Podcast appearances and mentions of Miriam Webster

How many different dictionaries are there? I'm betting there are over a dozen. I know of Cambridge, Oxford, Collins, and Miriam Webster. How many do we need? Don't they all have the same words? Over the last few weeks, I've discussed some of the year's words from these companies. Oxford gives us brain rot. Cambridge thinks the word is manifest. Collins claims that brat is the word that sums up the year. But I believe we've finally heard the definitive take from Miriam Webster. Their selection for word of the year is polarization. And that's something that we may honestly all agree with... Click Here To Subscribe Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicGoogle PodcastsTuneIniHeartRadioPandoraDeezerBlubrryBullhornCastBoxCastrofyyd.deGaanaiVooxListen NotesmyTuner RadioOvercastOwlTailPlayer.fmPocketCastsPodbayPodbeanPodcast AddictPodcast IndexPodcast RepublicPodchaserPodfanPodtailRadio PublicRadio.comReason.fmRSSRadioVurblWe.foYandex jQuery(document).ready(function($) { 'use strict'; $('#podcast-subscribe-button-13292 .podcast-subscribe-button.modal-6760250ad6472').on("click", function() { $("#secondline-psb-subs-modal.modal-6760250ad6472.modal.secondline-modal-6760250ad6472").modal({ fadeDuration: 250, closeText: '', }); return false; }); });

2024 is the 10th Anniversary of Miriam Webster's word of the year: CULTURE. And we still don't know what to do with it in most workplaces. Top three nuggets from the podcast: For the first time in history, we live in what Psychologist Abraham Maslow called self-actualization (see chart below) We have moved from survival in the past to success and now significance. Most of what business culture represents today for the next generation is not working  The bottom line is motivation; listen to see what to do about motivating those you work with. In his culture architect, strategic advisor and writing career, Ben Ortlip worked with some of the world's top brands, including Coca-Cola, Ritz-Carlton, Mercedes-Benz, AT&T, UPS, and Chick-fil-A. In 1990 he started a production company, Kaleo Ranch, that is still in operation. His work has been recognized by the NY Art Director's Club, the Clio Awards, the ADDYs, and others. As a ghost-writer, Ben has worked on more than a dozen books and workbooks with well-known thought leaders like John Maxwell, Tony Robbins, Andy Stanley, Patrick Lencioni, Ken Blanchard, Henry Cloud, and the Drucker Institute. In 2012, Ben's passion for organizational strategy and leadership development led him to pioneer a process called Cultural Architecting, an integrated methodology for designing and curating cultures that reinforces the company's unique business strategy. The Cultural Architecting program is already shaping culture in healthcare, dining, manufacturing, technology, and global petroleum companies. Ben published Culture is the New Leadership in 2024. Ben and his wife, Lisa, have been married 28 years and are raising eight children. TO CONTACT BEN ORTLIP: Website: www.thecultureMRI.com Email: ben@thecultureMRI.com Mobile (text is best): 770-403-9224 RELATED LINKS/INFO: Book: Benjamin Ortlip, Culture is the New Leadership. https://a.co/d/iAyAuur Book: Kouzes/Posner, The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations. https://a.co/d/43ksBnR Peter Drucker books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000AP61TE Abraham Maslow: https://positivepsychology.com/abraham-maslow/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/overwhelmedpod/support

News; birthdays/events; how many stores will you go to before you buy something online?; word of the day. News; would you wear your halloween costume the week before halloween to get special deals?; game: top 10 billboard songs of all time; subjects kids wish were taught in school. News; new Miriam Webster words; horror fans have ranked the best ghost movies of all time; game: top 10 celebrity autobiographies. News; what was your favorite holiday toy when you were a kid?; game: outburst; goodbye/fun facts....With holiday dessert buffets coming up soon, National Cake Decorating Day is the perfect time to practice your technique! Decorated cakes become popular in England​ in the 1500's...and by the mid 1970's ​​The International Cake Exploration Societé was founded and they Annual Convention and Show, held in a different U.S. location each year. you can bring your inner artist out and turn any old cake into a work of art! you can watch dozens of online videos to learn about the 6 different kinds of icing and when to use them or one of many cake and cupcake decorating shows on channels like the food network.

This Isn't Therapy... it's the episode about the overuse of therapy language and the impact its having on our relationships. Gaslighting? Triggered? Trauma-bonding? What do these words actually mean!? And are we using them correctly? Listen to find out. Also, Jake and Simon welcome special guests: Dr. Miriam-Webster, Tammy Toxic, and Gary Gaslight. This is an episode you absolutely don't want to miss, mmmmmkay?Articles:TIME: Gaslighting, Narcissist, and More Psychology Terms You're Misusing by Angela HauptThe New York Times: How the Language of Therapy Took Over Dating by Dani BlumCreators & Guests Simon Paluck - Host Jake Ernst - Host Bonjourrrr, hi! Follow us on Instagram: @notatherapypodcast⁣Jake Ernst: @mswjakeSimon Paluck: @directedbysimon ⁣⁣Episode Mixed by Jordan Paluck

Weeds are a constant fact of a gardener's life. As our guest, Toni DiTommaso, says we can count on three things in life: death, taxes, and weeds. But if it weren't for weeds, the world would have less topsoil than it has now, and humanity might have suffered mass starvation by now. Why? Because the plants we call weeds do a vital job in ecosystems: they quickly establish in, protect, and restore soil that has been left exposed by natural and human-caused disturbances. That said, weeds, in addition to being a nuisance, cause more yield loss worldwide and add more to farms' production costs than insect pests, crop pathogens, root-feeding nematodes, or warm-blooded pests (rodents, birds, deer, etc.). So perhaps, we should start this discussion with a definition. What exactly is a ‘weed'? The Oxford Dictionary defines a weed as a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants. Similarly, the Miriam-Webster dictionary describes it as a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth. Penn State Extension tells us that weeds compete with other plants for nutrients, water, and light, as well as potentially harbor diseases and pests. Simply put, a weed is a plant ‘out of place'. Plants that are characterized as weeds can reproduce via seeds, rhizomes, cuttings or runners. Their seeds are typically plentiful and tiny which can disperse easily and/or remain dormant for many years. They also can grow in less-than-ideal environments, soils, and conditions. As any gardener knows, they tend to grow fast and can outcompete other plants. Weed management can also be frustrating as some of these plants can break off and re-sprout or self-pollinate if pulled out. The best place to begin is to learn how to identify weeds. In this episode, we are fortunate to hear from Antonio (Toni) DiTommaso, Professor and Section Head, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). The focus of his research is to gain a more in depth understanding of the basic biological and ecological principles governing weeds to find safe, effective, sustainable and economically viable weed management strategies. In addition to his teaching and research duties, he is also a co-author of the book, Weeds of the Northeast.The fully updated second edition provides detailed illustrations for easy identification of more than 500 common and economically important weeds in the Northeast including New York.A practical guide, it includes a dichotomous key as well as descriptions and photos of floral and vegetative characteristics, giving anyone who works with plants the ability to identify weeds before they flower. Comparison tables make it easy to differentiate between many closely related and similar species. Listen to this episode of Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley, to learn more about Toni DiTommaso and weeds.This will be of interest to home gardeners, landscape managers, as well as pest management specialists. Hosts: Tim Kennelty and Jean Thomas Guest: Antonio DiTommaso Photo by: Cornell University CALS Production Support: Linda Aydlett, Deven Connelly, Teresa Golden, Xandra Powers, Annie Scibienski Resources

The Miriam-Webster dictionary defines the word 'brave' as "the quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty". Whilst some of us are born braver than others, it is actually a skill that many of us have to learn, develop and build on. In this week's episode, Nicole Trick Steinbach, Founder of Trick Steinbach LLC, the host of the Celebrate Brave podcast, and International Bravery Coach, discusses many of the challenges she has faced throughout her own personal and work life journey which led to her developing her own brave, to now coaching women to intentionally build their skill of bravery - to stress less, work less, and then earn more. About Nicole Trick Steinbach Nicole is the Founder of Trick Steinbach LLC, the host of the Celebrate Brave podcast, and an International Bravery Coach. She helps women build their bravery and shows them how to stress and work less. After spending nearly 20 years working in tech, Nicole had become a Global Senior Director. She spent 13 years living in Germany, travelling the world, and leading global teams across all functional areas in over 25 different countries. In 2008, even with all of her success, Nicole realised that she felt exhausted, unhappy, and alone. Through coaching, Nicole discovered how her relentless pursuit of an ever-changing definition of "success" was pushing away her support network, deflating her confidence, and driving her to burnout. Over the next ten years, Nicole was able to build her own unique, gorgeous, wonderfully fulfilling life, full of connection and appreciation, rest and joy, safety and wealth. The key was realising that bravery Is a skill that she could intentionally develop and practice. Now she teaches women all over the world to build their own brave. Nicole's framework for clarity, momentum, and accountability helps her clients set goals and establish the mindset they need to sustain their success. Nicole coaches women to view all of their successes, mistakes, and even failures as equal stepping stones to building their brave life and career. When Nicole isn't serving her clients you can find her reading a new book, enjoying the outdoors with her two kiddos, and learning with others on her own podcast. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoletricksteinbach/ https://tricksteinbach.com/bravepodcast/

Underground bunkers, for what? Kelly does not need to survive the apocalypse. Just leave her be with her $40 Frosty Buddy and still-cold iced coffee. Miriam Webster's word of the year for 2023, authentic, saw a substantial increase in traffic last year. Brands and celebrity influencers are tapping into the power of what's genuine and true-to-you. Kelly and Lizz agree — there's now a divide between influencers and content creators.  Kelly has IG recommendations on fast lane philosophies. Check out @tidymoose for a professional organizer's year of no shopping (and donating two items a day), @sproutingarrows who is helping single income families thrive, and a Car Mom forever favorite @naptimekitchen.  Kids toys aren't taking over Kelly's house, but they are taking over today's driveway dump. Kelly is figuring out what the hot thing is by diving into play in her kids' world of toys. If you're feeling overwhelmed post-Christmas, focus on giving your kids floor space, try a two-week toy purgatory, and take extra toys your kids still love to grandma and grandpa's house to give them new life.  One resolution we could all work on this year is getting a hold of our subscription services and saving money. Put all your subscriptions in one place and easily cancel the ones you're not really using with Rocket Money. This personal finance app finds and cancels unwanted subscriptions, monitors spending, and helps you lower your bills—all in one, easy-to-use place. Going into 2024, if one of your goals is to save money or become more financially savvy, check out Rocket Money. → Download the Rocket Money app at rocketmoney.com/carpool   Triplets are on the way and a loyal listener is looking for advice for her bestie. With three incoming babies and two large dogs, which vehicle would Kelly choose? Hands down, the Ford Expedition with a bench was made for this family. Read more about why Kelly chooses the Expedition over the Tahoe on the Car Mom blog! Another listener asks Kelly and Lizz: Have you always known you wanted more than one kid? How did you know when it was time to have another? Industry news reveals the most reliable brands according to Consumer Reports. Lexus and Toyota top the charts. Calling all green Suzukis — is your vehicle Hollywood ready? Listen in for more about this auto-casting-call. Kelly and Lizz reminisce about early 00s Blackberrys and cell phones after hearing they're partnering with Stellantis and Amazon to create a virtual cockpit.  This week's ditch the drive-through and one pan jan is a Cajun Shrimp recipe. Keep your eyes peeled for the full recipe on the Car Mom instagram and in your email inbox!  → To share your air fryer recipe for February, call (959) CAR-POOL and leave us a message or email hello@thecarmomofficial.com. → Write in your advice questions! Send Kelly and Lizz an email to get your question featured on the show at hello@thecarmomofficial.com  Follow the Carpool Podcast on IG Follow the Carpool Podcast on YouTube Follow Kelly on IG Follow Lizz on IG Visit thecarmomofficial.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lizz is recovering from her scariest mom moment yet while Kelly is in her soft girl era, kicking off her days with ginger turmeric bone broth, and patting herself on the back for being the CEO of her health.  → Want to join in on convos with other Carpool moms about the show? Join The Car Mom Crew Facebook Group! The English language is giving Gen Z with today's Miriam Webster word of the day, skulk. The word means ‘to move around in a stealthy or secretive way' and Kelly wants to know why we're not just saying ‘sneak.' Lizz is over being on the wrong side of Instagram and is here to share her scary mom moment in a safe space. One thing about this new mama, if her baby is locked in the car, a window's getting shattered. Mattie shares a little marine wisdom: “If I second thought every decision I made in a high stress situation, I would never sleep at night.” Wrapping up driveway dumps, Lizz is watching and highly recommends Apple TV Lessons in Chemistry and she's just begun reading Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff.  One resolution we could all work on this year is getting a hold of our subscription services and saving money. Put all your subscriptions in one place and easily cancel the ones you're not really using with Rocket Money. This personal finance app finds and cancels unwanted subscriptions, monitors spending, and helps you lower your bills—all in one, easy-to-use place. Going into 2024, if one of your goals is to save money or become more financially savvy, check out Rocket Money. → Download the Rocket Money app at rocketmoney.com/carpool   A mom of twins writes in to find out how she can foster connection between her kiddos. Kelly and Lizz say take the pressure off and let your kids spend time together (without mom) to bond. A carpool family with a four-year-old and a one-year-old are shopping for a mid-size SUV, that's comparable to the Ford Edge, with a $30K budget. Kelly recommends checking out a new Ford Edge or a Santa Fe, Rav4, Atlas Crossport or Tiguan.  In industry news, the Car Mom's car of the year is almost here and today Kelly's announcing the four finalists. Vehicles that got a refresh, redesign, or new release were eligible. Kelly evaluated each vehicle on comfort, safety, value, technology, passenger capabilities to narrow down the list. The four finalists are: the 2023/24 Honda Pilot, the 2023 Toyota Grand Highlander, the 2023 Lexus TX and the 2024 Volkswagen Atlas.  Kelly shares some time-saving Costco finds for today's ditch the drive-through. Frozen chicken pineapple meatballs are easy to throw together with jasmine rice, broccoli, and primal kitchen Teriyaki sauce. Pre-pulled rotisserie chicken makes easy chicken salad, chicken pot pie, and chicken quesadillas. → To share your ditch the drive-through recipe with us, call (959) CAR-POOL and leave us a message! → Write in your advice questions! Send Kelly and Lizz an email to get your question featured on the show at hello@thecarmomofficial.com  Join The Car Mom Crew Facebook Group  Follow the Carpool Podcast on IG Follow the Carpool Podcast on YouTube Follow Kelly on IG Follow Lizz on IG Visit thecarmomofficial.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 245 – Archeology and the Bible – Part 1 - Affirmation Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: Goliath … wore a bronze helmet, and [a] bronze coat of mail ... He also wore bronze leg armor, and he carried a bronze javelin on his shoulder. … The shaft of his spear was … heavy and thick … His armor bearer walked ahead of him carrying a shield.” 1 Samuel, Chapter 17, verses 5 through 7, New Living Translation ******** VK: Hello and Happy New Year! I’m Victoria K. Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. We’re excited to be with you at the start of this New Year and we pray that this year will be a year of joy and blessings to all our listeners. We pray especially that this year will see us all grow in our knowledge and adoration of our Lord Christ Jesus. Today on Anchored by Truth we’re going to start the new year with a new series. As just about everyone knows, the Christian faith in America has been subjected to more challenges in the last decade than probably in the first two centuries of the country’s existence. So, as we open up this New Year we want to revisit a subject that has particular relevance in our day and time –being able to demonstrate that the Christian faith has a firm basis in reason and evidence. RD has entitled this series “Archeology and the Bible.” So, we have RD who is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books, in the studio today. RD, why did you decide we need to take a special look at the topic of archeology? RD: Well, I’d also like to say Happy New Year to everyone who is joining us here today. As we begin a new year I wanted to take several episodes of Anchored by Truth focusing on archeology because it seems like in the last few years the number of times I’ve heard the Bible criticized as a book of “myth and fairy tales” has increased dramatically. This is sad but it’s also silly because it is a criticism that is so easily disproved. The Bible is a book that is set in place and time. While the Bible contains a large variety of literary genres, a large part of the Bible is the history of those places and times. As such we can validate the accuracy of the Bible’s reporting through other ancient documents that also contain reports about the same places and times. And we can also affirm much of the Bible’s reporting through the findings of archeology. VK: As Anchored by Truth listeners know at Crystal Sea Books we believe that there are two criteria that would have to be true for any book that claims to be the word of God. First, the book would have to be consistent with what we know about human and natural history. How could you trust a book that claims to be the product of a divine and infinite mind if it contains easily demonstrable errors? Second the book would have to contain evidence of supernatural inspiration. After all, humans write books all the time. And even human beings can produce books that accurately report history and contain meaningful insights about life and society. RD: Yes. There are other criteria that some people might think are appropriate when considering whether a particular book is the word of an almighty, everlasting God but we would submit that those two criteria would have to be true at a minimum. And we would urge that anyone who is trying to decide whether one book or another is God’s word should apply their minds as well as their hearts to the decision. Many people think that faith is believing in something in spite of reason and evidence, but it’s not. Becoming a Christian and embracing faith in Christ Jesus doesn’t require us to suspend the use of our minds. To the contrary, knowing and loving Jesus means we should increase our efforts to grow in knowledge as well as trust. Real faith is far more likely to arrive by placing trust in something or Someone after careful consideration of the truth claims at issue. This includes being able to explain why some truth claims are true but others false. Reason and evidence are an essential part of doing that. VK: So, just to ensure that’s clear, at Anchored by Truth we believe that any book claims to be the word of God must be consistent with what we know about human and natural history and must contain marks of supernatural inspiration. Well, we also believe that are four lines of evidence that demonstrate that the Bible meets those two criteria and is, therefore, the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. First, the Bible is historically reliable. Second, the Bible displays a remarkable unity for a book that was composed by over 3 dozen human authors who wrote over a span of 1,500 years. Third, the Bible gives evidence of supernatural origin, especially through a large body of fulfilled prophecy. And the 4th line of evidence is that the Bible has resulted in an untold number of lives that have been positively changed by its transcendent message. So, what you are saying – and what we are going to be talking about during this series - is that archeology can be a useful to aid to helping affirm the historicity of the Bible. RD: Yes. For those of us who are concerned about helping people understand that the Bible is the inspired word of God archeology can have two roles. First, as we mentioned we started this discussion archeology can help demonstrate that the Bible is not, in fact, filled with myth and fairy tales. Archeology can help us demonstrate that Bible accounts of certain exploits that may seem legendary are historically accurate. VK: Why don’t you give us a quick example of what you’re thinking about? RD: Many people might think that the encounter between David and Goliath is some kind of myth and legend. VK: Because the idea of a short, teenage boy defeating a heavily armed and armored warrior with only a sling and stone does seem improbable doesn’t it? RD: It might but it’s not. And one of the reasons that we can have confidence about what the Bible says about the encounter is the large number of details that the Bible gives us about the fight. For instance, the Bible describes in great detail – as you put it – Goliath’s arms and armor. VK: And among many archeological finds that have confirmed the accuracy of the Bible’s description of Goliath’s equipment is a depiction of Philistine warriors in a temple in Egypt, right? RD: Right. Let’s start by reminding everyone that while the Bible is mostly concerned about the activity of the Philistines in their interactions with ancient Israel, the Philistines came into contact with all of the civilizations of the ancient Mideast including Egypt. The Egyptians fought the Philistines on many occasions. The Egyptians called the Philistines the “Sea Peoples” because the Philistines had come to Palestine from Mycenae which was located in modern day Greece. This means they would have arrived on the coast of Palestine by way of ships crossing the sea. VK: So, the Egyptians were very familiar with Philistine warriors like Goliath. RD: Yes. According to an article in Biblical Archeology Society website one of the most vivid depictions of the Philistine warriors is in a “mortuary temple at Medinet Habu in Thebes. The battle scenes depicted on the walls of this temple are our most precious and most graphic representation of the Sea Peoples’ dress, weaponry, chariotry, naval equipment, and battle tactics. The Philistine infantry is shown fighting in small phalanges of four men each; three men are each armed with a long, straight sword and a pair of spears, the fourth with only a sword.” Notice that the Egyptian drawings show the Philistine infantry armed with a pair of spears exactly like Goliath – although the Bible is more precise and notes that the second spear is a javelin which was used for throwing. The spear that Goliath carried in his hands was actually more like a long club. It was used for smashing and bashing … VK: Smashing and bashing … really? RD: Really. Every infantryman knows that one of the keys to victory is break through the enemy lines. And the David encounter notwithstanding, that’s what Goliath’s job was – to create holes in the enemy’s front lines that the soldiers behind him could exploit. Homer referred to such soldiers as “first men.” VK: That explains why the Bible tells us that Goliath’s spearhead weighed 15 pounds. A 15 pound piece of iron on the end of a heavy and thick spear – the Bible says it was as thick as a weaver’s beam – is to going to be good for, as you said, “smashing and bashing.” And it’s also important to note that in the Biblical description of Goliath’s armor his helmet and coat of mail are said to be made of bronze, as was his javelin. The battle between David and Goliath took place just as the Iron Age was beginning. At that time there would still have been a lot of bronze weapons and armor in use. Bronze had been in common use since about 2500 BC. Iron would later become far more common and the Philistines were very proficient at shaping and forming iron but this battle occurred before that transition was complete. And even at that time bronze was easier to form into weapons. Bronze has a much lower melting point than iron – about 1000 degrees Celsius. Iron’s melting point is closer to 1600 degrees Celsius. So, on first blush, the Bible’s description of the fight between David and Goliath might seem to be legendary but the details that the Bible provides and archeological discoveries show us that it is not. So, what is the second role that archeology plays for those who are interested in the Bible? RD: Archeology can help shed new light on the history the Bible contains and it can also help us understand the Bible text as well. We’ll get more into this as we move through the series, but one quick example of how archeological finds can improve our understanding of the Bible’s texts are clay tablets referred to as the Ugaritic texts. These came from an archeological excavation in Syria. The tablets dated over a thousand years before Jesus and contained cuneiform writing in a variety of languages. Cuneiform writing was a writing form common in ancient Mideast languages and used wedge shaped characters typically impressed into soft clay. The Ugaritic texts were helpful to Bible scholars because some of the tablets were written in an alphabetic script that recorded a northwest Semitic language that overlapped with Biblical Hebrew. The Ugaritic language shared a number of words with Biblical Hebrew so this has helped scholars better understand some words contained in the text of the Bible, especially words that occur only once in the Bible. VK: So, one important role that archeology plays is to help affirm the reliability of the Bible’s historical reports. And a second important role that archeology plays is actually to amplify our understanding of the Bible’s texts as well as increase our understanding of the times, cultures, and places recorded in the Bible This second role is true for those of us who accept the Bible as the inspired word of God as it is as for those who don’t regard the Bible as being inspired. The first role of archeology can be especially important in the Christian work of apologetics which is a defense of the Christian faith. But in this first role you say that it is important for Christians to not say things like, “archeology proves the truth of the Bible.” Why is that? RD: Yes. It is not proper to say that archeology proves the Bible is true because doing so carries the risk of both over claiming and under claiming at the same time. VK: Ok. Over claiming and under claiming at the same time would seem to be a bit of a mystery. Why is saying that “archeology proves the Bible is true” an “over claim?” RD: Archeology, like any human endeavor, has limits in the amount of certainty it can provide. Archeologists are always looking at artifacts from the past and they do their best to derive information from those artifacts. But, the archeologists were not present at the time the artifacts were created. So, their interpretation is exactly that. It’s an interpretation not a history based on first hand observation. And archeologists will differ in their interpretations and it is not at all uncommon for subsequent discoveries to necessitate revising previous opinions. None of this is to suggest that archeology is valuable and can’t be conducted with rigor. It certainly can. But archeology, while it can and does provide important support for the Bible, cannot “prove” the Bible is true. VK: That makes sense. The Miriam Webster online dictionary defines archeology as “the scientific study of material remains (such as tools, pottery, jewelry, stone walls, and monuments) of past human life and activities.” It’s important to note in that definition that archeology is concerned with “past human life and activities.” So, while we can do much to try and determine what actually happened in the past we will always fall short of absolute certainty. Why is saying that “archeology proves the Bible is true” an “under claim?” RD: Well, simply put the Bible is true because it is God’s word. It would be true regardless of whether any human being were to accept as being true or not. Now, I’m well aware that a critic would accuse me of circular reasoning in saying this. The Bible is God’s word and it is true because God is all-knowing and all-powerful. But it is the Bible that tells us that God is all-knowing and all-powerful. But that is not what I am saying. Anything that is true – that is that it corresponds to reality – is true regardless of agreement or acceptance of the truth. The man who decides he doesn’t like having cancer and rejects the doctor’s report will still have cancer regardless of whether he accepts the report. The Bible is or is not the inspired, revealed word of God regardless of whether we accept it as such. So, when we say that archeology “proves” the Bible we are, in effect, turning the truth of the Bible over to archeological judgment. Again, I’m not saying that archeology cannot be a valid and important venue for obtaining evidence that helps us understand the Bible but we don’t need archeology to establish the Bible’s truth. VK: I think I see the point you’re making. Some theologians will refer to the Bible as being self-authenticating. The Bible’s truth will pierce through all the fog and distractions of the world and the inward witness of the Holy Spirit will confirm its truth to us. Sometimes people will say, “most of the time we judge books, but the Bible is a book that judges us.” You’re not disagreeing with this position are you? RD: I’m not disagreeing with this position but I am trying to look at the question from all angles. One of the reasons I believe God will be able to hold all people accountable because He has given sufficient witness of Himself through His creation and His superintendence of history. The Bible tells us this explicitly in Psalm 19, verses 1 through 4 and in Romans, chapter 1, verse 20. God has given all humanity ample witness of His existence and attributes. Well, I believe something similar is true about the Bible. We can use reason and evidence to evaluate whether the Bible can be legitimately considered the word of God. We laid out our criteria and lines of evidence for doing so at the start of today’s episode. In considering those lines of evidence, especially whether the Bible contains reliable history, archeology can be an important source of information and support. But this role of archeology is ministerial not magisterial. If we made our opinion about whether the Bible is true based on the findings of archeology, that would make archeology magisterial not ministerial. VK: What you’re saying is that the Bible is true and was true before archeology ever entered the scientific dialogue. Like all science, when properly used and properly understood, archeology sheds important light on questions of truth. And there are literally thousands, or maybe tens of thousands of archeological findings, that confirm the accuracy of the Bible text and the history recorded in the Bible. So, saying archeology “proves the Bible is true” is an under claim because it suggests the Bible’s truth was uncertain until archeology came along. RD: Right. As we’ve said archeology can play two very important roles in our study of the Bible and that’s why we’re doing this series. Archeology can help skeptics see that the Bible is not, in fact, a book of “myth and fairy tale.” It is a book firmly set in place and time and its reports of those places and times are trustworthy. Archeology can also help us expand our understanding of the places and times of the Bible and of the people, societies, and cultures that the Bible describes. This helps us understand the Bible’s messages more clearly. VK: Regardless of how old anyone living is, the reality is that the Bible’s text was completed two thousand years before they were born. And the Bible was written in and to cultures and countries that are much different from those with which we are familiar. Archeological findings help us understand the people that the Bible was written to and about so we can get closer to standing in their shoes, seeing the sights they saw, and thereby know exactly what the Bible writers meant to communicate. RD: Yes. So, before we close, let’s go back to our David and Goliath example for just a second to amplify how archeology increases our confidence that this incident is accurate historically. One simple fact that has been confirmed by archeology is that Goliath’s home city of Gath was a real city. Gath was one of the 5 major cities of the Philistines. Its existence has been confirmed by Egyptian inscriptions. It is thought to be located at Tel Zafit (in Hebrew) which is located inside Tel Zafit National Park in modern day Israel. So, this is a finding of archeology that is consistent with the Bible. Another detail of the story that has been confirmed is the Bible’s description of Goliath’s armor. The Bible tells us that Goliath wore a coat of scale armor. The fact that Philistine warriors wore such armor coats has been confirmed by an archeological find. In 2006, bronze scale armor was discovered in a Mycenaean palace on the island of Salamis. Remember that the Philistines were thought to have originated in Mycenae. VK: This finding was especially relevant because some scholars who were critical of the Bible’s account of the fight between David and Goliath alleged that the story was just a fictional account probably made around the 6th or 7th century BC. Their assertion was that the story was concocted to make the Hebrews have a greater sense of national pride. The Hebrew pride supposedly needed a boost at that time because the Hebrews were either still captives in Babylon or had only recently returned to Israel. Part of the reason critics made that assertion was because the shirt of scale armor the Bible reports that Goliath wore was not thought to be typical of Mycenaean soldiers. Mycenaean soldiers were often armored by wide bronze bands connected by hinges. It was thought that scale armor had gone out of use before the Mycenaean heyday, around 1400 B.C.E. So, the critics alleged, that the Bible’s description of Goliath’s armor was inaccurate. But archeologists finding a coat of scale armor in a Mycenaean palace shows that their soldiers did use scale armor at least part of the time. RD: Yep. The Bible reported that Goliath wore a type of armored coat that had not been commonly associated with the Philistines. This was a detail that the Bible writer knew that would have been unknown to a writer who wrote three or four hundred years later. Writers in the 7th or 6th century would have had little to no idea how Philistine warriors had been armored in the earlier Bronze Age. So, this is another discovery from archeology that supports the Bible’s account of David and Goliath. And let’s mention just a couple of more items to complete our discussion. We now have prolific evidence that the kind of “contest between champions” was common in combat between Bronze Age armies. Single combat to determine the outcome of battles spared bloody casualties. The armies of the Bronze Age were willing to do this because wars were thought to actually be contests between the gods of the respective armies. The armies believed that each side’s god would fight on their behalf to determine the outcome that would have resulted anyway. Archeologists have unearthed texts from this time that provide numerous examples of this belief. Examples include the Egyptian account of Sinuhe, the Babylonian Epic Enuma Elish, and the famous duel between Paris and Menelaus in Homer´s Iliad. VK: And the Bible even records this detail in its account. In 1 Samuel, chapter 17, verse 43 the Bible says, “And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.” Then in verses 45 and 46 The Bible tells us that David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down.” RD: Yep. So, the big idea that we wanted to introduce today is that archeological finds can be a valuable source of support for the accuracy of the history that the Bible reports. Actually, for decades the relationship between the Bible and archeology has been mutually supportive. Many scholars, including ones who weren’t Christian, used the Bible as a source document when planning or conducting their excavations. The Bible was and is widely regarded as an important source of information about ancient peoples and cultures. This symbiotic relationship was well known. The trend to dismiss the Bible’s accuracy in matters of dates and places in the Mideast has become popular among skeptics but it is completely out of sync with how the Bible was viewed among professionals. The Bible’s history has been shown to be accurate even when doubted and we’ll get more into that in later episodes in this series. VK: Well, sounds like we’re in for quite a thought-provoking journey. Hopefully, listeners will let others know about this series. It really can be a valuable resource to the skeptic and the believer alike. This sounds like a great time to pray. Today let’s listen to a prayer of praise of Adoration for the Creator God who set the cosmos into motion and established a home on the earth for His people as He prepares them for an eternity with Him in heaven. ---- PRAYER OF ADORATION FOR THE CREATOR VK: We’d like to remind our audience that a lot of our radio episodes are linked together in series of topics so if they missed any episodes or if they just want to hear one again, all of these episodes are available on your favorite podcast app. To find them just search on “Anchored by Truth by Crystal Sea Books.” If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not perfect but our Boss is!” (Bible Quotes from the New Living Translation) 1 Samuel, Chapter 17, verses 5 through 7, New Living Translation https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/8/4/1 https://patternsofevidence.com/2018/10/26/david-battles-goliath/)

In a time of fake news and AI, being authentic, genuine and real is very valuable. Miriam Webster chose authentic as the word of the year because it was searched so much. When we act from our authentic self, we are in integrity. We grow in confidence and self trust and others trust us, too, because we are trustworthy. -- Check out my ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ channel, interesting interviews and guided meditations, plus a different format to follow the Spiritual Psikology podcast. -- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Healing Trauma, my new 10 session course is available now!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 10 Sessions to bring the wounded parts of ourself out of suffering and into the peace, power & compassion of present time. This is a profoundly healing and transformative course that offers you the same depth and guidance I would provide in a series of individual sessions. Give yourself the gift of healing. -- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Please follow me on Insight Timer!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- Renee's book, workbook and guided audio series "Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing." is now available on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon,  Kindle and Audible⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Awaken the wisdom of your authentic self with these 15 transformative processes of Spiritual PsI-Kology. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click for a FREE Download⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Ch. 1 and 1st Inner Journey of Allies & Demons. Spiritual Psi-Kology combines the ancient healing and wisdom traditions of Shamanism and Buddhist philosophy with the best of Western psychology to create a powerful medicine for the mind, body and spirit. -- If you'd like to learn more about how Spiritual Psi-Kology might be helpful in your life, get details about my Mentorship program, or set up a FREE 30 minute consultation, please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ReneeMcKenna.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select "Write a Review." Then be sure to let us know what you loved most about the episode! Support Spiritual Psi-Kology on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spiritualpsikology/message

Hamas' hostage deal with Israel helps the terror group change the subject; Dutch voters reject ruling parties in favor of the anti-imigration, anti-Islam Party of Freedom; and raising refugee children to hold onto their Christian traditions in Ohio. Plus, Miriam-Webster's word of 2023, Nathanael Blake on men and marriage, and the Tuesday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate.Additional support comes from Samaritan Ministries. It's not insurance, it's a community of Christians paying one another's medical bills. More at samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast.From WaterStone, helping believers transform non-cash assets—including real estate—into tax-deductible donations to preferred charities. More on how charitable giving can make a bigger impact at WaterStone.org.And from Ambassadors Impact Network. Unlocking the power of faith-based financing for your startup. More at ambassadorsimpact.com

By Jove, the Moon and the planet Jupiter put on a good show the next couple of nights. They climb into good view by about 11 or 11:30. Jupiter looks like a brilliant star near the Moon — only the Moon and the planet Venus outshine it. Jupiter is named for a Roman god — the equivalent of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods. Appropriately enough, Jupiter was a sky god. And like Zeus, he was in charge of everything — the leader of all the gods. He was considered a protector of Rome, so military commanders visited one of his temples after a successful battle to give thanks. Jupiter was also known as Jove. The name is used in the phrase “by Jove!”, which indicates surprise or adds emphasis. According to Miriam-Webster, the phrase was mainly British, and it's been largely abandoned. “Jove” is still a part of daily language, though, mainly in the word “jovial” — showing “good-humored cheerfulness.” Other forms of the word include “jovialize,” which means “to make jovial,” and “jovialist” — someone who's already jovial. Look for Jove — or Jupiter — rising in late evening, near the gibbous Moon. The solar system's biggest planet is to the lower left of the Moon tonight, and about the same distance to the right of the Moon tomorrow night. By Jove, the view is pretty much guaranteed to make just about anyone feel jovial — jovialists under the stars. Tomorrow: a pair of giant stars with a non-jovial future.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

In this week's episode, we got OFF on Miriam-Webster (that bitch)!!! We also learn about the history of the color cyan, the art of hypnotism, and l'investigate the phenomenon of famous sister rivalries!!! All's well that ends well girls!!! Follow us on: L'Podcast on Instagram: @lpodcastpodcast L'Podcast on TikTok: @lpodcastpodcast Gabby Bryan on Instagram: @gabbyisbryan Gabby Bryan on TikTok: @gabbyisbryan Zack Signore on Instagram: @quackwacko Zack Signore on TikTok: @zacksignore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Promise yourself that you'll stop falling and start climbing after tuning into our latest episode of See Beyond When You Are. We guarantee that you'll walk away with a fresh perspective and practical tools to tackle any mountain, big or small, that life throws your way. In this captivating discussion, I, your host C. Bond, use the metaphor of mountain climbing to symbolize the challenging journey of personal and professional growth. From harnessing the power of stability to the indispensable need for courage, we dive into the mechanics of self-improvement while navigating through life's rocky terrain.In the latter half of our journey, we venture into the realm of courage, an underappreciated quality that is crucial for initiating change and tackling challenges. Drawing from Miriam Webster's powerful definition, I encourage you to venture, persevere, and withstand the fear or difficulty that makes your mountain appear unscalable. I dare you to start climbing your personal and professional mountains, emphasizing that the starting point is irrelevant, but the start itself is pivotal. So, strap on your metaphorical climbing gear, and let's embark on this thrilling journey towards success and fulfillment together.Support the showC Bond (@seebeyondwhereur) • Instagram photos and videoswww.linkedin.com/in/cbond-bcpa-podcaster

Greetings! According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, one of the possible definitions of the word "multiples", when used as a noun, is "something in units of more than one or two".  That will be the conceptual thread tying today's program together.  Pieces of music that are primarily played by multiples of the same instrument, though several composers took the idea of multiples to new limits, such as Henry Brandt and Karlheinz Stockhausen who created compositions for multiple orchestras. This will likely be the first in a series of "multiples" programs since there were many other potential selections and only 1 hour and 59 minutes at hand. (If you have other "multiples" selections you'd like to hear, please drop me a line.) Enjoy! Joel   e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1      6-3-23 PTE Playlist   Music For Pieces of Wood (for five pairs of tuned claves) - Group 180 / composer: Steve Reich - Group 180 - Hungaroton (1980) https://stevereich.com/composition/music-for-pieces-of-wood/    We Know You Know: Reverie for Mahavishnu - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet / composer: Brian Head - LAGQ's Guitar Heroes - Telarc (2004) https://www.lagq.com/    Extensions RC (Reach) - Jon Gibson - Relative Calm - New World Records (2016) https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/jon-gibson-relative-calm    Trinity of Spheres - Denver Symphony Orchestra / Bruce Hangen, Carl Topilow, and Henry Brant, conductors /composer: Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 3 - Innova Records (2006) https://www.innova.mu/albums/henry-brant/henry-brant-collection-vol-3    Inner Time II: Homage to Calder for 7 B flat clarinets (excerpt) - Armand Angster Clarinet System / composer: Horatiu Radulescu - Inner Time II - Audivis / Montaigne (1994) https://www.europeanluceroensemble.com/biography    Die Donnergötter (for 6 electric guitars, electric bass & drums) - composer/conductor: Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergötter - Homestead Records (1989) https://www.rhyschatham.net/works-projects/die-donnergotter/    Fathom - accordions: Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Guy Klucevsek & Otto Lechner - Accordion Tribe - Intuition (1998) https://www.schott-music.com/de/accordion-tribe-accordion-tribe-no64540.html    Adagio For Strings - Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble / composer: Samuel Barber - Lift Off - DMP (1993)    Shell Shock (for 3 conch shells) - conchs: Stuart Dempster, Moc Escobedo, Chad Kirby - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel - New Albion Records (1995) http://www.newalbion.com/blog/-stuart-dempster-underground-overlays-from-the-cistern-chapel    The Sound of Burning Chairs - Tilted Axes - Music for Mobile Electric Guitars - Peppergreen Media (2016) http://tiltedaxes.com/tiltedaxes.html    Lacquer Prints, No. 3: A Burnt Offering - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble / composer: Zachary Wadsworth - Shadow, Echo, Memory - Sono Luminis (2016) https://www.sonoluminus.com/store/shadow-echo-memory    Music for Voices - voice: Mabou Mines Theater Company / composer: Philip Glass - Early Voice - Orange Mountain Music (2002) https://philipglass.com/recordings/early_voice/ 

This Isn't Therapy...but this is an episode about the overuse of therapy language and the impact its having on our relationships. Gaslighting? Triggered? Trauma-bonding? What do these words actually mean!? And are we using them correctly? Listen to find out. Also, Jake and Simon welcome special guests: Dr. Miriam-Webster, Tammy Toxic, and Gary Gaslight. This is an episode you absolutely don't want to miss, mmmmmkay?Articles: TIME: Gaslighting, Narcissist, and More Psychology Terms You're Misusing by Angela Haupt The New York Times: How the Language of Therapy Took Over Dating by Dani Blum Creators & Guests Jake Ernst - Host Simon Paluck - Host Bonjourrrr, hi! Follow us on Instagram: @notatherapypodcast⁣Jake Ernst: @mswjakeSimon Paluck: @directedbysimon ⁣⁣Episode Mixed by Jordan Paluck

