Podcasts about Marrakesh

In this episode of ‘The Art of Living Big,’ host Betsy Pake discusses her journey of creating new traditions after a significant life change. She shares her experience of making intentional choices and emphasizes the importance of self-trust and honesty, encouraging listeners to honor their true desires. She also highlights the role of community and the value of supportive relationships. The episode concludes with reflections on the past year and the anticipation of new beginnings. Transcript  Welcome to The Art of Living Big, where we explore how to live intentionally and with more joy. I’m Betsy Pake, your host, master, coach, and creator of the Navigate Method. Here to help you listen in to your true desires, elevate your standards, and live life to the fullest. Now, let’s go live big. Hi everyone. Welcome to the show today.. I have something to talk to you today about, but , I wanna start by telling you about my Christmas tree. I, , it’s the holiday time. And if you’re new here, I have been living in an apartment this, whole year. I sold my house towards the end of last year. , , Got divorced, moved into this apartment. And in April I got a kitty. Okay, so these are important aspects to my thought process for the holidays this year, one of the things that I’ve really tried to do is just to create new traditions, , or new rituals in the morning. How I do things. I wanted it to be different. Like I didn’t wanna be rerunning old patterns. I really wanted to create something new for myself. And so. I have been really intentional about that over the year and as we get closer to the holidays, I was really thinking , do I wanna bring in the energy of all the old decorations? , There’s some things that I do wanna pull out like my daughter’s stalking and that kind of thing, but for the most part, I didn’t really feel aligned with it anymore. It’s like that person that owned all those things is so unfamiliar to me that I didn’t wanna bring the energy of it in. And because I got this cat, in Dean Martin I got in April, he’s a sweet, sweet kitty. I think he’s so close to cuddling with me. Honestly, he’s, he’s gonna cuddle any day, but it took a long time for him to warm up. I mean, it took him like four months before he even pured. Literally. I think he’d had like a hard life on the streets, you know? So when he got in my house, I basically kidnapped him and , I got him from the pound, but brought him home. He didn’t have any choice. And then he was like, what woman? You are crazy. So here we are. It’s Christmas time and I’m like, if I get a Christmas tree, , he’s gonna, it’s, he’s, it’s gonna be diabolical. He’s never gonna be able to handle it. And so I was thinking like, do I get like a Christmas tree? . , One of those pre-lit trees, like a big tree. Do I just get maybe a little tree? Do I get like just a tree that’s in a little fake tree that’s in like a pot? Do you know what I mean? I’m like, I could, I, went to a million different stores. I’m like looking at everything. I’m like, what am I gonna get? Because I think he’s gonna be just a nut job. So I finally went to Lowe’s last weekend and they had these two. Trees that kind of went together. One’s like maybe four feet, and the other one’s like maybe three feet. So they are supposed to sit next to each other. They’re connected. Their, light system is connected, or I would love to put them in separate spots, but they’re connected together. And it’s like a cone that has this holographic ribbon that sort of wraps around the cone and a star on top. And the lights are little, they’re not like little Christmas tree lights. It’s like a, I wanna say like a techno light. It’s like a strip. Do you know what I mean? Inside the thing. So it does all kinds of different things. It flashes, it dances, it twirls around. It does a million things. And so I thought. This will be really good because I don’t think Kitty will mess with it, and so anyway, I brought it home. It looks really pretty. Maybe you’ve seen it on Instagram. I’ve shared it in my stories, but I was correct. He is not messing with it, which is great. And it looks really pretty and the lights bring me a lot of joy. So. You know, we can create new experiences for ourselves that can be really good. I talk to women every day that are , trying to make these big decisions in their lives and in their marriage and what to do, and I think there is so much fear in the unknown that I wanted to kind of share that little piece of what’s going on here. Because what if it’s great? , What if it. All works out better than you thought. And we have so much power in our imagination, but so many times we use our imagination to go down the rabbit hole of all the things that could be wrong. And what if we harness that for , , what could happen if it could be great. And , this year I have thought, and I think I mentioned this last week, I’ve thought about doing a podcast just on my year. ’cause I think there have been so many lessons in it . , That everybody could benefit from, right? I mean, so many lessons, and you probably have a lot of lessons in your life too, that people could benefit from if you shared those. And so I have thought about that. ,, I might do it, but this year has been the most wild ups and downs and twists and turns. The way that it’s landing is just like the most beautiful place. Like I’m so happy with the way this year has turned out for me, , and next year already. Really amazing things to look forward to. I went to an event last month with my coach and the coaching group that I’m part of, and there was a new woman in the group who I just hit it off with. She was so fun and so cool, and she lives in New York City. I’ll have to have her on the show sometime. But anyway, the women in this group that I’m in, we all tend to form such tight friendships and we have stayed in the group. ,, This particular woman is new, but the other women. . We stay. And so we’ve been together for many years. And so I went for this walk with this new friend. We were there at the resort and we decided to go get coffee and we were gonna go for a walk. And we were just talking and I was talking about my year and some of the things that have happened and how great it’s been. And I said, , the only thing that I really miss. About having a partner because I really like being single., I’m in a really good place of just doing things on my own and discovering myself, and there’s no space right now for anybody else, , to be honest. But the one thing that I miss is, sometimes it is nice to have a built-in person to go. Travel with, right? Like to be able to go on a trip and to go with, and I have done many trips this year. I’ve gone by myself, I’ve gone with this group to several places, and it’s been great. And I love that. And there’s other places that I wanna go. And so she said, well, where would you go? And I said, well, I really wanna go to, to Morocco. I have a, a friend that I met online, and she and I message back and forth. She’s divorced as well. And you know how you just find somebody and you start talking? She’s a, a, famous author and we just have hit it off. So I’m like, I really wanna go see her. She lives in Marrakesh. And she was like, let’s go. So I was like, okay, we were on the walk, we booked the trip on the walk, opened up our apps. I, I am a big points girl, so I did it with points. I share that just because that is a privilege to be able to open up an app on a phone, on the, on a walk on and book a trip to Morocco. It was, , cost me $11 fees. Um, but I was able to, book my trip and to go to Morocco. So this spring we’re going to Morocco and it just goes to show you that for when you get in a place where it’s really clear what it is you like and what you don’t like, and you’re able to voice it, and you’re around people who are like extraordinary people, right? You’re building your life around people who. Like similar things and are adventurous and able to take those kinds of risks, , it, it can change everything. I think our community is so, so important, and I always say this inside the, women Inside the Navigate method, you know, , once you come into the Navigate Method, you’re sort of like in forever. I joke, that they can never get rid of us, , unless they want to. But you know, after you go through the program, you stay in our alumni group and we meet every month so people can see each other every month and form those relationships. Um, and if you wanna keep going with me, there’s an opportunity to do that in another way. . So building community I think is so incredibly important, and especially when we’re going through big things or hard things, and to be able to say like this is to have somebody witness your life, right? To be able to have somebody witness. Things that you’re going through. It doesn’t always have to be a partner or a spouse. And many times we have partners or spouses and they’re still not witnessing your life. Right. It’s just a, a placeholder. And so I have found that there is just such a, a, need for this and a way to do it. I think women are coming together in community in totally new ways. Which, leads me to remind you that next month in January we’re doing the fireside chat. If you go onto Instagram and you just message me fire, it’ll automatically send you the link or the, link is in my bio. , Every month we’re just getting together, , on Zoom and you can turn your camera on or leave it off, whatever’s comfortable to you. And I’ve got questions that I ask and we just kind of reflect and get together for this. I call it the middle verse, right? This is where we are in the middle verse. And so I think creating those pockets of community is really invaluable in terms of building a life that feels really good and really full, you know? And I think that’s where, , where I could say I am right now. After this year, I have built a life that feels really good and really full there. And when I say that I’m not looking for a partner. I know a lot of times my friends will ask , are you gonna date? And I just, my life is really full and really good. I don’t, I’m not missing anything. And now I have a fun, somebody fun to travel with, so there’s no, there’s nothing missing. Um, and maybe someday there will be, but right now it just feels really good. So I think that as we. Look, and we think about well, what will my life be like? I wanna just reflect that. What if it’s better than you thought it would be? Like, what if things come together in ways you couldn’t expect? If you had told me last Christmas, you will have just booked a free trip to Mor Morocco with a new friend That is so fun and lovely like. Probably, well, I probably would’ve believed you just because, ’cause I’m open to that kind of stuff. But it would have been like, oh my God, that’s cool. That’s really cool. But being in a place where I was open to receiving that is, is the thing maybe that would have surprised me. So to this, week, I wanna talk to you a little bit about something that has been on my mind when I’ve been thinking about this past year, and I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting. , And I’ve been thinking about the thing that I think rises to the top of so many of our conversations inside the Navigate Method, and it is this moment when a woman realizes that she’s spent years and years editing herself in order to keep the peace. And I think. Probably likely, in my case at least, I know I can say this for myself, years of looking for outward validation, right? I would, kind of throw ideas off of my dad or my sister when I was younger, you know, when I was in my twenties or even thirties, gosh, I mean probably forties. I probably was doing it in my forties, but always looking to make sure I was doing things right. Checking on someone else’s emotional weather before I even knew how I felt about things. And at some point the cost of that becomes really huge. Because when you start to outsource your decisions or your peace long enough, you start to detach from what is you. So instead, you are seeing everything through a lens of what would they think? What would my dad’s response be? How would my sister react to this? What would my spouse think? Or my brothers or sisters, or. Coworkers or whoever that is for you. And in that you stop believing that your instincts are reliable and you start, I think, really doubting parts of you that do speak really loudly. And the more that you deny those parts of you, the harder it is to be able to hear it. Right? I mean, if you keep shushing. Part of you, if you keep shushing someone, pretty soon they’re gonna shush. Right? And that’s the thing that I hear over and over inside the Navigate method when I work with women is like I, I don’t even know. I have no idea what I think. Like you could ask me a question like, do I like shells or spirals, pasta better? I don’t know. But I know what my husband likes better. I know what my kids would prefer. So today what I wanna do is I wanna talk about what it really means to become the woman that you can trust, because I think that is the foundation for all decision making and for creating a really big life, right? It’s not about your partner’s approval, it’s not about your family’s expectations. It is not about the path that is very safe. Or respectable. I hear this a lot too, like what will people think? Right? The foundation of all of this is you and it’s your inner knowing and, I think that there is a, woman inside you who, who has always known, but we were taught out it was taught out of us, right? Or you know, I don’t know. Screamed out of us or whatever, so that we started to quiet that piece. And I have noticed even in myself over the past year and now I’ve been a, coach in doing this work since 2012, like a long time. I have done decades of my own work. I have done. Everything from therapy to meditating for days on end to screaming into a pillow. Do you know what I mean? , I’ve done it all. I’ve run the gamut. And what I know that from this past year is that rebuilding your trust isn’t about becoming fearless. It is about becoming honest. It’s about being honest with yourself and how you feel. It’s becoming honest with what you have tolerated. It’s becoming honest with what you have been carrying that was maybe never yours to carry in the first place. And I think that self-trust starts to build every time that you tell yourself the truth. And I always say this in my groups, is you don’t have to take action on it. You can still betray yourself in the action, but if you’re telling yourself the truth. Being honest about what it is you really want. Even if you don’t do it, it is a step forward. And I wanna say that again ’cause I think it really matters, is that self-trust builds every time you tell yourself the truth and then you can start to learn to stay with yourself through the consequences of that truth. I saw something online a couple days ago and I thought it was so good and it was like, you’re not stuck. You just don’t wanna go through the, consequences of what will happen if you act on that truth. And I thought, oh dang, that’s so good. Right? It’s so good. And I think that for a lot of us, , the idea of being true is foreign because we were really raised to be agreeable. I was talking. Inside one of my groups the other day, and I was saying that my lease is coming up and my plan was to buy a house. And now things have shifted and I’m not sure where, if I wanna stay here, there’s some opportunities that I may take to move to a new city. , I don’t wanna sign a year long lease. And when I asked my body what. How long I wanted to be here. I asked, is it six months? And I felt very unsteady. And I asked, is it a year lease? ’cause those are the options they gave me. They gave me six months, 12 months, 13 months, which I thought was weird. Um, I think that’s what it was. And when I asked my body 12 months, I felt constricted. Like, no, I gotta get outta here. And so it was eight months. Eight months is where my body felt relaxed and happy and positive. And so I asked the apartment, can I get an eight month lease? And the lady, the manager, said, yeah, but I’ll have to, I mean, I don’t know. I’ll have to ask corporate. And she looked at me and she’s very sweet, but she looked at me like, it’s more work for her. God love her. She looked at me like, take the six or the 12, ’cause I have to do more work. If you want eight. And there was a moment where it was uncomfortable, and then a moment where I decided it was okay. That’s what I wanted. That was my truth. And when I was talking in groups, someone in group was like, I could never do that. I could never do that. And I think that you can get to a place where you can do. Because self-trust builds every time you tell yourself the truth and you stay with yourself through the consequences of that truth. And the consequences of that truth were that I had to sit with the uncomfortableness while someone else sorted out in their head how they were gonna take a step forward and ask corporate. And when they were gonna do that, and they were a new person down there, new manager, and they were going through their own process and I didn’t need to fix that. I just asked, I just had to ask and then see what the answer was would be. And I still don’t know. And so we wait. We wait and we’d be comfortable in that waiting. And I think,, , we were raised to just, just take the 12 months, it’s fine, you’ll stay a couple more months. And that may be what I do, but I needed to ask in order to move forward and feel like I had honored myself. You know, if you were, , someone in a family where you had to really walk on eggshells, maybe. You had a explosive mom or dad or an alcoholic, all of these things, you may have been tiptoeing around and minimizing everything that you needed just to be able to move through things. And it can be really hard to make these shifts. So self-trust is rebuilt in the moments. Where you’re truth telling and they’re micro moments., I talked last week, I think it was about micro joy. The, small things, the doing, the puzzle, the snuggling with the cat, if you’ll ever let me, like all these little things are what makes life bearable. ’cause life has big, hard things. And I think self-trust is in micro moments of truth telling, telling the truth to yourself, to the people that matter. And over time those start to become a pattern. It starts to become who you are. , When I was in group and that woman said, I could never do that, I thought to myself, I think I used to be like that too, where I would never do that. And I think that you do over time as you create that, you create a new identity. It’s a new way of being and a new way of relating to yourself and eventually a new way of relating to everybody else. Right? So I think that a woman who really trusts herself doesn’t make the decisions that she has to make from a place of fear. She makes them from a place of clarity. Right? And I think about, , going back to the apartment lease, it may seem insignificant. And I thought to myself, I have to ask because I have to honor what it is that I feel. Even if I end up choosing one of the others, I’ll feel really good that I did this ask, and I think that, , over time we get this new identity and then we don’t even have that conversation back and forth in our head. I’m guessing by next Christmas as I continue and continue and continue to do this, that. It won’t even be, it won’t even be something I would, it would be like tying your shoe, right? I don’t have to watch a YouTube every time I go to tie my shoe. Right? So I think that there is a part of this whole process that surprises women in, in, I notice this when we’re teaching it inside the Navigate method, is that, that when you start doing this, when you start. Rebuilding trust, rebuilding that self-trust, you’re gonna feel grief. And that feels so foreign to people. And sometimes they’ll be like, I don’t know what this is. And we talk a lot about, what are the specifics? I have a dictionary on my desk and someone will say, I have resentment. And I’ll open up and we’ll read the definition. And I’ll say, does that define what you just described? No. So what is this really? And I think that one of the things that we run into so many times is we run into a feeling of grief. And this grief is about the years that you abandon yourself. So many times I hear women say this is resentment towards their husband or resentment towards, , or anger towards si situations or things that have happened. But I can always trace it back. Yes, , did. Somebody overstep your boundaries. Yeah, like all those things, he’s not off the hook. That’s not what this is about. This is about you recognizing that you may have feelings of grief for the moments that you did know better, but you felt you had no choice. You felt you had to do it to keep the peace you felt you had to do it. ’cause that’s what a good wife does, or a good sister does. Or a good daughter does. Grief. Grief for a version of you that, that put everybody else first. That version of you was slowly disappearing while everybody else was really comfortable, and I think that this grief isn’t a sign that. You’re doing it wrong. It’s a sign that you’re actually returning, right? That you are becoming a woman who you can trust. And that means trusting yourself enough to let your past self know that she was never wrong or weak, but she was doing the very best she could with the tools that she had. And now you have new tools, right? So now you can do it differently. So here’s the North Star in all this. To start small. I know I say, I know. Start small, right? Start small, start honest and start with just one moment of noticing when you override yourself. This can even be after. This can be you get in bed at night and you’re like, where did I abandon myself today? It’s gonna be a tiny moment where saying no, when you mean no. Is important and you’re gonna notice where you said yes when you meant no. And there’s gonna be a moment where you are okay saying no, and you might brace yourself and nothing bad will happen. And I think that moment. Also leads to some grief because you may realize that you were doing things to protect yourself, and it was a pattern that you created when you were young and it worked and it was needed at that time. But now you are a grown ass adult and you don’t necessarily need the, pattern. But maybe you’ve created a bit of that experience for yourself by acting that way in places that you didn’t need to, like with the apartment complex, right? Every one of those moments is like a brick in a foundation of the woman that you were and the woman that you’re now becoming. And there can be a new steadiness, right? A new groundedness in this, a new version of you that isn’t looking for permission, or to validate yourself from anybody else, and that’s self-trust,? And that I think is really the beginning , of living a big life, right? So this season, as we’re going really into the, real Christmas holiday season, whatever holiday you that you celebrate, this time of year, new Year’s at least, that is a universal, but I want you to just notice. You are allowed to rebuild a relationship with yourself. I want you to remember that and that you are not necessarily becoming somebody new, but you are returning to the woman that you always have been and that you’ve always been meant to be. And this is the one who knows, the one who is certain, the one who chooses, the one who trusts herself. And the one who trusts herself enough to live a life that is built on that reflection of truth. And you can start it right now, practice through the holidays. There’ll be so many opportunities to practice on the holidays. And just start with one little promise. I will not abandon myself again. Alright. That’s all I got for you this week. Thanks so much for listening. I love you guys so much. I will see you, I will see you next week. I think what we’re gonna do, we’ll have maybe one more this year, and then I’m gonna take some time off for the holiday, which I’m really excited about, and then we’ll be back after the new year. , My plan is to be here next week. Then take some time. So I’ll see you next week, but I hope if you don’t catch next week, I hope you have a really wonderful, a wonderful holiday and new year. I hope you do something that really lights you up. I hope you see the value that you brought to everybody over this past year and. How you can really show up for yourself in a new way in 2026. , 2025 is the year of endings. It is a nine year in numerology. We are moving into a one year, and that is the year of new beginnings. So what do you need to leave behind this year and what can you call in for next? We’ll talk about that maybe more next week. All right. I love you guys. I’ll see you then. Bye-bye. Thanks for joining me on The Art of Living Big. I hope today’s episode sparked something within you, maybe pushed you to dream a little bit bigger and live a little larger. Don’t forget to subscribe. Leave us a review and share this podcast with someone you know who might need a little inspiration today. You can find me over on Instagram at Betsy Pake. And on my YouTube channel. Remember, the world is vast. Your potential is endless, and your life, it’s yours to shape. Until next time, keep reaching, keep exploring and keep living big.

