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Sgt. Vegan, Bill Muir, has always had a “think outside the box” attitude – from being a straight-edge punk rocker to going vegan in 1992, and then joining the military just after 9/11 where he served as a US Army Paratrooper. And all of this - YES - as a hardcore vegan. Needless to say, it wasn't easy, but he was (and is) so convicted and grounded in his values that he made it work. Today, Sgt. Vegan chats with Rip about: How he became a hardcore straight-edge vegan Why he joined the military to give back How he made it through basic training as a vegan What it took to procure his own food and remain grounded in his values Why he'll never eat chili again and what he eats these days Today, he is a Registered Nurse at a VA Hospital in LA, where he continues to stand up for those who need assistance. Whether it's helping humankind, animals, or our planet, Sgt. Vegan is ready to serve. Episode Resources Watch the Full Episode on YouTube Sgt. Vegan Website Sgt. Vegan Instagram @sgt_vegan PLANTSTRONG Meal Planner - use code: STARTFRESH to receive free two weeks Join our PLANTSTRONG Sedona Retreat - October 9-14, 2023 To stock up on the best-tasting, most convenient, 100% PLANTSTRONG foods, including our all new chilis, check out all of our PLANTSTRONG products HERE. Give us a like on the PLANTSTRONG Facebook Page and check out what being PLANSTRONG is all about. We always keep it stocked full of new content and updates, tips for healthy living, delicious recipes, and you can even catch me LIVE on there! We've also got an Instagram! Check us out and share your favorite PLANTSTRONG products and why you love it! Don't forget to tag us using #goplantstrong

In episode 30, Marc is joined by the host of the podcast "The Age of Information: Orthodoxy & The Modern World," Adam Patrick! Adam delves into his how worldview has changed over the last two years since we last spoke on Lions of Liberty, and how he came to adopt the Orthodox Christian worldview. Along the way, we get nerdy and reference Twin Peaks and Zach. Snyder's Man of Steel. Is every belief ultimately an extension of the Hegelian dialect or an embracement of the Orthodox worldview?In the smoke-filled room bonus segment for premium subscribers, we discuss the book of Genesis, what is "the serpent", and tie it all into dragons and dinosaurs. Needless to say, things get weird.Support our amazing sponsors at Fox n' Sons Coffee - FoxnSons.com - use discount code MCS for 18% off you order!Subscribe on one of the following platforms to get the full version of every episode including the "Smoke-Filled Room" before anyone else, as well as exclusive bonus episodes! Patreon: Patreon.com/MarcClairShowRokfin: Rokfin.com/MarcClairShowSubscribeStar: Subscribestar.com/Marc-Clair-ShowJoin the Marc Clair Show Telegram ChatFollow Marc's writing at MarcClair.Substack.comCheck out Marc and Remso Martinez on the Second Print Comics Podcast. Find links to all of my platforms and premium subscription sites over at MarcClair.com.

FREE Toxic People Survival Guidehttps://krisreece.com/toxic-people-survival-guideI didn't even realize he was a narcissist until after we were divorced.I felt like a fool for not seeing it, embarrassed because it took me that long to put a label on it.But the truth is, it didn't need a label. I knew something was wrong six days after we returned from our honeymoon.I stood at the kitchen counter opening the mail. As I scanned the unusually high cable bill, I saw one pornographic movie after another. It felt like someone just sucked all of the air out of the room. He was sitting right there and saw my face. I was never one to cower in fear, so I pounced like a puma.I challenged him, and his response was the beginning of what I could see was a dream turned nightmare.He said, “Well, since you didn't put out, what did you expect me to do?””Amazing how it was MY FAULT. Don't think for a second that I assumed that responsibility.Still, I didn't know what to do. It was early enough to bail, but I stayed. I decided to be a loving, understanding wife who wins her husband to Christ.But two months in, he came to me and said, “You know that whole church thing we've been doing? You can go, but I just don't think it's for me anymore.”Again, I felt bamboozled. He fooled me into thinking he had come to Christ and wanted a Christian marriage.Needless to say, the marriage was strained at that point. I realized that his man wanted to be married in title only.It started to dawn on me that he was proud to brag to his colleagues about his young wife, but he lived his life like he was a bachelor.At the beginning of our marriage, he said he would like to wait three years before we had kids.Three years came and he said, “I never said that. I said, after three years we could talk about it and see if that's what we want. And I've thought about it and I just don't think that's something ‘we' want.”I may not have known then that he was a narcissist, but after this, there was no doubt that he was a lying, self centered control freak that was using me for everything.That's when I entered phase two of the marriage, which was, “God get me out of here.”Love was not driving this ship anymore. I confess—I hated him. I hated who he was and what he had done to my dreams. And worst of all, I hated that the beautiful Christian marriage I had longed for turned out to be a scam.Once he knew that I was on to him, it went from bad to worse.There was no way I was staying in that toxic house with that lying manipulator. I prayed, “God I love you, but I'm not staying here another minute. Do what you have to do to me, but I'm out.”Then a counselor I was working with calmed me down and said, “Are you willing to trust God to either change him or deliver you?”I was definitely praying that God would change him, but the thought of deliverance had never occurred to me. A sudden peace came over me, knowing that it wasn't my responsibility to change him and I wasn't trapped. I could trust God to be God.Then I entered phase three: “God I'll trust you.”I've made more impulsive decisions to try to take the bull by the horns than I care to admit. Although now there was a little voice in me that kept saying “trust me,” my flesh had it's running shoes on.I knew my decision would be a pivotal moment in my walk with God. “Am I going to keep doing things my way? Or will I follow Him, even though I have NO idea what this will look like?”I won't lie, my prayers were more for my deliverance than it was for God to change my husband. But the more I trusted God with whatever the outcome would be, the more I grew in maturity.I spent SOO much time with God. It was glorious. I even reached a point where I prayed, “God, if delivering me from this means

The Biden administration is moving to create a central bank digital currency that will phase out the paper dollar and replace it with an electronic currency that will be programmable by the government. If they don't like how you spend your money, they can deny your transactions. Needless to say this is a dangerous direction the Biden administration is taking us down. What can we do? Justin Haskins from the Socialism Research Center at the Heartland Institute is on today to tell us about it and provide answers.

This morning our producer, Joe Stamboni, was a few minutes late. He came in and admitted he may have a problem. He is addicted to a certain type of pizza which he ate way too late last night. Needless to say, this morning was a bit of a situation for him!

Our guest this week is Angelo Fiaretti of Mighty! Angelo grew up in the Evangelical church outside Pittsburgh. We talk about his evolving feelings about faith, his time playing in the praise band, and how being open about normal teenage stuff eventually put him at odds with church leadership. Needless to say, their priorities seemed a little skewed towards the trivial… Angelo's band Mighty is great, and they're releasing a series of new songs over the next few months. You can follow them on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter (@mightytheband), and stream their music on all apps!

I recently had a post about my personal boundaries when it comes to the DMs do really well. It got a bunch of shares, and it was very supported, but people started to comment on it and say very negative things about me. Needless to say, I did a lot of crying in my car, and I was really upset. Every single part of me wanted to hide, self-soothe, and numb out. In this episode, I'll be sharing with you what I did to avoid turning to emotional eating to soothe myself at this moment of sadness. I'll also go into the importance of letting our feelings flow through us, the benefits of reframing what's happening when we're having a bad day, and how to save ourselves from the fuck-its to live into a more empowered version of ourselves. It's never too late to turn your bad days around with the things you actually need. Key Takeaways: 1:57 - Letting Our Feelings Out 3:04 - Reframing What's Happening 4:45 - Saving Ourselves From the Fuck-Its Resources: Submit Your Question Here: https://forms.clickup.com/43246941/f/197tax-3887/DN2CTAIOMY6AZY75ZE Join Change Academy Pro: https://bodybrainalliance.thrivecart.com/academypro/ Join Change Academy: https://bodybrainalliance.com/change-academy/ Alliance Coaching Application: www.bodybrainalliance.com/applynow Alliance Coaching: https://bodybrainalliance.com/coaching/ Follow Karin on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/karinnordinphd Transcripts Available at: https://bodybrainalliance.com/blog/

So said the Reverend Billy Sunday on the passage of Prohibition. Needless to say he oversold, and the forces that changed the Constitution would, for the only time, change it back. A look at Prohibition from many angles. Did it do any good? Did it cause, as at least one contemporary said, the drug problem? What does it say about drug legalization, really. From a long-since aired previous episode. The changes in society and view of law enforcement the legislation brought. This was written a decade ago - since then I have watched the Ken Burns special, and I do own a TV set. Theme Song by Chris Novembrino We are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.com Want to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's show is a discussion and review of the Foo Fighters feature film debut in the comedy horror STUDIO 666.*Unlike our other podcasts, this one contains explicit material.Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl made no pretense about the film not being Oscar Worthy and we really got that it was just a fun project between friends.  It was an idea thought up by the band while recording some songs in the same house featured in the film.  That idea became a fun conversation that grew beyond the band.  Before they knew it, Roswell Films and Therapy Studios was on board, BJ McDonnell set to direct, a full script that one of the band members never read, a budget, table reads, and the sudden realization that the Foo Fighters were making a feature film.If you've ever seen Foo Fighters music videos, you'd already know that they usually have some sort of themed story.  Their videos are actually enjoyable and sometimes comical, especially as old men in Run, as passengers and flight crew in Learn To Fly, and the more serious almost political statement in The Pretender.  It's not a far stretch for this band to make the leap into a comedy horror feature film and actually probably long overdue.In this show, we do more than a movie review by delving into the lives of the cast and crew, fan theories, trivia, scene breakdowns, and anything related to the film itself.  Needless to say, our shows are a little longer than your average movie review show, but we can assure you that our shows are jam packed with entertaining and interesting discussions.  If that sounds like your sort of bag, hang out with Kenny and Del as they get into Studio 666.  Thanks for listening and feel free to hit us up on any of our social media platforms!https://linktr.ee/BiAPodcastTheme song "Loli'ana" written and performed by award-winning musician Kamuela Kahoano.   Listen to more of Kamuela's music on iTunes and https://kamuelamusic.com/.  Also, "Loli'ana" performed live at The Ko'olau Banquet Hall can be seen here https://youtu.be/YDJ1NNJgEiA  

After more than two months, Aucklanders can finally head back to their famous black sand surf beach, Piha. Cyclone Gabrielle left a wave of destuction on the region's west coast, meaning only Piha residents have been allowed to enter. Needless to say, there were a fair few happy surfers when the cordons were finally lifted this morning. But this comes with a warning that restrictions could be re-introduced if bad weather causes any further damage to the roads. Reporter Tom Taylor and camera operator Marika Khabazi have the story.

On this episode we heard from Mandy who lost all her pregancy weight within weeks of her 4th child being born. She said she can't understand women who 'let themselves go' after childbirth! Needless to say other women were VERY unhappy!!!

In this episode, I interview my dear friend and mentor, Carl White, and we sit down and talk about saving money. Carl is one of the few coaches in our industry that has a plan for saving money. He was taught many years ago by a very well off individual the rule of 25%. Needless to say it's made Carl a very successful person. Carl also shares the plan he learned and adopted for us all to learn from. This is one of the best episodes I've ever had the privilege to do. I hope you enjoy it.  Schedule a one-on-one free coaching call, click here or visit DailySuccessPlan.com.

I have mentioned a few times, like dozens probably, that The Son and I love to read books about board games at bedtime. I have also mentioned one such book many times, Family Games The 100 Best by Jeremy Lowder. Recently, I organized the first Protospiel St. Louis where we had over 40 designers come and show their game designs and over 50 playtesters come and play them. As part of the badge purchase, the store where we were holding the event offered 10% off purchases. So, I perused the store, and found Sid Sackson's 1980 classic, Can't Stop. What really drew me to it was that it was in the ding and dent section at an already low price. This was due to the box being really banged up (photo in the show notes). So, I could not turn it down with an additional 10% off. Can't Stop was one of the 100 games from that book, designed by Sid Sackson, and was under $5. Needless to say, that game found its way into my game bag with all its packaging tape. The Son and I sat down to play it a few nights ago. He wanted to play a video game instead, but humored me. We ended up playing it twice in a row, and he didn't bother with the video game!

