of a system. And interdependent means being independent and mutually dependent simultaneously. So independent does not mean isolated. It means autonomous, that means you go by yourself. You could have your own purpose, but you need to align it with the purpose of the companies you're actually contributing to, which is amazing. So he asks us to look at it that way. And he said that the purpose should be to impact people in the broadest sense of the term. And you, in fact, brought that up, that quality, and we saw what he meant by quality. And then I think we discussed the purpose of educational institutions, et cetera, et cetera. What should they be?   0:04:07.5 Balaji Reddie: So that was point one. Now we get to point two. And I'll start with the original wordings which he wrote in 1986. So let me just pull that up here. He says here that, "Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age." And then he very specifically states, "Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities and take on leadership for change." Now, let's look at it both ways because in 1990 he reworded this completely. But let's get back to what he meant in 1986, the new philosophy. Now, what was the new philosophy? What did he mean then? Recently I heard, or I think I saw, Dr. Joseph DeFeo, that is the current CEO of Juran Institute, release a version of the 14 points, or rather saying that these were Dr. Deming's 14 points. And I saw what he wrote there about point number two, which was his interpretation. Now, when I look deep, actually, it looked more like Dr. Juran's interpretation of the 14 points. Incidentally, talking about Dr. Juran and the 14 points, it's no secret that Dr. Juran always said that Deming did not speak much about management, he spoke only about statistics, blah, blah, blah. But there was, if you know, part of the inner circle of Dr. Deming was Dr. Myron Tribus. And Myron Tribus, if you know, was a director at MIT for some time, right? And around the time Deming was there at the Center for Advanced Engineering Study. And when... He, of course, went and met Dr. Juran to speak to him about the 14 points, and then they had a discussion for half a day on the 14 points, and Dr. Juran agreed with every single one of them. He said, "Yeah." He said, "He's spot on." But then he said that he never spoke of management then, and so he stuck to his version that he taught statistics to the Japanese. Anyway, let's leave that aside.   0:06:19.0 Balaji Reddie: But when he spoke about point two, and that's what Juran's interpretation was, that the new philosophy was quality should be the basis for running a business. That was the new philosophy, right? And he said that top management, of course, Deming always said that top management should be involved because unless that happens, nothing happens inside the company. So the new philosophy, what now we interpret is what Dr. Deming was trying to say in 1986, was "quality is the basis for running an organization," right? And quality, again, what we discussed last time, in the broadest sense of the term, not just of a product or a process, but the way you conduct yourself as a business, as a people. So that was the new philosophy. And he said that you should take on leadership for change, and he aimed it at Western management at that point in time, right? So that was the 1986, and he goes on to explain that, saying that we are living with commonly accepted... Because he was trying to shock the Americans at that time, right? If you try to realize when they woke up to quality in the 1980s, primarily to be... I mean, to their credit, to the American businesses, that they were doing a lot of course correction. They realized that they had done things wrong for 20 years, and a lot of course correction started happening, and they started seeing benefits. So they started interpreting that as improvement when actually it was just a correction. And I think Deming wanted to bring in that shock treatment to them, and he said improvement is not enough, right? So at that point in time, that new philosophy was basically that, okay, you're doing it right, but it's not enough. And that's why it has to come from the top. So top people have to be involved. And that was how they interpreted this.   0:08:12.1 Balaji Reddie: And we also looked at it that way. But in 1990, he changed the wordings of the point two, and that was in light of what he had started professing, which was a System of Profound Knowledge. So I'll just read out what he wrote in 1990. He says now, "Adopt the new philosophy of cooperation and win-win, in which everybody wins. Put it into practice and teach it to your employees, your customers, your suppliers, and" why not "your competitors." So that was, I think, the new philosophy. Much of the stuff, if you start seeing, Andrew, when I look at all the 14 points, the 14 points have to be interpreted through the 14 points.   0:09:06.7 Andrew Stotz: Right.   