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The Secret to Longevity, Reversing Disease and Optimal Health: Fixing Metabolism | This episode is brought to you by Joovv, ButcherBox, BiOptimizersThere are three key biomarkers that can show us where a person's metabolic health falls: blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol. When we see these are higher than the optimal range, one of the main drivers they all relate back to is insulin resistance. Dysfunction in our metabolic health paves the road for chronic disease. That's why it's so important to regulate our blood sugar and insulin responses. Now, with the help of continuous glucose monitors, that's becoming easier and more personalized than ever before. Today, I'm excited to talk to Dr. Casey Means about the importance of metabolic health for longevity and how we can use real-time feedback to cut through the mixed messages on nutrition and hone in our diets. Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Lecturer at Stanford University. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means' perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more.This episode is brought to you by Joovv, ButcherBox, BiOptimizers.Joovv is offering Doctor's Farmacy listeners an exclusive discount on Joovv's Generation 3.0 devices. Just go to Joovv.com/farmacy and use the code FARMACY. Some exclusions do apply. Right now ButcherBox has a special offer for new members. If you sign up today, you'll get 2 100% grass-fed ribeyes free in your first box plus $10 off by going to butcherbox.com/farmacy. BiOptimizers is offering Doctor's Farmacy listeners 10% off your Magnesium Breakthrough order. Just go to magbreakthrough.com/hyman and use code HYMAN10 to receive this amazing offer.Here are more of the details from our interview: Why Dr. Means left her role as an ENT surgeon to pursue Functional Medicine and work to improve metabolic health across the population (5:09)Indicators of poor metabolic health and how metabolism works (13:47)The same foods can affect blood sugar levels differently for different people (24:23)What happens to your body when your blood sugar is out of control? (30:58)Insulin resistance as a precursor to obesity and a range of chronic diseases (33:15)How wearing a continuous glucose monitor can lead to personal empowerment around our own health and improve the doctor-patient relationship (38:54)Insulin's role in weight gain and loss (45:17)Lessons learned from Levels users (47:23)How the time of day that you eat can cause variation in glucose levels (50:10)Changing dietary behavior (53:41)Skip the line to participate in Levels early access program today with the link levels.link/hyman.Follow Dr. Casey Means on Instagram @drcaseyskitchen and on Twitter @drcaseyskitchen.Keep up to date with Levels at levelshealth.com/blog and on Instagram @levels and on Twitter @levels. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Book Publishing Expert, Angela Engel On How She's Innovating That Industry To Help Authors Get Their Books Out Into The World This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.* URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindset If you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset   Angela Engel is an entrepreneur and book publishing expert with over twenty years of experience in the publishing industry. After working for 20 years in the publishing industry and with major publishing companies including Chronicle Books, Ten Speed Press, Cameron + Company, Dwell Studio, and Moleskine, Angela is on a mission to disrupt the publishing industry by giving budding authors more agency and authority in the publishing process. As founder of The Collective Book Studio, she provides authors the support they need to get a book out into the world. Founder and CEO of The Collective Book Studio, a partnership publisher working to pair authors' vision with quality book production in the areas of lifestyle, gift, and children's books. Here's a recent Publisher's Weekly article about the studio and how it's disrupting the publishing industry. Connect with Angela Website: https://thecollectivebook.studio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecollectivebookstudio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-engel-48b3a81b/ Episode Transcript Angela Engel [00:00:00] Angela Engel: [00:00:00] They have to, if they want trade distribution, the willing for this feedback, be willing for the work, be willing to say, Hey, you know what? All of sales, all of marketing, all of editorial is looking at this and the title and the cover really have to have this element. In order for it to work in the market. [00:00:25] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:00:25] Hello and welcome to the innovative mindset podcast. I'm your host Izolda Trakhtenberg on the show. I interview peak performing innovators in the creative social impact and earth conservation spaces or working to change the world. This episode is brought to you by brain FM brain FM combines the best of music and neuroscience to help you. [00:00:43] Focus meditate and even sleep. I love it. And I've been using it to write, create and do some of my deepest work because you're a listener of the show. You can get a free trial head over to brain.fm/innovative mindset. To check it out. If you decide to subscribe, you can get 20% off with the [00:01:00] coupon code, innovative mindset, all one word. [00:01:02] And now let's get to the show. [00:01:09] Hey there and welcome to the innovative mindset podcast. My name is Izolda Trakhtenberg. I am super happy that you're here. I'm thrilled and honored. And so, so, so happy to welcome this week's guest. She, and I've just been chatting before we started recording. And I know this is going to be a super fun conversation. [00:01:27] And you know what, Angela, I didn't ask you exactly how to say your last name. So I'm just going to try it. Angela Engel is an entrepreneur and book publisher expert with over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. After working for 20 years in the publishing industry and with major publishing companies, including chronics. [00:01:44] 10 speed, press Cameron and company dwell studio. And Moleskine, Angela's on a mission to disrupt the publishing industry by giving budding authors more agency and authority in the publishing process. And you know how close that is to my heart was six books to my name and three more in the pipeline as [00:02:00] founder of the. [00:02:01] The book studio, she provides authors the support. They need to get a book out into the world. She's the founder and CEO of the collective book studio. And it's a partnership publisher working to pair author's vision with quality book production in the areas of lifestyle gift and children's books. [00:02:16] Angela, I am so glad that you are here. Welcome. [00:02:20] Angela Engel: [00:02:20] Thank you. I know you pronounce my name perfectly.  [00:02:22] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:02:22] Yay. I was, I was a little concerned and I was like, I normally ask and completely, completely forgot because we were, so I was so excited to be talking to him. We were having such a great conversation that everything went out of my head. [00:02:34] So first of all, Wow that you're doing this. We were just talking about the fact that there are authors so many authors like me, the DIY people who are self publishing, who've been crying for what you are offering your you're building a name for yourself and the studio in the collective book studio in publishing. [00:02:57] And you're doing it in a way that's really in many [00:03:00] ways disrupting the industry yet. Again, I would love if you would talk a little bit about what you are trying to do, what is the mission of the collective book studio? [00:03:11] Angela Engel: [00:03:11] That's a, that's a big question. I know, but, um, you know, I have, as you said, I've had a career of over 20 years in the space. [00:03:20] I'm, you know what? I was a young, young thing, right out of college, a comparative lit and creative writing. I loved books. I mean, who does it? Right? Especially in the, in the journalism field and the creative writing field and the English major, all of our stuff. And we, you know, our dream is to work in publishing and I got my dream. [00:03:40] I got really lucky. I was, you know, 20 what, one or two when I graduated and I drove down to San Francisco and I applied for this job at publishers group west, which is now bought by Ingram. We all know who Ingram is. It's a huge. Mega, um, whole wholesaler and obviously self publishing knows a lot about Ingram. [00:04:00] [00:04:00] And, and, um, I got my first job there and in that was like this champion of independent presses and small presses. And I actually had a great job. Great boss. Her name was trig McCloud and she came from Broadway books in New York. She had been Cindy Crawford's publicist, and I think she saw in me, honestly, that's he young? [00:04:21] That I could do what I wanted to do, but she sort of was like, I'm going to sort of mentor you and let you ride the wave. And I got to ride two campaigns with her. One was the four agreements, which was, as we all know, a New York times bestseller and continues to be an incredible book. Um, and then the other one was when nine 11 hit was Noam Chomsky's book by seven stories and watching, watching her champion, these small independent presses become New York times bestseller. [00:04:51] Um, was just magical, right? Cause, cause you brought in your editorial, your publisher, the writer, like all of, and then distribution and all the [00:05:00] ways to make this successful and honestly compete with the big five publishing houses. And then, um, at that same time, there's something called Amazon. Oh yes. And, uh, they were really just a book retailer, right? [00:05:15] Like it was like Amazon and Walden pond in the mall. Right? Like, like where did you go buy books? Right. Barnes and noble was like the big, big thing borders. And there was like some Walden bonds. And there was Amazon that was like starting to be a book retailer. Right. And at that same time, it was also like, Hmm, maybe urban Outfitters or anthropology or pirates should start selling books. [00:05:40] And I started just this sort of, uh, career path with, even in the publishing space, carving out for myself, becoming a specialist. And how do we sell books outside of the book trade. Right. And partly how you do that is packaging is the, is, is the way the book looks. Cause you don't, [00:06:00] you have to remember. [00:06:01] You're writing for someone else, right? In many ways you have to understand your audience and your audience and your end, the buyer. Sometimes the person who buys the book is completely different than your audience. And so understanding that package is really key. Um, so my mission was let's jump ahead. [00:06:22] Three years ago when I had been back, you know, I have, you know, my career was interesting partly because, you know, I'm a mom of three girls and you know, how are we going to, I'm pregnant with my third baby and I'm at a big trade show. And I'm like, God, I can't keep like, pumping like this. And I got two kids at home. [00:06:40] So, you know, I S I, I quit and I stopped consulting. And in this time of consulting, There was this boom of self publishing. And, um, and I understood, I understood why people were going that route, but I saw also an issue when it came to understanding the full, [00:07:00] um, reason for traditional publishing is so sacred. [00:07:04] One being, um, the craft as the book, the topography, the editorial, you know, everything, the illustrations and, and then also the distribution. So I wanted to find a company that could offer something completely different than Amazon can ever offer, which is people ask me this all the time. Do I have to sign an NDA? [00:07:26] I'm like, there's no NDA to sign it's people. Like, how do you can, I mean, you could, you can't really recreate Angela or Dean Burrell or Elizabeth Saki, like any of my staff. So you get to work with people who have been experts in this field for decades. Yeah. So that's sort of the mission is how did, how did like people, you know, I would welcome agent at work and we use agents for illustrators it's not necessary right these days. [00:07:57] And so how can we make [00:08:00] sure that people are being, having access to publishing and not having to wait three to four years to get on a list or develop a huge, huge pro. Profile and, you know, Instagram following and all the other hurdles that are, that are, that are existing. Now, my model is different, right? [00:08:19] And people do have to invest in their work. Our royalties are also much higher, so it's just a give and take why I call it partnership publishing. [00:08:31] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:08:31] I'm taking all of that in for a second. That was a lot, uh, I asked a big question. You gave a big answer. So here, here's the thing I love. I love the notion of partnership publishing and w w I, I hear what the collective book studio brings to the table. How much pushback do you get from the more traditional ways of publishing? [00:08:58] Like the big five. [00:09:00] What, what, what kind of reception or are you getting from the more traditional spaces? [00:09:07] Angela Engel: [00:09:07] Oh, They had just like cheered on my colleagues are awesome. I mean, they, like, we just signed Fran Hauser, incredible, incredible, uh, woman. Um, and she had a New York times bestseller myth of the nice girl. [00:09:25] It was just an, I just, my big win this week was there was an article in publishers, weekly in our trade magazine, in the print and digital. That, uh, the clinic of Brooke studio is trying a new approach and we were the keynote breakfast speaker, Pamela and Rocco, uh, for Columbia, which isn't an institution, right? [00:09:44] It's the California Alliance of booksellers. We were the keynote at their breakfast, her and Topeka up. And why is because I'm saying to the world, Hey, I'm not I'm, I'm just saying let's [00:10:00] figure out. How Amazon could not control. The distribution piece, because when you're self publishing, you're really kind of also, although you own your IP and you have all this control, you're actually giving many of it over to Amazon. [00:10:17] Right? If you think about it, because you know, there's definitely ways bookstores can sell you when you go through Ingram and income spark that said you don't have a massive team behind you selling your book into what I mean, you're in Brooklyn. So. Books are magic. Amazing. Right? The and amazing green apples. [00:10:38] So I'm such a huge champion. I think that goes back to by activism. Right. We kind of talked to them. I am such an activist that I'm like, I am not going to leave my small booksellers behind. Right. Like I personally only buy my books on bookshop.org. That's what I that's my purse. Now. I can't say we can't say [00:11:00] that to everybody, but for me, I believe that the small acts we choose to do change. [00:11:06] The trajectory of our lives because we're, we're teaching our community, we're teaching our kids. So for me, I just decided, oh, what is my small act? I sometimes can't run into every small little bookstore and busy with my three kids, but I can click a button and buy a, buy a book on bookshop.org. [00:11:26] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:11:26] I love that so much. [00:11:27] That makes me, so I know seriously, it's like, yay. Good, good for you. And, and I think that, that, that, that notion of small acts adding up to big changes is so it's key in, in, in many ways, in, in the ways so many authors have to do things. And it seems like it's key to the way the collective book studio is doing it. [00:11:48] And you're disrupting you're you're, you're a disruptor. Because you're providing more pathways for authors to get published. And, and yet like, as a, as a self-published author [00:12:00] myself, one of the things that has happened when I've tried to do it is stores and, and, you know, first of all, getting into libraries is very challenging. [00:12:09] The ALA is like, yeah, I don't think so. Uh, but, but at the same time, they often don't want to talk to you unless you have some sort of a company behind you. How does, how does the collective book studio. Maneuver in, in that space, like, because you have distribution, the smaller stores out there, more independent booksellers are willing to talk to you, or is there some other pathway that you can follow that just a single person might not be able. [00:12:39] Angela Engel: [00:12:39] Um, no we have full distribution is you've got you have to. So we're we partnered with, um, independent publishers group out of Chicago. They also own Chicago review press and triumph books to great companies. I personally am a huge fan of Chicago review, press. And I honestly, we started as a packager. I'm going to [00:13:00] backup like the collective book studio. [00:13:01] What is a packager is we will create books and then we will sell them to other publishing houses, less that have distribution. It's very common in the industry or we'll do proprietary work. Like we're doing these beautiful big custom board books for Costco. So we're, we're we're, this is very common, actually like a lot of publishers, 20 to plus percent of their list is, uh, is buy-ins or PA or pack from packagers. [00:13:31] Um, we also, we also create creative content. We have a whole series called the secrets thoughts of, and it's just us writing it. And it's like in cats and dogs, it's really cool. P w what I said in this article at PW is that we act actually very similar to a traditional house. When I, when I connected with Joe Matthews, I'm already saying, Hey, we are traditional publishing. [00:13:55] We are, we have content to fuel our trade list. Um, that you're going to [00:14:00] get revenue on. And in addition, I'm going to bring incredible clients with me that we vet that we have, uh, that they have a lot of say, but ultimately they're coming to us. So like, it's not like, okay, I want this cover. And it's this crazy cover with a bunch of purple volcanoes, you know, you know what I'm saying? [00:14:22] And like, we're like, okay, that will never work. Um, so they come to us with knowing it's in my contract that like, ultimately they have to, if they want trade distribution, be willing for this feedback, be willing for the work, be willing to say, Hey, you know what? All of sales, all of marketing, all of that, a trial is looking at this and the title and the cover really have to have this element in order for it to work the market. [00:14:50] And, um, all my clients are. Grateful for that. They're not, they understand that from the start. That's why I also say our [00:15:00] clients choose us as much as we choose that. Because again, in a partnership, I think we talked about this before the podcast. You're kind of all about collaborative, creative collaboration, which I really love, love that you said that because that is sort of my mission. [00:15:15] Is that in a partnership publishing. We have to agree and, and, and, and go together towards that end product. And I think that there are some people, um, who have been frustrated in the traditional space because they felt like, oh my God, I didn't even have any say. And then there's people, um, in the self-publishing base, like you say, you can't get into libraries where if you come through us, like I'm doing a TLA, a Texas library association, like big, huge getaway box, because I can't. [00:15:47] Because I have Matt major distribution  and they have booth space at those shows. Don't forget. They have actually, and I pay into that. So my, my company is listed in [00:16:00] trade shows too. The librarians know that they could easily buy us. And that we're, we're, we're a publishing house [00:16:07] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:16:07] accompany. And it's interesting because the what, what I kept, what I kept thinking to myself as, as I was listening to you talk was you're vetted. [00:16:16] Like they know that you will give them quality. Books too, to put in their libraries or to, you know, when you distribute them or all of that. That's some, that's something that, that a lot of sort of self-published authors don't have. They don't have that, that space of someone already knows me unless you're, you know, I don't know Scott sealer or something before he signed with whoever it is