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Ok… So in this episode titled: How not to do Baguazhang 如何不做八卦掌, I'm letting you know about Neidan Master Damo Mitchell's audio by the same name. Listen to it. It's in-depth and worth its weight in gold. It's about an hour long but if you try to rush it and skip sections, you will miss a great deal of important stuff that will either boost your practice or stop incorrect practices that are holding you back. And before you ask, this is not a team-up with Mitchell.

Ok SO, today, we are talking about CRINGING and cringing at ourselves because let's face it, we've all cringed at ourselves before. At some point in time, you've looked at a picture or a video of yourself and literally felt so disgusted by it LOL. And that's what I love about this topic…No matter what age you are, no matter what height you are, no matter whatever features you have or whoever you are, you have cringed at yourself at least once for feeling yourself. We all do it. But the real question here is how can we get over this? Tune in to the full episode for more!Let's stay connected: https://beacons.ai/atallgirlspodcastLeave a review and let me know how tall you are: https://atallgirlspodcast.com/reviews

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In Matthew chapter 13 Jesus gives us the inside scoop on some monumental news: “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS HERE!”  OK… So what does that mean?  Well, Jesus thought the best way to explain it was through a series of stories, or parables, as they are sometimes called.  His stories tell us that the Kingdom of God is a revolution that He, Himself, brought to earth.  This revolution is not something political or military-driven.  Instead, it is a revolution to overthrow all evil and bring earth and heaven back into harmony.  Big stuff!  And He is inviting us to be part of it.    “WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!"This message, titled I'm In! was preached on Sunday, October 23rd by Stephen LeiningerFor more information about First Christian Church, click here.

In Matthew chapter 13 Jesus gives us the inside scoop on some monumental news: “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS HERE!”  OK… So what does that mean?  Well, Jesus thought the best way to explain it was through a series of stories, or parables, as they are sometimes called.  His stories tell us that the Kingdom of God is a revolution that He, Himself, brought to earth.  This revolution is not something political or military-driven.  Instead, it is a revolution to overthrow all evil and bring earth and heaven back into harmony.  Big stuff!  And He is inviting us to be part of it.    “WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!"This message, titled It's Like Finding a Treasure  was preached on Sunday, October 16th by Matthew RogersFor more information about First Christian Church, click here.

In Matthew chapter 13 Jesus gives us the inside scoop on some monumental news: “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS HERE!”  OK… So what does that mean?  Well, Jesus thought the best way to explain it was through a series of stories, or parables, as they are sometimes called.  His stories tell us that the Kingdom of God is a revolution that He, Himself, brought to earth.  This revolution is not something political or military-driven.  Instead, it is a revolution to overthrow all evil and bring earth and heaven back into harmony.  Big stuff!  And He is inviting us to be part of it.    “WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!"This message, titled It's Growing  was preached on Sunday, October 9th by Matthew RogersFor more information about First Christian Church, click here.

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In Matthew chapter 13 Jesus gives us the inside scoop on some monumental news: “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS HERE!”  OK… So what does that mean?  Well, Jesus thought the best way to explain it was through a series of stories, or parables, as they are sometimes called.  His stories tell us that the Kingdom of God is a revolution that He, Himself, brought to earth.  This revolution is not something political or military-driven.  Instead, it is a revolution to overthrow all evil and bring earth and heaven back into harmony.  Big stuff!  And He is inviting us to be part of it.    “WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!" This message, titled Everything Sad is Coming Untrue  was preached on Sunday, October 2nd by Matthew RogersFor more information about First Christian Church, click here.

In Matthew chapter 13 Jesus gives us the inside scoop on some monumental news: “THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS HERE!”  OK… So what does that mean?  Well, Jesus thought the best way to explain it was through a series of stories, or parables, as they are sometimes called.  His stories tell us that the Kingdom of God is a revolution that He, Himself, brought to earth.  This revolution is not something political or military-driven.  Instead, it is a revolution to overthrow all evil and bring earth and heaven back into harmony.  Big stuff!  And He is inviting us to be part of it.    “WELCOME TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD!"  This message was preached on Sunday, September 25th by Matthew RogersFor more information about First Christian Church, click here.

Simone & Holly are back with season two of the OK SO podcast and this ones all about breastfeeding and disposing of bodies!

Oh you better believe I made a click bait title! But seriously our guest, Jay Mills and his company have and do repel off roofs to clean dryer vents among many other services. We chat business, coaching, and community throughout the podcast. Did you expect any less? NO you didn't! Ok So what else does Jay do? His company also replaces sections of dryer venting, finishes dry wall after a vent repair, and so much more! Jay is also co-founder of Dryer Vent Profits, a company that teaches others how to start, run, and scale a dryer vent service company. Dryer Venting is one of the single largest source of home fires in the country and the maintenance and cleaning of these vents is often missed or poorly done. It is so important if you are going to run a dryer vent cleaning company that you are well prepared to service your customers needs. So without further ado... Episode 47: An Interview with Jay Mills Co-Founder of Dryer Vent Profits! https://www.facebook.com/DryerVentProfits https://dryerventprofits.com **************************************************************** ServiceAllianceGroup.com https://linktr.ee/theappliancealliance https://Facebook.com/appliancealliancegroup https://Facebook.com/CSRalliancegroup **Affiliate Links to tools, help grow the podcast and give back to the community: mastersamuraitech.com 10% off any MST Course Promo Code: ApplianceAlliance HouseCall Pro Discount: Big savings on the first three months! https://housecallpro.grsm.io/g6lksbtxt37a Workiz: Grab your free 14-day trial + 20% off 3 months with our discount link! www.workiz.com/appliancealliance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/service-alliance/support

Ok…So now we move on to chapter 7. This chapter takes a break from the devastating judgements, and shows us some really important details that should inspire, encourage, and motivate you in your faith. It is a picture or a glimpse of what is to come, things we long for, and a reminder that God's plan won't be stopped and the gospel will go forth into all the earth…even during the Great Tribulation. You will also see that when God removes the church He raises up a new group of evangelists to spread the gospel to every nation as it was intended from the beginning.Please take a moment and subscribe to this podcast and add it to your favorites...also please share this podcast with others and help me spread the power of God's Word to as many people as possible. If you would like to communicate with me regarding this podcast...you can do so via email: Jason.p3podcast@gmail.comIf you would like to support this podcast or make a contribution you can do so by following the link below…Thank you and God Bless!!!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/p3jason)

Scripture For Today:2 Kings 19:4“It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”Don't Cancel Your Prayers pt 1We have been studying about praying according to God's Will. And we focused in on, among other scriptures, 1 John 5:14-15 which says, “and this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us… and if we KNOW He has heard us, whatsoever we ask, we KNOW that WE HAVE the petition we have desired of Him.” We talked a bit yesterday about praying for your loved ones to be saved. I left off with the question, “Did God hear you when you prayed?”  Your answer, I pray, was YES! Did you pray according to God's Word? Is it God's Word that EVERYONE be saved?  YES! So we know it is God's Word and God's Will that everyone be saved, right? OK… So when you prayed for your loved one to be saved, God heard you; and we can read in 1 John 5:14-15 and in other scriptures that we did pray according to His Will.  That means you will receive what you asked God for. Amen! “But, brother Bob, my loved ones still are not saved. They are living like heathens.”  Let me tell you something, before I was born again, if you would have looked up the word “heathen” in the dictionary, it probably had my picture next to it. Amen!  My wife prayed for me every single day for four years BEFORE I ever got born again. Look at 1 John 5:!5 again.  “…if we KNOW that God hears us, whatsoever ever we ask, we KNOW that we have the petitions that we desire of Him.”  Can I get an AMEN? If you pray according to God's Word, the Bible…it says you HAVE the petitions you desire of Him. Not that you WILL have.  That you HAVE – right now – in possession of – the YES from God. Amen!  But your prayers WILL NOT WORK – if you judge the answer by what you currently see in the natural.  That is not FAITH – it's feelings. “Well, I just don't feel healed…”  “Well, I'm still just as broke as can be…” “Well, I guess my prayers aren't getting answered…” I can hear you right now – that's how some of you are praying. You pray for a miracle and then negate the entire thing by saying something stupid, like, “Well you never know what God is gonna do…” or some other anti-faith statement. When you add some stupid remark to the end of your prayer like, “…if it be thy will…” – WHEN YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE WORD SAYS – which IS God's will – then you are calling God a liar to His face during your prayer time! It would be like coming to your momma or daddy and ask, “Do you love me?”  And they respond with, “Why of course I love you!”  Then you spit on them and call them a liar! How would that make them feel? How do you think God feels when you do that to Him?  That is what you are doing when you KNOW His Word says it is His will to do – whatever… healing, blessing, etc.  And then you tell Him “I really don't know if your word is true…but if it is, can you answer me so I know it's true?” Folks, it doesn't work that way.  And I'm all out of time for today, so we will take it up here tomorrow. Let's Pray! Please subscribe to this podcast, leave us a quick 5 star review on Apple Podcasts to help us grow and be sure to visit our website for more information on our ministry: https://podcastersforchrist.com/ (https://podcastersforchrist.com). And while you are at the website, download the free resource I have for you… it is free and is called, “How to Start a Christian Podcast.” It will bless you – go and download it today. You can also WATCH these session on our Facebook Playlist at this...

Last week The OK SO was trolled and Simone loved it, Holly hated it and they five into how Holly doesn't always think she is confident but actually, as the episode progresses, girl got tickets! 

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Consistently Consistently Episode 119 Hey boo hey !! Happy Mindset Makeover Monday !! Listen !!! This Monday is all about getting ready for the week and being consistent in your personal brand . I know everyone talks about being consistent, but I look at being consistent as Posting meanfuling content that communicates who you are and and you can do you for your audience Keeping your schedule of posting content and engaging with your audience on a schedule And BTS planning on what you're launching next, ways to market yourself to a bigger audience, and building meanfuling brand alliances . Ok

What Up With Rob and Chris: Realtor Mr Phenomenal Da Todd Bernstein Guest hosting on tonights show Rob and Erika are Down at AGT enjoying the show. Ok So you would like to contact Da Todd you can contact us and we will get you to him. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realtor_stuff_with_todd/ Subscribe To What Up! https://bit.ly/3qRR69T More What Up Videos

My guest today is Yves Dimier. And he has come home. His career has come full circle.He is a product of the local ski club in Val Cenis. His racing career was a result of his hard work rather than his natural ski talent, he became a professional ski racer in Slalom and Giant slalom racing. He raced on the European and World cup circuit competing around the world. He represented France at the World Championships and Winter Olympics.With a head for business and always looking to the future and new goals. Yves transitioned into the corporate world of sports, with Dynastar skis, where he worked with the brand athletes helping them progress with the best equipment. Pushing the boundaries with ski and boot technology.Then he had a stint with the National Ski Federation of France. Whose charter was to develop future ski champions for France.Then there was the opportunity to go to the Winter Olympics for a second time. Not as an athlete, but This time on the organising team for the Sochi games in 2014.Then he came back to Val Cenis as the resort Director. Now he is in charge of the ski resort where he grew up. Leading the resort out of the covid 19 closures and planning the future for the resort and the local economy.We talk about his racing career and the future of his local ski resort.Now before we start the show and hit the intro music, please make sure you subscribe and follow the show wherever you listen to your podcast, it would also be a great help if you could rate and review the show on Apple iTUNES.Ok So welcome to another episode of Beyond the mountains podcast where I talk to people who LIVE WORK AND PLAY in the mountains. I'm your host Ashley Pettit Let's start the intro music and get on with the show. Allons-yBuy your ski passhttps://www.valcenis.ski/Websitehttps://www.haute-maurienne-vanoise.com/hiver/val-cenis/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/valcenis_officiel/

My guest today is Cedric Marra, a professional ski instructor in the winter and mountain bike guide and instructor during the summer. He can help you to drop in and take a big line on 2 skis or two wheels.Make sure you stick around to the end, after Cedric warms up, he gives us some great tips on how to improve your skiing or biking, but also some great advice you can apply to our lives in general.We talk about his life as a professional ski and mountain bike instructor and how he is living his best life in the mountains.You can find Cedric at Up & Down Ski and Bike. I'll leave you the links in the show notes to his Instagram and Facebook pages. If you come skiing in Val Cenis, you can also request a lesson with Cedric through the ESF ski school.https://www.up-down.co/https://www.facebook.com/Updownskibikehttps://www.instagram.com/up_d0wn/Now before we start the show and hit the intro music, please make sure you subscribe and follow the show, it would also be a great help if you could rate and review the show on Apple iTunes.Ok So welcome to another episode of Beyond the mountains podcast where I talk to people who LIVE WORK AND PLAY in the mountains. I'm your host Ashley Pettit Let's start the intro music and get on with the show. Allons-y

This week I interview Emily Hacker, host of OK So, I Met This Guy podcast, about the fundamental question that inspired Interstates & Heartbreak - Is dating in LA the worst? We unpack the dating challenges specific to a place best described as "a city of 10s seeking an 11," including the unavoidable male archetypes, why people are more likely to cancel date plans, and the very real struggle of traffic when you're attempting to traverse the city for back to back dates. To hear dating stories that will make you feel better about your own dating life (including my unfortunate Chuck E. Cheese date) : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ok-so-i-met-this-guy/id1552267500 . To submit a dating story that will make OTHER people feel better about their dating lives: https://www.instagram.com/oksoimetthisguy/ . For tongue-in-cheek interpretations of men's dating profiles as told by my inner Carrie: https://www.instagram.com/interstatesandheartbreak/ . For (slightly) deeper insights into my philosophies on dating and relationships: https://interstatesandheartbreak.com/ . To email any thoughts, questions, or business inquiries: interstatesandheartbreak@gmail.com . For a glimpse into my life when I'm not talking about dating: https://www.instagram.com/lesliegnope .

Ok So this weeks show is a little goofy, but I promise you will laugh.  Kole might have had a really bad case of "Squirrel" but we did get around to the question of the day.  What is the right way to enjoy the lifestyle?  Who has the answer?  Is there a correct answer?  We try to help an husband and wife, who the wife is just getting back into the lifestyle.  We talk about the different ways and signs to look out for when people start to "have the answer".  The adult alternative Non-monogamous  lifestyle is your personal journey and you know what?  Only you can decide what is the right way to take your  trip!  Relax and get ready to laugh your way to a better experience.  Also want to hear all our shows?  Check them out at www.buzzsprout.com/181336 Visit our paid sponsors at:                                 http://www.altplayground.net                                 Http://www.smokinmeatsbbqtreats.com                                  http://www.asnlifestylemagazine.com                                  http://www.fullswapshop.comVisit us at http://www.fullswapradio.comVisit us at : http://www.krazykasbh.comYouTube : http://www.youtube.com/KasbhSend us emails at krazy.kasbh@gmail.comTwitter:  @TruthKrazyInstagram http://www.instagram.com/Krazy_Kasbh/Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/KrazyKasbh)

Hi everybody and thank U 4 waiting, one week late, well we lost this show briefly it was named something else, but we did our investigation and came up with (B J # 47) The 47th Jazz show we have done since the beginning of Basement Jazz. OK So song on this show come from: The Jazz Masquerade / Roger Kelloway / The Crusaders and The Heath Brothers and a few more. So ready 2 get your Jazz on ?? here we go.... Intro: Jingle Jangle-Ron Frangepane 1. Havona-Weather Report 2. Oh Baby-Bobby Hackett & Jack Teagarden 3. Smoothin' On Down-Tom Scott 4. Surfin' Senorita-Herb Alpert 5. Take 2-The Steve Wright Band 6. Steddy Teddy-The Jazz Masquerade 7. The EEL-Yank Lawson 8. Joy-Paul Greaver 9. Rainey Night In Georgia-The Crusaders 10. Tracking Problem-Lionel Hampton 11. The Spirit Feel-Roger Kelloway 12. Honky Tonk Boogie-Pete Johnson 13. Gene's Solo Flight-Gene Krupa 14. Cloak & Daggar-The Heath Brothers Outro: Young Rabbits-The Crusaders

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OK So things are heating up, and as you will hear Ted Cruz addressed a major issue we all need to pay close attention to within the next couple of weeks as we get close to the D Days of JAN 6th and JAN 20th which for sure be going down as major days in American history! OR The days America became history, and the Communist take over. This is not just online conspiricy folks just be prepared, and ready for whatever comes next. On the show Kate addressed more important things one must have in order to survive. Are you ready? Better be ready..... To listen live remember check out first! www.psn-radio.com/ www.youtube.com/c/psntvlive www.twitch.tv/psntvlive www.dlive.tv/PSNTV www.twitter.com/PSNRADIO/ Share this podcast pages... Also check out Angels Patreon page over at www.patreon.com/angelespino

