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Dr. Mary Gardner, co-founder of Lap of Love, explains the critical distinctions between geriatric, palliative, and hospice care for dogs. Key Topics: The difference between palliative care and hospice care. Recognizing when a dog has moved from senior to geriatric. How caregiver burden plays a role in a dog's end-of-life care. Signs of aging versus illness in dogs. The importance of managing mobility issues in older dogs. Understanding pain and how to manage it in aging and sick dogs. The role of anxiety as a form of pain in dogs. Tools and resources for tracking your dog's quality of life, including Dr. Gardner's Pet Hospice Journal and Grey Muzzle app. Resources Mentioned: Lap of Love: lapoflove.com Help 'Em Up Harness: helpemup.com Quality of Life Scales from Lap of Love: Search “Quality of Life Scale for Dogs” for various resources. Books by Dr. Mary Gardner: Never Long Enough - A book about cherishing your dog's final days. Nine Lives Are Never Enough - Coming soon, focusing on cats. The Pet Hospice Journal and Grey Muzzle App - Track your dog's symptoms, good and bad days, and mobility concerns to help monitor their quality of life. Dog Cancer Support Group: https://www.dogcancer.com/support Actionable Insights: Say "I love you" every day: Dr. Gardner reminds listeners to be present with their dogs daily, especially during their final days. Monitor your dog's quality of life: Use tools like the Pet Hospice Journal to track good and bad days, which helps with decision-making as your dog ages. Keep your dog moving: Adjust walking routines to maintain mobility, even for dogs with mobility issues. Don't skip pain medications: If your dog is prescribed pain or anti-nausea meds, be proactive in giving them, even on "good" days, to avoid pain escalation. Final Thought: Cherish every moment with your aging dog and seek veterinary care regularly, even later in life, to ensure they have the best quality of life possible. Your Voice Matters! If you have a question for our team, or if you want to share your own hopeful dog cancer story, we want to hear from you! Go to https://www.dogcancer.com/ask to submit your question or story, or call our Listener Line at +1 808-868-3200 to leave a question. Related Videos:            The 26 signs a dog is near the end of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW0DJHJGZmc&t=9s A heartfelt discussion of choosing euthanasia versus natural death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXM_jMgkdI Dr. Dressler's thoughts on the end of life and when we should help our dog's pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jYoMulSRyQ Related Links: Our article about the signs a dog is dying: https://www.dogcancer.com/articles/hospice-and-end-of-life/signs-your-dog-is-dying/ Our article about hospice care: https://www.dogcancer.com/articles/hospice-and-end-of-life/hospice-for-dogs/ Get to know Dr. Mary Gardner: https://www.dogcancer.com/people/mary-gardner-dvm/   For more details, articles, podcast episodes, and quality education, go to the episode page: https://www.dogcancer.com/podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Amy Castro and Dr. Mary Gardner from Lap of Love in-home pet hospice and euthanasia as they have a poignant yet frank discussion about the benefits of in-home pet hospice and euthanasia and offer insights into navigating the emotional journey of a pet's end-of-life. Discover the nuances of end-of-life care, managing chronic conditions, and coping with anticipatory grief. They share tips on preparing for and coping with pet loss, including:- Creating meaningful end-of-life experiences- Communicating about the decision- Understanding and navigating the journey- Managing the guilt about decisions made and not made- Letting go of the guilt pet parents may feel over the relief of a pet's death- And more. Celebrate the uniqueness of each pet's journey and explore compassionate care options to ensure their final chapter is filled with dignity and love. Tune in for heartfelt conversations and support during this challenging part of the pet parenting journey.Shoutouts in this episode: Parkwood Animal Hospital, Friendswood TexasEnd-of-Life Pet Photography from One Last NetworkNancy Gordon - Pet Loss and Grief ExpertCheck out Nancy's new book "I Miss You Already: Bearing the Unbearable Loss of Your Pet."Pet Vet Animal Hospital - Deerfield Beach, FloridaAdditional Resources Provided By Dr. Mary Gardner:Mary's personal website: https://www.drmarygardner.com/ Lap of Love website: lapoflove.comDog Quality of Life Scale: https://www.drmarygardner.com/resources/forms/dog/dog_QOL.pdfCat Quality of Life Scale: https://www.drmarygardner.com/resources/forms/cat/Cat_Life_Quality_Assessment.pdf QuaSupport the showHelp us make the show better by taking our quick listener survey: https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/AUCsttSupport the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/starlightpettalkFOLLOW!▷ Official Site: https://www.starlighpettalk.com ▶ Facebook: / starlightoutreachandrescue ▶ YouTube: -https://bit.ly/starlightsubscribe ▶ TikTok: ...

CompassionMost people enter work in healthcare because they have a strong sense of compassion – that emotional response to someone's pain or suffering and wanting to help them. Why do we sometimes lose compassion in our journey in healthcare?The Professional Quality of Life Scale can be found at https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/content/dam/socialwork/home/self-care-kit/compassion-satisfaction-and-fatigue-stamm-2009.pdf It is worth having a look at this and thinking about your responses to these questions looking at compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.A helpful podcast that explains compassion in more detail is the Somerset Emotional Wellbeing podcast episode on compassion.https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-somerset-emotional-wellbeing-podcast/id1515287594?i=1000642771873 Finally if you want to delve into the evidence behind the need for more compassion in healthcare I can thoroughly recommend:Compassionomics: The revolutionary scientific evidence that caring makes a difference. Studer Group 2019. Trzeciak and Mazzarelli or find out more on www.compassionomics.comWhat are you going to spend 40 seconds doing to show your compassion today?Support the showThanks for listening,James@JMACeducation

