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Moin Leute! Schnappt euch eure Kopfhörer und 'ne Portion Ketchup, denn wir schlagen mal wieder die Brücke über 18.000 Kilometer. Während Marv im hohen Norden Deutschlands die Technik-Fahne hochhält, funkt Chris direkt aus dem neuseeländischen Exil zu uns rüber. Heute wird es nerdig, nass und ein bisschen nostalgisch!In dieser Folge haben wir folgende Themen für euch im Gepäck: Coding für Anfänger: Chris versucht, die Welt der Nullen und Einsen so zu erklären, dass sogar Marv sie versteht (oder zumindest so tut). Lake Taupo Mystery: Die große Auflösung, wie die Fische in den See kamen – Spoiler: Sie haben nicht den Bus genommen. Hydrologie-Talk: Wo kommt das Wasser eigentlich her und wo fließt es hin? Wir gehen dem nassen Element auf den Grund. One Battle after another: Chris hat den Film-Marathon endlich beendet und liefert seine (un)geschönte Meinung ab. Stranger Things: Endlich! Wir knöpfen uns die letzte Staffel vor. Packt die Taschentücher und die 80er-Vibes aus. Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt: Harrison Ford bekommt den Life Achievement Award und wir verneigen uns vor Indy und Han Solo.Egal ob ihr gerade Fotos bearbeitet, Code schreibt oder einfach nur die Zeit totschlagt – viel Spaß beim Hören unserer neuesten Eskapaden!____Die zwei Podcast-Haudegen Chris & Marv, bei Hinz und Kunz bekannt durch "netucated - der beste Podcast der Welt", wollen es noch einmal wissen. Hier geht es um aktuelle Geschehnisse, Nerdkram, Musik, Filme und Serien, Fotografie, aber im Kern eigentlich nur um eins: Eine Unterhaltung unter Freunden.Chris ist im echten Leben Fotograf (https://chris-kreymborg.com/) und Softwareentwickler (https://www.chris-kreymborg.net/) und lebt seit 2020 in Neuseeland.Marv ist Hochzeitsfotograf aus Bremen (https://herrstellmach.com/) und bloggt ganz gerne mal (https://stellmach.blog/)Natürlich haben wir eine Spotify-Playlist mit unseren Lieblingssongs, die auch hin und wieder erweitert wird, hört mal rein:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/66AQnPVtkoV7UWXE0mb1I2?si=9d83ec994ef74d4d

Kristin Baver sits down with Mark and Becca to discuss her work on 'The Art of Star Wars: The Acolyte.' This episode of Tarkin's Top Shelf welcomes back the author and editor-in-chief of StarWars.com to explore her latest project for Abrams Books. Before diving in, the trio chats about Harrison Ford's Life Achievement Award, the Skeleton Crew Emmy win, and a new Star Wars book by a close friend of Kristin's.   Help us spread the word about the show Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe via Stitcher Click here to subscribe via Google Play Music Feedback and Promotion Follow us on Twitter @TarkinsTopShelf Like us on Facebook: Tarkin's Top Shelf Follow us on Instagram @TarkinsTopShelf Follow us on Threads  Follow us on Bluesky

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'Bugonia' star Jesse Plemons does a deep dive on his conspiracy-theorist character and going toe-to-toe with Emma Stone, and director Yorgos Lanthimos explains what made this movie more complicated than his other recent projects. Plus, Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW Sr. Editor Joyce Eng break down the huge opening weekend for 'Wicked: For Good' and discuss the career of Eddie Murphy, who will be AFI's latest Life Achievement Award winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our own Keith Baldrey receives the "lifetime achievement award" at the Jack Webster's! Today is budget day. What will happen?! The Vancouver Police Board is asking for an extra $50 million to bring its budget up to $497 million. How will Ken Sim keep taxes at 0%? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En nuestro podcast #100 hablamos con Mariana Posse, recientemente reconocida por Latin Lawyer con el Life Achievement Award, resultado de una carrera admirable y de muy alto nivel en la industria legal colombiana. Fue una conversación cargada de lecciones de vida y profesionales, que sin duda representan una parte importante de la historia de nuestra firma y un mensaje para las generaciones que continuarán ese legado.

Original airdate: Feb 21, 2023 We all face adversity from time to time, but some of us are able to flourish when things get difficult, while others seem to struggle. So, what does it take to stand firm during these tough times? According to my guest Mark Nepo, the key to standing strong against life's unavoidable storms is to know our true self and solidify our connection to all Spirit and all life. He's here to explain more. Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, he has published 22 books and his work has been translated into over 20 languages. Mark has been interviewed several times by Oprah Winfrey and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation. In 2016 he was named one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit. During our conversation, Mark offers his valuable insights and practical steps on navigating difficulties based on principles from his book “Surviving Storms.” He eloquently brings us to common passages and paths, urging us forward on the journey. 

From 1999- more from Michael Schumacher, talking about his book "Francis Ford Coppola: a Filmmaker's Life." Earlier this year, Coppola became the 50th person to receive the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Earlier this year, Francis Ford Coppola became the 50th person to be granted the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award- and the star-studded ceremony where he was presented the award was recently telecast on Turner Classic Movies. In honor of that, we are resharing our 1999 interview with Kenosha author Michael Schumacher in which we talk about his book "Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life." Coppola is renowned for directing and/or producing such films as "The Godfather," "The Godfather II," "Apocalypse Now," "The Outsiders," "Peggy Sue Got Married," "American Graffiti," and "The Cotton Club."

There are no shortcuts in navigating growing older. As we pass into the second half of our lives, we will face the challenge of accepting the forces of limitation. The reality of aging is that it is an apprenticeship into life with the invitation of new ways of seeing, feeling, and being. Here we explore the challenges and gifts of growing older. Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015 he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. Mark Nepo is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 booksInterview Date: 5/9/2025 Tags: Mark Nepo, aging, curiosity, limitations, Odyssey, Odysseus, Helen Luke, Tiresias, position of mastery, confidence, aging dog, Claude Monet, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Community, Death & Dying

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015 he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. His the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including:· The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your Heart (Atria Books 2016) and The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life (St. Martins' Essentials 2025)Interview Date: 5/9/2025 Tags: Mark Nepo, aging, new normal, pathologizing aging, pain, cancer, ground of being, metaphor of the iceberg, spider web over a rushing stream, being truthful, honest and open, authenticity, deep listening to one another, compassion, monorhaphis sponge, gratitude, metaphor of waves on ocean, Personal Transformation, Philosophy

Momento "epico" a Hollywood: cosa ci fanno insieme i leggendari Steven Spielberg, George Lucas e Francis Ford Coppola? I tre si sono incontrati per "incoronare" Coppola, consegnandogli il prestigioso Life Achievement Award dell'American Film Institute. Volgendo lo sguardo all'Europa, la Primavera porta con se' i più famosi Festival del cinema, ma non sarà solo cinema d'autore "alto": a Locarno verrà premiato anche Jackie Chan! Ma prima, sarà tempo di Cannes, dove è stata recentemente annunciata la giuria, di cui farà parte anche la nostra Alba Rohrwacher. Passando alle novità del momento, per chi desidera calarsi nell'atmosfera attuale arriva su Sky "Conclave", il film sull'elezione del Papa, mentre su Netflix è arrivata la quinta e ultima stagione di "You". Mentre è ufficialmente in lavorazione il suo remake, per la rubrica "le 5 cose che non potete non sapere" è la volta di "Miami Vice", serie cult degli anni '80. E a proposito di "rifacimenti", mentre Kerry Washington e Natalie Chaidez stanno lavorando al reboot di "Desperate Housewives", "Wisteria Lane", Prime Video è all'opera sulla serie live action "Pacific Rim". E ancora, J.J. Abrams e Josh Holloway, dopo aver già lavorato insieme in "Lost", sono in uscita negli USA con la nuova serie "Duster".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Momento "epico" a Hollywood: cosa ci fanno insieme i leggendari Steven Spielberg, George Lucas e Francis Ford Coppola? I tre si sono incontrati per "incoronare" Coppola, consegnandogli il prestigioso Life Achievement Award dell'American Film Institute. Volgendo lo sguardo all'Europa, la Primavera porta con se' i più famosi Festival del cinema, ma non sarà solo cinema d'autore "alto": a Locarno verrà premiato anche Jackie Chan! Ma prima, sarà tempo di Cannes, dove è stata recentemente annunciata la giuria, di cui farà parte anche la nostra Alba Rohrwacher. Passando alle novità del momento, per chi desidera calarsi nell'atmosfera attuale arriva su Sky "Conclave", il film sull'elezione del Papa, mentre su Netflix è arrivata la quinta e ultima stagione di "You". Mentre è ufficialmente in lavorazione il suo remake, per la rubrica "le 5 cose che non potete non sapere" è la volta di "Miami Vice", serie cult degli anni '80. E a proposito di "rifacimenti", mentre Kerry Washington e Natalie Chaidez stanno lavorando al reboot di "Desperate Housewives", "Wisteria Lane", Prime Video è all'opera sulla serie live action "Pacific Rim". E ancora, J.J. Abrams e Josh Holloway, dopo aver già lavorato insieme in "Lost", sono in uscita negli USA con la nuova serie "Duster".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At this year's SAG Awards, Jane Fonda was named the 60th recipient of the Life Achievement Award. The legendary actor and activist sat down with SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher in an Actor to Actor conversation about her remarkable career spanning five decades. Fonda reflects on her early struggles finding meaningful roles, her emotional journey on ‘Grace and Frankie,' and the challenges of being a woman in Hollywood. She also discusses her passionate advocacy for women's rights and her insights about her growth as both an artist and an activist. *The views expressed are those of the speakers and not necessarily those of SAG-AFTRA.

