Podcasts about NOD

More embargos have past from SGF so Sean can talk about Erosion. Paul is playing a ton of Marvel Rivals again. News is a huge bummer (again) this week as we discuss Xbox's decision to (probably) cut ties with a number of the studios they acquired and Don't Nod is running out of money, but Nintendo made the Switch 1's eShop a lot faster. TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective

Nod yog qee yam uas tsim nyog koj npaj thiab kub siab txog yog koj xav caij tsheb kauj vab ntawm teb chaws Australia raws li Ntsuab Pov Vaj hais.

Electric vehicles are becoming more common on Australian roads as fuel prices remain unstable and more drivers look for cheaper ways to travel. Here's what you need to know if you are thinking about making the switch. - Yeej pom muaj tej tsheb siv hluav taws sob ntawm Australia tej kev tas mus li rau lub caij tsis paub tias tej nqe roj tsheb zoo li cas ntxiv thiab muaj tej neeg tsav tsheb coob tuaj ntxiv nrhiav tej xub ke pheej yig zog mus ntoj ncig. Nod yog tej uas tsim nyog koj paub txog yog tias koj tab tom xav tias yuav hloov mus siv tsheb siv hluav taws xob.

Host Jason Blitman talks to debut novelist Sonia Feldman about her book Girl's Girl, this month's The Nod™️ by Gays Reading with Aardvark Book Club. Conversation highlights include:

W rozpoczęciu drugiego sezonu antologii "Mrocznych obrazów" trafiamy na statek kosmiczny gdzie tytułowa dyrektywa kieruje nas w stronę tajemniczego wirusa, ograna na PS5 Pro. Na Xbox series X rozbijam się na mroźnej planecie Persefona gdzie devowie z Don't Nod lepiej niech zostaną przy robieniu gier o przygodach Max. Poza tym w odcinku premiery czerwca, omówienie subskrypcji, newsy, zapowiedź letnich konferencji oraz nagrody z Digital Dragons.

It's the opposite of a perihelion.For this episode, the Xbox Game Pass "Surprise Me" button has chosen a fresh narrative-focused action-adventure game developed and published by Don't Nod. Set in a possible future where the Earth has become uninhabitable, our hosts don the spacesuits of intrepid explorers looking to find humanity a new home! With roots in films like The Martian and Interstellar and promised nods to more thrilling fiction like Alien, the plot should have something for the space nerd that lives inside us all. Will the parkour action segments complement the story well? Will the combination create a compelling experience? Tom and Chris have each dedicated an hour to discovering this for themselves and are now prepared to deliver their mission debrief. Let's learn if this difficult-to-pronounce title is worth the effort!What do you think? Let us know!Check out all our links here:https://linktr.ee/tc1h1dThanks for taking this ride with us :-)

It's Ben's birthday show and we're talking about something that is a horror movie in roughly the same percentage as Funny People is a comedy, it's K-Pop Demon Hunters!Listen to us as we marvel at the brilliant writing. Nod with us as we observe the nature of a completely abusive mentorship. Worry with us as we consider the troubling connotations of lore around this world that isn't fully built out in a way that makes us wonder if maybe our heroes aren't heroes at all. We're here to go in way too seriously deep on K-Pop Demon Hunters and we have a first time guest, the writer of Genderqueer, Maia Kobabe here to show us how it's done done done.Who's Responsible for this?Director: Chris Appelhans Maggie KangWriters: Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Maggie KangStars: Arden Cho, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Ahn Hyo-seop, Yunjin Kim. Ken Jeong, Lee Byung-hun, Daniel Dae KimJOIN JEREMY'S ZOOP CAMPAIGN AND HELP MAKE GREAT COMICS! https://zoop.gg/c/slayTake our listener survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-surveySign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cette semaine, on commence par revenir en détail sur la situation au studio français Kylotonn. Touché de plein fouet par la mise en redressement judiciaire de son éditeur et propriétaire Nacon, il devrait connaître dans les jours qui viennent un plan de licenciement massif, ne conservant qu'une équipe restreinte pour s'occuper du suivi de son jeu service Test Drive Unlimited. Si la situation financière actuelle a précipité les événements, c'est aussi, d'après les salariés et ex-salariés avec qui nous avons pu nous entretenir, la conclusion malheureusement logique de plusieurs années de gestion calamiteuse de la part de la direction du studio et de l'actionnaire. Côté jeux vidéo cette semaine, on commence avec le magnifique Replaced qui réussit à nous éblouir visuellement. Dans une uchronie cyberpunk qui manque un peu d'originalité, il arrive à captiver par son action et ses décors sans cesse renouvellés. On continue avec l'aventure spatiale d'Aphélion. Le nouveau titre de Don't Nod est une série B très maitrisée de bout en bout malgré des moyens limités. On termine avec Vampire Crawlers qui réussit le passage au deck building de l'univers de Vampire Survivors et avec Moomintroll: La Chaleur de l'hiver, qui transcrit à merveille l'univers de Tove Jansson.Jérémie Kletzkine, dans sa chronique jeux de société, nous parle de Bomb5.Chapitres :0:00 Intro3:16 Les news11:02 Kylotonn en crise43:52 Le com des coms52:43 Replaced1:25:19 La chronique jeux de société : Bomb51:29:16 Aphelion1:56:39 La minute culturelle2:00:09 Vampire Crawlers2:06:33 Moomintroll : la chaleur de l'hiver2:12:06 Et quand vous ne jouez pas, vous faites quoi ?Retrouvez toutes les chroniques de jérémie dans le podcast dédié Silence on Joue ! La chronique jeux de société (Lien RSS).Pour commenter cette émission, donner votre avis ou simplement discuter avec notre communauté, connectez-vous au serveur Discord de Silence on joue!Retrouvez Silence on Joue sur Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/silenceonjoueSoutenez Silence on joue en vous abonnant à Libération avec notre offre spéciale à 6€ par mois : https://offre.liberation.fr/soj/Silence on joue ! c'est l'émission hebdo de jeux vidéo de Libération. Avec Erwan Cario et ses chroniqueurs Patrick Hellio, Julie Le Baron et Marius Chapuis.CRÉDITSSilence on joue ! est un podcast de Libération animé par Erwan Cario. Cet épisode a été enregistré le 7 mai 2026 sur Discord. Réalisation : Erwan Cario. Générique : Marc Quatrociocchi. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Following on from the release of ‘Side A' of the latest episode of Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast, The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt continue their talk around all things Life Is Strange. Amazon Prime Video's Life Is Strange TV show takes centre stage again, but this time, it's what two of the key architects behind the Square Enix-owned franchise -- Luc Baghadoust and Michel Koch -- are now saying about the series!

In der eisigen Stille des Planeten Persephone bricht das Raumschiff Hope-01 durch dichte Schneestürme und kracht in eine unberührte Landschaft aus zerklüfteten Gletschern und verlassenen Ruinen. Astronautin Ariane kämpft sich nach der Bruchlandung durch die Kälte, ihr Grappling-Haken sirrt durch die Luft, während sie verzweifelt nach ihrem verletzten Partner Thomas sucht. Ein einsames Signal ist ihr einziger Anhaltspunkt in der fremden Weite.In der neuesten Folge von Insert Moin nehmen sich Micha und Pumkin dass Action-Adventure Aphelion vor. Gemeinsam tauchen sie nicht nur tief in die emotionale Liebesgeschichte ein, sondern erklären auch die atemberaubende Erkundung verschneiter Landschaften, intensiven Traversal-Mechaniken wie Klettern und Grappling sowie die dezenten Stealth-Einlagen vor einer mysteriösen Bedrohung. Spannend außerdem: Don't Nod hat das Spiel in Kooperation mit der European Space Agency entwickelt.Besonders hervorzuheben ist außerdem der Soundtrack von Amine Bouhafa, dem César-prämierten Komponisten, dessen filmische Tracks eine immersive Atmosphäre schaffen und das Spiel zu einem der Soundtrack-Highlights des Jahres machen - mit klaren Echos an den Film Interstellar in der epischen Raumfahrt-Narrative und emotionalen Tiefe. Wer Sci-Fi-Abenteuer mit starkem Sound und kosmischen Vibes liebt, sollte reinhören.Ihr hört im Casts Auszüge aus dem Soundtrack. Kaufen könnt ihr den auf Bandcamp: https://kidkatanarecords.bandcamp.com/album/aphelion-original-game-soundtrackDer im Podcast empfohlene Film ist "Gipfel der Götter": https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt7014378/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Et comeback for Life is Strange-serien?Life is Strange: Reunion er et adventurespil udviklet af Deck Nine og udgivet af Square Enix. Life is Strange-serien blev oprindeligt udviklet af Don't Nod med forfatteren Christian Divine i spidsen som kreativ ansvarlig, men efter Life is Strange 2 fra 2018 forlod dette team serien.Deck Nine overtog serien, men har aldrig helt vundet fansenes hjerter. Nu prøver de igen med Life is Strange: Reunion, som er en direkte efterfølger til Life is Strange: Double Exposure fra 2024. For at tiltale de originale fans af serien vender karakteren Chloe Price tilbage - en ikonisk figur i serien, som ikke har været med siden Life is Strange: Before the Storm og det første Life is Strange. Og det er der en grund til, for, i den slutning de fleste spillere valgte, døde hun nemlig.Hvordan er hun vendt tilbage? Hovedkarakteren Max Caulfields tidsrejsekræfter har fået parallelle universer til at smelte sammen, og Chloe opsøger Max, fordi hun er plaget af mareridt om at dø. Sammen forsøger de at komme til bunds i mysteriet om Chloe samt stoppe en brand på Caledon University - en brand, Max har set ske i fremtiden, og som vil dræbe mange studerende.Er Life is Strange tilbage i topform, eller halter kvaliteten?Alt det og meget mere finder vi ud af nu.I denne episode deltager Daniel Møgelhøj, Melina "MinnaMumi" Jellesmark og Morten Urup.Tusind tak, fordi du lytter med.

