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BTS, BONUS CONTENT AND MORE! Only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TrashTuesdayPodcast GET IT BEFORE ITS GONE - https://trashtuesday.myshopify.com/ Our favorite silly boy, Jason Cheny is BACK alongside Jenna! We dive into The Esther Povitsky Iced Coffee Relationship Theory, Hot Girls dressing like James Gandolfini, 90s hangouts, and Trump inserting himself into the world cup and screwing over the whole vibe. We also can't let too much time pass without playing Truth or Dare......but make it Jenga!?MORE JASON!Jason Cheny | Official Website | Stand Up Comedian Jason Cheny (@jasoncheny) • Instagram photos and videos MORE JENNA!https://www.instagram.com/jennajewmenez/?hl=enWann smell like us? https://www.bytiajenna.com/ Thank you to our sponsors:Thank you to SKIMS - Shop Everyday Cotton, and all of my favorite bras and underwear at http://www.skims.com/trashtuesday #skimspartnerThank you to BETTERHELP- Sign up and get 10% off at https://www.BetterHelp.com/TRASHTUESDAY*Ebb Ocean Club is NOW IN SEPHORA* https://www.sephora.com/brand/ebb-ocean-club for Khalyla's reef safe and biodegradable hair products! *Listen to Esther's New Solo Pod!* https://www.esthersgrouptherapy.substack.com FOLLOW TRASH ON SOCIALS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itstrashtuesday Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itstrashtuesday MORE ESTHER:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@esthermonster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esthermonster/ MORE KHALYLA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khalamityk/ Tigerbelly Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCIyIoM_Nd8HtY19fuR_ov2A PRODUCTION:Studio Ten42: https://www.instagram.com/studioten42/ Guy Robinson: https://www.instagram.com/grobfps/ Arielle Jade (Editor): https://www.instagram.com/jade.rabbit.cce/ Elisa Hernandez Kohler: https://www.instagram.com/ellie.lianna/ Megan Clements: https://www.instagram.com/egggymeg/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is this the most unsettling and terrifying horror phenomenon of the decade?! Join Greg Alba and John Humphrey as they dive into their full reaction and movie review for Obsession (2026), the massive box-office sensation and viral psychological horror masterpiece from writer-director Curry Barker (Milk & Serial). In this video, we break down the insane twists, the escalating supernatural dread, and that absolutely haunting climax that everyone is talking about! When a fiercely lonely music store employee named Bear breaks a mysterious novelty toy known as the "One Wish Willow" to make his crush fall in love with him, he gets exactly what he asked for—but soon discovers that his deepest desires come with a dark, deeply sinister, and inescapable price. To help drive searchability and give credit to these unbelievable performances, here is the phenomenal cast behind the madness: Michael Johnston (Teen Wolf, The Orville) delivers a haunting performance as Baron "Bear" Bailey, the desperate romantic who triggers the nightmare. Inde Navarrette (Superman & Lois, 13 Reasons Why) is absolutely spellbinding as Nikki Freeman, capturing a terrifying, emotionally raw descent into a wish-induced nightmare. Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial, that's a bad idea) stars as Ian, Bear's close friend who finds himself caught in the horrific crossfire. Megan Lawless (The Hate U Give) plays Sarah Harper, whose tragic arc leads to some of the film's most gruesome moments. Andy Richter (Elf, Conan) steps into a grounded role as Carter Harper, the music store boss. We dive deep into the movie's most iconic and viral sequences, including: The infamous Jenga drinking game bottle scene, where Nikki's unsettling behavior culminates in a shocking act of self-mutilation. The widely discussed scalp twist and the visceral body horror that caught audiences completely off guard. The heartbreaking, emotionally devastating final showdown and ending sequence that serves as a brilliant, terrifying allegory for autonomy and obsession. #Obsession #ObsessionMovie #Obsession2026 #HorrorMovie #MovieReaction #MovieReview #TheReelRejects #Blumhouse #CurryBarker #IndeNavarrette #MichaelJohnston #PsychologicalHorror #Thriller #OneWishWillow Obsession 2026 movie, Obsession movie reaction, Obsession full movie review, Obsession 2026 ending explained, Obsession bottle scene, Obsession Jenga scene, Curry Barker Obsession, Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Greg Alba, John Humphrey, Reel Rejects Obsession, psychological horror movies 2026, Blumhouse Obsession reaction, scary movies 2026, One Wish Willow horror movie, shocking horror movie endings Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Even if you are small in this society, there is something you can do."Those are the words of Trixy Elle, a mother and a fisherwoman from the Philippines, and one of the claimants from the Odette case, named for the super typhoon she lived through. She may never win in court, but she says that isn't the point. She is one of more than 100 claimants suing the energy giant Shell, demanding justice and accountability for the losses she has experienced as a result of climate change. This week, Christiana Figueres sits down with Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham, two of the authors of the ninth annual Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation report from the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and the Sabin Center at Columbia Law School. And what they find is complex. There have been cases that have captured the world's attention. Last year's ICJ advisory opinion on the obligations of states. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' landmark advisory opinion establishing a human right to a healthy climate. Or the 2015 case brought by the Urgenda Foundation, where a Dutch court told the government it had a legal duty to protect its citizens from climate change, and ordered it to cut emissions faster. But beneath the headlines, courts on every continent have been litigating how far that duty of care goes and what it looks like. More than 3,600 cases filed across 62 countries - last year at a rate of five a week. And of the 215 that have reached the highest national courts, more than half have gone in a direction favourable to climate action. But a maturing field cuts both ways: for every Urgenda-style case there is now a countermove - laws to shield companies from liability, suits designed to stop protest, even governments weighing whether to walk away from their commitments altogether.So what happens when the law gets ahead of the politics? And who holds the structure together when, as Christiana puts it, nobody is orchestrating the Jenga game?Learn More:

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Acts 13:48 — Every doctrine gets built like a Jenga tower — stack enough man-made pieces on a good foundation and eventually the whole thing topples. Time to check Irresistible Grace against the foundation itself: God's Word. This topical Bible message examines "Irresistible Grace" — the "I" in the Calvinist TULIP doctrine — and asks whether Scripture actually teaches an inward, effectual call that cannot be resisted, or whether God offers grace to all mankind and gives every person a real choice to respond by faith. This study on Calvinism and free will walks through Isaiah 46 and 55, Jeremiah 32, and five chapters of Acts to see the actual pattern of salvation in the early church. If you've ever been told you have no free will in salvation — or told that you do — this message won't ask you to trust a theological system. It asks you to trust the text. This verse-by-verse look at conversion in Acts traces the pattern from Pentecost (Acts 2) through the healing at the temple gate (Acts 3-4), Saul's conversion on the Damascus road (Acts 9), the Philippian jailer (Acts 16), and finally Acts 13:48 itself — including a look at how the NIV's "appointed" differs from the KJV's "ordained," and why that distinction matters. This message walks through Isaiah 46, Isaiah 55, Jeremiah 32, and Acts 2-16, explaining: - Why theological systems are dangerous to build on top of each other like a Jenga tower - What Isaiah 55:8-11 teaches about God's word never returning void - Jeremiah 32:35 and what it means that something "never came into God's mind" - The pattern of salvation at Pentecost (Acts 2) - The healing of the lame man and its evangelistic purpose (Acts 3-4)

We return for Part 2 of our coverage of “Professor” Jiang, the internet's favourite new geopolitical prophet, secondary-school sage, and proud owner of an ever-expanding box of educational props. Having already treated us to multiple maps, chess pieces, and a sealed metal case of predictions, Jiang is back with more predictions, more props, and even higher-level insights.This time, we get the dramatic unveiling of a fresh batch of forecasts, including the forthcoming U.S. civil war, AI surveillance states, a grand bargain with China, the Greater Israel project, and the coming East Asian conflict. During all of this, we pause to consider Jiang's status as a Beijing-based geopolitical commentator who manages to be just critical enough of Chinese surveillance to sound daring, but yet is most reliably focused on predictions of imminent Western collapse, American hubris, and the doom of the U.S. empire.But the real journey begins when Jiang sets the geopolitics aside and invites us into Plato's Allegorical Cave, updating it for the modern era by linking it to Korean television melodramas. Out come ominous black blocks, stacked into a metaphorical tower of global control: the military-industrial complex, the financiers, the World Bank, the WTO, the media, Hollywood, schools, universities, and culture itself. What started as “predictive history” devolves into an Alex Jones-style conspiratorial rant about international financiers, globalist bankers, controlled media, and brave alternative truth-tellers seeing through the mainstream lies.The alternative media occupies a Schrödinger-like position in Jiang's system: corrupted and controlled when it suits his narrative but also brave and rebellious when it is giving a platform to people like Jiang. Stephen Bartlett, meanwhile, fulfils his podcasting duty as a perfectly crafted avatar of the Diary of a CEO audience: curious, credulous and very receptive to the message that the system is rigged, the shadows are fake, and you, dear listener, are one of the brave truth-seekers with the courage to listen and look behind the curtain.Finally, we also reach Cosmic Jiang. The bankers are at war with the tech bros. Reality is consciousness. Matter is vibration. We are all fragments of God returning to Source. Hermetic philosophy explains Plato. Kabbalah explains the Middle East. Israel is trying to force the hand of God. The world will end; paradise will return. It turns out all of that geopolitical analysis was actually just a sideshow...So join us for the conclusion of Professor Jiang: a masterclass in massive domino-based reasoning, geopolitical dressing on bog-standard conspiracy theory, and the enduring appeal of intellectual junk food.SourcesDiary of a CEO: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain!Mehdi Hasan vs. “Professor” JiangProfessor Jiang talking about the Nephilim and Other Such Stuff: The World Is a Prison – The Secret Meaning of God And Creation | Prof. Jiang XueqinProfessor Jiang promoting creationism and denying evolutionThe National Security Strategy of the United States Document

