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How are you feeling? Our Recipe Club members are kind and wanted to do something nice for you: They cooked a Meal Train recipe. They shared, tasted, and debated these comforting dishes. Chef and Yangban partner John Hong made a variation on caldo de pollo. Previous Recipe Club champion and author John deBary made the listener-requested Lasagne of Love. Beloved 'Dinner Time Live' and Recipe Club member Mandy Roberts brought Golden Get-Well Soup. All of these dishes will make you feel better … but which will make you feel best? Hop on and find out which is the best Meal Train recipe! Host: Chris YingGuests: John deBary, Mandy Roberts, and John HongProducers: Kelsey Rearden, David Meyer, Noelle Cornelio, and Ira ChuteDirector: Kelsey ReardenEngineer: Felipe GuilherminoEditor: Stefano SanchezProduction Coordinator: Molly O'Keeffe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Send us a textToday we're welcoming Jordan Arogeti to the podcast! Jordan is the CEO and co-founder of SupportNow, and we're digging into Jordan's journey to creating a platform designed to offer comprehensive and compassionate support during major life events.We not only talk about the truly wonderful and unique functionalities of SupportNow that separate it from companies like GoFundMe and Meal Train, but we also get into the societal challenges around asking for help when we're grieving and what this can look like for us as grievers—and supporters, too.Jordan shares super valuable insights about creating a culture of support, the importance of community during difficult times, how many different ways support can be shown, and discovering what our “support language” is (similar to love languages!).Most importantly, this conversation is all about how we can grieve in a more effective, peaceful, supported way.Connect with Jordan & SupportNow:https://www.supportnow.org/https://www.instagram.com/supportnow_org/Discover and listen to the Taste Toast Travel Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts and Youtube! https://tastetoasttravel.com/ Learn more about my 14-Day Relief in Your Grief Experience: https://lossesbecomegains.com/relief-in-griefWork with me: 14-Day Relief in Your Grief Challenge: https://lossesbecomegains.com/relief-in-grief Explore the membership: https://lossesbecomegains.com/membership Work with me one-on-one: https://lossesbecomegains.com/work-with-tara Connect with me further: Leave a voice note through Speakpipe! https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeWithGrief Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lossesbecomegains/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifewithgriefpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/losses.become.gains Website: https://lossesbecomegains.com/ Shop the LBG Daily Journal: https://lossesbecomegains.com/journal By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that the entire contents are the property of Tara Accardo, or used by Tara Accardo with permission. Except as otherwise provided herein, users of this Podcast may save and use infor...
In October 2024, Suzanne Simpson, a wife and mother, suddenly vanished. To this day, her body has not been found. Her husband, Brad Simpson, was indicted on counts of murder and aggravated assault after Suzanne's DNA was found on a saw he was hiding–thus leaving their four children parentless. Please consider contributing to the Meal Train to support the Simpson children: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/6ev3... Bart's Interview Check out my foundation, Higher Hope: Higher Hope Foundation: https://www.higherhope.org/ Shop my Merch! https://kendallrae.shop This episode is sponsored by: Nutrafol - promo code: KENDALLRAE SKIMS - select “podcast” in the survey and select our show in the dropdown menu that follows! Check out Kendall's other podcasts: The Sesh & Mile Higher Follow Kendall! YouTube Twitter Instagram Facebook Mile Higher Zoo REQUESTS: General case suggestion form: https://bit.ly/32kwPly Form for people directly related/ close to the victim: https://bit.ly/3KqMZLj Discord: https://discord.com/invite/an4stY9BCN CONTACT: For Business Inquiries - kendall@INFAgency.com
Today I begin the show with some reflection and honoring of my friend Jeanne Brooks who recently passed. She and I collaborated in community events, and she was a guest several years back. If you'd like to support her daughter's financial future or her families Meal Train please let me know.Then I look forward to some of the conversations I am interested in having this year, including a consideration of how we can support an UPSWING in our community and beyond.Today is a Full Moon so I share the astrology from Tanaaz, and pull archetype cards featuring, The Box, The Creator and The Heart.Today's show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.Our show music is from Shana Falana!Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFYITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCAFollow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast
Send Kiona a Text Message!In this episode, Hannah shared her experience with being cared for by out-of-hospital midwives and birthing her son Hunter at a stand-alone birth center. She also talks about how during the immediate postpartum time she had to be transferred to the hospital before being released home to obtain sutures for a 3rd degree vaginal tear. birthasweknowitpodcast.com/75 Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes only with no intention of giving or replacing any medical advice. I, Kiona Nessenbaum, am not a licensed medical professional. All advice that is given on the podcast is from the personal experience of the storytellers. All medical or health-related questions should be directed to your licensed provider. To hear another out-of-hospital birth experience tune into episode 56-Kirsten Spitz-2 Vaginal Births-Logan & Lincoln-Apex Chiropractic WA. Resources:Carlsrud Psychological Services: https://carlsrudpsychologicalservices.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlsrudpsychologicalservices/ Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/hannah-carlsrud-emdr-intensives-postpartum-kenmore-wa/1276563 Perinatal Support of Washington: https://perinatalsupport.org/ Postpartum Support International: https://www.postpartum.netHannah Carlsrud: https://psidirectory.com/listing/carlsrud-psychological-services.html Ask family to make a Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com/ Spinning Babies: https://www.spinningbabies.com/ Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts Book: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers Definitions:Different Degrees of Perineal Tears Freeze Dried BreastmiSupport the showThank you so much for tuning in to this episode! If you like this podcast, don't hesitate to share it and leave a review so it can bring the podcast to the attention of others. If you want to share your own birth story or experience on the Birth As We Know It™️ Podcast, head over to https://birthasweknowitpodcast.com/ or fill out this Guest Request Form. Support the podcast and become a part of the BAWKI™️ Community by becoming a Patron on the Birth As We Know It Patreon Page! And don't forget to join in on the fun in the Private Facebook Group!
Send us a textMarilyn Getas Byrne, once a prominent television news anchor, unravels her compelling transition into a tireless breast cancer advocate. Her life took an unexpected turn when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 40, while raising young children. This journey reshaped her career as she shifted from reporting headlines to crafting narratives that resonate with survivors and their support networks. Through her stories, she offers hope and resilience, showcasing the powerful connection she builds with others, including our serendipitous meeting through TikTok.Our conversation shines a light on the often overshadowed phase of cancer survivorship, where the emotional and psychological hurdles can be as daunting as the disease itself. Marilyn and I discuss the difficult transition from structured treatment schedules to the uncertainty of post-treatment life. We explore how therapy and open communication can fortify relationships during this challenging period. Additionally, we reflect on how retirement can serve as an opportunity to discover new passions and the vital role storytelling plays in fostering community support and breast cancer awareness, particularly through modalities such as physically working with cancer patients, writing or podcasting. Marilyn also introduces us to Healing Touch, an innovative approach gaining traction in the cancer care community. This holistic method offers a non-invasive way to ease anxiety and promote healing, providing a comforting space for patients. We discuss invaluable resources like the Know Your Lemons Foundation campaign and practical tools such as Meal Train , Lots A Helping Hands , and We Got This that assist those navigating the cancer journey. With heartfelt gratitude for our listeners, I invite you to share our podcast, helping to spread awareness and support far and wide.Marilyn on Instagram Marilyn on Facebook Marilyn on TikTok Are you loving the Test Those Breasts! Podcast? You can show your support by donating to the Test Those Breasts Nonprofit @ https://testthosebreasts.org/donate/ Where to find Jamie:Instagram LinkedIn TikTok Test Those Breasts Facebook Group LinkTree Jamie Vaughn in the News! Thanks for listening! I would appreciate your rating and review where you listen to podcasts!I am not a doctor and not all information in this podcast comes from qualified healthcare providers, therefore may not constitute medical advice. For personalized medical advice, you should reach out to one of the qualified healthcare providers interviewed on this podcast and/or seek medical advice from your own providers .
This week's episode of the Women's Ministry Toolbox podcast, EP 95: Loving Your Ladies: Organizing Meal Trains, Freezer Meals, and Funeral Meals, is now available, and it's packed with practical advice for providing meals during times of transition and crisis.Here's a taste of what you'll get from this episode:Why Meals Matter: Discover why providing meals is more than just a simple act of kindness—it's a tangible way to allow women to focus on their families during challenging times.Key Questions to Address: Learn the essential questions to consider, such as who should receive meals and for how long, and how to communicate needs effectively.Meal Drop-Off Etiquette: Gain insights into the best practices for meal drop-offs to ensure recipients feel blessed, not burdened.Food Preferences and Allergies: Understand the importance of accommodating allergies and dietary restrictions to make meal deliveries stress-free for everyone involved.Funeral Meals: Get tips based on real-life experiences and community suggestions for organizing meals after a bereavement, making sure they bring comfort and care to those grieving.This episode ends with Innovative Meal Ideas from Other Churches.Thank you for listening to the Women's Ministry Toolbox Podcast. You'll find additional women's ministry resources below.Women's Ministry Toolbox Resources: Sign Up for My Email List - https://bit.ly/wmtbemail Website – www.womensministrytoolbox.com Online Store – www.womensministrytoolboxshop.com Online Training – www.womensministrytraining.com Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/womensministrytoolbox/ Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensministrytoolboxcommunity/ Women's Ministry Essentials on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/shop/wmtoolboxYou can connect with Cyndee via Facebook, Instagram (@womensministrytoolbox), and email (cyndee@womensministrytoolbox.com).
Mike Ferguson in the Morning 11-11-24 Greg Doolin from the TheFreedom13.org joins us to discuss Veterans Day and shares info on the Veterans Recreational Retreat project. They've purchased land in Bourbon, MO, about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis, for their first Freedom Camp retreat center. The Missouri Freedom Camp is also known as Jared's Camp. Mark's son, Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, was one of 13 Marines killed in the Kabul, Afghanistan bombing. Their goal is to open 50 camps in 50 states on over 50,000 acres with a total of 650 homes to be built for veterans and their families to stay in for 1 week. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/freedom-camp-will-offer-slice-of-heaven-for-veterans-families-in-rural-missouri/ More information here: https://thefreedom13.org/pages/the-freedom-13-veterans-recreational-retreat You're also invited to help Kevin & Marie Jackson and their family by contributing to the Meal Train® for their family. Kevin is recovering from brain trauma that happened during his cyst removal surgery. Meals and financial donations are very helpful as Kevin will be off work for approximately 6-12 months, and possibly indefinitely. Marie is spending most days at the hospital while still taking care of their kids. More info on how you can help their family is here: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/17ve3q (https://thefreedom13.org/) NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike Ferguson in the Morning 11-11-24 (8:05am) Greg Doolin from the TheFreedom13.org joins us to discuss Veterans Day and shares info on the Veterans Recreational Retreat project. They've purchased land in Bourbon, MO, about 80 miles southwest of St. Louis, for their first Freedom Camp retreat center. The Missouri Freedom Camp is also known as Jared's Camp. Mark's son, Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, was one of 13 Marines killed in the Kabul, Afghanistan bombing. Their goal is to open 50 camps in 50 states on over 50,000 acres with a total of 650 homes to be built for veterans and their families to stay in for 1 week. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/freedom-camp-will-offer-slice-of-heaven-for-veterans-families-in-rural-missouri/ More information here: https://thefreedom13.org/pages/the-freedom-13-veterans-recreational-retreat You're also invited to help Kevin & Marie Jackson and their family by contributing to the Meal Train® for their family. Kevin is recovering from brain trauma that happened during his cyst removal surgery. Meals and financial donations are very helpful as Kevin will be off work for approximately 6-12 months, and possibly indefinitely. Marie is spending most days at the hospital while still taking care of their kids. More info on how you can help their family is here: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/17ve3q (https://thefreedom13.org/) (8:20am) MORNING NEWS DUMP (8:35am) A look at recent Trump appointments for his new administration. (8:50am) Do you agree with skipping the holidays with relatives suffering from TDS? NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and we've compiled a list of ways your church can show love to your pastor. Some ideas are free, others cost a little, and a few are out-of-the-box, but they'll all make your pastor feel valued. Plus, we'll dive into the surprising history and origins of Pastor Appreciation Month! ============================= Table of Contents: ============================= 0:00 - Intro 0:47 - Idea #1: Aura Digital Frame 3:18 - Bonus: Origin Of Pastor Appreciation Cay 8:40 - Idea #2: Handwritten Notes 9:02 - Idea #3: Video Thank You Card From Kids 10:51 - Idea #4: Gift Cards To A Favorite Restaurant Or Store 12:42 - Idea #5: Plan A Night Out 17:40 - Idea #6: Hobby-Related Gifts 19:23 - Idea #7: Home Improvements 20:46 - Idea #8: Award Ceremony "The Clergies" 22:40 - Idea #9: Select Subscription Service 28:26 - Idea #10: Car Detailing IMPORTANT LINKS - Aura Frames: https://auraframes.com - Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com - Audible: https://www.audible.com/ - The Roasters Pack: https://theroasterspack.com/ - Fuego Box: https://www.fuegobox.com/ THE 167 NEWSLETTER
Send Kiona a Text Message!In this episode, Allison dives into how her first birth with her daughter was traumatic and how it led her to become a birth doula. She also shares the the details of how she felt when she was unexpectedly pregnant with her son after being adamant of “one and done” in addition to sharing about her redemptive home birth.Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes only with no intention of giving or replacing any medical advice. I, Kiona Nessenbaum, am not a licensed medical professional. All advice that is given on the podcast is from the personal experience of the storytellers. All medical or health-related questions should be directed to your licensed provider. Resources:Allison Goyne: https://www.believeinbirthva.com/ Perinatal Support of Washington: https://perinatalsupport.org/ Postpartum Support International:https://www.postpartum.netAsk family to make you a Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com/ The Business of Being Born FilmDefinitions:Cord Blood GassesNeonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)Whole Body CoolingMeconiumBloody ShowMucus plugI would love to hear fro YOU! Go to birthasweknowitpodcast.com/survey to let me know what YOU want for the future of BAWKI. Support the Show.Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode! If you like this podcast, don't hesitate to share it and leave a review so it can bring the podcast to the attention of others. If you want to share your own birth story or experience on the Birth As We Know It™️ Podcast, head over to https://birthasweknowitpodcast.com/ or fill out this Guest Request Form. Support the podcast and become a part of the BAWKI™️ Community by becoming a Patron on the Birth As We Know It Patreon Page! And don't forget to join in on the fun in the Private Facebook Group!