he signed with when he was putting his stuff out, people and people knew that he, that his. [00:16:43] We're good. And that they wanted them. Whereas for most authors, it doesn't seem like it's like that. So, so as I keep coming back to this word, disruptor, and you are, you are changing the industry because of this partnership model. I was wondering if you could talk a little [00:17:00] bit about what that actually means to you, what does being a disruptor mean? [00:17:05] And what is, what are you disrupting? Exactly. [00:17:10] Angela Engel: [00:17:10] Yeah. I mean, I'm going to go back to our friend house. Cause she said the best way better to publisher's weekly this week. Right? Then they quoted her, which is that sometimes it makes sense to go with traditional publishers who takes the financial risk and sometimes partnership publishing makes sense. [00:17:30] Especially when it's time sensitive, I'm open to both models. Why, what does that mean to me when she said that? And I read that and what that means to me is that I think we need to be open to both models because there's something called owning your IP, right. That we're all that people are. Uh, uh, sort of upset about in this [00:18:00] traditional space where, Hey, if I go with a traditional publisher and I own all this IP and I got to sign over my rights, but I want to create characters for Netflix or whatever else your dream is to do with the, with it. [00:18:12] Um, my model is disrupting the space because basically I'm licensing in some way for only, um, a certain amount of years, their IP. So you, so this is how we work. You create, we created. Fi and sometimes people don't want trade. Right. And it's just packaging. So we have definitely projects that are on our list that we just make books for for companies. [00:18:36] And they got a beautiful book and we're done. Then there are about 60% of our clients who really would like to be seen in the strand and at the library association. And so they signed a distribution deal with the collective book studio as part of our imprint, but I don't own their IP. I don't own that for life. [00:18:55] That is a huge, that's the disrupting piece, right? Is that I'm [00:19:00] actually saying to publishing houses, why are we so scared? Of saying of owning. For a lifetime. What is because Amazon has disrupted our industry. Let's be real. They have, people are going there way they want faster at eight. They don't want to have their IP owned. [00:19:20] So let's listen to what they're asking for. This is like, it's almost like we talked about movements. Look, I think enough people have spoken to say, I want to have a book. I really want to have a book and no one's listening to that. So I'm going to just do it online. And Amazon was saw that need. And now they have not only been able to do it successfully. [00:19:44] There are several, if not hundreds of cases, That are, that are hybrid services that offers certain kinds of editorial and great ways to make a really good book, which is important. You can get an editor and you can make a graphic designer through them, but they still don't [00:20:00] have the distribution piece. [00:20:01] Right. And so they're able to Le they're able to sort of utilize Amazon's ability for, for, uh, for sale. And, uh, still create some quality production in some way, but they still don't have the ability those services, because ultimately they hand it over to you and your left, right. As an author to do it all, to still do all the marketing, to do still all the PR and ultimately to print on demand or to do some offset. [00:20:34] Um, you're still left with that piece. And I sort of felt like, well, If I created an imprint at a trade imprint that people could, that was truly vetted. I could get the distribution because then librarians, booksellers. They trust what's on our list. Right. They know it's, it's been vetted through what I started this podcast with [00:21:00] really seasoned professionals for decades come from. [00:21:04] Don't forget places like random house Harper. Uh, Harper Collins, Chronicle books. I mean, that's where the staff, my staff come. [00:21:18] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:21:18] I keep having to take a second and take all of that in. We were chatting about earlier how this is just like having a cup of coffee together. So, so imagine that I'm taking a sip of my soy latte right now. Uh, so I love, I love, love, love that you're talking about the aspect of it, that, that, that you're giving this opportunity to people. [00:21:42] To not be holding the entire bag because there's this notion of playing to your strengths. You know, my strengths perhaps are the writing. They may not be the marketing and the PR and all this other stuff. And I feel like there are there for, for so many professions. [00:22:00] To wear a kajillion hats. You know, I have to be my accountant. [00:22:04] I have to be my marketing person, my PR person, my, this, my, that, my, the other. And sometimes I don't want to, sometimes I can't. And I'm talking about the general eye here. So, so you're offering. And you started it with the hope that you could write that, that I, that I think I can, that I'm going to partially because you have these seasoned professionals, but something in you seems like you're just, you're just like the eternal optimist, you know, like I'm going to be able to make this happen and go. [00:22:32] So can you talk a little bit about that? Like how. Your as the, as the CEO of this company, how does your state of mind affect the process, affect your collaborations with the people on your staff and also your collaborations with the authors that you take on? [00:22:48] Angela Engel: [00:22:48] Oh, I love this question. I mean, mindset is everything. [00:22:52] It's everything. Um, what a great question. I mean, look, entrepreneurship is hard [00:23:00] when you asked me how do my colleagues feel in my traditional. I want to go back when I first started the company, because now of course they're applauding, of course I'm getting this. Like, you know, and even in the very beginning I had really, I, I, in confidence, like I called a friend of mine who was high up at random house and I called a friend at Simon and Schuster and I called a friend at Chronicle and all of them were really, really supportive, but they were also like, Angela, we cannot offer you distribution. [00:23:28] Like you gotta go get like a million dollars in backlist sales. So. I had to say, okay, I, you know, it's not like I snapped my fingers. And I was like, cause when I first thought, okay, I'm going to snap my fingers and it's going to be pretty easy to get distribution with Ingram. No, and I'm an insider, right? [00:23:48] It was not easy. There were a lot of notes. There are a lot of like, honestly, I'm going to say. But it's really true. And I, I'm going to say it cause I'm a woman in my forties. Who's [00:24:00] climbed really high into my career. I taught before I was even 30 and there are a lot it's specially in the sales old boys clubs, they are just are in, in the, in the industry. [00:24:13] And it felt like I constantly was like, oh, that's, uh, that's, that's nice, but you're kind of young or you're kind of naive.  and then I'm in my forties. Right? And I'm like, wait a second. I have spent 20 years of my career and you're still treating me this way. I'm like, oh God. Now, so you know what I did? I just said, I'm just gonna, I'm just not going to listen anymore. [00:24:38] I'm going to internally. I actually have said this so many times to myself, to my friends on a popular podcast. I am going to just have this mantra change starts with you. And if I have this mantra for myself every morning or what I'm feeling stuck, and I think change starts with [00:25:00] you, I can do anything. [00:25:02] And so when you ask how I lead my team, It's I lead my team with that idea that like, okay, you're feeling frustrated or okay. A client is not doing right or, okay, this is not going on schedule. Oh, what can we change? What is it about you? What is it that we need to do? What is it that I need to do to move this forward on this project? [00:25:26] And I think my team and my clients. The one thing is even when I'm stuck, I use that as an optimism piece because I know that in my own 20 plus years, there has been people who had, do have not believed in me. And I just have to let that go, you know, like it just, and, and when you do you surround yourself? [00:25:52] Like, look, I'm here today on your podcast because I surround myself with people who do believe [00:26:00] in this power of lifting others up. [00:26:04] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:26:04] I yeah, absolutely. Again. Oh, I'm going to take it in for a second. No, because, because there, we were talking a little bit earlier about my, my mantra, which is creativity, compassion, and collaboration, and that, it seems like I can almost go well, Angela, that seems like it's kind of your mantra to that. [00:26:23] This notion that you're working in this very creative field. And you also have that analytical side too, that has to keep sort of the, the, all of the bowling pins in a row, if you will. But compassion is another word that I'm hearing from you, compassion for the authors, compassion for the process, compassion for the people on your staff. [00:26:44] That it's, that it's very sort of purpose driven, but also heart centered. If you see what I mean, and I'm, I'm just wondering a little bit about what, what that. Means to you. What now, w what leading from that space means to you both, [00:27:00] if you don't, if you don't mind sharing both in the business world and also in your personal life, because in many ways as the CEO, you sort of have to figure all of that out. [00:27:09] How are you going to divide the three girls that you have, you know, that you're a mom to your relationships, all of that. And how do you align that with the, the business that you're responsible for? [00:27:22] Angela Engel: [00:27:22] You asked some really good questions, you know, while you were talking, I'm thinking of this, this woman, um, her name is Susan Reich and she was president of like Avalon, which was this really cool publishing house. [00:27:36] They have like tons of imprints, one being seal, press one sources, great imprint. She ended up becoming president of, I believe publishers group west, which is part of Ingram. And. When I first, this is my biggest tip to any person find the really people who've all done it before you who've been able to, especially I [00:28:00] think women find a wa like I needed to find a woman in my life who had, who had already climbed such a ladder and had been in board rooms and was an exact, was such a boys' club. [00:28:14] That I could like sit down with. So when I first started this business and they have to be in your industry, so she was in my industry, she like understood my industry and I asked her to coffee. I didn't talk to her for years. And she took my coffee. Right. It's so excited. Like I'm 20 I'm 40 plus. And I felt like I was 22 and gap. [00:28:35] Right. She met me for coffee three years ago and she saw, she said to me, I love your idea. I think this is going to work. And it was like that moment for me. And I don't, I actually re emailed Susan, like about once I got like a lot of this once I got Fran Hauser and I told her, and we're going to re you know, it's been, we haven't seen each other with the [00:29:00] vaccines all now, rolling out. [00:29:01] Like we're going to, once everyone's fully vaccinated, we'll make a time to go get coffee again. But why I said this is you're asking me. Wait, remind me what my question is. I got on a little tangent, but I know I'm stringing it together. Um, do you [00:29:17] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:29:17] want me to remind you? Yes. Yes. So basically it's how do you align the compassionate heart-centered purpose-driven part of who you are with business and also your personal world and how you, how you figure all of [00:29:32] Angela Engel: [00:29:32] that out. [00:29:33] Okay. So this is my, my connection here. So Susan going out for that coffee, right? It's in some way, taking her time, I'm not paying her whatever she's showing compassion. She's like, I remember this young 22 year old sitting at the Xerox machine working hard for me. Right. Making sure my company succeeded, like really caring about my. [00:30:00] [00:29:59] And she now took that moment and had compassion when I said, I really need some advice. Right. And so I think that those things I lead with those things, cause I recognize. That those things about the human spirit, the human life, like what, when we show compassion to another human, right. When Susan's shows compassion to me, I, that it's almost like I'm a candle and it gets lit my combined fuel. [00:30:30] And then I have time to just give it to somebody else. The issue is when we it's, we need to keep passing that on to people. How, how I do it is I fi I have my little group of people. And when I'm feeling a little, like, Ooh, my flames out, it got as high as I needed to be. I go to the people that I know I need to refuel me so that I can refuel both my staff, my clients, my business. [00:30:57] And then in return [00:31:00] that that does create into my home life. Right? Like I, um, am not so good at RNR, to be honest. And either as my husband, he's a small business owner himself. He actually is a controller accountant for restaurants. So it is it's intense. I bet for my girls to have two small business owners in the time of COVID, but, um, my girls are alone. [00:31:27] There, there are the biggest champions of me, like my girls, for example, when my oldest who now is about to turn 13, she knows her mom from 14 weeks old. I mean, she doesn't remember, but she remembers if you won, you know, as, as she got older that I was always traveling, I was on the road every other month. [00:31:50] I mean, I mean every other, no twice a month, every other week, And, um, I was pumping, I mean, of course I was, I was selling to Costco. I was selling to target. I [00:32:00] was selling to buy, buy baby. I was selling to babies, RS at toys R us when that account existed. And so mom wasn't there in that same physical way. [00:32:08] So what I was Quinn was my kind of corporate lifestyle. She was already like eight or nine years old. Right. And I'm having a baby. My, my, my, my youngest and my oldest are eight years apart. There was a mom and I had a meltdown. I mean, this isn't about compassion and I just lost it. We were in the car and I was crying being out of the nine-year-old and I have a toddler and they want stuff. [00:32:37] They want to stop at the gap or something annoying. And I said, I turned around and the biggest cry I'd probably have to nurse. And my boobs are probably huge. And I just, I didn't have, for the first time in my life, I didn't have this like big. Job to like our nanny to pick them up or something. And I said, I turned around and I'm like, your dad makes all the money. [00:32:59] Why don't [00:33:00] you go ask him to take you? And, um, my oldest looks at me and she's like nine years old and she's like, mom, you can make money too. Oh yeah. And that compassion, that moment, that compassion, that realization. Oh, my God. I beat myself up. I've had mom guilt that I haven't, you know, wasn't able to go to her kindergarten, this or that. [00:33:27] My daughter actually sees me so differently that that's what motivated me to find the collective book studio. That's what motivates me every day. That kind of fueled that she was like, mom, you're a bad-ass. [00:33:44] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:33:44] Oh, that's amazing. I love that. And it's so it's so telling that sometimes we just can't see ourselves as well as the people who love us can see us. [00:33:55] There's there's a real powerful lesson right there. Wow. Incredible, [00:34:00] incredible. Thank you for sharing that, that, that's amazing that, that, and that you were aware enough. To take the lesson from that, you know, there are people out there probably would have gone. Yeah. Whatever, but you actually stopped and you actually took it in and that's, that's amazing. [00:34:13] Good for you. Wow. Oh, thank [00:34:16] Angela Engel: [00:34:16] you. You're the first to actually please set up that way. I, I appreciate that. I really do feel because I did ed take it in and I guess that's a tip. If people are listening, like take them smile. Moments in because you know what I realized my anger or what I said to my children. [00:34:37] That's not okay like that. Wasn't about my husband, like, you know, a partnership just like in my business, but in my marriage and in my relationship, which we've been together 15 years. Oh 16. It is a give and take, right? Like there are moments. Work work, got a share in the work. And so, and that's really what my daughter, who [00:35:00] I am. [00:35:01] She, I got to tell you these 13 year olds who could be an eighth grade next year, they're about when they taught. I don't know. I just want to say like, the way that they're intelligent about gender is just incredible. And I think in that moment, my daughter was really able to say, whoa, bomb, check yourself. [00:35:21] And she was only like nine years old. [00:35:24] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:35:24] And she said it an old in the way a nine-year-old would write she, and she'd write to the point. I love that. I love I'm so glad that you're raising such aware kids. Good for you. No, because, because honestly, I spent 20 years working. I worked at NASA for over 20 years and I was teaching, I was traveling and teaching kids how to save the planet. [00:35:44] That was my job. It was awesome. And, and, and you see, seven-year-olds teach. College professors because the college professors think they know everything, but the seven year old is the one who actually does it's really quite it's quite something. They were able to do it. They were able [00:36:00] to, to, to teach them these valuable, valuable lessons. [00:36:03] And that brings me to a question that I would love. Yeah. Chat with you about, um, this notion of teaching others of, of showing compassion and also just being giving back, I guess, you know, what, what is your thought on that? Because I know that your business and you personally, you're a philanthropist, right? [00:36:27] So. Role does giving back, does philanthropy play in, in your business model and also for you as the CEO of that business? [00:36:38] Angela Engel: [00:36:38] Okay. Yeah. Um, well, I, again, I mean, I think that if we wait around always to say, okay, um, who else was going to do this? Or I don't like it this way, or we have that kind of mindset. It nothing will change. [00:36:54] Right. It's like, so I, um, In the ho in the [00:37:00] start of the pandemic about, you know, now a little over a year ago, um, one of my closest friends was an ER ICU doc here in Oakland. And we all know there wasn't enough PP, um, E there was not enough medical face shields, uh, for, for our frontline workers. And instead of being sort of thinking about, well, gosh, you know, What am I going to do? [00:37:27] What can I do on a publisher house? I thought, you know what? I couldn't link up with one of my friends. Who's a small business owner, herself. Who's out of work a fabricator, and we're going to, because we're a business, we're going to be able to wire money over to DuPont and make medical face shields. And people would be like, what is a publishing house? [00:37:49] Why is she doing this? Right. So why my, why is that? My best friend was working nonstop in the, in the ER [00:38:00] ICU, ER, my home. Is very, very close to Highland hospital, which is, um, account, uh, you know, it's from the county hospital as a public hospital, which is a lot, so there's a lot of low income and, um, round and brown and black people and people of color and color and low income. [00:38:20] And it's literally down the street from me. There's. And I'm, uh, I'm an Oakland business. And so I felt it was my duty, my right, even though I might manufacture books as a community. Paying taxes and being part of Oakland and this hospital and my, my friend wasn't at that hospital was at a different one, but then I, I really, um, sort of networked myself to San Francisco labor and, and said, Hey, what do we need? [00:38:49] And the clinics around here from Santa Clara county low-income clinics to the Navajo nation, because it grew right. We're