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In This Episode You'll Hear About:What it was like to grow up as the eldest of five in Ireland in a family of entrepreneurs who are third generation manufacturers of construction clothing and why she went into techWhy her dad encouraged her to go study business instead of dietetics and why she saw the wisdom in that laterWhat moved her over to California to work for Google and then AirbnbWhat her experiences at Airbnb taught her about how to create a healthy family culture within a company and not just grow fast, but grow well with a strong teamWhat brought about the need in Laura's life for a company like Bobbie and what compelled her to develop a product and work on it for four years before launchingWhy she believes confidence and great referrals from past experiences are helpful in raising funds with investors, even if you don't have metrics yet to shareHow fundraising has gone for Bobbie through traditional VC funding and also the nontraditional raising through Republic, which has including over 200 momsWhat the process of obtaining the FDA green light was like, what lessons came through it, and why it is the way it isWhat great advice she has on how to successfully lead a startup and what is next for BobbieTo Find Out More:HiBobbie.comQuotes:“Becoming an entrepreneur myself now, have I realized that the currency to join a startup is really energy. It's passion. It's your connection to what's being built.”“And it was during this I realized I love fast-growth companies. I love being in the middle of it. I loved being on call at random hours because that kind of adrenaline to be building something that wasn't just a massive revenue driver, but it was a culture changer is so impactful.”“I think that's part of an entrepreneurial journey, which is, you spot opportunities by seeing the ridiculousness of why certain things are the way they are.”“It continued to hit me that they are buying into my passion, my confidence, my ability to execute. What I had was, very fortunately, a decade of experience in the tech world and fast-growing companies to be able to point to to show that I did have a track record of getting shit done.”“We were very intentional about spending the two years prior to launching and building community. And often products and companies will say, ‘well you can't do that until you have a product on the market.' And for us, it wasn't just about the product, it was about shaking the stigma, having the conversation.” “When we went to market, we had hundreds of moms who were dying to share that we had just launched. I believe that is kind of the secret sauce of what allowed the business to take off.”“It was an education of the industry that we are about to walk into. We are walking into an industry that is heavily regulated with massive companies watching your every move.”“The people that you find that are completely irreplaceable for you, you give them the world because they are worth the world. Your entire company goes around because of the people that you hire and how you recognize them, reward them, support them.” “There are hands down people that give me the sweats at night if I thought about losing them...because they truly are founders, owners, developers of this business more than myself. They are incredible.”“As a CEO, your job is to build the machine that runs, and every component of that machine is its people.”“How you support the exit of an individual in the business will say everything about your leadership.”

Feeling an intense connection with someone feels AMAZING. And yet, it doesn't always mean what we think it means about the relationship. In this episode, you'll learn:A new way to think about connectionWhat true compatibility isWhat to do if you're not in a compatible relationshipFor more information and the full show notes, visit karilynivers.com/podcast/s2e3

Is "What's for Dinner?" offensive to women? Breastfeeding school-aged child, Pastor does something gross in church.

In today's solo show I discuss how breath awareness helps during labor, and really during any uncomfortable or painful experience. In the episode I go over: The difference between pain and sufferingA quote from Pam England's book Ancient Map for Modern BirthWhat the “monkey mind” isWhat breath awareness is (hint: it does not teach you how to breath)The foundation for breath awarenessAn exercise to practice breath awareness An exercise to deepen the breath awareness practice with an “ice contraction”I would love to hear your feedback about the breath exercise, please reach out: Via Instagram Email me at amanda@findingyourvillagepod.com Review and rate this episode on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you can leave a review on a podcast playerHow to get in touch with me: My Virtual 4-week online Birth ClassFollow me on Instagram and on TikTokFind other episodes at: www.findingyourvillagepod.comEmail me at amanda@findingyourvillagepod.com Monthly Newsletter Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/findingyourvillagepod?fan_landing=true)

What do you do when you don't feel ‘good enough' in business? Most people want to have a consistent flow of clients and make the impact they want to see. But have you had the thoughts of ‘I'm not good enough' or ‘Who am I to be doing this?'. It's in this episode where we tackle these challenges.Because, let's face it, if the patterns of not feeling good enough are emerging consistently, there may be a deeper pattern that needs healing or a lesson to be learned. The real question is, are you willing to look inside to heal and learn the lesson your soul is trying to teach you?If so, you will be taking steps toward the business owner you are being pulled to become and on the journey to serving your clients in a larger way.So it's in this episode we will cover:What is really happening inside you and what the deeper problem isWhat are the tips for healing this pattern long-termWhat to do differently in your business so you can see the growth that you want Here is the link to the mentioned videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqBwrr4uWTo&t=13s Links to connect with me and the Serving Circle Serving circle FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theservingcirclePersonal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tyson.sharpe.37/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tysoncoaching/ 

In Episode #141 we hear from three Gastroenterologists as part of a two part series on optimising gut health - Dr Sarina Pasricha, Dr Alan Desmond and Dr Will Bulsiewicz.As these were by far some of the most popular episodes to date my team and I went back through and pulled out the most important parts and brought them together into this 2 part series.In Part 1 (this episode) we cover:What the microbiome isWhat dysbiosis isThe 3 parts of dysbiosis including what's often described as 'leaky gut'The importance of fibreWhat short chain fatty acids areAnimal foods and gut healthThe ketogenic diet and gut healthKombuchaBone BrothDairyGluten and IBSJuice cleansesSpicy foodAlcoholand much morePart 2 of this series, which is out in a weeks time, is more focussed on specific gut health conditions such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).Happy listening. I hope you find it equal parts informative and instructive.Want to support the show?If you are enjoying the Plant Proof podcast a great way to support the show is by leaving a review on the Apple podcast app. It only takes a few minutes and helps more people find the episodes.Simon Hill, Nutritionist, Sports PhysiotherapistCreator of Plantproof.com and host of the Plant Proof PodcastAuthor of The Proof is in the PlantsConnect with me on Instagram and TwitterDownload my two week meal plan

On this episode, I welcome Dr. Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, clinical psychologist and author of Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood—and Relax Into Your New Self. We discuss the following: What “mom brain” isWhat happens to our emotions when we become mothersMaternal anxiety Mom comparison and social media Partner relationships once babies enter the picturePurchase the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Brain-Strategies-Overwhelming-Motherhood/dp/1462540260 Follow Dr. Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco on Instagram - @drcbtmom and check out her website here: https://drcbtmom.com/.

How do you keep writing when you're totally blocked? When you feel like you have utterly nothing to say?In today's episode of  Writer Unleashed, I'll give you a 3-step strategy for breaking through. In today's episode, we'll explore:What writer's block  isWhat causes it3 Strategies to unblock yourselfWant to write more, write better, and fast-track your path to publication? Check out the Emerging Writers Academy. Hop on the waitlist here.

INTERFACE RESPONSE SYSTEM: How we respond to the perception of space and time. All day long and to a certain degree during sleep humans experience life through an interface between themselves and all space and time happenings via perception. Is What you see what you get? Now we also know that what we see can be jaded by what we think and how we were programmed. But the idea here around perception is that seeing unveils the potential for believing. When you speak to some of the greatest minds of our times like Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Scientist and author of The Case Against Reality, why Evolution hid the truth from our eyes, you gain access to the latest science of perception. He introduces the idea that what you see is merely what you see. What you get from what you see is merely a rendering or desktop icon of a deeper truth that you don’t need to see as it doesn’t serve you. Then the question pops up as to whether or not what you see even exists in the absence of perception, while you’re not seeing it? What I mean is that things only come into your fields perception while you are looking at them. But when you look away or they go away, do they still exist? This is an extremely powerful concept to entertain because it completely changes the game of perception and our emotional response system to all things space and time. Let’s play through a scenario. So you’re going about your day and something hypothetically GOES WRONG? Say a great client of yours decides to cancel their order of business with you and you perceive this negative act of defiance via email. Naturally, as your goals are focused on business growth and creating time and money freedom this comes as a shock and triggers feelings of despair and challenges your self worth and creates financial worry and stress. These negative feelings not only impact your physical and emotional state but in turn impact those around you and your ability to grow that day. All due to your perception of what happened to you? Your good friend consoles you and says not to worry one door closes another opens and screw them. Their the unlucky ones fir losing you. Maybe that feels a little better as it creates a new perception that perhaps it just wasn’t a good fit. Then as time goes by you find out that your client isn’t unhappy with your service ans wanted to stay with you although they are facing financial hardship due to their own circumstances and this moves you into a state of empathy and sympathy. Again changing your perception and the cloud is lifted and you pull up your pants snd go back to work, find a new client and leave the door open in support and friendship to the one you lost for a time they are able to return. Letting them know you are their for them. Here’s the thing. All these things and feelings are based on perceptions and you can see how they have a dramatic impact on our lives. Imagine if you could control your perceptions and see the world and all the happenings of space and time in a way that unveils the potential that what you see is only what you are seeing but not necessarily what you are getting? Or what’s actually happening. The name of the game is recognizing the idea of controlling our INTERFACE RESPONSE SYSTEM. Meaning how we perceive and respond to the uncontrollable and potentially unreal happenings of space and time. PS this is only complicated because natural selection has evolved our human senses so that they can create a perception of reality that works for us and carries us forward in progress. Our perceptions of reality we’re not shaped to unveil the absolute truth. They were shaped to see what we need to see to procreate and evolve. Can we work on controlling our perceptions so we don’t get off track? Yes. So we learn conscious techniques to help us like stoicism which teaches us to pause and access happenings to see what’s really happening, whether they matter or not and delineate what we can and can’t control? In my book I unveil a similar technique called WHOLEOGRAPHIC VISION which teaches us to take inventory snd see happenings from all sides before reaction and creating a label of your perception. So let’s step back and look at this whole perception game? We can now become mindful that our entire life experience is based on perceptions. Which means that the secret to success, fulfillment and happiness lies in our response system to the happenings in life and that response system is eon or lost in our ability to control our perceptions? Science and mathematics are now saying that their is a zero possibility that what we see and call reality is the actual truth and whilst you are not seeing things they no longer exist? So nothing exists in the absence of our perception of it? So the secret to access lies in our ability to understand that we are the author and director of this movie the moment we grab control of our perceptions and decide how we are going to see the world. Is this perhaps is what some are optimistic snd some pessimistic. Why some are fear based and some are fearless? Some confident and some un confident? Yes. See, science now tells us that what you see is not what you get. What you see is merely an interface between you and this game of life. Just like the icons on a desktop. They help you navigate and communicate with something bigger. The computer, the internet etc.. I love this idea and remaining open to it as it helps me realize that I decide and control how my life experience unfolds. I control the fantasy and thus the outcome. If someone observes you calling a bad thing good or describing an event different than they see it? Their simply running their perception program and unaware of it. Unconscious to this. Remember this. It’s the ignorance of reality that enables one to control reality. Nobody likes to lose control. So you share this knowledge not by lecturing them but Demonstrating how you respond with no buy in or just an open curious compassion and a pause to consider and decide on how you see it.

On this episode Greg brings on his old friend Jerome Myers, and they discuss how a serious accident can cause a ripple effect in your life. Jerome also is able to take lessons from his accident and apply it to everyday life.Connect with Jerome:E-Mail: jerome@d3v3loping.comWebsite: Www.jeromemyers.coLinkedin: Www.linkedin.com/in/jeromemyersGet Connected with Guards Down:Website: www.guardsdown.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/weareguardsdown/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guardsdownLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/guards-down/Buzzsprout: https://693874.buzzsprout.com/693874#guardsdown #PTSD #mentalhealth[0:01-4:05] Opening Segment [4:05-22:45] The Car AccidentJerome details the day where he got into a serious car accident Jerome describes how he had the feeling of nothing he could do to avoid the accidentJerome recalls arguing with a bystander and getting someone to call his Dad to come[22:45- 21:57] The Aftermath of the AccidentJerome speaks on the aftermath of the accident and facing the realities of his injuries and wondering if he was going to wake up againJerome discusses how he was able to get through the valley and then also learn that he just needed to surrender to the process at some point[21:57-56:46] ReflectionJerome reflects on how the accident impacted his life and relationships while he went into the recovery processJerome talks about the recovery process and what his thoughts on success isWhat advice would you give someone else that has gone through a serious accident?[56:46-57:55] Closing SegmentSupport the show (https://www.facebook.com/guardsdown)

When I say "influence", is the first thing that pops into your head a sleazy car salesman? This is one of the many reasons we avoid building our influencing skills! But I'm hear to tell you that you don't have to trick others to get them on board with your vision.Episode Summary:What people THINK influencing isWhat influencing ACTUALLY involvesHow to get confident with influencing by upgrading your beliefsResources:Join the Wonder Women in STEM communityLearn about my coaching programmesApply for a coaching programme by booking a 15-min discovery callL E T ' S  C O N N E C T !> Twitter: @_tiffanydawson_> Instagram: @tiffanydawson_> LinkedIn: Tiffany Dawson> Join the Community: Wonder Women in STEM> Website: www.tiffanydawson.co

We all have a creative intelligence within us that can serve us in our darkest moments and is more powerful than thought. Here’s how to get in touch with it. Corry is a transpersonal art therapist, artist, and cognitive coach. She helps people activate their Creative Intelligence, giving them the freedom and grit to transform their challenges into wisdom. She is the author of Life In Full Colors: Unlock Your Childlike Curiosity to Uncover and Activate the Creative Intelligence You Are.Quotes to remember: “There was always this process where there was a challenge… and that became the ultimate art material.” “We can love all of ourselves.” “Even if things aren’t flowing or colorful, they can just become our normal.” “My god, we’re the universe in a pair of jeans.” Takeaways:There is a deep intelligence within us that can guide us to new ways of beingSometimes we need a different way to express our emotions to release themOur darker emotions are trying to tell us somethingChange is a gradual spiral upward, not an on-off switchIntentional messiness can help you get in touch with your heartIt can be helpful to dialogue with your challenges and problemsAccessing the intelligence within helps us move through challenges and take on a different perspectiveAt rock-bottom is where we finally look up and cry out for helpIf you only paint blue, paint blueThe heart’s magnetic field is 5000x stronger than that of the thinking mindOur hearts attune to one anotherWhat you’ll learn:What transpersonal art therapy isWhat led Corry to becoming a healerHow to connect the thinking and feeling mindsThe connection between art and self-loveThe process by which Corry wrote Life in Full ColorsTelltale signs that you are not living life in full colorsWhy we become disconnected from our creativityHow to get back in center with your heart when you feel out of itMentioned on the podcast: https://www.creatinghealingwithcorry.com/Life in Full Colors bookJoseph Campbellhttps://www.heartmath.org/Links:InstagramFacebookTwitterYoutube

Craig Capurso Hosts this episode and breaks down these 6 excuses.craigcapurso.com... I don't know-how... I'm Afraid ... I don't have enough time... I don't have enough money -... It's too late for me -... It's too hard - Are You Interested or Committed to your goals?Well…What's the difference?If you're only Interested you will only do what's convenient...How many times have you allowed an excuse to Stop You from getting something you wanted?Look I get it… Some folks don't grow up with the best circumstances:Born into a household that lacked Support, Money, Education, Opportunities…And now when you look back, you attribute the lack of success to a product of what lot you were given…That's Weak Sauce…. Right There..That's playing the Victim…That's that same Crap that is rampant in today's political environment, which I will NOT be getting intoon this podcast today…It’s easy to beat yourself up when you look back at what you didn’t accomplish!orWhen you look in the mirror and are disgusted with what is staring back at you.But!If you truly look at what got in the way, and you are honest with yourself you will see... That it was always you.Not your circumstances!IT WAS YOU!It was your lack of COMMITMENT! So I am going to work through some common excuses and solutions to those excusesIf at the end of today I moved you to take action and help you to re-commit to whatever has been on your mind.I want to hear from you.  Leave a comment where ever you are hearing or watching this.That you are Going to take action based on this wake-up call, or that you already took action.-------------------Excuses!!!!... I don't know-howThis statement gives you permission to not even try.  This is one of the easiest to overcome.  Hell… you can learn how to build a house on YouTube if you are truly committed.Try ThisEducate your self,take a course,Hire Help,Join a Support Group,Get a coach for accountability ... I'm Afraid -“Every successful person was too they just choose to persist and build their confidence by venturing beyond their doubt" Try This:Ask yourself what is the worst thing that can happen?  List it outList all the good things that can happen?You will likely see the good outweighs the bad"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and FOCUS on what could go right!" ... I don't have enough time -You make time for what’s truly important to you.Try ThisCreate a list of the things you do on a daily basis from the moment you awake until the end of the day.Record your activities in 20-minute blocks. (Include everything)Do this for the week..You are going to find a lot of waste, but you will also find 2-4 hours that you can take back and dedicate to your goals. ... I don't have enough money -There's usually a way to work around a lack of financial resources.  Take the step from the last exampleTry Thismake a list of all the things you spend your money on and look for waste.Look at all the things that don’t serve your goalsLook for recurring subscriptions that you don’t use.You can Increase your skills by Volunteering or Interning which can lead to bigger pay or opportunitiesGet a Second job,Get a Side hustle.Money is not scarce… the way you think about it is! ... It's too late for me -Getting a late start might be less convenient and more challenging, but God determines when it's over.  Not your limiting beliefs.  If you still have the physical ability to put forth the effort you owe it to your future self to do so.Try ThisFind out what you wantWhat is your real why isWhat interests you,What influences youWhat motivates you.And then Build a plan,Take it one step at a time one rep at a time. ... It's too hard -Claiming that something is “too hard” is really just another way of admitting that you’re afraid.And Yes,  It’s going to be harder than what you are used to giving as per energy, attention, mental concentration, but I can tell you from experience that the satisfaction of completing something that you poured your heart into and earned is priceless.Try ThisSet your mind on success!Get an accountability partner.Listen to a Podcast orWatch Youtube videos that motivate youAffirm yourself with the reasons WHY you want IT and Why NOW is the time you are going to achieve it. You want a trick when going after your goals?Make Them SMARTS - SpecificM - MeasurableA - AttainableR - RelevantT - Timely And Set goals along the path.Small goals often help provide wins that are critical to boosting your confidence.Let go of the excuses, and Let go of the reasons why you can't.  When you do this you will see past your own limiting beliefs.-It’s time you surprise yourselfIt’s Time To BECOME!And Take responsibility

