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Nobody's going to send you an invoice for being distracted. But research says it takes 23 minutes to fully refocus after a single interruption. Multiply that by a dozen times a day and you're losing hours. Not minutes. Hours. We're more connected than we've ever been and less focused than we've ever been. Ryan unpacks the hidden cost of the thing we've all normalized.In this episode, Ryan challenges you to do an honest audit of where your time is actually going, not where you think it's going. Because distraction doesn't just steal your productivity. It steals your presence. And the people you love deserve more than a distracted version of you.

Pastor Andrew Carnell shares the first message from our church-wide series from the book of Nehemiah, "Multiply for Generations" with "I Am Available". Nehemiah is not simply a story of rebuilding a wall; it's a call to align our lives with God's purposes and to become a people who live with purpose.Today's passages: Neh 1: 1-11 Date:19.07.2026 Please send prayer requests to prayer@bridgeman.org.au or on our website: www.bridgeman.org.au/prayer/ To contact Bridgeman Baptist Community Church please email hello@bridgeman.org.au If you would like to give at Bridgeman Baptist Community Church please go to www.bridgeman.org.au/giving/ Please view our Sermon List if you would like to order from our back catalogue, please email bridgemedia@bridgeman.org.au 

"I would have called." It's in every comment section, every conversation about the Siders case, every kitchen-table reaction to the news out of Hamden. And the research on actual bystander behavior says it's a lie — not a malicious one, but a lie we tell ourselves about who we are. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins live to close the gap between the person you believe you'd be and the person the data says you'd actually be.Scott walks through the real-time experience of the people around this family. The flicker of concern at the Dollar General register. The half-second of wondering about the house with the air conditioners and no visible children. And then the story the mind supplies — they're probably homeschoolers, someone would have reported it, it's not my place — that lets the moment pass. Multiply that by every person who crossed this family's path over eighteen years, and you get sixteen invisible children.The live conversation takes on the hardest version of the premise: families like this exist everywhere, right now, and the psychology that hid the Siders kids is the same psychology operating on every street. Scott's challenge to the audience is direct — what did you explain away this week?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#SidersFamily #GarySiders #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #OhioHouseOfHorrors #16KidsOhio #BystanderEffect #SelfDeception #Psychology #VintonCounty

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Youth ministry is hard work... but it was never meant to depend on one person doing everything. In this episode of Youth Worker On Fire, Doug Edwards shares a practical and biblical challenge for youth pastors, student ministry volunteers, church leaders, and parents: work smarter, not harder, by following Jesus' model of discipleship, delegation, and multiplication. If you are a volunteer youth leader, part-time youth pastor, or full-time student ministry leader, you already know the weight of ministry. The planning, teaching, trips, retreats, mission work, public school outreach, discipleship, counseling, and constant care for students can quickly become overwhelming. But Jesus did not build His ministry around doing everything Himself. He equipped disciples who would carry the mission forward. Doug unpacks key passages including Ephesians 4:12, 2 Timothy 2:2, Mark 3:13-15, and Matthew 28:19-20 to remind leaders that the goal is not simply to build bigger programs - it is to make disciples who make disciples. In this episode, you'll be encouraged to: • Stop carrying the entire ministry alone • Equip volunteers and students to do the work of ministry • Build a student ministry that can continue without depending only on you • Follow Jesus' model of investing deeply in a few to reach many • Delegate with purpose instead of guilt • Avoid burnout through sustainable leadership • Create disciple makers, not just event attenders Doug also shares how a forced sabbatical helped him realize he had waited too long to delegate and trust others with ministry responsibility. The question every youth pastor and ministry leader should ask is: If you disappeared for six months, would the ministry stop or would it continue because you developed disciple makers? Working harder may increase what you can accomplish. Equipping others increases what God can accomplish through His people. Disciple. Delegate. Multiply. Listen to more episodes from the Youth Worker On Fire Podcast here: https://bit.ly/3saDyYq _________________________________________________________________________________

Brock Johnson has posted on Instagram for more than 1,800 consecutive days, and in this episode, he shares the exact AI system he wishes he had from day one. He breaks down his RAMP framework — Research, Assemble, Multiply, Process — and explains how to use Claude, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork to build an Instagram workflow that runs almost entirely on autopilot. The episode covers seven of the biggest content creation challenges: not knowing what to post, writing weak hooks, filming inefficiently, constantly task switching, ignoring carousels, failing to schedule content, and not understanding why posts succeed or fail. For each challenge, Brock demonstrates the automation he recommends, from generating weekly research summaries based on saved posts and favorite accounts, to testing scripts with a "would this make sense to a stranger?" filter, to using Claude as a virtual director that creates optimized shot lists for filming. He also explains how Canva templates combined with Claude Cowork can transform existing Reels into carousels, how Claude Cowork can automatically schedule posts in Metricool based on custom rules, and how his own system keeps more than 150 Instagram posts scheduled up to six months in advance. Toward the end of the episode, Brock shows how Claude Code can build dashboards that analyze content performance and uncover trends creators often miss. One of the biggest takeaways is that no coding experience is required. Instead of writing code, creators simply describe the workflow they want, and Claude Cowork handles the technical implementation. The episode wraps up with a challenge to build one automation using the RAMP framework, along with an invitation to Brock's end-of-July webinar series that teaches how to grow on Instagram in less than 15 minutes a day. Watch On YouTube 

PHP Podcast – July 9, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon | Guest: Holly Schilling A PHP RFC for extension methods that PHP definitely should have had by now. Holly Schilling, Uninvited but Welcome Holly was originally just planning to heckle from the Discord chat room. She had about 45 minutes’ notice before the show that she’d be on camera instead, which she took in stride — minus the PHP swag shirt she would have worn if she’d known. Eric is happy to hand her the show; she’s been in the backstage feed and notes that the zero-latency view means she actually gets the jokes, unlike the 3–5 second delay that makes jokes land after everyone’s moved on. PHP Tek 2027 CFP: Now Open The call for papers for PHP Tek 2027 is open, and the deadline is end of August. This year, PHP Tek is doing three tracks: two traditional PHP-focused tracks and a third rotating track that will change each day — one day dedicated to AI talks, one to Laravel talks, one to DevOps talks. The goal is to get submissions in and the schedule published early enough that attendees can put it in their budget before their fiscal year closes. Holly (who now manages the submission review) has a note for repeat submitters: if your talk was accepted and given at a previous PHP Tek, don’t submit it again. Also: bot submissions from automated systems that spam every CFP in SessionEyes are a real problem, and Holly’s job is to filter them out before the blind evaluation round begins. The evaluation process is designed to keep Eric and John out of the loop until after the first pass — so they can’t accidentally influence votes for speakers they already like. PHP Tek 2027 Hotel + Conference Bundle Brief reprise from last week: the hotel and conference bundle is available at phptek.io — one price that includes your conference pass, hotel nights, and conference lunches and breakfasts, designed to make the ask to a manager or CFO as simple as possible. Eric is working on a short video to explain it rather than just dumping pricing on the homepage. Joe Ferguson at Merge PHP — Today Joe Ferguson — PHP Architect team member and co-release manager of PHP 8.6 — is presenting at Merge PHP immediately after this podcast wraps. His talk: “Ansible for PHP Developers: Configure, Deploy, and Update Your Infrastructure.” Eric was trying to reach Joe for an hour before the show (Joe was apparently already in the Merge PHP stream watching the podcast). If you’re listening after the fact, the recording may be available. Holly’s RFC: Class Extension Methods Holly has spent the past week doing a caffeine-fueled deep dive into PHP internals C code and has come out the other side with a draft RFC and working proof-of-concept code for class extension methods — a feature she kept assuming PHP had, tried to write, and found didn’t exist. The idea: you can add methods to an existing class without subclassing it. Swift has this, Kotlin has it, C# has it. The canonical PHP example is something like adding isWeekday() or isWeekend() to DateTimeImmutable — you get to call it as an instance method on the native class, not on a subclass you’d have to propagate everywhere. Under the hood it’s syntactic sugar: the implementation in C# is a static method with the class passed as the first parameter, and Holly is taking a similar approach. No performance penalty — a few people have already tested it. Early concern about performance impact has not materialized. The feature naturally extends to scalar methods, which Laracon’s Levi Koop and others have discussed: the ability to write $str->length() instead of strlen($str). This part is harder because $this in PHP must always be an object, so scalars need special hooks to work as receivers. That complexity is why Holly broke the implementation into three phases. She has posted GitHub Gists rather than a formal PHP wiki RFC so far — she submitted for a wiki account yesterday and is waiting to hear back. Outlook has been eating her PHP internals mailing list emails (treating new posters as spam), so she’s in the process of switching to a new email address. Joe Ferguson is in the chat offering to help expedite the wiki account. Feedback is coming in, changes are being made, and this is moving toward a formal RFC. Holly’s motivation is pure: she built this for herself because she needed it. Eric quoted himself from the “PHP Ugly Days” era, telling the community that if there’s a feature you want and nobody’s building it, it’s on you. Holly has resented and credited that line in equal measure ever since. NativePHP Mobile: Holly Is Building the Longhorn App Holly has started building a conference app for Longhorn PHP using NativePHP Mobile. Eric’s reaction ranges between excitement (someone’s doing it!) and mild betrayal (it’s not for PHP Tek). Holly also submitted a talk to Longhorn PHP about what actually distinguishes a real native mobile app from a website wrapped in an app shell — and the answer isn’t the language, the transitions, or the scroll animations. It’s state management. Native apps treat the local device copy as authoritative or at minimum authoritative enough that you’re not reaching the server for every interaction. Web apps don’t do this; native apps have to. Holly has real-world context here: one of her earlier jobs was building the Chicago Sun-Times native app and then white-labeling it for 70+ publications across the country. She says she’d never do that again. Every single publication has brand style guidelines, logo clearance zones, and color adjacency rules. Multiply that by 70 and you start to understand why white-labeling at scale is a nightmare. Longhorn PHP CFP — Closes Tomorrow The call for papers for Longhorn PHP is open through tomorrow night (July 10). It had been briefly reported as closed last week; it got extended. If you want to speak at Longhorn, head to cfp.longhornphp.com now. The conference is in Austin at the Holiday Inn. WordPress: Stewardship, Backward Compatibility, and the Laravel Fork Question Holly’s experience white-labeling apps prompted a broader conversation about WordPress — specifically a genuine acknowledgment of how technically impressive it is that a WordPress installation can look completely different from any other, at the scale WordPress operates. Eric respects the technical accomplishment but has longstanding criticism of how WordPress positioned itself in relation to the PHP community. His view: WordPress was the Laravel of its day, arguably the thing that kept PHP relevant for a decade. But rather than leaning into the broader PHP ecosystem and pushing the language forward from the inside — the way Facebook tried to (even if it eventually forked into HHVM/Hack) — WordPress was laser-focused on backwards compatibility. The result was that PHP internals couldn’t move as fast as it might have because WordPress’s enormous install base created a de facto veto on any change that would have required sites to update. Holly pushed back gently: WordPress’s backwards compatibility constraint wasn’t really a choice they could have made differently given the scale of self-hosted installs and third-party plugins. Eric acknowledges the constraint while still wishing they’d engaged more with internals. The Hack language comes up as a counterpoint: HHVM/Hack, whatever its ultimate fate, was the provocation that woke up PHP internals. PHP 7’s massive performance improvements and modern type system features largely came out of internals saying “Hack has a point, let’s do this properly.” Almost every good idea from Hack eventually got ported into PHP. Eric’s darker hypothetical: if Laravel today had an existential need for a PHP feature that internals kept rejecting, and Taylor Otwell forked PHP — that could be a genuine death blow to the ecosystem. Holly thinks the community would survive; Eric thinks the math on maintaining a language fork is nastier than it looks. Composer, Supply Chain Security, and the 48-Hour Question A viewer asked whether Composer has a way to skip packages released in the last 48 hours when running an update — the motivation being supply chain attacks, where a compromised package gets published and immediately picked up by the next composer update run. Eric’s short answer: not natively, and the real mitigation is to not run composer update blindly. Holly points out the harder version of this problem: languages like Swift allow pre-compiled binary packages, which are far scarier than source packages because you can’t even do a code review. Eric mentions that Packagist and Composer have been doing real work on supply chain integrity (covered on the show a few weeks back). If you want the deeper treatment, Eric Mann’s upcoming Security Corner column in the July issue of PHP Architect covers exactly this — Composer and the PHP supply chain. Look for it in the next few weeks. Eric’s Laptop Saga, Chapter N The new “clean install” MacBook Pro that Eric has been using to solve his connectivity issues dropped partway through the show. Eric switched to his older laptop (which was still running and still connected), but couldn’t get his camera to re-appear in the stream source list, couldn’t add himself back, and eventually gave up and wrapped up audio-only. John and Holly carried the last few minutes. The older laptop that never dropped is now, apparently, the better one. Eric is running out of explanations and considering a career in farming. Links from the show: PHP Tek 2027: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com PHP RFC: Extension Methods · GitHub PHP RFC: Scalar Extension Methods · GitHub php-rfc_Extensions+Visibility.md · GitHub Longhorn PHP Conference 2026 Host: Eric Van Johnson X: @shocm Mastodon: @eric@phparch.social Bluesky: @ericvanjohnson.bsky.social PHPArch.me: @eric John Congdon X: @johncongdon Mastodon: @john@phparch.social Bluesky: @johncongdon.bsky.social PHPArch.me: @john Guest: Holly Schilling PHP internals contributor; author of the Surfaces RFC and now Class Extensions RFC Primary mobile developer; built the PHP Tek 2026 conference app; building the Longhorn PHP app in NativePHP Mobile Based near Chicago, IL Streams: Youtube Channel Twitch Connect & Hire PHP Architect Website Twitter/X Mastodon Hire PHP Developers Looking to hire PHP developers? Email support@phparch.com – Joe and the team are available for consulting, infrastructure work, Ansible playbooks, and code review. Partner This podcast is made a little better thanks to our partners Displace Infrastructure Management, Simplified Automate Kubernetes deployments across any cloud provider or bare metal with a single command. Deploy, manage, and scale your infrastructure with ease. https://displace.tech/ OurCVEs Your security posture, on autopilot with OurCVEs CodeRabbit Cut code review time & bugs in half instantly with CodeRabbit. Music Provided by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Join Us Live Next Week Youtube Channel The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09 appeared first on PHP Architect.