0:09:07.8 Balaji Reddie: You need to understand the purpose of each point. You need to understand that they're a system. And that's why you can't just read them sentence by sentence and want to implement them, if you know what I'm trying to say here. They're a system by themselves. So you need to interpret them the right way and through the 14 points... I don't know if I'm making sense to you, but that's exactly how these are. He wanted it to be that way. So you can never tell that you've understood it completely. You're getting me? You're learning something new about it every single day. And as you start looking at things around you through the lens of Profound Knowledge, you will see things differently. And sometimes you see some gaps with the sentences that Dr. Deming was uttering, and then you say, "Okay, okay, this, this, this, I understood it now. I need to make this correction." Right? And so you can never say that I've completely understood them. I mean, after all these years, still reading Out of the Crisis, still doing the series with you, has been a catharsis for me. It's revisiting these things all over again. This, despite the fact that I've been teaching this regularly to my students for the last 20-plus years, it's still new for me.   0:10:24.4 Andrew Stotz: And so could I describe what you just said about interpreting it within the system is that really, that's the thing about systems thinking, is that you can no longer look at an individual part. Every time you get a deeper meaning or understanding of an individual part, that changes the way you view the overall system and the interconnectedness of everything.   0:10:48.6 Balaji Reddie: Exactly.   0:10:48.9 Andrew Stotz: Where life would be much more easy if we could just, "Okay, I understand that one thing deeper and deeper. I can make a control chart better and better and better."   0:11:01.1 Balaji Reddie: So, it's crazy. And this realization came on me way back in, I think around '98 or '99, when I was teaching this, the 14 points, for the third or fourth time. I think I mentioned this in episode one and two, where I told you that it was very easy for me to teach the works of Philip Crosby, very easy to teach the work of Dr. Juran, because they gave methods, they gave steps. But Dr. Deming didn't give anything. You just couldn't show the wording on the slide and get away with it. You had to explain what he wanted us to do. And then, I mentioned this before, you can go back and listen to that episode, but I said that it suddenly struck me, "God damn it, these points are a system." And when I was describing this and I explained this to Hazel Cannon, and she said, "We call this in Deming-speak an 'aha' moment. You had your 'aha' moment." She said, "That's the beauty." She told me once that in the middle of the night, at 3:00 in the morning, she understood what he was trying to say, and she called up Dr. Deming.   0:12:11.3 Balaji Reddie: And he was very, very patient. He listened to her. And she said, "I'm sorry. I..." He said, "I knew you'd understand." That's all he said. So he used to be very happy when people used to call back and suddenly say, "We realized it now, what you were trying to say then." So it's a moment of realization. So this point to... If you read some of the notes that he gave to the Japanese in 1950, and incidentally, it's they who made the notebook and then he added on to it, if you know, Elementary Principles of the Statistical Control of Quality, first edition and then the second edition. And when they made the first edition, they had actually done this without his permission. But when they told him that we made these notes, they thought that he would be a little upset because of copyrights, blah, blah. But instead he was so happy that they'd done that, he actually helped them with the second edition. And if you read those notes, a lot of things there where he was speaking about cooperation, about understanding people. So that may not have been explicitly stated by him in his lectures in Japan, they understood it. Right? And that's a very... I don't want to sound communal here, but a very Asian way of looking at it. Because our languages are very metaphorical, so we always look for different meanings to the statements being uttered. And we always look out for what has this person actually not said, which I... Or rather, yeah, has not said, which I have not heard, but I need to hear. Right?   0:13:46.5 Balaji Reddie: So that's amazing, how they looked at what he was saying. I'll give an instance here where he talks about the use of the control chart, and he says that you can use it for training a worker. And then if you see that before and after training, there's been no change in the control chart, well, then the worker's attained his optimum. Then use that worker somewhere else. He talks in a very positive way about understanding people. And then going back to what we spoke in our second episode about the principles of leadership, it comes back there, that choose people in the right way and optimize all of their aims, hopes, et cetera. So coming back here, the new philosophy, basically, now we can interpret it as what he intended it to be in 1990. He said, "Win-win." But the original wordings are also... You don't replace it, you add on to it, right? So we look at it this way, that he meant that quality should be the center point of running your business. People at the top should be involved. And now we talk about cooperation, win-win. And he says this, "Teach