How can your business maintain vital human connection with your clients when you're already stretched thin? In this episode of the ROI Online Podcast, Founder of TextChat Eric Kades talks about Chatbots and AI and how they relate to conversational interfaces–whether it's customer support, service, or sales.Eric is an entrepreneur, he's the founder of TextChat—a revolutionary live chat software for small businesses that is highly personalized and brings the timeless touch of human connection to the sophistication of AI technology. TextChat makes website live chat as sociable and easy as texting with a friend, so you can stop missing messages and start closing sales. To date, Eric and his team of 75 have raised 1.6M and have accrued over 100 customers.Sometimes as business owners we think that we need live agents available all day every day to close deals with customers. Eric and the TextChat team are rethinking how to approach customer communication using a simple, affordable, and effective alternative. It's one less thing small businesses have to worry about.Among other things, Eric and Steve discussed:What a live chat app and live chat support areHow artificial intelligence and data add value to businessesHow businesses can use artificial intelligenceWhat a tech support business isWhat cart abandonment rate is—and what to do about itWhy shopping cart abandonment is a problem for retailersHow to reduce cart abandonment rateYou can learn more about Eric here:Follow Eric on LinkedInYou can learn more about TextChat here:https://textchat.com/old-homeRead the books mentioned in this podcast:The Golden Toilet by Steve BrownThinking of starting your own podcast? Buzzsprout's secure and reliable posting allows you to publish podcasts online. Buzzsprout also includes full iTunes support, HTML5 players, show statistics, and WordPress plugins. Get started using this link to receive a $20 Amazon gift card and to help support our show!Support the show (https://cash.app/$stevemfbrown)

What colon hydrotherapy isWhat happens on their 10-day cleanseBenefits of doing colon hydrotherapyImportance of eating organic foodWhat liver cleanse isContraindications for colon hydrotherapyTwo types of colon hydrotherapy: open and closedSupport the show (http://www.livingwaterscleanse.com)

Modern Wisdom Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Before committing to a path, you should figure out which path you want to pursueOtherwise, you’ll let other people decide your pathYou need to understand what makes you fulfilledCuriosity is a critical trait of world-class performersBeing curious makes you move from competence to excellenceThe Hierarchy of Mindset1. The victim2. The pessimist3. The optimist (most people stop here)4. The extreme realistWe can still thrive, despite the inevitable adversities5. The curious competitorActively seeking out difficulties and challenges“You can do things that you don’t know you can do, and you won’t know that you can do them until you need to” Chris WilliamsonOne essential trait of the curious competitor is awarenessWhen something triggers you, instead of reacting you can become aware of itPracticing meditation allows you to create a “mindfulness gap” between the trigger and the reaction“The moment you realize you can step in your own programming, that’s the day your life changes” Chris WilliamsonTalking about your goals is dangerous“If we don’t commit to it we are just kidding ourselves” Ben BergeronYou need to execute more than you planTime is not the most valuable resource we have, focus isWhat you focus on during that time is your most valuable resourceBlur the line between work and playRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgBen Bergeron is a CrossFit Coach and the Owner of CrossFit New England. As far as we know, we only get one shot at life, so we'd better make it count. Fulfilling our potential and making the most of our abilities is the name of the game, but how do you do this? Expect to learn why core values are so important to achieving your goals, how Ben focusses on maximising his minutes, how to embrace adversity in your life, why intentionality and focus are so crucial and much more... Sponsors: Get over 37% discount on all products from MyProtein at http://bit.ly/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount on Reebok’s entire range including the amazing Nano X1 at https://geni.us/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Extra Stuff: Check out CompTrain - https://comptrain.co/ Follow Ben on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/benbergeron  Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Here’s what I discuss in this solo episode:What voice isWhat it isn’tFour ways to begin to develop your own voice and express yourself AS yourselfBooks Mentioned in the ShowBird by Bird, by Anne LamottOn Writing, by Stephen KingWriting with Quiet Hands, by Paula MunierLike the Podcast?Are you a subscriber? If not, I invite you to subscribe, so you’ll get notified every time a new episode goes up.Click here to subscribe on iTunes.Click here to subscribe on Stitcher.And, if you’re enjoying what you’re hearing, I’d be super grateful if you left a review. Those help other creative souls find this show, and they’re fun to read. To leave a review, open up the Dear Creativity Let’s Play podcast in your podcast player. Scroll down to the bottom and let the world know what you think!Stay Connected with AmySubscribe to the newsletter to get ideas, tips, and inspiration to get started writing and creating and bringing your creative gifts and books into the world. You’ll also have access to twice-monthly co-writing sessions.Connect on Facebook.Connect on Instagram.

This week’s episode is the second part of The Enneagram mini-series. This tool is useful for understanding ourselves, our roles, how we relate to one another, and how we find our place in the world.In Episode 37, we explore with Leslie Root how the enneagram affects our relationships. We will learn about the positives and pitfalls of each enneagram type, and how we can deepen our relational understanding with each particular personality type, growing greater compassion towards those around us. This translates directly to our relationship with our children, and Leslie gives parents some great advice as they navigate family life. If you are interested in learning how the enneagram can help improve your relationships, give this episode a listen! Key Takeaways What Leslie does and incorporating enneagram in her workWhat made her choose enneagram in her practiceOn understanding how enneagram types helps in forming relationshipsWhat the attachment theory isWhat enneagram types she thinks pair up togetherHer view on the positive and pitfalls of enneagram typesOn wings, instinct, and subtypes in getting enneagram type variationsHer advice to do a discovery session with experts in knowing the enneagram typeHer description of the nine enneagram typesHer view on building relationships through understanding the enneagram typesWhen she thinks the enneagram type fully evolvesHow enneagram affects love relationships for herOn enneagram types as the shortcut in understanding people and relationshipsResources she recommendsAbout her online workshop in discovering enneagram typesLinkLeslie Root on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lrootEnneagram unlimited on Facebook - https://web.facebook.com/groups/318602159249453/?_rdc=1&_rdr BookThe wisdom of the enneagram by Russ Hudson – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311053.The_Wisdom_of_the_Enneagram PodcastLeslie Root Podcast - http://leslierootcounseling.com/podcast Bio:Leslie Root LMFT is a certified sex and love addiction, RLT, PIT, Enneagram trained therapist who loves to work with clients on discovering their true north in life and love relationships. In addition to her therapy work, Leslie trains coaches and therapists on using the enneagram in their work and personal lives. To learn more about Leslie and her program offerings feel free to visit her website at leslierootcounseling.com or join the enneagram facebook group at facebook.com/groups/enneagramunlimited

Welcome to Heart's Happiness Podcast created by Manpreet Johal.In this  episode of Heart's Happiness Podcast you will learn:What attachment theory isWhat secure attachment isWhat insecure attachment isThe different types of insecure attachmentHow Manpreet healed her  insecure attachment Book recommendations to heal your attachment woundingThe books discussed are:AttachedHealing our attachment WoundsYour Brain on LoveInsecure LoveIf you would like to enroll in the 2021 coaching sessions fill in contact formor DM on instagramDetails on services can be found here.Group coaching programme starts on Tuesday 16th February at 8pm UK  time, contact Manpreet ASAP if you are interested.  It is £297 for 8 weeks of 1 hour group weekly zoom calls and a one to one.Falling in Love with YOU event is on Sunday 7th February 2021 at 12pm it will be live on Zoom click here for the link to subscribe and download your FREE ticket. Here are some book recommendations to kick off your healing in my FREE guide to transform your journey. Follow us on instagram for Heart's Happiness daily inspiration for your mental health and healing.Join our PRIVATE Facebook group to carry on the conversation and speak to others who want to find their own Heart's Happiness and heal. Subscribe to our videos on you tube.Everyone deserves to find their own Heart's Happiness and this podcast has been created with so much love from my heart to yours. Love Manpreet

Dr Miriam Cremer is founder of Basic Health International, which exists to eliminate cervical cancer on a global level through cutting edge research for the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer in low resource settings. Dr. Cremer, founded Basic Health after seeing first hand the devastating impact of this devastating yet preventable cancer can have on women.In this episode, Dr. Cremer covers:What cervical cancer isWhat causes cervical cancer and how you can prevent itHow the HPV vaccine can help (and she addresses fears about it)Why women of color and immigrants are most impactedThe future of testing and how it can transform the transgender population"It's very rare to find a cancer where you have a precursor, you have a vaccine for it, and you have a place you can reach. An organ you can get at and treat right away. We have all these tools. Why is it that women are dying of cervical cancer?" - Dr Miriam CremerAs mentioned on the podcast:Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)HPV screening tests coming soon: cobas and OnclarityResearch for transgender men WHO this year has called for elimination of cervical cancerAnd be sure to.....Follow Fempower Health on Instagram for updates and tips.Subscribe to the podcast and tell your friends!Shop the Fempower Health store, which has many products discussed on the podcast.I'd like to thank ReceptivaDx for sponsoring all of Season 2. Provide code FEMPOWER-HEALTH for $75 off.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/fempowerhealth)

If you’re feeling a little untethered, unfocused, and like you’re ready to connect to your power and creative energy, this episode is pour vous! (that’s french for “for you.” I felt the urge to be fancy just there.)In this Audio Coffee episode, I riff on how our sovereignty and innocence work together and how the journey we take of forgetting and remembering ourselves is actually working perfectly for us. A few things I riff on in this episode…What our sovereignty isWhat our innocence isHow to connect to both of themWhy it’s important to embody both of these energiesWhat happens when we forget or disconnect from bothHow to connect to both our sovereignty and innocenceAnd much more!I also choose a card (choose, not pull) from the Mystical Shaman Oracle deck. You’ll learn the reason why I chose this card and not randomly pulled it in the episode (I can’t just give all the goodies away for free! You gotta tune in!)Patreon: patreon.com/realrebelpodcastShow Notes: realrebelpodcast.com/audio-coffee/how-your-sovereignty-and-innocence-work-togetherLots of love as always.Your Host,

The Witch Daily Show (https://www.witchdailyshow.com) is talking Callenig   Our sponsor today Is The Answer You Are Looking for is Yes by Olivie Blake (https://www.amazon.com/Answer-Looking-Witch-Anthology-Book-ebook/dp/B08FHFMM3H/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1VCH5K9QTQYHB&dchild=1&keywords=the+answer+you+are+looking+for+is+yes&qid=1600627168&sprefix=the+answer+you+are+look%2Caps%2C-1&sr=8-1)   Our quote of the day Is: ― “What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” —Vern McLellan   Headlines: (https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/explorers-film-inside-abandoned-cornwall-4868832) Deck: The Witches' Wisdom Tarot: A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook (https://amzn.to/33Ce6jd)   Other Sources: (https://spoonuniversity.com/recipe/for-the-love-of-lavender-from-magic-to-medicine)   Introducing by - you can learn more at   Magic of the day – Callenig Response of the day - Fammable Failure Question of the day - Tarot and Spirits   Thank you so much for joining me this morning, if you have any witch tips, questions, witch fails, or you know of news I missed, visit https://www.witchdailyshow.com or email me at thewitchdailypodcast@gmail.com If you want to support The Witch Daily Show please visit our patreon page https://www.patreon.com/witchdailyshow   Mailing Address (must be addressed as shown below) Tonya Brown 3436 Magazine St #460 New Orleans, LA 70115

Welcome back to the Boldly Courageous Podcast. Today’s guest is one of my closest soul sisters Monique Benabou. Monique and I met at a women’s empowerment event where she was performing her music. I was instantly drawn to her magic and the power of her voice. Monique is one of the most dedicated sou-centered leaders I’ve come in contact with, and you will understand what I mean when you listen to our conversation.In This Episode You Will Learn:What your shadow side is & how to work with itThe impact of speaking from your throatHow to integrate the light and dark side within all of usDiscerning between your truth and the facts of any situationHow to use the body as a guide to knowing your truthWhat it means to channel different frequencies and discerning among themWhat vocal channeling isWhat the Angel Academy for vocal channeling is and how to apply Who is Monique:Being an internationally recognized transformational artist, Vocal Embodiment Coach & Sound Healer, Monique is dedicated to revolutionizing mainstream beliefs around artistry, holistic healing and ritual, centered around sacred sound and frequency. In addition to her intentional artistic offerings, she facilitates dynamic workshops, coaching courses and one-on-one mentorships, supporting throat chakra, voice and truth activations, as well as in-depth artist development & channeling. Monique supports others in bringing their inner artist & channel online, increasing self trust and liberating limiting beliefs around creativity and worth. Connect with Monique:Instagram | Angelfire Vocal Academy  Be Boldly Courageous with Melissa:Instagram | Community

The best way to hurt rich people is to turn them into poor people.  So said the immortal Billy Ray Valentine as.this week we've woken up in our manor house to a smiling Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.  Half social-commentary, half racially inappropriate and an ending that needs more than half of an explanation.  Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasting crew – Ian, Liam, & Ellie as we begin a trilogy of Christmas Themed reviews with this John Landis classic. Nobody wants to buy Louie’s drugs in our 43rd review as we discussThe original pairing that was supposed to headline this filmThe pay cuts that several actors had to take to get in the movieDoes the presence of black cast members excuse some of the racially inappropriate parts of this film or does it make it worse.Ian & Liam once again gush over how great the score to a film isWhat was Don Ameche so uncomfortable saying that he only allowed the crew to film one takeWhat’s the deal with the 15 foot high clothes peg?Who’s the only person involved in this film whose career doesn’t take off on account of the filmWe’ve got a casting story you’re not going to believe.Ian explains the confusing ending and we come to the conclusion that Billy Ray & Lewis commit several federal crimes.Is suicide ever funnyWhether or not Trading Places is the Best Film Ever

In Episode 114 I sit down with Emily Manoogian, PhD from the Panda lab at Salk Institute to learn about how we can improve our health by nurturing our our circadian rhythms. Emily and her team are considered world leaders in the field of science known as 'chronobiology' and have published several studies (and many others currently under way) investigating how the timing of our meals effects our health.In this episode we specifically cover:What circadian rhythms areWhy we need circadian rhythmsWhat circadian disruption isWhat social jet-lag isLearning from shift workersHow external cues such as light exposure and meal timing affect our circadian rhythmsTime restricted feeding (TRF) and what Emily's research has identified so farThe difference between TRF and fastingWhy Emily recommends having more calories in the first half of your dayWhat to do if you are someone who routinely has dinner very late (e.g many Europeans)Lots of practical information that you can put into playFuture research Emily would like to conductand much moreAs I note at the beginning of this episode in the introduction. While the time restricted eating that we talk about is far from an extreme protocol, if you suffer from an eating disorder and find the subject of meal timing in any way to be triggering then this may not be the best episode for you, which is totally fine! You can just pick the show back up next episode, and come back to this episode in the future if you feel the timing is more appropriate for you. NOTE: Unfortunately the audio quality of this episode is not as high as I would ordinarily like. While I much prefer having these conversations in person (and hope to get back to that format soon) with COVID-19 I've needed to record remotely in order to continue having such informative guests on the show.Resources:My Circadian clockEmily's Tedx TalkContinue the conversation:We would love to hear from youEmily Manoogian, PhD: Twitter.Simon Hill: Instagram and TwitterMy Book:My book is coming out early 2021 published with Penguin - I cannot wait to share with you. In the lead up the launch I am going to share information about the title, cover, ways to win a copy, live event dates, free e-books etc. Register your email here so I can keep you up to date.Want to support the show?The single best way you can support the show is by leaving a review on Apple podcast app - it only takes a few minutes and would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.Simon Hill, Nutritionist, Physiotherapist Creator of Plantproof.com and host of the Plant Proof Podcast