Jane Fonda and her son Troy Garity join our show the week of the 2025 SAG Awards, where Fonda was honored with SAG-AFTRA's highest tribute — the Life Achievement Award. She talks about the origin of her iconic Klute shag haircut, how she once fought off a bear in New Mexico, and what she looks forward to doing next in her best decade yet. Garity shares the helpful advice his mother gave him for his first film, Bandits, and how remaining empathetic, creative, and hopeful as an actor creates a path for finding solutions in a chaotic world. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

Kevin Pryor is known in Troy as a supporter of youth. His life work has been to support youth in their dreams and goals and works to place young people in work positions which excite them. Kevin Pryor just received a lifetime achievement award, and he was interviewed about his work by HMM producer Jalaya Reid, who is one of the youth whom he has given support to.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris makes some of her longest remarks since her white house run. Jane Fonda used her Life Achievement Award speech at the SAG awards to clap back at rightwing pundits. Grammy winner Roberta Flack known for her intimate vocal style on hits like "Killing Me Softly With His Song" has died. Plus more. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comSupport the show: https://laist.com

Mark Nepo is a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A beloved poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” His work is widely accessible and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.A bestselling author, Mark has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. In September 2022, his twenty-third book, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity, will be published (St. Martin's. Essentials). Recent work includes The Book of Soul (St. Martin's Essentials, 2020), which was honored by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2020, Drinking from the River of Light (Sounds True, 2019), a Nautilus Book Award Winner; More Together Than Alone (Atria, 2018) cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2018; and Things That Join the Sea and the Sky (Sounds True, 2017), a Nautilus Book Award Winner. Mark is a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health Magazine.In 2015 Mark was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation; in 2016 he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. Mark appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV, and was part of Oprah's The Life You Want Tour in 2014. He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America.Join Mark's Next 1-Session Webinar: Saying Yes To Life (Dec. 11, 2022)In his 30's Mark was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, a struggle which helped to form his philosophy of experiencing life fully while staying in relationship to an unknowable future. Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats.Please enjoy my conversation with Mark Nepo.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/next-level-soul-podcast-with-alex-ferrari--4858435/support.

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The Power of Friendship: Mark Nepo The thing worth keeping alive for the rest of time, is friendship itself. For being seen and heard empowers us to stand by our core. When standing by our core, we have the strength to be fully who we are. When fully who we are, we become humble instruments for each other's inevitable transformation. At our best, we serve as inadvertent catalysts for each other's eventual illumination. Coming together like this is intrinsic to our nature and helping each other transform is one of the deep purposes of friendship. Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher and a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for more than fifty years all over the world. The author of 26 books, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, his numerous award-winning books— including The Book of Awakening, Falling Down and Getting Up, Surviving Storms, and Drinking from the River of Light— have been translated into over twenty languages. Mark's new book, You Don't Have to Do It Alone: The Power of Friendship, is being published by St. Martin's Essentials in July, 2024 Mark has appeared several times on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday program. In 2015 he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation. In 2016 he was named one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He offer readings, lectures, and retreats internationally. For info on his courses, retreats and books, visit: www.MarkNepo.com  and for his current webinars, check out: www.Live.MarkNepo.com  Learn more about Simran here: www.iamsimran.com www.1111mag.com/

Here we explore one of the most important aspects of being human—the power of friendship. Friendship is an island of safety and intimacy as we share our joys, sorrows, challenges, and authenticity. They give us the courage to be our full self, flaws and all, and love us even when we don't love ourselves. Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher, and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including: Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018), Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength (St. Martin's Essentials 2023), You Don't Have To Do It Alone: The Power Of Friendship (St. Martin's Essentials 2024)Interview Date: 4/19/2024 Tags: Mark Nepo, honor, friendship, compassion, Organ master Lonnie Smith, Endora Welty, E.M. Forster, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Relationship

Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher, and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including: Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018), Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength (St. Martin's Essentials 2023), You Don't Have To Do It Alone: The Power Of Friendship (St. Martin's Essentials 2024)Interview Date: 4/19/2024 Tags: Mark Nepo, Thomas Merton, apprenticeship into compassion, grace, isolation, friendship of dogs, Personal Transformation, Psychology, Philosophy, Relationship

Join Flick Ford and guest reviewer Alice McShane as they dive into the world of Nicole Kidman, freshly honored with the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute—the first Australian ever to receive this prestigious accolade. With nearly 100 acting credits to her name, Kidman is not only one of the most recognized screen icons but also among the highest-paid actors globally.From her early roles in BMX Bandits and Days of Thunder to her compelling performances in EYES WIDE SHUT, COLD MOUNTAIN, MOULIN ROUGE, THE HOURS, DOGVILLE, DESTROYER, and many more, we'll journey through her expansive filmography and highlight some of our favourite roles.Flick and Alice will delve into the nuances of Kidman's performances, providing an in-depth exploration of the impact of her work. Join us as we celebrate her illustrious career and her enduring talent.Primal Screen, 7pm every Monday on Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/primalscreenshow/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primal_screen_show/Twitter: https://twitter.com/primal_screen

AP correspondent Margie Szaroleta reports on an honor for actor Nicole Kidman.

In 1962, while he was doing pre-production work on The Greatest Story Ever Told, Stevens was recruited by Edward R. Murrow to serve as director of the Motion Picture and Television Service, a division of the United States Information Agency.[10][11] At age 31, Stevens moved from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., where as director of the service, he produced roughly 300 short documentary films per year.[11][12][7] One of the films Stevens commissioned was Nine from Little Rock, which followed the experiences of nine African-American students attending a previously all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.In 1965, Stevens was a consultant in the process that established the National Endowment for the Arts.[17] In June 1967, at age 35, Stevens resigned from his position at the USIA to join the American Film Institute.In 1973, Stevens established the AFI Life Achievement Award, to honor and recognize decorated figures in the American film industry such as Orson Welles, James Cagney, Bette Davis, and Lillian Gish.[24][7][25] Stevens produced and wrote for the Life Achievement Award's television broadcast from its inception until 1998.In 1978, along with Nick Vanoff, Stevens co-created the Kennedy Center Honors, a ceremony and television production recognizing people who have made significant contributions to American culture through the performing arts.Stevens  has just released an unforgettable  memoir entitled  My Place in the Sun.

Welcome back to the IGNITE Your Dream Podcast! This week's encore episode probably won't come as a surprise to any of you... I'm re-sharing one of my favorite conversations with beloved author, poet, friend and mentor, Mark Nepo.  Mark and I had this conversation in mid-2020, during the height of the pandemic when the world was going more than a little stir crazy. I thought it would be powerful to go back and re-listen to the wisdom shared with new eyes and an even softer heart.  With over a million copies sold, Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening.  Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.  A bestselling author, he has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects.  In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation.  In 2016, he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity.  Mark and I went straight for the good stuff during this conversation to talk about what it means to BE during this global pandemic, his new book, Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters, and how our habit of distraction can keep up from living our lives to their fullest expression.    Links Mentioned:  Learn more about Mark by following him on Instagram: @mark_nepo Learn more about my signature program IGNITE Your Business  Book your Breakthrough Call today!  Tag me in your big shifts + takeaways: @amberlilyestrom Did you hear something you loved here today?! Leave a Review + Subscribe via iTunes 

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How about we have a conversation with one of the most spiritually influential living people on earth? Yes, you heard that right! Today's guest was bestowed with this honor by Watkins MindBodySpirit, and if that's not impressive enough, AgeNation awarded him a Life Achievement Award. Today, we have the incredible privilege of sitting down with a true luminary in the world of spirituality, health, and resilience. His name is Mark Nepo, and he's not just an authority on spiritual matters and poetry; he's a living testament to the power of the human spirit.Mark is no stranger to adversity; he's a cancer survivor who has weathered life's storms and authored dozens of books, including The Book of Awakening and Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity. In essence, he's a true badass in resilience, and we're here to delve into the fusion of science, health, and spirituality with a master of all these realms.Mark's new book, Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength, is a profound exploration of how we can navigate life's challenges with acceptance and resilience. Throughout our conversation, we'll touch on the transformative impact of Mark's battle with cancer, the wisdom he's gleaned from our elders, the profound insights from indigenous healing traditions, and the incredible power of building resilience through pain. So, fasten your seatbelts, dear listeners, because this is a conversation that promises to touch your soul and leave you with valuable nuggets of wisdom for your own journey.(02:11) The Spiritual Impact of Overcoming Cancer in His Early 30s(10:05) How Our Beliefs Influence Our Reality(21:14) Navigating the Choice Between Love & Fear(27:11) The Invaluable Impact of Our Teachers & Healers(37:14) How To Face Failure & Build Resilience(47:44) Navigating the Deeper Teachers of Fear, Pain & Grief(01:01:36) Unlock Your Inner WisdomResourcesDave Asprey's NEW Book ‘Smarter Not Harder' is out now: https://daveasprey.com/books Website: marknepo.comRead: Falling Down and Getting Up by Mark NepoInstagram: @mark_nepoYouTube: Mark NepoFacebook: @MarkNepoOprah's Review: oprah.comThe Human Upgrade is produced by Crate Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.Mark Nepo is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin's Essentials 2020), Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martins' Essentials 2022) and Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength (St. Martins' Essentials 2023). His many audio learning courses include Staying Awake (Sounds True 2012) and Holding Nothing Back (Sounds True 2012Interview Date: 6/30/2023 Tags: Mark Nepo, inner truth, integrity, Rabbi Omer-Man, noise, guiding center point, inner voice, enlivening, friendship, disheartening, discernment, Kalevala, isolation, Joseph Bruchac, original instructions, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Relationship