Are you a production editor, copyeditor, or proofreader and you're looking for an artificial intelligence proofing tool to help you improve your audiobook productions?Look no further! In this video, I'm sharing with you how to improve your audiobook productions with an AI proofing tool. Adam Fritz, the CEO of POZOTRON joins me to discuss his company's software as service for audiobook project management and proofing.His company has a software tool designed to make audio production easier, faster, and more efficient. In this video, we'll discuss how you can improve your audiobook production with the help of an AI proofing tool. This tool will help you identify and correct any mistakes in your audio recording before it's sent off for distribution.If you're looking to improve your audiobook production, then this tool is a great way to start. This AI proofing tool can help you identify and correct any mistakes quickly and easily, which will help you produce a better audiobook overall! Positron is a growth stage startup. We've been around since 2017. We're based in Seattle, just outside of Seattle, and our company has a software tool designed to make audio production easier, faster, and more efficient.So regardless of your role in scripted audio production, whether that's an audiobook or otherwise our tool will make a bunch of those steps in the process easier and faster. From, we use AI and machine learning to make pre-production things like pronunciation guides and character planning easier, all the way down to post-production like QC and improving. We have a tool that, that acts just spellcheck does for Microsoft Word only. It checks your Recorded audio to make sure it's recorded. Exactly. Word perfect compared to the book text. So a bunch of things that'll make life a lot easier for O authors to have their audio books produced easier, faster, and at higher quality level. And it doesn't eliminate like human checking, but it really reduces like the. Need for somebody to sit and listen to a 20 hour audiobook all 20 hours. Exactly.Our goal is basically the only thing a person who's doing the human proving needs to pay attention to or the more performant elements like character voices and things like that. Just like when you're typing a document in Microsoft Word, you. Have those little red underlines to tell you when you've made a typo or a spelling mistake. Our tool will do that for the missed words. Added words, and mispronunciations, while you're just paying attention to make sure the story is told in a way that fits the author's vision. Before we like get into looking at the tool, How have being on kind of both sides of this, how has it been for or the feedback been from narrators about using this tool and how it maybe helps them be more productive as well? Yeah, it helped in a number of different ways. I'll start at the pre-production tools, like the pronunciation guide. A lot of narrators do a huge amount. Most narrators do a huge amount of work in the lead up to actually recording their book. So they'll read the book with a highlighter in their hand and highlight every word they don't know how to pronounce, whether that's a complex noun or verb or all the way up to character names. So what our tool does, instead of having to go through and manually high. Those words, it'll pull, our algorithm pulls all the words our algorithm believes. Your average narrator may not know how to pronounce, and then it'll automatically and immediately search those in the Oxford Dictionary four. And we're adding Miriam Webster basically one click. And you have that correct pronunciation back. Makes it much, much simpler to do that process. And then a lot of narrators will actually before. Once they record, before they send their recorded audio back to the, to their client, they'll actually do a first proof themselves. #aiwriting #aiautomation

If you could count happiness in dollar bills, how rich do you think you would be this very moment? This is obviuosly a hypothetical question but the fact remains, there is a hypothetical answer for each of us. And I'm sure we could all say, it depends on the day. I get that. No one day will be the same. For every day we live, we will have different circumstances, different obstacles, and a different perspective. So how is it even possible to to measure our happiness? How can we know the wealth of our happiness? First, I think we have to know what happiness really is. What does it mean to be happy? What does it look or feel like? How do we know we are happy? And if we're not, how do we obtain happiness? and second, what does God say about it? Does He even promise us happiness? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, happiness is the feeling of being pleased or happy. The definition of "feeling" is a fact of feeling something physical. Pleased means happy or satisfied. So, it is basically a physical feeling of satisfaction. Nothing more. Nothing less. Happiness is a feeling expressed outwardly. And it comes and goes, depending on our circumstances. We can be influenced to be happy or unhappy depending on factors surrounding us. If we are around someone who is laughing, we can also start laughing. Picture yourself in a crowd, at football game or an event. If your team is winning, you...along with the crowd, can be happy. If your team is losing, you and the crowd around you can be unhappy. Happiness and unhappiness and be contagious. It can be imitated and expressed outwardly. And I believe happiness is a choice. It's a choice because it can be dictated by oiur emotions of the moment we are in. Not only is it a choice, but it can be material based. We are always searching for that next thing to bring us happiness.That new car. A bigger house. A better job. We choose what makes us happy and sometimes, it's never enough. So we continue looking for that person, place or thing to make us happy. Sadly, it's not found in material things because there will always be something better. We will always want to upgrade. And, finding happiness in someone else is not the answer because we are imperfect people. We have flaws and sooner or later, that happiness will be lost when that person let's you down. Don't get me wrong. Happiness is a good thing. It's one of the many emotions God has created us to feel. I can't imagine not having a sense of happiness and feeling a smile across my face. Happiness is a good feeling. But that's my point. It's a feeling. So, what do we do when we realize momey, people, places and things can't buy happiness? We look inward. Where do we find true meaning of happiness? Something deeper? Something reliable no matter what our life circumstances may be. That would be this thing called joy.According to the very same dictionary, joy is defined as great happiness. I respectfully disagree. I believe the two are completely different. Happiness and joy are not dependant on one another. Happiness doesn't bring joy nor does joy come from happiness. Miriam Webster defines joy as the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or by good fortune, or by the prospect of possessing what one desires. Author and minister, Rick Warren, says this about joy: " Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be alright and the determined choice to praise God in every situation."I can definitely relate to Rick Warren's idea of joy. For me, my spiritual joy can not be lost and can not be taken. It is deep within me that no one else can take or remove unless I allow it. And allowing that to happen is a choice. There's a video that went viral and it's posted on YouTube that I absolutely love. You might have seen it. It's a preschool class singing during their church program. They are singing to the song by Zack Williams called -Old Church Choir-and the chorus goes like this: There's revival, and it's spreading like a wildfire in my heart. A Sunday morning, Hallelujah and it's lasting all week long. Can you hear it? Can you feel it? It's the rhythm of a gospel song. Oh, once you choose you...you can't lose it. There ain't nothing, there ain't gonna steal my joy. I got an old church choir singing in my soul. I've got a swwet salvation and it's beautiful. I've got a heart overflowing 'cause I've been restored. There ain't nothing gonna steal my joy. No, there ain't nothing gonna steal my joy.https://youtu.be/WTsSj74DEcAIf you watch her in the video, she's outwardly expressing the joy I'm talking about. She's confident. She's strong. She's visibly enjoying life and not worrying about anything. She definitely stand out among her classmates. Not that I'm saying anything negativeabout their outward expression but I am saying that the other children just don't seem to be enjoying it the way she is. She seems to be the only one who gets it. She hears it. She feels it. Sings it and expressing the words and the music. It's real and authentic. No faking your way through it. Romans 14:17 says,For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteous, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Both joy and happiness are mentioned in the Bible. Both can be and are a positive emotion. The difference between the two is that happiness can come and go depending on our circumstances, people, places and things. But joy. Joy is not dependant pn anything. It is a gift from God. Galations 5:22 reads,But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.Joy is a blessing from God. Happiness is also from God and it is a true blessing to be happy. But the happiness that comes from the wolrd is fleeting. Temporary. God given joy, on the other hand, is eternal. It is happiness and contentment all wrapped up in a huge bow that cannot be taken away because it is ours to keep unconditonally. So the question we can ask ourselves is...Are we happy or are we joyful? And what is it based on? If JOY were to be a priority and vital part of your life...what changes do you think it might take to allow it to exist? Romans 15:13May the God of hopefill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope. Until next week. Trust your journey. Trust the change, and trust God to see you through.

This episode is brought to you in part by our marriage after god podcast and prayer patron team. These are people who have been blessed by this content as well as our daily prayer emails and have decided to help support the show and our daily emails financially. So if you have been blessed by this show and would like to join the marriage after god podcast patron team, please visit marriageaftergod.com/patron Via Wikipedia: The self-discrepancy theory states that individuals compare their "actual" self to internalized standards or the "ideal or ought self". Self-discrepancy is the gap between two of these self-representations that leads to negative emotions.Essentially it is how we deal with the difference between who we think we should be and who we want to be vs who we actually are.Percent Discrepancy or Error:The discrepancy in a measured quantity for an instrument is the difference between its measured value and true value (accepted value). This difference between these values is known as the absolute error.Absolute error. When I read that I was like….well it is an absolute error when God's word says to be a respectful wife and then im disrespectful. If God's word is the measure by which we live, what is the difference between that and how i choose to respond and act. Google How do you identify discrepancies?Identifying discrepancies in data is simple. You compare two data sets for the same period of time and look for numbers that don't match up. The real challenge is understanding what caused the discrepancies and how to reconcile them.For me when I think of discrepancy, what I feel God wants me to pay attention to … are the differences I see when I compare who I am to who I want to be according to his word. And when i see it i get so frustrated! Understanding and Confronting why there are different things happening and why i am choosing to be the way i really am, frustrates me. This is what got me thinking….How do I reconcile those differences to become one and the same??? The person i really want to be is like Christ, so there is a fight going on inside you….who you CANNOT BE ON YOUR OWN. The who you are now fights who you want to be.  TRANSCRIPT: Speaker 1 (00:05):Hey, Were Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your host of the Marriage After God podcast. If we're all being honest, we would recognize that there's a discrepancy between who we are and who we desire to be. And right now we are going to dive into this idea and find some encouragement along the way. Would Speaker 2 (00:19):You please take some time today and share this episode on your social media? Share it with your friend, share it with your family. Invite them to listen along with you. It'd be an awesome conversation starter. Some people have even taken our podcast and turn 'em into little Bible studies and they meet with a few couples to go through them. And I think you'd be an awesome way to help grow the show, reach of it. And then lastly, before we move on we wanted to bring up a new way that we are inviting people to help support this podcast. We don't do ads. If you noticed the only ads, we talk about our books and our free prayer emails that we send out every day. But one way you can support is you can join the Marriage After God podcast patron team. And what this is, this is a group of husbands and wives all over the country who support this podcast and support our daily prayer emails financially. And if you would like to do that, if this shows blessed you, if you are blessed by our daily prayer emails, we'd love, love to invite you to join the Marriage God podcast patron team by going to marriage after god.com/patron. That's P A T R O N, marriage after god.com/patron. Speaker 1 (01:33):While we are in a new year, 2023, can you believe it? Speaker 2 (01:36):Did we say 2023? Is it 20? 23? 20? Speaker 1 (01:39):Just 23. Speaker 2 (01:40):Just 23. Speaker 1 (01:42):Just 23. Happy New Year everybody. You might be surprised to see us. We're really excited to be here with you guys starting out the new year. Speaker 2 (01:52):Why would they be surprised though? Speaker 1 (01:53):Oh, fresh. I think because when we finished the last season, which was just in December we told everyone to look forward to another season launching in the spring. Speaker 2 (02:05):And it's not the spring, Speaker 1 (02:06):But hey, it's never too early to dive into a good marriage podcast. Speaker 2 (02:10):And we're back and we're excited. Speaker 1 (02:12):Yeah. So instead of doing a seasonal podcast, we thought we'd go all the way back to like we did when we first launched the podcast back in 2018, Speaker 2 (02:21):Which is crazy. Speaker 1 (02:22):We had to go back and look Speaker 2 (02:23):It up. We both didn't realize we started this far back. We thought it was 2019. Speaker 1 (02:27):So back when we started in 2018, we were doing a weekly episode and that was really exciting and really great. And then after, I don't know how, I Speaker 2 (02:35):Don't know, I think it was like 75 plus episode stream. Speaker 1 (02:38):I don't remember. We switched it to doing a seasonal thing, which gave us, in our family a bit of space in between the seasons, which was really great. Speaker 2 (02:45):Lots of new babies between then. Speaker 1 (02:47):Yeah, for sure. So here we are and we're going to try a new thing, a new old Speaker 2 (02:52):Thing, a new oldie goodie thing. Speaker 1 (02:54):Well, speaking of oldie goodies, if you are new with us, you can go back to those 2018, 2019 and up episodes if you haven't listened to 'em. And yeah, Speaker 2 (03:04):There's a check 'em out there a lot for you there. I was just letting Jennifer know some of that analytics cause I like to look at all that data. And one of our episodes, it's called Jesus is our Passover, has had 58,000 downloads. Crazy. So you should definitely go check that one out. And then the last little bit of numbers I wanna throw out there, we've just, I think just last episode of the last season, we broke 3 million downloads of our podcast. That's Speaker 1 (03:29):Awesome. Yeah. That's so cool. Thank you guys for listening. Speaker 2 (03:32):Yeah. This that only happens cuz you all who listened to this podcast. So thank you. Speaker 1 (03:38):Okay, so what can everyone enjoy from us this next year? I should rephrase that. What are people going to want to tell their friends when they talk about our podcast? Speaker 2 (03:48):Hopefully good things hard things sometimes but I think I'd love for people to say that we're real. That we like to be honest, that we're not in any way experts but definitely experts at sharing our story. Speaker 1 (04:04):I was going to say funny. I want them to say, Hey, this podcast is really funny. Speaker 2 (04:08):We do like to laugh a lot. Speaker 1 (04:09):I think I'm funny. Speaker 2 (04:11):Yeah. Words like relatable, truthful those are things that we desire to be as podcast hosts sharing this content with you all. Speaker 1 (04:19):And on a more serious note I would want them to tell their friends what they say doesn't matter. It's what God says through them when his word comes out of them. It's just really good. Speaker 2 (04:32):It's a prayer. I often pray before I teach is Lord let it be your words, not mine. Speaker 1 (04:37):Exactly. If anything, it'll be a good dose when you guys follow along this year of Oh yeah. Or good idea or ouch. I need to work on that for the purpose of encouraging all of us to pick up our Bibles and pursue our spouse. Right. Speaker 2 (04:55):And to be honest, we actually say these things about our own content because when we're preparing these and thinking these are things that we're going through so we actually feel the same way sometimes. So Speaker 1 (05:04):Yeah. Okay, so let's do that now let's get into this very interesting topic we have here today Speaker 2 (05:11):Here and we're in December. And a lot of happened since you Speaker 1 (05:15):Didn't say we're in December. Speaker 2 (05:16):No, we're not in December we're just out. We were out of December. But a lot of stuff's been going on. So since we ended the season, yeah, Speaker 1 (05:25):I will say in December it was challenging for us. We kicked it off with being sick as a family and really sick. Sick, really sick. And that was terrible. What was most terrible about it is it's the beginning weeks of December is like you're just starting to have Christmas festivities. At least I am with the kids festivities. And I was super bummed to miss out on those things. Speaker 2 (05:47):But we got to make some of it up cuz there was some really fun things that we got to do. We got to make sugar cookies always. And we love cookies in this family. They Speaker 1 (05:56):Don't last very long. Speaker 2 (05:57):No eat 'em all cookies the same day. Usually I eat most of the dough before it makes into the oven. Speaker 1 (06:01):I had to wait till we got much better before I jumped into that one. We also, did you already say this? Make gingerbread houses? Speaker 2 (06:09):I didn't say it. Okay. No, but I was thinking of gingerbread men, which we'll talk about a second. We will. Well how would we dress up for the Oh yeah, yeah. Christmas Speaker 1 (06:18):Party. We went sledding Christmas shopping. Speaker 2 (06:22):Yeah, we did all the things even though it was a pretty heavy with sickness, once we got all better we're like, okay, let's jam it all in. We have to get all things in before the end of the year. Speaker 1 (06:32):One and a half weeks go. Speaker 2 (06:33):Yeah. So we went to a Christmas party. Speaker 1 (06:36):It's an annual party that we like to do with our friends Speaker 2 (06:38):And this one did. We don't always dress up. We was this a special one this Speaker 1 (06:42):Year? We just decided, we called it nacho average Christmas party. And it was just so fun. Speaker 2 (06:48):Yeah. It was what I dressed up as a, you dressed me up as a Well Speaker 1 (06:53):We wanted to go as a couple. And so I was like gingerbread. That's awesome. Speaker 2 (06:57):But what? You were a Speaker 1 (06:58):Pinata. I was a pinata gingerbread. And Speaker 2 (07:00):You, your costume, it took you days to make. Cuz she literally glued all this burn. What is that stuff called? It's like streamers. Streamers all over her dress. And then I was a ninja bread man Speaker 1 (07:12):And we were the greatest couple of all time. So Speaker 2 (07:14):It was amazing. Anyways, that was a lot of fun. Speaker 1 (07:18):We played Family Feud, we played some Minute to win at games. The candy cane drop. There's some good Speaker 2 (07:26):Ones. There was, there was a really fun, oh anyways, there were fun games. Oh, the box grab. Yeah, the box grab one was fun. There was a one Speaker 1 (07:33):Except you were supposed to let me win and then didn't Speaker 2 (07:34):One of the wives there was so fast. She was so fast. She beat everyone. Speaker 1 (07:38):Okay, we need to move on here. Okay. Okay. Amid the hustle of the season and experiencing joy, which we hope you guys all enjoyed over holiday break, we also encountered some back to back hard marriage moments some ways of responding to each other. That's Merry Speaker 2 (07:54):Christmas does. Speaker 1 (07:55):No, it was hard. And more so I just wanna personally admit that the Lord revealed to me how I was being disrespectful to you Erin and how I was communicating and I hurt you. And in the midst of those things happening, I also was reminded by looking my journal that I hadn't been abiding in reading the word consistently throughout December. And I know that that plays a huge role in how I feed my flesh instead of walking the spirit. And so there was just a lot of ups and downs emotionally and some 10 moments of tension within our relationship that kind of just influenced our experience. Speaker 2 (08:45):And it didn't help that I was also not abiding in Christ really well this last month in the month of December. And that made my responses not so great to how you were responding to me. Speaker 1 (09:00):We were both irritable and just sloppy in our relationship. Speaker 2 (09:05):It wasn't good, Speaker 1 (09:07):But the Lord's good. And he showed us and reminded us that we need to have grace with one another. That reconciliation is so important. And we came back together and got Speaker 2 (09:23):Through these things. We are reconciled and and God using that situation he has in the past with other situations to show us that there's change that he desires in us, that he's not okay with where we're at because he desires better for us and we're not okay where we're at because we desire better for us. Speaker 1 (09:40):It was during those was it like a week and a half, two weeks of mm-hmm. Being up and down together that the Lord simultaneously put a desire in our hearts to switch the podcast from being put off till spring to, to launching it in the new year and doing this weekly thing. And I think that's, I was going to say funny, it's not funny, but dealing with shouldn't communicate, shouldn't crisis well dealing with communication issues and then going, Hey, let's be professional communicators just about Speaker 2 (10:09):Our marriage that we're having a hard time Speaker 1 (10:10):With you. And I always see in hindsight a lot better. But I was telling you this Erin, that once we made that decision to launch the podcast, being reminded that we have an enemy that doesn't like what we're doing, he's like, Uhuh, I'm going to sabotage that one. Speaker 2 (10:28):Well all the more why we're called to put on the former of God and to not be mm-hmm lax in our vigilance, in our faith to Speaker 1 (10:35):Guard ourselves better Speaker 2 (10:36):And our marriage and we and I wasn't you and the fruit of that was evident. Speaker 1 (10:42):So being professional communicators here, we are not exempt, exempt from the ways of the flesh just because we run a podcast. There's times that Aaron and I are mean to each other. There's times that we can be selfish. There's times that we, I am disrespectful or struggle with submission and struggle with the things that I want versus what you want. And we Speaker 2 (11:04):Clash, both of us just struggling with Speaker 1 (11:06):Irritability, Speaker 2 (11:07):Being Christian, just walking in God's spirit and being more fleshly than spiritual which comes out of us when we're not abiding in Christ and when we're feeding the wrong thing in us, as everyone listening would understand cuz we all do it. So yeah, we're not exempt at Speaker 1 (11:27):All in recognizing that we struggle with communication At times I get down cuz I think there's no way we can do a podcast. Yeah. We're not worthy. We share with others that unworthiness thing to which you and others in my life say because God doesn't use perfect people. That's true. And you reminded me of what Paul said in one Corinthians 12, nine. But he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Speaker 2 (12:00):Which is funny cuz often we don't boast in the weakness. We boast about being strong and then when we feel weak we're like, oh we can't do Speaker 1 (12:07):This. So here we are confessing that we're weak and we desire the power of Christ to rest upon us. That's the only reason I know I can sit here and be doing this right now. Speaker 2 (12:19):Well and it's good because we need people to know that we too them need Jesus. Speaker 1 (12:25):Yeah. Always. All Speaker 2 (12:26):The time. Speaker 1 (12:26):Yeah. I also wanna admit that this is hard for me, the tension of perception and how I want others to view me as if I am perfect. If I am going to do this podcast and I'm going to be sharing with people, then I want them to see me as someone who does walk rightly or does know what she's talking about Speaker 2 (12:43):And doesn't make mistakes. Speaker 1 (12:44):It doesn't make mistakes. But the truth is, the reality is I am still learning and I am still growing. We are. And we're still have great days and we still have harder days. We still walk in righteousness and we still are confronted by our sin. Speaker 2 (12:59):Well and God also used these moments, this time of struggle between us to remind us that one of the things that we prided ourselves in the beginning of this ministry, starting the unveil wife years ago and later on husband revolution, is that we would share the reality of our life and not try and make it sound perfect, but actually show what God's teaching us through our imperfectness. That was something that we prided ourselves in and we get reminded of it in the middle of our brokenness and we're like, oh, that's what we need to be open with that stuff. Speaker 1 (13:37):So I guess that's the first little bit of discrepancy right there. But we're, we're going to talk about that in a minute. Speaker 2 (13:43):Before we move on any further though into talking about the main topic, I just wanted to remind everyone again one more time if you enjoy this episode, if you l any episode actually instead of just leaving a review on the podcast for the podcast as a whole, which I'd love for you to do if you wanted to we thought it'd be awesome if you guys would leave us reviews for individual episodes. Let us know which one you love, why you love it, what maybe if there's something in it that stood out to you. And I just think that would add a lot of value to people reading the reviews and looking for why they should listen to these podcasts. So if you could do that, if you could take five minutes today and do that, we would really appreciate it. Speaker 1 (14:23):I wanted to share something that we experienced kicking off the first week of January with our church family. Was it the first of the year? It was the first of the year. Speaker 2 (14:32):Yeah, it was. It was the first Sunday of Speaker 1 (14:34):The first Sunday, first day, first of the year. We thought it would be cool to, well all the men decided to come prepared to share desires that they had, hopes that they had for our church. And we do home church. So we've talked about that in the past. And so we have an intimate group of a handful of families with a lot of children. We Speaker 2 (14:56):Have about 10 Speaker 1 (14:57):Families. And so we just popcorned around and different people shared different just heart's desires to see growth in our church. Some said to see more dedicated prayers of first response to circumstance resting in the Lord regardless of circumstance. So being able to have that peace and that rest. There was a ton of affirmations of giftings and roles that people have that we see in each other. There was a desire for more growth and maturity and there was this a remembering that we have influence and a role to fulfill within the body. And I think that it was so cool as a church to be able to walk through all of that and hear what everybody thought about fellowshiping together and what they hope it looks like in the future. And Speaker 2 (15:49):Yeah, it was, do you love it? It was really encouraging to hear from the hearts of everyone there, all of our friends, but our whole church of what they want to see from themselves, from our church, but really what is God doing with us? What does he desire from us as a church? And so that was really encouraging. We got to pray about it as we went. So someone would bring something up, I'd love to see this, I'd love to see our fellowship operate this way, or the men do this or the women do this, or whatever it is. And then we would just stop and pray about it and say, okay, Lord, show us. Reveal these things to us. Give us wisdom and lead us essentially Speaker 1 (16:26):What I loved about the experience is usually at the end of the year we'll talk about our dreams and our hopes for our marriage or our business this time, but our church did it this time. And it just felt really refreshing I Speaker 2 (16:39):Think. Well, and it's encouraging too to know, it was cool to hear everyone's hearts like, oh wow. Yeah, everyone's in some levels aligned and then on others' like wow, we, there's some things that we can grow together. And Speaker 1 (16:53):It was super cool. Well, I kept personally hearing this word. I just felt like God was encouraging me with this one word. Speaker 2 (17:02):This is this idea. A lot of people have of a word for the year, that Speaker 1 (17:06):Sort of thing, which I've done in the past, but I don't do it every year. But I kept hearing this word and I, I'm like, okay God, why don't you just walk me through this one this year? But the word became the theme for today's episode and the words discrepancy and just, I don't know why I've been so sensitive toward this word, but it's been really cool to dig in and say, okay God, what does it mean? What does it look like in my life? And why is it important? Speaker 2 (17:34):Yeah. And this word came out of a, I don't know what you were looking for, but you were doing some sort of research probably for this episode or for yourself. But Speaker 1 (17:44):I think it started because I was trying to look up bible verses that have to do with discrepancy, but it didn't quite turn out that way. And then I went on a rabbit trail. Speaker 2 (17:52):But it was cool, you came across this article about this concept of self discrepancy theory. And you read me some of the stuff from the article and you told me, I was like, wow, that's a really cool thought. The way they describe it Speaker 1 (18:08):On Wikipedia, it states that according to self discrepancy theory, that individuals compare their actual self to internalized standards or the ideal or odd self. So self discrepancy is the gap between two of these self representations that leads to negative emotions. Speaker 2 (18:26):So that's the definition of self discrepancy theory, which we're not necessarily going to dig into this specifically, but it got us on this journey of, okay, what discrepancies are there between the two selves of us who we desire to be in Christ and who we are today? Who Speaker 1 (18:46):We actually are, Speaker 2 (18:46):Who we actually are because how Speaker 1 (18:48):We Speaker 2 (18:48):Operate. That's where this word discrepancy comes in is for you might see yourself as supposed to be or want to be this one way, but then a different person comes out in the day to day. And the same for me. I see myself or want to be this way or should be biblically this way and yet I'm this person over Speaker 1 (19:11):Here. And that gap or that tension, the definition was saying and leads to negative emotions. Those negative emotions can be depression, anxiety or struggling in that space of thinking I'll never change. And that's frustrating, Speaker 2 (19:25):Which we feel because I mean that's what you feel. I felt, why do I keep doing this? Why does this keep happening? And we've all asked these questions, I've tried so hard and I never change. Why can't I be this person? Speaker 1 (19:39):Or maybe you do experience incremental changes but not in this one particular area Or maybe or you have experienced a lot of change in a lot of different areas, but then it comes back and you're struggling again and it's just hard Speaker 2 (19:55):Life. Well, and this is normal for the human condition and we're going to get into this more a little bit, but God knows this about us because we have ideals or versions of ourselves that we believe should exist in the real world. But yet we are who we are now and it's not that person. Speaker 1 (20:18):And I was going to add to that by saying perceived perceptions projected when we're in front of one group of people or someone else but at home where someone else, Speaker 2 (20:32):Well, and this is probably going to be, we're going to talk about later episode or we might talk about this, but that when we pretend to be that projected person, that person over there, that's hypocrisy because we aren't that person. We act like we are, but we're not. Yeah. Speaker 1 (20:50):Okay. So another definition from Miriam Webster says an instance of disagreeing or being at variance. Speaker 2 (20:57):Being at variance. Speaker 1 (20:58):I know these are kind of more technical terms, but I kind of taking things like this and applying it to spiritual well Speaker 2 (21:05):Being at variance there, I just literally thought of this it made me think of how we're supposed to be one. But when we are at odds with each other, we're at variance with each other. We're not unified and there's a discrepancy, there's a like, oh we're not, we're split versus fused. Being balanced or balanced in harmony. Speaker 1 (21:28):Disagree. This was something else I looked up in my little search. Percent percent discrepancy or error. The discrepancy in a measured quantity for an instrument is the difference between its measured value and true value. The difference between these values is known as the absolute error, which I love that absolute error. That's true. When I read that, I was like, well it's an absolute error when God's word says to be a respectful wife and then I'm disrespectful. Speaker 2 (21:56):So something should weigh X. But when it's measured, it's measured at Y. Speaker 1 (22:01):So yeah. So if God's word is the measure by which we live, what is the difference between that and how I choose to respond and Speaker 2 (22:09):Act? Well, absolute error. Speaker 1 (22:10):It's an absolute error. Yeah. Speaker 2 (22:12):Well I love that. This is why where the gospel comes in when we recognize we are actually in absolute error because we are not living up to the standard, the actual true measure, the true value which is Christ. Which is Christ we we're in absolute air. That's really good. Speaker 1 (22:32):All interesting things here guys. Okay, so Google, when I Googled sometimes they have these questions pop up, it said, how do you identify discrepancy? And then this was the response, identifying discrepancies in data is simple. You compared two data sets for the same period of time and look for numbers that don't match up. So again, kind of technical, but let's dig a little deeper here. The real challenge is understanding what caused the discrepancies and how to reconcile them. Speaker 2 (22:57):No, we just wanna see that there Speaker 1 (22:59):Is so Speaker 2 (23:00):Because that's too much  Speaker 1 (23:01):With Speaker 2 (23:01):The Lord. How do we get to that number Speaker 1 (23:03):With the Lord? Putting this word discrepancy on my heart, this is where I'm at for the year. The challenge for me is to understand what causes the discrepancies. Well I guess identifying them, but what caused the discrepancies? And then how do I reconcile them? Speaker 2 (23:16):Which this is a good question for all of our listeners and a good recognition. We all can see easily the discrepancy in our walks. I know when I'm not in the word like oh there's a discrepancy, I believe the word, but I'm not in it. Like you said, you know, should respect and submit to me based off of what the Bible says. But there's a difference in how we respond. I know I'm supposed to love you sacrificially and I don't. So that's easy to see. But like you said, the why does that exist and how did we get to that point and Speaker 1 (23:54):How do we move Speaker 2 (23:54):Past and how do we reconcile the numbers on the sheet? Yeah, Speaker 1 (24:00):That's Speaker 2 (24:00):The harder thing for sure. Speaker 1 (24:01):Something I think God wants me to be paying attention to are the differences I see when I compare who I am to how I wanna be according to his word. And when I see it, when I see it, I get frustrated. I don't know about you, you said it's easy to see. I'm like, I get it so frustrated cuz I'm like that's who I wanna be. Speaker 2 (24:20):This goes back to that discrepancy theory. How you respond to the discrepancy is based off of whether you have an ideal or an odd. And I think you see that person as an odd, I should be this person but I'm not. Why not? And so you're frustrated and an anxious about it. Speaker 1 (24:37):So I wanna answer the question, how do I reconcile those differences to become one in the same? Speaker 2 (24:44):I think when you were asking me this question earlier, I was thinking, well if we have the wrong definition of the person we're trying to be, then we'll never be able to. No, that's true. Reconcile. So if I'm like, well I need to be this person, Jennifer b Jennifer, version B is who I need to be. But reality is Jennifer B doesn't exist without Christ. So there is no Jennifer B in the picture unless there's Christ in the picture. And so like you said, when we're not inviting in Christ, when we're not seeking that image, when we're not seeking his righteousness and his kingdom and those things, then there can be no reconciliation. So I think it's first Speaker 1 (25:28):Recognizing if the person that we want to become has nothing to do with God's word, if it's not defined by God's word, Speaker 2 (25:37):Then we're, it's always going to be redefined every moment. But if we define it the correct way, then we can at least know what we're shooting for. We we're shooting for the Christ and his perfection, which we understand we can't attain on our own. We need him. Speaker 1 (25:59):And when we were talking about this earlier, you said to me well there's a fight going on inside of you and who you want to be. You cannot be on your own. You can't Speaker 2 (26:11):Do it. Yeah. Cuz you're constantly the who we are today is constantly fighting who we want to be to be tomorrow. So I think the general solution to how do we get from A to B, how do we fill that gap? I think it starts with a surrender. Our current self has to surrender to Christ the future self and say, okay, if this is the true value what you say, then I need to surrender to that. And that's, that's how we shrink that gap. Cuz there is no perfection to be attained. And I hope that's an encouragement everyone listening is we're not talking about, hey, we can't actually get there. No, I think one day, well when we were with our father in heaven, there's going to be with him and Speaker 1 (27:00):Life is and him and life is the journey and the process every day inching closer to Speaker 2 (27:07):That. Well and I think even just a revelation I just had is instead of trying to constantly be the better me tomorrow that the journey is are we're constantly moving toward Christ Speaker 1 (27:23):Or recognizing his power in us. Speaker 2 (27:27):So instead of always feeling a failure because we didn't live up to whatever we're trained to imagine, we're just constantly moving toward him. Paul says it really good in Romans seven, verse 24 when explaining this dichotomy between our flesh and the spirit. And he says, wretched man that I am, which is how we all feel. So Speaker 1 (27:49):You're saying now, oh I suck. Speaker 2 (27:51):Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. So he's showing this di dichotomy of I want to serve the law, but I also have my flesh. And he says, who's going to deliver me from this problem? And he says, thanks be to God through Jesus Christ. Speaker 1 (28:19):I really think you should keep reading cuz moving on into eight. It really, Speaker 2 (28:23):So in verse in chapter eight, he says, therefore, or there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Speaker 1 (28:32):Which pause. There's been so many times that I've felt just the guilt of the shame and the full weight of my sin. And you've repeated this verse to me so many times. So husbands, wives, anyone listening, tuck this verse away for when someone needs it. Go ahead. Speaker 2 (28:50):Well, in verse two, for the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death for God is done with the law. Weakened by the flesh could not do by sending his own son and the likeness of sinful flesh. And for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. The law of the spirit when we walk in the spirit is freedom. We're set free in Christ Jesus from this bondage that you feel that I feel of, oh, I'm not performing right, I'm not fulfilling the law. I'm not being the person I'm supposed to be. Right? No, we're set free from that bondage of that. But when we walk in the spirit, we actually produce the things that the spirit produces, which is good. Speaker 1 (29:46):Yeah. There was a few other verses that came to our mind when considering discrepancy and what does the Bible talk about and how to identify that in us. So one of the first ones was Matthew seven 15 through 20. Do Speaker 2 (30:02):You wanna read that? Yeah. And it starts off talking about false prophets, but I want to get to the point here. So it says, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles even so every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. The point here is it's showing that on the outside, like I said earlier about this hypocrisy, these people show one thing, but on the inside or something else, God's telling us when we walk in the spirit, he changes the inside even before the outside represents what's on the inside. And so to bear good fruit, we must walk in the spirit which God uses to change us from the inside. So instead of trying to find this, seek this outward thing, we should be seeking that inward transformation, which then does actually change us. Speaker 1 (31:16):Another one is also James three, nine through 12. It says with it we bless our Lord and talking about our tongue with it, we bless our Lord and Father and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God from the same mouth come blessing and cursing my brothers, these things ought not to be. So does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and saltwater. Can AIG tree my brothers bear olives or grapevine produced figs? Neither can assault pond yield fresh water. Speaker 2 (31:46):Yeah. This is talking about our tongue and our words, but it's showing the discrepancy between things we say on one side of our mouth and things we say on the other side of our mouth that we bless God and we curse our brother. We have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in our hearts, yet we boast about our altruism and our love for our brother. This is discrepancy. This is something that we deal with. So the fact that sometimes we like, oh, I want to be this kind of person, but over here we're not okay with using, having a discrepancy in the way we speak and the things we say. And that's where, this is another thing where looking at the true value, the true value is what God says. And as the word says right here in James, these things ought not to be so , a discrepancy that needs to be a gap that needs to be closed there. Speaker 1 (32:38):Just going a little personal, is there anything that you've recognized that is, is there discrepancy in you or in something that you've recognized lately? Speaker 2 (32:50):One of the things that you haven't have had an issue in the past and something that you're recognizing is how you communicate To me, I've had the same issue with, you may not be in every circumstances, but when you're having a hard Speaker 1 (33:03):Time, your issue is how I communicate with you. I'm Speaker 2 (33:05):Kidding. No. How I communicate with you, how I respond to you When you communicate to me a certain way instead of me being self controlled and doing the right thing, I just do the wrong thing also this Speaker 1 (33:16):Cycle. Speaker 2 (33:17):But I also, I've realized that, and it's something I have grown in, but I have a problem with the way I've talked to my communicate children way I can communicate to my friends. But Speaker 1 (33:28):You've gotten better at Yeah, I have. But just to affirm you, you have grown in that Speaker 2 (33:32):And I appreciate that. But that that's something that God has showing me through this thing that's been going on with us and just saying, okay, God wants to deal with this discrepancy. Speaker 1 (33:42):He wants to chisel it out of us. Speaker 2 (33:44):He wants to cut it out. Yeah. There's just kind of highlighting more of this. I've been, I been listening to a new podcast called Hidden Brain and I'm really liking it. It just talks about these concept of how our brains work. And he was talking with a guest, the main host, and she said something that reminded me of this. She said, there's two versions of ourselves existing at the same time who we desire to be and who we are and that's why we've been talking about this. But she called it the present self and the future self. And often, Speaker 1 (34:17):Do you ever catch yourself talking to yourself in that way? Speaker 2 (34:21):I don't. No. Speaker 1 (34:21):Do you do that? No. I mean, I'm not going to admit it now. Sure. Not. Speaker 2 (34:25):No. I don't think I talked to my future self, but she said something that was pretty profound that we often make our future self pay the consequences of our presence. Self choices. Speaker 1 (34:37):Well, that's true. The donuts I eat today are going to affect me. Speaker 2 (34:42):So your future self has to pay the consequences of that current and this now this podcast at all. But she's saying things, I'm like, oh, that's exactly what the Bible says. Talking about how when you want to be healthy, you want to lose weight, you want to whatever your future self desires, but you're like, you want this momentary, fleeting thing. You're like, well, I'm going to sacrifice my future self's problems so today can have the pleasure instead of sacrificing the pleasure today so that you can enjoy the pleasure later. So I just, it's good. It was reminding me of everything that you were talking about with this, and then I heard this episode and I was like, that's exactly what we're going through is we often, we sacrifice our future selves. We make them pay the consequence of our current actions. Speaker 1 (35:32):And just so I don't sound crazy, I immediately got that thought in my mind of how people write those letters to their 17 year old self. Or going back Speaker 2 (35:40):Into, oh, talking to your past self maybe, or Speaker 1 (35:42):Going back and forth. Speaker 2 (35:43):What I You look crazy. I'm sure there's a lot, everyone listening, there's probably a bunch of people like, Speaker 1 (35:46):Yes, I don't talk to myself. Speaker 2 (35:48):No. But having conversations with your future self, I don't know. Speaker 1 (35:51):It's interesting. Speaker 2 (35:53):I don't usually think that far ahead, but that's also a problem. I need to think a little bit further ahead. Think ahead. Yeah. Speaker 1 (35:59):All right. Where are we at? Speaker 2 (36:00):Well, so we're getting closer to the end of this, but I think the idea, what I love about God and his word is the Bible is very clear and honest about who we are as humans. That's Speaker 1 (36:13):What I was going to say is honest. It's Speaker 2 (36:14):Honest, it's it. It's a mirror. It says it's sharper than any two edge sword cutting through the bone of marrow. No one's hidden from it. And you read the word, when you truly read it and you look at it, you see your truest self. You're like, oh my goodness. I like when we just came out, oh, I'm absolute error. That's the truth. Speaker 1 (36:35):But you also see the truth of who you are in Christ. Speaker 2 (36:39):Well, and that's what I'm saying is God created us and totally understands that we go through this stuff. (36:47):And what I love is it tells us that Jesus himself, he was tempted in every way, common demand. So all these things that were tempted with, tempted with feeling guilty about this or that tempted with knowing that we who wanting to do something this way, he's felt those temptations. No he didn't sin. He understands us. Romans seven 18, here's a good example for I know that nothing good dwells in me that is in my flesh for I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. Again, this is Paul talking about this. The Bible knows that there's nothing good in us in our flesh alone, but we do have the desire. God's like he sees this split, he sees this chasm. But what's awesome is with Christ Speaker 1 (37:38):We Speaker 2 (37:39):Can, yeah, Christ even says, he says, it's good that I go away because if I go away, then God will send you the helper, his Holy Spirit. He sent him specifically to be our helper because he knows we need help so much with everything in life. Speaker 1 (37:56):And when we yield to his authority and we yield to his headship in our lives, we do see transformation. Aaron has to remind me of this because sometimes I get cloudy and my woe is me. I'm so sad that I haven't changed yet. And you remind me of the good that's come. You remind me of the transformation that we've already made. Speaker 2 (38:16):Well now remind you that you have changed. Yeah. That who you are today, that's Speaker 1 (38:19):Not who Speaker 2 (38:19):It was, is a stark contrast to who you were 10 years ago. And you, you'd be proud of the woman you are. Yeah. But it's so hard for us to see. Clearly. We think we do, but we don't see. That's Speaker 1 (38:32):True. Marriage tip number one, we don't see clearly. Okay. So with this being a word that I'm going to be committing to dwelling on this year, a few questions came to my mind. And I don't necessarily have the answers to serve alongside these for you just yet, but more so I'm just posing the questions and asking God to help me dig a little deeper in order to be refined or chi. And Speaker 2 (38:53):These are questions we want them to Speaker 1 (38:55):Consider. Yeah. Why don't you guys take the opportunity to just let it soak in and ask yourselves the same thing. So the first one, is there a discrepancy in my spiritual walk between the things that I say I believe and what I actually believe? And this is where doubt really gets at me. This is where I know that I, it comes out in my actions because I'm going to do what I believe. Speaker 2 (39:23):And so it's different. Believe, yes. But I do this other thing. Really. I don't believe Speaker 1 (39:27):That. Exactly. And that's a problem. That's identifying, Speaker 2 (39:31):That's a discrepancy. Speaker 1 (39:32):Interesting. Yeah. Okay. , another question is, in my marriage, do I have a double standard? I love you or serve me, but I can't serve you. Do I have that mentality? Do I make commitments and say them to you, but don't carry them out? Discrepancy in marriage. Do I perceive myself to be a submissive wife? But do I have that integrity in me to be able to answer that truthfully? And then the last one is, when it comes to parenting, am I, Speaker 2 (40:10):That's a good one. This is convicting for me. Speaker 1 (40:13):Am I telling my kids to be kind, but I'm not being kind? Or even in small things? No, you can't have that or you can't watch that TV right now. And then not following through, through and immediately letting them. So that's just silly examples. But it happens. So oh, the other part of parenting is, am I sharing with other moms examples or, Hey, you should try this or do that. But I myself am not doing that. And it just makes me think absolute error. Speaker 2 (40:45):Well, and these questions are good for the husbands to be asking also. I mean, they just need to change some of the details. But we should be asking these questions of ourselves. Speaker 1 (40:55):I have one more. I skipped over it. In friendships, am I paying attention to what I'm saying and what I'm doing? Do I view myself as a good friend, but really in my actions I'm showing something else. Speaker 2 (41:08):So it's a good thing for us to ask the Lord, say, Lord, show us. See if there's any wicked way in us as David prayed. Find those things in us and help us change God, help change them in us so we can be more like your son Jesus. Speaker 1 (41:25):And then, so that was kind of the group of questions for relationships that I'm dealing with. And then bottom line is, how do these discrepancies hurt myself and others? And I think that's a really important question to ask because obviously we don't wanna go around hurting our spouse or hurting our children or hurting our friends. Speaker 2 (41:46):Well, Proverbs 11 says, the integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Speaker 1 (41:54):I love that contrast of having integrity versus not, and how obvious it is what we Speaker 2 (41:58):Should choose. One's straighten upright and one's crooked and treacherous. So when we don't walk in integrity, when we have deep discrepancy, cuz we, again, we're, we all have discrepancy, we all have a distance between who God wants us to be and who we are today. But there are things that we can recognize, those questions you asked that can actually bring immediate integrity and uprightness into our relationships versus not having and just staying more atten and it causing brokenness and anger. How does it make you feel when we end up in these areas where the discrepancy's actually hurting us? Speaker 1 (42:40):I usually feel discouraged and disappointed and disparaging just, well, what's wrong with me? And I get in my own head and I get down on myself because Speaker 2 (42:49):Remember are telling me in the middle of that the discussion when we're trying to work through it. Like I feel like I never change. And I'm like, well, and that's what I was encouraging. I was like, well, you have changed right now. You don't feel like it, but you have. Yeah. Speaker 1 (43:03):I think one of the biggest problems is that I'm just looking at myself in those moments. I'm looking at myself and how much I failed. And when we end up staying up late to talk about these things, and you remind me of Romans eight, one and the comfort and peace that I get from having anxious thoughts to relying on God's word and letting it seep in night and day Speaker 2 (43:28):Difference. Well, and I just to close out what we're talking about a discrepancy in my life, I'm just thinking about what those questions you asked being convicted lately. I've always encouraging others in the podcast and my relationships with my kids, with my friends to be abiding in God's word. And then I myself don't aide in it that well. I go long periods of time with not getting deep into the word. Speaker 1 (44:00):It's like you do, but you don't. Speaker 2 (44:01):Yeah. I said this at church on Sunday. We know when we're abiding and when we're not like, ah, maybe I was this week. No, we know. But that's that right there. Abiding with Christ means that we're next to him. So as he walks, we walk. When he sits, we sit. When he stands, we stand. And so if we want to shrink that discrepancy, then let's walk with Christ. Let's abide with him. This is the lifelong solution. It's what God desires. Speaker 1 (44:38):What's really cool about what you just said is I got this picture of earlier you were talking about version A and version B of Jen. If I'm only looking to myself and what I'm capable of as my version B, Jen kind of silly to think about that way I'm never going to reach that. And I'm going to feel that discouragement come on because I'm never meeting that Speaker 2 (44:59):Because you never get to Speaker 1 (45:00):Be here because I never get to that. But what I hear you saying is I'm not looking towards version bk. I'm supposed to be looking towards Christ. And he is my picture. Yep. He is the one. Speaker 2 (45:13):Well, and like you said, in one way, Speaker 1 (45:15):It's not a version of me, it's a version of Speaker 2 (45:16):Him. And in one way you're looking yourself only the other way you're looking at him. Yeah. Good stuff. So why don't we give them their new Speaker 1 (45:26):We're done already. Speaker 2 (45:27):Yep. Oh Speaker 1 (45:28):Man. I wanna keep going. Speaker 2 (45:30):All right. Well, they can keep Speaker 1 (45:32):Going. Okay. Let this growth start. So we thought it would be fun, since we kicked this off this new year with coming at you every week we thought every month we would add a new growth spurt section to the end of our podcast. And so what we mean is for four weeks, it will basically stay the same. And so we called it a growth spurt because we wanna encourage you guys this year to take those extra steps toward growth in your relationship with God, growth in your relationship with your spouse. And so for the month of January, we're going to focus on building trust and building integrity Speaker 2 (46:11):By doing what you say you Speaker 1 (46:13):Will, by doing what you say you will. And it kind of goes into that whole new year commitment thing. I know people do resolutions and things like that, so we wanna kind of tag along for this month, but we want to encourage you guys to do what you say you will Speaker 2 (46:27):Do. Let your yes be yes and no. And Speaker 1 (46:30):This is the first step towards getting rid of that discrepancy in your life. If you're someone that struggles in a specific area with discrepancy, let this be one action that you can take to try and close that gap. So it's really easy. You just get a note card or post it, put it somewhere where you're going to see it every day and write an area or a sentence on it or whatever a word, whatever you think is going to help you remember something that you struggle to commit to and just make a commitment to do it. Do you wanna give a couple of examples just that will be easy Speaker 2 (47:07):For husband's, wives? I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of people that are committing to diets and exercise. If you say you're going to get up up you give an example of if you say you're going to do something with your kids, do it. I told Wyatt tonight, he always wants us to snuggle him. And I said, I can't tonight. And then usually I say, and he's like, well, can you do it tomorrow night? And I'll say, maybe. But tonight I was like, Wyatt, I will. Speaker 1 (47:33):So now you gotta stick to that Speaker 2 (47:34):And I'm going to stick to Speaker 1 (47:35):Aaron. We know what Aaron's going to write on his little post-it note. Okay. Another one might be like, if you say you're going to be home at this time, be home at this time. If you say you're going to, Speaker 2 (47:43):That's a big one in marriages, I think it Speaker 1 (47:46):Could be. Yeah. Yeah, it might be. Anyways, you guys get the idea. This is to encourage you with doing what you say and closing that gap on discrepancy. Awesome. The last thing that we wanna do, which we always have done, which we love doing with you guys, is closing out with a prayer. So please join me, us. Dear Lord, thank you for our lives. Thank you for this new year, and thank you for all of the opportunities you will give us this year to grow, to love, and to honor you. We pray we would be paying attention to the ways in which your Holy Spirit is leading us throughout each day. Please help us tune our ears and our hearts to hear your voice. We pray we would take seriously the commitments we make and strive to live with integrity. We pray we would understand who we are in you, and may our choices reflect our belief that you are transforming us. When we realize a discrepancy in our lives, please show us the way to reconcile how we feel and what we choose to do. Lord, please help us to walk uprightly, to honor our marriage and to fulfill your purpose for us. In Jesus' name, amen.  