SCOTUStalk Host Amy Howe spoke this week with two groups of former law clerks for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In the first of these interviews, Kelsi Brown Corkran, Lori Alvino McGill, and Amanda Tyler share their memories of meeting Ginsburg for the time and working for a boss who herself was such a hard worker.Full Transcript:[00:00:00] Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!Amy Howe: [00:00:03] This is SCOTUStalk, a nonpartisan podcast about the Supreme Court for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, brought to you by SCOTUSblog.AH: [00:00:13] Welcome to SCOTUStalk. I'm Amy Howe. Thanks for joining us. Members of the public generally knew her as the Notorious RBG or as a tiny but mighty figure in the courtroom. For her law clerks, though, Ginsburg was a warm and thoughtful role model and mentor. We're so lucky to have three of her law clerks with us to talk about the time they spent working with Ginsburg as well as their relationships with her after they finished their clerkships. Kelsi Brown Corkran is the head of the Supreme Court practice at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe. Lori Alvino McGill is an appellate lawyer who clerked for Justice Ginsburg during the October term, 2005. And Amanda Tyler is the Shannon Cecil Turner professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.Let's start at the beginning. Talk about how you came to be a clerk for Justice Ginsburg. What was the interview process like? You're all relatively young lawyers going to talk to Justice Ginsburg, who was not much of a small talker. What was the interview like?Kelsi Brown Corkran: Yeah, so I was actually a little bit older. I was pregnant with my son when I clerked for Judge Tatel on the D.C. Circuit.So I waited until after my kids were born before I applied to clerk on the court. It's pretty well documented that when Justice Ginsburg was recommended to clerk for Justice Frankfurter by the dean of Harvard Law School, that he was initially willing to consider a female clerk, but when he found out that she was a mother, that was just too much. He could not have a mother in chambers. And so she missed out on the opportunity to do a clerkship on the Supreme Court. And so that interview was just incredible in so many ways. I mean, to see her in person, I still am not over that. And it was almost a decade ago, and I ended up working with her for a year. But I can still remember walking into chambers and seeing her there in real life. But we ended up talking about my kids. I brought them up at some point and she smiled and asked how old they were. And then a few minutes later offered me the clerkship. And it was it was very special to me. I think it was a joy to her to be able to give that opportunity to so many of the clerks that she lost out on. And I was just one of many clerks who came to chambers, both male and female, who already had kids. So, it was a particular piece of it that was special to me.AH: [00:02:51] Lori, how about you?LAM: Well it’s hard to follow that story. But I have a couple of sharp memories from my interview process. The first was when I was extended the interview. I was working on the DC Circuit for Douglas Ginsburg. No relation, but they were friends.[00:03:12] But they come from a very different ideological background, I would say.[00:03:17] So the first thing I remember is DHC coming into my little part of chambers and letting me know that Justice Ginsburg had called him about me, and I was elated. Of course, I was really excited. And he said, but so here's the thing. I think she's going to call you and extend an interview. And I think if she interviews you, she's going to hire you. And he looks very serious. And I'm like, well, that sounds great. And he said, well, you understand, if she extends an offer to you, you have to accept that.[00:03:50] Yeah.[00:03:53] And then he looks at me like, what, Lori? I just want to make sure that there's not some other justice who would prefer to clerk for me. I looked at him like, wow, you had no idea there was one of us here in chambers. And so I was a sleeper liberal with nothing to indicate as such on my resume. But so he was surprised, as surprised that I was excited as I was surprised that she was interested in the interview. The process was stressful, as you'd imagine. I was busy on the D.C. Circuit. I was also studying for the bar exam, and I remember studying a lot for the interview. And I got there and I could not have been prepared for the first question that she asked me, which was, Lori, we've had a lot of trouble with our panel. And I have to tell you, I just secured it was beautiful new grand piano for the West Conference Room. The reason we have a new piano is the old piano would not stay in tune. Would you mind going downstairs and playing the piano after we're done here and letting me know if it sounds OK? So, you know, on my resumé, I had indicated I was a pianist, but I was not prepared to play the piano for a justice of the Supreme Court.[00:05:09] And I spent the entire forty five minute period with her not appreciating the experience. Or like really present in our conversation, but instead I was thinking, but my nails aren't trimmed and I haven't touched the piano in 12 months, and what could I possibly play for the justice that would be impressive. It turned out, mercifully, that after our conversation, she just sent me downstairs with one of her current clerk, Ginger Anders, who I knew from law school, and I was able to, in relative privacy, test out the grand piano and report back to her when she called to extend the offer that the piano was in tune and sounded great.AH: What did you play?LAM: I actually I played a pop song. I played Possession by Sarah McLaughlin because I hadn't played anything classical in a long time. But I had a keyboard in my apartment, and that was the kind of thing I was playing in those days. But I did.AH: Amanda. How was your interview?AT: [00:06:03] I was more nervous for that job interview than any job interview I've ever had in my life. And yet what was really nice, and I've heard the others say this as well, she put me at ease right away, and it really took it took a lot of the nerves out of the situation.[00:06:19] My interview story is actually less about the interview and more about what happened immediately after. So very fortunately, she offered me the job at the end of the interview and I, of course, accepted on the spot. And I went back to the airport to fly back to Boston.[00:06:34] I was in school still, and I called my grandparents from the airport to tell them I was very close with my grandparents and neither of them had gone to college.[00:06:42] It became immediately apparent in the conversation they had no idea who Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, and they didn't understand the enormity of this incredible opportunity.[00:06:54] And so I then had to explain to them who Ruth Bader Ginsburg was. And I remember I said something to the effect of grandma, you don't understand. I was only able to go to law school because she changed everything in this country for women and for both genders. Really. Excuse me. And I remember my grandmother saying, my God, she sounds amazing. Amanda, I'm so, so proud that you will go and clerk for her. So this whole story connects back. It's not a story about me. I wrote the justice, a letter the next day saying how excited I was and how honored I was to be able to go and work for her. And I decided to tell her, write up a story about my grandparents and the conversation and specifically what my grandmother had said. The justice wrote me back and sent a card for my grandmother with a letter to my grandmother, which my grandmother then framed and hung in her living room. So that was pretty special.AH: [00:07:51] That's a great story. What was it like working with her sort of on a day to day basis? I feel like, you know, the stories you hear from clerks about life at the Supreme Court, that different chambers have sort of different personalities, depending on the justice. What was it like working with her?AT: It was great, but she didn't let anything slide. She had the most exacting standards and she herself had an incredible work ethic. And she was a workhorse and she never wasted a minute. She used every minute for constructive purposes. And so you had you had to measure up. You had to do your best. I wrote something up recently where I said working for her was like playing with Michael Jordan. She pulled you up and made you perform at your best level.[00:08:43] I was not a pianist. I was an athlete. So I use sports analogies on my glory. She was she was a Michael Jordan, the Leo Messi, Megan Rapinoe of athletes in the sense that she she really made you rise to the occasion and meet her standards or certainly die trying, which I certainly did. The other thing, though was that just the meticulous care with which she took that she took with her opinions.[00:09:12] So you would give her a draft and she would give it back, really marked up, but then walk through why she thought you should change this. And I'm sure Lauren anf Kelsi, you're going to say this, I was such a better writer at the end of it, although I'm still trying to measure up.AH: Lori?LAM: [00:09:28] I would agree with all of that. I mean, I guess I would add, at least when I was clerking, she ran her chambers in quite a formal manner. I remember exchanging handwritten notes and typewritten notes, sort of regular thing, instead of knocking on her door because we were all so respectful of her process. And if she had her door closed and she was working on something, you wouldn't want to interrupt. And she was sort of old fashioned in that way. And we all sort of abided by that, as you would expect. I think her working process sort of in her manner and being sort of earned her a reputation for being cold. I think some people who didn't work with her directly may have had the impression that she was being standoffish or too formal or not. Not a warm person, and I can't emphasize enough how different that is from the person who I got to know. I think she was a deeply shy person, which is somewhat surprising given her chosen profession and her being drawn to being the trailblazer, an absolute iconic heroine for justice. She was a very shy person, but when you got to know her, she was also fiercely loyal. And we saw that sort of in the day to day workings of chambers. And then after the clerkship in the way that she really took care to continue the relationships that she formed during that year with the clerk.AH: Kelsi, do you have anything to add?KBC: [00:11:03] So I think appearing together, what Lori and Amanda said, Lori described, is exactly my memory of the pool memo process or bench memos.[00:11:16] There is lots of handwritten notes back and forth, and we each had our own little kind of folder area where she would put her comments and then we'd bring them back to her. It was the one job I've had in my adult life where my good penmanship actually was an attribute. But then, as Amanda was saying, when you got to the opinion writing process, it was much more intimate. You would sit in her office. She would outline what she had in mind for the opinion, you would draft it, and then you would give it to her in a printed copy that was triple spaced. So there's plenty of room for her to kind of do her her edits by hand. And then when she was done, as Amanda said, you would be called into chambers and you would sit at her table with her and she would go over every single edit and explain why she had done it. And it wasn't for her benefit. It was four ours to kind of teach us how to become better writers. And so I will always be grateful for that.[00:12:09] I think we all left the clerkship with this just master class on persuasion and writing and so grateful that she took the time to do that.AH: [00:12:21] You've already talked about some really special stories, but you haven't. What is your fondest memory, perhaps of Justice Ginsburg as a mentor or a friend? Lori?LAM: [00:12:33] Is it ok if I have two?[00:12:39] I'll start with the one that's later in time. So the thing that sort of sticks with me and is the perfect illustration of how much she cared for her law clerks as people happened about a year after my clerkship, a little bit more than a year, I gave birth to my first child. And one of the only things I remember about that experience, because it was a long, drawn out kind of marathon that I got a phone call from the justice who was, I believe, in Italy at the time. She called my hospital room to make sure that she told me that she knew I had had a cesarian section after a long labor and that it was really important that I surrounded myself with people who knew how much help I needed and that it was a major surgery and I needed to take care of myself like nothing to do with them. And are you planning to go back to work? And what does the law firm think of this? Because it was completely about the care and feeding of a person that she cared about. And it was incredibly meaningful to me. And I think it sort of illustrates the person she was. The other memory I will share, I shared recently on Facebook with our friends, Dr. Buloch, who some of you know, I remember her saying to me at the end of the term, right after our law clerk musical parody, which I think is still a tradition of the court. I had the role of an advocate who was delivering her first argument before the court and the first argument before the brand new Justice Alito and Sasha had written up an adaptation of Frank Sinatra's Mona Lisa and the new lyric for Sam Alito, Sam Alito, You're my fifth vote. And so it was my job to serenade him in this little parody show.[00:14:47] And at the end, she came up to me and she grabbed my hand and to look right at me and said, Lori, with a voice like that, how did you ever become a lawyer?[00:14:59] And at that moment, knowing what an opera afficionado she is and how much musical opinion, I couldn't decide if it was a huge compliment or if she was telling me that I should have kept my night job.[00:15:14] I still I tell that story with great fondness, and every time I see Justice Alito, we talk about it. It was a moment that was unforgettable.AH: Kelsi?KBC: [00:15:27] So this is not poignant, but it still makes me laugh.[00:15:32] So in chambers, there's that we had our land line telephones. And if calls came from other parts of the court, there was a kind of a regular sounding ring.[00:15:43] But if the justice called you, it was like a different I don't know how to describe it. It was like it was just a different tone. It was the justice calling. And we all would have this kind of Pavlovian response to that ring because it was why why is she calling? What's happening? What do they do? And not because of anything she did. She was always she was not a scary boss, but with someone that impressive, you just you wanted to do your best all the time.[00:16:08] So this was when we were working with her to help her come up with questions for the Shakespeare kind of mock trial that is done every year. And you're supposed to come up with kind of funny things for her to ask about. And so I had put together some questions and I wish I could remember exactly what it was, but it was some sort of joke about George Clooney in his unrequited love. So I think this is right around when he had gotten married. And so the phone rang. That kind of jarring ring and I picked it up and she said, can you explain this part about George Clooney to me? And I was like, oh, well, justice, he's an actor, he's been in a lot of movies. And I kind of go on for a couple sentences. And she stops me because I know who George Clooney is. Just why is this funny? And I don't know that I had a good response. But, you know, with her, you just kind of never knew where she was at in terms of cultural awareness. And apparently I misjudged that one.AH: [00:17:08] That's great, Amanda?AT: [00:17:13] Oh, my gosh, so many memories. And one of the really fun things is getting together right now with other clerks and hearing their great stories. Share these. When I was clerking for her, as Kelsi's story mentioned, you would sometimes help her prepare for the many, many speeches she was invited to give.[00:17:32] And I clerked for her before she was the notorious IBG and she was in huge demand then. I can't imagine after being a clerk, but she was giving one speech excuse me about the progress women had made in the workforce.[00:17:48] And she called me and she wanted me to work with her on it. And she said, you know, this is really incredible that she said this, said, you know, I'm much older than your generation and I don't really have a handle on what the current issues are.[00:18:03] So will you go around and get together with all the women law clerks and talk to them and come back and give me a real sense of what the biggest issues are that you and your peers in your age cohort, in your career cohort facing and thinking about and worried about. And I thought that was pretty amazing because she kind of wrote the book on how to figure out how women, you know, can succeed and overcome barriers. And she built so many roads of equality. But she was one constantly still trying to to open up those opportunities and break down barriers. And too she was and this is this comes out in her jurisprudence. She was trying to understand the experience of people who weren't in the exact same position as her to other stories. I mean, I could tell certainly more, but to others that immediately come to mind. She cited me once in an opinion, some of my scholarship. I was very, very excited. It was the first time I was cited by the court. I remember I'm laughing because I told my spouse and he said it doesn't count if it's Justice Ginsburg. She was just being nice. That's kind of our marriage. But she autographed the opinion with a really sweet inscription, one of the slip opinions, and sent it to me because I think she knew about was the first time I've been cited so that I have it framed in my office.[00:19:23] It was really, really sweet. A final story is just there was a period I'm so moved by Lori's story and there was a period in my life where I had I was going through something that was very, very difficult. And it was parallel to something that she had been through in her life around the same time. And there were some difficult months. And in the middle of that, she reached out. She she knew and she reached out. She wrote me a really beautiful letter about how I couldn't see it now, but that decades later I would look back and actually find much to appreciate from the experience once I got to the other side. And one she was right, of course, because she was profoundly wise and two that was incredibly kind and generous because of the parallels. I knew there was wisdom in those words, and it really carried me through some very difficult period.AH: That actually sort of touches on my next question.[00:20:22] So I guess I'll start with Kelsi. Lori and Amanda have both talked a little bit about sort of their relationship with the justice after they left the clerkship. And you all can, of course, talk about more.[00:20:36] But so what was it like? Does it change once you leave the court and you're no longer the clerk? You're a former clerk?KBC: [00:20:43] Yeah. You know, she was very accessible. So you could always any time you wanted to email her secretary and asked to come visit her.[00:20:54] And as Lori and Amanda point out, she would reach out to us when she knew things, significant things were going on in our lives. So after I had my first Supreme Court argument, it wasn't long before I got it. I got a note from her about what a great job I had done. And when I came into chambers later, she kind of grabbed my hands and she said, oh, you were super, she loved the word super.[00:21:18] But what really changed for me was my ability to be present in the moment with her during the clerkship.[00:21:24] I just felt like I always wanted to to do a job and to impress her and to live up to her standards. And I remember being in chambers one time and just sitting with her maybe a couple of years ago. And we were talking about travel and the kids and what she was up to. And I said, I just remember thinking in my head, this is extraordinary what I'm getting to do right now to just sit with her and talk for 30 minutes. And so I think that was the real difference, know, thinking, gosh, we don't cry when I say this, but I think the last time I saw her was in the winter before the pandemic started. And I had moved for someone's admission that day. If you go to the court a lot, this is something where you stand up and you just you get a script that tells you what to say. And there's not a lot that goes on. It's always granted by the chief justice. But I went to visit her afterwards and she said completely deadpan to me, you did a super job moving for admission. And I laughed. I said, thanks, justice.[00:22:32] But she was clearly being sarcastic because there's not any way to mess up looking for someone's admission.[00:22:38] So I will always remember that fondly.AH: She always paid attention to those in a way that most of the other justices didn't show respect…KBC: For any of us who appeared before her, whether it was moving for admission or arguing, you would always get a little smile for her, just a little recognition to kind of build you up on your standing at the podium, which is special.AH: [00:22:59] Lori and Amanda, do you have anything you want to add?LAM: [00:23:02] I will. I'll just add a quick one to what Kelsi just said, which is every time I had a reserved three chambers, she made a point to make eye contact with me when she entered the courtroom and gave me that same supportive little smile, which, you know, of course, delighted me every single time. I guess the other thing that I will say that that kind of changed about my relationship with RBG after I left chambers like healthy, I became less focused on am I doing a really good job right now in my interactions with her?[00:23:38] And I think it was long after the clerkship that I learned, you know, one of the most valuable lessons that she taught me and and stays with me to this day was that even Justice Ginsburg knew, and knew well, that we cannot do all things well at the same time.[00:24:00] And it was from that teaching that I had the strength to step away from my long term career and spend more time with my children. This is what I'm doing now. And it is also from that teaching that I know that when I choose to step back into the ring as a practicing lawyer or something else, that I will be fully capable of doing that very well again, but that there is a time for all things and we can't be everything all at the same time. And I think she would be the first to admit that she leaned on Marty when she needed to be the primary parent at times in her career.[00:24:42] And I think that that is probably one of the most underrated but important parts of her legacy for her women who are trying to be parents at the same time as having fulfilling careers.AH: [00:24:56] Amanda?AT: Yeah, I'll pick up on what Lori was just saying. I had the great good fortune to host her several times at various law schools where I've taught. And I remember I asked her, my students, they're always coming in and asking for advice. How do you find the work life balance? I have students that ask me what should I look for in a partner? So when I was interviewing her in front of the whole UC Berkeley law school community last last fall, I asked her what her advice was and she said, and this is exactly, of course, the story of her marriage with Marty.[00:25:30] She said choose someone choose a partner who thinks your work is as important as theirs. And it was really sweet because I was able to draw her out and have her connect directly with my students, which was a really special moment. So many of them told me afterwards they so appreciated that. But I also want to say a word about that visit. She was originally supposed to come to Berkeley the prior winter when she broke her ribs and they discovered the lung cancer event was to honor one of her best friends, Herma Hill Kay, who'd been faculty member, the second woman faculty member, and the first woman Dean at Berkeley Law. They wrote a first case book on sex based discrimination, had a wonderful friendship, and Herma had just died. So we had launched a new memorial lecture in Herma's honor. And the justice was so devoted to giving, to appearing for the event that even in the original schedule she would not cancel. I kept calling her saying, you cannot come. You need to focus on your health. You cannot. She said, I have to honor Herma, I must do it. And it was only when I think the family and the doctor said, no, you need to cancel all your events for a while, that she finally relented. And then immediately, once she got to the other side of that difficult period, she said, All right, Amanda, when are we doing this? We have to honor Herma. And she did come out and I'm very grateful. But she was you know, it was a struggle. She wasn't at full steam. And I was just in awe of her every moment of that visit, because the the will that drove her to want to honor this friendship and the and the special person in her life was truly was truly inspiring.KBC: [00:27:] Picking up on the last thing Amanda just said about her fierce desire to honor her friend.[00:27:21] I think what I carry with me is just the inspiration of the justice’s work ethic. And I don't she was not a workaholic. She was a life aholic. Everything.[00:27:35] There was no moment wasted from the moment she got out of bed until the end of the day. She was intentional in every way.[00:27:41] And the reason she was able to be so extraordinary in her work, but also so committed on a personal level to her clerks, to her friends, she made time for her workouts. You can't do all of that if you are unintentional about your time, if you're kind of just dawdling or and so I having seen her go full steam for eighty seven years, not a moment was wasted.[00:28:09] And I take that with me. When I get up in the morning, I try to live my life the same way so that I can be the parent and mother I want to be and also fully committed to my job and try to get that workout in and try to make the phone call to the friend. You can live a whole life that way and get a lot done. It's tiring, but it's so rewarding. And so when I when I'm sorry, I start to feel tired, I think of the justice and I don't want to waste any time either.AH: [00:28:36] That is a wonderful way to finish. Thank you, Kelsi Corkran, Lori Alvino McGill and Amanda Tyler for joining me to talk about the personal side of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[00:28:50] That's another episode of SCOTUStalk. Thanks for joining us. 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We split this episode up into two parts like Cthulhu splits his (im)mortal enemies in half to bring you TWO delicious new 'casts. In Part 1 we talk about the man himself, HP, and no, we don't shy away from the elephant (or Old One) in the room... his massive racism. OK SO enjoy it, little fishes, because to understand Lovecraft is to understand the weirdness which is, Zombie Fishbowl!LOVE YOU!

Ok So we tried to talk about Anastasia but, much like the train in the movie, things tended to go off the rails and explode. We are all overly tired. Sorry. Thanks Thelma activates a Manchurian Candidate. Conor reveals the worst part of every Disney movie. Emily reveals her lack of knowledge of swimwear throughout the ages. PS There is a vacuum in the background for part of the episode. Such is the life of being in a semi-shared space during recording. Sorry again. Thanks again. https://twitter.com/DrawingConPod

OK SO this recording was SO interesting it is barely edited (Except a 5 minutes rant I have about Frozen II at the beginning) so it is longer than usual. But I think everything Finn brings to the table was more than interesting and as a white woman, having a black trans man speaking about views of minorities is important not to be cut off the air. I hope you enjoy as much as I had fun recording this  This episode was recorded before the BLM movement and even the pandemic happening. So let's make clear that the podcast belives in the BLM protests and sees all minorities over the world having a hard time because of the virus. Sending love towards whoever needs it  ----- Follow Finn: @mrkaijublue Follow us: @fillorians (twitter) Song: Do you want to build a snowman, Love is an open door - Frozen & Into the Unknow - Frozen II

Hi Guys! PLEASE READ: So in this episode, I did tell you I am INCREDIBLY sorry for not uploading in the podcast! I even put it in the title! But I forgot to tell you why. I was really focused on my youtube channel and forgot my podcast! I was starting to fell a little discouraged but I knew I couldn't let you guys down! OK So today in this episode I read A FULL STORY! And I have to tell you I feel SO good about it! It's the first time! I usually just do it in parts but to make it up to you guys I wrote a full story! So the story I read was about this type of juice that brings creativity! That's really all I am going to say! I was inspired to make this story because the whole world is in quarantine, and I have seen SO MANY YouTubers saying that this is the PERFECT time to work on something you are not good at or anything in general. And I do agree with that, but I am not really doing anything creative that much and I just thought "I need to be creative" and then I thought "What if there was a juice that could bring you creativity?" and as they say any good story happens from the words "What if?" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gayathrisunbeatablestorys/message

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If you’ve had one toe in the nonprofit swimming pool in the past few weeks, since the coronavirus pandemic situation has been unfolding, you’ve likely heard the words “online fundraising” about a million times by now. Lots of nonprofits have had to cancel or postpone their fundraising events because people are practicing social distancing, and they’re not allowed to gather in big groups… I know here in Wyoming, pretty much only the grocery store is open, food is available for pickup only at a handful of restaurants that are still open… and that’s it. That’s how it is in a lot of areas in the country. So, on top of all of the closures and cancelations, a lot of nonprofits have had to stop serving for the time being.  They’re serving in limited capacities or they’ve had to re-invent because they saw a need. I just want to take this opportunity to say – I see you all, I know those of you who are making a drastic pivot and figuring out how to keep serving even in these challenging times are working so hard. I see how you are doing everything you can to help and to take care of people in any way possible, and I just want to say thank you.  Right now, you have the choice to crumble under the circumstances and lie down in the face of adversity, or you can show everyone just how amazing and strong your organization is. Keep showing up. Keep posting, keep emailing, keep serving in any way possible. Your donors and the people you serve will take notice. You are doing an amazing job! Thank you for not giving up! OK – SO – in this challenging time when we’re all trying to figure out our next step, let’s talk about online fundraisers – are they hot? Or are they not? In the past couple weeks, I have heard so many different versions of what an online fundraiser could be… It could be an online auction, it could be a live streamed event where you have speakers call in like on a Zoom call, or some kind of video chat --- I saw one fundraiser banquet that was actually going to take place, but the organization was going to live stream it so people could also watch it online. Other kinds of online fundraisers could be an online appeal, or a donation drive. But first, is it right for your organization?  The first question you have to ask yourself is, is an online fundraiser right for you? For your organization? Let’s use an example… If you’re a school and your donors are already highly invested because they’re the parents and grandparents of your students, then you might be able to have a great online fundraiser. If you’re a new or newer organization and you don’t have a strong, established relationship with your donors, it might be more challenging to have an online fundraiser. But here’s the good news, you can just start where you are! How can you pivot and still raise money? What fundraiser have you done in the past that worked – how can you make it work in your current circumstances?  Do you feel skeptical?  If you’re resistant to the idea of an online fundraiser, and you just feel like this is not right for your organization… listen to your gut. Brainstorm and think of another way to fundraise. Pivot. Start where you are… Send weekly emails - Use this time to build your relationship with your donors by storytelling, talk about what you do, and the value you bring to the lives of the people you serve. Bring value to your donor’s lives – send them a positive, feel good email! Use social media – post 2 times a week with a picture, and text and a call to action – THIS WORKS. I have built an entire business on this method. It works. It gets the most results. Send handwritten thank you notes that tell the story of one person they’re helping because they donated.  Remind them of what your mission is. You know it, but they might not be so clear about it. Tell them over and over in a few concise, clear words what your mission is.  Ask people to give. One of the main reasons people don’t donate is because they haven’t been asked.  So, at the end of your weekly email, put a link to where they can donate. Just start there! Here are a few ideas for online fundraisers to get you started brainstorming:  Do you have an end of the year appeal? Do it now, but without the cost.  Start sending emails every week for two or three weeks in advance to prepare your donors for your appeal. (This is your runway to get people prepared to give.) Remind them, do a countdown. Prep them with information about why you are doing the appeal, who the money will be helping. Let them know you need their help!  Then, at the end of that three week “runway,” kick off a week of giving. Send a link, or post a link where they can donate, or give them a phone number they can call to donate. Do this every day during your week of giving. Update your Instagram Story, build excitement around it, tell them stories. If you have a little extra money to boost a Facebook post, do it – Boost a post. Even $5 makes a difference in who sees your post.  Make sure everyone of your donors sees your post and don’t forget that other people in your local area can see your post when you choose the specific audience for your post. Remember you’re building your relationship with your donors when they see your posts. Have a walk or a fitness challenge to raise money  Get people to pledge or sponsor people who walk around their neighborhood for one week, or count steps with their fitness tracker or Fitbit, or work out with the Peloton app – by the way, the Peloton fitness app is free for 90 days right now when you sign up – you don’t need workout equipment or a credit card to sign up – it’s amazing, I’m totally hooked. It’s important that with these “virtual” events to be SO CRYSTAL CLEAR that you’re hosting a virtual, online event. Online fundraisers or online events can get confusing – people don’t know if they need to attend the event in person, or on their computer or what, so make sure you include those details for folks. For example, if you’re going to have a virtual 5K walk for your nonprofit. Make sure you express in plain and simple words that every participant is going to walk the 5K on their own, in their neighborhood or at a park or on their treadmill or whatever. Give them a deadline or a time span – encourage them to walk their 5K during April 12-17th, if that’s your week of giving or whatever date span. Give them ideas on where to walk or encourage them to participate with their whole family. Tell them to post photos on Facebook and Instagram and give them an easy, unique hashtag to use like #Walk4Life2020, and encourage them to tag your organization in their pictures, so then YOU can share their photos on your organization’s social media pages, and in your emails and on your blog. Treat it like you would a normal fundraising walk, but make sure it’s CRYSTAL CLEAR so everyone knows it’s online.  There are so many different types of fundraisers that you can do and pivot – make them work online. Here’s another idea. Plan an in-person fundraiser for August  Organizations are always concerned about having fundraisers in the summer because they’re worried people are going to be on vacation, but in August, kids will be back in school. For this special time, when your fundraiser has been postponed, have your event in August. That’s far enough away so that you can have your regularly scheduled fundraiser again in March or April 2021. Live stream an event Having the capabilities for live streaming can be an advantage. Take note that people’s attention span is SHORT. I recently heard that attention span was 22 minutes for online videos or streaming … Your “ask” will need to be really early in the live stream event. Remember to give advance notice that is very clear to your people that they can attend your event online and how to tune in.  Some things to think about with all your online fundraisers… Who are your donors? Will they go to YouTube? Is this what they would like? Is this how they want to spend their time? For example, will they engage with an online auction? Live streaming - If you’re going to have speakers get on a Facebook Live, the first thing you must think about is who are your donors – will they like this?  And second, you have to keep it short. If you have short videos to send out to your donors or post on social media, keep them under 10 minutes.  Auction online – Do you already have the items lined up? Can you order the items online?   Remember to tell them who you are… Tell them who your organization is and what you do – you must remind them over and over who you are in a clear, short message. You know it, but they don’t know it like you know it. Don’t take it for granted. Explain that you have bills, and there is still a need for your nonprofit. Tell them how you are making a difference together. Last week, my Pastor sent out an email with encouragement – and a simple ask. (Listen to the episode if you want to hear the email – it’s a great example of an appeal!) 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Hiyo Metal kidzzzz all over.... This is the show for: DECEMBER 6, 2019.... Yes were making up for lost time..... OK So the show has some heavy tunes to play on the turntables.. The LOUD stuff will be from: Peter Frampton / The Golden Earing / Molly Hatchet / Led Zep.... Let's get on the road to rock... Intro: Warning: Black Sabbath 1. Got To Get Out-Nick Gilder 2. No Prisoners-ZED 3. Something Moved-Ace Frehley 4. Rather Be Rockin'-Tantrum 5. Dead On Time-Queen 6. Bounty Hunter-Molly Hunter 7. Take It On Down The Road-Trapeze 8. No Where's Too Far For My Baby-Peter Frampton 9. She's Never Looked That Good For Me-Autograph 10. Cry, Cry-Cheap Trick 11. Fat Lip-Robert Plant 12. I'm Gonna Send My Pigeons To The Sky-The Golden Earing 13. Distruction-F.M. Outro: Into The Void-Black Sabbath

