Podcasts about Maslow

View This Week's Show NotesStart Your 7-Day Trial to Mobility CoachJoin Our Free Weekly Newsletter: The AmbushWhat if the key to better sleep, recovery, focus, and lasting behavior change isn't another productivity hack – but feeling safe in your own body?In this episode, Kelly and Juliet Starrett sit down with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and Apollo Neuroscience co-founder Dr. David Rabin to explore the hidden role the nervous system plays in stress, learning, trauma, performance, and recovery.Drawing on more than two decades of research, Dr. Rabin explains why modern life keeps us trapped in a state of chronic overstimulation – and how that affects sleep, resilience, chronic pain, emotional health, and our ability to learn. They also dive into the science of the vagus nerve, heart rate variability, fear extinction, human connection, and simple tools that help us feel safer, calmer, and more adaptable.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeWhy feeling physiologically safe is the foundation for learning, healing, and peak performanceHow chronic stress affects sleep, recovery, immunity, and the body's ability to functionThe difference between top-down thinking and bottom-up nervous system regulationWhy touch, movement, music, breathwork, and human connection are powerful tools for reducing stressHow modern technology and constant stimulation may be making us less resilient, less focused, and less connectedKey Highlights:(0:00) Intro: Gen Z Cognitive Regression & Technology Warning(0:37) Meet Dr. David Rabin: Psychiatrist & Apollo Neuroscience Co-Founder(2:20) Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Learning(4:41) The Neuroscience of Learning and Safety(7:06) Maslow's Hierarchy and Physiological Safety(12:27) The Role of Touch as Our First Language(18:47) The Vagus Nerve: Governor of Rest and Recovery(27:32) Apollo Wearable: Activating Safety in Seconds(29:07) Kelly's Sleep-Anywhere Superpower & Sleep Science(33:08) Belief, Biology, and the Dream Catcher Story(41:06) The Amygdala as a Contrast Detection Center(47:35) PTSD as a Learned Fear Disorder(56:14) What Apollo Actually Does and How It Works(1:04:26) Apollo + Oura Ring Sleep Study – 1,000+ People, 3 Years(1:12:49) Managing Overstimulation in a Tech-Driven World(1:14:53) Smartphone Addiction and Misdiagnosis of ADHD(1:16:12) Book Highlights and Education System 50 Years Outdated(1:18:19) AI Should Not Replace Human Teaching and Healing(1:20:28) Infinite Shelf: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz(1:23:13) Closing ThoughtsHuge thanks to our sponsors, LMNT and Momentous.

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!Join Wendy for the 2027 Summer Solstice White Party at the Phineas Wright House. A celebration of community, intention, and connection. Save your seat here: phineaswrighthouse.com/the-shop/p/summer-solstice-white-party-2027In this episode, Wendy sits down with Kim Costa, a real estate professional and author who believes your home is far more than a financial transaction—it's a reflection of your soul. After years in real estate and a background in residential construction and design, Kim has developed a framework for making conscious housing decisions aligned with who you actually are. She's written a book featuring the Wheelhouse Assessment, a tool that helps people understand the 8 areas of their life and what their home needs to support.They explore:Why your home is a spiritual alignment tool, not just a practical one, and what happens when it's out of alignmentHow to use the Wheelhouse Assessment and Maslow's hierarchy to distinguish between real needs and aesthetic wantsWhy knowing yourself is the foundation for choosing a home that actually serves youKim's philosophy is simple: life transitions, whether forced upon us or chosen, are opportunities to recalibrate and ask the hard questions. Your home can either support that process or resist it. The work isn't just about finding the right house. It's about understanding who you're becoming and whether your living space can hold that version of you. That's conscious choosing.Connect with Kim:Website: lifestylefoundations.comInstagram: instagram.com/kim.e.costaLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kimecostaHer Podcast, Live in Your Wheelhouse: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-in-your-wheel-house/id1853930729Get her book, Live in Your Wheelhouse: amazon.com/Live-Your-Wheel-House-Empowering/dp/B0GKTB5Z7C?tag=syty-20Referenced in this Episode:Books by Gay Hendricks: The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity: amazon.com/Genius-Zone-Breakthrough-Negative-Creativity/dp/1250246547?tag=syty-20The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level: amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361?tag=syty-20Wendy's HGTV Appearance: New House New Life, Season 1 Episode 3: amazon.com/New-House-Life-Season/dp/B091HZQ912________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with Wendy:LinkedinInstagram: @wendy.harropFacebook: Phineas Wright HouseWebsite: Phineas Wright House PWH Farm StaysPWH Curated Experience and TravelInterested in being a guest on the show? Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.comPodcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a  5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Sometimes shopping does not feel like a want. It feels like a need. In this revisited conversation, Nino Villa talks with Mary Ann Stenquist about the deeper emotional needs that often shape spending decisions. Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a lens, Mary Ann explains why some purchases feel so urgent, why shopping can become a way to seek comfort or control, and why simply telling yourself to “spend less” often does not reach the real issue. This episode is especially helpful if you have ever looked back at a purchase and wondered, “Why did I buy that?” or if shopping has become a way to avoid, escape, soothe, or feel better for a little while. The goal is not shame. The goal is awareness. Because when you understand the need beneath the purchase, you can begin making spending decisions with more honesty, clarity, and peace. Learn more about Mary Ann:https://becomeunshoppable.com/ Episode Summary In this revisited episode, Mary Ann Stenquist joins Nino Villa to explore why shopping can sometimes feel less like a want and more like a need. Mary Ann connects spending behavior to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and explains how purchases can become a way to pursue security, belonging, comfort, status, relief, or escape. The conversation moves beyond surface-level budgeting and looks at what may be happening underneath the spending decision. Mary Ann discusses emotional spending, dopamine, mindfulness, impulse purchases, the importance of aligning spending with financial goals, and her “four D's of decision-making” as a practical tool for interrupting the “I see it, I want it, I buy it” cycle. This is a helpful episode to revisit because it reminds us that spending is rarely just about the item. Often, it is about the need we are trying to meet through the item. Key Takeaways • Shopping can feel like a need when a deeper emotional need is not being met. • Overspending is often connected to escape, avoidance, comfort, control, belonging, or security. • The goal is not to shame the spending decision, but to understand what is driving it. • Mindfulness helps create space between the emotion and the purchase. • A spending plan works best when it is connected to the deeper “so that” behind your goals. • Mental math is usually not enough. Clear numbers help reveal the real trade-off. • Mary Ann's “four D's” can help interrupt impulse spending: defame, detach, distract, and declare/disclose. • A purchase may bring short-term relief, but it cannot permanently meet a deeper emotional need.

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You finally nailed your messaging. Your offer makes sense. People are signing up. And then you launch your group program, or step on a stage, or start a podcast, and suddenly none of it works anymore. What happened?This is the final episode in our seven part Maslow's Mountain series, and it might be the most important one. Adam and Jess close out the series by naming the exact thing that trips up coaches right after they've had success: they treat what they learned like a checklist. Check the box, move on, forget it ever happened. Then they step into a new space, a new offer, a new stage, and they climb right back to the top of the mountain they just spent six episodes learning to climb down from.Adam calls it language creep. Jess calls it the now what problem. Either way, it's the same pattern. You build a one to one practice using Maslow's hierarchy to meet your avatar where they are. It works. Then you launch a group program, or get invited to speak, or start a podcast, and you go right back to summit language. "I built this incredible framework." "Here's everything I've accomplished." And the audience you're now in front of doesn't speak that language, because they're standing somewhere completely different on the mountain than you are.What You'll Learn:Why "checklist thinking" is the most common reason coaches lose momentum right after a winThe difference between the mountain you climbed and the mountain you're climbing next, and why your messaging has to reset for each oneWhy authority on a stage doesn't come from sounding smart, and why over explaining actually loses your audienceHow to use Maslow's hierarchy as an audit tool for slide decks, ad copy, funnels, and anything else you put in front of your avatarThe real difference between being an educator and being an influencer, and why neither should be your identityA practical way to use AI to prepare for podcast guest appearances, keynotes, or any new platform by feeding it your messaging and asking for an audit, not a generic summaryWhy this entire seven part series comes down to one sentence: it's not about youThe Big Idea:Every time you move to a new "mountain," whether that's launching a group program, stepping on a stage, or starting a podcast, your avatar resets to their own base camp. Your framework, your payoff, even your credibility can stay the same. But your language has to meet them where they are, not where you are. The coaches who keep winning are the ones who keep auditing their messaging against Maslow's hierarchy every single time they show up somewhere new.Notable Quote:"You don't have to look good and be right to gain authority. Your feet being on the stage already give you authority." - Jess WebberResources Mentioned:Story Brand and Hero on a Mission by Donald Miller, referenced as ongoing filters for hero vs. guide positioningGet Paid to Coach free guide at ilovecoachingco.com/get-paid-to-coach$10K+ Coaching Offer Challenge at ilovecoachingco.com/challengeREAL Coach Method Membership at ilovecoachingco.com/discoverInstagram: @ilovecoachingco / @adamrroach / @coachjesswebberYouTube: youtube.com/@ilovecoachingcoJoin the Community:If you're building a coaching business, already running one, or just starting to think about it, ILC has resources for wherever you are. Free guides, live and virtual events, and a community built specifically for coaches who want something that's actually theirs. Find it all at ilovecoachingco.com.

If you've been struggling with OCD or anxiety for a long time and feel like nothing is working, this episode may reveal why. Matt Codde, LCSW explains why self-rejection is one of the most overlooked barriers to healing, and how learning to be more loving toward yourself is not a self-help cliche, but a clinical cornerstone of lasting OCD recovery.This episode applies to anyone dealing with OCD, anxiety, chronic pain, or any pattern of internal resistance. Whether you are in active ERP therapy or just beginning to understand your OCD cycle, the message here is one that most people have never heard in quite this way.If you have spent years trying to eliminate thoughts, manage anxiety, or "get better" before giving yourself permission to rest, recover, or even feel okay, this one is for you. Matt walks through the specific ways people with OCD are unloving to themselves without realizing it, and what the path toward integration and true healing actually looks like

You got the promotion. Someone whose opinion genuinely matters told you that you did good work. Within minutes, a quieter voice arrived: what's next? Are you sure you're really that good?Today I want to shine a spotlight on something that doesn't get talked about enough in career development,because once you see it, everything changes. No promotion, no praise, and no achievement will ever answer the question your inner critic is actually asking. Not because you haven't achieved enough. Because achievement was never the right currency.In this episode: the money analogy that finally made sense of everything, Maslow's distinction between belonging and esteem and why most of us have been using the wrong one, why the wound is older than the workplace, and why impostor syndrome often gets worse, not better with success.If this episode lands somewhere real for you, if you recognise that quiet 'what's next' after every win a Career Clarity Call might be the conversation you've been putting off. One hour, just the two of us, no pitch and no pressure.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is one of the most famous theories in psychology. We've all seen the pyramid. We've all been told that before we can become our best selves, we need to climb through five levels of human needs, from food and safety all the way to self-actualisation. But what if that's not actually what Maslow believed? In this bonus episode, as part of our series myth-busting psychology, we're uncovering the surprising truth behind one of psychology's most iconic ideas, including: Why Maslow never actually drew a pyramid The forgotten sixth level of the hierarchy The Indigenous Blackfoot origins of the theory Whether self-actualisation is really the highest human goal Why the hierarchy isn't as rigid as we've been taught What modern psychology says about the evidence behind Maslow's ideas Happy listening! Watch on Netflix: HERE Follow Jemma on Instagram: @jemmasbeg Follow the podcast on Instagram: @thatpsychologypodcast Subscribe on Substack: @thepsychologyofyour20s For business: psychologyofyour20s@gmail.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

عن الدراسة وعن الخبرةمش بلد شهادات0:00 Book background0:45 Book story1:01 first discovery1:30 Importance1:42 First step1:58 Second step2:09 Third step3:37 Fourth step3:50 Fifth step4:44 The bigger picture & Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:1+2: Basic: Physical & Safety3+4: Psychological: Love & Esteem5: Self Actualization6: Transcendence

You built something that works. You know it works because clients have told you so. But when it comes time to share that proof, something freezes up. It feels like bragging. It feels like selling. So you say nothing, or you bury the win in data and credentials nobody asked for, and the person on the other side of the table leaves without knowing you could actually help them.That's exactly what Adam and Jess dig into in this episode, the sixth in their seven-part Maslow Mountain series. And the answer is simpler than most coaches expect: one story, told from the right place on the mountain, does more than a hundred polished sales calls ever could.The whole premise of "Proof That Works" is that testimonials and case studies aren't marketing tools. They're relationship tools. When you frame a client win as a story, told from the client's perspective and anchored at the level of the problem they were actually experiencing, the right avatar can see themselves in it. They stop evaluating you and start imagining what's possible for them. That's the shift from a sales call to a discovery call where they end up asking you how to work together.Jess shares a real example from a recent introductory call: one client story, one clearly articulated outcome, and every objection the prospect had was handled before it was ever spoken. No pitch, no close, just proof told as narrative. Adam builds on that with the flywheel framework: one offer, one conversion, one payoff, one testimonial, one story that keeps repeating as you continue to attract the same avatar.The conversation also addresses the coaches who hesitate to share wins because they don't want to come across as self-promotional. Adam and Jess are clear on this distinction: promotion is about you, proof is about your client. When the story centers the avatar as the one who did the work and achieved the outcome, you are not the hero of that story. You're the guide. And that framing changes how people receive it entirely.What you'll take away from this episode:Why one well-told client story outperforms a library of testimonials no one readsHow to tell a story that lands at the right level on Maslow's Mountain, so it actually connects with the person you want to attractThe storytelling framework: context, emotion, obstacle, resolution, and how to sequence them so your avatar sees themselves before you ever mention your offerWhy proof and promotion are two completely different things, and how to tell which one you're doingHow pre-handling objections through story means you never have to answer them directly on a callThe specialist vs. generalist distinction and why generalist coaches struggle to build any proof that actually convertsHow to turn a single client result into a flywheel that keeps attracting the right people consistentlyThe big idea: Coaches who struggle to attract clients usually have enough proof. What they don't have is a story. The proof exists in their work. The story is what makes it land with the next person who needs it. When you stop trying to convince and start telling the truth about what happened for someone else, you move from selling to serving. And the close takes care of itself.Notable quote:"I don't ever feel like I'm promoting. I just feel so confident in the outcome that I've gotten people that it makes it easy to connect." -- Jess WebberResources Mentioned:StoryBrand framework (Donald Miller) -- referenced as context for guide vs. hero languageILC community and events: ilovecoachingco.comInstagram: @ilovecoachingco / @adamrroach / @thejesswebberYouTube: youtube.com/@ilovecoachingcoReady to stop guessing and start growing? The ILC community is where coaches build real, aligned businesses grounded in their actual expertise. Join us at ilovecoachingco.com.

