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What happens when you have to rank your favorite foods without knowing what's coming next? Matt, Iyla, and Megh are back in the Beard Laws studio for a new episode of Stay Outta My Fridge, and this time, nobody's eating anything. We're putting our food opinions to the test. The rules are simple: We reveal ten items, one at a time, and each person must permanently rank them from #1 to #10. Once a spot is taken, it's gone forever. Three rounds. Thirty decisions. Absolutely no second chances. ROUND 1: FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A, Five Guys, Burger King, Subway, KFC, Arby's, and Dairy Queen. Somehow, Arby's ends up winning the entire round, and Dairy Queen gets absolutely buried. We have some explaining to do. ROUND 2: SNACKS Doritos, Oreos, Cheez-Its, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Cheetos, Lay's, Pop-Tarts, Goldfish, pretzels, and Little Debbie snacks. Iyla makes some interesting decisions, Matt refuses to abandon his beloved pretzels, and Oreos and Cheez-Its battle for the top spot. ROUND 3: APPETIZERS Mozzarella sticks, chicken wings, French fries, nachos, onion rings, potato skins, fried pickles, jalapeño poppers, soft pretzels, and chicken tenders. Things get personal when Iyla's favorite foods start falling down the rankings, and somehow soft pretzels end up taking the crown. THE FINAL RESULTS Best fast food restaurant: Arby's Best snack: Oreos Best appetizer: Soft pretzels We also attempt to settle the ultimate winner across all three categories and identify the worst item of the entire challenge. Agreement is not guaranteed. YOUR TURN! Who has the worst food opinions: Matt, Iyla, or Megh? And what should we blind rank next? Breakfast cereals, candy, drinks, pizza toppings, or something completely different? Tell us what you think, and join us for another episode of Stay Outta My Fridge. Stay Outta My Fridge. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast app! It's the best way to help our family show reach more people.This has been The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast, your source for family comedy, snack reviews, and '90s nostalgia.Find us on social media The Stay Outta My Fridge Podcast is a part of the Bleav Network. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

9 And when you shall hear of wars and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to pass; but the end is not yet presently.Cum autem audieritis praelia et seditiones, nolite terreri : oportet primum haec fieri, sed nondum statim finis. 10 Then he said to them: Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.Tunc dicebat illis : Surget gens contra gentem, et regnum adversus regnum. 11 And there shall be great earthquakes in divers places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there shall be great signs.Et terraemotus magni erunt per loca, et pestilentiae, et fames, terroresque de caelo, et signa magna erunt. 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake.Sed ante haec omnia injicient vobis manus suas, et persequentur tradentes in synagogas et custodias, trahentes ad reges et praesides propter nomen meum : 13 And it shall happen unto you for a testimony.continget autem vobis in testimonium. 14 Lay it up therefore into your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer:Ponite ergo in cordibus vestris non praemeditari quemadmodum respondeatis : 15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.ego enim dabo vobis os et sapientiam, cui non poterunt resistere et contradicere omnes adversarii vestri. 16 And you shall be betrayed by your parents and brethren, and kinsmen and friends; and some of you they will put to death.Trademini autem a parentibus, et fratribus, et cognatis, et amicis, et morte afficient ex vobis : 17 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.et eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum : 18 But a hair of your head shall not perish.et capillus de capite vestro non peribit. 19 In your patience you shall possess your souls.In patientia vestra possidebitis animas vestras.St Cornelius was the successor of St Fabian. He was a Pope and Mrtyr. He was one of the greatest Popes of the third century. He was beheaded in 253 A.D.St Cyprian was a barrister and later a Bishop of Carthage and Primate of Africa. He wrote works which are among the greatest documents of the Catholic Church. He suffered martyrdom in 258 A.D.

One of the most tragic realities in modern Christianity is that many do not truly understand the Old Testament. Too often, it gets neglected and treated as an optional preamble to the New Testament. However, this collection of books, written over centuries and centuries, informed not only Jewish belief and practice but also pointed to the coming Messiah. These scriptures provided the foundation from which Jesus taught and the Apostles drew extensively. One of the core problems, I think, is that we fail to see the Old Testament narrative as our story. The people seem so distant and different from us, the circumstances almost alien, and the stories and characters confusing. We can, sadly, sometimes be a people with amnesia. An individual who can't access their memories changes; their personality and moods often aren't what they once were. Similarly, our biblical amnesia can mean that we start to change; our spiritual personality is off-center. Sandra Richter, an Old Testament scholar, puts it this way when addressing the consequences of us not understanding this part of Scripture. The first, and to me most heartbreaking, [problem] is that most Christians have not been taught that the Old Testament is their story. This has the consequence that, The Church does not know who she is, because she does not know who she was. I bring this up because this twelfth chapter of Hebrews contains some important, but often difficult, applications. If we dont understand where the author is coming from, we can misunderstand and misapply the principles this chapter gives us. So, I think it would be good to take stock of where weve come from. While we walk through Hebrews 12 together, please keep this in the back of your mind; you are in this story too. To make sure that we are grounded and ready for the applications this passage has in store for us, we need to do some review. Hebrews was originally written as a letter, potentially as a transcription of a sermon, to Jewish Christians in the middle of the 1st century. It was written primarily to show four things: Jesus is preeminent above all things Jesus is the fulfillment of Gods promises Jesus established a new and better covenant Offer a warning against falling away from Jesus Said a different way: Jesus is better than anything, because He is God Therefore, Jesus could fulfill all of Gods promises Therefore, Jesus satisfied the old covenant and made a better one Therefore, we should cling to Jesus because He is our only hope Remember how this letter opens. It starts by pointing to just how much better Jesus is. 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power. (Heb 1:1-3a) Ultimately, Jesus is better than everything else because He is God. He radiates Gods glory and is the exact imprint of His nature. The universe was created through Him and is upheld by Him. The letter then goes on to unpack how Jesus is better than anything else the Hebrew people have encountered as the chosen people of God. Were going to fly through this, but please refer back to Shauns sermons if youd like to dive deeper into any of these. According to the text, Jesus is better than: The prophets (1:1-3) The angels (1:4-14; 2:5-9) Moses (3:1-6) The Land of Promise and Joshua (4:1-8) The Sabbath Rest (4:8-13) The Levitical Priesthood (4:14-5:6; 7) The Old Covenant (8:1-13) The Tabernacle and Temple (9:1-10) The Sacrificial System (9:11-10:18) Thats quite a list! And I want us to pause and recognize how revolutionary this was for the people of the time. This would be similar to somebody coming into our church and saying, Im better than Calvin or Luther. In fact, Im greater than Paul, John, Matthew, and the rest of the apostles. I am better than a church service. Even more, Im elevated above baptism and the Lord's Supper. I know Wyomingites can be a reserved bunch, but Im pretty sure there would be a riot. When Jesus stepped into history, was born of a virgin, died a criminals death, and then rose in grand victory, He defied all 1st-century Jewish expectations of the Messiah and, indeed, the entire notion of what it meant to be Gods people. But it goes even further! The author of Hebrews not only gives us this grand language about Jesus being really awesome (thats a technical theological word, by the way), but also explains how Jesus fulfills Gods promises made in prophecy. No other New Testament book has a higher density of Old Testament quotations than Hebrews. The author constantly points back to the prophets who promised a Messiah to save both Israel and the world. We see that Jesus would: Become incarnate as a human (2:5-8) Be a priest outside of the Levitical priesthood (5:6) Establish a new covenant (8:6-12) Do away with the sacrificial system (10:5-7) Die on a cross (12:2) These are just a few examples, but they get us to the heart of the matter. The author is trying to get his audience to see that Jesus is the one theyve been waiting for, the one of promise. He lived the perfect and sinless life that they could not, and yet died the death that they deserved. Put in more personal terms, Jesus lived the perfect and sinless life that I cannot, and yet He died the death that I deserve. This gave Him the ability to satisfy the Old Covenant on our behalf, pay our penalty, and then rise to new life, conquer death, and make a way for us to enter again into the presence of God. Hebrews tells us of this new covenant. 6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. ... 12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. (8:6-7, 12-13) Brothers and sisters, there could be no better news than this. Because of Jesus, our sins are no longer remembered, and we receive Gods mercy. We no longer stand condemned by the Law, but have been restored to a relationship with the living God. Remember, this is the story of all Gods people. Try as we might to live up to the Law, we cannot. But Jesus did. And then He ushered in a new covenant. But we must be careful, however. The author also has warnings for us. You can hear this writer's pleading to his readers in the opening of the second chapter. 2:1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 2 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, 4 while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. (Heb 2:1-4) Pay attention! the author is shouting. Dont drift away! Look at what happened in Israels past when they walked away from God and tried to forge their own path. Remember the golden calf. Remember the exile in Babylon. Jesus rose and spoke to us! Hear how many people testified about what they saw. Remember the miracles. We have a better covenant now! Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Consider what happened to those who ignored the old covenant. What will happen to us now if we neglect the better covenant? We still hear the author's plea nearly 2,000 years later. Dont let go. Whatever you do, dont let go of Jesus. You can write this progression of thought as a formula. Remember it; I promise it will be important later on. Jesus is better

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Verse 4 says: “But you, brethren, are notin darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.” Notice againthe contrast. In verse 3 Paul spoke about “they” and “them.” Nowhe says: “But you, brethren.” Why is there a difference? Becausebelievers belong to Christ. Paulsays in verse 5: “You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are notof the night nor of darkness.” Throughout Scripture, light and darkness arepictures of two completely different spiritual conditions. Darkness representssin, ignorance, and separation from God. Light represents truth, holiness, andlife in Christ. Jesus said in John 8:12: “I am the light of the world. Hewho follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” Whenwe trusted Jesus Christ, we were brought out of spiritual darkness and into Hiswonderful light. Peter described believers as those whom God has called “outof darkness into His marvelous light.” SoPaul says: “You are children of light.” That tells us who we are. Andthen verse 6 tells us how we should live: “Therefore let us not sleep, asothers do, but let us watch and be sober.” In this verse, sleep is notreferring to physical death as it did in chapter 4. Here sleep picturesspiritual carelessness and indifference. Paul says, “Don't live as thoughnothing important is happening.” Wake up spiritually. That is a messageChristians need in every generation. It is possible to know Christ and stillbecome spiritually sleepy. We can become comfortable. We can lose our sense ofurgency. Our prayer life can become routine. Our Bible reading can becomemechanical. We can become so occupied with this present world that we forgetJesus is coming again. Paulsays: “Let us watch.” To watch means to stay spiritually alert. Jesusrepeatedly used the same word when speaking about His return. He said: “Watchtherefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.” Watchingdoesn't mean standing outside staring into the sky. Watching means living everyday in readiness. It means keeping short accounts with God. It means staying inHis Word. It means maintaining a faithful prayer life. It means using ouropportunities to serve Christ. It means refusing to become comfortable withsin. ThenPaul says: “And be sober.” The idea is being clear-minded, disciplined,and spiritually self-controlled. A sober Christian sees life from God'sperspective. The world says, “This life is all there is.” The Christian says,“Eternity is coming.” The world says, “Live for yourself.” The Christian says,“I belong to Christ.” The world says, “Gather everything you can here.” Jesussays, “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” Being a child of lightshould make a difference in how we live. Ephesians 5:8 says: “For you wereonce darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.” NoticePaul doesn't say we merely have light. He says we are children of light. Ouridentity should affect our conduct. Sometimes we approach the Christian life bysaying, “Here is a long list of things I shouldn't do.” But Paul startssomewhere deeper. He reminds us who we are. You belong to Jesus. You are achild of God. You are a child of light. Therefore, live like who you are. Maybetoday would be a good time for a spiritual wake-up call. Has something causedyou to become spiritually sleepy? Have you lost some of the excitement you oncehad about serving the Lord? Have the things of this world crowded out yourawareness of eternity? Heavenly Father, thank You that through Jesus Christ You have brought usout of darkness and into Your marvelous light. Help us to remember who weare—children of light and children of the day. Guard us from becomingspiritually sleepy or careless. Wake our hearts to the reality of eternity.Help us to watch, to be sober, and to live every day in fellowship with You.May the light of Jesus shine through our lives so that others may see Him inus. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

How can you become your own coach when facing a tough leadership problem? In this episode, Kevin talks with Dr. Katie Best about how leaders can coach themselves through complex challenges by slowing down and understanding the context. She shares her SOLVE model: State the problem, Open the box, Lay out the solution, Venture forth, and Elevate your learning. They discuss why leaders often rush to action before clearly defining the real problem, how research and observation can reveal patterns, and why being "fairly sure" is often enough to move forward in an uncertain world. Katie also explains how pre-mortems can help leaders anticipate what might go wrong and how organizations can create a common language for better problem-solving, decision-making, and psychological safety. Book Recommendations The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems by Katie Best  Flexible Leadership by Kevin Eikenberry Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu  Micro-Habits by Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes Like this? Reframing Problems with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg The Coaching Effect with Bill Eckstrom Listen For 0:00 Introduction 0:41 How to Join the Live Podcast 1:27 Free Action Guide + Meet Dr. Katie Best 2:20 Why Katie Wrote The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems 4:16 What Makes This Book Different: Context Over One-Size-Fits-All 6:41 Self-Coaching vs. Hiring a Real Coach 8:06 Introducing the SOLVE Model 8:28 S – State the Problem 9:00 O – Open the Box 10:23 L – Lay Out Your Solution 11:55 V – Venture Forth 13:37 Overthinking vs. Rushing to a Solution 14:40 How Do You Know When You Have Enough Data? 16:45 E – Elevate Your Learning 17:53 The Power of a Pre-Mortem 20:11 Coaching Is Problem Solving in Disguise 21:06 Where AI Fits Into Leadership Problems 23:10 Using SOLVE at the Organizational Level 26:31 What Katie Best Is Reading 28:18 How to Connect With Katie Best 29:24 The Activation Question ---

1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative, 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. 6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. 7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, 8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, 9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. 11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house. 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. 13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: 14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. 15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. 16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving. 19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey. 20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.” 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. 22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. 24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. 25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths, 26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol,* going down to the rooms of death. Listen Donate Subscribe: Proverbs Daily Podcast Psalms Daily Podcast

Uur 1 1.         ‘t Is autumn – Esther Phillips 2.         A song for you – Donny Hathaway 3.         Dat it der al is – Nynke Laverman  4.         Lavava no rio lavava – Ana Moura 5.         No more cloudy days – The Eagles 6.         Take the A train – The Puppini Sisters 7.         Can't take my eyes off you – Dennis van Aarssen 8.         Growing old disgracefully – Gilbert O'Sullivan 9.         Als ik zeg – Herman van Veen & Karin Hougaard 10.       La chanson des vieux amants – Jacques Brel 11.       Blanket of dust – Nina June 12.       Lay me down – Crosby & Nash  13.       Saint Agnes and the burning train - Sting   Uur 2 1.         Lonley looking sky – Neil Diamond 2.         God bless the child – Billie Holiday 3.         Rozane – Esther van Hees 4.         J'ai demandé à la lune - Indochine 5.         Donna Donna – Joan Baez 6.         I had a dream – Loudon Wainwright III  7.         De steen – Bram Vermeulen 8.         Focs artificials – Anna Andreu 9.         Everybody rejoice – Luther Vandross 10.       What would I do if I could feel – Nipsey Russell 11.       Wachten – Yentl en de Boer  12.       Hey Joe – Willy DeVille 13.       New shoes – Paolo Nutini 14.       Sunlight to my soul – Angélique Kidjo