“Honor your mind, body, and soul.” In this episode, Nick speaks with Melissa Coloton about her journey from farm life to corporate sales. They talk about high-pressure anxiety and burnout, as well as insights on self-awareness, purpose, and holistic well-being. What to listen for: Honoring yourself means recognizing and responding to your emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental needs. Self-awareness helps us catch patterns and make better decisions over time. Understanding that our mind, body, and soul are connected helps us to see life holistically and from various perspectives External influences and pressures can sometimes become ingrained in who we believe ourselves to be. “Support systems are vital for growth.” Growth is not entirely a solo mission; having the right support system can make a huge difference. Surrounding ourselves with the right people and right environments for us to thrive can take time to separate from the past, but it is always well worth the effort. Support systems can provide new perspectives and help you navigate challenges without burning yourself out. “We really focused on reconnecting with myself. It wasn’t like “you must stop having anxiety”. It was like “when you have anxiety, this is the connection point you have to have with yourself.” Managing anxiety is not about eliminating it, but about learning to navigate it. Self-awareness and self-connection are crucial for managing anxiety and other challenges. By focusing on connection and self-awareness, you can develop coping strategies that work for you. Embracing your emotions and experiences can help you build a stronger sense of self and increase your emotional intelligence. About Melissa Coloton Melissa is a Certified Life Coach and Sales Expert who helps businesses, sales professionals, and entrepreneurs create what she calls aligned success, where purpose, profit, and a fulfilling life all work together. With nearly 20 years of sales leadership experience spanning quota-carrying sales roles, strategy, and executive leadership, she has driven over $1 billion in new business and led high-performing teams to record-breaking growth, particularly in the life sciences sector. After facing burnout and health challenges at the height of her career, Melissa transitioned to a more sustainable model of success and now serves as a trusted strategic partner to people navigating growth, leadership pressure, and pivotal decisions. She is the creator of The Honor You Method, a framework that blends mindset, emotional capacity, and execution strategy to support high-level performance without sacrificing well-being, and the host of The Honor You Podcast, where she explores building success that truly feels as good as it looks. https://melissacoloton.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-coloton-coach/ https://www.instagram.com/melissa_coloton/ Resources: Check out other episodes about anxiety and burnout: Balancing Law And Spirit: Boundaries, Burnout, And Personal Growth With Cindy Rendon How To Handle And Successfully Navigate Career Burnout Easily Reduce Anxiety By Going Calm, Present And Connected Are you looking for ways to better manage your daily mindset, live a happier, more fulfilled life, and pursue the depths of your soul on your path to self-mastery? Schedule a free clarity session with Nick to see if mentoring is a good fit for you.Interested in starting your own podcast or need help with one you already have? Check out Nick's website for more information: https://nickmcgowan.com/ Interested in starting your own podcast or need help with one you already have? Check out Nick's website for more information: https://nickmcgowan.com/ Please subscribe on iTunes and give us a 5-Star review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mindset-and-self-mastery-show/id1604262089 Listen to other episodes here: https://themindsetandselfmasteryshow.com/ Watch Clips and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1tCM7KTe3hrq_-UAa6GHA Guest Inquiries right here: podcasts@themindsetandselfmasteryshow.com Thank you for listening! Your Friends at “The Mindset & Self-Mastery Show” Click Here To View The Episode Transcript Nick McGowan (00:01.462)Hello and welcome to the Mindset and Self Mastery Show. I’m your host, Nick McGowan. Today on the show we have Melissa Coloton. Melissa, how you doing today? Melissa Coloton (00:11.678)I’m good, Nick. How are you? Nick McGowan (00:13.442)I’m good. I’m good. I’m glad you’re here. we were just shooting the breeze talking about things podcasting and life and all of that. So I want to kind of continue the conversation, but why don’t you get us started? Tell us what you do for a living and what’s one thing most people don’t know about you that’s maybe a little odd or bizarre. Melissa Coloton (00:15.767)Me too. Melissa Coloton (00:30.584)Sure. So what I do for a living is I’m a certified life coach and sales expert and I combine those two things by helping people find success that really means something to them by putting purpose and profit together because one without the other will always make you kinda want more out of life. So I try to not be Pollyanna about purpose without profit and I try not to be too focused on profit because, you know, then if we get too into the weeds about that, then that’s all that matters to us and we forget what our purpose is. So that’s what I do. And I spent about twenty years in corporate sales. So that’s my background and always wanted to be a life coach since my late twenties. So finally, finally, finally started doing the thing and combined those two very bizarre things and put them together. So actually they’re not bizarre things on their own, but putting them together is a little bit odd. Nick McGowan (01:18.776)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (01:23.96)And something that people would find odd about me, which I don’t know if it’s too odd, but I do think people are surprised when I say this, is I’m I’m in my blood, I’m a farm girl. So I grew up on a farm, my dad was a farmer, his dad was a farmer. So and I think people are surprised about that because, you know, I’ve spent a lot of time in corporate. So being very corporate y and wearing the jackets and all the things. And so when I say like I grew up basically in the middle of a field and ate dirt for for the most of my childhood, people are like, wow, surprising. So yep. I I I would say that I present this, you know, very polished person, but I really do enjoy, you know, a good old backwood bonfire and grew up partying in fields. So yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (02:16.556)Nice. I I I like how you slowly kind of got into that and you were like, Yeah, we party a lot in fields. Like that was how it is. Whole lot. Melissa Coloton (02:22.552)And we partied a lot. Like we had to party on state land because well there was nowhere really to go, right? Like we there was nowhere to go. So we just would all get together in State Land fields. That’s what we did. Yeah. Nick McGowan (02:31.715)Yeah. Nick McGowan (02:37.87)Yeah. That’s cool. I mean, we all have I think we all have situations growing up that some people were a little bit more partiers. I’m trying to be real mindful of how I put this. Some people like partied hard in their like high school years and others didn’t. And then they partied too hard in their early 20s when it was legal to go drink or whatever, and then they got out of it. Some like just never get out of it and like belly up to the bar at 65 years old and it’s the same bar they’ve been bellying up to. but I think there are there’s some like. Melissa Coloton (02:53.068)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (03:10.606)Crazy moments that you can think back to, I’m sure. There definitely are for me that have to do with some of those parties that I can look back at now and go, holy shit. Like I saw how life could have changed drastically. And also I saw how I learned to kind of manage things in a sense. Like, how do you manage a whole group of 40 people around a bonfire out in the middle of nowhere? Or like the cops are coming. How do you let everybody know? Or whatever that looks like. Melissa Coloton (03:22.56)Mm. Melissa Coloton (03:39.754)Right. Yeah. Nick McGowan (03:41.4)But I I can appreciate coming from basically somewhere that’s not corporate at all, and then ending up in corporate. Cause I’ve seen that with people that I’ve worked with at times that were some of the best workers I’d ever worked with, and some of the almost like hard nosed people I’ve ever worked with. And I think that came from their background of being on their farm. Like you had chores that most city kids didn’t have and like tough things that you had to figure out and what do we do? So I’m sure that Melissa Coloton (04:03.776)Yeah. Nick McGowan (04:11.138)Did that help you, you think, when you got into not only corporate but sales? Melissa Coloton (04:15.306)Yeah. Yeah. I think it did a few things. Honestly, it definitely helped my work ethic. You know, I summers off were not a thing for me. I literally would hay it is what we called it, is basically get all the hay ready for the winter. And I remember me and my cousin, she was only a year older than me. We would fight about who would get the front of the wagon and who would get the back of the wagon. Because if you’re the back, you had to start throwing when eventually you’d had start throwing the bales of hay to the front for the person to put it on the elevator and go up and dump it into the hay mill. And we would fight about that like literally like one of us would try to like try to get to the back and or try to get to the front so they didn’t have to be the one throwing bales of hay. So I definitely feel like it helped my work ethic plus like seeing my dad work like that. You know, my dad he he had to do chores before he went to school when he was in high school. Nick McGowan (04:54.83)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (05:08.898)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (05:08.94)You know, he would have to do chores and then he’d have to go do sports or whatever he did and come home and do more chores. So my dad, it wasn’t like he got that like childhood most people think of when they think of childhood. My my dad was worked with his dad. That’s what he did. And they found a way to make it fun. So I think that also helped me was like you can’t take yourself too seriously in an environment like that because shit hits the fan a lot. And if you lose your mind every time the shit hits the fan on a farm, like Nick McGowan (05:31.96)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (05:37.584)you’ll just go nuts. So I have a lot of stories from my my my dad and his aunt about how they grew up and and my grandfather and how crazy that all was. And they just have a lot of laughs about it because I really do think like you would go nuts. So I think that really helped my my work ethic in a really big way. I also feel like it it removed a lot of entitlement. And I’m not I’m not saying I don’t have any entitlement ’cause I think we all do to some degree. But I think it removed a lot of entitlement because Nick McGowan (06:00.814)Mm. Melissa Coloton (06:07.146)I didn’t really come into this world with all this money or like I wasn’t handed anything in my life. Like everything I did, I had to work really hard for. And so when you’re in sales, that serves you very well because you can then make things out of nothing. You know, I even in my sales career, I would get these territories and I’d be like, What the fuck? Like and and I’m like, and at first I was pissed about it, right? Like, why can’t I just get a main account or something like that? But I’m glad I didn’t. Because I learned the art of making something out of nothing, making money where there was no money ig in existence yet. Like I always say, like in sales, especially like the sales the sales professionals that are like, I want an ac I want an active account or I want to tear the territory that’s already bloomed. I’m like, you should actually not want that for especially your first couple go go rounds, because you will learn a skill set that nobody will ever take from you and nobody will ever actually teach you. You will not. You will not learn that in a book, you will not learn that in a podcast. You you have to just do it. And so, yeah, I see I think growing up on a farm helped me with those two things in a in a really big way. Nick McGowan (07:06.689)Yeah. Nick McGowan (07:15.896)My God, I could imagine that you were in a much better spot to be able to handle really tough situations or like calculations of moves, but also probably you experienced different things that other people didn’t, like trying to think from like the opposite perspective. Like I mainly grew up in a city or like right outside of a city. and I’ve always been around a lot of people. So being in a corporate environment, like all the chaos, all the people talking, like you know, those meetings where it’s like. Melissa Coloton (07:21.368)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (07:39.608)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (07:45.77)One person should really be running it, but they’ve lost it. It’s off the rails at this point. Like everybody’s just jabbering about whatever the fucking thing is. And how do you pull that back? How do you not? Like, what’s your level of it? When does it not matter what your level is? And go, yo, you know, that sort of thing or whatever. but I I think that there’s stuff that we as people can really try to find the easiest way through. Like we’re seeing a lot of it with AI now. Everybody’s trying to write books and they’re trying to do all these things. Melissa Coloton (08:09.24)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (08:13.25)Because they just need to create and they need to do all this. When in all reality, what they’re really doing is saying, well, I have to make money. And I’m told that I have to do more. So I have to do more to make the money, but I don’t have enough time to do it. And I don’t really know what the fuck’s going on. And in sales without AI, we’ve experienced that stuff where you’re like, there’s a lot going on. There’s a lot of moving parts and pieces. And I don’t have enough in my pipeline. And but that’s just a small piece from a salesperson. And we all experience stuff like that. But you ended up getting to the point where you’ve done a lot, you work through, and yeah, you can look back now and go, I was really appreciative of having that. You weren’t then, because you typically aren’t, where you’re like, Are you fucking kidding me? Nobody’s here. This is nonsense. But when you learn and you work through it, you can see the silver lining of it. But that’s not always the case with getting burned out. So talk to us about not only the journey of like looking back at that and going, I can see where I’m starting to burn and where I was starting to smolder. Melissa Coloton (08:54.22)Yeah. Right. Melissa Coloton (09:03.734)Right. Melissa Coloton (09:11.032)Mm. Nick McGowan (09:12.642)But then also what that journey looked like. You shared a bit of that even before we started, of like taking it kind of category by category of our I’m gonna work through this, like the mind, body, soul, et cetera. So what did that look like for you? Melissa Coloton (09:23.649)Yeah. Yeah, you know, hindsight is wildly twenty twenty, right? so honestly, when it when when I would say my burn burning out or burnt outness started showing its ugly head, I I truly blamed it on life situations, how hard I had worked, like that kind of stuff. Cause at the time I also had a a friend that was dying of cancer. So it was life combined with work. And even up until I would say, even just recently, honestly, like I would say like literally probably within the last six to twelve months, this has come to me a little bit clearer. And that is it wasn’t necessarily how much I was working. Right. It it wasn’t necessarily even the work I was doing. It was the lens in which I was seeing it all. And that was being very performative, n really afraid to fail. Like really, really afraid to fail. And I say this with a huge grain of salt because I love my parents, but they my parents were very young when they had me. Sh my mom was 18 when she had me. She was 16 when she had my brother. And so they were like kids raising kids. And so I think my mom put on this suit of like My children are not gonna have the life that I had. They are gonna have a different life in me, which served me very, very, very well. Also, it created a monster in me that was like, you have to succeed, period. Like no matter what, you have to succeed and you cannot fail. And I and I often had these experiences with my mom where I’d like, I remember this one time I got a C in French. Like, French, like who fucking cares? Nick McGowan (11:19.835)Melissa Coloton (11:21.184)I’m not gonna move to Paris. Like, we’re okay. And she like just lost her shit on me. Like, just like, what the fuck are you? Like, she didn’t swear, but basically she was like, What the fuck are you doing? Like, if you can’t get better grades than this, you’re not gonna go to she always held sports over my head because I loved playing sports. So that was always one where she could really get me and to do whatever she wanted me to do. Cause I’d be like, my god, I need to go to sports. and so as I got older and I started working in these really Nick McGowan (11:27.405)Mm. Nick McGowan (11:35.864)Yeah. Nick McGowan (11:41.102)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (11:50.251)immense pressure cookers. I mean, Nick, there were my biggest opportunity I ever had was over a hundred million dollars. And that was just in service fees. So together it was actually probably more like a $200 million deal. So I would get in these pressure situations and instead of being like, I got this, I’d be like, this has to come together. Like, and and it was more of like a lens I saw my work through than it was the actual work I was doing. Nick McGowan (12:01.41)Yeah. Nick McGowan (12:12.622)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (12:19.946)So I started getting these weird bursts of anxiety at very odd times, which is why I kind of shoved it aside. Cause it wasn’t like I would be in the middle of a meeting and be like, my God, I’m about to have a panic attack. It would be more like weirder times, like specifically when I was driving. Like when I would drive, I would get really anxious. And I was just like, that’s weird. And I just kept putting it off, kept putting it off, kept putting it off, kept putting it off. And then one day I couldn’t. Yeah. It was just I was driving on the way to work and Nick McGowan (12:31.874)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (12:43.758)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (12:47.661)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (12:49.954)complete meltdown. Like pulled off the highway, tried to get back on, pulled off the highway, tried to get back on. I couldn’t do it. Thank God at the time I was working for my boss was my friend. So I was able to call her and say, I don’t know the fuck’s wrong with me, but I cannot come to work today. And I was supposed to like, my team was coming into town. I was supposed to be leading meetings and all this stuff. She’s like, don’t worry about it. Go home. Get some rest. And I thought it would be a blip on the radar. I was like, I’d be fine tomorrow. Right. And I figured I could probably Nick McGowan (13:07.214)You can Nick McGowan (13:11.51)Mm. Nick McGowan (13:17.624)Yeah. Tomorrow, yeah. Melissa Coloton (13:19.768)Keep keep pushing it aside. I woke up the next day and had just anxiety, like just major chronic anxiety. Couldn’t drive, I couldn’t even drive a quarter. I don’t exaggerate this. And when it’s funny when people when I’ve told people this story afterwards, like people who know me really well, they’re like, they literally think I’m lying. And I’m like, no, I don’t think you understand. Like I could not get in my car and drive a quarter mile down the road without being like, I gotta, I gotta go home. I gotta go back home. So Nick McGowan (13:39.768)Mm. Melissa Coloton (13:48.077)That led to work with a a practitioner near where I live and he’s a life coach and an acupuncturist. And so I’ve I’ve been seeing him ever since that day, which has been, I think the summer will be eight years now. And yeah, and and we really focused on reconnection to myself. And when I did get it’s like he didn’t he wasn’t like you must stop having anxiety. It wasn’t it wasn’t like that. It was like when you have anxiety, this is Nick McGowan (14:02.478)Nice. Nick McGowan (14:12.76)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (14:17.356)the connecting point you have to have with yourself because I didn’t, right? It was like, it was very much like a keep it moving. And anything I felt in my body or anything that I anything that I felt anywhere, it was like, no, I ain’t got time for this shit. And I even remember going into his office being like, the fuck, like this I I just don’t have time for this. Like I I leg legitimately remember thinking that. Like and then I remember sitting in his office for the first time, him telling me that I don’t have a relationship with myself. Nick McGowan (14:24.685)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (14:37.375)Mm. Melissa Coloton (14:46.678)And I’m like, excuse me. Like I I just thought I was one of the most authentic people and all this stuff. So it took some took some work to even understand what was really going on with myself. And so that led to a lot of connection with self, a lot of soul work, what’s really in my heart. When I do have anxiety, what does that mean? What do I need to console? How do I need to function in that experience? And actually welcoming anxiety, because I believe that like when you have these feelings. It’s your soul being like, Hey, I need some attention here. Like, what about me? And so I was just playing the game of like, I don’t care about you. I’m gonna keep it moving. So that was a lot of our work in the beginning. And then when that got really, really solid, I was like, but actually there’s mind, body, and soul here. And so now I’m really in a big era of f fo focusing. a lot on my mind because I can really see now because I meditate a lot more now and I can really see the thoughts that I I come up with on a fairly regular basis. And I can see the through line and I can see the thread. And then I can take that and command my mind to think a different thought. And then it becomes a belief and then I’m just at a better place, generally speaking. So yeah, and then the body is just kind of more the obvious one I would say, you know, I’m very keen on taking care of my body and Nick McGowan (16:01.069)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (16:09.514)not drinking like god awful amount of caffeine just to get through the day and stay focused and like you know like because that’s what I was doing for a while there. so I hope that kind of paints a picture of what I experienced. It was not pretty and there was a lot to it and there were very dark days. I remember I never thought this before and I only actually told one person this when it was happening. And not even my husband, I told my best friend I was like if in if I Nick McGowan (16:13.43)Ha ha ha. Melissa Coloton (16:40.17)If I’m gonna feel like this for the rest of my life, like I actually don’t think I wanna live like this. And and it wasn’t necessarily a a true like thought of you know what, but it was the start of one for sure. Cause I was like, I don’t wanna live like this. Like, this isn’t living. That’s how terrible I felt on a regular basis. So, you know, I definitely went on anti-anxiety medication. I was told I had major depressive disorder. When they said that to me, I was like, Nick McGowan (16:43.928)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (17:07.296)What did you just say to me? Like it was still like, what the fuck are you talking? What what are any of you people talking about? So it really took me a while to not be in denial. And then when I wasn’t and it was finally like a okay, I will okay, yeah, I get this. Like this is where I’m at and this is what I’m gonna have as I have to deal with this. So yeah, I’m really thankful for my practitioner and all my friends and all my family and everybody I worked with was amazing at the time, thank God. Nick McGowan (17:08.632)Mm. Melissa Coloton (17:37.541)my my boss didn’t tell anybody, you know, like people didn’t really know that I was that I was in that state of being when I was at work and I still was able to to get through, but it took a while and then I finally came off anti anxiety medicine and went back on them one time and that was at the height of my executive and and again I I kinda got to that place of I hope nobody figures out I’m an idiot or you know, I have to be perfect or Nick McGowan (17:37.901)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (18:06.038)You know, what if I don’t meet my target? Like there’s just a again, it was in that pressure cooker moment. And I was just like, I’m gonna like move all these things aside and pretend they’re not there. So I kind of did a solid two rounds of that. The second round wasn’t nearly as bad as the first because I had the tools, but there was definitely elements of that s that same initial experience again. It just wasn’t as bad as the first time because I think I had tools, but it eventually got me to the place where I was like. Okay, something for real needs to give. Like this is not sustainable for me. This is not what I’m supposed to be doing. I think the second round I was a little bit more in that thought process of like, I’ve tried to make this work in corporate. I’m just forcing it at this point. So Nick McGowan (18:39.638)Mm. Nick McGowan (18:52.984)I think that’s critical. Like we, as people, can look at things that we’re told to do. Like you need to go to college, you need to go to school, you need to get married, you need to have kids, you need this, you need that, blah, blah, blah. And those things change with every generation. Like even our parents that were like, You’re gonna have a better life than I did. So I’m gonna do things. And it’s like everything you’re gonna do, you’re still gonna fuck up your kid somehow, because you’re gonna say something weird or something’s gonna happen, they’re gonna interpret it weird or whatever. They’re just different human. Melissa Coloton (19:05.005)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (19:16.512)Yeah. Yeah. Nick McGowan (19:20.312)But we take all these things and we think we have to be a certain way, especially from a from a corporate perspective, not even corporate, from somebody who works in larger organizations with a team of people and a lot of people counting on you from different departments, not just from sales, but production needs things from you. They need you to bring in sales, like all the different stuff that goes along with it, where we can get so stuck thinking it’s all on me, it’s all this, it’s all whatever it is. And that’s Melissa Coloton (19:34.221)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (19:39.948)Yeah. Nick McGowan (19:48.568)typically never ever the actual problem. I find that there’s a lot of times where it’s a misalignment problem where we’re not aligned with what we’re doing, but we don’t want to fucking have that conversation with ourselves to be able to do that. Biggest thing that you pointed out was you did work and then you did more work and then you did more work after that. And now you’re still doing a lot of work. So big moral of the story is keep doing the work because those things will start to clear up. Like the spot you’re in Melissa Coloton (20:01.4)Correct. Right. Melissa Coloton (20:10.68)Hundred percent. Yeah. Nick McGowan (20:17.666)With whatever you’re at, just like the people that are listening that are like, well, I’m in a spot right now with either my company or the company I work for. And really in the back of their minds, they’re like, what the fuck? How do I change? What, what do I even where where do I start? What what happens? Like, what’s the first thing I look at? It I think about it like you know, those junk drawers or even a junky closet that everybody has. Like if you really want to clean that thing out, you have to take everything out. And then you have to audit it. Melissa Coloton (20:44.202)Mm-hmm. Yep. Nick McGowan (20:46.018)And that’s such a fucking project. And no one wants to do it with their junctur, let alone themselves. But they get to the point where they’re like, I can’t not. I have to because I can’t anymore. I don’t want to be here. Wait, if I don’t want to be here, what else does that look like? And then things start to crumble a bit. I think the big thing that you’re saying with doing the work is that there’s consistent work that needs to happen, but then there’s also clarity that comes with that that opens up other doors. Melissa Coloton (20:48.332)Yeah. No. Right. Right. Nick McGowan (21:13.442)Like I see things at times where it’s like I open one door and there’s forty more. And I open another door and there’s four thousand more. And I’m like, fuck, should I turn around? Cause there were less doors this way. Like, what what’s going on here? It’s because of that self awareness. yeah. Yeah. And you’re like, where do I pull that thing from? Melissa Coloton (21:22.408)Yeah. It’s like Jenga, right? Call this one out. What’s about to happen? Nick McGowan (21:31.534)And that that’s a really good point. I think a lot of people live in a Django-like state and they don’t really know it. And anything could crack them. I think it’s on us to be able to be self-aware enough to see like, hey, there’s something there. But it can still like it even gets the best of all of us, no matter how much work we’ve done. It’s how quickly you can kind of snap back in a sense and go, you know, I see what I did there for future next problem. Let’s do something a little different. So looking back at that stuff, because here we are in a podcast where this is easy to talk about. But this is also, I think about it as like a lab sort of situation where we go, cool. If we do the work now, by the time you get in that situation, even if you think back and go, those two fucking people were talking about this thing, I remember this. Here’s what they said. Like that’s the point of like, how do we do work now? So that when we’re in that spot, we go, you know what, I’ve been here before. Let me do something a little differently, or at least catch where we’re off. And what I mean by that is like mindset wise. Melissa Coloton (22:14.496)Yeah. Right. Melissa Coloton (22:26.848)Mm. Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (22:29.772)I’ve been in situations where my mindset was, I’m going to not fuck this up. I’m going to do the best situation I can. I’m going to do whatever I can, like I’ve learned some things, and I think too hard about it. I’m too mindset with it because I’m so dead set on just like seeing the thing through instead of understanding context and the situation. And I had something years ago where I literally reacted to my partner at the time. She said something and I reacted and like felt my Melissa Coloton (22:42.22)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (22:58.786)being split where I was like, yo, dude, don’t you say another fucking word. And I could literally hear myself go, shut up and get the fuck out of the house. And I was like, and one more thing. And it was like, motherfucker. Because like it’s already out there and you can’t do anything. But even that level of self-awareness to go, shit. All right, I did that. So what do I do differently this time? The work has to keep adding up. So now that you’re able to look back at that stuff and say, look, I’ve done a lot of this work. I keep doing work for somebody who’s in Melissa Coloton (23:00.288)Mm. Mm. Melissa Coloton (23:08.93)Yeah. no. Nick McGowan (23:28.128)a a spot either in their own business or something that where they’re managing like you did where you’re like there’s this and there’s that. I don’t want people to find out that I don’t really know what the fuck’s going on. Like what what sort of things did you figure out that worked for you because your energy that would align with them and might be in a similar spot where, hey, I need to do this sort of thing from a mechanism standpoint of like breathing or standing out of my energy or whatever to then get to the point where I can actually do something about my mind. So like what did that look like for you? Melissa Coloton (23:49.676)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (23:56.417)Yeah. Yeah. Well, not to be too prescriptive, but the way I describe my, I guess, set of tools, if you will, is is honoring yourself. And that’s a really big perspective I have now in POV of looking at situations and life as a whole. And that just means, you know, recognizing, respecting, and responding to your emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental needs the best you can. Right. And just Nick McGowan (24:09.324)Mm. Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (24:24.888)external circumstances or societal norms or, you know, anything that might pull you away from really truly hearing all those things about yourself and knowing what it is you really want. And too many people, especially now, because we’re getting super influenced by mega externals. Like before it was probably just our parents and maybe our school and maybe our friends. And now it’s The whole world is influencing you in a really big way. And may and maybe T V. Like we had what, a couple of channels, right? And commercials, sure, whatever. But like I know, I think I kinda am though. I kinda am. You know, I’m I’m definitely of the age where you had to sprint to the bathroom or get some new snacks before the the commercial was over. My brother would be like, It’s pretty Nick McGowan (24:51.181)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (24:55.916)We’re not that old. Calm down. We had to get up and actually hit the switch and like the rabbit ears. Nick McGowan (25:10.434)yeah. Same, I get that. Well before TiVo. Yeah. Melissa Coloton (25:18.22)But but yeah, I think there’s just, you know, there’s a lot of influence. And so how do you understand what you truly want, what you truly need? How do you recognize that? How do you respect it? And I say respect because, you know, a lot of people do the mindset work where they’re like, Shut up, mind. Well, that’s not respectful to your mind, right? Like, why are you treating a major part of who you are disrespectfully? Not saying I never do it, but that’s not the way to go. Like, that’s not going to leverage. your mind, your body, and your soul to get what you want out of life and perform at a really high level if that’s what you want and whatever you’re doing. Cause when I say perform at a high level, I don’t mean like you’re some CEO or something. I mean this can be parenting. This can be being a friend. This can be, you know, picking up a new hobby and just enjoying it. And so that’s my POV on it all. And I really I’ve really thought a lot about this ’cause I wanted to try to containerize what I experienced so other people might use it as a tool. And there’s a lot more layers to that. When I say honor yourself, there’s a lot of layers to that because there’s a lot of layers to your mind and your body and your soul and your emotions and how to deal with all of that. but that’s a that’s effectively the way I look at it. And, you know, a lot of people spend their time focusing on, you know, what’s my purpose? What’s my purpose? And within the honor you thought process, my my definition of that is fulfilling your soul’s desires. And that can mean You want to start baking cakes because that’s fun to you. And that can mean also that maybe you ha wanna have start a family. That can also mean you wanna be in marketing, right? So so many people are focused on purpose with regard to thinking one thing and one thing only in life. And it’s like no wonder we’re driving ourselves bonkers with this, right? So I think if I were to offer anything to your listeners, I would say that. start thinking about what does honoring yourself mean to you specifically and know that purpose is not just one thing. It’s fulfilling your soul’s desire. So your job in life is to figure out what does your soul actually want at any given point and having like giving yourself the permission to make make changes around that if that if that is appropriate for you at the time. And knowing that when you are having anxiety or stress symptoms is what I like to call them too is when there’s when you’re experiencing things. Melissa Coloton (27:40.065)It’s not to be ignored. It’s actu it’s actually to be recognized, respected, and responded to in an appropriate way so that you don’t find yourself waking up one day and be like, How did I get here? And you know, I call it the ants marching syndrome or like, you know, going down the river syndrome, right? You just jump on a raft and you get told what to do to your point earlier. You get told go to college, get married, have children, stay for retirement, retire and die. Like gross. Yeah. Like what are we even doing? Nick McGowan (28:06.316)No thanks. Melissa Coloton (28:09.344)And a lot of people are going check, check, check, check, check. And then they get to a point where they’re like, What am I actually doing right now? Like I’m not very happy. So then, of course, what ends up happening is everybody starts reaching externally and trying to figure out where the happiness is for them. And that looks better on some people than others. You know, it’s like some people get really fucked up trying to do that because they’ll reach for drugs or alcohol or a whole like plethora of things that don’t serve them. So Nick McGowan (28:37.25)Hmm. Yeah. Melissa Coloton (28:38.508)Yeah, it’s a really long-winded way, but that’s that’s my POV now because I didn’t do any of those things before. I just I I was on the river of life and it was working really well for me because I was making good money. I had you know, just kept going up in the in the ladder, right? That’s what I’m supposed to do. And then before you know it, I was not happy. I had tons of stress symptoms, and I did that twice. The first time being a lot worse than the second time because the first time I didn’t have any of these tools. At least the second time it was like, shoot, here I am again, completely dishonoring myself, doing things that are not what I desire. And I’m just doing it for the money effectively, or to kind of show I could do it or prove a point or not fuck up. Like it wasn’t it wasn’t out of pure joy, I’ll tell you that. So Nick McGowan (29:25.464)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (29:30.956)Yeah. Most things that we do aren’t out of pure joy because we feel we have to do certain things, etc. I think you brought up a really good point. I’m glad you bring this up. In fact, I appreciate when anybody brings up the word purpose because we can all look at purpose differently. It’s wild to me when people think that there’s one purpose. Like this is the one thing you’re here to do. And I’ve I’ve learned that that’s not the case, that it’s more so contextual based on the time, where we’re at, like. Melissa Coloton (29:34.837)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (29:51.808)Worst. Nick McGowan (29:59.458)You and I have podcasts 40 years ago. If we were born in the 50s or 60s, we wouldn’t have had a podcast because it didn’t, it wasn’t a thing at that point, but it would have shown up differently. So us being able to take how we show up in the world, what our flavor is, and what we bring to just being authentically us is the most important component of that. But it’s hard for us to get through those layers at times. Melissa Coloton (30:08.585)Right. Right. Melissa Coloton (30:22.519)Mm. Nick McGowan (30:25.996)Like everything that you’re saying, it’s like there’s a deeper foundational layer to it. Even of like, well, I’m doing this because I want to look better, or I’m doing this because I want to do that. Like there’s a level of self awareness to that. And also, what the fuck? Why? Why, why are you doing in that sort of way? And what are you trying to get out of it? I I’ve I get really worried for some people at times when they get stuck in those loops, because you’ve seen stuff like when you’re a Melissa Coloton (30:39.423)Ha ha ha. Melissa Coloton (30:44.802)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (30:53.142)And I don’t wanna say ahead or above or anything. You’re just at a different level of your own journey where you can look and go, man, I see you’re gonna drive directly into a wall. I wanna help you. But if you don’t want any help, then fucking at least put your buckle on, like, just see, please, like, please don’t die. but I do think it’s important for us to understand what our purpose looks like through the work that we do. So think about what you’ve done in sales. You’ve learned a lot from sales. Melissa Coloton (31:03.231)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (31:07.479)Right. Melissa Coloton (31:10.838)Right. Mm. Melissa Coloton (31:16.29)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (31:22.798)You learned a lot from the farms, learned a lot from what your parents did, what they didn’t do, all these things. And that all ties into work that you do now. But you needed to go through and experience all those things so you can go, hold on, time out. I need to look at this differently. What do I do? How do I get past this, et cetera? And how do I actually do this work? If you were just to tell somebody, hey, you need to do these 400 things that I did, your list was probably 40 times that. But like that, even that list, they’d be like, no, hell no. I don’t want any parts of that. Do you think I can just throw it into Claude and Claude will fix it for me? Or you think I can have AI do a thing for me or whatever? Because there’s a deeper foundational layer to that of us all trying to do more instead of understanding there’s systems at play that are telling us we’re not enough instead of going, well, what am I here for? What do I actually need to do on this planet? So for the people that are on their own path towards self-mastery, what advice do you give them to show up and be them on this planet? Melissa Coloton (32:10.53)Right. Right. Melissa Coloton (32:19.498)Yeah. I I would say don’t outsource. I know you really triggered me when you just said that. Cause so many Yeah, really like it really is like people and but you know, and I would say that anyway, probably because we we even if right before AI, even before AI, we’re outsourcing to the external. We’re really outsourcing to what are people gonna think and Nick McGowan (32:26.798)I didn’t mean to set you up for that one. Melissa Coloton (32:47.998)what if I do this or what if I don’t do that? And some of some people external, you know, look for the external to fix their emotions instead of just feeling them, right? Or trying to cover them up. So there’s it’s the you know, it’s the tale of of time, right? It’s just like something we’ve always done and we probably will always continue to do. And it’s just getting in a different context now. So I would say like, you know, don’t don’t outsource your Nick McGowan (32:55.501)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (33:15.818)life and don’t outsource help having something external help you figure out what it is that you love and what it is that you enjoy. And I always say emotions, your excuse me, your soul speaks in emotions. And if we can really not just intellectualize that, but truly understand that, then we’ll start paying attention a lot more. Like, boy, that made me feel real shitty when that person talked to me that way. Okay, what’s that about? Nick McGowan (33:40.034)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (33:43.051)Is it really cause the person that talked to me that shitty or is it because like I’m grew up with my mom talking to like that and it just triggers the fuck out of me because it might trigger me, but not you, right? Or like there’s been times where I’ve come home and told my husband, like, Can you believe blah blah blah? And he’s like, not really seeing and like Nick McGowan (34:00.82)Yeah, I can’t no. Yeah. Melissa Coloton (34:02.942)You better agree with me. So I I really think that an ability to not outsource things in your life that are so important, which are the things that matter, which are your purpose essentially. Like not to be cliche or too esoteric about it, but pay attention to where you’re at, you know, pay attention to your thoughts. I mean meditate. I like Nick McGowan (34:18.284)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (34:30.752)On my podcast not long ago, I like literally yelled at people. I was just like, If if you’re too busy to meditate, like the fuck are you even talking about? Like if you sit in a line to pick your kids up for twenty, thirty minutes, like close your eyes for a second and just like focus and see what see what you’re like, watch your thoughts, see what happens. You know, like people are just so busy. There’s like, I can’t have I can’t find time for that. No, you actually can’t sit with yourself for more than 10 minutes without picking up your phone or like watching a TV. Like Nick McGowan (34:56.034)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (34:58.232)Pay attention to that. Like that means something. So yeah, I mean I I just think we’re widely outsourcing and w it’s getting probably worse before it’s getting better, unfortunately. but I just think it’s a different version of it now than it probably was however many hundreds of years ago. So, yeah, I would say don’t outsource and you know, on the tail end of that I would say like don’t sit in your shit and then complain about it being stinky either. Right? There’s a time and a place to to to mourn things or to be upset about things or to f really feel things and and experience them one hundred percent from an emotional standpoint. But it’s gotta go through the cycle. We can’t get stuck in part of the cycle, right? I always I always talk about like things are very cyclical as as it relates to nature. And if you get stuck in winter, you get stuck in spring. You like you just can’t do that. You have to keep it moving and let it go through this whole cycle. And yeah, don’t complain if You’re sitting in your shit constantly and and you’re c you’re like saying, why does it stink all the time? It’s like, Well, because you just sit there and you’re shit Nick McGowan (36:01.198)Look at it. Yeah. I think it’s a good point too to point out that it you shouldn’t outsource everything. We actually need to do more of our own work on our own to figure out what parts of it and all. And also that doesn’t take away from reaching out to other people or specifically having practitioners or different modalities that you go through to be able to help you with those things because we can’t just mindset our way through it. Melissa Coloton (36:12.917)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (36:25.217)Yeah. Nick McGowan (36:27.65)We can’t just think about those things and we can’t say like it’s going to be okay. There are different times you have to do work. As you know, you do that work. But being able to take from that to say that those things that we keep coming up against that keep rubbing us a weird way or making us feel some sort of way, that’s the crux moment where I think it can be easiest to just go, well, that sucks. I don’t like the thing. And then the run away instead of being like, this keeps coming back. So what do I do with it? Melissa Coloton (36:28.064)Right. Melissa Coloton (36:35.362)Mm-hmm. Yeah. Melissa Coloton (36:47.436)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (36:51.778)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. Nick McGowan (36:55.96)Because then that’s really the start. Like you may have to talk to somebody. You may just have to sit by yourself for a few minutes to go, well, what the fuck? What is the thing? But you’re still going to need to go through that process to do it. and it helps us uncover what our purpose is through that to go, I don’t want to do this. I want to do more of that. And really when I wake up, I really want to do these things. But I’m in this spot now. So how the fuck do I get there? Melissa Coloton (37:02.636)Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nick McGowan (37:18.744)Great, that’s the next part of your journey instead of being like, well, that shit sucks and stinks. And everybody, welcome. I’m Linus. You know, like it doesn’t make sense. Melissa Coloton (37:27.158)Yeah. And I mean, I’m certified life coach, so one hundred percent I I think people need to get the support. And I would say even in that scenario, right, you can’t get addicted to getting everything you need. You know, if that if you are talking to someone and they’re not giving you tools to slowly but surely like, you know, when I first started seeing my life coach and acupunctures, it was every week. Nick McGowan (37:41.88)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (37:53.933)Then it went down to every two weeks and then it went down to every month. And now it’s mostly monthly, but I ca you know, I can definitely skip months now. Whereas before it was like, God, right? So one hundred percent and that’s kind of what I mean by like sitting in your own shit too. Like if if you’re stuck somewhere and you just can’t find your way out of that, I mean, there was literally no way I was gonna get out of my situation with anxiety by myself. I mean, right, like I even I Nick McGowan (38:20.216)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (38:22.38)Went to a doctor, had medication, tried to see a counselor. She was awful, no offense, but she was. So I finally landed where I landed with my life coach and acupuncturist. I wouldn’t have been able to do that solely by myself. And he didn’t tell me what to do every second of every day. He taught me how to live with myself and connect with myself. And I took that very seriously. And for a while I intellectualized it because I think we all do that, right? I’m a very like, I get it. I get it. Nick McGowan (38:49.698)You have to. Melissa Coloton (38:52.332)But then there’s gotta be, there’s gotta be a component of embodying it and actually really truly doing that that work and not just being like, I get it. Cause what ends up happening is like you’ll be okay, I get it, I get it. And then the slightest little change in the breeze will knock you over. And now you’re just right back to where you were, right? So that’s where I was for a good while. I’m like, I get it, I get it, I got this. Like I can do this, ’cause that’s how I’ve been my whole life, right? Like, tell me I’ll do something, I’ll fucking do it. You only gotta tell me once. Nick McGowan (38:56.962)Mm. Nick McGowan (39:11.544)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (39:22.096)And and and but then when with that situation I did that and then like the slightest little thing would happen and I’d be kind of right back to square one, you know, it’s like monopolies like or whatever one of those board games where you have to go all the way back to the beginning all the time. So so after a while it was like, wait, this is what I’ve been doing my whole life is intellectualizing it and not actually truly connecting with my soul. So one hundred percent agree with you. There Nick McGowan (39:37.208)Yeah. Melissa Coloton (39:49.931)that’s why people exist is to help each other in my mind, you know, in some way, shape or form. And so find that good practitioner that you can trust and won’t just let you, you know, wallow in your own shit and just have you keep coming back every week with no changes. You know, if that’s the case, then there’s probably a different practitioner for you. Nick McGowan (40:10.529)That’s yeah, that’s a friend at that point. Like you should stop paying them and just hang out with them if that’s what you want to do. but you’re you’re right, it’s it’s all on us. and being open to those resources, I think is really the driver of what I think about. Like going, all right, well, I’m aware of this thing. What the fuck’s near me, what’s around me? And then actually going through the layers of how do I talk to that person or what do I do? Blah, blah, blah. But being able to ask those from the initial question of what’s going on inside is going to help you. so I appreciate you getting into that, especially getting into purpose work. That’s Melissa Coloton (40:13.432)Right. Melissa Coloton (40:22.555)yeah. Melissa Coloton (40:36.76)Mm-hmm. Nick McGowan (40:40.172)Always important on the show. So thank you so much for being with us today. Before I let you go, where can people find you and where can they connect? Melissa Coloton (40:41.496)Mm-hmm. Melissa Coloton (40:48.128)Yeah, the best the best place is my website, which is just melissacoloton.com. I also host a podcast myself called the Honor You Podcast. I love it when people go check that out, of course. Those are probably two the two of the best places, and that’ll direct you to all the socials and all that fun stuff. Yeah. Awesome. Nick McGowan (41:05.23)Cool. And I’ll have all that stuff in the show notes. Again, thank you so much for being on the call today. Melissa Coloton (41:10.018)Thanks for having me, Nick. It was a great conversation. https://youtu.be/gp_zfh3dOHQ