In this episode, Rory speaks with Hitendra Patil, an Accounting Today Top 100 Influential Person and author of Client Accounting Services: The Definitive Success Guide. Hitendra discusses the history of CAS, how it has evolved to CAS 2.0, and how accountants are utilizing data intelligence to assist business owners in making better decisions. Discover why Hitendra believes CAS is a team game, and how firms can hire non accounting graduates and train them on processes and numbers. They discuss the network of network effects and why private equity is increasing it's involvement in the accounting space. Do you want to know why Miriam Webster should change the definition of "Accounting?" Do you want to know how accounting firms can think like the McKinsey's of the world? Find out the answer to these questions and more from the accounting professions leading voice on CAS.

Please join me for the 11th episode in the Conversations with Alan series in The Locher Room. I will be speaking with Dr. Dan French, an author, educator and doctor of rhetoric. The Miriam-Webster definition of rhetoric; “often disapproving language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable”. As we approach the first anniversary of the January 6th Capitol insurrection, we will look back on how rhetoric has played a very important and dangerous part in so many historical events.Dr. French earned his PHD in Rhetoric from the University of South Florida. In May, he released a new book, The 21 Coliseums of Persuasion: Winning Every Battle by Knowing Every Theory. Dr. French also created Rhetoric Warriors to help people who are struggling with the volatile politics that split families, destroy relationships and threaten the foundation of our American Democracy.Dr. French believes “great persuasion changes everything”. Join us on for a conversation about the power of rhetoric.Original Airdate: 1/5/2022

Does being self-absorbed make you happier?"People are happiest when they make investments in things that are beyond themselves."In the last four episodes of The Science of Happiness series (Volume 1), we focused on the science of happiness as it relates to creating purpose and deeper meaning in life. Volume 2 focuses on our fourth quarter theme of Community and Cultural Adaptation. The Harvard Study of Adult Development, which launched in 1938, is the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted. It found that people are happiest when they make investments in things that are beyond themselves. Dr. Waldinger, who now runs the study,  recommends helping kids learn about the satisfaction of being interested in others and building great relationships. The key to success in building relationships is to listen. People who are self-absorbed tend to steer a conversation back to themselves even when it's not about them. Being a good listener means listening with all four senses and asking questions. So, if you want to be happy, make sure to invest in things that are beyond yourself.In this episode, you will learn the following:1. The Harvard Study of Adult Development, which launched in 1938, is the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted.2. Miriam Webster's definition of self absorbed means absorbed in one's own thoughts, activities or interests. Self absorbed people like to get attention and be heard by others, but seldom reciprocate.3. The key to success in building relationships is to understand and practice the 70/30 Rule.To order Dr. Waldinger's book with the latest results of the study go here.For more about the Harvard Happiness Study go here.Support the show

In this episode we are talking all about willpower. What it is and isn't, how our thoughts about it create our reality, and what you can do.  I'm also sharing why I think willpower is BS.  So stick around if you've ever said “I have no willpower”Willpower is a topic I cover in The Emotional Eating Revolution and recently came up in Feeding Confidence this month so I figured it would be beneficial to talk about on the podcast.Miriam Webster defines willpower as the ability to control one's own actions, emotions, or urges, or strong determination that allows one to do something difficult.There's a lot of research to support the idea that willpower is finite and once we use it all it's gone for the day. There's also newer research to support the idea that willpower can be strengthened like a muscle.  I read an article I found about how to increase your willpower and point out where I disagree and how a lot of this is promoted by diet culture.I share with you why I think willpower is BS (it is what you think it is) and give you three tips to help with "willpower" and food.Mentioned On The ShowWant to chat with me about working together?Link to Sabrina's calendar to schedule our callInstagramFacebookLive Healthily Ever After FB GroupFeeding Confidence InformationFeeding Confidence is a Monthly Membership designed to get you off the diet roller coaster, have more energy, and feel CONFIDENT.Support the show

“It doesn't matter how hard we work, or how many hours we put in, if OUR Paradigm (or mental program that has exclusive control over our habitual behavior) does not change, the results will ultimately remain the same, year after year.” Bob Proctor, from the Paradigm Shift Seminar.   Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results. I'm Andrea Samadi, and for this week's Brain Fact Friday, I want to revisit how exactly we change our identity, to build a stronger, more resilient, 2.0 version of ourselves, by reviewing our self-image and self-belief that we covered on EPISODE #199[i] that had over 1300 downloads, showing me that you are just as interested in this topic as I am. In this episode we will discuss: ✔ What is PRAXIS (the application of a theory) and how can we use this idea? ✔ What is our self-image vs our self-esteem? ✔ How is our self-image/identity formed? ✔ How do we identify gaps or areas we can improve? ✔ How can we change our self-image/identity? ✔ Can our confidence levels be seen by others? ✔ Can we predict a person's self-esteem levels (or what they think of themselves) by looking at their brain? ✔ 4 Steps to create a 2.0 version of YOU!   What is PRAXIS and How Can We Use it For Improved Results? This weekend I was thinking about life, and how we just get one shot to make it a meaningful one. I'm sure I'm not alone with this line of thinking, especially these days, when it comes to acknowledging how fragile life really is. Earlier this month, I lost another mentor—Mark Low, who was my neighbor in Toronto, who was the one who handed me “the” book that would change my life forever. You can read the story I've told often in the show notes[ii] but for this episode, after thinking about how precious life is, and all the lessons I've learned from the many mentors along the way, there was one profound lesson that stood out to me, that I want to tie into this episode that I'll dedicate it, to my neighbor, Mark Low.   When I first went to work in the motivational speaking industry, back in the late 1990s, I was hired by my neighbor, Mark, to help with administrative tasks, that eventually moved into sales, leading me to travel to each of the seminars and learn from all the speakers and connections made over the years and I talk about everyone I've learned from often on this podcast.  In those early days, I would receive a paycheck from Mark's company, that was called The Praxis Group. I remember looking at my check one day, and asking Mark “Hey, what does Praxis mean?” and he looked over at me from the desk on the other side of the room (we worked out of his parent's basement back then, with our desks facing a wall that was covered in charts with our upcoming seminars, and he replied, “Andrea, it's when you integrate your beliefs with your behaviors.” That's was it. He just stopped for a minute and watched my face looking confused, and he added that “people really change when this happens and that they become an entirely new person” with this concept of Praxis. I looked up the definition that Miriam Webster[iii] gives today and it says that Praxis is the “practical application of a theory” or the “practice of an art, science or skill.” If you look up “becoming a better version of you” these days, the topic is still of high interest. I remember thinking “that's incredible”, as I love everything about change, growth, or skill-building but looking back now, I'm sure it took me over 22 years to get the full understanding of the meaning of Praxis and how exactly we integrate our beliefs with our behavior to attain this sought-after change which happens when we repeat the new habits of what we want, over and over again.  I had to dig a bit, but I did find an old photo of our offices in those early days, before Bob Proctor Seminars took off and became The Proctor Gallagher Institute, with an official office.  But in these early days, Mark Low worked at the desk to the left of me, and while it's funny to see all of the old technology we used to use, or how we manually kept track of the seminar attendees with wall charts, there is much more behind the work that was done in those early days and it had to do with Praxis, which was why people paid the money that they did to attend these seminars.  Seminar attendees were all looking to create a new version of themselves, by changing their old beliefs, and then integrating their new beliefs (that they had learned) with their current life. They were paying for this concept of Praxis---whether it was around changing their beliefs about their ability to earn money, (there were many seminars on that topic) or improve their relationships, or creativity, or productivity, there was a change of thinking required that would lead to a paradigm shift, and then to permanent change, which I'm sure is what we all want in life. We are either improving and moving forward, to this new version of ourselves, or we are not. PHOTO of Andrea working with Mark Low, selling Bob Proctor's Seminars in Toronto, December, 2000. So What Does Praxis (or Integrating our Beliefs and Our Behavior) Have to do with Our Self-Image? The Mountain State Centers for Independent Living has a definition of self-image that I can relate to. It says that “Self-image is how you perceive yourself. It is a number of self-impressions that have built up over time… These self-images can be very positive, giving a person confidence in their thoughts and actions, or negative, making a person doubtful of their capabilities and ideas.”[iv] Our self-image is what we see when we look in the mirror, but like the definition we just read explains, what we see can be either be positive, giving us confidence, or negative, making us doubtful of our capabilities and ideas.” Our self-image is something that's built up over time and I would say that it exists in the non-conscious part of our mind.  See the image in the show notes that I took from my notes from the Winner's Image Seminar, that eventually went into my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed. This way of looking at our mind originated from the late Dr. Thurman Fleet, the Founder of Concept Therapy, and is a good way to think of where our “self-image” exists in our mind. REMEMBER: We can have a self-image that controls our ability to earn money, where we either see ourselves as a strong income earner, or not. We can have a self-image that controls our weight and health, where we see ourselves as healthy, or not. We can have a self-image that controls our grades in school, where we see ourselves as a good student, or not. If we look at the image in the show notes of our self-image in our mind, it's easy to see how what we think about ourselves, (our self-image) controls our results in life. To change our paradigms, or old way of thinking, we need to do the work to overcome the old self-image that controls our results with a NEW self-image that with time, will override the old, outdated version of ourselves. Our NEW 2.0 self-image that's based on the new actions we must take, will eventually cause us to create new conditions and circumstances, setting us up for a whole new life. Who wouldn't want to choose this new path, over the old version of you? It just takes WORK and THE WILL to do it. When We Believe in Ourselves, We Will Do That Work Required for Our New Results. Our self-image also has a lot to do with our self-esteem “which is the overall sense of respect for ourselves and involves how favorably (or unfavorably) we feel about ourselves.”[v]  Obviously when we are earning more money than less, we will feel more confident, or if we are a student achieving excellent grades, this boosts our confidence levels. It's these strong confidence levels that we will need to override our doubts, fears and uncertainties that will come our way, allowing us to achieve PRAXIS, and the change that Mark Low mentioned comes along with creating a NEW identity.  You become a winner, or a good income earner or an excellent student. You Become a New Version of YOU! Can Our Confidence Levels Achieved by This Thing Called Praxis Be Seen by Others? When I look at the photo of myself that I found back in December, 2000, (I was 29 years old) I can remember sitting in that chair like it was yesterday. I know that I felt confident with myself, (my self-esteem) enough to quit my teaching position, and try something entirely new, but there was something missing with my equation. While I had a strong self-esteem (what I thought of myself) I had a weak self-image, as I worried about what other people thought of me. I think this is an age/experience concept, that shifts with time. But what goes on inside our minds, shows on the outside (with our behaviors and end results) like we can see with the diagram I drew out, so I do think that we can see someone's confidence levels, or lack of confidence. It's almost like this cybernetic mechanism that keeps us stuck from moving forward with whatever it is we are working on. When we are stuck, or unable to move forward, there's something blocking our results at the non-conscious level. And we can, with some introspection, figure out what it is. While writing this episode, I was talking to one of my close friends from high school she said to me “do you ever look back at pictures and think, wow, I wish I knew then, what I know now?” She got that right for sure. I wish I knew this quote 22 years ago,  from America's leading psychiatrist and brain health expert, Dr. Daniel Amen, who reminds us-- “When you're 18, you think everybody is judging you, and you care deeply about what they think of you. When you reach 40, you no longer care what anybody thinks about you. At 60, you realize nobody has been thinking about you at all because most people only think about themselves.” (Dr. Daniel Amen). Try This Activity Yourself. Find a photograph of you from a long time ago, and see what you see. It's really easy to see it in others, and more difficult when it comes to self-reflection. What do you see when you look at older photos of yourself? Do you remember how you felt in the photo? How is your self-esteem equation (what you think of yourself) vs your self-image (how you see yourself based on what you think others think of you), leading to your level of confidence? You can learn a lot about yourself, and what you can improve from this level of self-awareness. Once We See Our Gaps, How Do We Build Up Our Confidence? Once we see our confidence equation, if you were like me, and noticed that for whatever reason, you had an area of your equation that you could change (either your self-esteem levels, or self-image) then this week's brain fact Friday is for you. On this episode, we will create a plan to fix our gaps, and override the older version of YOU. The Brain and Self-Esteem Before we create this plan, for this week's Brain Fact Friday, I want to revisit a part of our brain that researchers at Dartmouth College have identified as a region of the human brain that seems to predict a person's self-esteem levels, or what they think of themselves (where our identity begins that leads us to our self-belief). We did cover this on EPISODE #199 but I want to look at this part of the brain from a different angle and how it relates to PRAXIS, or integrating our NEW beliefs with our NEW behaviors, for NEW results, and increased confidence levels that we will need to build this 2.0 version of ourselves. This part of the brain that researchers discovered can predict a person's self-esteem levels is called “the frontostriatal pathway, and the stronger and more active it is in the brain, the more self-esteem someone has.”[vi] The lead researcher of this study, Robert Chavez found that self-esteem lies in this pathway as shown in the image in the show notes and that “this pathway connects the medial PFC that deals with self-knowledge to the ventral striatum that deals with feelings of motivation and reward.” He called this pathway “the road” and that “a person with a strong road was more likely to have higher long-term self-esteem.” He also reminded us “how repeated behaviors (like meditation) can alter brain traits,” and we've talked about why repetition, or doing things over and over again can strengthen these neural pathways that lead to “stronger roads” and “higher levels of self-esteem.”     How Do We Build a New and More Confident YOU? Or How Can We Integrate Our Beliefs with Our Behaviors? This comes with time, experience and like we learned from Dr. John Dunlosky's research from EPISODE #37[vii], from repeating the same thing, over and over again to strengthen those neural pathways, leading to “stronger roads” in the brain. This weekend, as I was thinking about Mark Low and his business name, PRAXIS, and all the people he helped over the years, I went back to those early days when I watched many people “switch on” something with their thinking, and make significant changes in their lives as they changed their self-image, overriding their old paradigms, and created this NEW 2.0 version of themselves. I'm always on the look-out for those who do the work to make this change as many people get stuck in the process along the way, which is why I wanted to cover this on this week's Brain Fact Friday, to bring clarity to how we can all accomplish this change. So How Do We Create A NEW Self-Image and Override Our Old Paradigms? Now this is the part that I think took me over 22 years to really understand. I think this part is clear, that over time, or doing things a certain way, we can override our paradigms, creating a new self-image, leading us to new results and “stronger roads” in our brain, leading us to higher levels of self-esteem. That makes sense, right? When I asked Mark what Praxis meant and he said “it means integrating our beliefs with our behaviors” I don't think I really understood how “Praxis” happens, like how do we make this change? How do we integrate our beliefs with our behaviors? It doesn't just happen one day….it happens over time, after doing the same thing over and over again. One day, we look up from whatever it is we are doing, and notice that this change is now permanent. Like my high school friend reminded me, “don't you wish we knew what we know now, back in those days?” I wish I was more confident in my abilities, and didn't worry what others thought about me. I hope this awareness can help others to shorten their curve to changing old beliefs and habits, and create a NEW 2.0 version of themselves. I saw it when I interviewed Ryan O'Neill, with EPISODE #203[viii] on “Making Your Vision a Reality” because he changed in front of my eyes into an entirely different person. A NEW 2.0 version of himself. When I began working with Ryan, around 10 years ago, he mentioned that he never imagined where his life would be today, starring on Television shows around the globe for his work as a Paranormal Researcher. I thought about the hard work Ryan put in, to change his self-image, leading to new results, and I thought it was almost like taking a glass of water, and putting one drop of food coloring into it, likening the food color to the repetition of daily activity that's required for this change. To make a long-lasting color change on the water, we have to keep adding new drops of color to the water, every day. We can't just add a drop or two, and expect the color change to last. It will fade away, unless the drops are repeated. Exactly like the way we must repeat our daily actions, grinding away our old self-image, and building a new one in its place. It's a process, but this new self-image, leads us to new results, and this new version of you. This is all possible with a vision, hard work and persistence. How to Achieve PRAXIS and Integrate Your Beliefs with Your Behavior? I've included a ROADMAP for you to use in the show notes for the next steps, but it doesn't matter what you use. This is just a vision to help you to plan out where you are and where you are going. WHERE ARE YOU NOW? Start with the Self-Esteem Equation and Look for Your Gaps. Strong Self-Esteem (what you think of yourself) + Strong Self-Image (how you perceive yourself based on how you think others see you) = Strong Confidence Levels. Where is your self-esteem (your overall sense of self-respect)? Does this are need work? Where is your self-image (how you see yourself based on how others perceive you)? Are you like me, and just need to let go of what others think of you? Once you can see the gaps, you know where to begin. Write out the OLD identity you want to override (where you are now) and replace it with your NEW identity or vision. WHERE ARE YOU GOING? What is the NEW Self-Image you would like to create? (ie, good student, lose weight, leader in educational neuroscience?). Write out your NEW identity in as much detail as possible. DO THE WORK: What do you need to do to achieve this goal? Find someone who has achieved what you want to do, and ask how to begin. Create an action plan, and don't stop until you get to where you want to go.   INTEGRATE YOUR WINS: As you make incremental wins along the way, you must integrate these into your life. Celebrate each win, every step of the way, since the brain is a “prediction machine”[ix] (Andrew Huberman) and if you have too many losses in a row, the brain will begin to predict more losses. REVIEW: To review this week's Brain Fact Friday, did you know that researchers found a part of the brain that predicts a person's self-esteem levels called “the frontostriatal pathway, and the stronger and more active it is in the brain, the more self-esteem someone has?”[x] Did you know that we can change our self-image (how we perceive ourselves) by repeatedly taking action towards something that we want, (like Ryan O'Neill did in the Paranormal Industry) and this action will override our old self-image, watering down the paradigms that once controlled us (like we explained with the glass of water changing color with each drop of food coloring added), and giving us heightened confidence levels, and new results? Like Mark said to me 22 years ago, “It's called Praxis or integrating our beliefs with our behavior” and when this happens, it creates an entirely new person. It just takes WORK and the WILL to make this change. I hope you enjoyed this episode that took me back 22 years ago, as I thought of where my journey began, in those early days of working in the motivational speaking industry. This episode is for you Mark, and for all those people who you worked with, including myself, helping us to change into this NEW 2.0 version of ourselves, that we could barely imagine without your vision, and I hope that it impacts listeners, the same way it did for me, all those years ago. See you next week.   RESOURCES: My Roadmap 2022 https://www.achieveit360.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/My-Roadmap-2022.jpg REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #199 “The Neuroscience Behind our Self-Belief and Our Identity”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-the-neuroscience-behind-self-belief-and-our-identity/ [ii] How a Book Can Change Your Life by Andrea Samadi https://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com/43977/how-a-book-can-change-your-life?fbclid=IwAR0RHhcy0WXImsUkzyuMgfWwNPvQjXn2-36hiSBmKKEfZFI-MXtl_2U53Y0 [iii] Praxis definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/praxis [iv] What is Self-Image and How Do We Improve it? Dec 22, 2018 by Courtney Ackerman, MA. https://positivepsychology.com/self-image/ [v] IBID [vi] There is Where Self-Esteem Lives in the Brain by Anna Almendrala Published June 16, 2014 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/self-esteem-brain_n_5500501 [vii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #37 with Dr. John Dunlosky on “Improving Student Success”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kent-states-dr-john-dunlosky-on-improving-student-success-some-principles-from-cognitive-science/ [viii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #203 on “Ryan O'Neill, Making your Vision a Reality” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/case-study-with-paranormal-researcher-ryan-o-neill-on-making-your-vision-a-reality/ [ix] LIVE EVENT Huberman Lab Q & A from Seattle, WA (32 min) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-event-q-a-dr-andrew-huberman-question-answer/id1545953110?i=1000576342167 [x] There is Where Self-Esteem Lives in the Brain by Anna Almendrala Published June 16, 2014 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/self-esteem-brain_n_5500501