This week, Angela discusses the true meaning of success, emphasizing that it's not about money but about focusing on what matters most, like faith and family. She shares insights from a coaching program called Strategic Coach, which encourages shifting from 'have-to's' to 'want-to's' and living in gratitude. The episode concludes with a tip to multiply success by 10 times. Key Takeaways

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Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... $20 Million in Grants, Suddenly Gone: How One Nonprofit Survived A year ago, a single nonprofit had $20 million in federal grants on the books. Three awards from three different agencies. By every conventional measure, the funding base looked strong. Then federal priorities shifted. All three grants were eliminated. The organization went from 30 staff to 18 in a matter of months, but they are still standing. That nonprofit is From Prison Cells to PhD, and its founder, Dr. Stanley Andrisse, is the guest on this week's episode of Inspired Nonprofit Leadership. The story has stayed with me, and this article is where I want to go deeper on the part of it that most fundraising conversations skip. The part most people focus on is the funding loss itself. That is the dramatic surface. The part that actually explains why this organization is still standing, and rebuilding faster than most would, sits one layer underneath. Their grant portfolio was huge, but every single dollar of it was aligned to their core mission. There was no program built to chase money that drifted from what they exist to do. When the grants disappeared, what was left was a smaller version of the same organization, not the wreckage of a stretched and confused one. That is the lesson I want to draw out here. Diversified funding gets the headlines in nonprofit strategy conversations. Mission alignment gets less airtime. The truth is, neither one works without the other. An organization with five revenue streams and a sprawl of mission-drifted programs is just as fragile as an organization with one revenue stream and a tight mission. The combination matters, and the combination is what makes a nonprofit shock-resistant. Mission Creep Is The Hidden Cost Of Grants Most leaders I work with know about mission creep in the abstract. They have heard the warning. Where it actually shows up is in the language of a grant application. A funder wants outcomes the organization does not currently produce. A funder wants a population the organization does not currently serve. A funder wants a program design the organization does not currently run. The grant is large. The deadline is short. The board is anxious. The cash flow is tight. The leader makes a small adjustment to fit the application. The grant lands. A program gets built around the requirements. Six months in, the staff is running a workstream that no one in the organization is particularly proud of, but the money is keeping the lights on, so it stays. Multiply that pattern by three or four grants over five years, and the organization no longer looks like itself. The mission statement on the website has not changed, but the actual portfolio of work has drifted significantly. From the inside, leaders rarely notice. They are too close to it. The drift only becomes visible when something forces them to subtract. This is the trap. Grants do not just bring in money. They bring in shape. Every restricted grant is a small set of constraints applied to the organization. A few of those constraints, aligned to the mission, sharpen the work. A lot of them, applied without discipline, distort the work into something else. What Mission Alignment Actually Protects When From Prison Cells to PhD lost $20 million in a single year, the organization did not face the second crisis that usually follows a funding crisis. The second crisis is the realization that half of what you have been doing was never really the work you wanted to do, and now you have to dismantle programs that staff and stakeholders are emotionally attached to in addition to surviving the revenue gap. Because every grant had been mission-aligned, the response was straightforward. Smaller staff. Same work. Same scholars. Same outcomes at a smaller scale. The organization could be honest about what it was paring back without having to defend choices made to chase prior funders. There were no orphaned programs to wind down. There was no donor narrative to untangle. The proportional scale-back was clean. This is what mission alignment actually protects. It protects the speed of your response in a crisis. It protects the morale of your team. It protects your credibility with the funders you still have, because the work that survives is recognizable as the work you have always done. And it protects your ability to rebuild, because the case for support stays consistent. You are not selling a new version of yourself to new donors. You are inviting them into the version that has always been there. Diversification Is The Other Half Of The Equation A mission-aligned organization that has built only one funding pipeline is still fragile. When that pipeline cuts off, the response is still hard. The work stays clear, but the resources to do it disappear. This is where the funding cake framework comes in. I use this language with clients all the time. Major donors are the base layer of the cake. They give unrestricted. They stay for life. They refer their friends. They are insulated from political swings because their decision is personal, not policy-driven. Individual donors at lower giving levels are the next layer. Corporate sponsorships, where they fit, are another layer. Planned giving sits with the major donor layer. Grants are the icing. Icing is wonderful in the right proportion. It is also the most exposed layer of the cake. It melts under the wrong heat. Organizations that treat grants as the foundation are running a cake made of icing, and the first political shift becomes an existential event. Organizations that treat grants as one accelerant among several can lose a major grant and stay upright. From Prison Cells to PhD did not have only grants. They had foundation relationships. They had city and state partnerships. They had philanthropic supporters who had given before and gave again. The grants were significant, but they were one layer in a stack. When that layer disappeared, the stack got shorter, not flat. Why The Two Pieces Have To Move Together This is the part I want every nonprofit leader reading this to take away. Mission alignment without diversified funding is admirable but exposed. Diversified funding without mission alignment is broad but distorted. The combination is what produces an organization that can take a hit and keep going. Picture the inverse of From Prison Cells to PhD's experience. Imagine an organization that took the same $20 million in grants, but each grant required a slight pivot, a new population, a new methodology, a new geography. When the grants disappear, that organization does not just lose revenue. It loses the programs the grants were funding, programs that were never quite the work the organization exists to do, programs that other funders will not back because they do not fit the brand of the organization either. The rebuild from that position takes years. The rebuild from From Prison Cells to PhD's position takes months, because the foundation underneath was always intact. Mentorship was another thread that came up in the conversation, and it deserves a mention here. Dr. Andrisse's own story turns on a mentor who saw a capacity in him that nothing in his environment was reinforcing. That same posture, applied at the program level, is part of what makes the organization's work effective. It is not separate from the funding story. The organizations that hold their mission tight enough to attract long-term funders tend to be the same organizations that hold their participants tight enough to produce real outcomes. Identity discipline at the leader level shows up as program discipline at the participant level and as funding discipline at the development level. It is the same muscle. What This Means For Your Next Grant Decision The practical implication is uncomfortable, because it asks leaders to leave money on the table sometimes. When a grant application asks you to describe work you do not actually do, the right answer is usually no. When a grant requires a population shift or a methodology shift that pulls you off your core, the right answer is usually no. When a grant requires you to invent a program to fit the funder's interests, the right answer is almost always no. The leaders who get this right tend to share a habit. Before applying for any significant grant, they ask one question. If this funder disappeared tomorrow, would this program still belong inside our organization? If the answer is yes, the grant is aligned. The work compounds. The grant lands and strengthens the organization. If the answer is no, the grant is a trap dressed up as a windfall. The work distorts. The grant lands and weakens the organization's center. This discipline is hard in the moment. The deadline is short. The cash flow is tight. The board wants the win. The discipline is also what produces the From Prison Cells to PhD outcome instead of the cautionary tale outcome. What Becomes Possible When mission is the filter and funding is the stack, the leader stops running the organization in reactive mode. There is room to say no to grants that distort the program. There is room to build the slower, deeper donor relationships that produce unrestricted gifts. There is room to develop staff into leadership rather than burning them out chasing the next application. There is room to take a $20 million loss and still be standing, smaller, but recognizable, and ready to rebuild on the same foundation that has always been there. The work is still hard. The mission is still complex. The world is still unpredictable. What changes is that the organization is no longer fragile. It can take a hit. It can take three hits. It can keep going. This isn't about doing less work. It's about doing work that compounds. Nonprofits can survive losses that would close other organizations. They can rebuild faster than seems possible. They can stay recognizable to themselves through hard seasons. Not by pushing harder, but by holding the mission steady and building the stack underneath it. About the Guest Dr. Stanley Andrisse is an endocrinologist, scientist and assistant professor at Howard University College of Medicine is researching type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. Dr. Andrisse is a visiting faculty at Georgetown University Medical Center, held a visiting faculty position at Imperial College London, and held an adjunct professorship at Johns Hopkins Medicine after completing his postdoctoral training. Dr. Andrisse completed his PhD at Saint Louis University and his MBA and bachelor's degree at Lindenwood University, where he played three years of collegiate football. Dr. Andrisse's service commitments include: Executive Director and Founder of From Prison Cells to PhD, Vice President of the board for the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network, board member on The Endocrine Society, past president of the Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association, founder of the Diversity Postdoctoral Alliance, member of several local and national committees, motivational speaker, and community activist. Connect with Stanley: Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence — Amazon link Facebook: @Prof.Andrisse Instagram: @dr_andrisse LinkedIn: Dr. Stanley Andrisse X (Twitter): @Dr_Andrisse From Prison Cells to PhD (P2P) Website: www.fromprisoncellstophd.org Facebook: @fromprisoncellstophd Instagram: @prison2pro LinkedIn: From Prison Cells to PhD X (Twitter): @prison2pro TikTok: @prison2pro YouTube: From Prison Cells to PhD Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