*This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jermaine Robinson, aka Dirty Money, who passed away 6/2/24 at the age of 44. Please consider supporting his family through GoFundMe (https://t.co/mczWk3ZQFk), Pro Wrestling Tees (https://t.co/lhYRIMrXh2), or Meal Train (https://t.co/Ped8BL5G1K).* On this episode, the guys talk about Bill Watts' first major WCW show, Beach Blast 1992! Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/yoga-dogs License code: WMYSS9LW9Y6GZGHV
Aurélie est une maman de deux enfants nés en Corée du Sud et en Croatie. Dans cet épisode, elle revient sur ses grossesses et ses accouchements qu'elle a menés à bien à l'étranger, en se nourrissant intensément de lectures, de vidéos Youtube... Pour ses deux accouchements, Aurélie nous parle de la présence d'une doula à ses côtés, qui, pour la naissance de son enfant en Croatie, a joué "un rôle de folie" en lui apportant l'empuissancement , la confiance d'accoucher dans un endroit qui ne correspondait pas à ses attentes".Aurélie vous confiera aussi le cheminement profond qu'elle a dû entreprendre pour ré-avoir confiance en soi, en son corps, en sa capacité de porter la Vie, après avoir connu deux grossesses qui se sont interrompues naturellement. Aurélie revient sur ses post-partum également, le premier qu'elle a vécu difficilement, en se sentant très isolée socialement, contrairement au deuxième où elle a été soutenue par ses ami.es qui ont organisé notamment un "MEAL TRAIN" - ils se relayaient pour leur apporter de délicieux repas. Aurélie vous parlera aussi de son parcours en tant que professeure de yoga qu'elle a débuté en Corée du sud, ainsi que celui de doula. Un accompagnement qu'elle propose aujourd'hui. Aurélie vous partagera bien entendu plusieurs anecdotes afférentes à la maternité à travers son expérience en Corée du sud et en Croatie. Je vous laisse embarquer de ce beau voyage au coeur de la maternité d'Aurélie et je vous souhaite une belle écoute les MaMaS !Pour retrouver Aurélie sur Instagram : @lili_louve__Pour retrouver MAM'ELLES sur Instagram : @mamelles_lepodcastPour me suivre sur Instagram : @marion_tertereauSur YOUTUBE et Facebook : MAM'ELLESMon site internet : mamelles.frMa boutique en ligne : Boutique - MAM'ELLES (mamelles.fr)Le Programme Naissance Holistique : PROGRAMME EN LIGNE - MAM'ELLES (mamelles.fr)Pour m'écrire : mamelles.lepodcast@gmail.comChant d'intro et de fin - La signification de ce chant lakota (amérindien) est la suivante : " Gratitude d'exister ici et maintenant, gratitude pour chaque moment obtenu où je suis né, grandi enseigné et retourne sur terre pour naître". Il est chanté par Claire-Lyse von Dach.MAM'ELLES est un podcast réalisé par Marion TERTEREAU. Vous pouvez retrouver tous les épisodes sur votre plateforme d'écoute préférée. On se retrouve chaque vendredi pour un nouvel épisode.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Are you ready for a Naptime Kitchen Empire? Kelly is! Today Kate joines the gals with a surprise that's giving 'love your neighbor.' Lizz is well rested after getting James to sleep through the night and Kelly is close to finishing Boys In The Boat—so stay tuned for the upcoming book club episode. Today's millennial words are: rage applying (therapeutic and petty!), snail girl era, shift shock, and bare minimum Mondays. Kelly and Lizz wonder if Gen Z is just rebranding laziness at work. Today's episode is brought to you by Zocdoc. When it comes to your health, there is no room for compromise. Don't book an appointment with a random doctor near you just because they're available right now. Instead, check out Zocdoc, where you can search by location, availability, and insurance. Compare highly rated in-network doctors near you and instantly book appointments with them online through the Zocdoc app. → Visit zocdoc.com/carpool and download the Zocdoc app for free. Kate from Naptime Kitchen is here to share her new free eBook: Take Them a Meal Manual, a Collective Guide for Feeding Friends. Inside you'll find over 100 total recipes that you can use to stock your freezer and your friends'. Kate also shares her four take-them-a-meal-mantras: you don't have to make everything yourself, you don't have to bring a whole meal, repetition is great, and the freezer is your friend. Play into your strengths and use tools like Meal Train to elevate your take-a-meal experience. Kelly's ready for the next level of Easter and is remembering her childhood string-adventures. Lizz and Kate also share their love of the golden egg and how they organize family events. Bless yourself this holiday season and offer to bring something easy for the kids, like Kelly is in her berries and peeled oranges era. If you still need a ditch the drive-through after this episode, remember the next time you're at a place that sells something pre-made that you love to buy a few extra for your freezer. → To share your ditch the drive-through recipe with us, call (959) CAR-POOL and leave us a message! → Write in your advice questions! Send Kelly and Lizz an email to get your question featured on the show at hello@thecarmomofficial.com Follow the Carpool Podcast on IG Follow the Carpool Podcast on YouTube Join The Car Mom Crew Facebook Group! Follow Kelly on IG Follow Lizz on IG Follow the Truck Dad on IG Visit thecarmomofficial.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're taking a moment this holiday season to reheat a beloved episode where we talked through ways to help take care of others. From the nuts and bolts of setting up a meal train to thinking about when and how to help, we have tons of tips and recipe ideas that make feeding others easier.Our Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp and use my code DIJFY for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com/* Check out ByHeart and use my code DIJFY for a great deal: https://byheart.com/* Check out Factor 75 and use my code dijfy50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/* Check out Greenlight and use my code dijfy for a great deal: https://greenlight.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Margaret and Leah talk about disability, preparedness, and covid. Guest Info Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (They/She) is a writer and structural engineer of disability and transformative justice work. Leah can be found at brownstargirl.org, on Instagram @leahlakshmiwrites, or on Bluesky @thellpsx.bsky.social Their book The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs can be found: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-future-is-disabled-prophecies-love-notes-and-mourning-songs-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/18247280 Their book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice can be found: https://bookshop.org/p/books/care-work-dreaming-disability-justice-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/16603798 Host Info Margaret (she/they) can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Leah on Disability and Preparedness Resources Mentioned: StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus, by Alice Wong and Leah: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/05/23/staceytaughtus-syllabus-work-by-stacey-milbern-park/ NoBody Is Disposable Coalition: https://nobodyisdisposable.org/ Power To Live Coalition: https://www.powertolivecoalition.org/ Disability Visibility Project article about Power to Live : https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2019/10/26/call-for-stories-powertolive/ Power to Live survival skillshare doc: http://tinyurl.com/dissurvival Long winter crip survival guide for pandemic year 4/forever by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Tina “constant tt” Zavitsanos https://www.tinyurl.com/longwintersurvival Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid by Rebel Sydney Rose Fayola Black: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-QfMn1DE6ymhKZMpXN1LQvD6Sy_HSnnCK6gTO7ZLFrE/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0ehOJdo-vYmJUrXsKCpQlCODEdQelzL9AE5UDXQ1bMgnHh2oAnqFs2B3k Half Assed Disabled Prepper Tips for Preparing for a Coronavirus Quarantine. (By Leah) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rIdpKgXeBHbmM3KpB5NfjEBue8YN1MbXhQ7zTOLmSyo/edit Sins Invalid Disability Justice is Climate Justice: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/news-1/2022/7/7/disability-justice-is-climate-justice Skin Tooth and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (A disability justice primer): https://www.sinsinvalid.org/disability-justice-primer DJ Curriculum by Sins: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/curriculum Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies: https://disasterstrategies.org/ Live Like the World is Dying: Leah on Disability & Preparedness **Margaret ** 00:15 Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host, Margaret killjoy. And I always tell you that I'm excited about episodes, but I'm really excited about this episode. It put me in a better mood than when I started the day that I get to record this episode. Because today, we're going to be talking about disability and preparedness. We're gonna be talking about Covid abandonment. And we're gonna be talking about a lot of the questions that... a lot of the questions that people write us to talk about that they have about preparedness and I think that we can cover a lot of those. Not me, but our guest. But first before the guest, a jingle from another show on the network. Oh, the network is called Channel Zero Network. It is a network of anarchists podcasts and here's a jingle. [sings a simple melody] **Margaret ** 01:08 Okay, and we're back. So, if you could introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, and then I guess just a little bit about how you got involved in thinking about and dealing with disability and preparedness. **Leah ** 02:00 Sure. Hi, my name is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. She and They pronouns. Right now I live in Pocomtuc and Nipmuc territories in Western Massachusetts. And that is a great question. I will also just plug myself briefly and be like I'm a disability justice and transformative justice old sea-hag, aging punk of color who has written or co-edited ten books and done a lot of shit. Okay, so when I was sitting on the toilet thinking about "What do I want to tell Margaret when we get on the show?", I was actually thinking that my disability and my preparedness routes are kind of one in the same because... So I'm 48 [years old] now and I got sick when I was 21-22. So like back in 96-97. And, it was the initial episode that I got sick with chronic fatigue, ME, and fibromyalgia. And I was just super fucking ill and on the floor and was living in Toronto as somebody who was not from Canada. And, you know, I was just sick as hell, like crawling to the bathroom, like sleeping 18 hours a day. The whole nine. And I'd been really really deeply involved in anarchist of color and prison abolitionist and antifascist organizing and lots of stuff. I had a community, but it was 1997, so most of my community was just like, "What you're sick? Why didn't you make it to the meeting? We have to write all the prisoners with the [untranslatable]." And I was just like, "I just.... Okay, great." Like it was a really different time. There was no GoFundMe, mutual aid, Meal Train, someone brought me some soup. Like, know you, we weren't really doing that. And people really did not have a consciousness around, "You can be a 22 year old brown, nonbinary femme and be really, really sick and be disabled." So something I think a lot, and I've said before, is that disabled people are really used to the concept that no one is going to save us and we are really not surprised when state systems abandoned us because we live in that all the time. And so I was just like this little 22 year old sicko weirdo who'd read my Octavia Butler--and, in fact, that was part of the reason why I was like, "Toronto, great, there's gonna be more water and less heat." Okay, wasn't totally right about that. But, you know, I mean, I really had to save myself and I kind of was like, "Alright, I don't have..." Like, I'm working off the...I'm working under the table. I have hardly any money. I'm gonna make my own herbal medicine. I'm gonna grow a lot of what I eat from my backyard. I'm going to store water. I'm going to run a credit card scam and get a lot of dried goods and live off of those for like a year. [Margaret Hell Yeahs] Yeah, stuff like that. I feel like from there, over the last, you know, 26 years like it's....like, that's the route. The route was, you know, similar to a lot of people, I think of my generation, we were like on the cusp of looking at the current crises of like hot fascist war, hot eugenics war, hot climate crisis, and being like, "It's coming," and I started being like, "Yeah, like don't...don't think that it's all going to work out okay and that somebody else is going to fix it for you." So, I would say that's where my initial route--and then do you want to jump in? Or can I jump ahead like 20 years or something? **Margaret ** 05:10 Honestly, you could jump ahead 20 years later. I'm gonna come back and make you talk more about Octavia Butler. But we'll do that later. **Leah ** 05:16 Let's talk more about Octavia Butler because I have a lot of stuff about Octavia Butler and how she thought of--and I think sometimes misused--like nowadays [this is probably not the word but it's untranslatable] and also about disability. [Margaret "Oooohs" curiously] I know. We can get to that. Okay, so that's one route. And then, you know, I mean, I was always kind of like a little weirdo, where it's like, yeah, I grow most of my own food--or as much as I can--and it's not a fun green hobby. It's like, I'm broke as fuck and I need to grow a lot vegetables that fucking, you know, I can mulch and that can stay growing into December, you know? I stashed stuff. Something I also think a lot, is that as disabled people--and we talked about this a little bit when we're emailing--I think we're always prepping whether we call it that or not. Like most disabled folks I know just do shit. Like if you get a prescription and you have extra, you store it, you know? Like, if you can get a double dose, you put that aside. And then maybe you have it for yourself. Or, there's so many disabled mutual aid networks I've been a part of where someone's--I mean, before Facebook clamped down, this is really common on a lot of Facebook disabled groups--someone would be like, "Yo, does anyone have an extra five pills of such and such?" and I've seen total strangers for 15 years of disability justice be like, "Yep, what's your address? I do. I'm gonna mail it to you. I have my old pain meds. I've got this. I've got that." But, um, yeah, like doing the jumping forward that I promised you, so for people who don't know, disability justice as a movement was founded around 2005 by a group, a small group of disabled Black, Asian, and poor and working class, white disabled folks, who were all pretty, you know, gay, trans, and radical. And they were like, "We want to bring a revolutionary intersectional out of our own lives and experiences and issues. We want to create a disability movement that's for us and by us that's not just white, single issue, often cis, often male, often straight." Like, we want to talk about the fact that 50% of bipoc folks who were killed by the cops are also disabled, deaf, neurodivergent, etc... just to give one example. So, you know, that was '05 in Oakland, you know, Patti Burn, LeRoy Moore, Stacy Milbern, Ely Claire, Sebastian Margaret, Stacey Milbern Park, you know, the six. And I was living in Toronto and I moved to Oakland in '07 and I was kind of around for some of the beginnings of it. There's two stories I want to bring in. One actually predates my move. It was right when I was getting ready to leave Toronto, I got invited to go to this reading by a bunch of queer--I think all white--disabled radical folks. And I was just like, "Oh?" And I did the whole, like, "Am I really disabled enough?" and then it was like, "Oh, it's gonna be really depressing." And then it was really awesome. And I was like, "Whoa, disability community. Life saving." But it was kind of one of my moments of being brought into the disability community because there was this writer who was there who, their reading series was actually a choose your own adventure where there's four disabled, queer, and trans folks who are having a sex party and the zombie apocalypse happens. And then they have to figure out how to survive it without abandoning each other. And it was all like, "Okay, you all get to the van, but then there's no ramp. What do you do? Oh! You get this accessible ramp, but it smells like perfume and somebody has NCS. What do you do? And I was just sitting there with my mouth open--and it was also interwoven with like, 'Yeah, and then somebody's fucking somebody else with like, you know, a dildo strapped to their prosthetic,'" and I was like, wow, I fucking love disability. Like, sign me up. But I gotta say briefly, that was one of my first examples of like, you know, there's a really important phrase in Disability Justice, which is, "No one left behind, " right? Like, that's one of the core organizing principles. And that was kind of.... Before I even heard that phrase, I was like, "Fuck like this is..."--because I'd been around antiauthoritarian, quasi prepper, like "shit's gonna happen, we have to get ready." But I was always kind of quiet in the corner closeting my disability being like, "Well, shit, like, what if I don't have my meds? Or what if I'm too.... What if I can't run away from, you know, the Nazis or the zombies because I have a limp and I walk with a cane? Like, what if?" And that was my first example of this cross disability fantasy space of like, "We're going to escape together and we're not going to let anyone get eaten and it's going to mean really being creative about access stuff." Okay so jump ahead to, right, then I moved to Oakland and then I ran into actual Disability Justice community through Sins Invalid, which is an incredibly important foundational Disability Justice group, and through a lot of friendships I started making with other QTBIPOC disabled folks and my really, really good friend Stacy Park Milbern, who, people should totally know her work. She's incredible. She was one of the best movement organizers that the movement has ever seen. And we met online. And she was living in Fort Bragg, North Carolina with her family on the base because her family's military. And she was a queer southern, working-class, Korean and white, you know, physically disabled organizer from when she was really young. And then she was like, "Okay, I love my family, but I'm literally hiding my gay books in the wall because my mom's Pentecostal." So, yeah, and she's like--I literally realized she tells the story a lot--she's like, "Yeah, like, I realized I hadn't really left the house for a couple months and like, this is gonna be it," and she's like, "I was literally watching Oprah. And Oprah said, 'No one's coming to save you.'" And she was like, okay. She's 21 years old. And then through online, disabled, queer of color community there was this--or she organized--this initiative called To the Other Side of Dreaming where she moved crosscountry with Mia Mingus, who's another queer Korean organizer who was a friend of hers, ad moved to the Bay Area. And so that was around 2010-2011. And then in 2011, what happens but the Fukushima nuclear accident, right, disaster? And we're all on the West Coast--and it's completely ridiculous bullshit, looking back on it now--but all of these Bay Area folks were like, "Oh my God! Radiation!" And some people pointed out, "Look, you know, we're not.... There's...it's a big ocean. The people who really have to worry are in Japan and areas around it, so whatever?" But it was one of those times where we were like, fuck, this is a really big nuclear accident and we are sort of close and it's making us think about disaster. And I remember just going to fucking Berkeley Bowl, which is this big, fancy, organic supermarket and people had bought out all of the burdock all the fucking seaweed. And I was like, "Oh, my God, these people." But out of that, Stacy started having conver--and I and other people who were in our organizing network of disabled, majority BIPOC--were like, "What are we going to as disabled BIPOC if there is an earthquake, fascism, like another big disaster? And Stacy said, really bluntly, she's like, "You know," and she was a power wheelchair user. She used a ventilator. You know, she's like, "Yeah, I am supported by electricity and battery dependent access equipment." And she's like, "Well, I'm going to be really honest, my plan has always been, if something happens, I'm just going to lay down in my bed and die, because I don't think that any emergency services are going to come save me and the power is going to run out in 48 hours. And then we were like, "Okay, that's super real. What if, through our amazing collective access stuff we're doing, we could figure out something else?" And we had this meeting at Arismendy bakery, which for folks who know, is like a worker owned co-op chain, Our friend Remedios worked there. It's wheelchair accessible. We met there after hours. And it was just like, 12-15 of us who started just sitting there and being like, "What are the resources we have? What are the needs we have? And we made this map, which I still have, which I think I shared with you, which is just like, "Apocalypse, South Berkeley/Oakland Map 2011," where we were like, "Okay, you know, when the power goes down, the communication goes down. We're gonna meet at this one traffic circle because people who are wheelchair users can roll up. And we're gonna bury note paper in a mason jar with pens and we're gonna leave notes for each other. But we're also going to agree to meet there the day after at noon." And I was like, okay, my collective house, the first floor is wheelchair accessible. We have solar, we have a landline. And we have a lot of space. So like, let's meet there. And then someone was like, "We've got the one accessible van. And we know, it's only supposed to fit 4 people, but we can fit like 12 in there." And we started.... Like, I just think about that a lot because it's, I think it was a really important moment where it was important...the stuff that we did like that--you know, the actual strategies and the resources we started talking about--but it was also that it was the first time in my life that I was like, "Okay, we're not--not only are we not going to just die alone in our beds, I'm also not going to be the one person who survives. Like, I can actually survive with, and because of, other people. And we're all disabled BIPOC with a couple of disabled white folks. And we can actually collectively strategize around that. And this will be my last leap forward, because I see that you're like, "I want to ask you stuff." So, you know, eight years go by, and in that time we all do an incredible amount of Disability Justice organizing and strategizing. And, you know, in 2019.... And a lot of it started to be around climate disaster on the West Coast. Like, I moved to Seattle in 2015. The wildfires started being really bad a year or two later. A lot of us were involved in mask distributions, just spreading information about smoke safety and survival. And then 2019 was the infamous year where the wildfires came back and Pacific Gas and Electric, in all of its fucking glory, which is the main--for people who don't know--it's the main utility electrical company in Northern California. They announced two days before wildfires were going to really impact the Bay, they were like, "Oh, so we've decided that our strategy is going to be that we're just going to shut down all the power in Northern California. **Margaret ** 14:52 No one uses that. [Sardonically] **Leah ** 14:53 No one uses that. And they're like, "Oh, if you have a medical need, call this number, and we'll make sure to leave it on at your house." and Stacey was, "Okay." She had just bought her house, the Disability Justice Culture Club in East Oakland, you know, which was her house but also a community center, de facto community center, that housed a lot of disabled folks of color. And she was like, "I was on the fucking phone for eight hours. Like, I never got through." And she and some comrades started this campaign called Power to Live where they were like.... It started out as, "Okay, we can't save everybody, but we're not going to just lay down and die. What do we do?" So it started out as like, okay, let's identify who has housing that still has power. There's some people in Richmond, there's some people in this neighborhood, but then it also developed into this thing where it was just this amazing crowdsource survivalist resource where it was everything from, she's like, "Here's a number. Here's an email. If you need something, text us, call us, email us. We have a team of eight people. We'll figure it out. If you have something to offer, do it too." And then some of it was that people were sharing everything from generator information, to generator shares, to people in different areas-- like I was in Seattle and we were like, "Okay, we will mail you generators and air purifiers, because it's obviously all sold out in the Bay, but we can get it here and get it to you." The thing that always stands out to me is people being like, "Oh, yeah, here's how you can use dry ice and clay pots to keep your insulin cold if refrigeration goes down." And there's a lot more I could say about that action and how amazing it was. But for me, when I think about the through line, I'm like, that moment in 2011, when we all got together, and were like, "What do we do?" we were prepping for what we couldn't fully predict, you know, the exact manifestation of eight years later. We're there and we're like, "Okay, there's wildfires, there's smoke, there's no fucking power, and we've not only built our organizing base, we built our relationships with each other so that we can actually trust each other and more or less know how to work together when this shit actually is hitting the fan to create something that's really life giving. Okay, I'll shut up. That was a lot. **Margaret ** 16:52 Now I have so many questions about all of it. **Leah ** 16:53 Yeah, ask me all the questions. **Margaret ** 16:55 Because there's a couple...there's a couple of questions and/or feedback that we get with Live Like, the World is Dying a lot. And some of them are very specifically disability related, and you covered most of them, but I want to highlight some of them. Like a lot of people write and are like, "Well, I rely on the following thing that is provided by civilization. So my plan is to lay down and die." Right? This is a--and I know you've kind of answered it--but I.... I want to ask more. Okay, I'll go through all the