Today's guest is Maria Zondervan Maria is the CEO of Blue Vikings Capital LLC. She began investing in real estate in 1996. She has 25+ years of experience, and has worked with a variety of asset sizes and classes.  -------------------------------------------------------------- [0:00] Intro [0:44] The 3 questions [1:44] What was the catalyst?  [2:30] Multifamily strategy [5:31] Affordable housing [9:06] Assumable loans [10:24] Talking to partners 1 on 1 [12:52] Nonprofit  [15:24] Scaling [16:11] The issue of teams [17:20] Evaluating partnerships  [19:03] Closing -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Maria:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-zondervan-b5b61544/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariazondervan/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maria.zondervan YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1lGslpmC0vtJaFrYzXAWcQ   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:17:01 Maria Zondervan There is deals in any market and anyone who tells you there isn't. They're not working hard enough. Right. So there's still a lot of great assignable loans out there that are still in the two and 3% rate. So there are always people that need to sell for whatever reason. So you just need to find those.   00:00:17:13 - 00:00:40:22 Intro Welcome to the How to Scale commercial Real Estate Show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big.    Sam Wilson Maria Zondervan is the CEO of Blue Vikings Capital. She began investing in real estate in 1996, and she has over 25 years of experience and has worked in a variety of asset classes and sizes.   00:00:41:02 - 00:00:42:08 Sam Wilson Maria, welcome to the show.   00:00:42:22 - 00:00:43:21 Maria Zondervan Lovely to be here.   00:00:44:07 - 00:00:52:11 Sam Wilson Thank you so much for coming on today. There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90 seconds or less. Where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there and why?   00:00:52:18 - 00:01:19:22 Maria Zondervan Well, I started back in college. I bought my first place before I even graduated college. So and then I just kept investing throughout my life, really alongside being an endangered species biologist, because that was my passion. But I knew I would never make money doing that. That's just the passion. But so real estate, let me do that. And today I am buying large apartment complexes and looking looking to the future to see what the next big challenges.   00:01:20:05 - 00:01:27:09 Sam Wilson While an endangered species biologist. That's pretty that's pretty fun. Now you're based where?   00:01:27:09 - 00:01:28:18 Maria Zondervan In Florida.   00:01:28:18 - 00:01:33:17 Sam Wilson Florida. Okay. Right. So you're in Florida. Did you work specifically in Florida or do you work all over the world or what was your.   00:01:33:18 - 00:01:43:23 Maria Zondervan I did work specifically in Florida. We got plenty of critters here to keep me busy. Everything from gators and snakes to birds and turtles, manatees, eagles, you name it. We got it. All right. Here.   00:01:44:01 - 00:01:58:21 Sam Wilson You got it. All right here. And you worked in that field, but also were growing your kind of own real estate holdings along the way. Yes. At what point in time what was the catalyst for you that said, okay, we're going to go bigger and do bigger assets and bigger things in the real estate space?   00:01:59:22 - 00:02:24:09 Maria Zondervan I actually had an autistic son wasn't part of the plan now, but he plans for these things that having a special needs child all of a sudden puts a whole lot more emphasis on you growing your wealth because you got to take care of them forever and beyond your own lifespan. So it became more important, and the closer he got to adulthood, the more I decided maybe I should leave this thing.   00:02:24:09 - 00:02:30:09 Maria Zondervan I'm very passionate about because I'm even more passionate about my son and make the leap to real estate full time. And so finally I did that.   00:02:30:18 - 00:02:44:16 Sam Wilson Got it. What did you start investing in? And I guess what was the was a strategy you took on because everybody. Okay, so now you've got a you've kind of got a Y defined for you, but then how are you going to go about meeting the needs of that?   00:02:44:16 - 00:03:04:05 Maria Zondervan Y Yeah, I mean the strategy was multifamily and I approach that by joining mastermind get around the right people, the right networks, and they will help point you in the right way. Right? You don't have to learn it all. You just know all the people know it. All right. And so so that was it. We knew multifamily was the path.   00:03:04:05 - 00:03:13:04 Maria Zondervan We knew that was where to scale. So I started educating myself on that and getting around people who do that until they made it look easy. And then I was like, okay, I can do this. And so I did.   00:03:13:17 - 00:03:39:24 Sam Wilson That's that's very, very cool. So where are you today in that multifamily acquisition kind of process? Because I know a lot of people, you know, the bigger institutions are Pencils Down recording this. What is this? This is April 18th of 2023. You know, a lot of people are pens, pencils down. There's some apprehension in the multifamily space. But it sounds like for you, you guys have found a niche that you're very not just confident in, but, you know, you're find a lot of opportunity.   00:03:39:24 - 00:03:41:19 Sam Wilson And so talk to us about that if you can.   00:03:41:20 - 00:03:59:18 Maria Zondervan Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there is deals in any market and anyone who tells you there isn't they're not working hard enough. Right. So there's still a lot of great assignable loans out there that are still in the two or 3% rate. So there are always people that need to sell for whatever reason. So you just need to find those.   00:04:00:02 - 00:04:20:22 Maria Zondervan We really like the affordable housing niche because there's such a demand for that right now and because properties are valued on the income they produce, a lot of times you can pick them up a few years before they exit out of some of the affordable housing programs where you're buying them in a way, in a way that they're at now, knowing they're going to jump up in a few years.   00:04:20:22 - 00:04:43:21 Maria Zondervan So that can be a really strong play. And then we also buy Forever Holds or we're actually building or creating them in some cases. And this is partly through my nonprofit, which is by Apollo, the list on which their mission is to provide housing and services for autistic adults like my son. And so those properties will never be sold, right?   00:04:44:04 - 00:05:06:12 Maria Zondervan So those are things people can invest in and have a forever income. And so we're not real worried about is it providing a huge return right now because long term it's going to provide buckets of money, right? So it's just a matter of which investors you have and what they're looking for. And for me, I'm looking for people who are trying to set up the future generations right now.   00:05:06:12 - 00:05:31:00 Sam Wilson That's really, really interesting. I want to I mean, you're you're tackling a lot. They're all at once from taking care of your own family, from then setting up investments, from what it sounds like for other families with similar, similar needs. And then also going out and playing, you know, just openly in the affordable housing sector. So, I mean, there's a lot of a lot of different pieces going or a lot of parts of moving, parts there inside of that.   00:05:31:00 - 00:05:51:19 Sam Wilson Let's talk a little bit maybe about the affordable housing component. You'd mentioned you like affordable housing. The demand is there, but yet some of these some of these properties may be exiting that affordable housing criteria here in the next two or three years when then it can be more to market rate to go into detail on that, if you can.   00:05:52:05 - 00:06:13:24 Maria Zondervan Okay. Well, yes, so there's like like tech and programs like that where they basically they put a cap on what you can charge for rent. And so that caps out what you're in a why is your net operating income and therefore the value of the property. So we buy it at that and then as those restrictions come off, then you can push them closer to market rents.   00:06:14:00 - 00:06:35:20 Maria Zondervan Now we typically don't go all the way to market rents because we believe in affordable housing. We want to keep it affordable. So actually by us flying it versus somebody else that would push it all the way up to to market rent, we're we're doing a bit of a service there too, but we're also helping our investors. So some of our investors, they still need to grow short term income and turn their money quickly.   00:06:36:01 - 00:06:58:12 Maria Zondervan So this is a way for them to do that before they move into long term hold. So they have more to put into those long term holds. So we're kind of trying to service both sectors by offering investment opportunities, both for short term and long term investors and for those that just want to have a mixed portfolio. But those properties are awesome because they're always full, you know, there's always a waiting list to get into those properties.   00:06:58:12 - 00:06:59:23 Maria Zondervan So it's a very safe investment.   00:07:00:16 - 00:07:26:04 Sam Wilson Yeah. Yeah. And that was one of my questions there was in the in the late tech resident base, I'll use that term, the resident base that needs a light tech or utilizes a low tech property. How is that tenant performing right now? I mean, things have gotten a little harder. I would think that's one of the first kind of income brackets to start getting squeezed.   00:07:26:04 - 00:07:28:15 Sam Wilson How are those how are those deals performing right now?   00:07:28:15 - 00:07:54:22 Maria Zondervan They're actually performing just just fine. So we're not buying rough properties for buying nice big class type properties. This is not seeing the class assets. We're not talking, you know, Section eight necessarily. A lot of people associate low tech with Section eight or low income housing with that sort of stuff. It doesn't have to be. Some of these properties are brand new built, beautiful properties for pools and clubhouses.   00:07:55:05 - 00:08:18:18 Maria Zondervan So I think it's there's some education that has to go into that, especially with their investors who may have that mindset of thinking it's slum kind of stuff. It isn't. You can have really nice affordable housing and the affordable criterias based on what you're providing. So what is affordable in a three bedroom, two bath townhouse community of this sort?   00:08:18:18 - 00:08:22:11 Maria Zondervan Right. So it's not it's not a one size fits all.   00:08:22:23 - 00:08:47:24 Sam Wilson Got it. Got it. No, that's really cool. And that's I mean, even that some education for me, you know, because I don't I don't play in that space very much. And it I don't I don't understand the types of assets that even go into low income housing tax credit properties. So that's really cool to hear that there are really nice brand new build US assets that you guys can build or not build but by and you know, run as a low tech property.   00:08:47:24 - 00:09:06:18 Sam Wilson So that's really, really cool. And I like the fact that in your affordable housing you're keeping it even when that affordable housing period or the high tech period burns off, you're still keeping, you know, rents where that tenant base can still afford that. Let's talk about a Super Bowl loan. That's something you had mentioned as well. I think that's a really cool strategy.   00:09:06:18 - 00:09:18:03 Sam Wilson I think it's a gold mine right now is buying properties with the Super Bowl loans in that fix, two and a half to three and a half, 4% even range. How are you finding those and why are sellers selling those?   00:09:19:17 - 00:09:44:10 Maria Zondervan Well, I can give you an example of a while. I just recently had it was a loan and the house kind of ties into to a broker we had worked with multiple times, knew we would close, knew we were good at that. And so he brought us this deal where basically partnership was falling apart. So I talked to a syndication attorney recently who says she will not even set up syndications where there are more than five partners.   00:09:44:10 - 00:10:04:20 Maria Zondervan She says there's just too many cooks in the kitchen and often it falls apart. And this was exactly that. There were eight partners trying to all decide how to do. It wasn't a syndication, it's just a partnership. But but they're just too many and they could not agree on a strategy. And so finally they all just threw up their hands and said, we're selling, you know, and they had this great estimable loan.   00:10:05:07 - 00:10:24:11 Maria Zondervan And, you know, we're willing to to take terms and and negotiate on price. And so because we knew we had to make up, you know, usually you have to bring a little more to the table, a little more cash to the table. Right. But your investors still want return, so they're willing to negotiate with you, especially when there's stressed and one out of something.   00:10:24:11 - 00:10:38:17 Sam Wilson How did you get it? Sounds like if they can't decide or can't agree on how to operate the property, getting that many partners to agree on what the terms are for sale could also end up being a bit of a quagmire.   00:10:38:18 - 00:11:03:21 Maria Zondervan We see. Yes. And this is why we're still in negotiations on it. This is an active, active deal, but we're getting close. And yes, that's exactly the problem is is getting everybody to terms, but you have to be a little more patient with them. You don't push. You just tell me you're there to listen. You listen to all their problems and all their complaints that all their other partners and you talk to them one on one, one at a time, all eight partners, you eventually make the deal.   00:11:04:07 - 00:11:27:07 Sam Wilson Wow. Yeah. That's that's a sound piece of advice. There's there's a there's a there's something you go to the playbook, you talk to them one at a time. Yeah, because I imagine the sparks would fly if there's, there's already tension getting all of them together to talk about it probably would not be a good a good move. I think back to a property we tried to acquire, gosh, it was it only earlier, maybe late 2019 and they had owned it since 1900.   00:11:27:21 - 00:11:45:19 Sam Wilson And so imagine all of the heirs. Yeah, it was it was a piece of raw land, but it was all the heirs that were in cousins and cousins on cousins and people don't even know each other. Needless. Needless to say, there was one person in the entire in the entire realm. One person did not want the deal to go through.   00:11:45:19 - 00:11:55:14 Sam Wilson And it completely just derailed the whole process. And it was and it was over. It was over pennies. And it just it anyway, I think back on that the amount of time we put into it, I.   00:11:55:22 - 00:11:58:07 Maria Zondervan Think I find the one thing that person does want.   00:11:58:11 - 00:11:58:22 Sam Wilson Yeah.   00:11:59:11 - 00:12:02:01 Maria Zondervan That is a statue of themselves. What is it?   00:12:02:07 - 00:12:03:19 Sam Wilson What is it exactly.   00:12:03:19 - 00:12:06:14 Maria Zondervan They gave it to. It was good enough.   00:12:06:14 - 00:12:11:13 Sam Wilson Yeah, right, exactly. Here, here's your statue. That's funny. I'm gonna remember that one.   00:12:12:03 - 00:12:30:08 Maria Zondervan That's a real thing. That's an actual case of. Yeah, it's heard that one on a on at a conference I was at somebody literally he didn't want his kids to inherit the property, but he wanted something to. He just hated his kids for some reason that he wants something as a legacy, but it wasn't going to be as good.   00:12:30:15 - 00:12:36:22 Maria Zondervan So the guy said, What if I put up the statue of you on the property? So have the property. And he said, Yeah, they gave it to that a killer deal.   00:12:38:09 - 00:12:40:11 Sam Wilson That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Wow.   00:12:40:14 - 00:12:42:18 Maria Zondervan It's not from my playbook, but it's a good one.   00:12:42:20 - 00:12:47:19 Sam Wilson There you go. I like it. I like it. Start offering the absurd and they might take you up on it. That's.   00:12:48:00 - 00:12:51:24 Maria Zondervan That's not what they want. What is it they want to look at?   00:12:52:11 - 00:13:11:18 Sam Wilson Let's talk a little bit. That's funny. Thank you for sharing that. That's true. That's that's what yeah. That's some funny stuff right there. Tell me about the nonprofit you're running. I know that's a big part of your why, but tell me how you've done that and then I want to hear so let's hear a little bit about that and then I want to hear about just ways that you've scaled your business.   00:13:11:21 - 00:13:24:12 Sam Wilson That's because you've got to again, a lot of things going on. So I can imagine that you've just had a lot of processes and systems and things you've had to put in place in order to make this all possible. So let's hear first about the nonprofit.   00:13:24:12 - 00:13:47:22 Maria Zondervan Yeah, so Valhalla Villas is the name of the nonprofit, and the idea is to provide housing for autistic individuals who are longing for that independence, that they can't solely live on their own right. So 75% of autistic adults end up living with their parents forever. But the fact is, parents aren't always going to be there. And so those parents worry about who's going to take care of them later.   00:13:48:06 - 00:14:04:14 Maria Zondervan And there's often this drive when they get in their thirties and forties, you know, they want to be fully independent, but they're still living in that parent's house. And so the parents still trying to control, you know, and so here they can live in a community where there's services that take care of somebody there to look after them.   00:14:05:01 - 00:14:24:10 Maria Zondervan They can have roommates to cut down the costs of it, and they can learn independent living skills while they're have transportation provided because that's another biggie. They often don't drive and things like that. So kind of meets that needs. And the need right now is huge because one in every 44 kids in the US is now diagnosed with autism.   00:14:24:10 - 00:14:27:09 Maria Zondervan I know. Blows my mind. Yeah.   00:14:29:06 - 00:14:42:00 Sam Wilson How did you get that off the ground? I mean, that's I'm thinking drivers, that's busses that's you know, there's there's got to be some considerations on the way that properties are built on. I mean so many things go into that like how did you do it.   00:14:42:06 - 00:15:02:24 Maria Zondervan So, so ask me again in a year because it's not fully off the ground yet. So this is this is a fairly new venture, but we are partnering with other nonprofits that have actually done this. They just haven't done it for autistic individuals. So servicing other special needs. So we're basically stealing their playbooks. Happy to share with us because they know the need is tremendous.   00:15:02:24 - 00:15:29:10 Maria Zondervan So yeah, we're kicking it off here in central Florida and then we're going to take it nationwide because it's a very scalable plan. So two things we're going to build from the ground up using low tech funds. They have a special pocket just for special needs to do this. And then the other model is integrated housing, where we buy existing apartment complexes, which we already know how to do, and we integrate the services and shift about 25% of the population over to us to stick adult.   00:15:29:17 - 00:15:48:01 Sam Wilson Got it. Okay, cool. Yeah. What to keep tabs on this. Keep us posted on how how this all all unfold but that's a really cool a really cool undertaking. Let's talk about scaling what are some things you feel like you've done really well when it comes to scaling and growing your business that other people should emulate?   00:15:48:24 - 00:16:06:20 Maria Zondervan I think it's all about the networking getting in the rooms with the right people. It's amazing when you start talking to people about what you want to do, how many people are willing to help, you know, or just share their knowledge if you're in the right rooms, so be in the rooms with the people who are ahead of you.   00:16:07:02 - 00:16:10:20 Maria Zondervan And when you start to be the most knowledgeable person in that room, move to the next room.   00:16:11:17 - 00:16:21:05 Sam Wilson Yeah. Oh, that's great. That's absolutely great. What about when it comes to team? How how have you approached and or tackled the issue of team.   00:16:22:07 - 00:16:54:18 Maria Zondervan Teams are tough. So I tried to do most of it through partnerships instead of employee primarily to get more. For one thing, it's less expensive. You're doing equity splits, they're going to get more in the end, but you're not having to come up with the money upfront, which is very beneficial, but also it's easier to break apart. You know, systems are working, you can bring someone in on one deal or two deals and if things are working well and you don't want to go forward and do more deals for them, you don't have to because you didn't form.   00:16:54:22 - 00:16:57:01 Maria Zondervan They're not in your corporation necessarily.   00:16:57:08 - 00:17:23:16 Sam Wilson Right, right. Right. No, I like that. I like that. And that certainly has been an approach that I've seen a lot of people take. Is that more partnership side of things? Let's rewind maybe the conversation a little bit where you were talking earlier about partnerships and the challenges that you can face inside of those partnerships and then working through a deal you're buying because of a partnership gone bad, how should someone evaluate a partnership like that to make sure that they don't end up in that same spot?   00:17:23:16 - 00:17:26:10 Sam Wilson Maybe that some of these sellers are dealing with right now are?   00:17:27:08 - 00:17:48:16 Maria Zondervan Well, you should definitely know the people you're getting into with, right? People talk about it being a marriage. You're going to be together with those people for a long time, especially if it's like a forever hold, you know, something like that. So you better know those people pretty well. Don't jump at the first person that says, Hey, I can take your deal, or I've got the network to sign for this giant loan and you're all excited about that.   00:17:48:16 - 00:18:11:23 Maria Zondervan There are lots and lots of people who can do that, find the right fit. So it's about knowing what your vision is and and signing people that set that right. Don't try to sit there, make sure that they're fitting into your needs. So if you do, you have a mission statement. If you have your core values, you're looking for people that fit that.   00:18:11:23 - 00:18:15:15 Maria Zondervan You're not going to alter your mission statement of core values to to fit those people.   00:18:15:20 - 00:18:41:17 Sam Wilson Yeah. No, that's absolutely right. That's absolutely right. I love that. I absolutely love it. Maria, you've given us so much here to think about today, everything from acquiring Class B, like tech properties and how you can buy even those brand new low tech properties. Talk about affordable housing components. We've talked about the way that you're meeting the needs of special needs families and building your volleyball.   00:18:41:17 - 00:18:43:01 Sam Wilson Can you pronounce that? Valhalla.   00:18:43:02 - 00:18:48:09 Maria Zondervan Valhalla? It's Viking Blue Vikings. You know, there's a theme here. Yeah, it's. It's in the blood.   00:18:48:12 - 00:19:03:14 Sam Wilson I got it. I love it. Valhalla Villas. And just how you're stealing that playbook. I mean, it goes back to even the success leaves clues thing like hey, we'll just go take what somebody else is doing and then we'll repeat that. But but bring it over to the to the artistic community. So I love love what you're doing.   00:19:03:14 - 00:19:08:07 Sam Wilson Very, very cool. If our listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you, what is the best way to do that?   00:19:09:00 - 00:19:18:08 Maria Zondervan Blue Vikings Capital dot com. All my social media links are there. There's links to Valhalla. There's links to everything there. So start with Blue Viking's Capital, Dakar.   00:19:18:12 - 00:19:25:13 Sam Wilson Blue Vikings capital dot com. We will make sure we put that there in the show notes. Maria, thank you again for coming on the show today. I certainly appreciate it.   00:19:26:10 - 00:19:27:21 Maria Zondervan You're very welcome. Thank you.   00:19:28:08 - 00:19:49:18 Sam Wilson Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate Podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories.   00:19:49:18 - 00:19:52:23 Sam Wilson So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.