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In this episode of The Create! Podcast, host Kat (Ekaterina Popova) sits down with creative visionary Amy Griffith. Best known for founding the iconic pink Eaton House Studio in the UK, Amy shares the journey behind her latest, soul-stirring project: The Star Seed House in Marrakesh, Morocco. Amy opens up about the massive transition from creating a playful, celebrity-favorite party house in Essex to renovating an ancient, spiritual sanctuary in the heart of the Medina—a project requiring patience, donkeys for transport, and deep trust in the process. This conversation is a masterclass in letting faith be stronger than fear. Amy and Kat discuss the practicalities of funding long-term creative visions, the importance of diversifying income to protect your artistic joy, and how to design spaces that engage all the senses. Whether you are an artist planning a massive installation or an entrepreneur looking to pivot, Amy's intuitive approach to life and business will inspire you to take the leap. In this episode, we cover: From UK to Marrakesh: The serendipitous story of how Amy fell in love with Morocco and decided to build her second immersive art installation there. The Star Seed House: Renovating a centuries-old property without cars, learning local craftsmanship, and honoring the "soul" of a building. Faith vs. Fear: How to navigate the anxiety of big, expensive creative projects and why Amy painted "Let your faith be stronger than your fear" on her walls. Creative Process & Neuroscience: Amy discusses her photographic memory, sensory filing system, and how she visualizes spaces before they exist. Financial Sustainability for Artists: The importance of having non-creative income streams to relieve pressure on your art practice. Slowing Down: What living in the Medina has taught Amy about patience, devotion, and the spiritual side of creativity. Guest Bio: Amy Griffith is an artist, creative director, and the founder of Eaton House Studio, a world-renowned, pink-hued art installation and location hire in the UK. Most recently, she founded the Star Seed House in Marrakesh, Morocco, a spiritual sanctuary and immersive design project. Amy is known for her intuitive design process, creating spaces that are not just visually stunning but emotionally resonant. She is currently launching a curated shop in Marrakesh featuring vintage caftans and natural perfumes. Connect with Amy Griffith: Website: Eaton House Studio Instagram: @eatonhousestudio Resources & Links Mentioned: Create! Magazine on Substack: Subscribe for fresh articles, art tips, and insights at createmagazine.substack.com Call for Art: Apply to our latest open calls, exhibitions, and publishing opportunities at createmagazine.co/call-for-art Create! U: Explore our online learning platform for artists at createu.co Support the Podcast: If this episode lit you up, please share it with a friend! We would also be so grateful if you could leave us a review on Apple Podcasts to help more artists find the show. Website: createmagazine.co Instagram: @createmagazine

You can also find the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel here: "Food Travel in Morocco: What to Order When You Visit"Dig in with us to this fun conversation that provides a great overview of Moroccan gastronomy and its cultural importance.Azdean and producer Ted take a look at some of the popular dishes you'll find in Morocco, some you've probably heard of, and others which might be less familiar, but that you'll discover quickly once you arrive.This episode is another one which is a bit easier to follow in video form, where you can see the various dishes we're talking about, so hop over to our YouTube channel if you can. But if you're busy driving or jogging, you can still listen along and get the backstories and descriptions!There's tagine and couscous of course, but Azdean describes the different types of each that you can find, and also shows us the essential spices that define Moroccan cooking. We learn about Harira, the traditional soup served during Ramadan, rich in flavor and ingredients. And how Moroccan cooking techniques emphasize marinating and slow cooking for flavor.Meanwhile, street food in Marrakesh has improved significantly and is now considered safe, especially in the Jemaa el-Fnaa Square. Questions about dietary restrictions? In this day and age, with tourism booming, restaurants are learning to accommodate different demands and requirements. You may have to call ahead, but these days you can find more and more choice.Food is always a popular topic around here, but it's been a while since we devoted an entire episode to exploring it, so we're excited to share these mouth-watering ideas with you!Do you dream of exploring the enchanting land of Morocco?Destination Morocco is your ultimate travel experience for those seeking luxury and adventure. We specialize in crafting bespoke itineraries tailored to your unique tastes and desires.If you're a discerning traveler who values an immersive, curated adventure, visit www.destinationsmorocco.com, and let us bring your dream Moroccan vacation to life.Learn more about Azdean and Destination Morocco.Explore our Private Tours and Small Group Tours!

Pol' and Patrik are BACK from New York with returning guest and beloved Real Housewives of New Jersey icon Teresa Giudice—the platinum-blonde Jersey bombshell diving into BravoCon madness, family healing, and a stunning new coffee reading. The episode kicks off with laughter as Patrik hilariously butchers Teresa's last name (“Jai-deuce!”). Teresa recaps BravoCon chaos: Gia's dehydration scare, paramedics rushing to the Four Seasons, recycled Vegas air, exhaustion, and why she avoided cast drama by staying at the Encore—right above Delilah's, where Pol' and Patrik partied. But the real jaw-dropper? Teresa and Joe Gorga secretly reunited weeks BEFORE BravoCon at their parents' mausoleum. She shares the full emotional chain: Gia urging her to let go in Marrakesh, her breakthroughs on Special Forces, Adriana's teary hug with cousin Joey, and the first brave text she sent Joe: “Never say never.” Joe initially pushed for a four-way sit-down with Melissa and Louie, but Teresa insisted on meeting him alone. At the mausoleum, Joe immediately hugged her, admitting he missed her. That led to a quiet park meetup and then a surprise family dinner arranged by Louie—where everyone laughed like old times. Teresa shuts down critics claiming it's “for show,” insisting she would never fake family reconciliation. She opens up about Louie's pain from the show, how he lost his job, his deep love for her daughters, and why public perception of him is so wrong. Today, Louie and Joe talk daily—“bro to bro.” Pol' and Patrik revisit last year's coffee reading—when Pol' predicted someone from her past would return. Teresa swore “never”… yet here they are. This year's cup is lighter, peaceful, and shows Teresa at the center as the matriarch—the exact role Joe called her during their reunion. The reading encourages her to lead with heart, unite the family before year's end, and enter 2026 with clarity. They touch on Housewives rumors, Melissa, Jennifer Aydin cheering their reconciliation, the infamous pizza-oven drama, and even joke about RHONJ women holding tomatoes or spaghetti as tag-line props. Teresa closes with reflections on her unbreakable bond with Louie—how he's always put her and the girls first—and the divine way they met. Pol' and Patrik celebrate her honesty, strength, and the powerful new chapter she's stepping into. A funny, raw, emotional, deeply human episode—the Teresa Giudice everyone loves, finally undressed. This is another Hurrdat Media Production. Find more shows at ⁠HurrdatMedia.com⁠ or the ⁠Hurrdat Media YouTube⁠ channel!

Watch Us On YouTube! Thanks to Thrifty Traveler for sponsoring this episode! Visit ThriftyTraveler.com/Premium and use code GO20 to save $20 on annual memberships. On this week's Miles to Go podcast, powered by our friends at Thrifty Traveler, Ed is just back from a whirlwind 18-hour stop in Marrakesh and Richard is finally back in the co-host chair. Ed breaks down what it's really like to stay in a riad inside the Medina, how chaotic (or not) the souks feel, and whether Morocco deserves a spot on your must-visit list. Then the guys pivot into a big batch of Bilt news: the now-official Rakuten partnership and what it could mean to earn points on your mortgage starting next year. Along the way, they get into ugly Vegas convention fares, surviving the world's shortest red-eyes, and a few killer Thrifty Traveler Premium deals.   Get hydrated like Ed in Vegas with Nuun Use my Bilt Rewards link to sign-up and support the show! If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you'll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! If you're looking for a way to support the show, we'd love to have you join us in our Travel Slack Community.  Join me and other travel experts for informative conversations about the travel world, the best ways to use your miles and points, Zoom happy hours and exciting giveaways. Monthly access Annual access Personal consultation plus annual access We have witty, funny, sarcastic discussions about travel, for members only. My fellow travel experts are available to answer your questions and we host video chats multiple times per month. Follow Us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/milestogopodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@milestogopodcast Ed Pizza: https://www.instagram.com/pizzainmotion/ Richard Kerr: https://www.instagram.com/kerrpoints/    

Namibië verskerp sy veldtog vir die top-pos by Interpol, met NamPol se generaal-majoor Anne-Marie Nainda wat vir die presidentskap staan terwyl die wêreldwye polisieliggaam voorberei om oor net twee weke nuwe leierskap te verkies. Nainda, tans Afrika se afgevaardigde op Interpol se uitvoerende komitee, het meer as 30 jaar se polisiëringservaring en kan slegs die tweede vrou word om die organisasie in sy 100-jarige geskiedenis te lei. Die verkiesing sal plaasvind tydens Interpol se Algemene Vergadering van 24 tot 27 November in Marrakesh, Marokko. Nampol se woordvoerder, adjunk-kommissaris Kauna Shikwambi, het met Kosmos 94.1 Nuus gesels.

The federal government is once again open and Arizona's Congressional delegation is once again whole. Friday NewsCap panelists analyze that and the rest of the week's top stories. Plus, how hearing the blues in Marrakesh shaped the sound of a globe-trotting Valley musician.

On Today's Episode – We start off talking government shutdown. My oh my how the Left loves to lie about WHY the shutdown has lagged on so long. Lies, lies, and more lies – let's get a few of them from across the aisle to come to their senses and get this moving. We move to looting, and the tik tok threats looming for Nov. 3rd. We then meet out guest Craig Rucker (bio below). We cover many topics related to power / EV mandates / Wind Power etc. Tune in for all the Fun Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others.Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film Climate Hustle, which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed Climate Hustle 2 staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/25/transportation-dept-takes-more-wind-out-of-offshore-wind/ https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/10/28/now-he-tells-us-bill-gates-backflips-and-says-climate-change-no-threat-to-humanity-after-all/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Katie sits down with her client Sam, owner of Essex Beauty & Aesthetics, to uncover how she built her super salon and fully booked training academy from scratch, all through apprenticeships, bold risks, and unstoppable passion.Sam shares how she went from a garden cabin lash artist to owning one of Essex's leading beauty training academies. You'll hear the full story, including how she sold her house to fund her dream, built a thriving business model based on apprenticeships, and created a team that now runs the salon without her on the tools.If you've ever dreamed of scaling your salon, growing your academy, or stepping into true freedom as a business owner, this is the episode to inspire your next move.We go over:- How Sam grew from a home lash artist to running a 6-figure super salon- The real numbers behind apprenticeships and why they often earn 3× their wage- Turning juniors into fully qualified team members (and future trainers!)- Funding routes & satellite centre secrets for training academies- How mindset shifts after our Marrakesh retreat changed everything- The power of boundaries, weekends off, and building a management team- Why apprenticeships are the future of the beauty industryApply for MASTERMIND herePurchase the book hereConnect with Sam here

Conan talks to Yasmina from Morocco about eating finger foods and how to haggle like a pro. Wanna get a chance to talk to Conan? Submit here: teamcoco.com/apply Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Beidh beirt iarscolaire de chuid Scoil Náisiúnta na Carraige, Brian Ó Gallachóir agus Michael McGilll ag tabhairt faoi dhúshlán i Marrakesh i Morrocco áit a mbeidh siad ag dul suas an tsliabh is airde i Morrocco agus san Aifric Thuaidh, Jbel Toubkal, amárach le hairgead a bhailiú don scoil.