Merwan Mery a été négociateur au sein des forces spéciales françaises, fondateur de l'agence ADN et son dernier livre se nomme "L'élégance de la manipulation." Tout un programme :)Je me suis dit depuis longtemps que la négociation, c'était une compétence pour les autres, je me défini moi même comme "nul" dans le domaine, aussi parce que je n'aime pas le conflit. Et puis en lisant le livre puis en discutant avec Merwan je me suis rendu compte que j'avais tout faux. Il est né au Liban en 1975, son père a sauvé sa famille d'un peloton d'exécution par les seuls mots. Et depuis, Marwan a fait de ça une vie entière.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de pourquoi éviter le conflit, c'est se condamner à perdre, des vrais leviers pour débloquer une négociation, de ce que Trump révèle d'un négociateur piégé par sa propre rhétorique, et de comment sortir quelqu'un d'une emprise sans jamais casser le lien.J'ai questionné Marwan sur les 6 mécanismes universels qui nous rendent tous perméables à la manipulation, sur la différence entre gain réel et gain perçu, sur la technique d'inoculation psychologique pour protéger quelqu'un qu'on aime et évidemment sur la manipulation.Citations marquantes"Je préfère gérer 100 psychopathes, 200 sociopathes, 400 pervers qu'un passif agressif. C'est pas une blague.""La clôture d'une négociation ne se fait que sur de la perception. Il n'y a rien de rationnel.""L'absence de résistance de ta part ne fera qu'augmenter le niveau d'exigence de l'autre.""On est tous manipulés, on est tous manipulateurs et on est tous manipulables.""Si vous ne décidez pas pour vous, les gens décideront pour vous. C'est le principe de l'indécision."Idées centrales Idée 1 — La manipulation n'est pas un défaut moral, c'est une nécessité humaine Marwan distingue l'influence de la manipulation par un seul critère : l'intention. Pas l'acte. On manipule tous dès l'enfance, avant même de savoir parler — dès qu'on oriente la réalité pour obtenir quelque chose. Ne pas exercer d'influence sur l'autre, c'est se soumettre à lui. Refuser cette réalité ne protège pas, ça fragilise. C'est pourquoi se réconcilier avec la manipulation, c'est le début de la liberté. Timestamp : 02:17 – 20:30Idée 2 — Distinguer position et enjeu : la clé de 100% des conflits Derrière chaque position affichée se cache un enjeu réel qui n'a, dans la quasi-totalité des cas, rien à voir avec elle. La prise d'otage de Munich en 1972 ? La position, c'est la libération de prisonniers. L'enjeu, c'est la cause palestinienne. Tant qu'on répond à la position, on ne résout rien. La seule voie, c'est de comprendre ce qu'il y a en dessous — et c'est toujours caché. Timestamp : 09:47 – 11:00Idée 3 — L'ICP, intérêt commun partagé : transcender le conflit plutôt que l'affronter Quand tout oppose deux parties, le seul levier est de trouver la chose sur laquelle les deux peuvent dire oui. En grande distribution, face à l'hyperinflation : le distributeur et le fournisseur s'opposent sur tout — sauf sur une chose, faire revenir le consommateur en magasin. Ça suffit à créer un espace de négociation là où il n'y en avait plus. Timestamp : 11:00 – 16:00Idée 4 — Les 6 mécanismes universels de perméabilité Marwan en a identifié six qui s'appliquent à tous, quelle que soit la culture : la mortalité (on agit pour ne pas mourir), l'émotion (qui prend souvent le pas sur la raison), le besoin de croire (donner du sens à ce qu'on ne comprend pas), la dissonance cognitive (les histoires qu'on se raconte pour éviter l'inconfort), le bénéfice supérieur (toutes nos actions sont guidées par lui), et l'économie des ressources (on choisit toujours le chemin le plus court). Ces six leviers font de chacun de nous une cible permanente. Timestamp : 23:39 – 27:08Idée 5 — Ce qui compte, c'est le gain perçu, pas le gain réel Une négociation ne se clôture jamais sur des faits — seulement sur un sentiment. Quelqu'un qui se bat quatre heures pour obtenir 1% sera plus satisfait que celui qui obtient 20% en claquant des doigts. Le travail du négociateur, c'est de provoquer chez l'autre le sentiment de satiété — lui donner l'impression qu'il a tout arraché, même s'il a tout perdu. Timestamp : 38:02 – 40:41Idée 6 — L'inoculation psychologique comme outil contre l'emprise Dire à quelqu'un "ton partenaire te manipule, regarde ce qu'il fait" ne sert à rien — le manipulateur l'a préparé à entendre exactement ça. En revanche, si on liste à l'avance les méthodes que le manipulateur va utiliser, sans cibler personne, la personne sous emprise fait elle-même le lien quand ces méthodes apparaissent. C'est l'électrochoc qui ouvre la fenêtre. Timestamp : 1:02:50 – 1:04:36Idée 7 — L'IA et la société sans friction : ce qu'on est en train de perdre Plus une technologie promet de réduire l'effort, plus on l'adopte silencieusement. GPS, ascenseurs, smartphones — et maintenant l'IA. Le problème : on perd les compétences que ces outils remplacent. Et les générations qui n'ont connu que l'après ne peuvent même plus se poser la question. La friction, c'est ce qui donne de l'expérience. L'enlever, c'est enlever le sens. Timestamp : 28:17 – 36:53Questions posées dans l'interviewLe titre L'élégance de la manipulation est volontairement transgressif — pourquoi choisir un mot que tout le monde fuit ?À quel âge commence-t-on à manipuler ?Qu'est-ce qui t'a amené à en faire une carrière — et quel rôle a joué ton histoire personnelle ?Comment passe-t-on de quelqu'un qui évite le conflit à quelqu'un qui sait le gérer ?Comment distinguer position et enjeu dans un conflit — et comment trouver l'ICP ?Que révèle Trump, lu à travers le prisme d'un négociateur professionnel ?Savoir qu'on est manipulables, est-ce libérateur ou anxiogène ?Comment repérer qu'on est dans une bulle de filtre algorithmique — et comment s'en extraire ?Quels sont les premiers signaux d'une emprise dans un couple, et comment sortir quelqu'un d'une emprise sans briser le lien ?Face à quelqu'un qui refuse de bouger, quelle est la pire erreur — et quelle question fonctionne vraiment ? Références citéesLivresL'élégance de la manipulation — Merwan Mehri (livre principal de l'épisode)The Art of the Deal — Donald Trump, cité pour illustrer la méthode du passage en force (16:11)Événements historiquesPrise d'otage de Munich, JO 1972 — exemple canonique de distinction entre position affichée et enjeu réel (10:30)Guerre du Liban, 6 décembre 1975 — le père de Marwan sauve la famille par la négociation face à un peloton d'exécution (03:35)Études et donnéesÉtude Universcience sur l'esprit critique : 76% des Français pensent avoir un bon esprit critique, 40% refusent de parler à des gens avec qui ils ne sont pas d'accord (52:28)Statistiques ONU sur la démographie mondiale : 8 milliards aujourd'hui, 10 milliards en chiffres médians d'ici 2050 (1:05:14)Références culturellesStranger Things (Netflix) — mentionné par Marwan pour évoquer la simplicité perçue des années 80 (1:05:14)Pyramide de Maslow — référencée sur le bonheur dans les sociétés riches (1:10:19)AutresFabrice Midal — cité en parallèle, discussion sur la société sans friction et l'expérience (27:08)Agence ADN — l'agence de Marwan, forme 3 000 à 4 000 personnes par an sur tous les continents (1:14:02)Timestamps clés (optimisés YouTube)00:00 — Introduction : manipulation, un mot qui fait peur Gregory se dit mauvais négociateur, Marwan aussi. Et pourtant. L'épisode s'ouvre sur une tension : pourquoi appeler un livre L'élégance de la manipulation quand le mot lui-même fait fuir ?02:17 — Manipulation vs influence : tout est dans l'intention Ce qui différencie les deux, ce n'est pas l'acte — c'est l'intention derrière. On peut manipuler positivement et influencer négativement. Le médecin qui te dit que c'est "le seul médicament" te manipule. On l'accepte parce que l'intention est bonne.03:35 — L'histoire personnelle de Marwan Né au Liban en 1975. Son père a sauvé la famille d'un peloton d'exécution le 6 décembre de la même année, par la seule force de la négociation. C'est là que tout a commencé.05:48 — Comment se réconcilier avec le conflit Le conflit n'est pas une violence. C'est l'expression normale d'un désaccord. Savoir le gérer, c'est un hard skill comme les maths. Ceux qui savent se battre n'ont pas peur de se promener à deux heures du matin. Ceux qui savent négocier vivent différemment.09:47 — La distinction position/enjeu : la clé de tout Derrière chaque position affichée se cache un enjeu réel — et dans 100% des cas, les deux n'ont rien à voir. Le mari en retard et la dispute qui s'ensuit : ce n'est pas le retard le sujet. C'est un besoin de respect qui n'est pas comblé.11:00 — L'ICP : intérêt commun partagé Même quand tout oppose deux parties, il existe toujours quelque chose sur quoi les deux peuvent dire oui. C'est cet espace-là qu'il faut trouver. Distributeur vs fournisseur en pleine hyperinflation : l'ICP, c'est faire revenir le consommateur en magasin. Sans ça, tout le monde perd.16:01 — Trump analysé par un négociateur des forces spéciales Trump est prévisible dans son imprévisibilité. Il pousse les curseurs au maximum, ça fonctionne face aux faibles. Mais face à l'Iran — qui ne se perçoit pas comme faible et n'a rien à perdre — il se retrouve dans une situation impossible. C'est le syndrome du tigre blessé.23:39 — Les 6 mécanismes universels de perméabilité Mortalité, émotion, besoin de croire, dissonance cognitive, bénéfice supérieur, économie des ressources. Ces six leviers s'appliquent à tout le monde, partout, toujours. Connaître les 250 biais cognitifs du codex ne suffit pas à s'en protéger.37:46 — La clôture d'une négociation : rien de rationnel Le gain réel ne compte pas. Ce qui compte, c'est le gain perçu. Battu 4 heures pour 1% = satisfaction maximale. Obtenu 20% en claquant des doigts = sentiment d'avoir laissé de l'argent sur la table. Le travail du négociateur, c'est de provoquer le sentiment de satiété.42:27 — Les 4 pouvoirs pour asseoir sa crédibilité Institutionnel (ton statut), situationnel (ce que tu sais faire que les autres ne savent pas), relationnel (ta capacité à créer le lien), personnel (ce que tu es, ton genre, ton charisme, ta couleur de peau). On n'existe qu'au travers du pouvoir que l'autre nous confère.44:44 — Le passif agressif : le profil le plus dangereux Marwan préfère 100 psychopathes à un passif agressif. Ce sont des gens qui sabotent le système de l'intérieur, qui retournent les équipes contre le patron, qui ne quittent jamais l'entreprise parce qu'ils savent qu'ils ne sont pas bankable ailleurs.51:41 — Bulles de filtre : impossible de s'en protéger seul Les algos confirment toujours ta pensée originelle. Connaître les biais ne suffit pas à les éviter. La seule vraie protection : ne pas rester seul dans ses décisions. L'isolement décisionnel, c'est ce qui nous tue.58:01 — Emprise dans un couple : les deux signaux à surveiller Privation de liberté et contrôle coercitif. Les deux s'installent si progressivement qu'au bout de deux ans, les gens ne se rendent même plus compte que demander la permission pour sortir, ce n'est pas normal.1:02:50 — L'inoculation psychologique Ne pas dire "il te manipule, regarde". Mais lister à l'avance les méthodes qu'il va utiliser. Quand il les utilise, la personne fait le lien elle-même. C'est l'électrochoc qui ouvre la fenêtre — sans provoquer de réactance.1:05:14 — Comment redonner envie du futur Pas avec de l'optimisme naïf. En apprenant à gérer l'incertitude. En choisissant quelle fenêtre ouvrir. L'alphabétisation a chuté, la longévité a augmenté, la pauvreté a reculé — les données existent. C'est un choix de regard, pas une certitude.1:12:06 — Ce qu'il faut retenir du livre Détourner un enfant d'un écran, libérer un proche d'une emprise, briser un discours radical : ça nécessite de l'expertise. Ça ne s'improvise pas. Et comme on manipule tous de toute façon, autant bien le faire.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Merwan Mery a été négociateur au sein des forces spéciales françaises, fondateur de l'agence ADN et son dernier livre se nomme "L'élégance de la manipulation." Tout un programme :)Je me suis dit depuis longtemps que la négociation, c'était une compétence pour les autres, je me défini moi même comme "nul" dans le domaine, aussi parce que je n'aime pas le conflit. Et puis en lisant le livre puis en discutant avec Merwan je me suis rendu compte que j'avais tout faux. Il est né au Liban en 1975, son père a sauvé sa famille d'un peloton d'exécution par les seuls mots. Et depuis, Marwan a fait de ça une vie entière.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de pourquoi éviter le conflit, c'est se condamner à perdre, des vrais leviers pour débloquer une négociation, de ce que Trump révèle d'un négociateur piégé par sa propre rhétorique, et de comment sortir quelqu'un d'une emprise sans jamais casser le lien.J'ai questionné Marwan sur les 6 mécanismes universels qui nous rendent tous perméables à la manipulation, sur la différence entre gain réel et gain perçu, sur la technique d'inoculation psychologique pour protéger quelqu'un qu'on aime et évidemment sur la manipulation.Citations marquantes"Je préfère gérer 100 psychopathes, 200 sociopathes, 400 pervers qu'un passif agressif. C'est pas une blague.""La clôture d'une négociation ne se fait que sur de la perception. Il n'y a rien de rationnel.""L'absence de résistance de ta part ne fera qu'augmenter le niveau d'exigence de l'autre.""On est tous manipulés, on est tous manipulateurs et on est tous manipulables.""Si vous ne décidez pas pour vous, les gens décideront pour vous. C'est le principe de l'indécision."Idées centrales Idée 1 — La manipulation n'est pas un défaut moral, c'est une nécessité humaine Marwan distingue l'influence de la manipulation par un seul critère : l'intention. Pas l'acte. On manipule tous dès l'enfance, avant même de savoir parler — dès qu'on oriente la réalité pour obtenir quelque chose. Ne pas exercer d'influence sur l'autre, c'est se soumettre à lui. Refuser cette réalité ne protège pas, ça fragilise. C'est pourquoi se réconcilier avec la manipulation, c'est le début de la liberté. Timestamp : 02:17 – 20:30Idée 2 — Distinguer position et enjeu : la clé de 100% des conflits Derrière chaque position affichée se cache un enjeu réel qui n'a, dans la quasi-totalité des cas, rien à voir avec elle. La prise d'otage de Munich en 1972 ? La position, c'est la libération de prisonniers. L'enjeu, c'est la cause palestinienne. Tant qu'on répond à la position, on ne résout rien. La seule voie, c'est de comprendre ce qu'il y a en dessous — et c'est toujours caché. Timestamp : 09:47 – 11:00Idée 3 — L'ICP, intérêt commun partagé : transcender le conflit plutôt que l'affronter Quand tout oppose deux parties, le seul levier est de trouver la chose sur laquelle les deux peuvent dire oui. En grande distribution, face à l'hyperinflation : le distributeur et le fournisseur s'opposent sur tout — sauf sur une chose, faire revenir le consommateur en magasin. Ça suffit à créer un espace de négociation là où il n'y en avait plus. Timestamp : 11:00 – 16:00Idée 4 — Les 6 mécanismes universels de perméabilité Marwan en a identifié six qui s'appliquent à tous, quelle que soit la culture : la mortalité (on agit pour ne pas mourir), l'émotion (qui prend souvent le pas sur la raison), le besoin de croire (donner du sens à ce qu'on ne comprend pas), la dissonance cognitive (les histoires qu'on se raconte pour éviter l'inconfort), le bénéfice supérieur (toutes nos actions sont guidées par lui), et l'économie des ressources (on choisit toujours le chemin le plus court). Ces six leviers font de chacun de nous une cible permanente. Timestamp : 23:39 – 27:08Idée 5 — Ce qui compte, c'est le gain perçu, pas le gain réel Une négociation ne se clôture jamais sur des faits — seulement sur un sentiment. Quelqu'un qui se bat quatre heures pour obtenir 1% sera plus satisfait que celui qui obtient 20% en claquant des doigts. Le travail du négociateur, c'est de provoquer chez l'autre le sentiment de satiété — lui donner l'impression qu'il a tout arraché, même s'il a tout perdu. Timestamp : 38:02 – 40:41Idée 6 — L'inoculation psychologique comme outil contre l'emprise Dire à quelqu'un "ton partenaire te manipule, regarde ce qu'il fait" ne sert à rien — le manipulateur l'a préparé à entendre exactement ça. En revanche, si on liste à l'avance les méthodes que le manipulateur va utiliser, sans cibler personne, la personne sous emprise fait elle-même le lien quand ces méthodes apparaissent. C'est l'électrochoc qui ouvre la fenêtre. Timestamp : 1:02:50 – 1:04:36Idée 7 — L'IA et la société sans friction : ce qu'on est en train de perdre Plus une technologie promet de réduire l'effort, plus on l'adopte silencieusement. GPS, ascenseurs, smartphones — et maintenant l'IA. Le problème : on perd les compétences que ces outils remplacent. Et les générations qui n'ont connu que l'après ne peuvent même plus se poser la question. La friction, c'est ce qui donne de l'expérience. L'enlever, c'est enlever le sens. Timestamp : 28:17 – 36:53Questions posées dans l'interviewLe titre L'élégance de la manipulation est volontairement transgressif — pourquoi choisir un mot que tout le monde fuit ?À quel âge commence-t-on à manipuler ?Qu'est-ce qui t'a amené à en faire une carrière — et quel rôle a joué ton histoire personnelle ?Comment passe-t-on de quelqu'un qui évite le conflit à quelqu'un qui sait le gérer ?Comment distinguer position et enjeu dans un conflit — et comment trouver l'ICP ?Que révèle Trump, lu à travers le prisme d'un négociateur professionnel ?Savoir qu'on est manipulables, est-ce libérateur ou anxiogène ?Comment repérer qu'on est dans une bulle de filtre algorithmique — et comment s'en extraire ?Quels sont les premiers signaux d'une emprise dans un couple, et comment sortir quelqu'un d'une emprise sans briser le lien ?Face à quelqu'un qui refuse de bouger, quelle est la pire erreur — et quelle question fonctionne vraiment ? Références citéesLivresL'élégance de la manipulation — Merwan Mehri (livre principal de l'épisode)The Art of the Deal — Donald Trump, cité pour illustrer la méthode du passage en force (16:11)Événements historiquesPrise d'otage de Munich, JO 1972 — exemple canonique de distinction entre position affichée et enjeu réel (10:30)Guerre du Liban, 6 décembre 1975 — le père de Marwan sauve la famille par la négociation face à un peloton d'exécution (03:35)Études et donnéesÉtude Universcience sur l'esprit critique : 76% des Français pensent avoir un bon esprit critique, 40% refusent de parler à des gens avec qui ils ne sont pas d'accord (52:28)Statistiques ONU sur la démographie mondiale : 8 milliards aujourd'hui, 10 milliards en chiffres médians d'ici 2050 (1:05:14)Références culturellesStranger Things (Netflix) — mentionné par Marwan pour évoquer la simplicité perçue des années 80 (1:05:14)Pyramide de Maslow — référencée sur le bonheur dans les sociétés riches (1:10:19)AutresFabrice Midal — cité en parallèle, discussion sur la société sans friction et l'expérience (27:08)Agence ADN — l'agence de Marwan, forme 3 000 à 4 000 personnes par an sur tous les continents (1:14:02)Timestamps clés (optimisés YouTube)00:00 — Introduction : manipulation, un mot qui fait peur Gregory se dit mauvais négociateur, Marwan aussi. Et pourtant. L'épisode s'ouvre sur une tension : pourquoi appeler un livre L'élégance de la manipulation quand le mot lui-même fait fuir ?02:17 — Manipulation vs influence : tout est dans l'intention Ce qui différencie les deux, ce n'est pas l'acte — c'est l'intention derrière. On peut manipuler positivement et influencer négativement. Le médecin qui te dit que c'est "le seul médicament" te manipule. On l'accepte parce que l'intention est bonne.03:35 — L'histoire personnelle de Marwan Né au Liban en 1975. Son père a sauvé la famille d'un peloton d'exécution le 6 décembre de la même année, par la seule force de la négociation. C'est là que tout a commencé.05:48 — Comment se réconcilier avec le conflit Le conflit n'est pas une violence. C'est l'expression normale d'un désaccord. Savoir le gérer, c'est un hard skill comme les maths. Ceux qui savent se battre n'ont pas peur de se promener à deux heures du matin. Ceux qui savent négocier vivent différemment.09:47 — La distinction position/enjeu : la clé de tout Derrière chaque position affichée se cache un enjeu réel — et dans 100% des cas, les deux n'ont rien à voir. Le mari en retard et la dispute qui s'ensuit : ce n'est pas le retard le sujet. C'est un besoin de respect qui n'est pas comblé.11:00 — L'ICP : intérêt commun partagé Même quand tout oppose deux parties, il existe toujours quelque chose sur quoi les deux peuvent dire oui. C'est cet espace-là qu'il faut trouver. Distributeur vs fournisseur en pleine hyperinflation : l'ICP, c'est faire revenir le consommateur en magasin. Sans ça, tout le monde perd.16:01 — Trump analysé par un négociateur des forces spéciales Trump est prévisible dans son imprévisibilité. Il pousse les curseurs au maximum, ça fonctionne face aux faibles. Mais face à l'Iran — qui ne se perçoit pas comme faible et n'a rien à perdre — il se retrouve dans une situation impossible. C'est le syndrome du tigre blessé.23:39 — Les 6 mécanismes universels de perméabilité Mortalité, émotion, besoin de croire, dissonance cognitive, bénéfice supérieur, économie des ressources. Ces six leviers s'appliquent à tout le monde, partout, toujours. Connaître les 250 biais cognitifs du codex ne suffit pas à s'en protéger.37:46 — La clôture d'une négociation : rien de rationnel Le gain réel ne compte pas. Ce qui compte, c'est le gain perçu. Battu 4 heures pour 1% = satisfaction maximale. Obtenu 20% en claquant des doigts = sentiment d'avoir laissé de l'argent sur la table. Le travail du négociateur, c'est de provoquer le sentiment de satiété.42:27 — Les 4 pouvoirs pour asseoir sa crédibilité Institutionnel (ton statut), situationnel (ce que tu sais faire que les autres ne savent pas), relationnel (ta capacité à créer le lien), personnel (ce que tu es, ton genre, ton charisme, ta couleur de peau). On n'existe qu'au travers du pouvoir que l'autre nous confère.44:44 — Le passif agressif : le profil le plus dangereux Marwan préfère 100 psychopathes à un passif agressif. Ce sont des gens qui sabotent le système de l'intérieur, qui retournent les équipes contre le patron, qui ne quittent jamais l'entreprise parce qu'ils savent qu'ils ne sont pas bankable ailleurs.51:41 — Bulles de filtre : impossible de s'en protéger seul Les algos confirment toujours ta pensée originelle. Connaître les biais ne suffit pas à les éviter. La seule vraie protection : ne pas rester seul dans ses décisions. L'isolement décisionnel, c'est ce qui nous tue.58:01 — Emprise dans un couple : les deux signaux à surveiller Privation de liberté et contrôle coercitif. Les deux s'installent si progressivement qu'au bout de deux ans, les gens ne se rendent même plus compte que demander la permission pour sortir, ce n'est pas normal.1:02:50 — L'inoculation psychologique Ne pas dire "il te manipule, regarde". Mais lister à l'avance les méthodes qu'il va utiliser. Quand il les utilise, la personne fait le lien elle-même. C'est l'électrochoc qui ouvre la fenêtre — sans provoquer de réactance.1:05:14 — Comment redonner envie du futur Pas avec de l'optimisme naïf. En apprenant à gérer l'incertitude. En choisissant quelle fenêtre ouvrir. L'alphabétisation a chuté, la longévité a augmenté, la pauvreté a reculé — les données existent. C'est un choix de regard, pas une certitude.1:12:06 — Ce qu'il faut retenir du livre Détourner un enfant d'un écran, libérer un proche d'une emprise, briser un discours radical : ça nécessite de l'expertise. Ça ne s'improvise pas. Et comme on manipule tous de toute façon, autant bien le faire. Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : [SOLO] Atrophie sociale : anatomie d'une manipulation de masse (https://audmns.com/UouEwvn) #342 Manipulation des idées : enquête sur un lobby libertarien mondial avec Anne-Sophie Simpère (https://audmns.com/NqsewHr) Vlan #64 Comment vos émotions sont-elles manipulées à travers les réseaux sociaux? avec Guy Philippe Goldstein (https://audmns.com/bZIlUdE)Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Průkopník humanistické psychologie, který zemřel 8. června 1970 při joggingu, byl přesvědčený, že každý člověk by měl maximálně zúročit své schopnosti. Podmínky pro naplněný život viděl v naplnění lidských potřeb. Rozdělil je do pěti okruhů: od fyziologických (jídlo a pití), přes pocity bezpečí, lásky, uznání, až po seberealizaci. Schéma známé jako Maslowova pyramida vešlo do příruček pro osobní rozvoj, management i marketing. Sám Maslow ale tohle schéma nikdy nenakreslil.