The party finishes preparations for the Ren Faire, recounting the recent battle and their encounters beyond death before stocking up for the next leg of their journey. At the Faire, Shanks and Zechs dominate the archery game; Turk tests his new abilities in an exhibition fight and is quickly defeated. At the same time, Galahad enters the jousting tournament atop a summoned pegasus. After losing to the crowd-favorite Red Knight, Galahad wins the rematch but nearly kills him, then uses Lay on Hands, pays him an apology, and dramatically flies away. Turk and Zechs receive eerily accurate fortunes, while Arguile and Shanks try their luck at the casino. Galahad later visits The Old Pickaxe, where he bonds with owner Ron over Dwarven whisky and steak, learns more about the city's inner workings, and is offered another job involving a corrupt figurehead. Meanwhile, preparations for Uscana continue: Zechs learns that his bow, Jack of All Trades, is made from rare ghost silver tied to the Astral Sea and a dead god's tooth, while Galahad retrieves his reforged Kanna's Blazing Fury and buys the Thunderstrike Mace. The party then takes Strauss's company jet toward Uscana, only to be attacked by flying Fey; the pilot is killed, Glad and Turk struggle to land the aircraft, and Galahad destroys the primary attacker before the party crash-lands.After assessing the wreckage, Shanks and Duo scout the dense Feywild forest while Zechs confirms the overwhelming Fey presence. The group prepares protections against Fey magic, and Glad offers tribute to the land for safe passage before encountering a booze-loving pixie and narrowly escaping a Fey trap. Zechs stresses that the party follows his lead, given his experience in the Feywild, and they establish camp. During the watches, Arguile and Shanks encourage Duo to pursue a more active role beyond scouting; Turk explains why the crash shook him and discusses his past and Paladin oaths with Galahad, who promises the party will support him against Kas if needed; and Glad and Zechs discuss faith, the gods, and their found-family bond. Their conversation is interrupted by the Briar Envoy, who chastises them for failing to properly present themselves to the Queen and demands a suitable tribute within a day. Hoshino then returns with The Journeyman, exhausted but warmly welcomed, and the party brings him up to speed before heading to the Fey Court. Queen Sinestra offers two choices for their tribute: retrieve a once-in-a-century Songbloom from the treants or recover her former consort's mask, and the party chooses the Songbloom to avoid provoking a war.Using Shanks's knowledge of the Songbloom and Zechs's tracking abilities, the party begins the detour while Galahad grows increasingly frustrated with their circumstances. During camp, Turk receives another lesson in Thieves' Cant, reveals his singing ability, and tells Hoshino how he earned the nickname Big T; Hoshino counters with a story about Arguile and Shanks battling the Gathakanaki warriors. Shanks senses they are being watched, later confirmed during Arguile and Hoshino's watch as they discuss Arioch, family, and Hoshino's regret at missing what happened; Arguile assures him there is nothing to forgive. The final watch is lighter, with Zechs teasing Galahad about his frustrations. The next morning, the party organizes spells and supplies, with Duo estimating two days to their destination, but Shanks and Zechs continue sensing their pursuers. Shanks finally slips into stealth and activates his Gem of Seeing, revealing an armor-clad Loxodon painfully familiar to the group.There's so much happening, and we pick up with arc 31, “Daughter of the Vine”. How will the rest of this story unfold? Find out next time on the Medusa's Cascade: Collateral Damage!Theme Music is written and performed by EfflorescenceMixed by Thomas Lapierre IIITitle Card by Pierce Graphics Check out the show at themedusascascade.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A peeler's jacket, a wizard hiding in glass, and a cuckoo singing somewhere in May. This week runs from a French village to Donegal Bay, from the heart of Buffalo to a lay sung in old Gaelic. Fifteen artists, one hour, and not a dull mile in it. It's the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #773.  -  -  Subscribe now at CelticMusicPodcast.com! Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson, Boxing Robin, Almost Seamus, Cedar Dobson and Debojyoti Sanyal, Brian Quigley, Brobdingnagian Bards, Hildaland, The Leftovers, Tara's Folk, Ned Bigham, The Edinburgh Quartet & Màiri Macmillan, The McDades, Irish Millie, River Driver, MacCumhaill and the Gang, Trí GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items with what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2026 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create this year's Best Celtic music episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:02 - Intro: Robert Eby 0:18 - Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson  -  "The Peeler's Jacket / The Duke of Leinster" from Once Through the Hall 2:43 - WELCOME 5:09 - Boxing Robin  -  "Derriere Chez Nous / Chypre / Congo de Captieux" from Land of the Noon - Day Moon (pronunciation: deh - ree - EHR shay NOO / SHEEP - ruh / KOHN - goh duh kap - SYUH) 8:30 - Almost Seamus  -  "Danny Boy" from Almost Seamus 12:49 - Cedar Dobson and Debojyoti Sanyal  -  "Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór" from From Kolkata to Dublin (pronunciation: SHEE - vig, SHEE - vore; often anglicized "Sheebeg, Sheemore") 15:21 - Brian Quigley  -  "Galway Bay" from Joys, Fears, Laughter, and Tears 19:31 - FEEDBACK 22:21 - Brobdingnagian Bards  -  "Paddy McCollough" from Songs of Ireland 25:46 - Hildaland  -  "The Brushy Fork Of John's Creek" from Fiddle Tunes  -  EP 28:53 - The Leftovers  -  "The Old Man" from Heart of Buffalo 33:10 - Tara's Folk  -  "Lockdown" from remember how we fall 36:35 - Ned Bigham, The Edinburgh Quartet & Màiri Macmillan  -  "Laoidh Dhiarmaid (the Lay of Diarmaid)" from The Heroic Ballads  -  Laoidhean nan Gaisgeach  -  EP (pronunciation: LOY YEER - mij) 42:19 - THANKS 44:40 - The McDades  -  "Gardener's Child" from Thread The Light 48:41 - Irish Millie  -  "End Is Due" from Can You See Me? 52:32 - Blaggards "Leaving of Liverpool" from Live in Texas 55:59 - MacCumhaill and the Gang  -  "Wizard in Glass" from 2 58:17 - CLOSING 59:16 - Trí  -  "Fiddle without a bow" from The cuckoo sings in May 1:02:35 - CREDITS Support for this program comes from Dr. Annie Lorkowski of Centennial Animal Hospital in Corona, California. Support for this program comes from John Sharkey White, II. Support for this program comes from International speaker, Joseph Dumond, teaching the ancient roots of the Gaelic people. Learn more about their origins at Sightedmoon.com Support for this program comes from Cascadia Cross Border Law Group, Creating Transparent Borders for more than twenty five years, serving Alaska and the world. Find out more at   www.CascadiaLawAlaska.com Support for this program comes from Hank Woodward. The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You'll find links to all of the artists played in this episode. Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you'll get 7 weekly news items about what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. 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The festival happened because of many of my listeners who pledged at our start - of - the - year Kickstarter. We had a great turnout, but we could've done better if we had planned it more than a month out. There is now a Kickstarter Pre - Launch Page for our Second Celtic PodFest. You'll find a link in the shownotes. This fundraiser will hopefully allow us to bring a second festival to you. The Kickstarter will launch in September. Will you help? ALBUM PINS ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE HEAR CELTIC MUSIC Looking for a fresh way to support the music you love? Meet the Album Pin. Album Pins are lapel pins themed to a specific album — and each one comes with a digital download. Wear your music. All of my latest pins are wood - burned and locally produced, which means a smaller footprint and a one - of - a - kind feel you won't find anywhere else. Pick yours up at magerecords.com THANK YOU PATRONS OF THE PODCAST! Here's where your support goes. 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TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. I am now accepting applications for people to join the Celtic Invasion of Isle of Skye hiking trip in 2027 at http://celticinvasion.com/ CELTIC CHRISTMAS MUSIC The podcast is now being funded by you. Want Christmas music by Celtic musicians. Make a pledge. #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Send me a photo. If you're in a Celtic band, send me an audio recording of you performing live. Just audio. I'll use it in a podcast episode later this year. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. Troy of The Secret Commonwealth emailed a sad follow up back in March to the news about his friend who was illegally held in ICE custody: "Marc, thank you so much for sharing the fundraiser for my friend on your new episode. It is with profoundly heavy heart that I have to tell you that my friend died last Sunday of a heart attack. He had been moved to a hospital in Mississippi and apparently suffered two successive attacks. His body is being returned now. To say we are devastated and infuriated would be inadequate to describe our state of being. We had just been sending his lawyers important records and documents that we felt, along with his obvious serious health conditions, had a very good chance of securing his release. We'll never know now if that would have proven to be true, but we just needed him to endure a little while longer, which he ultimately could not. He died one month short of a year since being detained by ICE. I have not yet publicly announced this in an update to our fundraiser because, frankly, it's still too fresh and painful to address. But any proceeds we've made will obviously now be put toward the cost of his funeral service. Sorry to impart this bad news, but I mostly wanted to express my gratitude to you for your kind support on behalf of Pejman's family, my girlfriend (who was his dearest friend in the world and who spearheaded this fight for his freedom) and for me. Best to you,"

Look who's coming to dinner! Listener Mike is back, and this time he's here to talk about the joy of group sax!We've covered the session sax cats for 7 seasons. But what about the sax players from our era that were permanent fixtures in their respective bands—and in some cases, inextricably cemented in the band's identity?!…With one glaring and regrettable omission. Can you identify it? Lay it on us in the comments!N.B.:Here's the video of Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing three saxophones at the same time!Listen and Subscribe:⁠Find the podcast platform of your choice here⁠.Referenced and Related:⁠⁠Playlist of songs featured on Out of the Main⁠⁠⁠John's Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist⁠⁠⁠⁠Tom's Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist⁠⁠⁠⁠Intro/outro: Stock Music “We're Here” composed by John H. Nixon (BMI)Find and Follow:Find us at Sea on Substack: outofthemain.substack.comThe Mainland: ⁠OutoftheMain.com⁠Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/yachtrockpodcast⁠Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/outofthemain⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@outofthemain⁠Support the Podcast: patreon.com/OutoftheMain“Born at Sea. Raised on Radio.”

Cassandra Wilson, una de las mayores cantantes de jazz de las últimas décadas, abierta siempre a interpretar clásicos de otros géneros, nos ha dejado a los 70 años. Nos despedimos de ella escuchando sus grabaciones de 'Seven steps', 'Resurrection blues (Tutu)', 'Wichita lineman', 'Shelter from the storm', 'Only a dream in Rio', 'Waters of March', 'Time after time', 'Fragile', 'Lay, lady, lay', 'You go to my head' y 'Don´t explain'.Escuchar audio

Join the conversation as Doc and John talk sports, the canon of Scripture, and one thing they liked   0:00 Intro 3:40 Sports Update 18:03 The Canon of Scripture 40:13 This Day in Sports History 45:32 One Thing we Liked   Canon Resources: Roger Beckwith, The Old Testament Canon and the New Testament Church (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1985). Michael J. Kruger, Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books (Wheaton: Crossway, 2012). Michael J. Kruger, The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate (Wheaton: Crossway, 2013). Lay-level Kruger: https://learn.ligonier.org/series/new-testament-canon Exhaustive Kruger: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzytIUBlFDMN62nZiv6cPVBYoBaCPJjQM  

If you are struggling or ready to give up - know that Jesus has commissioned people all around the world to pray for you. He has commissioned His angels to help you because He sees your pain. Hold on a little longer - Jesus sees you. He hears you. He loves you. He is working. Lay your burdens, worries, frustrations, anger, and despair at His feet and trust in Him. He will turn your sorrow into JOY! Amen! Resources: https://www.nateandchristy.co/prophetic-words/dear-pioneers-dont-give-up-just-yet https://elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=33698 https://laurapotter.us/the-mindset-of-the-king/ https://elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=33767 https://standingonfaithtogether.com/blog/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where are you looking for honour? (Sermon Series on John) - Sunday, 16th August 2026[Episode 31 - Matthew Chapter 6 KJV]1. What is your treasure.Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:2. Earthly Treasure is temporary and fading.Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:3. Treasure in Heaven counts for Eternity and cant be taken.Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:4. Your Treasure affects your Heart.Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.5. Your Treasure affects your Vision.Matthew 6:22-23 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!6. Your Treasure affects you will.Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:19[19]Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

The Gospel is a practical continuation of last week's way-of-the-cross language. If we are going to follow Jesus together, how do we handle it when we hurt each other? Matthew 18 gives us one of the most concrete passages in the New Testament about how a Christian community handles conflict — a text often preached badly and often skipped altogether.Track One brings us the institution of Passover — the community meal that will define God's people, remembered forever. Track Two brings us Ezekiel as watchman — the prophet made responsible to warn, but not responsible for the response. The Epistle gives us the ethical grounding for all of it: owe no one anything except love, for love is the fulfillment of the law.For preachers continuing a series: last week we heard about taking up the cross and following. This week, the road brings us into a specific and hard question — what does following look like when the person following alongside us has hurt us?Photo curated by Unsplash.comThe ReadingsExodus 12:1–14First Reading (Track One) — Passover InstitutedSummaryGod gives Moses and Aaron detailed instructions for a meal — one that will mark a whole new calendar, and one that will be remembered for generations. Each household takes a year-old lamb without blemish, keeps it until the fourteenth of the month, and then slaughters it at twilight. The blood is put on the doorposts and lintel. The lamb is roasted whole, eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and the family eats in haste — dressed to travel, sandals on their feet, staff in hand. It is the Passover of the Lord. And this night is to be remembered as a festival forever.Key Ideas for Preaching* The instructions are elaborate and detailed — a whole liturgy for a meal. Israel's freedom will begin with a shared table and a specific practice of remembering. Where in your congregation has the shared table been reduced to a formality, and how might this text restore its weight?* The lamb is to be shared — if your household is too small, join with a neighbor. Even the meal of deliverance requires community. What might it mean for your people to hear that no one is meant to eat this meal alone?* The meal is eaten “in haste, ready to travel.” This is not a celebration of arrival but a meal for the road. God's people are being fed for a journey they have not yet made. Where in your congregation has faith been imagined as arrival, when the biblical picture is more often provision for the road?* Jesus will later use this meal as the frame for his own last supper with his disciples. Christian preachers should honor both readings — the meal as it is celebrated by our Jewish neighbors, and the meal as it has shaped the Christian eucharist — without letting the second erase the first.Significant Cautions* Do not preach the Passover in a way that reduces its meaning for Jewish communities who continue to celebrate it. The Christian tradition of reading Jesus into this meal is real, but it does not replace the meal's own meaning.* The tenth plague, which frames this text, involves the death of every firstborn in Egypt. Do not skip this or celebrate it. It is a hard, painful part of the story that deserves acknowledgment rather than triumphalism.Psalm 149The Psalm (Track One) — The Lord Takes Pleasure in His PeopleSummaryA short psalm of praise for the community of the faithful. Sing a new song. Praise God in the assembly. Let the faithful dance and rejoice, for the Lord takes pleasure in his people and adorns the humble with victory. The closing verses take a sharp turn toward warfare — a two-edged sword, vengeance on the nations, binding kings — that has troubled Christian readers for centuries.Key Ideas for Preaching* “The Lord takes pleasure in his people.” That is one of the most tender lines in the psalter — God as a delighted parent, not a distant judge. Where has your congregation quietly assumed God's default posture toward them was disappointment?* “He adorns the humble with victory.” The word for adorn is not the language of grim reward — it is the language of dressing up, decorating, honoring. God does not merely permit the humble to succeed; God delights in decking them out. What might your sermon do with a God whose delight in the humble is that concrete?Significant Cautions* The closing verses about the two-edged sword and executing vengeance have been used in some of the worst chapters of Christian history — to justify religious violence, crusades, and colonial conquest. Do not preach the joyful opening without acknowledging what the closing verses have done in the world.Ezekiel 33:7–11First Reading (Track Two) — The WatchmanSummaryGod appoints Ezekiel as a watchman for the house of Israel. He is to warn the wicked when he hears God's word — and if he fails to warn them and they die in their iniquity, their blood will be on his hands. But if he warns them and they refuse to turn, he has done his duty. The passage ends with a striking word from God: “As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their ways and live. Turn back, turn back... why will you die, O house of Israel?”Key Ideas for Preaching* The watchman is responsible to warn, not responsible for the response. That is a distinction many faithful people have not been given. Where in your congregation are people carrying the weight of outcomes that were never theirs to control?* “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from their ways and live.” That is God's own posture. The God we serve is not eager for judgment; God is longing for return. Where in your congregation has God been imagined as more eager to judge than the text actually depicts?* The plea “why will you die?” is the heart of this passage. It is not the voice of a wrathful judge; it is the voice of a heartbroken parent. What might it look like to preach a God who genuinely does not want the people God loves to be destroyed?Significant Cautions* The watchman role has been used throughout Christian history to justify harsh, aggressive, and self-righteous confrontation. That is a distortion. Ezekiel is not being given license to browbeat; he is being given a solemn responsibility of loving witness.* The “blood on your hands” language is meant to weigh on the prophet, not to be used to weigh on ordinary Christians who are silent for good reasons. Be careful.Psalm 119:33–40The Psalm (Track Two) — Turn My Eyes from VanitiesSummaryAnother section of the long acrostic psalm on God's word. The psalmist prays to be taught God's statutes, given understanding to keep them, turned from vanities, and given life. The prayer is not that God's law be made easy but that the psalmist be shaped to receive it.Key Ideas for Preaching* “Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; give me life in your ways.” That is a beautiful pairing — asking to be turned from what wastes attention and asking, in the same breath, for life. Where in your congregation are people whose eyes have been captured by vanities they cannot easily look away from?* Every verb in this section is a request. The psalmist is not boasting about his obedience; he is asking to be made able to obey. What might it look like to preach a faith that begins with asking, not with claiming?Significant Cautions* The psalm's love for God's law is not legalism. Do not preach against a strawman the psalm never sets up.Romans 13:8–14The Epistle — Love Fulfills the LawSummaryPaul turns to specific ethical instruction. Owe no one anything except the debt to love one another — for the one who loves fulfills the law. The commandments — do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet — are all summed up in one word: love your neighbor as yourself. Then Paul shifts key. You know what time it is, he says. The night is far gone; the day is near. Wake from sleep. Lay aside the works of darkness. Put on the armor of light. Live honorably as in the day. And put on the Lord Jesus Christ.Key Ideas for Preaching* “Owe no one anything except to love one another.” Paul frames love as a debt that cannot be paid off — it is owed continually, freshly, to every neighbor. Where has your congregation quietly imagined love as a finite currency, when Paul describes it as a debt you carry always?* Love, Paul says, is the fulfillment of the law. Not its opposite. Not its softening. Its fulfillment. What does it mean for your sermon to hold together the demands of Christian ethics and the primacy of love, without letting one erase the other?* “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ” is one of the most striking phrases in Paul. He treats Christ like a garment we put on each morning. Where in your congregation might people be helped by the practice of consciously beginning the day this way?Significant Cautions* “The night is far gone, the day is near” has been misused as fuel for end-times prediction. Paul is describing a posture of expectant readiness, not a timetable.* The love-fulfills-the-law language has been used to argue against Christian ethical seriousness — “as long as we love, anything goes.” That is not Paul's argument. He names the specific commandments and says love is what actually makes them possible.Matthew 18:15–20The Gospel — If Your Brother Sins Against YouSummaryJesus gives his disciples a specific process for handling harm within the community. If a member sins against you, go first alone and speak with them privately. If they will not listen, take one or two others as witnesses. If they still will not listen, tell the church. And if they still refuse, treat them as a Gentile and a tax collector. Then Jesus repeats the binding and loosing language he gave Peter two chapters ago — but now given to the whole community. And he closes with a promise that has become one of the most quoted verses in the New Testament: “Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”Key Ideas for Preaching* Jesus takes it as a given that members of the community will hurt each other. He does not offer a formula for avoiding conflict; he offers a process for handling it faithfully. Where in your congregation has the desire to avoid conflict been mistaken for the practice of peace?* The process starts private. Alone. One-on-one. Not a public accusation. Not a group text. Not a whispered campaign. The person who has been hurt is asked to go to the person who hurt them, face to face. What would your congregation look like if this were the default rather than the exception?* “Treat them as a Gentile and a tax collector” is one of the most misinterpreted lines in the Gospels. Matthew's Jesus eats with Gentiles and tax collectors constantly. He calls a tax collector to be his disciple. The instruction is not “shun them” — it is closer to “regard them as one who is still being invited in.” What might your sermon do with the possibility that this passage is not about excommunication but about the persistence of love?* “Where two or three are gathered in my name” is almost always quoted as a promise for small groups, retreats, and prayer meetings. In context, it is the promise that Christ is present in the community's hardest work — its discernment about hurt and reconciliation. What might it change to hear this verse in its actual context?Significant Cautions* The whole passage has been used throughout Christian history to justify shunning, excommunication, church trials, and harsh discipline. Jesus is not endorsing any of that. The process he outlines is designed to protect the offender's dignity at every step, keeping the circle as small as possible for as long as possible.* The “two or three gathered” verse has been so thoroughly severed from its context that many congregations have never heard it in the passage where it actually appears. If you can restore that connection, do.* Do not use this passage to force conflict-avoidant congregations into confrontation they are not ready for. The text describes what a mature community's process should look like; it does not weaponize confrontation for its own sake.Thematic ConnectionsThe Gospel is the natural center — a specific, practical passage about how a following community handles its own harm.On Track One, Passover pairs with the Gospel in a specific way. Both texts are about how a community holds itself together — one through a shared meal remembered across generations, the other through a shared process for repair. Both assume the community is worth preserving, and that preservation requires practice.On Track Two, Ezekiel's watchman pairs directly with the Gospel's opening instruction to go and tell your brother. Both texts insist that loving witness includes the willingness to speak. And both temper that responsibility with a limit — the watchman is not accountable for the response, and neither is the disciple in Matthew 18.Romans 13 gives us the ground under all of it. Owe no one anything except love. If love is genuinely the fulfillment of the law, then the Matthew process is not a code of church discipline; it is what love looks like when it refuses to give up on someone.For preachers continuing a series: last week's “get behind me” was about following. This week's passage is about what happens when the ones following alongside us hurt us. Next week will bring the parable of the unforgiving servant — a continuation of the same Matthew 18 arc on community life. This is a public episode. 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What do you do on the morning when there are no good moves left?In March 2001, Ben Horowitz took Loudcloud public in the middle of the dot-com collapse. The bankers cut the price from ten dollars a share to six in the week of the offering. The day before the deal, Yahoo announced its chief executive was stepping down. Neither of the two banks that took the company public offered the traditional closing dinner. On the plane home, Horowitz turned to his director of finance and said they had done it. The reply was that the company was still in very serious trouble.He was right. What followed was a share price of thirty-five cents, three rounds of layoffs, four hundred people gone, and business magazines running cover stories on the collapse.Six years later the same company sold to Hewlett-Packard for 1.6 billion dollars.The distance between those two moments is The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and it is the rare book about building companies written from inside repeated near-death rather than reconstructed afterwards from the winner's chair.[AFFILIATE LINK TO THE BOOK]Horowitz opens by attacking the genre he is writing in. Most management books offer a recipe. He argues that the situations which decide a company have no recipe, and that hunting for one is itself the failure. He then organises the book around that claim, putting the endgame material first, and explains the choice by quoting the first principle of the Bushido: keep death in mind at all times.Part one of this review covers the three lessons that belong together.The Struggle. Horowitz names the psychological state every founder recognises and almost nobody describes out loud, and then refuses to sell a way out of it. What he offers instead is a set of survival habits and one instruction: find the move.CEOs should tell it like it is. Shielding a team from bad news feels like leadership and works like sabotage. Trust is communication bandwidth. A brain cannot solve a problem it does not know about. And a healthy culture is one where bad news travels faster than good news.Lay people off yourself. The hardest act in the book, executed as a written procedure rather than improvised on the day. Why the manager has to do it rather than HR, why a layoff and a performance firing are two different acts that companies constantly blur, and why the message is always for the people who stay.Along the way: what Jensen Huang at Nvidia and Roland Busch at Siemens have in common, why Dale Carnegie's most famous principle has aged into something he never intended, and where Reed Hastings and Ben Horowitz disagree about what you owe the person you are letting go.This is a practical review for founders, CEOs, board members, investors and senior executives who build or finance hard companies, particularly in deep tech and life sciences, where the conditions Horowitz calls wartime are the default rather than the exception.Part two covers the remaining four lessons: wartime and peacetime leadership, the two halves of the chief executive's job and the half where founders reliably come apart, why the impressive executive you hire out of a large company so often produces nothing, and the rule about raising money that changes what a rejection means.Chapters(00:00) Introduction: The Least Celebratory IPO in History (02:26) The Big Idea: Keep Death in Mind at All Times (04:16) Who Is Ben Horowitz, and Why Trust Him (08:55) Lesson 1: The Struggle, and Why No Formula Exists (20:37) Lesson 2: CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is, and Why Trust Is Bandwidth (32:26) Lesson 3: Lay People Off Yourself, Because the Message Is for the People Who Stay (45:21) What Comes in Part TwoSend us Fan Mail Join Christian Soschner for expert coaching. 50% Off - With 35+ years in deep tech, startups/scaleups, and public companies, Christian offers power video sessions. Elevate strategy, execution, and leadership. Book Now.Support the showJoin the Podcast Newsletter: Link

