Podcasts about introduction hello

Introduction: Hello, High Performers! Happy National Nutrition Month! Although many of you may not be aware of this industry-only month, we thought it would be a great opportunity to review our nutrition habits and make sure we're on track for the month and beyond. As you know, we've been focusing on "the pivot" and "progress" in the past two seasons. So this month, we'll be talking about specific nutrition topics that are relevant and timely. To kick off the month, I'd like to share the first five things I work on with an athlete entrepreneur in the first ninety days to help them achieve those "Can't Believe I Made It" moments in their life. Let's get started! Big Pod Takeaways Creating a balanced plate with protein, carbohydrates, and colorful fruits/veggies is a foundational step in improving nutrition. Prioritizing protein and fiber intake can support muscle growth, body recomposition, and overall wellness. Quality sleep is essential for regeneration, recovery, and optimal cognitive performance. Non-exercise activity, such as walking and daily movement, plays a significant role in energy expenditure and overall health. Setting milestones and celebrating small wins can help maintain motivation and track progress in nutrition and wellness goals. Pod Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Importance of Nutrition 02:20 Creating a Foundation: Balancing Your Plate Model 08:04 Prioritizing Protein and Fiber Intake 14:02 The Role of Sleep in Human Performance 16:20 Non-Exercise Activity and Overall Activity Looking Forward: Stay tuned as we continue to celebrate nutrition in those Can't Believe I Made It moments in your life! We're here to challenge the status quo, armed with knowledge and compassion for our individual health journeys. Links & Resources: Check out our new Podpage! : Connect with Us: @deziabeyta and @imadeitpod on Instagram Review & Subscribe: Love what you're hearing? Please leave a review and subscribe to our podcast on Youtube! Signing Off: Remember, High Performers, every question you ask yourself about your health is a step forward in your journey. Let's keep pushing the boundaries and lifting each other up, one episode at a time. Until next time, stay strong, stay informed, and stay on top of your game! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbimi/message

Welcome back to another Interference Cast! Today's episode is a bit unique—for once Jaz wasn't the one asking the questions. Instead, he had the pleasure of being interviewed by the a cool dental student, Nav Bhatti. During the interview, we explore Jaz' story, origins, and what fuels his passions. It's a deep dive into who he is and what drives him. Plus, he shared insights into one of his top strengths, according to Tom Rath's Strengths Finder 2.0: being a learner. Join us as he discusses the importance of focusing on our strengths and the joy of continuous learning and sharing. https://youtu.be/JyQ3qpZNQLk Watch IC045 on Youtube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: 6:51 Get to know about Jaz Gulati  8:35 Jaz's Journey in Dentistry  11:49 Ensuring Quality in Dentistry vs Income  15:33 Highlights and Challenges in Studying Journey 18:42 Advice for Dental Students: Balancing Academic and Social Well-being 21:18 Journey to the World of TMD 26:36 Difference between TMD and TMJ 28:13 Q&A: Dentistry and Kids - is it possible? 29:12 Why is Dentistry better than Medicine? We recently took a bold business risk, urging subscribers to cancel with the 'Old App' and switch to Protrusive Guidance for a sleeker, more user-friendly experience. The response from the Protruserati has been overwhelmingly positive. It's our free Community! We also offer paid plans for educational content and CPD options. Students, stay tuned for exciting updates coming soon! Join us on Protrusive Guidance for the home of the Nicest and Geekiest Dentists in the World! If you loved this episode, be sure to check out Value Your Skills – How to Stop Underselling Yourself – AJ006 Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati, I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to an Interference Cast. This one I feel kind of selfish posting this one, but it was interviewed. It's about me today, right? It's my story, my origin, what drives me. But I was interviewed by a very fascinating dental student called Nav. Jaz Introduction:Nav Bhatti And he's an up and coming content creator. I liked his style. I liked his realism. Very real world. I always got time for people like that. He's actually a British citizen studying dentistry history in Slovakia, previously having studied in Egypt and Ukraine. So he's got a really interesting story and we didn't actually get time to unpack it because he came to my practice where I work and he shadowed for a bit and then the plan was to record. But while recording about 25 minutes in, which is why this podcast is as long as is, which is why it's a kind of shorter episode. My wife calls me and at this stage, it kind of sums up the entire sort of month I've had, right?  My family has been plagued by illnesses like my baby, Sihaan 10 months had like back to back viruses and when the kids are not sleeping we'll get like 2 -3 hours sleep a night and then unfortunately my eldest, almost 5 years old, he was in hospital for 2 nights on IV drips, severe dehydration, projectile vomiting, you name it, the whole shebang and then it finally got to my wife as well. I was the last man standing, I kind of told the universe and this is crazy, I had Gary Vee say this once, he said, I told the universe I'm too busy to fall sick. Right? And so that's my theory of why I didn't fall sick. I just told the universe, no, not today. But anyway, it's been a really challenging few months and then it kind of got epitomized by what happened while we were recording that my wife called me and she was in bed, she just couldn't move. And she had a baby and I was like, oh my God, I better rush home. And thankfully I live very close to where I work. And I said, Nav, I'm so sorry. I've got to go. And so the reason to share that with you is just to remind you that we're all going to have bad months. Okay?

Introduction Hello and welcome back to The First Time Home Buyer Podcast! I'm thrilled to be back with you for a brand new season. It's been a while, and I appreciate your patience. Today, we have a special episode in store for you as we catch up on what's been happening in my life and the real estate world. My Story: Making Home Buying Easier In the last four years, my story has been all about making buying a home easier. I went through a tough time buying my own home in New York City – it was super confusing and stressful. The professionals I worked with weren't the best, and I felt clueless and embarrassed. That's when I decided to create The First Time Home Buyer Podcast and HomeFlow, an all-in-one platform to help people buy homes. Techstars Experience: Pivoting to Help Employees Over the past year, I got involved with Techstars, which was an incredible experience. I made a big change with HomeFlow, deciding to sell the solution directly to companies and their employees. This shift aimed at making the dream of owning a home come true for employees while keeping companies and their workforce happy. However, after a few months, I realized it would take too long to make deals with companies. So, after some thinking, I decided to go back to helping home buyers directly by creating educational content and restarting the podcast. Real Estate Market Overview for 2023: A Tough Year In simpler terms, 2023 was a tough year for both buying and selling homes. Here's a snapshot: Home Prices Went Up: The average price in the U.S. increased from $407,000 in 2022 to $409,000 in 2023. Rent Was High: Rent prices peaked at $2,050 in August, leading more people to consider buying despite challenges. High Mortgage Rates: Interest rates went above 8%, making mortgages more expensive. Low Inventory: Fewer homes for sale due to high mortgage rates and low construction. Inflation: Peaked at 6.6% year over year in February, influencing the housing market. Homes Took Longer to Sell: Average days on the market increased to 37. Price Drops: 15.3% of listings experienced price drops. Cash Purchases: Nearly 33% of homes were purchased with all cash. Less Competition: Bidding wars decreased with rising mortgage rates. Fewer Investor Purchases: Investor purchases dropped by a record 48.6%. NAR Challenges and Lawsuits: Changing the Game In addition to market challenges, the NAR (National Association of Realtors) faced lawsuits, potentially changing the way agents get paid. The key impacts include potential changes in agent commissions, impact on costs, transparency and consumer trust, potential new fee structures, uncertainty in the market, shift towards transparency, possibility of more consumer-friendly practices, and exploration of alternative options. What to Expect for 2024 and Tips to Navigate the Market Low inventory means sellers have the upper hand. Mortgage rates, although down from their peak, remain high. House prices are still high with no signs of decreasing. Potential market spur if rates drop further in 2024. Personal Recommendations Don't buy until interest rates go down, and if you do, ensure you can refinance and cover new costs. Why I Restarted the Podcast "Now, you might be wondering why I decided to restart the podcast. Well, despite the challenges, I believe in the importance of providing you with valuable information, especially during these uncertain times. I'm committed to supporting you, the first-time home buyers, and guiding you through the changes in the real estate market." What to Expect in Season 2 More interviews with the best real estate professionals, journalists, technology founders, all supporting home buyers. Closing Thank you for being part of The First Time Home Buyer Podcast family. Your support means the world to me, and I'm looking forward to an amazing season ahead. Connect with us, subscribe to our new YouTube channel, and share the podcast. Until next time, take care and happy home hunting! ➡️ Referrals ⭐ Get a Referral to a Top Mortgage Lender or Realtor - http://lauramoreno.com/referral ➡️ FREE Home Buying Checklist ⭐ Download the Most Comprehensive Home Buying Checklist: https://lauramoreno.com/home-buying-checklist/ ➡️ Get The BEST Home Buying Tools & Resources ⭐ Home Buyer Resources + Tools: https://lauramoreno.com/ ⭐ Project Management Platform For Your Home: https://homeflow.co/ ⭐ Property Aggregator Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/homeflow/cppljkkofnppfeackjnepcghdbekkpoh ➡️ Get The BEST Home Buying CALCULATORS ⭐ Buy Vs Rent Calculator: https://lauramoreno.com/the-buy-vs-rent-calculator/ ⭐ Smart Home Buyer Calculator: https://lauramoreno.com/the-smart-home-buyer-calculator/ ➡️ Get The BEST CREDIT SCORE Repair Tools ⭐ Review Your Credit Score With MyFico: https://lauramoreno.com/myfico/ ➡️ Ready to Buy Your First House? Watch these videos in my YouTube playlist ⭐ How to buy a house: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxnn3zGLexPTtB133pCjCtD-M40KrIs7T ➡️ Social Media ⭐ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamlauramoreno ⭐ Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamlauramoreno ⭐ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/Iamlauramoreno ⭐ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamlauramoreno ➡️ Hire Me ⭐ Speaking, Events, Podcast Interviews, Collaborations & Endorsements - info@lauramoreno.com ⭐ Schedule a 1-1 Home Buying Consultation → https://lauramoreno.com/1-1-consultation/ ➡️ Contact Laura I'd love to hear from you! If you have a longer question, or if you have a business-related inquiry, please send me an email at info@lauramoreno.com. I try my best to reply to all e-mails but sometimes I do not have enough time to respond to everyone. ➡️ Join Our Smart Home Buyers Facebook Group ⭐ https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesmarthomebuyer/ ➡️ Disclaimer Laura Moreno is not a practicing tax accountant or a licensed attorney or financial adviser. Therefore, the information in these videos shall not be relied upon as tax, legal, or financial advice from a qualified perspective. If you need such advice, please contact a qualified tax accountant, attorney, or financial adviser. We have taken reasonable steps to check that the information in this video is accurate but we cannot represent that it is free from errors. You expressly agree not to rely upon any information contained in this video - it is for entertainment purposes only. This video description may contain affiliate links that allow you to easily find the items mentioned in my videos as well as support the channel at no cost to you.

Links mentioned in the episode:www.betterwithcarbo.com/guideEp 14: Is Your Morning Brew the Secret Weapon Against Inflammation?Introduction: Hello and welcome to another episode of Inflamed in the Brain. I'm Krissy, your host, and friendly neighborhood Dietitian. Ever found yourself in a dinner dilemma? Well, I sure did the other day, and it led me to a breakfast-for-dinner solution. Today, I want to dive into a topic that's been a personal favorite of mine to debunk – the whole egg and cholesterol myth.Setting the Scene: Eggs, my go-to protein source, have often been the center of controversy. From fears about fat content to concerns about cholesterol, eggs have faced it all. Today, let's unravel the intricacies surrounding cholesterol, a topic closely tied to the egg debate.The Cholesterol Conundrum: Cholesterol has long been portrayed as the villain linked to heart disease. The American Heart Association advocated for a low-fat diet to curb cholesterol, yet high cholesterol remains prevalent. Approximately 86 million US adults had high cholesterol in 2020, prompting the need for a new approach.The Importance of Cholesterol: Contrary to its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential for health. It plays a vital role in hormone production, bile synthesis for fat digestion, and forms the basic structure of cell membranes. Think of it as the necessary foundation for your body's cells.Cholesterol Production and Transportation: Understanding how cholesterol is made and transported is crucial. Cholesterol is produced through the breakdown of fats or glucose, generating Acetyl CoA, a key player in the cholesterol-making process. LDL and HDL, often labeled as bad and good cholesterol, are lipoproteins carrying cholesterol through the bloodstream.LDL's Role and Concerns: LDL, responsible for transporting cholesterol, can become problematic in an inflammatory state. Frequent damage to blood vessel linings triggers LDL's healing response, leading to potential issues. Smoking, toxins, stress, and poor diets exacerbate LDL-related concerns. Research indicates that LDL particle size matters; small, dense particles pose more significant risks than larger, fluffier ones.Fructose and LDL Particle Size: Recent studies suggest that fructose may influence LDL particle size, making them smaller. However, it's crucial to differentiate naturally occurring fructose in foods like honey, mangoes, and grapes from the concentrated fructose in processed foods, notably high-fructose corn syrup.The Egg Solution: Dispelling myths, there's no reason to avoid whole eggs. In fact, whole eggs can decrease small LDL particles and increase protective HDL particles. Packed with nutrients like vitamin D, E, choline, and folate, eggs contribute to a balanced diet and support overall health.Blood Sugar Management: Managing blood sugar is key, especially for those concerned about cholesterol. Statins, prescribed for high cholesterol, target the HMG-CoA reductase enzyme. Insulin, influenced by a high-glycemic diet, can spike blood sugar, contributing to increased cholesterol production.Conclusion and Takeaways: In conclusion, eggs are not the enemy. They're a versatile, nutrient-packed option that, when enjoyed in balance, can be part of a heart-healthy diet. Remember, the quality of eggs matters, so opt for pasture-raised options with deep orange yolks. If cholesterol concerns you, focus on blood sugar management, and I'm here to guide you.Remember, fat, cholesterol, and eggs aren't the adversaries; itFollow along: https://betterwithcarbo.com/ Instagram

Introduction: Hello, fellow commercial real estate agents. This is another episode of John Highman's Commercial Real Estate Online Podcast. I'm delighted to have you join me today as we discuss an important aspect of our industry: the art of precise marketing in commercial real estate sales and leasing. In this episode, we'll reveal the secrets to making your property listings stand out through targeted advertising and marketing strategies. These insights are intended to not only attract attention, but also convert that attention into useful inquiries. Get your full copy of this podcast text by visting our website article right here.   Understanding Your Audience: First and foremost, successful marketing requires a thorough understanding of your target audience. As commercial real estate agents, we must tailor our strategies to address the needs and preferences of property investors, business owners, and prospective tenants. In this episode, we'll look at how to conduct thorough market research to find the unique selling points that will captivate your target audience.   Crafting Compelling Property Narratives: Every property has a story, and it is our responsibility as agents to tell it in a way that captures and engages potential buyers. We'll talk about the power of storytelling in commercial real estate marketing and walk you through the process of developing narratives that highlight your listings' strengths and opportunities. Whether it's an industrial warehouse, a prime office space, or a bustling retail location, we'll find the features that make your properties appealing.   Utilizing Digital Platforms Effectively: In today's digital age, a strong online presence is essential. We'll look at the most recent digital marketing trends and platforms, as well as how to use social media, online listings, and other digital tools to increase visibility. From creating visually appealing content to utilising targeted advertising, we'll provide actionable advice to help you improve your online marketing game.   Conclusion: Finally, mastering the art of precision in your marketing efforts can make a significant difference in the competitive world of commercial real estate. Understanding your audience, crafting compelling narratives, and effectively utilising digital platforms will not only attract more inquiries, but also establish you as an industry leader. Thank you for tuning in, and until next time, happy selling and leasing!

Introduction:Hello my endurance athletic old friends. Welcome to episode 5-481.How are we on this fine fall day? Up here in New England we have set the clocks back and it is now officially dark at 4:30ish, which makes me want to stab myself in the eye with an olive fork… Is there such a thing as an olive fork? We like to tell ourselves up, with puritanical zeal, and righteous fury, that all this lack of sunlight and crappy weather makes us harder and more able to transverse this fickle world filled with chaos. We say things like, “I was doing hill repeats in the freezing rain,” – wearing that suffering like holy stigmata. But, what if it's all a lie? What if all the adversity just makes us grumpy and hard to live with? I don't know – but I do know the best policy is to take it one day at a time, do what you can and embrace what the universe brings you because time is short! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Would a Treatment Co-ordinator really benefit your practice? In the latest segment of our podcast, we had the delightful Emma, an expert treatment coordinator, share her experiences and guidance on the evolving role of a treatment coordinator in a dental practice. https://youtu.be/4p5iLCX-mgA Watch IC043 on Youtube Would this TCO model work in your practice? What are the challenges in starting this? Are there any drawbacks? Emma spills all the beans! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of the episode:00:00 Introduction02:21 Emma's Journey to TCO5:46 TCO's role in various practices10:00 Advantages of a TCO consultation 14:13 Disadvantages of Treatment Co-Ordinators18:20 Timings of Appointments21:19 Patient consent processes23:02 Profitability and practicality of TCOs25:56 Introducing virtual treatment coordinators (VTC).28:00 How to find a TCO31:45 How to reach Emma If you're inspired to learn more, reaching out to Emma is a breeze. Connect with her through her Instagram page @em_thetco  If you liked this episode, you will also like Recommend Treatment Plans with Confidence – IC038 Did you know? You can get CPD from the Web App or Phone App and watch premium clinical videos, for less than a tax deductible Nando's per month? Click below for full episode transcript: Episode Teaser: Mentally, why are you worried about a patient booking their next appointment? Why are you worried about how they're going to pay for their treatment? That's not your worry. That's for someone else to deal with. Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and this Interference Cast, we're going to cover the topic of treatment coordinators. Is it right for your practice? We hear from Emma Yates, who is a nurse turned into a treatment coordinator. And a treatment coordinator, if you haven't heard of this term before, is someone who is kind of in between the reception team and the dentist, right? They've got enough clinical knowledge to discuss the pros and cons of different treatment and help the patient in their journey to find out what's the best treatment for them and also help them to pay for their treatment, how to finance it and answer those niggling queries they sometimes have and sometimes patients have to wait some time to hear from the dentist. But that treatment coordinator is a friendly phrase, right? They're not the scary dentist. They're a friendly face. They're an advocate for the patient. And I've seen over the past few years, lots of different practices adopt the treatment coordinator model. Now, I'm not sure if it's just a UK thing or a worldwide thing, but this is definitely becoming more integrated in dental practices. So if you're a principal wondering if this is the right move for you, or if you're maybe a nurse thinking, hey, you know, could I be a treatment coordinator? Or perhaps you're an associate and you like the idea of your practice, having a treatment coordinator, and maybe you can send them this episode to weigh out the pros and cons of it as per the discussion that we have with Emma. So let's join Emma now. And at the end in my outro, I'll let you know how you can claim CPD for this episode. Main Episode:Emma Yates, welcome to the Protrusive Dental Podcast. How are you? [Emma]I'm good. Thank you. How are you? [Jaz]Yes, absolutely brilliant. It's a Saturday. I was working clinical this morning. I've had a couple hours of de stress, but now, I love, I'm doing the bit, which I love speaking to different people, learning, sharing. And today's topic is treatment coordinators of which you are for the past six years. As you told me before we hit the record button, I have so many questions for you, like so many practices could be employing this way of working. And they probably have so many questions. I'd be hesitant for some reason, so many concerns before doing such a big step.

Introduction: Hello, movie enthusiasts, and welcome to another exciting episode of "Everyone is a Critic." In Episode 591, we're diving into the world of cinema to explore the latest releases and timeless classics. Get ready for thrilling reviews of "Inside" (2023) and "A Haunting in Venice." We'll also uncover the brilliance of our Undisputed Classic, "Witness for the Prosecution," and take a nostalgic trip back to 1993 with discussions on "The Age of Innocence," "Striking Distance," and "Airborne." Plus, stay tuned for a sneak peek into next week's episode featuring "Flora and Son" and a classic yet to be revealed. In our 1993 segment, we'll explore the release of "Dazed and Confused." But first, let's dive right into this week's episode! Segment 1: New Movie Reviews "Inside" (2023): Prepare for a journey into the unknown as we unravel the mysteries of "Inside." Our hosts will discuss this new release, exploring its thrills, chills, and impact on audiences. "A Haunting in Venice": Next, we'll venture to the hauntingly beautiful Venice as we discuss "A Haunting in Venice." Join us as we analyze the film's atmosphere and storytelling. Segment 2: Classic Cinema Undisputed Classic - "Witness for the Prosecution": In this segment, we shine a spotlight on the classic courtroom drama "Witness for the Prosecution." We'll discuss its enduring appeal, brilliant performances, and its place in cinematic history. Segment 3: Flashback to 1993 "The Age of Innocence": Our hosts delve into Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence," exploring its period drama brilliance, complex characters, and themes of societal norms. "Striking Distance" and "Airborne": Join us for discussions on the action thriller "Striking Distance" and the sports comedy "Airborne," as we reflect on the films' entertainment value and 90s nostalgia. Segment 4: Sneak Peek - Next Week's Delights New Movies: "Flora and Son" Classic - To Be Determined 1993 Segment: "Dazed and Confused" Segment 5: Connect with Us! Stay connected with us on social media and support the show! Website: www.ihatecritics.com Facebook: facebook.com/EveryoneisaCriticPodcast Twitter: twitter.com/criticspod Instagram: instagram.com/criticspod Patreon: patreon.com/criticspod Tee Public Link: teepublic.com/user/criticspod YouTube: youtube.com/criticspod Jeff's Art: jefflassiter.com Sean's Reviews: seanatthemovies.blogspot.com Conclusion: Thank you for joining us for Episode 591 of "Everyone is a Critic." We hope you enjoyed our reviews of "Inside" (2023) and "A Haunting in Venice," as well as our exploration of the classic "Witness for the Prosecution" and our trip back to 1993 with movie discussions. Get ready for next week's episode, where we'll unveil "Flora and Son" and a classic that's yet to be determined. In our 1993 segment, we'll dive into "Dazed and Confused." Connect with us on social media and support the show. Until next time, happy watching!

Ever heard of fremitus? Wondering what it really means for your patient's occlusion? In this episode we're joined again by Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim, by popular demand, for an insightful discussion on dental fremitus. We understand that this topic can be a bit perplexing, so we're here to break it down step by step. https://youtu.be/LFZ4Uh0Y8sI Watch PDP160 on Youtube We share how we seamlessly integrate a fremitus check into an occlusal assessment, discussing the crucial aspects of when and how to intervene effectively, all while preserving your patient's chewing space. Check out our upcoming webinar “Unchippable” to learn about how to prevent chips and breaks on your lovely anterior composite restorations – protrusive.co.uk/unchippable 'Weakest Link' study that Jaz and Mahmoud referred to: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08869634.2000.11746142 The Awake Bruxism (habit breaking) appliance that Jaz uses called MAPA. More about Fremitus, how it's classified and occlusal trauma. Follow Dr. Ibrahim on Instagram @drmoidental Want to learn more about Occlusion? Head over to occlusion.online. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of the episode:00:00 Intro00:39 The Protrusive Dental Pearl04:17 Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim05:17 Mobility vs fremitus08:26 What is fremitus?09:52 The PDL12:54 The weakest link theory16:21 Checking for fremitus17:19 Class 1 fremitus21:57 Class 2 and 3 fremitus23:03 Treatment27:24 Envelope of function29:21 Orthodontic treatment36:34 Final remarks39:44 Outro If you liked this episode, you will also like PDP150 - Occlusion on Class IV Composite Restorations Did you know? You can get CPD from the Web App or Phone App and watch premium clinical videos, for less than a tax deductible Nando's per month? Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Fremitus is this strange thing when your patient bites together and you feel, or you see a tooth move out of the way, classically a front tooth, right? It's a sign of Occlusal Overload. And in this episode, we're going to talk everything related to Fremitus with my good friend, Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim. Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, and welcome back to another Protrusive Dental Podcast episode. If you're new to the podcast, welcome. Thanks so much for joining us. And if you're a veteran Protruserati, thanks for coming time and time again. We hope to make complex topics in dentistry tangible for you. Protrusive Dental PearlBefore we join the main interview with Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim, I'm going to give you the Protrusive Dental Pearl, which I always do for every main PDP episode. Today's Protrusive Pearl relates to cramp operations, and in particular, getting better impressions or scans. Look, once you've placed the retraction cord, and I know many people like to use things like Expasyl or Traxodent, which are like the pace systems. I quite like using retraction chords and also in combination with PTFE tape, especially as I do lots of vertical preparations or VertiPreps. Now I have got lots of webinars planned in October. As part of the live series I'm doing for the Protruserati, the premium subscribers, it's going to be VertiPrep for Plonkers. So that's coming soon. And one of the strategies I use to be able to scan subgingivally is once I've got my triple zero cord in place, I will put some PTFE tape over that. But sometimes what can happen is that the gingiva it sulks, right? It sulks on to the PTFE and sometimes even contacts the prep. So when I scan it because the tissues because the gums are touching the preparation it creates a nightmare scenario for my technician who wants that gingiva well out of the way So at that point the pearl the tip i'm giving you is if you've got a laser, fine. Great. Use a laser. If you've got any fancy burrs, use them. But the cheapest thing you can buy is something called a Thermocut Bur.

Allison shares all of the recent happenings as she leads up to her book launch this week! She shares an overview of each chapter and encourages listeners to continue to chase and accomplish their goals, too!Key Takeaways for Listeners:Gratitude: Allison expresses her immense gratitude for the support of her community and the launch of her book, "She Believed She Could."Behind-the-Scenes: Allison provides a glimpse into the weeks leading up to the book launch, including recording the audiobook, media opportunities, and speaking at the Women's Conference of Florida.The She Believed Foundation: Allison introduces the She Believed Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at providing access to personal and professional development opportunities for young women.Book Highlights: Allison briefly summarizes the chapters in her book, emphasizing the importance of confidence, mindset, goal setting, personal branding, and positive psychology.Goal Setting: Allison emphasizes the significance of setting and achieving meaningful goals and provides tips for effective goal setting.Time Management: Allison shares her success routine and time management skills, offering insights on how to maximize productivity.Personal Branding: Allison discusses the importance of personal branding and how to build a strong personal brand that aligns with your strengths and values.Embracing Change: Allison reflects on the evolution of her own journey and introduces the "Meant for M.O.R.E." framework, encouraging listeners to evaluate their current position and future aspirations.Acknowledgments: Allison expresses gratitude for everyone who has played a part in her journey, shaping her into who she is today.Community: Allison reinforces her belief in her listeners' potential and encourages them to keep moving forward.BOOK LINKS:Amazon: https://amzn.to/41SOslFBarnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/she-believed-she-could-allison-walsh/1143286259?ean=9781394174300Indie Bound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/stop-playing-small-how-to-level-up-in-business-and-life-allison-walsh/19660305?ean=9781394174300Books a million: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/She-Believed-Could/Allison-Walsh/9781394174300?id=8821624561478VIP BOX: https://www.shebelievedfoundation.org/product-page/vip-book-boxSponsor copies: https://www.shebelievedfoundation.org/category/all-products Transcript:[INTRO]Welcome to "She Believed She Could," the show that is dedicated to helping you show up, shine bright, and achieve abundant success. I am your host and coach, Allison Walsh.[INTRODUCTION]Hello, hello! I am beyond blown away that it is officially launch week for "She Believed She Could," the beautiful book baby that I have been working on for so long. I could not be more grateful for this entire experience, and I wanted to catch you up on everything going on behind the scenes.The last few weeks have been full, from recording the audiobook to media opportunities and speaking at the Women's Conference of Florida. Now it's launch week, and I've been busy tidying up last-minute details, preparing for this exciting week. It's crucial to be prepared for anything when you're working on something significant.[GRATITUDE]I want to express my gratitude for your support throughout this process. Hearing from you and learning about your goals and dreams has been incredible. Even if writing a book isn't your goal, I hope you take a chance to bet on yourself. Trust yourself to go after what you want, even if it's unfamiliar. You are smart and resilient, and you don't have to navigate your journey alone.[FOUNDATION AND MISSION]Before I share more about the book, I want to highlight the She Believed Foundation. It's a 501(c)(3) nonprofit I started to increase access to personal and professional development opportunities. 100% of the book's proceeds go directly to the foundation. We also offer options for sponsoring books to ensure they reach libraries, schools, or nonprofits. Expanding the reach and mission of this book and nonprofit has been incredibly fulfilling.[BOOK HIGHLIGHTS]Now, let me share a glimpse of what's inside the book. It's divided into three sections. Part one is "Show Up," and it begins with Chapter One: "Optimize Your Potential – You've Already Got What It Takes." This chapter reminds you that your potential is within you and introduces positive psychology concepts.Chapter Two: "Own It – Embrace Who You Are" emphasizes understanding your strengths and aligning them with your passions. It includes stories from my own experiences, including my business partnership with Jen.Chapter Three: "Letting Go to Grow – Releasing What Holds You Back" talks about making bold life changes and taking ownership of your future. I share my personal experience of breaking off an engagement and how it shaped my path.[CONFIDENCE AND SELF-CARE]Part two is "Shine Bright." Chapter Four: "Master Your Mindset – Confidence Is Your Key to Success" dives into mastering your mindset and overcoming imposter syndrome. I share my journey as Miss Florida and how I handled criticism.Chapter Five: "A Checkup from the Neck Up – Take Care of Yourself" highlights the importance of mental and physical health. It discusses the Health Quadra and the role it plays in a fulfilled life.Chapter Six: "Relationships Matter – It Takes a Village" emphasizes the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people, mentorship, and investing in personal and professional development.[ACHIEVE ABUNDANT SUCCESS]Part three is "Achieve Abundant Success." Chapter Seven: "Get Strategic – Set and Achieve Meaningful Goals" provides a framework for setting and achieving goals. It encourages you to start now and take consistent action.Chapter Eight: "Your Success Routine – Master Your Time Management Skills" reveals how to manage your time effectively. I share my morning routine and structuring success for thriving, not just getting by.Chapter Nine: "Building Your Brand – Your Story Is Your Superpower" delves into personal branding and making your message your mission. It provides valuable insights and frameworks for building your brand.Chapter Ten: "Embrace Your Evolution – When to Lean into New Opportunity" shares a transformative experience that led to a significant life change. It introduces the "Men for More" framework to help you evaluate where you are and where you want to be.[GRATITUDE AND COMMUNITY]I'm grateful for the endorsements from individuals I've admired for decades, like John Gordon, Laura Rutledge, Jeb Blount, Dorie Clark, Dr. Anita Bouchard, and JJ Virgin. These endorsements mean the world to me.I also want to acknowledge everyone who has been part of my journey. Every person has shaped me, motivated me, and inspired me. I'm grateful for the messy and magical moments, the ups and downs, and everything in between.[CONCLUSION]Thank you for being part of this community, and thank you for believing in me. I believe in you 1,000%, and my hope is that you do too. Keep being proud of yourself, keep putting one foot in front of the other, and remember, you already have what it takes.[TUNE IN]Stay tuned for more exciting content and updates. This is your home, and you can always come here whenever you need. Take whatever you need, and leave what you don't. Keep moving forward. Bye for now. 

Introduction: Hello, movie buffs! It's time for another exciting episode of "Everyone is a Critic." In Episode 589, we've got a trio of new releases to dissect: "The Equalizer 3," "Bottoms," and "Dude Bro Party Massacre." We'll also dive into the cult classic "They Live" during our Undisputed Classic segment. Plus, we'll take a trip down memory lane to 1993 with reviews of "Kalifornia," "Calendar Girl," and "Fortress." And don't miss a sneak peek into next week's episode, where we'll explore the spine-tingling world of "The Conjuring" and its chilling universe. But for now, let's jump into the current episode! Segment 1: New Movie Reviews "The Equalizer 3": Our hosts analyze the action-packed world of "The Equalizer 3," discussing the performance of the iconic Denzel Washington and the film's overall impact on the franchise. "Bottoms": We explore the world of "Bottoms," examining its unique storytelling and cinematic qualities. What surprises does this movie hold for its viewers? "Dude Bro Party Massacre": Hold on to your popcorn as we discuss the horror-comedy "Dude Bro Party Massacre." Our hosts dissect the film's humor, horror elements, and cult potential. Segment 2: Undisputed Classic "They Live" (1988): Join us as we revisit John Carpenter's cult classic "They Live." We'll discuss the film's social commentary, memorable one-liners, and its lasting impact on pop culture. Segment 3: Flashback to 1993 "Kalifornia": Our hosts delve into the dark world of "Kalifornia," a crime thriller that explores the psychology of serial killers. How does it hold up after all these years? "Calendar Girl" and "Fortress": We'll also discuss "Calendar Girl," a coming-of-age drama set in the 1960s, and "Fortress," a sci-fi action film that takes place in a dystopian future. Segment 4: Sneak Peek - Next Week's Chilling Lineup Get ready for spine-tingling experiences in next week's episode: "The Conjuring" "Annabelle" "The Conjuring 2" "Annabelle Creation" "The Nun" "The Curse of La Llorona" "Annabelle Comes Home" "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It" "The Nun 2" Segment 5: Social Media and Support Connect with us on social media and show your support! Website: www.ihatecritics.com Facebook: facebook.com/EveryoneisaCriticPodcast Twitter: twitter.com/criticspod Instagram: instagram.com/criticspod Patreon: patreon.com/criticspod Tee Public Link: teepublic.com/user/criticspod YouTube: youtube.com/criticspod Jeff's Art: jefflassiter.com Sean's Reviews: seanatthemovies.blogspot.com Conclusion: Thank you for joining us for Episode 589 of "Everyone is a Critic." We hope you enjoyed our reviews of "The Equalizer 3," "Bottoms," and "Dude Bro Party Massacre," as well as our journey through the classic "They Live" and our flashback to 1993 with movie reviews. Get ready for next week's chilling episode exploring "The Conjuring" universe. Connect with us on social media, visit our website, and consider supporting the show. Until next time, happy watching!