and practice this." Now, all these things are easier said than done. We know that. But we should make an attempt. So employees, your customers, your suppliers, and your competitors. Sometimes it could be funny, right? You go up to your competitor and you say, "Look, I think we've done enough of this, going at each other's throat. Let's get together to do something." And obviously the other person will say, "What's the agenda?" They'll think you have some hidden agenda. So it's gonna be difficult when you start doing this. But I think that's become... Slowly people are warming up to that idea of being close to your competitors and learning with them and from them. Right? We don't look at them as a rival in the true sense, trying to cut the other guy down and things like that. But that's the way it is. And if you say that it's a cutthroat thing, but we need to have some things in common before we decide to branch out and go our own way. Right? So there has to be some kind of a cooperation so that win-win... But main thing is to win, that is, everyone wins. He says, "Some may win less than others, but we all win just the same." So the whole purpose was that. Yeah.   0:16:02.4 Andrew Stotz: It's interesting because I remember hearing that when I was younger and the first thing is cooperating just within a team. The second one is cooperating maybe within a department. Another one is cooperating within a business. And then... That's already hard enough to get to. And then he talked about cooperating within an industry. And of course, there are anti-trust laws in America, which he wasn't talking about colluding on prices to take advantage of the position against the customer. But he was also... I think if we look at AI right now, the development of artificial intelligence, and to what extent could the industry work together to safeguard, for instance, or to understand the development of the energy needed to do this, you know.   0:16:54.4 Balaji Reddie: Yes.   0:16:55.3 Andrew Stotz: Or how do countries across the world work together to make sure that one doesn't have an unfair advantage with AI or with energy or that type of thing? So, yeah, it was definitely interesting when I first heard it. But as I look at it now, I get what he's saying about the industry cooperation.   0:17:15.3 Balaji Reddie: Yes, I saw this in our country, in India, where you had the rival mobile service providers getting together and realizing that the hardware needed was the same, the software would be different. So they got together and created a company, you heard that right, a company, that set up mobile communication towers. So there are no multiple towers everywhere for each mobile provider. There's one set of towers, and it was a separate company. And by the way, that company went on to win the Deming Prize.   0:17:48.0 Andrew Stotz: Interesting, interesting. It's interesting that the concept for point number two is... And sometimes I read it and I think, "Adopt the new philosophy." It's kind of obvious, isn't it?   0:18:04.1 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. [laughter]   0:18:05.8 Andrew Stotz: And that's where part of what you're talking about, about understanding all of it through the Deming 14 points lens.   0:18:13.7 Balaji Reddie: Right. Yes.   0:18:14.9 Andrew Stotz: But I can also think... I wanted to highlight back for those people that weren't around at that time. I graduated from university in 1989. I went to work at Pepsi. And so Out of the Crisis came out about 1986. And I remember during my years at university, the Japanese were just killing the American car manufacturers. And the motorcycle companies were killing... Honda and the others were killing Harley-Davidson.   0:18:43.2 Balaji Reddie: Right.   0:18:43.5 Andrew Stotz: Even to the extent that Harley-Davidson and others went to the government to try to get Reagan to give them tariff protection, which he did, in fact. But there was a huge debate I had in class, I remember, about protection versus competition. And it just highlights what was going on. And so Out of the Crisis, as you mentioned, the title, just the idea of shocking people to say, "We're in a crisis," I think at that time it was really apropos. And also the other part is he's talking about Western management.   0:19:21.1 Balaji Reddie: Yes.   0:19:21.4 Andrew Stotz: Western management. And now you look at... Japan was really doing great at that time. And now we have Japan and China that's also made huge strides. And so it's just so fascinating that he was directing it at Western management for sure, that we've got to fix things. And sometimes I look back and I think, "Oh yeah, Western management learned and improved," because we've got so much innovation going on in America as an example and all of that.   0:19:52.6 Balaji Reddie: Right. Right.   