Joshua Friedlander — also known as The Jam Man — is the founder of Jam by Josh, a Cleveland-based small-batch jam company he started at just 10 years old.What began as a childhood love of cooking, gardening, and canning has grown from a backyard hobby into a formidable and rapidly expanding food brand, now sold in more than 75 stores across Northeast Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and beyond. At 16, Josh has taken Jam by Josh from his home kitchen to grocery shelves national wide.In our conversation, Josh and I talk about the origins of Jam by Josh, learning to sell through trial and error, what it takes to earn trust as a young founder, the persistence required to turn rejection into progress, scaling a food business, building a brand that makes jam feel fresh and exciting again, and what Cleveland has meant to his journey.Josh is the youngest guest we've had on Lay of The Land, and this was a genuinely inspiring conversation about bravery, persistence, and starting before you feel ready. Please enjoy my conversation with Joshua Friedlander.-----LINKS:https://jambyjoshcle.com/-----SPONSOR:Cerity PartnersCerity Partners, a full-service investment and wealth management firm serving high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners, is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. The firm has local roots in Cleveland and across Ohio, and like this podcast, Cerity Partners advisors specialize in serving the interests of local entrepreneurs and business leaders. The firm's national presence means it can offer the resources and specialized knowledge of the largest institutions with the independence and service of a neighbor. The Cerity Partners Cleveland team understands the complexity that comes with wealth, and they adhere to fiduciary standards. Discover the financial lay of your land.Learn more at https://ceritypartners.com/NPR or call 216-464-6266.Roundstone InsuranceRoundstone Insurance is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. Founder and CEO, Michael Schroeder, has committed full-year support for the podcast, recognizing its alignment with the company's passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and community leadership.Headquartered in Rocky River, Ohio, Roundstone was founded in 2005 with a vision to deliver better healthcare outcomes at a more affordable cost. Over the past two decades, Roundstone has grown rapidly, creating nearly 200 jobs in Northeast Ohio. The company works closely with employers and benefits advisors to navigate the complexities of commercial health insurance and build custom plans that prioritize employee well-being over shareholder returns. By focusing on aligned incentives and better health outcomes, Roundstone is helping businesses save thousands in Per Employee Per Year healthcare costs. Roundstone Insurance — Built for entrepreneurs. Backed by innovation. Committed to Cleveland.Learn more at https://roundstoneinsurance.com/-----Stay up to date by signing up for Lay of The Land's weekly newsletter — sign up here: https://layoftheland.ck.page/5f0c1e28faConnect with Jeffrey Stern on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreypstern/Follow Lay of The Land on X @podlayofthelandhttps://www.jeffreys.page/

Fresh off the first Cascadia Men's Conference, I'm pleased to share my first long-form podcast episode in some months. Right now, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is storming around the world, a $1.3 billion phenomenon that has returned one of humanity's oldest stories to the center of our cultural conversation.My guest today is a man who has been steeping in this epic for years. Phil Cousineau is the author of newly published ‘The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-four Life Lessons from Homer's Epic' and more than forty other books, including the bestselling The Art of Pilgrimage and The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work. He is a writer, teacher, and storyteller who has consulted on myth and story for Warner Brothers, Pixar, and Lucasfilm, led mythology travel programs to Greece for more than three decades, and hosted the PBS television series Global Spirit.In our conversation, Phil invites us to look at why The Odyssey has risen once again. He suggests the epic poem is Western culture's first articulated case of PTSD and the consequence of war and conquest. We speak of the women who guide Odysseus back to himself, the terror of crossing your own threshold after twenty years away, and what it means when love rather than fame becomes the gravity that pulls a man home.Phil reminds us that the Odyssey is everybody's story, and the courage required to bend down and kiss the earth in gratitude for the chance to begin again.Here in full is the Rumi poem I reference (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)LOVE, YOUR waters, your melodieswhirl me and whirl me.I'm the wheel in a mill.Whirl me forever.When my heart is troubled,when my heart has fled,keep me close.No branch, no leaf, no piece of straw drawn to amberwill move without a breeze.Unless desire stirs it, nothing in this world will dance.Every element, every particle of every elementis a whirling lover, drunk on union.The generous host lays out a feast.Animals graze the sweet grass.Didn't the ants tell secrets to Solomon?Didn't the mountains singwhen David sang his songs of praise?The sky is your lover.Lay your head on its peaceful chest.The sun is your lover. Drink its light.Love moves through every mountain and field.How else would green grow from earth's dark body?LINKS * Phil Cousineau - Official Website* The Wisdom of the Odyessy - BookHeads up, if you are a man seeking to explore the mythopoetic path, you are invited to check out The Archetypal Compass. This mini-guide is designed to help you navigate the internal archetypes of the soul, providing a map for those ready to move beyond personal inquiry and toward a more conscious stewardship of their lives and the world.Also, the next cohort of The Deep Masculine, my 3 month online journey for men begins Sept 20th. Join a mythic brotherhood aimed at re-patterning your relationship to sex, soul and purpose.SHOW NOTES00:04 — Quebec and Detroit Roots: Phil traces his ancestry to Jean Baptiste Cousineau, one of the nine founding families of Montreal, and his mythic upbringing in Detroit.00:06 — A Family of Readers: Growing up reading Homer, Grimm, and Canadian folk tales aloud together, and the inherited practice of read, pilgrimage, and the Long Conversation.00:10 — The Odyssey Sketched: A whirlwind through the enchantment at Olympus, the judgment of Paris, Helen, and the 1,156 ships sailing for Troy.00:16 — The First Documented PTSD: Why Odysseus is arguably history's first case of post-traumatic stress, and why a soldier cannot go straight home from war.00:22 — The Bard Scene: On the island of Phaeacia, when Odysseus hears his story sung, takes it back, and the healing begins.00:25 — Why Myths Rise Again: James Baldwin on reading as the antidote to unprecedented pain, and why myths that never happened are always happening.00:33 — The Masculine Arc: From the hunger for kleos (glory) to being pulled home by eros (love), and the grief of men who have achieved everything yet feel lost.00:39 — Polytropos: What it means that Odysseus is "many-turning" — the colossal, radical act of a man capable of changing his mind.00:42 — The Six Women: How Athena, Calypso, Circe, Nausicaa, Eurycleia, and Penelope guide Odysseus home, making the epic the world's first romance.00:46 — Achilles in the Underworld: The axis mundi where glory confronts the choice for one more day of sunshine over eternal fame.00:52 — Gratitude and Kissing the Earth: On Rumi, Coleman Barks, and Odysseus bending down to kiss the beach as literature's first grateful male hero.00:56 — The Beggar's Return: Odysseus comes home not in triumph but humbled, bent, and listening — a diminishment that is actually a deepening.01:06 — Nolan's Ending vs. the Greek Original: Why sailing away into the sunset is American Western mythology, not a Greek ending, and what the film sacrifices.01:10 — Talking Until Dawn: Penelope's fierce "My heart can take it" and the moment husband and wife talk and listen to each other until dawn.01:13 — The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Phil's new book, recommended translations by Lattimore and Emily Wilson, and upcoming mythology tours to Greece. 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The Point Was Never the Lineage: A Call to Deliver What Only You Can Bring We're sent to a place to change it and make it match our culture. Which means at certain points you have to put aside the culture that you were given for the one that heaven gives you.Heaven never sabotages a human being. The events of our lives, even those that appear devastating, are designed to empower the soul.Yet, most of us spend our lives trapped on the ground floor, letting our lineage act as a ceiling. We treat ancestry, conditioning, and our original environment as the permanent walls of who we are. From that low vantage point, every hardship feels like a personal injustice.But consciousness has many mansions. Shifting to a higher floor means realizing that life is a series of experiences designed for your expansion, not a trap set by your past.To see what living entirely free of a baseline looks like, we have to look past lineage altogether. This brings us to the archetype of Melchizedek. Walking onto the ancient page with no father, no mother, and no recorded genealogy, Melchizedek represents a consciousness untouched by an origin story. He is the ultimate expression of the penthouse view—proof that you can step completely outside the architectural blueprint you were handed and claim a wholly sovereign reality.He appears in Genesis 14:18-20, brings bread and wine, blesses Abraham, and disappears. In a text obsessed with family trees and pedigrees, that deliberate absence is the loudest detail. It tells you something crucial: your authority doesn't have to come from your lineage. It can come from who you are in this moment, standing in unbroken connection to the Source.He wasn't just a king who blessed people or a priest who led. He held both capacities at once, fully integrated. That's the architecture of self-mastery—and it's available to you the moment you step outside the temporary lines you were born into.What His Name Actually Tells YouMelchizedek comes from two Hebrew roots: Melech, meaning king, and Zedek, meaning righteous. King of Righteousness. That's not just a title. It's a description of the operating system.Kingly authority is the outer capacity: leadership, boundary-setting, stewarding resources, making decisions, protecting the mission.Priestly authority is the inner capacity: self-awareness, processing difficult emotional material, navigating your inner landscape, staying aligned with something greater than the urgent noise at the surface.Most of us are lopsided. We either execute well but internally burn out, or we stay spiritually centered but never produce anything tangible. The Melchizedek model is the integration of both—attending to the visible and invisible realms at the same time, without outsourcing your worth to either one.The priesthood of Melchizedek is described as eternal, distinct from temporary systems. Other orders are tied to tribes, structures, chains of inheritance. This one is tied to something else entirely: the character and continuous inner union of the person standing in it. No expiration date. No dependence on human appointment.The Practical Invitation: From Survival to OverflowStrip away the religious packaging, and here's the truth: you're invited to stop living as a product of your past and start living as the author of your future.This means something specific: you stop worrying about survival even when circumstances are challenging, and you start receiving the Royal family's overflow.Think about it. Most of us are in perpetual defense mode. We're protecting ourselves against scarcity, anxiety, and the fear that we won't have enough. But what if your identity shifted? What if you understood yourself not as someone trying to scrape by, but as a child of the Most High—someone with access to infinite resources?That means moving from a life of earthly limitations—constant exhaustion, desperate need for validation, survival-mode reactions—into what we might call multi-dimensional functioning. You become the kind of person whose inner alignment with the Divine is so complete that your outer actions flow naturally from it.You stop hustling to prove yourself and start producing from overflow.The goal isn't just doing better. It's becoming a complete expression of the Source you're connected to, so that your presence alone shifts the room. (That's the framework most people are missing.)Why God Grants You Access to Kingdom Wealth and AbundanceWe want God to show up. We want the kingdom to invade our earth. We want resources to appear. But we're not actually agreeing to anything. We're standing at the buffet saying “I want that” without getting in line.This isn't about luck or wishful thinking. There are three foundational reasons why you deserve—and are designed to receive—Kingdom wealth and abundance:1. To live a comfortable life.God is not against your prosperity. He wants you living comfortably while you serve Him. Rest, provision, peace—these are not luxuries reserved for someone else. They're your inheritance.2. To advance the Kingdom of God.If you're financially incapacitated, you're spiritually handicapped. You can't do much for the Kingdom when you're in survival mode. Wealth removes the barrier between your calling and your execution.3. To be a blessing to the world in a practical, definite way.(See Genesis 12:3.) Your abundance isn't for hoarding—it's for circulation. It flows through you to those around you. But here's the thing: your motivation for accessing wealth must be purified by these revelations. It's not about status or ego. It's about capacity to serve.What You're Actually Here to DeliverYou weren't created just to make a living and keep the bills away. That's survival, not purpose.That business, book, movement, healing practice, or unlikely project only you could've dreamed up? It's not a coincidence. It's something planted in you before you had words for it. An idea is a kind of pregnancy—it gestates in your mind and heart until it can't be hidden anymore.Your job is straightforward: conceive it, believe it, protect it, and when the time is right—push.This isn't just inspirational talk. Research published in JAMA followed thousands of adults over fifty and found that a sense of purpose was linked to a 15% lower risk of death over eight years. Purpose isn't a luxury. It's a survival instinct. People who stop carrying something die long before their bodies catch up.Thomas Edison understood this:“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”Successful people have one secret: they refuse to quit. Postpone failure long enough, and it becomes success.Understanding What Increase Actually MeansHere's where most people get stuck: they confuse increase with just “having more.” It's not that simple.Increase is a multi-dimensional process of becoming progressively greater. It's not merely about accumulation. It's about growth in four key areas:Size: Expansion in your personal reach or physical domain. Your influence grows.Volume: Greater capacity to hold or handle resources. You're not just getting more—you're becoming larger to contain more.Number: Multiplication of your results or influence. Your impact compounds.Intensity: Increasing the power, passion, and effectiveness of your work. You're not just busier; you're more potent.Notice something? Increase isn't random. It's not a product of luck. It's a law-governed outcome. Just as physical laws govern the earth, Kingdom mysteries govern spiritual progress. To experience this, you must shift your mindset from mere desire to active engagement with these laws.The 5 Keys to Sustained IncreaseIf you want increase to actually stick—to become part of your permanent reality and not just a temporary spike—these five keys are non-negotiable:1. Connection with Holy SpiritThis is the foundation. Like a branch connected to a vine, your fruitfulness depends entirely on the health of your intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Everything flows from this relationship. Cut the connection, and nothing else matters.2. KnowledgeIgnorance is the primary barrier to progress. You must pursue distilled knowledge—not just the technical skills of your field, but the spiritual laws that govern success. Honor. Diligence. Stewardship. These aren't optional. They're the operating system beneath everything.3. DutifulnessThe quality of living out our duties or tasks with care and loyalty.4. FaithfulnessGod tests your ability to handle small assignments before trusting you with greater ones. If you are not faithful with what you currently have, you cannot expect an increase. Small is the training ground for large.5. ThanksgivingGratitude is a powerful act of faith. By refusing to complain and instead praising God for the present, you keep the atmosphere of your life open to supernatural intervention. You literally create the conditions for more.Mary: A Study in Real ExecutionThe best real-world case study is Mary. Let's keep it practical.First, the call interrupts your plans. She was engaged, and suddenly the biggest assignment in human history landed on her calendar. When purpose shows up, it won't always fit neatly into your five-year plan. That's not a problem. That's the signal.Second, you'll feel like a virgin. Meaning: you've never done this before. It will scare you. That's confirmation you're in over your head—which is exactly where you need to be.Third, you need backup. The first thing Mary did was go to Elizabeth, another woman carrying an impossible miracle. Find people who already believe crazy things can happen. Hang around dreamers, and your own vision starts leaping.Fourth, protect it. Mary and Joseph hid the child from Herod. There's a season to share the vision and a season to strengthen it. Not everyone who says “amen” is safe. Let them earn your trust.Fifth, say yes and move. Mary's response was simply: “Let it be done to me as you have said.” Then she got up and went. Indecision is still a decision—usually the wrong one.The Law of HarvestHere's what most people miss: everything you receive from God often arrives in seed form. The increase you desire is a harvest that requires you to sow.This includes sowing acts of love, seeds of kindness, and seeds of diligence. You must act as a farmer—consistently planting the qualities you wish to see manifest in your life. You can't harvest what you didn't plant. And you can't plant what you're not willing to become.Integrating the King-Priest WithinNow bring the two halves together.Operating as a fully integrated person means dissolving the artificial barrier between your outer work and your inner awareness. You're not a spiritual being on Sundays and a steely operator on weekdays. Those two selves merge into one.King mode is the outer work: setting boundaries, making hard calls, building systems, stewarding resources, protecting the mission.Priest mode is the inner work: stillness, self-awareness, processing the pain you keep avoiding, staying connected to the Source.When these two merge, your daily decisions stop being reactions. You stop needing an outside mediator, a temporary title, or a prestigious lineage to validate your worth. You move through life with continuous, self-authored authority.Melchizedek didn't need a pedigree because his identity was anchored in something eternal. That's the whole point: you stop letting where you came from dictate where you're capable of going.The Tipping PointTo step fully into your calling, you must embrace your true identity: you are offspring of the Most High, seated in heavenly places, operating within the order of Melchizedek. You function simultaneously as priest and king—knowing the heart of the Father and bringing His will to earth. When you speak, you're not just sharing opinions; you're collapsing possibilities into reality. That's the weight you carry.It doesn't take equal numbers to tip the balance. t takes enough awakened ones—each carrying their assignment—to provide the momentum for breakthrough.You were born for such a time as this. Not to survive it. Not to post about it. But to deliver what you were born to bring.Now GoStop waiting for perfect conditions. Make the call ruthlessly.* Cut the circle that's killing your vision.* Lay down the need to control the timeline.* Stay patient through the messy middle.* And when the moment arrives—push.The world has been waiting for what you carry. Not for who you were. For who you're becoming.Now go deliver it.Love, KassandraThe Light Between is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelightbetween.substack.com/subscribe