We are so honored to have today's guest, Henci Goer, joining Meagan today. Henci has made it her life's work to help women make informed decisions about their care in the birth space. She has written multiple books, received countless awards, and has made current obstetric research more accessible to women worldwide. Henci defines uterine scar separation and talks about what factors may contribute to or help prevent this from happening. Meagan and Henci talk extensively about VBAC, VBA2C, birth plans, induction, and epidurals all using evidence-based research. We love that Henci's mission is to empower women and families to make the choices that are best for them. Here at The VBAC Link, our mission is the same!Additional LinksHenci's Blog: Is VBAC Safe?Henci's WebsiteLabor Pain: What's Your Best Strategy? By Henci GoerOptimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for a Physiologic ApproachNeeded WebsiteHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull Transcript under Episode DetailsMeagan: Hello, hello. Welcome to The VBAC Link. This is Meagan and you guys, we have an amazing, amazing, amazing episode for you today. This episode has actually been kind of a long time coming. We have our friend, Henci Goer. She is just a wealth of knowledge. You're going to absolutely pick this episode apart. I know it. You're actually probably going to want a notebook so if you're one of the listeners that goes on walks or is driving, you might want to press pause or listen to it and come back with a notebook because I know you're going to want to write these stats down. We're talking about uterine scar giveaway, you guys. I know that this is something huge. All of our listeners, every single one of our listeners that has had a VBAC is aware of uterine scar separation so this is going to be a really great episode filled with wonderful evidence and all of the things for you. So buckle up. It's going to be amazing. Review of the WeekBut of course, we have a Review of the Week so I am going to quickly share that with you. This review today is actually on our How to VBAC: The Ultimate Parents Course. This is from Rosie. It says, “As someone who had an unplanned Cesarean myself and as a doula, I really appreciated how well-balanced this course is. There's no shaming. There's no bias. It's just the facts.”Thank you, Rosie. I'm so glad that you are enjoying the course or have enjoyed the course. And if you didn't know, we do have a How to VBAC Parents Course and a Doula Course for all of you birth workers out there who want to learn how to support your VBAC clients. We have this course. You can check it out at thevbaclink.com. Henci GoerMeagan: Okay, Ms. Henci. I am so honored to have you on the show today. I mean, really, it seems like we've been talking for months. I really think it was the beginning of the year, right? Henci: Something around there, yeah. Meagan: Yes. Oh my gosh, it's been so long. Just for anyone out there who wants to know a little bit more about Henci and why we are having her on the show today, she actually started out as a Lamaze teacher and a doula. Her life's work soon became analyzing and synthesizing obstetric research in order to give pregnant women, birthing people, and birth professionals access to what continues to be optimal care in childbirth. Just that right there, that little bit right there, I'm telling you guys, it really is her life's work. If you Google her name, you're going to find a ton of research. She's an author of four books. Four books, you guys. Labor Pain, What is Your Best Strategy?, Optimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for Physiological Approach with co-author Amy Ramana– is she on MSN and CNN or has been mentioned? Tell me about that. Henci: She's a nurse-midwife. That's Master of Nursing. Meagan: Oh, I was thinking CNM in my head. MSN, so what is that? Henci: It's a Master of something. I don't know what that degree is. She's a nurse-midwife. Meagan: She's a CNM. Certified Nurse-Midwife, yes. In my head, I read CNM. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth and Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities. You guys. In addition, she has written numerous blog posts, articles, given lectures around the world, and here she is today on our podcast. I'm so honored. In recognition of her work, she has received among so many others, the American College of Nurse-Midwives' Best Book of the Year. Henci, congratulations on that. Henci: Yeah, that was a thrill. Meagan: That is amazing. Lamaze International Presidents Award, DONA International Claus– Henci: Both of their memories are a blessing. Meagan: I know. Seriously, a research award on that. Life Achievement Award, I mean, you guys. She has so many awards and here she is to talk with you, Women of Strength, all about one of the biggest topics in VBAC. Right? Uterine separation, also known as uterine rupture. When I started talking with Henci, I love that she was like, “You know, I don't love to call it uterine rupture. It's uterine separation.” I have really grown to love that over the last few months that we have been talking. Yeah, so let's talk about it. What is uterine scar separation, Henci? What is that? Henci: Well, before we get started because I think we are going to be giving a lot of information. I want to emphasize that one of the things that took so long is that what we decided to do is that I would do a blog post that had all of the detailed information in it.Meagan: And it does. Henci: So, not to worry. I imagine that with the notes for the podcast, you'll post a link to the blog post which will have detailed numbers in it. My life's work– and I love the review of your course because just sits where I sit. My life's work has been wanting to give women and birthing people the ability to make choices having all complete, accurate information on the pros and cons of their option which is really difficult to get as you probably know and your people probably know. Meagan: It is. Yes. Henci: What they choose to do with it, it's just that I'm there for the information. No judgment. I'm here to help people decide they want to plan a repeat Cesarean. Whatever it is, I want people to have accurate, balanced information to the best of my ability to create a space where they can make the choice that's right for them and their families. Meagan: Absolutely. I love that so much and that is really what we are here about at The VBAC Link. There's no shaming in choosing a repeat Cesarean. There's no shaming in choosing an epidural over unmedicated, right? There's no wrong way to birth, but the most important thing to us here at The VBAC Link is that you know the facts, you know the options, and you choose the best route for you. Henci: And then the other piece which is part of my work as well is to go beyond the information and say, “So now you have this information, what can you do with it?” What are the tips, ideas, and recommendations that will help you craft a plan that will help take you in the direction that you want to go? I'm very careful. This may be one of the more important things that I say to your group and it's not informational. I'm very carefully not saying “goal”. I think it's very important to distinguish intention from goal. Goal assumes that you have you get somewhere and if you don't get to that place then you failed, right? The intention– is this is the direction that you want to go in?To have that in mind helps you, first of all, to plan the journey in a way that's most likely to succeed in getting there, but it also helps you have your priorities so that if things happen along the way, you're able to be flexible to know what's really important, to navigate the space, but to understand that sometimes life has other plans so if you don't take anything else away from what I say today, please take away that because I think that's really key. Meagan: Yeah. As a doula, when we're doing prenatals with our clients, a lot of people will be like, “Can you help me write a birth plan?” I love the idea surrounding birth plans. Let's have this idea of how we want this birth to go, but I like to reference it more as birth preferences. “Here are my preferences and I'm going to label them from A to D, most important to less important, and have this idea and this plan, but then also know that there are other options and it's okay if I choose those. It's okay if my birth goes another route because I have these preferences and we're going to do everything we can to have them, but we know it doesn't always pan out that way. We know that. Henci: I think too that something has gone wrong. I talk about this in the introduction to my latest book. I think “plan” has gotten a bad rap. So a plan isn't a laundry list or a blueprint. It's more like, “Are you planning for a career? Well then, you're going to decide what you're going to do to take steps in that direction. Are you planning a vacation?” But it's not something that has checkboxes on it. Meagan: It's not a list. Henci: I think, if I may be so bold, the problem with preference is that at least, I think especially if you talk about preferences to medical staff, it becomes like, “Well, I think I'd rather wear a blue gown or have chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla.” It doesn't have the same strength as saying– Meagan: “This is my plan.”Henci: And that can be internal to the woman or the birthing person. But yeah, let's get into the meat of what I want to say today. Meagan: No, I love that message though. I do love that message. I think it would be really good if we did stop because the reason why we change “plan” is because if things don't go as planned, we failed. That's how our minds work and it's not how it is, but that's how the world has–Henci: Right, but this I think is what happened when birth plans became a thing in the medical environment. It became a checklist. But when you say, “I'm planning a vacation,” if your plane flight gets delayed and you miss your connection to the cruise boat, you don't say, “Oh, I failed.” Right? Meagan: Right. Henci: It's a plan. “All right. How am I going to get to Costa Rica?” It's a very different mindset and I'd just like to relieve the audience from the idea that a plan is too limited. Meagan: Yeah. I love that. I love that. Let's talk about how when we are planning to have a VBAC and when we are going for a trial of labor after a Cesarean, we have a lot of providers talking about–Henci: I'm going to plan a VBAC trial. I think language is just so key to all of this. Meagan: Right? I know. Henci: A trial suggests that– Meagan: We're trying. We're trying. Henci: The other word that I'd just like to take out is “success”. You either plan a VBAC and have a VBAC or you plan a VBAC and you have a repeat Cesarean. Meagan: Like you say, those words are so important. We talk about VBAC and TOLAC language in our course and talk about how you might hear TOLAC and that actually might be triggering. It is to a lot of people because you are like, “I'm not trying to do anything. I'm going to have this baby. My goal or my plan is to have a vaginal birth after a Cesarean.” I don't love trial, but we talk about how that is how medical professionals will label it so we try to get comfortable with the term TOLAC so when we hear it at birth, we're not triggered, but knowing in our minds, we are planning to have this VBAC. So when we are planning for our VBAC, one of the number one things that focuses on that from a lot of providers is uterine separation. Henci: Right and even there, the language that the medical practitioners use is right with the language of failure. So let's even take that. You hear, “What are my odds of–” even if they don't call it uterine rupture? The thing is that there are a couple of really big studies, like 50,000 because now we have these big databases and in one of them, the likelihood of the scar giving way was 5 out of 1000 and in the other one, it was 3 out of 1000. What you have to think of is, in one of those studies, the odds were 995 out of 1000 that you wouldn't have a problem with your scar and in the other one, it was 997 out of 1000 that you would not have a problem with your scar. The other thing that people have to understand is that even if you do, even if the scar gives way, yes, it's an emergency. The odds of having something bad happen to your baby– Meagan: Catastrophic, yeah. Henci: Catastrophic happen to your baby are again, 997 out of 1000. When that problem happens with your scar, 997 times out of 1000, your baby is going to be just fine. You're going to have an emergency Cesarean, but your baby is going to be fine. Meagan: Usually Mom is fine too. Henci: Yes, absolutely. So you have to think in those terms so that the numbers are very low. The thing there is that it's a general number. Meagan: Right. It is a general number. That is something that we really, really need to keep in mind. This is a general number. Henci: I want to drill down and look at some things that affect that number. The first one, and don't worry, I go into details and give all of the numbers in the blog post. The first one is what I noticed when I started doing the research for this is that you have two factors that pull in opposite directions. One of them pulls towards having a problem with the scar and that is the use of induction or augmentation. The other pull in the direction of not having a problem with the scar and that's having a prior VBAC. Before we get to, “Well, my last baby was big. Does that increase my chance because I might have a bigger baby this time?” Those two things are key and one of them, you sort of have control over. Meagan: Yeah. Yeah, not inducing. Henci: What I can tell you is that it's pretty clear that the stronger the stimulus to the uterus, the more likely you are to have a problem with the scar. In other words, particularly the highest risk is if you are induced at all just with oxytocin and then if you're induced or augmented, it really goes up– this is really the key point– if you are induced when the cervix isn't favorable for labor and they give you an agent. Meagan: To help soften the cervix and get you ready for induction. Henci: Right. It does a great job of softening the cervix, but there actually may be a reason why the agents that soften the cervix are problematic for the scar because the cervix is made of connective tissue. What those agents do is that they cause the cervix to soften by pulling in water and softening the way you'd wet a sponge. Meagan: I love that analogy. I've never thought of that. Henci: Guess what the uterine scar tissue is made up of? Connective tissue. That could be where the problem is. But anyway, so the more you augment the uterus, the more likely you are to cause a problem with the scar if the contractions are stronger and longer and for longer periods of time. One thing to keep in mind is that induction is never an emergency or a necessity. If, for example, you do have a medical issue like your blood pressure is going up, there's a real reason that induction and getting the baby out sooner rather than later is possible. I'm going to put this on the back burnerhere are studies that show if you are really careful to induce to mimic as much as possible what the body does naturally, you can induce without overstressing the scar. That's something to say if, “Oh my god, if my only choice is induction or a repeat Cesarean, I guess I'd better choose repeat Cesarean,” then I would say, “Yes, there are ways to do this.” Like the wicked witch says, “These things must be done carefully.” That's one thing. The other thing is that there is very strong evidence that if you have had a VBAC, you are much less likely to have a problem with a scar. Having a prior vaginal birth, a vaginal birth before a Cesarean doesn't seem to have as much of an effect on that, but if you get a VBAC under your belt, you are very, very likely to go on having uneventful VBACs if you choose to have more children. Meagan: Why do you think that is? Just because the uterus has progressed and it has pushed a baby out? I read that question a lot and in my head, I know there is a showing that you are more likely, but in my head, I'm like, “Why? Why is it exactly why you are more likely to have a VBAC if you've had a vaginal birth and if you've had a VBAC, you're less likely to have separation when the uterus is doing the same chemical functionality?” It's contracting and squeezing and pushing a baby out.Henci: If that were true, then it wouldn't make a difference whether you've had a vaginal birth before you've had a Cesarean or you've had a VBAC after you've had a Cesarean. Meagan: It's really weird. Henci: So I have no idea. I'm just the literature lady. I just can tell you what the research says. Meagan: Yeah. Right? I don't know that either. I can't figure it out myself either. I don't understand why. Yeah. Okay, I had a vaginal birth and then I had a C-section and then now I don't have as high of a risk. It's just interesting. It's really interesting. Henci: Yeah, certainly. If you have had a VBAC, for anybody to say, “Oh, we just don't do VBACs and you really need to have a repeat Cesarean,” your best option is to plan a repeat VBAC. I mean, that is a really strong link there. Meagan: Right, but we're not having providers suggest it. We're still having providers saying, “It is your best option to have a scheduled repeat Cesarean.” Henci: Do they say why?Meagan: We have people writing all over. One, we just don't support it. Two, the vaginal birth that you did have– say if they had a vaginal birth– wasn't until 41 weeks so if you have a baby by 39 weeks, it's fine. You can have that but after 39 weeks you can't. Henci: Yeah, that's what I call a Cinderella VBAC. You can have a VBAC if you go into labor before 40 weeks and if your previous baby wasn't too big and if you make progress in labor, but you know, the basic reason is, “We don't do VBACs here because we can't handle obstetric emergencies.” Oh, wait. Let's think about this. You're a hospital. You have women coming in in labor. Some of them have high blood pressure. Go down the list and you're saying that you can't handle an obstetric emergency 24/7? You shouldn't be doing births here. Meagan: You shouldn't be having babies here. That happens a lot where you've got more rule areas like, “We can't support VBAC because we can't handle an emergency Cesarean.” It's like, “Well, if you can't handle an emergency Cesarean, then that's a big concern for anyone to give birth because VBAC or not, we know emergent Cesareans can be needed for first-time moms.” If they can't handle a VBAC Cesarean, then how are they totally able to handle someone who has an emergency Cesarean just in general?Henci: Unfortunately, this isn't something that your audience can change. They're not going to talk that hospital into changing, so it just hurts my heart that people are put in this sort of form of dilemma where they don't have a good option. They have a least worst option. Meagan: They feel stuck. That is the same thing with me. It hurts my heart that so many people feel so stuck out there. We have mamas that travel out of the country or out of the state just to find somewhere but that option isn't for everyone. So it's really hard if you feel stuck and you're not feeling supported in your community. So yeah. It hurts. That's a whole other type of podcast. Henci: That's a whole other topic. Meagan: Yeah, so let's talk about what uterine separation is. We talk about uterine separation. I'm going to use the word that a lot of providers use as rupture. So when we hear this really big word, when I picture a water balloon breaking– Henci: That's why I don't like that word. Meagan: That's what we hear. That's what we hear. We hear “rupture” and that's what I hear is a water balloon breaking and popping. That is really terrifying to hear and to think of when in actuality, it's not usually how that happens, right? Henci: Right. Meagan: Our uterus doesn't just break open and explode. It doesn't so let's talk about separation. What does it mean? What does that mean? And there are multiple types of separation. Henci: Actually, it's been interesting to see because I've actually been involved in this work since the 1980's so to watch the evolution when VBAC started coming in and went out again, as the research has grappled with an agreement on a definition of exactly what that meant because they find this all the time in repeat Cesareans that little windows can open up in the scar. It's not a big deal. Scars are tough. They don't cause any problems so what they finally ended up with is the scar completely gives way to form an opening in the uterus between the uterus and the abdominal cavity. That would be in combination with symptoms, usually heavy bleeding or the baby being in distress. Meagan: Or baby going high up. Henci: There is no clinical significance to a window. There are no symptoms. Nobody is hurt. Nobody is at risk, but if the scar gives way to the extent that there is heavy bleeding and in very rare cases, the baby or part of the baby can actually be in the abdominal cavity, that's a scary situation. Meagan: Yeah. Yeah, and talking about the uterine window– as she was saying, it's where it thins out so we've got this thinning. The crazy thing is that there really aren't any symptoms. Henci: There are none. Meagan: You really wouldn't know if you had a uterine window unless you were opened up. Henci: Unless you had a repeat surgery, yeah. So there is the interesting thing about that. One of the things they tried to do– and I hope that none of the doctors they are encountering are doing this– was they thought, “Hmm. Why don't we do an ultrasound to see how thin the scar is? Maybe that will help us predict whether the scar will give way.” It turns out and there is absolute agreement on this that you can't use that. It isn't accurate enough to tell you anything and what's more, the correlation in that study was when she was pregnant, we did this ultrasound and we measured the thickness of the scar. Then, when they had their surgery, we looked to see if in fact there was a problem with the scar. They found some little windows, but that didn't mean they would have had a problem if they would have gone into labor. So that whole idea of, “We have some way of predicting when the scar will give way so that we can advise whether it's a good idea to try a VBAC,” all of the studies that have been done of that have said that they aren't accurate enough to be used to counsel a person about VBAC. So anybody that's using that one is not scientific. Meagan: Yet we get those messages all the time. “Hey, my doc said I can't have a VBAC because my uterine thickness is too thin.” We get that reason all of the time, being told that they cannot VBAC because of that. It's so disheartening when we've got evidence showing certain things, but we have providers not following evidence-based information. Henci: Yes. You can always find a reason to do something you don't want to do. Meagan: Yes. That is what I was going to point out too. Sometimes when we have providers saying things that are completely opposite of what evidence even says or just don't support evidence in general. We got a message saying that they had a 60% chance of uterine rupture. Henci: Oh sheesh. Meagan: Yeah. They said that their uterine scar would give way 60% of the time. I'm like, “No way. No.” Where do we even get that? But a lot of the time, these providers are, like you said, saying things because they don't want to do things or they've seen things that make them scared so they put people under this general umbrella and they're like, “Oh, you've had a C-section. You're under this umbrella and this umbrella is not going to let you have a VBAC.” Henci: I have a dear friend who was interested. She was a marriage and family counselor and she was doing work with PTSD, child-related PTSD. We were sitting at a conference and there was an obstetrician who was lecturing who started actually talking about an emergency birth where things went wrong and she actually started to tear up. My friend had an epiphany. She said, “Oh my god. It's not just women who develop PTSD.”Meagan: Yeah. It's these providers. Henci: It's birth professionals as well and if you've been at a crisis birth even if everything turned out right, but if it was that sort of an emergency, “Oh my god, we might lose this mother or we might lose this baby,” that's going to change the way you practice because what is the signal effect of PTSD? It's intended to be protective. Your brain says, “I never want to be in that situation again. What do I need to do to avoid it?” Meagan: Right. Henci: I have compassion for that, but it doesn't help your audience who is stuck with these people who have no idea what is actually driving their decisions. Meagan: Right. I guess I want to mention that just because sometimes I feel like, and even on this podcast, we're guilty of saying things that make it feel like we're painting bad pictures of providers and putting them in a bad light. That's not the goal here in this podcast. That's definitely not what we want to do but we do know that a lot of people have been let down. Henci: Yeah. Meagan: I mean, here's this failed word but there are a lot of people out there who have been failed. Henci: They've been failed by their care provider. I will use failed in that case. Meagan: They've been failed by the staff or by their care provider or their location. A lot of the time, it's really hard because we don't know what that other person has experienced. We hope that those professionals will work through those and stop putting these general umbrellas over people, but we know that it's probably not going to ever stop happening. Henci: No, unfortunately. But I want to move back to how we just talked about a case where the research doesn't back up what the doctor says, but I want to talk about a couple of cases where- and this is where being more critical of what the research has to say. It does on the surface back doctors up. So now let's get into some of the categories for induction. The big one is, “We don't want you to get past 40 weeks because we know that with longer pregnancy duration, there is more chance for scar rupture.” That sounds good and it's actually in the research, but here's the catch. Underneath that is what happens at 40 or 41 weeks? They induce labor and there is research that shows that the reason that you get more is that all of the scar ruptures were in induced labor. We know that induction increases the risk of scar rupture. It creates the illusion that it's pregnancy duration. It's not. It's pregnancy management. The other one where that happens and it's actually in the research is women who are expecting a big baby or they think the baby is big. Meagan: Suspected big baby. Henci: First of all, if your doctor says, “Oh, you know. This baby is going to be on the big side. We did the ultrasound. I've been feeling your belly.” You might as well flip a coin because there is a 50/50 chance that that is incorrect and your baby isn't going to be on the big side. So number one, they may be anxious about something that isn't even true. Meagan: It's so true. Henci: The second thing is, then what happens next? Let's induce before the baby gets bigger. So again, you find an association between VBAC labors with bigger babies and an increased risk of scar rupture but that's not the root cause. The root cause is those laboring women were induced. So that is something to take into account when you hear those things and again, I've got the numbers. The reason I keep coming back to the importance of the blog post is one of the things that I think is less than helpful is vagueness like, “There is a chance.” The first question I'd have is, “How big?” so I wanted to as much as possible give people the numbers so that they can do what feels right for them but also know how those numbers are distorted by management. The VBAC rate itself is distorted by management because VBAC studies outside of the hospital coming