In this week's episode, we take a DEEP DIVE into the Hunter Biden iCloud leak. We discuss his salacious text messages, shady business dealings and potential creepy situations with his underage family members. We also discuss Joe Biden admitting to the world that he has cancer in what appeared to be another rambling speech as the white house scrambled to disprove his own words. We talk about AOC pretending to be handcuffed, and Merriam Webster changing the definition of the word Women. Subscribe and leave a 5-star review! ----more---- Our website https://redpillrevolution.co   Protect your family and support the Red Pill Revolution Podcast with Affordable Life Insurance. This is attached to my license and not a third-party ad!   Go to https://agents.ethoslife.com/invite/3504a now!   Currently available in AZ, MI, MO, LA, NC, OH, IN, TN, WV Email redpillrevolt@protonmail.com if you would like to sign up in a different state   Leave a donation, sign up for our weekly podcast companion newsletter, and follow along with all things Red Pill Revolution by going to our new website: https://redpillrevolution.co    Full Transcription   Welcome to the revolution. Hello, and welcome to red pill revolution. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today. This is episode number 36 of the red pill revolution podcast, and we've had a very, very interesting last few days and some crazy, crazy outbreaks of new information, including what is going to end up being a deep dive today. So we're gonna have a few topics before it, but the main topic of today's discussion is going to be hunter Biden's iPhone iCloud leak. So we will get into that in detail. I don't know how long this is gonna go, but I got myself a nice bottle. Of, uh, basal Hayden here. That is absolutely, uh, just, just water in the bottle. It's not actually whiskey. So, you know, I'll go ahead and pour myself some of that water now, because this is gonna be a fun, fun episode, the deep, uh, deep dive into hunter. Biden's iCloud leak. Now, the other thing that we're gonna talk about today is Joe Biden. Speaking of the Biden family, Joe Biden today saying that he has cancer in what seemed to be another dementia ridden speech. Um, so the white house seemingly backtracking, we will discuss that as well. We're also going to touch on Miriam Webster, changing the definition of a woman in true 1984 fashion. They are now going back and changing the definition of our words and it is no surprise. The other thing we're gonna talk about is AOC faking her own arrest. I guess she actually did, uh, get arrested apparently. During a protest about Roe V Wade, but, uh, we'll discuss that more and actually watch the clip together. Uh, we're also going to discuss quickly and briefly a article that I just found to be the most ridiculous title you've ever heard, which is humanity faces a collective suicide over the climate crisis, warns the you UN chief. So this isn't like this, isn't just some random news article written by Joe Mo in his basement. This is the UN chief saying that there is a collective suicide over the climate crisis. And then on top of actually digging a deep dive into the iCloud leak from hunter Biden, we're actually going to discuss the possible federal prostitution charges that he may be facing after this leak. So all of that, and more today, I'm very excited to talk it through with you guys. Um, so without further ado, episode number 36 of the red pill revolution podcast. Welcome to red pill revolution. My name is Austin Adams. Red pill revolution started out with me realizing everything that I knew, everything that I believed, everything I interpreted about my life is through the lens of the information I was spoon fed as a child, religion, politics, history, conspiracies, Hollywood medicine, money, food, all of it, everything we know was tactfully written to influence your decisions and your view on reality by those in power. Now I'm on a mission, a mission to retrain and reeducate myself to find the true reality of what is behind that curtain. And I'm taking your ass with me. Welcome. To the revolution. All right. Episode number 30, six of the red pill revolution podcast. And the very first article and discussion we're gonna have today is in true 1984 fashion. Merriam Webster changes the definition of female and they do it in a very obscure way. I find it to be very interesting here. So we'll read the article first, then we'll actually look at what Miriam Webster has to say about what a female is today. Um, and then we will discuss it. So it says Miriam Webster's online dictionary has cave to the trans agenda. In order to appease woke activists, the dictionary publisher has added a secondary definition of female that defines the term as having a gender identity. That is the opposite of male. . The key term here is gender identity, which demonstrates that Miriam Webster maintains that gender is not directly connected to sex. A female is a woman trans identifying males are not female. This is an article from. National review. So I don't know where their bias lies, but it seems pretty prevalent that they're not for this . It goes on to say that this is not only a part of the definition that has changed the online edition of Miriam Webster notice, the preliminary definition of female was originally of relating to, or of being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs. Hmm. That seems, you know, quite direct. And unobscured, to me, seems to make sense, right? If you can have eggs, allegedly, you are a female, but accordingly, according to Miriam Webster, that is not the case anymore. All you have to do is have a feeling in your gut, the eggs that you have, no ma no longer matter your actual ability to, uh, you know, make children and birth children. You know, you've heard all these, all these terms now it's like birthing capacity last week. Um, before that was pregnancy capable, like all these ridiculous terms that you've heard lately, So what I find to be the most interesting without diving too far into some random article from the national review, um, is gonna be the fact that they changed it from originally what it was now, the original definition was, um, let's see here, if I can pull it up for us now, there, there was a few different definitions that they changed the first one being girl. Okay. They changed the definition of what a girl is from a female child from birth to adulthood, to a person whose gender identity is female. So that's where this started. And I think that's where it's important to note is that the very first definition that they changed, when you look at the, you know, how the actual, you know, how the steps went here, the very first thing that they changed is what is a girl? Well, a girl is a person whose gender identity is female. Okay. Now, if we're talking about what the actual definition and what words mean here, now we have to go look at the next step, which is what do they define as female? Okay. And that's what we'll look at here. So they originally had female. Definition was of relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs. Okay. Makes sense. Now what they changed that to was, um, person who let's see what they changed that to was somebody who identifies as being female or the opposite of a male. Okay. So now we're playing ring around the rosy with definitions. So  we first started with what is a girl? Well, a girl is somebody who identifies as a female. Okay. What is a female? Well, a female is the opposite of a male. Okay. What is a male? Well, a male is the person who identifies as the opposite of a female. So now there literally is no definition for what actually a male or a female is. It's just a sound that we say with our mouths that has no meaning. Okay.  it seems to be, like I said, if you've read the book 1984, you know what I'm talking about? You know, what they do is they change the literal definitions of words, um, to change the way that society interacts in their language and change the way that people literally think, right? You think of, you know, double think and the, the ministry of truth and all of these things. And one of the very first things that they did is they started to change the definition of words. And now we're actually seeing this happen here in reality.  so Miriam Webster has now made the definition of a female, the opposite of a male and the definition of a male, the opposite of a female, but nowhere clearly at all, identifies what either of those terms. So they've essentially stripped humanity of the ability to, you know, identify with their own sexual organs. Like, you know, we've talked about this before, to me, it just, you know, you can be whatever you want, call yourself whatever you want, wear, whatever clothes you want, have, whatever job you want, do whatever you want to do. You know, you can have whatever reality you want to create in your own head and, you know, surround yourself with people who believe the same things, but you don't get to push those ideologies onto other people. Right. You don't get to, you know, um, you know, like go back a few years and you remember the video of like the game, uh, what was it, uh, you know, in the, uh, God, what was it? Um,  there was the story where it was like the, the I'm a maam. Like you remember the, how, the, how that, you know, whole situation went where this woman who I, I guess woman identified as a woman screamed at, at the guy behind this counter. Um, because he called him se, but she very clearly looked like a sir, you know, generally, according to societal standards in biology appeared to. In every category, a man. Um, so, you know, kind of just pushing your ideology onto other people. And that's what we're seeing here with Miriam Webster is they've literally taken away and stripped everybody of their femininity and masculinity. And I think that's like kind of the end goal here is like, if you can take away the, you know, feminine power, like if you understand that, you know, I've, I've had this conversation, you know, before, it's like if you think of, of, of women in a literal sense, and you think of like what actual superpowers they have, um, between being able to 3d organically print a human  and multiply in the world. And not only that, but the fact that a, a woman is, you know, they have their own cycle, right. You know, it's kind of a weird conversation they have, but you think about it this way. The moon has cycles, the earth has cycles. And so do women, they're literally attached to the world in a way that men are not. If you put a man in a closed room with four walls and no windows, he will not be able to tell. When the months go by, a woman will be able to, her body does not need sunlight to know when the month changes. It, it it's quite crazy. So sorry, Miriam Webster, you don't get to change what a woman is. A woman is still and has always been and will continue to be somebody with a capacity to produce eggs and bear children. Sorry. That's just the way it goes. All right. Now the next topic that we're going to discuss here is going to be AOC fakes, being handcuffed after an arrest at an abortion rights protest. And we'll actually watch the video here. Cause I find that quite comical now AOC has had a tendency of doing this, you know, between faking the fact that she was like, literally about to be murdered on January 6th, hiding under a desk. When she was, you know, there was all this talk about, you know, she was actually had people around her who, um, you know, wanted to do her harm. And then little did we find out that there was no harm even close to her, but she said she was about to be like murdered on January 6th. She seems to like, to like incite these things. And then if you go back a little, even further than that, she like took pictures in front of an ice facility. Like, um, and now she's pretending to get arrested. Like you can actually do, like, you can get handcuffed, like do something deserve to deserve being handcuffed and they will handcuff you. You don't have to go to these links to like. Um, so we'll actually watch the video here, but we'll well, before we do that, we'll go ahead and read through this article, which says that, um, AOC was roundly mocked on social media Tuesday after she put her arms around, behind her back to imitate being handcuffed, following her arrest at a pro-abortion demonstration outside the Supreme court, the Bronx and Queens democratic lawmaker was gently escorted the way by a capital police officer, along with fellow. City representative Caroline Maloney, after blocking traffic outside the court building AOC, it kept up the charade of being restrained for a few steps before raising her fist to supporters watching from the sidewalk. Now she's literally just doing this. So the, the three, four photographers that she sees, like up in her grill, get the shot that they're looking for and she gets to post it on her social media. Right. I've talked about this before. It's literally click bait politics, right? That's all they're trying to do is get likes on social media and try to be famous. Try to be famous on Instagram and famous on TikTok by these videos of them, pretending to get arrested with her arms behind your back, like AOC, if you wanna get arrested, get arrested. it's not that hard. Right. And you know, apparently they did actually get arrested, but never were actually, you know, in jail or anything like that. Of course. Right. Um, so let's go ahead and watch the video. I find it to be quite comical and I think that you will too. So she has her arms behind her back until the photographers get their shot. And then two steps after that she raises her fist like she's Martin Luther king for pretending to get arrested at a pro-abortion rally  you can get arrested. It's really not that difficult. Right. You can actually be put in handcuffs if you want to be, if be about it. Right. Um, so AOC as always, you are a clown. And, uh, maybe, um, if you actually did your job, instead of just looking to get likes on social media, people would like you. But I don't see that happening in the near future. All right. Um, now the very next article, which I'm just gonna touch on for a second here. I really don't see it being worth our time to, to, you know, sit and harp on this, but I just found this title to be very interesting to me. Now, the UN chief warns that humanity faces a collective suicide over climate crisis. Now we've been seeing this conversation ramp up this week, like crazy. Like I've never seen so many articles being shoved down my throat, as I've seen this last week, over the climate crisis right now, it, before it was climate change. And then it was global warming. And then it was, you know, what was it with Al gore, something about, you know, the, the next ice age is coming like, and now all of a sudden it's a collective suicide. Like I think that's probably a little disingenuous to say the least. And if nothing else, it's probably a little, um, You know, it, it, it's probably a little bit more than disingenuous to the actual word suicide because you know what you're doing there, right? There's actually people who commit suicide now, I'm not gonna be soft enough to believe that he actually meant that that way.  but just to point out the fact that maybe we shouldn't use the word suicide, unless it's actually applicable. And in this case, it's obviously not right. We saw the heat waves in Spain and Europe, uh, temperatures above a hundred degrees, right. It was like 40 degrees Celsius, 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the, um, in Europe today or yesterday. And they were freaking out about it saying how all these young, healthy people are going to die. Um, And in reality, you know, Arizona's 112 degrees the same day and nobody's dying. Afghanistan's like 175 degrees in the middle of the night and nobody's dying just because of the heat, especially healthy individuals. Right. Um, and I saw some people saying like, oh well, but they have, we have air conditioning here. And their houses are meant to keep heat in. Okay. Air conditioning was invented in 1851. We have been here as a species homo sapiens for 200,000 plus years and probably a lot more than that. And we did that without air conditioning. They literally built the fucking pyramids without air conditioning.  and yet you're gonna say that these random healthy CrossFitter Europeans are just gonna die because it's a hundred degrees out. Like, eh, I think you'll be all right. All right. So I do just think it's interesting. And this comes on the back of Biden saying that he's going to issue a climate emergency or something like that, which basically is, um, you know, uh, just a deeper way of saying he's gonna under more Mon money to his buddies who put him in office and, you know, kind of control everything that he's doing anyways. Um, so, you know, we'll see what happens now, if he does do that, I wonder what gas is gonna be. You know, one can only imagine now, speaking of Joe Biden, Joe Biden today says that he has cancer. Thanks to the oil industry. Now the white house goes on to say that it was skin cancer years ago, but that is not what Biden said. So let's go ahead and watch the clip. Then we will read this article and then we will discuss it. Here we go. It drove us. And rather than us able to walk and guess what? The first frost you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I, and so damn many other people, I grew up have cancer and why I can't for the longest time. So he says something about an oil slick, and you had to use your windshield wipers to get rid of the oil. And that's why I, and that's not why I did. That's not why I had, that's why I, and so many others have cancer. That's what your president of the United States just said today. Now I can't imagine what the actual administrative office of our government is thinking right now. Watching the most powerful man in the world say that he in a dementia ridden, you know, speech like everyone that he ever gives, you know, and again, this is like, it's hard to have sympathy for the man when he's literally shoveling our country's grave. As we speak by peddling every single tax dollar that you've ever given and given in your entire life to Ukraine, just so that he can, you know, make the money back to Barisma through hunter Biden, which we're gonna find a little bit about more here when we go through all these text messages and iCloud situation. Um, but let's read through this article. It says that president Biden said Wednesday that he has cancer. Forcing the white house to have a press conference to quickly clarify you mean lie on his behalf, cuz he said something that you didn't want him to say.  that he was referring to skin cancer treatment that he had before taking office last year, there were micro initially appeared to be a stunning CA stunningly casual health announcement during a speech about global warming. And this is like, when you think of the president of the United States, they literally don't flush his shit on air force one because they're afraid of people like finding his poop and like figuring out the medical situation that he's in. Right. So then he literally goes on to TV. I don't know what this is. If you're looking, I did like a robot  he goes on to TV and just casually announces that he has cancer talking about the climate crisis. It's uh, goes on to say, that's why I, and so many damn or that's why I, and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer. And why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation. Well, I'd like to see that compared to your soldiers, because the actual amount of U United States, military members and veterans that have cancer as a result of burn pits, agent orange, uh, asbestos, um, P OAS on air force bases that are the result of like leaking fluids at, uh, you know, um, you know, if you don't know this, it's like there's a documentary called the devil, you know, I think is the name of it. And it's a whole documentary about 3m and it talks about the, uh, basically when, you know, we had a situation happen in my air force base when I was there. Uh, where, if there's. A jet fuel fire. Like if one of our aircraft lit on fire in a hanger, they had this foam that would basically cover up the entirety of the hanger in like 30 seconds. And it would stop the, the fire from happening. But what they didn't tell you is that when it did that, it also leaked into all your water supplies and caused high, high levels of cancer rates and all of our veterans on us air force bases. And if there's a tracking website that you can go to where you can actually look and see the maps, like a heat map of where there's high levels of P OAS in the water. And, uh, literally every single red mark on the map is an actual air force base. It's unbelievable. Um, so it's gonna be really, you know, quite terrifying to see down the road, how many people in the air force actually end up with cancer, um, terrify.  anyways, side note. You should look at the documentary cuz it's crazy. Um, it goes on to say it's unclear. Why Biden chose to use the present verb tense to describe his experience with cancer? Well, you can't even say that he's an idiot and can't speak a full sentence or has dementia or, you know, you, you have to say it's unclear. Like, no there's either one of two options either. He has cancer.  and you don't wanna talk about it or B he has dementia. That's a and B there's no C here. That's the only options here. But you decided to say it's unclear. Yeah. Okay. um, Greg prince of X strategies, LLC tweeted. He said I have cancer in the present. You absolute dip shits  I love, I love how they quoted him there. Like it was a, just a beautifully articulated tweet about our president, um, anarchist author, Michael malice. Meanwhile joke. Don't worry about Joe Biden, having cancer. He is married to a doctor oh, the doctor Jill Biden thing just kills me. Um, it refers to the fact that, uh, first lady Jill Biden uses the honorific doctor to note her 2007 doctorate in education. Hmm. It goes on to say that skin cancer is extremely common, especially among older adults who didn't wear sunscreen in their youth and generally isn't life threatening. Okay. Who cares? All right. Moving on to the thing that we all want to discuss here. Is hunter Biden facing possible federal prosecution for prostitution charges after new documents are released. Now we'll go ahead and watch this video. Um, the video that we're watching is coming from ABC 33 40. I don't know if that's an actual yeah, it looks like it's an actual ABC news. Uh, good on them for actually posting this. Um, so let's go ahead and watch this video where it discusses the actual prosecution chart or the, the prostitution charges. And then we will discuss it a little bit. And then we are going to do a deep dive into everything about this iCloud leak, every single article, every single topic, all the disgusting pictures, which we won't show, um, cuz they're terrifyingly gross. And so is hunter Biden. Um, all of the drug use all of the shady shady business deals that hunter Biden was involved in. Um, but first let's go ahead and watch this video and then we'll discuss. But before we do that,  the first thing I need you to do is go ahead and hit that subscribe button, whether you're on apple podcast, whether you're on Spotify, whether you are on Google podcast, I don't know who listens to Google podcast, but if you do shout out to you, um, wherever the hell you get your podcast, audible, I don't know, but go ahead and hit that subscribe button and leave a five star review. It would appreciate it so much. It means the world to me, if you want some good karma in your day and you don't know how to get it, you can get it right now. All you have to do is hit that subscribe button. All you gotta do is hit that five star review button. Tell me something you love about the podcast. I would appreciate it so much. All right. The next thing you need to do is go over to red pill, revolution dot sub stack.com. And every single week I am back at it. Sun. I am putting out subst stacks every single week with a podcast companion, all of the articles, all of the videos, all of the topics and a little, uh, transcription slash article that I'll write up about one of my favorite topics of the week. So you can go ahead and get that for free. Right now, red pill, revolution.dot com, or head over to red pill. Revolution dot C o.com is for losers. All right. Red pill, revolution.co, and you can actually sign up for the subs right directly there. Get the podcast, the video podcast, all of my topics broken down into YouTube videos. Um, uh, like I said, all of it for free. Go to red pill, revolution.co. And while you are at it, go ahead and hit that. Get a quote button, find yourself some life insurance. It's the only way you can support this podcast right now. And I would appreciate it so much. All right, now, that's it. That's all I got. All right. Here is the hunter Biden, uh, video about him facing federal prostitution charges. After a new document is less leased released. Hmm. And here we go. The secret service now saying they are aware of a potential hack in a hunter Bidens iCloud account, some alleged content already posted online. The hack still UN unconfirmed suspicions. Now arising that Google was censoring search engine results. As hunter Biden related news broke Monday, multiple users posting photos on Twitter of fruitless searches. The daily mail reporting hunter Biden may Face's federal prostitution charges for bringing three escorts from Boston to New York for a fun night. That may actually classify as a, not so fun. Federal offense, transporting prostitutes across state lines. Hunters escorts often have ties to Russia timelines show. He would pay for these services after receiving large money wires from his dad. No evidence shows Biden knew how hunter spent that money. Another controversy emerging involving the president, his son, and the sale of nearly a million barrels from the American strategic petroleum reserve to China, literally giving away our emergency supply. And we're not seeing the gain from that. A private equity firm previously tied to hunter Biden has a $1.7 billion stake in the Chinese state owned company. Biden sold oil to is another example of how bad things really smell with all the issues around hunter Biden. How hunter Biden got high up positions in these companies, still unclear critics, arguing his connections had more value than his talent. I think the American people deserve the truth on this because Joe Biden is certainly compromised. DOJ, still assessing if they. All right. So that sounds like they're going a little bit more in detail than I want. But basically what this says is that the secret service confirmed Monday, that they are aware of a potential hack, a potential hack. Yeah, absolutely. Is his hack. You can tell by his grimy little hands, all over a crack pipe, you know, and, and, you know, stroking the hair of a, I don't know, didn't see that, but allegedly underage Asian women, um, or children. Uh, so it says secret service confirmed Monday that they're aware of a hack into the president's son's iCloud account. Some alleged content has already been posted online through the site. Four Chan suspicions are now arising that Google was censoring search engine results. As hunter Biden related news broke Monday, multiple users posted photos on Twitter of fruitless search. Yeah, right. Fruitless. There's a whole Reddit feed. I found very easily that shows all of this very, uh, very in depth. So, um, and again, I'll share that on the subst. So if you're listening to this right now, or you're on the live on TikTok, go ahead. Over red pill, revolution, subst stack.com. All right. Now, um, it goes on to say that, uh, hunter Biden may face federal prostitution, prostitution charges for bringing three escorts from Boston to New York for a fun night that may actually classify as a federal offense transporting prostitutes. You mean sex trafficking? That's what that is. That's not transporting prostitutes is sex trafficking, not whatever the hell they just called it. Transporting prostitutes, sex trafficking across state lines. Hunter's escorts often have ties to Russia reports indicate timelines show he would pay for these services after receiving large money wires from his dad. No evidence shows president Joe Biden knew about Hunter's. How hunter spent that money? No evidence really, because he literally sent him, like, it was like $5,000 while he's sitting there talking with a prostitute on a video or something. I don't know. Um, wild. So we'll, we'll go into that in just a minute. We'll finish reading this article though. It says another controversy emerged involving the president, his son, and the sale of a, nearly a million barrels from the American strategic oil reserve to China. And that's another part of this. So there's like really three main parts of this hunter Biden, iCloud leak, which is, you know, a, a, an in addition to the Mac release, like the, the, his, um, his, uh, laptop release that was during the presidential election. And this is like 456 gigabytes, like a ton, a ton of data. Now there's a website. I'll give you guys where you can search through every single one. Of his emails that were on there, including all of the, uh, Barisma emails, um, the Rosemont Seneca emails, which was his, uh, um, which was his company that he was a part of, that was an investment in consultant foundation company that, you know, basically just Pedald his dad's influence for money. Um, so we'll talk about all of that, um, in just a second here, but now we'll move over to basically what is a, a really good breakdown of this. Now this is through Reddit. Um, and then the title of this article was, and it was posted six days ago by Walter Oche. Um, and it's the title of this is the hunter Biden saga continues. Now he goes on to post what, um, some, you know, basic screenshots and, uh, talks about how they're talk. They're kind of trying to, you know, push a lot of this conversation away from the business dealings and more towards his like crack and prostitution usage. Um, Which eventually is tripping him up anyways with these prostitution charges. Uh, but um, this individual says I have followed the hunter Biden saga for years. Allow me to sum up and address some of the disinformation. I just hate the word disinformation. I think it's so stupid. We don't just get, like, what, how, what was the first time you heard that word? Right? Like how, how many times have you heard the word disinformation? Five years ago? Um, I dunno. I dunno. Just rubs me the wrong way. Um, I have follow, allow me to sum up and address some of the disinformation. That is a part of the modified limited hangout, modified limited hangout being run. Okay. That's. Obscure. Um, first there are three pictures that have been making the rounds that are intentional. Um, the first one is Natalie Biden with cocaine on her nose. It's not Natalie sure. It's a striking resemblance, but it's verified as being a cam girl. Um, this as being used by others to say that the data is fake, but really their argument is that is what's fake. Anyone with the data knows this picture. Isn't real Joe Biden with an Asian girl. This is actually a BDSM, uh, video from X videos that has been around for years now. I've seen this circular. I like had some people send me this and I like didn't even open the video. Cause I was afraid that it was real. And you know, I don't know. Didn't, didn't want to get caught in that, you know, crossfire of whoever's gonna, you know, be seeing exactly who's opening this, but there was a video that looked, uh, quite a bit like Joe Biden where he's has this woman like kind of like, I don't know, a little, a little too, uh, uh, crazy, but he was basically like, um, I don't know, it looked like a younger Asian girl and he was like some way assaulting her with some type of like object. I don't know, not like sexually, but like, yeah, kind of weird anyways. Um, he's saying that that was fake. And in the next one, he says, is hunter Biden with five young girls. This is not hunter Biden is hunter Biden was never, uh, sported the eight black soul patch.  that's probably the only thing that would make hunter Biden look crazier is if he did have a black soul patch  um, now it goes on to say that is hunter Biden a pedophile? Yes. He searches for underage pornography as it states here. And that's was shown by in his search results. During this, uh, iCloud leak, there was something that he searched like 12 year old girls, like. Some type of websites that he was looking for that, um, it says that he is constantly accused of being a child molester. He sleeps with Natalie Biden. Natalie Biden is, um, he sleeps with young cousin Lilly and he's engaged in grooming behavior and is likely providing drugs to underage family members. Um, now this person comes with the receipts, every single thing that they're talking about, he kind of, uh, or she, somebody, um, kind of links, a bunch of different things showing, um, his search results, right? So he was looking on X videos for 12 years old. He was in shows some of his like searches that he was looking for. Um, and then the other thing that it goes on to show that, uh, and I'll post all of these, you know, not obviously all of the data, but I'll post the actual post itself for you guys. So you can see it through the subs stack. Um, but it also goes on to show these screenshots. Now, if you don't know, I believe, um, Natalie is his younger niece. Um, Natalie is his younger niece who is underage. That is the daughter of his late brother, Bo Biden's wife, like his niece, his niece, and he's being super creepy. And it goes on to show you some even worse things about their conversations, including them meeting up in like a trader Joe's bathroom. Like you think that Joe Biden would have a classier place, um, but pretty, pretty wild stuff. Now I have a thing here where I would love to just contact every single trader Joe's within 25 miles of where they live and try and because there's literal timestamps, this was on, you know, the, the actual conversations that they're having here was October 8th, 2018, so four years ago. Um, and I'll read the conversations for you. Um, and this is coming from his underage age niece. It says, I love you more than anything in the world. Are you coming home to sleep with me? Underage niece, Natalie, you are wonderful. He says aunt DIA and maybe uncle David will be there tonight. I know that David thing was just a joke, but aunt Daria is not. So I'll see you tomorrow. I guess. Call me in a few minutes, please. Um, she says, I love you. Come home, please. Where are you? Come home. Can you call me please? DIA, just left. So you are the person watching us. What does that mean? You are the person watching us. That's creepy. Um, I love you so much, uncle. I fully understand why you are mad at me. You are the re the adult said I'll never, uh, I'll never be over in a bit or I'll be over in a bit. I love you, Natalie. Can we please just have a little faith and compassion in and for each other right now and you're right. I am the adult and I need to take responsibility for myself and for my connection with you no more playing the cop or the guardian angel, no more playing the role you think your daddy played. I failed you in that way. I can only take responsibility for myself. That is like, even if you're not being creepy, that's a creepy, weird conversation for you to be having with your knees. Super weird and creepy. Um, then there shows a, another screenshot of him saying, you know, in the conversation with somebody, like, it seems like a prostitute, uh, or a, you know, what do they call the woman? The Madam saying that your child bride is having a tough year. So that was another conversation that was had, um, even shows him like writing a rap  hunter Biden wrote a rap. All right. You want to hear hunter Biden's rap? Um, it's called lolli girl lolly girl. Okay. Um, which is telling, because it talks about toes  and a lot of hunter Biden's, uh, videos and stuff that was, uh, that was pushed out, showed him having some sort of weird feet fetish. I don't know. Um, lolly here's here's his rap. Okay. Lo lolly, your okay. There's explicit words here. So if they hurt your ears, you know, close 'em Lolli lolli your bi%#h on her knees sucking my toes. She a thoty popped a lot of Molly lolli lolli that thoughty has a body. She is very naughty sucking on my lolli doing lots of Molly. You are such a thoty Wow. This 50 year old man is writing raps about somebody sucking his toes I don't know how, if you're hunter Biden, you haven't like moved to a far away country to escape the embarrassment of your own actions. Um, This goes on to say that there does appear to be nudes of Natalie, which again, this is niece underage niece. Um, but his criminality doesn't stop there. I get that. People want the salacious stuff first, but keep in mind, hunter Biden participates in policy decisions that the president of the United States. So that's the important part is like, there's a lot of deflection here, like showing him smoking crack. Right. And then Joe, Biden's gonna turn that into a positive, right? Like, oh, everybody smokes crack. You know, even though there's a video that surfaced recently of him saying that, you know, even if there's, um, like fingernail size amount of crack, that you should go away to jail for a really long time. Um, but it goes on to say, uh, it goes on the show, like a lot of his, uh, emails and stuff, and even, um, some voicemails, it appears. So let's see if we can even hear this voicemail and see what it has to say here. Now, again, this is gonna be a slower episode than normal. We're gonna take a, a deep dive into this. So we're gonna kind of jump around here and have some slower conversations than usual than just, you know, Uh, one off, uh, topics here. So let's, let's see if we can actually hear this. Hey, who is dad? I'm in DC. Mom's teaching. Uh, I left, I have to go visit, uh, have a meeting. I told you about Hillary. I'll be gone. I'm in the car now heading there. Probably won't be back till one, my meeting 3, 4 30 my guess, but I left the door and the gate open to the house. If you're in DC, I love you. Let me know where you are when you get choose. Okay. So that sounds very much sounds like Joe Biden  um, uh, just appears to be a voicemail, um, goes on to show, oh, just showing that. So basically what that portion of it is just showing is that he's engaged in these policy decisions and that he's flying all around and getting voicemails from his dad about, you know, the meetings that his dad is going to and other things, uh, Now, it also shows now an individual that's been a huge part of this and including Rosemont, Seneca, a ton of the emails that were Le released, um, a ton of the shady business deals that were done. Um, it was actually the individual who helped him set up Rosemont, Seneca, so he could pedal his dad's influence. Um, there's an email here that says your dad's Delaware tax refund check came today. I am depositing it into his account and writing a check in that amount, back to you since he owes it to you, don't think I need to run it by him, but if you want to go ahead, I'm gonna give you money. And if you want to ask him if it's okay, you can do that. But I don't think you need to, if not, I will deposit it tomorrow. Now again, that's Eric swearing. Um, who is a kind of a shady character within the Biden family who is taking care of their finances for a while also helped run and helped pedal his dad's influence to all these companies through the shell company, Rosemont, Seneca, um, which we will talk about more in a little bit. Um, this goes on to say the a hundred Biden engages in a lot of illegal behavior, which makes him ABL, which makes him black mailable. This is a huge national security concern. His payments to Ukrainian based escort service, U B E R G F E triggered a bank red flag as over $200,000 that hunter Biden paid to a single prostitution company in Ukraine. Um, this also comes with receipts showing the actual, uh, suspicious activity information from JP Morgan bank.  so there's the actual email from them talking about the payments that he was making to this prostitution company in Ukraine. Um, now, uh, don't see the reason to read through that for you, but if you wanna find it, go ahead and find that, write it article and you can see exactly what I'm talking about here. Um, let's see. It says hunter writes checks to his escorts to cross, um, to cross state lines via plane and train. Now, this is what tripped him up, I believe from the sounds of it. Um, so it says hunter Biden participates in human trafficking and it shows the actual checks that he's writing as well as the plane and train tickets for the individuals that he was sending. So there's literal receipts of him buying train tickets for prostitutes. In other words, sex trafficking. All right. And it goes on the show, basically all four of the receipts there. It says, in one instance, hunter Biden buys a GPS tracker and has a woman place it in another woman's car, literally stalking. And it shows the conversation in the text messages. Now this is what's crazy is again, there's 456 gigabytes of data on this release. So it's like so difficult to even go through it all. Um, but I'll read you a little bit of the conversation. Um, it says let's see here. Um, it says that I want to get my phone under her seat. Um, no, do it tonight. And this is hunter saying this? No, do it tonight. If you come with old phone and get a backup power thing there for it, get, get a backup battery. So he was taking a cell phone, having a different woman, put it under the seat in a car of another woman's car. So he could stalk and track somebody. Um, Crazy. Then he goes on to like, literally go after this woman to make sure that she did it. She said, I charged the phone in battery pack leaving. Now. I also ordered that GPS to the device work call. Uh, we'll call you in five minutes. This is obviously a foreign individual with the way to texting. He said, dude, you're killing me. She said, sorry, you gotta work no other way to get money. Um, he says, Hey, just text me some info that you're getting, babe. I may come in tonight. She said, huh? What info? He said in all caps, didn't you put phone in car? she said, yes, I didn't understand your tax. Sorry. Ready to send it? He said that's because you don't love me anymore. Like literally like a 15 year old in a weird early stage relationship. Um, she said, yes, I do. I'm just going through a lot. He said, kidding. Kidding. If you can get me skinny spinner chick, that likes what I like. Let's hang out at R R N. What's wrong. How do I help sweets? What a fucking creep. All right. Next thing it goes on to talk about is going to be the Troy hunt database, um, which has all of your email and password combinations while hunter Biden's credentials are in them along with the rest of the Biden family. Now, this is the Troy hunt database is basically a large, large data. Of email and password compilations from a huge leak that was done free, or a, a huge leak that you can find, um, where this is. I'm pretty sure where they actually cracked his password from, um, this is like four Chan and this like, whatever weird, um, whatever four Chan is, , it's like a, a, a, um, Reddit just without rules. Uh, basically just went on a big effort to try and see if they could break his iCloud and they found it through these leaks here. Um, now it says that this data is a source of many, many leaks, including the who and Wuhan Institute of virology. It says in early 2019, hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca email password, along with Rosemont, Seneca passwords were leaked. Even prior to that, the corruption surrounding hunter Biden, Rosemont, Seneca was already widely reported on, and it shows some articles, including a New York post article titled inside the shady private equity firm run by Carrie and Biden's kids. And that was in 2018. Another one was by the AB Q journal, which was there's a hunter Biden, Santa Fe connect. Through its uh, through the old Rosemont Seneca, uh, Rosemont Realty now controlled by a Chinese firm. It shows some emails from that. It says a freedom of information request provides the allegations in the aforementioned news articles where true Rosemont Seneca Behe, uh, bank records listing. So it shows the actual bank records. And it says prior to the leaks, we were already looking at a 100% certainty of corruption with a web of cutouts Rosemont, Seneca Boha harvest Barisma Robinson Walker, LLC transatlantic energy group. Um, can't pronounce this Chinese name, Syne Hawk Thornton group, LLC, Seneca global advisors, Hudson west, uh, the third boys Shiller Lionheart group. Um, and it goes to show receipts for each one of those.  um, and is talking about all the different incomes that he is making through each of these different shell companies. It says this corruption is merely an extension of why Hillary Clinton began with the uranium one scandal where the mining and energy complex is consolidating power monopolistically. Uh, it says, in fact, we see an extension of these globalist type plans for American resources, plain as day in Hunter's data. I don't really have an opinion on the originating laptop draft off for repair, but I suspect that the leak was inevitable because hunter Biden's accounts were already compromised by the run of the mill internet investigators. The floodgate was already opened, but where I sat, I was concerned, the laptop repair story was exceedingly convenient, but whatever, eh, it seemed convenient because they held onto it till when they needed it. And then it got shut down just like this story did by Google  of course, cuz that's just what they do. Um, now. Let's see, uh, this goes on to say that this was approximately, this is an early October of 2020. The first trip, uh, occurred publicly. I was sent a mega link that has now expired that contains some of the laptop materials. This was approximately the first sample I received. Um, the first damming thing was evidence of a wire transfer from Chinese intelligent asset to Hudson west. The third LLC, the rest was a bit random and it shows that, um, wire transfer and actually gives the links to all of it. Interesting. And even more of what's going on here, including what appears to be a pregnancy test. I think this is all of hunter Biden's conversations. Um, yeah. Interesting. Wow. There's some really, let's see if this is even his stuff here with DIA. Wow. Um, now there's some even more interesting text messages that talks about his niece, right? Um, And even like, you know, talking about how he met up with her in that trader Joe's bathroom, I'm pretty sure it was trader Joe's or some, something like that. Um, but it says, we already know that the emails and banking records are real per the free freedom of information act, request. The number of emails can also be verified with D K I M authentication and also being available to see both sides of the conversation like the Devon Archer's email from his own account to and from hunter Biden. It says the second largest set of files included a mass amount of salacious content. The, the people surrounding this conference controversy love to focus on hunter Biden's genitals in order to distract from the corruption. Indeed, a file named screenshot blank, blank, blank, um, shows hunter Biden's. In his Wiener on a piece of pizza.  what, what many escorts are featured in this data? Dump? Unlike what was minimally reported on their faces were visible and uncensored. I rant them all through facial recognition right away with mixed results. Indeed. They are mostly escorts, but Hailey Biden and other friends. Ash Akai grant are also feature featured with hunter Biden naked. And one of the pictures hunter is with his computer, where he is logged into, uh, a porn account where he is uploading videos of him and Hailey and others engaged in sexual behavior, Bo Biden. Then by the way, seem to be fully aware of the relationship between hunter and Hailey, Hailey being his brother's wife, who ended up dying. His brother ended up dying and he ended up being in a relationship with his brother's wife, his dead brother's wife. So that tells you anything about his character says seem to be fully aware of this relationship between hunter and Hailey, where hunter sent him pictures of acts together. This is why many believe Natalie and or hunter, maybe hunter Biden's biological children. So he is doing that to his own daughter. Says at this stage in 2 20 20, the Q movement, all, but shut down, they had seemed to be waiting for something like this. For years, they finally had it all in the entire Q astroturfing movement, completely shut down. And, uh, they deleted itself from the internet. This was very suspicious. The conservative new news outlets refused to cover what was in the first set of leaks, which was only a portion of the hard drive. Uh, it says zero hedge, gateway, pun, big league politics, all these outlets. I would've expected to jump all over this content did absolutely nothing. In fact, they even participated in some light disinformation. In some cases it says, um, I pose it don't know what that means that the cube movement was a Carlisle group SIOP, um, aided by numerous astroturfing firms like up votes.club, but was also a by government contractors like C a C.  in Q I N E T I Q. Um, it says one concerning aspect of hunter Biden's data, data that was available in 2020 was that the heavily featured Natalie Biden, hunter Biden was in possession of hundreds of her personal pictures. It appeared to be obsessive beyond the pictures. It became clear that many people were concerned about hunter Biden, sexually inappropriate interactions, where he is naked and smoking crack in front of Natalie Biden. Um, it says what is also concerning concerning, and it goes on to show some of the conversations here, and this is where it gets interesting. Okay. So finally found this portion of it. Okay. So here's the conversation where he is talking about, uh, talking to Natalie. Um, and this is what the conversation says. It says, I'm sorry, Natalie, but she won't even take my call. She's made her decision clearly she's chosen what, uh, she's chosen to do what ha Haley wants her. And she says like, Dar teaches the rest should just worry about themselves. That includes me and. I guess you and hunter and your aunt, and I love you, but your mom just decided that she is willing to risk having you taken from her rather than spend a month with family in Malibu. She told pop that she would call the police if you tried, if I tried to see you and hunter, um, so it's basically just outlining, you know, exactly these like weird obsessive inappropriate conversations with a minor that is within his family, including a, I want to fold clothes for you is what he sent her, which is, I think is a reference to a J Cole song. I don't know, you know, any other reference to that other than this J Cole song that I know, um, which is, uh, you know, go look it up. Um, but it says in bathroom at whole foods, so not trader Joe's, but whole foods. And this was 5 29 of 18 at 1:51 PM. Why would you text somebody that you're in the bathroom at whole foods? Now the conversation continues and it says, yes, it seems like an endless test of my sanity to hate as much as I do right now. Um, Hailey won't let me see Natalie, without my father present, it says, can you imagine that that is messed up? So it says that is, you know, effed up that I've effing shielded for two years and taken all the heat is keeping me from, uh, talking to or being around her. Um, it says, hunter, it is imperative. You call me or your father. Now I believe this is his mother. This is from, uh, this says Jim Biden. Hunter is imperative that you call me or your father. Your father is, uh, getting as I am, uh, barrage by Hailey. He has not responded and I have not responded. We both agree with you and trust you. She is spreading what you told me and I believe you, which is the fact that he was in a sexually inappropriate relationship with his niece. And he says that there lies once again, we both need you to side or your side of the story so we can both shove it down. Her effing throat. I implore you the call, please. I, we are on your side. I believe you. This is nothing short of character, assassination, assassination. Love you. Jim sounds like Jim is his uncle. And it goes on to say that, um, let's read through more of this conversation and says, or my mom tells him things like I'm sexually inappropriate with the children. This is hunter Biden's words too, in this case, uh, which just gives you the phone number. Um, now continuing this conversation about who he is sexually inappropriate with his own cousin and all of the receipts and text messages showing this says, call your mother. Now, this is a, uh, I can't read it through it, but it says call your mother. It seems every time we talk, she's telling people I'm inappropriate with you. So this is too Natalie. And the only reason it's blurred out, which I can't see is because she's underage. Um, and you can tell by the way that she talks, uh, she says, call your mother. It seems every time we talk, she tells people I'm inappropriate with you. I don't want to make matters worse for you or for myself. This child said bra. And then a bunch of words, hate life, man. I'm on the airplane. A I R P L a I N  with no headphones. Um, and then, uh, he says back to that, she said that when aunt blank told the girls, they shouldn't be with me alone, that it proved she was just plain evil and mean, and that she was hurting the girls more than she was hurting me. um, it says, lastly, that he is inappropriate with Natalie. He Factimes everyone naked. Wow. What an embarrassment he is. He clearly can't be around my children. Um, there's the phone number directly on this three oh two five three oh zero six. I'm not gonna give you the rest of it.  um, and it goes on to say that, um, he says, again, telling people I'm inappropriate with her daughter. So we get the point. He was absolutely. And his entire family believes that he was sexually inappropriate with Natalie, who is his niece, um, who was underage at the time of all of these conversations. I don't know how she old she is now. Um, and then goes on to say, and the last one that you would have to, when she says, can I come up there, please? Uncle I'm dying inside. So depressed can't handle life. He said you would have to come with adult because you can't stay with me. Cuz everybody thinks that hunter Biden is a pet aile.  interesting. So it shows literally all the text messages, which you got directly from the iCloud dump. All right. Now that. Probably should be brought up legally anyways. Um, but it goes on to say, um, it says what is also concerning that despite being banned from seeing her alone, hunter Biden is still meeting in secret with Natalie in places like a whole foods bathroom. Natalie is. On a family outing, then sneaks to the bathroom to meet hunter Biden, to fold clothes by mid 2021, it is clear many people had Hunter's data and the hard drive was repackaged in a variety of ways with each repacking, data was taken and inserted. I gave up relying on these anonymous dumps and focused on how to verify what was important. And with the, uh, with the usual O S I N T techniques, they always cry about source verification and context. So what is important to preemptively? Give it to them, to take away their crybaby ammunition. Now that the issue is, has gained more steam. You can actually per peruse a lot of these emails yourself and the website. Now this is important. The website that you can actually go to to search every single one of, one of hunter Biden's emails is hunter laptop emails dot. Now, when you go to this website, I went to it and there's some really interesting things that you can search. The few ones that you can search is the big guy, a second one that you can search is come pizza. And you'll see some emails from that. Um, you know, you can see emails about, you know, another little key search term I used was illegal and you can start to see some of the shady business dealings that he had there. But I recall one where the swear or whatever that guy's name was, that was a part of Rosemont. Seneca actually discussed him, going to a Hillary Clinton party at come ping pong in Washington, DC. And if you don't know about come ping pong, if you've ever heard of the term Pizzagate pizza gate was allegedly a conspiracy where, uh, all of these celebrities, um, and Hollywood elites were getting together at comic pizza and doing all sorts of satanic pedophilia, ritualistic BS, um, and you can see it directly in there that he was invited to these parties, which allegedly never happened. And we're all, you know, A bunch of politicians playing ping pong together at a pizza place.  um, now it goes on to say that, um, in most of the reliable ways to see the new leak is just by downloading the torrent yourself and opening an iPhone backup extractor, um, it gives the magnet link and it says, so now here we go again, whenever conservative news outlet should be screaming this stuff from the rooftops, it seems that nearly all hunter Biden's posts are getting deleted on all sites, even for Chan, especially Reddit, Twitter, and in Twitter is banning people consistently over it. Um, it says in short, there are one, there is 100% proof of criminality of a variety of types showing that the Bidens are above the law and will destroy your country for pennies. On the dollar says that hunter Biden will sell out billions of American resources for crack and hookers. He must be stopped and this behavior is ongoing and it continues to give screenshot after screenshot, after screenshot, after screenshot of these. Transfers from these companies in the millions of dollars for these shady, shady business deals. Okay. Um, we'll see if I can go through any of these here. It just seems to be a receipt after receipt, after receipt of him receiving just hundreds of thousands of dollars from all of these Chinese corporations, um, all these conversations that are, uh, through about his payments from these companies. So on and so forth. Um, now let's go see if we can actually jump over to that website with all of the emails here. Cause I think that was a little interesting to me and it's where you can actually get. Put on your tin, foil hat and get pretty, uh,  pretty wild going to this website here. Um, so let's go there and see if we can search some of these emails. Now, before I do that again, the next thing I need you to do head over to red pill, revolution.co. Um, this is literally the only way that I have any monetization guys. I don't have any paid advertisers. There's no third party ads here, nothing at all. Um, the only thing that I do ask of you is if you are married, if you have children, or if you are in a situation where you need life insurance, or if you have life insurance, screw your agent. Screw that guy. He has nothing to do with you. You don't listen to him. Talk about a hundred Biden's emails for an hour and a half . So head over to red pill, revolution.co um, life insurance is seriously important guys. I know the first thing that happened to me when I had children was I realized my mortality. I realized that, you know, when I die, life goes on, right? Um, you know, whatever debts you have, whatever mortgages you have, whatever bills you have on a consistent basis, the person that you love is counting on you to take care of them. And you can do that right now by going to red pill, revolution dot COO, and clicking on the button that says, get a quote. um, takes two minutes to get a free quote. I had a $2 million policy offered to me. I think it was like $50 a month. It was crazy. It's awesome. Um, there's no, uh, it's like 95% approval rating. Um, it, you don't have to talk to anybody on the phone. Um, if you do have questions or you're in a state that's not offered, there's eight different states that you'll see on there. If you're in a state, that's not offered, send me an email, Austin red pill, revolution.co. Um, and I will buy the state just for you, just for you. And I'd love to help you get some life insurance. Um, if you don't know what to get, I recommend getting a 15 year term policy at 15 times, the amount of your income, um, that should allow your spouse to basically have enough time to get on their feet, enough time to pay your bills to maybe purchase your home outright. So they don't have that ongoing bill and do what's right for them. Do what's right for your children. Again, head over to red pill, revolution.co, get yourself some life insurance today. Again, it's the only way you can support this podcast besides going directly to the website and donating. All right. All right. Cool. So let's go back to the Biden laptop emails from a conversation about doing what's right for your family. . Um, now the website for this again is Biden, laptop emails.com. Doesn't get any more straightforward than that. All right. So it says, here are 128,000 emails from the Biden laptop, which is the modern Rosetta stone of white and blue collar crime under the patina of the Delaware way. Don't know what the hell that means. Um, it says prior to the discovery of the Rosetta stone, a number of ancient languages where mere gibberish and hash marks, similarly, the emails and hunter Bidens illuminated, uh, hunter Bidens, laptop illuminated previously convoluted webs of the people you are seeing, uh, the charge for global governance. Truly the emails can be considered a translation tool for open source, intelligent gathering. Um, and this actually. References back to what that individual was talking about on Reddit, which is the O S N I OS I N T, which is what they referenced for how to properly translate these emails. Okay. Now what you can do on this website is you can search different individual terms. Um, a few of that they recommend is, you know, the big guy now, some of the fun ones that I've done has been, um, you know, we'll just start off here and look at that comment, uh, pizza emails, cause I'm pretty sure, you know, that's an interesting topic when people want to talk about, uh, pizza gate and Hillary Clinton and you know, all of the shady, weird stuff that was going on there, um, seems to get a little bizarre. All right. So here we go. This email is again from that shady figure. Eric swear. Schwerin Eric Schwerin. Um, Eric Swen sent him an email and this was on two, uh, March 30th, 2016 at approximately two 16. O'clock. Two 16 o'clock  two in the afternoon. Um, and it says presidential pizza, Mattie Beckwith, Ezekiel Emmanuel, Tony Poda, and Chris Petula are hosting a pizza party for Hillary Clinton next month, featuring campaign chair, John Podesta, senior policy advisor, Maya Harris and pizza chef James Avantis of comic ping pong, a maximum $27,000 contribution includes a special reception with John Podesta and all Clinton logo. Haters need to check out this version, which has pepperoni pizza slices for the arrow. Now let's see if that works, cause it would be no surprise to me that Hillary Clinton has a pizza  in her logo. Now by clicking this link, I'm probably immediately sending five FBI agents to listen to this live stream on Reddit. Ron TikTok, sorry. Oh yeah. Look at that link expired. Well, that's probably good for my behalf.  um, it goes on to say nothing, cuz that's the last of that email. Um, but there's several other references to comment ping pong, but I find that one to be the most interesting. Um, as far as the come ping pong situation goes, I don't know. I just found that to be an interesting one to look up. Now, when we go look up illegal, you can start to see some of the shadier business deals of them talking about how not to do things illegally. Some of the interesting conversations that they have between these shell companies of Rosemont, Seneca of, uh, VDI V I D E was one that I recall that was a Chinese technology firm, which had no technology, um, just a shell company. But if you search the term illegal, uh, it comes up with let's see how many pages, 23 pages, ages of emails. Now it is interesting to note, well, it's not really that interesting, but it's probably pertinent to note that some of these emails are just newsletters, um, like from, uh, but some of them are not like the morning score from political, um, other ones, uh, like this, a cheerful Biden family gamely fills in for his boss. Um, and that's, again from Eric Sherwin, let's look up who this Eric Guy is because he's a shady character. Um, so Eric Sherwin, besides having a stupid name, um, let's se

Epic Journey Podcast #17 – Permission to Dream In this podcast, we (Sonny and Cindy), will encourage you to start dreaming again or stir up and keep the fire of your dream going! We believe that God brings two unique individuals together with their own strengths and weaknesses, gifts, and talents to become one unified team and when on purpose with God will be an unstoppable force for good. Every marriage has a purpose that will have eternal impact and God either has already or will stir your heart with compassion and invite you into fulfilling a dream that starts with you but depends on Him! You were designed to dream big and have visions of faith to accomplish great things in life! Join us we explore Gods plan for us to dream big and share the great accomplishments of others and their dependence on God to live out their dreams! ------- Epic Journey Podcast #17 - Permission to Dream – Episode Notes Proverbs 3: 11-12 11 My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, 12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,     as a father the son he delights in. Miriam-Webster dictionary – discipline is defined as this: Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement. In an article by Earl Nightingale, How Big are Your Plans, Nightingale-Conant Insight, Issue 89 he is discussing the power of our mind that influences the life that we live out. He makes the comment that if the average person realized the power he wields over his own life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving. He is free as his imagination; he is limited only by the fences he himself erects and maintains. We came across an article written by Stan Cottrell, Fire and Jade, Nightingale-Conant Insight, Issue 86. He was an ultradistance runner and actually had a dream to run 2, 125 miles across China. He accomplished this goal and averaged 40 miles a day for 53 consecutive days. Cottrell made it a point to say that in the process of this adventure of a lifetime, what emerged was something far more challenging than the actual physical stress to his body, but that it brought him face to face with himself. He states, “everything I believed came to the surface and I found meaning in a new way.” Maybe that's exactly what God is intending!! Cottrell also shared this: "Give yourself permission to dream – to dream greathearted dreams. Give yourself permission to not be frightened by the magnitude of the dream. Dreaming is as natural as breathing. As the poet La Fontaine once said, “When the soul of man is on fire with imagination, impossibilities vanish.” Nehemiah 1: 5-11 5“Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father's family, have committed against you. 7 We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses. 8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.' 10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. 11 Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this...