Grab your favorite teddy bear and get cozy! In this episode of the Family Trivia with Dad and Lad Podcast, we're diving deep into the Land of Nod. From the science of sleep to famous nappers, we've got 15 questions packed with "did-you-know" facts that will keep the whole family entertained.This is a 100% screen-free activity perfect for long car rides, family dinner table talk, or a wind-down session before lights out. Challenge your kids, learn something new, and find out who the true "Sleep Scientist" is in your household!Fun News! Family Trivia with Dad and Lad has a MERCH STORE!You can find, T-Shirts, Hoodies, Hats and more for you or that Trivia Loving friend or family member! Visit the link below to go to the Family Trivia with Dad and Lad Merch Store!https://www.bonfire.com/store/dadladtrivia/

Mit Aphelion beweist Don't Nod eindrucksvoll, dass sie ihr Gespür für tiefgreifende Storys nicht verloren haben. Das Abenteuer besticht durch eine emotionale Wucht und eine atmosphärisch dichte Welt, die einen sofort in ihren Bann zieht. Doch so stark die narrative Seite glänzt, so deutlich fallen die Defizite im Gameplay ins Gewicht. Besonders frustrierend ist das mangelnde Trefferfeedback und die generelle Handhabung: Die Steuerung wirkt schwammig und oft unpräzise, was in Kombination mit den hölzernen Animationen zu unnötigen Fehlern führt. Wo andere Genre-Vertreter durch Geschmeidigkeit glänzen, wirkt Aphelion oft schwerfällig und technisch ungeschliffen. Die optisch beeindruckende Kulisse entpuppt sich zudem schnell als reine Kulisse. Zahlreiche unsichtbare Wände und strikte lineare Einschränkungen ersticken jeden Entdeckergeist im Keim. Am Ende bleibt ein Spiel für Genießer starker Geschichten, die bereit sind, über gravierende spielmechanische Mängel hinwegzusehen.

Stāsta Latvijas Stratēģijas un ekonomikas risinājumu institūta (LaSER) pētnieks Roberts Kits. Producente Liene Jakovļeva. Valsts aizsardzība ir gan valsts institūciju, gan iedzīvotāju kopīga atbildība. To paredz visaptverošas valsts aizsardzības pamatprincipi, kurus Latvija ievieš kopš 2019. gada. Būtiska loma šajā sistēmā ir sabiedrības noturībai – gatavībai pielāgoties iekšējiem un ārējiem satricinājumiem, spējai funkcionēt krīzes situācijās un pārvarēt tās. Visaptverošas valsts aizsardzības sistēmas izveidē Baltijas valstis ir mācījušās no Ziemeļvalstīm, kuras lepojas ar plašu pieredzi totālās aizsardzības īstenošanā jau kopš Aukstā kara laika. Ziemeļvalstu totālās aizsardzības sistēmas raksturo vispārēja karaklausība, kas veido pamatu bruņoto spēku personālsastāva rezervei, plaši materiālie krājumi, kas ļauj sabiedrībām funkcionēt piegādes ķēžu satricinājumu gadījumos, kā arī cieši integrētas militārās un civilās aizsardzības komponentes. Īpaši izceļams ir Somijas piemērs. Helsinku civilās aizsardzības patvertņu ietilpība pārsniedz pilsētas iedzīvotāju skaitu, un civilās aizsardzības plāni paredz, ka apdraudējuma gadījumā daļa valsts iedzīvotāju varētu tikt evakuēta uz Helsinkiem, kur tiem būtu pieejamas pazemes patvertnes. Tāpat Somija lepojas ar vienu no lielākajām bruņoto spēku personālsastāva rezervēm Eiropā. Neraugoties uz salīdzinoši nelielo valsts iedzīvotāju skaitu – aptuveni 5,6 miljoni –, bruņoto spēku rezervi veido gandrīz miljons cilvēku ar skaidri noteiktām lomām kara laika struktūrā. Lielā mērā tas ir pateicoties mērķtiecīgam obligātajam militārajam dienestam. Ja, piemēram, Zviedrija laika posmā no 2010. līdz 2017. gadam iedzīvotājus neiesauca, tad Somija šo sistēmu saglabāja bez pārtraukumiem. Kā skaidrot Somijas veiksmes stāstu? Paši somi nereti runā par sisu. Vārda etimoloģiskā nozīme ir saistāma ar iekšķīgumu, iekšējiem orgāniem, tomēr biežāk ar to saprot psiholoģisku raksturiezīmi. Terminu labprāt izmanto arī Somijas politiķi. Piemēram, prezidents Aleksanders Stubs (Alexander Stubb) pagājušā gada novembrī aicināja Eiropas valstis bruņoties ar sisu, lai stātos pretī Krievijas hibrīduzbrukumiem un informatīvajai kara darbībai, un, protams, turpinātu atbalstīt Ukrainu. Neraugoties uz plašo termina lietojumu, vispārpieņemtas sisu definīcijas nav. Tāpēc Alto Universitātes pētniece Emīlija Lahti (Emilia Lahti) 1208 Somijas iedzīvotājiem uzdeva jautājumu, ko viņiem nozīmē sisu. Analizējot respondentu atbildes, pētniece izvirzīja trīs galvenos tematiskos blokus. Pirmkārt, sisu ir sevišķi izteikta neatlaidība – nepadošanās un mērķu sasniegšana par spīti šķietami nepārvaramiem šķēršļiem. Otrkārt, tas ir domāšanas veids, kas vērsts uz drosmīgu, apņēmīgu un aktīvu rīcību. Tā ir arī uzticēšanās sev, ka izdosies paveikt iecerēto, pat ja pastāv acīmredzami ierobežojumi. Treškārt, somi ar sisu saprot iekšējo latentā spēka rezervju izmantošanu brīžos, kad enerģija šķietami jau ir izsmelta. Visbiežāk, tas tiek saistīts tieši ar ķermenisku spēku turpināt virzīties uz mērķa sasniegšanu. Līdzīgi kā sportisti, kas pirms finiša spurta iegūst otro elpu. Tas nozīmē, ka sisu ietver gan psiholoģiskas kvalitātes, gan fiziskas enerģijas rezerves cilvēka iekšienē.[1] Sisu nav tikai mūsdienu fenomens.Piemēram, "New York Times" 1940. gadā raksta: “Somiem ir viens mīļākais vārds. Viņi teiks, ka tas ir visbrīnišķīgākais no visiem vārdiem. Šis vārds ir sisu.”[2] Plašāku atpazīstamību sisu ieguva Ziemas kara laikā 1939.–1940. gadā, pateicoties Somijas varonīgajai pretestībai ievērojami daudzskaitlīgākajam Padomju karaspēkam. Tieši šajā laikā ar degmaisījumu piepildītas pudeles jeb Molotova kokteiļi ieguva savu nosaukumu. Tā bija ironiska atbilde PSRS Ārlietu ministra Vjačeslava Molotova paziņojumam, ka Somiju bombardējošās Padomju lidmašīnas patiesībā piegādā humānās palīdzības kravas. Nodēvējot PSRS aviācijas bumbas par “Molotova maizes groziem”, somi laipni papildināja ēdienreizi ar dzērienu – “Molotova kokteili”[3]. Somijas iedzīvotāju drosme un neatlaidība Ziemas karā ir sisu izpausme, taču šīs kvalitātes attīstījušās krietni senākā vēsturē. Kā savā grāmatā “Baltija – Eiropas nākotne” uzsver Olivers Mūdijs (Oliver Moody), Somijas nacionālais kults sisu ir veidojies, gadu simtiem cīnoties ar skarbajiem Ziemeļu klimatiskajiem apstākļiem, badu un slimībām.  Piemēram, 17. gadsimtā, kad ilgstoša sala dēļ Baltijas jūra bija aizsalusi un graudu piegādes nebija iespējamas, somi pārvarēja grūtības, cepot maizi no maltiem zivju kauliem, bērza tāss un ķērpjiem. [4] Lai arī cik ekstrēmi būtu apstākļi, padoties nav sisu garā. Sisu koncepts noderēs arī Latvijas iedzīvotājiem. Laikā, kad pasaule kļūst arvien dinamiskāka un nereti – draudīgāka, drosme, mērķtiecība un neatlaidība ir būtiskas personības iezīmes. Arī domājot par sabiedrības noturību un visaptverošu aizsardzību kā iedzīvotāju un valsts institūciju kopīgu atbildību, sisu nāks talkā. Tas var nebūt viegli, bet citādi nevar. [1] Lahti, E. E. (2019). Embodied fortitude: An introduction to the Finnish construct of sisu. International Journal of Wellbeing, 9(1). [2] Strode, H., (1940). Sisu: A Word That Explains Finland [3] Stout, J. (2022). The history of the Molotov cocktail, an iconic weapon of underdogs.  [4] Moody, O. (2025). Baltic: The Future of Europe. John Murray.