Průkopník humanistické psychologie, který zemřel 8. června 1970 při joggingu, byl přesvědčený, že každý člověk by měl maximálně zúročit své schopnosti. Podmínky pro naplněný život viděl v naplnění lidských potřeb. Rozdělil je do pěti okruhů: od fyziologických (jídlo a pití), přes pocity bezpečí, lásky, uznání, až po seberealizaci. Schéma známé jako Maslowova pyramida vešlo do příruček pro osobní rozvoj, management i marketing. Sám Maslow ale tohle schéma nikdy nenakreslil.Všechny díly podcastu Příběhy z kalendáře můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Read the deeper writing on Substack → spiritualised.substack.comHow does individuation — the descent, the dark night, the alchemical marriage — actually build you $30 million? That's the question underneath this episode. Because the inner work and the wealth are not two separate things. When the inner masculine activates, he looks across the arc of time. He plans. He compounds. And the inner feminine, who lives only in the now, in the pleasure of this moment, is finally allowed to rest — not a Sunday rest or an evening off, but a deep, cellular rest, because she's no longer carrying everything alone.I bring the alchemical marriage out of the abstract and into something practical, because so much of this work gets taught beautifully and spiritually with no application to the life you're actually living. We move through the descent into the spiritual underworld, the dark night of the soul that comes in layers, and the epiphanies that arrive there — what I've come to think of as a transportation system of light, delivering healing into the fractures of the heart. Then we follow the ascent back to the surface, where sovereignty is built and the inner masculine takes up his role: looking after your 70, 80, 90, 100-year-old self, your children, your grandchildren.I share why Maslow's hierarchy can collapse when it's been built on the wrong foundation, and what the rebuild from non-attachment actually looks like. I bring in the story of the Widow's Olive Oil from the Bible — a teaching on the vessel, and why so many spiritual women are earning through leaky energy, paid only when they show up, with nothing holding the wealth when they don't. We look at what a vessel is in the modern world: recurring income that flows into investments, work that eventually carries itself, and a real legacy for the generations after you.Then we get into the figures — a membership at $150 a month with 333 members, what happens when a portion is invested across 10, 20, 30 and 40 years even when you stop investing entirely at year ten, and a second model where eight women at $5,555 a month compound toward tens of millions by year forty. This is the alchemical marriage made practical: the inner masculine planning across the arc of time, building something strong enough that the feminine can finally exhale.Listen, take what resonates, and come find more inside Spiritualised at spiritualised.substack.comwww.goinward.co.ukwww.instagram.com/goinwardTopics: individuation, alchemical marriage, inner masculine, inner feminine, divine union, dark night of the soul, shadow work, Jungian individuation, spiritual awakening, sovereignty, money and spirituality, wealth for spiritual women, recurring income, compounding, legacy, financial freedom.

