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In this episode of the Hurdy Gurdy Travel Podcast, host Justin Vacula shares insights from his recent cruise on the Holland America Nieuw Statendam, obtained through a Wynn Las Vegas tier match offer. The episode covers detailed travel arrangements, including flights, hotels, and cruise amenities, as well as personal experiences and evaluations of ship facilities, dining options, internet service, and onboard entertainment. Justin also discusses the complications faced in the casino, trip highlights from various ports, and useful tips for future travelers. Additional content and upcoming events are promoted, encouraging listeners to check out more travel-related materials on Justin's YouTube channel and other social media platforms. 00:00 Introduction 01:45 Cruise Experience with Holland America 03:51 Booking and Travel Logistics 05:59 Onboard Experience and Accommodations 12:07 Dining Options and Food Quality 16:36 Casino and Entertainment 19:33 Intelligent Gambling Strategies 20:03 Blackjack Rules and Preferences 21:16 Casino Buy-In Issues 24:26 Cruise App and Information Challenges 25:11 Exploring Path UK and Half Moon Cay 27:28 Grand Turk and Amber Cove Adventures 30:10 Nassau Bahamas and Final Cruise Thoughts 35:09 Future Plans and YouTube Channel Growth 36:28 Closing Announcements and How To Support -- Main website, including episode transcripts: https://hurdygurdytravelpodcast.com Referral links: https://hurdygurdytravel.com/donate-referral-links/ Join me for in-person meetups I host in Willow Grove, PA: https://www.meetup.com/phillymilesandpoints/ SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/hurdy-gurdy-travel SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hurdygurdytravelpodcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hurdy-gurdy-travel-podcast/id1489093490 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8EcIcoNU1HK4KKhQtTkAWw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hurdy-gurdy-travel-podcast Google Play: https://www.play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/l5bmuntd4wpvtklvg42ejg42ejg4apiu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HurdyGurdyTravelPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/HGTravelPodcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/justinvacula Copy and paste the podcast RSS feed -- http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:706382626/sounds.rss -- to listen on your favorite podcast-playing platform!

This week on the podcast, we share details about our port activities in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic, Grand Turk, Half Moon Cay and Nassau Bahamas. Download our shore day bag checklist and more cruise packing and planning checklists & videos by joining the CruiseTipsTV Academy at https://academy.cruisetipstv.com

In this episode, we're taking you to the beautiful city of Nassau and the luxurious Grand Hyatt Baha Mar – a resort that has everything, including a thrilling water park! Whether you're planning a family vacation or a getaway with friends, we've got you covered.Join us as Mary Ellen shares her full trip experience, including exactly which credit cards and currencies to target to earn enough points for flights and a hotel stay at this incredible resort. You won't have to waste hours researching – we've done the work for you, so you can focus on planning your dream vacation! You will get tips for everything from activities to food to staying in one room with a family of five.Tune in to learn how to make your tropical escape a reality with points and rewards!

Episode 244 covers MSC and if they are really penetrating the American market at the level they had hoped.  Also, they recently announced their new itineraries going from Seattle to Alaska. Tragedy strikes in the port of Nassau Bahamas as a young adult gets arrested after allegedly driving recklessly, resulting in a fatality. An extended interview with Leslie, who recently took and extended family cruise on Royal Caribbian's Utopia of the Seas.