‘Easy Dentistry on Difficult Patients is still Difficult' - Dr Lincoln Harris Patients with small mouth opening can be a huge pain in the back for Dentists - but did you know there are ways we can significantly improve their mouth opening through physiotherapy? https://youtu.be/v_u9sBAGliU Watch GF020 on Youtube In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Tzvika Greenbaum, a specialist TMJ physiotherapist who's here to spill the beans on his journey from headaches to jawaches. We bring to light the jaw-dropping collaboration between dentists and physiotherapists, making dental treatment easier for both you and your patients. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of the episode:00:00 Intro01:02 Dr. Tzvika Greenbaum03:39 Dentistry meets physiotherapy09:33 Range of movement10:23 Asymmetry11:20 Prevention12:20 Advice to dentists14:34 Stretching16:17 The dental gym16:57 Sleep bruxists vs. awake bruxists19:28 Reducing sleep bruxism20:52 Obstructive sleep apnoea22:03 Statistics and diagnostic criteria25:16 At-home exercises27:20 Pain and discomfort28:39 Rehabilitation30:14 When to involve a physiotherapist31:12 Expected results32:21 Screening34:15 Dr. Greenbaum's event39:04 Outro Dr. Greenbaum's upcoming course: protrusive.co.uk/greenbaum If you liked this episode, you will also like 3 Simple TMD Exercises Did you know? You can get CPD from the Web App or Phone App and watch premium clinical videos, for less than a tax deductible Nando's per month? Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: One of my mentors, Dr. Lincoln Harris, once taught me that easy dentistry on a difficult patient is still difficult, and nothing makes our dentistry more difficult than that patient who just can't open, or the patient that keeps closing their mouth. Like, it's impossible to do high quality work in that kind of a patient. Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, and in this Group Function where we just focus on one theme, today's big topic is "Help! My patient Can't Open Their Mouth!" And you'll be amazed with some physio with some exercises with some training if you like your patient can actually open significantly more allowing you to do better dentistry and allowing the patient to get better outcomes. We're joined today by our first ever Israeli guest Dr. Greenbaum who is a physiotherapist who specialized in the area of TMD and he'll be coming soon to the UK. So I thought ahead of his visit, let's talk about a really important topic that I think is going to help you guys in the real world where our patients are struggling to keep their mouth open. What causes this and how can we get involved either just by yourself or working in tandem with a physiotherapist? Let's join the main episode now and I'll catch you in the outro. Main Episode:Dr. Greenbaum, welcome to the Protrusive Dental Podcast. How are you? [Tzvika]Hey, hi Jaz. I'm very well. Thank you very much. And thank you for inviting me to speak about my favorite topic, which is Rehabilitation of Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders. [Jaz]It's great to be able to help our patients in pain. And this is exactly what it's about, pain and discomfort. And I'm going to really try and extract all the knowledge and experience that you have. But just share with the Protruserati listening right now, what is your background? How did you niche into rehabilitation of temporomandibular disorders and psychogenic and in that area? [Tzvika]Well, my bachelor's degree was back in 2004 in Haifa University in Israel. And after that, I headed up to Australia, South Australia to learn a master's degree in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy and a very well-known degree. But in that degree, I started to get into the topic of cervical spine. Upper cervical spine rehabilitation of patients with headaches. It was a new thing for physiotherapists to rehabilitate patients with cervicogenic headac...

Introduction: Hello, bold goal crushers! Welcome to another episode of the Bold Goal Crusher podcast. We appreciate you tuning in today as we delve into the captivating topic of using mental imagery to achieve your goals. Visualization is a powerful tool that can significantly impact goal setting and increase your likelihood of success. Join us as we explore various techniques and strategies to harness the true potential of mental imagery and boost your focus and motivation along the way. Episode Highlights: The Science of Visualization: Our brain processes mental imagery as if it were real, making visualization a powerful tool for achieving goals. Research studies support the effectiveness of visualization in improving goal achievement. Types of Visualization: We discuss three key types of visualization techniques: guided visualization, outcome visualization, and process visualization. Each method offers unique benefits for goal setting and realization. Tips for Effective Visualization: To make your visualization experience more powerful and vivid, we recommend creating a conducive environment, engaging all your senses, and incorporating emotions to strengthen the experience. Overcoming Obstacles: Ensure you are in the right place and mindset for visualization, free from doubts and distractions. Combining visualization with actionable steps is vital to enhance motivation and focus. Tailoring Visualizations to Specific Goals: Customize your visualization techniques to suit different areas of your life, such as career, academics, sports, or personal growth. Capture Your Visualizations: We encourage jotting down your visualizations on paper to reflect on your journey and stay motivated. Conclusion: The power of visualization lies in its ability to guide your future and set you on the path to achieving your goals. By mastering the art of mental imagery, you can unlock your full potential and transform your aspirations into reality. So, take a moment today to choose a visualization technique that resonates with you and start working towards your dreams. Remember, you have the ability to crush your goals and overcome any obstacles that come your way without having to work double time. Stay tuned for our next episode where we continue to explore goals and all the ways to conquer them. Thank you for joining us on this empowering journey through the power of visualization. Connect with Sara Mayer: Instagram @saramayerconsulting Facebook @saracmayerconsulting LinkedIn @saramayerconsulting

Introduction: Hello, fellow movie enthusiasts! Welcome back to another riveting episode of "Everyone is a Critic." In Episode 587, we're diving into a mix of cinematic experiences, from the chilling classics to the latest releases. Join us as we dissect the mysteries of "The Last Voyage of Demeter" and unravel the intrigue of "Jules." We'll also explore iconic films in our Undisputed Classic segment, including "The Exorcist," "The French Connection," "The Sorcerer," and "Cruising." And, of course, we'll take a nostalgic trip back to 1993 with reviews of "Searching for Bobby Fisher," "Heart and Souls," "Jason Goes to Hell," and "The Secret Garden." Stick around for a sneak peek into next week's episode, featuring "Blue Beetle" and "Strays," along with our continued journey through 1993 with movies like "The Ballad of Little Jo," "Hard Target," "King of the Hill," "Surf Ninjas," and "Wilder Napalm." Let's get started! Segment 1: New Movie Reviews "The Last Voyage of Demeter": Prepare for a haunting journey aboard "The Last Voyage of Demeter." Our hosts unravel the mysteries of this chilling tale, discussing its horror elements and impact on audiences. "Jules": Join us as we explore the world of "Jules," diving into its unique storytelling and cinematic qualities. What does this film have in store for its viewers? Segment 2: Exploring the Classics Undisputed Classic Segment: "The Exorcist" "The French Connection" "The Sorcerer" "Cruising" Segment 3: Flashback to 1993 "Searching for Bobby Fisher": Our hosts discuss the thought-provoking drama "Searching for Bobby Fisher," exploring the complexities of the chess world and family dynamics. "Heart and Souls," "Jason Goes to Hell," and "The Secret Garden": Join us as we dive into the heartwarming fantasy "Heart and Souls," the horror adventure "Jason Goes to Hell," and the enchanting "The Secret Garden." Segment 4: Sneak Peek - Next Week's New Movies & Classics New Movies: "Blue Beetle" "Strays" Undisputed Classic - Stir of Echoes 1993 Segment: "The Ballad of Little Jo" "Hard Target" "King of the Hill" "Surf Ninjas" "Wilder Napalm" Segment 5: Social Media and Support Stay connected with us on social media! Patreon: patreon.com/criticspod Tee Public Link: teepublic.com/user/criticspod YouTube: youtube.com/criticspod Jeff's Art: jefflassiter.com Sean's Reviews: seanatthemovies.blogspot.com Conclusion: Thank you for joining us for Episode 587 of "Everyone is a Critic." We hope you enjoyed our reviews of "The Last Voyage of Demeter" and "Jules," as well as our exploration of classic films and our journey back to 1993 with movie reviews. Get ready for next week's episode, where we'll dive into new movies "Blue Beetle" and "Strays." We'll also continue our 1993 journey with reviews of "The Ballad of Little Jo," "Hard Target," "King of the Hill," "Surf Ninjas," and "Wilder Napalm." Connect with us on social media and consider supporting the show. Until next time, happy watching!  

Introduction: Hello, Bold Crushers! Welcome to another exciting episode of the Bold Goal Crusher podcast. I'm thrilled to have you here today as we delve into the crucial topic of mastering self-discipline and how it leads to achieving our goals. Episode Highlights: Self-discipline is the key to managing ourselves effectively and achieving our goals. Time cannot be managed; it's about managing our actions and habits. Understanding the science of self-discipline is essential for personal growth and success. Building positive habits and replacing negative ones is crucial for reaching our goals. Habits significantly influence our daily lives and can make or break our progress. The habit loop, consisting of cues, routines, and rewards, plays a vital role in establishing good habits. Identifying cues and setting up routines can help solidify these habits. Willpower and decision fatigue are interconnected. Making too many decisions throughout the day depletes our willpower. Strengthening willpower involves stacking difficult tasks early in the day and being kind to ourselves. Staying consistent with self-discipline requires establishing routines and setting realistic deadlines for our goals. Squeezing deadlines can help maintain focus and motivation. Embracing a growth mindset is essential for long-term success. Viewing setbacks as learning opportunities and challenges as stepping stones will strengthen self-discipline. Conclusion: Developing self-discipline and building habits that lead to goal success is within your reach. Take a proactive approach to manage your daily schedule and align it with your goals. Don't leave your achievements to chance; take action today and start cultivating the self-discipline needed to make your bold goals a reality. Thank you for tuning in today. Remember, you have the power to set and crush your bold goals without having to work double time. Stay focused, stay disciplined, and keep striving for greatness! Connect with Sara Mayer: Instagram @saramayerconsulting Facebook @saracmayerconsulting LinkedIn @saramayerconsulting

Welcome back to part two of this ‘Restoring the Single Implant Crown' podcast series that's about to kick start your implant career. We've teamed up with the uber-knowledgeable Dr. Devang Patel, a dental wizard with over 13 years of spellbinding experience under his belt. Leading on from the previous episode that focussed on case assessment to impression taking/digital scanning, we now cover the step by step protocol for fitting the implant crown, maintenance, and troubleshooting. https://youtu.be/FDB72GtYAAs Watch PDP157 on Youtube Dr. Patel's got your back (or should we say teeth?) every step of the way! Check out his social media platforms for further information about his upcoming implant restoration course: @dr_devangpatel info@drdevangpatel.com www.drdevangpatel.com Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of the episode:00:00 Intro01:12 Restoring Implant Crowns Infographic02:03 Recap Part 103:45 Inspecting the labwork05:52 Assessing the occlusion06:22 Keeping the implant clean during the fit appointment07:21 Anaesthetic Prior to Implant Crown Try-In?08:20 Screwing in the crown11:13 Occlusion and guidance17:18 Temporarily restoring the access hole18:33 Review19:49 Definitive torque and sealing the access hole25:46 Yearly review of Implant Crown27:18 Radiographs29:21 Excessive blanching when fitting crown31:21 High occlusion management32:06 Open contact points for implant crowns34:43 Other implantologists' work38:29 Angulated screw channels43:24 Loose implant crowns45:52 Implant passports46:57 Adjusting the occlusion48:24 Dr. Devang Patel51:13 Outro You can now download the infographic that sums up Part 1 and Part 2 of An Idiot's Guide to Restoring Single Implant Crowns. Just head to protrusive.co.uk/idiot If you liked this episode, you will also like Full Mouth Rehabs Part 3 Did you know? You can get CPD from the Web App or Phone App and watch premium clinical videos, for less than a tax deductible Nando's per month? Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to Part Two of an Idiot's Guide to Restoring the Single Implant Crown. Now, if you haven't yet listened to the first part of this episode, that's PDP156. Jaz's Introduction:You should probably start there first because Dr. Devang Patel, our esteemed guest, he talks us through from the very beginning, like how do you assess the site that might be suitable for an implant and what to actually do if someone else's placed implant is coming to you for the restoration. And let me tell you, I learned so much. The episode is called an Idiot's Guide. I'm the idiot, right? So I was learning so much as getting along. He taught us about internal hex, external hex, conical, or butt joints, all these things I was learning about implants. Then we talk about impressions and scanning. And now we're going to be talking about what happens when the lab work comes back from the lab and you're going to assess it. You want to take a radiograph. You're going to actually screw the screw retain crown in. But what are you checking for? Do you have to give local anesthetic, for example? How much talk do you need to give at that point? How do you then restore the screw access hole? And what should be the follow up protocol going forward, as well as the all important troubleshooting? It's really important when you learn a new skill, that you learn about the troubleshooting. So any of the common complications that you can get ahead of it. Protrusive Dental PearlSo just before we go and join Devang for that Part two, I'm going to give you the Protrusive Dental Pearl. It's basically a summary of both these two episodes, so PDP156 and this episode, because I imagine as a learner, it can become quite overwhelming, especially if you're commuting, chopping onions, and then to try and remember and think, you need like an aid memoir.

INTRODUCTION: Hello from Tokyo!!! In this episode I am challenging you to break free of old thought patterns, actions and belief systems that do not serve your highest good, reduce you and will ultimately lead you to unfortunate circumstances. The herd mentality and the company you keep could be a death sentence mentally, emotionally, spiritually and/or physically. – and many other ways.  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):·      Getting Set Free From Secret Prisons·      The Dangers Of Not Thinking For Yourself·      Conditioning – Acknowledge It·      Oppression Will Follow You·      Astrology – Planets In Retrograde ·      Inner Child Healing·      Benefits Of Isolation·      Rejection Is An Open Door·      A Different Kind Of Wedding Night·      Joshua + Caleb & The Children Of Israel·      Lot & Sodom & Gomorrah·      Bye Bye Blood Family!!! CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON:Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comWebsite: https://www.DownUnderApparel.com   Donate: https://shorturl.at/gq068DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS:·      Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse & Codependency Support Groups (Virtual) - https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-narcissism-survivor-meetup-group/·      COSA – 12 Step Recovery For Victims Of Compulsive Sexual Behavior - https://cosa-recovery.org·      A Recommended Reading To Help Heal From Narcissism - https://amzn.to/41sg6FO·      Sex Addicts Anonymous: HTTPS://WWW.SAA.ORG·      HEALING SCRIPTURES: https://testimon.io/blog/bible-verses-about-healing-sickness·      COVERT NARCISSIST SIGNS: https://www.healthline.com/health/covert-narcissist#signs·      GENERAL NARCISSIST SIGNS: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-2036666 o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs·      OverviewBible (Jeffrey Kranz)o  https://overviewbible.como  https://www.youtube.com/c/OverviewBible·      Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (Documentary)o  https://rb.gy/v4u7z·      Leaving Hillsong Podcast With Tanya Levino  https://shows.acast.com/leavinghillsongThanks for listening! Please donate at SexDrugsAndJesus.com and follow us on TikTok, IG etc.

Show Links | shebirths.com Make a submission here to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Select Committee on Birth Trauma here: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/listofcommittees/Pages/committee-details.aspx?pk=318#tab-submissions Reach out to us or Hygieia Health https://www.instagram.com/hygieiahealthltd/ for help with the submission and letter examples. BESt (Birth Experience Study) Links: https://www.facebook.com/BirthExperienceStudy  ⁠australianbirthstudy.com/about-the-study⁠ Birth Time & Jerusha Sutton Links: jerusha.com.au @jerushasutton birthtime.world/ ⁠@birthtimeworld ⁠ midwifehazel.com/ She Births®: The She Births® study: https://shebirths.com/research/ Introduction: Hello, welcome to another episode of the She Births Show. Today I have a dear friend and fellow doula Jerusha Sutton on the podcast.  Jerusha has been a birth worker for 17 years, as a birth and postnatal doula in Australia and UK, and an international award winning birth photographer and videographer.  Together we are talking about her film that has won 24 international film festival awards that she made in collaboration with Jo Hunter, Zoe Naylor and Selina Scoble, Birth Time.  We discuss the changes that Birth Time is making both culturally and politically to our conversations about birth experiences and birth trauma. It has sparked a fire that I am happy to say is now blazing. I'm sure a lot of you have seen Birth Time and been very moved by it and also had multiple questions arise about your own experiences of giving birth in the system and the care you received. Today we dive into the core message of the film which revolves around the question; what would it take for all women to come out of their birth not only safe but emotionally well? On the back of Birth Time a study at Western Sydney University launched, the same place that did the She Births® study. Over 9 months they collected over 8,000 submissions about women's experiences of giving birth in Australia in the last 5 years.  You might know this as the BESt study. You can stay up to date with the study via a facebook link in our notes.  What was found was heartbreaking but has subsequently changed legal ease already and initiated a NSW parliamentary inquiry.  If you are in NSW please, I encourage you to submit any traumatic experience you have had to the inquiry. The link is in our notes. If you are a birthworker and have ever witnessed anything traumatic in New South Wales you are also invited to submit before the 11th of August. Birth trauma is defined as inappropriate, disrespectful or abusive treatment before, during and after birth. We expand on these definitions in our chat. In the BESt study it was found that 30% of women experience some form of birth trauma in Australia. Shockingly, 1 in 10 women experience obstetric violence.  We go into more detail around what obstetric violence is. Please note it is not specifically referring to an obstetrician but includes all birth workers. And violence is not just actions but words too and what is commonly experienced as coercive language and a lack of informed consent. Within the 30% of women experiencing birth trauma 70% of those say that it was due to the way they were cared for, or spoken to.  58% of women felt dehumanized. 26% of women felt violated and 16% of women felt  powerless. All of these experiences have very significant effects on women, their relationships and of course partners and babies too. None of this is okay. So how do we fix it? Well tune in to discover the most evidence based solutions. Jerusha and I discuss What is birth trauma & how can we reduce it What is true continuity of care The importance of indigenous birthing on country  The healing power of birth in our lineages  Jerusha's best experience while interviewing birthing experts for the film  My experience of remembering Leroy's birth at his 21st birthday party recently

Welcome one, welcome all - today Dr. Aria introduces BETTER DAYS AHEAD! We discuss the tone and topics you can expect from this podcast, and Dr. Aria also introduces herself for those that don't already know her, how she got to where she is today, and why mental health is something she is so passionate about continuing to raise awareness for. Thanks for being here! To schedule with me: https://square.site/book/VXW3V8VKCPQCR/young-health-pllc --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dr-aria-young/support

After the cliffhanger from Part 1, Dr. Sandra Hulac is back to share more information about Frictional and Constricted Chewing Patterns (CCP) with cases shared and explanations given. Check out the Full Episode with a Free membership on Protrusive.App Download Protrusive App on iOS and Android and Claim your Verifiable CPD/CE by answering a few questions + You can get EARLY ACCESS to the episode + EXCLUSIVE content The Protrusive Dental Pearl: Overjet is King. We don't want tight bites. We want a bit of overjet that gives chewing space - this will reduce the chances of a functional attrition and avoid 'too much anterior guidance' or locking the patient in. “It's important to know why things fail and try and avoid failure the next time” Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: 0:28 PDP141 - Stop Blaming Bruxism Part 1 Recap6:34 The Protrusive Dental Pearl: Overjet is King6:56 The role of pre-restorative orthodontics9:24 Case #1: Extremely traumatic deep bite14:10 Case #2: Crowding of the lower anterior segment19:41 Case #3 Lot of wear on the front teeth 23:54 Case #4: Chipped and worn front teeth 27:06 Case #5: Worn front teeth 32:41 Case #6: Patient had an extraction ortho Dr. Mahmoud and I are also excited to share the occlusion that we learned over the years –  in a way that you have never seen before!  Occlusion: Basics and Beyond is the most tangible, real-world, and comprehensive occlusion training on the planet. LIMITED DELEGATE SPOTS DUE TO STARTER KIT STOCK – AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT! Occlusion Online Course Be sure to watch Part 1: Stop Blaming Bruxism! How to Spot Frictional and Constricted Chewing Patterns (CCP)  Click below for full episode transcript: Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and thanks so much for coming onto the app for part two or what was quite a brilliant part one with Dr. Sandra Hulac. Her energy is just absolutely amazing. Jaz's Introduction:Now, just a recap, we left you on a bit of a cliffhanger last time. We talked about, I asked Sandra about orthodontics. You know, how often does orthodontics come into it? Is it every single time? And the answer she gives is really pragmatic. So you'll hear that or see that in just a few minutes. But I just want to do a bit of a recap, what we talked about last time, right? So, a constricted chewing pattern is someone who really wants to bite here, but the teeth meet together here, so the condyle gets sort of pushed back, if you like. Right. So for this patient, the centric relation is actually further forward. So who's at risk? People who've got upright or retroclined upper incisors, right? And their jaw wants to be further forward, right? Maybe cuz of growth, the jaw wants to be further forward, which is why Sandra said that people who've had orthodontics and upper pre-molars extracted. The maxilla gets smaller if you like, and mandible start continues to grow and those patients may be at risk. So if you see those kind of traits, then maybe we shouldn't be using like a leaf gauge for centric relation on those patients. We should be using like a deprogramming appliance Lucia Jig or a Kois deprogrammer. If you fancy that one because that's what Dr. Sandra does. And what you find with these patients with a CCP is yes, their jaw gets shifted back, but you might get more wear on their edges. And that's not from bruxism. That's because the outside in movement. Right? Their jaw wants to be further forward. Now, this is similar. The cousin of this is the frictional chewing pattern who their condyle isn't getting forced back, right? Their MIP is okay. It's just that as they're chewing the outside in is causing this. So, let's say that's normal, the incisal edges are not worn here. Can you see? They're a bit jaggedy over here, right? It's just, to over here and over here. We see this all the time and let me show you some photos actually on th...

“Who goes there?” Ulv yells into the darkness. He'd found his way into this larger cave and had ultimately gotten lost. This cave was enormous. It honestly reminded of him when he and his old friends had delved into the Underdark looking for a lost library. To think that he had risked his life so Rowan could find a silly children's book. He chuckled to himself. He'd do it again though. He loved his friends and would die for them.“Even me?” asked a familiar voice.Ulv Spun around, thrusting his torch into the enveloping darkness. “Racooni? Is that you?” The cave responded with silence and stillness. Truly this cave was enormous. How had he not found a wall yet?“What are memories, but illusions.” The drifting voice of Judir echoed around from no direction in particular.“Judir, my friend, I'm so sorry.” Ulv bellowed as he turned around. He'd briefly seen the visage of Judir right before it faded into the darkness of the cave.“And apologies are just smoke from a dying fire.” This time the voice was that of Ulv's adopted father. Ulv turned and saw the broken body of a dying man just before it faded into the black of shadow.“You left us.” This time it was Rue's voice and Ulv saw her, taller and thinner than usual with deep shadows ringing her eyes and a darkness behind. Then that too faded into darkness.Ulv, kept spinning and spinning from voice to shadow to voice to shadow, until he stopped.There standing in front of Ulv was a woman.“Ulv, who are you?” It was Ulv's birth mother.What would you like to do?Introduction Hello there. It's me, Justin and today we'll be discussing one of the most important elements of any D&D campaign - the villain. Why is it so important to have a good villain?A great villain can be the driving force behind your campaign. It can provide motivation for your players to continue the quest, and give them a tangible enemy to fight. A poorly-written villain, on the other hand, can make the campaign feel lackluster. You know that feeling you get when Thanos kills Loki, or when Saruman sends the horde of Urukhai to destroy Rohan, or when the Joker blows up a hospital? That is all only possible because of a well-written villain. So, let's dive in and discuss how to create a villain that your players will love to hate!Part 1: What Makes a Good Villain?Let's first explore what makes a good villain. A great villain is one that is complex, has clear motivations, and is relatable in some way. Players should be able to understand the villain's perspective, even if they don't completely agree with it.Another key aspect of a good villain is that they pose a real threat to the players, either directly or indirectly. They should be challenging to defeat, and their actions should have consequences that impact the world around them. A villain that is too easy to defeat or doesn't pose a significant threat can leave players feeling unsatisfied.So, when creating your villain, keep these factors in mind. Ask yourself questions like:What motivates this character to act this way?How can I make this villain a real threat to my players?Would a normal person at least consider their arguments in a reasonable conversation?Part 2: Different Types of VillainsAs you create your villain, consider the different types of villains that you can use to add variety and depth to your campaign. One type of villain is the classic "big bad" - this is the ultimate enemy that the players will face at the end of the campaign. They're often powerful, dangerous, and have a grand plan that the players must stop.Another type of villain is the mastermind. This villain operates by pulling strings...

Hello les cops !C'est @Taniamakeuplus & @Thegingerchloe… bienvenue dans notre tête ! Ici on va vous parler de tous les sujets qui nous concernent : confiance en soi, amour, sexo… Viens prendre part à notre conversation ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Being 'Mum' is the hardest (and most rewarding) job in the world. What are the unique challenges of Parenthood for Dentists? I'm thrilled to be sharing this non-clinical episode with you about work-life 'balance', especially if you're thinking of starting a family one day (or just want to reminisce about real-world challenges facing young Dentists that are parents). Even if you're not a parent, I think it will help you in your career and personal life. Dr. Hardeep Basi and I also discuss why Women in Dentistry sometimes do not get the recognition they deserve. https://youtu.be/FRP3vUQQdQI Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: Dr. Hardeep's Journey 6:33The ‘complaint' that changed Dr. Hardeep's perspective in  life 13:01Motherhood affecting career progression 19:34Parenthood and Dentistry 28:14Female (Mothers) Support Group (Lead Her) 33:57Work-Life Quality 38:20Worrying about the Future 52:51  Check out the Support Group LEAD HER that Dr. Hardeep established to support females especially mothers in having the work-life quality they deserved! If you enjoyed this episode, you will also like Being Unstoppable with Ferhan Ahmed Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: There are so so many challenges. I could spend an entire day talking about this and I made a list of about 25 unique challenges to particularly mothers in dentistry and things that I've experienced. Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to the Protrusive Dental Podcast. This is an interference cast which is a non clinical interruption. For those who are listening, I don't know if I sound different. For those who are watching, you'll notice this crack on ceiling and my room looks very different. And where's my background gone? Hi, I'm recording in my sister's old bedroom in my parents place because Hardeep, our guest today who is a just a fantastic person. She's a shining light in dentistry, she's blossoming into this amazing voice for females in dentistry. And I brought her on to talk about parenthood in dentistry. It was so difficult to plan this date that it actually worked out that I'm recording not in my usual studio. So do excuse the acoustics and the video if it's a bit different. For those of you that know me parenthood is something that's really important to me in my life. And I'm so happy to be sharing this episode with you guys. Even if you're not a parent, and you never want to be a parent, I think there's so much you can gain about our discussions at work life balance, like Hardeep maybe changed my thinking about it not being balance. It's about work-life quality. So we discussed that towards the end. We talk about family planning and how especially for females and mothers to be, this could really change your career trajectory. And we kind of touched a little bit on why, perhaps, in dentistry, women in dentistry sometimes not get the spotlight they truly deserve especially when you look at the lecture circuit, there are many more male dentists on the lecture circuit despite there being more females in dentistry up and coming than males. So motherhood may have something to do with that. The challenges, unique challenges like being mum is the most difficult job ever. I remember Lakshmi. Lakshmi kind of got the I know you're listening to this. You're one of the loyal Protruserati and you came to our live splint course day and we just talked about being mum and being a practice owner and how it poses such unique challenges. Now one thing I discussed in this episode with Hardeep is I have been like the broodiness guy ever, for the longest time, like it was a dream come true when I became a father. So this was an episode I was really looking forward to recording. And I think dentistry does pose some unique challenges. And some of the challenges that Hardeep talks about,

Introduction: Hello everyone, and welcome back to ArtBeat Radio!  This EPI from the Able Arts!  Here we have some original parodies and some original music that we have been working on for the past couple of weeks.  We hope you enjoy it and have a great rest of your day.  Rudy's Loops IntroductionIn this piece called, “Rudy's Loops,” created by Rudy Austin, it's a collection on pre-recorded loops from the software Garage Band, that was put together in the specific order, and put in a specific tempo that Rudy felt best. It's a collection of many different melodies, and showcases a lot of different instruments and sounds that Rudy enjoyed on Garage Band.  We hope that you enjoy this piece as much as we enjoyed creating it.  Don't Worry This piece is a parody based of the song Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin.  All of the music parody lab class here at EPI chose this song specifically and they brainstormed a couple of ideas that they wanted to have it be about and ultimately, they decided they wanted it to be about friendship and traveling.  In this song you'll hear references about Austin Texas and spending time with friends, and overall it was a super fun experience to create lyrics and melodies that talk about the importance of friendship and also the fun times you can have by traveling.  We hope you enjoy it! InstrumentsShakers: Daniel Jacobs, Myla Irving, Piano: Rita Komsky, Emilio LopezVocals: Greco Ancona, Elizabeth Correa, Jamond Pearson, Griselda Ramos, Jessica DawsonTambourine: John NonnetteGuitar: Jermaine FreemanDrums: Rudy Austin, Elizabeth Correa LyricsVerse 1We'll dedicate this song I wrote It might want to make you fly to Austin Don't worry, be joyful In every life we have familyWe can see them around the world Don't worry, be joyful Travel and LoveChorusDo, do, do...Verse 2Ain't got no place to stay But you can always stay with me Don't worry, be joyful We can explore lots of things Maybe try the best foods and sing Don't worry, be joyfulChorusDo, do, do...Verse 3 Ain't got no worry, ain't got no care Ain't got no way to make you frown Don't worry, be joyful Have some fun in the city  Austin makes me smile every bit So don't worry, be joyfulChorusDo, do, do... I Love The Piano“I Love the Piano” is an original parody created by the Music Parody Lab class here at EPI and is based off the song You've Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman. Basically, in this song, the class decided to write about the piano, their love for the piano, the different things you can do on the piano, and just overall, the great qualities that this instrument has.  They had so much fun creating it, and we hope you enjoy it as well. InstrumentsPiano/Electric Piano: Greco Ancona, Rita Komsky, Emilio Lopez, Jessica DawsonDrums: Carlos Arredondo, Daniel JacobsVocals: Jamond Pearson, Griselda Ramos, Jessica DawsonShakers: Jessica Woods, Adam MuriedaGuitar: JermaineGarageband Loops: bass, electric guitar and drums LyricsVerse 1There's nothing betterThan the keys right hereWhen I'm sad I'll just play alongTil I feel the joy deep inside my soulI'll change the rhythm and the tempo I love the pianoVerse 2There's so many keysExactly 88The piano is so beautifulIt never disappointsI'll change the rhythm and the tempoI love the pianoBridgeIt's the most beautiful soundPlaying around the roomThere's nothing better than playing with you my friendIt's me and you foreverVerse 3So I'll play alongWhile you sit by meIt will be the best time you'll see I love the pianoClosing Thank you so much for listening to our episode here at EPI Center, and we hope you enjoyed the musical pieces that we created just as much as we had fun creating them.  We hope you have a great rest of your day and we'll see you here again soon!