(översättning: "Skönhet kommer rädda världen") Skönhet argumenterar inte och kräver inget, skönhet attraherar. Tänk om kyrkan, istället för att vara högljudd om sanningen och vad som är rätt, bara kunde vara vacker? Detta är inledningstalet från Vårmötet Göteborg 2026, en ekumenisk helg med fokus på mystik, musik och samhällsengagemang. (Detta är en klippt version av kvällen.) Vårmötet arrangeras av Betlehemskyrkan, Saronkyrkan, tidskriften NOD, Göteborgs domkyrkoförsamling, Kulturkyrkan, Räddningsmissionen och Ekibs. ——— In English: Beauty does not make an argument or a demand, beauty attracts. What if the church, instead of being loud about truth and about what is right, could be beautiful? This is the opening speech from Vårmötet Göteborg (translated: the Spring Meeting in Gothenburg), an ecumenical weekend focusing on the mystical, music and community engagement. (This is an edited version of the evening.) Vårmötet is arranged by Betlehemskyrkan, Saronkyrkan, tidskriften NOD, Göteborgs domkyrkoförsamling, Kulturkyrkan, Räddningsmissionen, and Ekibs. ——— Foto: Einar Säker

Leaders, Dostoyevsky had some ideas about how to navigate the prison known as the Land of Nod.---Opening theme composed by Felipe Sarro - Bach - Silotti - "Air"  from Orchestra Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 Closing theme composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.---Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON!Check out the Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list!---Subscribe to the Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Podcast: https://bit.ly/LLFTGBSubscribeCheck out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Was Cain really the son of Adam… or did he come from something else hidden in Genesis?In this episode of Free The Rabbits, Joel Thomas explores one of the most controversial and unsettling questions hidden within the opening chapters of the Bible.There are details in Genesis that don't quite add up… phrases that seem intentional… and a deeper layer of meaning that most people never question.What exactly happened in the Garden? What is the true meaning behind the serpent? And why does Cain's story feel… different?This is where things start to get uncomfortable.Merchandise: https://freetherabbits.myshopify.comBuy Me A Coffee: DonateFollow: Website | Instagram | X | FacebookWatch: YouTube | RumbleMusic: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music Films: https://merkelfilms.com Email: freetherabbitspodcast@gmail.comDistributed by: merkel.mediaIntro Music:Joel Thomas – Free The RabbitsYouTube | Spotify | Apple MusicOutro Music:Joel Thomas – Jekyll Island feat. Quan DukeYouTube | Spotify | Apple MusicTopics Discussed:Cain, Nephilim, Genesis 3, Genesis 4, serpent in Eden, nachash meaning, Adam and Eve, fallen angels, Watchers, Book of Enoch, Josephus, Cain lineage, mark of Cain, land of Nod, pre flood world, biblical mysteries, ancient conspiracies, Joel Thomas Free The Rabbits