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Over ten years ago, pioneering nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman wrote a groundbreaking book called “Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution.” At that time, she had her own home mitigated for EMFs and environmental toxins. She recently decided to invite Brian Hoyer, a leading EMF mitigation specialist, to update and access any new findings. Interestingly enough, Brian's findings were jaw dropping for Ann Louise and family. While the house was fairly clean environmentally, the only issue that was a red flag was the bedroom window where there were strong EMF emissions from a radio tower across the river where Ann Louise's house is built. The EMF emissions registered extremely hazardous on Brian's scale and were known to incite oxidative stress, issues with neurotransmitters, and blood brain barrier leaks. Needless to say, with Ann Louise's history of a concussion and a traumatic brain injury, this was a huge aha moment! Join Ann Louise and Brian Hoyer as they delve into a fascinating discussion, covering topics such as EMF shielding and its importance, the negative effects of EMF exposure, the need for a healing environment, dealing with 'dirty electricity', controlling EMF exposure, and most crucially, how to shield oneself while sleeping. After extensively testing homes for EMF around the country, Brian established Shielded Healing in 2017. The aim of his team is to help modern society recreate electromagnetic environments that closely resemble historic human habitats. Brian works closely with functional medicine doctors, hospitals, and clinics worldwide, providing EMF shielding solutions and building protocols to reduce patient EMF exposure. To find out more information on how Shielded Healing can protect you, go to www.shieldedhealing.com. Use code ANN100 for $100 off EMF testing or Home Build Consultations and let them know Ann Louise sent you! The post Shielded Healing to Zap-Proof Your Home – Episode 141: Brian Hoyer first appeared on Ann Louise Gittleman. The post Shielded Healing to Zap-Proof Your Home – Episode 141: Brian Hoyer appeared first on Ann Louise Gittleman.

I know it's been a minute since I followed up with the ChatGPT episode but I still wanted to talk about it since more news and insights have come out around AI. Needless to say too...it's been an interesting month around banking and it's time we have a serious chat about that. Don't forget to check out our sponsor, ICBA Securities at https://www.icba.org/icba-securities

"N'ayez pas peur." And the formal lessons continue into the wilderness and beauty of the French language. Or should I say langue française. And yep, we have just dove into to learning the imperatif form, and as the command directs above in French - Have no fear! Which is a great place to start because when we choose to learn a new language, especially as an adult, and anyone proficient in any field other than the French language, humility must be brought with us on the journey. To trip over any new language we wish to learn, or any new skill for that matter, is a practice in being vulnerable, and being vulnerable is scary. It's scary to try to form the words and say them outloud, even if we have practiced and know the alphabet of our new language. It is scary to bravely raise our hand and attempt to answer a question when we know the answer may be a direct and frank 'no' from the professor. And it is scary to keep raising our hand, to keep speaking the new language, after we have mispronounced and incorrectly answered in the past which is why, it is imperative to hold this directive with us as we choose to learn - Have no fear. After all, what is there to be afraid of really? This is when we need to set our ego aside, take the many (many!) corrections from the professor and just keep trying, just keep speaking and gradually, ever so very gradually, improvements and a depth of understanding as our long-term memory begins to hold this new language in its arsenal of knowledge it draws upon when we least expect it to be easy to grasp, the new language becomes easier. I write the words of encouragement for you, readers and listeners of the blog and podcast as much as I write them for myself because it is a slow journey, but all of a sudden, I will find myself in moments grasping and understanding what to say and how to say it when in the past such an occurrence would never happen. And it is in these moments, I know that the regular effort, vulnerability and bravery (and mental exhaustion) are worth it and are paying off. Today, we return to the series of what I have learned so far in French class. A journey that began in 2016 as I shared in Part Quatre just a couple of months ago (visit that post/episode #349 here) and is continuing as I begin FR 104 (A2.2) with Washington D.C. Alliance de Française having begun with them FR 101 in September 2022. Part Quatre brought us to the mid-way point of FR 102, so today's episode will focus on what I have learned as FR 102 concluded and all of FR 103 which wrapped up in mid-April. Admittedly, FR 103 is when I felt I was in brand new territory as up to 102 I had a clear awareness of present tense, the numbers, basic 'get to know you' phrases, and had been exposed to the components taught, but needed to polish them as well as fill in a few of the fundament gaps (proper pronunciation of the alphabet for example!). So now I am in the thick of new knowledge, and my head is exhausted each week, following each day of classes (two, two hour classes each week). However, well, I am getting ahead of myself. Let's take a look at the list of what I have learned so far in French class . . . 1.The mental exhaustion improves with time As I shared above, when FR 103 began, with a new professor who has high expectations and uses every minute of class, after each week and each class, my mind was exhausted; however, that was the worst of it. In other words, my mind was working in a way it had not, and therefore, had to 'get into shape' by being stretched. Now, yes, I still have mental fatigue, but part of me is used it, but the other part of me knows, my mind as it pertains to learning the French language, is getting better toned and used to searching, remembering and applying the new knowledge. All the more reason to hang in there and keep attending class, keeping signing up for the next class. 2. Être, Avoir, Savoir, & Vouloir are the only verbs that are irregular in the imperatif As hinted at above in the opening quote, we've begun learning the form and function of the imperatif! And it is really quite simple, especially when I discovered (and it makes sense logically) that there are only ever three forms of the imperatif for conjugation (tu, nous, and vous), and so long as you know your Present tense forms, and memorize the four new irregular forms of être (to be), avoir (to have), savoir (to know) and vouloir (to want), you know how to properly use/write/speak the imperatif! What is the imperatif? The exact same thing imperative is in the English language, a command or direction given with an understood subject (so the sentence begins with the verb). 3. How to communicate time properly (formally and informally) A simple concept, but knowing how to form a sentence when asked the time is slightly different compared to English, but it is quite simple. The key is to remember to once you begin speaking the time formally (military time) to continue to do so - only numbers, no phrases; and when you speak heure informelle, then you can use the common phrases - midi (noon), minuit (midnight), moins le quart (less than a quarter - 15 minutes), et demi (half past), etc. 4. What "liaision" and "enchaînement" are as they pertain pronunciation in the French language Large, odd words, but all they are, and they are very important if we want to pronounce the language correctly, is how the sound of the word changes due to the words around it. Enchaînement: What is affected? Words that begin with "h" or a vowel. How is the pronunciation changed? If the word that precedes the word that begins with the 'h' or a vowel ends in a consonant sound, then the speaker must combine the words and drop the last consonant sound of the first word, combining the sounds into one. EXAMPLE: neuf heures —alone, you would pronounce 'neuf' as [nuf], pronouncing the 'f' sound; but when the word 'heures' follows as it begins with an 'h' or a vowel, you drop the 'f' sound and pronounce neuf as [neuv] leading into 'heures'. Liaison: What is affected? words that end with a vowel sound and the next word begins with a vowel or 'h' How is the pronunciation changed? Pronounce the consonant of the first word that previously was not pronounced. EXAMPLE: trois heures — alone, you would pronounce 'trois' as [twah], not pronouncing the 's'; but when the word 'heures' follows, the 's' is pronounced and is pronounced as a [zzz] sound. 5. How to construct passé composé Finally learning the past tense (aka the passé composé) was a big step in my learning journey of the French language. And it is soooooo much simpler than I had anticipated. While I won't teach the entire lesson to you, the key is knowing that every single conjugated verb will be preceded by either être (conjugated to fit the form) or avoir (conjugated to fit the form), and there are only approximately 15 verbs that use être (simply memorize them), and the reset all use avoir. Below are the fifteen verbs that use être, and how I remember them is they are all verbs in which they describe a change of state or motion. Now do note, not EVERY verb that involves motion or a change of state uses être, but all of these in this list fit that definition. entre (to enter) sortir (to exit, go out) monter (to go up/to climb) descendre (to descent) passer (to go/to go pass) rester (to remain/to stay) retourner/tourner (to return) tomber (to fall out/to fall) arriver (to arriver/to reach) partir (to leave/to depart) aller (to go) venir/revenir/devenir (to come/to come back/to become) naitre (to be born) mourir (to die) Extra one: déceder (to be deceased) And then, the verb that follows has a fixed ending for all forms (je, tu, il, elle, on, vous, nous, ils/elles, which comes down to memorizing, but most, if they have a certain ending in the infinitive form (i.e. -er, -ir, etc.) end in the same ending for that form. For example, my list captured in the image below: 6. Passé composé is easier than I thought and gives me so much flexibility in constructing phrases It is worth reiterating that again, what I thought prior to learning was incorrect. I just needed to be taught by someone who knew the language. Once I had the knowledge, great progress in communicating was made and ease experienced knowing I could share what I had done in conversation, whatever that may be! 7. Positive encouragement and praise are wonderfully powerful no matter what the student's age It has been a fascinating experience being a teacher who taught for 20 years and stepping into someone else's classroom who is the expert on a basic subject - the fundamentals of a language. Apart of the skills they are teaching and I am trying to learn, the energy and connection a teacher brings to the space determines the probability of their students remaining in the class, believing they can do it and the confidence to try. As well, a teacher is a human being, and it is easier to notice when my professor is exhibiting an immense amount of patience, restraint and strength to keep us accountable, so I empathize and try to be aware that she will have good days and not so good days, but what I appreciate about my current professor is that she wastes not one minute of our class time, and is determined to teach us the language. There are moments when it is clear that teaching a lower-skilled class to students such as myself and being someone who knows the French language superbly as my professor does, gets to be a bit 'why don't you know this?!' at times, and whether through their repetition of the skills we are just being introduced to, her patience is a bit lacking and I know that for my confidence in learning the language, I could use a bit more acknowledgement of my effort and willingness to try to speak out or try to speak. However, in those moments, it is also a very helpful exercise for myself to set my ego aside and dig down and choose to learn than to take it personal. After all, I can honestly say, she is the best and most knowledgeable and capable of explaining the language clearly professor that I have had in my 20+ years of trying to finally learn this beloved language, and I am grateful these classes and the quality of classes are available. 8. Le Passé Recent While we just received a taste of how to construct the recent past (le passé recent), so anything that has just happened, seeing the formula for how to construct the phrases, knowing that all it is is the simple formula: use the verb Venir (to come) in the present tense + de + le verb de l'action a1 l'infinitif form, reminds me that I simply need to bulk up my knowledge of vocabulary with a variety of verbs I might need or use. 9. Hearing the language spoken first without the transcript is key to eventually (and more quickly) comprehending what you are hearing, even if it is more uncomfortable initially When FR 103 began with my new professor, she quickly told us (gently scolding us) to not look at the transcript when we were listening to passages that we were trying to decipher what was being said. I can remember in FR 101 being so perplexed that other students were able to easily understand what was being said on the first go-round and even stating my confusion in class, but what I didn't realize was that they were reading the transcript as they listened and the professor had not told them not to, so why not? Not the case in FR 103. Our professor - Olga, pointed out emphatically that if we are going to understand what we are hearing more quickly, we need to first hear it (without peeking at the transcript), struggle with what we hear, and similarly to the mental fatigue that is intense initially, it become easier more quickly than we might realize. Needless to say, lesson learned. Nobody is looking at the transcripts anymore and struggle with audio comprehension is expected, so long as we try. 10. Just 10 minutes a day of studying, everyday, is better than hours sporadically Another quick tip Olga shared with us was to make sure we practice or study at least 10 minutes each day on the days we don't need to complete any homework or in between class sessions - our two week breaks, for example. As opposed to studying intensively for a couple of hours, but not doing so regularly, we will actually acquire the language more quickly through consistent, short efforts. 11. Phrases for moving a story along chronologically d'abord (first) en suite (further then) puis (then) après (after) en fin (finally) 12. Vocabulary for frequencies of occurrence (la fréquence) et l'habitude jamais (never) parfois (sometimes) souvent (often) toujours (always) tôt (early) en retard (late) d'habitude (normally) en général (generally) chaque (each) 13. Reflexive verbs aren't as scary as they seem FR 103 began with reflexive verbs. A verb whose direct object is the same as its subject. For example, se lèver (to wake up); se doucher (to take a shower/wash oneself); se brosse les dents (to brush one's teeth); se coucher (to go to bed); se preparer (to prepare oneself). Once I learned where the reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, etc.) needed to go in the formation of the sentence, and in negated sentences, it was just a matter of remembering the reflexive verbs. Simply by writing out these lessons has been helpful to remember all that was covered over the past two+ months, and now the journey continues forward. And while of course, there is guaranteed to be times in which I scrunch my forehead up and scream inside because it isn't coming quickly or at all, I also know that at the end of each class, I am grateful I am there. I am proud of myself for trying, and over-archingly I am following the directive seen below in the imperatif form, to have fun. Because if there is any class I would want to be enrolled in right now to learn something new, it is the French language, so I know I am exactly where I want (and need) to be. "Faites-vous plaisir." Look for Part Six late this summer. Merci pour la visite! À la prochaine, bonne journée! SIMILAR EPISODES YOU MIGHT ENJOY episode #349, What I Have Learned in French Class, So Far . . . Part Quatre episode #276, The Art of Mise en Place episode #248, 12 French (or Set in France) Feel-Good Films I Love (having premiered in the past 10 years) ~Explore all of TSLL's French-inspired posts and episodes. Petit Plaisir —Chevalier, film ~Explore all of the episodes of The Simple Sophisticate podcast here.