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Welcome to the Aphasia Access Aphasia Conversations Podcast. I'm Ellen Bernstein-Ellis, Program Specialist and Director Emeritus for the Aphasia Treatment Program at Cal State East Bay and a member of the Aphasia Access Podcast Working Group. AA strives to provide members with information, inspiration, and ideas that support their aphasia care through a variety of educational materials and resources. I'm today's host for an episode that will feature Davetrina Seles Gadson. We'll discuss her work involving how brain lesion characteristics may intersect with aphasia recovery, race, and psychosocial factors, as well as issues involving health-related quality of life assessments. Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson is the first Black-American to graduate with a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Georgia. She is a neuroscientist and certified speech-language pathologist with expertise in adult neurological rehabilitation and patient-centered outcomes. She currently is Research Faculty, in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, at Georgetown University. Dr. Gadson's research focuses on the influence of health disparities in minority stroke survivors with aphasia and the effect of such disparities on brain functioning, aphasia severity, and health-related quality of life. Most rewardingly Dr. Gadson is the co-host of “Brain Friends”, a podcast for neuro nerds and stroke survivors to talk about aphasia advocacy, language recovery, and community. Listener Take-aways In today's episode you will: Learn how health disparities may influence aphasia outcomes and why more research is needed   Discover why "Brain Friends" is another podcast you'll want to add to your playlist.   Gain practical tips on how to build confidence in intercultural interactions with your clients   Hear how health-related quality of life (HRQL) measures can help  inform your clinical practice   We'd like to recognize Kasey Trebilcock & Amanda Zalucki, students in the Strong Story Lab at CMU, for their assistance with this transcript. Show notes edited for conciseness Ellen Bernstein-Ellis (EBE) EBE: I am so excited to have a fellow podcaster here today. Thank you for being here. And I just listened to the January Brain Friend's episode. It was great. So I hope our listeners will check it out too. I want to also give a shout out to your consumer stakeholder and co-podcaster, Angie Cauthorn, because she was a featured guest on episode 70, in June of 2021, as we recognized Aphasia Awareness Month, and you just spoke with her about aphasia types and aphasia conferences, and you gave a big shout out to CAC and you gave clinical aphasiology conference and you also gave a big shout out to the Aphasia Access Leadership Summit. So really important conferences, I think that stimulate a lot of discussion and values around patient centered care. And your Brain Friends podcast just has a great backstory. So why don't we just share about how that all started? Where's the backstory to that, Davetrina? DAVETRINA SELES GADSON: Thank you so much for having me. This is such an exciting opportunity. So, Brain Friends started with myself and Angie. We were on the National Aphasia Association's Black Aphasia group call and I just loved her energy. She reached out to me after we finished that group call, and we just started talking. Our conversations were so informative, and it just lit this passion and excitement in me. I said, “Hey, can I record some of these, and maybe we do like a podcast?”, and she was totally down for it. It's just been such an innovative and fun way to disseminate science and engage many stakeholders. EBE: I want to thank Darlene Williamson, who's president of the National Aphasia Association for sending me a little more information. You told me about this group, and so I wanted to find out more. She provided this description by Michael Obel-Omia and his wife Carolyn, and I hope I said his name correctly, who provide leadership to this group. And they said that in this group, the Black American Aphasia Conversation group, “provides a place for Black people with aphasia to share their stories, provide support, meditation, and brainstorm ways to advocate and consider policies. We will discuss the unique challenges and gifts we share due to our experiences with disability and race.” I found out that you can reach out to the National Aphasia Association (NAA) for more information and to get on the email list for a meeting notifications. And in fact, I put the registration link in our show notes today. So, sounds like that group has been a meaningful discussion forum for you, too. SELES GADSON: It's been so fun. I share how for me, I've been in the field practicing for a little over 16 years now, and this was my first time being in a room with so many people that look like me. And for many of the survivors on the call, I was one of their first Black SLPs that they had ever met. Just even having that connection, and being able to speak to some of the challenges, and some of the things culturally that we both share has been my outlet, biweekly. EBE: I'm going to make sure we have that link in our show notes. Also, the link to your podcast because I encourage people to listen to Brain Friends, I've really enjoyed it.  When you and I were planning for this episode today, you talked about how being part of the National Aphasia Association's Black American Aphasia Group really helped to energize you and the research you were doing, and what a nice integration of life that was. I will want to tell our listeners about one more wonderful thing, and that's the interview you were part of on the ASHA Voices podcast as well as the related article in the ASHA leader, where I learned more about your journey to doing this research. So, as you provided clinical services for a Black client as an outpatient clinician, and this is pre- doctoral research, you recognized that there was a significant gap in the literature around working with African Americans with aphasia. You saw the need to understand the impact of aphasia on identity and motivation in order to best help this particular client. And those are both really important concepts within the Life-Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) framework as well. So, then you shared that you got some important advice from an important mentor. Do you want to share what happened next? SELES GADSON: Definitely. So, one thing that's also unique about that time is that at that point in my career, I had worked in many of the clinical settings. I had done acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing facility, and even worked as a travel SLP traveling throughout the United States. And so, once I had got to that outpatient setting, it was different from any of the other settings because these individuals were home. And often times, they wanted to get back to work. I remember feeling a little discouraged because I wasn't finding research on a lot of functional treatment approaches or functional therapy. In addition, I wasn't finding research on black stroke survivors with aphasia. And so, I mentioned to one of my mentors at the time, Dr. Paul Rao. I said, “what's going on in the field? And I'm not seeing this, and I have this client, and I don't really know what to do.” And he said to me, “Stop complaining kiddo, and go back and get your PhD.” Admittedly, when he said it, it was kind of like, “okay fine, I'll go do it.” I don't think I realized all what it would take. That's what really made me pursue the degree was this notion that I could help facilitate some of that change and bring some of the research that I needed to see. EBE: That is so important. And that story really made me reflect on another story that has really impacted me from a dear colleague, because you experienced in your doctoral work some concerns about doing research on Black Americans because your interest was seen, as it said in I think the ASHA Voices interview or in the Leader, as “personally motivated.” Your story mirrors one that a colleague and dear friend, Nidhi Mahindra, told me as well. During her doctoral research, she was told that while pursuing multicultural interests were worthy, that she may face barriers to getting funding to pursue that line of work. That might be problematic, right? She had to struggle with that. Despite that daunting message, she persisted, and then was funded by ASHA on a grant studying barriers influencing minority clients' access to speech pathology and audiology. Nidhi reminded me how our life experiences can often inform our work in important and valuable ways. Davetrina, you've channeled your experiences into these explicit observations and data that you shared with your doctoral committee. That was a really important part of moving forward.  Do you want to share some of the points  gathered for that doctoral committee to help support why this research is so important? SELES GADSON: First, I want to thank Nidhi. Hopefully I'm pronouncing her name right, for her perseverance, because it was some of her work that helped me in my dissertation. Being able to cite her just really shows the importance that everybody plays in breaking barriers and pursuing the things that really speak to them. And one of the things that I'll clarify, it was two parts in pleading this case. The first part was that I changed the committee. I think that that was a supportive thing. And then, the second part was that when I prepared all of the research on why I needed to do this work. Some of the research looked at what we knew already with stroke recovery in minoritized groups, which was that Black African Americans were twice as likely to have a recurrent stroke than any other ethnic group and what we were seeing in the aphasia literature for Black Americans, which was the narrative of Black Americans having longer hospital stays, more hospital costs, but poor functional outcomes. And so, it was these two key pieces that I had really gathered. When I went back to the new committee to share and plead my case on why I really wanted to do this research, they had that initial onset of knowing that this research definitely needs to be done. I think that that's what helped it go through. EBE: Wow. I think those are really important reasons. That whole concept of allowing our life experiences to inform our work and to value that. As we start to talk about your research, and I'm really excited to get to share this amazing work you're doing, I thought it might be helpful to define some of the terms that are integral to this research Some of the definitions are a little tough to wrap your arms around because they're not consistent in the literature or are still waiting to develop. Let's start by discussing what you want the listeners to know about the definition for health-related quality of life, or, as we'll call it, HRQL. SELES GADSON: HRQL is operationally defined that it's multi-dimensional. The way I define it a lot in my work is the perception of the individual's ability to lead a fulfilling life in the presence of a chronic disease or disability such as aphasia, but really their perception in five domains. The five domains that I look at in my work are physical, mental, emotional, social communication, and then role, the individual's ability to get back into the activities that they used to be able to do. EBE: Okay, that's really helpful. I think we should also discuss or define patient-reported outcomes or PROs. Sometimes they are also referred to as PROM's, patient-reported outcome measurements. How do they relate to HRQLs? SELES GADSON: Patient-reported outcomes is a health outcome directly reported by the patient without interpretation. Patient-reported outcomes often look at the status of the health condition. The biggest thing about patient-reported outcomes is that it's without the interpretation of the practitioner. So, whatever the patient says is what we're going to take as gold. EBE: Why is it particularly important then to look at HRQOL for Black stroke survivors? SELES GADSON: That's such a great question. And so I want to break it down in two parts. I think the first part is that given the lack of normative data for Black stroke survivors, when we're only looking at clinician-reported outcomes, that's where we get to this bias and the normative bias. I know that there's research out where there are some outcomes to where we're already seeing this five-point difference. And for some research, that five-point difference is considered clinically meaningful. I think that if we're not using these patient-reported reported outcomes, then we put ourselves in a position to contribute to the disparities that we're seeing in standardized assessments. So that's the first answer. The second reason is that we know that nonclinical factors such as physician-race concordance drive up to 80% of what we're seeing in poor functional outcomes in minoritized groups. If we're not asking the person, then we're not able to really understand the things that they want to do, and we're already coming in with this majority type attitude which could influence one's participation in therapy. The last thing that I think is most important, whether you're Black, white, purple, whatever, is that we have these insurance demands that sometimes may not allow us to get to all the things that we may see from an impairment base. By using the patient-reported outcomes, we are helping structure therapy in ways that matter most to the patient. EBE: Well, that reminds me of this amazing quote that I was hoping I could work in today. I circled it in big yellow pen when I first read through your research. You said that it's really important because, due to the lower HRQL that we find in individuals with aphasia, it's “imperative that the development of a treatment plan incorporates what the patient prioritizes. And it's imperative that clinicians have a way to measure these subjective attributes to make a meaningful impact on care.” That's what we want to do. SELES GADSON: So important, because I think what we have to realize is that part of our role as the practitioners providing this skilled intervention, is really helping the individual get back to what they want to do. And I think that if we're not asking them what they want to do, then we're not really able to structure therapy in matters that mean the most to them, but also help them to start to recognize that as part of this identity with aphasia, that there's this new normal for them. Sometimes, individuals are going to rate themselves based off of what they used to be able to do. But if they know that one of their goals was to be able to talk on the phone, or to play bridge with their friends, and we worked on that in therapy, they're now able to look and see, before I scored my telephone confidence at a 50. Now I feel like I'm at a 90, and so sometimes that own self-recognition can support motivation, and can even support therapy, once insurance dollars run out. EBE: I really appreciated doing this deeper dive into PROs as I read through some of your research. And one of the resources I came across was a really interesting table that talked about six categories of PROs. And I'll put a link in the show notes to a 2015 book by Cella, Hahn, Jensen and colleagues called “Patient-Reported Outcomes and Performance Measurement.” (They list six different kinds of PROs in a helpful table.) But the main category that your work is utilizing is actually these HRQL measures. You've been stating why it's so important. HRQL PROs help to frame diagnostics and treatment because you're trying to prioritize what the patient wants and needs-- what they're expressing. SELES GADSON: Right, exactly. I think that one of the things that it's really important for practitioners to understand, is that these things are mandated by what we see in our scope of practice. When I say mandated, I mean we are called to reduce the cost of care by designing and implementing treatment that focuses on helping the individual. If we're not asking the individual what they want to get back to, then I think that we're putting ourself at a position that makes it more challenging to serve in that way. EBE: One of the things we like to do on this podcast is to provide resources that will help clinicians think differently or do something differently tomorrow as they meet face-to-face with their clients. And one of the things I thought we'd put in our show notes is a link to the PROMIS website, because that was something you've used in your research. Do you want to explain a little bit about that website? SELES GADSON: One of the things that I like about the PROMIS website is that it has a list of health outcomes available to use for a range of individuals-- for pediatrics, for adults. I like that it's free, most of them, and I think that it's a good place to start. Some of the outcomes on that website are also even appropriate for in acute care, meaning that they may not take a long time to administer. And so, I think that that's a good place to start. EBE: Well, thank you. And I want to move right into this wonderful paper where you are co-author with Wesley, van der Stelt, Lacey, DeMarco, Snider, & Turkeltaub, that looked at how brain lesion location interacts with HRQL. Can you share a couple key takeaways from that paper?  I hope you'll highlight the one related to depression and HRQL. We're having a lot of research right now around the emotional impact of aphasia and how that will impact recovery outcomes as well. So, tell us a little bit more about that work. SELES GADSON: We looked at the domains of health-related quality of life associated with specific deficits and lesion locations in chronic aphasia. We examined the relationship between HRQL using the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale by Hilari and her colleagues, as well as a depression scale, and different impairment-based measures---our battery that we used here. What we found was that language production and depression predicted communication HRQL, meaning that those individuals that reported lower communication HRQL also had a significant depression associated with it. We did lesion symptom mapping in this study. Basically, what we were looking at is to see if HRQL mapped on to discrete areas of the brain. We found that individuals that reported lower psychosocial HRQL had inferior frontal and anterior insula lesions; where individuals who reported lower physical HRQL had lesions in the basal ganglia. This confirmed for us that even though HRQL is this subjective perception, we were seeing it map on to these very specific areas in the brain that also predicted some of the impairment measures that we know of. EBE: That can get us to start thinking about if we have patients with these types of lesions, maybe to be more on the alert for depression. I think that's one point you made. But you also mentioned another important takeaway in the study about the impact of depression on HRQL related to the training of SLPs. This all ties together. What are your thoughts there? SELES GADSON: I think that when we are recognizing that individuals with aphasia are experiencing a new normal, and I think that the research has been very clear on understanding that depression does relate to and contribute to one's communication. I think that there is an opportunity for speech-language pathologists to have more counseling classes. And again, make sure that we're tapping into what the patient wants to do in order to hopefully help mitigate some of those feelings of depression. EBE: I really endorse building those counseling skills in our graduate programs for our students, so they go out feeling more confident and more skilled and knowing that that is going to be an ongoing journey as a speech-language pathologist to build that skill set. SELES GADSON: And shameless plug, I think our episode six of Brain Friends is a mental health episode. I have one of my good girlfriend colleagues there who is a counseling psychologist. She shares with us helping skills for the practitioner, and we share on that episode10 skills that you can do as a clinician to support the person with aphasia. EBE: Thank you for sharing that. That's really important. And again, the link to Brain Friends will be in our show notes. Let's take a moment and talk about how you connect this finding about depression to the role of social communication, because you said it was those scores that were down in your measure. SELES GADSON: With that particular study or overall? EBE: However you'd like to discuss it. I'm opening that door to you. SELES GADSON: One of the things that we were seeing is that individuals were reporting the depression within this Communication HRQL domain. So even though we didn't dive into it too deep in this study, it was more of the correlation and recognizing that individuals that were reporting this higher level of depression, also have this higher level, or this lower report of communication HRQL, making those links specifically. I do have something that I'm working on right now, that will completely answer that question a little bit more solidly. I don't want to speak too much on this, so stay tuned. EBE: Absolutely staying tuned, there's no question. You also had another article that I found intriguing-- An article with your coauthors, Wallace, Young, Vail, and Finn, a 2021 article that examined the relationship between HRQL, perceived social support, and social network size in Black Americans with aphasia. And that paper highlights that there's been little research exploring HRQL in Black Americans. Of the five factors that comprise HRQL, why did you decide to focus on social functioning? And specifically social support and social network in this study? SELES GADSON: Well, that really came from the literature. One of the things that the literature said is that we knew that social HRQL contributed in some way, but we weren't sure what way. And we weren't sure what pieces of social functioning contributed. My apologies to the researcher who said it, but it set me up perfect for my dissertation work to say, “this is why I'm looking at social functioning in these two specific pieces,” because we didn't know. Was it social participation? Was it social network? Was it social support? That was one of the reasons why I wanted to pull out those two specific pieces. The other thing that was really important about this work was that it was the first study that really looked at what HRQL looked like in Black stroke survivors. We didn't know any of that. And so for me, it was really important to compare Black stroke survivors to normal aging Black individuals because I feel that for us to really get baseline understanding of what some of these factors are and how individuals respond in recovery, we have to compare them to their norm, or to other members in their community that look like them before comparing between Black and white or any other ethnic groups. This study is where we found that in terms of HRQL, the main difference between stroke survivors with and without aphasia and in our normal aging individuals, was that communication was the impairment. And then, with the social network and social support, we weren't seeing a difference between this homogenous group of Black people in those areas. EBE: That takes me to my next question, your research noted that the Black survivors with and without aphasia, have smaller social networks compared to white stroke survivors. That's the data that we have based on that social network data. Even though you weren't trying to compare in this study, per se, you still made sense of that finding-- trying to make sure that we don't make assumptions, and instead look at different factors that could be at play. How did you make sense of that finding, the smaller network? SELES GADSON: It was two things that allowed us to make sense of that finding. One was recognizing that in both groups, the stroke survivors with aphasia and our normal aging individuals, that because they were age matched, it could have been a factor of age--meaning that the individuals receiving the support quality and then their network, everyone was kind of in the same age group, and so, it was more of a factor of time of life versus actual culture. But then a lot of that came through in some of the anecdotal reports, and things that we even circled on the scale that we used--we use the Lubben Social Network Scale. With some of those questions, one might be how many people do you feel comfortable sharing personal details with? And often times, we got this report of “just my husband”, or “only God”. And so, we were seeing that some of this really related to the traditional and cultural values in Black Americans, where you're not going to share a lot of stuff with a lot of people. You have your set group, your small network. And that's okay. That doesn't mean that you're isolated.  EBE: I think another point you make, and maybe even thinking back to the ASHA Voices Podcast, why it's particularly important to target social communication. That is yet another life participation core concept. Do you want to speak to that for a moment? SELES GADSON: I think the thing that we have to realize with social communication is that individuals, especially within the black community, they are social, they want to talk, they want to get back to doing and interacting with their community. And so, one of the things that that looks like is maybe being able to participate again in Bible study or being able to stand up and read a scripture. And the only way that you know that, is by asking them that on a patient-reported outcome. I think that that's where that social communication piece is coming in. One of the things that I'm seeing with the Black aphasia group is that moment, that hour, where everyone is together, it's amazing. It's them using social communication. You spoke about how I said that that energized my research, and that was why--because I was on this call, and they were speaking about these things, that sometimes I feel like I have to explain to the powers that be why social communication or the LPAA approach is important. But here I was talking with all of these survivors, and they were telling me, I want to be able to communicate, I want to be able to do these things. It just really confirmed for me that this type of research, we were on the right path. EBE: Right. And this is my chance for a “shameless plug” because of my life work, and that is just the power of groups. The power of groups is amazing. SELES GADSON: You know, your life work and... EBE: Well, we don't want to go there, this episode is about you. SELES GADSON: Okay. I'm telling you; I'll get into just how influential your work has been, even when I was working as a practitioner and doing group therapy, it was your work and your research that I was going to. EBE: Well, I had the honor of getting to work with Dr. Roberta Elman, and starting the Aphasia Center of California and doing that initial research, that has been such a gift to me, so, but thank you, back to your work now. That's a great transition, because I'm going to bring us to your 2022 study, looking at how aphasia severity is modulated by race and lesion size in chronic survivors. That was an amazing study. I'm going to read another quote here from that study. And that is, “understanding the origin of disparities in aphasia outcomes is critical to any efforts to promote health equity among stroke survivors with aphasia.” You said this work led you to an “Aha!” moment. And I'd love for you to share more about that moment, and about this study. SELES GADSON: Yes, this was one of my babies, I would say it was definitely a labor of love. And it's been well received. One of the things that led us to this study was that we were already aware of what the research was saying, in regards to the narrative of Black stroke survivors having these lower scores, they were having poor functional outcomes, longer hospital stays. I really wanted to understand what components neurologically, were playing into that. The research has shown that Black Americans often may have a larger stroke due to a myriad of factors-- delayed hospital arrival, not being able to receive TPA. But I wanted to know what factors neurologically were contributing to what we were seeing, not only in this baseline difference that we were seeing, but what was the bigger picture essentially. What we found was that when we looked at race and lesion size, when we did an interaction of race and lesion size, that Black and white survivors with small lesions performed similarly. But larger strokes resulted in more severe aphasia for Black people, than white people. And that was something that we didn't quite understand, because if you think about it, the larger the lesion, the poorer your aphasia should be. But in this case, the larger the lesion, the white stroke survivors were performing better and so we offered two reasons for that. One was the potential assessment bias-- that maybe with the larger stroke, there was this code-switching element that the Black stroke survivors just weren't able to do. And we were seeing that in the larger strokes, and it wasn't being picked up in the smaller strokes. Then the other was the disparity that I had mentioned earlier, which is that access to rehabilitation. It might have been more evident-- we were seeing some of those disparities in the larger strokes. We know that individuals that come from higher earning SES groups have greater access to rehabilitation services like speech and language. That was our other reason, that we were wondering if that's why we were seeing that outcome. EBE: This reminds me some of the research that Dr. Charles Ellis has been doing. I attended his keynote speech at the IARC conference in 2022 that talked about understanding what is happening upstream, because it's going to impact what's happening downstream. In terms of health disparities, it's going to have an impact. I think your research supports that. We need to learn more about it and do the research you're doing. As you reflect on your findings across these amazing studies, this research that you've been doing, can you offer to our listeners some tips on how to have more confidence with intercultural contact? SELES GADSON: That's a great question. I think the first thing that that you have to do is put yourself in places where you are connecting with people that don't look like you. EBE: I agree. And that can be hard and challenging to do. SELES GADSON: It can be, but one of the things that I say is that it goes back to some of the things that Dr. Ellis has talked about, which is being intentional. That might mean going to a different side of the neighborhood to support a Black owned business, and being within that space, to feel how it feels to be around different cultures. The other thing that I think is really important, and it comes out of literature that looks at reducing racial bias in health care, which is to avoid stereotype suppression. So oftentimes, people may be thinking something and they don't want to share it, or they try to suppress it. And the reason why that's negative is because stereotype is a cognitive organization strategy that we use. And where it becomes negative is that if you're having these stereotype ideas, or you're just not sure, if you're not able to express them within a space that you feel comfortable with, then you suppress them. And then it kind of comes out in therapy. And so, I think that those are two huge things. And then the last thing that I would say is that it's really important to build partnerships. And so, building partnerships, either with local churches, within the university area, or just seeing how you can serve in order to help create some of that confidence. But you have to put yourself out there and not wait until therapy day. EBE: Wow, thank you for those tips. And one of them reminded me of something, a tip that a local educator suggested that, even if you don't feel like you're in an environment where your everyday social context might put you with people who look different from you, that you can still listen to other voices by listening to podcasts, sign up for podcasts, sign up for Twitter feeds of people with different voices, so you can start being present to that conversation. So that was something that I have found useful and really good advice as well. SELES GADSON: So true. The other thing that I did, even someone who identifies as a Black American when I was doing my dissertation work, and previously before some other things in my career, I noticed that perspective taking was a huge piece--putting myself or imagining myself in the individual's shoes. And so, for me, that meant that I went to Black museums and exposed myself to different cultural experiences. I wasn't going into some of these spaces, whether it was collecting data or even working with individuals from other earning communities, with some type of privilege. So even in that sense, I wanted to make sure that I checked my privilege as well by doing that perspective taking. EBE: Thank you,. And this discussion could keep going, but I know our time is getting tight here. This whole effort that you put in your research of looking at HRQL measures reminds me of some of the work that I've really admired by Hilari and you had a wonderful story you could share about her, your interaction and your use of her work. Would you like to share that quickly? SELES GADSON: Oh, she's so awesome. I was sharing how when I first was diving into this literature, her work was one of the pieces that I found, the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale. I reached out to her and she shared this scale. And a couple of years later, I attended the International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference in London. And she sat down with me. I asked her if she had any time, if we could just talk, and she was so welcoming. We sat down, and she might not even remember this, but even in that moment of us being able to talk about these things that we were both so passionate about, she just really spoke to me and encouraged me. And it's so funny, because now as I publish and do different things, my mom always says, “you gonna be just like Dr. Hilari.” EBE: Let's just do a shout out for mentorship, for people who take the time, and feel committed and passionate. Again, we're using that word again today, passionate, to support the new voices that are coming into the field. So that's the gift of mentorship. And in this whole discussion, you and I also talked about how important it is to be inclusive, and we talked about how HRQL measures sometimes are harder to use with people with severe aphasia and how they can get excluded from research. It's hard enough to get people with aphasia into the research, right? There's work by Shiggins and her colleagues looking at how often people with aphasia are excluded. But you made a good point about ways that we can include people with more severe aphasia. Do you want to mention that? SELES GADSON: I think one of the things that we have at our fingertips, and we know just from our training, is to use different visual cues to support those individuals that might have more severe aphasia. One of the things that we highlighted in the 2020 paper looking at the psychometric properties of quality of these patient reported outcomes, was that there are certain assessments that are perfect for individuals with severe aphasia, assessments like the Assessment for Living with Aphasia (ALA), because it has the pictures available and it has simple language. Just recognizing that even by using some of these compensation tools, whether it's pictures or modifying the language, we can still get the individual's perspective of what they want in therapy just by using some of these modifications. EBE: This reminds me, I can put one more link and resource into the show notes, because the Center for Research Excellence in Aphasia offers this wonderful speaker series. And there was just an excellent recent session by Dr. Shiggins on including people with aphasia in research. So, I'll put that link in. I want everybody to listen to that presentation. And finally, as our closing question for today, Davetrina, if you had to pick only one thing we need to achieve urgently as a community of providers, of professionals, what would that one thing be? SELES GADSON: I think we have to start using patient-reported outcomes. I think that if you were doing a clinician-reported outcome to assess the impairment, paired with that has to be some level of patient-reported outcome that will give you insight into what the patient wants to do. It's no longer optional. I think that we have to make it a paired thing with our clinician-reported outcome, is getting the perspective of the patient. EBE: I so agree with you, thank you. Thank you for this wonderful interview today. I really, really appreciate it. SELES GADSON: Thank you. EBE: And I want to thank our listeners for listening today. For references and resources mentioned in today's show, please see our show notes. They're available on our website, www.aphasiaaccess.org. And there, you can also become a member of this organization. Browse our growing library of materials and find out about the Aphasia Access Academy. If you have an idea for a future podcast episode, email us at info@aphasiaaccess.org. For Aphasia Access Conversations, I'm Ellen Bernstein Ellis and thank you again for your ongoing support of aphasia access. References and Resources Brain Friends Podcast: https://www.aphasia.org/stories/brain-friends-a-podcast-for-people-with-aphasia/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/1563389920801117 https://open.spotify.com/show/5xgkrhUhEIzJgxpRXzNpBH   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HRQL website: https://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/concept.htm     National Aphasia Association  Black American Conversation group registration: The Black American Aphasia Conversation Group meets through Zoom every other Monday at 4:00pm EST (1:00pm PST) . If you are interested in joining this group, please complete the form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJN9VWjrujhebT8Z48bqDZePOHYotipFC34S8T0X8_o8rG-g/viewform Patient Reported Outcome Measurement System (PROMIS) https://www.promishealth.org/57461-2/   Cella, D., Hahn, E. A., Jensen, S. E., Butt, Z., Nowinski, C. J., Rothrock, N., & Lohr, K. N. (2015). Patient-reported outcomes in performance measurement. . Research Triangle Park (NC): RTI Press; 2015 Sep. Publication No.: RTI-BK-0014-1509ISBN-13: 978-1-934831-14-4  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK424378/   Gadson, D. S., Wallace, G., Young, H. N., Vail, C., & Finn, P. (2022). The relationship between health-related quality of life, perceived social support, and social network size in African Americans with aphasia: a cross-sectional study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 29(3), 230-239.   Gadson, D. S. (2020). Health-related quality of life, social support, and social networks in African-American stroke survivors with and without aphasia. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 29(5), 104728.   Gadson, D. S. (2020). Health-related quality of life, social support, and social networks in African-American stroke survivors with and without aphasia. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 29(5), 104728.   Gadson, D. S., Wesley, D. B., van der Stelt, C. M., Lacey, E., DeMarco, A. T., Snider, S. F., & Turkeltaub, P. E. (2022). Aphasia severity is modulated by race and lesion size in chronic survivors: A retrospective study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 100, 106270   Gray, J. D. (2022). Transcript: ASHA Voices: Confronting Health Care Disparities. Leader Live. https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2021-0902-transcript-disparities-panel-2022   Law, B. M. (2021). SLP Pioneers Research on Aphasia Rehab for African Americans. Leader Live https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.FTR4.26092021.58   Lubben, J., Gironda, M., & Lee, A. (2002). Refinements to the Lubben social network scale: The LSNS-R. The Behavioral Measurement Letter, 7(2), 2-11.   Shiggins, C., Ryan, B., O'Halloran, R., Power, E., Bernhardt, J., Lindley, R. I., ... & Rose, M. L. (2022). Towards the consistent inclusion of people with aphasia in stroke research irrespective of discipline. 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Stacy Sherman and featured guest Brian Solis, VP of Global Innovation at Salesforce and a best-selling author and futurist, provide valuable insights into leveraging AI and related technology without losing the human element. They discuss the importance of customer-centric approaches to CX and emerging trends in the world of work. Additionally, you'll hear about Brian's latest book, Life Scale, which offers practical guidance for navigating life in a tech-driven world. Tune in now to gain actionable tips and expert insights into the future of technology and innovation and how to gain a competitive business advantage right now. More at