In this intimate conversation, Stephen Chamberlain, a former U.S. Coast Guard officer, small business owner, and writer, candidly discusses his personal struggles and victories. From navigating anxiety disorders to his cathartic discovery of writing and poetry, Steve opens up about his life journey. He delves into the complexities of moral injury, the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, his 40-year relationship with disordered eating and anxiety, and his pursuit of contentment through nomadic living and creative expression.Steve's raw honesty provides a unique lens into the challenges of coping with men's mental health issues while striving for fulfillment. His writing not only serves as a personal outlet but also connects him to a broader community of writers and readers interested healing and self-reflection.Timeline:* 01:28 Background and Early Life* 03:04 Struggles with Disordered Eating, Anxiety, and Joining the Coast Guard* 04:22 Life in the Coast Guard and Personal Challenges* 05:47 Post-Retirement Life and Discovering a Nomadic Writing Journey* 07:35 Exploring New Ventures and Digital Nomadism* 09:50 Writing as a Cathartic Experience* 12:41 Peer Support and Mental Health Advocacy* 17:56 Moral Injury in the Coast Guard* 38:56 Struggles with Weight and Anxiety* 40:00 Understanding Male Anorexia and Its Impact* 40:47 The Battle Between Rational and Irrational Voices* 42:38 Poetry as a Means of Control* 45:14 Exploring Psychedelics for Treatment* 47:28 The Transformative Impact of Psychedelic Experiences* 58:13 Embracing Mortality and Planning Ahead* 01:03:28 Future Plans and Other Pursuits* 01:07:13 Connecting with the AudienceConnect with Steve and his writing @ Steve's Substack Steve's Collections of Poetry: My Raven and My BlackbirdAI Machine Transcription - Enjoy the Glitches!Steve: Right off the bat, anyone who tries to write understands that writing is very difficult, but what I could do is write about my experiences. The things that I find easiest to write about are things I'm most familiar with, and the thing I'm most familiar with is what I'm feeling and thinking inside. This sounds clichéd, but it's true, cathartic and I found that relatability they feel less alone and that just encouraged me to write more. And quite frankly, if I have one person tell me that, "hey, that thing you wrote really resonated with me or helped me," I'm like a score! if I can help somebody, then it was worth putting out there.Even if nobody reads them, it felt good to get them out. And it did feel cathartic to get it out. ​I've come to the conclusion that, what I want to get out of life in my remaining years is as many moments of contentment and fulfillment as I can.[Music] Leafbox: Good afternoon, Steve. Before we start, I wanted to thank you. Even though you're a smaller publisher and you're just starting off on your journey of writing.One of the things that really stood out to me about your writing is that it feels like it's coming from a very authentic place. And, my own writing and my own efforts across life. That's one of the hardest things to find and be true to so thank you for at least expressing in a way that feels genuine and true and in today's world I think that's a harder thing to do.Before we start, why don't you just tell us, Steve, a little bit about who you are, maybe what you're writing about why you came to writing.Steve: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm 57 years old, so I've been around for a little bit and my background is pretty varied.I grew up in a suburb of Boston. Irish Catholic family, first generation to move into the suburbs from South Boston and second generation of my family to actually go to college. I went to a public school, and it, it was a pretty benign suburban existence.I would say right up through my university years, I went to a commuter school, UMass University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Mass, and something I could afford in that day and age by working part time and lived at home and really had no, what I would call significant life experience. Until I left home and went to the Coast Guard's Officer Candidate School after college.But I think it is noteworthy to say that like a lot of typical families of that era, I had, it was dysfunctional, but most people have some sort of dysfunction in their family. Alcoholic dad, very much a perfectionist. Everyone in the family seemed to be driven by anxiety created by their predecessors and I picked that up as well.And it's notable to say that I developed an eating disorder in my high school years, which is a male in the 1980s I think was very eating disorders are stigmatized. Among all genders, even today, but being a guy in the 80s when there was really no infrastructure set up to, to diagnose, recognize, or treat it made it particularly challenging.And I really got into triathlons and long distance running and marathons. Got to a really unhealthy weight. And, my mom did her best to get me in with psychologists and psychiatrists, but none of them really had a handle on how to deal with somebody like me. And it, it caused quite a bit of isolation for me in high school.College was a little bit better simply because it was a commuter school and I would go do my work and come home. So I became quite a loner, but, for reasons that I can't describe other than just being impulsive in my early years, I applied after college to the Coast Guard's Officer Candidate School and somehow got in and spent about four months down in Virginia in basic training and then the next 25 years in the Coast Guard and the eating disorder I somehow managed.Gained some weight was always a little odd with my eating habits, but and very excessive with my exercise habits and very rigid as I am to this day. But those 25 years in the Coast Guard were both fulfilling and beset by a little bit of inertia. I think it's a challenging job, but and as you get more.Responsibility more senior becomes more challenging and more all encompassing, but by the same token, it's a secure job where even though you move every couple of years, the culture remains the same. So for a guy with anxiety and quite frankly, anorexia nervosa is an anxiety disorder when you get right down to it.The Coast Guard was a relatively comfortable place for me. In 2015 I was serving in Alameda and living in San Francisco, which is where you and I met. And I also retired from the Coast Guard that year. At the time I was married, but my anxiety, which demonstrated itself in those days, I think is more of a extreme dedication to work kind of a workaholism, if you would call it that really, destroyed my marriage. And by 2017, 2018, we were divorced, which was really, for me, the point in time in which I think I gained a level of self awareness that A lot of my peers do not seem to have, and I'm not trying to be, I'm not trying to brag or anything like that because I tend to surround myself with friends like you who are self aware and do look inward and do understand they have egos and those egos are rather hard to control.And but having that self awareness. This is really a great way to determine when your ego is getting the better of you. And it was the divorce that kind of opened my eyes to the fact that I had not been a good husband. That my dedication to work was one of these fleeting needs for professional affirmation that came at the expense of any sort of long term personal contentment.And it was that self awareness obtained relatively late in life, my late forties, early fifties, that led me to writing and led me to trying several other Endeavors. I worked a little bit in the wine industry for three years and learned what I could at a small five person wine startup.I impulsively bought Airstream trailer and spent about a year and a half, 2020 at the Covid years. As a matter of fact I launched my digital nomadism, as I called it in March of 2020. No, great plan to do that, but at the same time, the whole country. Pretty much shut down and spent a little over a year place really enjoying that kind of existence.And fortunately with a military pension and a small business running some companies, alcohol compliance operations, I was able to support myself. And not like minutes overhead on the Airstream trailer I had I decided to stop and go back to Massachusetts for a couple of years, rented a small house.And my mom and dad are there. They're older now. They're still in the same town I grew up in. My sisters are there. But I found after about three years there, my eating disorder had I guess I'd say I relapsed a little bit, not full scale after decades of it being more or less managed, but not certainly cured.Realized that I was going to be stuck with that for the rest of my life, but also thinking my time in Massachusetts was a good time to really become introspective, maybe more present, practice meditation investigate psychedelics which you helped me with Three years later, to be honest I didn't do it while I was there, just thought about it a lot and and really work on myself.And quite frankly, after those three years had passed I felt that I honestly, I've been inside my own head so much time that I was feeling worse, not better. And I was also feeling restless, which I did not expect to feel after decades of moving every couple of years. I thought I'd be quite ready to settle and I wasn't.So I very impulsively decided that rather than using a trailer, I'd try and see if I could do the same Nomadic existence with Airbnbs, if I could find Airbnb hosts who would rent long term to me. And right off the bat, I found somebody who gave me a two year lease on a place in Florida.But the writing really started I'd say around the time I launched in the Airstream 2020, where I started a blog about, my trip. And right off the bat, anyone who tries to write understands that writing is very difficult. In all people who write fiction I cannot write dialogue.I it's way too challenging for me. But what I could do is write about my experiences. And I think what you were getting at the beginning of this conversation was that, the things that I find easiest to write about are things I'm most familiar with and the thing I'm most familiar with is what I'm feeling and thinking inside again, something I never could have done before my divorce.But it helped me get to a place where I felt it was almost, and this sounds clichéd but it's true, cathartic to write about things that I was feeling, I was thinking and then publishing them in different venues like Substack and where I am now and Medium where I was before and getting not a lot of feedback, some feedback.And I found that relatability was on one hand, a really good hook for a personal essay because people enjoy reading things that are relatable to them. They feel less alone. I enjoy getting that feedback for obvious reasons. Somebody liked what I wrote, but also because I feel less alone while somebody else feels this way too.And that just encouraged me to write more. And I, I am not particularly skilled at poetry, and I'm really honest, I don't love reading poetry, but I decided I like the structure of poems. And I Picked up a pen and tried to write a few poems. I don't think my poetry is particularly good or particularly musical or the right words, but I do the challenge of trying to find the right words to condense into a particular structure to convey a certain idea.And that idea really shot back to relatability and I started writing some short haiku, some tankas and a couple of other poem forms about my anxiety, about not so much the eating disorder, although I have written a couple of essays about the eating disorder, but just the way I was feeling in the world.And even if nobody reads them, it felt good to get them out. And it did feel cathartic to get it out. And I haven't written poetry in a little while, but for a couple of years it was really an obsession of mine and I did get some good feedback and there were people who could relate to some of the things that I wrote and some of the metaphors that I used for my anxiety.And for, since that. Point in time, I have started a peer support company with a couple of Coast Guard veterans. Even though I've given up on myself in terms of therapy helping, I do feel better just not by not struggling so much to try and get better. That probably made me feel 10 percent better overall, but I do realize there's a need forMore health care, mental health care workers and as a component to any sort of a treatment plan peer support really resonated with me because there's evidence that shows that it works. Look at any. Substance abuse group. That's the strength in it is sitting around with people with shared experience, but it gets back to my writing too, which is relatability.If you don't feel like you're the only one feeling that way, or you're the only one with a, an addiction, or the only one who's experienced sexual trauma, and you can't tell anyone about it, but then you're in a room with people who have stories that are remarkably like yours, who feel remarkably like you do.Who who went through the same journey that you're going through. That in and of itself has a healing aspect. When I had the opportunity to start this company called Mindstrong Guardians earmarked towards the Coast Guard and Coast Guard people fall in the cracks between Department of Defense and first responders.So many folks are traumatized and don't get help. We. We felt we'd found a niche, and that leads me to today. Leafbox: Steve, could I just interrupt you? I want to talk about your poetic forms and your kind of nomadic lifestyle. But I want to go back to when you were after college, why did you just impulsively join the Coast Guard?Was that an escape for you? Or what were you looking for? Were you looking for? I'm just curious. Steve: I think I had romanticized the Coast Guard, Robert. I grew up outside of Austin. The Coast Guard Academy was in Connecticut. And There was nothing complex about it. I got my hands on a Coast Guard Academy bulletin, the front of the bulletin being the kind of booklet that describes the Coast Guard Academy to potential applicants.And the front cover was the Coast Guards has America's tall ship the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, which is a three masted barb. And it's a sailing vessel. Very old school and it looked really cool to me. And I had spent my summers working. near my hometown in Concord, Massachusetts at a place called Minuteman National Historical Park, the old North Bridge, but they also had the homes of Emerson and Hawthorne and places where Melville had written.And I really got, and Thoreau and I really got into their writings and the idea of this. The ship that looked like it came right out of, to me at that stage, Moby Dick really appealed to me. And that's as deep as it got. I thought to myself, I'm going to go here. This is a cool school.I'm going to have this maritime life by I grew up really enjoying our, the family's annual trip from the suburb to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the seashore. And part of the reason for that is the two weeks a year, my family was on Cape Cod and we were rigid and religious about going there, nothing bad ever happened.My, my aunt and uncle were there. My cousins were there. My dad didn't drink. He hung out with us people didn't fight. They loved it. And I just associated. Even though I wasn't an ocean going guy and didn't have that background, I associated those two, two weeks a year on the beach with a calm serenity that I didn't have the 50 other weeks of the year, the 50 other weeks of the year.I was anxious about, what's my dad going to be like tonight. I don't want to go to school tomorrow. It's one thing or another. And then I'd have this two week long exhale. And for some reason, I taught that to the Coast Guard Academy. So I applied for the Academy and I didn't get in, which was no shocker.I didn't have great grades. But I kept that idea in my head and after graduating from UMass, I thought there must be another way in and there was so I drove myself to a recruiter in Boston and submitted an application and, Lo and behold, they accepted me and the acceptance wasn't a deeply thought out thing.It was just, I'll have a job and I won't have to live at home. And that's that it'll buy me a few years time because there was a three year active duty commitment after you got out. And I thought this is what I need. Otherwise, what am I going to do? Just, live in Boston all my life, or I had no plans, no aspirations, no nothing.So this was something. Yeah. I'm glad I took it, but that's as deep as it went. Leafbox: Steve, one of the essays that I really enjoyed was, maybe I have a bias too, I, I've interviewed another author who was a Coast Guard vet, and they're the forgotten branch, like you said, of the military, but one of the things you wrote about was your concept of moral injury in the Coast Guard and across I guess government employees and all branches of, employees across all groups and organizations. Could you expand on what you mean by moral injury and maybe some of the personal experiences you had during the Coast Guard? Steve: Absolutely. I'm glad you brought up moral injury because.Moral injury in general is not something that most people think about when they think about trauma. And when they do think about it, they think about the most obvious examples of moral injury. Moral injury is basically having to do something that is counter to your personal values. And having to do it, when I say that, as A matter of carrying out your responsibilities, which in public service can happen quite often.So the first place you go with that is you teach people. And I think people inherently know that killing other people or hurting other people is wrong. And suddenly you train somebody, whether they're in the army or the Marine Corps. Maybe whatever to kill other people and you put them in a position where they are, that's their job to kill other people and they end up killing other people.They have done something essentially at cross purposes with their internal values and that creates a conflict which in and of itself can develop into trauma. There are other ways that moral injury can occur, and the one I've seen most often with Coast Guard veterans is search and rescue, and my role was not being out on a boat, pulling people out of the water.My role was basically planning searches, approving search areas, figuring out What resources to send, but most of all figuring out when you had to suspend or end a search, not having found the person you're looking for and to tell the family that you're suspending the search which I've had to do three times in my career.And I've, plenty of people who have done it much more frequently than that, but you remember every time. And that there's a huge vulnerability to moral injury in. In that sort of work, because you feel like I am in a life saving organization, I joined the organization because I want to save lives, at least that's part of what the Coast Guard does.And here I am telling somebody that not only have I not saved their loved one's life, but I'm giving up.People obviously don't react well to that. That really, Increases that feeling that I have fundamentally failed at my job. I have fundamentally violated one of my core values. I would not want somebody to give up looking for my best friend, my brother, my sister, my parent, and this guy here is telling me he's given up.Now, when we suspend a search, we don't do it lightly. We keep them informed throughout the search process and prepare them for the possibility. But, we look at how long can somebody survive in water at that temperature? What are the odds of finding them? This search area expands every hour and on.So you reach a point where continued searching really isn't going to yield results. You are damn near confident that you're not going to find that person. My essay was a little bit different and surprised me because it was nothing like that and just to touch on the area that really saying it scarred me or it definitely created moral injury for me, but it was such a relatively benign event that two decades later, I still scratch my head and say, why did, why does this to this day?still make me feel emotional. And essentially, I was the, working in the U. S. Embassy in the Bahamas, which I was the Coast Guard's liaison officer there. So my job was to interact with Bahamian officials when we had essentially cross border operations going on or interdictions of smugglers and that sort of thing.And in one particular case a U. S. Coast Guard vessel intercepted a raft of Cuban refugees in Bahamian territorial seas, so we returned those people to the Bahamas. And my job was to meet the Coast Guard ship at the pier in the Bahamas to make sure there was an orderly transfer of the Cuban refugees from the U.S. Coast Guard to the Bahamian immigration officials. Thank you very much. This particular group of refugees came in on a Christmas morning. So I was in my uniform on the pier waiting for the Coast Guard ship. Coast Guard ship comes in Coast Guard. Immigration authorities are there with their vans.And I knew they would take these people to a detention center in the center of new Providence Island, where Nassau Bahamas is located. And eventually transport them back to Cuba. I'd done this before and it was routine, but there were, I remember there were 26 people and I, they came off the gangway of Coast Guard ship to the pier and there was a little girl, maybe five or six who had a doll and.I was on the gangway, and she was struggling to get up on the gangway, so she just looked at me and handed me the doll, and then I helped her up, and then walked her over the gangway and got her to the pier, and she looked at me and put her arms out again for the doll, and I gave her the doll back, and then she and the rest of the people got in the van and went to the detention center, and I never saw them again.I went home that day after that, and 20 years later, that still makes me feel sad, and I still wonder about that girl, and I feel like this isn't what I signed up to do. I didn't sign up to take this person whose family had placed her on this unsafe raft, pushed her into the water, to head to the U.S. with an unknown outcome. And suddenly she's in the Bahamas, not even her family's intended location for her and going to a detention center at age of five or six. And it wasn't a brutal detention center, but it wasn't pleasant. I had been there several times. It was barracks, basically, in the middle of the island with razor wire around it.And then back to Cuba, where she may or may not be. Reintroduced to whatever family she had, and it just felt so out of line with any reason I had to have joined the Coast Guard or any personal value. I felt at the time and throughout my 25 years, I compartmentalize things and. desensitize myself to things like this, but that one I was never able to do it.And like I said, I've done Mexican notifications that haven't bothered me that much. Yeah I wrote my essay on that, but I think the Coast Guard really does, as you said, is the forgotten service because people assume that, hey, if you're not being shot at, what do you have to complain about?And I see Coast Guard veterans all the time with untreated PTSD from doing the things that Coast Guard people do which are very similar to things first responders do. And often they're 18, 19 year old people out there in the front lines, and they're either, shooting an engine out of a smuggling vessel to stop it, or they're trying to find somebody that they don't end up finding, or they find somebody after they passed away, or they find somebody after a horrible boating accident and, all of these things are traumatic in their own right, but when When you say that, Hey, I didn't sign up to come out and shoot people.I signed up to save people and I didn't save this person. I guess that's where my story comes home to roost is I didn't save this person. I just made life a lot worse for this person and it doesn't feel good. I just didn't expect it to not feel good. 20 years later. Leafbox: Does the Coast Guard now have the same culture? You wrote another essay about I think it's called mental personal protective equipment, the mPPE. What's the current state of like when you talk to vets at your officer level, are you finding the same kind of Moral injury and trauma that's manifesting. How are they expressing it? Or are they, alcoholism? What are the issues that other vets are really facing now? Steve: Yeah, that's a great question. Because I think culturally there have been incremental changes, but the Coast Guard, like the other services is very much suck it up type environment always has been. It's a little less. So now the Coast Guard has created a cadre of mental health providers that are accessible.Mental health is a little less stigmatized, but it's far from where it needs to be. And I think it's worth noting that particularly an officer in the military, and that includes the Coast Guard, we all know and refer to our careers as zero defect environments. And I knew that, and that just stokes up anxiety that you're going to make a mistake.And a mistake is, hey, my search pattern was wrong and somebody drowned. You start to become more worried about your career than somebody drowning. The slightest mistake can end your career. And it really is your defect. So when it comes to the stigmatization of mental illness, no officer wants to acknowledge it.And what the Coast Guard has done is created a little more access. to mental health support, but has done nothing substantial about changing the culture. So if I were in the Coast Guard right now I would never acknowledge having a high level of anxiety, never acknowledge having an eating disorder.I never acknowledge any sort of mental illness as an officer in the military, because that is a career ender in most cases. Less so now, but still culturally, there is a fear. I'm going to lose my security clearance if I go to see, seek help. If I go to a therapist, I know a lot of what they do now, Robert and have done for years is go out privately and pay out of pocket.And yeah, I have a good friend who is an excellent Coast Guard lawyer, but he suffers from severe depression. And the Coast Guard doesn't know this. He is on SSRIs, and the Coast Guard doesn't know this. And he has, in his particular case, SSRIs, antidepressant drugs, pharmaceuticals, and therapy.He views them as having been life saving. For him knowledge to the Coast Guard that he is receiving therapy or using this medication because real or not, he is fearful that it would end his career and so that's one way of coping with it. And that's probably the healthiest way of coping with it. Outside of the Coast Guard, I've met veterans who are alcoholics or use alcohol as a crutch.And simply don't seek help because we fall into that trap too, where we feel like we're sucking resources away from some young combat vet in the army. If I see a therapist at the veterans administration, and I may be entitled to do that, I am. Because I'm one of the five, six armed services now, but most Coast Guard people I've talked to when we were developing our company, our peer support company felt like I don't want to steal resources from, from the army, from the Marines, from these people who really deserve it when I don't deserve it.And that's, and as a result, they're untreated. And when you're untreated and you've suffered trauma, you live a life of suffering. That is in many cases, unnecessary if you the right treatment. So I think in the Coast Guard, this is particularly acute, but I think across all the services, when you look at the suicide rate of military veterans in general there's no argument that something isn't happening here and it's not just.I was in a combat area and I saw really bad things. It's that you have to move every couple of years that families are always under strain. That, it's hard enough to maintain a marriage when you're in a more stable environment. It's really challenging when one person's At home and unable to start a career because you're moving every couple of years for your career and deployments are extremely stressful where you don't see your family for, 12, 15 months at a pop.It's a stressful existence in general. It's worthwhile and fulfilling in many ways, but from a personal standpoint it's, it can be. That's the best answer I can give. And then Steve, you didn't do any writing when you were in service, right? So this became a post divorce liberation escape?Steve: Yeah. It, I couldn't have done it, Robert. I utterly lacked the introspection that I needed to do. I, that I needed to sustain my marriage. I didn't, I realized that my being a workaholic was not good for my marriage, but it was a blind spot for me. I thought in the future.And I, I don't think I would have it's funny because had we stayed married, I'd still be rather obtuse when it came to introspection. I probably never would have started writing. So it's the divorce spurred the self awareness and the self awareness spurred the writing. Leafbox: And then what's the response? You're writing a Medium and Substack. Have you shared essays and poems and other writing with vets or how are they responding to writing as a release? Steve: There are some vets who see my writing and it's funny because on Substack they usually come to me via email directly if they like something or something resonated with them rather than say anything on Substack directly.But it hasn't really resonated in particular with veterans. Some of the things I write about, anxiety is universal in, in our culture anyway. It, I would say extreme