On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, AJC hosted a conversation with Jason Greenblatt, a key architect of the Abraham Accords, and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro. They discussed the challenges threatening regional stability, from unilateral moves on Palestinian statehood to political pressures within Israel, and underscored what's at stake—and what it will take—to expand the Abraham Accords and advance peace. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC.  Episode lineup: Dan Shapiro (1:00) Jason Greenblatt (18:05) Full transcript: https://www.ajc.org/news/podcast/accords-of-tomorrow-architects-of-peace-episode-5 Resources: AJC.org/ArchitectsofPeace - Tune in weekly for new episodes. AJC.org/AbrahamAccords - The Abraham Accords, Explained AJC.org/CNME - Find more on AJC's Center for a New Middle East Listen – AJC Podcasts: AJC.org/ForgottenExodus AJC.org/PeopleofthePod Follow Architects of Peace on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/ArchitectsofPeace You can reach us at: podcasts@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript: Manya Brachear Pashman: In September 2020, the world saw what had been years – decades – in the making: landmark peace agreements dubbed the Abraham Accords – normalizing relations between Israel and two Arabian Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain. Later, in December, they were joined by the Kingdom of Morocco. Five years later, AJC is pulling back the curtain to meet key individuals who built the trust that led to these breakthroughs and turning the spotlight on some of the results. Introducing the Architects of Peace. On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September, American Jewish Committee hosted conversations with former Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, a key architect of the Abraham Accords, and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro:. Both diplomats discussed the dangers threatening peace in the region, including some countries' unilateral calls for Palestinian statehood. They shared what's at stake and what it will take to expand the Abraham Accords and make progress toward peace in the region. We're including those conversations as part of our series.  AJC's Chief Strategy and Communications Officer Belle Yoeli starts us off with Ambassador Shapiro. Belle Yoeli:  Ambassador Shapiro, thank you so much for being with us. We're going to speak primarily about unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood, but I, of course, want to ask you a couple of questions, because you have so much to share with us before we dive in.  First and foremost, as we've said, It's been almost two years, and at AJC, we're all about optimism and playing the long game, as you know, but it does feel like the challenges for the Jewish community and the state of Israel continue to build. And of course, the war looms very large. What is your analysis of the geopolitical horizon for the war in Gaza. Dan Shapiro:  First, thanks for having me. Thank you to American Jewish Committee and to Ted and everybody for all you do. Thank you, Ruby [Chen], and the families, for the fellowship that we can share with you in this goal. I'll just say it very simply, this war needs to end. The hostages need to come home. Hamas needs to be removed from power. And aid needs to surge into Gaza and move forward with a reconstruction of Gaza for Palestinians who prepare to live in peace with Israel. This is something that is overdue and needs to happen. I think there have been a number of missed opportunities along the way. I don't say this in a partisan way. I think President Trump has missed opportunities at the end of the first ceasefire, when the first ceasefire was allowed to expire after the Iran strike, something I strongly supported and felt was exactly the right thing to do. There was an opening to create a narrative to end the war. I think there have been other missed opportunities. And I don't say in a partisan way, because the administration I served in, the Biden administration, we made mistakes and we missed opportunities. So it can be shared. that responsibility.  But what I do think is that there is a new opportunity right now, and we saw it in President Trump's meeting with Arab leaders. It's going to take very significant, deft, and sustained diplomatic effort. He's got a good team, and they need to do the follow through now to hold the Arabs to their commitments on ensuring Hamas is removed from power, on ensuring that there's a security arrangement in Gaza that does not leave Israel vulnerable to any possibility of a renewal of hostilities against it. And of course, to get the hostages released. That's pressure on the Arabs. And of course, he's got a meeting coming up with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and I do think he's going to need to lean on Prime Minister Netanyahu to overcome the resistance that he has to deal with in his cabinet, from those who want to continue the war or who those who rule out any role of any kind for the Palestinian Authority in something that will follow in the day after in Gaza.  So there is a real opportunity here. Once the war is over, then we have an opportunity to get back on the road that we were on. Two years ago at this UN General Assembly, I was serving as the Biden administration's Senior Advisor on regional integration, the first State Department position to hold that, trying to follow through on the excellent work that Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner and, of course, President Trump did in the first term in achieving the Abraham Accords. And we were building out the Negev Forum. And in fact, at that UNGA meeting, we had planned the next ministerial meeting of the Negev Forum. It was to take place October 19 in Marrakesh. Obviously, no one ever heard about that summit. It didn't happen. But getting back on the road to strengthening and expanding the Abraham Accords, to getting Saudi Arabia to the table as a country that will normalize relations with Israel, to expanding regional forums like the Negev Forum. Those are all still within reach, but none of them are possible until the war ends, till the hostages are home, till Hamas is removed from power.  Belle Yoeli:  Absolutely. And we look forward to talking more about the day after, in our next segment, in a segment coming up. Ambassador, you just got back from Israel. Can you tell us about your experience, the mood, what's the climate like in Israel? And any insights from your meetings and time that you think should be top of mind for us? Dan Shapiro:  I think what was top of mind for almost every Israeli I spoke to was the hostages. I spent time in the hostage square in Tel Aviv, spent time with Ruby, spent time with other hostage families, and everywhere you go as everybody who spin their nose, you see the signs, you hear the anxiety. And it's getting deeper because of the time that people are worried is slipping away for, especially for those who are still alive, but for all of those hostages to be returned to their families, so deep, deep anxiety about it, and candidly, some anger, I think we just heard a little bit of it toward a government that they're not sure shares that as the highest priority. There's a lot of exhaustion. People are tired of multiple rounds of reserve duty, hundreds of days. Families stressed by that as well the concern that this could drag on with the new operation well into next year. It's allowed to continue. It's a lot of worry about Israel's increased isolation, and of course, that's part of the subject. We'll discuss how countries who have been friends of Israel, whether in the region or in Europe or elsewhere, are responding in more and more negative ways, and Israel, and all Israelis, even in their personal lives, are feeling that pinch. But there's also some, I guess, expectant hope that President Trump, who is popular in Israel, of course, will use his influence and his regional standing, which is quite significant, to put these pieces together. Maybe we're seeing that happening this week. And of course, there's some expectant hope, or at least expectant mood, about an election next year, which will bring about some kind of political change in Israel. No one knows exactly what that will look like, but people are getting ready for that. So Israelis are relentlessly forward, looking even in the depths of some degree of anxiety and despair, and so I was able to feel those glimmers as well. Belle Yoeli:  And relentlessly resilient, absolutely resilient. And we know that inspires us. Moving back to the piece on diplomatic isolation and the main piece of our conversation, obviously, at AJC, we've been intensely focused on many of the aspects that are concerning us, in terms of unfair treatment of countries towards Israel, but unilateral recognition of Palestinian state is probably the most concerning issue that we've been dealing with this week, and obviously has gotten a lot of attention in the media. So from your perspective, what is this really all about? Obviously, this, this has been on the table for a while. It's not the first time that countries have threatened to do this, but I think it is the first time we're time we're seeing France and other major countries now pushing this forward in this moment. Is this all about political pressure on Israel? Dan Shapiro:  Well, first, I'll say that I think it's a mistake. I think it's an ill advised set of initiatives by France, by Canada, Australia, UK and others. It will change almost it will change nothing on the ground. And so to that sense, it's a purely rhetorical step that changes nothing, and probably does little, if anything, to advance toward the stated goal of some sort of resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. And in many ways, it may actually set it back in part because of the way it appears to and certainly many Israelis understand it too. And I'm sorry to say, many Arabs understand it to reward Hamas. Hamas is celebrating it as an achievement of October 7, and that October 7 will find its place in the pantheon of the Palestinian Liberation story that should never be allowed to happen. So doing it this way, doing it without conditioning it on the release of hostages, on the disarming and removal of Hamas from Gaza, is a mistake. And of course, it tells Israelis that their very legitimate concerns about obviously the hostages, but also that some future Palestinian state, wherever and whatever form it might take, could become a threat to them from other parts, from parts of the West Bank, as it was from Gaza on October 7. And you cannot get to that goal unless you're willing to engage the Israeli public on those concerns, very legitimate concerns, and address them in a very forthright way.  So I think it's a mistake. I'm sure, to some degree, others have made this observation. It is motivated by some of the domestic political pressures that these leaders feel from their different constituencies, maybe their left, left wing constituencies, some right wing constituencies, and some immigrant constituencies. And so maybe they're responding to that. And I think that's, you know, leaders deal with those types of things. I think sometimes they make bad decisions in dealing with those types of pressures. I think that's the case here, but I it's also the case. I think it's just fair to say that in the absence of any Israeli Government articulated viable day after, plan for Gaza, something we were urged Israel to work with us on all the time. I was serving in the Biden administration, and I think the Trump administration has as well, but it's remained blurry. What does what is that vision of the day after? Not only when does it start, but what does it look like afterwards? And is it something that Arab States and European states can buy into and get behind and and put their influence to work to get Hamas out and to do a rebuild that meets the needs of both Israelis and Palestinians. There hasn't been that. And so that could have been a way of satisfying some of those domestic pressures, but it wasn't really available. And so I think some of the leaders turn to this ill advised move instead. Belle Yoeli:  So perhaps catering to domestic political concerns and wanting to take some sort of moral high ground on keeping peace alive, but beyond that, no real, practical or helpful outcomes, aside from setting back the cause of peace? Dan Shapiro:  I think it has limited practical effects. Fact, I think it does tell Israelis that much of the world has not internalized their legitimate concerns, and that they will be, you know, cautious at best for this. Everybody knows that there are many Israelis who have been long standing supporters of some kind of two state resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. And post October 7, they've, they don't still hold that position, or at least they say, if it can happen, it's going to take a long time, it's going to look very different. And I think that actually is some a real practical takeaway, that if we are going to talk about some future establishment of a Palestinian state and some two state arrangement, certainly separation between Israelis and Palestinians, so they don't try to live intermixed in a way that they govern each other. I think that is that is desirable, but it's not necessarily going to look like two state outcomes that were envisioned in the Oslo period, in the 90s and the 2000s it's going to look different. It's going to take longer. And so that is something that I think we have to make sure is understood as people raise this initiative, that their goal is not the goal of 1993 it's going to have to look different, and it's going to have to take longer. Belle Yoeli:  So as more and more countries have sort of joined this, this move that we find to be unhelpful, obviously, a concern that we all have who are engaged in this work is that we've heard response, perhaps, from the Israelis, that there could be potential annexation of the West Bank, and that leads to this sort of very, very, even more concerning scenario that all of the work that you were discussing before, around the Abraham Accords, could freeze, or, perhaps even worse, collapse. What's your analysis on that scenario? How concerned should we be based on everything that you know now and if not that scenario? What else should we be thinking about? Dan Shapiro:  We should be concerned. I was actually in Israel, when the UAE issued their announcement about four weeks ago that annexation in the West Wing could be a red line, and I talked to a very senior UAE official and tried to understand what that means, and they aren't, weren't prepared to or say precisely what it means. It doesn't necessarily mean they're going to break off relations or end the Abraham Accords, but that they would have to respond, and there's a limited range of options for how one could respond, with moving ambassadors or limiting flights or reducing certain kinds of trade or other visits. Nothing good, nothing that would help propel forward the Abraham accords and that particular critical bilateral relationship in a way that we wanted to so I think there's risk. I think if the UAE would take that step, others would probably take similar steps. Egypt and Jordan have suggested there would be steps. So I think there's real risk there, and I think it's something that we should be concerned about, and we should counsel our Israeli friends not to go that route. There are other ways that they may respond. In fact, I think we've already seen the Trump administration, maybe as a proxy, make some kind of moves that try to balance the scales of these unilateral recognitions. But that particular one, with all of the weight that it carries about what how it limits options for future endpoints, I think would be very, very damaging. And I don't think I'm the only one. Just in the last hour and a half or so, President Trump, sitting in the Oval Office, said very publicly that he, I think you said, would not allow Netanyahu to do the Analyze annexation of the West Bank. I think previously, it was said by various people in the administration that it's really an Israeli decision, and that the United States is not going to tell them what to do. And that's perfectly fine as a public position, and maybe privately, you can say very clearly what you think is the right course, he's now said it very publicly. We'll see if he holds to that position. But he said it, and I think given the conversations he was having with Arab leaders earlier this week, given the meeting, he will have his fourth meeting. So it's obviously a very rich relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday, I think it's clear what he believes is necessary to get to the end of this war and not leave us in a worse position for trying to get back on the road to his goals. His goals of expanding the Abraham accords his great achievement from the first term, getting Saudi Arabia to normalize relations, of course, getting hostages released and getting Arabs involved in the reconstruction of Gaza in a way that Gaza can never become the threat it was again on October 7, those are his goals. They'll be well served by the end of the war that I described earlier, and by avoiding this cycle that you're referencing. Belle Yoeli:  Putting aside the issue of unilateral recognition, I think we've seen in our work with our Israeli counterparts, sort of differences in the political establish. Around how important it is in thinking about the day after and seeing movement on the Palestinian issue. And we've seen from some that they perhaps make it out that it's not as important that the Palestinian having movement towards a political path. It's not necessarily a have to be front and center, while others seem to prioritize it. And I think in our work with Arab countries, it's very clear that there does have to be some tangible movement towards the political aspirations for the Palestinian for there to really be any future progress beyond the Abraham accords. What's your take? Dan Shapiro:  My take is that the Arab states have often had a kind of schizophrenic view about the Palestinian issue. It's not always been, maybe rarely been their highest priority. They've certainly had a lot of disagreements with and maybe negative assessments of Palestinian leaders, of course, Hamas, but even Palestinian Authority leaders. And so, you know, it's possible to ask the question, or it has been over time, you know, how high do they prioritize? It? Certainly those countries that stepped forward to join the Abraham accords said they were not going to let that issue prevent them from advancing their own interests by establishing these productive bilateral relations with Israel, having said that there's no question that Arab publics have been deeply, deeply affected by the war in Gaza, by the coverage they see they unfortunately, know very little about what happened on October 7, and they know a lot about Israeli strikes in Gaza, civilian casualties, humanitarian aid challenges, and so that affects public moods. Even in non democratic countries, leaders are attentive to the views of their publics, and so I think this is important to them. And every conversation that I took part in, and I know my colleagues in the Biden administration with Arab states about those day after arrangements that we wanted them to participate in, Arab security forces, trainers of Palestinian civil servants, reconstruction funding and so forth. They made very clear there were two things they were looking for. They were looking for a role for the Palestinian Authority, certainly with room to negotiate exactly what that role would be, but some foothold for the Palestinian Authority and improving and reforming Palestinian Authority, but to have them be connected to that day after arrangement in Gaza and a declared goal of some kind of Palestinian state in the future.  I think there was a lot of room in my experience, and I think it's probably still the case for flexibility on the timing, on the dimensions, on some of the characteristics of that outcome. And I think a lot of realism among some of these Arab leaders that we're not talking about tomorrow, and we're not talking about something that might have been imagined 20 or 30 years ago, but they still hold very clearly to those two positions as essentially conditions for their involvement in getting to getting this in. So I think we have to take it seriously. It sounds like President Trump heard that in his meeting with the Arab leaders on Tuesday. It sounds like he's taking it very seriously. Belle Yoeli:  I could ask many more questions, but I would get in trouble, and you've given us a lot to think about in a very short amount of time. Ambassador Shapiro, thank you so much for being with us. Dan Shapiro:  Thank you. Thank you everybody.  Manya Brachear Pashman: As you heard, Ambassador Shapiro served under President Obama. Now AJC's Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson speaks with Jason Greenblatt, who served under President Trump. But don't expect a counterpoint. Despite their political differences, these two men see eye to eye on quite a bit. Jason Isaacson: Jason first, thank you for the Abraham Accords. The work that you did changed the history of the Middle East. We are so full of admiration for the work of you and your team. Jared Kushner. Of course, President Trump, in changing the realities for Israel's relationship across the region and opening the door to the full integration of Israel across the region.  It's an unfinished work, but the work that you pioneered with the President, with Jared, with the whole team, has changed the perspective that Israel can now enjoy as it looks beyond the immediate borders, Jordan and Egypt, which has had relations with a quarter a century or more, to full integration in the region. And it's thanks to you that we actually are at this point today, even with all the challenges. So first, let me just begin this conversation by just thanking you for what you've done.  Jason Greenblatt: Thank you. Thank you, and Shana Tova to everybody, thank you for all that you do. Jason Isaacson: Thank you. So you were intimately involved in negotiations to reach normalization agreements between Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco, the Kingdom of Bahrain, of course, the United Arab Emirates. Can you take us behind the scenes of these negotiations? At what point during the first term of President Trump did this become a priority for the administration, and when did it seem that it might actually be a real possibility? Jason Greenblatt: So I have the benefit, of course, of looking backward, right? We didn't start out to create the Abraham Accords. We started out to create peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which, as Dan knows, and so many people here know, including you Jason, seems to be an impossible task. But I would say that if I follow the breadcrumbs, my first meeting with Yousef Al Otaiba was a lunch, where it was the first time I actually ever met an Emirati, the first time I understood the psychology of the Emiratis. And others. I realized that the world had changed tremendously.  Everything that you heard about anti-Israel wasn't part of the conversation. I'll go so far as to say, when I went to the Arab League Summit that took place in Jordan in March of 2017 where I met every foreign minister. And I'm not going to tell you that I loved many of those meetings, or 85% of the conversation, where it wasn't exactly excited about Israel and what Israel stood for. There were so many things in those conversations that were said that gave me hope.  So it was multiple years of being in the White House and constantly trying to work toward that. But I want to go backwards for a second, and you touched on this in your speech, there are many parents and grandparents of the Abraham Accords, and AJC is one of those parents or grandparents. There are many people who work behind the scenes, Israeli diplomats and so many others. And I'm sure the Kingdom of Morocco, where the architecture was built for something like the Abraham Accords, everybody wanted regional peace and talked about Middle East peace. But we were fortunate, unfortunately for the Palestinians who left the table, which was a big mistake, I think, on their part, we're very fortunate to take all of that energy and all of that hard work and through a unique president, President Trump, actually create that architecture.  On a sad note, I wouldn't say that when I left the White House, I thought I'd be sitting here thinking, you know, five years out, I thought there'd be lots of countries that would already have signed and all the trips that I take to the Middle East, I thought would be much. Now they're easy for me, but we're in a very, very different place right now. I don't think I ever would have envisioned that. Jason Isaacson: Thank you. The administration has talked a great deal about expanding the Abraham Accords, of course, and as have we. Indeed, at an AJC program that we had in Washington in February with Special Envoy Steven Witkoff, he talked publicly for the first time about Lebanon and Syria joining the Accords. Obviously, with both of those countries, their new political situation presents new possibilities.  However, the ongoing war in Gaza, as we've been discussing with Ambassador Shapiro, and Israel's actions, including most recently striking Hamas in Doha, have further isolated Israel in the region and made an expansion of the accords harder to envision. At least, that's the way it seems. Given the current situation in the Middle East. Do you think the Trump administration can be successful in trying to broker new agreements, or do the current politics render that impossible in the short term? How hopeful are you? Jason Greenblatt: So I remain hopeful. First of all, I think that President Trump is a unique president because he's extremely close to the Israeli side, and he's very close to the Arab side. And he happens to have grandchildren who are both, right. I think, despite this terrible time that we're facing, despite hostage families, I mean, the terrible things that they have to live through and their loved ones are living it through right now, I still have hope. There's no conversation that I have in the Arab world that still doesn't want to see how those Abraham Accords can be expanded. Dan, you mentioned the Arab media. It's true, the Arab world has completely lost it when it comes to Israel, they don't see what I see, what I'm sure all of you see.  I'm no fan of Al Jazeera, but I will say that there are newspapers that I write for, like Arab News. And when I leave the breakfast room in a hotel in Riyadh and I look at the headlines of, not Al Jazeera, but even Arab News, I would say, Wow, what these people are listening to and reading, what they must think of us. And we're seeing it now play out on the world stage. But despite all that, and I take my kids to the Middle East all the time, we have dear friends in all of those countries, including very high level people. I've gotten some great Shana Tovas from very high level people. They want the future that was created by the Abraham Accords. How we get there at this particular moment is a big question mark. Jason Isaacson: So we touched on this a little bit in the earlier conversation with Dan Shapiro:. Your team during the first Trump administration was able to defer an Israeli proposal to annex a portion of the West Bank, thanks to obviously, the oped written by Ambassador Al Otaiba, and the very clear position that that government took, that Israel basically had a choice, normalization with the UAE or annexation. Once again, there is discussion now in Israel about annexation. Now the President, as Ambassador Shapiro just said, made a very dramatic statement just a couple of hours ago. How do you see this playing out? Do you think that annexation is really off the table now? And if it were not off the table, would it prevent the continuation of the agreements that were reached in 2020 and the expansion of those agreements to a wider integration of Israel in the region? Jason Greenblatt: To answer that, I think for those of you who are in the room, who don't know me well, you should understand my answer is coming from somebody who is on the right of politics, both in Israel and here. In fact, some of my Palestinian friends would say that sometimes I was Bibi's mouthpiece. But I agree with President Trump and what he said earlier today that Dan had pointed out, I don't think this is the time. I don't think it's the place. And I was part of the team that wrote the paperwork that would have allowed Israel to . . . you use the word annexation. I'll say, apply Israeli sovereignty. You'll use the word West Bank, I'll use Judea, Samaria.  Whatever the label is, it really doesn't matter. I don't think this is the time to do it. I think Israel has so many challenges right now, militarily, hostages, there's a million things going on, and the world has turned against Israel. I don't agree with those that are pushing Bibi. I don't know if it's Bibi himself, but I hope that Bibi could figure out a way to get out of that political space that he's in. And I think President Trump is making the right call. Jason Isaacson: So, I was speaking with Emirati diplomats a couple of days ago, who were giving me the sense that Israel hasn't gotten the message that the Palestinian issue is really important to Arab leaders. And we talked about this with Ambassador Shapiro earlier, that it's not just a rhetorical position adopted by Arab leaders. It actually is the genuine view of these Arab governments. Is that your sense as well that there needs to be something on the Palestinian front in order to advance the Abraham Accords, beyond the countries that we've established five years ago? Jason Greenblatt: You know, when I listened to Dan speak, and I told him this after his remarks, I'm always reminded that even though we disagree around the edges on certain things, if you did a Venn diagram, there would be a lot of overlap. I agree with how he sees the world. But I want to take it even back to when I was in the White House.  There are many times people said, Oh, the Arabs don't care about the Palestinians. They don't care. We could just do whatever we want. It's not true. They may care more about their own countries, right? They all have their visions, and it's important to them to advance their own visions. The Palestinian cause may not have been as important, but there is no way that they were going to abandon the Palestinians back then, and I don't think the UAE or the Kingdom of Morocco or others having entered into the Abraham Accords, abandoned the Palestinians. I think that was the wrong way to look at it, but they are certainly not going to abandon the Palestinians now. And I think that how Dan described it, which is there has to be some sort of game plan going forward. Whether you want to call it a state, which, I don't like that word, but we can't continue to live like this. I'm a grandfather now of three. I don't want my grandchildren fighting this fight. I really don't. Is there a solution?  Okay, there's a lot of space between what I said and reality, and I recognize that, but it's incumbent on all of us to keep trying to figure out, is there that solution? And it's going to include the Palestinians. I just want to close my answer with one thing that might seem odd to everybody. I'm not prone to quoting Saeb Erekat, who I disagreed with, the late Saeb Erekat, who I disagreed with just about on everything, but he used to tell me, Jason, the answer isn't in the Koran, it's not in the Torah, it's not in the Christian Bible, and the Israelis and the Palestinians are not leaving the space. So let's figure out a solution that we could all live with. So that's how I see it. Jason Isaacson: Thank you for that. One last question. I also heard in another conversation with other em righty diplomats the other day that the conflict isn't between Arabs and Israelis or Arabs and Jews, it's between moderates and extremists, and that the UAE is on the side of the moderates, and Morocco is on the side of the moderates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain is on the side of the moderates, and Israel is on the side of the moderates. And that's what we have to keep in our minds.   But let me also ask you something that we've been saying for 30 years across the region, which is, if you believe in the Palestinian cause, believe in rights for the Palestinians, you will advance that cause by engaging Israel, not by isolating Israel. Is that also part of the argument that your administration used five years ago? Jason Greenblatt: 100%. I think, I mean, I kept pushing for it and eventually they did it, for the Israelis and the Arabs to engage directly. Yes, the US plays a role, and they could play a moderating role. They could play somewhat of a coercive role. Nobody's going to force the Israelis, or frankly, even the Palestinians, to do anything they don't want to do, but getting them in the room so there are no missed signals, no missed expectations, I think, is the key part of this solution. I'm still hopeful, just to go back to your prior question, that they could get the right people in the room and somebody like President Trump, together with Emirati diplomats, Moroccan diplomats and others. They could talk rationally, and sanely, and appropriately, and we'll get somewhere good. Jason Isaacson: Ok, look ahead. We just marked the fifth anniversary of the Abraham Accords. Will there be a 10th Anniversary of the Abraham Accords, and will it look the same that it is now? Jason Greenblatt: No, I think it's going to be better. Yes, I think there's going to be a 10th Anniversary. I think there will be challenges. But maybe the best way I could answer this is, when the, I'll call it, the beeper incident in Lebanon happened. Okay, quite, quite a feat. I was in a conference room at a client of mine in the Middle East. Most of the room was filled with Lebanese Arabs, Christians and Muslims and some Druze. And it was unusual for everybody's phone to buzz at once, because I'm usually following the Israeli and American news. They're following Arab news. All the phones buzz. So somebody stopped talking, and we all picked up our phone to look at it. And I'm looking at the headlines thinking, oh, boy, am I in the wrong room, right?  And after a minute or so of people kind of catching their breath, understanding what happened, two or three of them said, wow, Jason. Like, that's incredible. Like, you know, I wasn't in the White House anymore, but they also want a different future, right? They are sick and tired of Lebanon being a failed state. Their kids are like my kids, and they're just . . . they're everything that they're building is for a different future, and I see that time and time again. So to go back to the UAE diplomats comment, which I hear all the time as well. It really is a fight of moderates against extremists. The extremists are loud and they're very bad. We know that, but we are so much better. So working together, I think we're going to get to somewhere great. Jason Isaacson: Very good. Okay. Final question. You can applaud, it's okay. Thank you for that. Out of the Abraham Accords have grown some regional cooperation agreements. I too, you too, IMEC, the India, Middle East, Europe, Economic corridor. Do you see that also, as part of the future, the creation of these other regional agreements, perhaps bringing in Japan and Korea and and other parts of the world into kind of expanding the Abraham Accords? In ways that are beneficial to many countries and also, at the same time, deepening the notion of Israelis, Israel's integration in the region. Jason Greenblatt: 100% and I know I think AJC has been very active on the IMEC front. People used to say, Oh, this is not an economic peace. It isn't an economic peace, but nor is economics not a very important part of peace. So all of these agreements, I encourage you to keep working toward them, because they will be needed. In fact, one of the fights that I used to have with Saeb Erekat and President Abbas all the time is, I know you're not an economic issue, but let's say we manage to make peace. What's going to happen the next day? You need an economic plan. Let's work on the economic plan. So whether it's IMEC or something else, just keep working at it. Go, you know, ignore the bad noise. The bad noise is here for a little while, unfortunately, but there will be a day after, and those economic agreements are what's going to be the glue that propels it forward. Jason Isaacson: Jason Greenblatt, really an honor to be with you again. Thank you.  Manya Brachear Pashman: In our next episode of the series, we will explore more of the opportunities and challenges presented by the Abraham Accords and who might be the next country to sign the landmark peace agreement.  Atara Lakritz is our producer. T.K. Broderick is our sound engineer. Special thanks to Jason Isaacson, Sean Savage, and the entire AJC team for making this series possible.  You can subscribe to Architects of Peace on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can learn more at AJC.org/ArchitectsofPeace. The views and opinions of our guests don't necessarily reflect the positions of AJC. You can reach us at podcasts@ajc.org. If you've enjoyed this episode, please be sure to spread the word, and hop onto Apple Podcasts or Spotify to rate us and write a review to help more listeners find us. Music Credits: Middle East : ID: 279780040; Composer: Eric Sutherland Inspired Middle East: ID: 241884108; Composer: iCENTURY Mystical Middle East: ID: 212471911; Composer: Vicher