0:19:53.4 Andrew Stotz: But sometimes I look at the developments of the Chinese or Japan and I think, "Hmmm...Did we learn? Did we learn?" Look at the trade balance, look at the amount of debt, look at that in the US and you think, "I don't know." I'm curious, how would you score it?   0:20:09.5 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, I mean, that's just what I had to say. So the whole approach towards this whole thing being holistic, not just looking at it from a very narrow point of view and realizing that we need each other, we can't do without... We call them competitors, but they are also helping us do a better job. They're pushing me to look out for what I'm good at and I don't have to put somebody else down to show myself as big. And if I contribute to the industry in a very big way, not only do I gain, others gain, and if I share, then they would also share with me, right? So that realization, I think, is coming in. And if you think about this, it was very interesting, the mathematician by the name John Nash, if you remember him, he actually postulated this in terms of mathematics in 1950, and he got a PhD from Princeton for this. Now, I would give full credit to the jury listening to his dissertation, defending his thesis, that you had to do this because, interestingly, he gets a Nobel Prize for that in 1974. It took 24 years for the world to figure out what he was trying to say. And you want to go read that, he was thinking win-win.   0:21:41.7 Balaji Reddie: So I often wondered if Dr. Deming, John Nash, did they know each other? Obviously, they didn't, but they were thinking and saying the same thing in two different parts of the world. He was doing that here in the US and Deming was talking about this there in Japan, and he was talking about telling the Japs that Japan must see itself as a system. And so all their companies actually work together. We see them as versus; they don't see each other as versus. You're interestingly saying this about the two-wheeler companies, the bikes... In India, we had just one or two bikes before the four Japanese companies came in. It was Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki, and Yamaha. And they tied up with different Indian companies. Now, of course, after a long time, they've all gone their separate ways. But as a teenager, I remember these. And the funny thing was all four motorcycles were different and all four sold well. All four. And they sold in different parts of the country.   0:22:43.8 Balaji Reddie: I can tell you this firsthand because just after I completed my engineering, I was looking for a job. So I had some time to myself and my mother's friend, she ran a market research agency and she just called up one fine day and said, "Would Balaji care to do this market research for me? It's about bikes." So I had to travel north, south, east, west and tape a conversation with bikers asking them which motorcycles they liked among these four. And these four, the plants were set up at four different places in our country. So north, south, east, west, typically, you know how vast India is in that sense. And the one... It was very interesting. The bikes that were made in the north were sold very well in the south, and some made in the south were sold very well in the west. It was crazy. But there was, of course, one motorcycle that would always stand out and people would say that, "Yeah, this is the one which really..." But that would always be the case. But by and large, everyone did well. Looking back, I say that, wow, they were practicing this without us knowing it.   0:23:51.6 Balaji Reddie: And even now, if you know, I don't know whether this happens outside of India, but Suzuki and Toyota in India have collaborated with each other to use the car body, if you know what I mean. The insides would be their own inside. Suzuk... Maruti is the name of the Indian company that's tied up with Suzuki Motor. So you have Maruti Suzuki and Toyota. They have common bodies, names are different, but the inside is Toyota technology and Suzuki technology. So they've decided, they just realized that they need each other, right? And they're doing exceedingly well, both. Just both.   0:24:33.7 Andrew Stotz: Sharing the platform.   0:24:36.0 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. It's crazy. And you don't start bothering so much about trying to defend yourself, right? You go ahead and focus on what you're good at. So this point two, the new philosophy, what it meant before and what it means now, I would not say it replaced it, but it's just added on to it, where he said that top management should be involved. That was the new philosophy, that quality has to come from the top. Western management waking up, et cetera. The Western managers to see quality is the basis for running your organization. It should be your strategy. And he just says as an extension of that strategy, we need to get together and cooperate and think win-win. So that's the new philosophy. It takes us, he always says, a new reward system would come in. It would be a better applied science. You can read that in The New Economics, that what is the purpose of this entire new philosophy, The New Economics, where he explains this.   0:25:39.2 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:25:41.4 Balaji Reddie: In a nutshell is point two. So the purpose was to shock the Western management at that point in time, but also in a different sense, try to open the eyes of people even now that please don't think small, think big, right? The new philosophy tells us look beyond the boundaries that you've artificially created and see what you can do with the others, including your competitors. And don't look at them as adversaries, rather than partners in something that both of you will grow. Maybe not evenly, but you will grow. So that was...   0:26:18.