Miriam Webster's dictionary defines a habit as “a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in regularity or increased facility of performance.”In her New York Times bestselling book The High 5 Habit Mel Robbins explains that when researchers study all the things that you could change in your life that makes a meaningful impact on the quality of your life, the single most important change is making it a habit to be kind to yourself.In this episode, you'll learn:What is The High 5 Habit?Why is the habit so effective?3 Simple Steps to make RAS work for you!The meridian that holds habits.Key Takeaways:There is no fast track to transformation. You have to work on it in little ways every day. Research shows that when you “stack” or pair a new habit (high 5) with an old one, (brushing your teeth) you are more likely to do it.All habits require repetition!Being kind to yourself has the power to completely change your life - yet self-acceptance is what we practice least. Rate, Review, & Connect:Please consider rating and reviewing our show! Every single review makes it easier for the show to reach new listeners and it helps us to support more womxn -just like you- become empowered to be, do, and have everything she desires! Rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” As a thank you, we'll send you a free Law of Attraction hypnosis. Just screenshot your review and email it to: hello@energyonpurpose.com.Also, if you haven't done so already, subscribe to get your weekly dose of Energy on Purpose delivered directly to your inbox.Connect with us on Instagram @energyonpurpose.Links mentioned in this episode:>> Mel Robbins: The High 5 Habit>> Mel Robbins: The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work and Confidence with Everyday Courage>> Episode 10: Master the Art of Manifesting>> Join the Waitlist>> Podopolo >> Triple Warmer Smoothie by Priscilla>> Calming Triple Warmer Neurovascular Reflex Points by Priscilla>> Press Triple Warmer Neurolymphatic Points by Priscilla

It's taken me over a decade of therapy and introspection to arrive at this Episode. I don't know what took me so long, but 'getting' self-compassion has been a real struggle for me. In the past few weeks a few things have clicked.First, some Miriam-Webster informed verbiage:Self: ha. dare we even try to define that? Even with the help of the dictionary? Hell, why not (only relevant entries included):1: an individual's typical character or behavior2: the union of elements (such as body, emotions, thoughts, and sensations) that constitute the individuality and identity of a person4: the entire person of an individual5: material that is part of an individual organismPhew.And, Compassion: : a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, in trouble, etc.And, Pity:: sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappySo Self-Compassion is wanting to help yourself when you are struggling, and Self-Pity is feeling sorry for yourself when you're unhappy. The first seems legit and kind, the second a bit indulgent. I spend this Episode sort of figuring out how to apply this difference to myself. No one wants to be accused of feeling sorry for themselves, and so the danger in self-compassion is that it drifts over into self-pity. And this also gets at what I'll discuss in Episode 75 and that is, How do you tell the difference?In this case, one is healthy and one is unhealthy. And we know the difference. If we are being honest.Anyway, during the latter 2/3 of this Episode I figure out how to apply self-compassion for myself in real-time. I felt a shift from theory to application that I hope will apply to future Episodes. My guess is that after Episode 75 I am going to shift into the Being and Doing phase of the Are vs Should Problem.I'd say more, but I think you really need to just listen or watch this Episode to see where I go. And truly, I'm still ingesting it myself. I need to watch it again myself to understand exactly what happened.Thank you for spending some of your time with me and these issues. I hope you are getting something important out of them. Please subscribe, follow, leave me a note, or send me an email. I appreciate your attention.

In today's unique episode, I have compiled some of our earliest guests' answers to the question, "What is art to you?" This delightful compilation brings a plethora of unique, honest, and inspiring answers to that question, and I'm excited to share part one of this limited series with you today. Enjoy!    Enroll in Lindsey's dance and wellness courses: www.elevateart.thinkific.com  Support Artfully Told: www.paypal.me/elevateart Artfully Told links: www.facebook.com/artfullytold | www.artfullytold.podbean.com | elevateartskc@gmail.com Get a free audiobook through Audible!  http://www.audibletrial.com/ArtfullyTold Schedule your own interview as a featured guest with Artfully Told! https://calendly.com/artfullytold/podcast-interview   Episode 74 - "What is Art to You?" - Part 1 [00:00:00] Lindsey Dinneen: Hello and welcome to Artfully Told, where we share true stories about meaningful encounters with art. [00:00:06] Krista: "I think artists help people have different perspectives on every aspect of life." [00:00:12] Roman: "All I can do is put my heart in to the world." [00:00:15] Elizabeth: "It doesn't have to be perfect the first time. It doesn't have to be perfect ever, really. I mean, as long as you, you're enjoying doing it and you're trying your best, that can be good enough." [00:00:23] Elna: "Art is something that you can experience with your senses and that you just experience as so beautiful." [00:00:31] Lindsey Dinneen: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Artfully Told. I'm your host Lindsey and today I have a very unique episode that I'm really excited to share with you. It is a compilation of all of the different, amazing answers I've received over the last year and some change to the question, "what is art to you?" I love asking this question, because the answers I get are always so diverse and beautiful and unique and challenging. And I just can't wait to share the insights that I've gathered over the year with you. So enjoy and I'll catch you next time. [00:01:14] Ashley Taylor: To me, art is way for us to make sense of the world that we live in at its most basic level. I think we can do that a number of different ways. For one thing, sometimes when I think of art, I think of still life painting or landscape painting. That's like a very basic example of art. Or even going back to like the cave paintings, which is little stick animals, right? That's a way of humans who are saying, " Here's what I see. I'm going to try to copy it or represent it." [00:01:45] And that's a very simple, almost primitive way of trying to make sense of the world of the world that we live in. So we can start there, or we can go all the way to very abstract paintings or dances or music, which sometimes are so abstract that the audience doesn't even understand what the inspiration was, but that is somebody trying to make sense of the world in their own way. [00:02:08] I'm sure even trying to say, I can't make sense of the world--life is meaningless, so I'm going to make this hard to tell what it means art about it, right, that's still representing something. It's our way of trying to grapple with what we're seeing and experiencing. [00:02:24] Bryant Williams: Art to me is inspiration. Art to me is vital. I think that's the best--where art is vital and art is a form of expression meant for the world to share in a mutual experience. [00:02:39] Krista Eyler: I think it's making something from nothing. And no, there's a song called "Finishing the Hat," and it talks about that creation of, you know--I made a hat where there never was a hat, and art to me is really just that. And I'm glad I rhymed those two lines. It's making something from nothing that hopefully will make somebody else feel something very important or have a very visceral, emotional response. I mean, everything I write musically is to reach someone else, is to entertain someone else, is to give, you know, that pleasure in your ears from some really great music and singing. [00:03:27] That's, that's kind of how I see art. You know what? I'm not a scholar of art. I'm not a scholar of dance. I'm not a scholar of music theory. I'm basically not a scholar of anything except the raising my children, but when it comes to art, I just, I just really feel great satisfaction when you make something that wasn't there before and then it's there, then you've brought it into existence and then you wonder why it was not there before. [00:03:58] Rick Wright: I feel like to me, you know, it, it's an outlet and an exploration first and foremost, and I think if we're lucky it becomes an end product, but I don't know that that is necessarily the most important. I think there is, there is value in the exploration that, that just happens with all things creative, whether it's dance or it's paint or it's clay. It's about communicating, it's, it's communicating with different materials or in different ways than the verbal or auditory that we're used to. I, I think it's, you know, it's a little bit of your, your soul, you know, uncovering your soul, whether you realize it or not. I think it's about just exposing your, your true self. [00:04:52] Danielle Guy: Art is expression of truth done a visual way. So where it is taking some form of reality and putting it in a way that can be physicalized, whether it be by, you know, painting or drawing or by moving, or by speaking--just a different way to look at it--that is different from what our normal reality is, which can be quite boring. [00:05:19] Roman Mykyta: Art is ultimately a worldview. I think art starts with a worldview. It's very intentional and it's very presentational and it's always a form of communication with the creator and the viewer. But where my head is now as well, I kind of feel like art is everywhere around us. Even just looking out the window, the art is within the worldview to be able to see anything and to give it meaning, and it can be good or bad meaning, but I personally always like the good meaning, and to just kind of commune with all of these things in our life, which are indicative of something. [00:06:02] Erin Paige: Art to me is an expression of the soul. And I think that that just comes in many forms, whether it's a street performer that feels the need--even a little kid that is dancing to some music, I consider that art. So really anything that you're inspired to do that your soul is telling you to do? That's how I see art. [00:06:33] Elizabeth Cooper: I would say I would define art as a piece of work that someone is inspired by, like someone sees something around them and they're inspired by it and so they want to then recreate it in a way that means something to them. I feel like art is, you know, it's a very personal thing, you know, everybody sees it differently. And so yeah, I guess I would, I would just define art as anything that, that is inspired by the things around you, that then you create something from that inspiration. [00:07:12] Jeremiah Kauffman: I guess art is any creative process to produce something that's meaningful to the artist and they want it to show up other people. And I don't really, I don't think there are any boundaries to what art is. There are no limitations. And if you produce a sculpture or a performance, choreographic performance, apart, whatever or painting. And someone says, ah, that's not art. If you say it's art, because the creative expression of what you're trying to share with others and it is art. So, I'm not one that looks at a particular, you know, like painting, you know, all right. [00:07:50] So somebody paints hyper-realistic babies or, or kittens. And someone says, yeah, that's art because that's hyper-realistic. But the, the abstract painting that somebody did --that's not art. That is not true. The abstract painting is just as much art is the cute little kittens. It's just the art is the expression of creativity. That's all it is. I don't think we should pigeonhole art. Art's anything that illustrates emotion from both the artist and the viewer. It's something that entertains and teaches, and something that can be used to make our lives better. It can be something that improves our society or just makes us happy or just helps us feel better about ourselves or helps us. It gives us comfort when we need comfort or gives us inspiration when we need to be inspired, and if it affects and produces all range of emotions. And I think that if there's an emotional response, then that's also art. [00:09:02] Katheryn Krouse: So I think I would define art as a thoughtful form of expression. I think it doesn't have to necessarily be creating a painting or writing a song or a poem. I think it can also include how you dress or how, how you cook, how someone cooks can be a form of art. I think that it can be anything or any way that one chooses to carry themselves--how, you know, how they decorate or different, different things. I think all of these are good forms of art. [00:09:40] Heidi Loubser: I think if I'm trying to one sentence to it, I mean, art is the act of creating . You know, we take one resource and we transform it into another. We take a body and we mold it to do certain things on stage. We take clay and we turn it into a sculpture. So maybe, yeah, the act of creating, if I had to boil it down to a phrase. [00:09:58] David Weinraub: I define art as anything that can enhance an emotion. I can go outside and I can see, you know, a turtle on my back deck who somehow found its way, you know, up the stairs to onto the porch. And, I find beauty in that and therefore that is art. To me, it elicits an emotion when it happens. Some people say that's where they see God in the world. And, I think in some ways, God and art are synonymous. [00:10:37] Grace Strachan: Well, I think art is in the eye of the beholder. I really believe that. I consider art nature. I consider art beauty. I consider art feelings. I consider art love. I really believe that art is all around us. I don't think we appreciate art the way we should appreciate art. I get very sad when I hear about them taking art out of the schools. I just think that is the most, I don't know how to say it in a very polite way, but wrong. I'll just say it. It's just, it's totally wrong. One of the biggest reasons I, I got into art as a child was because I happened to have a very good school system where we were taught art. And so I took, and then I ended up taking art on, you know, outside of school as well. So I think art is so important and it makes people creative. It helps children blossom in so many ways . And I think we, we tend to not appreciate the art around us. I grew up in a small city in Canada. So I grew up with art all around me, and I've always been, I felt very blessed by that because to have the theater and having that around me, I think gave me a different aspect and a different look on life. I ended up getting into working in theater and doing makeup and, and doing some backstage stuff when I lived in Canada. And that is, that's something that I could never, ever, ever, be lucky enough to repeat again. So I think art is just everywhere and everything. [00:12:18] Julie Ulstrup: I believe art is an expression and a like a, an interaction between the person who creates it and the person who's looking at it. And it's, it's a shared, it's a shared experience. [00:12:45] Kevin Dinneen: I think art is, is taking some base components, some raw material and forming that raw material into something that a viewer or listener or someone experiencing that in whatever shape or, or vessel medium that might be, and something that enhances their lives. Whereas you take this, there's a piece of paper and this pen and separately, you glance over it, but you take those things and you combine that into a, into a moving-- I don't mean moving physically, but something that moves the person that sees it. And that is what art is. You have these raw materials that you create an experience from, and I think that's art. And doesn't have to be happy, it doesn't have to be sad. It doesn't have to be hard to understand. It doesn't have to be easy to understand. It's just creating something moving from raw materials. [00:13:54] Elna VanGreuning: I think art is anything that's so beautiful for the eye that you either wanted to touch it, hear it, see it, you know, and you could even eat it, if it's like, in cake. So it's something that you can experience with your senses and that you just experience as so beautiful. [00:14:15] Liza Lomax: To me, art is an emotion. it's anger. It's sadness. It's happy. It's frustration. It's irritation. It's gratefulness. It's blessings. When I look at art, I can feel what the artist was portraying at that time because I'm an empath. So looking at art is very impactful for me because I can see it and I can feel what the person was trying to express or trying to convey. You know, there's so many pieces of artwork where people are like, they don't understand it. They don't get it. Like, what is this? It looks just like a bunch of jumbly blobs on a canvas, and I can look at it and I can see what they were feeling and what they were doing and how they were--what they were trying to convey through the art. So to me, it's--art is emotions. [00:15:11] Trenna Reed: I would say art is human expression, because I guess the way that I think about it is, of all the species on this planet, as far as we know, humans are really the only ones who can convey art and understand art. I guess dogs can watch TV, but you know, they don't really comprehend what's going on, so that, I would say, it's a human expression. And, for me it's just, it's art is love and passion, and it's how we express those emotions or any emotions, which is such an important part of being a human being. [00:16:09] Kent Rader: Art, art to me is something that you created that is unique to you. And there's a difference in my mind between art and success. Too many people want to be successful, so they recreate something somebody else has created or they mimic something else that somebody else has created. And that isn't art to me. Success, I mean, how do you define success? You know, it's more important that it's unique and that it's personal to me. And I remember a turning point in my life as an artist was stop making it about your success and make it about bringing joy and happiness to an audience. That was a huge turning point, but also it had to be so personal and so come from me. I want it to be so much about my life that nobody else could make it theirs, but they could relate to it as well. [00:17:18] Meghan Spencer: I think art is communicating to the outside world a feeling emotion or something else you want to say, because it can be tangible. It can be movement. It can be makeup. It can be--there's a lot of, there's a lot of ways that art can take forms, but it's always about communicating something. [00:17:51] Lindsey Dinneen: Art is an expression of creativity that shares someone's life experiences-- whether that's feelings or situation or dreams-- with the world. [00:18:14] Robyn Jameson: I would say that I'm a little bit of an art snob. So I consider art anything that is created with the intention for it to be, for its only function to be, presented and appreciated. For me, art is music, poetry, literature, literature, dance, visual art, film. And for me, originality is important. [00:18:44] Lantz McDonald: To me, I tried to break it down to the simplest terms that I can, 'cause I had thought about this a little bit before we started recording. I would say it's, to me it's an ambiguous expression. And some, some pieces of art are more or less ambiguous, but at the end of the day, you were trying to relay an emotion and there's nothing unambiguous about that. Yeah, I think it's just people trying to express themselves to other people. We all want to be heard and listened to. And this is just one more way to do that. [00:19:23] Helen Ransom: I have learned over the years, having a sister who dances and having my mom who loves nature photography and myself, I prefer the people side of things. Art is a lot of things to me. And art is walking through the Plaza Art Fair and admiring all the different mediums. And art is watching my sister dance and seeing the way that storytelling can happen that way with no words and just movement. And art is the beauty of nature and the majesty of creation. And art is a smiling toddler, or a mom rubbing noses with her sweet baby. It's all art and it's beautiful. And to me it describes humanity and the world we're living in. [00:20:16] Crystal Tiehen: Art is a creative outlet. It's an emotional support. It's, it's a way to give ourselves permission to be a child to bring fun into our life, to not have to be so serious all the time and, and really be able to explore that childlike facet of ourselves. And even if it's not childlike, just being able to, to bring something that only you have created into this world. That's what art is. [00:20:56] Alden Miller: Art is presenting whatever is in your head out to the world. It's like your mind's eye just kind of like showing it, you know, "Hey, this is what I'm thinking about," or "this is what I'm feeling or showing." [00:21:10] Emerson Mertens: Art, I think, it's so many things. It's, it's kind of hard to pinpoint an exact definition, but I think what stands out to me the most is that art is really a form of communication. So it has that ability kind of, like I said earlier, to connect people. And it has a way of touching people that I think a lot of the normal ways of communication can't always do. So it's a form of communication with others. And I think it's also a form of self-expression, which is, in a way, essentially sort of another form of communication because we're communicating what we think or feel ourselves to others. So I think that's really true of any kind of art, whether it's dance or music or painting or, or graphic arts--it's essentially communicating some idea or feeling, or even maybe an entire story. Like in the case of dance, a lot of times it's an entire story. It's communicating that to the viewer or listener in, in that artist's own unique way. And that can be a really powerful thing. [00:22:22] Kim Pierce: Well, to me, art is, it's really any creation or expression that provokes thought or a reaction. Every interaction that you have with art is an opportunity to have a silent conversation between you and the artist. The person experiencing it has a dialogue going in their head and the artist has already put something out into the world to discuss back and forth. I want to be a part of that conversation regardless of the role I'm in, whether I'm the person experiencing the art or I'm the artist. And to me, that's art. Art is just something that makes you think, something that makes you have a reaction. [00:23:03] Anh Le: To me, art is something where for me I can utilize to heal the wounds of society. But it's also a very interesting way of expressing storytelling because I've seen, for example, abstract art, and I'm an artist myself too. So sometimes I see it and I just connected with things maybe, for example, the sun or, or like the womb of someone, every person sees art differently. And, even with one movie, people can say so many things. For example, like, one person can say, "Oh, from this movie, I learned more about domestic abuse and the effects of it." But another person might say, "I've learned about the importance of having a mentor in life." So you can have one movie. It's the same exact story. But so many different takes. And I think art has pursued the same way, because it is a way where we share, we share stories and everyone takes, has different take based on how they were raised, how they were influenced by art and so forth. [00:24:16] Maggie Rader: Oh, to connect, I'd say. You know, we were joking before we started rehearsing. It's like, "Oh, why does live theater still exist when movies are around?" And if you mess up, you can just start over and you only have to do it once then. But that's why live theater is still around. It's so much about connection. And I feel like out of all the, and maybe that's why I love the stage. It's, I feel like when you're doing live theater, you get to connect so much more than in other artistic mediums that I love, and enjoy, but it's not my particular passion. So yeah, I think the most important role is, or thing you can do, is to connect. [00:24:57] Tessa Priem: I actually did a presentation that had a lot to do with what is art. And I ended up looking up the various definitions and like, the Oxford dictionary and Miriam Webster. But one thing that really sticks out to me from what I learned just about sort of the definition is, well, first of all, let me back up just a little bit throughout history. This has been debated and continues to be debated. It's such a interesting question because people always have different answers. So I think even the Greek philosophers from long ago, like really examine this question, what is art? So anyway, from the dictionaries, I thought it was so interesting how they really emphasize that the aspect of skill. So developing a skill. And I, I'm not going to go into, you know, your level of that skill or something, but, but you know, whether it be drawing or whether it be dance or whether it be music of some sort, right? So you have this certain skill or craft that you work on and you end up making something in that skill or craft and that what you make expresses something, right. There's some sort. Of purpose behind that making. And then furthermore, beyond that sort of purpose, whatever it might be, that can be so varied. [00:26:28] It's so varied for each artist, but from that purpose of whatever you've made, usually after that, that work, that creation is often shared with others, usually. Not always, not always, but it's often shared. So those were just some aspects that I thought were really interesting about what is art, you know, it's kind of, it's this skill or craft that people have that people work on and they pour themselves into it and they make whatever it is that they, that they need to create. And often then they share that work. Not always, but, but frequently that's what happens. And then what happens from that is that the audience in some way responds. And so, I guess that's kind of, maybe that's art, it's, it's making something. And then you go on to either just keep it to yourself, which is special, or you go on to, to share that with others to potentially impact others in some kind of way. But it's definitely something that you make -- definitely something that you make. [00:27:41] Shari Augustine: I think it's different for every person. It's a way of using your creativity to allow your feelings to be put out there without--sometimes you can't say what your feelings are. And so it's a way of allowing your feelings to come out for you. Yeah, or it, it can be putting a message out and everyone might take that message in differently, because we all look at art differently and that's okay. [00:28:20] Debbie Dinneen: Oh boy, to me, first thing that I think of is anything visual, but you know, art encompasses so much, you know, music, theater, dance. Art is everywhere. Art is when I look out my back door and I see birds on my bird feeder. We're just surrounded. That's how I feel about it. [00:28:48] Joe Pilgram: Art could be so many different things. you know, for, for me, it's definitely passion. Whether it's, you know, I use art as a way to, to get my emotions out, to be able to dance it out. But other people as an art will sling paint or, you know, do different things. I believe that musician Sting, like the best songs that he wrote when he was with the police, he talked about, it was when it was a really bad time in his life, he and his wife were having problems and some of his best art came out at that moment. And I, I feel that, you know, art is definitely a, a human expression, that, that we all have. I guess I look more at other artists for the guidance in that realm, that it's, you know, it should be something that's explored, that it's something you create. You have people that are, that are machinists that some create some pretty fascinating stuff. 3D printer guys, doing things with that, and I don't know if I know you asked me what, what I think it is. I might throw this little plug in here from Felicia Rashad and it was, she was talking about art and she said, "Children," and she said, "Before they write, they draw. Before they stand, they dance. Art is a human expression. It's a fundamental human expression." And so I, I guess I'd like to hop on her bandwagon with that. [00:30:42] Lindsey Dinneen: Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed all of the answers to the question, "what is art to you?" I love hearing those responses. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I have reliving these moments of inspiration and beauty. And if you're feeling as inspired as I am, I would love if you would share this episode with a friend or two and we will catch you next time. [00:31:10] If you have a story to share with us, we would love that so much. And I hope your day has been Artfully Told.