In this week's show futurist, digital analyst and anthropologist, along with being a Global Innovation Evangelist for Salesforce, Brian Solis joins us to talk adapting to life in the future. As a renowned specialist on engagement, CX and digital transformation, Brian discusses what it's like to be a futurist at one of the worlds largest tech companies that is increasingly mission focused. And we get into the implications of his book Lifescale as we emerge from the pandemic. Living Futures explained with Brian Solis, The Futurists Brian Solis –/ Brian Solis is Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Brian's work at Salesforce focuses on thought leadership and research that explores digital transformation, innovation and disruption, CX, commerce, and the cognitive enterprise. Brian Solis has been called “one of the greatest digital analysts of our time.” Brian is also a world renowned keynote speaker and an award-winning author of eight best-selling books including, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What's the Future of Business and The End of Business as Usual. In his latest book, Lifescale: How to live a more creative, productive and happy life, Brian tackles the struggles of living in a world rife with constant digital distractions. His model for “Lifescaling” helps readers overcome the unforeseen consequences of living a digital life to break away from diversions, focus on what's important, spark newfound creativity and unlock new possibilities. For almost 30 years, Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on business and society. His research and books help executives, and also everyday people, better understand the relationship between the evolution of technology and its impact on people and also the role we each play in evolution. As a result of his work, Solis also helps leading brands, celebrities, and startups develop new digital transformation, culture 2.0, and innovation strategies that enable businesses to adapt to new connected markets from the inside out. Welcome to the Futurists where your hosts Brett King and Robert Tercek interview the worlds foremost super-forecasters, thought leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs and futurists building the world of tomorrow. Together we will explore how our world will radically change as AI, bioscience, energy, food and agriculture, computing, the metaverse, the space industry, crypto, resource management, supply chain and climate will reshape our world over the next 100 years. Join us on The Futurists and we will see you in the future! More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

In this week's show futurist, digital analyst and anthropologist, along with being a Global Innovation Evangelist for Salesforce, Brian Solis joins us to talk adapting to life in the future. As a renowned specialist on engagement, CX and digital transformation, Brian discusses what it's like to be a futurist at one of the worlds largest tech companies that is increasingly mission focused. And we get into the implications of his book Lifescale as we emerge from the pandemic. Brian Solis - https://www.briansolis.com/about/ Brian Solis is Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Brian's work at Salesforce focuses on thought leadership and research that explores digital transformation, innovation and disruption, CX, commerce, and the cognitive enterprise. Brian Solis has been called “one of the greatest digital analysts of our time.” Brian is also a world renowned keynote speaker and an award-winning author of eight best-selling books including, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What's the Future of Business and The End of Business as Usual. In his latest book, Lifescale: How to live a more creative, productive and happy life, Brian tackles the struggles of living in a world rife with constant digital distractions. His model for “Lifescaling” helps readers overcome the unforeseen consequences of living a digital life to break away from diversions, focus on what's important, spark newfound creativity and unlock new possibilities. For almost 30 years, Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on business and society. His research and books help executives, and also everyday people, better understand the relationship between the evolution of technology and its impact on people and also the role we each play in evolution. As a result of his work, Solis also helps leading brands, celebrities, and startups develop new digital transformation, culture 2.0, and innovation strategies that enable businesses to adapt to new connected markets from the inside out. Welcome to the Futurists where your hosts Brett King and Robert Tercek interview the worlds foremost super-forecasters, thought leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs and futurists building the world of tomorrow. Together we will explore how our world will radically change as AI, bioscience, energy, food and agriculture, computing, the metaverse, the space industry, crypto, resource management, supply chain and climate will reshape our world over the next 100 years. Join us on The Futurists and we will see you in the future!

In this week's show futurist, digital analyst and anthropologist, along with being a Global Innovation Evangelist for Salesforce, Brian Solis joins us to talk adapting to life in the future. As a renowned specialist on engagement, CX and digital transformation, Brian discusses what it's like to be a futurist at one of the worlds largest tech companies that is increasingly mission focused. And we get into the implications of his book Lifescale as we emerge from the pandemic. 

Saying goodbye to a beloved pet can be a heart wrenching experience. How does one know when it is the right time to consider euthanasia?  Rebecca Rose, a certified veterinary technician who serves as an outreach coordinator with Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice, joins the podcast to share her insights surrounding this difficult decision. She explains how clients can use various quality of life assessments to aid in the decision making process. She also shares stories from her own experiences with euthanasia to explain the regret some pet owners have about waiting “too long.” Here are links to information we talked about today: Use a Quality of Life Scale to assess if it is time to consider euthanasia Got a question for Michael and Stephen? Run across something interesting you want to share with the show? Do you have a topic idea for a future episode? Send it to us at thefamilypetpodcast@gmail.com. 

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  Now that we've spent time talking about how to recognize trauma and battle burnout in the workplace, it's only fitting we move right into how to recognize signs of Secondary Trauma. Secondary Traumatic Stress can be any combination of emotional, mental, or behavioral trauma responses like images getting stuck in your head, avoidance, intrusive negative thoughts, and difficulty concentrating. STS can mirror the same signs of someone experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but the difference is you don't experience the traumatic event directly. Instead, Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) can occur in anyone who hears the firsthand account, or is indirectly exposed, to someone else's traumatic experience.  Tune in to this episode with Nikki Young and Alyssa Najera as they share examples of Secondary Traumatic Stress and help you better understand hot better recognize and navigate secondary traumatization.   In this episode we talk about: What is Secondary Traumatic Stress? Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) is a combination of trauma responses that can result from hearing, watching, or reading about the traumatic experience of others. This can occur from professional roles of working with trauma survivors, witnessing criminal acts of violence, working the Emergency Department or working in protective services. STS, however, can also occur outside of work and as a result of hearing someone story, witnessing disturbing images or video on social media or news outlets, or learning something traumatic happened to someone you love.   Signs of Secondary Traumatic Stress Secondary Traumatic Stress mimic the same trauma responses as those described in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The only difference, however, is STS can result from learning about the firsthand experience of someone else's trauma, whereas PTSD requires a person directly experiencing an event or series of events. These trauma responses include a cluster of physical, cognitive, and behavioral symptoms including, but not limited to, the following: Hypervigilance: Exhibiting extreme alertness, care, or caution in one or several areas of your life Increased Startle Response: Feeling extra jumpy or on edge Difficulty concentrating Easily distracted Images or parts of an event get stuck or replay in your head Avoidance of people, places, or things that might remind you of the event or series of events Disrupted sleep or nightmares Irritability Feelings of guilt or helplessness Somatic or physiological responses to being reminded of the event(s)   Who is at Risk of Experiencing Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) While people working in crisis or with trauma exposed populations are at an exceptionally high risk, secondary traumatic can also occur due to exposure to images or stories you hear in the media, national crisis, or videos. According to research, the below populations are at high risk of developing Secondary Traumatic Stress First Responders Child Protective Service Providers Mental Health Clinicians Educators Health Care Providers Helping Professionals   What is the difference between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, and Compassion Fatigue? Although these terms are often used interchangeably, they are distinctly different. Secondary Traumatic Stress refers to the presence of trauma symptoms, also consistent with PTSD symptoms, that are caused by at least one indirect exposure to traumatic material or events. This exposure could be through learning about someone's story firsthand verbally, via images, news media, reports, social media, or videos. Vicarious Trauma is less focused on trauma responses or symptoms and more focused on the cognitive changes or shifts in world view that occur over time because of repeated exposure to trauma stories. Vicarious traumatization is less present as trauma responses and more present as a shift in one's overall perspective of their environment. Compassion Fatigue also known as Empathic Strain Compassion fatigue is the gradual increase of immense emotional and physical exhaustion resulting from the ongoing output of empathy and compassion required in one's work. It is most commonly experienced in health care and helping professions, but is also experienced in other professions. Compassion fatigue can result in feelings of indifference or apathy toward the pain and suffering of others.       Resources mentioned: We've pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some links:   National Child Traumatic Stress Network; STS a Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals https://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/resources/fact-sheet/secondary_traumatic_stress_child_serving_professionals.pdf   Professional Quality of Life Scale https://proqol.org   Thank you for allowing us into your lives and helping us make mental health relatable and a part of your everyday conversation! For more information or to access all episodes visit TherapistsUncut.com.   What is the Therapists Uncut Podcast: The Therapists Uncut Podcast is a light-hearted, informative self-help podcast for grown-ups. It is hosted by off-the-clock therapists hoping to validate your experiences, normalize therapy and therapists, and help you prioritize your mental health. Who are the Therapists Uncut Podcast Co-Hosts: Nikki Young is co-host of Therapists Uncut and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. Nikki keeps it personable and professional. Yet, she always manages to keep the Therapists Uncut family and followers laughing. You may find her squirreling through topics, stories, or jokes, and all in good fun. Don't worry because someone will bring her back around to the conversation. Nikki is a licensed marriage and family therapist in her private practice located in Modesto, CA, and she is also a Crisis Junkie at heart. In addition to being co-owner of a group private practice, she is also a crisis clinician responding to local mental health crisis and emergencies. Learn more about Nikki at catalystcounselinginc.com Alyssa Najera is co-host of Therapists Uncut and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Alyssa is typically calm and composed on most days, but often has difficulty containing her excitement about the little things in life. She loves to laugh, spread positivity, and is often caught with a smile on her face. Alyssa is also a Child Welfare Services social worker and supervisor alumni, previous child sexual abuse forensic interviewer, trainer and consultant, and CEO of a group private practice in the small town of Oakdale, CA. Learn more about Alyssa at smalltowncounselingca.com or alyssanajera.com. Disclaimer: Thank you for joining Therapists Uncut, a production of AMP Smart Business. To learn more about Therapists Uncut and stay up on upcoming episodes, please subscribe and follow us on social media. As a reminder, although the Therapists Uncut co-hosts are licensed therapists, they are not your therapist. This podcast is not intended to substitute professional mental health counseling. If you need professional therapy, please contact your local provider or primary care provider.  Thanks for listening and we'll see you on the next episode of Therapists Uncut! 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Welcome to Episode 7, Season 2!!This is, the Damn Dude Podcast!!!This is a damn good episode, LOL.- Happy Birthday Royal Metta Hokulani Tom!!!! Cannot believe you are 3 years old today!!!!- Being alive for my own funeral, as they try to burry me, people are sharing and expressing the kindest expressions and most love I've ever received!!- Starting from the bottom, what does that actually mean? Well, we've discovered a way to measure it! I'll call it the "life scale". - Let's measure! where do you fall on the Life Scale?- 0 is magical, because 0 is infinite, it's not positive or negative! New born babies start at 0. Therefore, if we can reach "0" as adults, we can essentially harness the power of life from a brand new fresh perspective, many of us dip into the negatives in certain aspects! Coming from Zero or nothing, gives us an infinite number of possibilities and options to live into! We'll go deeper in the episode!- Completion of #75Hard!!!!!- The #75Hard community is absolutely phenomenal!!!!- Practicing gratitude, what its opened up for me!- Some peoples "tearing you down" is actually a compliment in disguise.Remember to say 3 things you're Gratful for every morning and every night!- Available on all major platforms!IG/FB: @DamnDudePodcasatAvailable on all major platforms: https://damndudepodcast.buzzsprout.com/- Apple Podcasts- Buzzspout- Spotify- Google Podcasts- Amazon Music- iTunes- Stitcher- iHeart Radio- TuneIn + Alexa- Podcast Addict- PodChaser- Pocket Casts- Deezer- Listen Notes- Player Fm- Podcast Index- Overcast- Castro- Castbox- Podfriend- YouTubeDaaaaaaamn Duuuuuude!!!!!Be sure to leave a 5 Star written review on Apple Podcast/Listen Notes! :)If you'd love and support the show, please feel free to make a donation to the Damn Dude Podcast!(link below)Anything and everything is Appreciated! :) Much Love, Love All.Support the show (https://paypal.me/DamnDudePodcast?locale.x=en_US)

The last few weeks we have spent a lot of time talking about self-compassion because it is one of the things that is critical to sustainability of leaders, especially in our current conditions. Last week we talked about the way that self-esteem, especially contingent self-esteem, can hijack self-compassion. We also talked about the notion that having self-compassion doesn't mean you no longer experience negative things or challenges; rather it provides support when these things do happen. In this episode I talk about a subject that is near and dear to every educators heart: compassion fatigue. I discuss the warning signs, what you can do about it for yourself, and ways to support your staff. Here is a link the to a resource I talk about in this episode: The Professional Quality of Life Scale. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.naswma.org/resource/resmgr/SocialWorkPractice/SWAN_ProQOLScale.pdf

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://thecitylife.org/2021/12/16/icp-to-present-actual-size-photography-at-life-scale-on-view-january-28-may-2-2022/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/citylifeorg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/citylifeorg/support

Lauren and JJ discuss palliative and hospice care in the veterinary setting. Resources: 1) Quality of Life Scale: https://vetsocialwork.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Quality-of-Life.pdf 2) Visit the International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care: https://iaahpc.org/

Conversation with Brian Solis, the Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce; a world-renowned keynote speaker often referred to as one of the greatest digital analysts of our time; and an award winning author of eight best-selling books including “Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life”.

Rob and Dan are joined by digital anthropologist, futurist, author and awesome human, Brian Solis to explore technology, the customer experience, and where we are going as a society and species... and what impact it is having on us as human beings and how we need to be intentional with our technology to take care of ourselves. Give it a listen and then check out Brian's book Lifescale: How to live a more creative, productive, and happy life  for more. Enjoy!

Robert shares how his parents and early childhood experiences influenced his entrepreneurial drive and his desire to be a builder. He recounts the influence of mentors early in his career who helped him explore his skills and values, the decision to move to Silicon Valley to start a venture early in his career, a deeply authentic commitment to philanthropic efforts spurred by tragic circumstances, an intensely personal personal decision to leave eBay, and his perspectives on the future of marketing and brand as the CMO of Atlassian.How can you discover and articulate your purpose? How can you make difficult career decisions? How can you incorporate your values into the professional decisions you make? How can you be a better marketer, mentor, and leader?  Robert shares his perspective and insights on finding a sense of purpose and making purpose the driving influence in career decisions. Guest Bio:Robert is a marketing executive with a passion for building early-stage and large-scale consumer platforms. Deep experience in driving revenue growth through performance marketing and consumer branding.“I believe that technology serves as a force for positive change in society. My passion is building businesses that foster human connections, create hope, and expand opportunity. I lead with empathy, and focus on attracting, retaining, and growing great talent and world-class teams.”LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chatwaniTwitter: @chatwaniBuilding Blocks:Reflect on, and write down, what you love and your “why.” Robert suggested that it's a worthy exercise to take out a piece of paper and write down your reflections on two things: what you love most, and your reason for being. It won't be easy, and it might take some time. But, speaking from experience, it's worth it! It helps provide a ton of clarity on how to think about prioritizing your time, effort, and energy. Plus, it will help simplify your life and will help make you more memorable, distinctive, and compelling to others. Check out the Simon Sinek TED talk on this topic, and Brian Solis' book Lifescale, to get started.If you'd like to share, get it out there on social with the Hashtag #BreakthroughBuilders. Or, if you'd prefer to not share it publicly, go ahead and email it to me at jesse@breakthrough-builders.com. I'd love hearing from you and learning from what you built.Helpful Links:The seminal Simon Sinek TED talk on Starting with WhyReflections from Robert on his story at the Atlassian Work Life BlogRobert's Author Page on the Atlassian Work Life Blog2-minute interview with Robert speaking about Atlassian at TieCON 2019Robert quoted on marketing's role in driving brand-led growth at CMO.comDaniel Pink on Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose here (article) and here (video) Creating a CMO Transformation Agenda: Thought Leadership from Prophet hereFour Priorities for CMOs to Reimagine and Rignite Marketing: Thought Leadership from Prophet hereResearch Reference:Qualtrics' 2021 Labor Shortage Study: https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/labor-shortage-study/

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On this episode of TELUS International Studios, we're joined by Brian Solis, Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Brian wears many other hats as a digital anthropologist, author, and keynote speaker, so there's no shortage of insights he has to share. From how the pandemic has changed our relationship with technology, accelerated fear and anxiety, to the stress this time has had on the economy, and what it all means for your company. Brian identifies this time as the "novel economy" and he introduces a new cross-generational demographic, called Generation-N. Finally, Brian deep dives into his latest book, Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life. Available on www.Lifescaling.me

In this episode, one of the world's leading futurists, Brian Solis, speaks with Digital Mindfulness about his new work Lifescale, and the effects of digital distraction on business, society and our close relationships.

In this episode, one of the world's leading futurists, Brian Solis, speaks with Digital Mindfulness about his new work Lifescale, and the effects of digital distraction on business, society and our close relationships.