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. One last thing for me on that is just the idea that he reinforces the focus that quality is, the key is the customer in that process of quality.   0:26:33.8 Balaji Reddie: That's right. That's right.   0:26:34.4 Andrew Stotz: As opposed to it's not about quality, quality, quality, control charts and QC circles and all that. It's about what is quality in the eyes of the customer and how do we better deliver that. So that always gave me so much comfort when I learned what he was teaching, that he wasn't just... It wasn't all about quality and tools. It was about quality in the eyes of the customer.   0:27:00.8 Balaji Reddie: Right. So that's why he said tools are just 3%. And you can be 100% excellent at the 3% and still run out of business, right? He always said that. So you need to apply this in the broader sense of the term. So that was...   [overlapping conversation]   0:27:08.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. And the problem is if you don't understand the system and you don't understand the whole teaching, then even if you're good at the tools, you may misinterpret from the tools.   0:27:25.6 Balaji Reddie: Yes. So, right, so that was point two.   0:27:30.4 Andrew Stotz: Whoo!   0:27:31.3 Balaji Reddie: So now we come to point three. [laughter] Now point three... Yeah, we just got I think 15-odd minutes, but I'll cover some part of it and I think we'll continue with this.   0:27:34.0 Andrew Stotz: Yeah, yeah. We good. I got time.   0:27:42.5 Balaji Reddie: Point three. Now this again has been so crazily misinterpreted. All right, so I'll start with the wordings once again, I'm referring to the document what he wrote. And he says now, "Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place." Now if you look at that, he was talking much about the act of inspecting and the entire activity-based and saying don't depend. The keyword was "cease dependence," because if you hear what happened in one funny case where the manager from Ford went back and just sacked all his inspectors saying Dr. Deming said we don't need inspection. But that was, I think, overstating it. But nevertheless, the keyword is dependence. Don't depend on inspection. And then he said, build quality into the product in the first place. And then he quotes Harold Dodge who said you cannot inspect quality into a product. Quality is already there. Inspection just reports what's happening. It doesn't tell you where... You know.   0:29:00.4 Andrew Stotz: Yep.   0:29:03.4 Balaji Reddie: Andrew, can you hear me?   0:29:05.8 Andrew Stotz: Yes. Keep going. So what you're talking about is the idea of thinking about quality not from the perspective...   0:29:20.2 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, we got disconnected.   0:29:21.7 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. What I was saying you're talking about is this idea of cease dependence on inspection, that it doesn't mean inspection's completely gone, but it means starting at the beginning of the process and thinking about how do we improve things from there. So continue on.   0:29:37.3 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, so I just said here that he was not so much at that time when he wrote this, like I said here, it was misinterpreted because, yes, he did start with saying the activity, the activity-based thing about inspection, that we should not depend on it. And I think I mentioned that Ford... One of the managers of Ford, misinterpreted that and sacked his inspectors and things like that. But he said that eliminate the need for inspection by building quality into the process and the product in the first place. So the word was dependence. And so he did not say that you need to eliminate the act of inspecting. In fact, it's very interesting what he actually spoke about this in the workbook which you get when you go a four-day seminar on video which was created by General Motors, right?   0:30:30.6 Balaji Reddie: So those video cassettes, and then the workbook that came with that had a very interesting take on inspection. So he said that it doesn't mean that we're gonna stop. He said you'd be a fool to keep yourself in the dark about what's happening in the process. You need to know what's happening in the process. So he's not saying that do away, he's saying use inspection. So now he actually said this, and here's where the interpretation comes in: understand the purpose of inspection. The purpose of inspection is to give yourself more and more knowledge of the process, not for sorting bad from good, because good and bad product come from the same process. We need to fix the process. And this is to be interpreted if you talk about how he looked at this, because if you read what he spoke about the nine heavy losses, when we discuss those, he says that one of the losses was performance appraisal. So I want to ask those people who say that this interpretation, isn't performance appraisal quality by inspection? You're