Pastor Bill: [0:00] Hello and welcome to season 3 episode 49, of The Berean Manifesto; Faith, Hope, and Love for the Modern Christian. I'm Pastor Bill and I am here with Pastor Newms all the way from the state of Tennessee. I'm in Texas, Tennessee per the usual as those are the places we live and we are pastors of The Ekklesian House. The Ekklesian House is a well now a completely online church. We used to meet face-to-face in spare rooms at restaurants and now we meet completely online. So here we are. Groggy he's talking on Twitch about something about a dungeon that he did probably in New World.   Pastor Newms: [0:49] Yeah he probably, he probably just did the New World dungeon and he probably didn't pick up all the bones so the dog sent him back.   Pastor Bill: [0:56] Oh Barkamedies bones - yeah.   Pastor Newms: [0:59] Cause Barkamedies is messed up. I did not say My Little Groggy. From now on from now on I'm going to call him My Little Groggy, so congratulations Groggy. You can blame you can blame Zaydiee for that because you are from now on My Little Groggy so Pastor Bill you know I will, and because he knows I'll do it too he's just got to pray that I forget because that's the only way it's going away so you know I love you.   Pastor Bill: [1:32] I thought you said we'd do this after we did Get To Know The Pastors.   Pastor Newms: [1:34] You said before or.   Pastor Bill: [1:36] Okay I gave your choice but I thought you had said that you had chosen after. okay, okay so tonight we are talking about exegesis and if you just felt inferior at the Greek word exegesis. Congratulations this is the one and only time you're probably ever going to hear me say this, "you're wrong." If that word made you feel inadequate then you're wrong, and that's what we're talking about exegesis tonight. Not eisegesis, exegesis well well we'll probably talk about eisegesis as well. We'll definitely talk about exegesis, the main focus is exegesis not exigenesis, no that's not how you say it - unless you're like trying to just combine Exodus and Genesis all into one statement and then you can say exigenesis I guess. But it won't mean the same thing as what we're talking about tonight so yeah so stick around, um we're going to get a lot out of tonight and everyone should feel less inadequate and more empowered, when we when we end here can you spell that or is it a sit sit in sending name sits and, I have no idea what Biggs is trying to say on Twitch. He said can you spell that or is it a.   Pastor Newms: [3:11] Mrs. Biggs, or Mama - whichever you want to go by can you please help your husband and what he's trying to say to us because we're confused.   Pastor Bill: [3:18] Are you want me to spell exegesis because it's e-x-e-g-e-s-i-s. Exegesis is a noun and you could say.   Pastor Newms: [3:34] That was mean of me to call him out like that.   Pastor Bill: [3:35] Yeah it was. You're awful.   Pastor Newms: [3:38] Then we wonder why he's mean to me and wonder where I get.   Pastor Bill: [3:42] Here we go here's the sentence that I found online, "Politicians accustomed to speaking in 22 second sound bites suddenly began regaling empty galleries with windy tendentious exegeses of the founding fathers thoughts on the role of the senate in confirming judges," also you could say As an exegesis, though, it's nicely done, and Kennedy traces Sontag's main themes deftly along tortuous paths through both essays and fiction. Both of those sentences can be found at Miriam-Webster.com/dictionary/exegesis hey I'm not the one that asked for it in a sentence.   Pastor Newms: [4:26] No I know but I'm just saying like I understand what the word means and even I feel stupid or having heard those sentences.   Pastor Bill: [4:34] Right, having hearing it in a sentence does not help. Which is part of the problem with the word and and one of the reasons why it's important for us to talk about it. Phoenix on Twitch says, "yeah I'm gonna need that dumbed down," we're not going to dumb it down for you what we're going to do is we're going to exegesis - exegesis so that you understand it. And then at the end of the night you'll understand how you can use the word exegesis in reference to the word exegesis and you'll walk away feeling like you're accomplished. Okay, so now it's time for Get To Know The Pastors, and then Pastor Newms wants to humiliate me... or make me lonely or jealous or something. I can't remember what he said, make me mad. What did you say you wanted to make me?   Pastor Newms: Jealous.   Pastor Bill: Jealous, he wants to make me jealous okay so here we go here's the card. It says, "Brag to me about the best things going on in the past 30 days." So I guess you can go ahead and make me jealous right now because the card is all in for it.   Pastor Newms: [5:49] I guess so, wow.   Pastor Bill: [5:51] The card was like yeah let's do it.   Pastor Newms: [5:53] The couch the card straight fronted you out like so I'm just going to drink my sneak here.   Pastor Bill: [6:00] Nice.   Pastor Newms: [6:05] And then Biggs asked you a question I'm not sure if you heard it.   Pastor Bill: [6:09] Oh, did he? Where?   Pastor Newms: [6:18] The question does he not do you not hear that you don't hear anything.   Pastor Bill: [6:25] Does he not hear that? Am I supposed to be hearing something? Hear what? Here the Tardis noise now I Doctor Who music from the tenure of David Tennant oh nice you got a TARDIS, cool.   Pastor Newms: [7:03] The Tardis noise.   Pastor Bill: [7:04] Can you hold the doors up to the camera so I can see which one it's modeled after, yeah it is it's David Tennant's Tardis it's a Tenth Doctors TARDIS.   Pastor Newms: [7:14] So it's actually an ornament to put on a Christmas tree, Biggs collects ornaments didn't know was and get that flashy sorry for anyone out there I was not aware that it flashed I had not actually paid that close of attention and so Biggs, brought it he collects ornaments and things like ornaments for trees and, he he showed me and I said lights up and it makes the noise like it's coming in and I'm like.   Pastor Bill: [7:51] The vworp the vworp noise.   Pastor Newms: [7:53] The noise because the parking brake is on the warning because the brake is activated yeah so.   Pastor Bill: [8:03] It says he's not giving you that oh look at that box that's nice.   Pastor Newms: [8:10] So that so I he collects Hallmark, ornaments he's got Biggs has two Christmas trees actually at his house he's got a Christmas tree for most of his ornaments and he's got his Christmas tree best specificity, specificity specificity specifically that's the word we're looking for for Star Wars ornaments, and so he saw this one and was like.   Pastor Bill: [8:42] Yeah this is interesting because the Tardis is self that Tardis is modeled after the Tenth Doctors Tardis right but if you look at the Box the Doctor Who logo on the box.   Pastor Newms: [8:55] Is the old logo.   Pastor Bill: [8:55] That's from Doctor 12 that's from the 12th doctors, tenure so that ornament came out during the 12th doctor but they didn't use it to have doctors Tardis they use the Tenth Doctors TARDIS.   Pastor Newms: [9:08] Isn't that isn't the Tenth Doctors Tardis this symbol not blue I thought it was white.   Pastor Bill: [9:16] Well it it changes varies but you know it you know whether or not it's 11:00 or on because on the other door there's a white symbol that says Saint John's hospital, and there's no Saint John's hospital there so it's is pre 11.   Pastor Newms: [9:36] To be clear Zaydiee I only commandeered your Halloween bear because your daughter was upset and brought her in here, and then left her so I left her up for Halloween that is the only reason Halloween berries in here I did not steal Halloween bear, the Tardis is going I think right in front of my dragon its mouth that dragons math I think that's where that's going to live.   Pastor Bill: [10:06] So for those of you watching live, you can't really see my knick knacks.   Pastor Newms: [10:12] You can see some of them I can see your Tardis that was a night light or something.   Pastor Bill: [10:17] No it's just a it's a 50th Anniversary but you see see the St. Johns   Pastor Newms: [10:24] Oh I see it should it should be that symbol that symbol is not on mine I see I see.   Pastor Bill: [10:29] Yeah because because this is 50th Anniversary this is modeled after 11.   Pastor Newms: [10:34] Oh okay that makes sense didn't get the rights for that one they had to use the other one.   Pastor Bill: [10:43] Better use the yeah the older one which is there's nothing wrong with that I mean.   Pastor Newms: [10:48] And. Okay it is that it's not as flashy as my thing was.   Pastor Bill: [11:00] No it sounds fun.   Pastor Newms: [11:01] For RC for our seizure friends.   Pastor Bill: [11:03] So I'm a I'm a pretty big fan of Doctor Who and then I got a doctor who bobblehead up here Doctor Who bobble TARDIS.   Pastor Newms: [11:05] You are you are and that's why when Biggs showed me he goes you should show Bill and I said not till Sunday night.   Pastor Bill: [11:12] Not till Sunday night and I can get him get him all kinds of jealous those on camera.   Pastor Newms: [11:19] Yeah my thing was very flashy and I am sorry for anyone that might have harmed their for a moment I did not I had only pressed it when it was sitting somewhere, not like, holding it so I did not realize it was flashy or else I would not have handled that and then, Biggs also mentioned this year form the Hallmark his doctor is actually an ornament also which is why.   Pastor Bill: [11:49] Which one does he consider his darker.   Pastor Newms: [11:51] Which is why the symbol is the old symbol is because it goes with his doctor his doctor, his name just jumped out of my head but he's very important don't remember but the scarf the nose the scarf and the nose, for for is Biggs's first.   Pastor Bill: [12:17] Colin Baker not Colin Baker I'm so sorry Biggs I did not mean to say four was Colin Baker.   Pastor Newms: [12:22] Wrong even even I know that was wrong.   Pastor Bill: [12:26] That's not tell was a slip of the tongue I'm so sorry yes the curator well sort of the curator. I'm really hoping that with the return of RTD will get it at least an episode of David Tennant, um we do know that the doctor in the future is going to go back and and regenerate into, a few old faces you know now would be a perfect time to be like we told you that we were going to do it when they have the 50th anniversary and here it is and there's not going to be as much running because David Tennant is really old now but.   Pastor Newms: [13:13] I am I was watching some clip and forgot how much I loved Eccleston to be honest.   Pastor Bill: [13:19] Eccleston was fantastic he really was.   Pastor Newms: [13:21] I was watching something I don't remember what but, the something he did in the clip that I saw I was like why did people not like him like he was so good, but okay so what is your item that is the most thing I don't even know what the question was because I was just trying.   Pastor Bill: [13:44] Yeah let's let's let's reread the question so we make sure that I say unto on brand brag to me about the best things going on in the past 30 days.   Pastor Newms: [13:53] No I can answer this for you I can answer this for you on your behalf.   Pastor Bill: [13:57] Yeah what do you think it is.   Pastor Newms: [13:59] I'm going to think it's everything to do with all of your Halloween decorations and how much you love decorating for Halloween and Halloween themed things.   Pastor Bill: [14:05] You know the only thing that popped into my mind wasn't that it was getting to go on that date with Roxanne last Saturday night that's the thing that popped into my brain.   Pastor Newms: [14:14] Mmm see that was yeah I thought about that and I was like but that's Halloween-themed.   Pastor Bill: [14:21] It was Halloween themed but I really just I really the thing that stands out to me is it was the being able to go and spend the time with that brains and and it was great yeah.   Pastor Newms: [14:32] She said it she's like it better be.   Pastor Bill: [14:36] Yeah the date night was amazing it was really good.   Pastor Newms: [14:39] Where is I don't like leaving the house so.   Pastor Bill: [14:40] Got me it's got me scrolling for events on Facebook and Groupon looking for what are we going to do what's our next date night going to be because it was really good I really enjoyed it so.   Pastor Newms: [14:51] See now that you say that I'm going to get suckered into having to have a date night and I.   Pastor Bill: [14:55] I know I'm you know sorry about you.   Pastor Newms: [15:00] I try really hard not to have those.   Pastor Bill: [15:04] Everybody knows what that means right sorry about you that means I'm not really sorry you had that coming.   Pastor Newms: [15:11] Yeah, and I do I don't leave the house enough I actually had a daddy-daughter day because the other the two adults were out of the house today doing something and so I was like, girls let's go let's go out to eat because I don't want to cook and let's go you know hang out so we went to a couple stores and hung out, so it was fun.   Pastor Bill: [15:40] Hey your wife is right there with you though she says it's two people he out there.   Pastor Newms: [15:46] Technically the whole thing is recorded and no no one's going to give that to anybody.   Pastor Bill: [15:51] And some recordings amen.   Pastor Newms: [15:53] I know so like we went out we went out for it wasn't a trick or treat it was a fall festival I was wrong on that billion when I was telling you about it but, there were games and dunker booths and it was all it was put on by the it's the church that Zoey that rain goes to school at.   Pastor Bill: [16:13] Um I was wondering if it was if it was bigs and glorious church or not but I guess it was.   Pastor Newms: [16:20] They actually don't their Pastor said they don't feel comfortable doing there's this year because of everything going on they would prefer to be.   Pastor Bill: [16:27] Okay with covid is that weird.   Pastor Newms: [16:32] Yeah they prefer to be safe and not have thousands of people flock to their campus and walk around.   Pastor Bill: [16:39] It's not what happens when they have Services though, people flocked to the campus and walk around.   Pastor Newms: [16:46] I can't answer this.   Pastor Bill: [16:51] I'm not I'm not trying to point poke holes I'm just I'm asking if that was part of the explanation they gave like that's different because we're you know we're off we're allowing people to worship God versus.   Pastor Newms: [17:04] I don't remember, my parents told me but let's be honest I am not the best at paying attention all the time so I don't, that was what I gleamed this new soap is so good so one of the places we found, well we would achieve outlay and then there's this soap place that's new, next to oh that's why so for church they have you know a couple thousand people for their Trunk-or-Treat it's so big they typically have 20 thousand people show up so that would be the.   Pastor Bill: [17:39] And see when you're being responsible as an event organizer that's something you have to think about does the mat the shear massive amounts of people yeah.   Pastor Newms: [17:55] And that was that was definitely and I did not like you Bat-Brains I did not like the pictures I saw from you taking Gerg to Fright Fest.   Pastor Bill: [18:07] First.   Pastor Newms: [18:08] Because he's too big, and that upset me greatly.   Pastor Bill: [18:14] So when jurgis asked me about going to Fright Fest this year I said are you sure you want to do that because last time when we did Fright Fest you cried and he was like that was like five years ago I'm not gonna cry.   Pastor Newms: [18:28] Be careful what you finish that statement of don't embarrass your 15 year old is that if that's going to go any farther than that, oh I assumed the store was going to go and he got scared and cried I was like don't tell people that oh.   Pastor Bill: [18:43] No he did great I wasn't there but he did great yeah.   Pastor Newms: [18:47] I kind of wanted information on the side if it did happen to you don't want to say it in front of people but.   Pastor Bill: [18:55] I'll be right back you keep going I'll be.   Pastor Newms: [18:59] I keep going okay the whole point is you're the important one and I'm the, this is why I don't even want to be on the thing, when he makes me do things like this I got to talk about myself now this is the whole thing I'm not good at y'all, I'm sure he loved it bat-brains I'm mainly joking I just like any way I can possibly to embarrass Kirk because I changed by did not change his diapers that's a lie I watched other people changes diapers, but I, and now he's too big and I don't like that and so it hurts my ageism or something to be this old, I think that's what it is as I'm there pausing therapizing myself as I sit here and, but yeah nothing I sat in silence the whole time you were gone.   Pastor Bill: [20:00] No you didn't bet brains has it on her phone in the other room I heard you talking the whole time I just don't know what you were saying.   Pastor Newms: [20:07] Oh   Pastor Bill: [20:13] So what were you talking about.   Pastor Newms: [20:14] I'll just talk about the fact of I I want the information if he did do something bad just because.   Pastor Bill: [20:20] You just don't want in a live stream.   Pastor Newms: [20:22] I need things to make fun of him for because of the fact of now you're making me repeat the whole time you were gone the exact thing but because.   Pastor Bill: [20:31] No you don't have to that song.   Pastor Newms: [20:31] I'm old ah you punk will drink it together, wait for your video to unfreeze one second when your video gets done unfreezing will take a sip together so I did not realize that my cherry sneaks were pink because I drink them out of a container, and then she put this in here and she comes in and she goes I'm sorry it's pink not red and I was like oh it is, interesting you're still.   Pastor Bill: [20:58] So not only.   Pastor Newms: [21:00] You're completely Frozen homie.   Pastor Bill: [21:01] Okay well it's just my video I mean.   Pastor Newms: [21:03] I know there you go now you're.   Pastor Bill: [21:05] So not only did so Adeline picked out this cup for herself right this is Adam.   Pastor Newms: [21:10] Now I'd like to see it okay you got the you got the darker one yeah no it's the same one.   Pastor Bill: [21:16] It's got dr. pepper in it yeah so this is Adelines cups you picked this out sweet little, Adeline and then so this design this exact design except without the hole in the top I also got a drink, thing you know like the big jugs that have the little.   Pastor Newms: [21:40] With the thing out of the mouth with the thing out of the mouth.   Pastor Bill: [21:42] Will spout out of mouth yeah and it's um it's 8 quarts and glass and heavy and it's, black cherry Kool-Aid in it right now because we love but I will black cherry Kool-Aid and so it's like it looks the color of blood, inside this giant skull sitting on the counter and then bat brains got this little silicone, ice tray that's little brains and so I got popped all these brain ice in the top of it when I was making Kool-Aid and so it was just like this blood-filled skull with these little ice, brains floating around on the top of it and I was like man this is like the coolest October ever.   Pastor Newms: [22:25] So I've got the same one but mine is completely black it's got the flat black paint on the outside.   Pastor Bill: [22:32] Yeah I know mine looks exactly like this cup only bigger and no hole and then it's got the spout out of the mouth.   Pastor Newms: [22:38] Women has no hole in the top how do you fill it.   Pastor Bill: [22:41] This has a straw hole in the top you unscrew the.   Pastor Newms: [22:44] Straw hole okay okay I was sure if you got how if it has no hole how you put anything in it for a.   Pastor Bill: [22:49] No I'm talking about the metal lid doesn't have a hole in it.   Pastor Newms: [22:52] Okay yes that's exactly like mine except mines painted the same color as the metal lid so.   Pastor Bill: [22:57] - okay and now would you believe it that we actually didn't go over our warm up time with all of that we're still actually one minute I have one minute of warmup time still to go.   Pastor Newms: [23:10] Yeah I almost feel we should shorten our warm up time though to be honest I've started to think about that we keep come we keep bumping into the back side.   Pastor Bill: [23:19] It's true we have started bumping in the back side the more comfortable that you get with opening your mouth and sharing.   Pastor Newms: [23:25] I do not know what you mean.   Pastor Bill: [23:27] We end up spending more time with the meat of the program and yeah we can we can we can cut the warm time down some.   Pastor Newms: [23:37] I was just thinking about it cuz I'm having trouble shutting up at the end.   Pastor Bill: [23:42] So exegesis I would like you Pastor newms to give us tell us your understanding of the term exegesis.   Pastor Newms: [23:55] My understanding of the term Exorcist exegesis so, exegesis to me is.   Pastor Bill: [24:10] The end move ahead.   Pastor Newms: [24:16] Just oh Zaydiee mmkay I'll handle that later so. It's about the breakdown of, scripture so we have wow wow I really hope I can get a snap of this I really hope I can get a snap of this real quick here oh I can oh I know come on come on come on.   Pastor Bill: [24:42] Is my screen Frozen in a funny way.   Pastor Newms: [24:45] Oh it's so good it's so good I want it so bad no not freeform no no no I lost it.   Pastor Bill: [24:53] He lost it.   Pastor Newms: [24:53] I lost it it's fine I'll find it on Twitch.   Pastor Bill: [24:58] Exegesis.   Pastor Newms: [24:59] It was so good exegesis.   Pastor Bill: [25:03] Not exegesis.   Pastor Newms: [25:04] Let it again, so to me it's about that critical explanation of the Bible the breaking down of. The biblical text to what it actually means so so often you know we take the text at, face value sometimes that is perfect, and great sometimes you need a little bit of extra break down and study of around the text and into the Greek and the Hebrew or, as for studying currently as a family bible study we're studying Daniel not the Greek or the Hebrew but the not are Aramaic,   Pastor Bill: Chaldean.   Pastor Newms: Thank you the Chaldean language that it's written in and sometimes you got to break down that and look at that, and you know one of the times that this came up for me and we were talking about this earlier, is in looking at Daniel and Revelation there's the Beast and the Beast has ten horns and you're like cool a beast with ten horns like Dad be really scary to see and then you compare the, the true like not like the depths of what that Beast with ten horns in Revelation it's a beast with ten horns it sounds just as cool as you would think this Beast has ten horns cool you look at Daniel in the word used is actually a brass instrument, it's then you stop and you go how.   Pastor Bill: [26:48] So it's not like it's not horns you know like it's not like goat horns it's like instruments.   Pastor Newms: [26:50] It's not horns its horns it's the court coordinate coordinate I don't know music but looked like a trumpet to me but I knew if I said that that would be really bad.   Pastor Bill: [27:03] I mean you're not close you're not too far off trumpet is a generally used term.   Pastor Newms: [27:10] But no but this that word horn specifically means this particular specific brass instrument and, so it was interesting because then I started thinking about it and and that's really interesting to look at these two these two authors and they both were given visions and, took it differently and decided to use different words now that being said it's still a beast it's got 10 horns, what the.   Pastor Bill: [27:40] If you think about their cultures the culture that Daniel came from while still being identified as Jewish or Israeli and in origin their idea of horn, wasn't the shofar, a Ram's Horn cut off that you then blow into that wasn't their idea of horn their idea was brass instrument but by the time John comes around the idea of horn is a Ram's Horn cut off that you then blow into.   Pastor Newms: [28:10] So   Pastor Bill: [28:11] And so for John that is the right word because it's a musical instrument.   Pastor Newms: [28:16] And that's the weird thing is because then when you read an animal horn you're like okay an animal horn strong, it's an animal horn meaning an animal horn, but it very well could be like you're saying an animal horn the same as in the so because that actually made me stumble like this past weekend because I'm like okay this makes me a little bit because, like a horn and a horn is a horn like they're both horns, you would expect a serpent or a monster or whatever you know a beast to have with this isn't the serpent that's a different entity that's not get into that right now though but that's the whole point of this you know, even looking at the Strong's and it says a animal horn even until you said that just you said that just now, I was thinking okay horn and Horn as opposed to Horn and Horn which are is a very interesting, thought process that I missed which is the purpose of exegesis J the word you say in a minute.   Pastor Bill: [29:23] Jesus.   Pastor Newms: [29:24] Because it's that studying for the for biblical purposes it's that studying of the Situation's around a situation not just what's written for the situation, and I think it's very important as a culture and often times, there are speakers or teachers or even us in our everyday study IE me earlier this week are just, we miss certain aspects that would enrich the understanding so much and as groggy said making sure we're keeping the words in the context of the the time and the place and the Situation's around it.   Pastor Bill: [30:06] All right so what, is you you read in Daniel or you studied you know your guys are staying in Daniel and you got the exegesis of the word horn brass instrument right, and then you went forward to Revelations and read the word horn, and you got the eisegesis of the word, you applied your understanding of the word to that scripture and said well this is what he means because this is what I understand a horn to be.   Pastor Newms: [30:45] Well kind of.   Pastor Bill: [30:46] But then when you took a step back and took it, what I just said to you it became an exegesis where you went oh there could be more meaning there, then what I understood it to be because I applied eisegesis I had an understanding already of what that meant based off of my, that's eisegesis when you read scripture and you go oh I already know what that's talking about, I already know what that is that's eisegesis what are you grinning about over there.   Pastor Newms: [31:26] Tina said it to me she captured a picture of what it looks like on our TV and it is almost as glorious as it would have looked like here.   Pastor Bill: [31:36] Okay as soon would you talking about because I didn't see it.   Pastor Newms: [31:39] I know I know I know I'm sorry completely derailing, but no and that's the thing like I looked at Strong's and it said you know I'm trying to find the exact at the moment because I, don't over here huh.   Pastor Bill: [31:59] So it's not that you didn't try to exegesis you did you try.   Pastor Newms: [32:04] Yeah because it says the primary word the hair of the head or a horn literal or figurative and like okay that means animal horn so I took Strong's meaning, and and went that route but on the same token.   Pastor Bill: [32:33] So it's big said so now the Beast has musical instruments on his head like what, and not necessarily on his head because you're still talking about prophecy so in this specific instance when you say on his head you could just be talking about will this is the Public Image, this is the image that there that the world sees that the world understands of them this is what everyone's common understanding of, the Beast is that's what someone's head is it's it's what they lead with it's there you know we need to talk about put your best foot forward the head in, in veiled talk when you're talking about prophecy when you're looking at prophecies in the scripture those are usually attributed to. What people know them for what they are seen for so when we say ten horns, and we think musical instruments will this is what they're known for their known for, you know musical instruments or they're known for the other understanding of the word horn like you going with before like an animal horn that would be more of the known for aggression known for war known for fighting, and then they're given ten crowns which then you know, we attribute to you know leadership or kingdoms or they're you know they're given rulership so. Bat Brains says if something is on you it's your responsibility like so, asking if worth it says there's 10 horns on its head does that mean you know it's the horns are its responsibilities and that's that's likely as well and honestly we don't know. So this is just a picture of me sipping my doctor Pepper what's so funny.   Pastor Newms: [34:37] I don't know I mean it's a completely normal face and all very short forms and ideas.   Pastor Bill: [34:48] I don't know that's great, I'm gonna make it my new profile picture.   Pastor Newms: [34:52] I'm going to I'm going to fix it to where it's just zoomed in on you sucking on the straw like that in a minute when I can get to Twitch and actually clip it which I might be contacting groggy afterwards because I have no idea how to actually do that but I know it's a thing, so Groggy look for a phone call possibly because I don't know how to.   Pastor Bill: [35:09] Mmm all right so exegesis all right so when we go to a scripture we go to scriptures mr. Hardy says wait what groggy what do you wait what in about bro.   Pastor Newms: [35:21] The fact that I don't know how to make Clips probably hmm I said I.   Pastor Bill: [35:26] He says he missed something apparently I made a funny face and Newms wants to immortalize it.   Pastor Newms: [35:33] Yes I do because he's just talking away but all you see is, the whole time and it's great but I don't how to make clips from a video so I'll be contacting you about that later but that's why I think that the exit, the Deep study I'm not I can't say the word so we're calling a deep study whenever I say but I'm using the word that's denial of the thing, so   Pastor Bill: [36:01] He hates that. He asked his you have Nvidia he hates Nvidia the Nvidia.   Pastor Newms: [36:07] I hate the Nvidia recording I love I love Nvidia I just hate the recording side of it.   Pastor Bill: [36:17] Okay so the word exegesis let's try to stay on topic here is a Greek word, and it is just sort of a Greek word we're not speaking in English transliteration exegesis is a Greek word that means to lead. And it's the idea of putting a like a leash or a lead on like a horse's neck or a donkey's neck and and leading it out, of a barn or out of the pasture or out of a fence in place this is the idea that you get so basically what you're doing is you're taking the statement and you're drawing out, what was intended so one of the examples that I read online when I was you know studying and preparing and making sure that I wasn't just going to be you know a talking head that wasn't saying anything of substance, one of the examples was a woman who gets a letter from her fiance that is off at War, and she's reading this love letter and she's doing everything she can to go over the words, patience and and attentiveness to draw out what her fiance meant by every state, and this is exegesis when we read the scriptures approaching the scripture from an exigent exegesis. See this is the problem is when you try to conjugate Greek words I had the conjugations pulled up here somewhere, exegetical when you yeah when you read the scriptures in an etch exegetical form, you are taking the scripture and trying to understand what the author wanted to communicate, so not necessarily the face value of the words that they used but considering, the culture they come from what the message overall message of the, complete text is what has influenced up to that point that would cause them to say it that way what historical things went on what changes to language happened leading up to that, what changes in language happened after that that might change the way that you understand the words that are being used these are all exegetical in nature.   Pastor Newms: [39:07] Things that lots of pastors and I would love to say all but I have to say lots or most have done for years you know.   Pastor Bill: [39:19] But then you have other pastors that are are highly, rooted in eisegesis they read scripture and they're only looking for their confirmation bias or they chop a scripture in half because, the 1/2 they know means something different than what they're trying to teach but the other half doesn't, now sometimes I'll use a portion of scripture for like our little scripture bumps but only because of space you know like, I only have so much space on an artboard you know that I'm working with to make art and so I'll say like, 2 Timothy 3:15 a because I only use the first little section of it and the art but not because I'm trying to, discount the rest of the scripture when I'm using an art it's because I'm trying to highlight that, of the scripture and I intend the viewer of that art to then go look up that scripture, and do the exegetical work themselves how many times I said exegetical at this.   Pastor Newms: [40:25] A couple.   Pastor Bill: [40:30] You could also say exegete I think that's the verb of exegesis exegete.   Pastor Newms: [40:36] I would like to exegete some people who just use ice to Genesis.   Pastor Bill: [40:39] ISO Genesis.   Pastor Newms: [40:42] I said isogenic whatever I can't do it man.   Pastor Bill: [40:44] I said Jesus.   Pastor Newms: [40:46] I'm going to exegete some people who.   Pastor Bill: [40:51] All right so I just want to right quick one of the ways that you can tell someone is reading something, according to eisegesis instead of exegetical exit exegesis, so you'll hear this phrase or you'll hear this concept and they'll say but no one believed no one taught that until-- You hear that phrase a lot no one taught that idea of scripture until blah. You're applying an eisegesis you're saying I believe that scripture means something else and I am a I am defending my eisegesis, instead of allowing the scripture itself to stand exegetical, so bad Burns says y'all have gone too far Biggs is saying it's time for the 30 second buffer why are they saying why are they doing that.   Pastor Newms: [42:01] Because I'm it's me it's my fault it's I'm bending the word too much and threatening to eat people.   Pastor Bill: [42:12] Who you going to eat oh yeah the exegesis is the eisegesis sisters I said geezers.   Pastor Newms: [42:16] Now I will say there are situations where I think a combination of both can, where people have used confirmation bias for so many years, that you might hear the phrase this was taught this way for and now we look at it like this.   Pastor Bill: [42:41] What is the and now part that makes it exegetical you know to me.   Pastor Newms: [42:51] Yeah I think that's just a I think again we made it 49 minutes again I think that's one of the failings of the English language is just that whole where do you draw that line.   Pastor Bill: [43:06] But there's certain concepts of certain theological beliefs that I hold to be true, because I've gone in and I've done the study that meets the the framework of exegesis and I've gone okay well it means this because, that's from the whole framework that's what I believe the author was trying to communicate and then I've had people trying to refute, belief of Mind by saying things like oh well that was that was Emperor Constantine that came up with that that that wasn't meant by the author and I'm like, except when I look at the whole framework I'm pretty sure Constantine was onto something.   Pastor Newms: [43:50] Hmm okay I see what you're saying now and yeah definitely there are times that, especially with some of the things that I personally believe you get people that are saying like oh well that's a new thought process well I understand that it's a new thought process.   Pastor Bill: [44:10] That's how Revelation works and how the revealing of the Lord works is through new thought process the Bible itself even says oh those things won't be understand until closer to the end, well if you're going to Discount every understanding as we get closer to the end then you're literally, rejecting the you know what I mean like, even the Book of Daniel and I heard the Thundering saved say something but the voice told me not to write them down and other things that said and I was to seal those things not to be read until the end of time.   Pastor Newms: [44:49] Which which really makes those those are the parts that those particular Parts make me just so jealous, because I love knowledge and I love like finding things out and it's one of those things where like there are certain things about, the world and Christianity in life and even down to how atoms work and how things you know how God designed certain things to operate that, that we don't understand and can't you know you have certain things in the science scientific Community that's like we're never going to understand, we don't know we're going to keep trying we're going to keep breaking it down and they break it down and get to another level and they're like okay we get that, but we found something else yeah and there's those kind of aspects and it's like but I want to know and so then with just knowing, that Daniel had to walk around it would drive me insane knowing there were things I just couldn't say like hey here's a secret but, but then why'd you show me why did you show me I needed you to understand what you were going to see next so you needed to see that but you can't say it.   Pastor Bill: [46:02] Or or they were stated and it had nothing to do with you that they were being sated you just happen to be within earshot, that had nothing to do with you that well that was something completely different that we were working on.   Pastor Newms: [46:19] That angel was told to keep his mouth shut and didn't so sorry.   Pastor Bill: [46:24] You have to live with the responsibility of that.   Pastor Newms: [46:26] Yeah.   Pastor Bill: [46:27] But yeah the science thing that's that that always gets me um like Adams like you said like there was a time where we thought atoms were the smallest thing ever oh you can't get any smaller than atoms, cool cool and then we discovered protons electrons and neutrons well we discovered protons and neutrons, and we're like okay cool we but something's missing if there's just protons and electrons will say okay now we know there's protons neutrons and electrons okay great there's nothing else, and then we discovered quarks and we were like quartz what's the Cork and they were like sound waves, whoa whoa whoa whoa get back that up again electrons and protons and neutrons are made of sound waves.   Pastor Newms: [47:17] Yes how wow.   Pastor Bill: [47:20] How we don't know wait.   Pastor Newms: [47:21] We don't know where to keep looking.   Pastor Bill: [47:24] What is the sound what is it we don't know what causes the sound we don't know okay so everything's made of sound and that sound coalesces together to create items, and even light is then made of those items so light is actually made of sound.   Pastor Newms: [47:44] Mmm, and this is one of those things I'm going to say that has no basis in anything and I probably shouldn't what I'm going to, cuz it makes a funny joke either way but it's almost like everything was spoken into existence or something just saying.   Pastor Bill: [48:06] You believe even if you believe in the Big Bang which honestly all Christians do we believe everything happened at one time, now we believe the cause of the Big Bang was something different than what secular scientists attribute to the Big Bang right secular scientists attribute to there was, and we believe the same thing we believe God spoke and bang it happened and the Big Bang Theory was originally written by a believer, a devout believer in Christ who was a Catholic priest and a scientist in his spare time and he came up with the Big Bang Theory so it's even a Christian created science. You know we kind of all believe in the same area you know what I mean like interesting, but I.   Pastor Newms: [49:12] It is.   Pastor Bill: [49:15] Headcanon now we're talking about you know when nerd circles to talk about head canon like I want to believe it happened this way so I'm going to believe it happened that way like, in that episode of Doctor Who where number 10 they take a sample of DNA and it creates a daughter of the doctor's daughter who then the actor playing the doctor went on and married the actress playing the doctor's daughter and now.   Pastor Newms: [49:38] Who was who was the doctor's daughter.   Pastor Bill: [49:41] In real life the daughter of another actor who played the doctor so the doctor married the doctor's daughter's doctor daughter.   Pastor Newms: [49:48] Whose daughter was it whose daughter was it.   Pastor Bill: [49:53] Um five.   Pastor Newms: [49:57] I don't remember I was just asking.   Pastor Bill: [49:59] Or six I can't remember the name of the top of my head anyway what were we talking about oh yeah head can, at the end of the episode she gets in a rocket and she blasts off into space and head kit and I want to believe she's out there running Adventures, Steven Moffat wants to believe she immediately ran into a moon and died and that's why we hate Steven Moffat because he's a horrible writer with no imagination, um so head canon I head canon that quarks are The Echoes of God's voice from creation, that all of all matter all reality is just God's voice echoing when he spoke in creating everything. And that's my what I want to believe about what corpse are now they're they're more likely, the reverberations of exotic matter as it passes between layers of different dimensional space that then causes those, Echoes that then combined to make electrons, that can't be seen until they're moving and courts can only be heard it's more likely that exotic matter scraping, on those layers as it passes between the layers in the layer Dimensions if you want a scientific explanation Works probably are, and I understand that like I understand that knowledge had Wise from the science that I know and the things that I've read in the things that scientists have said, I get that. But I want to believe is the echo of God's voice and big says we're down a rabbit hole but honestly we're not what we're doing, is where giving example, of doing an exegetical analysis of something and this is what you do, you get deeper and you get deeper and you get deeper and you go oh well this says this let's consider that well this is this let's consider that this says this let's consider that and you put it all together, to get a broader view of what it is, and so that's what you do that this this is exegesis and and it feels like a rabbit hole in this instance because we didn't specifically say, we're going to do an exegesis on you know this topic but we naturally followed that exegetical pathway. Which yes to acknowledge what Biggs and brought up on Twitch which I was very tickled to bring up is being Berea, being Berean Berean Manifesto being Berean like the church at Berea in Acts is, taking an exegetical viewpoint on your own Christian Life instead of, taking an eisegetical Viewpoint and just saying oh well they said it so I believe it no need to look for myself, reject that, and do the exegesis yourself look into the scripture yourself look into what it says look into what they meant look into how that plays into the whole thing that's being written there that whole section, and decide what you believe based off of the actual frame, not based off of what I say or Pastor Newms says or what some big pasture and some big fancy stage somewhere says but based off of what you've actually studied. I'm not telling you to reject pastor's on stages and I'm not telling you to reject going to church because, that's a whole different topic, and we can talk about that another time that's a whole nother topic what I'm saying is in between times that you're in church, you should be owning your walk with God, you should be studying the scriptures you should be seeking out God's face and you you should be learning what you believe, about things all the things and that's what I have to say about that.   Pastor Newms: [54:55] And oftentimes you know using the things that you hear and are taught as springboards, you know because like there's often times where you're like oh I never thought about that, and most of the times when you then start digging into something is because you hear someone else talking about it or you run across it in your personal study both are valid there was a time in my life, where a lot of my religious study was done surely to prove other people wrong terrible motivation.   Pastor Bill: [55:35] You learned a lot.   Pastor Newms: [55:36] But I learned a lot you know it, at one point of my life I was known as aren't you a Baptist, and people would come into my dorm room and be like aren't you a Baptist what do you think about this and so I had studied a whole bunch just to have arguments with those people, now that's not the reason I study anymore is not to just prove people wrong it's to try to find, where the line of my belief is.   Pastor Bill: [56:11] I had a similar I had similar experiences in The Internship.   Pastor Newms: [56:14] I didn't say that that's where it happened.   Pastor Bill: [56:16] You said dorm room that's the only dorm room you've ever lived in.   Pastor Newms: [56:19] I've lived in so I'm going to dorm room I've been in.   Pastor Bill: [56:22] Okay I'd have people coming to my dorm room and they'd say aren't you the guy that before you were saved that it added up.   Pastor Newms: [56:30] Oh   [56:39] Yeah it has a very very much.   Pastor Bill: [56:42] Similar similar.   Pastor Newms: [56:43] We won't get into that here either.   Pastor Bill: [56:45] Not tonight no Okay so, this podcast comes out every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Central Standard Time anywhere that you get podcasts if you have a place that you're getting podcasts that the Breen Manifesto is not being listed let me know we'll fix that. Because we've gone to Great Lengths to make sure that we are syndicated, across everywhere that you can get podcasts because we want people to be able to get the word and to be able to get The Berean Manifesto and be able to you know move forward with their Christian walk, as we say faith hope and love for the modern Christian who's the modern Christian anybody who's a Christian right now, that's it that's that's our goal to bring faith hope and love to anyone who's a Christian right now that's the modern, also if you are listening to this podcast and you want, to join the conversation we do record this live on Sunday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Central Standard Time you can catch that on our twitch Channel our YouTube channel and our Facebook Channel you can go to eight, you can go to ekk.house to check out all of our back episodes of the podcast, and to figure out which twitch Channel which Facebook and which YouTube you can catch us live and when you do catch us live you join the conversation through text chat, I'm just like we've had tonight where we've mentioned Biggs Phoenix that brains all these people are watching live Twitter Youtube we didn't have any commenters from Facebook tonight, that's honestly where we get the least amount of views anyway.   Pastor Newms: [58:29] Well it's a dying platform but anyway.   Pastor Bill: [58:31] It is it but it's available.   Pastor Newms: [58:32] It's available.   Pastor Bill: [58:34] So if you want to join us live we would love that, and we would love to have more voices joining in the conversation because more voices doesn't make us weaker more voices makes us stronger and if something is true and right than it can stand up to scrutiny, not that we're encouraging arguments but as level-headed believers who are, Believers we love each other and we're in the same boat and we're working to better each other we can have conversations about, different things and hold different viewpoints and still grow together and still move forward together, yeah so come join us we'd love to have you and that is what we have about that join us this week sometime on Pastor Newms twitch Channel, um and for gaming with pastors if we do that we can of a spur-of-the-moment thing when we do that there's no real set schedule, you can go.   Pastor Newms: [59:33] Have at night.   Pastor Bill: [59:34] You can go and set that channel to follow and you'll get an update when we do go live, and it's the same twitch channel that we use for when we're going live on Sunday nights with the breed Manifesto so it kind of makes it easier there for you to find it you can go to EK K dot house to find which channel that is, hit that follow button this follow right on Twitch.   Pastor Newms: [59:54] I've no idea I think so yes.   Pastor Bill: [59:56] Follow button and then you'll get notified when we do go live with gaming with the pastors and you can hang out with us and more of less religious more casual setting where we are, attempting to create friendship evangelism, in the twitch Community make friends and lead people to the gospel, in a trusted way where they can trust what we're saying and be a light in the darkness and, a tool that the Holy Spirit can use so that's the goal of gaming with the pastor's also it's just a whole lot of fun it's fun and takes a lot of stress out of, the rest of our lives and so anytime you can do ministry and take stress out of your life with the same time that's a good thing, so you guys have a great week stay safe, last week you said I love messing with him and so this week I got to mess with you.   Pastor Newms: [1:01:06] It's just rude that is just rude.   Pastor Bill: [1:01:09] Do you want to say it again do you want to get you want to say your thing again say now that I've said it.   Pastor Newms: [1:01:13] I'm going to say I'm going to say I love you all and do whatever you.   Pastor Bill: I thought you were going to say, "Until next time..."

This Episode explores the value of Family engagement within the SUD Therapeutic and Recovery process. Several articles are sited, along with some valuable resources available to assist you in your Recovery Journey.  As always, joining a 12 Step Program is recommended and...yes...make sure you are working with a Licensed Therapist and/or a Licensed Therapeutic Team experienced in SUD and Substance Recovery. You're not alone!  1) Fellowship definition, according to Miriam Webster, "community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience"2) American Academy of Pediatrics, SUPPLEMENT ARTICLE: Engaging the Family in the Care of Young Adults With Substance Use Disorders3) Addiction Medicine Journal, To Improve Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Treatment and Recovery: Engage the Family (access may require a subscription)4) Recovery Definition of CRAFT5) Recovery Research Institute, Family and Friends Matter in Recovery 6) Faces and Voices of Recovery organization website7) Life in Recovery Survey8) Association of Recovery in Higher Education9) Measuring capital in active addiction and recovery: the development of the strengths and barriers recovery scale (SABRS)10) Virtual Recovery Programs and Recovery Resources and SupportThank you for listening and please visit www.siblinghoodofrecovery.com for free resources, links to organizations, groups and individuals who can offer help in the Journey of Recovery towards healing from substance use disorders. If you like this Podcast, please leave a rating on wherever you're listening. It will help to get the word out. If there is one message I can leave you with, the best you can offer your loved one battling addiction is love and a healthier you. Walk gently, my friend.

authentic (from Miriam Webster): real or genuine : not copied or false : true and accurate.  When it comes to authentic people I think that definition is a bit simplistic. It is a little harder to define, but like a great photograph you just know it when you see it.  I used to play golf so pulling this movie clip from the archives.  Listen to the sage, Bagger Vance and what he says about authenticity.   As always I'd love it if you head over to soulcrafttribe.com to sign up for our email.  No spammy crap just useful stuff and we'll let you know when the latest episode drops.  Sincerely, Brian Ehrlich     

Forgiveness is for YOU. Sally uses research and examples from her own life to guide you through today's topic. She gives background info on forgiveness, as well as tips to get started. Like the podcast? Subscribe, write a 5 star review and share with a friend! RESOURCES: Definition of "forgiveness." Miriam-Webster. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgive Raab, Diana. "Deep Secrets and Inner Child Healing." Psychology Today, 2018. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-empowerment-diary/201808/deep-secrets-and-inner-child-healing Weir, Kristin. "Forgiveness can improve mental and physical health." American Psychological Association, 2017. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/01/ce-corner FIND SALLY: www.patreon.com/sallyharveyanderson IG: @sallyharveyanderson

Htp (Peace) Thank you for joining House of Nekhbet. What is a Priestess? She is an acknowledged woman authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religious or spiritual practice. A woman regarded as a leader (as of a movement). *Miriam-Webster. I am honoring the path of this woman by introducing elements of my own story and journey to embrace the calling of wise womanhood. Honoring the rites of passages, both gently and forced by the universe, as well as supported through accepted initiations in to womb-mysteries. As the Yin principle and the feminine aspect to manifest from what is hidden. I welcome you to join me in space surrounding this topic regarding what it means to embrace and yield to your calling as doorway to divine process. Homage to the Divine Mother in all her forms and to the women that abide to her calling. Shm m Htp (I go in peace) Nekbhet Contact:houseofnekhbet@gmail.com IG: @soltree_healing @house_of_nekhbet --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/houseofnekhbet/message

Miriam Webster defines the word too as to an excessive degree or to such a degree as to be https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regrettable (regrettable). How many times has that word held you back? As in saying to yourself I'm too old, or I'm too young, it's too late, it's too early, I'm too fat, or perhaps as has happened to me on numerous occasions someone has accused you of being too much.  In this episode we take a look at the thought process around using the word too in order to describe our age, our appearance, our personality and so much more - and then letting the “degree as to be regrettable” for each of those things stop us from creating big change in our lives and careers.  Age is just a number, weight is just a number and you will never be too much for someone who can't get enough of you. The Drink of the Week: Long Island Iced Tea and the Blue Long Island This drink is a hot mess combination of Vodka, Gin, Rum and Tequila topped with Triple Sec because four alcohols wasn't enough and a splash of coke. You take a sip of this and your tastebuds literally scream LET'S GET LIT and wake up with a hangover and regret. If you want another equally hangover inducing variant, you can swap out the triple sec for blue curacao and the coke for sprite viola you have yourself a Blue Long Island.  If you liked what you heard today, please leave a review and subscribe to the podcast. Also, please remember to share the podcast to help it reach a larger audience. And if you would like a shout out for tipping your bartender and contributing to the ever-growing This Sh!t Works bar tab click ​https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JulieBrownBD?locale.x=en_US (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JulieBrownBD?locale.x=en_US) to make a donation. No amount is too small, it will get drunk! Relevant Links: Julie Brown https://juliebrownbd.com/ ​(Website) https://www.instagram.com/juliebrown_bd/ ​(Instagram) https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-brown-b6942817/​ (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIwWVdayM2mYXzR9JNLJ55Q​ (Youtube) https://www.facebook.com/juliebrownbd/​ (Facebook)

This episode is all about mining one precious resource, COMMITMENT.   The dictionary defines Commitment as “The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.” That is a very neat and tidy way to explain such a dynamic spectrum of being!  I see commitment as a sliding scale, and I see the WTMM Team dialing up our commitment to racial equity.  Happy first episode of Black History Month!  We are thrilled to be celebrating, now and ALWAYS.  Quick Links: Karida’s Griffith’s 3RD Program: https://karida-griffith.mykajabi.com/R3D-enrollmentFEB2021-page A Brief History of John Baldessari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7V4GyEuXA Transcript: Intro: This is words that move me, the podcast where movers and shakers, like you, get the information and inspiration you need to navigate your creative career with clarity and confidence. I am your host master mover, Dana Wilson. And if you're someone that loves to learn, laugh and is looking to rewrite the starving artist story, then sit tight, but don't stop moving because you're in the right place. All right. All right. Welcome everybody. This is words that move me, I'm Dana. I'm stoked about this. Um, it is black history month and I have some big plans for upcoming episodes. I am so excited to be sharing the mic with some of my heroes, uh, several historians and living, breathing history, period. I am jazzed about it. And my goal is to do more than drop names and dates of important people in places and things, and just hope that you remember them. Um, my goal is to really put that history into context, uh, to make it sticky and to engage in meaningful conversations around it. So I am committed. I am committed to education and celebration of black history, and that my friend, is really big and really, really broad. So this week I want to start by talking about commitment period in and of itself. Um, this episode will *blah blah*. This episode will pair really, really nicely with episode 55, uh, where we discussed resolutions and doing daily. So if you haven't already dug into that, you might start there, um, and bounce on back here, or you might stay here and then bounce on back there either way, bounce around. You're going to dig. Um, okay, so let's, let's talk commitment. I did a little Googlage and I found that the online dictionary, I believe it was Miriam Webster says commitment is defined as the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause activity, et cetera. Commitment is defined as the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, et cetera. Now, I like to think of commitment. Um, the state or quality of dedication as being a sliding scale, there are degrees of commitment to a thing. So maybe, maybe zero is like, not at all committed no effort or interest in a cause or activity. This is my ballet slippers still in a bag in my closet, but actually then again, that again. Now that I say that out loud, I do have ballet slippers in a bag in my closet. So maybe I would give that like a 0.001 on the commitment scale. It is, it is like the essence of commitment. Like maybe it rubbed elbows with commitment, but it isn't actually commitment. It is the intent of being committed, but not committed itself. Um, anyways, on, on that sliding scale, zero is, you know, zero action, zero effort, and 10 is absolutely possessed, all in, interested, invested and activated, taking massive action toward a cause or activity. In this metric of measurement, Um, I would place Beyonce, Superbowl halftime show performance from 2013 at an 11. Um, by the way, I'm not a football fan, but I did recently watch all of the recorded Superbowl halftime shows in history that are on the internet. Um, I learned so, so, so much by

www.kaiehnes.com Ep34 Miracles and The Soul Hello and Welcome to the Way of the Emotional Warrior Podcast. My name is Kai Ehnes and today we will be answering the question of: Soul baby, you've got to have soul. The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says: “Being Born is a miracle, so what are you going to do with your Life? Picture that for a moment. Statistically and spiritually we are all miracles by being born. So, that makes your life your birthright. You were given this. Next, he asks what we are going do with this unfolding and uncovering of ourselves, called life. What are we going to do with it? Hm…this is super interesting when the context of yourself is that you are a miracle. The Miriam-Webster dictionary defines a miracle as an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs. Wow…according to this, our birth is such an extraordinary event that the divine is involved. I know babies are cute and amazing but add the notion that the baby is divine manifestation!!! Amazing. So, let's look at this through the eyes of the Emotional Warrior. We develop through the stages of early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and old age…which is an amazing life span. Next, we keep asking ourselves…why are we here? What are we supposed to do? Why do certain things and events happen to me? The questions about our existence are really never ending. However, what I would say regarding our emotions is that we have gifts that allow us to experience this world on multiple levels. Not only do have the gift of the physical life, we also have the ability to live special lives. Special lives you say?? Yes, grasshopper…special lives. Here is something I wrote on a cocktail napkin in 2004. Soul…at the moment of creation, the body, at conception, wraps around a piece of the whole, which I think is the soul. The soul stays dormant in the body until there is a spark, a spiritual epiphany. At that point the awareness of your relationship with the whole/all emerges. This is spiritual consciousness. It requires effort to stay conscious. Through ritual we reconnect and stay connected to the whole.   I recently found this in a drawer and see in light of the miracle of being born in a whole new light. Our purpose is really quite simple. We are miracles and our job is to experience and live a miraculous life. To me, this makes for such a beautiful experience. Look at the moments in your life and see their miraculous value, their miraculous purpose just for you. This is super empowering. An Emotional Warrior can wear this wisdom as a second skin of sorts. Every day is really about living a miraculous life. Notice those special things. Empower yourself. This is what is in your ability to control. We have been so conditioned to open the floodgates for toxicity to enter into our system that it just seems natural and eventually becomes our reality. As it turns out though you can absolutely change your inside world. Start by double checking if what the toxic events coming your way are actually welcome guests in your life. If not, then start to develop techniques to keep them out. One such technique is to build up your own positivity and resilience. Remember kaizen steps of continuous improvement. One small step at a time. Your reality is your domain…therefore your experience of the miraculous is also your own. I did want to bring in some neuroscience. Nils J. Bergman discusses the neuroscience of birth – the case for zero separation. His main point is that newborns should be completely connected to the mother. He calls this zero separation. His article claims the following:  Currently, Western maternal and neonatal care are to a large extent based on routine separation of mother and infant. There is no scientific rationale for this practice, instead, there is a case for Zero Separation of mother and newborn. For the infant, Support this podcast