This was the most difficult interview I ever recorded for Protrusive Dental Podcast. I was approached by a representative from Smile Direct Club to appear on the podcast. I had mixed feelings but knew this was an opportunity to ask some good questions and gain an insight into how this active and significant stakeholder in clear aligner therapy (whether we like it or not) operates. https://youtu.be/6Sjwr52_EkM Video to this episode has not been made public and only those with a link can watch it - OR on the Protrusive APP releasing for general sale next week Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: In terms of efficiency in doing your IPR, be sure to plan your IPR and your ClinCheck so that a lot of the IPR happens in one go when the contact is more aligned.  https://youtu.be/x6K2o9tS0GU The highlight of this episode: 10:13 Current market trends for clear aligners 12:59 Animosity Between Smile Direct Club and Dentists 17:19 Patients that are suitable for Smile Direct Club 19:33 Smile Direct Club's Workflow/Patient Concern 30:32 Patient Education about Direct Smile Club 33:44 SDC's 'Lifetime' Aligners? 37:11 SDC's Night Time Aligners?! 43:20 SDC's pop up shop within Dental Practice 46:55 Dental Boards vs Smile Direct Club 53:16 Patient Support Network? If you enjoyed this episode, you will also like GDP Alignment vs Specialist Orthodontics Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Carrying out orthodontics is radiographs, temporomandibular joint assessment, Periodontal probing, periodontal diagnosis. Where is that in the workflow? So essentially what I'm asking Dr. Ataii is if someone doesn't see you and goes to perhaps to one, the pop up shops in the street, what is the workflow? And do you think there's something that should be improved in the workflow and let's learn about the workflow first I think before we can then as dentist be critique that. Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to the most difficult interview I've ever had to do. When the opportunity first came to discuss with a representative from Smile Direct Club, you can imagine my initial thought I was like no way, I'm not giving them any airtime, right? That was the initial thought. And then I just pause and I thought okay, this is an opportunity. So I posted this about this invitation to our group on Facebook Protrusive Dental Community and oh my god, you guys are hilarious. The amount of stuff you guys came out with saying do this, do that, ask him this some real tough questions or whatnot. And then Jonathan Doron, one of my buddies, one of the Protruserati, he made an awesome comment, right? And he got me thinking, okay, so amongst all of them on there, read his comment out it says, "If you think Smile Direct Club are doing something wrong, as most dentists do, then why not have them on and debate it. They're already here and providing the treatment whether you do or not. It would be an interesting break from the usual format, which you know, I love already. And it would genuinely like to see them come on and have a discussion in good faith." And that was the most beautiful thing. So Jonathan, thank you so much, because that really helped me and it was a guiding comment for me in terms of how I'm going to approach this interview. Because look, I'm gonna be straight up with you all. A) I don't want to get sued. Okay, I want this podcast and I want to be able to feed my family in the future as a dentist, so I don't want to get sued by anyone for any kind of thing, defamation, right? So I came and approached this podcast in a sensitive way. And I feel as though would I have asked certain questions in a different way. Had I seen Dr. Ataii, Dr. Payam Ataii, our guests and he was lovely. So thanks so much for being so lovely, Dr. Payam Ataii. So had, I would have asked him in a different way?

Be proactive. Be the master of your destiny. We have another non-clinical topic all about 'making your own luck' in Dentistry and in life including landing your dream associate position with Dr. Rupert Monkhouse, the removable prosthodontic wizard from Suction Lower Complete Dentures – Improve your Removable Prosthodontics   https://youtu.be/7AODxoWKwTs Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “I made my own luck by thinking, you know what, I AM going to go for this. It's the same as rocking up to somewhere like the BACD conference or the ITI conference, or Tubules” Dr. Rupert Monkhouse The highlights of this episode: How Dr. Rupert landed his ideal associate position 7:04How Dr. Rupert managed to work full time 13:12Advice for a young dentists looking for their ideal associate position 18:43Dr. Rupert's journey of development in finding his niche 31:22 Don't forget to check out The Impression Club and also Dr. Rupert Monkhouse's Instagram If you loved this episode, you will like How to Find An Associate Position in 4 Mins Flat  Click below for full episode transcript: “Opening [Rupert] Well, I think from my sort of perspective doing those Saturdays the reason why she asked me to do those Saturdays is because especially when none of our associates want to do Saturdays, they're all that was, they're all that little bit older or they've you know, they've got their two kids or whatever, they don't want to do Saturdays. And that's true of a lot of private practices. They don't want to do Saturdays. They also don't want to do Wednesdays or whatever. So whenever people ask me, I always say go and find, go and research 5, 10 practices in your area that look fantastic. And just go to them say look, do you want someone to work on a Saturday because probably they do. Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati! I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to this interference cast, where we take a slight non clinical ditto it's with our friend Dr. Rupert Monkhouse from #impressionclub. Listen, if you don't follow this guy on Instagram, you are missing out. This guy is like making removable prosthodontics sexy again, and you may remember him way back in episode 73, where we discuss lower complete suction dentures, right? So this guy is a wizard, you need to check him out. And today we talk about something a little bit different. Rupert actually works quite close to me. So we met up and I like to hear stories of how he got his first or not his first associate position. But where is that at the moment, a beautiful practice. And it very much covers this theme, which is a question I get a lot of how do I go about getting my first associate position. And just if you scroll down on Apple or Spotify or wherever you're listening, if you're watching on YouTube, I did an episode recently how to get an associate position in four minutes. Okay, so if you haven't seen that, please check it out. But essentially, this is a story of how I got my first associate position, his story of how Rupert got his first associate position. And how the relevant theme here is to be proactive. Nothing will happen if you're reactive. So if you're reactive, you wait for things to happen, and then you will respond. Whereas when you're proactive, you are forcing change, you are a force to be reckoned with. You are actually a master of your own ship. You're in charge of your own destinies, does that makes sense? This is what it's all about. So the message and the lessons from this episode will hopefully inspire you to change the way you look at the world and look at dentistry and look at your career options to hopefully put yourself in a better position going forward. Let's catch the main interview with Rupert and I'll catch you in the outro. Main Interview: [Jaz] Rupert #impressionclub Monkhouse. Welcome back to the Protrusive Dental Podcast, my friend how are you?

Welcome back to the third part of this EPIC series! I hope you gained more value from this than from PAID education. Dr. Devang Patel guides us through Appoint 5 of the Adhesive Full Mouth Rehabilitation - this is when things very saucey as we discuss sequencing and staging the rehab. Onions on the ready, my fellow Protruserati! This episode is sponsored by Enlighten Whitening - thanks for your support Dr Payman Langroudi and team! In this episode we also squeezed in a discussion about stressful White Patches appearing after Teeth Whitening - what causes them and how to 'treat' them! https://youtu.be/I6IB1FxY8fA Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: This is a video pearl from the Protrusive Dental Community Facebook Group on How to diagnose a Myofascial Pain that mimics 9/10 severity toothache https://vimeo.com/687007193 Head to the Protrusive Dental Community Facebook group where this video came from for more resources like this. For the Summary of Appointment Sequencing 0 - Mindset for Full mouth Dentistry 1 -  Full mouth Assessment Examination 1A - Diagnosis and Treatment Plan 2 - Patients' Records  3 - Mock-up and Temporaries 4 - Checking Patient's occlusion 5 -  Anterior Direct/Indirect Adhesive Composite Rehab 6 - Checking Occlusion and Taking Impression (within 4 weeks)  6A: Checking Occlusion (2 weeks after - 1st Visit) 6B: Taking Impression (2 weeks after 1st visit) 7 -  Posterior Direct/Indirect Adhesive Composite Rehab 7A: Lower Posterior Arch or Upper and Lower Right Side 7B: Upper Posterior Arch or Upper and Lower Left Side 8 - Polishing  9 - Assessing for Occlusion  10 - Maintenance or Giving Protective Appliance  The highlights of this episode are: Indirect Full Mouth Reconstruction Protocol 7:53Appointment 5: Anterior Direct Adhesive Composite Rehab 15:59 Upper and Lower Anteriors Build-up Techniques (Using Putty/Exaclear indices from wax-up) 16:41Checking of Occlusion 26:56Posterior Stabilization (Using GIC or Bis-Acryl) 28:59Appointment 6: Checking Occlusion and Taking Impression (within 4 weeks) 6A: Checking Occlusion (2 weeks after - 1st Visit) 35:496B: Taking Impression (2 weeks after 1st visit) 36:08Appointment 7: Posterior Direct Adhesive Composite Rehab 38:45 7A: Lower Posterior Arch or Upper and Lower Right Side7B: Upper Posterior Arch or Upper and Lower Left Side Appointment 8: Polishing 46:52Appointment 9: Assessing for Occlusion 47:45Appointment 10: Maintenance or Giving Protective Appliance 48:00 Join Dr. Devang Patel's Facebook Group where you can find tons of useful resources! Also, be sure to check out Dr. Devang Online Dental Courses to be able to offer a full mouth reconstruction treatment to your patients! If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out the first part Adhesive Full Mouth Rehabs in 11 Appointments and the second part Adhesive Full Mouth Rehabs Part 2 – Wax Up and Temporaries Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: But if you ask anyone who has seen their cases 10 years on which I have, the mentality changes a little bit. I'm very, I do not select composite resin because they are cheaper modality I tell patients that look in a long run, they will cost you the same as porcelain... Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and Welcome back to the big one, this is going to be the big one, because we've built you up from part one, part two. And now this is part three. So if you remember, in part one, we talked about the mindset of that full mouth clinician, how to treatment plan and communicate to your patient. In part two, we looked at how to get a wax up and how that wax up might be different for an adhesive rehab, compared to a conventional rehab, and then how to actually put that temporary in the patient's mouth and let them walk away with temporari...

Dental school does not teach us everything we need to know to succeed in Dentistry (hardly surprising). There are certain procedures that we learn (just about!), but it doesn't give us those soft skills, the people skills and a heck of a lot of basic competencies. This episode is NOT about bashing Dental Schools. It's about recognising where were were 'let down' and taking the steps to 'fix it'. There is so much we must gain from being mentored by people who've been there and done it before us. Dr. Paul Goodman is one of those good people in Dentistry that we need to look out for. https://youtu.be/LpOEBcmguR0 Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “[There is a] lack of fundamental skills for surviving and thriving [once graduating].” Dr. Paul Goodman Check out this How to Speak By Patrick Winston as mentioned by Dr. Paul Goodman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY Highlights of this episode are: Dentists' make up for Dental School's shortcomings 6:30Lack of Clinical Skills after Dental Schools 9:16Advice for Fresh Dentists 12:17Limited experience at Dental School 16:38Advice for Dentists in terms of finding their niche 19:59Best way to overcome Dental Schools' shortcomings 23:55 Send an email with the subject 'Nacho gift' to Dental Nachos and they will send you back a free resource. Also, check out the Dental Nachos website! If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like 12 Rules for Dentistry – IC002 Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: And my secret to getting high case acceptance is one sentence. My secret to getting high case acceptance is one sentence Jaz's Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to this interference cast. I've got Dr. Paul Goodman from Philadelphia, USA. He runs this amazing community called Dental Nachos. Just a great resource of positivity in dentistry, and so much help and courses for dentists all over the world. It will be so obvious to you from our conversation, his enthusiasm and his great analogies and way of communicating. I'm just a huge fan of Paul Goodman. And I love the theme that we discuss, you know, how dental school let you down. Now please, please, please. I have so many colleagues are working in dental schools and I'm well connected with dental schools. Listen, we are not bashing dental schools. Okay, we are not bashing dental schools. We are merely just raising a few real world points that perhaps, perhaps in some areas of dentistry, and maybe even clinical experience that there was a little bit of a shortfall. Now it's okay. It's alright. We get it. We understand why okay? There's only so much dental school can fulfill and it takes you back to being on orthodontic clinic and one of the tutors goes to me, she goes tp me, Jaz, did you learn to drive before passing a driving test? Or after passing a driving test? And I've only recently got my license, I was like Well, I think afterwards because I still really don't know how to drive yet properly. So it's just same in dentistry, okay? Dental school will give you that certificate, will give you that license to drill. But actually how you communicate with patients, how you can formulate really good treatment plans that are appropriate, how you can get your hands skills to whether you want them to be where they need to be. That takes time, devotion, mentorship, and it is universal, that we have to learn that once we qualify. That kind of process is only enhanced and fast tracked through good mentorship and being around good people in dentistry. And let me tell you what Dr. Paul Goodman is a good person in dentistry. Let's listen to the interview. Main Interview: [Jaz]Paul Goodman, Dr. Paul Goodman from the USA from the Dental, from the nachoverse. How are you? [Paul]I'm doing awesome Jaz, really thrilled to be talking with you. I love this topic.

After the success of PDP103 Adhesive Full Mouth Rehabs in 11 Appointments, we're here again to discuss how to plan the Wax Up, Mock up and temporaries using bis-acryl with Dr Devang Patel. https://youtu.be/GuqSkCvFWNk Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: How I communicate a high RCT risk: For ordinary patients, I would always say “YOUR tooth decay (in YOUR tooth)/ YOUR filling was very deep.” But for some patients who you feel would make trouble, I would continue to add “...if we do nothing, then your tooth will eventually be in a worse situation. And you may lose your tooth. This could be a painful process as well. If I do something, then that involves drilling your tooth decay, drilling the soft bits of your tooth away and drilling away the old filling that's leaking. Drilling is not a nice thing. So by drilling, the drill is damaging your nerve. Your nerve may die and need a Root Canal." Highlights from this episode: Appointment 2: Patients' Records (Impressions) 11:35Patients' Vibe as part of Assessment before planning treatment 18:29Load Testing as part of Assessment 24:22Type of toothwear to consider the type of arch reconstruction 31:48Curve of Spee as part of Assessment 36:25Guidelines regarding Re-RCT before restoring 40:40Comprehensive Evaluation among Patients 45:32Appointment 3: Mock-up and Temporaries 51:58 Check out this occlusion one-day course, hands-on and theory for the Kana Dental Academy. With amazing Speakers line-up (some of them are Protrusive Dental Podcast Alumni) If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out the first part Adhesive Full Mouth Rehabs in 11 Appointments Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: It's very important for you and technician to know what type of palatal shape you want to create when they're doing wax up. And most of the technician gets it wrong, okay? Because they're trying to create natural palatal shape which we're not trying to achieve... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati. Welcome back to another episode of Protrusive Dental Podcast. In this episode, we're going to go through how to plan your full mouth adhesive rehabilitation, including the wax up stage and actually putting the wax up into the mouth using a bis-acryl mock up and how to even send the patient home with that mock up so they can test esthetics, phonetics and function. If you're new to the podcast. Welcome, it's great to have you. This is a part 2 of 3, so you need to rewind to Episode 103. For the part one of adhesive full mouth rehab. The concept here with Dr. Devang Patel, is we're going to cover the 11 appointments, the traditionally 11 appointments from the very first time you see the patient for a comprehensive examination, all the way to reviewing them with an occlusal appliance at the end, and all the stages in between of how to get a full mouth rehab done using adhesive approach. This has been one of the most anticipated episodes ever, like the amount of DMS I get saying, Jaz when is the part two out? I really enjoyed part one. So here it is, guys, I'm so excited to share with you. And Dev. I mean, shout out to Dev for getting so much value, giving so much away to the Protruserati, it is really, really great to have educators like you who are all giving, right? That's what we want, we want to share with each other, share knowledge and improve our daily workflows. [Jaz] Now, before we get on to today's Protrusive Dental Pearl, I want to talk about emails, right? Yesterday, I sent an email and the subject was like 'Why you need to start charging more for your dentistry?' And this email has absolutely exploded. I've had huge open rates. And it was like an essay type email, but I just jam packed it with some reflections that had. So basically one of the delegates on the Splint Course, he had my stabilization Splint module and his f...

Dental Acupuncture made tangible thanks to our guest Dr David Johnson. We cover the basics of trigger points relevant to Dentistry and Temporomandibular Joint Pain, as well as the two main applications of acupuncture in for Dentists. https://youtu.be/sHGJcsIAses Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: How I communicate an Oro-Antral Communication:  I will pull up the radiograph and show it to the patient and warn them that the root of THEIR tooth is so close to the sinus. "If your roots live in your sinus then there is a chance that you will have a new party trick: when you drink water through your mouth, it could come out through your nose via the sinus", and that creates a memorable warning/consent. In this episode I asked Dr. David: What is a Trigger Point?What is the pathophysiology of a trigger point?What causes the trigger points to turn on? What are the uses of acupuncture in dentistry in terms of a gag reflex?What is the success rate of acupuncture?How does acupressure work?Implementation of acupuncture in general dental practice Please do check out Dr David Johnson's Course and Implement Acupuncture on your practice Monday morning. If you would like me to organise another course with Dr Johnson, DM me on Instagram @protrusivedental If you loved this episode, please do check out Hypnotize Your Patients with 3 Quick Techniques with Dr Jane Lelean Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Patients with a prominent gag reflex, patients with temporomandibular joint pain of muscular origin, in relation to that is headaches, migraines, and especially headaches, we know this one yet 60% of patients who have temporomandibular joint pain are getting regular headaches, we need to start coming away from it and moving as your stunts do down onto the neck because we know that most headaches are coming from muscles of the head and the neck.. Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, welcome back to another Protrusive Dental Podcast episode. I feel like it's been a long time since I had a PDP episode, we've had a couple of group functions, which I hope you really enjoy with Pav. Like I told Pav before I recorded those episodes, speak to me like I'm five years old, because like I said, in a recent Instagram post, I don't know very much about implants. So that's why I really enjoyed learning those basic principles from Pav and sharing them with you. And we had some great comments on YouTube asking for more of this kind of stuff, because it's a confusing gray area, which Pav made very clear. Anyway, this episode is about acupuncture, and trigger points, and two really key uses of acupuncture in dentistry, even if you don't proceed with actually implementing acupuncture into your care, then I think you're still getting a lot of value from David Johnson, Dr. David Johnson did a fantastic job to explain the benefits of acupuncture but also how you can use something called acupressure to actually suppress the gag reflex on children and adults. So do stick around for that absolute gem of advice that he gives. And I think you're able to gain even just from that. This area, you know, trigger points and acupuncture is yet another area, which is not really talked about much in dental school, especially trigger points, like the more I learned about trigger points, the more I'm like how do they not explain this in dental school? I can actually think back to patients at dental school, which were having issues around trigger points and referred pain. And we and the dental tutor and I as a student, we couldn't figure out what was going on. But now I look back and I think yes, it must have been referred pain. And it makes so much more sense to me and you find it, once you know what you're looking for, you can find it a lot more. I think on a monthly basis, I find patients who'd benefit from this.

Today we pick up where we left off on the 1st part of Group Function Episode 13 “Can I Probe This Implant?” In this episode I asked Dr Pav Khaira about bone loss around implants - what is normal and when should I worry? Another very interesting and controversial issue we tackled is how to manage implant screw loosening as a GDP? https://youtu.be/C1Y_AdDhLzU Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “If every single year you're losing one millimeter (of bone) that's obviously an issue and we need to intervene and do something,” Dr Pav Khaira In this episode we discussed: Normal bone loss for average implants 1:53Guidelines for GDPs managing loose implant screws 5:03Universal Implant Drivers? 10:45 If you liked this episode, be sure to check out the first part of this series Can I Probe This Implant? Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Because screws become stressed and they become strained. That may be one of the reasons why it's come loose. And if you retighten a strange screw you can you can cause it to break, then you're in trouble because you may not be able to retrieve it from the implant head... Jaz' Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to this second part of the group function. So we split it into two. On the first group function, if you haven't listened to it already, it was "Can I probe that implant?" Is it cool to probe around implants? Because there was a myth that you may scratch the implant? So is there any truth to that? Should we be concerned? That's all covered in part one. In this part two, we've got Dr. Pav Khaira, we're talking about What is the normal amount of bone loss around implant? So when I am reviewing patients who had implants placed elsewhere, potentially, and I take a peri-apical radiograph, it's been five years since they had the implant and my expecting bone loss. At what point do I get concerned? And what point should I refer? So we're gonna find that out. And another very interesting controversial issue is, how do you as a GDP manage a screw loosening? So if the implant crown is loose, is it cool for us to be going in and tightening it? What about if you don't have the right equipment? Or how to even identify which system it is. You have to stop every single driver there is? The very real world question there and I think Pav does great justice. So let's hear it from Pav, and I'll catch you in the outro. Main Interview:[Jaz] When you see a radiograph of an implant, let's say a peri-apical. And I don't know when this implant was on, I can ask the patient, the patient like a long time ago, five years ago, 10 years ago, they give me a vague answer. But anyway, am I expecting ever, is it acceptable to have threads exposed supracrestal, ie, all the threads are not in the bone, some of the threads are outside the bone, Is this acceptable? And be what amount of bone loss is normal? Because I understand that after you place an implant, after about a year, you expect to lose "some", you're probably gonna say yes, by do all this crazy voodoo magic that they don't lose any bone. But for the average implant, what is normal in terms of bone loss. [Pav]So historically, what's been considered acceptable is as a rule of thumb, bone loss down to the first thread, then about 0.2 millimeters per year, as you quite rightly said that these is, the modern techniques, the modern concepts, were really shouldn't be seeing anything at all. But you know, I see loads of patients where they come in to see me where they've had implants placed 20 years ago, okay? And I think the issue is in the absence, in the absence of any inflammatory responses, like what we've discussed about before, there's no bleeding, there's no suppuration, the implants been there 20 years, if you've got a 15-18 millimeter long implant, you've got three millimeters of thread exposed,

"Don't probe implants with a metal probe or you'll scratch it!" - and so for years I was afraid to check the gingival health around implants. Crazy right? Dr Pav Khaira is here to bust that myth - but like with everything, it's not a simple answer - it has some interesting anatomical considerations. His answer is so eloquent, check it out! https://youtu.be/pLDfqe8liLE Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “If you can get to the neck of the implant, you SHOULD be probing to the neck of the implant...but you don't want to do it too aggressively, it should just be very gentle pressure.” Dr Pav Khaira In this group function we discussed: Can you probe implants? 5:33Screening Periodontal Health of Implants 11:14Referring patients with Peri-implantitis 16:22 Check out The Dental Implant Podcast! If you liked this episode, you will love revisiting Implant Assessment for GDPs: from Space Requirement to Ridge Preservation Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: You just got into the cuff just sweeping it backwards and forwards and you seeing whether that triggers any bleeding because that's a sign of inflammation... Jaz' Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to this group function. Now if you're new to the podcast, welcome, great to have you. A group function is where we work together as a team to find out a solution to a common problem. And the problem I'm presenting today and I'm hoping to get a good answer from Pav today is 'Can you probe around implants?' And what I mean by that is, I was fed a lie or a semi lie at dental school, like someone told me, I don't know who it was. But if you use a metal probe, to do a periodontal probing chart of an implant, you will scratch that implant and therefore that will harbor bacteria. And therefore you should not be probing around implants. So for the longest time, I didn't check the periodontal health of implants and it sounds really bad. But as a GDP who doesn't place implants, not much to do with implants. I thought that was the right thing to do. I thought I was doing less harm by not inserting my Williams or WHO or CPITN probe in the sulcus to check for the periodontal health because I didn't want to scratch the implant. I was scared of scratching the implant if you like. So I was expecting this to be a really quick group function. And I thought Pav was saying Yeah, you totally can. It's all good. But Pav of being Pav, an amazing guy he is. The only does he give us a really good definitive answer at the end, where he talks about the rationale of what the concerns are maybe and how each actually look a little bit deeper than Can you probe? Can you not? Because there's some anatomical variation, so I'm not going to spoil it for you. Let's join this group function with Dr. Pav Khaira. That man again. Pav Khaira. Main Interview:[Jaz] Dr. Pav Khaira, welcome back to the podcast, my friend. How are you? [Pav]I'm very good right now. How you doing? [Jaz]Yeah, great. So it is Pav Khaira from The Dental Implant Podcast. And I'm gonna just pick your brains. You need to teach us something today. You need to speak to me like I'm five years old. Because this, the following questions I'm gonna ask you on this group function today is very much basic things that you're probably gonna laugh at me like Jaz, why you asked me these basic questions? But I'm sure with the referring dentist that you've met and your colleagues, like when it comes to implants we come out in dental school, like a lot of other topics. And we're like, where do we even begin? So just before we dive into that, just reminder on people who perhaps didn't listen to our episode on finding your niche. I think it was episode 76 from memory. Do listen to finding your niche, it's a cool one where we discover what is like your calling in dentistry. So do check that one out.

Mesial first? Largest cavity first? Or cure them all together?! Class II composite resin restorations (done properly) are not easy. There is a whole circus and drama involving clamps, rings, matrices and wedges! Whether you're starting out with class IIs, or you're a seasoned practitioner, you will gain some gems and pearls from this episode. Open your minds, ears and eyes (what's up YouTube Protruserati!) to  Dr Chris O'Connor and he will help you gain valuable tips and tricks to improve your daily restorative workflow. https://youtu.be/ahqs_l6TJPw Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! The Protrusive Dental Pearl: The 'Wedge Test' (as inspired by Dr Chris O'Connor): Before restoring the tooth, make sure to test the size of the wedge you are using in order to make sure that the wedge is doing what it's supposed to do, ie it's compressing the papilla, the active part of the wedge should below the margin of the cavity, and to make sure that you are getting enough separation. In this episode we discussed: Challenges Dentists faced with back to back Class IIs 13:11Value of Pre-wedging 18:39Dr Chris' back to back class II restoration protocol 22:55The Bridging Gap 28:59Buccal and Lingual Coverage 38:51Tips on troubleshooting back to back class IIs restoration 43:38 Check out Dr Chris O'Connor's supply company Incidental Ltd Check out this articles as mentioned by Dr Chris O'Connor (if they do not show up on your Podcast player description then head to the main website www.protrusive.co.uk)  Article on papilla managementDownload Sectional matrix : distorted truth articleDownload If you enjoyed this episode, you might like Which is the Best Matrix System for Class II Restorations Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: It can be quite hard to satisfy the wedge tests on various cavities. And sometimes it will make things sort of movable shift and things. So if I can get a really good seal, I will happily not wedge at this point, so I don't need the separation. And I'll actually secure the two matrices with some liquidam which I use a lot. A lot of my Class IIs I'll secure everything with the liquidam. So you put that in and cure it and as long you know, you can tell me if you've got the seal cervically and it's going to be secure, then you're all good to go. So then you can fill the molar... Jaz' Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to Protrusive Dental Podcast. Today we're talking about back to back Class II restorations, what I mean by back to back is adjacent. So we start off of Dental school trying to master the humble Class II and getting good at it and getting those nice contacts that are had to make that nice click sound when you floss through. But then when you start doing multiple and IE you're doing quadrants, then you start to realize very quickly that actually, Class IIs are not very easy at all. Class IIs are actually extremely technique sensitive. I know we've spoken before with Maciek. He's come on the podcast couple times. And so we're gonna go one step further, and talk about some of the challenges that we face when we're having adjacent Class IIs. And the inspiration for this episode was Dr. Ryan Cyriac. I hope I'm saying your name right, buddy. based in Tampa, Florida dentistry reached out on Instagram. I appreciate you, brother. Thanks so much for listening and watching. And you inspired this episode. So thanks so much. And I've got my buddy Chris O'Connor on today, who is going to do an absolutely fantastic job, I'm obviously I know you're gonna love it, the amount of gems he's gonna give you. So whether you're starting out in Class IIs, or if you're a seasoned practitioner, and you still haven't quite mastered how to, which is the best way to do Class IIs when they're back to back and you're doing quadrants, then you will gain so much value from this episode....

Heated confrontations with patients are never fun. Nobody likes to argue, and no Dentist likes being pressured or micro-managed by patients! In this episode we cover a lot of communication gems with Dr Vy Phan that will definitely allow you to remain calm and be effective the next time you face a 'difficult' patient (you know who I mean!) https://youtu.be/vDP5wIaK3Ok Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! The Protrusive Dental Pearl: Never to say 'No' to patients. Instead, be tactful by pitching it and phrasing it in a different way - you are still saying 'No' but in a much less harsh and patient-friendly way. I give some concrete examples in this episode. “One of the ways of gaining patient trust is education - there's a breakdown of communication often when the patients don't trust you and they're not educated enough” Dr Vy Phan This is the IntraOral Camera I was telling you about - inexpensive, high quality and a modern day necessity in my opinion. Available on Amazon In this episode we discussed: Big Challenges young Dentists might face in terms of patient interactions and communications 10:30When to consider dismissing a 'difficult patient' 20:20Advice to young dentists when a patient questions the level of experience based on age/appearance/sex 31:08The ‘My Way or The Highway Approach' 38:04Communication gems with Difficult Patients 46:16How to Write a dismissal letter to difficult patients 49:54Handling Patients who continually ask for discounts 59:41 Check out Dr. Vy Phan on Instagram! If you enjoyed this, you will of course love Think Comprehensive – Communication Gems with Zak Kara  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: (Vy) I think my way or the highway approach is really appropriate when it didn't the best interest of the patient, you know, you know that it would be different, it will be risky, you know, there'd be more long term (Jaz) Inappropriate, risky, just not the, it will land you in legal issues. (Vy) Exactly... Jaz' Introduction:Hello, Protruserati, I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to this or can I say it's an awesome episode? Oh, my God Vy Phan will blow your mind. This is a real world topic. There are so many communication gems shared in this episode. And really, when it comes to communication skills, when do they really matter? I mean, yes, it's good to get case acceptance and building value through user communication. But what really matters is so tough patients, those confrontations, those arguments that you might have with patients, you know the ones where your heart is racing? Words can really powerful. And I think communication skills are really tested in those tough scenarios. And we're talking all about those in this episode. When it comes to the word difficult in difficult patients, I was really debating whether to use it or not. Because really difficult patients are just difficult people and yet difficult people in every walk of life. Like if you take an arbitrary figure, like 1 in 20 people, well, I don't want to use the 'A' word. So 1 in 20 people are not nice people, right? And so 1 in 20 teachers will be not nice. 1 in 20 doctors will be not nice. 1 in 20 dentist were not nice, for example, right? So 1 in 20 of all your patients may not be the nicest people in the world. And so to deal with these patients, it can be tough. And these patients, we classify them as maybe difficult. But the funny thing about classing patients difficult is that what you might perceive as a difficult patient, your colleague, your associate, may find that they get along with a patient really well. And they think yeah, what do you mean, Mr. Smith is completely fine. What are you talking about? So it actually varies dentists to dentist and so our perceptions are equally important. When we decide who is "difficult". There are lots of themes that we cover in this episode, like for example,

The role of tongue position, posture and the airway on the developing occlusion is hardly covered in Dental School. Let's think BEYOND TEETH with Dr Bobby Supple, carrying on from PDP099. Follow Protrusive on Instagram! https://youtu.be/zfLK0qszdA8 Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!  Protrusive Dental Pearl: When checking someone's occlusion after a restoration, do not just check it while they are supine (lying down), sit them up then check their occlusion again because posture does change our occlusion, even just a little. In this episode we covered: Skeletal Bite vs Tooth Bite 4:45Trigger Points 13:28Myofunctional Therapy 17:14Dentistry and Other healthcare professionals 24:57Neuromuscular Dentistry 38:19 Check out the book Dr Bobby Supple recommends: New Trends in Myofunctional Therapy If you enjoyed this episode, check out the first part Occlusion Wars: Which is the Best Occlusal Religion?  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Okay, so Teeth are together for long periods of time at nighttime, then the sympathetic nervous system stays on. The sympathetic is fight or flight. That's what apnea is. Squeeze, AH... Jaz' Introduction:Hello, Protruserati. I am Jaz Gulati, and welcome to episode 101. It's a continuation from Episode 99, which was Occlusion wars: Which is the best occlusal religion? And just to give you a flavor of that episode, like a quick recap, I wanted to find out, which is the best training institute for occlusion. Is it Spear? Is it Kois? Is it Dawson? Is it Pankey? Is it neuromuscular? That kind of thing, which is a common question that we all ask on our journey after dental school. And we think that, okay, we need to upskill and learn about comprehensive dentistry and how occlusion fits into it. Very often, we'll be faced with this choice. And some people go for koiss, and some people go for Dawson. And I got someone on Bobby Supple, who continues in this episode. And he blew me away, because he's done so much training with all these greats, he's been in the same room, you know, Kois and spear and Dawson. And everyone's together debating, and he's been very much part of that. And it was great to learn from him. And essentially, it doesn't matter who you train with, they argue and they challenge you on the different processes, the outcomes are going to be very consistent. So the answer is train with whoever you want, whoever is most convenient for you, best price for you, best mentors, maybe your principal, or your boss has also done Kois so you should do Kois. So you can speak the same language maybe, or maybe because your principal's on Kois, you should do Dawson. So you can exchange notes about the how to, and how to get from point A to point B. But essentially, you will do your patient service. And you will do a great job, whoever you choose for your training partner, you make sure you implement it fully, and you do your best. And I think that was a really cool lesson. And going further now from that episode to this episode. The main thing I want to leave you with before we join the main interview is that sometimes, especially when it comes to occlusion, the first time you hear something from an educator, from a speaker, it doesn't quite make sense. And sometimes you have to hear something like for the fifth time, and it's eight years later, and then it clicks in your head because by then you've accumulated enough failures, you've got a bit more experience under your belt, you've got a bit more deep thought and experiences to reflect on. So if this episode is a little bit beyond you, because we do talk about higher level stuff, relevance of the airway, tongue posture, posture in general, this is all stuff that even I'm just learning, grasping more into, because very much, you know, my training was at the two teeth and the skeletal level. The teeth and bones,

