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Fallon is a Utility Arborist and Executive Director of the Utility Arborist Association. Prior to his current role he was responsible for leading vegetation management programs across several upper Midwest USA states on behalf of a large investor-owned utility. He's also been an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he facilitated the Utility Vegetation Management Certificate Program – a combined effort of the Utility Arborist Association and the Utility Vegetation Management Association. Fallon has an undergraduate degree in Urban & Community Forestry and a Master's degree in Forestry from the University of Minnesota-St. Paul and is currently serving as vice-president on the college's Alumni Society Board. _______________________________________________________________________Patreon: http://patreon.com/TheMunicipalArboristInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_municipal_arborist/Questions or comments?themunicipalarborist@gmail.comThank you to our sponsors:Davey Resource GroupArbsessionWinkler Tree & Lawn Care
Returning from a trip to Southern California, Strong discusses the fake news involving the weather and LA fires. Midwest USA has no monopoly on weather stories anymore, or the exaggerated aftermath extreme weather brings. Did LA really cut the fire department $17m? Did Mayor Bass really holiday in Ghana while LA burned? Does the City of St. louis now refuse to plow snow from the streets? Listen here.
Kyla Brettle (pictured) drops the first two episodes of her new podcast: "Everything We Need"; "Lessons in Climate Storytelling"; "America's biggest wind farm | Repowering the West"; "Chris Stark: Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog says"; "What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know"; "LSU's fossil-fuel partnerships"; "Uncharted Oceans"; "Cristina Mittermeier"; "Consumer watchdog refuses to certify green labelling scheme"; "Thoughtful Threads: Presented by Climate One and Nothin But Hits at SF Climate Week"; "A new rule aims to fortify public lands against climate change. Here's why Utah wants to fight it."; "Biden-Harris Administration Announces $7 Billion Solar for All Grants to Deliver Residential Solar, Saving Low-Income Americans $350 Million Annually and Advancing Environmental Justice Across America"; "West Antarctica's ice sheet was smaller thousands of years ago – here's why this matters today"; "Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023"; "Chinese province of Guangdong hit by historic floods"; "Cloak and desecrate: The specter of deep-sea mining"; "Stockland and Ampol rev up superfast EV charging stations"; "Rewilding ourselves: A project of hope [Midwest USA]"; "Almost half of all major Chinese cities are sinking, study warns"; "Do the people care about the climate crisis? These voters say yes - but the polls do not"; "US offshore wind needs American-made ships. The first is nearly ready"; "Tritium, major supplier of EV fast-charging equipment, is insolvent"; "Lisa Wee on how digital solutions drive the transition to net zero and help cut industrial emissions"; "Fashion and lifestyle brands unite to protect forests on Earth Day"; "Here's the truth: energy transition is hard. Not everyone gets a pony"; "If Australia has reached ‘peak milk', what does that mean for our food security?"; "Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt' Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years"; "Guardian Essential poll: voters back Labor's Future Made in Australia plan while overestimating cost of renewables"; "Meet four people in refugee communities who are creating a greener future"; "Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe's Last Wild River"; "In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor"; "Would you give up planes for these trains? Europe pushes travel that's climate-friendly."; "These 150-foot-high sails could help solve shipping's climate problem"; "Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment"; "Rooftop solar panels are flooding California's grid. That's a problem"; "Coal trains carry health risks along with cargo"; "Climate change is creating a ‘cocktail' of health hazards for 2.4 billion workers"; "High Levels of PFAA (Subgroup of PFAS) Found in Sea Spray"; "Seychelles Beach Cleanup Shows Potential for Citizens to Tackle Marine Trash"; "Metal Waste Could Be Used as a Catalyst for More Sustainable Hydrogen Production, Researchers Say"; "Biden's Bureau of Land Management Will Offer Leasing of Public Lands for Conservation"; "More than coral: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef"; "Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too"; "SeaLegacy"; "The Commons Social Change Library"; "Scottish Greens to vote on power-sharing deal with SNP after carbon goal ditched"; "Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods"; "Pakistani province issues a flood alert and warns of a heavy loss of life from glacial melting"; "Austria likely to be largely ice-free within 45 years as glaciers recede quickly, experts say"; "Next UN climate talks are critical to plot aid for poorer nations, says incoming president"; "Powering down: end times for the UK's final coal-fired station"; "Coastal cities not safe from sea level rise warns oceanographer"; --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
A series of tenuously connected crimes in 1992 create a puzzle that law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions in the Midwest USA have trouble connecting the dots on. They appear to be the work of a very different kind of serial killer who operates quickly in broad daylight and leaves his victims at the scene of the crime.John discusses one of the rabbit holes related to the I-70 case with a unique case.1-800-800-3510 for Tips on this cold case.This podcast was made possible by www.labrottiecreations.com Check out their merchandise and specifically their fun pop pet art custom pieces made from photos of your very own pets. Use the promo code CRIMEXS for 20% off a fun, brightly colored, happy piece of art of your own pet at their site.Music in this episode was licensed for True Crime XS. Our theme song today is Indestructible by Noah Smith. Additional MusicYou can reach us at our website truecrimexs.com and you can leave us a voice message at 252-365-5593. Find us most anywhere with @truecrimexsThanks for listening. Please like and subscribe if you want to hear more and you can come over to patreon.com/truecrimexs and check out what we've got going on there if you'd like to donate to fund future True Crime XS road trip investigations and FOIA requests. We also have some merchandise up at Teepublic http://tee.pub/lic/mZUXW1MOYxMSources:www.namus.govwww.thecharleyproject.comwww.newspapers.comFindlaw.comVarious News Sources Mentioned by NameAd Information:New Era Caps: https://zen.ai/dWeCYLHxxANOaZ6NcKocEwLiquid IV: Link: https://zen.ai/45lYmDnWl1Z3cR66LBX5mAZencastr: Link: https://zen.ai/SFkD99OGWGNz_plc2c_Yaw
A series of tenuously connected crimes in 1992 create a puzzle that law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions in the Midwest USA have trouble connecting the dots on. They appear to be the work of a very different kind of serial killer who operates quickly in broad daylight and leaves his victims at the scene of the crime.Today we are talking with Bob Cyphers about the I-70 killer and his book Dead End.1-800-800-3510 for Tips on this cold case.This podcast was made possible by www.labrottiecreations.com Check out their merchandise and specifically their fun pop pet art custom pieces made from photos of your very own pets. Use the promo code CRIMEXS for 20% off a fun, brightly colored, happy piece of art of your own pet at their site.Music in this episode was licensed for True Crime XS. Our theme song today is Indestructible by Noah Smith. Additional MusicYou can reach us at our website truecrimexs.com and you can leave us a voice message at 252-365-5593. Find us most anywhere with @truecrimexsThanks for listening. Please like and subscribe if you want to hear more and you can come over to patreon.com/truecrimexs and check out what we've got going on there if you'd like to donate to fund future True Crime XS road trip investigations and FOIA requests. We also have some merchandise up at Teepublic http://tee.pub/lic/mZUXW1MOYxMSources:www.namus.govwww.thecharleyproject.comwww.newspapers.comFindlaw.comVarious News Sources Mentioned by NameAd Information:New Era Caps: https://zen.ai/dWeCYLHxxANOaZ6NcKocEwLiquid IV: Link: https://zen.ai/45lYmDnWl1Z3cR66LBX5mAZencastr: Link: https://zen.ai/SFkD99OGWGNz_plc2c_Yaw
A series of tenuously connected crimes in 1992 create a puzzle that law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions in the Midwest USA have trouble connecting the dots on. They appear to be the work of a very different kind of serial killer who operates quickly in broad daylight and leaves his victims at the scene of the crime.In this episode we talk about a social media terrorism incident, more about the I-70 Killer and a serial killer who went unidentified until after his death.This podcast was made possible by www.labrottiecreations.com Check out their merchandise and specifically their fun pop pet art custom pieces made from photos of your very own pets. Use the promo code CRIMEXS for 20% off a fun, brightly colored, happy piece of art of your own pet at their site.Music in this episode was licensed for True Crime XS. Our theme song today is Indestructible by Noah Smith. Additional MusicYou can reach us at our website truecrimexs.com and you can leave us a voice message at 252-365-5593. Find us most anywhere with @truecrimexsThanks for listening. Please like and subscribe if you want to hear more and you can come over to patreon.com/truecrimexs and check out what we've got going on there if you'd like to donate to fund future True Crime XS road trip investigations and FOIA requests. We also have some merchandise up at Teepublic http://tee.pub/lic/mZUXW1MOYxMSources:www.namus.govwww.thecharleyproject.comwww.newspapers.comFindlaw.comVarious News Sources Mentioned by NameAd Information:New Era Caps: https://zen.ai/dWeCYLHxxANOaZ6NcKocEwLiquid IV: Link: https://zen.ai/45lYmDnWl1Z3cR66LBX5mAZencastr: Link: https://zen.ai/SFkD99OGWGNz_plc2c_Yaw
A series of tenuously connected crimes in 1992 create a puzzle that law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions in the Midwest USA have trouble connecting the dots on. They appear to be the work of a very different kind of serial killer who operates quickly in broad daylight and leaves his victims at the scene of the crime.This podcast was made possible by www.labrottiecreations.com Check out their merchandise and specifically their fun pop pet art custom pieces made from photos of your very own pets. Use the promo code CRIMEXS for 20% off a fun, brightly colored, happy piece of art of your own pet at their site.Music in this episode was licensed for True Crime XS. Our theme song today is Indestructible by Noah Smith. Additional MusicYou can reach us at our website truecrimexs.com and you can leave us a voice message at 252-365-5593. Find us most anywhere with @truecrimexsThanks for listening. Please like and subscribe if you want to hear more and you can come over to patreon.com/truecrimexs and check out what we've got going on there if you'd like to donate to fund future True Crime XS road trip investigations and FOIA requests. We also have some merchandise up at Teepublic http://tee.pub/lic/mZUXW1MOYxMSources:www.namus.govwww.thecharleyproject.comwww.newspapers.comFindlaw.comVarious News Sources Mentioned by NameAd Information:New Era Caps: https://zen.ai/dWeCYLHxxANOaZ6NcKocEwLiquid IV: Link: https://zen.ai/45lYmDnWl1Z3cR66LBX5mAZencastr: Link: https://zen.ai/SFkD99OGWGNz_plc2c_Yaw
Based in Kansas City, Taylor Mead is an accomplished drummer/percussionist, contributing his musical talents to various bands and artists throughout the Midwest (USA). Currently, he is an integral part of Steven Bankey & The Flatland Band. With over a decade of experience, Taylor's rhythmic expertise has resonated across the country, as he has performed alongside notable acts such as Whiskey Myers, Travis Tritt, Darkest Hour, and Jonathan Davis (Korn). Beyond the drum kit, Taylor's multifaceted interests come to light. Whether skillfully managing a sound console, crafting culinary delights in the kitchen, or casting a line while fishing, he seamlessly embraces diverse pursuits. In this episode, Taylor Mead unfolds his musical journey, transitioning from a heavy rock drummer to touring with a red dirt country band. He provides an insider's perspective into the workings of Steve Bankey and the Flatland Band, offering listeners a glimpse behind the scenes. Moreover, Taylor reveals how seizing a single opportunity became the catalyst for fully immersing himself in the pursuit of a professional drumming career. Connect with Taylor here: https://www.instagram.com/drumswithtaylor https://www.tiktok.com/@drumswithtaylor For inquiries or to provide feedback on the show, reach out to Miguel Antonio at booking@JustTheMiguel.com. Explore more of Miguel's musical journey with Run With It:
Coach Dobber and his wife in Edina, Minnesota have a low mortgage interest rate and a decent amount of home equity. Should they put that equity to work and take the risk on buying a higher value home at a reduced price, even if it means a much higher interest rate and higher monthly payments too? Plus, Joe and Big Al spitball for Adam, in the birthplace of aviation, on the taxation of passive rental income, and capital gains from his portfolio and the sale of his business, prior to his early retirement. They also spitball for Charles in Idaho, on taxes on the sale of his mother-in-law's house. And should Dan's wife and business co-owner retire from the business and take Social Security Disability? And will Social Security be reduced for everyone? Steve in Vegas has a cautionary tale to tell. Timestamps: 00:55 - Stay With a Low Mortgage Rate, or Buy Up at a Reduced Price? (Coach Dobber, Edina, MN) 16:10 - Early Retirement Taxes on Rental Income and Capital Gains? (Adam, Dayton, OH) 24:55 - How to Figure Taxes on Sale of Mom's House (Charles, ID) 29:47 - Should Spouse and Business Co-Owner with Alzheimer's Retire and Take Social Security Disability? (Dan, Midwest USA) 36:04 - Will Social Security Be Reduced for Everyone? A Cautionary Tale (Steve, Las Vegas) 44:17 - The Derails Access this week's free financial resources in the podcast show notes at https://bit.ly/ymyw-448 2023 Key Financial Data Guide EASIRetirement.com - new free retirement calculator! Social Security Handbook Episode Transcript Ask Joe & Big Al On Air for your Retirement Spitball Analysis
Be supported on your donor egg journey with the Community MembershipIn this episode, we had the pleasure of talking to Tracie, a 43-years-old woman from the Midwest USA who shares her experience with infertility and her decision to use donor eggs to conceive her daughter.At the age of 34, Tracie and her husband began a determined quest for a baby hoping to conceive naturally. After a year and a half of trying, they sought medical help and tried various treatments, such as: acupuncture, IUIs, and IVF.Tracie tried everything, including 'bee sting' therapy!However, she had to face multiple unsuccessful attempts and many miscarriages. A doctor recommended using donor eggs, but Tracie initially resisted the idea, determined to conceive with her own eggs.Eventually, Tracie found another fertility clinic with a great doctor who was able to retrieve eggs from her successfully. But the journey was still tough, again with many failed attempts along the way. It was not easy for her to stay positive in her journey as her problems were inclining every step. However, Tracie shares that her turning point came when she was listening to a podcast where a woman discussed her own challenges and posed the question: 'What's more important to you - having your own genetics or having a baby?She explained, 'That's when it just clicked for me. I realized, Oh my gosh, I just want a baby. So, I thought, okay, if this next attempt doesn't work, we're going to try donor eggs. At that point, I completely embraced the idea and felt an immense relief once I made that decision.' From then on Tracie decided to move forward with using donor eggs. They found a suitable donor, and the first transfer was successful, leading her to a healthy pregnancy and the birth of a beautiful and healthy daughter.Tracie's path was marked by challenges. One of them was showing up day to day in a job she disliked for years, yet the outstanding insurance package meant she could continue with her fertility journey. She wouldn't quit until she got the baby in arms, that was on her heart. She hopes that by sharing her story, others can find hope and strength on their own paths to parenthood.Tune in to this episode to learn more about her inspiring journey!Support the showI would love you to hit subscribe to find out when my next episode has landed and leave me a review :)✨Follow me on Instagram for all topics Donor Egg IVF - @donoreggmama✨ Check out my website www.donoreggmama.com✨ Find out all about my Community Membership for women on a donor egg pathway ✨To find out about the coaching programs I offer click here✨To join my free donor egg emotions support Facebook group click here✨ To be a guest on my podcast click here✨ Contact me here
How can U just leave me standing? ...in search of Prince Rogers Nelson.