Herzlich willkommen zu einer neuen Folge des Makler und Vermittler Podcasts! In dieser Episode sprechen Nicolas Vogt und Torsten Jasper über die größten Herausforderungen, die Maklerunternehmen aktuell beschäftigen. Basierend auf einer Umfrage unter der Community diskutieren die beiden, welche Themen besonders im Fokus stehen. Von Prozessen und Technik über Unternehmensstrukturen bis hin zur persönlichen und unternehmerischen Weiterentwicklung. Sie zeigen auf, warum physischer Austausch in mehrtägigen Events immer noch unschlagbar ist, und wie die neue Eventreihe "Biggest Challenge" genau darauf einzahlt. Außerdem erfahrt ihr, wie die Bedürfnispyramide von Maslow auf Unternehmen übertragen werden kann und warum es manchmal einen einzigen inspirierenden Satz braucht, um den entscheidenden Unterschied im Business zu machen. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören!

You can build the most meaningful nonprofit in the world, but if nobody knows it exists, it cannot do its work. That is the thread running through this bonus episode of the Visibility Impact Show, recorded live and on foot during Core Legacy's annual Carry the Weight Walk in Columbus, Ohio.Crissy Conner walks with Airielle Dotson, founder of Core Legacy, a nonprofit serving young adults ages 18 to 24 who are navigating some of life's heaviest burdens. Airielle shares the deeply personal story behind why she started Core Legacy, growing up with a mother diagnosed with schizophrenia, a father whose drug addiction took his life when Airielle was 17 and a brother diagnosed with schizophrenia at 16. She carried shame and isolation for years because she never talked about it. Core Legacy was born out of that silence.What started as a dream to create housing for young adults evolved into something smarter. By bringing trauma-informed programming directly to Carroll Stewart Village, a 62-unit renovated motel in Columbus where residents ages 16 to 24 can live for free, Core Legacy met people where they actually were. Not at the top of Maslow's pyramid asking people in survival mode to focus on self-actualization, but right at the foundation, building trust one last Friday of the month at a time.Donate to Carry The Weight or sign up to walk: https://givebutter.com/helpcarrytheweight2026/hot-girl-walkers/crissyconnerDonate any time: https://corelegacy.org/donate/Connect with Core Legacyhttps://www.facebook.com/CoreLegacyColumbushttps://www.instagram.com/corelegacynpo/ The OMNI Method is a diversified visibility strategy built across social media, search and AI - designed for female entrepreneurs who want to be known, found and unforgettable without living online around the clock. If you are ready to build visibility that works harder than you do, learn more at https://thevisibleceo.com/omni Website: thevisibilityimpactshow.comBrand: thevisibleceo.com Instagram: instagram.com/itscrissyconner TikTok: tiktok.com/@crissyconner Facebook: facebook.com/crissyconner YouTube: youtube.com/@CrissyConner LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/crissyconner 

You think you know who your avatar is. You're probably wrong.Not because you haven't thought about it. Not because you lack experience or expertise. But because most coaches are describing their avatar from the top of the mountain, in language that makes total sense to them and zero sense to the person at the base.That is the avatar problem. And it is not the avatar's problem. It's yours.In this episode, Adam and Jess are naming the thing that sits underneath every marketing frustration, every slow launch, every "I don't know why this isn't working" moment in a coaching business. If you are not getting enough clients, your avatar clarity is almost certainly part of the reason. It's not the only variable, but it is the one that makes every other variable harder to fix.The avatar problem shows up in a few specific ways. Some coaches have it because they are trying to speak to everyone and therefore speaking to no one. Some coaches have it because they have built their messaging around a job title or industry rather than a lived problem they have actually solved. And some coaches have it because they are so deep in the expertise of their niche that they've lost the ability to speak in the language of someone who hasn't arrived there yet.Adam and Jess have had every version of this problem themselves. The challenge was called the "10K Coaching Offer Challenge" for years. The intensive was the "Quarter Million Coach Intensive." Both were named for an old version of an old avatar, built around aspirational income language that made sense to them and filtered out the exact coach who needed them most. When they ran their own positioning through the Maslow Mountain filter, they renamed both. Not because the content changed. Because the avatar did.IN THIS EPISODE: - Why "if you don't have enough clients, you might have an avatar problem" is the fastest self-diagnostic you can run right now- The Rory Vaden principle that actually defines who you are built to serve (and it has nothing to do with credentials or certifications)- Why the specialist always beats the generalist, and the cardiac surgeon story that makes it click permanently- The two ways coaches speak about their avatar publicly, and why only one of them generates referrals- Adam's 30-year-old tennis evaluation sheet and the moment he realized he should have been coaching serves, not tennis- The relevance pitch framework, what it is and why "internal niche, external relevant" is the rule that ends the verbal vomit problem- What happened to the challenge participant who walked in with a five-minute monologue and walked out with a six-word sentence- Why imposter syndrome, silo-building, and unclear avatar language are the exact same problem wearing three different outfits- How Adam and Jess renamed both their challenge and their intensive after running their own language through the Maslow filterTHE BIG IDEA: Your avatar is not defined by who you want to serve. It is defined by who you are actually built to serve, the person walking the path you have already walked. The coach who gets clear on that stops chasing clients and starts attracting them. But here is the part most coaches skip: your language for that avatar cannot come from the top of the mountain. You have to climb back down, remember what it felt like to stand at the base, and speak from there.MEMORABLE LINES FROM THIS EPISODE: "The avatar problem is not the avatar's problem. You have an avatar problem because you don't know specifically what you solve.""We don't want you to appeal to the masses. Do not appeal to the masses. We want you to appeal to a very small subset of the masses because you are a specialist in this space.""Internal niche, external relevant. That's the key.""I can't tell you the majority of the nurses that were in my son's NICU room, but you bet your bottom dollar I can name first and last name the doctor who did my son's heart surgery.""The worst language that we hear comes from the people who build in a silo the most."YOUR ONE THING THIS WEEK: Run the two-question self-diagnostic. First: do you have enough clients? If the answer is no, your avatar language is worth a hard look. Second: take your current way of describing what you do and read it out loud to someone who has no context for your niche. If they look confused, ask more questions, or go quiet, that is not engagement. That is polite disengagement. Start there. Simpler, cleaner, more specific to the problem. Not to the credential. Not to the methodology. The problem.CONNECT WITH ADAM AND JESS: If this one hit close to home, come find us at ilovecoachingco.com. That is where our upcoming events live, where the community is, and where you can connect with us directly. If you are ready to stop building alone and start getting real feedback on your avatar and your offer, the Sellable Offer Challenge is the place to start. ilovecoachingco.com/challenge If you know a coach who keeps saying their marketing isn't working but can't explain who they help in one clear sentence, send them this one. That is exactly who this episode is for.Follow the show: @ilovecoachingco on Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and FacebookKEY THEMES: - Avatar clarity as a business diagnostic, not a branding exercise- Maslow's Mountain as a positioning filter- Specialist vs. generalist in coaching- Relevance pitch: internal niche, external relevance- Lived experience as the foundation of authority- Silo-building and its relationship to imposter syndrome- Public language vs. enrollment language for coaches- Feedback as a competitive advantage in offer development

You can build the most meaningful nonprofit in the world, but if nobody knows it exists, it cannot do its work. That is the thread running through this bonus episode of the Visibility Impact Show, recorded live and on foot during Core Legacy's annual Carry the Weight Walk in Columbus, Ohio.Crissy Conner walks with Airielle Dotson, founder of Core Legacy, a nonprofit serving young adults ages 18 to 24 who are navigating some of life's heaviest burdens. Airielle shares the deeply personal story behind why she started Core Legacy, growing up with a mother diagnosed with schizophrenia, a father whose drug addiction took his life when Airielle was 17 and a brother diagnosed with schizophrenia at 16. She carried shame and isolation for years because she never talked about it. Core Legacy was born out of that silence.What started as a dream to create housing for young adults evolved into something smarter. By bringing trauma-informed programming directly to Carroll Stewart Village, a 62-unit renovated motel in Columbus where residents ages 16 to 24 can live for free, Core Legacy met people where they actually were. Not at the top of Maslow's pyramid asking people in survival mode to focus on self-actualization, but right at the foundation, building trust one last Friday of the month at a time.Donate to Carry The Weight or sign up to walk: https://givebutter.com/helpcarrytheweight2026/hot-girl-walkers/crissyconnerDonate any time: https://corelegacy.org/donate/Connect with Core Legacyhttps://www.facebook.com/CoreLegacyColumbushttps://www.instagram.com/corelegacynpo/ The OMNI Method is a diversified visibility strategy built across social media, search and AI - designed for female entrepreneurs who want to be known, found and unforgettable without living online around the clock. If you are ready to build visibility that works harder than you do, learn more at https://thevisibleceo.com/omni Website: thevisibilityimpactshow.comBrand: thevisibleceo.com Instagram: instagram.com/itscrissyconner TikTok: tiktok.com/@crissyconner Facebook: facebook.com/crissyconner YouTube: youtube.com/@CrissyConner LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/crissyconner 

On this episode, Kevin chats with Aleks Gampel, co-founder of Cuby Technologies, a hardware and software company that's built a completely new type of home construction. With 243 people across three continents and a million engineering hours invested, Cuby has developed a mobile micro factory: a containerized, plug-and-play factory in a box that ships to any market and manufactures single-family homes with unskilled labor at roughly $100 a square foot in 30 days.Aleks walks us through how Cuby has built the antithesis to traditional modular construction by localizing manufacturing rather than centralizing it. He gets into why construction is fundamentally a logistics problem, how 168 shipping containers and 600 SKUs come together on a 6.5-acre site, and why the company chose to manufacture its own windows, framing, and sandwich panels rather than relying on third-party suppliers.He also gets into the economics of the mobile micro factory at roughly $25 million all-in, why Cuby targets regional home builders who can't compete with the Lennars and DR Hortons of the world, and how the company bridges two capital worlds. Venture capital funds the platform while infrastructure equity and debt fund each factory as its own SPV.On the business side, Aleks shares why most startups fail on partnership dynamics, what drew him to a problem nobody has cracked, and why solving for housing sits at the base of Maslow's hierarchy. His take on building inside a conservative industry is straightforward: don't try to reinvent the wheel, just figure out how to make it spin faster.