Episode 23: Contact TeamsA discussion of Contact Teams, the role of the first arriving law enforcement officers, and the professionalism required to shoulder the immense responsibility of responding to an Active Shooter Event.Bill Godfrey:Welcome back to the next installment of our podcast. Today, we are going to be revisiting a subject that we have not talked about in years on the podcast, and that's contact teams. Today I have with me, Billy Perry, a retired detective and EOD from Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. While he was there, also part of their SWAT team, their dive team, the Marine unit. And even though he is technically retired, not really...Bill Perry:Not really.Bill Godfrey:Not really...Bill Perry:Not really.Bill Godfrey:... because you're still training with them...Bill Perry:I am, 36 hours a week.Bill Godfrey:... on an almost daily basis. Also joining with us, we have Harry Jimenez, who retired from Homeland Security Investigations after 30 years with DHS at the federal level, and is now serving as the deputy chief for Dimmitt County Sheriff's Office. Harry, welcome. Thanks for taking the time.Harry Jimenez:Thank you, Bill.Bill Godfrey:All right, so Billy, I know that this is a subject that is passionate and dear to your heart. Why? Why so?Bill Perry:I think this is a very difficult topic. It's a challenging topic. It's one that we approach with great reverence, with great seriousness, with great thought. And we want to come at this from a position of knowledge and a position of seriousness and with as much reverence as we can muster for it. And it is the contact team. And what does a contact team do and what is their primary job? And in any active incident, our two objectives is to stop the killing and stop the dying. And our community, the law enforcement community, for a long time was really, really, really good at that. And we're still okay at it, but we're we're having challenges or we're have been some times when we have been less than... Suboptimal, we've been suboptimal. And I think with this, and part of it is we're going through and institutional inertia paradigm shift, frankly, where I think some things are changing. And at the end of the day, we have a responsibility to stop that and there are challenges with that.Bill Godfrey:You say suboptimal. Without getting into specifics of incidents, can you give me some examples of the types of behavior you're talking about that's not really what we want.Bill Perry:Well I think, and we were talking about it-Bill Godfrey:Or the reverse of that, Billy. Give me the examples of what we do.Bill Perry:Right, exactly. That's where I was going to go with that. You read my mind. We were just talking about it, Harry and I, and one of the things is knowing what our mission is. And that's part of the issue is, as law enforcement we've had mission creep. And what I mean by that is, we're social workers and we're real estate landlords, and for we're civil people and we're traffic crash investigators, and we're... And the list goes on and on and on.Bill Godfrey:Like the MacGyver of law enforcement. Mental-Bill Perry:Oh, my god. Mental health counselors, absolutely. I mean, we're like a multi-tool. And the problem that is, we do a lot of things okay, but we don't do anything really, really good. And the one thing that differentiates us from everybody is our ability to go in and stop the bad guys, to stop the killing. And we say that, and we say that we're not flippant about this by any means.Bill Perry:And the other challenge that we've had with law enforcement is a... I don't even know that it's a watering downright diminishing of our professionalism, or if we got stagnant or where we are, and we want to be treated like professionals. And I say this to the people that are trying to all the time, but what are we doing to improve our professionalism? And are we acting like professionals? And do we know? And I ask every officer, not just every officer supervisor, not just every agency head, ask every officer, do you know what your state statute is for justifiable use of force? And they don't call it a response resistance. They call it use of force. In Florida, it's 776.Bill Perry:Do you know what your order is for response to resistance, because most departments and agencies do call it that. Do you know what your weapons platforms are? And do you know what the nomenclature is for every round that you fire and why you use it and what it is, because that's part of the professionalism component. And I say all that, and you say, well, what does that matter? It matters a lot. And I think if you don't know your orders, if you don't know your statutes, if you do not know... If you can't define immediate, imminent, right off the bat and use them in a sentence, then you're behind the eight ball. If you don't know these things that we're talking about... I mean, when it comes to a response to resistance or through periods of time, we have a duty to use force.Bill Perry:We can use force and we can't use force. And I say that all the time to people. And I'll say them again for you in a better order. We can't use force. If something happened and we cannot use force in this response to resistance. Then there may be another instance where you can. You can use force in response to resistance. And number three, you have a duty to use force. And if you ask, "Well, when's that duty to use force?" Well if you have something with... Here's another term that if you don't know, you need to rethink some things. If you're receiving actionable intelligence and you do not act on that, that's a problem. Because that's what our one job. That's what we can do that nobody else can do. Fire fighters can't do that.Bill Perry:I mean, you're not equipped for that. And we're not saying be cowboys or cowgirls or cow people. We're not saying go in and be loose cannons. Not at all, not anything, not to be reckless. And it's dangerous, but if you have actionable intelligence, you've got to make an entry. You've got to go in and do things. And alerts, and I know our department, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, 100%. If you're there, it's one person and you're there, we make one person entries. Alert says that. And if that's something that your agency doesn't do, that's something you need to take up with your agency. But we have to go in and do that. We have to stop the killing. Once we stop the killing, then we stop the dying.Bill Perry:And we had to undergo another paradigm shift a while back about the golden hour. And we didn't know anything about the clock. And Harry will tell you, we would high five. Man, we've done okay here. But now we know, now is when the work really starts. Well, if you impede that, if you impede that golden hour with your slow response to that, man, that's a challenge.Bill Godfrey:Yeah.Bill Perry:And that's where we lose ground with it, because...Bill Godfrey:Well, it's one of the key elements that we address right at the very opening of our classes is to get everybody focused on the reality that it's not just about the bad guy. Yes, we have to stop the threat. We have to neutralize the threat. Absolutely, that's critical. But that's not the only thing that kills people. The clock kills people, time kills people. And the example we say in class is, what good does it do to get the bad guy quickly if the bullets that he fired are still killing people because they're bleeding to death because we failed to get that medical point. But because I don't want to get us off on a tangent necessarily into the RTFs a little bit. Harry, Billy mentioned this idea of getting in and getting down range and dealing with it. And yeah, you said it's dangerous.Bill Perry:It's dangerous.Bill Godfrey:It is. Police officers are going to get shot at. They can get killed by getting shot. Firefighters can get killed in a burning building. Paramedics and EMTs can get killed by COVID or AIDS or anything else. So we all have these jobs and we know the potential is that there is deadly consequences that can come our way. And we're not flippant about that, not at all.Bill Perry:Not at all, not at all.Bill Godfrey:Not at all. It's just one of those realities that when you pin on the badge, whichever badge you're pinning on, you come to terms with.Bill Perry:Michelle Cook said it well.Bill Godfrey:Yeah. Yeah, she did. Harry, what are your thoughts on this?Harry Jimenez:Absolutely. I'm with Billy. Let's start with the last point. You're a law enforcement officer. The day that you strap that gun to your waist early in the morning to go to your beat or in the middle of the day because you have a night shift, you know the responsibility you have and you need to understand what are your authorities, when do you need to act? And many times, and as we go around the nation talking to law enforcement officers and all the first responders... And we asked them, we have these conversations. We say, "How do you feel? What's happening in your neighborhoods, in your communities?" We understand that many officers may find themselves... If they don't understand what are their authorities and responsibilities with that weapon, in a case of an active shooter, for example, going through that door, being solo entry or coming in with two or three officers or creating a contact team right outside the door to go in and engage and neutralize that threat, they're going to hesitate. And hesitation is going to kill you, and it's going to kill more people because those bullets are killing.Bill Perry:Active shooters are a different animal. And the reason I say that is because they are. It's completely different than anything else we do. And I think one of the big myths that has been propagated in law enforcement is, and we hear it all over, we hear everywhere we are, is, well, the most important thing is that I go home at night. And no, it's not. No, it's not. Nobody told you to do this. You went through a lot to do this. And the law enforcement officers code of ethics, when I learned it, it was 256 words. Now it's a little bit more, they've altered it a little bit. But nowhere in there does it say anything about you going home at night. Your daughters go home at night. Your sons go home at night. My daughter goes home at night. And honestly, the active shooter time is a weird time, because if you as a law enforcement officer are taking fire, it's actually good.Bill Godfrey:Because they're not sure they're not shooting at someone else?Harry Jimenez:Innocent people.Bill Perry:And I mean, that's an uncomfortable reality. And they go, "Are you saying I get shot at?" No, but I'm saying if you are, it's better than... But I mean, it just, it is what it is. And again, we're not being flippant about it. We're just being real. And you have got to know, you've got to know what constitutes actionable intelligence, especially in your jurisdiction. Because ours is very free and open and it is gunfire, it's brass, bodies and blood. It is calls for help. It is moans. It is intelligence that a forcible felony is taking place in a room with them. All that. We're going to make entry, I'm telling you. I know we will. I mean, and I think we owe that. We owe that to our community. And I think we have to know those time periods and we have to know our job and our craft, and we have to take it so seriously. And it is such a serious and a sombering and a sobering topic.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, absolutely. Billy, you've got a very, very strong SWAT and technical background. And Harry, I introduced you as Homeland Security Investigations, which belies your tactical background. And I don't want to share all those details publicly, but you're not... You wore a suit nice, and I have to tell the audience, the first time I met Harry at a training exercise, I had met him at the pre-brief and the safety briefing the night before, and he's a fed and a full suit. And the next morning he's in tactical gear with a shotgun slung over his chest. And I thought, okay, this guy's not the fed I'm usually seeing to. But Harry, when we think about tactics, and I'm going to ask both of you this, is safety in numbers? I mean, if you're the only guy there, you go in. I get that. I get that. But what about the second, the third guy, the fourth guy showing up, is there safety in trying to link up on a team? Maybe. Okay?Bill Perry:And one of the rules for learning and for what we do, where we are, is to stay together, communicate because it's always good to have a friend. And I say that, and I say that honestly, and I say that very candidly. And I think it's one of the things about C3 is we address the hard issues, frankly. And I think it's real, and I think it's one of the things that lends to its validity. And frankly, why I'm here and I think why Harry is here too, because we do talk honestly and candidly and forthrightly about things and we do address the tough subjects. And every firefighter's not the same and every police officer is not the same. Every school teacher is not the same. Every nurse isn't the same and every doctor is not the same. And so, yeah, man, I mean, there may be four officers and you're like, "Oh, I won the lottery today." And then there may be four officers are like, "Hey guys, block traffic." I mean...Harry Jimenez:Can you control traffic? Can you set up a perimeter for me?Bill Perry:And that's a hard truth. And those people that are real, that are listening are like, yes, that is so true.Harry Jimenez:Billy, but that's the reason why, this is the reason why. It's true. We all know it. And I know the listeners are going to be thinking, I can identify who's that guy in my department.Bill Perry:Yeah, exactly. And if you can't, it's you.Harry Jimenez:But the reality is that's the reason why it's so important that the professional development component-Bill Perry:The professional component, I agree, absolutely.Harry Jimenez:Because you have to continue growing.Bill Perry:Knowledge is power.Harry Jimenez:You have to be able to, when you arrive to a door and the shots have been fired and you and I are the first two officers and we need to link up, we might not need to talk. If we have trained together, if we have the basic threshold, here it is. This is my baseline of training. We look at each other, we know what we need to do, we link and we do God's work.Bill Perry:Absolutely.Harry Jimenez:However, If you're not training, if you don't know your codes, if you don't know if you are rightfully using your firearm, you're going to hesitate. And hesitation is going to cost lives.Bill Perry:And it's more than that. And it has to be able to be performed in an autonomous environment. This is a line level. I mean, you think about it, the most basic law enforcement officer runs around with a firearm on every day. And you don't have to call every time, "Hey, I'm about to be in a shooting. Is that good?" You don't do that. I mean, you need to be able to operate autonomously, and the same thing holds true in these situations. And you can't be ordered, don't make entry. This has to be something that you have to equip your people with to act on an autonomous level, competently, professionally and efficiently. And that leads us back into the other arenas. I mean, and I say this to the people I instruct all the time, what's the percentage of shots being fired that miss? Zero, because every round hits something and we're responsible for 100% of it.Harry Jimenez:100%.Bill Perry:And we should be, and that's okay. And we don't get the luxury of spraying and praying. We have to-Harry Jimenez:But the problem is that you go to some departments, and the first thing that they answer to that is, "Well, each bullet has a lawyer attached to it." That's hesitation.Bill Perry:It is.Harry Jimenez:That's doubt.Bill Perry:And honestly, and it doesn't. And we were talking about this the other day, or actually last night. A lot of people go, "Well, there's liability in this." Well, the liability is not really what you think it is. And anytime somebody says that in a class that I'm in where they're like, "They're a liability." All stop. Stop, break at your Google machine.Bill Godfrey:Folks, he's not kidding. I've been in class with him where he's done it.Bill Perry:All stop. Break out your Google machine and find the last time somebody was successfully litigated for that. It doesn't. The liability lies where you don't really think it does, and it's much more common since the applicated than people think.Harry Jimenez:And of course, we're talking about contact teams, we know that if we have to get to a point where we have a situation and we're rolling in and we arrive, you might be the first person going through the door. You might be by yourself. But at the same time, we hope that more officers come to respond to that call for help. And it can be from different jurisdictions, it can be detectives in plain clothes.Bill Perry:[crosstalk 00:16:23].Harry Jimenez:Exactly, so you want to be able to say-Bill Perry:Good job, by the way, San Bernardino.Harry Jimenez:Yes, shout out. So we have one, two, three, four officers. We teach and we try to get them anything from two to four officers to start creating that contact team. Because you're moving together, you'll be able to put hands on patients.Bill Perry:Sure.Harry Jimenez:But most of most important is, you want to stop the shooting and stop that threat.Bill Perry:Here's the thing. And I introduced this, I taught a class last Thursday and Friday, and we were talking about the clock. And I could see the light come on when I said, "You do realize that the clock, that golden hour didn't start when you stopped the bad guy. The golden hour started when the bad guy started."Harry Jimenez:Yeah.Bill Perry:So see, that's the thing that we-Bill Godfrey:The clock starts when the bleeding starts.Bill Perry:And that's what we lose sight of. We think, once we engage them... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and that's it. And again, and we say it, who our enemy is and who we're fighting, and it is bad. Now, all this to say that we can't have 19 individual, well-meaning, lone wolf soldiers running around.Bill Godfrey:I was actually just going to ask you about that. So, I mean, we've talked about being the first guy, being the officer through the door. Let's go a little deeper in the stack, second, third, fourth. What does that look like?Bill Perry:Second, third, and fourth, hopefully they're going to get there about the same time. Now, we don't do the diamond stuff anymore. I mean, we do different movements and whatnot, but we do train on that in our agency. And if you don't, if you're not training... It's like finances. If you're not planning, if you're failing to plan, you're planning to fail. And I'll say something with this, and frankly, this is one of those things where you really can't afford not to invest in this for your agency. And I don't mean just the management side of it, I mean the boots on the ground side of it too. And that's part of the challenge that we're seeing. But I think with the second, third, fourth, hopefully they're going to be there with them. Once we get in the fifth or sixth, somebody needs to start driving this train.Harry Jimenez:Oh, absolutely. You're expecting that fifth person... We call it the fifth man.Bill Perry:We do call it the fifth man.Harry Jimenez:And of course, the way we teach, we allow the communities to adapt too. It could be the six, seven, eight, nine.Bill Perry:That's what I was going to say, because everything we do in law enforcement is a tense and uncertain, rapidly developing situation. Everything's fluid, dynamic, it's a it's ever changing.Bill Godfrey:Can you slow that down and say that again? Because when they go to transcribe the podcast, they're not going to know what you just said.Bill Perry:Tense and uncertain, rapidly developing situation that is fluid and dynamic in nature.Bill Godfrey:Thank you.Bill Perry:You're welcome.Bill Godfrey:Carry on.Bill Perry:My southern-ness catches up sometimes. So anyway, at the end of the day, somebody has to drive that, and the king doesn't always wear the crown. And again, if Tactical Tammy is the one that shows up as fifth person, you're like, "Thank goodness she's here. She's going to be the one that goes in there and eats this." I'm not going to pull her aside and have her drive the train if... Does that make sense? Admin Andy is right behind her and he's an amazing person at doing the other... It's fluid and it can move.Harry Jimenez:And the main thing is, we understand that, like you say, we don't want 10, 15, 20 lone wolves running around the school or running around a building or running around a mall. Like what happened in El Paso, you have everybody responding to the Walmart shooting. Well, somebody there pumped the brakes, call dispatch, say, "Okay, I got tactical. I have at least four officers inside." Let them know on the radio. And you can ask tactical, "Send me the next four officers to my location. I'm going to be at the corner off the parking lot." So you can then, that person makes another contact team and starts slowing things down.Bill Perry:Absolutely. Let me bring up another thing before we forget it, discrimination. That's another thing that we are sorely lacking in law enforcement today is discrimination. And I mean, discriminatory shooting. A lot of agencies have a five step discrimination process, whole body, hands, belt, waistline, immediate area and demeanor, looking at the whole body, the hands the belt, about what's on demeanor. I mean, because we're not just looking for guns. Because a lot of good people have guns. Lots of good people have guns.Bill Godfrey:In Texas, almost everybody carries.Bill Perry:Right. Regardless of what you-Bill Godfrey:I didn't think you were allowed in Texas if you didn't have one.Bill Perry:Right. Inconvenient truth, it really does. And so a lot of good people do have guns. A lot of retired off duty officers, a lot of people that are really good and they do fix things, the White Settlement Church.Bill Godfrey:Absolutely.Bill Perry:I mean, there's absolutely there's a lot of things that happen.Harry Jimenez:Sutherland Springs.Bill Perry:Sutherland Springs, exactly.Harry Jimenez:[crosstalk 00:21:14].Bill Perry:So, I mean at the end of the day, so that's why you don't just look for gun and then engage it. Because you need to look for the whole body, the hands, the belt, waistline. You're looking for markings, looking for demeanor. You're looking for all that. Well, we do six. We do a face, whole body, hands, belt, waistline and demeanor. And the reason being is because I can go, "Harry, I'm done." I don't have to say, "Wait a minute, man. I'm looking at your whole body, your hands, your belt, waistline and demeanor." So but I think that's something we need to do. And the reason I bring that up here is because when you're moving through, just because you see somebody with a gun, it doesn't mean you need to service them, because you need to discriminate them. And this is something that if you're not teaching your department... Now this is libelous. This is something that is liability ridden.Bill Godfrey:Oh, that's okay. I'm thinking about all the letters I'm going to get on this podcast, but go right ahead.Bill Perry:You're welcome. It's all true and defendable.Bill Godfrey:Amen.Bill Perry:Right. The Safety Priority Matrix is defendable in court. It used to be called the Priority of Life Scale, now it's the Safety Priority Matrix. Again, professionalism. But I think when you're moving through, you need to be able to discriminate. You need to be able to link up with your initial contact team because they're going to be owning that position where the bad person is. That way you can start. They're going to own that. And that's great. And then we're going to start looking for other survivors and then we start clearing the building after we set cordons and we set up CCPs. If you don't know what a CCP is, if you do not know what an AEP is, if the most junior grunt officer that you've got does not know CCP, AEP, RTF, and imminent, immediate, all these words that I've been saying, step it up. Then end.Harry Jimenez:And not only that, you bring an example about discrimination, and it happens. And this is another conversation that we have as we go around the nation teaching these classes, especially in the advanced. We provide the students with several scenarios. And many people approach us and ask us, "Well, the shooter stopped shooting. Can we shoot the bad guy?" Because somewhere along the line in their training, they're being told that if the individual is actively engaging, they can put the tread down. And they miss the whole picture that that person has the means to do harm, had a gun.Bill Perry:Hence, eminent and immediate.Harry Jimenez:Eminent and immediate. They have already their capacity, capability and intention...Bill Perry:And propensity.Harry Jimenez:... to conduct violent events and hurt people. And they just turn around and start babbling and calling names. And many officers stop in their tracks thinking, can I service this individual?Bill Perry:And if you can, if that's what's needed or it doesn't, if they will allow us to take them into custody, I'm all about taking them into custody. Let's take them into custody.Bill Godfrey:It's amazing how often that is happening now. Yeah, I was going to say, that is a shift we've seen in the data over the last few years.Bill Perry:That is a shift.Bill Godfrey:We have fewer that are committing suicide. The rate of suicide is... Well, nosediving is too strong a way to say it, but it is substantially decreased. And the one that's increased is the ones that are being taken to custody and the ones that are fleeing.Harry Jimenez:No, absolutely. And if you look, if you look, yeah, the numbers of suicidal, suicide... Ending by suicide on active shooter was like a third, and it went down in the twenties. But what went up was the fact that they're now engaging the responding officers.Bill Perry:Yes.Harry Jimenez:They might be barricading. They might be moving to another place. Which takes us to, if you have a good tactical person and understand that that individual moved to a second floor, you still have people dying in the first floor, but you can still conduct saving lives on the first floor.Bill Perry:If we have people that service and handle it.Harry Jimenez:Exactly.Bill Perry:Yeah, I think that that's 100% true. And I think one of the other paradigm shifts that we've had to explain to officers is if they do escape, which that's another one, that's a win.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, because they're not killing people.Bill Perry:They're not killing people right now. And we have a whole slew of really aggressive, crazy detectives for us that are going to go find that person. And I mean, they're really good at it. They're going to find them. And I mean, let them go do that, but mission accomplished. We've stopped the killing. We've stopped the dying.Bill Godfrey:You've raised an issue that I want to talk, but before we run out of time. I want both of you to talk about it a little bit. So if you have an active shooter event, you make your entry, team, no team, whatever the case may be, you neutralize the threat because a threat's presenting, that's pretty clear, cut and dry. And of course, our priority is number one, stop the killing, neutralize the threat. Number two, rescue number three clear. Can you talk a little bit about those instances where it was an active shooter event, but you get there, you've made entry and the shooting has stopped. You don't know where the bad guy is. You don't know whether he is self terminated, left the scene, holed up, hostage, barricade, but the shooting has stopped.Bill Godfrey:And one of the things that we see so often that is very difficult, it happens in training, happens in real life, is that ability to switch, to say, okay, we've gone from an active threat to not an active threat. There may still be a threat and present, but now it's a question mark. Can we talk a little bit about that process and that transition and changing gears and moving to the rescue?Bill Perry:Well, advanced is the basics mastered. So all we do is we revert to SIM, we set up security, we have an immediate action plan in the event they do come back or we get more actionable intelligence, and we do medical. It's seriously that simple.Harry Jimenez:Absolutely. If you don't have an active threat, you don't have the driving force that we call it, right?Bill Godfrey:Which you were calling actionable intelligence.Harry Jimenez:Exactly, actionable intelligence. Now you have body armor, you have weapons, for your partners, you can make an area secure enough, make that a warm scenario. It's not hot anymore, bullets are not flying, and you can take care of the people that are bleeding. You need to save lives. And you're going to have the rest of the time to search and find that shooter. If he went away, you're going to get an intel. If it's barricaded, you're going to find out, but you cannot stop and be inactive because when you stop, the clock is ticking. People are bleeding, people are dying.Bill Perry:You know what I liken this to, and Adam Pendley is the one that addressed that initially likened it this way to me is, it's a normal shooting in the city.Bill Godfrey:Explain.Bill Perry:It's on a bigger scale. I mean, we have a lot of shootings where we are, and the shooter's generally not there when we get there.Bill Godfrey:Weird.Bill Perry:And the shooter's generally not there when y'all get there in the ambulance.Bill Godfrey:That's right. But you know we would be there.Bill Perry:Right. But you get there, there's nothing stopping him from circling around and coming back.Bill Godfrey:Right.Bill Perry:But we don't think about that. It's no different, but you've got officers there and we're setting up security. We have an immediate action plan, even if it's ad hoc.Harry Jimenez:And we're applying medical.Bill Perry:And we're doing medical. So honestly, as soon as we don't get actionable intelligence, we're pushing. If we're pushing and we're pushing and everything's quiet, we don't have actionable intelligence, then we're going to set up the corridors, the cordons, the CCPs, the APs. People know what that means, and then start rescuing and then start because the clock is running. That's what you have to understand. The clock has been running since before you were dispatched. Let that sink in. Before the radio call went out, the clock had already started.Harry Jimenez:And our job is to save lives.Bill Perry:Period.Bill Godfrey:One of the things that I've seen happen in training, in the scenarios that we're running, and I love to see it, because you meet a lot of officers who haven't really, I guess, mentally walked through this issue of changing gears. They're expecting to find the bad guy, and now we don't really know. We haven't found them and we don't know what's going on, but we've got to change gears. But what I love to see, and I love when I see the students, the participants of the training, when they hit this reality that, okay, contact team one and two are going to support the rescue and the medical operation, and we're going to get some RTFs down range.Bill Perry:If you don't know what an RTF is, fix that.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and then contacts three and four are going to be working on clearing. They're going to do some more work to look for bad guys.Bill Perry:Or are there other survivors that are hiding?Bill Godfrey:Exactly.Bill Perry:You're clearing for survivors.Bill Godfrey:And finding that. And by the way, if you're wondering about the terms, I'm with Billy. Hit the website because we define all that stuff there. But CCP is a Casualty Collection Point. This is a point inside your downrange area, your threat area, where you set up security, you get a secured room and it becomes a warm zone. It may be in an island of a hot zone, but it's a warm zone where we can assemble casualties and provide treatment, and then ultimately work on evacuating them out. The AEP, the Ambulance Exchange Point, this is an area where we do the handoff from the rescue task forces that are working in the warm zones to the ambulance. And it's not always in a cold zone. And sometimes we need, in fact oftentimes, we need to secure that Ambulance Exchange Point so that we can operate.Bill Perry:And if you're really good and efficient, they're close.Bill Godfrey:Exactly, because carrying people sucks.Bill Perry:Right up there with the root canals and alimony.Bill Godfrey:But here's the reason why we do that is the clock. Again, if you set up a shuttle operation, you are burning precious minutes. And not two or three, but 10 or 15.Bill Perry:On a clock that has already been running before you got notified of the incident.Bill Godfrey:Yes.Bill Perry:Before you ever acknowledged, before you ever made your way there, before you ever did anything, that clock has been going. I'm going to hammer that home.Bill Godfrey:Absolutely. Harry, final thoughts. We've got to wrap up.Harry Jimenez:We're here to save lives. We owe to our communities that we secure and protect to be professional, to maintain continuous education, to get ready for that day. We hope that you have a 20, 25, 30 year career and you never have to encounter that day, but you need to train for that day because it's going to be the time that is going to kill people, and you can shave seconds, precious seconds from that time.Bill Godfrey:Absolutely. Billy?Bill Perry:Unfortunate truth, sometimes response resistance, some times the judicious application of force saves lives. Sorry, not sorry. It is what it is.Bill Godfrey:There it is. Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening in. Gentlemen, thank you for being here.Bill Perry:Thank you.Harry Jimenez:Thank you.Bill Perry:And thank you for addressing this seriously sensitive subject that we have crossed over as a community and as a nation.Bill Godfrey:We've got to talk about it.Harry Jimenez:Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you so much.Bill Godfrey:And I realize to a certain degree, there's probably a dozen different things that we've talked about or said here that could be pointed to and said, "Hey, it's politically incorrect." And I get that, but that doesn't change the reality that people get killed if you don't do the job.Bill Perry:They're dead.Bill Godfrey:If you don't take care of business, people end up dying. And we didn't end up in this business to just watch people die.Bill Perry:Fact. And one of my heroes has a saying, "There are things worse than dying." And my omission, to me, would be much worse than something else.Bill Godfrey:Yeah. Billy, Harry, thanks for coming in today. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being with us today. Please, if you haven't subscribed to the podcast already, please hit the subscribe button. Make sure that you get notice of that. If you have any questions for us, please reach out through the website or give us a call at the office. Until next time, stay safe.