not just our new Keeler, small bids. [00:39:00] And our little area, you start small in your community. I guess that's my biggest advice. If you don't know where to start, start in your community and it will grow. [00:39:07] Like all of a sudden I was getting pinged by friends who had connections to the Navajo Navajo nation. And if you allow yourself to say, okay, I'm going to give myself this little time to be an activist in this particular school. And you open yourself up and you fought, like we're saying, we collaborate with other people who you can network with. [00:39:27] I ended up giving money over to a nonprofit to really maintain all of it because I have to go back to my real business. Right. But my work is not over in that moment. That's one side. So what's my next project. Like I'm working now on a book that, where we did a big, I fund women campaign and our goal is to. [00:39:48] And, and, and sell thousands and thousands and thousands of copies of this little tiny book, which is called eat cake for breakfast, which who doesn't want to eat cake for breakfast. And it's the, and it's [00:40:00] written by this incredible full, uh, entrepreneur and philanthropist, um, violas, um, soon Tonto. And she wants to be able to give back to UCS AF Oakland children's hospital. [00:40:12] And we connected, um, during the pandemic. We, we went on a walk and she, her daughter had a rare, um, a rare bone, um, bone condition, and she needed to get treatment at UCF and she wanted to be able to give back to this hospital. And so I said, well, I'm already manufacturing books. I already have staff. I already have people. [00:40:39] Um, and, and the mass distribution, if you want to run an I fund women campaign so that we have money to manufacture this book, I'm happy to provide, you know, my marketing team or PR team and, uh, and an operational team to get this book into the room. And [00:41:00] that's what I also would say. If you are a small business and you want to give back, sometimes you are able to just because you have a certain capability in manufacturing, if you think about all the places where they made masks to donate or other things. [00:41:14] It's finding those things. I also know that giving back it can be so easy. What did I say? I just buy my books now from bookshop.org. They've raised over $12 million to independent bookstores across the patient. Like that's also activism. If you just think about what your business or who you are, can do and give back. [00:41:37] I mean, for me, When, when black lives matter really was at the forefront of everybody, it was a fight. It was my duty for my kids to go out there into the streets to make signs, to see it. But it was also not enough. Like we ended up sending face shields to Minneapolis, to service, for example, children's Minnesota [00:42:00] hospital to help people during the riots. [00:42:02] Like, I just think, you know, what is, what is my take back? Like I think that if my company. Uh, you know, there's only so you can, you can there's money, but you can never, ever buy time and you can never buy humans. And like, I guess that's just my that's part of my philosophy in life. Like I, you could have all the money in the world, but that does not give you back your people and your time. [00:42:29] And that's what, that's what I want to see when I'm old and gray and maybe sitting on a beach. What I've been able to reflect who my, who I've touched. I mean, that means I have, that means the world to me. That's my personal thing. So my company, I mean, I, I do books. I do stories like I'm grateful every day, what I do, because I do think words changed Matt and words changed lives. [00:42:58] They create. [00:43:00] [00:43:00] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:43:00] For sure for sure they do. And I'm, you know, on behalf of authors everywhere, I'm so grateful that you are doing what you're doing. It's amazing. So I have, I have a. I got a [00:43:12] Angela Engel: [00:43:12] little, um, I got really passionate there. [00:43:14] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:43:14] I know. I love it. [00:43:16] Angela Engel: [00:43:16] I love it. What did I just talk about? [00:43:19] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:43:19] This is great. I think it's so important. [00:43:21] No, because, because we are not just what we do for a living. Right. And if you can, and if you can, to be the most successful person is the person who does what they love. And, and then, and then there's a wonderful quote by, um, In the book, givens decline and fall by Sheri Tepper. And it, I it's my favorite quote. [00:43:42] Like it's what I live by. And, and it it's a little bit of dialogue, but I have to tell it to you in case you've never read the book. Uh, it's about a woman who has since died, but she started a movement and somebody is talking about what she used to say, and this is the quote, find your sun warmed stone. [00:43:58] She used to say to [00:44:00] us, go there, build your house there and then lift others up. I love that quote so much because that, that notion of, yeah, you can do it, you can start your business, you can write your book, you can, and once you've gotten to that point, help someone else, you know, and it sounds to be like that. [00:44:18] Oh yeah. [00:44:20] Angela Engel: [00:44:20] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, God. I'm doing a party dance over here in my chair. Like I love that quote. I know, that's [00:44:30] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:44:30] it. Once you've done it, pull others up. That's that's what we can do. We can help, we can help those coming after us. And so, so having said that. Brass tacks here, Angela, if somebody says, oh, I've got a book in me or I've written a book or whatever, and they want to find you, they want to, what are the steps to getting involved with collected collective book studios? [00:44:52] What would you say someone should do when they want to do that? When they want to reach out when they want to follow you? When they want to say, Hey, could [00:45:00] we work together? [00:45:01] Angela Engel: [00:45:01] Yeah, well, this would be my advice at any publishing house, whether it be mine or you were interested, you were a poet, you, I, and it was edgy. [00:45:09] And I would maybe recommend go looking at soft skull press, like, look at what we already do. That is really key. So read, like, what is lifestyle? What is children's? What are gifts? Titles? We have a titles page who are we publishing? Um, follow our authors and follow us. I think that will give you a good sense. [00:45:29] Do you think you're going to be a right fit for our last, um, I'm very education. I'm very into parenting and the career development. Um, I have a beautiful book coming out on labor and delivery, labor and delivery. Of course I am a mom of three, like, but how we even package this labor book is very gifty. [00:45:48] Like my goal is, bye. Bye baby. Here, like looking into, um, really, so kind of look at our books and think about. Are we the right fit as if you're writing a novel, like that's not [00:46:00] what we do, right. So it's not, it's necessarily not, I'm not going to be able to really help you there, but it's a memoir. We also don't do. [00:46:08] Now. I'm always willing to. Slide into my DMS, right. Which is at the collective book studio. And I'm happy to like give ideas on, uh, plates for a memoir or for a novel if I can, because I I'm very have been in the world for so long. So I have like 20 years and I might know a small, independent press that you're not thinking about. [00:46:29] And I think that, so, so for us, I love food and wine. I love Diane. I love, uh, anything travel full visual. Children's like, think about how that book is going to be structured. And if it's not full visual, then it should really be in like the self-help career motivating, uh, parenting space. But we would, but not, but the business it's not hardcore business. [00:46:56] Does that make sense? Some of that's not really my genre either. [00:47:00] It really is. We're really a trade house. We really trade publishing. We're not going to have. A big academic reach. And some people may prefer to go on it to an academic press, for example, like UC Berkeley or something like that. So I think it just, no, I think it's really about knowing what your why is and what your purpose is and what you're trying to achieve with your own book and then, and then approach us. [00:47:24] And I'm always, you know, willing to take a look there's, there's no cost for an author for us to look at it. It's a submission [00:47:31] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:47:31] process. Right. Absolutely. And, and I thank you for, for that. A lot of people don't know that very specific and very good advice that you just gave, look at the imprint, see what they're already doing and see if you would be a fit there before you even pitch them, which I think is so important. [00:47:51] And. I, I have just a couple more questions because honestly, Angela, I could keep you here for the next six hours and we could just [00:48:00] keep chatting and order more coffee. [00:48:02] Angela Engel: [00:48:02] Well, I do want to know more about your NASA days. I'm like, wow, that's a story. Can we come on? Aren't you going to write a children's book with me and we do need more women in stem for sure. [00:48:12] Okay. Well, [00:48:12] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:48:12] and that's exactly actually, that's what I did. I, it was environment earth, so. And, uh, my, my job was to go in and make dirt fun. That was, [00:48:22] Angela Engel: [00:48:22] oh my God. Well, we could talk for really, I mean, obviously we need more women in stem, so I applied there and, um, and I know I'm going on. I'm not told tangent need to pick it up, but I'm very curious about it. [00:48:38] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:48:38] Well, we'll have to have a virtual cup of coffee sometime. No, I mean, the thing about the thing about NASA and one of the. That what, what you do and what I do, where it intersects in some ways is because I was, I would go into places, either teaching kids or teaching scientists, how to speak to kids. A lot of it is they, they, they speak very eloquently, but [00:49:00] they speak at very high levels and eight year olds. [00:49:03] You said what you know, or they check out. And so my job was to help scientists learn how to speak to eight year olds in a way that the eight year olds would find fun. And so then I took that and I wrote a book all about a called speak from within. So seed. Now I've put it all back into the publishing realm about how we can communicate in a way that will be really, really. [00:49:24] Dave, particularly if we don't know how or if we're nervous about it. So, so when we're talking about that stuff, when we're talking about NASA or when we're talking about, you know, writing for kids, what, to me, what I'm talking about ultimately is communication. And so for you, with what you're trying to do with what you're already doing successfully, it seems like what are your goals? [00:49:51] 2030 years from now. What do you want to see in the publishing industry? From collective book studio and also perhaps the industry [00:50:00] itself? [00:50:01] Angela Engel: [00:50:01] Hmm, 20, 30 a year. Okay. So I'll be, what does that say? Over 70 and 30? Yeah. When you're, [00:50:08] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:50:08] when you're like, when you're on the beach and you're going, I have done all of this really cool stuff. [00:50:14] Angela Engel: [00:50:14] What are you thinking? [00:50:19] Well, I want a New York times. I want a New York times bestseller. I don't want to see, I want to see a time where independent publishing women own pub presses are back on those bestseller lists. Like it's 89.9% big houses at this point. And the big houses just aren't getting huge speaker. I mean, they're just all buying each other up. [00:50:41] They're buying. I guess, I, I guess I believe in the power of like community and words, I think I need my dream. I think I need to, some of the more famous writers that might not need the huge, huge advances and want to try something completely different. Like, I almost like need them in [00:51:00] partnership with me, but I think that's possible. [00:51:02] I think that people. Um, can work with us in a way where you can't get still a traditional deal. And there are still some books that bull make sense for your traditional house. I think I want to disrupt that industry idea that like, you have to stay all the time in traditional house. And if you don't, you're going to get like blacklisted, right? [00:51:23] Like. What or like I self published and I can't now get a publishing deal. What? That doesn't make sense. People like, let it go because of the end. Let it go. Because the media, like if you have something to stay in, you're a nonfiction author. They're going to, you have something to say and you deserve to say it. [00:51:46] Like, I don't think in 30 years someone's going to go, oh God, I had a, I had a self published book and God, I could never get a true D like no, like stop all of that kind of competitive attitude. And instead [00:52:00] let's figure out how we're going to still maintain. Right. This is really cool. For me, the reason I am still very picky about the submissions is I do have concerns with self publishing, for sure. [00:52:16] Um, there's things like, like blinders people have where you may put something that it could be offensive, racist, those types of things. And without a traditional guard, really looking at same with media, right? Like without traditional media really looking at it. There is room for hate speech. We saw that on Twitter. [00:52:39] All over. Right. We've saw that, um, across the board and what that kind of insinuates in our culture and in our communities. So if traditional publishing, we need to change, we still need to be guarded for things like that. And that's why I think if I look 30 years ago, I raised on the beach. Maybe with you. [00:53:00] [00:53:00] They're like having a beer. Champagne. And we're saying we're still, we're still saying to the country, like you can't have hate speech. You can't have to pictures of people in a certain light, right? Like that's what the Dr. Seuss enterprises did and shelves, six books and random house agreed with them. And like, there still needs to be that guy. [00:53:21] But why also does, um, that guard have to control all of distribution? I have no idea why and all of people's IP. And so maybe I'm hoping, you know, whether that be Simon and Schuster, all my colleagues were like, oh, laughing. Cause we've kind of decided. We're going to change that mindset, that access that snobbery, that sometimes does exist in my industry. [00:53:43] And I think the reason I'm talking to you today, or the reason sometimes I'm on clubhouses, that I want people to understand that there's people internally inside my industry that are, that are not so snappy that don't want to say, oh, only the elite have access to publishing. That's not, [00:54:00] that's not okay. [00:54:02] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:54:02] Once again, I love that. You said that [00:54:06] Angela Engel: [00:54:06] what's true, right? Like I, you don't have to be a celebrity to get, like, why are celebrities getting a cookbook and someone who's been a chef and going to culinary school and is a writer for, you know, even like top columnists in journals are not getting published. [00:54:21] Like that's not. [00:54:22] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:54:22] Okay. Well, and that's the thing is that you. With your company are offering the opportunity for people to do that. You know, I mean, that, that to me is sort of the key takeaway for me here is that it that's where you're disrupting, you know, that that's, that's where things are really changing and, and more power to you. [00:54:43] I think that's. That's incredible. And again, I have like 45 more questions that maybe you'll come back and do a part two of this interview, uh, because, because I'm having such a wonderful time chatting with you, but I recognize you have a life to get back to. So I would love [00:55:00] it if you wouldn't mind, uh, giving just I put it in the show notes, but people learn differently. [00:55:06] So. Where people can find the collective book studio as far as on Instagram or on LinkedIn, wherever you are and your website, so that I can also put it on the show notes. I would appreciate it very much. [00:55:18] Angela Engel: [00:55:18] Thank you. So our website is the collective. Dot studio. Very easy. It's just the collective book.studio. [00:55:28] And then on LinkedIn, you can just reach out to me, Angela angle, our companies on LinkedIn, as well as the collective books or, you know, so both places, but I, you know, feel free for people to DM me. I love LinkedIn. It's one of my favorite platforms. Um, we also are active on Instagram at the collective book studio. [00:55:47] We don't have Twitter, you know, there's only so many things we manage, but we're so visual that, um, Instagram or LinkedIn as a personal or our website, I would love people to [00:56:00] subscribe to our newsletter. Um, we have a newsletter that's growing that goes out twice a month and it's really great. We have. [00:56:06] This column called read with us, and we give all kinds of tips on what we're reading as a staff. And I don't believe that I have to only tote my books. I get, I really talk about the industry. We have, we have blogs that we write. So I just asked for people to build community with us and to engage with us. [00:56:24] And, um, Yeah, that's part of the fun. [00:56:27] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:56:27] Absolutely. And I can say as a subscriber to the newsletter, that it is a lot of fun and I've gotten some great reading recommendations out of it, so, yeah. Good. Thank you. So again, Angela, I'm super grateful to you for being here. Really? What a, what a joy to talk with you? [00:56:43] I have just one last question and I ask it of everyone who comes on the show and it's a silly question, but I find. The question often yields some pretty poignant answers. And the question is this. If you had an airplane that could sky write [00:57:00] anything for the whole world to see, what would you say [00:57:08] Angela Engel: [00:57:08] change starts with? [00:57:10] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:57:10] Ah, your mantra. Yes. Yes. That's fabulous. Thank you so much, Angela. I appreciate it. It's great. It's a great, beautiful. I can see it in the sky. [00:57:21] Angela Engel: [00:57:21] I've never been asked that question. Oh my God. If that actually happened. Oh, I would I'll remind house in Oakland. I would just be smiling. I am smiling ear to ear right now and looking out at my porch and my blue sky can imagine that. [00:57:35] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:57:35] I know. Right. Thank you so much for that, that this has been a fabulous chat with Angela angle, who is. The CEO of the collective book studio, you are going to obviously need to follow her and the studio on Instagram and on LinkedIn. See what they're doing. See how they're disrupting the entire publishing industry. [00:57:56] I am Izolda Trakhtenberg for the innovative mindset [00:58:00] podcast. If you're liking what you're hearing, please rate and review the show. I love it. I'd love to hear from you. I love your comments as you know, and if you're a writer, get in touch with me because I'm always, always thrilled to talk to other authors until next time. [00:58:13] This is Izolda Trakhtenberg again, reminding you to listen, learn, laugh, and love a whole lot. [00:58:25] Thanks so much for joining me today. I really appreciate you being here. Please subscribe to the podcast if you're new and if you like what you're hearing, please review it and rate it and let other people know. If you'd like to be a sponsor of the show. I'd love to meet you on patreon.com/innovative mindset. [00:58:43] I also have lots of exclusive goodies to share just with the show supporters. Today's episode was produced by Izolda Trakhtenberg and his copyright 2021 as always. Please remember, this is for educational and entertainment purposes. Only past performance does not guarantee future [00:59:00] results, although we can always hope until next time, keep living in your innovative minds.    