anxiety, anxiety over things that you look at and you're like, why am I anxious over this, that I had to do this today when this is relatively easy to get time.But I've also found that, if you eliminate and avoid the big things, then the anxiety is just as intense with the little things. So that's some of the stuff that I write about. But I will say I really hesitated to put anything out there about the eating disorder because of the stigma associated with men.And eating disorders. I only recently put something out on Substack because I just got to a point where I'm like, you know what, if it helps somebody, great. If a few folks didn't know about it haven't come across it, then they can ask me questions about it. But I do feel awkward. I feel embarrassed.I'm a guy, I'm not supposed to have an eating disorder. I even feel that way. And I've had it for 40 years. But I also realized that, you know what, if I live another 20, 30 years I'm going to have it. It's not going away. So I think I just have to come to some sort of accommodation. An acceptance of that. I'm not saying it's untreatable. It is treatable. It's tough to treat anorexia, but I've just decided that, therapies I've tried for anxiety haven't been particularly effective for me. So that's just a personal choice I've made. Leafbox: I think, all the writers I gravitate towards and I interviewed, I think one of the main things I appreciate is when they're truly honest.And even though you have these issues of shame and anxiety, I think it resonates that it's coming from a place that feels very genuine. So thank you. For listeners, can you give us, I don't know much about male anorexia. What does that manifest as? Is that kind of like an Adonis complex similar to bodybuilders or what does this mean? . Steve: Yeah, that, that was spot on. There is. Another disorder, and I don't know the name of it, for young male adolescents who want to get big, so to speak. They're obsessed with getting large. For me, it was more insidious than that. And in my teens, I saw my dad as an alcoholic.Now I look back at my dad and I'm like, wow, we're exactly the same. He was a highly anxious perfectionist like me. And like most anxious people, he didn't like uncertainty and like it's full of uncertainties and he would self medicate with alcohol. And I thought, I don't want to be anything like that.I want to be the opposite. Right at the beginning of the running craze in the U S I decided I don't know. I was maybe 15, 16 I was gonna start running. And I started running and the reason was, so I, cause I didn't want to be like my dad. I wanted to be healthy. And then that kind of transitioned into, I'm going to eat healthier too.And I'm going to make my own food. And then I got very strict about what I ate, not with an intent to lose weight just to with, I'm not going to eat junk anymore. In the 70s and the 80s, that was particularly tough. Everything was processed and prepackaged. But I found so I became very choosy.And because of the running and the desire to eat healthy, which were honest and good and benign at first. I lost weight for some reason. As I lost weight, Robert, I found it anathema to, I just didn't want to gain it again. I didn't even think of it as a disorder. It was like, no, if I'm losing weight and I'm out participating in triathlons, which were evolving in the eighties as a thing.And, I was doing five or six triathlons a summer up in Massachusetts and I was 19 by the time I really hit my peak triathlon years. And I ran Boston marathon in 1990 in two hours and 40 something minutes. And that was walking a lot the last six miles. And I thought I could really do something here.And the weight loss, while I don't think contributing to it, probably undermining my performance. I looked at that as. Helping me excel. I'm like if I'm losing weight and I'm running sub two Boston marathons, what could I do if I lost more weight and trained more? So that is how it came on. I didn't even really think of it as an eating disorder, and it wasn't really discussed in those days.But when I look at some of the I've destroyed every photograph I could find of myself in those days because I looked emaciated. I saw my high school yearbook picture and Honestly, Robert, I was, I'm six foot tall. I think I had gotten down to about 128, 127 pounds. I was obviously malnourished, but I didn't think of it that way.I thought this is the path to better performance, more exercise. More strictness with my food. And of course all my triathlon heroes were eating this way. And I thought this is the way I got to go. The Coast Guard interrupted that. And somehow I got up to by my thirties, about 170 pounds.I was happy with that. I was okay with it. I even wanted to gain more, I felt healthy. I felt good. And then. As I gained more responsibility in the Coast Guard I my anxiety drove me less or drove me away from strength training, which was the only thing really maintaining my, my, my physique to just endurance training, which eased my anxiety.And, my weight dipped a little bit, but it was okay when I left the Coast Guard. And then, COVID comes along and I'm in the airstream and starting to feel really weak and never weighing myself because I had anxiety about getting on scale. It was either too heavy or too light, one or the other.But I sat for a year in the airstream when I went to see the doctor about why I felt so exhausted all the time that I dropped I don't know, 12, 13 pounds from the time I started the airstream and that just re sparked the whole thing in my head. So the thing that I thought I was at least managing, I wasn't managing, but anorexia to answer your question, because I straight away from that is it's the same.It's, bulimia is where you purge anorexia is got its purge element, but the purges exercise and calorie control. And I it's the same in men as it is in women. It's a control thing. It's an anxiety disorder. It is the, I've got no control over what's happening in the world. I can't control what's happening in my body, but it's not articulated that way.And I think the best way to articulate it every man or woman I've talked to with anxiety with anorexia. Has, and I've written about this. I don't know if I've published the most recent one yet as two voices in their head, and I call it a rational voice, which knows what I should be doing to live a healthy life.And the fact that I am undernourished even to this day and the irrational voice, which is. Hey you're doing fine. You're surviving like this. Why would you want to gain any more weight? It's irrational, but it wins every time. It, my metaphor is the irrational voice always ends up with it.It's booed on the neck of the rational voice. And I, I don't know how to overcome that, but I have found that to be universal with anorexia sufferers, and they have the two voices in their head, and the irrational voice always seems to win and people who don't have it, they don't win.Can't understand how I can look in the mirror or anyone who's under nurse can look in the mirror and feel that they are overweight. Even when your rational voice is there, you screaming at you that you are fine. In fact, you need to gain a few pounds that living a life where you're under 6 percent body fat every day.Maybe that's why you're cold all the time. Steve, is not a healthy way to live. I have osteoporosis now. If I had been a smoker or had been somebody who ate bad foods and had a heart disease, I'd do something. But with the osteoporosis, the irrational voice just argues it away. And I'm like, no, but that came because I've been undernourished and over exercising.And that's going to be a problem as I age. It's an irrational disease that's born of anxiety and control. And unless you're there, you can't really get it, but I will say it. It's got the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, I think even more so than depression. Leafbox: Steve going back to your poetry, I just, do you see a parallel?I was surprised by all the poems have very structured, you have haikus, tankas, minkas, something called the cinquain , which I've never heard of before. But all these very structured. So is that a release? How does it interact with your control issues? Steve: It's, it's a manifestation of control issues.It's; I'm glad you brought that up. You're the first person to actually see that. As I said earlier, I'm not a poet. I don't, I'm not particularly creative from my perspective. What attracted me to poetry and in particular to very structured poems, haiku is simple, but I'm like, wow, you have to say as much as you can say using that 5, 7, 5 syllable structure.I like that. It's, it feeds that desire to be in control. It's a challenge and it is spot on. A manifestation and one could say you're not doing anything to, do some free verse. And it's now I don't want to do free first. I, that scratches my itch to do a haiku or a tanka and yeah, you're spot on.It's. You call it OCD, call it anxiety, call it what you will. That's what it is. But I, I honestly don't, I've accepted it. I'm like, fine. It gives me a moment of fulfillment to get that out there. It gives me, however long it takes me to generate the poem a period of contentment. And I've come to the conclusion that, what I want to get out of life in my remaining years is as many moments of contentment and fulfillment as I can.Because what else is there, and I, struggling to fix myself wasn't working. So writing a haiku and spending a couple of hours on it or whatever it takes does that for me. And I'm like, fine, I'll take it. If my OCD, pursuing my OCD and straightening up the picture on the wall gives me a feeling of contentment, I'll take it.Because. Time is finite, and you really begin to realize that when I think for me, when you get close to 60, you're like, wow, there, there's a window of time here, just be as content as possible for as often as possible and accept the discontent is just a contrast. So you appreciate the contented periods, Leafbox: Steve, maybe we could talk about, I wanted to see how you would. Free flow for prose, but maybe we can talk about your experience with psychedelics and how that maybe was the opposite of control. Steve: Yeah, absolutely. I became interested in psychedelics during my period in Massachusetts that affixed me period as a potential cure for anxiety, OCD, is like many people you're watching documentaries about the effectiveness of psychedelics for certain mental health conditions.But when I got to that point where I'm like, you know what, I'm just going to accept myself as I am, I still was interested in psychedelics as an experience, but I didn't want to hang my head on the idea that I'd come out of a, a trip and be suddenly cured of anxiety. That to me would have just led to disappointment.It's unrealistic. And I actually talked to you and my big concern was trying to sort a good guide. Who would provide me with good support. I didn't want a therapist at this period of time with, because the psychedelic trip to me was about preparation. It's about set and setting.It's about being self aware. It's about being a lot of things and not just taking some mushrooms and, wherever you happen to be and saying, wow, that was a great trip. Like you would drink a beer or something. So I found you helped me find a location in Oregon. And I hired a good guide and we did a lot of preparation and a lot of attention setting, and because I was flying from Florida to Portland, I decided to have two trips during a 10 day period.And I self prepared, the location, the setting was incredible. And that, that was huge. I couldn't have done this in an improper location. It was quiet, it was peaceful. It was a port Portland craftsman house and the room was comfortable and safe. And my guide was with me the whole time.And the first.I, and it became this battle with me. It was a moderate dose of psilocybin. It was it was for, therapeutic dose, but not extreme. And I just, For some reason went into it, not really having expectations, but thinking as soon as it hit me, I'm like, I'm, it was Steven anxious, Steve, they're saying, I'm not going to let something control.I'm not going to let it control me. I flexing and unflexing my muscles the whole time. And while I felt it was a significant event, I certainly didn't get the most out of it. So three days later, I go back. We agree on a much larger dose and I had really focused on not fighting it. The most significant experience I ever had in my life, Robert, why I couldn't articulate it to you.It's like I was saying about anorexia. If you haven't been there, you don't get it. People who have experienced psychedelics will get it. It wasn't easy for it, but it was definitely ecstatic. It was unifying, but not in a blissful way. It was, if I had to describe it physically, it was a series of fever dreams that would start and stop with the guide's soundtrack, every new track would end one fever dream and start another, I don't even remember a lot of what was going on, but I do remember feeling so gratified that I hadn't tried to fight it, that I did feel this unification, this oneness that I.I had what you call an afterglow for several days. On my flight home, I was talking to people at the airport bar while waiting for my flight. I don't do that. I was had striking up conversations with people. I'm a good flyer, but I don't like turbulence. When the plane hits turbulence, I get anxious about it.Plane hit a lot of turbulence in the way home. It didn't. latest, it was just this acceptance. What happens for the next week. I would say I was more clearly not just, I think I'm more empathetic. It was, I was more empathetic and a nicer person. Did it wear off? Yeah. But, Oh my God. The fact that a week after this experience.I still feel this glow is just incredible. And I would say coming out of the trip that afternoon I felt exhausted and it's like finishing a marathon, if you ask me as I'm just ending the run, if I'm going to do it again, I'm going to tell you, no, never, that's, it was horrible.Never. But if you ask me two hours later, I'm going to be like, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That this is the most significant experience of my life. I could go into detail about what I experienced, but there's nothing really to tell that would knock anybody's socks off. I think it's just, if you've done it you get what I'm saying.And if you haven't done it I look around at people, my peers, ex military guys who I know will never try it. I feel bad for them. I'm like you're never going to get to, wow. And I want to do this. It's something I don't want to do frequently, but I want to do it regularly. And did it cure my anxiety?No, but I wasn't trying to cure my anxiety. It was to this day, I will be, I am grateful that I did it. And I'm interested in trying, ketamine or, Nor am I a PTSD sufferer who might benefit from MDMA, which I think shows great promise, but psilocybin and hallucinogenics strike me as just very cliché and mind opening and they are.Leafbox: Steve, when you came back from your trip, how has it affected your creativity in writing? You keep saying that you're not creative, but you're sharing and producing. So did you feel more free? Steve: Yeah, I think I've always felt free and open with my writing. And I think I was self aware enough that some folks said did you have any revelations when you were dripping?And I thought, no, not really. I, I kind of have explored all that stuff, but I wasn't expecting that. Yeah, there was this I did, I wrote a poem or two about the experience. I was exuberant and excited about the world of psychedelics. I think I even talked to you about what more can I do in this field?It, my, my writing has always been open, but I think done it, and then I wrote an essay about it on Substack Ever. I don't think, for example, I would have published. A piece on my eating disorder. Had I not just gone through that and thought, why not? Again if the idea is somebody may benefit from it.And a few people may think less of me because of it, then it's worth putting it out there. And I don't think I would have done that had I not had the psychedelic experience. I think there is an element of a psychedelic trip that kind of, I don't want to say green lights you to be more expressive and more open, but reveals to you the fact that there's minimal downside and a lot of upside to being more open and honest.And quite frankly, if I have one person tell me that, hey, that thing you wrote really Resonated with me or helped me. I'm like, if there were 10 haters out there, I've written some things on white privilege, and there are a lot of haters who have gotten back to me on that. But 10 haters to one person saying that you helped me.I'm like a score, if I can help somebody, then it was worth putting out there. So I think it just pushed me over the edge, Robert, where I felt comfortable on that. In writing about the eating disorders and putting it out there. Leafbox: Do you also, I think, some of your writing I'm curious about, you have a lot of animals in your poetry.Do you ever think about that? Or, there's a psychedelic parallel. Some of the the tropes of psychedelics, the coyote. So I'm curious if there's any, what's the use of animals in your poetry and writing? Steve: The animals and the most frequent one I use are actually just literary metaphors that resonate with me. That that no one would be surprised that, a coyote, even if it's a relatively benign animal. It's it's, it implies a threat. For me, the raven and the blackbird are the animals I go to the most in part, because I do the of Edgar Allen Poe. And of course, he's, most famous for the raven, but the raven struck me as the perfect metaphor for anxiety, a raven circling over your head and digging its talents into you the blackbird.Struck me as a perfect metaphor for depression. I can't tell you why, not really, the origins of these metaphors are not in, in psychedelics as much as they are in just starting out with a literary interest that I fancy in terms of being great ways in my head to articulate an abstract idea. And I don't know if everybody gets it, the Raven being a metaphor for anxiety is a way to make anxiety physical and real.And they'reobviously a good way to to express anxiety. But the raven, I think works and it works for me. And I've often wondered, Robert, I'm like, I wonder if anybody even understands what I'm putting out, not because it's particularly complex, but just because it's particularly personal and people may not, I think the poem you referred to with the coyote was serenity, where I was describing a benign, serene walk or something like that.And then the coyote appears. I'm like it's, That's the uncertainty of anxiety, even butting into that moment and always around the bend, like what's going to happen now, Leafbox: What's paradoxical is all of those animals are also quite free, right? And then going back to what you said about joining the Coast Guard, there's an element of that freedom in the ocean, the sailing, the kind of, And I think you have another poem that I enjoy called Quietus this about good sailing.Yeah. Yeah. And it seems like there's a, you're always, I don't want to personalize it or psycho Freudian read it, but there seems to be an element of desire for freedom and exploration. And the coyote itself is an animal that's quite stoic and free from exploring the West, and the Raven as well.Steve: They are. And you're, Your insightfulness is pretty remarkable because throughout my period of time working with a therapist several years ago, I kept telling the therapist, I'm like, the guy I want to be is the guy who just, I want to put on some weight. I want to relax a little bit.I want to smoke an occasional cigar, a little vice that I like. I don't want to worry about everything. I ride a motorcycle now. Why? Because I feel a sense of freedom on that motorcycle, a sense of happiness and contentment on that motorcycle that I don't get any other time of the day. While I say I've accepted my anxiety, I have because I'm tired of struggling against it.You're spot on and I hadn't really thought of the freedom of the animals that way, but the guy I want to be is, I, you look at motorcycle culture and yeah, there's the outlaw motorcycle culture, but there's also this, Motorcycle clubs originated not to break the law, but just this people who just didn't want to be tethered.The way I live now, I can pack all my belongings in a Subaru hatchback. I don't own stuff and that's by choice. But there's an element of, I'm struggling to be this guy who is that freak coyote, but also burdened with this anxiety that, that lashes me to a routine that is predictable and secure.Leafbox: You know what? It's a contradiction. Yeah. One of the freeing things that interests listeners is that you told me the story about grave buying and how that might be an act of freedom. Steve: Yeah. Yeah. This is something that most people don't understand. I referring back to earlier in our conversation when I say Cape Cod was our vacation place where nothing bad ever happened.There is that town on the Cape that we. We always visited Brewster, Massachusetts. I got it in my head that, I want a green burial. I articulate this to family and friends who I brought into the conversation as I just don't want to be a burden. I'm a single guy with no kids.And if something happens to me, I don't want it to be a pain in the neck for anybody to have to deal with it. So that's why I'm doing this. But the real reason I'm doing it is because I'm picking my place. And I bought a, the only real estate I own is a 10 by 10 plot in an old sea captain's cemetery in Brewster, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.And it gave me such a feeling of happiness to do it and they're like what that's, we don't talk about that in, in our society. But for me, it's no I went out this summer, I was up visiting and I went to see it. And it made me happy to know I had it. And the gentleman who I who's on the cemetery commission said, if there's a stone cutter in town, this is Cape Cod's old school stone cutter who can, do a tombstone for you if you want it.And I'm like sure. I, why not design my own tombstone? And I hate to admit, I paid a lot of money, like 10, 000 bucks for an old colonial slate tombstone. And I am in a joking way, using an image from Poe's poem the Raven on that tombstone. And a Raven. And the word nevermore, which anyone who's read the poem will understand.And, then my information and this stonecutter is going to put it up for me. I've told very limited people that because people really think it's over the top. But again, my, my family members who would be left handling it. I'm like this way, exactly where it is and you can, it just makes it easier for you.But you, I am serious in that. I'm going to have a small celebration of life party, for myself at that location next year with that tombstone up. It might be just me and my sisters or my niece, or, the folks who gather down there every year.But I thought what's the point of not being there for that? It, there is it's a place to rest and I don't mean this. And I tell people this, I look at death as a. When I'm feeling particularly anxious as there'll be an end to it, just like I opened my eyes during the psychedelic experience when I was getting fatigued.I'm ready for it. And then I saw my guide there. And I'm like, we talked about this. It does end. Don't panic. It will end. And right now you want it to end because you've been at it for six hours or so. And I look at death the same way. There's an end. I don't look at it. It's not a suicidal ideation.And that's, if I tell anybody that, Robert, that's straight, that's the place to go. Is or you're gonna hurt yourself. I'm like, no, I'm not gonna hurt myself. It just calms me down to know that there's an end. You And I don't want to struggle like this forever. So yeah I'm a member of a Swiss organization called Dignitas, which performs assisted suicide.My fear is Alzheimer's, like if that hits me and I'm still cognizant, but diagnosed that to me is a relief. I'm like, okay, I feel better. And I am, as I said earlier, trying to find ways to feel more contented. And I'm like, I've taken care of these things. Part of it is I'm on planner.That's what anxiety does. But there is an element of fulfillment in doing these things that is indescribable. And I it's just so out of bounds for what we can talk about in our culture that it's hard to really describe that to people without them thinking, Oh, you bought a grave and a tombstone and you signed up for this Dignitas company and assisted suicide and people just assume the worst.And it's no, this is the best. This is the best. I hope I live another 30 years if I'm not lucky. That's my plan. But if something intervenes, I'm okay with this. I guess the way I put it is I'm terrified of dying, but I have no fear of death. If that makes sense. The moment itself is.Creates some anxiety as it should. But the after part of it, I'm like, no, it's, call it what you want, call it a Buddhist Nirvana. But yeah, that's I've done that. And I'm just waiting to see what the stone cutter comes up with. Leafbox: Steve, you said for positive reformation that you want to live in another 30 years, what do you imagine filling the next 30 years with? You have your peer support group you've started and what other projects do you want to focus your attention on more writing, less writing, more trips. So what do you imagine for the next 30 years? Steve: And I'm just putting that out. So I know one thing I learned when I left the coast guard, which might be a surprise is I will never see that my schedule was very structured there, and I think that was helpful.To me in anybody's schedule at work, you've got to be a place from this hour to that hour. And then if you lose that structure, a lot of people are lost. I thought I'd be one of them, but I'm really, I'm not I will not cede my schedule to anybody else, but what. And, but I think I did struggle a little bit with when I left the winery, which was a full time job I was in the airstream.So that occupied a lot of my time, but there was this notion of, what are you going to do for the rest of your life? But I've resolved that. And I think I'll write about the same. I'll be at that same level of productivity that I am right now, but I dabble in a variety. You and I've talked about this small businesses that I think matter.I've done some venture capital in areas that are meaningful to me. Climate and healthcare. I am always looking for opportunities to do work. That's interesting to me. I'm helping a buddy in town with a brewery startup, a distillery. Didn't have to do that. I just find these opportunities to occupy myself and I don't get so hung up on having to leave some sort of a legacy.It's just what I pursue, the things that make me curious right now. And the things that make me curious right now may or may not make me curious in a couple of years. I've got motorcycle trips planned. I might go back to the Airstream thing when I can't ride motorcycling. I've got these things laid out that will occupy me, but none of them are of the traditional.I gotta go back and get a job, so I'm not bored all the time. I seem to find an endless number of things that are of interest to me. And I'm not really thinking out that I glance at it every now and again, 20 to 25 years, but my days seem pretty full and I just don't worry about it. I think I'll be in this house in St.Augustine for the next two years. Where am I going to go after that? What's the next Airbnb going to be? And. And that's, in fact, I was out in Portland for the psychedelic experience and I thought how it is freeing knowing I could come up with Portland. I want to. Nothing's binding me to any particular place.And these it's future thinking. Yes. But not 20 to 25 year future thinking. I don't have a 20 to 25 year plan. And that to me is way less overwhelming. It's just a loose structure for the next couple of years. And I think the thing I just occurred to me as I was saying that is there are elements in my life that are so controlled that it's, calcified my daily routine.And then there are areas of my life that are so impulsive that it's it's 180 degrees from my calcified day. And I'd be at a loss to explain why except one is a reaction to the other. Leafbox: It's just coming back to the animals. I just keep thinking of the coyote. Steve, how can people find you? What's the best way for them to read your essays and connect with you? Steve: I would love more free subscribers on Substack. I have no intention of making any money on Substack. And I think you just have to type in my name which, Is Steven with a P H and Chamberlain C H A M B E R L I N. And do a search for a guy with a beard was my photo.And I would also love anyone who subscribes to be open and free about commenting or criticizing or starting a conversation I'd like. Some more engagement on some stack for no other reason than I like to engage with people that way. And I'd like to know I'm helping people or what I could do better.So sub stack is really the predominant location for me. And the easiest way to find me and DM me if you're a bit interested in that. Leafbox: Great. And Steve, anything else you want to share? Steve: Gratitude that you asked me to do this, Robert, I've always looked up to you and considered you a role model and a mentor and so appreciate.And I'm honored that you felt it was something worth taking your time today to talk to me. Leafbox: No, no, I really appreciate the like raw and honest writing that you're doing. And everyone's on a journey, so I appreciate your struggle. Get full access to Leafbox at leafbox.substack.com/subscribe