from home births and birth centers show a VBAC rate in women who have not had any prior VBACs– the first birth was the Cesarean and this is the second delivery. The VBAC rate was 81%. Out of the hospital-based studies, they range up to the low 70 percentile, but the hospital studies don't get up that high.Here's the important thing. If it's at all possible, find a care provider who's really comfortable with VBAC and knows how to manage them because where do you see the bad outcomes? To a huge extent, they're in labors that were induced and labors in which there was a problem with the scar which is much more likely if they were induced or augmented or she wasn't given enough time and then she went to C-section.The complications happen in C-sections so the more you are able to have a birth that proceeds at its own pace with no stimulation and there is a spontaneous vaginal birth, your birth by your own efforts, that's when it's minuscule in terms of having complications. Meagan: Right. It's so hard because yes. We talked about this earlier. Oh, we've got hypertension and oh, we've got this thing and we have options. Do we induce or do we have a C-section? It still is very possible to have a VBAC with an induction. We're just talking about uterine giveaways and the chances. You increase your chances by choosing to be induced. That doesn't guarantee you're going to have that happen or anything but you have to know walking into it, “Okay, I have this, this, and this, and I'm going to choose to induce.” You have to know the risk that you are taking. We have to weigh out the risks and say, “Okay. I know it increases a little bit. I'm comfortable taking that risk or I am not comfortable taking that risk.” Henci: Right. Or how can I minimize my risk? Because it still is possible. You have to do it diplomatically but if you have a care provider who is willing to be flexible and is like, “Yeah, I'm not sure about this one,” but you're able to have that conversation where you feel like they can hear you and you're going to be respectful and hear them, then I think there's a lot that can be done. You can say, “No or not yet.” Meagan: Yep. We just made a post on Instagram and Facebook about that saying, “I appreciate the time that we just took. I'm going to choose to wait” or “Thank you so much for that, but I'm not going to do that.” Henci: The other thing I would suggest if you're in a situation where you're saying no is to have a discussion around which new information would change your mind because that again creates space with, “Oh, I don't have one of these patients that's just being difficult,” but to say and talk about, “If my blood pressure goes up–”. I don't know what it might be, but to have a conversation about under what circumstances might you consider changing your mind. Meagan: Right, yeah. It's powerful. Conversation and information are powerful. I always encourage someone to ask questions and to get their research. If we have a provider saying you have a 60% of uterine scar giveaway, let's talk about that. “Wow, that seems really high. Is there any way that you can provide me with that information so that I can study that and see what's comfortable for me?” And then you'll look and it and go, “Oh, there aren't statistics showing that I have that? Okay.” Then you might make a different choice, but if you just hear that number and don't ask any questions, then you automatically might say, “That seems really scary. I'm not even going to go there.” We have these myths and these numbers and if we don't ask for information, we're doing ourselves a disservice. Henci: I've got the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists practice bulletin. I wonder if there is any way– I mean, a summary of recommendations and conclusions backed by level A evidence, good and consistent scientific evidence. The first one on the list is, “Most women with one previous Cesarean delivery with a low transverse incision are candidates for and should be counseled about and offered TOLAC.” Meagan: Yes. Henci: My eye goes down and I want to talk about women who've had two prior Cesareans. I know we wanted to talk about that. Meagan: We do want to talk about that. Yes. Henci: I will say that they're not enthusiastic about it, but nonetheless, this is under level B evidence which is limited or inconsistent scientific evidence, and what it says is, “Given the overall data, it is reasonable to consider women with two previous low transverse Cesarean deliveries to be candidates for TOLAC and to counsel them based on the combination of other factors.” They have all of these VBAC predictions which I'm just going to be blunt, they're crap because they're evaluating the wrong thing. What they should be evaluating is the doctor's propensity to care for VBAC and their confidence in VBAC. Then you'd get the numbers that would really correlate with whether labor would end in VBAC or they wouldn't. Meagan: Right. Right. I know. Then just going one step further, vaginal birth after two Cesareans, then we've got people talking about vaginal birth after three or more. There's no evidence in there because we're not doing them very often. Henci: The evidence is not there for three. It is there for two, although again, you can get very low, again, the equivalent of sort of the average. There are some Israeli studies where there is a very large population of women there who have large families so you do get people with two Cesareans, but the thing there is they need to be managed carefully. In one case, it was like, “We don't do inductions other than by rupturing membranes in someone whose cervix is ready to go.” There are ways to do that. But what I wanted to say is that now here's a case where you have to look at the other side which is that there are studies that show there are consequences because as you accumulate uterine scars, the complications in subsequent pregnancies go up. So when you get to two prior Cesareans and there are studies that looked at the branch in the road. You had two prior Cesareans. Did you plan a VBAC or did you plan a repeat Cesarean? And guess what? The severe complication rates were identical. It was an identical rate of hysterectomies. There was the same rate of perinatal mortality so it's not like, “Oh, I'll just choose that safe third Cesarean.” There are increased risks, but there are also increased risks to taking another Cesarean on board. Meagan: And then to add to that, future pregnancies. With each Cesarean that we have, we have also risks in future pregnancies that are not discussed when we're counseling in this medical world from what we're finding. We're being counseled for VBAC. We're being counseled about the risk of uterine separation and the VBAC issues, but we're not talked to about the blood loss or the risk of hysterectomy. We're not talking about those things. Henci: Or chronic pain. Meagan: Chronic pain or dense adhesions or placenta accreta. We don't talk about these issues or even deeper issues. We're not talking about them. That is where I think is one of the places we're going wrong in this medical world. We're not truly counseling on all sides of things to really give people the opportunity to make that really informed decision. We're kind of just prefacing over here, but like, “Oh, but we could schedule your baby's birthday and get your hair done the day before because you know exactly when your baby is coming.” We're not counseling. Like you said, there are issues and there are risks. So with VBAC after two C-sections, through your education and ACOG not saying, “Yeah, go for it for sure, for sure,” But they're saying, “It should be reasonable.” Through your uterine scar separation research, is it substantially larger? I know there are going to be numbers in the blog and we talk about it in our course and things, but is it like you have a 0.4% to what? To 10% if you've had two to 1%? We've got people being told things all over the place. I guess my question is through your research with VBAC after two Cesareans, we're going to specifically talk about two Cesareans here, is it increased and truly that much higher? I mean, I know the answer, but let's talk about it. Is it really that much higher or is it pretty low statistically? Henci: Well, I actually turned to that page in the blog post and I had a couple of different studies. There was an increase in both studies. It was quite small. The difference in these studies, I really think, had to do with the fact that in one of the studies, that was the one where they would only allow the rupture of membranes as a means of induction. So in one case, it went from 3 per 1000 with planned VBAC after one Cesarean to 6 in 1000 with planned VBAC after two Cesareans, and in the other one, it went from 7 to 1000 to 16 per 1000. But that's still a 98% chance of not having a problem with your scar. Meagan: Right. Henci: The thing is, there is a consciousness, but if you're planning a large family, that maybe I think a lot of care providers will say, “Well, if you're only planning on having two children, it really is not that big of a deal to have another Cesarean.” But the thing with that is that I think it is really important to understand that you may plan to complete your family with two children. That doesn't necessarily mean that's what's going to happen. Meagan: That's true. That is so true. Henci: I think unless you or your intimate partner are planning on doing something permanent about your fertility, you have to consider the fact that you may choose to have another baby or you may find yourself pregnant and decide you're having another baby. Meagan: Right. Henci: I think you always have to take that possibility into consideration when you're making that first decision. Personally, this is totally my opinion and my judgment. No pressure here. I think the best thing that you can do is get off the Cesarean track if you can. Meagan: Mhmm, yeah. I mean, it really is. There's proof in the pudding that a vaginal birth is the ideal route in the long run overall. Henci: Yep. Meagan: I guess as we're wrapping up here, let's talk a little bit about, well, how you do you decide? How do we decide? Henci: I know that I wanted to get to something because we talked about this. I wanted to get to the epidural issue. Meagan: Epidurals yeah. Let's talk about that too. Yeah. Henci: What you are saying is you're hearing both sides. One is that you can't have an epidural and the other is that you have to have an epidural. Meagan: Literally, they say that you have to have an epidural to have a VBAC. Some of them are like, “Well, yeah. You can VBAC. Just know.” I feel like it's used as this fearful thing. “Just know that you can't have an epidural so you're going to have to go unmedicated.” Henci: Let's take care of that one that you can't have an epidural first because that's the easy one. Again, I go back to ACOG. Level A evidence. “Epidural analgesia for labor may be used as part of a TOLAC.” I mean, I was jaw-droppingly shocked because it's at least two decades since that myth about, “Oh, we can't give you an epidural because then we won't know if there is scar separation.” So that is totally bogus. But let's get to the, “You have to have an epidural.” The thing about that is that there are two problems, I think. First of all, the idea is in case there is an emergency, we can deal with it faster. The thing is, an epidural is problematic in a couple of ways. One is, one of the more common side effects of an epidural is that there is a drop in the mother's blood pressure and the baby's heart rate. Guess what is the best predictor that the scar has given way? The number one predictor that the scar has given way– and again, in most of those cases, it hasn't but nonetheless, it's a better predictor than pain, is the baby's heart rate. You are adding, number one, something that will possibly provoke concern and a Cesarean you don't need. But the other thing is that it interferes with mobility. I think the number one reason– I mean, you want everything in your favor in terms of making good progress and an epidural interferes with that. Plus, you then have the problem of epidural fever because obviously, they want to give you that epidural early. You'd maybe have it for hours and then you'd start to develop a fever and they'd be like, “Mmm, it's time to get the baby out.” An epidural actually decreases your chance of a VBAC. But about the emergency piece, the thing is if you have a sterile water lock where you've got the business end of the IV, the needle is there but it's not hooked up to anything. Meagan: Are you talking about the “just in case” epidurals? Henci: Right, the “We want you to have an epidural because of the emergency possibility. We'll already have you anesthetized.” We first talked about, “We've given you a procedure that may lead to an unnecessary Cesarean,” and they decreased your probability of progressing to a vaginal birth. So that's already like, “Umm, really? Do you want to do that to me? Why?” The answer is, “Well, in case there's an emergency.” You can do a spinal a lot faster than an epidural. It is perfectly possible to get you numb within a very short period of time and sufficient to do the Cesarean surgery. It really is kind of bogus. Meagan: Yeah. I want to talk about this too because if it is a true, serious, serious surgery where we've got minutes if that, we're going to usually be put under general anesthesia. Henci: Well, that's a possibility too. Meagan: Yeah, so that's the thing. Henci: The other thing is that I also want to move into that gray zone of, well, I just talked about the drawbacks of having an epidural, but I mentioned that there's a fair number of members of your audience who are thinking, “I'd really like to have an epidural.” For some of them, depending on what their first labor was like, it may have been like, “I can only contemplate VBAC if I can also contemplate having an epidural.” This is where my new book comes in. The full title is, Labor Pain, What's Your Best Strategy? Get the Data. Make a Plan. Take Charge of Your Birth. In that book, I give all of the evidence, pros, and cons of all of the different other methods of do-it-yourself comfort measures to epidurals and then the last chapter is again, the fork in the road. You would like to avoid an epidural and here are all the ways of doing that, and you would like you plan an epidural. You want to make an epidural plan A and then here are all of the ways of maximizing your chances of having one that goes smoothly. I don't think I need to go into all of the details here on the show, but if anybody is interested in finding out more about the pros and cons of their pain-coping options including epidurals and how to plan to avoid an epidural if it is plan A or the reverse, then I think my book could be helpful. Meagan: That is amazing. Just to let you guys know, we're going to have so many things in our show notes here. We're going to have, of course, the blog with all of the numbers going deeper into what we're talking about today. We're going to have a link to all of her books because I think it is important to know things from all of them. Henci: I mean, I would actually stop you because I think Thinking Women's Guide was a great book. It was published in 1999. Meagan: Yeah, so it's a little older. It's a little dated. Henci: Optimal Care was really intended for birth professionals. Meagan: We have a lot of birth professionals. Henci: Even that was in 2012. Meagan: We have a lot of birth professionals listening. Henci: So I really want to preface the new book. It's been out less than a year so it's really current. Meagan: Mhmm. We're definitely going to have that number one. I haven't read it yet, so I'm going to read it myself because I think it's important too. I know you and I trust you but I want to know even more so I can keep referring it out and also learn by reading it myself. Henci: Yeah, I think you'll get some ideas for your classes. Meagan: Yeah, for my clients, and keep referring them out. I mean, you guys. The more information you have, the better. The more knowledge that you have under your belt as you are entering into these births, it's going to help you along the way. It's going to help you feel more prepared, more educated, and more confident. Right, Henci? Don't you feel like confidence is something that no matter what, VBAC or not, just with birth in general that we need? Henci: That's why the name of my new series– I'm working on a book on induction– is Take Charge of Your Birth. You can't take control of your birth because you don't know what's going to happen. Life happens. But you can take charge in terms of having the information, having thought through what is really important to you, and there is actually research on this. Feeling in charge is the key component in having a positive experience. If you felt helpless, if you felt like you didn't have any say in what was going on and you were scared and you didn't feel supported, you could have a lovely, uneventful vaginal birth and be traumatized. If you were in charge, you were a full participant in all of the decisions, you felt like your options were presented, you made the best choices you could, the people around you were encouraging and supportive of what you were trying, and you could have a very difficult experience in terms of what actually happened and it would still be a positive experience. Trauma is a very personal experience. It's what you feel in the moment. No one can say of you that you shouldn't have been traumatized by that birth because it wasn't traumatic enough. It's subjective. Meagan: Right. Right. Henci: But as a whole, feeling like you are in charge is powerful.Meagan: It's really powerful and there are actual stats behind that. My second birth didn't go the way I desired. I still to this day believe that I wasn't allowed enough time or wasn't given enough resources that I deserved. But at the same time, once the decision was made to have a second Cesarean, a repeat Cesarean, there were a lot of things that I communicated. I took charge at this moment. “If this is how it's going to go, this is what I need and want.” My providers were really receptive to that. With my second Cesarean, although still not desired at all or even felt that it was necessary, I actually have a very different viewpoint on it because I was actively involved in that birth and in the decisions that were being made. Again, even though I didn't feel that the decision that I made for the repeat Cesarean was really warranted, it was a decision that I made. I accept that. The other decisions along the way, I literally can look back at that birth and say that it was healing. A lot of people are like, “Wait, what? You're saying that you didn't want your second C-section but it was healing?” I can say, “Yeah, absolutely. It was healing because I was able to really participate in this birth in a different way.” I just think it's so powerful because I could have looked back with a lot of anger and hate. I probably could have beat myself up even more, but I viewed that as a positive, healing experience. I think that's what I needed to end my C-section journey. I needed that birth to say, “Okay. This is a better experience. I'm ending the C-section journey now. VBAC from here on out, but I needed this experience to have a different view on the C-section experience as a whole.”Henci: I think I heard something else which is key and correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like when you agreed to the second Cesarean, you were making the best decision that you could at that time. You still had a decision. It sounds like you weren't sort of bullied into the repeat Cesarean. It sounds like there was a discussion and you felt like, “Yeah, I think I'll go along with the repeat.” I think that's key too is when you do make a decision and it is your decision and you can own it, I think that helps too because later, you can say, “You know, if I were in that same spot again, I might do something different. I've learned something from that. But you know what? That was also what made sense to me at the time and now I can let go of it.”Meagan: Yeah, you know, when I got my op reports when I was going to interview all of the providers for my VBAC after two Cesarean baby, which I wasn't even pregnant, but I started interviewing before, I was reviewing my op reports. As I was reading them, I did get a little triggered and I got a little bit angry. My husband looked at me as I had a tear rolling down my face saying, “These were unnecessary.” He said, “Babe? We made the best choice we knew at the moment with the information that was given to us at the moment.” Henci: Mhmm. Meagan: He said, “Do not ever shame yourself for making these choices because you were not given the information and you were not in a space mentally where you could be in that– oh, the statistics say–”. Right? That's one of the reasons why I think doulas are so important because they can help remind you of those things, but I wasn't in a space where I could go through my journal of information and say, “Oh, but this and this.” I was given these facts, this information, and I made a choice based off of the information that I was given. I can never shame myself for that. When he said that, I was like, “You know what? You're right.” I would go back and do things differently if I were to look back. If I were there again, I probably would have made different choices or I would have done different things, but I'm loving the journey that those experiences have given me and brought me to. Does that make sense? Henci: Yes. Meagan: This journey that I'm on right now, I probably wouldn't be on if I didn't have those experiences. I wouldn't be with all of you here today talking about VBAC and repeat Cesarean and what the evidence shows and sharing these absolutely amazing stories and bringing on these incredible professionals without those experiences. So yeah. I had two births that I didn't desire the outcome of the Cesarean, but I will be forever and ever grateful for those experiences. Henci: I will add that I wouldn't be who I was here today if I hadn't had an emotionally very negative experience. I talk about that in the prefaces of who I am today and why I wrote the book and the difference between my first birth and how I experienced my second. Well, the first one, I was delivered. The second one, I gave birth. That in a nutshell is the difference between the two and that started me on my journey. I wanted other women and birthing people to know that the choices that they made were crucial to how they were going to end up feeling about themselves, their partners, their babies, and their everything, that it was not trivial, and making my life's work looking at the research, because that's my skill so that they would have that information. Information that I didn't have until I started reading stuff after my first delivery. Meagan: Yeah. That's how a lot of us doulas and birth professionals start based on an experience where we want to help people have a different experience. We want to empower people. Henci: I'm so glad that you're in the world. It sounds like you are doing a great service for a lot of people out there. Meagan: Aww, well thank you so much, and likewise. You are incredible. All of your blogs are amazing. Seriously, people could spend hours and hours and hours on your blogs just picking apart the information and the stats and putting these large studies into English because honestly, that's one of the hardest things about studies. You go through and you're like, “I don't even know what this means. Can I just get a clear conclusion?” But your blogs make sense. They're English to me. Henci: Oh, thank you. Meagan: I know they will be for so many of our followers as well. Well, thank you so much for being here today. Seriously, I am so, so grateful. If you guys want to go follow Henci, like I said, we're going to have all of the links for all of the things in the show notes but you can also go onto Instagram and Facebook @takechargeofyourbirth.Henci: Yes. That is correct. Meagan: Or hencigoer.com. Henci: And actually, I think there are places on social media but if you go to hencigoer.com, you can also sign up for my newsletter. I have a monthly newsletter. Meagan: That's what I was just going to say, hencigoer.com. Like I said, we'll have this in the show notes. Go in there. Sign up for the newsletter. Sign up for all of the amazing things that she's putting out because you really are. You're a wealth of knowledge and it's really so fun and I'm so honored that you took the time today to be with us. Henci: Well, it's been my pleasure to be here. ClosingWould you like to be a guest on the podcast? Tell us about your experience at thevbaclink.com/share. For more information on all things VBAC including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Meagan's bio, head over to thevbaclink.com. Congratulations on starting your journey of learning and discovery with The VBAC Link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vbac-link/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Tom Skerritt, Emmy winner (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series) for his series PICKET FENCES, is one of the most versatile and acclaimed American actors in movies and TV. At UCLA Film School, he acted in theatre and began writing for screen as a means to understand the full embrace of his primary interest, directing film. While acting on stage, he was seen and hired to be in a small film where he met Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack. Soon after, he met director Robert Altman, with whom he mentored as a filmmaker, which led Tom to be cast in the movie version of M*A*S*H. This led to a distinguished and decades-long career, starring in such acclaimed films as TURNING POINT (for which Tom won the National Board of Review's Best Supporting Actor Award), ALIEN, TOP GUN, STEEL MAGNOLAS, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, CONTACT, TEARS OF THE SUN and THE DEAD ZONE. The recipient of UCLA's Lifetime Achievement Honor in 1994, Tom is also a veteran of may television programs, including appearances on MADAM SECRETARY, THE WEST WING, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, CHEERS, WILL & GRACE and THE GOOD WIFE.  In 2007, Tom received a Life Achievement Award from Wayne State University, which was followed with a Laureate Award from The Rainier Club in Seattle. In 2011, he received the Saturn Best Guest Actor Award - TV.Legendary film actress Veronica Cartwright began her career as a child actress in the classic films THE CHILDREN'S HOUR (directed by William Wyler), Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS and SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN. A veteran of many beloved films, Veronica has appeared in over 50 movies and her resume includes two science fiction classics in the 1970's, Philip Kaufman's remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and Ridley Scott's masterpiece thriller, ALIEN. Veronica starred as Betty Grissom in the epic dramatization of NASA's space program based on Tom Wolfe's novel, THE RIGHT STUFF, also directed by Kaufman. She made an indelible impression on moviegoers in 1987 with her standout performance in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK. Among Veronica's many television credits are the hit shows CRIMINAL MINDS, CSI CYBER, BOSCH, RESURRECTION, GREY'S ANATOMY, WILL & GRACE, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, GOTHAM KNIGHTS, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, THE GOOD DOCTOR and THE X FILES. Veronica has been nominated four times for an Emmy Award with one win. At age 15 she won an Emmy for Best Actress in a television movie called TELL ME NOT IN MOURNFUL NUMBERS. She was nominated again in 1997 for her guest starring role of Mrs. Huston in two widely acclaimed episodes of ER. In 1998 and 1999 the Television Academy nominated her twice for her pivotal role of Cassandra Spender on Fox's THE X FILES.