sorting bad from good based on some arbitrary measure that you created in your head. You decide what's good, you decide what's bad. You're God, is it?   0:31:52.9 Balaji Reddie: I mean, Douglas McGregor actually wrote an article on this saying that managers don't like to play God, right? And he's the one who advocated, no, we don't need performance appraisal. It actually harms. And Dr. Deming just said the same thing. So if you read Douglas McGregor's book, The Human Side of Enterprise, there's a new version, the annotated version, where they've given commentary of what some experts or some the interpretations of the text. And I was amazed to see Dr. Deming's name come up there and saying that Dr. Deming also concurred with this and said it in very plain words that do not carry out performance appraisal. And he likened it to using inspection to create quality, whereas we know it doesn't. So fix the process. Right? And then people again take this in piecemeal and start quoting Deming: "A bad system will beat a good person anytime." I don't know what to say here, really. I mean, he obviously he said... He was trying to explain that you cannot judge that person based on the output of the system. I mean, it's an output of the system, the person. So you need to look at it that way. I don't know whether I'm making sense here, but that's the way to look at this point number three. Right? And he says that don't depend. Use the inspection to understand the process. Now, he says here, and I think I've got the text in that, he says, "There will always be inspection. We must never deliberately leave ourselves devoid of information on how the process is doing. Is it still in statistical control? Is there a trend? Were our efforts towards shrinkage of variation or change of level successful? The function of inspection is optimization of the whole system, including suppliers of materials and services and the ultimate consumer." So he very clearly stated this, that this is a system. And this was the system he was talking about, right? And he says here that it's not about just manufacturing, service. It's if you are really, really interpreting this, then you'd also remove performance appraisal in the process, right? Because that's quality by inspection. Uh-oh.   0:34:21.2 Andrew Stotz: The Human Side of Enterprise, the annotated edition, is available on Amazon. Just looking at it right now, this annotated edition came out in 2023. So I haven't read it, so I'm gonna check it out myself.   0:34:42.1 Balaji Reddie: Yeah, I think I lost you again.   0:34:44.5 Andrew Stotz: Yep. I just went through the details about The Human Side of Enterprise and that latest version or edition that's just come out that you've mentioned. It came out in 2023.   0:34:57.0 Balaji Reddie: Right, right. So you could get that, read that book, you'll get to see it. And he very clearly... Did you record that bit where I read out the text?   0:35:09.4 Andrew Stotz: I don't remember that.   0:35:10.8 Balaji Reddie: Okay, I'll just read it out again so you can edit it later. So, yeah, he says here, "There will always be inspection. We must never deliberately leave ourselves devoid of information on how the process is doing. Is it still in statistical control? Is there a trend? Were our efforts towards shrinkage of variation or change of level successful? The function of inspection is optimization of the whole system, including suppliers of materials and services and the ultimate consumer." Did you get that? Did that get recorded?   0:35:45.5 Andrew Stotz: Yeah.   0:35:46.0 Balaji Reddie: Yeah. So that's exactly what he meant. He said that he was not talking about the act, and he said you would have some inspection. Now, interestingly, a very, very different take on this that, yeah, I told you Myron Tribus was talking to Dr. Juran about this, and Dr. Juran gave his interpretation. Because if you know, he invented this badly misunderstood and abused term called cost of quality, right? And if you know why he invented it and what happened later, I don't even want to get into it. He said, "The only way I could grab management's attention was to present my problem in terms of money. If I explained to them and said to them that there is... This process running at 90% efficiency, they would be happy. They said, "Great." He said, "No, it's not great." And then they just wouldn't listen. They said, "90% is great." So he said, "How do I talk to them?" And so he went back to them and said, "Okay, your process is running at 90% efficiency." They said, "Yes." He said, "But you're paying 100% salary to this guy to do 90% good work, and then you're paying 100% salary to another guy to remove the 10% bad work, and then you're paying 100% salary to a third guy to correct that bad work." And that's how he invented cost of quality.   