Our guest this time is Vanessa Womack who now lives in Richmond, VA. Vanessa grew up in Virginia, but moved to New York to attend college. After college she worked in the publishing world at McGraw Hill for five years. Wait until you hear what she sold for them, something that is today a relic, but I am not giving it away.   Vanessa clearly had a bit of the wanderlust bug as she eventually moved to California for jobs, then moved back to New York for a brief time and eventually settled down in Richmond.   In her life she has created and published several courses on DEI and Leadership. Also, she has written several books. She has worked for a number of nonprofit organizations and clearly has a passion for breaking through culture and inclusion barriers to help people realize much about themselves as well as others.     About the Guest:   Vanessa Womack is a facilitator in leadership, governance, DEI, soft skills, and team dynamics. As an experienced course designer, she developed the successful LinkedIn Learning course “Managing A Diverse Team” which launched in 2018 and has accumulated over 100,000 global learners. In addition to the course, Vanessa publishes a monthly newsletter entitled Pass It On, about diversity, leadership, and education on LinkedIn. She wrote the audio course on Listenable, “Practicing DEI Can Improve Organizational Culture”, launched in 2020. She completed a certificate for training from the University of South Florida – MUMA School of Business for DEI in the Workplace.   She has recently taken a contract position of DEI Coordinator for the Alliance for Building Better Medicine, which is part of the Cluster Accelerator for Advanced Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing (APRM) and Activation Capital. The APRM was launched to fast-track the development of a globally competitive essential medicines manufacturing hub across Central Virginia. The DEI Coordinator will be responsible for driving region-wide DEI strategy to support an inclusive culture for life sciences as part of the DEI plan component of the Build Back Better Regional Competition grant award from the US Economic Development Administration (EDA).   Other experiences include being BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant; Lead Faculty-Area Chair in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix former local campus in Richmond, VA; coaching and facilitating career transitioning clients for future jobs and entrepreneurship; public speaker and radio show host, On Track with Vanessa Womack. Earlier in her career, after being an actual marrow donor, she became the local spokesperson in Virginia for the National Marrow Donor Program (now Be the Match) recruiting and promoting the marrow registry in Black communities. She has facilitated community dialogue through Initiatives of Change/Hope in the Cities' presentation, Unpacking 2010 Census: The Realities of Race, Class, and Jurisdiction.   Vanessa earned her undergraduate degree from Baruch College (CUNY) and MBA from Averett University, (Danville, VA). She is a member of Leadership Metro Richmond (LQ 2006) in Richmond, Virginia.   Vanessa has published two multicultural STEM children's books, ‘Bookie and Lil Ray: In the Game' (2021) and ‘Emerald Jones: The Fashion Designer Diva' (2020). She is the author of the novel, ‘Paint the Sky Purple' (2010) and co-author, ‘The Female CEO: Pearls, Power & Passion' (2014).           About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.     Michael Hingson  01:21 Welcome to another edition of unstoppable mindset mindset. If I could talk I'd be in wonderful shape. Please forgive me. Today, we get to meet Vanessa Womack, who is a facilitator and leadership, governance, diversity, equity and encourage inclusion and a lot of other kinds of things. And I don't want to give it all away because she's going to be able to tell her story much better than I do. Isn't that usually the way of it? Vanessa, thanks very much for being here. And welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Vanessa Womack  01:50 Well, thanks, Michael, for this opportunity to be here. And now we tried this once but, you know, technical glitches happen. So we're doing it again. Good to see you.   Michael Hingson  02:01 Well, it's good to see you. And yeah, technology happens. And so we do what we do, but glad we're here. So, lots to get to of course, but I'd like to start as usual. Tell me a little bit about you growing up and kind of where you came from, and all that kind of stuff.   Vanessa Womack  02:17 And okay, well, let's see now. I grew up the in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in a small city called Danville, Virginia. Where I grew up in a household I was, well, if you look at the, I guess the placement, I am the middle girl or middles girl of three, and I have a brother so and household with mom and dad, pretty typical, and not poor neighborhood. But we had such great values, Christian values, and we were very active in the community, finish high school there. And then started my first year at an HBCU, Tennessee State University. But I became what can I say? Not bored but adventurous and moved to New York City to finish my education at CUNY City University in New York Baruch College, and began my career mostly at corporate New York. My first job in New York was at McGraw Hill publishing company. And after that, I had many other jobs. Say, if you want to ask me about those pretty adventuresome.   Michael Hingson  03:54 Yeah, you've been involved in a lot of different things. Needless to say, well, so you said you started with McGraw Hill. What did you do there?   Vanessa Womack  04:02 I was in the classified not to give my age away. But yes, I am a. We've talked   Michael Hingson  04:09 about this before he asked   Vanessa Womack  04:10 me did I am a boomer. But I started in classified advertising in the early mid 70s, mid 70s, where I did the clippings for some of the magazines like chemical engineering business week. And I did that for a couple of years and then promoted to public affairs where I actually was the editor of the McGraw Hill directory, the worldwide directory, putting that together and even had opportunities to conduct tours in Rockefeller Center. When I was in public affairs, I would do tours for groups that would come in To visit McGraw Hill and the surrounding buildings, take them through the tunnels at Radio City Music Hall. Oh, yes. And one of the groups I remember either educators or students or even some on foreign visitors. There was even a group I hate to say that now I'm not going to hate to say it, but from Russia. So it was exciting to do that. And after that, I was at Saks Fifth Avenue. I even worked at the NFL and water publisher services.   Michael Hingson  05:43 So where you were in New York, did you ever eat at Hurley saloon?   Vanessa Womack  05:50 Yes, I think we talked about that. Yeah, yes. I think I had a drink there.   Michael Hingson  05:57 I'll never, I'll never forget one of the stories that I heard about Hurley's. They leased the Hurley brothers leased the building in the 1890s. And they had 100 year lease. And then when Rockefeller Center was being built, they wanted to buy out Hurley's and her least didn't want to sell. And that's why there's this little four story building on one corner of all of that, but all of the reporters like the NBC reporters who worked in, dealt through Rockefeller Center and BC, would go down there and somehow they connected a phone line and a phone from the newsrooms to a phone behind the bar at Hurley's and so they could be down at the bar and then come A call came in then somebody would get the reporters or whatever, and they get the calls and go to what they needed to do. But they could spend their time in hurleys. Ah, people are creative.   Vanessa Womack  06:56 Yes, yes, we are.   Michael Hingson  06:59 Well, and we talked, and we talked about, of course, talking about classifies I mentioned Conde Nast. And you know, again, another one where it was all about classifieds. And you know, whether it's called classifieds or something else. The fact is that people are still selling advertising today.   Vanessa Womack  07:16 Oh, yes. That's why I say I'm pretty old school, I remember. And there were, and there's old fashioned fax machines, where we were communicate between the McGraw Hill offices, for instance, between New York and Philadelphia. So but, you know, we've come a long way in technology.   Michael Hingson  07:39 Yeah. Now we also have this thing about audiobooks, which course I'm very precious about unlike and I'm glad that most of the major publishers are doing a lot more with that. And it's all electronic. So it's a lot easier to create, and not store so much stuff, because it's now all audio oriented, or even print books are oftentimes electronically oriented as well as print, but I think that there's rightly so a group of people and it's still a very large group that likes to hold a book of their hand and reprint and there's a lot of value to that no matter what someone says a Kindle isn't quite the same as a book.   Vanessa Womack  08:16 That's, that's true, but it's fortunate that we have those options.   Michael Hingson  08:23 Yeah, well and being blind, a Braille device that can have on nonpermanent or refreshable Braille display and you can put a book file on it is still not the same as reading it with paper. But either way, reading is reading and it's still a wonderful thing that we all get to be able to do.   Vanessa Womack  08:42 And I've enjoyed reading ever since I was a young child in elementary school. In fact, one of my I guess, what do you call it nicknames? Was said a bookworm?   Michael Hingson  09:00 That's pretty cool.   Vanessa Womack  09:01 Yes, because I always said I liked. I enjoyed getting lost in the in the novels in the book service read. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  09:10 Yeah. And I still do today. And what did you want to be when you were growing up?   Vanessa Womack  09:16 Well, I wanted to be a court stenographer. Because of the business classes I had in high school. I wanted to be a court stenographer, but at one point, I also want to be an FBI agent. However, I was told either by the teachers that I was not the right color or was also a little girl or female, that I couldn't. I would not be accepted in something like an FBI. So my mother encouraged me to go into business. And I took shorthand all the required business courses in high school and I took shorthand. And I thought, wow, court stenographer would be cool. But then my mom said, No, you need to go to college. So I did continue to take shorthand or practice it for a little while. And I thought was pretty cool. But I went to Tennessee State University for my freshman year and started my, I guess, my curriculum into business management or a bachelor's in Business Administration.   Michael Hingson  10:40 Who influenced you most? Do you think while you're growing up and so on, would it be your mom? Or is there another person who stood out even more?   Vanessa Womack  10:48 I think my mom course might my dad too. But my mom was, she was pretty straightforward. very conscientious about her children being better or being better. And succeeding in life. So she encouraged all of us. And I was very much influenced by her to continue my education. I mean, I was I was smart. But I mean, I didn't know some things came better to me, like writing, which I enjoyed doing. And I enjoyed writing. And I still do I wish I had embarked on writing stories at earlier in life, so. But yes, my mother was a great influencer. And we are also I'm also from a family of faith. So I always have to give, give my God all the glory, and they can for bringing us all so far.   Michael Hingson  12:00 Yep, that's, of course, extremely important to do and makes makes not only a lot of sense, but the reality is God is with us and in us and all around us. And more of us ought to recognize that. But you know, what, what can you do? That's an individual choice.   Vanessa Womack  12:19 Yes. And it's very sustaining. And it gives me and so many who are faithful hope, especially in these such troubling times.   Michael Hingson  12:30 Yeah. And a lot of ways my wife passed away in November. And   Vanessa Womack  12:37 I'm so sorry to hear that, because I remember she was there before going. Yeah, we tried this. Yes. Sorry to hear for sorry, for your loss. Well, her body   Michael Hingson  12:47 was just not keeping up as to 2020 22 went along. And as I tell people, the body doesn't always keep up with the Spirit. But the other side of it is she's still around here. And, and I know if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. Yeah, you got to keep on the straight and narrow somehow, which is fine.   Vanessa Womack  13:09 And it's important to keep those who have left this are the ones we've loved, near and dear to us, because they are and will always be a part of us.   Michael Hingson  13:19 Well, I'm, as I tell people, you don't move on from 40 years of marriage, but you move forward. And I think the difference is if you talk about moving on, and you're going to leave it behind and forget it. And that is something that I will not allow myself to ever do and shouldn't   Vanessa Womack  13:34 be very good at. I agree.   Michael Hingson  13:37 So what was growing up like in the South for you in terms of how did that affect or have any influence on what you've done and what you do with your life? Was the south an influence for you?   Vanessa Womack  13:51 Well, I had no choice to grow up where I was.   Michael Hingson  13:54 Yet South Korea course.   Vanessa Womack  13:57 I and it was a good childhood. It was full of fun. sene interesting things like being outside now is I don't know if children get out and play like we did growing up. It was so free willing and and we could explore neighborhoods, we could go into the woods and pick blackberries. Bring them home and mom would make blackberry cobbler and we went to an elementary middle and high schools that were very, you know, they welcome in that especially in elementary was segregated and a segregated school but the teachers and the administration were so nurturing and then in middle school, or what we call back then Junior High in your head. Yes.   Michael Hingson  14:55 I always remember that. Oh, school. None at all. All   Vanessa Womack  15:00 Oh, yes, I still have a young mine and but back then it was at the beginning of the integration. And I walked to school. I mean, we had maybe one school bus. It wasn't consistent on throughout the school year, but I walked to school, like all my other classmates from my segregated neighborhood. And, you know, I was a good student. There were some challenges. I remember when Martin Luther King died in a white classmate had some very awful things to say. And that resonated with me. I was like, This is not right. And, but this is how it is. And that was the awful thing about is like, you know, that's just, that was just a word we grew up in. And high school, I excel and became very active with some of the student groups. Even with the marching band, I was didn't play an instrument, I was one of the I guess you call a major nature it Yeah, majorettes. But I was very active. And my friends were black and white and Asian. So you, one becomes, you live in that world, and you say this, this is, this is who I am in this world. But how can I be effective? How can I make change and make a change meant to make friends and understand them and have them understand me, but it's it was, it was a good time. Yet, it was transformative for me in such a way that it prepares me little prepares us for what we have to deal with what was still dealing with, when it comes to, I guess, diversity and being inclusive and accepting one another. When someone asked, I think you would ask me, What makes me qualified to be a Dei, a consultant is that I live the life. It's the Skin I Live In. It's, it's the world in which we live in and having a voice to affect change. It's so critical.   Michael Hingson  17:46 Well, it is and I love so many things about what you just been saying. I am always amazed at my own experiences, and they really coincide with yours. Somebody made some comment when we were much younger, and it stuck with us and sticks with us or somebody observed something where we were taught something, and how, especially as younger people, when we're searching, and we hear something that really sticks with us. We we don't forget it. And it's unfortunate that somebody said something extremely negative about Martin Luther King, but at the same time, I think history has demonstrated the kind of person he was and the character that he had. But it is it is very true that history is history is. And I think it's so important. We don't forget that. You know, I collect old radio shows as a hobby. And I'm fascinated by the people who want to, for example, Ban Amos and Andy from radio collections. And they want to ban one thing or another and they say well, that's not who we are. It is what we were. And there are other parts about it. Like I wrote one of the authorities on Amos and Andy once a email. Because when I was growing up, I actually first listened to a miss an ad on television. I had absolutely no idea that they were black. And one day Amis nanny was no longer around on TV. And it was years later that I found out that they were taken off here because people didn't like the depiction of black people that Amos and Andy represented and while I appreciated that and and understand it, it is still what we were at the time. But then when I learned about that, and I went back and listen to old radio shows, mostly I didn't hear overt references to being black. Oh yes, there were the accents and so on. But I never heard the really overt references. So I emailed this authority, and I said, so I don't hear a lot of references to Amos and Andy on the radio being black. And she wrote back and she said, Well, when the show first started, and they came to New York, and one of the first questions, they asked us where to the dark people live. And she said, there were some references. But by 1937, references to color had completely gone away. And the reality is, it was a show that everyone listened to and love because of the quality of the humor, it had nothing to do, really with race, unless you allowed it to be. And so we really need to keep our history, because it teaches us so much.   Vanessa Womack  20:43 And I couldn't agree with you more, because it is knowing that history, which is critical for us now, if you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it. But I listened to Amos. I listen to this show on the radio when I was little. And it just it fascinated me to know that there were people, people of color negros, who were actually acting, and I thought that was very significant as a young, very young child to hear that. And then to see, as I was growing up in the 60s, we had black and white television, but to see some of those shows like Julia and some black actors who were on some of the sitcoms and also like, Maddix, gosh, to see actors get involved, it was very important. And then to know how far we've come now, because we, as a black and brown people, we want to we've advanced so much, and we want to we're so capable, we have done so much. And we have been influenced and we've been encouraged to do even more now, which is exciting.   Michael Hingson  22:18 One of my favorite TV shows growing up was room 222. Do you remember that? Well, yes, I do. Yeah, that's never any reference to race on that show. And it was a show again, that that provided good entertainment. If you chose to focus on skin color, then you did, but the reality is that wasn't really any thing that was referenced in the in the show at all.   Vanessa Womack  22:50 Yeah, the focus is on you. Yes, your students then yeah. And relating to each other, helping each other that was that was the that should always should be the focus. And so anyway, it's it's disheartening now to read about books being banned, or talking about wokeness, which is just, you know, I don't want to say silly, but it is ridiculous, athletic. If you take a word like that, and you just make it sound so horrible. If you're not woke, then you must be asleep. You need to know what's going on in the world, you need to be aware and that's really what it's all about being aware of how our society has disenfranchise so many people to the point where they can lead the racism and discrimination continues. And we should be well beyond that as a society as a as a country and not to go backwards but to go forward to and to embrace and each other is who we are. Anyway, I've try not to get on my soapbox, no,   Michael Hingson  24:12 it's okay. And we should I one of my favorite books, and I think we've talked about it before is To Kill a Mockingbird or corpse which really is as dramatic a demonstration of how people were treated simply because of skin color, and the explorations of scout and learning about it. And, and of course, her father, then the movie, Gregory Peck, who did such a powerful job of dealing with that. how anyone could consider banning that book it. It makes me think that most of the people who want to do that are listening to someone and have never read the book and certainly have never processed it.   Vanessa Womack  24:55 Yes, I think those those folks who are a I think are living in fear of just afraid and afraid to knowing the truth.   Michael Hingson  25:09 Yeah, and that fear manifests itself in so many ways. And it is true that there's a lot of fear. And there are so many people who still get away with things. And hopefully one of these days we can see reality kick in, and that the whole issue be addressed. And it isn't just race. The one of the things about unstoppable mindset as a podcast as the tagline says, We're inclusion, diversity in the unexpected meet. I worded that way because diversity has decided not to include disabilities in any way. Whereas inclusion, either you are going to truly be inclusive, or you're not inclusive, and you can't be inclusive. If you don't include disabilities. Well, we're partially inclusive, we don't, we don't pray, we're not prejudices against race. But disabilities, you can't leave out if you're going to be inclusive. And so it's it is a different animal. And it's why I emphasize inclusion first. And the other part about it is societally speaking, technically speaking, and realistically speaking, everyone has a disability. And we've talked about at some on unstoppable mindset, one of the disabilities for most people is your light dependent, you don't do well, if there isn't a light on, and Thomas Edison and creating the light switch has invented a way for you to cover up the disability. But make no mistake, it's there. And in reality, we we all have challenges. I was at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel around the time of the Oscars, and I checked in and my niece nephew and I were there and we dropped our luggage off in room and then we went downstairs, all of a sudden, people started screaming, and I said what's going on? Turns out we had a power failure not only in the hotel, but in the blocks around it. And, of course, some of us said it was all Jimmy Kimmel's fault, because he's the host of the Oscars. This was the day before the Oscars. But but the reality is people didn't know what to do with lighthouse. And just so many people had such a challenge didn't bother me a bit. We all have challenges. And we should recognize that just because some challenges and some people's challenges are different than ours doesn't make them less than us.   Vanessa Womack  27:29 And I agree, and sometimes by instance said, we become so accustomed to things that or the way we live, or we just don't understand how not having a disability or light or being able to maneuver out of a walk without the assistance of crutches or a wheelchair, we, we need to understand that. This is not something that people can not live with. We have to and we have to embrace those who may not be able to do the same things you are or I could do. And that needs to be in that word inclusive that needs to be recognized with organizations who say that yes, we are inclusive. But then you may ask, do you have? Do you provide accessibility on your website? Do you provide accessibility in your stairways in your office environments? And it doesn't always, of course, have to be a physical disability. It could be autism, it could be some other neurodiversity. Yeah, yes. And you don't visibly see that. So some people will just make assumptions that Oh, you're okay. There's nothing wrong with you.   Michael Hingson  29:18 And and then of course, we have the most significantly group of our significant group of people with disabilities at all, and that's politicians, but their disability is self imposed. Oh, they're fun to pick on though.   Vanessa Womack  29:33 Yeah, yeah. Pick on them anytime you want. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  29:37 But I'm an equal opportunity abuser you notice on me? Yes,   Vanessa Womack  29:39 I am. And say that to my to my students on an equal opportunity picker   Michael Hingson  29:43 honor. Many of them were born into it, and they've been losing ground as ever since as Fred Allen, the old radio comedian used to say, but that's true of a lot of people these days, but you know what it is, what do you do? Have you had any real significant event So stand out in your life that have changed you or really have affected you.   Vanessa Womack  30:06 And I always said, besides be becoming a mother, that will do it. Definitely. There was an opportunity. And I had an opportunity I did, I was a bone marrow donor and saved the life of a little girl spin over 30 years ago. And Katrina's her name, or was her name. She had been diagnosed with leukemia. And the National Marrow Donor Program at the time it was called now it's called Be The Match. Yeah, had numerous campaigns, bone marrow recruitment campaigns in the Washington DC area, putting particularly focus on a teenager who a black teenager, little girl Well, young woman who needed a bone marrow transplant, and no one in her family matched and it became a national campaign to save Joanne. So many people came out from churches, community groups, businesses, to just give a tube of blood or to get into registry. And all of that happened during a time where I had just been married for I don't even know if I was married, we were married a couple of years, a few years, and trying to have half a baby. But I submitted that blood sample for just to go in the registry. And lo and behold, a month or two later, I was called to as a preliminary match for another child, somewhere in the United States, went through all the required follow up tests and became the match for Katrina. And that was in 1991. And during the time that I was being prepped for the bone marrow extraction. Katrina was at the at the time, I didn't know but she was on the other side of the country in Washington, Seattle, Washington, the prepped, removing all of her disease, bone marrow, and I was being prepped to have a my bone marrow are harvested. And during the time that I was they were doing tests in a hospital and I guess I have to give it away it was in Reader's Digest. So story and Reader's Digest. One of the blood tests for me came back that I was pregnant. very ill, and I was, and they said, you can't donate narrow because the test says you're positive for pregnancy. And I said, I am not pregnant. And they said, you have to decide. I mean, I I couldn't stop the process because Katrina was already at death's door. So anyway, I said, I am not changing my mind. I'm going to do this. And you can test me again tomorrow morning before the harvest starts. And they tested again, it was negative. So that whole experience of becoming a bone marrow donor and then having the fear Well, I wasn't fearful. I knew I wasn't pregnant. To go through with it. Regardless of that test result to say Katrina's life, and that's what happened, she survived almost 19 years after that donation and miracle of all miracles, she had a little girl which according to you know, medical statistics once you are you go through a bone marrow transplant you you you lose the ability for fertilization, having children, but she did she had a miracle baby that changed my life.   Michael Hingson  34:34 Why? Why is it that being pregnant is a problem? Do you know? Well,   Vanessa Womack  34:42 the actual harvest standing of the marrow at the time and this was the nut through a stem extract stem cells, but it was through the iliac crest crest the lower back. I think harvesting the bone marrow may have impacted the, the the fetus if there had been. So I don't know how but they said it would it would be dangerous and they would not or could not do it if I was pregnant, but I really knew I was not pregnant.   Michael Hingson  35:19 But I gather you're saying that today it's different. And well, today they are you doing stem cells? And so yeah, different. Yeah. So   Vanessa Womack  35:28 I think it'd be different today. The process is dance since that time, and actually was a poster child for the bone marrow procreate?   Michael Hingson  35:40 Well, and you had children since then?   Vanessa Womack  35:42 Yes, I did. There you go. Yes. And they are adult children. Wonderful, wonderful children, one of each.   Michael Hingson  35:51 And they are probably as Mark Twain would say, so surprised at how much you've learned as they grew up.   Vanessa Womack  35:58 Then they might say he probably didn't learn enough.   Michael Hingson  36:01 It's possible to   Vanessa Womack  36:03 Yes. Yeah. They're they're very. They're wonderful adult kids.   Michael Hingson  36:10 That is really great that you have been able to go through that experience. And obviously, it sticks with you. And it certainly takes courage to be a bone marrow, well, transfer person?   Vanessa Womack  36:25 Well, it did, it did. And that was something that happened well over 30 years ago. But I also had a new one, I want to say probably a more recent or relevant experience. And that relates to my current career as a LinkedIn learning instructor, when I did the course managing a diverse team. And to me, that was a professional career highlight.   Michael Hingson  36:58 Tell us about that, if you would, please.   Vanessa Womack  37:01 Sure the the course is managing a diverse team. And it is on the LinkedIn learning platform. It was recorded back in 2017, and released in 2018. Now it is in along with English in nine languages, which is kind of exciting to see so many global learners who respond that they've taken the course on the LinkedIn platform. And as you can imagine managing a diverse team, it talks about how, you know, team management and being inclusive in embracing the team members, given them opportunities to become voices, functional team members, and how to deal with the conflict, too. And how to deal deal with some precede disagreements that might be discriminatory or an ad, and are racists and how do you work with people who might have different opinions, but I think there are some lessons learned in the course that gives the learners the audience some good information and how to deal with certain situations on the team, how to embrace diversity, how to celebrate diversity, and how to deal with culture in, in the in the organization. So it's called Managing a diverse team. And it's been on the platform now for five, almost five years.   Michael Hingson  38:56 So what is your career today? And where do you work? Or do you focus mainly on the LinkedIn course or what?   39:03 Oh, no, that said, I, it's it's great that people did still take the course but professionally, I navigate in the space of leadership, DEIA, or on the leadership side, I do facilitation consulting for boards of directors in that space and roles and responsibilities, helping them understand what that is and how to work strategically with each other and in the governance. area, and then with the DEIA have been operating or doing consulting work in an exciting industry. that is growing and developing in this region of Virginia, Richmond Petersburg region, which is the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. And there are a cluster of businesses and educational institutions and biotech and biosciences organizations that are building that pharma industry here to make medicines more affordable, and to have that production in the United States, as opposed to outside the United States.   Michael Hingson  40:45 So you have your own company, or do you work for another company?   Vanessa Womack  40:49 Yeah, I have, I'm a small independent, I call myself a solopreneur.   Michael Hingson  40:56 There he goes.   Vanessa Womack  40:59 However, over the last two, three years, I've keep telling myself I need to hire someone, indeed, I do. Not to put a ton of spin on that, but   Michael Hingson  41:12 I get it. You do need   Vanessa Womack  41:18 to grow this solopreneur into more of a bonafide small business by hiring at least part time person to help grow the business. And that that is something I will be focusing on in the next several months to the next couple of years, just growing that part of the business to expand the services of whether it's the governance piece or the diversity piece, beyond the pharma manufacturing industry, in the pharma manufacturing industry, the cluster that's growing here in the Richmond Petersburg area, it is very important to in be inclusive in how we grow that industry to include communities of color, black and brown communities, communities that have been traditionally underrepresented in business growth and development. And that is going to be very important to provide that these in companies that are here, and those that come here, we hope to grow the region by bringing in more companies, that those companies would be diverse in their vendors and to create jobs that help these communities for employment, and to become more trained to build pathways into the jobs that would come at it the growth of the pharma manufacturing industry here.   Michael Hingson  43:10 How did you get involved in doing pharma kinds of things specifically?   Vanessa Womack  43:14 Well, let's be clear. I'm not in the menu. Right. Right. Right, however, but   Michael Hingson  43:21 how did you get involved with them as clients specifically? I'm just curious,   Vanessa Womack  43:25 I'll tell you, it was a heck I have to say it was a godson after I was separated from my full time job in 2021 thing, timing is everything. Yeah. It was time for me to start to look at growing my small gig, consulting solopreneur business. So I was putting out resumes responding to opportunities to bring in more income, and was approached or actually selected by this company called activation capital. And I am very grateful for them, because the President CEO of that organization, said, you know, interviewed me and follow up interview and offered me the consulting contract for the DEI a portion to grow that industry in this area. So it's basically a startup with the Alliance for building better medicine to make medicine more affordable and to make medicine here in the United States.   Michael Hingson  44:48 And you've been doing it ever since.   Vanessa Womack  44:51 Yes, it's been about a little over a year about a year that I've been doing the consulting work that I do have I've had other clients, particularly in the governance world, where I have the utmost for year have done some board a we called huddles, meet with the group in Kentucky. So it's nice to have out of state clients. And that was that worked out really well and hope to continue to grow in that aspect too.   Michael Hingson  45:31 Are you going to overtime update the LinkedIn course? Or do you think it won't need it? Or is it pretty evergreen the way it is?   Vanessa Womack  45:39 It's pretty Evergreen. And I say that because LinkedIn, they they own the course. And they can they recently updated it. And as I had mentioned, it's in different languages. So they have translated into so many languages, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian.   Michael Hingson  46:06 And you had to learn all those languages to run right guys. That is a really cool though, that that it's appeared in so many languages. Well, you know, I know that you also are an author. Tell me about that.   Vanessa Womack  46:21 Oh, my gosh, yes. And let's see my first book, my first novel, I should say, is a combination romance novel and a me what do you call it the growing up in your head? So one who is about a young woman who, who left Hall seven state to move to New York and really try to find her career? Sounds like everybody we've been talking. Yeah. So I'll I did use a lot of my imagination, which made the whole process of writing so exciting. Literary license, yes. And that first book is called a paint the sky purple paper, Sky purple. And I had a writing coach at the time. And she said, Vanessa, you're my first writing author client at the time, and I wrote the book and seven months, she said, I can't believe you did seven months. That was only because I had a little more time and I was excited. And every weekend I would keep writing, keep writing. Anyway. That was my first novel, and I'm still trying to write this second one. But I did publish two children's books on stem. The first one is Emerald Jones, the fashion designer diva, and Emerald downs ECERS. The children's books are for grades three, through five for ages eight to 12. To encourage students and teachers to really promote STEM science, technology, engineering, math and steam art in the classroom. The Emerald Jones is about a little girl who wanted to become a fashion designer, but she wants to quit school. However, she was very good in math. And she was encouraged by her principal and teachers not to think about quitting school, but to advance her math skills. And she did. The other one. The other one is bookie, and little array in the game. And bookie and little array are rivals in school. However they find that they have something in common. They both like designing games or wanted to be a computer game designers. So there's the technology, the engineer and the math skills that require that. So they bonded after some rivalry and became well at the end of the book. They become partners in a successful gaming business.   Michael Hingson  49:37 Cool. What's your next book project going to be then?   Vanessa Womack  49:42 Well, I have been toying around with it with a couple of different ideas. I have one that has been sitting in the computer for the last several years, about to two friends who have been friends since early high school, and they have a disagreement. But they come back together in their adult years and doing a very chaotic disaster, so to speak, where one is trapped in a building, and the other one's nearby to help her. And then they go on an adventure, not to give away most of the plot and they are there on an adventure to save not only family members, but save a company from really poisoning. It's its clients and it had to do with a medical procedure or a a invention that goes wrong. And anyway, well, that   Michael Hingson  51:04 well, you'll have to let us know when it comes out so that we can definitely put it up on unstoppable mindset. So what what's next for you? What, what are your plans going forward?   Vanessa Womack  51:15 Well, I I am working on it, as I said to grow, Vanessa Womack, consulting LLC, that is really what I need to do to as we say the business scale up. And there's another I guess I can call it a startup called broaden your board that would match boards, board of directors with people of color, or diverse to be more inclusive, to bring diverse candidates. That would be a good fit for their board to be, I guess, a match, bring the matches to them?   Michael Hingson  52:06 Well, I hope as you go forward, maybe in addition to color, and so on, you can think about disabilities and so on as being an option of of different Oh,   Vanessa Womack  52:16 absolutely. At boards. Absolutely. And when, when we're, when we want to be inclusive, all that would be part of the, you know, the opportunity to find candidates, that would be a good tip for these boards.   Michael Hingson  52:33 Well, that definitely is a cool thing. And it sounds exciting, and I'm anxious to hear more about it as it grows, as well as when that new book comes out, let us know. And we'll, we'll make it well, we'll have to have you back on Savile bind to talk about all that is as we go forward. But it is definitely exciting. And I'm really glad that we were able to, to spend the time and redo this. And I know you have to leave pretty soon. So we'll go ahead and thank you for being here. And for all the things that we had to say any kind of last words of wisdom you want to tell to people before we end this.   Vanessa Womack  53:14 Now, I want to thank you again for the opportunity to be on the broadcast. And for those who have been or those who will be it's a nice conversation to have to talk about the things that are, you know, life changing, or the important things in life to be in encouraging to, to have the opportunity to share different ideas. It is so important to have that connection. So thank you so much. I appreciate it. And when the book does come out, I'll let you know   Michael Hingson  53:53 you should that will be great. How do people reach out to you if they want to maybe engage your services or learn more about what you do?   Vanessa Womack  54:02 Now, there's my website, Vanessa womack.com. Very easy to remember. Can you spell please V A N E S S A W O M A C K.com They are so so the LinkedIn you can always reach out to me at LinkedIn. You can find me at the Vanessa Womack on LinkedIn or look for the course managing a diverse team. I'll also want to put up put a plug there that right now it's free. So if you want to take manage a diverse team, it's free for just a little bit longer. I can't say how much longer but you can go on and search for it and take it   Michael Hingson  54:53 well thank you very much for being here with us and for all the interesting things the fun things that we've had a chance to talk about and definitely you got to come back on again, when you've got books and other things all set to talk about, we would love to have you be back on here with us again, and I want to thank you for listening to us. You can reach out to Vanessa, we would love that. And you can certainly reach out to me, I want to know what you think about our podcast today. Please email me at Michaelhi M I C H A E L H I as accessibe  A C C E S S I B E.com. Or you can visit www dot Michael hingson.com. And click on podcasts and go there and listen to more episodes of unstoppable mindset. Or you can find them wherever you find any kind of podcast. So iTunes and Spotify and I heart and all those other kinds of places. We really appreciate you taking the time and we do want to hear from you. We want to hear your thoughts, your comments on this or any of our podcasts. And of course if you know anyone in Vanessa as well if you know anyone who might be a good guest to come on and stop by and said please let us know. We'd love to hear from you about that. And once more. Vanessa, thanks very much for being here with us today. And let's do it again soon.   Vanessa Womack  56:14 Okay, very good. You take care and everybody else please take care out there.   Michael Hingson  56:24 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com. accessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for listening. 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Josh's news goes slightly off the rails when we find out producer Joe hasn't been to a dentist in almost 6 years. Then the texts started pouring in.. Needless to say, 6 years is far from the worst we heard!