Talent is everywhere. And limiting your hiring pool to your local area can cost you serious leverage. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down how hiring overseas can help lean startups build stronger teams, reduce costs, and operate with global efficiency. Let's be real… If you only hire within twenty miles of your zip code… You may be paying a premium for proximity… Not performance. The best operator for the role may not live in your city. They may be halfway across the world. In this episode, you'll learn: Why competence has no borders How global talent can protect your profit margins Why systems matter more than time zones How offshore teams can create faster execution and around-the-clock progress The truth is simple: You do not build a great offshore team by hoping it works. You build it with systems. Clear communication. Documented processes. Video training. Strong expectations. And a management structure that makes execution simple from anywhere. High-level founders do not overpay for proximity when the role can be done globally. They find the best talent. They build the playbook. They manage the process. And they create a machine that keeps moving even while they sleep. Stop limiting your team to your local market. Build the systems. Hire globally. Multiply your output. And keep leveling up. Your Network is your NETWORTH! Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhDAD1JyGGzSQUPD9lc9HQLinkedIn: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024 Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur? Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you: www.CashSwipe.com FREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's obvious: Hotel energy prices aren't coming down. Rick West, CEO at Commercial Green Solutions, and Kenny Weston, VP at Commercial Green Solutions, explained why hoteliers need to stop treating utility costs as fixed. ⚡ The "double whammy" is real: your kWh costs are up AND your demand charges are through the roof. But there's $50 billion in rebates sitting in utility programs that most hotels don't even know exist.

Send us Fan MailOne night on a porch, a burned-out pastor stopped talking long enough to listen and that quiet decision set off a chain of events he never could have planned. We're joined by Pastor Robby Gallaty, senior pastor of Long Hollow Church, to unpack a story that runs straight through the hard places: religious routine without relationship, a devastating car accident, prescription drugs, addiction, relapse, and a life that spiraled into trafficking before Jesus intervened and rebuilt everything.We're going to be at the Nashville Men's Conference on August 8th. We also have our first west coast Lion event called Man Camp in Utah on September 25-27. Head over to https://thelionwithin.us/events/ to learn more and we'd love to see you there!  There are seasons in life where God can feel painfully quiet. Prayers seem unanswered, direction feels unclear, and the silence itself can slowly begin to shape how we view Him, ourselves, and the future ahead. If this resonates you may enjoy this plan that just released on the Bible App. To dive into this 5-day plan check it out here https://thelionwithin.us/devotional/im-just-a-guy-silent/It's time to stop sitting on the sidelines.Step into the fight and become the man God called you to be. Join a brotherhood built on truth, strength, and action. Visit thelionwithin.us right now and start leading with boldness and purpose. Iron sharpens iron — let's go.

This episode shares a recording on a simple, effective, reproducible disciple-making model used at Harding University. Hosts explain the five-step process: begin in prayer, invite face-to-face, set expectations, make a covenant, and follow rhythms of Jesus. Listeners will hear how two-by-two groups, Oikos mapping, and coaching produce multiplication across campus and churches, leading to new conversions, baptisms, and a culture of mission. Practical examples and resources for training and church planting are included. Stay informed - Get our newsletter:  http://eepurl.com/hPViAr Get Discipleship.org's premium Podcast Feed: https://disciplemakerspodcast.supercast.com/  Check out the following eBooks from Discipleship.org: -- What Is Church? And How Important Is It?  https://discipleship.org/shop/what-is-church-and-how-important-is-it/ -- Family Discipleship Blueprint: A Year-by-Year Guide to Family Discipleship https://discipleship.org/shop/family-discipleship-blueprint-a-year-by-year-guide-to-family-discipleship/ -- Becoming a Disciple Maker https://discipleship.org/shop/becoming-a-disciple-maker/ -- National Study: The State of Disciple Making Churches: A 10 Minute Visual Guide https://discipleship.org/shop/national-study-the-state-of-disciple-making-churches-a-10-minute-visual-guide/ -- Reaching & Discipling Women: A Guide to Women's Ministry in Your Church https://discipleship.org/shop/reaching-discipling-women-a-guide-to-womens-ministry-in-your-church/ Check out the following Books from Discipleship.org: -- Recreated to Be like God: Making Disciples in the Image of Jesus https://a.co/d/6DDvUrC -- King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience-Based Discipleship https://a.co/d/7d85z6T -- The Disciple Maker's Handbook: Seven Elements of a Discipleship Lifestyle https://a.co/d/4ZHIbQz Take the FREE Disciple Maker Assessment: https://church-multiplication.com/disciplemaker/ Come to the The National Disciple Making Forum: https://discipleship.org/national-disciple-making-forum/ Listen - Disciple Maker's Podcast:  https://discipleship.org/resources/podcast/

Most founders fill the most important seat in their business the same way they fill any junior role. In this episode of DarrenDaily On-Demand, Darren Hardy introduces the Missing Multiplier framework and explains why that approach guarantees the wrong hire. He walks through the three channels for finding someone who is already producing extraordinary results elsewhere and is not looking for a new job, and the compatibility tests that reveal whether a candidate can survive your speed, match your intensity, and push back without breaking the relationship. Darren also introduces the most important distinction in any senior hire: the difference between a Patriot who plants their flag for a decade and a Mercenary who leaves the moment a better offer arrives. Join The Collective today at http://hardybmc.com/checkout Get more personal mentoring from Darren each day. Go to DarrenDaily at http://darrendaily.com/join to learn more.