INTRO2mins30s - Growing up in Chicago Illinois4mins - Pursuing a career in the Web back in the mid 90s..."it was an interesting time, it was kind of like the Wild West"5mins30s - Nona Gaye & The Beautiful Experience6mins30s - Finding all of the other Prince fans on the internet via online communities...and organising parties at the Berlin club in Chicago9mins - When did Sam first have contact with Prince? Fans coming together on a 'community project'...and AOL chat rooms.11mins - How long did you think it would last?13mins - Confidentiality and Prince...14mins - Love4OneAnother.com in 1999 and Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic16mins - Prince's legacy in the digital world - one of the first to have his own internet business and music distributing artist17mins - Releasing a 'ton of music in 2001'...'a tremendous explosion of activity for him...' and The Prince Museum online.19mins - If Prince had lived and you had to design a digital presence for him now, what would that be?21mins30s - What was the Prince music you first became aware of, early memories and favourite unreleased recordings...27mins30s - Meeting Prince in person for the first time...30mins - Maintaining professionalism as a fan...32mins - How difficult was it to challenge Prince? Fan websites
This shorter Friday "food for thought" episode is partly a recap of my latest marathon in Midwest USA, with a movie theme that may remind of you of the path to God. Make sure to subscribe to this podcast for regular content on fitness and faith to entertain and educate you. I flew to Kansas City to run the Garmin Olathe Marathon in Kansas, my 25th marathon in a 22nd state, and my 3rd fastest. I talk about how the conditions - wind and hills - made it challenging. There was also great BBQ and cool sites in KC after the race! How did I train for these 26.2 miles? I did more than follow the yellow brick road to this Wizard of Oz inspired marathon. That movie has some symbolism in it related to the Christian faith journey. I explain...and sing the scarecrow song because would I run this much "If I Only Had a Brain"? I close the pod in prayer...then we're off to see the Wizard. Thanks for listening to the #RunTheRace podcast! Also, write a quick review about it, on Apple podcasts. For more info and all past episodes, go to www.wtvm.com/podcast/.
Since World War II the old industrial cities of the northeast and Midwest USA have repeatedly sought to end periods of decline by seeking to renew their downtowns. Convention centers, sports stadiums, hospitals, and tourist-oriented investment have all been deployed in an effort to restore a tax base and reinvigorate urban areas. Just as repeatedly the efforts have failed to bring benefits to the residents of these cities, especially African Americans. Mark Rose, Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University, talks with Roger Horowitz about these dynamics, drawing on his recent book A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945 co-authored Roger Biles. Their book chronicles efforts to reinvigorate the downtowns of major American cities in order to reverse the process of urban decline focusing on St. Louis, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland. As city officials and business elites determined to reorganize their downtowns, deeply racialized politics sacrificed neighborhoods and the livelihoods of those pushed out. Yet, as Professor Rose explains, often than not costly efforts to bring about the hoped-for improvements failed to revitalize those cities, or even their downtowns. It is a telling story, one with relevance for those living and working in Northern Delaware. For more Hagley History Hangouts and more information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library, visit us at hagley.org
Jordyn O'Gara recently graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth's Center for Environmental Education. At the International Wolf Symposium in October of 2022, she presented her curriculum designed for education about the myths surrounding wolves in the Midwest, and why they exist in the first place. Jordyn went into detail about the curriculum she created, explaining the historical, social and cultural factors that have shaped our views on wolves from hundreds of years ago. Deflating Myths About Gray Wolves Curriculum Email Jordyn - jordy396@gmail.com
What will 2023 bring? Join hosts Neil Gaur, Alan Steinfeld and Joan of Angels with our amazing guests, Shima Moore, Rick Levine, Raquel Spring,, Raquel Spring, and Makayla Davis . These well known astrologers have studied the stars and has much to share about the upcoming year aahead. Shima Moore is Co-founder of the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo, Perceptions magazine, and San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery, Shima Moore, Your Astrology Curator, is Creatrix & Host of “Cosmic Revelations: Astrology You and the Universe, an 8-week summer series on Portal to Ascension. She is a facilitator of Stargate Activations & Meditations and a writer, living in magical Mt Shasta where she also leads PanEuRhythmy Sacred Movement. Internationally renowned astrologer, Rick Levine, provides weekly astrological guidance as we explore the beauty and order of the cosmos and your connection to it all. Rick's extraordinary ability to merge history, symbology, quantum physics, etymology, psychology and astrology (and his ability to deliver his insights with humor) make him a treasure trove for astrology scholars worldwide. Leo Knighton Tallarico is a spiritual therapist and transformational astrologer. He has been a full-time professional astrologer since 1985. His spiritual emergence began in 1979 when he experienced Silva Mind Control, which showed him how meditation could help to release and transform consciousness out of the old programming and open it to spirit. He also learned remote viewing and how to scan bodies in order to detect illness. He became a Director of Silva for the Midwest USA for 6 years. https://www.leoknightontallarico.com Raquel Spring is a 4th generation Astrologer born and raised in Brazil. Her astrology is to create a powerful container for the divine feminine rising. Based out of Sedona, AZ she serves as a mentor and a guide for humanity's transition into the greater evolution now taking place. As an expert in the Black Moon Lilith and the Aquarian Age, she blends the art and science of this sacred map of the soul. She uses astrology to help you understand yourself and your journey through the eyes of the soul. Her readings bridge the physical, emotional and spiritual essence of who you are on your path, and how to align with the highest potential of what you came here for. http://www.RaquelSpring.com Makayla Davis is here on the planet to offer love and empowerment to those seeking deeper knowledge about their life purpose, relationships, trauma experiences and spiritual connection. It is through her combination of energy healing, evolutionary astrology, spiritual coaching, psychic awareness and personal experience, that has allowed her to shape my own practice and guide others towards transformation. She feels each human on this planet is full of unique gifts to give to the collective built over personal journeys through various lifetimes. https://www.scenicrouteastrology.com Joan of Angels is the Oracle of Ancient Wisdom, Spiritual Advisor/ Spiritual Chiropractor, Speaker and Broadcaster, Starseed Mission Activations, Wingfluffer, Sacred Artist of Soul Essence Portraits and Celestial Realms, WiseWoman. Check out her website: www.joanofangels.com and her linktr.ee links here: link.tr.ee//joanoangels
DJT at his rally…; Martha's Vineyard update…; William from California — Chris from California thanks Jesse. His life is getting better since forgiving. Mason from the Midwest USA asks' Jesse's thoughts on race mixing?
Aaron from Portland, OR asks if Jesse would rather have a monarchy or a democracy Alicia from Canada wants to embrace God's love better and move away from anger. Kamala Harris applause at baptist event. Michael from Cleveland, OH said RIP to the queen and black people criticized him. — TJ from the UK answers the biblical question. DC migrant bussing crisis. Mason from the Midwest USA asks if there has ever been a good person.
Episode 176 – 10 Facts Every Christian Needs to Know 4 – A Flood of Facts Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: For 40 days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground. Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were about seven meters below the surface of the water. Genesis, chapter 7, verses 17 through 20, Contemporary English Version ******** VK: Hello! I’m Victoria K. Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. We’re very glad to be with you today as we continue the series we recently started on Anchored by Truth, that we are calling “10 Facts Every Christian Needs to Know.” In the studio today we have RD Fierro. RD is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books and he is the one picking the facts we are covering in this series. RD, why did you entitle this series “10 Facts Every Christian Needs to Know?” I’m sure many listeners would think that there are far more than just 10 facts that are pertinent to the Christian faith. There are surely thousands of facts that are important to a thorough understanding of Christianity. Just on what we’ve covered here on Anchored by Truth we’ve probably talked about hundreds or thousands of facts that help demonstrate that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. RD: Well, I would also like to say hello to all the listeners joining us here today on Anchored by Truth whether they are listening to the broadcast or the podcast. You’re absolutely right that there are thousands or maybe tens of thousands of facts that are relevant to the Christian faith. But I’m not sure a series entitled “1,000 facts you need to know” would be very appealing to most listeners. Most people today are so busy that they really need help with sorting through the huge volume of information that comes at them through a media-charged, internet-driven world. So, that’s what we do on Anchored by Truth. We sort through a lot of information and try to select items that listeners can grasp readily and hold onto to build their faith. VK: We know that for many people today just getting to work and dinner on the table can feel like an accomplishment. And we know that there are a lot of Christians who have a sincere desire to strengthen and deepen their faith but the urgencies of life can derail those intentions. We want to help people fulfill that ambition of growing in their faith while they continue to keep up with all of their other priorities. RD: And as we talked about last time not all information, not all facts, have an equal bearing on important faith matters. For instance, the Bible tells us that there were 70 descendants of Jacob that went down into Egypt at the start of the Israelites sojourn there. That’s just a simple historical fact we learn about from Exodus, chapter 1, verse 5. The Bible also tells us that God created the heavens and the earth – again a straightforward historical fact. Both of those facts are relevant to our faith but I don’t think most people would regard them as being equally relevant to our understanding of God. The most important historical fact of all time is unquestionably the fact of Jesus’ resurrection because the validity of the entire Christian faith is dependent on that one fact. The point is that we have to be discerning when we look at, and especially when we communicate, our faith. It’s good to know about the Hebrews period of captivity in Egypt and subsequent deliverance, but it’s more important for everyone to know that Jesus died for their sins and that He rose from the dead proving the Father was pleased with His sacrifice. VK: What we want people to understand is that there are certain facts that are critical to them understanding and having confidence in their faith. At one point in our history people accepted much about the Christian faith without much controversy. But those days are past. Today, just about every substantive point of our Christian faith is being attacked by somebody somewhere. And there is no book of the Bible that is attacked more than the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. It’s become very plain over the past 200 years that part of Satan’s plan is to destroy confidence in God as Creator. Satan knows that if he can get people to doubt God as being necessary to the existence of the universe he can then get people to doubt God in every other meaningful way. That’s why Satan has been unrelenting in promoting the idea that universe could spring into being from a “big bang” and that life could spring into being by the random collision of inanimate particles. RD: Yes. But the bad news for Satan is that the truth is opposed to him. And more and more people are waking up to that fact. Empirical observations of the universe tell us that the assumptions behind the big bang aren’t tenable and the assumptions behind random, chaotic activity produced the specified complexity of life aren’t either. That’s why we began with the first two facts that we did. VK: The first fact that we discussed that every Christian needs to know is that science confirms that the universe and earth are thousands of years old, not millions or billions of years old. The second fact that we covered was that the complexity of life makes it impossible that life could have arisen as a result of the random collision of atoms and molecules – even if you could explain the existence of the atoms and molecules to begin with. We started with those two facts because they get to the heart of whether the opening chapters of the book of Genesis – which are the opening chapters of the Bible – is, in fact, true. So, where do you want to go next? What is fact number 3? RD: Fact number 3 that Christians should know is that there is solid scientific evidence that the tallest mountains on earth were underwater at one time. Ammonite fossils (squids with coiled shells) are found in limestone layers, high up in the Himalayas in Nepal, near the top of Mount Everest. This, of course, supports the Biblical account of the global flood described in the Bible. Now the fact that marine fossils are found near the summit of Mt. Everest does not mean that Mount Everest was there before the flood. So, the ocean waters didn’t have to rise to over 29,000 feet (8,840 m) above current sea level to cover it. Instead, the sedimentary layers now making up the Himalayas were first deposited on the continent during the flood. Those layers then buckled and uplifted at the end of the flood to form the towering Himalayan mountains seen today. VK: Fossils are one of the best evidences of a global flood, especially when you consider where many fossils are found. For example, we don’t find marine creatures, such as fish, clams, and corals, buried and fossilized on the sea floor where they once lived. Instead, we find most of them buried in sedimentary rocks on the continents and even on high mountains. For that to happen, the ocean waters had to totally flood the continents. And that’s exactly what the Bible describes during the global flood. But, the mere fact that fossils of marine creatures are found high in the Himalayas does not mean that all geologists accept the idea of a Biblical, worldwide flood, does it? RD: No. It doesn’t. Secular geologists will acknowledge that the Himalayas were underwater at one time. They really can’t deny that. But they have an entirely different hypothesis for why we find marine fossils on Mt. Everest. VK: And that hypothesis would be... RD: Secular geologists explain the presence of the Everest marine fossils something like this. The marine creature fossils on Mt Everest were formed in a shallow part of the ocean during the Ordovician [OR-DUH-VI-SHUN] Period – that is over 400 million years ago. Conventional scientists say the Ordovician Period lasted for almost 45 million years, starting around 490 million years ago. And they believe it ended 445 million years ago. During this period, the belief is that the area north of the tropics was almost entirely ocean. They believe that most of the world's land was collected into a southern supercontinent called Gondwana [GUN-DWAH-NAH]. VK: And many scientists believe that the area that contains the Himalaya mountains today was once attached to that supercontinent, right? RD: Right. Many scientists believe that the area that the land that comprises the Himalayas formed under the ocean on the northern margin of India when it was still attached to Western Australia as part of Gondwana. Then, the theory goes that about 130 million years ago, India began drifting away from Gondwana and drifted northwards until it collided with Eurasia between 55-34 million years ago. VK: And the scientists believe that the collision of those continents resulted in a massive uplift of the earth’s crust. So, they think that the sedimentary rocks that formed part of northern India were pushed upwards by these colossal tectonic forces. These sedimentary rocks contained the fossils that are now found on top of Mt Everest. And, in fact, NASA believes that the presence of limestone and marine fossils lifted from the once shallow sea bed to the top of the Himalayas is evidence that plate tectonics is a viable explanation for why the earth’s surface appears the way it does. Geologists also say the Himalayas continue to rise as a result of the colliding tectonic plates. RD: Yes. So, the views by conventional, secular geologists and the views by Christian geologists agree in certain respects. Both groups agree that the Himalayas were at one point under water. Both groups agree that there are tectonic plates that support the earth’s continents that have moved in the past and likely still move. There is general agreement that at one time there was a much larger land mass in existence that has now separated into what we call continents. Both groups agree that the Himalayas were formed by uplift forces. The chief areas of disagreement are on the time frames and the proximate causes of the uplift. VK: Secular geologists believe the tectonic and geological activity that formed the current continents and the Himalayas occurred over tens or hundreds of millions of years. Christian geologists believe that the Genesis flood accounted for the separation of the supercontinent when - as the New International Version puts it -“springs of the great deep burst forth.” That’s Genesis, chapter 7, verse 11. Many Christian geologists believe in what is called “Catastrophic Plate Tectonics.” One implication of Catastrophic Plate Tectonics is that the movement of the tectonic plates would be substantially faster than today. RD: Yes. We don’t have time today to go into the mechanics of Catastrophic Plate Tectonics but anyone who wants to investigate it further can get a copy of Dr. Jonathan Sarfati’s commentary on the first 11 chapters of Genesis which is called The Genesis Account. One consequence of this much faster tectonic plate movement is that the continents we see today would have arrived in their current positions in a much shorter period of time and the uplift forces would be acting on material that was still soft enough to be pushed upward relatively quickly. VK: It’s called Catastrophic Plate Tectonics because in comparison with the things we see going on around us today the forces in play, the activity on the earth’s surface, and the movement of rocks and sediment would have been truly catastrophic – both in size and timing. Of course a lot of this movement was going on under the water so an ocean