Many people will quickly say that they want to avoid conflict in the workplace. That's not surprising because anyone who has experienced conflict know that it is usually very unpleasant. It usually throws us off our game, becomes an enormous waste of time, and has the potential to create long-lasting strife if not handled well. In some cases, it causes us to lose sleep, perhaps feel ill, and elevates stress levels far beyond what we normally experience. Needless to say, conflict is no fun. But guest will make the case for more productive and meaningful conflicts through the creation of conflict competent workplaces. She takes a systems approach to conflict management and offers online training to develop skills that are immediately useful in the workplace. If you want to make conflict more productive, please listen. About Our Guest Dr. Robyn Short is the founder and CEO of Workplace Peace Institute, a consulting and research firm that brings peace and dignity to the workplace. She works as an organization development consultant, peace-building trainer, mediator, racial equity coach, and restorative justice facilitator. She is also an instructor for the Workplace Peace Institute Leadership Academy. Robyn has served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University in the Master of Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution program and Master of Leadership and Negotiation at Bay Path University. She has guest lectured at Pepperdine University Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Creighton University's Master of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program. She has authored four books on peace building. What You'll Learn: What conflict teaches us about the human condition How conflict can help us recognize what's important to people How conflict (healthy opposition) benefits teams How the benefits of conflict can be harnessed Why understanding conflict from a systems perspective is helpful to drive lasting change What a conflict competent workplace looks like Links for This Episode:   https://www.linkedin.com/company/65553248 5 Strategies to Resolve Conflict in the Workplace The Cost of Workplace Conflict Managers Need to Manage Workplace Conflict   Connect with Dr. Mike:    Website: https://www.drmikepatterson.com Book: https://www.missionfirstpeoplealwaysbook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichaellpatterson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealdrmikepatterson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drmikepatterson Buy The Book!: Mission First People Always Episode Minute By Minute:   0:00 Let's talk about conflict in the workspace 3:10 Get to know annd welcome back Dr. Robyn Short 7:29 Inside the Leadership Academy through Workplace Peace Institute 13:03 Why Dr. Robyn is so interested in conflict management 17:14 Embracing conflict management from a “systems perspective” 21:41 Defining toxic ecosystems and cultures 24:21 Why harmony is not the goal in the workplace 29:57 A violation of basic human needs and a violation of dignity needs 34:36 Is success preventing conflict by inspiring success and dignity 37:51 Not just empathy but making sure someone is heard 41:08 The importance of conflict competent leaders 46:41 One thing you can do to become a more effective leader, teammate,and  human in the world  