Have you heard of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? It's often taught in dental hygiene school in the context of patient care, but in this episode, Dana uses it to demonstrate how you can use it to find out if your foundational needs are being met. Stress, sleep deprivation, financial pressure, chronic pain, burnout, and self-doubt can affect learning, clinical performance, confidence, and even patient communication in dental hygiene school and early practice. This conversation is a reminder that struggling does not always mean you are incapable—it may mean your brain and body are trying to manage too many unmet needs at once. You'll also hear practical ways to check in with yourself, support overwhelmed dental hygiene patients with more empathy, and create realistic routines that protect your well-being while pursuing long-term growth in dental hygiene school and clinical practice.

In the latest episode of Scratch, Tracey-Lee gets into what it really takes to build trust in a controversial space, how she sells brand investment to a CFO who only speaks performance, and the Black Friday campaign where Payflex faked a data breach and somehow lived to tell the tale. The key takeaway:  1. Radical honesty is not a risk, it's a requirement In a controversial category, you have to be as loud with your rebuttals as your critics are with their attacks. Silence reads as guilt. 2. BNPL customers aren't who the headlines say they are Payflex users are not over-indebted people stretching to survive. They're actualizing. Identity-driven. The emotional need sits at the top of Maslow's hierarchy, not the bottom. 3. The two-year brand cliff is real Cut brand budget today, nothing happens for six months, maybe a year. Then sales tank. And to recover it, you spend two to three times what you cut. The lag is the weapon CMOs need to use in every CFO conversation. 4. Brief writing is a tattoo, not a tick box WATTW. What are we trying to achieve here. If you can't answer that before you brief, you shouldn't be briefing. 5. Marketing is an advocate for the market, not a go-to-market function Marketers need to be in the product room early, sometimes aggressively, because no product strategy survives contact with a customer insight that nobody bothered to bring in. 6. Learn the finances early The biggest unlock in Tracey-Lee's career was understanding what CFOs actually care about: customer equity, market share, lifetime value. Not ROAS. 7. Boldness needs justification, not just instinct The data breach campaign worked because it had a clear strategic logic behind it. Payflex is an innovator and Black Friday demands standout or silence. Watch the video version of this podcast on Youtube ▶️: https://youtu.be/fPIrrl9Qg3I Scratch is a production of Rival, a marketing innovation consultancy that develops strategies and capabilities that help businesses grow faster. Scratch is hosted by Viren Samani, and he's joined by Tracey-Lee Zürcher-Campbell of Payflex in this episode Find Rival online at www.wearerival.com, LinkedIn Find Viren on Linkedin Find Tracey-Lee on Linkedin Say hi at media@wearerival.com, we'd love to hear from you. Rival is a marketing consultancy for brands that want to challenge convention in their category. We're on a mission to understand what challenger brands do differently to grow in categories that are being disrupted, and use a challenger playbook to deliver outsized impact through an integrated, tech-enabled approach. Past guests include CMOs from Mastercard, GE, Shell, Hyperloop, Adobe, PepsiCo, and Papa Johns.If you're interested in learning more about marketing from successful CMOs, we compiled a list of the top 5 CMO podcasts to listen to in 2024; check it out here

You've got the message. You know who you're talking to. So why isn't the marketing working?That's the exact question Adam Roach and Jess Webber dig into in Part 4 of the Maslow Mountain series. This is the episode where the internal work you've done on messaging finally has to go public, and it turns out that's where most coaches hit a wall they didn't see coming.The conversation starts with a distinction that sounds simple but cuts deep: marketing versus performing. If you've been tweaking your message to fit the room, adjusting your language based on who's watching, or changing what you lead with depending on the platform, that's performance. Marketing is something different. It's a clear, consistent message people start to associate with you before you ever show up. It's reputation built in advance. And the gap between those two things is costing coaches real opportunity every single day.Adam and Jess also get into the owned versus borrowed media question, and they're not gentle about it. Borrowed media, your social platforms, your Instagram followers, your TikTok audience, works until it doesn't. You don't own any of it, and one algorithm change or account suspension can erase years of effort overnight. The more durable play is building something you own, getting consistent there first, and then using borrowed platforms to invite people into it, not the other way around.What you'll learn in this episode:Why most coaches are performing instead of marketing, and exactly what the difference looks like in practiceThe "see vs. seek" framework: why you want people actively looking for your solution, not just noticing you existWhy you get tired of your marketing before your market does, and what to do about itThe owned vs. borrowed media strategy ILC uses to control their marketing machineHow Adam and Jess grew ILC's email open rates from under 20% to nearly 67% by fixing message-to-avatar alignmentWhat a lead magnet actually needs to do (and why a simple Google Doc outperformed a professionally designed one)How to build marketing that keeps running even when you're not in the roomThe big idea here is the machine. When your messaging is accurate, when it lands with the right avatar at the right place on the mountain, marketing stops being something you have to push. It starts being something that pulls people toward you while you're doing everything else. That's not a dream state. Adam and Jess are living it right now, and they show the receipts."You want people to seek you versus just see you. And that's a big difference." — Adam RoachResources Mentioned:ILC Community + New Lead Magnet: ilovecoachingco.comUpcoming Sellable Offers Challenge: ilovecoachingco.com/challengeInstagram: @ilovecoachingco / @adamrroach / @thejesswebberYouTube: youtube.com/@ilovecoachingcoTimestamps:[00:00] Intro + Series Recap (Parts 1–3)[03:11] Marketing vs. Performing: What's the Difference?[05:39] See vs. Seek: The Framework[07:06] Why Coaches Quit Marketing Too Soon[09:02] Owned vs. Borrowed Media[13:18] The Dangers of Building Only on Social (Real Story)[15:34] ILC's Email Data: Open Rates from Sub-20% to 67%[18:54] How to Build a Lead Magnet from What You Already Do[23:39] The Machine: Marketing That Runs Without You[27:03] ILC's New Lead Magnet + Sellable Offers Challenge Teaser[28:04] Sneak Peek: Episode 5 — The Avatar ProblemReady to stop guessing and start growing? The ILC community is where coaches build businesses they're actually proud of. Head to ilovecoachingco.com to check out the new lead magnet and the upcoming Sellable Offers Challenge.

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Welcome to a new episode of Spark of Awareness.I've been away for a few weeks, integrating everything that happened over the past months. Many positive changes took place, but integration takes time. Sometimes, making priorities means letting go and accepting that we do not always have control — a theme I'll explore throughout this series.In this series, I'm diving into the six human needs and their shadow expressions in leadership.The framework of the six human needs appears across several psychology and coaching work. You may know it through Tony Robbins' work, but there are many models exploring human motivation and behavior: self-determination theory, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and others.I'm always interested in examining how humans function through different lenses. What I find valuable about the six human needs model is its ability to reveal our patterns and shadows.The purpose of this reflection is cultivating self-awareness. Self-awareness allows us to become more conscious of what we do, how we think, and ultimately, how we act.The six human needs are:* Certainty* Variety / Uncertainty* Significance* Love and Connection* Growth* ContributionEach episode in this series explores one of these needs through the lens of leadership and self-awareness. Today, I'm focusing on the first: the need for certainty.The Need for Certainty as the Need for ControlThe need for certainty is highly present in business and leadership.If I had to translate certainty into practical leadership behavior, I would call it the need for control.When the need for certainty becomes dominant, it often turns into an excessive focus on control. In organizations, this pattern appears frequently.We try to control outcomes. We seek certainty around success. We want guarantees that we will meet our targets, grow, survive, or secure the future.This creates pressure — pressure from leadership to control markets, despite the reality that markets cannot be controlled.It shows up as controlling employees, peers, or outcomes. It can manifest as manipulation, increased dependency on systems or people, and a loss of sovereignty.The need for certainty itself is not wrong. All human needs are valid.The problem emerges when a need becomes unexamined and overextended. At that point, it turns into a shadow — a blocker to growth, personal development, and consciousness.The Shadow Side of CertaintyThe shadow of certainty is an excessive attachment to control, safety, and predictability.We want every action we take today to guarantee future success. We want certainty that effort will produce the desired outcome.Unfortunately, reality does not work that way.Effort increases probability, but it does not guarantee results — especially in business.Startup success rates alone remind us of this reality.This overinvestment in certainty often extends to teams and relationships. Leaders may try to control employees to ensure they stay forever. Similar patterns appear in personal relationships: controlling someone to prevent them from leaving, or to obtain something from them.But controlling the market, outcomes, or other people is ultimately an illusion.People do what they want to do. They often act according to their own motivations, not according to our expectations.Recognizing this is an important reminder: much of what we try to control is beyond our control.The Reinforcing Cycle of ControlThe need for certainty easily becomes a reinforcing loop.When control fails, we often respond by trying to create stronger mechanisms of control: more contracts, more legal protections, more planning, tighter agreements, reduced freedom.The question becomes:Do you notice yourself forcing guarantees in order to feel in control?The path forward is not stronger control.It is learning to release control.It is surrender.Learning to SurrenderI speak from personal experience here.The need for certainty was deeply present in my earlier life. Certainty represented safety. I wanted assurance that no one would harm me, that there would be financial runway, that my salary would keep me safe.Working in the games industry taught me otherwise.It has been an incredible journey, but also one filled with uncertainty.Teams closed. People left. Expected numbers did not materialize. I left companies I had not planned to leave.Over time, I learned — often the hard way — that there is very little I truly control.Practicing Not KnowingIf you recognize yourself clinging to certainty, especially when it prevents growth, the practice is simple, though not easy:Practice not knowing.What does it feel like, in your body, to let go of control little by little?For me, releasing control created anxiety and stress. It became a gradual practice: letting go a little more, then a little more again.What can you release and discover that nothing catastrophic happens when you stop controlling?At minimum, your body often feels different — less contracted, less tense, less exhausted.Because certainty and control create physical contraction. They create tension, fatigue, and when sustained long enough, chronic symptoms.What Can You Actually Control?This brings me back to stoicism.Stoic practice reminds us that we control very little outside ourselves.What we can influence are our thoughts, our perceptions, and the actions that arise from them.How do you interpret events?How do you speak to yourself?Negative self-talk tends to generate actions that reinforce negative beliefs. A different interpretation creates different possibilities for action.Your perception of a situation is something you can work with.Acceptance as a Leadership PracticeAnother practice for those heavily attached to control is acceptance.Acceptance of what is.When someone does not do what you want, when reality unfolds differently than expected — can you sit with it?Can you be with your frustration?This has been an important practice in my own life.Because my pattern was certainty, much of my work involved becoming familiar with anxiety, uncertainty, and not knowing.Learning that it is safe not to know.Because trying to know everything is largely an illusion.It rarely changes the outcome.What changes is your internal state: you feel clearer, calmer, and more grounded in your body.Closing ReflectionTo summarize:Everyone has a need for certainty.In its shadow form, certainty becomes an excessive need for control and predictability.The invitation is to practice not knowing. To move forward without guaranteed outcomes. To discover what happens when you continue walking your path without certainty.A few years ago, I did not know I would become a coach.I did not try to force the answer.I focused on learning, improving my craft, listening to the market, understanding what people needed, and following the current of life.Today, I'm in the right place.But arriving here required surrender.So the question I leave with you is:How can you surrender a little more to not having control?Thanks for reading Rise and Play! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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In this solo episode of Million Dollar Flip Flops, Rodric breaks down what he believes is the single biggest killer of business growth — and it's not the economy, interest rates, or competition.It's comfort.Not the early struggle. Not obvious failure.It's that quiet, sneaky place where:Revenue looks good on paperLife feels “manageable”Survival isn't on the line anymore…and growth stops being necessary, so it quietly becomes optional.Rodric shares:Why most builders don't stall because they fail — they stall because they succeed just enoughHow comfort kills ambition in the same way it killed empires (yes, including Rome)Why your why has to evolve from survival → stability → lifestyle → something biggerWhy “optional growth” will always lose to comfortHow all business problems are ultimately human problemsWhy he still coaches even after selling his last company (and how it ties directly to SASLA & impact)You'll also hear stories about the Roman Empire, Henry Ford, and the subtle way comfort erodes standards, responsibility, discipline — and eventually, your edge.This episode is a gut check for any builder or entrepreneur who's doing 2, 3, even 10 million a year… and feels like life looks good on paper, but something inside knows they're coasting.

Send us Fan MailWhat do traffic jams, poker strategy, and applicant tracking systems have in common? More than you'd think.In this episode, Vanessa unpacks decision-making under uncertainty—why the “fastest” route isn't always the best one, and how both life and job searches can punish us for not being able to predict the future. We talk GPS stress, Annie Duke's poker-based decision framework, nervous system regulation (Maslow before Bloom, always), and a real-world job search story that proves something important:Humans still hire humans—even when algorithms try to pretend otherwise.In This Episode, We CoverWhy GPS (and life) makes “best guesses,” not promises How teachers get stuck outcome-shaming themselves (“If it went badly, I must be wrong…”) What poker psychology teaches us about uncertainty and decision quality A Teacher Hack for protecting your nervous system: take the scenic route The truth about Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and why resumes vanish A behind-the-scenes story of navigating hiring systems by reintroducing human connection How to spot culture red flags before you accept the job Why “optimized” doesn't always mean “healthy”   Links MentionedJack Palance “one-armed push-ups” clip (referenced in episode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxL5AFzzMY Teachers in Transition podcast homepage: https://teachersintransition.buzzsprout.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565671792885 Website: https://TeachersinTransition.com  Optional: Support the Podcast

Why do some students quit after one day, while others become skiers for life? In this episode of First Chair, host George Thomas is joined by Sebastian Crain to explore the deep psychology behind snowsports instruction. Sebastian teaches at Aspen Snowmass and Eldora, but he also holds a Master's in the Social Psychology of Sport. He uses that expertise to explain why Self-Determination Theory (SDT) is the ultimate tool for modern instructors. Sebastian breaks down the three basic psychological needs—autonomy, competency, and relatedness—and explains how they lead to "intrinsic motivation." Learn how to move your guests away from just "trying it out" and toward a permanent identity as a snowpro. We also discuss how to deliver "informational" rather than "controlling" feedback to keep your students in the driver's seat. In this episode, we discuss: - How Self-Determination Theory improves on Maslow's Hierarchy. - The motivation spectrum: From ice cream rewards to flow state. - 9 statistically significant characteristics of effective feedback. - Shifting the focus from what you teach to how the guest feels.