liner sized ark would have still been able to float and remain a refuge for its passengers. RD: And we can also note that the phenomenon of high-altitude marine fossils isn’t unique to the Himalayas. Whale fossils and evidence of other marine animals have been found in many other mountain ranges such as high in the Andes, for example. VK: So, we have these two competing views of how these marine fossils could be found close to the top of the highest mountain on earth. Is there any way to determine which of the views is most likely to be correct? RD: That’s an excellent question. VK: Thank you. I’m good with questions. RD: In fact, that is THE QUESTION because it goes straight to the heart of the reason we’re doing this “10 Facts Every Christian Should Know” series. As in so many cases we are faced with competing truth claims. The Bible tells us about a global flood but the secular contention is that there was no flood and the earth’s features we see were produced slowly, gradually, and uniformly. VK: Uniformitarianism says that the present is the key to the past. The rate of uplift and tectonic plate movement we see today is the same rate that has always existed. RD: Exactly. So, let’s go back to the time periods we heard about earlier. The secular notion is that the fossils themselves were formed in shallow water over 400 million years ago and then moved to their current location approximately 35 to 55 million years ago. That’s what conventional scientists tell us. But there is a huge problem with the conventional view. VK: And that is? RD: Erosion. VK: Erosion can be defined as “the group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface.” Erosion simply means that every day every inch of the earth’s surface is being scoured or scraped and eventually all of that material will wind up in a body of water somewhere. While wind and mechanical activity produces some erosion, Water is the main culprit that dissolves many minerals, and loosens soil and rock from the landscape, transporting them to the ocean. Day after day, year after year, like an endless procession of freight trains, the rivers of the world cart unimaginable tons of decomposed rock across the continents and dump it in the ocean. By comparison, the amount removed by winds, glaciers and ocean waves pounding the coastline is small. RD: Water can do its eroding work once it falls as rain or snow which will eventually collect in a drainage basin. By sampling the mouth of the river, we can measure the volume of water discharged from the basin and the amount of sediment it carries. It’s not easy to measure exact volumes of erosion but, nevertheless, sedimentologists have researched many of the world’s rivers and calculated how fast the land is disappearing. The measurements show that some rivers are excavating their basins by over 3 feet of height in 1,000 years, while others move less than a tenth of an inch in 1,000 years. The average height reduction for all the continents of the world is about 2.4 inches) per 1,000 years. VK: There’s a good article about the problem erosion presents for the idea of continents or land masses being hundreds of millions of years old on creation.com – the website for Creation Ministries International. That article points out that if erosion has continued at the average rate the North American continent would have been levelled in 10 million years This is a ridiculously short time compared with the supposed 2.5-billion-year age for the continents. Even at the slowest estimated rate of four one-hundredths of reduction per 1,000 years, the continents should have vanished long ago. Continents have an average height of about 2,000 feet. And erosion will be faster in areas where there are steep slopes and deep valleys such as mountain ranges. RD: These rates not only erode the idea of billion-year-old continents but also crumble the concept of ancient mountains. Erosion rates of 39 inches per 1,000 years are common in the alpine regions of Papua New Guinea, Mexico, and the Himalayas. One of the fastest recorded regional height reductions is 750 inches per 1,000 years from a volcano in Papua New Guinea. The Yellow River in China could flatten a plateau as high as Everest in 10 million years. Mountain ranges in western Europe and the Appalachians of eastern North America are even harder to explain because they are not as high as Everest, yet are supposed to be several hundred million years old. If erosion has been going on for this long, these mountains should not exist. VK: So, if erosion is a problem for even explaining the existence of mountain ranges at all it’s a bigger problem for how delicate structures such as fossils could still exist near the tops of very high mountains – such as the shellfish fossils near the top of Mount Everest. RD: Yes. And the problems for the conventional explanation just keep compounding. One explanation for how high mountains could still exist even after 10’s or hundreds of millions of years have passed is that uplift activity is still occurring. But this doesn’t help with the assertion that the shellfish fossils which are embedded in sediment layers began being lifted out of the ocean 30 to 50 million years ago. Even the secular scientists believe these fossils were initially formed in a relatively shallow sea. They had to be covered by sediment. Otherwise they would have disintegrated long ago. But even if uplift had been going on steadily for 50 million years keeping Everest at the same height the sediments containing the fossils would have eroded long ago. Under that scenario the mountains might be there but the fossils wouldn’t be. VK: The point is that when we’re trying to decide whether the conventional, secular explanation for the existence of shellfish fossils on Mount Everest or the Biblical explanation is more likely the secular explanation has one huge problem that the Biblical explanation does not: erosion. Uniformitarianism says that the present is the key to the past and things are taking place today the way they have always taken place. But if that’s true then erosion has been taking place the entire time at the same rate that it is today. But erosion taking place for tens of millions of years poses enormous questions for things that we see around us today – like high mountains with crisp, sharp peaks and marine fossils near those peaks. RD: Exactly. But erosion poses no problems for the Biblical explanation. Biblical geologists believe the Genesis flood occurred about 4,500 years ago. The fossils were formed when vast amounts of dirt, rock, and mud being moved around by the flood waters were laying down sediment layers very quickly all around the world. And fossils aren’t the only evidence that confirms the Genesis account of the global flood. An article on the Answers in Genesis website points out that there are countless billions of plant and animal fossils are found buried in extensive graveyards around the world. For example, billions of straight-shelled, chambered nautiloids of all different sizes are found fossilized with other marine creatures (crinoids, corals, brachiopods, gastropods, and bryozoans) in a 7 foot thick layer within the Redwall Limestone of Grand Canyon. This fossil graveyard stretches for 180 miles across northern Arizona and into southern Nevada, covering an area of at least 10,500 square miles. To form such a vast fossil graveyard required 24 cubic miles of lime sand and silt, flowing in a thick, soup-like slurry at more than 16 feet per second to catastrophically overwhelm and bury this huge, living population of nautiloids. VK: Every continent contains sedimentary rock layers laid down by the catastrophic flood conditions. Many of these sediment layers can be traced all the way across continents and even between continents. For example, the chalk beds of southern England, well known as spectacular white cliffs along the coast, can be traced west and north across England and appear again in Northern Ireland. In the opposite direction, these same chalk beds can be traced across France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, southern Scandinavia, and other parts of Europe to Turkey and as far as Kazakhstan. The same chalk beds with the same fossils and the same distinctive layers above and below them are also found in the Midwest USA, from Nebraska to Texas, and from Alabama and Arkansas to Colorado. They also appear in the Perth Basin of Western Australia. RD: Similarly, the sedimentary rock layers exposed in the walls of the Grand Canyon are not unique to that region. For almost 60 years, geologists have recognized that these strata belong to three very thick, distinctive sequences of sedimentary rock layers that can be traced across North America. The lowermost horizontal sedimentary layer in Grand Canyon is the Tapeats Sandstone. Along with its equivalents the Tapeats Sandstone covers much of the USA and parts of Canada and Greenland. But they can also be traced across North Africa and beyond to Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Only ocean waters rising to sweep across the continents in the Genesis flood can explain these continental-scale sedimentary layers. VK: All of those lines of evidence demonstrate the same thing. The highest mountains on earth were at one point under water. Of the two competing explanations for how that happened – the secular or the Biblical – the secular suffers from a major unanswered question. How could sedimentary layers persist in a hostile erosion environment for tens of millions of years? This challenge does not plague the Biblical explanation. Yet, the secular explanation is far and away the one that is chosen by most geologists today. RD: And as we have said many times in this series that goes back to the compulsive power of a person’s starting set of axioms. Most scientists look at the age of the universe or earth from the starting point that it is billions of years old. That’s what their training and education have led them to believe. That’s what they had to believe to get their degrees, their funding, and their approval from colleagues. So, when they come to evidence that doesn’t agree with their starting axioms they start trying to find a suitable explanation for how their axioms can remain in place regardless of whether there is a reasonable explanation that fits the evidence but not the assumptions. VK: Ideas have consequences. And one of those consequences is that certain ideas retain compulsive power over people’s minds and souls even when that idea is at odds with reality, with the truth. That’s why we must ensure that we are well-grounded and informed. First to ensure that we can sustain our own faith in times of trial and second to serve as the salt and life for a culture that dies without the light of truth. This sounds like a great time to go to the Lord in prayer. Today let’s listen to a prayer for our Christian brothers and sisters who live in lands that are hostile to the gospel and to their faith. And let’s remember always to pray regularly for them because the Bible assures that God hears and responds to the sincere prayers of His faithful children.. ---- PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS VK: Before we close we’d like to remind our audience that a lot of our radio episodes are linked together in series of topics so if they missed any episodes in this series or if they just want to hear one again, all of these episodes are available on your favorite podcast app. To find them just search on “Anchored by Truth by Crystal Sea Books.” If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not perfect but our Boss is!” (Opening Bible Quotes from the Contemporary English Version) Genesis, chapter 7, verses 17 through 20, Contemporary English Version Global Evidences of the Genesis Flood | Answers in Genesis High & Dry Sea Creatures | Answers in Genesis Eroding ages - creation.com Satan’s Strategy Cast doubt on God’s goodness Deny God’s truth Elevate self-importance Establish a replacement in the mind and heart for God’s truth
Overview Jocie worked at several jobs before landing her ideal one as a librarian, a perfect segue to becoming an author. With a soft spot for U.S. Veterans, she chaired her local Veteran's Oral History Project, and her work with the program lead to her speaking before the project committee at the U.S. Library of Congress. She has won several awards for her non-fiction writing on a multitude of subjects. Her fiction writing has received the Author / Ambassador at Library Journal Self-e Authors, Winner Queen of the West Reader Favorite Award, Amazon Bestseller - Historical, Double finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Mystery and Humorous Categories, and her novel Baer Truth received 4.5 stars from RT Book Reviews. Writing romantic comedy and humorous cozy fiction, Jocie can find humor in most everything. She lives in the Midwest on Dust Bunny Farm with her family and Diesel the Wonder Dog. When not writing, she grows ArnoldSwartzaWeeds in her garden and camps whenever the opportunity presents itself. Her Book Website https://www.jociemckade.com/ Favorites https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Her-Courage-Love-Inspired/dp/1335758720?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=DgCLz&content-id=amzn1.sym.91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&pf_rd_p=91202c6f-1c11-4e3d-b51a-3af958cedd30&pf_rd_r=6WAYW23X5FM2PVN3SHFQ&pd_rd_wg=zlro4&pd_rd_r=dee9c2cc-cc6c-4726-a312-382592d4ae37&linkCode=li2&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkId=89365f01979d5615d359143477f05d96&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il https://www.facebook.com/MulberryStBooks YouTube https://youtu.be/9RLcRXIw8vM Transcript So Josie, welcome to the discover word Smith. How you doing today? [00:02:43] Jocie: I'm doing great. Thank you very much. Have electricity, have air conditioning, have coffee. I'm [00:02:48] Stephen: happy. We're connected. Little inside joke for us, right. Okay. So before we get started talking about your book tell us a little bit about who you are, what you like to do, where you live, that type of thing. [00:03:03] Jocie: Sure. I'm Josie McCabe. I live in the Midwest USA, which is the Buckeye state go by tent state. that far I'm west Iowa, but I'm more Cincinnati, but I have been riding pretty much. I first started 17 actually, and I've been riding on and off ever since. So most of the time I've written nonfiction for magazines, advertising, publications PR packages, that type of thing. And then I was librarian for almost 20 years. So pretty much all of my life has been centered around books. Some form another we have a huge garden. I love to garden. And when I don't do that, we have a little RV and we've managed to hit 48 outta 50 states. Wow. NICE's great. [00:03:54] Stephen: Yeah. So I'm gonna, you didn't drive the RV to Hawaii? [00:03:59] Jocie: Nope. Nope. We swam [00:04:01] Stephen: Canoe. . Down by where you live, have you been to the dollar book swap? [00:04:08] Jocie: I have not. Oh, okay. They've got two different sales here, but that's one. I've not been [00:04:13] Stephen: to it. It actually is grown from a Amazon book depository warehouse. So the first time my son and I went, we thought we were go get shot at like a cocaine drug bust or something. It's really scary looking [00:04:30] Jocie: is it in Cincinnati [00:04:32] Stephen: than it's closer to Dayton? I think, but it's a little bit in between. See, [00:04:37] Jocie: I don't know that one. I know Amazon has a fulfillment facility and Louisville or Lexington maybe. Yeah. Louisville. But no's Lexington and they have one in Wilmington, Ohio, which is actually an error, but I didn't know they had any other one around dating. [00:04:56] Stephen: Yeah. Yeah. You should go check it out. It, it doesn't have the new books so much as some old stuff. Oh, that's. So you were a librarian, you said you've been around books your whole life. Yeah. So writing just came naturally to you,
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What is Step 1? It's the first of five steps that will bring you to the level you wish to travel. Only this is by yourself solo, or with a friend, independently, but not on a guided tour. The steps in order: briefly, Step One is your first solo trip, nearby overnight. Step 2 is state to state travel, Step 3 is to a far away state or nearby country, Step 4 is to a far country and Step 5 is to a country where you don't speak the language. Before I became a solo traveler, I was shy and introverted. I did not have confidence in myself. I was often quite lonely and sad, and my life felt unimportant. I was bullied by my so-called friends as a young teen. These so-called friends smeared oil and grease from carbon paper all over my body and mocked me. This has never been publicly shared before, as I was shamed. The experience of travel has lifted a burden from my past and now I can share the lessons I have learned throughout this book—of new places to see and favorite places to revisit. This was a transformation for me, and I know it will transform you, irrespective of your age or lifestyle. This is no longer a story about being shy and under confident. Travel has changed my life and it can change yours too. I started traveling. And I tried to find books on how to travel solo, but I was not able to find any that I liked. So I decided to write one and help the millions of other women my age who are desperate for this travel, especially after two years of not being able to travel. Think of the plans that are now being made. You need this book now. Solo travel is about the experience, all which leads up to going somewhere new, and subsequent events. Books like this one help you decide where to go, how to go, what to see, and how to experience it at the level where you are. Do you want to know more? Step One: No experience yet, but ready to start a solo trip. Suggested trips include: starting at a city where you have a family member or friend with whom you can stay. It could be Boston, New York, or even a suburban town in Montana. It should be relatively close to your home state and not for an extended period. Consider: when you were in kindergarten, you were just starting out, and you knew it. If you realize you are once again just embarking on a new journey, you will give yourself some extra time and grace to travel alone and learn. Ask questions along the way. Don't assume everything is going to go well (it won't!). Accept that plans will go smoothly some of the time;celebrate those moments. When you look back on your personal history, you will be telling the story the way you saw it unfold, so it will be from your perspective alone as a Step One traveler. Don't carry extra baggage from plans that didn't go exactly as you prepared them. Every chapter has step one guidance on what you need to travel, accommodations, packing, food, air and ground travel, safety and health and general travel tips. I also tell you of my lessons learned, including the most embarrassing ones. An example of that is when I drew out directions for a friend that had the wrong info. The water was on the east, not the west. Step One Destinations found in the book include the following: East coast: Vermont, New York, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Boston Midwest, USA In this Midwest USA section Step One, we cover parts of Nebraska, Colorado, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Now that you learned about Step one, You will hear the other four steps to follow. Connect with Dr Travelbest Website Drmarytravelbest.com Mary Beth on Twitter Dr. Mary Travelbest Twitter Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Page Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Group Dr. Mary Travelbest Instagram
