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A new MP3 sermon from VCY America is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Christian Hall of Fame, Canton, OH Subtitle: Our Christian Heritage Speaker: Mike Frazier Broadcaster: VCY America Event: TV Broadcast Date: 4/22/2025 Length: 57 min.
Exclusive premieres of new tracks by Naken Without It and Mike Frazier.w/Jenn Coffey, NOTley Crue, Mercury Burns First, Tuesday Night Whites.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/matt-connarton-unleashed--3109245/support.
Exclusive premieres of new tracks by Naken Without It and Mike Frazier.w/Jenn Coffey, Tuesday Night WhitesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/matt-connarton-unleashed--3109245/support.
Are you interested in mastering communication in your relationship? Join us for part two of our conversation with Dr. Mike Frazier MD, host of the "Strong Men, Strong Marriages" podcast. As a renowned psychiatrist specializing in neuroscience, Dr. Mike offers invaluable insights into fostering intimacy and effective communication within relationships. Delve into practical strategies for improving your relationship dynamics, including the optimal timing for making difficult requests and navigating common conflict areas. Dr. Mike shares inspirational success stories and explores the nuances of forgiveness, faith, and trust, providing clarity on how to strengthen the bond with your partner and foster a thriving, resilient marriage. “The answer isn't do more, it's actually commit to less and follow through on it” - Dr. Mike You'll leave this episode with… The best time for you to make hard requests in your relationship Inspirational success stories of couples overcoming relationship challenges The 4 types of people that come in to see Dr. Mike Why Dr. Mike's program is called “Strong Men, Strong Marriages” What an intimate conversation entails How you can be more effective in your communication with your partner The main framework of communication How you can deal with the feeling that you're getting run over in your relationship The main conflict areas in most marriages Two options of how you can put yourself into your partners shoes What is the difference between forgiveness, faith, and trust? The Manhood Experiment of the week that will help you become more clear on what you're asking for of your partner ----- Leave a Review: If you enjoyed the show, please leave us an encouraging review and tell us why you loved the show. Remember to click ‘subscribe' so you get all of our latest episodes. https://ratethispodcast.com/man What is the Manhood Experiment? It's a weekly podcast where we give you one experiment to level up your mind, career, business, health, relationships and more! For more tips and behind the scenes, follow us on: Instagram @ManhoodExperiment Tiktok @ManhoodExperiment Threads @ManhoodExperiment Submit your questions @ www.manhoodexperiment.com Resources Mentioned: Dr. Mike Frazier MD: https://mikefraziermd.com/ Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box - The Arbinger Institute Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini Strong Men, Strong Marriages: strongmen.io The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/
What if there were simple yet powerful ways to strengthen and restore intimacy in your relationship? In this episode, we welcome Dr. Mike Frazier MD, host of the "Strong Men, Strong Marriages" podcast, a renowned psychiatrist with expertise in neuroscience and relationship dynamics. Dr. Mike tackles marriage challenges, from expectations around sex to shared responsibilities, along with insights into therapy, offering guidance on finding the right support and dispelling common misconceptions. Explore Dr. Mike's passion for his work as he vulnerably shares his own personal struggles within his marriage, along with strategies for overcoming relationship challenges. Delve into Dr. Mike's take on sayings like “Happy Wife, Happy Life” and his advice for happier marriages and learn how to nurture intimacy, set expectations, and communicate effectively in your relationships. “If you can manage your mind better and your emotions better, that affects everything” - Dr. Mike You'll leave this episode with… Tips on how you can strengthen and return intimacy back into your relationship What are different types of therapy Dr. Mike's personal journey through marriage struggles, including a year without sex, and how he helps men facing similar struggles today Dr. Mike's break down of his thoughts on the saying “Happy Wife, Happy Life” What the mosquito cycle is and how you can change it for a healthier marriage What it looks like when you treat your marriage transactionally How do you deal with the expectations you have when you are the main provider for the family The difference of being a partner or a contractor in your marriage What you can do if you feel like you are doing too much or more than your partner An understanding of why seemingly ‘unrelated things' are often connected in woman's minds How you can make a good request to your partner The three questions you should ask your partner when having hard discussions ----- Leave a Review: If you enjoyed the show, please leave us an encouraging review and tell us why you loved the show. Remember to click ‘subscribe' so you get all of our latest episodes. https://ratethispodcast.com/man What is the Manhood Experiment? It's a weekly podcast where we give you one experiment to level up your mind, career, business, health, relationships and more! For more tips and behind the scenes, follow us on: Instagram @ManhoodExperiment Tiktok @ManhoodExperiment Threads @ManhoodExperiment Submit your questions @ www.manhoodexperiment.com Resources Mentioned: Dr. Mike Frazier MD: https://mikefraziermd.com/ Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box - The Arbinger Institute Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
Mayor of The Roost, Jody Lott, reports from the Scott Berry Golf Classic at the Hattiesburg Country Club, Al Holder updates on former Southern Miss baseball players in the MLB, plus Mike Frazier from JUCO Weekly updates on JUCO football across the state and Patrick Irby with Anatomies in Hattiesburg joins the show.
Matt Stolz, Play by Play voice for the Arkansas State Red Wolves, previews Saturday's game against the Golden Eagles at The Rock for Homecoming, plus Mike Frazier from JuCo Weekly, updates on JuCo football across the state.
The crew of The Eagle Hour talk with Dusty Thibodeaux, writer for the War Hawk Report to preview the USM/Monroe game on October 12th. Then, the guys get the weekly Junior College update from Mike Frazier of JuCo Weekly. Assistant Baseball Coach Ladd Rhodes also joins the show to talk about updates for fall ball.
Episode 86 with Ray Barbee, professional skateboarder, musician and photographer from San Diego, California.Together we discussed his life and career, from picking up his first board in the early 80's to turning pro for Powell-Peralta at the age of 17, how he's been living his life between his 3 main passions that are skateboarding, music and photography and much more, through surprise questions from friends of his.(00:13) – Intro(01:13) – Mike Griffin(04:58) – Tommy Guerrero(06:36) – Ed Templeton(16:14) – Call of faith(29:09) – John Lucero(35:49) – Greg Hunt (40:29) – Jaime Owens(42:38) – Javier Sarmiento(44:56) – Mike Frazier(49:13) – Donny Barley(54:38) – Joe Brook(01:00:23) – Tobin Yelland(01:06:38) – Thomas Campbell(01:20:06) – Bob Burnquist (01:27:40) – Monte Vallier(01:30:57) – Joe Gruber(01:37:08) – Rick Howard(01:39:05) – Juan Casas(01:44:56) – Michael Burnett(01:54:30) – Neil Blender(01:56:35) – Eric Swisher(01:58:28) – Anthony Claravall(02:07:07) – Lance Mountain(02:08:16) – ConclusionFor more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboardsHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
Welcome back to the show! We're here at Episode 66, bringing you issue #14 of the much-celebrated BBAS Intelligence Report, and joining us in the studio for the occasion is none other than Florida vertical legend and Bones Brigade alum, Mike Frazier- along with special guest host Nick Halkias of Strangelove Skateboards! Join us as we get deep into the weeds with Mike on his early days skating in Clearwater, his time with Zorlac and subsequently turning pro for Powell Peralta, filming his groundbreaking sections for “8” and “Celebraty Tropical Fish”, his lost “Chaos” part, the importance of Skatepark of Tampa, and a ton more. There's no Vert Button to hit on this one, so turn up the volume and join us- shall you? You can help support our show by buying us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/BBASpodcast Website: www.thebonesbrigadeaudioshow.com Instagram: @thebonesbrigadeaudioshow Facebook: The Bones Brigade Audio Show Email us your questions and feedback to read on future episodes: www.thebonesbrigadeaudioshow.com/contact --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/larry-ransom/support
Are you interested in mastering communication in your relationship? Join us for part two of our conversation with Dr. Mike Frazier MD, host of the "Strong Men, Strong Marriages" podcast. As a renowned psychiatrist specializing in neuroscience, Dr. Mike offers invaluable insights into fostering intimacy and effective communication within relationships. Delve into practical strategies for improving your relationship dynamics, including the optimal timing for making difficult requests and navigating common conflict areas. Dr. Mike shares inspirational success stories and explores the nuances of forgiveness, faith, and trust, providing clarity on how to strengthen the bond with your partner and foster a thriving, resilient marriage. “The answer isn't do more, it's actually commit to less and follow through on it” - Dr. Mike You'll leave this episode with… The best time for you to make hard requests in your relationship Inspirational success stories of couples overcoming relationship challenges The 4 types of people that come in to see Dr. Mike Why Dr. Mike's program is called “Strong Men, Strong Marriages” What an intimate conversation entails How you can be more effective in your communication with your partner The main framework of communication How you can deal with the feeling that you're getting run over in your relationship The main conflict areas in most marriages Two options of how you can put yourself into your partners shoes What is the difference between forgiveness, faith, and trust? The Manhood Experiment of the week that will help you become more clear on what you're asking for of your partner ----- Leave a Review: If you enjoyed the show, please leave us an encouraging review and tell us why you loved the show. Remember to click ‘subscribe' so you get all of our latest episodes. https://ratethispodcast.com/man What is the Manhood Experiment? It's a weekly podcast where we give you one experiment to level up your mind, career, business, health, relationships and more! For more tips and behind the scenes, follow us on: Instagram @ManhoodExperiment Tiktok @ManhoodExperiment Threads @ManhoodExperiment Submit your questions @ www.manhoodexperiment.com Resources Mentioned: Dr. Mike Frazier MD: https://mikefraziermd.com/ Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box - The Arbinger Institute Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini Strong Men, Strong Marriages: strongmen.io The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/
What if there were simple yet powerful ways to strengthen and restore intimacy in your relationship? In this episode, we welcome Dr. Mike Frazier MD, host of the "Strong Men, Strong Marriages" podcast, a renowned psychiatrist with expertise in neuroscience and relationship dynamics. Dr. Mike tackles marriage challenges, from expectations around sex to shared responsibilities, along with insights into therapy, offering guidance on finding the right support and dispelling common misconceptions. Explore Dr. Mike's passion for his work as he vulnerably shares his own personal struggles within his marriage, along with strategies for overcoming relationship challenges. Delve into Dr. Mike's take on sayings like “Happy Wife, Happy Life” and his advice for happier marriages and learn how to nurture intimacy, set expectations, and communicate effectively in your relationships. “If you can manage your mind better and your emotions better, that affects everything” - Dr. Mike You'll leave this episode with… Tips on how you can strengthen and return intimacy back into your relationship What are different types of therapy Dr. Mike's personal journey through marriage struggles, including a year without sex, and how he helps men facing similar struggles today Dr. Mike's break down of his thoughts on the saying “Happy Wife, Happy Life” What the mosquito cycle is and how you can change it for a healthier marriage What it looks like when you treat your marriage transactionally How do you deal with the expectations you have when you are the main provider for the family The difference of being a partner or a contractor in your marriage What you can do if you feel like you are doing too much or more than your partner An understanding of why seemingly ‘unrelated things' are often connected in woman's minds How you can make a good request to your partner The three questions you should ask your partner when having hard discussions ----- Leave a Review: If you enjoyed the show, please leave us an encouraging review and tell us why you loved the show. Remember to click ‘subscribe' so you get all of our latest episodes. https://ratethispodcast.com/man What is the Manhood Experiment? It's a weekly podcast where we give you one experiment to level up your mind, career, business, health, relationships and more! For more tips and behind the scenes, follow us on: Instagram @ManhoodExperiment Tiktok @ManhoodExperiment Threads @ManhoodExperiment Submit your questions @ www.manhoodexperiment.com Resources Mentioned: Dr. Mike Frazier MD: https://mikefraziermd.com/ Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box - The Arbinger Institute Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
BONUS EPISODE ALERT! Join Don as he interviews Dr. Mike Frazier specifically about marriage relationships. We don't normally release episodes twice a week but this one was too good to sit on. We are focusing on relationships in season 6 and this is an episode you will not want to miss. Here are a few things they discuss: Why do marriages struggle with attraction over time? Where the “Christian culture” gets it wrong with marriage. How any man can be attractive to their wife again. Breaking mindsets and building a healthy relationship with your wife again. Dr. Mike is passionate about family, specifically the husband/father role. He shares how a marriages can feel dry, boring, and broken- but that doesn't mean the marriage will end. THERE IS HOPE! This podcast breathes life into marriages – so if you are struggling to feel attracted to your spouse – this podcast is for you! Listen and share today! He also has podcasts and resources for you in the link below. Podcast Resources: Join the 5 Day Family Challenge Dr. Mike Frazier's Resources Dr. Mike's Social Media
Kyle and I spend time catching up and curating the best parts of his life discussing winninng Tampa Am and Pro at such a young age and not feeling like he fit in, Think days, hanging with Duffy on Legacy/World, Consolidated days, the essence of skateboarding, P-Stone stories, getting threats on social media after Judging the olympics, the quest for getting Mike Frazier on the pod, Alun Peterson stories, Sobriety , Touring with lil Wayne, Quitting consolidated, FrontRock Concrete --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talkin-schmit/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talkin-schmit/support
Dedicated to Southern Miss sports! Weekdays 1 - 2 p.m. on select SuperTalk Mississippi stations. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM
Dedicated to Southern Miss sports! Weekdays 1 - 2 p.m. on select SuperTalk Mississippi stations. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM
How to Woo Your Wife with Dr. Mike Frazier, MD This week, I'm joined by Mike Frazier from the Stronger Men, Stronger Marriages podcast to talk about how to woo your wife, going beyond the physical and diving deep into the emotional and mental. We tear apart the popular concept of "Happy Wife, Happy Life," and bring you a fresh, healthier outlook. You can be an attractive man to your wife, not only by helping her "close down the tabs" of her day but also by fostering trust, empathy, and understanding. We also discuss how celebrating your successes together can nurture intimacy and connection, transforming your relationship into a more meaningful bond. For all those high-achieving Christian men out there, we've got some golden nuggets for you. We share how to take your relationship to the next level with a love-focused mindset, going beyond the physical aspects of a relationship and investing in the emotional and mental facets. Finally, we unfold the essence of creating a "happily ever after" marriage, stressing the importance of service, appreciation, and a mindset of admiration and trust. Get ready to make your relationship soar with all you're going to learn in this episode. Learn more about Monica: https://www.monicatanner.com/ moni@secretsofhappilyeverafter.com https://www.instagram.com/monitanner1/ https://www.facebook.com/monica.tanner2 https://www.youtube.com/@secretsofhappilyeverafter
Dedicated to Southern Miss sports! Weekdays 1 - 2 p.m. on select SuperTalk Mississippi stations. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM
Dedicated to Southern Miss sports! Weekdays 1 - 2 p.m. on select SuperTalk Mississippi stations. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM
Dedicated to Southern Miss sports! Weekdays 1 - 2 p.m. on select SuperTalk Mississippi stations. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM
Dr. Mike Frazier, M.D. is a psychiatrist and Christian marriage coach who helps high-achieving Christian men have more intimate marriages. In this episode, he interviews our hosts, Dr. Willow Brown and Leah Piper, about integrating spirituality and sexuality to heal trauma and enhance pleasure and connection. This candid cross-podcast conversation offers useful insights for listeners, including:Learning somatic tools to unlock stored trauma in the body for sexual healingUnderstanding how to bring God into the bedroom in a way that expands pleasureDiscovering practices like eye gazing, tantric massage, and breathwork for deeper intimacyGaining perspective on overcoming religious shame and taboos around sexAppreciating the value of attuning to your partner's needs for mutual fulfillmentEPISODE LINKSDr. Mike's Podcast: Strong Men, Strong MarriagesDr. Mike's WebsiteAwaken Arousal Oil Lubricant "I had a 3-minute orgasm and then a 5-minute orgasm. All I know is that I had transcended and felt like I was surfing in a perpetual wave pool of pleasure." - BethSupport the showSxR Hotline | SxR Website | YouTube | TikTok | Pinterest | Instagram | Dr. Willow's Website | Leah's Website
This week, I'm joined by Mike Frazier from the Stronger Men, Stronger Marriages podcast to talk about how to woo your wife, going beyond the physical and diving deep into the emotional and mental.We tear apart the popular concept of "Happy Wife, Happy Life," and bring you a fresh, healthier outlook. You can be an attractive man to your wife, not only by helping her "close down the tabs" of her day but also by fostering trust, empathy, and understanding. We also discuss how celebrating your successes together can nurture intimacy and connection, transforming your relationship into a more meaningful bond.For all those high-achieving Christian men out there, we've got some golden nuggets for you. We share how to take your relationship to the next level with a love-focused mindset, going beyond the physical aspects of a relationship and investing in the emotional and mental facets. Finally, we unfold the essence of creating a "happily ever after" marriage, stressing the importance of service, appreciation, and a mindset of admiration and trust. Get ready to make your relationship soar with all you're going to learn in this episode.