We continue in our study through the gospels - Women of Means, True Family, Four Soils, Why Parables? Reading: Matthew 12:46-13:14, Mark 3:31-4:12, Luke 8:1-10, 8:19-21 Scripture: John 3:16, Mark 3:20-21, Ezekiel 12:2, Isaiah 6:9-10 Show Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vtBP2co96iafkJxPyIZetcMDPp4bZBtE/view?usp=sharing

Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, seeks to be a church that's Becoming Community in Christ. Our senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey continued in our Means of Grace sermon series focusing this week on prayer. Our help and our hope lie in something old--the ancient path. The means of grace that God has given to his people since he made them is something old: prayer. In devoted prayer let's look together upon the face of God as he has revealed himself in the person of Christ. We must be people who are devoted to prayer

Scott and Daniel Larison discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what it means for America's stance toward Eastern Europe. The main issue with the German pipeline, Larison explains, is that it will allow Western Europe to buy Russian natural gas without having to deal with Ukrainian transit fees. Ukraine has portrayed the pipeline—and the fact that the U.S. is allowing it to happen—as a betrayal by the West, and has lobbied for sanctions on Germany. Larison is relieved that the U.S. government is backing down from its opposition to the pipeline, because he sees it as a sign that it won't risk jeopardizing its relationships with countries like Germany and France in the future for the sake of the much more significant issue of Ukraine's NATO membership, which Germany and France oppose. Discussed on the show: "What Nord Stream 2 Means for NATO Expansion" (Antiwar.com) "Ukraine Is Part of the West" (Foreign Affairs) "Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call" (BBC News) Daniel Larison is a contributing editor at Antiwar.com, contributor at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and former senior editor at The American Conservative magazine. Follow him on Twitter @DanielLarison or on his blog, Eunomia. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. https://youtu.be/59Bwq8rRdqg

Scott and Daniel Larison discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what it means for America's stance toward Eastern Europe. The main issue with the German pipeline, Larison explains, is that it will allow Western Europe to buy Russian natural gas without having to deal with Ukrainian transit fees. Ukraine has portrayed the pipeline—and the fact that the U.S. is allowing it to happen—as a betrayal by the West, and has lobbied for sanctions on Germany. Larison is relieved that the U.S. government is backing down from its opposition to the pipeline, because he sees it as a sign that it won't risk jeopardizing its relationships with countries like Germany and France in the future for the sake of the much more significant issue of Ukraine's NATO membership, which Germany and France oppose. Discussed on the show: "What Nord Stream 2 Means for NATO Expansion" (Antiwar.com) "Ukraine Is Part of the West" (Foreign Affairs) "Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call" (BBC News) Daniel Larison is a contributing editor at Antiwar.com, contributor at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and former senior editor at The American Conservative magazine. Follow him on Twitter @DanielLarison or on his blog, Eunomia. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. https://youtu.be/59Bwq8rRdqg

Property owners and supporters of the U.S. Constitution respond to Joe Biden's attempts to nationalize housing across America and file emergency motions seeking to stop the unlaw extension. Former President Donald Trump responds to the House Ways and Means Committee's attempts to secure his tax returns and we review his counter lawsuit. Representatives AOC and Cori Bush celebrate their successes with the eviction moratorium and are caught in interesting predicaments.​And more! Join criminal defense lawyer Robert F. Gruler in a discussion on the latest legal, criminal and political news, including:​

Franco Harris on what it means to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, this year's HoF class, Steelers Super Bowls, going into the Hall with teammates, Randy Gradishar, and Game Day Socks

Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, seeks to be a church that's Becoming Community in Christ. Our senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey continued in our Means of Grace sermon series focusing this week on Biblical preaching. We must be devotedly attentive to the preaching of the Word of God. Biblical preaching has Christ at its center and his glory as its goal.

Join us at Health Sucks, once again as we continue this conversation on the current Health Crisis in America! This time we get to discover the perception and knowledge of an internal medical assistant. Not only is this next guest my number one Medical Assistant to ask internal medical questions, but she's also been number one in my heart the last 5 years of my life. Help welcome my girlfriend, Alexandra Carpenter; she spent most of her life dedicated to helping people on the field as an athlete, and has now dedicated the rest of her life to helping people in the field as a medical assistant and perhaps a future healthcare professional. Gain some insight on what's currently going on in the world, form the perspective of two educated people on opposite ends of the medical spectrum (Palliative Vs. Allopathic). The following topics were discussed:What is Health Sucks again?Who is Alexandra?What's going on in the world? What is science?What should we follow?Research MethodsConfusing ResearchFunded ResearchHealth CrisisFollowing Articles were discussed or referenced in some form:         -SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans-1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2021.01.016 Diabetes, obesity, metabolism, and SARS-CoV-2 infection: the end of the beginning2.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2020.04.037 The pivotal link between ACE2 deficiency and SARS-CoV-2 infection 3. https://doi.org/10.2337/db20-0669 Expression of ACE2, the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor, in Lung Tissue of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes4. 10.1016/j.metabol.2020.154254 Letter to the Editor: Mechanisms of increased morbidity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in individuals with diabetes: what this means for an effective management strategy5. Considering the Effects of Microbiome and Diet on SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Nanotechnology Roles.6. Means, C. (2020). Letter to the Editor: Mechanisms of increased morbidity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in individuals with diabetes: what this means for an effective management strategy. Metabolism, 108, 154254. 7.Cano, E., Campioli, C. C., & O'Horo, J. C. (2021). Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA shedding in patients with diabetes mellitus. Endocrine, 71(1), 26-27. 8.Hodgson, S. H., Mansatta, K., Mallett, G., Harris, V., Emary, K., & Pollard, A. J. (2021). What defines an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine? A review of the challenges assessing the clinical efficacy of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 21(2), e26–e35. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30773-8

THYFAMILY!! Episode 49... ONE AWAY FROM A FITTY PIECE! Crazy, thank you to all who continue to support and show love. Means a lot! We got a BANGER for ya'll this week! The boys came in the studio and chopped it up about Prince's weekend in Vegas, Don-B getting finessed at Universal Studios, Best new music that dropped in "Hear Me Out", Will "Donda" be an all-time classic?, Aaron Rodgers holding nothing back with the Packers, MTV Cribs returns, Lakers Free Agency rumors, and much much more! You're going to FORSURE enjoy this one and probably laugh your ass off.. Much love and God Bless! If you're reading this far... PLEASE SUBSCRIBE and leave feedback!! Give us a 5 star one time and let us know how you feel about the podcast!    

Blue Wire's "The Sports Renaissance Man" Chase Thomas is joined by Fangraphs' Jon Tayler to talk about this week's MLB Trade Deadline, why the Orioles are interesting with Mancini, Mullens and Means, the Nationals' questions at 3B and with Max Scherzer, the Luzardo for Marte trade for Athletics and Marlins, and the cynical Mariners trading Graveman to the Astros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Congressman Kevin Brady, the ranking Republican member on House Ways and Means sits down with Tim and talks about never before seen levels of spending proposed by Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in Congress. What does it mean? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Brady digs in deep.  

Means there's Happy in Mean and Mean in Happy, is what it means.

Death, do you ever think about it? The when, where and how it will happen? In this episode, Sally and Kita take a dive into the Ways and Means of death pool. The girls give some detailed descriptions of what the body goes through during shooting, stabbings and blunt force trauma. If you are lucky enough to live, sometimes the road to recovery and there after are not that easy. As Jud Crandall said, "Sometimes, dead is better"Resources for victims of domestic violence…If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship and needs help, free and confidential help is available 24 hours per day.National Domestic Violence Hotline1-800-799-7233 (1-800-799-SAFE)National Domestic Violence HotlineNCADV | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Find us on Patreon. patreon.comTo our wonderful listeners. If you are listening to us on apple podcasts? (and even if your'e not) Please! take few minutes and leave a 5 STAR review. It'll really help out the show. If you have a show suggestion? please email us at: homicideworldwidepodcast@gmail.com

Business leaders!! This one's for you! We're bringing back one of our podcast faves Kelly Brock for Episode 66 of Soul Purpose Leadership and today we're discussing “Changing the Landscape of Business Leaders: What it Means to Lead Like a WHOLE HUMAN!” There's nothing wrong with wanting to achieve at the highest level, unless it comes at the expense of your health and harmony. On the surface, Kelly had it all together. But on the inside, she was struggling. She had become so addicted to achievement that she was neglecting her relationships and her health. And that's when her body forced her to stop. Creator of the Peaceful Performer Movement, she knows that it is possible to live a life of both peace and profit and she is here to share it with as many women as possible! Here's a glimpse into today's conversation on shifting and swerving and learning and growing: “So much was able to come through because I was not fighting the noise of my life,” says Kelly, on getting away, stepping back, and reflecting.  Above the emotional, mental, and physical is the spiritual. We may want to get around it, but it's the core of everything, and so we discuss spiritual growth strategies including scripture, meditation, right and left brain, journaling, and “somatic check-ins.” Do you feel like you're getting hit on all sides? That's OK! You're likely growing and finding your new voice. It may scare some people. And that's just OK. “Keep finding your voice, but use the voice you have today. You were given a voice. You already have life lessons to speak from. You have experiences you can contribute to others. Give yourself permission that this is about evolving, not arriving.” -Kelly Brock If you're a business leader looking to change the landscape and lead like a whole human, remember that it starts with you - it's your Soul Purpose. Today's episode has everything you need to start your shift and see it through - and we can't wait to cheer you along.  Connect with Kelly on Instagram @kellybrock Take the Whole Human Biz Quiz We'd love to hear your thoughts via an iTunes rating/review, and be sure to connect with us on Instagram and Facebook @jenniferwatsonleadership. Music by HookSounds

INTRODUCTION CHAT: Lovely chilled out weekend of birthday celebrations (props to Freight)! Deus Ex taking up Keith's time, Alan is ahead of the game for next week's pod after a week of reading COMICS: New Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander Killadelpia spin off, Previews books due this week, podcast no doubt to follow, Eisner Awards, New Luke Cage title announced TV/MOVIES: Masters of the Universe: Revelations launched, Suicide Squad hits this weekend PODCAST/YOUTUBE/STORE: Delivery delay! Guys getting home to see Vicki's family so Keith is watching the store Friday evening/Saturday/Monday, so be gentle! Means our pod may be a little late next week! HONOURABLE MENTIONS DC – 26m 06s Rorschach #10, Batman: The Detective #4, Batman: Urban Legends #5 Marvel – 47m 20s Aliens: Aftermath #1, Way of X #4, Thor #15, Conan the Barbarian #23 Indie – 1hr 2m 40s Skybound X #2 PICKS Alan – 1hr 8m 02s The Joker #5 Keith – 1hr 15m 21s Flash 2021 Annual Titles to look forward to next NCBD (28.07.21) – 1hr 26m 10s www.coffeeandheroes.com

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Prayer: a Means of Peace-Applying Grace Subtitle: Philippians (2021) Speaker: James Hakim Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/25/2021 Bible: Philippians 4:6-7 Length: 24 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Prayer: a Means of Peace-Applying Grace Subtitle: Philippians (2021) Speaker: James Hakim Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/25/2021 Bible: Philippians 4:6-7 Length: 24 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Prayer: a Means of Peace-Applying Grace Subtitle: Philippians (2021) Speaker: James Hakim Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Event: Sunday - PM Date: 7/25/2021 Bible: Philippians 4:6-7 Length: 24 min.

Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, seeks to be a church that's Becoming Community in Christ. Our senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey returned to our Means of Grace sermon series focusing this week on the fifth truth that corporate worship must be repetitive. While we live we must watch, wait, and be patient for the grace of God starts as an "explosion of salvation" and continues steady on to do its work in us.

Ransom for many Matt 10:28/Mark 10:41-45 • Ransom: Lutron in Greek. Means the price of release or manumission (release from slavery). In its primary usage, the lutron/kōpher referred to neither a sacrifice for sin nor a punishment for transgression, but a price of release or a price of return. o Kopher (Hebrew of Greek Lutron) is used this way: God's redemption of Israel from exile: “I give Egypt as your ransom (kōpher), Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you” (Isa 43:3) • Is Jesus a substitute here?... ransom “FOR” many o Ransom for PSA has the notion of substitution, pointing to the Greek preposition anti (“for”), which carries the meaning of “exchange”—“this for that” (Latin, quid pro quo). That is precisely the meaning of anti in those texts where Paul instructs the church to renounce the world's practice of retributive justice: “Do not repay anyone evil [in exchange] for (anti) evil” (Rom 12:17; cf. 1 Thess 5:15). Is Jesus the “ransom,” therefore, a substitute? • If we wonder what “price” God has “paid” to ransom Israel from captivity in Babylon, the prophet tells us—none: “For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money” (Isa 52:3). God need not “pay” any “price” to anyone to redeem his people; for the “ransomed of the Lord” are liberated by God, not by an exchange between God and some other power. Gospels and Acts Summary: • Jesus uses the “Son of man” title to talk about his kingship but also about the defeat of the powers as in Daniel 7 and the defeat of the beasts. • Jesus' ministry about healing. God loved the world and sent Jesus to heal it. Jesus is depicted more as a doctor than a lawyer. In our first episode we talked about the fact that you can't punish a disease out of someone, and Jesus came to heal our sin and not punish it out of us. • Ransom is connected to a new exodus. It means to free slaves. It was costly to God as it meant that Jesus' life was given up for us. But this wasn't a payment. As in the Exodus God's ransom was by his mighty hand and he didn't pay off himself or the powers… it was a rescue mission. • The New Covenant spoken of at the last supper was inaugurated on the cross. The New Covenant in Jeremiah relates to the end of Exile. This is the way out of our exile from Eden, the reversal of Babel, and Israel's exile. “The cup” is connected to God handing Israel over to the nations. God allowed Jesus to be handed over to Rome and the temple leaders to fulfill his mission. This is not active wrath but letting the people have their way as we saw in our wrath of God episode. The Barabbas story is connected here. • “My God why have you forsaken me?” Was a cry, in Jesus' humanity, of what he was experiencing but he is quoting Psalm 22 where God didn't forsake the psalmist and God didn't forsake Jesus. There is not split in the Godhead. • We see in the gospels that the Cross was man's doing, God knew it would happen, but it was the wrath of the people. But we see the character of God in this that Jesus state “Father forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” • There is nowhere in the Gospels and Acts that in anyway talk about God punishing Jesus in our place • Acts ties forgiveness of sins to the resurrection and baptism (allegiance) and not Jesus' death. • There are no atonement theories or mention of hell in the Gospel proclamations in Acts.

This week, Pastor Curtis Dunlap teaches from Hebrews 10:19-25. He emphasizes since we have great access to the Presence of God through the Blood of Christ now we should persevere in approaching God's Throne of Grace (God's Presence). This also means continuously meeting together in community to tap into our Means of Grace that God has set up for us as well

Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tech-enabled tools that can inform smart, personalized, and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means' perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Hill, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more. She has held past research positions at the NIH, Stanford School of Medicine, and NYU. Topics covered in this episode: • What does it mean to be metabolically healthy? • How to know that you don't have metabolic flexibility that allows you to create stable blood sugars. • How do we fix our metabolic health? • Intermittent fasting; who it is and isn't appropriate for. • What are hormesis? Referenced in the episode: • The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 113 Reversing Diabetes | Dr. Brian Mowll To learn more about Casey Means, MD and her work, head over to www.levelshealth.com * Levels is currently running a closed beta program with a waitlist of over 120,000 people. If you'd like to skip that line and participate in their early access program today, just use link: levels.link/lindseyelmoreshow. 88% of Americans suffer from metabolic disease and don't even know it. Learn the signs and symptoms, as well as how you can take control of your health and feel better. Download a free eBook to learn: • What is metabolic disease? • Warning signs of metabolic disease. • Traditional and natural prevention and treatment methods. • Where to start and setting SMART goals Are You Ready To Take Control Of Your Health? Then head over to: https://lindseyelmore.com/metabolic-makeover-ebook Wellness Made Simple is a new subscription platform; a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about how to course correct or how to prevent symptoms from happening in the first place. Head over to www.wellnessmadesimple.us to sign up today. We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

5 year anniversary Money in the BankCena shows upCharlotte wins the title Big E wins money in the bank mNikki ASH (A super Hero) winsAudiences back for WWE bring some interesting reactionsSome good matchesImpact slammiversary was great until the show cut off too earlyNXT Bob Fish was back but jobbed outButler Cameron Grimes was funQuizzes tonight!Best match ever...of the week segment: Darby vs Ethan Page coffin matchBill's segment to be named later:New weekly segment. How much is this going for on Ebay:More quizzes Wally's top 5!Quick hitters:No show next week Next review is Jupiter's Legacy?

Morgan Jones is the host of the All In podcast for LDS Living. She previously wrote for the Deseret News, where she published more than 480 stories and served as senior web producer. She is a passionate storyteller and loves having the opportunity to share stories that deserve to be told. Her new book, All In: Exploring What it Means to be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ, shares what she has learned from nearly three years of hosting the All In podcast. She has served as a ward Relief Society president, a counselor in a stake Relief Society presidency, Primary chorister, and is currently a Relief Society teacher. Highlights 2:40 Beginnings of Morgan becoming a podcaster: While working at Deseret News, discussions came up with Hal Boyd and hearing so much about why people leave the LDS Church; Bro. Boyd's thought was to do a podcast about why people choose to stay. HB went on to say that the decision for people who choose to stay is “just as thoughtful and deliberate” and needed to be talked about. Bro. Boyd's belief in Sis. Jones and her experience interviewing led to her being tapped for the role of host of a podcast when she later went to Deseret Book. 5:30 Evolution of the podcast “All In” discussion of content and the name; appreciation of the fact that reflecting on what it means to be “All In” the gospel of Jesus Christ lends itself to reflection and genuine feelings; also would help prevent pompous, self-righteous explanations. It would cause people to think. Also the benefit of having a consistent question that elicits thoughtful responses. 7:30 Guests-Kurt observes that Morgan has had some well known people on the program; while those can be wonderful episodes, the diversity of members can provide some amazing insights from unexpected, even obscure members of the church in far flung areas that really resonate. The benefit of talking to the everyday person; everyone has a story. 8:15 Things MJ has learned while interviewing and how to connect: Find common ground, establish a connection with that person (where are you from? Common acquaintances) Everybody wants to be heard-to listen to them, help them to feel important and be genuinely interested Beware of distractions; sometimes we may be thinking of our next question to ask or otherwise lose focus; listening to listen and not with the intention of forming a reply is very helpful. People then feel cared about and in a safe place. Cultivating a connection is an art MJ quotes her grandfather, a fan of Dale Carnegie. DC wrote that the most beautiful word in any language is the person's own name; MJ experience with interviewing Thurl Bailey and how he repeatedly said her name-that got her attention. 11:00 Discussion of ministerial interviews and the pitfalls that can be faced. While the purpose of the interview is to ask “how are your families?” this can prevent an opportunity to allow the person you're interviewing to share information about themselves; (we default to an administrative level of communication) 11:30 Ministering interviews vs. visiting teaching or home teaching interviews; Ministering provides us with an opportunity to also check on the person we're talking to just as much as the families the person is assigned. 12:00 The beauty of the good question-in the case of the podcasts, having a well-chosen question can lead to having the Spirit. In the case of ministering interviews, a good question can leave people feeling that spirit and coming away with a positive vibe. 13:15 Importance of being prepared and being present. MJ quotes D&C 38:30 “If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear.” She testifies that the Lord will bless us if we have prepared to the best of our ability. He will make up the difference. The Spirit cannot call things to your remembrance if they were never there in the first place. 13:45 New project the book: “em>All In: Exploring What it Means to be All In to the gospel of Jesus Christ

DO you know what the eye symbol we see really MEANS? It is not what you think. Get In Touch Website: http://psychopathinyourlife.com/ Contributions to the show are greatly appreciated. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=MCPE4SS8U7P3A The post EYE of Providence | EYE of Horus | Switzerland | Egypt Pharohs | Big Brother|Good and Evil appeared first on Psychopath In Your Life.

Press Play for: · The Importance of Giving your Kids The Opportunity to Think Broadly· Being a Hover Parent When it Comes to Budgeting· What it Means to be Civically Engaged· Giving Children Responsibility to Grow· Why Distrust is Born into Parents and Kids· The App That Helps Build Trust with your Kids with Money· Knowing who you are as an Entrepreneur· Entrepreneurial Mindset as a Starters, Operators, or Exits· Importance of Bringing Security Postures into Schools· How to Build the Foundation to Exit Your Business We Meet: Luke Hohmann, FirstRoot, Inc. Episode References: Madison, Wisconsin - https://www.cityofmadison.com/Participatory Budgeting Cycles - https://www.participatorybudgeting.orgConteneo - https://www.scaledagile.com/conteneo-weave/San Jose, California - https://www.sanjose.org/FirstRoot - http://www.firstroot.co/Aladdin Knowledge Systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Knowledge_SystemsMulti-Factor Authentication - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authenticationCisco Casper Security Standards - https://www.cisco.com/“One in Four millennials say democracy is a bad way to run a country.” - https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/events/people-vs-democracy/ https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/research/republic-still-risk-and-civics-part-solutionThoma Bravo - https://www.thomabravo.comEdtech - https://edtech.worlded.org/EDS - https://www.electricdatasystems.com/Living Like a Weasel - https://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/dillard_weasel.htm Connect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanConnect with Luke: http://www.firstroot.co/Subscribe and Review to ALL IN with Rick Jordan on iTunesSubscribe and Comment on CastBoxSubscribe on Google Podcasts or Google PlayFollow on SpotifySubscribe and Review on Stitcher About Guest: Luke is a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits and I think your listeners would be really interested in learning how my new company empowers youth - with money! Have you heard of Participatory Budgeting? It is a global movement, endorsed by the UN, in which communities decide how to invest real money. I've been producing PB events around the world, in both the public and private sector, for more than a decade. At my last company, Conteneo, I invented Weave, the software platform businesses use for PB. My clients made over $3 billion in investment decisions using Weave before I sold the company two years ago. I've now founded FirstRoot, a startup devoted to teaching financial literacy and civics through Participatory Budgeting in schools. Our BHAG is to get $1K into 1M schools globally and watch what happens when kids are in control of $1B. We are offering a family version of our app for free so that parents can work directly with kids doing such things as planning a vacation, choosing charitable donations, or planning a home remodeling project. #RickJordan #Podcast #Trust

Greg discusses why social justice was not Jesus' purpose and whether Christians force their religious morality on others, then he answers a question about female pastors.   Topics: Commentary: Jesus did not come to preach social justice. (05:00) Commentary: Do Christians wrongly legislate morality? (33:00) What is your view on female pastors? (49:00) Mentioned on the Show:  Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 24–25 in Orange County, CA; October 15–16 in Seattle, WA; November 12–13 in Minneapolis, MN; February 25–26, 2022 in Dallas, TX; April 22–23, 2022 in Augusta, GA Interview: Alisa Childers on Progressive Christianity Red Pen Logic Related Links: Was Jesus a Social Justice Warrior? Is Your Christianity Merely a Means to a Social Justice End? Red Pen Logic: Should Religious People Legislate Their Beliefs? Should Christians Impose Their Moral Standards on Society? Should Women Teach in Church?