Dr Jeffrey Magee is a Chief Culture and Learning Officer, Editor in Chief at Professional Performance Magazine, author of 31 books, he's also a speaker and board adviser. In this really inspiring show you can learn about: The importance of investing into Human Capital How to become part of the Top 1% high achievers Why settling for a “B” grade will stimulate mediocrity How to find your X Factor and trajectory Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services Find out more about Jeffrey below: Jeffrey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjeffspeaks/ Jeffrey Magee Website: https://www.jeffreymagee.com Professional Performance Magazine: https://professionalperformancemagazine.com Jeffrey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjeffspeaks Full Transcript Below ----more---- Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker. Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you Dr. Jeffrey McGee is a special guest on today's show. He's a human capital developer and chief culture and learning officer. He's also a multiple author and editor-in-chief at Professional Performance Magazine. But before we get a chance to meet with Jeff, it's The Leadership Hacker News. The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: In years in the news today, we explore some research completed by Boyden, a premier leadership and talent advisory firm, who's completed the study on talent led transformation in a post pandemic world. The global study explores the business outlook among CEOs, boards and other senior leaders, talent trends, priorities, and investment in the wake of the pandemic throughout 2022. Studies finding show that while seventy-seven percentage of respondents are extremely confident or confident in their organizations, growth potential just forty-seven percentage are extremely confident or confident in having the right talent to align to that strategy. Half of all respondents describe their business approach in 2022 as one of growth or expansion. And just over a quarter twenty-six percentage as a learning or transformation opportunity, this bullish approach versus a lack of talent alignment, jeopardizes post pandemic growth. And this lack of alignment goes up to board level with fifty-two percentage respondents saying that the different mix of skills is needed at the board. And despite this only thirty-eight percentage of respondents are likely to conduct a board assessment or review over the next two years. The findings do show that respondents are reinventing talent. Seventy-four percentage are extremely likely or likely to invest in leadership development for high potential employees, sixty-six percentage to hire new leadership talent and six five percentage to redeploy or retrain existing people. The research shows a number of trends that are looking at talent, and it reveals a lack of alignment across the leadership team, particularly around things like diversity, only forty-seven percentage of HR leaders think that it's extremely likely that their organization will hire talent into diversity roles. Sustainability, forty-two percentage of marketing leaders think is extremely likely or likely that their organization will hire talent into sustainability roles compared to thirty-one percentage of CEOs and supply chain. Thirty-seven percentage of finance leaders think is extremely likely their organization will hire talent into supply chain roles compared to twenty percentage of CEOs. In submarine attracting talent respondents consider the two top drivers to be a strong overall company's reputation, fifty-seven percentage and a purpose driven organization fifty-two percentage. Followed by the workplace of the future with a hybrid working arrangements come in at thirty-eight percentage. And the leadership lesson here is, however big organizational team is. There's never a wrong time to start reassessing how you go about nurturing and growing your talent. It's our future. That's been The Leadership Hacker News. If you have any insights, news or stories? Get in touch. Start of Podcast Steve Rush: Dr. Jeffrey McGee is a special guest on today's show. He's chief culture and learning officer, editor-in-chief at Professional Performance Magazine. He's the author of 31 books, a speaker, and a board advisor. Jeff, welcome to The Leadership Hacker Podcast. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thanks for your time, Steven. Steve Rush: No worries. Listen, let's get into it, but before we do, it'd be really great for you to give a bit of a sense to our audience about your backstory and how you've arrived at being a multiple author and as well as a speaker and a board advisor. just give us that backstory if you could? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Great question, dangerous question. We could go on forever. So, I'll try to make it really concise. I grew up in the Midwest USA on a farm. Went to college on an athletic scholarship and journalism scholarships. Running and running, I've always been passions. And after college I spent some time in Midwest USA as a journalist doing broadcast news and print and kind of fixated in the area of business and found that to be fascinating area. But very quickly also became discouraged with the state of journalism in the eighties and nineties as a very negative caustic and toxic industry. It's obviously not that way today at all. And that caused me to kind of leave that the industry. And as I tell people in my audiences and just in conversations, if you're ever discouraged with what you're doing professionally or you're unemployed, there's always a job anywhere in the world, but especially in America. And it's called the sales job. Now, if you're not good at sales, you may not keep it, but there's always a hunger for the person who generates the revenue for an organization. So that took me into sales very quickly and in a trajectory, I had not planned on. And I had the opportunity to spend a little time with a fortune 100 company in the United States in sales. They introduced me to adult learning, which I didn't know existed as an industry where you would go, you know. To advance training or education at the college level or business development programs at a local hotel that might be a day or two-day long program. And I was doing that after hours and found that to be fascinating. To jump forward over the past thirty years, that evolved me into training and development, which led me into management roles and leadership roles into owning a business. And along the way, I started writing some books. Those books caught traction here in the U.S. and globally became a couple of bestsellers. And that led me to designing and creating a training and development company. While I worked with business leaders around the world from Berlin to Vermont wherever. Helping them to basically leverage their human capital as I have come to learn and even you and your business, I would believe you would agree. You can get a building, I can get a building, you can get equipment, I can get equipment, you can buy vehicles, I can buy vehicles. But the one thing that really makes us different at the day is the human equation. The people that work for you don't work for me and vice versa. And that's what led me to where I am today in terms of working with business owners and leaders, to accelerate their growth and success through leveraging their human capital and creating a culture and environment by which great want to come and be a part of you and stay with you. Steve Rush: Awesome. Now the interesting thing here, right, is the whole notion of human capital. It's something that's been recently reintroduced into our vernacular almost, but from your perspective, having worked with organizations where they are investing in their people, their human teams, is there a real return on investment to be had in your experience? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: It's a great question. So, one of the training companies, I was a part of for many years and sold my stake in here in the U.S. at least for our global listeners today, if you're a CPA in the financial accounting world, or you're an attorney in the legal world, you have to have ongoing educational credits every year to keep your license and certificate, to be able to professionally do your practice. And in that space, I started learning many years ago that we spent a tremendous amount of time in every business. White collar, blue collar, labor intense, automation, doesn't matter. Training and investing money into equipment and assets and tangibles and buildings where we typically say, okay, what's the ROI on that going to be? And then we do a lot of technician training, you know. How to work the machines? Or et cetera. And a lot of, you know. Return on that investment through efficiencies and productivity and profitability. One of the elements I have been using, even at the title on my business card for decades, even though you just made comment, it's come back and it's fashionable today, but people like you and I have known it for many years, and that is human capital. So, one, what is human capital? We spend a tremendous amount of time talking about that. Two, how do you develop that human capital on talent pathways, career expectations, market needs, business needs? And is there then an ROI on that? Absolutely yes. And I believe there's a greater and a more lasting ROI on human capital than any other capital you can have because almost any other measurement of capital, which is around tangibles depreciates very quickly. You buy a new car soon as you drive it off the lot there in London, or you drive it off the lot here in Las Vegas. It depreciates tremendously, as soon as you leave the parking lot. Human capital depreciates, if you don't challenge it. It depreciates if you don't hold it accountable. It depreciates if you're not growing and developing and feeding what individuals goals needs and purposes are. But if you can align all of that, the ROI is massive. Steve Rush: And you can see on the balance sheet as well, can't you? So, if you look at the organizations who do invest in their people and have strong engagement scores, low attrition, holding onto that talent, then there's a direct correlation of those businesses returns in real sense, too, isn't there? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely, you can see from the, you know. The boardroom conversations to the executive suite, to frontline, you know. Leads supervisors, managers, directors, whatever the title is that an organization may have for its first level, and then, you know. Sending upward of leadership, absolutely. And, individuals, you know. They come to an organization where they see an organization best in their people and provide multiple for development and growth and development of those people, not just in the job, but development of them in terms of promotability, sustainability, longevity, absolute, it's a massive recruitment tool as well as a retention tool. And then again, think about the turnover. There's a hard HR statistic that's used globally, and you can debate the number, but even if you debated it, doesn't change the output. And it says, basically, let's take an administrative job and a business, a white-collar job. I hate the labels, but it gives us some point of reference. And they talk about the amount of financial attached to the turnover. Let's say Steve's working in our business and an administrative role, white collar role, the amount of money attached to losing you, advertising, promoting, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding someone to get them up to baseline functionality of what Steven was doing is any work between one point five and three times what your annual paycheck was. So, it's very expensive. And then you add on additional, such as again, what are the relationships that Steve had before he left? And if those were good, both with vendors, suppliers, coworkers, colleagues, employees. It could take a long time to rebuild those relationships. So, can you start to put some numbers to it? Absolutely. The institutional knowledge that someone has to know how to finesse relationships or situations to be more productive and profitable, if I'm in a client relationship role, development role, again. Knowing how to cross sell, upsell. Knowing what a client's long-term goals are and how we can align those with our own organizational goals? Yeah, the conversations can just go on endlessly, but the finances attached to it are staggering. Steve Rush: Yes, there are some big numbers there, aren't there? And if you think, even small organizations, that's a massive number relative to the operating cycle of a business. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. Steve Rush: Yeah, so you develop the principle and notion of Talentification, which is also you wrote book about, so what is Talentification? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Great question, so looking at the concept of talent, and you can finish that statement for our listeners today, a lot of ways, whether you call it talent management, talent development, talent acquisition, and I started recognizing working in this space over the last thirty years, both with fortune 100 global clients to individual industry, rockstar businesses that the common person on the street would never know the name of that business, unless you're in that space, whether it's agriculture or manufacturing or high-tech, or what have you. So, to me, Talentification that concept in the word deals with what I've identified to be the eleven elements to execution and achievement. I used the word achievement as capital letters. There's, you know? Those letters stand for each of the eleven phases of what talent life cycles are about. So, it's eleven elements of execution and achievement of the talent management model that I've identified for basically healthy and sustained and engage organizations. And how do you create that culture where everyone, not just the leaders, not just the talent management team understands what their role in stake is in health and wealth of an organization? Again, if you're my supervisor or you're my peer, you're my subordinate, doesn't matter. All of us have to understand when it comes to talent, what really are all those key aspects we're talking about? So that's what the book deals with, those eleven phases. It talks a little bit strategically, tactically about what each looks like from anyone in organizations perspective. And we can look at high growth organizations, again, just as you said, whether they're a small family business, a sole proprietor, or whether there are mid-size or large going concern, you know? Those eleven phases are critically important. And as you get people engaged at their capacities, eleven different areas, it also becomes a massive retention tool. Your entrepreneurial energy becomes organic to some of the questions you and I were just visiting around. Steve Rush: So, if I was a leader, listening to the eleven phases and thinking about my talent and my talent strategy, is there a, maybe a golden starting place or a golden end, is there maybe one place that you think that has to be part of my talent strategy? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. So, you know? In the human relations world, HR Management. There are different models that are used. One of the models that kind of has grabbed the globe in the last decade is, using stars as a metaphor for your employees. And so, to answer that, let me share, teach a model real quickly, because I think it absolutely is explosive in answering your question. It also answers the questions of how you can guard against making sure you don't have a toxic cancerous person in your team that's going to be working actively or passive aggressively against you and take you down. So, to me, there's different sort of stars. You have a rock star in your company, rockstars are from an aptitude and a level very high on the scale and from an attitudinal level, very high on the scale. So, they're, you know? They know what they're doing. They're your subject matter experts, are always looking to grow and develop themselves, but they're always willing to push and achieve more. So, you have your rock stars, then you have developing stars. These are people that have good attitudes. They need knowledge and attitudinal growth, which could take time. And some people are not patient for the amount of time it may take to grow their brain in any sort of a job or vocation. You have, you know? Emerging stars, these are people that that know how to do the job, but they've got a chip on their shoulder, or they're not as motivated or they're somewhat discouraged. We have to know how to engage them. You have your problem players, which I call those, your crashing stars. You have employees that maybe you don't know very much about. Those would be your unknown stars. And then you've just got your work horses. You know? Basically, you're contributing stars. And lot of times contributing stars want to be a part of organization, but they don't really want to ascend upward into, you know? Any sort of job role with this lot of spotlights. They don't want to be a leader, a boss. So, you need the whole mix's. To answer your question. What I've recognized, you know? In working with global talents. also from my media company, Performance Professional Performance Magazine. Interviewing phenomenal people all over the planet, is that the real secret to your question is the rock star population, that rockstar demographic, knowing that if I've got a rock star at any job, sit down and do some character analysis and say, okay, what are the quantifiable that makes Stephen my rock star at job ABC? And when I can start to write down those characteristics of Stephen as a rockstar in his job, I now have a benchmark template. I can use the interview to find another rock star. I could use it and kind of put it up on a wall for anyone else who wants to become a rock star like Stephen and said, okay, these are the traits or characteristics or skills or behaviors or actions that you need to exhibit or master. And I think that's how you start to answer your question is to clearly focus on the rockstars. See the reason I go off on that tirade is that what we've done for the last twenty to thirty years, and we were not paying attention on the planet is, we actually started lowering the performance bar where mediocrity is actually seen as rock stars today in most places on the planet that I go. Steve Rush: Right. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: And if mediocrity, as soon as the rock star, then you can see how pathetic and how bad it gets real quick. Here in the United States, Gallup Organization did a massive research project right before COVID. And so, it got lost in the noise. The challenge to the research project model, Steve is, I think the numbers are worse today than what they said before, but basically said this. They surveyed thousands of American and global businesses based in U.S. And they found that fifty-six percentage of the respondents. So, thousands of businesses mean tens, if not hundreds of thousands of individuals participated in the survey, but fifty-six percentage of responders said they're disengaged or complacent in the workplace, so fifty-six percentage basically saying, hey, I'm going through the motions. I realized I don't have to kill myself. So, it's kind of like, you know? If I'm doing some tough love here, what's the minimum I have to do for maximum paycheck? Then fifteen percentage identified as actively disengaged. These are people that wake up every morning, look for something new to complain about, which leaves you mathematically with twenty-nine percentage leftover that are engaged. So, let's call those engaged, you know? Some of the rock stars or developing stars or emerging stars. And that's what you realize. If you want to have a successful business, you build it around the star metaphor, but you build it around rock stars, because if Steven's a rock star and you hire me, then I know where the performance bar is set and I'm going to step up. And as consumers, you and I, and the listeners today can validate what I've just shared as consumers is, look at the places you go and ask yourself, are you really getting rockstar level service, or are you really getting mediocre service that people are calling rockstar level? And so that's a series of answers to your powerful question, Steve Rush: That's a great response too, and it's interesting that the whole mediocrity can be really cancerous in an organization, can't it? Because if you allow your average to be sub average, than your average, occasionally we'll just continue the slit versus your average should be your rock stars of now. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. Steve Rush: It should be your average is in the future, right? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Yeah, I coach people that if you have, again, we can call them whatever you want. So, I don't want anybody to get hung up on labels here, but as a reference point, if you have a job description or a job profile that says I'm hiring Geoffrey McGee to do job ABC, I'm going to hire Steven to do job XYZ. So obviously we're both going to ask our boss the same question, which is, okay, great. What's this job responsible for? What do I do? What are the expectations? So, when you start to identify the work product and then how does it need to be accomplished or how often, or how much? We have clarity to our job and everything's built around it. But with that, what I coach is, if someone is doing one hundred percentage of the job you've hired them to do so, first thing I just said is 100 hundred percentage of the job you've been hired to do, then that means they're meeting expectations. Meeting expectations would be like, you're going to school and you're getting grades. And again, we use different scorecards around the globe. So, in the United States, if you're going to kindergarten to high school and into college. The grading system we use is A, B, C, D F. Well, I always tell people, if you want to get clarity, get rid of letter B for boy and get rid of letter D for dog. And all you should have is either an F, C, or an A, you're doing a hundred percent of the job expected. Then that's a C, you're meeting expectations, you're average, but that scares people. Therefore, any part of your job description, you're not doing, you have to get an F. I mean, we're not going to give any wiggle rooms for B's and D's. So, someone says, well, how do I get to be an A? Then I say go right back to your job description. And in any one of those areas that you exceed, that I, as the organization amount, obligated to give you an A in that area. So, if you take that metaphor and you use it to any sort of a job we have, I mean, everything has been degraded down. I mean, if you're a rock star player and you wake up tomorrow morning and you're not motivated, and you're just, you know? Not highly excited, we've all had those days. I tell people and ask people, well, what do you bring to the office? Do you bring you're A game and your B? Well, most of the answer is B. Well, if you go home within that day and reflect on, I brought my B game to the office and I'm still a rock star by a mile. Well, what do you bring back on the subsequent day? You can bring back you're A, or do you calibrate down to B? And most of us, we calibrate young to B, and then someday in the future, you wake up, not motivated. Do you bring your, A, B or C? Well, we know A is not in the game anymore. So, you bring your C and that's how we've done things, we make an exception. We elect people that are mediocre, and then we make excuses when they're pathetic. We hire people that are mediocre, and then we make excuses when they're pathetic. And that's, what's sad about the model, instead of all of us trying to be the best we can be and raised the bar, we've actually made it globally convenient to lower the bar. Steve Rush: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Spot on. I love the concept that you've applied to the kind of ACF, because it removes the opportunity to sit in some middle ground, doesn't it? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: You hit it dead center, and that's the element. I mean, if I am going to traditional college that are traditional age, we have all those wiggle grades, and it's amazing how we, our faculty, our parents, we justify those wiggled grades. But now, if you and I are business people, as we are here today and majority of our listeners, and you were paying out of your own pocket to go to a developmental program to get more education, so you can become better. It's amazing, we're paying it. We don't want the wiggle grade. We want the best grade possible. Well, imagine if the B and a Ds off the table, it either is your understanding the topic, so that's C. There's nothing wrong with that, where you're not understanding it. So, we're not going to pass you. You're going to get an F. I mean, you go in for brain surgery. Do you want your surgeon to be an F, an D, an C or an B surgeon for med school? Would you prefer they be an A? Steve Rush: Exactly, you don't want your brain surgeons to be a B on any type of surgery, do you? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Your parents, you're taking your child for heart surgery, I changed the model, and I say, a parent, you're taking your child and you want your surgeon to be an F, D, C or B or an A? I mean, so if you change the dynamic, everyone kind of like raised their eyebrows. Like it's obvious A, but then in other professions, we accept C's and D's and F's all day long. Steve Rush: And did this thinking set you on your trajectory? I'm going to use the word Jeff, to when you wrote your Trajectory Code. So, this is a book that you wrote around how to change your decisions, actions, and directions, and to become part of that top one percentage of high achievers, right? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. Steve Rush: So, you've got within that, your mental DNA, just tell us a little bit about what that is and how we could get into that top one percent? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Great question. So, a couple of models, it's a really easy book. I tell people it's not going to be difficult. I spent two years in first grade as a child. So, nothing I do is hard. It's pretty simple, but what I identified of the thirty-one books, I've written, twenty-one languages, four bestsellers, and four graduate management textbooks. Your Trajectory Code is the only book, so people can buy it online, or they can buy the audio book. The only book I've written, it's about personal success. And it primarily draws upon one business model I've used for years called the trajectory code, the trajectory code models, like a letter V for victory. And that that diagram helps us to recognize what actions, behaviors, and mindsets take you to derailment and failure. And what are the actions, mindset, and behaviors that take us to success. Within that, there's a concept called your mental DNA, and it plays off of a formula. So, it's chapter five in the book that talks about your player capability index. And so, I'm a formula kind of a person. So, what I recognize, if I look at Stephen and Stephen comes to Jeff Magee and said, I like you to be my performance coach and helped me to accelerate my successes. Here's the goal of where I want to go. Well, I'm going to have to do some diagnostics, whether it's an online platform or just you and I are visiting via video call. Because I prefer video calls versus to telephone that way, we can see each other. Because a lot of visual communication takes place. It's very insightful. But what I've recognized in that formula, Stephen, is that there's very specific variables that make up a human being such as knowledge. So that's one of the letters in the formula. So, whether it's formal or informal education, technical, non-technical, certification, non-certification. Another part of it, it's going to be our life experiences. How does one life experience build and set the stage for the next? And how do we leverage those to be better? You know, the next time we do something. How about the culture we were raised in, or the cultures we've been a part of or, you know? Ebbed and flowed in and out of. That influences how our thinking styles and belief systems and confidential, we lack thereof. So, there's a lot more to the formula and it's very easy to read and understand, but that becomes the DNA. So, if I want to grow someone in, let's say between today and in the future, we don't know what the future date is, to be the new CEO of a business. Family owned a global international business, a local mom and pop shop. Then I would first, okay. So, to be a great executive, I use the same DNA model and you and I, or whoever the appropriate stakeholders would be, we would sit down and say okay. For us to have a great CEO, what would we like them to possess in terms of knowledge or skills or education or degrees or certifications? You know, some, none, what are they? What sort of attitude, mindsets? What sort of passion? What sort of experiences do we want them to have? What sort of a relationships? People that we want them to have interacted with, grown with? Network with or known? So, this formula also gives us a great DNA chart to scope out how do you build a great leader. Leader of nations, leader of communities, leaders of business, leaders of our ourselves. So, the DNA concept has multiple applications, personal development, career development of someone, creating, you know? Job descriptions that client says, hey, I need something, listen to what the client says they need. They'll tell you exactly where you need to go. But the last way of answering your question is that part of this model, Steve is very objective and that's the real power behind it. It gives you the objective template to assess yourself or someone else and pull all of the emotion and ego and personalization out of it to see exactly what we need to do to be smart at the end of the day, Steve Rush: Laser focus. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: You got it. Steve Rush: Yeah, and in the book also, you talk about having the opportunity to understand your X factor when you're on your trajectory. Does that form part of this? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: It is exactly. So, the X factor is the first side of this equation. I know I'm talking to a global audience here and we have, you know? fortyish percent of your listeners are in the U.S. and forty to forty five percent might be in the UK and the others are global. So, this X factor concept is not like the entertainment show from the great British businessman, Simon Cowell. Steve Rush: He has a lot of answer for X-Factor now, doesn't he? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Exactly, so I've been using my X-Factor longer than he as, of course, he's richer than both of us, bam, he wins. Steve Rush: Exactly. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: But the X-Factor represents any thing you're measuring is what X represents in this formula. So, if we're measuring, you know? How fast can you run? That's an X-Factor or how fast can you compute some mathematical questions? That's an X-Factor, you know? How good are you at wood crafting? I mean, so whatever it is you're measuring, that's X. So, to answer, let me use this example. So, let's say we go on to any school campus around the world of, you know? Kindergarten, to primary, to high school grade. And you were to say on that campus, there's a range of athletic sports that are offered. Well, the varsity sport, the highest level of proficiency that high school, I'd say. Of a hundred percent of the kids on that campus. If we're measuring athletics as our X-Factor, of a hundred percent of the kids on any campus, X percent would actually be good enough to make the varsity team of any sport. So, if you ask that question to a group of people, it's always going to be a small number. Of a hundred percent of kids on the campus. You might hear someone say twenty percent, or ten percent or five percent, then I said, okay, so let's track it two more times. Of a hundred percent, then of those high school, varsity athletes, X percent would be good enough to go play it at a collegiate level, at a college level. Get a scholarship to go to the advanced level, what percent? And it's always a smaller number that migrates and said, okay, so final question. So, we started with a hundred percent mass at a high school, and we saw that how many kids are were good enough to be on the varsity sport at a high school level, smaller number, go play at the college collegiate level, smaller number. So, what percentage would be drafted from a college level to go play at the professional ranks? Whether it's, you know? Football, rugby, whether it's, you know? Basketball, football, hockey, whatever, it's always a really small number. So, get people to recognize whatever you're tracking is an X-Factor and whatever that smallest finite number you just came up with using athletics is what we tracked. We're all professionals, so if you really want to see where you should be focusing your energy or how to grow and develop yourself, what are you really proficient in as an X-Factor? So, let's do the math. Let's say high school is twenty percent, would be at the high school team. How many go to college? Let's say it's five percent. How many go on and play at the pros? Point zero, zero, zero, whatever percent. Oh, okay. So that point zero, zero, zero, that's you and I, as professionals, we're not competing on a planet about the twenty percentiles, because this is not high school. Real life is not high school. It's not college, it's pros. So, if you really want to be successful, then you've got to identify, what is your X-Factor. For me, growing up in primary school from kindergarten to high school, I was not a great writer. I thought I was, I mean, teachers were very critical of my writing. Well, maybe it's because I wanted to be a writer and they were giving me additional attention. I didn't really like to read books in high school or college. So, it's fascinating, you know? Forty years later, I love to read, I love to write, I love to do research. And all of that forms a basis of my ability to coach executives and businesses to be in hyper-growth faster, quicker And sustained. Steve Rush: It's a really, yeah, lovely way of thinking about it, this whole kind of one percent or zero, zero, zero, point one percent of professionals. I wonder how many people actually can even associate that in their profession today, they're already there? And that's a lot to do with mindset, I suspect. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely, you know? It is. And there's actually some quantifiable ways to answer that because you've posed a great question. Someone says, okay, how do I know if I'm in the top percentage of my industry? Or how do I know if I'm starting to rest on my morals and accomplishments? Or how do I push myself? So, I always tell people, in your job and your profession, is there another formal educational degree you could achieve? And if yes, then you're not at the top of the list, pull yourself down at least one notch on any scale, because there's something there you can quantify that you could go after that you're not, or are there certifications in your industry? And if that's a yes and you don't have them, then bring yourself down another notch, you know? Have you written any papers or are you asked to speak on this? Are you asked to be the trainer in your business on these topics? So that's a great question. You've posed for our listeners. How do you know when you're at the top of the game? There are ways of knowing it. And if you study another way of looking at this one percent factors, I've interviewed, you know? World leaders from your country, Tony Blair, to Richard Branson, Richard Branson, I've written three books together, whatever you look at incredibly successful people. What you'll recognize is that they associate with and typically hang out with, from their view, their vision, other phenomenally successful people, whether it's in their industry or not, you don't see a great athlete typically hanging out with losers. I mean, there might be, you know? A phenomenal singer. It might be a phenomenal artist and maybe a phenomenal business leader. You know? So again, successful people typically associate with other successful people. Because that's one of the ways they benchmark themselves to always be being pushed because great successful people in any capacity can call you out on whether or not you're truly working or you're coasting. Steve Rush: It's interesting, as you were saying that Jeff, I was thinking about sports people. Perhaps are easy to quantify because they've got measures, personal bests, they've got fastest times, greatest passes. All of those things are quantifiable, but in business they're perhaps around us yet we don't spend as much time quantifying it. And I think that's a really key message for me. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Huge, you just said something massive for the listeners, thank you. A pro athletes live for quantifiable performance feedback in real time when they're practicing, they have videotapes. They can go back and study. They have coaches and sub coaches that are always, you know? Measuring them, pushing them, tracking them. And so, it's interesting in what I call the real business world where you and I live, it's amazing how the mindset of most people is, we resist performance feedbacks. We resist performance reviews. We don't like quantifiable data. Because sometimes, you know? It's misused against this instead of being used to help to grow us, we need to create that pro athlete mindset around performance execution, and then we'll become much more successful in any capacity. Steve Rush: Yeah, definitely so. So, in your experience Jeff, has human capital, the world of talent management changed over the last couple of craziest through COVID? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: It has, you know? And it's interesting. I find myself posing the question just this recent weekend. I was here in Las Vegas on the strip speaking to a large convention. And, I posed a question that, if you and I were sitting in a large business audience conference, whatever topic, doesn't matter, and it was January of 2020, and the person in front was asking the audience questions like how many of you have a business plan, a game plan for 2020, almost every hand would go up. You know? How many of you are optimistic for 2020? Everyone's hands probably would go up. From a sales standpoint, maybe the more specific question then. How many of you have a sales plan or strategy for 2020? Almost every hand would go up. What about your talent management, your human capital, you looking at your key employees in your organization? You feel comfortable with that team? A lot of hands would go up. Are you looking to hire hands would go up? Have you thought about flight risk and anyone leaving you? Probably hands wouldn't go up. No one thought that way. If we would have posed the last question in January, 2020 to a large business audience, you know? What about letting a lot of your employees work remotely or virtually, you know? How many of you are open to that idea? Very few hands would have went up, but if we would have had that same conversation in June, just three or four months into COVID. In June of 2020, I said, well, you know? How many of you are working remotely or have a lot of your employees working remotely or, you know, virtual? Tons of hands would have went up. So, we jumped into 2021. We're recording this here in, in August, September of 2021. And what I'm finding is that a massive number of businesses that have had to make massive changes in 2020 to stay sustainable, or that have actually been in thriving mode, have embraced looking at how they do their businesses differently. So COVID has pushed our business models easily ten years into the future, just in the past year. They've pushed businesses to actually operate the way that we were only considering a year ago. And so, from a human capital standpoint, it's also pushed us to recognize where are some of our hidden jewels that maybe we were smothering and didn't realize we had phenomenal talent before COVID that is actually stood up in shined. And it's caused us to recognize how do we keep people engaged? How do we maintain our culture? When we have pockets of people working together and some are distant. And how do we grow and develop our people to keep them at peak performance? So, has it changed in some ways? Absolutely, no. Because how to be successful in a position? A lot of similarities. The other way of answering it, has it changed? Absolutely, yes. I think, looking at how we are more mindful of our people equation, our human capital has really become more front and center today than where it was a year ago. So yes and no to that question Steve Rush: And many different rockstars now than perhaps two years ago. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. Steve Rush: But equally as important of course, is to make sure that rewriting that DNA of what the rock star is today in today's world, right? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Exactly right. A hundred percent correct. Steve Rush: Love it. So, this is part of the show now where we get to flip the leadership lens on you. I'm going to hack into your great years of experience of leadership development and leading others. And ask you to try and distill down, if you can, your top three leadership hacks, what would they be Jeff? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: I think one, that we have actually touched on and that is to player capability and next model. Really recognizing what's the unique talent that you can possess, that I can possess that can allow me to be competitive with the market space of today and tomorrow. Anticipate where the market's going, so I can be not just competitive, but I can set the bar of what competition looks like. That's one, two is accountability. I've really have learned that people fall into very distinct camps when it comes to accountability and reliability and trustworthiness and integrity. And so, number two is not a very, a fashionable conversation. Going to make people feel uncomfortable, but the reality is, there are a lot of disingenuous people on the planet and you just have to be conscious of that and put your big, you know? Your big adult armor on. So, they don't penetrate you and kill you because everyone has an agenda and that'll be the third answer. And once you recognize everyone has an agenda and it's not necessarily right or wrong, just everyone has an agenda. Then the real mastery is to find ways to align your agenda, personally, your agenda professionally with others agendas. And when you can find places of alignment, then great success can happen forever everybody. Steve Rush: Alignment is just massive, isn't it? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. Steve Rush: Yeah, and it's really interesting. The whole accountability thing in my experience as a coach, when you use just simply use the word accountability, you can almost see people think that means I have to deliver on something. Yes, that's right. And that's no different, isn't it? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: It is. Steve Rush: To any other day of the week, but by just simply raising its awareness. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: And that's what scares people. And again, if an organization supports its people to be the best, they can be. Then within that are going to be layers of accountability, whether there, you know? Obvious or not obvious. And again, if people want to be the best they can be, then there's going to be accountability. And their businesses around the globe that really demonstrate, you know? Accountability. And so, when I look at successful businesses, I've identified accountability happens on five levels. And so, here's another teaching moment for our listeners and business leaders. You know? First of all, the way, you know? You have a truly engaged workforce organization that is going to be in survival mode on its worst day. And there'll be in thriving mode on almost every day, is accountability level one is self. People hold themselves accountable. So, if I'm looking to interview or hire someone, I should incorporate accountability questions to vet and find out, is this person hold themselves accountable? Yes or no. And again, you can still hire someone if they fail the first question, at least now, you know what you're in for. Accountability starts with self. Then it goes to number two is going to be systems, what systems or processes or checklists, or, you know? What do we have out there that we can put our arms around, they help to hold us accountable so that we can go back to default number one? So, one is self, two systems. Three is going to be peer. Do we have peer to peer accountability? Do we work in an environment where no one's trying to play I gotcha? No, one's trying to toss you under the bus. But it's, you know? We're all here because we all have skin in the game. We all want to help each other to be vessels or peer accountability. And then four is going to be an essence customer. If that's an external constituent, what mechanisms do we have in place? Our customers can give us feedback, help us to be more successful every day. And so, they hold us accountable. And if we ask for customer feedback, we really listened to it. And do we really respond to it? Or is it just a game we're playing? And you have these layers of accountability. So again, one is self, two is system, three is peer, fours is customer. You'll five is going to be boss. You know? Whatever you define boss to be. Supervisor, leader, executive team, ownership, the board of directors, mom, and dad at home. You know? The boss should always be last. So, in any organization where you have the paradigm flip, the other direction, where you have accountability, it's driven by bosses first. You're never going to have a culture that's going to allow people to be truly successful because there's going to be questions of, does the organization trust me? Do they believe in me? Do they support me? Will they empower me? If the boss is always having to be there with their thumb on everything? So, accountability is scary. And that's problem we have in the world, I mean, I grew up to be a journalist and I love to write articles on successful people in organizations and share that story. So, people could replicate success, but here in the us, I mean, those articles are settlement ever written. And that's why I love your podcast because it's always about success. Just like my magazine, Professional Performance Magazine. It's always evergreen content, and it's about success from other people's lenses. Steve Rush: Right. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: But journalism is, should be holding all political people accountable. Don't have an agenda in A and B playing favorites. Don't be a journalist and like one political party over the other because you're not doing your job of accountability. And that's what we see happening on the planet is, all of these mechanisms for accountability have been bastardized, polluted, degraded or just imploded. And that's why, you know? Sometimes when we find a great person or a business that blows our brain up. Because, oh my gosh, that's what success looks like. Steve Rush: Yeah. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: That should be norm. Steve Rush: Yeah, it's a great, great reframe, love it. So, the next part of the show, we call it Hack to Attack. So typically, this is where something in your life or your work hasn't worked out well, but as a result, you've got some learning from it. And you now use it as a positive in what you do, what would be your Hack to Attack? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Woo, there's a loaded question. So, I merged my business years ago with another business. It doesn't need to be named. And what I learned is that when you work with someone for a number of years and you decide to align yourself with them and go into business, it's a completely different mindset you take in that relationship. Then if Stephen and I, you're in the UK, I'm in United States of America, we know of each other. We don't really know each other. We've never really worked with each other. If you and I were to merge our businesses, we would ask a lot of forensic questions, not to be mean and rude and disrespectful. We'd ask a lot of forensic questions to make sure that this merger of human capital and minds and product and deliver and businesses make sense. And if it does, we would have a great relationship. So, what I learned is that whenever you're you go to work with someone, you need to look at it from an objective lens as if you've never met them and really do the discovery questions. So, it's like when I worked with an organization, if I have any prior knowledge of them. I've learned to not bring that to the table in the beginning, backup and ask all of the questions you should be asking if you didn't know them to really vet and find out, are you in alignment? Are you both being transparent? Does the data add up? Make sure you're not about to get scammed. And that probably has been my number one lesson learned for the past decade plus. Matter of fact, I wrote an executive article on it with thirteen questions I didn't know to ask that I learned afterwards and it was saved me a lot of pain so that the hack that really has caused me more success. And sometimes I'm still guilty of violating it because when you're romanced in your head and you like someone, or you like the thought of doing something, you sometimes are not as objective as you could be a need to be. So, I go back to those thirteen questions in an article I wrote years ago. So, it really is be more objective and you will have more success. Steve Rush: And I love that because most people, whether they own a business or whether they work for an organization often just have too much emotion in the game. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely. Steve Rush: And therefore, won't allow themselves to be as objective as they could be. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: You got it. Steve Rush: So that forensic look, I think it's really key. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: That's the way I lived. Steve Rush: Yeah. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Absolutely, it will save and your listeners, a lot of pain, grief and that loss of money. Let's say it that way. Steve Rush: Indeed. So that last bit the show Jeff, were we get to give you a chance to do some time travel and bump into yourself at twenty-one, toe to toe and give them some advice. What would your advice Jeff be at twenty-one? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Great question. And you have stolen a page right from me, Steve. I use that same question when I get a chance to interview phenomenal people for my magazine. So, I love that question. It's fair turnaround, right? Steve Rush: Yeah, absolutely. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: You know? At age fifty-seven today, I don't see myself at fifty-seven. I always thought that was an older person's number. Now that I'm there, it's like, oh my gosh, it's pretty doggone young. So, the question, if I went back to twenty-one, I would think I would share a couple of pieces of information. Number one, I might've shared, get serious and focused faster and find a way to do a career that twenty to twenty-five years from age twenty-one. You could retire out of and have a base income, base benefits to rest on for the rest of your life and use that first career to gain and learn as much as you can, that you could then leverage in your second career in your mid-forties to go on and have a phenomenal life. And I say that because as I look over the horizon and see people that have done just that, you know? The ability to be in your fifties and sixties and have a base retirement paycheck for the rest of your life and a base, you know? Health benefits to have for the rest of your life. It twenty-one, you don't understand the magnitude of what that means, but at fifty-seven, looking at that as massive, because now you could do your second career in a lot of ways and not have the stress of, I've got to make a paycheck, I have to, and you finish that have to in a zillion way. And one is, I would say get serious. I see a lot of successful people today. They're successful because they have that base set up. If you're in your mid-forties and you've changed jobs, many times, as a lot of your listeners have, and maybe you've not doubled down and really got a lot of good advanced education because you started your family and had jobs that you just didn't make the time happen. You really find yourself in a challenged position of having to work really hard next twenty years, if not the rest of your life. And that's the norm on the planet today. And that's also the norm I see with a lot of young people today in their twenties that are not hearing this advice that I'd give back to myself for your question you've posed. And they're setting themselves up thinking that they're magically going to be wealthy, whatever that means and not have to work the rest of their life, whatever that means. And I think they're setting themselves up for a massively rude awakening. Steve Rush: Yeah, here, here, I agreed. So, Jeff, listen, I always love chatting to you. You create some great content, both verbally through your talks and speeches, but also through your written work. How can we make sure our listeners can keep connected with you? Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Great question, I appreciate it. There's three ways that we can stay connected. One, we should definitely be connected on LinkedIn. So go LinkedIn, again Jeffrey Magee, Dr. Jeff speaks, we need to be connected, follow me. I don't sell anything on LinkedIn, but in the spirit and thing of what we've just been visiting with here, I post on LinkedIn every day, some sort of mental piece of information, whether it's a quote, whether it's an article, whether it's a video, whether it's a blog to cause people to think at a higher, deeper, faster level. So that's one, if you want to find out more about, you know? Products, deliverables, how I do what I do, then obviously you can go to jeffreymagee.com, that's my website, jeffreymagee.com. It's J-E-F-F-R-E-Y. So, it's the non-British spelling and McGee is M-A-G-G-E and then my media company is professionalperformancemagazine.com. So those would be the three places, professional performance magazine.com, jeffreymagee.com or go to LinkedIn, and then we can stay connected and keep the brain going. Steve Rush: And we'll shoot those links into our show notes as well. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: You're awesome. Thank you so much, Steve. Thank you very much opportunity to share information ideas with your listeners and anything I can do for you and them, just let me know. Steve Rush: Jeff, it's been amazing to talk, take care of yourself and thanks being part of The Leadership Hacker community. Dr. Jeffrey McGee: Thank you so much. Closing Steve Rush: I genuinely want to say heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your day to listen in too. We do this in the service of helping others, and spreading the word of leadership. Without you listening in, there would be no show. So please subscribe now if you have not done so already. Share this podcast with your communities, network, and help us develop a community and a tribe of leadership hackers. Finally, if you would like me to work with your senior team, your leadership community, keynote an event, or you would like to sponsor an episode. Please connect with us, by our social media. And you can do that by following and liking our pages on Twitter and Facebook our handle there: @leadershiphacker. Instagram you can find us there @the_leadership_hacker and at YouTube, we are just Leadership Hacker, so that is me signing off. I am Steve Rush and I have been the leadership hacker.
We're back with Nick VIP section with special guest Dart ska Strike Tyson Cincinnati's up and coming label and hitmakers. We're here to discuss artist Cheezy Charles and Lucc Bagz. How it is to be a black label owner and funding your own business. Also Nail Tech Damn_SheExotic on IG one of the biggest nail techs in the Midwest/USA book her to get your best nail designs and quality.
Today we have Serendipiti Day talking about her experience intuitively healing her pelvic and uterine alignment. We get into how our our womb can move, and how its position impacts everything from our menstrual cycles to digestion! Serendipiti shares about her journey to intuitive womb work, and gives tangible practices you can incorporate into your life to support optimal uterine alignment. Serendipiti Day is a radical feminist who has spent the last ten years of her life hitchhiking all over the world, mostly by herself. Her passion for women's work was influenced by her childhood, when she experienced firsthand what it meant to be exploited because of her sex. Her work includes her two courses, "Arms of the Goddess: Healing from Sexual Abuse" and "Flourishing Women's Communities." Serendipiti now resides in the Midwest USA conspiring to co-creating a community of sisterhood. Enroll in Serendipiti's next round of Arms of The Goddess: Healing From Sexual Abuse. (Enrollment closes August 27!) The Womb Room Membership is almost here! To get a free, exclusive sneak peek of this powerful membership community, rate and review this podcast! Here's what to do: 1. Rate and review on Apple podcasts 2. Screenshot your review and send it to hello@thewombroom.co 3. The team will get you on the list for an amazing month of live workshops, community conversation, and self-guided exploration in The Womb Room! Download any of our free resources, including: -Fertility Tracking 101 Workshop -PMS Reset Mini Course -Herbs for Womb Health Guide -Cervical Embodiment Meditation
I've known our guest since college, but we never knew the details of each other's lives. Moving from France to the Midwest USA, to HMSA (Hmong Minnesota Student Association) then joining the Peace Corps in West Africa! In the latest @thepetewongpodcast I sit down with my good pal to hear how his journey's have provided a perspective of humanity and himself. Episode 26 "Gaining Human Perspective" a conversation with Albert Vang #mentalhealth #peacecorps #health Listen on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, Podbean, and wherever podcasts can be found. Like, Subscribe, and Follow for new episodes!