On this episode, we talk with Jennifer Starr of Going With Grace about her work photographing senior or critically ill pets. Then we sit down with our own Dr. Stefani Albrecht to discuss end-of-life care for pets, and how to prepare yourself for your pet’s journey across the Rainbow Bridge. Show links: Going with Grace, where Jennifer photographs critically ill or senior pets, and also does restorations on photos of pets who’ve already passed. How Do I Know When It’s Time? -- From Ohio State University, guidelines for making the decision to euthanize, as well as a comprehensive assessment of your pet’s well-being. Quality of Life Scale -- a more pared-down version of the OSU document, this helps make a basic assessment of your pet’s quality of life University of Missouri Pet Loss Support Group Help us keep pets and people together!

On this episode, we talk with Jennifer Starr of Going With Grace about her work photographing senior or critically ill pets. Then we sit down with our own Dr. Stefani Albrecht to discuss end-of-life care for pets, and how to prepare yourself for your pet’s journey across the Rainbow Bridge. Show links: Going with Grace, where Jennifer photographs critically ill or senior pets, and also does restorations on photos of pets who’ve already passed. How Do I Know When It’s Time? -- From Ohio State University, guidelines for making the decision to euthanize, as well as a comprehensive assessment of your pet’s well-being. Quality of Life Scale -- a more pared-down version of the OSU document, this helps make a basic assessment of your pet’s quality of life University of Missouri Pet Loss Support Group Help us keep pets and people together!

In this episode I delve into Brian Solis's book, Lifescale, which helps us to live a more creative life, enhancing our productivity by aligning our values with our life goals and overall pointing us in the direction of a more fulfilling and satisfying life.

The Whole View, Episode 436: What Is Health, and How Do You Measure It?     Welcome back to episode 436 of the Whole View. (0:27) Stacy welcomes listeners and tells the audience how excited she and Sarah are to have new listeners!  She suggests they take a moment to introduce themselves. Stacy has a 20-year career in Federal regulation and law. Her life-changing moment came from discovering what we put in and on our bodies affects our health.  Now she's her own boss and leads a large team focused on getting safer, non-toxic living products into the hands of everyone. Dr. Sarah has a medical research background and a Ph.D. in medical biophysics. She used diet and lifestyle to regain her health.  Now she sees herself as a science translator. Her goal is to build a bridge between the researchers working on expanding human knowledge and everyday people who can benefit from the information. Stacy explains that a lot of Whole View shows lately have done some very deep dives into the science on topics like foods, lifestyle factors, hormones, and specific nutrients. She explains it's not about getting your body "beach body ready." But more about your health and feeling good.  Today she and Sarah want to pull all that together and discuss the basic philosophy of health, how we define and measure the actual goal. Stacy reminds listeners that she and Sarah are not medical professionals or giving you medical advice. She and Sarah want to give you information to empower you and take with you to your doctors.  Perspective & Bias Stacy battled weight her whole life. (4:55) As a tween, she was sent to "camp shame," which was basically a place for fat kids to lose weight. This inevitably propelled her into cycles of yo-yo dieting with gaining, losing, and gaining hundreds of pounds throughout the course of her adult life. Stacy shares that in coming to a health-oriented approach to her diet, she focused a lot on being a competitive athlete for the sport of StrongMan. After an injury, it really caused her to re-evaluate how she defined self-care and self-love in the context of self-respect and acceptance. Stacy explains how big a role acceptance played at this point in her life. She had accepted her body in the context of her performance as an athlete but needed to work on accepting herself, period. Lack of self-acceptance is how our societal and cultural beliefs are such that we allow media and marketing to think of ourselves as "less than" and "imperfect." She also explains that this is how they sell billions of dollars of products to us that encourage us to change. It is a lot harder to convince somebody to change if they already accept themselves the way that they are.  Stacy tells the audience that this is where we see things that are NOT healthy: Thin, skinny, bikini body Jacked, ripped, swole Botox, collagen fillers, hair extensions, liposuction, lash serums that cause people to go blind Teas, weight loss products, that are actually nutrient depleting  Stacy tells listeners that these ideas of "health" aren't realistic, but if you do use some of these products, that doesn't make you a bad or unhealthy person. She jokes that if you love your hair extensions and they make you feel good about yourself, there's nothing wrong with that. She also adds that the belief that thin = healthy is just wrong. Health vs. Beauty Stacy explains that many companies prey on making us feel like we need these products. And some people even risk going blind, hoping that they end up the percentage of people who get the long lashes. (8:40) Sarah takes a minute to highlight the misdirect between health and beauty. Unfortunately, Sarah says, it's so pervasive that it's difficult to persuade people into opening their minds. Stacy adds that stereotypical ideas of beauty don't even equate to a healthy lifestyle. She cites underweight models are seen as ideal even though underweight is actually detrimental to your health.  The ideal body type has changed over centuries, and right now, the general belief is one where people believe thin is healthy. Stacy and Sarah covered this idea in-depth in Episode 421.  Stacy reminds everyone that science has actually proved the BMI chart is more wrong than right.  It tends to lead us to "assume" thin people are healthy and overweight people are not.   Sarah emphasis that there is a really big lag between scientific discoveries, for example, lifestyle changes, and doctors implement it.  In some cases, this lag can be up to twenty years long.  For example, for years, doctors would tell them to stop eating high cholesterol foods if someone had high cholesterol. We know now that our cholesterol isn't impacted by what we eat, but rather our lifestyle and genetics.  How Doctors Define Health? Free of disease is a big one. But "lack of disease" doesn't necessarily mean "healthy." (15:15) Low-risk factors for disease are:  BMI, weight, or waist to hip circumference ratio Blood pressure Serum cholesterol (HDL, LDL, total, and triglycerides) Fasting blood sugar and insulin Doctors look for normal vital signs, including heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, temperature, and other things.  A regular doctor examination is also something they look at for determining health.  This takes into account general appearance, heart exam, lung exam, head and neck exam, abdominal exam, neurological exam, dermatological exam, extremities exam, male and female exams, etc. A lot of day-to-day symptoms, like constipation, headaches, stomach issues, etc., that aren't actually "normal" often go unnoticed because they are normal to us. This means we don't always talk to doctors about these things because we're still able to function.  BUT all the things a doctor measures during an annual physical are designed to diagnose disease. And usually, their techniques are quite outdated based on their education and continuous learning.  Sarah explains that "normal" means the absence of disease and not necessarily healthy.  Even worse, we can see significant evidence of misdiagnosis of doctors who assume health equals lack of disease when people look a certain way—for example, being overweight.  Sarah reveals that thin people have heart attacks and strokes while the "overweight" category of people actually have the longest life expectancy.  She poses the question go what a better science-backed way to look at it is? A Better Definition of Health Sarah underlines that the goal of all this is to be healthy and not thin or swole. (20:46) She offers a better definition of health as being free of symptoms of the disease. A healthy diet and lifestyle can go a long way toward managing chronic diseases. This includes symptoms not associated with a diagnosis that is normalized and explained away as signs of stress, or aging, or the idea of "I just need to work out more, eat more fiber, or lose 10 pounds." These missed symptoms often include headaches, skin conditions like acne, rosacea, eczema; gastrointestinal problems like constipation, diarrhea, flatulence, bloating, super stinky poops or farts, reflux, or belching; fatigue; joint or muscle aches; and even emotional issues like irritability or malaise. Stacy shares that a big wakeup call for her was when she started monitoring inflammation.  Every time she would visit a doctor for symptoms associated with her many autoimmune diseases, doctors told was always told she needed to lose weight. She even shares that no one really looked into or even asked about many of her other symptoms that she, who does not have a medical background, didn't realize were signs of other things. Had she known, she could have done a lot more sooner.  Stacy also reminds listeners that this is not aimed at making anyone feel bad about themselves or giving them a list of things to change. There's a balance to everything. She stressed that the science behind health should act as a compass, rather than a strict set of rules. Stacy explains you need to love yourself the same way you love your kids or your mom. You love them because you love them. Signs of Physical Health Sarah explains that what we're trying to do is give us better tools to measure health with. (26:15) She believes the problem is weight is such a poor measure of health.  Sarah explains that looking at energy levels throughout the day is a good way to measure health.  No "crash" at the end of the day No need to rely on sugar or caffeine to pick us up Don't fall asleep/nap at odd times like on the bus or on the couch after dinner Body composition is also a good way of looking at health and not weight itself. We know from the scientific literature that having higher muscle mass is a more important determinant of health than fat mass. Where your fat deposits are (subcutaneous fat vs. visceral fat), and what type of fat it is (BAT or WAT) is more important as well.  Sarah explains enjoying the activity is also considered a great indicator of health. This can be as simple as outside play, visiting farms, etc. The ideal is to enjoy working towards a fitness goal, or just enjoy moving, and not just focusing on losing weight or looking better. Spontaneous physical play is a great indicator of health (is it fun to race your kid to the bus stop, spontaneously dance to a song on the radio) Stacy jokes she loves things like spontaneous dance parties, especially when it embarrasses her kids. Feeling like we need to get up and move after being sedentary too long because it's normal to feel crummy after sitting for too long.  Sarah believes sleep quality is a huge indicator of health as well. Falling asleep quickly  Staying asleep Wake up feeling refreshed "Sense of wellbeing" and sex hormone regulation are both good indicators of physical health. Sarah explains that this includes: Having a normal libido (for women, it fluctuates with hormones) Wanting and enjoying "sexual relations" (with a partner or by ourselves) Regular menstruation   Mental Health As A Sign Of Overall Health Stacy adds she's always seen mental health as a huge indicator of how healthy we are. (35:05)  Sarah agrees, adding that if you're looking at how healthy you are overall, you're going to want to check in on how you're doing mentally. This can include ental clarity, problem-solving, and memory, and no brain fog or cognitive challenges. Sarah adds that a balanced emotional response is also a good indicator of mental and physical health. This means that you're not prone to overreactions. Sarah adds effective communication, overall happiness, and enjoying life, coping in a productive (not destructive) way, and flexibility to that list. It's a good sign to enjoy playing and engaging with others, like pets, kids, games, or other close relationships. Sarah explains another interesting indicator that we're healthy mentally is to be ok being bored and existing inside our own heads without needing a distraction. Stacy adds that through her work as a foster parent, she's realized how well trauma can hide in ourselves.  Also, there is no need for "crutches" or willpower (physical + mental health) like caffeine and sugar, self-medicating, smoking, drinking, recreational drugs, etc. Stacy explains that these crutches can act as a way of avoiding mental health and can negatively impact your physical health. She urges listeners that when making food choices, focus on ones that are helpful and healing.  Why It Matters When we have a healthy lifestyle, we tend to enjoy healthier food and not crave food that can harm our health. (43:45) Getting enough sleep regulates appetite and food cravings and makes people more likely to CHOOSE fruits and veggies over fast food.   Sarah explains that stress increases appetite and cravings for energy-dense foods (salt, sugar, fat) When healthy foods are our normal, we're not consuming addictive hyper-palatable engineered/manufactured foods.  It's so much easier to really, truly enjoy an apple if we're not eating donuts regularly. When we're getting enough sleep, we don't need coffee or energy drinks to get us through the day. Sarah reminds listeners that that doesn't mean you have to give up coffee entirely. The goal is not to rely on it. She adds that a big part of this is finding better coping mechanisms for when things happen, like an energy crash at 3 pm. It's easy to reach for the caffeine, but it could be as simple as taking an afternoon walk to recharge. Stacy explains no one is expected to check every one of these boxes, but it gives perspective on areas of your life to optimize health. These indicators reflect physical health and mental health and the underlying biology of both.  They are signs of no nutritional deficiencies, having well-regulated neurotransmitters and hormones, a healthy gut, healthy immune system, healthy cardiovascular system, etc.  Stacy loves the idea of a crutch not necessarily being a negative thing but relying more on how you use it and benefit your health overall. How Can We Measure Health? When measuring your own health, Sarah suggests reflecting on what we've discussed so far: Keep a simple journal (if you're troubleshooting, note diet, sleep, activity, emotions/stress, and any symptoms) Energy levels Mood, malaise, emotional response GI symptoms and stool quality/frequency Skin health (can also include things like fingernails, hair, etc.) Pain: Headaches, body aches, joint, muscle Cognition (IQ boosting games that give a score are a fun way to track this) Subjective sleep quality (or measure with a tracker) Stress, baseline, and response (or measure HRV) Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an individual's perceived physical and mental health over time.  She also recommends checking out these resources for a Quality of Life Scale and Quality of Life Sheet.  No Quick Fix Stacy adds that there's no quick fix to increasing your health and wellness. (52:21) She reminds listeners that it's never her or Sarah's goal to have you walk away from these shows feeling like you should be doing something you're not.  Sarah shares that she loves the idea of people taking on a more holistic view of health that's more than just a number on a scale.  When we think about health more comprehensively, one thing that starts to become apparent is that there's no magic pill or quick fix that will get us there. Instead, making healthy choices day-to-day (without the need to be perfect) sustainably and consistently gets us there. The foundations of health include four pillars: A nutrivore diet!  Sleep (enough and on a consistent schedule) Stress management (work, family, social networks, and nature) Activity (lots and lots of it but not overtraining) Sarah adds that health is quality of life, and by making better choices, we can better support our health.  Stacy asks listeners to reflect on their self-worth and check-in with themselves. She wants everyone to love who they are just the way they are and love themselves without restriction. Stacy invites you to check out Episode 421 on body image if you liked the positive body message of this episode. Thanks so much for listening today, and we will see you next week!