It's the ultimate question: Which is the best Occlusal Camp/Training? Is there really a difference between Occlusal religions? Is Kois better than Spear and Dawson? Do you really need to study each one of them? Hear what Dr Bobby Supple says about the 'Occlusion Wars'! https://youtu.be/tlhrBcodzbA Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Check the Video on How to successfully give lower first molar anesthesia using buccal articaine (without an inferior alveolar nerve block) https://youtu.be/cCXacw5DE4M “So, as it kind of turned out, they were all the same, except for neuromuscular. Neuromuscular was the odd one out." Dr Bobby Supple In  this episode, we discuss about History of Occlusion 14:35True Meaning of Anterior Guidance 17:04Bio-Aesthetics Group 22:015Different Occlusal Religions 27:31Equilibration 41:19Airway and TMD 51:12Differences between Occlusal Camps 52:09 If you enjoyed this episode, you will love Myth Busting Occlusion and TMJ Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: (Jaz) I think you said that when it comes to the Spear group, Kois and Dawson, what I think what you're trying to say is really they're not too different. They're just arguing a little bit about slightly different ways to fix the problem. Would you say there's any more nuances or differences that perhaps we didn't go into that is well worth mentioning between those religions? (Bobby) So, as it kind of turned out, then they were all the same, except for neuromuscular. Neuromuscular was the odd one out... Jaz' Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to Occlusion Wars episode 99 with Dr. Bobby Supple. This episode was inspired by a blog post I saw Dr. Bobby Supple right in his website. And it was about the differences between the different occlusal camps or these occlusal religions. Hencewhy the name occlusion wars because the most common questions I get is Jaz, What should I do? Should I study with Dawson? Or should I study with Pankey or Should I study with Kois or Spear and neuromuscular? So there's a lot of these occlusal religions and that's what we call them throughout this episode, you know, tongue in cheek kind of thing. And which one is the best one, which is the correct religion. That's what we're hoping to answer in this episode. And the main question I asked Dr. Bobby Supple was exactly that. And really, I don't want to give too much away from this episode. But one thing to consider is that the end goal of no matter who you train with, whether it is Spear or Pankey, Kois whoever. You will do wonderful dentistry, you will do it for the benefit of the patient, you will have more fun as a comprehensive dentist. So whoever you train with, just do everything they say and do it properly and follow that system. But don't be afraid to expose yourself to other ways of thinking because essentially, what these religions, these occlusal religions argue about is the processes. How do you get from A to B, the B is the same, A is the same. A is your patient. B is a stable position, whereas a better smile, a nice comfortable bite, all those things, right? So A and B are the same. What we're fighting about is everything in the middle. And that really doesn't matter. We should be outcome based ie a longevity in our restorations, happy patients. And I think all those whose religions deliver exactly that. That's one of the sentiments that Dr. Bobby Supple passed on. I just want to echo that. Now if you want to really skip to that bit. It's probably somewhere in the middle to the end of the episode where we really get to nitty gritty. We start off in this episode, discussing the origin story. I mean, origin stories always really powerful of these clinicians that we speak to Dr. Bobby Supple has so much experience to share. So we learn about his origin story,

There is WAY too much plastic in our profession - it's insane. How can we do our part in Dentistry to make better choices for our environment? NOW is the time to spread positive messages for the environment to make a better world for our children and our children's children. In this interference cast, we are joined by Dr. Mike Gow and Marcus McLeod who basically have started the journey to Net Zero Dentistry https://youtu.be/n8rSYpf0ld0 Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “So even if you can do a small thing.....get involved, get active and we will make a difference. This is going to happen. So be part of it!” Dr Mike Gow In this episode, we talked about Implementation of Managing Net Zero Dentistry 6:42Mental Health element of Dentistry 13:59Similar Advocates Internationally 16:50Aligner recycling Companies 17:49Quick wins Practices that aren't doing Net Zero Dentistry 20:46Being green in dentistry 24:55 Check out the Net Zero Dentistry and Let's all contribute on becoming a greener world  If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like What Every Dentist Should Know About Managing Dental Anxiety Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: You're going to save money. Okay? And we look at the bottom line in Dentistry, we look at our profits at the end of year, you will have more bottom line profits if you follow Net Zero dentistry and follow the stuff that we're going to be talking about and that is a simple fact that will be true. You will also motivate your team. Okay? This is something that everybody in the clinic can get involved with... Jaz' Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome this really, really important interference cast on how we as a profession can be greener? The time is now. It's right now, we take some massive action in our profession throughout the world, so we can have a better future for our children and our children's children. Guys, I hope this episode makes Greta Thunberg proud. I'm joined today by Dr. Mike Gow and Marcus McLeod, who basically have started this initiative, this free initiative for us all called Net Zero dentistry. I think it's a great idea. I'm fully in support of it, I want you to listen to this episode so badly. So you can implement something like for example, when I recorded with these gents, I made a promise to walk to work every day. So it doesn't have to be just like purely dental reducing plastic, which obviously we're gonna cover all that in this episode, what we can do at the workplace to be greener, even thinking outside the box. But what can we do in our lives having a meat free day, walking, being mindful of our energy consumption? All these things are so important. So yes, this is dentistry, it's very relevant to dentistry, and how we can be as a profession greener but just you personally as well. Hope you find value in this episode if you do share it with someone. Okay? Now is the time to spread positive messages for the environment like this one. Anyway, I catch you in the outro. Main Interview: [Jaz] Marcus and Mike, Welcome to Protrusive Dental podcast. How are you gents? [Marcus]Thank you very much. Excellent. [Mike] Very well. Thank you. [Jaz]Amazing to have you both. Recently I was at the BACD conference in Edinburgh, Mike I was able to reconnect with you. And on that same evening we were discussing about Net Zero dentistry. I thought this is amazing. I want to give this a voice. I want to get people to start talking about how we can be more green obviously recently with COP26. Everything's very topical. We shouldn't have to wait for two Taco to have these kinds of discussions. But here we are. It's a start. And also on the same evening, just a slight little tangent on the same evening. I also met Jeremy Cooper and he was talking about confidential and the mental health aspects of dentistry and the sad areas,

How do you manage cracks? The 'Direct Composite Splint Technique' is kind of controversial. Whilst it may seem intuitive to take cracked teeth OUT of the occlusion, this technique builds composite on top of the cracked tooth in to SUPRA-Occlusion. So what's the crack? (Sorry) - I brought on the pioneers of DCS, Professor Shamir Mehta and Dr. Subir Banerji who enlighten us about this minimally invasive technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkrUBIJji4 Have you subscribed on Youtube yet?! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Get the largest magnification loupes you can afford and you can think you can sustain. I personally use 7.5x for EVERYTHING! A sharp probe has a resolution of 40 microns, at 8x magnification the resolution is 25 microns. We need high magnification to treat cracks! In this episode we discussed: What is the Direct Composite Splint Technique? 9:23Decision making and Sequencing of Direct Composite Splint Technique 11:05DCS Technique protocol in term of of thickness and bonding 16:54Aiding disclusion with canine risers 19:55 DCS Technique Protocol 22:20How does DCS Technique work in terms of the relative actual movement? 27:15Patient Communication for Cracked Teeth 33:22Re-established occlusion after DCS? 42:53Are you sure we can leave it in Supra-Occlusion? 50:55Should you chase cracks? 54:33Favourite Sectional Matrix Bands 56:56Tips and Tricks in making patients comfortable 58:25 Check out this paper by Professor Shamir Mehta and Dr. Subir Banerji about DCS Technique Cracked-tooth-syndrome-Part-1Download Cracked-tooth-syndrome-Part-2-1Download Check out the PG Dip / Master's in Advanced Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry: Aesthetic-Dentistry-PGDipDownload If you enjoyed this episode, you will love I Hate Cracked Teeth with Kreena Patel Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: I would encourage you to read more about it before you actually do it. And it may even save you from a tricky situation. Even if you just use it diagnostically, ie, you suspect there's a cracked tooth, you then place the composite on top, and now the pain goes away. That is a diagnostic event. So even if you don't think you're gonna go the full hog and use this technique because it's too controversial for you, I think you can still use it as a diagnostic aid... Jaz' Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati. And welcome back to another episode of The Protrusive Dental podcast. On this episode, today, we're talking about something called The Direct Composite Splint Technique for managing cracked teeth. Now, if this is the first time that you're coming across this, it is a completely alien, weird, crazy concept like the first time I came across this, like, you know, our natural instinct when managing crack teeth is to take it out of occlusion, right? You see a crack, ah, let me remove it out of occlusion. But what this technique actually does is the opposite, it actually puts that same cracks tooth in Supra occlusion, right? And by doing that, you will by wrapping some composite over the crack molar, let's say, basically prevents the cusps from flexing and therefore maintaining the crack rather than allowing it to propagate. So that's how it works. And then to even add the controversies of this technique, what happens over time is that, that composite is left in the patient's mouth over the offending tooth, the cracked tooth, right? And then what happens over time is what we call relative actual movement. So that tooth, which is proud in the bite, eventually, over time is no longer proud in the bite. And suddenly, it's almost pretty much in the patient's maximum intercuspal position. So that when you remove that composite, you now have restorative space. Now, if I've gone too fast then don't worry, we've got a whole hour or something with two leading experts on this technique. So if you're listening,

When did they change the ingredients of Alvogyl?! It's the return of Oral Surgery Specialty Dentist and sensible man Dr. Chris Waith - this time to answer our Oral Surgery Complication questions starting with Dry Socket prevention and management! https://youtu.be/QiOJAwxAZE8 Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “It will be better no matter what we do, whether we dress it or not, it's just whether you can live with that timeframe.” - Dr Chris Waith In this group function we discuss: How can we prevent dry sockets? 3:54Can suturing help in preventing dry socket? 10:43How to manage patients in pain with dry socket 15:39Does Irrigation and Alvogyl actually help in managing dry sockets? 19:09 Click for ->Chris Waith's Oral Surgery Course If you enjoyed this episode, check out Make Extractions Less Difficult: Regain Confidence by Sectioning and Elevating Teeth Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Welcome to group function, where the Protruserati worked together to find good solutions to worthy problems in dentistry with your host, Jaz Gulati... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to another group function this time with all surgeons specialists, Chris Waith. Yes from that epic episode on how to section and elevate teeth. Listen, if you haven't listened to Episode 85, it is huge, because it just gives so much. I wish I had that when I was just one or two years qualified. In fact, let me tell you a story. Kamila. Kamila, you posted on YouTube when you watch the video which got like over 1000 views now, which is awesome. Guys, I appreciate it very much. Now, Kamila posted on one of the comments saying that, 'Thanks for you know, I discovered your podcast. And thanks for this episode. I was able to on my last day in dental foundation training, I was able to section and elevate a tooth with confidence, and is only possible due to this episode.' So thanks for epic episode with Chris Waith, she was able to do that, which is just amazing. That's the kind of feedback I absolutely love. And that's the reason I keep this podcast growing. So thanks so much guys who always comment and like on the YouTube or if you listen on your commute, I really appreciate it. Now, this episode is very fundamental, right? Like dry sockets. Such a huge thing. Actually, Lucky you. I've got Chris Waith to talk about three things over three group functions. We're talking dry sockets, OACs, and those dreaded tuberosity fractures. So let's listen to what Chris Waith has say about what's the best way to prevent a dry socket. And if you are unlucky enough to have a patient's who've got dry socket, how can you manage it? And I'll be honest with you, I don't think I'll be doing what Chris says like on reflection. I don't think I'll be doing what he says because it's a very interesting approach. It surprised me and it will might surprise you. And you may or may not do what he says. So let me know, you know, reach out to me the protrusive Instagram pages @protrusivedental, so it'd be great to connect on there. But let me know what you think about Chris's advice. Main Interview: [Jaz] Chris Waith, a man who needs no introduction after that podcast episode we did about extractions and how to section and elevate. Chris, how you doing, mate? [Chris]I'm really good. Thanks, man. [Jaz]I'm brilliant. And we were just chatting before I hit the record button. I asked you have had you seen the comments that we got on our YouTube video. And it's had like over you know, 1.2k views on it, which is great. But overall, over 4000 dentists over the world have listened to that episode. And I sometimes thinking why do I do this? Why do I do what I do. And when I get comments, like I saw, it was amazing. It was young lady, foundation dentist who said that, on my last day of FD, I was able to tackle a difficult molar and I had ...

Building on from Basics of Occlusion Part 1, I am joined Dr Mahmoud Ibrahim who takes us on his journey from hating Dentistry to eventually loving occlusion and aesthetic Dentistry. We geek out over occlusal contacts, the occlusal examination and freedom in centric! https://youtu.be/emfAS95VARU Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: When you're checking occlusion after placing your restoration, check on the contralateral side with the articulating paper (19 microns, for example) to see if it is 'passing through'. If it does pass through, double up the articulating paper (now 38 microns). You can keep doubling-up if you need to, until the paper holds. How does this help? You'll know right away if you need to adjust anything, and if so, you'll get a better idea of how much adjustment is likely. “Keep everything nice and smooth, the patient has nothing to grab hold of and push against. That's probably going to make sure your restorations last a lot longer.” - Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim Jaz Edit to the above quote: By 'Smooth' we don't mean highly polished or glazed. We refer to the movements of the mandible being smooth, rather than jerky or abrupt. 3-minute Occlusal Examination PDF - Click here In this episode, we talked about: 7:59 Mahmoud's journey in Falling in love back to Dentistry13:16 Tripodized Contacts19:55 How to maximize cusp to fossa26:54 Bonus little trick on avoiding high restorations28:40 What do we check in a basic occlusal examination?38:15 Freedom from Centric/Freedom in Centric49:11 Relevance of the Centric Relation Contact Point56:41 Disadvantages of doing MIP vs Centric Relation Contact Point Join us in our Telegram Community, where we can always help each other out! If you loved this, be sure to watch the Part One of the Basics of Occlusion! Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: As the mandible is moving, everything should be smooth, and then also everything to be shallow. If you can do that, like you will dramatically reduce your rate of failures with the anterior restoration, just those two gems that you gave there... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, I'm Jaz Gulati. And in this episode, we go one step further carrying on from basics of occlusion part one, right,? Thank you so much for the awesome feedback you guys gave for part one, and I'm so happy to have my brother from another mother cut from the same occlusal cloth, Mahmoud Ibrahim, who is a fantastic dentist, you see his work on Instagram. He is amazing. But just learning about a story from this episode is so, so great, because it's the first time we had a proper chat. I've been following him for a few years now. And I didn't realize that he hated dentistry when he qualified right? And I look at his work now. And I think whoa what happened so as well as so many clues or gems. So I'm going to give you a little preview of in a moment that we share with you. I love just him sharing his story with you of what happened, what was the spark that changed him from hating dentistry and actually trying to follow a career of making websites to then falling in love with Dentistry again in a big way. And they're really killing it at the whim as he is. Now, I hope you got your coffee ready because there's a lot of stuff that we're gonna cover in this very intense but very jam packed episode. Hope you like the analogies and stories and in cases that we discuss, we're trying to make it as friendly as possible for all my beloved listeners. The watchers is great to have you if you're on YouTube, hit subscribe. But for those who listen, you are the originals, I will always make sure that the content is easy for you to consume on your commutes. Right? So the kind of things that we cover is what is the difference between the so called tripodized contacts, and is it really better than cusp to fossa and how can we maximize stability w...

Dr Jane Lelean will teach us how to implement 'Hypnodontics' techniques so that we can calm our patients, create a positive environment and even reduce post-operative clinical complications! https://youtu.be/oesEIRfJvdE Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “Hypnodontics isn't just for patients, many dentists are using it to reduce their stress levels and their anxieties too” - Dr Jane Lelean In this episode, we discuss: Is there an official qualification before practicing hypnodontics? 8:24Two general types of hypnotherapy 9:13Evidence-Base of hypnodontics in Dentistry 11:57How can we incorporate hypnodontics in our practice 15:45Reducing post operative complications and pain with hypnodontics 26:43Changing the post operative instructions 30:02Help from Hypnotherapist regarding Bruxism 36:28 Check out The Institute of Dental Business to learn more about Hypnodontics and Hypnotherapy with Jane Lelean. If you loved this episode, please do check out What Every Dentist Should Know About Managing Dental Anxiety with Dr. Mike Gow Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: So Hypnodontics isn't just for patients. Many dentists are using it to reduce their stress levels and their anxieties too... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, welcome to this interference cast a non clinical interruption today on Hypnodontics, hypnosis in dentistry and how you can apply it on Monday morning. I'm joined today by Jane Lelean. Now I hope you enjoyed that previous occlusion episode, I did the basics of occlusion. I've got basics of occlusion two coming up, I'm recording with Mahmoud Ibrahim tomorrow, and we're gonna put together our philosophies to come up with something even more impactful, try and build on that first episode, really just set the scene on why occlusion is confusing, why occlusion is both perhaps overplayed at some points and when it might be super important. So if you haven't listened to basics of occlusion, go back one episode and listen to that one. Anyway, today is about hypnosis in dentistry. And not like, not in a wishy washy kind of way. Like I want you to be able to apply some techniques on Monday morning with your patients to get results. The kind of results I'm talking about is this, right? I am very used to now when I'm explaining risks to patients, or once I've done let's say a deep restoration, I say to my patient, "Hey, you know what, you could get a severe throbbing ache. And if that happens, that's a sign that the nerve is dying. And that can be a very painful thing. It might be worse at nighttime. If you get a spontaneous pain, please give me a call, take some painkillers." This is very much a risk from this procedure, right? So I set them up, In my mind, what I was doing is I was underselling and over delivering so that when they don't get that pain, they think, 'Wow, Jaz is awesome.' So there's a benefit in that, I guess. So I guess I'm happy with the way I've done things. But today, what Jane showed me, what she's gonna share with you is to think about it in a slightly different way. How can we use the power of hypnosis? Which is basically like an altered state of the mind to benefit you and benefit your clinical outcomes. Like, if you tell your patient Look, there are certain patients who are almost like easy to hypnotize. So if you tell them, "Look, you're gonna get swelling, you get pain, like this." And then they come back two days later say "Yeah, it's swollen and painful." And you're like, "Well, that's normal." But they sort of, they made this like Mind-Body connection, they make themselves worse, they make themselves more sick. So equally, if you can sort of hypnotize people in a way for want of a better word, put these people in an altered state of emotion, altered state of mind, then your clinical outcomes might be better, might get less swelling, less dry sockets.

What is Occlusion? Canine Guidance.....Group Function...that's all right?! If only it was that simple! I hope to simplify Occlusion no matter where you are in your journey starting with this back to basics episode. Occlusion is the backbone of complete dentistry and full mouth rehabilitations. https://youtu.be/nCRepLglJBk Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: If you think your patients are in Canine Guidance, check again. This time check while the patient grinds really hard. You will notice that most people are really group function and even have non-working side guidances! "It's very difficult to say that one occlusion is perfectly correct for all individuals. And I don't think we've identified an ideal occlusion for a specific person." - Dr. Ed McLaren In this first episode on Occlusion I shared: Canine Guidance vs Group Function 5:54Evidence base about Occlusion and TMD 10:34Challenges in researching Occlusion and TMD 13:13Different Schools of Thoughts about Occlusion 19:42Centric Relation 23:27Centric Occlusion 30:34What is Occlusion? 35:29Occlusion vs Occluding 37:12Test driving the changes 46:11 Check out my 9 point checklist to never have high restorations again on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zX4fcYn7POM No More High Restorations Be sure to check out the best Dental Event of the year, the Dentinal Tubules Congress And as a reference for the terms, here's THE GLOSSARY OF PROSTHODONTIC TERMS 9th Edition If you liked this episode, you will also enjoy Posterior Guided Occlusion  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: And we also have excellent clinicians like Ed McLaren, who said it's very difficult say that one occlusion is perfectly correct for all individuals. And I don't think we've identified an ideal occlusion for a specific person... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati, I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to the big episode I was telling you about this is the basics of occlusion carrying on from the the back to basics series in August, a lot of you messaged me with your occlusion questions, so I'm going to answer some of them today, but not in like a Q&A format. Because we've done that already in question 15 I'm just gonna take you through a journey, right? I'm gonna take you through a journey that's going to be mirroring some of the things that I've picked up in my journey. And the point of this introduction is to just tell you that we are all in a different place, in our own respective journeys. So some of you may be listening and you might be a dental student, right? And you may be placing your first ever restoration tomorrow, let's say and you are just thinking, Okay, when I stick that colored paper inside, articulating paper, and you get I get the patient to bite together, what are those dots going to look like? And you're just like, that's occlusion to you, right? When the patient bites together, how will it look, right? Whereas some of you may be beyond that. Some of you may be quite well versed in raising the occlusal vertical dimension, opening up bites, placing multiple units and multiple restorations at the same time and having some degree of control of the occlusion. So each individual is in a different place in their journey and the learning never stops. Now, if you are brand new to the world of occlusion. Welcome to deep dark world occlusion, I'm going to try and not confuse you too much. But try and give you a few things to think about. I'll hopefully make sure that as you learn, right? It's going to head you in the right direction. Because the thing with dentistry and the thing with occlusion is that sometimes the first time you learn something, right, it doesn't really, really sink in until maybe a few years later, it's happened to me so many times where a few years later, the same concept has been repeated and explained to me in a slightly dif...

Vertiprep? Dirtyprep? There are some Dentists who will literally opt for an adhesive onlay for every indirect restoration. That's not cool - they are not a panacea. On the flipside, there is a breed of Dentists who identify as 'Verticalists'. They will vertiprep their grandmother if they could. The answer lies somewhere in the middle - everything is case dependent. In this episode, with the return of my friend Jorge Cardoso, we revise Vertical Preparation, decision making protocols for indirect and then explore the nuances of digital scanning for vertical preps (even if they are super subgingival). https://youtu.be/AAWRJjEKN_U Check out this full episode on YouTube! Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Impressions vs Digital. Remember, if you're going digital, you need to be more aggressive in your tissue retraction compared to impressions. If the light from the scanner tip does not reach beyond your margin, it will not be recorded. Whereas with impressions, the wash material can flow beyond the margin and capture the sulcus, even if you cannot see it. Treatment Plan Letters with MakeMeClear discount - all of the Protruserati clan get 25% OFF the monthly or Annual plan with the code 'protrusive'! Trial it for 21 days and generate letters and listen to Episode 49 - Crystal Clear Treatment Plan Letters Fancy joining us for a POTENTIAL trip to Portugal for hands-on Vertical Prep? Click here and I'll email you if/when this gets the go-ahead. We are thinking Spring 2022! In this episode Dr Jorge and I talked about: What is vertical preparation 8:17Two types of vertical preparations (BOPT / Edgeless vs Shoulderless) 13:57Guidelines on temporising vertical preps 17:40Traditional vs Digital in Vertical Preparation 23:29Criticism of Vertical Preparation with Biological width 30:19Concept of “kissing the bone” 35:33Spacer Protocols for Technician 40:54Common mistakes with verti prep 45:02Digital Scanning tips for Vertical Preparation 49:37 Sorry that Dr Jorge's screen share did not show in the main video, we had some AV issues. Please find below an 8 min snippet where he shares his screen at various points https://youtu.be/e8psNUVMQ5g As promised here's BOPT by Ignazio Loi Do Check out Dr. Jorge Cardoso's episode with Crystal Clear Treatment Plans that Wow Patients and are Easy to Understand If you want to learn more about vertical preparations check out eMax Onlays and Vertipreps with Dr Jason Smithson Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: At the beginning I was going to be skeptical but then study start to come out to say that A) Zirconia feather edge margins behave as well as shoulder ones. So in terms of literature, in terms of safety, we are safe to go. Now the main advantages, you are saving more teeth, you are making your life easier, your impressions are easier, the fitting is easier and something which really attracts me periodontal stability is much, much higher... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz, Gulati. Welcome back to another episode of the Protrusive Dental podcast. Now this was supposed to be if you listen carefully to the outro of the last episode. This is supposed to be the basics of occlusion as part of the bigger picture, splintember series continuing on from the back to basics episodes from August which I hope you really enjoyed. But the problem is this man, it takes a long time to script my solo episodes. Like if you if you think back to September last year, so September 2020, we did the splintember series. And, man, I forgot how much effort it takes to put something together, but I'm still determined and keen to put something together, that's gonna be you know, while you're commuting, while you're chopping, onions, gardening, whatever you're doing to make it a really valuable episode, all about my perceptions of occlusion, and just the very basics from like centric relati...

Ask 10 Dentists for a treatment plan, and you will get 12 different recommendations. Treatment planning is an art, but our diagnosis should be highly scientific. Making decisions of what specific treatment we should recommend to our patients is the very foundation of daily practice. With the experienced Dr Paresh Shah we discuss the How, What and Why of the Treatment Planning process in this Back to Basics in Dentistry series. https://youtu.be/raZiERy8U4o Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: If you are unsure what is the best treatment plan for your patient, it likely means you haven't asked enough questions. Ask more questions and seek your patients' drivers and goals. “Find an experienced mentor that will walk you through gathering the information.... [discover] why it's important to mount the cast rather than just holding it in with your hand.” - Dr Paresh Shah In this Episode, we discussed: Step by Step thorough Examination 12:50Importance of having a Checklist 27:34Records needed for a Comprehensive Exam 30:46Communication between patients and Dentists about Treatment Plan - in a way that doesn't confuse our patient 36:59Talking Money and Fees 47:18 Check out Dr. Paresh Shah's Instagram to learn and be inspired! If you enjoyed this, you will of course love Zak's Presenting Treatment Plans the Comprehensive Way  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: And I don't know what it's like in the UK, but I'll tell you in North America, I've seen a lot of it. It's just hard. There's just not enough time because you're so focused on requirements and surfaces and canals and amount of teeth you're taken out rather than going 'Okay, let's just take a step back and let's focus on comprehensive dentistry.' And occasionally, you'll get a part time instructor that pulls you aside and teaches you all the stuff... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, and welcome to another episode of the Protrusive Dental podcast, back to basics series. Today we're covering this mammoth topic of treatment planning, right? Where do you even begin with treatment planning? Well, you begin here, because I'm going to break it down with Dr. Paresh Shah from Canada, all about the fundamentals of the kind of conversations you have with your patients. What is the sort of mindset you have when you're on treatment planning? What are the stages? How can you actually use your experience and use what the patient's goals are to help inform the best treatment plan possible for your patient? So it's something that I used to really puzzle me when I was a newly qualified dentist, I'd see a plan that was more complicated than just single tooth dentistry. And it will be like, how do I apply what I've learned from dental school to this patient in front of me. So it's something that you sort of refine as you gain more experience. Now, I'm hoping that after this episode, it shouldn't just give you that little bit more of an edge to allow you to think more rationally about your treatment planning. So like I said, hope you're enjoying this back to basic series. And it's been great fun to make it and the guests have been absolutely brilliant during this month. Thanks so much for watching. Now, if you have any more recommendations for topics, I'm always happy to hear them, you can DM me on Insta, you can comment below or you can email me jaz@protrusive.co.uk, I would love to hear your suggestions and I can get the right guests on as well as you want. The Protrusive Dental Pearl I have for this episode is very relevant to treatment planning. And it's this. If you have a patient and you're treating planning them, and it's a it's a bigger, more complicated problem. And I'm thinking like not just that it's multiple teeth, but even something like missing teeth, like something that's so common, right?

Do your ID blocks work all the time? How about your management of the dreaded 'hot pulp'? As a part of the Back to Basic series this August, I asked Dr Pynadath George, who practices advanced surgical and implant dentistry, about dental hacks for success with every dimension of local anaesthesia in Dentistry. https://youtu.be/F6l9glsEbuc  Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Give painless local anaesthesia (aside from topical anaesthetic, we know that already!) by massaging the mucosa and the lip with your index finger and thumb. Get just a few drops of LA first and give it a minute to work. Then you can go back in and deliver your anaesthetic much faster and the patient will love you for painless anaesthesia! “If you want good success with the ID blocks, you need to look at and study the anatomy, even if it's on a skull, and then relate that to your patient..” - Dr George In this episode we discussed about: Is Lidocaine/Articaine enough to numb patients as a GDP, or do we need to stock other anaesthetics such a Mepivicaine? (15:09)Avoidance of Articaine for ID block in some countries - if that really necessary? (18:35)Shift of mindset with young dentists practicing defensively (20:38)Tips on achieving successful ID blocks (27:04)Hitting bone during ID blocks - do you HAVE to hit bone? Can that be harmful? (33:38)How to manage the dreaded hot pulp! (36:39)Moderate and advanced local anaesthetic techniques in Dentistry (47:31)Tips on getting painless palatal injections (especially on ultra nervous patients) (51:05) Want to learn more? Check out this Advanced Implant Training by Dr George Pynadath I hope you are enjoying this Back to Basics series of episodes! If you liked this episode, you will also enjoy Basic Implant Occlusion and Work Life Balance – PDP012 with Implant Ninja! Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: As i gave the intra pulpal, I didn't realize the sound was being recorded but as i gave myself an intra pulpal, as i was reviewing back the videos all i could hear was myself grunting going 'ah because it was that painful I had to keep my mouth open while i'm numbing myself up through the pulp but honestly after that was done it was like magic i could you know i found all four canals, extirpate it, done... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati! I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to another episode of the Protrusive Dental podcast. This month is back to basics. So it's episode number two of back to basics on a huge daily conundrum which is getting success in local anesthesia like how many times in your career so far maybe you have, maybe you haven't but i'm pretty sure you might have had this where you've gone through a bad phase or a bad patch of your ID blocks just not working or how to manage that patient with a hot pulp? That lower molar with throbbing pain and no matter how many infiltrations you give, you can't get the patient numb or how about the fact that most of the anesthesia we use is just usually lidocaine or Articaine and that's generally my experience, is there anything more to it? Now to answer these questions i've got George. His first name is far too complex from around so we shall call him Dr George, who is a very well known name in the UK. He actually does lots of advanced surgical dentistry, pterygoid implants, zygomatic implants, full arches that kind of stuff. He also does some general dentistry as well but that's his real niche that he's known for and along with that he does teach on very advanced local anesthesia techniques like how to give extra oral blocks for example or how to give anesthesia in areas where you're not really taught at dental school but we're gonna really bring it back to basics in this episode to go through how to get success from the more basic techniques like what are the the factors involved in getting success in anesthesi...

Recession is one of the those diagnoses we make all the time - lots of our patients have recession. I always struggled to decide when we should be proactive with recession and suggest surgery - it is very easy to monitor recession through photos and measurements. Specialist Periodontist Dr Amit Patel discusses his decision making when it comes to recession defects. He also discusses his journey which is very encouraging as it teaches us that you DON'T have to have it all figured out from the start.... https://youtu.be/A1b0sL4rJUk Check out this  full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!  Protrusive Dental Pearl: What do you do if your patient is bleeding after an extraction and you're struggling with haemostasis? You can try placing a hot tea bag on the socket (no, really!) - the tannic acid in the tea bag will aid blood clotting. So next time you have a bleeder in the chair, remember, 'time for a cup of tea!' In this episode we discussed: Knowing when to refer recession to a Periodontist for surgery vs monitoring (23:39)Communicating to patients whether to have some treatment done now or later (26:02)Miller's classification (30:05)Why can we get 100% root coverage (32:36)Do GDPs have a role in carrying out Perio surgery (42:53)Advice for patients to prevent recession to get worse (48:30)Realistic expectations to patients about what kind of aesthetic complications to accept as a compromise (52:01) If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy the episode, Should you specialise? Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Opening Snippet: I've got to be honest the referrals that I've had, the patients don't want to have the surgery okay which is interesting because you know they've obviously been told that they've got a problem, they've got recession but they're just thinking i don't want to go through this hassle, right? So which is fine but what i have noticed during lockdown, I've had a lot more patients contacting me about their gum recession... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to PDP 082, all about the management of recession defects not like the crazy like you know get the scalpel out let's all start doing root coverage. More like how to assess it as a GDP because i find that recession is one of those things right? Where it's like tooth wear in the sense that it's common but that doesn't make it acceptable, that doesn't make it something that we don't write down as a diagnosis because i find that you know people ignore tooth wear and people ignore recession because why we see it all the time of varying degrees. Some patients will take it really seriously whereas others will have recession for years and you might be the first dentist to have that conversation with them about recession and it can obviously lead to sensitivity and aesthetic issues So it's a huge issue and i think soft tissues as a whole is something that needs better coverage i guess if that's a pun i'm allowed to use. This episode i'm joined by Amit Patel, who is a i want to say, i want to say youthful like. This guy's like got a baby face right and he's such a good guy. He's one of the nicest guys in dentistry very knowledgeable and he's been on the lecture circuit for like years and years and years. Although you wouldn't tell from his face he like i said he's a baby face. He's going to talk all about how he assesses as a periodontist specialist the tissues and how he manages the cases that get referred to him with the recession and it's amazing how a lot of these cases, he's just reassuring patients he's not actually picking up a scalpel and it's great to know when we can reassure patients and how far we can go that versus when we actually kind of need to intervene or refer so that the situation doesn't get out of hand so we cover all those things including prognoses and the beginning we also cover the journey like Amit Patel's journey and i...