You've worked on your messaging. You've used AI to help clean it up. You've rewritten your bio three times. And still, the right people aren't responding.Here's the problem Adam and Jess zero in on in this episode: most coaches are writing from where they are, not from where their people are. That gap is costing you conversations, clients, and trust.This is Part 3 of the Maslow Mountain series, and it's probably the one you've been waiting for. Parts 1 and 2 built the foundation of understanding your avatar and nailing your payoff. This episode is where it all lands, because if your messaging doesn't meet your person on the level of the mountain they're actually standing on, none of the rest of it matters.The conversation gets specific fast. Jess flags the "I help blank do blank" formula as the single most common messaging mistake coaches make, not because the structure is wrong but because the language is always too generic, too aspirational, and too far from where the person actually is right now. Adam pulls in the psychographic lens: what does your avatar think, feel, and need at this exact moment? Those are the three questions that need to drive every piece of messaging you put into the world.They also get honest about AI. It's a great thought partner. It's a lousy content creator unless you've done the foundational human work first. And in a world where people can now feel the difference between a real person's message and a generated one, leaning on AI without that foundation isn't just ineffective. It actively erodes trust.What you'll take away from this episode:Why "I help [avatar] achieve [outcome]" is killing your conversions and what to replace it withThe specific question you need to answer before writing a single word of messaging: where is your avatar on the mountain right now?Why aspirational language repels the very people you're trying to attractHow to remove ego from your messaging without removing yourself from itThe difference between specificity and complexity (and why your audience wants one, not both)What Taki Moore gets right that most coaches get completely wrong about authentic messagingWhy storytelling outperforms information dumping every single time, on social, on stage, and everywhere elseThe big idea:Your messaging has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with them. The coaches who land clients consistently aren't the most credentialed or the most polished. They're the ones whose words make their ideal client think, "How did they know that's exactly where I am right now?" That feeling is trust. And trust is what closes.Notable quote:"Stop the peacocking and just really start being you. Even if you're a manatee." — Jess WebberResources Mentioned:Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller (referenced: guide vs. hero positioning)Taki Moore — go watch his recent reels for a masterclass in authentic, avatar-first messagingILC Community: ilovecoachingco.comInstagram: @ilovecoachingco / @adamrroach / @thejesswebberYouTube: youtube.com/@ilovecoachingcoTimestamps:[00:00] Opening: Episode 3 of Maslow Mountain and the messaging problem[00:29] Why AI is a copilot, not a content creator[02:37] What happens when you rely solely on AI for messaging[04:10] The "I help blank do blank" trap[05:30] Think and feel: the two messaging filters that build trust[06:36] Why specificity is the trust builder (and it doesn't mean fancy language)[08:26] Push pause: your one action item from this episode[09:01] Active cringe face and why aspirational language misses the mark[11:00] Social media is not about you, full stop[12:53] The hero vs. guide shift (Donald Miller reference)[14:00] Jess's keynote story: what happened when she removed the info dump[15:50] Taki Moore as a case study in authentic positional messaging[18:28] Authenticity vs. ego: the distinction that changes everything[20:57] The peacocking problem and the permission to stop[22:43] Preview: Part 4 is coming, and it's about letting your message work without youJoin the Community:Ready to build a coaching business where the right people actually find you? The ILC community is where coaches stop guessing at their messaging and start building something that works. Head over to ilovecoachingco.com.

In this episode, Lisa continues her deep dive into intentional weight loss through a trauma‑informed, mind‑body‑spirit lens. Building on previous discussions about Maslow's hierarchy and conscious decision‑making, she explores what it truly means to approach weight loss from love, presence, and self‑leadership rather than fear, shame, or diet‑culture conditioning. Lisa reflects on a recent conversation from the Mind and Fitness podcast, where a listener experienced “effortless” weight loss after shifting his mindset. She explains that mindset alone doesn't change the scale—mindset changes behaviors, and behaviors change outcomes. Lisa emphasizes the necessity of waking up and becoming conscious, intentional, and present in your relationship with food, your body, and yourself. Weight loss cannot be passive or dissociated.Topics Include:Conscious Creation & Self‑EnergyLove vs. Fear as a MotivatorBringing All Parts of You Along[0:56] Lisa announces several upcoming opportunities for deeper community engagement, including the first live Patreon Q&A happening Thursday, May 22, 2026 at 6 PM EDT, ongoing Patreon membership tiers at $5, $10, and $25 per month offering behind‑the‑scenes content and live calls, and a five‑day in‑person Omega retreat from July 12–17, 2026.[5:28] Lisa explains that sustainable weight loss requires operating from a higher level of consciousness by taking full responsibility, waking up from “passenger seat” patterns, and stepping into true ownership of food decisions; she highlights Eddie Lindenstein's experience, where moving from self‑force to self‑worth naturally changed his eating behaviors and led to effortless weight loss, demonstrating how internal shifts must translate into physical action to create real results.[13:05] Lisa highlights that sustainable weight loss happens when it is driven by self‑love and safety rather than fear‑based control, noting that love sustains long‑term alignment while fear only fuels short bursts of effort; she also emphasizes the need to fully grieve and accept personal responsibility for every food‑related choice because many people stall until this responsibility truly lands. [28:28] Lisa explains that intentional weight loss requires pairing inner work by continually aligning mindset with nutrient‑dense, high‑volume, low‑calorie eating while observing outcomes and iterating an act of self‑love, liberation, and self‑actualization rather than self‑loathing allow the pursuit to become an embodied expression of growth and personal freedom.[47:17] Lisa underscores the importance of grounding intentional weight loss in safety by maintaining clear health boundaries while accessing capital‑S Self energy from IFS and spiritual frameworks (presence, perspective, patience, playfulness, persistence; calm, clarity, courage, curiosity, compassion, confidence, connection, creativity) so that behavior change arises from wholeness and self‑leadership rather than deficiency‑driven pursuit.. [54:16] Lisa teaches that readiness for intentional weight loss requires reliably meeting basic needs—eating when hungry, stopping when full, and trusting food consistency—because the same behaviors can be safe or unsafe depending on the energy behind them; she reminds listeners that they are spiritual beings who have bodies, not bodies who occasionally feel spiritual, and she emphasizes integrating and honoring all past selves rather than exiling them, modeling this through keeping old photos visible and her “302” tattoo as a way of carrying her history with love and sustaining long‑term change.Embody Peace With Food: A Revolutionary Holistic Approach - Omega Institute: July 12-17, 2026LISA IS NOW ACCEPTING: One-on-One Clients!⁠Purchase the OOTC book of 50 Journal Prompts⁠⁠Leave Questions and Feedback for Lisa via OOTC Pod Feedback Form ⁠Email Lisa: ⁠lisa@lisaschlosberg.com⁠⁠Out of the Cave Merch⁠ - For 10% off use code SCHLOS10Lisa's Socials: Instagram⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠

For the first time in 26 years of the Working Relations Index, every single North American OEM moved up the chart. Ford, Toyota, Stellantis, Honda, GM, and Nissan all scored higher than the year before. That has never happened. Not once.In this special episode, Jan sits down with Dr. Angela Johnson, principal at Plante Moran responsible for the WRI, along with Sig Huber, Chief Commercial Officer of Elm Analytics and former supplier risk leader at Toyota and Fiat Chrysler. Three sharp voices. One story the industry needs to hear.Tariffs. EV cost recovery. Permacrisis fatigue. Return-to-office mandates. Four undercurrents shaped this year's results, and they all point to the same place. When OEMs can't control the macro, they lean into what they can control. Communication. Accessibility. Buyer responsiveness. Taking the meeting. Listening. Acting. That's what moved the needle, and the suppliers noticed.Ford's 32-point jump is the second-largest gain in WRI history, and Liz Door led that charge from the top. Stellantis is showing the early signs of a real turnaround under Filosa. GM's still working through cultural inertia, but the relationship side keeps moving in the right direction. And Toyota and Honda aren't slowing down.Angela also unpacks her new 6C framework. It's the bridge between transactional and relational. Commercial fairness, consistency, clear expectations, communication, continuity, and collaboration. It's the structure the industry's been missing.But here's the harder truth. The next 18 to 24 months will test every relationship in this industry. Cost of goods sold is climbing. Supplier financial distress is creeping back. Cross-functional alignment inside the OEMs is slipping. The playbook's changing. The question isn't whether we can do this together. It's whether we will.Here's the link to the WRI 2026 StudyThemes Discussed in this EpisodeFirst-time-ever WRI result: all six OEMs scored upPermacrisis fatigue and the shift toward collaborationTariffs, EV cost recovery, and commercial fairnessThe 6C framework: bridging transactional and relationalFord's record-setting jump and Liz Door's leadershipStellantis's rebound under FilosaGM's ongoing culture changeTop 50 suppliers, organizational memory, and cultural inertiaReturn-to-office mandates and buyer performanceCross-functional decline inside the OEMsFrom cost reduction to resilience: the playbook is changing

In an era marked by remote work, digital convenience, and a documented 24% decline in everyday social interactions, many leaders are noticing a subtle but significant erosion of human connection — both in their personal lives and across their organizations. Our guest is Dr. Gillian Sandstrom, associate professor of psychology at the University of Sussex and author of the new book Once Upon a Stranger: The Science of How Small Talk Can Add Up To a Big Life. Sandstrom has spent 16 years researching the often-overlooked power of brief conversations with strangers — what she calls “micro-social interactions.” Her work reveals that these small moments are far from trivial. Talking to strangers can meaningfully improve mood, reduce anxiety, strengthen our sense of belonging, spark curiosity, and even lead to surprising insights or unexpected opportunities. Yet most people dramatically underestimate these benefits and overestimate the discomfort involved. For leaders, the implications extend well beyond personal well-being. In workplaces where belonging remains a fundamental human need — sitting near the top of Maslow's hierarchy after basic security — fostering even these tiny moments of genuine connection can elevate employee morale, combat isolation, and help create cultures where people feel truly seen and valued. The conversation explores practical ways leaders can apply these insights: from how they start meetings and interact with team members to the everyday environments they shape that make natural human exchange more likely. The discussion also examines the real psychological barriers that hold people back — including fear of rejection, which research shows is far rarer than we predict — and offers practical steps for building comfort over time. A memorable statistics class experiment involving simple greetings provides direct, actionable lessons for anyone in a leadership role. Sandstrom's research, recently featured in The New York Times, challenges the modern habit of moving through our days in relative silence. It invites a gentler, more connected way of showing up — both as individuals and as leaders. As the episode makes clear, meaningful improvements in well-being and organizational health often arise not from grand gestures, but from the cumulative power of many small interactions. Tune in to discover why reintroducing these everyday moments of connection may be one of the simplest yet most powerful levers available to leaders today — and how small talk (yes, small talk!) can add up to a bigger, richer life and a more humane workplace.  It is a really cool and uncommonly insightful conversation! The post Gillian Sandstrom: How Talking to Strangers Boosts Well-Being and Leadership Impact appeared first on Mark C. Crowley.