In this episode we're checking in with three previous guests, plus I'll give an update on how things are going since quitting my full-time job nearly two months ago... some of which are great and some that I didn't really anticipate... First up is Tinesha, who may not have realized what an impact she had on me in our first interview. She said, "everything you want is on the other side of fear" and little did she know, that day my husband and I were looking at the house we have since bought that has also allowed me to have my balloon shop! Tinesha sends in a note to let us know how her business has changed and she's got another new motto she shares, too. Then we hear from Alissa, who actually won her shop space not long before the first interview. She lets us know if she stayed in the space after her free year was up, plus the cool new things they're incorporating into their business. Alissa was such a treat to interview and then I got to work with her at the Big Balloon Build, too! If you're pursuing retail space be sure to check out her unique story. Finally, we hear again from Hayley who talked about self-employment in her previous interview. Needless to say, this interview had an incredible impact on me, too. The tips she gave absolutely sparked the thought that going full-time with balloons was possible. She lets us know what's up with their shop, their operations and their employees. As for me, I feel like I've settled into my new normal after quitting my full-time job. But that hasn't been without some challenges, like: not feeling like I have any more time in my day turning into a bit of a workaholic locking down the health insurance But onto the happier side... I've not had an ounce of regret in my decision. In fact, as I look back I see how insecure I really was in that position and I feel like I got out at the right time. Now I get to schedule my health, podcast interviews and site visits whenever I want! All in all, I wouldn't say it's been an easy change, but it's absolutely an awesome one.     RESOURCES MENTIONED: Ep. 32 - Everything you want is on the other side of fear | An interview with Tinesha from Mbellish Events @mbellishballoons_bg  Ep. 85 - Pop-up shops | Alissa from Twee Partees  @tweepartees  Ep. 74 - Self-Employment | Hayley from Pop! Balloon Bar & Party  @pop.balloonbar  Ep. 132 - I quit my job  50% off your 1st year of 17hats  Balloon Suite  Havin' A Party Wholesale (save 5% with code BRIGHT)  Balloon Boss Summit & BalloonCoach.com     ____________________________ Support the show / join the book club  50 Ideas for Email Marketing | Join the Bright Balloon email list  planner | courses | templates  @thebrightballoon  The Bright Balloon on YouTube 

Who's to blame for America's Late-Stage Capitalism?This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes Comedian Jeffrey Elizabeth Copeland to the show to discuss one of the most infamous and most common culprits on the Alarmist Board: Capitalism. After nearly taking the fall for so many past tragedies, it's anyone's guess as to who, or what, will take the fall for this behemoth. Needless to say, Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early enthusiastically join the conversation.We have merch!Join our Discord!Tell us who you think is to blame at http://thealarmistpodcast.comEmail us at thealarmistpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram @thealarmistpodcastFollow us on Twitter @alarmistThe Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/alarmist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode of the Leader Fluent Podcast, I'm talking about “Seven Keys to Resolve Conflict.”Conflict is a part of life and leadership, and how we resolve it matters. If you're not already a subscriber, I'd love for you to subscribe to Leader Fluent today on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Android, Pandora, or your favorite podcasting platform. And as always, your RATINGS and REVIEWS are deeply appreciated.  SHOW NOTES: Every leader encounters conflict. In fact, conflict is a part of life, whether it's at work, at school, or at home. And one of the biggest reasons for conflict is when there's a gap between expectations and reality. So, how do you resolve the conflict in an effective and healthy manner?  We find a really practical strategy on conflict resolution in the book of Acts chapter 15. In this passage, a conflict arises between Paul and Barnabas and some men from Judea. The conflict is over a Jewish religious practice that existed under the Old Covenant that was abolished when, through Jesus, a New Covenant was established. But these men from Judea are trying to impose this old religious practice onto the Gentiles.  Needless to say, this difference of opinion became a point of conflict in the early church. So, Paul and Barnabas head to Jerusalem to meet with the apostles and elders of the church to resolve this issue. And from this meeting, we discover seven keys to resolve conflict.  1. Seek Understanding Acts 15:7a says, “At the meeting, after a long discussion…” Why did these leaders have a long discussion? Because they needed to create space to hear both sides of the issue. In other words, a long discussion made room to gain understanding.  Author Stephen Covey said, “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” But what do we like to do? We like to seek first to make our point, so then they'll understand. But that rarely works. You don't gain understanding with answers. You gain understanding with questions.  2. Begin with Common Ground  Acts 15:7 says, “At the meeting, after a long discussion, Peter stood and addressed them as follows: “Brothers, you all know that God chose me from among you some time ago to preach to the Gentiles so that they could hear the Good News and believe.” Peter established common ground. He said, “You all know.” But again, we like to begin with what I know rather than what we know. But that approach burns the very bridges that would allow us to resolve the conflict.   John Maxwell calls it The 101% Principle. He says, “Find the 1% that you agree on, and give it 100% of your effort.” In other words, start with common ground. Start with what you both know to be true.  3. Articulate the Facts Without Emotion Acts 15:8 says, “God knows people's hearts, and he confirmed that he accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.”  Peter begins by sharing some basic facts, but he does so without emotion. Again, how we handle conflict reveals our level of maturity. If you handle conflict wisely, calmly, and with self-control, then you are being mature in how you handle it. But if you handle conflict in a harsh, demeaning, or uncontrolled manner, then you are only revealing your immaturity. Proverbs 15:1 says, “A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.” Articulate the facts without emotion.  4. Acknowledge One Another's Value Acts 15:9 says, “He made no distinction between us and them, for he cleansed their hearts through faith.”  Jews in Jesus' day had issues with the Gentiles because they wouldn't conform to Jewish rules. So, what does Peter—who was a Jew—do in this situation? He acknowledges the gentiles' value, because God acknowledged their value.  If you want the other person to value your opinion more than you value them as a person, you will only escalate the conflict. Every person on planet earth was made in the image of God, including the person you're having the most conflic...