HR and people leaders often feel pulled in a hundred directions, leaving little time for strategy or growth. What if you could reclaim that time and make a bigger impact without working longer hours? In this episode, Karina Young sits down with Nelson Spencer, founder of Augie Ventures. They discuss how AI and intelligent agents can help you offload repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and amplify your impact. Learn practical strategies for using AI to handle the operational side of HR while freeing yourself to focus on leadership, culture, and employee development. You'll learn: How to leverage AI to multiply HR impact Practical steps for AI adoption in HR Translating existing HR skills to AI work Join us as we discuss: (00:00) Meet HR Superstar: Nelson Spencer (04:01) Navigating anxiety around AI adoption (05:15) Using AI to multiply human talent (07:27) Moving beyond basic AI tasks (18:06) Applying leadership skills to AI (21:22) Building trust and psychological safety (27:45) Improving quantity & quality of work through AI (33:57) Maintaining the human lens of HR Resources: For the entire interview, subscribe to HR Superstars on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube, or tune in on our website. Original podcast track produced by Entheo. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for HR Superstars in your favorite podcast player. Hear Karina's thoughts on elevating your HR career by following her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinayoung11/ Download 15Five's HR Outcomes Playbook: https://www.15five.com/ebook/hr-outcomes-playbook-unlocking-the-true-business-value-of-hr/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Q2_2023_Podcast_CTAs&utm_content=HR For more on maximizing employee performance, engagement, and retention, click here: https://www.15five.com/demo?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Q2-Podcast-Ads&utm_content=Schedule-a-demo Nelson Spencer's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonspencer/

This episode features a pre-conference session on organizing your church around disciple making, centered on 2 Timothy 2:2 as a blueprint for multi-generational reproduction. Through real-life stories—from small groups and youth leaders to international churches in Japan—the speaker shows how to spot hungry leaders, invest in people, and build a culture that produces new disciple-makers. Listeners will get practical principles for identifying, training, and releasing faithful followers so the gospel multiplies through ordinary relationships and intentional investment. Stay informed - Get our newsletter:  http://eepurl.com/hPViAr Get Discipleship.org's premium Podcast Feed: https://disciplemakerspodcast.supercast.com/  Check out the following eBooks from Discipleship.org: -- What Is Church? And How Important Is It?  https://discipleship.org/shop/what-is-church-and-how-important-is-it/ -- Family Discipleship Blueprint: A Year-by-Year Guide to Family Discipleship https://discipleship.org/shop/family-discipleship-blueprint-a-year-by-year-guide-to-family-discipleship/ -- Becoming a Disciple Maker https://discipleship.org/shop/becoming-a-disciple-maker/ -- National Study: The State of Disciple Making Churches: A 10 Minute Visual Guide https://discipleship.org/shop/national-study-the-state-of-disciple-making-churches-a-10-minute-visual-guide/ -- Reaching & Discipling Women: A Guide to Women's Ministry in Your Church https://discipleship.org/shop/reaching-discipling-women-a-guide-to-womens-ministry-in-your-church/ Check out the following Books from Discipleship.org: -- Recreated to Be like God: Making Disciples in the Image of Jesus https://a.co/d/6DDvUrC -- King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience-Based Discipleship https://a.co/d/7d85z6T -- The Disciple Maker's Handbook: Seven Elements of a Discipleship Lifestyle https://a.co/d/4ZHIbQz Take the FREE Disciple Maker Assessment: https://church-multiplication.com/disciplemaker/ Come to the The National Disciple Making Forum: https://discipleship.org/national-disciple-making-forum/ Listen - Disciple Maker's Podcast:  https://discipleship.org/resources/podcast/

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Connect with Rohit Punyani: https://ownersasset.com/resource-libraryBook a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendar Out Print the Fed with a 1% target per week: https://remnantfinance.com/optionsEmail us at info@remnantfinance.com or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBE_____________________________In this episode, Hans welcomes back Rohit "Ro" Punyani from The Owner's Asset for his third appearance, this time for a deep dive on retirement planning that takes apart the conventional model and rebuilds it around income and freedom rather than net worth.They walk through why Monte Carlo simulations and the 4% rule fail in the real world, how sequence of returns risk quietly destroys plans, and why net worth is the wrong number to chase. From there they lay out the two bookends of every plan, the 25X accumulation rule and the 12X annuity rule, and land on the middle ground: roughly 30% in risk-free assets paired with dividend growth equities, structured so you never have to sell unrealized losses.Chapters: 00:00 – Opening segment02:55 – Freedom vs. surety of income: two definitions 05:25 – Re-pensionizing America and why the wealthy never stop 08:45 – Why entrepreneurship is about who you become 12:30 – Why Monte Carlo simulations don't work 14:55 – Sequence of returns risk explained 16:50 – Why even a linear 9% return runs out of money 18:35 – Where to start: the two bookends 19:25 – The 4% rule and the 25X heuristic 20:25 – The annuity bookend and the 12X heuristic 22:30 – The annuity's Achilles heel: inflation 24:40 – Inflation riders and the joint annuity strategy 27:55 – Net worth is not a proxy for income 30:50 – Why age 65 is arbitrary 33:50 – Building toward a dream part-time job 36:05 – The 30% rule and the Ernst & Young study 43:35 – The S&P: great for accumulation, terrible for distribution 45:00 – Dividend achievers, aristocrats, and kings 47:35 – The magic number is 8: yield on cost explained 51:15 – Earn compound interest, pay simple interest 56:00 – Why this strategy is so hard to run 57:35 – The Bessembinder study and why indexing works 01:04:05 – A plan is not a plan if you can run out of money 01:06:20 – Closing segmentKey Takeaways:Retirement isn't the absence of work, it's freedom, the ability to do what you want, when you want, with whoever you want. The people who retire to something thrive; the ones who only retire from something often don't last.Net worth is not a proxy for income. Retirement planning is income planning. A zero-dollar net worth with $20,000 a month of guaranteed income beats a huge number you're too scared to spend down.You can average 7%, withdraw 4%, and still go broke. The average return doesn't matter, the sequence does. A couple of down years early in retirement force you to sell principal, and no Monte Carlo simulation can model human behavior, lifestyle creep, or a long-term care event.Know your two bookends. Multiply your target income by 25 (the 4% rule) for the high end of what you need to save, and by 12 (an 8% annuity) for the low end. For $100K a year, that's $2.5M versus $1.2M, and the right answer for most people sits in the middle.Index to dividend growth, not just the S&P. Roughly 40% of the S&P's total return since inception has come from dividends, and dividend aristocrats have historically raised payouts faster than inflation, giving you an inflation-indexed income stream instead of forcing you to decide what to sell, when, and how much.

Grab the Secondary Teacher Systems Toolkit here: https://khristenmassic.thrivecart.com/systemstoolkit/?ref=pod Too many preps and not enough time? Let's make your planning period actually work for you. Reserve your spot in the Unit Planning Lab here: https://khristenmassic.thrivecart.com/unit/?ref=podcastPlanning for the next school year? If your day is organized by class period, your planning calendar should be too. Grab my Editable Class Period Calendar here: https://khristenmassic.com/secondarycalendarpodGet the Planning Period Reset Toolkit—a free set of quick-start tools to help you protect your time, focus faster, and finally finish something… even during chaotic school days. https://khristenmassic.com/resetShop my Teachers Pay Teachers store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Khristen-Massic-Cte-Teacher-CoachDoes your morning routine amount to hoping students eventually settle down so you can start class? If you've ever found yourself waiting for attention and losing precious minutes, let's talk about classroom management routines for a smoother start to class. Host Khristen Massic lays it out plain and simple: hoping kids will fall in line is not a plan—it's a gamble, and your sanity deserves better.Here's a scene you'll recognize: students roll in chatting, maybe shuffling their stuff around, and you—like a lot of us—hang back, waiting for the volume to drop. That's not a classroom management routine. That's crossing your fingers and banking on compliance. Khristen cracks open a story about walking into her own husband's classroom, watching him stand and wait while chaos swirled. Good teacher, but that gray area at the start of class? It eats up your time, your patience, and your instructional minutes. Every. Single. Day.There's nothing lazy about falling into this trap. When you're juggling multiple preps and eighty minutes that each need a plan, fixing a system that “mostly works” sinks on the priority list. But here's the math: losing five minutes at the start of every class adds up to hours over a semester. Multiply that by how many sections you teach, and suddenly you're giving away full days that you could reclaim. Secondary teachers, especially anyone running on overloaded autopilot, need routines that automate these decisions.So what does a real classroom management routine look like? It's not “students will start working.” That's a wish. Khristen insists on specifics: students walk in, grab a handout from the table, check the board for tech needs, pick up their notebook, sit, and begin their bellwork silently until a timer rings. The routine is clear, teachable, and leaves no room for interpretation or wasted movement. When students know what to do every time, you get to ditch the reminders and reclaim your mental bandwidth.But let's get gritty—students won't nail it day one. You need a plan for noncompliance, and it better be more than just raising your eyebrow. Khristen suggests proximity, silent desk taps, or private hallway chats—the key is handling it without drama, so those minor disruptions never become your main gig. And don't forget, the teacher's role matters every bit as much. Are you greeting in the doorway, scanning for early confusion, taking attendance with minimal fuss? Map it out.Biggest missed step? Actually teaching the procedure, not just rattling it off and hoping it sticks. Practice the start-of-class routine like you'd model a math problem: “I do, you do, we practice all week.” Assume you'll need refreshers come October, January, and after every long break—muscle memory fades for everyone when the default is chaos in other classrooms.This episode is a gut check for secondary teachers who know their current systems are running on hope. If you're tired of losing minutes, nagging about procedures, or letting routines slide because your brain's crowded by too much other stuff, here's your message: predictability is freedom, not a cage. Urban, rural, high school, middle—your students thrive on knowing exactly what's expected, even when their teenage posturing says otherwise.Khristen's straight talk is especially for teachers with multiple preps, overloaded schedules, and those who've tried to make it work by winging it. If you're desperate to stop repeating yourself and want to free up energy for actually connecting with your students or improving your work life balance, it's time to get intentional about those classroom routines that drive the flow of every single day.Before you go, ask yourself: if you missed a morning, would class still launch smoothly? If the answer is no, that's your next routine to build. Let Khristen's brand of grounded, rebellious teacher wisdom help you fix what's fixable—because every teacher deserves a start-of-class that runs itself.Here's your nudge to go rogue: Leave hope at the door, build the routine, and take your time back.

Biblical Life                                           “Fruitful Blessings”                           Psalm 127:3-5Children Are a Gift (v.3)  Children Are Provision (v. 4) Children Bring Happiness (v. 5) Jer. 29:6 Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease).  