things. Okay. So to talk more about what "No One Left Behind," means? And then the other thing that really stands out to me is that, you know, when we were talking, when we were talking about what we were going to talk about on this on this episode, I was saying, okay, we can talk about, you know, making sure that preparedness is inclusive and open and includes disabled folks, or whatever, and you pointed out, really usefully, the, the necessity to reframe it. And I think that the story you just gave is a really beautiful example of this, where it's less about, like, "Hey, make sure to pay attention to the people who need canes," you know, or whatever, right? Like, you know, "make sure you keep track of folks based on disability." And more than like the thing you just described, is the thing that we're always trying to push, which is that you need to make a list of all the resources and needs within your community and then figure out how to meet those needs and instead of assuming that we can't meet those needs, figuring out how to actually do it. And so I love that it's actually like.... It's actually disability justice movements that we should be learning from, I mean, or participating in, depending on our level of ability, or whatever, but I just find that I find both of those things really interesting. And so I wonder if you have more that you want to say about alternatives to laying down and dying, and specifically, to tie into the other thing that I get asked the most or that I get the common feedback is--because we talk a lot about the importance of community for preparedness on this show--a lot of people don't feel like they have community and a lot of people write to be like, "I don't have any friends," or "I don't know any other people like me," or, you know. And so, I guess that's my main question is how do.... [Trails off] Yeah, how do? **Leah ** 19:22 So how do you make community when you don't have community? Alternatives to lying down and dying? And was there a third one in there? **Margaret ** 19:28 I was just highlighting how cool it is that y'all sat there and made a list of resources and needs, which is exactly what.... Instead of deciding things are impossible, just being like, "Well, let's just start doing them." You know? **Leah ** 19:40 And I think.... Okay, so I'll start there. Like I think that like.... You know, Corbit O'Toole, who's like a, you know, Disability Rights Movement veteran and like older Irish, disabled dyke, you know, in Crip Camp, the movie, she's like, "Disabled people live all the time with the knowledge that the society wants thinks we're better off dead," right? Like one...back in the day, you know, there's a--I think they're still active--one of the big Disability Rights direct action organizations was called Not Dead Yet, right? [Margaret Hell Yeahs] I think this is the thing is like I think that sometimes abled people or neurotypical people are not used to sitting down and making the list. And I think that even if disabled people aren't preppers, we're used to being like, "Okay, what do I need? Fuck, I need somebody to help me do my dishes. Oh, I can't bend over. I need to figure out what is the access tool that will allow me to pick up something from the floor when my that goes out? Like, if my attendant doesn't show up, can I have a..." You know, like, my friends always like, "Yeah, I've got a yogurt container by the bed in case my attendant doesn't show up so I can not piss the bed. I can lean over and piss in the yogurt container." Like there's a--and I think that.... God, I mean, there's been so many times over the years where I've done or been a part of doing like Disability Justice 101 and me and Stacy would always talk about crip wisdom and crip innovation and people will just look blank like "What are you talking about? You guys are just a bunch of sad orphans at the telethon." It's not just about making the list, it's also about how disabled disability forces you to be innovative. Like, Stacy would always share this story where she's like, "Yeah," like, she's like "Crip innovation is everything from," she's like, "I save a lot of time sometimes by pretending I can't talk when people come over and want to pray over me. You know, I just act like a mute and they fucking leave and they go on with their life," and she's like, "You know, I realized one day, if I took my sneakers off, I could ramp a step if it's just two steps. I could just put them there and I could roll up." Or I mean, there's a million examples.... Or like, because I think it's about prepping and about making the lists and it's also about whatever you prep for, there's always going to be the X Factor of "Oh, we didn't fucking expect that." And I think that's where a lot of prep falls apart is people have their "Dream Bunker." They're like, "Oh, okay, I know exactly what the threats are going to be." And then of course, it doesn't fucking happen that way. I really hope I can swear on your show. **Margaret ** 21:46 You can. Don't worry. **Leah ** 21:47 Great. So, I mean, one example I could give is I'm remembering at, you know, a Sins show when we were in rehearsal, where everyone drove over from Oakland in Patty's wheelchair accessible van, and then the ramp broken wouldn't unfold. So we just were like, alright, who do we know who has welding equipment? Who do we know has lumber? Like, I think we ended up going to a bike repair shop and then they had tools. And then we're like, okay, we'll just bring the rehearsal into the van and do it that way. Like, you have to be innovative. And that's a muscle that I think society doesn't teach you to flex and that often, I think that even people who.... I think there can be a lot of eugenics in prep, you know, whether people are overtly fascist or not, there's a real belief of like, "Oh, only the strong and smart," --which looks a certain way-- "survive," and that "We should use rational thinking to make it all work out." And I think a lot of crip intelligence or wisdom is actually knowing that shit can go sideways 48 different ways and you have to adapt. And you have to just kind of be like, "Well, let's try this." So I think that's one thing. And I think, you know, one thing I'll say is, yeah, just speaking to kind of the reframing we were talking about, I think it's less like, "Oh, remember the people with canes," but, I mean, that's good, but also knowing that we're already doing it and that abled people actually have a shit ton to learn from us. But also, I mean, something.... I mean, the title of my last book is "The Future is Disabled," and it comes from something--it's not unique thinking to me--it's something that a lot of disabled people have been thinking and saying throughout the pandemic is that we were already at like a 30% disabled world minimum and we're pretty close--we're probably at majority disabled right now. Because what, 2% of the world didn't get Covid? Like, how many people have Long Covid? How many people have complex PTSD? We're all sick, crazy, and, you know, needing access equipment. Disability is not out there. It's in here. Like there's no such thing as doing prep that's like, "Oh, only the three Uber Mensch are gonna survive." Like fuck that. And that actually--I mean, sorry, this might be a side note, but a lot of people have probably seen The Last of Us. And I'm just gonna SPOILER ALERT it. You know that famous episode three of those two gay bear preppers in love? Yeah, I loved a lot about it. I was so pissed at the ending, which I'm just going to spoil. So you know, the more artsy, non-prep guy....[interrupted] **Margaret ** 21:47 Yeah, they don't survive. **Leah ** 22:47 Well, no, but like, not only did they not survive but one of them gets chronically ill. And I was just like, grinding my teeth because it's like, "Oh, he's in a wheelchair. Oh, his hand tremors." And then they end up deciding to both kill themselves rather than do anything else. And I was so furious at it because I was like, these are two people who are so innovative. They have figured out all kinds of problem solving. They have an entire small city for themselves. And it's all like, "Oh, no, he can't get up the stairs." And I'm like, really? There was no accessible ranch house you couldn't of fucking moved to? **Margaret ** 24:38 Or like build a bedroom on the fucking ground floor. **Leah ** 24:40 Or youcouldn't get meds? You couldn't? I mean, when his hand was shaking, it was like, "Oh, it's so sad. He's being fed." I'm like, there's tons.... First of all, it doesn't suck to be fed. A lot of things that seem like a fate worse than death are not when you're in them. And also, there's like all kinds of adaptive utensils that they could have fucking raided from medical supply if he wants to feed himself. Or I'm sorry, there's no cans of Ensure? They absolutely have power. They couldn't have made smoothies? Like, what the fuck is this? But beyond that--and I think that a lot of people who have talked about that episode did, I think, have some good analysis of it where, you know, the whole way they set up their prep was they were like, "Oh, it's just the two of us," and the one super prepper guy was like, "I don't even want friends to come over." And the other guy was like, "Hey, actually, we need to make alliances because there's things they have that we don't. And we also need more than just the two of us because I love you, but I'm gonna kill you." And I think that's something to think about is really moving away from the idea that just your little you know, the utopic queer rural community that so many fucking city queers fantasize about or, you know, lover are going to be enough, because it's not. So that actually leads me to, "I don't have community. Where the fuck do I get it?" And I'm like, yeah, that's super real. Right? And I think it's something I actually wrote about in "The Future is Disabled" is that I have people be like--when I write about different crip communities, just even when I talk about stuff on Facebook.... Like my friend, Graham Bach, it's going to be his second year death anniversary in like two weeks, and he was like, you know, white, psychiatric survivor, super poor, amazing sweetheart of a human being, he died.... I mean, he died in his, you know, rent to your income apartment because he was really afraid to go to the hospital and he had cardiac stuff going on. And he was an anarchist, he was amazing, kind, complicated human being. And, I was writing about, like.... I'm going to tell the story and there's a couple things I want to pull out of it. So I was writing about meeting Graham when I was in my early 20s through radical Mad people community, and somebody was reading it and was like "That sounds so great." And I was like, "Yeah, it wasn't utopic. Like, I had to yell back at Graham because he would scream at me and I'd be like, "Shut the fuck up!" Like, there was so many fights. There was so much racism. There were so many older white cis dudes who had electroshock who were jerky or gross, you know? And I guess that was the thing is, I was like, they're like, "Well, how did you find each other?" And I was like, it wasn't perfect. Also, it was very analog working class. Like my friend Lilith Finkler, who is an amazing Moroccan, Jewish, working-class queer femme psych survivor, she would just go to the donut shop where everybody poor hung out and would talk to everybody who wass there who wass crazy who no one wanted to talk to and be like, "Hey, do you want to come hang out at this meeting at the fucking legal clinic? We have a room. We have a snack plate. I'll give you tokens. Let's organize." So I think that's the first thing is that it's not--and I don't mean this in a finger-wagging way--it's not automatic. And also, one of the really big ways that community is often ableist, and that a lot of us get cut out from it, is that a lot of us who need it the most are not particularly easy to love in ableist neurotypical worldview. It's like we're cranky, we're wounded, we're in a bad mood, we're weird. So a lot of the time, I think it's thinking about, first of all, what's one step, one move you can take towards it. Like, can you make one fucking acquaintance and build it. And really think about what it would mean to build some kind of relationship. I think the other thing that I really want to highlight is that a lot of the communities that I see that keep each other alive, that I'm lucky to have been a part of making and being supported by in disabled community, they're not static and they're not perfect. Like, I have networks with people who piss me the fuck off and who, you know, I've sent 20 bucks to people who I'm just like, "I really don't like you, but I can see that you really don't have food," you know, and we're not going to be friends and we're not going to like each other, but I don't want you to die. And that's not...I mean, it's bigger.... There's also people who I'm like, "Okay, you're my ex-abuser. I'm not gonna give you $5. Someone else can give you $5. **Margaret ** 28:42 There's this person who puts a lot of their effort into talking shit on me on the internet and I...they're also broke and have a lot of chronic health issues and I send them money every month. And every now and then I'm like, could this like...could you stop talking shit now? **Leah ** 29:03 I think this is the thing sometimes is like, hey, how about this is the deal, like maybe just say "Thank you," or maybe just talk shit even like 20% less? Because you know, I'm really doing we keep us safe here. I just really want a "thank you." **Margaret ** 29:16 I don't want you to die. Like, I don't want you to starve to death, but I really wish you would be a little bit more open minded to people having different opinions on yours. **Leah ** 29:26 Oh yeah, nuance, right? Yeah, it'd be fucking nice. **Margaret ** 29:29 God forbid. Anyway. **Leah ** 29:31 No, it's good. I guess my TLDR would be to start where you are and start with "what's one thing you can do? What's one person you can reach out to?" And I think, you know, I don't know if this is true for everyone who reaches out to you and it's like, "Well, I don't have anybody," but I think that social media and online connectivity is a real double-edged sword because for some of us who are isolated, it can create both online communities that can sometimes become in-real-life community and, either way, can be sources of some community or support. But I think.... I mean, you know, I'm a Generation X'er and I've just seen social media get more and more chokehold and just turn into fucking the panopticon meets a mall, you know? [Margaret laughs] And I think it's hard because 12 years ago I was part of really early online disabled spaces, which were great because so many people were like, "Well, I'm so isolated in my small town or in my city," or "I can't leave bed, but this is great. I'm meeting with other people and we're building these connections and it's actually more accessible for me to be real about my stuff from like my bed with a heating pad." And now I just think it's so chokeholded that it's hard for us to find each other. So it's much more common for people to be like, "Wow, I'm seeing all these people who have millions of followers and a shiny brand and I just feel like even more of an isolated loser." And then at the same time, I think people are like, "Well, how did people meet each other before this?" And I was like, "Yeah, like, you go to the coffee shop or the donut shop. You put up a flier. You go to the library. You like, I don't know. I mean, I just remember people I met on the food stamps line, you know, when we got there at six in the morning. And not everything's gonna stick, but maybe something sticks. And I also think about like, I'm going back to 13 years ago in early Disability Justice community spaces where--I mean, I think back to [untranslatable] when I went back to Toronto--which, yeah, big city--but I remember I had so many people come to me and be like, "You're..."--because I was starting to be more out about disability, cuz I was like, "I'm in the Bay and there's these wild people who talk about it and they're not all white people." and so I have so many, especially Black and brown disabled femmes be like, "Hi, you don't really know me, but I have fibromyalgia too," or "I have Lupus too. And like, no one I know talks about that. How do you do it?" And I'm specifically thinking about this time that this person I'm no longer in touch with--but we used to be friends--who's like, you know, queer, brown nonbinary person was like, "Let's just have a meet up of other chronically ill femmes of color," which is how we were identifying a time, and it was four of us, four heating pads, a bottle of Advil, and just very tentatively starting to share things about our lives. And I was like, "Yeah, that was four people." But a lot of that hang out then rippled outward. And it was like, I think it's also important to be like, it's scary to build community. Some tools I want to shut out like, so Mia Mingus, who I mentioned before, she has a lot of really great writing on her blog Leaving Evidence and she created this tool a long time ago now--that some people might be familiar with but for folks who aren't--it's, you know, it's her tool that she calls Pod Mapping. And she actually created it as part of a collective she founded called the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective that was working on doing transformative justice interventions into intimate violence, specifically childhood sexual abuse a lot of the time, and she had this framework that I find really helpful. She's like, "A lot of..." she was talking about in community accountability, transformative justice spaces and she made a really good point where she's like, "Sometimes we talk about like, 'Yeah, bring in the community. Like, everyone has a community.'" And she's like, "Most people don't have a fucking community, let alone one that can interview in childhood sexual abuse." So she created this tool where she's like, "Let's broaden the idea of what community is." Like, maybe it's that one cousin, that you only talk to once a year, but you could call them in a jam, or it's this hotline, or it is like, yeah, they're a weird church, but you really like their food banks. She's like, "You have to really bring in.... Like, start where you are and do the resource mapping we were talking about" I really liked that tool a lot as a place for people who are like, "What's my community?" because I think it's a big word and really being like, "What does that even mean to me?" and like, "What's one place that can start building it?" And I also want to shout out, Rebel Sydney Black, who's a friend of mine who passed this June, at the beginning of the pandemic, he created this tool called Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid that was specifically aimed at disabled folks who were trying to pod map during Covid--and we can provide the link and stuff like that--but I would say that those are two places to start and then I want to get to alternatives to lying down and dying. And then I'll stop. **Margaret ** 34:04 Okay, wait, wait, before we get to that I want to talk more about the building community thing. **Leah ** 34:08 Yeah, please. **Margaret ** 34:09 I think you brought up a lot of really interesting points. And one of the things that I really like about it, you know, talking about having like...you're broadening the idea of what counts as community, which I think is really useful. And one of the things I realized is that a lot of times when I was younger, I was like, "Y'all say 'community' and you just mean the people that you like," right? And that didn't make any sense to me. Community seems like the people where you have a shared interest, whether the shared interest is you live on the same block, or whether the shared interest is an identity, or whether the shared interest is an interest that you're trying to see change, or whatever. It doesn't mean people you like. It's a different thing. Friends are the people I like, right? Well, mostly. I'm just kidding. I love all of you. I mean, there's a lot of people I love that I don't always like. Anyway, so I don't know, and so I think that one of the things that stuck out with me about what you're gonna say and I want to highlight is the idea that--or maybe I'm misreading it--but like "pick issue to work" around seems like a good useful way. Especially if you struggle to just have friends, right? That's not like the thing that you're good at. But maybe there's a thing that you want to work on? Or having that meetup where it's like, oh, all the following people who have the following things in common, let's meet up and talk about it. Or honestly, activism is a really good way to meet people and work closely with people about things. And it doesn't necessarily have to mean these are now your friends. But they can be people where you rely on each other. And that doesn't have to be the same. I think about it a lot because I live in a fairly isolated and rural environment where there's not a lot of people around me who are culturally.... Whatever, there's not a lot of out, queer people where I live. There's not a lot of punks. And I'm like, that's okay. I talk to my actual neighbors instead. I mean, some of them, not all of them, but most of them, you know, they're who I would rely on in a crisis, because they're right there. It doesn't mean that we have the same ideas about a lot of stuff, you know? But we have similar ideas, like, "Let's not die," right? And so that's enough sometimes. Anyway, I just wanted to.... **Leah ** 36:12 No, I really appreciate it. And I mean that makes me kind of think about, when you were talking, I was like, yeah, you know, there's friends, there's communities, and then there's survival networks, which can include contacts, right? Because I just think about what would I do right now, if some should happened? And I was like, I've got long distance kin and long term friendships and relationships ofvarious kinds and I also have--because I moved to where I live, which is like semi-rural, but definitely more rural than where I've lived before--and I'm just like, yeah, I have a small number of friends. But there's like people who I know who I can...who are neighbors who like, maybe we don't know a shit ton about each other but I could be like, "Hey, this thing?" or "Hey, do you have water?" or, "Hey, let's do this." I think it's a lot about thinking about what are your goals? Is your goal intimacy? Is your goal survival? Is your goal friendship? Because you need different levels of trust and commonality depending on those things, right? I also think, and this is the thing too, I think something.... I think a lot of times because I've had people be like, "Well, I don't have community," also, I've heard that. And I think that a lot of times the context, I hear it in is people being like, "Well, I have care needs, but I don't have any community." So then there's also the really big thorny question of "need" and like being cared for is actually very complicated. It's very risky. It's very vulnerable. It's not safe a lot of the time. It may feel a lot easier to just be like, "I don't have any fucking needs." And so there's a lot, I will just say that there's a lot of unpacking that needs to do around like, "What would I need to be cared for? What are my lower risk needs that I need help with? What are my higher risk needs?" right? Like, there's people who I can.... There's some needs I have where I'm like, I don't need to trust you super, super deep politically or on an intimate level to let you do that. There are certain needs where I'm like, that's only going to be people where we've really built a lot of fucking trust because if this goes sideways you could really stuck with me. Right? And I think that when you're starting from nowhere, I think often where people get stuck is like, "Where I am feels like I have nobody and nothing. And I want to get to like the thing I've read about in your topic science fiction, where you know, it's Star Hawk and everybody loves each other. And how the fuck do I get from A to B." And I think the solution is like, yeah, you're not gonna get to fucking "Fifth Sacred Thing" right away--and that book is complicated. **Margaret ** 38:29 Yeah, It was very influential on my early.... **Leah ** 38:31 Oh yeah, when I was 18, I just wanted to fucking move there. And now I'm like, "Oh God, this is embarrassing. There's some shit in here." I'm like, "Wow, everybody's mixed race, but everyone's Black parents are dead." Wow. Cool. Nobody really thinks about race. I'm like, I'm gonna throw up. And like, you know, BDSM is just violent....Okay, sorry. We're not going to get into that. **Margaret ** 38:47 Oh my God, I don't remember that part. **Leah ** 38:49 Oh, yeah. No, where it's so violent. Like, "We're just loving." And I wrote a really no passion paper for school, because we actually had to read it in a college class I was in, and I was like, "Why are they not into leather sexuality?" And my professor was like, "Okay, 18 year old..." but yeah. **Margaret ** 39:04 I mean, legit. You 18 year old self had a legitimate critique. **Margaret ** 39:08 Yeah. **Leah ** 39:08 Yeah, no, there's a lot there. But, um, but jumping back, I guess it's just like, you know.... And I think this feels like disabled wisdom too, it's like, what can you do with the spoons or the capacity you have? Like, what's one move you can make that small? And then can you build on that? Yeah, but can I talk about alternatives to lying down and dying? **Leah ** 39:28 Yeah. Well, I think...I mean, this is the thing, is like, I'm a survivalist, but I'm not like anti-civilization in the ways that some people are. Like, I want meds, you know? And I think that's something that other crips I know talk about a lot, which is like, you know, we're really against this way that some people, including some people who would like align themselves with like Healing Justice who are like "We're like, oh, yeah, we just have to go back before colonialism and capitalism, and just everyone lived on herbs and it was great." and I was like, "Nah, bitch, I need surgery and meds." Like I want it all. Like, I love non-Western pre-colonial traditional healing. Absolutely. And I've had friends who died because they didn't get their surgeries on time. Like my friend LL died because nobody would give him a fucking kidney because they said he was too fat. And I'm just like, my good future involves.... I mean, and he's one of millions right? So like, my good future involves that we have surgical suites. And I'm just like, you know, honestly, also, a lot of times that worldview just seems so white to me, because I'm just like, listen, a lot of like, global south places figure out how to have field hospitals, right, in really dire and low-resource situations. So I'm sorry.... **Margaret ** 40:40 I mean, only Europoe's ever figured out surgery. No one else has done surgery until Europe