In this energetic and inspiring episode of Coaching Catalysts, co-hosts Rebecca Daniel and Sarah Bramall are joined by Lucy Power, psychotherapeutic coach, transactional analysis expert, founder of the Therapeutic Coaching Academy, and seasoned coach supervisor. Rebecca and Sarah reflect on the “back to school” September energy and share exciting news about birthing a brand-new supervision diploma in Marrakesh. Lucy dives deep into her unique journey from social work and psychotherapy to coaching, supervision, and training, and together, the trio unpack why supervision is the next evolutionary step for experienced coaches.Here are the highlights:00:00 Introduction: September “back to school” vibes01:39 Marrakesh, community, and birthing the Coaching Catalysts Supervision Collective03:16 How Rebecca and Lucy's first connected through Transactional Analysis05:17 Lucy's journey: from social work to psychotherapy to coaching07:44 The transformative impact of coach training on Lucy's life and work09:24 The power of relationships and “the space in between” in coaching and supervision11:34 Announcing the Professional Supervision Diploma launching November12:50 Lucy's extensive background and training in supervision, social work, and therapy18:30 Bringing the richness of supervision from other professions into coaching20:38 The importance and newness of supervision in the coaching world22:02 Why become a coach supervisor? Who is supervision for?23:31 How supervision elevates practice, standards, and self-awareness28:43 Lucy on humility, receiving others, and what it really means to supervise29:21 Why the personal growth in supervision training is next levelAbout Lucy Power:Lucy Power is a highly qualified, certified and deeply experienced Coach, educator, supervisor and Psychotherapist. A lifelong learner, she is educated to post graduate level in a range of modalities including trauma treatment. Lucy is extensively trained and experienced in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy and integrates this, alongside a range of other therapeutic approaches, into her trauma responsive psychotherapeutic coaching practice.With over a decade of experience and thousands of hours of client work to draw from, Lucy's psychotherapeutic coaching transforms the inner and outer lives of those she works with, guiding them home to their core so they can consciously choose the life they want from a place of radical autonomy and embodied truth.Connect with Lucy:Website: https://www.therapeuticcoachingacademy.com/Connect with us here:​Website:https://www.thecoachingcatalysts.com​Work with us:To register your interest in becoming a qualified coach supervisor, head here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerJa1lJG0Lwf2W6JChU1prXxYS4Jz302ft24t0VYt8FfL3fQ/viewform?usp=headerTo become a professional coach supervisor with The Coaching Catalysts, head here: https://www.thecoachingcatalysts.com/supervisiondiplomaFor ICF mentoring see here: https://bit.ly/catalystsmentorcoaching​Our roundtable discussions for internal coaches here:

Muita gente chama prancha de Boia, sabiam dessa?Outros, usam ainda melhor o humor e reduzem tudo para Tocos (vamos com maiúscula!).Esse objeto fálico que desperta seus instintos mais primitivos é central (sem trocadilhos) nas nossas escolhas como indivíduo que pega onda.No episodio dessa semana, Júlio Adler conversa com Jasmim Avelino (Bi Campeã Brasileira de Pranchão) e Caio Teixeira (Tetra Campeão Mundial de gente-finice) sobre jeitos diferentes de ser e estar surfista.Temos a volta do Pra Lá de Marrakesh com Tito!E nas trilhas, ficamos com Whole Lotta Love do Led Zeppelin, Magalenha (Carlinhos Brown) com Sergio Mendes e Islands in The Stream (Bee Gees) com Kenny Rogers e Dolly Parton.