Online reviews for Dentists are a big thing in 2021 and it's only really just lifting off now. A few years ago I had an appointment with an ENT consultant and the first thing I did was google his name. Most of our patients are googling us and our online reputation is critical. In this episode I am joined by the founder of Doctify, Dr Suman Saha to help you get more high quality reviews for your practice. https://youtu.be/LiHSvoWBuPA Check out this  full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: How to increase the success rate of capturing review: Consider text messaging and/or having a tablet in your practice so they can leave it immediately after treatment. In this Group Function we discussed: What is the role of patient Reviews dentistry? (07:02)Doctify vs different online review sites/apps such as Google Reviews (08:39)How can we make sure the reviews are accurate? How to overcome fake reviews (12:18)How to create a win-win scenario between Principals (the practice) and associates (that want their reviews to stick with them) (17:48)How to get dentists (who might be introverts) to have awkward conversation with patients and ask for reviews (24:20) If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like this episode Think Comprehensive – Communication Gems with Zak Kara Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Opening Snippet: You know even if you're not paying for it yourself just knowing that actually this person's an expert or can deal with the condition that i know i'm going to see him for or her is like it's so powerful and i think that's what we want to try and solve... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to this group function where we answer a really big and important question i get quite a lot from our colleagues. Now you guys know that i've been using something called Doctify to collect reviews but the number one objection or query i get from dentists is that hey Jaz, you use Doctify but my principal is being really funny about me collecting my own reviews. How did you overcome this or something related to the fact that there's some sort of friction between principals and associates? Like even if you collect google reviews as an associate when you are doing all the hard work to gain the google reviews to uplift the good will and the reputation of the practice but what if you leave that practice those reviews don't go with you. So we asked Dr Suman, who is actually an orthopedic surgeon, who actually created Doctify to answer this very important question as well as how to harness the power of dental review so even if you don't use Doctify you will gain something about how to use reviews in a clever way. How to collect more reviews and how to actually improve the social proof of your practice. Hope you enjoy this group function. Main Interview: Part of this podcast is journeys. Learning what motivates people learning about the different routes people take. So Suman, do you practice clinical density at the moment? No, so my background is so i'm not a dentist. So i'm gonna put it out there now, i'm not a dentist. You know, what i totally thought you were. I totally thought you were. So this has been super interesting learning because i've been in and around dentistry for three four years now and i've got a lot of dental friends. So i'm an orthopedic surgeon by background so i trained in London, myself is an orthopedic registrar when we found the Doctify and then I guess we've been in dentistry because we started the healthcare and medicine and surgery because that's what i knew but we suddenly went on to our site and i think the third most searched thing was dentistry even though we had no dentist, we weren't working with dentists about four years ago and so we basically just knew one of the things people not even patients just people care about is finding a good dentist.

It's my sister's wedding but the Protrusive team managed to get this out for you - and boy it is a good one! Dr Omid Azami AKA The Noobie Dentist will inspire to you adopt a growth Mindset. https://youtu.be/NSEbShIeD04 Check out this  full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “Have that mindset like 'it's a journey', you're never 'there' necessarily. You can always get better, and do more.” - Dr. Omid Azami Here with me, Dr. Omid Azami, host of Noobie Dentist Podcast, who inspires and gives voices to clinicians all over the world and inspiring Dentists. In this Interference Cast, we discuss all about: Tips on making life more efficient, better and more productive. (09:26)Key attributes that help a young dentist to become great. (16:33)Tips and tricks to make a habit of taking photos. (20:54)Journey of self-discovery. Finding your pathways and niche. (24:20)Importance of mentorship, even remote mentorship. (32:58)Most inspirational guest from Noobie dentist and their takeaways (39:03) If you want to learn more, please do subscribe at  Dr. Omid Azami's Noobie Dentist Podcast If you liked this episode, you will definitely love and will learn a lot from the episode 10 Habits of Highly Successful (and Most Valued) Dentists  Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Opening Snippet: As an example early on i was all about the money right? I was, you know, in toronto I was a new grad I was like I want to make you know x amount of dollars per year and day to day like my happiness was like up and down on how much production I had and how much I was making and it was pretty early on I was like man this is not a good way to like think about dentistry of just like how much money am I making. Let's instead focus on my clinical outcomes like is my restoration is looking better today? Is my marginal contours better? Is my contacts better? Is my extractions faster and cleaner? Is my post-op comforts? So that's I had that mind you know mindset change and it really made me happier because I was challenging myself to you know learn the craft better day to day instead of just focusing on the money and the outcome side of it... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati. Welcome to this interference cast with Omid Azami better known as the host of the Noobie Dentist podcast. This episode was actually shot many months ago. Right now when i'm recording this introduction I'm quite nasal. I'm so sorry. I have got a bit of a non-covid bug. It's a bad timing but at least it's non-covid. I've got that confirmed. It's my sister's wedding at the moment and for those of you who are familiar with Indian weddings It's not like a one-day affair, I wish it was a one-day affair. This is like a three-week bonanza I am so grateful I have just one sibling but anyway let's make the most of it. I've got my son. I've got good food to look forward to. Dancing. Indian colors and festivities and traditions. So I've got a lot of that going on. I've got a lot of the episodes on autopilot that have been pre-recorded So they'll be getting released by the team over the next few weeks. So you won't go a week without having a Protrusive dental podcast episode, don't worry. This themes, the themes that we cover in this episode are very much related and intertwines some of the previous themes that we'd cover The theme of journey. The theme of career decisions. The theme of mindset and the theme of just being the best version of you. The two biggest takeaways that you might get from this episode is funnily enough something I like to call toilet university and yes I have no shame and number two is something that only describes later in the episode as the social multiplier effect and something that's so relevant in dentistry. So i hope you enjoyed me and Omid just you know have vibing out chatting about dentistry in Australia. Dentistry in UK and how to power up your mindset in dentistry....

The Benefits of Collaboration to your art In today's episode, we will talk about artistic collaboration. I highly recommend collaboration with not only those who share your artistic practice but those from outside your discipline. Now this episode concerns the benefits of collaboration and we will talk about that, but I also will be commenting on some articles I discovered while making this episode that deals with collaboration and how the best artists utilize this to enhance their practice and extend their network. Introduction Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien head instigator of Create Art Podcast where we help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. I do this through commentary, conversations, projects, and interviews, and for 2021 I am doing webstreams for those who would like to watch versus just listening. My Experience with Artistic Collaboration Firstly, be discussing my academic theater experience with collaboration on both the good and opportunities for improvement. Likewise, I will also be mentioning my collaboration with Kyle Bondo of Gagglepod Studios and our podcast Podwrecked. This episode is being brought to you today from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library IdeaSpace Studio. Therefore, I have started a new collaboration with them to produce the "regular" episodes from their studio. Most importantly, if your library does not have a maker lab, get involved in helping them make a maker lab like the one we have here. Points to Consider For Collaborations Complimentary Skills Time Zone Difference Advantage Forgetting Competitiveness Agreement at Concept Stage Scrap Projects Don't Micromanage Remember Goals Don't rely on phone calls Share Work Constantly Ask questions Get It In Writing Do research Time is money Links on Artistic Collaboration CreativeBloq Society6 Blog Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. Most importantly, if you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Mighty Networks: Create Art Podcast

Introduction & Hello. Text Reading: Ch2/Sect6: “Fear & Conflict”. Lesson 13 “A Meaningless World Engenders Fear”. Meditation. Thoughts. Goodbye. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

my first podcast episode is here! please send any suggestions or feedback to hello@anastasiatasou.com ~ music & production by https://www.instagram.com/form_uk/

Useful links: View this conversation and the pics on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4jof4t5eClU Enroll in my Master Photo Printing course.  https://brentbergherm.com/training-center/course-info/master-photo-printing/ Get some free resources here: https://brentbergherm.com/info/resources/ Palouse Shoot-n-Print Photography and Printing Workshop Get on the list for updates on Latitude Photography School  Shop at lensrentals.com with my affiliate link and I’ll get a small commission of the sale. Use the code "latitude15" at checkout and you'll get 15% off your order. I also have an affiliate link with ThinkTank Photo  Thank you for your support! Introduction Hello and thank you for joining me for this very special episode. I’ve been trying to think what I could do for episode 100 and when the opportunity came to speak with my special guest today I just knew I had to make it happen for this episode.  Dr. Gusky and I talked in mid-August 2020 and we happened to mention a few items that are rather time sensitive, so please do keep that timing in mind. I did not plan on holding on to this interview for over four months before it would be released, but due to my challenges I had starting in August and ending in November a delay was inevitable.  So let’s hop on over to the conversation now where Dr. Jeff fills us in on the power of serendipity and how it led to him photographing the last remnants that was left behind from the only all African-American combat unit in the U.S. Military and their contributions to World War One. As this is a special episode I’m withholding any announcements and this is also released on YouTube. If you’re watching it on YouTube please do look up Latitude Photography Podcast in your favorite player and you can listen here. If you’re listening and you’d rather watch the slide show then by all means, head on over there, it’ll be the first link in the show notes under “useful links.”  Thanks so much for being here, let’s get to the conversation now! The Power of Serendipity Conversation. When the power of the modern world disappears, all we have left is each other. Everything gets real in a heartbeat. We discover strength and courage we didn’t know we had. We reconnect to meaning, purpose and to each other through selfless acts of courage & kindness. We get very clear about what really matters. And we rediscover what’s been there all along … a vast reservoir of human decency and goodness just beneath the surface of modern life that’s never left us which abounds with hope. When crisis turns our world upside down, paradigm shifts that restore what’s humanly safe and humanly real are critical. Recently featured at The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Jeff Gusky found a secret, hidden for a hundred years, that changes the way we see race in America and the way we heal ourselves. Gusky discovered the only surviving trace from World War I of a black combat unit beneath a farm field in France on the former front line: the underground command post of a unit the Germans called “The Black Devils” because of their fierceness in combat. They weren’t just any black unit, they were the ONLY ALL AFRICAN AMERICAN UNIT in the United States military. By 1918, they were already 49 years old. This discovery reveals that nearly everything we thought we knew about Race In America is WRONG. We’ve been living a lie for 125 years & the truth is MUCH BETTER & MUCH WORSE than we know. Reminders Find us on the web at http://latitudephotographypodcast.com Find me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/brentberghermphoto/ Find the podcast facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1892577214293688/ Find me on instagram @brentbergherm Find me on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/brentberghermphotography Find me online at https://brentbergherm.com Find Dr. Jeff online here: https://jeffgusky.com It is my goal for 2021 to be the  lensrentals.com top affiliate. If you’re going to rent something anyway I’d love it if you’d be able to help support me and the show by using my link in the show notes. My goal is to rent a lot of gear in 2021 and I’d love to just turn all these affiliate earnings back in to rentals. So if you’d like me to review more gear on the show this is one way to support that :)

Get to know us! Quick little introduction of who we are - We are so happy to have you here! Thank you for joining us!

A nostalgic journey back to the movie rental store era and the amazing movies from our childhood that we all know and love. With the benefit of 20+ years of hindsight, we revisit and dissect these classic movies to see if they still hold up.

My Virgo Friend podcast Episode 1: Full Moon in Scorpio   Introduction Hello and welcome to the My Virgo Friend podcast! I am your host Cherelle, but you can call me “Che Che”! I want to thank you all for tuning in, and I hope you find the podcast valuable and entertaining. I created this podcast to serve as a weekly resource for those people that are interested in various spirituality subjects such as shadow work, alternative medicine therapies, astrology, etc. 4 Main Segments overview “The Stars” Energy forecast Current moon phase and planetary alignments “The Signs” astrology update What to expect for your signs (sun, moon, rising) learn your natal chart. “The Feels” Duality/ Sexuality Discussion of various subjects regarding spiritual transformation including sexuality, shadow work, etc. “The Vibes” Intuitive Messages Guided messages for insight and perspective If you want to submit your questions to me for advice or feedback, you’re welcome to email me at askcherelle@myvirgofriend.com Breathwork & Affirmations I love myself. I accept myself. I approve of myself. I am grateful for my life. I give myself permission. “The Stars”- Taurus SZN Overview How can you embrace the earthy Taurus energy? “The Signs”- Scorpio Full Moon Did you experience the effects of the watery Super Moon? “The Feels”- Shadow Work Do you know who your Shadow Self is? What are your dark parts? “The Vibes”- Stop Expecting Rejection Enough getting in your own way! Who made you feel rejected? “Being attached to unhealthy energy is a slow death”. (32:55) Closing affirmations and remarks If you want to submit your questions to me for advice or feedback, you’re welcome to email me at askcherelle@myvirgofriend.com

A quick introduction to the podcast, including who I am, why it'll be great and you can expect moving forward.  Make sure you subscribe to the show!

Here's a word for word transcript of the episode: Introduction ------------ Hello. It's Martine here. Welcome to the Teaching Space podcast. This is a special episode. It doesn't have a number so hopefully that won't be too confusing when it comes to looking at your list of episodes. I wanted to record a special episode today and the date is Friday, the 3rd of April. I'll be releasing this episode today as well. I don't normally tell you the date that I'm recording because I bulk record my episodes and make no apology for that. It's a very efficient way for me to work. The plus side is it means that I'm able to get out a weekly podcast episode to you during term time. The downside of course is that when something major happens, it's often quite hard for me to give a timely comment, certainly through the medium of the podcast because I'm usually a month or six weeks ahead of myself. Why I am Recording Today ------------------------ However, we are living in very strange times and I thought it would be rude of me not to perhaps just record a little audio message in response to what is happening with regard to the COVID crisis and the experiences that a lot of teachers are going through at the moment. I don't speak for every single teacher. I can only share my own experience, but I think what I can do is hopefully reassure you that you are doing your best at the moment. I know you are and I'm going to kind of dig into that a little bit in a moment. That's the plan, at any rate. It's not scripted, today's episode. I've not put any music on it because it is very much a special episode. That's the reason I'm talking to you today and releasing something quickly. There won't be any show notes, although I might upload a transcript at a later date. That remains to be seen. I'll decide on that later. You are Doing Your Best ----------------------- As I said, the main reason for wanting to record something is to reassure you that you are doing great. You are doing your best and I know you are because I follow a lot of you on Twitter and I see what you're up to and I think one of the biggest challenges that I've experienced both personally and in talking to other teachers on social media and I was going to say face to face then. I don't mean face to face, you know what I mean. But there's a real sense amongst some people that they want to do more and they're really pushing themselves to do more. But actually I think it needs to be the other way around in a way. Certainly from a teaching and learning perspective, we need to lower some expectations and I'm going to dig into that again in a second. Follow the Rules - Save Lives ----------------------------- But you need to remember, I need to remember, we all need to remember that actually the massive thing that you are doing at the moment, the massive difference you're making is staying at home and following hygiene rules and social distancing. These things, following the rules are making a huge difference. In fact they're saving lives and sometimes we just need someone else to remind us that that's doing loads and that's fantastic and we should be happy that we're doing that. Guernsey Update --------------- I'll just do a very quick update on Guernsey in case you're interested. Guernsey's a very small island, our population's 63,000 or something like that and we have in the region of a 110 cases of the virus at the moment. And as I said, I'm recording on the third of April. We've had two deaths, I'm sad to say. If you think about the numbers of people who live on the island and compare that sort of ratio to the UK, I guess it looks like we're doing very well. We locked down the island and closed our borders and had a strict lockdown policy very early. We've been in lockdown for a week and I'm very proud of the way my island's government has responded to this situation. And hopefully we will benefit from that and I appreciate I'm a lot better off and we are a lot better off than many other parts of the world and for that I'm really grateful. I also feel really privileged that my employer supported the fact that I have an underlying health concern, which means I'm mildly auto immune or immunocompromised. I don't know what the correct terminology is, forgive me. But because of that I was allowed to work from home quite early on in the process, in the situation. I feel very privileged to be in that situation because a lot of people aren't. But I need to remind myself and as you need to remind yourself, that you are doing your best currently in a very difficult situation. Staying home means to saving lives. Things I Learned Last Week -------------------------- I think one of the biggest things I wanted to share with you is something that I sent out to my email list last weekend. Last weekend I was at the point where I'd had a week of experiencing a different way of working and I shared with my email list eight things I learned last week and I also popped them on Twitter as a threaded tweet and I wanted to reshare those with you now via the podcast but also elaborate on them a little bit because I've reflected on them since and I have more thoughts and I'm hoping this might be of some use, so let's do it. Thing 1 ------- The first thing I learned last week and has been reinforced this week is that managing a video conference involving more than three people is quite a skill. I found that setting ground rules or expectations at the start of the video conference has been essential. Things like letting people know when you expect them to mute their mikes and how they should indicate that they want to speak and things like that. We've been doing online tutorials and staff meetings and things like that via Google Hangouts Meet, which has been really effective. We've also been experimenting with Microsoft Teams and both options have a chat facility. I've often been using the chat and getting people to indicate when they want to speak in the chat. The best case scenario, and I appreciate this is not always something that can happen, is if you've got one person hosting and one person monitoring the chat and those two people talk and that makes for quite an efficient to set up, in my opinion. Also if you're using Google Hangouts Meet, you might have noticed that if your organisation is using G Suite for Education, they've given you a free upgrade and you're now able to record Google Hangouts and as the host you have some control over muting people, so I've certainly found that really, really useful. I'm running a couple of courses online and so being able to record a group tutorial when I've done a flipped learning type situation, having the recording and sharing it via Google Classroom has been excellent. I've also done this with some CPD sessions we've been running. Thing 2 ------- Number two, super important and I'm so guilty of getting this wrong in week one, even though it's tempting to skip breaks when you're working at home, it is important you don't. You know what? Is more important that you don't get breaks when you're working from home. Set an alarm on your phone to remind you to go for breaks. Your mental health will thank you for it. I'm pleased to report that this week I've done much better with my breaks. In fact, I've been really careful to make sure I schedule a one hour dog walk either over lunch or a bit later in the afternoon and that's when I can kind of get my fresh air and exercise and that has paid dividends. Thing 3 ------- Number three, removing your work email app from your phone is a very good idea, especially when the office is just a few metres away. If you are working from home, this becomes really important. I for years didn't have emails on my phone from work and I don't quite know how that app crept up on me. It just ended up on my phone. I never checked it regularly because it was hidden. It was deeply hidden in a folder and I only ever checked it every now and again when, say for example I was out and about on a work meeting or something like that. I don't advocate putting your work emails on your phone, just full stop. However, I ended up doing it, going against what I promote just because it was convenient at the time and I never deleted it anyway. I've now deleted it and it will not ever be on my phone again and I really recommend if you do have, for example the Outlook or Gmail app on your phone and you see your work emails regularly, it is a good idea to distance, particularly when working from home. I should clarify that all of these things that I learned are relating to in the main working from home and I do appreciate that you might be listening to this thinking, well I don't have the privilege of working from home. I am on the frontline and for that I am so grateful that you are doing that. And I'm sorry that you don't have the privilege of working from home and I fully recognise that that is a privilege I have. Thing 4 ------- Number four, teaching online is not a replacement for teaching in person. It's really important that you lower your expectations of what is achievable and I know that's not easy, particularly if you're being pressured by leadership to just carry on as normal. It isn't possible. It's not a direct replacement for in person teaching. If you are able to please lower your expectations, manage the expectations of your learners and if applicable, their parents. If you are in a leadership role and you're listening to this, please support your teachers, support your trainers to lower expectations. Thing 5 ------- Number five, preparing online teaching sessions takes a lot longer than preparing in person teaching sessions. This very much relates to number four. I personally have taken the approach of doing any online teaching that I'm expected to do as a flipped approach and I'm again, in a position of privilege that I'm technically skilled and it's easy for me to record a video of what I might have delivered as input in my sessions. If you're thinking, you know what? I'd really like to do that, but I don't know how. There are far less sophisticated tools that can help you. I use something called ScreenFlow. It's quite an expensive tool which I managed to get a special deal on and I use it to record my tutorial videos on YouTube, but you don't have to use this. If you want to try a flipped learning approach where you rather than deliver live, you prerecord your delivery and then have a live Google Hangout to discuss the input that you'd given by video than something like Loom is ideal. You don't have to give a perfect delivery. It doesn't have to be edited because you don't edit your performance in class, now do you? Just do the very best you can with the tools that you've got. It does take longer to prepare online teaching and learning and that is why expectations need to be lowered. Thing 6 ------- Number six, it's okay to limit your consumption of news and social media right now. In fact, it's probably very healthy. If you're in WhatsApp groups that you find a bit triggering because of what they're talking about then leave the WhatsApp group. If you're finding Facebook or Twitter is just too much, take the app off your phone. That's okay. Just know when you're being triggered by too much information, whether it is related to the coronavirus or not. Be aware and do something about it. I read a really good article which I will try and link to at a later date when I do some show notes and it was all about how there's a load of sort of productivity stuff going around at the moment in terms of Twitter and blog articles and podcasts and things like that about how everyone's got all this free time and they're being so super productive. It is okay to ignore all of that. We are in a crisis situation. Who's productive in a crisis for Heaven's sake? Ignore it all. You don't have to be that productive person right now. If all you can manage is getting up and doing some emails and maybe putting one session together, that is going to have to be enough. You don't have to exercise every day and in two weeks become a top athlete and get everything for the rest of the academic year done in a week. Be realistic and be kind to yourself. Thing 7 ------- This one might make you smile because you know I'm a tech girl. I love all the tech. Number seven, now is not the time to try to learn all of the tech tools. Pick one that does what you need. Watch a tutorial and use it. Don't look at this time as an opportunity to do all the professional development. It isn't the time. You're not focused in the way that you need to be. You have a problem, speak to a colleague, get a recommendation, find a solution, learn it, implement it. Tell your students you're trying something new. Hopefully they will be supportive and just do the very best you can. Thing 8 ------- Finally, number eight, fresh air and gentle exercise can alleviate most minor irritations and frustrations. You know what? Something really good has come out of the past, how long has it been now? Do you know what? I don't even know what day it is to be fair, but something good has come out of this situation for me personally and that is that I am getting out outside every single day and I'm exercising by walking my dog. I'm enjoying the fresh air. I'm relishing being outside and clearing my head, and in just a week or so I've noticed an improvement to my fitness. I just feel so much better and that's a major win for me and I'm claiming that. I'm taking it. I'm not saying, just to go back to my previous point about not having to be uber productive right now, I'm not saying you should do that. That's not something that is a priority for you, but for me it's been a benefit to my mental health without a doubt. Wrap Up ------- And that's it. Like I said, it's a special episode. There's no music. I'm probably not going to edit hardly at all, so you'll have strange background noises and ums and ahs and all sorts of strange things. I just wanted to get on the podcast in real time and tell you, you are doing okay. You are doing the best you can in a very difficult situation. I've got your back. Look me up on Twitter if you want to have a chat in real time, you'll find me on there, Martine Guernsey. If you're avoiding social media, then you can email me hello@theteachingspace.com. Don't forget there's the Teaching Space community if you want to chat in a different format so you can find the community if you just go to community.theteachingspace.com. It's really easy to join. There's a nice, nice group of people in there. We'd love to have you. After this episode airs, there will be a break for two weeks because I don't record over school holidays and we're off for a couple of weeks. If things continue like this though, you never know. You might get another special episode from me. Thanks for listening. Take care of yourself. Goodbye.