HELLOOOOOohYa came back!Awesome!Fanks!Here's more vocal warm ups for you acting loving folks - some face warm ups, breathing, moving mmm around, tongue twisters, and a top VA tip from one of the newest voice acting awesome actors of audio joy KIRSTY WOOLVEN. Thanks Kirsty! Find her in 12:37 by the fabulous Alma here and Haunted Hell House of Horror by the wonderous Robert Chauncey HERE and the upcoming Y2k by the lovely Karen Heimdahl HERE.Join in tomorrow and feel free to send me any thoughts on the series or exercises you think I should share to quirkvoices@gmail.com or ping me on twitter @SarahOfGoldingTRANSCRIPTS BELOW AND AVAILABLE ON MY VOICE ACTING WEBSITE HEREHave funnnn!SARAHx2Hello and welcome to MADVENT 2 - the second window on your advent calendar of audio aural warm up joy.Today we’re looking at a variety of exercises - please just join in - and er- won’t take you long.I’d like you to stand in a neutral position. Legs slightly part, knees flexed, chilled. And Arms ....by your side - shoulders back as if you have a little hook attached to your head and to the ceiling. Just to help with pulling up ...your posture.OkJust open your mouth wide for me. And make it as small as you can.MmmmAnd now, do the same but you’re going to open up your whole face, so when I say open wide… I mean your eyes, your nose, your face, your forehead everything Isi going to open. And when I say close youre going to close all that down to make it as teeny as possible and squished.READY? OPEN. CLOSE.OPENCLOSEOPENCLOSEOPENCLOSEOPENCLOSEOPENCLOSEOPENCLOSEOPEN……CLOSEVery Good. Do THAT A couple more times if you want to. Maybe just give yourself a little massage now on your face again. Ok lovely. Now what I do is after I’ve done little circles… I will just do …pitter patters - like a little horse race on my face. Now …you might have one brewing….let’s do a nice big burp. Just Get rid of that er …extra tension. It’s actually not an exercise - I’m just RUUUUDE.Now we’re going to breathe a little bit. It’s from your tummy today. Really make it work - that diapragm..YOUR DIA-FRAG-MUH. We’re going to Breathe in for 4 out for 4 in for 4 then out for 8 in for 4 out for 12 And in for 4 out for 16 Can you count that high this morning?Are we ready?AndBreathe In 2, 3, 4 and OUT 2,3,4In 2, 3, 4 and OUT 2,3,4,5,6,7,8AndIn 2, 3, 4 and OUT 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12AndIn 2, 3, 4 and OUT 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16And breathe. As. You like.Lovely! Practice that, because that will help you do ...MANY things to do with breath control. And improve your general understanding of howwwwww to control that particular breath from that particular ares. Deep breathing. Deep breath. Good stuff.Ok So hopefully you’re feeling a little more relaxed to with all of that lovely breathing?!SoLet movSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/QuirkyVoices)

The Faithfulness of Ruth, of Boaz, of God Fr. John Wallace October 27, 2019   Today we’re going to look at the Book of Ruth. At its core it’s a beautiful story of redemption. And in it we encounter Amazing Faithfulness! The Faithfulness of Ruth. The Faithfulness of Boaz. And the Faithfulness of God. The book of Ruth takes place at a dark time in Israel’s history. It’s near the end of the time of the Judges. A time marked by lawlessness, by war, and by famine. A time in which the people allowed their hearts to wander far from God. In fact, the last few chapters of the Book of Judges end with this refrain: “In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.” It was a time that needed hope! That needed people of faith to do the right thing! It was a time that needed God. Ruth in a way is like an Abraham figure. In Genesis 15 it was Abraham’s faith in God - his belief - his trust - that was counted as righteousness. If you remember, Abraham was called out of the Land of Ur - to leave his home and his family and his land - to follow God and begin a new age of faithfulness to him. And Ruth is also called out of her own land - the land of Moab. And she leaves her home and her family and through an act of faith begins a new chapter for the people of Israel. But why was this story recorded about a Moabite widow? What makes her story so special? Why are we talking about her faithfulness 2,500 years later? We find out in the last chapter of the Book that Ruth was the Mother of Obed - who was the father of Jesse - who was the father of David - who became Israel’s greatest king. And the Gospel of Matthew starts like this - “This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham.” And Matthew lists Ruth as one of Jesus’s ancestors. Which means Ruth the Moabite - is the great, great, great - (29 greats) grandmother of Jesus. OK - So let’s look at Ruth’s Faithfulness. Then Boaz’s faithfulness. And finally - God’s faithfulness. First - Ruth’s faithfulness. The story starts with hardship. It’s a time of famine in Bethlehem. So Naomi (who will become Ruth’s mother-in-law) moves with her family to Moab - a sworn enemy of Israel - to try to make a life there. When they get there, Naomi’s husband, Elimelech, dies. Then her sons get married to some Moabite women. One marries a woman named Orpah, and the other marries Ruth. But then her sons also die - leaving Naomi widowed - without a husband and without her sons - in a foreign land. When she hears that God has blessed her homeland with rain and a harvest - she decides to return to Bethlehem. Better to be a widow in your hometown than to be a widow in the land of your enemy! And she tells her daughters-in-law to stay in Moab, return to their father’s houses where they will be cared for - and find husbands for themselves among their own people. But Ruth refuses to leave Naomi and speaks some of the most beautiful and faithful words in all of Scripture. She says: Don’t tell me to leave you! 16 … Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Isn’t that beautiful?! That’s Ruth’s faithfulness. She wants to remain with Naomi. She wants to serve Naomi’s God. No matter what it costs! She’s going to leave everything she has known, her family, her homeland, her everything - to make Naomi’s people her own people. And Naomi’s God - her God. And you know what? God can use that kind of faithfulness! And he does! And so Ruth comes with Naomi to Bethlehem. And when they get there, Ruth tells Naomi - “let me go into the fields to glean - so we can have food.” Back then, in Israel there was a law about gleaning. It was the law that landowners couldn’t harvest everything from their land. They had to leave gleanings for the poor. It was how the poor were cared for at the time. They could go in after the harvesters and collect whatever had fallen or wasn’t harvested. That’s what Ruth wanted to do. And so she did. And the field she began to glean in happened to belong to a man named Boaz - a relative of Elimelech - Naomi’s husband who had died. Let me read this from chapter 2 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain, behind someone in whose sight I may find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 So she went. She came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. As it happened, she came to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. 4 Just then Boaz came from Bethlehem. He said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you.” They answered, “The Lord bless you.” 5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, “Who is this young woman?” 6 The servant answered, “She is the Moabite who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 7 She said, ‘Please, let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.’ So she came, and she has been on her feet from early this morning until now, without resting even for a moment.” We learn several things here: One: Boaz was a close relative of Elimelech - Naomi’s late husband. And he was wealthy. We also learn that he’s an honorable and faithful man. When he got to the field he greeted the workers: The Lord be with you! and they replied - The Lord bless you. Ruth has found herself in the field of a good man. And the last thing we learn is that Ruth is a hard worker. She worked and gleaned in the field all day - without taking a break. Listen to what happens next: 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. 9 Keep your eyes on the field that is being reaped, and follow behind them. I have ordered the young men not to bother you. If you get thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.” 10 Then she fell prostrate, with her face to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?” 11 But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. 12 May the Lord reward you for your deeds, and may you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge!” I love that. Boaz is so impressed by Ruth’s faithfulness to Naomi and he wants to protect her. And he prays that she will be rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel - under whose wings she has come for refuge! When she comes home that night with her gleanings, Naomi is amazed by how much she has brought. And she asks, “who’s land were you gleaning in” When Ruth says that she was gleaning in Boaz’s land - and that Boaz had been kind to her, Naomi rejoices! Boaz is a relative! And a good man! And best of all - He can act as a redeemer for them! Let me explain what it meant to be a Redeemer in Israel. Redemption was a beautiful thing! And Redemption had a very specific meaning. To redeem something meant to buy it back! You could redeem a piece of property or a field that had fallen into the hands of another family. Or you could redeem (or buy) a family member to get them out of prison or out of slavery. Sometimes families would lose their property. Maybe they fell on hard times. And so they’d have to sell it to pay debts. Or maybe they didn’t have land - so they had to sell themselves into servitude for a set amount of time - or until the debt was paid. Property, or people, in that condition could be redeemed. But that’s not the beautiful thing about redemption. The beautiful thing is who was able to perform the redemptions… Who was able to act as redeemer! The laws about the redeemers were very clear in Old Testament times. In Israel there was something called a go-el, a Kinsman-Redeemer. And In order to be able to redeem a field, or a person who is in prison or in indentured service, you had to be a relative. You had to be family. And not just any family, but close family. The Go-el (the kinsman-redeemer) had to be the nearest relative. And the reason is - The whole idea was to keep the family land in the family! If someone else bought the land - They were just buying it for themselves. But if the Go-el - the nearest relative redeemed it - it kept the land in the family. And it turned out that Boaz was a close relative of Elimelech - and so he could be the redeemer - to buy back Elimelech’s land - and provide for Naomi and Ruth. When Naomi realized all of this - she rejoiced! God was showing them favor! And she told Ruth that she should propose to Boaz. Because that was the other thing about redeeming the land. If Boaz redeemed the land - because the heir to the land was dead (Naomi’s son / Ruth’s husband) he would also have to marry Ruth - the heir’s widow. So she could have a son who could inherit the land. and keep it in the family. That was another law at the time called Levirate Marriage. It was about preserving the lineage of a close relative that had passed away. But here’s the thing - when Ruth asked Boaz to act as redeemer - this is what she said to him: she said “spread your cloak over your servant, for you are go-el.” She was asking him to protect her, to cover her with his cloak, to be the redeemer of their family, and to make her his wife. And he gladly agreed. He had noticed her. She had been kind to him. And he saw how she had been gracious to Naomi. And even though she was a foreigner in his field - in his eyes, she was a treasure. But there was one problem - there was another who was closer in relation to Elimelech - so before Boaz could act as redeemer, he had to give this other man the option to do so. But when the other man found out that he would have to marry Ruth, the moabite, he refused. So Boaz was free as the nearest willing relative to act as Go-el and to redeem Naomi’s land. And as kinsman-redeemer, he also got a bride named Ruth. And soon she gave birth to a son, named Obed. The father of Jesse, the father of David. That’s Boaz’s faithfulness. And all of that is beautiful! But what’s even more beautiful - is God’s faithfulness. So let’s go all the way back to the Exodus when God is promising to save his people from Egypt. Listen to this from Chapter 6 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob… and I established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 And I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. “I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God.” You know what God was saying? He said - I will redeem you. I will be your Go-el. I will be your redeemer. And remember - The Go-el had to be the nearest relative! And God says to Moses - I want to be your Go-el! In Matthew 13 Jesus tells his disciples that 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered; and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” I used to think that that was about us selling everything we have in order to get the kingdom of heaven. And it might be! And if it is the kingdom of heaven is totally worth it! We absolutely should sell everything we have to buy the field and get the treasure that is the kingdom of heaven. It’s totally worth it! But now I’m not sure that’s what it is anymore! What if instead - the man who found a treasure in a field - is Jesus? Like Boaz who found Ruth in a field. And what if the treasure in the field is us? And what if the man covered the treasure to protect it? Just like Boaz covered Ruth to protect her with his cloak? And what if the man in his joy sold all he had, and gave up everything so he could buy the field like Boaz bought and redeemed Naomi’s field? And what if buying the field / redeeming the world meant - like Boaz - that he could marry his bride? 44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered; and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” What if the treasure is us and the field is the world. And the man is Jesus who in his joy gave up everything and bought that field? Some commentators say that the Scroll in Revelation 5 - the one with the seven seals - the one that only Jesus, the Lamb of God, was worthy to open - some commentators say that it contains the unfolding of all of history. Other commentators say it’s the deed to all creation. Like a deed to a piece of land - or a field - in need of redemption. We don’t know for sure! But we do know that only Jesus was worthy. Only Jesus was able to break the seal and open the scroll. And we also know that Only Jesus could be our go-el. Only Jesus - who was both God and Man - could pay the price to redeem the world and marry his treasured bride! Listen to this from Revelation, Chapter 5. No one was found worthy to open the scroll. Only Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah was worthy. And then it says: 6 Then I saw between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders a Lamb standing as if it had been slain… 7 And He went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne. 8 When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain (and listen:) and by your blood you redeemed for God people from every tribe and language and people and nation; 10 and you have made them to be a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth.” Why was he worthy to break the seals and open the scroll? Because he was our Go-el! Because he paid the price of redemption. Because he redeemed us by his blood. That’s the faithfulness of God. Back in Genesis God promised Moses that he would redeem his people. That he would do what only our nearest relative could do. And so when the time was right he came as one of us. And became a full member of the human family - became our nearest relative - so he could be our Go-el! And he was Born - the Son of Mary, the Son of David, the Son of Ruth and Boaz, the Son of Abraham, the Son of God. And he paid the price of redemption with his blood on the cross. Thanks be to God! Thanks be to God for his faithfulness, for the faithfulness of Ruth and Boaz. And for the faithfulness of his Son Jesus - our Savior and our Redeemer. Amen.