We're sipping Tennessee bourbon with innovator and entrepreneur Mike Frazier of Reverence Bourbon. This Memphis native gives the Black & Spirited Crew the insiders' look into his journey from startup to selling out of a premier bourbon brand all over the country. So join us as we dive into what is truly a blender's delight and hear a great story from the man himself along the way. And check out www.ReverenceEnterprises.com
Welcome back to the show! This week we're once again scratching our heads as we deal with another strange case of an alternate version of a Powell video that- much like the rough cut of “8” (see BBAS027)- somehow leaked its way out into the world. This time, it's an altered version of 1992's “Chaos”, featuring incredible, mostly-unseen parts by Eric Ricks, Mike Frazier, Paulo Diaz and others, along with numerous different songs and other randomly omitted oddities. How? Why? The mind boggles, but as always we do our best to break it all down. Fret not- for you too can view this new-school rarity by simply going to our YouTube channel, so tune in, like, subscribe, come along for the ride and join us- shall you? Watch Chaos: The Alternate Edit HERE. You can help support our show by buying us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/BBASpodcast Website: www.thebonesbrigadeaudioshow.com Instagram: @thebonesbrigadeaudioshow Facebook: The Bones Brigade Audio Show Email us your questions and feedback to read on future episodes: www.thebonesbrigadeaudioshow.com/contact HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/larry-ransom/support
You know how sometimes God just lines things up in a way you don't expect? That's sort of how this episode came to be. Dr. Mike Frazier specializes in helping successful Christian men find more intimacy in their marriage. He and I were connected and decided to have a conversation. We hit the record button, and magic happened. Join me in this episode as we talk about everything we're learning in coaching as well as some common trends we're seeing in Christian men - and especially marriage - right now. You can find out more about Dr. Mike Frazier's work at his website: https://mikefraziermd.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:30 - Identity and how we sabotage ourselves 03:45 - Turning out wives into God 07:30 - Becoming honest with God 13:20 - Parenting and Family 17:15 - How to be strong as a man 23:40 - Am I doing what is right and best? 26:50 - Make a decision! 35:00 - Coaching Specialities
Dr. Mike Frazier helps men build strong marriages by becoming strong men themself. We speak about building a sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and confidence instead of using women in order to get approval and appreciation. Women have always been attracted to strength and if we want to be attractive to women, then working with other men to develop your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual strength is essential. Find Dr. Mike's podcast on https://mikefraziermd.com/strong-men-strong-marriages.../ Check out our podcast episode here, enjoy, subscribe and let me know your thoughts! ►https://bit.ly/3AjWAAX
Welcome back to the show! This week, the BBAS crew are dipping their toes- ever so slightly- into skateboarding's mythical “new school” era, with an in-depth review of Powell Peralta's often overlooked 1991 video Eight! Times they were a-changin' in the early nineties, and Eight truly marks the end of an era for Powell, with several key team riders either left out of the video entirely or showcasing their final parts with the company as new brands, trends, styles and attitudes began to overwhelm the skateboarding status quo at an alarming rate. Joining Larry and Matt in the studio to tackle this beast is none other than Brian Fair, dreadlocked and grammy-nominated vocalist for the legendary bands Shadows Fall and Overcast- and certified lifelong skate rat of the highest order. Is there more to this video than Mike Frazier? Where are the skits? Where are the song lyrics? Is there anything Cab *can't* do in the San Jose warehouse? As always, there's only one way to find out- so preheat your oven to 425 degrees, toss in a tray of Mike McGill's breaded fish sticks and join us, shall you? Website: www.thebonesbrigadeaudioshow.com Instagram: @thebonesbrigadeaudioshow Facebook: The Bones Brigade Audio Show Email us your questions and feedback to read on future episodes: www.thebonesbrigadeaudioshow.com/contact HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?
Mike Frazier, MD. is a psychiatrist and marriage coach for high-achieving, professionally successful Christian men. He helps men become the strong and loving leaders of their homes that God, their wives, and their kids can be proud of. Mike is also the host of the podcast Strong Men Strong Marriages. “A good leader in the home is someone that's following Christ.” - Mike Frazier “Being the means you feel good first, you feel strong and confident first, and then your wife will be attracted to that. People want to follow someone who is strong, confident, and solid.” - Mike Frazier” Timestamps: [01:00] Mike's reaction to the signing of The Respect for Marriage Act [04:03] How the mainstream culture tends to belittle fathers/husbands today [06:20] What leadership in the home (that promotes a culture of faith, family, and freedom) should look like [10:25] What is the biggest challenge that men are experiencing today [22:20] On Mike's upcoming webinar Resources: Join Dr. Steve and Mike Frazier to Learn to Be a Leader In Your Home at http://mikefraziermd.com/turley Read Four Seasons Book by Chris Widener at https://www.fourseasonsbook.com Get Over 66% OFF All of Mike Lindell's Products using code TURLEY: https://www.mypillow.com/turley Join my Insiders Club Community with a 14-Day Free Trial + A Welcome Gift at https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/ Don't miss out on Dr. Steve's BIG NEWS coming to his email list at the end of the month by subscribing today at https://turleytalks.com/subscribe/ Make sure to FOLLOW me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalks Watch unbiased, truthful news in Epoch TV on any device, no credit card required, no strings attached! Go to https://watchepoch.com/turley and subscribe. Learn how to protect your life savings from inflation and an irresponsible government, with Gold and Silver. Go to http://www.turleytalkslikesgold.com/ Get 25% off Patriotic Coffee and ALL ITEMS with Code TURLEY at https://mystore.com/turley Get Your Brand-New PATRIOT T-Shirts and Merch Here: https://store.turleytalks.com/ Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture! If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts.
What fruit comes the most natural for you? In this Fun Friday Chris explores some of the ideas he shared with Dr. Mike Frazier and how the Fruit of the Spirit can show up when we act with intentionality. For full show note details, go to the episode webpage: https://thelionwithin.us/podcast/163-fun-friday-commit-everything-to-the-lord/Join the Community TodayStart your 30-day free trial of the Lions Den and gain access to forums, virtual meetings, unlimited courses, live Ask Me Anything sessions with guests from the show, and more. Our next AMA session on January 24th with Jared Greer from Greer Method Complete Coaching (ep006).Feeling Lost And Alone? Most Christian Men Do!The Lion Within Us is a community to support one another on the journey to become the leader God intends you to be.JOIN THE COMMUNITYIt's Time to Take Action!Download a FREE Guide for memorizing scripture. 10 Scriptures to Fight like a Lion Guide
Satan wants your marriage to fail - it's time to go to battle! In this episode we welcome Dr. Mike Frazier to the show as he is an expert in building strong Christian marriages. This is a special conversation as Dr. Mike released this on his podcast Strong Men Strong Marriages and it is not the typical Lion Within interview. Dr. Mike and Chris have fun sharing insights and lessons learned that are all aimed to make your marriage as strong as possible.For full show note details, go to the episode webpage: https://thelionwithin.us/podcast/162-understanding-our-feeling-state-with-mike-frazier/Join the Community TodayStart your 30-day free trial of the Lions Den and gain access to forums, virtual meetings, unlimited courses, live Ask Me Anything sessions with guests from the show, and more. Our next AMA session on January 24th with Jared Greer from Greer Method Complete Coaching (ep006).Feeling Lost And Alone? Most Christian Men Do!The Lion Within Us is a community to support one another on the journey to become the leader God intends you to be.JOIN THE COMMUNITYIt's Time to Take Action!Download a FREE Guide for memorizing scripture. 10 Scriptures to Fight like a Lion Guide
In this episode, Austin sits down with Pastor Mike Frazier of Grace Baptist Church in Naylor Georgia to talk about the ups and downs of being a pastor. They dive into Mike coming to the faith in a jail cell, finding community in a young adults group and going through a church split, and ending on whats exciting Mike about his future in the ministry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/austin-neil-gregory/message
Dad Devotionals: Advice for Christian Fathers, Husbands and Men of Faith
Dr. Mike Frazier, founder of Strong Men, Strong Marriages, joins David Domzalski to talk about how husbands can build intimacy in the relationships with their wives. You can follow Dr. Mike at mikefraziermd.com. SPONSOR: RunTheMoney.com EARN MORE: PaidToWrite.co Follow David at DavidDomzalski.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david-domzalski/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-domzalski/support
Love is Not Demanding (Love Is... Series) - with Dr. Mike Frazier We have a lot to learn about love. One key aspect is love is not demanding. Most relationship and marriage advice focuses on how women can make their relationships better but today it's about the men. I talk to Mike Frazier about how men can show up better in their relationships. Mike Frazier, M.D., is the founder of Strong Men Strong Marriages. He is a licensed psychologist and marriage coach dedicated to helping couples achieve the relationships they want and deserve. Give Without Expectations We can often get caught up in competition when it comes to marriage and relationships. Sometimes, partners enter into a cycle where they think I did this for you, now you owe me something back. Mike says, “I call it the mosquito mentality , because you're trying to suck off the attention and approval of your partner.” Typically, individuals will serve their partner in the beginning of the relationship and do the things their spouse or partner wants, but eventually a partner will want something back for their “service.” Often, in marriage, couples begin to keep score and wait for their partner to return favors in order to provide them with more. Mike shares most guys have the same basic expectations: attention, affection, appreciation, and sex. Ladies, take note. Typically, a man will love you in order to receive these things in return. While that's not wrong, love is not demanding, so what happens when those expectations are not fulfilled? Becoming More Attractive in Your Marriage As time goes on, the spark can fade and the attraction can die down in a marriage. That doesn't have to be the road you go down if you desire a marriage and relationship full of passion, attraction, and love. Typically this determent in attraction comes from a wife not getting her needs met and/or a husband feeling resentful. When resentment and negative thoughts and feelings arise in a partner, it's important couples come together and communicate. Mike said, “It's about generating feeling states and intentions that are attractive. Really trying to live in the fruits of the spirit. Love, patience, peace, self control.” When partners can learn to switch their thoughts and feelings and find gratitude and love for their partner, the attraction will again become ignited. It's also important that each person in the relationship is able to look at themselves and see how they view themselves. If you think negative thoughts about yourself, it's possible that you will project that onto your partner as well which is not attractive. Just Ask for What You Want Resentment can come from men not getting what they want in their marriage or relationship. But in order to get what they want, they must ask. For men, asking what they want can be difficult. Mike said that there are three things that get in the way of men asking for what they want. The first thing being that men aren't clear on what they want. Sometimes men in relationships desire something but they aren't exactly sure what that is or how to receive it. They also are often afraid they are going to get turned down (fear of rejection). This can be one of the preventing factors for men asking what they want, because if they risk being vulnerable, and being turned down, that can hurt them. Lastly, men sometimes don't ask for what they want because they are trying to control their partner's emotions. Because they don't want to inconvenience their partner, they beat around the bush and don't just straight communicate what their need is and where they may need support. But First Get Clear on What You Want In many marriages and relationships, one partner may want something from their partner and use different tactics and situations to force their partner into doing something they want. This is a form of manipulation that couples use to get what they want. They are looking for an outcome, but aren't actually getting to the root of the need. The first thing that they should do is get clear on what they really want. Simply communicate what you want and give the reason why you want that thing. This allows your partner to understand why that thing may be so important to you. Mike says, “When you give a reason for your request, there's something about it that makes us more likely to want to do it for the other person.” This is an exercise for both partners because the person asking must get clear on what they want and communicate why they may need that. This is where boundaries come in. Each partner has the opportunity to withstand their boundaries based on the asks and requests in the marriage. There's so much more in this episode. Be sure to listen to the full episode and learn how love is not demanding. Links Mentioned in this Episode Mike's Website Strong Men Strong Marriages Podcast Episode mentioned about Comparison in Marriage SUBSCRIBE | SHARE | RATE | COMMENT To ensure you never miss an episode, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Remember, sharing is caring! So, share these episodes with your friends and family via email or social media.
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What can we say about Drew, that we haven't already said about legends like Christian Fletcher or Mike Frazier..... not much. In other words Drew is one RADICAL dude!!!Drew is a local Florida boy, growing up on the west coast of Florida where he gained his sea legs surfing the gulf. And grew skateboarding with Florida legends like Frazier & Jimmy The Greek. Hell, the man has even been known to slap some trucks on a surfboard and rip skateparks on it like it was standard popsicle shape, such as the New Smyrna Beach bowl and Kona Skatepark. We here at Pauly On The Pod hope everyone enjoys this episode as much as we did!
In this episode I'm talking with Mike Frazier, MD of Strong Men, Strong Marriages. I share what the woman thinks when she says that she doesn't care if she ever has sex again. And then Mike lets us in on what the men think about. This is a great episode where you can really see what is going on in your husband's mind when it comes to sex and intimacy and he could get a glimpse into what you think as well. If you'd like to learn more about Mike, go to www.mikefraziermd.com or find his podcast, Strong Men, Strong Marriages, on your favorite podcasting app.
Eric has a great conversation with Dr. Mike Frazier from the Strong Men, Strong Marriages Podcast. We dive deeper into his the pillars of a passionate marriage.We chat about:➡️ The three pillars and why they are important.➡️ What trust means to us and to our partner➡️ Creating healthy communication patterns➡️ How to level up your sexual intimacyGuest Links:The Strong Men, Strong Marriages PodcastMike's WebsiteEvolved Marriage Links:FREE EVOLVED MEN'S COLLECTIVE FB GROUPFree ResourcesApply for the Evolved Men's Collective Mastermind
Whether you struggle with emotional eating or any other type of destructive behavior, Dr. Mike's use of the the life coach model can help you "name, breathe, feel, deal" your way to conquering those situations. Tally appDr. Mike's model instructionsThe model from this episode
Is the Home Run Derby still a big deal? Diener talks about the lack of enthusiasm for the event but gives some reasons why should still be excited for it.
In 1963, the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, Ohio. One year later, Pastor Harold Henniger was reading Hebrews 11, that great passage on faith and the heroes of the faith, and thought it would be a great idea to have a Hall of Fame for Christian heroes so, on April 12, 1966, Canton Baptist Temple instituted the Christian Hall of Fame. Listen in as Mike Frazier, senior pastor of Canton Baptist Temple, tells the story. Watch online: https://www.vcy.tv/our-christian-heritage-with-randy-melchert/videos/03-our-christian-heritage-christian-hall-of-fame
They say that in sports and comedy – timing is everything. The same is true for growing an advisory firm – the decisions when to add another team-member, when to hire an executive, when to create a department are critical for the success of a growing advisory firm. To guide entrepreneurs in their quest to build a better firm, Bluespring Wealth Partners has partnered with industry expert Philip Palaveev to create a roadmap through the “dangerous middle” the phase of growth where firms struggle to grow to a billion-dollar firm and beyond. The “dangerous middle” – a term coined by industry guru Michael Kitces describes the challenge of investing heavily in the firm through the addition of operations managers, investment professionals, creating a marketing department and building career paths. Join Bluespring Wealth Partners President Stuart Silverman in a lively discussion of how to navigate the treacherous path of organizational growth. Stuart will interview consultant Philip Palaveev, CEO of The Ensemble Practice, and entrepreneurs Mike Frazier, President & CEO of Bedell Frazier Investment Counselling and Tom Fee, Managing Director of $1+ billion firm Vector Wealth Management. We look to combine the best practices and management theory with the practical, real-life experience of industry veterans. During this discussion you'll learn: - When is the right time to hire a COO and a chief marketing officer? - What infrastructure is needed to reach a billion in assets - What should be the criteria for adding partners to the firm - How to manage your equity for sustainable growth and talent development Bluespring Wealth Partners, the sponsor of this paper, is a strategic partner with the resources to infuse capital, provide consulting expertise, and succession planning so that the firm you've worked so hard to build, can breakthrough from good to great to spectacular.