In this episode of The Art of Living Big, Betsy shares some profound insights on grief. She explains that it’s not linear and how we can grow bigger than it. How relationships with those we have lost can change form rather than end, and why hope is a brave decision. This one will move you. Oh, and who doesn’t want a bed jet? Transcript:  Welcome to The Art of Living Big, where we explore how to live intentionally and with more joy. I’m Betsy Pake, your host, master, coach, and creator of the Navigate Method. Here to help you listen in to your true desires, elevate your standards, and live life to the fullest. Now, let’s go live big. Hello. Hi everyone. Welcome to the Art of Living Big. I’m excited to do this episode today, which when we, as I say that, when we get to the topic, you’re gonna be like, wow, you’re excited about talking about this really heavy thing, but I, promise there’s hope in it, and I think that’s the really important part in all this. So last week I did an episode where it was really just me breaking the seal of coming back. So thank you for to so many of you for listening. I am so just so grateful that you accept me back into your ears while you go about your daily tasks. And,, and let me talk with you. I. Wanna tell you a couple other things, and again, if you’re new here, you’re gonna be like, why is she telling me this? I, I don’t know if you’ve been here a while, you’ve kind followed along the journey whether you wanted to or not. And so I’m gonna give you a couple quick updates. My teeth are complete. That is one of my updates. If you remember last year I had dental work that had to be done. I had, , cap and I had a couple weird teeth things. I don’t even remember now what it was, but it was a lot of stuff and it was stuff that I had kind of put off for a couple years. Anyway, once I had that done, I got Invisalign because I had a lot of strange gaps in my teeth that I didn’t have most of my adult life. It, just started happening as I really started clenching my teeth these past few years, and so I. Got my Invisalign. The Invisalign is over, and then I got two new front teeth, I guess I got bonded so that the little space between my teeth was. , Filled in, I guess you could say. I don’t know, I think, I don’t think anybody that meets me that doesn’t know me would notice to me. It looks like I have a couple of chiclets in my front, two front teeth, but I’m getting used to it and it does feel really good to have like a even smile, you know? And I see my teeth so much because of how I record on Instagram. So anyway. My teeth are complete. And it just feels really good to have that journey done. I mean, it’s been like a two year journey to get my, to get them teeth straight. And now I have this really incredible mouth guard that I can wear at night that is, I don’t know, it’s just space, age and amazing. And , I’m happy about that. So that’s keeping my teeth from ever moving again, and it feels really good. So, if you’ve been here for a while, you know that I am. A big fan of sleep, like I really like my bed and I like to sleep, so I wanna tell you about something that I bought. It is not sponsored. I tried to get them to sponsor me for a year. I was messaging and filling out forms on their website. Never, did they reach out to me, which I was like, I am the perfect person to talk about this because I’m obsessed with sleep for one thing, and I. Have a whole audience of women who are right where I am, where you likely need this thing. Now I’m gonna tell you what the thing is, and I’m gonna tell you my honest to God truth about it. But first I just wanna talk about sleep and how much I love it. Okay? So, if you’ve been here, you know, cozy Earth is one of our sponsors. You can get 20% off anything on the website. , You use the code live big Betsy, and you can get 20% off, but. Yeah, that’s neither here nor there for this episode. What I really wanna tell you is that if you followed, you know that I’m obsessed with their house coat. Okay? So this is like my routine. Are you ready? Because if you really want some insane, , cozy sleep, I’m about to give you all the things. I have an aura ring and that gives me my sleep score, right? So if you’re familiar with that, I routinely get 94, 96 sleep scores. I don’t know what happens when you get a hundred. I have a feeling I’d there would be a parade outside for me if I got to a hundred. But my point is I get really high sleep scores now. It. Is it one thing or another? I don’t know. But I’m gonna tell you all the things because there may be a piece of one of these things that helps you. Okay. Enough of the lead up, let me tell you. So there is this, and again, none of this is sponsored except for Cozy Earth isn’t really sponsored. They give us a, they sponsor this show, not this particular episode, but I love them. So what I do is I have this. Bath salts. That’s a magnesium bath salt, and it’s called flu, F-L-E-U-D fluid. I have a subscription, I don’t know, it’s 20 bucks a month and I get three of them. So I do a fleud about once a week, and it is like a high concentration of magnesium, but different from Epsom salts. It makes me feel so chilled out. , There’s other stuff in it, but it is amazing. I put it in my tub and I set a timer so that I stay in there at least 20 minutes and those nights,, and I typically notice this will last four or five nights, and then I notice I need to do another one, or that it makes my sleep better if I do another one. So what I’m about to tell you, the rest of the, this is why I could never have a partner ’cause of all, the things I’m about to tell you. So I take my fleud bath, I put on my cozy earth. House coat, that’s what it’s called on the website. It is basically a comforter that they cut into the shape of a house coat. I put it in the dryer. Okay. I put it in the dryer so it gets warm, and then I put it on when I’ve just gotten outta the shower or gotten outta the bathtub. Okay? Now I walk into my bedroom and I turn on. Turbo. Turbo mode of my bed jet. Okay, so the bed jet is the thing I was saying. I was trying to get them to sponsor me and they didn’t. I’m gonna tell you, the bed jet is like a machine that goes underneath your bed and there’s a hose, like a vacuum cleaner hose that goes into a sheet, a special bed jet sheet. Okay. This sheet lives above your top sheet and under your comforter. Okay? And it’s got these channels that go all the way up through the sheet. And on the bottom part of that sheet, it’s like a, it’s like a envelope. Do you know what I mean? It has two sides. The bottom side is porous, and so the air comes out. From the bottom onto you, and the comforter that you have on top keeps that air contained inside the bed. Okay? So they have turbo mode and it’s 10 minutes of hot air and high fan, and it heats your little bed up to the coziest thing. So now I have on the cozy earth housecoat, I am deliciously relaxed because I’ve had a fluid bath. I’m cozy. I turn on turbo mode, it gets everything all set up. I get in and it’s warm. It’s not too hot, it’s warm. It’s really great. Now. Now the next thing I do. Is I have a special pillow for between my knees, so my knees don’t go knocking together. ’cause I sleep on my side. I, have, I didn’t realize how ridiculous this was until I started really telling you I have a purple bed, which is a specific kind of bed and that I love. I’m obsessed with it. I have a friend that told me to buy one. She bought one for everybody and her family, they’re amazing. Again, no sponsorship. I should have one purple bed. The pillow that keeps my knees from knocking together. I have a NOD pod, which I’m a huge fan of the Nod Pod. A couple years ago I spent $3,000 at Christmas time on Nod Pods for people I love. So the Nod Pod is a weighted eye pillow that goes over your eyes and helps your parasympathetic nervous system and helps you relax into a deeper state of relaxation. So here I am. I’m in the cozy bed. The fan is off now ’cause it’s been 10 minutes so Turbo Mode is done. I’m in the purple bed. I have the Nod pod. I also have a Nod Pod body. I will tell you, I bought the no brand one on Amazon, but it’s, , a weighted blanket that’s just the size of your torso. Okay, so now I got this weight. I got my mouth guard in. Now I hit the dry button. On my bed Jet, it has cool mode, but it also has dry, which just rotates the air around so it’s not too hot, it’s not too cold. And then when I get really hot, , as one does at one o’clock in the morning, I press the cool button. The, remote control is huge and lit up, and , the words are big. So I don’t need my glasses and I can hit cool in it. Sends like shot a shot of cool air around the inside of my bed and it is heaven. So I know that’s a lot of things. What did I say? Food bath. The. Housecoat heated housecoat turbo mode on the bed jet, the purple bed, the nod pod, the nod pod body, and the custom mouth guard. But I’m telling you what like it is. It is really good. It is really good. I sleep really good. Okay, so what was that like 10 minutes of telling you all my crazy, sleep schedule. But we do what we have to do. I do believe that sleep may be like one of the most important things. To keep ourselves healthy and to keep ourselves going, , and to have the energy to be able to do all the things we need to do every day. So anyway, that is my crazy sleep story. But you can get your cozy Earth stuff. Make sure to use the coupon code ’cause it’s 20% off, which I think is great.. I’m a big fan of the Cozy Socks too. Anyway, this episode is not sponsored by them, but I’m obsessed, so I feel like I, they’re like, which episodes do you want us to sponsor? I’m like, it don’t matter. I’ll just be talking about it all the time. ’cause I really like it. I’ll tell you, I get sponsorship opportunities now all the time, and I never take ’em very, very, very rarely. The ones I want are like Veg Jet. Nobody calls me, but. Because I only want stuff I really, really love. I don’t wanna tell you to buy a bunch of stuff you don’t need. Okay. All that stuff you need, come over to my house, spend the night, I’ll get you set up. Okay, so now, for kind of this other part of the show that I really wanna have this discussion with you. Okay, so this past week I woke up and I, it was a Wednesday on St. Patrick’s Day and. I felt so weird, like heavy. I just felt heavy grief in a way that I hadn’t felt in a long time. It was real weird and I got up and I,, did my thing and got the shower started. And then I was like, what is this? And then it dawned on me that it was the anniversary of my mom dying and I actually had to ask Sury. So I had to, ask her what is 2026 minus 1988, and when she said it’s 37, I just, cried in a way that I can’t explain 37 years since my mom died. 37 years. And it’s funny, , that book, the body keeps the score. I think, your body keeps the score. My body knew, I feel like every day, I have no idea what the date is. I should probably know, but I’m like, I don’t know what date it is. I just know it’s like Wednesday or Thursday or whatever and sometimes I don’t even know that. And so I wasn’t really paying attention. I knew it was coming because , of course, ’cause it’s St. Patrick’s Day, so everyone’s talking about St. Patrick’s Day, but. It really hit me in a different way than it has before. And I started thinking about grief and how I don’t think it’s, , I know for sure it’s not linear, and I know that because it’s been 37 years, and if it was linear, I wouldn’t have had the reaction that I had when my computer said 37. I was like,. I made a sound, , like a painful sound. I almost heard myself and thought, what is that? And it was just the shock of 37 years. It’s been a whole lifetime and it’s not even like a, it’s almost her entire lifetime. For one thing. I hadn’t thought of that till just now. She died at 41, so it’s almost her whole lifetime, but it is. A lifetime. , By the time someone’s 37, they’ve given life. Like it’s, just so long. And I thought it’s been that long since I’ve seen her or asked her a question or smelled her or heard her voice. , It’s not like now where we have video. Like when I go, my kid’s gonna have video. He’ll be able to listen to me any moment, , for decades. We don’t have that from 1988. I never, ever texted with her. I never know what that was like. I wonder what she would even think about all the technology now. I wonder what she would think about what I’m doing now. And , if you’ve been here a while, you’ve heard me talk about this, but my mom died one day when I was in high school. I went to school and she went on a trip with my sister. There was a guy from our hometown who was a hockey player, and he was playing at the university on his final game before he went into the NHL Felt special, and my mom was spontaneous and she liked to celebrate things and to make things special, and so she and my sister decided they would get in the car and drive to his last game. How cool that would be to be there and to be able to cheer him on. And he went to the college where my sister went and my dad worked. And so off they went that morning. They left early before I even woke up. And when they were driving, they got to New York. I lived in Vermont at the time. That’s where I grew up. And the game was in Ohio. So they were in New York. Right around Watertown if you’re in that area. And long story short, my mom got off at a wrong exit. They stopped at a little store and said, how do you get back on? , Sometimes you get off on the highway and then you’re like, I can’t get back on. , There’s no entrance, there’s just an exit. And he said, oh, this happens all the time. You have to take this little access road. And when you get to the end of the access road. Then , you’ll see the entrance ramp to the highway. And he said, just be careful ’cause it’s a twisty road. And my mom said, it’s okay, we’re from Vermont. And they got in the car and , it was March and it was cold and it was icy. And as my mom was turning around a bend, the car skidded off the road and kind of down and in little embankment. And , as. Cars do. When you kind of pick up momentum, you know, faster, you go down a little embankment, you pick up some momentum, and there was one tree in the middle of this field, a whole field. And of course, she hit the tree, hit the tree. My sister climbed, got outta the car. She had, broken her jaw and they both had their seat belts on, but. She climbed up the embankment and someone was driving by and they stopped and looked at her and just said, I’ll call the ambulance. And my sister said, thank you. And the ambulance came and they took the jaws of life and they helicoptered my mom to the closest hospital where she had surgery and died about 12 hours later. , I think about that tree a lot, and historically I have, because it was just like a one tree in the middle of a field. There was a lot of places you could go. It was like a parking lot with one tree. But you know, she went where she was looking. , That’s what you do when you’re driving, but that is what you do in life. You go where you’re looking, you go where you are mulling things over. You go where you’re worrying, you go where you’re putting your attention. And I have often felt over the years that my mom and I were creating my business together, that perhaps before I was born, before she was born, we had a pact that I would be her daughter. And she would have some dramatic exit where I would be devastated to the place where I had to find meaning in it in order to move forward. And that meaning would create a lot of good. And so that is how I think I got to where I am , and even became a coach, , back in 2012 and started doing this work. . Here’s the thing that I think when I look back, and someone asked me recently about what is a belief that you have about life? And I knew it ex immediately. I was like, oh, I know. Which is a funny thing that I would know, but I was like, oh, I believe things can change in an instant. Like things can change in an instant, and I know that to be true because of my mom. But the weird thing. Is, I never took that to mean things could go bad in an instant. It’s always been a thing that brought me hope. It’s always been when things are going sideways where I’m like, man, this won’t last. ’cause things can change in an instant. My brain did the opposite. For some reason, it, rewired. To this can turn around any second and it doesn’t even need an explanation. And I really think that’s my superpower. When one of my friends was asking me this, it was actually a client, a friend, client, an old client now a friend. And I was like, I think that’s what it is. , I think that’s like the whole basis of how I operate in life. So, , there is specific moments. In my life where that belief has saved me when hope felt irrational, but I held onto it anyway and I didn’t pay any attention to what was happening. And you’ve probably heard me say this on the show over the years, , I don’t care what’s happening. It’s not real. It’s my old vibration showing up, and now I’m thinking about something else. , Every. Every day. And I did the, I do, , , I did a podcast episode on this back in January, I think, where every day I write as if it’s a day in the future. And typically what I do is I pick a day at the end of the quarter. ’cause that’s how I do my goals, is like quarterly goals. And I pick a date and then that’s the date that I write about. So like every day. A day every day. This year I have written, it’s now March 31st and I am, and then I write all the great things that are happening. And the really interesting thing, and in that process as we’re getting close now to March 31st, is I wrote some crazy stuff and it’s almost all come true. It’s almost all come true. And I noticed when I would be taking chances, like risks, but they were calculated risks or I was. Trying to shift to do something different or bring in something different into my business or whatever it was. And I know it’s because my brain was like, well, to get to that we have to do this thing. Like we’ve got to add in this thing. We’ve got to take this risk. We’ve got to pay somebody to find this person for us, or whatever it was. And I just think those two things together. So that when I was writing every day, it, could change. . Things can change in an instant, and turnarounds don’t require any reason. There’s no reason, just like this bad thing didn’t really require a reason. Symmetric, sym symmetry of chaos, I guess you could say, ? It just all came together, and I think things can all come together all the time. I posted on Instagram that day about grief and about how, I don’t think it’s linear. I think it’s access. I think it’s as you’re going through bigger things, you have more access to grief. As you learn and grow and get to know yourself better, you have more access to grief. The amount of access I had at 16. To understanding grief and, working through it or even experiencing it was different than my experience. Now at 54, almost 55, I’m having different things happen in my life and that door to grief is wide open and that’s why it hit me so hard that morning My. Child has, I say child 24 has a cat that they have had since they were 10, and tonight we’re going to put that cat down. He’s been in the hospital. It is just time. And so we have access to handle grief in different ways. When we’re older, we have access to make different decisions about grief as we get older. And I think that there’s something really nice about never losing access to it. , I know that sounds kind of weird ’cause who wants to have grief? Like that feels, I’m gonna use the air I’m using. Air quotes bad. Like it feels bad, right? But I have a lot of hope. I know it sounds weird ’cause I don’t have hope the cat’s gonna live. We’ve made the decision and we’re going over there tonight, but I have a lot of hope that there’s healing in it, that there’s evolution in it, that there’s purpose in all of it. And that choice probably made unconsciously at age 16, , is still running in the background. Things can change in an instant. I know the situation with Sammy, the kitty isn’t changing, but I know the way we feel about it, Ken and I know things can shift. So here’s the thing when I posted this on Instagram is I got so many messages from people. I mean, hundreds of messages and everybody can relate to grief. , It’s just such a human thing. I think the part that is harder is when you’re 16 or 10, 22 and you’re trying to relate to grief because you haven’t had enough life experience to be able to access it where you can really process it. And so I have some thoughts of what I would tell someone who is. Loving someone who is losing a parent as a kid. Oh, y’all know I’m gonna cry. I’m not gonna cry. It’s gonna be fine, but I have some real thoughts. So I have some thoughts. Maybe they’ll be helpful. Maybe they’ll be helpful down the road. I think the first thing is to recognize. That your access to the grief when you’re younger is going to change as you get older. And that’s not a bad thing. It doesn’t mean, oh my God, this is never going away because , that’s just a part of life. It’s not whether it’s your cat, your dog, you know your parent. You don’t ever get over it. But what happens, and I think especially when we go through something when we’re young. We’re expanded and the threshold of our emotion is pushed in A way that doesn’t always happen in adolescence is that you get the opportunity to get bigger than it a lot earlier. The grief doesn’t really get smaller, but that’s not a bad thing because you start to really expand around it. And I actually think in a way we don’t want it to go away because, I’m not gonna cry because it I is a reminder and it really helps us access the love as well. , There’s that idea of the light and the dark and the good and the bad, and you can’t put one into perspective in the same way if you don’t have the other. So you don’t ever get over it, but you get bigger than it. And if it happens to you when you’re younger, you have an opportunity. I’m coming from my perspective. . If you had never lost a parent and you’re like, wait, what? But you have an opportunity to experience way more joy than other people. If you can access the grief, you can access the joy in equal parts, and I think that is a superpower. I think that makes your whole life. Like I, I believe we came here as like spiritual beings to experience the ups and downs, not just to experience ups. Like we came here for all of it. And so this gives you access to all of it, and I think that’s a really special thing. The other thing that I wanna say is the relationship doesn’t end it. Is our belief that when they are no longer in the physical form, that they’re gone. I’m using air quotes again that they’re gone, but I don’t believe that. I believe it changes form. I believe that the access, it’s like when my mom was in the kitchen and I was like in our TV room, and I would yell to her and she would answer. I wouldn’t see her, but I would get the answer to my question. And I talk to my mom now all the time, even more so over the past few years than I ever have before. The other day I said to her, I want a miracle today. It was on her anniversary of her death. I said, have something happen today that is so crazy that I would never, ever believe it if it didn’t happen today. Like something that right now, if you told me it was gonna happen, I’d be like, that’ll never happen, and I got that. I’ll do a show on it, but it’s not gonna be today. But I got the craziest thing happened, the craziest thing. And so I decided that was my sign and that there’s signs all over. And if that could happen, why not ask for something every day? And you might feel like we don’t get to have miracles every day, but I think we do. What if we do? What if you’re wrong? What if we do? What if the relationship doesn’t end? It just changes form, and I’m still in a relationship with her and she can actually help me in such a different way now, and that when I don’t communicate with her, or I don’t ask her for what I need or I don’t show up, then I’m limiting myself and I’m cutting myself off from her. It’s not her doing it to me, it would be me doing it to her and. There will be a moment. There is a moment, I think for me that happened years after my mom died, where I realized how much she shaped the way that I think, and not just in her being here, but in her not being here and. There was so many lessons that shaped my life, which I really like my life. I really like my life, especially right now. I really, really like it, and it, her loss shaped it just as much as her being, and that’s legacy. That’s not loss, that’s legacy. And so I allow the lessons from her loss. To be attributed to her and to influence the way that I operate and the way that I enjoy my life, my sleep, I’m allowed. We’re allowed to dive into the things that make us happy. It can be silly and whimsical and fun, and we can know how important it is because we can know how shitty it is when it’s gone and that it could be taken at any moment. My mom didn’t wanna go. I’m sure she would have changed her mind if she had an option. All right. The next thing that I would tell someone that is witnessing someone losing a parent right now is to let them say the wrong thing. After my mom died, I was so devastated as one would be, and my dad was not. Super present in my life. I’m gonna say it. My parents were married, but my mom was the homemaker and my dad worked and he was also really active in our community and he volunteered for lots of things and he was busy and the way he interacted with us when my mom was alive was a lot different. It’s not that he’s a bad man at all. He’s lovely and I. And now as an adult have formed a really, especially over the past year, he has been just a super rock star for me. So when my mom died, she’d only been dead a few weeks and I said something terrible to him about that. And so he let me, he, let me just say that shitty thing. He never asked me to explain it. He never told me how it hurt his feelings, which I’m sure it did. He just forgave me really fast. And looking back, I think he was likely just aware that I was afraid, that I was afraid of him dying too. And that was my process, and he let me have it. So if you’re watching someone lose a parent, or they just lost a parent, let them say the wrong thing. Let it go. And also you are allowed to be angry. You’re allowed to be fine. You are allowed to feel both of those things on any given day. And if you are losing a parent, you’re allowed to be angry, you’re allowed to be fine. And you’re allowed to feel both of those things on any given day. It’s just life. It’s life and life is happening. And I think the more that we. Allow ourselves to define the box instead of live in a box, the easier it will be for us to be able to move forward and to get perspective on it, and to grow around it, and to grow bigger than the grief. And so here’s my thoughts on. All of this and on hope , as a bigger lesson, , hope as a practice. I say lots of times to women in the navigate method that hope, I think is one of the scariest things. ’cause you have to trust almost something outside yourself. And I think most people treat hope like it’s something that happens to them when the conditions are good, like when it’s safe to hope. But I think one of the bravest things you can do is hope. Hope for better, hope for clarity, hope for realizations, for peace, even when the conditions aren’t right, even when it doesn’t seem likely. And you know what my mom’s death accidentally told, accidentally taught me is that hope is a stance. , It’s a decision. It is a rewire. We can say, this awful thing happened and this shitty thing I went through and, that things can change in an instant. It’s neutral, right? You choose to make a reason to keep going no matter what your situation, whether you lost a parent at 50 or you lost ’em at 10, or you never have at all. We all have. Things that we grieve. We grieve relationships and jobs and friendships. People don’t have to die in order for us to be grieving and for all these lessons to still be important. And that choice, I think to, decide that you are going to focus where you wanna go. I feel really lucky that has quietly been chugging along in the background of my brain. And I don’t know if that’s just how I was wired long before my mom was born. And I have a lot of other flaws. Like, let me celebrate the one thing. I do this really well and I make a really good, soft boiled egg. Okay, so let me have this. So, but I think that when we can do that. We can recognize what unconscious choices are you actually listening to and which ones would you choose, , in inside group. That’s one of my favorite things to do with people is to really dig down and find out what is it unconsciously that you’re thinking? What’s the pattern that’s running, and do you need to rewire it? Do, does that pattern need to change? It’s okay that you thought that thing for a long time. It probably served you and kept you safe, but now what do you want to be thinking? What would you choose? How do you want to live this wild and precious life? Because things can change in an instant and you don’t have to lose someone to learn this. But if you have, , I want you to know that the very thing that breaks us open can actually be the thing that keeps us going. And that, I think is how you live a big life. Just a reminder, we have our fireside chat this coming month in April on the fifth. Yeah, it’s Easter. I know it’s Easter Sunday. The scheduling sometime chooses us. We don’t choose the scheduling. It’s all right, so it, you can’t make it. We’re gonna do it again early May. If you can make it, maybe you’ve spent the day doing Easter stuff. Maybe you won’t do any Easter stuff and you’ll just wanna come hang out with me. It might be a smaller group, which will be really fun. We’re just gonna talk about. Some of these big decisions. There’s no real script for these. We don’t record them. They’re a place to be honest, and to share and to have a little community, when we feel so alone in some of our big decisions, especially around marriages, and that’s the work that I do. It can be isolating and there can be a lot of shame in there. And so this just brings you to a place where everybody gets it and you don’t have to explain yourself. So come join. Come join me over there, fireside Chat. You can find the link in the menu on my website, betsy p.com, or just message me on Instagram Fire. If you just shoot me a message, it just says Fire. It’ll automatically reply. The world of bots is amazing, but it’ll help me get it to you quicker. Also, if you haven’t followed along on Instagram, come find me there. It’s just Betsy and I’ve got something new that I’m working on. I’m really so freaking excited about these videos that I’m making. None of them are live. I’m trying to figure out if I need to hire a videographer, but I have stories to tell and I wanna tell it in a new way. So I’ll still be doing the same content that I’ve been doing, but I have some other things just to share with you about what it’s like. To start over in your fifties. There’s so many little funny stories every week that I have, and I thought, let’s, share these in a new way. So be sure to be looking for those. I really wanna get those out soon. So it, it is on my short list, and then next month please go to my YouTube because we are. Again, we’ve really done a lot of work. I say we, it’s me and my cat. Enjoy my, operations bestie. , We’ve done a lot of work to create systems so that I can get some really good YouTube videos out for you. Longer form where I’m gonna be recording y’all. I bought gear. I got, a set up now. , You know you gotta come, you gotta come and visit me over there. . I’ll let you know when it’s live, but be on the lookout. You can also just text me on Instagram or dm me on Instagram, YouTube, and it will send you the link so that you can follow along and get alerted when they’re live. Okay? All that chatter, just to say, I’m so happy that you’re here. Thank you for being with me on this journey, and I love you so much. I’ll see you next time. Bye-bye. Thanks for joining me on The Art of Living Big. I hope today’s episode sparked something within you, maybe pushed you to dream a little bit bigger and live a little larger. Don’t forget to subscribe. Leave us a review and share this podcast with someone you know who might need a little inspiration today. You can find me over on Instagram at betsy pa and on my YouTube channel. Remember, the world is vast. Your potential is endless, and your life, it’s yours to shape. Until next time, keep reaching, keep exploring, and keep living big.