In This Episode:● Persuasive design● Reverse engineering the addiction of social media● Helping businesses navigate these unprecedented timesFor almost 30 years, Brian Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on business and society. His research and books help executives, and also everyday people, better understand the relationship between the evolution of technology and its impact on people and also the role we each play in evolution. Brian is Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Brian’s work at Salesforce focuses on thought leadership and research that explores digital transformation, innovation and disruption, CX, commerce, and the cognitive enterprise.

Robert reflects on building with purpose, technology as a force for positive change, and the future of marketing. Robert shares how his parents and early childhood experiences influenced his entrepreneurial drive and his desire to be a builder. He recounts the influence of mentors early in his career who helped him explore his skills and values, the decision to move to Silicon Valley to start a venture early in his career, a deeply authentic commitment to philanthropic efforts spurred by tragic circumstances, an intensely personal personal decision to leave eBay, and his perspectives on the future of marketing and brand as the CMO of Atlassian.How can you discover and articulate your purpose? How can you make difficult career decisions? How can you incorporate your values into the professional decisions you make? How can you be a better marketer, mentor, and leader?  Robert shares his perspective and insights on finding a sense of purpose and making purpose the driving influence in career decisions. Guest Bio:Robert is a marketing executive with a passion for building early-stage and large-scale consumer platforms. Deep experience in driving revenue growth through performance marketing and consumer branding.“I believe that technology serves as a force for positive change in society. My passion is building businesses that foster human connections, create hope, and expand opportunity. I lead with empathy, and focus on attracting, retaining, and growing great talent and world-class teams.”LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chatwaniTwitter: @chatwaniBuilding Blocks:Reflect on, and write down, what you love and your “why.” Robert suggested that it's a worthy exercise to take out a piece of paper and write down your reflections on two things: what you love most, and your reason for being. It won't be easy, and it might take some time. But, speaking from experience, it's worth it! It helps provide a ton of clarity on how to think about prioritizing your time, effort, and energy. Plus, it will help simplify your life and will help make you more memorable, distinctive, and compelling to others. Check out the Simon Sinek TED talk on this topic, and Brian Solis' book Lifescale, to get started.If you'd like to share, get it out there on social with the Hashtag #BreakthroughBuilders. Or, if you'd prefer to not share it publicly, go ahead and email it to me at jesse@breakthrough-builders.com. I'd love hearing from you and learning from what you built.Helpful Links:The seminal Simon Sinek TED talk on Starting with WhyReflections from Robert on his story at the Atlassian Work Life BlogRobert's Author Page on the Atlassian Work Life Blog2-minute interview with Robert speaking about Atlassian at TieCON 2019Robert quoted on marketing's role in driving brand-led growth at CMO.comDaniel Pink on Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose here (article) and here (video) Creating a CMO Transformation Agenda: Thought Leadership from Prophet hereFour Priorities for CMOs to Reimagine and Rignite Marketing: Thought Leadership from Prophet here

What happens in a world where we simply cannot unplug but still need to find balance and thrive as distractions mount? And, what if we don't know we're distracted? How do we see the full impact of the diversions we don't think twice about today?   Brian Solis found his work affected by his day-to-day digital routines, so he set out to solve his problem and share his journey with all of those also struggling with digital distractions. The results are detailed in his book, "Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive and Happy Life," which debuted at SXSW 2019.   In this talk, Solis opens up about his journey and the importance of breaking-free from distractions to increase focus and productivity, spark meaningful creativity, unlock new possibilities, and bring balance back to our lives.

When was the last time you paused, reflected on what was going on in your life, and took a hard look at how it was affecting your happiness, health and overall success? Has it been awhile? More than likely, the answer is “yes.” Often we rush from one task, milestone or accomplishment to the next, in constant pursuit of what we think we need to make us happy, successful and fulfilled. In other words, we're always looking for more and it's exhausting. For Karen Mangia, VP of Customer & Market Insights at Salesforce, this was her reality until a health issue forced her to press pause. But as they say, it's often life's most challenging situations that present the best gifts. Through this journey, Karen learned that success, happiness and fulfillment wasn't about more. In fact, it was just the opposite –– a topic she explores in her book, “Success With Less”. In this episode, we talk to Karen about how the idea of “pause, ponder, prioritize” came about, how to peacefully coexist with old habits, and how to identify when you're at a crossroads and what to do about it. What led you to write “Success With Less”? I think back to those early days when my mom would do this chore chart. It would be a list every day of the things that you were supposed to do and the behaviors you were supposed to display. If I did it, I would get one of those gold stars. I loved being able to see the stars across the board, like these little moments of achievement. I took that gold star mentality forward in life. Keep saying yes, keep performing, and keep amassing those gold stars. It was a formula that worked incredibly well early in my career. I earned several promotions and got some recognition and rewards that created more opportunities. The challenge was that the further you go in your career and life, you have to be more thoughtful about what you're saying yes to and whether it's serving you and moving closer to your goals. All those gold stars eventually added up to a really major setback in my life and I started discovering that “Success With Less” formula. How I defined success changed radically. Success was getting healthy enough again to be able to enjoy my life and that was a very different definition than getting gold stars, and that was okay. Being a type-A personality, how did you teach yourself to pause more frequently? In some ways, the pause was forced on me because I was conscious that I really did have limited time and energy. What I found during that time was that having a success mindset and an outcome in mind helped me start saying “no” to things that might drain my energy and not get me closer to my goal. What I started to discover when I was saying “no” on my own terms or pausing from endless activity was the pauses that we choose feel really different than the ones that are forced on us. What I started finding was when I could choose these moments to pause because they would help me refresh or reset, it felt a little more empowering. How do keep from returning to old habits and thought patterns that set you back? It is really difficult to change our routines and boundaries and then stick with them because that takes energy. We don't always have all the energy that we need to endlessly keep everything in perfect balance. What's important is how do you reset when you find that happening? I'll never forget what my friend once said—that it is okay to look behind you and acknowledge that that person with those habits is still there and it's always going to be there. The difference is you can see that person from a distance and peacefully coexist which means you now have permission to make a different choice. Having a little bit of saving grace that you're still human and you're gonna make mistakes will go a long way. Are there one or two people along your journey who have really transformed the trajectory of your career? There are a couple who come to mind. I had hit a point where I was looking for a role outside of sales and I had flown to another city for a job interview in my same company. When I got to the city and in my rental car, the interviewer called me and canceled the interview. I'm like, what do I do now? I found this mentor and she said, “Drive to my office, I'll think of a plan.” When I got there, she said, “Great news. You and our Chief Operating Officer graduated from the same university. You'll call him, tell him you're in town and that you would love to meet him because he went to the same university.” I thought this sounded like a horrible plan, but I was desperate. I called, met up with him, and ultimately ended up working for him. This sent me on a completely different career path and really brought me to where I am now. Another really formative person that stands out for me is an executive coach I had named Diane. I dedicated the Success with Less book to her because it never would have happened without her coaching and encouragement. What are some of the best ways you intentionally make impactful connections to grow yourself? When I think about growth, I think about what I want to learn and experience next. Sometimes those things come about organically and sometimes I'll find it when I'm listening to somebody else describe a hobby or something they do in their role. I get really excited and I think I would love to try that. That's always been something that's guided my career and my life, where I've sampled different hobbies and experiences. I've found that that has led me on some really interesting paths. What would you recommend to somebody who maybe feels like they're at a crossroads but don't know what direction to go? I refer to that as the general malaise—that feeling that nothing is getting you super excited and you don't really feel a clear sense of where to go next. In those times, I try to think about any small thing that might be enjoyable or what is it that you did when you were five that you absolutely loved? Do just a little something that sparks that nostalgic joy. Be really observant about if anything lights you up. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to figure it out in an instant, but it's okay to live in that spot for a while. Another tool that has helped me is going with the people who I don't know that invite me to connect and have a conversation. I will go through a period where I just say “yes.” I don't know where I'm headed at the moment so this “yes” might be something that ignites excitement or opens up a path to a new opportunity. Speed Round Are you a coffee drinker? Yes What is one business tool you're geeking out over right now? I hate to admit it, and it's so cliche, but Zoom. What is your favorite piece of technology? My mobile phone What's one book you'd pass along to someone who may be looking for new inspiration? Lifescale by Brian Solis. He has some fantastic tools about how to shut out distractions and work in 90 minute sprints. Who is one person you'd like to make a connection with? Brené Brown. I find what she has to say to be incredibly practical, soulful and challenging. What is one of your favorite icebreakers? Two things that I like to ask people about are what are you excited about right now and what was their first job? How many hours of sleep do you get each night on average? I make a concentrated effort to get eight hours of sleep every night. How can people connect you? You can find me on Twitter @karenmangia or you can find me on LinkedIn. I would love to connect with you and hear your story and learn from you.

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Brian Solis is a digital anthropologist and global innovation evangelist at Salesforce and author of several books including Lifescale. How can we reinvent ourselves in this day and age? In what ways can people and businesses still make a difference today? Brian tells it all in the latest Techmag episode!

The SWLS is a short item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with one's life.

Somewhere along the way, you got distracted. As much as you multitask, love your devices, and feel like you're in control, deep down you know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt, and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. Brian Solis is your guide to undertaking a journey of self-discovery and growth to begin experiencing the life you've always dreamed of.   Get your own copy of Brian Solis' excellent book Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life.   For additional show notes, visit ShaunTabatt.com/379.   The Shaun Tabatt Show is part of the Destiny Image Podcast Network.

Brian Solis, analista principal del Altimeter Group, también escribió X: The Experience When Business Meets Design y What’s the Future of Business.

In this week’s episode Laura, Matt and Shane extensively discuss Toilet Paper strategies, how they are coping with sheltering in place, and people’s interesting buying patterns during this Covid-19 crisis.Our guest this week is Brian Solis - http://www.briansolis.comWe discuss various aspects of how experience and good design are key differentiators for successful brands. We dive into various aspects of experience and design and why the concept of experience architecture is a key element in the practical application of designing for experiences that consumers love and want to share with others.Check out Brian’s books on this subject, specifically X and What The Future.https://www.briansolis.com/books/Brian shares his journey about how fake news, dark patterns in programming and our own brains lead him to write his most recent book, Lifescale. In Lifescale he offers guidance on how to refocus your life and make the best usage of technology to enhance, rather than control your life.Take a look at these SXSW keynotes for more on that journey.https://youtu.be/aB2WUYNqFHQhttps://youtu.be/jz9RpPn7jHI--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/techno-biotic/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/techno-biotic/support

Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we’re in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. It’s time to reclaim our lives. It’s time to take control.

Burnout is normal—and fixable Have you had the “Sunday night feeling,” the stomach-sinking realization that your break is over and it’s time to go back to work? Have you become less patient and less interested in other people’s needs? Do other people’s choices leave you feeling irritable or cynical? Have you started making dumb mistakes? Letting things fall through the cracks that ordinarily you’d catch Have you felt isolated? Had the sense that everyone’s counting on you, but no one really cares about how you’re holding up? Does it feel like whatever you do is never enough? Do you find yourself unable to leave work at work? Are you replaying situations in your head long after they’re over? Do people tell you you need to “let it go?”  If you answered yes to some of these questions, it’s likely you’ve experienced a period of professional burnout. Leslie Stewart, PhD, LPC, says this is completely normal and to be expected. Really. It’s normal. And expected. In fact, most helping professionals (counselors, doctors, nurses, firefighters, social workers, and, yes, pet professionals) will have a few bouts of professional burnout in their careers. Well, that’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there are lots of helpful strategies you can use to set yourself up for success. You may not be able to completely avoid periods of struggle, but knowing what to look for and when to intervene will put you way ahead of the curve. Visit https://colleenpelar.com/62 for the show notes and to download the Professional Quality of Life Scale, Self-Care Assessment, and recommended wellness activities.

As 2019 comes to a close we look back at some of the best guests we've had on Leveraging Thought Leadership and the incredible advice they've shared with us. Marshall Goldsmith shares with us his incredible story of how he became the World's #1 Thought Leader.  From his story, he talks about the things you can do to find your own success.  Volunteering, being clear on your mission, and building a strong brand are just some of the topics we discuss. Ken Blanchard is the best-selling author of more than 60 books and one of the most influential leadership experts in the world.  Ken tells us why books need to be easy to read and simple to use.  Plus we discuss taking your book to various modalities to reach a larger audience. Stephen M.R. Covey is the co-founder of CoveyLink and a sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance.  Stephen helps us figure out what market and modalities to take our content to and how you can meet your margin by finding your mission. Brian Solis is the award-winning author of Lifescale, a groundbreaking book that examines the effects of technology on our everyday life.  Brian discusses how his research into why he was losing focus and creativity led him in an entirely new direction. Jeffrey Hayzlett is the host of  C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and a leading business expert.  He gives a lesson on which metrics to follow and how to find meaning in them.  In addition, he presents us with some wise words on getting booked as a speaker and how to make your client's life easier.

Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders in business innovation. As a digital analyst, anthropologist, and futurist, he studies disruptive technology and its impact on business and society. More so, through his research reports, articles and books, he humanizes technology's causal effect to help people see people differently and understand what to do about it. In this podcast we talk about the effects of Social Media and some of the things you can do to focus more on your life. Brian has written a new book called Lifescale that focuses on this particular topic.

We made it to our 50th episode! And to celebrate, we're talking with one of Jeremy's favorite sources, Brian Solis. He's a globally recognized independent digital analyst and anthropologist, an award-winning author, and world renowned keynote speaker. In his new book, Lifescale: How to live a more creative, productive and happy life, Brian tackles the struggles of living in a world rife with constant digital distractions - fascinating to me, since he's studied all things digital for some time now, and even Brian can admit he's susceptible to the downsides of digital. His model for “Lifescaling” helps readers overcome the unforeseen consequences of living a digital life to break away from diversions, focus on what’s important, spark newfound creativity and unlock new possibilities. To create a better future, what could be more crucial than mastering that?Some highlights from what we discuss today:What exactly is a futurist?Neuroplasticity, and how social media is rewiring our brainsWhether or not multitasking works, and if technology is the problem or the solutionAs always, we welcome your feedback. Please make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play.