Escort cards, seating charts, and place cards. These are of the utmost importance to ensure your guests will know where to sit at your wedding reception. How to communicate your guests table assignment and what place setting is theirs can be a nightmare or a delight! In this episode Saundra and I talk about:What a place card isWhat a seating chart isWhat an escort card isThe benefits of each and the cons of eachSome neat ideas that we've implemented in the past and ones we hope will never happen again.And we are very clear about some things you absolutely should not do for the sake of your guests experience.My co host on this episode is Saundra Hadley, the owner of planning forever events, an event planning business based in Evansville, Indiana. That’s in the Midwest for you geographically challenged listeners. For the last 17 years, she is known to create and design weddings and celebrations that become treasured memories forever, usually, with large liquor and bar tabs. You can also catch her producing and delivering wedding tips and on a local ABC morning lifestyle show. AND, she has a four-year-old Australian labradoodle, which you can follow on instagram @captaindoodlehead who has almost completed his training to be a therapy dog to bring joy to sick people at hospitals or nursing homes. Places to go and People to see:Website: KellyMcWilliams.comInstagram: @kellyamcwilliams @thisvsthatweddingpodcastWebsite: https://www.planningforever.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/planningforever/All Podcast Episodes: https://thisvsthatweddingpodcast.buzzsprout.com/

030 - We have a super exciting episode here today. Joining me today on the podcast is, the woman, the myth, the legend that is The Nicky Taylor!Nicky is the one who makes our businesses work behind the scenes.I think of it as an even division of labour.Nicky does the work,I take the glory.What we're going to talk about today is not property. You'll be meeting Nicky.Who she isWhat her story isWe had a chat earlier, and some of the things even I didn't know!We'll find out…The question on everyone's lips. Who is the eldest?And lots more...Who fell out of the car?What happened to Nicky's career in the military?How she went from rising star to redundantHer move from banking to education How many members of staff were required to replace Nicky from her last full-time roleAnd what in heaven's name made her join her crazy sister in this property malarkey!Click here to listen to the episode✅ https://rent2rentsuccess.com/30 ✅If you'd like to get pre-launch offers for the Rent 2 Rent Success book, join the VIP list here: ✅ https://rent2rentbook.com ✅Support the show (https://rent2rentsuccess.com/podcast)

Justin Sandler joins us today to talk about his recent battle with cancer and his philosophy that got him through it. Justin’s philosophy is all about embrace, love, free, and how these steps will get you through any obstacle you’re facing today.Justin is a director, actor, drummer, writer, speaker, and now cancer survivor. Justin has directed and produced cable TV in Chicago, wrote directed and produced commercials for ABC and Fox in Palm Springs and has been long established in LA working as a professional TV film and commercial actor, as well as a recording and touring musician.Justin was pretty much at the brink of huge success in his career when he got his cancer diagnosis in 2017, and his career and life came to a screeching halt. Since then he has become an inspirational speaker about his cancer journey. He created his one man show called Embrace Love Free, had a Tedx talk, and now is currently developing 2 new documentary films with his wife and writing a book on his cancer journey. In this episode we talk about:Working in the entertainment and film industry in LAThe persistence it takes to get your foot in the door in the LA entertainment industryGetting diagnosed with cancerWhat a germ cell tumour isWhat battling cancer is all about with a mix of natural and western medicine Justin’s embrace love free philosophy on how to overcome any obstacleHow to take care of yourself as the caregiverHow to support someone if they or their loved ones are battling cancerConnect with Justin Sandler:Website and Newsletter: www.justinsandler.comEmbrace Love Free One Man Show: vimeo.com/ondemand/embracelovefreeInstagram: @justinsandlerFilm and Production Studio Website: www.3cubedstudios.comTwitter: twitter.com/justinsandlerFacebook: www.facebook.com/justinjsandlerVimeo: vimeo.com/justinsandlerYouTube: www.youtube.com/justinjsandlerPodcast Resources:Fiverr Affiliate Link: HEREConnect with Jenelle Tremblett: @jenelle_tremblettConnect with the Podcast: @ebbandglowpodcast

Has the phrase ‘I’m not good enough’ ever crossed your mind? It could be, I’m not good enough for this job, for this partner, to be on the team, or to make the cut. This is a common phrase that occurs in people’s minds, and it reveals a level of self-doubt that we believe about ourselves. This is part two of the Satir Model discussion. In this episode, Linda Lucas will share a little more about the Satir method, specifically how it related to our view of ourselves. We will discuss the difference between self-doubt and self-esteem, and share what it means to live a congruent life. You will learn about how your belief system develops, and how you can learn to have a more positive self-image. Showing kindness and empathy towards ourselves is an essential ingredient for developing self-esteem. Key TakeawaysA little about herself and the work she’s doingHow the Satir Model is different from the othersWhat congruence isWhat the self is exactly and how it impacts a person’s view of one’s selfDifference between self-doubt and self-esteemWhat contributes to self-esteemHow the shift from self-esteem to self-doubt happensHow the belief systems are developed and how it affects one’s lifeCategories of belief systems people have to work throughHow to have a more positive self-esteemWhat being congruent meansHow to begin the process of transformational changeWhat the goal of their therapy isLinksSatir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) - https://satirpacific.org/uploads/documents/Satir%20Transformational%20Systemic%20Therapy%20in%20Brief.pdfButterfly (on Hulu) - https://www.hulu.com/series/butterfly-2018-9ad0a089-c7cb-4748-a9e6-84e726ffa237 BookThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell - https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference/dp/0316346624Linda J. Lucas Bio:Linda J Lucas, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, MA, LCPC, has extensive training in Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy. Linda is an enthusiastic, experienced trainer and provides training for professionals, teachers, educators, staff and families working with at-risk adolescents, attachment issues, addictions, couples, families, grief and loss, and self-care. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, USA, and earned a Master of Arts in Human Developmental Counseling at the University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois, USA. Linda studied Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (attachment therapy) with Daniel A. Hughes. Linda is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Satir Institute of the Pacific, past president of the Satir Institute of the Pacific, and a Clinical member of the Satir Institute of the Pacific, a member of the Satir Institute of the Pacific Training Directorate, and a member of the American Counseling Association. She is an approved trainer and faculty for the Banmen Satir China Management Center, Beijing, China. Linda is a certified supervisor for Idaho licensed professional counselors. Linda travels throughout the world conducting Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy experiential, dynamic workshops and programs. Linda also guides and facilitates Soul Contact/hypnosis regression sessions. She has an independent online therapy practice.

  The Witch Daily Show (https://www.witchdailyshow.com) is talking Mischief    Our sponsor today Is Witch Way Bespoke (http://www.witchwaybespoke.com/)   Our quote of the day Is: ― “What’s more fun than gnawing on bones? Necromancy in haunted homes! At first glance it’s bright with delight, but you’d better beware - there's a full moon tonight!” ― Rebecca McNutt, Necromancy Cottage   Headlines: (https://www.eonline.com/de/news/1170430/21-haunting-facts-about-the-blair-witch-project-hungry-actors-nauseous-audiences-and-those-rocks) Deck: The Witches' Wisdom Tarot: A 78-Card Deck and Guidebook (https://amzn.to/33Ce6jd)   Other Sources: (https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/rum/best-dark-rum/) Thank you so much for joining me this morning, if you have any witch tips, questions, witch fails, or you know of news I missed, visit https://www.witchdailyshow.com or email me at thewitchdailypodcast@gmail.com If you want to support The Witch Daily Show please visit our patreon page https://www.patreon.com/witchdailyshow

Communication is important in all aspects of our lives, but why is it at work that our communication style can look incredibly different from when we are away from our job? Brandon Smith is a psychologist who specializes in communication in the working environment. In this episode we will discuss what are healthy and dysfunctional workplace dynamics. In this episode, Brandon shares that we can have boundaries while on the job. We talk about the energy that is created in the workplace environment by the emotions and attitude we present at work. He will give us some great perspectives on how we can be influencers to change our work place environment to be more positive. Finally, Brandon shares about his new book, which is about learning when to be urgent in life, and when we can decide it is appropriate to take a more relaxed approach. This episode is full of information on how we can improve our communication in our working environment. Key takeawaysA little about him and the work he doesWhat a healthy and dysfunctional work dynamic looks likeWhy everyone should know their roles and why this can be trickyWhat it means to have boundaries at workWhat emotional contagion isWhat emotional vampires are and how you should deal with themHow to create boundaries and healthy emotional environment at workWhy people pick up other people’s energy and how it worksHow not to take high emotions from the workplace and bring them homeWhat positive feedbacks and interactions look likeTwo pitfalls you’ll fall into when you don’t communicate properly at work How to confront someone about a hard issueHow to stay within your boundariesThe real premise of his bookHow not to put hot sauce on everything when you’re feeling anxiousHis final thoughts for the listenersBookThe Hot Sauce Principle: How to Live and Lead in a World Where Everything is Urgent All of the Time by Brandon M. Smith - https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Sauce-Principle-Everything-Urgent/dp/1952233097Brandon Smith Bio:Brandon Smith is a leading expert in leadership communication and curer of workplace dysfunction. Known as “The Workplace Therapist” and host of The Workplace Therapist podcast, Brandon is a sought- after executive coach, TEDx speaker, author and award-winning business school instructor.He is the President of The Worksmiths, LLC, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. Since establishing his practice in 2005, Brandon has personally coached more than 1,000 leaders and executives across the globe.Brandon received an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University with a concentration in communications and team dynamics. His graduate work includes an MS in counseling from Georgia State University as well as an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

Today's guest is Olivier Bloch - Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Azure.In this episode we discuss:His journey from embedded software to iOTWhat IOT actually isWhat it can be used forInteresting products using it todayHow the cloud factors into IOT productsSmall ML (Machine Learning)The future of IOTand much much more!

Radio legend Richard Steele returns to talk music and politics. Is What's Going On the greatest record of all time, or does that honor belong to Songs in the Key of Life? Also, Ella in Berlin. And Trump getting the virus...

Welcome to season 7 of the Graced Health podcast called “in our cultures.” Today I'm speaking with Mary Cable, Zumba Instructor extraordinaire. You'll quickly discover why Mary is THE instructor to get if you want to experience a Zumba class. She is definitely a hot ticket.We discuss:History of Zumba and what kind of fitness it isWhat to expect the first time you attend a Zumba class and how you know what to do despite no verbal cuesWhy Zumba is like a “gateway drug” into the gymPermission to let loose in class - no experience necessary!The difference between “Latino” and “LatinX”Latin culture surrounding family, food, and celebrationsThe importance of asking the questions to make changeBrown lives for Black livesThe hope for our children with integrating cultures The pride of the Latin cultureReceive my subscriber-only monthly journal by signing up at www.gracedhealth.com/monthly-updatesThere's no BMI Index in the Bible: Receive your free 14-day body image devotional at www.gracedhealth.com/devotional

Once you realize that you hold a belief that isn't at ALL helpful to you anymore, how to you change it? How do you create something NEW and different for your life? How do you believe new things?In this episode, you'll learn:Why your life is the way it isWhat a belief really isHow to create a new belief about yourself, your relationship, and your lifeFor the more information and the full show notes, visit karilynivers.com/podcast/16.