showed up. [Said sarcastically implying the opposite] **Leah ** 40:45 Yeah, not fucking ever. [Also said sarcastically] **Margaret ** 40:46 Said the people who are like, "bite down stick and I'll saw your arm off." **Leah ** 40:49 Yeah, so I mean, I guess one thing I would just say is like, I would say that and I would say like, you know, really...I want to like lift up and encourage people to look at--and they can be hard to find--but look at cultures, look at organizing initiatives where people were like, "We can have our own ambulance, we can have our own like..." And when that's not there, to think about what it would mean to have medical care after the apocalypse, right? What would it mean to make hormones, make drugs, synthesize chemicals, and it's not impossible. I think that we're still in the in between of like, okay, we gotta figure out how to do that. But, um, you know, I'm thinking about, Ejeris Dixon, who's my friend and comrade, and, you know, we co-edited "Beyond Survival" together, which is a book we wrote that came out right at the beginning of the pandemic about stories and strategies from how people are actually trying to create safety without the cops. Ejeris always talks about how they were like, "Yeah, like, in Louisiana, you know, in the South, you know, like in the 50s, and 60s, and before I believe, there were all kinds of Black run ambulance and 911 services," because regular 911 wouldn't come to Black communities. Right? And they, I mean, something that I've heard them say a lot over the years is like, "We don't have the people's ambulance yet. But we could." And then it makes me also jump to some friends of mine who were in Seattle who were really active as street medic crew during the rebellions after George George Floyd was murdered by the police in, you know, 2020 in the summer, and specifically in, as some people remember, Seattle managed to have 16 square blocks break off from the city for a while, CHOP, Capitol Hill Organized Front. And so what people don't know is that the cops were like, "Okay, fuck you. We're not going to...If there's any 911 ambulance calls, we're not going to fucking let anyone go in there." So the street medic crew had to deal with a lot of really intense situations. And then after that, like a lot of us folks, like some folks were already nurses or EMTs and a lot of folks who were involved went to nursing school or EMT school and we're like--and I don't know where it's at now--but they were like, "We want to create,"--because right now in Seattle, there's, if somebody is having a crisis on the street, like a medical or a mental health crisis or an altered state crisis, there's no non-911 crisis response that you can call. There's either you go down the stairs to talk to somebody or there's the cops, right. And they were like, "We can get a van. We can get medical equipment from eBay." And you know, I don't know where they're at with that, but they were really organizing around like, "Yeah, we could get a defibrillator. We could get oxygen. We could get blood pressure cuffs. We could get fucking..." you know? And I think that that shit gets complicated in terms of insurance and regulation and the State and the medical industrial complex, but I want us to keep thinking about that. I also, and then I'll wrap up because we have other questions to get to, but it also makes me think about, I mean, I don't know if folks are familiar with Gretchen Felker Martin's amazing science fiction book "Manhunt," right, which is about.... **Margaret ** 43:50 I haven't read it yet. **Leah ** 43:52 It's so fucking good. Okay, so I won't give it away. But just for people who don't know, I'd say it's the one kind of gender sci-fi book where "Oh, a virus, you know, affects people with certain chromosomes or certain that dih-dah-dug that's not TERFy because it's a book that, you know, she's trans, and it's a book that centers trans women and nonbinary communities and there's like one or two trans masculine characters. But the two main trans femme, like trans women characters in the book, they're like, they have to, they're like, "Yeah, like, we're going on raids to get, you know, hormones, and, you know, different, like chemical drugs we need. And we're also figuring out how to synthesize them from herbs and different substances." And it's not easy. It's a struggle. But there are organized communities of trans women and allies that are fighting to do it. And I'm just like, yeah, and I mean, it's an amazingly well written book, and she's incredible, and I fucking loved it. And it's just beautifully written and really just--sorry, I won't gush too much but go read it, it's incredible--I just really also appreciated it because she was like, "Yeah, of course we're gonna get our hormones after the end of the world. Like of course it's possible." And I will also.... I have some criticisms of the ableism in it, but M.E. O'Brien and--fuck I'm forgetting the second author's name, but every you know, "Everything For Everyone," that book. I appreciated how in the good future society, they're like, "Our priority is making sure that insulin and chemical drugs and hormones are accessible and free to everybody." And I was like, I guess I would just push people towards there are ways of imagining the future where we can defeat capitalism but still have medical care of all kinds. We can have Reiki and acupuncture and we can also hormone surgery and transplants. And we might be doing it better because it's not controlled by fucking corporations and assholes. Sorry, that's my soapbox. Um, okay. I will say in terms of people being like, "That's really nice. But what about me?" I would be like, you know, I mean, right now in the war on trans America, there are so many people already who are like, "Yeah, I'm stockpiling meds. I like doing meds trading." I would say it goes back to what we started about, which is like, "Okay, what are your needs? What are the things that you're worried will not be there if the world ends?" Right? And we also need to recognize that the world's already ending and it's ended for some of us a bunch of times already. But I would be like, make that list and then really be like, "Alright, how do I get it?" You know, and if I can't specifically get it, are there like backups that I can get? And it may be stuff that you can research on your own. It also might be stuff where it's like, "Okay, are there trans [untranslatable], disability justice organizations, nationally, globally, locally, that you can hit up and be like, "What are folks thoughts about this? Are there ways that we can resource share?" Because I think it's about pills. I think it's also about durable medical equipment. So in terms of stuff that requires power to live, I think about generators and I think about generator shares. And I think about things like...there's a story when Hurricane Sandy hit New York 10 years ago, there were a whole bunch of us where...there's a guy Nick who's in community who, physically disabled guy, 13th floor, accessible apartment, you know, the lights went out, you know, really dependent on electricity to change out the batteries on his ventilator. There's a whole crew of disabled folks, like people walked up and down those fucking stairs every eight hours to take the spent batteries, figured out, "Hey, you know, what still has power, the fucking fire department." People were walking down recharging the batteries every eight hours. And it was allies, it was ambulatory, it was disabled people who could walk. It was fucking hard. But people were like, we're not.... Nick and his friends were like, "We're not just going to die. We're needed." So I wanna shoutout that and just for possibility modeling, I really want to, one other place I want to shout out, is an org that used to be known as Portlight but was now known as the Center for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, which is a disabled-led organization that is about like, yeah, when there's a climate or other disaster, they figure out ways of getting like accessible fucking evacuation methods to places because they know...we know, there's millions of examples of people who are just left to die in nursing homes or like, "Oops, the bus doesn't have a ramp," or, you know, I really want to name that during Katrina, some people might know about, you know, the situation with the nursing home that was there were a lot of folks who were wheelchair users or had high care needs were fucking killed by medical staff because the medical staff were like, "We're gonna actually euthanize these folks without their knowledge or consent." [Margaret exclaims] Yeah, no, there was actually a movie on HBO about it I think semi recently. Because "that's easier than figuring out how to fucking get people in the medivac ," right? Yeah, and so the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, I'm still getting to know them, but I have friends who are involved and they're like, "Yeah, we're aware this is an issue." So yeah, let's work with the fucking Cajun fucking Navy to like make sure that you can get folks with different bodies onto evac boats. Like let's figure out what disabled survival looks like. And I will just say, and this is the last thing I swear, for me, I mean, we all know water is important. Like, I can't lift 54 pounds. Guess what? So can't--which is, you know, a seven gallon right, like a five or seven gallon whatever--I'm just like, yeah, so I can actually have smaller jugs of water that I can lift. So yeah, I have a bug out plan, but I also have a real Shelter in Place plan because I'm just like, yeah, my apartment's accessible for me. So yeah, I got a shit ton of water right here and I'll be good for a while. And I also have a plan B for.... Okay, there's...I've got my filtration equipment, so when that runs out, I'm close to some water sources where I can go and I can filter that shit. And that's me thinking about what works for my body. Think about what works for yours and then plan out from that. Okay, I'll really stop talking now. **Margaret ** 49:44 No, no, but there's so much there. Even just like to go to the weight of water, right? The thing that I ran across that I'm like--I'm reasonably able-bodied and such like that, right--but I live alone and so obviously there's this specific thing where like.... Well, one, I mean, abledness is always a temporary position.... **Leah ** 50:04 Yeah, you're going to get disabled, you're gonna get sick and disabled. **Margaret ** 50:07 Like it literally happens to--unless you, I don't know, die very quickly, very suddenly, probably violently, you're gonna go through a period of disability in your life, you know? And so my argument is that machismo is anti-prepping. And one of the ways that I would say is that like, there's now, I think.... Okay, so cement bags, they come in 50 pound bags traditionally, right? But now there's more and more, I think, there seems to be more and more 30 pound bags, right? And I used to be like, "Oh, whatever, I can lift a 50 pound bag. So I should carry the 50 pound bag." And then I'm like, well, it was not a helpful way to look at it. It is far better for me to just have 30 pound bags of cement because they're easier to carry and I'll get tired less. And I, you know, at the time that I was pouring these bags, I lived up a hill about probably the equivalent of a seven storey walk up to this cabin that I was building, right. And so I had to carry each and every one. It was way nicer that I carry 30 pound bags. And if your preparedness doesn't include the fact that your level of ability will change in different situations, then it's not very good preparedness. And and so like, I don't know, I mean, like most of my water jugs are four or five gallon jugs. I use jerry cans. I think most of them are five gallon. And I hate the six gallon ones and the seven gallon ones. They're just heavy and annoying. And it's like I can give lift them but there's no reason why I should. Unless I'm specifically working on lifting weights. And then the other thing that you talked about that I really think about a lot, you know, is this idea, of does your version of disaster mean that every doctor dies? Or like, does your version of disaster mean everyone who's ever made insulin dies? Like, it's possible. Sure, you could have 90...if almost everyone on Earth dies, then everything is a little different. But most disasters don't actually..... Most disasters destroy ways of living and large numbers of people, but not the majority of people write. Most people survive most disasters. And, people are like, "Well, our organizational systems are what produce insulin," and like, no, people produce insulin and they use organizational systems with which to do it. But different organizational systems can also produce insulin. Like different organizational systems can use the same infrastructure sometimes and make the things that we rely on. And it came up with this like whole thing where people on the internet were like, "Ah, if you're an anarchist, you hate disabled people because in anarchy, you can't have insulin," **Leah ** 50:28 That's gross. **Margaret ** 52:40 It is a complete misunderstanding of anarchism. It is not a lack of organization, it is a different type of organization. **Leah ** 52:46 Anarchy is responsibility. **Margaret ** 52:48 Yes, totally. **Leah ** 52:50 Sorry, sorry. **Margaret ** 52:52 That's why people don't like it. People are afraid of it because they actually have to.... It's the accepting no one is coming to save us except us. You know? No, I love that way of framing and it also annoys anarchists when you tell them this too. **Leah ** 53:07 Okay, well, I mean, you know, so I worked at Modern Times books, which was, you know, is no longer around, but was a long time anarchists and anti authoritarian radical bookstore in the Bay. And we had the only public toilet in all of the Mission because everybody else was like, "No, you gotta buy something." and in my interview, they're like, "How will you make the store better?" And I was like, "I will make the bathroom not smell horrible." Because, you know, it was just like a bust, everyone was pissing in there. And so I taped up a sign that said "Anarchy is responsibility. If you spray the fucking toilet with urine, please wipe it up. Together we can have a toilet." And somebody called me out and was like, "That's capitalist." And I was like, "No, just wipe your piss up or we're not gonna make the revolution. Like, come on." But yeah, they got pissed at me about that. [Both laugh] But yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good point. And it's like, you know, I mean, I think that it does point to, you know, I think a structural problem in a lot of our movements, which is like, yeah, we don't we need more people who know some basics of chemistry and can synthesize stuff. Like, that's, you know, we need more people who've gone to some kind of science or engineering school who can figure out how sewage works and how you synthesize insulin and how you synthesize hormones and like, basic surgery. And I think there's a lot of hopefulness because I--maybe it's just the folks I hang out with--but I have a fair number of friends who are like, "Yeah, I'm gonna be a nurse practitioner. I can give you an abortion. I can sew up your wound. I can help you figure out this thing." And I'd love for there to be more of us who can go to PA school or
In this episode of the Black Robe Podcast, Our new cohost Queleah interviews IBJ ACES Isaiah and Faith for an update on the Manuel Ellis trial and observations on court etiquette in Pierce County. Navigating this trial as a community is difficult waiting for justice for Manny; It's even harder for his family. Please hold space for his family and support them in any way you can throughout this incredibly painful process. The team also gives an update on the election and @tacoma4all Initiative 1 Tenant Bill of Rights instituteforblackjustice.org/black-robe-podcast-1 Bookmark us linktr.ee/Instituteforblackjustice Go Fund Me- https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-honor-of-manuel-ellis Meal Train- https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/0e8eq3 Attend the Trial- https://www.piercecountywa.gov/7884/Trial-Information?fbclid=IwAR134EP_yft-GvmXxhwXCpU9McRerw9luGK-brEn88ZA03-f6_SO2qAbiCg#viewing Learn More about the Manny Ellis Case https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/trial-3-tacoma-officers-charged-killing-manny-ellis-starts-monday/D63DOMGSWVDB5EJNK7E4Z46MJY/
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SummaryIn this episode, Sean shares a personal story about Meal Train, a software that helps new parents with meal planning. He emphasizes the importance of solving problems using existing technology and how niche markets can lead to success. Sean also discusses potential improvements for Meal Train and highlights the value of user feedback.Key Points Meal Train simplifies meal planning for families with newborns, allowing friends and family to coordinate and provide meals. The success of software products often lies in solving unique problems using existing tools. Niche markets, such as new parents in need of meal assistance, offer opportunities for software solutions. Meal Train's main features include a calendar system and the ability to sign up for meal slots or contribute to gift cards. The software can be further improved by incorporating a food ordering feature, which would enhance the user experience. Sean encourages entrepreneurs to start with a simpler version of their software and iteratively build upon it based on user feedback. User suggestions and support channels play a crucial role in shaping the future development of a software product. Quotes "You can apply existing technology in very specific ways to solve unique problems." "Most of the success in the software world comes from figuring out how to use the tools already available to solve unsolved problems." "Meal Train simplifies the coordination of meal planning for families with newborns." "Starting with a simpler version and iterating based on user feedback can lead to a successful software product." "User suggestions and support channels provide valuable insights for product improvement." "Meal Train can further enhance their software by incorporating a food ordering feature." "Niche markets like new parents seeking meal assistance offer great opportunities for software innovation." Free Email Course How to Build a Profitable AI-Powered B2B SaaS Business for Less Than $750 - https://nxtstep.io/b2bsaasConnect with Sean Subscribe to my YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@nxtstepsean Connect with me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-boyce/ Notes generated by Podcast Show Notes (podcastshownotes.ai)
Manuel Ellis was a 33-year-old African-American Tacoma, Washington man killed by police on March 3, 2020. Those in Tacoma are very familiar with this case and have been waiting for justice for Manny and his family. In this episode, Morgan and Isaiah discuss what has happened since the trial began on Oct 3 and how you can support the Ellis family. instituteforblackjustice.org/black-robe-podcast-1 Bookmark us linktr.ee/Instituteforblackjustice Go Fund Me- https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-honor-of-manuel-ellis Meal Train- https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/0e8eq3 Learn More about the Manny Ellis Case https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/trial-3-tacoma-officers-charged-killing-manny-ellis-starts-monday/D63DOMGSWVDB5EJNK7E4Z46MJY/ Attend the Trial- https://www.piercecountywa.gov/7884/Trial-Information?fbclid=IwAR134EP_yft-GvmXxhwXCpU9McRerw9luGK-brEn88ZA03-f6_SO2qAbiCg#viewing Black The Vote- https://instituteforblackjustice.org/voter-toolkit
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There are time when the need for hospitality calls for us to minister from our homes instead of in our homes. What is a "meal train"? It is simply when someone is in charge of organizing multiple meals for a person/family in need. In this episode, I share practical tips on how to make this go smoothly (especially for the one hosting/organizing the meals) and to be the greatest blessing to the recepients. We have been so encouraged and helped by those who have provided meals for us during times of new babies, the unexpected loss of my brother, and sickness. If you have been on the receiving end of this aspect of hospitality, you know the immense blessing this can be! Resources: www.mealtrain.com NHC Podcast: Hospitality On-the-Go https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-107-hospitality-on-the-go/id1547126864?i=1000580291148 NHC Hospitality Guide https://nohighercalling.org/product/hospitality-guide/ Follow my journey by subscribing to this podcast. You can also follow me on Instagram, YouTube, and www.nohighercalling.org
I hope you're hungry because today my guest is Bri McKoy. Bri is a fantastic cook. She's the cook that you not only want on your Meal Train list, you might fake an injury just so she brings you a meal. But she did not start cooking until forced, so she has empathy for regular people. She is the every-girl that you want in your kitchen, teaching you how to make delicious food with confidence and joy. You are going to love this woman and the way she will help you launch out of any cooking slump, any season. Bri McKoy is an accidental home cook, the author of The Cook's Book and a lover of gathering people around her everyday table. She is the creator of The Everyday Kitchen Masterclass, a five-week online course that teaches people how to become more confident home cooks. Find stories and recipes on her food blog at OurSavoryLife.com or watch her videos with recipe tips and tricks and read her reflections on Instagram @brimckoy. Visit KimberlyStuart.com/podcast for more from this episode.
This week, Morrus, Peter, and Jessica talk about pay rates for writers in the RPG industry. In the news, free Baldur's Gate Gazetteer from D&D Beyond, Matthew Lillard launches D&D-themed bourbon, details released for Assassin's Creed RPG from CMON, and more! Plus a brand new sketch about what makes an appropriate battlecry. -------------------- News Baldur's Gate Gazetteer Free on D&D Beyond https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-beyond-offers-a-free-baldurs-gate-gazetteer.699423/ Matthew Lillard launches D&D-themed bourbon https://www.enworld.org/threads/beadle-grimms-matthew-lillard-launches-d-d-themed-bourbon.699454/ The Merry Mushmen https://www.themerrymushmen.com Sneak Peak of Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk https://www.enworld.org/threads/sneak-peak-of-phandelver-and-below-the-shattered-obelisk.699396/ Beth Rimmels reviews The Practically complete Guide to Dragons https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-practically-complete-guide-to-dragons-review.699385/ Assassin's Creed TTRPG https://www.enworld.org/threads/cmon-releases-details-on-assassins-creed-ttrpg.699453/ Witcher RPG hiatus https://www.enworld.org/threads/r-talsorian-updates-on-cyberpunk-red-the-witcher-and-a-new-secret-project.699452/ Play Renegade public event promotional program https://www.enworld.org/threads/renegade-game-studios-announces-new-public-event-support-program.699458/ Meal Train fundraiser for Meguey Baker and family https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/lk908w/ SOE Sourcebook from Russell Phillips Kickstarter pre-launch page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russellphillips/soe-sourcebook The Codex of Worlds for Monster of the Week from Evil Hat https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-codex-of-worlds-sourcebook-released-for-evil-hats-monster-of-the-week.699459/ Puzzling Encounters for 5e from EN Publishing on Kickstarter now https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enworld/puzzling-encounters EN Publishing August 2023 Update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIzqxPwHk0E&t=613s Munchkin Paranoia https://www.enworld.org/threads/steve-jackson-games-announces-munchkin-paranoia.699457/ -------------------- RPG Freelance Rates What Are The Current Freelance Writing Rates in the TTRPG Industry? https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-are-the-current-freelance-writing-rates-in-the-ttrpg-industry.699085/ 2015 article “What's a Freelance RPG Writer Worth?” https://www.enworld.org/threads/whats-a-freelance-rpg-writer-worth.662811/ -------------------- Please support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/morrus Don't forget to join the Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1033145023517295/ and join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/VAuxX8M Ask your Listener Question on Twitter, email morruspodcast@gmail.com, or contact us on TikTok at TikTok -------------------- Hosts: Russ “Morrus” Morrissey, Peter Coffey, and Jessica Hancock Editing and post-production: Darryl Mott Theme Song: Steve Arnott Malach the Maleficent played by Darren Morrissey Check out all the media content from EN World at http://enliverpg.com
In this episode, I had the honor of interviewing a good friend of mine named Jess. They are a birth doula, a postpartum doula, and an artist. We dive into why they became a birth professional in addition to discussing a recent birth experience that stuck out to them from a birth doula's perspective. Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes only with no intention of giving or replacing any medical advice. I, Kiona Nessenbaum, am not a licensed medical professional. All advice that is given on the podcast is from the personal experience of the storytellers. All medical or health-related questions should be directed to your licensed provider. The resources I mention in this episode are listed below:Ritual Birth- Jess Artigliere: https://ritualbirth.com/ The Miles Circuit: http://www.milescircuit.com/ Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com/ Sound Babies: https://www.soundbabies.com/ Has an upcoming Doula Meet & Greet event on July 8th 2023Evidence-Based Birth Podcast: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-based-birth-podcast/ The links in the section below are affiliate links. This means I get a small compensation from the companies that are linked as a “thank you”. There is no additional cost to you, however. I appreciate your support! Pregmate (50) Pregnancy test strips: https://amzn.to/3kr3gYp Support the showThank you so much for tuning in to this episode! If you liked this podcast episode, don't hesitate to share it and leave a review. It really helps bring the podcast up for others to find and listen to as well. If you want to share your own birth story or experience on the Birth As We Know It Podcast, head over to https://kionanessenbaum.com or fill out this Guest Request Form. Support the podcast and become a part of the BAWKI Community by becoming a Patron on the Birth As We Know It Patreon Page!