La medaglia d'oro olimpica, Lorenzo Patta, di ritorno dal mondiale staffette 4x100 e 4x400 (Nassau - Bahamas), ci racconta le sue prospettive verso gli Europei di Roma e le Olimpiadi di Parigi.Nella seconda parte la marciatrice azzurra Valentina Trapletti condivide con noi l'emozione dell'oro mondiale nella staffetta mista sulla distanza della maratona (21 aprile, Antalya - Turchia). Medaglia condivisa con il compagno di staffetta Francesco Fortunato.Chiudiamo poi la puntata rispondendo alle domande dei nostri ascoltatori in tema di corsa, triathlon e allenamento e lo facciamo con la nutrizionista Francesca Deriu.

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In this episode, we are going to fly a short distance off the eastern coast of Florida to the Island of New Providence in the Bahamas. Many of you will recognize this place as Nassau, Bahamas. Nassau is the largest city and capital of the Bahamas so many people refer to the Island as Nassau. Join us as we discuss a couple of different ways that you can visit the island and we'll share our tips on where to stay, what and where to eat, along with some must do activities while you are there. So grab your passport, pack a bathing suit and let's get started. Some links are affiliate links. See our disclosure. Get our one day or one week Nassau, Bahamas Itinerary here. Our itinerary is great if you have one day in the cruise port or several days to a week. We share where to eat, what to see and do, which excursions to book and more and it will save you so much time just knowing exactly what to do when you get there! Find your Perfect Stay at sunshinetravelers.com/booking Do More with Viator. Visit sunshinetravelers.com/viator to book local tours & experiences you'll remember. Sign up for free travel deals and exclusive content here. Read more about this and other travel destinations on our BLOG Follow our travels on Facebook Follow our travels on Instagram here. Save our travel ideas on Pinterest See our travel videos on You Tube Music Credit Music by OYStudio from Pixabay