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="no" equal_height_columns="no" menu_anchor="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="center center" background_repeat="no-repeat" fade="no" background_parallax="none" parallax_speed="0.3" video_mp4="" video_webm="" video_ogv="" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_loop="yes" video_mute="yes" overlay_color="" video_preview_image="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" padding_top="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" padding_right=""][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" center_content="no" last="no" min_height="" hover_type="none" link=""][fusion_text][/fusion_text][fusion_text] Listen via YouTube video if desired [/fusion_text][fusion_youtube id="https://youtu.be/OM8N56n0N5o" alignment="center" width="" height="" autoplay="false" api_params="&rel=0" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" /][fusion_text] The topic is Heaven First, Earth Second.  This is a fascinating walk through parts of the old and new testaments as I share a pattern most people miss ... and which I believe have great application for us as believers.  In a single sentence it's this:  everything God does on earth was first already done in heaven before it was manifested on earth. Understanding this pattern will have tremendous impact as you live out your Christian life and step out by "radical" faith in serving the Lord. Transcription (was completed by automated process.  Please ignore any speech-to-text errors) [00:00:01] Well Beatty, I’m so excited to be on the phone with me again today, and I just want say welcome to everyone who was listening to this session, I guess I was calling you with Beatty Carmichael.   Beatty is the CEO of master grabber and the creator of Dominator, one of the top marketing expert in the real estate field. And always a privilege and an honor, to be honest with you, Beatty. I'm excited that we're going to be talking about today. [00:00:26] Yes. And just as a quick reminder for those listening in, today is not one of the days we'll be talking about real estate. Today is when the days we're gonna be talking about walking with the Lord. [00:00:39] It's what we call radical faith. So feel free if that's not an interest of yours to turn off this podcast and come back for the next one. But I have a really exciting topic I want to talk on today. The general topic headline is Heaven first or second for Penny. This is it's really significant. It's been almost once a earth-shattering, but that may be too glorious of a description in terms of of what we're going to talk about and what it's done for me. But I'm hoping we can get it in one session. We may have to break it into two depending on how the discussion goes, but it's really cool. So are you ready? [00:01:28] I am. I'm ready. [00:01:29] Ok, great. Also, let me just make a real quick statement for everyone listening. There is a foundational set of training for the radical faith teaching and you'll find it earlier on. And it's listed as what is faith and getting out of the boat, OK. And if you haven't listened to those two sections, there is a series of trainings on those. Let me encourage you to go back and listen to those as soon as you can, because everything we talk about in radical faith hinges off of that foundation. OK. [00:02:05] So that's really those are the foundational sessions on really understanding and applying a lot of what I'm going to be talking about moving forward. [00:02:17] So I want to turn real quickly to Ephesians Ephesians Chapter 2. Penny, OK. [00:02:24] And I want you to read real quickly in just a moment, we're going to reverse this four, five and six. But I want to set the stage of what's going to go on. And so you kind of know where we're headed on this. I was reading this one day and this is one of those passages that always confuses a lot of people because they talked in past tense. Something that we haven't received yet. And the question is, what's going on? And I want to establish right up front that there is not a linear connection in time between heaven and earth. And so when we read the scriptures and we read the truths of God's word, we have to realize that our concept of time does not apply in heaven. And therefore, that's going to be part of the disconnect. But the disconnect also creates some really neat opportunities on how we walk by faith and how we see God work in our lives. [00:03:19] So with that said, let me let you take it from there. Invasion's 2 versus 4, 5 and 6. [00:03:28] But God is so rich in mercy. And he loved us so much that even though we were dead because of our sin, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. It is only by God's grace that you have been saved, for he raised us from the dead, along with Christ, and seeded us with him in the heavenly realms, because we are united with Christ Jesus. [00:03:54] Ok. So here is really something amazing. [00:03:58] It says that we in my translation and raised us up with them and seated us with them in the heavenly places, and it so raised up and seeded us. Is that past, present terms for future tense. [00:04:22] Rail. Yeah. Here. [00:04:27] Well, so here's the key in some mysterious way. We are already seated with Christ in the heavenly room, even though we're still here in the earthly room, because that makes sense. [00:04:42] Okay, so this serves to shed light on where this currently. Okay. We're talking on a recent session. The conflict between walking by faith and hope. Ah, I see. And that faith. We walk by faith and not by sight. And there is always this conflict. And part of the conflicts, it also extends into this this understanding that we've we've been crucified with Christ. Past tense. We've been raised with him. Past tense. And we've been seated with him in the heavenly places. Past tense. That means we're actually sitting on the throne where Christ rules. That's what this is talking about. It says right before this. [00:05:25] He says that the Lord raised Jesus up and seated him above all all rules and powers and authorities and dimensions above everything. [00:05:35] And then here it says that we've been seeded with Christ in those having places. And yet we're still here on Earth. What's going on? [00:05:44] So I want to suggest that a lot of things are done first in heaven before they're done on earth. This gives us a glimpse of how things have already been done in heaven before we actually see them manifest in the physical or in some way in our lives. And so with that, I want to go to another passage. We're gonna hit a lot of passages today and I won't try to tie some things together. So go with me to Matthew, 16, verse 19. This is one of those passages that's been really difficult to understand. And I want to give you possible understanding of some of what this might mean. [00:06:29] Matthew, 16 19. When you're reading. [00:06:33] Take it away first. Hold, hold on. Before you take it away. Let me give you the background. OK. So just think is in season refill API and Jesus is walking along with the disciples and he says, who did people say that I am? And someone says that you're a prophet, that you're a man of God and all these things. And then Jesus says, Who do you say that I am? And Peter says, You are the Christ. You're the Messiah. Okay. And and then and then that brings us now into this passage. Matthew, 16, 19. So go ahead. [00:07:12] All right. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you forbad on earth will be forbidden in heaven. And whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. [00:07:24] Yeah, that sounds kind of difficult to understand. That means that. Is he talking to Peter only? Or is he talking disciples or he's talking to all believers? Jesus says you're Peter. And on this rock on this rock of understanding that I am the Christ, then. Then he makes a statement. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Keys represents authority. Okay. So what he's talking about is I will give you the authority of heaven. And in that, a story of heaven, it says that you can bind on earth and there'll be bound in heaven and loose on earth and you'll be loose in heaven. That's why most translations read this. What does that mean? Does that mean we have some supernatural authority to. [00:08:16] Dictate what happens on Earth. [00:08:22] Well, I think if I'm thinking about the scripture, we just read any feagin. If I'm seated with Christ. Then I have the same authority he has. As far as whatever I choose to bind on the IRS's. If I'm actually seated with him, he's through me going to make that happen. [00:08:46] Yes, I think you're moving the right direction. There's gonna be a. I won't use the term gradient. Okay. Right. As all authority. But we don't always operate in all authority because of our flesh. Does that make sense? [00:09:01] Yeah. OK. [00:09:03] So so there are some gradients there. But I want to go into this passage has a little bit clearer. OK. If I were to read this passage from the new American standard Bible, it says Whatever you bind on earth shall have already been bound in heaven. [00:09:26] And whatever you loose on earth shall have already been loosed in heaven, in other words, the the actual translation of the Greek words. I'm not a Greek scholar, but this is what the translate strong concordance and some other things have shared that the actual translation is the only things we're able to bind or loose on earth have are those things that have previously been bound or loosed in heaven. So we're able to the kids have having means that we have the authority to then bind on earth what's already been previously bound by God in his sovereign will in heaven. And we're able to loose on earth those things that have already been by God in his sovereign real loosed and in heaven. Does that make sense? [00:10:14] Yeah. Okay. So we're not able just to say I want this and I'm going to bind it or lose it. [00:10:20] It's only under the authority and under the headship. The lordship and the will of God, the father, he's already done it in heaven. So that's kind of really what this is. But here's the interesting thing. We're only able to. In fact, on earth. What has already been infected in heaven? Does that make sense? [00:10:43] Well, OK, so now we come into the first of the understanding here of heaven first, earth second. We've been seeded with Christ in the heavenly places already, heaven first. But yet it's not really yet here on Earth. Okay. [00:11:03] But it says in Matthew here, Matthew 16, that we can lose and on earth or bind on Earth, whatever has been loosed or bound in heaven already, heaven first or second. So now let's with that understanding, I want to now go through some other passages and show you how this starts to really play a part. Go to John 5. First 19. OK, pay. John Five. First 19 and the real quick backstory, if I recall this passage correctly, Ferris's have asked Jesus, you know, how do you do this? Whose authority? What do you do? And then Jesus responds and you can read it. [00:11:52] All right. Verse 19 said, Jesus explained. I tell you the truth. The sun can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the father doing, whatever the father does. The son also does. [00:12:08] Whatever the father does, the son does. The son only does what he sees the father doing. So does that mean that when Jesus healed a blind man, the blind man had already been healed by his father in heaven? [00:12:24] Yes. [00:12:25] Does that mean when Jesus turned the water to wine at the wedding that the father had already turned it to wine in heaven? [00:12:36] Does that mean when Jesus called Lazarus from the dead and raised him from the dead, that Lazarus had already been raised from the dead in heaven? [00:12:47] So we see this pattern heaven first or second. [00:12:51] We see Matthew, 16, being lived out by Jesus, who has full authority. He looses on earth what's been loosed and have any any binds on earth, what's been found in heaven. [00:13:04] He only does what he sees his father having already done this making sense. What? [00:13:12] Okay. So now let's go to Matthew 6. And we're going to do Matthew 6 versus 9 and 10. This is real interesting because the disciples come to him. You know, John the Baptist had taught his disciples how to pray. And Jesus, his disciples say, we don't want to be left out. Oh, my dear teacher, teach us how to pray. Okay. So that's kind of. [00:13:36] So then Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray. Matthew, 6 versus 9 10. Tell me what it reads. [00:13:44] Pray like. Our father in heaven. May your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. [00:13:58] So where to pray for a God's will to be done? Where? [00:14:04] On Earth as it is in heaven. [00:14:07] So we're praying for his world that's already been done in heaven. To now be made manifest on earth. Right. Yeah. That's right. That's just what Jesus did. Was it Jesus? Was it the Lord's will that the blind man had his eyes open? Yes. [00:14:25] And so while Jesus did is he brought to Earth God's will that was already in heaven and God's will that Lazarus be raised from the dead. So all Jesus did is he brought to Earth what was already God's will in heaven. And now Jesus is telling us when you pray. [00:14:50] Here to pray, Lord, may your will be done on earth. As it is already done in heaven. So we see again this pattern of heaven first or second. Pretty cool, isn't it? [00:15:08] But we're not finished yet. [00:15:11] So now let's turn to Marcie Levin. First 24, Marcie, 24. And so this is another teaching moment where Jesus teaches his disciples something we actually spoke about this passage a time or two ago on our radical faith calls. Read it again. I will make some comments on it. [00:15:36] I tell you, you can pray for anything. And if you believe that you've received it, it will be yours. [00:15:45] You can pray for anything and if you believe that you have received it. [00:15:50] Past tense, present tense or future tense? [00:15:55] All right, you believe that you have received it in the past. [00:16:00] Then it will be years past tense, present tense or future tense here, future. [00:16:06] So we have past and future altogether. There's a conflict there, right? [00:16:15] In our natural line, yes, in our natural mine, the conflict is again, we start to understand there seems to be a time disconnect between the heavenly realm in the earthly room, because in this passage, Jesus is telling us that we're to believe that we have received it. [00:16:37] Now add the words in the heavenly room and then we will receive it. It will be ours. In the earthly realm. [00:16:49] Because essentially, that's what Jesus is saying. You believe that you've already received. You believed that my father has already given it to you. My father lives in heaven, so it's already been given to you in the heavenly realm. And then you will read. Then it will be years physically in the earthly realm. [00:17:07] Heaven first. Earth second. [00:17:12] Does this start to help with understanding what faith is, faith is the assurance of things, hope for the conviction of things not seen. How can you have a conviction of things not seen? [00:17:23] Because by faith we understand and believe it's already been done for us in heaven. And then we're going to pray that God's will be done on earth as it has already been done in heaven. And that's how we receive it. [00:17:40] Pretty eye opening in it. Yeah. [00:17:43] Okay, but we're not done. Let's go back coefficients to verse 10. So let's look a little bit more about how, again, how God works in the heavenly realm. [00:17:57] All right. So for we are God's masterpiece. He has created us a new in Christ Jesus so we can do the good things he has planned for us long ago so we can do the good things he has planned for us long ago. [00:18:15] Let me read it in a different translation. Let me pull up a different translation one moment and then read it in the E.S.P. And this is a patient's to 10. Because this clarifies it a little bit more for where his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand. [00:18:44] That we should walk in them. In other words, the good works that we walk in. Have already been prepared beforehand. OK. Before we ever walk in them. Does that make sense? Well, no. [00:19:04] So here's this. You probably won't remember this, but some of you listening to this who are old enough to remember the Jetsons Karmichael cartoon. [00:19:17] Yet do you remember it? Okay. You remember the beginning of the Jetsons. Everything's automated and there is a data stand there and the set of the suit of clothes comes on them and they just kind of walk right into that suit of clothes. And now they're fully dressed. Remember that every time I read this passage, that guy prepared these good works beforehand that you might walk in them. In other words, we're walking down the road down our path of life, and all of a sudden we walk into the good works that have already been prepared and waiting for us to get there. [00:19:57] That's what this is talking about. Those good works have already been done in heaven first before they get done in here on earth. And then they happen on earth, heaven first, earth second. Okay. Yeah. [00:20:16] So now let's look at another one. Okay. [00:20:19] Because what you're going to see is this is throughout scripture. Old Testament, New Testament. Once you have your eyes open to it, then you go, huh? Here's one those here's that one that's sacred to the kingdom. I never caught. But now I'm understanding. I see it everywhere I go. And now I can live in it. And now I understand more of what's going on, because all this is how do you walk by faith? How do you live by faith? You got to understand more. So the more you understand, the more you can you can do it well. So we're going to now turn to Hebrews for. Versus 3 3/4. [00:21:04] All right. He was 4, 3, 3, 4, 4 only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said in my anger, I took an oath. They will never enter my place of rest, even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the scripture where it mentions the seventh day, and on the seventh day God rested from all his work. [00:21:36] Let me share something. As we move into this, because I'll give you the background, an interesting understanding. So right now, this is talking about the time of Exodus. [00:21:49] The twelve spies were sent into the light land, into the promised land. They came back. Joshua and Caleb said, it's great and we can take it because God is with us. The other 10 said on, my gosh, they're giants in the land and we can't conquer it. We're like grasshoppers in their eyes. And they got all the visual to be afraid. And so God gets upset and says, I swear that you will not enter into my rest, OK? So that's where this passage is coming from. What's real interesting is if you read the Old Testament, it is a metaphore of our Christian life. [00:22:30] We were once in bondage in slavery. We've been set free baptism through the water. [00:22:38] We then go through a period of wilderness where we learn to trust the Lord without being able to see trust him for our daily bread, our daily sustenance manna. It dissolved at the end of it, you know, by the end of the day. So you use it now, but you can't store it. So you have to always trust him every step of the way. And then you move into the promised land. And the transition from the wilderness to the promised land is a time of great turbulence and additional trial as you punch your way into God's promised blessing. And when you get there, you're in a land of rest in peace, restoring back what the first atom lost that now the second atom gives us, which is in the first ad and before the fall, before he lost what was originally his, he lived and walked in Eden, and it produced abundant fruit with very little effort. Once he fell and lost that, then he had to toil in slave, and worked by the sweat of his brow just to get sustenance to survive. So as we move into this promised land, God calls and talks about it as his rest. And just as he rested from his work. So can we rest from ours? And this isn't simply saying you go to heaven and you rest. This is the Christian life that when we we go from slavery through baptism, through the welna's, into these these last periods of 10 more intense trials of fighting into the promised land. Now we enter his rest where what happens to us is all God's beautiful, wonderful will full in this of life. Now, in this life and fullness of life later in the afterlife, does that make sense, as is the whole metaphor? [00:24:30] And so so what this is talking about. Reading it from I think this is a new American standard for we who have believed. Enter that rest. Okay. There is a key word. Believe we'll talk about it. As he said, as I swore my wrath. You shall not enter my rest. Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. So this is now saying God's works were finished from the foundation of the world. Have you ever seen God work in your life, Penny? Work was done before the foundation of the world because God finished all of his work before the foundation of the world. Who do you think is going to be working in your life in the next year? Oh, hell yeah. Those works have already been finished because it says that his works were finished from the foundation of the world. And it says, and God rested on the seventh day from all of his works. If he rested from all his works, how many works did he not accomplish? [00:25:43] Zero. Is he still working today? [00:25:49] Yes. And yet those works have already been accomplished. Does that make sense? [00:25:54] Yes, it does. OK. Kind of mind boggling in it. All right. [00:26:03] Don't you love getting paid to come on these calls? Love it. [00:26:09] So what this means is that the works that God did in the day of Moses in leading Israel out of Egypt through the wilderness and into the promised land had already been done long before. At the foundation of the world. What this also means is the word that God did through Jesus 2000 years ago. All these mighty signs and wonders and miracles. [00:26:40] Had all been finished before the foundation of the world. That means that they were done in heaven first. Before they were manifested on Earth. And we come back to the same conclusion, heaven first or second. [00:27:00] Right. Yeah. [00:27:04] We're not done yet. I want to show you how this continues throughout. In a few more passages. Let's go back to Genesis, back to where it all started. Not while, not where it all started, but shortly after it all started. Genesis 17, verse 5. This is God speaking to. [00:27:26] Ok. OK, go ahead. [00:27:29] All right. What's more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be a broom. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations. [00:27:44] Did at that moment when a broom was changed to Abraham. [00:27:51] So this is the promise you're gonna be the father of many nations. And we know from Hebrews that the promise came through Isaac, not through Ishmael. Okay. And so this is a promise and a spiritual promise with spiritual blessing. So at the time that God changed his name. [00:28:12] Had did Abraham have any children of the promise? No, no. [00:28:19] But yet he said, I will call you Abraham, the father of a multitude of nations. [00:28:28] Past tense, present or future tense? [00:28:33] Who you will be called Peter. [00:28:36] You. He's changing his name because you are. I. Here's my translation. I have made you the father of a multitude of translation of nation. So my translation, New American Standard and in ESV are more very specific exactly what the word means. I think your translation may loosen up a little bit to try to make it read easier, but the more specific translation of the words being used. I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. [00:29:11] Okay. And then he said, I'm gonna change your name from Abraham to Abraham in order to confirm. So at this point, Abraham had no children of the promise that yet God had said, I have already made you. The father of a multitude of nations, because in the heavenly realm, it had already been done. [00:29:37] It just hadn't manifested into the earthly room. But we see this again, heaven first for a second to more passages. I know I'm probably I'm not trying to kill this, you know, kick a dead horse. But I just want to show you how complete throughout scripture, all these things that we read about when we read it with this and this understanding, it now all starts to come to mind. So let me ask you a question. When was this crucified? When was the lamb slain? [00:30:09] Beginning to bang around a B? I mean, I'm sorry. Prior to his death. And then we're. [00:30:21] Well, he was 30 ish when he was crucified, 33 oh, 31, yes, street. [00:30:29] Then it would have been probably around that same time. [00:30:31] Okay, so let's go to a question. [00:30:37] There are two answers and they're both completely accurate. Let's see if it depends on whether you look for a man's perspective from Earth or a guy's perspective from heaven. And this is the new challenge in walking by faith. We typically look from man's perspective from earth, and we come up with one answer. That's absolutely true. But when we look from God's perspective, from heaven, we come up with a completely different answer. That's absolutely true. The question is, which true answer? [00:31:06] Has overriding power over the other. Okay, so let's turn to because we're going to talk about that statement in just moments. Revelation 13, verse eight. Tell me what it reads. [00:31:20] Chapter 13 verse. Yes. OK. 13 verse 8 says. [00:31:28] And all the people who belong to this world worship the beast. They are the one whose names were not written the book of life that belongs to the land who was slaughtered before the world was made. [00:31:41] When was the lamb slaughtered? [00:31:44] Before the world was made. [00:31:45] So it was not only two thousand years ago? [00:31:49] No. [00:31:52] So we see it again. The land was slaughtered before the world was made in the heavenly room. But then that slaughter was made manifest in the earthly realm. About 2000 years ago, one. [00:32:08] Haνen't first. Our second name pattern now there is another pattern I want to show you, same pattern, but a little bit deeper and understanding this so revelation, just to give you an idea, revelation is when John goes to heaven and he physically sees everything he writes about. It's not metaphorically speaking, it's not using, you know, very colorful language to just to kind of be poetic. John sees in the spirit and then tries to interpret what he sees in the physical love. I was reading a book and this guy is a seer. He sees in the spirit room a lot and he makes a great statement. He says, when you see in the spirit realm, like demons or angels or things like that, it is a physical representives representation of a spiritual reality. What he's trying to say is. It doesn't. It's not. It's not an equal translation because spiritual realities have no real physical boundaries like we do. And so when you see in the in the spiritual, it's a physical reality. It's a physical representation. So their eyes can kind of translate and understand it of a spiritual reality. So when he's writing the book of Revelation, we come up with all these things that we try to understand. And yet it's it's all true. It's exactly what he saw. It's not colorful language is exactly what he sees. And with that, I want you to now go to Revelation Six. We're going to read a series of versus one through eight. Revelation 6 1 3 8. And then I'm going to share what all this means. [00:34:00] Okay. All right. [00:34:02] As I watched the Lambreaux, the first of the seven seals on the squirrel, then I heard one of the four living beings say with a loud voice like thunder come. I looked up and saw a white horse standing there. Its rider carried a bow and the crown was placed on his head. He rode out to win many battles and gain the victory. When the land broke the second seal, I heard the second live in beings say come. Then another horse appeared. A red one. Its rider was given a mighty sword, and the authority to take peace from the earth. And there was war and slaughter everywhere. When the land broke the third seal. I heard the third living beings say, come. I looked up and saw a black horse, and its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice coming from among the four living beings saying a loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley will cost a day's pay. And don't waste the olive oil in the wine. When the lamb broke the fourth seal. I heard the fourth living beings say, come. I looked up and saw a horse whose color was pale green. Its rider was named death, and his companion was the Grays. These two were given a Scarlatti over one fourth of the earth to kill with the sword and famine and disease and wild animals. [00:35:31] Pretty dramatic, innit? [00:35:33] Yeah. [00:35:36] Prophecy of what's happening in the what's going to happen in the end times. [00:35:44] I think that question could be answered a lot of different ways, depending on your personal belief. [00:35:50] Right. When John wrote about it, had those events already happened? [00:36:01] It was happening as he was watching it. [00:36:03] It was happening as he was watching it in heaven. They had manifested on earth, right? Right. OK, so here's the cool thing about this. He's in heaven. [00:36:16] He sees all of these events past. And future events happening and occurring. All right there in front of his eyes, but yet they had not all occurred on Earth. He sees it all happening, but it hasn't yet happened on Earth. Regardless of your eschatology. In terms of whether this passage is about the end times or something that's already occurred at the time he wrote about it. It had not occurred yet. [00:36:51] And so what we see is even in these very dramatic things that only the land could break the scrote, the break the seals on that scroll. [00:37:01] These are events. They had already occurred in heaven. By the time John wrote about it, but they had not occurred yet on earth. So we see the same pattern. Earth first. Excuse me. Heaven first or second. And so what this all these passages seem to indicate is that there's this time disconnect between the heavenly room and the earthly room. How can you pray believing you've received something and yet you still don't have it? How can you pray by faith that the Lord is going to save one of your loved ones when you don't see it? How can you pray all these things that we walk by faith, not by sight. And so what this show shows is things happen, that things that happen in the physical seem to be a reflection and a manifestation of things that have already happened in the spiritual. Not always 100 percent, but all good things that occur have already occurred in a heavenly room because the Bible says that all good things are from the Lord and says that the Lord has done all of his work and has rested and he's prepared beforehand. All the good works that we should walk in them beforehand. So everything that occurs here in our life that's good from the Lord has already been previously provided and has already occurred. [00:38:37] When I go out and pray, or you go on and pray for people to be healed and God heals them, they were already healed in heaven first. So what's the implication? I think the implication on this is really significant. Almost tempted to break right now and say we're gonna have to cover the rest in another session. This be a break, but we'll go a little bit longer and then we'll cover the rest of the other sessions. So this, you know, like the end of the chapter or the end of the chapter, I'll always leave you hanging. You want to go to the next chapter of a book? Well, let me wrap up this section and then we'll cover the rest on another session. But I think the implication with this is significant, because the only way we. You know, the Romans, they talked about the mindset on the flesh this and in death. But the mindset on the spirit is life and peace. We know that we are spirit and body. We operate in the spirit room. But we also operate in the physical realm. This is how this time does connect. [00:39:54] Is how when we started this whole talk, it was decisions, too, that we have been raised and been seated already raised with Crites, seated with him in the heavenly places, because that's in the spirit. But in the physical, we're still on earth in a in a fleshly body, so we receive things of the spirit by spirit and we receive things so the physical by flesh. This is what John was to Jesus was talking to Nicodemus about in John Three. He says there are only things of the spirit. Can receive the spiritual things that you only know you have to be born of flesh, flesh and spirit, those things are blood and spirit. I forget exactly. But he says those things to the flesh or fleshly. But only those things are the spirit. You had to be born again in the spirit to enter the kingdom of heaven, because the kingdom of heaven is a spiritual place. And so this is talking and shows that our flesh exists in the earthly realm. But our spirit exists in the heavenly realm. In the spiritual realm. And so when we live. In the spirit, by the spirit, we're living from the heavenly realm. Does that connection make sense so far? [00:41:18] Yeah. [00:41:19] Okay. When we're living. In the spirit, by the spirit, mind folk, the mind focus on the spirit. Then we're living from the heavenly realm. From God's perspective of what had already been accomplished. We're talking earlier about gradients. Okay, I want introduce the concept, the gradient. We're seeded with Christ. Far above all other rural power, dominion and authority. And we're not talking only about Dominick Dunne demonic rule, demonic power and authority in Dominion, but the entire hierarchy of the spiritual realm is governed by layers of leadership and and rulers and powers and dominions and authorities first and the angelic room. And then I believe the demonic realm just copied it. So what this is saying is above everything. That's where Jesus sits on the throne of God. And we sit there already in him spiritually. As sons of God who are co-workers with Christ, and therefore he calls us brothers. Whether you're female or male on Earth, spiritually, we're all sons and therefore we're all called brothers by Jesus. But yet we don't have the same level of authority that Jesus does. When Jesus walked on Earth, he fully represented. And I'll use the word transmitted God's will from heaven to earth without any restriction. We operate operating gradients and that's why. Even though we said in the spiritual realm, in the same saint where Jesus said when we try to lose on earth or bind on Earth, those things that have already been loosed are bound in heaven. The translation doesn't always come through making sense. [00:43:29] But at least understanding this helps us to understand. Knowing what this passage means, but a little bit more the power that the spiritual realm has over the physical realm. And when we understand the power that the physical room, the spiritual room has over the physical room, then that leads us into a greater understanding that we have. An authority in our relationship with Christ and our ability to tap into the spiritual realm. To influence the physical realm, the realm where we live now. We were not able to change what happens in the physical outside of God's will. But the more we live by the spirit, operate from the spirit in the heavenly room, from God's perspective, then the more we're able to affect on Earth the will of God that has already been effected in heaven. We were talking recently. Remember the discussion we had any where we're talking about walking by faith. You come to a a junction in your life and I think we're talking about this as part of the timeline. OK. You're using like a clear garden hose as an example. We come to a junction and we can either take the path in a natural or path by the spiritual. We call their path by side or path by faith. You remember that one. [00:44:59] Ok. So what this you know, to tie in these concepts together. [00:45:03] God has his highest will for any purpose for us, already created in heaven. But it's only when we live by faith in the spirit, from God's perspective, that those things get manifested from heaven to earth. If we operate, the more we operate by flesh and less by spirit, the more those things are already in heaven. Do not get manifested on earth. That's what we call those natural consequences that we talked about when we walk by sight rather than by faith. That's kind of bringing it together all okay. So if we want to. Have our life conformed to the will of God. If we want God's will to be manifested more fully in our life than it is, then it's walking by faith. With our mindset on the spirit, seeing things from God's perspective, from the heavenly realm. Rather than from our natural perspective, in the physical realm. And with that, then we influence the outcome. This is kind of what we talked about with Peter. And I think let me cover a couple more thoughts and then. We'll stop and we'll pick up a new session and finish out this discussion that's going now into two sessions for sure. So. Our identity. So I want to kind of focus a little bit on identity with Christ, because really this is what this is talking about. [00:46:46] The more we live in true identity in Christ, the more. All of these heavenly realities, heavenly truths become earthly realities. And our identity in Christ has been one with Christ. But as long as we live in our sin nature bodies, then that identity that we have is only in the spiritual realm and not in the physical realm. That's why in the spirit, we've already been seated there. But we're not seated there in our physical body. The more we live in the spirit, then the more we operate in that idea and with identity with Christ and a more authority we have over the physical room to manifest God's will in every situation in our life. This is the ultimate understanding with all of this is the more we live by the spirit, then the more authority we have over the physical room. To manifest God's will in every situation. Because as the spiritual realm that governs the physical realm. This is the the ultimate understanding where one of the ultimate understandings in all of this haven't first or second is all these amazing spiritual promises, these signs and wonders. These believe it. And then you'll receive it. [00:48:13] All of these things is because the. Spiritual realm. The truths of the spiritual realm override the realities of the physical room and actually causes a change in the physical. Okay, we see this with Peter walking on the water. You know, as long as we walk by faith, he walked on water. As soon as he took his eyes off of faith and saw from his own perspective, not God's perspective, he sunk. Same situation, two different outcomes. And so, you know, so that's living by the spirit. The more we live by the flesh, the more we are servant to whatever happens by the natural laws rather than God's truth. So I think that's kind of where I want to start to wrap up on this call as we pick up the next session. I want to talk then about the difference between truth and reality, God's word being truth. What we see, what their eyes being reality and start to talk about, know the real implications of all of this kind of wrapping, this understanding. Now, how did we start to walk by faith in it? Before we wrap up the sessions, do you have any questions or any comments up hard or anything that you'd like to share? [00:49:31] Gosh, you know, I just was thinking about how since our boys were little, we've always tried to teach them that they are more spirit than flesh. And that sounds funny, but that's just been something that our family has focused on, you know, being more spirit than flesh and knowing that we were created before time that the father knew us intimately. That's a whole nother conversation. But to say that the father knew us before we even came to the earth and so that this is bringing all of that together for me and just something we taught our kids. [00:50:07] If bring some meat to that vague understanding that we kind of knew was there. But now we start to see it more clearly. [00:50:16] Right. [00:50:17] Well, absolutely. OK. All right. [00:50:21] Also, we'll wrap up this call and join us back for the next session of radical faith. And we'll continue this on part two. [00:50:31] Sounds great. Thank you so much for your time and your on just the effort that you put into today's call. This is really good. And I look forward to our next one. [00:50:40] Me, too. All right. 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"If only...I had enough money in the bank, everything would be OKMy kids were behaving themselvesMy family and friends were savedI was healthyMy co-worker stopped being so irritatingI was marriedthen everything would be OK"So often we have a picture in our head of the answer to a problem that we think will relieve all of our stress and bring us peace. We work towards that solution. We dream about that solution. We pray for that solution.But Jesus tells us that He is the Prince of Peace and that our 'solution' comes from Him and not our outside circumstances being resolved. Will you come on an adventure with Jesus (and me) and see the great 'solution' He has for you?For more invitations from Jesus, visit us at AWJToday.com 

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Not an "episode," — just a monologue asking for help and hoping for better days ahead! ROUGH TRANSCRIPT: Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of Unexpected English, your favorite English podcast! Haha it never gets old — I love that — but, but in fact there is no episode today! This is just a heads up! Heads up, good phrase! A heads up means when you tell someone in advance — when you inform them in advance of something that will happen or won't happen. And I thought I’d give a heads up because people ask me “When’s the next episode? I can't wait! I love your podcast, and I need another episode!” Well, great — but here's the deal: not very many people out there are listening. I mean, they say there are podcasts with thousands of listeners right? Now I don't ... I don't expect thousands — I don't even expect hundreds! But, you know, c’mon people — *some* listeners! That would be nice! So I decided — I WILL. DO. A NEW. EPISODE. -- every time the last episode gets 40 listeners. That's all! That's not too much to ask! 40 listeners, that's all I'm asking! if I get 40 listeners I'll do a new episode for you, OK? So what do you need to do? Spread the word. help me out here! You know you have friends learning English: tell them about the podcast. say “Hey, Unexpected English, it's my favorite English podcast!” You can put it on your Facebook, you could put it on your Instagram you can put it on your social — or not I don't know, — do I sound desperate? — I'm not. ;) I'm just saying: if you want more episodes, I need 40 listens, OK? I get 40 listeners and you get a new episode! That's the way it works, all right? And other than that, all I can say is Happy Fourth of July! It is July, it is the Fourth of July America's Independence Day! And, I'm thinking, so many of us are just waiting for that freedom to come (I need! I need!) in 2020 when we will no longer have... well you know what. I won't mention his name! So I will leave it at that, thanks for listening and remember! I'm counting on you to spread the word, to let people know about the podcast, and as soon as we get more listeners, we get more podcasts and, if not.. I'll probably do the podcast anyway! Don't worry about it just have a good time! OK thanks for listening, ciao. BETTER DAYS AHEAD! (Gil-Scott Heron)