We all face adversity from time to time, but some of us are able to flourish when things get difficult, while others seem to struggle. So, what does it take to stand firm during these tough times? According to my guest Mark Nepo, the key to standing strong against life's unavoidable storms is to know our true self and solidify our connection to all Spirit and all life. He's here to explain more. Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, he has published 22 books and his work has been translated into over 20 languages. Mark has been interviewed several times by Oprah Winfrey and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation. In 2016 he was named one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit. During our conversation, Mark offers his valuable insights and practical steps on navigating difficulties based on principles from his book “Surviving Storms.” He eloquently brings us to common passages and paths, urging us forward on the journey.  If you liked what you heard, please don't forget to like, rate, share and subscribe to this podcast. Thank you!

On today’s episode, I speak with Mark Nepo, a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A beloved poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” His work is widely accessible and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A bestselling author, Mark has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. In September 2022, his twenty-third book, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity, will be published (St. Martin's. Essentials). In 2015 Mark was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation; in 2016 he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN’s SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. Mark appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV, and was part of Oprah's The Life You Want Tour in 2014. He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be fully alive ✅ Where Mark finds inspiration ✅ How he recovered from a rare form of lymphoma and his journey of recovery ✅ What inspired him to write the Book of Awakening, and how he decided which nuggets of wisdom should exist in the book ✅ Why he decided to write his new book, Surviving Storms If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Mark Nepo, a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A beloved poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” His work is widely accessible and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A bestselling author, Mark has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. In September 2022, his twenty-third book, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity, will be published (St. Martin's. Essentials). In 2015 Mark was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation; in 2016 he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN’s SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. Mark appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV, and was part of Oprah's The Life You Want Tour in 2014. He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be fully alive ✅ Where Mark finds inspiration ✅ How he recovered from a rare form of lymphoma and his journey of recovery ✅ What inspired him to write the Book of Awakening, and how he decided which nuggets of wisdom should exist in the book ✅ Why he decided to write his new book, Surviving Storms If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today's guest is Rev. Dr. Anthony Bailey of Parkdale United Church, Ottawa. During this engaging conversation, Anthony is interviewed by CBS Ambassador Andrew Stirling on topics about Scripture, pastoral leadership, the need for the Church in Canada, as well as Anthony's passion for issues of justice and racial reconciliation.Anthony Bailey is the lead minister of Parkdale United Church in Ottawa. Originally from Barbados, Anthony has lived and served in various parts of Canada, in Kenya and Jamaica. Anthony has academic degrees in social work, theology, philosophy of religion and ethics and culture. He has training in hospital ministry and has taught pastoral counselling at the McGill University joint theological colleges and at the theological college of the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. Anthony is also an occasional lecturer at the Ottawa School of Theology and Spirituality and has been a guest lecturer at Queen's University School of Religion. Anthony Bailey is a sought-after preacher, speaker and worship/workshop leader throughout North America and the Caribbean. He has been awarded the Dreamkeepers' Martin Luther King Jr. Life Achievement Award for Racial Reconciliation and the Order of Ottawa.---Learn more about the Canadian Bible Society: biblesociety.caConnect with us on Instagram: @canadianbiblesocietyWhether you're well versed in Scripture or just starting out on your journey, The Bible Course offers a superb overview of the world's best-selling book.  This eight-session course will help you grow in your understanding of the Bible. Watch the first session of The Bible Course and learn more at biblecourse.ca. Give to the Canadian Bible Society: biblesociety.ca/donate---Learn more about Anthony BaileyChurch: parkdaleunitedchurch.ca/anthony-bailey