This week we speak to Jenny Tough; ultra-endurance bikepacking racer and adventurer. Jenny was the 1st woman to complete the 2020 Atlas Mountain Race and the inaugural Silk Road Mountain Race. We unpack some of her many adventures and strategies for thriving when the going gets tough.  Episode sponsor:  PNW Components.  Use promo code: 'thegravelride' for 15% off.  Jenny Tough Website Jenny Tough Instagram Jenny Tough: Bikepacking Racer and adventurer Automated Transcription, please excuse the errors.  Hello everyone and welcome to the growl ride podcast I'm your host Craig. Dalton. This week's episode is brought to you by our friends at P. N. W. Components I mentioned the company a few episodes ago and the great customer service I received ordered a mountain bike. See Post many ago. So I was super excited to start talking to them about what they were doing in the gravel market specifically this week I wanted to highlight the coast handlebar I've been writing the four. Hundred Eighty millimeter version of the bar, which is about forty millimetres longer wider. Excuse me than the bar I had previously been riding. They also do make a five hundred twenty millimeter bar. It features a shallow drop and a twenty degree flair which all translates into a super stable bar. When you're getting aggressive on the bike I'm really valuing the width of the bar in terms of getting leverage from the outside to throw the bike around the shallow drops seemed to make it. Easy for me to move around between positions, I feel very comfortable when I combine a dropped saddle with shallow drop bar that I'm very much in the pocket of my handlebar and I very much in control of the machine. So I've been super keen on it. It's definitely a different look for the bike. If you're more used to a Rhody type position going to the wider bar feels a bit extreme to begin with, but it quickly fell into the recesses of my mind. As I took advantage of the attributes of the bar and as I said I feel really great in the technical terrain so much so that we really want to dig in and do a full episode on these wide bars because I think it's super interesting for certain writers to consider depending on the type of riding they're doing what they're looking for. So head on over to PM W components, Dot Com and use the code the gravel ride for fifteen percents off your order. This week's guest on the podcast is Jenny tough. I'm not sure where to begin talking to you about her resume. She's an amazing adventure athlete both a runner and a bike pack racer. We got to talk about the Silk Road Mountain Race and the Atlas Mountain, race, and these bike packing events are going to blow your mind and you absolutely have to go visit Jenny tough dot com and see some of the pitchers and interviews and videos of these events Kazaa absolutely breathtaking in terms of the terrain and incredibly inspiring about what the human body is possible of just talking to. Her about the lack of sleep and the challenges that one goes through in these expedition style races was really inspiring for me and I remember my last long ride thinking about how I was suffering and thinking. Well, that's nothing compared to what these athletes like go through. So I hope you enjoy the episode Jenny's one of the APP Adora ambassadors for the bad company out of the UK who made the introduction for me. So I appreciate that and I very much appreciated this conversation with Jenny and I hope that you take a look at all her adventures and enjoy the conversation. So with that, let's dive right in Jenny. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Awesome. I Love I always like to start off by finding a little bit about your background and I think in this conversation, your background is both an athlete and someone who's riding gravel bikes. Athlete is a really strong word I don't know if I'd go. Hi. Yeah I mean, my background's always been adventure and travel was always one of my biggest passions and and on the. Side of that I was also really into endurance sport like why I mean like a normal person I guess I started doing marathons before realize marathons are just terrible thing to do to yourself and I started. Cycling actually because I was running marathons going to spin class. Now he's actually really So when I graduated university I. Spent what little money I had on a touring bike and I cycled all the way to the Yukon from my hometown. Calgary having never rode a bike anywhere before only best-in-class. And then I just realized that this combination of my two loves endurance sports and travel was really what made my heart sing and that was really where I found my bag, what I want to keep doing so you know that was Eleven years ago and I guess you say it keeps us going and getting a little bit out of hand. So, that after that first trip did that sort of spiral your imagination to like Oh, I'd love to go ride here an adventure there. Yeah I think it really opened my eyes because before that didn't I mean I didn't know anything about like or cycling. I didn't have any friends that are cyclist at the time I certainly didn't. So I just wasn't exposed to this world and then I just kind of when I did that bike tour and I started another cyclist realized there's this concept that there is nowhere in the world that you can't go got a bicycle and you can just explore and you know. 00:05:09 - 00:10:12 Tire widths depending go really anywhere and yes, it did it did sparked my imagination once I started getting a little bit more comfortable being alone with the bike I mean going on your first trip to a place like the Yukon where you're really alone when you've never wrote a bike is just a dumb thing to do I didn't know how to. I didn't know how to fix a puncture at all I had like a handwritten note in my bag. Like I've been watching youtube the night before I left on your trip teaching me how to change change of time. Just in case I had to do it like I didn't even know there were tubes inside like that's how. About Bikes and I left the front door and cycled off to the Yukon. So that was my only real apprehension was I had no idea how bikes worked and if it broke, I literally had no concept of what to do about that. That's both amazing and refreshing I think. Audience I don't WanNA project too much. But I think a lot of my audience may come from a traditional bike racing background and then they discovered gravel silica adding on adventure to their love of cycling is kind of this new thing and to hear you just talk about adventure was the main driver and the bicycle was just this means to kind of get out there and discover the world is kind of something refreshing and I think a lot of my listeners should probably take in and put in their pocket for the to have a little bit more perspective on what you can do with the bike. It's really cool and I think I never fit in with the bike the traditional bike touring culture because I also really did get off on pushing myself really hard and trying to do really big days walk the adventure. For me sport is part of it. It's not just about getting to waste is also like how far can I ride before the sunsets kind of stuff I love doing not so it's it's both of them combined. And that seemingly has led you down this path of bike packing, and for the uninitiated, what how would you define? What bike packing is? What are you doing to your bike that enables you to duet and what are you able to do when you pack your bike full of everything you need? And most pure form it's taking whatever bike and stopping whatever stuff you need to it somehow and going on an adventure Overnight Adventures obviously is what makes it like packing but it's really whatever works for you whatever type of bike you have. Every type of bike is a packing bike i. do a lot of back country stuff where I've got you a tent or Viviana out there for ages. But then he's also do the clamping stuff where those hotels and being bees and you have a really nice trip. So it's it's really whatever works for you. In my opinion there are no rules. There's no minimum distance. There's no specific Hitless. A you have to have it's you know it's adventure it's open. Do what do you think it's adventure is one of the most creative. Things out there. So yeah no rules. And I feel like we're in sort of the golden age of bike packing bags whereas before you know fifteen twenty years ago there might have been this notion that okay. You've got to put a rack on the back. You GotTa Have Panthers and it's going to be pretty unwieldly off road. Today's bike packing bags are just quite a bit different. Can you talk a little bit about your setup? Yeah. It is really incredible what we've got available now and not when I say everybody is like packing bike that's largely because this has to place where even your respect bike squishy mountain bike, whatever it is there are bags available to do it and I ride with Dr Bags, and been working with them for a couple of years and in my opinion, make the specs out there. I do have three bikes, but my gravel bike is definitely my favorite bike packing bike and we've been to five conscious together now My Kit will change a little bit every time based on the terrain, but basically, it's got the gravel bikes got a front row bag I'll keep my sleep system, which might be might be a tent in my frame bag will be all the tools, and then in the saddle pack will be the stuff that I need to survive like spare clothes waterproofs maybe a stove going quite remote. But not usually I'm just whatever. Whatever I need for this specific adventure at hand, it's it's pretty basic. It's pretty minimalist that I can are you trying to distribute the weight in a specific way like you putting the heavier stuff in one area of the bike versus other? Yeah You're definitely going to be happier if you can keep your weight in the frame and that's where full frame bags are. Quite popular just because that keeps the weight really Lo- low like that's obviously where you normally keep your water anywhere because that's where your bottle cages are So people are putting the heavier stuff like water down there Yeah. Heavy, and that's I think that's the great thing about passing bags or Hispanics opinions I mean I remember how many? And how long it would take me to make sure that the right side and the left side were even if they weren't, you're going to have a disaster of a day. 00:10:12 - 00:15:07 But biking. It's. It's a lot easier to just chuck stuff in because everything's really compact on the bike. It's kind of hard to mess it up I. Think. I do like to keep the front kind of light and like I said the frame kind of heavier but really i. It is it is a lot easier to get way with a lot more. It's it's not that complicated. Yeah. For those of you haven't seen any of these type bags, I mean imagine sort of just a rolltop bag that you can really stuff a lot of stuff into I've been amazed kind of rear seat bags can hold I mean you really you can hold basically a week's worth of compressed clothing in there if you need to. Yeah and I have. I'm sure you have and then I questioned on the front bar now you mentioned kind of trying to keep that a little bit lighter. Have you found had experience if you overload the front bar that front end is just too heavy and it's making you more. Puncture. Potential. I haven't memories with the front. Bar Is that that's the one I will use I will never open during the day. So like there's two to fast one is that you ride fast in your your bike is late on the other. The Scottish term for faffing around. The time always having a dig at every wants something on your bag. You have to take everything of it to reach at that kind of stuff if you can just be really slick in your packing. You never do that. So my front bag, just because it is the most fiddly one because I've got drop ours as if it on a mountain bike on job bars, you know you kinda gotta squeeze it in between them. So it's harder to get into during the day. So I only ever keep my sleep system there because I only need that once lots at the end of the day right? So yes or no I've not really had problems genuinely the move from bike to bike packing. And just easy this works. And then what type you mentioned you writing drop bar bike, what are you writing and how big it's higher? Are you able to ride in that bike? So the biker us the most love my life is my shine stew she which is a steel bike maintenance Scotland with carbon forks and it's kind of for me. It's the ultimate by packing bike because it takes to wheel size this I've got seven hundred sees if I want to go on a road adventure but most of the time I run my six Fifty v wheels. I think tires of. I, don't even remember what has gone on there. I want to say the two and a half The more tired you have the more comfortable you're going to be. to bliss obviously is GonNa Increase Your Comfort. The difference between going out for a nice bike ride or who's going bike packing up by packing you're going to do this all day and then you're going to get up tomorrow and it again and then you're gotta get up tomorrow do it again so comfort becomes a lot more important if you're bouncing along I'm really high pressure. You're going to end up having saddle sores by the end of the week. So so I'd always prefer comfort. So I I love my big tires and I would never go. They can never go skinny ties again I'm with you on that and the listener knows them a broken record that bigger is better on tires. Yes. I also questioned on the front handlebar. Are you writing particularly wide drop bar to accommodate the bag? Is your front bag just kind of fit nicely and what you would traditionally ride on your on your road bike. Yeah I I. DON'T I think I. Attempted. Going into flair bars because that will give you a bit more space. But I've been on standard I mean all my road bike I do actually have lady sized handlebars so I don't use those on my gobble bar. So that's the only thing I would say that they are bigger as the standard. man-size drop. Virus. Gotcha. But no I've I've been okay and that certainly that's where you needed to make more space. That's something you would look at I. Mean because I've gone on tours with my mountain bike with flat bars and that just got unlimited space with bars. Obviously. no, but I I mean again, it's you've got to have your stuff. We've also got to be comfortable like it's going to be sustainable. Something you're going to do for a week or more. You've got to be comfortable and I. Just always think if I had the wrong bars I'm going to be uncomfortable. I'm going to get an injury I'm not gonNA be happy. So I'd rather make everything work around the bike and keep the bike something. That's enjoyable. Yeah, absolutely. So we've set the stage of Jenny as a bike packer but I don't think we've scratched the surface of doing justice to the type of adventure athlete you are. So I want to jump into a couple of these events that listener may not ever heard of one being the Silk Road Mountain race in. Conserv. Stan probably. Oregon Dan, and then the Atlas Mountain Rise. Atlas Mountain Race could you just in broad terms give the listener an idea of what these epic adventures look like. 00:15:08 - 00:20:06 So. This style of bike racing is single stage unsupported writing rolls off the tongue. So out doesn't it? So. The idea is that there's a set route for these ones and you have to pass through I think those ones had three or four checkpoints each and the distances were epic and you got given a cutoff time. So the Silk Road I, think we had fifteen days to finish it in the atlas. We had eight days to finish it and single stage unsupported means you've got to carry everything that you need to keep yourself and your bike going and the clock never stops. So you. You will sleep, but the longer you sleep the less likely you are dual So it is this really cool competition where you see so many different styles by packing people doing what works bound the atlas race, the guy that won it outright he didn't sleep at all but a guy that finished. In second place James was two hours behind him and he slept every night for a few hours knew that he would ride better if he did that I again, the unsupported means if anything breaks on the bike, you've got to fix it You know and can give you any age. So you have to find your own food out in these countries that most of us have never been to into Norway around everything, you've got to be self sufficient and really really cool. It's so much fun. To just put a fine point on it for the listener. I mean, these are races that I think the Silk Road Mountain race was over eleven hundred miles. The Atlas Mountain Race was seven hundred and twelve miles. These incredible distances relative to what we often talk about on this podcast is being long events like the decay two, hundred being two hundred miler here in North America. Let's talk about the Atlas Mountain bike race in Morocco because the imagery from that just look. Amazing. You talked about sort of going at your own pace and deciding to sleep when you WANNA to sleep and acquiring food. However you WANNA acquire it. Can you just walk through what those six days look like for you because I think it's just an epic tale. Yeah and it's it's really crazy now to. Realize that I did that in twenty twenty like it just feels like a pass life not doesn't it Yep? Yep My strategy. My strategy for these races is my what line is keep your shit together like just keep everything functioning and get yourself onto some kind of circadian rhythm with your sleep that's going to be brutal. But so my strategy was we all left Mary cash and we had to get over the high atlas leaser like the snowy peaks. We have a really huge climbing obligation day Am My only plan was to get out fast on that first day and get a good good day under me. And then after that, it was Tried to sleep at the same time. So miraculous quite equatorial, which meant that we had twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night, and that was one of the big challenges in the race was that half the time. Urine darkness and you have to keep your lights running so mostly by using dynamos on their bikes to keep the bright headlights going So I would. I would ride as consistently as I could all day and not around midnight or one am is when I was busy down. So I would just roll out my sleeping bag on the sand or the rocks by the side of the trail and try to for two to three hours to mount how I was feeling, and then get up quickly put that sleeping bag away my role bag and keep riding again, and then just rides. All Day Long whenever there was a town or village that you went through you dolphins you have to stop get supplies Morocco's really difficult on water in particular. So you had to be quite meticulous making sure that you'd never run out of supplies like obviously riding those kind of hours you're trying to ride for. My ride time each day would be eighteen nineteen hours. The calories are going through your cutting, such a fine line keeping yourself like you just can't eat enough. So you had to be. You had to be pretty well organized making sure that you hit those resupply locations. This is all blowing my mind. So lots of questions for you were you running where you're running a Dynamo Dynamo is a hub mechanism that generates electricity as it's going around. So you were using to kind of keep a light charged. Yes well, so I've got a USB charger on it. So I was able to keep everything going. So I'd have power. Bank. And my computer. So you have to follow the route, your other ACC biking you're going for that long as well. I had exposure lights that were helmet mounted because. I mean it was pretty gnarly. It was a gravel riding event but I think it was by far the GNARLIEST gravel I've done like a lot of you thought and kind of wish I was on full saw straight now. So yeah, you want help mounted like. Student Fall off the mountain. Obviously keep your phone going because I'm not doing something like that without podcast and play to keep me from going insane via the Dynamo. 00:20:06 - 00:25:07 Is What kept my power going on? If I went to a village or something, you could try and plug it in a cafe or something like that. Try to find the electricity. Because, you're just it's such a losing battle to keep that much technology running smoothly. Yeah. I mean we're you successful in kind of having battery when you need it. Yeah I. So I took two lights and that was probably the smartest thing that I did because. That much night writing and I don't like to mess around with a small light. Proper going down a mountain trail I I wanna see it. So, and that's also why I slept at night like some people will just sleep whenever they feel like it and just be. All entire now and take a little micro nop or something like that. But I always thought it was a waste of time to sleep when the sun was up when I didn't need to waste my life battery. So. Yes. It was definitely something I had to stay on top of and be really conscious of keeping it going because if you're going up. Like if you're. Doing I mean there was a lot a lot of Haiku bike and we do not the downloads obviously not running like pretty to be over ten kilometers an hour to keep the working. Six Miles. Yeah, that's the Dynamo things always been super interesting to me as a piece of technology that people should look into. So then going to sleep, I mean you mentioned you just sort of rolling out a lightweight Vivian and sleeping wherever on the trail made sense wherever your body was saying, Hey, it's time to go. were. You were you did you bring a stove with you? So when you got up, you could have some tea or coffee or make a little bit of food. In this race. Because Rocco's a lot more compact in its population and also. It is fairly warm that you know you didn't have to worry about that kind of stuff. so I didn't bother with stove. I would just have dry food like I. Think I had. Wasn't GonNa make me sound like a Canadian stereotype hippie. GRANOLA. To get me around the course every morning I would take my little bagnall out and try to stuff something in my face before I got going again. but yeah, I think just dry food like biscuits and chocolate bars is just i. mean the Diet is not good. Let's be honest like. The Diet is pretty unhealthy. Imagined like whatever cafe you stumble across. You're just ordering whatever seems like it will survive when you pack it up to the counter and you just say what food do you have that can be really quickly in my face and that's basically what you're gonna eat you. You just don't care anymore even calories. And how was that journey across Morocco? I mean did you feel? Were there multiple days where you weren't interacting with any villages along the way. So one really big factor in this race is that North Africa is. is a place where men and women have very different roles in society. And in this race, we compute as equal. There's only one podium. There's no difference between like we unofficially acknowledged the women's race. But officially, it is one race for all of us. No matter your gender or your age or your abilities. but but in Morocco it is it is a fairly difficult place to be a woman. I wouldn't be around the Bush interest in Morocco. You're kind of okay. You can probably even go around and the Bikini in some places but we were in very rural areas where. being woman come with extra complications. women traditionally can't actually go to cafes and restaurants in those kind of places especially on their own. So I kind of have to hide between the other riders. which was an interesting dynamic because technically they are my competition. But on the guys in the race, you know I gotta say I'm just still really blown away. By how sensitive they were to the fact that the women in the race had this extra kind of penalty against them that we had an extra complication that we had to look out for our safety and we had to comply with dress code and we had to be a lot more culturally sensitive and. There were some incidents like there was one woman in particular who had a really hard time with kind of male harassment. So We had to deal with that stuff on top of this, very difficult by grace. So. That was a factor I've been to Morocco before actually on a solo expedition running. So I knew all that and so this was very different experience because I have these male writers with me so I can have this pack and again like it was just so such a cool thing in this community that is really competitive but they put competition to the side every time that we went through a village to make sure that the women in the race. Felt and were safe. That's amazing. So we. As a community, we came together and that was that was such a nice thing about the race and I imagine just the of spirit of adventure that everybody who signs up for these races is in for there really are whether it safety. 00:25:08 - 00:30:04 In villages or just mechanical issues or what have you I imagine everybody's kind of looking out for one another to the degree. That's possible. Yeah absolutely. Yeah and. It's kind of hard because you really love each other like it's you know it's the tribe. We all become instant best friends on these things but with the self supported rule actually if someone has a mechanical, you can't help them or else you've disqualified them because they've accepted your health right See You. You can't just be next to someone sometimes going like, Hey, buddy looks pretty broken and you just have to sit. There with your arms full that and watching tat to them or whatever. But if you take one out of your bag and it's so hard as a cyclist like we live by this creed that someone's GonNa Puncture you help them if you've got a tube for them whatever. And these races you you just you can't on it. So Weird So awkward I'm it's probably the thing that I hate the most is that you can't help each other that you just have to watch someone else suffer and and hope that he's GonNa figure it out and be okay back because a lot of these situations I'm sure like you know you break your driller off and you're on the top of climb or whatever you've got no choice you've got to continue forward. You've got to convert that bike into a single speed or do whatever you have to do to keep going forward or you're just walking. Yeah exactly, and I should say the scraps rate in these races is really high. You mentioned the Silk Road? One. Done a couple of years ago. I think out of one, hundred, thirty, one finished. the atlas was a little bit better than that I can't really remember how many people cross the finish line but you know the chances of finishing it sometimes goes pretty close to fifty percent. you know just things are not gonNA fix or obviously you're in these foreign countries the likelihood of getting sick The justices are insane. So injuries takeout quite a lot of riders and yeah, it's it's just to finish. Absolutely and how do you keep yourself sort of mentally with it and focused on the on the prize throughout these events. Yeah that that can be hard because you are so low. So I I really do like music and podcasts I think music is great for manipulating your mood. So for me night riding can be the hardest because I'll just. I'm such a like Zan rider all just happily slow down and look at the stars and have a really nice time. But that's not how you WANNA race. So I do sometimes have to pull out some kind of playlist that's GonNa get me like turning those pedals and get me really mega The Nice thing about these races when it's on a set route is that you are passing the riders all the time. So even though you can't help each other ride together and draft. you can ride in proximity to other people as long as you're not pairing up and actually helping each other in the race. So I did have quite a lot of hours spent other riders people from all around the world that would have never met otherwise completely different lives but the one thing we have in common is gravel bikes. So How'd that company in that Camaraderie and that was really cool. So Yeah I think you just you gotta stay on top of it with your mental game. You know if you start thinking negatively if you start focusing on how much pain urine because by the third hake guaranteed you are in pain If you start zoning on that stuff, you're in a losing battle you know you've got to find a way to come back from that and keep yourself just thinking positive thinking about how much you love your bike even if that's not feeling very honest right now, you just you've got us to be proactive about it is what I found. So that's where. The music and podcasts to manipulate remove or with the other riders or your gratitude was huge for me. Said being Morocco is very difficult place for a woman. You Know I. It was really hard to to. Lose focus on the fact that I'm so privileged. I. Get to compete in this sport by his very melt Arment I get to fly to other continents around the world and ride my bike freely and you know get the spare time and health and money to be able to be an athlete. You know like my gratitude levels see that race were so through the roof though just look around you like this is cool. You get the opportunity to do something like this like it hurts but you chose that hurt you know yeah. Yeah that's amazing I. think that goes a long way just everything you're saying about a positive attitude whether it's One hundred mile ride or an adventure like this just. Knowing and understanding that everybody from the first person to the last person is GonNa have a moment of almost deep despair in how they're feeling and not thinking they can turn the pedals over another moment. But at the end of the day, the body is capable of more than you think it is in most cases. 00:30:04 - 00:35:02 So just keeping that positive attitude and keeping moving forward seems like a great mantra. Yeah, absolutely, and I read a study in. A couple of years ago that you actually will get to the top of a climb faster. If you keep repeating yourself the phrase, I've got this versus. Oh my God is hard. I don't like this hill So scientifically proven to say Nice things to yourself back yourself and think positively not maybe doesn't come naturally to me, but you know we start doing it and see how it works and you know it totally helps. So. Can we talk about how that attitude applied during the Silk Road Mountain, race and that I climb. That I've read about. Off that I climb, it was like a punch in the face right out of the start of that race like we had I think the first time was just over four thousand meters altitude, which is a serious altitude for. anyone. You know it was a it was a hard climb. We got hit by a thunderstorm while we were doing at. The last bit was hike bike. And then the big going down if he even got over that pass, which a lot of people didn't on the first day going down that pass also. So Mike Bike and when you're hiking down, that's like hard on everyone's mood like. What am I doing walking downhill? This is an appropriate. It seemed like there was this calculation that you had to make as a writer right out of the gate about how far you were. GonNa, make it in that first day, and if you were going to be giving in the snow and all kinds of horrible choices that if you didn't get to where you thought, you were going to go your your your beginning of your race could start awfully difficult. Yeah because you're really committed. I mean you don't want to set up camp four thousand meters is a dumb thing to do So you've got to decide am I going to actually make it over the past or am I not. Yeah it wasn't. Then that thunderstorm I think a lot of people didn't expect the thunderstorm again at actually been to carry on an expedition before. So I was kinda familiar with the flow of the nature out there, which is very typical in the summer to have a bill of of a thunderstorm late afternoon and it's GonNa. Last couple of hours but then it's GonNa stop. So, when the thunderstorm hit, I know a lot of people set up their tents and bunker down and just thought you know oh well. Like bad luck. Back Down and I kept going because I knew that if I kept moving I would stay warm and I would eventually be drying a couple of hours when this will all stop and I could just keep going so i. Went through the thunderstorm which. I think kind of steals my race start for me at least that I I did do that and I didn't stop The. Yeah I remember that day really well, it just seemed like chaos. There were just riders everywhere clean like what? Everything's hard. Everything's getting thrown at US exactly I. Remember it must have been like two seventeen when I became aware of that race and event and I looked very much forward to kind of observing it and being dot watcher and they did a great job of kind of conveying information from the field via their podcast and other kind of social platforms and. All that anticipation as a fan to look at it, and then to see how challenging that first day was for people. It really just blew me away as an event. Yeah I mean you definitely knew right from the start with not your cut out for this. And there was no gentle warm up. It was really like you're either in this or you should just go home now like this is going to be hard and you know and it stayed true to that theme every single. They had a new punch in the face like it was a hard. Arteries and without event did you feel more remote for longer periods of time than you in Morocco? Yeah absolutely, and that event does require a level of back country skill and one that you are at altitude but also there are really remote stretches. So you had to carry a lot more in this race. So you had to have things like water filters a stove on, you would have to carry several days worth of food at any point. and they're just being a lot less villages means you know your mechanical 's you don't get to walk to the next mechanic or someone that can help you like it's going to be days and that village probably isn't GonNa have anything like there aren't bike shops in the countryside curious down like that doesn't exist. So yeah, I did I think that one. Felt. A lot more like a mountain expedition race with bicycles rather than a bike race, right? So you were fortunate that Atlas Mountain Bike Race happened early in twenty twenty. So you actually got a big event under your belt. Did you have any other events planned for the year or is there's are there things are excited about pursuing in the future? And yes I. I don't raise very often on more of an adventure, but actually I stay in racing because of the tribe because of the get together of all these really cool people that we get to ride together the racing element is always really weird for me because I'm not back. Actually So I. 00:35:02 - 00:38:27 I am gutted that we're not racine at the moment that it's going to be a while on I did not another race bond for the atlas was GonNa be my event. So I'm yeah I'm just beyond grateful that I got it and then I was going to do. More bike packing, and touring kinda around Europe which isn't having at the moment of actually speaking to you from Whistler. As a Canadian citizen quite lucky that I get to just hide out here. Yeah it's not about place. I have not gotten a bike packing trip around nine Cougar island which family lives. So have managed to keep going again I'm really grateful because I know a lot of people aren't able to adventure on the levels that that I am. Yes I'm just I'm just not thinking about it too much. It'd be nice to do a race and get the tribe together but you know if it's GonNa be a while before we do that again, I'm just not going to dwell on it. Yeah. I think that's a good attitude. We've all had certa just take a deep breath and a pause and say like we love being out there in the Wilderness we love riding our bikes and do it for that, and we'll find a way to get the community gather when it safe and healthy for everybody. Yeah exactly and thank goodness for bikes I mean if you how can you get through this without cycling I now I think we all need to get outside. This is what we need. I now I would have gone nuts I. Remember we talking briefly about Spain before we were recording and some friends over there who were limited to riding bicycle trainers on their balconies. Yeah, and so I did quarantine when I arrived in canvas to weeks worth of a terrible trainer. And for about two weeks, I could probably keep it interesting. But I I, mean I think longest I ever stayed on it was two hours and I was just like. Support. Seen anything new and you know to I ride I mean come on I need way more than that. Yes. It's certainly sounds like it. Well, this has been awesome Johnny I really appreciate you. Talking to the listener about these great events and anchorage everybody did check out. Jenny's website which I'll link to because there's some amazing film that you've created about some of your vendors. And also pointing to other coverage of the Silk Road Mountain raise in the Atlas Mountain race that are worth watching, and then I'm also Jenny geeking out over your running expeditions because I think that's awesome as well. Yes I do have fun. So fun stuff. Thanks so much for the time Jenny. That'd be great. Wow, quite a story right I find athletes like Jenny and those races, the bike packing races so inspiring. So want to do something like that at some point in my life don't know if it will be these week long events, but certainly something overnight I think would be an amazing challenge for any of us. So that's our episode for this week. Appreciate you joining us. We've just started a new forum on facebook to kind of have conversations about these items. So if You have any questions make sure to check out that forum. You can find it by finding the gravel ride podcast page and just look for our group over there. As always we welcome your feedback and we love hearing from you can be reached at Craig at the gravel ride dot bike. Next week we'll be back with another episode of in the dirt with my co host Randall Jacobs, and we look forward talking to you that until next time here's defining some dirt under your wheels.