Happy Mindful Monday, Everyone! They tell you it's the "happiest time of your life," but they often forget to mention the "Opinion Noise," the "Perfection Pressure," and the "Comparison Trap" that come with planning a wedding. In this episode, Allie breaks down 6 hard-earned lessons from the wedding planning front lines that have absolutely nothing to do with seating charts or centerpieces. This is a conversation for the high-achieving woman who is ready to stop "performing" her wedding and start inhabiting her celebration. Whether you are currently engaged, navigating a major life milestone, or just trying to protect your joy in a world of loud expectations, this episode is your roadmap. We're diving into why "Plan B" is often the real magic, why nobody actually remembers the napkins, and how to fiercely protect your peace when everyone else has an opinion on your "Big Day."  Discussion Topics: I. Silencing the "Opinion Noise" Expectation vs. Obligation: Distinguishing between what others want for you and what you actually want for yourself. The "Nod and Smile" Strategy: How to set firm boundaries with relatives and friends without losing your connection. Building Your Internal Compass: Why your "Life Design" must come before the "Day's Design." II. Releasing the Grip on "Perfect" The Myth of the Scripted Moment: Why the "messy and wild" realities are always better than the Pinterest-perfect illusions. Trusting the Unfolding: Moving from "control" to "presence" as the wedding day approaches. The Napkin Test: Learning to identify the "Main Thing" and letting the minor details fade into the background. III. The Magic of the Pivot Compromise as a Tool, Not a Failure: How to view "Plan B" as a creative opportunity rather than a loss. Embracing the Unexpected: Why the most memorable moments are usually the ones you didn't plan for. IV. Time, Money, and the Currency of Joy Investing in the Experience: Why memories are the only wedding expense that actually appreciates over time. The Intentional Spend: Navigating the budget while respecting the fleeting nature of the moment. Fierce Joy Protection: Why you are the only one who holds the keys to your happiness—not the vendors, the weather, or the guest list.   The Growth METHOD. FREE Membership◦ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join Here!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 1:1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GROWTH MINDSET COACHING PROGRAMS!◦ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Application Form ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ What are the coaching sessions like?⁠⁠• Tailored weekly discussion questions and activities to spark introspection and self-discovery.• Guided reflections to help you delve deeper into your thoughts and feelings.• Thoughtfully facilitated sessions to provide maximum support, accountability, and growth.• Please apply for a FREE discovery call with me!• Allie's Socials• Instagram:@thegrowthmindsetgal• TikTok: @growthmindsetgal• Email: thegrowthmindsetgal@gmail.comLinks from the episode• Growth Mindset Gang ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Broadcast Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• Growth Mindset Gang ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• Growth Mindset Gal ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• Better Help Link: Save 10%SubstackDonate to GLOWIGloci 10% off Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Book of Genesis series. Sermon by Charlie Reczek. Genesis 4:15-16 - "Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden."