Today on KSL Brightside, we're breaking down NOAA's brand-new fall forecast for all 50 states. A "super" El Niño is building fast — forecasters now say there's a greater than 90% chance it'll be very strong — and we'll talk about what that means for Utah's fall and winter ahead. Plus, there's a heat advisory in effect today, so stay cool out there. Oh, and did you catch that landspout photo? Then — Lay's just dropped a new Barbecue Brisket chip flavor right in time for football season. We're taste-testing first world problems and asking: What's your go-to football-watching snack? In drone delivery news, Amazon just announced it's expanding Prime Air to nearly 500 U.S. cities(not in Utah), but Salt Lake City is next up for Walmart drone delivery — and one Texas woman's Amazon drone decided her swimming pool was the perfect landing zone.  And we're ending on a feel-good note: Brewers prospect Sawyer Strosnider crushed his first pro home run… and his dad caught the ball in the stands.    KSL Brightside streams live weekdays 12–3 PM. Watch the YouTube-exclusive live stream from 12–1 PM, then catch us on radio and YouTube from 1–3 PM.   Follow KSL Brightside on social media! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KSLBrightside Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KSLBrightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/KSL_Brightside TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ksl.brightside

From a floral prompt, a daring caper blossoms. This week your Nice Hosts answer the question: How many flowers to you have to eat to pull off a heist?Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure - Board Game GeekClue: The Great Museum Caper - Board Game GeekThe game board for Clue: The Great Museum CaperOur spreadsheet of Flowers, Powers, and Barriers.PromptCreate a game about flowers. The flowers may give you powers (regular or super) or may become animated when they are in full bloom. An example of a regular power is power of attorney or a driver's license and example of a superpower is invisibility.Game typeTabletop gameMaterialsGame boardThief meeplesBarrier cardsFlower tokensFlower combination legendFlower box containersAbility tracker"a one-to-one scale replica of a particularly rare flower completely made of precious metals and gems"SetupLay out the boardPlace the "one-to-one scale replica of a particularly rare flower completely made of precious metals and gems" in the center chamberDistribute flower tokensShuffle flower tokens in a bagAdd flower tokens to flower boxes without looking at them Place the boxes on the marked spaces on the boardDistribute the remaining flower tokens around the flower patches marked on the boardPlace barriersShuffle barrier cardsFor each marked space on the board, draw a barrier card and place it on the spacePlayer setupChoose a thief meepleTake a flower combination legendTake an ability trackerRulesPlayers are thieves after the same jeweled flower in the center of the board  Players must gather different flowers to give them the ability to get through the board/mazeGoal is to get through to the center of the maze-like building firstPlayers navigate to get the different flowers Combinations of flowers give you new abilities (either mundane or super-powered)Players may only have 3 active abilities at a time (if you get a new one, the first one gets pushed out)Could be places or a power that allows you to remove all of your powersPlayers need to get these powers to get through barriers in the game Barriers can be gotten through by various means (2 or 3, minimum 1)On the board there are places where flowers grow (distributed fairly) (tokens of a color/image) Some places have flower boxes, and they'd give you a random flowerMore of the flower boxes in the center of the boardIf someone gets to the center, they win, but the others now want to try and get them caught (so they can now win) Players create new barriers for the winning one to keep them from being able to get out

Sometimes the greatest obstacle in our walk with God is not something we need to gain, but something we need to let go. In “Cast it Aside,” Pastor Tommy Boring challenges believers from Hebrews 12:1-3 to identify the weights and sins that hinder their spiritual race and to lay them aside so they can run with patience and keep their eyes on Jesus. Hebrews 12 points us to the “great cloud of witnesses” described throughout Hebrews 11. Men and women such as Abel, Abraham, Moses, and Rahab believed God even when circumstances seemed impossible. Their faith reminds us that victory does not require carrying unnecessary burdens. It requires trusting God and continuing forward. Pastor Boring emphasizes the difference between sin and weight. Sin must be confessed, repented of, and forsaken, but there are also weights that may not necessarily be sinful yet still hinder our walk with God. These burdens can steal our peace, joy, spiritual strength, and effectiveness. God wants us to recognize them and cast them on Him because He cares for us. The message examines some of the weights identified in 1 John 2:16, including the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life. Pride can produce anger, unforgiveness, bitterness, and self-exaltation. The lust of the eyes can lead to envy, jealousy, discontentment, and covetousness. The lust of the flesh can pull us toward ungodliness and unrighteousness. Each one can slow us down in the race God has called us to run. The sermon also addresses burdens that can come through physical problems, difficult circumstances, relationships, work, aging, and the problems of others. Even when certain circumstances cannot immediately be changed, we do not have to allow them to become weights that control our hearts. Pastor Boring points to the Apostle Paul, who endured tremendous suffering while continuing to serve God. Paul learned contentment instead of allowing his hardships to stop his race. Another important warning is that complaining can become a weight. Difficult people and unpleasant circumstances may remain, but believers are challenged to choose whether they will allow those situations to steal their joy and effectiveness. Ultimately, laying aside our weights is a daily decision. We may find ourselves picking up the same burdens again and again, but God’s invitation remains the same: cast it on Him. He is able to carry what we cannot. The message calls us to examine our hearts honestly, identify whatever is slowing us down, and surrender it to God. Instead of simply hearing the Word, we are challenged to become doers of the Word. Lay aside the sin. Lay aside the pride. Lay aside the fear, frustration, bitterness, and burdens that keep us from running well. Most importantly, look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. He endured the cross and despised the shame for the joy that was set before Him. When we keep our eyes on Christ and cast aside what hinders us, we can continue running the race God has placed before us.

Lay a new core over a broken process, and the process just runs faster. Darius Wise told his staff the credit union was not good at what it did. Red Rocks was coming off two years of net losses, a core conversion was underway, a merger had just fallen apart, and the board was turning over. Darius spent two decades as a pastor before financial services. He joined Red Rocks as Chief Impact Officer, took the interim CEO seat during the worst of it, and returned the credit union to profitability within 11 months. In this episode, we talk about what that took. Exiting a merger after staff had already been told about it, and the trust that cost. The layoffs. The habit of softening hard news that he had to unlearn in his first month. Why he'd rather be respected than liked. And the thing he wants every institution buying its way out of trouble to hear: new technology on top of bad people and bad process only lets you do bad faster. We also get into the board he inherited, the reverse mentoring that changed it, why he's building branches while others close them, and why he'd rather choose a merger partner than be chosen by one. Hosted by Jim Marous. Subscribe to Banking Transformed for new episodes multiple times each week.

# Genesis 12–23: The God Who Provides## SummaryGenesis 12–23 marks a major shift in the biblical story. God calls Abram into a personal relationship and promises him land, descendants, and a blessing that will reach all nations.Abraham responds in faith, but his journey is not perfect. He struggles with fear, makes poor decisions, and sometimes tries to accomplish God's promises in his own way. Still, God remains faithful.In Genesis 15, God confirms His covenant by passing alone through the divided animals, showing that the promise rests on His faithfulness, not Abraham's perfection.God eventually gives Abraham and Sarah the son He promised, Isaac. Then in Genesis 22, Abraham is tested when God asks him to offer Isaac. Abraham obeys, trusting God to provide. At the last moment, God provides a ram in Isaac's place, and Abraham names the place “The Lord Will Provide.”Abraham's story reminds us that God desires relationship with us, remains faithful through our failures, and provides even when we cannot see how.**Big Idea:** Trust God, obey Him, and believe that He will provide.## Sermon Notes### 1. God Calls Abraham**Genesis 12:1–3**God calls Abraham to leave everything familiar and follow Him into the unknown.**Key Principle:** God desires a relationship with you, not just religious activity.### 2. Abraham's Faith Is Imperfect**Genesis 12:10–20**Abraham trusts God, but fear still causes him to make bad decisions, including lying about Sarah.**Key Principle:** Your weaknesses do not automatically disqualify you from what God is calling you to do.### 3. Abraham Chooses Trust**Genesis 13:1–18**Abraham lets Lot choose the land first. Lot chooses by sight, while Abraham trusts God with what remains.**Key Principle:** Choose by trust, not simply by appearance.### 4. Abraham Rescues Lot**Genesis 14:1–24**Abraham rescues Lot, meets Melchizedek, gives him a tenth, and refuses the king of Sodom's wealth.**Key Principle:** Live in a way that makes God's faithfulness visible.### 5. God Makes a Covenant**Genesis 15:1–21**God promises Abraham descendants as numerous as the stars. God alone passes through the covenant pieces.**Key Principle:** God's promises depend on His faithfulness, not our perfection.### 6. Abraham Tries to Rush God's Plan**Genesis 16–17**Abraham and Sarah try to produce God's promise through Hagar. Their shortcut creates pain, but God does not abandon them.**Key Principle:** God's timing is better than our shortcuts.### 7. God Provides Isaac**Genesis 21**After years of waiting, Sarah gives birth to Isaac.**Key Principle:** Waiting does not mean God has forgotten.### 8. The Lord Will Provide**Genesis 22**God tests Abraham by asking him to offer Isaac. Abraham obeys, trusting that God will remain faithful.At the last moment, God provides a ram in Isaac's place. Abraham names the place “The Lord Will Provide.”This points forward to the greater sacrifice God would provide through Jesus.**Key Principle:** We can trust God's provision even when we cannot see it yet.## Practical Applications1. **Take the next step of obedience.** What is one thing God has been asking you to do?2. **Stop forcing God's timing.** Identify one area where you are trying to control the outcome and surrender it to Him.3. **Choose trust over appearances.** Make decisions based on God's character, not simply what looks easiest or best.4. **Give God the credit.** Recognize where He has provided, opened doors, or carried you.5. **Prioritize your relationship with God.** Set aside intentional time this week for prayer, Scripture, and worship.6. **Lay down what you are carrying.** Give God the fear, burden, or uncertainty you have been trying to manage yourself.## Discussion Questions1. Where do you see Abraham growing in trust throughout these chapters?2. In what area of your life is it hardest to trust God's timing?3. Have you ever tried to force something instead of waiting on God?4. What does Genesis 22 teach us about obedience and trust?5. Where have you seen God provide in an unexpected way?6. What is one practical step of obedience God may be asking you to take?7. What burden do you need to surrender to God this week?> **“The Lord will provide.” — Genesis 22:14**

David and Tim trace Matthew 20:17–28, where Jesus contrasts the disciples' pursuit of greatness with His own willingness to suffer, serve, and give His life as a ransom for many. Lay down the pursuit of prestige and recognition, and let the joy and grace of Jesus free you to serve others—not to earn God's approval, but because you have already received His love. 

Bowen and Finn Alexy are brothers, entrepreneurs, and investors based in Willoughby, Ohio. They serve as Co-Chief Operating Officers of Alexy Metals, a second-generation brazing alloy manufacturing and precious metals refining company, where they have helped lead the business through a period of significant growth while becoming the two youngest executives in their industry.Beyond manufacturing, they are the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of BowFin Capital, an early-stage venture investment platform focused on backing exceptional founders across healthcare, fintech, industrial technology, and consumer businesses. They became angel investors in a fast-growing New York City startup while still in their early twenties and are passionate about expanding access to entrepreneurship and early-stage investing.Finn and Bowen are the first brothers / dual recipients to ever receive Fast Track 50's Young Entrepreneur Award together, and recently became the first brothers in the 20-year history of the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club's Top 25 Under 35 list to be honored in the same class. Under their leadership, Alexy Metals was also recognized as Ohio Business Magazine's Most Innovative Ohio Company in 2025.Through both operating businesses and investing in the next generation of founders, they are working to build enduring companies in Ohio while helping inspire more young people to pursue entrepreneurship.00:00 Introduction to Bo and Finn Alexy and their business journey02:07 The importance of innovation in legacy industries03:02 The story of Alexi Metals and their industry niche07:28 Explaining brazing alloys and precious metal refining09:52 Innovating in an industry resistant to change14:32 Valuable insights in scrap and recycling16:45 Creating a circular economy in precious metals22:24 Growth opportunities and market expansion24:16 The role of technology and e-commerce27:33 Building in Northeast Ohio and community impact29:09 The origin of Bofin Capital and venture journey36:16 Lessons learned from early investments and trust-building40:01 Storytelling, narrative, and building brands45:24 Leadership lessons from parents and ambition50:48 Reflections on entrepreneurship and future goals53:26 The value of building publicly and inspiring others58:46 Closing thoughts and hidden gems in Cleveland-----LINKS:https://alexymetals.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/finnalexy/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bowenalexy/-----SPONSOR:Cerity PartnersCerity Partners, a full-service investment and wealth management firm serving high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners, is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. The firm has local roots in Cleveland and across Ohio, and like this podcast, Cerity Partners advisors specialize in serving the interests of local entrepreneurs and business leaders. The firm's national presence means it can offer the resources and specialized knowledge of the largest institutions with the independence and service of a neighbor. The Cerity Partners Cleveland team understands the complexity that comes with wealth, and they adhere to fiduciary standards. Discover the financial lay of your land.Learn more at https://ceritypartners.com/NPR or call 216-464-6266.Roundstone InsuranceRoundstone Insurance is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. Founder and CEO, Michael Schroeder, has committed full-year support for the podcast, recognizing its alignment with the company's passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and community leadership.Headquartered in Rocky River, Ohio, Roundstone was founded in 2005 with a vision to deliver better healthcare outcomes at a more affordable cost. Over the past two decades, Roundstone has grown rapidly, creating nearly 200 jobs in Northeast Ohio. The company works closely with employers and benefits advisors to navigate the complexities of commercial health insurance and build custom plans that prioritize employee well-being over shareholder returns. By focusing on aligned incentives and better health outcomes, Roundstone is helping businesses save thousands in Per Employee Per Year healthcare costs. Roundstone Insurance — Built for entrepreneurs. Backed by innovation. Committed to Cleveland.Learn more at https://roundstoneinsurance.com/-----Stay up to date by signing up for Lay of The Land's weekly newsletter — sign up here: https://layoftheland.ck.page/5f0c1e28faConnect with Jeffrey Stern on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreypstern/Follow Lay of The Land on X @podlayofthelandhttps://www.jeffreys.page/

1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative, 5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. 6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. 7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, 8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, 9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. 10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. 11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house. 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. 13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: 14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. 15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. 16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving. 19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey. 20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.” 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. 22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. 24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. 25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths, 26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol,* going down to the rooms of death. Listen Donate Subscribe: Proverbs Daily Podcast Psalms Daily Podcast

Episode OverviewIf you've been scheduled for a VA Compensation & Pension (C&P) exam for depression, you may be wondering what to expect. Many veterans feel anxious about the process, but understanding how the exam works can help you prepare.In this episode, we explain the purpose of a C&P exam for depression, what the examiner is evaluating, common questions you may be asked, and how your symptoms may affect your VA disability rating. We also discuss common mistakes veterans make before and during the examination.Topics CoveredWhat Is a C&P Exam? The purpose of a Compensation & Pension examination  Why the VA orders mental health C&P exams  Difference between diagnosis, nexus, and severity evaluations  Who performs the examination Conditions That May Be Evaluated Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)  Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)  Depression secondary to another service-connected disability  Depression related to chronic pain or physical limitations  Depression associated with military trauma or life events What the Examiner ReviewsThe examiner may review: Your VA claims file (if provided)  VA treatment records  Private mental health records  Service treatment records  Personnel records  Prior C&P examinations  Lay statements from you, family members, or friends Common Questions You May Be AskedThe examiner may ask about:Military History Your military service  Stressful experiences during service  Changes in behavior during service Mental Health Symptoms Depressed mood  Loss of interest or motivation  Anxiety  Irritability  Feelings of hopelessness  Guilt  Difficulty concentrating  Memory problems  Panic attacks  Emotional numbness Sleep Insomnia  Oversleeping  Nightmares  Fatigue Daily Functioning Personal hygiene  Household responsibilities  Ability to manage finances  Driving  Shopping  Cooking Employment Ability to work  Missed work  Conflicts with supervisors  Difficulty concentrating  Reduced productivity Relationships Marriage  Family interactions  Friendships  Social isolation Safety QuestionsThe examiner may ask about: Suicidal thoughts  Previous suicide attempts  Thoughts of self-harm  Homicidal thoughts These questions are a routine part of nearly every mental health examination.Mental Status ExaminationDuring nearly every mental health C&P exam, the examiner documents observations including: Appearance  Eye contact  Behavior  Speech  Mood  Affect  Thought processes  Memory  Attention  Judgment  Insight  Orientation  Concentration VA Rating ConsiderationsThe VA generally evaluates depression based on occupational and social impairment, rather than simply counting symptoms.Ratings commonly include:0%10%30%50%70%100%The overall severity of functional impairment is often more important than any single symptom.Tips Before Your ExamConsider the following: Be honest and accurate.  Describe your symptoms on your worst typical days—not your best day.  Do not exaggerate symptoms.  Do not minimize symptoms because of military culture or pride.  Answer the questions asked without trying to guess what the examiner wants to hear.  If you don't understand a question, ask for clarification.  If symptoms fluctuate, explain how often they occur and how severe they are. Common Mistakes Veterans Make Saying "I'm fine" out of habit  Downplaying symptoms  Forgetting to discuss how symptoms affect work and relationships  Assuming the examiner has already read every medical record  Focusing only on the diagnosis instead of discussing functional limitations  Trying to memorize answers instead of speaking honestly Can You Bring Evidence?Depending on the circumstances, you may bring: Medication lists  Recent treatment records  Private mental health evaluations  Symptom journals (if applicable) However, not every examiner will accept or review documents during the examination, so it's generally best to ensure important evidence is submitted to the VA as part of your claim.Key TakeawaysA C&P exam is not a therapy session or a treatment appointment. Its purpose is to gather information that helps the VA evaluate your claim. The examiner assesses your symptoms, reviews relevant records, and evaluates how your depression affects your occupational and social functioning.Being honest, specific, and prepared can help ensure the examination accurately reflects your condition.DisclaimerThis episode is for educational purposes only and is not legal or medical advice. Every VA disability claim is unique, and the outcome depends on the individual evidence in the record. If you have questions about your specific case, consider consulting an accredited VA representative or attorney.