0:37:11.8 Balaji Reddie: Now people have gone and overindulged in this and they start having arguments about what is the category and where should it fit in and... Anyway, what he was trying to say is there are some activities where the more money you spend, the better it is. And so he came up with that cost of prevention and of course, I mean, conformance and non-conformance. In conformance, there were two categories. One was called prevention, where the more money you spend, obviously the better it is, but you get... You know, the returns on them will come much, much later, like training and spending money on the right things like maintaining your equipment, blah, blah, blah, research and development. He also gave a category called appraisal. And appraisal, he says, these are all activities which are necessary evils. [laughter] That means you can't eliminate them, at the same time you should not overtly depend on them to create quality. And one of them was inspection. And he says you should not spend more than necessary on inspection, just enough.   0:38:16.1 Balaji Reddie: Now here's the question I get, how much do we spend? [laughter] And the trick which I read somewhere and I saw that because I interpreted these points both ways. So when you start doing this, you walk into a company, make them calculate how much money they're spending on inspection right now. So let's say it's $100,000 or rupees or whatever. Now you start implementing the improvement processes, you start understanding the process and you start, well, the works, control charts, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you start seeing that the process is getting better and so your defects are coming down and things are getting better generally. And so you're spending lesser money on inspection, you're spending lesser time on inspection, your resources are going in the right direction. And so that amount starts coming down and you keep doing that and you keep doing that and then you reach a point where you say, "Okay, this is it. I need this much of inspection at a bare minimum to keep myself," like Dr. Deming said, "not devoid of any information." I need to know what's happening. So that need-to-know basis, just enough, now that becomes the cap, right? And you say now, "If after this I see an increase in the money being spent, then... It's not that I'm going to go and just eliminate. I'll try to find out why." And if you look at it, that's exactly what Dr. Deming said, understand the purpose of inspection is to make the process better. The product, of course, will get better and you use the inspection intelligently to understand because good and bad products come from the same process. This is absolutely true for both manufacturing as well as services. You always can look at the activities and see which are the ones which are prone to a lot of mistakes that can happen and then you try to help the person carrying out the process. "Can I eliminate this? Can I reduce this?"   0:40:14.0 Balaji Reddie: And talking about AI, I think AI can help a lot in that, in much of the so-called mundane activities which are repeatable and being done on a regular basis. You can bring in AI over there, use it in the right way. Right? Even for the inspection thing, they talk about it, but yeah, like I said, we need to keep our eye and just keep glancing at it, but not going and standing in front of the process all the time. You don't need to do that. Just... So like Dr. Deming said, watch that... Look at the trend, the impact of my action that I need to inspect. So in that sense, like I said, the act of inspecting will never go away, but our reliance on that will come down drastically. And once in a while, just glancing through, just letting us know that things are going according to plan is the right way of looking at this. Anyway, I think that's all we have time for today, Andrew.   0:41:10.2 Andrew Stotz: Yeah. So I'm gonna wrap up by saying 290 years ago, Benjamin Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."   0:41:23.2 Balaji Reddie: Wow.   0:41:24.2 Andrew Stotz: Well, it's a lot of what you've just described is the idea of starting at the beginning and trying to reduce the need to depend on inspection. I love the stuff that you talked about about... He didn't say eliminate inspection, he said reduce the dependence. And that really reminded me that there's a purpose. And as you've described, the purposes of inspection isn't only just, "Okay, we don't want something bad going out to the customer," but what it really is about is understanding how are we doing. How have the upstream preventative or improvements that we've done in the upstream resolved or reduced what's happening at the downstream? I think that was a major thing for me as a young guy when I first heard Deming, to understand that, start at the beginning and try to get things right from the beginning, that will reduce the amount of trouble that you have towards the end. So, fantastic.   0:42:22.2 Balaji Reddie: That's true. That's true. All right, then.   0:42:24.5 Andrew Stotz: Well...   0:42:25.1 Balaji Reddie: We meet again next week or week after that to continue this.   0:42:27.0 Andrew Stotz: Yeah, I look forward to it. And for the listeners out there, remember to go to deming.org and jump into DemingNext to continue your journey.   0:42:36.5 Balaji Reddie: Yes.   0:42:37.0 Andrew Stotz: This is your host, Andrew Stotz, and I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Deming, which is, "People are entitled to joy in work."   0:42:45.3 Balaji Reddie: "Joy in work."

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