Encourager! Can we just acknowledge that the last few years have been all kinds of things? Needless to say it's been wild. There is so much going on STILL! I know you are over there full fledge adulting and doing all the dang on thangs, but are you letting life live you or are you intentional about designing what's next for you? If you've just been going through the motions and each day feels like ground hogs day, it's time to get excited about what's next in your life! Do you know what that is? What's on your agenda? What are you looking forward to for you? I'm coming through with the encouragement because you've got to get hype about your life! Tag me on Instagram (@encourageovereverything) with your favorite quote and don't forget to rate and subscribe! Thanks for listening! ENCOURAGE OVER EVERYTHING INSTAGRAM: https://Instagram.com/encourageovereverything/ SHOW NOTES: https://chpc.encourageovereverything.com/blog/126

Pastor Tom Grieb continues our series "By Faith" Abraham has been called the “Father of the Faith.” He remained faithful to whatever God called him to do and was even willing to sacrifice his son. Of course, we know from scripture that God provided a ram for the sacrifice. Abraham was tested and proved that he would trust God come what may. Needless to say, God proved himself as well. God is always worthy of our trust. He will always prove himself true and come through. Above all things, God will never leave us or forsake us. Hebrews chapter 11, the scriptural base for our current sermon series, encourages us to live by faith. It does so with a long list of those who consciously chose to put their faith in God. That “cloud of witnesses”  trusted God without caution or reserve, and they inspire us to this day. Today we are talking about Father Abraham. Our scripture is Hebrews 11:8-10, 17-19.

Another Thursday has landed on your calendar, which means the boys from the Real Life Podcast are back with another hour of nonsense and (maybe) some Oilers talk to wrap up your week. On today's show, the guys talked about Tyler's fancy feast, the gap between Game 5 and Game 6, and a whole lot more.To kick off the Thursday episode of Real Life, the guys got started with a discussion about Tyler finally eating cat food after losing a bet earlier in the season. As you'll hear, the experience was fantastic for everyone at Nation HQ as the anticipation for the event has been ramping up mightily over the last few days. Needless to say, you'll want to watch the video on Baggedmilk's Instagram. Getting back to the Oilers, the guys tried to figure out how we're a few days out from Game 6 happening and still have no idea what time the boys will be playing at. We also wondered which team will benefit from having the extended break or whether neither side would want to wait that long to get going again. Looking around the NHL, the boys checked in on some of the other series that are happening and whether there are any of them that everyone enjoys watching the most. Lastly, we wrapped up the podcast with another chat about Chalmers kids as they are once again missing school because of P.D. days. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full vid! As we tend to do - we present one of our classic live comic con panels and then follow it up with an entire traditional Funbearable episode! The talented, hilarious and beautiful Tara Strong joins Brad "two-outta-three-ain't-bad" Rohrer live onstage at Rhode Island Comic Con! Tara Strong is known for doing voices for Loki's Miss Minutes, Harley Quinn in tons of Batman projects including Batman Beyond and the Arkham City games, as well as Fairly Odd Parents, Garbage Pail Kids, Family Guy, the Clerks animated series, Ben 10, Extreme Ghostbusters, The Powerpuff Girls, and roughly one thousand other projects! After the panel, we get into Chuck and Brad's experiences visiting a furry convention at a local bowling alley, and Ray accuses the two friends of being "Disney weirdos." Classic Funboys! If you enjoy this panel, check out our panels with Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee, and the voices of Mickey, Goofy, and Max, and Pinky and the Brain! Video edit by the great Craig Depina from Needless to Say! @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com

We had one truck sitting for the entire month of March, that definitely had an impact on things. The infamous egg load occurred around the end of the month. It will have more of an impact on April's numbers than it did in March. Needless to say, March was an eventful month. We talk all about it during this episode. Make sure to give it a listen. What To Expect From Episode 127 The tough months keep racking up. With that being said, it could have been worse, we were positive and at least moving in the right direction. The weather was a bit better in March and so far April has been much better. I'm done with winter. Here are the numbers. Total miles ran – 99,992 Deadhead miles – 6,736 (6.7%, creeping up, indicator of a tough freight market) Total revenue - $201,659.00 All-in rate-per-mile - $2.02 (The worst we have seen in years, since the start of COVID) Haulin Assets realized a profit of $9,848.55. I am actually surprised we made a profit based off the average rate per mile. Our direct shipper relationships are making a difference. An owner operator could probably survive in a market like this working only off the spot market, but anyone with employee drivers I don't think would be able to. We're keeping our hook in the water so we'll be able to take advantage of a stronger market when the fish are ready to bite.   Website: http://bit.ly/haulinassets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haulinassetspodcast/ iTunes: http://bit.ly/ha-itunes Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/ha-google-podcasts Stitcher: http://bit.ly/ha-stitcher   Motor Carrier HQ: http://bit.ly/motor-carrier 

Stronger U Coach and Registered Dietitian, Katie Leahy is joined by Stronger U member Chloe Rosen. Chloe is a runner, writer, content creator and actor (among other amazing things!) who is on a mission to run the six World Marathon Majors. She has already run the Chicago and New York marathons and has her sights set on the Boston Marathon in 2024. In addition to her busy career and marathon training, Chloe is preparing to compete in the Mrs. New York pageant in June 2023 (is there anything she can't do!?). Needless to say, having energy is at the top of her list of priorities. While it hasn't slowed her down, Chloe has celiac disease and prior to joining Stronger U was also diagnosed with Hashimoto's, insulin resistance and pre-diabetes. She knew she wanted extra support to prioritize fueling her body to be the very best and healthiest version of herself. Enter Stronger U and Coach Katie. Like a conversation between two great friends, Coach Katie and Chloe laughed, cried, and got deep on the power of nutrition and how Katie's personalized support has helped Chloe totally crush some pretty big goals. And they're just getting started together! In Chloe's words, “she's coming back to herself.” Chloe also emphasized the knowledge she's gained thanks to Stronger U and the incredible realization of what her body can do. They tackled a lot during this episode, including: The importance of listening to your body and the clues it's giving youNavigating autoimmune diseases through nutritionHow eating gluten impacts Chloe's body and trainingBuilding a nutritional foundation and intentional eatingChloe's incredible experience at the Disney Half MarathonNon scale victories and why they're so importantThis is a fun and inspiring discussion you don't want to miss. Listen to the full episode, then head to the Stronger U Community to share your thoughts.      Subscribe to Stronger U Radio         Follow us on Instagram     Follow Chloe @yourbestrunningfriend

Starting a new business comes with a lot of uncertainty.  One minute you're totally sure of your choices and the next minute leaves you questioning what you're doing,  how you're doing it and if you're even good enough to be doing it.  Needless to say, there's a lot of drama.  One strategy to move through this drama quickly is to check in with your feelings to see where they're guiding you.  In this episode, I chat with my friend and pod squad bestie - Heather Love.  She's a life coach and host of "For the Love of Dharma".  Listen in as Heather & I talk about how the feelings we experience in our bodies can help guide us to make decisions that are right for us.Click here for full episode show notes.Support the showBreak free from the redundant admin of building your business and focus on the parts you love. | Grab your Ultimate Automations Guide for Coaches & Podcasters here!

Essence Magazine reports women make up just 23% of U.S. NFL agents, and of that, only 10.4% are Black (men or women.  Jill McBride Baxter The daughter of a Hall of Fame football coach (Ron McBride), Jill McBride Baxter was born into a sports family. She's turned a love for the game and combined it with a passion for the law to become a leading sports agent and attorney. She's been representing professional football players, coaches, media and college athletic administrators for nearly 30 years. Jill spent her childhood on the football practice fields and in and around coaches' offices. She's married to a highly successful college coach, John Baxter. Needless to say, her network in NFL and college football is second to none. She's an aggressive negotiator for her clients. Her core values are: Protection, Advocacy and Trust. She aligns herself with like-minded clients, which makes it easy to fight for their best interests. Through accurate research, resources, integrity, determination, and experience, Baxter knows how to negotiation and get the best deal for her clients. She provides support and counsel for her clients in a unique and personal manner. Her clients quickly become family. “Jill Baxter has been one of the most critical support systems in my NFL career. She has been in my corner since day one. Not just helping me with football related issues but as well as the obstacles that life has thrown me,” Cleveland Browns Receiver Marlon Moore. She has worked with general managers, player personnel directors, head and position coaches, and scouts from all 32 NFL teams, as well as many CFL, UFL, and Arena League teams. Those contacts are essential in representation and negotiation sessions. As a practicing attorney, she is well versed in contract negotiations, the sports and media industry, and employment law. Baxter is completely familiar with the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and uses it to protect her clients in times of injury or crisis situations. Jill is married to John Baxter, asst. coordinator coach, and they have two daughters, Kelly and McKenzie. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and earned her Law Degree from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. She is certified as an agent by the NFLPA and has passed the bar and can practice law in Arizona, Maryland and Utah. She teaches a Sports law in practice course, author Born to be a Sports Agent, podcast Host Representation Without Taxation, and online course creator.  She joined me this week to tell me more.     For more information: https://www.jillmcbridebaxter.com/ Email: jillbaxter@me.com   Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/representation-without-taxation/id1356954624

Counter-Earth? Check. Ani-Men? Check. Squabbling Superheroes? Check. It's all here in the second primer for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. Hayley and Brian read some comics with The High Evolutionary in them, and are here to discuss them to get you up to speed as to just who he is and what he is capable of. Needless to say, the guy is a "bit" deranged. Check out what happens when WORLDS COLLIDE!Comics covered:WORLDS COLLIDE CROSSOVER EVENTAvengers (2016): #672 - 674Champions (2016): #13 - 15EMAIL: SPARCPODCAST@GMAIL.COMTWITTER: https://twitter.com/SourcePagesCastINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thesourcepagespodcast/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SPARCPODCASTSPaRC's Podcast Buddies:Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/across-the-bifrost-the-mighty-thor-podcast/id1572200841Dan and Ian Have Questions - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-and-ian-have-questions-podcast/id1587402809Commute: The Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/commute-the-podcast/id1552657624Segabits - https://segabits.com/Apollo City Comics - https://www.instagram.com/apollocitycomicspodcast/?hl=enMachtails From the Cantina - https://www.facebook.com/machtailsfromthecantina/Rebel Force Radio Presents "The Babu Freaks" - https://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/category/BaJacked Kirby - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-kirby/id1248146026Rantermeisters - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rantermeisters/id1643129030

Last Thursday SpaceX's massive Starship rocket exploded minutes after clearing the launch pad during a flight test, suffering a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Elon Musk had said the test posed steep challenges and risks. Needless to say Elon's not having a good time and Lamont & Tonelli premiered their new song "It Explodes Now." Listen to Lamont & Tonelli Monday through Friday, 6-10am, on 107.7 The Bone in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow Lamont & Tonelli:Website: http://www.landtradio.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lamontandtonelliTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/landtshowInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/landtshowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don't really have the words to describe this weeks episode properly. Let's put it this way, my dads been going OUT OF HIS WAY to get messages/warnings out to me leading up to retreat weekend. And the energy as a whole has been insane from the solar eclipse and new moon. Needless to say, I have a lot to fill you in on and talk to you about. Also, I cannot WAIT to give you all a round up about the retreat next week! Buckle up and enjoy this one.

Tycho is Scott Hansen and Scott is a deeply friendly and humble chap. I didnt know too much about his background or what made him tick but I tried to get to “know” him and makes some guesses about that by tuning into his music. It's clearly so well crafted and put together with meticulous attention to detail that this man had to be fastidious but how would that quality manifest? He manages to ride us on a carpet of textures which guide the process of musical flight, once a mood is found, it's held with patience so the listen can dwell in a land. It's a style that has been really honed and has found a large following for good reason! It was a real treat to get on the ramble road with him. I left the interview unedited for maximum deviation potential (you're welcome) _____ This episode is sponsored by A tasty pixel and their excellent LOOPY PRO! As many of you are aware, I've spent years of my life with loopers of all kinds from the crudest guitar pedals to my own Max/MSP effort in 2000 to Tim Exile's wonderful “flow machine” Making a looper setup that fits your style is everything and to do that, a tool that is very flexible and open to configuration is needed. I'm happy to report that this is perfected inside loopy pro. I'm also happy to say that It's one of the best loopers I've ever used and has become the heart of beardymans new setup so you know it's capable. Needless to say Im really happy to be working with A tasty pixel. _______ I made a new video to highlight a specific use of Loopy Pro that came to me one evening. There's plenty of excellent tutorial videos to get started online so I wanted to show something a little unique. I took 4 instances of the Chamberlin M1 samplepack I made (which is now available at decentsamples.com!) fed each to an array of 4 speakers around a Neumann head for some quadra funky tape loopidelic delightfulness. Yes, it's A little nitty basically :) Watch HERE!!  