In this episode of Back Lash Podcast, Jeff talks with Kevin Pischke of Lay in a Line Guide Service about musky fishing on Green Bay — current conditions, season timing, and how anglers are adapting after stocking changes. They cover gear and techniques (swimbaits, bucktails, trolling setups, KP leaders), launch and crowd issues, tips for finding fish among perch and weeds, and how to book a trip with Kevin.

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Are you waiting around for happiness to just appear, or are you actively hitting the "joy gym"? In this episode of Be It Till You See It, host Lesley Logan sits down with Amy, author of 101 Ways to Spread Joy, to unpack why joy is a practice, not a coincidence. Amy shares how she came through severe mental health challenges and social anxiety by learning to choose joy on purpose, take bold risks, and send a positive ripple out into the world. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free.In this episode you will learn about:Why spreading your own joy sends an invisible ripple outward.How to purposefully train yourself to learn to be joyful.Why your relationships are the top predictor of happiness.What it looks like to schedule the moments that fill your cup.Simple joys and the miracle walks Amy takes each morning.Episode References/Links:Amy Dickens Website - https://www.livejoyfullyyou.com101 Ways to Spread Joy - https://www.livejoyfullyyou.com/101waystospreadjoyJoy Bootcamp - https://www.livejoyfullyyou.com/joycampJoyfully You Podcast - https://www.livejoyfullyyou.com/podcastAmy Dickens Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theamydickensAmy Dickens TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theamydickensAmy Dickens YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@theamydickens/shortsEp 400 ft Gay Hendricks - https://beitpod.com/ep400Submit your wins or questions - https://beitpod.com/questionsGuest Bio:Amy Dickens is a leading voice in the power of joy and play as tools for transformation and nervous system regulation. As the creator of Joyfully You, author of 101 Ways to Spread Joy, and host of the Joyfully You Podcast, Amy helps people reconnect to their aliveness through laughter, movement, and community. Whether she's leading parades of people dancing through the streets or speaking on stage about the ripple effect of joy, Amy's mission is to remind us that joy isn't a distraction from growth—it's the doorway to it. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSIDEALS! DEALS! DEALS! 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Like, if I had no fear, what would that look like?Lesley Logan 0:10  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousandss of people around the world, and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity, and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring bold, executable, intrinsic, and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and be it till you see it. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 0:52  All right, B e It babe. Get ready to smile. Get ready to... First of all, I'm just gonna tell you right now, I'm a fast talker. She's an excited talker. So if you normally listen on 2.0 speed, it might be a 1.5 episode. I'm just saying, but we're talking about joy today. Amy Dickens is the author of the best-selling book 101 Ways to Spread Joy, and I think we really need this right now. I think we need to one, understand how do we even feel joy in our own selves, and then two, how does that allow us to spread joy with others? And it's a really great story. I mean, I could have talked to Amy for hours. I'll be really, really honest. We kept it short, and I think there's at least three takeaways, maybe different ones for one person, another thing that made more sense to you. But I really do think that there's three awesome things that you can take away from this episode, if not more, and it might be one of those ones that you kind of hit rewind and go, "Wait, what did she do?" and add it to your list of things to try out because you got to feel all of our feelings. But one thing I think we really need to spend a little bit more time feeling as joy in our lives definitely helps you be it till you see it, and you're going to hear all of that in this episode. So here's Amy Dickens.Lesley Logan 2:00  All right, Be It babe, this is going to be... I'm just gonna say it. It's gonna be a joyful conversation. Every part of my being says it's going to be that way because we have Amy Dickens here, the author of 101 Ways to Spread Joy. So, Amy, can you tell everyone who you are and why you rock at joy spreading? Because I think that this is interesting. I've never met anyone who says this is what I do for a living.Amy Dickens 2:23  Yeah, yeah. It's funny you say that because I literally just met somebody else that does it this past weekend at a Joy Maker Bootcamp, and I'm like, whoa, other people do this? I thought I was the only one, but yeah. So I grew up with a ton of mental health problems until my mid to late 20s, probably, and it was joy, really, that helped respark me into this person that I am, to rediscovering the joy of living, kind of thing, in all the big and the little ways, and the true power of who I am as a person and that authenticity. And the more that I lean into it, the more I was like, "Whoa, this is who I really am." So I'm on a mission to really help reconnect people to their joy, so that they can become who they really truly are in this life, and then also it's turned into how can we create the world to be a better place? Because when we show up as the joy that we wish to see in the world, that creates this invisible ripple effect that, in turn, is kind of creating a new world, basically, for us to live in and co-create.Lesley Logan 3:24  Oh, 100% Amy. I mean, like they always say, your vibe attracts your tribe, right? So if you 're not joyful and you're going in like an Eeyore, of course, the only people who are actually going to talk to you are the Eeyores. It was really funny at my wedding, t hese two women who didn't know each other, I saw them talking and hugging the only air conditioning vent, and I was like, of course those two would be talking. Of course, that's just the cynic nature in them finding the cynic nature in each other, and they're just going to be cynics covering up the AC and stealing it from everybody. And no wonder the y're turning everyone into them. So it's just kind of funny how, I do agree. The more joyful we are living our life, it invites other people to be joyful too, but it does make the world a little bit better place, and it's really hard saying that. We're actually recording this during a time that the world does not feel very joyful, Amy, doesn't feel very joyful, and I feel like it's really easy for people to even think that this is a toxic positivity conversation, that it's not even thoughtful and considering what is going on. But I'll just tell you a little background that you don't know about me. In my spaces, there are places where you can complain. It's c a lled an "I need a moment" channel, and you're allowed to need a moment and bitch. But I have a rule that you have to have a win. You h a ve to share a win at the same time. You don't get to come back later and do it. You got to do it at the same time because there's always something good going on too, and there is a balance, and we can't just throw up on people and then come back and do joy later. So tell me, knowing what we know, what's going on right now.Amy Dickens 4:41  Yeah.Lesley Logan 4:43  Is seeking joy like a waste of time, not thoughtful? How can we do that in a way that doesn't feel privileged? Do you know what I mean? I made this a huge question. I'm sorry, I just laid it on you.Amy Dickens 5:00  Lay the huge questions on me. I'm here for it. I am all about it. Yeah, I personally have a really deep belief, deep in my bones, that we need our joy now more than ever. And then also, little caveat is that when I say this, I don't mean that we have to live at this peak state of bliss and joy 100% of the time.Lesley Logan 5:00  Like, don't fuck my joy up. Take your bad news over there. Yeah, it's not like that.Amy Dickens 5:22  Right. It's like, okay, we get to be a human that has the full spectrum of human emotions, and we aren't repressing stuff because that also doesn't work. We've seen that, we've been there, we've done that. We know that that's not the way, just shove it and ignore stuff. We can feel the whole thing, but I feel like where I'm looking at the world, and I've been the past 12 years on this whole self-help journey, it feels like joy often was a missing component in a lot of things that I was seeing. I truly do believe that our joy... I lead these joy parades, so my joy parades, I get people singing and dancing in the street. The whole point is to basically uplift yourself and to be this little uplifting moment, this breath of fresh air, this glitch in the matrix, kind of like whoa, people are looking up from their phones and suddenly they're dancing and singing "Who Let the Dogs Out" with us or something on a random Saturday, and it uplifts them. The response I get is otherworldly, and at the same place where we start this, oftentimes there happens to be a protest for something on the other side of the street or something, and it's a little bit edgy. And sometimes people feel a little angry at us for like, what are you doing? Amy Dickens 6:33  And to me, I feel like we are just taking two different paths of you know like trying to use yes, right? It's like the same coin, like kind of thing. But it's just like, oh, you can either do this way or that way. I'm not saying your way is wrong or right. This is just the way that feels like my part to play. And it feels like if we can show up in a joyful way, because I know myself personally, I make different choices when I'm in an angry state, when I'm in a fearful state, when I'm in a joyful state. And I truly believe that if we can start to be more joyful and connective with each other, that we will start to create different decisions. That we will show up and like create little micro pockets of a new world, rather than create. There's so much fear. There's so much divisiveness right now, and we're just. It feels like we're getting more and more separate, and to me that feels scary. To me, that feels not like not creating the world we wish to be in. When we're like, you're different, we can't talk. You think different things, we can't talk. I really would love to create a world of like, can we even dance together in the street for a second? I don't even need to know. And then from that space, there can be a level of safety almost because we all laugh and like we all want belonging.Lesley Logan 7:47  Yeah, it also makes me think like which party you want to be at, right? Like, like at the Portland protest, talk about joy, like that you were seeing with the frog guy and all the things, and like the you're not that our whole thing is about protesting, but I do think that like it's important that we talk about how joy can exist in a place where you are where you are still wanting to to support causes that you care about or rights that you care about. And like one of our first protests that we went to while living in Vegas, there was drummers and there was music and performers who were singing, and it just made everyone flipping us off look so weird because it's like we're having a great time. Like you look so strange, and so part of me is like, I want to be at the joy protest. You know, that's what I want to be at. Amy Dickens 8:25   Absolutely, yeah. And I mean, like I've heard someone else say she was like, "There's a war on happiness, and like there kind of is sometimes. Well, certain people they get mad at like joyful, happy people. Lesley Logan 8:27  Well, I want to go back to a little bit how you said something about growing up, and I don't remember a time of actual pure celebration. Look, my parents listen to this, and they're gonna be like, "Excuse me, we did celebrate on April 13th at this time." I'm sure there was, but Im' thinking about, the way I interpreted things is like, "Oh, I won, but the team won, but I dropped the ball. We did this, but I could have done..." Every achievement of celebration was also really that the thing that I took away, just the personality type that I have, was all the things I could have done better. And so it's very rare that you're just in the joyful moment. And not that you shouldn't reflect back about what's going on, but I do think that we too often, because we're busy and we are doing too many things, we are not taking the time to celebrate what we did do, and then on a separate time sit down and go, okay, so what is the postmortem on that? Because otherwise we ruin the joy part by talking about the things we could have done better, which we could do the next day, right?Amy Dickens 9:39  Absolutely, yeah. There is such a focus on what didn't work and complaining, and we have a negativity bias already, biologically as humans. So we're just wired for that. So it's challenging to unlearn our old programming and say, how can... Because I think most of us could probably agree, I think most people can say: do you want to be more joyful? I think most people would probably check "yeah" on that box.Amy Dickens 10:05  I don't think many people be like, no,Lesley Logan 10:07  I have enough July.Amy Dickens 10:08  I would like to be miserable. Honestly, I have I have had a lot of people like on the streets be like, I'm already joyful. Like, all right, cool. That's all good. Like, more power to you, man. But I I think that it's a hard pill to swallow to say it's kind of hard to retrain ourselves to learn to be joyful. Like it's I call it the joy gym. You know, you have to go to the gym or you know some workout class to build muscle. And if you don't go, like your muscle fatigues and you lose that. And it's the same thing with joy. Like you don't always want to go to the gym. You don't always want to make a choice to choose to be a different person, to choose to like move your body or think in ways that a joyful person would. There's like a slight discipline, and also I think a a need for that why that pulls you to oh this is why I am making this choice to be a joyful person because I know that if I'm showing up in like this joyful way, I get to create a ripple of impact around me. I can make someone's day. I can be the person with the energy in the room that is impacting everyone to kind of have that whole like, whoa! I feel like so much more myself. I feel so much more empowered after talking to her, inspired, or just like I just feel good, like we all know those people, and we can be that person. And it's not like if you're not that person, because I wasn't that person. I straight up was not even close to that person.Amy Dickens 11:31  And it was over the years choosing again and again things that filled my cup and were joyful to me, and living a joyful life and a life of purpose and all of these things. And it's a big old bumpy road, right? But also saying, okay, how do I practice and also mess up a bazillion different times at trying to be her? What does that version of you look like? And it's trial and error. And sometimes it feels uncomfortable when you're not used to doing it because you've never done it before, and it doesn't really make it wrong. You can just say, hey, not that way, but let me try this way this time.Lesley Logan 12:02  Well, that's just Amy, and you just mentioned "be her" with, obviously, the Be It Till You See It podcast. I think it's this interesting thing. A lot of us are waiting until when we get somewhere, right? Oh, when I get this, and when this happens. And we actually do have to be it till we see it. So to be a joyful person, you actually cannot wait for a joyful moment. You have to be the joy that you want to see. Like that's what they say, right? So, can we talk a little bit about that? You weren't always this joyful person, and you were trying to be a joyful person. What did being a joyful person before you were a joyful person look like? What did going to the joy gym look like? What was the first rep?Amy Dickens 12:43  Yeah. I mean, for me, I wouldn't say I'm the most normal cookie of all time. I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of girly sometimes. So for me, it really looked like I had this huge breakup moment with a person I was with for 11 years, and it was this whole restructuring of my life. And I said, "Whoa, I'm gonna follow my joy." What does that even look like? I don't even really know. Like, what is it that only me, as an adult woman, wants to do? And I realized it was these big things that were often really joyful and really scary to another part of me, and that was the reason why I hadn't done any of these things. I've always wanted to do a yoga teacher training for like eight years, and I was like, why have I not done that? Because I was like, "Well, I'm not a yoga teacher," was the story that I had. And I said, oh, well, you're never going to become a yoga teacher unless you do the training. That's literally the only way to do it. No one walks into that door and is like, "Yeah, I'm already a yoga teacher."Lesley Logan 13:41  Right, no one's born with the certification. You have to go do it.Amy Dickens 13:44  Right! But I had to really let myself take risks, not think very much, and let myself fail and learn that fail in quotes, you know, and just do stuff and flop. So I think I was like, what if I do this and it doesn't work, or I can't be her? And I just would take bold leaps and book one-way tickets to places. I was pretty wild and extreme. And it doesn't have to look like that, but I do think that the nugget of wisdom within that was allowing myself to say: what is it that really would spark joy inside of me, make me feel alive? What would that look like on a big scale or a micro scale to follow that, to empower myself to make a move towards becoming that, and knowing that I do it scared, and knowing that at first it was uncomfortable and that didn't make it wrong, but the more you gain the confidence by doing it... You don't get confidence by just thinking about it or prepping for it. You get the confidence by doing the reps, and you're like, oh, suddenly my comfort zone's bigger because I've been doing this. And now there's a new edge for me to walk into.Lesley Logan 14:54  It's the craziest thing. Everyone is like, "I'm just waiting to... When I'm more confident, I'll do this." And it's something that I have struggled with in supporting people and coaching people: wait, do you think that some people were just born confident and others were not? Because that's not what I think. I think that somewhere along the way, some people's confidence bucket was upheld and supported, and some people's confidence buckets were kicked down the street. But we all have one, and the only way to keep confidence or get it back is to do the thing you said you'd do scared, and be willing to fail and flop and try again. And I think some people have a really hard time with either rejection or the failure of it all. There's a perfectionist problem that affects people from experiencing joy. I don't think you can be a perfectionist and a joy-filled person. I don't know, I could be wrong. Have you met a perfectionist who's joyful?Amy Dickens 15:57  You know, I would say there's a lot of recovering perfectionists that I've met, they're like, hey I have joy. I'm definitely raising my hand here.Lesley Logan 16:05  Like all addicts I've ever heard on TV, constantly, they're forever going to AA, saying, "Hi, that's me. Hello, I am Lesley. I'm a recovering perfectionist, yes."Amy Dickens 16:14  Recovering perfectionist, and you know, I have some days that are great and some days that could be better.Lesley Logan 16:21  Yeah.Amy Dickens 16:21  Yeah, and I think that a huge part, in retrospect and just reflecting on how many people that I've talked to... and this wasn't really a conscious choice at the time... was because I used to have horrible social anxiety, like very, very intense, like could not really talk to anybody that I didn't know extremely well without feeling like my whole body was flushed and tense, and like I needed to run (inaudible).Lesley Logan 16:44  That's so hard because how do you get to know people if you don't talk to them? That's really difficult. Oh, this is so hard to get over.Amy Dickens 16:53  Yeah, and it was really just throwing myself into the deep end of: okay, you gotta sit with this and learn that people aren't scary by being with people. And now we know that the number one predictor of joy and happiness is the quality of your relationships in your life, both the deep, intimate relationships and just the number of random strangers. Apparently, that's really good for our joy and our mental health. Just be like, "Ah, hi, bud! Get the mail today?" Apparently, they say that that's great for you.Lesley Logan 17:22  That is hilarious. I didn't know that, and no wonder. In L.A. in an apartment, I lived near people for... how long did I live there? Seven years in the apartment. I didn't know anyone's name. We would just walk past each other. My neighbors , I've lived here almost six years, and we know every neighbor's name. We know them all.Amy Dickens 17:41  It's not even like you need to hang out all the time, but there's... for some reason.Lesley Logan 17:44  I'm definitely more joyful. Yeah.Amy Dickens 17:45  ...communalness to it. And I think that that was also a part of my journey to becoming more joyful was learning, because I think so many of us are like, how do we make friends as adults? How do I...? And there's this loneliness epidemic, you know, it's just all over. I think learning how to heal that and really value... okay, I need to learn how to make community, to make friendships, to be bold and brave and put myself in situations where I feel really scared and I'm doing it anyways. I'd have questions on my phone in case my brain would go blank at first, because I was like, oh my god, what if I don't know what to say? And I'm like, oh yeah, I'll have some juicy questions on my phone so that I can learn how to have this conversation, or give myself training wheels, or I do fun things with people. I'd be like, I love dancing, and dancing's so regulating. So that's a great way to try and meet people. Lesley Logan 18:37  And now you can go to a silent disco, so you can be someone who's introverted and who loves to dance, and you can go be amongst a ton of people, but by yourself, so you can build up the confidence to being in a group of people. There's just so many different ways you can do things now. And I just read that the World Health Organization says that being lonely, loneliness is terribly bad for both your physical and your mental health. We are designed to be amongst people. So I just want to take a step back because you mentioned having mental health issues growing up, terrible anxiety. When did you get a resume together for a joy job? I'm gonna be really honest, Amy. If I was your parent, I'd be like, "Can she make money spreading joy?" I don't understand. So, can we talk a little about the journey to going... that you went on that made you not only an expert, but someone who wrote a best-selling book? It seems a little odd.Amy Dickens 19:32  Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. It certainly was not the trajectory that I ever had in mind of, "Yes, I'm going to graduate college, and this is what I will do with my degree."Lesley Logan 19:44  Is there...? I mean, there are happiness coaching degrees that I know because I've interviewed people who are certified in happiness coaching, but I don't know if that's what you did. So tell me more.Amy Dickens 19:55  No, that certainly was not the plan. Because of all of my mental health and all this kind of stuff, I was obsessed with self-help, reading all of the books, doing all of the courses for the past 12 years, and then got really into teaching yoga. That was where I started all of my joyful experience. And then from teaching yoga, I started learning to make people dance on the mat, and then it turned into: ooh, what if we played games together instead of doing yoga at