Matt covers the light news and gets into his thoughts about Restaurant Marrakesh.Send us a textTwitter/X Handles:Dizhappenings: https://twitter.com/dizhappeningsShaun: https://twitter.com/rankingthemouseMatt: https://twitter.com/mattpetoBefore/After Watch Music in Dizhappenings copyrighted by Audio Jungle

De heren zijn terug van hun vakanties en vertellen tot in details hoe hun vakanties waren. Zo bezocht Défano New York, was Yuki met onder andere Frenna en Jonna Fraser in Marrakech, Armin was weer terug in zijn geliefde Rio de Janeiro en vertelt Nimo over zijn tijd in Los Angeles.

De heren zijn terug van hun vakanties en vertellen tot in details hoe hun vakanties waren. Zo bezocht Défano New York, was Yuki met onder andere Frenna en Jonna Fraser in Marrakech, Armin was weer terug in zijn geliefde Rio de Janeiro en vertelt Nimo over zijn tijd in Los Angeles.

Every week for The Ultimate Guide on The Hard Shoulder, Fionn Davenport takes a closer look at some of the fantastic destinations to visit around the world.This week, Fionn joined Kieran to give his travel tips for the city of Marrakesh in Morocco!

A pioneering trans woman's fight for recognition begins in 1960s Britain. April Ashley has broken free of her childhood as a boy in the Liverpool slums to become a stunning fashion model through groundbreaking surgery in Marrakesh. She's young and beautiful, and she's caught the eye of aristocrat Arthur Corbett. But her secret - that she was born a boy - is about to blow up, triggering a scandal that will shape transgender rights for the next half century.Please vote for us in the British Podcast Awards: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/votingDo you have a suggestion for a scandal you would like us to cover? Or perhaps you have a question you would like to ask our hosts? Email us at britishscandal@wondery.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Velkommen til en ny dyptgående og tankevekkende episode av “Snakk med Silje”! I episode 62 møter jeg Erik Selle, leder for Konservativt, som deler sine perspektiver på konformitet i Norge, FN-agendaen, covid-håndtering og behovet for nye stemmer i politikken. Vi dykker inn i spørsmål som hvordan globale avtaler som Marrakesh-avtalen og FN-agenda 2030 vår suverenitet? Og hva må til for å gjenopprette et ekte demokrati?Erik kritiserer ensidige narrativer om klima, krig, innvandring og globalisme, mens vi diskuterer viktigheten av kritisk tenkning og frihet for fremtidige generasjoner. Jeg ønsker å slippe til utfordrerpartier som Konservativt for å styrke demokratiet, slik at alle stemmer høres og folk kan gjøre seg opp en informert mening – selv om jeg ikke er enig i alt Erik sier. Denne episoden er for deg som vil utfordre etablerte sannheter, tenke selv og bidra til en åpen debatt. ► DONASJONERVipps: Søk opp “Snakk med Silje” eller bruk vippsnummer: 806513 Bitcoin lightning adresse: psykologsilje@bb.no PayPal: * NOK: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LZBFC3PKM8ECA * USD: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=D2FDMGXWK6BCW * GBP: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YMNCCBUSFMS2Q * EUR: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2QGCZCA67K8HQ Internasjonal bankoverføring: * BIC: DNBANOKKXXX * IBAN: NO9015068887892 ► KANALER * Spotify:* YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Psykologsilje * Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/psykologsilje ► SOME * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psykologsilje?igsh=MW84MDE0MWplc2FwbA== * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@psykologsilje?_t=8oc3HBC1r4z&_r=1 * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/psykologsilje * Twitter: https://x.com/Silje_Schevig * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silje-schevig-243750101?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app ► KAPITLER 00:00 Velkommen til Snakk med Silje 03:49 Møt Erik Selle: Konservativt som stemme for de utenfor 04:25 Konformitet i Norge: Fra vikingene til kømentalitet 08:23 Covid-håndtering: Brudd på beredskapsplaner 12:12 FN-agenda 2030: Godhet eller global kontroll? 18:45 Klimapolitikk: En ensidig agenda 25:30 Marrakesh-avtalen: Hemmelighold og konsekvenser 32:14 Innvandring og integrering: Behov for grenser 38:52 Globalisme vs. nasjonal suverenitet 45:23 Ytringsfrihet under press: Frykt i skoler og medier 52:41 NATO og Ukraina: Norges rolle i konflikt 59:20 Palestina og Israel: En ubalansert debatt 01:05:45 Behov for nye partier: Konservativ vind01:12:30 EU/EØS: Økonomisk og politisk tap 01:19:15 WHO og pandemiavtale: Trussel mot frihet 01:25:52 Medier rolle i å fremme konformitet og kneble kritikk 01:32:37 Valg 2025: Velgernes makt 01:39:21 Høyre og konservatisme: En endret retning 01:46:05 Tilbake til frihet: Kampen for Norge This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit psykologsilje.substack.com

Năm 2025, Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới (WTO/OMC) kỷ niệm 30 năm ra đời trong bối cảnh tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump hủy hoại hàng loạt luật chơi của định chế này. Định chế quốc tế, từng do Hoa Kỳ thúc đẩy để đóng vai trò « trọng tài » hay « cảnh sát thương mại quốc tế », giờ đây dường như bất lực đứng nhìn các thiệt hại do cuộc chiến thuế quan mà Trump phát động. Vì sao Trump chống lại định chế vốn tạo điều kiện cho sự thịnh vượng của Mỹ ? Trước hết xin trở lại cội nguồn lịch sử của định chế thương mại lớn nhất hành tinh. Ngày 15/04/1994, tại Marrakech, Maroc, đại diện của 128 quốc gia đã nhất trí lập một tổ chức quốc tế về tham vấn và trọng tài nhằm đảm bảo tự do lưu thông hàng hóa trên toàn thế giới, cũng như thương mại dịch vụ và sở hữu trí tuệ. Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới chính thức được thành lập ngày 01/01/1995 tại Geneva, Thụy Sĩ, tại chính trụ sở của Ban thư ký GATT (tức Hiệp định Chung về Thuế quan và Thương mại), một cơ quan không chính thức có sứ mạng cắt giảm thuế hải quan trên toàn thế giới, hoạt động từ năm 1947. WTO, định chế quốc tế duy nhất Mỹ chấp nhận thẩm quyền « siêu quốc gia » Hiệp định Chung về Thuế quan và Thương mại GATT ra đời sau Đệ nhị Thế chiến, theo thỏa thuận giữa các nước đồng minh, nhằm điều hòa chính sách thuế quan giữa các nước, không để thương mại trở thành công cụ thống trị về kinh tế, có thể dẫn đến xung đột. Hiệp định được sửa đổi nhiều lần qua nhiều vòng đàm phán, trước khi có được một cơ quan có tư cách pháp nhân chính thức, với thỏa thuận Marrakesh năm 1994, dẫn đến sự ra đời của Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới. Từ chỗ chỉ có hơn 20 thành viên tham gia Hiệp định GATT, cho đến nay WTO đã thu hút hơn 160 thành viên, chiếm 98% tổng trọng lượng thương mại toàn cầu. Một thành tích rõ rệt nhất thường được nêu là mức thuế hải quan đối với hàng hóa đã giảm trung bình từ 40%, thời sau Thế chiến Hai, xuống còn 6% hiện nay. Liên Hiệp Châu Âu ra đời năm 1993, và đồng tiền chung châu Âu được xác lập năm 2000, sự phát triển đột biến của kinh tế Trung Quốc, Bắc Kinh gia nhập WTO từ 2000… Giai đoạn tự do mậu dịch chưa từng có đi kèm với thịnh vượng chưa từng có với nhân loại cũng là thời kỳ nước Mỹ là siêu cường duy nhất. WTO mang lại nhiều điều cho thế giới, nhưng định chế này đặc biệt có lợi cho Mỹ. Ông Pascal Lamy, cựu tổng giám đốc WTO (2005 - 2013), cựu ủy viên Môi trường Ủy Ban Châu Âu, nhấn mạnh đến vai trò đặc biệt của WTO với Mỹ : « Họ đã xây dựng một hệ thống mà họ nghĩ là tốt cho họ, bởi vì chủ nghĩa tư bản cần đến các quy tắc và sự minh bạch để hoạt động. Đó là lý do tại sao vào năm 1994, với sự ra đời của Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới (WTO), họ đã chấp nhận thành lập một cơ chế phán xử quốc tế có khả năng áp đặt các biện pháp trừng phạt đối với thành viên nào vi phạm các quy tắc thương mại chung. Đây là tổ chức quốc tế duy nhất mà Hoa Kỳ chấp nhận một liều lượng siêu quốc gia, nghĩa là một hệ thống pháp lý không phải của Mỹ, nhưng có thẩm quyền cưỡng chế với nước Mỹ » (bài « Pascal Lamy : ‘‘Les Etats-Unis tentent de démolir un monde qu'ils ont conçu'' » [Nước Mỹ đang cố gắng phá hủy một thế giới mà họ đã thiết kế], tuần báo Le Nouvel Obs, ngày 12/05/2025). « Đóng góp đặc biệt cho sự ổn định kinh tế toàn cầu » Tự do mậu dịch có nghĩa là mở cửa các thị trường, và điều này diễn ra trong bối cảnh kinh tế Mỹ ở thế thượng phong. Trong thập niên 1990, đầu những năm 2000, WTO được coi là một công cụ chiến lược với Mỹ để mở cửa các thị trường nước ngoài ở các lĩnh vực mà nền kinh tế Mỹ thống trị, hay có tính cạnh tranh cao như công nghệ tiên tiến, dịch vụ tài chính, sở hữu trí tuệ… và tiếp tục duy trì các biện pháp bảo hộ đối với một số lĩnh vực nhạy cảm trong nước, như thép, dệt may, nông nghiệp cơ bản (theo báo cáo năm 2007 về Hệ thống Giải quyết Tranh chấp của WTO có lợi cho nước Mỹ [WTO Trade Rules Benefit the United States, Says New Council Report], của giáo sư Robert Z. Lawrence - Đại học Harvard, Viện tư vấn chính sách đối ngoại Mỹ Council on Foreign Relations / CFR đăng tải). Báo cáo của nguyên thành viên Hội đồng cố vấn kinh tế của tổng thống Mỹ nhấn mạnh đến một vấn đề đã trở nên nhạy cảm với nước Mỹ ngay từ thời điểm đó, khi nhiều nhà hoạch định chính sách và nhà lập pháp Mỹ bắt đầu chỉ trích mạnh mẽ Cơ chế Giải quyết Tranh chấp (Dispute Settlement Body - DSB) của WTO, thay vì bảo vệ. Cho dù hệ thống này đã và có thể giúp « giảm nhu cầu Mỹ phải sử dụng các biện pháp trả đũa đơn phương, hạn chế một nguồn căng thẳng quan trọng giữa Mỹ và các đối tác ». « Giải quyết tranh chấp là nền tảng của hệ thống thương mại đa phương và là đóng góp chưa từng có của WTO vào sự ổn định của nền kinh tế toàn cầu » (theo WTO). Hệ thống Giải quyết Tranh chấp của WTO, từ khi ra đời định chế này đã giải quyết hơn 600 vụ kiện tụng về thương mại, thông qua cơ chế xem xét tranh chấp ở cấp sơ thẩm (tại Ban hội thẩm) và cấp phúc thẩm (tức Appellate Body). Phán quyết của Cơ quan Phúc thẩm, theo phương thức trọng tài, có tính chung thẩm. Cơ quan Phúc thẩm AB gồm bảy thành viên do Cơ quan Giải quyết Tranh chấp DSB, bổ nhiệm với nhiệm kỳ bốn năm và có thể được bầu lại một lần, gồm những chuyên gia có uy tín và chuyên môn cao trong lĩnh vực pháp luật thương mại quốc tế. Định chế WTO : Từ nguồn lợi của Mỹ trở thành tội đồ Tuy nhiên, hơn 20 năm sau khi WTO ra đời, nước Mỹ thời Donald Trump khẳng định thái độ mất tin tưởng hoàn toàn đối với Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới. Washington coi WTO hoạt động chậm chạp, can thiệp thô bạo về mặt pháp lý và không đủ năng lực để xử lý các vấn đề địa - chính trị hiện đại, đặc biệt là liên quan đến Trung Quốc, bị Mỹ và nhiều đồng minh cáo buộc là cạnh tranh bất chính trong các lĩnh vực chiến lược, với các trợ cấp ồ ạt cho doanh nghiệp nhà nước, ép buộc doanh nghiệp nước ngoài chuyển giao công nghệ… Năm 2018, chính quyền Trump nhiệm kỳ thứ nhất khởi động cuộc chiến thuế quan, đơn phương đánh thuế hàng trăm tỉ đô hàng nhập từ Trung Quốc. Bắc Kinh khởi kiện. Tháng 9/2020, cơ quan phân xử tranh chấp của WTO ra phán quyết về việc Mỹ áp đặt thuế « mang tính kỳ thị và thái quá », vi phạm các quy định thương mại quốc tế. Đại diện Thương mại Mỹ lúc đó, Robert Lighthizer, đón nhận lạnh nhạt với tuyên bố : « Điều này khẳng định những gì chính quyền Trump đã nói từ bốn năm nay. Đó là WTO hoàn toàn không đủ khả năng ngăn chặn các hoạt động có hại của Trung Quốc trong lĩnh vực công nghệ. » Rời bỏ các quy tắc quốc tế của WTO để « trở về » với « logic của kẻ mạnh » Vào thời điểm cuộc chiến thuế quan chống Trung Quốc lần thứ nhất bùng lên, nhiều chuyên gia như cựu tổng giám đốc WTO Pascal Lamy chưa hiểu rõ phe cầm quyền tại Mỹ muốn gì. Cựu tổng giám đốc WTO băn khoăn : « Hoa Kỳ vẫn chưa nói rõ vấn đề mà họ muốn là gì. Liệu có phải vì các trọng tài viên chưa đưa ra quyết định đúng đắn theo quan điểm của họ, hay vì họ phản đối cơ chế trọng tài siêu quốc gia này ? ». « Liệu việc Washington ngăn chặn bổ nhiệm thẩm phán của cơ quan trọng tài giải quyết tranh chấp của WTO, khiến hệ thống bị tê liệt, có phải là một chiến thuật nhằm thiết lập lại các quy tắc thương mại toàn cầu và buộc Trung Quốc phải nhượng bộ, hay đánh dấu sự kết thúc của chủ nghĩa đa phương (multilateralism), điều mà người Mỹ không còn đồng cảm nữa ? » (trích Le Monde, ngày 10/12/2019). Đọc thêm - Pascal Lamy : ''WTO cần tiếp tục tồn tại, cho dù không có Donald Trump'' Năm nay, khi Trump trở lại nắm quyền, tình hình đã hoàn toàn rõ. Phe cầm quyền của Donald Trump tại Mỹ không chỉ coi Trung Quốc là đích ngắm, trong ngày 02/04/2025, « Ngày Giải phóng nước Mỹ », Donald Trump tuyên bố đơn phương đánh « thuế đối ứng » đối với tuyệt đại đa số các nước, bất chấp luật pháp thương mại quốc tế hiện hành. Điều đó có nghĩa là phe tổng thống Trump không dừng ở việc tấn công vào một số quy tắc của WTO, mà là vào thẩm quyền « siêu quốc gia », vai trò cầm cân nẩy mực của định chế thương mại lớn nhất hành tinh này. Triết lý hành động của tổng thống Donald Trump được thể hiện công khai: Thế giới là một đấu trường, kẻ mạnh áp đặt luật chơi, luật pháp quốc tế hoàn toàn không còn chỗ đứng. Cuộc chiến thuế quan toàn cầu chỉ là phần nổi… Hủy hoại các luật chơi của WTO, nước Mỹ của Donald Trump thực sự tìm kiếm gì ? Nguyên tổng giám đốc Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới Pascal Lamy, trả lời đài Pháp France 24 hồi tháng 5/2025, đã cảnh báo là cuộc chiến thuế quan nghiêm trọng, làm rung chuyển hệ thống thương mại toàn cầu đang diễn ra chỉ là phần nổi. Điều hệ trọng hơn nhiều là tham vọng thâu tóm quyền lực để độc quyền hành xử bất chấp luật lệ của lãnh đạo Mỹ: « Chúng ta đã có phần bị đánh lạc hướng bởi phong cách hành xử quá đỗi hiếu động của ông Trump, những màn trình diễn liên tục và hàng ngày của ông Trump về vấn đề thuế quan. Chắc chắn tôi không phải là người coi nhẹ vấn đề thương mại quốc tế. Nhưng tôi nghĩ hệ quả của không khí này là chúng ta sẽ không thấy rõ những gì ông ấy thực sự đang làm trong hậu trường, trên bình diện chính trị tại Mỹ, và đối với hệ thống quốc tế. Và điều này có lẽ nghiêm trọng hơn, sâu sắc hơn, mang tính hệ thống hơn nhiều. Đây là điều mà theo tôi, chúng ta chưa chú ý đủ mức và đó là điều nghiêm trọng nhất.  Tôi nghĩ rằng một lần nữa, chủ nghĩa bảo hộ mậu dịch của Trump rõ ràng là một vấn đề thực sự, nhưng vấn đề này có thể che khuất điều nghiêm trọng hơn, sâu xa hơn. Đó là việc hành pháp lấn át. Chúng ta không còn nghe tiếng nói của Quốc Hội Mỹ nữa. Tại Mỹ, tòa án không còn là cơ quan kiểm soát các hành động của tổng thống trong các vấn đề thương mại quốc tế. Và ông Trump đang đưa ra những quyết định hoàn toàn vi phạm các thỏa thuận quốc tế mà Hoa Kỳ đã ký kết trong 150 năm qua. Điều này rất nghiêm trọng, đặc biệt là trong lĩnh vực môi trường. Dường như đã có quyết định không phải để cho phép thăm dò mà là khai thác một số đáy biển sâu, trong khi mọi người đều đồng ý là việc này phải tuân theo các thủ tục quốc tế. Như vậy là đã có một nỗ lực phá hủy một cách có hệ thống những cơ chế nào hạn chế việc thực thi quyền lực. Đây là điều mà theo tôi là rất nghiêm trọng. » Ngăn cản WTO cải tổ vì khí hậu – môi trường, bảo vệ « năng lượng hóa thạch » Các đòn tấn công trực diện của phe cầm quyền tại Mỹ làm rung chuyển nền móng của WTO, trụ cột của thương mại quốc tế, có một đích ngắm mang tính hệ thống, đó là các nỗ lực hướng đến cải cách triệt để định chế WTO, để Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới có thể cung cấp « các giải pháp mạnh mẽ cho vấn đề biến đổi khí hậu », như ghi nhận của Ralph Ossa, kinh tế gia trưởng của WTO, hồi tháng 12/2024. Trợ lý tổng giám đốc WTO, ông Jean-Marie Paugam, đã nói đến viễn cảnh mở đàm phán về thương mại, khí hậu và phát triển bền vững trong khuôn khổ WTO. Một số chuyên gia nói đến phối hợp mật thiết giữa WTO- UNFCCC (Công ước khung về Biến đổi khí hậu của Liên Hiệp Quốc), với một ban thư ký thường trực chung (bài « Khí hậu và Thương mại : Vì một chủ nghĩa đa phương của chung » của Sébastian Jean và Denis Tersen, trang của viện tư vấn Terre Nova). Đọc thêm : Chính quyền Trump cố triệt hạ giới khoa học về khí hậu và môi trường Rút nước Mỹ ra khỏi Hiệp định Khí hậu Paris ngay từ ngày đầu nhậm chức : Chính sách nhất quán của tổng thống Trump, trong nhiệm kỳ trước cũng như nhiệm kỳ này, là tấn công vào các thỏa thuận quốc tế về khí hậu và môi trường, cũng như các định chế bảo vệ môi trường tại chính nước Mỹ. Việc Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới có thể tiến hành được các cải tổ để lợi ích kinh tế kết hợp với bảo vệ môi trường sẽ là hồi chuông báo tử đối với mô hình kinh tế dựa trên năng lượng hóa thạch mà phe cầm quyền của tổng thống Trump bám giữ. Tuy nhiên, để hiểu vì sao phe cầm quyền tại Mỹ lại bám chặt vào kinh tế năng lượng hóa thạch cũng rất cần đặt việc này trong cuộc ganh đua quyết liệt giữa Mỹ và Trung Quốc, một thời là con gà đẻ trứng vàng của các tập đoàn Mỹ, nay trở thành nền kinh tế thứ hai và là quốc gia phát thải đứng đầu thế giới. Và sự phụ thuộc ngày càng mật thiết về kinh tế Mỹ - Trung trong hàng chục năm toàn cầu hóa thương mại vừa qua đã không dẫn đến quan hệ hòa bình (« l'introuvable interdépendance pacificatrice ») (theo Benjamin Burbaumer trong cuốn « Chine/États-Unis, le capitalisme contre la mondialisation » [Trung Quốc/Mỹ, chủ nghĩa tư bản chống lại toàn cầu hóa], Nxb La Découverte, 2024, tr. 111).