Ok So you're going to the movies. Well, going to the movies today involves a lot more than when I would go back in college. And I'm not talking just about money. Your security is of utmost importance. In the past the movie theaters were more concerned with keeping people out that hadn't paid but in today's word, it's more about keeping the patrons safe from someone attempting to harm them as they sit in aa dark room and watch a movie screen, immersed in the story. Join me, as I talk about what you should be considering when you visit the movies. ;) #AvengersEndGame #GoingToTheMovies #SecurityInTheTheater #YoureSecurity #YourSecurity

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Our brain is the most powerful tool we have. And it is 100% true that what you think, matters. The thoughts we have ultimately create the results & expiernces we have in our lives. Managing our brains and the thoughts we have is THE most important thing we will ever do to create the results we want & the ideal life we dream of. Ok … So how does all of this relate to us travelling? Let me tell you... I've created a free download to go with this episode - If you are keen to grab this head on over to: http://solowomentraveltribe.com/themodel/

Hello and welcome!Today’s episode is called: “Make A Real Difference With Your Writing.”Ever feel like you’re a little different to other people in the world? Or even a lot different?Ever feel a little on the outside of life? On the edges? Where there’s no Kool Aid to drink?Ever feel like an alien on this crazy little blue planet?!(Well then - as Miranda Lambert sings - we should be friends! That's beside the point, though!)I recently read a book by Matt Haig called Reasons To Stay Alive. He wrote this book about his experiences with depression.One part in particular really spoke to me. It reads:“The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy…. How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind.”I don’t think I am alone in feeling drained by all of this sort of stuff in the world. Also by celebrity culture and sensationalist media and the social media highlight reel and whatever else.“Turn it off!” you may say. I do. In fact, I don’t even turn it on!! I don’t watch the news or read magazines and I limit any time on social media. Yet, still, it seems to surround me. News channels in the dentist reception area. Magazines in shops. Ad retargeting.So, ok… that’s life in the here and now. Fair enough.Here’s my point:Many, many people in life can feel all of this – and feel affected by it - without even being aware of what they are feeling.The world is more than just physical. Just because things aren’t visible doesn’t mean they aren’t, in the truest sense, tangible. Yet, this is not common conversation in the world.So many people feel on the outside, like they don’t fit in.Much of the world that we are part of is made up of a construct in one form or another, a series of systems set up to cater for masses of people or the economy. I’m thinking of everything from the schooling system to societal norms to daylight saving time.However, given that we people are individuals, it stands to reason that any system will not cater for every person, for every individual.So… if you are someone who is more sensitive or emotional or who thinks differently to whatever is the norm for our time you can be prone to feeling that you don’t “fit in”.Here’s the thing, though: we all own the world.It’s as much yours or mine as it is anyone else’s. It’s not the world that we don’t fit in to. It’s the systems and constructs that people accept as the norm that we don’t really fit in to.Ok… So say you “get” all this.You’re smart and you’re living and you’ve observed it. You’ve figured this out. You know who you are. You’ve lived a chunk of your life by now. You’ve had life experiences and adversities that you have lived through and that you have overcome.You have wisdom to share.Yes. Wisdom.You have wisdom to share with people who are a little behind you in terms of experience or on their life path, people who may be a little lost where they are right now and who could use someone reaching a hand out to them.Maybe you have lived through some adversity and overcome it. If so, you are living proof to somebody else that they can too.If you felt lost and found your way through to a place of meaning, you can be a beacon for someone else to do that too.In a world with an abundance of celebrity culture, reality TV and sensationalist media and news-entertainment machines, here’s what you can provide:Simple, honest truth.In the process of standing strong and speaking your truth you can be a powerful example to others.We people learn from each other and it’s our stories that really connect us.Your story, your experience, what you have lived through and overcome is what you can use to teach and help others.Your voice can be a calming one, a reassuring one, a resonant one, an inspiring one, a wise one.Your truth, shared through your voice and your writing, can help those listening to understand their perspectives and empower themselves and help them to feel a whole lot better about themselves, and in their lives, too.Being a person who is “awake” in life and a person who thinks or feels or lives outside the box - and who likely feels more intensely than most - you have a perspective on life that is likely to be:1. different from the norm2. so, so, so important for the kindred spirits out there who feel a little or a lot alone right now.I encourage you to start writing and sharing what is true to you.Start putting a voice to what you are feeling and experiencing. These will be things many are feeling and experiencing, but are not saying.Through your voice, you can be a voice for others. A voice for the voiceless.Here are 5 tips to help you have a clear, strong voice in your writing:#1 Get clear about what you stand for and the message you want to share.#2 Break it down simply in simple language. Make it easy for your reader to read.#3 Less is more. One well written and clearly communicated concept is so much more powerful than overwhelming people. Let them come back for more.#4 Use stories. Stories are personal, bring everything to life and serve as a way to emotionally connect with your audience.#5 Always talk to one person, only one person is reading or listening to you at any time. Writing is so much more potent when you speak to one person.Own who you are and what you stand for. As one of my favorite sayings goes:“Be yourself. People don’t have to like you, but you don’t have to care.”So let me ask you… what do you feel is your message to share? What would you like to say? Who would you love to help?Thank you for being here and for reading.I wish you, as always, lots of happy writing!Aoifexo********* Want to write a non-fiction or self help book? I’ve got a gift for you! A FREE writing course designed to help you do just that! You can get that here: http://www.mymessageislove.com/free-writing-course If you’d prefer to work with me 1:1 on your writing you can find out more about that here: http://www.mymessageislove.com/work-with-meFor any other enquiries, email me at: copy@mymessageislove.comAoife MY MESSAGE IS LOVE ********* Note: You might like these episodes too: #6 - Be The Anomaly (In Your Writing And Life) #15 - 5 Secrets To Attention Grabbing Stories #26 - Sensitive And Creative? STOP Blocking Yourself!*********

How have you been? Hoje eu falo sobre dois idioms comuníssimos com a palavra blessing. Are you ready? :-) Transcrição How have you been? You're listening to the new episode of the Inglês Online podcast. For a better listening experience, head over to the Google Play Store or Apple's App Store and download the Inglês Online app. Thank you for telling everyone you know about this podcast and, enjoy! So our first expression of today is blessing in disguise. Yep - do you know what that means? Let's see. I'm going to read out a tweet for you, and you tell me whether you know what blessing in disguise means or not. So check out what this guy tweeted out - he's talking about two football teams who lost one of their players: https://twitter.com/OvieO/status/983833742799237121 So just an observation: notice that he said "Roma lost Salah" and "are", so "Roma are" and then in the second sentence "Liverpool lost Coutinho" and "are" - "Liverpool are". OK? So he uses 'are' with Liverpool and Roma, why? Because these are collective nouns. They communicate, like, a whole team. He's talking about a team and in British English it's very common to use "are" with nouns that represent more than one person; they represent a group. So this guys said "sometimes losing your best asset". He's referring to the star player each of the teams lost - "can be a blessing in disguise". What looked like a really bad thing in the end did not prevent a great outcome. Here's a dictionary definition for you: an unfortunate event or situation that results in an unforeseen positive outcome. I remember at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York - a couple of people were interviewed saying they were supposed to be on those airplanes and because they were late, or some some other reason, they missed their flights. To those people, missing the flight was a blessing in disguise. Bit of an extreme example... but there you go. I think the best way to really see this idiom, blessing in disguise, in your life is to think about something you lost, an opportunity you missed, that... at the time really bummed you out. Then, let's say about a month later, you couldn't even feel sad when you thought back of what happened because something much better came along. I know that, for me, this exact sequence of events has happened so many times. I miss a sale and some time later I'm happy I didn't spend that money on something I didn't need. Missing that sale was a blessing in disguise. I miss an opportunity to do something and then some time later I realise that thing wasn't really what I wanted to do! Missing that opportunity was a blessing in disguise. These are my examples - what are yours? Now, here's our second one with blessing: count your blessings. This is usually said to someone who's feeling a bit down on their luck... Maybe they just got some bad news, or the outcome they were expecting didn't really happen, or they're just going through a hard time right now. And then a friend - more likely a stranger, to be honest - will tell them "Hey, count your blessings. At least you still got..." Whatever. At least you still got your home. Or your family. Or a job. Some money. Basically, when someone tells you to count your blessings they're telling you that no matter how sad your predicament is, there are a few things you should be grateful for. Let's go to Twitter again - check out this one. https://twitter.com/idillionaire/status/983819346509053952 Look, I'm not saying it's easy to do what this chick suggested but that was a good example of how someone might use the term count your blessings.  How would we say that in Brazil? I actually can't think of anything right now that would be a good translation for count your blessings... I mean, something we Brazilians actually say. Do you have anything? Let me know and see you soon!   Key expressions blessing in disguise

TO BE CONTINUED! TO BE CONTINUED! TO BE CONTINUED! Catching the latest news! Pow! Pow! Pow! Ok… So it doesn’t flow as well as Mr. Incredible's theme nor is it original. After all it’s just a parody and therefore we can’t be called out for plagiarism... right? It’s been 14 years since Pixar released The Incredibles, the original breakout animated film which some fanboys have referred to as “one of the best superhero movies ever made.” Sit back and geek out with TBC a fanboy podcast on how the film measures. #jackjackvsracoon #stillnocapes

Tuesday • May 15, 2018  and Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor Andrea Catherine (https://www.groundedhere.com/podcast) is here to share with us her secret for a delicious salad. (https://www.groundedhere.com/podcast) What kind of dog is he? He’s a rescue dog! I just like the fact that he’s a rescue dog, those are my favorites! The first time I lived with a Pitt Bull, I thought IDK, the lady I lived with was like you’ll love her. I was like idk. and she was like the most loveable dog. What’s his name? Porter, but not just any Porter. Edmond Fitzgerald Porter Great Lakes Brewing Beer  I know that song, isn’t it Gordon Lightfoot. This student in my class who they say is dyslexic, IDK, but we’ve been singing a lot lately because that’s a good thing for him.  OK, Ill have to check it out and Walter Mitty. The new Walter Mitty movie with Ben Stiller is amazing! I started doing ten minute shows I’m interviewing an astrologer once a month We’re talking about Taurus and Spring inspiring me to expand my horizons too. The fist one we just did yesterday. I did 3 tips to boost your metabolism, so I am calling them Love your Monday. It’ll be good to have a little bit extra. Long form will come back, June 1st. This month I talked with Elsie Escobar (http://elsieescobar.com/) ! It was a great conversation and vulnerable in some ways. It will be great to share her episode. It was fantastic! I’m eager to share it! That’s been my problem lately. I’ve been struggling to download shows and listen when I am without a signal. Which is most of the time! So, Still Spring! You can get things like arugula at the Farmer’s Market. Did you go to the Farmer’s Market? Kalispell Farmer’s Market Not because I forgot. I was working, teaching yoga closes at noon and I got home at one. I going out of town so I won’t go this weekend either and after that I should be making it a habit, I might have to shift to going to a different market. Kalispell on Saturday is not the most convenient market. My favorite place to be is Thursday night at the Columbia Falls Market! Let’s meet there! It is so much fun! Should be starting soon. Like a townie party! Live music! There’s always a brewery or a distillery that sponsors it! It starts this Thursday… On the 17th Im there as much as I can be in the summer!  Dodgy Mountain men are playing on June 7th! I like to look at who’s playing the music. I run into it a lot on a Thursday night! I love that market better then Kalispell, Whitefish hands down. You should check out the Eureka one.  It’s on Wednesday nights but there’s music. There’s not a lot of vegetables. (https://www.simplyjosephine.com/) My friend Dacia (https://www.simplyjosephine.com/) has her stand with aprons and with her soaps and things. The people who do the Two Bear Farm, Todd and Rebecca. There’s some new vendors you can buy some things. Huckleberries. Not morels, there’s gonna be a lot of morels, people picking like crazy. There’s some vegetables. I don’t usually go to the Eureka one. Last year I went once, we didn’t have a lot of things, maybe we’ll have flowers this year.  I planted some on Earth Day! OK So! Arugula at the Farmer’s Market I like to make a salad with some bitter greens last of the root vegetables I’ve got! carrots cucumbers I know they’re not a root vegetable and they probably aren’t local I’m telling you about this salad my favorite way to cut vegetables isn’t a way you think of doing it. I realized today that maybe my favorite kitchen tool for salads?!  A vegetable peeler! I like to peel my carrots that way they become these little spirals did that with the carrots... Support this podcast

Ok So this was recorded last week and Greg didn't post... But enjoy the conversation around Kanye and Toya gives a quick lesson on vaginal pride

So the big question is this, how do you become financially free in today's world where you can do what you love doing and spend time with the ones you love and provide for your family without being chained and selling your soul to a nine to five corporate America job without having to sacrifice going out to eat so you can pay off the debt faster. The question isn't, how do you save more? The question is how do you make more without spending more time? That is the question at this podcast has the answers. My name is Ryan Enk and this is Cash Flow Dad Life. What's up everybody? This is Ryan Enk with cashflow dad life and you are listening to podcast number four and you will like this episode. That's not a threat. I just said it like a threat just so you would listen because it's important. It's very important because what we're going to be talking about today is mindset and more specifically how to create a million dollar mindset. Now, why is that important? Everybody's like, look, you know, show me the strategy. Show me the strategies and I've got tons of strategies and I'll show you tons of strategies for making passive income, but here's the thing, you can know the steps, but if you don't have the right mindset, then you will fail it. Mindset is everything to go into different passive income producing strategies. So just to give you an example, like how many people would you say, "how many people would you say want to look good naked?" I would, I would say that probably 99 point nine percent of people, uh, want to be in shape. They want to feel healthy, they want to look good and um, and the other point one percent or just lying about it, but everybody wants to look good and everybody wants to feel good and you know what? Everybody pretty much knows the steps that they need to take in order to get there. It's not that hard... You exercise and you eat right? That's all you have to do. Those two steps. But yet, when I look around, I still see now maybe five to 10 percent of people are in the shape that they want to be in during the health, uh, that they want to be in. And what is the difference between the people who want to be in shape and the people who actually are, is not the steps, it's not the strategy. The difference is the attitude, the mindset. OK? So we're going to be talking about in the next couple episodes, the right mindset. This is so important... What I'm going to give you are the, what I consider the four pillars of having a million dollar mindset. OK? So the first one that we're going to talk about today, the first and most important fundamental, a pillar of a million dollar mindset is gratitude. And that might strike you as a little surprise. Why is gratitude important? Here's an example, a story when I was a kid, when, I don't know how old I was, but as back when Nintendo a emerged on the scene, at first it was Atari and Atari was like amazing. How in actuality it just sucked, you know, to, you know, kids, it was just amazing. And then the... came out and was phenomenal. Well, I wanted an intended so freaking bad. Um, and so I asked my parents if they would give me an intend to do for my birthday. And their answer was no, we're not buying you a Nintendo, it's like 100 bucks. So I was like, OK, you know, my parents weren't poor. We were, you know, ma --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cashflow-dadlife/support