all? And then suddenly I'm leading workshops in how do we get people to authentically connect and use play to regulate their nervous system? And emceeing events started happening, and it was just all of these happenstance things start, I wasn't planning on doing this. Somebody just kind of asked me if I would do something, and I said, "Sure, I'll try and do that. I've never emceeed an event before. Why not? Let's see." And it was fun. And then through that, you're uplifting people. And before I know it, I'm leading parades of people dancing through the streets, just on a mission of spreading joy around. It's been such a journey. In there, there's a whole coaching certification and business that I had started at the time, and a million other things. I think there was just this part of me that was like, I am on a mission, and I know that because deep in my bones this mission chose me. I didn't say, "I want to be the joy lady." It just felt like: I need a purpose. What is my purpose? And it just kept coming to me. I was like, okay, because it chose me, this is inevitable that it will work. There is no chance that it doesn't. And if it's not working yet, I just gotta keep going. And I gotta have fun with it too. That's the huge part of it.Lesley Logan 21:40  Amy, if you're having the least amount of fun becoming a joy coach, I'm just...Amy Dickens 21:48  I'm gonna be real honest. There was definitely that moment where I had a whole shame spiral because I was so perfectionist in this one moment. I literally burnt myself out, and I was like, oh my god, I am so stressed about being this joy coach and making this business work, I'm an imposter. Oh my god! Lesley Logan 22:07  RightAmy Dickens 22:09  Yeah, absolutely. And I was like, okay, I gotta learn to enjoy the journey because the journey is 98% of it. The destination is this tiny little, "Okay, reached that goal, onto the next part of your journey." And it's fine and great to have goals, but to just be solely focused on the destination... Learning to enjoy life itself is a skill. Learning to just be like, "Wow, I'm freaking joyful for no freaking good reason," that is a skill, and I see it as a gift to this world. If you can feel the blessings of this day that you're like, "Wow! I can walk, I can breathe, I can move my body," all of these incredible things that we take for granted each and every day, rather than focusing on the negative, we can create really incredible things from that space. Each and every one of us, when we're in that connected space to our true gifts, our power, our gratitude, there's infinite abundance that we can create from that.Lesley Logan 23:08  I'm kind of wondering... You just mentioned a few things, like "I can breathe" and "I can walk" and I do these things. I think we do forget that there is joy in those things because it's certainly not joyful when your leg falls asleep or you're sick in bed. You're not feeling joy then, and you're like, "I miss being well," but you weren't enjoying how well you were before you were sick. Do you have any tools for people who are like, "Okay, I'm gonna practice feeling the joy feeling"? How did you practice being her, being the joy?Amy Dickens 23:40  Yeah, I mean, if we're gonna take the joy, there's almost two different camps, and one I would say is simple joys. To me, my number one way that I personally practice this is I get outside when I'm feeling really stressed, and I look up, I look up at the sky, I look up at the trees, I change my perspective, and I take a deep breath. It's a very simple, one-second thing that you can do. You can do it between a Zoom call in one minute if your door is close enough. It's something about changing your perspective. You're looking up at the sky and the trees, and it's like, whoa, I'm a human being. I'm not just this robot that needs to be hyper-productive. There's something about it that just instantly brings me back into: whoa, I am not just here to do, do, do. I am here to be a human being and just enjoying the little simple things. How much can I romanticize and enjoy this moment in my life? Can I put a sweet playlist on in the background and change the way in which I'm working? Can I slow down and eat a meal? That's constantly what I'm still working on to this day.Lesley Logan 24:49  I keep saying I'm going to. I do have an hour-long lunch break, and it's so easy to be like, "Oh, I'm just gonna do one more thing," and now the lunch break is only 20 minutes, and "I'll just do this while I'm doing that." It's definitely a bad habit. That is one I would like to try to find the joy in slowing down. But I couldn't agree more. The simple joys. I love that you brought it in two camps so far because sometimes when I'm stressed out, I just take a walk around my one block. You're stressed out, and then somehow around a corner, all of a sudden you're like, "Oh, okay, I'm ready to go back in." It's a really weird thing how quickly our brain will shift if we give it the opportunity to experience a simple joy.Amy Dickens 25:32  Yeah, it just needs that little simple moment. And I've been taking these miracle walks in the morning where I leave my front door and I say, "All right, I'm not going to come back until I find three miracles." And I'm like, okay, I know I only have time for a walk around the block, so it's about 10 minutes. And it expands your definition of what a miracle is. It's a little piece of dew at the end of a leaf, or some birds singing and flying in front of your face, or whatever it might be that you notice on that same block you've walked a million times. But that, in and of itself, is training yourself to look for the joy, the beauty, the good in the world in a place that you've been a million times.Lesley Logan 26:06  Oh my god, Amy, what a great idea! That is so great.Amy Dickens 26:08  It's so fun. I love it. I've been having so much fun with it. And then the other camp is, I'd say, those bigger joy moments. Like I love to look at my calendar before I fill it with as many calls and all of the things as I can, and say, okay, how can I plan moments of connection of things that fill my cup? Like I love singing and dancing, and if I were to fill my calendar with everything else, there's no time at the end for the things that really fill my cup that I love to do. So I started a few years ago just thinking, okay, a lot of them are just recurring, so they're just in my Google Calendar. It's like I know I go to choir at this time. I know I have dinner with my friends this day of the week right here, and you don't really move things unless it's absolutely necessary, and that keeps my cup consistently filled because I'm making sure, hey, there is time for me to have connection with other people, because I spend a lot of my time not with humans face to face right now. So it's important to build that human connection to the things that we love to do or exploring new things too. That's also something that I try to schedule in at least once a week. It's like, okay, a new networking thing, or can I have coffee with someone that I've never met before? Just kind of those little serendipity moments of let the magic in. Let's plan to be open to life surprising us rather than it just being like...Lesley Logan 27:29  I love... I'm a big fan. I have this whole way of having your ideal dream schedule, and to me, dreams do come true. And ideal, obviously, not perfect. It just is the ideal thing. And I always talk about how your sleep and your workouts have to go in the calendar before anything else. And the things that bring you joy, they have to be in there because you're right. If we put everything else in first, there's no room. You can't squeeze joy in. So I think your big joy camps, the things that truly fill your cup, whether it is going to choir or going... Like some people want to go to the library. They love the smell of books. That you might have to schedule in and make sure it's there, so you're not going, "Oh my god, it's been three months since I went to a library." No, if it brings you joy, it should be happening so regularly so that you can actually get through all the shit, because there's gonna be shit.Amy Dickens 28:15  Yeah, absolutely. Because I think that we don't realize that being joyful, it's like rocket fuel in our tank. I think we all know that, or I can call on an experience when you were feeling so joyful, so lit up, so radiant, and it was effortless to create and be inspired. And not that we have to be at that peak state all the time, you know. We still ebb and we flow. But if we consistently are filling our cup, then it's going to actually help us be more efficient, really, in the rest of our life.Lesley Logan 28:46  I think so. I think so. You know, I think a lot of people, though... I interviewed Gay Hendricks on this pod, and his whole thing is that people have, you know, you're in your genius zone, and when getting in your genius zone, your zone of genius, you end up often upper-limiting because you're uncomfortable. Like you have a joyful moment, and then you kind of self-sabotage. How do we handle that pendulum swinging back and forth? Because we have to feel our feelings and we got to go through there. But how did you kind of allow yourself to just be in the joy, or did you ever self-sabotage out of the joy? I feel that's what a lot of our listeners struggle with, is they'll experience seeing something joyful and then they'll get a call that their friend got fired, or this bill came in, and it just sucks them right back down. And so it's how do you feel the feelings, but not lose the joy?Amy Dickens 29:29  Yeah, absolutely. I definitely have a PhD in penduluming from one side to the other. They didn't even know they made up the degree for me. They were like, "Ah, yes, Amy, you got the Amy Dickens Award for penduluming between the two extremes so much." And I think that that was also a gift to learn how to stop penduluming and continuously pendulum back towards the joy to a balanced state in the middle, and life still gets lifey. That's not the whole thing with joy, is that it's like, yes, nothing ever happens to me. But when it does, I personally have a really deep belief now that I think really helps me, is like: don't take things personally. Life is happening for me, not to me. All of these things that have been so ingrained into who I am at this point that when life starts to get lifey... And I've also seen life fall apart so many times that I know it always works out. If it hasn't worked out yet, I just keep going, and eventually things will come back together. So I've noticed I've become a lot less dramatic. I was a very dramatic human. You know, like, "Oh my god, I lost a friend," and whatever it might be was just always felt like the end of the world to me, and it would suck all of the joy out of me. And I think I'm realizing, wow, those things are real and I do feel them deeply. And I'm a big crier, and I feel the things and I process, and I'm like: what is this here to teach me? How do I move through this? How do I regulate my nervous system through this? And realizing, wow, I have this one wild and precious life, and I'm gonna continue to choose the joy when it feels time. And I think a big part of that is also discernment. It's like gaining that wisdom of discernment that only we can have for ourselves. Only we can say, "I know that I'm done feeling this grief," or whatever it might be, anger, fear, "and it's time to shift myself into a different state." No one else can really tell you when it's time for that. I think that that's also just a trial and error thing, and learning to listen to the wisdom of our body and our intuition and ourself, and to trust ourselves to say, "Actually, I need to be sad right now, and that's okay, because I trust myself in that." And I also say not days like "I'm having a bad day," but "I'm having a bad moment," because then that leaves the next moment to be open to being something different. Because if we have the whole label on this day, then you've kind of already pre-decided, and it's okay to not have a joyful moment. It's a human experience.Lesley Logan 32:04  Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, you're gonna have a loved one pass away, or a breakup's gonna happen, or you are gonna be disappointed on how a project went. But I do like that you get to label the moment, but not the whole day, or giving yourself that permission to feel that moment, but not let it take away from the little miracles you could see or feeling the feelings around it. You said not being so dramatic, and I think as someone with ADHD, and I attract a lot of people with that, what I've discovered is I think that drama that some of us kind of go to, that swinging back and forth... My team is like, "You're swinging back and forth from your microphone, stay there." But that swinging back and forth is a dopamine hit, right? We go dramatic and high because it kind of feels the thing that our brain survives off of. But if we can actually get our dopamine hits from some other places, then we don't have to go such a deep swing. It could be like, "Whoa, this moment really sucks. It's a good thing that's not personal, it's not about me. And somehow this is going to work towards my favor." I'm disappointed in this moment. We go walk around the block and feel that disappointment, and then hopefully... You just gave me some great ideas, and I learned so much about myself. Thanks, Amy.Amy Dickens 33:20  I also had that. I'm seeing that as well. And there's a big part of the titration, you know, like when you're like, "Oh, it's a bad moment," and just having that moment of, oh... even if most of the day was bad, but you had like, oh, they were all just a bunch of bad moments, and then I had this one moment with a friend where I laughed for five minutes, and then I kind of sunk back down into it. But that little uplifting moment does so much for your capacity in your nervous system to continue to hold whatever it is that you're holding, that I don't think we really recognize to the fullness of it sometimes.Lesley Logan 33:54  Yeah, I couldn't agree more. All right, I could talk to you forever about joy because this is just the most contagious thing. Thanks for spreading it here, but we're gonna take a brief break. I want to find out where we can get your book, and I think you've got some good Be It Action Items for us. I just have a feeling.Amy Dickens 34:06  I'm so excited.Lesley Logan 34:08  All right, Amy, where can people buy your book, 101 Ways to Spread Joy, and where do you hang out? Where are your joy parties? Tell us everything. How can we stalk you in a joyful place?Amy Dickens 34:18  Absolutely, you can get the book, 101 Ways to Spread Joy. It's on Amazon. Amy Dickens. You can see all the rainbow color on it.Lesley Logan 34:25  O h my god, it has a disco ball on it. I'm already in.Amy Dickens 34:27  Everything I make has a disco ball. Always. I did it on accident.Lesley Logan 34:31  Amy, are we friends that have never met? Like, we must be friends. I'm so into disco balls, it's unbelievable.Amy Dickens 34:43  They're great. When the light hits a disco ball... I mean, biggest light hack.Lesley Logan 34:46  Okay, Amy, I have a sequined kimono. You'll have to Google one. And just so you know, I bought it... I'm like, this is kind of ridiculous. It is so ridiculous. I did a whole photo shoot with it. But at any rate, I got it in my car, like I bought it at the store, and put it on to drive home because I'm like, I'm gonna wear it right now. I was my own disco ball in the car because the sun was shining so much, I was blinding my own self. I was like, "Oh my god, this is (inaudible). Amy Dickens 35:09  All the cars next to you, they're like, "I can't see."Lesley Logan 35:12  Yeah. So, anyways, I cut you off. Everything you create is a disco ball. So your book is where again, just in case I distracted people with my, Amazon, okay. Amy Dickens 35:19  Amazon, easy peasy. Just go to Amazon, you can find it there.Lesley Logan 35:22  Perfect. And then where do you hang out on socials? Where like where can they get a little joy boost?Amy Dickens 35:26  Yeah, absolutely. You can find me on all the socials @theamydickens. If you want the first 10 pages to my book, you can get it for free on my website, livejoyfullyyou.com, and get a nice little taste of it. And if you're like, "Ooh, I like that, I'll do a little bit more," then you're totally welcome to do that. Yeah.Lesley Logan 35:44  I mean, my goodness, you guys. I'm sure there's at least 101 days left in the year, but maybe more by the time you hear this. You could do one joyful spreading thing a day and see how you end up feeling. I imagine you'll feel more joy after spreading joy.Amy Dickens 35:55  Oh, that's one of the secrets to life, is spreading joy and just being of service to making the world a better place, it's a huge life hack.Lesley Logan 36:04  Yeah, I love that. Okay, you've given us some great tips already, and honestly, your book probably has some great bold, executable intrinsic or targeted steps that people can take. But what else do you have for us?Amy Dickens 36:13  Yeah, I would say to give yourself permission to follow your joy, whatever big or little ways that might be, and to let yourself just kind of be brutally honest. Like, if I had no fear, what would that look like? And just journal it out, take a deep breath, be honest with yourself, write it all down, and then maybe say, "Okay, today, what would I feel like if I was 5% more alive right now? What would I do? What could that be?" And allow yourself to do that. It doesn't have to be like, I rewrite my whole story and I throw away all the things that are not working right now. But allow yourself to just take that little reframe of: Can I put five more percent of my time and energy into my joy? What would that look like? Because it's different for every single one of us. Something that brings joy to one person might not be the same thing for me or you or somebody else, and it's just so important because it's not something that you need to earn. It's something that you practice, and it continues to give back to you. I think some of us are waiting for joy to knock on our door, and it's a choice. We have to cultivate it and learn that. Yes, sometimes it does surprise us and say like, "Hey, I'm here," but it's a practice. It's a skill that we can learn to cultivate. And this is here to be your full permission slip to live this inspired, alive life that you're so worthy and deserving of, and to follow your joy and know that it's a way to creating the world to be a better place.Lesley Logan 37:41  I love that. You are right. A lot of people are waiting for joy to hit them on the head, as opposed to... actually, no, joy is waiting for you to come to where it's at. You gotta come to it. You gotta go seek it out. You gotta go find the joyful moments. Oh, you're so good. This is so great. I'm really excited we had this conversation, Amy. Thank you so much for being you. Thank you for these wonderful Be It Action Items . Thank you for helping not just spread joy, but also you have such an amazing aura with your joy that this is like a fun conversation. I'm sure people are smiling, and they're going to have a more joyful day because they listened to this episode. So y'all have to go share this episode with a friend, probably the Eeyore one, so that they have joy, and this could be your point one to the 100 W ays to Spread Joy. Yeah, this is your pre-homework. All right, Amy, thanks so much for being you. And everyone else, until next time, Be It Till You See It.Lesley Logan 38:33  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review, and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others be it till you see it. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of the Bloom Podcast Network. 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Kumar Arora — entrepreneur, investor, brand-builder, and the founder of Arora Ventures, a venture studio and portfolio of businesses spanning hospitality, apparel, events, creative agency work, and consumer brands. Born and raised in Cleveland's Little Italy, Kumar grew up between science and art, a duality that continues to shape how he builds today. In our conversation, Kumar and I explore the cohort of ambitious Clevelanders he came up alongside, his early path through nightlife, events, and entertainment, the lessons embedded in failure and reinvention, and how ventures like Sora, ILTHY, Underdogs, and FutureLAND reflect a broader vision for Cleveland — one rooted in creativity, collaboration, and the belief that this city can think bigger, see in color, and export far more of its talent, culture, and ambition to the world beyond it.00:00 Introduction to Kumar Arora and Cleveland's Building Scene00:27 Kumar's Background and Cleveland Roots01:15 Changing Perceptions of Cleveland02:11 The Cohort of Cleveland Disruptors03:24 Early Entrepreneurial Ventures and Failures05:17 The Role of Personal Taste in Business06:24 LA vs Cleveland: Roots and Energy07:59 High Standards and Ambition in Cleveland08:53 Evolution of Entrepreneurship in Cleveland10:25 The Importance of Human Connection11:49 Arora Ventures: From Exit to Investment13:17 Brand and Taste: Living, Breathing Systems15:35 Can You Improve Taste? Insights from Kumar Arora17:17 The Pillars of Kumar's Business Evolution19:00 Systems and Processes in Portfolio Management20:07 Lessons from Failures and Resilience22:30 Working Towards Freedom and Empowerment23:52 Cleveland's Unique Perspective and Color25:30 The Subjectivity of Color and Perception26:55 Building Cleveland's National Profile28:22 Cleveland's Identity and Future Potential29:19 What Keeps Kumar Arora Up at Night30:17 Empowering Local Operators and Artists32:53 Futureland and Supporting Black and Brown Entrepreneurs35:12 Lessons from Restaurant to CPG Business36:48 Building Relationships with Big Brands40:08 Planting Seeds for Cleveland's Future42:33 Upcoming Projects and Cleveland's Visibility43:31 The Power of Collaboration and Local Pride44:16 Follow Kumar Arora and Stay Connected-----LINKS:https://www.kumar-arora.com/-----SPONSOR:Cerity PartnersCerity Partners, a full-service investment and wealth management firm serving high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners, is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. The firm has local roots in Cleveland and across Ohio, and like this podcast, Cerity Partners advisors specialize in serving the interests of local entrepreneurs and business leaders. The firm's national presence means it can offer the resources and specialized knowledge of the largest institutions with the independence and service of a neighbor. The Cerity Partners Cleveland team understands the complexity that comes with wealth, and they adhere to fiduciary standards. Discover the financial lay of your land.Learn more at https://ceritypartners.com/NPR or call 216-464-6266.Roundstone InsuranceRoundstone Insurance is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. Founder and CEO, Michael Schroeder, has committed full-year support for the podcast, recognizing its alignment with the company's passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and community leadership.Headquartered in Rocky River, Ohio, Roundstone was founded in 2005 with a vision to deliver better healthcare outcomes at a more affordable cost. Over the past two decades, Roundstone has grown rapidly, creating nearly 200 jobs in Northeast Ohio. The company works closely with employers and benefits advisors to navigate the complexities of commercial health insurance and build custom plans that prioritize employee well-being over shareholder returns. By focusing on aligned incentives and better health outcomes, Roundstone is helping businesses save thousands in Per Employee Per Year healthcare costs. Roundstone Insurance — Built for entrepreneurs. Backed by innovation. Committed to Cleveland.Learn more at https://roundstoneinsurance.com/-----Stay up to date by signing up for Lay of The Land's weekly newsletter — sign up here: https://layoftheland.ck.page/5f0c1e28faConnect with Jeffrey Stern on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreypstern/Follow Lay of The Land on X @podlayofthelandhttps://www.jeffreys.page/

Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast!  We've got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome!  Be sure to stick around for our Dad Joke of the Week. (DJOW) Follow us on Instagram @pebcakpodcast   Please share this podcast with someone you know!  It helps us grow the podcast and we really appreciate it!   Simple 6 signup link https://simple6.co/r/CFUR98   Bing malvertising campaign tricks users into downloading a fake Claude desktop app that quietly installs the SectopRAT info-stealing trojan. - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-claude-app-promoted-by-bing-ads-pushes-sectoprat-malware/ The malicious "FakeAgent" campaign hit at least 29 organizations on July 21–22; the poisoned Claude Artifact (hosted on Anthropic's own domain) was downloaded 7,100 times before removal, with the fake installer (ClaudeDesktop.exe) sideloading a malicious DLL to drop SectopRAT — a HVNC-capable info-stealer active since 2019 that targets browser logins, crypto wallets, Discord/Telegram/Steam credentials, and uses Ethereum smart-contract transactions (EtherHiding) to fetch its C2 address; researchers even used Claude Opus 4.8 themselves to help reverse-engineer the payload.   Iran allegedly exploited decades-old cell network flaws to physically locate and target US troops during the Iran War. - https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/iran-abused-mobile-networks-vulnerabilities-to-locate-u-s-military-in-the-middle-east-report-says/ Per a Financial Times report citing the Mobile Surveillance Monitor and government officials, Iran exploited SS7 — the legacy signaling protocol still underpinning 2G/3G global roaming — to track US personnel at bases and hotels in Iraq, Bahrain, and elsewhere in the Middle East, contributing to strikes that wounded upwards of 150 US troops; Iran reportedly also abused ad-tech location data as a secondary tracking vector.   A multi-university study found dozens of apps marketed directly to US troops are quietly shipping Chinese and Russian code. - https://www.wired.com/story/apps-marketed-to-us-troops-are-shipping-chinese-and-russian-code/ Researchers from Purdue, West Point, and Florida International University analyzed 220+ apps aimed at service members (fitness trackers, base-living-condition raters, National Guard-affiliated apps) and found 64% contain third-party SDKs from foreign countries, with roughly 1-in-8 to 1-in-14 apps (reporting varies) carrying code tied directly to China or Russia — including at least 12 apps embedding Huawei's mobile framework and others using the Russian ad service Yandex; no active exfiltration was observed, but researchers warn the dormant SDK code is an exploitable backchannel.   A 21-year-old allegedly stole $220K in crypto by hiding malware in Steam games — and got caught because he spent it on Uber Eats. - https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-traces-malware-infected-steam-games-to-21-year-old-in-florida The FBI arrested Florida's Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins for allegedly running eight malware-laced Steam games (including BlockBlasters and PirateFi) between May 2024–Feb 2026, infecting ~8,000 devices and draining ~80 crypto wallets for at least $220,000 — including $35,000 stolen from a streamer's cancer-treatment fundraiser; investigators cracked the case by tracing stolen Bitcoin to 150+ Bitrefill gift cards mostly spent on Uber Eats orders tied to his home and university email address.   Thrillist crowned Doritos Nacho Cheese the single greatest snack of all time, edging out Oreos and Pringles for the top spot. - https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-snack-foods-chips-candy-ranking The top five, in order: Doritos (Nacho Cheese, specifically) at #1, Oreos (Double Stuf gets the nod) at #2, Pringles at #3, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups at #4, and Goldfish rounding out the top five; other notable placements include Cheez-Its at #8, M&Ms at #7, Cheetos (the curls, not puffs) at #6, and Lay's Original topping the chip-specific competition at #12.   Dad Joke of the Week (DJOW)   Find the hosts on LinkedIn: Chris - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlouie/ Brian - https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandeitch-sase/ Glenn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennmedina/ Ben - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamincorll/

«Du, lass mal...» Wir wissen natürlich nicht, wie genau Kultlabel Sub Pop der kalifornischen Songwriterin nach drei Alben beibrachte, dass aus der vierten Zusammenarbeit nichts wird. Aber wir stellen es uns ungefähr so vor. Genau darum ist «Past the Veil» ein unfreiwilliger Neuanfang geworden. Auch wenn Sub Pop «nur» ein Indie-Label ist, bringt ein Plattenvertrag gewisse Vorteile mit sich. Das Studio, in dem Lay ihr neues Album aufgenommen hat, konnte sie dank eines Deals mit Produzent Rob Shelton – dem das Studio gehört – nur dann nutzen, wenn andere Acts absagten oder gerade kein Slot belegt war. Das Ergebnis kann sich trotz des fehlenden Sicherheitsnetzes mehr als hören lassen: dreamy Folk-Pop, der zwischendurch sogar Richtung Jazz abdriftet. Perfekt zum Durchschnaufen, wenn man irgendwo gerade ein Stückchen Schatten gefunden hat.

We are in California all week on The Music of America Podcast starting with Carmen DeLeto from the band My Blue Soul. Songs include All Across The USA, Big Strong Woman, Blue Soul Blues, Tell Me and Lay it on you

Life is a journey — mountains, valleys, vista points, and a whole lot of weight we weren't meant to carry.As we close out our Enjoying the Journey series, we look at Hebrews 12:1-2 and the race that's set before us. The writer of Hebrews knew what it was like to grow tired — to feel the pull to quit. His answer wasn't try harder. It was lay aside the weight, and fix your eyes on Jesus.Some of what we're carrying is sin. Some of it is simply weight — things that aren't wrong, but still slow us down. Either way, the course isn't what defeats us. The unnecessary weight does.Jesus never asked us to carry it alone. He carried the cross so we wouldn't have to carry the guilt. Guilt points to the brick. Shame carries the brick. Jesus takes the brick.This week, we're reminded that we enjoy our journey best — not by running faster or carrying more — but by keeping our eyes on the One who's already run the race for us.Lay aside the weight. Fix your eyes on Christ. Keep running your race.

Welcome to The Daily. Partner with us in Project23. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is Hosea 12:14 Ephraim has given bitter provocation;     so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him     and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds. — Hosea 12:14 Persistent defiance is dangerous with the Lord. Persistent defiance hears the truth repeatedly and keeps resisting it anyway. That is where Israel had arrived. God had warned them. Pursued them. Corrected them. Sent prophets to them. Called them to return. Yet they kept hardening themselves against Him. Eventually, wealth became resistance, which became rebellion. This still hardens believers today Very few people wake up one day and suddenly reject God completely. Most people slowly harden themselves over time. They ignore conviction long enough that their conscience grows quieter. They resist the truth long enough that compromise begins feeling normal. You can become so committed to your way of life that you stop recognizing God's warnings and mistake God's patience for God's approval. But God's patience is meant to lead us to repentance. That is why Hosea ends this chapter so strongly. God is loving enough to warn people before consequences fully arrive. He confronts defiance because He knows where defiance eventually leads. But even here, there is an invitation. Because the very fact that you are listening to this today means God is still speaking to you. So do not keep resisting Him. Lay down your pride. Stop defending your compromise. Stop ignoring God. Return while your heart is still just soft enough to respond. Because persistent defiance slowly hardens the soul. Bur surrender today, restore it. DO THIS: Respond immediately to one area of conviction God has been pressing on your heart instead of delaying or defending it. ASK THIS: Where have I been resisting God repeatedly? Have I mistaken God's patience for approval? What conviction do I need to respond to honestly today? PRAY THIS: Father, do not let my heart grow hard toward you. Help me respond quickly to your conviction, surrender fully to your truth, and remain soft and teachable before you. Amen. PLAY THIS: "I Surrender All"

INTRO (00:24): Kathleen opens the show drinking a Paddle Battle West Coast Pilsner from Nickel Brook Brewing Company in Burlington, ON. She reviews her weekend in Niagara Falls, walleye fishing with her friend Terri Clark and riding the Hornblower boat into the Falls prior to her show at Fallsview Casino.    TOUR NEWS: See Kathleen live on her “Flying Cats & Marching Armadillos Tour.”   TASTING MENU (1:16): Kathleen samples Lay's World Cup Limited Edition Bacon Poutine chips, Kozlik's Old Smokey Canadian Mustard, and Hostess Original Hickory Sticks.   QUEEN NEWS (22:05): Kathleen shares that Stevie Nicks posed for a picture with Tom Brady last week at Fanatics Fest.    HOLLYWOOD HAPPENINGS (30:06): HollyBobby provides the latest news in Hollywood.   UPDATES (23:18): Kathleen reports that Savannah Guthrie has released another plea video to Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers, Cracker Barrel's CEO has finally resigned, Japan's Punch the Monkey celebrated his first birthday, and incoming British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has a tough decision to make that could impact the Chief Mouser.   WHAT ARE WE WATCHING (33:34): Kathleen recommends watching “Take A Chance” the ABBA documentary on Prime Video, “Michael” on Prime Video, and “JANET JACKSON” on Prime Video.    HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT (50:26): Kathleen reports on the discovery of an endangered Himalayan musk deer in West Bengal.    NEWS (52:34): Kathleen reports that ASU is now offering a content creation major, Lululemon has been dethroned by Alo as the top selling athletic brand, Elton John has signed a hologram performance deal, a supermarket in Finland has introduced a matchmaking program for shoppers, Anthony Hopkins signs a classical record deal, French lawmakers adopt social media ban for kids under 15, and the last remaining iron lung patient dies at age 78.   SPORTS NEWS (1:08:26): Kathleen reports that LeBron James has signed with the Philadelphia 76'ers, and the 2026 NFL season has officially kicked off with all training camps underway.    SPANISH PHRASE OF THE WEEK (1:15:14): The Spanish phrase to learn this week is “vienes de una familia numerosa?” or “are you from a big family” in English.    PATRON SAINT OF THE WEEK (1:21:00): Kathleen reads about St. Philomene, the patron saint of dancers and newlyweds.    FEEL GOOD STORY (1:12:25): Kathleen shares that the reclusive Wondiwoi tree kangaroo has been rediscovered in West Papua.   

Short but powerful story from a book I've loved recently from Will Smith and how it applies to building your coaching business. It's not about the wall. It's about each individual brick and lining them up to the best of your ability each and every day. Listen in as I explain more.   Time Stamps:   (0:00) Will Smith Mindset Hack (0:50) My Recent Overwhelm (3:07) The 3 Types of Bricks to Lay (6:00) The Main Takeaway ----------------

Alec Shankman is the founder of HeartRock Partners.Alec has spent more than two decades at the forefront of entertainment, talent representation, reality television, digital media, podcasting, brand-building, and the creator economy. Before launching HeartRock, he was a Senior Partner at The Gersh Agency, following its acquisition of his division from A3 Artists Agency, where he built the Alternative Programming and Digital Media Division into a nine-figure 60-person bi-coastal team.In our conversation, Alec and I explore his path from Cleveland to LA and back again, how he built new lanes in Hollywood by being early to unscripted TV, digital talent, and creator-led brands, and why he returned home to launch HeartRock. We also talk about the shifting power dynamics in media, why talent is increasingly becoming the network, what separates fleeting attention from durable enterprise value, why work ethic still matters the most, and why Cleveland's strengths in entrepreneurship, manufacturing, consumer products, and community make it a compelling place to build this next chapter.please enjoy my conversation with Alec Shankman.00:00 Introduction and Alec's Cleveland roots02:18 Alec's childhood exposure to entertainment05:06 Seeds of a career in entertainment06:45 Moving to LA and industry insights09:59 Early waves of entertainment and Alec's entrepreneurial approach12:25 Leaving agency work to pursue entrepreneurship14:54 Lessons from Hollywood and industry shifts20:41 The evolution of media and talent representation33:40 The vision behind HeartRock Partners37:26 Why Cleveland? The geographic thesis44:26 The creator economy and future opportunities58:30 Looking ahead and Alec's excitement for Cleveland01:00:47 Closing thoughts and Alec's advice for success-----LINKS:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecshankmanhttps://heartrockpartners.com/-----SPONSOR:Cerity PartnersCerity Partners, a full-service investment and wealth management firm serving high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners, is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. The firm has local roots in Cleveland and across Ohio, and like this podcast, Cerity Partners advisors specialize in serving the interests of local entrepreneurs and business leaders. The firm's national presence means it can offer the resources and specialized knowledge of the largest institutions with the independence and service of a neighbor. The Cerity Partners Cleveland team understands the complexity that comes with wealth, and they adhere to fiduciary standards. Discover the financial lay of your land.Learn more at https://ceritypartners.com/NPR or call 216-464-6266.Roundstone InsuranceRoundstone Insurance is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. Founder and CEO, Michael Schroeder, has committed full-year support for the podcast, recognizing its alignment with the company's passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and community leadership.Headquartered in Rocky River, Ohio, Roundstone was founded in 2005 with a vision to deliver better healthcare outcomes at a more affordable cost. Over the past two decades, Roundstone has grown rapidly, creating nearly 200 jobs in Northeast Ohio. The company works closely with employers and benefits advisors to navigate the complexities of commercial health insurance and build custom plans that prioritize employee well-being over shareholder returns. By focusing on aligned incentives and better health outcomes, Roundstone is helping businesses save thousands in Per Employee Per Year healthcare costs. Roundstone Insurance — Built for entrepreneurs. Backed by innovation. Committed to Cleveland.Learn more at https://roundstoneinsurance.com/-----Stay up to date by signing up for Lay of The Land's weekly newsletter — sign up here: https://layoftheland.ck.page/5f0c1e28faConnect with Jeffrey Stern on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreypstern/Follow Lay of The Land on X @podlayofthelandhttps://www.jeffreys.page/

People searching the Lindsay Clancy trial want to know about postpartum psychosis and the insanity defense. What almost nobody is covering is the pattern of prosecution moves that shaped this trial before it ever started.Between July 9 and July 20, the Commonwealth made three deliberate plays. Strangulation charges dropped to eliminate a jury's middle ground between life without parole and a psychiatric hospital. Lay witnesses who survived postpartum psychosis blocked from testifying about what the illness feels like. Defense expert witnesses challenged on the first morning of jury selection before a single juror sat down.Tony explains why the pattern matters more than any individual ruling. Massachusetts law puts the burden on prosecutors to prove criminal responsibility once insanity evidence is introduced. That means the prosecution needs to control the information the jury receives, and every voice that gets removed from the room is one fewer obstacle to their proof.The episode also covers what Reddington asked for and didn't get. He wanted the judge to tell jurors about the reversed burden before opening statements. Prosecutors objected. The judge sided with the prosecution. So the jury enters not knowing who has to prove what — and the Commonwealth gets to build its case first.Plus: what the defense has left after the bench was stripped, the eighteen-juror panel, and why the version of her mind the jury carries into deliberation depends on who they never heard from.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#LindsayClancy #ClancyTrial #TrueCrimeToday #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #CriminalResponsibility #DuxburyMassachusetts #InsanityDefense #TrueCrimePodcast #KevinReddington

Rest to Return is a podcast for a restless world. Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife is your host. This series is rooted in Shabbat, an ancient Jewish practice that teaches us how to belong to time. Here, rest is a sacred rhythm woven into who we are. We continue by gathering around a single question: Who do we become when we rest? Lecha Dodi is the song that ends Kabbalat Shabbat (the service that helps us transition into Shabbat) before we move into the Ma'ariv prayer service.  The idea that Creator finished creation on the seventh day comes from Genesis 2:2. Tranquility, satisfaction, calm, and quiet being created on the seventh day comes from Genesis Rabbah 10:9. The idea of creating change that's “slow, deep, and irreversible” comes from artist and activist Ricardo Levins Morales. I learned the mussar practice of clarifying our ratzon by asking “what do I want? What do I really want?” from Rabbi David Jaffe of Kirva. You can learn more in Chapter 1 of his book, Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change. This quote has been misattributed to Courtney Carver. It is instead referenced by Carver in her book, Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less and Live the Life You Actually You Want. The quotation itself comes from Psychologist Nicola Jane Hobbs who teaches, “Instead of asking, 'Have I worked hard enough to deserve rest?' ask, 'Have I rested enough to do my most loving, meaningful work?'” Enjoy the live version of Lay it Down, Let it Go here. Check out the Rest to Return webpage for photos, info about the Rest to Return retreat, and more! This episode is brought to you by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Rest to Return exists because we believe slowing down is a spiritual act. IJS believes that too. For over two decades, IJS has been helping people go deeper, through Jewish mindfulness meditation, contemplative prayer, sacred text study, and embodied practice. Their offerings range from online courses and silent retreats to immersive cohort programs for seekers of all experience levels, clergy, and spiritual leaders who are ready to live and lead from a more grounded place. Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife is part of IJS's core faculty, and the wisdom you'll hear in this series is very much in that spirit. If this podcast is stirring something in you, IJS is a place to go further. Explore their programs, and more ways to learn and practice with Keshira, at jewishspirituality.org, including: View the latest offerings from IJS in our program catalog Join Keshira and others on retreat this August: Returning Anew Learn more about Keshira's latest class at IJS on Mindful Speech as a Spiritual Practice Learn more about Shevet, IJS's community for younger adults (20s-30s) IJS has several online free practices with Keshira and our other faculty including our live Daily Sit, our weekly Shevet Sit for younger adults (under 40), and monthly Affinity Sits for Jews of Color, LGBTQ+, and individuals with disabilities. Click here for more information. Join our mailing list to be notified about our upcoming fall courses, including Keshira's Earth, Moon, Mindfulness year-long class.