You've got the credentials. You've built the thing. You know you can help people.So why does selling it still feel like pulling teeth?In part two of our Maslow's Mountain series, Jess and Adam go deep on the concept that separates coaches who consistently sign clients from the ones who are stuck explaining their offer over and over and still hearing crickets.That concept is payoff language.Not a list of deliverables. Not a menu of options. One clear sentence that tells your ideal client exactly what changes for them when they work with you.Here's what we cover in this episode:What payoff language actually is and why it is never a list of what your client gets (modules, PDFs, sessions, access to the GPT you built at 2am). People don't buy logistics. They buy the emotion on the other side of the logistics.Why imposter syndrome is a payoff language problem. If you feel like you don't know enough, aren't ready, or can't confidently talk about what you do, you don't have a credibility problem. You have a clarity problem. Fix the payoff, fix the confidence.Outcomes vs. deliverables and why coaches get this backward. Most coaches default to deliverables because they haven't identified a simple, low-Maslow language outcome yet. They're speaking from the summit of the mountain to someone still at base camp. And base camp doesn't speak summit.Why one offer beats six every single time. Confused people do nothing. Adam and Jess break down exactly why trying to solve for every scenario before you've nailed the first one is the fastest route to nobody buying anything.The First Chapter Framework. You don't need to teach the whole book. You just need to start at the beginning, deliver on the promise of chapter one, and let confirmation bias do the rest of the work for you.Speaking the language of where your avatar has been, not where you are. The coaches who get this right are the ones who can stop thinking about where they are going and start talking to the person they used to be. Rory Vaden calls it being most powerfully positioned to serve the person you used to be. This episode is the tactical breakdown of what that actually looks like in your marketing and your messaging.If you are building a coaching or consulting business and your sales conversations feel like convincing people instead of connecting with them, this episode will change how you think about positioning your offer.This is part two in an ongoing series on Maslow's Mountain and how understanding your avatar's hierarchy of needs is the foundation of a coaching business that actually works. If you missed part one, go back and listen there first.Ready to build your payoff and package it into an offer? Join our 3-day challenge at ilovecoachingco.com/challengeGet the free Get Paid to Coach PDF at ilovecoachingco.com/get-paid-to-coachFollow us @ilovecoachingcoKeywords: coaching business, coaching offer, payoff language, how to sell coaching, coaching marketing, imposter syndrome in coaching, coaching niche, how to sign coaching clients, deliverables vs outcomes, one offer strategy, coaching transformation, coaching business strategy, Maslow's hierarchy of needs coaching, how to price coaching, messaging for coaches, coaching for consultants, coaching business growth, life coach marketing, business coach offer, how to build a coaching business

This Deep Dive series revisits some of our past episodes on discerning what we need as moms, and then asking for it confidently. Most of us know about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the pyramid pattern through which human needs and motivations generally move upward. We can't worry about what's at the upper levels of the pyramid until and unless the more basic needs at the bottom of the pyramid– food, warmth, safety– are met first. Leslie Forde, founder of ⁠Mom's Hierarchy of Needs⁠, has rethought that pyramid for the way we live our lives as mothers. There's a reason there's not enough bandwidth in our lives for fun and connection and self-actualization. Mom's Hierarchy of Needs provides moms with products, research and community to reclaim time from their never-done to-do lists. In this episode, Leslie explains: Why mom's hierarchy of needs is a little different than Maslow's When and why your hierarchy of needs might shift How to prioritize your career, healthy relationships, and self-care in your own hierarchy Leslie says that it's important to realize your health and wellbeing is equal in importance to your children's health and wellbeing, and once you internalize that, you can start to make room for your own needs without feeling guilty or frivolous. Here's where you can find Leslie: Facebook: @MOMSHIERARCHYOFNEEDS Twitter: @MOMSHIERARCHY IG: @MOMSHIERARCHYOF_NEEDS ⁠Leslie's TimeCheck app⁠ ⁠https://momshierarchyofneeds.com/⁠ Our episode ⁠"Isn't This Supposed to Be More Fun?"⁠ Sign up for the What Fresh Hell newsletter! Once a month, you'll get our favorite recent episodes, plus links to other things to read and watch and listen to, and upcoming special events. What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa talks about how safety, conscious input, and mind‑body awareness set the foundation for intentional weight loss. She shares new updates from “Bob,” whose real‑time shifts show how tools like safety visualization and breath awareness create real change. Lisa explains why movement only becomes therapeutic when your mindset and your body are working together, and she reframes stress through seasonality and bioindividuality—reminding us that our capacity changes across life seasons. She introduces Maslow's hierarchy to show why a steady, safe relationship with food must come first before any aesthetic goals. This episode sets the stage for the next phase of the Solo Series: a trauma‑informed, grounded approach to sustainable weight loss.Topics Include:Conscious InputEmbodied ShiftsSeasonal CapacityFoundational Safety[0:33] Lisa announces current community offerings: a free trauma‑informed restorative yoga class on May 14, a free one‑hour coaching session for anyone who registers for the Omega retreat by May 15, details for the in‑person Omega retreat happening July 12–17, and the launch of the Patreon community with bonus content and a monthly live Q&A.[20:01] Lisa expands on embodied safety as the starting point for any real change, showing how practices like the safety bubble help your body feel protected enough to grow. She uses Maslow's hierarchy to illustrate why stability with food and basic safety must come first, explaining that intentional weight loss sits higher on the pyramid as a growth‑based goal—something you can only pursue once your foundational needs are met and your system feels steady, supported, and resourced.[32:17] Lisa introduces the three‑level framework by explaining that intentional weight loss only becomes possible when you move through a clear progression. She frames the entire process as a trauma‑informed path from safety to connection to intentional change. [34:13] Lisa explains that Level 1 is about building emotional sobriety and food stability, where she teaches you to feed yourself regularly and predictably so your body learns it is safe, supported, and no longer in survival mode. Level 2 focuses on reconnecting with your body through interoception, breath, posture, and conscious input, helping you make choices from regulation instead of reactivity. Level 3 is where intentional weight loss becomes possible, because you are grounded, resourced, and able to make growth‑based adjustments with clarity, agency, and self‑trust rather than urgency or self‑rejection.[1:02:54] Lisa explains the difference between pursuing weight loss from deprivation versus growth, naming how her past survival‑driven attempts came from unmet needs while her current aesthetic goals only make sense because her foundation is stable. She shows that intentional change can only happen when radical acceptance, self‑compassion, and trauma‑informed awareness are woven into every level turning the pursuit of any goal into a gentle, shame‑free practice of reparenting rather than a return to urgency or self‑abandonment. [1:25:27] Lisa wraps up the episode by bringing the focus back to safety, readiness, and pacing, reminding listeners that intentional weight loss can only happen after the foundational work is in place. She emphasizes that the next episode will finally move into the “how‑to,” but only because the groundwork has now been fully laid. She closes by encouraging listeners to stay with the process that makes sustainable change possible.Embody Peace With Food: A Revolutionary Holistic Approach - Omega Institute: July 12-17, 2026LISA IS NOW ACCEPTING: One-on-One Clients!⁠Purchase the OOTC book of 50 Journal Prompts⁠⁠Leave Questions and Feedback for Lisa via OOTC Pod Feedback Form ⁠Email Lisa: ⁠lisa@lisaschlosberg.com⁠⁠Out of the Cave Merch⁠ - For 10% off use code SCHLOS10Lisa's Socials: Instagram⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠

Have you ever designed a space that looked beautiful… but somehow didn't feel right to live in?As interior designers, we're trained to focus on the visible—colors, materials, layouts, and architectural elements. But what if the real purpose of design goes deeper than aesthetics? What if the home isn't the final product—but the medium that shapes human happiness, relationship quality, and overall well-being?In this episode, I sit down with architect Talor Stewart to explore the powerful concept of conscious home design—a framework that goes beyond surface-level beauty and taps into scientific principles, human needs, and the emotional experience of living in a space. If you want to create homes that truly transform your clients' lives (and elevate your design process), this conversation will change how you approach every project moving forward.Featured GuestTalor Stewart is a licensed architect with over 25 years of experience, specializing in residential architecture and intentional communities. He is the author of Conscious Home Design, a #1 bestselling book in seven countries, and the creator of the Conscious Home Design certification program. His work bridges the gap between design and human well-being, helping architects and designers create homes that support happiness, health, and personal growth.What You'll Learn in This Episode✳️ Why homes are a medium, not an end result✳️ How design impacts human happiness and relationships✳️ Three relationship types every home should support✳️ Using Maslow's hierarchy in design decisions✳️ Scientific principles that improve home environmentsRead the Blog >>> 5 Principles for Healthier, Happier Home DesignNEXT STEPS:

Het wangedrag van chef-kok René Redzepi van het wereldberoemde Kopenhaagse restaurant Noma staat niet op zichzelf. Ook in Frankrijk komt fysiek en verbaal geweld in de keuken veel voor. „Er bestaat een straffeloosheid in deze sector die pretendeert het toonbeeld te zijn van l'excellence française.”Gast: Floor BoumaStem & Montage: Jan Paul de BondtRedactie: Rogier van ‘t HekCoördinatie: Ilse EshuisHeb je vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar onze redactie via podcast@nrc.nlZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Scott Clark, co-founder and CEO of Distributional, joins us to explore how teams can reliably operate and improve complex LLM systems and agents in production. Scott introduces a Maslow's hierarchy of observability: telemetry for logging, monitoring for known signals, and post-production or online analytics to surface unknown unknowns. We dig into examples of real-world failures Scott's team has seen in production systems, such as “lazy” tool-use hallucinations that standard evals miss, and how mapping traces into vector fingerprints enables clustering and topic discovery to uncover emergent behaviors. Scott explains how analytics can feed the data flywheel by generating evals, guardrails, and training data, and why online, adaptive approaches are essential for non-stationary models. We also touch on practical how-to's such as instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, the GenAI semantic conventions, and the role of dedicated analytics tools. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/767.

Most coaches stand at the top of the mountain and yell down to their clients to "reach their full potential." But if your client is struggling to pay their bills, they can't hear you. In this episode, Adam Roach and Jess Webber introduce a 7-part series on Maslow's Mountain, a framework that will change how you view your positioning, messaging, and client relationships. The 5 Levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of NeedsLevel 1: Physiological Needs – The base camp of survival including food, water, and basic shelter. Level 2: Safety Needs – Moving from simple survival to physical and emotional protection and the development of trust. Level 3: Love and Belonging – Shifting from self-protection to community, acceptance, and professional intimacy. Level 4: Esteem Needs – Developing respect, recognition, and confidence within the relationship and the community. Level 5: Self-Actualization – The summit where an individual reaches their full potential. The "Coach's Trap"The biggest mistake coaches make is standing at Level 5 (Self-Actualization) and trying to throw a rope down to someone at Base Camp. If your marketing speaks to "living your best life" while your avatar is worried about "keeping the lights on," you will lose their trust and their business. From Hero to SherpaTo truly succeed, you must stop trying to be the "Hero" who flew to the top and start being the Sherpa guide who walks arm-in-arm with the client from wherever they are. "It is truly the lens or the filter through which you should run everything in your business." — Jess Webber Resources Mentioned:Get Paid to Coach Guide: Ready to stop shouting from the peak and start guiding? Grab our free guide to help you transition from Hero to Sherpa.Website: ILoveCoachingCo.com

EFT tapping might be the most powerful business tool your competitors have never heard of — and Raeanne Lacatena has been quietly putting it to work with billionaires, burned-out founders, and entrepreneurs who've run out of runway on the grind-and-push model.Raeanne Lacatena — licensed clinical social worker, certified professional coach, reiki master, and five-time #1 bestselling author of The Integrated Entrepreneur — joins Fitz at ROC Vox to explain why burned-out entrepreneurs aren't failing because of bad strategy. They're failing because nobody ever taught them how to manage what's happening inside their own nervous system.In this episode: what EFT tapping is and why it works, how Raeanne gets skeptical clients — including billionaires — to try it, why stress literally shuts down your best thinking, the Maslow tier most people have never heard of, and what it cost Raeanne personally to put her full story into a book.CHAPTERS0:00 Cold Open: Tapping in Traffic1:17 Raeanne's Path: From Helper to Integrated Coach7:50 What Entrepreneurs Struggle With Most9:00 EFT Tapping: What It Is and Why It Works13:02 Raising Self-Regulating Kids With EFT15:26 The Lizard Brain: Why Stress Kills Clear Thinking19:37 EFT Meridian Points: Nausea, Anxiety, and Golf26:04 Writing the Book: Vulnerability and Bestseller28:55 Self-Transcendence: Mission Over Ego36:37 Pediatric Palliative Care: Where Reiki Began40:50 What Schools Don't Teach: Emotional IntelligenceCONNECTThe Integrated Entrepreneur → https://www.theintegratedentrepreneur.comROC Vox → https://rocvox.comNew episodes every Tuesday.#EFTTapping #EmotionalFreedomTechnique #Burnout #EntrepreneurMindset #NervousSystemRegulation #SelfTranscendence #PositiveBlatherings #ROCVox #PositivePodcast

- The human experience- what is lyrical poetry?- contemporary poetryThis episode explores the nature of human resilience by asking a core question: Is the human spirit built by the trauma and scarcity of the past, or is it innately built for the capacity to grow under pressure? We use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a framework to track this journey from mere survival to profound growth.

In Part 2 of this conversation, Coach Nino Villa continues talking with Mary Ann Stenquist about a deeper question: why does shopping sometimes feel less like a want and more like a need? Mary Ann connects the six spending types to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and explains how spending is often tied to emotional needs that are not being met in more lasting ways This conversation goes beyond “just stop spending” advice and looks at what is actually happening underneath the surface. You'll hear why dopamine is only part of the picture, how marketers tap into those deeper needs, and why mindfulness matters if someone wants to change their relationship with money If shopping has ever felt like an escape, a reward, or something you turn to when life feels heavy, this episode will help you understand why. Learn more at NewMoneyHabits.com Join the New Money Habits Community Join our free community and connect with others building healthier money habits Become a member starting at $7/month Start your 7-day free trial today Helpful Resources Mentioned in This Episode Watch on YouTube: Full video version of this episode Payday Power Planner (FREE): Streamline your budgeting processhttps://www.newmoneyhabits.com/budgeteers/helpful-tools Food Number Calculator (FREE): Simplify food budgeting and planninghttps://www.newmoneyhabits.com/budgeteers/helpful-tools Submit Your Questions: Email us at podcast@newmoneyhabits.com Join Our Free Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/newmoneyhabits Schedule a Free Call with Coach Nino:https://www.newmoneyhabits.com/budgeteers/contact Online Course: How to Create a Better Budget: Your Foundation to Financial Freedomhttps://www.newmoneyhabits.com/bootcamp Music CreditsThis episode features music by Summer School. Connect With UsFollow @newmoneyhabits on social media for more insights, tools, and updates.