In our first episode, Zach and Ade discuss the topic of impostor syndrome and welcome former fortune 50 executive, Amazon best selling author, and entrepreneur Fenorris Pearson to share his story. Length: 00:47:30Hosts: Ade | ZachTRANSCRIPTZACH: It's 2011 and I just graduated from the University of Houston (go Coogs!). I'm bright eyed and bushy tailed and I'm scared out of my mind. It's my first day and a large retail company an HR Manager and since I'm an "Executive Team Lead", there's a big orientation with all the other "Executive Team Leads in the region. At 20 years old, I'm easily. One of the youngest managers in the company. I look around the room and I see folks way older than me and seemingly much more comfortable in their own skin. I should be excited. I should be thankful. I should be happy. Instead, I only had one statement seared in my mind. First a whisper, then finally, a clear assertion: I don't belong here. This is Zach, and you're listening to Living Corporate. ZACH: So today we're talking about imposter syndrome. An hbr article defines it as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persists despite evidence success. Ade, can you relate to that? ADE: Absolutely. On our website, which you also check out by the way, there is a quick little blurb about the fact that I'm an aspiring software engineer. I knew nothing about code before I started exploring it and I can't tell you the number of times I sat in a room and I was like, OK, I heard the words that came out of your mouth and I'm pretty certainly were in English, but I could not tell you for the life of me what they meant to. There's just this repeated feeling of, I'm in the wrong group. You have you ever had that dream where everybody around you can see you naked and you're not aware until he looked down and realized, oh crap, they're laughing at me. I'm just that repeated feeling of I'm in the wrong room and everybody can see it. Also in like my own job, my current position, I'm always feeling like I'm always hesitant to answer questions even though I know the answer to them because I'm often either the youngest person in the room or the least experience. And I find that despite how confident I might be when it's just me and I know that I've done my homework and I know that I've done all the background necessary, I always find myself like second guessing myself for that one, very brief, split second, and sometimes that's just the difference between somebody else getting the position or somebody else getting an accolade for something that I already knew the answer to. ZACH: That's so real. Speaking for myself, I know that there's been multiple times where I know that I've done the research. I know I've done the homework, I know that I've done everything that's calling for me to do. And yet when I get in those rooms where you have those moments, there's always like the sneaky thing where I'm like, "ah, I really don't this, this whole thing is a sham", right? Like where I feel as if like at any point at any moment, like they're gonna pull back the curtain just kinda like where's it at the end. The one that was a great and powerful Oz. And you look behind the sheet and it's like just a regular dude. And I know for me like that's a genuine feeling of mine, right? I know that this is a relevant topic because even like on Fishbowl, which is like a, for those who don't know, fishbowl is an anonymous posting essentially like think like, um, like twitter, but there's no user names, don't know if it's completely anonymous and even we look across like, you know, when you just look at fish bowl, which I would say the predominant number of users are white folks. They talk about this all the time and like it leads to all types of issues, it's the source of so many different types of stresses and frustrations for them. They'll say things like "I'm really depressed here", and "you know, I really just felt as if anyone was going to find me out", "I really don't feel like I know what I'm doing and everyone else is an expert", and so on and so forth. I mean, I've seen people who are engagement managers and partners and directors, postings like that, right? And so I don't feel like it's necessarily something that's so isolated to me or definitely to you. And I know you've done some research on this. What insights can you share about how common or uncommon the feeling of being an imposter or just how common or uncommon imposter syndrome is? ADE: So we found a research that suggests that up to 70 percent of people, in professional settings report I'm having felt some sort of, um, anxiety related to impostor syndrome. And I know I've done personal research back in my graduate days. I'm on particularly students of color and feelings of inadequacy in school settings, but I didn't really find any that, that spoke to the experiences of underrepresented groups in corporate America. I would venture to say that the present is of those particular groups that are higher for people who are already one of the few where you find yourself being the only black person. The only black woman, the only gay person or the only the only used in the room and I've always wondered what it must be like for people of color to climb any corporate ladder because the higher you go, the less there are of us.ZACH: Straight up. No, you're absolutely right. I mean I definitely agree when you look at the data and I definitely reviewed the research that you shared and thank you for that. It didn't break it down by the "only" one in the room, to the language that you used. It didn't break it down by you know, how present that feeling must be for the only black woman or the only first generation immigrant or like ow much stronger those feelings must be. Because for me, when I think about imposter syndrome, I think about the fact that not only do I feel like this, but there's no one around who looks like me who I can actually have a conversation with either. So I feel like doubly alone, you know what I mean? ADE: Yeah, I do. I mean, it would be great if we had a guest who could speak on their experiences. I mean, they will need to be like, I dunno, executive at a couple of fortune 50 companies they wrote an Amazon bestseller or where does, because that won't be an entrepreneur. ZACH: Oh, you mean like our first guest of the pod, Fenorris Pearson? ADE: Yeah! We're going to get it to her interview with the first guest of our show, Fenorris Pearson. ZACH: Hey, y'all went back and as I said we have for Norris s'mores. Welcome to Living Corporate.!First official show you kicking us off, how does it feel?FENORRIS: It feels great. Feels great, man. Excited. And I'm excited to be a part of this groundbreaking podcast show. ZACH: I appreciate it, man. So you and I have a history. We've, we've worked together. You've been a mentor of mine for years, but for those who don't know you, would you mind sharing a little bit of your story? Let's just start about how you got into corporate America. FENORRIS: Absolutely. So I come from, I grew up in a family of 10. Seven boys, three girls. Grew up in the projects. I was the first one and they only one want to get a college degree andcertainly our postgraduate degree in business and organizational development. I always aspired, even though it was a pretty good athlete, there was a division one scholarship athlete, student athlete, a lot of success in basketball, I was always inspired to be a businessman. So I, graduated and moved into a corporate America. I always believed in myself, but I know God always has provided grace and favor in my life. So as I entered into corporate America, um, it was one of those things where I had goals, I had certain aspirations to get to. Certain things were more important than anything I wanted to not lose myself, who I am, and who I was as an individual as I aspired and as I transitioned into bigger roles and bigger responsibilities within corporate. So I became, be at the age of 38, the youngest senior vice president, African American executive at that at Motorola. I became a senior vice president of organizational development in Motorola, had over 300 some employees that worked for me around the world. And that was after, at that time I was probably in my... I was 38, but I had probably been with Motorola for about six, seven years. Ended up transitioning from Motorola to go and work for Dale. And I worked for the number two man at Dell who reported to Michael Dell. And that was a huge experience as well too. So before the age of 40, I was a part of two fortune 50 companies that I was a senior level executive and two of the biggest companies in the world before the age of 40. So getting there was an interesting journey to the point where it sparked me to run a book. And the book was called "How to Play the Game at the Top" and that was inspired in my conversation that I had with one of the most senior executives in the world, this guy was the founder and the visionary of a phone called the Razor. Many out there may recall this phone, it was a thin, sleek, they called it the razor and it was one of their iconic phones within this time and I was part of the leadership team, the executive leadership team to develop and put that phone on the market. So am I hitting what you want to talk about? ZACH: Absolutely. This is exactly what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to hear essentially how you got here. And so your story that you're sharing the answers that question. I'm curious if you're talking about these experiences and you're working for these individuals and working at extremely senior levels, was there ever like one specific moment that you realized like, wow, wait a minute, I'm in rarefied air here. Like, this is a special position, like was there a specific moment? FENORRIS: There was two moments that I recall that I'm like, wow, OK, there were two distinct, different learnings from them. The first learning was about me standing up and sticking true to who you are, particularly from a male and from a man's perspective and just about your character, who you are and what you stand for. That story is, there's a, there's a woman tthat I had hired. She was from Kellogg. I brought her on board as a director, but she was extremely qualified and so, and, but she happens to be a minority. She happens to be a female and African American. And her and I at one point were visiting an we were taking on a restructuring of a, of a 14, 15 billion dollar business. And so my job was to begin to do an org diagnostic and assessment of the strengths, the weaknesses, what's working, what's not working, typical diagnostic stuff. And I'm, this young woman, uh, was part of the, um, the team that I would take in and we'll go on and sit down and discuss with an executive. And one particular executive really was not feeling, he time that we had set aside and that we had documented that this is when we're going to meet, this is the nature of this conversation, this is what we're going to be trying to accomplish. What are you doing this time? So it was two of us, myself in this young female who was extremely qualified and competent. And so we get into the office and this man for whatever reasons, in a bad mood. And he is, he apparently had just got back from Europe over London and was tired. But, he was very rude to us and he was extremely rude to me in front of this young African American female and the better, calmer nature of me decided to handle this individual in a professional way because the point, the decision that I had to make was what's more important? Do I continue with trying to move forward with doing this my job? Or do I sit here and let this young female who I just hired a watch me kowtow and belittle myself and lose sense of who I am as a man, forget my job or getting my responsibility just as a man and have this young woman forever look at me as a senior African, "oh, so this is what you have to do in order to be an executive in corporate America." I made a decision at that time that at no point will allow this woman's memory, ah, to be as a man and as an executive, to accepted such disrespect from this senior executive sitting across the table from me. So I said to him, I said to her, I said, I started off. I said, sir, if this is not a good time, um, shall, we can, we can come back and continue this, um, this, uh, this interview. And he was like, no, this is a good time because it's a good time, which doesn't appear to be because I'm the, I'm feeling some tension here. And then so I asked this young woman, I said, "you know, what, could you, could you excuse us?" And I said her name and he said, "no, she can stay here." [Then I said] "As you know, she's, she's my direct report and requesting that she excused herself from this conversation." And so is she excused herself from this conversation. I looked at him, I got up on the edge of my seat and I looked at it across the table and I said to him, I said, "you and I know sir, if you and I were outside of this organization, there is no way you would approach me like that because you would be fearful." I'm six, seven tall, sexy, OK. And he's about six feet. OK. And so, so my whole point to him was that, that, that you wouldn't dare approach me and this manner, and I'm, I'm not going to let this young woman's memory be a of me as a man, as a senior executive that happened to me, a man of color. I'm someone that was just allowing himself to be treated with such disrespect. OK? So, so, so that moment, Zach was a moment that, that changed my career because at this, at this point I was I was a vice president of a business unit, but not of the entire corporation. OK? So at this moment, this man changed his attitude, uh, you know, kind of backpedaled a little bit. I asked for the young woman to come back in. And, uh, we continued to interview. Now, the second aspect that I talked to you about the change when I realized I was in rarefied air, uh, as an, as an executive and Corporate America was when two days later this man calls me up and I'm like, "Oh crap, OK." You know, he's going to be on some, some, some Caucasian man stuff. And he's going to exert his power. He's going to exert his authority and you know what, I may get fired. OK? All right. So cool. So I made the decision at the time, decided to address him and I decided to ask this young woman to, to leave the room that I was willing to suffer any consequence for the sake of keeping my dignity. My mom used to always say, if you don't fall for something, you'll fall for anything. And I wasn't about to fall for having him berating me. And more importantly, have this last impression of this young woman who's at the beginning of her career, I'm thinking that she has to or she has to be a certain way besides just being who she is in order to be successful in corporate America. Little did I know that, uh, when this call came was the call was totally the opposite of what I thought this call was. And so he asked me, he, um, so first of all, his assistant called my assistant and assistant asked me, did I ask my assistant and I have done, was I available? I said yes. I picked up the phone. And um, he said, so interesting conversation Finnaris - he didn't say for "Fenorris" as my name, but he said from "Finnaris". Interesting conversation. So here's what I want to do. I want to, I want you to go on a trip with me. And so I'm like, what do you mean go on a trip? At Motorola, we had all these corporate jets and so we had these corporate jets, and so being on the corporate jet, certainly I've been on commercial airplanes, but I never been on my own private jet. And so, so he asked me to meet him, at our hanger where we keep all our corporate Jets outside of Chicago.And so I met him there and I was lgoing to say, as a lot transpired between the time of him asking me to meet him there and the conversation that we had on the phone. But I'm thinking when I get there, it's going to be a group of people I'm just going off to Sunnyvale, California. Little did I know at the time that he called me. He had just got promoted to be the president, the number two person and pretty much it as running a motor roller or he had just got promoted at that time on the phone call. I didn't know it. So when I get there at a hanger, I'm thinking it's going to be a bunch of the people that's going to be on this jet is just, it turns out it's just him and I. So we get there - and this is a true story. We get on the jet and we're getting ready to take off. So you're, you know, on a jet is, is everything in all kinds of food. So I'm trying to be cool and act Like I've been there before, but at the same time, like this big lobster over there, some shrimp, like, wow, this is nice, you know? I got my leather seats, I got plush leather everywhere, communication equipment, et Cetera, et cetera. So he said, so you're probably wondering why it's just me and you. I said, "absolutely" So we're taking off getting ready to head out to Sunnyvale, California from outside of Chicago. He said, "the reason why I put you on this, I got you on his plane because what want to share with you is something that most of us never talked to you guys about."So two words. "Most of us", meaning mostly Caucasian white men and "you guys", I'm sure everybody that's probably listening to refer it with, uh, you know, Kinda get the meaning of you guys as meaning African Americans or people of color. Never really get a chance to, um, understand how we operate. And so I got on a plane because it's going to be my word against your word. I have no idea how you may react to what I'm about to say to you. But, um, what I want you to know is when I spoke with you and I came at you that I'm at that, um, at that meeting we had, it was all by design. I'm like, why? Wha? What do you mean? "I want to see how you would react to see if you would stand up for yourself. I see so many of you guys out there that are so motivated to be, um, to be, uh, to get ahead, that you will, will allow anything, ah, or had someone to do anything or say anything to you in order to get your stripes. OK? In order to get your where you feel like you belong. Rightfully belonged in. A lot of you guys depend on succession planning. A lot of you guys depend on, uh, the affinity groups like the African American group or the Hispanic Mba group, that those groups are going to allow you all to be in a certain, um, I'd be a part of certain conversations." So as I'm listening to this, I'm like, I can't believe I'm hearing all this. So he's like, "what I wanted you to know is that it was a test" and a little did you know that at that time I saw you got promoted to the president of this business unit, this business. And it happens to be the biggest business unit in Motorola. Motorola was probably about a 55, $60,000,000,000 business. So one of the biggest business units in the world. And I was certain he says he's the number two man in control. And so, um, so he said "what I wanted to do was to see if you will stand up for yourself. I wanted to see because most of you guys to try and aspire in to the next levels, you lose a sense of who you are and what you're all about. Some of you guys even change your voice. You even change your voice." This is interesting coming from, from a white man, this white man, it's assessing and able to have been around enough by people to know. And if we're all real, we all know some people. And just because that to them, just because we change our voice means that we're, we're trying to be like them or not. That's how they accepted. Some of us may talk proper, all right? And so there's nothing wrong with them, but from his perspective, OK. And so this is his thought process, but he continues, "even some of you guys try and change her voice to be in, to feel like you're, you know, you're more accepted with us. What really sparked my interest to have you on my team was that you stood up to me because I'm trying to build a team with this new role that I just got. I don't want yes-people around me and I don't want people to just tell me what they think I want to hear because that doesn't do me any good. "He continues, "I've also been inspired in my life by two African Americans" and I'm like, wow, this is really getting great. Keep in mind we're 30, 40,000 feet up in the air. We're on a plane talking about this is that there's these two African American men. I said, so why me? Why me? He says, "there were two African American men in my life that inspired me, right? What most of my white counterparts don't know is that I grew up poor. I grew up with a single mom. All right? Because of my white male. See me. They see me, they see the wharton school, a business school, they see a harvard, they see all those degrees. But what they don't understand this, that, you know, I had a single mom that raised me. And then so I had two African American men that, that, that, um, uh, sowed some seeds into my life that inspired me to not do bad things because my mom worked all the time. And I was out in the streets getting into trouble and these two African American men on the boxing gym out in New Jersey and they, and they, you know, they just took me in and they gave me, they made me, you help me become more disciplined. And I was so appreciative of that because it wouldn't have been no telling what I would've done." I kind of referred to him as rain man, if anyone ever seen the movie rain man, he was half genius and half crazy. So, so that experience that he had always inspired him to want to do something and give something back to a minority because those two, those two men changed his life to the point where I thought it was bs in down the road, but he even donated money back in New Jersey to named schools a school after this man, after these men. So he put up hundreds of thousands of dollars donated so the school could be named after these two men. So as he's telling me, the reason why we're on the plane is because it's my word against your word and this is stuff that we would never ever talk to you about how, how we do things, how, how things go down, how decisions get made. There are meetings before meetings...that the meetings before the meetings proceed and take decisions are made before we actually get into the meeting that was supposed to be making the decisions and you understand what I'm saying? You guys are never exposed to those things. What I want to know if I want you to, I want you to know someone on my team and what you need to understand that there are consequences for, for that there are, there are good consequences and there are consequences that, that just happened and the light, but corporate. So explain to me what he meant by that is that, for example, he talked to me about the difference between mentors and sponsors. He said, "what I'm offering you is not to be your mentor, but to be your sponsor." A mentor is someone is going to provide coaching, provide guidance, helped you prepare for an interview. A sponsor is someone that's going to say, "that's my guy."I'll give you give you an example. When I left Motorola and went to Dell, typically you would go through an interview process where - particularly people of color - you're going to meet, you're going to go two or three times. I interviewed one time and I interviewed with Michael Dell and no one else and my salary, my sign on bonus. I had a sign on bonus about $300,000. I had a golf membership at a country club out at the place that we built is built the place outside of Texas Dell headquarters since in round rock, Texas and build a 10,000 square-foot home out in Lake Travis. I had everything. OK. But my point here is not on the material things. My point is under the process or how they do stuff and trying to help people understand the difference between the mentor and sponsor. The fact that he sponsored me, only have to see one person. I didn't have to go through all of these interviews, all of these parading me then come back here, come back for the next round of interviews.That's the process that they typically take us through. But how they do, if they bring someone in that they want, they don't have to go through that process. They don't have to go through. And if they do go through several interviews, you can bet it's just, it's just a formality there justtsomething to make it look like it's a competition for the job, but they've already made a decision. That's the difference between mentors and sponsors. And he wanted me to Kinda understand that he was offering me something totally different from what I ever even thought about. I always thought the name of the game was mentorship, right? I always thought the name of the game was, if you know, if you work, you and I, you know, I was smart. I thought if I work harder and smarter than you, I'm going to get promoted. That's not how the game works. We could be the smartest, we could. We know we work work harder because are who we are and how we were raised, but that's still, it's not a deciding factor. And then, so he talked to me about the difference between the electorial vote in the popular vote. I want you to understand that a lot of minorities spend their time on focusing on the popular vote in the popular vote means a, if you think about the election many, many years ago with Al Gore and President Bush, at that time, first time the whole thing ever came into play is when Al Gore won the popular vote, but he did not become the president of this country due to electorial vote, which is a lot less votes than the popular vote. OK? So his whole point from a business perspective is that sometimes we get so concerned on trying to please and make everybody happy, but when you take a step back and look at your career, there's only one or two people that could really influence and impact your career to getting it to where you want to go. And that's what he called instilled like electoral votes. And he said, what I'm offering you is an electoral vote, not a popular vote. So the question that you asked early on was, what were some of the events that that allowed me to know that I was in rarefied air? One, no pun intended, been 30, 40,000 feet up in a private jet. I'm certainly up and rarified air, but a meaningful perspective from a, from a development perspective, hearing how he explained and what he shared. And they said there like they're the reason why I'm sharing this with you on this claim this because you can't record what I'm saying. You can't. If you don't, if you think this is racist or whatever, you can't go and call a Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. He sent these names for real. I'm serious because it's just my word against your word and it gives you a word and one of the things that you should understand is never, ever dance between two big two elephants. Because if you dance between two elephants, you might get crushed. And what he was saying is, is that you know, if you choose to, if you choose to make this a big deal, then it's going to be my word against your word and I have my word and as I have a whole corporate hr machine that's behind me, and you may, you may get your impact. You may get your story out, but at the same time it's my word against your word and I think we could understand how that would end so that those were two major events that changed my mind. That made me really know that while I was in rarefied air. Amazing stories that has really guided the way that I lead and the way that I now transition from corporate world to a entrepreneur world where I'm the CEO of a company called pursuit of hope. This is a whole different background from, um, from the corporate world and being executive into an entrepreneur and that's a whole different... a segment that you can do down the road since transitioning from corporate to be an entrepreneur and just huge differences there. And how success in one area doesn't necessarily equate to an another area is totally different thought process and that's something that I'm more than willing to share about my experiences. ZACH: Those are amazing stories. I have like two more questions for you. So you know that we're talking about my imposter syndrome today. Essentially that's just a feeling of inadequacy or that you're somehow out of place and a space that everyone else from your perspective clearly is rightfully placed in. So did you ever feel that way? Do you ever. Did you ever feel like you had to battle imposter syndrome? And if you did ever feel that way, how did you manage those anxieties and kind of keep that stuff at bay? FENORRIS: So I think that's a great question. First of all, to be totally candid with you, that question goes back to how I was raised. I never felt like just because I was an African American man that I was less than or better than anybody because my mom always raised me up...my mom used to refer to me and my older brother that grew up together as - and it sounds corny - but, she would refer to us as my Kennedy boys. And so I'm like, my mom is my mom thinking me like the Kennedy Boys. And this is me. I was like eight, nine, 10, 11 years old. My mom, because I knew who the Kennedy boys were talking about, Robert and about John. We're talking about, you know, we're talking about some very successful people. So my mom said that in her own way to make us feel good about ourselves and to make us, you know, where our self esteem about ourselves and she always taught us that we wasn't a better or worse than anyone. And so those, that mindset, um, traveled with me in every aspect of my life and every aspect of the involvement in my career now to proof of that is when I got tested and I didn't know I was getting tested as I told you all about this story because what he had observed was a, I'm a person who was truth in it to themselves and a person who had a tremendous amount of influence in the organization that, uand we'll talk about a skillset. I didn't at that time when this man talk to me with this young African American woman in his office, I didn't have to know the, the corporate a title than the big corporate type of foot on time for the business unit did, but not for the entire corporation. And what I learned that is that you don't always have to have the power or title that title in the organization in order to have the biggest impact on the organization. Because of the fact that I stay true to who I am, who I was, and that I didn't compromise and if I can give the people who are, are aspiring and trying to, um, you know, in a corporate position, they're struggling, they don't know where they're not promoting a shameless plug here, mark my book, "How to Play the Game at the Top", a book that's on Amazon, where people can go and read more new and pretty much you're going to hear the same stuff in it, but a lot more detail about what I'm talking to you guys about your career now and how to progress further, which really comes down to being true to yourself. Never ever compromise who you are just for money or just for to get a title or just to fit in, because it may pay off in the short term, but the thing that I can do and look back at all of myexperience in corporate and say that I'm very, very pleased with the the decisions that I made and why I made them because there's nothing worse than feeling like you gained something at the expense of losing something. ZACH: Man, that's amazing and this is really powerful Fenorris. I really appreciate this man. I was going to ask if you had any plugs but you already plugged your book to Amazon bestseller, "How to Play the Game at the Top". And I wanted to reinforce that because as you know, I read it some years ago. Great read. We will have the things that we've referenced in this conversation on during this podcast. We will have all those things and make sure you actually look at our descriptions. You will see a link for how to play the game at the top in the description. So you can go ahead and check that out as well. Fenorris, I just want to thank you for joining us today. FENORRIS: Hey, thank you guys for being able to allow me to be a part of this. I really believe it's a groundbreaking show. More importantly is just it just thankful to you guys to want to put together a podcast like this here and so you guys could be doing a lot of other other things besides trying to educate andmake people aware of the challenge, challenges and opportunities as they grow in starting career. And so I thank God for you guys having an vision to put together a program like this. ZACH: Man. Thank you for Fenorris. We're going to go ahead and take a break. We come back, we'll have it back in the studio. We'll talk about this discussion and then we'll continue on with the show. ADE: That was a dope interview. ZACH: Yeah, I liked it. ADE: Yeah. In my little story at first I thought to myself like, wow, this is a really, really unique story. Like a great journey. Yet, at the same time, so much of it resonated with my own experiences, like even now in the earliest stages of my career, you know? ZACH: Absolutely. I was glad he was able to make the show really, really interesting stories and I hope he comes back. ADE: For sure. Um, OK. So now let's get into our next segment, which, you know, I kind of enjoy. It's called favorite things. It's where we talk about, um, what our favorite things are these days we can, you know, big up yourself a bit. ZACH: Absolutely. OK, well let's go ahead and get started. I'll start first. You didn't invite me to start, but I will start.ADE: The floor is yours.ZACH: Thank you. OK, so yes. So my favorite thing right now has to be mumbo sauce is now listen. So for those who don't know, for all of my southern gentleman and uh, and women in the audience listening, listen, mumbo sauce is like this sweet spicy sauce that originates out of the DMV and yeah. So, um, our favorite cousin, our favorite big cousin, favorite Auntie, she was on First We Feast, which was hot ones hosted by Sean Evans. Shout out Sean Evans, hot ones. All y'all. Anyway, she's on the show and one of the first things she eats is covered in this stuff called mumbo sauce. And so I'm, I'm taking, I'm tasting, I'm, I'm fast forwarding - first off all I did not taste the mumbo sauce - this is when I first heard about the mumbo sauce. Let's be clear. Then I was like, eh, maybe, I don't really know. Whatever, whatever. Cool. So then you know, because the feds always watching on facebook and I see a mumbo sauce and I'm like, what is going on with his mumbo sauce? So then I see a Facebook ad and it literally said, "Taraji P. Henson endorses mumbo sauce on hot ones with Sean Evans. You like Taraji P .Henson, you should buy mumbo sauce. I was like, golly. I mean I was kind of creeped up that it was so on point and that it clearly, it was watching my activities... but at the same time, I was like, well sang. I mean you, you are right. I, I did like Taraji p Henson in that interview and I am a Taraji P Henson Fan. I do like SOS. Let me buy some. So I bought three bottles of this mumbo sauce. I know, right? And I'm on my last bottle, but listen.. Don't judge me - well you can judge me. That's fine. It's delicious. I actually will put up with the scrutiny. It's great. I put it on everything. Anyway, so I got a two for one. So my other favorite thing right now is this upcoming captain America Comic. I love comic books and so there's a new run starting with captain America and it's been written by the Don Ta-nehisi Coates. So those are like my favorite thing is right now. What's up? What you about it? ADE: So first of all it's Ta-nehisi Coates. I just wanted to hit you with the. Well actually, ZACH: Wow. I'm Embarrassed.ADE: I can't let you be out here just like meg league his name. You know ZACH: that's true though because he is a hero of mine. I don't even know how to say his name.. It was a great point. . ADE: All right. Um, that's random by the way. I want you to know that that's like the weirdest. "Oh yeah. By the way, I'm shouting out mumbo sauce for the week." So my two favorite things this week and I don't know why we're sticking to two, but it's probably for the best because I'm indecisive. So currently actually, literally, you know how when you're on the Internet and be like, what's to the left or the right of you to the left of me is this book, I don't know if he can hear it. It's called a children of blood and bone by telling me it. I mean, um, and as a voracious reader, as a long-time lover of the written word, um, I can tell you right now that she could have all of my clients, like she can literally have all of them every last day. Um, you know, why? Because this will, I can write her booty off. I'm reluctant to even say, booty. ZACH: This is a clean show. So keeping going. ADE: Yes my mom may be listening to this. But yeah, like if you're looking for a new literary suggestion, if you need a new book, if you are a consultant or you're traveling for days out the week and you need a book to take on the plane with you, it might really only last you depending on how fast you read two trips, but it's absolutely worth it. I think my second favorite thing is I've been sick this week and anyone who knows me actually noticed that I have a deep and abiding love of, but it's just like sky rocketed to the top of last of the favorite things this week because my word is good but it is so good and I was down for the count but you know, fa. And since your tea really held me down so it doesn't have to things for the week. ZACH: Do you have any shout outs? ADE: Yes. Um, so shout out to us first of all because I feel like we're dope. We put an amazing thing together and even if you know, this is just us talking to ourselves. This is still like one of the dopest projects had been on. Yeah, we put this whole thing together in less than a month. Bask and how amazing that is. ZACH: I feel the exact same way that I was going to be my shout out to like, shout out to us straight up. We've got a team of five and like they're all going to be on the show. They're all gonna be, they're all leading and participating in like heavily involved because it takes a lot to get this machine up and going. It's all. ADE: One more shout out, one more shout out. I have a new nephew in my life, um, because name is Haleem and he is the absolute, like the brightest star in the night sky right now and I'm just so proud and so happy to have him at the moment. ZACH: No, no, that's dope. That's dope. You know what, in fact, let me go ahead and shut out my nieces and nephews. We can go ahead and put them on a shout out to my nephew Aaron and then shout out to my niece Alayna. They are absolutely wonderful. So, uh, yes, that will actually be the Hashtag for this show. #auntieuncle swag. So thank you all for joining us. My name is Zach.ADE: And I'm Ade.BOTH: Peace.