Beloved as a spiritual teacher, poet and storyteller, Mark Nepo is our Season 2 premier guest. Called one of the finest spiritual guides of our time, he has moved and inspired readers and seekers from all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Awakening and so many other books. Mark was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Mark was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program. He devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. In this spacious and heart-centered conversation, Lee and Mark explore:(03:19) When Mark first found an affinity for his work.(06:28) How his diagnosis and journey with lymphoma changed everything for him.(09:43) Why he is drawn to things versus being driven.(17:10) His writing process and the intention for his new book, Surviving Storms.(33:53) How the embodied wisdom of his grandmother, that personal mythology, helped him understand who he is.To learn more about his work: https://marknepo.com/ or https://threeintentions.com/To read The Book of Awakening: https://amzn.to/3waYYXPTo read Surviving Storms: https://amzn.to/3bYTKaNFB: http://www.facebook.com/MarkNepoIG: https://www.instagram.com/mark_nepo/?hl=enJoin Lee for his wildly popular 4-week channeled experience, INITIATION. Live broadcasts will be held on Wednesdays starting on October 26 through November 17, 2022, but you can access the video replays with transcripts for all previous broadcasts whenever you choose to start. You will also be supported by short 'calibration' videos to assist with integrating the channeled transmissions and have access to a private Community Forum. Details and registration here: https://www.leeharrisenergy.com/initiationThe views and opinions expressed by guests of Impact the World are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or position of the host, of Lee Harris Energy LLC, or its staff or management. Any content provided by our guests are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, anyone or anything.