Morgan is a frequent contributor to Sagittarian Matters. She is the former purveyor of Dovetail Bakery, and loves dry crunchy foods more than any earthling could understand. Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What. Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. You can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com . Foods we discuss this episode: Golden beet poke Bon Devil ganache Bam Milk Snak Club Tajine Gummy Bears Flaxmeal! Chocolate covered chickpeas MEAL TRAIL ADVICE: Veggie Galette, Pho, Mix-n-match Por Que No (Portland) The zen of Grocery Outlet Maciel's plant based butcher (LA) Ranchside Cafe Ethiopian menu (LA) Fermenter Koji (Portland) Beet Reuben Hot Tongue Pizza (LA) - two tongues up. Baked Feta recipe from Vegan Cheese by Jules Aron Food Fight peanut butter cup shake (Portland) THERMOS Kitchen Mouse bakery soup Milk frother Maca Powder drink Sip Cart Almond butter maca date smoothie
Today we check our porch and window sills for Meal Train Meals because we are people who need people. This episode is a roller coaster as we look for friends, put people on blast and save lives. Things get spiritual as we learn how a meal train is like Grindr and showcase some hidden talents. Meal Train WebsiteEd Fretwell SoupFuchsia Dunlop's Sichuanese Chopped Celery with BeefGinger Pork Meatballs in Coconut BrothI Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A CookbookThe Kawasemi or Common KingfisherMatthew's Now but Wow! - Shalom - “Happenstance” and “Soccer Mommy” Support Spilled Milk Podcast!Molly's SubstackMatthew's MusicProducer Abby's WebsiteListen to our spinoff show Dire DesiresJoin our reddit
GIANTS ARE in the Bible because they're important. This week, we bring you an interview recorded in July of 2021 with Dr. Michael Heiser, a giant among Bible scholars, in our view. Mike's research and his willingness to share it has literally changed the lives of thousands of people. His books, including The Unseen Realm, Reversing Hermon, Angels, Demons, and A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Volumes 1 and 2, are foundational to a deeper understanding of the Bible. In this discussion, Mike explains why the giants of Genesis 6 are still relevant today, why Joshua's conquest of Canaan was a war to destroy the Anakim (who are linked to the Nephilim), the significance of Mount Hermon, and the connection between baptism and the Watchers who rebelled against God in the days of Noah. You can support Mike's ministry Milqlat at www.miqlat.org, and help Mike's family through Meal Train. Help us to Build Barn Better! This is our project to convert our 1,200 square foot shop building from a place to park our yard tractor into usable studio and warehouse space. In 2023, we plan to fix the holes in the walls, replace windows, insulate the building, install an HVAC system, and move our studios and book/DVD warehouse and shipping office out of our home. If you are so led, you can donate by clicking here. Subscribe and share our YouTube channel at www.YouTube.com/GilbertHouse! Get all of our video and audio content on our new mobile app: www.gilberthouse.org/app/! Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse. That's more than 1,400 hours of free archived audio going back to 2005! Check out our weekly video programs: SciFriday (www.scifriday.tv) and Unraveling Revelation (www.unravelingrevelation.tv), and subscribe to the YouTube channels: YouTube.com/UnravelingRevelation and YouTube.com/SciFridayTV. Please visit our online store for special offers on our books and DVDs: www.gilberthouse.org/store.
GIANTS ARE in the Bible because they're important.This week, we bring you an interview recorded in July of 2021 with Dr. Michael Heiser, a giant among Bible scholars, in our view. Mike's research and his willingness to share it has literally changed the lives of thousands of people. His books, including The Unseen Realm, Reversing Hermon, Angels, Demons, and A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Volumes 1 and 2, are foundational to a deeper understanding of the Bible.In this discussion, Mike explains why the giants of Genesis 6 are still relevant today, why Joshua's conquest of Canaan was a war to destroy the Anakim (who are linked to the Nephilim), the significance of Mount Hermon, and the connection between baptism and the Watchers who rebelled against God in the days of Noah.You can support Mike's ministry Milqlat at www.miqlat.org, and help Mike's family through Meal Train.
On this new Comic Book Bears Podcast audio episode, we welcome back to the show the incredible Steve Bryant! Steve has been on our podcast many times in the past to talk about his work like Athena Voltaire and The Clean and this time around he is here to discuss his Kickstarter campaign for the first issue of Evie and the Helsings! For centuries, the Van Helsing family has protected humanity from things that go bump in the night. The mantle has been passed onto the last of the family line. But Evie Van Helsing just wants to rock! Written by Steve, drawn by Don Cardenas with colors by Jason Millet, Evie and the Helsings is the first issue of a 4-issue miniseries that follows Evie as she navigates life between the music industry and the supernatural world. (Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets This is Spinal Tap by way of Ash Versus Evil Dead.) Hit play to hear Steve tell us all about it! After the interview, Caleb, Billy Z and Steve discuss some recent comic related news (such as the cancellation of two HBOMAX comic books based shows and a new Titans #1 with a phenomenal creative team behind it!) New books on the spinner rack that we discuss include Nightwing #100, the kickoff of the X-Men storyline Sins of Sinister and Inferno Girl Red #1 from Image Comics! All this and ... sorta kinda ... Cher! Please also note this is our first episode with our brand new theme song ... which we really really dig ... composed just for us by the electronic artist Walkathon! And lastly we talk about a Meal Train campaign to assist our very close friend and fellow podcaster Wendi Freeman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The links for the Evie Kickstarter and Wendi's campaign are below. Please consider contributing to both!!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stevebryant/evie-and-the-helsings-1 https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/9v4vy6
Welcome to episode 38 of the podcast and the second episode in my mini-series of solo episodes about postpartum. This episode is dedicated to newborn mother and newborn baby needs and expectations. I'll be explaining what new mothers need and what is found across several traditions and cultures that is in common to postpartum care. You'll find out how you can plan your postpartum around those needs and why that can make a great foundation to a postpartum plan. The second part of the episode talks about the baby's biological expectations of life outside the womb in the fourth trimester and helps to normalize typical newborn behavior. When parents know and understand typical or expected behaviors and needs of newborn mothers and babies, they can rest assured in the normalcy of the experience without second guessing themselves or feeling that they are doing something wrong. This episode is here to encourage you and normalize your experience. Let's get started. Links: Book: The 4th Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/the-fourth-trimester-9781611804003 Book: Nourishing Newborn Mothers by Julia Jones https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/nourishing-newborn-mothers-9780648343103 Book: The First 40 Days by Heng Ou https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/the-first-forty-days-9781617691836 Meal Train https://www.mealtrain.com/ Postpartum Massages at your home with Soňa https://www.doulacollective.fi/sona-feelyourbirth/ Unina belly binding https://unina.com.au/product/bengkung/ Mentioned topics: The 5 universal postpartum needs How to prepare to meet those needs Examples of questions to ask yourself as you plan for postpartum The expectations of newborn babies, the biological needs of babies The ways in which newborn babies bond with an attachment figure Understanding the needs and expectations of newborn babies helps parents know what is typical behavior What parents can do to help the baby feel calmer and meet the biological expectations in the fourth trimester
Welcome to or Welcome back to Across the Pond! Grab a beverage, your favorite vape and a comfy seat. Tonight Angela and Jedi are Honorary English citizens. We are all wondering WTF is going on in the US and what our national leaders are thinking. We have no words to describe it, just that we are saddened by recent events and decisions. We dont get political here but sure as hell will voice our opinion. Thank you again for tuning in and letting us entertain you! We love you all! Meal Train for Hope & Kaitlyn https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/w9o8z7 Social Media & Email https://www.instagram.com/the_vapingj... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWDE... https://www.instagram.com/cloudcartel... https://www.instagram.com/angelagoesf... https://www.facebook.com/acrossthepon... https://www.patreon.com/Acrossthepond... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jJ... https://discord.gg/JvcPrzeN acrossthepondusuk@gmail.com Show Sponsor: https://www.instagram.com/im_anthonyr... https://www.instagram.com/shakeandbak...
You've researched, prepared, and achieved your VBAC, but now what? We are diving deep into all things postpartum today with New Boss Mom, Kallista Anderson. Kallista shares her expertise with us on how to thrive during the postpartum period.Topics include:Strengthening your relationshipsKallista's number one postpartum tipInvesting in yourselfWarning signs and resources for postpartum depression Continue advocating for your needs even after your baby is born. You deserve to enjoy this season and your baby deserves to have the best version of yourself! Additional linksNew Mom Boss Kallista AndersonPrepping For Postpartum WorkshopMeal Train WebsiteEdinburgh Postnatal Depression ScalePostpartum Support InternationalHow to VBAC: The Ultimate Prep Course for ParentsFull transcriptNote: All transcripts are edited to correct grammar, false starts, and filler words. Meagan: Happy Wednesday, everybody. I am so excited today to talk about postpartum. Julie and I have partnered up with Kallista Anderson who, if you don't already know, you should know. She has her podcast, The New Mom Boss Podcast, and she is amazing. She is helping mamas get through all the things by preparing, self-care, creating a good space, learning about postpartum, and coaching all the things. So today, we are going to be talking with her about postpartum and a few different types of things about postpartum: navigating through relationships in postpartum and then also prepping for after and being prepared. Before we do that, I am going to turn over the time to Julie, and then we are going to dive right in because I think this is such an important topic that honestly isn't talked about enough.Review of the WeekJulie: Yeah. I'm excited too. Postpartum, my goodness. We don't talk about that enough here and society doesn't talk about it as much just generally. So we are glad to have Kallista here with us today. Our review today comes from Apple Podcasts and it is from jenh415. She says, “I don't feel alone in this journey anymore.” Her review says, “I started planning my VBAC two years ago right after I had my son. My Cesarean left me with lots of negative feelings and thoughts about myself and birth in general. I just knew that I needed to have a chance to have my dream birth. I found your podcast at almost 14 weeks pregnant–” and she is now 18 weeks. Oh, this was left in July. Let's see. “--and immediately dove in headfirst. When I first started listening, I couldn't make it through five minutes of an episode without bawling my eyes out. With the help of my midwife and your empowering podcast, I now feel like I am headed in the right direction. Being able to hear so many different stories lets me know that I am not alone in this journey. No matter how my second birth story ends, I know that I will be in control and the experience is going to be completely different. I am forever grateful to the two of you for creating such a positive space for us mamas.”Oh, I love that so much. That makes me happy. It really is good reviews like this that help keeps us going. So thank you so much for leaving this review, jenh415. If you haven't already, please, we would love to hear what you think about the podcast or anything else about The VBAC Link that has helped you on your journey. You can leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Google, or anywhere that you can leave a review.New Mom Boss Kallista AndersonMeagan: All right. Okay. We are so excited, you guys. So again, Kallista Anderson with New Mom Boss. You can find her on Instagram and thenewmomboss.com. We are so excited to hear what she has to say today. But I have to give a little plug-in before we even begin and I am probably going to remind you after because I would highly suggest taking her workshop. She has got a four-day– you said four-day, right? I think?Kallista: Yes.Meagan: Okay, yes. A four-day workshop is kicking off on June 3rd. So we will make sure in the show notes right here to be posting the link to register. It's a postpartum workshop and I think it is such a valuable tool. We were talking about it before we pressed record for the podcast, but I feel like in the VBAC community, especially– I mean, definitely all around the world– but in the VBAC world specifically, we are so focused on the birth, on how to get the birth of our dreams, the birth that we want, how to change the experience from what we had last time, how to heal from trauma. We are working so hard on all of that and when it comes to postpartum, I feel like sometimes, we tend to forget about it, and then postpartum comes and we are like, “Woah.” We are in this space that we haven't really prepared with and then we are kind of rolling with it. I would love to hear, I am so excited to hear all of the tools and things that we can learn to help make the postpartum experience just as great as the birth experience.So without further ado, we are going to turn the time over to Kallista and hear what she has to say. I think the first topic we are talking about is strengthening our relationship during the postpartum period.Strengthening RelationshipsKallista: Yes. Hey ladies. Thank you again so much for having me on your show. I've been looking to come on your podcast and yes, I believe what you guys are providing is so valuable also. But yes, the postpartum part is my passion. Like you mentioned, a lot of times we are focused on the birth. For me, most of my audience are first-time moms who are focused on the first time having the baby and all the preparation for the baby, which is wonderful and so needed, but then we kind of cut our planning short up to when the baby is born. Then we enter the postpartum period or the fourth trimester, which we sometimes call the time for the afterbirth period. The baby, but also Mama goes through her own fourth trimester. That basically is the first three months after having the baby. As you probably know very well, it's kind of the messy middle before you get settled into new motherhood. And so that is what I teach about and what I coach on. I have courses on that. I try to catch my mamas while they are pregnant so that we can prepare for the postpartum period.So that workshop coming up is exactly that. It's called Prepping For Postpartum. But it's open to postpartum mamas as well because it's the same ideas, concepts, and preparation that we are doing whether you are pregnant or already have your baby. The only advantage of doing it while you are pregnant is that it does make that transition a little easier when you've already planned these things out. The relationship piece is one of the biggest pieces in that postpartum period which I am excited to talk about.Meagan: Yeah. We are excited to hear about it because like you said, totally. We have clients that thought after having a baby and then hiring a doula, they talked about, “I didn't know. I didn't even know about the fourth trimester. I didn't even know.” And you hear about it and it's like, okay. We need to do better. We need to do better because I know that there are other countries out there that are so trained in focusing on that postpartum so much that they have crews come in, and families are supported, and tribes that take care of these moms and these babies for months even after birth and it's just not like that here. In the US, we have moms going back to work within weeks, just a few weeks after birth. Like you said, we are still transitioning and we are going through so much and so, yeah. I am excited. What tips would you give to someone listening, especially someone so heavily preparing for birth, on navigating through and preparing for this postpartum period and maybe even understanding the postpartum period a little bit better?Kallista: Great. And maybe a lot of your listeners aren't first-time moms, but they already know how hard it is the first time around. It does get easier with each round of having babies, but if you are not thinking about some of these things that I will talk about, you may get— you know that saying, “You don't know what you don't know,” and you just kind of keep doing things the way you did it before. If you had a difficult time the first time around and you are not taking the time to figure things out for the second time, you may just have another difficult time.For me, just a quick backstory of how I started this is I had always wanted to be a mom. You know, the dolls, and I just knew I wanted to be a mom, a young mom. Although it took a little while, I was so ready. I did all of the things, bought all of the stuff, had a beautiful Pinterest nursery, and washed all of the clothes. The baby came and I had such difficulty with breastfeeding, and my relationship with my husband felt strange and strained at the same time in the first few weeks. That was a shock on top of the sleep deprivation, trying to get breastfeeding right, and all that stuff. And so I was trying to feel my way into it and do just one day at a time, but it was really hard. And then at four months, I found out I was pregnant again.Meagan: Oh.Kallista: Well, do the math and don't judge, but–Meagan: No, that's just shocking, right?Kallista: Right!Meagan: Julie actually had her babies close together too.Julie: Yeah, I just say, “Don't do the math,” too.Kallista: They're not quite Irish twins, but they're 13 months apart. Yeah. It was hard enough for me the first time around that I was like, “This isn't going to happen again.” And so I did a whole inventory of what I did and what I didn't do, and how I could make things better, and so I had a beautiful second-time experience. That's when I started sharing it with my friends and then slowly, it became a business where I am helping more than just the people around me, like, people all over the world– the Internet, you know?For most people, maybe that isn't their thing where they are going to sit down and think of all the things they can do better, or just make things easier for themselves for the next time around, because if that's not where your focus is, you are just going to do it again, right?So that's how I got into this and because of my difficulties breastfeeding, I became a Certified Lactation Counselor. Also, the other thing is that I am a registered nurse and my husband is a doctor.Meagan: Yes. Yes. I was going to say, I didn't even mention that you are an RN, so we have a medical professional too.Kallista: I think both of us coming from a medical background had a little bit of medical arrogance like, “We've got this.” You know? And it's not even the medical stuff that matters. I mean, it matters, but for the most part, our babies were healthy. There was nothing medically needed. It was that practical setting up of your life and the day-to-day things, and the communication, and all of these things that you don't think about when you are preparing your registry, or when you are having your baby shower, or at your OB visits, or midwife visits. Well, maybe midwives. I love midwives and I feel like they take a little more time to talk to you, but nobody checks in and says, “Oh, how is your household going to be?” or “How is your relationship going to be? Have you talked about that?”Meagan: Yeah, or even just, “What is your plan after for sleeping, and meals, and all of these things?”Kallista: Mhmm, yeah. The things we take for granted before, the easiest things before having a baby like showering, eating a meal, doing all these little things, changing out of your clothes. They are like big projects in the first few weeks because you are recovering from birth, you're lacking sleep, and you're still trying to get a handle on breastfeeding, especially your first time around. And so you're juggling all of these things and everything gets put on the back burner. You put yourself on the back burner, you put your partner on the back burner, and your household.And so preparing for all of these different parts of your life ahead of time is going to allow you to just be more present with your baby. You get to recover and heal without the stress of juggling everything else around you. Like I mentioned, doing it during pregnancy is great, but if you're in your postpartum already, it's still very doable. It just takes a little time to think about what you need, and then to talk to your partner.So today, we want to talk about preparing the relationship, right? I don't know about you ladies, but that was definitely not something we talked about ahead of time.Meagan: No. Not at all.Kallista: No, right? The conversations are about what names we are going to have and just the fun stuff which is wonderful and I'm not saying to throw that out at all. But we have to talk about the real-life stuff. The dynamics of the relationship are going to change especially with your first baby because you don't know what you're getting into yet. And then of course with each baby, it does change the family dynamics with every child.So that would be my first tip. Preparing your relationship for the arrival of the baby is talking about how your relationship is going to change. Even that single question can just open a whole bunch of other questions like, “What do you think is going to change? What would you like to keep?” because it's not going to be the same. Date nights aren't going to be as easy to do, especially for the first little while. Carving out the time is not as easily done.Meagan: Mhmm.Kallista: Not forgetting each other. The baby is taken care of. Mamas know how to take care of babies and then the concentric circles that go out– your family, your friends, or whoever is helping you, the caregivers, so I am usually not worried about the baby. Even first-time moms are worried about doing newborn care. So much of that is instinctive, but it's the paying attention to your relationship with your partner and with yourself that is not very much in our orbit, or the top of mine, you know?Meagan: Mhmm. You know, when I was preparing for birth, and I am kind of going to really all of it, like, first baby, second baby, everything. I just feel like I was in my own world. I would talk to my husband. Like, “I was studying this” or “I read this” or “Oh, it's fine. This is the size of the baby. This is what is going on,” but I was so in my own world that I don't even know just looking back, right? My youngest kid is almost 6, but I don't even know if I even included my husband. Not purposely like, “I don't want to include him,” but in my thoughts, and in my preparation, or anything. I don't know. I don't think I really consciously, I don't know. I just didn't. Is that weird? Is that common? Do we, as women preparing for birth, just think, “Oh, this is happening to my body, so I am preparing and this is what is going on,” but I don't really talk about it, you know? Yeah.Kallista: I think so. I can relate to that. I remember especially during my first pregnancy, I was glued to that app. I think it was the Pampers app and another birth app where–Meagan: Baby Bump?Kallista: The updates where it has turned into a different fruit–Meagan: Yep. Yep. Yep, I think it was like Baby Bump or something like that. “Your baby is a mango” or whatever, you know? I am like, “Oh. That is so cool,” thinking about it and then I totally just probably ignored him. So much of that, you know?Kallista: Yeah. I think that the thing with husbands and partners is that they have a totally different experience. They know that it's mostly about Mama and they kind of just accept that they are not going to be the focus of attention. It's so funny because a few weeks ago– two of my friends had babies recently and we all went to go see the babies. I asked the dads, “So how are you? How is it going with the new addition?” I asked them separately and they were each caught off guard. “You are asking about me?” They didn't even know how to answer. They were like, “I don't know. She is doing all the breastfeeding. I'm okay.” You know? They are having an experience, but they are not in tune. We are just wired differently, but what I like to encourage is to be more connected and to be thought of. That is one of the things I coach new moms or pregnant moms. The biggest tool I like to use is the love language.Meagan: Mhmm.Kallista: Knowing what your love language is and what your partner‘s love language is allows you to communicate your love at any time, but especially in the postpartum when you are each focused on different things. The baby, for sure, and for a lot of men, it's providing, so they get more focused on work. They feel helpless that they can't breastfeed the baby or the baby just wants mom. So there is a lot. They feel very helpless. I read a study that shows that men also experience postpartum depression, but it's just never looked at. They don't seek help. They just kind of white-knuckle it and just stay on the ride until it's over, but that is not helpful to the relationship, right?Meagan: Yeah, totally. Totally and as a doula, something that I really want to focus on in my prenatals is Dad too. Like you said, they kind of accept that they are not the ones giving birth and all these things, but they do. They play a really important role in this day and they go through a lot themselves. And so I like to, as a doula, try to focus on, “Okay, how do you feel? What do you want for this birth? What are your personal goals to get out of birth and this experience?”We do talk about postpartum and say like, “What are your plans? What helps you? What do you need when you are tired?” Because dads are tired too. So anyway, yeah. I love it. That's awesome.Kallista: Yeah. And most women, we are just more naturally, I don't know, in tune with our community. We like community and we like to tell our friends how we are feeling. Men don't do that for the most part. Right? So they don't have a postpartum dad community. I mean, we barely have one for the moms, so it's almost nonexistent for the dads.So I like to reel the dads in a little bit and have them be a part of the conversation as they are preparing for the baby. And then in the postpartum period, using those tools like the love language and how to carve time out for each other even when you don't have a babysitter. Things like that, and setting a date night. This is one of the things I tell my clients to do is to set a date night. Whatever your due date is, add maybe three, four, or five weeks after that, and