In this next podcast episode, we bring you Brian Solis, an industry-leading analyst, an author of books on technology, and a thought leader in the space of everything digital. Brian is one of the most future-thinking thinkers that we’ve spoken to. We briefly touch on his book, Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life and our discussion is exactly on this topic - how can we actually create brand experiences that lead to happier lives for our customers. Hosted by: Mantas Ciuksys Guest: Brian Solis Find our podcast on multiple platforms Apple Podcasts Stitcher Spotify Connect with us socialbakers.com Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Digital disruption is impacting today's worker more than ever, with sociologists believing that today's worker will need to 'reinvent themselves' several times during a career in the future. While maintaining the status quo provides a temporary comfort zone, personal disruption can dramatically improve chances of finding financial, social, and emotional success. This personal transformation requires a new perspective.   In this episode, we discuss the importance of personal and professional growth with Brian Solis, digital anthropologist, global speaker and author of the new book, 'Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive and Happy Life'. Brian discusses his scientific findings, and provides insights that can help any person dissect where they are today, what could be holding them back, and how to be better positioned for long-term success and satisfaction.

Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we're in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt, and decreased creativity are just some effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. It's time to reclaim our lives. It's time to take control. Lifescale is a journey of self-discovery and growth. It's about getting back into balance and remastering our destinies. Author Brian Solis knows first-hand. He struggled with distraction and all of its ill-effects. To get his life back, he developed a set of techniques, exercises, and thought experiments designed to tame the chaos, and positively and productively navigate our day-to-day lives. Instead of falling victim to the never-ending cycle of newsfeeds, Likes, addictive apps, and boredom scrolling (aka the endless scroll), we can learn to manage our time and inspire our own lives to bring meaning back—without sacrificing the benefits that our devices bring us.  This episode is shorter than usual because our guest has just started a new business, you can find Brian Solis here: https://www.briansolis.com/

John & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with Brian Solis from LifeScale Learn more about our radio program, podcast & blog at www.JohnAndHeidiShow.com

Brian Solis is a world-renowned digital anthropologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author. Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on businesses, marketing and culture. His research, talks and books help executives and also everyday people better understand the relationship between the evolution of technology and its impact on business and society, and the role we play in it. Brian previously joined us on Voices of CX: Season 2, talking about his book 'X: Where Experience Meets Design'. Now he's back to talk about his newest book, 'Lifescale: How to live a more Creative, Productive and Happy life'. Follow Worthix on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/worthix/ Follow Worthix on Twitter: @worthix Follow Mary Drumond on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marydrumond/ Follow Mary Drumond on Twitter: @drumondmary Follow Brian Solis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briansolis/ Follow Brian Solis on Twitter: @briansolis Buy Brian Solis' new book, Lifescale: https://www.amazon.com/Lifescale-Establish-Rituals-Routines-Achieve/dp/1119535867

"When did it become normal to scroll through social media feeds and just mindlessly, numbingly consume and consume? When did it become ok that we have to take 40 pictures of ourselves until we get the right one? What if I could fix my life to be better than I was?" These are just a few of the questions asked by Brian Solis during the journey to write his latest book LifeScale (click here to get a copy). It's about rewiring ourselves more positively, more mindfully and more intentionally to live a creative, productive happy life, and to help those around us to do the same.  If you want to live a life with less distractions, more focused, and happier, you'll love this interview and of course Brian's book :) Get Brian's book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/357UtOv  Connect with Brian on Twitter: @briansolis Connect with Carolina on Instagram: @carolinamillan Twitter: @carolinamillan FREE branding report http://personalbrandingsecrets.me/ebook  

This episode is brought to you by Stacks Co. the co-working space where both Seth and I work and record this podcast. Stacks is located in historic downtown Doylestown, in the heart of Bucks County. Stacks Co. allows entrepreneurs like ourselves space to not only work, but grow and connect with others. For a free day of co-working to see if the space is right for you, go to StacksCo.Work for more information. Don't forget to mention you heard about Stacks on this show. Okay on to the show... Hey Everyone! Welcome to another episode of the Digital Marketing Dive Podcast. I'm Shawn Swaim the Chief Rain Maker at Big Head Digital Media and the self-proclaimed king of the Internet. With me as always is Seth Goldstein, the Chief Web Geek at Big Head Digital Media. We have a great episode for you today. Today we're talking to Brian Solis. Brian is a Principal Analyst and Futurist at Altimeter, a keynote speaker, and best-selling author of some amazing books. His latest is Lifescale: How to Live A More Creative, Productive and Happy Life. Brian, welcome to the Digital Marketing Dive Podcast. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to chat with us today. This week we're doing our favorite Internet finds: Shawn: Blue Snowball Microphone Seth: Blue Yeti Microphone Brian: Lifescaling.me // BrianSolis.com Well that was fun. As always please give us a review in the podcast directory of your choice. We're all of the major directories. We also want to hear from you. Email us at info@bighead.digital. Leave us questions, comments, critiques, rants, you name it. If you don't want us to read the note on the show, please tell us, because we probably will! So that's it. It's been fun! See you on the flip side! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by Stacks Co. the co-working space where both Seth and I work and record this podcast. Stacks is located in historic downtown Doylestown, in the heart of Bucks County. Stacks Co. allows entrepreneurs like ourselves space to not only work, but grow and connect with others. For a free day of co-working to see if the space is right for you, go to StacksCo.Work for more information. Don't forget to mention you heard about Stacks on this show. Okay on to the show... Hey Everyone! Welcome to another episode of the Digital Marketing Dive Podcast. I'm Shawn Swaim the Chief Rain Maker at Big Head Digital Media and the self-proclaimed king of the Internet. With me as always is Seth Goldstein, the Chief Web Geek at Big Head Digital Media. We have a great episode for you today. Today we're talking to Brian Solis. Brian is a Principal Analyst and Futurist at Altimeter, a keynote speaker, and best-selling author of some amazing books. His latest is Lifescale: How to Live A More Creative, Productive and Happy Life. Brian, welcome to the Digital Marketing Dive Podcast. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to chat with us today. This week we're doing our favorite Internet finds: Shawn: Blue Snowball Microphone Seth: Blue Yeti Microphone Brian: Lifescaling.me // BrianSolis.com Well that was fun. As always please give us a review in the podcast directory of your choice. We're all of the major directories. We also want to hear from you. Email us at info@bighead.digital. Leave us questions, comments, critiques, rants, you name it. If you don't want us to read the note on the show, please tell us, because we probably will! So that's it. It's been fun! See you on the flip side! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by Stacks Co. the co-working space where both Seth and I work and record this podcast. Stacks is located in historic downtown Doylestown, in the heart of Bucks County. Stacks Co. allows entrepreneurs like ourselves space to not only work, but grow and connect with others. For a free day of co-working to see if the space is right for you, go to StacksCo.Work for more information. Don’t forget to mention you heard about Stacks on this show. Okay on to the show... Hey Everyone! Welcome to another episode of the Digital Marketing Dive Podcast. I’m Shawn Swaim the Chief Rain Maker at Big Head Digital Media and the self-proclaimed king of the Internet. With me as always is Seth Goldstein, the Chief Web Geek at Big Head Digital Media. We have a great episode for you today. Today we’re talking to Brian Solis. Brian is a Principal Analyst and Futurist at Altimeter, a keynote speaker, and best-selling author of some amazing books. His latest is Lifescale: How to Live A More Creative, Productive and Happy Life. Brian, welcome to the Digital Marketing Dive Podcast. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to chat with us today. This week we’re doing our favorite Internet finds: Shawn: Blue Snowball Microphone Seth: Blue Yeti Microphone Brian: Lifescaling.me // BrianSolis.com Well that was fun. As always please give us a review in the podcast directory of your choice. We’re all of the major directories. We also want to hear from you. Email us at info@bighead.digital. Leave us questions, comments, critiques, rants, you name it. If you don’t want us to read the note on the show, please tell us, because we probably will! So that’s it. It’s been fun! See you on the flip side! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/digital-marketing-dive/support

It is almost unavoidable that technology is going to be part of our daily lives. What is the impact and potential of technology in our lives? How can we rewire our brain to mange it all in a healthy and productive way? Our guest Brian Solis is the Principle analyst at Altimeter Group, a keynote speaker, and author of Lifescale and X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. Brian shares his journey through the years of technological advances and his role in the silicone valley.  We dive into how companies use persuasive design, the long term effects of it, and how we can use content in Lifescale to better manage our digital time to live a more creative, productive, and happy life. Brain has spent years researching the facts behind his newest book Lifescale  If you have content you need assistance researching consider making Thought Leadership Leverage part of your team.

Even in the early days of the internet, Brian Solis was advising prominent companies about how to use social media to connect with potential customers. He's been called "one of the greatest digital analysts of our time” and has been sought out by the likes of Oprah, Shaq and Ashton Kutcher.  Brian is also an award-winning author and world-renowned keynote speaker. I met Brian at SXSW 2019, during his book launch event for Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life. As Brian explains in our interview, the book developed out of a conversation he had after speaking at SXSW 2018: He was challenged to provide an answer to the questions he had raised about the dark side of social media. Lifescale became his answer. Writing the book made him rethink his priorities and pursue deeper, more meaningful connections with the people in his life. The book had a similar effect on me and helped me prepare for new creative possibilities, so I brought Brian on the show to discuss it. Some of the things Brian and I discuss in this episode include How social media can rewire people and societies When the personal approach can be right approach Using design principles to create a more reading experience The life-changing impact of Walt Disney a certain animated short How to develop deeper, more meaningful connections with others Practical things we can do to rekindle our creativity # Sponsor for this Episode   nsavides productions – I make friendly, engaging videos for earnest people.   # This music video I shot for Long Division, a post-rock band from Virginia, was nominated for an award by Veer Magazine. # More of my videos are here. # Say hello: podcast@nsavides.com # Related Episodes Todd Henry, founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, came on the showto discuss how to get past writer's block, live with purpose, and discover our life's work. # Related Things I met Brian at his Lifescale book event at SXSW 2019.   Brian's site LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter lifescaling.me Alikeanimated short Lifescalegot included in this cnbc.com list of notable books in 2019 "Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good"as explained in The New York Times Brian's Lifescaleevent at SXSW got mentioned as one of my highlights of SXSW 2019 Shortcut for the podcast: nicksav.show Additional music for the show provided by Rob Costlow. # Books Mentioned Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life What’s the Future of Business? X: The Experience Where Business Meets Design # If You Liked the Show Sign up for The nsavides Newsletter. Subscribe or leave an honest review:   Apple Podcasts   Spotify   Overcast Say hello on Twitter:  @nsavidesPRO Thank you for visiting!

In today’s podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Brian Solis to talk about his new book Lifescale: Escape from the Dark Side of Distractions to Live a Better Life. We discussed everything from raising children with technology, how social media is affecting our creativity, brain science and productivity, and what is really addictive about Netflix. If you want to change your life by shifting your relationship with technology (and therefore your health!) be sure to check out the latest episode Scaling Your Life Out of Overwhelm with Brian Solis. What you’ll get out of tuning in: What technology and Ayurveda have in common How to reawaken your deep creativity How and why it is important to treat technology like a drug (especially for our children)   Links Mentioned in Episode: Brian's website Brian's facebook Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life Be a coach Have a conversation Yogahealer VIP Live Events Yogahealer Live Experience Discover more about Body Thrive Apply for Body Thrive   Show Highlights: How social media makes us all the same by removing our ability to truly express creativity.  How Netflix, and technology is general, is as addictive as a drug, and needs to be treated as such.  How technology is rewiring our brains, and therefore hindering our productivity.   Timestamps:   4:50 The problem with living a digital lifestyle  23:00 How social media has quelled creativity  37:00 Parents weaning their children off of devices   Favorite Quotes:  “The problem when we live this digital lifestyle, we all in the same ways become little micro celebrities, some folks become real celebrities, that we suddenly have audiences and we suddenly have engagement and we have all of these chemicals running through our body every time we use these devices and apps, where we feel good in those moments and we want more and want to build it more and want to live it more, so we start doing the things that get more of that. The warning signs are all over the place, but what we don’t realize is that yesterday’s warning signs are affecting a person of who we were yesterday and now we are someone different today, and tomorrow we are going to be someone different as well, and that’s the danger of this.” - Brian Solis “How can I redefine happiness, how can I redefine success in a modern era on my terms?” - Brian Solis “It’s a gift to realize that in the darkness is the light.” - Brian Solis “Sleep is Netflix’s biggest competition.” - Brian Solis “You can’t have health and wellness without that clarity.” - Cate Stillman “Creativity has never been more important, artistic expression has never been more important, liberal arts has never been more important. Breaking free from our dependency on forms of technology and actually being ourselves and expressing ourselves in unique ways, even if the world doesn’t see it, is actually what is going to help us stand out in this world where everybody is essentially the same.” - Brian Solis    Guest BIO:  A digital analyst, anthropologist, and futurist, Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on business, marketing, and culture. His research and his books help executives, and also everyday people, better understand the relationship between the evolution of technology and its impact on business and society and also the role we each play in it. As a result of his work, Solis also helps leading brands, celebrities, and startups develop new digital transformation, culture 2.0, and innovation strategies and that enable businesses to adapt to new connected markets from the inside out. Connect with Solis with his website and facebook.

This week we are joined by the wonderful Brian Solis discussing his book, Life Scale.We'll be exploring technology, particularly disruptive technologies. How does tech affect our everyday lives? Chatting all things social media and addictiveness, were the social platforms made that way?We also talk about what disruptive technologies are doing to creativity and mental health and how we can break down these barriers that subdue our creative streak.Website: https://marketed.live/Tickets: http://bitly.ws/4nAiSocialsInstagram: http://bitly.ws/4nArTwitter: http://bitly.ws/4nAkFacebook: http://bitly.ws/4nAoLinkedIn: http://bitly.ws/4nApWebsite: https://marketed.live/Tickets: http://bitly.ws/4nAiSocialsInstagram: http://bitly.ws/4nArTwitter: http://bitly.ws/4nAkFacebook: http://bitly.ws/4nAoLinkedIn: http://bitly.ws/4nAp#Marketing #Event #LifeScale #BrianSolis #DisruptiveTechnology #Technology #SocialMedia #Addictiveness

The life scaling journey is not about the finish line, it is about being a continuous learner by applying new ways of knowing and loving yourself and what truly matter to you on your life scaling adventure. If you are on your own Life Scaling adventure and are questioning your life and purpose, tune in to Podcast 732: Life Scale – How to Live a more creative, productive and happy life with Brian Solis.

Anette och Niklas delar med sig av erfarenheterna från Skogsliv '19. Martin tipsar om ett grönt te som heter Jasmine Dragon Pearls. Shownotes: 00 Bumper - JTunesProductions 01 Prepperpodden 01 Beredsam podd 04 Livberedskap på Twitter 04 IKEA odling 06 Geocaching 07 Var Redo 07 Var Redo Twitter 09 Blekslättens Gård 09 Prepperbutiken.se 10 Criseq 11 Biolite 15 Lidl 23 Skogsliv 20 29 Sociala medier vid dödsfall 32 Svenssonprepper Blogg 33 Minimalism Game 34 Marie Kondo 35 Livberedskap Målfokus 37 Jasmine Dragon Pearls - Produktivitéet (2017) 38 Digital Minimalism 39 Bored and Brilliant 39 Lifescale 39 The Perfect Cuppa: Tea Sketches coasters - Lyceum på Instagram 41 Jingel - JTunesProductions

In this episode, one of the world's leading futurists, Brian Solis, speaks with Digital Mindfulness about his new work Lifescale, and the effects of digital distraction on business, society and our close relationships.

Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got glass ceilings, organizational phases, superfans, and more. For all the links, check out the show notes at https://www.hacktheprocess.com/glass-ceilings-organizational-phases-superfans-and-more-in-process-hacker-news/. Enjoy! Events You can catch Ann Mei Chang as a keynote speaker at OpEx DC 2019 Humentum Annual Conference, a gathering focused on growing trust for greater impact, which will happen from July 10 to 12 in Washington, DC. The Woman Evolve Conference 2019 is all about encouraging ladies to connect, grow, and shatter glass ceilings. Nicaila Matthews-Okome will deliver a workshop at the event, which will take place in Denver, Colorado from July 12 to 13 Register for The Growth Design Series, happening from July 29 to August 1, to increase the membership of the growth designers community and help deliver more value to clients. The event is brought to you by Cascade SF, founded by Andi Galpern. Product managers, join Rich Mironov for a presentation on “What Do Product Leaders Do?” in Palo Alto on August 7 to learn about how to advance your careers and product leadership skills. Media The Effective Founder features Brennan Dunn, who shares about his startup journey from building Double Your Freelancing to RightMessage. Brian Solis digs into the topic of digital anthropology, how technology has affected everyone’s minds and health, and how he came up with the idea for his book, Lifescale, in a new interview on Mind, Body Spirit with Dr. Kayte. Aaron Walker is a life and business coach whom Engel Jones has turned to for guidance. Listen to Aaron’s engaging twelve-minute conversation with Engel on the Twelve-Minute Convos Podcast. Writing On Best Practices in Human Resources, Joy Wiggins who was recently a guest on Hack the Process with her co-author, Kami Anderson, lists five ways women can go from sabotage to support and help each other instead of showing hostility. Kimberly Wiefling is a lady badass, and you can read about her inspirations and her passionate, scrappy approach to life on Lady Badassery. Loonshots author, Safi Bahcall is a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, and on the Outside Voices Podcast, he dives into innovation and the basic phases of an organization. Recommended Resources Give It Up by Netroots Nation is gathering folks on July 12 in Philadelphia to help find ways to develop a donor base and directly give to the community. Leslie Mac, whom Michelle Kim looks up to, is going to take part as a speaker. Product folks, get your tickets for Mind the Product San Francisco, which will run from July 15 to 16 and will highlight some of the industry’s top movers and shakers. Product discovery coach Teresa Torres, mentioned by Rich Mironov is featured as a speaker. Make sure you preorder your copy of Superfans, a book by Pat Flynn about building your tribe and growing your business, which will hit bookstores on August 13! Omar Zenhom, Paula Jenkins, and Nicaila Matthews-Okome are some of Pat’s own superfans. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

PODCAST #294 Facebook Bets on Libra (Aired 6/20) Host Brett King and Co-Host Chloé James invite an all star cast on to the show to discuss the launch of #Facebook’s new #crypto #Libra, a #FinancialInclusion app and #blockchain (sort of). Brian Roemmele, early Bitcoin and #VoiceFirst evangelist, returns along with Brian Solis (bestselling author of LifeScale), Sankar Krishnan (Capgemini’s EVP for Banking and Capital Markets), along with regular contributor John Best of Best Innovation Group (BIG). Breaking Banks airs LIVE Thursdays at 3pm EST on VoiceAmerica: https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2193/breaking-banks-fintech Visit our website: https://www.breakingbanks.com Breaking Banks is the #1 global fintech podcast and radio show. Check out more Provoke Media podcasts like this one by visiting Provoke.fm (new website coming soon!) #BreakingBanks #Fintech #Podcast #Business #Radio

Brian Solis explains how to minimize distraction and maximize productivity! I could tell you all about Brian Solis in the past. And I will. But our podcast is not about what he was doing before he couldn’t do it anymore. Our talk is all about how he found himself again and wrote an amazing book, "Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life," to help others transform their own lives. Brian loved to write. He wrote easily. And then something happened. He stalled. He couldn’t focus, couldn’t find his thoughts. He had to change his own life to find it again. And that is what we want to share with you in our podcast. Don't miss this! Helping organizations understand and embrace the rise of digital transformation Brian has developed his professional life around the study of Silicon Valley and disruptive technology. His many books, "X: The Experience When Business Meets Design," "The End of Business as Usual" and "What’s the Future of Business," among others, focus on the dramatic changes that technology has brought to our society and to business. In his reports, articles and books, Brian humanizes technology and its impact on our lives in order to help executives gain new perspectives and insights.  However, his newest book, "Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life," is an entirely different discussion, exhorting each of us to reclaim our lives.  Finding balance, remastering your destiny As Brian writes: “Somewhere along the way, we get distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we’re in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. “'Lifescale' is a journey of self-discovery and growth. It’s about getting back into balance and remastering our destinies.” In his latest book, Brian talks about how he struggled with his inability to focus, to slow down his brain, to move from one thing to the next. He grappled with distraction and all of its ill-effects. To get his life back on track, he developed a set of techniques, exercises and thought experiments designed to tame the chaos, and positively and productively help him navigate his day-to-day life, which by the way, applies to all of us. In our podcast, we discuss how Brian found his way, again Instead of falling victim to the never-ending cycle of news feeds, Likes, addictive apps and boredom scrolling (aka the endless scroll), Brian found a better way to manage his life. What he lost, and what many of us have lost as well, was the meaning, purpose and spirituality that was always part of him but had gotten eaten up by his addiction to today's technologies. Sound familiar? So what did he do? Brilliantly, he pulled together scientific findings and practical tools into one amazing book which readers—especially those who have become distracted—will connect with. They will love the loose style and readability of the format, then will truly be moved by the humor, pathos and inspiration. Brian's story is strong and simple, and its message is very actionable. I invite you to listen to our conversation and start all over again to build a better life for you and those around you. Brian's list of how-to’s that you can do  Identify sources of distraction and then turn your attention to creativity and productivity Understand and resist the manipulative techniques that turn us into digital addicts Find meaning and purpose to guide your time in more meaningful ways Visualize future success so you can dive into deep work and stop procrastinating Break bad habits, establish rituals and establish routines that help you achieve goals Nurture imagination and learn to express yourself more artistically Maximize productivity with simple but effective strategies Focus for extended periods and make breaks more restorative Foster a strong sense of purpose in life and identify the steps needed to bring this to life every day Smile more and build self-esteem  With the renewed perspective "Lifescale offers, we can all finally learn to prioritize what matters so we can live our digital and physical lives with intention and true happiness. I'm ready! Are you? Some background on Brian Brian Solis is a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, and is also an award-winning author, prominent blogger/writer and keynote speaker. A digital analyst, anthropologist and futurist, Brian has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on business, marketing and culture. His research and books help executives and others better understand the relationship between the evolution of technology and its impact on business and society, as well as the role we each play in it. Brian also helps leading brands, celebrities and startups develop digital transformation, culture 2.0 and innovation strategies that enable them to adapt to connected markets from the inside out. 4 podcasts about realigning your business and life you might enjoy: Jeff Leisawitz—Not F*ing Around Jennifer Dawn—Finding Your Way In Business and Life Alex Vorobieff—How To Replace Chaos With Clarity By Realigning Your Business Oscar Barrera—Creatively Applying Anthropology To Find Innovative Solutions Additional resources: Brian's website Brian's books: www.briansolis.com/books My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants    Download the 1-page synopsis of my book, "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" here

Listen to 7-time best-selling author, Brian Solis, as he discusses how to stay focused despite our many technological distractions, how to recover from a life of multi-tasking, and what we need to do to access of inner creativity. 

Brian Solis is a digital anthropologist, keynote speaker and best-selling author and one of Tara's old friends.  Life Scale is Brian's most recent book which is a departure from his previous work. Life Scale addresses the impact that social platforms and smart devices have in our lives. "As much as we multitask, love our devices, and feel like we're in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt, and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. However, we might define success and happiness; our ability to make progress toward those goals has gone astray. It's time to reclaim our lives. It's time to take control." Join us as we talk with Brian on what inspired him to write Life Scale, his strategies tactics to fight distraction and increase creativity.  Show notes:  BrianSolis.com Lifescaling.me Buy Brian's Life Scale book Thanks for listening and let us know if you're also struggling with distraction and creativity on Twitter by tagging Brian @briansolis, Tara at @missrogue & Carlos @carlospache_co  You can also check out Tara's YouTube channel with over 200 videos on digital strategy and online audience building.  Truly Inc. is a digital strategy and insights agency based in Toronto, Canada. Visit our website: https://trulyinc.com  Anatomy of a Strategy podcast is recorded in Toronto, Canada in the offices of Truly Inc. Produced by Carlos Pacheco and Tara Hunt. Podcast editing by Joe Pacheco 

I caught up with Brian Solis, the long-time "digital anthropologist" and speaker on influencer marketing, at this week's Open Influence Summit in Los Angeles (where I also moderated a panel featuring Open Influence CEO Eric Dahan, Casting Influence CEO Tanya Bershadsky and Ensemble Digital Studios Founder Larry Shapiro). The summit was focused on influencer marketing, and that dominated Solis' keynote conversation with Dahan. But he also talked with me about his new book, Life Scale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life. It's the result of Solis' own journey over the past year or so, dealing with a loss of focus, productivity and ease, thanks to his frenetic relationship with digital technology that he's been studying since the mid-1990s. The conference was good, my panel better and my conversation with Solis most interesting of all. Give it a listen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/davidlbloom/support

Your unhappiness might have a pricetag, and the free social media you use could be the ones ringing the cash register. That's one of the modern cultural phenomena writer, speaker, and digital anthropologist Brian Solis recognized while writing his latest book, "Lifescale: How to live a more creative, productive, and happy life." In this episode of Hack the Process, Brian will tell us what motivated him to overcome his fear of public speaking, why he has managed all his own social media for most of his career, and how he realized that some of the technologies he has spent a lifetime working with might be at the root of his own discontent. For links to the resources mentioned in this episode, please check out the show notes: https://www.hacktheprocess.com/brian-solis-digs-into-the-social-media-roots-of-our-discontent-on-hack-the-process-podcast/

Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we're in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. It's time to reclaim our lives. It's time to take control. Lifescale is a journey of self-discovery and growth. It's about getting back into balance and remastering our destinies. Author Brian Solis knows first-hand. He struggled with distraction and all of its ill-effects. To get his life back, he developed a set of techniques, exercises, and thought experiments designed to tame the chaos, and positively and productively navigate our day-to-day lives. Instead of falling victim to the never-ending cycle of newsfeeds, Likes, addictive apps, and boredom scrolling (aka the endless scroll), we can learn to manage our time and inspire our own lives in a way that will bring meaning back—without sacrificing the benefits that our devices bring us. In Lifescale, Brian has done the legwork to pull together scientific findings and practical tools into one book. Readers—especially those who are distracted—will connect with the humor, pathos, and inspiration inside. Using this book's simple but powerful lessons, we can: Identify sources of distraction and turn attention toward creativity and productivity Understand and resist the manipulative techniques that turn us into digital addicts Find meaning and purpose to guide our time in more meaningful ways Visualize future success to successfully dive into deep work and stop procrastinating Break bad habits, establish rituals, and establish routines that help you achieve goals Nurture imagination and learn to express ourselves more artistically Maximize productivity with simple but effective strategies Focus for extended periods and make breaks more restorative Foster a strong sense of purpose in life and identify the steps needed to bring it to life every day Smile more and build self-esteem With the renewed perspective Lifescale offers, we can finally learn to prioritize what matters, and live our digital and physical lives with intention and true happiness.

We're gonna win, Twins. Just not every time. We're still #1 in our league, and it'll probably stay that way forever. Probably. We're trying to stay positive. It's a Lifescale thing. Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy LifeBook Link- amzn.to/2IRslHESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brian Solis’ new book Lifescale - How to Live a More Creative, Productive and Happy Life, is a departure from his previous books, including X: The Experience When Business Meets Design and What’s The Future of Business. Whereas these books were focused on the impact of modern technology on our business and professional lives, Lifescale looks at the impact that digital distraction is having on our personal lives and our ability to be who we really want to be. As with those previous books, I had a chance to chat with Brian about Lifescale, why he decided to write this kind of book, what he learned about himself and how digital distraction impacted his life, and what people can do to put their lives back into more balance in order to be closer to their true selves.

Technology has evolved massively, changing business and society in such great heights. While it is factual that it made the world easier to live in, it also made a lot of people become sluggish. One who can shed light on the impacts of technology in this digital age is Brian Solis, digital analyst, business strategist, futurist, and a principal analyst at Altimeter. In his best-selling book, Lifescale, he delves into the whole concept of disruptive technology – how it turned us into digital addicts and how we can get off of such alarming obsession. If technology can cost our own sanity and self-confidence, positive impacts show when the coin is flipped. Social media is one of the best ways we can overcome our adversities and influence people through our own voice. This worked for Brian Schulman, the founder and CEO of Voice Your Vibe. Being diagnosed with Tourette syndrome ignited his passion to inspire and influence other people. Brian shares how he is living life with purpose through LinkedIn Video. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take The Lead community today:DrDianeHamilton.comDr. Diane Hamilton FacebookDr. Diane Hamilton TwitterDr. Diane Hamilton LinkedInDr. Diane Hamilton YouTubeDr. Diane Hamilton Instagram

Recently I had the opportunity to do podcast coverage at SXSW 2019, my third time doing coverage at Austin's preeminent film and music festival. (Before, I did coverage there as The nsavides Podcast. I changed the name to NICKSAV Film & Music SHOW for clarity and because nicksav.show is easier to remember then podcast.nsavides.com.) Part I of my coverage includes some general observations about the festival, what captured my attention and why, and some of my favorite film and music experiences # Related Episode Producer Sam Claitor from Fable House helped me put together my coverage of SXSW 2019. Back in 2018, I did this live episode of the show as an official event of SXSW 2018. # Sponsor for this Episode nsavides productions – I make videos and tell stories. Some of my videos are here.   # Say hello: podcast@nsavides.com # Related Things SXSW Calmstood out by bringing a two-toed sloth to the festival's exhibition hall The Peanut Butter Falcon, my favorite film experience at SXSW  The Tiny Desk music show at SXSW The launch party for Brain Solis's new book, Life Scale, was one of my most memorable experiences at the festival  Mark Falgout, organizer of this year's Lafayette party, was interviewed during my SXSW 2017 coverage Shortcut for the podcast: nicksav.show Additional music for the show provided by Rob Costlow. # Films & Shows Mentioned  Autonomy Game of Thrones Good Omens  The Highwaymen The Peanut Butter Falcon Running with Beto  # If You Liked the Show Sign up for The nsavides Newsletter. Subscribe or leave an honest review:   Apple Podcasts   Spotify   Overcast Say hello on Twitter:  @nsavidesPRO Thank you for visiting!

Minter Dialogue Episode #319Brian Solis is an eight-time author, futurist, celebrated keynote speaker and Principal Analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet Company. In this conversation with Brian, we discuss his latest book, Lifescale, which was officially launched at SXSW 2019 in Austin. Lifescale is Brian's recent journey through burnout and how he clawed his way back to finding purpose and his North Star. We discuss his process, the challenges of finding purpose in this hyper-connected crazy world, as Aslan calls it. Please send me your questions as an audio file or text to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got meditating moms, real resolutions, viral video, and more. For all the links, check out the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/task-delegation-device-freedom-nondual-reality-and-more-in-process-hacker-news/. Enjoy! Events The 2019 Continuum of Service Conference, a three-day conference from March 6 to 8 at the University of San Diego, focuses on embracing multiple ways of learning. On March 7, Rhonda Magee will be featured as a guest speaker to talk about mindfulness and justice. Catch Bill Duane in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 22 as he opens the breakfast forum at Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) People Summit 2019, providing leaders with talent management insights. Media On the Built on Air Podcast, find out about Alex Hillman’s two businesses, Indy Hall and Stacking the Bricks, along with his app philosophy and his use of Airtable CRM, a spreadsheet-database hybrid. Find out what it’s like to get trained live by Tom Morkes as entrepreneur and podcaster Kim Doyal shares her lessons with Tom on how to reach over a thousand new customers a month without paid advertising. Tara Hunt pays a visit to The Lawsome Podcast to explain content marketing strategies and inbound marketing for law firms. Get to know more about nondual reality from author and psychologist John Astin as he joins Lisa Dale Miller on the Groundless Ground Podcast. Writing Congratulations to Andrew Nance whose book, Puppy Mind, made it to the list of the best children’s mindfulness books on Bookroo! Delegating tasks can be challenging. How do you know how much of your business to delegate? In a new article, Ryan Waggoner shares his own experience assigning tasks and the lessons he learned from it. Do you know how you can make money on Pinterest? Jon Dykstra reveals ten methods in his latest blog post. Recommended Resources Find some much-needed clarity at the Abraham-Hicks workshop, led by Esther Hicks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 9. Guy and Ilan Ferdman mentioned Esther during their interview. Life Scale is the newest book by Brian Solis, coming out on March 6. Brian encourages us to put down our devices to live a more creative, productive, and happy life. Tara Hunt recommended following Brian. Listen to Eric Termuende discuss how to rethink how we work and who we work for in an interview for Shakti Waves Radio. Eric was mentioned by Tara Byrne. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

We frequently throw around the word wellbeing but don’t always define what wellbeing means to the population we’re serving. The fact is that what drives my wellbeing is different than what drives your wellbeing. This makes it really tough to address true wellbeing in the workplace because there are not only multiple factors to consider but we all value these factors differently.  As health professionals, we also like to place people in neat and tidy categories, like healthy, at risk or high risk/chronic. But wellbeing is much more complex than simply putting labels on people. As one of today’s guests said, “Just because you’re physically healthy doesn’t mean you have a high level of wellbeing and just because you’re terminally ill doesn’t mean you have a low level of wellbeing.” Today’s guests are Sandi Winter and Julia Gustafson. Sandi Winter, PhD, MHA, is the Director of the WELL for Life research initiative (WELL) and a Social Science Research Scholar at the Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC). Julia works as the Director of Community Engagement for Stanford WELL for Life where she strives to empower local communities and organizations to adopt and promote a culture of holistic well-being. In this interview, we discuss their roles at WELL for Life, the research they conducted to further understand wellbeing from a diverse perspective and the 10 areas of wellbeing they found. Sandi and Julia walk us through how the WELL for Life scale is used today in worksites, the user experience plus some free resources available to those who take the assessment. Foundational funding for the Stanford Wellness Living Laboratory (WELL) was generously provided via an unrestricted gift through the Nutrilite Health Institute Wellness Fund.  For links mentioned in today's episode visit  http://bit.ly/Redesignpod To join the Redesigning Wellness Community, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/rdwellnesscommunity/  

            Jana McCarthy is an Education Development and Learning Consultant for Kaiser Permanente. She is a nurse, childbirth educator, lactation consultant, basic life support instructor, and native Southern Californian. Jana also teaches management of aggressive behavior and is a master diversity trainer. Listen to this episode to learn more about compassion fatigue, treatment, and more.  Listen and Learn: How to recognize compassion fatigue How nurses, doulas, and caregivers can support those experiencing compassion fatigue The cumulative process of compassion burnout Six self-care techniques to help reduce stress in your home  Resources and Mentions: One Moment Meditation  Professional Quality of Life Scale  jmccarthy32@cox.net

            Jana McCarthy is an Education Development and Learning Consultant for Kaiser Permanente. She is a nurse, childbirth educator, lactation consultant, basic life support instructor, and native Southern Californian. Jana also teaches management of aggressive behavior and is a master diversity trainer. Listen to this episode to learn more about compassion fatigue, treatment, and more.  Listen and Learn: How to recognize compassion fatigue How nurses, doulas, and caregivers can support those experiencing compassion fatigue The cumulative process of compassion burnout Six self-care techniques to help reduce stress in your home  Resources and Mentions: One Moment Meditation  Professional Quality of Life Scale  jmccarthy32@cox.net

Yep, this is the hard conversation that we’ve all been avoiding. No one likes to talk about losing our beloved working dogs, but we all will have to face it sooner or later. Listen in as Marcie and Whistle talk with Dr. Alice Villalobos, Director of Pawspice and the Animal Oncology Consultation Service, about how to ensure our working dogs have a kind and gentle end to their lives. Dr. Villalobos talks about her ground-breaking Quality of Life Scale that will help you to ensure your dog has a dignified death. Marcie and Dr. Villalobos will help you to consider better end-of-life choices for your working dog. Questions or Comments? Send them to: marcie@petliferadio.com. More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - How Can We Help Our Working Dogs End Life Well with Marcie Davis