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Eva Hausman, Silent  co-founder of the Mothers' Day Movement (MDM) joins to remind us that $35B are spent on Mother's Day and what if for the cost of a bouquet of flowers we could change a life? Eva's interest in starting this organization grew out of a column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, where he made the case for moving the apostrophe in Mother's Day so it honors not just one mother, but underserved mothers everywhere. It advocates shifting a portion of Mother's Day gift giving to a carefully selected charity each year in honor of a woman or person they love. Joining Eva is Karen Olson, founder and CEO emeritus of Family Promise, a national non-profit organization. Karen has dedicated her life to transforming the futures of homeless and low-income families. Family Promise is the 2025 Mothers' Day Movement beneficiary.  Since 2011, MDM has raised over $1 million, in maternal health, education, hunger, clean water, and human trafficking, and has been featured in The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and NPR.Here are the topics we covered:0:00 Introductions2:47 MDM Mission4:57 MDM Impact 6:20 Family Promise Choice7:33 Family Promise Mission12:16 Misconceptions about Homelessness13:29 Homelessness Trends15:00 MDM Contribution to Beneficiary16:50 Advice 20-Something SelfMemorable Quotes“It's time to move the apostrophe so that it becomes not just Mother's Day honoring a single mother but Mothers' Day, an occasion to try and help mothers around the globe as well."  Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times “With cutback in programs, homelessness will increase. When we cut food programs and money for housing, people will end up in the streets.” Karen Olson“Engage in what you believe in.” U.S. Sen. Elissa SlotkinHere are the 3 Takeaways: For the price of a bouquet of flowers, we can save a life by donating to MDM. Can you believe that $35 Billion was spent in the US on Mother's Day last year?! 100% of your donation to MDM goes towards helping Family Promise achieve their mission and the 2.5 million children in the United States who experience homelessness. Founded in 1988, Family Promise is the nation's leading organization addressing the crisis of homelessness for families with children. With nearly 200 sites across the country, Family Promise leverages local assets, implements real solutions, and advocates for families facing homelessness. As mentioned in the episode:Donation Link Mothers' Day Movement 2025 Family Promise campaign: https://www.mothersdaymovement.org/2025-family-promiseMore about Eva:Born in 1943 in Bridgeport, CT to Jewish refugee parents from Nazi Germany, Eva was privileged to be the only member of my family to be born in the United States a country her parents adored. Her volunteer activities are many and varied but are primarily related to diversity, civil rights and defending against discrimination. She served on the CT board of the Anti-Defamation League for the last 30 years and received multiple awards for her service. More about Karen:Karen's journey began in the mid-1980s when she first committed herself to the noble cause of advocacy for the disenfranchised and homeless.  Over the years, Karen's efforts have been recognized including President George H. Bush honoring her with the prestigious Annual Points of Light Award, and the New Jersey Governor's Pride Award recognizing Karen's remarkable social service contributions. Ways you can contact Mothers' Day Movement and Family Promise:eMailinfo@mothersdaymovement.orgWebsites www.mothersdaymovement.orghttps://familypromise.org/IG:https://www.instagram.com/mothersdaymovementmdm/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/mothersdaymovementMDMWays to reach Yo:eMail: yo@yocanny.com Public FB group: Girl, Take the Lead!https://www.facebook.com/groups/272025931481748/?ref=shareLinktr.ee/yocannyIG:https://www.instagram.com/yocanny LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocanny/

Welcome to Reddit Podcast.In today's episode of Reddit Podcast, a wild Karen Karen learns what happens when you lie to the wrong person! You won't believe how this one ends! Sit back, relax, and enjoy this binge-worthy Reddit podcast, featuring Karen freakouts, entitled people stories, and pro revenge tales.

Text Carole & AndrewIn this episode: Mike's Rewind  Angry, angry Andrew – Home for Christmas  Dawn's Fact Check  Listener Questions, Comments & Reviews  Michelle's Random Thought – Gingers  Dick of the Week – Drunk Driver gets arrested  Crazy – Tinder date pees in drink  WTF – Story Time- Crabs in airport  Freakout – Woman think a guy tried to run her over  Karen – Karen mother fights her daughter's battles  Dumbass – Woman sicks dog on Kelowna convenience store employees  Checking in with the Politicians – Trudeau staying on  What Does Kevin Think? – Should Canada become the 51st state?  The Doctor's Office – Is fasting a good way to lose weight?  How Smart is Carole? – Sports Teams  The Big Blue Folder  We get played out by Bob Rivers  Out-takes This episode of Grose Misconduct was sponsored by Crystal Glass, Leading Edge Physiotherapy, Ol' MacDonald's Resort, Arena Auto Service, Meathead Butcher Shop, Twin Otter Neighbourhood Pub, Daybreak Photo, The Edmonton Comedy Festival and Mad Lashes @CrystalGlassLTD @LeadingEdgePT @Macker63 @yegcomedy @mikedmonton @DawnsFactCheck @docTonyM  @MeatHeadIncSupport the show

Text Carole & AndrewIn this episode: Mike's Rewind  Happy, happy Andrew – Cameras, Grandchild & Grant Money  Dawn's Fact Check  Listener Questions, Comments & Reviews  Michelle's Random Thought – Waterpiks   Dick of the Week – Woman tries to save a parking spot  Snowflake – Review of Deadpool 3  Idiot – Dogs sniff man  Freakout – Guy loses it over being honked at  Douchebag – Guy in McDonalds drive-thru has no car  Karen – Karen at a KFC  Dumbass – Fake detective hassles Tik-Tocker  Checking in with the Politicians – Trump  What Does Kevin Think? – Why are you charging $60 a day for EV's?  The Doctor's Office – Is applying butter on burns a good idea?  How Smart is Carole? – 1990's Number One Songs  The Big Blue Folder  We get played out by Los Del Rio  Out-takes   This episode of Grose Misconduct was sponsored by Crystal Glass, Leading Edge Physiotherapy, Ol' MacDonald's Resort, Arena Auto Service, Meathead Butcher Shop, Twin Otter Neighbourhood Pub, Daybreak Photo, The Edmonton Comedy Festival and Mad Lashes @CrystalGlassLTD @LeadingEdgePT @Macker63 @yegcomedy @mikedmonton @DawnsFactCheck @docTonyM  @MeatHeadInc Support the Show.

WA Premier Roger Cook has taken to social media and made light of the fact that not a single baby named "Karen" was born in WA last year. This has received backlash from... you guessed it. A Karen! But not a "KAREN Karen"...Karen Windsor has clapped back at the Premier announcing that "Making fun of Karens has to STOP"; and Embers & Katie agree.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karen Conti shares her impressive legal career spanning over 35 years, including her appearances on major media outlets and her upcoming book about representing serial killer John Wayne Gacy in his death row appeals. Highlighting the importance of preparation, curiosity, and seizing opportunities, Jennifer and Karen discuss insights into the challenges and rewards of Conti's career, her approach to legal analysis in media, and the impact of her high-profile case on her professional trajectory. The discussion also delves into Conti's advocacy against the death penalty, her efforts to humanize her clients while acknowledging victims' sufferings, and her effective communication strategies.   Episode Highlights: 06:57 The Unique Experience of Representing a Serial Killer 12:59 The Impact of High-Profile Cases on a Lawyer's Career 21:43 The Power of Being Relatable and Down to Earth 22:21 The Importance of Simplicity in Communication 23:30 Balancing a Successful Career and Community Involvement 24:36 The Art of Time Management and Productivity 36:55 Advice for Early Career Professionals   Karen Conti is a media personality and prominent litigation attorney who has 35+ years of experience, trying hundreds of cases and handling numerous high-profile and noteworthy cases across the country including a U.S. Supreme Court appeal in a ballot access case, as well as securing a large settlement in a wrongful arrest and injury suits and injury suit against the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers. Additionally, she represented serial-killer John Wayne Gacy during his death row appeals. As a ubiquitous media personality, Conti hosted a radio show for nearly 30 years on major Chicago stations and has been the designated legal analyst for WFLD TV in Chicago for over 25 years. She's also appeared as a legal analyst on MSNBC, Fox News, News Nation and CNN and been featured on Tru TV, Under Scrutiny, TODAY, American Justice, Good Morning America and more. She's also been a contributor to The Chicago Sun-Times and a columnist for The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. Conti is also the author of the book, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy.   Connect with Karen: Karen's website: Home | Karen Conti | Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy WGN Radio: Karen Conti | WGN Radio 720 - Chicago's Very Own LinkedIn: LinkedIn Facebook: Facebook Instagram: Instagram Get Karen's book Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row: https://amzn.to/3T4EdI3     Don't just listen to the podcast, it's time to take action and dominate your game!  

In this episode: Mike's Rewind  Happy, Happy Andrew – Going on a Fun Friends Trip!  Dawn's Fact Check  Listener Questions, Comments & Reviews  Michelle's Random Thought – Touching people  Dick of the Week – Woman uses wheelchair at airport  Karen – Karen doesn't like her neighbour's doormat  Liar – Package thief gets called out  Asshole – Guy wants a refund for fries he didn't pay for  Freak-out – Waitress quits her job  Douche in McDonalds Drive-thru  Same douche on Global News  Dumbass of the Week – Old guy gives woman advice  Checking in with the Politicians – President Biden  What Does Kevin Think? – How is Danielle Smith doing as Premier?  The Doctor's Office – Generic vs. brand name drugs  How Smart is Carole? – Medical History  The Big Blue Folder   We get played out by Lindsey Buckingham  Out-takes This episode of Grose Misconduct was sponsored by Crystal Glass, Leading Edge Physiotherapy, Ol' MacDonald's Resort, Arena Auto Service, Meathead Butcher Shop, Twin Otter Neighbourhood Pub, Daybreak Photo and The Edmonton Comedy Festival. @CrystalGlassLTD @LeadingEdgePT @Macker63 @yegcomedy @mikedmonton @DawnsFactCheck @docTonyM  @MeatHeadInc Support the show

On this episode of Work-Life Harmonized, we delve into the journey of Karen Salmansohn, author and executive coach, as she shares how she left "beast mode" behind in favor of "best mode." Her unique works that blend humor with real advice inspired Dana and are about to inspire you too. Discover how Karen moved from working for major corporations to becoming her own boss. Get ready for an inspiring conversation and to live life in YOUR best mode!    Connect with Karen: Karen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karensalmansohn/  Karen's Website: https://www.notsalmon.com/  Karen's Courses: https://www.notsalmon.com/courses/    Connect with Us: Sign-Up for Our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/irZUKM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dana.mahina/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanaMahina TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/danamahina550 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danamahina/ Kyndr: https://dana.kyndrleaders.com/ Website: https://www.danamahina.com/    Intro & Outro Music by Kauilani

This week Karen Newby returns to the podcast to talk about her new book 'The Natural Menopause Method -  A Nutritional Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond'.  Just like her book, this episode is jam packed full of excellent advice on how to use food as medicine as we go through perimenopause into menopause.Karen is a nutritionist who's been practicing nutritional therapy for over 10 years. Her area of specialism is women's hormonal health, especially menopause. Join us in this empowering conversation where we talk about:

Ever wonder how it feels to be a first-generation immigrant? Join us, as we sit down with Karen, a UK-born woman of Vietnamese descent, who takes us along on her journey of carving a unique identity amidst cultural diversity. Get ready to be swept away by her candid narrative; starting from her parent's voyage from Hong Kong to the UK, her own immigration to Canada, the piquant blend of languages she navigated, and the immense impact of Vietnamese communities on her life.Make no mistake, Karen's story isn't just about immigration, it's a testament to the power of open-mindedness, resilience, and most importantly, kindness. Her storytelling will not only fascinate you with glimpses into her family dynamics, how they celebrate their cultural heritage, but will also offer you a front-row seat to her personal growth through cross-cultural friendships. You'll hear about her struggles with language learning, her experiences in the nuanced school system of Montreal, and how she's managed to balance her heritage and a newfound sense of belonging.But that's not all. With Karen, we go beyond the surface, talking about the pressures of family expectations on career choices, and how she found a path that brought her peace. You'll see how her experiences have enriched her personality and instilled in her a sense of belonging. Our conversation with Karen culminates with an ode to open-mindedness, the importance of embracing diversity, and the beauty of forming connections with people from diverse backgrounds. So come, join us, celebrate diversity, and leave with a newfound appreciation for the first-generation immigrant journey. Don't forget to subscribe and share our podcast. Your support helps us create more engaging content.Follow the host and the podcast on Social Media channels below:  My Thick Accent on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mythickaccent/My Thick Accent on Threads -  https://www.threads.net/@mythickaccent?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==MyThickAccent.com - https://www.mythickaccent.com/Gurasis's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamgurasis/Gurasis's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamgurasis/__________________________________________To contact Karen:Karen's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkkarennguyen?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BeZ%2F0q4MsQ6ukh2XkEDnCFA%3D%3DDon't forget to leave a comment or a rating!Stay tuned for the exciting new episode every Thursday and let's continue knowing each other Beneath The Accent!Want to share your story? Or know someone I should invite next on the show? DM us or write to us at Hello@mythickaccent.com

华人女孩Karen黄有一项特殊的爱好——针织。她喜欢设计古灵精怪的毛线制品，然后用双手把它们编织出来。 在疫情期间，为了对抗负面信息，调节心理健康，Karen自学了织毛衣。没想到的是，这项爱好不仅发展成了一份副业，还让她成为当地小有名气的手作艺术家。 但是，她也面临着创意被海外电商剽窃、远隔重洋维权困难的烦恼。（请点击上方收听音频）

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"What do you do when you are unable to change the difficult situation you're in? Even if you can't change the circumstance, you are not a victim. Instead, you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to be victorious in the midst of your hard season." (Karen Harmon)  Karen's Kairos Moment: Karen's pastor CHALLENGED her to praise God FOR the hard season she was in. It felt like lip service, and it felt ridiculous to say out loud; however, the more she did, the more it took root and became her reality.  If we truly believe what Romans 8:28 says about all things working together for our good, then we can praise Him FOR the hardship and not just praise Him for the victory coming on the other side. God will use the situation as one of the steps to get you to the ultimate victory. She began to declare, “God, I praise you for this hip fracture! I know at the end of this, it will be for Your glory and for my good. I may not see it now, but I know You have victory on the other side of this obedience.” QUOTE: “The chains started to break when I started to praise.” (Karen) Karen's perspective changed as she began to see who God is instead of focusing on her pain. She decided to do what she could instead of focusing on what she couldn't (mentoring, writing, etc). So often, we want a quick fix or a checklist, but Karen says we put so much value in the final destination, but the beauty lies in the journey. I despise the message, “You are enough.” Because YOU'RE NOT, but He is MORE THAN ENOUGH. By aligning ourselves with that mantra, when we go through these hardships, we beat ourselves up. “If I'm enough, then why can't I do this? Why can't I conquer this? QUOTE: “YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO! He was meant to do that IN you, FOR you, and THROUGH you.” Shift your focus from wanting to be enough to: “God, you are more than enough!”

Kara of Lemons to Lemonade Furniture share her seven tips on how to recession proof your furniture business.Main:Kara  - Lemons to Lemonade Furniturehttps://www.instagram.com/lemons_to_lemonade_furniture/Ad:Lauren - Freshly Flipped Furnishingshttps://www.instagram.com/freshlyflippedfurnishings/Tip:Mandy and Chris - Fresh Studio Furniturehttps://www.instagram.com/freshstudiofurniture/Question:Elizabeth - RePickshttps://www.instagram.com/re.picks/Karen - Karen's Paintbrushhttps://www.instagram.com/karens_paintbrush/Jen Green - Green Spruce Designshttps://www.instagram.com/greensprucedesigns/Lori - Three Havens Vintagehttps://www.instagram.com/threehavensvintage/Accolades:(From) Amanda Baber - The Thrifty Flipperhttps://www.instagram.com/thethriftyflipper/(To) Shona Murphy - Made by Murphyhttps://www.instagram.com/madebymurphy1/Bloopers:Susan - Little Lou Designshttps://www.instagram.com/littleloudesigns/Zibra:Website: Zibrahttps://www.enjoyzibra.com/Podcast Page: Zibra's Before & After Furniture Refinishing Podcasthttps://www.enjoyzibra.com/pages/the-zibra-podcast-season-5

Visit The Culture Works if you'd like a free download of Chapter One, The Duck SyndromeWe hope the time you spend with us will help remove the stigma of anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.In this episode you  will learn: - Why you should let go of life as a highlight reel - Why it's okay to just do your best and leave it there - 3 Ways Personal Development Creates a Positive Ripple Effect - Why you should talk to yourself the way you talk to a friendOur guest today is Karen Allen, the founder of 100% Human and a thought leader in the areas of mental wellness and personal growth. She is the author of “Stop & Shift: The Mindset Reset that Changes Everything.” Karen began her career in human resources and talent acquisition, leading countless training sessions, new processes, and change initiatives. However, at a young age, she suddenly became a widow when her husband was murdered. On the quest to rebuild her life, she discovered healthy habits and lifestyle changes that helped her find her way back to a whole heart and strong mind. Now, she shares practical advice that provide skills to help people push through the challenges in life and work.Advice from Karen:Karen's takeaways: Have a gratitude practiceF - feel it and face itU - unplugN - nurturingK - Keep perspectiveUntil next week, we hope you find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.If you love this podcast, please share it and leave a 5-star rating! If you feel inspired, we invite you to come on over to The Culture Works where we share resources and tools for you to build a high-performing culture where you work.Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams. They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies. Visit The Culture Works for a free Chapter 1 download of Anxiety at Work.Learn more about their Executive Coaching at The Culture Works. christy@thecultureworks.com to book Adrian and/or Chester to keynote

It's finally happening! The Discovery Call Podcast is talking about… discovery calls! And I couldn't think of a better person to do this with than my wonderful and brilliant client: Karen Laos. Karen Laos is a Communication Expert and Confidence Cultivator, leveraging 25 years in the boardroom and speaking on the world's most coveted stages, such as Google and NASA to transform missed opportunities into wins.    She is fiercely committed to her mission of eradicating self-doubt in 10 million women by giving them practical strategies to ask for what they want in the boardroom and beyond.   As mentioned in the episode, she was on my dream Trello board to be on my podcast, so this full-circle moment means a lot. Listen and find out how you can confidently show up for your next discovery call!   Connect with Karen: Karen's Website: https://karenlaos.com/  Karen's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenLaosConsulting/  Karen's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosofficial/  Karen's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlaos/  Download “9 Words to Avoid and What to Say Instead”: https://karenlaos.lpages.co/words-to-avoid/  Karen's podcast “Ignite Your Confidence”: https://karenlaos.com/podcast/  Book a discovery call with Karen - https://karenlaos.as.me/DiscoveryCall  Connect with Dani: Website: https://www.daniellehamlet.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danihamlet/  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danihamlet Want to have a coffee chat with ME!? It will be fun. Click here

Indeed there is no one way or “right” way to go from corporate to entrepreneurship. In today's episode, I interview Karen Laos and we compare notes about our own journeys. If you're on the fence, or ready to jump, into being your own coach or consultant, this is THE episode to listen to. Karen Laos, a communication expert and confidence cultivator, leverages 25+ years in the boardroom and speaking on the world's most coveted stages to guide corporations and individuals with her tested communication model to generate consistent results for women leaders as a coach, corporate trainer, and keynote speaker. Karen is the author of Trust Your Own Voice: Growing Your Influence Through Confident Communication, as well as the host of her highly-ranked podcast, Ignite Your Confidence, equipping women to stop holding back and start taking their seats at the table. She is fiercely committed to her mission of eradicating self-doubt in 10 million women by giving them practical strategies to ask for and receive what they want in the boardroom and beyond. Connect with Karen: Karen's website Karen's podcast: Ignite Your Confidence Karen's book, Trust Your Own Voice,  on Amazon 9 Words to Avoid - and What to Say Instead - free pdf   Connect with Erica: Instagram @erica.goode.cpa  LinkedIn: Erica Goode, CPA Newsletter sign-up: https://www.ericagoode.com/newsletter-signup ***FREE Tax Deduction Guide***

This week on the say YES to yourself! podcast Wendy sits down with Karen Allen  author of Ooh la la! French Inspirations for Entertaining and Travel.They talk about their shared love of France and the immense gift it is to share it with loved ones.  Listen along as they share their past and future travel plans to France, where they invite you along, so you too can immerse yourself in all things French.Get to know Karen:Karen was born in Salem, Oregon, and graduated from the Bassist Institute (now Art Institute of Portland) located in Portland, Oregon, in interior design. She worked at Henry Meyer Interiors and House of Design, and managed the interior design studio at Meier and Frank before owning her own company, Design Etc. located in Corvallis, Oregon, for over 40 years. She loves designing home interiors, photography, gardening, painting, flower arranging, reading from her library of 3,000 books, being with her grandchildren, shopping, cooking, and traveling.  She started traveling to France 25 years ago and fell in love with all things French. Thirteen years ago Karen decided to embark on writing her own book which took 10 years to make. Her book is an authentic celebration of French inspiration and French expression. It is beautifully illustrated with her own photographs, her clear recipes and step-by-step instructions. It offers French-loving home cooks both simple, delicious recipes and complex, show-stopping masterpieces. All cooks will appreciate her original menus and creative recipes. French classics such as Cheese Soufflé and Lemon Tart sit side-by-side with inventive surprises like Toulouse-Lautrec-inspired “Snake Cake” and Paëlla from Nyons. Infused in each dinner party menu are delicious cocktail recipes for every palate, from a Green Fairy to a Cocktail Coco Chanel. Ooh la la!Instagram: oohlala_frenchinspirations Website: Ooh la la!Her Book: Ooh la la! French Inspirations for Entertaining and Travel————————————————Say YES to joining Wendy for her winter experience: PWH On the Road in Woodstock, Vermont PWH On the Road in Paris, FranceConnect with WendyInstagram: @phineaswrighthouseFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/phineaswrighthouseWebsite: https://www.phineaswrighthouse.com/ 

Adventures by Disney offers many itineraries all over the world. In this episode, Karen Rubel, a travel agent with Marvelous Mouse Travels, discusses her recent Adventures by Disney experience to Portugal. To reach Karen: Karen.Rubel@MarvelousMouseTravels.com Visit our website: www.MarvelousMouseTravels.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/happiestplaceonearth/?ref=share

This week on Deep Space Nine, trapped three hundred years in the past, Sisko, Bashir, and Dax find themselves confronting one of the darkest hours in Earth's history. With history itself at stake, Sisko must risk all to see that the Bell Riots reach their inevitable conclusion, even if it means sacrificing his life. Elyse isn’t able to join us this week This week we’re joined by a friend of the pod, Karen - Karen is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, and appears on the Alberta Advantage podcast. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

Property management can be one of the more complex decisions when it comes to investing. Do you save money and ensure the job is done exactly how you want it by self-managing, or do you invest in someone with experience and save yourself time, energy, and headspace? Today's guest, Karen Lane, breaks down property management in bite-size chunks, so whether you're deciding between property management vs. self-management or hoping to pursue property management already, this episode is perfect for you.Karen has been in property management for commercial real estate for most of her career, so she's seen it all—including a dead deer carcass in the middle of a shopping center parking lot. She's worked with private investors on both coasts and internationally. Karen's abundant experience has made her a wealth of knowledge and the perfect person to learn from. While she has thrived in the property management space, she now hopes to beat analysis paralysis and find her first investment. Karen goes over what it means to be a property manager and how to become one. She also talks about the nuances of juggling the different relationships you need to maintain as a property manager. Today's episode is the free property management masterclass you don't want to miss. In This Episode We CoverWhat it means to be a property manager and how to know if you have what it takesFinding and vetting a property manager to make sure your goals and expectations alignHow to keep the landlord and the tenant happy and find a middle groundManagement agreements and how to understand the property management fees that come along with itHow to check for hidden fees as a landlordThe most significant things to look for in a property manager to make sure your relationship is successfulThe ideal reporting structure, the cadence, and what you should includeAnd So Much More!Links from the ShowAshley's InstagramTony's InstagramBiggerPocketsReal Estate Rookie PodcastReal Estate Rookie Facebook GroupBPCON2022BiggerPockets ForumsRookie Landlord BootcampBiggerPockets CalculatorsBuildiumAppFolioQuickbooksA Step-by-Step Guide to Estimating Rehab Costs w/ Master Flipper & Investor James Dainard (Part 1)Finding Contractors, Renovation Red Flags, and Estimating Rehab Costs (Part 2) w/ James Dainard18 Deals in 2 Years AND a Full Time Job with Kevin Christensen Connect with Karen:Karen's Property Management CompanyKaren's Company EmailKaren's WebsiteKaren's EmailCheck out the full show notes here: https://biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-203Interested in learning more about today's sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Check out our sponsor page!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After a night out on October 29th 2011, Karen Karen swift went missing from Dyersburg, Tennessee. Weeks after she went missing her body was found in the Bledsoe cemetery not too far from her home. After Karen's body was found secrets about her life would start to emerge. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crimeaholicspodcast/support

“It takes a lot to unlearn all the stuff that we've been taught in the past. It takes some research, but also, you just got to continually work on your head. And I know if you've got a fixed mindset, it's not going to change.”    Do you ever think about how words have a big impact on little children? Karen remembers being a 6-year-old girl and how being labeled “overweight” by her doctor led to a lifetime of struggle with weight. Through therapy and learning about intuitive eating, she's able to enjoy a happy relationship with food and an even happier relationship with her husband and her community. Listen in as she talks to Dr. Katy about her story.   [00:01 - 14:55] Growing up with Body Image Issues Karen talks about how she was defined by her weight since childhood “Helpful” comments are sometimes actually harmful Her struggle with vision loss How eating gives you bad days The turning point for Karen [18:16 - 30:22] The Journey to Body Respect “All foods are the same” and having this paradigm shift  Finding the good things about your body The challenge of changing other people's perspective on body image Karen's advice for people who are just starting to think about intuitive eating How Karen's husband supports her process [30:22 - 38:55] Wrapping up!  What Karen is grateful for about her body Rapid-fire questions with Karen Karen's insight on the importance of a compassionate community around you   Key Quotes “It's okay. It is. And it is totally okay. And it's normal. And it's interesting that our body image does tend to kind of go back and forth and up and down like that. And oftentimes it correlates with how we're feeling about other things in our life." Dr. Katy “It's really not that much about the food, that it's more about the feelings… I've read over and over food doesn't fix feelings. That's true. But what if the feelings can fix the food? “ - Karen   Resources Mentioned The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx   JOIN the Non-Diet Academy! Feel worthy at any size, and to live a life of total freedom! https://www.nondietacademy.com    Get My FREE guides for Food Freedom & Body Acceptance: https://www.nondietacademy.com/freebies    Let's get connected!  Instagram: @katyharvey.rd Facebook: KatyHarveyRD Website: https://katyharvey.net   LEAVE A REVIEW + and SHARE this episode with someone who wants to find their own freedom with food. Listen to previous episodes on Spotify, Itunes or Libsyn. 

You're feeling good. You're doing all the right things, but then something happens. Your body starts working against you! You start to gain weight. You no longer feel amazing, and you wonder what went wrong. Sound familiar? If so, then you've gotta listen to today's episode! Karen Martel joins me to chat about letting go of the next quick fix, gaining empathy for your body and what you should be doing to optimize your body and life!We talk more about…Karen's health journey How little women know about their own reproductive health (and why it's NOT your fault!)What stress can do to your body even when you're not aware of itThe one piece of the puzzle that you might be missing when trying to heal your bodyWhy hating your body won't get you anywhereWhat you need to do to figure out what's going on with your hormones (hint: most conventional doctors don't do this!)Finding the lifestyle diet that's RIGHT for you and your bodyKaren's favorite diet for most peopleNot looking at doctors for all the answers (and what to do instead)Implications of birth control that are normally overlooked One big thing women need to be ok withAnd more!More about Karen:Karen is a Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach and Women's Weight Loss expert. She is the founder of the revolutionary program, On Track, a women's weight loss and hormone balancing program. She is the host of the top rated podcast, The Other Side of Weight Loss. Through her own health struggles, Karen realized there was a lack of information out there. Because of this, she was determined to share her knowledge to others with a bold new approach to women's health and weight management. Karen's passion lies in helping women breakthrough weight loss resistance and find their weight loss code through diet variation and hormone optimization. She is a health leader and researcher determined to revolutionize weight loss for modern women.   Connect with Karen:Karen's website: https://karenmartel.comKaren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenmartelhormones/Karen's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karenmartelhormonesKaren's YouTube: Karen MartelKaren's Podcast: The Other Side of Weight LossJoin Karen's amazing group coaching program that has helped hundreds of other women just like you here: https://karenmartel.com/ontrack/Connect with me:Dr. Tabatha's Website: https://www.drtabatha.com/Dr. Tabatha's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTabathaDr. Tabatha's IG: https://www.instagram.com/thegutsygynecologist/Dr. Tabatha's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGutsyGynecologistThe Functional Gynecologist's Guide to Balancing your Hormones:https://lcvjtpc8.pages.infusionsoft.net/@Dr_Tabatha was hacked on Instagram! Please report and UNFOLLOW that account. Please follow the real Dr. Tabatha @thegutsygynecologistWe can't let evil win!!

You know the type, loud as a motor bike, always asking for a manager in a store fight. We've all had an experience or two with a wild Karen.Now a little known fact; Karens can be male or female. Whether it be a soccer mom trying to give us an expired coupon or an old man barking at a waitress about "earning her tip", these menaces are everywhere. Join us as we reminisce on our days in customer service and try to work through our shared retail trauma.

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My company, Luxe Capital, will be starting a giving program in the form of donating to a non-profit organization every time we close a deal.  Affordable housing is such an important part of our lives as we work with selling and investing in properties.  We chose Bridges to Change as the first organization to lend our hands to at this time.    Let's dive into their story! [00:01 - 06:44] Opening Segment Karen shares about her role at Bridges to Change Program Manager, Mental health program What Bridges to Change does Who are their clientele A holistic approach to getting a person to live their best life The impact of Bridges to Change to people   [06:45 - 14:25] Let's understand how the housing program works A 6-9 month program focused on treatment How can people apply to BtoC's program Karen tells her journey How Bridges to Change helped Karen out A prescription from a doctor took the life out of Karen Karen's treatment and amazing process of recovery Why people are drawn to take more painkillers   [14:26 - 20:08] Bridges to Change's impact Developing a Strong, Thankful Mindset Karen's children were her prize Karen's life at Bridges to Change Getting to walk along someone's journey What clients really need for good results The cure for someone is that thing which they really need What is really needed right now   [20:09 - 22:58] Closing Segment   Bridges to Change is the only safe place for most people to live on throughout their lifetime.Connect to Karen by shooting her an email at kkeller@bridgestochange.com   Don't forget to check out www.bridgestochange.com for more info on permanent housing, healing, recovery, and helping someone else to live their best lives. Make sure to donate to get involved in this awesome opportunity to lift others up.    WANT TO LEARN MORE?   Connect with me through LinkedIn   Or send me an email sujata@luxe-cap.com   Visit my website www.luxe-cap.com or my YouTube channel   Thanks for tuning in!     If you liked my show, LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe! Tweetable Quotes   "What we find is that, usually when someone is homeless, they're not taking their mental health medications, and a lot of times it's getting them unstable in their meds again.” - Karen Keller   "We really just walk beside them, helping them put their world back together and become a productive, happy member of society again.” - Karen Keller   "I didn't want to live that life anymore.” - Karen Keller   "I couldn't do this work without my lived experience.” - Karen Keller  

Lisa is tired of the bullshit that's been happening over the past two years with the use of the name Karen. She wants to start a movement called the anti Karen Karen movement because we're so over it! How about we use all those other great words out there to describe a situation. We have bullied the poor people named Karen long enough! Lisa is gaining Tik Tok fame via the fithoop! That stupid thing is paying for itself! Sam feels the work week should only be four days long! Her heart is broken because the Wendy show is being cancelled, and Lisa is concerned for the Queen; she got Covid! Ellen might be secretly listening to the podcast; she was talking about condiments' coincidence, we think not! Lisa wants to ride a hippopotamus, Sam thinks she could be a professional pillow fighter, and Lisa wants to add a Boom Baby mini bar, but Sam thinks it should be called a Lisa sized bite! The conversation gets really moving with talk of microwaves, difficult food, Lisa's honey trap post, FB Tuesday, the Taylor Swift course, Ryan's younger girlfriend, 2/22/22 day, frozen penis, tropical drinks, your best karaoke song, Lisa's question corner, popcorn, McDonalds does Tex-Mex, Pancake Tuesday, Hank the Tank, what fast food chain are you keeping, dishwasher etiquette and thing's Lisa oughta know. The I shake my heads are insightful and noteworthy. If you love what you hear you can support the podcast by following the links below! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/ishakemyhead You can also find us on: Twitter www.twitter.com/i_shakemyhead  Instagram www.instagram.com/ishakemyhead Facebook I shake my head with Lisa and Sam Tik Tok i_shakemyhead Buy our merchandise at www.ishakemyhead.threadless.com We are proud to be a part of www.podfixnetwork.com 

Lisa is tired of the bullshit that's been happening over the past two years with the use of the name Karen. She wants to start a movement called the anti Karen Karen movement because we're so over it! How about we use all those other great words out there to describe a situation. We have bullied the poor people named Karen long enough! Lisa is gaining Tik Tok fame via the fithoop! That stupid thing is paying for itself! Sam feels the work week should only be four days long! Her heart is broken because the Wendy show is being cancelled, and Lisa is concerned for the Queen; she got Covid! Ellen might be secretly listening to the podcast; she was talking about condiments' coincidence, we think not! Lisa wants to ride a hippopotamus, Sam thinks she could be a professional pillow fighter, and Lisa wants to add a Boom Baby mini bar, but Sam thinks it should be called a Lisa sized bite! The conversation gets really moving with talk of microwaves, difficult food, Lisa's honey trap post, FB Tuesday, the Taylor Swift course, Ryan's younger girlfriend, 2/22/22 day, frozen penis, tropical drinks, your best karaoke song, Lisa's question corner, popcorn, McDonalds does Tex-Mex, Pancake Tuesday, Hank the Tank, what fast food chain are you keeping, dishwasher etiquette and thing's Lisa oughta know. The I shake my heads are insightful and noteworthy.If you love what you hear you can support the podcast by following the links below!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/ishakemyheadYou can also find us on:Twitter www.twitter.com/i_shakemyhead Instagram www.instagram.com/ishakemyheadFacebook I shake my head with Lisa and SamTik Tok i_shakemyheadBuy our merchandise at www.ishakemyhead.threadless.comWe are proud to be a part of www.podfixnetwork.com

Welcome to the Women of Golf Show! Tune in Tuesdays - 9:00 AM Eastern This week begins with a great discussion in the No B.S. Zone"5 Keys To Hitting Crisp Irons". Then later their joined by special guest: Karen McMeekin, 20 Year LPGA Class A Member. More on Karen: Karen is the Midwest section treasurer and a 20 Year LPGA class A member. She grew up in NJ , and has been a resident of Tennessee and Florida the past 36 years. Former school teacher with a BS in physical education from university South Fla. Founder/President A Time 4 Paws no kill animal welfare organization in Crossville Tn. Certified animal cruelty investigator and operate a thrift store and adoption center and embarking on a low cost spay and neuter clinic. Teach independent contractor at local courses. Previously coached HS students. Currently offers junior and clinic lessons as well as private.  Join us LIVE Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:00AM Eastern http://www.blogtalkradio.com/womenofgolf Or listen on any of these social media platforms:  iTunes , Stitcher, Tunein, Castbox, TalkStreamLive & Spotify.

00:00.00 Max Shank Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to Monday mornings with max and Mike Hope you're having a great start to your week so far and we're going to get going with drugs. This week we're going to talk about drugs drugs inside your body drugs outside your body when to use them how to use them and let's just start with the fact that you're probably using all kinds of drugs every day and the word drugs is almost a little bit taboo. But we're gonna break it down step by step and go through what the most common drugs are and how to use them to your advantage rather than have them use you mike thanks for joining me here. 00:46.78 mikebledsoe Yeah I was yeah, thanks for having? Oh yeah I didn't have I had you or do you have me? we have each other. Okay I always find it interesting I I remember one of my favorite people. Ah, he's like 50 years sober and you know when I first found out he's like ah I've never had a beer I've never had a cigarette I've never had like I limit my coffee all this stuff and I was like he's like yeah I'm sober I don't do anything I'm like oh you so full of shit like year quick. It's just so funny where like people want to draw the line of like you're ah you're using chemicals all the time to change your state and a lot of people use something like sugar as a drug or whatever to say that you've never done that. 01:33.75 Max Shank Oh. 01:44.36 mikebledsoe Is is really ridiculous, but your state is always shifting the chemicals in your body are always shifting and ah some of these chemicals are going to have a much more noticeable effect than others and and it's good to just be paying attention. To what's happening in the body and I think some people just are drawn to more intense state changes than others and there's nothing wrong with that. So yeah, I'm excited to talk about this today because I think that even people who've never done. Quote unquote drugs would get a lot of benefit from this conversation. 02:24.35 Max Shank Well we got to start with a little definition then because what's what's a drug are we saying any substance that changes your state set is that a truck Aspirin's a jut. 02:30.60 mikebledsoe Um, do. 02:37.49 mikebledsoe Yeah I would for me like um. 02:42.17 Max Shank Aspirin's a drug does it really change your state though very much I mean it has an effect. No question that is the most used like if if it meets our definition I believe that's the most commonly used drug unless you start including coffee and then I think that might be. 02:45.98 mikebledsoe Yeah, it does. 02:57.39 mikebledsoe Yeah I think coffee is probably the most widely used drug. It's got psychoactive properties. Some drugs are not as psychoactive but even Advil is psychoactive just to a degree in which is not noticeable the average person if I take something like an Advil. 02:59.15 Max Shank Even more popular. Ah. 03:16.40 mikebledsoe I May note I'll I'll probably notice something whereas somebody most people just would never notice that and some people are gonna hear that and go you're crazy. No not like that. But I noticed well it's like um, it's like all these people that are taking you know they they. 03:21.00 Max Shank So you take so you take Aspirin and you see purple dragons start flying around the room. 03:35.38 mikebledsoe They take pain killers or whatever and it's like they don't realize how much of it's inhibiting their mental state their their cognitive ability. You know I'm just killing the pain. It's like now you're killing the pain and your cognitive ability right now. So ah yeah, so like there's there's. 03:41.49 Max Shank Moon. 03:48.71 Max Shank Yeah. 03:55.11 mikebledsoe 1 thing I want to point out too is there's no such thing as side effects like this whole like ha but side effect the idea of a side effect is such propaganda. It's such. It's such a great marketing tool to make you believe that. 03:57.69 Max Shank Oh I was just gonna say that go on go on. 04:13.14 mikebledsoe We don't want this to happen and it probably won't happen but it could happen. It's some fucking liability deal. It's not true. It's like and if you go into Science Science people. Love talking about science but like in science there really is no side effects. There is they're just effects. 04:19.60 Max Shank Well, it's marketing. 04:28.23 Max Shank There are just effects well look at look at Viagra Viagra was heart medicine the side effect was hard cock now that's the main effect. 04:33.30 mikebledsoe Had a side effect. It's an effect. 04:40.11 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, so. 04:46.10 Max Shank The marketing department got hold of this and we're like this ain't heart Medicine guys. This is our golden ticket out of here. 04:53.11 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, so ah so I think that and then there's people's perception of drugs is very interesting like I was saying in the beginning is there's like this line that gets drawn and of course there's the the personal line that gets drawn but it. It's always influenced by society's standard and so we have like this Fda thing the food and drug administration who ah the people there are responsible for telling doctors and and stores people who retail. But they can and cannot sell and also what kind of claims you can and cannot make and so a lot of times we go. Oh you know when it gets to the point where the Fda has to be involved now that's a drug or if it's a pharmaceutical now that's a drug or if it's illegal if the Dea which said. Different administration. The drug enforcement administration. But by the way was highly underfunded for decades and the only way they could make money was by stealing drug dealers money. But so their incentives for busting is a little going back to what you always talk about. 05:48.78 Max Shank Oh. 06:08.30 mikebledsoe The incentive set up so the Dea is in charge of putting certain drugs on a with on the schedule or schedule 1 schedule 2 schedule 3 so they're in charge of and there none of them are voted into office. They're all. Ah. 06:26.43 Max Shank Oh. 06:26.87 mikebledsoe Appointed and so you have this random group of people that are saying these are the drugs that are okay and these are the drugs that are not okay and the drugs that are okay aren't really viewed by the public at large as drugs and so people who are like oh I'm sober. Pretty much. It basically said I don't do the drugs that the Dea says not to do. But I'll drink my coffee. All you know this and that. 06:56.50 Max Shank It's really interesting because the laws of the land or crime and punishment to certainly influence the culture to a certain effect right? and. 07:06.69 mikebledsoe Well, some would say that that law is culture like it's It's the it's the basis of culture because it's it's using language to tell you what you do and don't do. 07:14.40 Max Shank I Mean the chapter I mean isn't that kind of what religion is too. That's why that separation of church and State is so damn important right? because it's all what we inherited from the last guy you know it's this. It's this long chain. 07:24.23 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 07:33.76 Max Shank Of parents and parents can be like ah a preacher ah Pope or a president and they're like this is good. This is bad behave yourself. We won't get mad kind of thing like and that's basically how it works right. 07:49.33 mikebledsoe Right. 07:51.41 Max Shank So we have this idea that there are some good drugs and some bad drugs and the best example because you got to know that there's a lot of things that are done in a very short-sighted fashion and it's really hard to. Calculate all the costs of certain things like I live in California and I believe up until like 3 to four years ago marijuana was like totally illegal right? something like that. Let's say within the last five years right 08:26.77 mikebledsoe What was medical it was medical was it but it's been recreational flight maybe 3 4 5 years but before that was was like medical in the late 2000 yeah Yeah, 50 years 08:28.16 Max Shank My friend who is a bouncer for. Yeah, okay, but let's say illegal for a long time and and like yeah and like a and like a pretty bad punishment I think too like you would go to Jail Yeah, that's whack yo. 08:49.65 mikebledsoe There's people still doing time. 08:53.94 Max Shank Ah, but my friend who was a bouncer at a bar. He said when there was a reggae concert. They would be full capacity and people would just be in a cloud of smoke and there would be no violence. There would be no car accidents and then when there was a country music band This is a guy who is bouncer there for 20 years at this local bar country music goes. Ah the bouncers are. Running around all evening. There's fights breaking out everywhere. People are beating each other up. There's drunk driving and it's like you gotta you gotta check reality a little bit because what is causing more immediate problems alcohol or Marijuana Now. That's what I'm saying. It's so hard to calculate right? because it's not.. It's not about the substance. It's about the behavior and I think that would be like a good thing to just remember regardless of whether it is a drug that daddy says is good or a drug that daddy says is bad right. 10:01.57 mikebledsoe But but I yeah totally agree and I think that people and there's just a big problem in our society today is people. 10:04.10 Max Shank It's more about the behavior than the substance itself. 10:16.80 mikebledsoe Are more likely to judge something as good or bad based on what some authority figure has has to say than witnessing the results for themselves right? when it comes down to how much violence happens in regard to alcohol versus weed. It's it's incredible. The. 10:20.24 Max Shank Of course. 10:35.59 mikebledsoe The violent the aggression goes up with alcohol with we to go it tends to go down and ah you know I'll I'll take a high driver over a drunk driver any day of the week so I don't I don't drive I don't drive either way. But I'll tell you what. 10:46.74 Max Shank Right? And both are fun. Um, right. 10:54.64 mikebledsoe I'm pretty athletic when I'm high I'm not very athletic when I'm drinking and I'm pretty sure that carries over to you know maneuvering a vehicle. 11:05.70 Max Shank Here's another here's another quotable phrase though. The devil is in the dosage if you want to do some endurance Work. You get a little high if you want to lift something real heavy. You just get a little bit drunk, not not over the top. But there's going to be a different effect. You're going to go sympathetic nervous System. You're going to go. You know, get ratcheted up into more fight or flight mode with a little booze in you a little liquid courage and if you light up. 11:32.60 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 11:38.62 Max Shank The cannabinoid system by ingesting inhaling whatever some thccbd you're going to be able to push through those normal endurance plateaus that you would hit psychologically. So. There's a big difference between a. Using drugs and using drugs and that can be a fine line for some people but you know along with the devil is in the dosage and the substance is less important than the behavior you got to reconsider. Ah. Labeling some is good and some is bad and like does it really make sense to throw like a drug addict in jail or a drug user in jail I mean part of the reason you know I'm kind of switching topics here a little bit but a lot of reason that gangs have power is because. Certain special drugs are illegal and if they were legal there would they wouldn't have any there would be no incentive to go buy drugs from a you know a thug with a machine gun if you can go get it at Cvs like you got to imagine the. 12:39.83 mikebledsoe No. 12:55.91 Max Shank Benefit to society would be much better. 12:57.34 mikebledsoe Yeah, people don't really think about that I I think a lot of people miss that and that making a product black market making it Illegal. You're gonna get arrested for it. It's hard to make that actually creates some some interesting variables. But. 1 of the things that it creates is it creates violence because now now you have to be secretive about It. You have to form gangs to protect Yourself. You've you've got to do all these things and then in addition to that The ah the. 13:26.74 Max Shank 4 13:36.58 mikebledsoe Dosage starts getting really concentrated like cocaine becoming illegal. They were trying to figure out how do we? How do we make it more potent so that we can because shipping right? We got to hide it and ship it and so we got to make it more potent. The same thing is happening with weed over the years is an ounce today is not what an ounce was twenty thirty years ago because we can. We can you know, go further with this. So 1 thing I've noticed is when something's on the black market just becomes more concentrated a huge example of this right now. Which is in the news which is fentanyl and fentanyl I think is whether like the number one killer of ah of americans right now the number 1 or number 4 in certain age group. Okay, but it's it's in which is incredibly high but it's. 14:19.98 Max Shank Ah, in a certain in a certain age group in a certain age group. Yeah, which is insane. No no one is thinking like I want to do some fentanyl today like. 14:31.50 mikebledsoe It's probably because no one's thinking that but it's cheaper than heroin at this point right? So and heroin exists because Opium was yeah but. 14:37.40 Max Shank Well and remember heroin is bad but diamorphine the prescription grade heroin totally fine, right? So it just like depends on the context huh. 14:49.70 mikebledsoe But smoking opium was became illegal and so they had to concentrate it and make heroin and then just keeps getting more further and further concentrated because it's black market or or it's tightly controlled. 14:58.25 Max Shank And that black market creates a lot of wealth too I mean look what happened I mean I I'm so skeptical of almost any of the history I read now because I just feel like it's ah it's a huge. It's probably a huge web of lies. 15:11.20 mikebledsoe As you should be. 15:17.54 Max Shank But I remember all these things that I've read anyway. So I'll just throw that caveat out there but the Kennedys weren't they huge bootleggers of alcohol. 15:24.96 mikebledsoe Huge yeah, they were well. They were responsible for bringing from Ireland they they were like importing their big importers of ah I forget you know whiskey or whatever, whatever it is. They're they're bringing it from ah I think it was Ireland so yeah there. 15:35.10 Max Shank That's what I'm saying. 15:41.25 Max Shank I Mean one one. 15:44.10 mikebledsoe And they had a they had like a a monopoly on it. So yeah, it built Ah ah, a lot of wealth. 15:49.41 Max Shank Well and something about human nature people. Love booze that's been in our history for thousands of thousands of years we've been drinking booze and smoking different herbs tobacco ah hashish. 15:57.12 mikebledsoe Oh yeah. 16:07.96 Max Shank All these different things. So it's not like it's inherently good or evil it's it's what you do with it. It's not about the substance not about the behavior and if you have that kind of compassion for people who use drugs that you may be thought before are evil. Then you'll also be able to have more compassion for yourself when you start recognizing how many drugs you might be using that are like the good drugs or the okay drugs because frankly, if you give a 12 year old a 15 year old or a thirty year old ah, tiktok and they do a few hours of that every day that's probably more destructive than getting a little high and doing some yoga or something you know I'm saying so it's all it's more about the the context. 16:56.14 mikebledsoe Yeah, well I think we're talking about there too is the difference between exogenous and endogenous substances right? So a behavior driven as an but it's not a substance. There's an external event. 17:05.94 Max Shank Um, well it's still an external. Yeah, that right. 17:14.83 mikebledsoe That's causing your body to create a substance if you sit there on Tiktok for 3 hours your your blood chemistry is likely looking very different 3 hours into it than beforehand. 17:24.29 Max Shank There's serotonin. There's like a dopamine on and off you're just in this and oh like I call it story time roulette basically because it's 1 screen at a time you shut out the whole rest of the world you develop hardcore tunnel vision. 17:30.58 mikebledsoe Yeah. 17:41.19 Max Shank Your vision gets where vision like is going into the fucking basement because people are looking at stuff that is less than twenty four inches away from them a lot and look I'm I'm not one to say that's right or wrong. But if you don't start. Looking at things farther away and going on walks and taking in long distances your eyes will completely deteriorate anyway to your point. Yes, if you're consuming media and the hormone cascade is the result of that I would still call the. Scrolling media the drug that is initiating the production of endogenous compounds. 18:26.50 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, and the same for the the runners high. It's like when those things where I meet someone's like oh I've been sober I'm like but you run like ten twenty miles every other day or every day to stay sane right? They're like oh I gotta like you know. 18:32.68 Max Shank Yeah. 18:43.23 Max Shank Okay. 18:46.49 mikebledsoe I Don't work out if I don't get that hot and if I can't work out hard if I can't push it I got someone gets an injury and they they're you know they just they get depressed and everything just goes in the shitter because they can't exercise I'm like you are so addicted to those neurotransmitters and those hormones. Um, and one of them being a nadoide na nadoide is this is the substance your body creates when you get into that runner's high that that what most people call endorphins. It's not endorphins. It's a nadomite and. Um, it's part of the Endo Cannabinoids system and that's it's really powerful because it's it. Ah, it's very similar and it and it attaches to the cell the same way T Hc does and so. This is why you'll find people who like to roll jujitsu or go for long endurance events and they smoke weed Beforehand or have an edible beforehand because not you get that you get that runner's high immediately. So I get running and I actually everyone knows when they slip into that Groove. It's. 19:57.33 Max Shank Like a flow. Yeah. 19:57.98 mikebledsoe You know you get like five miles in you get into the flow smoke some weed beforehand you'll be in flow in about 60 seconds and then when your body also pumps out the nadomite on top of that t hc that's a it's a double dose of runner's high so you know ah that that. Nothing wrong with that I enjoy doing that myself. Another example of this would be I've gone to the peruvian mountains and I fly in and immediately someone hands me a big bag of coca leaves. So just raw coca leaves which is not cocaine cocaine. Takes coca leaves and they break it down into ah such a concentration that you know it's it's incredibly higher. But I take the coca leaves I I wrap some stuff in there. It's some enzymes that basically help it break down better I chew on it and now like it does elevate my mood. And I can deal better with elevation. It keeps you from getting elevation sickness. So little little things that ah that are just I think about those 2 things kind of together because. 20:58.13 Max Shank Ah. 21:11.70 mikebledsoe Ah, it's just a simple thing to add in. That's gonna give you more of what you already were We're gonna get or wanted. 21:18.98 Max Shank Well and the devil's in the dosage. You know people are really fond of the term biohacker and I got to say it sounds like a really cool thing to be and I guess ah you know my. Natural state with things is one of mockery. So I like can't help but make fun of anything that sounds silly or you know people who say forward ambulation instead of walking it just like makes me laugh I can't take them serious. Ah, but the the nuance the context. Ah, using these substances to your advantage I mean imagine trying to build a business without a cell phone and imagine imagine imagine trying to build a business with a cell phone and a cell phone is another dopamine machine. You can use it or it can use you social media same thing you can use it or it can use you a little bit of Coca leaves boom mood elevator ah less sensitive to the higher altitude. Fantastic! ah. Tiny bit of booze wham maybe a deadlift pr a little bit of marijuana and maybe your best five mile runtime ever or flow state. You know, better music. Whatever um, so the context matters so much the dosage. Matters so much and recognizing that anything that is changing your state that way. It is a drug and the good and evils of it should be determined on an individual basis rather than like broad strokes with law in my opinion. You know that's that's my perspective is that the cost of having like a war on drugs which seems like it's just been a colossal failure to me is way lower than the benefit across the board. 23:21.85 mikebledsoe Yeah I mean the the intentions of the war on drugs I mean there's a lot of speculation that you know had more to do with just suppressing minorities and and things like that and it's a great excuse to put people in Jail maybe shut up protesters. You know that went after psychedelics in the. 23:32.45 Max Shank Yeah. 23:41.22 mikebledsoe Sixty S because of the Hippie movement And yeah, there's a lot of that going on and the other thing. Um. 23:45.80 Max Shank I mean it seems it just seems crazy that there's a such thing as a nonviolent crime in the first place but to have nonviolent crimes like go to jail instead of like compensate who anyway the whole thing is like. 23:55.68 mikebledsoe Right. 24:04.71 Max Shank Crazy to me. Yeah. 24:05.20 mikebledsoe It's insane. It's insane. Well, the other thing is I wanted to mention this earlier which is prohibition people don't if we look at prohibition of alcohol that happened you know a hundred years ago in the us ah, it created Al Capone and all these gangsters and. All this and they were having shootouts with the cops they lift prohibition on alcohol. What? what happens the gangs just kind of go away like like they they may still be operating but they're not nearly as violent. Maybe they they probably moved to a lot of them that were in the business of trafficking. Alcohol probably moved into opium or something else that was illegal. I mean if you watch narcos which is based on true story. But you know obviously it's hollywooded up. Ah you know they basically go oh the weed's not paying enough. We'll move to cocaine and so. Those types of people who are always looking to play at the edges are always going to go there no matter what the substance is that that is black marketed. 25:09.64 Max Shank No no question. It's hilarious that phrase crime doesn't pay but when you define something as a crime it pays handsomely like who's who's who's more wealthy than a Colombian Drug lord. 25:17.60 mikebledsoe Ah, crime pays when you don't get paid Just don't get caught. 25:29.59 Max Shank I mean unless you own a pharmaceutical company then you have legal drugs even more widespread use and you're even richer like those are some of the richest people on the planet. You know you look at you look at the different. Okay so is Netflix a drug is watching. 25:39.83 mikebledsoe Oh yeah. 25:47.96 Max Shank Media for hours and hours a drug. Yeah I mean there's no surprise that people gravitate toward maximum curiosity and maximum safety simultaneously. It completely satisfies our 2 most primal desires. Ah, that define human beings we want safety so you're inside your house or wherever you're in your own little world looking at your telephone or watching the screen and then you see the most outlandish you know game of thrones narcos like ah people like. Raping and killing each other and you're like I'm safe at home and I'm watching this like crazy dragons flying around everywhere. It's it's makes sense to me and look what are the the top companies in the world right now. It's ah like Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix. What's the g fang can't remember right now I should know that Google thank you I guess I could have googled it and figured that out. But that's so isn't that incredible. 26:49.90 mikebledsoe Google. 27:00.84 mikebledsoe That's now a definition in the there's else Google now made the dictionary by the way. 27:03.90 Max Shank Well I mean what's incredible about that is that they have avoided um, being considered a monopoly that's that's incredible. We're gonna get too far off track I take it back. We'll save it for another time. 27:21.71 mikebledsoe Alright I'll bring it back but let's get back the drugs so I like the classified drugs in the 2 categories. So when I talk to people and they get they they want to challenge me on like yeah I'm like. 27:21.84 Max Shank We we can't do this. We have to stay on drugs. Um. 27:40.57 mikebledsoe On on drugs and by the way I had someone on Instagram the other day just posting trolling me in the comments telling me I was ah was addicted to drugs and shit and it was pretty comical. They got blocked fuck them but they I mean you can talk a lot of shit to me in the comments I'll I'll respond back I enjoy. Back and forth. But when you just start when it starts getting ridiculous and there's not actually a conversation you're getting blocked. This person is probably listening to this I have a few trolls that know way too much about me which is which is a little creepy but um. 28:04.53 Max Shank So. 28:10.62 Max Shank Um, ah must make you feel pretty special. 28:17.83 mikebledsoe not not the kind of special I want to feel but ah when I get talking to people and they go ah, you know they they start lumping in say alcohol and heroin and with lsd in the same category of drug and I go. These are not the same. They're the opposite of each other to to put them in the same category and the category is drugs and I think it's good that we're using that name for this show and using it in this way because it really should be normalized I think the only way is to do it is to say drugs are. Fine and we need to talk about the drugs inside this context when you're growing up. There's like don't do drugs and all these things fall into the same thing so we're programmed to drop everything in the drugs category and there's 2 different types of drugs. There's drugs that make you feel less and there's drugs that make you feel more. And there's a lot of those are just like two sides of a spectrum. It's a concept. There's so much in between I mean when I think about using drugs I think of myself inside of a sphere and I can go not just three hundred and sixty degrees but three hundred and sixty degrees times three hundred and sixty degrees go in any direction I want to push my state into but there's largely. There's feeling less drugs and feeling more drugs and the feeling less drugs would be heroin alcohol these things that sedate you in a way that that it it. Keeps you from having the full human experience right? right. 29:56.79 Max Shank Reduces your sensitivity and others increase your sensitivity like alcohol and weed are the perfect examples that I think most people can understand. 30:03.78 mikebledsoe And so most people I think they associate or I'll talk to someone about having mushrooms and they go why I don't want to like you know I blacked out once on alcohol and I'm like this is you're not going to black out on mushrooms for one and but you're. Your awareness on alcohol is being so depressed and your awareness on on mushrooms is being if you've never done it if you've never done any psychedelics. It's It's an expansion that you'll never you'll break through multiple levels of expansion of consciousness that is indescribable. And the to to put these 2 things in the same category I think is a a huge disservice and it's a great way to just not learn about it. You know people just they just would rather not know shit about it and just. Avoid it because someone told them to yeah, it is easier. Okay, um. 30:59.36 Max Shank Well, it's easier to do that. Also right drugs are bad. Okay, you know, ah I mean the less nuance and context there is the less clear your understanding is going to be the more likely you are to just follow the closest. Authority figure. Um, so this this idea that we go into an a a meeting and then out in the hallway you got chain smoking and donut eating I mean look if you if you're an alcoholic and you. 31:19.82 mikebledsoe Accurate. 31:37.67 Max Shank And you like having that term attached to you and maybe you used to like beat your get drunk and beat your wife every night and now instead you chain smoke and eat donuts I think that's an improvement. Okay maybe we can do better but it's still a step in the right direction but this this whole idea. Of like substituting 1 addiction for another and that could be a whole um, different thing I've had some great talks with people about addiction and the hardest part is to define. It. The best definition I've heard is ah. Repeated behavior that gives you an outcome. You don't want that That's my favorite definition for addiction. So regardless of what the substance is go for it. 32:16.51 mikebledsoe E. Well I would say yeah people are one of the things I've noticed in my coaching with people is they get addicted addicted to emotions you know they they get addicted to to guilt. And because they're addicted to guilt I mean just experiencing guilt a terrible outcome. But yeah I think was it a? Ah, What's his name toll. 32:46.91 Max Shank It's like the familiar pain versus uncertainty a lot of people go into that. 32:57.87 mikebledsoe Be here. Not be here now that's Ram Das Ah not Ram das the power of now. Well he talks about the pain body and basically there's certain things that you're basically getting addicted to this is I associate this with being accepted or loved or whatever it is or. 32:58.60 Max Shank Ram Das Tolly is a power of now. 33:06.41 Max Shank Threat. 33:16.22 Max Shank Right. 33:17.83 mikebledsoe This is how I learned to survive when things became stressful or I'm afraid that I'm not going to be loved so now I need to respond in this way and so we we get addicted to there's this emotional pattern that is wreaking Havoc on our lives and so we're addicted to it So there's it Oh fuck. Yeah. 33:23.85 Max Shank Right? Well you ever met someone addicted to drama. You know what's you know? what's funny I've never heard. 33:37.74 mikebledsoe Get away from them. But we're all dick. But. 33:42.42 Max Shank A group of people who says I don't want any drama more than people who are addicted to drama like ah a person who's not addicted to it a person who actually doesn't want trauma doesn't even use that phrase but a person who's addicted to it. 33:59.97 mikebledsoe Totally totally. 34:02.10 Max Shank Always uses that phrase. It's one of the most and and I I'm like addicted to peace I like like drama is uncomfortable like I want to avoid it at all costs I don't mind a little confrontation but I don't want to. So for me I was just like whoa. This is insane that someone could actually want this like this and continue to either consciously or subconsciously manifest these situations of hardcore drama. 34:34.76 mikebledsoe Yeah, well we're we're all addicted to drama I mean if you if you buy into any narrative at all. It's because you enjoy the drama of it people watch Tv because they enjoy drama yeah, where what. 34:36.34 Max Shank Very exciting. 34:48.98 Max Shank You. 34:52.42 mikebledsoe What is the character they are playing in that story. They may be a more dramatic character. They may be emotional emotionally unstable. They may pick more fights but we're all living in a drama but you know what character are you playing in that drama and so. 34:55.36 Max Shank So. 35:02.42 Max Shank Right. 35:12.25 mikebledsoe You're kind of like the sit back and probably only step in when it's absolutely necessary kind of character whereas Karen Karen is out there just yeah and then you got Karen out there picking fights in the parking lot. 35:16.69 Max Shank I try to be like a Buddha guy. 35:25.83 Max Shank Well and and that can make you feel like you are solidifying your self image or your ego right? So a lot of these back to drugs. 35:34.96 mikebledsoe Yeah, all right? Let's get back to drugs. Um. Ah, the eye roll I don't think so I. 35:41.98 Max Shank If we had just done some cocaine before this. We'd be more focused. Yeah I've never I've never tried it but I've heard. It's really fun. Um. 35:52.25 mikebledsoe Yeah, ah and a handful of times. Ah I don't think the the repercussions aren't worth the fun compared to other drugs. Other drugs are just superior. It's kind of like when you start doing mushrooms. Why people start eating mushrooms like. 36:01.15 Max Shank Oh. Yeah, ah. 36:11.28 mikebledsoe Why was I drinking so much you mean on Friday night I could have eaten some mushrooms instead of drinking 12 beers. Wow the next day is that's pretty cool. 36:16.96 Max Shank Yeah, yeah, the the when you when it comes time to pay the Piper mushroom certainly seems a lot kinder than alcohol. Ah, how about? So I mean. 36:30.61 mikebledsoe Ah, just about anything's kinder than alcohol. 36:36.86 Max Shank Ah, is sex a drug. What do you think there are sex addicts out there also known as males. 36:40.20 mikebledsoe I Mean we're talking about it causes ears out, you know. Um, well you know, Ah, there's a certain chemical response happening in the body when you're having sex and you know sex with different people is going to give you different responses as well. So You know you might be addicted to a certain fetish or. 37:06.27 Max Shank And. 37:08.96 mikebledsoe Something like that. Yeah I mean I know people personally who identify as sex addicts and you know it was giving them a result they did not want and there's I shit man I I've had some sexual experience a lot of sexual experiences that ah. 37:14.35 Max Shank Ah. 37:28.19 mikebledsoe Would put in the psychedelic category of a lot I if you would ah if if you pulled the what's happening to my my dick out of the equation and I would say I don't know if I'm having sex or if I'm having a dmt experience. It's it's It's very. 37:30.83 Max Shank Oh. 37:46.99 Max Shank Sublime. 37:48.80 mikebledsoe Very similar Actually the older I get the more similar they become which is actually really exciting because I can just take get a little hit. Yeah well part of it is learning how to channel that energy. So most dudes are just. 37:51.59 Max Shank Um, it's an in intersection. That's pretty cool. Well, it's kind of like the meditation and mushrooms. Ah convergence right? like you were saying you can be. 38:06.31 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 38:09.88 Max Shank On mushrooms can get this like crazy effect. But um, it's kind of like a shortcut in a lot of ways where you could get there with lots of meditation and releasing the ego and really being here now and being present. It's just that most people need a jumpstart of some kind. To allow themselves to get there to cut through all of the ego and trauma and things like that and that's why um, there are such big changes after just 1 experience right. 38:41.48 mikebledsoe Yeah, huge benefit. There's most psychedelics and I like you you brought up meditation because you know you got this guy this monk sitting on a hill meditating for 30 years to achieve a state. Come back with some wisdom to share or just keep to themselves because I mean most of that's just for you anyway or you know I spent I spent a decent amount of time in South America with 39:03.44 Max Shank Yeah. 39:15.49 mikebledsoe Ah, the Ayahuascaros and what chimaro like healers down there is how they they go by by the way. The word shaman is ah is a northern europe like siberian word. It's not even south american so sometimes people give me like a shaman like you're appropriating I'm like no. 39:27.16 Max Shank Oh. 39:33.98 mikebledsoe You're appropriating. Are you from Siberia no all right shut the fuck up. But anyways, ah it's funny what it's it's mostly like white. Ah ah, whatever they call. Ah. 39:40.20 Max Shank Where do you find all these people good god. 39:48.92 Max Shank Hey I'm not white I'm pink Dude don't look at me. Yeah, um, yeah. 39:52.28 mikebledsoe You are definitely pink. You're not white I'm pink too. Ah now the ah ah new ages. It's like all this the new age crowd. You know they it's like oh so worried about appropriating I'm like you're appropriating shit left and right more than anybody just chill out. 40:11.70 Max Shank Um, isn't it isn't appropriation just called a appreciation or or sharing I mean like what if it's if it's good. It's good. 40:11.11 mikebledsoe Ah, but ah, it's pretty. Yeah I'm like I'm like anytime and when I when I hang out with we'll we'll say quote unquote shamans in South America because that's what people are are gonna I think understand better when I hang out with them and I'm like oh I'm like I'm gonna take back what I learned to. So where I live and they're like perfect bring it back to where I live show people like oh you're appropriating I'm like the only people we should be caring about is the people who I got it from and they're telling me to spread the word like this is how culture works this is how evolution works evolution works by appropriating what someone else has created. And then making it your own so people ah people people get upset because some people are really good at making money off of the thing they learn from another tradition and those people are poor I get that that's a whole other but it's it. That's such a deep conversation. Maybe. 40:56.14 Max Shank I Mean if you like it I think you'd probably do it. 41:06.84 Max Shank Ah. 41:13.97 mikebledsoe Maybe we just do a show on appropriation later. But ah so but I go down. Yeah yeah, but ah, you go down to South America they've been sitting with this medicine as thousands of years it at least if not longer thousands of years 41:16.74 Max Shank Expect a lot of eye rolling for that one for me. 41:33.21 mikebledsoe And you know they it's ah I equiate equate them that the knowledge that they get when um when a lot of these South American Healers have been introduced to Concepts of Buddhism and hinduism a lot of that they were completely ah ignorant of. Those philosophies of those religions and practices until the last couple decades because while the internet and people started traveling for these things and brought their own. They're like they like oh what we're doing down here is the same as buddhism like it's the same. 41:58.70 Max Shank Right. 42:10.39 mikebledsoe The the same wisdom is being accomplished in a much shorter period of time and ah, it's very interesting that people will will put meditation on this pedestal while using all sorts of drugs unknowingly and but. Using psychedelics as something is like oh you, you want to lean on that like human beings have been leaning on and evolving alongside psychedelic medicines for you know, probably tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years so the idea of like. Not using this tool that we've been using for so long that's going to expand my consciousness seems kind of ridiculous. 42:52.41 Max Shank Well, it's all ridiculous because everybody is trying to alleviate a pain that they're feeling and the most primal pains are ah hunger sexual desire. The desire for safety and then as human beings. It's even a greater challenge because we have to harmonize this concept of meaning and mission and perhaps legacy and so that's why there's such a huge amount. Written passed down for generations. You know you have the bible. You have the doo de jing you have the book of the buddha you have these ah shamans in different parts of the world. I mean we have been trying to figure out how to live for a very very long time. In a way that is is comforting that pain that we feel and that discomfort is the fire for achieving your goals also and if you squelch that fire with ah. You know, tiktoks or heroin. Well I mean I guess that's where you're going to go I mean there's no worries. That's just it's going to work out differently than someone who uses that fire of discomfort like ah a Martin Luther King right and he does he goes the complete opposite way and he takes that pain and he transmutes it into something that he can share with the rest of the people and and that's why the word appropriation makes me laugh so much because it's all about sharing. Ultimately, the reason we write stuff down is so we can share it and the different pains that people feel may have different specific origins but they'll they're all rooted in some of those primal desires your ah desire for acceptance. You know, childhood et cetera growing up attracting a mate like all these different things like how can you um, use that pain for action rather than just quench that fire in a destructive way right? So it's it's very It's very interesting to see why people use drugs and really how they use them. 45:27.25 mikebledsoe Yeah, and this is why it's very important to pay attention and this is why I like psychedelics is because Psychedelics taught me to pay attention and in days after a mushroom experience and. Being concerned that I was going to lose whatever wisdom I had had ah received in that first ceremony and then days later still paying better attention to my state than I ever had before and that's that's part of the point of meditation too. 46:00.96 Max Shank 20 46:05.43 mikebledsoe Especially if you look at something like Viposana Meditation it's all about being present with the sensations in your body being and that would be sight smell hearing as well and so most people when they start meditating me do eyes closed. But there's also eyes open meditation but it's ah it's a more advanced thing. Yeah, it's it's pretty advanced. Ah. 46:22.72 Max Shank You can meditate with your eyes open that sounds pretty advanced. Maybe you can put a training course together for that level one. How to sit still with your eyes closed. Level 2 How to sit still with your eyes open. 46:39.77 mikebledsoe Ah, yeah, yeah, So the the point is the point isn't the ceremony. The point is not when you're sitting in Meditation. The point is bringing that level of awareness and that ah being present with. Your body the the world around you and yourself and all these things as you move throughout your day and so noticing I'm not that familiar with Karma yoga. 47:04.93 Max Shank That's karma yoga right? isn't that karma yoga. That's you as I understand it's bringing the awareness of meditation to every task that you do and the first time I really got it the first time I really got it was 47:15.20 mikebledsoe Um, oh you're right. 47:21.25 Max Shank When I was ah cleaning the leaves out of my pool with a long skimmer and I'm not proud of it. But you know just days before that revelation I had considered killing my neighbor's tree. So The leaves wouldn't fall in the pool I was like I was like what I was like why is this happening to me and anyway I didn't kill the tree I just started to really I I know it's ridiculous. It's all relative isn't it only absolute is relativity but I was really annoyed. 47:47.20 mikebledsoe Why is this happening to me. Ah. 47:58.55 Max Shank That the leaves were falling into my pool and the indignance of it all was in retrospect quite hilarious and so instead of like you know, murdering a tree. Ah I started to really enjoy the process of skimming the leaves out of a pool so it was like my little water Zen Garden and. 48:13.51 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 48:17.59 Max Shank The more you can bring that awareness to everything you do the more clear you get on who you really are and what your mission is what you stand for you know what your value and values are the easier. It is to bring that level of awareness to all that stuff you do and. It's no surprise that we have figured out a lot of this stuff in the last several thousand years and I think if you can if you're looking for wisdom I would look at stuff that has lasted a really long Time. So if you take ancient, wisdom and modern Tools. You'll probably be at the most peace and very wealthy if you take modern, wisdom and ancient Tools. You will probably mess yourself up. Pretty bad. 49:04.37 mikebledsoe Agreed agreed. Yeah so paying attention helps to know what drugs you may be taking whether it be caffeine or shallow or deep breathing or whether it's lsd. 49:21.17 Max Shank A. 49:22.60 mikebledsoe You're gonna if you're paying attention to your state from moment to moment you're gonna you're gonna know what you should do more of in less up or when you should do things and when you should not do things but I to me takes a lot of practice ah paying attention while intentionally putting yourself. 49:41.25 Max Shank The modern tools can help my my favorite addiction I mean look food sex. Yeah I'm all on board. But Youtube is 1 of my addictions because you can have a true expert on. 49:41.26 mikebledsoe And these state changes. So ah, the modern tools mean out. 50:00.46 Max Shank Nearly any topic take you through their whole thought process on anything I can I can go down the Youtube Rabbi a hole for hours and hours. That's why I use the modern tech to ah, click it off at a certain timeframe. 50:05.16 mikebledsoe Yeah. 50:18.58 mikebledsoe E. 50:20.31 Max Shank So you know when I'm on my phone. Ah 5 minutes only if I'm on my computer I get 15 minutes and that's it and at least that pause will allow me to. Ask the question of is this really what I want to be doing right now. So that pattern break alone can be tremendous. That's why I was telling you before we got started here um on the door of the pantry in the kitchen There's a little sign that says pattern break. 50:38.56 mikebledsoe Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 50:56.39 Max Shank So before you open the pantry with all the snacks in it. There's a little sign that essentially reminds you intention before ingestion like is are you going here because you're hungry. Are you going here because you're sleepy. Are you going here because you're bored. Are you going here because you're deeply uncomfortable. And I think food is the most difficult drug because you cannot practice abstinence permanently like you cannot quit cold turkey cold turkey you must continue eating food. So like you could quit heroin forever. But you can't quit food forever. There's there's a give and take there. So the fact that you always have to have a toe in there makes it very challenging and look It's no surprise. What do we have like over half of the people obese ah something like that I get I get it I get it hey we we won the game of life. 51:47.30 mikebledsoe Something like that insane. 51:55.94 Max Shank We're dying of being too fat instead of underfed in this country that's look we won nice job. Everybody now let's consider how how we can swing the pendulum back a little bit. Food is tough. Food is a tough one but it all comes down to a few of those basic principles. 52:05.41 mikebledsoe Yeah, well said. 52:15.40 Max Shank Intention before ingestion. It's not about the substance. It's about the behavior. Um, you had a couple good ones too. But it's community matters a lot I think who you associate with the the 5 52:30.76 mikebledsoe Um I I yeah I've noticed in the last couple years the impact of community because I I'm ah I'm a very social person by nature. But. 52:33.58 Max Shank The 5 monkey rule. 52:49.29 mikebledsoe Um, a very social person by nature and I've also just like the downfall of that is being too open at too many different energies and and a lot of times like I almost feel guilty about not almost I do there are times where I feel guilty about. Denying people my my attention knowing that by giving them my attention. It's bleeding me dry and ah yeah, just over the last few years I'd say I'd say like the last four years I've gotten 53:11.00 Max Shank And. 53:24.89 mikebledsoe Very intentional about my community and the people I surround myself with and not only does it change my experience from moment to moment as I'm in those communities with those people and and having my cup filled but my behavior that comes from being and and community with certain people is just. 53:43.43 Max Shank Ah. 53:44.77 mikebledsoe I Like how I am I like who I'm being I like my behavior much better when I place myself in certain communities and I so you know work with a lot of people and the thing that I've noticed you know people like I want to solve my. 53:54.30 Max Shank Um, totally. 54:04.90 mikebledsoe Financial problems by doing all these things I need more systems and business and I need no marketing and I'm like yeah you do need to know all that stuff. But you're not going to really be able to implement it if you're if there's no Community. You're not going to loan wolf your way into the good behaviors. There's There's some people that may be able to accomplish what they want as a lone wolf but it's not gonna be as enjoyable and and it's and it it may not they may accomplish their thing but may not be happy at the end. 54:31.39 Max Shank Also Also, you don't get extra points for doing anything all by yourself as I once thought there are no extra points or Credit. You're given at the end I always thought if I did something all on my own people would be like wow. Look how amazing he really is he You don't get any of those extra points at the end. It's total waste. 54:52.82 mikebledsoe No okay community is a huge leverage point I mean we see this in the gym people come in to lose £15 but they stick around why community they want to be around people who are like minded we have similar goals. 55:09.10 Max Shank The the. 55:10.83 mikebledsoe Have similar values and you know I like putting myself in community where they value something that I want to value more you know, ah people people say they value things They don't actually value. They. They they tell you they value things they want to value but most people if they haven't reached their goal if if their values were already aligned with their goals. They have had accomplished that or beyond such a trajectory reaching it. They would be obvious that it's just happening. But people want to be different which means they have to change their values. You have to change your values to reach your goals. So Yeah and I yeah you just go in their House. You can see and so community I like to choose to hang out with people who value. 55:50.00 Max Shank Um I think actions speak louder than words in that case, you're hundred percent right like it's easy to see what someone really values. 56:05.81 mikebledsoe Something more than I do that I that I want to value more and so I use community to shift my values because you know I hang out with people who make more money than me they they have spent more time valuing dollars than I have. 56:21.19 Max Shank Ah. 56:22.58 mikebledsoe They spend more time thinking about it and they think about it in ways that most people don't and so just by putting yourself in that environment. You don't even have to be talking about money. But you're just like it's the way they're being. It's there's an osmosis going on. 56:26.89 Max Shank Oh my God oh. 56:41.13 Max Shank Dude, that's so true I remember that was the first you were the person who mentioned that to me and it stuck with me was ah you know don't necessarily just listen to what people are saying notice how they are being. And I thought that was ah, an interesting distinction that I'd never really considered before and the atmosphere or the climate in the company you keep is totally different and money is a perfect example because you got to be so careful. Um. Hanging out with people who have a scarcity mindset around money like you probably want to hang around with people where five ten grand is not a lot of money if you want to be wealthy like if ah if people are telling you all the time about the thing they bought for. 57:22.14 mikebledsoe Down. Yeah. 57:31.70 Max Shank $5 off coupon I mean I'm not saying that makes you bad it just means that there's still like ah missing the forest for the trees or pennywise pound foolish kinda thing going on there like you don't want to be in that environment of scarcity versus abundance. 57:40.21 mikebledsoe Yeah, when this goes back to yeah and this applies to you know drugs as well drug abuse. So if you around a bunch of drug abusers. You're gonna keep abusing. 57:57.00 Max Shank Totally. 57:58.20 mikebledsoe And the the money one I think is a good one because people can almost everybody can they understand it. They experience it and. 58:04.52 Max Shank And. 58:10.32 mikebledsoe I think I may have lost it. Maybe it'll come back. Oh yeah, that changed that that changes people's state Incredible. Go check your bank account. What's that experience like. 58:12.61 Max Shank Well money is kind of a funny, a funny, a funny drug too like I see I see money as energy. 58:29.50 mikebledsoe For the average person. You know the average person. Some people they they don't want to go check their bank account. They're afraid to look at it. Some people are excited to look at it. It's having an impact. 58:37.83 Max Shank I Like to look at my bank account and whack off. Ah I'm joking that I don't really do that. But I actually try to look at it as little as possible to still know the direction that the ship is going because I I don't. 58:53.10 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 58:57.39 Max Shank I never wanted to have to like make sure I had enough in the account to buy something essentially but you know you get to a certain point I don't know I think like by today's values or something like that if you make over a hundred k you basically have as good a life. 59:01.57 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 59:16.88 Max Shank As the top 1% in terms of like the basic needs like you don't have to worry about food going out guacamole on your chipotle that sort of thing and then beyond that then it's just this new game like trying to trying to be a billionaire. 59:29.61 mikebledsoe Yeah, well that. 59:35.29 Max Shank Unless you have a solid mission that you want to use that fund those funds for like that's got to be some form of mental illness now. It's a very constructive. It's a very constructive mental illness. It's like how you think that you deserve love. 59:44.14 mikebledsoe There's something else going on there. 59:52.97 Max Shank You know I have that thing like people want love power attention in that order and so some people don't think they'll ever really deserve love because they hate themselves on some level or their mom did which is kind of like that you get the whole idea. So They think I'll just get as powerful as possible. And then people have to love me or fear me or whatever. So It's ah it's a very funny thing the different way we could do a whole thing about about money that would be kind of fun. Maybe we'll do that after business next time but that's a. 01:00:22.31 mikebledsoe Yeah, we should definitely do that. Yeah I'm put in the notes right now I remembered we'll close this up soon. Ah, the the it came back to me the what I wanted to say about the money in community is. 01:00:28.69 Max Shank Yeah, yeah. 01:00:39.46 mikebledsoe I What I witnessed a lot of people struggle with is they need to find new community so they can take on these new habits and behaviors. But they feel guilty about leaving their old community behind they're like oh you know and and then your old friends are gonna call you a sellout and this and that and like. 01:00:55.24 Max Shank Totally. 01:00:58.10 mikebledsoe And so so many people are afraid of of leaving that community and like leaving them behind but the reality is is they're leaving themselves behind now they're they're happy where they're at you want to change, you got to jump ship and people are gonna judge you no matter? what. 01:01:13.89 Max Shank No doubt. 01:01:16.65 mikebledsoe And ah yeah, the more successful you become the more prominent you become the more of a target you become and so I have to say the more popular I become the more people I have to turn down to hang out and they may talk shit about me but I've only got so much time. 01:01:24.57 Max Shank No question. 01:01:36.27 mikebledsoe And the day and my energy is important to me and I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it that way. 01:01:36.44 Max Shank Yeah questions. And that's great to hear from you because it sounds like you are just learning how to draw boundaries in the last few years that sound right? Yeah and it's funny. 01:01:49.15 mikebledsoe Yeah, I'd say the last four years say it's been about yeah yeah about 4 years now it's been ah I had to like I did cut a lot of people off a lot of people are mad at me. Yeah. 01:01:58.91 Max Shank I'm just learning how to be open. Yeah, Ah yeah for me I'm like coming from the opposite end of the spectrum you have like this super social like Chimp energy and I feel like I have this cat like a tiger type of energy where I like just. Have such hard boundaries drawn that if someone doesn't like it I'm like ah tough shit Basically but that also shrinks your circle so much. So finding that balance point or creating that balance that you really like is ah it's fun. That's why I like when we chat. 01:02:21.57 mikebledsoe Yeah. 01:02:28.47 mikebledsoe Mm. 01:02:34.28 mikebledsoe Yeah. 01:02:36.48 Max Shank Because we come at it from such different angles. But interestingly enough we still seem to agree on like almost everything because we really focus on the nuance and the principles and there are very few absolutes and that's what makes it so interesting. Same with drugs. There's no, there's no absolutes. It's like you either use them. 01:02:48.62 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 01:02:56.25 Max Shank Or you abuse them. But I guarantee you're using them. 01:02:59.98 mikebledsoe Yep yep, any final thoughts. 01:03:03.41 Max Shank Maybe just that everybody uses them some people abuse them. 01:03:05.89 mikebledsoe Sound are good. Ah, ah 1 thing I want to mention is set setting and dosage. So the set being your mindset. What What's your state of mind the setting. What's your environment like. And the dosage those are your 3 variables to pay attention to with everything but in regard to drugs set setting and dosage are the 3 most important things to focus on if one of those things are off. You may have a poor experience. 01:03:30.95 Max Shank No. 01:03:42.19 mikebledsoe You make sure that all 3 of those things are dialed in you're in for a good time and I'll leave it with that where do they find you max. 01:03:53.60 Max Shank http://maxshank.com or at ma shank. 01:03:54.77 mikebledsoe Excellent and I've got a strong coach summit coming up and marching go to http://thestrongcoach.com/summit and I imagine some people be doing drugs there as we listen to music at some point during the weekend. So if you want to hop in there come on over.

"Look at all the things we had to do happen to become who we are today".Karen's story is inspiring.  Karen lost her son Daniel in 2011 on the 12th of July.  It was a day that was supposed to be a lazy Sunday.  Yet, there he was, lying in a fetal position.Karen and her husband grieved differently.  Now, how does this relate to Bulimia?Karen changed her life.  Left the corporate life and helps people with loss, of which she explains there are over 40 types.   It could be the loss of a person and the loss of self.I brought up shame.  I know many of my clients and women and men who reach out to me bring this up.  This is where Karen brings up the vibration, and shame is at the bottom.  This is where she helps people increase the vibration, one step at a time.  She owns the Chaston Centre, and helps people heal and create their "everyday better day life".Losing identity is not easy.  And some of us with Bulimia, that is truly a part of it.  As well as shame.Karen went on to discuss this "shame" and "vibration", and did share about two people she knew who had bulimia.  One of them was a woman born in 1924.  I could relate and did not share, however, my Aunt had bulimia as well.  she was born in 1927.  Bulimia existed that long ago.  However we didn't have social media, or even back when there were magazines, this was never brought up.  It took Karen Carpenter dying, and then Jane Fonda coming out for us to realize this.  And sadly with Social Media, this is still a problem.I appreciate Karen for her story, sharing it, helping others overcome loss, even if it's finding yourself again, having lost yourself.To view this on YouTube go to Bleep Bulimia on YouTubeYou can reach Karen at www. thechastoncentre.com More about Karen:  Karen ran on the corporate treadmill until the day the world came tumbling down on her head.The constant effort of juggling work, family, the big house and cars, and the stress created by all that was taking its toll on her even before tragedy struck when her son Dan (27), suddenly and very unexpectedly died at her back door in July 2011.Straight after Dan's funeral, Karen went straight back to her Chief Financial Officer's role at a Publicly Listed Company, working more, drinking more, and eating more. Using all her coping mechanisms to just carry on and succeed at that level.Karen now knows that Dan's passing was meant to be her wake-up call. So the Universe decided to show her that death comes in many ways ~ death of a loved one, a marriage, a job, a partnership, a pet, your health, and/or your wealth.Her second death came 15 months later in the form of redundancy when her company merged with another. This was the greatest GIFT.That is when she started on the Journey to Becoming Her Own Best Friend. From there they created the Gift of Loss programs which demonstrate the correlations between loss and people and profits for both individuals and companies.Her mottNew Release Kindle or Signed Copy! How To Have Your Cake & Not Eat It All Too - A Guide To Adult Bulimia RecoveryBE A GUEST/FIND A GUEST Start for Free! PODMATCH is innovative, provides easy communication and dashboard scheduling! My pick of the month!Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://paypal.me/iamthatgal)

Karen Skidmore is a marketing consultant and business advisor with a particular interest in helping midlife women scale their small businesses without burning out. She's also had a lot of reinventions as she has moved through her midlife shifts. We talk about: How Karen successfully made the transition from working in a corporate world to building her own business Why Karen was always ahead of the curve How Karen managed to balance family life and business in an ongoing basis considering different transitions  The potential of businesses going virtual in reaching global audience over the coming years  Necessity is the mother of invention. Karen's Embrace 2.0 event What inspired Karen to write her book, “True Profit Business” Karen's journey in figuring out what kind of business really suited her How Karen sees business as three energies The systems and processes that we can apply to life and at the same time, in our business Having a routine to support you How we can factor in our cycles The different energies we have as we go through a menstrual cycle What a moon cycle is And more! Find out more about Karen: Karen's website: karenskidmore.com Know more about Karen's Embrace Festival Karen's book: True Profit Business: How to play your bigger game without burning out  Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Book mentioned in the interview: Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you're listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That's also where you'll find strategies, support, and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There's a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter, and our online membership program. If not now, when?

Megan talks with creative director Karen X. Cheng about all things social media. They dive into the strategy behind going viral, facing online burnout, and even discuss their advice for creatives.   Show Notes: [01:46] - Karen's First Viral Video [03:32] - Learning to Dance [06:59] - Cracking the Viral Code [09:43] - Effort vs. Views [12:11] - Defining “Influencer” [18:24] - The Dunning Kruger Effect [20:22] - WMAVR Season 2 [27:34] - IG Growth Strategy [34:21] - Staging Inspiration [38:40] - All About Burnout [46:03] - Scarcity Mindset [52:56] - Transitioning Careers [57:35] - Maintaining A Following [1:05:00] - Catering to Followers [1:11:21] - Advice for Creatives   Where to find Karen: Karen's Instagram Karen's Twitter Karen's Website   “Just a Tip with Megan Batoon” is a comedic advice podcast that's equally about tangents as it is about tips. Megan and rotating guests tell stories and act as cautionary tales so you don't make the same mistakes they did. DM your questions to @justatippodcast on Instagram! Be sure to rate Just a Tip 5-stars on Apple Podcasts! Follow Megan: Twitter: @meganbatoon Instagram: @meganbatoon Shop Merch: shop.meganbatoon.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/MeganBatoonFP Just a Tip on Instagram: @justatippodcast Advertise on Just A Tip via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mason reached out to the show and wanted us to Phone Jacks his wife Karen and tell her she would have to change her name!

Mason reached out to the show and wanted us to Phone Jacks his wife Karen and tell her she would have to change her name!

Mason reached out to the show and wanted us to Phone Jacks his wife Karen and tell her she would have to change her name!

UKPラジオの第52回のゲストは、数々のバンドのコーラスとして、そしてRopesのボーカルとしても活躍するアチコ！ まずはアチコさんと遠藤・フミとの出会いから！ フミと出会ったのは2000年のCLUB Que新年会の場で、遠藤とはKAREN(メンバー：アチコ【Vo】、木下理樹【Vo/Gt】、戸高賢史【Gt】、仲俣和宏【Ba】、秋山隆彦【Dr】)で出会いました。 一生分の涙を流し果たしたのでは！？というくらい、遠藤・フミにとってアチコさんは常に泣いている印象だったという当時や、KARENが活動していたときのことを振り返っていきます。 (KARENはこちらからお聴きいただけます！) ▶︎KAREN / MAGGOT IN TEARS https://ukp.lnk.to/KAREN_m ▶︎KAREN / sunday girl in silence https://ukp.lnk.to/KAREN_s UK.PROJECTの中で気になるアーティストはodol！ 6/9にリリースした「はためき」も聴いてくれているとのこと！ アチコさん絶賛のodolぜひ聴いてみてください！ ▶︎odol / はためき https://odol.lnk.to/hatameki そして近況についてもじっくり聞いていきます。 最近は、LOSTAGEやGotchのレコーディングにリモートで参加したことがきっかけで、自分で機材を揃えてボーカルのレコーディングがもっとできるように環境を整えたりしているそう。 Ropesとしては2020年3月ぶりに、5月・6月にライブを開催したばかり。 7/10(土)には名古屋stiff slackにてGO FISHとツーマンライブも開催されます！ さらに、プライベートでは久しぶりに引っ越しをしたそう！ 最後にアチコさんに夢を語っていただき締め括ります！ #UKPラジオ をつけてアチコさんへのオファーもお待ちしてます！！ アチコさんの魅力がまるっと詰まったvol.52、たっぷりお楽しみください！ 番組を聴いた感想や質問は、#UKPラジオ をつけてツイートしてください！ ▼UKPラジオ・プレイリスト：https://spoti.fi/2NKXxsy ▼UKPラジオ・Twitterアカウント：https://twitter.com/ukp_radio

曾經也在科技業的紅塵打滾了七年、甚至當上行銷主管的Karen，因為對健身的熱愛投入健身產業，並創立了「 我健客 Fitworks」 podcast．是什麼原因讓 Karen做轉職的決定、而轉職前後的他又經歷了什麼樣的轉變呢？Karen在本集和我們分享： 轉職前害怕的是什麼？怎麼做準備？後來這些事有成真嗎？ 對於轉職的想像與實際有什麼差異？ 做Podcast 一路上的挑戰與驚喜是什麼？ 印象最深刻的事？ 人生一路上對於成功的定義有什麼轉變嗎？ Follow US! Fitworks 我健客 Podcast IG@fitworks_podcast Fitworks 全方位「培」你運動學院: IG:@fitworks.fit ；https://fitworks.fit/ 好奇槓鈴 IG @curiousbarbell

奧客 ： Karen a difficult customer an awkward customer a claimer Having a difficult customer who complains about everything will ruin anyone's day on the job. 遇到奧客一直在抱怨東抱怨西會毀了任何一個人工作的心情。 恥力無極限： 某人 has no shame. 某人 is shameless. Clearly Kevin has no shame. He never puts himself on the other's shoes. 很明顯Kevin就很無恥。他從不會為人設身處地著想。 聆聽例句的英美澳發音＋免費筆記，請上Instagram搜尋：English.104

Hey Humor Consumers, Life Happens Laugh Anyway is currently sponsored by Muffin and Pooh (aka our husbands). This is Episode 13, “How to handle Karens” Three takeaways… What is a Karen? How to handle a Karen? How not to be a Karen. We struggled a bit with this because neither of us really knew what a “Karen” meant. Turns out, it has multiple meanings. For the purpose of this podcast, we are going with the Wikipedia definition of a Karen: “Karen is a pejorative term for women seeming to be entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal.” We talked about listening as a skill that we could all benefit from in every relationship. Tracy mentioned Equipping Ministries International and their courses on listening. Our spiritual encouragement comes from Ephesians 4:29. It says, “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” This verse addresses the sin of the tongue and letting words fly like a “Karen.” We share the story of how we were led by the Holy Spirit to overcome that temptation by using what we call a “Trash Talk Bin.” Below are the steps of how to use a Trash Talk Bin: Step One: Write it out on paper. (By “it” we mean whatever it is that is bothering you that you might be tempted to spew out onto another person. AKA…sin!) Step Two: Place the paper in the bin. (We usually tear ours into itty bitty pieces just to be sure they won't be read by anyone.) Step Three: Pray and then burn baby burn. Step Four: Let Go and Let God. Let go of your “stuff” and let God take it. As the old saying goes…take it to the throne, not the phone. Want to consume more humor? You can purchase Tracy's book and check out more about her comedy and ministry on at https://tracydegraaf.com/ Reminders: Help us grow this podcast by hitting the “subscribe” or “follow” button, commenting on episodes, liking episodes, leaving 5 star reviews. We know it is a lot of stuff, but we understand that these things will help the LHLA podcast to get found by others.  Virtual Hugs, Tracy & Cathrine Copyright 2021 Tracy DeGraaf All Rights Reserved p.s. Check out our socials for extra fun content. Facebook

As March is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, we thought it fitting to have a big ol' chat about the big (gynaecological) C! In this episode, Comedian / Writer / Cat Mother and all round LEGEND Karen Hobbs was kind enough to talk us through her experience of cervical cancer at the age of just 24. As Information Officer to the UK's leading gynae cancer charity Eve Appeal, our non-Karen Karen also fills us in on all the things we, as female reproductive organ owners, should be keeping an eye on! We are absolutely 200% (100 each) definitely really not medical professionals and this podcast does not intend to daunt or dishearten anyone! Our aim, as always, is to ask the questions we hope you want the answers to, to normalise talking about our bits (including the more serious stuff), all while having a little laugh or twelve along the way. Oh, and GO FOR YOUR SMEAR! For more gynae cancer information and support head over to eveappeal.org.uk. For Monopod updates or just to say hello, you can find us on instagram @thevaginamonoblogs and for more glorious Karen content head over to @karen_hobbs! Thank you so much for listening!!!!

Today's guest is Karen Campbell, minister and musician, originally from Northern Ireland and currently based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Karen and I met first when we were both serving Presbyterian churches in the Belfast area, but our friendship has extended into our shared love of music, the Psalms, and spirituality – as well as some fun times and good laughs along the way. Here, Karen shares about her connections with the Psalms throughout her life, leading up to the creation of an album she and her husband David put together during the pandemic period of 2020. I'm grateful to the Campbell family for the music in today's episode - their son Ian's voice features in the opening song, followed by David's voice as well as other musicians from the Church of the Servant with whom they recorded this beautiful and uplifting album. In our conversation, we look at how exploring the psalms through music, art, and honest reflection helped her congregation uncover deep grace in the midst of the pains, laments, and hurts that came to the surface in a turbulent year, and how that process has led them to hear the voices on the margins in a clearer way. Check show notes to see photos of some of the artwork that came out of those sacred times of gathering around the Psalms. Link to https://churchoftheservantcrc.bandcamp.com/album/your-love-dispels-our-fear (Karen and David Campbell's Album “Your Love Dispels Our Fear” ) https://www.churchoftheservantcrc.org/category/housechurch/dark-times-deep-grace/ (Dark Times Deep Grace Series) can be found on the Church of the Servant Website Celtic Psalms songs featured in this episode: https://www.celticpsalms.com/portfolio/psalm-144-come-spirit-come/ (Come Spirit Come (Psalm 144/The King's Shilling)) http://www.celticpsalms.com/ (Celtic Psalms (Kiran Young Wimberly & the McGraths)) music can be found on https://itunes.apple.com/tt/artist/kiran-young-wimberly/654441561 (iTunes), https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GkI27HmBtB3cNIku7xRdf (Spotify), https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celtic-Psalms-Kiran-Young-Wimberly/dp/B00D0STVQI (Amazon), https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6naf-l9ewLmFWs2ExcrPA (YouTube) CDs and published notations can be found through https://www.giamusic.com/store/search?elSearchTerm=celtic+psalms (GIA music) More about Karen: Karen grew up in Northern Ireland. Before becoming a pastor, she worked for 3 years in Nairobi, Kenya teaching music and worship at Daystar University. She has worked in both rural and city settings, but longs for people to become fully mature, spirit-filled worshippers and followers of Jesus who unite together in being kingdom influencers in the world. Karen came to be co-pastor at Church of the Servant in 2018. Karen is passionate about fulfilling Church of the Servant's mission statement: to enable a fellowship where the burdened and suffering will find support and comfort, where the alienated will be accepted, and where those seeking God will be shown the way. Karen is married to David and they have three sons, Ian, Callum, and Duncan.

Ft. Dirty Chris, Big Phil, and Karen Karen is moving on to bigger and better things for work but we had to have an episode with her before she leaves us. We talk about moving to different cities, past places we have lived, and dad jokes galore. Leave a review and subscribeSend all emails to welcomehomegoofball@gmail.comLike and subscribe to the podcast.Follow me on Instagram @welcomehomegoofballMusic credit goes to Lakey Inspired and his site is below!https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired

Eden Casteel and Wendy Jones discuss low latency technologies and how they collaborated to test and conquer these new platforms. Takenya Battle shares her all-time favorite music education apps. Social Media expert Karen Michaels inspires us to use live video on our social media channels. We start a five-part series with business expert Michelle Markwart Deveaux about starting your own voice studio business. www.thefullvoice.com/fvpodcasts/127 Episode 127 Low Latency Technology - Eden Casteel and Wendy Jones (1:36) Eden Casteel Though she wanted to be Karen Carpenter AND Beverly Sills when she was little, Eden Casteel has grown up to be a multifaceted performer, pianist, producer, and independent studio owner based in Wakefield, Rhode Island. A native of Dublin, Ohio, who moved to Rhode Island in 2010, Eden holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from The University Of Cincinnati College-Conservatory Of Music and a Master of Music degree from The University of Maryland. She is a past president of the Rhode Island chapter of NATS and a charter member of The Speakeasy Cooperative. If you would like to work with Eden, please visit her website: www.edencasteel.com https://edencasteelmusicstudio.as.me/OnlineMusicTechSupport Wendy Jones resides in the Asheville area and runs her private voice studio: One World Voice Studio. She also serves on the faculty of Western Carolina University, where she teaches Contemporary and Commercial Voice and the faculty Brevard College where she teaches voice and directs the opera workshop. Wendy is an active member of NATS and is also a member of the Speakeasy Cooperative, PAVA, the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Jazz Educator's Network, and the Association for Popular Music Education. https://www.wljonesoneworldvoice.com/ Links mentioned in this interview: Ian Howell's presentation from NATS https://www.ianhowellcountertenor.com/technology-enabled-music-lessons?fbclid=IwAR3-ULDyGayymM3HiXXYyw0F_o_g84DJi113Ks7ZP-T83387IaOWlXA51B0 Soundjack https://www.soundjack.eu/index.php/howto Cleanfeed https://cleanfeed.net/ Soundtrap https://www.soundtrap.com/ jamkazam https://www.jamkazam.com/ Best Music Education Apps with Takenya Battle (49:58) Takenya shares her all-time favorite music education apps that she uses with students of all ages. Piano Maestro https://www.joytunes.com/apps https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/the-most-amazing-sheep-game/id550921301 https://www.noterushapp.com/ https://www.meludia.com/en/ Live Video Tips with Karen Michaels (55:46) Social Media Expert Karen Michaels shares tips and best practices for using live video on your social media channels. Karen has turned her passion for technology and building her music studio and solo career, into a thriving social media business. From Instagram to Facebook to Google My Business, Karen will get you up and running with a smile. Work with Karen: Karen's Free Social Butterfly Facebook Group https://thesocialbutterflygurusocialmedia.as.me/FullVoicePodcast Starting Your Voice Studio Business {Part One} with Michelle Markwart Deveaux (1:05:51) Voice teacher and business expert Michelle Markwart Deveaux outlines the three things you need to start a music studio business. Link for SpeakEasy Coop (A Voice Teacher mastermind/co-learning group) www.thespeakeasycoop.com Link for Michelle's site www.faithculturekiss.com

Born in Otago and moving to Taranaki, after having travelled the world through culturally diverse areas like Africa and Ngaruawāhia, Karen has been gifted a world view staunchly foundationed in fairness and unconditional love. With a very global world view of society both professionally and personally, we get a front row seat to the initiatives that Karen has been a part of; From being a part of a school that initiates two hours of priming before school starts (exercise, a healthy breakfast etc) to ensuring that an important piece of her hometown was saved (as a prominent member of the Save Fitzroy Golf Club campaign) this lawyer is no stranger to campaigning for change as she joins the fight to changing legislation within New Zealand which discriminates against Māori. She is definitely not your regular, Karen.

Featuring Karen Cruess of Two Hearts for Her. You can check out more about Two Hearts for Her at www.twoheartsforher.com and on Instagram and Facebook @twoheartsforher. You can also email Karen: Karen@twoheartsforher.com. Be sure to check out the Heal, Equip, and Release podcast on Apple and Spotify! First Reading: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Second Reading: Romans 12:1-2 Gospel: Matthew 16:21-27 Visit www.ashowerofrosespodcast.com for more information on this show!

In this episode of “It Will Probably Be OK,” we stand slack-jawed as one of our hosts attempts to defend the indefensible, and halt the Karen uprising in its tracks. What can we learn from Karen? What does she have to teach us? How do we exorcise the Karenonic demon? When is a Karen not a Karen? And why does Karen Karen? Mini Topics Nick is not going to his 20 year high school reunion and he has no other way to find out what his old highschool buddies are doing with their lives! Nkenge reminds us that there is no path from student to citizen for immigrants, so making them take college from their home countries is so much pointless bullying. Show Notes: This is a pretty good look at the internet history of the use of the name Karen as an insult: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager A clip from “Mean Girls.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXovJSCc6M0 This is, pretty much the Karen epicenter. https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckYouKaren/ This is a great article about how artists hate the bourgeoisie. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/25/books/class-lessons-who-s-calling-whom-tacky-petite-charm-bourgeoisie-artists-view.html #### Personality Disorders https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/borderline-personality-disorder/index.shtml' https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463 Not a Karen Here be a small smattering of easy to Google stories about Amy Cooper, the racist who famously called the police on a Central Park birdwatcher and then choked her dog. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-amy-cooper-on-central-park-incident-301065492.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/06/amy-cooper-charged-with-misdemeanor-for-calling-police-on-black-bird-watcher/#1babddfc2828 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/amy-cooper-christian-central-park-video.html

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Karen, Karen, Karen .. scams, frauds and body language.

Monique and Karen Karen about the “Post Truth” Era and what that means for Monique as she enters into the communications industry. They are joined by special guest CNN's Jim Cummins

Karen Karen encourages listeners to let go and let God have his way in our lives. Expect a God’s greatness and receive great blessings from the Lord. Recommend Worship song “The Greatness of our God”by Hillsong. and Psalms 145:6 KJV. Be blessed! Submit Prayer Request/ Comments missionarysivelskwm@gmail.com

Úrslitakvöld söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins er á morgun, þá veljum við lagið sem keppir fyrir Íslands hönd í Eurovison keppninni í maí en sú keppni verður haldin í Rotterdam. Margir nýjir flytjendur hafa komið fram í bland við þekktari nöfn og við heyrðum í nokkrum reynsluboltum söngsins og keppninnar í þættinum. Eva Ásrún Albertsdóttir hin eðal ríkisrödd en Eva tók þátt í óteljandi undankeppnum hér heima og fór einnig út sem bakrödd. Bjarni Arason sem söng Karen Karen svo ógleymanlega um árið og svo var það Eyfi, Eyjólfur Kristjánsson á línunni frá Þýskalandi, hann samdi Drauminn um Nínu , lag sem hefur aldrei dalað í vinsældum frá því hún var fyrst flutt árið 1991. Eyfi var staddur í Þýskalandi en undanfarna daga hefur hann verið að skíða niður brekkurnar í Madonna di Campiglio á Norður Ítalíu. Við spjölluðum við þau Bjarna, Evu Ásrúnu og Eyjólf um úrslitakvöld söngvakeppninnar og þau minntust líka góðra stunda með Ragga Bjarna í upphafi spjallsins. Það styttist í fermingarnar og ómissandi á veisluborðinu er brauðtertan gamla og góða og hún nýtur enn mikilla vinsælda og á facebook hafa sprottið upp nokkrar síður henni til heiðurs auk þess sem sérstakar keppnir eru haldnar um hönnun brauðterta. Í matarspjallinu í dag töluðum við um brauðtertur og til okkar kom góður gestur, Jón Kristinn Snæhólm sem ræddi um brauðtertumenningu landans, en hann segir sjálfur að hann búi til eina allra bestu brauðtertu, ekki í heiminum, heldur hreinlega í alheiminum. UMSJÓN GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR OG GUNNAR HANSSON

Úrslitakvöld söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins er á morgun, þá veljum við lagið sem keppir fyrir Íslands hönd í Eurovison keppninni í maí en sú keppni verður haldin í Rotterdam. Margir nýjir flytjendur hafa komið fram í bland við þekktari nöfn og við heyrðum í nokkrum reynsluboltum söngsins og keppninnar í þættinum. Eva Ásrún Albertsdóttir hin eðal ríkisrödd en Eva tók þátt í óteljandi undankeppnum hér heima og fór einnig út sem bakrödd. Bjarni Arason sem söng Karen Karen svo ógleymanlega um árið og svo var það Eyfi, Eyjólfur Kristjánsson á línunni frá Þýskalandi, hann samdi Drauminn um Nínu , lag sem hefur aldrei dalað í vinsældum frá því hún var fyrst flutt árið 1991. Eyfi var staddur í Þýskalandi en undanfarna daga hefur hann verið að skíða niður brekkurnar í Madonna di Campiglio á Norður Ítalíu. Við spjölluðum við þau Bjarna, Evu Ásrúnu og Eyjólf um úrslitakvöld söngvakeppninnar og þau minntust líka góðra stunda með Ragga Bjarna í upphafi spjallsins. Það styttist í fermingarnar og ómissandi á veisluborðinu er brauðtertan gamla og góða og hún nýtur enn mikilla vinsælda og á facebook hafa sprottið upp nokkrar síður henni til heiðurs auk þess sem sérstakar keppnir eru haldnar um hönnun brauðterta. Í matarspjallinu í dag töluðum við um brauðtertur og til okkar kom góður gestur, Jón Kristinn Snæhólm sem ræddi um brauðtertumenningu landans, en hann segir sjálfur að hann búi til eina allra bestu brauðtertu, ekki í heiminum, heldur hreinlega í alheiminum. UMSJÓN GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR OG GUNNAR HANSSON

Hey Everyone Popping off a cork to another episode where I don't have to deal with Nick. In this episode, Nick talks with Steph and Jared from Sunday Gravy about things worse than love, guinea pigs and carpentry. Enjoy this banger of an episode. Karen /// Karen played by Perry Carter & Bryan played by Ryan Goddard – Check out @thegoldenmusic for great music recs

Hey everyone, Nick has been MIA for the last week. I'm not quite sure where to really go from here, but we have a pretty hefty backlog of "content." Here's our unreleased Holiday Episode. Happy Holidays, Karen /// Karen played by Perry Carter

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Welcome to the Women of Golf Show! Tune in Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:00 AM Eastern Cindy & Ted welcome to the show Symetra Tour's Alejandra Llaneza, winner of the - 2019 Garden City Charity Classic. Later their joined by special guest: Karen Nicoletti - LPGA Class A Teaching Professional. More on Karen: Karen is a passionate student of the game, and is one of the most sought after female teachers and coach of the game. Karen grew up in San Diego, California. She started playing golf at the age of 5. Karen was the Junior World Golf Champion when she was nine and ten. She is a Graduate of San Diego State University, and played on the Golf Team.  Karen is a former Tour Player and presently a Class A LPGA Professional. She is also a former PGA member. Her passions in teaching took Karen to Own and operate, Nicoletti Golf Academy in South Carolina. She also owned and operated her own golf shop. Individually, Karen has been nominated for several prestigious awards. LPGA Southeast Teacher of the Year, Top 50 Female Teachers in the US by Golf for Women Magazine, US Kids Top 50 Instructors, and Best in State. Join us LIVE Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:00AM Eastern http://www.blogtalkradio.com/womenofgolf Or listen on any of these social media platforms:  iTunes , Stitcher, Tunein, Castbox, TalkStreamLive & Spotify.

Karen Caswell is an experienced educator, passionate reader and lifelong learner. She is currently a Teaching and Learning Co-ordinator at a primary school on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Karen is an Early Childhood trained teacher, who has also been privileged to work in a variety of roles and settings during her 24 year career. In October 2018, Karen started the #TLAPdownunder chat and community on Twitter, so that educators in Australia could be part of the extended #tlap community. The weekly chat has grown to include participants from not only Australia, but many countries where the time is more convenient than the USA chat. Karen is passionate about raising kind, caring and active young people who know how to advocate for themselves, champion others and make a positive impact on the world. In this episode, we learn how Karen rediscovered her passion for teaching and has been working to build a network of support for others who have faced similar challenges that she did in her journey. From her story we learn how we too can create space for others to grow together and heal ourselves in the process. I am honored to amplify for you, Karen Caswell’s Trailblazer story. Get connected with Karen: Karen on Twitter Karen on Instagram Karen’s Website AWE Inspiring Recommendations: Catherine Williams on Twitter Brene Brown Books Teach Like a Pirate GetConnectED Podcast Teachers On Fire with Tim Cavey Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/inawepodcast/message

Episode 47: Karen Eisenbrey; Seattle Fantasy YA Fiction Author from Not a Pipe Publishing In This Episode, You’ll Hear: (Podcast run time 30:02) :34 - Introduction to Karen Eisenbrey 2:55 -  Karen shares why she’s called the Hillbilly Drummer Girl 3:44- Karen shares a bit about her music & songwriting 5:33 -Karen shares her author journey 8:50 - Karen talks about her genre and titles 10:00 - Karen shares how she brought in music into one of her books  11:24 -  Karen & Vikki talk her publishing journey 15:40- Karen shares tips for other authors  19:23 - Karen shares her inspiration and reads from Daughter of Magic 27:42: Karen closes out the podcast with one more tip for authors Connect with Karen : Karen’s Website & blog (including newsletter signup and archives): /kareneisenbreywriter.com/ Karen on Facebook: facebook.com/KarenEisenbrey Karen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenEisenbrey Karen on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7577611.Karen_Eisenbrey Karen on BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/karen-eisenbrey Karen on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00I2BEAO6 Not a Pipe Publishing:  http://www.notapipepublishing.com   Podcast Music Credits: Title: Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Thanks For Listening Thanks for listening!. If you have something you’d like to share with me, please connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or our website. Write a review on iTunes.

大家好，我是Owen。了解我的人应该知道，我经常在博物馆里给大家讲故事，但今天讲的和我的工作关系并不太啊，因为它是我的故事的开始。说实话，那段时光已经是六年前的事情了，但是我相信，只要经历过，它总会在你的生命里留下痕迹。2011年，也就是7年前，我做了一个大胆的决定，当然这是好听的说法，其实是一个挺二的决定。我放弃了保研的机会，决定出国传播中国文化，这个想法听起来又大又中二，但这就是我当时的真实想法。当时我父母也反对，还要面临激烈地竞争，而当时年少的我觉得最有意义的事情就是这个，那个冲动简直是无法抑制。我相信天真这两个字，不只包含了我们年长之后丢掉的梦想，更赋予了我们一种勇气。为什么爱尔兰人热爱绿色？在2012年，我来到了爱尔兰。第一印象就是绿，所以他有一个很好听的名字就是“翡翠岛”。来到爱尔兰的第一天，下着濛濛细雨，我们十几位老师坐在大巴车上，望着窗外，真的是country road，take me home这种感觉，真正的田园景致。因为爱尔兰属于温带海洋性气候地区，所以植被覆盖率非常高。这种绿，是由南至北，由东至西包裹着这个岛国的颜色，清澈剔透如翡翠。爱尔兰的绿让他们骄傲，甚至他们的国庆节，也就是圣帕特里克节，人们都戴着让我们中国人很诧异的绿帽子，去庆祝一个天主教的圣人，叫圣帕特里克，他也是把天主教带到爱尔兰的人。爱尔兰的绿让人着迷，但爱尔兰的天气却让人很郁闷。我来的时候，大家说过一句玩笑话，说爱尔兰365天，300天都在下雨。我的一位同事有次和出租车大叔聊起来爱尔兰的天气，大叔说上天给了爱尔兰这么美丽的外衣，如果再给他一个好天气的话，它会被这个世界嫉妒死了。在这样的情况下，你就知道他们对阳光有多么的向往。有一次我在市区上完课之后，散步走到了市区的中央公园，在我眼前的一幕惊呆我了。我本以为这只是一个晴天——但所有的人都聚集在草坪上晒太阳，更可怕的是还有人光着膀子，拿着尤克里里在弹。后来，我才知道，这是爱尔兰难得的一次晴天，所有的人都会到公园的草坪上去享受难得的阳光。为什么盛产艺术家和作家？爱尔兰是一个小国，小到还没有一个重庆市大。但是爱尔兰却是一个真正的文化大国，我们来看看这么一个小国家，诞生了多少伟大的作家诗人和音乐家。有一个迷人的毒舌王——奥斯卡·王尔德，还有鼎鼎大名的萧伯纳，也有乔伊斯，他写了一本书叫《尤利西斯》，为了炫耀自己的语言能力，最后一章竟然完全没有用标点符号，用了一句话写了一章。我很骄傲自己在乔伊斯的母校，也是都柏林市中心的beveldere（“瞭望塔”）带了一年的课。我问大家一个问题，为什么爱尔兰诞生了这么多的诗人和文学家？爱尔兰语非常难，和相对简单的英语比起来，就是一个是文言文，一个大白话。所以，你们可以想象一下，这些爱尔兰文学家就相当于我们中国民国时期的大师。小时候熟读四书五经，长大后写起白话文得心应手，古今中外信手拈来。这是我朋友的一个答案。另一个答案，是我亲身感受。在爱尔兰的这一年，我需要每周花费8个多小时在火车上，从爱尔兰东部海边的都柏林，到达西北角的Sligo这个城市，几乎跨越了整个爱尔兰，去给那里的孩子上一个小时的汉语课。因为路途太遥远了，所以我需要在Sligo住一晚上，有时候前一天下午到的早一些，我就自己走到海边去散散步。空旷的海边，一望无际，沙滩上点缀着那么几个人，但是天依然是阴郁的颜色，一阵寒风就能让你立即心生孤独。我沿着海边走了一会，又转了回来，路过了一个酒吧，于是走了进去。当我在迈进去的那一刻，就像跨到了另一个世界的大门，瞬间感到了几分暖意。酒吧壁炉烧的很旺，哪怕整个酒吧除我之外只有一对男女在喝酒聊天。屋子里复古的色调，墙上放着富有历史感的旧物，让人觉得亲切。如果说外面阴郁的天气能激发出人内心的独孤和恐惧的话，酒吧的温度的确让人立即忘掉了一切冰冷。那一刻，我突然理解了为什么爱尔兰人对酒吧情有独钟，喜欢聚集在酒吧里喝酒跳踢踏舞狂欢。为什么爱尔兰诞生了那么多作家，在这样的天气里，围在壁炉里看书写作冥想，的确是一种人生的享受。爱尔兰的环境，把人还原剥离到最真实的孤独状态，你在这里面对的更多是自己。魔鬼之山如果说爱尔兰是欧洲的尽头，Sligo就是爱尔兰的尽头。这个地方虽然遥远，但是诞生一位伟大的诗人叶芝，如果还没听过这个诗人，那肯定听过一首歌《当我老了》，这首歌的歌词就是来源于叶芝的一首诗。Sligo因此也被称为Yeats Town（叶芝小镇）。Sligo的人以叶芝为自己的骄傲，但是，由于Sligo这个地方太远了，其实这个小镇非常小，人也很少，每个人都安静地过着自己的生活。大家可能知道有个乐队叫西城男孩，就来自这个城市。每周我在sligo需要住一晚上，我的房东女儿从事法律工作，和西城男孩儿的主唱是小时候的同学，我当然表示很震惊。我在一个学期的课程结束，要离开房东家时候，因为房东喜欢画画，所以我送了他一支毛笔，顺便给她演示一下怎么用毛笔，我随便画了一个水墨的山，因为时间少，我画了米芾的风。让我吃惊的是这种风格，外国人非常陌生，他们觉得山最起码应该是绿色的，所以当时她的女儿说了一句，devil mountain，可能黑色在西方文化里面，的确也是有一定含义的，这点让我也去思考了我们之间的文化差异。“我要做农民”在Sligo我在两个学校代课，一个男女混合学校，一个女校。其中有个发生在混合学校的事情让我比较吃惊。我们中国人小时候应该都被问过一个问题，就是长大后你想做什么，作为中国的孩子，我们已经有了统一的答案，就是科学家，虽然我们那时根本不知道科学家是什么。这个问题，我也同样问了我在Sligo的学生，其中有一位很不喜欢学习的男孩子，他上课时的注意力也是有问题的，以我们的教育体制来看是典型的坏学生，当我问他这个问题的时候，他以为他要用一个很厉害的假设来维护自己的尊严。结果他说了一句：我想做一个fammer。当然fammer这个词在西方语境里是农场主的意思，区别于一般我们中国的农民，但还是让我吃了一惊，因为我能够感受到他回答时的那种自信和骄傲。中午下课，我买了一个法棍，在走廊碰到了他，他径直走过来跟我说，Owen，你吃的这个是我们家生产的。这种笃定和对自己的认同，让当时的我吃了一惊。在爱尔兰，教育是每个人可以享受和选择的权利，但是他们更多的权利，是选择自己生活态度的自由，更加快乐自信的生活。这对当时单一价值教育体系训练出的我，给了不小的冲击。厨房里的选举同样的学校我还接过爱尔兰最北面一个叫Nobber的地方，北到了快到了再过去就是北爱尔兰了。这个学校虽然比较偏远，但是却非常特别。首先是我询问他们有什么要求的时候，他们说要学习汉语拼音，这个和其他学校还不太一样。因为爱尔兰地区的汉语还没有像泰国那样比较普及，所以我们教学过程中很难用汉语，只是教一些最基础的初级对话，也叫greetings。于是，我费了好大劲儿去研究口腔里各个部位的叫法，自己开始画解剖图，然后试图科学地解释发音问题。Nobber这个学校虽然偏远，但他们的设备和首都都柏林的设备几乎没有差别。虽然在郊区，但是这里的孩子享受的是几乎和都柏林孩子一样的教育。还有一次，我中午下课后路过他们的厨艺教室，看到里面热火朝天的，我的学生也在里面，每个人手里拿几个不同颜色的小旗子，应该是用来投票的。中间一位老师手里拿着话筒做主持人。在教室最前面有三个团队，每个团队是一位老师带一位学生，进行厨艺大比拼，这位男孩子做的饭，是拿白米和黑米做的，像一个八卦，他叫它“阴阳”，还在等菜熟的时候跳“江南style”。每个人不仅要做得好，还要表达出自己的想法，解释自己菜的独到之处，以赢得台下观众的支持。首先对于厨艺课的这一点来说，我觉得中国的家庭教育和学校教育都不太提倡大家去学习做饭，因为这是孩子学习不好，被送到新东方才去做的事情。但做饭本身就是一种乐趣，而且也是生存的基本技能。第二点，我感觉我看到哪里是厨艺比赛，简直像一个在古希腊的民主选举，这说明，在西方的教育过程中，自我表达和权利意识贯穿于始终。就像你要说服别人来给你投票，你需要有一个好的表达，把自己的观点表达清楚，并且说出来赢得大家认同。然后，你需要按照自己所说去做，如果有不对的地方，所有人都会监督你，就像我们中国孔子说的“言必信，行必果”。三我的老师和学生少说话，一定要气压低...接下里讲讲我在爱尔兰的朋友们。第一位是我最好的朋友叫Peter，他是我当时在爱尔兰最好的朋友。Peter是我去的一个中学的校长，因为他的外表看起来比较威严，自带气场，工作起来很有专业风范，所以开玩笑说他像丘吉尔，他听到这个答案时候，竟然非常生气，说丘吉尔很丑。我以为Peter是一个严肃的老头，但当Peter知道我会画画的时候，非常兴奋，跟我说着他办公室墙上挂着的画儿，并且邀请我周末一起去市区的王尔德故居去转转。从此之后，除非他周末有事，都会带我去一个新的地方去转转。Peter的学校非常的好看，在一个维多利亚风格的建筑里。这个学校是一个男校，所以男生很多，这样纪律就是一个大问题，特别是对于我一个中国老师。我把课堂的纪律问题跟Peter说过之后，有一天Peter给我发信息，说你今天如果没课的话，可以来我们学校一趟。我去了之后，Peter把我带到一个教室里面，他说，我坐在下面，你把我当成学生讲给我。然后Peter给我一步步地纠正问题。并且教我怎么去调动学生的注意力，比如说，让这一排和这一排，一起去练习发音。后来，我就把他教的方法用到了乔伊斯的母校beveldere，因为这所学校是贵族学校，大部分学生学习很好，但是只有一个男生特别调皮，我就按Peter跟我说的，“你要少说话，一定要气压低”。这个学生上课调皮时，我就告诉他，你下课时不要走，留一下。下课后，我带着他去找年级长，刚走到门口，这个男生终于说：“老师，对不起，都是我的错。”汉字是上帝造出来的？第二位是老太太Philomena,她很厉害，以前在英国做记者。总说觉得自己上辈子是中国人，她自身也是一个基督教徒，有一次她给了我一本书，这本书写的很有意思，把中国的汉字和基督教结合起来。牵强附会，比如说这个“船”字，一边是“舟”，上边是“几”，但是写出来像“八”，下面是“口”，因为诺亚，在船上一共是八口人，诺亚和妻子，还有三个孩子以及三个孩子的老婆。她有时候会给我聊一些问题，比如说，死之后怎么办？这是你在爱尔兰这种环境里，才会去思考的问题。可能在我们中国，大家都非常忙，不会去思考这些事。我用“阴阳”来解释书法的线条我书法班的优等生叫Tereasa，Tereasa练习书法的原因是因为她从中国湖北领养了一位孤儿。我能理解她作为一个母亲，想通过自己的方式和她收养的孩子之间建立一种联系，哪怕这种联系让他们觉得更加亲近一些。她本来想去学习中文，后来因为中文太难了，所以选择了书法。这个逻辑有点奇怪。当时我在爱尔兰很难找到英文的书法教材，我就用手写教材的方式给他们编写教材，一边在A4纸上同时用签字笔和毛笔给他们写教材，这是我当时手写的一部分教材。在开学之初，我也非常苦恼如何给他们介绍我们的中国书法。对于没有接触过中国书法的外国人来说，特别是他们对于书法艺术性之外的文字语言的部分，几乎是没有认知的。那么我们同样面临一个问题，就是不认识字，练习书法就没有意义了吗？当然不是，书法之所以成为书法，成为一种艺术，不仅仅是它承载了文字和信息，更是中华民族在追求实用性的同时，还顾及了美感。在开课的前几天，我躺在床上一直在思考这个问题，如何向他们解释中国的书法，有没有一种共通的东西，哪怕他们不认识汉字，也可以去体会到里面的美。也许是时差的原因，也许是对于这种挑战的焦虑，我现在依然清晰地记得那晚的失眠，但是这种痛苦却换来了启示——我想到了如何给他们解释的方法——用中国的阴阳的哲学观念，这个概念对于西方人来说并不陌生。但是我还必须找一个载体，那就简化到一根中国的线条吧，把线条拆分成两种笔法，也就是“藏锋”和“露锋”的区别。那么阴阳的哲学还是显得非常的形而上，让人难以触碰，再往下走，我就以阴阳对应不同线条带给人不同的感受，让他们去体会这种线条上的差别。当然，中间的过程我就不跟大家详细说了，总之，我用这个方法去教学，取得了不错的效果，一期12次课之后，像Tereasa这种优等生能写出来和中国人差不多的作品。我的另一位学生叫Karen，我们现在还在微信上保持联系。Karen是在政府工作，主要负责办理政府的难民福利。Karen性格比较谨慎，可能和自己的工作也有很大关系，但喜欢画工笔画，可能工笔画更容易控制，在她的舒适范围区之内，更让她觉得有安全感。但我还是鼓励她放开一些，特别是从书法里面，感受到一些随意书写的线条。这是她在我走时送给我的一副作品，我非常感动。还用英文写了诗，在右下角是爱尔兰的一个符号。小戏精的养成我在爱尔兰的这一年，偷偷做了一个兼职，给一位在爱尔兰工作的法国大使馆朋友的孩子教书法。我的这位法国朋友叫玛利亚，她有两个男孩子，年纪大的叫诺力，性格比较开朗，我主要教诺力写字。在我教了诺力半年之后，有一次玛利亚高兴地告诉我，他有一个朋友的小女孩儿到家里做客，然后和诺力一起玩儿，诺力就拿出来毛笔和她一起写写画画。这时候小女孩儿在写字的时候，诺力在说，这么写不对，应该怎么写怎么写才是正确的。玛利亚在旁边看到非常的高兴，觉得诺力在我的指导下，已经能够分清楚不同线条的好坏了。我经常说，练习书法的历史就是戏精培养史，写在纸上的一个点，你能看出重量上的差别，在书写过程中，气力用的大小，完全可以在线条上面反映出来，一根柔软的毛笔，你竟然要想象成一根铁棒，就像古人说的金刚杵。等到修炼到一定境界之后，在你眼中的并不是白纸黑字的符号，而是满纸云烟，会有跟多的感受力。艺术带给我们更多的就是感受力，你的感受力越强，你能感受到的愉悦就更多。后话以上我说的是我在爱尔兰的工作和朋友的部分，在国外的这一年，我觉得除此之外最让我觉得有价值的就是我利用假期逛了欧洲各地的博物馆。包括英国、法国、意大利、荷兰这些地区的主要博物馆。我现在做的事情，也和这个游历有很大的关系。我也是通过对这些美术馆观察，发现国外对国民的审美教育的重视，真的是目前中国需要学习的地方。其实我现在的选择就是源于我在卢浮宫游览时候见到的一幕，当时给我印象最深的是，我转过一面墙看到一群小孩子认真地盯着墙上的画作，坐在地上聚精会神地围在老师身边听老师的讲解，我被这个场景深深地震撼了！这个博物馆这不就是实体的教科书吗，为什么我从小没有受到这种形式的教育。也许是我的好奇心更加的旺盛，也许是我不仅仅希望自己通过挂在墙上画作，和仅有的几个人发生作用。回国之后，我攻读了艺术史专业的研究生，希望通过语言把更多的人带到博物馆，让他们更快乐地度过八小时之外的时光。只是现在的中国不仅没有信仰，甚至连审美教育都没有。我相信信仰的并非让我们像一个孩子一样带着谦卑，去聆听一位全能神的言语，更多是我们的心灵在这个纷繁的世界里能获得一份安顿。我们整天焦虑，但却不知焦虑是疑因为什么，我们的心灵需要慰藉，因为对于幸福来说，每个人都是一样的，无论你是现代人还是古代人，无论你是中国人，还是外国人。这就是我在爱尔兰的这一年的经历带给我的所思所想，谢谢大家的倾听。◻︎温翔然在现场

大家好，我是Owen。了解我的人应该知道，我经常在博物馆里给大家讲故事，但今天讲的和我的工作关系并不太啊，因为它是我的故事的开始。说实话，那段时光已经是六年前的事情了，但是我相信，只要经历过，它总会在你的生命里留下痕迹。2011年，也就是7年前，我做了一个大胆的决定，当然这是好听的说法，其实是一个挺二的决定。我放弃了保研的机会，决定出国传播中国文化，这个想法听起来又大又中二，但这就是我当时的真实想法。当时我父母也反对，还要面临激烈地竞争，而当时年少的我觉得最有意义的事情就是这个，那个冲动简直是无法抑制。我相信天真这两个字，不只包含了我们年长之后丢掉的梦想，更赋予了我们一种勇气。为什么爱尔兰人热爱绿色？在2012年，我来到了爱尔兰。第一印象就是绿，所以他有一个很好听的名字就是“翡翠岛”。来到爱尔兰的第一天，下着濛濛细雨，我们十几位老师坐在大巴车上，望着窗外，真的是country road，take me home这种感觉，真正的田园景致。因为爱尔兰属于温带海洋性气候地区，所以植被覆盖率非常高。这种绿，是由南至北，由东至西包裹着这个岛国的颜色，清澈剔透如翡翠。爱尔兰的绿让他们骄傲，甚至他们的国庆节，也就是圣帕特里克节，人们都戴着让我们中国人很诧异的绿帽子，去庆祝一个天主教的圣人，叫圣帕特里克，他也是把天主教带到爱尔兰的人。爱尔兰的绿让人着迷，但爱尔兰的天气却让人很郁闷。我来的时候，大家说过一句玩笑话，说爱尔兰365天，300天都在下雨。我的一位同事有次和出租车大叔聊起来爱尔兰的天气，大叔说上天给了爱尔兰这么美丽的外衣，如果再给他一个好天气的话，它会被这个世界嫉妒死了。在这样的情况下，你就知道他们对阳光有多么的向往。有一次我在市区上完课之后，散步走到了市区的中央公园，在我眼前的一幕惊呆我了。我本以为这只是一个晴天——但所有的人都聚集在草坪上晒太阳，更可怕的是还有人光着膀子，拿着尤克里里在弹。后来，我才知道，这是爱尔兰难得的一次晴天，所有的人都会到公园的草坪上去享受难得的阳光。为什么盛产艺术家和作家？爱尔兰是一个小国，小到还没有一个重庆市大。但是爱尔兰却是一个真正的文化大国，我们来看看这么一个小国家，诞生了多少伟大的作家诗人和音乐家。有一个迷人的毒舌王——奥斯卡·王尔德，还有鼎鼎大名的萧伯纳，也有乔伊斯，他写了一本书叫《尤利西斯》，为了炫耀自己的语言能力，最后一章竟然完全没有用标点符号，用了一句话写了一章。我很骄傲自己在乔伊斯的母校，也是都柏林市中心的beveldere（“瞭望塔”）带了一年的课。我问大家一个问题，为什么爱尔兰诞生了这么多的诗人和文学家？爱尔兰语非常难，和相对简单的英语比起来，就是一个是文言文，一个大白话。所以，你们可以想象一下，这些爱尔兰文学家就相当于我们中国民国时期的大师。小时候熟读四书五经，长大后写起白话文得心应手，古今中外信手拈来。这是我朋友的一个答案。另一个答案，是我亲身感受。在爱尔兰的这一年，我需要每周花费8个多小时在火车上，从爱尔兰东部海边的都柏林，到达西北角的Sligo这个城市，几乎跨越了整个爱尔兰，去给那里的孩子上一个小时的汉语课。因为路途太遥远了，所以我需要在Sligo住一晚上，有时候前一天下午到的早一些，我就自己走到海边去散散步。空旷的海边，一望无际，沙滩上点缀着那么几个人，但是天依然是阴郁的颜色，一阵寒风就能让你立即心生孤独。我沿着海边走了一会，又转了回来，路过了一个酒吧，于是走了进去。当我在迈进去的那一刻，就像跨到了另一个世界的大门，瞬间感到了几分暖意。酒吧壁炉烧的很旺，哪怕整个酒吧除我之外只有一对男女在喝酒聊天。屋子里复古的色调，墙上放着富有历史感的旧物，让人觉得亲切。如果说外面阴郁的天气能激发出人内心的独孤和恐惧的话，酒吧的温度的确让人立即忘掉了一切冰冷。那一刻，我突然理解了为什么爱尔兰人对酒吧情有独钟，喜欢聚集在酒吧里喝酒跳踢踏舞狂欢。为什么爱尔兰诞生了那么多作家，在这样的天气里，围在壁炉里看书写作冥想，的确是一种人生的享受。爱尔兰的环境，把人还原剥离到最真实的孤独状态，你在这里面对的更多是自己。魔鬼之山如果说爱尔兰是欧洲的尽头，Sligo就是爱尔兰的尽头。这个地方虽然遥远，但是诞生一位伟大的诗人叶芝，如果还没听过这个诗人，那肯定听过一首歌《当我老了》，这首歌的歌词就是来源于叶芝的一首诗。Sligo因此也被称为Yeats Town（叶芝小镇）。Sligo的人以叶芝为自己的骄傲，但是，由于Sligo这个地方太远了，其实这个小镇非常小，人也很少，每个人都安静地过着自己的生活。大家可能知道有个乐队叫西城男孩，就来自这个城市。每周我在sligo需要住一晚上，我的房东女儿从事法律工作，和西城男孩儿的主唱是小时候的同学，我当然表示很震惊。我在一个学期的课程结束，要离开房东家时候，因为房东喜欢画画，所以我送了他一支毛笔，顺便给她演示一下怎么用毛笔，我随便画了一个水墨的山，因为时间少，我画了米芾的风。让我吃惊的是这种风格，外国人非常陌生，他们觉得山最起码应该是绿色的，所以当时她的女儿说了一句，devil mountain，可能黑色在西方文化里面，的确也是有一定含义的，这点让我也去思考了我们之间的文化差异。“我要做农民”在Sligo我在两个学校代课，一个男女混合学校，一个女校。其中有个发生在混合学校的事情让我比较吃惊。我们中国人小时候应该都被问过一个问题，就是长大后你想做什么，作为中国的孩子，我们已经有了统一的答案，就是科学家，虽然我们那时根本不知道科学家是什么。这个问题，我也同样问了我在Sligo的学生，其中有一位很不喜欢学习的男孩子，他上课时的注意力也是有问题的，以我们的教育体制来看是典型的坏学生，当我问他这个问题的时候，他以为他要用一个很厉害的假设来维护自己的尊严。结果他说了一句：我想做一个fammer。当然fammer这个词在西方语境里是农场主的意思，区别于一般我们中国的农民，但还是让我吃了一惊，因为我能够感受到他回答时的那种自信和骄傲。中午下课，我买了一个法棍，在走廊碰到了他，他径直走过来跟我说，Owen，你吃的这个是我们家生产的。这种笃定和对自己的认同，让当时的我吃了一惊。在爱尔兰，教育是每个人可以享受和选择的权利，但是他们更多的权利，是选择自己生活态度的自由，更加快乐自信的生活。这对当时单一价值教育体系训练出的我，给了不小的冲击。厨房里的选举同样的学校我还接过爱尔兰最北面一个叫Nobber的地方，北到了快到了再过去就是北爱尔兰了。这个学校虽然比较偏远，但是却非常特别。首先是我询问他们有什么要求的时候，他们说要学习汉语拼音，这个和其他学校还不太一样。因为爱尔兰地区的汉语还没有像泰国那样比较普及，所以我们教学过程中很难用汉语，只是教一些最基础的初级对话，也叫greetings。于是，我费了好大劲儿去研究口腔里各个部位的叫法，自己开始画解剖图，然后试图科学地解释发音问题。Nobber这个学校虽然偏远，但他们的设备和首都都柏林的设备几乎没有差别。虽然在郊区，但是这里的孩子享受的是几乎和都柏林孩子一样的教育。还有一次，我中午下课后路过他们的厨艺教室，看到里面热火朝天的，我的学生也在里面，每个人手里拿几个不同颜色的小旗子，应该是用来投票的。中间一位老师手里拿着话筒做主持人。在教室最前面有三个团队，每个团队是一位老师带一位学生，进行厨艺大比拼，这位男孩子做的饭，是拿白米和黑米做的，像一个八卦，他叫它“阴阳”，还在等菜熟的时候跳“江南style”。每个人不仅要做得好，还要表达出自己的想法，解释自己菜的独到之处，以赢得台下观众的支持。首先对于厨艺课的这一点来说，我觉得中国的家庭教育和学校教育都不太提倡大家去学习做饭，因为这是孩子学习不好，被送到新东方才去做的事情。但做饭本身就是一种乐趣，而且也是生存的基本技能。第二点，我感觉我看到哪里是厨艺比赛，简直像一个在古希腊的民主选举，这说明，在西方的教育过程中，自我表达和权利意识贯穿于始终。就像你要说服别人来给你投票，你需要有一个好的表达，把自己的观点表达清楚，并且说出来赢得大家认同。然后，你需要按照自己所说去做，如果有不对的地方，所有人都会监督你，就像我们中国孔子说的“言必信，行必果”。三我的老师和学生少说话，一定要气压低...接下里讲讲我在爱尔兰的朋友们。第一位是我最好的朋友叫Peter，他是我当时在爱尔兰最好的朋友。Peter是我去的一个中学的校长，因为他的外表看起来比较威严，自带气场，工作起来很有专业风范，所以开玩笑说他像丘吉尔，他听到这个答案时候，竟然非常生气，说丘吉尔很丑。我以为Peter是一个严肃的老头，但当Peter知道我会画画的时候，非常兴奋，跟我说着他办公室墙上挂着的画儿，并且邀请我周末一起去市区的王尔德故居去转转。从此之后，除非他周末有事，都会带我去一个新的地方去转转。Peter的学校非常的好看，在一个维多利亚风格的建筑里。这个学校是一个男校，所以男生很多，这样纪律就是一个大问题，特别是对于我一个中国老师。我把课堂的纪律问题跟Peter说过之后，有一天Peter给我发信息，说你今天如果没课的话，可以来我们学校一趟。我去了之后，Peter把我带到一个教室里面，他说，我坐在下面，你把我当成学生讲给我。然后Peter给我一步步地纠正问题。并且教我怎么去调动学生的注意力，比如说，让这一排和这一排，一起去练习发音。后来，我就把他教的方法用到了乔伊斯的母校beveldere，因为这所学校是贵族学校，大部分学生学习很好，但是只有一个男生特别调皮，我就按Peter跟我说的，“你要少说话，一定要气压低”。这个学生上课调皮时，我就告诉他，你下课时不要走，留一下。下课后，我带着他去找年级长，刚走到门口，这个男生终于说：“老师，对不起，都是我的错。”汉字是上帝造出来的？第二位是老太太Philomena,她很厉害，以前在英国做记者。总说觉得自己上辈子是中国人，她自身也是一个基督教徒，有一次她给了我一本书，这本书写的很有意思，把中国的汉字和基督教结合起来。牵强附会，比如说这个“船”字，一边是“舟”，上边是“几”，但是写出来像“八”，下面是“口”，因为诺亚，在船上一共是八口人，诺亚和妻子，还有三个孩子以及三个孩子的老婆。她有时候会给我聊一些问题，比如说，死之后怎么办？这是你在爱尔兰这种环境里，才会去思考的问题。可能在我们中国，大家都非常忙，不会去思考这些事。我用“阴阳”来解释书法的线条我书法班的优等生叫Tereasa，Tereasa练习书法的原因是因为她从中国湖北领养了一位孤儿。我能理解她作为一个母亲，想通过自己的方式和她收养的孩子之间建立一种联系，哪怕这种联系让他们觉得更加亲近一些。她本来想去学习中文，后来因为中文太难了，所以选择了书法。这个逻辑有点奇怪。当时我在爱尔兰很难找到英文的书法教材，我就用手写教材的方式给他们编写教材，一边在A4纸上同时用签字笔和毛笔给他们写教材，这是我当时手写的一部分教材。在开学之初，我也非常苦恼如何给他们介绍我们的中国书法。对于没有接触过中国书法的外国人来说，特别是他们对于书法艺术性之外的文字语言的部分，几乎是没有认知的。那么我们同样面临一个问题，就是不认识字，练习书法就没有意义了吗？当然不是，书法之所以成为书法，成为一种艺术，不仅仅是它承载了文字和信息，更是中华民族在追求实用性的同时，还顾及了美感。在开课的前几天，我躺在床上一直在思考这个问题，如何向他们解释中国的书法，有没有一种共通的东西，哪怕他们不认识汉字，也可以去体会到里面的美。也许是时差的原因，也许是对于这种挑战的焦虑，我现在依然清晰地记得那晚的失眠，但是这种痛苦却换来了启示——我想到了如何给他们解释的方法——用中国的阴阳的哲学观念，这个概念对于西方人来说并不陌生。但是我还必须找一个载体，那就简化到一根中国的线条吧，把线条拆分成两种笔法，也就是“藏锋”和“露锋”的区别。那么阴阳的哲学还是显得非常的形而上，让人难以触碰，再往下走，我就以阴阳对应不同线条带给人不同的感受，让他们去体会这种线条上的差别。当然，中间的过程我就不跟大家详细说了，总之，我用这个方法去教学，取得了不错的效果，一期12次课之后，像Tereasa这种优等生能写出来和中国人差不多的作品。我的另一位学生叫Karen，我们现在还在微信上保持联系。Karen是在政府工作，主要负责办理政府的难民福利。Karen性格比较谨慎，可能和自己的工作也有很大关系，但喜欢画工笔画，可能工笔画更容易控制，在她的舒适范围区之内，更让她觉得有安全感。但我还是鼓励她放开一些，特别是从书法里面，感受到一些随意书写的线条。这是她在我走时送给我的一副作品，我非常感动。还用英文写了诗，在右下角是爱尔兰的一个符号。小戏精的养成我在爱尔兰的这一年，偷偷做了一个兼职，给一位在爱尔兰工作的法国大使馆朋友的孩子教书法。我的这位法国朋友叫玛利亚，她有两个男孩子，年纪大的叫诺力，性格比较开朗，我主要教诺力写字。在我教了诺力半年之后，有一次玛利亚高兴地告诉我，他有一个朋友的小女孩儿到家里做客，然后和诺力一起玩儿，诺力就拿出来毛笔和她一起写写画画。这时候小女孩儿在写字的时候，诺力在说，这么写不对，应该怎么写怎么写才是正确的。玛利亚在旁边看到非常的高兴，觉得诺力在我的指导下，已经能够分清楚不同线条的好坏了。我经常说，练习书法的历史就是戏精培养史，写在纸上的一个点，你能看出重量上的差别，在书写过程中，气力用的大小，完全可以在线条上面反映出来，一根柔软的毛笔，你竟然要想象成一根铁棒，就像古人说的金刚杵。等到修炼到一定境界之后，在你眼中的并不是白纸黑字的符号，而是满纸云烟，会有跟多的感受力。艺术带给我们更多的就是感受力，你的感受力越强，你能感受到的愉悦就更多。后话以上我说的是我在爱尔兰的工作和朋友的部分，在国外的这一年，我觉得除此之外最让我觉得有价值的就是我利用假期逛了欧洲各地的博物馆。包括英国、法国、意大利、荷兰这些地区的主要博物馆。我现在做的事情，也和这个游历有很大的关系。我也是通过对这些美术馆观察，发现国外对国民的审美教育的重视，真的是目前中国需要学习的地方。其实我现在的选择就是源于我在卢浮宫游览时候见到的一幕，当时给我印象最深的是，我转过一面墙看到一群小孩子认真地盯着墙上的画作，坐在地上聚精会神地围在老师身边听老师的讲解，我被这个场景深深地震撼了！这个博物馆这不就是实体的教科书吗，为什么我从小没有受到这种形式的教育。也许是我的好奇心更加的旺盛，也许是我不仅仅希望自己通过挂在墙上画作，和仅有的几个人发生作用。回国之后，我攻读了艺术史专业的研究生，希望通过语言把更多的人带到博物馆，让他们更快乐地度过八小时之外的时光。只是现在的中国不仅没有信仰，甚至连审美教育都没有。我相信信仰的并非让我们像一个孩子一样带着谦卑，去聆听一位全能神的言语，更多是我们的心灵在这个纷繁的世界里能获得一份安顿。我们整天焦虑，但却不知焦虑是疑因为什么，我们的心灵需要慰藉，因为对于幸福来说，每个人都是一样的，无论你是现代人还是古代人，无论你是中国人，还是外国人。这就是我在爱尔兰的这一年的经历带给我的所思所想，谢谢大家的倾听。◻︎温翔然在现场

Dot tells Helena about her daughter's wedding. Josh and Sara try to sort out several possible Karens. Josh hears from Email Karen. We're introduced to someone we call Crochet Pants. And Ellen catches another mouse.www.behindtheoven.wordpress.comStarring:Lori Snyder as Dot; Adrienne Hardison as Helena; Sara Stapleton as Karen/Herself; Josh Hallmark as Himself; Denise Page as Rosie; Sara Beth Poole as Ellen; Music by:Podington Bear / Muddy Waters / Aurelie

The Will and Grace gang goes to prison... and then immediately leaves prison for their own plot lines. Grace tries to out Karen Karen while Jack encourages Will to get more in touch with his instrument in an on camera acting class. 

  Conversations with Karen Karen and Dean talk about their recent trip to Florida for the Word Association of Detectives Mid-Term Meeting. As the Administrative Manager, this was Karen’s first opportunity to meet many of the WAD members, many visiting from Europe and Asia – from England and France, to Romania and Russia, and India […]

Conversations with Karen Karen shares some insight on a national story with roots in Colorado – the death of six-year-old Jon Benet Ramsey, found dead in her home 20 years ago. Recent documentaries ‘reveal’ evidence and a team of experts ‘reveals’ who killed her. What do we think?  Tune it for a lively discussion – […]

The Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Haley, Agent Lauren and Director Stargate Pioneer discuss the Daredevil season 2 eleventh episode “.380.” The hosts round up the show by running down weekly related Marvel news and responding to listener feedback.   THIS TIME ON LEGENDS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: [01:57]   Giveaway: RFID S.H.I.E.L.D. Leather Wallet Daredevil Season 2 “.380” The weekly Marvel News YOUR feedback!!!! Highlights From The Live Chatroom   LEGENDS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. RFID SHIELDED LEATHER S.H.I.E.L.D. WALLET [02:15]   Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. is giving away an RFID shielded leather wallet with the S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem embossed on it. In order to enter to win tell us what is the most ridiculous thing Tony Stark would spend his money on. The contest will run until the live Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. podcast recording stream on September 21th, 2016. THIS IS A CHANGE IN DATE FROM PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS   DAREDEVIL .380 [04:03]   Meaning of “.380” Karen Status of New York Apparently oblivious to attacks on hospitals and shipyards Religion N/A Status of Law Firm (Nelson & Murdock) Non-existent. Much like New York’s Awareness of the hospital and shipyard fights The Bulletin Ellison Only mentioned Fights Yakuza Assault on the hospital Lisa is killed protecting Claire Daredevil comes in to fight the Ninjas Daredevil saves Claire from freefall Ninjas take the kids Dry-Cleaners (Blacksmith) Initial Assault Madam Gao! Diner Fresh pot Shipyard Was the ship the Amazo from Arrow? Matt Murdock / Daredevil Explains everything to Claire Goes to see Karen (Brett told him) Goes after that Assistant DA Using info from the DA assaults the dry cleaners Talks to Gao one-on-one - drug shipments at the shipping docks Interrupts Punisher trying to kill the fake Blacksmith Agrees to do it The Punisher’s Way. Just this once Stick’s dead men come to get Daredevil Elektra Kills Stick’s men Foggy Nelson Darc comes to see Foggy Walks out with Claire Karen Page Questioned by Brett Knows that rank did not do the shootings; … The Blacksmith because the Bulletin Bolts when her police protection leaves to the garage Inherited the tapes with the car Listens to Frank kill the two from The Blacksmith Takes Brett to the Ship Law Enforcement Brett questions Karen --- no one has seen anything Karen takes Brett to the Heroine ship Punisher (Frank Castle) .380 shows thought Karen Karen - you love Matt Murdock @ Diner, Wants to know where the Blacksmith is; 41st street Finds the Skipyard Just this once is not how it works Pushes Daredevil off the boat One Match, Two Match, Penny and Dime. Here I Come Stick Gets word that Elektra killed the Frenchman Locks himself in fight club room Sharpens his blade...hah hah hah, edge lifts off block Yakuza Assaults the Hospital Wilson Fisk Nobu Yoshioka Bleeds the boy into a tub Claire Argues with Matt Hospital Administrator blames Claire Man Claire killed was already autopsy Told to go back to her job….it will be hushed She’s not fired, but strike 2 Decides to make it strike 3; quits Walks out with Foggy Madam Gao!!!!! She is the Blacksmith? --- No. No she is not Manipulates Daredevil to help Darcy She’s awesome “.380”   Directed by: Stephen Surjik 46 Total Credits stretching back to 1985 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839660/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 1 x The Kids in the Hall 1 x The X-Files 2 x Monk 1 x Eureka 1 x No Ordinary Family 6 x Warehouse 13 10 x Burn Notice 1 x The Blacklist 1 x Arrow 1 x The Flash 2 x Jessica Jones 3 x Daredevil 7 x Person Of Interest PRODUCER for Burn Notice and Warehouse 13   Written By: Mark Verheiden 20 credits back to 1988 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894156/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1#writer 2xConstantine 4xFallingSkies 1xCaprica 4xHeroes 9xBattlestar Galactica Dark Shadows (film) 9xSmallville 9xTimecop (TV Mini-Series) 2xDaredevil Timecop (film) The Mask (Film) ALSO PRODUCED (12 Credits): Daredevil, Constantine, Falling Skies, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica Razor, Dark Shadows, Smallville, Timecop (TV Series)   NEWS [29:02]   AGENTS OF SHIELD   First look at Robbie Reyes http://www.hypable.com/agents-of-shield-season-4-ghost-rider-first-look/   NETFLIX SERIES   All 13 Luke Cage ep titles revealed (with music videos) http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/103234594.html   Why Luke Cage is the unapologetically black superhero I’ve been waiting for http://io9.gizmodo.com/marvel-s-luke-cage-is-the-unapologetically-black-superh-1786315815   New Iron Fist pictures http://io9.gizmodo.com/things-still-arent-looking-any-better-for-danny-rand-in-1786103057   GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2 & BEYOND   Black Panther is “grittier, darker” http://movieweb.com/black-panther-gritty-dark-marvel-movie-chadwick-boseman/   Happy Hogan appearing in Spider-Man Homecoming http://io9.gizmodo.com/happy-hogan-will-pester-tony-stark-in-spider-man-homec-1786077129   Awwwwww/Cool Stuff   Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba crash Tom Hiddleston’s award acceptance https://twitter.com/TVChoice/status/772932014098026497   FEEDBACK [39:32]   TWITTER   Dr. Gnome to you ‏@MrParacletes  Aug 25 @LegendsofSHIELD Does this mean Steve will be Nomad instead? http://epicstream.com/news/Russos-Confirm-Steve-Rogers-is-No-Longer-Captain-America-in-Avengers-Infinity-War …   ***************************************************   Dr. Gnome to you ‏@MrParacletes  Aug 26 @LegendsofSHIELD Listening to #139, submission should have been live model decoy. Dumb autocorrect. Lol   ***************************************************   Richard ‏@KodiakGWC  Aug 27Grapevine, TX Richard Retweeted io9 @LegendsofSHIELD  Actually.....we have heard of you. @sithwitch   io9Verified account‏@io9 Luke Cage is stronger than a speeding bullet in first clip from upcoming show. http://on.io9.com/iKI8fem   ***************************************************   badgerspoon ‏@badgerspoon  Aug 29 @LegendsofSHIELD @AwsmEngrGrl @sithwitch @StargatePioneer Adrianne Palicki was in the pilot for Supernatural, which is going into season 12.   badgerspoon ‏@badgerspoon  Aug 29 @LegendsofSHIELD @AwsmEngrGrl @sithwitch @StargatePioneer Clearly, the secret is making sure that she dies before the end of the episode. ツ   badgerspoon ‏@badgerspoon  Sep 4 @LegendsofSHIELD @AwsmEngrGrl @sithwitch @StargatePioneer She survived the pilots for Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Most Wanted. Just sayin'. ツ ***************************************************   Richard ‏@KodiakGWC  Aug 31Grapevine, TX Richard Retweeted Luke Cage @LegendsofSHIELD Some cool info about the music for the series.   Luke CageVerified account‏@LukeCage Big beats. Bigger beat downs. Check out the music behind the series. #LukeCage   *************************************************** Calvin Prokopowich ‏@SgtUke  Aug 31 @LegendsofSHIELD  Some new reading material       Calvin Prokopowich ‏@SgtUke  Aug 31 @LegendsofSHIELD  Opening the #womenofpower box.       Calvin Prokopowich ‏@SgtUke  Aug 31 @LegendsofSHIELD  Here's the Spider Gwen t shirt.       Calvin Prokopowich ‏@SgtUke  Aug 31 @LegendsofSHIELD I did indeed receive the Squirrel Girl Funko.     Calvin Prokopowich ‏@SgtUke  Aug 31 I also think the folks at @LegendsofSHIELD might like my Geeky Jersey.       ****************************************   Johnny ~R ‏@BornToEatBacon  Sep 1 @LegendsofSHIELD Thanksgiving has historically been the biggest move theater day of the year. Sorry @StargatePioneer but it's just you.   Johnny ~R ‏@BornToEatBacon  Sep 1 @LegendsofSHIELD No, I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry. Mary Jane is a ginger and may or may not be part of why I might crush on ginger chics.   Johnny ~R ‏@BornToEatBacon  Sep 1 @LegendsofSHIELD Nobody grew up crushing on Jean Grey like I did crushing on Mary Jane Watson. I want to marry her!!!!!   ****************************************   Richard ‏@KodiakGWC  Sep 3Lewisville, TX Richard Retweeted ScreenGeek.net @LegendsofSHIELD Only 64 days and counting!!!!!!'   http://www.screengeek.net/2016/09/03/stan-lee-reveals-his-honest-opinion-of-doctor-strange/   ***************************************************   Dr. Gnome to you ‏@MrParacletes  Sep 3 @LegendsofSHIELD @andiminga @LilTooClinical @KodiakGWC   Unnessecary Censorship   https://youtu.be/C90GMtAOtng   *************************************************** Richard ‏@KodiakGWC  3h3 hours agoGrapevine, TX Richard Retweeted io9 @LegendsofSHIELD Spoiler-free review, if anyone is interested.   E-MAIL   Andi to stargatepioneer   Episode 11   - that was a sweet stunt! - Marci with the teddy cracking me up - 10 bucks this Asian corpse will reanimate EDIT: Well, that didn't pay out - Jon Berenthal's earlobes really are striking prominent in the diner - 20 bucks they work for Stick EDIT: DAMN it is Madame Gao!! - puh, Castle really doesn't hold back, Karen better stay far away - Claire doing her best "Over the Line" (Big Labowski) impression, good for her - Showdown time between Stick and Elektra!   Bottom line: 8 out of 10 hospital administrative strikes   OUTRO [52:11]   Haley, Lauren and Stargate Pioneer love to hear back from you about your top 5 Marvel character lists, your science of Marvel questions, who would you pick in an all-female Avenger team, or who’s Marvel abs you would like to see. Call the voicemail line at 1-844-THE-BUS1 or 844-843-2871.   Join Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. next time as the hosts discuss the Daredevil season 2 penultimate and finale episodes “The Dark at the End of the Tunnel” and “A Cold Day In Hell’s Kitchen.” You can listen in live when we record Wednesday nights at 8:00 PM Central time at Geeks.live (Also streamed live on Spreaker). Contact Info: Please see http://www.legendsofshield.com for all of our contact information or call our voicemail line at 1-844-THE-BUS1 or 844-843-2871   Don’t forget to go check out our spin-off podcast, Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D..: Longbox Edition for your weekly Marvel comic book release run-down with segments by Black Adam on S.H.I.E.L.D. comics, Lauren on Mutant Comics and Neil with his pull list run-down. Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Longbox Edition is also available on the GonnaGeek.com podcast network.   Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 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News of our Profession FALI says goodbye to Tim O’Rourke a multi-term President, GIMG.tv founder, and President of TheGraftonGroup.org a Tampa Private Investigation firm NCISS holds Hit the Hill and 40th Annual Conference with elections – Dean elected President and receives Wunder Award – details at http://conta.cc/1Vm1NhM Conferences around the country Conversations with Karen Karen […]

Conversations with Karen Karen has some follow-up on the discussions from last month and the death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and the questions surrounding it.  Based on their experience and available information, Karen and Dean provide a detailed article ‘Analyzing the Death and Investigation of Justice Antonin Scalia’. Karen also discusses the […]