Introduction Hello and welcome to the Teaching Space Podcast. It's Martine here. Thank you so much for joining me. Martine:      Today, I have a guest on the show and we're going to be talking productivity. Rather than have a big intro, I'm going to hand straight over to my guest, Justin Hockey. Justin, welcome to the show. Justin:             Thank you, Martine. It's great to be here. Martine:            I'm so pleased to have you on. Could you tell me, I'm going to get you to introduce yourself if that's okay, who are you and what in the world do you do? And where in the world do you do it? Justin:             That's a great question. With modern technology, anywhere in the world is just about possible. So my name is Justin and I'm a music teacher. I've been working in various countries around the world teaching music. India, Australia, and now South Korea, so that's where I am right now in South Korea. I teach at an international school. I'm also married and with a child. So that adds into the productivity mix, as I'm sure many of your listeners will also experience or know of. Martine:            Let's talk about productivity, because you and I both have a common interest in being the most productive people we can be. You said you're a music teacher. What is it about the role of a teacher that makes productivity such a challenge? Justin:             Gosh. I mean, I've had some notes about this. I wrote down three things to prompt me: people, processes, and products. People, I mean, as a teacher in any setting you're dealing with people, obviously your colleagues and supervisors, or bosses, or heads, depending on whether it's a further education setting or a school. For me, I'm at a school, and currently a junior school, or what some parts of the world call an elementary school or a primary school. So, I have over 300 students I see each week. And so, dealing with that many moving parts, people as it were, is a challenge. And then there's all the processes that go with that in terms of routines that are meant to happen but of course, in most schools no one week is the same as the next exactly. And particularly this time of the year when we're recording it, it's coming up to Christmas. And then I said the word product, which is not necessarily perhaps the best word. But I guess the outputs. What are we trying to achieve? We're not manufacturing devices or selling products in a store. We're shaping people's lives, and whether that's shaping adults' lives, young adults' lives or children's lives, that's something which in some senses is a never-ending job. So, it's very easy to, as a teacher in any setting, to feel like the work is never done. Because in a sense, it never is. There's always more to be done, and people can quite quickly burn out or become overwhelmed. And I know for myself and many of the listeners, we've been there and experienced those challenges. And so I'm excited about sharing some of my insights and journey so far. But obviously, like teaching itself, it's almost like a never-ending process of learning to be more productive. Like climbing a mountain, the higher you get, the more you realise is ahead of you and how far you've come. Martine:            You alluded to the fact that you have some strategies that you use. I'd like to kind of attack this from two angles. Initially, if we talk about the sort of general approaches and resources and things like that, and then go specifically into productivity apps and tools. So, if we start general and then sort of drill down into the detail, that would be great. So tell us what you do. Justin:             Great. What I thought I would do is approach this through three people that I've come across. These are not people I've met in person, but they're all ... Well, certainly one of them is a teacher herself, and the other two are people that I've seen referenced in productivity generally. So, the first one I'll start with is Angela Watson, and for a long time she was an instructional coach and teacher in the United States, and now she runs her website. She's got a number of brands, or a number of websites I should say. But I guess the key one is the 40 Hour Work Week Club for teachers where she essentially says, "As a teacher, it is possible to cut down your work week to 40 hours." And I signed up to her email list and blog and podcast at least five years ago, and she still offers this course as well as a number of other services online, which tens of thousands of teachers have signed up for and gained a lot out of. But four of the key things I gained from her are batching, lists, using the calendar and mindset. I mean, there's obviously other things that go with that, but I'll just touch briefly on each of those. Batching was such a ground-breaking concept to me. The idea that as a teacher, or any worker really, you've got a bunch of tasks that need to be done, and some of those tasks are actually similar to each other. So, for example, you might have a whole bunch of planning that needs to be done, or you might have a whole bunch of physically moving things around your workspace that needs to be done. And rather than trying to do a little bit here and a little bit there, if you can arrange your schedule or arrange your time such that you are batching these tasks, grouping these tasks together, you tend to get them done better during that time because you're not scattering your attention across days or weeks or even months. And you're also, by the fact of thinking through what types of tasks you need to get done, that tends to force you to think more carefully about what you're doing, and when you're doing it, and even perhaps why you're doing it. Martine:            I think that batching was a big game changer for me in terms of how I deal with marking. I think marking is one of those really, really good examples of where batching can just make you far more efficient, because I really have to get into a zone when I'm marking assignments and things like that. And it takes me a long time to get into the flow. So, if I end up doing a bit of assignment marking here and there, I never actually get into the flow of it at all. So, one of the things I always batch is assignment marking. Justin:             That's exactly it. Marking, writing reports is a big one which I'm in the middle of. Anything dare I say tedious. But also, whether it's involving other people or things yourself, batching is certainly a great way to start approaching things. And if there's nothing else that listeners go away with, that would be something, one I would say if you haven't tried it, start looking at how you can group your tasks or processes together so that you're not scattering your attention and time across things like that. Another big thing that Angela Watson talks about is making lists. And this really comes into the question of apps. It's like, well, there are great apps out there. But at the end of the day, you need to have some sort of centralised list of tasks and projects and goals that you have, whether it is on an app, whether it is in an analogue form such as a diary or a notebook, or even a combination system, a hybrid. But somewhere to create lists. And then thirdly, calendar. Some system, again, of having a calendar, whether it's Google Calendar, a notebook, or again, a combination. And the fourth aspect that Angela Watson has brought up time and time again and has in fact written a whole book about recently is mindset. Because productivity, at the end of the day, shouldn't be just about getting more things done faster. Anyone who's been in the game long enough will realise you don't just want to be working faster, because you end up like a hamster on a wheel. But thinking about, hang on, what's this all for? What kind of mindset am I going into this with? A sense of dare I say sort of abundance or scarcity? Scarcity in the sense of, "Oh, there's not enough time to do everything, I'll never get everything done, and I'll just frantically try and put out all the fires." Or, of a sense of abundance, of saying, "I as a teacher am able to make choices about what's most important for my teaching, for my professional life and even my personal life. Because of course, you can't really divorce or separate your personal life from your teaching life. Those two are inextricably linked. So that's Angela Watson and some of her things there. Before I go into the other two, I thought maybe perhaps you have any questions or comments on that, Martine? Martine:            Yeah. I wanted to say that I'm a big fan of Angela Watson's work. I don't know if you know this, Justin, but I actually did the 40 Hour Teacher Work Week a couple of years ago, and it was a real- Justin:             No, that's news. Martine:            ... yeah, it was a real source of inspiration to me, and I really enjoy Angela's podcast too. And I will make sure I link to all of that information on the show notes, because I think it can bring lots of value to any listeners to the podcast. So yeah, totally agree with you, I'm a big fan. I also liked the point that you made when you were talking about to-do lists and calendars and things like that, getting focused on the process and not kind of getting into the apps first or the tools first, just having a calendar in any format. Just go analogue first to get used to what the tool is for. And then start thinking, "Actually, could I use this app? Could I use this tool?" Just start with the I want to say kind of productivity concept, and then look at the tools afterwards. Because you've got to get used to using a list and using a calendar. And those things are sort of at the foundation in my opinion of being more productive. So, I think that's really, really good advice. Justin:             It is great. And just as teachers, I mean, I'm sitting here thinking, yes, I want my students, I teach music, I want them to be able to use composition software or digital keyboards. But at the end of the day, if we don't have what in music, we call musicianship skills, in other words, being able to think musically without tools, devices, or even instruments believe it or not, then we sort of miss something somewhere. And I think productivity is quite similar to what you said about understanding the concept of the calendar in terms of physically having a calendar, or physically having a to do list puts into perspective what tool or what app you're going to use. Yeah. That's a great thought cycle there. Martine:            I like an app as much as the next person. And I kind of get a bit of shiny object syndrome if a new app comes out. I'm like, "I really want to try that. Apparently, this new thing's really good." But it's important to stop, work out what you actually, what the foundation you need to look at is first, and then get into the apps. So great point. Justin:             Excellent point, Martine. And you used a keyword there, stop. Which, you and I haven't talked about this next person yet, but Michael Hyatt is the next person I'm going to talk about. Martine:            Love Michael Hyatt. Great minds. Justin:             Yes, indeed. Michael Hyatt has written a number of books. And for those listeners that don't know who he is, amongst other things, he's been a former CEO of one of the major book publishers in the United States, and for the last almost 10 years now he's been running his own company. Which, amongst other things, focuses on productivity and helping people to succeed in life and be more productive, but being productive in the right areas. And I took one of his courses about two years ago. I signed up for the Free to Focus course, which is now also being turned into a book. And just think of the title, Free to Focus. He talked about productivity, that I mentioned earlier in fact, productivity not being a hamster wheel that we want to get on necessarily, but rather a question of other priorities. I mean, Michael Hyatt was the one who really clued me into this idea of freedom. We want the freedom to be productive and the freedom to focus, but not for the pursuit of just endless work. But rather freedom to achieve what we want to achieve, and then freedom to then go on and live our lives in a satisfying and successful way. So that's one big thing for Michael Hyatt, Free to Focus. He's also done a number of other books, and in some cases courses. Your Best Year Ever is about goal setting. Which, as he says, Free to Focus is about the day to day and week to week productivity, nuts and bolts. They think, "Oh my gosh, I'm overwhelmed by to-do lists, and students, and emails and all of those things." That's like being stuck with the trees. But then if you want to look at the forest for a moment, his Best Year Ever course and book, and of course there's many other people who do this, looking at the goals you have for the months of the year and even for the year. Setting yearly goals is such a valuable thing to be able to do. And then he says even ... We talked about the trees, and then there's the forest, but perhaps you can look at the whole national park if you like, if want to use that picture. He's written a book called Living Forward, which is about writing a life plan. Which, until I'd come across the concept, I mean, who thinks of writing a plan for their life? Most of us are busy writing plans for our lessons or our semester curriculum, whatever it is. But he does talk about a life plan. And if you can, or when you can, make the time to really stop and do that. And it's a process. You don't just do it once and think, "Yeah, tick that box. I don't have to ever think about that again." But thinking of how I came onto this and how you prompted me on this is stop. So, within the Free to Focus productivity system, he's got three steps really. And Step One is Stop. Step Two is Cut. And Step Three is Activate. So, stop is really a process of actually hitting pause on everything and saying, "What am I actually doing this for?" Which, can bring in the question of, "What are your life goals? What are your yearly goals? Or what are your quarterly goals?" So, taking that time to stop. And then secondly, the idea of cutting. Because once you've paused even just for five minutes to say, "Well, hang on. What do I need to get done today, let alone this week, this month, or this life?" Being able to perhaps eliminate in fact within the cut step, I think from memory here, the first thing he says is eliminate. “There are some things on our to do lists, that don't actually need to be there. And if we can't eliminate them, perhaps we can delegate them to other people. Or if we can't delegate them to other people, we can automate them.” In other words, we can set up a system, a process, or in some cases and Apple tool to actually do that for us. And certainly, with social media posting or depending on the kind of teaching you do, there might be things that you can delegate to other people or to apps or processes. And then the third stage he talks about is activating. Which, is the actual process of going out and executing your to do list. So that's Michael Hyatt. And then there's one more person I'll talk about. But I'm sure you've got some thoughts on Michael Hyatt too, Martine. Martine:            Yeah. I do like Michael Hyatt. I think he's got a lot of good stuff to say about productivity. I found it interesting when you were talking about the life plan. And part of me was thinking, "I haven't even got a lesson plan for tomorrow, let alone a life plan." I'm kidding, I do have a lesson plan for tomorrow. Justin:             Where are your priorities? Martine:            Absolutely. But I think personally that's kind of a next step for me, so I might check out his book. Again, I'll make sure this link's in the show notes to all of those books. I'm very good at having a yearly plan, breaking that down into quarterly goals and things like that. But going further than a year is kind of scary sometimes isn't it. So, your point about it being a work in progress is something that you don't just set and that's that. It's a really good one. So yeah, thanks for the book recommendation, I'll be looking into that. Justin:             Most welcome. So next, we've talked about Angela Watson, who herself is a teacher, and Michael Hyatt who comes from the corporate and business world. And the third person I want to talk about is Cal Newport. Funnily enough, I guess you could label him as a teacher. Cal Newport, for those who don't know him, is a professor of computer science at one of the big universities in the United States. And amongst other books, he's written perhaps the most relevant book here to our discussion is Deep Work. The concept of deep work, which links to batching. Having the time and space, and most importantly attention and focus to execute or to really work deeply on things. Now, this may be in terms of research, or it might be in terms of preparation, even marking and report writing. Those are all deep work type tasks that, if we can eliminate distractions, minimise disruptions, having the time and space to do deep work, which could be something as short as the famed Pomodoro Technique of 25 minutes of blocked out time, everything from 25 minutes through to half a day to even a day. (Check out Episode 12 on the Pomodoro Technique) I mean, in the book Deep Work, Cal Newport talks about people who take whole weeks or months to do things. But of course, they are not your bread and butter teachers typically. Some of them are ... Adam Grant is one famous example he gives. And Adam Grant is an author, and I think he's certainly in one of the big US colleges. He's a professor, and he still teaches students. But he's arranged his schedule such that he does have chunks of time, several days of the week where he can just focus on his research for example. I could rave on and on about Cal Newport. I'll just mention one other book he's written called Digital Minimalism. And it's a book that came out back in February of this year, 2019. And he really pushes deep into this idea of if we're trying to execute on deep work, if we're trying to eliminate distractions and interruptions, what does that look like in a digital world? And Cal Newport himself famously has never had social media accounts, no Twitter and no Facebook. And yet, he's been extraordinarily productive with putting out research papers and acquiring a significant teaching post at a university. So Deep Work and Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, well worth investing in for anyone who's trying to get their heads around the overwhelm as it were of being a teacher, or indeed anyone else in the 21st century. Martine:            I read Deep Work quite a few years ago, and I think I'm due for a reread actually. But you just reminded me of possibly one of the biggest shocks to the system for me when I went into teaching just over 10 years ago. I came from a corporate background, and I think the biggest shock was not having any stretches of time to try to get into that state of deep work. I was always just snatching a quarter of an hour here and there between sessions. Having a one-hour lunch break suddenly became quite an attractive stretch of time where I could be doing some deep work. So, I think going from corporate to teaching, that was the biggest change. The fact that we, as teachers, often don't have a whole day or a half a day where we can just get our heads into something. So, I think I'm due a reread on Deep Work. I loved Digital Minimalism, it really challenged me. Justin:             Oh yeah. And I was just reading it today, Digital Minimalism, thinking, "Gosh, I really need to get back into this idea of trimming, of cutting, or even detoxing from a whole bunch of digital input." Yeah. That's a thing with this, it's a journey of learning and in some cases relearning or revisiting these concepts and ideas. Martine:            There are some great recommendations there, Justin. Let's start moving towards tools and apps, because we're both big fans of tools and apps. Talk to me about your current productivity toolkit. Justin:             Sure. I will start again with Michael Hyatt. Forgive me for banging that drum. But Michael Hyatt has, interestingly enough, he was really into his digital tools and still is. And in fact, I think I found you, Martine, because Michael Hyatt and yourself or certainly someone who knows you are on a Facebook group for Notion, which I will mention shortly. Martine:            That's right. Yeah. Justin:             So, you have him to blame for that. But Michael Hyatt, he put out, he created I should say basically a diary, a planner. Because he had been using digital tools and apps, and still does. But he reached a stage about three, four years ago when he realised to achieve this deep focus state and be really strategic and plan, he needed to be going back to analogue tools, so pen and paper. So long story short, he created the Full Focus Planner. And because I've been following Michael Hyatt, I saw sort of the early pre-release material and was one of the first users to sign up for the Full Focus Planner. So, I still carry that around. It's been really interesting, because I can see in analogue form, I don't have to go through apps, or apps that I might have used and stopped using. But I can pick up my now close to eight quarterly planners that I have and flick through them and see days and weeks where I've been very almost religiously following the system that he has in terms of making a list and using the calendar, and scheduling the day, and reflecting on the day. And then there will be days, dare I even say weeks or two here and there where I barely scratched the planner with my plan. Yeah. That's just an interesting self-reflective point for me. But that's certainly one tool I could recommend, is the Full Focus Planner. And if you're not using the Full Focus Planner, it doesn't just have to be that one. Anyone I think these days who's questioning this idea or exploring this idea of productivity needs to think about the time to be switching off from digital and using analogue or working out what balance and what hybrid system if you like of using analogue and digital tools. So, with that I'll go onto digital tools. I mean, gosh, most of the major ones certainly that I've seen you talk about I've seen you use at one time or another. So, Asana, been there, done that. Todoist, I was using that for quite a while. Trello, I think Trello I actually started using more frequently because you had mentioned it, Martine, and enjoyed that for quite a while. Google Keep was another one I started to go onto. But if I'm really honest, none of those at the moment I'm using. I still have the accounts for some of them. But in the last certainly 30 days, six weeks, I haven't really used those. I've been really getting into WorkFlowy. And again, Martine, this is something you had put me onto. And the thing I love about WorkFlowy is that it is just so simple. In fact, some of the reviews and some of the people who mentioned it said it's almost like you sign up for it and think, "Is this thing broken? Am I missing something?" Because it looks so simple, or it is so simple. And yet, the more you use it, the more you realise it's powerful. And certainly, that's my approach. And I think this a key thing. Whichever app, or whichever tool you're using, digital or analogue, and this is a perspective I have as a music teacher, is, it's an instrument that you're learning to use. And you will get better at it the more you use it. And you may reach a stage where you think, "Well, actually this is really not the tool for me to use in my setting, or at this point in my life, or at this point in the year," or whatever it is. And that's fine. But look, for me, WorkFlowy is certainly the tool I've been using the most lately. And I have two accounts, one for work and one for home, and then can share the dots, or the documents as it were. And just quickly for those who don't have a clue what I'm talking about, WorkFlowy essentially is ... I mentioned dots because you open it up and you just see these bullet points. And then you can create your own bullet points. But the killer feature as it were of WorkFlowy is you click on the bullet point and it opens up that bullet point as a whole new screen, or document I should say. And so you can then add more bullet points, click on those bullet points and have further levels. So, as they describe it themselves, it's an infinite level of ... levels if you like of being able to go into this mega document you're creating. And then hashtags, that's the one that's really started to make me realise that it's a quite powerful tool if you understand the hashtags. And then just being able to check off the check lists. So that's some of the tools and apps I've tried in the past, and WorkFlowy that I'm still using. Notion. Notion, again, look, I was using it for quite a while and I thought, "Wow, this is amazing." I'd actually transitioned to Notion from Evernote. Now, I still have an Evernote account, and still click things nowhere near as much as I used to, but I still click things on Evernote. And Notion at the same time seemed like a great alternative to Evernote. And there seemed to be this quite geeky, and I use that in the best sense, community of people saying, "Look, Notion's amazing. Look at all the things you can do, and look, here's something." The capacity to create notebooks and templates and share them with others is incredible. And I'm not ruling out using Notion myself in the future. But look, as a music teacher working with hundreds of kids every week and juggling all sorts of things I thought, "Look, I don't want to get caught up on spending so much time on the tool that I don't actually achieve the things that I'm setting out to do. Which, is get a whole bunch of things done for us." Which, is why WorkFlowy, for me, is the best digital tool I've got at the moment. Martine:            That's such a good point. And the way that you've compared WorkFlowy to Notion, I can really relate to what you're saying having used both tools, and I'm a fan of both tools for different reason. Notion has so much potential. At the moment I'm using it as what I would call a personal wiki. And all my aims and goals and that sort of life planning piece that I haven't quite done yet, that will all be in Notion, because that's the sort of thing I can spend some time on, and I can lay it out in a really nice way. And Notion is really, really good for that. But when it comes to things like quick capture of information, or the kind of web clipping that you describe that you do within Evernote, Notion's not quite there yet because it's a massive, flexible tool that could be lots and lots of different things.  And as such, it doesn't do everything as quickly as perhaps you want it to. That's my kind of overriding sense of where Notion is currently. And you're so right when you say, "The Notion geek crew," who I do count myself as part of in a very, very lovely way. We're always changing our Notion setups and finding new and exciting ways to do things. But actually, sometimes by spending all that time on that, you're not being terribly productive in other areas. So, I think you make some really good points there. And I miss WorkFlowy. I'm not using WorkFlowy for anything at the moment. I love WorkFlowy. You described it really well.  I don't know if you've come across my good friend, Frank Degenaar. He does a lot of WorkFlowy tutorials and things like that, and he's written a book on WorkFlowy.  Justin:             I think I have. In fact, did he interview you on his podcast, or the other way around?  Martine:            He did.  Justin:             Yes. And I'm pretty sure that's how I came across you, Martine, was Michael Hyatt was raving about Notion. And he mentioned there's a Notion group, so I looked at the Notion group. And then there was your friend, Frank. And then there was a link to your podcast. And I thought, "Goodness me, there's actually a teacher out there talking about productivity." So, the rest is history.  Martine:            Isn't it funny how these happen? I love that. Frank's book's excellent. It's called ... I always get the title wrong, but it's something like Do Way, Way More With WorkFlowy. And he's got like a WorkFlowy academy going and all sorts of things. He's a good contact.  Justin:             Brilliant.  Martine:            But it's great that you're using WorkFlowy in such a good way by the sounds of things. Justin:             Yeah. If I could just talk about literally work flow, I mean, it's quite funny how they created that name. And I was looking at Google ... My school, my organisation uses Google Docs. That's the other thing. With Notion I thought, "Notion's wonderful, but when I'm trying to create something that I'm going to use with my colleagues, then really Google Docs is where it's at for better or worse." Martine:            Yes, me too. I'm in the same situation. Justin:             And Gmail. So, with Gmail, Inbox Zero, I remember coming across this years ago, Inbox Zero. And I was like, "Oh my goodness, I can empty my inbox, and wow, this is amazing." And look, I don't get it done every day or even every week sometimes. But certainly, in the last two weeks, to pick an example, in the last two weeks I've hit Inbox Zero probably about 50% of the time. And my current process or workflow of that is looking at what's in my inbox. And if it's not something I can do straight away or snooze and forward, in fact there's something called Follow Up Then. This is another web service. Follow Up Then, where you forward an email to for example tomorrow@followupthen.com, and then it shoots that email back to you, snoozes the email then sends it back to you at the right time. Anyway, so if I've got something like a task that needs to happen next week, and I'm not going to forward it on to myself in a week's time I'll put it into WorkFlowy. So WorkFlowy sort of becomes the ... In fact, there's a section in my WorkFlowy called Dumping Ground or something, words to that effect where I just dump in all the tasks out of my inbox. So, then my inbox is clear, and then I can go into the tasks, prioritise them, move them around, allocate time horizons or dates. "This needs to happen this week, or today, or tomorrow, or next week." So that's I guess part of my work flow with WorkFlowy and email. Martine:            Your WorkFlowy work flow. That's brilliant. And thanks for highlighting, the snooze function on Gmail is an absolute life saver for me. We don't use Gmail in my work environment unfortunately. We are a G Suite for Education college. But for some reason, we're still using Outlook for emails, which is deeply frustrating to me. Because obviously, the Google tools all play beautifully together. But that aside, I use Gmail for all of my personal stuff. And I do pretty much get to Inbox Zero every week, but it is with the help of the snooze tool. So, for those who aren't using Gmail, then that service that you mentioned just before, I'll link to that in the show notes, because it's essentially a non-Gmail version of the snooze tool by the sounds of things. Justin:             It certainly is, yeah. The snooze tool on Gmail, in fact, I think it kind of snuck up on me. I didn't even realise the snooze tool was there. I've been using this other service called Follow Up Then and then realised, "Hang on a minute. Gmail actually does this anyway." Although, the slight difference is in there are some things that the snooze is good for, and other things which Follow Up Then is better for in my opinion. And the best way to discover that is to actually go out and try it yourself. And one other quick one on email is something called Boomerang, which one of my colleagues put me onto. And Boomerang is wonderful. If you're up at some odd hour of the day or night, and you want to send an email to someone or even a group of people, but you don't want to email them at 3:00 in the morning or 11:00 at night, the weekend, you can use Boomerang to basically have the email held and then sent out at a later date or time. So, Boomerang is another one I've been using for email.  Martine:            There's a good list of tools and the apps there for us to have a little play with I think, Justin. Justin:             For sure. Martine:            Amazing. Is there anything else you would like to mention as part of this interview about teacher productivity? Justin:             Just, I was thinking Martine, I'm no guru at this. And if anything, I'm having to relearn all of these things. So, I've shared a number of tools and people and resources with your listeners. But honestly, there are some of these things I need to go back and revisit. So, it's a journey. So, for anyone who's out there and maybe you've never heard of any of this before and you're just starting out, or you've tried all of these things, or tried some of these things. And maybe you reached a point of not feeling that all of them work necessarily. The keyword I can say there, key encouragement is, look, it's a journey. And what will work for some people won't work for others. But some things will work at different times for us. And as teachers, as educators, gosh, our work can seem like a never-ending process. But look, a podcast like yours, Martine, and reaching out to people, productivity is all wonderfully great. But at the end of the day, if we're missing out on better human relationships, whether that's at work in terms of the students and colleagues we work with or in our personal lives, then something's missing. So that's a second aspect there. And one other thought I'm just going to throw in there knowing you've been to a Research Ed Conference, I'm very jealous by the way, for anyone who's listening, they're just about to ... April 2020 they're hosting one in Shanghai, and I'm hoping I can get to that one. So, for the listeners who don't know, Research Ed is a conference run by teachers for teachers looking at research based or research informed practises in education. And the tie that I think I spotted there with productivity is the gentleman Joe Kirby. Joe Kirby, I don't know if he still works at the school, but the school is called Michaela Community School in London. And he's written an amazing blog, which I'll send to you, Martine, and you can share with the listeners called Hornets and Butterflies. And he addresses I guess this question of productivity from the point of view of, is what we're actually the most effective thing to be doing? So, hornets being the high effort low impact things that we do in schools, or in institutions of education. And the butterflies are the low effort, high impact things that we do in schools. And so this springs up what for some people are quite controversial things about, "How much marking should we do? And how much feedback, or what kinds of feedback should we do?" And a whole bunch of other workload related issues, which ultimately tie back into productivity. Because as I've said, as we've said, you can be as productive as anything. But if you're not actually focused on the right things that fit into a bigger picture, then you need to at some point pause and look at where it's all heading. So, there's a few other things I thought I should share with everyone. Martine:            It is. I will look forward to reading that article and know a little bit about the Michaela School. So, I'll find that really interesting to read. And as you suggest, I'll share it in the show notes so the listeners can have a look. April 2020 is going to be a really good part of the year, because that's when the Guernsey Research Ed is happening, and I've got a recap episode from when I went to the national conference back in September 2019. So, I will make sure I link to that in the show notes too. But you're going to have such a good time if you can go. You'll really, really enjoy it. (Check out the Episode here) Wrap Up Justin, thanks so much for coming on the show. I have one final question for you, and it's an important one. Where can people find you online? Justin:             Great. The central location I guess for my online presence is my website, which, justinhockey.com. It's hockey as in same as the sport, H-O-C-K-E-Y, justinhockey.com. I'm also on Twitter, with a rather awkward user name, which is linked on my website. So, I'll just leave it at that. But yeah, that's my main online presence. And I've got a sometime blog, a blog that I sometimes write on that. And certainly, there's at least on article on there so far about productivity and some of the tools we've described today. Martine:            That's brilliant. Thanks again, Justin, it's been a pleasure having you on the show. Justin:             Likewise, and thank you so much, Martine.

Episode 76 of The Teaching Space Podcast explores the topic of helping lower level learners to thrive. Introduction Hello and welcome to The Teaching Space Podcast. It's Martine here. Thank you so much for joining me. Today I have a guest on the show and, I think, rather than me tell you all about her, I'm going to ask her to do that bit herself. Hello, Louise. How are you? Louise:    Hello, I'm good. Thank you. Martine:      Welcome to the show. Would you like to introduce yourself to The Teaching Space Podcast listeners? Tell us who you are, what you do, and most importantly, where in the world are you? Louise:    Yeah, okay. My name's Louise Misselke and I'm the Principal of the College of Further Education in Guernsey, which is a general FE college. At the moment, I'm sitting in my home looking at a blustery gale outside. Martine:      Yes, that makes two of us because actually we're both based in Guernsey and actually, Louise and I work together, which is one of the reasons I knew she'd be a good guest on the show. It’s really horrible out there, isn't it? There's probably going to be a bit of a windy noise in the background. So listeners, if you hear anything a bit peculiar, that it's just the weather. The reason I have asked Louise to come on the show today is that we are going to chat about helping lower level learners to thrive in further education, in particular. Today, we're going to be talking about an ongoing study that you're working on with Dr. Liz Atkins from the University of Derby. The title of today's show is Helping Lower Level Learners to Thrive and I'd really like to dig into this study and what you've discovered and all of that good stuff. Louise:    Okay. Martine:      Would you be kind enough to provide a bit of background on the study in kind of the Guernsey College context? Louise:    Yes, yes. I'll talk about the Guernsey College context and then, I'll talk a little bit about the background of the study.  As I said, we're a general further education college, so we have students aged 16 to 19, but also, we have adult learners and apprentices as well, all studying technical, professional or vocational education. Every year, we get a number of students who come to us who have largely been unsuccessful at school, so they come to the college at 16. Now, when I say they've largely been unsuccessful, this could be for a whole variety of reasons. It could be for social emotional reasons, it could be because they've got very complex lives, it could be that they've had health issues during their school years or it could be that they just didn't fit in school and, for a whole host of reasons, haven't been successful. They exit school without any qualifications at 16 or with a suite of qualifications with very low grades and progressed to the college. We have had a variety of different models for supporting these students with the goal of trying to get them to progress on to further courses at the college, either full time or through an apprenticeship with limited success in the past. Around 2015/16, I went to a conference where I saw Dr. Liz speaking about her research around the level one learners. I had a chat to her and talked about the possibility of us collaborating on a piece of research really to see if we changed the curriculum offer on our approach, whether that would actually provide a better service to our students because what was happening was students were becoming disengaged and exiting the course early or not achieving and we weren't really doing the best by our students. Now, if I think about level one students in general, if you look across the UK and in England, so these are students who, as I said, often have very complex lives, but not always. They're often socially excluded, they're invisible in terms of policy, they have often had a negative previous education experience, often characterised as problematic, between 30 and 50% of them usually become NEET, which means Not in Education, Employment, or Training. Often their progression is characterised by periods of employment in low skills, low value employment and periods of unemployment and usually work is not secure. Often they're only able to access low status, low value programmes and the curriculum that's offered in England for level one, currently and historically, has been a very dry curriculum with little aspirations and actually has very little value in the market place. The group of students that we were having in Guernsey College was no different, really, to the groups of students that Liz had done her research about in the UK. They come with everything that I've described and actually the curriculum that was available for us in Guernsey but also for colleagues in the UK, generally, is a very dry, low value curriculum offer. We had a lot of discussion about what we can do in Guernsey and because through Liz's extensive research, she sort of had hypothesised what would be really useful for students in this group. We developed a curriculum together and have been monitoring and evaluating, through research process, its effectiveness over the last... Well, we're in our third year now. One of the reasons we thought it would be really useful to do the piece of research here was because we are an island and students, particularly these sorts of students, often don't leave and so, it's easier, in many ways, to look at their long-term progress to see if what we've actually provided for them has had an impact on their own self belief, their aspirations, their career progression and pathway, and whether its had that positive impact. Martine:      Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I can see that sort of following their journey would be far more straightforward on a very tiny island as we are. Louise:    What we did was we looked at the curriculum and looked at how the curriculum needed to change in order to engage the students because we did have quite a high dropout rate. What were we doing that was not really good enough for them? We weren't engaging them, keeping them inspired and so on. How could we do that and how could we create a curriculum that actually allowed them to have a meaningful experience with high value that they could then go on to meet their own goals and aspirations? Because, often these students, first of all, they're not unintelligent, which is a common misconception about level one students and number two, they absolutely have aspirations for their place in the world, but often, sometimes because of their complexity in their life or their experience in school, if it hasn't been a positive one, they've missed out on a huge amount of careers information, advice and guidance, which would allow them to understand the stepping stones they need to take to realise their aspirations. We recognise that the curriculum has to be really, really engaging, that we had to build in really clear and visible careers advice, information and guidance. English and maths, obviously, is of critical importance. We know, don't we, that if we ask any sort of employers what one of the most critical things that they will talk about is the need for English and math skills, literacy and numeracy skills. But the other thing that is really, really important for this group is to provide them with some ways of gaining social and cultural capital to understand their place in the world and that powerful knowledge that comes from social and cultural capital building because, often, these students might have missed out on those aspects throughout their earlier years. Martine:      That cultural capital comment is really interesting. I don't want to keep going back to the fact that Guernsey is different to the UK, but actually, we don't live in, for example, a particularly multicultural society. Louise:    No. Martine:      Actually, from a kind of life experience perspective, I can really see how in particular our level one learners could be missing out on lots and lots of important experience, that certainly, when you get into the workplace, is absolutely essential. Louise:    Yeah. Martine:      That's a really interesting point. Louise:    Yeah. Yes, absolutely. If I talk about the offer, the curriculum offer, and then, I'll talk about the research that sort of wrapped around it, the curriculum offer, as I said, is it's composed of a core vocational offer. We felt it was very important that the students still had the opportunity to attain qualifications because for feelings of self-worth and self-belief, actually being able to achieve something is really, really important. We offer them a curriculum of a vocational qualification in the area they particularly want to, so students can apply to us and do a programme in sports and public services, for example, or in health and early years, for example. Then, there are the English and maths elements which are essential. Then there's the really visible careers information, advice and guidance. And when I say it's really visible, what is important with these students is for them to realise where they are and where they want go and actually map that out. It sounds like a really basic thing. What we've done here is not a golden... It's not something fantastical that's never been done before, but we have displays of what the students' careers aspirations are and the stepping stones that they need to take to get there. We also include work experience and that's really interesting because work experience and work placement was something that we, before we did the project that we were really challenged by often because the students had bought with them such challenges that we, as an organisation, felt that we couldn't place them with some of our employers. That, on reflection, is really wrong because we were denying those students an opportunity and actually what we've discovered through the project is work experience is one of the most useful elements for the students in terms of really developing their concepts of self-worth and self-belief, but also those relationships with employers and realising that they can make a positive contribution to society, has been essential. Then, wrapped around all of that, is an enrichment programme. Things like taking the students out for dinner, going to the cinema, going to the theatre. They've had an off-island trip and that's really important because some of these students have never been off the island. The teaching team took them to UK, which is really important because some of these students have never been to the UK or actually off Guernsey before and they went to an activity centre for a week and also went to Thorpe Park, which was pretty amazing for all of them. The curriculum is delivered through project, so it's a project based delivery model, which again is not rocket science. It's been around in education and talked about and actually there's a huge amount of research evidence that says it's really effective. But this is the key, I think, that keeps those students engaged because they do a series of projects and through that, they attain their vocational curriculum, their maths and English, they get the work experience, they get the careers, information and guidance and also the enrichment through those series of projects. That's the curriculum. One of the other things that we're very lucky, another element that the students experience is time in the Forest School. We're very lucky to have a highly qualified member of staff who is trained in for a school. The students go have that on their timetable every week and go and build fires and cook pizzas in the new pizza oven that's being built out in a sort of woodland area, which which they really, really love. Martine:      It sounds like so much fun. Sorry to interrupt you. Could you just explain in a bit more detail what the Forest School thing is because some of my listeners might not be familiar with that and I think it's an exciting concept? Louise:    The concept of Forest School is really outdoor learning and our lecturer is a trainer for Forest School practitioners. It commonly happens in the primary area where teachers are trained in Forest School abilities to enable them to take younger children outside to learn and play. Things that our students do in this context is learn how to build a fire. They've done some cooking outside as well. But for primary age children, it is learning outside and that's the concept of the Forest School. Martine:      Sounds wonderful. Louise:    Yes, it is. The sorts of projects that the students have been engaged with, they organised an event for equality and diversity for the whole college. That was great because they had the media in and were being interviewed by the radio and the TV, actually, so that was really exciting. They organised, last Christmas, a Christmas community craft event where the students invited older people from one of the residential homes in and also invited children from a local preschool in and they did Christmas crafts together. The students organised the whole event and then, obviously evaluated it afterwards, which was part of the qualification that they were doing. Some of the enrichment things I've talked about. They've been to the cinema, they'd been out for a meal, they've been to listen to some lectures where speakers are over on the island. All sorts of different things, which are sort of broadening horizons. Work placement, as I said, has been really, really important. In fact, one of the students attained an apprenticeship through going on their workplace with an employer, which was a really successful outcome for that young person. That's been the curriculum. Now, the research, we're very, very lucky and fortunate to have been sponsored to do the research by a local company, Rothschild's and Co, who have a really significant corporate social responsibility programme to support young people in these sorts of circumstances. It was a perfect fit and they've sponsored the research over the last three years. We're in our third year now. The research that has happened is we took students from the year '16, '17, we had 39 students enrolled in total. Just to give a profile of those students, 11 had been supported by the youth commission, which is the youth service charity locally, 6 of them had experienced a family breakup, 2 did not live with the birth family, 6 had seen or experienced domestic violence, 7 stated that they had no one to talk to, 3 of those students had self-harmed, 3 had a family member who were involved with the police, 2 were supported by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, 3 of the students had social workers and 8 of the students suffered from anxiety. It gives you an idea of the sorts of challenges that these young people are faced with in their lives. The research really focused on research for social justice, not socially just research and focused on looking at gathering information about a smaller cohort of those students. We actually took a sample of 12 students and they were given structured interviews at the start of their programme during their programme and at the end of their programme. Then, they've been followed up subsequently over the last couple of years with similar interviews, really looking at whether they feel that they've achieved what they wanted to achieve, whether the course and the qualification helped their progression, what are they doing there now and how do they know, has the course supported to get them to where they are now. We've been able to follow students during that time and, of course, since '16, '17, we've had other students enrolling on the programme and every year we've taken a small cohort, a small sample to follow them. Not only have we got the first cohort that we're following, we've got the subsequent years cohorts as well. In terms of outcomes, what we've seen is if I talk about the percentage becoming NEET, which is Not in Education, Employment, or Training, before we started the programme, about 30% of the cohort were becoming NEET. Now, we're on about 18%. Whilst it's not good enough, because it's still 18%, it has decreased quite significantly. The dropout- Martine:      Yeah. That is a significant improvement. Louise:    Yes. The dropout rate, so the attrition rate has dropped significantly. We were losing probably about 40% of the students before we changed the curriculum. That's increased. I mean, that's dropped significantly. That would be the wrong way, wouldn't it? Martine:      Absolutely. Louise:    Yeah. The retention has improved dramatically. Our overall retention last year was something like 92%. Martine:      Wow. Louise:    That's had a massive impact on the students' attainment as well. Progression is massively improved. Students are doing the programme with us and then, progressing on to other courses within the college, which is absolutely fantastic because it means that they're working towards meeting their goals and aspirations either as full-time students and quite a number of them have managed to achieve an apprenticeship which, of course, is aiming for them to achieve their professional goals and aspirations. But, I think, some of the most profound findings are the stories about how students have progressed and I'm quite happy to give you an example of one of the stories if that would be useful. Martine:      Yeah, that would be lovely. Please do. Louise:    The names of the students have been changed to give them gender neutral names in the research because we're a really small community and anybody that lives in a small community knows that it's really easy to identify anyone. Even if you just think that you're not using their name and their details, because we're a small community, you have to be really careful because people do know each other. Through the research, we've given them neutral names and also referred to them as he or she, so that their gender isn't specific. This is a case about Hero, who enrolled onto the programme in 2017 with a really difficult history. Very poor attendance at school, a history of self-harm, had been ejected from the family home due to disapproval of her or his sexuality and was currently sleeping on Auntie's sofa, was abusing drugs and alcohol and was also engaging in risky sexual behaviours, really lacked confidence in their ability to succeed in education or work. During the course, he/she really enjoyed the Forest School, taking part in games, activities, which developed personal confidence and working as a member of a team, fully felt accepted at college and proudly wore the college hoodie and promoted opportunities around the college to other people. This group had an off island trip to Herm, which was a residential trip, which is a little island off the coast of Guernsey. Initially, Hero was really reluctant to go to Herm as they'd never been on a residential trip before, but really enjoyed this and really felt part of the group. We have a annual summer ball at the end of the summer term for all of our students and Hero really didn't want to go to the summer ball but eventually did and had an amazing time. Passed the level one programme with a distinction, passed GCSE maths with a significant credential in terms of further education and employment and has been working part-time for the last six months during the course, managed to attain a part-time job. This student progressed onto a level two programme and continues to develop self-confidence and work placement, most importantly, no longer uses drugs and reduced alcohol intake and is no longer engaging in risk taking behaviour. That was Hero. Quite- Martine:      What a success story. Louise:    Yeah, a really, really profound success story. There's so many of them. One student who attained an apprenticeship went on a work placement and attained an apprenticeship. The employer said that the student's attitude to work and confidence was so good that could he have some more students from that group, please. Martine:      That's wonderful. Louise:    That really, really, really is good. The students are feeling proud of their achievements and rightly so, they should be. I think, that's so important, isn't it? Because often, these students are people who will have never passed anything necessarily or achieved something. To be able to come to college, stay and then achieve and go onto the next steps is really, really important. Martine:      Well, I love hearing the statistics and the data as much as the next person, but it really is so heartwarming and surreal when you hear a story like that and the effect that such a positive education experience has had on this individual's life is incredible, really. Louise:    Yes, it is. It is. Some very positive employment outcomes for students. The research is showing significant social and personal benefits, particularly in the most vulnerable students. The benefit of the project-based approach and the work related experience has been invaluable, particularly in terms of the progression that those students have now been able to secure. If they've gone into an apprenticeship, then it's a secure apprenticeship. They haven't dropped out. Significant improved retention and a smaller proportion of those students becoming NEET. We've still got some work to do, so we're in the third year, final year, although we've been talking about extending the study for a further two years. We've made some tweaks to the curriculum delivery as we go based on our learning from the previous years. This year, we've tweaked it quite a bit, where the students are going to be achieving qualifications in the first term and then more in the second and more in the third. But fundamentally, at the heart, is a project-based curriculum with a vocational qualification, with all that enrichment wrapped around to confer the social and cultural capital with the maths and English and with the careers advice, information and guidance. Martine:      That's fantastic. Thank you so much for explaining that, Louise, and also giving that additional context of a real life story because it makes such a difference and actually, the listeners of the podcast are from a wide variety of education backgrounds, but just kind of having that overview of why this is working and how it's working is really fascinating. Louise:    It is. Martine:      Thank you for that. Louise:    That's okay. Martine:      Is there anything you would like to add to everything that you've explained?  Louise:    I think, the most important thing about what we've done here is it's not rocket science. There's a huge amount of research, isn't there, around delivering learning and knowledge through projects being really successful and that's what we've done here. We have got the benefit of having the research around it, which clearly demonstrates how well it's working. The other thing, I think, for any of your listeners that are further education, it hasn't really cost us any more than a UK college would be able to spend on level one students. It's not a really costly way of delivering a curriculum and supporting that learning because all the projects are things that are naturally occurring in the community and we've just tapped into that. Martine:      That's a really good point actually, Louise, because I think there is a misconception that Guernsey is such an affluent island, that we have all the funding available to do anything we want and that's not the case at all. Louise:    No, no. Martine:      A really valid point that this new approach to working with lower level learners has not cost the organisation or then, perhaps, it would've done doing it the old way as it were, so that's a great point. Wrap Up Martine:     Louise, thank you so much for coming on the show. Louise:    You're welcome. Martine:      It's highly likely that people might want to ask you a question or two- Louise:    Yes, yes. Martine:      ... about this exciting project. If that is the case, where can people find you online? What's the best way to say hello? Louise:    Either Twitter, I'm louisemisselke or people could email me at the college, which is louisem@gcfe.net. Martine:      That's wonderful and I will make sure there's links to your Twitter account and also the email address on the show notes for the episode. Louise:    Great. One more thing, I should have said, if anyone wants to ask Liz Atkins, the Professor from University of Derby, she also is available on Twitter, which is drlizatkins, I think. She has got an inaugural lecture at the University of Derby, which is very prestigious, coming up in November, where she is talking about our study. Martine:      Amazing. Well, again, I'll make sure that information is on the show notes. By the time this episode goes out, I suspect that will have happened. If there are links to sort of a recap of that lecture or any information about it, again, I'll pop that in, so people can access it. Louise:    Great. Martine:      Fantastic. Thanks again. Louise:    That's okay. Martine:      Thanks for coming on the show! Louise:    All right then. Martine:      I hope you'll come back again. Louise:    All right. Martine:      Thanks. Louise:    Have a good day.