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They're designing park benches so that homeless people can't sleep on them and placing metal spikes beneath overpasses so they can't be used as shelter. Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn't exist and that sometimes socks go missing in the dryer, wocka wocka ha ha ha it's funny because it's a witty observation about life's everyday little goofy goofs. Fast food wrappers blow in the wind like the leaves used to do. Duct-taped gargoyles with garbage bag wings peer down at the din of civilization as we march over the sidewalk sleepers to our Jobs, stepping over dead bodies while staring at our phones and counting the minutes til we can go home to our sofas and watch wocka wocka comedians and shovel SSRIs into our faces from large plastic bowls so the crushing beauty of our world and the knowledge of our mortality doesn't topple us like Jenga blocks and make us weep like open fire hydrants. In this din they don't want you to feel. They don't want you to think. They don't want you to hear. They keep it all CLANG, CLANG, CLANG, BUY, BUY, BUY, WORK, WORK, WORK, WOCKA, WOCKA, WOCKA, so that you can't feel your body. So that you can't hear the songs. There's bird song and whale song and heart song and lung song. There's fire song and sea song and wind song and tree song. There's ancestor song and mountain song and sun song and wolf song, and lots of others I bet; I can't hear any of them. Oh, except thought song, which blasts through my head like a sonic homeless deterrent in a shopping center alleyway, and, like them, I have nowhere else to go. ____________ Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