Highlights Death and Taxes Federal Income Tax in 1918 | @02:15 Casualty List Controversy | @05:20 America Emerges - 26th Yankee Division and rats - Dr. Edward Lengel | @07:35 War In The Sky - Personal account of Paris air raids | @13:30 US anti-war activism in 1918 - Mike Shuster | @16:10 Euro WWI Commemoration events - Dr. Monique Seefried | @21:05 Dog Tags reunited with Doughboy - James Shetler | @30:15 Spotlight in the media 1: Sgt. Stubby - Jacy Jenkins | @36:45 Spotlight in the media 2: Journey’s End - Trailer clip | @42:35 100C/100M in Ogden Utah, Terry Schow | @44:55 Speaking WWI - Penguin | @51:10 WWI Commemoration in Social Media - Katherine Akey | @52:45----more---- Opening Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #63 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration. Today is March 16th, 2018 and our guests for this week include: Dr. Edward Lengel with a story from the Yankee Division and rats... Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog revisiting the ongoing anti-war movement in America Commissioner Monique Seefried tells us about upcoming centennial events in Europe James Shetler with the story of one doughboy’s dog tags and their journey back beside him Jacy Jenkins gets us ready for the premiere of the new animated WWI set film Sgt Stubby: An American Hero Terry Schow, sharing the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project in Ogden Utah Katherine Akey with the WW1 commemoration in social media   WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show. [MUSIC] Preface This week, as we were looking at the news and articles from various publications 100 years ago, an unexpected theme popped out.. A theme that covers two ideas that are said to be the only sure things in life. Death and Taxes - both of which are all over the news this week 100 years ago. With that as a setup, let’s jump into our Centennial Time Machine and roll back 100 years to understand how we see death and taxes 100 years ago in the War that Changed the World! World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week Taxes We are back in 1918 and some things never change. We are in mid March, heading towards April and it’s TAX TIME!! [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline March 11, 1918 A headline from the Official Bulletin reads: Voices of 25,000 Four-Minute Men to Be Heard Throughout the Land, Warning All to Make Tax Returns The story opens with: Twenty-five thousand Four-Minute Men will start out today on a nation-wide campaign to impress upon the American public their patriotic duty promptly to file their income tax return and pay their taxes. The period for filing ends April 1. You remember who the four-minute-men are, right? The four minute men are a force of volunteers that are deployed by George Creel - America’s propaganda chief - to deliver 4 minute government written pitches to the population. The article continues to explain: The Four-Minute Men will appear in theaters, moving picture houses, and public gatherings.  Special meetings will be held by chambers of commerce, boards of trade, rotary clubs, luncheon clubs, and business organizations. " Don't delay " is the warning that will be given by the speakers. Taxpayers will be urged to protect themselves and aid the Government by being prompt. It will cost the Government money and trouble to hunt down the man who dodges the income tax, but the word has gone forth from headquarters that this will be done. Be it known that the “slacker " will be shown no leniency.   Now here it gets interesting! The article goes on to reveal how much people actually pay for taxes in 1918 - In the article it states: The man of modest income is made to bear a just share of the common burden. Tables have been produced comparing the rate of tax in the United States and Great Britain. Here in the United States, the married man with an income of $2,500 pays $10 in taxes while in Great Britain the-man with an income of $2,500 pays a tax of $223! However, larger incomes in the US are subject to a surtax! The normal rate of tax under the war revenue act of 1917 is 2 percent on the net Income of married persons earning $2,000. The surtax ranges from an additional 1 per cent on incomes between $5,000 and $7,500 to a surtax of 50 percent on incomes in excess of $1,000,000. So in 1918, we have a tax code that can be explained in 4 minutes. It supports working people with a small tax burden and expects the wealthy to contribute a substantial share back to the nation that makes it possible for them to gain such wealth. Weird - huh!? Death OK So much for Taxes - Let’s talk about the other sure thing in life - Death! This week 100 years ago there is great controversy raging in the pages of the NY times over the publication of casualty lists. Concerned over German abilities to derive useful military information from casualty lists and under pressure from the French, Pershing only publishes names of casualties with no unit, or home address information. [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: March 11, 1918A headline in the NY Times reads: WAR DEPARTMENT STANDS-BY-THE BAN ON CASUALTY LISTS Shows No Intention of Yielding on Publication of Addresses. CONGRESSMEN OBJECT Expect Flood of Protests from Constituents Information is Declared to be Valuable to Foe The article goes on to explain that the French do not publish ANY casualty lists instead they simply inform the next of kin directly. George Creel,  the head of the Committee on Public information, also easy to describe as America’s propaganda chief is in on this fight, as the Times describes the committee’s stand as: “The mere publishing of name of soldiers without home addresses to Identify them to neighbors and friends or to prevent confusion with other men of similar names, is so devoid of news value that the committee will not Issue the lists.” Interestingly, the NY Times clearly has it wrong - because George Creel is also the publisher of the government daily War Gazette the “Official Bulletin” -- and on the same day, May 11, in issue #254 - on page 2 -- there is an article whose headline reads: LIST OF CASUALTIES AS REPORTED AMONG THE U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS And continues to list the casualties by the Rank, first name, middle initial and last name. Looking further into it we found something else fascinating. A few days later, on March 16, another article in the NY times is published: [SOUND EFFECT] Headline: 1,722 Casualties in Overseas Forces so Far; 162 Killed in Action or Dead From Wounds. The article goes on to list what the causes of the casualties are. Some of the smallest numbers are death from gas, civilians and executions - but when you look at the numbers you realize that out the casusualies, less than 10% are killed in action. About the same % as killed by accidents, while a whopping 37% -  over ⅓ of casualties are the result of disease. So if you are an American Soldier in Europe in March of 1918 - you are nearly 4 times more likely to get killed by a bacterium or a virus than you are likely to get killed by the Kaiser’s forces… a strange twist of fate at this stage in the war that changed the world! Links: http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/educate/places/official-bulletin/3343-ww1-official-bulletin-volume-2-issue-254-march-11-1918.html https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/16/98260787.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/11/118139263.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/12/98259936.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/15/98260374.pdf [SOUND EFFECT] America Emerges: Military Stories from WW1 And that brings us to this week’s segment of America Emerges: Military Stories from WWI with Dr. Edward Lengel. Ed: This week your story is about the 26th Yankee division.. And last week you teased us with the fact that this week’s story was going to include special RATS! Can’t wait to hear the story! [ED LENGEL] [Ed, what will you be telling us about next week?] Dr. Edward Lengel is an American military historian, author, and our segment host for America Emerges: Military Stories from WWI. There are links in the podcast notes to Ed’s post and his website as an author. Links:http://www.edwardlengel.com/100-years-ago-1918-yankee-divisions-secret-weapon/ https://www.facebook.com/EdwardLengelAuthor/ http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/ [MUSIC TRANSITION] War in the Sky Combining the War in The Sky and Women’s History Month we have this first person account from a YMCA canteen worker who went to Paris to help our boys: This week, one hundred years ago, the war in the sky over Paris is alive with attacks on the city. This is from one of the last letters written by a Miss Winona C Martin,  a YMCA worker who was killed in a German air raid attack on Paris. In this letter she describes another raid much like the one in which she was killed. Hospitalized in Paris with Bronchitis she writes: “Above the red brick wall, which is all I see, of the world’s most beautiful city, there rises a patch of sky… and as the light began to fade on my first night in the hospital, I noticed some stars of marvelous brilliance. Suddenly they began to move about in the weirdest manner, which I thought due to the fact that I was slightly lightheaded. My nurse came to me presently and explain that they were airplanes on guard. She said the Bosh were expected any moment, because it was full moon. The following night I was watching them again when suddenly I heard the boom of canons. There came the call of sirens, which warn Paris that an air raid is on. There followed a scene as I hope never to witness again. All lights were extinguished and the women in the ward across the hall awakened and commenced to call on the Saints and the Virgin for protection. Further down, I heard babies crying. The nurses walked up and down ringing their hands, yet trying to prevent a panic. For half an hour the firing continued. Sometimes directly above our heads, sometimes becoming more distant. Meanwhile the whole battle was visible from my window. The airplanes, mere streaks of light,  darted hither and thither and sometimes there was a blaze like a falling star when one was hit. At the end of that time, the firing ceased. The siren blew the recall, which meant that the Bosh were driven back. And to my immense surprise, the whole hospital instantly calmed down, turned over on its pillows and went peacefully to sleep. Miss Martin was a civilian casualty this month, but her letters home give us a  special glimpse into one woman’s experience of the war in the sky, the war on the sea, and the war in Paris 100 years ago this week. Link:  https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/17/109329237.pdf Great War Project Now on to the Great War project with Mike Shuster - former NPR correspondent and curator for the Great War project Blog…. Mike, this week you turn your focus back to the homefront with a report on those who still resist America’s participation in the war. Their voice is not a welcome echo in the US, is it Mike?   it certainly is not Theo… The headline on the "Great War Project" this week read… [MIKE POST] Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. LINK: http://greatwarproject.org/2018/03/11/american-anti-war-movement-still-alive/ [SOUND EFFECT] The Great War Channel If you’d like to see videos about WWI, we suggest our friends at the Great War Channel on Youtube. This week’s new episodes include:   Peace in the east -- The Treaty of Brest-Litovskand German Tactics for the 1918 Spring Offensive   See their videos by searching for “the great war” on youtube or following the link in the podcast notes! Link:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar World War One NOW It is time to fast forward into the present with WW1 Centennial News NOW - [SOUND EFFECT] This part of the podcast is not about the past - it is about NOW and what is happening to commemorate the centennial of the War that changed the world! Commission News/Events Euro Commemoration Events with Commissioner Seefried This week in Commission News, we’re looking across the Atlantic and towards the summer-- to the many centennial commemoration events that will be taking place all across Europe as the desperate and decisive battles that brought the war to end are remembered. Joining us now with an overview on some of these commemorations,  is US World War One Centennial Commissioner Dr. Monique Seefried. [Monique - Welcome back to the podcast! We haven’t had you on the show for a long time!] [greetings] [Monique - In overview, what are the key commemoration events planned in Europe this year?] [I know there is one event in particular that is close to your heart. It is taking place at the Croix Rouge farm in late July-- what is it ?] [If Americans want to participate in these commemorations - how to they go about it? ] [goodbyes/thanks] Dr. Monique Seefried is a Commissioner on the US WW1 Centennial Commission. We have put a number of links including to some of the guide Dr. Seefried mentioned into the podcast notes. Links: https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/world-war-i-centennial-ceremonies-abmc-sites http://www.greatwar.co.uk/events/2014-2018-ww1-centenary-events.htm http://www.1914.org/ http://eventi.centenario1914-1918.it/ http://croixrougefarm.org/inauguration/ http://www.worldwar1.com/ http://www.worldwar1.com/pdf/AEF_Battlefields.pdf https://war-travel.com/illustrated-travel-guides/north-east-france Remembering Veterans Dog Tags Reunited In our Remembering Veterans segment this week -- we’re joined by James Shetler, a citizen historian and independent researcher. James is here to tell us the story of a pair of dog tags-- and their long journey back to the doughboy that had lost them a century ago. Welcome, James! [greetings] [James - to start-- Can you tell us a bit about the man these dog tags belonged to-- Captain Swenson?] [So, how did the dog tags come to be in your possession?] [So you went to back to France to return the tags?] [Are you working on any other World War One research projects now?] Thank you! [goodbyes]James Shetler is a citizen historian who pursued a story of service! If you have the story of someone who serves in WWI ---- a doughboy, volunteer, an individual - your ancestor or someone who you just connect with, lime James did with captain swenson, we can help you share their story and get it into the permanent national archival record about WWI. Just go to ww1cc.org/stories where you can submit their story of service to be published and archived. That link as well as the expanded story of Captain Swenson are in the podcast notes. Links: http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service.html http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/4185-my-journey-with-captain-alfred-marcy-swenson.html https://jayinthegreatwar.com/ Spotlight in the Media Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero This week for our Spotlight in the Media -- We’re joined by Jacy Jenkins, VP of Partnerships and Outreach from Fun Academy Motion Pictures. That is who is putting out the new animated film: Sgt Stubby: An American Hero! Which is having a combination world premiere showing and children’s benefit in Los Angeles later this month on March 27th. Welcome, Jacy! [greetings] [Jacy, Sgt. Stubby is a great story about the relationship between some American Doughboys and a very special dog that they adopted or maybe a dog  that adopted them. But it’s based on a true story, right? ] [The premiere is also a fundraiser -- can you tell us about that?] [Jacy - that seems to be part of the Fun Academy’s culture - you make movies but you also have a philanthropic bent - creating events to raise awareness for the film and raise money for causes -- Can you tell us about the Sgt Stubby look-alike contest?] [When can the public go see Sgt Stubby in theaters?] [Is there anything else you’d like us to know about the film?] [goodbyes] Jacy Jenkins is the VP of Partnerships and Outreach from Fun Academy Motion Pictures. You can learn more about the film Sgt Stubby: An American Hero by following the links in the podcast notes; we’ve included links to the most recent  trailers and to their social media accounts. Link:http://www.stubbymovie.com/ https://twitter.com/stubbymovie?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/StubbyMovie/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0pd9oNf7Q&feature=youtu.be Journey’s End Another Spotlight in the Media is for another WW1 film premiering THIS weekend in New York and LA. Journey’s End is an intimate, gritty, and powerful film about men, mortality and fear. It’s about a group of British soldiers sent back to the front line trenches - just about exactly 100 years ago -- som this podcast audience knows what going on right now…. there is an imminent massive German assault rumored to be coming…. Like right now…. and these seasoned veterans, who are joined by a fresh faced young 19 years old, know what they are probably in for! [run sound clip] I just saw a viewing copy of the film and I have to tell you - this is a beautifully made, wonderfully written, well cast, powerful and poignant WWI movie you’ll want to make an effort to see. The film is going into limited release in the US and we have included a link to the playdate schedule in the podcast notes. You can also google Journey’s End to learn more. Tune in next week, when we’ve arranged an interview with the film’s director, Saul Dibb. Both the trailer and the showing listing are linked below. links:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpyaLNfudY http://www.journeysendthefilm.com/watch/movies/journeys-end-622437?gwiCampaign=official+site_official+site_2018-01-11_7876&gwi_campaign=Official+Site&lead_partner_id=360&partner_asset_id=7876&version=2#theater-list 100 Cities 100 Memorials Moving on to our 100 Cities / 100 Memorials segment about the $200,000 matching grant challenge to rescue and focus on our local WWI memorials. This week we are profiling the WWI doughboy monument project by the Weber County Historical Society & American Legion Post 9 in Ogden, Utah. With us tell us about their project is Terry Schow [Scow] , a member of the National Executive Committee for The American Legion of Utah. Welcome Terry! [greetings] [Terry - You were one of the very first projects to submit a grant application to the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials program. When did you get started on this?] [Your doughboy statue was originally installed way up high on the side of a building  - at the legion post wasn’t it?] [It’s been a while - but didn’t you have a story about gold radiator paint being used to refurbish the statue back in the 70’s or something?] [You pulled together a really strong coalition of project partners in Ogden… who all signed on?] [Well, congratulations on being selected as a World War 1 Centennial Memorial. Are there re-dedication plans?] Terry Schow is a member of the National Executive Committee for The American Legion of Utah. Learn more about the 100 Cities/100 Memorials program at the link in the podcast notes or by going to ww1cc.org/100cities Link: www.ww1cc.org/100cities [SOUND EFFECT] Speaking WW1 And now for our feature “Speaking World War 1” - Where we explore the words & phrases that are rooted in the war  --- 100 years ago, penguins stumbled across grassy fields of America, France, and england - playing a critical and important role in the aerial war effort. Penguins!? Yea - Penguins! In your mind’s eye, are you still seeing little black-and-white, flightless,  tuxedo clad birds --- flapping their stubby wings on grassy knolls? Well - actually you’ve got the stubby wings, the flightless and grassy knolls right! Penguin is our Speaking WWI word, this week… And the penguins of World War One were indeed flightless and stubby winged. They were trainer planes for the air corps. These non-flying trainer aircraft were made for teaching new recruits how to operate an aircraft while still reasonably safe at ground level. Around 300 of the “Penguin” trainers were made during the course of the War, with wings too short and engines too small to lift the craft into actual flight, allowing trainees to experiment with the flight controls, engine operations, and flight procedures while still at ground level. These “aircraft” were jokingly nicknamed “Penguins” because both creatures and planes were something that probably should fly, but don’t. Penguins -- a useful training tool for a novice pilot, a cute but very smelly animal - and this week’s Speaking WW1 Word. Check the podcast links to learn more, and to see photographs of the Penguin planes. Links: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t9t156s17;view=1up;seq=155 http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/exhibits/exhibit-galleries/world_war_i/breese_penguin.html https://iansumner.blogspot.com/2013/09/kings-of-air-of-penguins-and-men-part-2.html http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/exhibits/exhibit-galleries/world_war_i/breese_penguin.html https://www.historyofsimulation.com/flight-simulators-in-world-war-1/ [SOUND EFFECT] The Buzz And that brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine, what do you have for us this week? Trunk and Daylight Savings Hi Theo-- Daylight savings time appears in the news both this week in 2018 and this week in 1918. In fact, the most popular article we shared across social media accounts this week had to do with daylight savings time; most reactions to it were barf emojis and despair, which is pretty much how i felt trying to get up Monday morning at what felt like 5 am. But the NYtimes article from 1918 has a different tone: after months of tightly regulated coal and electricity usage, which meant many Americans spent their Mondays in the cold, Daylight Savings promised to help take the edge off coal rationing by giving us an hour more daylight in which to work and an hour less darkness that needed illumination. The change seems welcomed by the people of 1918, but I’m guessing they didn’t expect the wartime procedure to come back, and stay back, for a century. So, if you’re feeling as grumpy as I am about daylight savings-- you can thank the coal shortages of a century ago for the disruption. Moving on to nicer news, we shared another story about a treasure trove found in a trunk this week. Last week, we told the story of a man who has written a book about his father’s life and service in the war, which he put together after inheriting his father’s foot locker, filled with wartime belongings. It seems that trunks and footlockers were the go-to way to store belongings a century ago, as a WW1 era trunk was recently donated to the Texas Military Forces Museum. The museum posted a video of curators and archivists opening the trunk, astonished at the good condition and the sheer quantity of objects inside; dozens of letters, photographs, mess kits, magazines, and well kept uniforms -- the possessions of two brothers-- one with the 141st Infantry Regiment and the other with the 149th and 150th Machine Gun Battalion, 42nd Rainbow Division. Watch the whole video for a sneak peak at the collection-- and if you have a weird old trunk in your attic, you may want to crack it open and see what treasures you may have! Check the notes for links to these stories, and that’s it this week for the Buzz. link:https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/03/16/98260764.pdf https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/06/daylight-saving-time-almost-here-and-its-turning-100-years-old/395953002/ https://www.facebook.com/texasmilitaryforcesmuseum/videos/1680597135312139/   Thank you Katherine - Outro Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of WW1 Centennial News. We also want to thank our guests...   Dr. Edward Lengel, Military historian and author Mike Shuster, Curator for the great war project blog Monique Seefried, World War One Centennial Commissioner James Shetler, citizen historian and humanist Jacy Jenkins, VP of Partnerships and Outreach at Fun Academy Motion Pictures Terry Schow from the 100 Cities 100 Memorials project in Ogden, Utah Katherine Akey, the commission’s social media director and line producer for the podcast Thanks also to Eric Maar as well as our intern John Morreale for their great research assistance. And I am Theo Mayer - your host.   The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1; this podcast is a part of that…. Thank you! We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC.   We want to thank commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library as well as the Starr foundation for their support. The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn   on  iTunes, Google Play, TuneIn, Podbean, and now also on Stitcher - Radio on Demand --- as well as the other places you get your podcast --  even on your smart speaker.. Just say “Play W W One Centennial News Podcast.” Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thank you for joining us. And don’t forget to share the stories you are hearing here today about the war that changed the world! [music] OK…So what do you call a penguin in the trenches during WW1…? Lost! So long!