Ralph Moore recounts the Hope Chapel story and teaches a simple, reproducible disciple-making model built around four questions used at personal, group, and leadership levels. He explains how aligning weekend teaching with small "mini-church" groups, asking the four questions, and training leaders to reproduce groups led to massive multiplication—from 12 people to thousands of churches worldwide. The episode gives practical next steps: teach through the Bible, model the questions with three trusted people, and start new groups by apprenticing leaders, emphasizing life-on-life relationships over programs. Stay informed - Get our newsletter:  http://eepurl.com/hPViAr Get Discipleship.org's premium Podcast Feed: https://disciplemakerspodcast.supercast.com/  Check out the following eBooks from Discipleship.org: -- What Is Church? And How Important Is It?  https://discipleship.org/shop/what-is-church-and-how-important-is-it/ -- Family Discipleship Blueprint: A Year-by-Year Guide to Family Discipleship https://discipleship.org/shop/family-discipleship-blueprint-a-year-by-year-guide-to-family-discipleship/ -- Becoming a Disciple Maker https://discipleship.org/shop/becoming-a-disciple-maker/ -- National Study: The State of Disciple Making Churches: A 10 Minute Visual Guide https://discipleship.org/shop/national-study-the-state-of-disciple-making-churches-a-10-minute-visual-guide/ -- Reaching & Discipling Women: A Guide to Women's Ministry in Your Church https://discipleship.org/shop/reaching-discipling-women-a-guide-to-womens-ministry-in-your-church/ Check out the following Books from Discipleship.org: -- Recreated to Be like God: Making Disciples in the Image of Jesus https://a.co/d/6DDvUrC -- King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience-Based Discipleship https://a.co/d/7d85z6T -- The Disciple Maker's Handbook: Seven Elements of a Discipleship Lifestyle https://a.co/d/4ZHIbQz Take the FREE Disciple Maker Assessment: https://church-multiplication.com/disciplemaker/ Come to the The National Disciple Making Forum: https://discipleship.org/national-disciple-making-forum/ Listen - Disciple Maker's Podcast:  https://discipleship.org/resources/podcast/

What if your greatest leadership achievement isn't what you accomplish yourself - but the leaders you develop who continue multiplying long after you're gone? In this episode of Leaders of Transformation, Nicole Jansen welcomes back leadership development expert and bestselling author Mac Lake to discuss his latest book, Super Multiplier. What does it take to build a leadership legacy that extends far beyond your own influence? Mac reveals how great leaders intentionally develop leaders who go on to develop other leaders – creating a multiplication effect that can impact organizations for generations. Drawing from decades of experience building leadership pipelines, Mac shares the mindset shifts and practical habits leaders need to intentionally develop others and create a culture of multiplication. Together, Nicole and Mac explore why most leadership development efforts fail, the hidden beliefs that prevent leaders from investing in others, and how to identify and unlock the potential already sitting within your organization. Whether you're leading a business, ministry, nonprofit, or team, this conversation will challenge you to think beyond leadership training and embrace leadership multiplication that lasts for generations. What We Discuss in this Episode Why leadership gaps are solved by developing people, not simply finding people The hidden mindsets that prevent leaders from developing others Why most organizations rely on the ineffective "wait and hope" leadership strategy The difference between leadership training and leadership transformation Why mindset must change before skill set can change How limiting beliefs hold emerging leaders back from reaching their potential What it means to "mine for the gold" in people How great leaders identify and cultivate strengths in others Lessons from Jesus' model of leadership development and multiplication Why leadership multiplication is more powerful than leadership addition How to develop leaders who can develop other leaders Why leadership development requires intentionality more than time Practical ways to develop leaders during everyday work activities How modeling, practice, and debriefing accelerate leadership growth Why failure is one of the greatest tools for leadership development The 4T Framework: Think, Try, Talk, and Train How leaders can continue growing by building on their strengths The importance of creating a replicable leadership development process What it means to build leadership four generations deep How to create a lasting leadership legacy within your organization Highlights  00:00 – Why Leadership Development Often Fails 02:30 – Leadership Gaps Aren't Solved by Finding People 06:00 – The Mindsets That Limit Leadership Multiplication 10:00 – Why Mindset Comes Before Skill Set 13:00 – The Problem with the "Wait and Hope" Strategy 16:00 – Leadership Training vs. Leadership Transformation 20:00 – Mining for the Gold in People 24:00 – What Jesus Teaches Us About Developing Leaders 29:00 – Why Leaders Think They Don't Have Time 33:00 – Everyday Opportunities to Develop Future Leaders 38:00 – Failure as Fertilizer for Growth 42:00 – The Power of Modeling and Debriefing 46:00 – How to Identify Your Next Growth Area 50:00 – The 4T Framework for Leadership Development 54:00 – How to Multiply Leaders Four Generations Deep 58:00 – Building a Leadership Legacy That Lasts Episode Show Notes and Links to Mac Lake's Books and Resources: https://leadersoftransformation.com/podcast/leadership/super-multipliers-how-to-multiply-great-leaders-four-generations-deep-with-mac-lake/ Check out our complete library of episodes and other leadership resources here: https://leadersoftransformation.com ________

Gudrun talks with Debajyoti Choudhuri. He is staying at KIT as a short term guest. He is Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Hyderabad. His research interest lies in the analysis of elliptic PDEs using Functional Analytic and topological methods. In this he touches and has a slight overlap with the research of Gudrun. The conversation starts with the discussion about a small paper which Debajyoti put on the archiv. It is about understanding how to work with the Fractional Laplacian. This means extending the classical Laplace operator Δ to non-integer powers. This operator is the main part in PDEs which model, e.g, anomalous diffusion, probability theory, image processing, finance, and nonlocal mechanics. (-Δ)s, where 0 < s < 1. What makes It different to the ordinary Laplacian? While the traditional Laplace operator is local, i.e. it depends only on values of u and its derivatives near x, the fractional Laplacian is nonlocal, it depends on values of u everywhere in space. Thus, for the analytical and numerical treatment one needs very different methods. There are several possible definitions. Some of them can be found in the Wikipedia article which is cited below. On ℝn, the cleanest definition is the Fourier definition which follows the idea: Take the Fourier transform. Multiply by |ξ|2s. Transform back. In the short paper which is discussed the singular integral definition is used: For 0 < s < 1: (-Δ)^s u(x) = C(n,s) PV ∫ [u(x) - u(y)] / |x - y|^(n + 2s) dy This makes the nonlocality explicit: every point y contributes to the value at x. The method central in studying Laplace problems is variational. It considers an (infinite) family of generalised problems and works on the existence of so-called weak solutions. These problems are formulated with the help of Sobolev spaces. The weak solution for the Laplace problem is an element of the space H1=W1,2. This means the solution and its (generalised) gradient are bounded in L2 in the domain in which the problem is solved. This has physical meaning and due to known properties (embedding) of Sobolev spaces the pointwise (strong) solutions often can be constructed when enough regularitiy of the weak solutions is proved. Fractional Laplacians naturally live in fractional Sobolev spaces. These are not that easy to connect to physical properties and a few of the equivalent definitions in the context of classical Sobolev spaces are not equivalent any more everywhere. Common approaches for numerics for PDEs including the fractional Laplacian are: Fourier spectral methods (periodic domains) Finite element methods for fractional PDEs Matrix-function methods (As) Caffarelli–Silvestre extension methods Quadrature approximations of singular integrals The Extension trick introduced by Caffarelli and Silvestre in 2007 (their original paper is cited below) is also discussed as part of the short note. p-laplacian augurs well in the sense because the unicity of the definitions of the s-laplacian is still lacking. The conversation then turns to how Debajyoti found his way into mathematics and the topic of PDEs and how life and work feel like in his university. More information: Webpage of Debajyoti Choudhuri Debajyoti Choudhuri: A quick sneak-peek at the s-fractional Laplacian operator (2022) Wikipedia on the Fractional Laplace operator Mateusz Kwaśnicki: Ten equivalent definitions of the fractional Laplace operator (2015) E. Di Nezza, G. Palatucci, E. Valdinoci, Hitchhiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces, Bull. Sci. Math., 136(5), 521–573 (2012) L. Caffarelli, L. Silvestre, An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 32, 1245–1260 (2007)