This is an introduction so you can get to know me. I feel it's important to know WHO you are hearing from. Feel free to leave me any feedback on my future podcasts. Thank you so much! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/miranda-wood/support

Episode 70 of The Teaching Space Podcast is an interview with Oli Bailey-Davies discussing the use and impact of plenaries. Introduction Hello and welcome to the Teaching Space podcast. It's Martine here. Thank you so much for joining me. In today's episode I am excited to bring you an interview. I'm going to hand straight over to Oli and ask him to introduce himself to you, explain who he is, what he does and where he is in the world. Martine: Hello Oli. Oli: Hi, Martine. How are you? Martine: I'm well, thank you for joining me. Oli: Thank you for having me. Yeah, so I'm Oli. I'm a lecturer at the College of FE in Guernsey and I'm also the Artistic Director of a professional theatre company that's based at the college that I teach at as well. Martine: And what are we going to be talking about today and why? Oli: Today we have the exciting task of talking about plenaries and the impact of them on your students and on your classroom, I guess. And part of the reason I guess why you asked me to get involved in this is our college has just started a new observation kind of model, where we were asked to specifically think of one thing that we could impact our teaching or our students. We focused on that as part of our observation cycle. Mine was plenaries because I've always, since doing my teacher training sort of struggled with the concept of plenaries, especially in the performing arts context. I tend to stick them into my lesson plan and then never get to them. Yeah. So I decided to focus on effective plenaries rather than tokenistic plenaries. Martine: I'm excited to hear more about that. Bearing in mind the listeners to The Teaching Space Podcast will come from a variety of backgrounds, some will know what plenaries are and use them all the time. Whereas for some it might be kind of a newish concept, particularly people who are just embarking on teacher education for example. So could you just explain what a plenary is exactly, and why it's a good idea? Oli: Sure. Plenaries are the sort of final task I guess of your session and they are a way of reviewing the learning to gauge, I guess students' understanding of the session. So it’s that kind of final task that you put in to summarise or review the whole session. Martine: So in some respects it's a bit of formative assessment. It's a bit of recapping, it's a bit of summing up, all kind of amalgamated into one final activity. Oli: Sure. It's almost like the umbrella of the sessions going, what did I want them to know? Have they understood it? What have I missed, or what haven't they got? I think it's a really good way, especially for teachers to ... I think it's almost more effective as a practitioner to be able to go, did I do my job today? Was I good at what I did? Or did they completely miss the point? I think sometimes you can do a whole session and you can really be like, "Oh my god, this is brilliant, this is amazing." And then you get to the final bit and they like they really didn't understand what I was trying to get to. I guess in performing arts especially, sometimes we work perhaps in metaphors more, or concepts. We're sort of trying to ... We try and encourage people down a path, or down a journey, rather than saying here are a series of information that you must be able to remember by the end of this session. So sometimes what you think they've understood isn't actually what they've taken from your session. Martine: I quite like the idea of using a plenary for both assessment, as in checking for learning, but also using it as a bit of an evaluation as well, in terms of working out the quality of what occurred in that lesson, in terms of your performance, and how you made that learning happen and things. So I think the idea of it kind of traversing those two aspects of teaching and learning is a really important point. Oli: Yeah. And I think to me really, I think I'd almost personally put it that it's a reflection for me almost more than for the learners. I find looking at the sort of the effective of plenaries it's about saying, well have they got it? And if they haven't, then maybe you have to be a bit flexible and you go, okay, right next session I'm going to have to change my style to task. I'm going to do a review of my previous learning. Or maybe I'm going to have to do that whole session again in a completely different way, because they have fundamentally not got the key thing that I thought I was delivering perfectly. Again, like within performing arts as a context, our lesson plans and our schemes of work have to be really flexible. Because you never know what's going to come up. Or you may plan to say block 10 pages, but you might get stuck on the first page. That's a whole session just on one page of text. So you have to be able to flex and wiggle your schemes to fit. I think the plenary is a really good way of checking in and going, "Have I done what I needed to do today?" Yes or no, and then and then from that, that will affect the next day or the next session or whenever you see them again. I think self-reflection for staff is one of the most important parts of our development and also the biggest impact for students because you have to sort of not be the master of everything all the time and be prepared to be wrong. Martine: Your point about self-reflection being so important for teachers is absolutely bang on and actually it's really valuable for students too. So if we can model that to them through our practice, I mean that sends a really powerful message. I get what you're saying about the need for fluidity within your sessions and kind of being able to adapt your scheme of work, that makes a lot of sense. But I guess if you're using say a starter activity and a plenary, it really marks the beginning and the end of the session as well. So where there could be a complete lack of structure, it creates a little bit of structure as well. Is that a benefit you've noticed as well or is that just me making things up? Oli: Yeah, so I always choose a starter activity like when we play warm up drama warmup games, but I choose the games really specifically to show the skill that I need them to use that session. So it may look like an irrelevant game, but actually it's a really clear, well thought out plan. Although maybe not everybody would see it. So perhaps a game where they're learning a sequence or a pattern, but they have to use words and movement. Then we're going into blockings. It's like, okay, well you have to remember words and blocking and we warmed up your brain to remember muscle memory and spoken memory. So therefore it is a really underpinned theory to the silly game that we play at the start. But what I've always struggled with is how to then mirror that at the end. The plenaries then have always become ... It's a ticket to leave, or it's one of the kind of the standard education games or activities that would kind of suggest. But it's never felt necessarily vocationally appropriate. That's where I struggled, felt that I struggled with plenaries. But I also always, always, always run out of time. I get really overexcited and kind of like, we're like really focused on what's happening. And then suddenly, we sort of teach in two-hour blocks, that time has just disappeared. I barely look up at the clock. Yeah, so I've always run out of time on my sessions and then would upload to Google Drive, or Google Classroom, the plenary task. It would tend to then blur into maybe a bit of sort of homework in a way. Or like a development tasks, going, "Maybe look at this." Or, "Can you comment on this?" Or often it was a sort of a review and comment on the work. So watch this video clip and then tell me two things that you may improve for next session. Or set yourself a target. Or whatever it is that I need them to do. But again, it always sort of felt tokenistic and like I was trying to fulfil some kind of educational model that I must put in, otherwise I'm not an effective teacher. Whereas it didn't feel like it was necessarily doing the job that a plenary should, of kind of really being in that moment of assessing, or reviewing the learning of the session. Also to give me an understanding. I didn't feel like I was grabbing all of the best bits of the plenary. Martine: With that in mind, you researched this as part of your college's or our college's professional development scheme, and there was an observation and things like that. What did you find out? What did you learn? Where are you now with plenaries? Oli: So I think the main thing I learned, or the main thing I took from it was that I was doing really good plenaries, but I just wasn't calling it a plenary. That plenaries aren't necessarily some dark arts of education. That they are something that we naturally do, and we probably instinctively know how to do it. We don't necessarily have to carve out this additional task. Because if you are teaching, especially in a scaffolding approach, you're naturally taking away that support. Then by the end the students tend to have something that is a bit freer where they get to demonstrate their learning. That actually is your plenary. So we always, if I'm say directing a show, and I'm working on a scene, I'll go through the blocking, we'll talk about character choices. We'll look at moments that could be developed or ideas or thoughts. They try things out in three or four different ways. And I'd give them feedback and it's a very reciprocal process. Then at the end of that moment, we would then put it all together and run it. Then I'd put a plenary task on the end to do something else. And it's like, well actually that run, that is the plenary task, because they they're showing me what they've learned, what they've remembered, and they're also demonstrating what I need to do next to help them improve. Martine: That's such a great takeaway. So what you're saying is you actually were doing plenaries already. They were serving their purpose. They were part of your teaching and learning plan from the beginning. It was almost a case of putting a label on it. That's so interesting and a great reflection on your part, definitely. Oli: It's definitely the thing of like, you know, we have, or I tend to favor the sort of the five minute lesson plan sort of structure. It visually works for me a bit better to have a bit more of a kind of a creative page in front of me when I'm thinking about planning my lesson. But you tend to have like certain amount of boxes for your tasks. Say there are five boxes and you're like, "Right, I must split my class into five. I'm going to do my starter task, and then I'm going to do my kind of introduction, and then I'm going to do an activity. Then I'm going to do activity two. Then I'm going to do my plenary." I don't know, I kind of sometimes go, sometimes my lesson is one task, but it's just a really big task that naturally flows from something that gets you into it, doing the activity and reviewing it. For me, it's learning how to break that down into boxes, I guess, to be able to compartmentalise each section. I could theorise my practice loads and have so many tasks and reflection points and feedback points and peer reviews, and all these things that happen naturally. Or I could get on with my job. So that's, I think, the biggest takeaway I've had is going, if I need to now articulate in a really detailed way, my lesson structure, it's all there. But ultimately I also feel much more confident in going, I've done a plenary because we have reviewed the learning of this session, and I've seen what the students have taken away from it. What they've been able to apply straight away, and sort of looking at the development metacognition, and their ownership of the learning. Most of my plenary tasks are much more meaningful because the students own it, rather than sort of arbitrarily filling in a form or a, I don't know, you know, sticking a post it on a wall. They've actually just gone, "No, I've done it. I've got it." Or, "I haven't got that bit, I need to work on that." Martine: There's so much good stuff in there. I mean, when is it ever a good thing that we do something in order to tick a box? That really sounds like what we were doing, you know, I don't know, 24 months ago in terms of the old approach to lesson observations. Where it was performance management and you had to ... You know how lesson observations used to be, there was a formula to get an outstanding lesson observation. You have a starter activity, you have a plenary, you make sure there's plenty of assessment for learning, you don't do a lot of teacher talk, etc, etc. When is that ever good? Oli Yeah, no, I think that's the thing. It definitely feels like, and I guess this ... Maybe it's an old school approach to kind of the fear of Ofsted, where you have to go through all these things, and there's a certain formula to do a perfect lesson. But I think also there's that thing of going, the perfect lesson is the lesson that needs to be taught. This is what they need right now, and this is how I need to do it. Of course you can be developed, and somebody can give you pointers and guidance on ideas, of how you could improve. But really I think especially in sort of creative subjects, where you just go, this is just what needs to happen right now. I remember I was being observed, I had my formal lesson observation, and we were lighting the show. It just had to happen, it was the only day I could get into the theatre. The only day I could have the technicians. And that was the time that I was given for my observation. My lesson plan was like literally one thing of going, I will sit with a technician and we will light the whole show from beginning to end, and the students will stand on stage and move when I tell them to. It was very old school chalk and talk, because they had to be pretty much silent. Do not say anything, until I ask you something, and do exactly what I tell you, when I tell you. Because that's the nature of vocation, what plotting the lighting run is. The observer was ... I just sat there sort of apologising in advance, going, "I'm really sorry, be as honest as you want to be honest, but this is ..." I kind of explained the situation. I got really brilliant feedback and he really highlighted how independent the learners were. How they had ownership of all of their work. They knew exactly what was doing. We were working completely vocationally. We were working in symmetry. The students knew what I wanted them to do. They were able to adapt, they were resilient, they were resourceful. It was like, "Oh yeah, all that stuff is there and it does demonstrate teaching and it definitely demonstrates learning." But because working in the vocation environment, sometimes you feel like maybe you're not doing the perfect teacher job. And you feel that you should, you know, put more bells and whistles on it. Like there was no maths, I didn't ask them to count to eight whilst walking in time to the music. Martine: And you didn't use an iPad. There was no iPad use. Oli: There was no iPad use, there was just a lot of me shouting. That was pretty much it. But that again, that I professionally know and there's a point where, as a performer, you become a self-moving piece of furniture. It's “I don't need your opinion. I don't need you to tell me what the problem is. I need you to stand there so I can make sure the lights are on you, and that the technician can do their job. Right now your ego is not needed, thank you very much.” Martine: If your learners don't learn that, then they are not going to be good actors who get hired, ultimately. Oli: That's a really important thing. I mean we very much teach the importance of respecting your technicians. That's a big part of the industry, is, you know, sound and light are people who get given very little time to do their job. But ultimately they can mess you up on stage because if you annoy your lighting technician, they will turn your lights off before you finish speaking. Or they will not turn it on quick enough. There's lots of many ways that other people can mess you up whilst you're the one in front of the audience. So you have to really, I teach a lot of like, as an actor you are only one part of this production. It just happens to be that you're the one that gets all the glory. But really understanding the whole process is a valuable thing for our learning. But also just being able to be ... For somebody, an observer to come in and reflect back to you, that actually I've worked for 12 weeks on this production. I teach company as my core thing. That we're teamwork, I guess, and kind of more educational speak. But that they are there as a company of actors. They are there to work together and they are there as a collective, and that their individual ego isn't being serviced. We get a lot of stars, or wannabe stars, and it's very difficult sometimes to put them in a box and go, "You're part of a bigger thing now, this isn't about you, this is about everybody." But that learning was then reflected back as a sort of almost towards the end of the process. It's like a summative way of showing that their professionalism is demonstrated more in that moment than it necessarily is when they're performing, because the professional attitude is just to be able to go, okay, this is what needs to happen and I need to do that now. Martine: Going back to the observation process where you were doing this tech rehearsal and actually your observer was able to kind of highlight so many aspects of good practice there. I also think we need to give a nod to the experience of that observer, because clearly they weren't coming into your lesson with that kind of tick box approach. Where they wanted to see this, this, this, this, this and this. They obviously had a lot of experience and recognised good teaching and learning when they saw it. Oli: Yeah, absolutely. I mean I feel at our college we are very lucky to have a very ... I guess because we're a vocational college, we have a really diverse teaching staff, who come from many different walks of life. Not many of them are educationalists, first and foremost, they come from industry and they come with lots of different perspectives. It's really nice, I think, at college when you get to go to areas that are completely different to what you would teach in. So you have zero opinion on kind of the content of the teaching. I have no idea whether or not that's how you effectively weld something together. But all I'm looking at is the delivery, the structure, the support, the information and the kind of environment. So I'm not going to go, "Well if it was me, I would ..." I was going to try and talk about welding then, you know, "I would do it slightly differently. I would hold it at this angle." I don't know that, I haven't got that specialist information. But I can stay that instruction was really clear, that was a really supported ... I can see there was development, you know, those are the things. And so my observer was somebody who does have, I think quite often observed the performing arts area, and always really says ... Has said that they always enjoy sort of coming in and seeing a world that is completely far away from what they exist in normally. Actually that kind of that distance helps you to remove your own opinion or preconceived idea, and you just observe what's going on. Martine: Absolutely, and I have to say, that is probably the best part of my job, because as a teacher trainer and assessor trainer, I get to see the most incredible teaching and learning happen. Not so long ago I was working with the local police force, and I was watching a firearms trainer assess other police officers shooting. It was such a privilege to be able to be in someone else's environment, and be allowed in. I think as teachers we can learn so much from watching other teachers in different environments. Ultimately, it is just teaching and learning. To make the connection with plenaries, it's much more of a concept than a specific set of games or tools or activities. It's about embracing the concept and making it work for your environment really, isn't it? Oli: I think so, and I think, you know, you can go online and you can find a hundred effective plenary tasks, or the best plenary activities there are, or buy this and we'll give you loads of plenaries. But really it's working out what is the most effective for you as an individual, but also for the session that you're teaching. A ticket to leave, I keep using that one because it the one I remember the most from teacher training was like okay that's a good one to use, because it's sort of tangible. But that's not always going to be the most effective thing to use. I always worry about students feeling a sense of, "Oh okay, why am I doing this?" If it feels irrelevant then, they're not going to get anything from it, and they're just going to write down anything. I also think plenaries have always felt to me like they're the last five minutes of a session. The last five minutes of the sessions are, you know, that as are people leaving, you know, really to me the other thing I took away is I tend to do my plenary, the activity really is, is probably three quarters of the way through the session. It's almost like you need a plenary and then an end task, like a fun thing to finish, or a don't forget. Or you know, parish notices, by the way, next week can you bring this in? Whereas it all tended to get very muddled on top of each other. Fill this in, do this, don't forget to do that. Somebody uploaded this, go for that. Can you make sure you stack the chairs away. Okay, bye. And it's like, what just happened? Nothing happened. Nothing was effective, nothing was learned, or no space was given to the reflective nature, I guess, of the plenary. For the students to be able to go, okay, what have I taken away? What do I need? What did I get? Have I got a question? Like now is the time to ask the question. It's like going, I don't want you to sort of next week come back in and go, "Oh yeah, I forgot to ask at the end of last session, what was this?" It's like, no, ask me at that time. Ask me at that moment, so that we can nail it, or we can make a plan. Martine: That's such a good point. That's such a good point about not having to have your plenary right at the very end. You know, why are you doing a plenary right at the very end? Because the books say you should. That's a really important takeaway that you've got to make it work for your learners and your topic. Oli: I think also when I started teaching, or started my teacher training, I realized that I try and fit in a lot into my sessions. Or I want them to really kind of grasp loads of things from every single session, and it's like 20 different takeaways. Actually kind of go, okay, well, no I need to dilute that down. I need to be ... This session I'm really just going to focus on these two or three things. Then your plenary is going, did they get those two or three things? Are they ready for more? That sense of being able to sort of take a litmus test. Go, "Okay, cool. Where were we up to? Okay, we're up to here. Yeah, I can give these people more." Or that person's flying, I'm going to ask them to really work on these two or three things. That person has got no idea what day of the week it is, I need to pull this right back. Being able to gauge where each individual learner is up to means that your plenaries have to be purposeful, and not just like say, "Oh, the books tell me I must, in the last five minutes, do something. Quick, here's a post it note and a felt tip, draw your emotion. Slap it on." Martine: Could you offer some advice or maybe any kind of resources to the listeners who are wanting to maybe investigate plenaries further, do a little bit of research, see how they could focus on that element of their practice? Oli: So the best sort of resource that I found that really sort of helped me develop is the How to Teach range by Phil Beadle, I think his name is. There is a book called The Book of Plenary. That's a really good resource for understanding sort of the purpose of plenaries, I guess. Then there are loads of like ... The Teacher Toolkit is a really good place to sort of start. They've got links to the resource plenary resources. My advice really is take the structure of any of the activities, and work out how to adapt it to your session. Even if it's like for giving it a theme or kind of redesigning it slightly. I also think sometimes when as teachers you kind of go, I want to find the resource that I can just download, and just do, and then that's just done. It's the path of least resistance. I think sometimes just taking five minutes to go, okay, well how could I just slightly re-imagine that, or make it work for what I'm teaching, would be really effective. So if you're on a topic, again, I'll go back to ticket to leave, which is just saying to somebody, "Write down two things that you've learned from this session, or two things that you're going to do. Or a task, something you must remember for next week." Or whatever. Can you fit that into your theme or your topic? How do you adapt things? Really, to me, I think, you know, primary school teachers to me are the absolute pinnacle of teaching pedagogy, really. Because they do this all the time. Constantly just adapt and mix up what they normally do to fit their topic, to fit their theme. Whether it's dinosaurs or Egypt, or whatever other topics there are. They adapt their resources, and they just spend that time ... A friend of mine, we used to meet up in the evenings, and she used to arrive with pages and pages of laminated stuff that you'd be sitting chatting, and she's still cutting out her laminated things for the next day, because she's like, "I just need these resources, and I've got no time to make them." And primary school teachers to me seem to have, they just have that gift of going, "Here's an idea, and here's how I'm going to change it to fit what I'm doing." They probably use the same resource every term, or every topic, but they just twist it, and then they adapt it. That's something I think teaching older students, you get a bit lazy about. We go, well that's just that, you have it, and there's nothing you can do with it. So my advice is definitely looking at making it meaningful. If your students needed to have learnt a series of 10 things, then the plenary needs to be, do you know these 10 things. Not don't deal in metaphors, and if a metaphor is not right, tell me, do you know this? If they need to be tested, test them, but maybe try and find a, I don't know, a fun way of testing them. You know, a physical Bingo, where everyone stands up, sits down, when you say a word, what's the definition? Loads of game shows have structures that work for education. Jeopardy is a great one where they give you the definition, you have to say what is the dah, dah, dah. But yeah, if you need to test them, test them, but be explicit about it. If it's a gauging of where they're up to, then that can be a really diverse and fun way of doing it. Martine: Oli that's great advice. Thank you so much. Any resources you've mentioned I will make sure I pop a link in the show notes to them, so people can access them easily. Before we wrap things up, I have one final question for you, and that is where can people find you online? Oli: So I'm on Twitter as myself as OliGsy. That's where I tend to sort of interact the most with education stuff, information. But I'm also, I am the artistic director of a theatre company called TinWhistleProductions.com, where we run corporate training using improvisation and drama techniques. Martine: Amazing. Well, thank you so much for joining me today on the podcast. It's been a real pleasure and I hope you'll come back again soon.

Episode 56 of The Teaching Space Podcast discusses some tools for productivity in an interview with Francesco D’Alessio. Introduction Hello and welcome to the Teaching Space Podcast. It's Martine here. Thank you so much for joining me. Martine: Today I am thrilled to bring you an interview with productivity expert Francesco D'Alessio. Francesco, welcome to the show. Francesco: Hello, Martine. Yeah, good to be here. I'm very excited. Martine: Not as excited as me. I'm a bit of a fan girl. I can't lie. I've been listening to your show for a while and following you on YouTube and things like that so it's a real pleasure to have you here. Could I ask you to introduce yourself to the Teaching Space listeners? Francesco: Yeah, I know that, it's great you've been following for a while and obviously I've seen you in the community so much helping others, which is amazing. Martine: Doing my best. Francesco: Definitely. Yeah, no, for the viewers out there, my name's Francesco. I run a YouTube channel called Keep Productive which is essentially helping people to find the right tools for their needs, whether that's work or life. It's a very fun pursuit and very recent pursuit of mine. Martine: Excellent. Productivity is your thing, really, isn't it? Francesco: Yeah, apps and software. Martine: Apps and software. How did this interest in productivity start? Francesco: It's probably quite a weird thing for a 24-year-old to be this interested in, right? Martine: No, definitely, no I think it's great. You're never too young to be into productivity. Francesco: That's it. Yeah, I think my sort of passion came ... I was in school. I think I was about 15 or 16. It was just before year, I think I was in year 12 and I had sadly failed all of my grades that year, minus Italian, but I'm figuring by the name I should have passed that one right? My AS levels were sort out the door which was a bit of a shame. Then I had the opportunity, like many year 12 students do, is to repeat the year which I was a bit annoyed about but after speaking with my mum she was like, "You need to get organised this summer and really got on it." I ended up reading a book that I'll probably end up mentioning a couple of times called Getting Things Done by David Allen. Martine: One of my favourites. Francesco: It's a classic, isn't it? Martine: Definitely. Francesco: I read that one and obviously with that book came all of the other useful software like Evernote and a couple more at the time. I came back to school and I started doing well in my grades and all in this sort of outside world of that. I ended up weirdly teaching some of my teachers about the productivity apps. Martine: Amazing. Francesco: I felt like I had a knack for teaching other people about how to use software. It sort of spiralled form there, I'd say. We've been working on the channel for about four, five years now and it's been growing ever since. Our goal really is to review as many softwares as we can and make sure we cover them in the most honest way, I guess, to help people find the best one that meets their needs. Martine: Have you always been into technology in a kind of a general sense? Are you quite a tech-y sort of a guy? Francesco: Oh, yeah, 100%. I follow all the tech stuff up so obviously that's probably where we clashed on Notion right? Martine: Yeah, totally. Totally. I'm an early adopter of many many tools and apps and things like that. So, yeah, I can totally understand that. It all started in school for you. That's super interesting. I love the idea of you teaching your teachers how to do certain productivity things. There's nothing like instilling confidence in a learner by getting them to teach you something. That's fab. Francesco: Yeah, and obviously they found a lot of benefit from those apps as well so it was really good to see. Martine: As you know, my listeners tend to be teachers or trainers. We face some quite unique productivity challenges. For example, often we end up trying to do administrative type work, in other words, the work that we're not doing in the classroom during short bursts of time between sessions. The main part of the job is being in front of the class and teaching but then we've got these little gaps in which to do our non-teaching work, so from a productivity point of view…that's really tricky. We've also got constant interruptions, too many meetings. Oh my goodness. I've never worked in an environment where meetings are so loved. These are just a few of the challenges that my listeners will be facing as teachers and trainers. We just wondered, bearing in mind that kind of set up, whether you have any tips or tools or anything that you recommend to busy teachers and trainers out there? Francesco: Yeah, sure. I've got a few notes in front of me that I'd like to cover. Some of them are some useful methodologies I think would work and also some recommended tools. Yeah, and as you said, teachers are… When I was in school and at least after school with a lot of my friends going into teaching they always seem to be quite timed for teachers. It's sad to see but obviously it's such an immersive job and it's such a passionate job that everyone wants to get very emotionally involved because they want to help the children so very much. It's a very noble pursuit definitely. I think methods are probably the backbone of productivity in general although I don't know all the methods and I tend to bring in experts to talk about that. I normally recommend a lot of good stuff that's helped myself and other people. I would say the first process that I recommend is going back to the Getting Things Done bye David Allen. Martine: Yes, definitely. Francesco: It's a fantastic book. What I quite like about it is it will teach you a way of processing anything new and that's quite beneficial for all types of work. Whether it's admin work or ad hoc work it actually can be scaled to any situation. What I recommend doing is grabbing a copy of GTD or listening to it at least on apps like Audible because it will give you a framework that then you can then apply to the admin side of stuff. Martine: I totally endorse that recommendation I must admit. One of the best things I took away from David Allen's book was the idea of just having one trusted place to keep everything. The idea that you don't have things all over the place in different apps and different locations in your office and things. That one trusted place thing for me was a massive takeaway. Francesco: Yeah, 100%. I can imagine that you kept quite strict with it and once you've kept that sort of rigidity to GTD I think it can be so beneficial like not storing things in different places and making sure to capture things in a specific way, organising it and then clarifying it. It can really help, really help. Then I would say like you mentioned those short bursts of times that sometimes can be interrupted or sometimes can actually be uninterrupted but more likely interrupted. The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo, is a really fantastic one and that's a very simple method of 25 minute timers and then a five minute break and having that cycle repeat itself. [Check out Episode 12 for more on this] The goal behind this is you're wiring into that 25 minutes work without being distracted by other stuff. You've got one task or two tasks in hand that you'll be doing back to back and it's a real point, an opportunity for you focus. There's some great Pomodoro timer apps out there but you could just start by using your timer on your iPhone or Android phone. I highly recommend it to, from teachers to professionals to students because they all seem to find a lot of value from it. Martine: I think it's a great point about using it with students. I use it personally when I'm marking because I do have a tendency to get a bit distracted when I'm marking and having that enforced time block helps me zone right into what I'm supposed to be doing and I get into a state of flow a lot more easily and a lot more quickly. I think for marking it's brilliant but I love the idea of encouraging students to use it. Generally, they've all got a phone in their back pocket so they've got that timer available. You can encourage them to put headphones in to get themselves really sort of zoning in on their work and I just think that's a really good tool for students. So a top tip there for sure. Francesco: Yeah, definitely. The app that I would recommend for students as well is an app called Forest. Martine: Oh, I love Forest. It's one of my favourites. Francesco: It's so good isn't it? Martine: Yeah, really good. Do you want to explain a little bit about what Forest is because I love it. Francesco: It's such a friendly application. Any of the students can download it for IOS and Android, I believe. The concept is you set a timer. It can be 25 minutes, 40 minutes, however long you want your students to focus. At that time, it starts planting a tree over those 25 minutes. If the student decides, "I'm going to go over to SnapChat or Instagram," the tree dies if you don't get back to it within, it's a couple of seconds. The goal is they've got to create a tree and over time build a forest. I think it's a really healthy way to stop using your phone. Obviously you can set a timer and then forget about the timer and jump on your phone or go on your laptop or something and that's quite a nice way in making sure you're focusing. Martine: The gamification of focus. I absolutely love it. Francesco: Yes. Martine: One of the things that's really helped me with Forest, because I am a competitive sort. I can't lie. I've got a group of people that I follow and who follow me on Forest and we kind of compete to see who can have the best forest. Francesco: Oh I love it, yeah. Martine: This is what I do in my time. Francesco: It's a great app. Martine: Yeah it really is. I highly recommend it. I will make sure that I link to it in the show notes so people can refer to any of the apps that you mention. Francesco: I'll tell you my final sort of methodology or book is a book called, How to be a Productivity Ninja, by Graham Allcott. The reason I recommend this is it's actually a really beneficial for e-mail and admin. Although GTD's a very good framework this has like, it's packed full. It's a fairly meaty book and it's packed full of how to process e-mail, how to reduce stress when you're doing admin tasks. It's got a lot of good advice that can be used across the board. I can't recommend that book enough. Martine: Fantastic. Again, I'll make sure there's a link to that in the show notes. Those are your top methodologies or approaches to productivity. What about specific tools? Have you got any of those that you'd like to recommend? Francesco: Yeah, sure. I typically recommend three types of apps and I try to say that people should have these core apps at least and that's a to do list app, a calendar App and a note taking app. A to do list app really for your upcoming tasks, actionable stuff you need to get done. A calendar for obviously meetings and events and things like that. Then a note taker for all of that information that you're gathering. Of course it depends on, you know, you can't obviously store information so you'll have to check with your department's, what access you have of course. The to do list app site to start with, I always recommend two ones that I think are really strong. That's Todoist and TickTick. Martine: Okay. Todoist I use actually and I can definitely say it's a great app. Personally with that one I like that it integrates with Google Calender. What's TickTick, did you say? I've not come across that one before. Francesco: It's all one word, TickTick. It's very similar to Todoist in a sense but what people like slightly more than Todoist in some ways, is it has a calendar ability inside it so if you wanted to plot all of your stuff in a calendar you can do it. That's something that Todoist doesn't have just yet. Martine: That's super interesting, particularly if you like to time block your day, bearing in mind that teachers tend to work to a timetable, then actually that could be really useful. Francesco: Yes, 100%. I think that's why I tend to recommend it. It's a very beautiful application. The good news is they've only recently added a Pomodoro timer to it so I guess it even adds even more to it, right? Martine: That sounds like that it's really worth a look actually. I'm thinking to myself, "No, I've committed to Todoist. I can't change yet again." Francesco: Todoist, I'm still user of that and I love it. I think it's such a good application for determining ... I think it's better at a cleaner interface and making sure that you've got a list in front of you. You can organise stuff based on time which is quite lovely. I think that's a great application all around, so there's no need to switch. Martine: No, I mustn't, I really mustn't, but I do have a bit of a passion for to do lists apps in particular so I'm going to stay loyal to Todoist for at least the next month or so. One thing I like in particular about Todoist is the ability to kind of look at what the next week looks like, how may tasks that you've got coming up, for me to do a bit of foreword planning I find that particularly helpful. That and the integration with Google Calendar as I mentioned. So two good recommendations there. Francesco: Of course if you start using that GTD process both of those applications have what's called an inbox and that's essentially your task inbox for dumping all the stuff you haven't processed yet. It's a pretty neat experience. Obviously calendar apps, I typically recommend people stay with Google Calendar or Apple Calendar, normally because I guess sometimes the calendars either G-suite or it could be Microsoft in some institutions. I guess it's up to that department or that school, right? Martine: Absolutely. Interestingly, my college where I work, we are a G-suite for education establishment, however, and I don't know the reason why, I really must talk to IT support, we use Outlook for e-mail and calendar. It's really frustrating because we use Google docs and everything else is G-suite. The great thing about Google Calendar is that it talks to every other app in the suite so it almost feels like you're kind of, you don't have that seamless integration when you're doing a bit of Microsoft and a bit of Google. It's something I'm working on changing, put it that way. Francesco: You're filtering in and working out how to get it changed? Martine: I'm on it. I am absolutely on it. You're a Google Calendar or an Apple Calendar or whatever the kind of native calendar to what your use is, that would be a recommendation? Francesco: Yeah, I use Google Calendar but on my iPhone I have an app called Moleskine Timepage. Martine: Ooh, interesting. Francesco: It's a very nice app. It's a paid subscription app so I think it roughly works out at about $11.00 a year or something like this. It's just such a beautiful application. It helps to make everything look very attractive on the go at least. I would say the note taking side, obviously bringing together lots of information is really important. Of course a lot of teachers would be considering OneNote because that's obviously connected with Microsoft services but I would say Evernote is also a very strong option, especially for teachers that are looking to annotate pieces of work and be able to use the web clipper for deep research and just in general use some of the PDF abilities that Evernote has. Of course when it comes to note takers Notion sort of falls into that spectrum and that's obviously where our passions lie at the moment, isn't it? Martine: Yeah, absolutely. That's certainly how I discovered you, Francesco and what you do is through Notion. I have mentioned Notion a few times on the podcast but I really struggle to actually explain what it is. I tend to say it's like a personal intranet and it can be pretty much whatever you want it to be and it kind of runs on data bases but maybe you can do a better job of describing it than I can. Francesco: I think that's probably how I describe it. The way that I always say is it's like Lego building blocks. It's almost like that software you can create yourself. It's really weird because it's one of the ... I don't know whether you remember Evernote in its early days when it first launched. People were coming up with so many different uses and that was quite exciting. You had people using it to organise all of their work and even use it as their project manager to some extent. When I'm getting e-mails about how people are using Notion it's very exciting. There's a chap who e-mailed me the other day saying he uses it to organise all of his heart data so that whenever he visits the doctors he has all of the heart monitoring information that they need to know. When I was with the Notion team last week they said people were using it to organise their bowling society. Martine: Oh, that's so cool. Francesco: And all of the scores that they made. Yeah, so all of these use cases are like wild. At the same time it's quite an exciting application for note-taking because they're slowing adding stuff to it that makes it a really strong platform. Martine: Oh, that's really good to hear. I think probably one of the most creative uses I have for Notion, two of my favourites I think. I use it to manage the podcast, so from planning to writing out the notes, to sharing it with my VA so she does my social. I use it for complete podcast planning, but also for meal planning as well. That's one of my favourites too. I have a data base of recipes and I have a couple weeks set out like on a Kanban board. That really works quite nicely. Francesco: Yeah, it does. That's, I think, quite an exciting use as well. A lot of people like it for ... it's one of those apps that actually blends work and life and not in like an intense way either. You could be planning your podcast but then jump over to your meal planner within seconds. It doesn't feel disconnected in any way. Martine: I think that's a really interesting point because up until a good sort of year or so ago I was dead against mixing my day job stuff with my personal stuff when it came to productivity tools. I liked to have things totally separate. The reality is that those two things are very closely interlinked with my life, so now that I tend to look at everything through one lens I find it a lot better. I'm more productive. Francesco: Yeah, definitely. I think what's quite nice about Notion is it is like that personal intranet you mentioned. It's almost like it's even more so a second brain because you can almost lay out your home page like your brain of all of the different aspects of your life. I use my Notion as a way to track finances, health. I use it with my wife to plan what rooms we're going to have in the house and travel. It's literally like a consortium of information that ... It's like my brain. I'm not sure whether I'd be able to go much further without it. Martine: I love the idea of it being your external brain. That's a really good way to describe it. I think for me the one thing that I'd really like to see with Notion would be an integration with Todoist because I did try running my task management through Notion and there were just ... It's a brilliant tool but there were just a few too many clicks required for me to do task management in there so if there was an integration on the horizon I would be thrilled. Francesco: Yeah, yes. I agree. I agree. Notion does 80% of what the majority of apps do but it doesn't do, for example, Todoist amazingly because it's not a task manager. It can do task management. It's a very strange experience but I can imagine they'll be adding to this and hopefully building on it. I'm sure we'll have all our fingers crossed, right? Martine: Yeah. They're a very young company and from what I can tell they're very responsive to feedback. It's really interesting to see what they've got on the horizon. Francesco: Yeah. I'm hoping to do ... Well, I was out there last week with the team, actually two weeks ago now, blimey. They are a very fast moving team. They seem to put updates out pretty regularly and it's quite exciting what's happening. I think it's all keep an eye on them. Martine: Yeah, definitely. It's nice too, I was a reasonably early adopter with Notion. It's kind of exciting to see them developing. So yeah, we'll keep an eye out. Fantastic. Francesco: Definitely, definitely. In terms of planning projects I think that's a good way as well. Obviously Ever Note and Notion do a good enough job of being able to store the data and manage that but if a teacher was looking for a way to maybe visually plan, I'd recommend checking out either Trello or Asana. They don't necessarily have to use Notion at the same time. They could use like Trello and Ever Note or Asana and Ever Note. They're both really good ways to visually organise because they've got that boards feature that helps you to plan visually. Yeah, I wouldn't rule those out as a way to keep track of you and your department because if you want to share stuff with other people then you can assign tasks there pretty easily. Martine: It's definitely a tool that works well for collaboration. I would say the same goes for Trello and Asana, as I've used both of those. If you want to collaborate with a team then all three of those options are good ones, Notion, Trello, Asana. They're great for collaborative work. Francseco, is there anything else you would like to add to those amazing recommendations? Francesco: No, the thing is ... What I recommend is just trying to read as many useful pieces and books about the busyness and time and trying to learn as much as you can because there's a lot of good conversations about mindfulness in the workplace blended with the actually busyness and the concept of it. I recommend trying to keep track on Apple News of all of those good articles. There's another book I'd want to recommend now. Sorry. A good one is Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Martine: I swear we read all the same books and play with all the same apps. We're separated at birth. Francesco: Yeah, we need to ... We'll just be starting to share now stuff for e-mail. We'll just be like, "Have you read this one? Have you read this one?" There's so many good books out there at the moment. I think it's just about taking in how you can calm down in the workplace. I think more employers are actually understanding that that's a thing as well which is good news. Martine: It's a big conversation in education at the moment, the work life balance approach and that's very much what I focus on with The Teaching Space. I want to help teachers be as brilliant at their job as they can be without having to take work home at the weekend. I think that Digital Minimalism book recommendation is a good one because it's all about balance. You and I love tech. We love apps. We love all that stuff but actually quiet time, fresh air and just tuning out from all that stuff is also incredibly important and very healthy. Francesco: Yeah, definitely. The final recommendation is just subscribe to The Teaching Space because it is definitely one of the best podcasts for education. Martine: Oh, you're very smooth, Francesco, very smooth. Well on that topic what I'd like to do is give you an opportunity to tell The Teaching Space listeners where they can find you on line. Francesco: Oh, that's very kind. You can just type into YouTube KeepProductive. We've done plenty of Notion videos and we try to help you match up with the best apps. Again, we'll give you recommendations and if you want to pop me an e-mail directly francesco@keepproductive.com. I happily recommend apps, to hear obviously your needs and then we recommend apps so feel free to reach out to me. Martine: That's very generous of you Francesco. Thank you for being on the show. It's been an absolute pleasure. Francesco: Thank you for having me. It's been really fun. Further Listening Why not check out these episodes for more on productivity tools for teachers and trainers?   How to Stop being Distracted and Interrupted by People and Things How to Use a To-Do List Properly Managing Your Teaching Workload With Asana Why The Pomodoro Technique is The Perfect Productivity Tool for Teachers 7 Books That Have Made Me A Better Teacher