Hitchcock's sumptuous remake of his own “The Man Who Knew Too Much” is a VistaVision spectacular with great cast (Doris Day & James Stewart!) and equally wonderful locations (Marrakesh and London). An American couple on holidays find themselves in a perilous situation: their son gets kidnapped by unknown criminals. To find him, they would travel to Europe and finally reach the Royal Albert Hall – right in the middle of the symphonic concert. Join us as we explore this 1956 classic which both embodies and questions the American contentment of the Fifties as well as mixes thriller with family melodrama.

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This week Kaci & Grace join the pod to talk all things Marrakesh + a Q&A with YOUR questions and a cheeky game involving the girls Google Searches - Can they guess their top searches? Brand new podcast episodes available every TUESDAY! If you'd like to work with us, email the studio on workwithafterhours@fellasstudios.com

Nesta edição, Cleber Facchi (@cleberfacchi), Isadora Almeida (@almeidadora) e Nik Silva (@niksilva) celebram a vida e a obra de Brian Wilson (1942 - 2025), membro fundador dos Beach Boys, um dos nomes mais influentes da história da música e o grande arquiteto do pop moderno.Apoie a gente: https://apoia.se/podcastvfsmNão Paro De Ouvir➜ Haim https://tinyurl.com/b447yzaz➜ Kokoroko https://tinyurl.com/bdff29ba➜ Corto Alto https://tinyurl.com/5dp44tan➜ Alberto Continentino https://tinyurl.com/yff6nd6x➜ Subsonic Eye https://tinyurl.com/yh3rhh9s➜ Hayden Pedigo https://tinyurl.com/yw7shvzx➜ Sofia Kourtesis https://tinyurl.com/2s4dc2f5➜ Caroline Polachek https://tinyurl.com/8sbnsvz3➜ Amaarae https://tinyurl.com/2rtxk57x➜ Wednesday https://tinyurl.com/4eztus24➜ Nourished By Time https://tinyurl.com/2a5jjwcc➜ Four Tet https://tinyurl.com/mrm5yjcy➜ Marrakesh https://tinyurl.com/yxy9atur➜ Yaya Bey https://tinyurl.com/cw8uvhee➜ Matmos https://tinyurl.com/mvwzmd39➜ Alberto Continentino https://tinyurl.com/yff6nd6x➜ Loyle Carner https://tinyurl.com/bdh7buyy➜ Hotline TNT https://tinyurl.com/38h4h5c9Você Precisa Ouvir Isso➜ Fashion Neurosis➜ Pablo e Luisão (Globoplay)➜ The Durutti Column: "The Return of the Durutti Column" (1980)➜ The Durutti Column: "LC" (1981)➜ The Durutti Column "Domo Arigato" (1985)➜ The Durutti Column: "Vini Reilly" (1989) – mais conhecido do projeto➜ The Durutti Column: "Sex and Death" (1994)Playlist Seleção VFSM: https://bit.ly/3ETG7oEContato: sobremusicavamosfalar@gmail.com

This episode we hope to help a fan find some new games to play with her grandkids. To go with this we've got two reviews from the new Queen games Family & Friends line, Star Explorer and Moonlight market. We're also going to be sharing what we've been playing lately including first thoughts on Nana and another successful Walkerville Brewery game night. Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast Episode 277, was recorded on June 18th, 2025. Join us live on Wednesdays at 8 PM EST at https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop For detailed show notes with links to everything we talk about in this episode: https://tabletopbellhop.com/podcast/ep277/ Disclosure: Links may be affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Games mentioned may be review copies provided by publishers. (00:00:00) Checking In (00:02:06) Announcements We will be hosting the board game area at The Summoning, happening here in Windsor on July 26th. More info: https://stclairsaints.ca/tsc25 Big thanks to The Op for helping out Gwen's Board Game Club! (00:04:44) Ask The Bellhop (00:27:09) The Bellhop's Tabletop (00:40:52) The Game Room - Review of Star Explorer Pick up Star Explorer from Noble Knight, https://www.nobleknight.com/P/2148309124/Star-Explorer-Family-and-Friends-Compact-Edition Check out our review of Marrakesh, our favourite game from Queen, https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/marrakesh-review (01:37) The Game Room - Review of Moonlight Market Pick up Moonlight Market from Noble Knight, https://www.nobleknight.com/P/2148261499/Moonlight-Market Check out our other Queen Games content, https://tabletopbellhop.com/search/?q=queen%20games (01:20:15) Closing the Doors TIP THE BELLHOP: Get bonus content by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/tabletopbellhop Shop Tabletop Bellhop merch https://tabletopbellhop.com/merch Buy us a coffee https://ko-fi.com/tabletopbellhop FIND US: Webpage: https://tabletopbellhop.com Discord: https://discord.tabletopbellhop.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/tabletopbellhop.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopbellhop/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopbellhop/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tabletopbellhop Twitch: https://twitch.tv/tabletopbellhop

Many of you will be familiar with this man.Many of you will not. But make no mistake, Emad Bouanane is a bona fidé Wrexham AFC cult hero!He wasn't at the club for long, but boy did he make a lasting impression.Was he a striker masquerading as a left sided defender? Or vice versa?The man himself emerges from the Marrakesh shadows to reveal all.Plus:● his love for Joey Jones● accidentally ghosting Manchester United● brushes with the law● plans to return to Wrexham to watch the side● language barrier chaos Please like, comment, and SUBSCRIBE! Diolch!Tickets for our next live show are on sale now

Nesta edição, Cleber Facchi (@cleberfacchi), Isadora Almeida (@almeidadora) e Renan Guerra (@_renanguerra) recebem o documentarista Marcio Debellian e o diretor artístico do In-Edit Brasil, o Festival Internacional do Documentário Musical, Marcelo Aliche, para um papo sobre a realização de documentários no Brasil e como essa produção tem chegado até o público.Apoie a gente: https://apoia.se/podcastvfsmNão Paro De Ouvir➜ Addison Rae https://tinyurl.com/4csxj9su➜ Turnstile https://tinyurl.com/3a4bj2fv➜ Little Simz https://tinyurl.com/6323bvev➜ Silvana Estrada https://tinyurl.com/36p3azsw➜ Amandona https://tinyurl.com/yv773uwe➜ Nídia & Valentina https://tinyurl.com/bdvdf2x2➜ Lido Pimienta https://tinyurl.com/y57vhkfe➜ These New Puritans https://tinyurl.com/8wj3krtv➜ Zé Ibarra https://tinyurl.com/mtsx9tyn➜ Marrakesh https://tinyurl.com/5d9cjas8➜ Sudan Archives https://tinyurl.com/ys5cnc22➜ Water From Your Eyes https://tinyurl.com/2jw3m2mj➜ TDJ https://tinyurl.com/4u8f46zp➜ Lifeguard https://tinyurl.com/3eu83kbr➜ FBC https://tinyurl.com/y8afteua➜ Beto https://tinyurl.com/4wxttubvVocê Precisa Ouvir Isso➜ Voodoo Lounge – The Rolling Stones➜ ExposiçãoAndy Warhol (FAAP)➜ Tributo Toni Tornado (Globoplay)➜ Acompanhante Perfeita (HBO MAX)➜ Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam GuèbrouPlaylist Seleção VFSM: https://bit.ly/3ETG7oEContato: sobremusicavamosfalar@gmail.com