Brian and I discuss growing up back East, Blaize Blouin, skating vert, The Charleston Hanger, winning the Am finals in Atlanta, getting advice from Chris Miller, getting on G&S, working at Woodward, travelling with Mike Frazier, getting told he owed money on board sales, kitty cat diarrhea, inventing the Howie slide, the Planet Earth era, street Howie, the incredible Jimmy Wilkins, three degrees separation of Talkin' Schmit and much much more... Listen closely as we announce the winner of our Kevin Kowalski Blood Wizard deck and the winner of our DERBY OF SAN FRANCISCO jacket contest. It's an action packed show and we even got a First Impression from Chet Childress-enjoy! ------------------------------ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: DERBY OF SF: https://www.derbysf.com/ BLOOD WIZARD: http://bloodwizard.com/ BLUE PLATE: http://www.blueplatesf.com/ ------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE NOW: https://bit.ly/2RYE75F ------------------------------ FOLLOW BRIAN: https://www.instagram.com/bhow72 --------------------------------------- TALKIN' SCHMIT SOFT GOODS AT AWH SKATEBOARD DIST: http://awhsales.com/search.aspx?SearchTerm=Talkin IN JAPAN: https://www.instagram.com/underdogdis... IN CANADA: https://www.instagram.com/platformdis... --------------------------------------- INTRO MUSIC: "Mary's Cross" by Natur CREDITS MUSIC: “Adirondack gate” by Shane Medanich FIRST IMPRESSION: Chet Childress CLOSING MONOLOGUE: Noelle Fiore EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Sharal Camisa INTERVIEW & EDITED: Greg "Schmitty" Smith If you want to help support the show, tickity tac over to https://www.talkinschmit.com/ and pick up some merchandise. There's also lots of photos, video and extras to help complement each interview. WEBSITE: https://talkinschmit.com/ YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/epiclytrife INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/Talkin_Schmit FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TalkinSchmit/ CONTACT with comments or suggestions: TalkinSchmit@Gmail.com During these difficult times I encourage you to help your local skate shops, your favorite restaurants, friends and family. Be kind and give what you can to those that are in need. If you have good friends, tell them you love them while you still can. #skateboarding #podcast #TalkinSchmit #BrianHoward #Browba #Howieslide Sponsorships: on for this episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talkin-schmit/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talkin-schmit/support
On episode of The World's Greatest Action Sports Podcast, Chris and Todd talk all about The Curious Tales Of Italo Ferriera, we got a Beyrick De Vries interview talking about raising money to compete on the Q! Plus, the boys get controversial talking about Kalani Robb catching Covid, Vaccinations, legalizing cocaine, Mason Ho wins STAB 100 vs. Mikey Feb, and Dan Reynolds, Reckless Isolation is out on tour, The CPH Open went down in Copenhagen in spectacular fashion, The Tony Hawk Vs. Lil Nas X beef is squashed, Mike Frazier rules and is helping raise money for a friend's family, Chris “Dune” Pastras is on The Nine Club, Rick And Morty season finale, new James Bond movie maybe coming soon, your questions answered and so much more! Presented by: Herschel Supply Co. @herschelsupply BN3TH @BN3THApparel MASS20 NanocraftCBD @nanocraftCBD MASS20 Bub's Naturals! @bubsnaturals MASS20 Hansen Surfboards @hansensurfboards MASS10 Pannikin Coffee And Tea @pannikincoffeeandtea YewOnline.com @yewonline New Greens @newgreens MASS20 Adventure IO @adventureio
My guest in this episode, Mike Frazier, is one cool dude! He's a taco loving, dad joke telling beast of Buffalo! This guy has weathered many, many storms and I am so thankful he has! The combination of his training as a member of the US Coast Guard Tactical LEDT, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) and his strong faith in Christ helped him push through the many storms he faced. One of the 160th SOAR's motto is “Night Stalker Don't Quit!” No matter what, DON'T QUIT! I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mike Frazier! Subscribe, Rate, Review, Share - Link in Bio The Inspired Way Podcast Connect with Mike: Instagram: intsagram.com/nsdq_mike Website: https://www.wearenoblewarriors.com Connect with Tim: Instagram: @timdouglasinspires.com Website: timdouglasinspires.com Facebook: facebook.com/tim.douglas.inspire Feel free to email me at tim@timdouglasinspires.com if you have any questions. I would love to serve you. We are super honored to have Naked Warrior Recovery as a sponsor of The Inspired Way! Go to https://nw-recovery.com/?ref=5 check out their great products and use Pro-Code: BUFFALO20 to receive 20% off your purchase and get your recovery started. Also, follow @nakedwarriorrecovery on Instagram Some of my favorites are, Navy SEAL Super Greens, CBD Gummies and the CBD Salve Stick, great for aches out on the trails or around the house. To help us get the message out there to help more people Face The Storm and Be The Buffalo, consider supporting the show! You can do so by clicking this link: SUPPORT Subscribe, Rate, Review, Share! Thank you for listening to The Inspired Way Podcast! ---- timdouglasinspires.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theinspiredway/message
In this episode we talk to Mike Frazier of Noble Warrior. Mike is an all around awesome dude. Mike served in the 160th SOAR as a crewchief on a Blackhawk helicopter. In case you are not familiar, the 160th is the unit that transports many of the most elite troops in the US arsenal. Not only are the Soldiers in the 160th the best aviators in the world, they must also train to fight alongside their passengers in the event of a catastrophic event. The 160th is so elite, that many of their missions can't be talked about. Not only did Mike serve in the 160th, he also served in the Coast Guard, and was deployed to the Middle East. Even after an amazing military career, Mike is continuing to improve himself, and others through motivational speaking, and education. He is also currently pursuing a degree in psychology. Oh, and Mike is a dad joke aficionado…. We also talked to Mike about the abuse he suffered as a child, and what drove him to elist in the Coast Guard. Mike also talks about his struggles after an injury ended his military career early. We talk about the challenges of homelife, and how faith played a major part in Mike's recovery. Mike also has his own podcast, Noble Warrior Podcast, as well as an awesome website, wearenoblewarriors.com. This episode is awesome, and I promise, everyone can take away something to improve their own lives, and relationships. http://www.we/ (www.we)arenoblewarriors.com IG @noblewarriorofficial https://www.facebook.com/NobleWarrior-1891883947502650 (https://www.facebook.com/NobleWarrior-1891883947502650)
No adult intimate relationship comes without challenges, but when you throw an entrepreneur into the mix, there’s a whole other set of logistics and hurdles to consider. Mike Frazier M.D., founder of Strong Men Strong Marriages, is a licensed psychologist and marriage coach dedicated to helping couples achieve the relationships they want and deserve. Mike joins the show full of professional expertise, but also with personal experience. Married for over 15 years (and raising five children!) Mike has weathered many relationship ups and downs and spent years learning how to build and maintain a great relationship. Additionally he and his wife are both entrepreneurs; Mike will cover general relationship advice and maintenance along with tips to navigate the unique challenges that business ownership can bring to a marriage or union. Even if you’re not currently in a relationship, today’s show offers great insight on effective communication, prioritizing people, keeping our own egos in check, and working through differences all while meeting the demands of entrepreneurship. It’s a great episode and we know you’re going to love it!
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Full Transcript: 0:00:00.0 Narrator: Welcome to Improving Intimacy, a podcast to help single and married, Latter-Day Saints strengthen their family connections and marriages. Daniel A. Burgess is the host of Improving Intimacy, Daniel is a Marriage and Family Therapist, father, husband, and author. Here's Daniel on this episode of Improving Intimacy. [music] 0:00:26.3 Mike Frasier: Alright men, welcome to today's episode. I've got a special guest for us today. This is Daniel Burgess. So he is a family therapist that runs a family therapy, and helps couples and individuals with their marriages, and I met him in his Facebook group, Improving Intimacy, and used to be called Mormon marriages. Now it's called In Latter Day Saint marriages. 0:00:52.7 MF: I complied. [laughter] 0:00:55.3 MF: So yeah, anything else you want the audience know about you Daniel? 0:01:00.0 DB: That's great, I love that. Yeah, come check it out. 0:01:03.2 MF: Yeah, yeah he does great work. And I've really enjoyed his... 0:01:07.6 DB: Thank you. 0:01:08.6 MF: Yeah, his group and the stuff he's doing. So yeah, so today we're talking about a more sensitive topic, at least in the LDS Community, which is masturbation, and Daniel has done a lot of study about this, a lot of work on it, it was coming into our group, actually, Daniel, that kinda got me thinking about it in a different way. And was really a good journey for me. 0:01:35.9 DB: Wonderful. 0:01:36.8 MF: Actually, so I appreciate your work on that, so I guess what I wanted to start with, and I think this is really the big question on most LDS people's minds, is whether masturbation is actually a sin or not, and when I asked that question, I wanted to look up what sin actually was. And so I think this is a good definition an immoral act that's considered to be a transgression against divine law, meaning there's a law that says, no masturbation. And then when you break that, you are breaking that law. So, yeah. Thoughts on that. 0:02:14.0 DB: That's a great question. It's one that I get quite frequently and to kinda set up the answer here, I just did an interview for my podcast Improving Intimacy for Latter-Day Saint relationships with Kari Ferguson, who wrote the book, The OCD Mormon. And the reason why I bring that up is a big part of our discussion is something that I've seen, definitely in clients who tend to ask this question is rigidity in their thinking around spirituality and sin, and how that negatively affects ironically, maybe even paradoxically, our spirituality, a fabulous book a wonderful person, and we explore those thoughts in deep and I'll reference you to that for further discussion. But in short, I love that definition that I learned at least on my mission was, Anything acting against the will of God is sin, and sin is essentially a guide for us to draw closer to Him, not to sin, to draw closer to Him, but to avoid sin or things that separate us from God, and when we can think about in that context, we can now see self-mastery in a different view. We even talked about transgression, Joseph Fielding Smith says there's a big difference between transgression and sin, transgression is one of the things that we as humans learn to be better at that heavenly Father expects us to make mistakes, that's why the atone is there. 0:03:42.4 DB: Now, to answer that question, is masturbation a sin? I don't wanna sound avoidant of the answer, but it really depends. It really depends on the person. Is this drawing you closer to God? Is this helping you understand your body, is this creating better self-awareness, self-mastery, is it creating peace in your life? If it isn't, then that needs to be explored and understood better, that's the whole purpose of this life is to master our minds and our bodies, and what does that look like? Especially when we're dealing with different biology, and sometimes people say you should never masturbate. Well, that may be true for that person, that may not be a biological need, or when I use the word need here, I'm talking about experiences that provide enjoyment and pleasure, of course, we could go a whole lifetime without masturbating and not die. And I've heard people use that argument, you won't die, so you don't need it. Well, then we could go to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We won't die without people loving us in our life, but our life will be pretty miserable, right? [laughter] 0:04:50.2 DB: There are cases actually that children have died out of neglect, of love, and that's true, but I think the point is, there is... I think when we look at this in a very rigid way, is sin black and white, we kinda cross in this line of obsessive compulsive thought process of or scrupulosity, and focus more on the growth in our relationship with ourself and the Lord. 0:05:16.9 MF: Yeah, I love that. I love that idea of those questions that you posed, of... Instead of, Is this sin? Which like you said, is about, oh right wrong did I follow the rule right or did I not follow the rule right. It's like, No. Is this bringing me closer to God, is this helping me enjoy my life more? I think once you're married, an important question with however you're using your sexuality is, is this bringing me closer to my spouse or not? And I think with that too, you mentioned, I think for women, this happens maybe sometimes more than guys where that exploration process, maybe it hasn't happened as much as it has maybe with some guys before marriage, and actually exploring that and figuring out what works for you can be a gift to yourself and to your marriage. Thoughts on that. 0:06:22.6 DB: Yeah, absolutely, and I think that's the main goal, and that's why I set up my group in proving intimacy in Latter-day Saint relationships is for us, what are we doing in our relationships, our intimate relationships that we can improve on to draw us closer to God that is the underlining and the core focus here, how can we understand and learn God and draw closer to Him and in our relationships? And so that could involve... Often we sacrifice or we ignore, or we neglect our sexual self and don't really explore and understand that, like we do the other aspects of our spiritual life to draw closer to God, and so this is very much a negotiation a discussion with our partner and with the Lord, and as long as it's in that confined, I believe it's healthy, whatever that decision is, I have seen masturbation benefit and reward relationships like no other thing has in their life. It provides options. It provides a discussion, and I think as long as you're taking it to the Lord, and you address it with your spouse and you come up with what works for you, then you're doing what the Lord wants you to do, drawing closer to Him and your spouse. 0:07:37.2 MF: Yeah. Awesome, so with that, to look at the other side of this, because I think some people hearing that, they're gonna think, Oh well then you know that I can do whatever I want, like if I wanna go have sex with a bunch of other people and we're both okay with that, then that should be fine. Right. So what would you say to that thought? Well, you know, I prayed about it. And that was my answer. It's fine to go do that. 0:08:15.6 DB: Yeah, well, it's interesting 'cause I heard kind of two different comments there's one, kind of this non-monogamous exploration, as long as you agree with it, it's fine, and the other one is anything... Well, I guess they're kinda the same thing. Anything goes now, and the first thought I would have or question is, This seems to fall under this black and white thinking is either it's absolutely right or it's absolutely wrong, and I think the Lord is definitely, at least in our day, made some clear guidelines in the temple, we specifically commit to each other and in this relationship, and now does that mean anything goes or not? I think there's definitely a constraint there, we've committed very specifically to each other, that we will figure this out between each other and the Lord, I don't think there's a cart blanche there that says, yeah, anything else on your relationship is okay, the purpose, like I was pointing out is, is it drawing you closer to your spouse and to the Lord, do you feel like you're honoring your temple covenants that you specifically made? Now, when we talk about masturbation and things that help improve desire towards each other. I think those things are open for discussion and prayer with Heavenly Father. 0:09:43.5 DB: Now, going back to your question, some can argue, Well, we've both decided we feel closer to each other when we could explore outside of the relationship, and I'll be frank, if that's what you have decided, I personally don't think that's what the Lord has said, and I don't see any justification for that. And so I'm not gonna tell somebody that they got false revelation, that's not my job as a therapist, my job is to help them understand how to live a healthier life, and so there's an argument for everything, and I could totally see where people can... And I've seen it, well, I'm gonna go and do whatever. And when I hear that phrase though, that triggers this kind of black and white thinking, going from one extreme of rigidity to another, and I would push on that, I would really explore that, is that really what you're doing? Are you going from a... I'm gonna just say kind of like a repressed or rigid thinking to, wow, the doors just blow open, I'm gonna do whatever I want. That would be a concern to me, and I would explore that first. That's a concern to me. 0:10:52.9 MF: Yeah, I think that you brought up something super important, I think they're both basically immature reactions. 0:11:00.3 DB: Excellent, Yeah. 0:11:00.8 MF: Yeah, it's like, Oh, either somebody has to tell me everything I have to do, or nobody can tell me anything that I have to do, like they're both pretty immature versus saying Like look, Okay, here's my read of the scriptures, or if that's what I believe we're kind of assuming someone's active LDS or Christian, like trying to do what God wants them to do. 0:11:27.3 MF: And if you come into it with that in mind and you're like, Hey, I read the scripture, I did... If you went to the temple, I made these promises. I'm gonna be just faithful to my wife, so I wanna keep it within that, but then within that, like you said, growing, developing that maturity to say, "Yeah, this does help. And this does not help." One of the things I like is," by their fruits, you shall know them", and I think that so applies here, if you try it and the fruit is good, good. If you try it and the fruit is not good, you say, Okay, that was an experiment, wasn't good, we're gonna cut that one off so, yeah. 0:12:14.1 DB: Yeah. Fair points. 0:12:16.5 MF: Yeah, so for those [laughter].. Maybe the satisfies of the more OCD Mormon folks out there. I know you've done quite a bit of research on How it sort of the... The church has looked at masturbation over time? And kind of how that has shifted, sort of back and forth, maybe you could just give us certainly a brief kind of summary of how that's gone. 0:12:43.0 DB: Yeah, really, really quick summary here. There's very little documentation from the restoration from 1830 to about 1890, we're getting more and more, as the Joseph Smith papers are in development and it's exciting. Public access, a lot of people go to it. When I was researching it, I had to spend hours and hours and in archives and trying to find these documentation. There really isn't much. In fact, we had a very... If I could use the word progressive view of intimacy. We were a very different church. We viewed sexual relationships as beautiful. And in a time that orgasms were viewed as dangerous and lethal. They literally believed that, "Each time you had an orgasm, you took years off your life." This was that idea back then, that really didn't end until about 1920s, maybe a little earlier from that. And we had a very opposing view to that, not... In a very positive way. And we only start to see... Even if I could say it's negative comments about masturbation, only in the context of serious transgressions where people are having... I wanna be appropriate for the show. Let's just say sexual abuse issues. Let's just keep it in those terms. And there's ideas that were prominent at that time, not just in the church, but because we're a melting pot of religions at the restoration. 