Episode 341OpenShow news and housekeepingJourney of Wrestling last thursdayHome Run DerbyClerical error Aleister BlackBayley injured out for 9 months because of mandatory trainingGAB results MSK beat Tim and CiampaLA Knight besat Cam GrimesIO and Zoey beat the Way with the help of Teagon KnoxCole beats Cool Kyle E-14 Pod and Pat McAfeeBest match ever...of the week segment: Bret and Bulldog Summerslam 92Bill's segment to be named later:New weekly segment. How much is this going for on Ebay:David Arquette elephant movie review!Wally's top 5!Quick hitters:RIP Paul OrndorffPeacock messing with WWE showsBray coming back with a stable?Shotzi and NOX called up… Toni Storm tooDominick Mysterio wants to bring back the LWOFan rushed the ring at AEWChelsea Green in ROH Saudi is back sooner than we thinkWWE trying to bring back Rock, Cena and Lesnar Lesnar poney tail?Next Week's review? Its our 5 year anniversaryEND

Seven-Lane Highway: 1. I Desperately Need Christ, 2. My Children Desperately Need Christ, 3. My Children Desperately Need Me to Be the Means of Grace, 4. My Children Desperately Need to Love the World God Loves, 5. My Children Desperately Need to Be Born Again, 6. My Children Desperately Need Parents Who Live Under God's Design, 7. My Children Desperately Need God's Word in Their Mouths

Welcome to episode 84 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two of my two-part conversation with 10th-year MMT activist, Andy Berkeley. Andy has a PhD in marine sedimentology, and is a marine scientist and oceanographer by trade. He's also the co-author of the 2020 paper, An Accounting Model of the U.K. Exchequer, which is published by The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies (or GIMMS). This episode is also part three of a larger seven-part series on the paper and it's three co-authors. The first five are with each individual author, in the final two with all three, jointly, where we discuss the paper in depth. (A link to all seven parts can be found here.) Last week, in part one of my conversation with Andy, we spoke about two very non-economic topics: the first half dedicated to the fifty-year-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the second half, to the drastically different and lighter subject of music. Today in part two, Andy describes his life and thinking before knowing about MMT. He tells the story about how he discovered it from an actual stranger on a train, who he now knows as Chris Cook. While talking with a friend, the person sitting across from him, Chris, interrupted and interjected the fateful words: "Banks don't lend deposits, and governments don't spend taxes." Confirming the former came rather quickly for Andy. The latter, however, that governments don't spend taxes, took years to fully grasp. After learning more about the concept, it made the entire puzzle appear to make sense. However, only after completing his 2020 paper many years later, did he finally confirm that what was mere economic theory – to him, toning more than a thought experiment – actually applies to the world in which we live. Two important events that Andy believes prepared him to accept MMT years later, were, first, the 2003 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, and the subsequent invasion of Iraq by the US and its allies. The second was a brief and largely out-of-place montage in the Michael Moore documentary, Bowling for Columbine. The montage shows how the United States's invasion of Iraq was merely the tip of an iceberg demonstrating its decades-long imperialism, and the U.K.'s support of it. These two things called into question the idea of the US and UK as being 100% forces for good and made him realize that what we are told may in fact be contrary with reality, with the goal of keeping the powerful powerful and everyone else in the dark. (As an aside, It's both shocking and not shocking that YouTube will not allow you to share that montage at all. It won't even allow you to copy the link.) Finally, a minor correction: the UK is 800 years old. And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Andy Berkeley. Resources Books by John Kenneth Galbraith 2007 book by Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

In today's episode we're talking about the correct way to correct a bishop. Social media has enabled people to openly and widely air their grievances about Church hierarchy, but did you know that Canon Law actually gives us the principles of how to correct our Church leaders? In our mailbag segment, we answer a question about Church teaching and what it means to be in communion with the Church. And of course, we want to leave you with some practical tips on how you can start to put your faith into action. In our bricklayer segment, we have suggestions for forming your conscience as a faithful citizen this summer. Related Links: Books: Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622436/live-not-by-lies-by-rod-dreher/9780593087398 "What it Means to be Human" by Carter Snead: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987722 "Uprooted" by Grace Olmstead: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608726/uprooted-by-grace-olmstead/9780593084021 "From Tolerance to Equality" Darel Paul: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481306959/from-tolerance-to-equality/ "Dominion" by Tom Holland: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/tom-holland/dominion/9780465093526/

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Five Surprising Foods That Spike Blood Sugar and How to Make Them Healthier | This episode is brought to you by Birch Living.Interested in Levels Continuous Glucose Monitor? Join here: http://levels.link/dhruObesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease all have one big thing in common—they all involve a component of blood sugar dysregulation. So many other diseases do, too. Considering the rampant use of sugar and flour in our food supply, managing blood sugar is something we should all be thinking about if we want to protect or improve our health. Thanks to technological advances like continuous glucose monitoring, we can now understand how we respond to carbohydrates like never before. For one person, a sweet potato might be easy to handle metabolically. For another, it could mean a giant rise and fall of blood sugar with a corresponding insulin spike. Some of the foods you might assume are healthy may even be the worst offenders. Today, Dhru takes a deep dive into blood sugar regulation and precision nutrition with Dr. Casey Means. Dr. Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Lecturer at Stanford University. Her mission is to maximize human potential and reverse the epidemic of preventable chronic disease by empowering individuals with tools that can facilitate deep understanding of our bodies and inform personalized and sustainable dietary and lifestyle choices. Dr. Means' perspective has been recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, Business Insider, Techcrunch, Entrepreneur Magazine, Metabolism, Endocrine Today, and more.In this episode, we dive into:-Five surprising foods that spike your blood sugar (6:15)-What is insulin resistance (24:27) -How to achieve metabolic flexibility (34:20) -The impact of fructose on the body (46:59)-Food pairing for optimal metabolic health (51:49) -The best fat to eat (54:18) -How food sequencing impacts glucose and insulin levels (1:00:51) -The connection between high blood sugar and rates of COVID infection (1:20:16) -Foods that might not spike your glucose but should still be avoided (1:35:26) -How time restricted eating impacts on blood sugar (1:39:24) -Optimal glucose ranges (1:43:10) -What your glucose number should be after you eat a meal (1:45:26) -What Dr. Means' diet looks like and how to achieve a level 10 score when it comes to your meals (1:58:21) For more on Dr. Casey Means you can follow her on Instagram @drcaseyskitchen and @levels, on Twitter @drcaseyskitchen and @levels, and through her website https://www.levelshealth.com/. Sign up for early access to Levels Metabolic Fitness Program here: levels.link/dhru. The program includes a telehealth consultation with a physician in your state, two sensors shipped to your door, and Levels software. Also mentioned in this episode:-Levels Health Blog - Levelshealth.com/blog-Farmers Juice - https://farmersjuice.com/-Paleonola - https://paleonola.com/-Daily Harvest - https://www.daily-harvest.com/For more on Dhru Purohit, be sure to follow him on Instagram @dhrupurohit, on Facebook @dhruxpurohit, on Twitter @dhrupurohit, and on YouTube @dhrupurohit. You can also text Dhru at (302) 200-5643 or click here https://my.community.com/dhrupurohit.Sign up for Dhru's Try This Newsletter - https://dhrupurohit.com/newsletter.Interested in joining The Dhru Purohit Podcast Facebook Community? Submit your request to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2819627591487473/.This episode is brought to you by Birch Living.I recently upgraded to a Birch mattress by Helix. The Birch is made right here in the US, out of 4 non-toxic, natural materials: organic latex, organic cotton, New Zealand wool, and American steel springs. If you're looking for a new mattress, I highly recommend checking out the Birch. Right now they are giving my community $200 off all mattresses, plus 2 free eco-rest pillows. Just head over to https://birchliving.com/dhru. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Squirm, a trailblazer in meshing the grotesque into comedy, joins us for this week's TCB Field Report to not only break down the shift from quarantine life back into in-person life that's somewhat like the before times, but also get into the nitty gritty of absurdist comedy. We actually dissect several parts of the absolute must-see season 2 of I Think You Should Leave in breaking down how to come up with absurdist humor. Also, "hot" takes on Netflix's latest line-up of half hour specials and new comedy venues that opened in LA as we're coming out of lockdown.Follow Sarah @sarahsquirm and watch The Sarah Vaccine on Means.TVThe Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).Produced by Jake KroegerMusic by Brian GranilloArtwork by Andrew Delman and KTSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to DAY TWO of the world-renowned Morris Cerullo Manifested Sons of God School of Ministry Podcast and today's powerful message, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO PROVE! The Manifested Sons of God is a breakthrough message for total victory by reminding us that the seed of God in you can never fail! Take Advantage Of These Special Morris Cerullo MANIFESTED SONS OF GOD School of Ministry Spiritual Breakthrough Resources At A Special Limited Time Facebook School of Ministry Price By Calling 1-800-514-1864 Or Clicking The Link Below! THE BATTLE IS NOT YOURS BUT GOD'S! $10.00 – print copy https://give.mcwe.com/p-7-the-battle-is-not-yours-but-gods.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK This powerful, classic message came to Morris Cerullo when he was alone in the woods in upstate New York during an intensified time of prayer and fasting. The Holy Spirit came upon Morris Cerullo and said, “Take you're your pen and write these seven steps. If my people will obey them, I will answer every need!” This message, “The Battle Is Not Yours, But God's,” contains the seven steps that God gave to Morris Cerullo that will guarantee your personal victory. OVERCOMING STRESS, WORRY AND SPIRITUAL BURNOUT! $10.00 – print copy https://give.mcwe.com/p-276-overcoming-stress-worry-and-spiritual-burnout.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK Now is your time to experience total freedom! In a world where stress and worry have created some of the biggest threats to the spiritual and physical health of God's people, Morris Cerullo reveals powerful strategies for overcoming Satan's attacks in these critical areas of your life. PASSING ON THE MANTLE $10.00 – print copy https://give.mcwe.com/p-45-passing-on-the-mantle.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK $5.90 – eBook https://give.mcwe.com/p-198-passing-on-the-mantle-ebook.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK For over seven decades, the mandate upon the life and ministry of Dr. Morris Cerullo from God is, “Take the mantle that I have given to you, and give it to somebody else!” As a Morris Cerullos School of Ministry student that is hungry for a double portion anointing, this is a must-read! Chapters include: The Father's Mantle The Days of Elijah The Place of Cutting When The Brook Runs Dry Into The Crucible Let The Fire Fall It's Beginning To Rain Coming Out Of The Cave Where Is The Lord God Of Elijah Dealing With Opposition Preparing For The Move Of God Filling Empty Vessels How To Raise The Dead The God Who Provides Developing Spiritual Vision, and The Prophetic Mantle. THE NEW ANOINTING Morris Cerullo's classic School of Ministry message that will release a new anointing for your total victory by teaching you how to deal with the root cause of the problems and circumstances in your life. $12.00 print copy https://give.mcwe.com/p-8-the-new-anointing.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK $5.99 eBook https://give.mcwe.com/p-125-the-new-anointing-ebook.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK JESUS CHRIST, OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST There are two voices over your life: the voice of the accuser…and the much greater voice of the intercessor – in Jesus Christ, Our Great High Priest, you will discover: • His Qualifications: What it Means for You • The Greatest Courtroom Drama in History • He Sat Down: Your Victory is Past Tense! $8.00 print copy https://give.mcwe.com/p-269-jesus-christ-our-great-high-priest.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK SEVEN STEPS TO PERSONAL VICTORY! A breakthrough message for victory over unanswered prayer as Morris Cerullo unveils the seven incredible steps that the Lord directed Jehoshaphat to take in Second Chronicles 20 that will guarantee God's answer in the midst of your impossibility. $5.99 eBook https://give.mcwe.com/p-124-seven-steps-to-personal-victory-ebook.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK $10.00 print copy https://give.mcwe.com/p-192-seven-steps-to-victory.aspx?Source=FACEBOOK