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Shoremates,In today's episode, we are continuing with Law 5 in John Maxwell's legendary book, "The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth." Law 5 is consistency. It is one of the least glamorous, yet most reliable laws. Said another way, it is the consistency in our daily actions which lead to our habits which lead to a lifestyle. Want a different life? Change what you are consistent on.In this episode, we cover 8 tips that John covers in Law 5, along with a questionnaire that will help you know immediately if your "why" is strong enough. Action items for today are:What is your personality type? Are you sanguine, choleric, melancholy, or phlegmatic? From this, go back into the podcast and note what the natural strength, weakness, and how to break the weakness isWhat do you truly want to accomplish in life? How do you break that into daily habits?What is your why? What is a strong emotional reason that you can picture to your core that explains why you want to accomplish it?Shoremates, I hope this episode served you well.Always, always remember.You've got this!-J.D. Elliott

Today I had the pleasure of speaking with the entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of Grow Rich Capital, Krishan Singh.Let’s dive into Krishan’s story of how he paved his way to success in a foreign land.Things you will learn in this episode:[00:01 – 08:08] Conquering Foreign LandI introduced guest Krishan “Kay Kay” Singh into the showKrishan talks about his background and how his journey beganMoved to the USA with his familyStarted as a software engineer[08:09 – 16:31] Investing in Multifamily Real EstateKrishan shares how he got into multifamily real estate investingKrishan talks about investing in real estate back in IndiaKrishan shares about the challenges he faced in multifamily[16:32 – 22:34] Transition to Gas StationsKrishan walks us through his ventures in gas stations“We buy the businesses first, then the real estate.”Krishan talks about how he helped others get into this business[22:35 – 35:53] The FINAL FOURQuick plug to my podcast producers, STREAMLINED PODCASTSUse Promo Code: Weiss for 20% OFF on your first monthWhat’s the worst job that you ever had?The first four months of working at night in a gas stationWhat was the book that has given you a paradigm shift?Escape by Anik SingalWhat is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?I started data visualization, advanced excel, and teaching my son multifamilyKrishan explains to us what data visualization isWhat does success mean to you?Helping others to be successful tooKrishan talks about a charity program they manageOffers free coaching for health professionals during this pandemicFinal words from me Tweetable Quotes:“I think in this business you do have problems, have a hard time finding good deals, and people when they make-up their OMs they look very nice and a lot of times they are not. So, I had to learn all that to make sure that those rosy pictures are really rosy.” – Krishan Singh“Giving back is the key to success.” – Yonah WeissYou can connect with Krishan on LinkedIn or Facebook. If you are looking to invest in multifamily real estate, visit their website http://growrichcapital.com/, connect with them, and start now! WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE?Be sure to follow me on the below platforms:Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or Stitcher.LinkedInYoutubeExclusive Facebook Groupwww.yonahweiss.comNone of this could be possible without the awesome team at Buzzsprout. They make it easy to get your show listed on every major podcastSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/weissadvice)

Song: Holy is the LordAnd together we singEv'ryone sing Holy is the Lord God AlmightyThe earth is filled with His gloryHoly is the Lord God AlmightyThe earth is filled with His gloryThe earth is filled with His glory We stand and lift up our handsFor the joy of the Lord is our strengthWe bow down and worship Him nowHow great how awesome is He It is rising up all aroundIt's the anthem of the Lord's renownIt's rising up all aroundIt's the anthem of the Lord's renownSong: Build My LifeWorthy of ev'ry song we could ever singWorthy of all the praise we could ever bringWorthy of ev'ry breath we could ever breatheWe live for You Jesus the name above ev'ry other nameJesus the only one who could ever saveWorthy of ev'ry breath we could ever breatheWe live for YouWe live for YouHoly there is no one like YouThere is none besides YouOpen up my eyes in wonder and show me who You areAnd fill me with Your heartAnd lead me in Your love to those around meI will build my life upon Your loveIt is a firm foundationI will put my trust in You aloneAnd I will not be shakenA Prayer of Grounding – Matthew 6:8-13For your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.Pray then like this:“Our Father in heavenHallowed be your nameYour Kingdom ComeYour will be done, on earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily breadAnd forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtorsAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”A Prayer of YieldingOpen your hands to God and breathe with each line.“I am here.”“I am open to you, Jesus.”Song: What a Beautiful NameYou were the Word at the beginningOne with God the Lord Most HighYour hidden glory in creationNow revealed in You our ChristWhat a beautiful Name it isWhat a beautiful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a beautiful Name it isNothing compares to thisWhat a beautiful Name it isThe Name of Jesus You didn't want heaven without usSo Jesus You brought heaven downMy sin was great Your love was greaterWhat could separate us nowWhat a wonderful Name it isWhat a wonderful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a wonderful Name it isNothing compares to thisWhat a wonderful Name it isThe Name of JesusWhat a wonderful Name it isThe Name of JesusDeath could not hold YouThe veil tore before YouYou silence the boast of sin and graveThe heavens are roaringThe praise of Your gloryFor You are raised to life again You have no rivalYou have no equalNow and forever God You reignYours is the kingdomYours is the gloryYours is the Name above all names What a powerful Name it isWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a powerful Name it isNothing can stand againstWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of JesusWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of JesusWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of JesusA Prayer of HonestyDear God: “Prayer for me is _________. And I need help with __________. Lord, teach us to pray.”A Prayer of Request: Teach Us to PrayLord Jesus,We’ve been taught quite well how to watch TV, scroll on our phones and binge our favorite shows.We’ve been taught how to shop and acquire more things.We’ve been taught how to please people, fit in and keep up appearances.Lord Jesus,Teach us how to pray. We’ve been taught how to live in fear, jealousy and self-protection.We’ve been taught how to do religious activities. We’ve been taught to hate, judge, lie and condemn.Lord Jesus, Teach us how to pray.Song: StrongerYou are strongerYou are strongerSin is brokenYou have saved meIt is writtenChrist is risenJesus You are Lord of allThere is Love that came for usHumbled to a sinner's crossYou broke my shame and sinfulnessYou rose again victorious Faithfulness none can denyThrough the storm and through the fireThere is truth that sets me freeJesus Christ who lives in meNo beginning and no endYou're my hope and my defenseYou came to seek and save the lostYou paid it all upon the crossSo let Your Name be lifted higherBe lifted higherBe lifted higherA Prayer of Movement“When I look around, I notice Your ____ in the ______.”Song: Your Love Awakens MeThere were walls between usBy the cross You came and broke them downYou broke them downAnd there were chains around usBy Your grace we are no longer boundNo longer boundYou called me out of the graveYou called me into the lightYou called my name and then my heart came aliveYour love is greaterYour love is strongerYour love awakens awakens awakens meFeel the darkness shakingAll the dead are coming back to lifeI'm back to lifeHear the song awakenAll creation singing we're alive'Cause You're alive And what a love we've foundDeath can't hold us downWe shout it outWe're alive 'cause You're aliveYour love awakens meYour love is greaterYour love is strongerYou're love awakens awakens awakens meA Prayer of Embodiment

Detective Jerald G. Pryor has been a Federal Police Officer for 15 years and is currently a Detective Lieutenant in Los Angeles, California. In this episode we discuss:What his experience has been during this time as a Black Man in the police forceWhat he thinks about the protesting and looting, and why he would be doing the same if he wasn’t a police officerHow media is portraying police officers in a certain light in order for ratingsHis opinion on why certain police officers could fear Black individuals and what he believes the solution isWhat the training is like for police officersHis opinion on what will happen if the police departments are defunded and what is the real solutionWhy he doesn’t want people to group/label police officers together, because of certain individuals who have done wrongConnect with Ashley:Instagram: @ashleydrivardWebsite: www.ashleyrivard.comLinkedin: ashleyrivard

This episode is part 2 of episode on "What A Beautiful Name" written by Ben Fielding and Brooke Ligertwood from Hillsong Worship. Join Pastor Joel and Pastor Nathan Dodd (from Liberty Baptist) as they finish their discussion.Verse 1:You were the Word at the beginningOne with God the Lord Most HighYour hidden glory in creationNow revealed in You our ChristChorus:What a beautiful Name it isWhat a beautiful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a beautiful Name it isNothing compares to thisWhat a beautiful Name it isThe Name of JesusVerse 2:You didn't want heaven without usSo Jesus, You brought heaven downMy sin was great, Your love was greaterWhat could separate us nowBridge:Death could not hold You, the veil tore before YouYou silenced the boast of sin and graveThe heavens are roaring the praise of Your gloryFor You are raised to life againYou have no rival, You have no equalNow and forever, God, You reignYours is the Kingdom, Yours is the gloryYours is the Name above all namesChorus 2:What a powerful Name it isWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a powerful Name it isNothing can stand againstWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of JesusPodcast Outro: Arrangement of "There is A Fountain" used with permission by Ryan Foglesong & Brian Steckler of ENFIELD.

One of the questions I have been asked most about curriculum Is "What curriculum Is best for teaching my child with special needs how to read?" Perhaps your child has learning disabilities that make reading more difficult. Or maybe your child has cognitive delays that have made you wonder If your child will ever learn to read. Sometimes the key to unlocking your child's reading potential Is simply finding a curriculum that works well with their mind and learning style. In this episode, I share my top 5 favorite Learn-to-Read Curriculums that I have personally used (and loved!) with my children. Plus I'll throw In one honorable mention.Show notes Include links to all the literature mentioned as well as photos (for all you visual learners!) This episode's show notes can be found on the Flamingo Feathers website. Join the Flamingo Feathers FB community for encouragement and support from like-minded moms!