Meta is one of the biggest dinosaurs in the park, yet in a matter of months it rebuilt PM top to bottom, and almost none of it was bought. My guest is Jagjit Chawla, a VP of Product at Meta who's running a growing share of the Facebook app: Feed, Reels, and more recently Search. I worked alongside Jagjit for nearly ten years across Google, Credit Karma, and Meta, and almost nothing is as I remember it. These systems were built by the teams themselves, sometimes in a single evening, on tools you already have. Jagjit walks me through how a product org of a few thousand people learned to move like a startup again.Key topics:• Inside Meta's “no-meeting week” that set the org loose on the tools• The one job AI can't take: influencing other humans• Why the PMs winning on Jagjit's team aren't engineers• What to do when you're the bottleneck• How to become an "AI captain"• Triaging tens of thousands of bug reports with agents that validate and pre-write the fix• Why letting AI write code made site incidents spike, and how Meta clamped down• Building a morning brief that flags the decisions only you can make• Why the management "compression algorithm" is dead and what replaced itTimestamps:00:00 Introduction05:47 Why the biggest change is pace07:29 From detailed PRDs to a paragraph, a prototype, and an eval set09:32 Why the management "compression algorithm" is dead10:37 Visibility is high, but synthesis is scarce14:45 "Finding a scissor" when you don't have fancy tools16:10 A morning brief that flags the decisions only you can make22:37 When the agent quietly drops your source links25:53 The one job AI can't take: influencing other humans30:18 Getting an analyst's answer in five minutes, not 24 hours33:33 Three ways AI changed the products, not just the process37:25 Why letting AI write code made site incidents spike40:39 The no-meeting week and the birth of "AI captains"44:55 The world's largest Jenga game: why institutional knowledge wins48:41 Why economics and physics PhDs are "out-PMing" engineers52:14 Ideas and agency before tools56:19 "AI lowers the floor and raises the ceiling"58:40 Closing advice: once you taste it, you can't go backBrought to you by:• Glean—Work AI that works• Framer—Design and build your website effortlessly with Framer AgentsReferenced:• Claude Code• Credit Karma• Facebook• Ferrari• Gmail• Google• Google Chat• Google Drive• Indian Premier League (IPL)• Instagram• Meta• Porsche• Prince of Persia• TikTok• Workplace from Meta• ZoomWhere to find Nikhyl:• Twitter/X• LinkedInWhere to find Jagjit:• LinkedInJoin The Skip:• Skip Coach• Skip CommunityFind The Skip:• Website• Substack• YouTube• Spotify• Apple PodcastsDon't forget to subscribe to The Skip to hear me coach you through timely career lessons. Access exclusive sessions from 100+ top product leaders at skip.coach. If you're interested in joining me on a future call, send me a note on LinkedIn, Threads, or Twitter. You can also email me at nikhyl@skip.community This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theskip.substack.com