just put it in the calendar as a date night so that you don't forget about it. You can always readjust as that day comes, but I am the type of person that if it's not in the calendar, weeks and weeks or months and months might go by and I will be like, “Oh my gosh. I haven't done X or Y or Z.”And so that is one way to stay connected and have something to look forward to in the postpartum period or in that fourth trimester.Meagan: Yeah. I love that. I love that so much. Also, maybe we can help them find their community before because sometimes we are going to be tired and maybe even a little checked out, and it will be great if we can help them find a solid community or even just someone to chat with when they are tired and frustrated because of whatever that is happening. So I love that.What are some number one tips for postpartum in general? If you were like, “If you don't have time for anything, make time for these things.”Number One TipKallista: My number one tip is to have a meal train in the postpartum period.Meagan: Yes.Kallista: A lot of women, not just women, people, our culture in general– we want to be self-sufficient. We want to be superwomen and we want to take how we are in our careers a lot of the time like, “I did this” and accomplishments, and take that into motherhood where motherhood shouldn't be done alone. It's a transition of learning how to ask for help and receive help. And so I have found when I tell new moms or pregnant moms about the meal train, they feel like, “Oh. I don't know. I don't want to really ask my friends for that.”Meagan: Yes. I know! Yes.Kallista: Right?Meagan: Like, “Oh, I don't want to put people out.”Kallista: Yeah. And so in my packages, I offer to do that for them because they don't want it to come from them and so that takes a little bit of the guilt off of them. But you can also just ask a friend to organize it for you. I use mealtrain.com. All you do is collect your friends' and families' emails and whoever is organizing it for you can just input all of that, and then you just pick dates.I recommend having a meal train for at least a month. The first two weeks, I would say, you are on a high with just a lot of adrenaline and you don't feel the sleep deprivation, and then after that, it's cumulative like, “Oh my god.” All those several or two weeks or longer worth of only two to three hours of sleep just come down like a ton of bricks. And so I like to set it up for at least four weeks.And nowadays, it's never been easier, right? There is this platform where people don't even have to go to your house. They can either order delivery or they can send a gift card, like a GrubHub card. The other beautiful thing about that platform is that if you do have friends and family nearby and you have some tasks in your household that you could use some help with, like walking your dogs, or taking out the trash cans if your partner isn't able to for whatever reason, just anything that can alleviate and take things off your plate for a few weeks– this is a temporary time. So I guess the biggest message around that is, don't be afraid to ask because it's not like you are going to rely on them forever. You truly do need that help for the first several weeks and Meal Train allows you to do that. You can set scheduled tasks there and people can assign themselves the different tasks that you need help with.Meagan: Yeah. I love that so, so much. The thing is that these people are asking. It's hard because I also wish we could change how our culture asks. Like, “Oh, if you need anything, let me know. I am here for you.” Sometimes it makes it kind of like, “Well, I don't really know what I could ask for and I feel bad asking.” Instead, it's just like, do it. And so even telling our community about these things, like this website, this platform, where it's like, “This is what I need.” Don't be scared to ask people for help because they honestly want to. People really do want to.Kallista: Yes. Right after the baby is born, everybody loves it when a baby is born. Everyone is so excited for you and so happy that I say to milk that time because it's not forever. I think it's because we are naturally wired that way. We are supposed to live in villages and help each other. It's just not how we live anymore, but I think the instincts are there. We just have to remember that we are social animals and we are supposed to help each other. We weren't actually made to live in single-family homes. We are supposed to live with our family. I love living this life, don't get me wrong. I love having our own home, just my own little family, but when it comes to raising a child, especially right after birth and having a new baby, definitely lean on your community. The more you lean on them, the better you will be as a mom because you cannot do it alone. It's not that you cannot do it alone because you can, but you won't be as happy because if you are too tired, you are not going to be the kind of mom that you want to be for your baby. You want to reserve that energy for your baby, so let other people lift you up and carry you for the next 12 weeks, that fourth trimester, that postpartum period.Allow people to help you. Sometimes, the biggest barrier is just allowing people to help you.Meagan: Yes. I love what you just said. You are like, “Lean into this. Allow this to happen. Allow people to love you and serve you,” because like I said, they really want to. It reminded me of one time, I went to a client's postpartum. So as a doula, we do a couple of prenatals. We go to the birth and then after, I love to– sorry. My dog is deciding to have a conversation as well over here.So we like to go and serve them and take that hour and a half while we are there to do whatever that means. If that is housecleaning, if that is nursing help, if that is cleaning toilets because family is coming in town and you don't feel like cleaning toilets, great. We want to serve you during that time. But there was one time when I went over to do that visit and there was a list on the door. She had a screen door and so it was kind of just on her door. I was reading it as I was waiting for her to come to the door and I thought it was brilliant. It said something to the effect of, “Hi, everybody! We are so happy you are here to see us and meet Baby so and so. While you are here if you would not mind, these are things that would benefit and help us tremendously.” She had a little checklist like, “take out the trash, sweep my floor” and all of these little things. She was just like, yeah. My people come in and we visit, and it's so great, and they leave, and my floor is now clean, and I don't feel like I have to hold the baby and vacuum. My husband doesn't feel like he has to tackle the kids and get them to bed and then now vacuuming is too late because the kids are sleeping. He doesn't want the kids to wake up. And I was just like, “Wow. Good for her. That is what we need to lean into and not be scared of doing and saying, “These things would be greatly appreciated. I love that you are here. I am so grateful to you if you wouldn't mind helping me with these things.”Kallista: Yes. Yes, I love that. I love that idea as well. I also recommend that to new moms. The other thing I like to add on that note is especially in the early, early weeks, the first few weeks when you have visitors, you actually need a lot of rest those first few weeks, right? I know from myself that once I get chitchatting with my girlfriend, I love it so much that we will be talking for two hours or three hours later after she arrives when I really planned for an hour visit. And so that's another thing I like to add to that door note is, “I am going to want to talk to you forever, but remind me that I need to rest after an hour because I can go on and on.” We crave that adult conversation, but then we forget like, “Oh yeah, I forgot. Tonight, I am not going to sleep, actually, once the baby wakes up in the middle of the night.”Meagan: Exactly like, “I love hanging out with you, but I probably should be sleeping while I am holding my sleeping baby.” Yeah. I love that. Please keep the visits limited and that is okay to do. It really, really is okay to do. It's also okay to say, “Hey, will you hold my baby and love on my baby for a second while I go take a quick nap?”Kallista: Mhmm, yes.Meagan: It's okay to say that.Kallista: You want a nap. You want a shower.Meagan: Shower, yeah.Kallista: Those three things I was like– I am very lucky that my mom lives two blocks away.Meagan: That is lucky.Kallista: I would call her, “Can you come over so I can shower? Can you come over and hold the baby so I can eat really quick?” And she would. She did that for the first couple of months. It was so great.Meagan: That is so, so awesome. I don't know how much you talk about postpartum doulas, but there are doulas who are specifically there for postpartum help. They come in and they do the cleaning, and they can bring baby in the middle of the night to you so you don't have to even exert your energy to get up and go into the other room, right? They can take the other kids. They can take the other kids to the zoo, or to the park, or for a walk, or go out on their bikes, so you and baby can nap. These are all services. It is so hard because there are so many things in life right now, especially these days, right? Money and things are so expensive and it's hard. It's hard to spend the money, or feel like that might be valuable, or to even justify it, but if you look at the long term and you say, “Okay. I can hire this postpartum help or I can sign up for this postpartum workshop to get the tools,” is going to seriously help you in the end. It will all be worth it, and then two years down the road, you will be like, “Yeah. It was totally worth whatever amount of money I spent because I had a really awesome experience and I was really able to bond with my baby, be present with my kids, and be the person I know I am– not super, super exhausted and so spent because I was able to lean in on this help.”Invest in YourselfKallista: Yes. You bring up a really good point. That is the other thing. A lot of us, in the beginning, have trouble accepting help even if it's free help. The other thing is investing in ourselves. My husband and don't take big family vacations. We actually love investing in things in our family. So we do have a lot of support as far as nannies go and things to make things easier for us like having someone else garden for us or whatever. That's just how we choose to invest. An investment isn't always a return on investment as far as money and financial returns. We think about our mental health, our joy, and our comfort. And so I think it's good to remember, especially in the postpartum period, that it is the perfect time to invest in yourself because for the mamas who already have babies, you already know how hard the fourth trimester is, right? What would you give to be yourself to make it easier the next time so that would be the best mama you want to be for your baby and the best partner for your husband? I believe the mom sets the tone in the home. When the mom is down, it affects everything, right? We are the queens of our castles and when we are not at our best, it affects how we care for our baby, how we are when our partners are around, or when they come home, and so on and so forth.Meagan: Yep. Definitely. Definitely. Oh my goodness. Now my dog is barking. I love that though. Invest in yourselves and love yourselves.Kallista: Mhmm. Definitely. We get so focused on loving the baby which is so natural. You don't even have to worry. That is there already. It's the focus on self-care, healing, and getting the support and the love for yourself from your community and the people around you who can help you. That's what, if you have time to gather that and to put those resources in place, that will definitely make your transition into motherhood, whether it's your first baby, second baby, third baby, whatever, you will just have a better experience and bond with yourself, your baby, and your partner.Postpartum Depression: Warning Signs and ResourcesJulie: That's great advice. I love it. One thing that I am passionate about, or maybe sensitive to about, during the postpartum stage is– my gosh. After my second, I had pretty bad postpartum depression and anxiety. Can we talk a little bit about what some of the warning signs are for parents or for even birth partners to look out for in their partners so that people can know when it might be appropriate to get a little more help outside of their community, their friends, or their support system? I know that it's not something we talk about very often, but it is something that a lot of women face– some sort of postpartum mood disorder in that fourth trimester. What are some things you should be looking out for? When should we seek additional help like reaching out to a therapist or maybe a family care provider to get on medication or things like that?Kallista: Yeah, I'm so glad you asked that question. There is a really short quiz called the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and I can shoot you guys the link later to share with your audience.Julie: Yeah. We will put it in our show notes.Kallista: Yes. So this scale is recommended to be taken during pregnancy around somewhere in the third trimester, so 28-32 weeks. Around there, or just any time you hear about this if you're pregnant. And then you take it again 6-8 weeks postpartum. That way, you have a baseline and see where you lie on the scale before you have the baby, and then you retake it and you see if there is a change. If it's the same, then you're probably okay. But I would still look out for signs of a lot of crying and sadness when you don't really know what you are sad about. Those are some telltale signs.It is very common. There are postpartum blues, which are even more common. It's just that sad feeling that usually goes away on its own, but a more severe feeling of that is going to be the postpartum depression and that scale is going to help you determine that. I encourage partners to take it as well because it is on the rise. Maybe it was always there, but we are just now learning about it or putting our attention on it.Julie: Yeah. I am really glad that you brought that up because we often think about postpartum depression and mood disorders in relation to the mother, but a lot of times it can affect the dad and other birth partners as well, and it's something that we don't even notice or talk about. So I'm glad that more awareness is being brought to that. I know that sometimes, the first person to notice that something is out of whack with their partner is the partner. My husband noticed it in me before I started noticing these things in myself.And so I always like to talk about that in my postpartum visits like Meagan was saying. Going over some of those things and going over some of those signs that you need to be watching out for so you can be aware because help is out there. Sometimes it's a little bit harder to find, but I think reaching out and just acknowledging that you may need a little bit more help, that's okay.There's always help out there for you. If you can't find help, then there's this great group called Postpartum Support International as well. Also, all of the great resources that Kallista offers. That's another great resource that's available for parents as well.Kallista: Right. I had a very similar experience, actually. I had postpartum depression after my third which was a shock to me because I didn't have it the first two times and I don't have a history of depression, not that you need it, but I just don't normally have those kinds of feelings. It was also my husband who noticed that I was just so down and crying. He was like, “I think you are depressed,” and I was like, “Oh my god.” I was such in a fog still because it was three to four weeks after the baby. My recovery with the third one was the hardest because he was almost 10 pounds and it was just a different experience than the first two.And so yeah. I went to go see my OB and I just told her, “I think I have postpartum depression” and she was like, “Oh, okay. Do you want something for that?” I don't have anything against taking medication, but she didn't even try to ask me. That was the straight solution and I said, “I want to wait,” and I went to my therapist. We have this therapist that we used to use as a couple, which I highly recommend too for any couple. I think it can only add to your marriage or your relationship when you have a third party who is skilled in communicating.Anyhow, I went back to her. We talked it out and everything, and I felt better. But also, that was also the same time when I was sleep training my baby and just getting more sleep immediately helped that, and then the talk therapy and just doing all of the self-care stuff. It got me out of that postpartum depression. But I know for some people, you definitely need above and beyond that. That's why it's good to go to somebody who is skilled in not just medication, but also therapy because I think you need it all. You want the options of it all.Julie: Yes, absolutely. I agree. Therapy plus medication can be a great combination. Some people just need one or the other, but if your provider is offering you medication only, that's not inherently a bad option, but I would advise you to seek out therapy on your own because medication has proven to be a lot more effective when it is combined with therapy as well and vice versa too sometimes. So yeah. Great options are available out there.Meagan: Yeah. I actually had a similar experience, but my postpartum stuff, I would say, started kicking in probably around month nine, actually, but I didn't really feel it. I didn't really recognize or accept it until 12 months. It was so late and so I just didn't think of baby blues or postpartum depression. I was like, “Yeah, I'm not postpartum anymore. I am almost a year out. This isn't postpartum.” My husband was like, “You are not okay.” And I was like, “Yeah. I'm fine. It's fine.” He was like, “No. You're not okay.” And so I also went to my doctor and he was like, “Oh, here's some medication,” and I was just like, “But what's happening?” You know? I don't know. He didn't really talk to me or anything. He was just like, “Here. Here are some pills. You can start taking them.” And again, nothing against pills, like absolutely fine, but I just wanted more. “This is what I believe you are experiencing. These are some options that we could try.”And so I went home and I just was crying and I was like, “Am I really experiencing this?” My husband was like, “Yeah. It sounds like it.” I was like, “Oh.” He was like, “Why don't we figure this out? What can we do?” We found out that I was losing myself. I didn't know where I belonged anymore. I was suddenly a mom which was amazing, don't get me wrong. I love being a mom. But I went from being this big social butterfly, I had a job 9-5, I did what I wanted when I wanted and then all of a sudden, I was being run, in my head, by this baby on the schedule of this baby, and then I quit my job so I could be with my baby, which I am so grateful for, but at the same time, I lost my social outlet.So I was just really, really struggling and I found a barre class, an exercise barre class and I realized that I needed me time. Circling back to what we were talking about in the beginning, I also needed my husband time because I no longer felt like we were a married couple. I felt like we were roommates who shared a baby in the house. It was the weirdest feeling. And so I feel like it is so important along the way to tap into it and not be scared to say, “I am not okay and I need to talk to someone,” whether that's an OB, whether that's a midwife, whether that's a therapist, whether that's whoever, it's okay. It's okay to again, lean in, talk, let it out, and work through it because like I said, it was around nine months, but then nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I went for months and it just got worse, and worse, and worse. I hate that in this world, we feel like we have to suppress it or we have to feel alone because we don't. We can get help and there are people out there for us.Kallista: Mhmm and kudos to our husbands for catching it.Meagan: Seriously though, yeah.Julie: Bless their hearts.Meagan: Like Julie said, yes. And then what I didn't even realize until I was preparing for my VBAC was that my husband had trauma himself and issues that he was still holding onto from my first baby's birth years and years ago. And so it's just, yeah. It's important to talk with our partners and really let it out. Sometimes, we don't know why we are crying and that's okay if we don't know why we are crying or we don't know why we are upset, but let it out and get it out. And use our resources because like you said, that world makes it so easy. It does really make it so easy. I mean, there are even therapists that help online. You don't even have to go out of your house.Kallista: Everything is at our fingertips.Meagan: It really is, but for some reason, we don't like to use the resources that we have sometimes. We are hesitant. And so, yeah. I think it's just so important that we use them, accept them, and we love ourselves enough. Love yourself enough to not only prepare for your birth, and to prepare during your pregnancy, and treat yourself and your baby great during pregnancy, but also treat yourself great in the postpartum because that will make you a better parent, too. There's a saying, “Happy wife, happy life”. It's the same. A happy, healthy mom is going to be the best you. You are going to be the best you if you can take care of yourself.Kallista: Right. Right. And we can start modeling that now. I mean, I know babies don't know that we are taking care of ourselves right away, but if we start practicing that and doing the self-care and just making that a habit, then it's just going to make your experience as a mom even more beautiful because you're not running yourself ragged. You know what they say on the plane, “Put the oxygen mask on yourself before you put the oxygen mask on anybody else,” right? We need our cups to be filled first so that they can run over.Meagan: Absolutely. And honestly, we are setting an example to our children, like you said. The babies don't really recognize it right away, but in the long run, they are going to see because if we can set this mentality and carry it through our lives as we are raising our children, they are going to see how important that is and they are going to do the same thing.Kallista: Yeah. And actually, my kids love that my husband and I have a good relationship. They clap and they tell us to kiss because whenever we do, I guess it makes them feel secure. And so when you give a little more attention to your relationship and your kids see that, it gives them more comfort and security as a family. That can start right from the beginning.I think maybe that's why they do feel that way because we've done a pretty good job. We've had our bumps and that's why we went to therapy early on. Having kids back-to-back was a little straining on our relationship, but we figured it out and I am grateful we are just open to the outside help and that we don't have to figure it out all alone. Of course, it starts with us too and we both have to be on the same page, but then using the resources that we have access to has been so great for our family. And really, it did start at the beginning.New Mom Boss WorkshopMeagan: Yes. Oh my gosh. I loved this. This has been so great and I truly do believe that it's going to be valuable to all of our listeners. So I wanted to remind them that kicking off on June 3rd, 2022, you have a four-day workshop and they can register. You can find the link in our show notes or do you want to give them the information that they can register at on your website?Kallista: Yeah. It's going to be on https://www.newmomboss.com/pfp-workshop.Meagan: Workshop. Okay. Right now there is a waitlist, but you are opening up when? So we can start telling all of our people?Kallista: Sure. So the registration will open on May 16th and if you are listening to this after, then it's probably open already. Yeah. So it's opening on May 16th and then we get to work. We will have a little pre-party on June 3rd and then go into the workshop over the weekend because I have found there are a lot of working mamas and the weekend works best. So we are going to do it starting on June 3rd, and then it's going to be a four-day workshop after that. We will prepare as much as we can before the baby arrives, but like I said before, if you are already in postpartum, a lot of the same things will apply to the postpartum period if you are already in it and it will just make your experience in the postpartum period that much better.Meagan: Awesome. Thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your wealth of knowledge. Again, like I said, if you haven't followed her yet, go follow her right now. You can find her on Instagram, @newmomboss, and I am sure she has got all of the things that you are going to love.Kallista: Thank you so much, Julie and Meagan. I have been looking forward to coming on your show and I appreciate you guys taking the time to chat with me.Meagan: Thank you.ClosingInterested in sharing your VBAC story on the podcast? Submit your story at thevbaclink.com/share. 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What do we bring? When there's a happy occasion like a new baby or a solemn passing like losing a loved one the time-honored tradition of bringing food to our friends and family is a tangible way to show our care and concern. However, there are lots of food handling practices that come into play when we're cooking for others. Our inspiration question comes from Terry (after experiencing the digital magazine Pathway) and to help properly answer, Smidgen host and owner of Red Stick Spice Company Anne Milneck brings on Dr. Wenqing “Wennie” Xu to discuss food handling practices that every home cook can learn and use right away. After an information packed (and fun!) session with Wennie, Anne pulls on friend and professional organizer Sara Landry West of South Coast Organizers to deal with a current trend—do we bring and leave a dish when bringing someone food? Do we use disposables? How does a professional organizer take on this topic—to pyrex or not to pyrex, that is the question (and Smidgen has the answer.) Finally, Anne gets to the kitchen to make cassoulet (classic, comforting, delicious) and a 15 minute/5 ingredient salted butterscotch sauce that can top ice cream for a refreshing, sumptuous treat—both would be welcome to let someone know you're thinking of them. Mentioned on the show: - Dr. Wennie has a informative and easy to access video series called Food Safety Bites, created with the LSU AgCenter - Looking for a new hobby? Both Anne and Wennie collect food thermometers! Check out the cool ThermoPop instant read thermometer (available in a gorgeous rainbow of colors.) Want readings fast? Thermapen One gives you the temp of your proteins in one second. Wow! Get ultra-fancy with wi-fi and Bluetooth® enabled Signals™ BBQ Alarm thermometer. - Yum—Fleur de Sel boasts mineral flavors and gives a nice crunch. A delightful salt to use in the butterscotch sauce, and a unique addition to many dishes. - How do I get the Red Stick Spice Company newsletter with recipes and cooking ideas? Sign up for our newsletter here. Follow Red Stick Spice Co socials, including Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Hear all Smidgen episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pandora, or your browser, or your favorite podcast app. Smidgen is the award-winning podcast of Red Stick Spice Co.