Ep.183 features Leasho Johnson. Born in 1984, he is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, gay, and male to explore concepts around identity within the post-colonial condition. Working at the conjunction of painting and drawing, Leasho combines charcoal, homemade paints, and dyes straddling the line between fluidity and chance, as well as precision and improvisation. Johnson makes characters that live on the edge of perception, visible and invisible simultaneously. His work's intent is to disrupt historical, political, and social expectations of the Black queer experience. Leasho Johnson was a fellow of the Jamaica Art Society in 2022 and a Leslie Lohman Museum fellow in 2021. He was recipient of the New Artist Society Scholarship from the School of Art Institute Chicago (SAIC) 2018 - 2020. His recent residencies include Ruby Cruel in London, 2023 and Fountainhead Residency, Miami, 2022. Leasho has shown his work in his home country at several National Gallery of Jamaica exhibitions, including the Jamaica Biennial 2012, 2014, 2017, and 2022. His recent solo exhibitions include “Somewhere between the eyes and the heart”, Western Exhibitions, 2023 “The Love of Men and the Fear of Stones,” Harpers Gallery, New York, 2022 “A Deep Haunting,” TERN Gallery, Nassau Bahamas, 2022 Internationally, Leasho has exhibited in ‘Fragments of Epic Memory' at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada 2021, 'Resisting Paradise', Puerto Rico and Montreal, 2019, ‘Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora', Bristol, UK 2016, ‘Jamaican Routes', Oslo, Norway 2016, ‘Jamaica Jamaica', Philharmonie, Paris France and Brazil, 2017 and 2018. His work is in the Public Collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Art Gallery Ontario, and ON National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston Jamaica Leasho is currently based in Chicago, where he works and Lectures at the School of Art Institute Chicago part-time. His work is also part of various notable private collectors, as well as museum permanent collections. Photo credit: TERN Gallery Bahamas Artist https://www.leashojohnson.com/ Western Exhibitions Somewhere between the eyes and the heart – Western Exhibitions Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/unveiling-the-depths-leasho-johnson-western-exhibitio ns/ Frieze https://www.frieze.com/article/leasho-johnson-interview-2023 Tern Gallery https://www.terngallery.com/exhibitions/a-deep-haunting Vogue On The Importance Of Social Revolutions: How Three Black Creatives Are Straddling Culture And Craft | Vogue Italia AMFM http://www.amfm.life/?p=2288 Marsha Pearce http://marshapearce.com/qanda/anansi-as-the-path-home/ Contemporary Art Matters https://contemporaryartmatters.com/leasho-johnson/ Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artists/159-leasho-johnson/ Artist Alliance https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/leasho-johnson/ University of Chicago https://afterlives.hum.uchicago.edu/leasho-johnson/ Repeating Islands https://repeatingislands.com/2022/06/17/art-exhibition-leasho-johnsons-a-deep-haunting/ Art Plugged https://artplugged.co.uk/leasho-johnson-a-deep-haunting/ Anthurium https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.496 AXA Art Prize https://www.axaartprize.com/johnson