1 Timothy 6:17-21 (ESV)Andrew, Isack, and Edwin discuss the meaning of storing up treasures in heaven.Read the written devo that goes along with this episode by clicking here.    Let us know what you are learning or any questions you have. Email us at TextTalk@ChristiansMeetHere.org.    Join the Facebook community and join the conversation by clicking here. We'd love to meet you. Be a guest among the Christians who meet on Livingston Avenue. Click here to find out more. Michael Eldridge sang all four parts of our theme song. Find more from him by clicking here.   Thanks for talking about the text with us today.________________________________________________If the hyperlinks do not work, copy the following addresses and paste them into the URL bar of your web browser: Daily Written Devo: https://readthebiblemakedisciples.wordpress.com/?p=26216The Christians Who Meet on Livingston Avenue: http://www.christiansmeethere.org/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/TalkAboutTheTextFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/texttalkMichael Eldridge: https://acapeldridge.com/ 

Streams of whiskey. A waltz in the Gaelic tongue. A flame called Lasair burning through it all. This week's episode takes you from Loch Maree to the streets of Toulouse, fifteen artists strong. Let's go. It's the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #766.  -  -  Subscribe now at CelticMusicPodcast.com! The Here & Now, Trouz Bras, Gwendolyn Snowdon & Cathinca, Cedar Dobson and Debojyoti Sanyal, Mairi McGillivray, The McDades, Ned Bigham, The Edinburgh Quartet & Màiri Macmillan, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Donnie 'Large' Macdonald, Hildaland, Mànran, Seán - Pól Ó Peatáin, O'Konrads band, Jiggy, Tara's Folk GET CELTIC MUSIC NEWS IN YOUR INBOX The Celtic Music Magazine is a quick and easy way to plug yourself into more great Celtic culture. Enjoy seven weekly news items with what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Subscribe now and get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. VOTE IN THE CELTIC TOP 20 FOR 2026 This is our way of finding the best songs and artists each year. You can vote for as many songs and tunes that inspire you in each episode. Your vote helps me create this year's Best Celtic music episode. You have just three weeks to vote this year. Vote Now! THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC 0:02 - Intro: Amy Bradley 0:10 - The Here & Now  -  "Lovely Miss Gunning" from Ladybird 4:37 - WELCOME 6:16 - Trouz Bras  -  "Quand J'etais Jeune / Birthday Dance" from Edge of the Spiral: Celtic Music of Brittany 12:58 - Gwendolyn Snowdon & Cathinca  -  "Dúlamán" from Fabula Feminae  -  EP 15:41 - Cedar Dobson and Debojyoti Sanyal  -  "The Flogging Reel" from From Kolkata to Dublin 18:08 - Mairi McGillivray  -  "'S Mor mo Churam" from Mo Thìr 21:07 - FEEDBACK 24:36 - The McDades  -  "Gaelic Waltz Part 1" from Thread The Light 26:08 - Ned Bigham, The Edinburgh Quartet & Màiri Macmillan  -  "Laoidh a' Choin Duibh (the Lay of the Black Dog)" from The Heroic Ballads  -  Laoidhean nan Gaisgeach  -  EP 31:15 - Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer  -  "Kahlua" from Come Bring With A Noise 35:22 - Donnie 'Large' Macdonald  -  "A' Mheanbh - chuileag (The Midge)" from Christina 38:07 - Hildaland  -  "Sandy's Waltz (feat. Ethan Setiawan & Louise Bichan)" from Fiddle Tunes (feat. Ethan Setiawan & Louise Bichan)  -  EP 41:19 - THANKS 43:18 - Mànran (feat. Ruairidh Gray)  -  "Loch Maree Islands" from single 46:17 - Seán - Pól  -  "The King of The Fairies" from single 49:30 - O'Konrads band  -  "Streams of Whiskey" from Streams of Whiskey 52:05 - Jiggy  -  "Lasair" 56:32 - CLOSING 57:31 - Tara's Folk  -  "How many Roads" from remember how we fall 1:01:45 - CREDITS Support for this program comes from Cascadia Cross Border Law Group, Creating Transparent Borders for more than twenty five years, serving Alaska and the world. Find out more at   www.CascadiaLawAlaska.com Support for this program comes from Hank Woodward. Support for this program comes from Dr. Annie Lorkowski of Centennial Animal Hospital in Corona, California. Support for this program comes from John Sharkey White, II. Support for this program comes from International speaker, Joseph Dumond, teaching the ancient roots of the Gaelic people. Learn more about their origins at Sightedmoon.com The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast was produced by Marc Gunn, The Celtfather and our Patrons on Patreon. The show was edited by Mitchell Petersen with Graphics by Miranda Nelson Designs. Visit our website to follow the show. You'll find links to all of the artists played in this episode. Todd Wiley is the editor of the Celtic Music Magazine. Subscribe to get 34 Celtic MP3s for Free. Plus, you'll get 7 weekly news items about what's happening with Celtic music and culture online. Best of all, you will connect with your Celtic heritage. Please tell one friend about this podcast. Word of mouth is the absolute best way to support any creative endeavor. Finally, remember: plastic isn't just a waste problem, it's a climate problem. Most plastic is made from oil and gas, and producing it releases greenhouse gases at every step. This July, take part in Plastic Free July. Swap single use plastics for reusable bags, bottles, and containers. Solar and wind are now the cheapest power sources in history. Cutting plastic is another way to shrink demand for the fossil fuels behind it. Reduce your waste this month, one choice at a time. Promote Celtic culture through music at http://celticmusicpodcast.com/. WELCOME THE IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST * Helping you celebrate Celtic culture through music. I am Marc Gunn. I'm a Celtic musician and also host of Pub Songs & Stories, where I share stories behind my songs and those of other Celtic and folk musicians. This podcast is for fans of all kinds of Celtic music. We are here to build a diverse Celtic community and help the incredible artists who so generously share their music with you. If you hear music you love, please email the artists to let them know you heard them on the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast. As with all things, it is important to support our community, whether that is local or in a small niche we love like "Celtic music". 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Since day one, this show has relied on the generosity of kind people like you. You inspire me to keep hunting down new music, interviews and stories from our community. So I can keep sharing this show with you. I am so grateful to you. Thank you so much. As a patron, you get episodes before regular listeners. You get patron - only episodes like the Highlight Reel that came out last week. You get to vote in the Celtic Top 20 to help us collect the absolute best songs and tunes of the year into one magnificent end - of - year episode. And you keep this show running. A special thanks to our Celtic Legends: Alan Schindler, Brian McReynolds, Bruce, Dan mcDade, Daniel Ide, Dave and Rosie Donnelly, Fuzzy, Gary R Hook, Gerald F Boyle, Jeff A, Kelly Garrod, Lynda MacNeil, Margreta Silverstone, Marti Meyers, Mike Schock, Miranda Nelson, Rick Boyce, Shawn Cali HERE IS YOUR THREE STEP PLAN TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST Go to our Patreon page. Decide how much you want to pledge every month, $4, $12, $30. Keep listening to the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast to celebrate Celtic culture through music. You can become a generous Patron of the Podcast on Patreon at SongHenge.com. TRAVEL WITH CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS Every year, I take a small group of Celtic music fans on the relaxing adventure of a lifetime. We don't see everything. Instead, we stay in one area. We get to know the region through its culture, history, and legends. You can join us with an auditory and visual adventure through podcasts and videos. Learn more about the Celtic Invasion of Hiking the Isle of Skye in 2027 at http://celticinvasion.com/ #celticmusic #irishmusic #celticmusicpodcast I WANT YOUR FEEDBACK What are you doing today while listening to the podcast? Send me a photo. If you're in a Celtic band, send me an audio recording of you performing live. Just audio. I'll use it in a podcast episode later this year. Email me at follow@bestcelticmusic. Ashley Paskill emailed in response to my question of how you celebrate Celtic culture through music. She wrote: "I listen to Celtic music in the car. When I give people rides, we get to share the music! It is always so powerful to hear friends mention how particular songs meant so much to them growing up and connect with them on that level." Heidi Murphy sent a picture: "Sorry. Just found this note. So I'm attaching that picture now. It's 2026 and this year I celebrated by going to see Danu and then by playing bodhran and tin whistle at home. Let me just say Danu was magnificent. LOVED it!!!" 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Rest to Return is a podcast for a restless world. Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife is your host. This series is rooted in Shabbat, an ancient Jewish practice that teaches us how to belong to time. Here, rest is a sacred rhythm woven into who we are. We continue by gathering around a single question: What makes time sacred? The concept that each of us is created b'tzelem Elohim, in the Divine Image, comes from Genesis 1:27. The first person who I heard crystalise the idea that we need to reach REM sleep in order to dream was Rev Dr Tony Lim, during a gathering of Spiritual Innovators at the Fetzer Institute. The idea that dreaming is one-sixtieth of prophecy comes from Berakhot 57b. The concept of the Jubilee can be found in Leviticus 25:8-16. I first learned about Soli-lunar time from Seasons of our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays by Reb Arthur Waskow z”l. Geoffrey Chaucer was a writer and poet who lived in the 1300s; he was best known for having written The Canterbury Tales. I learned “Who Make the Future?” at Let My People Sing; the song is by Abigail Bengson of the Bengsons. Enjoy the live version of Lay it Down, Let it Go here. Check out the Rest to Return webpage for photos, info about the Rest to Return retreat, and more! This episode is brought to you by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Rest to Return exists because we believe slowing down is a spiritual act. IJS believes that too. For over two decades, IJS has been helping people go deeper, through Jewish mindfulness meditation, contemplative prayer, sacred text study, and embodied practice. Their offerings range from online courses and silent retreats to immersive cohort programs for seekers of all experience levels, clergy, and spiritual leaders who are ready to live and lead from a more grounded place. Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife is part of IJS's core faculty, and the wisdom you'll hear in this series is very much in that spirit. If this podcast is stirring something in you, IJS is a place to go further. Explore their programs, and more ways to learn and practice with Keshira, at jewishspirituality.org, including: View the latest offerings from IJS in our program catalog Join Keshira and others on retreat this August: Returning Anew Learn more about Shevet, IJS's community for younger adults (20s-30s) IJS has several online free practices with Keshira and our other faculty including our live Daily Sit, our weekly Shevet Sit for younger adults (under 40), and monthly Affinity Sits for Jews of Color, LGBTQ+, and individuals with disabilities. Click here for more information. Join our mailing list to be notified about our upcoming fall courses, including Keshira's Earth, Moon, Mindfulness year-long class.

Patrick answers candid questions about suffering, God’s hiddenness, and the interplay between free will and evil, weaving in scripture and Catholic tradition at every turn. Moving from the complexities of Church authority battles to the gentle art of helping friends become curious about faith, Patrick sprinkles practical wisdom on topics like late-in-life marriage, prenuptial agreements, and how anyone can approach the Liturgy of the Hours. April - Why doesn't God show His face and talk to us? Why does he allow suffering? (01:18) Bob –What is the difference between SSPX and Armenian or Byzantine rites of church? (09:49) Molly (email) - My non-religious neighbors’ two sons attended Vacation Bible Camp at our parish, loved it, and now want to learn more about Catholicism—how can I gently support and encourage their interest as a close family friend without overwhelming them with books or too much information? (18:07) Alex - My girlfriend seems pathologically jealous. Is there something in the Bible that can help her overcome this? (23:59) Yollie - Is there a time when you are too old to get married? Does a prenuptial agreement invalidate a marriage? (34:22) Linda - What is the Church’s view on novenas? (37:35) Monica (email) – Is there a laymen’s version of the Liturgy of the Hours? (40:45) Doloris (email) - Our parish priest mentioned that the verse in Matthew about the yoke being light was something many scholars believe that Jesus quoted from Sirach. If that’s true, wouldn’t that be a strong case toward the legitimacy of Sirach in the Bible? Fr. Jim (email) – Lay people can bless their homes Mack (email) - When everything in tech is getting smaller and faster these huge Data Centers do not make any sense to me.

Episode Description A goal without a launchpad is just a daydream without a deadline. Today we build the structure that makes your Mars mission real before you move a single inch. I think SMART goals are stupid, at least the time-based, realistic part. Ask Elon how long Mars should take. A big goal doesn't fit in a tidy box. What it needs is one thing. A decision to begin, a date on the calendar, and a few visible markers so you can feel yourself moving. Build it to pull you forward, not push you. Let's build your launchpad. Featured Story I'm recording this on Monday the 29th, right before I head out on vacation. I've got a goal that splits the year in two, the first half from the second. So every single thing I'm doing today and tomorrow is cleanup. Clearing stuff out, tying off loose ends, getting it all off my plate. I'm not white-knuckling it. I'm building momentum on purpose. When July 1st hits and I kick into the next stage, the obvious next step is already carrying me there. That's a launchpad. The decision is made, the date is set, and the runway is clear. All I have to do then is light it up. Important Points A goal without a launchpad is a daydream without a deadline. Make it real before you move with a date and a structure. The decision to begin is the one move that fuels everything after it. Decide first, and the motivation shows up next. Lay small visible markers between here and your goal. They prove you're moving so you don't get lost in the dark middle. Memorable Quotes A goal without a launchpad is a daydream that doesn't have a deadline. Your daydream without a deadline is nothing. There is one thing that gives you the motivation to continue your goal, and that is the decision to begin it. Decide. You decide to go, you go. Your commitment is automatic if you're motivated enough to reach the freedom on the far side. Scott's Three-Step Approach Start by making one clear decision to begin, because that single choice is what fuels every step that comes after it. Next, make it real before it's real, naming a date, putting it on the calendar, and saying the goal out loud to someone. Then lay visible markers down the runway, benchmarks that prove your momentum so you never stall in the dark middle. Chapters 1:53 - A goal without a launchpad is just a daydream 2:42 - Why SMART goals are stupid for a big goal 4:15 - The decision to begin is your only motivation 5:31 - Make it real with a date you say out loud 5:58 - Anticipation is the fuel that pulls you forward 6:37 - Designing the next step to be totally obvious 7:29 - Runway markers that prove you are moving Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify If you enjoy the Daily Boost, you might like Notes From Scott. A few mornings each week, I send a short note with something I've been thinking about or noticing lately. Sometimes those ideas turn into podcast episodes later. You can sign up at https://notesfromscott.com. Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rest to Return is a podcast for a restless world. Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife is your host. This series is rooted in Shabbat, an ancient Jewish practice that teaches us how to belong to time. Here, rest is a sacred rhythm woven into who we are. We continue by gathering around a single question: What is sacred time? The names victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life building, whose memories are always close to my heart are: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger. May their memories be for a blessing always. Mishenichnas Adar marbim b'simcha comes from the Talmud (Ta'anit 29a:18). I first learned about the cycles of the moon from Jane Hardwicke Collings at the School of Shamanic Womancraft. This quote comes from Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsburg)'s Yalkut Katan (meaning “Small Collection”) which was published in the journal Hashiloaḥ, in 1898. Lex Rofeberg is co-founder of Judaism Unbound! This quote is found in Courtney Carver's book Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less, and Live the Life You Actually Want; she is quoting writer and psychologist Nicola Jane Hobbs who originally asked the question. The concept of the shmitta cycle originates in Exodus 23:10-11, Leviticus 25:2-7, and Deuteronomy 15:1-3. God breathing life into Adam's nostrils comes from Genesis 2:7. Enjoy the live version of Lay it Down, Let it Go here. Check out the Rest to Return webpage for photos, info about the Rest to Return retreat, and more! If Rest to Return has evoked something in you, if these episodes have helped you slow down, breathe a little deeper, or reconnect with what matters most, you might be interested in Rest to Return: A High Holiday Deceleration Retreat, which I'll be co-hosting this September. Nestled amidst New England beauty, 25 Jewish leaders - some Jewish professionals, some people who are Jewish and leaders - will gather for a retreat centered around rest as a form of teshuvah, returning to ourselves. Through creativity, reflection, and connection, we'll immerse in slowness and spaciousness as a way to prepare ourselves for 5787. If you're a Jewish leader and you've been longing for something like this, check out www.keshirahalev.com/sacredpause to learn more and express interest before July 10. This episode is brought to you by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Rest to Return exists because we believe slowing down is a spiritual act. IJS believes that too. For over two decades, IJS has been helping people go deeper, through Jewish mindfulness meditation, contemplative prayer, sacred text study, and embodied practice. Their offerings range from online courses and silent retreats to immersive cohort programs for seekers of all experience levels, clergy, and spiritual leaders who are ready to live and lead from a more grounded place. Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife is part of IJS's core faculty, and the wisdom you'll hear in this series is very much in that spirit. If this podcast is stirring something in you, IJS is a place to go further. Explore their programs, and more ways to learn and practice with Keshira, at jewishspirituality.org, including: View the latest offerings from IJS in our program catalog Join Keshira and others on retreat this August: Returning Anew Learn more about Shevet, IJS's community for younger adults (20s-30s) IJS has several online free practices with Keshira and our other faculty including our live Daily Sit, our weekly Shevet Sit for younger adults (under 40), and monthly Affinity Sits for Jews of Color, LGBTQ+, and individuals with disabilities. Click here for more information. Join our mailing list to be notified about our upcoming fall courses, including Keshira's Earth, Moon, Mindfulness year-long class.