In this episode, Baylee shares her heart of showing up for others who are experiencing loss of any kind. Take a listen as we dive into some practical and applicable tips that you can take with you!Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxtSSBhDYARIsAEn0thTOsMqnrDXe8Pw2WKdVrVkYYEo2S63nzCQNP8a2ajYBIhdIogFJNSgaAlDdEALw_wcBShow Up Sisterhood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/showupsisterhoodBaylee's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobayleeandbeyondBaylee's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4VtD5ua8euPzBEb3dIquOA
When you want to help others, instead of asking “how can I help?”, a better thing to do is offer a specific solution instead. It will lift a burden for those who don't yet know what they need. Listen to an example in today's show. Many people are going through a rough time The other day I received an email from Connie, a newer listener to this podcast. Her subject line read, “Not only am I enjoying them.” She continued with I pass them on to others, many going through tough times in their lives. Health issues, loss of loved ones, isolation, and loneliness. It has been harder for many to adapt to these past two years and your talks are positive, gentle, and encouraging with a welcoming voice. Relationship building is huge and your podcasts shine a light on any weakness and how one can do better! I am listening, so keep them coming. This one's for you, Connie In recent episodes I've been talking about how we can help people like those Connie describes, people dealing with health issues, loss of loved ones, isolation, and loneliness. We often don't know what to do or say to people like this. Often we'll say things like “Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help.” I know I've said this a number of times. The problem with this well-meaning offer of help is that many times people don't know what they need. Or they are overwhelmed with whatever they're dealing with. So when you ask, “what can I do to help? “ You've just created a job for them. You've given them a task, namely, to think about what they need and then contact you to meet that need. In times of stress that can be daunting for people. A better thing to do I'll give you an example of a different approach that I saw in my wife Janet the other day. One morning after reading a passage of scripture about doing good for people, the Holy Spirit prompted her to say to me, “I think we should get together with Linda.” This was soon after Linda (which isn't her real name. I changed it for privacy reasons) had initiated contact with us to tell us about her 40-something daughter's serious health condition. We knew this turn of events was deeply disturbing to Linda, and while many people were there to support her daughter, we wondered if Linda was getting the emotional support she needed. So Janet contacted her and made arrangements for us to pick her up and take her out to dinner. Being the classy people we are, we took her to a grocery store and chose from the limited menu that went with their limited seating. Everyone has a story As we talked for some time, and heard what was on Linda's heart she mentioned, “Everyone has a story. For now, I'm going back to the large church I was attending because some of the people still there know my story. I need to be with people who know my story.” We know Linda's story, too. She's a rather private person and to know her story is a great privilege. During the course of our conversation, Janet asked Linda how the Meal Train program was going for the family. This is where people volunteer online to prepare and deliver meals at designated times for a family. Linda said it was very helpful because when you're dealing with a health crisis in the household, the last thing you want to think about is preparing meals. But then Linda mentioned her son-in-law was going through a lot of organic fruits and vegetables he runs through their juicer for the liquid diet his wife is on. She said it was getting expensive. Listen well and you'll discover specific needs Janet then asked Linda, if they needed money for these fruits and vegetables. Linda said, “yes.” It was a specific need Janet asked about, which is a better way of asking to help others than “how can I help?” Without giving it a second thought, Janet reached into her purse and pulled out all of the $30 she had with her and gave it to Linda. It was a minor miracle Janet even had $30 at all, as she rarely carries any cash. “Here give this to your son-in-law to feed the juicer,” she said. While having the cash on hand was a miracle, giving it away was not. It's Janet's m.o. She's been generous like this since I first met her in her father's garage when we were 13. We talked about this afterward and remarked how it seemed easier to get the money to its intended recipient through an intermediary like Linda. It was less awkward than giving the money directly to Linda's son-in-law. A deja vu moment On the way home after our time with Linda, I had a flashback to a similar situation that happened a long time ago. We were in the early days of our missionary care ministry and trying to raise support. We happened to be in Greenville, SC visiting our daughter where she had recently moved. During our time there Jennifer arranged for us to meet a pastor who was the brother of one her good friends. So we got together with Kerry and his wife Cynthia for breakfast at Mimi's Cafe. They told us part of their story, and we shared part of ours, this new venture we were on starting a missionary care ministry. As we were getting ready to leave, Cynthia reached into her purse, and pulled out what I recall to be $30 and said, “Here, take this. I want you to use it for your ministry. It's all I have right now.” We were shocked at her kindness and generosity. I hadn't thought about this event in many years, but the picture of it rose to the surface in seeing Janet do the same thing with Linda. Months later we learned that Kerry's position at the church was eliminated. He eventually became an Anglican priest and pastored a church in Cairo, Egypt for a few years. Kerry and Cynthia now lead a church in Amsterdam. So Cynthia, if you're listening, your legacy of generosity lives on! The day after Back to our story about Linda. The next day after our dinner at the grocery store, Linda sent Janet and me this text: Thank you so much for last night. Thank you for picking me up. Thank you for loving me so tenderly in Christ. Thank you for letting the tears flow. Thank you for making me laugh. Such loving friends like you, along with tears and laughter, are so good for the soul. Knowing that you're here means more to me than you'll ever know. You are diamonds in the treasure box of friendship. So what does all this mean for YOU? Here are a few random thoughts I hope you walk away with: Every now and then it's a good idea to put yourself in other people's shoes and to think “What might it be like to be them right now?” Be open to hearing from the Holy Spirit to help you to help others Instead of asking how you could help someone, take a guess and ask a closed-ended question, Would you like me to do X? Would you like me to do Y? To help others, observe what other people are doing to care for people, and then do something different. Don't let people go through hard times alone. Remember the quote for the movie The Soloist: “All he wants from you is to show up.” In whatever you do always reflect the image and character of God Think of how you've been blessed in the past, and pay it forward by doing the same thing for others As always,listen. Both with your ears, and your eyes Here's the main takeaway I hope you remember from today's episode Instead of asking a friend in need what you can do to help, a better thing to do to help others is to ask a closed-end question like, “Would you like me to ______?” The more specific a solution you suggest, the better. It lifts a burden from their shoulders and puts it on yours. As always, I'd love to hear any thoughts you have about today's episode. Closing That's it for today. In the meantime, bring a measure of joy into the lives of others this week by spreading a little relational sunshine around you. Until we meet up again next time, goodbye for now. Related episodes you may want to listen to 149: What Do I Say to Them? 148: What Not to Say When Bad Things Happen to Good People 139: Why Should I Listen to This Podcast? Our Sponsor You Were Made for This is sponsored by Caring for Others, a missionary care ministry. We depend upon the generosity of people like you to pay our bills. 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Welcome to Season 2 of the Saint Majella Podcast. With 2 new groupies in our gang we are so excited to be back behind the mic. And with many exciting guests lined up...!In our first episode back Mel and Cel relive and relish in their two amazing home-births (2 days and 180m away from each other!!) We chat pregnancy, labour and birth with our toddlers by our side, home birth and the golden postpartum. It was so nice to step back in time and reflect on the challenges, the intensity and the sacred place that is the labour and birth portal. We hope you love this episode as much as we loved birthing our babes. If you haven't already listened to Season 1 Episode one, check that out to be up to date.Show Notes:1. 'The Red Tent' is a historical novel by Anita Diamant,2. Call Me by Your Name is a 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino.3. 'Hello Baby' A very realistic and moving portrayal of the birth of a baby at home by Jenni Overend.4. The famous Meal Train website: https://www.mealtrain.com/
Today's interview is with Heidi Dunstan who is an International Best-selling Author and Certified Grief Educator.Heidi experienced grief on a very deep level when her beloved husband, Michael passed away unexpectedly in 2018. Dealing with loved ones saying the wrong thing or completely disappearing, showed her that many people have never learned how to grieve. Heidi believes that grief is love, and it should never be done alone. She teaches people what to say and not say to grievers, giving them the tools to Lean into Grief, so we can all grieve with grace.In this interview, Heidi Dunstan and Betsy Wuzel discuss how people unintentionally say the wrong things, what are some of the right things to say and do for a grieving person.There are different ways to help someone and one suggestion Heidi Dunstan has is the meal train, helping with chores, and giving the person space to grieve. You can go on the Meal Train website or just start one in your social circles. For more information for this interview and the Meal Train: https://bit.ly/363yTAb
Today's interview is with Heidi Dunstan who is an International Best-selling Author and Certified Grief Educator. Heidi experienced grief on a very deep level when her beloved husband, Michael passed away unexpectedly in 2018. Dealing with loved ones saying the wrong thing or completely disappearing, showed her that many people have never learned how to grieve. Heidi believes that grief is love, and it should never be done alone. She teaches people what to say and not say to grievers, giving them the tools to Lean into Grief, so we can all grieve with grace. In this interview, Heidi Dunstan and Betsy Wuzel discuss how people unintentionally say the wrong things, what are some of the right things to say and do for a grieving person. There are different ways to help someone and one suggestion Heidi Dunstan has is the meal train, helping with chores, and giving the person space to grieve. You can go on the Meal Train website or just start one in your social circles. For more information for this interview and the Meal Train: https://bit.ly/363yTAb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This is the advice I wish I had when my friends first started having babies. We did it all wrong at the beginning prior to having kids and I still feel bad for our poor friends! Here are key takeaways for bringing food for a meal train. Episode takeaways: Assume you are not staying for dinner Double whatever you make so you have part of your week prepped too Ask if they have dietary needs Ideal if you can make something that can be frozen (i.e. soup); their fridge might be surprisingly stocked Write the menu and minimal cooking instructions on a piece of paper, include with dinner drop-off Gift the Tupperware to them Wish your Foodie Godmother would swoop in each season with healthy, feel-good recipes that are totally doable? Subscribe to the Seasonal Recipe Bundle (SRB) and you'll receive six seasonal recipes each season to keep you inspired, and your family excited for dinner. Subscribe here If you'd like to more about Foodie with a Life Menu Plan coaching, click here for details or schedule a discovery call. Support this podcast with a small monthly donation to help sustain future episodes: anchor.fm/christina-conrad/support --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christina-conrad/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/christina-conrad/support
In this episode, my husband and I talk about the things we did or wish we would have done before our first baby arrived. Mentioned in the show: Meal Train
Content Advisory: This episode discusses the stark reality of domestic violence and can be triggering for some listeners. We hope this episode will help spread awareness and lend a safe space to support survivors of domestic violence and those directly impacted as a result. In memory of Emily (Elizabeth) Fulton Evans born September 20, 1985, lost December 31, 2021 to an act of domestic violence. To directly support Emily's 6 children a Meal Train and GoFundMe Fundraiser have been established. Here's to #lovingEmilys6 GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-children-of-emily-elizabeth-evans?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1YagJUifIYcYDHP1Q3XMuhWZO6uor6YBod8PtUytsOV2jXCm62NEel9qc Meal Train Link: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/1d3yw5 Domestic Violence is also referred to as Family Violence or Intimate Partner Violence. It involves abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. The frequency and severity of domestic violence varies dramatically and is far reaching. It can include physical violence, sexual violence, threats, economic, and emotional/psychological abuse, that can ultimately cost your life. If you are experiencing Domestic Violence- YOU ARE NOT ALONE If you are in CRISIS- Contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for resources in your area. Resources: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence website: www.ncadv.org https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2497/children_and_dv.pdf --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecatchytitle/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecatchytitle/support
Redeemer Anglican Church Announcements - 1/19 - 1/25/2021 - This week at Redeemer we are in need of food for families and there is a special newcomers dinner.
Amber Johnston is a semi-pro OCR athlete and fellow spondy warrior. Nicole found Amber not through the world of endurance sports, but on a 10k member facebook support group for spondylolisthesis. Amber had surgery 3 months before Nicole. Today they talk about what it means to be an athlete, to accept that sometimes you can't fix your body on your own, and all the blood, guts and glory that goes into having a life-changing surgery. Including but not limited to constipation, sex, drugs, Meal Train, accepting help, having down days, and the village you need to get you through it. If you have gone through surgery or are considering surgery, this episode is a great one to help you both appreciate the process, prepare yourself for the future and help others who are going through a situation where they need some help now. Note: Run This World is now LIVE & occasionally has sound hiccups
Megan and Michelle cheat on Prosecco and list their favorite things, including subscription boxes, tortilla blankets, Cameos, hug sweats, bookstores, and Michelle's margaritas (P.S. she owned a bar).Charitable Organizations:Alternatives for GirlsAmerican Civil Liberties UnionHaring Center for Inclusive EducationPlanned ParenthoodRytherWant to support Prosecco Theory?Check out our merch, available on teepublic.com!Follow/Subscribe wherever you listen!Rate, review, and tell your friends!Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!****************Ever thought about starting your own podcast? From day one, Buzzsprout gave us all the tools we needed get Prosecco Theory off the ground. What are you waiting for? Follow this link to get started. Cheers!!
How to organize a meal train and all of our best tips and tools for feeding others, including our favorite meal sharing apps.
Finally the sports genius aka Lunchbox is back from paternity leave so we find out all about life in the hospital. He finally talks about the gender of BabyBox3 and he found people who hate their job the most in the entire world. The Meal Train has come to an end and Lunchbox wants to talk about all the food he got from Eddie, Ray, and all the others. What is wrong with the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes? The Astros and Braves face off in the World Series and Eddie wants to give Lunchbox props for something. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Imagine with me, if you will… you get that email from church letting you know that so-and-so's family needs meals for the next three weeks as they adjust to having a new baby at home. You click the link and sign up for a couple of the days. You love to serve others in this way, providing a meal so they can get the rest they need, as well as time just to be with baby. But then you begin to wonder… how can you make it truly special for them? More than just a meal? There are a lot of people today who need a bit of extra care and encouragement, from families with new babies, to those who have lost a loved one, to those who recently got laid off at work, to those lonely and depressed or chronically ill. And homemade meals have become a practical, tangible way to come alongside someone who needs a little extra support. Through meal trains, in particular, we can schedule who is bringing the meal each day and ensure that every day is covered and that the load is shared among caring friends. And while you can, indeed, simply make a meal and drop it off, I've learned there are some things you can do to show the family you care by paying attention to a few specific details. Today's episode is going to be super practical in that I am going to give you specific ideas you can try the next time you sign up for a meal train. Kari ARE YOU READY TO C.A.R.E. COURAGEOUSLY? Grab the Courageous Care Masterclass at www.lovedoesthat.org/care. ------ Friend, I'd love to encourage you as you encourage others. Here are two ways to get started: 1. ENCOURAGEMENT + SYMPATHY GIFTS These are prayerfully-crafted gifts you can share with those you love as tangible expressions of care. Let your friend know she is not alone. www.lovedoesthat.org/shop 2. SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Interested in spiritual direction? Fill out an interest form where we can start to talk about what's weighing on your heart and identify next steps you can take to discern God's direction. www.lovedoesthat.org/spiritualdirection/
Dana and Jessica were reunited in person at a friend's birthday party and it was just the fun they needed. After returning to her first in person event since Covid, Dana has come to realize she hates the smell of people. Jessica was charged for something she didn't want or ever intend to buy and now she is stuck with it. What the What Corner takes us down the rabbit hole of Sprinklegate. Celebrity Corner has a renowned space scientist trying to convince a pop star that aliens don't have feelings. Rave #1 is Mable Toothbrushes, biodegradable bamboo toothbrushes who donate a brush to a child for each one purchased. Rave #2 is Meal Train, a website that takes all the guessing out of people organizing food to be delivered when friends and family are in need.