Glenn is at Margaritaville in Nassau Bahamas, and wants to make sure Craig and Producer Dave are very annoyed they're not with him too.

WHO IS SHUNICE HILL-SULLIVANGraduate of Roosevelt University, Chicago IL with a Bachelor Degree Administrative Studies, singer, author and 2011 Black Essence Grammy Award Winner, Chicago Independent Music Award Winner, Poze Productions Eight Time Winner X-Pozeing Awards Best Christian/Gospel Song Draw Me Nearer, Breakthrough, For You & I and The Akaaemia Music Award of Best Gospel Soul Song for Breakthrough and Draw Me Nearer. La Expose' 2015 Award Winner for Indie Artist of the Year.Prayze Factor People's Choice Season 8 Awards M.V.P. Winner/Two categories Song Writer of the Year & Contemporary Solo Artist of Year went to Nassau Bahamas with to perform at Bahamas Faith Ministries International (Diplomat Center) The Myles Munroe Church.Live Taping for TBN Trinity Broadcast Network, Aurora, IL and Live Taping Dr. Willie Wilson Singsation TV Show WGN Channel #9, Chicago, IL such an exciting experience.X-POZE-ING MUSIC AWARDS 2016--Born To Perform Event, Madison Street Theater August 18th and recipient for an award and will perform.Recipient for Indie Artist of the Year Extraordinary People's Awards 2016, Fort Lauderdale, Sept. 16-17th..ECMA #16 Recipient of Certificate for The Excellence in Christian Music Academy, will perform at PM Thearc Theather The 6th Annual Concert Gala Oct 1st, in Washington DC.Performing for Annual Concert Gala at The 6th Annual Dove Awards Prayer Breakfast Oct. 11, 2016 on the Prayze Factor Inspired Artists.

WHO IS SHUNICE HILL-SULLIVANGraduate of Roosevelt University, Chicago IL with a Bachelor Degree Administrative Studies, singer, author and 2011 Black Essence Grammy Award Winner, Chicago Independent Music Award Winner, Poze Productions Eight Time Winner X-Pozeing Awards Best Christian/Gospel Song Draw Me Nearer, Breakthrough, For You & I and The Akaaemia Music Award of Best Gospel Soul Song for Breakthrough and Draw Me Nearer. La Expose' 2015 Award Winner for Indie Artist of the Year.Prayze Factor People's Choice Season 8 Awards M.V.P. Winner/Two categories Song Writer of the Year & Contemporary Solo Artist of Year went to Nassau Bahamas with to perform at Bahamas Faith Ministries International (Diplomat Center) The Myles Munroe Church.Live Taping for TBN Trinity Broadcast Network, Aurora, IL and Live Taping Dr. Willie Wilson Singsation TV Show WGN Channel #9, Chicago, IL such an exciting experience.X-POZE-ING MUSIC AWARDS 2016--Born To Perform Event, Madison Street Theater August 18th and recipient for an award and will perform.Recipient for Indie Artist of the Year Extraordinary People's Awards 2016, Fort Lauderdale, Sept. 16-17th..ECMA #16 Recipient of Certificate for The Excellence in Christian Music Academy, will perform at PM Thearc Theather The 6th Annual Concert Gala Oct 1st, in Washington DC.Performing for Annual Concert Gala at The 6th Annual Dove Awards Prayer Breakfast Oct. 11, 2016 on the Prayze Factor Inspired Artists.

#233: Interview: 2023 Toastmasters International Co-Chairs Tony Longley & Pamela D. Rolle who enlighten us about the event & a little about their journeys

Police are investigating an afternoon Robbery and Shooting Incident in George Town The electoral boundaries commission heads to Theoline McCoy Primary tonight as the group continues to seek public input with regards to voting boundaries Precious Gems Preschool jumps two ratings after a recent inspection by the Office of Education Standards…to good overall. Pease Bay Public Beach is set for a facelift. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Surge Conference is now underway in Nassau Bahamas.   Food reigned supreme over the weekend with the Taste of Cayman food festival. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rcnews/message

Live @ Fusion V, The Ultimate Reggae Party in Nassau Bahamas alongside DJ Hype and Selector Ty on 3.24.2023. Playing the best in 80s,90s, and 00s Dancehall/Reggae music. Check out the vibes! Do remember to check me out on https://linktr.ee/Selector3d

Of the seven female Carifta athletes, 6 are competing in Field events in Nassau Bahamas, next month. The Saturday afternoon Youth Volleyball class is working on some basic fundamental skills to function effectively in game situations. The youth Netball program sees some 60 kids between George Town, West Bay and Bodden Town every Saturday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rcnews/message

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Formerly ‘Heroes of the Bowl', The Half Bowl Histories series takes a look into the history, lore, and legacy of individuals, places, and events of interest that helped shape the world we know today for good and for ill. Here we get a chance to revisit some of the famous pipe smokers we've covered in the past and shift the focus from what they loved to who they were and the complexities of their lives. This week: The InklingsPipe Question:  Good morning gentlemen! I have a pipe question for you. How does (if it actually does) the chamber size and shape affect the burn and smoking characteristics of the tobacco? Blessings, Gabriel RoperListener Feedback: Hey Guys I'm huge fan of the pirate and tobacco series. Nov 3 I was on a cruise to Nassau Bahamas where they have a pirate museum. Which was amazing . As walked around the island I got to learn alot of pirate history while puffing on my cob with captain black. It was amazing. I had downloaded and listened all the pirate ands tobacco episodes on the plane ride. Good job guys can't wait to hear more tells from the sea. - Antwan ButlerWith all the Pirate-themed episodes you are doing I thought you might like to listen to Alestorm, they are a Scottish Pirate Metal band. I recommend Keelhauled and Hangover to start. Not pipe related, but it is pipe adjacent. Thanks for what you do, I love the podcast and really hope to make the pilgrimage one day. A little planning coming from Ireland, but you never know. Cheers - Dwain DunnAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Devotional-Guest Speaker Rev Gaitor of Nassau Bahamas speaks on: – How the persecution and betrayal of those who believe in the Lord will bring occasions for them to testify of Him before kings and other rulers!

I finally cruise for the first time! I first start with my 10 day Disneyworld trip and then end with the Disney Dream, merrytime cruise (it was a back to back vacation). I compare the two and along with Aulani and Disneyland and tell you what is the best! On the WDW leg of the trip, I stayed at the Grand Floridian club level park view room (RPC) , the new resort studios at the Grand, and the Polynesian deluxe studio DVC. I also talk ALOT about food. So sit back, relax and enjoy my review and trip report. P.S: Miami South Beach and Nassau Bahamas is so overrated I will never need to go back. Hard skip. #DCL #DisneyCruise #Disneyworld #DisneyDream #Polynesian #GrandFloridian #WDW #Merrytime #Merrytimecruise #TripReport #Disney #DisneyworldVacationer#Christmas #CastawatCay

Welcome back! In this episode Dr. Shenique Carmichael shares her story and tells us how Leah's Hopes and Dreams is making an impact in the homeless community here in Charlotte and around the world.  About Leah's Hopes and Dreams: Leah's Hopes and Dreams, a non-profit organization, provide our homeless communities with vital resources enabling them to not only survive, but to thrive. Our goal is to provide these under-served communities with the tools and services necessary to eradicate homelessness in our community. About Dr. Shenique Carmichael:  Shenique Carmichael, Founder and President of Leah's Hopes and Dream (LHD), is an accomplished business owner, leader, and business partner with over a decade of progressive experience leading and managing strategic business initiatives from inception through implementation. She recently published her first book – “Don't Quit. God is not done yet!” This book was written to encourage, motivate, and empower individuals to keep moving forward no matter what obstacles they face. ​ She is supported by her husband Mike of 19 years and has two children, Destini 20, and Isaiah 15. She is employed by TIAA-CREF and works with a team responsible for managing changes that drive and sustain company performance and compliance with industry and regulatory guidelines. She was born in Nassau Bahamas but was raised on one of the most beautiful Islands of the Bahamas – Exuma. She currently resides in Charlotte North Carolina where she works with other non-profit organizations helping to build the community by empowering homeless individuals, underprivileged families, and work to help reduce poverty which is a constant battle. ​ Shenique completed her undergraduate at St. Augustine's University in Raleigh where she focused on Business Administration and Marketing. She obtained her Master's Degree from Pfeiffer University in Banking and Finance, and received her Ph.D. in Leadership and Organizational Change from Walden University. ​ Leah's Hopes and Dreams stands on three principles – Faith, Loving Unconditionally, and Giving without Exception. It was created out of her love for GOD, families, and wanting to make a difference in our community. Growing up in the Bahamas, she understands the struggle of poverty, and the need to educate individuals on the importance of understanding their purpose. ​ Shenique ministers to women on a weekly basis, encourage them to follow their dreams; know who they are in Christ and stand firm on the word of GOD. She is also working with other organizations to educate and provide career training for individuals who need to get back into the workforce. Once a month, she and her team go out to feed the homeless and underprivileged families. During this time, they embrace that opportunity to share the gospel and pray with them. Her heart is set on educating, others, and taking advantage of every opportunity God provides to ensure that HE gets the glory in everything she does.