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Episode SummaryNina Hart did not plan to be a loan officer. She was 18, looking for a job, and ended up at a mortgage company because she spoke Spanish. That was the beginning of a career that has taken her deep into one of the toughest housing markets in the country. In this episode of Troy Talks Money, Nina breaks down what it really takes to get a mortgage approved, why credit reports break hearts, and what families in today's market actually need to know before they ever walk into an open house.How Nina Hart entered the mortgage industryNina Hart describes her journey starting as a telemarketer at 18, leveraging her Spanish language skills, and advancing to a top loan officer role 00:00:59.Skills learned from telemarketingThe importance of mindset and customer relations: “Always smile first, then dial” 00:01:26.What it takes to become a loan officerPreparation, structuring deals like a “Jenga game,” and the significance of honesty in client disclosures 00:03:38.Understanding debt-to-income (DTI) ratiosSimplified explanation of DTI, real-world vs. textbook lending ratios, and why full financial disclosure is crucial 00:04:39 and 00:05:26.Challenges of the California marketDiscussion around how rising home prices are outpacing incomes and impacting families' ability to buy or move within the state 00:09:11.COVID's impact on real estateHow the pandemic affected home buying behaviors, including bidding wars, waived appraisals, and historically low interest rates 00:10:13.Manual vs. Automated UnderwritingThe pros and cons, and how certain debts or credit issues can require manual review 00:06:09.Emotional challenges in lendingThe heartbreak of denying clients due to credit issues, often beyond their control, and the realities of how U.S. credit systems penalize people for “life happens” moments 00:15:12 and 00:16:08.Down Payment Assistance ProgramsDetails about California-specific programs (e.g. CalHFA's silent second mortgage) and how these can be a lifeline for qualifying buyers 00:24:02.The mortgage qualification processThe logic behind seeing a lender before a realtor, preparing financials, and “payment shock” 00:12:09.Current mortgage industry challengesThe increasing necessity for dual incomes, the risks of cosigning, and why credit discipline is more important than ever 00:28:43.“Always smile first, then dial. They can hear your mood on the phone.” – Nina Hart 00:01:26“Structuring a mortgage deal is like a Jenga game—miss one piece and it can all fall apart.” – Nina Hart 00:03:38“A credit report tells you everything from about eight years ago. You can see when ‘life happened.'” – Nina Hart 00:15:12“We're supposed to have equal housing opportunities, but we discriminate all the time based on FICO scores.” – Nina Hart 00:18:14“Fifty-year mortgages aren't a solution—they're just to create more wealth for the banks.” – Nina Hart 00:22:19“Take care of your credit report. Don't co-sign for anybody, no matter how nice they are.” – Nina Hart 00:29:07CalHFA – California Housing Finance AgencyDown payment assistance and “silent second” mortgages: 00:24:02Nina Hart on Social MediaFacebook, Instagram, TikTok: Search “Nina Hart” for mortgage tips and client stories 00:29:34TroyHolt.comBook a free consultation with Troy Holt: 00:30:32Nina Hart: Loan officer, mortgage guide, and social media educator—active on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram (search “Nina Hart”).Troy Holt: Certified financial educator, debt elimination specialist, podcast host.Missed something from the show?Subscribe for new episodes every other week and revisit the episode for more thoughtful insights into mortgages, homebuying, and building real wealth.If you'd like show notes for additional episodes or have a specific focus, let me know!

What happens when a doctor walks away from medicine, becomes a filmmaker, starts a business, and discovers comedy along the way?In this hilarious and surprisingly deep episode of Burj Banter, Jouhayna sits down with Tarek for an unfiltered conversation about life, relationships, creativity, taking risks, personal growth, divorce, second chances, self-discovery, and why fortune truly favors the fearless.From getting slapped by a baboon to quitting medicine, from comedy workshops to life-changing lessons, this episode is packed with laughter, wisdom, and unforgettable stories.Topics Covered:• Leaving medicine behind• Building a creative career• Comedy and vulnerability• Life after divorce• Relationships and self-worth• Why people stay stuck• Taking risks and following your dreams• Second chances and forgiveness• Self-discovery and personal growthWatch until the end for one of the funniest Jenga games you'll ever see.Subscribe for more conversations that make you pause, reflect, and laugh.Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.jouhaynaalmheiri.com/press-pause-with-jouhayna

Imagine a political operation so dependent on a foundational whopper that admitting even a sliver of doubt would collapse the house of cards faster than a Jenga tower in an earthquake. Democrats didn't just lose in 2024; they got reminded that their greatest hits from the last decade were always more myth than mandate. The 2020 result? A victory so improbable, it required suspending disbelief, late-night ballot dumps, and a media apparatus that treated skepticism like a hate crime. And J6? A protest that got twisted into an "insurrection" narrative so airtight that questioning the security lapses or the selective prosecutions became career suicide. Why the obsession? Because those two lies aren't footnotes—they're the permission slip for every power grab that followed: lawfare, censorship, the works. Without them, the whole "threat to democracy" grift evaporates, and suddenly voters might notice who's actually been eroding norms for fun and profit.Here's where the humor hits like a left hook: Democrats treating election integrity questions the way a vegan treats a barbecue—offended on principle, but secretly terrified someone might enjoy the ribs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What do you know about Iran?This article was written by a 26-yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspectiveMy Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

EPISODE SUMMARY The One Shot studio is deeply haunted and Dillin is stuck inside alone with nothing but a Jenga tower to keep them company. SHOW NOTES This Wretched House One Shot News & Updates One Shot Patreon One Shot TWITCH Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide Follow the cast here! Dillin Apelyan ----------------------------------------------------- Support WotC staff as they try to unionize! Find and call your representatives and be heard (US) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (Canada) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (UK) ---------------------------------------------------- Music Used in This Episode Abandoned Places, Material Gurl Editing and sound design by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shaghik Manè. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, picture this: a man who just got handed the keys to the kingdom again, not by some polite ballot ballet, but by a electorate that looked at the alternative and said, "Hard pass on the managed decline." The unapologetic return of a fighter who treats Washington like it's his personal dojo, and the media like sparring dummies who keep forgetting the rules. The two-headed hydra of the 2020 election myth and the January 6 fairy tale that Democrats have been force-feeding the body politic like it was mother's milk. It's not just spin; it's the life support system for an entire party's relevance.Imagine a political operation so dependent on a foundational whopper that admitting even a sliver of doubt would collapse the house of cards faster than a Jenga tower in an earthquake. Democrats didn't just lose in 2024; they got reminded that their greatest hits from the last decade were always more myth than mandate. The 2020 result? A victory so improbable, it required suspending disbelief, late-night ballot dumps, and a media apparatus that treated skepticism like a hate crime. And J6? A protest that got twisted into an "insurrection" narrative so airtight that questioning the security lapses or the selective prosecutions became career suicide. Why the obsession? Because those two lies aren't footnotes—they're the permission slip for every power grab that followed: lawfare, censorship, the works. Without them, the whole "threat to democracy" grift evaporates, and suddenly voters might notice who's actually been eroding norms for fun and profit.Here's where the humor hits like a left hook: Democrats treating election integrity questions the way a vegan treats a barbecue—offended on principle, but secretly terrified someone might enjoy the ribs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