The Surf House by Lucy Clarke Wish you were here? Think again... High on the wave-pounded cliffs, far from the bustling souks of Marrakesh, sits The Surf House. A hidden gem on Morocco's shores, the house is a sanctuary for the surfers, travellers and dreamers who wash in. But the idyll is built on something rotten. And when Bea arrives, relieved to find refuge after a dangerous encounter in a Marrakesh alleyway, she soon gets caught in the swell of a deep, dark mystery. Because another young woman went missing one year ago - and the last place she was sighted was The Surf House. The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move. Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several US intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We remember Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky through the voices of those who knew them. Hear about Sarah's peacebuilding in Morocco and Yaron's diplomatic efforts to forge stronger ties between Israel and its neighbors. Both were members of the Israeli diplomatic corps and AJC's extended family. They were tragically murdered after leaving an AJC event in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dana Walker, the director of AJC ACCESS, the young professional program that hosted the reception, shares memories of traveling with Sarah to Morocco last fall as part of the Michael Sachs Fellowship for Emerging Leaders, organized by AJC and the Mimouna Association.  Then, Benjamin Rogers, AJC's Director for Middle East and North Africa Initiatives, reflects on his conversations with Yaron, who held a parallel diplomatic portfolio at the Israeli Embassy. Benjy and Yaron spoke quite often about their diplomatic work and the importance of Israel's relationship with its neighbors. Benjy recalls their last exchange, just moments before Yaron was gunned down. Resources: What To Know About The Murder of Sarah Milgrim z"l and Yaron Lischinsky z"l in Washington, D.C. Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: Untold stories of Jews who left or were driven from Arab nations and Iran People of the Pod:  Latest Episode: AJC's CEO Ted Deutch: Messages That Moved Me After the D.C. Tragedy Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript of the Interview: Manya Brachear Pashman:   American Jewish Committee and Jews around the world have been left completely shaken by the devastating events in Washington, D.C., where two members of the Israeli diplomatic community and AJC's community—Sarah Milgrim  and Yaron Lishinsky were brutally murdered after leaving an AJC reception.  Last week, AJC CEO Ted Deutch returned from Sarah's funeral in Kansas City to share what he's learned about Sarah and Yaron. He also shared how graciously people have reached out to express their support, including families of Israeli hostages.  This week, to remember Sarah and Yaron, we invited two AJC colleagues who knew them personally to help us remember.  Dana Levinson Walker is the director of AJC ACCESS, the program for young Jewish professionals. In that role, she traveled to Morocco with Sarah and two dozen other young bridge builders as part of the Michael Sachs Fellowship for Emerging Leaders organized by AJC and the Mimouna Association. Dana is with us now to share her memories. Dana, thank you for being here.  Can you please tell us about that trip last fall? Dana Walker:   I had the privilege of traveling with Sarah and 25 other young professionals and staff from the US, Israel, Morocco and France. And it was an extraordinary seven days. We traveled to six different cities in seven days. Normally, we backend an Israel trip as a part of this delegation. But due to some geopolitical issues happening in the region, we made a decision to just go to Morocco at that time, and then we were going to go to Israel later. And we are indeed scheduled to go to Israel in September of 2025.  It was an extraordinary experience for all different kinds of reasons. I think that the environment that we were walking into in Morocco was not only an embracing one, but it was also a challenging one. The day that we arrived in Morocco was the day we found out that the six hostages had been murdered in Gaza, and it was an incredibly painful moment for the Jewish participants, many of whom had a connection to the hostages or their families. And especially for someone like Sarah, who worked at the embassy, it felt really personal, because she had been advocating, of course, for their release, but also had just been a voice for many of them. And it was deeply devastating.  But the trip could have taken a really depressing and sad turn, and in reality, it actually took an incredible turn where I've often told people that it wasn't necessarily the trip we planned for, but it was the trip we needed. In that it really fostered and created a family that is bound together now for life. They wept together, they laughed together.  And I think what was so powerful is that it was Sarah's first time in Morocco, and she really just had this look of awe most of the time we were there. It was a look of deep reflection, a look of kind of taking it all in. We have really amazing photos of her, where she's just kind of looking very ethereal and like looking up in awe walking around the kind of old city of Marrakesh and things like that. And she was an incredible addition to our trip. She was a calming figure, a grounding figure.  She spent a lot of late nights with the folks, just talking on the bus, talking by the pool. I know that on the last night of our trip in Marrakech, she and a couple of other participants, Israelis and Moroccans and Americans, were up until 5:30 in the morning just talking about life and their ambitions and their goals and just understanding one another by the pool for hours and hours and hours. And Sarah was one of the people in that conversation.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Can you share what perspectives she added to the conversations? What did she contribute? And also, if you know anything about those ambitions and life goals that she shared with others. Dana Walker:   Sarah was really passionate about the environment. She was really passionate about sustainability. She loved her dog. She was really passionate about animals, and specifically dogs. I remember one of the things that we were talking about when she was preparing to go on the trip, and we had to kind of navigate when we were going and if we were still going, because of the geopolitics of the region, and she was really concerned about boarding her dog. It's just so clear that she cares so much about everyone in her life, and especially in this case, her dog, who was a really focal part of her heart.  You know, she studied agriculture and sustainability, primarily sustainability. She was really interested in leaving the world a better place than she found it.  And when we were going through the acceptance process for the Sachs Fellowship, we had a ton of applicants. And I think really what drew us to Sarah's application was that she was someone who was literally about to start her job at the embassy. We decided to put her in the agriculture and sustainability track because that's what she cared about. She was really passionate about finding sustainable solutions, especially in the region, because the region is growing hotter with each kind of succeeding year. Food and water security is becoming a challenge.  Although, you know, after she started her role at the embassy, she really was doing a little bit of everything, but one of the key features that she worked on was working with survivors who had experienced gender and sexual based violence after October 7, and we couldn't really fathom anyone being more suited to do that work because of her gentle and calm and compassionate, assuring disposition.  So she was ambitious in that she had a lot of big dreams for the future, about what she wanted to do, and she was really figuring out what was going to come next for her. The diplomat's life is never easy, especially in these incredibly uncertain and overwhelming times after October 7, and she and Yaron were planning a future, and they were really figuring out what was coming next for them.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Was that trip to Morocco the only time you spent with Sarah?  Dana Walker:   I met her in person for the first time at last year's AJC Young Diplomats reception, where we focused on talking about regional integration, which was something she was really passionate about. She was with her other embassy friends and colleagues, and it was great to meet her, because I knew I was going to be traveling with her in the fall.  So it was great to meet her in person. And then I saw her a few more times in DC over the course of our year, getting to know her. And then the last time I saw her was at the AJC Global Forum in April of just this year. Manya Brachear Pashman:   The Sachs Fellowship is named in memory of Michael Sachs. He was someone who dedicated his life to promoting Arab-Israeli engagement. We've heard a lot of people talk about Sarah's commitment to that as well. How could you tell? Is there a moment in your mind that stands out? Illustrates her belief that interfaith, intercultural engagement could and should happen? Dana Walker:   I believe in Essaouira–I believe that's where we were–and they had given us the option that we could either go around the souq and do a little bit of shopping, or we could go to a mosque and participate in an opportunity with this incredible singer and spiritual leader. And there were a few of us who said, Okay, we're gonna go. And Sarah was one of them, and she came with me and with the others. And it was so extraordinary, not only the experience of being in the mosque and hearing this unbelievable. Whole singing and just being kind of enveloped in this like spiritual warmth, which was just so wonderful.  But she could have gone shopping, and she chose to go to the mosque, and she chose to put herself out there and experience something that she would likely not get to experience again, in this kind of environment. She really took advantage of it. She was really eager to learn.  In order to be a peace builder, in order to be someone who can really transform hearts and minds, you have to understand the people that you're working with, and she really took advantage of that in the best way possible. I have some really great photos and videos of us in the mosque. And of course, they have this amazing tea ceremony. So the spiritual leader of the mosque had this really, really, really cute child who must have been maybe four or something. And, you know, hospitality is one of the pillars of Moroccan society, and everybody always does kind of the double cheek kiss.  And the spiritual leader wanted to make sure that his child went around and gave everybody these little kisses. And I remember Sarah, and I were like, Oh my God, this kid is so cute and so well behaved. Like, I can't believe it. So he came over and gave us these little you know, these little bissou or, you know, whatever, the cheek kisses. And we were just melting. He was so adorable.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   It sounds like you were met with so much warmth and kindness in Morocco. As you said, it was what it was the trip you needed. And it sounds like she didn't hesitate to immerse herself, to really engage with that, that kind of cross-cultural experience. Do you know of any examples of when she engaged with a not-so friendly crowd? Dana Walker:   One of the things that Sarah talked a lot about on the trip, and I know that my ACCESS leader and friend Laura mentioned this at the vigil yesterday is that, after Sarah started working for the embassy, a lot of her friends from graduate school and other places were really unkind to her and were really, really awful to her about her decision to work for the Israeli embassy. And in many cases, they stopped talking to her, they blocked her, they cropped her out of photos, they excluded her, and that was the kind of hostility she was facing. So I think what's really telling is that the people who love her and embrace her so much include Moroccan Muslims who saw her for the kind of person that she was. Which was this extraordinarily warm and caring and kind and compassionate person, but also someone who had a vision for securing a better future for everyone in the region, regardless of whether they were Jewish or Muslim, regardless of whether they were Israeli or Palestinian or Moroccan. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Did she ever talk about how she handled those broken friendships?  Dana Walker:   I think they were just really painful for her. I think they were really hard. I think she found a lot of comfort in hearing from the other Americans on the trip who had also lost friendships and relationships and relationships after October 7. It was a very common refrain from a lot of the participants that some of their coworkers or long friendships, relationships, even with family, had been fractured or damaged or kind of beyond a place of repair.  And I think in many ways, not misery loves company, but you know, she was surrounded by others who understood her experience and vice versa. That they all could appreciate, because they had all been through it in some way or another. So her experience was a familiar one, unfortunately, and a familiar one for many American Jews. So I think she took comfort in knowing that other people on the trip were experiencing similar things. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So Dana, how are you finding any glimmers of hope going forward, after that evening? Dana Walker:   You know, I . . . in my almost seven years of working at AJC, which is a long time, I think at this point, have discovered that the key to keep doing what we do is looking at our work through a glass, half full lens, because If we don't, it's just exhausting and debilitating. And I what gives me hope is knowing that even in her last sort of moments, that she was fulfilling her desire to be a glass half full person. She had vision for how to support a sustainable region, how to deeply invest in her relationships with her colleagues and friends across many nations and many backgrounds.  And I urge others to try and embody that sense of optimism and glass half full approach, because the person who perpetrated this brutal act sought to destroy the work, and the only way forward is to amplify it and double down on it. So that's the hope that I get out of this experience. Is just knowing that we owe it to Sarah and to Yaron to keep amplifying their vision for what was possible. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Sadly, Sarah is not the first Sachs Fellow that the current cohort lost this past year. At AJC Global Forum in New York in April, AJC honored Laziza Dalil, a co-founder of Mimouna Association. She was a Moroccan Muslim who dedicated her life to repairing Arab Israeli relations. She posthumously received the Ofir Libshtein Bridge Builder Award at Global Forum. Dana, how are you and the Sachs Fellows doing through what I can only imagine has been a difficult time? Dana Walker:   It just all seems so unfair. Deeply unfair and deeply painful. That two of the best and brightest were taken from us. Were stolen from us, really. And it's something that we are grappling with. We're still processing. We're still dealing with it. I think what has been tremendously helpful is that we are grieving as a family.  We are grieving as a group of not Moroccans or Israelis or Americans or French people, but as a collection of people who by fate and circumstance, are now bound to each other forever by both the trauma and the joys of what we've experienced as a community in service of trying to make the world a better place. And it's hard. But we are going to keep going because of it. Manya Brachear Pashman:   If only that shared sense of grief was as powerful in the region. Dana, thank you so much.  Dana Walker:   Thank you, Manya.  Manya Brachear Pashman:  As AJC's Director for Middle East and North Africa Initiatives, Benjamin Rogers handles the Middle East portfolio for American Jewish Committee. The same portfolio that Yaron Lischinsky handled for the Israeli Embassy.  Benjy and Yaron spoke quite often about the importance of Israel's relationship with its neighbors. Benjy is with us now to recall his last conversation with Yaron, moments before his death. Thank you for joining us, Benjy. You were at the event in Washington that night. Where were you when the shots were fired just after 9 p.m.? Benjamin Rogers:   I left the museum around 8:55pm and I was in a taxi heading home, when I got a text message letting me know that there's been shots fired. Talked to a lot of people from the Israeli embassy, from AJC, trying to get a sense of what was happening. I remember calling Yaron, asking if he was okay, texting him if he was okay. And then everything kind of unfolded once I got home. A lot of confusion initially, and then kind of everyone's worst fears were soon realized. Manya Brachear Pashman:   You knew Yaron through the particular work that you both did, correct?  Benjamin Rogers:   I have the privilege of working on the Middle East file for AJC and Yaron also had the privilege of working on the Middle East file for the Embassy of Israel. And the Embassy of Israel is quite large, but believe it or not, there's only two people that really focus on the Middle East–Yaron and then his supervisor, Noa Ginosar. So Yaron was someone who I used to see frequently in Washington. He would always be at various events. It was always fun to have Yaron, an Israeli representative at different programming with Arab diplomats, Arab representatives. Something that was clearly important to us at AJC, but also deeply personal to Yaron. Israel at the time of the Abraham Accords, Israel post October 7, Israel at a time of difficulty, how could we work together on a shared mission of advancing regional integration. And this was something that – you know, Yaron was not the loudest person in the room ever. He, in that sense, was not your typical Washingtonian. But he always had this presence. He always had this smile on his face.  So whenever he was there, you knew you felt this comfort. People have been saying a lot, who have been meeting his family, that he comes from a very noble family, and I think that perfectly describes Yaron. He was a noble guy. He was always somebody who was happy to be where he was. You could tell the work meant a lot to him, and someone who I always enjoyed being able to see.  That night, I got to spend a good amount of time with him. I had seen him a few weeks prior, but we didn't really have the time to catch up, and it was just a great opportunity to be able to talk with him. He shared, he was very excited to go home. He hadn't been home in close to a year. Was going to see his family. He was going to go over Shavuot. Again, with that typical Yaron smile, calm energy, noble engagement.  He was really happy that night, and that's something, the more I talk about this, the more that's important for me to share. Just because I am a new father, I can only imagine what his parents are going through. But he was happy that night. He was at a really good place. And I think that that, I hope, that brings some solace and meaning to all who knew and loved him.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   I know people did more than mingle at this reception. Much has been said about the cruel irony that this was a program about humanitarian aid to Gaza. Could you speak a little more about that? Benjamin Rogers:   The event on Wednesday night was one that I moderated, and one that I was actually quite nervous to moderate. It was on humanitarian diplomacy. This is not an easy topic to discuss right now. There's a lot of complexity, a lot of hardship, a lot of heartbreak, but the fact that he was there for this conversation showed his willingness to engage, his willingness to hear a conversation. It was not a political discussion.  It was a discussion with representatives from IsraAID and representatives from Multifaith Network–that was really working on showcasing how interfaith engagement, how IsraAID came together to say, how do we do something good? How do we do something good at a time when there's not so much humanity right now.  And it was about trust. It was about doing better. It was about looking forward. And that I think encapsulates not only Yaron's spirit, but very much Sarah's as well, who I knew less well, but was very much part of the AJC family. Very much also deeply believed in being a bridge, bringing people together.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Is there a conversation or a moment, an encounter that really stands out for you as your key memory, core memory, if you will, of Yaron? Benjamin Rogers:   We always used to joke about diplomats that we had engaged together. There's a lot of sensitivities in this, but we would always seem to be at events where it was a great networking opportunities and great opportunities to expand understanding throughout the Middle East. And we would always kind of laugh and talk about how happy we were to be able to do some of those small engagement, small steps together.  That and his smile. This was always somebody who walked into a room and again, not the loudest person, but someone who you could just tell was good natured, had a good heart, and that's essential in this work. There are a lot of good people in this field. Not everybody, though, is to the level of Yaron and to the level of Sarah, and I think…I've been going through many different emotions. Most of it is just this feeling of surrealness. This is somebody who I just saw and is now gone. I still haven't fully processed that. But what I'm coming to more and more is that we've got to do better. We're better than this. We're all better than this. Yaron and Sarah were better. We need to find a way to live up to their ideals. Professing kind of what he stood for.  How do we get out of this period? How do we find a more understanding, a more hopeful, more empathetic world where we pull away from this black and white, good and bad, explain this to me in a tweet or a five second clip. This is complex. We've seen just how tragic this environment can be, how tragic and costly words can be, and I hope that for everyone, it is a rallying call to be better.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Thank you so much, Benjy. Benjamin Rogers:   Thanks Manya.   