In what may be the most wide-ranging episode of the 3WHH yet, the troika ranges from the implications of the Fox News settlement with Dominion for the defective NY Times v. Sullivan doctrine, to an extended discussion of the natural law arguments on abortion—the topic aborted last week for lack of time—and lastly to a look at notable political movies with the unlikely offering from Lucretia that an underrated moral-political movie worthy of note is . . . The Devil in Miss Jones??!!Needless to say John and Steve didn't see that coming, and didn't know quite what to say. And this doesn't include our new segment, "Lucretia's Featured Rant of the Week," which debuted with a much deserved blast at the Department of Justice.Steve gets his revenge at the very end, with exit music drawn from his favorite recent political movie that John and Lucretia have embargoed from further mention on the 3WHH.

Nothing could bring us back from a months-long hiatus faster than Love Is Blind and we are so happy to be back, delving deep into the drama of the season and breaking down each couple. Needless to say: if you haven't watched season 4 of Love Is Blind don't listen to this episode- it will spoil it (or do, if you don't care about that kind of thing).We start the episode covering what the main 'themes' of the season were, from the recurring problems amongst the couples to questions we have about the show overall. Then, we dissect the relationship trajectory of each couple from the pods to the (ahem) altar and our thoughts on how we'd react to the experiment.Maria is a seasoned reality dating TV show lover, while Honey is just vehemently in love with all things Love Is Blind, so we're excited to debut our return with this run down. Please let us know if you'd like to see more episodes like this, we can't wait to get into the Ultimatum Queer Love once it comes out (excuse the pun) and we'd love to hear your thoughts on everything that went down and anything more you'd like to hear from us in coming months.You can get in touch with us on Instagram, TikTok or Facebook @sextraspodcast, email us sextraspodcast@gmail.com or find us on our website www.sextraspodcast.com. We'll be back next week with a very exciting episode make sure you subscribe to stay tuned for that and we'll speak to you then!Original music by Sacha Puttnam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Needless to Say flies without a net. The episode title is a non-word. The cover art is nonsensical. The outline is nonexistent. And none of it matters because Craig, Dave, and Matt still manage to cover a wide range of topics. Motley Crue's ongoing failure, Britney Spears' ongoing meltdown, Matt's ongoing search for a groundman... it's all here, alongside a truly cringe-inducing roundup. It's a hilarious two hours that will make you wonder why Whatshisname is even here anymore. 

What are the things that you think about most? Even fantasize about? What is it that excites you, that you can't stop talking about? Those are PASSIONS and the goal in life are to monetize from those so you're truly doing what you love as your career. Prior corporate rockstar, NFL Cheerleader, and SI Swimsuit model Summer Wilson found a way how! In this episode, Summer dives into how she left her corporate grind behind to pursue her dream of interior design full time. She gives us tips on how to take the plunge. get started, build a book of business, and build your DREAM career. Love Summer? Find more about her & follow her here! “My name is Summer Wilson and I currently live in the Tampa Bay Area. I recently up and left the corporate America world to start my own interior design/interior styling business, Elite Season Living. Needless to say, when you do what you love you won't work a day in your life. I always had a passion for making the home a unique, special place that you love to be and I am so happy I get to do it for a living now. I am a retired NFL cheerleader and was a model in the 2021 SI Swimsuit magazine.” Social Handles: Personal @summerdoingthings Professional @summerdoingdesigns __________________________________ Follow https://www.instagram.com/missunderstood.podcast/ + https://www.instagram.com/kellie.sbrocchi/ on Instagram for episode updates + more. Special thank you to USEHATCH.FM for producing this episode.  The views and opinions presented herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of DoD or its Components. Appearance of, or reference to, any commercial products or services does not constitute DoD endorsement of those products or services. The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute DoD endorsement of the linked websites, or the information, products or services therein.

At 27, Kelsey Peterson dove into Lake Superior, off the shores of Wisconsin, and emerged paralyzed. Suddenly living a new life, the former dancer struggled to redefine who she is while adapting to life with a disability. Kelsey is a smart, very deep thinker and I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with her, about among other things, her autobiographical film Move Me. In the documentary, that took 5 years to film, she chronicles her journey in a very raw, frank and beautiful way. Needless to say, Move Me moved me so much that I had to have her on to tell me/us all about it.

Full vid The Funbear Jamboree is back in the studio and we've got a SUPER-SIZED episode, telling our tale of heading to New Jersey + New York to do our live Clerks: Bradley Drawn show along with a few podcasts with our favorite cubs! We detail the whole damn trip and talk a little bit about frenching that pesky Dalai Lama. Was this entire situation just an innocent translation error? But this is a reeeal Jersey episode ladies and gentlemen. We're talking Kevin Smith's movie theatre, diner hangs, Wrestlemania, the TESD boys - and that salty little devil known as pork roll. The show closes with some footage from the live show, featuring Brian O'Halloran - listen close for a Gitem Steve-Dave cameo! Live show filmed by Brian Ruppert + Steve Badagliacco of Reviewing History! Edited by Craig Depina of Needless to Say! @funbearablepod / funbearablepod.com

Wise management and conservation of rangelands in the future will require knowledge from the hard-earned experience of those near retirement and the fresh and uninhibited ideas of young professionals. However, reaching across these generations of ideas and experiences can be challenging. This final plenary will be a thought-provoking discussion that highlights the value of combining well-lived experiences with youthful insight. Tim Murphey, retired rangeland and fire professional, will describe the concepts he has learned that will be valuable to plot a path into the future of rangeland management. Courtney Taylor, student and rancher, will highlight the insight that young professionals can bring to power innovation and engage the next generation of rangeland managers. Tracy Kupchenko will moderate this discussion based on her pivotal experiences in working with both youth and well-worn ranchers and rangeland managers. Courtney Taylor grew up on a cattle ranching operation near Warner, Alberta, Canada. Always ambitious and a self- starter, she was running her own profitable on-farm businesses including a small sheep flock and orphan calf operation by age 10. Through her family operation, she was introduced to the art of rangeland management, and then while attending the Southern Alberta Youth Range Days camp, she further explored the science behind beneficial management practices, potential careers, and opportunities associated with rangelands. Her first exposure to the Society for Range Management was through the High School Youth Forum, then again at the University level, participating in the student conclave and competitions like the Undergraduate Range Management Exam and Extemporaneous Speaking event. She is currently attending the University of Saskatchewan and continues to run several of her business initiatives including a small bull operation specializing in genetics that will sustain the extensive winter grazing and spring/summer calving utilized on the ranch. Needless to say, that as far back as she can remember, she has grown and continues to foster a deep respect for her animals and the land on which her family cattle ranch depends. Tim Murphy is recognized for his long and impactful career in rangeland and fire management. Tim completed a bachelor's degree in rangeland management from the University of Wyoming and after graduation Tim began a 39-year career in rangeland and natural resources management. Tim's career began as a range technician with the Bridger-Teton National Forest and shortly thereafter he joined the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at the Green River Resource Area managing public rangelands in southwest Wyoming, followed by supervising a range, wild horse, and soils team at BLM's Caliente Resource Area, Nevada. Tim went on to management positions with BLM in New Mexico at the Carlsbad and then Las Cruces Resource Areas followed by a District Manager assignment at Miles City, Montana. Throughout his assignments Tim was active in wildland fire management as a firefighter and was called upon to inform national policy through the results of his leadership involving fatality and serious accident investigation teams. Tim went on to Boise, Idaho as the Director of Fire and Aviation at the National Interagency Fire Center followed by becoming the BLM Idaho State Director. After retiring from the BLM, he has remained active in promoting wise land management that supports local economies and healthy landscapes. Tim is currently chairman of the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. TRANSCRIPT available at https://artofrange.com/episodes/aor-104-srm-keynote-address-working-across-eras-courtney-taylor-tim-murphy.

So much to talk about on our latest episode of In The Circle. Victor Anderson shares his thoughts on the first Division 2 regional "rankings" (which were more like a list of teams in consideration) and what regions have the most intrigue heading toward the end of the season. We then catch up with Iowa Assistant Coach Mandy Gardner, who helped the Hawkeyes turn around their fortunes this season. She chats with Eric Lopez about her path to Iowa, her playing career, and how the Hawkeyes have improved in all aspects in 2023.    We then look at the USA Softball Top 25 Player of the Year list released on Wednesday. Needless to say, the guys have plenty to say about who got in and who was snubbed. We even have a few names to consider on the list. We wrap up the show by discussing the inaugural WPF Draft from Oklahoma City. 

Imagine moving across the country with one goal - to become a scratch golfer! Would you do it? Today I got a chance to interview Jerome Rufin who is just starting the game and did just that. He's so obsessed that he left his life in NYC and moved to San Diego with one goal - become a scratch golfer. But here's the kicker... he's only played golf for about a month. However, he's not trying to learn it all on his own and has recruited some of the top instructors and specialists to achieve his goals faster than ever.  He now has a swing coach, putting coach (the same guy who coaches Xander Schauffele), a trainer, and a sports psychologist who's trained Olympic athletes. Not to mention a few friends who help him create some of the best golf content out there. Needless to say, he has quite a support system and is wildly motivated to make it happen. This is the video that I first saw of Jerome's that prompted me to reach out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywQ5YvdrVA Make sure to subscribe to his content, YouTube especially so you can follow along his journey. I have no doubt he'll hit his goal and become a wicked smart scratch golfer.  https://www.youtube.com/@JeromeRufin https://tiktok.com/@jeromerufin https://www.instagram.com/jerome.rufin/ https://www.facebook.com/ScratchToScratch

This podcast is brought to you by MANSCAPED and Homefield Apparel! Get 20% off and FREE shipping with the promo code: MNB20 at Manscaped.com. Get 15% off at HomefieldApparel.com with the code: Michigan15! Since Friday of last week, the Michigan Wolverines picked up a commitment from 2024 four-star offensive lineman Blake Frazier, and made the respective top-five lists for 2024 four-star wide receiver Gatlin Bair and 2024 four-star wide receiver James Madison II. Needless to say, Jim Harbaugh and the Maize and Blue continue to roll on the trail. Von Lozon and Jon Simmons discuss all the latest recruiting news on today's Future Blue. All your favorite Maize n Brew podcasts are now a part of “The Block M Podcast Network,” an affiliate of the Fan First Sports Network! All our podcasts are available wherever you get your shows! Subscribe, rate, and leave us a five-star review. Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Megaphone Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaizenBrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maizenbrewsbn/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maizenbrewsbn YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZBJuf_eohVzbfZmZzMIdqA Discord: https://discord.com/invite/vZMsMTF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I love seeing people hustling and keeping busy and Madison Woodward is a shining example of that behavior. He plays in two awesome bands, Fury and Object of Affection while being a partner in the music festival Sound and Fury AND runs the events for the rad space here in Los Angeles called Brain Dead Studios. Needless to say, we had a lot to discuss and spoke about intentional touring, OC hardcore and event planning. Oh, did I forget to mention he also puts on wrestling shows? Yep, he's a hustler.  Get 15% off a Subscription to Bodhi Leaf Coffee by using the promo code 100WORDSPOD. The best coffee in the game and you can buy the specific podcast blend here!  Buy Podcast Merch Here Theme Song by Tapestry Gold Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Listen to “More On That”, a supplementary podcast to 100 Words on Spotify exclusively Rockabilia sells you officially licensed Merch from ALL your favorite bands (and your Dad's favorite band, your siblings etc...). Use the promo code 100WORDSORLESS for 10% off your order.  Evil Greed is a highly curated merchandise provider from Berlin, Germany with fast, worldwide shipping and features stores from bands like Power Trip, Deafheaven, Nails, Russian Circles and so much more. Use promo code 100WORDS for 10% off your first order today!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Usually on Time on Screen, we look at notable movies from the past, but this week we're switching things up a bit, and talking about what is unquestionably the most discussed show on television at the moment. Succession has just started its fourth and final season, and it's a Worn & Wound favorite. When Zach and Ed Jelley decided to tackle the first three episodes of the season, they had no idea that episode three, “Connor's Wedding,” would prove to be what we'd have to describe as the most consequential episode of the series to date. The outline for this discussion was promptly thrown out the window as a result, but we still make room for some watch talk, as this is an all-time great watch spotting hour, week after week. Needless to say, big spoilers abound in this episode, so don't hit play if you're not caught up. It's also impossible to talk about Succession without using certain words we normally try to avoid on these podcasts, so this isn't one to play with young children around, unless maybe they're part of the Roy extended family.To stay on top of all new episodes, you can subscribe to The Worn & Wound Podcast — now available on all major platforms including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Spotify, and more. You can also find our RSS feed here.And if you like what you hear, then don't forget to leave us a review on iTunes.If there's a question you want us to answer you can hit us up at info@wornandwound.com, and we'll put your question in the queue.Show NotesEd's wrist check: Grand Seiko SBGN003Zach's wrist check: Kurono Tokyo ChronographInside the Episode: Season 4, Episode 3The MenuJesse Armstrong's New Yorker interviewSuccession Watch Spotting, via Esquire

New Guest Expert! On this week's Aftermath, Rebecca revisits the Dave Matthews Band Chicago River Incident with tour bus expert Jamie Morral. Founder and President of JGM Coaches, Jamie has been managing coach rentals and drivers for over 20 years. Needless to say, he has some interesting insights to share about the tour bus industry and the clients they cater to. Afterward, Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early stop by to reconsider the verdict with Rebecca.We have merch!Join our Discord!Tell us who you think is to blame at http://thealarmistpodcast.comEmail us at thealarmistpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram @thealarmistpodcastFollow us on Twitter @alarmistTheSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/alarmist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mal is still committing to Ramadan while Rory just discovered lent is coming to an end, which retroactively means he gave up lent for lent. Meanwhile, Eddin reunited with Whoreible Decisions and shared Demaris's rose party, while Julian went to another Knicks game. Needless to say, none of us were at Dreamville. In Raleigh, Drake gave J Cole his flowers and dedicated a song to him so we ask which song the guys would sing for each other. If they're not up to sing they could always use AI. Did you watch the Women's National Championship game? Such as most conversations go, this great basketball was overshadowed by a media blitz of racial double standards. Rory brings up an interesting angle that points the finger back at the media as the culprit. Is it tricking if you pay for someone's divorce? And should it be socially acceptable to micro-dose crack? Tune in as the guys discuss all of this + more!