EPISODE SUMMARY The One Shot studio is deeply haunted and Dillin is stuck inside alone with nothing but a Jenga tower to keep them company. SHOW NOTES This Wretched House One Shot News & Updates One Shot Patreon One Shot TWITCH Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide Follow the cast here! Dillin Apelyan ----------------------------------------------------- Support WotC staff as they try to unionize! Find and call your representatives and be heard (US) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (Canada) Find and call your members of Parliament and be heard (UK) ---------------------------------------------------- Music Used in This Episode Abandoned Places, Material Gurl Editing and sound design by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shaghik Manè. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Kaderzusammenstellung der Kassel Huskies geht in die entscheidende Phase. Wir sprechen über die jüngsten Neuzugänge, die noch offenen Baustellen im Team und die Frage, welche Spielertypen für den finalen Kader noch fehlen.Außerdem werfen wir einen Blick auf die direkte Konkurrenz: Wer hat sich bislang am stärksten verstärkt – und wo stehen die Huskies im Vergleich wirklich?Eine spannende Momentaufnahme der DEL2-Offseason und der aktuellen Kräfteverhältnisse im Aufstiegsrennen.

This powerful exploration of Samson's life in Judges 16 confronts us with a sobering reality: the danger of success in sin. We watch as Samson repeatedly pulls out blocks from his moral Jenga tower—visiting prostitutes, breaking his vows, pursuing Delilah—yet somehow the tower keeps standing because God's strength remains with him. This becomes his poison. Like an adrenaline junkie who needs increasingly dangerous thrills, Samson mistakes God's patience for approval, thinking he's untouchable. The message pierces our hearts: when we experience continued success while living in sin, we can deceive ourselves into believing we're exceptions to God's rules. The enemy whispers that our calling, our gifting, our apparent victories mean God approves of our compromises. But the most chilling moment comes when Scripture says the Lord left Samson, and he didn't even know it. This challenges us to examine our own lives: Are we pulling blocks we shouldn't pull? Are we mistaking God's grace for permission? The call is clear—we must pursue genuine relationship with God, not treat Him like a vending machine where we input the right codes and expect blessings regardless of our heart condition.ChaptersChapter 1: The Adrenaline Junkie: Samson's Reckless Pattern0:00 - 12:48We explore Samson's dangerous pattern of pulling reckless 'Jenga blocks' in his life, repeatedly engaging in sin yet maintaining his supernatural strength, leading to arrogance and false security.Chapter 2: Delilah and the Toxic Relationship12:48 - 28:00We examine Samson's relationship with Delilah, a woman whose name means 'darkness,' and how their transactional relationship based on need-love rather than gift-love led to his downfall.Chapter 3: The Fall: When the Tower Finally Collapses28:00 - 40:00We witness Samson's ultimate downfall when he reveals his secret to Delilah, loses his strength, and experiences the devastating consequences of his presumption that God's power would always remain regardless of his sin.Chapter 4: Redemption in Weakness: The Shadow of the Cross40:00 - 53:27We discover how Samson's final prayer of humility and dependence on God led to his greatest victory in death, pointing us to the greater reality of Jesus Christ who died and rose again for eternal salvation.

Text us your thoughts about this episode. Usually when I review and recommend a board game here on the podcast, I've played that game at least ten times. That way I know the game well and I know it has some staying power. But sometimes, I try a game that's new to me and it really grabs me.  So here's a FIRST PLAY review of an older game that I think you might like!Today we'll take a look at Flipships, a 2017 cooperative dexterity game for 2to 4 players designed by Kane Klenko with art by Kwanchai Moriya published by Renegade Games. Episode Links:See if you can find a secondhand copy of Flipships on the BGG GeekMarket.Read about Dread, the horror RBG that uses Jenga blocks.Episode 12: ICECOOLEpisode 45: Under Falling SkiesMusic:"Open Road," "The Concept" by Purple Planet."Starforged: Fray" by Tabletop Audio.Podcast Links:Order a First Player Token coffee mug.Visit the First Player Token website.Join the FPT Facebook group.Follow @firstplayertoken on Bluesky.Join the Family Tabletop Community on Discord.

In part two, Dame Lynda Topp was fired up at the music awards and attacked the government's spend on the arts. The panel discusses the issues at play with Jesse Austin-Stewart, lecturer at Massey University in the School of Music and Screen Arts, also a composer and music producer. Then, does anyone remember the glory days of the workingmen's club? The cheap pints, the cover bands, the darts. In Hamilton, those days are being reignited with an evening of Pub Olympics. It's a round robin of pool, giant Jenga and more all designed to entice younger members back to the working man's club. The panel talks to Nathan Hartley, manager of the Hamilton Workingmen's Club.

What happens when two people sit down, play Jenga, and accidentally unpack life, relationships, therapy, happiness, heartbreak, healing, success, and self-growth?In this episode of Press Pause, Jouhayna sits down with Dan Chadwick for one of the most honest and unfiltered conversations yet. From divorce and mental health to DJing, personal growth, relationships, criticism, happiness, and learning how to stay true to yourself… this episode goes everywhere.Dan opens up about:• Life after separation• Why happiness is a calm nervous system• Therapy, self-awareness & emotional growth• Building confidence through discomfort• Social media, criticism & modern life• Relationships, love languages & healing• Music, DJing & finding joy againThis episode feels less like an interview and more like a real conversation you'd have at 2AM with someone you trust.Watch till the end for some of the funniest and deepest moments from the Jenga game.

✨ In this heart-opening episode, Kathleen Maxwell shares how her breast cancer journey led her into powerful emotional healing work that helps people release fear, guilt, anger, and self-doubt.

Naming a person is a challenge—but one Melbourne family has made their relatives compete for the privilege of a surname. This week Monz, Stacey and Amelia are talking about the Melbourne couple who settled their surname debate with a best-of-three rock-paper-scissors showdown. So, should we be making all family decisions via a game of competitive Jenga from now on? Plus, the school holiday rule that has parents feeling like they’re back in detention. Amelia shares the enormous effort she poured into an official essay just to take her kids overseas, as we debate if ‘world schooling’ is a genius move or just a recipe for burnout. Also, it’s the show that saved our collective sanity, but behind the scenes, Bluey is the focus of a billion-dollar financial mess. We dive into the trending story and explain the details the internet seems to be missing. And, why does Mother’s Day feel a little bit… off? We’re looking into the unexpected history of the holiday and why it’s okay if you’re feeling more ‘complicated’ than ‘celebratory’ this Sunday. Reccos Amelia recommends Caper Crew; as if The InBESTigators was directed by Wes Anderson. Monz is loving the ‘Parental Path’ video hack to capture your kids’ little voices before they grow up, plus it's a great last-minute Mother's Day gift. Stacey recommends the ‘Do It For Dolly’ campaign and the 13-DOLLY support line for any families navigating the gut-punch of school bullying. If you or anyone you know is struggling and needs to speak with an expert, please contact your GP or in Australia, contact Lifeline (13 11 14), Kids Helpline (1800 55 1800) or Beyond Blue (1300 22 4636), all of which provide trained counsellors you can talk with 24/7. Support independent women's media What To Listen To Next: Don't miss an episode of Parenting Out Loud The Holiday Decision One Mum Regrets & Party Bags Are Officially Cancelled So, Are You A Popcorn Mum? The Lunchbox Theory & Our Complicated Feelings About YouTube The 3-Hour Mum & The Viral 'Jessica' Hack Golden Retriever Dads & The ‘You Come Last’ Rule The Celebrity Who Loves Bad Kids & The Sibling Effect The Bad Habit That's Back & The Politics Of ‘Bagsing’ Connect your subscription to Apple Podcasts What to read: 'My daughter was 8 when she was tied up and left in a bin. The words that came next still haunt me.' 'The 'boring' parent is the unsung hero': 5 things Bluey has taught me about parenting. 'My husband made me cry every Mother's Day. I know I'm not alone.' 'There are 3 reasons my son took my wife's surname. It should be the norm.' A brutally honest review of The Devil Wears Prada 2, a movie that breaks everything. GET IN TOUCH: Share your feedback! Send us a voice message or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au Join our Facebook group Mamamia Family to talk about the show. Follow us on Instagram @mamamia_family CREDITS: Hosts: Monique Bowley, Amelia Lester & Stacey Hicks Group Executive Producer: Ruth Devine Content Manager: Talissa Bazaz Executive Producer: Sasha Tannock Video Editor: Julian Rosario Junior Content Producer: Tessa Kotowicz Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*Apologies to our audio only listeners, but check out the Vodcast on YouTube! It's a riot!Happy Friday everyone!A special episode for you this week! We're trying something entirely new and we had a BLAST doing it!What better way for our fans to experience the Brotherly Love by inviting you into our living room to join in on one of the great joys of life, board games with the family!To kick off the first episode, the Bros are playing with everyone's favorite chaotic block set, Jenga!So pull up a chair to the table, but don't bump the table! It's gonna get wild!Let us know if you enjoyed this episode and we'll give it another go! Leave a request in the comments of your favorite family games!Happy Friday and we'll see you next week!Support our pod with our official merch!https://bropodmerch.bigcartel.com

¡Imagina si un terremoto de magnitud 15 sacudiese el planeta! Para empezar, los edificios serían como bloques de Jenga en manos de un gigante, derrumbándose por todas partes. Los tsunamis golpearían las áreas costeras más duro que una bola de demolición, causando caos por todas partes. Y no olvidemos el suelo mismo, estaría temblando como un cuenco de gelatina en un huracán. ¿Esfuerzos de rescate? Sí, buena suerte encontrando algo intacto para empezar. Básicamente, sería como si la Madre Naturaleza decidiera lanzar la mayor pataleta de la historia, y todos estaríamos tratando de recoger los pedazos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does the world feel like it's coming apart at the seams?  Are you watching the chaos and wondering if the darkness is actually winning? What if everything falling apart isn't a sign of the end, but proof that the end of darkness itself has already begun? Michael delivers one of his most urgent and hope-filled solo teachings yet. The message is clear: what looks like collapse is actually combustion. The darkness isn't taking over; it's burning itself out. And the speed at which it's happening is about to shock you. This isn't doom and gloom. This is a cosmic wake-up call wrapped in love. Key Topics: Why the darkness burning itself out is the greatest news humanity has received in millennia, and how to read the signs all around you right now. The sealed room metaphor: why darkness that has gone too far has nowhere left to go but out, and why every scandal, exposure, and crumbling institution is proof the fire is dying. The single most dangerous thing you can do right now is feeding anger, judgment, or righteous indignation is literally handing your energy over to the darkness. The Monsters, Inc. moment: why laughter, love, and joy are exponentially more powerful than fear, and how to stop being the machine that powers the old world. Why even when it looks like a new darkness replaces the old one, it is temporary, unstable, and already falling, built without a foundation in a desperate rush. How to send love to those whose Jenga towers are crumbling, even when every part of you wants to celebrate their fall. The astronaut lesson from Artemis: how one brilliant soul showed the entire world how to thread the needle between truth and light without feeding the bears. The Transmission in One Truth: The darkness was never actually dark. It was always there to help you see the light. And right now, in this moment of maximum chaos, the most radical, powerful, world-changing thing you can do is simply this: be the light you already are. Join the Inspire Nation Soul Family!

This one is a little different. And a little special.Today I am joined by my husband Rich — the man who has been by my side through all of it. Nearly 34 years together, two recovering alcoholics, kids in addiction, a marriage that almost did not make it, and a healing journey that quietly changed everything between us.We are talking about the new memoir — Recover Your Soul: A Spiritual Journey of Healing from Addiction, Codependency, and People Pleasing — and what Rich experienced reading our story told through my eyes. Rich wrote the foreword before he had even read the book. His willingness to let me share our real story with the world is one of the greatest gifts he has ever given me. Thank you Rich.