Early Vibes @ Hennessy Artistry Concert in Nassau Bahamas on December 10, 2022 featuring Spragga Benz, Elephant Man, Laa Lee, Skeng, Jada Kingdom etc. Tune into some nice early warm vibes and vibe out. Do remember to check me out on https://linktr.ee/Selector3d

Well That's a Wrap!  And this is not just “a” tool you can use to impact your future. It's THE tool to use to gain clarity on navigating change and what's next for you. As we wrap up this lifeline series of Business Unveiled, we want to thank you for joining us (in the Bahamas!) on this journey as we share our experiences, why we think the way we think and how they have shaped us into who we are today!  Seriously, I can't believe we are at the “end” of this series, but really… it's just the beginning :)  In this episode I'm talkin' all about ages 30-40+ (my very favorite years of LEARNING), and let me tell you a little somethin'... in my 30s I thought, oh age is just a number.  In my 40s I am learning that age is not just a NUMBER!  It's a mindset. WHY LISTEN? *Time-Your most valuable asset:How can charting your lifeline help you gain clarity on how to better focus on where to spend your time?  *Mistakes-We all make them:How are you reacting and taking accountability; do you take ownership and learn from it? *Clarity-Each decade shifts priorities Where have you been, where are you going, why, and most importantly what is your plan to get there? TAKEAWAYS: Sharing my top AH-HAAA moments from doing a lifeline:*You may notice patterns, identify gaps, and develop more self awareness *Your “tough” will look different to others. Don't compare and only ask for direction from those who have gone through what you are going through.  *Practice gratitude everynight before going to bed.  You can do this alone or with others.  Say out loud the ONE high you had for the day and the ONE low.  Whatever your low is, ask yourself why.  Could you have planned better or better paid attention. (Sometimes I share them on my Insta Story!) *You will value your time more by looking at how far you have come and all that you have accomplished.  So if you want to raise prices, or make a change, this tool will guide you.  *When life gets hard, instead of saying “Why is this happening TO me” think “Why is this happening FOR me”. It's the life challenging moments that create space for you to grow.  *You grow as you go; which requires change and shifts.  Your experience can guide you to be prepared for whatever comes your way.  And if you aren't, then that's what mentors, coaches and consultants are for.  That did not exist the first decade I had my first business. Budget for this annually. New beginnings can start every day… don't wait til the next January 1st.  You will blink your eyes and half of your life could be over. This is your reminder So here we go onto the next chapter. Up next, Business Unveiled is going back out on the road.  Where should we go next? If you are interested in doing a collab, reply to this email and tell us your idea!  Your time is precious.  So make it count! A special thank you to Rosewood Baha Mar in Nassau Bahamas for the relaxing Bahamian experience. It was a total escape from doing podcast in the loft of my home alone, to the most beautiful powder-white sand, most beautiful beach.  From our suite, to culinary experience, the spa, infinity pools, flamingos, turtle program, the community was incredible.  My favorite thing is implementing the write key (that makes it SO easy to spend money) but having it be water proof was so nice. I loved the stainless steel water bottle in our rooms at check in.  And the power behind changing just ONE thing.  By installing water dispensers around the property, helping with sustainability.  It truly is a sense of place. XO-Angela & Amanda

The top two places to stay at are Hyatt Grand's Baha Mar or the infamous Atlantis. I've traveled down to the Bahamas four times and every time we've stayed at Baha Mar and it has never missed the mark. Baha Mar is a quick 15 minute drive from the International Airport and you can just get a taxi when you walk out. For us, it cost less than $30. Getting to the Bahamas is also extremely easy, especially when you fly out of Fort Lauderdale, FL. It's only a 50 minute flight and BahamasAir, American, and Jet Blue are some of the top flights to choose from. They aren't the cheapest, but it's very convenient.It has a large casino at the center of it, beautiful hotel rooms, 7+ pools, an amazing waterpark and lazy river, 40+ places to eat and dine at, flamingos, entertainment spots, and high-end shopping. Plus, it's right on the beach so you can bounce from the pool to the beach with ease. Once you hit the beach, you can kayak, paddle board, or just float around on rafts with your crew. They also have different gambling promotions if you are into that, such as Slots Tournaments and Blackjack. The best places to eat at Baha Mar are the Sugar Factory for celebrations, Pizza Lab for a late night snack, Katsuya Baha Mar for Sushi and Asian, and Cleo Meditterano for unmatched Mediterranean. If you can get into Katsuya, GO! Even if you stay at Baha Mar, it is so worth it to venture down to Atlantis. The resort is a museum in and of itself with aquariums, underground artifacts, surrounded by yachts, and the largest and most lively casino I've ever seen. They also always have events going on at Atlantis and you can view that, HERE. We recently saw a very intimate and lively concert in their ballroom for Little Big Town and it was so fun for all of us. Right where Atlantis is, there are restaurants right there to choose from for dinner. Our very favorite place to eat in all of the Bahamas is Carmine's; it is family sized Italian food, so come very hungry. This is a great spot to hang out and take pretty pictures for sunset by the yachts and water. Pro-tip: expect to be a little broke after this trip as drinks are $15+ and the slot machines are a lot of fun. Enjoy this island and welcome to island time. Share your favorite Bahama Trips and memories in the comments or DM me at @travelingwithash or @thetravelbrats

Hello to you listening in Nassau, Bahamas!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.I've been asked: How does one create a story that others relate to? The one where someone says, “What! You, too? I thought I was the only one!”Start by listening for the story that wants to be told. The story you share is actually you discovering what your own story wants to say through you so that you connect with yourself and connect with others.Maybe your story is an opportunity to find out who you are, who you want to be, where you are going. Others want the very same things. When we invite our vulnerable, curious side to express itself our story can help cure others while it heals us. That's why I say, “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!”Question: How does this work for you: Discovering the stories that want to be told and then telling them for yourself and the rest of us ?You're invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a nice shout out on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time! Remember to stop by the website, check out the Services, arrange a Discovery Call, and Opt In to stay current with Diane and Quarter Moon Story Arts and on Linked In.  Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present: for credit & attribution Quarter Moon Story Arts

We are LIVE from our butler suite at Sandals Royal Bahamian in Nassau Bahamas. We're enjoying this newly renovated resort! We will have a FULL review on this resort on an upcoming episode, this is our initial thoughts. For Travel Quotes:https://www.PenyakTravel.com/contactCLICK TO CALL: 1-800-674-3278Email: Janet@PenyakTravel.comOUR SANDALS LINK: https://www.sandals.com/?referral=148533Follow Us:YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/PenyakTravelCompanyFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/penyaktravelINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/penyaktravelINSTA: https://www.instagram.com/knowbeforeyougotravelshowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/penyak-travel-companyTHE HOST ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/GeorgePenyakOUR SANDALS LINK: https://www.sandals.com/?referral=148533

Welcome the return of Kelly Collette to the podcast! This week, she, John, and Joe discuss Kelly's recent residency at a comedy club in the Bahamas. Scooters, Salt-Water-Shark-Adjacent-Slides, it gets pretty crazy on the Islands. - Check out the show's Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/livingmyfestlifepodcast/ - Follow Kelly Collette online! https://www.kellycollettecomedy.com/ - Original Theme music performed and written by Honey Combs and Combo Slice. Stream their album today: https://open.spotify.com/album/4VZ775lbPom1lv3Vmi4KIM?si=YKFkPNWFQDC5zJ3AP4r_zQ&nd=1 - Editing provided by Phil at https://www.instagram.com/micompodre/

Good vibes alongside Selector Ty at Ciao Ladies Night Pop UP Party @ Climax Lounge, Nassau Bahamas. Tune in to some nice vibes!! Do remember to check me out on https://linktr.ee/Selector3d

Devotional- Guest Speaker Bro Elwood Tynes of Nassau Bahamas speaks on: King Cyrus is an example of the way God uses man to fulfill His plans

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In this episode, we chatted with Drs. Wesley Francis, Don Major, and Greg Padmore. These fantastic surgeons came from the Carribean to train in North America, and we were curious to explore what their experience was like and how they used their training to improve surgical care when they returned home. Links: 1. https://www.ahpba.org/ 2. Cancer Surgery Centre Bahamas - https://cancersurgerybahamas.com/ 3. https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/news/qeh-surgeon-breakthrough-cancer-operation Bios: Dr. Wesley Francis is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (Mona). He did his surgical residency at Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and completed a Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary Alberta. He is currently a Consultant Surgical Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau Bahamas where he also serves as the Director of Operating Room. He also serves as the Director of the Bahamas National Cancer Registry. Dr. Don Major is a graduate of University of the West Indies (St Augustine). He did his surgical residency at UWI Bahamas where he became the first Bahamian to complete the UWI Bahamas surgical residency program. He completed his surgical oncology and hepatobiliary (HPB) fellowship at the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary Alberta. He is currently a Consultant Surgical Oncologist and Hepatobiliary surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital. Dr. Greg Padmore, a 2011 MBBS graduate who completed his pre-clinical years at The UWI Mona Campus and his clinical years at the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. He is finishing up a two-year Fellowship at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he is undergoing subspecialty training in Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgery to be followed by Surgical Oncology. He was the 2012 Intern of the Year in Barbados.