On this episode I'm joined by Cassi Namoda as we discuss her newly commissioned work presented for 16 edition of the Sharjah Biennial, elucidated through the curatorial theme, to carry. Asking questions such as, what does it mean to carry a home, a history, a language, a legacy, and a lineage.Born in Maputo, Mozambique, Cassi Namoda is known for her strong color palette and narrative approach to painting. Her hybrid narratives are at once wondrous and poignant, every day and fantastical, archival and current. Cassi's work transfigures the cultural mythologies and historical narratives of life in post-colonial Africa, particularly those of the artist's familial home of Mozambique. The idiosyncratic subjects who appear and reappear in her paintings also convey this hybridity: they emerge from African indigenous religions just as much as they spring from Western mythologies. Cassi's work is held in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; MACAAL, Marrakesh; and The Studio Museum; New York. In the episode, discusses her evolving body of work, including paintings that originated at the Joseph and Annie Albers residency in Connecticut that connect to her current paintings on view for the Sharjah Biennial 16. In the works, she explores themes of climate change and matriarchal societies, while emphasizing the holistic interconnectedness of her art and life. She also reflects on the importance of preserving ancestral knowledge and matriarchal wisdom, the role of women in society, and how her experiences as a mother influence her artistic practice. The conversation underscores the interconnected nature of life and art, advocating for self-attunement and holistic living.-------------------------------------------------------------------- WHERE YOU CAN FOLLOW ME AND SUBSCRIBE Website - Sign up for my newsletter https://lightworkco.com/ Instagram - Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sadeolo/https://www.instagram.com/lightworkcompany/ YouTube - Subscribe to my YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/@lightworkco

Nesta edição, Cleber Facchi (@cleberfacchi), Isadora Almeida (@almeidadora), Renan Guerra (@_renanguerra) e Nik Silva (@niksilva) comemoram o aniversário de sete anos do programa e recebem diferentes convidados, amigos e ouvintes para falar sobre discos que são nota dez.Apoie a gente: https://apoia.se/podcastvfsmNão Paro De Ouvir➜ Kacey Musgraves https://tinyurl.com/2s3d4yyd➜ Subsonic Eye https://tinyurl.com/mfeucjx4➜ Sault https://tinyurl.com/yc7u2nez➜ Chat Pile https://tinyurl.com/mspe25rb➜ Adrianne Lenker https://tinyurl.com/3mbfmtth➜ Marrakesh https://tinyurl.com/ym8am8zv➜ Catto https://tinyurl.com/2pkdwste➜ Lorde https://tinyurl.com/58n3tnh4➜ Fernando Motta https://tinyurl.com/3hyc7zb6➜ Vera Fischer Era Clubber https://tinyurl.com/5b8rf7p8➜ Jambu https://tinyurl.com/mryees55➜ Stefanie https://tinyurl.com/29yandsn➜ Nazar https://tinyurl.com/56d7hsyw➜ Maria Somerville https://tinyurl.com/3k5pjvjc➜ DjRum https://tinyurl.com/24hzx4fk➜ Ventura Profana https://tinyurl.com/mrwe6yvyVocê Precisa Ouvir Isso➜ Avenida Paulista, da Consolação ao Paraíso (SESI)➜ São Paulo Sociedade Anônima (Globoplay)➜ Rio, Zona Norte (Globoplay)➜ Madison McFerrin https://tinyurl.com/5n6y45ek➜ L'Impératrice https://tinyurl.com/4fpu349a➜ Homem com H (Cinemas)Playlist Seleção VFSM: https://bit.ly/3ETG7oEContato: sobremusicavamosfalar@gmail.com

Could your business survive without you for a week? Could YOU survive without checking in? In this episode, I take The Vacation Test—a three-part challenge designed to reveal if your business is truly set up for freedom. The rules? No work calls. No "just checking in" texts. No scrambling to catch up when you get back. I thought I had this in the bag… but what happened on my trip to Marrakesh might surprise you. Did I pass or fail? And, more importantly, would YOU pass? Come find out.   Mentioned In This Episode: Stanford research on productivity Harvard Business Review study on workplace well-being Microsoft's four-day workweek findings Moroccan Food Adventures Flightographer travel photography services  

Sean Calvert & Nigel Seeley look for a few upsets as the ATP Tour returns to the clay.

Steam through Morocco's northern treasures as Tracy and Doug recount their 10-day adventure with Intrepid Travel, showcasing the country's vibrant medinas, stunning architecture, and warm hospitality.• Strategically arriving early in Marrakesh, then transferring to Casablanca maximised sightseeing opportunities• Travelling with Intrepid provided authentic experiences with local guides and a small group of just eight travellers• Marrakesh overwhelms the senses with colourful souks and lively atmosphere• Chefchaouen (the Blue City) offers stunning photography opportunities, especially during less crowded mornings• Traditional Moroccan food features vegetable-heavy tagines, aromatic couscous, and refreshing mint tea• Small group tours provide rich cultural insights that would be difficult to access when traveling independently• Navigating medinas requires local knowledge – they're designed like mazes where even experienced travellers get lost• Weather can be cooler than expected (in March), particularly in mountainous regionsJoin Tracy for a women-only Morocco tour next year by contacting us through our website or Facebook group!⭐️ Guest Host - Melissa Kiely from Queensland Travel Guide

Nigel Seeley and Sean Calvert preview tennis bets across Houston, Marrakesh, and Bucharest.

The ATP Tour moves to the clay with events this week in Houston, Bucharest & Marrakesh.

Þessi þáttur er bannaður börnum. Ágústa Kolbrún var með okkur í dag. Hún bjó til geggjaða mynd af Hjálmari sem hann var þvílíkt sáttur með. Helgi er nýkominn frá Marrakesh og lenti hann í hörðum sölumönnum þar. Strákarnir gerðu símaat í einum sem kommentaði á Facebook neikvæða hluti um Hjálmar.IG: helgijean & hjalmarorn110Takk fyrir að hlusta - og munið að subscribe'a!Þættina má finna inni í áskrift á pardus.is!

Polly's back from a romantic trip to Marrakesh, while Jojo has sprouted a grey hair! For the Outies we cover metal fences and decking, while the Innies get some valuable tips on picking rugs and cable management.Plus we talk Mel Robins and the theory of let them!InstagramPodcast - @the_insandouts_Jojo - @houseninedesignPolly - @pollyanna_wilkinsonProducer Andy - @andy_rowe_WebsitesJojo - https://www.housenine.co.uk/Polly - https://www.pollyannawilkinson.com/Pod Rowe Productions - https://www.podrowe.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 240 we discuss board games that have gotten a facelift. New productions, 2nd editions, and similar topics. We also discuss a poll about leaving game groups.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction00:29 Poll Time: Have you ever left a game group?10:54 Board Games That Get Facelifts13:45 Recent Examples - Castles of Burgundy, La Granja, Brass, Kemet, Cyclades, Irish Gauge, Ethnos, Acquire, Yokohama20:33 How we feel about this - Terraforming Mars, Agricola, Great Western Trail, The Castles of Burgundy, Mosaic, Manhattan Project: Energy Empire30:50 What would we want out of Agricola refresh - Agricola: Dead Harvest40:14 What Makeovers Do We Want - Gaia Project, Beyond the Sun, Le Havre, Quacks of Quedlinburg, The Expanse, Forbidden Stars47:55 Are big refreshes a problem because of price? - Agricola, Marrakesh, Foundations of Rome, Foundations of Metropolis, EclipseIf you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakesFollow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.socialJoin our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205Join our Discord server at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd

Without Khadija, I don't know if there would be a Mektoub Henna or any of the trips we took to Morocco. In Khadija we found a kindred spirit, someone so passionate about Moroccan henna that it became her life's work. She was our teacher at our first Mektoub event in Marrakesh. We met her on Instagram and loved her work, hoping that she would teach at our event. Jenpa and I went to Morocco for a research trip before our first event and that is where we first met Khadija. She gave us both huge hugs just standing in the middle of the Fes Medina and it just got better and better after that.   To be in Khadija's orbit is to be enveloped in her passion and generosity but also her wicked sense of humor. It's no wonder that she is a pivotal part of all our Mektoub Henna events. I hope that you get to join us on one of our trips so you can have a real-life experience of Morocco, Moroccan henna, and Khadija herself.  Like so many of our conversations during Mektoub, there is a lot of language switching in this podcast conversation. It felt like so many conversations we had in person, where there is a mix of English, French, Arabic, and Spanish, and strange combinations of all of them. Another little taste of our Mektoub events. Enjoy the interview!    You can find Khadija on Instagram at @galerie_henna and Mektoub is at @mektoubhenna on Instagram, and our website, where you can find out more about our trips and events, is MektoubHenna.com

Orte wie aus einer Traumwelt, überwältigende Wüste, phantastische Kultur, tolle Menschen und alles, was ihr für das Traumland Marokko wissen müsst. Mit dem Auto sind wir von Marrakesh, durch das Atlas-Gebirge, in das legendäre Aït-Ben-Haddou gefahren, in dem Filme und Serien wie „Game Of Thrones", „Gladiator“ oder „Lawrence of Arabia“ gedreht wurden. Weiter geht's unter anderem über das Palmen-bewachsene Draa-Tal in die tiefe Wüste, an den Rande der legendären Sahara. Die Natur, Schönheit, Erfahrungen (und Musik!), die uns dort erwarten, sprengen unsere Vorstellungskraft. Kommt mit auf eine aufregende Reise voller Highlights und Abenteuer durch ein Land, für das wir euch alle notwendigen Tipps geben plus: Wir sprechen mit der DER Marokko-Expertin schlechthin. Moderatorin, Buch-Autorin und Literatur-Podcasterin Mona Ameziane berichtet unter anderem, wie es ist, als Frau in Marokko zu reisen.Diese Folge entstand mit freundlicher Unterstützung von erlebe: Reisen - einfach näher dran. https://www.erlebe.de/Unsere Werbepartner dieser Folge findet ihr hier: https://www.reisen-reisen-der-podcast.de/werbepartner Noch mehr Reisen Reisen gibt es in unserem Newsletter-Magazin: https://tinyurl.com/3epcheb5 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is in Panama to meet its president and tour the canal. Mr Rubio's meeting with President Jose Raul Mulino has taken on urgency following President Trump's stated determination to take back the canal, with military force if necessary.Also on the programme: We look at how the US freeze on foreign aid has impacted HIV treatment in South Africa; and the storytellers of Marrakesh - spinning a yarn for a new record.(Photo: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is received by Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS)

Vincent was home from his Moroccan adventure armed with tales to tell, opinions to offer, and wisdom to impart. Cosgrove and Quinno was happy to bask in the post-Marrakesh glow.

Starting with a layover in Vegas, we spent a week traveling around Marrakesh, Morocco and ended in Paris. This was my first time on Air France & KLM (booked with Virgin Atlantic miles), which were both decent business class products. I also had a few mishaps on the way including multiple traffic violations from the Moroccan police, almost denied boarding for losing my paper boarding pass, and forgetting to select seats, but it still turned out to be a great trip.For a full library of the podcast and a link to the private Slack group, head over to Patreon.com/churninglife.

Jólabingó Hæ Hæ verður Sunnudaginn 1. Desember í beinni útsendingu á pardus.isHjálmar var að koma frá Marrakesh þar sem hann skemmti íslendingum með Steiney og Dj Dóru Júlíu. Helgi hringdi í Steiney og fékk að heyra allt slúðrið úr ferðinni. Helgi tók samt allt flugvélaeldsneytið sem Hjálmar hefur brennt á þessu ári, en Hjálmar er með gott kolefnisspor þar sem hann skilur íslenskt rusl eftir í útlöndum.IG helgijean & hjalmarorn110Takk fyrir að hlusta - og munið að subscribe´a!

Are you dreaming of your next big adventure but worried about your budget? Buckle up because today, we, the Travel Mom Squad, are diving into each of our bucket list destinations and how we would get there using points and miles. From the bustling markets of Morocco to the northern lights of Iceland, we're sharing our secrets to making these dream trips a reality—nearly free! Join us as Pam spills the details on her ultimate bucket list adventure—a round-the-world trip that's more affordable than you'd think, thanks to some savvy points planning. She's got her sights set on Morocco next, with a detailed plan to explore the vibrant streets of Marrakesh and the historical depths of Fez, all on points and miles.  Not to be outdone, Alex is plotting a dream trip to Thailand, the land of stunning beaches and delicious street food. She discusses the best ways to leverage Singapore Airlines' generous routing rules to score affordable travel in style and how to make the most of hotel points for stays in breathtaking locations like Phuket and the Hilton Conrad in Koh Samui. Jess, with her adventurous spirit, talks about her dream to witness the Northern Lights in Iceland and how she'd maneuver her points strategies to make it happen. From flying to Manchester on Singapore Airlines and catching a budget flight to Reykjavik, Jess outlines her plan to use points creatively for a trip that combines natural wonders with urban exploration. So, whether you're dreaming of sipping mint tea in the Moroccan sunset or exploring the lush landscapes of Thailand, this episode is your gateway to turning those dreams into reality with points and miles. Ready to start planning your own epic adventure? Hit play to join us on this thrilling journey. Your next big trip might just be a few points away! Links: Awayz: https://awayz.com/ Links For All Things Travel Mom Squad:  stan.store/travelmomsquad   Episode Minute By Minute: 1:03 Introduction to Dream Bucket List Trips using Points and Miles 2:20 Pam's Introduction to Morocco Trip using Points and Miles 5:15 Details on Booking Flights to Morocco with American Airlines Miles 7:10 Pam Explains Staying at the Park Hyatt with Suite Upgrade Awards 9:35 Alex's Thailand Adventure on Points and Miles 12:20 Using Singapore Airlines Miles for Affordable Travel to Thailand 15:45 Hotel Strategies in Thailand Using Points 18:30 Jess Shares Her Plan for Seeing the Northern Lights in Iceland 21:25 Strategy for Flying to Iceland Using Singapore Airlines Miles 24:30 Accommodation Options in Iceland Using Points 27:15 Recap of How Points and Miles Make Dream Trips Possible  

BIG, BIG NEWS AHEAD!!!! We are SO excited to announce that The SEQUEL, yes, the 2nd book of The Dr. Wren Muller Series- THE BUTCHER GAME will be released on September 17th, 2024! To Pre-order go to https://zandoprojects.com/books/the-butcher-game/ (https://zandoprojects.com/books/the-butcher-game/) PLUS! If you preorder the book, get an autographed poster while supplies last by visiting thebutchergame.com (http://thebutchergame.com/) Also-- IT'S LISTENER TALES!!!!! And this month's episode is brought to you by gut feelings! In this episode, we hear about a ghostly visitor during an awkwardly intimate moment, a run in an elderly couple near an abandoned asylum, a portal to Marrakesh in a Weirdo's room, a UFO sighting on a beach, and a weird encounter with a car in a ditch!If you've got a listener tale please send it on over to Morbidpodcast@gmail.com with “Listener Tales” somewhere in the subject line :)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.