In this episode, I welcome Tessa Priem! Tessa is a solo dance artist and the creator of "Inner Reformation: An Autobiography Danced." She shares about her journey from a massive health crisis to healing and redemption, and the way that the arts helped her navigate it all. (Fun fact: this episode's cover image is of Tessa and is her show's promotional photo!) Get in touch with Tessa Priem: https://www.innerreformation.org/ | https://www.facebook.com/innerreformation | https://www.instagram.com/innerreformation/ | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYoSv7-yyBnOc1C9j2sJ-NA Support Artfully Told: www.paypal.me/elevateartArtfully Told links: www.facebook.com/artfullytold | www.artfullytold.podbean.com | elevateartskc@gmail.comGet a free audiobook through Audible!  http://www.audibletrial.com/ArtfullyToldSchedule your interview with Artfully Told! https://calendly.com/artfullytold/podcast-interview Episode 31 - Tessa PriemLindsey Dinneen: Hello, and welcome to Artfully Told, where we share true stories about meaningful encounters with art.[00:00:07] Krista: I think artists help people have different perspectives on every aspect of life.[00:00:13] Roman: All I can do is put my part out into the world.[00:00:16] Elizabeth: It doesn't have to be perfect the first time. It doesn't have to be perfect ever really. I mean, as long as you, and you're enjoying doing it and you're trying your best, that can be good enough.[00:00:24] Elna: Art is something that you can experience with your senses and that you just experiences as so beautiful.[00:00:32] Lindsey Dinneen: Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Artfully Told. I'm your host Lindsey, and I am so excited to have as my guest today, the lovely Tessa Priem. She is a solo dance artist, and we had the privilege of meeting at the Kansas City Fringe Festival several years ago. But thank you so much for being here.[00:00:53] Tessa Priem: Thank you, Lindsey. Thank you for having me.[00:00:57]Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, of course I would love if you don't mind sharing just a little bit about who you are and maybe your background in dance and sort of the arts and, and go from there.[00:01:09] Tessa Priem: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense because I'm not really known. I frequently say I'm a big, fat nobody. So I live near Kansas City. And in fact, I've lived near Kansas City for just over a decade. Lindsey, so you and I met at the Fringe Festival in 2018, in the summer of 2018. And so by that time I lived near Kansas City for eight years. But when we met, that was literally the first like, I believe maybe it was in 2017 that I started stepping out into the artists' community in Kansas City. So it took me a long time to even start connecting with artists, even though I live so close to such a, an amazing city that supports the arts so well. So as you highlighted, we, you and I, met at the Kansas City Fringe Festival. And, to give a bit of my background, I grew up studying dance. I wouldn't say my training as a child was necessarily super by any means at all. But I had this great love for it. I loved to perform, and performing for an audience is probably one of my most favorite things to do as a kid and as a youth, especially in high school.[00:02:46] So I went on and I studied modern dance in college. And then I danced with a small company in St. Louis for about five years. And then I went on a long hiatus from performing probably about nine years, maybe just a little over nine years. And, in that time I moved to Kansas City and I experienced a health collapse. I experienced a physical health collapse, but before that I experienced a mental, I experienced severe depression. So I just had a lot of things in life that, that went pretty terribly for a number of years. And I stopped dancing altogether in that time. So, my answer is already getting quite long. There's so much more I could share, but kind of to wrap it up, Lindsey is that throughout my health collapse, during my health collapse, it began in the year 2012. I thought I was dying and I'm a mother of three children. So it was very, very devastating to me, the thought of potentially leaving my children behind.[00:04:00] So what happened was, I really wanted to share my life story with my children in the event of me dying. And so in 2016, which before that, I had tried writing out my life story and every attempt failed. I, it just was not working. So I'm kind of, in a sorta miraculous way, I was just standing in my kitchen one day and the idea hit me that I could dance out my life story. So, I had never seen a solo dance show before in my entire life, Lindsey, cause you know, I mean most dance that we see is done in companies or you usually dance with other dancers, you know, or, or at least another partner. To see a solo dance artist was completely out of my realm of experience. So just standing in my kitchen, my struggle with figuring out how can I tell my life story to my children, the writing isn't going well, that idea literally just hit me. "You can dance out your life story." And so, that's what I started October 31st, 2016. And it took almost a full two years to get the dance together.[00:05:27] And it debuted July, 2018 at the Kansas City Fringe Festival, and that's when I met you, Lindsey. And so, so my solo show debuted at that time, my life story danced out. It's called "Inner Reformation: an Autobiography Danced." And, after the Fringe Festival, I had to decide what to do: to either quit that solo performance or to say, "I'm going to make this my life's ambition." And it was really scary to kind of make that decision, but I ended up deciding this is going to be my life's work. And so, so now I'm four years into the journey and it's a journey that certainly has its ups and downs, but I continue to build on, I continue to work on that show, absolutely. But I also am working on other artistic projects as well. And so I'm still a solo dance artist just traveling by myself. But I have people along the way that support me. You know, us doing this interview is an example of that.[00:06:33]Lindsey Dinneen:  Yeah, absolutely. And so, yeah, so I am particularly interested in your autobiography danced, "Inner Reformation" and sort of your creative process and the, how that all came to be because, you know, undertaking a full length show, like you said, as a company is a task enough, but as a solo artist, I mean it magnifies and just even building up your stamina and all those kinds of things. So can you just share about all that process?[00:07:08]Tessa Priem: Yes, I mean, I could talk for hours about this. Yes. So the way I formatted the solo show, directed those two, almost two years, in me creating the autobiography dance. And that was that I, at the very beginning, I set a goal and that was that well, first of all, let me back up just a little bit. When I had that idea in my kitchen to dance out my life story, there had been a CD that I had been listening to. I've been teaching a dance class. It was my first dance class that I had taught in years, because again, I had gone on a really lengthy hiatus from dancing. And in that time I'd had children and again had experienced severe depression, had experienced a complete health collapse. So as I was standing in my kitchen, literally my body was still quite weak from my health collapse. So just the idea of even doing a solo show--you spoke of the stamina required for solo show-- I had very, my strength at that time was not, I was pretty weak still. So anyway, even so, I had the CD in mind again, because I, I, for the first time was teaching this class and I used this particular CD in this class.[00:08:31] And so as I was standing in my kitchen and, and that idea hit me, I turned on that CD, Lindsey, and every single song-- there were 12 tracks on that song, on that CD--and every single song, Lindsey. I knew it, it was like automatic. I knew what part of it, my life, that song, my life fit to that CD, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. And unlike trying to write the book for my children and it being entirely unsuccessful, it was automatic that when I listened to the CD, it was just all clear. And that's why I kind of call it miraculous. It's just, it was so effortless and so surprising just out of the blue, right? So, so after I had that sort of clear picture, if you will, of what every song was going to be about and how it applied to that particular period in my life, for that particular event in my life. I, and knowing that the CD itself had 12 tracks, I decided that I would create one dance per month for one year. And then the second year I would start perfecting. Well, no, no, wait, sorry. I super underestimated things. I thought that by the second year I would be able to perform it, but that proved absolutely ridiculous because working cause it ended up being a 57 minute show.[00:10:12] So to create one dance per month for 12 months, and keep in mind, I hadn't danced for years and keep in mind, I had just come from a terrible health collapse that left me often unable to walk. I was so weak at certain times that my husband had to carry me. It was, yeah, so, so I was kind of just starting over, in terms of moving my body once again. So creating one dance per month, it was very silly of me to even think that the whole dance would be perfected by that second year. And I could just spend the whole year showing that dance. So what ended up happening was I ended up spending almost all of the second year perfecting the dance. And then finally, by the time that Fringe came around, the dance was just barely ready for me to show is quite a crunch because I was still building up that stamina to be able to perform for nearly an hour. So, that was, I guess, kind of the process, Lindsey, have one dance per month and then with the goal of showing it in the second year, and by, by complete mercy, I was able to show it at the Fringe Festival in the second year.[00:11:36]Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah. Yeah. That's fantastic. And it's also, I love that you were so deliberate about breaking down your process. I think that for a lot of us, when we kind of maybe look at a, a high level goal like that, you know, it, it can feel overwhelming unless you do break it down into manageable chunks. So that, that's great. I love the way that you processed through that.[00:12:03] Tessa Priem: Yeah. And I think what helped with that was that the fact that there were 12 songs on the CD. But again, those songs just coincided with the chapters of my life, if you will. It's even funny, Lindsey, that the, even the titles of the songs, it's almost like it was written for my, it's for my life story. It's, it's bizarre, because even the titles of the songs themselves literally apply to what the dance is about. So it's what each dance is about. So  another little thing that I consider just kind of strange and, and nearly kind of, I don't know, I don't know if using the word miraculous is that or not, but that's the only word I can think of, you know? So, or maybe providential or something like that. So, I think again, that's, that's part of what guided me certainly is the fact that it had 12, 12 songs and that helped me set one dance per month. So it was kind of laid out for me nice and neat. I didn't have to think too hard about it.[00:13:11] Lindsey Dinneen: Perfect. I love that. And so I'm just curious, what surprised you the most along the road, either throughout the process or audience reactions or what stood out to you the most?[00:13:26] Tessa Priem: Hmm. Oh, one thing when I began the project, I had so much doubt. My self-confidence, if you will, was so extremely low, Lindsey, I didn't think anyone would want to watch me. I thought I would be boring. It's just, it's just mind boggling to me of, of where my mind kind of was at that time, thinking that I had almost nothing to offer to a crowd, to an audience, right? And so that was a long process. Another, I guess, surprising thing was that I dealt with a good bit of injury while creating it, literally. And so, and this was, this was quite challenging because I only had a month to complete each dance, right? So, so literally Lindsey, by the time, like nearing my 11th and 12th months, I was literally crawling on the floor cause I had injured my ankle and it was unbelievable. I'm serious. I was crawling on the floor and so a lot of the dance had to be, I had to end up, as I perfected it in the second year, I had to change a decent bit of the choreography to especially get me on the floor because I had messed up my ankle so badly because my ankle wasn't used to dancing as, cause I was dancing on it daily. And so it was just such a quick transition for my body to go from not dancing and to have gone through as complete health collapse.[00:15:04] And by the way, I had lost probably about 20% of my body mass in that time. So I had lost so much muscle tone and so on. So it, it, it was, it was hard on my body, but here, let, let me say something that was so surprising, Lindsey, that countered all of this doubt, self doubt along the way. And that countered my injury was creating the solo show was the most joyous thing I had done for 12 years in my life. I had had a really horrible stretch of 12 years. And so this solo show was the first year that I had genuine happiness and joy. And so any burden that I had, almost felt so insignificant, if it can't by comparison, because the joy was just so fulfilling and uplifting, and I needed that so badly in life, I needed that so badly.[00:16:07]Another thing that was surprising is, because this was such a big goal of creating a solo show, creating all 12 dances in 12 months, you know, and having never seen a single solo show in my life. So I didn't know what I was doing. And furthermore, I am not one to open up easily to people about certain events of my life. So the fact that I was even making a solo show about my life story and was even considering opening that up to my own family, let alone the public, was like insanity to me, right? So, there were so many times along this journey throughout these two years where it really seemed that the solo show might not come together because my ankle was too messed up.[00:16:52] Or, there was a particular event when I was six months in this solo show, I ended up having sort of a screening of it. And I invited about 40 people to come and I was halfway through building the dance. So I had six dances done and they were going to come, about 40 people, and they were going to watch me dance because I wanted their feedback to know, "Is this just a stupid project?" I wanted to know, "Are people going to be bored with me? Are people going to boo me off the stage?" You know?  It ended up where we ended up doing the showing in the basement of my home. And so, because we couldn't fit about 40 people into my basement, we had to break it up into two showings. And so about 20 people came to the first showing. So, and then I did these two showings back-to-back, where about 20 people came to the first showing and then the next set of people came in.[00:17:46] And just to give you a clue, Lindsey, about how weak I was at that time. So I only did about 30 minutes of the dance at that time. I was so weak after the first showing that I literally laid on the floor of my basement. Well, the next set of people came in and I had to direct a few of the men who came to set up my set for me, because as the show progressed, my props change location. But, I had even more props early on in the creation of my show, like a lot more props than what you saw at Fringe. But anyway, I was so weak at this time, at six months into the creation of the solution that I had to lay on the floor and build up strength while I directed these men to put my props in place. And I had no idea if I would be able to build up the strength to perform this the second time for the second show, but here's a great surprise. What happened at the showing was incredible. The people supported me. They were just kind of blown away. And it affirmed for me that I should keep going and creating the solo show that I shouldn't stop, that I should keep going. And so I did. And so those are, I guess, just some of the surprises along the way. [00:19:09] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, absolutely. And how encouraging too, because I know all artists at, I think I can only imagine at all levels, so to speak, have those moments of even if initially, you know, you're really passionate and you think definitely this is a good concept, until you have some feedback, you still, it takes so much bravery and courage to put yourself out there and put your creation out there and hope. So that's so great that you had people, you know, to help you along the way and say, yes, this concept is important and yes, you should be doing this. Well, and, so since you debuted it at the Fringe Festival, my understanding is that you've gotten to do some additional work. Have you gotten to perform that particular one again?[00:19:59] Tessa Priem: I did. I performed the full solo show at a small university in Minnesota. I was supposed to perform it at least in two other locations, but I ended up having to have major abdominal surgery. So both of those shows had to be canceled. But you know, kind of like you and I were talking before we started recording this conversation, Lindsey, the timing of things in life can sometimes be such a gift, because those shows being canceled and me being completely out of commission, totally unable to move, because dancers, I mean, perhaps most of the listeners who listen to your podcast know that dancers or, or anybody who moves their body, you move from the core of your body. So what was cut open? It was my core. My abdomen was completely sliced open.[00:20:56] So, so that sent me to the couch and I had to think of what was next. What was I supposed to do? And so that kind of started me on some new things in my art, in some new directions. So, basically from having major, major abdominal surgery, it sort of became clear to me that it was time to start writing my autobiography. So in October, 2019, October 31st, 2019, three years after I started creating my solo dance show, I determined that I was going to set a five-year project to write out my life story. So, I just reached my first year of that anniversary. So I have four more years to go Lord-willing. So I am currently writing my autobiography to be kind of a companion to my solo dance.[00:22:01]So, I guess that's part of the fruit of getting my abdomen worked on in surgery is that it, it rerouted my sort of plans and my, my focus, as well as, this is funny, Lindsey, but, you know, before COVID, no dance performances were being live-streamed. Online dance performances have always been largely done in public, right? We make our performances in public and if anything, we record it and then afterwards you can watch your recording, right? So, while I was recovering from that surgery, it's kind of like standing in my kitchen, you know, and the idea hit me that I could dance out my life story, and it kind of, similar way I thought, because I'm a mom so I know that I, it's not very feasible for me to travel around like most companies do or like most solo artists do they travel around and they perform their shows. And I knew that's not something I can can do in my situation as, as a parent. And as a parent, I homeschool my children, so I just knew that wasn't feasible.[00:23:27] So I had to think of, "Well, what can I do? What can I do?" And so I thought, literally, Lindsey, I've been working on this for probably 10 months. If not close to a year, I had been working to make my solo show live through. And I was keeping it a secret. I was keeping it a secret because I thought everybody's going to beat me to the punch. And now I think what I learned is anytime I have an idea, there's just really no reason for me to keep it secret because it's just, it's just silly to keep a great idea to yourself, I suppose. But anyway, so what happened literally overnight? It was March 13th this year, 2020. Overnight, the digital dance world was born, Lindsey, and I saw it happen online.  The whole dance community has entirely changed and everybody has shifted to online and online performances. So, so at that point there was no need for me to keep anything secret anymore that I was trying to build a live stream solo show.[00:24:25] So, so that was, that was kind of just a funny thing. And, the world was sort of ripe for things to go digital because we have these digital devices and it is totally possible to live stream things. And so that's, I think kind of an interesting and neat thing about COVID, but it doesn't  replace meeting in public and being able to be together. That's for sure. But to move on from the solo show and from writing the autobiography, the other thing that I actually stumbled into is, last August, 2019, I was preparing for a gig. I was going to be performing at Johnson County Public Library in Kansas City.  The event coordinator, his name is Joseph, he saw my solo show at the, at the Kansas City Fringe Festival. And, the library was going to be doing a theme throughout the year regarding mental health. And of course my solo show deals a lot with mental health and so he asked me to come there. So what happened is I was rehearsing for this gig to perform at the Johnson County Public Library, and lo and behold, I ended up in a park on a beautiful sunny day and I recorded myself dancing outside ,Lindsey. And when I got home, I was blown away by what I saw. Because I saw how absolutely gorgeous it was to dance outside in the wind and in the sunshine, and to see these big fluffy white clouds in the sky and to see like soaring hawks in the air as I was dancing.[00:26:05] And so my jaw just dropped open when I got home and looked at the footage. So I started a new goal. I started a goal that I would dance outside once per month and would capture the footage. And I did that for an entire year So that's what I did. And then I finished that July, 2020. So half of the filming that I did was filmed during the time of COVID actually, which worked out pretty well because I was just dancing in open spaces,  So I was just going to public places, and I didn't have to worry about running into people too much or anything like that. And, and so it just worked out quite well. I was able to film all 12 months and I filmed on my humble computer camera because that's the only resource that I had at the time. So computer cameras, as we know, aren't that great with capturing video because it's just this tiny, tiny lens that's letting in light. But what happened, Lindsey, was when I went outside into the natural light, somehow this tiny little lens that light poured through, and it was able to capture my dancing in such an unbelievable way.[00:27:22] So then I was able to take screenshots from those from the footage of me dancing outside. And I ended up creating three slide shows that run for seven hours each and they have royalty-free music built into them. And so this is my very first product that I'm launching by Inner Reformation. And I just recently launched this. And so it's very new territory for me. And I'm so delighted about it and so excited about it. So those are kind of the things that I'm doing right now. I'm still working on my solo show. I'm writing my autobiography.  And then, I'm working on these outdoor slide shows, so I'm kind of all over the place, but that's what I'm doing. Lots of different art projects.[00:28:15] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah. That's great. Well, and congratulations on this new project and endeavor. That is so exciting.  Thank you so much for sharing your story and your process and, and just everything, you know, that's made art so impactful for you personally, and how it's really made a difference in your life and, and through you, I'm sure to the lives of other people. So you know that, like you said, you're a pretty private person. So being brave and vulnerable is a big deal. And so thank you for doing that because that's going to impact other people's lives for sure. Well, and I do have a couple of questions that I like to ask all of my guests, if you're up for that. So first of all, how do you personally define art or what is art to you?[00:29:05] Tessa Priem: Yeah, so I had listened to some of your podcasts right before doing this with you. And so I figured that you would probably ask me this question. And knowing that you were going to ask me, you would think that I would have thought how I would answer you. But what it made me think of is that I actually did a presentation that had a lot to do with what is art. And I ended up looking up the various definitions and like, the Oxford dictionary and Miriam Webster. But one thing that really sticks out to me from what I learned just about sort of the definition is, well, first of all, let me back up just a little bit throughout history. This has been debated and continues to be debated. It's such a interesting question because people always have different answers. So I think even the Greek philosophers from long ago, like really examine this question, what is art? So anyway, from the dictionaries, I thought it was so interesting how they really emphasize that the aspect of skill. So developing a skill. And I, I'm not going to go into, you know, your level of that skill or something, but, but you know, whether it be drawing or whether it be dance or whether it be music of some sort, right? So you have this certain skill or craft that you work on and you end up making something in that skill or craft and that what you make expresses something, right. There's some sort. Of purpose behind that making. And then furthermore, beyond that sort of purpose, whatever it might be, that can be so varied.[00:30:56] It's so varied for each artist, but from that purpose of whatever you've made, usually after that, that work, that creation is often shared with others, usually. Not always, not always, but it's often shared. So those were just some aspects that I thought were really interesting about what is art, you know, it's kind of, it's this skill or craft that people have that people work on and they pour themselves into it and they make whatever it is that they, that they need to create. And often then they share that work. Not always, but, but frequently that's what happens. And then what happens from that is that the audience in some way responds. And so, I guess that's kind of, maybe that's art, it's, it's making something. And then you go on to either just keep it to yourself, which is special, or you go on to, to share that with others to potentially impact others in some kind of way. But it's definitely something that you make to definitely something that you make.[00:32:09]Lindsey Dinneen:  Yeah, absolutely. Okay. And then what do you think is the most important role of an artist?[00:32:17]Tessa Priem:  So I knew you were going to ask that too. When I first heard you ask this question on the first podcast that I listened to, one of my thoughts was honesty. Just honesty, honestly relating whatever it is that you're trying to create. I suppose I've also heard that art shows us what it means to be human. I mean, but that, well, I guess that kind of goes back to your former question. But, I think, for me personally, as an artist, like it's my big goal to be real and honest with people as I possibly can. I don't want to lie or hide because as you mentioned, it is very scary to reveal what you've made. It's very scary to reveal yourself. So in that it does require a good bit of bravery. And so I guess for me, I really just try to work on being real and honest, but I also want to be like lighthearted and silly at times too, because I can be a little bit serious sometimes. So that bringing that joy and fun, and I listened to your podcast, Lindsey, and I know that's what you've wanted to bring to people through your company, like the sense of joy and happiness and people's lives. So.[00:33:46] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, absolutely. Okay. And then my final question is, and I'll define my terms a little bit, but do you think that art should be inclusive or exclusive? So inclusive referring to somebody who kind of invites you into the context behind it, whether that's a title or program notes, or a Q&A, versus exclusive where the artists share something, but doesn't put context behind it. So it's completely up to the audience to interpret.[00:34:17] Tessa Priem: So let me give you a little bit of a backup story. When I was an undergrad learning modern dance, being exclusive was kind of like the go-to the way that we were taught. And so the more vague or abstract your dance piece, the better. And this was just all kind of across the board, like anywhere we traveled to perform or anything like that, just kind of the overall education. And the modern dance community seemed to-- I think the way I felt at least--was that we were entirely discouraged from being at all inclusive. So for example, the stranger your title was, the better. The more confounded you could leave your audience, the better. Well, that really bothered me personally, Lindsey, I just could not connect with that. I just really deeply could not connect with that. And in fact, I ended up hating dance--- I mean, that's why I went on a hiatus. Part of why I went on a hiatus for so long, for almost a decade, it was because I ended up hating dance and dance performance because I didn't like how the audience was sort of treated and it just didn't resonate with me.[00:35:31] So, so I knew that at the creation of my solo show, that I wanted to make my dance understandable. So, so I, for example, I wanted to, to give in the program, I wanted to give them a description of what they were seeing. You know, not to feed everything to them on a spoon, but I wanted them to at least get a generalization or an idea so that they weren't walking away, scratching their head going, "What in the world just happened?" Because like, you know, you and I were talking before this, this recording, you had said how you experienced a lot of people who had gone to see a show or looked at some sort of art and your experience with people is that they just didn't understand what they were seeing. Well, that was so much my experience in my undergraduate degree. And, and even after undergrad, people would come to my show and they would be like, we just, we don't even know what we saw. And I felt so badly about that. So I knew I wanted to build my solo show completely different from that. Here's part of the beauty though, Lindsey, that in that almost nine years of a hiatus, or almost a decade of hiatus, when I came back, guess what's happening in dance right now that I just was blown away to see? Stories are being told in modern dance. So I just, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that they were even telling actual stories for people to understand. And so I think there has been a great shift in dance performance. [00:37:05] So what I guess then to wrap up this answer is I guess what it's led me to believe is that both are good. Yes. If you can at least let your audience know, for example, "We're we're trying to be more abstract here." I think it's my biggest concern is when you just don't let the audience know anything, right? So if you, if there's a really abstract piece, if at least they could know, okay, it's abstract and they could kind of like let down their guard and say, "Okay, this is abstract. I don't have to work at getting it so much." Right?  Or something, but I, I do think it's good maybe to have kind of both inclusive, exclusive too, to a degree. That way you continue to have variety, because otherwise we might all just kind of start making the same kind of art. And I think it's really important to have great diversity in art, but at the same time, I really hope that we can be very compassionate to our audience because I mean, we are building things to share with them, ultimately, I think, and I've always heard from the dance community, this great passion for, we want to get our work to a larger audience. I mean, I've always heard that in my time and being in modern dance, they always want to reach more people. And I think a way to do that is just to always be very thoughtful to the patrons.  I guess kind of both, but if it is exclusive, I would hope that there is still some thought about how it may impact the audience.[00:38:56] Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Thank you. Those were very thoughtful answers. I really appreciate that. So if people want to get in touch with you or kind of follow your journey, mayb connect with you, is there a way for them to do that?[00:39:12] Tessa Priem: Yes. So I am on various social media platforms. I'm on Facebook, I'm on YouTube, I'm on Instagram and all of my names are the same. You can find me a@innerreformation. So you spell inner the word inner, and then you spell the word reformation.  If you type in my name, Tessa Priem, you could probably find me too. And in fact, if you Googled my name, Tessa Priem, you would find my website immediately and see photos of me. But I would love for people to join me on the journey. In fact, that's kind of my phrase that I say, enjoy the journey. So I would, I would love for people to come with me. And, cause I, I've got a lot that I hope to share. I have so much in me that I desire to share. And these outdoor slideshows, for example, are something that I would love to get in people's homes and in businesses and institutions to share on TV screens or any type of digital screen that we have. So, yeah, you can find me @innerreformation, and I am pretty easy to approach. I love interacting with people so that you can certainly find me online.[00:40:33] Lindsey Dinneen: Perfect. Thank you so much. Well, and thank you again for joining us, Tessa, and for all of the insights that you've provided, and thank you for sharing your story and your message with the world through your dancing. I know that, like I said earlier, that makes a difference in people's lives. So I definitely want to say thank you. And, and thank you so much to all of you who have listened to this episode. And if you're feeling as inspired as I am, I would love if you would share this with a friend or two and we will catch you next time.[00:41:09] If you have a story to share with us, we would love that so much, and I hope your day has been Artfully Told.[00:41:18] Hey, Artfully Told listeners, I'm excited to share with you about Audible. As a podcast listener yourself, you already know how great it is to listen to something while you're driving or doing dishes or whatever it is. Audible has thousands of titles of audiobooks, as well as podcasts and other cool things. And they're offering a free audiobook to Artfully Told listeners when you sign up for a free trial membership. You'll have 30 days to decide if Audible is right for you. And you can cancel at any time without being charged and still keep your free audiobook. Sign up for your free trial and audio book at www.audibletrial.com/artfullytold. Again, that's www.audibletrial.com/artfullytold. Thanks, Artfully Told listeners!

Brian Johnston continually reminds us that the battle for the right to life is actually rooted in the battle of ideas. And in this battle of ideas they must be expressed through language, ideas must be embodied by words.  Because of that, there is an ongoing battle over words and their meanings. It is a battle reaching a crescendo, an ongoing battle in which our entire culture is now immersed.  Disinformation is the intentional relaying, retelling and re-emphasis of false information: false facts, false ‘truths’ and principles. We are currently witnessing a concerted attempt at a culture-wide disinformation campaign aimed at abandoning the foundational principles of our laws, culture, and society. Brian examines, in-depth, the recent appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. He examines the actual facts surrounding US Supreme Court appointments and the deliberate disinformation that has not only been inserted into the public debate, but is being re-emphasized and reenforced as somehow true. Those who have been given the fiduciary trust to inform the public, not only news outlets and social media providers (who declare they offer a public service to the community of mutual communications (perhaps akin to the telephone system), but now these same public utilities of communications closely monitor and control what is said on this public communication system, social media.  Most evident is the disinformation and redefinition of terms regarding language and knowledge which is so common now in the academic community.  The academic community and other factual information gathering agencies that have historically been focused on objective facts, were politically disinterested and moored in avoiding specific ideological battles.  Alarmingly, even the most historically pristine outlet of communication, the dictionary, and other educational tools, are currently involved in this contorted effort to silence dissenting thought.  We are seeing outright disinformation and intentional manipulation of the words and subsequent thoughts in which the public engages.  Nowhere is that clearer than the recent alacrity with which the English language itself was intentionally assaulted with great vigor and animus.  During the Amy Coney Barrett Senate Judiciary hearings, Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii declared that Mrs. Barrett was a bigot and an unworthy justice due to her use of the term, “sexual preference” in describing homosexuals. She asserted this as a disqualifying matter of her nomination. Mrs. Barrett responded that she was sorry as she was completely unaware that the use of this term was somehow judgmental or bigoted. Yet Mrs. Barrett reflected the cultural norm, such that even pro-homosexual and gay publications had used the term earlier in the month. It was not used as a prejudicial or slanderous term, but a self-described term.  The very night of Senator Hirono’s accusation, the online version of the Miriam-Webster dictionary changed the meaning of the term “sexual preference,” and delineated that it was a bigoted and prejudice slander of LBGTQ individuals. The dictionary was changed seemingly in concert with Sen. Hirono’s political attack! The English language reflected in the Miriam-Webster dictionary itself was intentionally altered and declared outdated and bigoted - with the click of a mouse.   A widely respected and heretofore accurate, politically disinterested compiler of English usage was intentionally and immediately used for the creation of political newspeak. George Orwell‘s description of a dystopic cultures language patterns was employed before the eyes of the world.  Disinformation - intentional confusion, emotional punishment, slander and cultural banishment have become extremely common tools of the pro-death, anti-life culture which seeks to destroy our foundational ways of even thinking and reasoning.  Brian reminds us that the war of ideas is very real and one of the principle tools is to create linguistic confusion, to twist the meaning of words and force cultural assent to these newly twisted terms.  Etymologically speaking, the word “war” is an English word derived from Indo-European languages and specifically German Gothic. The word “war” in Gothic-German literally means “confusion.”  It is vitally important that advocates for life and objective truth understand this tool of language and confusion in this war of ideas.  The Goths themselves were the only nation to have defeated the Roman empire in battle. They used confusion. That is their meaning of “war.”  The Roman empire and its impact on civilization is built on order and principles. This was reflected in the Roman legionaries method of war - working as a cohesive unit marching in phalanxes,  locking shields and repelling all comers.  This could not be used in the forest of Germany and specifically at the battle of the Teutoburg forest in 9AD.  Three legions of Roman soldiers were completely destroyed as the Goth warriors used the confusion of forest warfare and “concerted disorder” to overwhelm those in the habit of thinking and operating logically and in an orderly fashion. This loss of so many Roman legions was the starting point of Rome’s decline as an imperial power although the implications were to be felt over centuries.  Confusion and disordered thinking, lack of clarity in the use of words and language, and charged emotional exchanges are the methods regularly used by those who seek to overcome objective facts and self-evident truths. In the right to live is the first and foundational premise of the self-evident truths. It must be fought for and defended in this battle of ideas.

-The most unexpected things can come from friendship it is possible to find a girlfriend/boyfriend Friends with benefits or even casual sex right from your social Circle. - cultivate and grow your social circle and only associate yourself with quality people - define a quality person - - fun fact if you look up girlfriend in the dictionary the first definition is actually a female friend. But we typically associated someone has our girlfriend if we are in a romantic or sexual relationship which is actually the second definition in the dictionary same with boyfriend. source Miriam Webster - something else that I want to say here I'm human too I don't try to be an inspiration or a role model I just try to love and guide others --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-rubin-mayersohn/support

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE is the only show that chooses not to choose sides. A talk show for those, well, stuck in the middle. Sometimes, you just see both sides.    STUCK IN THE MIDDLE IS: JOSH, ELI, and ADAM LIVE ON: FaceBook: @StuckInTheMiddleShow1                Twitch.tv/StuckInTheMiddleShow SYNDICATED ON: MIAMI MIKE RADIO   Follow Us On: Twitter: @SITMShow1 Instagram: StuckInTheMiddleShow1   Friend of the Show: Brock Carrow Twitch: @prodigalbrock Instagram @brockwiththestrongname THEME SONG: Stuck In The Metal ARTIST: Eagles Of Death Metal ALBUM: Peace Love Death Metal WRITERS: Joe Egan, Gerry Rafferty   SHOW RUNDOWN: Friend of the Show Brock Carrow joins the guys, Eli's Head-On Camera view on the show, Josh and 24 Fit, Brock Never Edits his posts, Video of lady pulling a gun on a lady at Chipotle, Police Simulator, Brock's Incident with his dad and a stranger, National Parks are Racists, Trump Creates the National Garden, Society not allowing people to evolve or not accounting into the evolution that they made and only judging them by their past, Drama with Brock involving the Stuck In The Middle - Voice of the People page, Context Matters and Context is Key, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE, LIKE AND FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND GIVE US A SHARE,  BREAK, Markus calls into the show  to discuss somethings with Brock about his perceived bias to the right, Eli Notices a "hate watcher", Trump is a result of America being a country of Children, Irregardless gets defined as Miriam-Webster, Josh gets a case of Mandela Effect with an old Freddy Soto stand up Routine, Virginia wants to make assault on a Police Officer a misdemeanor instead of a felony, Lady running into a door at a Bar/Restaurant, If the roles were revered, Lindsay Big Cock now known as Lindsay Big Black Cock calls into the show to defend her position, the alleged "hate watcher" calls into the show and actually makes a 180 and loves the show, Chris Angels segment doesnt age well......at all.....at....alll.....

Like a rash that we like Nnekay is back, ready to take us through Tangentown. So much has happened since she last visited, so we check in with her, and how she is dealing, handling, processing with all the civil unrest. We take issue with folks expressing “silent” solidarity. The definition of racism is finally being updated by Miriam Webster. Black Trans Lives Matter protests erupted around the country in mass, and we also try to remember how to celebrate good news with the recent Supreme Court ruling.  Nnekay has issues with Elmo. James saw the latest Spike Lee joint DA 5 Bloods on Netflix, which opens up a conversation about Black veterans, and the legacy of Spike Lee. In the main event we kick it up a notch in our actions you can take on police reform with 8 Can't Wait- 8 things you can make sure are in place in your city now to help end police violence on it’s citizens. LINKS! https://8cantwait.org/Miriam Webster Changing the DefinitionSpike Lee's Short Film : Three BrothersTony McDade- Black Trans Man killed in Police Custody CONTACT USTwitter: @minoritykornerEmail: minoritykorner@gmail.comIG: @minoritykornerJames Arthur M: TW: @JamesArthur_M, IG: @JamesArthurMNnekay FitzClrke: TW: @nnekay, IG: @nnekayFacebook Minority Korner Kids Playground 

Intro Randy is joined by Christa in the studio and discusses the Unlimited nonsense that is your smartphone data plan. Unlimited Data is Now a Half Truth This holds for both Prepaid and Postpaid types of cell phone plans. Now carriers are offering different priorities of data Unlimited Data, up to X amount of Speed where, thereafter you reach a certain threshold, it is then throttled. I have seen this happening for well over a decade, since Comcast sort of did this with peoples' home internet. Remember when we used to buy DVD's and then it seemed like streaming came out of nowhere. That's at least when I first remember Internet Service Providers really knowing where to cap things. I want to put things into some basic numbers – not getting too technical on the amount of data things use. According to Netflix, streaming an hour of HD uses about 3GB per hour. Streaming for the same amount of time in Standard Definition (think of the low-quality video that “Unlimited” carriers often throttle their users down to), uses about 0.7GB per hour. Off hand, 4K is about 7GB of video per hour. Source: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 I hope there can be a balance between companies not being so strict/greedy, while also not punishing user who don't really get to use the data that they pay for. Sure, there are people that could really abuse networks, like if they're doing some heavy uploading and streaming, but those numbers have always been throttled. Just beware of what you're buying and that not all Unlimited packages are unlimited in Every kind of way. I think Verizon sets the best example of how ridiculously-confusing the whole idea of “Unlimited Plans” can be. For instance, they have the: “Start Unlimited”, “Play More Unlimited”, “Do More Unlimited”, “Get More Unlimited”. How about just name one “Honestly Unlimited” instead of putting a spin on things. Unless you have a comparison chart in front of you, you can't even guess what in the hell any of those plans mean. There may even be an extra plan I'm not seeing on their website called, “We've contacted Miriam Webster and changed the definition of ‘Unlimited' Plan”. Follow our Podcast If you're a new listener to the Manly Hanley Podcast, we would love to hear from you. Visit our website and leave a comment. While you're there, be sure to subscribe to the newsletter! Follow Randrums on twitter Like the Manley Hanley Podcast Facebook page.

Let's explore the energetic perspective of navigating these ominous waters together. Thomas & Majona Transcription [00:00:00] and welcome in to the subconscious mind mastery podcast. Thomas and Majona are in the booth. We're back. We've actually reverse locked the door in our audio booth. There is now a lock on the outside. We are locked in. And we are riding out the Corona virus in the booth. Nobody gets in, nobody gets out. We will be fine awake.[00:00:28] It's vented and just know that you have got us 24 seven yeah, we're going to get on YouTube and live and. Boy just ride out the storm. Well, that's why we're doing this episode is to check in and just talk about this. Actually, we have no script, no agenda. This is pure free flow, but I thought that having a conversation around some of the spirituality and the astrology of this might be beneficial.[00:00:57] Let's do it. Knowledge is power. First thing I would bring up is Saturn, Pluto. Now, we've talked about this at length. We had a big event, well, not a big event. I mean it was a minor event, but it was a bunch of bunch of friends getting together at a patio in January as we watched this thing roll in and there is no way in the world that we would have ever dreamed that this was coming.[00:01:24] When we got together to watch this thing happen. All I knew is when you looked at the history of this astrology, this astrological formation, that big things happened as far back as I walked at, which was the 12 hundreds and here we are. This thing is shaking things up. So that's Saturn and Pluto and Jupiter basically in Capricorn is kind of been what's triggering a lot of this.[00:01:51] The other element that you can't ignore is the planet. Uranus is in the sign of Taurus, and when we walk that back, historically, [00:02:00] it historically has shaken up financial systems to the core. And obviously if you are at all attuned to the news or what's going on with this, you've noticed that the stock market is down about 30% from its high, basically just under 30,000 to now around just over 20,000.[00:02:21] That's 30% that's a big whack. That's a big quack. You know, when, when you're in this is doing this kind of stuff. It really makes me think the correct pronunciation is Uranus. Yeah. That's one of those pronunciation things that we'll just stay away from. I looked it up, and if you look at the Miriam Webster dictionary, it's Uranus, so that's it.[00:02:42] Okay. The big thing is we are sitting on two very powerful energies that are not going away anywhere, anytime fast that are shaking things to the core on two fronts. So is did astrology create this or is astrology mirroring this? That's one question you could ask me. I think it's more of that astrology is mirroring.[00:03:08] And this is one of those coincidences of life that I don't know how to explain, but the chart and the events of the news of the day align. I think this is the beauty of astrology though. It tells you propensities, this is where energy is, but it doesn't tell you exactly what's going to unfold. You know that it's not a great energetic day, but you don't know in what area.[00:03:32] And this is something that, uh, I mean we could debate this for a long time. Is this fated, was this written into the master plan? Is this unfolding occur? I mean, how does mass consciousness affect the outcomes of this? I'll tell you one thing that's going on right now that is obvious to me is that every day with more headlines and morph stuff happening, fear is increasing.[00:03:59] is [00:04:00] increasing. At some point it's going to turn to anger, but we are dealing with a mass consciousness that is focused more now on the lower levels of energy. Yes. Foundations are being shaken and that's, that's scary. Yeah, and we've been talking about this is, okay. You had some good thoughts this morning as we were talking.[00:04:22] How do you prepare and brace yourself for this kind of thing? Well, I think spirituality, not religion, because everybody has spirituality on some level is very, very key here. Whether or not you believe in astrology life has happening, and like you said, fear is mounting and it will probably continue to Mount.[00:04:45] So what can we individually do? Well, there's the obvious what the CDC is recommending to do, you know, be safe, use common sense. But beyond that. The biggest spiritual tool that we have is ourselves. We don't realize how powerful we are. We are creators or co-creators of our reality, but we have forgotten that because of the density of the earth.[00:05:11] So I firmly believe the most powerful thing that we can do is one, focus on your thoughts. All those things that have been discussed on this podcast forever. It's very relevant right now because we know thoughts are things, thoughts are energy. Energy attracts like energy. So if you are in a panicked fear based mode, what will you be attracting?[00:05:35] Things to cause more panic and fear. I'm not saying be Pollyanna. You do need to be realistic, but there are always lessons that you can obtain from any situation and you can, you know the book you are, the placebo, I think is, is a beautiful example of this. Your mind is so powerful that if you're focused on doom and gloom [00:06:00] and I don't feel well, you can be perfectly happy and healthy and not.[00:06:04] Phil. Well, you'll start making yourself sick even though there's not a biological reason for that. So your attitude, your frame of mind is incredibly important. So work on that. Where are your thoughts? Redirect them to keep a positive. A the best way I think to do that is how can I be of service to others?[00:06:25] Get out of your way. Get out of yourself. If you know that somebody is needing help, what can you do? Net. Don't jeopardize your own health. Don't do anything risky. But you can still focus on them, sending them love and energy, fix them some soup or whatever. Then the other thing is. Once your frame of mind is right, what do so many athletes, professional athletes, and Olympians and even successful business people employ visualization?[00:06:54] I mean, this is now very well documented, the power of visualizing because when you're doing this, your subconscious doesn't know if it's real or not. So visualize the outcome that you want, not just seeing it, but feeling it with your entire body. Spend time doing that. One of my favorite examples of this.[00:07:16] My oldest daughter is the best manifester I have ever known in my life. She, I just am in awe of her. So she had the flu. This was years ago. She had the flu that was going around and it was not a good one. She got it. She woke up in the morning going, Oh, I think I have it. And literally all day just took care of herself, chilling out.[00:07:38] But all day long she was singing every little cell in my body is healthy. Every little cell in my body is well. I was like, okay, you can stop now. And she said, Nope. Nope. She sang that blasted song all day long and visualized her body whole and healthy, and by the [00:08:00] next morning she was completely over it.[00:08:02] Wow. She's amazing. So there's power in our thoughts and believing it. You don't just say you have to believe it. All right? And then of course, you can bring in your angels, your spirit guides bring in the universe to help you God protection. And along with the thought, just know that the universe in all of its love and intelligence is truly on your side.[00:08:27] It is working for your highest and best good. Sometimes to make progress, we have to take a couple steps back and that can be. Painful. The, the fear of the unknown, not having control. Those are all things we don't like as humans. But if you just know with every fiber of your being that the universe is on your side and you maintain a positive attitude and something happens, but you decide to look at it, the more positive side versus the negative side, it's amazing how much difference that makes in your life.[00:09:03] All excellent points. Thank you. Those are great. I want to talk about a couple of other spiritually related tools and then a couple of physical tools like things you can do, powders and liquids and things like that. Okay. Tonics. So, yeah, we're selling them for $150. But don't tell the New York attorney general outcomist not.[00:09:28] So, uh, but we will tell you a couple of things that we're doing just in the context of what we are doing and nothing is for sale in that department. Okay. So when we talk about additional spiritual tools, I know one of the comforting things about the concept of God is at times like this. When we humans want to reach out to something that we know or want to believe as a stronger power than ourselves to help us.[00:09:57] And that's a very beautiful concept. I mean, [00:10:00] the Psalms are in the Bible are incredible poetry around a heart reaching out to to higher source, to higher power. So obviously if prayer and praying to God is something that you like to do and prefer to do at times like this, I absolutely think drawing on source is totally something to do.[00:10:25] The problem that I have with it, one of the problems I have with it is that when we only do it when we're in trouble, yes, it has to be a lifestyle. So if you live this kind of way, then you're already in communication with source. You're already talking to your intuition, and it's not about rubbing the genie in the bottle to pop out and help you through a crisis.[00:10:49] And that's a very important concept, I think, because we way too often rub the bottle, hoping the genie comes out, and then as soon as the problem is over, where right back Jeanie's back in the bottle and on we go and we just don't think about it. So you know, if you're not in a, if you don't have a daily practice or regular practice, or if you're not really working on your wife, maybe this could be a great catalyst to do it.[00:11:14] Pray, but make it a routine and just use this as a shift in your own life that you're going to take things deeper and broader. Now, another area that you can explore is bringing in the help of angels. Angels are very real. Majona has had a number of stories and experiences with them and has some thoughts on how to bring angels into the picture.[00:11:39] Most people think of angels as either the archangels, Michael Gabriel, Rafael Meditron, the names that we're most familiar with, or guardian angels, and those are definitely two main categories. There are others as well. And no matter what category you, we all have angels multiple, [00:12:00] and they are always with us.[00:12:01] Here's the thing though, angels have to honor your free will because earth is our domain, so they as much as they love you and want to support you, they cannot enter fear. Or intervene in your life unless it's a crisis situation and unless you ask them to, so invite the man, and that's just a whole new topic and area of fun and exploration.[00:12:27] But they are very, very powerful and supportive. So you can invite them to help you. I mean, right now it might be as simple as reminding you to wash your hands, reminding you to use hand sanitizer. And you might just all of a sudden have that thought and not credit that to the angels, but at lunch you ask them, they can do even simple things like that.[00:12:50] They could also remind you to pray, because no matter what your belief system, prayer is high energy, it's coming from a place of love. You are, you are reaching out to higher source, which is love. So it's, it's high energy. It's high vibration. So that's always a positive thing. So get in the habit of every time you wash your hands.[00:13:09] Say a quick prayer, bring up your energy. Yeah, that'd be a good a, there's a good correlation actually to remember every time you do your hands to just ask for protection. Open it up and say, help me. There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong at all. These are ominous times and we do need spiritual help now.[00:13:28] The other thing I would couple with that is gratitude. Because gratitude is such high energy, and so think of your own life. If someone is always coming to you, asking for something that can get a little mundane, but if they actually start expressing gratitude to you for things that you've done for them, then that just raises your enthusiasm and willingness to help.[00:13:49] So that prayer may start out with gratitude. Thank you. I so appreciate my health for feeling really great and healthy right now and [00:14:00] I'm affirming that this will continue. I am whole, healthy and complete. My personal preference is to not even bring that word of, um, I'll say it this time, but I don't like to say it.[00:14:12] Of the. The beer virus[00:14:19] of that, of the any sort of virus, any viral or bacterial infection that might be going around ever. Don't even call it in names, have power. Don't call it in. Affirm that you feel great and express gratitude for that and affirm that that will continue. That's prayer. Prayer doesn't have to be begging and be negative, so hold it, hold a positive thought there.[00:14:44] You can ask like, Archangel Michael is a protection. He certainly would be a great one to pray to right now. We won't go into all the archangels fortes, Google them, and you can see who's, who's going to help, mostly with health and protection and so forth. Okay? Now, another one that you can do is just put some energy around yourself.[00:15:06] So there are some using your shockers and using your energetic body, your aura, if you will, as an energetic protection. These are all the energetic things we're going to get to the tonics here in just a minute. We might have to go to another podcast for the tonics, but we'll see. Talk about some of your meditations that are available.[00:15:24] Folks can download them that you've created already that had been there for a long time, but they would be great little energetic exercises through this. Right on our website, soul-food tox.com under freebies, there's a white light meditation and a waterfall meditation. Two of my favorites waterfall is a little bit longer.[00:15:44] But both of them will help clear away negative energy. That means your negative energy that you're creating with your thoughts, with any, if you do start feeling a little blah and you want to catch it immediately, get over it. Shift your focus, focus on how great you [00:16:00] feel. And the waterfall meditation goes through different colors because colors have vibrational frequency.[00:16:06] Each one's different, so it helps. Cleanse your aura of those different frequencies, and then the white light meditation is actually bringing in the white light that's loving the intelligence of the universe going straight down your core and extending outward from your core. That is also raising your vibration.[00:16:25] Visualize yourselves shaking off negativity and being healthy and being whole, and then you're surrounding yourself with that protection as well as grounding into Gaia or mother earth. Because as humans, we are very connected to the earth, so those are really two really good clearing and cleansing meditations.[00:16:46] Then you can definitely block yourself. Part of this is. Very much mental and emotional. The book. You are the placebo. Bye. Joe Dispenza is perfect with this. If you haven't read it, it's a great read if you are kind of holding up in the house for awhile, but you want to reprogram yourself and focus on being healthy, and part of blocking is exactly that, is setting the intention so you, so you can put a bubble around yourself that is like, imagine I do this with kids.[00:17:17] Like that bubble is your super power and negative energy or illness just bounces right off of it. Nobody can touch you. You know what I'm getting really present too in this conversation, is that what we are really bombarded with negativity right now, and negativity brings you to lower energy States.[00:17:35] Absolutely. Okay. That triggers, I mean, we're just naturally, that's, I don't care how strong you are in this work, when you get bombarded by negativity all the time, which you know, there's a certain amount of awareness that needs to be had with this too. And with that, you're going to open yourself up to all the negative stuff, and it's not pretty out there.[00:17:58] Well, and even on a biological level, [00:18:00] negativity brings stress and stress lowers your immune system. Exactly. Exactly. So this is a loop, and what we're talking about are the spiritual areas that you can use. And I think the message that I'm getting very clearly is that we have to put an equal and greater.[00:18:19] Offset to the negative news that's coming in. So actually deploying all of these tools, and there are a couple more, and this gets into the things like burning Sage or other aromatic incense and things like that, just in your space. Lighting candles, playing soft music in the background. I'm talking bring out all the big cannons of increasing your energetic space.[00:18:45] Because you have to be aware of this. You need to be prudent and you have to filter it through these other areas so when you can come back to your zone, and it's safer at home now than anywhere, unless your kids go to school and bring it in, which seems to be happening now around here, um, that when you come back home, create a really high environment for that.[00:19:07] So essential oils, Sage incense, candles, things like that. And you know, for some people that soft music while you're working is high energy and therapeutic for other people. Crank the volume, right? I mean, what is more fun than cranking up the music in your house and just dancing like a fool? Like nobody's watching.[00:19:30] That brings up your physical energy. It's a great workout. And it just. Brings up your whole emotion, do whatever to raise your emotional and physical energy. And I think that, okay, that's an excellent point. And then you could take that one step further and get an agreement with everybody in your household that these are ominous times.[00:19:49] We are walking through them and everybody needs to be on their game. It's a day, it's a family dance party and just get a commitment around the family dinner table that [00:20:00] everybody, whatever. Issues you have. Get them cleared so that everybody can be top energy supporting each other and raise the vibration not only of your self, your home, but of your family members, your other family members as well.[00:20:17] Now let's talk about some, one of the great lines that I love that Bob Proctor had in the science of getting rich audio program that just meant so much to me is he said something about. Uh, w the line was basically cast your vision, do all of the work we're talking about, and then move your feet. And so in the next episode we'll do a part two of this and we will move our feet in part two. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week I’m answering a listener question and I think it’s a topic that will be so fun to dive into. Let me start by reading what she wrote: Could you discuss “the importance of self-esteem: how both poor and healthy self-esteem can influence our relationships, and how to strengthen it. I realise that this is absolutely a backbone of all your material, but maybe it's worth revisiting a basic.” Self-esteem is definitely a hot topic, and it’s one of those things that we talk about so much that we actually can lose touch with SPECIFICALLY what it means. So let’s start by defining our terms. Miriam-Webster defines self-esteem as: “a confidence and satisfaction in oneself : SELF-RESPECT” So essentially, self-esteem is nothing but the thoughts we have about ourselves. But that’s not how we talk about self-esteem. The way we talk about self-esteem, if someone didn’t have a clue what it was, it sounds more like a physical condition you have or don’t have. She doesn’t have self-esteem. That will hurt her self-esteem. And since we discuss self-esteem in this way so consistently, we start to act like it’s a physical thing we can control and grow and hurt and effect. Not a series of thoughts. We all have the thoughts we go back to the most. The way our brain is wired, the more we think a thought the easier and more automatic it becomes to think it --or sometimes a specific major event will just give us one really deeply embedded thought right away. And the reason I want to break it down for you is this: If I think I need to work on my self-esteem, or I think I don’t have good self-esteem, those are also thoughts. And neither one is terribly empowering. So I want to offer to you that self-esteem isn’t really a thing. It’s not. You can’t touch it or measure it. No two people will exactly agree on it. It’s totally subjective. Can you see that? And when you don’t have a thing called “self-esteem” that is causing you to act a certain way or that you need to work on or that he has a problem with (I’ve coached on all of those, multiple times), what are you left with? What you’re left with is a question: why did I act that way? And it always comes back to a thought. I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know how to be married. I’m no good at this. I can’t learn. The commuter train you always took before you hop on without even noticing. The train that goes downtown to the dangerous neighborhood you let fly by. And you can just sit in the station and watch them all go by. I’m more interested in the person you can be than how accurately you’ve described all your shortcomings. I still have negative thoughts about myself. But I just don’t spend so much time there unless I feel I need to do some major soul searching. Which sometimes I do. And I make changes. So the most motivating thing, I think, is to remember: how do I want to show up? How do you want to show up in your marriage? Are you willing to skip some of your comfortable, recognizable trains to get there? Are you able to focus on HIM and what you’re BUILDING and not on you? Stop riding those trains. Let them get old and rusty. Get clear on where you want to go. Then you’ll have a better idea of how to get there. To take this work deeper and learn the critical research that will help you understand and support your husband and your marriage better, check out the First Year Married course at www.firstyearmarried.com. Join in March and be part of our March challenge!