0:14:22.8 DB: We have a lot of traditional cultural ideas being brought in thinking that masturbation led to certain behaviors including homosexuality and to other sexual transgressions. And so the only things you can really find that I'm aware of now and I've researched as extensively as you mentioned, is in meeting notes where some brethren will say it's because they did this and they would reference masturbation, and this is where it would lead. There was never any official stance against masturbation. In fact, it was about 1920 that there was a conference address of some guest who says, "We approach sexuality", and I can provide these links in references to you offline and you could include. 0:15:06.2 MF: Yeah. 0:15:06.6 DB: But, saying," I'm impressed that you Latter day Saints can talk about sexuality, including masturbation so openly", which blew my mind. I was like, really? They... I mean not only to recognize that, but to even make it part of a public address. And then in 1930, the Relief Society president at the time was called to provide mental health guidance to the church. And she provided, Amy Lyman Brown, it provided these lessons, and one of those lessons was "Parents, don't over-react to your children masturbating. You'll cause depression, anxiety, even suicidal thoughts." very fascinating. It wasn't until about the '40s that President Clark started to interject other ideas. And long story short, my interpretation of that was because of the Kinsey books came out on human sexuality and the father of the sexual revolution. And I think the church was trying to do something to differentiate ourselves from that movement. Which I both understand, but also see kind of a shift in the opposite direction. 0:16:11.8 DB: And it's only at that time that we see really negative comments and emphasis on the dangers of masturbation and emphasizing it's a sin. And then we see this changing in the mid-80s, due to seeing, Amy Lyman Brown was right. We're seeing an increase of depression, suicidal thoughts, and negative behavior and unhealthy behavior. And so since the 80s, we've been seeing a more healthy shift towards... Look it... This doesn't cause homosexuality, it doesn't cause all these things that we believe they did. And it is part of a healthy development. And so they haven't specifically come out and reversed some of those comments for strength of youth manuals and whatnot. But we definitely see a shift of them eliminating those phrases and terminologies out of the manuals and handbooks and seeing a more positive shift towards... Look, figure this out between You and the Lord, especially in marriage. So that's a really, really horrible summary, but... [overlapping conversation] 0:17:15.7 MF: I thought it was great. [laughter] 0:17:16.4 DB: Okay, good, good. 0:17:17.6 MF: I don't know, it's great. 0:17:19.3 DB: Very short and precise. 0:17:19.8 MF: Well, yeah, I think the way that... After I read through your materials, when I looked at it, it was like... It's okay. Or it's even part of normal development. 0:17:30.2 DB: Was being addressed. Yeah. 0:17:30.8 MF: Yeah, to bad bad bad, and now we're kind of coming back up to... I think, like you said, President Nelson's really focusing on personal revelation and using this... This can be a place where you really can use personal revelation and you really can look at What are the fruits of exploring that, of looking at how sexuality is part of who you are. 0:18:03.4 DB: Yeah. And let me add real quick. One thing when we analyze developments in the church, whether doctrinal, History or whatever. We make a mistake of seeing things in isolation and we gotta realize there was a lot going on during that period of '40s. We had one of the fastest booming growth of the church, to this date from the '40s to the '70s. And so the brethren were also trying to address How do we address a growing church? They created the department of correlation and everything else, and so they tried to standardize teachings across an entire world of membership. And so there's bound to be learning, lessons learned and things not perfectly instituted. And so I think it's important for us to take ourselves out of the vacuum and realize thousands of variables are involved here. It's not just is something... We go back to that rigidity, is something right or wrong? And I think what we're doing is now we're learning, How do we teach a worldwide right church? Not just the Salt Lake Church anymore. 0:19:07.3 MF: Yeah, awesome, and super helpful. I think, like you mentioned, it's not so much, but we're trying to grow out of the even home teaching like, Oh, once a month, go, go, go, and that's like Minister, meaning, take care of these people and use your judgment and your... Like what these texts mean... 0:19:32.8 DB: Excellent example. 0:19:33.8 MF: In addressing that but I think with sexuality, we're starting to see some of that as well, there are structures, there are lines, I think being sexually faithful to your wife is a pretty clear line or husband, right, as far as an actual commitment or an actual law that God's given us, but then outside of that saying, Okay, how do I... Like, sexual is part of who I am. It's weird, but Jennifer Finlayson-fife talks about this, how God is a sexual being and heavenly mother's a sexual being, it's weird for us to think about, but we're created in their image, they have that too. And how do they use that... One of the things that you work with people who struggle with, pornography too and want to use less or whatever, and one of the things that I have encouraged people to ask themselves, it's like, Okay, I have my sexuality, like How do I want to use that in the world? 0:20:44.1 DB: Yes. 0:20:45.6 MF: And then that becomes the standard instead of, Oh, can I do this or can I do that? It's like, No. So for me, my own statement is I want to use my sexuality to connect deeply with and have fun with my wife, and so now I look and say, Okay, is this helping me get there or is it detracting from that and that's been much more useful than going down this OCD. 0:21:10.2 DB: Yes. 0:21:10.6 MF: OCD track. 0:21:12.7 DB: Especially for the men. I wanna emphasize this for us men, one of the negative consequences of how we've treated sexuality over the years, and I'm not just speaking church culture, but it definitely was reinforced by church culture, is men talking about sexuality is synonymous with creepiness and weird and dangerous, and we've unfortunately associated words like lust as a negative thing, and I realize like Matthew 5-27 uses the word lust, and this is a perfect example of how we've had a false narrative created for us and this is what I mean, Matthew 5-27 is actually misinterpretation. The word actually should be covet, not lust lust is actually that specific word translated correctly is used as a positive throughout scripture, in Luke 2:22-15, Matthew 13-17, Luke 15-16 and Luke 16-21, all describe Christ Himself lusting after something, whether it's the Passover or righteousness, or whatever. And I realize it's a little nuance, but I think it's an important nuance because I often hear, I've got to avoid lust. 0:22:32.0 DB: And why is this important? Because he emphasizes it's scripturally based, lust means to desire beauty, to desire something good, God like covet is negative, it's not Christ-focused, it's not, God focused, which has resulted us men specifically. Let me emphasize why I'm bringing this up too 'cause it's a conversation I frequently have with colleagues and clients is, you may be wondering, and I realize I'm blending a little bit of topics here, but bear with me, is you may be wondering, Well, am I rigid in my thinking No, I just wanna be perfect. Well, that's one indicator that you might actually have rigid scrupulosity thinking, and the other is that my mind just went blank sorry. That you can't... Oh, that's what it was. You can't pray to God about your desires. And I see this more with men than with women, and this is a constant paradox, it's like women who speak up about sexuality are praised for their courageousness. Men who talk up about their sexuality, or I pray to God about this will be perceived as creepy or weird, or we may feel creepy or weird, I can't talk to God about my sexuality. That may be an indicator that you have rigid thinking around this, if our heavenly parents desire us to have sexual feelings and desires, we should be able to freely talk to them about it, and if we can't... 0:24:03.0 DB: That's the negative narrative, I believe that we've been taught as men, and if we want sexual relationships, we're looked at as pawning or begging or sex focus or lusting after, no, it's beautiful, we desire to have sexual relations with our spouse, and we need to speak up and break that narrative and rewrite how we talk about that and how that talk is being perceived, I think that's why a lot of men default to the joking or the silliness or whatever, because that's what they've been told to do and who they are, and we need to take back that narrative and like the women can, I wanna talk about sexuality and be praised for it, it's a beautiful, healthy thing, I desire to be a sexual being, and that's not weird. And I think that's something we men should remember. 0:25:00.3 MF: No, a great point, great point. Yeah, I think when we look at owning that and directing that, it's a powerful force, powerful energy, and deciding how you wanna direct... I love what you said about taking it to God saying, Look, I have these desires, like what's the way to direct them, like and Alma talks about bridling our passions, it doesn't mean that you stop your passions or kill your passions, it's... No, you bridle... Let me direct them to where you want to go. 0:25:38.4 DB: And one last thought on this whole idea of what it looks like to desire. One of the things that I find is beautiful in my relationship with my wife, and I think is appropriate, is we are able to say "That person looks beautiful", male or female. She's attractive. He's attractive. And our relationship is not threatened. Our trust in our relationship is solid. It isn't dependent on whether or not we speak up our desires or not. And that's a false narrative, that's another false narrative is, now in context, right, if, for example, trauma history, we've gotta respect and understand that context. We can't just say, "Tough, I don't care about your trauma, or I don't care about your insecurities." I have worked with a client in the past where the wife acknowledged she has huge amounts of insecurities, and because her husband... Her husband was looking at an Instagram model, not even pornography in its truest sense, and he acknowledged it, he's never had a history of anything. She's required him to purge himself of any of that desire versus her looking at her self and building on her issues around insecurity. It's a team effort. You both need a partner in this experience, as I think you know and understand, but when it becomes a one-sided thing, blaming a partner, and there's clearly breaking the line, right? 0:27:08.1 DB: It's interesting though, when a woman says they desire or they think something that's beautiful, it could be totally fine and not a threat to your relationship. But if a man says that, this is that false narrative, it's impossible for a man to see something that's beautiful, acknowledge it, and still have a fully committed cleaving unto their partner relationship. And we're told often that that's not possible. We're not as simple creatures on and off switches as I think we've been taught. We also desire connection and monogamy. We just also are trying to understand how to express and experience desire. 0:27:52.8 MF: Yeah. No, I like that idea a lot. And I think there's... When you do get to a level of sexual intimacy that is really connected, where you are sharing who you are at a deep level with this person, and they're sharing with you. And that's just something that... When we talk about save yourself for marriage, we teach our kids hey it's like save yourself for marriage. Why do you do that? Because ideally, when you have sex with your wife, you are sharing your whole soul with that person. This is who you want to be with. This is who you want to raise a family with. This is who you want to spend your life with. And that all comes through, through this physical act. And that's why you say that. It's not 'cause it's like wrong, and then all of a sudden it's right. It's like, no, this is something so powerful, and good, and connecting that you wanna choose someone really special to do that with. So, then to put that in context, so you say, "Oh yeah, that girl is hot or whatever," doesn't mean I want to connect with this person physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and spend my life with them like... 0:29:11.7 DB: No. 0:29:12.3 MF: When you have sex them... 0:29:13.3 DB: That's that black-and-white thinking. 0:29:15.4 MF: Right. Right. Yeah. So yeah. I think when you do experience that connection, it's just so rich and powerful that it's something that you want to, yeah, enjoy. 0:29:29.6 DB: I was just telling my wife this morning, I actually thanked her. I says, "I'm so thankful." And this is sparking from a thread that I was following and how people were arguing that they can't even look. They can't have any other desires except for unto their wife. And well, at its core, I believe that. The only desire I have is for my wife. I also... I turn to her as I was waking up and says, "I'm really thankful that you can tell me you find certain things attractive. That's beautiful to me. That tells me that you have desire, that you have an appreciation for these things, and in no way do I ever feel threatened." It's never a feeling of like, "Oh, you want me to look like that." That's my insecurity if I ever feel that way. 0:30:15.3 MF: Sure. 0:30:16.8 DB: And I would actually be concerned if she never said that. If she never pointed out, "Wow, she has a good butt. Oh, he has good abs." I would wonder... Is your blood cold? Do you not see these things? Do you not appreciate it? It's like looking at art, can't we look at other things, art or things that are beautiful, and are we afraid that our partner is gonna become more attracted to that thing? I'm not trying to be silly, but in all seriousness, we should have interests and desires. That doesn't mean we're gonna make a commitment or break a relationship because of it. I think it's very objectifying. I think it's ironically objectifying to say that men can't have more complex experiences and a commitment solely to their partner while also appreciating something that looks beautiful. 0:31:10.8 MF: Yeah, one thing that I have noticed myself doing too, is if I find my thoughts... So yeah. You can appreciate. Oh yeah, that's a good looking girl. She's pretty, but if I noticed I'm starting to run down that track of attraction or wanting to have sex with this person, like what I found more use for myself instead of trying to just shut that all down to like, "No, no, no, no, don't think that." I actually go the other way. I'm like, "Okay. Let's say that it goes that way. Is that really what I want? Do I want to destroy my family? 0:31:47.1 DB: Excellent. 0:31:47.7 MF: Do I want to be that example to my kids? Do I want to do all that?" And all of a sudden, it's like, "No, is that worth a few seconds of pleasure or... " 0:32:00.1 DB: Yeah. 0:32:01.4 MF: Definitely not. And that for me, that's been a lot more helpful than trying to be like, "Oh, this is bad. Don't think that way." 0:32:07.3 DB: Yeah, that's what we call acceptance commitment therapy. Good for you. And I think you hit it on the head right there is if you start to think you want to have sex with this thing or this person you think is beautiful, address that thought. [laughter] 0:32:22.4 MF: Right. 0:32:24.0 DB: I think that's a narrative that we've been taught, that's as soon as we find a woman or a person attractive, we now sexually crave that person. We need to break that narrative. That doesn't have to be that triggering thought. And everybody's different, of course, but I think we've been trained to think that way. And I think by addressing that concerning behavior or that concerning thought, and addressing that or like you did, you experiencing it, you said, "Do you really wanna do that?" That's what's important. Not shutting down all desire. 0:32:55.7 MF: Yeah, yeah, very good. Awesome. Well, thank you so much Daniel. Let's do a quick... A quick summary here. So, we talked about the idea of is masturbation a sin or not. And I think you really put it... 0:33:08.7 DB: Take it to the lord. 0:33:09.9 MF: Yeah, I think you really put it well, which is that's actually the wrong question. The question is, is the way I'm using my sexuality, whether that includes masturbation or whatever, is that bringing me closer to God? Is it bringing me closer to my wife or not? Right? And then, you're asking yourself is it in line with what has clearly been revealed? If that's in integrity to you to be someone that's following basically what God says, he's been pretty clear as far as being monogamous once you're married, but outside of that, there's not like a cut and dry this is how sex is supposed to be in marriage. So from there, it's more about like you said is this driving me closer to God? Is this driving me closer to God? And then, yeah, I think that's basically the summary. [laughter] 0:34:00.9 DB: Excellent. No, I think it's a good summary. It's a pleasure as always Mike. 0:34:05.6 MF: Likewise. Yeah, very good. 0:34:07.7 DB: If anybody has that... I realized this pretty quick. If anybody has any questions or want clarification, I know we did a lot in a very short amount of time. My email is always open and my contact, you'll include that information and feel free to reach out. 0:34:21.6 MF: Yeah, great. Yeah, maybe if you just wanna call out one more time the easiest way to find you? 0:34:26.7 DB: You know what? Yeah, I run the Sutton Family Therapy, but the best way is to go to my personal website where I have this all specifically for Latter Day Saints is my name, my full name, danielaburgess.com. And you'll find everything with the improving intimacy there and all the articles that you referenced, and my blogs and my podcast there and my contact info. So danielaburgess@... Excuse me, danielaburgess.com. 0:34:55.2 MF: Perfect. Hey, thanks so much, Daniel, appreciate your time today. 0:34:55.8 DB: Yeah. 0:34:56.5 MF: And alright, stay strong man. We will see you next episode. 0:35:00.9 DB: Thank you. [music]
The Dad Edge Podcast (formerly The Good Dad Project Podcast)
Our guest today believes the saying “happy wife, happy life” is a lie. If you feel like you’re doing everything right in your marriage and wonder why it’s not working, this show is for you. In this episode, we have invited Dr. Mike Frazier, the founder of Strong Men, Strong Marriages. Today, we talk about what it really means to be a man and a husband and how you need to define that for yourself. We’ll go through communication, connection, intimacy, and all the secrets you can use to make your marriage strong and exciting. For the show notes and exclusive links mentioned in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/309. ———— Join the Free Dad Edge Facebook Group at gooddadproject.com/group. Apply for The Dad Edge Alliance at gooddadproject.com/alliance. Watch this interview on YouTube gooddadproject.com/youtube. Follow us on Instagram at @thedadedge! FREE RESOURCE – 21 Days to an Extraordinary Marriage
Dr. Mike Frazier | Founder of Strong Men Strong MarriagesMike graduated Magna Cum Laude in Neuroscience and Brigham Young University, attended UCLA Medical School and went through psychiatry residency training at UC Irvine. In 2016, Mike founded Strong Men Strong Marriages to help couples achieve the relationship they deserve by working through issues such as infidelity, falling out of love, broken trust, poor communication and many other conflicts. Mike has been married to his wife Elizabeth since 2005. Having experienced many of these issues first hand, he spent years learning what it takes to build a great marriage. In studies and application, he found that a great marriage boils down to three steps: get strong, get attractive, get a strong, joyful and intimate marriage. Listen as Joseph and Mike talk all things "Strong Men, Strong Marriages"!