Stacia is a mother of three boys living in the Midwest USA. After her husband passed she began discovering her Spiritual path and was drawn to crystal energy as well as many tools of divination. She's since immersed herself into mindset and spiritual studies. Stacia became a certified yoga teacher shortly before the pandemic began, then a Kundalini Reiki Master, Usui Reiki Master and Shamanic Healer; she's an intuitive healer and mindset mentor working with multiple healing modalities. Stacia is recently a certified Moonologer and finished an astrology course. Also recently completed her Rose Priestess certification through the Magdalene Rose Temple. She is currently journeying with the Temples of Isis Rose Flame Serpent Mystery School. Stacia is strengthening her gift as a psychic medium, also connecting to the Elementals, Galactic and Angelic realms. Connect with Stacia on Instagram and Facebook @staciagalvinstoeff and join Facebook Group Magnetic Energy Intuitive: https://www.facebook.com/groups/448227169963990 - To join my group, watch the podcast on YouTube and connect with me further visit: www.walnutwednesday.com/link-in-bio
Contact Stacia at: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/staciamoonmystic Donation Link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/staciastoeff/?fbclid=IwAR1ovN-Cv13yTQRGszc1XMmEjesGhqluGg05-AwSFTJjfJB8D1n0YKQHn-o I'm a widowed mother of three boys living in the Midwest USA. After my husband passed I began discovering my Spiritual path and was drawn to crystal energy as well as many tools of divination. I have since immersed myself into mindset and spiritual studies. I became a certified yoga teacher shortly before the pandemic began, then a Kundalini Reiki Master, Usui Reiki Master and Shamanic Healer. I'm an intuitive healer and mindset mentor working with multiple healing modalities. I just became a certified Moonologer and finished an astrology course. I recently completed my Rose Priestess certification through the Magdalene Rose Temple. I am currently journeying with the Temples of Isis Rose Flame Serpent Mystery School. I'm strengthening my gift as a psychic medium, and I also connect to the Elementals, Galactic and Angelic realms.
Comfort zones...? A pastor's daughter from the Midwest USA moves to Florida expecting sand and surf—but finds unlikely friendships. SCRIPTURES Luke 7:36-50 - The woman anoints Jesus' feet with her tears. FEEDBACK You know it's on your mind so go ahead. Say your first name and your state or country. "Hey, it's Wayne from Ukraine. Can I get the three blenders as a value pack?" Email podcast@unitarianchristianalliance.org Click here to RECORD A MESSAGE Or call: 615-581-1158 LISTENING TIPS Pauses are hand crafted for maximal comprehension and impact. If your podcast app lets you remove silences, please don't. You will likely enjoy this better with the silences left in. FOLLOW THE PODCAST The UCA Podcast email list! Large and enjoyable episode art, plus additional thoughts from the host. Also, notifications when there are delays. Instagram UCA.podcast - Colors, patterns, words. Twitter @UCApodcast - Episode announcements (and delay notices) Podcast Webpage: https://podcast.unitarianchristianalliance.org
The third episode of TFTHS is here. This time we talk about Detroit, Michigan! Pistons, Tigers, Lions, Red Wings. From Aretha Franklin to Death and from Negative Approach to Cold As Life; Welcome to motor city, one of the most important cities of Midwest USA!Tρίτο επεισόδιο TFTHS! Αυτή τη φορά 'ταξιδεύουμε' στην πόλη του Detroit, στην πολιτεία του Μίσιγκαν! Από τους Pistons και τους Tigers, στους Lions και τους Red Wings. Από την Aretha Franklin και τους Death, ως τους Negative Approach και τους Cold As Life. Καλωσήρθατε στην motor city, όπως συνήθως αναφέρεται, μια από τις πιο σημαντικές πόλεις στα βορειοδυτικά σύνορα των ΗΠΑ!
Episode no.3; Detroit! Pistons, Tigers, Lions, Red Wings.From Aretha Franklin to Death and from Necros to Cold As Life; welcome to Detroit motor city! In this episode we research and explore the urban history and the music connected to the counter-culture of Detroit, Michigan, one of the most important cities of Midwest USA.
Jaimie Beebe moved from small town Midwest USA to Hollywood to manage a band. She quickly learned she didn't like music management, and became a producer on a movie set, without having been on a set before. Working twenty hour days along with lots of on the job training, she succeeded! Today she is a successful Casting Director and Podcaster. Her spirited journey has been full of drive, determination and an uncommon work ethic.
An interview of Ron Revord and Greg Miller about breeding chestnuts for the Midwest USA
First in-person episode! Hispanic/LatinX Heritage Month Special. Christa records with guest, Selina Benavente, in her central London flat, where they discuss mutual experiences growing up Latina in the Midwest USA, Selina’s first solo traveling experiences, how she came to be living abroad and in London, and how she tackled the possible dream of a corporate sabbatical when faced with unforeseen career changes. Selina touches on her solo travel to Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal and her top 3 travel locations.
Missionary Mondays is a weekly interview with missionaries from around the world highlighting their life and labor for the Lord! This week’s interview is with Missionary Bro Silas Clarke Silas Clarke Support: Elbow Lake Baptist Church 23...
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss pregnancy in fiction, with plenty of stories from Robyn's experiences and horrified responses from Karen and Carla. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Content note: Body horror, vomiting This episode originally recorded April 2019. Who We Are Karen: I’m Karen Healey, a writer and teacher in Christchurch New Zealand and I may have eaten my twin in the womb Robyn: I’m Robyn Fleming, a writer and parent in Tucson, Arizona. I have been pregnant twice, which makes me the foremost expert in this podcast. Carla: I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney in the Midwest USA, and I have never and will never be pregnant. I love everyone in this metaphorical bar.
As those of us in the Midwest [USA] experience days on end of rain, and given that almost everyone experiences rain-gloom sometime, some perspective that can help bring out the sunshine!
As those of us in the Midwest [USA] experience days on end of rain, and given that almost everyone experiences rain-gloom sometime, some perspective that can help bring out the sunshine!
Hosted by Adee Simon Macdowell. Gina shares the truth about Islam and the reason why the Quran is misunderstood. She explains why you should never believe what you hear on the media and news. This is an amazing story told by a woman who is not yet officially Muslim. Gina is 59 years old and lives in rural USA Mid West (2020). She says that growing up here, there are no other choices in religion, we are just born Christian with no choice. Gina became disillusioned with the Christian faith when it started being used as a tool for hate around 2016, stirring up hatred against Muslims and Islam. With the rising of Donald Trump she looked at all faiths but decided Islam was the truth. She got some leaflets from Islamic outreach workers at a festival. Gina started reading these leaflets about Islam and it was logical and made sense to her. Then she started reading the Quran and realised that the Quran was misunderstood by her people due to Islamophobia and that people were saying disparaging things about it. Gina was also amazed about the big bang theory in the Quran, and that the virgin birth and Jesus are also mentioned there. After this she started giving out copies of the Quran and giving talks on what Islam the Quran really are. She started visiting Muslims and was amazed by the people and the way they treated her and the way they acted. They had kindness and sense of community, the way they took care of each other and the joy that they have and their happiness. She said that they were the kindest people she has ever met. Gina is waiting for her husband to agree to convert before she makes an official conversion with him. She believes he will make the decision to convert in good time.
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss how they write, how other authors write, and how there's no One True Way. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Robyn Fleming, a writer and parent in Tucson, Arizona. I threw a birthday party with 28 children in attendance last weekend, and I am still recovering. Carla: I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney in the Midwest USA, and I once answered a question Karen asked me and then told her she’d interrupted make-outs. She thought I meant real make-outs. I meant writing make-outs. I can safely say I would not interrupt real make-outs to answer a text. Karen: I’m Karen Healey, a writer and teacher in Christchurch New Zealand, and I once punched myself in the throat while trying to choreograph a fight scene.
Raised in small town Indiana on a musical diet of 80s synth pop and punk rock, Noncompliant soon found barnyard raves and warehouse techno parties and (as DJ Shiva) quickly became a fixture of the fabled 90s Midwest USA rave scene. Two decades and a name change later, she is at the top of her techno game. Mixmag named her one of 2017’s Top 20 Breakthrough DJs. She owned a packed and sweaty Boiler Room during Movement Detroit, turned in mindblowing mixes for Slam Radio, Discwoman, and Resident Advisor, and quaked some of the world’s most respected dance floors like Smartbar Chicago, Amsterdam’s DeSchool, Concrete in Paris, and Berlin's legendary Berghain. Her festival appearances include Unsound, Red Bull Music Festival Paris, Movement Detroit, and Whole United Queer Festival. As a producer, her releases and remixes on labels like Valence, Argot, Flash, and Dark Entries have pounded sound systems worldwide, with her tune “Women’s Work” landing on Fiedel’s official Berghain 08 mix and on his label Fiedeltwo. At her core, she is a die-hard techno fan with a deep love for music and a drive to continue honing her craft as a DJ and producer in order to share her favorite music with people on dance floors everywhere. Available in: sptfy.com/medellinstyle youtube.com/medellinstyle apple.co/2NirUXY soundcloud.com/medellinstyledj/sets/podcast www.mixcloud.com/MedellinStyle/ www.deezer.com/es/show/657932 tun.in/pjCgO medellinstyle.com/category/podcast/
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss fashion and fiction and fatness. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Carla M Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, and I’m wearing a University of Michigan hoodie over a black pro wrestling shirt (Bray Wyatt), blue jeans, and red and black socks. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I’m wearing my new! favourite! jeans! and a purple sleeveless top I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I am wearing pajamas right now, but earlier I had on a tshirt that said “Not to brag, but I totally got out of bed today” - I often get compliments from other moms on my sick t-shirt game.
Gridiron Prep unveils upcoming plans for the future of the of grassroots football in Ohio! To hear more about GP Champions League contact us at GridironPrepFootball@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
When investing in real estate, we need to avoid making mistakes with ARV and repair value. How can we provide sellers with more realistic numbers, that both they and our contractors can trust? Is there a baseline we should be using to ensure more accuracy? On this episode, co-creator of Rehab Estimator Pro, Matthew Hedstrom shares how the estimator tool streamlines transactions and can help us win more deals. 3 Things We Learned Offer more trustworthy numbersMiscalculating ARV and repair value has a devastating impact on transactions, so we need a more trustworthy way to calculate numbers. Use a tool that offers a baseline estimate. This not only gives us accurate estimates for our contractors, but provides a more trustworthy offer to our sellers. Remove the emotional attachmentMost sellers have an emotional attachment to their properties, and this can be a source of conflict when we explain what needs to be rehabilitated. By offering our sellers a baseline, streamlined checklist, we can remove the emotion and have them objectively decide what needs to be renovated themselves. Speed up the transactionIf we have a baseline estimate for ARVs and repair value, we can speed up the transaction process. By referring to a set checklist, we can provide sellers with an offer in under 15 minutes, without ever taking out a tape measure. Plus, if we bring a battery-operated printer, we can give sellers a contract before even leaving the property. As real estate investors, the biggest mistake we can run into is a miscalculation of cost. To avoid this from happening, we need to refer to set, almost standardized numbers. This helps us with our own calculations, but also makes us more trustworthy in the eyes of our sellers. By adhering to a baseline, we ensure accuracy while putting ourselves in the running to win more deals. Guest Bio- Matthew Hedstrom is the co-creator of Rehab Estimator Pro, a tool designed to streamline the real estate investing process. He owns several construction, contracting and rehabilitation businesses in Midwest USA, and has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. Matthew is also a coach and partner at The Real Deal Investor Coaching, as well as the founder of selfastwithus.com and co-owner of WisoREIA, Wisconsin’s premier Real Estate Investors Association. Matthew is an advocate for education, and strives to help business owners unlock their potential through learning. https://www.reiestimatorpro.com/ Therealdealcoaching.com To access the tools discussed on this show, visit realestateinvestor.com/best realestateinvestor.com/estimate Ready to discover the power of a 40 person marketing & sales team...WITHOUT having to hire a single person? Visit REIvault.com to learn more.
Your host, Johnny Giunta; experienced life in the trenches of college athletics in Midwest USA and contributes a funny narrative about his joke of a playing career with funny stories from his tenure. This podcast will feature guests ranging from professional athletes to sports twitter personalities and will provide an in depth look on life as a professional athlete as well as life in the minors. Original, out of the box questions will be asked to the guests providing unique content for the audience that they can not get from typical sports networks. The originality and humor makes this podcast one of a kind and cant miss.
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss fashion and fiction and fatness. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Carla M Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, and I’m wearing a University of Michigan hoodie over a black pro wrestling shirt (Bray Wyatt), blue jeans, and red and black socks. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I’m wearing my new! favourite! jeans! and a purple sleeveless top I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I am wearing pajamas right now, but earlier I had on a tshirt that said “Not to brag, but I totally got out of bed today” - I often get compliments from other moms on my sick t-shirt game.
Former Punk Rocker, Mississippi Jake had something more to say and moved from Punk to Folk, giving it a bit of an punkish edge in his delivery. Jake is from the Midwest USA and is presently on tour to support his two new projects with full bands. One, a rock project, two a folk band project, while still continuing to push his solo career. We had a blast! You will to! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carlas-coffee-house/support
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss the bad and the ugly of writing the weather (okay, some good too). Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and yesterday I got hella sunburned. I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. Last month I went to the Grand Canyon with Karen, and it was beautiful! But also super fucking cold and I slipped on ice and fell RIGHT on my butt. And my pride. I’m Carla M Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, and I had two different birthday trips cancelled do to storms that took Missouri from 70 degrees to blizzard.
Note: We’re talking about menstruation over the next couple of episodes; we try to use gender-neutral language because not all women menstruate and people who menstruate are not all women. We apologize for moments when we mess that up. Note: This is the third, and final, episode in a series about writing menstruation. Note: There are some personal details about how each host experiences menstruation that may be considered TMI. This is the episode that we had to record a second time and the conversation went even longer than normal, so this will be split into multiple episodes. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss menstruation. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I got my first period on my twelfth birthday. Which was also the day I got my ears pierced. It was a pretty eventful birthday. I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, I don’t remember when I got my first period, so instead I’ll tell you that I have a scar on my face sort of shaped like North and South America. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and my mother said “Congratulations!” in a way that was cool but also she looked DEEPLY FEARFUL about the fact that her oldest child was now official maturing.