In this episode, Pastor Joel and Pastor Nathan Dodd (from Liberty Baptist) talk about the song "What A Beautiful Name" written by Ben Fielding and Brooke Ligertwood from Hillsong Worship. Verse 1:You were the Word at the beginningOne with God the Lord Most HighYour hidden glory in creationNow revealed in You our ChristChorus:What a beautiful Name it isWhat a beautiful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a beautiful Name it isNothing compares to thisWhat a beautiful Name it isThe Name of JesusVerse 2:You didn't want heaven without usSo Jesus, You brought heaven downMy sin was great, Your love was greaterWhat could separate us nowBridge:Death could not hold You, the veil tore before YouYou silenced the boast of sin and graveThe heavens are roaring the praise of Your gloryFor You are raised to life againYou have no rival, You have no equalNow and forever, God, You reignYours is the Kingdom, Yours is the gloryYours is the Name above all namesChorus 2:What a powerful Name it isWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of Jesus Christ my KingWhat a powerful Name it isNothing can stand againstWhat a powerful Name it isThe Name of JesusPodcast Outro: Arrangement of "There is A Fountain" used with permission by Ryan Foglesong & Brian Steckler of ENFIELD.

Oh...perfectionism. We WANT to do good work, but if our obsession with how others might respond to our work stops us from doing it, perfectionism has raised it's ugly little head.Let's get through that together.In this episode, I discuss:what perfectionism ISwhat perfectionism IS NOTSome strategies to overcome perfectionismresources and journaling prompts to work through experiences when you've gotten negative feedback and you're ready to move past it and remove that emotional stingan idea prompt: if you had NO fear of doing something badly or poorly...what would you do? What would you allow yourself to try?Links Mentioned in the ShowOpening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional PainLike the Podcast?Are you a subscriber? If not, I invite you to subscribe, so you’ll get notified every time a new episode goes up.Click here to subscribe on iTunes.Click here to subscribe on Stitcher.And, if you’re enjoying what you’re hearing, I’d be super grateful if you left me a review. Those help other creative souls find this show, and they’re fun to read. To leave a review, open up the podcast in your podcast player. Scroll down to the bottomStay Connected with AmySubscribe to the newsletter to get weekly ideas, tips, and inspiration to get started creating, playing, and enJOYing your life. Connect on FacebookConnect on InstagramSome of the links in this post are affiliate links to help offset podcast production costs.

What better way to learn a concept than a real-life, real-time case study?Today, we listen in on rookie investor Jamie Gallagher as he compares and contrasts two markets. Meanwhile, BiggerPockets' data wiz David Meyer is there to walk him (and us) through the numbers.You'll learn how to use population growth, rent-to-price ratio, rent-to-income ratio, and historical performance to weigh the pros and cons of various markets so you can compare apples to apples.These aren't the only factors to consider, but this episode will give you a solid grasp of the basics and put you way ahead of most investors in your search for a market that makes sense for you and your goals.Be sure to check out BPInsights, the new Pro member benefit bringing you fresh, local real estate data, at biggerpockets.com/insights (use the promo code "ROOKIES" for a discount if you're upgrading to Pro!). And you can find more of David's work in BiggerPockets Wealth magazine at biggerpockets.com/magazine.In This Episode We Cover:The most important data points to consider when choosing a marketWhat rent-to-price ratio isWhat rent-to-income ratio isHow to look at a market's performance throughout economic cyclesHow job and population growth affects appreciationWhat types of employers to look forQuality of life factorsAnalysis of Cleveland vs. Columbus, OhioAdvice for a future house hackerAnd SO much more!Links from the ShowReal Estate Rookie Facebook GroupFelipe's InstagramAshley's InstagramBiggerPockets PodcastRookie Podcast 15: 5 Steps to Reach Financial Freedom in 15 Years Through Long-Distance Investing With Elyse RasmussenBiggerPockets Wealth MagazineBiggerPockets ProCase-Shiller IndexBiggerPockets InsightsZillowBiggerPockets CalculatorsBiggerPockets Podcast 379: What the Numbers Reveal About Today’s Rents, Prices, and Top Cashflow Markets with Data Scientist Dave Meyer Check the full show notes here: http://biggerpockets.com/rookie16