With over a million copies sold, Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A bestselling author, he has published twenty-three books and recorded fifteen audio projects. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation. In 2016, he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. In 2017, Mark became a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health Magazine. In today's episode, we talk about Marks latest book, Surviving Storms, the cost of progress, and the importance of awareness. Mark also talks about the gesture of goodness, secret identities, and the need for mature compassion. I can't wait for you to listen!    In this Episode You'll Learn: [05:47] What it was like writing this book. [11:40] The cost of progress. [19:25] Restoring our human nature through awareness. [26:52] The human ingredients in the purpose of goodness. [30:54] Secret identities. [42:32] The maturing of compassion. [49:35] The journey to enough. [57:20] The invitation.   Soul Shifting Quotes:  “There is something that is lost if we don't make the climb ourselves.” [15:28] “Everything we do in authenticity is adding one more healthy cell to the global body.” [22:27] “It's wonderful and enough to be who we are.” [36:58] “With freedom comes responsibility.” [40:27] “We are more than what is done to us.” [58:03]

Mark Nepo is a poet and spiritual adviser who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 40 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A beloved poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” His work is widely accessible and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.A bestselling author, Mark has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects. In September 2022, his twenty-third book, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity, will be published (St. Martin's. Essentials). Recent work includes The Book of Soul (St. Martin's Essentials, 2020), which was honored by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2020, Drinking from the River of Light (Sounds True, 2019), a Nautilus Book Award Winner; More Together Than Alone (Atria, 2018) cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2018; and Things That Join the Sea and the Sky (Sounds True, 2017), a Nautilus Book Award Winner. Mark is a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health Magazine.In 2015 Mark was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation; in 2016 he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity. Mark appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV, and was part of Oprah's The Life You Want Tour in 2014. He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America.Join Mark's Next 1-Session Webinar: Saying Yes To Life (Dec. 11, 2022)In his 30's Mark was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma, a struggle which helped to form his philosophy of experiencing life fully while staying in relationship to an unknowable future. Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats.Please enjoy my conversation with Mark Nepo.

Inner and outer storms can be transformational agents. Nepo advises us that we must not skip over pain, breakage, and loss. He goes on to say, “And, we must not drown in it or make a permanent residence of it. We have to find the corridor of aliveness that allows us to process our experience and land in the opening the storm has made in us and around us.” Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), he One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin's Essentials 2020) and Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martin's Essentials 2022)Interview Date: 7/20/2022 Tags: Mark Nepo, Japanese Haiku poet, Masahide, geological storms, lightning strikes, Tempestarii, ethnic diversity, brokenness, spiritual diversity, dissociation, mass shootings, Roman Colosseum gladiatorial shows, Facebook algorithms, fear, denial, Tang Dynasty Tu Fu poet, love, victimhood, betrayal, empathy, George Floyd, Sheena Malhotra, 9-1/2 minutes of collective silence, soul, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin's Essentials 2020), Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martins' Essentials 2022)Interview Date: 7/20/2022 Tags: Mark Nepo, Japanese Haiku poet, Masahide, storms, suffering, grief, disappointments, loss, broken open, premature baby, incubator, silence, stillness, solitude, global body, injustice, web of interconnection, falling down, getting up, corridor of aliveness, lifeforce, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality

Julie Andrews is this year's recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. The star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music says because of those roles, many of her fans have a certain image of her. "They think I am this very squeaky clean, upper class lady that came from such a family — and it's so far from the truth." She'll tell us about growing up part of a vaudeville family, surviving the blitz during WWII, and we'll hear about why she's no longer physically capable of singing.Also David Bianculli reviews Evil, the latest series by the creators of The Good Wife and The Good Fight on Paramount +.