More information, bios, and transcript available at: https://bbi-dep-rrtc.org/resources/podcast-series/lgtw-beth-23/ Beth Sirull, President and CEO of the National Organization on Disability (NOD), joins the DEP RRTC's Let's Get to Work podcast to discuss the future of disability employment policy and why employing people with disabilities “is good for business.” Beth explains that NOD has long focused on employment as a pathway to independence and economic opportunity for people with disabilities because, “if you don't have a way to support yourself, there's just no way that you can manifest the American Dream.” Peter Blanck, University Professor and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University and Principal Investigator of the DEP RRTC, joins Beth in a conversation about how NOD works with employers to unlock the vast, often overlooked talent pool of people with disabilities. Beth emphasizes that employing people with disabilities results in real benefits to businesses, including lower turnover and stronger employee engagement. “[I]f you hire someone with a disability and you provide them with the accommodation that they need,” she says, “they will not leave. You will have a very loyal, longstanding, productive employee.” Ultimately, Beth emphasizes, disability employment policy is about “putting everyone in a situation where they can be maximally effective in their job, which obviously is what companies want.”

PSA: Player 1 vs The World's recorded this part of the podcast episode before Maisy Stella and Tatum Grace Hopkins were announced as Chloe Price and Max Caulfield respectively for Amazon MGM Studios' Life Is Strange TV show. HOWEVER, StrangeCast and The Lost Records Journal co-host Adam Evalt watched Maisy Stella in My Old Ass and explained to co-host Adnan Riaz why he felt that he saw her more as Chloe than the rumoured Max links for Prime Video's Life Is Strange show.

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-cede098beb8960b4523eca4cae995c9a{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-cede098beb8960b4523eca4cae995c9a .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-cede098beb8960b4523eca4cae995c9a .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; } Through My Bible Yr 03 – February 28Genesis 4 – 5 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – February 28 Genesis 4 – 5 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/03-0228db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible The First Children: Cain and Abel Genesis 4 1 The man was intimate with Eve, his wife. She conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have gotten a man with the Lord.” [1] 2 She also gave birth to Cain's brother Abel. Abel tended sheep, but Cain worked the ground. 3 As time passed, one day Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the soil. 4 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The Lord looked favorably on Abel and his offering, 5 but he did not look favorably on Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and his face showed it. 6 The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why do you have that angry look on your face? [2] 7 If you do good, will you not be lifted up? If you do not do good, sin is crouching at the door. It has a strong desire for you, but you must rule over it.” 8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let's go into the field.” [3] When they were in the field, Cain attacked Abel, his brother, and killed him. 9 The Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?” 10 The Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the soil. 11 Now you are cursed and sent away from the soil [4] which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the soil, it will no longer give its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” 13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear. 14 Look, today you have driven me away from the soil. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. And whoever finds me will kill me.” 15 The Lord said to him, “No! [5] If anyone kills Cain, he will face sevenfold revenge.” And the Lord appointed a sign for [6] Cain, so that anyone who found him would not strike him down. The Descendants of Cain 16 Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, [7] east of Eden. 17 Cain was intimate with his wife. She conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch, Irad was born. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech. 19 Lamech took two wives. The name of one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the predecessor [8] of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the predecessor of all who play the lyre and flute. 22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, who made all kinds of tools and weapons from bronze and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Na'amah. 23 Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. Look, I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me. 24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, then Lamech will be avenged seventy-seven times. The Family Line of Seth 25 Adam was intimate with his wife again. She gave birth to a son and named him Seth, [9] because she said, “God has set another child in place of Abel for me, since Cain killed him.” 26 Later a son was born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. This is when people began to proclaim [10] the name of the Lord. Genesis 5 1 This is the account about the development of Adam's family: In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them, and on the day they were created, he named them “mankind.” [11] 3 Adam lived 130 years, and he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his own image, and he named him Seth. 4 The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were 800 years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 5 All the days that Adam lived were 930 years. Then he died. 6 Seth lived 105 years, and he became the father of Enosh. 7 Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 8 All the days of Seth were 912 years. Then he died. 9 Enosh lived 90 years, and he became the father of Kenan. 10 Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 11 All the days of Enosh were 905 years. Then he died. 12 Kenan lived 70 years, and he became the father of Mahalalel. 13 Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 14 All the days of Kenan were 910 years. Then he died. 15 Mahalalel lived 65 years, and he became the father of Jared. 16 Mahalalel lived 830 years after he became the father of Jared, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 17 All the days of Mahalalel were 895 years. Then he died. 18 Jared lived 162 years, and he became the father of Enoch. 19 Jared lived 800 years after he became the father of Enoch, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 20 All the days of Jared were 962 years. Then he died. 21 Enoch lived 65 years, and he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 23 All the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God. Then, he was not there, for God took him. 25 Methuselah lived 187 years, and he became the father of Lamech. 26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 27 All the days of Methuselah were 969 years. Then he died. 28 Lamech lived 182 years and became the father of a son. 29 He named him Noah [12] and said, “This one will bring us comfort during our work and the hard labor that we must perform with our hands because the Lord has cursed the soil.” 30 Lamech lived 595 years after he became father of Noah, and he became the father of sons and daughters. 31 All the days of Lamech were 777 years. Then he died. 32 Noah was 500 years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. [13] Footnotes Genesis 4:1 Or, following Luther's translation, I have gotten a man, the Lord. The Jerusalem Targum reads I have acquired a man, the Angel of the Lord. Cain means get or acquire. Genesis 4:6 Literally why has your face fallen Genesis 4:8 The words let's go into the field, which are missing from the Hebrew text, are supplied from the ancient versions. Genesis 4:11 Here and in verse 14 the Hebrew word adamah, which can be translated ground or land, refers to the soil that Cain worked. Genesis 4:15 The translation no is supported by the ancient versions. The Hebrew reads very well then. Genesis 4:15 Or placed a mark on Genesis 4:16 Nod means wandering. Genesis 4:20 Literally father, that is, the founder of this way of life Genesis 4:25 Seth sounds like the Hebrew word for set or place. Genesis 4:26 Or call on Genesis 5:2 Hebrew adam Genesis 5:29 The name Noah sounds similar to the Hebrew words for rest and comfort. Genesis 5:32 It does not seem that all of Noah's sons were born in the same year. Translations disagree whether the sons were born by the time Noah was 500 years old or after he was 500 years old. #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; } The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved. #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; } Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

Did you know that IVF is not the first, but in fact the last step in a sequence of fertility treatments? In Vitro Fertilisation is regulated by state and territory laws. It can also be expensive and emotionally challenging. Here's what to expect when aiming to start a pregnancy with IVF in Australia. - Koj puas paub tias In Vitro Fertilisaiton (IVF) yeej tsis yog thawj kauj ruam tab sis yog kauj ruam kawg ntawm cov txheej txheem pab kom muaj me nyuam? Tej xeev nyias yeej muaj nyias cai tswj cov kev siv IVF. Tej zaum cov kev siv IVF kuj yuav kim heev thiab yog tej yam ua rau yus muaj kev txhawj xeeb heev. Nod yog tej uas koj yuav ntsib thaum koj muaj hom phiaj xav siv cov IVF los pab kom muaj me nyuam ntawm teb chaws Australia.

http://www.sherylkline.com/blogIf you consider the research, only about 7% of what we say is interpreted through our actual words.Everything else is interpreted through our tone, our gestures, our body language, how we move, how we hold ourselves ... and even the cadence and tone of our voice.So before I share three nonverbal cues that can quietly take away from your ability to influence, I want to start with something I know you've heard me say before:Whatever you're thinking comes out of your mouth.In other words ... your mindset is the precursor to being able to influence successfully. Every time, it will impact how others will feel about what you have to say.Get Your Head in the Game FirstIt's very difficult for other people to be confident in us, trust us, and buy into what we're saying when we are not confident in ourselves.Let me give you a real example.One of my clients, "Sue" (not her real name) is a rising female executive who is essentially creating a VP position for herself. She has been doing the role for a long time ... she just hasn't had the title. And as you can imagine, that can create some wobble in salary and compensation conversations.Do I negotiate like I'm new to being a VP ... or do I negotiate like the seasoned VP I already am?The truth is: she has been doing the work for a year and believes she has the experience of a more seasoned VP. The problem: Her mindset  did not match her reality. Initially, ‘Sue' was uncertain about how her leadership viewed her experience. Would her leadership view her as a Sr. Director and therefore a new and incoming VP? If she was uncertain, that feeling would show up and have an impact prior to her negotiation with her boss. Instead, she shifted to: “I am a VP. I have been operating at this level. I am negotiating as a seasoned leader who will be able to have a more bold impact on the organization in this VP role..”That clarity and confidence changes everything ... including how you show up, how you speak, and how others respond to you.Once your mindset is ready to convey what you are asking for,, then you can fine tune the nonverbal cues that either strengthen or weaken your influence.The Three Nonverbal Cues That Can Take Away From Your Influence1) Closed Body StructureA closed posture communicates uncertainty, discomfort, and a lack of safety ... even if that's not what you intend.Think about crossed arms. Hunched shoulders. A collapsed chest. Legs tightly crossed. A posture that says, “I'm protecting myself."What we want instead is an open stance.If you're on Zoom, that means you want your shoulders open, your hands visible, and your body oriented toward the person you're speaking to.If you're in person, it's the same idea ... open stance, grounded feet, and a posture that communicates, “I belong here.”2) Inconsistent or Avoiding Eye ContactThis one is tricky because many of us do it without realizing it. And yes ... I catch myself doing it too sometimes.But here's why it matters.If you're looking around, darting your eyes, getting distracted, or avoiding eye contact, the other person often experiences it as uncertainty. They can also experience it as a lack of honesty or commitment.Now to be clear, we are not aiming for a stare. That's not the goal.What we want is steady, natural eye contact that communicates focus and presence. Nod to indicate engagement and engagement.If you have a crucial conversation coming up, practice.Practice with someone you trust. Practice on Zoom. Practice in a mirror if you need to.Because you might have a habit you've never noticed ... and awareness is half the work.3) Micro Signs of Self SoothingThis is t

Following on from the talk around Square Enix's ‘Life Is Strange: Reunion' -- the believed sequel to Life Is Strange: Double Exposure -- in ‘Side A' of Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast, the second part is now here. The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt continue their conversations around all things Deck Nine, Don't Nod, Don't Nod Entertainment, Don't Nod Montreal, Life Is Strange, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and much more in ‘Side B' of this podcast episode!