SPONSORS: 1) PROTECT MY DATA: Go to https://protectmydata.com and use code JULIAN for 30% off all annual plans. 2) MCG TACTICAL: Grab your Stinger now before this deal disappears and visit https://mcgtac.com/Dorey 3) AMENTARA: Visit https://amentara.com/go/JULIAN and use code JD22 for 22% off your first order. JOIN PATREON FOR EARLY UNCENSORED EPISODE RELEASES: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8QmWEKJ3BT (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Dr. Julia Mossbridge is a neuroscience & psychology expert. She is one of the most respected scientists in the world regarding cognitive neuroscience and the science of perceptual learning. JULIA's LINKS: WEBSITE: https://juliamossbridge.com/ BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/4e8syryn FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY IG: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://x.com/juliandorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 0:00 - Julia's expertise, Neuroscience 10:01 - Sensory leakage, Brain hemispheres, Telepathy 21:09 - Julian's mind opened to telepathy potential, No Secrets 31:49 - Maslow's hierarchy, Military, Julia's Mom's family's Uranium Plant 41:18 - Strange Intel Agencies study Julia's Mom & her (STORY) 52:19 - Julia put into gifted program to be studied, “Men with suits,” The Weird “Pink Drink” 1:08:53 - Julia calls mom to ask what happened, Julia' strange 2023 dream, Psychic Abilities 1:19:39 - Structuring reality, Dream realities, Radiation Exposure 1:29:54 - Julia's father abuse (STORY) 1:43:24 - Working w/ Broken Minds, Disassociation, Freud, Creativity 1:53:10 - Playing a character in life, Future reception, Consciousness, God 2:06:24 - Universal Love, The Physics of Love 2:15:10 - Julian on the 2 types of love, Julia defines love, God & Love 2:29:13 - Julia is in Epstein Files, Releasing the Files 2:34:41 - The Contamination Narrative, Rick Rubin 2:43:45 - The Science of Time 2:50:49 - Remote Viewing, Julia's Experience w/ Remote Viewing, Project Stargate 3:00:31 - Most gifted Remote Viewers, Openness, Spiritual Sense 3:10:39 - CIA Compartmentalization, Powers that be predetermine future? 3:20:03 - Julia's Work CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef - https://www.instagram.com/joeydeef/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 415 - Julia Mossbridge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Continuing the theme of, "H is for horror, hell, and hospitals," with the underrated gem from the Slasher Flick era, 1981's "X-Ray aka Hospital Massacre" with special guest, Gringo Fantastico! The Mistress of the Menagerie and Gringo discuss female empowerment, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and defense mechanisms. Come check it out!

Mary stands weeping at an empty tomb, convinced she's alone — until someone says her name. This week we explore what it means to be truly seen, and why that experience might be more essential to our survival than we've been taught.   LINKS:  Current Conversation | Connect | YouTube |  Coming Up TRANSCRIPT: For the next several weeks, we're going to hold some of the Easter resurrection stories up to the light the way you hold a ViewMaster slide up to the light. You don't travel to those places. You hold the image up, and something in it travels into you. The depth, the color, the detail — it gets in you. And when you set it down, you're back in the room — but you've changed. You're carrying something you didn't have before. That's the invitation. We're not asking you to settle theological debates about what literally happened. We're asking: What do you see, when you really look? What wakes up in you? This series follows the thread we pulled on at Easter — "He is Woke Indeed." Woke, in its original 20th-century AAVE meaning: alert, awake, seeing clearly. These stories are about people who suddenly started seeing what they couldn't see before. That's what we're after. The Story: Mary at the Tomb (John 20:11–18)  Read it… invite people to really take it in… "Mary stood outside near the tomb, crying." She's not praying. She's not worshipping. She's wrecked. She looks into the tomb and sees two angels, and even this doesn't pull her out of her grief. Wild. She turns and sees Jesus but doesn't recognize him. She thinks he's the gardener. Then: "Mary." One word of recognition: her name. And everything shifts. She wakes up to what's happening…  Sit with that for a moment. What just happened? He didn't offer an explanation. He didn't prove anything. He simply said her name. And she woke up. This is the moment we're exploring today: the experience of being truly seen. Called by name. Recognized. The Lie We've Been Told: Connection Is a Luxury We live in a culture (and many of us carry a theology) that quietly teaches: survival first, connection later. Get the basics handled. Then, if there's time and you've earned it, relationship. This is, in fact, the story we absorbed from one of the most influential frameworks in modern Western thought: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Food, water, shelter. Safety. Then belonging. Then esteem. Connection shows up only after your survival needs are met. But here's something worth knowing about where that model came from — and what it left out initially In 1938, Abraham Maslow visited the Blackfoot (Siksika) Nation in Alberta, Canada. He was stuck on his theory of human development and went to spend time with their community. (Grow Your WHY article) What he encountered there profoundly shaped his thinking — but when he built his famous hierarchy, he "borrowed generously" from the Blackfoot worldview and then made that source essentially invisible. And here's the deepest problem: he inverted what he found. In the Blackfoot model, which uses a tipi rather than a pyramid, self-actualization sits at the base — not the top. It is the starting point. Community actualization comes next, and the highest aspiration is called "cultural perpetuity" — the ongoing flourishing of the people across generations. In other words: you don't earn love or belonging after you've survived. Love and belonging is what makes survival possible in the first place. While in Maslow's model we find love and belonging only after attending to basic needs and safety, the Blackfoot model describes that our tribe or community is the very means through which we are fed, housed, clothed, and protected. (PACEsConnection) The pyramid we all learned? It's a Western, individualist distortion of an Indigenous communal wisdom that was never given credit. For the record, I think the same distortion has happened to the wisdom of Jesus and his people; it's been whitewashed to center the individual… What Science is Actually Catching Up To The Siksika/Blackfoot Nation understood something our public health system is only now naming as a crisis. In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wrote that loneliness is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. In fact, lacking connection can increase the risk for premature death as much as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. And social neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman's research shows that our brains react to social pain and pleasure in much the same way as they do to physical pain and pleasure. Social connection ensures infants' survival; their safety and physiological needs are dependent on it. Unmet social and psychological needs create pain that is just as real as physical pain. Connection isn't a reward for getting your life together. It is how we stay alive. Back to Mary So when Jesus says her name… this is not a small thing. This is not a warm gesture. This is an act of resurrection in itself… of coming back to life. She was invisible to herself in her grief. She couldn't see clearly. She was looking right at the one she was looking for and couldn't see him. And then: her name. And she sees. This is what being truly seen does. It wakes something up in us that grief, fear, and shame had put to sleep. We can't fully come alive alone. We come alive when we are recognized — when someone looks at us and says, in word or action: I see you. You are here. You matter. From a womanist theological perspective, this moment carries particular weight. Mary Magdalene — a woman, the first witness, the one the tradition has spent centuries trying to sideline or diminish — is the first person Jesus appears to. He doesn't appear to the disciples gathered in the upper room. He appears to her. By name. The people Empire tends to undervalue, or say they don't matter are often the first to see clearly. Invitation: What Does It Mean to See and Be Seen Here? Two movements: First, receiving: Is there a part of you that's still at the tomb — still in grief, still unable to recognize what or who might be right in front of you? What would it mean to let yourself be called by name? To let yourself be seen, not as you should be, but as you are? Second, offering: Who in your life needs you to say their name? Not fix them. Not explain things to them. Just see them. Call them by name. The Easter story suggests that is what resurrection looks like in everyday life. This week's practice: Say someone's name — really mean it. Or let yourself be known in one small way you normally hide. Notice what wakes up.

Today's conversation might change the way you think about your home. What if the spaces you live in are quietly shaping your energy, relationships, and sense of purpose—every single day? Whether you own or rent, this episode will show you how to put the mind–body–environment connection to work for you.”Talor Stewart is a licensed architect with more than 25 years of experience and the author of the #1 bestselling book Conscious Home Design, which has reached the top of the charts in seven countries. An award-winning architect, Talor specializes in single- and multi-family homes as well as intentional communities, working with clients across the United States and select international locations.Talor's Website@conscioushomedesign on InstagramTalor's Facebook pageLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talorstewart/Over the past two decades, Talor has developed the Conscious Home Design (CHD) philosophy and system—an approach that helps people understand how their homes can actively support wellbeing, relationships, and personal growth. In addition to his design practice, he teaches and certifies other designers and architects in the CHD method, empowering them to bring these life-changing principles to clients everywhere.Talor's work expands the familiar mind-body connection to include the built environment, helping people—whether they own or rent—make simple, meaningful changes that uplift daily life.1) What Really Makes a Good Life?Talor, you often reference long-term research on happiness. What does the research—especially the Harvard Study on Adult Happiness—tell us about what actually helps people thrive as they age, and how did that insight influence your approach to home design?2) Relationships, By DesignOne of the exercises in your workbook is about three different types of relationships that are essential to our wellbeing. Can you break those down for us—and explain how the bones of our homes can either support or undermine those relationships?3) From Maslow to the Floor PlanWhen you're thinking about what a home truly needs to provide, what framework do you use? How does Maslow's hierarchy of needs translate into your concept of the nine essential spaces, and why does that matter whether someone lives in a house or a small apartment?4) The “Sunny Window Effect”You've coined the term sunny window effect. What is it, and why does access to sunlight have such a powerful influence on motivation, mood, and daily behavior?5) Small Shifts, Big ImpactFor listeners who may not be building a new home—or who rent—what are a few small, practical changes they can make right now to shift their environment and, in turn, shift their life?If someone listening today wants to start living more intentionally—but feels overwhelmed—what's one simple step they can take this week to let their home support them more fully?What could we do to start making a “Creative Room: Express Yourself! Making Room for Creativity”?

There's a reason the same explanation keeps showing up in every staff meeting, every training, every conversation about struggling students.It feels good.Problem is- It wasn't built on evidence.Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs became one of the most widely accepted frameworks in education without ever being meaningfully tested the way we use it. In this episode, we go back to where the pyramid actually came from, walk through what the research has (and hasn't) found, and take a hard look at why it spread anyway.Because if the foundation isn't solid, it doesn't matter how good your intentions are.You're still building on it.Referred to in this episode:Ep. 106, "TPT's Dirty Truths & Why You Need an Evidence-Base"********Join our new Skool for School Counselors community ********Want support with real-world strategies that actually work on your campus? We're doing that every day in the School for School Counselors Mastermind. Come join us! ********All names, stories, and case studies in this episode are fictionalized composites drawn from real-world circumstances. Any resemblance to actual students, families, or school personnel is coincidental. Details have been altered to protect privacy.********Ready to spend a few days this summer with me, geeking out over school counseling and preparing for your best year ever? Grab your ticket here before this limited-seat event sells out! This work is part of the School for School Counselors body of work developed by Steph Johnson, LPC, CSC, which centers role authority over role drift, consultative practice over fix-it culture, adult-designed systems and environments as primary drivers of student behavior, clinical judgment over compliance, and school counselor identity as leadership within complex systems.

Reposted from Still Slaying: A Buffy-verse podcast which you can find at Still Slaying: a Buffy-verse podcast | Podcastica. Fun, in-depth talk about great TV.“Evil white folks really do have a Mecca.” Penny and Sam have a lot of laughs digging into this Lindsey-focused episode about the struggle between morals and the pursuit of power. Along the way the conversation ranges through computer tropes on tv, grooming, evil Sheldon Cooper, scarcity mind set, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, redemption versus escape, law firm culture, career tracks, Andor, and heist tropes.  Next time, we'll be covering Angel season 1, episode 22, “To Shanshu in LA,” the finale.  Keep Slaying! News Links/Referenced Links Original Trailer/WB Promo: Angel “Blind Date” Original Promo Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' star Nicholas Brendon dead at 54 - ABC News Here's Why Hulu's 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer Revival' Was Cancelled What's On Tonight Podcast - YouTube The Pirate Corps Entertainment Podcast —---------------------------------------- Viewing Order Angel 1x22 - To Shanshu in LA BONUS - Blade Join the conversation! You can email or send a voice message to stillslayingfeedback@gmail.com, or join us at facebook.com/groups/podcastica and Still Slaying A Buffy-verse Podcast where we put up comment posts for each episode we cover.  Join the Zedhead community - https://www.patreon.com/jasoncabassi Theme Music:℗ CC-BY 2020 Quesbe | Lucie G. MorillonGoopsy | Drum and Bass | Free CC-BY Music By Quesbe is licensed under a Creative Commons License. #buffythevampireslayer #stillslaying #podcastica #angel #slaythepatriarchy  #christiankane #davidboreanaz #charismacarpenter #alexisdenisof  #jaugustrichards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Europe once treated energy as the foundation of civilization. After the oil shocks of the 1970s, it built nuclear at scale, opened the North Sea, and secured long term pipeline supply. That system produced resilience, surplus, and industrial strength. Today, the arithmetic has flipped. Europe consumes roughly 38 exajoules of hydrocarbons and produces about 6. This episode examines how that reversal happened, not as an accident, but as the result of political choices that prioritized higher order goals while eroding the physical base that supports them.This conversation connects that shift to a broader framework. Maslow's hierarchy applied to energy systems. When policy moves up the pyramid while the base weakens, fragility follows. We walk through the numbers behind Europe's dependence, compare the current crisis to the 1970s, and contrast Europe's trajectory with countries that optimized for resilience instead of efficiency. The result is a clear picture of what happens when an advanced economy loses sight of the molecules that keep it running.Listen to Decouple on:• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PNr3ml8nEQotWWavE9kQz• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decouple/id1516526694?uo=4• Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1516526694/decouple• Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/ehbfrn44• RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/23775178/podcast/rssWebsite: https://www.decouple.media