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You've spent years building your business. But what if you've already crossed the finish line — and nobody told you?Most business owners spend their entire careers trying to reach financial freedom. But there's a specific, calculable threshold — called The Freedom Point — where the net proceeds from selling your business would fund the rest of your life without financial worry. And the uncomfortable truth is: a lot of owners have already crossed it. They're still grinding, still taking on risk, still saying "five more years" — without realizing they've technically already won.In this episode, CFP® David Chudyk breaks down The Freedom Point framework, walks through the exact math to calculate yours, and explains why so many smart, successful business owners stay past it without a plan — and what that costs them.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeWhat The Freedom Point is — and the precise formula to calculate itWhy your business growing could actually be increasing your financial risk (not reducing it)The "4 D's" that can destroy business value overnight — and why none of them care about your timelineHow to figure out if you've already crossed your Freedom Point using a 7-step frameworkWhat your options are once you've crossed it (hint: selling isn't the only one)The three psychological traps that keep smart owners grinding past the point of financial freedomWhy "one more year" syndrome might be the most expensive story you're telling yourselfEpisode Timestamps[0:00] — Cold Open: What if you've already won?[2:00] — What is The Freedom Point?[6:00] — Meet Tim: The business owner with 80% concentration risk[11:00] — The 4 D's: Death, Disability, Divorce, Departure[15:00] — How to calculate your own Freedom Point (7-step framework)[20:00] — What to do when you've crossed the line: 4 options[24:00] — Why smart owners stay too long: Identity, One More Year Syndrome, Fear of Irrelevance[28:00] — The free tool to calculate your Freedom Point todayThe Freedom Point FormulaThe Freedom Point is reached when:(Value of Outside Investments) + (Net Proceeds from Business Sale) > (Desired Annual Income × 33)Here's how to run it yourself:Step 1: Estimate the annual income that would make you feel completely financially freeStep 2: Multiply by 33 (based on a conservative 3% withdrawal rate)Step 3: Calculate your wealth outside your business — investments, rental properties, brokerage accounts (not your primary residence)Step 4: Get a realistic business valuation estimateStep 5: Subtract the frictional cost of selling — taxes, broker commissions (~10–12%), legal fees (~2%)Step 6: Add back any long-term business debt you'd need to pay off at closingStep 7: If Steps 3 + 5 exceed Step 2, you've reached The Freedom PointExample: If you want $150,000/year of income, you need $4.95M in total investable assets. If your business would net $4M after selling costs and you have $1M outside the business — you've crossed it.The 4 D's Every Business Owner Needs to KnowThese four events can destroy business value overnight — and none of them are in your control:Divorce — Especially devastating when both spouses work in the business or when business value becomes contested in settlementDeparture — A key partner, co-founder, or critical employee leaves, triggering buy-sell agreements and operational disruptionDisability — You become unable to work; most disability policies protect income, not business valueDeath — Your beneficiaries inherit a business they don't know how to run, often resulting in forced sales at the worst possible timeWhy Smart Owners Stay Past The Freedom PointThe math alone doesn't explain why successful business owners keep grinding after they've technically won. David breaks down three psychological forces:Identity: When the business is who you are, the idea of stepping back feels like erasing yourself — not a financial decision at allOne More Year Syndrome: The goal line keeps moving. $2M becomes $3M becomes $5M. Every milestone reveals the next one. The exit that was "five years away" has been five years away for fifteen years.Fear of Irrelevance: The quiet one. Not afraid of selling — afraid of what comes after. Who are you without the title, the team, and the 8am calendar?"The biggest threat to your financial freedom isn't market risk. It's the story you're telling yourself about who you are without the business."Your Options Once You've Crossed The Freedom PointSell a Minority Stake — Take chips off the table while keeping control; often done with private equity in a minority recapitalizationSell a Majority Stake — Significant liquidity event now, keep some equity, continue running the business under new ownershipEarn-Out Exit — Full sale with a 1–3 year transition; ideal if you're ready to step back in the next three to five yearsStay and Build Around the Risk — Keep building, but do it intentionally: key person insurance, a funded buy-sell, disability coverage, and a real succession planCalculate Your Freedom Point — Free ToolDon't guess where you stand. Take the free Personal Readiness to Exit assessment — it walks you through the exact Freedom Point calculation in about 10 minutes and shows you a real number.→ Take the Free Assessment at weeklywealthpodcast.com/prescoreRather talk it through with someone? Book a free 20-minute strategy call:→ Book a Vision Call at weeklywealthpodcast.com/visionQuotable Moments"What if you've already won — and you're still playing like you haven't?""Before The Freedom Point, risk is how you build. After it, risk is how you lose what you've already built.""Tim diversifies his 401(k) like a pro. But 80% of his net worth is a single, illiquid, non-publicly-traded asset. That's not diversification. That's concentration in a tuxedo.""One more year syndrome feels responsible. But what it often is — if we're honest — is a way of avoiding a decision you're not emotionally ready to make.""The Freedom Point isn't a feeling. It's a formula. And once you run the math, you can't unsee what it shows you."Who This Episode Is ForThis episode is essential listening if you are:A business owner with a company worth $1M or more wondering if you're "there yet" financiallyAn entrepreneur approaching your 50s who hasn't run a real exit planning calculationA high earner whose business represents more than 50% of your total net worthAnyone who has said "I'll sell when the business hits $X" — and then moved the goalpostA spouse or partner of a business owner trying to understand the financial risk your household is carryingResources & Related EpisodesPersonal Readiness to Exit (Prescore) — Free AssessmentVision Call — Free 20-Minute Strategy SessionSellability Score — Free Business Valuation AssessmentRelated: Ep. 264 — Is Your CPA Only Looking in the Rearview Mirror? (tax planning before a sale matters enormously)Related: Ep. 265 — This Is Exactly Who You've Been Looking For (David's background and advisory approach)About David Chudyk, CFP®David Chudyk is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, CLTC, and Certified ValueBuilder Advisor with nearly two decades of experience working with business owners and high-net-worth individuals. He is the founder and host of the Weekly Wealth Podcast and a fiduciary advisor with Parallel Financial, LLC. David specializes in helping business owners align their personal financial plans with their business exit strategies — so they can make the biggest financial decision of their lives with clarity and confidence.weeklywealthpodcast.comThe Weekly Wealth Podcast is produced by Parallel Financial, LLC, a registered investment advisor. All content is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be construed as personalized financial, tax, or legal advice. All examples, including "Tim," are hypothetical illustrations only. Consult a qualified financial advisor before making any financial decisions. Investment advisory services offered through Parallel Financial, LLC.

There is a number sitting inside your business right now that you have never calculated. It is the total of every hour you worked this year that you never sent an invoice for. The follow-up calls. The quick questions. The over-delivery. The free consults that turned into coaching sessions. In this episode, I am walking you through six places this is showing up in your business, doing the actual math on what it is costing you every year, and giving you a sharper way to think about pricing your packages so the work you deliver and the money you earn finally line up. If you have ever closed out a strong month and wondered why your bank account did not reflect the effort, press play. This is the episode that changes how you price your next offer. Key Topics Discussed The six places service providers are quietly working for free, and how to spot each one in your own business What scope creep actually is, why it shows up on more than half of all projects, and the structural reason it keeps happening to you The compounding math behind unbilled work and what your generosity is really costing you over five and ten years Why over-delivering is not building the client loyalty you think it is, and what it is doing instead The mindset shift that separates a service provider from a business owner, and why one runs the company while the other gets run by it My contrarian take on add-ons versus right-sized packages, and why pricing for what your clients actually need beats nickel-and-diming every time Action Steps for the Week Pull up your last completed client project. Add up the unbilled hours. Multiply by your hourly rate. Look at the number. Let it land. Rewrite one of your packages. Just one. Pick the offer you sell the most often and rebuild it to include what you already know your clients are going to need. Write down what is not included in that package, and prepare the language you will use when a client asks for something outside of it. Connect With Jamila Send me a DM on Instagram @JamilaPayneMBA and tell me your unbilled hours number. I want to know what you found. If this episode hit, leave a five-star rating and a written review. It is the single best way to help more business owners find the show. Share this episode with one entrepreneur friend who needs to hear it.

The Leadership Test that Nobody Talks About | E309Highlights from this episode: The Leadership Test that Nobody Talks About (01:00)Closing Thought: Keep it + Multiply it! (28:02)Hiring an associate taught me something I wasn't expecting: great leadership isn't about creating copies of yourself—it's about helping other people become the best version of themselves. In this episode, I'm sharing what I've learned while onboarding a new graduate, why most practice owners accidentally become the bottleneck to growth, and how building systems around people's strengths creates a stronger business than forcing everyone into the same mold. We also dive into why teaching others has made me a better doctor, a better CEO, and a better communicator. If you're looking to grow your practice, add associates, or build a team that thrives without depending on you, this episode is for you.

In this episode, we sit down with Andy Kampman to talk about mobilizing churches toward multiplication and cultivating a culture of disciple multiplication within churches — both in the West and among the unreached. In this conversation, we discuss: How to partner with churches toward multiplication Why vision casting from Scripture matters Stories of disciple multiplication overseas Building a culture of life-on-life discipleship The importance of abiding in Jesus and patience in ministry Why we should love the church instead of criticizing it If this episode encouraged you, be sure to like, subscribe, and share it with someone passionate about disciple-making and missions.

In this episode of the Kwik Brain podcast, I'm sharing a powerful talk from our Limitless Live event with John Lee, global speaker, entrepreneur, AI expert, and one of the leading voices helping businesses understand how to use artificial intelligence to scale, profit, and lead in a rapidly changing world.John breaks down why we are moving out of the information age and into what he calls the creator age, where the people who know how to apply AI, not just use it, will have an extraordinary advantage. He explains how AI can help you save time, create faster, automate tasks, communicate more effectively, and expand your impact in ways that were impossible just a few years ago.In this episode, you'll learn:✅ Why AI is not just about using tools but applying them strategically✅ The difference between using AI, integrating AI, and monetizing AI✅ The five core categories of AI tools John says matter most✅ How prompt engineering helps you get better results from AI✅ How to create content, presentations, articles, and offers faster✅ Why voice AI, cloned knowledge, and ghost personas can save massive time✅ How faceless AI content and automated workflows are changing business✅ Why creative intelligence and critical thinking matter more than ever✅ How to think bigger in the creator age and use AI to scale your impactIf you want to work smarter, move faster, create more, and stay relevant in a world changing at exponential speed, this episode will show you how to start using AI in a way that actually helps you grow.

This week I am discussing the significance of transitioning from building followers to building leaders within our team. I'm covering the characteristics of a multiplying leader, the reasons why leaders may struggle to develop others, and I'll be giving you practical steps to foster leadership qualities in your team members. Purchase my new book, Level Up Your LeadershipShopifyUpgrade your business with a $1/month trial of Shopify. Head to shopify.com/levelup today.RSE Management Consulting, Inc.This podcast is sponsored by RSE Management Consulting, Inc. Visit the links below to contact Rich and learn more about how he can help your business!Website: rsemgtcon.comEmail: reitelberg@rsemgtcon.comCall: 631-623-2400--Links & resources:To follow more info about the podcast@levelup.debbienealCheck out my personal instagram account@debbie_neal

This week, we look at our emotional health and how we can keep our hearts in a position to be healed and strengthened by the Lord.