What it’s all about! Love you guys!

Instagram: @sacredcirclecommunityEmail: hello@sacredcirclecommunity.com

INTRODUCTION Hello and welcome to Day in Washington, your disability policy podcast. I’m your host Day Al-Mohamed working to make sure you stay informed. POST Recently I’ve been thinking about bulling. We’re all familiar with what bullying is right? Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior (usually among school aged children and youth) that involves a real […]

Introduction!! Hello

*FIRST PODCAST* Introducing Don Juana (creator & host) of #InCreepWeTrust along with Christen (lolamuthafackinbunny) & Sean (Petty Chef). The first podcast about basically a discussion of what the podcast will be about starting out small & hopefully a fun movement. The topic is nothing too much, just getting the listeners comfortable to expect a no filter zone & look forward to just having fun on every Sundays Podcast. Enjoy Fellow & New CREEPS

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Egg Meets Sperm. In this episode, Anne Margolis joins us to talk about a little known profession: midwifery. It is amazing what our bodies can do on its own. In this episode, Anne talks about celebrating pregnancy and birth and making the whole process as natural as our bodies intended it to be. Guest Bio: Anne Margolis is a Licensed Certified Nurse Midwife, OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner, Certified Yoga Teacher, and Clarity Breathwork Practitioner. She is a 3rd generation guide to mommas birthing babies in her family. Anne has helped thousands of families in her 20+ year midwifery practice and has personally ushered the births of over 1000 healthy babies into the world. In this episode, we will cover the following: How a midwife helps with birth and pregnancy Her experience with midwifery The natural childbirth process vs birthing in the hospital The main signs that women should tune in to for a healthy pregnancy How to deal with cravings women feel when pregnant Steps to being intuitive with your body Quotes: -To restore humanity into the process, to restore celebration and invite pleasure and joy to the experience of having a baby. - I help women to slow down and tune in, get involved in art and anything that she loves. To engage the right brain to help her to be intuitive. - Our body is wiser than any machine.   Get the free resources mentioned from Home Sweet Home Birth: http://homesweethomebirth.com   GET SOCIAL! www.facebook.com/DrAumatmaND www.instagram.com/holisticfertilityspecialist www.youtube.com/holisticfertilitycenter Copyright 2018 by Dr. Aumatma

Toxins are everywhere. Babies are born with almost 300 different toxins floating through their bloodstream. And, toxins affect fertility. So, this episode of Egg Meets Sperm will break down where to find these toxins, how to test for them, and what to do about them.  Introduction: Hello and welcome to Season 1 of Egg Meets Sperm: The BodyTalks. In this episode, Beth Greer, also known as The Super Natural Mom joins us to talk about toxins and the environment. This is a very important topic as we are surrounded by toxins everywhere we go. Beth is going to help us shed light on environmental toxins and how we can get rid of them in our homes and our environment. Guest bio: Beth Greer is an author, professional keynote speaker, green living consultant, healthy home expert and impassioned champion of toxin-free living. Her best selling book, Super Natural Home, shows how everyday items like food, beauty products, household cleaners, bedding, and electronic equipment are making us sick. Beth is also a Huffington Post columnist, a trusted consumer advocate, who eliminated a tumor in her chest without drugs or surgery, by making small but radical shifts. In this episode, we will cover the following: Beth’s journey from finding a lump to getting rid of her tumor in 6 months Examples of items that might be adding toxins to your daily life. Steps that we can take at home to reduce toxins What to look out for on food labels Chemicals found on your beauty products that might leak into your bloodstream Do electromagnetic fields affect us? Should you turn off your electronics when you go to bed How to start green washing at home   Resources: Beth Greer’s website: https://supernaturalmom.com/ Beth’s podcast: Kids in Crisis https://supernaturalmom.com/category/podcasts/kids-in-crisis/ Beth’s book: Super Natural Home https://supernaturalmom.com/book/   GET SOCIAL! www.facebook.com/DrAumatmaND www.instagram.com/holisticfertilityspecialist www.youtube.com/holisticfertilitycenter Copyright 2018 by Dr. Aumatma

Introduction Hello dear reader. It’s been a while. When the boys at Adventures in Businessing asked me to come back and do show notes, I initially resisted. Since AIB stopped recording a few months ago, I’ve been working on an emu farm up state. It’s been really peaceful. Contrary to popular belief, the emu is a very serene creature. Since you are reading this prose, obviously I decided to come back. What drew me away from my zen emus? Unfortunately I was just a volunteer on the emu farm. And there weren’t technically any emus. And by volunteer I mean squatter. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with some local authorities and the owner of the farm. I’ve been able to do a lot of soul searching in the past few months, and I’ve turned over a new leaf. I’m no longer the cynical, snarky notes writer that you’ve come to know and love. Hopefully you can learn to love the new, more centered me. Well, that’s enough about me for a bit. Cue the Thin Lizzy; the boys are back in town. The Show There isn’t really a topic for this episode. I’m sorry. Jeremy discusses a troubling rash. Kevin removes his mouth. Rob has started brushing his teeth on a dentist recommended schedule. James reacts to the craziness around him. Our Recommendations James’s recommendation is for a book called Spellbound: Seven Principles of Illusion to Captivate Audiences and Unlock the Secrets of Success. It’s about sleight of hand magic, but James suggests that you can learn a lot about manipulating the attention of your audience, whether that’s an audience for your magic show or your brand. Kevin revels in the fact that the University of Tennessee Volunteer football team defeated the University of Kentucky Wildcats. He went to the game, and his tip is that you can trade your tickets to scalpers for better seats. Of course, you should proceed with caution, and none of us here at AIB condone illegal activities. Rob’s tip and trick is a weight loss plan that he’s used to lose over 60lbs. Optavia is a meal planning and diet company that will send you pre-packaged snacks and meals to help you lose weight. The trick, though, is that you’re eating mostly fuel every few hours throughout the day, small snacks that keep you going, but not a full-size meal. It’s been really helpful for Rob, so you should check it out maybe. Jeremy recommends that you buy a Hardwick blazer, a somewhat expensive suit jacket made in Cleveland, Tennessee. It’s high quality and will last you a while. It’ll also make you look fancy.

What is true healing? Is your diagnosis causing your body to seek a band-aid? How does healing optimize your health and support fertility?  Find out in this episode of Egg Meets Sperm. Introduction: Hello and welcome to Egg Meets Sperm. In this episode, we talk about the current disconnect people are facing with society and their health. People are starting to isolate themselves more and turning to their devices and their internet instead of connecting and understanding what their body is trying to tell them. Dr. Payal shares with us her thoughts in this episode and how to overcome it.   Guest bio: Dr. Payal Bhandari M.D. is a leading practitioner of integrative and functional medicine in San Francisco, CA.  She is also board certified in Family Medicine since 2004. By combining traditional Western Medicine with Ayurveda, nutrition, stress and sleep management, Dr. Bhandari incorporates the best scientifically proven strategies to understand the root cause of illness. She specializes in the digestive, immune and endocrine systems since they are at the heart of inflammation and most chronic diseases. Through personalized medicine, Dr. Bhandari effectively restores patients’ health.   In this episode, we’ll cover the following: -The epidemic of chronic disease -The dramatic shift in the world that is affecting our health -Connecting people with food and where it comes from -Why community is detrimental to our healing process -Our body’s healing process -Signs that our body is trying to talk to us -How to start optimizing hydration   Quotes: When your body is not getting the nourishment it needs, it signals you to keep eating more. The intake is going up, and the quality of food is going down. You’ve got a perpetual cycle that is going on now, that has become the status quo. People are starting to isolate themselves more. Have a purpose beyond yourself, otherwise people get self consumed. Invest in your well being so that you can feel good for a longer period of time. If you live life like a race, sometimes you’ll even forget where you need to go. Enjoy the ride, and find creative ways that allow you to love every moment of your day.   Resources: http://www.sfadvancedhealth.com/provider/payal-n-bhandari-md   GET SOCIAL! www.facebook.com/DrAumatmaND www.instagram.com/holisticfertilityspecialist www.youtube.com/holisticfertilitycenter  

INTRODUCTION Hello, and thanks for checking out the brand new 1440 Podcast by Zing Collaborative. We have 1440 minutes in a 24 hour day, and our opportunity as leaders, as professionals, as business owners, and as humans is to make the most of those 1440 minutes. This podcast explores the intersection of Impact, Leadership, and Aliveness. It explores what it means to live our values in everyday life. And it explores how to make time for the things that matter most and stand up for the things we believe, even when - and especially when - it’s hard.Our moments become our days, and our days become our lives. Here’s to seizing the moments. Thank you for being part of the journey!

Today’s show is about Competitive Integrated Employment. What is it? What does the term mean? Where did it come from? And how does it all intersect with the new Workplace Choice and Flexibility for Individuals with Disabilities Act (HR 5658)? INTRODUCTION Hello and welcome to Day in Washington, your disability policy podcast. I’m your host […]

Stopping by to say hello.

Brothers from another mother come together to give you the straight talk with no chaser discussing the culture, music, sports, health and issues that affect the urban community. This week GeauxDee and Smash make their debut discussing the movie Roxanne, the March Madness bracket busters, and what's in your speaker right now.

"No matter how depressed or anxious I'm feeling, being able to talk about it with someone, doing something, and being out with people, helps so much..." Introduction Hello, again, Happy Doc Family! As some of you may be aware, September is Suicide Prevention Month. In this week's podcast, we have one of our team members from The Happy Doc, Alex Iacono. Alex is the Audio-technician for The Happy Doc as well as a third-year medical student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM). Upon listening to this podcast, you will notice we have a more relaxed and candid conversational style, given that Alex and Taylor are friends from the same medical school.  In this conversation, Alex opens up about dealing with difficulties such as facing depression and anxiety, and how he has overcome those difficulties. Furthermore, Alex discusses his experiences as a pre-medical student, how he felt after receiving his acceptance letter,  dating life, and much more. We really hope you enjoy this week's podcast and let us know how you feel about this style of interview. Alex Iacono is a 3rd-year medical student who attends PCOM with an interest in Psychiatry.  *** Alex's Weekly challenge: What have you done to deal with anxiety in school? What tips can you give others to help them succeed? Tweet us @thehappydoc1. We would love to hear your thoughts! *** Join The Happy Doc Family! Subscribe to the podcast, and join the subscriber's list on the sidebar! Facebook       Instagram      Twitter Link Link *** For the conversation, listen to the audio!

Introduction Hello! Welcome to the first episode of the podcast How She Ate an Elephant. This podcast and blog are going to serve as a “diary of accountability” for myself as I navigate through my 20’s as a professional young, black woman a few years out of college. I find myself working to define my identify […]

And then one day I shook my fist to the heavens and demanded my life. This isn't my life, I'm not going to live like this anymore, I demand my life. And then within 24 hours my whole life changed, depression was gone, everything just kick started again in a very different way. Introduction Hello team Happy Doc! We have another amazing episode for this week featuring the very wise and intuitive Dr. Nathalie Martinek. Before we begin with the introduction, I start by saying that she is an individual who is full of great wisdom, and provides practical tips that you can apply today to improve your life. Within this episode we want you to take a few moments to pause the conversation so that YOU can reflect on your life and how you might better tackle tomorrow. Please take advantage of these opportunities as you listen to the audio. Bio Our guest received her PhD in Developmental Biology from the University of Toronto followed by Postdoctoral studies in cancer research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. As we discuss in this episode, Nathalie quickly realized that her bench side studies did not suit the life she ultimately wanted to live. She realized that her intuitive capabilities of human connection were better suited to helping people directly, so she underwent further personal and professional development. Her training includes areas such as health communication, group facilitation, mediation/dispute resolution & relationship healing, and meditation and spiritual training as an initiate at Shanti Mission. Nathalie is a public speaker and group facilitator and delivers talks and training in the healthcare, early childhood education and corporate sectors on self-care, meditation, burnout prevention, compassion fatigue, effective communication and courageous conversations. She is also an independent researcher developing a research program to transforms the current practice of medicine to prevent practitioner harm & compassion fatigue and to align practice with patient values, practitioner values, patient-centred care and promote healing. She is currently writing a book covering her research findings and will be training facilitators of her training programs in 2017. Nathalie mentors people to navigate the complexities of life, relationships, practice and existence through consciousness-expanding and healing techniques. She bridges scientific theory with spiritual practices to create enriching, transformative learning and healing experiences in a compassionate, grounded and light-hearted way. She practices at The Urban Alchemist located in North Carlton, Victoria, Australia as well as online as an Ignite Your Spirit Therapist, spiritual mentor and communication coach. She also runs workshops that teach participants about their multidimensional nature and techniques that address the diverse influences on quality of life, relationships and wellness. Please learn from Dr. Nathalie and check out her Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/DrNathalieMartinek/ Please also be on the lookout for her podcast coming out around September! Listen to the audio to and learn more from Dr. Nathalie! *** Join The Happy Doc Team! Link in to the social media, subscribe to the podcast, and join the e-mail list on the sidebar! Facebook       Instagram      Twitter Link Link *** Sample of the conversation: Recognizing transitions and the need for support Note: text has been lightly edited for ease of understanding, no alteration of meaning has taken place. I needed to understand what happens when we go through periods of life of transition. Because we go from old us to the new us all the time when we wake up in the morning; It's like we hit the reset button and there's new opportunity that can happen in that day that is completely separate from what happened yesterday. But, if we never sever or distinguish between yesterday and today as different (and yesterday doesn't have to flow into today)... nothing ever changes. So having gone through a three to four-week period of depression and of darkness was an opportunity to realize  what happens when we are suspended in that transition, in that place between old and the new way, and that space between... And there's so much richness that still keeps coming up for me, especially when I work with people and see what happens to people when they're going through transitions. They don't understand they're in the transition, and they need patience when they are transitioning from old you to new you.  And they also need to understand what support  to have in place to help with that transition, because when you don't have it you get stuck and you stay stuck. Tip on seizing the day: Centering, Visualization, and Reflection Part of my daily practice is meditation and depending on how organized I am it could be an hour or it could be five minutes, it could be a deep connection while I'm taking a shower, (before I'm getting the kids up and out of the house), as long as I get that opportunity to center myself.  [I also] visualize the day as I'd like to see it and I set my own intention of what I want to experience in the day. That's kind of how we reset because it didn't matter what happened yesterday or last week or last month if I take today and decide, this is how I want it to be, and these are some of the outcomes I'd like to experience... so those are things I put in in my morning practice and intention and by doing that it creates a focus for me throughout the day... then at the end of the day I have to reflect on how that went. Otherwise I'm not resetting so it's about looking to start your day, and then having a clear end of your day as well. Summary:  In the morning it's meditation (centering), and then intention (where do want to see this day going), and the end of the day having the reflective process on how successful you were with that intention. Imposter Syndrome The way I explain it is when you are going through a period of life where you feel like a fraud. It's part of your learning curve where your learning something new, you don't know it yet, and you're not realized in that skill ... or you are applying it but suddenly you discover someone who's really effective in that skill and you compare yourself to that person. Or you're preparing a course to teach others a method, or a way of thinking about a process of yours, and what's coming up are a lot of doubts and fears, and you know that you're actually a fraud, that you're an imposter, and you're not who you say you are. So it's part of the learning curve, becoming realized or embodied in a particular quality or skill, and it's a normal part of the process. But, it also can become something that people use against themselves which isn't really helpful. It's also opportunity to actually check in: "Well maybe what if I an imposter and what if I don't actually have the skills and abilities that I claim I do; I think I do but I'm not embodied in it. I can just easily talk about it and teach people through verbal communication, but I'm not transferring or transmitting the skills to another because I'm not embodying it". ...if somehow what you're doing isn't aligned with your own inner moral code or your inner ethical standards, you're going to feel uneasy about what you're doing, or you might be duping people and you might actually be an imposter. So, I talked about reframing it as as a way of checking in with yourself [asking], "do I really have the skills to be doing this, what do I need to put in place to help me grow in this area". So that's what it's about. For more of the conversation, listen to the audio!!!

Interludes 1.0 (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/Interludes1.mp3] Link Interludes1.mp3   Introduction: Hello my endurance friends and welcome to a crack-stuffing version of the RunRunLive podcast that I'm going to call “Interludes”.  I didn't want you to think I fell into the abyss as I work to figure out the format for RunRunLive4.0.  I'll keep passing along some content as I go to keep your interest.  You can always go back and sample one of the previous 300 episodes that are filled with so much fluff and stuff about long distance running and endurance sport.   I was going to call it interregnum, but that seemed a bit imperious.  But, it does lead us to a discussion of the value of a good command of Latin and Greek roots when trying to discern the language.  As you may have guessed the prefix ‘inter', (technically a ‘morpheme') means between or among.  In this case Inter means between.  Inter should not be confused with ‘intra' which means ‘within'.   Intercompany would mean “Between companies” whereas “intra-company” would mean “within company”.  See how that works?  You can figure out the meaning of most words by looking at the morphemes.  Interregnum means between kingships.  The Latin root Reg is king.  As in Regicide, Regent, etc.    Now, as far as interlude, I thought at first that second bit, the ‘lude' was a form of the Latin root Luce which means light – as in Lucid, Elucidate, Luminescent, etc. But I was wrong.  It turns out to be Middle English for ‘play'.  Which, is perfect, because what we have here is a pause between plays.   And I ‘d like to thank my 9th grade prep school English teacher Mr. Mitchell, for making me memorize all the Latin and Greek roots.  Very handy for dismembering meaning from any of the Latin languages.  Oh…We were supposed to talk about running, right?  Or atleast Zombies.  Did you like my zombie story in episode 300?  Can you imagine poor Andrew Kastor listening to that episode and having to suffer through all the self-indulgent schlock? Heavens! Speaking of Andrew Kastor, I get to run with him in the morning.  I'm safely ensconced in the New York Palace Hotel (5-stars) on Madison Ave across from Rockefeller Center.  They flew me in today and got me a limo into town.  I'm having drinks with them later.  I do feel a bit like Cinderella.  (but I'll still never a Disney race)   I just made a successful foray into the wild metropolis (greek word) and managed to forage a bag of fruit and a kale salad with avocado, so the city isn't too bad.  Today, well, we'll see what I can get done.  I've got too many plates spinning at the moment, but today we'll squeeze in an interview (see there's that Morpheme again) interview with Jim from the seeker podcast who is a certified nurse.  I asked Jim to talk me through some of the things people should be looking for when they get a physical.   I'm also going to try to write up my Marine Corp marathon report for you…and maybe even something else.  I've got more ideas than time to birth them!  Last time we chatted, two weeks ago, I was getting ready to volunteer at the BayState Marathon and the Groton Town Forest Trail Race.  I did volunteer at Baystate, we work a water stop each year.  It's fun.  We're at the 7 and 17 mile marks of the Marathon.  I try to coach people and encourage them.  I know most of the local running clubs so I can call them out when I see the singlets.  It was a bit of windy day, as it is sometimes at BayState, and that knocked a lot of the folks down who were looking for times.  That's why you need to train outside in real conditions.  Learn how to run in the wind and the rain.  There are techniques for all of this that can save your race. I had a 10 mile pace run on the calendar as my last taper run for Marine Corp that day.  I didn't manage to get up in time, and instead decided to run the trail race, which is 9.5 miles as a substitute.  If you've never run the Groton Town Forest Trail Race you are missing out.  It's a gnarly single path with plenty of vertical.   We had great trail conditions and a nice cool day.  The wind didn't bother us in the trails.  I started out in the back with the baggage train and used the first 20 minutes to warm up.  Then I accelerated through the pack for the next 7 or so miles.  I've run the course plenty of times so I know how hard it is.  You'd better be in top trail shape if you decide to attack it.  In the last couple miles I caught all the people who underestimated the course and overestimated their abilities!  Yeah, I felt great, had a good race.  I had forgotten just how much fun trail running is!  Then, of course, I was down in Marine Corp last weekend.  Got that done without breaking anything, much. And now I've got The New York City Marathon this weekend, (which apparently has been outsourced to the Tata Consultancy).   Spinning plates… On with the show… Section One:  New York City Marathon Speech - http://runrunlive.com/gratitude http://youtu.be/xHYCClSGnfo?list=UUHxGvauB2-_J1qvR_oDobeg …. Intro to Interview:  I got my physical last week and everything checked out, but they handed me a bunch of blood work results which are mystifying to me.  I figured I'd share those and chat through them with Jim and see if we couldn't save some lives.  My resting pulse, or heart rate is somewhere in the 36-42 BPM range, which is not normal, but it's perfectly normal for me.  It's partly genetics and partly endurance sports.  My blood pressure is 117 over 80, which I guess is normal.  My Prostate is okey-dokey on both the ever-pleasing digital exam and the PSA blood test.   By the way – men, get yourself tested.  As many men die from prostate cancer as women die from breast cancer and it's 100% curable if they catch it early.  Ladies, make your men get tested.  The blood test they do checks all sorts of stuff, your sugar, your salt, your liver function and even if I was pregnant.  All of which I'm in the normal bounds on and (I'm not pregnant).  My liver function was borderline high but this is also one of those long distance running things.  I always go into these physicals after a hard race or workout and when you do that it can throw off your blood work, especially your liver function, because your liver is trying to clear all that crap from the workout out of your blood.   If you want a copy of my blood results with all the explanations I can send them to you.  Lean back and relax now while Jim and I discuss saving your life.   I didn't have time to edit this so you're getting our raw conversation.   Section two:  Marine Corp - http://runrunlive.com/2014-marine-corp-marathon Outro: Was that fun?  I bet it was.  Over the next couple weeks, if I survive New York, I'm going to dial back the training for November.  I have many balls in the air this month.  I have to get through a colonoscopy.  I've also got an appointment with the cardiologist to see if we can figure out what's going on with my heart rate.   I went in yesterday to my doctor and I brought some HR graphs from some of my runs to show him what I'm experiencing.  About 40 minutes into a workout my HR will flip to max and I'll feel it.  There is no way my heart rate should be getting up into the 180's and 190's unless a bear's chasing me.  A zombie bear.  An alien zombie bear.   I'm perfectly ok if the answer is ‘you're old'. But I want to make sure it's not some new adventure that's going to cause me to not return from a run.   Therefor – If I hit the cement hard in the NYC marathon and don't get up, tell my wife I've got 3-4 interviews on the hard drive that need to be edited and released.  I will see you out there.  Chris,  

The Minimal Pair: Episode 2Show Notes: The Minimal Pair Title: Midterms ComethEpisode no: 002Date: February 24, 2014Introduction: Hello and thanks for listening. This is Episode 2 of The Minimal Pair, recorded on Monday February 14th, 2014 in St. Louis, MO.Believe it or not, the semester is almost halfway over! I don't know about you, but between MLK Day, President's Day, and all the snow days, I'm feeling the pressure to get everything covered in time!Topics in Language LearningMidterms What kinds of classes we have…What we do for midterm assessment (in each class)…What's worked and what hasn't…Conferences (how effective are they?)Midterm gradesTime management at midterm and other strategies to get stuff done![PAUSE]MethodologyVocabularyTeaching vocab. in different kinds of classes (reading/writing vs. listening/speaking)Intermediate-level journals (word, POS, definition) vs. advanced-level class journals (word, POS, definition, sentence)Listening and note-taking vocab. logs and tests (matching, writing sentences, fill-in the blank) to target different learning typesAdvanced-level Essay prep: complete the chart by finding examples of how the character is…list of adjectives)Parts of Speech & word form issues[PAUSE]Adjunct AnticsResourcesAccess to course materialsCurriculum design & collaboration (Dropbox, shared syllabi, BB forum)Different librariesBlackboard, email, grade input, etc. is different everywhereSHOUT OUTS: English Expressions & Rolls off the TongueTESOL COUNT DOWN: 30 days until we leave!Keep it minimal!