This week the guys talk about a possible Fortnite movie, G4's re-launch date, a Nintendo Switch-Style Hybrid Game Console from Apple, and much much more! ARTICLES: Epic Games reportedly considering Fortnite movie as it launches an entertainment division https://www.videogamer.com/news/epic-games-reportedly-considering-fortnite-movie-as-it-launches-an-entertainment-division/ G4 Announces Relaunch Date for TV Network https://hypebeast.com/2021/10/g4-network-relaunch-announcement-twitch-tv New Rumor Claims Nintendo Switch-Style Hybrid Game Console on the Way From Apple https://www.mactrast.com/2021/10/new-rumor-claims-nintendo-switch-style-hybrid-game-console-on-the-way-from-apple/ —- Meal Train for the Whetstone Family https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/q6vyw8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week the guys talk about Netflix acquiring their first game studio, games in the works for a non-existent 4k Nintendo console, and much much more! **Meal Train for the Whetstone Family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/q6vyw8 Articles Netflix Acquires First Video Game Studio https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/netflix-first-video-game-studio-night-school-oxenfree/ Games In The Works For 4K Nintendo Console That Doesn't Officially Exist https://kotaku.com/report-games-in-the-works-for-4k-nintendo-console-that-1847771280?utm_campaign=Kotaku&utm_content=1632955993&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week the guys talk about Netflix acquiring their first game studio, games in the works for a non-existent 4k Nintendo console, and much much more! **Meal Train for the Whetstone Family Articles Netflix Acquires First Video Game Studio Games In The Works For 4K Nintendo Console That Doesn't Officially Exist
Open. Ally's Meal Train. Winning Lottery Ticket. The People Have Spoken. A.D.D. News. You Accidentally Injured Someone. Jury Duty Excuses for Ally's Wife. A.D.D. News. Instant Relief. Happy Smuggles. Taco Bell Corporate Letter. A.D.D. News. Song of the Summer. Is Klein A Dummy? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on a meal train mishap, gracefully wrapping up a gathering early, seating significant others at a wedding, and how to go about asking someone to throw you a bridal shower. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your bonus question is about responding to personal questions from your boss. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript where we discuss dining left. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Moss and Angela are back from hiatus, and a lot has changed! Your hosts are the same, but Moss has a new name and is currently recovering from top surgery. The pair dive back into podcasting with reflections on that surgical care and recovery process, and what it has revealed and affirmed about their relationship. (This episode was recorded in mid-January 2021 but is being released mid-February because getting out of hiatus is hard). Content warning: this episode discusses physical and emotional elements of undergoing, recovering from, and caring for someone recovering from, surgery. The physical descriptions are not gory or detailed, but Moss does touch on topics like nipple grafts, surgical drains, anesthesia, and post-surgery constipation risks. Moss also mentions the existence of web resources that can be used to coordinate meals and/or communicate healing processes and care needs to friends and family. Two strong examples are Meal Train (focused on food coordination) and CaringBridge (a shareable online health journal). ___ Want to follow the hosts elsewhere on the Internet? Angela shares her poetry and other creative projects on her Patreon and twitter Moss writes RPGs, makes zines, and shares podcast bonuses on their Patreon, jokes about gender norms on TikTok, and talks about game design on twitter
Welcome back to Breast Cancer and the Unknown. In today's episode I chat about an amazing resource I used during treatment. That resource is called Meal Train. There are 3 different options when using the Meal Train. 1- Meal Train 2- Meal Train Plus 3- Potluck Head over to their site and check it out! I also mention the support group I run called Tatas and Tapas. If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, no matter where you are in your journey, head over to Facebook and join our group for amazing support from other survivors like you! If you would like to share your story or have any resources you would like to share please send me an email at breastcancerandtheunknown@gmail.com I would love to hear from you! Love, Your Breastie Marce
It’s our 150th Episode, and we’re celebrating with a Bawdy story from Snap Judgment’s Glynn Washington! Have you ever wanted to just have sex with one woman at a time, maybe even kick it after & get something to eat? When storytelling superstar Glynn Washington realizes “it’s not me, it’s them” he heads to a new dance club with new women & new rules - & ends up in jail. Will he be featured in his hot dance teacher’s nationwide salsa video? & how much should he sell his drawers for? #GetMyDanceOn #Badonkadonk #PayTheMan Song: ‘Uno’ (Little Big) Wanna watch storytelling superstar Glynn Washington salsa all over the Bawdy Storytelling stage? The video of his performance is up now for patrons at patreon.com/Bawdy #BecomeAMember Glynn Washington is the Host of Snap Judgment, Spooked, Heaven's Gate, and a Super Big Secret Show Y'all Ain't Even Heard Of Yet! 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She is a frequent guest on local and national radio and television as an expert on sexuality and has been in numerous documentaries. She has been quoted in many articles on-line and even once in People Magazine, thanks to the popularity of the 50 Shades of Grey. She is a former Producer of the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and a former commissioner with the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities. She is a kinky, mix-raced, cisgendered, sapiosexual, polyamorous switch and considers herself extremely blessed as she has a rich and full life, with many amazing and loving people in her "polycule". Allena is also the co-Editor of 'Sex Positive Now: Everything you need to know about sex positivity' (released in late 2019, buy it at https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sex-positive-now-jeremy-shub/1134053983) and she has another book on the way! 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(original release date: November 16, 2020) November's show close is Admiral William H McRaven. Watch his whole address on YouTube. Our phone number is 800-434-5454 … call or text about anything you hear or want to hear on the show! Follow Callie and Jeff on IG: @CallieDauler and @JeffDauler. Join the awesome Callie and Jeff community on Facebook by clicking here or follow Callie and Jeff's page Have you subscribed to our weekly PICK ME UP newsletter for good news, and cool deals delivered to your email? Shop the Callie and Jeff store Please share this episode and the show with the world! The easiest way to do that - especially if someone doesn't know too much about podcasts - is by sending them to callieandjeff.com and having them hit the LISTEN NOW button. Internet magic will take them directly to the best available player for whatever device they are using. SUBSCRIBES, FOLLOWS, AND FIVE-STAR REVIEWS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED.WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOU! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 08 I discuss that this actually isn't our first separation … there was one more a long time ago... which was a monumental the start of my journey from athiest to believer... the journey had some judgmental jerks, great PPJ's along the way and your not so average Meal Train experience. People can really be judgmental... but some people do it right and know what it means to love big. Enjoy the song "Ship" by my neighbor, the lead singer in the band Vaudeville! Check out their music: https://www.vaudevylle.com www.meinthemakingpodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/MeintheMakingPodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/meinthemakingpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/meinthemakingpodcast/support
Dear Soma SoulWorks Followers,I am deeply saddened to share that John "JB" Bergquist, the dreamer and co-creator of this podcast, passed away on Sunday. On Sunday, July 26th, JB and his wife and daughter were traveling home from camping and were hit by another driver in the wrong lane. JB was killed nearly instantly. His wife, Kristine, and daughter, Natalie, were taken to the hospital with injuries. Both will be physically okay. Kristine is recovering from broken ribs and Natalie from a broken femur. August, JB's son, was at work and not in the accident. As you might imagine, this is a really, really hard time for his family, his coworkers, and the hundreds of friends that JB had. JB was one of those guys who had 500+ social media connections and actually knew each person.For our Soma team, JB was more than a Marketing Director and more than a manager. He was a friend and mentor to most of our team and played a pastoral role in many of our lives. His passing leaves a sizable gap in our daily rhythms. Understandably, our team is grieving. This week, we are re-sharing the episode on Holy Grieving because that's what's real and authentic for us right now. Soma SoulWorks & Soma SoulWorks Podcast will continue -- it's what JB would want. However, we may need a couple weeks of bereavement. If you have any questions or comments, please email tempusdivum@somagames.com and we'll direct your email to the appropriate person.To help the family, please check out the Go Fund Me or Meal Train links below:Bergquist Family Go Fund Me Bergquist Family Meal Train (includes option for takeout gift cards)
Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope offers her top 5 newborn essentials and reflects on the analogy of the suckling babe. The resources for this episode are as follows: Quote of Bahá’u’lláh: "Say: The sincere soul longeth for nearness to God even as the suckling babe yearneth for its mother’s breast, nay more ardent is his longing, could ye but know it!"Happier with Gretchen Rubin: https://gretchenrubin.com/podcasts/Possible resource for your Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com/Garment of Glory: https://garmentofglory.com/product-category/bahai-inspired-clothing/childrens-clothing/babyRest Baby, Rest and Nearness are both featured in my poetry book, To Mother: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086Q86ZCW/Email: info@andreahope.orgWebsite: www.andreahope.org/tomother.html
On this week's episode of A MESS IN THE KITCHEN! Molly and Dusti walk you through the process of setting up a meal train. A great solution when you are looking for ways to help and support friends and loved ones. Meal trains are pretty common in the Midwest and there are a variety of ways to set up an easy system to get one up and running. Molly and Dusti share their experiences being given and participating in meal trains during happy and challenging circumstances. From leaning on organized friends to best food options for someone going through an illness, these tips are thorough and compassionate. Obviously, we recorded this episode before COVID-19 but, the sentiment is the same. You can apply practical steps to helping anyone facing a unique challenge right now. We hope this can help. Connect with the show and EMAIL US at our website (https://amessinthekitchen.com)Matriarch Digital Media (matriarchdm.com) produces this and other podcasts that understand, encourage and uplift women.
In this episode we talk to Krysten’s BFF, Tara, about everything: how they met at the age of 5, to chip slapping, arm breaking, man meeting, kid having....to the present day, specifically discussing Krysten’s diagnosis and all that comes along with it, as a main supporter.
A general topic podcast about life from the humorous perspective of someone who has a background in video game development. In this episode, Bryan talks about how helpful for the parents of a newborn it is to have a meal train where family and friends bring food and help with chores rather than buy them materialistic items.
Kathy Milliken of Bump, Baby & Me lives and breathes all things baby and motherhood. Even before she became a mother to two beautiful girls herself, she was already helping mums with their pregnancy journeys with pre and postnatal yoga & massage classes. Kathy is now also a GentleBirth instructor, she’s training as a breastfeeding counsellor, she blogs on motherhood and is currently setting up a series of workshops to support women through this transitional time - she is one busy lady! But thankfully she found time in her schedule to sit down with me for a chat about her own experiences of becoming a mum and her thoughts on motherhood on the whole. You’ll find Kathy to be an impassioned, knowledgeable and powerful speaker about motherhood and womankind. In this episode we talk about how she found her own path to being a mother to be very transitional and that it doesn’t always go how we envisioned it be - and the fact that our parenting goals and achievements are so constantly shifting is totally normal and ok. We are all just doing our best and need time to learn the new skills of being a mother. We discuss Kathy’s two very different births and how after her first labour was a caesarean, she fought for her second to be a natural birth. And how the phrase “once a caesarean always a caesarean” doesn’t have to be true. Even if her second daughter almost ended up as an unplanned home birth when things moved much quicker than she expected it to! We talk about the need for rest and nourishment during the 4th trimester and how Kathy used the excellent website Meal Train (https://www.mealtrain.com) to get her whole support network involved in this period. The difficulties of breastfeeding, and all types of feeding for that matter, and how important it is to get the best information and understanding so you can achieve a feeding method that best suits you and your baby. All before things take an emotional turn when we talk about how mums need to remember to take care of themselves through all of the chaos. Kathy is currently curating a series of Empowering Parents Workshops that will cover all manner of subjects from child behaviour to first aid for newborns. The workshops start in June and if you would like to find out more you can find a list of events on her website: http://www.bumpbabyandme.ie I hope you enjoy the episode. Pamela x To read the full piece of Kathy's that I quoted from in this episode please head to my website: https://www.forallmumkind.ie/2019/episode11kathymilliken Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/for-all-mum-kind/id1456045096?mt=2 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5q5ErY3McbYLuzC2qGfxVz
The Game of Thrones fans' number one podcast is BACK, baby! This week, O'Neill talks of his recent travels, which involved a trip to Cave City and a stay at a haunted hotel. Danish describes an awkward encounter he had with a neighbor and something that happened to him at the grocery store. After that, D+O talk about what happened to a 21 year old Chinese woman when she watched the Avengers movie. There's also a HOT Coachella update. If you went, you may want to head to a doctor. A few bizarre happenings from the MMA world are discussed. There's a quick Guy Fieri update (who doesn't need that in their life?). Then, it's on to a story that was sent to us so much that we just had to cover it. YOU wanted it. YOU got it. We update a despicable character we discussed a while back. Then, it's a throwback to the air raid sirens because a story gets under O'Neill's skin. After that, it's some miscellaneous Tom Foolery. Enjoy, ya weirdos.
Loser Jim and Alex Burns, of Fishtown, Philadelphia A Philadelphia couple expecting their first child have sparked outrage for requesting high-maintenance, Paleo-friendly, and elaborate meals from their friends on a crowdsourcing page. Jim and Alex Burns are expecting their first child on April 29. To prepare, the couple set up a profile on Meal Train - a website that allows friends and loved ones to make home-cooked meals and deliver them to those who are sick, or in the Burns' case, have just welcomed a baby. But the Burns' went overboard with their Meal Train listing, writing in more than 30 specific recipes they'd like delivered, and then sharing it to a neighborhood's social network. Recipes included elaborate options like 'Paleo breakfast egg muffins with thinly sliced cremini mushrooms, pork breakfast sausage and three tablespoons of melted and cooled ghee'. Other requests included 'Spiced lentil, sweet potato and kale whole wheat pockets'. The soon-to-be-dad also said that if the couple didn't want to be 'distracted' by people bringing them food, he would 'put a big white cooler in our side yard'. A neighbor then shared the post on Twitter where the couple faced immediate backlash for their high maintenance favor. 'Amazon Prime and Door Dash/Uber Eats/Grub Hub all exist. I'm all for a meal train but aside from actual allergies from food , you should be grateful for what you get. I also get the Check Ins but JEEZ they are high maintenance,' one Twitter user said. 'So basically, he's not sure he'll get enough sleep to be able to step up and help his wife with the household duties, and he's asking the neighborhood to that s**t FOR him,' one outraged Twitter user wrote. Winner Robert Hurley, a high school senior from Florida Robert is graduating at the top of his class, with schools like Yale and Stanford competing for him, but his real accomplishment — overcoming being raised in a trailer full of drugs and crime.
The Stephs talk about their fun dinner for the Ronald McDonald House, Margarita Madness final two, Guest Carin Skowronsky talks wine and upcoming MN wine event, and what to cook for a friend in need!
We’re baaaaack! Today we’re kicking off Season Four with an honest conversation about how we can really help the new moms in our lives. From avoiding the “just you wait” dump truck to reading cues on whether your Meal Train recipient wants you to sit and chat or drop the food and leave, consider this episode a crash course in new-mom-awareness. We also talk about the hard work of setting our pride aside and asking for help when we need it. Plus, Indiana and Ashlee confess the moments with new moms they wish they could do over. Like what you heard? Visit coffeeandcrumbs.net for more inspiration on your motherhood journey. And, don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes! To help fund Season Four of the Coffee + Crumbs podcast, head on over to our Patreon support page.
Donate to Patreon: www.patreon.com/coreybaum Help Corey's family by donating to Meal Train: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/20q617/updates/
Meal Train for Corey and his family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/20q617/updates/ Free the Healtcare Market: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsoWxJ-qmMvIQy08C_I3B6BXFiyedQ5L Ayn Rand on the Biggest Threat to America: https://youtu.be/5aa9KDsL4-I
If you’re pregnant, you’ve no doubt heard about how you are going to need quite a bit of help once the baby is born, so how do you go about setting that up? Why do you need to prepare? How long are you going to need it for? Michelle Peterson tells us more. Check it out! Get the most of this episode by checking out the resources and links listed on the “show-notes” page at: birthful.com/podcastpostpartumsupport If you enjoy what you hear, make sure to leave your rating or review. It really helps! And if you want to connect with Adriana, reach out at: facebook.com/birthful twitter.com/birthful instagram.com/adrianika Title music: “Vibe Ace” by Kevin MacLeod, at freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/ (©CC BY) Sponsorship music: “Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie, at freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/ (©CC BY) What we talked about: Michelle’s aha! moment How we convince you to prepare! :) Why is self-care during during the postpartum period so important? For how long will you need support? What factors should you consider when setting up your support? How do you go about doing it? Getting the gift of time Facing (and embracing) the emotional work Having a back-up plan for when birth throws you a curve-ball Creating your own postpartum “protocol” Partners as part of the team! Other things to do ahead of time Additional resources and articles Seven Sisters for Seven Days: A Mothers’ Manual for Community-Based Postpartum Care - Michelle’s book Meal Train, Meal Baby, and Take Them a Meal: 3 meal delivery coordination services International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS)’s Find a (pelvic) Medical Provider Directory International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA)’s Find a Lactation Consultant Directory Postpartum Support International IndieBirth.com Related or mentioned podcast episodes: Hormones After Birth, Dr. Jolene Brighten - (episode #89) Dealing with Family & Visitors, with Kate Turza (episode #110) Taking Care of You, with Mar Oscategui - (episode #65) Will You Shower During Postpartum?, with Lisa Chin - (episode #81) About Michelle Peterson Michelle Peterson is the founder of The Seven Sisters Postpartum Care Program and author of Seven Sisters for Seven Days: A Mothers’ Manual for Community-Based Postpartum Care. After a challenging first postpartum, she created this incredible system to support her family during her second postpartum and soon began sharing it with mothers in her community and beyond. Michelle focuses on helping mothers get the support they need. She believes that the spiritual, emotional, and physical welfare of families is the backbone of our collective well-being. Learn more at SevenSistersPostpartum.com
Opening: Ain't No Rest for the Wicked (Cage The Elephant) Someone should explain to Nick (/u/swimbikerunrun) what a "Carpet Bagger" is Bro. Riley calls in sick Harlan explains the absence of show postings recently The Lodge put together a "Meal Train" for Harlan's family during the hospital stay, it's a cool idea for your Lodge Harlan reflects on his "single dad" experience . . . he wasn't fond of it Tony shows up with spiritual insights and poop stories Who eats dessert at a restaurant?! "The 47th Problem of The Eucharist" We take turns explaining Carpet Bagger to Nick . . . and Tony does it wrong More pancake conspiracies If millennials were to start Freemasonry today, what symbols would they use? Intellectual property laws and the Square and Compass Nick visits a "family" Lodge in Italy and almost gets disappeared DeMolay presentations, and why you should invite the boys to your Lodge Does your ritual also include floor work? The Chaplain and the Lost Tribes of Israel, or just one in particular Countenancing disloyalty and rebellion Where to find the Manly P. Hall lectures (for free) How to keep guys around after Lodge Budgeting and tax advice, but you should consult your own accountant Intentional racism seems to sound less bad than the accidental racism that comes up from time to time Closing: Forget You (Cee Lo Green) Email us at afterlodge@gmail.com Hang out with us on /r/AfterLodge Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter @AfterLodge Leave us a voicemail at 215-792-3538 Join us on IRC: irc.snoonet.org #freemasonry
Guest: Kimberly Johnson, Certified Sexological Bodyworker and certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner. In this episode, we will cover: a whole new take on “the 4th Trimester” concept that incorporates “Mothering the New Mother” as well how to design a “Sanctuary Plan” to ease the physical and emotional transition experienced in postpartum period 3 things every new mother should have in place before baby is brought home Resources mentioned in the conversation: Kimberly Johnson’s website: www.magamama.com Creating a Meal Train: www.mealtrain.com Bio: About Kimberly Johnson Kimberly Johnson is a Certified Sexological Bodyworker and certified Somatic Experiencing practitioner. She is also a single mom, doula, Rolfer and yoga teacher. She leads workshops internationally and virtually on the intersection of women's sexuality and spirituality as well as holistic postpartum healing. After living in Brazil for eight years, she now resides in San Diego, CA where she has a private practice, specializing in birth injury, birth trauma, and sexual healing. You can learn more about her work and connect with her at: www.magamama.com
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