In the church, we care for souls. But what is it that we are doing in that work? It is our conviction that we are helping one another die well–with dignity and hope. That may sound like a strange thing to say, but we are convinced it’s biblical. In this life, we are weak and frail. We experience suffering and pain. Yet, Christ is our hope. And he has secured for us a life that is beyond this one.Semper Reformanda: The guys discuss a theology of the cross versus a theology of glory. And, we consider the point of our sanctification.Resources:Episode: Take Up Your CrossGiveaway: “Recovering Eden” by Zack EswineFREE EBOOK: Theocast.org/primer Podcast TranscriptJustin Perdue: Hi, this is Justin. Today on Theocast, we’re going to be talking about what we are trying to do in the church when we care for people’s souls. A lot of things are said about these things, but it’s our position here that really what we’re effectively doing is helping people die well—helping people die with dignity and with hope, and that hope being in the Lord Jesus Christ. A lot of the things that are said about sanctification, even growth in the Christian life, give us the wrong idea. So we want to try to define some terms and define things appropriately today, as well as think well about our weakness and our frailty in this life, and the hope that Christ has given us in the life that is to come ,and to think well together about the faithfulness of God in the midst of our suffering and pain. We hope that this conversation is encouraging for you.And then over in the SR podcast today, we’re going to get into some theology of the cross and theology of glory conversations. We hope that you enjoy that conversation as well.We’re going to be effectively talking today about the care of souls and what it is that we’re doing in caring for souls in the church. The title of the episode is Dying With Dignity, which really is borrowed from something that John said on a podcast a few months ago about what we’re doing in the church as we watch over and care for people, which is this: we are helping people die with dignity and hope, and effectively we’re helping people die well, trusting in the Lord Jesus, knowing that deliverance has been accepted for them and that our final deliverance is coming because of Christ. And so this is a conversation in some ways about suffering, in some ways about sanctification, and trying to talk about it in a way that’s honest that squares with our experience. Because a lot of times, at least this is my take and I know you agree, that the way that growth and sanctification and even healing—to use some of that therapeutic language—is talked about. I think it gives us the wrong idea of what it’s going to be like.This conversation today is, we hope, a kind of a reset. And I personally think it’s encouraging. We do not mean in saying this, in anything we’re about to say, we do not mean to sound fatalistic as though life is gonna be terrible and Jesus is going to come back. That’s not what we’re saying. We’re trying to biblically take a balanced posture on what it is the Lord is doing in our lives and what we can expect this life to look like between now and when we die, or between now and when Christ returns.Jon Moffitt: That’s right. When we use the word dignity, one of the things that came to mind when I first started to give this theology to our church—I was trying to describe to our church. What are we doing every week? What are we trying to accomplish? I always want to be careful not to tear the churches down, but a lot of what I was seeing presented by other churches has given such a bad taste in my mouth, because if that’s the end goal—which is big buildings, big programs, big livestream…Justin Perdue: Everything bigger and better and higher.Jon Moffitt: This is probably not what they’re doing, but again, my own impression: it sounds like we’re drowning out people’s problems. It’s like, “Come be a part of this movement and you can forget about your problems.” That kind of system just chews people up. All of a sudden they look around to the people to the left and the right who are clean and who are all well put together.My kids and I just watched this movie called The Mitchells Vs. The Machines. In the movie is this dysfunctional family. They’re comparing themselves to their neighbors who are all fit, who have perfect skin tone, and they all do yoga. It’s just funny. Their vacations are perfect. That’s how it can feel—you show up to church and it’s like the Instagram family. That’s exactly what it was. At the end of the movie, her neighbor says, “Hey, I just wanted to tell you I am so impressed with you. I’m now going to follow you.”But the point of it is that you look around with the people next to you and you think, “Their lives are all put together and mine’s not. I’m in a disarray. I have all the problems and I can’t get myself together.” And you see people flailing about to try and preserve their health, to preserve their looks, to preserve their money, to preserve their status and fame.I was having this discussion with someone yesterday at lunch about this person who just retired from baseball. What do they do with their life now? They’re 40; their lives are half over and what used to bring them excitement, joy, and hope is gone, and you see often people start flailing about. This is where drugs come in. This is where all kinds of sexual deviancies come in.Justin Perdue: The proverbial midlife crisis.Jon Moffitt: Right. And the church should be able to step in and say, All of this is of no value to our life—our health, our wealth, our fame—it will not transfer to the real world, to our new world, to our new home. So when we say die with dignity, what we mean is you don’t see someone grasping ridiculously to things that absolutely will perish. You’re not taking them to the grave with you. What allows you to do this is your hope. If your hope is not in what this world provides, but in what is to come, which is what Christ provides, then you have that. How do you do that though? It’s easy to say, “I want to die with dignity.” But the question then becomes this: how is that accomplished? Is it accomplished alone? We’re going to talk about that in today’s podcast.Justin Perdue: There’s language that’s used in the church in various streams. For example, in the Calvinistic evangelical stream of things, you often hear language about growth or language about maturation in the faith, or even language of strength or getting stronger as a Christian. We’ve released an episode called Strong Disciples Only. We talked about some of that stuff and how disciples are often weak and afraid and things of that nature. But I think that language of growth and maturation and strength can be misleading because we tend to then think that as I grow, as I mature, as I get stronger, then my spiritual muscles and my spiritual capacity for work is just greater.I’m a fitness guy, and the way we define fitness is the ability to do work over a domain of time. As your fitness increases, so does your capacity to do things. Things that once were hard are now much easier. I can do more work over a period of time or I can bear more load or whatever it is. I think we think like that in the Christian life. That sometimes can be unhelpful because it’s not always going to look like that. “Now that I’ve grown and now that I’m stronger, I can do a lot more and handle a lot more than I could five years ago or 10 years ago.” Maybe. But it depends on how you define that. Or another kind of language that’s used a lot in the church—and this is not necessarily all bad, but it can be if left unchecked and undefined—is the therapeutic language of healing, where people will talk about all the things that have happened to them, or even the things that have been brought upon their lives by their own sin and they are pursuing healing from those things.When some people use the word “healing”, what they mean is—in their own minds—is they’re going to get to a place tomorrow or a year or 10 years from now. Eventually when they have healed from this, when they look back on that thing or that experience, or that season of their life, it will no longer hurt or it will no longer affect them like it does today. To that I would like to say that I trust that over time, time alone will do some work—God, by His Spirit, will give you wisdom and perspective on your pain. Amen. Yet I trust that there will be things that we look back on for the entirety of our days on earth. And we look back and we say that still was hurtful, that still is painful, it’s still hard to think about that. It’s still hard for me to think about the death of my loved one. I still remember and I still grieve because that’s how God made us. We’re not made to forget pain and we’re not made to forget sin. This is why we constantly are having to look outside of ourselves and outside of our experience to find hope.We need to be able to talk in these terms to help each other really live life in this fallen world.Jon Moffitt: That’s right. We like to poke fun at the prosperity gospel—it’s an easy target. I think we equate prosperity gospel with money.Justin Perdue: But there’s a different kind of prosperity theology.Jon Moffitt: That’s right. This can be seen in conservative churches as well. God is going to prosper… let’s change the word because “prosper” has such dirty taste in our mouth. I like the words “heal”, “progress”, “bless”, “strengthen”, or “provide”. God will provide for your needs, your job, your health, or whatever it is, because X, Y, Z is done. And what you hear is your faith, your actions, your discipline, your dedication, your faithfulness, steadiness, etc., is related to your health, your job, your anxiety—whatever you want to put in there. This is a great example of dying without dignity. Enough failure in these prosperities will create absolute disparity because you can only take so many failures. There’s only so much time that eventually you realize, “I am a failure at this game. I can not accomplish this. It cannot be done.” Not only that, to Justin’s point, to the person who has had a minimal failure, they feel as if they can recover. But to the person who’s had an epic failure—and I don’t mean failure like it’s their fault, but something like their spouse died, their child died, they were hurt, they were molested—Justin Perdue: An epic loss or just an epic, absolute heartbreak. Like life failed them. Like something was done to them that they will never be able to move on from.Jon Moffitt: Right. I said this in my sermon a couple of weeks ago. When I said that what the resurrection restores for us—in final restoration—is the loss of what we feel now. But you cannot have the restoration of death now. Unfortunately, in our church, we’ve suffered a lot of loss this year—children and parents and spouses. It’s been a difficult year. As a church grows you’re going to experience more and more suffering. Do I walk up to those parents and offer them some kind of solution to restore that pain? It cannot be restored. It’s a scar that will remain until we reach glory when all will be restored. So you don’t offer someone restoration; you offer them hope, which then creates a place of dignity where they can look around and go, “Okay, I can suffer now with some dignity, where I’m not going to look foolish trying to grasp onto something that just isn’t going to work.”Justin Perdue: And I can suffer knowing that I do have an unshakable eternal hope, and that unshakable, eternal hope may or may not change how I feel about this thing right now.As I was listening to you talk a minute ago, you were talking about how prosperity gospel, prosperity theology stuff, is often easy for us to spot, but there are different kinds of it that exist in the church. I think what we’re talking about today, whether we use the therapeutic language of healing or whether we use the more Calvinistic evangelical language of growth, maturation, and the like—I’m not saying it has to because if it’s done well, it’s fine—but I think it can quickly become a kind of easy listening prosperity theology, where we’re told that if we pursue things the right way in terms of our healing, or if we do things the right way in terms of our pursuit of godliness, then we will experience certain levels of healing or growth that will make our life better now. Maybe our lives will be better now—and I trust there will be ways that our lives are better but we don’t really realize.This brings me to a few thoughts. I’m very tempted to talk about a theology of glory versus a theology of the cross. I trust maybe we’ll get there and maybe we’ll talk about that in SR. It could be a good conversation.Let’s just talk for a minute about how sanctification even works in this life. Laying cards out on the table, Jon and I believe that sanctification is monergistic—and by that, we mean that God is the one who does it. Justification—our being absolved of guilt, forgiven of sins, and declared righteous—is monergistic; there’s one worker and that’s God. And then even in our sanctification, we participate because we’ve now been given life, but God is the one who effectively does it. He accomplishes our sanctification and conforms us into the image of His Son.I think it becomes very obvious that sanctification is monergistic when we talk about it honestly. Because how does it so often occur in our lives and in our experience? I would suggest that we are most sanctified by things that we would never have foreseen, that we would never have planned for ourselves, that we would never have signed up for, and that frankly—in our lives as they exist today—we don’t like. This, to me, makes it very clear that God is the author and God is the one who accomplishes that sanctifying work in us. We encounter trials of various kinds. Again, we don’t pray for trials, we don’t foresee or anticipate them. We’re not God; we don’t see them coming. If we could change it, we would. But He ordains trials so that, like James 1:2-3, we’re told to count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. Or you have Romans 5 where Paul begins that chapter by saying, “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” That’s a big deal.But then verse two, “Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace into which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. So there’s that hope piece. “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” So we can rejoice in suffering, we can count it joy when we encounter trials of various kinds, because we know that God is working steadfastness in us. That is a miracle that only God can accomplish. Because logically speaking, at a human level, the kinds of suffering that we’re talking about—we’re not talking about some adversity and you need to push through it to make you stronger stuff. This isn’t that “climb the mountain and be a conqueror” trash. We’re talking about real hardship and calamity and suffering.The human response to that is that if there is a God, I hate Him. We’re just going to be driven more deeply into our selfishness and our sin. Not, “Oh, this is going to produce hope and steadfastness and character in me.” That is the work of God almighty—and He does it this way. I think this is helpful for us to realize that this kind of sanctifying work is of the Lord, and we often do not see it as it’s happening. We’re terrible evaluators of our own growth. We need other Christians around us to help us see it. I think we can only see it individually as we pan out from our lives and we realize that we are different than we were 10 years ago, and we were different than we were 15 years ago. God has worked some stuff in me and praise be to His name.Jon Moffitt: And different in that you trust Him more.Justin Perdue: Exactly. It’s a perspective change. What is wisdom? It’s effectively God’s perspective that we now have to a greater degree: we actually have a better perspective on our past and we trust the Lord through it. We more readily acknowledged that the secret things belong to Him and I don’t fully understand.Jon Moffitt: What you’re describing is what I see all the time: it’s a camouflage prosperity gospel. It’s been rebranded. Satan is the father of all lies; he doesn’t need you to deny the gospel or deny God or even important theology, he just needs you to get discouraged to get you off your faith. And on your faithfulness, he’s just going to change something slightly. A great example of what you’re talking about here—and I would even say Paul himself is debunking this camouflage prosperity gospel—in 2 Corinthians 12, he says, “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'”Now our situations probably will be very different from Paul. We’re not dealing with the issue of conceitedness, but if you compare this with James and Romans, the idea is that often, God will allow things to be in our lives so that our weakness drives us to our knees. Another way of saying this is that our weakness drives us to the point where we don’t have strength and our strength has to come from something else. And that’s when he says God’s grace is sufficient, for His power is made perfect in weakness.Go back to the episode about strong disciples only. The New Testament just cuts that thing off at the knees and says, no, it’s not about strength; it’s about God’s faith and our faith in God’s strength.Justin Perdue: Amen, brother. If there’s anybody's strength that we need to worry about, it’s God's.Jon Moffitt: If you feel like this is off, if you’re hearing sermons, or you’re reading books, or your brain has been trained to think that a strong Christian looks like this, but a weak Christian looks like that, a strong Christian is one who has strongly put their faith in Christ and his sufficiency. Their hope is not in their ability to do something, but in God’s ability to do something for them. To be clear on all of this, often I’m convinced that people want to hear what they want to hear and they don’t actually hear what we’re saying. It sounds like you guys are just giving up and just letting God do something and you’re not being held responsible for yourselves.Justin Perdue: And that’s not what we’re saying at all. To some people listening to this, I trust that some of this might sound like blasphemy, that we are somehow short-selling the Holy Spirit and you guys need to be encouraging people towards a victorious and triumphant Christian life. We’ve been delivered from the dominion of sin and you need to be encouraging people towards growth and maturation. I’m not discouraging growth and maturation; I’m just saying, let’s talk about it accurately. And like you just said, actual maturation and real strength is knowing that you don’t have it and that God is faithful and strong. In your weakness, His grace is sufficient and His power is displayed.The 1689 London Baptist Confession, chapter five, paragraph five on Divine Providence talks about these very things—how God, in His perfect and wise and holy providence, uses suffering and pain and even our own sin for His good and holy purposes in our lives. And what are those? The ones that are outlined in the confession include us being humbled, so that we might know more and more how much we need Christ and how dependent upon God we are. That’s huge. God uses suffering and pain to continue to drive us to Jesus and to continue to remind us of our weakness.Jon Moffitt: Chapter 17 on sanctification, point one: “Even though many storms and floods arise and beat against them, yet these things will never be able to move the elect from the foundation and rock to which they are anchored by faith. The felt side of the light and the love of God may be clouded and obscured from them for a time through their own unbelief and the temptations of Satan. Yet God is still the same; they will certainly be kept by the power of God for salvation, where they will enjoy their purchased possession. For they are engraved on the palms of his hand, and their names have been written in the book of life for all of eternity.” The point of it is—and this is Paul in 2 Corinthians—that when you get tossed about, and at times your vision is cloudy, your foundation is in his hands. It’s engraved there. In other words, you belong to him.In point 3, it says this: “They may fall into grievous sins and continue in them for a time, due to the temptation of Satan and the world, the strength of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of means of their preservation.” Means of grace is so important. “In so doing, they incur God’s displeasure and grieve his Holy Spirit; their graces and comforts become impaired; their hearts are hardened and their conscience wounded; they hurt and scandalize others and bring temporary judgments of themselves. Nevertheless, they will renew their repentance and be preserved through faith in Christ Jesus to the end.” We believe this to be true. I often think people linger in sin longer because they’re waiting for that moment of freedom but no, it’s just a lifelong struggle and we rest in Christ.Justin Perdue: I agree wholeheartedly. That was a great interjection with chapter 17. Just finishing chapter five, paragraph five, and then I want to mention something from 2 Corinthians as well: so God uses pain and suffering and even our own sin to discipline us; He’s a loving Father who disciplines His children—Hebrews 12. But He’s humbling us, He’s teaching us how much we need Him, how dependent we are upon Christ, and He’s also teaching us in such a way that we might—down the road, when we encounter things that are similar—we may have a different perspective than we had this time. So God’s doing all those good things through our pain and even our own sin.But think about these words from 2 Corinthians at the beginning of the letter. This is from chapter one, verses eight and nine. Paul says this: “For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” Amen. That’s what we’re saying: God will use suffering and trial to the point where in our experience—listen to the words of the apostle—we despaired of life itself. We feel like we’ve received the sentence of death. We are perishing and sometimes I wish I just would, because it’s so hard. But what is God doing? He is teaching us to rely not on ourselves, but on Him and upon Jesus who has provided us with atonement for sin and righteousness, and who has secured our resurrection.Jon Moffitt: Amen. To make a little bit of a shift and change here, this hopefully is an encouragement to the one who might be realizing they find themselves duped by a different form of prosperity gospel. They’re not the failure; this life is the failure. We live in a cursed world; our heart and our bodies have been cursed. And there can be a form of victory as long as we don’t have to live in the bondage of sin. It doesn’t mean our struggle with sin is ever going away, but we don’t need to be in bondage to it, as according to Paul. We do not do that, but you can not, should not, and do not do this on your own. Many people have also fallen into this prosperity gospel: you can succeed in the Christian life by yourself. You put in the work and God blesses you. And this is so far from the truth.Justin, you and I often get criticized because people will say, “You guys are deemphasizing Bible reading; you’re deemphasizing spiritual disciplines. Basically, you are telling people that you are deemphasizing the necessity of sanctification.” To respond to that, we are not deemphasizing sanctification. I want every single one of my congregants to be the exact image of what Paul describes in Ephesians 4: in perfect harmony in the fullness and wisdom and knowledge of Christ. I want every single one of my congregants to be there, and myself included, I want nothing to be in their way. I don’t want anything to hinder them because that’s where they’re going to find the most hope, the most joy, the most peace, the most ability to long suffer. And so why would I want to remove something out of their pathway to help them in that sanctification process? It’s just that we have been so trained to individualize, white knuckle, pull yourself up by the bootstrap sanctification process—and it’s just not the case.The purpose of the church—and I think you can talk about discipleship, evangelism, or the means of grace in this phrase—is to help people die with dignity and hope. The only way you can die with dignity and hope is that, first of all, your hope has to be outside of this world and outside of yourself. The way in which you find yourself on death’s door, and you’re not at that place where you’re flailing about trying to hold on to everything, it’s because your brothers and sisters around you are holding you up. They’re speaking Christ to you.We quote this almost every podcast, but I can’t help not to. This is Hebrews 3: “Consider how to build one another up daily so that you aren’t hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Do not forsake the assembling of yourselves as such as you are. When the body functions properly, it builds itself up in love.” This is what I love to say to someone who’s walked in—and I’ve had to say this a lot lately with so many people coming into the church—they walk in and their lives are messed up. They’ve made massive mistakes, they’ve done things that they regret, and they often feel like they’re damaged goods and there’s really nothing for them in the church other than show, tithe, then leave. Because how can God use such damaged goods? Here’s what’s great about the gospel: that you don’t need a degree, you don’t need a lot of money, you don’t need a different past in order to love, care, and support other brothers and sisters in Christ to give them exactly what they need to rest and find hope in Christ. As a matter of fact, you can be one of the most effective Christians on the planet by simply learning to love, care, be patient, carry burdens, and allow people to have hope and be there when they die so they die with dignity.I ask them if they think they could do something like that, and the look on their face comes alive. They had nothing in the sense that they are not going to write books, or lead worship, or all this kind of stuff that they think Christianity is about. No, real Christianity is about holding the hand of a dear saint who has no hope and giving them hope.Justin Perdue: Real Christianity is trusting Christ, loving your brothers and sisters, pursuing righteousness, fleeing from Satan—that’s what we’re doing together. The reason why we discourage people from pursuing sin—there are a number of reasons. It dishonors the Lord, it’s terrible for their lives, it wrecks this because it actually robs people of dignity. It absolutely just ruins lives: it ruins marriages and everything else.Because we love people, because we’ve been born again, we desire to honor God with our lives. We’ve become obedient from the heart (Romans 6:17). We encourage one another to continue to trust Christ and to continue to pursue righteousness. That’s what it looks like to die well with hope and dignity. I’m hoping in Jesus, I’m trusting that he has me, that he’s provided me with everything that I ever need. I was talking about this yesterday with one of the guys who’s on staff with me and a member of our church. I am struck more and more all the time, especially in light of difficult circumstances that I find myself in or difficult circumstances that I am just very much aware of in our own congregation. There is just heartbreaking stuff going on all the time. Granted, I know that Christ is my righteousness in my best moments. I don’t dispute that for a second. But then in my lowest and weakest moments, I am really just driven to rock bottom. What do I have here? What do we have here? When I’m hurting, when I’m discouraged, when I’m tired, when there just doesn’t seem to be a lot of hopeful stuff going on in my life, what do we have? I’ve got Christ. What do I even mean by that? I believe there is a God, I believe He’s holy, and I believe I’m not. I believe the Scripture is true and that Christ is coming back and he’s going to judge all men. And what do I have on that day if this is where it’s all going? I’m going to bank on the fact that, as I have understood Christ and the gospel, and as Christians have understood Christ in the gospel for 2000 years, that Jesus is gentle and gracious and faithful and compassionate toward those who trust in him. I am going to trust him that he’s done everything for me that he has promised, and that he looks upon me with favor because I know I’m weak and I know.At the end of the day, that’s the comfort for me. It doesn’t necessarily make me feel better. I may still feel the exact same way about my circumstances or about the circumstances that others are going through, but we do believe that there is hope outside of this life, and there is objective hope in Christ and what he has accomplished that stands outside of how I feel, what I think, how I’m doing. I want to help my brothers and sisters continue to trust him, too. I want to help them flee from sin because it’ll ruin their lives. I want to sit and listen when they’re struggling and I want to hold people’s hands as they pass from this life to the next. That’s really what we’re doing. I agree so wholeheartedly.And it sounds like a short sell to say that we’re helping people die with dignity and hope. Aren’t we doing more than that? At the end of the day, I think that is what we’re doing and we’re doing a heck of a lot by doing that.Jon Moffitt: As cheesy as this is gonna sound, when we talk about being the hands and feet of Jesus, I see the church holding those dear precious people as they pass from here to there; they’re passing with the hope of Christ next to them, to the reality of Christ in front of them. I see that to be a very serious ministry. The way I look at pastoral ministry now and Theocast is that… I don’t want people to suffer needlessly and alone; I want them to walk away with the reality that there is more to this life than more money, more fame, more fitness, more family. All of those will fail and have failed, and it seems like we, as humans, are so stupid and Satan is so smart because the same thing that’s been tripping up people from day one is still tripping people up today. What got Adam in trouble? The want for more power. It is still getting people in trouble today.Right. I have the joy of walking in—when someone is in the midst or has destroyed their life and they have no hope—to sit down and show them there’s nothing they can do to restore this, but that doesn’t mean your life is over because there’s so much you can do to help others. And there’s something you can do to have hope. That’s what we’re talking about.I love the reality that every week, Justin and I get to preach on Sundays, do our ministry throughout the week, and hop on a podcast and know that people are going to hear the power of God and go, “Well, my life has purpose.” We were talking about this before the podcast. I’m overwhelmed that people say, “Theocast has forever changed my life.” No, the gospel has forever changed your life; we just happened to be how you heard it.Justin Perdue: It’s like what Charles Spurgeon said about the Bible where people asked him if he felt the need to defend the Bible because of all the stuff going on in his day, slide into liberal theology, etc. He’s basically saying, and I paraphrase, “Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. Because all I need to do is basically set the Bible loose and it will defend itself.” The same is true with this message. All Jon and I are aiming to do is set loose this message of the sufficiency of Christ, because Jesus will handle it. The spirit of Christ will handle the application of this thing. All we’re doing is trying to say stuff that not that many people have said on this continent, sadly, at least, especially not in our world, in a credobaptist world. We’re not saying anything new and I don’t think we’re uniquely special in any way, but we’re preaching a message that is incredible. Again, quoting ol’ Chuck Spurgeon, he said, “People may preach the gospel better than me, but they will never preach a better gospelJon Moffitt: This is the point of Semper Reformanda. We want to gather people together to learn how to do this: how to care for people, how to love on them, how to help them in our churches and in our community and in our families. One of the ways to do that is to understand this whole entire podcast has been really about the theology of cross versus the theology of glory, which we’re going to dive into deeper and explain to you how to use the two in encouragement, counseling, and pastoring in the church in the next conversation with Semper Reformanda.But if you’d like to be a part of this community where we are helping more people find rest in Christ, helping them die with dignity and hope and supporting the churches, then join our ministry, Semper Reformanda, and you can download the app and listen to our private podcast feed, join the conversations, and join local groups where we meet locally and online to discuss this theology as we try and increase our awareness of Christ and decrease our trust in ourselves.Justin Perdue: In transitioning over to the SR podcast, if you’ve ever thought that much of what you hear about in the church, even when it comes to your growth in the faith, and it seems earthbound, it seems to focus on this life and not the one to come, that’s very much related to this conversation that we’re about to have—theology of glory versus a theology of the cross. Because I agree that much of the talk that we hear about sanctification and growth and maturity and strength and all that has everything to do with our life now. And in reality, where people who are not hoping in anything for this life, we are living for the life to come that Christ is secured for us. So if you’re interested in listening in on that, Jon has already talked about Semper Reformanda and what it is. You can find any information that you want about this other podcast that we do, and the SR community that’s been created over on our website theocast.org.So for those of you who are going to make your way over to the Semper Reformanda podcast, we’ll talk with you in just a second. And for those of you who may not, at least yet, be heading over to the SR podcast, we’re grateful for you. We’re glad you tuned into this episode. We hope you enjoyed the conversation and were encouraged by it.We’ll talk with you again next week.