The 5 C's Of Personal Branding Are: Clarity Cohesive Consistent Content Community   Let's dive a little deeper and take a look at what each word represents for personal branding. Clarity A personal brand must have clarity.  Clarity, according to Miriam Webster is the quality or state of being clear.  When you are creating a personal brand, you must have clarity on the following items: What you do Who you serve; who your ideal audience is What problem you solve for your audience and clients Why you do what you do There should be no doubt on your part or the audience's part about what you do, who you serve and how you will help them, what problem you solve.   This is especially true for people in service industries.   If you do not have a product that has a specific use for a specific population, people will not understand who you are and what you do unless you represent yourself and your services with complete clarity. Cohesive Personal brands must be cohesive across all platforms, from websites to social media accounts.   One simple way you can achieve a cohesive feel for your personal brand is to use the same profile picture, preferably a professional headshot, on each platform. Your copy should also be cohesive.  Think of your copy and images as the glue that holds all of your messages together to efficiently represent who you are, what you do and who you serve so that the know like and trust factor can be achieved.   When personal brands are not cohesive, people do not get to know them, do not like them and do not develop trust for them.  Without trust, people will not purchase your service or product. Consistent Being consistent is similar to being cohesive.   You want your messages, visual and copy, to be consistent across all platforms.   In addition, you want to show up consistently.   You cannot expect to grow a personal brand if you are only showing up some of the time.   Your audience cannot get to know you, like you and trust you if you don't show up on a regular basis.   Realizing this is time consuming, prioritize the platforms you believe your ideal audience is on and focus your efforts on those platforms.  You can repurpose content from week to week so that it isn't so overwhelming.   For example, what you post on Instagram today, can put be on Facebook next week.  You should also publish a blog post at least once a week.   Your blog posts should be 300 to 900 words for the best chance of Google finding them.   Remember that you own your blog so it is very important to have your valuable content housed there.  If you are only going to post one place and only once a week, post to your blog and then share the link on your social media pages.   Once you have created a blog, you can easily repurpose the content from the blog for mini posts on social media.   I am also a firm believer in sharing your content on LinkedIN.  You can repurpose your blog posts as LinkedIn long posts.   This is an added bonus for search engine optimization, SEO.      Also be sure to share your blog posts to Pinterest.   Pinterest is also a search engine.  You want to take advantage of as many eyes seeing your content as possible.  The more traffic you drive to your website, the higher your Google rankings will grow organically.      Content Content is queen!   The 4thof the 5 C's of personal branding is content.   I've hinted to this above, but you need to have valuable, consistent and cohesive content.   Your content should help your audience understand what you do, what problem you solve and who you solve that problem for.    Content is the end all be all for creating an emotional connection with your audience and developing the know, like and trust factor.   You need high quality visual and written content.  Professional photography demonstrates to your audience that you care about quality and professionalism.  Good lighting and smiles can make all the difference for connecting with your audience.   Written content should be engaging and valuable.   You are an expert in your niche.  Share your expertise to build a foundation of trust with your audience.  Be sure to share your WHY.  Your WHY is more important than how you do what you do.    Watch Simon Sinek's Ted Talk to learn more about the importance of WHY.      Community Your personal brand will not be a success without your community!  I am not talking about your neighborhood, but your on-line community.   Yes, of course your neighbors and friends are important, but are they the people that are going to buy from you?  Maybe, but eventually, when they have all purchased your services you will need to find more clients.   Where are you going to find more?  By growing a community on-line. Let's face it.  We live in a digital world where most of our introductions are done on-line.   All of the first 4 C's of personal branding will help you create a community that engages with you, knows you, likes you and trusts you.  This community will ultimately be your paycheck so be sure and nurture them.  Provide valuable information for them, show them that you are the expert in your niche and get to know them as they get to know you!   Communicate with them, engage with them and build relationships with them so that they will not only become clients, but referral sources.  To learn more about me, your host, Robyn Graham, click HERE.     To learn about The Brand Insider by Robyn Graham, click HERE.     To connect with me, Robyn Graham: Website | Instagram | LinkedIN | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Pinterest  

We reach across the Atlantic Ocean and talk with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's Nick Pryor on his work the firm's BCLP³ innovation objectives. Nick heads up the firm's European, Middle East, and Asia innovation projects, and gives us some insights on the joys and hardships that come with innovation in the global legal market. Whether it is regulations, cultural challenges, competition, or setting a long-term vision, innovation is challenging. However, Nick also stresses that it is also very rewarding. Innovation Inspirations If you had any doubts that privacy was dying, the work that Clearview AI is doing may put those doubts to bed. The facial recognition company has scraped billions of images and personal details from the open web over the past few years and has created a database for law enforcement which claims to have a 99% accuracy rate for matching faces to these images. In a recent The Daily Podcast from the New York Times, reporter Kashmir Hill investigates Clearview AI's entry into the facial recognition marketplace and finds a story that is equally amazing and scary. Federal and state law enforcement are raving about the power of this product to help them solve crimes that may have gone unsolved forever. There is a dark side to this power, which Hill found out first hand when the company manipulated results on her photos and possibly intimidated police who were talking with her. Check out the podcast The End of Privacy as We Know It? On a lighter note, Marlene's innovation comes from another podcast that explains how new words are added to the Miriam Webster dictionary. The podcast doesn't just stop with the explanation, they are actually attempting to place one of three words into that dictionary, and are asking for help on picking which one. Which will it be? Niblings? Preregret? Or, Pistracted? You can help pick America's Next Top Word. Listen, Subscribe, Comment Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcast. Contact us anytime by tweeting us at @gebauerm or @glambert. Or, you can call The Geek in Review hotline at 713-487-7270 and leave us a message. You can email us at geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.com. As always, the great music you hear on the podcast is from Jerry David DeCicca.

The CDC has reported that the first case of the Chinese coronavirus outbreak has hit the U.S. The man infected is from Washington State and the CDC confirmed he had it with a genetic test. The virus is zoonotic which means it can be transmitted from animals to humans, but it can also be passed between humans. Dan Vergano, science reporter for Buzzfeed News, joins us for what we know about coronavirus. Next, there is a campaign to redefine something called “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.” It is an entry in the Miriam-Webster dictionary that describes symptoms of numbness, dizziness, and palpitations affecting people who eat Chinese food with MSG. Activists say that this definition and stigma surrounding MSG are unfounded and rooted in racism. Amelia Nierenberg, food reporter for the NY Times, joins us for the campaign to #RedfineCRS. Finally, west coast transplants are starting to ruin the small-town vibes of places like Boise and Star, Idaho. Many people, often from California, are coming to these small towns for the slower pace of life and cheaper housing costs, but as they come in droves, they are bringing the same problems they were trying to escape. Dan Frosch, reporter for the WSJ, joins us for how managing growth is the big problem facing these small towns. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Show Notes This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 24 - Counterattack (反撃), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Japanese grammar and vocabulary, Wernher von Braun, desertification, and a final (we hope!) note about "the birds will laugh at me." - Kotobank page for レクリエーション (recreation). Kotobank pulls definitions from various sources. All definitions in Japanese.- Miriam Webster and Dictionary.com definitions of recreation.- To talk about the ~んです grammar from this episode, I consulted the following books (and highly recommend them if you’re studying Japanese):“No Da のだ.” A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 日本語基本文法辞典, by Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui, Japan Times, 2007, pp. 325–328.“Chapter 12.1 ~んです.” Genki I an Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, by Eri Banno et al., The Japan Times, 1999, pp. 230–231.- Wikipedia pages for Von Braun himself, the Von Braun Crater (not the site of Von Braun City), and the V-2 (vergeltungswaffe, "vengeance weapon") rocket program he headed. - A review of empirical evidence about Von Braun's membership in the Nazi party, the SS, and the extent of his culpability for the suffering and death of the enslaved laborers who built his rockets:Neufeld, Michael J. “Wernher Von Braun, the SS, and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political, and Criminal Responsibility.” German Studies Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002, pp. 57–78. JSTOR, .- A history of the V-2 rocket program:Bode, Volkhard and Kaiser, George. Building Hitler's Missiles: Traces of History in Peenemünde. Ch. Links Verlag (2008).- A broadly positive history of Von Braun's life and career that touches on the darker aspects:Dunar, Andrew J. Wernher Von Braun: A Visionary as Engineer and Manager. From Realizing the Dream of Flight, a NASA anthology edited by Virginia Dawson and Mark Bowles. Government Printing Office (Dec 31, 2005).- Article describing a young Von Braun engaged in what would today be considered unethical experiments on mice:Bartels, Meghan. "Before He Was a Rocket Engineer for Nazi Germany, Von Braun Was a Student Experimenting on Mice." Space.com. August 12, 2019. Available at https://www.space.com/wernher-von-braun-college-mice-experiments.html- Reference.com: What percentage of Africa is desert?- Wikipedia pages on desertification and on Sahel droughts.- Britannica page on desertification.- An overview of current understanding of desertification, from the Desertification Control Bulletin.- Detailed statistics and maps indicating risk of human-induced desertification in Africa, from the United States Department of Agriculture.- A more recent (2015) article from the BBC about the current effects of desertification.- Homepage, Wikipedia page, and Smithsonian article about The Great Green Wall, a project to combat desertification in the Sahel. You can subscribe to the Mobile Suit Breakdown for free! on fine Podcast services everywhere and on YouTube, follow us on twitter @gundampodcast, check us out at gundampodcast.com, email your questions, comments, and complaints to gundampodcast@gmail.com.Mobile Suit Breakdown wouldn't exist without the support of our fans and Patrons! You can join our Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus episodes, extra out-takes, behind-the-scenes photo and video, MSB gear, and much more!The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length. Mobile Suit Breakdown provides critical commentary and is protected by the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Gundam content is copyright and/or trademark of Sunrise Inc., Bandai, Sotsu Agency, or its original creator. Mobile Suit Breakdown is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Sunrise, Bandai, Sotsu, or any of their subsidiaries, employees, or associates and makes no claim to own Gundam or any of the copyrights or trademarks related to it. Copyrighted content used in Mobile Suit Breakdown is used in accordance with the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright law. Any queries should be directed to gundampodcast@gmail.comFind out more at http://gundampodcast.com

Listen and Subscribe on: iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Welcome to Episode  41 of the Salsa Kings LIVE podcast This episode, Andres wants you to Show him how you feel. According to Miriam-Webster, dance is ‘to move one’s body rhythmically, usually to music.’ Andres finds this definition of reductive and left-brained. He dislikes the idea that simple shaking around while music is playing is considered dancing. Art, on the other hand, has a much better definition: ‘conscious use of skill and creative imagination’. Here, an expression is acknowledged, and those are key to dancing. The essence of dance is the expression. Rhythmic movement isn't automatically dancing. It needs to have intention behind it. The part of art that matters the most is the intention.   In ‘Show Me How You Feel’ Andres expresses the two sides of dance. ‘Show Me’ is indicative of the technical nature of dance and ‘How You Feel’ represents the intent behind the dance and your expression through dance. What are you feeling? Are you feeling the music or are you just counting the beats? And if you’re feeling, then how are you expressing that? Of course, beginners do need to count and take measured steps, but that is a path to mastery. These are tools that you need to learn to be able to use instinctively. These tools are useless if you are not being expressive and unique, showing what makes you as a person and an artist different. The most unique aspect of your dance is going to be you.    Andres wants you to hone in on the feeling you feel at the dance. This is the only way you can bring a unique dance. So many people worry about expressing themselves ‘wrong’ without realizing that there is no way to express yourself wrong. The technique is performed, but the expression is always about what you feel, and what you feel can never be wrong. Now, are you feeling something, or just pretending to feel it because you think you’re supposed to.   In dance, as in anything, there are a lot of people wearing those kinds of masks, acting out the role because they think that’s what they need to do. Andres recommends that those of you who do that should instead allow the music and its feelings to come to you, to let the music come to you. Feelings are something you come into, not that you strive for.    Dance is more like stretching, breathing into and leaning into it. The important thing to remember about dance is your feelings and your expression over specific techniques or rhythm. “Look at your idols. Watch your idols.  See if you’re feeling anything when they’re dancing, or are you just saying ‘oh that’s cool, that’s cool.’? Because if it’s just cool, you’re looking at the movement… but how about ‘wow that’s said or that’s happy or that’s fun.’ It’s more of an energy signature that you’re associating to than that’s cool or that’s smooth.”

Drawing is something a lot of artists do regularly, but for others -- especially abstract artists-- it has been pushed back to a musty corner with art-school exercises or early work in realism. But drawing, including abstract drawing, is an excellent way to keep your work vital and personal. What is the role of drawing in your work, and is it something that you would like to develop? Episode mentioned: https://messystudio.fireside.fm/21 https://messystudio.fireside.fm/68 Piece mentioned: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2013/04/11/possible-van-gogh-painting-exhibit/2074219/ Relates to discussion about drawing in podcast about Intuition with Nuala Clarke and Joanna Kidney, both find it important part of their process (#68) Drawing def. by Miriam Webster shows the narrow way in which many regard drawing: “the art or technique of representing an object or outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines” Oxford English dictionary is similarly limited: “a picture or diagram made with a pencil, pen, or crayon rather than paint” “I can't draw” is like “I can't cook”—there are lots of ways to approach it and once you find something that works for you, you may want to expand your repertoire Maybe why many current artists prefer the term mark-making/more inclusive –we've discussed this when talking in earlier podcasts about visual elements A look at contemporary and modern artists' drawings may be enough to open your mind if you are stuck in this mindset: famous ones like Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, many famous painters also have done incredible drawings, too numerous to mention Using non-traditional materials, surfaces, even drawing right on gallery walls— Rocio Rodriguez— Linn Meyers Some contemporary work hard to define as drawing in any traditional sense—for example drawing with wire or sticks huge scale, tiny scale, everything from very expressive and loose to intricate and controlled (Michael Geddis #21) Many painters include drawing within their imagery, done with paint, paint sticks, or other techniques to create lines or marks. Drawing does not need to be a separate category. Why is drawing important? **as personal notes: keeping a sketchbook of some sort—can be drawings from life, or non-referential drawing, doodles, marks—accessing intuition, identifying interests, making observations, noting ideas ** traditional role of drawing as study for paintings/sculptures. Study=exploration; you don't need to copy your drawings—they are just the first steps **drawing may be shared or just for yourself; tends to make people self-conscious like handwriting but lots of us doodle, not meant as serious art, but can feed your other work, it is not unimportant just because you don't include it in your main work **be open to drawing from reality even if an abstract artist but don't limit to that, and same goes for realist artists—try some more abstract kinds of free mark-making. You can learn from either direction. **as personal expression—explore a range of types of mark-making—different media, techniques, range of fluency/control, range of emotional expression, asemic writing **as part of personal voice—discovering kinds of marks that seem like you, that may include imagery or symbols, outlines, geometric forms—use these freely in abstract work Tips for working with drawing: *pay attention to what others do in their work, what do you respond to? *think of drawing as a way to add visual texture *as a way to add structure—to lead eye through the work *consider where a line or mark could make a real contribution, and what kind of mark that would be www.rebeccacrowell.com www.squeegeepress.com www.facebook.com/messystudiopodcast

Hello, Friends! Welcome to all you wonderful, restless, witchy people! This episode is an introduction to me and my practice, a chat about tradition and ritual, how it can centre us, and some ways that you can incorporate some traditions and ritual into your life. And then we have our recurring segments. In RestlessWitch's Community (now called Coven Corner), I answer an ask about what energy feels and looks like to me. In podcast community, I share some of my favourite podcasts and what i've been listening to this week. This week's Witchcraft segment features the California poppy and in the Restless segment, I'll tell you about my current crochet project. And we'll close with a tarot reading that will advise us on how to reach our goals. The transcript can be found here and the photos to go along with this episode are here. Thank you so much for listening, all the links mentioned in the podcast are below: Blog Instagram Twitter Submit questions either through my blog's ask box, or email me at therestlesswitch@gmail.com Support the show through Patreon, paypal or ko-fi Tarot for the wild soul ep. 60 Miriam Webster dictionary definitions of tradition and ritual Brigid's cross tutorial: Part 1 Part 2 Restless Community at 32:15 Podcast Community at 34:55 Harry potter and the Sacred Text TheFatFeministWitch ep. 43 Interview with Mallory Kirsten, the Joy Goddess The Serpent Cast Kava—NOPE Witchcraft segment at 39:23 California Poppy - Eschscholzia californica Restless segment at 43:16 Tarot reading at 44:13

On this meryenda episode, Sigi and Jezzie debunk why Filipinos are passionate about ballads. They also analyze why gallivanting is a Filipino parent's preferred way of describing their children's roaming behaviour.  Sigi and Jezzie examine the implications of Filipino time. Finally, they trace back the origins of why leche (i.e., milk) is a serious Filipino insult.  Enjoy this snack side episode! In the Mix this Week: Florante's "Why do Filipinos love Sad, Pensive Songs?", Florante Aguilar's bio, Miriam Webster's definition of gallivant, Research abstract on "Ay! Nosebleed!" by Dr. Dana Osborne, "Why Filipinos follow Filipino time", Ask the Pinoy's "Why is Milk a Filipino expletive?"

Ceci returns to talk more Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Topics include Hermione’s trademark blue flame, the pools of the forest, “chivalry”, Miriam-Webster, Michael “What’s His Nose” Douglas, RIP? Hugh Hefner, Jerry McGuiure-ne, Doozles, Ceci’s Put Outer theory, Lord of The Rings, villainy, and more!   Thanks to our Sponsors! WIX: Get 10% Wix Premium with code "Potterless" at wix.com STITCH FIX: Get 25% off when you keep your entire box when you sign up at stitchfix.com/potterless   Thanks for listening! For more information on the show, visit PotterlessPodcast.com! You can find us at Facebook.com/Potterless, Twitter.com/PotterlessPod, and Instagram.com/PotterlessPodcast. If you’d like bonus content and/or EXCLUSIVE MERCH, head on over to patreon.com/potterless and for other merch, check out bit.ly/merchon. As always, Wizard On! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miriam-Webster just added the term "dumpster fire" to it's renowned dictionary of the English language. That's how common the term is and how frequent the train wrecks are. Pick any synonym you want, when I messed up as a kid, my dad would ask me, "Do you have rocks in your head?" There are so many sayings because we are so good at making bad decisions and messing up our lives. Why are we often so good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? Heck, often times I know the right decision and still make the wrong one. This Sunday, before you toss another match in the dumpster, discover the "expulsive power of a new affection.

Cant You Hear My Heart beating? Sound of heart beating 6 Weeks 4 Days From 6 ½ -7 weeks is the time when a heartbeat can be detected and viability can be assessed. A normal heartbeat at 6-7 weeks would be 90-110 beats per minute. The presence of an embryonic heartbeat is an assuring sign of the health of the pregnancy. Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.   Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Isaiah 44:2 Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb…   Abortion defined according to online dictionary says, “it is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.” Miriam Webster defines “abortion”  1 : the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: such as a : spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation   www.medicinenet.com: Abortion: In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why that pregnancy was lost. The verbiage on the Planned parenthood website seem to make it seem like its a walk in the park, that its as common as a common cold, everyone does it. I pray for this Nation and every women who is making this decision today as you listen to this podcast. There is no mention of "what's best" for the baby in the womb? None? Its as if there is no exisitence of a life, no advocate for this precious life. 61,000,000 babies returned to heaven since Roe v. Wade. How will history look back and judge us?    Website Planned Parenthood  Is abortion the right option for me? Abortion is very common, and people have abortions for many different reasons.  Only you know what’s best for you, but good information and support can really help you make the decision that is best for your own health and well-being.  No one should pressure you into making any decision about your pregnancy, no matter what. At the end of the day, only you know what’s right for you. (Planned parenthood)  Why do people decide to have an abortion? If you’re thinking about having an abortion, you’re so not alone. Millions of people face unplanned pregnancies every year, and about 4 out of 10 of them decide to get an abortion. Some people with planned pregnancies also get abortions because of health or safety reasons. Overall, 1 in 4 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the time they’re 45 years old. Sometimes, the decision is simple. Other times, it’s complicated. But either way, the decision to have an abortion is personal, and you’re the only one who can make it. Everyone has their own unique and valid reasons for having an abortion. Some of the many different reasons people decide to end a pregnancy include: They want to be the best parent possible to the kids they already have. They’re not ready to be a parent yet. It’s not a good time in their life to have a baby. They want to finish school, focus on work, or achieve other goals before having a baby. They’re not in a relationship with someone they want to have a baby with. They’re in an abusive relationship or were sexually assaulted. The pregnancy is dangerous or bad for their health. The fetus won’t survive the pregnancy or will suffer after birth. They just don’t want to be a parent. Deciding to have an abortion doesn’t mean you don’t want or love children. In fact, 6 out of 10 people who get abortions already have kids — and many of them decide to end their pregnancies so they can focus on the children they already have. And people who aren’t already parents when they get an abortion often go on to have a baby later, when they feel they are in a better position to be a good parent. The bottom line is, deciding if and when to have a baby is very personal, and only you know what’s best for you and your family.       Abortion There are two ways of ending a pregnancy: in-clinic abortion and the abortion pill. Both are safe and very common. If you’re pregnant and thinking about abortion, you may have lots of questions. We’re here to help.   What are the types of in-clinic abortions? In-clinic abortion works by using suction to take a pregnancy out of your uterus. There are a couple of kinds of in-clinic abortion procedures. Your doctor  or nurse will know which type is right for you, depending on how far you are into your pregnancy. Suction abortion (also called vacuum aspiration) is the most common type of in-clinic abortion. It uses gentle suction to empty your uterus. It’s usually used until about 14-16 weeks after your last period. Which kind of abortion you choose all depends on your personal preference and situation. Some people choose in-clinic abortion because they want to to have their procedure done at a health center, with nurses, doctors, and trained support staff there the whole time. (With the abortion pill, you have the abortion at home.) In-clinic abortions are also much faster than the abortion pill: most in-clinic abortions only take about 5-10 minutes, while a medication abortion may take up to 24 hours to complete. How late you can get an abortion depends on the laws in your state and what doctor, abortion clinic, or Planned Parenthood health center you go to. It may be harder to find a health care provider who will do an abortion after the 12th week of pregnancy, so it’s best to try to have your abortion as soon as possible.   What is the abortion pill? Medication abortion — also called the abortion pill — is a safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy.   How effective is the abortion pill? The abortion pill is very effective. The effectiveness depends on how far along you are in your pregnancy when you take the medicine. For people who are 8 weeks pregnant or less, it works about 94-98 out of 100 times. For people who are 8-9 weeks pregnant, it works about 94-96 out of 100 times. For people who are 9-10 weeks pregnant, it works about 91-93 out of 100 times. The abortion pill usually works, but if it doesn’t, you can take more medicine or have an in-clinic abortion to complete the abortion.   Why do people choose the abortion pill? Which kind of abortion you choose all depends on your personal preference and situation. With medication abortion, some people like that you don’t need to have a procedure in a doctor’s office. You can have your medication abortion at home or in another comfortable place that you choose. You get to decide who you want to be with during your abortion, or you can go it alone. Because medication abortion is similar to a miscarriage, many people feel like it’s more “natural” and less invasive. Claims about treatments that reverse the effects of medication abortion are out there, and a handful of states require doctors and nurses to tell their patients about them before they can provide abortion care. But these claims haven’t been proven in reliable medical studies — nor have they been tested for safety, effectiveness, or the likelihood of side effects — so experts like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reject these untested supposed treatments. Studies on the abortion pill do show that if you take the first medicine but not the second, the abortion pill is less likely to work. So if you’ve begun the process of having an abortion using the abortion pill but are having second thoughts, contact the doctor or nurse you saw for the abortion right away to talk about your best next steps and what to expect.   Trimesters (Healthline.com) A normal, full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, and can range from 37-42 weeks. It’s divided into three trimesters. Each trimester lasts between 12 and 14 weeks, or about three months.   The first trimester lasts from the first through the 13th week of pregnancy. Although you may not look pregnant during the first trimester, your body is going through enormous changes as it accommodates a growing baby. Listen to the heart beat 6 weeks 4 days The second trimester (weeks 13-27) is the most comfortable period of time for the majority of pregnant women. Most of the early pregnancy symptoms will gradually disappear. You will likely feel a surge in energy levels during the daytime and be able to enjoy a more restful night's sleep. The second trimester is when most women can feel their baby move for the first time, usually by 20 weeks. The baby can even hear and recognize your voice during the second trimester. An anatomy ultrasound might be performed between weeks 18 and 22. At this scan, parts of the baby’s body will be measured and assessed to make sure that they are functioning. These body parts include the: heart lungs kidney brain Around 18 weeks of pregnancy, your little one hears their very first sounds. By 24 weeks, those little ears are rapidly developing. Your baby's sensitivity to sound will improve even more as the weeks pass. The limited sounds your baby hears around this point in your pregnancy are noises you may not even notice. The third trimester lasts from the 28th week through to the birth of your baby.  Science of Fetal Pain - Can The Fetus Feel Pain?  (lozierinstitute.com) Fetal reactions provide evidence of pain response. The unborn baby reacts to noxious stimuli with avoidance reactions and stress responses. As early as 8 weeks the baby exhibits reflex movement during invasive procedures.There is extensive evidence of a hormonal stress response by unborn babies as early as 18 weeks Fetal surgeons recognize unborn babies as patients. A leading children’s hospital performed nearly 1,600 fetal surgeries between 1995 and June 2017. Perinatal medicine now treats unborn babies as young as 18 weeks for dozens of conditions. Pain medication for unborn patients is routinely administered as standard medical practice.  The Wesleyan Church (11) Abortion. The Wesleyan Church seeks to recognize and preserve the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death and, thus, is opposed to the use of induced abortion. However, it recognizes that there may be rare pregnancies where there are grave medical conditions threatening the life of the mother, which could raise a serious question about taking the life of the unborn child. In such a case, a decision should be made only after very prayerful consideration following medical and spiritual counseling. The Wesleyan Church encourages its members to become informed about the abortion issue and to become actively involved locally and nationally in the preparation and passage of appropriate legislation guaranteeing protection of life under law to unborn children. What Can You Do? “I Mode” Women’s Health and Wellness Clinic of Walton  PRCWC provides compassionate care, practical help and evidence-based education to women who believe they’re pregnant and who may be considering abortion. We offer help without judgment and a path to Christ, both in word and deed.    SERVING FROM YOUR SPIRITUAL GIFTEDNESS…       First Corinthians 12, 13, 14 – Love being the greatest of these!!!   Prayer team -gift of intercession, faith, encouragement Medical professionals-licensed practical and registered nurses, N.P., P.A.-gift of mercy Patient Advocates (Female)-gift of wisdom, faith, mercy, teaching Fatherhood Mentors (Male)-gift of wisdom, faith, mercy, teaching Telephone Consultant-gift of wisdom, faith, mercy, administration Hope Closet Coordinator-gift of administration, mercy Earn-While-You-Learn Program Facilitators – gift of faith, teaching, exhortation Abstinence/STD/Fetal Development Educators for Students-gift of teaching, exhortation Abortion Recovery/Healing Facilitators-gift of mercy, faith, encouragement/exhortation   Administrative Services Clerical Assistance to Managers Bulk Mailing Church Liaison Fundraiser/Public relations/ Event Committee Speakers Team PRCWC Commitment To Care Link: http://prcwalton.com/about-pregnancy-resource-center-of-walton-county/commitment-to-care/   email me: realpurpose.pastorboblenz@gmail.com   References The Discipline 2016: The Wesleyan Church . Wesleyan Publishing House. Kindle Edition.  https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/ http://prcwalton.com/contact-pregnancy-resource-center-of-walton-county/  

Fixing up a house may require you to see past what a house is and realize the potential that it has instead. Likewise you may have to look past the problems in your marriage and take deliberate steps to change things. Many marriages today have a broken and useless love, a love defined by selfishness and unrealistic expectations. Join us as we learn together how to change the love in your marriage with thoughtful and calculated ways! FixerUpperMarriage.org/deliberate How You Can Become Deliberate in Your Love Realize the Potential of Your Fixer Upper For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 Instead of just letting things happen to you in marriage, instead of being casual in your approach to marriage, you can instead take deliberate actions to add "good works" to your love. According the Miriam-Webster.com deliberate as an adjective means: :Characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration. :Characterized by awareness of the consequences. :Slow, unhurried, and steady as though allowing time for decision on each individual action involved. Synonyms include: advised, calculated, considered, knowing, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, thought-out, weighed. 1. Be Deliberate in the Pursuit of Your Spouse. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 Consider the picture of Jesus pursuing you. His pursuit is not motivated by what I do, but what He thinks about me. Even though I feel unworthy of those thoughts. He loves me for who I am! Before I knew Him, he knew me and sought after me, He even died for me. When I was and still am a sinner, He gave himself for me. I remember when I felt the call and pull of His Spirit prompting me to put my trust in Him. When I made the choice to love Him back, everything changed! The pursuit ended in an incredible relationship. When we are together it is like it is just the two of us and no one else in this world. Your spouse is worth the pursuit of love. Look Your Best for Your Spouse As a wife, you don't have to look perfect, you just have to be his. Your best is enough to satisfy your spouse because God planned it that way. You don't have to be Barbie, you just have to be you for him. Give the best that you have for your spousr Do you remember when you were dating or courting?

Download Kyle and Joe interview Robert Forte who has been around the psychedelic world for decades as a writer, facilitator and researcher. He has known or has worked with most of the biggest names in psychedelic history including Dr. Stanislav Grof and Timothy Leary among others. The interview covers a lot of ground and will likely ruffle some feathers. Robert has extensively studied the history of psychedelics and has drawn some conclusions about the origins of the field. Psychedelics as Weapons From the early days, scientists have been working with psychedelics to weaponize them. From project artichoke to MK Ultra, the US government and many foreign governments have spent a tremendous amount of effort researching these powerful compounds and likely still are. Robert states that various governments particularly the United States government have groups that are using drugs to derange the public to make it easier for these groups to meet their desired outcomes - less democracy, increased plutocratic power, etc. Think Brave New World and Brave New World Revisitied. Deranged from Miriam Webster: 1: mentally unsound : crazy2: disturbed or disordered in function, structure, or condition My leg was propped up on a library chair at the time, as it was too deranged to bend.3: wildly odd or eccentric He makes a compelling argument, but we want you the listener and reader to "Think for Yourself and Question Authority". That was a Leary line that we think is valuablein situations like this. Read books on the subject, question the purpose behind them, think critically and see where you want to go with it. After recording this interview Joe Moore read the amazing and comprehensive 2016 history The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government. The book filled in some gaps for me (Joe) but didn't really change my mind much on the topic of psychedelics specifically. Please enjoy the episode and if you want to discuss it, please join us at our facebook group here. Links & Show Notes    Colin Ross - Researcher Psychiatrist John Potash | Drugs as Weapons Against Us MK Ultra - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Acid Hype -American News Media and the Psychedelic Experience (History of Communication)   Henry Luce Theodore Shackley - CIA Officer Reinhard Galen Samuel Russell - Russell Trust opium skull and bones Brave new world revisited - https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/ Entheogens and the Future of Religion The Devil's Chessboard Allen Dulles 10 Global Businesses That Worked with the Nazis http://www.businesspundit.com/10-global-businesses-that-worked-with-the-nazis/2/ JP Morgan Bank complicit in financial crimes in WWII The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade Mossad Israeli Mafia One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church  J. Tony Serra (born December 30, 1934) is an American civil rights lawyer, activist and tax resister from San Francisco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Serra  About Robert Forte James Fadiman calls Robert Forte, “a major but not well known hero of the psychedelic movement.”  A scholar, editor, publisher, professor, researcher of the subject for over 3 decades, Forte has come to some disturbing realizations about the psychedelic renaissance that he helped to start.  Huston Smith called his first book, Entheogens and the Future of Religion, “the best single inquiry into the religious significance of chemically occasioned mystical experience that has yet appeared.” Forte was introduced to psychedelics in 1980 by Frank Barron, who initiated Timothy Leary and started the Harvard Psilocybin Project with him. From the University of California Forte was invited to Esalen to study with Stanislav Grof, before going to the University of Chicago to study the history and psychology of religion under Mircea Eliade. Over the years Forte has worked closely with many of the most prominent leaders of the psychedelic movement, including R. G. Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Alexander Shulgin, Claudio Naranjo, and many others. His early MDMA research in 1981-85 turned on 100s of people to this new medicine. Though this project led to the creation of MAPS, Forte is a vocal critic of MAPS government collusion and deceptive policies. His second book is a rounded view of Timothy Leary, Outside Looking In:  Appreciations, Castigations, Reminiscences.  He first experienced ayahuasca in 1988, and conducted ayahuasca research with cancer patients in Peru, yet he is now suspicious of the globalizing of ayahuasca as an form of “spiritual colonialism.”   He is a enthusiastic supporter of conscious, independent psychedelic healing and recreation, and an equally fierce opponent of  psychedelics for mind control, profiteering, and social engineering by political and economic elites.

Jesse is back and this episode is all about our favorite subject: DND! Miriam Webster added a few new words/phrases to the dictionary, lawyers in Utah are being bombarded with porn, and we give you all some overdue updates about the podcast. SO to our podcast promo of the week, Jake and Tom Conquer!

Before Six Feats Under, there was the LP Subforum on Something Awful. From humble beginnings of tossing ideas around in the Freelance Astronauts guest chat, we got our start with this very Let's Play! Now, it is rough around the edges... so we are very lucky to have a special guest editor to polish it up! Please welcome..... Aschlin! (Tumblr) Herein sealed are episodes 2, 3, and 4 because epsidoe 1 was never recorded. That's right, we were that green! By the way, don't go into this expecting a nice ending. Of D&D4e's 30 level progression, we only made it to 20! As you know, Feats is designed to explore games other than the public knowledge-dominating D&D. But, people really really like these characters. Perhaps you will, too! Because these episodes are so early and immature, if you hear anything offensive, please let me and Aschlin know. Enjoy the show! A band of misfits and chaos led by Joey Hoofsz (Wolfshirt) and challenged by DM Syrg find themselves "accidentally" "inheriting" a caravan that houses a mighty portal device. Tagging along are the likes of the wise-talking Kensington R. Killjoy (Plaz? more like Ikks), book-loving Miriam Webster (medibot), the fierce paladin Asalyn (Lava Lamp Goddess) and friendly lovable Bananaramawicz (General Ironicus). After agreeing to assist a dragon in captivity in exchange for loot and not being roasted alive, the party arrives and meets up with Algernon (Drakkel) who is also wandering around aimlessly, enough commonground for the group to welcome him with open arms. Six Feats Under presents Let's Play Dungeons and Dragons Encapsulated edited by Aschlin • Tumblr Music by Thylacinus

The last 3 chapters y'all! Ivan and Red take it to the back cover talking about Elmar and his princess, Tyrion gets Matrixed, Tysha makes a comeback, fire fights back, Alvie Singer, Railroad hates the Eagle(s), third eye twenty twenty, Rickon being cast aside, and more. A great end to a long book. I&R are taking a week off for the Thanksgiving, but let them know what you want to hear from them when they come back! WYSBW? ASOIAF short stories? Miriam-Webster fan faction? Let us know at boarsgoreandswords@gmail.com!

Breakfast in a Sanatorium, how evolution will triumph over Miriam Webster, breaking an amoeba's legs, stool shapes, touch screen devices for cats, biology versus space exploration, going to hell in a hand basket, how to worry about the world, biscuits versus bars, the true story of a monkey who was really a duck, waggley tails versus spoons and lots more, with your humble proprietor Neal from Ireland. License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International – It is mandatory to reproduce this attribution for each episode: “Neal O'Carroll via IntoYourHead.ie – Many episodes findable forever on Archive dot org.”

This episode features an interview with Miriam Webster, Australian worship leader and writer of the song “Made Me Glad”. She shares her heart about ministry and her new album. Don't miss her most embarrassing moment at the end! Tom Metz, from WorshipPlanning.com, also stops by the podcast to share with us some exciting new features. Don't forget to call into our comment line for your chance to win some Paul Baloche goodies. Visit us online: www.allaboutworship.com Tweet us: www.twitter.com/allaboutworship Facebook us: www.allaboutworship.net Email us: podcast@allaboutworship.com Leave a comment: 913.735.4229 [...]