Note: We’re talking about menstruation over the next couple of episodes; we try to use gender-neutral language because not all women menstruate and people who menstruate are not all women. We apologize for moments when we mess that up. Note: This is the second in a series about writing menstruation. The first episode ended with talk about “Boobs” by Suzy McKee Charnas, and how a perfectly appropriate response to bullying is to eat them. Note: There are some personal details about how each host experiences menstruation that may be considered TMI. This is the episode that we had to record a second time and the conversation went even longer than normal, so this will be split into multiple episodes. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss menstruation. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I got my first period on my twelfth birthday. Which was also the day I got my ears pierced. It was a pretty eventful birthday.I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, I don’t remember when I got my first period, so instead I’ll tell you that I have a scar on my face sort of shaped like North and South America.I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and my mother said “Congratulations!” in a way that was cool but also she looked DEEPLY FEARFUL about the fact that her oldest child was now official maturing.
My son, Billy, and his wife, Sarah, live on the border of Texas/Mexico and serve at the Rio Grande Bible College. We talk about things that have influenced their lives while growing up, thoughts about illegal immigration and differences between the Latino culture and Midwest USA culture. I really enjoyed this conversation. They are a special couple. I hope you enjoy it too. The Rio Grande Bible College [podlove-subscribe-button button="itunes"] [Sassy_Social_Share]
Production notes: Still a faint echo sometimes when Robyn is speaking. Working on it, but we had recorded through the next few episodes before we knew about it. Notes: We’re talking about menstruation over the next couple of episodes; we try to use gender-neutral language because not all women menstruate and people who menstruate are not all women. We apologize for moments when we mess that up. This is the episode that we had to record a second time and the conversation went even longer than normal, so this will be split into multiple episodes. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss menstruation. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I got my first period on my twelfth birthday. Which was also the day I got my ears pierced. It was a pretty eventful birthday.I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, I don’t remember when I got my first period, so instead I’ll tell you that I have a scar on my face sort of shaped like North and South America.I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and my mother said “Congratulations!” in a way that was cool but also she looked DEEPLY FEARFUL about the fact that her oldest child was now official maturing.
Production notes: We fixed the previous issue with the popping and cutting out in Robyn’s recording. Yay! And promptly ran into another issue where there is now a faint echo in her recording. Boo. Working on that resolution now, but we recorded a few episodes before we realized it was happening. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss the redemption through death trope. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand. And I totally DESTROYED our last recording session and it was REALLY GOOD I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. If I eat too many walnuts, my gums bleed. I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, in October, I went shopping for a giant inflatable donkey for a Christmas display. For work. Yes, I’m still a corporate attorney. In-house lawyering is great.. and I love everyone in this metaphorical bar
Production notes: We fixed the previous issue with the popping and cutting out in Robyn’s recording. Yay! And promptly ran into another issue where there is now a faint echo in her recording. Boo. Working on that resolution now, but we recorded a few episodes before we realized it was happening. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss the trapped in a cabin (forced proximity) trope. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, and I’ve trapped myself in a cabin (also known as my studio) to avoid the cold and the snow. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I’m coming to you LIVE from my mother’s house in Oamaru. (not actually live) I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona, and two nights before my wedding I got trapped in an elevator with Karen Healey – but, not being fictional persons, we didn’t make out. I love everyone in this metaphorical bar!
Production notes: Karen had some recording issues this time and her volume fades in and out a little. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss writing groups. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. One of my eyes is nearsighted, and the other is farsighted! I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, and once I worked as legal counsel for a bigfoot hunter. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I have never been part of a physical writing group.
Production notes: Robyn had some recording issues. There are a few minor places where she’ll drop a word or two and some popping noises. We apologize and are working on making sure this doesn’t happen in future recordings. (However, we’ve recorded several episodes prior to editing this, so there may be issues in the next few podcasts as well. Where possible, I’ll note anything big that is missing.) Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss fake marriage, a bulletproof trope. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I’m into perfume now. I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I once fell into a cactus! It was terrible. I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA, I once nearly broke my neck saving my dog from a spider and I love everyone in this metaphorical bar.
Content: Opens with some lightly descriptive talk about oral surgery. Production notes: Karen and Robyn both serenade Carla during the Ask Your Friendly Neighborhood Bartender, because they are amazing. Robyn had some recording issues. There are a few minor places where she’ll drop a word or two and some popping noises. We apologize and are working on making sure this doesn’t happen in future recordings. (However, we’ve recorded several episodes prior to editing this, so there may be issues in the next few podcasts as well. Where possible, I’ll note anything big that is missing.) Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss fake marriage, a bulletproof trope. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA and I’m pretty much fake married. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I spent over $300 on bras this morning - and not that many of them. I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I have between four and eight fewer teeth than everyone else in this podcast! I love everyone in this metaphorical bar
Content: Some discussion of trauma and toxic parents. Brief mention of suicide attempt in fiction around the 33 minute mark. Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss parental relationships. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who we are: I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA and my mom and dad are my sister’s grandparents. I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I MCd a NZ poetry day competition where I formatted the instructions as a sestina. I’m Robyn Fleming, a parent and writer in Tucson, Arizona. I had to make up a song about bandaids last week, and my three-year-old critiqued my meter. Note from Carla: Robyn had some recording issues. There are a few minor places where she’ll drop a word or two and some popping noises. We apologize and are working on making sure this doesn’t happen in future recordings. (However, we’ve recorded several episodes prior to editing this, so there may be issues in the next few podcasts as well. Where possible, I’ll note anything big that is missing.) Due to these recording issues, we lost a chunk of the discussion around traumatic and/or difficult relationships with their parents and segue quickly into complicated relationships between parents and their adult children.
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss the bulletproof trope enemies to lovers. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who we are: I’m Karen Healey, an author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I spent $400 on books last weekend. I’m Robyn Fleming, I write and Mom in Tucson, Arizona, and I can break bricks with my bare hands. I’m Carla M. Lee, an author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA and I recently explored a run-down, abandoned manufacturing building that had a weird little house inside, and I did it as part of my job as a lawyer -- never got to do that at a law firm. I love everyone in this metaphorical bar! Note from Carla: Robyn had some recording issues. There are a few minor places where she’ll drop a word or two and some popping noises. We apologize and are working on making sure this doesn’t happen in future recordings. (However, we’ve recorded several episodes prior to editing this, so there may be issues in the next few podcasts as well. Where possible, I’ll note anything big that is missing.)
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss worldbuilding in second world fantasy. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who We Are Robyn Fleming: I write and wrangle children in Tucson Arizona, and I have spent objectively way too much time with flatworms. Carla M. Lee: An author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA and when I drove past a graveyard this morning, my dog started barking at nothing at all. I think she’s warning me about the black dog. Karen Healey: An author and teacher living in Otautahi New Zealand, and I outed myself to a staff meeting last week. Note from Carla: Robyn had some recording issues. There are a few minor places where she’ll drop a word or two and during her definition of second world fantasy (about 18 minutes into the episode), a chunk of her definition, including the first part of an example, were lost. We apologize and are working on making sure this doesn’t happen in future recordings. (However, we’ve recorded several episodes prior to editing this, so there may be issues in the next few podcasts as well. Where possible, I’ll note anything big that is missing.)
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss what they wish they knew about reading any number of years ago. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who are we? Carla M. Lee: An author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA with my partner and ridiculous dog. Karen Healey: An author and teacher living in Christchurch, New Zealand with my awesome flatmate and an overgrown herb garden. Robyn Fleming: I write, parent, and sometimes teach martial arts in Tucson, Arizona. My five year old is internet famous for asking whether our country is named after Captain America, which probably tells you everything you need to know about our household.
Mark and Cindy are back from a massive road trip through Ontario and into the Midwest USA, checking out the amazing trees and lakes and visiting as many bakeries as humanly possible. In this two-part episode, Mark shares his thoughts on the trip, with an emphasis on the wide variety of community bakeries they saw throughout Ontario. Then, Mark and Arlo Brandl from Tecumseh, Michigan have an in-person chat about Arlo's new bakery and his recent success in becoming the BBGA's seventh Certified Bread Baker. Some links: Tecumseh Bread and Pastry @tecumseh_bread_pastry on Instagram BBGA's Artisan Baker Certification Program Rise Up! The Baker Podcast website Mark on Instagram Credits: Produced and hosted by Mark Dyck Theme song and music by Robyn Dyck Orange Boot Human logo by Fred Reibin
Authors Robyn Fleming, Karen Healey, and Carla M. Lee discuss what they wish they knew about writing any number of years ago. Summary of the episode and all show notes can be found at ThisMetaphoricalBar.com. Who are we? Carla M. Lee: An author, artist, and attorney living in the Midwest USA with my partner and ridiculous dog. Karen Healey: An author and teacher living in Christchurch, New Zealand with my awesome flatmate and an overgrown herb garden. Robyn Fleming: I write, parent, and sometimes teach martial arts in Tucson, Arizona. My five year old is internet famous for asking whether our country is named after Captain America, which probably tells you everything you need to know about our household.
The New Old Fashioned is a rock and roll band from Dayton, OH. The New Old-Fashioned’s third album, Smalltown, Midwest, USA, is an attempt to understand America in 2018. The album’s nine songs set forth a cast of characters you might encounter while walking down Main Street in a small Midwestern town – such as […]
On today's podcast, Fr. Javier del Castillo, Vicar of Opus Dei in the Midwest (USA), offers a timely reflection on the current crisis in the Church and how we can respond to all of it by turning our sadness and anger into prayer. Like the disciples who were fearful that they would perish in the great storm (ref. Mark 4:38-41), we too should instinctively look to Jesus for help as we face the waves of scandal that leave us profoundly perplexed. Within the silence of our hearts, the Holy Spirit will give us the answers as we pray to know: Why is God allowing this to happen? Is God with us? Where is God in all of this? We will come to the realization that this time of difficulty is a time of justice and mercy. The crisis has to provoke the emergence of saints because we are all called to be saints who need to recommit ourselves to being faithful disciples, to rediscovering our priestly souls, and to spreading the joy of the Gospel. This time should also lead to a renewal of the Church as a missionary in the world, committed to evangelization where we disappear and only Christ shines. “Let us ask Holy Mary, our hope, to kindle in us a holy desire that we may all come together to dwell in the house of the Father. Nothing need disturb us if we make up our minds to anchor our hearts in a real longing for our true fatherland. Our Lord will lead us there with his grace, and he will send a good wind to carry our ship to the bright shores of our destination” (St. Josemaria Escriva; "Friends of God", no. 221). ______________________________________________________________ THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! If you enjoyed today’s podcast, please leave a rating or review here on SoundCloud and on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/st.-josemaria-institute-podcast/id966458405?mt=2 Don’t miss new podcasts from the St. Josemaria Institute! Subscribe at: stjosemaria.org/subscribe/
Are you interested in expanding your career in the infosec & privacy fields, or want to get started in professions in these areas, or start a new career after leaving another industry? This episode is one you'll want to listen to! • What are the challenges information security, privacy, compliance & audit practitioners (aka information assurance pros) face advancing their careers? • How are they meeting these challenges? • How do information assurance professionals stay up to date with the latest threats and vulnerabilities? • What are the benefits of working in information assurance careers in Midwest USA? (There are MANY!) Listen in as Donna Gomez and Naeem Babri, information security experts in the greater Kansas City, MO/KS area, answer these questions and discuss key related topics. They will also provide information about the upcoming SPOTlight on Security workshop in Overland Park, KS, on September 5 (https://kcissa-spotlightonsecurity.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html).
Here is the 17th episode of our Deep Traveler mix series made by international artists only. Free DL. Featured this month : Titonton Duvante (producer, DJ, label owner @residual-recordings) from the Midwest (USA) in the 90's, spreading electronic vibes in this one hour mix. Follow us : facebook.com/MakeItDeep Follow him : @tduvante Our Deep Travelers mix series : bit.ly/2zusR5x #listenbetter
June price just released a book, MyJune's Cottage which narrates her story of being the only black teacher in a rural county in the Midwest USA. Her website is https://pricelessministries.wixsite.com/international . The book can also be found on Amazon. We need to choose to see the racism around us and then do something about it.
Most Americans would be at least leery of moving to Liberia, West Africa, from a comfortable home in the Midwest USA, especially with 4 teenagers in tow, but not everyone is as faithful to God's call as are Mark & Peggy Halvorsen.
The illustrious best-selling author and international speaker, Gary Douglas, pioneered a set of transformational life changing tools and processes known as Access Consciousness® over 20 years ago. These cutting edge tools have transformed the lives of thousands of people all over the world. In fact, his work has spread to 47 countries, with 2,000 trained facilitators worldwide. Simple but so effective, the tools facilitate people of all ages and backgrounds to help remove limitations holding them back from a full life.Gary was born in Midwest USA and raised in San Diego, California. Although he came from a ‘normal' middle class family, he was fascinated from an early age with the human psyche and this interest grew into a desire to assist people to ‘know what they know' and expand into more awareness, joy and abundance.These pragmatic tools he has developed are not only being used by celebrities, corporates and teachers but also by health professionals (psychologists, chiropractors, naturopaths) to improve the health & wellbeing of their clients.Prior to creating Access Consciousness® Gary Douglas was a successful realtor in Santa Barbara, California and also completed a psychology degree. Although he attained material wealth and was regarded as ‘successful', his life began to lack meaning and so he began his search to find a new way forward- one that would create change in the world and in people's lives.Gary is the author of 8 books including the best selling novel ‘The Place'. He describes the inspiration behind the writing, “I wanted to explore the possibilities for how life could be. To allow people to know there actually is no necessity to live with the aging, insanity, stupidity, intrigue, violence, craziness, trauma and drama we live with, as though we have no choice. ‘The Place' is about people knowing that all things are possible. Choice is the source of creation. What if our choices can be changed in an instant? What if we could make choice more real than the decisions and stuck points we buy as real?” Gary has an incredible level of awareness and care for all living things, “I would like people be more aware and more conscious and to realize we need to be stewards of the earth not users and abusers of the earth. If we start to see the possibilities of what we have available to us, instead of trying to create our piece of the pie, we could create a different world.”A vibrant 70-year-old grandfather (who is almost ‘ageless') with a very different view on life, Gary believes we are here to express our uniqueness and experience the ease and joy of living. He continues to inspire others, teaching across the world and making a massive contribution to the planet. He openly proclaims that for him, “life is just beginning”. Gary also has a wide range of personal and other business interests. These include: a passion for antiques (Gary established ‘The Antique Guild' in Brisbane, Australia in 2012) riding spirited stallions and breeding Costarricense De Paso horses, and an eco retreat in Costa Rica set to open in 2014.Learn more at www.GaryMDouglas.com.
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