Most agents spend their career making money.And most of them have nothing to show for it.Not because they didn't work hard enough.Because nobody taught them what to do with what they earned.You're grinding. You're building your business. You're closing deals.And the IRS is taking most of it.Or…The flip that was gonna be a cash cow and take 2 weeks ate six months of your life and barely made moneyOr…The single-family rental was great until the tenant moved out and you're stuck with the mortgage payment and the repair billThere's a better way.In this episode of All or Nothing in Real Estate, I sit down with my business partner Shawn McArthur, co-founder of Changing Lives Investments, to talk about the one vehicle that solves every problem agents have with money.Multifamily.Cash flow. Appreciation. Tax reduction. Economies of scale.We break it all down, including how we grew a property from $1.4 million to $2.4 million in 12 months and returned 120% to investors in 14.This isn't theory. We're in every deal ourselves.

Our guest is DAVE FERGUSON, Chicago based CEO of Exponential, one of the largest church planting movements and networks in the world. Dave is also the founding pastor of Community Christian Church in the Chicago area, and the author of multiple books, including his most recent Multiplier. We discuss connecting, the RPM'S for your life, why multiply matters, dealing with drift, how to finish well as a leader, and so much more. Plus check out 20 Young Leaders to know about and follow. Make sure to visit http://h3leadership.com to access the full list and all the show notes. Share them with your team, repost the lists, and follow and subscribe. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: CONVOY OF HOPE - Please donate to help bring hope to those impacted by disasters at http://convoyofhope.org/donate. Convoy is my trusted partner for delivering food and relief by responding to disasters in the US and all around the world. Right now, Convoy of Hope is responding to tornado impacts across the US, Texas Floods destruction, and providing basic needs like food, hygiene supplies, medical supplies, blankets, bedding, clothing and more. All through partnering with local Churches. Join me and please support their incredible work. To donate visit http://convoyofhope.org/donate. And GENERIS – one of the biggest challenges today is building a culture of generosity. But our friends at Generis have the proven giving strategies that will help accelerate generosity in your church, school, college or non-profit. For over 30 years Generis has helped thousands of churches and non profits develop a sustainable culture of generosity to fund their God-inspired vision. Get started at http://generis.com to schedule a conversation with one of their incredible consultants. It will be worth your time. Again, visit http://generis.com to get started. Generis has the experience and heart to inspire generosity, advance your mission, and grow your impact for the Kingdom.

Episode DescriptionIn this special Dharma Glow episode, Dijon Bowden sits down with Jullien Gordon for a conversation on God ideas, money, energy, abundance, and conscious creation.Together, they explore what it means to plant and nurture the visions God places inside of us, how wealth begins in the mind, why money is stored energy, and how abundance becomes a spiritual practice when we align our purpose with service.This episode also introduces Divine Seeds, a new podcast from Dijon and Jullien devoted to spiritual growth, financial liberation, mindset, faith, manifestation, and bringing God-given ideas into the world.Plant it. Water it. Multiply it.00:00 Welcome to Divine Seeds00:09 Meeting at The Glow Up00:41 Book Sparked the Podcast01:34 What Divine Seeds Means02:30 Goals That Bless Others04:08 Energy Investing and ROI06:09 Money as Stored Energy07:41 Naps and Parkinsons Law08:58 Start Small Accountability11:12 Mamba Mentality Systems13:06 No Dates on Goals15:34 Spiritual Money Hangups18:13 Identity and Becoming20:56 Reprogramming Your Mind23:09 Closing and Next Steps

‍Traditionally seen as a productivity flaw, time blindness is revealed here as a money problem, quietly undermining pricing, profits, and self-worth for solopreneurs with ADHD.This episode explores why common fixes like timers and time blocking miss the deeper issue, and instead, offers practical ways to design around the unique ADHD brain.Listeners can expect actionable tools—like range pricing, value-based pricing, and multipliers—to help create smarter, ADHD-friendly business practices.Key Takeaways: 1. Why time blindness is more of a money issue than a productivity problemMissed deadlines are visible, but it's the underpriced projects and unseen labor that are draining your profits.2. How the ADHD brain's sense of time impacts your pricing (and sends you into the red)3. Why accurate estimation is a myth—and what to do insteadSpoiler: The strategic move is to build pricing that works with your brainThe Three Places You're Losing MoneyThe invisible cost of time blindness shows up in three big ways in most service-based businesses—and maybe in yours too:● Quoting New Work: Saying “yes” to projects we've never done, referencing a project that only looks similar, and then confidently (but cluelessly) assigning a price. Inevitably, unknowns explode, and you end up working for free● Scoping Familiar Work: Every project you think you know by heart, but memory only shows you the highlight reel.● Hidden Labor: The worst offender. All the little admin tasks, endless revisions, back-and-forth emails, and extra meetings never get included in my quote. They don't feel like “billable” work, but they devour hours and energy in unpaid work.Six Pricing Strategies that Correct The Effects of Time Blindness:● Range Pricing: Quote within a range, not a fixed number.● Value-Based Pricing: Charge for outcomes, not hours.● Multipliers & Buffers: Take your default quote and multiply it (1.5x, 2x, even 2.5x if you're feeling brave).● Project vs. Hourly Pricing: Bill by project, not hours, so you're aren't penalized for hyperfocus sprints● Built-In Revision Rounds & Communication Caps: Set clear boundaries on extra work and comms, and make it official.Time blindness isn't going away—but by meeting your brain where it is, you can transform ADHD traits from liabilities into business assets. Design your pricing not despite your ADHD, but in partnership with it—and start keeping your hard-earned money where it belongs: in your business.Try The Multiplier Experiment on your next proposal:1. Write down the number you want to send.2. Multiply it by 1.5x (or higher—it should feel just a bit stretchy).3. Send that quote. Notice the resistance, the stories, the “what ifs.”4. Collect the data: Did the client say yes? No? What did you learn?Every proposal is a data point for better pricing decisions. Stop leaving money on the table!Research on ADHD & time blindnessYour ADHD-ish ™ host, Diann Wingert Diann Wingert is a business strategist, coach, serial entrepreneur, former psychotherapist, and passionate thought leader at the intersection of ADHD and entrepreneurship. In addition to hosting the ADHD-ish ™ podcast, Diann is the creator of The ADHD-ish ™ Method, a practicing Buddhist, dog mom, and relentlessly curious human.Diann explains neuroscience in a relatable way. Through her accessible storytelling, Diann empowers others to understand their brains, manage their energy, and show compassion to themselves as they navigate the demands of being a business owner and in their everyday lives. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Sign up for Di AI, my ADHD business coach digital clone, for free: https://bit.ly/di-ai-accessMake sure you don't miss the next episodes in this “Reframing Your ADHD Traits as Business Strategies” series. Subscribe/Follow ADHD-ish on Apple or SpotifyWant my help to build your business with your ADHD traits in mind? Schedule a free consultation to explore 1:1 ADHD entrepreneur coaching.‍ ‍© 2026 ADHD-ish™ Podcast. Intro music by Ishan Dincer / Melody Loops / Outro music by Vladimir / Bobi Music / All rights reserved.

What does 30+ years of cross-cultural ministry actually look like from the inside? In this solo episode, recorded on her 59th birthday, Cynthia Anderson gets honest — about the surprises, the valleys she never would have chosen, and the convictions that have only deepened over three decades of disciple-making work across Nepal, India, Thailand, and Africa. This isn't a highlight reel. It's a real look at what sustained obedience costs, what it produces, and why the pattern of valleys leading to breakthrough doesn't stop. In this episode: Why God's love is not contingent on your fruit — and why that's still disorienting after all this time What Cynthia would do differently (margins, meetings, and what she wishes she'd said no to) The valley-to-breakthrough pattern traced across 30 years of field work A 1 Corinthians 13 rewrite that reframes what success in ministry actually looks like Why Caleb at 85 is still her model for what's next

This week's message focuses on stewarding our physical health. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, this sermon explores why and how we can honor God with our bodies.

Zoning codes run to 3,000 pages, contradict themselves, and change without warning — and right now, they're the single biggest reason most housing projects never leave a napkin.Recorded live at World of Modular 2026, this episode brings in Avi Kaufman, co-founder and Chief Real Estate Officer of FutureLot, to unpack what it actually takes to answer "what can I build here?" across 30,000 US jurisdictions. Avi started with a light-bulb moment during refugee resettlement — a carriage house behind a main house, housing a family no one knew could be housed there — and built a platform to make that question answerable at scale. **What we get into:** - The pre-feasibility gap: more housing projects die from discouragement than from bad economics — nobody's counting the permits never filed - Massachusetts alone has 200+ definitions of "gross floor area." Multiply that across 30,000 jurisdictions and you understand why builders stall - FutureLot's traffic-light system (green/yellow) tells builders whether a project clears each zoning criterion before a dollar goes to plans - Why the homeowner-builder conversation is broken — and how a shared interface changes "let me drive by" into a real-time answer at any US address - The tension between local zoning control and the tyranny of whoever has time to show up to meetings - What a customer who lives in the tool 4–5 hours a day looks like — and why that feedback loop is the product **Chapters:** - 00:00 — Intro: What FutureLot does - 00:50 — Origin story: Afghanistan, carriage houses, and untapped housing potential - 02:01 — Why zoning data, not building? - 03:35 — What real estate taught Avi: visuals and ease of use aren't nice-to-haves - 04:30 — Product walkthrough: the builder experience - 07:14 — The homeowner interface and what 8 minutes of dwell time means - 09:10 — Connector, not replacement: the role of FutureLot in the stack - 10:38 — 30,000 jurisdictions and the data complexity behind one screen - 12:11 — Two years in: the regulatory maze is worse than you think - 14:00 — Should we standardize zoning? The tension between local control and paralysis - 15:19 — AI + human review: how the sauce gets made - 16:28 — Trust mechanisms: overrides, alarms, source citations - 18:42 — The customer as collaborator: ground truth flows both ways - 20:30 — Roadmap: 50-state coverage, multifamily, lot splits - 21:07 — The inflection point: why now feels different- 22:18 — Find FutureLot **Find FutureLot:** - [futurelot.com](https://futurelot.com) — free account, 3 property searches - [avi@futurelot.com](mailto:avi@futurelot.com) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@FutureLot) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/tryfuturelot) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/futurelot) - [X / Twitter](https://x.com/futurelot) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/futurelot/) **Most Podern:** - [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3zYvX2lRZOpHcZW41WGVrp) - [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/most-podern-podcast/id1725756164) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/most.podern) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@MostPodern)

The right people don't just add value to your life…They multiply it.In this powerful episode of Road to Victory, I dive into identity, commitment, influence, spiritual alignment, community, and the life-changing power of the right tribe.Inspired by lessons from Tribe of Millionaires, we talk about:• Decisive commitment and letting go of what no longer serves you• Identity and understanding who you truly are• The difference between religion and responding to God's love• Why life gives the test before the lesson• How environments subconsciously shape your future• The power of networking, collaboration, and group dynamics• Why the right tribe compounds creativity, opportunity, and growth• The importance of surrounding yourself with people who elevate your standardsThis episode is about multiplication.Because isolation may protect your comfort…But the right tribe expands your destiny.Welcome to the Road to Victory.