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Mike Frazier was shocked when his wife told him she'd been a victim of sex trafficking. With God's help he found 3 tips to help his and others marriages. Dr. Mike's StoryIn this podcast Dr. Mike shares his story of coming to know God better when he felt so overwhelmed and broken. He shares: How God helps us with mercy when times get too hard for us to proceed alone. How God puts other people in our lives to help and support us. How hard things can help us build our strength, faith and compassion. How we take turns giving and receiving service, and that is okay. Tips Shared for Building a Happy MarriageDr. Mike also talks about several things he has learned about marriage: He busts the "happy wife, happy life" myth He talks about the proper role of intimacy in marriage How important it is for you to realize that you have value as a person, and that you are as valuable as your spouse and worth choosing as a partner. What to do if you want to change but your spouse doesn't. The 3 Principles of a Strong MarriageGet strong. This means to get strong spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and sexually. Get attractive. This means developing interpersonal skills, learning to communicate, and turn conflict into connection. Get an incredibly intimate marriage. This means learning to know each other at a deeper level. One of my favorite quotes by Dr. Mike is this, "Marriage is a place where we practice the second great commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves." RecommendationsYou are Special by Max Lucado Dr. Mike's podcast, https://mikefraziermd.com/strong-men-strong-marriages-podcast/ ("Strong Men, Strong Marriages") https://mikefraziermd.com/ (https://mikefraziermd.com/) You can find the transcript for this podcast episode here: https://tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/dr-mike-frazier-3-principles-to-build-a-better-marriage (https://tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/dr-mike-frazier-3-principles-to-build-a-better-marriage) #tamarakanderson #storiesofhopeinhardtimes #podcast #hope #God #help #lessons #hardtimes #marriage #service #intimacy #getstrong #getattractive #love #happymarriage
Mike Frazier's military Career started off in the Coast Guard as a machinery technician, he did four years, got out and then got into Law enforcement right after 9/11. He missed the military so much that he joined the Army and because of his mechanical experience, he ended up working on black hawk helicopters. Eventually […]
A chat with a Noble Warrior Mike Frazier's military Career started off in the Coast Guard as a machinery technician, he did four years, got out and then got into Law enforcement right after 9/11. He missed the military so much that he joined the Army and because of his mechanical experience, he ended up working on black hawk helicopters. Eventually ended up working in special operations. However, His Military career was cut short. Take a listen as Mike shares his struggles from leaving the Military what he experienced, leading to his ‘Decision Hour' - “So that decision for me to not only try to make something of myself for other people, but for veterans and for him. So my life really stopped being more about me at that particular moment that I asked God to be in my life it was I knew that there was more to it” Mike is a Noble Warrior, mentor to many, he keeps a positive outlook on life, tells a lot of ‘Dad Jokes' and is adding value in the lives to whom he speaks with and to those who listen. You can follow Mike on Social Media also check out his website. Instagram @ nsdq_mike @ noblewarriorofficial https://www.wearenoblewarriors.com
Mike Frazier was shocked when his wife told him she'd been a victim of sex trafficking. With God's help he found 3 tips to help his and others marriages.Dr. Mike's StoryIn this podcast Dr. Mike shares his story of coming to know God better when he felt so overwhelmed and broken. He shares:How God helps us with mercy when times get too hard for us to proceed alone.How God puts other people in our lives to help and support us.How hard things can help us build our strength, faith and compassion.How we take turns giving and receiving service, and that is okay.Tips Shared For Building A Happy MarriageDr. Mike also talks about several things he has learned about marriage:He busts the "happy wife, happy life" mythHe talks about the proper role of intimacy in marriageHow important it is for you to realize that you have value as a person, and that you are as valuable as your spouse and worth choosing as a partner.What to do if you want to change but your spouse doesn't. The 3 Principles Of A Strong MarriageGet strong. This means to get strong spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and sexually.Get attractive. This means developing interpersonal skills, learning to communicate, and turn conflict into connection.Get an incredibly intimate marriage. This means learning to know each other at a deeper level. One of my favorite quotes by Dr. Mike is this, "Marriage is a place where we practice the second great commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves."RecommendationsYou are Special by Max LucadoDr. Mike's podcast, "Strong Men, Strong Marriages"https://mikefraziermd.com/ You can find the transcript for this podcast episode here: https://tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/dr-mike-frazier-3-principles-to-build-a-better-marriage#tamarakanderson #storiesofhopeinhardtimes #podcast #hope #God #help #lessons #hardtimes #marriage #service #intimacy #getstrong #getattractive #love #happymarriage
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Ever feel like you're always begging for sex but settling for scraps and leftovers? Then this episode is for you. Dr. Mike Frazier coaches men on his Strong Man System to help men get back the marriage & sex lives they want by living a life of integrity and honesty.
Stories from the Stacks – A Soundtrack to an Investment Advisor’s Life with Olde Raleigh Financial
Visual communication entrepreneur and Crypto Culture watcher Mike Fraser talks to Trevor and Blake about the future of making and spending money. We break down how Cryptocurrencies and The Blockchain are influencing the future of personal finance. Mike uses a Brave Browser which pays him - via Blockchain - to click on highly targeted ads. He uses the money to buy some pints and food from local restaurants. The future wallet is here. Hey everybody. It's Trevor Chambers from Olde Raleigh Financial. Once again, we are posting up another awesome, I think awesome at least, considering my guest blog post on our blog, A Soundtrack to an Advisors Life. And today were going to talk to another master. We like to meet masters who know their space really, really well. And I want to welcome Mike Frazier. Mike from the big state of Ohio. What's going on out there, brother? MIKE FRASER: Hey, we're just living the dream up here in Ohio. CHAMBERS: Yeah. Hey how is Notre Dame doing? Buddy, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. How's Michigan doing up there. I mean – FRASER: Yeah. We don't kick off until later in October. CHAMBERS: I got it. Yeah you guys are on a different time line up there. FRASER: Yeah. CHAMBERS: In more ways than one. FRASER: Right, right. CHAMBERS: I'm only kidding. I'm only kidding. All right, so Mike, you are – I saw some – you have a design background. You've been in the webspace forever. You understand marketing, specifically Social Media marketing and that's kinda (sic) your day gig. And then one of the things that you kind of study, and I think from a, like a journalist point of view is blockchain. And so, todays – we're going to talk about blockchain. We get, you know, questions about blockchain occasionally. We get questions about bitcoin, especially a couple years ago. That was the topic among certain clients. Then they moved on to marijuana stocks. That was another popular one, like last year. So, two years ago, it was bitcoin, then marijuana stocks and there's always these, but blockchain has been around. Not going anywhere and Mike's going to talk about it so welcome, Mike to Olde Raleigh Financial Group. Read Full Interview Transcript at: https://olderaleighfinancial.com/meet-the-masters-your-browser-is-buying-your-next-bourbon-with-guest-mike-fraser/ Olde Raleigh Financial Group 3110 Edwards Mill Road Suite 340 Raleigh, NC 27612 Phone: 919.861.8212 This material is provided as a courtesy and for educational purposes only from Olde Raleigh Financial Group, A member of Advisory Services Network and should not be construed as investment advice. All information contained in this video is derived from sources deemed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed. All economic and performance data is historical and not indicative of future results. All views/opinions expressed in this video are solely those of the presenter and do not reflect the views/opinions held by Advisory Services Network, LLC. Advisory Services Network, LLC does not provide tax advice. The tax information contained herein is general and is not exhaustive by nature. Federal and state laws are complex and constantly changing. Please consult your investment professional, legal or tax advisor for specific information pertaining to your situation. Olde Raleigh Financial, a Member of Advisory Services network does not offer services related to initial coin offering, bitcoin, or crypto-currencies. The information discussed in this interview is for general purposes only and is not intended to imply investment advice.
In this podcast episode Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Mike Frazier with Strong Men, Strong Marriages Podcast to talk about... -Female sexuality and desire. -Why you need to stop being “pathetic” :-) and what to do instead. -How to approach sex with your wife in a way that’s attractive and effective. -How to better take ownership of your own sexuality in a way that will bless your marriage.
In this podcast episode Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Mike Frazier with Strong Men, Strong Marriages Podcast to talk about...-Female sexuality and desire.-Why you need to stop being “pathetic” :-) and what to do instead.-How to approach sex with your wife in a way that’s attractive and effective.-How to better take ownership of your own sexuality in a way that will bless your marriage.To learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s work, visit our Website, check out our Course Page, and take a look at our upcoming Events. You can also follow Dr. Finlayson-Fife on Instagram or join her FREE Facebook Group for greater access to her insights.www.Finlayson-Fife.comThis episode was originally aired on August 4, 2020.You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and Stitcher.You can learn more about Mike Frazier, MD here.The advice offered through Dr. Finlayson-Fife’s Podcast Archive is educational and informational in nature and is provided only as general information. It is not meant to establish a therapist-patient relationship or offer therapeutic advice, opinion, diagnosis treatment or to establish a standard of care. Although Dr. Finlayson-Fife is a trained psychotherapist, she is not functioning in the role of a licensed therapist during these sessions, but rather using her training to inform these sessions. Thus, the content is not intended to replace independent professional judgment. The content is not intended to solicit clients or patients; and should not be relied upon as medical or psychological advice of any kind or nature whatsoever. The information provided through the Content should not be used for diagnosing or treating a mental health problem or disease. The information contained in these communications is not comprehensive and does not include all the potential information regarding the subject matter, but is merely intended to serve as one resource for general and educational purposes.
Joining us today is Steve “Stix” Nilsen, the vice president of lifestyle marketing at Liquid Death Mountain Water. He has some bold strategies that have proven effects on branding, brand loyalty, marketing, and generating profits for Fortune 500 companies. When asked how he does it, he said “I do cool shit, with cool people, that makes people buy things.” You won't want to miss this fun and lively interview with a down to Earth guy that has some serious moxie! What we're talking about Epiphany on a Beach Tenacity and Forging His Own Path Trying New Things, But Knowing Your Boundaries Epiphany on a Beach Steve grew up just outside Minneapolis, MN, but visited family in Hawaii over the summers. It was his summer fun that sparked his love for surfing. Even though he went to a private prep school and played traditional sports, he was also passionate about skateboarding and music. It was his love of discovering who he was that led him to try jobs in many different industries, from being a golf cart boy to construction to working in a bank. All the way to working for Northwest Airlines to indulge his love of travel! It was during one of his adventurous trips around the world, Stix had an epiphany. He was sitting on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia when he had a revelation. His career needed to be in action sports! Tenacity and Forging His Own Path To obtain a career in action sports, Stix went about it his own way, by grabbing every action sports magazine and studying the brands he liked the most. He cold called companies. He took their existing ads, and redid their marketing with his own comic flair. Sending them back to the companies for review. His boldest move and big break came when he talked to the director of marketing at Airwalk. Her home had just burned to the ground and she had to be on a plane to Europe a few hours later. She was too busy to take his call, so he mailed a smoke detector to her home! It worked and he was hired. Trying New Things, But Knowing Your Boundaries Steve had worked hard to get his foot in the door, and he started working in merchandising. It was when he realized that they were doing it all wrong, and his advice fell on deaf ears, that he decided to learn everything up and down the ladder so he could make the decisions to best position the product. Will you take your passion and make a career out of it? LINKS MENTIONED Steve Nilsen's LinkedIn Stix's Instagram Liquid Death Instagram Liquid Death Website SPONSOR Wildstory TIMESTAMPS 13:00 - 13:39 (39 sec MG) There really is this awesome idea that...be the person that you wanted to be. 100% 15:05 - 15:18 (13 sec SN) Let's not paint this picture that I'm...they all wore the same outfits. Costumes as I like to say. 27:40 - 27:58 (18 sec MG) Brands don't really own the brands...everyone is having their own conversations. 28:21 - 28:43 (22 sec) How did you start the process of...this is pre-internet. 52:58 - 53:22 (24 sec SN) When the light bulb went off...that is brand equity. 57:58 - 58:20 (22 sec SN) That's pretty tell tale when you have...you're gonna be the first guy who's gonna hit me up for swag. QUOTES I believe travel is so important for the growth of kids, if you can possibly do it, to see other cultures. See other things. It helps you figure out who you are. - SN To exist as a brand, you can't just go off your bros. You've got to bring in people that know what they're doing. - SN You don't just do “enough”. Don't check boxes. - SN I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Unknown We're not a product. We're a brand. - SN Podcast Transcript Steve "Stix" Nilsen 0:02 All I remember is that they were they moved from Carlsbad, California to Pennsylvania. And I was just barraging her with letters and left and I call call cold call. And then I picked up the phone one day. And I said, hey, it's Steve Nilsen. Oh, it's cute kid. Because again, because Listen, kid, I don't have time to talk to you. My house just burned down. I gotta leave for Europe. And I was like, Alright, I gotta go. So I mailed her a smoke detector in the mail. And she called me like laughing. But two weeks, three weeks later says, Oh my god, you have balls kicked. Yeah, she flew me out and fast forward, I end up getting the job. Marc Gutman 0:41 Podcasting from Boulder, Colorado. This is the baby got backstory Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like big back stories and I cannot lie. I am your host Marc Gutman. I'm Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby got backstory, how a kid from Minnesota infatuated with skating and music was able to combine those two loves, and build a marketing career in the action sports industry with some of the world's biggest brands. Hey, now if you like and enjoy the show, please take a minute or two to rate and review us over at iTunes. iTunes uses these as part of the algorithm that determines ratings on the apple charts. And ratings help us to build an audience, which then helps us to continue to produce this show. I today's episode we're talking to Steve Nielsen. Man, that sounds weird because I know Steve as Styx STI x, and I'm not going to ruin the story of how he got that nickname for you. It's coming up early in the episode and he'll tell you all about it himself. Styx has built a career in the action sports Industry helping to build brands and marketing companies like air walk Red Bull paps. Yep, the Blue Ribbon beer. And now he is helping to build the brand of liquid death, which sounds like some weird cannabis brand, or a punk rock band. But it's canned water. Stix is one of those people who knows everyone and everyone knows him. He's a savvy marketer. And he found a way to marry the things he loved skate culture, in music, with marketing. stix. His story is one of vision, persistence and principles. Listen to the discipline he displays when talking about branding. He's always looking at the long game versus the quick game for the business. I could listen to stix of stories for hours and I loved his honest take on branding and what it takes to build a brand and this is his story. Alright, I am here with Steve Nilson of liquid death. And Steve, I think this might be the last time I call you Steve, because everybody calls you stix. How did you get that nickname? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 3:12 No, I honestly I was given it was 1998 around there. At the time I was building snowboard boots for airwatch and I was over in Asia and long story short is you know, when you're over there in these factories is roasting right and I would wear shorts to the factories because obviously it's super hot in Thailand or Taiwan or or Shanghai, China. And when I wear boots, you know if you guys have skinny legs, it looks like Jiminy Cricket with the boots on and one day my boss at the time who's still very close with me got super irritated about something he was not really me personally but what was going on in production. And we all got really loud. How do you balance them sticks because he's he's from frickin Boston. So stix stuck like that and coworkers are laughing by time I got like some in states camp so he felt that way to SPX and Stop, but it literally is because I've seen the lights. That's not very, you know, glamorous story. But literally, I did look like Jiminy Cricket. I just came across some photos I dug up the other day and I'm wearing snowboard boots and 100 degree factory. So Marc Gutman 4:14 well thanks for that context. Now we're gonna know why we're referring to stix going forward. And stix. You probably have the coolest bio of anyone that has ever been on the show so far. And I'm going to read it because it's very, very short and to the point, I do cool shit with cool people that makes people buy things. What's that mean? Yeah, what's that mean to you? Like how'd you how'd you come to that bio? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 4:40 You know, I think it's because I, you could cut and paste your resume or you could do liquid gas. I'm sorry. resume or you could go to LinkedIn rather, and just cut and paste things and there's not a whole lot of soul to that, I don't think and if you really want me to dumb it down, that's the best way because I'm always run, moving her miles now. And they always say there's quote unquote elevator speech. That was the best way to explain it to you, as he was about to drop it into skate park. If someone asked me what I did, that's what I'm telling you. I mean, it's quick to the point and then maybe pique their curiosity like it is you and it's really just, I'd like to think that my career like, I've had so much fun. And I think that I did all my life, I can look at it that way. I just, I'm not going to do something. If I'm not reading, my heart's not into it. Let's just put it that way. And so you sniff out in your life, brands, people situations, you want to be a part of and make it so you know, and that's really, again, it's probably being a little cryptic, but I hope that answers your question. Marc Gutman 5:36 Yeah, it's a great, it's a great, it's a great answer, stix. And you know, one thing that I know about you and you've touched on it, you dropped a bunch of clues right there talking about dropping into the skate park doing cool things, the cool brands, you know, why don't you tell me a little bit about what your young stix was like? I mean, where did you grow up? What were your interests? And how did that set the foundation for where you are today? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 5:58 Make a very long story short I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Specifically, it's called the Dinah, Minnesota, which we are known as cake eaters. It's a hockey reference to long strip, anyone can look it up enough cake eaters if you can Google it. Anyway, I have relatives in Hawaii, and I became absolutely infatuated with surf skate culture. I just thought it was the coolest cook back then. There was no packs on. There's no zoomies. There was no, you couldn't find the really cool clothes. Except if you go to the skate shops or shopper. Well, we obviously have a lot of that in Minnesota. So when I visited my relatives, I come back with Quicksilver and the different surf brands, billabong, Town and Country. And people are like, where'd you get the word you get the clothes? Where'd you get that? And it's it had made to mainland United States. Yeah, to me, I guess on the coast, but not on Minnesota. And I fast forward. You know, I really got into skateboarding. And snowboarding hadn't existed yet. And I love that but we could only do it a certain amount of time during the year and that wasn't particularly good. But I got Have some kids from this called Southwest High School, which kind of borders along with the suburb that I grew up in. And they were like the kids, I was just, I was fascinated with the fact that they were so into punk rock that they're the ones to tell me about First Avenue and Seventh Street entry, which is anyone has anyone played those venues as a kid like we're talking to a black flag, Jeff a circle jerks, like all these bands, you could go see him for like five bucks because they'd have a matinee show in the morning or midday and then they'd have the Id show at night they call them or whatever. 21 Plus, and that was really what I did. It's funny because I played traditional sports the whole time. But I just was something about that the music, the way people dress, all that really, like captivated me at a young age. And I think it has to do with the fact which is why I believe travel is so important for like the growth of kids if you possibly can do it, to see other cultures see other things. It helps you figure out who you are and for me by me going to experience what it was like in Honolulu and in Maui, and seeing these guys these cool you know, Massimo was actually a surfer and originally people don't know that. That brand And things like that I was just infatuated with it. So that so hope that kind of gives you a little snapshot that I kind of did both. It's like I played the traditional sports, but I love the punk rock skate side. It just was such a curiosity, but I just love how passionate people were. And you could kind of express yourself, you could just be you didn't have to follow on and I went to private school. So everyone kind of the same costume and not that we had to wear uniforms. But I was fascinated that, again, the music, the the activities of skateboarding, and then eventually snowboarding. It allowed you to be you like whatever that meant, and no one's gonna judge you in those circles. Yeah, it's Marc Gutman 8:38 so interesting. I mean, you and I have a very similar background in that, you know, I grew up in Midwest as well. I was super fascinated with skateboard culture. So much so that I used to just look at Thrasher magazine and dream about that lifestyle until the second I could go to California. I did move to Venice Beach and quickly realized that it wasn't quite like it wasn't the magazine at that time. But But like, you know, Really can relate to that. And so what was like, I mean, what was just so special for you and the one thing that was a little different was like, you know, I always thought like, some of the music that like all the skaters were listening to and I can thrash and all that was a little like, a little hard for me. You know, I was more of like a Detroit Detroit Rock City like heavy, you know, metal hairband, kind of kid, you know, what was it about that? That combination of skate and in music that really spoke to you and you talked a little bit it allowed you to, to self expression to like, why was that important? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 9:31 I think it is because I went to, you know, a very well renowned private school in Minneapolis. But the cool thing with this school, I will say from freshman year on in high school, they really had them really that the kids they're really like music, and I'm not saying about playing on a saxophone or a quarter or even though they were known for the choir. But you got to remember I grew up in the thick of the replacements, Cusco do early soul asylum and people would go to the shows and I would have a senior driving freshman to go see the violent felons, let's say. And I just started going to any show I could get my hands on, like you get a ride to but here the school I went to would be a preppy I guess is the term you'd use. But it was fun because we didn't have like any high school you're gonna have the guys little known fact, one of the founders of ice magazine was a year older than me. And we used to see each other punk shows all the time, you know? Think suroosh Alvi. And he's still there. And we would see each other all the time it was funny because then I yes, did I have clothes I guess you can probably but then I would maybe do a twist on it and go buy a pair of camel pants at the army surplus store. And then my mom would would hand them in or make them a little narrower. You don't need to be so baggy, and just like a fun little twist on stuff but we have very little to choose from back then. Not in a destitute way but in a way that we're pretty much had a few department stores to choose from. So the fact you could go do that so like I had a friend of my late friend morning almost. I bring him up because my one of my closest friends died in 911 100 fourth for the South Tower. He's actually the first person on the victims list. If you look at His last name is Ahmed. And he's one of my son's is named after him. But he was funny with Mr. Like, preppy guy, but be the first guy that one might make his own t shirt or want to go to a punk show. And then he wouldn't alter what he could still wear like, it was like a damn shirt to a punk show because he just no one really messed with the meter. It's kind of bigger guy, but he and I are totally online on music. You know, we'd love everything from the cure to again, replacements to Cusco do and then digging really really deep. Like I said the gfa is the world which word for it and we're even pit pihl public engineer limited, which is an offshoot, obviously the Sex Pistols, but we used to take a bus to downtown Minneapolis, the six plus and we would go to northern lights which was the record store and dig through crates for vinyl. And then there was this was owned by this Asian couple called sons su ns and they're the ones who have all the concert tees and you go on their wall and you look at these five screens printed in black, but you couldn't any of the bands you couldn't see you ever see like the Smiths I go into the Smith's work by seeing a T shirt. I bought the T shirt I have no idea meat is murder. What the Smith It was different. You walk down the street, you were like, what is meat is murder. You know, that's the name of the album. But that was kind of how it happened in Minneapolis. Fortunately again, though, it considered a cold destitute place. Otherwise, it had a really good art scene. My mother works for me, Apple sister of arts for decades, you know, had a really really good thriving theater slash music scene that you wouldn't find major metros, you know, and you needed to try it. But I'd argued right up there was Chicago, you know, they've got venues too, but just a smaller version. No, yeah. And I think Marc Gutman 12:31 it was really cool, like in those kind of smaller, mid major towns because Minneapolis isn't like a small town, but it's not Chicago. But when you get the bands that come into town, you get them to yourselves. And so in a way, it's almost better than when you're like trying to fight through a Chicago crowd or an LA crowd or New York crowd for both tickets, just proximity and that type of stuff. You'd be out on the town and you'd run into your favorite band or something like that, which was always so cool. And, and you touched on something and I don't want to get too existential here, but like There really is this awesome idea that, you know, when we align with brands and we, we display those brands, it really says a lot about who we are and you were able to really go out and perhaps and I don't know this to be true. I mean, was this sort of your first touch in realization of the power of brands and aligning with brands and also, not just that you aligned with one brand when what I really heard from you is that, you know, young stix who wasn't stix at the time was really this combination of many brands in order to kind of be the person that you wanted to be. Steve "Stix" Nilsen 13:38 Hundred percent you know, I can honestly this is, again, gonna sound cliche, Fast Times return Hi, I will completely 100% that movie. I went checker dance. But the funny thing is, you can find him in Minnesota. My sister was going to school in Arizona, I get a graduate degree, and they actually she was able to get a pair for me there. And I remember I wore those and they ain't Another thing is I didn't want to wear socks or anything but Korean socks. They were like a science experiment. I mean it was just was so those things were so right. My mom would meet people outside. But those were like a badge of honor walk around those vans because we didn't have them in Minnesota. Now they're solely to get their name bands and always been kind of mail order. Back then it wasn't FedEx, you know, maybe there was but like, I, you weren't gonna get your shoes overnight, right? You find the backup when you said Thrasher or Transworld or skateboarder and that was around, and you'd fill out it was 1799 for tear shoes, whatever it was back then. But those to me that and like camel pants and just a white t shirt. It's pretty cool kit, you know, 1984 you know, whatever it was, you know? I mean it was and so you're right and but you gotta remember that he we didn't have Abercrombie and Fitch, we didn't have, again, Pac son. He didn't have these places. You just like Okay, I'm gonna go to the department store. And then we think of fun ways to maybe monkey around with the clothes. I might not mean to designer I can't so to save my life. But maybe it alters a jacket completely. Obviously you're cut the sleeves off. If you want to. mean like you're just wrong. And by no means again, I wasn't. Let's not paint this picture and walk around like a guy. That's cool enough, but I always try as best I could with what little I had to work with, to tweak it a little bit. You know, I didn't want to be the same shirt, same things, everybody else because they all we all wear the same outfits with costumes, as I like to say, at the time. Marc Gutman 15:18 Yeah. What do you think that interests like in fashion and pop culture came? Because it certainly shows up later in your career. And we'll talk about that. But you know, where do you think that really came from? Where was one of your parents kind of into that stuff? Was it more your association with your friends? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 15:32 No friends, so I came from the most conservative household ever, you know, very Christian, amazing upbringing. I don't have a complaint in the world. It's just very, very conservative. You know, I mean, now the house is pretty much like I think those rooms I still never been in or have been their house, you know, but and that's no disrespect. But definitely I was there was one of my family was near punk rock. I don't know. I have three siblings. My oldest is my brother. And she did introduced me to a lot of bands that I got into late and like I'm talking about the last five years were way before I ever thought I would like it, you know, Fleetwood Mac, he would play jurnee. He would play Pablo Cruz, he would play. What's the one like Michael McDonald, Doobie Brothers, all these things, which at the time I didn't care for, as I've gotten older, like, I kind of dig it back. You know, I mean, it's some of the stuff which I never would have never. That's way too slow for me at the time. But now I've come to appreciate like journey. Like I just got journey's Greatest Hits for President. Are you kidding me? Like, if I know I played in my living room. Marc Gutman 16:33 So we went here that's exclusively with Mack and journey. All right, everybody. So like stix is a Fleetwood Mac journey efficient. Steve "Stix" Nilsen 16:40 I mean, I can't listen all the time. I wouldn't be able to sit still long enough. But the funny thing is, though, my brother did go to concerts a lot. So I kind of got caught. He told me some hilarious stories when this first arena shows me you know, I must have been five years old, and he's going to these and tell me when the house lights went off. The first time it's film that stadiums with North Stars played. He literally thought there was a power outage. You know, they do that. before they get on stage, and I forget who was going to see I think was, oh, Linda Skinner, something like that. And, you know, they cut the house lights, obviously for anyone and he just said how he almost urinated soiled himself because he thought the power was out, you know, but just explain what it's like to go to his first show. But he took me to see kiss. He was in college, and I was in middle school, whatever it was, and I got to see kids when they were in their heyday. This is 1979 or 80 or something like that. got like, that's first time ever smell weeks. I had no idea what the smoke was everywhere. And it just smelled funny, you know? But again, I taken my brother ticularly first kiss show again. That was the full original lineup. So I got to see that was pretty cool. Marc Gutman 17:36 Pretty great claim to fame. So here you are, you know, you're just finding out who you are. You're dabbling and skate culture and music and figuring things out. You know, like, what was your first real job and what was it in marketing or was it Steve "Stix" Nilsen 17:51 God? No. I my first look from a neighbor was he literally had a Chris craft boat where those goodies whether they're called you know the ones for eautiful Have to store that. But in the meet the same time, my brother at this point my brother has was in law school, whatever, but he'd worked for a local golf course. And I ended up because they liked my brother so much. They literally like, I got a job there. And it was awesome because I was in charge of the golf carts. So I go around, but I got to interact with everybody. You know, I mean, anytime you just wanted a cart, I'm going to bring it up in in the golf carts and really actually a really good golf course. So public course. But that was one where I was just, you got to, you know, really interact. A lot of people see different people for different walks of life, because again, it's a public course. Right? And that's where I was introduced to the Beastie Boys, because one of the guys that I worked with him cards, pull out this license, the L tape, and I was like, What is this and I was like, I think I melted the tape. We listen to it so much. And I just was so fascinated because I didn't know anything about hip hop or rap or anything like that. But I loved the Beastie Boys style those guys to me, if anyone has moved the needle culturally, with anywhere, this the Beastie Boys, I'm serious. Like I was So in fact, I'm thinking how could these dudes leave their from Brooklyn and you know, the fighter, right, all that stuff, but if you really outside of that hit that they had. So the subs, like amazing like Paul's boutique, I think is one of most underrated albums. Like, I put in the top 10 most underrated album, I mean, what those guys did. And it's ironic now there's this spike Jones documentary on it, but those guys just look at what they went through. I mean, I remember reading an article they were they bought ups, outfits to wear on on stage, but yet they had a big catalog out of like, retro champion where they were going to do who was doing that at the time, you know, I mean, just retro old school athletic wear, and they were making it cool, you know, and then I saw him play live and I was like, Okay, this is this is a whole nother thing, you know, but that was I roundabout way of saying how I was like, I got exposed to something else. You know, being at this public golf course. It's like, wow, Beastie Boys. What the hell is this? You know, I knew all about punk rock, but I didn't know and then that there became a crossover. Those guys originally. Were coming in, you know, not many people. I don't think That lookup I think it's probably walk stools are first of all up and look it up. Yeah. And Marc Gutman 20:04 so you know musics of throughput through your life where'd you go after the golf course, Steve "Stix" Nilsen 20:08 golf course my senior year and then I worked construction, which, again, great life lessons there. I learned to this day enough to be dangerous. It's Brian wall wiring plumbing. But it also made me realize I didn't want to do manual labor. It was a great experience. I got through with friends we a lot of laughs But I knew it was something that I didn't want to do. Second summer, I worked at a bank. And that was another huge learning experience because I'd have to go every morning I put on a tie go down downtown Minneapolis, and I remember calling my parents saying I'm going to be in college for 15 years. This is what the real world is like, because I can't it was just like, droids marching every day. The same thing was just a miserable experience on under artificial light in a cube. You were wearing a tie. I was wearing a tie. Yep. And I the funny part is I'd have to drive myself First Avenue to get to the where I worked. And I thought someone's gonna just pull me out of my jeep and just wild me for wearing a tie so close to sacred spot like that, right? Who would have thunk it years earlier, I'm waiting in line with all the other kids trying to get a ticket. And I drive by and wearing a tie. Right? And then I thought that the most the least painful thing to do would be to be a copywriter because I was originally an English major, and I didn't know what to do with that. I loved it. I got to work on the Harley Davidson account. I got to work on this thing called Skeeter Boats. I'm not kidding you. But it was like it was a cool environment. My boss was really cool. I got college credit for it, which is awesome. From there, I went to work for Northwest Airlines. And the reason I'm telling you that is the fact that I studied abroad in Australia for a bit and by that when I got this internship with united with Northwest Airlines, which became Delta, they just opened up the Australian market. So they actually ran everything by me to see if it was going to be authentic or not. And it was just something about travel once again. I'm like wow, this place I live in this earth. I got credit for it. And my payments was they gave me four tickets to go anywhere in the world. I wanted to go back paying cash. And then my last internship for credit was I work for a public relations for Minnesota North Stars, the hockey team. And I obviously did a great job for Dallas the next year. No, it really I just didn't realize I didn't want to work. It's not what it's cracked up to be to work for protein. But it's not okay. When you're in the bowels of the stadium, not not only the fun part was those I part of my job is to take players to go talk to schools. And that was, I will argue that not just because I play hockey, but professional hockey players are probably the coolest pro athletes will ever meet your life. They're so humble and self mocking and appreciative and because most of them did come from small towns in Canada or Europe or wherever, or or they went right into juniors and never really got finished high school. So for them, they're just happy go lucky and it was a great experience. So that's a long winded way of explaining kind of experiences I had. Marc Gutman 22:57 Yeah, where'd you go on those four free trips. Steve "Stix" Nilsen 23:00 Let's see I blew my knee out. So I went to see a friend in Maui who's a dive instructor. I'm a certified no Patty diving, whatever. And I would just because I couldn't move my leg, I think I could every day, which is diving groups. And I just tagged on behind the group. So I got to scuba dive every day for free for 10 days, where my leg was just dragged behind me in the water, and I did that. So I think I went to San Francisco but then I went back to Australia, because after I graduated college I got and that's where I had my epiphany for my career. That's where I was like, that's when the light bulb went off. I know the exact spot on Bondi Beach rather sitting having a beard like seeing that when there's a skate they used to have skate ramps, now their actual cement bowls, and I remember I want to be an actual sports. I was watching these guys surf and like I want to be this is this is like I would go into the surf shops and every corner I would always want to surf shops. There's this brand SNP that wasn't really a player for a while it actually sports business and that was bought by Riot snowboards and then it's just kind of like it's licensed out now. But that's a hot brand on Australia. The time is just fascinating. Everything about everything. Every little magazine I get my hands on. I was absolutely infatuated and funny thing is my job down there had nothing to do with music art or action sports. It looked I was writing copy for a nonprofit that I care because it gave me a tax ID to live there for a year and live on a beach. So that's really where I was like, This is what I do. Marc Gutman 24:19 Yeah, like, what was the will kind of take a little moment here, but like, what was the scene like that? I mean, was there really like an action sports industry at that time? Or is it more like these sort of like little brands, little skate shops, like what does it look like at that time? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 24:34 It's, you know, the one thing that was starting to take off at that point was snowboarding. Okay, this is 95 year of 95. And I lived in Australia, and I made my way over to New Zealand to ride it's called the remarkable mountains over there. I mean, I still have my first snowboard jacket that literally is a glorified flannel with like a Teflon pad on the bottom and it's funny, it's like dropped, which frankly is back in style, though. I should pass it on next year. But never it was just everything about it to me though black flies was like the hot sunglass brand and they made goggles my first goggles were black box okay, but it wasn't it were the really the final part. The final catalyst for me saying this is what I have to do is I got back to the states turned down some job offers were literally charity from like my buddy's parents You know, it just it was nothing I would have accelerated or really enjoyed. It doesn't matter what it was. I t just was not to me it's more corporate stuff right. And I went to my first work tour. And at that point was the second year of the tour. I missed the first year living in Australia but I saw it in a magazine and they had a couple bands so I just still to this day love orange nine millimeter quicksand l seven, some wine was a part of the first one. And I drove to Milwaukee Wisconsin with my girlfriend at the time. And that's where I saw a Warped Tour and I still have some photos of like me in the pit shooting with a 35 millimeter inside, penny wise and then the outside me shooting guy skating the skateboard and remember going this is what I want to be this What I've got to do like this is so me just just people having fun was punk rock. We're skaters. And then the brands that were part of that, you know, at the time it was billabong, and I think even though there's a thing called split, it was it was a clothing brand. They were part of it. But they had a little booth there. And, you know, I was a little kid in the candy store free stickers. I mean all that like I get it. You know, that was my first taste. But yeah, this is like marketing 101 or grassroots marketing, just get the brand in people's hands and let them decide for themselves where to put the stickers what to do what brands, you know what I mean? And that was that was my aha, like, Okay, I'm onto something here. Because there's no way there'd be a tour like this if this wasn't what yet. But you got to remember, this is before magic zoomies existed at that point. But before these was in the stores started, really, really being a little more prominent in cities more and more popping up and skateboards is something it had been in California, obviously in some pockets around the US. But I was sitting there going, Hey, how can I get in this business? And that was literally like that. I mean, I was like laser focus. Like how many The minute I got home, I started my long slog and try to get my foot in the door. Marc Gutman 27:05 Yeah. And so it's so interesting to me. I mean, you know, from a very young age when you describe those internships, you were very astute to align your interests with some sort of business need, right? So you know, you love to travel so you went to work for the airline, you loved hockey, so you went to the North Stars realized it wasn't for you, but that's okay. And then you go to Australia and you have this like, you know, this this epiphany and what I was imagining when you were talking just about that environment were with grassroots marketing and people handing out stickers. It was so interesting to me. It's kind of like where we are now today with social media, right? Where we're like brands don't really own the brand. There's all this conversation and all this interaction going on outside the brand, by the customers by their by by the fan base and very much like that was happening for you, right, like everyone's handing out stickers and authenticating the brand and having their own conversation. Somebody was just like, really interested. To me, but you come back and you're like, I want to be in this business. I mean, what's that plan? I mean, so, Hey, man, I've been struck a few times in my life to where I'm like, I know exactly what I want to do. And I have this amazing fantasy. And then I go like, Oh, crap. Now I got to like, actually make it a reality. And sometimes that doesn't always add up. Like how did you like, start that process of getting into action sports and actually making a career out of it? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 28:26 Honestly, I grabbed every magazine I could get my hands on. And I just got to the players were and not not in a backdoor I'm in it was like I just I knew brands that I really liked. brands who maybe didn't resonate with me as much and I had no choice. This is pre internet. Like I'm cold call, right? Well, then I find out there's this thing called si a show. And I literally was 300 bucks for like three nights and airfare to Treasure Island at Vegas. And I went into the show with resume And the funny part is I've never really told him the story. I was thinking to myself because I was surrounded by like, how am I gonna? Help me stand apart? Like, these guys probably gonna have pluses I didn't know what the trim bro man that everyone's just kind of gets backdoor bro jobs. And in Minnesota like I grew up in a walk, right so I've flown ski I wakeboarder which is how I destroyed my leg. But I also compare for so I literally was handing out these resumes with us a picture staples of me barefoot, right because I thought that was kind of badass. Like, you know, I didn't know what I know now about how what like a charity of sorts and he's actually sports Branson, so I'm sure in high tech Okay, cool. You know, you don't hindsight 2020 but I thought how can I turn some heads or get some attention with my resume? So I attached picture of me barefooting you know, cuz I still do those tumble turns and go down. You can spin around and get back on your feet again. I thought you know, someone find that interesting, but they got it in hindsight. I mean, I might as well Wearing a tutu? No, they probably thought, who's this clown. So I literally when I went started doing was collecting business cards. Everywhere I went and I took some, some people were nice enough to give me like a honcho card. And other people would give me like a customer service persons card, it didn't matter. And then I thought, Okay, I'm going to take what I learned at the agency, and I took their ads from the different brands and I made them funny. I just stopped funding them making stuff and get a kick out. So I was mailing back at this again, pre internet, so I was really going to everyone under the sun Marc Gutman 30:33 Yeah, how are you making ads talk about that. I mean, were you like making collages with paper Steve "Stix" Nilsen 30:37 I would take their ads out of the magazine Exacto and change their headline, or take a Polaroid or something and kind of superimposed on at the time and it was kind of a cool come to write, but I didn't, I didn't I didn't register, Marc Gutman 30:50 but you're not using like a computer or like Photoshop or anything. Steve "Stix" Nilsen 30:53 I didn't have any of that. I didn't have computer for years. And I thought I would mail them back and of course then I will The phone call and you gotta remember man, like, I'm trying to get my career all my buddies are in Wall Street. You know, that was where I grew up. I wrote that set with those guys role. And that's nothing wrong with that just wasn't my scene, but you know, and then my parents dining room table, you know no buddies are all partying in New York, right? But I just knew I couldn't do it but I kept calling, calling calling some people I got through to some people I didn't. But I just knew that I knew I was so mobile. I was like, someone want to be moved to California because I was moved to Chula Vista for that brand SMP. I would, I probably never would have left Southern California and I moved to California, and it just didn't pan out. But again, it just you just lesson learned. You got to try and try and try again because you are gonna have the door slammed in your face, especially that industry being as young as it was at the time. I mean, it was like the ultimate like old boys network, you know, and, boy, good luck breaking into that. And I just knew I was going to be an asset to a brand but I also still knew I need to learn a lot from pinion that only makes a mistake once and never having a mistake again and I'll own up to it. You know, so that's really where I was at the time. Marc Gutman 32:03 But I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you? Did someone bite on that? And did you get a job? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 32:08 Yeah, I what had happened is I was getting so down in the dumps. And the one brand that I focused in on because they weren't every single magazine snow surface skate magazine was arawak. And at the time, they had the who's who, every sport. They even had a few surfers, and I was taking their ads and doing stuff in cut. I don't remember her last meeting, but the director of marketing, same thing was Nina. All I remember is that they were they moved from Carlsbad, California to Pennsylvania, and I was just thrashing around with letters, and I call call call cold call. And then I picked up the phone one day and said, hey, it's Steve Nilson, you know, and she was Oh, it's cute kid again, because Listen, kid, I don't have time to talk to you. My house just burned down. I gotta leave for Europe and fires like, Alright, I gotta go. So I mailed her a smoke detector in the mail. And she called me like last But two weeks, three weeks later, she's Oh my god, you have balls kids like, Yeah, she flew me out. And that's what I end up getting a job. That's what I needed. That's why I was always confident, like, one on one with someone, but I just needed a chance. I just needed someone open the door for me, you know, and apparently I did well, my interview, you know, but I just I guess maybe I was so pumped up from trying to get in the industry that I probably overwhelmed with all those feeling. It was just longing for an opportunity to just like, show I know what I was talking about. And I guess the one thing that you know, I was fortunate enough to go to some really good schools Is that you? I was I learned how to kind of cut mentalize and articulate what I not only looked at the industry and just being a sponge, which showed me how when I'm interested in something, I am like that idiot savant. Like I can just absorb everything. Remember every little detail and I think I would probably overwhelmed with them when I was interviewed at arawak. But again, all I needed was that chance and they gave it to me and the rest of you know what that is. So that was my first stepping stone but I had this Fight and claw to get that, because there was still an old boys network even at erawan at the time, they're like, why would you hire a guy from Minnesota? No. And my parents were so blessed because they taught me early on things when only manners but being a good listener. And, you know, by that you can you can learn from people and comment on it versus some people just want to be heard all the time. And so I've been blessed the way I was raised, because I think that I was able to do both of them. I was a student of the game, but then some that I was going to go out this kind of a calculating way and not just fly by night for stuff against the wall. Hope it sticks. Marc Gutman 34:34 You know? Do you remember that first day at arawak? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 34:37 I do. And you know, I'm gonna be honest with you. I feel again, I haven't really ever told anyone this but I just remember one of the first big meetings I was at. And there was a few people and again, it doesn't matter who it is whatever else but I just sit there going in my brain. Were positions that I wanted and going, Oh my gosh, I know I could run circles around this person. Like no comparison and I I was amazed. It's my first taste. And it happens to this day of people you could put in positions either, you know, right or wrong happens. But I'm thinking, I would absolutely crush that position. And that was the only thing where I was like, Okay, I'm the one getting chided, because I'm from Minnesota, and I'm looking at these people, like, I'm sorry, but there was just I started questioning these people could even put a sentence together, you know what I mean? Like, you'd be cool all day long, like, Hey, man, there's got to be a business acumen to this too. You know, that's all it was just again, no disrespect to anyone in particular. It was just more of I sat there going, wait a second. So I'm getting chided by these guys. And I'm sitting there going, you got to be kidding me. Like, what? You know, um, so that was a big eye opener whether it was an old boys network was just like, selling to someone and that kind of thing. And I don't know, this is a brand you can't just off your Bros. Like you gotta have people who bring in people that know what they're doing, you know, but I think then again, I wasn't a physician because I had no experience at the time to do that. I know like the stand up. So became my goal. to basically get these What do you want to say? feathers, my capper arrows in my quiver to learn, learn, learn, learn and learn. So every part of the business, the sales part, the marketing part, the production part. And that's what I set out to do. Marc Gutman 36:13 And so what was your role when you started and what was your role when you left Steve "Stix" Nilsen 36:17 So funny that when I started, I'm not kidding you. My first thing because I wanted to get my foot in the door, was I was a merchandiser. I'm not kidding. So my skin my role was to run around big to stores and make sure our stuff look good. But the funny thing is, it became very, very obvious to me that we were doing it wrong. And I was so low on the totem pole. No one would listen to me but like, the Tony Hawk shoe should not been to Carnival should not have been on the wall at journeys, because that was the lifeblood of the skate shops. And I started telling him that but the person who reported you didn't want any part of it was the type of person that just never wanted to rock the boat and just kind of did on the roof. And I was just didn't sit with me. I'm like, No, no You can't just do enough. All right, don't check box. It's like this isn't right. We're headed for disaster here. Because back to skate shops like I felt comfortable in skate shops. And to this day, I could go have a conversation with a kid about skaters or surfers snowboarders. You don't I mean, it's a different it's, it's almost like a little clubhouse of sorts. But that was a real eye opener. So what did I do? I just tried to like I went to Nordstrom for Pete's sake, we had our shoes in Nordstrom. Okay. And I'm sitting there going, Okay, like, there's no product differentiation here. Like we can't be having the skate stuff in a Nordstrom. You just can't do that to these little shops because, you know, they were, you know, less than what you'd get it. You know, I mean, Nordstrom just undercutting and price wise, I guess maybe not torture, but you know, some of the other places the bigger big box stores mean arawak ended up paying for the sins of all the brands that are in malls now. Because it was so it was just antichrist to have your shoes, or any action sports apparel in a mall, you know? So that was where I started and then at these meetings, I would say this is what I'm seeing out in the field, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And to make a long story short, basically they said, okay, tough guy. If you see an issue with a pricing, one, you want to get development. And that's when I got into the snowboard boot development, and spent three weeks a month in Asia building summer boots, and it's actually dabbled in shoes as well in the skate stuff. And again, total eye opener, got to travel the world like, you know, see, Bangkok see Hong Kong numerous times, Taiwan, Thai Chung, you know, and the funny thing is at the time that he was getting all the crap for sweatshops, but they're getting picked on because of the big one and having success but we all share the law at all. But we all share the same factories. They were the ones who just the big target, but I thought was so funny that they were getting all this heat, the sweatshop thing and we're all in it. And frankly, factory jobs like the best job in town, a lot of those places they were getting, you know, people lived on campus. They three square meals a day, their schools for the kids, it was actually like Good deal for the local locals. So I just I learned a ton from that time being a product developer. And then fast for the last role I held was was basically snow marketing measure. You know, working with Mike arts and Joe Babcock and the abs. It's funny, it shifted from being a rapper to going into development. And that was the last role I had was was when they moved the company to Colorado, and I was working the snow division. Marc Gutman 39:32 This episode brought to you by wildstory. Wait, isn't that your company? It is. And without the generous support of wild story, this show would not be possible. 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But I think that why those came to me was because of my understanding of product timelines, raw materials, how that works, how the how they come to production. caliber work. So if you want to work with a brand like, Hey, we want to do a shoe or a jacket rubber for it, let's do it for, you know, 2021 season Well, this day and age, I don't care how good the technology, you still can't get anything done that fast. And you're gonna like, probably wouldn't be able to unless you put a patch on something that's an existing silhouette, you know, but again, we did, I will be honest with you. I mean, I do have a few pieces that I have made for myself over there that are one off, and it's just kind of fun to have something that no one else in the world has, you know, because I knew that just custom shoes for friends and family, things like that. It's not a big deal. All I do is have a little extra different material to make the tongue a little different color or whatever. That was super fun for me. And again, I can't draw to save my life. But I think one of the things that I was able to do because my time is merchandiser when we would do a design review and put all the silhouettes on the wall. I'd like to think I picked out probably the one was going to sell the best off the shelf. Like I don't know what it is. I just Look at it took me two seconds, I look at that one. And I'm not saying it always was the case. But I think that again, I want my learnings of being at retail, and going to numerous countless, because I covered the whole Midwest accounts, everything from shields, in the Dakotas to these little skate shops, like I was like, okay, that's okay, what the company is doing that they're not going to do. Now given. Once I went into the office environment. I was more traveling to like trade shows and events and things like that I wasn't on the boots on the ground as much. But again, unfortunately, that culminated in so many poor decisions made by the teams, the leadership that by the time, my counterparts and I got a position to do anything that brand was pretty much done, unfortunately. So that was my MBA. I'm not the only one. Were my office, my family and I have a master's degree and that was my extra degree. And how not to do business was what I learned. arawak Yeah, when I started getting that would arawak argue is one of the top action sports brands of any time. We just made the number boots on word. I thought they were eating burdens lunch wise. And they haven't done head to toe yet. But just if you look at the old rosters of the teams, I mean, there was no comparison. You know, it was that hot and to the way that that that poor decisions that were made, in hindsight and again, it was just it bringing the sales guys from the big shoe companies, you know, phila, Reebok wherever, didn't sell these guys were taking orders, it dumped the shoes on the table and furniture, knees, that's looking stuffs, the skate stuff that ended up in journeys. And then we just choke out the little guys that they've relied on Jeff rally shoe. There were a lot in 2002. There were a lot of Jason Lee, there are a lot you know, Mike Frazier, and we kill them. We literally like it. Because again, Vance wasn't a player that they are now. And it was asked us at these events on the wall, the skate shops, and the majority Was there one shoot and it's just to see that happen and not really have any control and I'm never gonna get in that position again. That was brutal. Marc Gutman 43:56 Yeah, and you're I mean, you really did you. I mean, you hit it like it's heyday like where it was like at its best. And then due to private equity and demands on shareholder returns really kind of just went went downhill and didn't go the right way. But, you know, like you said, you did get basically an MBA there, you learn so much. I mean, we don't have to get into it now. But I know that you have so many close friends from those from those days as well and that have gone on to do other things. But from that point, you sort of start like a new chapter of your career, which really is turned into canned beverages in a weird way. And so if I forgot this, right, you went to red balls that right? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 44:38 Yeah, Marc Gutman 44:39 yeah. And so you got there and oh, my gosh, talk about sort of the poster child for action sports marketing. I mean, really, is there anything you know, at the time better? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 44:53 No, you know, I have to be honest with you like, the stars aligned for me at that point. It was without trying me. It took me a year. To get hired, and that's how they were so new, no one who had an energy drink was, when I think about it, we was it was so crazy, I guess would be the best way. And I'm not I'm not kidding you. It's like I won the lottery. Because all sudden, overnight, you know, again, they didn't have the brand equity yet they were they were gonna build that. But overnight, I basically had a, you know, on my expense report, I had a line item for a long time, like I could expense I mean, who does that? Right? And it took me a while to really, I was one of the first force marketing managers and I remember I've always believed in rolling my sleeves and training my team. I've never asked anyone to do something I would do myself. And I was putting on an event somewhere and I'm in Brighton all over the venue, right? And my boss stopped me. He's still a dear friend. He's like, Dude, what are you doing? And I'm like, dude, I gotta help you. Because that's why you have a budget to hire the event crew to worry about. Okay, I need you to make sure everything's straight. Like, again, you want to help, that's fine. You're going to help us big time by making sure your branding looks right and whenever it's just chill, like let the worker bees work. Your phone And so it's not saying I ever got comfortable with that. But but then it got to the point where we literally live by the mantra like, pay the fine. Like we asked for forgiveness, not permission. And it was unbelievable because right then we ended up having to remember the channel crossing. You know, we are Felix Baumgartner goes across the English Channel on a jet when he does that, right. And that became a benchmark where it was like, Alright, what's our next channel crossing? Because I've made international news, you know, and so that was where the heat was turned up on us as sports, right matches, what's the next athlete project you're going to do? What's the next event? What is the next channel crossing, you know? And so it was overwhelming to me. I mean, they treated us so well at Red Bull. I mean, just it's, the company is very, very skewed like they, they get it does have that euro vibe. They're very, very like driven and results driven. But the difference, this is one thing I've learned, which is my soft spot, is that I was never ever held to a scalable number. All right stix you do that we better sell X amount of cases. Never, ever once in my tenure, there was I ever held my hand held to the candle saying, if you're doing this, you better said we better sell more cancel. They just knew it. And I think that that is a key to a really, really successful team is when you all have a common goal, but you trust each other. And no one's ever packing anyone else. No one's ever like, well, he did this. She did that or whatever. No, it was like the part that became the biggest pressure cookers when we'd meet a couple times a year and we'd literally have each, each of us or five of us would get called out to the carpet. Okay, what's the next big idea? That's pretty when you got the Austrians over here, and they're like, what, what's next? What do we do? What's the next idea? And that you could never have the exclusive This is the crazy thing. Think about this. Money was never an excuse. Like I mean, I didn't know that was $960,000. Okay, money was never so that was not new, you could hide behind. But the funny part is, you can have a very, very impactful event with just a case of product in a bottle of vodka. You know, I mean, it's just dependent on you don't I mean? How to do that. Not everything was a home run. Not every single thing resonated. But this is before you know, certainly before any social media, you know, so the only output we had for a lot of this content was it was originally a G shock rush hour I think it was called some like that which became fuel TV. Well fuel TV. It was that like after a while, like okay, rebel, you're doing amazing stuff. But this is also becoming the rebel channel. We can't use all your content, which is why Red Bull and they started getting into this when I parted ways in the rebel media house where they become their own production and all that and, you know, it's funny, ESPN even sniffed out as well. It is brilliant on rebels. Yeah, they were painted by this crazy airtime and New Years and just put their own branded events on there. And you'll get basically if you consider what the cost of media buys, it was nothing was a drop in the bucket for Redbull to reach millions and millions, millions of people something super unique. You know, like Robbie Maddison doing the lawn rolls large jump over a football field. Or you know, All righty, Madison stuff. You've seen it years. And that's typical red bull, like we're going to come in. We're coming hot. We're going to do it right now. It's gonna be people can't touch us probably, you know, cost wise, you know? Marc Gutman 49:05 So why'd you leave red bull, if it was so great? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 49:07 You know what? Honestly there's like any company there was um, shifts and how they were going to do originally the sports marketing crew reported to Santa Monica and had a dotted line to Austria and and that got watered down and there was they decentralized that and you know it's like anything you get Growing Pains is a big company and you know when I started a sports marketing manager, you handle everything from a soapbox race or a photog which maybe you've seen where you know, flying the means when people make their own little crafts or jump off a deck, you know, they've done it everywhere all over the country of Portland, Santa Monica New York City. All sudden they broke it out to right now you're gonna have an event manager you're gonna have an athlete manager. It's just got her water down. I'm not saying from a control freak perspective that I needed my hand and everything. But then they want to they were talking about shifting people move different places, but surely wasn't really Colorado and Pascual Riven came out of nowhere and different stuff to think about how to hem and haw about us the passing of the money was pretty much a dormant brand. But I could sense there was this brand equity that was building because the athletes I care I could give whatever they wanted whatever bottles surface especially the skates know guys like I want Pepsi. Pepsi ribbon. I had had that in college and that was literally because it was whatever's on sale. Right. And it's just had this cachet to it as an escape guys special they're just like password and password like what is going on? And it's funny how that segue happened. Because I went in there going Oh, yeah, I can do some fun with this brand in the back of my head going holy crap. How you gonna pull this off with nobody? You know, I mean, talking I said over and over again talking about going penthouse to the poorhouse. That's exactly what happened. The budget was big time. Yeah, but then Marc Gutman 50:47 so and what was that? Like? What was the marketing plan at paps? I mean, like you said you have a lot, you know, not very much budget. So how did you deal with that? Steve "Stix" Nilsen 50:58 Well, the one thing that It became very clear to me was I had something that 99% of events need. And that's alcohol. And I knew if I could figure out the distribution system, you can't ship alcohol in certain legal but we had hired FM's field marketing managers, our market agents we had a calling in different cities. And we thought you know, we're going to do this as grassroots as in as in person as possible in you know, in marketing to amplify the brand. But we if the stars align the way a couple things got one, we were in a recession, okay, to perhaps in having marketing behind. So if nothing was being shoved down consumer throats, this is the you know, PB army SAP, none of that, but it was just it just chugged along. And we're cheap. I mean, the bottom line is with that, and I often like to refer to Goodwill hunting. Remember that that wealthy girl starts dating Matt Damon, and it's almost like she's kind of slinging it. He says to her, it's almost like you know, paps had this like kind of dirty connotation to it. You know, like you're a little dirty. I have in the past. The big aha moment for me, I think it was 2010, something like that. We did a, I'm sorry, I was approached friend or friend type thing, which is where a lot of my opportunities came from, like once I was able to pass on some of these doors started opening for me in music, art and action sports because of my relationships and past jobs. And I got hit up by I don't remember what brand it was. It was Alexander when tech ran, but it was one of the brands was doing an event during fashion week in New York City and they said, We want taps there. And I'm sitting there scratching my head like, Okay, I have zero money to give you. This is something Heineken would pay 10 grand just to be in the door. I don't get it. So I said I will sponsor this but I need to be able to come check it out. And sure enough, I went there. I didn't have a black turtleneck like everybody else but whatever. That's right. And I walked backstage and it's passed in these bins and you know, they do that where they put the cloth drape in there and then they put water in the bins. It was us some shishi water and don't carry on. I'm not kidding you. But when the light bulb went off when I was sitting Around whenever he was milling about after the show was a runway show, and I sat there and watched it and whatever, didn't get half of what these people were wearing, but whatever I'm supposed to, but I saw these little wavy models carrying pops in their head. And I knew, right, well, they wanted nothing to do with the liquid inside. It had everything to do with it, they had that camera in their hand. And that to me was like that is brand equity. And literally, I always kind of looked at apps that way, I looked at it as it's not, we're not a beer company. We're a brand. And I think it drove the other beer companies nuts because they just couldn't figure out how to crack our code. But they weren't set up to. They couldn't be nimble. They couldn't do what we did. And we never asked permission, just like Redbull we just did it and we'd literally get asked for forgiveness. And I can say now knock on wood. 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Mike Frazier is a former Army 160th Night Stalker, currently still works with helicopters as a contractor, and is the host of the Warrior Podcast. Mike and I speak about how to regain control of a career transition spiraling out of control, just because you're in a good position, doesn't mean bad things don't happen, how to not let fear drive you away what you want, and so much more! Subscribe on YOUTUBE! Conversation #165 is LIVE on your favorite podcast app or www.kristoflewis.com/podcast. https://www.instagram.com/kristoflewis www.kristoflewis.com/podcast https://www.instagram.com/nsdgmike https://www.instagram.com/noblewarriorofficial www.wearenoblewarriors.com
A.C.Ceenno and Mike Frazier gives an open mind discussion narrative about what happened to George Floyd including going back into the past and the present history of multi-culture discrimination, protesting, police brutality, and politics from different points of view.This Podcast is not to offend anyone in any way possible, all we ask is for everyone that listens to this please keep an open mind as we speak about what's going on with the humanity of all mankind is changing and people are changing. Peace Much Love... Rest In Peace George FloydFollow Ethic Radio Social Media outlets @http://www.instagram.com/ethic_radio/https://www.facebook.com/groups/ethicradio/http://www.facbook.com/ethicradio/Publish by The Ethic Radio Staffing Team.Show Broadcast In Los Angeles, California.©2020 Ethic Radio Archive Film Reels,All Rights Reserved.Support the show (https://cash.app/EthicRadio)
Mike is a musician based out of Virginia. He joins WW to talk about his music career and what's on the horizon.
My name is Mike Frazier and I am a Combat Veteran with over 10 years of service with the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Army. From Federal Law Enforcement to the Special Operations community, I have learned a lot and seen even more. My time in the military came to a halt due to a back injury and PTSD and depression tried to swallow me and bury me. I was not going to stay down in that dark hole. I was trained with the mindset of : "Night Stalkers Don’t Quit." My new mission in life is to share a bit of my struggles to help others that are lost find some clarity and change their mindset to live life to the fullest. I created Noble Warrior in hopes of reaching some 'lost' veterans looking for a new course heading.
Mike Frazier has one of the most interesting military backgrounds of any of our guests. He served in Iraq in 2003 as part of a Coast Guard tactical law enforcement team, in support of combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Following a short stint in the Coast Guard, Frazier enlisted in the Army to become a crew chief. He would eventually earn a billet in the elite and highly specialized 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, more commonly known as the “Night Stalkers.” But, a back injury would bring his military career, and his time with the Night Stalkers, to a screeching halt. Mike loved serving in the 160th. The injury, compounded with the dark experiences of combat would lead Mike down a precarious path where suicide was the only form of relief. Fortunately, after hitting rock bottom, Mike found a reason to live, and just recently began opening up about his experiences. Hear about this moving journey on this week’s episode of HAZARD GROUND! www.shotatdawnproject.org Do your Amazon shopping with us, and give back to veterans organizations at the same time! Go to www.hazardground.com, click on the Amazon banner on the home page, and do your Amazon shopping from there. THE BEST PART IS we’ll be donating proceeds from this partnership to the vet organizations featured on this podcast. So help us out, help out these great organizations, and head over to hazardground.com and click on the Amazon banner today, and shop away! Support the podcast by supporting our sponsors at www.hazardground.com/sponsors! Help grow the show! Spread the word, tell a friend!! Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes!
Songwriter Mike Frazier phones in to talk about his time touring with Marigold, as well as his song "Lavender," which Ben covered for 'Swinging Sounds.' Read more about Full Frequency Collective: fullfrequencycollective.tumblr.com Each month, we split our Patreon proceeds in half. 50% of our proceeds from February and March will go to Ben, and 50% will support a charity chosen by Ben. Ben chose to support Still Brave, a non-profit organization that provides non-medical supportive care to children with cancer and their families. (For more information go to stillbrave.org.) If you have the means, please consider supporting us at patreon.com/fullfrequencycollective. In addition to supporting Ben and Still Brave, you can gain access to an additional, subscriber-only podcast feed and a copy of Swinging Sounds on cassette tape. Intro Music: Jake Newcomb - "Die Alone" from the 2018 album 'Yosemite'
Youth exchange (YEX) has long been a principal way that Rotary International promotes peach through friendship and cultural understanding. Rhinebeck Rotarian Mike Frazier is the coordinator for District 7210 of a new way for Rotary to support international youth exchanges, known as summer youth exchange or more formally as short-term youth exchange. In this program a family from one country exchanges for a few weeks or a month with a family from the other country. This is different from the regular school-year exchange in which the student who is incoming from another country or outgoing to one stays with three different host families; there is no reciprocal arrangement. The school-year exchange includes learning the language of the country visited, which is not a part of the short-term exchange. In both programs, a host Rotary Club must sponsor the exchange and the applicants are vetted both by the locals clubs and YEX officers from the District. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support
We interview Angel Rivera of Buffalo punk rock band Super-Tugger, and formerly of Neko and The Viva Noir, and play songs from their brand new “Wasted, Hopeless, Wasted” EP. We hear a snippet of Ryan’s singing debut in “Broski” at the Sugar City Band Lottery showcase. Our Warped Tour stream is announced, and we play four “Band on the Street” interviews from 5/24/18 at Mohawk Place from The Eaves, First Ward, Rust Belt Brigade, and Virginia’s Mike Frazier.
Mike Frazier from JUCO Weekly speaks with Jay White on the first day of the 2017 Football season.http://jucoweekly.org/landing/indexTournament Director for Cedar Ridge Lake’s Water skiing competition – Bubba Powell talks about their competition this weekend.https://www.usawaterski.org/clubs/clubdirectory.asp Brittney Reese, who recently won the gold medal in London at the Track and Field World Championships, speaks about her career.http://www.usatf.org/Athlete-Bios/Brittney-Reese.aspx See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jade Harrell with John Saunders and Mike Frazier of Frazier Automotive with details and invitation for the 2nd Annual Leon Henderson Scholarship Fund & Joe Wiley Society Giving Initiative – Night at the Black Rep Benefitting the students of Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School. June 3rd, 2017 For more information please contact John Saunders, Jr. at (314) 792-7732 or
Jade Harrell with John Saunders and Mike Frazier of Frazier Automotive with details and invitation for the 2nd Annual Leon Henderson Scholarship Fund & Joe Wiley Society Giving Initiative – Night at the Black Rep Benefitting the students of Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School. June 3rd, 2017 For more information please contact John Saunders, Jr. at (314) 792-7732 or
Bangarang Radio Presents: Episode 2 of, Pop Punk & Pizza! Hosted by, Jacques LaMore. Special Guests, LOUDERNOW. On this episode, we talk about Yellowcard’s 2008 hiatus and their upcoming final album, along with several other topics in the pop punk scene. Pop-Punk Picks of The Week: Good Charlotte “Life Changes” and Mike Frazier “F-35” LOUDERNOW […] The post Pop-Punk & Pizza Ep. 2: LOUDERNOW appeared first on Bangarang Radio.
Bangarang Radio Presents: Episode 2 of, Pop Punk & Pizza! Hosted by, Jacques LaMore. Special Guests, LOUDERNOW. On this episode, we talk about Yellowcard’s 2008 hiatus and their upcoming final album, along with several other topics in the pop punk scene. Pop-Punk Picks of The Week: Good Charlotte “Life Changes” and Mike Frazier “F-35” LOUDERNOW […] The post Pop-Punk & Pizza Ep. 2: LOUDERNOW appeared first on Bangarang Radio.
Live Performance, DI, Touring, Growing up in Virginia, Humans, Politics, Stoics, Philosophy of life, work ethic, job interview, Waiting the movie.' MHH165 with traveler and songwriter Mike Frazier Live in studio performance where I also sit in on guitar on brand new song Big Sky and his currrent single that also happens to be a fun impression of the absurdity of the Donald Trump candidacy and unfathomable narcisism of US politics, The Parrot King. DIY shows and promoting, Geneva Records, Touring, Trump and how he wrote a song about him. 2nd Half - My friend and now apprentice John Boyce joins me on the second half of the podcast. We get into Stoicisim Interviewing for a Job. John actually interviews me for a position as a server. This alone is worth the price of admission. How the Apprenticeship is going and what he's learning. We were really just two guys having a conversation which is kind of nice too. These podcasts are always fun for me. favorite things
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