Seid ihr Team Hope oder Team Timmy? Endlich mal wieder eine Diskussion über das Social-Media-Verbot! Aber wenn wir uns einig sind, dass darübersprechen wichtig ist, dann machen wir das doch! Und dabei gibt es soviele andere Themen. Dass Ursula von der Leyen jetzt ihre Verifikationsapp fertig hat, dass Meta jetzt “Antifa” zum Terrorwort macht, dass Anthropic Claude zum “Kind Gottes” machen will oder dass Musk Grok nicht unter Kontrolle kriegt. Und dann ist da noch JENGA! bei Bluesky. Schönes Wochenende. ➡️ Mit der "Haken Dran"-Community ins Gespräch kommen könnt ihr am besten im Discord: [http://hakendran.org](http://www.hakendran.org⁠)

If you've ever said, “I can't leave, what about the kids?” or felt yourself minimizing, defending, or twisting reality to survive… this second half is your wake-up call. It's all about breaking out of survivor mode and finally FIGHTING for your life. Aishia Grevenberg is back dropping bombs on the ways women get STUCK: toxic therapy, linguistic Jenga, losing friends, self-blame, comparison traps, and why the fantasy can keep us imprisoned. We tackle the real risks of couples therapy in abusive relationships, how predators build alibis, why women sometimes turn on other women, and what healing actually looks and feels like after you walk away. PLUS: You're gonna get obsessed with Aishia's genius “spreadsheet method” for spotting your own vulnerability patterns (somebody turn this into an app already because I need it!).  SHOWNOTES Why We Minimize Threats, The Real Danger Walking Away vs. Losing Everything: Language Matters How “Kindness” Builds His Alibi Why Women Judge Other Women HARDER—A Self-Protective Mechanism PTSD, Support Groups, & What Healing Actually Looks Like Telling Your Story—How Shame Turns To Strength The Power of Seeing Yourself As Your Own Safe Place Court Battles & Kids—Why The System Isn't On Your Side Overdrive, Proving Your Worth & The Cycle of Explosions Why “Nice Guy Energy” Can Be the Biggest Danger Support Groups, Vulnerability, and Real Healing Spreadsheet Method: How To Map Your Vulnerabilities Identifying Red & Green Flags—What Actually Matters Building Confidence Through New Experiences Radical Self-Love: Rituals, Tattoos, Embracing Your Inner Child Thank you to our sponsors: Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/lisa Cozy Earth: code COZYLISA for 20% off https://cozyearth.com OneSkin: 15% off with code LISA at https://oneskin.co/lisa Follow Aishia Grevenberg: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytherapistlife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytherapistlife/ FOLLOW LISA BILYEU: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact⁠ Tik Tok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisabilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

If you've ever said, “I can't leave, what about the kids?” or felt yourself minimizing, defending, or twisting reality to survive… this second half is your wake-up call. It's all about breaking out of survivor mode and finally FIGHTING for your life. Aishia Grevenberg is back dropping bombs on the ways women get STUCK: toxic therapy, linguistic Jenga, losing friends, self-blame, comparison traps, and why the fantasy can keep us imprisoned. We tackle the real risks of couples therapy in abusive relationships, how predators build alibis, why women sometimes turn on other women, and what healing actually looks and feels like after you walk away. PLUS: You're gonna get obsessed with Aishia's genius “spreadsheet method” for spotting your own vulnerability patterns (somebody turn this into an app already because I need it!).  SHOWNOTES Why We Minimize Threats, The Real Danger Walking Away vs. Losing Everything: Language Matters How “Kindness” Builds His Alibi Why Women Judge Other Women HARDER—A Self-Protective Mechanism PTSD, Support Groups, & What Healing Actually Looks Like Telling Your Story—How Shame Turns To Strength The Power of Seeing Yourself As Your Own Safe Place Court Battles & Kids—Why The System Isn't On Your Side Overdrive, Proving Your Worth & The Cycle of Explosions Why “Nice Guy Energy” Can Be the Biggest Danger Support Groups, Vulnerability, and Real Healing Spreadsheet Method: How To Map Your Vulnerabilities Identifying Red & Green Flags—What Actually Matters Building Confidence Through New Experiences Radical Self-Love: Rituals, Tattoos, Embracing Your Inner Child Thank you to our sponsors: Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/lisa Cozy Earth: code COZYLISA for 20% off https://cozyearth.com OneSkin: 15% off with code LISA at https://oneskin.co/lisa Follow Aishia Grevenberg: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mytherapistlife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mytherapistlife/ FOLLOW LISA BILYEU: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact⁠ Tik Tok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisabilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not what he was elected on, but every single one of these ordeals is moving the the right direction, or already has. Wow, what a difference! "It's like a giant Jenga puzzle."

Hi Mamas,  Grab your free spot for the Calm Connection Parenting online summit happening April 20th-24th: Click here SAVE MY SEAT!  If your closet feels cluttered… overwhelming… or like a game of Jenga every time you open it…  This episode is for you.  As part of our Declutter Your Life Throwback Series, we're bringing back one of the most impactful organizing episodes… with a few bonus tips to help you not only declutter your closet… but keep it that way.  Because let's be honest…  This isn't just about clothes.  It's about:  Mental clutter  Decision fatigue  That constant feeling of being behind  And today… we're clearing it out.   

Episode Title: Solving the World's Greatest Problems: How Collaborative Giving Funds Are Reshaping Impact Capital Guests: Zac Sicher (Fund Manager, Hunger & Joblessness — Solving the World's Greatest Problems) and Rebecca Yuschak (Grants & Operations Lead — Faith Driven Investor) Host: Justin Forman with Henry Kaestner Key Topics: How philanthropic "first-loss" capital unlocks markets that investment capital alone cannot reach — and why the greatest innovations of the last 50 years started with charitable dollars   The Jenga block framework: why attacking one structural pressure point in a complex problem (trafficking, hunger, housing) can cause the entire broken system to collapse   The $14–16 trillion housing gap vs. $592 billion in annual US charitable giving — and why charity alone can never close it   How Solving the World's Greatest Problems Collaborative Giving Funds work as professionally managed donor-advised funds — 100% of contributions deployed into the field   Africa's structural hunger crisis: 378 million people facing solvable food insecurity, a 20x corn yield gap between Zimbabwe and the US, and 30–40% post-harvest food waste — and the market innovations targeting each   Notable Quotes: "There is no shortage of money willing to chase profitable solutions. There is no shortage of money willing to follow. There is an immense shortage of money willing to go first." — Zac Sicher "Capital, when structured properly, has the ability to solve the world's greatest problems. Not exclusively, but to play an important role in solving these problems." — Zac Sicher "Charity alone was never gonna get us there in many of these times."  — Justin Forman

Have you ever watched someone have what looks like an overnight breakthrough; while you feel like you've been doing the work for months and barely moving?This episode of the Mind Change Podcast answers one of the most-asked questions in our community: why do some people change in one session while others take months?The answer lives in your neuroscience, not your willpower.Heather McKean and Kent Baking break down the real reason change feels fast for some and layered for others - and what you can do to set yourself up to win no matter where you're starting from.──────────────────────────────────────

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Let's kick things off with a bang, shall we? Eric G and John Dudley are diving deep into the world of DIY disasters, and trust me, they've got the golden nuggets you need to dodge those wallet-draining catastrophes. Right from the get-go, they're dishing out their best advice on steering clear of those cringe-worthy home improvement fails that can turn your dream project into a money pit faster than you can say “oops!” Whether you're a seasoned pro or just looking to spruce up your pad, they're here to help you avoid the pitfalls that even the most seasoned DIYers stumble into. With tales of unfortunate mishaps and wisecracks that'll keep you chuckling, this hour promises to be both enlightening and entertaining. So grab your paintbrush and let's get ready to make your home improvement journey a whole lot smoother! We've all been there, right? You dive into a DIY project, fueled by caffeine and Pinterest dreams, only to emerge with a masterpiece that looks more like a Picasso gone wrong. Well, fear not! Eric G and John Dudley are here to rescue us from our own creative catastrophes in this episode, where they break down the most common DIY blunders and how to dodge them like a pro. From choosing the right paint (because, seriously, who knew there were fifty shades of beige?) to avoiding those cringe-worthy color clashes, they spill the beans on all the insider tips you need to keep your home improvement dreams alive and well. Plus, they sprinkle in some laughs and clever quips that'll have you chuckling as you revamp your living space. So, grab your paintbrush and let's get to work – we promise it'll be less of a mess than last time! Navigating the minefield of DIY renovations can feel like a high-stakes game of Jenga, where one wrong move could topple your entire living room aesthetic. This week, Eric G and John Dudley dive headfirst into the world of home improvement blunders, chatting with Wendy Glaster about the common pitfalls that turn hopeful DIYers into frustrated homeowners. Picture this: you're all set to paint your living room a bold new color to shake off that winter gloom, but you stroll into your local paint store, armed with a Pinterest board full of ideas, only to be overwhelmed by a spectrum of options that would make even a rainbow blush. Wendy shares her expertise on how to choose the perfect hue without losing your mind or your wallet. Spoiler alert: it involves a lot more than just picking up the prettiest paint chip! From understanding undertones to avoiding the dreaded “apartment beige,” they break down the nuances of paint selections, ensuring you're not left staring at a wall that looks more like a mistake than a masterpiece. But wait, there's more! The conversation takes a delightful turn as they unravel the secrets behind professional painting techniques. Ever wondered why that DIY project didn't quite turn out as you imagined? It's all about the prep work (and boy, do we mean ALL about it!). Wendy's insights on how to properly prep surfaces before applying that dreamy paint color are invaluable. She provides tips that range from the best primers to use to ensuring your surface is ready to embrace that new shade. Trust us, you'll want to take notes, lest you fall victim to the dreaded peeling paint or uneven finishes. And if you think you can wing it with cheap paint, think again! As the episode wraps up, Eric and John engage in a bit of playful banter about their own painting disasters and triumphs. They highlight the importance of hiring professionals when it comes to extensive projects and how to manage expectations with contractors. With Wendy in the mix, you'll find yourself laughing and learning, all while gaining practical advice that could save you from future DIY headaches. So grab a paintbrush (or maybe just a notepad), and tune in to ensure your next home project is a smash hit rather than a DIY disaster!Takeaways:DIY paint projects can turn into major fiascoes if you don't prep properly. Trust me, I've seen it all!Choosing the right color is just the tip of the iceberg; lighting plays a huge role in how that color looks at home.Don't trust that 'paint and primer in one' nonsense; a good primer is crucial for a lasting finish.When it comes to paint sheen, matte is your friend unless you're going for that 'shiny plastic' look.Links referenced in this episode:aroundthehouseonline.comWe kick things off with a hearty chat about the wild world of DIY disasters, those cringe-worthy fails that have us shaking our heads and chuckling at the same time. Eric G and John Dudley dive into the nitty-gritty of home improvement blunders, sharing their sage advice on how to steer clear of costly mistakes. From roofers stacking shingles like they're playing a game of Jenga on a second-story deck, to electrical upgrades that look like they were done by a raccoon with a wire stripper, this episode is a goldmine of cautionary tales. Eric, with his design expertise, reminds us that planning is key. It's all about having a game plan, folks! No one wants to find out halfway through a kitchen remodel that they should have checked the plumbing first. The duo also emphasizes the importance of knowing when to call in the pros. DIY might be a fun weekend project, but there are some things—like electrical work or gas lines—where the handyman's toolkit just doesn't cut it. So grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and get ready to take notes on how to avoid those DIY pitfalls that could leave you with a hole in your wallet and a headache to boot!Takeaways:Planning ahead for your DIY projects is crucial to avoid costly mistakes later on.Always consult a professional when tackling complex tasks like electrical work to ensure safety.DIY fails often stem from not pulling necessary permits, leading to headaches down the line.Using materials that don't meet building codes can create serious issues, so always check before you buy.Remember that just because you can buy it, doesn't mean it's safe or legal to use in your home.Learn from social media DIY disasters, as they can be great cautionary tales for your own projects.Thanks for listening to Around the house if you want to hear more please subscribe so you get notified of the latest episode as it posts at https://around-the-house-with-e.captivate.fm/listenIf you want to join the Around the House Insider for access to the back catalog, Exclusive Content and a direct email to Eric G and access to the show early https://around-the-house-with-e.captivate.fm/support We love comments and we would love reviews on how this information has helped you on your house! Thanks for listening! For more information about the show head to https://aroundthehouseonline.com/Information given on the Around the House Show should not be considered construction or design advice for your specific project, nor is it intended to replace consulting at your home or jobsite by a building professional. The views and opinions expressed by those interviewed on the podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Around the House Show.Mentioned in this episode:InstaBid: Stop losing jobs to slow estimates Turn 3 hours of manual estimating into 5 minutes. Real material prices. Real labor rates. Professional PDF quotes delivered instantly. Try it free at instabid.pro. Use code ATH50 for 50% off your first month. That's instabid.pro — code ATH50InstabidSubscribe to the podcast Make sure and Subscribe on your favorite podcast player or the link below! Podcast Subscribe 2026Check out our New YouTube channel @AroundtheHouse HQ Make sure you subscribe and RING THE BELL for our brand new channel with 4k content! Click the link to take you there! YouTube Around the House HQAround the House Top Products! Producer Jim shares an insider look at Eric G's hand-curated Top 10 products for 2026. From smart locks and app-controlled garage openers to precision tools and energy-saving water heaters, these are the game-changing items Eric personally recommends to make your home smarter, safer, and more efficient. Head to AroundTheHouseOnline.com/Top-Products to see the full list, click the product links for exclusive Amazon deals, and upgrade your home...