Live Early Vibes alongside Selector Ty at Ciao Ladies Night Grand Finale @ Climax Lounge, Nassau Bahamas. Tune in to some nice vibes!! Do remember to check me out on https://linktr.ee/Selector3d

Devotional- Guest Speaker Anna of Nassau Bahamas speaks on: The Fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians – were for at least four reasons

Opening hour (no talking) at Jackboy's Concert @ Mario's Entertainment Complex, Nassau, Bahamas. Juggling a mixture of Trap and Hip-Hop music. Check it out!!

In this episode I am chatting with first time author and SINGLE MAMA, Krista Barr-Bastian! A native of Nassau Bahamas, mother of four and CPA by trade she has a deep passion for women and seeing them unlock their intimate strength to life authoritatively as God has commanded. Here is a description about the book: "Woman! Push Powerfully: FASTEN Your Faith IN God, PUSH Through Your Trials And EMERGE Fruitfully" " We All Experience Disruptions No matter how close we are to God, we still encounter periods in which dark and painful clouds pass through our lives. God never promised that we would be exempt from the troubles of our trials. He has promised to never leave or forsake us. He is with us, to lead us victoriously through these valleys if we firmly place our faith in Him. You Were Made To Be Fruitful! Don't allow the disruptions of life to distract or discourage you. God has set you apart for greater works. Heaven is waiting to partner with you to birth the fruit of your womb. All you need to do is PUSH! This will require a determination that is only afforded by shiftless faith in God. Woman! PUSH Powerfully presents five powerful PUSH principles; Powerful Person, Powerful Purpose, Powerful Presence, Powerful Perspective and Powerful Patience which will help you ground your focus and faith in God so that you can develop the fortitude of mind to persist tenaciously toward fruitfulness; irrespective of your trials. The world needs to be served your fruit now! Woman, it's time to PUSH powerfully by faith!" _______________________ Guest Information: Name: Krista Barr-Bastian Instagram @eventsbyKrista Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073625114098 Host Information: Name: Dr. Catricia Website: www.drmomsageadvice.com Podcast: The Dr. Mom Sage Advice Podcast Instagram: @drmomsageadvice Facebook: Thriving Single Moms Collective Sign up for our email list here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60b1076adf9dcd5c586bbb74 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-catricia/support

Flip & Dani Lynn Robison are seasoned real estate investors who have bought and sold over 1,000 properties.   Today they serve as the Co-Founders of the Freedom Real Estate Group family of companies based out of Centerville, Ohio which includes an acquisitions company, renovation company, turnkey company, property management company, a brokerage, and a syndication company with over 40 team members and still growing. Currently, their parent company, Freedom Real Estate Group, tripled its sales in 2019 from the prior year and continues to grow and manage high-volume residential flips.  Starting in 2020, their team also began renovating and managing mid-size apartment complexes.  Their property management team currently manages over 500 properties in SW Ohio for investors all over the United States and around the world including Switzerland, Canada, France, Israel, England, Iran, and Japan. Fun Facts:Flip & Dani have an interesting history of both going to college in Florida, both played trumpet professionally at Walt Disney World in Ohio and on Carnival Cruise Lines without ever knowing each other until a hurricane hit and caused both of their cruise ships to dock in Nassau Bahamas where they met for the very first time. Although they enjoyed 10+ years of life on cruise ships, they are happy to be land-based now and the proud furry parents to two feisty bulldogs named Spartacus and Rosie and one golden retriever named Bailey.Helpful Resources:Tax Foundation https://taxfoundation.org/state-migration-trends/ U-Haul Migration trends https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/2020-Migration-Trends-U-Haul-Ranks-50-States-By-Migration-Growth-22746/Ohio Facts and History https://www.infoplease.com/us/states/ohioWright Patterson AFB https://www.wpafb.af.mil/Hollywoodland Project https://msccap.com/projects/hollywoodland-ohio/Burnt out home in California sells for $1 million CASH https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-housing-market-is-so-hot-a-burnt-out-bay-area-home-just-sold-for-dollar1-million-in-cash/ar-AANfD0eConnect with Flip, Dani Lynn and FreedomREIal Talk Podcast https://freedomrealestategroup.com/podcast/Interested in a turnkey property in Ohio?  Mention the Wealth and Freedom Nexus when you sign up below and receive $1,000 off your first property!Freedom Real Estate https://freedomrealestategroup.com/dani@freedomrealestategroup.comStay connected with Wealth and Freedom Nexus!Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wfreedomnexus/Twitter      https://twitter.com/WFreedomnexusYouTube   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHknisS7CBlnD6mgTJugA7wWebsite & Blog  www.wealthandfreedomnexus.comAs always, be sure to follow, subscribe, rate and share this podcast with other like-minded individuals who are in pursuit of wealth and freedom!

EP 11: Is it OK to Travel Solo? Travel Entrepreneur in Bahamas— "When you're able to be by yourself, there's just such power in that and it's, they're hard lessons I've had to learn over the past couple years especially recognizing that even though I was with somebody, I was still very, very alone. And I think that's harder when you're with somebody and you feel alone than just being alone by yourself."Some of the reasons why I love traveling solo. Come with me on my adventure to The Cove Atlantis, Nassau Bahamas!Read the full travel blog hotel review here: https://saraquiriconi.com/the-cove-atlantis-bahamas/Watch the YouTube video version: https://youtu.be/ybR8uBzeaMY—Additional Links:Book this trip to The Cove: https://jerne.to/sqcoveBook* Private or semi-private charter: https://flytropic.com/*Use LIVEFREEWARRIOR10 to save—About the Host: Sara Quiriconi is an actress, artist, entrepreneur and creative storyteller, inspired and driven to empower others to be resilient, never settle, live well and live free. https://neversettle.club/http://livefreewarrior.com/https://www.instagram.com/livefreewarrior/https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveFreeWarriorSupport the show

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Sofia Whitehead is a photographer, published author, and CoActive coach currently sailing around the Bahamas on a mission to photograph and publish her second book! Sofia was born in Nassau (Bahamas) and lived there until she left to attend school in Austria, followed by high school in Uruguay and college in New York City.    Sofia learned early on how to adapt to different environments and also found her love for photography. In 2015 Sofia launched her first coffee table book project, Bahama Mama, traveling the islands to capture the wisdom and portraits form the mothers that hold the country together. Fast forward to 2021 and Sofia is once again sailing the islands for her Bahama Papa project, capturing the male wisdom and perspectives.    Tune in to hear what Sofia has learned from the Bahamian men and women over the years and get inspired to take a trip to visit the Bahamas!    Connect with Sofia! @sofiawhiteheadphotography

Doctor Cairo P Rocha is a modern-day practitioner of alternative medical treatment which has it’s roots in ancient Asian medicine, consisting mainly of Chinese Japanese, and Tibetan methods. Also included in his portfolio are the Japanese healing methods of acupressure and acupuncture. In his unique video series by way of public discourse, he takes you on a journey into the fascinating realm of the healing of human conditions and ailments which is as spiritual as it is practical. When visiting Dr. Cairo Rocha acupuncturist in Nassau Bahamas you learn of fascinating terms such as Mudras, Feng Sui, Toyo Igaku, and many more and the important role each plays in the process of natural healing. The energy of food, Longevity in Chinese Medicine, Empowerment, Cancer Care in Chinese Medicine, Vision and envision, healing your eyes, Memory and Cognitive Function in Chinese Medicine are just some of the topics that are presented in dynamic detail with Q&A sessions included. Health and wellness are paramount and Dr. Rocha demonstrates just that in his presentations. ​ Dr. Cairo P. Rocha currently has his acupuncture practice in the Bahamas, where he continues to study and grow his knowledge of alternative medical treatment and pain management therapies.

Our Port Adventure series continues, as we take a look at things to do when you're in Nassau, Bahamas. Zach…

Our Port Adventure series continues, as we take a look at things to do when you’re in Nassau, Bahamas. Zach joins us this month to talk about his family’s experiences visiting Nassau with several different cruise lines. We touch on the straw market, spending time in the casino and the water park at Atlantis, interactive … Continue reading "205 2021 Port Adventure Series: Nassau, Bahamas"

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Phil and I just returned from our vacation in Nassau, Bahamas!  Join us as we discuss our trip!  We tell you what you need to know before you go, where to stay, what activities to do, where to eat, and most of all what we liked and did not like about the trip. Phil will dazzle you with his opening history lesson about the Bahamas. :)  You will also get to hear all about our non caged shark dive (11ft sharks all around us!!!  I posted pics below), and if you know Marta On The Move well enough by now, you know I always manage to get myself into a calamity... My poor parents. CALAMITY- : a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss ORIGIN- Middle English calamytey, from Latin calamitat-, calamitas; perhaps akin to Latin clades destruction First Known Use: 15th century You listeners get to hear about me snorkeling into an oil spew, yes you heard it right.  We chat about the pains of trying to get thick black oil washed off of your body and hair for hours on end, and also me getting rubbed down with degreaser by a man with a gold tooth.  I can't make this stuff up. It is awful what is happening on that island, and to raise awareness, I went on KDKA News Radio 1020am this past Friday with Robert Mangino and Shelley Duffy to chat about it and make others aware.  I urge everyone to go to www.savethebay.com and sign the petition to stop the oil companies before they do more damage to marine wildlife.  I was in the water for 10 minutes and I was covered in oil.  I cannot imagine what the lasting effects have on our Earth.  I posted the KDKA link below as well. Below are some links to the places and activities we participated in, places we liked the food, and some of our pictures from the trip! I really hope I figured out how to post a video on here, so people can experience what it is like to scuba dive!  Thank you Frank Snyder for the pictures and videos! A lot of these photos do not do the Bahamas justice. The water is truly gorgeous there, let's try and keep it that way!  Please share this post to get everyone involved!!! Check me out on the Epicast Network! #savethebay Island Time Charters- Say hi to Marcie and Euguene! Tru Bahamian Food Tours- Hello Nick! Stuart Cove- diving and snorkeling Poop Deck- The original Bahama Mama!  So good! Nesbitts- Get any of the rum drinks Conchin Joe's- Follow this truck everywhere!  The food is so good. This episode is sponsored by Levity Pgh! www.floatlevity.com Get $5 off your floats with code "Marta" Hit up www.martaonthemove.com for more pictures from the trip.