In part two of our conversation with Lora Copley, editor of The Banner, the question turns from where the Banner has been to where it could go. Lora doesn't dodge — she names specifics. A Banner podcast launching this year, fully funded through grassroots giving, hosted by Derek Buikema and Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra. A daily Synod 2026 recap modeled on the work of Abide Project. A growing donor base of "banner builders." Online space for articles ranging from 500 to 2,400 words, giving faithful Reformed voices a platform the print magazine can't yet hold. This isn't strategic spin. It's a vision of a publication actually serving the church it claims to speak with. Then Willy turns the conversation toward confessionalism, and the heart of Lora's vision becomes clear. She isn't manufacturing a confessional turn at the Banner — the pitches are already coming. A stay-at-home mom in Chicago on a "Now What?" series for young adults. A church planter in the Multiply 222 network who tells every new disciple after twenty-six weeks of catechism that the only place to go next is Berkhof's Systematic Theology — because the book is incredible. The Reformed confessions are not a museum piece. They're how Reformed churches make disciples, and the CRCNA is hungry for leaders who believe it. Lora heads into Synod 2026 to be interviewed and voted on as permanent editor. She admits she's nervous — her words tumble out like a clown car at the Ringling Brothers circus, she says — but she'll feel deeply dependent on the Lord and His Spirit, and that's a good place to be. We boast in our weakness so that Christ's strength may be known. The closing word is Jonathan Edwards: among all the counterfeits the enemy can imitate of the Spirit's fruit, the one thing he cannot counterfeit is the exalting of Christ. That's what Lora is praying for the Banner, the agencies, the denomination, and the Synod about to gather. Lifted, fixed, transformed eyes on Jesus. There is no other sign and wonder worth chasing. Timestamps: 0:00 — Recap and lead-in 0:26 — Dreaming the Banner's future 1:07 — Reaching a younger, audio-visual audience 1:32 — The new Banner podcast launching this year 4:06 — Banner builders and grassroots support 5:34 — Willy on confessionalism in the Banner 6:48 — Berkhof Basics, Canons of Dort, and confessional pitches coming across the desk 8:33 — "Just send them to Berkhof": a church planter's discipleship story 11:10 — Jason on teaching doctrine to high schoolers 11:49 — Calvin was 26: Reformed confidence for a new generation 13:03 — A hunger for passionately confessional leadership 13:34 — Lora on heading to Synod 2026 15:42 — Nervous, dependent, and in the right place 18:29 — How to pray for Lora and the Banner 23:00 — Praise God for His faithfulness 27:45 — Pray, write, read, share 28:16 — Final words 29:04 — Jonathan Edwards on the one thing you can't counterfeit Join and support us on Substack: https://themessyreformation.com/ Intro music by Matt Krotzer

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In this message from Acts 2:47, David Platt reminds us that our mission is both local and global.Explore more content from Radical.

Lora Copley never thought she'd be editor of The Banner. When her name first came up, she sent back a crying-laughing emoji. She was a campus minister in Iowa, not a journalist. But on a Saturday afternoon — the day before the application deadline, while her daughter was napping — the thought wouldn't leave her alone. She put in her résumé fully expecting to be politely declined, and instead found herself in Florida, at the Multiply 222 conference, receiving a call she hadn't seen coming. In part one of our conversation, Lora tells the story of how God redirected her into the Banner, and what she's learned about the publication, the denomination, and the work in front of her. This episode is for anyone who has thrown the Banner in the recycling and assumed nothing was going to change. Lora walks us behind the curtain — how feature articles get planned a year in advance, how unsolicited columns come in, how the Our Shared Ministry pages work, and why submissions have nearly tripled since December. She's not asking the CRCNA to manage decline. She's reading Hebrews 11 and the COD report side by side and refusing to pretend the gospel has shrunk. She wants to know what God is doing in Houston and Pease, Minnesota, and Acton, Ontario — and she wants The Banner to be the place where we hear about it. The payoff is the moment Jason calls out in real time: he's been one of the Banner's most vocal critics for six years, and he's genuinely encouraged. Lora's vision — a publication that speaks with and within the denomination, that helps the CRCNA know both God and itself, that holds Calvin's twin pillars of wisdom together — is exactly the kind of cross-pollination a denomination in reformation requires. Part two picks up with Lora's dreams for the next five years, the Banner's confessional turn, and her nerves heading into Synod. Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro 1:59 — How a crying-laughing emoji turned into a call to the Banner 5:30 — Hebrews 11 and refusing the script of decline 9:06 — Stepping into a new role: the steep learning curve 11:30 — December deep dive into Synod 2025 12:27 — What Synod 2025 actually asked of The Banner 14:00 — Speaking with and within the denomination 15:30 — Calvin's twin pillars: knowing God and knowing ourselves 17:59 — From interim editor to candidate for permanent editor 19:30 — A call to and a release from 20:48 — Behind the scenes: how Banner articles come together 22:00 — Features, columns, and Our Shared Ministry 25:57 — Why submissions tripled — and what that means for stewardship 27:38 — Widening the pool and breaking the echo chamber Join and support us on Substack: https://themessyreformation.com/ Intro music by Matt Krotzer

In this message from Acts 2:47, David Platt highlights five aspects of the early church's growth.Explore more content from Radical.

Darren Hardy draws on behavioral economics and research from Google, Apple, and Duolingo to reveal five leadership nudges that change behavior more reliably than instructions or incentives alone. In this one, he maps each strategy directly to your team and where to start. Get more personal mentoring from Darren each day. Go to DarrenDaily at http://darrendaily.com/join to learn more.

Justin Humphries reveals his fundamental principles for rapidly growing opportunities and income in an uncertain job market.— YOU'LL LEARN — 1) How to multiply your inbound opportunities2) The simplest way to expand your professional network3) The key that keeps people coming back to youSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1149 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT JUSTIN — Justin Humphries is a dedicated Loan Officer with experience since June 2021, specializing in VA, first-time homebuyer, and DSCR loans. A Nashville native, Justin is deeply motivated by personal and professional growth, drawing strength from his faith, family, and a passion for building meaningful relationships. He takes great pride in helping clients align their mortgage strategies with their life goals, aiming to support them in building long-term wealth. Justin values the opportunity to develop lasting connections with customers who return to him year after year for their mortgage needs.Beyond his professional work, Justin is actively involved in his church community, serving on the parish council and volunteering with the Society of St. Vincent DePaul to assist families at risk of homelessness. He is happily married to his wife Stephanie and is a proud father of three young children, including twins.• LinkedIn: Justin Humphries• Profile: Justin Humphries• Phone number: +1 615-438-8125• Email: jhumphries@loandepot.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Tool: Claude for Google Chrome• Article: “Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return.” by Angelo Romasanta, Llewellyn D.W. Thomas and Natalia Levina• Study: “Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population” by John B. Calhoun• YouTube: Squat University• Book: Rebuilding Milo: A Lifter's Guide to Fixing Common Injuries and Building a Strong Foundation for Enhancing Performance• Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition by Stephen R. Covey• Previous episode: 184: Building Your Network Before You Need It with Dr. Ivan Misner— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Keepsake Voices. Get mom something special and save about $100 with keepsakevoices.com/pete• Scribe. Book a personalized enterprise demo with scribe.how/awesome• Narwhal. Treat your home to spotless, fresh floors with us.narwhal.com/pete.• Monarch.com. Get 50% off your first year on with the code AWESOME.• Gusto. Get three months free when you run your first payroll with gusto.com/AWESOME• Shopify. Sign up for your $1/month trial at Shopify.com/awesomepod• Vanguard. Give your clients consistent results year in and year out with vanguard.com/AUDIOSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

If people can quit with two clicks, what actually keeps them following you? We dig into that uncomfortable truth with Reed Nyffler, entrepreneur, leadership strategist, and author of Lead Exponentially, as we challenge the old power-and-title model of management and replace it with something harder: being a leader worth choosing.We talk about leadership as influence, why servant leadership is the only style that scales, and how modern teams see through empty mission statements faster than ever. Reed breaks down why so many leaders get stuck in linear growth, then offers a simple lens that changes decision-making overnight: stop solving circumstantial complaints and start making structural calls that set direction, standards, and measurable outcomes. We also get real about performance, accountability, and why “everybody gets a ribbon” thinking eventually breaks the leader and the culture.For entrepreneurs, the operator-to-leader shift becomes practical with a schedule audit and delegation strategy that starts with repetitive hourly tasks, builds training speed, and frees your time for higher-value work. We connect culture to ownership by taking responsibility when things go wrong, placing credit with the people who earned it, and rewarding good judgment even when results miss. We even touch the AI era, self-driving cars, and why stability plus authenticity is now a competitive advantage in leadership development.If you're building a business, scaling a team, or trying to become a transformational leader instead of a boss, press play, then subscribe, share this with a friend who leads people, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.Join the What if it Did Work movement on FacebookGet the Book!www.omarmedrano.comwww.calendly.com/omarmedrano/15min

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