Happy New Year Everyone!In this episode I unpack why healthy male power is actually a force for good in the world and why the true danger lies in powerlessness.I trace how unacknowledged boys can grow into passive or angry men and I talk about the three most important ways that a young boy finds his healthy power as he grows up.Listen in to learn about the differences between male and female power, why being of service in the world is impossible without power, the difference between power and force, and so much more.TIMESTAMPS:00:00 — Intro: Power & Male Happiness 01:05 — Client Wins: Vision & Success 02:46 — The Healer's Story: Releasing Trauma 03:38 — The Spectrum of Powerlessness: Rage vs. Passivity 05:37 — The "Nice Guy" & People Pleasing 06:41 — Defining True Power vs. Force 08:23 — The Extreme Consequence of Isolation 10:51 — Phase 1: Affirmation from Mother 12:52 — The Trap of the "Mother's Son" 14:37 — Phase 2: The Father's Nod of Approval 16:08 — Phase 3: Self-Mastery & Purpose 17:45 — The Impact of a Critical Father 18:44 — Three Traits of an Attractive Man 20:54 — Releasing Trauma from the Body 22:21 — Female Power: Devotion to Love 24:07 — Attraction: Male Power & Female Devotion 25:39 — Balancing Internal & External Worlds 27:07 — Mastermind Announcement 28:33 — New Year Wishes30:09 — Outro___________________________If you found some value today then help me spread the word! Share this episode with a friend or leave a review. This helps the podcast grow.You can also watch the episodes on youtube hereFollow me on Instagram @anyashakhYou can book a discovery call at https://anyashakh.com/mentorship

Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast is back for ‘Side B' of our final episode of 2025! Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt continue their talk around Life Is Strange, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and more on the Patreon-built StrangeCast x The Lost Records Journal show!

It might be Christmas Eve, but Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast podcast is back in time for the 2025 Christmas season. Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt continue their talk around Life Is Strange, Deck Nine, Square Enix, Don't Nod, Don't Nod Montreal and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage!

It is the second-to-last episode of Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast podcast for 2025. It's almost 2026 time and Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt are here to talk all of the latest news and discussions around Life Is Strange, Deck Nine, Square Enix, Don't Nod, Don't Nod Montreal, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and much more!

‘Side A' of the latest StrangeCast episode from Player 1 vs The World's podcast is already available on YouTube and RSS feeds. With that said, ‘Side B' has now arrived and The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt continue their talks around Don't Nod Montreal's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and the Life Is Strange franchise, specifically Deck Nine's Life Is Strange: Before the Storm.

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Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast x The Lost Records Journal podcast is BACK and Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt continue their talk about all things Life Is Strange, Don't Nod Montreal's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, The Game Awards 2025 and much more in ‘Side B' of the episode!

Player 1 vs The World's​ StrangeCast has returned, folks! The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt are BACK for ‘Side A' of an all-new episode. The first part is all about Don't Nod Montreal's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, the 2025 narrative adventure title from the creators of the Life Is Strange series!

A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on November 10th 2025. You can hear more reports on our homepage www.radiosweden.se, or in the app Sveriges Radio. Presenter/producer: Kris Boswell.

This week we cover NFL trades and injuries, and an unfortunate loss of Marshawn Kneeland. We update NoD standings, and hold our Basketball teams accountable. We finish with a call out for a gaming tournament, as well as an idea for a future bracket idea. If you, or someone you know are struggling with mental health or are in crisis, please reach out. Call or text 988 for support. Our inbox is always open as well

October is done and dusted, but that means it's time for the Patreon podcast episode of Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast x The Lost Records Journal is now here. Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt cover topics from our incredible Patreon supporters, ranging from questions around Don't Nod Entertainment's Life Is Strange to Don't Nod Montreal's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage!

Today's Schauer Thoughts are a little smattering of everything with hypnotic speech for desert. Nod your head ‘yes' if that sounds like a good time, shake your head ‘no' if that sounds like a bad time. You've been a lovely audience, make sure to tip your waiter, as well as visit coat check to put your clothes back on.  And once again, run this episode and related resources by your therapist or mental health provider so your sense of self can relieve oneself.  “That was a stretch.” Exactly, you get it. Resources:  How Magicians Think - Joshua Jay  Introduction To American Deaf - Thomas K. Holcomb This Is What It Sounds Like - Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas A Little Book of Language - David Crystal  What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change - Emily Falk The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone - Steven Sloman & Philip Fernbach  Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing? https://www.vogue.com/article/is-having-a-boyfriend-embarrassing-now What Is the Somatic Nervous System? https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-somatic-nervous-system-2795866 Automatic-voluntary dissociation  https://www.medlink.com/articles/automatic-voluntary-dissociation Watch How You Nod https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-how-you-nod Imagined and real movements are controlled by the brain in the same way https://news.ki.se/imagined-and-real-movements-are-controlled-by-the-brain-in-the-same-way Chapter 8: Hypnotic Phenomena and Keeping Techniques  https://connect.springerpub.com/content/book/978-0-8261-2487-6/part/part01/chapter/ch08 Reflex Arc https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/reflex-arc#:~:text=A%20reflex%20arc%20is%20a,the%20body%20to%20a%20stimulus. The Link Between Optic and Spinal Nerves https://www.themiamiproject.org/the-link-between-optic-and-spinal-nerves/ Examples of other hypnotic speech pattern's  https://hypnosistrainingacademy.com/milton-model-hypnotic-language-patterns-trance/?amp=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Niki has been taken by the Swamp Monster so Lotus and John are fending for themselves. Lucky for you, they love to yap! Included in the gab sesh:EA's generative AI tools all suck and no one likes themAmazon is cutting tens of thousands of jobsMany Amazon Games projects have shut downAmazon Games was apparently (???) competing with Steam the whole timeDon't Nod is working with Netflix IP for upcoming projectHuge Animal Crossing New Horizons update is comingNintendo is selling a huge Breath of the Wild vinyl setTake-Two & Rockstar do some union bustingStasisDeep Sleep TrilogyKinophobiaNinja Gaiden: RageboundShinobi: Art of VengeanceOnce Upon a KATAMARIPlus, we answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our Discord.

This week, the guys are joined by Jonah of the Raiders Weekly podcast to review all things NFL and NoD. We also cover NBA news including MVP favorites, as well as the FBI scandals involving players and coaches. We finish off with a review of DC's Peacemaker season 2

It is time for an impromptu bonus episode of Player 1 vs The World's StrangeCast podcast episode. This show is ALL about the latest news from Don't Nod Entertainment after the French developer and publisher reported its earnings. The Lost Records Journal co-hosts Adnan Riaz and Adam Evalt take a deep dive into everything we learned from the Life Is Strange 1 & 2 developer, including the major agreement between Netflix and Don't Nod involving Lost Records: Bloom & Rage studio Don't Nod Montreal!

Genesis 4:1-6:8   Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have obtained a male child with the help of the Lord.” 2 And again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a cultivator of the ground. 3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel, on his part also brought an offering, from the firstborn of his flock and from their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering; 5 but for Cain and his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his face was gloomy. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why is your face gloomy? 7 If you do well, will your face not be cheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” 8 Cain talked to his brother Abel; and it happened that when they were in the field Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?” 10 Then He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground. 11 Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth.” 13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to endure! 14 Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and I will be hidden from Your face, and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” 15 So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him seven times as much.” And the Lord placed a mark on Cain, so that no one finding him would kill him. 16 Then Cain left the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17 Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and Cain built a city, and named the city Enoch, after the name of his son. 18 Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. 19 Lamech took two wives for himself: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and flute. 22 As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. 23 Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Pay attention to my words, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me! 24 If Cain is avenged seven times, Then Lamech seventy-seven times!” 25 Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another child in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.” 26 To Seth also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then people began to call upon the name of the Lord. 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. 4 Then the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 5 So all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. 6 Now Seth lived 105 years, and fathered Enosh. 7 Then Seth lived 807 years after he fathered Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 8 So all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died. 9 Now Enosh lived ninety years, and fathered Kenan. 10 Then Enosh lived 815 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 11 So all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died. 12 Now Kenan lived seventy years, and fathered Mahalalel. 13 Then Kenan lived 840 years after he fathered Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 14 So all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died. 15 Now Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and fathered Jared. 16 Then Mahalalel lived 830 years after he fathered Jared, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 17 So all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died. 18 Now Jared lived 162 years, and fathered Enoch. 19 Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he fathered Enoch, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 20 So all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died. 21 Now Enoch lived sixty-five years, and fathered Methuselah. 22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. 25 Now Methuselah lived 187 years, and fathered Lamech. 26 Then Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 27 So all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died. 28 Now Lamech lived 182 years, and fathered a son. 29 And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will give us comfort from our work and from the hard labor of our hands caused by the ground which the Lord has cursed.” 30 Then Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. 31 So all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died. 32 Now after Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  6:1 Now it came about, when mankind began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with man forever, because he is also flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of mankind, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. 6 So the Lord was sorry that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 Then the Lord said, “I will wipe out mankind whom I have created from the face of the land; mankind, and animals as well, and crawling things, and the birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.     BIBLE READING GUIDE - FREE EBOOK - Get the free eBook, Bible in Life, to help you learn how to read and apply the Bible well: https://www.listenerscommentary.com     GIVE -  The Listener's Commentary is a listener supported Bible teaching ministry made possible by the generosity of people like you. Thank you! Give here:  https://www.listenerscommentary.com/give     STUDY HUB - Want more than the audio? 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This week, we have the usual NFL, Pick 'ems and NoD rundowns. Plus, the NBA is back in season and we cover our teams opening games, with some All-Star performances with differing results, and we end with a Halloween themed Top 5