“I believe that when the work begins and the healing begins…if you can lean into it, there in begins real living” – Nicole Krinick “You are your own best healer” – Nicole KrinickNicole is the co founder of WANA, a community app for people with chronic and invisible conditions that fosters hope, direction and healing. She co-created the idea for WANA (which stands for We Are Not Alone) with her partner Evan based on their own struggles finding the right support, and the right education, at the right time.Joinwana.comApple store or android by typing wanahttps://www.instagram.com/joinwana/Summary Part 2Definition of psychosomaticInner Child HealingMy childhood drama – what seemed like a positive experience impacting me negativelyWhat the placebo effect really isWhat it means to be limited vs limitlessQuarantine as a slow down and an opportunity vs a limitationLINKS· Joinwana.com· Neuroplasticity brain retraining – Dynamic Neuronal Training System· Inner child healing (also a cool TED Talk on it)· Joe Dispenza “You are the Placebo” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild a newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started.As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're gonna find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker calm.Welcome back to fuel your legacy. And this week, we have an awesome guest. It's back in the springtime of 2020. So looking forward to moving on in life hopefully you guys reportFirst Quarter goals nailed down and you're just running. Because the first quarter goes away fast. I mean, I remember 2019 and it just ended before it got started. I feel like and that happens often in our lives. So remember to stay focused on your legacy and what are you doing daily to fuel that is our guest today. His name is Todd Palmer. Palmer is an executive coach, keynote speaker, renowned thought leader and author, CEO. He's just done a ton of different things in his life. something unique about him. If you're watching the video of this on YouTube, then you can see this but if you're just listening on Facebook, or not Facebook, on podcasts, you can't see this, but he has a lot of baseball memorabilia, and I'll let him identify what a lot is. I know there's a level ofyou don't want people coming down to your house and knowing what's inside your house. But he has a lot of it like more items than most of the people inIn this have earned in their lifetime dollars. So a significant amount.This is, to say the least. And that's just a hobby, right that has nothing to do with what he does for work, nothing to do with necessarily his businesses, but it's just a passion of his and I think that's the reason I'm bringing that out as it's important to identify your passions and learn what passions are yours that you're doing just because you want to do them. And then what other things are you doing in your life because there's a lot of things that I do just because I love doing them. And so make a list of that for you and say how often do I do these things that I do just because I love doing them? And are you allowing yourself to get that fulfillment daily or weekly or monthly? How often is that fulfillment coming in so Todd, thank you so much for joining here on on the fuel your legacy podcast? We're excited to hear all of your crazy crazy mindset coachings you know, helping us become better individuals, people, fathers, husbands, wives, daughters, sons, the whole bit business owners. Go ahead andGive us an introduction of who you are, where you came from, really what that transition looked like or that gap from when you went from being kind of in something you thought was going to fulfill you didn't quite hit the mark and transitioning into something where you found more fulfillment.You know, thank you so much for having me here. Today, I'm excited about being able to talk about the importance of legacy, the importance of following something that's going to fulfill us. There's a big difference between the spike of happiness You know, we can have a piece of chocolate feel pretty happy, but to create a life by design that has immense satisfaction, by the time our time. the time we're done here on earth is a very important thing to me. So I grew up kind of a quick down and dirty about me. I grew up on a farm in mid-Michigan, I went to a very small High School at 42 kids in my graduating class.At one of my first big life decisions was an opportunity to go play Division Three basketball, or go to the local community college on a talent scholarship. ForWriting in journalism because I thought I wanted to be a writer, I thought I was gonna be a newspaper reporter to have a passion at the time for writing. And the first flip for me was when I once I got to the college, and they were essentially compensating me with my free tuition to write, I discovered I didn't like it as much anymore. It's like when it was it went from being a hobby and a passion in the academic pursuit to something I was actually like responsible and accountable for there was a big shift.Upon graduating from college, I ended up teaching at a university for three years. And I love that work the light bulb moments of the students and to be able to work with someone to help them had those breakthroughs and understand what was very important to me. Right around the same time, I'd gotten married, and I had a son. And the marriage did not work out for a lot of reasons, which would you probably make a great podcast for someone who has to deal with the joys and sorrows of divorceand from that relationship,I had a son and I had custody of my son, I started raising my son from when he was from the age of two years old. And I was 24.I was working in corporate America, I was doing sales, I was doing sales for products. I was doing sales for services, like staffing and employee leasing. And I just realized for me that in or I couldn't live the life I wanted to as a single dad, going to school, getting my master's degree to continue to teach at night,as well as working during the day and wanting to be a good father. So I made one of the next big life decisions, I had to choose what was my number one priority in life. And I decided, for me, my number one priority was my son,which were then the Epiphany off of that was I couldn't be a good corporate employee, for me, because I wanted to be there for all those once in a lifetime moments from the first soccer game to the first field trip of school. And so I started the journey of trying to figure out what else I can do.With my abilities and skills, recognizing that I couldn't be all things to all people all the time.Around that time,entrepreneurship was just trying to get a little bit of traction in the world Entrepreneur magazine was out ink magazine and I was a voracious reader, reading all these stories of these people started in bootstrap their companies. And I knew at a time another group of people who had started in bootstrap their company, and they were doing what I thought was very well, they they, they, they weren't very high very quickly, and they ended up crashing because they were selling on price. And they didn't build any margin in the business. And they went out but they had a very, three to four-year run. That was I thought, from the outsider's perspective, very impressive. And I thought, huh, like maybe people were listening today identify that, well, they can do that. I can do that.So I wrote a business plan. a business plan was for $140,000 to start a temporary help company in Metro Detroit to plan around to the banks. And crazily enough, the bank said to me, Well, let's say you're a single father, you'dJust came out of a divorce, you have a ton of debt, and we're not going to listen to anybody at all. And it was very humbling. But I just kept talking to people and networking and having conversations about it. And I went and had lunch with an ex-boss of mine who had done well. And he said, Well, no, I'm not going to give you $140,000 Well, here's what I will do. I'm gonna challenge you to come back to me and tell you what the bare number you need is to start your company because I want to invest in you, the company secondary.And that was hugely empowering to get that message from a trusted older advisor to say I believe in you, the planet secondary. So I came back. As for $15,000, I started my company to a company called diversified industrial staffing. And we provided temporary help in Metro Detroit. And I went into that industry because I had worked in the industry in the past, so I knew how to do it, and I saw gaps in the marketplace that I thought I could fill in by day 72 we were profitable. So I gave myself about a 90-day window by day soReady to turn the corner, started hiring employees started growing and scaling the business, but not knowing what I needed to know.Flash forward nine years later, we were you know, we're having some highs and some lows in that timeframe, but doing okay2006 arrives. By September of that year, I was $600,000 in debt. I was two months away from running out of all of my money, including losing the house that my son and I lived in. I was deeply depressed, I was suffering from massive imposter syndrome because I thought I had to be all things to all people all the time. I had a toxic and dysfunctional culture. In my organization. I had employees that I didn't believe in they based on being poor performance of the company. I don't blame them. They didn't believe me. And I hired a coach on a credit card. And we work together. My mindset was awful. I was feeling very defeated by the life I was feeling verymyself my self-criticism, the IDIa bitty negative committee in my head was meeting daily telling me how awful I was doing. And I had a lot of mindset issues going through that. So we talked, we laid out a plan to turn around the company. And from that plan, I ended up having to make some difficult decisions. Because I had a breach of culture and a breach of trust within the organization. I didn't trust anyone who worked for me. So I walked in on September 9 of 2006. And I fired my entire company. So kind of a recap for the listener, I have $600,000 in debt, two months away from going to have all my money taken out of the additional expense of a coach. And I fired everybodythrough a lot of work through a lot of mindset shifting, such as every day, I had to do five positive things because my mindset was so incredibly negative. And I had to report it every day to my coach. What did I do? What like day three, I didn't report it. It's five o'clock phone rings, so I didn't get your text. What you do today. I didn't do anything. I didn't go in.And he read me the riot act. Like this is your business. You said you wanted to fix it.Don't waste my time. If you can't get out of bed by 905 you call me. That's my job. My job is to champion you through this. Because I told you if you work with me, we were into this thing around. I told you, you would not fail. I can only do that work. If you work with me. You've got to communicate and I chose not to. So I did five positive things before going to bed that night and resume the process started hiring people. Game of the process to hire for DNA, not for resume. I was always hiring state staffing industry people in the past. And I recognized that I had to shift how I did everything in the business, the coach was teaching don't just focus on revenue, you've got to focus on the margin business.Just about that time the recession kicks in.And we make the Inc 5000 is one of America's fastest-growing companies for the first six times. So to go from being $600,000 in debt to making the Inc 5006 times was not something I'd ever in my wildest dreams. Thinkhappened. Andfast forward, we pay off all the debt, they find the inflection point in the marketplace where we have increased demand and a diminished supply of people, we fill that gap in the center. In that filling of that gap, we're able to charge more to the customer for what we're doing. Get Paid faster, which pays off the debt quicker. And boom, they're there. There we go. We make the Inc 5000. And it's something thatit's it's just an incredible guy. It's such a great team working with me at the time, people were all focused on going in the right direction. We were doing the 90-day plans. We were doing your annual planning. But you know about five, six years ago, it dawned on me just because I could do something well, didn't mean I had a true love and a passion for the work.And it's funny, it was kind of like the emperor has no clothes syndrome. My whole staff knew it before I admitted to myself and I put together a plan to exit the business.Just two years ago, I started extraordinary advisors where I go around the globe telling people the story I just told your audience and talking about how you know, we have to work on our mindset. To grow your organization to grow your business, you have to grow yourself as a leader first. And, and now I've been fortunate. I've spoken in Toronto, I've spoken South Africa, I've spoken in Monterrey, Mexico, I've spoken all around the United States telling these stories about how entrepreneurs, there's a process to shift your mindset. There's a process to create a life by design.And I just had, you know, I just completed a one year engagement with a client, for example, he said, and the first year I've worked with Todd, my revenues have grown 70% my profits have grown by a factor of five x. So 500% growth in profits is not a bad thing. And he concludes the testimonial video I say, and I love my life, and I love my job.That's now become my purpose and my passion in life. And what it takes me back 30 years ago when I was teaching itThe university in the light bulb moments the students would have when I'm on stage, and someone has a light bulb moment by something I've shared with them. It's so soul-fulfilling. When a client sends something to me and they lean into those uncomfortable moments of, I don't know, my business is going to make it and they plug into my confidence in them. And then they turn the business around, they do the work, I just provide them some guidance. It's so incredibly rewarding that, you know, that I don't ever see myself retiring from coaching and speaking.I love that. It's, it's so cool. I'm excited to dive into a lot of these notes. But I think that that is the that's the journey of life and we are going to face aspects of this journey. And the question is, are we conscious of the journey or are we just allowing the journey to happen without any consciousness of what's happening? And one of the things you said just might work backward here. Like all the things that I love about thisBut before it there, there was a time So have you ever heard of Have you heard of Steve siebold? I have not. Okay, so Steve siebold and he has a book called The Hundred 77 mental toughness Secrets of the world-class. And, and if I remember correctly, his company had the contract with the Navy SEALs to do all the mental toughness coaching for them, like, okay and quality coach, the navy seals. So, for like 20 years his company had that contract. But one of the things that in this book he has like, his thoughts or his thoughts on one of the these hundred and 77, mental toughness secrets, and then he has an action step one of the action steps is to go and ask five people who are close closest to you, and basically who, what they see are your greatest gifts and why. Like, what is the top five reasons that you are guaranteed to succeed as anindividual. I love that's a great exercise. I've written this down. I've got the I will have this on my phone by the end of the day. Yeah, it's awesome. Anyways, I was just thinking, how often are we walking around our lives. We think we're good at something, we're succeeding whatever. And the other people around us, they're either they're too scared to tell us because we're in a position of authority over them. Or they just simply like, they don't want to derail us. They don't want to dissuade us from what we're doing. But really like, everybody around you can recognize that you're not in your passion and you have these very unique skills that if you just use those skills, to serve more people, you'd be happier because that's what like they can see that that's what lights your heart on fire. They don't have to like being told it, they can see that when you're performing a few simple activities. That's what gets you going. Everything else is the mundane stuff you don't enjoy but when you do those two activitiesWe don't accept it ourselves. because like you said, we want to be that everyone that everything man. Well, I think it's it's important for that. So going back to the people, you surround yourself with them, I'm part of a group called to the entrepreneur's organization. I've got a forum that I've been in the same form for 17 years. And when I told my forum mates, it is thinking of leaving the recruiting business and starting coaching, advising business. They were all for it because they said, You're the best coach on our table. You've given us the most knowledge and give back and learning. And ultimately what we did, we did an exercise. So similar. Again, I got to get the Siebel book, where we took a look at how do we define success in our 20s and 30s. And it was typically and which is nothing wrong with this. And listen, I'm a capitalist first and foremost, anybody should work for free. But the piece became like we used to define success as money houses, a wealth of a financial perspective, that was the definition of success. And then I saw a quote from Tony Robbins, and it shifted everything for me. So nowMy version of success to tie into your point is a success is doing what I want where I want with whom I want to do it with as often as I want to go do it. So if I'm, you know, I, I've been working a lot with some some students, and I've got a student that I worked with, he's signing his national letter of intent on Monday for baseball. He's going to go he's got a four year guaranteed ride to get his education. And I've worked with him on mindset. And it baseball is a very, he's a pitcher, and it's very complicated sport for him to get his his athletic abilities off the charts is getting his mindset caught up with it. And I've worked with him as a favor to his dad for free. That is such a rewarding thing because I'm doing what I want. I'm helping this young man, who I really think is a great kid, and he just needs some guidance, where I want we typically go have lunch and I'm happy to pay for it. When I want whatever. It's helping him be helping him at 17 create a life by design. And if he never makes pro ball, that's okay. But he's getting his education paid for he's gonna learn so much in this process and itThat work for me, just fills me up. So whether it's a 1617 year old kid, or it's a 50 year old CEO that, that success for me, but it's so different than what I thought was in my 20s and 30s, when success was gonna turn out to be, yeah, and it's something that that, as you mentioned, other people saw on you before you were alluding to. Exactly, exactly. And, and that's why it's so important to surround yourself. For me. I want to surround myself with people. It's funny because one of my core values is candidness, or candor, rather. And it's important for me to surround myself with people who are willing to just tell me bluntly, what they think about megood or bad, because it doesn't really affect me that much as far as like, what somebody thinks. But if nobody's willing to tell me that they think I'm wrong or that they think I should be doing something different, then I'm screwed ultimately, I I naturally have a confident voice. I naturally come across as like this is fact that it served me very well to have thatThat gait and tone in my my verbiage in my in my business as a leader it serves you but it also if you don't have other strong people around you that can hold you back because then everybody just lockstep follows you rather than saying no, we needed need to do something different you're better in this other area. Let me do that. You go do what you're better. And so I love that aspect of just finding people who are willing to recognize in you your giftedness and and encourage you to chase that sooner in your life. I think that's a really excellent point. I was just with the leadership team the other day 10 leaders in the room. And the CEO had been really the elephant in the room and had was not letting his team do their jobs, because he was just overpowering. So we created a process where we will go around the room to lay out the quarterly plan. And I had leader promise that he would speak last so he could hear and solicit the best ideas that said you've got a brilliant teamYou're paying them a lot of money, and you're holding them back. And you don't even realize it. And we had a real deep dive. It was why I want their ideas. I said, you have to speak last you mean it because the power of the room will drive the organization much stronger. The power of 10 versus the power of one. So we spent a lot of time so three or four people go around the room. CEO chimes in, I'm like, stop it, stop it. But I said, explain everybody upfront that he was supposed to speak less. So then it became a running joke. What it did is it took a lot of the governor's off of the other leaders in the room, you know, the chief marketing officer, it's really an ideas. CEO, I'd never heard them because he thought he had the best ideas, change the dynamic. The business, I think is gonna just take off like a, like the hockey stick of growth, because the leader was able to subordinate his natural instinct to dominate the room because he's usually the smartest one in the room. You get the power of everybody going for because you agreed to speak last. And by the end of it, he was so thankful. He's like, Oh my gosh, this is the best thing.we've ever had people feel buoyant, they feel encouraged, they feel empowered. And basically, all I did was say yes to other ideas. Because honestly, most of them were better than my ideas. Such a such a great opportunity for him to get that feedback from the room that he could have a better organization with the power in the leadership of a bunch of people not having to rely on themselves. Yeah, absolutely. I just know for myself from a perspective of being the leader.I'm aware that I'm just pulling stuff out of my butt most of the time, like, Yeah, let's do this. And I just say it confidently and be like, okay, yeah, let's do it. It's like no, if that's not the way that we should be, like, tell me, but because nobody's offering any advice, we just do it, you know, and we either fail forward or we we launch forward, but it's so it's just a fascinating aspect of humanity, where we have to balance that and as a leader if you're leading in your family, in your faith, and in your fitness wherever your you're leading currently beaware that there's people who have ideas, there's people who have thoughts that you're probably that are probably not being expressed because of, and I hate to use the word fear, but it is a little bit of fearof rejection at the very best. And at the very worst, their fear of losing their job or something a lot worse than that. No, I would, I would say there's an additional pink elephant The room is that fear of criticism, that fear of being shut down. I mean, think about it from a from a small child's perspective, if the parent is constantly dumping on them, you know, your ideas are terrible, you, your kids are naturally born with massive curiosity. And often the parents will call a crush that within the child not even knowing it thinking safety, first, good social protocols with social behaviors, then we do that as leaders with our teams because we essentially have the final say, so we can, it's it's such an art to be able to let your team know that that there is you're free to share ideas. You're free to disagree and there will be in you don't have to worryfear of reprisal or the fear of, of being terminated because ultimately we do control whether they stay or they go, the flipside in today's economy where there are 600,000 more manufacturing jobs, for example, than there are people that fill them. It really is a candidate market. So I'm trying to get employers to recognize like, the number one reason someone leaves a company isn't money, isn't ours is it's you. It's the leader. The greatest the number one source of your next great employee, are your current employees. So if you're a good leader, you buying it and people are going to tell their friends, hey, I work at this place. I work at this place, come work with us. So the leader can shift so much by allowing that that creative tension in the room to allow others to be able to express themselves especially with millennials. I have to tell people this constantly. Millennials are part of their mindset and how they were raised is they like to be part of a team. They like to think they need to be heard, but they realize that you ultimately have the funds but they want their voice in the room. They want their voice out of the decision. They recognize itSomeone else is going to ultimately have that decision. But they want to be heard and they're willing to trade money for freedom and flexibility. So don't demand a millennial is the first one in last one out like they didn't, my generation doesn't work that way anymore. So I think there's a lot of different things that you're talking about today, they can have wide cross appeal, ultimately, for the leader to have a more enjoyable life by design. But the greatest leader can do is build other leaders by teaching them they're part of a company by design, they're able to create titles by design, they're able to do a lot of different things under the surface so that they are enjoying the work they do is that they don't enjoy working for you. They're going to go want to go someplace where they do enjoy the work and the people they work with. Yep. 100% 100%. So moving back even farther into your story, because there's a few things that again, these are key things because there's so many people who are discounting their skills, they're discounting their passions or discounting what they're good at, for multiple reasons, but in your story onhighlight just a few of them.One of them is that we we have this opinion that a hobby and a passion. If we're being compensated for it, then it's no longer fun. Like, I don't understand that honestly, like, why is it that? Like, what do you think is happening in somebody's mind that as soon as they enjoy something as soon as they're being compensated for it, they're like, yeah, this isn't worth getting paid for. I still love it. But it's not worth getting paid for, like, what's that? Why is it that when we have a demand on us, and we have an expectation put on our hobby and passion, it's no longer fun? Well, I think part of it goes into I think our brains need to have a certain place to go to to relax. hobbies are up in those places. So as you mentioned earlier that you know, I have a large sports memorabilia collection, which I do. I've been asked multiple times do I want to get into the sports memorabilia business, and I really don't love the hobby. I have a passion in the skill set for growing leaders, which isNothing to do with my hobby. So I think we as multi multi dimensional creatures on the earth, we can have lots of different hobbies. But I think we also have to figure out what what is our what is our zone of genius. My zone of genius is not autographed by zone of genius is not baseball. I happen to enjoy it. But my I think my zone of uniqueness is growing and helping leaders through my experiences and through some best practices to grow their themselves and to grow their business. I enjoyed writing, but when I felt like when I had the, the freedoms of, of creativity removed, and I was instead, I used to create my own stories at the high school newspaper, at the college newspaper, I was assigned stories and I just wasn't interested in. I remember going back even being a student. I did really well in the classes. I was really interested in the classes I just needed to get through to get out of school. I did the barest of minimum. So that's how my brain worked.No, I love that because I think that there's a recognition there that maybe not everybody's conscious of. And that is that there's, you can be good at a lot of things you can love doing a lot of things. But ultimately,that, for me, it's almost like a sense of duty. I feel like because you said, your zone of genius, right? Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes you have a zone of genius, that really isn't the thing that you received the most fulfillment from. Right. But you recognize that this is a gift that you've been given really, with the purpose to share it with the world. And so it's almost like a duty to share that gift with the world and fully express that. Wow, still have having other areas and then grow to have fun doing your zone of genius. I think I think there's some truth in that. It's interesting. So a lot. We're talking about athletes before we got on the broadcast.You know, we're in Detroit, we've got Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson, both excellent football players, what they what they talk about now that they both they both retired really early, they had many years left in their bodies to give to the game. The saying, Yeah, I enjoyed playing the game. I had an ability and a skill set that compensated me Well, I never loved playing the game. And I don't like being defined as just a football player. I want to do more with myself where you get other guys who, you know, I know. I still play competitive baseball around the country playing Michigan and play in Florida. I play in Phoenix and there are guys who love the game who are passionate about the game and do not have any ability to play the game. They just they just have no ability and they don't have that that you that gift. I think we all have gifts and I think part of is a figure out what our gift is. I've got friends who are who are excellent guitar players. And then I know people who are excellent musicians. There is a gap in their skill set. There's a gap with the marketplace.We'll pay them for, and it's getting to understand there's nothing wrong to recognize it, that self awareness comes into play. Hey, I love to play the guitar. And if someone wants to pay me to play 12 hours a day, I'd be happy to. The reality is nobody wants to pay me 12 hours a day to play the guitar. Whereas other guy can just, he's a virtual. So now if he has, if you have a virtual CIO with a passion for the hobby, a passion for the guitar passion for business, and I know serial entrepreneurs, Richard Branson's owns what 5060 companies, he loves owning businesses. What he doesn't love is he doesn't love operating the business. So again, is that Where's your zone of genius? Where's your unique contribution to the earth? And if you're, if you have a skill that you really love, but nobody really wants to pay for, but want to recognize that's a great hobby, and a great passion, but it's not something that you're able to feed your family on. Yeah, so now we're gonna go we're gonna go one step further here because I love I love where this is going. First off for you, whoever is listening, think about what is your zone of genius. What is yourgiftedness What is your one thing that that really that's what you feel you're meant to bring to this this earth and to share with with other people because I believe everything, at least for me, I try and structure my life around service, love and contribution. Like those those things are high on my list of what I want to be doing with my life are activities where I feel like I can fulfill that. But here's here's the next thing that I want the next limiting belief I find them limiting beliefs. When I'm talking with coaches, and I'm talking with different people.You were a teacher at college and you liked being a teacher you liked the seeing the light bulb go off. I love that I was one of my highest. Well, it was funny because I wasat a retreat a few months back and they asked us to write down a list of stuff that fulfills so I'm going to read a few things that are things that fulfill me and it was funny because if we contrast this list with my wife's list, and I'm doing things that fulfill meAlmost every every day, at least everything on this list happens once a month, if not more often on her list. It's like her list of stuff that fulfills her is smaller. And it also is not happening as often.Yeah, some of the things that really I love doing is leading other people's leading other people to Christ, seeing confidence come in somebody's eyes, personal development, business development, striving for excellence, seeing other people love creating transformation in people and having just conversations with random people. So I love all these, these things that I'm doing.But I used to think, well, I can't get paid for doing those things, right. And most teachers in America in America and I don't know how it is in other countries, but in America, most teachers, they just don't get paid very well. Okay, and I'm gonna I'm putting this in air quotes. If you're watching this because this is huge. People think that theyskill set. Maybe they like playing the guitar 10 hours a day or 12 hours a day. And they think, well, nobody's gonna pay me for it. And I would at least challenge it. Now, I'm not saying you have to go this route. But guess what, in my opinion, Todd is doing nothing more now than he was back then he's still teaching people. The question is, where are you trying to employ your, your giftedness or your talent or your passion? Agree? What's the venue that you're trying to do it? I have, I have clients who are teachers, and they teach at a high school at or a grade school and they get paid 30 $40,000 a year. I mean, it's just like, not very much. Then I have clients who are teaching the same exact content, but they're doing it in an online forum.And they're teaching multiple more students at once getting paid 100 plus thousand dollars a year. And the difference is where are you employing your skill? So maybe it's dancing, maybe it's being a chef, I had a guest on podcast A while back, who's a chef who has rose in the ranks in the hospital andWhat's the word? hotel industry wasn't getting paid what he wanted to get paid, stepped out of that became a just a consultant chef who would come in to an organization and reorganize the chef world in that organization, the food, the food, world, cafeteria, whatever, restaurant, and then he would move. So he was now a consultant chef rather than a salaried chef, and 10 times his income, right? So it's these smaller things is where are you actually choosing to employ your giftedness rather than, Oh, I can't make money at this. I gotta go find something else. No, find out where you can employ it. That's really going to give you the return that fits with your lifestyle. Right. One of my favorite speakers in the last 10 years is a guy named David Rendell. And he has a book called The freak factor and his whole theme, ology is what's you know, we often don't recognize the things that we get criticism for are really our unique ability. His tagline isWhat's weird makes you wonderful. And any any talks about, you know, being a case six, seven. So he's tall wherever he goes, he can't hide himself, right? And people think, wow, there's a lot of advantages to being tall. And then he talks about the disadvantages of being tall. And they talk that he part of his speech moves into talking about how he was guided by his by his his high school and college or his high school in elementary school. And he goes, I was told to, I talk too much. I have too many opinions, and I can't sit still as a kid. So those became my limiting beliefs. Now, as an adult, I get paid to talk, I get paid to move around, and I get paid to share opinions. And then they had great living. So that's that when I saw him, he blew my mind because I'm like, Oh, my gosh, the reinforcement we get is what's, you know, the things that we do are wrong or bad, you know, parents, teachers, things like that. But Dave was so wise to figure out is, what's weird makes you wonderful. So if you're someone like you're talking about who has he has skills,And abilities, your challenges and entrepreneur, your challenges, even a solo practitioners to figure out where can I apply my zone of genius, my unique abilities, which maybe other people told me 15 2030 years ago were weaknesses, which are actually strengths? And how do I apply them in a way that I'm earning the type of living that I want to earn. But the but the other part of it is you have to I found, what you're talking about is you have to be able to demonstrate a very clear return on investment for the buyer. You have, you know, I tell my clients, whatever you spend with me, you should expect to get four to six times return on investment. So that the client who just reported that they they've grown their revenue by 70%, and their profits by a factor of five x are they're thrilled they're getting 500% return on their investment with me. But that's the work that they've done. And so much of the work I've done with them was just like what you're talking about is getting them to figure out what do they do well, what do they do that nobody else in the world can do? How do they charge more for that, but still keep it cost?effective for the marketplace? And then how do they do that over and over and over and over again? Mm hmm. Absolutely. And I think that's, that's where hiring a coach can really add a lot of value into it. And so how many? Again, these are the common things that I come up against, and people are asking me, but how many people do you thinkwho have gotten to your position? Right who have reached the I'm gonna call it success, not just financial success, butoverall, in general, fulfilling their passion? How many of those people do you think started, their businesses started and they're getting the help they needed through some form of debt, whether that's credit cards, business loans, personal loans, so I'm excited when I look at protesting I don't, I'm gonna take your debt even a step further, and I'll get back to the money but but I think we have I for me, I had an internal self esteem debt. I had to prove to the world I could do this. I had to proveI was chasing a ghost. I have a client who recently shared with me that, you know, we probably broke him down against him. So why are you still so unhappy? I just wanted to prove I want to, I wanted to prove to my dad that I'm success is awesome. Let me let's set up a call with your dad. And we can talk about is my dad's been gone for 15 years. Like, wow. So he's he's now dealing with the ghost. So we have an internal debt. And what we fail to realize, I think most entrepreneurs are often self reliant. And we're rugged individualists. I know I was in this very clear in my arc of, of knowledge that that I needed coaching all the way and I had coaching and when I didn't have coaching is when I went down because I wasn't mature enough or savvy enough to have that outside person. Give me that perspective that I greatly needed. My father passed away when I was five years old, and my older brother lived across the country. So we didn't interact all the time and I'm an isolating, I think I've got this down and you are from the generation where we don't talk about our problems.anybody listening talking about your problems? You know, it's it's, there's a community of people out there that will listen. So I created my own debt. So it's almost as if you when you talk about the debt question, so I think we have an internal debt, we have an external debt, we give it to others. So if you've never seen anybody who's had battles with drugs and alcohol, they go, they have to hit what they call bottom. In order to get help. The first step is to ask for help. My journey was no different. Now my battle was with with debt in bad decisions, and self esteem, where other people deal with drugs and alcohol. But if you take a look at the behavior patterns of both categories, they're very eerily eerily similar. Entrepreneurs just focus their, their their issues on growing a business, but their disruptive behaviors with family and time and money are very classically similar. So I think to your question we all have, we all have challenges we all you know, for me, I can't work with a client until they're ready to change. My coach couldn't work with me until I was ready to change he asked me a lot of Are you ready toHave you had enough of this kind of questions we did. That was brilliant. I do that now. And the great thing about it is I've recognized and realized that I part of my life issues in life is I'm never satisfied, which makes me a lifelong learner. So I still have a coach in my life today. He's not a business coach. He's a neuroscientist, and he teaches me how my brain works. So I can stop doing the things that really drive me crazy and drive others crazy so I can do more of the things I enjoy and making others, you know, making the world a better place. So for, I think, the savvy person, the savvy entrepreneur recognizes that coaching is always needed. If you take a look at sports, Tiger Woods as a Swing Coach, Mike trout has a hitting coach, Nolan Ryan had a pitching coach, you know, in sports, it's encouraged that coaching is always going to be a part of your life. So you never take it out. But we go to university, we go to school, and I think goodness, I'm done learning. I'm done having teachers.I'm a big believer that we always have to have either peopleto peer learning, like in an EEO, coaching, like the services I provide, maybe you provide for, you know, that close, close, tight network of mastermind groups, coaching is is part of it. They say it takes a community to raise a child, I argue it takes a community to raise an entrepreneur too. Mm hmm. No, I completely agree. So, you got a little bit into this, but I want to,I would love for you to share even more in detail. But how is the the what are the parallels between entrepreneurial mindset and the 12 step recovery program? That's, you know, no one's ever really asked me that. And I certainly want to I want to preface it by saying I'm not a licensed counselor. I have personally never been through a 12 step program.But I have clients that have people intimately in my life who have so I'm going to kind of do my best to answer the question, but I want to make sure that people know you know, call me you know, reach out on my website, hey, I, you know, I need I need help with drugs and alcohol. That's not my area of expertise. So if you take a look at that,The entrepreneurial mindset as well as the the mindset of someone who's got a substance challenge. Typically, there's there's a, there's a I'm not good enough mindset attached. So we take they take the drugs and the alcohol to numb the feelings numb the pain, and it create a different version of themselves. A lot of entrepreneurs start a business to prove something to themselves because they feel deficient. They feel deficient either internally or they feel deficient inthe messages they received from childhood and how they behave. Then there be those deficiencies and create behaviors, those behaviors then exhibit themselves and some things that worked well. So they I when I was in college, I'd go out and drink and I had a great time. When I'm in my 40s I go out and drink and I feel like like I'm gonna die. I'm really mean to people. So a behavior may be work for them at one point socially, but then it became too much and it didn't work for them socially. Same with entrepreneurship. I'm a rugged individualist, I've grown my business, I've self reliant. I've taken it from, you know, 300,000 to 900,000. I've reached a ceiling of complexity.Well, I'm just gonna keep doing the same things I did 300,000 at 900,000, it doesn't work, the business is different. And you're building yourself a job now you're building yourself a company. And I've had clients say to me, I want to be on the Inc 5006 times like you were it. I said, that's a great goal. But that wasn't why I did what I did, in getting the ocean, why they do what they do. And a lot of times, why entrepreneurs do what they do, is to feed something into fill something with inside of themselves, just like the addict is wanting to feed and feel something inside of themselves. So part of it is to recognize those both categories have fear and self doubt.And often that self doubt turns into self loathing, depending on where they are in the journey. And the a lot of entrepreneurs suffer from imposter syndrome. I did you walk into a room of other entrepreneurs and other successful people being by society and you feel like, I'm not worthy. I don't belong here. I don't want to be a part of a club that would have me in it.PeopleDrug and Alcohol it dependencies feel like, I'm not worthy, I'm letting my family down. They don't know. They think they're hiding it. It's like I thought I was hiding some of my things. There, a lot of the traits and the behaviors are exhibited.Or the underlying algorithm for techies, the underlying algorithm is the same. They're just exhibited differently. So I always tell people like this, that I had to hit bottom in order to change. People say, Well, I want you to come in and change my company and change my leadership team. I can't do that. I have to work with the leader and the entrepreneur, they have to work on changing themselves and how they approach their team, how they approach their business and how they contribute to it. No different than the drug addict or the alcoholic who says, Yeah, it's my failure. The screwed up, I'm fine.Yep, know exactly that with my clients. When I work with them on a financial basis. They often they're like, I just want to talk about money, am I I'm not talking about money, like almost ever. 95% of what I do with my clients has nothing to do with money has everything to do with you.Your legacy, how do you want to be remembered? What are your core values? How do you receive fulfillment? Once we identify some of these basic foundational principles, thennow that that then all the confusion about the money concept where you're putting your money, how I'm talking, I mean, I've had a few clients now where you sit down with them, and they just are unaware of where their money is going. You ask them okay, well, let's let's track this Penny by penny. And turns out they're spending hundreds of dollars on fast food, snacks, drinks, or whatever. One of my clients out over $1,000 on fast food eating out, wow, it's like it. I have no problem. Like, whatever you feel fulfills you do it right. I'm not here to tell you whether it's good or bad. But I am going to challenge you and ask you, is it serving your legacy? Is it serving your core values? And does it really give you fulfillment? If the answer is none of those, thenthen why are we doing and then allow them to choose how they want to continue moving forward, but all of thathas to start with, again, who you are, what's your mindset, all these things and it has nothing to do with the actual manifestation of the activities that the money spending habits. It has to do with the indecision about who you want to become and what you want to leave. I think that's brilliant. I love the fulfillment question because so many entrepreneurs say I just want to be happy. I used to say, I just want to be happy and part of the the generation, you know, go to school, get married, start a family, get a great career and just be happy was kind of that that was how my family believed. And that was drilled into me talking to my current coach, and I was very frustrated one day he's like, so here I have a prescription for happiness.eat chocolate and then go to the gym. Because a spike of dopamine is the only way you're going to be happy. And he goes that he was they actually told me the story about how they did with lab rats and how they disliked them with me, and it made them absolutely insane. He was and he challenged me it's become a platform for what I do know, swap out happiness for satisfaction.Because satisfaction is a journey satisfyingis a hero's journey. And we look at your legacy. When you look back on your life, the only thing we take with is our memories. I mean, we can have all the money in the world, but we can't cheat that it's not going to buy us out of it didn't work for Steve Jobs. It's not gonna work for me. But what is our what is our satisfaction, and you take a look at the baby steps through the start of something to the end of the journey have a satisfying experience. There are highs and lows. It is the hero's journey, where if we're just focused on just being happy all the time, we're going to live a massive sense of disappointment. And if our only measure of having a successful life is cash, cash is a byproduct of other activities. So I think your question of fulfillment is spot on. Yeah. Well, thank you. I think so too. That's why I asked it but I just have loved having you on the guests. having you as a guest on the podcast. If we want to connect with you reach out and look for maybe coaching or conversation what where's the best place to connect with us on social media website? where's the best place to get a hold of you? The best place to get a hold of me is actually on mywebsite and I love the whole theme of the show of legacy because I'm really a legacy play in my life. Most entrepreneurs I think start their business we've talked about for a while to satisfy something with inside themselves to prove something to someone or someone else that they can do something. For me being an extraordinary advisors is my legacy. I've written one book, I so yeah, I guess I live on Amazon forever. But the legacy for me is having rich in conversations like we've had this morning. So I love anybody wants to connect with me on my website, extraordinary advisors, calm, I'm happy to give you a half hour of my time for free, no cost, to have an enriching conversation that's important to you. But my goal is to listen to absorb and then I'll respond so I can be of great service to you. And it's my opportunity to be able to I don't want to bother you. I know it's an opportunity for me to do what I love. It's an opportunity for me to connect with people have enriching conversations, and it allows me a part of my legacy thought process is to pay back all the great coaches and teachers I've had along my journey. A lot of them who never know the impact they've made on me, so please, anybody's interested. They gotvalue out of our conversation today. Please reach out at extraordinary advisors calm and I'm happy to give you 30 minutes. I love that. Okay, so really quickstory time for me. So I was listening to another podcast called entrepreneurs on fire. by john Lee Dumas he does that podcast and 2017 and 2017 I was working my butt off 4050 hours a week trying to make my business work struggling and listen to this podcast and a coach and other coach she lived up in Canada offered a 30 minute coaching call for free and I was just at the right moment where I was struggling enough that I was willing to call you know I was I had set my ego down I'm telling you guys this story so you can do the same right? I set my ego down and I got on the phone call is January two sorry December 23. A few days before Christmas and on this coaching callWith her, and in half an hour, we got to the bottom of that I flat out did not believe I was worthy of success. I didn't believe I was worthy of being a thought and I'm not saying that this is going to be your your story, but this was my story and what a half an hour can do for you.My income, monthly income from 2017 to 2018 quadrupled wow or x my income by simply once I recognize this is simply a worthiness issue. I put I am worthy in multiple contexts into my daily affirmations, and four times my income I'd like a half an hour of Todd's time, I promise you is worth it. If you're gonna get more specific questions answered, I promise you it's worth it. Don't miss out on that. And I can't express that enough because it was a half an hour coaching call that completely changed the trajectory of my life. That's awesome. What a great experience. share that. Thank you so much for sharing thatYeah, no, I love it. So please reach out to him. I'm grateful that I've had an hour of his time but, and you can go back and re listen to this podcast. But really, really think about that. And, and what it means for you and what it could mean for you moving forward, if you just got on a call, and were to identify one thing, one belief that you have that's not serving you. What could that do for your life and not about you and your income, because it's not about me and my income. It's about my wife and my kids and how I'm providing for them and how I'm able to now go back and serve more to help more people because I'm now financially stable. So, like,take the half hour, it's worth it every second of the day, okay. And the link will be in the show notes here. And you can just click the link to his website and go I'm assuming go get registered on your website for that half. Yeah, absolutely. We'll get it set up. Awesome. So here are the last two sections of the podcasts got about three minutes left. Sothis is called legacy on rapid fire. So I'mAsk you five questions and looking for one word or one sentence answers. If you use one word for the first question I'm gonna ask you to clarify. Okay, fair enough. So what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today?I think the thing holding me back right now is a lack of awareness in the marketplace of what I'm able to deliver. I love that. Okay, and what what is the hardest thing you've ever accomplished in your life?Oh my gosh, Ithink the hardest thing personally and I don't think I've ever shared this on a podcast is the three year custody battle that I fought by myself as a as a attorney improper to get custody of my son is by far my life's biggest accomplishment. That's cool. So that was that's what was gonna be the next question is what's your greatest success at this point in your life, getting custody of my son raising a great young man. He's a 28 year old account now from a personal perspective, and I thinkMy greatest business success isn't being on the Inc 5006 times it's honoring my commitments to others and paying that $600,000 in debt. I love that. See, that's so cool. It's comes back to what are the values, one of the core things and about an individual and integrity. And that's the great success is when you're getting the satisfaction, fulfillment of keeping your word. It's not what you build. It's about who have you as an individual become. It's the small distinctions I promise you that are separating the people who are leading the world from the people who are following in the world is the small distinctions of how they identify themselves and their inner values and who they've chosen to be. The next question is, what what is one of your secrets you believe contributes most to your success?I think really, one of my biggest secrets is getting rid of the word expectation and replacing it with the word intention.Fantastic. And what are two or three books that you would recommend to the fuel your legacy audience okay.So for me, I'll give you a couple. I mentioned one earlier freak factor from David Rendell. It really helps you figure out who your your your uniqueness is to the world. And it may not be what you think which I was really blown away by.One of the most pivotal pivotal books that I ever read for just pure business was good to great by Jim Collins, and the stories in there. I use his Stockdale paradox story when I speak to audiences. And the last one.Now, I've listened to this book now almost five times on Audible, known for less than two years. It's called the book. The book is better got it right here. It's the it's the subtle art of not giving a blank by Mark Manson. And what I like about that book is it really helps reframe your mindset around every aspect of life. talks about dating, he talks about kids, he talks about himself he talks about business and always driving like your shows.talk about today is what legacy Do you want to have? How do you want to be show? How do you want to show up in the world? And how do you want to be seen? And how is it that you can be exactly where you want to be and be okay with yourself at the same timethat now, maybe I'll get that book from my way. It's, it's, it's powerful. We did a we did a mastermind Leadership Retreat just based around that book. That's it and it's giving yourself that it's a such a permission. And while it's got a lot of blue language in it, I find this humor to be incredibly funny, so it takes a lot to offend me. But I like his, he tells us the story of the band of Metallica and how their original guitarist Dave Mustaine, who then went on to find a very successful hard rock band was still very jealous of not being in Metallica anymore. You compare that to him, he created a band called Megadeth that he went and talked about Pete best, who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr and how they threw him out of the band.before their first album, now he had gone through the journey and how he made peace with that choice and how he was now living his life and didn't have jealousy for the four Beatles. He goes, it kind of goes, I have enough money to live my life comfortably. I can walk down the street, Paul McCartney can. Yeah, so true. like looking at the freedom of life, what you actually have, where Dave Mustaine was complaining about you know, I could I could have bet you I could have been in the biggest band in the world and you threw me out and you didn't let me do this and you didn't you get an alcohol issue. Started Megadeth which is sold 2030 million albums. It's not there. Nobody's ever heard of him. But he's still had that weird jealousy and issues with something that where Pete best is like, you know, life is good. Yeah, that's funny. perception, man. Everything's perception. Okay, here's my favorite question. So I saved it for last I love when surprise for people on this show. But we're going to pretend that you're dead now.Okay, and you are able to comeBack in whatever form you believe in, and view, your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren sitting around a table discussing your life. So this is six generations about 200 years from now. Okay, discussing your legacy in your lifetime. I want to know what do you want your great great, great, great grandchildren to be saying about your legacy in your life and what you brought to the earth?I would want them to saythat he was a lifelong learner.who, through trials and tribulations, discovered his authenticity, his transparency and was able to demonstrate his vulnerability to be at the service of others. Awesome. And if you've been listening to this podcast, which hopefully you didn't just skip to the end, but I think that that is an absolute alignment with who taught is it took him a while sometimes to get there throughout throughout his life to really identify that, but as soon as he has identified it, he's been living that and he's helping other people live the same. So that is it.I love that when it's in alignment, sometimes people answer that and it's not in alignment with the whole podcast like, hey, well, you got some work to do. Absolutely. It's so important. It's, it's human beings, I've discovered you can be a great speaker and not connect with your audience because parts of them don't believe that your your behaviors, your energies and your message are out of alignment with how you come across. So I may not be the world's greatest speaker. But I want people to feel that they're getting the real deal. And people are getting my clients getting or getting a real experience versus just a bunch of catchphrases and a bunch of polish and a bunch of sometimes even Shock Value like this is, I mean, I was literally $600,000 in debt. I literally fired all of my employees. I was literally a single parent who fought for custody for three years. AndI'm doing more than just fine. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you're addingAnd even financially, that's one area but like you're really happy, satisfied, fulfilled. And you can see that you can see when somebody's completely relaxed and zero stress on their in their life. Sure, for external I mean, we always put have a level of stress we put on ourselves so we can continue to,to produce and excel and grow, which is kind of the lifelong learner thing. We were conscious that we don't know everything yet, which is a good thing. But it's not like we're feeling depressed or anxious about the future. Because that that's taken care of now. It's just pure creation mode. So I love it. Yeah, exactly. Cool. Well, thank you so much. And definitely again, go check out his website, take advantage of the free 30 minute. I hate to say free I just hate the word free because people don't value it as much. This is life changing and it could quadruple your income if you could double your income. If it could help you sleep an extra hour at night because you have a little bit more peace in your life. What is that?Is that worth to you? It's not free because the cost of not doing it is all that time all that pain that you are in not knowing. Right? Well, very well said Sir. Very well said. Okay. Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox. I'm super grateful party, Toddfor having me today. I had a great time. Yeah, thank you and we'll catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us if what you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do give me a shout out I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Thanks to all those who've left a review. It helps spread the message of what it takes to build a legacy that lasts and we'll catch you next time on fuel your legacy.

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