Dale Earnhardt Jr gets an opportunity to sit down with his favorite driver of all-time, a scrappy independent NASCAR driver named Jimmy Means. Growing up as a child Dale Jr was friends with Jimmy's son Brad. While running around the track, Dale became a huge fan of Jimmy Means and still is to this day. Dale finds out so much about his hero from his humble beginnings through the dirty-fingernail journey of a weekend warrior low-budget driver and car owner in the upper ranks of racing. How humble? His racing story started as a paperboy. The Alabama driver discusses his start on the local short tracks and how he took a junkyard car to the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway. He discusses what it was like going wheel to wheel with some of the sports' biggest stars while on a sliver of the budget as the big teams. That created challenges on and off the track that included buying what he still thinks was a "hot" car, rooming 14-guys in a hotel room, sharing pit crews, and putting a racecar engine into the hauler to make it home from the track. Jimmy tells us how he got the nickname Smut in the first place and how it stuck. Jimmy opens up about his big opportunity to fill in for an ill Tim Richmond at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the disappointment that followed his one-and-done chance in top-notch equipment. Dale Jr. also reveals how emotional of a moment it was for both he and Jimmy's son. Means discusses how he filled in for Richmond but couldn't fill a certain area of his driver's suit. From that chance came real tears then relationships that helped Means along the way. He explains how Rick Hendrick, years later, was as generous of a person in the sport as any. Means towed on the road with a volunteer crew much of his racing career. That led to many fun moments and some that could've been really bad. He tells a story of a headache powder remedy gone wrong that has Dale and co-host Mike Davis in shock. Dale Jr. comes into the studio hot with a lot to talk about. Does Road America work a 4th of July replacement for Daytona? Were the cautions too long and should NASCAR make changes to lengthy road course yellows? Dale and Mike disagree about possible solutions. We also learn that Dale Jr likes "supportive emojis" and that he set off a fire alarm in his house at 1 AM. In AskJr presented by Xfinity, we get insight into what shooting an episode of Lost Speedways is like and answer fan questions about specific episodes of the Peacock TV Original show. We also learn who Dale's road racing mentors were helping him learn the nuances of left and right turns. That and a fun extra Jimmy Means story that we were able to squeak into Last Call. This episode of The Dale Jr. Download is packed full of tasty treats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul talks with Jort Rodenburg about his new book Code Like a Pro in C#. Links from the show: Code like a Pro in C#Use code pod365d19 for a discount! Book Forum - ask questions here Jort Rodenburg on LinkedIn Jort's blog Microsoft News Explore new change notification API resources for your Microsoft Teams app Attention: breaking changes coming to the Microsoft Graph userPurpose API (beta) Manage frontline workers in Microsoft Teams with Tags and Time Clock APIs Announcing developer preview of the Microsoft Federated Search Platform What Windows 11 Means for Developers Community Links Updates on the Microsoft 365 platform community calls Developer Certificate changes in SPFx v1.12.1

Show news and housekeeping Journey of Wrestling last thursday Zelina Vega is back Swerve Scott is the NXT North American Champ Vince visits the PC Picks! GAB Best match ever...of the week segment: Bucks vs Kinngston and Penta non title Bill's segment to be named later: New weekly segment. How much is this going for on Ebay: Hulk Ruler You cannot kill David Arquette review! Wally’s top 5! Quick hitters: AEW heads out on the road after being at Dailys place for 18 months The PAtriot Del Welks passes away at 59 Bea Priestley signed to NXt UK so we may never see her again WWE Dynamite Will Fandango return to wrestling?? Next Week’s review is?

A new MP3 sermon from Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: What it Means to be Born Again Speaker: Dr. Steven J. Lawson Broadcaster: Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 7/4/2021 Bible: John 3:1-8 Length: 46 min.

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Joseph Morelle, Jr. is a life-long resident of the Town of Irondequoit. He represents the Monroe County Legislature's 17th Legislative District, which comprises the southern half of Irondequoit. He serves on the Legislature's Ways & Means and Transportation Committees. Joseph is the VP of Student Housing Development for Wilmorite Management Group, LLC in Henrietta. A graduate of Eastridge High School, he holds a degree in business from SUNY Geneseo. On this week's episode of the podcast, Megan and Joe discuss his passion for local politics, work in the county legislature that he is proud of, and the political divide as it currently stands.Website: https://www.monroecounty.gov/legislature-legislators#17https://www.facebook.com/JosephMorelleJr/ Support the show (https://kidsthrive585.org/about/)

Connor and Phil marvel at the skills of Ciryl Gane, possibly the first Actually Good heavyweight in history. But we've both been hurt before.

Chandler from Bings Visuals stops on by to the Chill Cactus studio to shoot the shit basically . This episode is all over the place , so just take my word that its a very interesting one filled with big brain thoughts.Thank you for supporting the show or even saying hi to me in person asking about the show. Means a lot Cacti Gang :)Chandler's Links: https://linktr.ee/Bings.Visuals

How can anyone be born when he is old? That's the question we're addressing on this episode of The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: How Scripture reveals the nature of regeneration and how people already living can be born againWhy it's okay to be confused by this doctrineWhy some debates around the... The post What it Means to Be Born Again [Ep. 262] appeared first on The Gospel Project.

Paul Shaughnessy and Fight Network‘s Cody Saftic make their UFC Vegas 30 Picks. The card goes down Saturday June 26th at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. The guys make their UFC picks, give their favorite bets and props for each fight. #UFC #MMAPicks #UFCVegas30 Play in FREE Monkey Knife Fight UFC Contest: https://bit.ly/UFC257MKFFree. Pick both correct and win $12.50. $0 to enter. Go to MKF (https://bit.ly/UFC257MKFFree) using code “DOP” and get matched up to $50 on your first deposit. Join Mayo Media Newsletter: https://mayomedia.substack.com/people/32468255-mayo-media Sub to the Mayo Media Network for Video: https://bit.ly/YTMMN Subscribe to the Dog Or Pass Podcast Feeds Apple: https://apple.co/2EO5trZ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/34EZVLk Stitcher: https://bit.ly/DOPStitcher Google: https://bit.ly/DOPGoogle Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/hkktfrex RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/3352942c/podcast/rss For More UFC Sub To Daily Fantasy Sports Picks & Bets: The Mix Apple: http://bit.ly/DFSMixApple Stitcher: http://bit.ly/DFSStitcher Spotify: http://bit.ly/DFSSpotify Google: http://bit.ly/DFSGoogle SHOW INDEX 00:00 Intro 2:14 Gane vs Volkov 12:33 Boser vs Saint Preux 18:31 Barcelos vs Valiev 26:52 Fili vs Pineda 33:33 Means vs Dalby 42:06 Moicano vs Herbert 51:26 Nzechukwu vs Marques 1:01:58 Rakhmonov vs Prazeres 1:09:56 Alves vs Wells 1:16:55 Prachnio vs Villanueva 1:23:41 Avila vs Stoliarenko 1:32:13 Rosa vs Jaynes 1:39:03 Hadzovic vs Medeiros 1:46:08 PRP Paul Shaughnessy Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulShag Cody Saftic Twitter: https://twitter.com/CjSaftic