You've Been Lied ToYou've been lied to.Not by the media.Not by the government.By the one person you trusted most with your dreams.The one who told you — change your thoughts, change your life.All right.She lied.Neville Goddard would say…“Rhonda Byrne lied.”Neville Goddard said, “You are a life-giving spirit.”And you don't attract what you want.You attract who you are.My name is Mr. Twenty Twenty.This is The Power of Imagination.We explore one thing and one thing only.The wonder-working power of your human imagination.The one cause.Ever tried to change your thoughts?Ever had that battle in your mind?Of course you have.Because thoughts don't produce things.And just because you repeat something long enough doesn't make it true.You can affirm until your tongue falls off — but if you haven't shifted states, you'll still spin your wheels.Because Thoughts Don't Produce ThingsThey don't.Your life is produced by your state.Neville Goddard said:That means everything!Your thoughts, your feelings, your reactions, your results!(Even your frustrations!)They all come from who you're being.The state of Happy Loving Teacher has one set of thoughts.The state of Happy Loving Husband has another.Same man.Different state.Different world.That's the key.Identity.(Watch the video!)At IdentityBasedManifesting.com we do something called State Stacking.It's how you stop running the old Parent Trap.The one that keeps you stuck trying to fix yourself like a seven-year-old who thinks they're in trouble.You're not seven anymore.You're a life-giving spirit.When you shift states, your thoughts change naturally.No effort.No editing.No endless positive thinking.People say, “Watch your words.”I say, sure, I watch them.There they go.Sometimes I even sing them. Still doesn't matter.I use the F-word a lot. Doesn't mean I have sex all day.When you change who you're being, what you feel, say, and think all shift automatically.It's not “change your thoughts, change your life.”It's “change your state, and your world changes.”You can't think your way into freedom.You can only feel your way into being.When you move from being the old you into the real you — the life-giving spirit — your thoughts, your emotions, your words, and your world all follow.That's how it's always worked.Start free at HowToFeelItReal.com.We just uploaded three new short lessons:The Mind Movie Mistake – why movies fade and states don't.The Echo Editing Error – why fixing thoughts never fixes the cause.Happy Hands – how simple physical awareness shifts everything.It's all our gift to you.And it'll change how you see everything.One Sip Simple.My name is Mr. Twenty Twenty.This is The Power of Imagination.Thoughts don't produce things.States do.Change who you're being….And watch your world transform!Most people will read this…Nod their head…and go right back to chasing thoughts.They'll scroll, swipe, and hope something finally clicks.But a few will stop. And decide to do what it takes…You've already waited long enough.

This week, we're joined again by James of Dark Side of the Mic, to do our NFL and NoD recaps. We also cover a government agency's legal troubles with Pokémon, and the upcoming Wolverine video game. We finish with a good old bracket, this time featuring top beers in the USA.

In this episode of Do The Work | Mindset Mastery, I break down a simple truth I live by every day. Attitude is the foundation. Enthusiasm is the expression. When I move with purpose even on the mornings I feel stiff, tired, and anything but motivated, my actions create the energy I need. People read my face, my voice, my posture, and they respond to what I carry. If I choose purpose, others feel it and follow it. Introduction I did not wake up inspired. My back hurt. My shoulder was tight. I shuffled to the bathroom like a slow old man. Then I walked into the gym and a guy told me I always move with purpose. That compliment reminded me of the standard I set for myself. I do not wait for motivation. I act first. The energy shows up after. Body Awareness creates advantage I know eyes are on me. Clients, team, family, even strangers at the gym read my body language. They decide how far to push, whether to trust, and if they want to work with me based on what I show. When I smile, stand tall, and speak with conviction, I transmit certainty. Certainty moves deals forward. Action before motivation I never count on feeling ready. I get moving and let the movement warm up my mind. Action builds motivation. Motivation builds inspiration. Then I stack more action. That cycle is how I keep momentum, even when my body hurts or my schedule is heavy. Enthusiasm is a skill Enthusiasm is not fake. It is a decision to express what I believe. Shoulders back. Eye contact. Strong handshake. Clear tonality. Words that lead. I do this with my family so they can believe in me. I do it with clients so they can make confident decisions. If I carry worry, they mirror worry. If I carry certainty, they mirror certainty. Lead the room with your presence At the gym I skip every other stair. At the coffee shop Carla and I visit, we are met with smiles and service because we bring the same energy. People respond to the way you enter a space. Move like you have somewhere to be and something to build. Smile first. It opens doors. Say you are the best and then deliver Big claims force big delivery. When I say I market the best, negotiate the best, and deliver the best, I give my subconscious direct orders. Then I back it up with preparation, presence, and follow through. Clients already believe you are the best when they call you. Do not talk them out of it by being timid, worried, or slow. Protect client experience with your tone Problems happen. Appraisals come in low. Inspections get messy. Your job is not to transfer panic. Your job is to take on the worry and lead with solutions. Calm tone. Clear path. People want to feel they made the right decision when they chose you. Practical cues to switch on enthusiasm Smile before you call. Stand up when you negotiate. Use your hands when you explain. Nod to confirm understanding. Keep your voice steady. Dress with intention. If you feel yourself fading, lean your shoulders forward and let your body pull your mind into motion. Forward momentum beats hesitation. Conclusion Attitude sets your standard. Enthusiasm shows the world your standard. Stop waiting to feel ready. Take the action that moves you. Smile with purpose. Speak with conviction. Walk like you mean it. When you do, people feel safe making decisions around you. That is leadership. That is how you produce. Reader Questions Where in your day do you usually wait for motivation, and what action can you take first to spark it instead Think about your last client meeting. What did your face, tone, and posture communicate before you said a word What bold claim about your service are you willing to make today, and what specific action will you take to back it up Notable Quotes Attitude is the foundation and enthusiasm is the expression. Do not wait for motivation. Take the action and let the action create the energy. Clients already believe you are the best or they would not have called. Do not talk them out of it. Follow A.Z. Araujo on Social Media: Instagram: @azaraujo Facebook: A.Z. Araujo TikTok: A.Z. Araujo YouTube: Do The Work Podcast   For Real Estate Agents in AZ: Learn more about Do The Work Coaching and A.Z. & Associates: dothework.com/azaa   Upcoming Events: If you're a real estate brokerage owner, sign up for one of our upcoming events. Visit: dothework.com bigmoneybrokerage.com Join my mailing list for updates!   New Do The Work Gear: Check out the latest DTW and Do The Work Gear! Hats, shirts, journals, and more: shop.dothework.com

Totallytoriarmstrong.com/contact Quality Interaction Cheat Sheet Use these simple strategies to transform everyday interactions into meaningful connections. Keep this cheat sheet handy as a reminder to choose connection over disconnection. • ■ **The 5-Minute Rule:** Give loved ones 5 minutes of undivided attention when they enter the room—phones down, eyes up. • ■ **Eye Contact + Name:** Look people in the eye and use their name—it signals presence and respect. • ■ **Ask Better Questions:** Swap 'How was your day?' for 'What made you smile today?' or 'What was the highlight?' • ■ **Listen Without Fixing:** Sometimes people don't need advice—they just need to feel heard. Nod, reflect, and hold space. • ■ **Be Where Your Feet Are:** Whether at dinner, a game, or a meeting—be fully present in that moment.

Support my work on Patreon- https://patreon.com/realdavejackson Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- https://discord.gg/V3ZHz3vYQR Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- https://ko-fi.com/realdavejackson Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Don't Nod, 2023) represents a different type of game that Don't Nod has been making alongside their popular choice-based narrative games like Life is Strange and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage. With 2018's Vampyr, Don't Nod took a swing a narrative, decisions-matter action RPG, and while I liked Vampyr a lot, the decisions-matter part of it left a lot to be desired. Five years later, they took another swing at that type of game with Banishers, and really righted that specific area. Decisions matter in Banishers in a way they don't matter in most games, and it led to one of the most effective stories I've played in a while. Guest info: Erik (he/him) * Listen to Pages of Play podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pages-of-play/id1755937349 * Check out Erik's written work on So Many Games https://somanygames.co.uk/ TIMESTAMPS * 0:00 Title Card * 0:32 Intros * 5:03 Histories with Don't Nod and Banishers * 8:29 Opening Thoughts * 16:22 Story/World Setup and Characters * 28:43 Inciting Plot Event and Choice/Morality System * 37:51 Tough Choices * 48:02 Presentation and Side Quest Writing * 59:00 Combat * 1:13:37 World Design and Vibes * 1:22:50 Boss Fights * 1:27:20 Recommendations * 1:30:20 Pages of Play Podcast * 1:36:38 SPOILER WALL and Patron Thank-Yous * 1:38:06 Spoiler Section- Side Stories Tying Into the Main Story * 2:17:10 Spoiler Section- The Nightmare * 2:32:08 Spoiler Section- Endings Music used in the episode is credited to Trevor Morris. Tracks used: Main Menu, The Harrows, Intimate Moment- Harmony Social Media: BlueSky- https://bsky.app/profile/tftblpod.bsky.social Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/talesfromthebacklog/ Cover art by Jack Allen- find him at https://linktr.ee/JackAllenCaricatures

618 - The Faces - Stay With Me: Chris, Nick, and Andy break down "Stay With Me" from the 1971 album A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... To a Blind Horse by The Faces.