Julie Andrews is this year's recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. The star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music says because of those roles, many of her fans have a certain image of her. "They think I am this very squeaky clean, upper class lady that came from such a family — and it's so far from the truth." She'll tell us about growing up part of a vaudeville family, surviving the blitz during WWII, and we'll hear about why she's no longer physically capable of singing.Also David Bianculli reviews Evil, the latest series by the creators of The Good Wife and The Good Fight on Paramount +.

Legendary editor hits Philip Fracassi with tips for aspiring horror writersWe had a great conversation with legendary editor Ellen Datlow in which we discuss anthologies, tips for new writers when submitting a story, the nuts and bolts of creating a killer table of contents, and much more.Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year.She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and was the recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre.” She was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, as well as the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.Datlow lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com.

Walking the Path of LoveAired Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM ESTCheryl Melody Baskin (“Melody) has a passion for inspiring people to live with more moments of optimism, gratitude, inner peace, healing, manifesting dreams and walking the path of love–despite life's many challenges. She believes that healing and peace from inside-out leads to the ultimate healing and peace of our world and by shifting our minds and hearts to healing and love we can help write a new positive story for all humanity.About the Guest:Cheryl Melody Baskin is an author, recipient of a Silver Medal for her book, “Heart-Dreamer” from readersfavorite.com, intuitive life coach, peace and spirituality educator, musician, motivational speaker, sound healer, and recipient of a Life Achievement Award from The Visioneers International Network.Her books include “Peace Dreamer: A Journey of Hope in Bad Times and Good,” “Heart-Dreamer: Stepping into Life, Love, Creativity and Dreams – No Matter What” and “Shift of Heart: Paths to Healing and Love.” As a musician, she has nine award-winning albums with positive messages for adults and children. She is also the founder, moderator and intuitive life coach of “Shift of Heart,” a Facebook community of love, support and hope.“Melody,” her preferred first name, is a strong believer in peace, diversity celebration, listening to life's wisdom whispers, trusting in the magical mystery of the unknown, healing from inside-out, and walking the path of love.Social Media:Website: https://www.cherylmelody.comFacebook Biz Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/103850356767217/Visit the Inspired Conversations show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-conversations/Connect with Linda Joy at https://www.linda-joy.com/#Love #CherylMelodyBaskin #InspiredConversations #LindaJoySubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

Unser heutiger Gast hat Ökonomie an der Universität in Amsterdam studiert und 1968 seinen MBA an der Harvard Business School und im Anschluß daran auch dort sein PHD Studium begonnen. Nach einer kurzen Zeit als Assistenzprofessor an der Business School Insead in Frankreich folgte er 1975 dem Ruf des legendären Henry Mintzberg an die McGill University in Montreal. Parallel dazu - und das fasziniert uns wirklich - machte er eine psychoanalytische Ausbildung am Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute. 1984 kehrte er zurück nach Europa auf einen Lehrstuhl für "Leadership Development" an der Business School Insead. Dort ist er seit 1985 “Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change”. Für seine Arbeit wurde erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, wie z.B. den deutschen “Life Achievement Award der Weiterbildungsbranche” Das Manager Magazin veröffentlichte im letzten Jahr einen Artikel über seine Arbeit. Der Titel: Analytiker der Manager Seele. Seit mehr als 4 Jahren sind wir auf dem "Weg zur neuen Arbeit". Wie kann ein Thema, das in unserem Alltag eine so wichtige Rolle spielt, wieder mehr Sinn in unserem Leben schaffen? Wie schaffen wir es, dass Menschen wieder Kraft und Motivation aus ihrer täglichen Arbeit schöpfen? Und wie kann es gelingen, auch in solch schwierigen Zeiten ein sinnerfülltes, glückliches, gesundes, produktives und erfülltes Leben zu führen? Wir sind auf der Suche nach Methoden, Vorbildern, Erfahrungen, Werkzeugen und Ideen, die uns dem Kern von New Work näher bringen! Es geht uns immer um die Frage, ob jeder Mensch wirklich das finden und leben kann, was er im Innersten wirklich will. Ihr seid bei "Auf dem Weg zur Neuen Arbeit", heute mit Manfred Kets de Vries

Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for four decades. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles. Forthcoming are When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson  and the reprint anthology Body Shocks. She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.Ellen DatlowKGB BarBody Shocks, Ellen Datlow, editorWhen Things Get Dark, stories inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, editorEllen Datlow, Awards ListEllen Datlow, BooksTOR.COMWilliam GibsonElizabeth HandJonathan CarrollBruce Sterling on The Bookshop Podcast, episode 28  Support the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)

Mark Nepo is a world renowned poet, story teller, teacher, New York Times best-selling author and past guest on Oprah Winfrey's: Super Soul Sunday. In this episode we sat down to explore many topics from his teachings, his life, and his new book, More Together Than Alone, including:Loneliness and it's antidoteBuilding community, connection, and belongingMark's creative process and how he approaches writingMark's journey with cancer and how that has impacted his life and his workCourage and compassionIf you enjoyed this episode please visit www.joshuasteinfeldt.com/podcast for links to show notes, all other episodes, and more!Mark's background:Mark Nepo moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening.  Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.  A bestselling author, he has published twenty books and recorded fourteen audio projects.  In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation.  And in 2016, he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity.  Mark was part of Oprah Winfrey's The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV.  He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Mark continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats. For more on Mark, visit www.marknepo.comSupport the show (https://joshuasteinfeldt.com/donate/)

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Celebrity Kat Kramer. She Will Discuss Lily Tomlin's SAG Life Achievement Award. As an actress, Ms. Kramer has appeared on stage and screen. She has starred in two popular one-woman shows, The Colors of Myself and Kriss Krossing and won awards for her roles as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank. She has also appeared in such films as Hollywood Dreams, Going Shopping, What Just Happened and, recently, Little Fockers. She will also be seen in the upcoming film Katie Q, with Karen Black, Paul Sand and Zack Norman. As a singer, Ms. Kramer is recording Gemstone, an album of Mick Jagger love songs, each as a duet with a different artist who has previously worked with Sir Mick. As a producer, she is developing a web series about the making of her album, titled My Duet with Mick.

THE LEGENDARY ED ASNER JOINS THE SHOW TO TALK ABOUT HIS CAREER, HIS ONE MAN SHOW: A MAN AND HIS PROSTATE CURRENT PROJECT AND OTHER CURRENT PROJECTS!Versatile, committed, eloquent and talented are all adjectives that describe actor/activist and 7-Time Emmy Award-winning actor ED ASNER (“Harry Cohen”) who starred as Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's 2009 box-office-hit UP! Asner also starred opposite Joseph Fiennes and Tom Cavanagh in the Disney feature The Games Maker can next be seen in Joe's War with Armand Assante,  Boonville Redemption opposite Diana Ladd and the animated feature The Nutcracker Sweet.Asner is best known for his comedic and dramatic talent as the gruff but soft-hearted journalist Lou Grant, the role he originated on the landmark TV news room comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and continued in the newspaper-set drama Lou Grant, which earned him five Emmys and three Golden Globe Awards.  Asner received two more Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots.Asner's most recent credits include a recurring role on the CBS series The Good Wife starring Julianna Margulies, the NBC telefilm Buddy The Elf, the Hallmark telefilm All of My Heart starring Lacey Chabert, the CBS series Criminal Minds starring Joe Mantegna, Hawaii 5-0 starring Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan, Mom starring Allison Janney, The Crazy Ones with the late Robin Williams, as well as Chasing Life with Marion Ross for ABC Family and the TBS primetime series Men At Work. He and starred opposite Markie Post in the Lifetime telefilm Christmas On The Bayou.Asner returned to Broadway in the Fall of 2013 starring in the comedy drama Grace opposite Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon and Kate Arrington, written by Craig Wright and directed by Dexter Bullard. He's also been touring the country as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the critically acclaimed one man show FDR for over 5 years.One of the most honored actors in the history of television; Edward Asner has been the recipient of seven Emmy Awards and 16 nominations, as well as five Golden Globe Awards and served as National President of the Screen Actors Guild for two terms. He was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 1996.  Asner received the Ralph Morgan Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2000, presented periodically for distinguished service to the Guild's Hollywood membership.  In March 2002, he was again honored by The Guild as the 38th recipient of the prestigious Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment, presented annually to an actor who fosters the highest ideals of the profession.Asner has more than 100 TV credits, which include starring in the series Off the Rack, The Bronx Zoo and Thunder Alley.  Numerous guest appearances include roles in Curb Your Enthusiasm, ER, Arliss, The Practice and a recurring role on Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip.  Besides commercials and numerous books on tape, he has lent his voice to popular cartoon shows such as The Simpsons, Spiderman and Boondocks. Asner's dozens of motion pictures include They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, Fort Apache the Bronx, JFK, and the European production of Giovanni XXIII - the highest rated television mini-series in the history of Italian TV as well as the box office hit, Elf with Will Farrell and James Caan. Asner has done several Hallmark movies and was nominated for another Emmy for The Christmas Card in addition to his Emmy nominated guest appearance on CSI/NY.

7-Time Emmy Award winning actor, and Political Activist, Ed Asner just completed starring in the short film Good Men opposite Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) directed by Brian Connors. . Ed also just completed narrating the documentary Shattered Hopes, the true story on The Amittyville Horror murders. He also most recently portrayed Henry Winkler's father, Ted Roth in multiple episodes of the USA Network primetime series Royal Pains. Ed is also currently touring the country in the one man show FDR which he has been starring in over a year and half. Ed just completed the Indie feature Should've Been Romeo with Paul Ben Victor and Carol Kane.  Perhaps best known for his comedic and dramatic crossover as the gruff but soft-hearted journalist Lou Grant, the role he originated on the landmark TV news room comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show and continued in the newspaper-set drama Lou Grant, which earned him five Emmys and three Golden Globe Awards. One of the most honored actors in the history of television; Edward Asner has been the recipient of seven Emmy Awards and 16 nominations, as well as five Golden Globe Awards and served as National President of the Screen Actors Guild for two terms. He was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 1996. Asner received the Ralph Morgan Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2000, presented periodically for distinguished service to the Guild's Hollywood membership. In March 2002, he was again honored by The Guild as the 38th recipient of the prestigious Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment, presented annually to an actor who fosters the highest ideals of the profession.