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Finally!! We are back to normal day to day operations. Aaaaannd, we are back to tackle a highly requested topic as we begin an (as of now) innumerable part series to discuss both the Dylan Harrison and the Linnea Mills incidents. Swiss cheese, Jenga, and Bigfoot are just a small sample of the parts of the river that this topic leads us down.... Have a listen!

Episode 450 of Friends Talking Nerdy kicks off March with a brand-new theme: History. And not the dry, memorize-the-dates kind. The messy, human, “why do we do this?” kind.The Reverend Tracy and Tim The Nerd dive into the long, boozy tale of how drinking became welded to holiday celebrations. From ancient harvest festivals to Christmas parties that somehow end with someone crying in the kitchen, they explore how alcohol shifted from ritual offering to social lubricant to cultural expectation. Humans have been fermenting things since before we figured out plumbing. That's not an accident. Fermentation was chemistry, preservation, and mild euphoria all rolled into one bubbling clay pot.They break down why certain holidays seem incomplete without a drink in hand. Is it tradition? Marketing? Social pressure? A collective agreement that Uncle Gary is easier to handle with eggnog? The conversation wanders through how Americans tend to approach alcohol—often in big swings between indulgence and moral panic—compared to drinking cultures in parts of Europe and elsewhere, where alcohol can be more integrated into daily life rather than treated like a rebellious event.Then the episode zooms into the historical shockwaves of Prohibition. From the 18th Amendment to the unintended consequences of bootlegging and organized crime, they explore how attempts to legislate morality often create new problems. They also unpack the racial and xenophobic undercurrents that fueled Prohibition, including how anti-immigrant sentiment targeted communities associated with beer culture. History rarely behaves like a clean morality tale. It's usually more like a Jenga tower of good intentions and bad incentives.The conversation then fast-forwards to the War on Drugs and how its policies continue to shape incarceration rates, community trust, and public health conversations today. The Reverend Tracy and Tim The Nerd examine how racial disparities were baked into enforcement and how the ripple effects are still with us. Laws are not just words on paper; they're systems that echo for generations.But this episode isn't about wagging fingers or telling anyone to dump out their liquor cabinet. The heart of the conversation is introspective. When you reach for a drink at a holiday party, is it simply enjoyment? Ritual? Flavor? Community? Or is it covering anxiety, loneliness, or pressure? There's a big difference between mindful celebration and autopilot coping. The goal isn't prohibition 2.0. It's self-awareness.Episode 450 invites listeners to look at their own traditions with curiosity instead of judgment. Because history isn't just about what people did centuries ago. It's about the patterns we're still living inside today.History month is officially underway. And this one comes with a side of fermentation science and social psychology.As always, we wish to thank Christopher Lazarek for his wonderful theme song. Head to his ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for information on how to purchase his EP, Here's To You, which is available on all digital platforms.Head to Friends Talking Nerdy's⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠for more information on where to find us online.

Oliver Dauert is the founder of Wildya, a consultancy helping nature NGOs and nature businesses grow their impact by getting better at marketing, sales, and personal branding. A Berlin native who wanted to be an elephant seal at age five, Oliver studied business specifically to understand how to change the systems driving the biodiversity crisis. After two years of pivots — from eco-anxiety coaching to corporate consulting — Wildya has found its focus helping the people already doing the work get more attention, more customers, and more resources.In this episode, Oliver and Tom discuss:The Jenga tower explanation of why biodiversity loss threatens everything we've built as a civilizationWhy Oliver chose business over marine biology — and whether he regrets itHow he built a community of tens of thousands on LinkedIn by being a messenger rather than a marketerThe business model behind Wildya, from free LinkedIn content to paid bootcamps and one-on-one consultingWhy the CSRD rollback and Trump's reelection killed his corporate pivot — and why the timing was just wrongWhat "rewilding your backyard" actually looks like, and the three steps any individual or business can take todayWhy biodiversity is a long-term business investment, not a cost — and how compounding returns apply to nature just as they do to capitalThe IUCN tool that shows you exactly what's threatening species within 50 kilometers of your homeThe butterfly that nested on his Berlin balcony and what it taught him about positive feedback loopsWhy personal branding isn't self-promotion — and why the messenger matters less than the messageResources mentioned:1% for the Planet directory: www.onepercentfortheplanet.orgIUCN Red List species threat tool: www.iucnredlist.orgWildya community: wildya.com

Ambie and Crystal discuss a couple games they played recently, including Trajan, The Gang, and Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated. Then we talk about what we would put in our board game go bags (if we had them) to take to gatherings that aren't necessarily about board games. 0:00-Intro 0:39-Announcements 2:10-Recent Games - Trajan 10:38-The Gang 18:42-Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated 20:08-BG Go Bags 28:58-Outro 30:02-Bloopers Join our discord Support us directly at https://ko-fi.com/boardgameblitz Or shop at our merch store or our Amazon Storefront This episode was sponsored by Grey Fox Games. Use the code "BLITZ2026" to get 10% off your entire cart. Consolidated Links For the full show notes visit our site at http://www.boardgameblitz.com/posts/431

Welcome to Season 11 of All The Feelings: Still Adulting, where Pete and Tommy prove that being a grown-up is just an elaborate prank we're all somehow still falling for.This week: The culinary industrial complex.Pete wages a one-man war against grocery store architecture while searching for a discontinued cookie with the fervor of someone who's lost far more than a snack. Tommy confronts his mageirocophobia (the fear of cooking—yes, it's real), learns he's been a Meat Man, discovers he's aging into his Fish Era, and finally—finally—figures out how to freeze leftovers without creating a Jenga tower of regret in his freezer.Also: the theological implications of coriander, and why the death of the Choco Taco is actually about mortality.It's 45 minutes of two adults realizing that "What's for dinner?" is the most existentially terrifying question in the English language.Merch Drop: We're Aging Into Our Fish Era • The Omega-3 Wars are Coming for US ALL. ---Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Will the lowering returns on violence along with digital wealth storage lead to an exodus?In Episode #514 of ' Meanderings', Juan & I discuss: The Sovereign Individual book (1997) highly recommended by Bitcoiners, early chapters bogged in Y2K angst versus strikingly prescient calls on digital money, decentralised media and the emerging cyber economy, how portable digital wealth might change the return on violence, what sovereignty means when nation-states still control critical infrastructure, historical arcs the book frames well (church cohesion and bloat, the rise of nation-states, industrial-era labour leverage) and where its predictions remain wavy, why megapolitics is way more interesting than regular politics and whether we will eventually see the demise of the nation state. No boostagrams or support for this week, the beanie remains off!Stan Link: https://stan.store/meremortalsTimeline:(00:00:00) Intro(00:02:12) Why this book is famous in Bitcoin circles(00:03:21) A shaky start: Y2K anxiety and dated worries(00:07:24) Did they really predict Bitcoin? Tech hits and misses(00:11:14) Core thesis: becoming sovereign and limits of the nation state(00:13:32) What the book mostly covers: history and the rise of states(00:16:05) Have nation states fractured? Power, wealth, and timelines(00:18:39) Tech predictions vs social change: flying cars to hoverboards(00:22:45) Numbers vs life: the underestimated intangibles of place(00:25:01) Mobility is hard: visas, citizenship, and places that want you(00:28:58) Libertarian reactions and margin notes in the library copy(00:35:03) Evolution, brutality, and who loses in a sovereign-first world(00:39:41) Public goods dilemma: bins, buses, roads, and who pays(00:41:07) Free market hopes vs missing pure libertarian examples(00:45:15) Effective vs efficient government and outsourcing to markets(00:50:50) Boostagram Lounge and live chat banter (skating and humour)(00:53:02) Key idea 1: Returns on violence across societal stages(00:56:54) Key idea 2: The churchs early positive role and later bloat(01:00:48) From fiefdoms to nation states: merchants, money, and armies(01:05:09) Tech stacks of state power: cannonballs, printing presses, ledgers(01:10:14) Can states still crush you? Blacklists, access, and workarounds(01:17:12) Anonymity needs crowds: mixing, privacy coins, and cash claims(01:20:19) Verdict on portability: harder to police digital than physical(01:25:59) The Jenga tower of ideas: keeping what sticks(01:27:55) New vocabulary: Megapolitical and thinking above politics(01:31:14) Final thoughts, sign-off, and when to listen live Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspodsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcasts/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcastsValue 4 Value Support:Boostagram: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/supportPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/meremortalspodcast

Donny dares Bob to eat a worm. What a nightmare! Or is it? Average Boy has to figure out how to save the day and encourage a new girl in town named Maeve. While Bob begins this episode like a Jenga tower during an earthquake—a little shaky—he ends with his feet on solid ground. You also won’t want to miss a listener from Australia who asks a question . . . and a riddle. Click here to see the new Average Boy book title and cover! Click here to visit the Average Boy Store to gain access to books, devotionals, subscriptions to Clubhouse Magazine, and much more! We'd love to hear from you! Visit our Homepage to leave us a voicemail. If you enjoyed listening to The Official Average Boy Podcast, please give us your feedback.

Donny dares Bob to eat a worm. What a nightmare! Or is it? Average Boy has to figure out how to save the day and encourage a new girl in town named Maeve. While Bob begins this episode like a Jenga tower during an earthquakea little shakyhe ends with his feet on solid ground. You also won't want to miss a listener from Australia who asks a question . . . and a riddle. Click here to see the new Average Boy book title and cover! Click here to visit the Average Boy Store to gain access to books, devotionals, subscriptions to Clubhouse Magazine, and much more! We'd love to hear from you! Visit our Homepage to leave us a voicemail. If you enjoyed listening to The Official Average Boy Podcast, please give us your feedback. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1443/29?v=20251111

It's just over 30 years since the brick game was introduced to the world at a department store in London. Made of 54 wooden blocks stacked into a tower in rows of three by three, each player takes a turn to remove a block from the tower and place it at the top. When the tower falls, the game is over. Surya Elango speaks to its British designer Leslie Scott about how a family game that started in her parent's home in 1970s Ghana, became an international hit.By 1986, the game was successfully introduced into the North America market at a time when video games were taking off. It's now in the US National Toy Hall of Fame having sold millions worldwide. Leslie went on to create 40 other games. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina's Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall' speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler's List; and Jacques Derrida, France's ‘rock star' philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal; and the death of one of the world's oldest languages.(Photo: Leslie Scott with a jenga set in 1983. Credit: Sue Macpherson ARPS.)

It's episode 18, so naturally, the Football Americans pay tribute to the NFL's greatest to ever wear the number—plus, Shek's mom pops in with a birthday story for her childhood neighbor, Mike Ditka (yes, really).‘Heed the Call's' Marc Sessler stops by for a film-nerd showdown on Tarantino vs. P.T. Anderson before everyone dives headfirst into the week's Jerk List.The questions are unending… Where's the defense in Buffalo and Pittsburgh? Is KC fated for another Super Bowl run? Is Christian McCaffrey the 49ers' Jenga piece holding it all together? Should the NFL outlaw on-field jersey swaps? Then, Geoff Schwartz joins for Points Per Game to answer life's great mysteries: Why does college football only have half a white stripe? What's going on with the Jets? How far can Drake Maye take the Patriots? The Colts are good. The Raiders are bad. Everything's right (and wrong) in the football universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices