Podcasts about Labor Day

Most women don't plan to stay stuck. They don't wake up and decide: "Let's spend another season avoiding what's really bothering me." But that's often what happens. Life gets busy. Schedules fill up. The days start running together. The drinking continues. The distractions multiply. And before you know it, summer is over. Then September arrives with a familiar feeling: Regret. Regret that nothing really changed. Regret that you spent another season putting yourself last. Regret that the goals, healing, and growth you wanted somehow got pushed aside again. Here's the question I've been thinking about: What will this summer cost you if nothing changes? What will it cost your peace? Your health? Your relationships? Your confidence? Your purpose? Imagine instead arriving at the end of summer feeling stronger, clearer, more grounded, and proud of the commitments you kept to yourself. That's why I've opened a few spots for summer coaching. Whether you're a former client interested in the Summer Growth Pass or you're new and curious about getting support , I'd love to help you create a different ending to this summer. Email me at michelle@setfreesisterhood.com Here are those journal questions I promised:  If nothing changes between now and Labor Day, how will I feel about myself? What promises have I been making to myself that I continue to break? What is it costing me emotionally to keep repeating the same patterns? How is overdrinking affecting my confidence and trust in myself? How is it impacting my relationship with God? What opportunities, experiences, or growth am I missing because I keep postponing change? If I continue exactly as I am for the next 90 days, what will likely be different? What will likely stay the same? What would I be most proud of if I looked back on this summer in September? What support do I need that I'm currently not giving myself? What's one decision I know I need to make today? Bonus Question: If I knew freedom, growth, and healing were possible, what would I do next?  

Send us Fan MailLas Vegas gets a massive 10-year extension that cements Formula 1's future on the Strip. There's a great summer discount package at The Mob Museum and the Strip has a brand-new In-N-Out Burger. Plus, Dayna gives us the delicious rundown on her recent night out at BOA Steakhouse, and we look ahead to a historic downtown sendoff for a legendary 1980s casino favorite.The Strip's Newest Burger Joint: In-N-Out Burger is making a massive move to the Strip at BLVD Las Vegas. We've got the details on the indoor/outdoor setup and what this means for hungry travelers.Formula 1 Locks in Until 2037: Big news for racing fans! Formula 1 has signed a massive 10-year extension to keep tearing up the Las Vegas Strip for over a decade. We talk about the multi-billion dollar economic impact and what it means for the city's future.The End of an Era for Sigma Derby: The world's very last remaining operational Sigma Derby machine is moving out of The D. But don't worry, it's not going far! We cover the upcoming Fremont Street farewell processional hosted by Derek Stevens as this beloved 1980s mechanical horse racing game heads to its historic new home at the Golden Gate.Summer Savings & Matinee Magic: Looking for a deal? We break down The Mob Museum's incredible "Big Boss Package" running through August, plus new daytime show slots you need to know about, including Awakening matinees and afternoon sets from the Jabbawockeez.Fremont Street Red, White, and Blue: From a massive Team USA Pep Rally and Watch Party at Stadium Swim to a spectacular citywide America 250 fireworks show on June 20th, downtown has a lot of fun stuff happening.Sports Royalty at Fontainebleau: With the Vegas Golden Knights back in the Stanley Cup Finals, the timing is perfect. Fontainebleau's Hall of Excellence has just added major new artifacts, including championship gear from the Aces, Jack Eichel, Shohei Ohtani, and Rafael Nadal. Plus, we share how locals can score free parking there through Labor Day!Celebrity Sightings: From the Aces courtside to a Backstreet Boy cranking the siren at the fortress, the star power in Vegas is unmatched right now.Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode:Check out our YouTube Channel for the full visuals on the Awakening package and more!Book the Mob Museum package on its website.Book Awakening at Wynn Las Vegas.Enjoying the show? Please leave us a 5-star review and subscribe so you never miss a Vegas update!VegasNearMe App If it's fun to do or see, it's on VegasNearMe. The only app you'll need to navigate Las Vegas. It's FREE!Support the showFollow us on Instagram: @vegas.revealedFollow us on Twitter: @vegasrevealedFollow us on TikTok: @vegas.revealedWebsite: Vegas-Revealed.com

Summer is where routines go to die. Later nights. More travel. More “we'll get back on track Monday.” And then it's Labor Day… and you feel worse than you did in June. In this episode, I'm giving you a Summer Fundamentals Reset—a simple, no-drama way to stop drifting and get back to basics without turning your life into a giant self-improvement project. Because the truth is: when life gets loud (and summer gets loose), even high performers start handing themselves permission slips: Skip the workout. Stay up late. Drink more. Eat like a teenager. “I'll lock in later.” And later becomes never. So here's what we're doing instead: fundamentals. You'll learn: Why successful people quietly abandon the basics (and how it happens without you noticing) The one trap that's costing you momentum: comfort disguised as “skipping” Why your brain starts “shopping for novelty” when momentum stalls A simple framework you can steal today: The Summer Fundamentals Reset — Call It. Pick It. Protect It. A Summer Reset challenge to start in the next 24 hours (choose it → prove it → lock it in) This isn't about being perfect. It's about feeling clear, energized, and present again—so you can actually enjoy your summer. Don't use summer as an excuse. Use summer as your reset. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Grab your FREE, custom-designed PDFs (inspired by Start With Why by Simon Sinek) at idareyoupod.com: 5 “Why discovery” questions Daring Purpose Tool (Belief → Action → Results → One sentence) Start With Why Visual Synopsis (WHY / HOW / WHAT + trust + consistency) Connect with Darrin Johnson: www.idareyoupod.com Instagram: @idareyoupod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IDareYouPod TikTok: @idareyoupod

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This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God's presence. I'm Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God's presence through biblically guided imagination.  Notice: During the summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, a new episode of this podcast will appear once a week each Tuesday morning. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 NIV “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” Philippians 2:13 CSB “For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.” Ephesians 1:13-14 NIV “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.” Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it. Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack. This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

Send us Fan MailThe Florida Keys Overseas Highway is a living corridor of reefs, bridges, history, and local tradition. We sit down with journalist and photographer Andy Newman, who spent 44 years with the Florida Keys Tourism Council, to build a true start-to-finish Florida Keys road trip.We talk logistics: how long the drive takes, why the mile markers function like addresses, and when you can get away without hotel reservations. From there, we trace the story behind the islands themselves: Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad, the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and how the modern highway opened the Keys to a different kind of traveler.Then we start the itinerary. Key Largo brings John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the Christ of the Deep, plus smart reminders about the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and boating responsibly around shallow, sensitive habitat. Islamorada delivers sport fishing culture, the History of Diving Museum, and the simple joy of hand-feeding tarpon. Marathon adds the Dolphin Research Center, Aquarium Encounters, the Turtle Hospital, and a walk into history on Pigeon Key. The Lower Keys bring Bahia Honda beaches, key deer, and even an Underwater Music Festival. Key West rounds it out with the Conch Republic story, Hemingway Days, six-toed cats, sunset celebration at Mallory Square, and the option to reach Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson.If you love travel stories with practical tips, local food, and real history, this one's for you. Subscribe, share it with your favorite road trip partner, leave a review.Andy Newman is currently an avid fisherman and photographer, and lives in the Florida Keys.Podcast host Lea Lane has traveled to over 100 countries, and has written nine books, including the award-winning Places I Remember  (Kirkus Reviews star rating, and  'one of the top 100 Indie books of  the year'). She has contributed to dozens of guidebooks and has written thousands of travel articles. Read her weekly essays on Substack._____Our award-winning travel podcast, Places I Remember with Lea Lane, has produced over 130 travel episodes! New episodes drop on the first Tuesday of the month, on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts. All episodes are also on her website: placesirememberlealane.com_____Travel vlogs of featured  podcasts-- with video and graphics -- now also drop on YouTube.  

What if the biggest summer mistake isn't doing too much, but doing too little with the extra time available?In this solo episode, Lisa Marker-Robbins explains why families who treat summer as a time to simply relax often reach Labor Day feeling behind, highlighting the difference between rest and rejuvenation and showing how intentional action can help students build confidence, momentum, and direction for what comes next.Lisa also shares practical strategies to help teens and young adults gain self-awareness, explore future possibilities, build momentum, and enter the fall with greater clarity, confidence, and direction.In this episode, you'll discover:Seasonal habits and their long-term emotional impactThe relationship between unstructured time, responsibility, and personal growthHow young adults respond to uncertainty and expectationsCreating sustainable momentum during periods of transitionKey Takeaways: Unstructured summertime often leads to drift rather than progress, causing many teens and young adults to fall into inconsistent routines, shift their sleep schedules, spend more time on screens, postpone responsibilities, and reach Labor Day feeling anxious about what comes next.While rest helps students recover from the demands of the school year, rejuvenating activities that are life-giving and momentum-building, such as learning new skills, exploring interests, building relationships, and gaining career exposure, are often what create energy, confidence, and forward progress.What looks like a lack of motivation is often a lack of clarity, as many young people feel overwhelmed by expectations from themselves, their families, and their peers, leaving them unsure where to begin and afraid of making the wrong choice.Confidence is usually the result of action, with self-awareness, intentional exploration, networking, and real-world experiences helping students build clarity, motivation, and direction as they take meaningful steps toward future goals. “Families often are sitting there waiting for that motivation first, but momentum is what will create the motivation.” – Lisa Marker-RobbinsEpisode References:Ready for a different outcome this fall? Start with this free video today: https://courses.flourishcoachingco.com/clarity#228 Why Capable Kids End Up Stuck in Miserable Jobs: https://flourishcoachingco.com/podcast/228-why-capable-kids-end-up-stuck-in-miserable-jobs/Get Lisa's Free on-demand video: THE CAREER IDENTIFICATION COMPASS: How To Be Certain Your 15 To 25 Year Old is On The Right Path to Launch With Confidence–Not Confusion: flourishcoachingco.com/video Connect with Lisa:Website: https://www.flourishcoachingco.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flourishcoachingcoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/flourishcoachingco/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flourishcoachingco/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flourish-coaching-co

June 1, 2026 ~ Judge blocks $1.9 Trump's billion lawfare fund. President Trump scraps 250 concert. UAW declares strike against American Axle. Memorial Day to Labor Day is the 100 most deadliest days on the road. US and Iran exchange new fire. Metro airports adds new barricades and the day's biggest headlines. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Summer of Trinity is a look at the summer of 1945, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Halfway between those dates, on July 16, was the Trinity atomic weapon test - but a lot was happening all around the world, during the 6 weeks before and after Trinity.  That's what this series will be about.

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. A look at each day between Memorial Day and Labor Day, 1945 - the six weeks on either side of the Trinity test on July 16.  (For future weeks, we'll have an entry for each day, but we already did May 1945 in the previous episode.) May 30, 1945. Wednesday. Memorial Day. It is the 60th day of the Battle of Okinawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day   May 31, 1945. Thursday. It is the 61st day of the battle of Okinawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_B._Craft    June 1, 1945 Friday. It is the 62nd day of the Battle of Okinawa.  Times around the world, as the meeting of the Interim Committee starts, 11AM in Washington DC https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/notes-meeting-interim-committee?documentid=NA&pagenumber=9 The members of the Interim Committee include (not a complete list) Mr. George H. Bucher, President of Westinghouse - manufacture of equipment for the electromagnetic process. Mr.Walter S. Carpenter, President of Du Pont Company - construction of the Hanford Project. Mr. James Rafferty, Vice President of Union Carbide - construction and operation of gas diffusion plant in Clinton. Mr. James White, President of Tennessee Eastman - production of basic chemicals and construction of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex The committee also discussed how difficult it would be for the Soviet Union to replicate the work that had been done on the atomic bomb.  https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/notes-meeting-interim-committee?documentid=NA&pagenumber=4

Matt Smith is a living legend with his unbelievable 30-year run at Club Passim, the historic folk venue nestled in a Harvard Square basement. Currently Managing Director at Passim, Matt is the most passionate music lover I know. He has used his platform at Passim to help establish artists like Lori McKenna, Anaïs Mitchell, Lake Street Dive, and so many more. I met Matt while working as a student at WERS 88.9FM, where he brought fantastic shows to a listening room filled with people who were clambering for honest music in an intimate space. He's been a very good friend and mentor to myself and thousands of musicians since he began his tenure at the club in 1995.In honor of Matt's 30th anniversary at Passim, we brought two longtime friends on the pod to talk to him about his role in the Passim community – and beyond. Musicians Edie Carey and Dinty Child join us in conversation with Matt; he shares advice he would give his younger self, we chat about what a vacation without music would look like and his incredible memory. That memory is tested in our lightning round where he answers Passim trivia (almost 100% correctly). There's also a discussion about what Matt is most proud of in all his years at the club: the campfire. festival, which takes place every Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends featuring sets in-the-round of mostly unknown new acts. I would imagine if you're listening to this episode of Basic Folk, you either know Matt or Club Passim. Hello to all our friends and I hope you enjoy this window into one of the best people we've ever known: Matt Smith!Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknewsHelp produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpodsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Every summer, millions of women tell themselves the same thing: "I'll deal with this after Labor Day."And every fall, they're right back where they started.In this episode, Christie makes the case that summer isn't the worst time to do this work — it's actually the best. The barbecues, the girls trips, the family reunions, the cooler full of White Claw at every single event from June through August? That's not the obstacle. That's the laboratory.If you're a Catholic woman who loves Jesus, keeps her life together in almost every area, but has this one habit that doesn't quite line up with who you know you're called to be — this episode is for you.In this episode:Why "I'll start after summer" is the habit talking — not wisdomHow your brain is already craving before you've made a single decision (and why that's not weakness)Why summer's social pressure is actually the fastest path to lasting changeWhat God might be doing in the seasons that feel most inconvenientThree things you can do right now — before the next barbecueMentioned in this episode:The Sober(ish) Summer Challenge is coming back this year — and Christie is making it better. Registration isn't open yet, but if this episode resonated, stay close. She'll let you know the moment doors open.→ Follow Christie on Instagram: @thecatholicsobrietycoach → Subscribe so you don't miss the announcementThis podcast is for you if:You don't identify as an alcoholic but you know something's off. You're disciplined, faithful, and quietly non-negotiable about your evening wine. You've tried to cut back. It worked for a while. And now there's a low hum of something — shame, confusion, frustration — that follows you around.You're in the right place.About Christie:Christie Walker is a Catholic sobriety coach and content creator who has been alcohol-free for 29 years. She works with Catholic women in the gray area — not rock bottom, not fine — using a framework built on Catholic faith, identity in Christ, inner healing, and neuroscience. Her coaching programs include the Sober(ish) Summer Challenge, the Sacred Sobriety Lab, and the Sacred Sobriety Kickstart (a free 5-video series for women ready to take a first step).Know someone who needs to hear this? Send her this episode. It might be the kindest thing you do for her all summer.Drop us a Question or Comment

CHRISTIAN CAPLE (Say Who, Say Pod) With the Apple Cup moving to a Sunday, what does Christian think about the move and the rivalry as it currently stands. Will it continue? What about the current state of college football? Is it sustainable? What changes does he expect? How healthy is Washington Football at this point in the Jedd Fisch era? Are expectations of a 9-win season realistic? :30- ABC's of the Mariners - U is for Unprecedented- yes, the piggyback is an unprecedented move… - V is for Velo- why does everyone seem so surprised by Bryce Miller's velocity? - W is for waiting- Chuck has been waiting to start in on trade talk, but it's almost June… :45- We wrap up this Thursday show with one last thing! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In September 2006, the quiet Black Bear Bed & Breakfast in Newry, Maine became the center of one of the state's most disturbing murder cases. Over Labor Day weekend, Christian Charles Nielsen shot and killed four people: inn owner Julie Bullard, her daughter Selby Bullard, handyman James “Jimmy” Whitehurst, and Selby's friend Cynthia “Cindy” Beatson. What began with a supposed fishing trip to Upton, Maine ended in a horrifying chain of murders at a peaceful mountain inn near Sunday River. Nielsen, a cook who had been living at the Black Bear B&B, later confessed to killing all four victims. Prosecutors said he gave no real motive—only chilling explanations that left investigators, families, and the community searching for answers. In this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide, we examine the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast murders, the relationships between the victims, Julie Bullard's dream of starting over in Maine, the timeline of the Labor Day weekend killings, and the aftermath of one of Maine's most shocking true crime cases. sources used for this podcast JOIN THE IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS FOLLOW H2H ON INSTAGRAM FOLLOW H2H ON X Start Kris's Books today for FREE Christian Nielsen murders, Black Bear Bed and Breakfast murders, Black Bear B&B, Newry Maine murders, Maine true crime, Labor Day weekend murders, Julie Bullard, Selby Bullard, James Whitehurst, Jimmy Whitehurst, Cynthia Beatson, Cindy Beatson, Upton Maine murder, Sunday River Maine, Maine serial killer case, true crime podcast, Hitched 2 Homicide. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What does a church with over 300 ministries actually look like — and how does one congregation build that kind of reach? Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, senior pastor of Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, joins Brian From for a conversation about third-generation Pentecostal ministry, a 20-acre campus built on the old Edgewater Amusement Park site, and a simple philosophy: ministries exist for needs, not for the church's own satisfaction. Bishop Ellis talks about taking Sunday services outside from Fourth of July to Labor Day, weekly outreach downtown to the poorest neighborhoods, the David Ellis Academy charter schools his father's vision made possible, and why the future of Detroit requires the church to partner with Fortune 500 companies, elected officials, and philanthropists — not just pass the offering plate. He also makes the case that Greater Grace, for all its size, has never lost its blue collar feel. A warm, energetic conversation about what it looks like when a church decides its impact should be felt far beyond its walls. Learn more at greatergrace.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As U.S. motorists face some of the highest gas prices in years, with the national average already at $4.56 per gallon and forecast to average $4.80 between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we ask you, are you changing your summer travel plans? How so? Are you taking smaller day trips or doing a staycation rather than one big extended vacation somewhere? Listeners checked in with their thoughts and plans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As U.S. motorists face some of the highest gas prices in years, with the national average already at $4.56 per gallon and forecast to average $4.80 between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we ask you, are you changing your summer travel plans? How so? Are you taking smaller day trips or doing a staycation rather than one big extended vacation somewhere? Listeners checked in with their thoughts and plans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HR2 - 24-team College Football Playoff waters down CFP & regular season In hour two Beau Morgan and Ali Mac quickly touch on some of the biggest headlines around the local and national sports scene, let you hear Georgia Bulldogs Head Football Coach Kirby Smart talk about the College Football Playoff expansion model and explain why he's against a 24-team College Football Playoff, react to what Coach Smart had to say, explain why they think a 24-team College Football Playoff will dilute meaningful rivalry games, continue to react to the news that James Pearce Jr. has been approved for a pretrial intervention program, though the timeline has been extended from the originally announced six months to one year, and that if Pearce completes the program without any further legal trouble, all felony and misdemeanor charges against him will be dropped, and he will avoid jail time. Then, Beau, Dylan, and Ali play a round of Which One for the halftime portion of the show where Ali gives Beau and Dylan two different scenarios or options and the guys have to pick one, including choosing if they would rather it be rainy on the 4th of July and sunny on Labor Day or sunny on 4th of July and rainy on Labor Day, and more! The Morning Shift crew also continue to recap and react to the Atlanta Braves bouncing back and beating the Boston Red Sox in Boston 7-6 last night in game one of their three game series after losing the last two games of their three games series against the Washington Nationals over the weekend, talk about Braves centerfielder Michael Harris II having a big game last night, let you hear Braves hitting coach Tim Hyers talk about how he's been working with Michael Harris II, react to what Coach Hyers had to say, explain why they think Hyers has been and is playing a huge role in Michael Harris II hitting success this year, and then close out hour two by reacting to the latest news, rumors, and reports in the NFL as they go In The Huddle!

Beau Morgan, Dylan Mathews, and Ali Mac play a round of Which One for the halftime portion of the show where Ali gives Beau and Dylan two different scenarios or options and the guys have to pick one, including choosing if they would rather it be rainy on the 4th of July and sunny on Labor Day or sunny on 4th of July and rainy on Labor Day, and more!

Committed vs. Convenient: The Choice That Drives Results   Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Are you in the committed mode? Are you in the convenient mode? And here's what we find out almost 100% of the time. You're not getting the results you want, you probably fell into the convenient mode. And I understand. I live in a shore state, New Jersey. We have a beach, backs right up to the Atlantic Ocean. And guess where everybody is from now until Labor Day? There. Guess where they're not? At networking events, schlepping out to a trade show, and taking the extra phone call. They blocked out their calendar. All of a sudden their Calendly link has nothing on it. That's where they're at, right? So last week I got the op, hey Carl, you wanna go to that concert? Or hey Carl, are you coming to the networking event that you have to drive to New York for? That's an hour and a half away, one way. Which one do you think I wanted to go to? Now, turns out I went to the networking event. Made two nice contacts. Missed the concert. Okay, that's what happens. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO. 

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax your body and refocus your mind to experience the reality of God's presence. I'm Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God's presence through biblically guided imagination.  Notice: During the summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, a new episode of this podcast will appear once a week each Tuesday morning. 2 Corinthians 1:21 NIV “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ.” Who can you share this podcast with? If you found this episode helpful, consider sharing it on social media or texting it to a friend you think might benefit from it. Follow Dave Cover on X (Twitter) @davecover Follow A Bigger Life on X @ABiggerLifePod Our audio engineer is Matthew Matlack. This podcast is a ministry of The Crossing, a church in Columbia, Missouri, a college town where the flagship campus of the University of Missouri is located.

Send us Fan MailIf you have been treating summer like a season to slow down professionally, this episode may challenge everything you believe about career growth at mid-career.Too many mid-career professionals mentally check out between Memorial Day and Labor Day. They stay busy, answer emails, attend meetings, and keep projects moving. But they stop showing up with intention. While everyone else waits for September to “get serious again,” the people who earn promotions, gain visibility, and create new opportunities are quietly positioning themselves right now.In this episode of The Mid-Career GPS Podcast, leadership and career coach, keynote speaker, and host, John Neral, unpacks why summer is one of the most overlooked career growth opportunities of the year and how small decisions during these months can create a massive gap between professionals who coast and professionals who advance.I start with a Memorial Day reflection and a milestone celebration before diving into an uncomfortable but necessary question: what happens to your career when you mentally disengage for months at a time?Drawing from stories about my first jobs at the Jersey Shore and later professional experiences where visibility truly mattered, I explain why the fundamentals still separate high performers at mid-career:• Be present • Be useful • Be reliable • Be seen doing work that mattersWe also explore why travel, meetings, networking opportunities, and simply getting in the room often create more influence and leadership visibility than endless busywork ever will.If you have been consuming professional development content without seeing meaningful results, this episode will challenge you directly. Watching webinars, reading books, and collecting career advice without implementation is not growth. It is intellectual entertainment.That is why I share a simple but powerful three-question framework to help you create a focused summer career strategy that actually moves your career forward.If you enjoy this podcast, remember that the conversation continues in my free weekly newsletter, The Mid-Career GPS Newsletter. You can find it on my website at https://johnneral.com/resources.Support the showIf this episode resonated with you and you want more support in how you SHOW UP for your career and life, I want to invite you to join the SHOW UP Leadership Lab. This is my group membership program where you'll get the clarity and support you need to SHOW UP more impactfully and effectively in your life and career. Visit https://johnneral.com/showup to join. Please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts here.Connect with John on LinkedIn here.Get John's New Mid-Career Journal on Amazon here.  Follow John on Instagram @johnneralcoaching. Subscribe to John's YouTube Channel here.  

Summer is not downtime for PR professionals — it's opportunity season.In this Memorial Day special episode of The PR Podcast, host Jody Fisher talks about why the summer months are one of the most overlooked opportunities in public relations and marketing. While many organizations slow down between Memorial Day and Labor Day, smart brands use the season to build momentum, create content, strengthen media relationships, and prepare for the crowded fall news cycle.In this episode:• Why summer is a great time to create news• How to strengthen media and business relationships• The importance of stockpiling content before fall• Why smart PR teams prepare for September during the summer• How staying visible all summer helps your brand long-termWhether you work in PR, marketing, media relations, nonprofit communications, or business leadership, this episode offers practical strategies to help you make the most of the summer season.Subscribe to The PR Podcast for conversations about media, storytelling, branding, and how the news gets made.The PR Podcast is a show about how the news gets made. We talk with great PR people, reporters, and communicators about how the news gets made and strategies for publicity that drive business goals. Host ⁠⁠Jody Fisher⁠⁠ is the founder of Jody Fisher PR and works with clients across the healthcare, higher education, financial services, real estate, entertainment, and non-profit verticals. The PR Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePRPodcast/Twitter: https://x.com/ThePRPodcast1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprpodcast_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theprpodcast?

You've been holding it together with caffeine and adrenaline, but your nervous system has been white-knuckling it for ten months and hit a breaking point. It's time for The Reset. This is something brand new I'm offering for the first time: an at-home restorative retreat for teachers happening June 26-28th.  It's intended to be like a real retreat experience, just held somewhere you don't have to pack a bag for and deal with travel expenses. Because The Reset is FREE. Over the weekend of June 26th-28th, I'll guide you through the practices that actually move the needle for teacher burnout. I've created videos for morning stretching and restorative yoga, audio for forest bathing (which is a mindful nature practice you can do anywhere outside), breathwork, and more. There are also nervous system mini-seminars where I explain what's actually happening in your body during a stressful school day, why you feel the way you feel, and how to send the all-clear signal so you can calm down again. And no worries about being tied to a screen: these are designed to be listened to while you're walking, going for a bike ride, gardening, or whatever you like to do!  If you're thinking, "I don't know if I can actually take a real break if I'm at home with all these distractions," I've planned for that. Everything is on-demand and completely optional.  There's no Zoom call you have to show up to, no message forums to keep up with, no schedule to follow. I'll release videos of guided experiences each day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the retreat portal. Pick and choose whatever you'd like to do, in any order you want. You basically get to design your weekend retreat, with my resources there to guide you through activities and spark inspiration. Here's how it works: Sign up for FREE to join The Reset At-Home retreat from June 26-28. All the content releases over that weekend, and is removed on Sunday night at midnight PT. I want you to actually prioritize your own wellbeing: mark your calendar, and carve out time for YOU. If you want to keep all the resources permanently, opt in for the $29 Anytime Access pass. You can take your own retreat whenever it's convenient, and do mini resets during the school year. Additional bonus practices and resources will drop on Monday for those who get the Forever Access Pass. One more thing. If you have a teacher friend who's running on fumes right now, send this this ep, or the link to sign up: https://courses.truthforteachers.com/courses/reset Better yet, plan to do The Reset together! Hang out at your friend's house in your comfiest loungewear, pick some of the activities to experience, have a healthy lunch, maybe even take a nap on the couch before diving back in for a final restorative session before dinner. You can make this at-home retreat anything you want it to be! Join us for The Reset HERE If you'd also like an in-person retreat, I've got two of them happening this summer (June 12-14 in eastern PA, and 24-26 July in the Asheville/Charlotte NC area). And, there's a Labor Day weekend retreat and fall restorative retreat I'm holding for everyone (not specifically teachers, so you can bring a non-teacher friend or partner). ​Get all the details about in-person retreats HERE.

Ash is finally back with the crew, and today's episode kicks off as she talks about her absence and what she got up to. Andy apparently got into it with two women over the Labor Day weekend, and Calvin gives us his weekly dose of stories as the crew talks about the Africa Forward Summit, Drake's Iceman drop, and so much more. Enjoy!

Episode 26-20 It's Time For The "99 Days Of Summer Challenge" What if I told you that your health could improve significantly this summer.   Would you be interested in learning how?   Of course you would!   Well, guess what?   It can!   Your health can significantly improve this summer.   How?   By taking the 99 Days Of Summer Challenge!   What's the 99 Days Of Summer Challenge?   It's a set of health-promoting strategies that YOU establish and implement.   Strategies aimed at getting you in better shape on Labor Day than were, 99 days earlier, on Memorial Day. On this episode I help get you started by sharing 20 of my favorite strategies.   Give this episode a good listen as it will help you make this your healthiest summer ever.   In addition, please share this episode with a friend.   Thanks! ———————- Want to learn more? Continue the conversation regarding this episode, and all future episodes, by signing up for our daily emails. Simply visit: GetHealthyAlabama.com  Once there, download the "Symptom Survey" and you will automatically added to our email list. ———————- Also, if you haven't already, we'd appreciate it if you'd subscribe to the podcast, leave a comment and give us a rating. (Thanks!!!)  

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Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Teahouse Tears: Finding Strength in Vulnerability & Family Ties Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-05-16-22-34-01-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 在这个凉爽的春日下午，整个家族在古雅的茶馆里聚集。En: On this cool spring afternoon, the entire family gathered in a quaint teahouse.Zh: 茶馆里弥漫着新茶的淡雅香气，木质窗棂间流转着温暖的阳光。En: The teahouse was filled with the delicate fragrance of fresh tea, and warm sunlight streamed through the wooden lattice windows.Zh: 这是劳动节后的第一次家庭聚会，大家正围坐在一张低矮的圆桌旁。En: It was the first family gathering after Labor Day, and everyone was seated around a low round table.Zh: 家豪坐在角落里，脸上挂着自信的笑容，但他的心却如波涛般起伏不定。En: Jiahao sat in the corner, wearing a confident smile, but his heart was as tumultuous as ocean waves.Zh: 他想让家人知道他的成就，可是内心的惶恐又让他犹豫不决。En: He wanted to share his achievements with his family, yet the inner fear left him hesitating.Zh: 明月坐在他的旁边，她微笑着试图缓解四周紧绷的气氛。En: Mingyue sat beside him, smiling in an attempt to ease the tense atmosphere around them.Zh: 作为家中的调解者，她总是想方设法地让家庭保持和谐，而这次也不例外。En: As the mediator in the family, she always sought ways to maintain harmony, and this time was no exception.Zh: 心宇坐在另一边，面色苍白。En: Xinyu sat on the other side, looking pale.Zh: 他是家中最小的，背负着长辈们的期望，感到无比的压力。En: Being the youngest, he bore the expectations of the elders and felt immense pressure.Zh: 今天他特别安静，比平常更加沉默，似乎有什么压在心头。En: He was particularly quiet today, more silent than usual, as if something weighed heavily on his mind.Zh: 随着茶水的升腾，热气在空中飘散，心宇开始感到胸口闷痛，呼吸变得急促。En: As the tea brewed and steam wafted through the air, Xinyu began to feel a tightness in his chest, and his breathing became rapid.Zh: 他的视线变得模糊，思绪开始不受控制地飘远。En: His vision blurred, and his thoughts started drifting uncontrollably.Zh: 家豪注意到了弟弟的异常。En: Jiahao noticed his brother's unusual state.Zh: 他放下了平日的伪装，走过去握住心宇的手，温声问道：“你还好吗？”En: He set aside his usual facade and went over to hold Xinyu's hand, gently asking, "Are you okay?"Zh: 这一刻，明月也放下了负担，走到两兄弟身边。En: At this moment, Mingyue also set aside her burdens and walked over to the two brothers.Zh: 她环顾四周，发现有些话已经刻不容缓。En: She looked around and realized that some words could no longer wait to be said.Zh: “家里对心宇太多期望了。En: "The family has too many expectations for Xinyu.Zh: 也许我们都需要彼此更多的理解和支持。”她坚定地说。En: Perhaps we all need more understanding and support for each other," she said firmly.Zh: 心宇在家豪与明月的支持下，终于忍不住释放了心中的情绪：“我有时候不知道自己能不能达到大家的期望，En: With the support of Jiahao and Mingyue, Xinyu could no longer hold back his emotions: "Sometimes I don't know if I can meet everyone's expectations.Zh: 我只是想被理解。”泪水不经意间滚落。En: I just want to be understood." Tears rolled down inadvertently.Zh: 这场突如其来的情绪爆发让整个家庭愕然，也带来了意料之外的坦诚对话。En: This unexpected emotional outburst stunned the entire family but also led to an unanticipated yet candid conversation.Zh: 家豪渐渐明白，勇于袒露脆弱远比隐藏不安更有力量。En: Jiahao gradually realized that having the courage to reveal vulnerability was far more powerful than hiding insecurities.Zh: 明月意识到，沟通才是维系家庭和睦的关键。En: Mingyue realized that communication was the key to maintaining family harmony.Zh: 心宇在释怀后，感受到一种久违的安心和希望，因为他知道，不论如何，他的家人会一直支持着他。En: After his release, Xinyu felt a long-lost sense of peace and hope, because he knew that, no matter what, his family would always support him.Zh: 茶馆依旧宁静，阳光依旧温暖，家人的心却更加紧密地连结在一起。En: The teahouse remained tranquil, the sunlight remained warm, yet the hearts of the family were more closely connected.Zh: 会议变成了一次理解和爱的开始，让困扰已久的家庭关系迈出了第一步。En: The gathering turned into a beginning of understanding and love, taking the first step in resolving the long-standing family issues. Vocabulary Words:quaint: 古雅的fragrance: 香气lattice: 窗棂gathering: 聚会tumultuous: 起伏不定hesitating: 犹豫不决mediator: 调解者harmony: 和谐pale: 苍白的immense: 无比的wafted: 飘散tightness: 闷痛facade: 伪装unusual: 异常inadvertently: 不经意间emotional: 情绪outburst: 爆发candid: 坦诚vulnerability: 脆弱insecurities: 不安maintaining: 维系tranquil: 宁静connected: 连结resolve: 解决drifting: 飘远burdens: 负担expectations: 期望release: 释怀support: 支持troubled: 困扰

Shane Perkins - Ultimate Strategy On the Reality Banks Overlook: "If you have that kind of equity and you've worked and you've saved that down payment, then there's nothing telling me that you're not going to make your payments." When you have a job with a W-2, you fit in the traditional bucket.  Traditional things for people with traditional jobs are fine.  They are simple, and easy and everyone can buy them with ease.  You want a loan, let's see your W-2, and see how much house you can afford. The challenge comes in when you are an entrepreneur.  You make money, but it isn't nearly as easy as looking at a line on a document supplied by your employer.  There are many more factors and a bit of gray area.  These are the types of things that traditional banks get scared of.  That is where the Ultimate Strategy comes in.  To get entrepreneurs into homeownership, without the limitations of traditional banks. Listen as Shane Perkins describes how he is training more students to help entrepreneurs implement the Ultimate Strategy to achieve the homeownership they desire. Enjoy! Visit Shane at: https://TheUltimateStrategy.com Sponsors: Live Video chat with our customers here with LiveSwitch: https://join.liveswitch.com/gfj3m6hnmguz Calls On Call Extraordinary Answering Service: https://callsoncall.com Some videos have been recorded with Riverside: https://www.riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_5&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=james-kademan   Podcast Overview: 00:00 Issues with current mortgage system 05:36 Helping families become homeowners 08:58 Understanding mortgage pre-approval vs. approval 12:45 Real estate deals in different states 13:21 Working in your local market 18:39 Discussing home loan qualification criteria 20:11 Discussing home loan options 24:35 Benefits of refinancing a mortgage 26:57 Real estate investment strategy 29:52 Housing affordability concerns 34:22 How mortgage payments are managed 36:41 Investor strategies for real estate students 41:23 Discussing payment reminders with clients 43:56 Passion for helping people in real estate 47:03 Maximizing returns on home equity 51:38 The value of entrepreneurship Podcast Transcription: Shane Perkins [00:00:00]: I've created a strategy that helps people get into homes that don't qualify for traditional mortgage. I just realized that the demand is so high that I can't help everybody. So I'm creating an army of folks that want to go out there and help people become homeowners. If someone's looking for a real estate investment strategy, there's nothing better out there. It's consistent. Couple deals a month, two, three deals a month, every single month. There's always a demand for it. James Kademan [00:00:33]: You have found Authentic Business Adventures, the business program that brings you the struggle stories and triumphant successes of business owners across the land. Downloadable audio episodes can be found on the podcast link found@drawincustomers.com we are locally underwritten by the bank of Sun Prairie Calls On Call, Extraordinary Answering Service, the Bold Business Book, as well as Live Switch. And today we're welcoming, preparing to learn from Shane Perkins of the ultimate strategy. So, Shane, how is it going today? Shane Perkins [00:01:02]: It is going great. How are you doing? Do you have a good Mother's Day? Yeah. James Kademan [00:01:06]: Oh, yeah, yeah. That was. It just came and went. Yeah, it's so funny. My kids in sports, so any day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, whatever, Memorial Day, Labor Day, they're all. You're just traveling to some different grassy field where he's playing some sport. So, yeah, I imagine that's what a lot of parents are doing. Let's start with the ultimate strategy. James Kademan [00:01:29]: Shane, what is the ultimate strategy? Shane Perkins [00:01:31]: Well, I have been a real estate investor for 29 years, and I've created a strategy that helps people get into homes that don't qualify for traditional mortgage. And I didn't start that until 2001. And so I've been doing that for about 25 years. James Kademan [00:01:49]: Wow. Shane Perkins [00:01:49]: And so I call it the ultimate strategy. And I did it myself for many, many years. And. And now that my kids are grown and gone, and I've decided that I need to empower other people to help more people get into homes. So I teach other people how to do the ultimate strategy, and they use that strategy to go and help other people get into homes. James Kademan [00:02:15]: Right on. And is it the property that has the challenge getting lending happening, or is it the borrower, the people trying to get into the home? Shane Perkins [00:02:23]: You know, James, I say that we have a broken mortgage system. You know, they've been using the same system for 30 years and they're, you know, people change jobs, people start businesses. Business owners are notoriously turned down for mortgages because they are taught, as all of us entrepreneurs are to minimize their taxes. Right. Well, that means writing off everything that you can. And there's many things that you can write off. And at the end of the day, your tax return says that you don't make enough money to pay for a house, but you're sitting there paying $3,000 a month in rent. And so we know that these people can pay. Shane Perkins [00:03:01]: We know how to record their income in a manner that will finance them on a house. And when I say finance, we get them into a house. We are not lenders, so we use creative financing strategies, real estate investment strategies that have been around for, you know, a hundred years. And so that's what we do. We help people get into homes. James Kademan [00:03:26]: Right on. You know, it's interesting you mentioned the small business thing, because I remember the last house that I bought with my wife. We, the lender straight up told us, let's just put her W2 on there and just ignore your income. And if we get challenged by it, then we'll come back and figure something out. But it's better just to not even use the word entrepreneur or self employed. Shane Perkins [00:03:49]: It is. James Kademan [00:03:51]: I'm like, I'm pretty sure I make more money than her, but whatever makes. Shane Perkins [00:03:56]: But that's the way it works. And it is, it's a broken system. And I, you know, what I've figured out over 25 years of doing this program is that there's three components that make people pay for their home. And the first one is the most important one. And that's in that they're in the home of their choice. You know, there are owner finance programs out there on specific houses, but if that's not what you want, what's, you know, what's, you know, what's the factor there? Yeah, you can call yourself an owner, but it's in something that you're having to settle for. And so that's the first factor. The second one is that they must have equity. Shane Perkins [00:04:35]: And so we do require down payment. You know, it's similar to the older old school. Right. 20% down. We do some 15% down deals, but you got to have some skin in the game. So you got to, you know, save for a down payment. And that and the fact that you have income is the third thing. But documenting that income for a bank is far different than documenting that income for what we do. James Kademan [00:05:01]: Right on. So are people coming to you or are you having a cold call and reach out to people? Shane Perkins [00:05:07]: No, once, once you get this program up and running, people seek you out. You know, there's a statistic that I heard, and I can't verify if it's true or not because they're pretty close. Close lipped on their. And I've tried to verify it, but I had a friend of mine tell me that, that, that actually works with Zillow very closely. That said 7,000 people a day are turned down that have a 20% down payment on Zillow. And I don't discredit it. I believe that that's true. I just can't prove it. Shane Perkins [00:05:36]: But that's a lot of people. And they don't want to rent again, you know, that, you know, renting is. It's great when you need it, but when you have kids and you have a family, you don't want to be at someone else's mercy to just raise your payment or, hey, I want somebody else to move into there, you know, or we're going to sell or something like that. You want to give your kids roots, you want to give them a home. You want to be able to build a tree house or paint your girl's bedroom pink and your boy's bedroom blue or what have you, you know, you want to call it yours. And so we've recognized what it takes to be able to help people get into homes. And now I just realized that the demand is so high that I can't help everybody. So I'm creating an army of folks that want to go out there and help people become homeowners. James Kademan [00:06:26]: Right on. Let's talk about this army. Is this army people that are just looking to start their own business in this space, or is this other people that are already in the mortgage industry and they're looking for. Shane Perkins [00:06:37]: It's a little bit of both. Yeah, it's a little bit of both. So, you know, real estate investing, there's a lot of people that want to get into it, you know, and there's all these programs out there, and I don't, you know, wholesaling and fix and flip and burr methods, you know, buy, repair, rent and repeat and all of these different methods. And they're all good strategies, but they're a lot more competitive nowadays because there's so many people getting. Getting into it. So it takes you, you know, you have to go through quite a few cold calls. And the things that loi blaster, where they. You blast out letters of intent, agent outreach, door knocking, foreclosure list, there's all these different strategies. Shane Perkins [00:07:22]: And again,...

Delivery Day is a heartfelt, funny, and emotional episode that takes listeners inside the unforgettable moments leading up to the birth of Emerson and April Morris' daughter, Emoni Abigail Morris. From late-night peanut M&M runs and treadmill adventures at 9 months pregnant, to dreams, anxiety, laughter, and powerful anticipation, this episode captures the real emotions of becoming parents for the first time.Through humor, storytelling, and authentic reflection, Emerson shares the excitement, pressure, and faith-filled expectation that surrounded Labor Day weekend in 2008 at St. Joseph's Women's Hospital. This episode reminds every listener that sometimes the waiting season prepares you for one of life's greatest blessings.If you've ever waited on a promise, prayed for breakthrough, or experienced the beauty and chaos of family, this episode will encourage your heart and make you laugh along the way.#daddysmilk #fathersuniversity #emersonjmorris #fatherswins #dads #daughters #sons #family #deliveryday

Got a story idea for Bloodworks 101? Send us a text message The blood banking industry, hospitals and first reponders all over the nation refer to the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day as the "100 Deadliest Days." Today, on Bloodworks 101, our Co-Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kirsten Alcorn tells Producer John Yeager that this summer, the 100 Deadliest Days include a global sporting event that'll draw thousands to the Pacific Northwest - The World Cup. And while Bloodworks Northwest is hoping for the best, they're preparing for the worst - just in case.  Support the show

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Brewed Inspiration: Creativity Blossoms in Shenzhen Café Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-05-08-07-38-19-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 春天的深圳，高科技城市的街道充满了活力。En: In the springtime of Shenzhen, the streets of this high-tech city are full of vitality.Zh: 在这里，一家名为“创新咖啡”的咖啡馆吸引了许多年轻的专业人士。En: Here, a café named Inno Coffee attracts many young professionals.Zh: 咖啡馆的落地窗外，可以俯瞰城市高楼与绿色植被交织的美丽风景。En: Outside the café's floor-to-ceiling windows, one can overlook the beautiful scenery of skyscrapers interwoven with greenery.Zh: 空气中弥漫着新鲜咖啡的香气，四周尽是轻快的交谈声。En: The air is filled with the aroma of fresh coffee, surrounded by the sounds of lively conversation.Zh: 这一天是五一劳动节，节日的气氛还未散去。En: This day is May 1st Labor Day, and the festive atmosphere still lingers.Zh: 咖啡馆里，李伟选择了一个角落座位，开始心不在焉地画画。En: Inside the café, Li Wei chooses a corner seat and begins absentmindedly sketching.Zh: 他是一名软件开发者，平时喜欢在空闲时间画画。En: He is a software developer who enjoys drawing in his spare time.Zh: 然而，他总觉得自己的画作不够好，从不敢与别人分享。En: However, he always feels his artwork is not good enough and never dares to share it with others.Zh: 就在此时，小明走进了咖啡馆。En: At that moment, Xiao Ming walks into the café.Zh: 她是一名平面设计师，正为新项目寻找灵感。En: She is a graphic designer looking for inspiration for a new project.Zh: 她环顾四周，视线被李伟手中的素描本吸引住了。En: She glances around and her attention is caught by the sketchbook in Li Wei's hands.Zh: “你画得真好！En: "You draw really well!"Zh: ”小明忍不住夸奖道，打破了李伟的注意力。En: Xiao Ming can't help but praise, breaking Li Wei's concentration.Zh: 李伟有些犹豫，试图把本子合上，却被小明的眼神阻止了。En: Li Wei is a bit hesitant, trying to close the book, but Xiao Ming's gaze stops him.Zh: 小明微笑着说：“我正在找灵感，你的作品很有创意。En: Smiling, she says, "I'm looking for inspiration; your work is very creative."Zh: ”两人开始聊起天来。En: The two start chatting.Zh: 李伟告诉小明，他正在寻找一个灵感点，想要开展自己的科技艺术项目。En: Li Wei tells Xiao Ming that he is seeking a spark of inspiration to start his own tech art project.Zh: 而小明则表达了她在项目设计中遇到的瓶颈。En: Meanwhile, Xiao Ming shares the bottleneck she's encountering in her project design.Zh: 两人自然而然地发现，彼此的创意竟可以完美结合。En: Naturally, they discover that their creative ideas can be perfectly combined.Zh: 梅玲，这家咖啡馆的常客，也是小明的朋友，碰巧经过。En: Mei Ling, a regular at this café and a friend of Xiao Ming, happens to pass by.Zh: 她笑着打趣道：“看来你们俩找到了共同的话题。En: She teasingly remarks, "Looks like you two have found a common topic."Zh: ”随着对话的深入，小明突然提议：“我们一起合作怎么样？En: As the conversation deepens, Xiao Ming suddenly suggests, "How about we collaborate?Zh: 你的素描给了我很多灵感。En: Your sketches have given me a lot of inspiration."Zh: ”李伟有些惊讶，但也被这突然的提议所吸引。En: Li Wei is somewhat surprised, but also intrigued by this sudden proposition.Zh: 他慢慢地点了点头，心中涌起一丝信心。En: He slowly nods, a surge of confidence welling up within him.Zh: 从这一刻起，两人决定一起工作，利用彼此的长处创造一些与众不同的东西。En: From that moment on, the two decide to work together, utilizing each other's strengths to create something unique.Zh: 随着时间的推移，他们的合作渐入佳境，项目变得越来越有趣。En: As time passes, their collaboration hits its stride, and the project becomes increasingly interesting.Zh: 同时，两人之间的感情也悄然升温。En: Meanwhile, the feelings between them quietly grow.Zh: 李伟从一个不敢展示画作的人，变成了愿意分享创意的自信青年。En: Li Wei transforms from someone afraid to show his drawings into a confident young man willing to share his creativity.Zh: 而小明也从中找到了设计的灵感与激情。En: Xiao Ming finds inspiration and passion for design in the process.Zh: 这个春天，正如深圳的天空般清新明亮，小明和李伟都迎来了属于自己的一段崭新关系。En: This spring, as fresh and bright as the skies over Shenzhen, Xiao Ming and Li Wei both embrace a new phase in their relationship.Zh: 两人在创新之路上携手并行，而这段关系正如那一杯浓香的咖啡般，温暖而充实。En: They walk hand in hand on the path of innovation, and this relationship is as warm and fulfilling as a cup of rich coffee. Vocabulary Words:springtime: 春天vitality: 活力overlook: 俯瞰aroma: 香气absentmindedly: 心不在焉地sketching: 画画software developer: 软件开发者hesitant: 犹豫gaze: 眼神bottleneck: 瓶颈proposition: 提议confidence: 信心utilizing: 利用stride: 佳境transforms: 变成embrace: 迎来innovation: 创新phase: 阶段fulfilling: 充实interwoven: 交织linger: 未散去creative: 创意combined: 结合sparks: 灵感点collaboration: 合作surge: 涌起design: 设计uniquely: 与众不同passion: 激情bright: 明亮

Fluent Fiction - French: Rekindling Family Bonds in the Heart of Modern Paris Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/fr/episode/2026-05-08-07-38-19-fr Story Transcript:Fr: Par une douce matinée de printemps, Théodore se tenait devant la grande baie vitrée de son appartement ultra-moderne à La Défense.En: On a gentle spring morning, Théodore stood before the large bay window of his ultra-modern apartment in La Défense.Fr: L'immense quartier d'affaires de Paris s'étendait devant lui, un mélange de tours en verre et de ruches humaines en perpétuel mouvement.En: The vast business district of Paris stretched out before him, a mix of glass towers and human hives in perpetual motion.Fr: Mais en ce jour particulier, son esprit était ailleurs.En: But on this particular day, his mind was elsewhere.Fr: C'était le 1er mai, la Fête du Travail, et il avait décidé d'organiser une réunion de famille.En: It was May 1st, Labor Day, and he had decided to organize a family gathering.Fr: Cela faisait trop longtemps que Théodore n'avait pas vu ses cousines, Juliette et Éloise.En: It had been too long since Théodore had seen his cousins, Juliette and Éloise.Fr: Leurs vies avaient pris des chemins très différents.En: Their lives had taken very different paths.Fr: Théodore, pris dans le tourbillon de son succès entrepreneurial, regrettait d'avoir laissé les liens familiaux s'effriter.En: Théodore, caught up in the whirlwind of his entrepreneurial success, regretted letting family ties deteriorate.Fr: Avec l'espoir de tout réparer, il avait invité ses cousines à passer l'après-midi chez lui, loin du tumulte de leurs vies respectives.En: With hopes of mending everything, he had invited his cousins to spend the afternoon at his place, away from the turmoil of their respective lives.Fr: Juliette, la voyageuse libre et aventurière, venait de revenir à Paris après des années d'errance autour du globe.En: Juliette, the free-spirited traveler and adventurer, had just returned to Paris after years of wandering around the globe.Fr: Elle rêvait de s'installer enfin quelque part, et cette réunion promettait d'être un bon début.En: She dreamed of finally settling down somewhere, and this gathering promised to be a good start.Fr: Éloise, quant à elle, traversait une période difficile.En: Éloise, on the other hand, was going through a difficult time.Fr: Son divorce récent lui pesait et elle espérait trouver du réconfort et des conseils auprès de sa famille.En: Her recent divorce weighed heavily on her, and she hoped to find comfort and advice from her family.Fr: L'appartement de Théodore était rempli d'une lumière douce qui réchauffait l'atmosphère moderne et minimaliste.En: Théodore's apartment was filled with a soft light that warmed the modern and minimalist atmosphere.Fr: Il avait préparé un déjeuner simple mais délicieux avec une sélection de fromages, du pain frais et du vin.En: He had prepared a simple yet delicious lunch with a selection of cheeses, fresh bread, and wine.Fr: Quand Juliette et Éloise arrivèrent, les salutations furent chaleureuses, mais l'air demeurait chargé d'une légère tension indéfinissable.En: When Juliette and Éloise arrived, the greetings were warm, but the air remained charged with an indefinable slight tension.Fr: Le déjeuner démarra sous les rires et le bavardage, mais rapidement, des bribes de vieux différends surgirent.En: The lunch began with laughter and chatter, but quickly, snippets of old disagreements surfaced.Fr: Des mots piquants et des souvenirs embrouillés échauffèrent l'ambiance.En: Sharp words and tangled memories heated the atmosphere.Fr: Théodore, voyant la situation lui échapper, demanda à ses cousines de l'écouter attentivement.En: Théodore, seeing the situation slipping away from him, asked his cousins to listen to him carefully.Fr: "Arrêtons un instant," dit-il doucement mais fermement.En: "Let's stop for a moment," he said softly but firmly.Fr: "Nous sommes ici pour une raison.En: "We are here for a reason.Fr: Les années ont passé, et nous sommes différents, mais nous sommes avant tout une famille.En: The years have passed, and we are different, but we are first and foremost a family.Fr: Nous devons nous soutenir, pas nous déchirer."En: We must support each other, not tear each other apart."Fr: Un silence suivit sa déclaration, mais petit à petit, une discussion sincère se mit en place.En: A silence followed his statement, but little by little, a sincere discussion took place.Fr: Les cœurs s'ouvrirent, le pardon coula comme un baume sur d'anciennes blessures.En: Hearts opened, forgiveness flowed like a balm over old wounds.Fr: Les rires revinrent, plus authentiques cette fois.En: The laughter returned, more genuine this time.Fr: En fin d'après-midi, alors que le soleil se couchait, Théodore, Juliette et Éloise faisaient un pacte.En: In the late afternoon, as the sun set, Théodore, Juliette, and Éloise made a pact.Fr: Ils se promettaient de se voir plus souvent, de s'écouter et de s'entraider sans jugement.En: They promised to see each other more often, to listen to each other, and to help one another without judgment.Fr: En regardant par la fenêtre, Théodore réalisa que le succès pouvait être mesuré par les liens qu'il entretenait, autant qu'il l'était par ses accomplissements professionnels.En: Looking out the window, Théodore realized that success could be measured by the relationships he maintained, as much as by his professional accomplishments.Fr: Ce jour-là, entre les gratte-ciels de La Défense et le murmure paisible de la Seine au loin, il avait découvert l'importance de prendre soin de ses proches.En: That day, between the skyscrapers of La Défense and the peaceful murmur of the Seine in the distance, he had discovered the importance of caring for his loved ones.Fr: Et ainsi, avec des promesses de nouveaux départs et un amour renouvelé, les cousins quittèrent l'appartement de Théodore, leurs pas résonnant en harmonie sur le parquet immaculé.En: And so, with promises of new beginnings and renewed love, the cousins left Théodore's apartment, their footsteps resonating in harmony on the immaculate parquet.Fr: La famille, pensa-t-il en fermant la porte, est une richesse inestimable, même au cœur de la modernité parisienne.En: Family, he thought as he closed the door, is an invaluable treasure, even in the heart of modern Paris. Vocabulary Words:the bay window: la baie vitréethe businessman: l'homme d'affairesthe whirlwind: le tourbillonthe regret: le regretthe turmoil: le tumultethe adventurer: l'aventurièrethe divorce: le divorcethe comfort: le réconfortthe advice: les conseilsthe atmosphere: l'atmosphèrethe selection: la sélectionthe greeting: la salutationthe tension: la tensionthe snippet: la bribethe disagreement: le différendthe sharp word: le mot piquantthe memory: le souvenirthe discussion: la discussionthe forgiveness: le pardonthe balm: le baumethe wound: la blessurethe pact: le pactethe promise: la promessethe accomplishment: l'accomplissementthe skyscraper: le gratte-cielthe murmur: le murmurethe care: le sointhe parquet: le parquetthe treasure: la richessethe modernity: la modernité

Bestselling authors William Bernhardt (The Superman Wars) and Lara Bernhardt discuss the latest news from the book world, offer writing tips, and interview Eloisa James, the reigning queen of romance, who has over 7 million books in print, about her new novel The Last Lady B, which has been called "Jane Austen Meets The White Lotus."0:00 Opening ThoughtsBill wants everyone to know that his new book The Superman Wars is finally on sale. This is the story of Jerry Siegel, the man who came up with the idea for Superman only to lose control and see his character taken from him and his name stripped from the credits. This is a story about art vs commerce, still very relevant, and a cautionary tale for creatives working today.7:45 News1) Character AI Lets People Enter Book Worlds2) Stolen Rare Books Recovered after 40 Years15:48 Craft CornerLauren Smith, USA Today-bestselling author, discusses the Five Essential Ingrdients for a Romantasy Novel25:14 Interview with Eloisa James45:55 Parting WordsThe Superman Wars: A Battle for Truth, Justice and an American Icon is NOW ON SALE!!!The WriterCon Small-Group Retreat is July 15-19 at Canebrake Resort near Tulsa OK, Spend five days workshopping your work-in-progress and inproving your writing skills. You'll be glad you did.The WriterCon Annual Convention is Labor Day weekend, September 4-7, at the historic Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City. Register now to take advantage of the Early Bird prices!For more info about both WriterCon programs, visit www.writercon.com.Until next time, keep writing, and remember: You cannot fail, if you refuse to quit.William Bernhardtwww.williambernhardt.comwww.writercon.com

Fluent Fiction - Norwegian: Blooming Bonds: A Day of Art and Friendship in Vigeland Park Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/no/episode/2026-05-06-07-38-19-no Story Transcript:No: Det var mai, og Vigeland Park i Oslo blomstret med farger og liv.En: It was May, and Vigeland Park in Oslo was blooming with colors and life.No: Blomstene i parken var åpne, akkurat som mulighetene for nye vennskap.En: The flowers in the park were open, just like the opportunities for new friendships.No: Solen skinte sterkt den dagen da Sigrid, en sjenert kunststudent, vandret gjennom parken på jakt etter inspirasjon til sitt neste skulpturprosjekt.En: The sun shone brightly that day when Sigrid, a shy art student, wandered through the park in search of inspiration for her next sculpture project.No: Hun var ikke alene; ved hennes side gikk Lena, hennes venn og trofaste støtte.En: She was not alone; by her side walked Lena, her friend and faithful support.No: "Du må våge mer, Sigrid," sa Lena, mens de gikk forbi en av Gustav Vigelands mange imponerende skulpturer.En: "You have to be more daring, Sigrid," said Lena as they passed one of Gustav Vigeland's many impressive sculptures.No: "I dag kan være dagen du møter noen spennende."En: "Today might be the day you meet someone exciting."No: Mens de spaserte, møtte de Erik, en lokal historielærer med en dybde av kunnskap om parken.En: As they strolled, they met Erik, a local history teacher with a depth of knowledge about the park.No: Erik var der for å nyte friheten på arbeidernes dag, og han bar med seg en liten bok som han av og til noterte i.En: Erik was there to enjoy the freedom on Labor Day, carrying with him a small notebook that he occasionally wrote in.No: "Hei, jeg er Erik," sa han vennlig.En: "Hi, I'm Erik," he said warmly.No: "Er dere her for å lære mer om parken?"En: "Are you here to learn more about the park?"No: Sigrid nølte, men Lena svarte raskt: "Ja, vi er nysgjerrige. Er det ikke sant, Sigrid?"En: Sigrid hesitated, but Lena quickly responded: "Yes, we're curious. Isn't that right, Sigrid?"No: Sigrid nikket stille, trass i sin vanligvis reserverte natur.En: Sigrid nodded quietly, despite her usually reserved nature.No: Erik begynte så en uoffisiell omvisning, delte historier om skulpturene og dem som har skapt dem.En: Erik then began an unofficial tour, sharing stories about the sculptures and those who created them.No: Under en diger statue av en mann fanget i en drømmende pose, ble Sigrid plutselig inspirert.En: Under a massive statue of a man caught in a dreamy pose, Sigrid suddenly felt inspired.No: Hun kjente en trang til å dele sine kunstneriske tanker.En: She felt a desire to share her artistic thoughts.No: "Jeg tenker på å lage noe som fanger menneskets indre kamp," sa hun mot Erik.En: "I'm thinking of creating something that captures the human internal struggle," she said towards Erik.No: Ordene hennes kom usikkert i starten, men Erik lyttet med genuin interesse.En: Her words came uncertainly at first, but Erik listened with genuine interest.No: "Det høres fascinerende ut!" svarte han.En: "That sounds fascinating!" he replied.No: "Jeg kan se hvordan du forholder deg til disse skulpturene."En: "I can see how you relate to these sculptures."No: Som dagen gikk, oppdaget Sigrid og Erik felles interesser.En: As the day went on, Sigrid and Erik discovered shared interests.No: Lena sto klokt i bakgrunnen og lot vennskapet mellom dem vokse uten avbrytelser.En: Lena wisely stood in the background and allowed the friendship between them to grow without interruptions.No: Da solen begynte å gå ned, var parken fortsatt fylt med lyden av latter og glede fra de mange på besøk på denne fridagen.En: As the sun began to set, the park was still filled with the sounds of laughter and joy from the many visitors on this holiday.No: Sigrid følte seg oppmuntret og takknemlig for de nye perspektivene hun hadde fått.En: Sigrid felt encouraged and grateful for the new perspectives she had gained.No: Ved dagens slutt, kort tid før hun skulle dra, ga Erik Sigrid sitt telefonnummer.En: At the end of the day, shortly before she was to leave, Erik gave Sigrid his phone number.No: "Det ville vært flott å snakke mer om kunst," sa han med et smil.En: "It would be great to talk more about art," he said with a smile.No: Sigrid gikk fra parken den kvelden med Eric's kontaktinformasjon i lommen, fast bestemt på å være mer åpen for nye erfaringer og forbindelser.En: Sigrid left the park that evening with Erik's contact information in her pocket, determined to be more open to new experiences and connections.No: Hun hadde funnet mer enn bare kunstnerisk inspirasjon; hun hadde også funnet verdien av å åpne seg opp og være modig.En: She had found more than just artistic inspiration; she had also found the value of opening up and being brave.No: Framtiden så lys ut, og Sigrid var klar for å omfavne den – både i kunsten og i livet selv.En: The future looked bright, and Sigrid was ready to embrace it – both in art and in life itself. Vocabulary Words:blooming: blomstretopportunities: muligheteneshy: sjenertdaring: vågeimpressive: imponerendelocal: lokalfreedom: frihetenhesitated: nøltecurious: nysgjerrigereserved: reserverteunofficial: uoffisiellmassive: digerdreamy: drømmendeinternal struggle: indre kampgenuine: genuinfascinating: fascinerendewisely: kloktbackground: bakgrunneninterruptions: avbrytelserlaughter: latterencouraged: oppmuntretperspectives: perspektivenegrateful: takknemligdetermined: fast bestemtexperiences: erfaringerconnections: forbindelserinspiration: inspirasjonopening up: åpne seg oppembrace: omfavnefuture: framtiden

Rafe talks about the coming of summer from solstices and equinoxes to cross-quarter days to Memorial Day and Labor Day.  Learn why 2026 is a special summer that comes around (on average) only once every (approximately) seven years!#bufnagle #calendar #summer #equinox #solstice #quarreterdays #crossquarterdays #memorialday #laborday #threedayweekend #theaverageisnotadatum #microsoftcopilot #ai #artificialintelligence #thisisnotausefultool #makehaywhenthesunshines*****As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com*****As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee:https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagleOn this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Finding Clarity: Mei's Journey at the Hidden Temple Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-05-05-07-38-19-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 梅站在隐秘寺庙的入口，周围是五彩缤纷的灯笼和盛开的樱花。En: Mei stood at the entrance of the hidden temple, surrounded by colorful lanterns and blooming cherry blossoms.Zh: 春天的微风轻轻拂过，带来节日的喧嚣和欢声笑语。En: The spring breeze gently swept through, bringing the hustle and bustle of the festival and the sound of laughter and joy.Zh: 今天是劳动节，人们聚集在寺庙前，庆祝难得的假期。En: Today was Labor Day, and people gathered in front of the temple to celebrate the rare holiday.Zh: 梅看着人群，内心却充满了矛盾。En: Mei looked at the crowd, but her heart was filled with contradictions.Zh: 过去一年对她来说充满了挑战，她渴望平静与明晰。En: The past year had been full of challenges for her, and she longed for peace and clarity.Zh: 她听说这个节日在寺庙举行的心灵活动可以启发她，帮助她找到生命的方向。En: She had heard that the spiritual activities held at the temple during this festival could inspire her and help her find direction in life.Zh: 佳浩和丽芬是梅的朋友，他们试图让她融入这欢乐的场合。En: Jiahao and Lifen were Mei's friends, and they tried to get her to join in the festive occasion.Zh: 然而，梅心里有种冲动，想远离这些喧嚣，寻找内心的声音。En: However, Mei felt an urge to distance herself from the noise and seek her inner voice.Zh: 于是，她走出拥挤的人群，走向寺庙的花园。En: So, she walked away from the crowded throng and headed towards the temple's garden.Zh: 花园里安静极了。En: The garden was extremely quiet.Zh: 只有风声和鸟鸣伴随着梅。En: Only the sound of the wind and birds accompanied Mei.Zh: 她慢慢走着，呼吸着花香，感受到一种难得的宁静。En: She walked slowly, breathing in the floral scent and feeling a rare sense of tranquility.Zh: 忽然，她看到一个和尚安静地坐在树下。En: Suddenly, she saw a monk sitting quietly under a tree.Zh: 他的神情安详，像是一股平和的力量。En: His expression was serene, like a source of peaceful strength.Zh: 梅走上前，与和尚开始交谈。En: Mei approached and began to converse with the monk.Zh: “我来这里是为了寻找答案，”梅说，“但我还不知道自己真正想要的是什么。En: "I came here to seek answers," Mei said, "but I still don't know what I truly want."Zh: ”和尚微笑着对梅说：“答案在你的心中，不在外面。En: The monk smiled at Mei and said, "The answer is within your heart, not outside.Zh: 倾听内心，它会指引你。En: Listen to your inner voice, and it will guide you."Zh: ”这简单的一句话，让梅内心一震。En: This simple sentence struck a chord within Mei.Zh: 她顿时明白，过去她一直忽视内心的声音，总是被理智所左右。En: She suddenly realized that she had been ignoring her inner voice, always being led by reason.Zh: 梅感激地谢谢和尚，然后在花园中坐了一会儿。En: Feeling grateful, Mei thanked the monk and then sat in the garden for a while.Zh: 她仿佛感受到内心深处的声音在轻轻回应，告诉她信任自己的感觉和直觉。En: She seemed to feel the voice from deep within gently responding, telling her to trust her feelings and intuition.Zh: 当梅起身离开时，她的步伐轻盈了许多。En: When Mei got up to leave, her steps were much lighter.Zh: 回到节日的人群中，她感到一种新的力量和方向感。En: Returning to the festival crowd, she felt a new sense of strength and direction.Zh: 在佳浩和丽芬的边上，梅微笑着。En: Standing beside Jiahao and Lifen, Mei smiled.Zh: 那一刻，梅知道自己已经找到了一些答案。En: At that moment, Mei knew she had found some answers.Zh: 她决定，今后会更加信任自己的内心，无论未来的旅途如何。En: She decided that in the future, she would trust her inner self more, no matter how the journey ahead unfolds.Zh: 梅回到喧闹的节日中，但她的内心却异常平静而坚定。En: Mei returned to the lively festival, but her heart was exceptionally calm and steadfast.Zh: 她知道，一个崭新的旅程，已经从此开始。En: She knew that a brand-new journey had begun from that moment. Vocabulary Words:entrance: 入口hidden: 隐秘blossoms: 盛开的樱花breeze: 微风hustle and bustle: 喧嚣contradictions: 矛盾clarity: 明晰spiritual: 心灵inspire: 启发occasion: 场合throng: 拥挤的人群esteem: 尊重serene: 安详source: 一股grateful: 感激intuition: 直觉tranquility: 宁静festive: 欢乐的inner voice: 内心的声音reason: 理智realized: 明白responding: 回应steadfast: 坚定journey: 旅程blossoming: 盛开的direction: 方向gathered: 聚集challenges: 挑战enlightenment: 启发strength: 力量

As the Labor Day holiday draws to a close, China's railways are experiencing a peak in return travel, with passenger traffic remaining at a high level.

“I try to picture where he was, what it might've been like, what circumstances would've made him sound like that.”In September of 2015, 30-year-old Henry McCabe was preparing for a massive move. A Liberian immigrant living in Mounds View, Minnesota, Henry worked as a tax auditor for the state and was married with two children. His wife and he were preparing to move to California, and she'd already gone ahead with their two daughters while Henry wrapped some things up in Minnesota.On the evening of Sunday, September 6th - Labor Day weekend - Henry decided to go out for a night with a pair of friends. Hours later, in the early morning hours of September 7th, he would place a phone call to his wife, leaving behind a strange voicemail that would baffle investigators and cast doubt on his final hours...Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meCheck out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.comIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support.

Fluent Fiction - Hungarian: Mystery Solved: A Budapest Conference Drama Unfolds Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/hu/episode/2026-05-04-22-34-01-hu Story Transcript:Hu: A tavasz vidám zsongással köszöntött Budapest utcáira.En: Spring greeted the streets of Budapest with cheerful buzzing.Hu: A Duna partján csillogott a napfény, és a fák friss zöld lombjai alatt turisták siettek felfedezni a várost.En: Sunlight glimmered on the banks of the Danube, and under the fresh green foliage of the trees, tourists hurried to explore the city.Hu: Ebben a nyüzsgő környezetben állt a modern konferencia központ, ahol nemzetközi csúcstalálkozót tartottak.En: In this bustling environment stood the modern conference center, where an international summit was being held.Hu: József, a konferencia ügyes koordinátora, már hajnalban megérkezett.En: József, the skilled coordinator of the conference, arrived early at dawn.Hu: Gondosan ügyelt minden apró részletre.En: He meticulously attended to every small detail.Hu: Aznap fontos dokumentumok érkeztek, melyeket sürgősen el kellett juttatni a délelőtti találkozóra.En: That day, important documents arrived that urgently needed to be delivered for the morning meeting.Hu: Közben a kollégák Labor Day ünnepségéről beszéltek, de József figyelme a munkára koncentrált.En: Meanwhile, colleagues spoke of the Labor Day celebrations, but József's focus remained on his work.Hu: Reggel kilenc óra körül Bálint, az egyik segítő, izgatottan rohant hozzá.En: Around nine in the morning, Bálint, one of the assistants, ran to him excitedly.Hu: Szemeiben aggodalom csillant.En: Worry sparkled in his eyes.Hu: "József, a dokumentum eltűnt!En: "József, the document is missing!"Hu: " mondta izgatottan.En: he said excitedly.Hu: József szíve kihagyott egy ütemet.En: József's heart skipped a beat.Hu: Tudta, mennyire fontos az a papír.En: He knew how important that paper was.Hu: A megbeszélés nélküle nem kezdődhetett el.En: The meeting could not proceed without it.Hu: Az elkövetkezendő percekben feszültség lappangott a konferencia termeiben.En: In the minutes that followed, tension lingered in the conference rooms.Hu: József sejtette, hogy a dokumentum nem tűnhetett el nyomtalanul.En: József suspected that the document could not have disappeared without a trace.Hu: Kinga, a szomszédos iroda vezetője, és a többi résztvevő is segíteni próbált, de az idő egyre szorosabb volt.En: Kinga, the head of the neighboring office, and the other participants tried to help, but time was getting tighter.Hu: József elmélázott pillanatig.En: József pondered for a moment.Hu: Imádta a rejtélyes történeteket, és most úgy döntött, önmaga lesz a detektív.En: He loved mysterious stories and decided he would be the detective himself.Hu: A kávészünetben, amikor mindenki a kis büfébe indult, József észrevétlenül körülnézett.En: During the coffee break, when everyone headed to the small buffet, József discreetly looked around.Hu: Megvizsgálta a helyszíneket, a sarkokat, ahol senki sem figyelt.En: He examined the locations, the corners where no one was watching.Hu: Egy félreeső konferenciaterembe nyitott be, melyet aznap már használtak egy előző találkozóra.En: He opened into a secluded conference room, which had already been used earlier for a previous meeting that day.Hu: Az ablakpárkányon egy kis nyílás vonzotta a szemét.En: A small gap on the windowsill caught his eye.Hu: József óvatosan közeledett.En: József approached cautiously.Hu: Rejtett zug volt, ahol senki sem kereste volna.En: It was a hidden nook where no one would have searched.Hu: És ott talált rá a szóban forgó dokumentumra, gondosan összekötözve.En: And there he found the document in question, carefully tied up.Hu: A lakatú ajtó azért zárva, mert valaki elfelejtette visszatérni miután megszakadt a korábbi ülés.En: The lockable door had remained closed because someone forgot to return after the earlier session was interrupted.Hu: Átkarolva a papírokat visszatért a főterembe, ahol rá várták.En: Embracing the papers, he returned to the main hall where they awaited him.Hu: A leülésére készen álló delegáltak észrevették, amint belépett.En: The delegates, ready to take their seats, noticed as he entered.Hu: Megkönnyebbült sóhaj kélt fel.En: A sigh of relief arose.Hu: József mosolyogva átadta a dokumentumokat, pontosan időben.En: József smiled as he handed over the documents, right on time.Hu: A megbeszélés zökkenőmentesen folytatódhatott.En: The meeting could continue smoothly.Hu: Kinga hálával telve dicsérte ügyességét.En: Kinga, filled with gratitude, praised his skillfulness.Hu: József sosem volt még ilyen büszke magára.En: József had never been prouder of himself.Hu: Rájött, hogy a találékonyság és az elszántság néha a legnagyobb erényei lehetnek egy váratlan helyzet megoldásában.En: He realized that resourcefulness and determination could sometimes be his greatest virtues in solving an unexpected situation.Hu: Azután vidáman csatlakozott a délutáni szünethez, ahol már mindenki újabb sikeres munkanapnak örvendett.En: Then he happily joined the afternoon break, where everyone enjoyed another successful workday. Vocabulary Words:greeted: köszöntöttbuzzing: zsongássalglimmered: csillogottbustling: nyüzsgőcoordinator: koordinátorameticulously: gondosanurgently: sürgősencolleagues: kollégákexcitement: izgatottanworried: aggodalomsuspected: sejtettelinger: lappangottpondered: elmélázottmysterious: rejtélyesdiscreetly: észrevétlenülsecluded: félreesőwindowsill: ablakpárkányonapproached: közeledettnook: zugnoticed: észrevettékrelief: megkönnyebbültgratitude: hálávalskillfulness: ügyességétresourcefulness: találékonyságdetermination: elszántságvirtues: erényeiunexpected: váratlansituation: helyzetsuccessful: sikeresenjoyed: örvendett

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: A Serendipitous Encounter: Mingli's Leap Into Entrepreneurship Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-05-03-07-38-19-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 劳动节的晚上，明丽和小丽走进了一家热气腾腾的火锅店。En: On the evening of Labor Day, Mingli and Xiaoli walked into a steamy hot pot restaurant.Zh: 餐馆里洋溢着节日的气氛，四周是朋友和家人的欢声笑语，还有热汤的香气弥漫其中。En: The restaurant was filled with a festive atmosphere, with friends and family laughing and chatting all around, and the aroma of the hot broth permeating the air.Zh: 小丽拍拍疲惫不堪的明丽肩膀，笑着说：“今天好好放松一下，别想工作的事。En: Xiaoli patted the exhausted Mingli on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Relax today, don't think about work."Zh: ” 对于公司里的人来说，明丽像一个勤奋的螺丝钉，然而她常觉得自己未被重视。En: To people at the company, Mingli was like a diligent cog in the machine, yet she often felt unappreciated.Zh: 她叹气道：“我真希望能做一些有意义的事。En: She sighed and said, "I really wish I could do something meaningful."Zh: ”小丽点头，鼓励地说：“你不是总想开自己的店吗？En: Xiaoli nodded and encouraged her, "Haven't you always wanted to open your own store?Zh: 时机到了，抓住它！En: The time has come, seize it!"Zh: ”与此同时，一个笑容满面的年轻男子走进了餐馆，名叫金海。En: Meanwhile, a young man with a beaming smile walked into the restaurant; his name was Jinhai.Zh: 他是个创业者，正寻找灵感和能共事的伙伴。En: He was an entrepreneur, seeking inspiration and potential partners.Zh: 不久后，金海注意到了明丽。En: Soon, Jinhai noticed Mingli.Zh: 尽管明丽一开始有些犹豫，但小丽鼓励她和金海聊聊。En: Although Mingli was initially a bit hesitant, Xiaoli encouraged her to talk to Jinhai.Zh: 于是，明丽鼓起勇气，和金海坐在了一起。En: So, Mingli mustered her courage and sat down with Jinhai.Zh: 随着谈话的进行，明丽渐渐放松下来。En: As the conversation progressed, Mingli gradually relaxed.Zh: 金海分享了他的创业想法，两人的交流令人兴奋。En: Jinhai shared his entrepreneurial ideas, and their exchange was thrilling.Zh: 金海说：“创新需要勇气，也需要伙伴。En: Jinhai said, "Innovation requires courage and also partners."Zh: ”明丽的眼睛亮了起来，说：“我总觉得自己缺乏信心，但听你说了这么多，我好像找到了些勇气。En: Mingli's eyes lit up, and she said, "I've always felt a lack of confidence, but after hearing you, it seems I've found some courage."Zh: ”他们不断交换想法，互相激发。En: They kept exchanging ideas, inspiring each other.Zh: 经过一番讨论后，明丽忽然意识到，自己并不是没有能力，只是缺少了一点自信和机遇。En: After some discussion, Mingli suddenly realized that she wasn't lacking in ability, just a bit of confidence and opportunity.Zh: 而金海那毫不保留的支持和赞扬，恰好填补了她的缺口。En: And the unreserved support and praise from Jinhai perfectly filled her gap.Zh: “你愿意跟我合作吗？En: "Are you willing to cooperate with me?"Zh: ”金海问。En: Jinhai asked.Zh: 明丽笑了，眼中满是憧憬：“我愿意，也许这就是我一直等待的机会。En: Mingli smiled, eyes full of anticipation: "I'm willing, maybe this is the opportunity I've been waiting for."Zh: ”夜深了，火锅店的热气渐渐消退，但明丽的心中却昂然升起了一股暖流。En: The night grew late, and the heat from the hot pot restaurant gradually subsided, but a warm current surged in Mingli's heart.Zh: 她终于勇敢地跨出了第一步，决定去追求她一直以来的梦想。En: She finally took the courageous first step to pursue her long-held dream.Zh: 同时，她和金海的相遇也为她的生活增添了新的色彩。En: Meanwhile, her encounter with Jinhai added new colors to her life.Zh: 明丽走出火锅店时，夜风中带着春天的气息，她感觉一切都是新的开始，充满希望。En: As Mingli walked out of the hot pot restaurant, the spring breeze carried a sense of renewal, and she felt that everything was a new beginning, full of hope.Zh: 金海的影子在她心中留下了深刻印记，犹如那个沸腾着理想和未来的火锅，在这个特别的夜晚，悄然升温。En: The mark left by Jinhai's presence lingered in her heart, like the hot pot boiling with dreams and future on this special night, quietly warming up. Vocabulary Words:steamy: 热气腾腾的permeating: 弥漫exhausted: 疲惫不堪diligent: 勤奋的sigh: 叹气meaningful: 有意义的seize: 抓住beaming: 笑容满面的entrepreneur: 创业者inspiration: 灵感hesitant: 犹豫mustered: 鼓起thrilling: 令人兴奋的innovation: 创新confidence: 信心unreserved: 毫不保留的praise: 赞扬gap: 缺口anticipation: 憧憬opportunity: 机会pursue: 追求renewal: 更新surged: 升起courageous: 勇敢的encounter: 相遇linger: 留下future: 未来quietly: 悄然festive: 节日的partners: 伙伴

Fluent Fiction - Italian: Springtime Connections: Navigating Love and Work in Milano Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/it/episode/2026-05-03-22-34-01-it Story Transcript:It: Nel cuore di Milano, un nuovo giorno inizia nell'edificio scintillante di un'azienda rinomata.En: In the heart of Milano, a new day begins in the gleaming building of a renowned company.It: L'ufficio è pieno di energia.En: The office is full of energy.It: Ci sono suoni di tastiere che ticchettano e l'aroma del caffè fresco riempie l'aria.En: There are sounds of keyboards clacking and the aroma of fresh coffee fills the air.It: Luca, un nuovo project manager, si avvicina alla macchinetta del caffè.En: Luca, a new project manager, approaches the coffee machine.It: È il suo primo mese in azienda e vuole fare una buona impressione.En: It's his first month at the company, and he wants to make a good impression.It: Luca è ambizioso.En: Luca is ambitious.It: Vuole guadagnarsi il rispetto della sua squadra.En: He wants to earn the respect of his team.It: Ma c'è un altro pensiero che lo distrae: Giulia, una collega creativa con cui spesso lavora.En: But there's another thought that distracts him: Giulia, a creative colleague he often works with.It: Giulia è calma e risoluta, e ha già aiutato Luca diverse volte.En: Giulia is calm and resolute, and she has already helped Luca several times.It: In un angolo della sala, Matteo, un collega amichevole, chiacchiera con Giulia.En: In a corner of the room, Matteo, a friendly colleague, chats with Giulia.It: Matteo ha sempre un sorriso sulle labbra e ama organizzare incontri tra amici del lavoro.En: Matteo always has a smile on his face and loves organizing gatherings with work friends.It: “Perché non vieni alla nostra festa di sabato?En: "Why don't you come to our party on Saturday?"It: ” dice Matteo a Luca, alludendo a un raduno informale della squadra.En: says Matteo to Luca, alluding to an informal team get-together.It: Luca decide di accettare l'invito.En: Luca decides to accept the invitation.It: È un'opportunità per conoscere meglio i suoi colleghi, e forse scoprire qualcosa di più su Giulia.En: It's an opportunity to get to know his colleagues better, and perhaps discover something more about Giulia.It: È primavera, la città è piena di fiori, e il primo maggio, la Festa dei Lavoratori, si avvicina.En: It's springtime, the city is full of flowers, and il primo maggio, the Labor Day, is approaching.It: Una scusa perfetta per rilassarsi un po'.En: A perfect excuse to relax a bit.It: Sabato sera arriva e la squadra si riunisce in un bar elegante nel centro di Milano.En: Saturday evening arrives, and the team gathers in an elegant bar in the center of Milano.It: Luca si sente un po' nervoso, ma determinato a cogliere l'occasione.En: Luca feels a bit nervous but determined to seize the opportunity.It: Giulia è lì, con un sorriso accogliente.En: Giulia is there, with a welcoming smile.It: La serata scorre tra conversazioni leggere e risate.En: The evening flows with light conversations and laughter.It: A un certo punto, Luca e Giulia si ritrovano a parlare da soli.En: At one point, Luca and Giulia find themselves talking alone.It: Parlano delle loro aspirazioni, dei valori che li guidano.En: They talk about their aspirations, the values that guide them.It: Scoprono che entrambi vogliono fare una differenza, non solo nella carriera, ma anche nella vita.En: They discover that they both want to make a difference, not just in their careers, but in life as well.It: “Non avrei mai pensato di parlare di queste cose così apertamente,” dice Luca, sentendosi sollevato.En: “I never thought I'd talk about these things so openly,” says Luca, feeling relieved.It: Giulia sorride e concorda.En: Giulia smiles and agrees.It: C'è un'intesa nuova tra di loro, una connessione che va oltre il lavoro.En: There's a new understanding between them, a connection that goes beyond work.It: Alla fine della serata, mentre camminano verso l'uscita, Luca chiede a Giulia se vorrebbe esplorare questo legame oltre l'ufficio.En: At the end of the evening, as they walk towards the exit, Luca asks Giulia if she would like to explore this connection beyond the office.It: “Possiamo mantenere il nostro lavoro separato, per ora,” suggerisce Giulia.En: “We can keep our work separate, for now,” Giulia suggests.It: Luca annuisce, grato per la chiarezza e la semplicità della proposta.En: Luca nods, grateful for the clarity and simplicity of the proposal.It: Con questo accordo, Luca comprende qualcosa di importante: che stabilire un equilibrio tra vita professionale e personale può portare a una vita più piena.En: With this agreement, Luca understands something important: that establishing a balance between professional and personal life can lead to a fuller life.It: Tornano in ufficio con l'idea che la collaborazione personale possa rendere l'ambiente di lavoro ancora più speciale.En: They return to the office with the idea that personal collaboration can make the work environment even more special.It: La settimana successiva, mentre il sole primaverile illumina l'ufficio di Milano, Luca si sente più sereno.En: The following week, as the spring sun brightens the office in Milano, Luca feels more at ease.It: Capisce che, con apertura e comunicazione, può affrontare le sfide del lavoro e costruire legami significativi.En: He understands that, with openness and communication, he can face work challenges and build meaningful relationships. Vocabulary Words:the heart: il cuoregleaming: scintillanterenowned: rinomatathe aroma: l'aromaambitious: ambiziosothe respect: il rispettocalm: calmaresolute: risolutathe corner: l'angolofriendly: amichevolethe gathering: il radunothe opportunity: l'opportunitàto seize: coglierethe aspiration: l'aspirazionethe value: il valoreto guide: guidarethe understanding: l'intesathe proposal: la propostathe agreement: l'accordothe balance: l'equilibriothe environment: l'ambientethe challenge: la sfidato build: costruiremeaningful: significativoto face: affrontareto discover: scoprirethe excuse: la scusato relax: rilassarsithe springtime: la primaverathe understanding: l'intesa

Support Green and Red Podcast and get analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast.Here is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the history of May Day from pagan rituals to the Haymarket Affair to International Workers' Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class's “war on the left” fits into the politics of May Day vs. Labor Day.Spend an hour of your International Workers' Day hearing about the history of May Day. You won't regret it. ---------------------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//

It's time once again for the annual Summer Movie Wager! Our friends Peter Sciretta, BJ Colangelo, and Germain Lussier return to the show to stake their claims along with the Filmcast crew, on this summer's box office. Come back at summer's end to find out who will take the prize as the winner of the 2026 wager. You can play along at thesummermoviewager.com. To be considered for the leaderboard, you must enter by April 29, 2026We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads The Summer Movie Wager is a game that we play during the summer of each year. You can find the history of the game and play along at thesummermoviewager.com (thanks to Dennis for putting that site together). The general goal of this game is to predict the highest grossing films of the summer in terms of domestic box office, in the correct order. The closer you get to the final ranked order, the more points you get. This year, the summer movie wager will begin on April 30, 2026 (with the release of The Devil Wears Prada 2) and last through September 7, 2026, Labor Day, as usual. Each of your 13 picks (10 movies and 3 dark horses) gets a single score assigned to it by using the following rules: -If your picked movie for #1 OR #10 is correct, you score 13 points for it. -If your picked movie for 2-9  is correct, you score 10 points for it. -If your picked movie is only 1 spot away from its actual placement, you score 7 points for it. -If your picked movie is only 2 spots away from its actual placement, you score 5 points for it. -If your picked movie is placed inside the Top 10, you score 3 points for it. -If your picked movie is not placed inside the Top 10, you score 0 points for it. -For each of your picked dark horses placed inside the Top 10, you score 1 point. If two or more rules apply to a single pick, only that single rule will be applied which assigns the highest point value to that pick. For example: If your pick for #1 is correct, you don't get 16 points for it because it is #1 and because it placed inside the Top 10; instead you only get 13 points for it.Germain's Top 101. Spider-Man: Brand New Day2. Toy Story 53. The Odyssey4. Minions & Monsters5. Moana6. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu7. The Devil Wears Prada 28. Disclosure Day9. Supergirl10. Scary MovieDARK HORSES:- Mortal Kombat II- Masters of the Universe- ObsessionTIE BREAKER: $657MMBJ's Top 101. Toy Story 52. Spider-Man: Brand New Day3. The Odyssey4. Minions & Monsters5. Supergirl6. Moana7. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu8. Disclosure Day9. The Devil Wears Prada 210. Masters of the UniverseDARK HORSES:- Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie- Evil Dead Burn- ObsessionTIE BREAKER: $1.4BPeter's Top 101. Toy Story 52. Spider-Man: Brand New Day3. Minions & Monsters4. Moana5. The Odyssey6. The Devil Wears Prada 27. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu8. Supergirl9. Disclosure Day10. Scary Movie DARK HORSES:- Masters of the Universe- Mortal Kombat II- Evil Dead BurnTIE BREAKER: $441MMDevindra's Top 101. Spider-Man: Brand New Day2. The Odyssey3. Toy Story 54. Minions & Monsters5. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu6. Moana7. Supergirl8. The Devil Wears Prada 29. Mortal Kombat II10. Disclosure DayDARK HORSES:- Obsession- Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour- Scary MovieTIE BREAKER: $650MMJeff's Top 101. Toy Story 52. Spider-Man: Brand New Day3. The Odyssey4. Moana5. Minions & Monsters6. The Devil Wears Prada 27. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu8. Supergirl9. Scary Movie10. Mortal Kombat IIDARK HORSES:- Disclosure Day- Masters of the Universe- Evil Dead BurnTIE BREAKER: $457MMDavid's Top 101. Spider-Man: Brand New Day2. Toy Story 53. Minions & Monsters4. Moana5. The Odyssey6. Supergirl7. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu8. The Devil Wears Prada 29. Scary Movie10. Mortal Kombat IIDARK HORSES:- Disclosure Day- Jackass: Best and Last- Masters of the UniverseTIE BREAKER: $580MMSupport David's artistic endeavors at his Patreon and subscribe to his free newsletter Decoding Everything. Check out Jeff Cannata's podcasts DLC and We Have Concerns. Listen to Devindra's podcast with Engadget on all things tech. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com.Credits: Our theme song is by Tim McEwan from The Midnight. This episode was edited by Noah Ross who also created our weekly plugs and spoiler bumper music. Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from Simon Harris. If you'd like to advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail slashfilmcast@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by going to patreon.com/filmpodcast or by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.

Donna is diving into one of the most talked-about séance experiments in paranormal history called the Scole Experiment . Starting in 1993, two married couples spent five years holding séances in complete darkness, claiming a "spirit team" was producing floating lights, levitating objects, and mysterious images on sealed film. Kerri has a case that starts as a missing child and gets so much darker from there. Cathy Davidson was reported missing over Labor Day weekend 1973 after what her family called a picnic trip to Warren Dunes State Park in Michigan. The case gets dark from there when her stepmother Anna Young went on to found a violent cult in Florida. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donna is diving into one of the most talked-about séance experiments in paranormal history called the Scole Experiment . Starting in 1993, two married couples spent five years holding séances in complete darkness, claiming a "spirit team" was producing floating lights, levitating objects, and mysterious images on sealed film. Kerri has a case that starts as a missing child and gets so much darker from there. Cathy Davidson was reported missing over Labor Day weekend 1973 after what her family called a picnic trip to Warren Dunes State Park in Michigan. The case gets dark from there when her stepmother Anna Young went on to found a violent cult in Florida. If you have any local true crime, local urban legend/lore, ghost stories.. we want them all!! We want to hear from YOU. Especially if you have any funny Ambien stories! Email us at aparanormalchicks@gmail.com Join The Creepinati @ www.patreon.com/theAPCpodcast Edited by Caden Baughman at Guestroom Studio https://www.gstrmstudio.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Deb Muth 0:03What are the answers to your child’s chronic allergies, ADHD, or autism?weren’t just in another prescription, but in restoring balance to their body chemistry. Today’s guest has spent nearly two decades uncovering those answers through integrative and biomedical medicine. That’s a mouthful, isn’t it?Helping children heal when nothing else seemed to work.This is the conversation about science, compassion, and changing the future of pediatric care.Welcome back to Let’s Talk Wellness Now. The show where we uncover the root causes of chronic illness, explore regenerative breakthroughs, and empower you with the practical tools to heal. I’m your host, Dr. Deb, your medical detective, and today’s episode is one every patient should hear.My guest is Dr. Anu Usman Singh, Medical Director of True Health Medical Center in Naperville, Illinois, and the owner of Pure Compounding Pharmacy.And for over 17 years, she has been pioneering evidence-based integrative interventions for children with ADD, autism, allergies, and complex gastrointestinal and metabolic disorders. She’s not only a practicing physician, she’s a researcher who’s investigated copper-zinc imbalances.metallonine dysfunction, biofilm-related infections, vitamin D in pregnancy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.Dr. Usman serves on the executive board of TACA, and is a faculty member at MAPS, training other practitioners in pediatric integrative care. So get ready for a conversation that will open your mind and heart to the possibilities of when medicine truly becomes holistic.If you guys can insert the ad in here, that’d be great.Well, welcome back. I’m so excited to have Dr. Usman with me today. I have known her for, oh my gosh, 15, 17 years, something like that. We’re aging ourselves. Anju 02:32Oh, yeah, when we were in our 20s, right? Dr. Deb Muth 02:35Yes, exactly. So, welcome back, and I am so excited for you to be here, because you have literally helped thousands of families over the years.But I’d love for you to share a little bit about your journey, kind of who you are, what drew you into exploring integrative and biomedical approaches for helping children and families. Anju 02:58I think my journey is similar to a lot of you out there, the audience. I mean, we’re looking to help our families, and our kids, and ourselves, and I was doing my residency at Cook County Hospital, downtown Chicago, in the 80s.And I thought, oh my goodness, if I could take care of the sickest patients, then I can take care of anybody. So I came from Indiana, and I went to Cook County, and my children, my eldest daughter, started having, severe allergies and asthma, really, really at a young age.And I went to, like, my residence, and I went to my attendings, and I said, this baby is wheezing. And they told me, babies don’t have asthma.And I said, she has all the symptoms of asthma. She has asthma. And I remember with, in her crib, I would just nebulize her, you know, and I was like, what is going on?And I figured out that she had a lot of food allergies, and I was nursing her, eating the foods that she was allergic to, and back then, in the 80s, you know, we didn’t have the internet, we didn’t have Whole Foods, and I just…being a doctor, and I didn’t even know what to do, and I felt so hopeless. And I thought, gosh, you know, I’m a doctor, I have these, like, skills, I have… people I can talk to, and I still feel so… it’s so difficult. And then this… my particular daughter, the oldest one, her name is Priya, and she developed severe, asthma, and I couldn’t figure it out. She was in junior high. Every time she would walk into the lunchroom, she would have a severe asthma attack.And I’ll be like, what’s going on? What’s going on? I kept her home over the weekend, she was better. I sent her back to school, she was bad again.And we figured it out that it was other people eating peanuts. Dr. Deb Muth 04:54Severe peanut allergy. Anju 04:56And I went to the school, and I said, she…can you, like, put her somewhere else? Can… they said, oh, no, that’s not fair to other kids and their food. And this was in the 90s. Dr. Deb Muth 05:10Yeah. Anju 05:10And so, I just…You know, my heart goes out to families who are struggling to find answers for their kids, and my daughter Priya, the one I told you about, she ended up passing away from a peanut allergy.And so, I’ve just… Dr. Deb Muth 05:26Yeah. Anju 05:27My heart goes out to parents and my own kids and their illnesses.And so I just started working with families, with kids, andIt just kind of grew from there. Dr. Deb Muth 05:40Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I think being a mom who went through that yourself, and…was seen but not heard, and turned away from the traditional medical community, you’re forced to start finding answers on your own. And we always feel like we’re on an island by ourselves in the medical world when we’re doing that. Anju 06:01Yeah, I, it was really hard when I found out, you know, about…Integrative medicine, and just different…ideas and approaches to diet and supplements, I thought, how come I wasn’t trained in any of this?And… Dr. Deb Muth 06:21So angry when I learned some of the things that I learned in the beginning. I was like, same thing, like, how did they not teach us this? And then I think, you know, it’s my fault, was I asleep, was I not paying attention, whatever. And then you just realize, like, there’s this whole part of the human body.That they just didn’t teach us. Anju 06:42Yeah, so then I… I, probably like you, we had to learn it on our own. There weren’t, like, classes or any way to learn this stuffAnd I just reached out. There’s a clinic that,I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Pfeiffer Treatment Center? Dr. Deb Muth 07:00No. Anju 07:01Do you know Carl Pfeiffer from the attendees.He has a clinic called the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in New Jersey. It was called the Princeton Brain Bio Center. Dr. Deb Muth 07:12And in the 70s, they did orthomolecular medicine for patients with ADD. Anju 07:18And schizophrenia. Dr. Deb Muth 07:20Mmm… Anju 07:21and depression.And they used to categorize them in 3 categories, and at the time, they called them histopenics, histidelics, and pyrolurics. Dr. Deb Muth 07:31Okay. Anju 07:32Histapenix were low histamine patients.Delix were high histamine patients, and pyrolurics were their own kind of category. We added another category of copper-zinc imbalances, and then we would categorize that population into high histamine, low histamine, pyrolurics, and copper-zinc.Now we talk about under-methylation, over-methylation. Sure. So, under-methylation is the, you know, the high histamine people, they can’t clear the histamine. And the over-methylators are, you know, what we call about low histamine now.And, and then pyrolurics and copper zinc. So…I lost my train of thought, but in the 80s, when I was going through this, in the 90s, I reached out to the Pfeiffer Treatment Center.He’s like, can I calm and just hang out and, like, see what you guys do? Because I need some answers.And I started working there and, started doing research on copper-zinc imbalances, and I did it in children with autism.And that’s how people started coming to me, and I kinda got, like. not famous, but I, you know, the word spread about, okay, we could talk about it, and Dr.Walsh was the, you know, PhD there that did a lot of the research, so we worked together for 8 years. Dr. Deb Muth 09:05Isn’t it crazy to think that we knew about histamine issues way back in the 70s? You know, I got the pleasure of being trained by, environmental medicine doctors. Dr. Wayne Konetsky and Glenn Toth taught me about environmental medicine, and what we called histamine issues that we call it today, mast cell, right? But when I was learning in the early 2000s, it was labeled as chemical sensitivity. And so it was just people that would react to everything, and we really didn’t know why, and they didn’t necessarily have this very specific allergic reaction, but we knew they were reacting, and we would try to treat them, to lower the histamine way back then. And it’s taken all these years, 25 years, to get to a point where we understand mast cell activation now, and histamine issues.And it’s really sad to me that it’s taking this long for us to identify things.And we’ve all got our journey, and I loved back in those days, too, because as I learned, I would call people up and say, hey, I just got a patient from you, and they told me this great story, and I have other people, can I come see what you were doing? And back then, everybody was very open. They were like, yes, please, come, learn. Now everybody’s like, oh, we can’t teach you, we can’t give you our secrets, but…Or pay me $20,000 to come learn with me. But back then, I mean, everybody was just… we were all in the same boat. We were all just trying to learn from each other. Anju 10:36Oh, yeah, oh yeah, and any bit of knowledge you got, you’re like… Dr. Deb Muth 10:41Yes. Anju 10:41God, you know, I learned this piece, and… Dr. Deb Muth 10:43Hmm? Anju 10:44We just kind of built from that. I keep thinking about back then, you know,the under-methylators, over-methylators, copper, zinc, and then I learned about metals.And then, as a physician, I was like, oh, okay, well, there’s mercury in vaccines, there’s aluminum in vaccines, and now I’m seeing these high levels. Dr. Deb Muth 11:04In my patients, now what happens? Anju 11:07And then we started, kind of, trying to get the word out about those things. Dr. Deb Muth 11:13Yeah. Anju 11:13And in 2000, a lot of the people that I knew put out a paper about, you know, mercury. Dr. Deb Muth 11:22And then… Anju 11:22And we all got on the Mercury bandwagon. Dr. Deb Muth 11:25Yes. Anju 11:26And did that for a while, and then we started learning about other things, like mitochondrial issues in chronically ill people, and these chronic infections, like Lyme disease, and so… and then now, you know, understanding mast cell activation, cell danger response. Dr. Deb Muth 11:44On endocrine, and adrenals, and hormones, and… Anju 11:48Yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 11:49biofilms. Anju 11:50Biofilms, I started talking about that in 2007. Dr. Deb Muth 11:54And so then… Anju 11:56It just… it just kind of keeps adding, and keeps adding, and keeps adding, and it’s like…Sometimes you think, how come I didn’t know about this back then? But I feel like it’s a process. Dr. Deb Muth 12:06It definitely is a process, and it’s amazing to seehow many people are researching different things, and they’re all, like, putting a piece of the puzzle together. And I think this is really important for our listeners to understand, is when you see a practitioner and they don’t have all the answers, this is why. It’s very complicated, it’s not black and white. And I’ve had patients over the years say to me, well, why didn’t you say this to me 6 months ago? And the truth of the matter was, I didn’t knowabout it 6 months ago. Like, all of this stuff is just… it’s evolving constantly, and when you’re a practitioner like Dr. Usman and myself, you are learning every single day. Our training has never stopped from the day we stepped into integrated medicine, and you just… you keep learning new things, and sharing new things, and talking to new people, and that’s what expands our knowledge base. Anju 12:57Yeah, the more I learn, the less I feel like I know. Dr. Deb Muth 13:01Yes, me too. Every time I go to a conference, I’m like, how did I not know this? How am I stupid? And I know we shouldn’t say that word and call ourselves that, but sometimes you feel like that. It’s like, how did I not know? Anju 13:14Or you’ll see a patient, and you’ll look at them, and you’re like, how come I didn’t realize this about this particular patient? Dr. Deb Muth 13:20Yes. Anju 13:21Yeah, they present differently, see things differently. I think that’s why it’s good to find a doctor that you trust and that you can work with, because it’s evolving. Dr. Deb Muth 13:31Yes. And, you know, we have those patients that they come, and I get those. I call myself, like, a tertiary care center. Anju 13:38You know, you get those patients that have been everywhere, and seen every doctor, and then they’re like, you’re my last hope, you’re gonna solve all my problems, and…I say to them. We’re a team, like, we’re gonna solve these together, but it takes time for me to unravel this puzzle. Dr. Deb Muth 13:54Excuse me? Anju 13:54And it… and sometimes, you know, there’s a few hits and misses along the way. Dr. Deb Muth 14:00Yup, but if. Anju 14:00If we keep at it, you know, we also say it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Yes. You know, if we keep at it, we can kind of figure it out together. Dr. Deb Muth 14:09Yeah, and a partnership, for sure, because without the feedback of the person you’re working with.understanding, like, we do this, and this happens to you, it’s very complicated as a practitioner to then be able to figure out, what do we do next? I see more and more clients these days, they come in and they just want to ask me within the first 5 minutes of, what am I changing? And I’m like, I have no clue yet. Like, you have to tell me what’s happened since the last time we did something, and then we have to look at labs, and we have to look at this, and we… it’s a synopsis.that we have to look at. You know, it’s not that black and white for us to be able to put the pieces together for them. Anju 14:47I think my most successful patients are the ones who are able to communicate with me.Their ups and downs. Yeah. And they also use their own intuition. Help me guide them. Dr. Deb Muth 15:06Yeah. Anju 15:07So, there are some people that they just hear, you do it, and you tell me.There are people who try to tell me everything. Dr. Deb Muth 15:15Okay. Anju 15:15Say, I want you to do this, do this, do this. Dr. Deb Muth 15:17Yeah, so I was like, okay. Anju 15:19I can do those things, but, you know, like. Dr. Deb Muth 15:21Yep. Anju 15:22think about blah blah. But, like, this… that collaboration.and, intuition. I kind of feel like even thoughI’ve trained allopathically as a traditional medical doctor. I feel like as I learn, I learn that being open and,Letting go of fear. Dr. Deb Muth 15:46Yeah. Anju 15:47And, not trying to jump on every, like, new thing, and being. Dr. Deb Muth 15:53consistent. Anju 15:54and diligent. really helps. Dr. Deb Muth 15:58It helps a ton. We see that, too, you know, the latest…Instagram influencer that’s talking about the latest topic, and all of a sudden, everybody sees themselves in there, and they must have that, but not realizing putting those connections together. It’s like when MTHFR came out, right? We were all so excited that this was going to be the detox gene.And then we learned so much more about genes, and now MTHFR is very popular again, and everyone’s talking about it, but they don’t understand how some of those other genetics fit together. And if you don’t understand that, we’ve all done it, we’ve all made people worse instead of better, sometimes when we’ve given too many methyl groups together, or this supplement without this support before we knew that there was another gene that we had to support for that.And I think it’s really important for people that are listening to us today talk about this, is don’t just jump on the bandwagon. Like, you really want to work with somebody seasoned who understands how all these pieces fit together. Anju 16:57Yeah, and I think that’s what individualized medicine is about.And there is no magic here, a magic bullet.I think that example of MTHFR is really good. Now, President Trump talked about Leukovorin. Dr. Deb Muth 17:14Yes. Anju 17:15in, and, you know, he’ll get up and say something like, leukovorin cures autism.And then the rest of us are like…Did you just say that? Dr. Deb Muth 17:26Yep, he did. Anju 17:30It’s folinic acid, it’s calcium folinic acid, it’s been around a long time. We’ve been using it for 20 years. Dr. Deb Muth 17:37Yeah. Anju 17:38But it does help a subset of people who potentially have what we call cerebral folate deficiency.And some of those people are misdiagnosed as autism. Dr. Deb Muth 17:50Yeah. Anju 17:51So, are you treating autism, or are you treating cerebral folate deficiency?same thing I could say about… I have a lot of cases of kids who recovered from autism.and severe ADHD using chelation type of. Dr. Deb Muth 18:06up. Anju 18:06Approaches, or detox approaches.again, did we treat their ADD and their autism, or did we treat their lead…Toxicity or lead burden, and their symptoms of those things got better. Dr. Deb Muth 18:20Yeah. Anju 18:20So, like, to put a big, like, a label like, oh, ADD on something, or autism on something, I think it does a disserviceTo the individuals, because it’s such a broad issue. Dr. Deb Muth 18:35It is, and I think the diagnosis has gotten to be much more popular these days.And yes, thank goodness we’re getting better diagnostics, but sometimes we’re getting over-diagnosis, or like you said, it may look like one thing, but it could be something else, but because it looks like autism, they’re going to get labeled with autism.And in some respects, that’s good, they can get more services that way, but sometimes we’re missing the actual picture of it. Can you talk a little bit about how autism is different than the cerebral folate deficiency? Anju 19:11Yeah, so there are some people that make an antibody to their folate receptor. Dr. Deb Muth 19:18Hmm. Anju 19:20So, to get folic acid into your cells, there’s a receptor on your cells. Dr. Deb Muth 19:25And then the folate has to bind to it, and then it lets it enter into the cells. Anju 19:30And there’s these receptors that allow folic acid to get into your brain.Now, you and I know when you put folate in your brain.On one end of the folate cycle, you help make more neurotransmitters. You’ll make something called BH4, and that’ll help make serotonin and dopamine, and then norepinephrine and epinephrine. So folate is really important for making your neurotransmitters, folate and B12.On the other end, it’s like, another cycle on the other end of folate is our methylation cycle.And methylation is so important for our RNA and our DNA, and making choline, phosphatoly choline, and making creatine for speech.And helping us with all the precursors for detoxification.So without folate in our brain, we can’t make our neurotransmitters efficiently, we can’t break them down efficiently, and we can’t detox our brain.Imagine what that will do to your brain. Dr. Deb Muth 20:36Yeah, Anju 20:37And you will see symptoms like speech delays, cognitive delays, processing issues, poor attention.All of those things. Excitation, anxiety.All of those, and so if the folate isn’t getting into the brain efficiently, then we’ll have all these symptoms, and we’ll end up with diagnoses like these. Dr. Deb Muth 20:59Yeah, so is there a way that people who are listening to this can request a test to see if they make this antibody to folate, or is it more of a diagnosis of exclusion? Anju 21:14That’s a great question. When I first started doing this, like, 20 years ago, there was, like, a university that was doing this.studies, and it was Dr. Quadros. He was the guy, and we would take samples and send them to his lab, and he would tell us about these blocking and binding. Dr. Deb Muth 21:30folate antibodies. Anju 21:32And if patients had positive blocking or binding folate antibodies, we would follow his protocol. And he’s done papers on patients with severe autism.Where he found these folate antibodies, and then did spinal taps on the kids, and they were associated with this cerebral folate deficiency. the cerebral… spinal fluid.And in his papers, he gave .5 to 2 milligrams per kilogram of calcium folinic acid, which is leukovorin. It’s a vitamin. And over a 6-month to a 12-month period.The majority of those patients improved drastically.Some of them regained speech, and some of them lost their autism diagnosis. Dr. Deb Muth 22:26Because they never truly had autism. Anju 22:29Well, they have autism symptoms, and that’s what autism is, but we call it autisms. Dr. Deb Muth 22:36Yeah. Anju 22:37And so now, like, we need the research to categorize these people. You know, what percentage of autism is cerebral folate deficiency? Yeah. What percentage of autism is, heavy metal. Dr. Deb Muth 22:51Bourbon. Anju 22:52And what percentage of autism is Clostridia overgrowth, or… Dr. Deb Muth 22:57Hmm. Anju 22:57microbiome… Dysfunction, and then there’s overlap. Dr. Deb Muth 23:01Right, yeah, Lyme and mold and viruses. Anju 23:04and infections, and you can see… Dr. Deb Muth 23:07injury from medications and things like that that happen, or birth traumas. Yeah, I mean, it’s not… it’s not as simple as what people think autism is.Why do you think that we’re seeing so much more autism today than when you and I were kids? We didn’t see this that often. I know environment has a lot to do with it, but do you have a couple of things that you suspect are contributing to the rise of autism these days? Anju 23:38Yeah, I mean, that’s a million dollar question. Dr. Deb Muth 23:40Right. Anju 23:41And, just because I work with children, you know it’s not just autism that’s epidemic, and yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 23:49You know that. I mean, it’s… it’s probably… if you add all the epidemics that are happening to children. Anju 23:54Autism still supersedes it.Now it’s 1 in 33s, 1 in 35 boys, I mean, it’s…children. It’s really sad. When I was in med school, it was 1 in 10,000. Dr. Deb Muth 24:10That’s crazy. Anju 24:11What’s causing it? I mean, obviously it’s multifactorial. Dr. Deb Muth 24:15Yeah, 80,000 chemicals in the environment that we never had before. Anju 24:20I, I, I, look, I’ve… 219 million. Dr. Deb Muth 24:26Oh my gosh. Anju 24:27I looked it up today. Dr. Deb Muth 24:29119 million different chemicals in the environment. Wow. Anju 24:33We don’t know how many of those are super toxic. Dr. Deb Muth 24:36Yeah, and we don’t know what they do together. Anju 24:38A lot of them were, like, before, like, grandfathered in and all of that.Yeah, it’s really crazy about the chemicals. So, chemicals… I kind of… feel like…you know, this burden of all this, it’s not just on our children, it’s on our mothers. Dr. Deb Muth 24:56Yes. Anju 24:56oh my gosh, the moms of these children that… And they don’t even realize it, you know, we’re just so happy to be pregnant and have a kid.So I think it really, really starts with that piece. Care, good prenatal care, yeah. Yeah, and not just what we think is prenatal care, taking your prenatal vitamins. Dr. Deb Muth 25:18Yes. Anju 25:19And going to your gynecologist, but what you and I think is prenatal care, you know, before you get pregnant, let’s detox, let’s clean up our diet, let’s get rid of those chemicals, let’s make sure we’re not in a moldy environment.You know, let’s do our due diligence, clean air, clean water, clean food, sunshine. When I did my residency at county, I don’t think I saw the sun for 3 years. Dr. Deb Muth 25:44How?Yeah. Anju 25:46it’s just that intense, and I was pregnant twice, and my eldest hasthe allergies and asthma. Number 2 is type 1 diabetes and mold sensitivities and allergies and asthma. Number 3 has severe chemical sensitivities, mast cell activation,Hormonal issues. Dr. Deb Muth 26:09Yeah. Anju 26:09And… number 4 is my… Golden, baby. Dr. Deb Muth 26:15And those three, you know, those years that you’re there, and you’re not seeing the sunlight, there’s vitamin D deficiency, and we don’t talk about vitamin D that much during pregnancy.I still am appalled that we’re giving folic acid these days during pregnancy instead of folate, but… Anju 26:36Folenic, or methylfolate? Dr. Deb Muth 26:38Yeah, nothing. So, when, when you,discovered vitamin D in pregnancy, and it’s linked to neurodevelopment outcomes. How did you stumble across that? Anju 26:50Well, in… when I started working on Copper Zinc, Dr. Walsh and I would go to the, like, DAN conferences.Yeah. At the time, and it was interesting, because DAM conferences were a collaboration between parents.And practitioners, and researchers. Dr. Deb Muth 27:10Very unique for. Anju 27:11That’s how that new IACC committee is. It’s a collaboration of parents. Dr. Deb Muth 27:17Hmm. Anju 27:18Practitioners, researchers, And individuals with autism. Dr. Deb Muth 27:25Yeah, so for those of you who are listening to us, it’s… we’re talking about the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee that Bobby Kennedy just put together. It’s called IACC, and they are on a mission to try to do the research to figure out what’s causing autism. Anju 27:43Yeah, and not just causing it, like, these people have been living it, most of the people on that committee have been living it, and their whole lives, for some of them.And being able to bring forwardlike the question about vitamin D, we started seeing a lot of patients in Minnesota. Dr. Deb Muth 28:04Mmm. Anju 28:05who were from Somalia. Dr. Deb Muth 28:08Okay. Anju 28:09Who were… it was, like, 1 in 4 families with kids with autism.And the theory was that the vitamin D levels that they get in Somalia versus the vitamin D levels that the moms get in Minnesota. Dr. Deb Muth 28:27Hmm? Anju 28:28Affected the immune system. Dr. Deb Muth 28:31Yeah. Anju 28:32predispose them. So there’s a few papers on that. Dr. Deb Muth 28:36Yeah, that’s a… I mean, it would be a very significant difference, and when you’re thinking about genetically, like, what their culture, who they are as a species.was used to and adapted to with the sunlight and different things from a different region, geographical region, and then they moved to a new geographical region, that can take decades before the body adapts and readjusts.to that new environment. We don’t think about those things in…traditional medicine, and conventional medicine, as most people know it, but we do in functional medicine. Anju 29:14Yeah, so again, the clinicians were bringing this up, like, why am I seeing so many families? Dr. Deb Muth 29:18Yeah. Anju 29:18Then let me go to the… and then in the think tank, the vitamin D researcher said it’s vitamin D. Dr. Deb Muth 29:24Yeah. Anju 29:25And then they started researching it, and it was almost like a backwards… backwards. Dr. Deb Muth 29:31Thank you. You know, they didn’t first… Anju 29:33Think it. Dr. Deb Muth 29:34Think about it, yeah. Anju 29:35Until you start seeing… and that’s why I think that, like.clinicians like you and me, who are… I consider us on the front lines. We’re the front lines. We are seeing… we’re seeing this epidemic unfold. Dr. Deb Muth 29:46Yes. Anju 29:47front of our eyes, we’re seeing, like, the gut issues and the severe inflammation. We’re seeing the autoimmunity, and now they have to study it. Dr. Deb Muth 29:57Yeah. Anju 29:57They have to study this. They really, really, we really need, we really need protocols, we need tools, we need things that you and I have been figuring out anecdotally with our colleagues over the years, and, oh, how do we treat yeast? How do we treat Lyme? How do we treat metal burden?For this podcast today, I wanted to talk about low-level lead exposure, because for me.1 in 3 children have a lead level, above 5. 1 and 3. Dr. Deb Muth 30:31Yeah, that’s very high. Anju 30:33800 million children. Dr. Deb Muth 30:36And let’s clarify this, because the first thing people are going to think of is, what are they eating? They’re not eating lead paint to get this. That is not what’s happening here. They are getting lead from someplace else, and their bodies are not able to detox this. Anju 30:53And the reason I’m bringing this up is because when I was in residency at County in the 90s, I ran a… I worked at a lead clinic. Dr. Deb Muth 31:01And back then. Anju 31:03When we looked… we just diagnosed lead toxicity, the level was 60. Dr. Deb Muth 31:10Their level had to be 60 to diagnose them. Anju 31:13Correct. Dr. Deb Muth 31:13Oh my gosh. Anju 31:14And that’s when we would treat.And back then, there was a study, it’s called the TLC study, where they used DMSA, which is a drug to lower lead.And our goal was to get it from 60 to 20. Dr. Deb Muth 31:33And was the normal range the same back then as it is today? Anju 31:37The normal range has gone from 60 to 40 to 20 to 10 to 5 to 3.5.But you and I know I’m the normal range. Dr. Deb Muth 31:47Yes. Anju 31:47Zero. Dr. Deb Muth 31:48Zero. Anju 31:50So… so again, in my… in the lead clinic, we were given DMSA, and we got the lead from 60 to 20, and the number one thing was to get rid of the lead in the environment. Dr. Deb Muth 32:02Yeah. Anju 32:03But we haven’t evolved since then.Because in that study, It did not improve cognitive abilities. So if you think about what lead does, it causes attention issues, slow processing, it affects hearing, it can cause hyperactivity, it can cause impulsivity, it can cause aggression, it can cause constipation, it can cause hypotonia.So if you think about all these kids with ADD and autism, how many of them have low-level lead exposure from the lead pipes? In Chicago, it’s a big, a big problem. Dr. Deb Muth 32:37Yeah, Milwaukee. Anju 32:38Everybody thinks Flint, Michigan, but Flint, Michigan is not the only place. Dr. Deb Muth 32:42Right. Our infrastructure is so terrible, it has not been updated, and even though you might look in your house and you might see a white PVC or plastic pipe, what’s coming under the ground to the house in the cities is usually still lead. Anju 32:58Right. Right. Dr. Deb Muth 33:00Yeah. Anju 33:01So, I guess the point is, is that…the… the idea of, like, studying this. So, again, they study this, and they say, well, we’re not going to treat low-level lead exposure because it doesn’t improve their cognition.But did they really treat it? Dr. Deb Muth 33:18Right. We got it from 60… we got it from 60 to 20. Right. But when I know, where is the lead hiding? Anju 33:24So high. Look at the bones, it’s gonna be coming out. It’s gonna be coming out, especially during puberty. What happens to some of our kids during puberty? They just go a little wonky. Comes out again during menopause. Dr. Deb Muth 33:38Yes. Anju 33:39I don’t know, male menopause, too. Like, we’re all losing bone mass then, and our lead is coming out, our blood pressure goes up. So, again, these are some of the areas that I think, like, really need some… hard… looks. Dr. Deb Muth 33:53Right, yeah. So, what are you hopeful about this committee? Like, are you hopeful that this committee is going to be able to research some of these big things, and we’re really going to be able to find answers around some of the functional things and the biochemical things that we see, you and I know happen in the body, that might give some standardization and education to practitioners in the future. Anju 34:23Well, I think this committee understands the scope of the issues.And they’re coming from different perspectives, like I mentioned, research. Dr. Deb Muth 34:33Yeah. Anju 34:35really highly qualified MDs. MDs like you and me, who have been on the front lines. moms. Dr. Deb Muth 34:43Yeah. Anju 34:44dads, patience, And so, the strategy would be to get, again, their input, and then…get the places… people in places to do their research. And even make some guidelines and some, like, you know, thoughts about what we want to put out there. Dr. Deb Muth 35:05Yeah. Anju 35:05You know, how do we want to strategize for… Dr. Deb Muth 35:08Prevention. Anju 35:10Like, the pre-pregnancy thing. Dr. Deb Muth 35:12Yeah, I’m really hopeful that this doesn’t become a… political football,And it doesn’t get taken away if the administration changes or whatever, because people need to understand that this kind of researchthis is going to take decades for people to do. Granted, we have AI, and AI can help a little bit and get some things quicker.But trying to figure out all of these nuances to why the body does what it does is not gonna be, like, next week we’re gonna find out that this was the single cause, and I know a lot of people, they’re afraid of the vaccines, and that’s gonna be the sole answer.And that has a piece of it, but it is just a small piece of it for some people larger, but at the end of the day, that’s not what this is about. This isn’t about just labeling one thing that is the cause of autism, because it is not one thing. It is so multifactorial. Anju 36:09And I think that whole cause, I know,A lot of money has gone into. Dr. Deb Muth 36:16Yeah. Anju 36:16looking at that. They’re looking for the gene, right? The gene that causes it, and… Dr. Deb Muth 36:23answer. Anju 36:24They have not… they’ve spent millions of dollars looking for this.And it’s not gonna pan out. It’s not. Dr. Deb Muth 36:33I’m not. Anju 36:34pan out. It’s more complex, like we’re talking about. Dr. Deb Muth 36:38Yeah. Anju 36:38And, I do think that sometimes, you know.Even though, like, politically, it seems like it’s a political topic, but it has zero to do with politics. Dr. Deb Muth 36:52Yeah, exactly. This is our children. This is the future of our country, the world. I mean, America’s not the only place that has kids with autism. I mean, this is the future of humanity. If we don’t figure out what’s injuring our children, there will not be a humanity that you and I have seen. It will be different. And, and this is important, we owe it to the future of our generations, we owe it to our children to figure this out and clean up our environment, and make it safe for everybody. Anju 37:24Yeah. Clean up our air, clean up our water, clean up our food… Dr. Deb Muth 37:29Yeah. Anju 37:30You know, our lifestyle a little bit, but… Dr. Deb Muth 37:32hoodie? Anju 37:33It’s… it’s… it’s everywhere. I travel all over. Dr. Deb Muth 37:36Bye. Anju 37:37Consult with doctors in different countries, in Italy, in India, Bulgaria, Romania… Dr. Deb Muth 37:46Yeah. And. Anju 37:48we’re going to Australia for med maps to treat doctors in, in April. And it’s a problem everywhere. Dr. Deb Muth 38:00Yeah. Anju 38:01really big problem, and it affects everybody. Even if you don’t have a child with autism or a grandchild with autism, it’s still affecting families, becauseI kind of think of ADD as being on the spectrum, in the sense thatI think the same kind of positive issues that lead to the autism are causing the ADD, just to… you know, your genetics are playing a little bit of a different role, whatever… whatever protection you have is a bit more there, but we’re seeing kind of, like, similar metabolic… issues in our ADD population. Dr. Deb Muth 38:43Yeah. Yeah, there’s so many different levels of this, and it does affect everyone. Like, I think everybody knows… a family or someone in their classroom or their school or their community that’s affected by, definitely, ADHD, Asperger’s, autism, all of those things, whether you’re high functioning or not functioning or whatever.everything is affected. The school system is affected, your social circles are affected, your families are affected.the healthcare is affected. I mean, everything is affected. We owe it to our families and our communities to help people try to figure this out. Anju 39:22Yeah, and I think even if it’s not ADD, or ADHD, or autism we’re talking about, or even OCD, anxiety, depression, I mean, you know… Dr. Deb Muth 39:33Candace? Anju 39:34Any kind of chronic illness that people are dealing with has underpinnings of these kinds of, you know, issues. Dr. Deb Muth 39:43Yeah. Anju 39:44Any autoimmune issue? That’s great. Dr. Deb Muth 39:48inflammatory syndrome that we’re seeing these days, I mean, the pants-pandas piece, the biofilms, the strep, I mean, our environment is just so laden with infections and biofilms, and And, you know, when you and I first were learning about this, we never thought anything could cross the blood-brain barrier, right? It was pristine, there’s nothing getting in there unless you could drive it in there, and now we know that’s different, and now we’re seeing bugs in the brains of people who have had Alzheimer’s disease and dementia because they’ve donated their brains for research, and we can see what’s crossing the blood-brain barrier, and it’s really scary. Anju 40:24Yeah, yeah. There’s a lot of things we don’t know. Remember when we just found out that they… the brain had a lymphatic system? Dr. Deb Muth 40:33And that wasn’t About, what, 5, 6 years ago? 7 years ago, maybe? Yeah, not that long ago. Anju 40:38You’d be like, why wouldn’t the brain have a lymphatic system? Dr. Deb Muth 40:41Yeah! Yep. Anju 40:44Yeah, so things get in and out. Dr. Deb Muth 40:46They, they definitely. Anju 40:47You know, they get in easier than they get out, I think. Dr. Deb Muth 40:50I agree, I think they do, for sure, for sure. You know, when you’re talking to a family who’s undergoing issues like this, what’s the role, do you feel, in personalized nutrition to help them make things better? Anju 41:10I kind of go through, like, a little bit of a start here, start there, and then do this. I always start, number one, I say, okay, you gotta clean up your environment, because… We gotta do that. Dr. Deb Muth 41:24But that’s a… Anju 41:24process. And then number 2 for me is cleaning up the diet. And then, when you say personalized nutrition. To me, figuring out what is a good diet for the individual. Dr. Deb Muth 41:38Makes it a little bit difficult. Yeah. Anju 41:41I mean, there is, like, healthy eating concepts, where, you know, eat upside-down food pyramid kind of concept, I guess, is the new one, but whole foods, whole grains, organic as much as possible, especially for animal products, good fats, avoiding, you know, hydrogenated oils, and those seed oils, and… Just some basics, and then individualizing for my patients, a lot of people with any kind of autoimmune condition, and we kind of put autism in that neuroimmune, autoimmune, inflammatory That, gluten-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free kind of go there, like, as a given. If there’s a lot of gut issues, a lot of our folks have oxalate issues. And then we have to sometimes do low or limited oxalate diets. Many of my patients can’t convert glutamate to GABA efficiently. Dr. Deb Muth 42:44Yeah. So, high glutamates associated with OCD, and kind of looping or repetitive behaviors. Anju 42:51So, low-glutamate diets. And then some of my patients have SIBO, and then we do the low FODMAPs diet, and then some of my patients have messel, and we’ll do the fail-safe kind of concept with the fail-safe diet, so nutrition can get a little bit complex for certain people, but there are some basics, and then there are some, like, more of… Individual, kind of, diet approaches. And then there’s supplementation. There’s some things that I call foundational. For me, certain things most people need that have a chronic illness. Dr. Deb Muth 43:26Yeah. Anju 43:26Vitamin D3 is one of those. Omega-3s are another one for most. And then, because I did a lot of research on copper, zinc, I think 3 mineral… 4 minerals. I feel like people underdo minerals. They’re so important. Every single enzyme has a mineral cofactor, so… zinc is really important for my population with autism and ADD. 99% of them had high copper or low zinc in. Dr. Deb Muth 43:58Wow. Anju 43:59Over 400 patients that we tested. Dr. Deb Muth 44:01Wow. Anju 44:03And, magnesium.So, zinc, magnesium, and then the other two minerals I really like are selenium for glutathione. and molybdenum for sulfation, and glycolysis. So… So those are kind of my foundational pieces, and then I like to work on the gut next. So, from a nutritional perspective, prebiotics are my new favorite. Dr. Deb Muth 44:29Yeah, we go in and out with prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics. Anju 44:34Yeah, exactly, symbiotics. Dr. Deb Muth 44:36Yes, exactly, exactly. Anju 44:38demos, and… Dr. Deb Muth 44:40Yeah. Anju 44:40So yeah, biofilm busting, and all of that, so… And then I go into my other nitty-gritty stuff, like you probably do. Dr. Deb Muth 44:47individualized, right? So, you created, True Healing Nature, a supplement line, a supplement company, correct? Anju 44:56Yeah, True Hing Naturals. Dr. Deb Muth 44:58Truly Naturals, okay. Anju 44:59True, he is hard. Dr. Deb Muth 45:01Oats! Anju 45:01True! Dr. Deb Muth 45:01Healing natural. Got it, sorry about that. Tell us a little bit about what made you decide to create a supplement company. Was it because you couldn’t find formulations that you wanted? Couldn’t find clean products? That’s a big problem for people, for sure. Anju 45:19Yeah, a little bit of both. I told you that my kids were really sensitive, they had a lot. Dr. Deb Muth 45:23I know. Anju 45:24And when I would even try to give them things like ibuprofen. Dr. Deb Muth 45:28or Benadryl. Anju 45:30For allergies, they couldn’t tolerate the products that were over-the-counter. Dr. Deb Muth 45:35Yeah. Anju 45:35So, in 2007, I opened a compounding pharmacy so I could make things clean for them. Dr. Deb Muth 45:42Yeah. Anju 45:43And I thought it was so valuable. And so then I started seeing, like, certain issues with my patient population, for instance, say, mitochondrial issues. So, I would compound a mito cocktail. in my pharmacy. And then I had True Healing Naturals manufacture it, so I didn’t have to have patients get it compounded. Dr. Deb Muth 46:08Got it. Anju 46:09So that particular product’s called Mito Rescue. Okay. But then, I started… I do a lot of oats testing. Organic acid urine tests. Dr. Deb Muth 46:19Yeah. Anju 46:20But there’s, like, a marker on there for, oxalates, and I saw a lot of patients with oxalates, and oxalates inhibit some… an enzyme called, pyruvate decarboxylase. And that basically means you can’t take your carbs and turn them into energy. Dr. Deb Muth 46:38Okay. Anju 46:39So, if I saw this pattern with high oxalates and high pyruvic acid, I knew that that enzyme wasn’t working very well, and that enzyme is B1, molybdenum, and biotin dependent. So, I started compounding doses of that. And then I turned that into a product called Motor Connect, because high doses of biotin help with connectivity in the cerebellum. Dr. Deb Muth 47:08Got it. So, I did come… kind of start with the compounding pharmacy, try it, use it, and then turn it into. Anju 47:17products, and I have one for copper-zinc imbalances called True Minerals. Dr. Deb Muth 47:21Yeah, to fix the problems that were not commercially available. Could you talk a little bit for people who don’t understand what a compounding pharmacy is? Anju 47:32So, when you guys go to a pharmacy, you, you know, you send a prescription, and it’s already, it’s manufactured, and you get it. Well, a compounding pharmacy actually makes that for you. So they get the raw ingredients, and then they make that prescription. So it’s still prescription-based. But, for instance, say, I want Nystatin. And I go to Walgreens or CVS, and the nystatin there is a liquid, and it has yellow dyes and sugar. Dr. Deb Muth 48:02Yep. Or it’s a title, and it’s red. Anju 48:04or it’s bread, and a tablet, and I, like, oh, I want to treat the yeast, but I don’t want to use this. So I sent my nystatin prescription to a compounding pharmacy, and it’s Nystatin. That’s what you got. Yep. Dr. Deb Muth 48:17disappear. Anju 48:18So, pure compounding pharmacy, it’s pure, it’s pure stuff. Especially for our mast cell people. They’re so sensitive, and, you know, my kids are all mast cell, and so I just find that excipients, some people will say, oh, this doesn’t work, and I said, it’s probably the excipient that’s stimulating your mast cell activation. So, yeah. So, compounding pharmacies, You know, with all the big, kind of. conglomerates and big companies, they’ve become… they used to be, like, mom-and-pop kind of places. And my pharmacy is like that. It’s just… it’s… it’s a few of us, and we… we do it, and it’s nothing big or fancy, but we get the job done. So, we compound things like methylcobalamin injections, hydroxycobalamin, low-dose naltrexone. Different things for chelation. So, it’s nice. I love having it. Dr. Deb Muth 49:11Yeah, the compounding pharmacies really have made a huge difference for people who are sensitive. You know, so many ingredients are contaminated with corn and gluten and soy and dairy and all the big things that we want to stay away from, especially if we’re trying to treat the immune system. And even if the manufacturer says that’s not in our product. it’s contaminated, usually, because they’re usually preparing it in a facility that has those things floating around. Right. And for people who are really sensitive, that’s going to create some issues. Anju 49:45Yeah, people who are sensitive are sensitive to parts per trillion. Dr. Deb Muth 49:48Yeah. Anju 49:49I found that with my daughter with chemical sensitivity. You don’t have to see it, or you don’t have to smell it, but they could react to it. Dr. Deb Muth 49:55Yeah. And, a lot of these, like. Anju 49:58These different, substances, for instance, like enzymes, even the natural enzymes. Dr. Deb Muth 50:03They’re cultured in Aspergillus. Anju 50:07And so they’re extracted from mold. Dr. Deb Muth 50:10Yeah. Anju 50:11And so the really mold-sensitive people will maybe take a digestive enzyme, and they’ll have a reaction, and they’ll not understand why. Yeah. But it’s not because of the enzyme, it’s because of where it’s coming from. Dr. Deb Muth 50:22Yeah, where it’s cultured from. And if you have mold toxicity and mold sensitivity, and we’re looking at your mold test, wondering why are you getting a hit while we’re trying to clear it out, sometimes we forget that those products, and a variety of products that we used are cultured from molds. Yeah. Anju 50:40Yeah, yeah. It’s hard for the laypeople to understand all. Dr. Deb Muth 50:45You know. Anju 50:45of these pieces, but I think that… It used to be, like, the insurance companies would cover prescriptions from compounding pharmacies, but over the years, the lobbying and all of that has gotten so intense where, you know, a lot of that ends up out of pocket, but it’s really… it doesn’t really get that much more expensive than a copay would be. Dr. Deb Muth 51:05Right, right. Anju 51:06People just don’t know about it, yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 51:08Yeah, absolutely. So, you’ve been doing this now for more than 17 years, and you’ve made some remarkable progress with your patients. Can you share some success stories that still inspire you to do what you do every day? Anju 51:27I don’t know about you, but, like, when you first start, I think, God puts you… God puts all those really gray cases in front of you, because you’re like, whoa! Dr. Deb Muth 51:37Yes, and maybe… Anju 51:38I gave this patient methylcobalamin, and they started talking. Yeah. So methyl B12 back in the day was huge. you know, Dr. Nebrander’s protocol, and we would use that, and we would get speech, and… I mean, I’ve… it’s just… there’s hundreds of cases. There’s hundreds of cases, and same with Leukovorin now. Not for everybody, but when it really works, it’s really, really decent. Dr. Deb Muth 52:07Yeah, and worth a try, you know, if… if we suspect that’s what’s going on, these things are worth a try, because sometimes you just never know what’s going to be the key that unlocks the answer for them. Anju 52:19Yeah, but I think, you know, like, I can say… chelation, or… you know, I can, like, throw out a bunch of stuff. Dr. Deb Muth 52:26Okay. Anju 52:27In terms of, like, I’ve… I… I have those families, and I have those kids who are just… they’re just amazing, and they’re in college, and having jobs, and having kids, and… Dr. Deb Muth 52:38Yeah. Anju 52:38you know, all of that, but I think, you know, the ones that really strike me are the ones that I have to work really hard to get. Dr. Deb Muth 52:44And then we’. Anju 52:45they go, it’s not like, oh, I just did the diet, I’m cured, or I did this, and I’m better, or… Right. And I have those cases where the parents come to me and they say, I never thought my kid would Be going to college. And I never thought we would be here. So, those are the ones that really, like, when I get the little notes, or the, like, the college or the high school graduation pictures, and they… and some of them, you know, you lose touch with because they don’t need me anymore. Dr. Deb Muth 53:19Yeah. Anju 53:20And then you hear about it later. And then, I think the ones that don’t get better are the ones that, like, sit with me the most They just sit with me, and we’ve had this population of children with severe apraxia. So, apraxia is a motor planning issue, but if you saw these patients, you would think that they were… mentally deficient. Dr. Deb Muth 53:44Hmm. Anju 53:45Because they can’t talk. Dr. Deb Muth 53:46Yeah. Anju 53:47They’re the classic person that you would see that looks autistic. You know, running around, excited, verbal stimming, no speech. Dr. Deb Muth 53:57Hmm. Anju 53:58And that group of patients are incredibly Brilliant. And we are just finding out about how smart they are. There’s a book called Underestimated by J.B. Hanley and his son Jamie. JV has all the resources in the world. He used to put those ads in the New York Times about autism and vaccines. He could take his kid anywhere and do any treatment, and still, we… Blocked. Locked. Couldn’t get through. Couldn’t get through. And they started, spelling. To communicate, and this speller’s method, and it just opened a door. And it opened a door for so many of my patients who are metabolically challenged, so we do help them metabolically. Getting that ability to communicate. Some of them never got high school diplomas, and they went back to get their high school diplomas so they could go to college. Dr. Deb Muth 54:56Oh, wow, that’s amazing stories. Anju 54:59Yeah, and Elizabeth Bonker is one of those spellers, and she… she was a valedictorian in her high school, college. And she did a valedictorian speech that went. Viral, and she’s one of the people on that committee. Dr. Deb Muth 55:13That’s awesome. Anju 55:14He’s non-speaking. She… she can’t not speak. Dr. Deb Muth 55:20Wow. Anju 55:21But they asked her to be on this committee. Dr. Deb Muth 55:24That’s fantastic. Anju 55:26Huge. Dr. Deb Muth 55:27That’s huge. It is huge. There’s a way she can communicate, she just can’t verbalize the way you and I verbalize. Anju 55:34She’s brilliant. I mean, people on that committee, the, the individuals with autism on that committee, I know they’re brilliant people. Wow. But if you… if… If people saw them, they wouldn’t see that. Dr. Deb Muth 55:47Right. Anju 55:47So, I guess, for me, it’s like seeing the brilliance, seeing the competence in individuals, and as a practitioner, just trying to optimize it. But I know, like, the neurodiversity people say, okay, you know. We’re fine, and it’s like, yes, you are fine, you’re fine, and it’s okay. Whatever it is, it’s okay. But if you’re struggling metabolically, and we can help you feel better. What’s… what’s the harm in that? Dr. Deb Muth 56:13Right, let’s do that. Yeah. So you’re also part of something called MAPS, and you’re educating doctors worldwide. Tell us a little bit about MAPS, and how do you see the integrative pediatrics evolving in the next decade as a result of what we’re learning today? Anju 56:36I think we’re at a crossroads, and Maps is kind of in the middle of that crossroads. It used to be called Dan. Dr. Deb Muth 56:47Okay. Anju 56:47Autism Now. Dr. Deb Muth 56:48Yeah. Anju 56:49And then they kind of dissolved Dan and turned it into MedMaps. And MedMaps is Medical Academy for Pediatrics and Special Needs. So it’s not just special needs, it’s pediatrics. as well.So it’s kind of like the functional medicine for peds. And our goal is to train an army of clinicians to be the frontline. And how medicine should be, and how people should be trained. We should train them to do these types of things from the beginning. Because now it’s backwards. Dr. Deb Muth 57:28Right. Anju 57:30they come see us when nobody else can help them. But, so, we have some good leadership, and then… We are just trying to get people trained so that they understand that this is the future. Dr. Deb Muth 57:50If there’s a practitioner that’s listening to this, how do they get involved in MAPS? Anju 57:55They could come to a conference. Dr. Deb Muth 57:57Okay. Anju 57:58And the website is medmaps.org. And there’s 2 conferences a year. And we have scholarships, and we want people to come, so contact You know, the executive director, and… We just want people to come, share… their experiences, learn about functional medicine, it’s evidence-based, we try to… it’s really scientific, you know, we talk a lot of science. Dr. Deb Muth 58:25Oh yeah, a lot of science. Anju 58:26We talk a lot of science, and and so hopefully we can move all of this forward. Baster. Dr. Deb Muth 58:35I think the greatest thing, when you get into the functional medicine integrative space like this, and MAPS, and some of the other environmental academies and things like that. A lot of people might think it’s not science-based, and I’m always amazed at how much science we have, and it’s right, it’s all the things that you and I learned in biochem class, and chem class, and organic chem, and we were like, oh, let’s just learn this to be done with it. And then you get back, and you start doing integrated medicine, and you realize, like, all of that biochemistry stuff is what we needed to truly understand to fix people these These days, and you go back and you have to learn that in an intense version of it. Anju 59:18I felt like I finally understood the Krebs cycle, when I learned how it made metabolic stents, instead of just memorizing these cycles for… For the… Dr. Deb Muth 59:30Right? Like, they, like. Anju 59:32They just make sense to me. Dr. Deb Muth 59:34Yeah. Anju 59:35And I think that’s so important to understand, that all of this has science behind it, and it’s there, and the research is there. Dr. Deb Muth 59:46It’s just us having to learn how to utilize it, and recognize that not every person is going to be straightforward, and what we do for one might not work for another. There’s… It’s not as easy as prescribing a prescription and letting the person walk out the door in 10 minutes. That’s not what this is about at all. Anju 01:00:05No, and at MedMaps as well, they have a call for abstracts, and so we’re always looking for research, experience, so if any of the clinicians out there have, you know, things they want to share. then send an abstract to Maps. What a great blonde. I think, one of my doctor friends is doing an abstract on research that was done on sensory qigong massage. Dr. Deb Muth 01:00:34Oh. Anju 01:00:34And it helped with speech, and the theory was that, we were all thinking of the sensory system in the brain, the sensory system. In the periphery being affected neurologically, and how to turn that back on. So, it was… it’s… Dr. Deb Muth 01:00:51That’s neat. Anju 01:00:51Again, with the research, and with the science behind it, and with, like, clinical trials, and all of that. Dr. Deb Muth 01:00:58That’s awesome, I love that.For parents that are just starting in this journey, what would you recommend be their first one or two steps? Anju 01:01:10Educate, educate, educate? How do you get educated? I do think that, TakaNow.org is a good place for, like, a biomedical approach, or this functional approach for autism. It’s the Autism Community in Action. MedMaps is doing a parent conference in March. Dr. Deb Muth 01:01:31Oh, awesome. They usually do that around, Memorial Day, right? Anju 01:01:36They’ll do it around Labor Day in September. Dr. Deb Muth01:01:40Labor Day in September, okay. Anju 01:01:42Yeah, and then mid-March. Dr. Deb Muth 01:01:44Okay. Anju 01:01:45Yeah. And they hadn’t done a parent conference before, but we had parents that wanted to come to the conferences, and it was just for clinicians before. Dr. Deb Muth 01:01:54Got it. Is it Autism One that does theirs around Memorial Day? Anju 01:01:59Oh yeah, they don’t exist anymore. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:01Don’t, really. Anju 01:02:03conferences. There was. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:06NAA, the National Autism Association. Anju 01:02:09They don’t do a lot of parent conferences in functional medicine either, so there’s a few left. Documenting Hope. That’s another really nice one. Oh, that’s great. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:21So, what last words do you want to leave with our listeners? Anju 01:02:29You know, that’s… people always ask that at the end of these… I, I do feel that, Listen to your heart, you know, follow your intuition. Dr. Deb Muth 01:02:40I’ll let that guide you. Anju 01:02:42There’s a lot of information, sometimes it gets to be too much information. It’s hard to process everything, try not to make impulsive decisions about things. And… If you have a child with special needs, or if you have a grandchild with, issues. Presume competence. There’s a lot there. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:04Yeah. Anju 01:03:05Especially some of these kids with behavior issues. I don’t know how many patients of mine are… Put on psychotropic meds. Metabolic issues, and, you know… It’s like, a lot of them have pain, like headache, abdominal pain, and inflammation, and they’re treating them with psych meds. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:25Yeah. That’s sad, isn’t it? Anju 01:03:28I think, you know, try to look for the underlying cause. Not just band-aid things. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:34Where can listeners, learn more about your work and what you do? Anju 01:03:40Oh, that’s tough. I don’t have a book. One of these days. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:48Yes! Anju 01:03:49Yes, one of these days. I think, you know, med maps, we have a… if they’re clinicians. Dr. Deb Muth 01:03:55Hmm? Anju 01:03:56I have lectured a lot. For, for, communities like Taka, so there’s just a lot of… lectures that I’ve given online. Dr. Deb Muth 01:04:09Awesome. Well, thank you for taking your time with us today. It’s been a great conversation with you. Anju 01:04:15Thank you so much for inviting me, Debra. I’m honored to be here, and thank you for doing the work that you do to put Put this out there for people, because it’s really important information. Dr. Deb Muth 01:04:27Thank you. Thank you for joining me today on Let’s Talk Wellness Now. Today’s discussion with Dr. Usman reminds us that there’s always more we can do. We can look deeper into biology, environment, and lifestyle. to heal the next generation. If this episode inspired you, please share it with a parent or a practitioner who believes every child deserves a chance to thrive. And to learn more about Dr. Usman, you can visit TrueHealthMedical.com or TrueHealingnaturals.com. And if you’re ready to explore your own root cause healing, visit us at Serenityhealthcarecenter.com. You can also follow me on Instagram, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode of Let’s Talk Wellness now. Until next time. I’m Dr. Deb, reminding you to nurture your body, mind, and spirit. Be well, and I’ll see you soon.The post Episode 262 – The Root Cause of ADHD & Autism: Beyond the Diagnosis with Dr. Anju Usman Singh first appeared on Let's Talk Wellness Now.

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