Today we're going to talk about chatbots. Using Chat Bots to Triple Your Sales Conversions without being tech savvy.  With Heather Havenwood all about using Chatbots within Facebook to grow your business. I'm happy to have a returning guest with us Heather Havenwood. And we had her on a while ago and she offered up some awesome content to know who you're selling to. So, after this episode, you might want to go and listen to that episode of know who you're selling to. But today we're going to talk about chatbots. How to triple your conversion rates with your sales without being tech savvy. So, if you don't know about Heather let me tell you a little bit about her. She is CEO of Hazelwood worldwide. She's sexy boss, a serial entrepreneur and is regarded as a top 40 in internet marketing business strategies and marketing. She since marketing her first online business in 1999, brings together clients and personal coaches. She has played an active role in online marketing world since before most of us even had computers. In 2006 she started developing and growing online information marketing publishing company from ground zero to over a million dollars sales in less than 12 months starting with a list of the product name or an offer. Heather and molded her clients into successful gurus now known as the expert in this field. She is awesome, and she really knows her stuff. So, let's welcome Heather today. Heather so great to have you again. And I'm just so excited to really talk about chatbots. I know it's something new that I've heard about a little but almost nothing. So, this is going to be exciting. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you for having me. This is going to be a lot of fun so it's going to be different and chatbots, feel like what's a chatbot, I will explain all of that. Awesome. OK. All right. So, here's what chatbot is. I mean just kind of dive into it if you're ok with that. My name is. My name is Heather Havenwood and I'm a marketer in an online marketing for since 2001 and I had my, I actually got my online degree my master's degree in 2010. My first million online was in 2005 right so I've been around a long time in one of the things about me is I'm an early adopter. Not everyone's like that. I got that from my father actually. Whenever there was a change of technology from BETA to VHS to like those discs we had for a while he was like the first one out the gate to buy the technology. In fact, in 1985 just to give you I guess when I get this from 1985 he had a physical bone in his car wired in his car he drove 80 miles from our house to the nearest train and when the train ran by he called his buddy and said look I'm, I'm in my car and a car phone is like 1985. OK. Wow. And I think it was like 50 dollars a minute or whatever it was. But this is before the bag phone. He was one of the first people in Houston Texas in the 80s to get a phone and he was very proud of that. So that's just I think that's where I get it from. I'm a true early adopter and I kind of have it. It's like I've heard about it. I'm probably late. I just have this kind of weird thing. But, I will say with chatbots it's a little bit different technology, but it really is the future. So, let's kind of take you back down to a technology lane if you will. Right. Let's start with good old-fashioned Yellow Pages. Yellow Pages. I remember going up we have yellow pages. My grandmother lived on her yellow pages. He wanted a plumber, or they wanted a roofer, they wanted whatever they open the yellow pages and all the market people talked about the yellow page remember that. Yeah absolutely. All right the bigger the ad the more people who will get to read the copy. And then what you trying to get them to do. You tried to get them to do what. Call the office sure. That was the thing. And then you got them to convert from there. Then we had the big explosion of online marketing in the last couple least of decades. Is it all about ads. Now no longer Yellow Pages but now that it was newspaper ads direct mail it's all about no matter what your ad is Facebook, online, Google, Yelp what are you going to do. Call. You still want them to call or go to your Web site and call. Especially with service-based businesses. Absolutely. Mainly because you want to say what's going on what's happening. When can we meet? Here's what's happening with text messaging. So, let me give you kind of an example. Go back three years. I opened a weight loss company here in Austin. So, it was a service-based business. Local business right. And it was kind of a new business and so what we want to do is again like you guys we wanted them to call to set an appointment. But from the beginning, I knew that a couple of things one of our target markets was women in the construction business even though it's predominantly male-dominated the customer is the woman. Absolutely right. She's the one dealing with the leaky roof she's the one dealing with all of that. The plumbing situation even though maybe you know the man comes in to fix it. The customer is a woman. Absolutely. Go back to this weight loss program. I knew the market was women and women like texting more than men. There's stats on that. OK. So, I thought to myself OK well we're going to set this phone number up. Obviously, we said the phone number, but it was a virtual number for the beginning. There's all kinds of companies you can use Grasshopper, Google Voice, whatever. And the number one thing that I said the company we have to make sure the phone number is textable and the like really __, it has to be textable and it has to be text was such a way that no matter who is working that day, myself I work in the office as virtual or anybody that we actually had in the office that they physically, they could text message back the customer as fast as they possibly could. So, it first happened my staff was like no one's going to text us or on my watch. Sure, enough we put on all our ads either on the Website, Yelp, Google ads whatever our thing was when we did even radio we said call or text number, call or text number. And guess what happened. We had people text and they say: “I just heard your ad on, I just saw your ad on Yelp, whatever can you tell me more about it?” Now here's what's happening. People are busy. They got their lives going on their moms or whatever they're busy lives right. They go oh I really want to try that. I'll send them a text but they don't really want to have the time to call and have this big conversation. Right. Right. So, it's their way of kind of like oh I'll start something and then like a follow-up. But they don't want to e-mail either because they kind of want to talk to somebody, so they text. Now here's another example. So, we actually had a huge amount still, do have you drop people texting. And then what we do is we'll text back and forth a little bit and then go hey is this a good time to call you so we can now continue the conversation get your schedule and then they’ll go “Yeah, come in 10 minutes or actually give me five minutes. Yeah. Call me now” Boom. Now we’re calling, we've had we've had a connection, come on the phones, schedule an appointment, you'd be surprised. Well the interesting thing, I’m hearing you're going through the whole sequence. You’re texting back and forth and you're creating a dialogue and a familiarity and then you're asking them permission to call them which then they're saying yes. Yeah exactly. They reached out with the text which is what I call a soft connection. No commitment. And then-then we would always encourage our staff to say try to get on the phones as fast as possibly can so they can answer questions faster. Of course, and get an appointment. And but when you're in that dialogue then you can have a permission-based conversation where you're like hey is a good time call you when should I call you? Perfect timing I'm driving. Great. You know or hey you're going to be on speaker with the kids. No problem. You know so now you're calling them and they are inviting us to call them. I know that's so awesome. It is also, that we did. So, here's another thing and give me another example here just in case you're just like oh I don't believe it. I had a gentleman who was in a mastermind with me who his agency did all was managing all the lawyer infomercials to just commercials right across the country and that the lawyer was one of those ones where it's like: “Do you this crazy sickness I can never say it. OK. I can't say I call this number does you have this. This is, call this number. You know your part of a class action lawsuit” So that was his agency like blasting this and their conversion wasn't getting very high and they didn't understand. So, they, once someone said someone called in the customers who are feeling like and she goes well someone called in the other day and said they tried to text the number and nothing happened. And of course, everyone in the agencies that text the number that they go to. Why don't you make the number textable and see what happens? So, said what we could do that. Right. So, they made the same phone number. No changes really textable. And I think on the ad they put, call or text. What do you think happened? They got and ended with texts because nobody wants the call and really talk to somebody right now. Exactly. They don't want to be sold. Right. And you also don't know maybe they're in a loud factory or maybe a hospital, maybe they didn't want to actually talk to, they can't, maybe they legally can't, maybe are in front of people they don't want to have a conversation about right. Oh yes, let’s talk to a lawyer right. So, there are all kinds of reasons why people text versus call. Sure. Right. My sister, when she's in a certain area of her work. She can't take calls because for some reason the area is restricted. She's like I can text you but I can't call you back. Right. So, stuff like this you just realize that you can still get in communication and so give the customer through text so what they did they made it textable and they got inundated their conversion went way up and they're all happy. Right. Yeah. Instead, they made the customer service people take the text and they, it’s just like chat nowadays. I mean I go when I do customer service for clients or I go into a software that I'm purchasing the first thing I do is chat right because I have music in the background or I have you know kids screaming the background the dogs, but I can chat through what I need but I can't get a call. So, the point do you want to do more of that and that's where chatbots come in. OK So, here's what's happening now because people are already used to texting. And sometimes people don't even want to give out their phone number because when they text you, you’re the front of them. Yeah. What's happening now is Facebook early 2017. They opened up their API. We will talk for a second. They opened up their API for their messenger which is their texting communication right. They opened it up, API really from the concept of what do we do with this thing. We want more people on our platform. We pretty much want to take over the world. We don't want anyone anymore to even use their phone. They want us to call and voice call and video call and do everything with Facebook. How can we get more businesses to use our services? How can we get more businesses on our platform? They go well let's open up the API and see what happens. They open up the API. Kind of like OK developers go. We don't know how to sell this so why don't we just open up the platform. And there's about 40, 50 companies in San Francisco area and they are kind of tap the shoulders on and said OK. You start your own company and we're going to let you API into our service. It's not for the public it's just for like who we tap and see if you can find a way that will you know will basically increase the amount of businesses on our platform. So that's what happened. And it's only been around pretty much since the first quarter of  2017 and what's happened now is there are all these different services trying to figure this out where they are now no longer on their Website no longer saying things like click to my Website or click to chat or click to call. They're saying hey click here to talk to somebody right away. And it opens up the Facebook messenger app on desktop as well as mobile. And so, what happens is you now are engaging with the company via their Facebook app, via their fan page or their business page immediately. Interesting. Yeah. So, then you can move them from there to wherever you want. Here's a link to site for a service. You know why don't you give us a call I'm available right now. By the way, you're on our fan page if you click on this link it takes you to our service agreement whatever you want. What they're trying to do is have it so that business is really no longer would have Websites they just have business pages. Wow. That’s interesting. And that's why I think it is. And it's clickable so here's how it hits it and then I would go to the next level of this. So, I'm going to give you my chatbot link right now and I want everyone listening to go to this URL and engage with my chatbot and notice how different it is than going into our website to opt-in or just calling me or anything like that. Notice the differences here 's the URL, ready? Yup. www. askheatherann.com.  My name is Heather Anne so, askheatherann.com. Now you put that in URL, no matter if you’re on desktop, no matter if your iPad, or your phone it's going to happen. It's going to open it and it's going to turn, you'll see that like open and open again, and it will go right to Facebook Messenger. Wow. Ok. . Yes. So that once you experience it now mine's customized and the first thing it says is like “Hi” and it starts to have a conversation like Hi I'm Heather Havenwood. This is what I do, you know. And then I ask it a question. The first question I ask when I ask you is “What's your name?” What am I doing? I'm building a list near you. David, you're like great Dave. They'll say tell you what do you own a business because that's what I do. Right. And you can say yes or no. “Great!” right you're in a business that's awesome because that's what I do I help businesses expand their space expand their revenue through different through exposure visibility and profitability. You go, “Great!” And it will tell you what I like because “I'm a bot. I don't know if you're man or woman. Will you tell me if you're man or a woman? Then you say, “Man” Type in MAN. “Great!” Right. Expands things, I go, tell you what I should give your free gifts just for your time today. Here is. Will you please give me your e-mail address? You type your e-mail address. Press ‘send’. Awesome. Here is your gift. I just had an entire interaction with you. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Now here's what's cool about it. Why you're having that interaction. If I can actually watch you do this entire process live. Like I can be sitting at my desk as a customer service person or the CEO of the company. Watching people interact and at any moment in the middle of the conversation. I could just like come in and go “Hey”, “Hey, how's it going?” And I can totally take away the competition of the bot and just literally have a conversation with you. I don't know what to do. And the chatbots going. You can literally have someone go Oh hey you know I'm here right now we're available we can get someone out. Can I get your number to call you right now and what's going on? What's your address? Now, what can we do for you? Start actually communicating with the right way via chatbot and everything's recorded and everything you can see at any time. Wow. That's way, way better than a Web site. It's way better than a website right. First of all, it doesn't go there then opt-in and you get autoresponder. You just need a whole process right. And so, you can so much time. But here's the cool piece. It also brands you it has a conversation. There's a company here in Austin called the Reliant plumbing. And oh my god they, they do the best ads. They really do.  I have to give them credit. The radio ads and ads and its husband-wife team. I’ve never used them but I hear their stuff all the time. And, the radio ads. it's husband-wife team. And they have this kind of brand, the whole fun team going on. But they’re still on plumbing for God’s sake.  And you got to rate it, it’s funny. So, they lost the whole brand through fame. Now they just drive people to the website of course and their brand and their phone number. And I don't they do text messaging but they've created this kind of funny brand. Between them, you know between the husband-wife. He acts like these guys as goofy guy and she acts like she's like seriously honey you know like that whole thing. Imagine if you had a cartoon of them were few ones with chatbots and high, and all of a sudden you had the spokespeople the CEO's husband-wife team basically talked to you go “Hey!” And they had this little fun banter for ten seconds. You're reengaging with them and you're reengaging with your brand. And that's key because we want to, at the end of the day businesses what do business people it's human to human interaction. They don't run businesses with brands. But what they what they what we're doing now with artificial intelligence basically is rebuilding connection with bots which is aka a cartoon of Disney. We have a relationship to Winnie the Pooh. We have a relationship to Mickey Mouse. We can have a relationship with a cartoon right represent something to us. Remember that the movie with Tom Hanks where he's alone on an island for forever. He literally had a relationship with a volleyball called Wilson. Right. Right. He built this interaction with it. We have this is old school, Wendy’s. You know we've had interactions with the dog, Spot. I think it was Budweiser. We've had we've had relationships with inanimate objects before and cartoons. That is a way to connect with an audience. So that's how Chat Bots allow, you to do that and it also allows you going at one level but also alleged that sustained interaction fast speed connection with the with the with your customer and you don't have to have a big hole. You know there are services you get that are called chat services. Yeah. Yes, that's true. That takes a little more manpower right because any anybody in your office can be logged into and be a part of the Facebook business page. And anybody can be having a conversation with a client. It starts with the CEO. Yes. Yeah. It's kind of interesting because it's like you know even when you get a text on your phone or you check it always before you will an e-mail. So, the chatbots if you’re on the other end you just know that it's up and running all the time and you would be able to use it so much better than answering the phone ain’t it? Yeah absolutely. And plus, on top of that you know you again you don't know are people going on in the background their world right. Being able to chat and have a conversation with a service provider like Hey I like to have you come out roofing. I've got a hole Yeah, I live in South Elvis or the South Austin. I really rather have it on Tuesday and how this whole conversation and go Yeah. Well, we have something available 2;00 on Tuesday. Here's my address. Thank you so much. We'll follow up with you in a week. All that can be done. In fact, my head my AC go out actually three months ago and believe it not I was very impressed. This company texts me a text me but the only thing that I think they did incorrectly is that I had a phone number I called. And then the text came directly from the technician. The problem with that is a different phone number. Wouldn't it be that everything comes from one place? That's the beauty of Chat Bot. You don't have three numbers right. It could be anyone. Right. Because the technician can leave. They can leave the company tomorrow, in a year, and you really don’t want to have that right. When you want to own the customer. And with all the technology there is today you can have all your phone numbers from the company forwarded from one out. Yeah. So, if I have five technicians they could all be routed through that one number. Exactly. Yeah. So that way. Anyway, like I said with Facebook how Facebook as if I own a Facebook page and I own a business I can have you as they call it editor. I don't have this system. I can have a business manager all the editors at any moment. Everyone's texting from the same location to the customer. So that's continuity. Right, it’s continuity to the customer, so a customer's text via Facebook Messenger. They used to clock smart. That sounds great. Awesome. And then all of a sudden you have the technician Mike go “Hey Sarah. This is Mike your technician”. And again, it's coming from the same place it's coming from Facebook Messenger. Just want to let you know I'm on my way. I'll be there in 15 minutes 20 minutes. I'm running late. Whatever. You know if there's any problems or any changes please just text back to this Facebook Messenger and either myself or someone from our team will help you. Right. And that's a cool thing to do because like now I and my other business have people when I talk to them though I'll ask them what method you prefer. And they probably say text me the most. Most of them are saying text now because they're on the go and no glance at a text and no answer. Or you know at times I’ll call somebody and knows you know on my phone and says I can't take the message now so they end up getting a text right. They got texts right. And I've actually had a situation where it was a service provider and I said I can't get on your calendar. You could text me and like well we don't text them you need to step up. They are in the real world so the point is that you want to have both right now. I think having your phone number textable. You can do this you can do that through Central, you can do that through Grasshopper, Google Voices is a lot of different areas you can do that is OK. But then also having the Facebook ad or the Yelp ad, you can literally text have the URL go right to the messenger. So askheatheranne.com goes right to the chat box experience. It doesn't go to my page. And then you click. No, it goes right. Right. Right. The Chat Box experienced first thing actually the interaction. And you can actually like you so you say you can give a free report or give me a free gift from there. Absolutely. Absolutely. And then you can then you can send them to your web page if you so desire to. Exactly then definitely. I mean you'd be surprised nowadays. I mean just the other day I went to Facebook I'm looking for a new gem on something. I went their Facebook page, their business page and this was me testing them. So, went their Facebook page a business page. And I went to their message and I started texting them questions. Now, it was late at night. Like it was late, was like ten o'clock and I didn't expect them to respond at all like I expected either they weren't going to respond, or two, may or may not respond in the morning if someone's actually managing their Facebook page. What's interesting about it is the owner, she responded in 20 minutes. She’s like “hey yeah, I was sleeping. It’s all right, Sure, you know what Why don’t we give you a free weekend.  Love for you to come in. My name is Sam, I’m the owner.     I love to connect with you and see how we can support you. I was like “Awesome!”. Because well have the days of weak control of when people buy over. The nine to five is over. And so, I'm not saying you have to sit there all night. You know, and you can't ever turn your hours off and you can but have to allow people to connect with you when they want to connect with you. And lots of times it happens at seven o'clock at night when they're at dinner and their husbands like we got to fix the plumbing Let’s push it in the morning. Doesn't work anymore. It's like you know what I'll text them right now and they'll get it in the morning and they'll call me when I'm running around 8 o'clock in the morning because of so many of those in our weight loss company people text as after hours. Really? You know the interesting thing too is like I've done a lot of research, not research but you know playing with other people's websites and see how they respond. You know to email him or send him an email from their website and nobody virtually nobody checks the email that they get from their websites. Yeah, that's really strange to me. I get a lot of people don't. But if you do a texting and it is going right to you in a different format than you know, I think that's pretty awesome just the way that that whole thing set up. I’m going to have to check it out. So how did you pick up your URL? You just put it into when you set it up. Yes, you can buy your URL anywhere, of course, godaddy.com or whatever. And then ask. It doesn't make sense. I just I had I had it sitting there and now you can make it whatever you want. You can make it your company.com/contact us what you can make it whatever you want it's just an easier redirect obviously, because we’re sitting here sitting here the audio you know you know I've explained to you what it is or what's happened with the API with Facebook the techie is to notice nowadays your Facebook Messenger is now an entirely different URL M./ What Facebook did is basically, Facebook now has two websites, it’s Facebook.com and m.com. Yes, so that's why your app you have an app for Facebook and an app for messenger. OK. From a distance, so your Facebook business page Messenger is literally an entire another URL. And so, this is new to me. So, I could have Facebook off. Right. So that's how I open up my desktop with Facebook because it's too much drama. But I can communicate with business people all day long on Facebook Messenger. So, I close Facebook, but I open that messenger and I go to m.com/ you know and that opens up my messenger so all I see on the desktop is messenger. Anyone talking to me. I don't see any of the blog posts or drama or ads or any of that stuff because that's turned off okay. So, it's two, it's two entities at this point. You look at Facebook as if there's two companies two URLs and that's why the messenger literally is its own world and they're going to start. They've already started but they're slowly rolling it out. They're going to start so that you can actually advertise inside of messenger. So eventually, especially 2019. That's a good or bad thing. Yeah right. The cool thing though about that for a local business right. Save money or whatnot. A local business you can really you can really focus on people that are in their message or app at 10-mile radius or at a 50-mile radius. The other thing with that is here's what's really cool which I forgot. So, let's the moment you start interacting with my chatbot and I mean the moment all you have to say is hello. And that's considered it opt-in. So, what's happening in the background is I'm connected to a third-party service remember this third-party company I told you about I'm connected to a third-party server I pay $20 a month and there are tons of out there. One of them is called many chat spells it M A N Y C H A T.com, 20 bucks a month. What it's doing and again it's this open API company okay. What it's doing is at the moment you say “hello”. OK. On my page the moment, many chat considers that an opt-in. You've interacted. You've interacted therefore you are at opt-in. Therefore, you're now on my list. I can broadcast. I can send a New Year’s Eve or Christmas Eve special to anyone that's ever interacted with my business page messenger ever. You're on my list. The cool thing about that looking e-mail list right is the messenger app is an 80-90% open rate. Message my broadcast my message list. I'm going to get a huge open rate versus an emailing blasting my list. Wow. This is just the beginning it's only been around not 11 months or so yet. It's a whole new world the about ready to explode. It is. It is and it's geared towards businesses. It really is geared towards businesses because Facebook wants to pretty much take over the business page. They want to take over the Yellow Pages right. They want to be the pages for the world so they don't know how to do that. So that's how they opened it up and now all these things are kind of coming about with entrepreneurs and they're all figuring it out. I mean a chance really expands $20 a month. All it does is basically talk to Facebook and as a third party or you know interaction that they've got the blessing from Facebook. So basically, what the Many chat does is it take everyone that interacts with you it just takes their information, stores it with you it just takes her information stored it for you. It's pretty good. So, think of it like a Manychat, board member or eye contact where you log in and you say I want to send a broadcast tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. and I want to have a little image. You don't make the thing about Chat Bots you know broadcasting for Chat Bots as you make it short like a taxi you'll see like an image in like a little thing like “Awesome offer new year's offer click here or call us now for your offer” like Texas small. Yeah. Right. But then you press a button and the system sends it to everyone on your broadcast list. So, 90% open rate of your offer. Wow, that's pretty awesome.  It is awesome, right? I'm just thinking about what awesome possibilities. So, so what I do. I work with companies to do that. I mean I set their Chat Bots and it starts around a thousand dollars to do a full set up. And the reason why it takes that much money is that yes you can do it yourself there are many chat bot but I do an entire process and a marketing process of how are you using text now and how can we integrate that with your current system. Consulting involved. So, it starts with thousand usually about a two or $2,500. But I mean how many clients do you need to make up one, you know $2,400. Right. One or two in the construction business. Sure. Especially if what you are selling off its roofs. It's one deal if it fits windows and doors are its kitchens and yeah, it's one deal. Take care of it in an armpit. So, I hope that helps and I love for people to get a hold of me at www.heatherann.com and that is my own private page. So, I am the one answering questions of you really seriously have a question you can just literally message me and it's me because I'm the one logged in. Or you can go to call with www.callwithheather.com, callwithheather.com and that is my schedule on the phone with me and have a conversation and let me know how I see you I can help you know to consult with you and your marketing. I do marketing advice right, so I work with service providers as well as authors and speakers specifically and how do they increase their ROI their current marketing. I do a lot of local businesses so lawyers, Service providers, Weight loss. That's cool. That's awesome. Yeah. And if they if they get in touch with you and www.askheatherann.com then they'll get a whole preview of what they can possibly expect to get you know on the short side. Yes absolutely. And are actually looking at. Call and interacts with them. So that's pretty cool. This has really been cool. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. This is just killer information like the last time I know how to do the Chat Bots that's the last time was. Know who your customer is so you can sell them. Yeah. Forgot about that other piece about that know who your customers. Just circling back. Yeah. Though women like to text more than men. Like I said that earlier. That is why if your target market is women, this is just brilliant. I mean it really is brilliant. Really. I know that the technicians usually are men were generalizing of course but women are usually the ones writing the check. Right. I agree. Just like my daughter, she has six kids don't even think about calling her. Oh my. Oh my God yeah. Text her, and if one of the other kids see this they'll pick up the phone and text back. But she barely really answers the phone. Well, I can only imagine. Right. So yes, I'm surprised she can even text but a good example. A lot of what I mean. Yeah. You’d be surprise texting I'll do stop in there. They're doing all kinds of things and they'll text. But getting a phone call out of them is like forget about it. You'd be surprised how just doing this one thing can really just increase your conversion. Because remember your target market is. And if you're over there going I'm old school. What the hell are you talking about Heather? I’m like “What? look you're not your market. You're not the one writing the check. Yeah. They’d get up to speed or die, it’s about it. Let the millennial business owner take your spot in the market. Exactly. My father last, I checked I haven't even tried it in a couple of years. He hadn’t a flip phone. You know like he doesn’t even get texts but he's an early adopter too which always makes me like what happened to you. I think he got retirees, forget it I’m not an early adopter anymore. But I did my first text message in 1988. 1988. And it was. I was working for a telecom company and we, of course, have the cell phone and that Nokia; the Nokia dealer was there at the offices way back. You remember that. And they were explaining to us text message and were all in the conference room about 10 of us. And I never forget it. And I said to my friend Brad, “Brad I'm going to text you ok. Hold on a sec” I put HI. You know you heard his little phone go ding ding. He’s like WOW, I got it. He's like OK I'll text you back. Hi. Oh my God, Oh, my god. We are in the same conference room. It was like, Woah, that’s so, really, how did you get to. So, things had changed a lot.  Oh yeah. We still want to talk to humans. We still want to have a relationship with the people that we're giving money to. So, believe it or not, text us. Text us here. No, it's not something that's going to get progressively more interesting let’s put it that way to interact and engage with our customers. So, thanks for having me I really appreciate this. I really appreciate you being with us this morning. It has been an awesome day. This has really been some awesome content. Heather has just given us some tremendous information on how you can jump ahead of the game. Jump ahead of your competition and be that guy or gal that's in control of what's going on within your business triple your conversion rates. Figure out how to use chatbots is just another tool in your toolbox. That's all it is. So, until the next time, we meet be profitable, have fun enjoy your business. . 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Have you ever wondered how some divorced couples make their co-parenting so seamless and cooperative? Christina interviews renowned Co-Parent Coach and author, Karen Bonnell, for tips on achieving co-parenting success. Christina Vinters is a nationally designated Chartered Mediator on a mission to inspire and facilitate healthy family transitions. She is an “ex” Divorce Lawyer (Non-Practicing Member of the Bar), Author of Pathways to Amicable Divorce, and the DIY Divorce Manual, and Peacemaking Business Consultant. Karen’s work as a Collaborative Divorce Coach spurred her determination to write “The Co-Parenting Handbook” “ with Kristin Little, Child Specialist.  Karen has over 30 years of experience working with couples and families facing transition, loss, growth and change. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Karen has been board certified and licensed as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner since 1982. She served on the faculty of University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University & Seattle Pacific University before beginning full-time private practice in 1984. She regularly writes for, speaks to and trains healthcare and legal professionals. As a certified Compassionate Listening trainer, Karen utilizes this heart-centered approach to authentic speaking and capable listening used around the world in high-conflict situations such as Israel/Palestine. Her deep listening skills make all the difference working with co-parent pairs in conflict as they find their way through the pain of divorce into a future with optimism. Guest Links: Website: https://coachmediateconsult.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/karenbonnellcmc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/karenbonnellcmc  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenbonnell Modern Separations Links: Website: https://www.modernseparations.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/modernseparations Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divorcewell Twitter: https://twitter.com/cvinters LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cvinters Episode Transcript   Christina: Today I have the privilege of talking to Karen Bonnell, one of the leading experts in North America on co-parenting. Karen is a registered nurse practitioner, as well as a mediator, divorce coach, and co-parenting coach. She's the author of the widely-read and respected Co-Parents' Handbook, which is recently been republished as The Co-Parenting Handbook. She's passionate about helping parents be the best co-parents they can be. I think you'll find she's incredibly warm and encouraging, and you'll get a lot out of this discussion. Here we go. Christina: Good morning, Karen! Thank you so much for being here with me today. Karen: Christina, it's my pleasure. Christina: I am really thrilled to have you here because I love that your focus is on helping parents focus on the best interest of the children. Why don't you start by telling us a bit about yourself – how you got in the field of divorce, and what exactly is a parent coach? Karen: Wow, OK. Kind of a big question. So, Christina you might already know that I'm a nurse by training, and one of the hallmarks for nurses is really looking at a person's health, a family's health, or community's health holistically. And so my background really set me up for looking at families who are going through transition enormous lies on change, in a very holistic way. Which is to say that in order for a family to be healthy, all members of the family need to be tended to. So as I went through my own two-home family, family restructuring many, many years ago, before co-parent coaching was available,  I realized that without that support, without that education, that understanding, it made that transition much harder than it needed to be. So shortly thereafter, I got involved in a collaborative law community which is where I cut my teeth on divorce coaching, which led me headlong and heart-full into co-parent coaching. So a co-parent coach is someone who walks alongside parents from the moment they realize they may need to separate through their divorce and then hoist their divorce process to ensure that kids are well cared for; they become the strongest, most skilful parents they can be. Even as they come to a close with their intimate partnership. Christina: That makes so much sense. The systemic approach that you've taken and how that transition from nursing happened and make so much sense in this context. Yeah, I agree. You can't have a family functioning well if one or two parts of it are experiencing trauma or just stressed in general. Karen: Well, our floundering in the fear of uncertainty or really encourage to be adversaries in this system wherein the end of the day, we still need a parenting team to raise healthy children. So that whole risk of that litigation model for families is very real. Christina: For sure, and I will be doing an episode specifically on collaborative law, but for listeners who may not have a chance to listen to that particular episode, can you give us just a brief summary of the collaborative law and how you fit into that process? Karen: Oh, sure. So I mostly work as a mediator, Christina, just as you do. But there are times when a family... depending on the complexity of their situation or their emotional needs or just their particular orientation, would prefer to walk through their divorce process with attorneys at their elbows.  And in a collaborative process, those attorneys are there truly as counsel; everybody is in the same room, it's fully transparent, it is a respectful process, not necessarily easy. But respectful process where all parties, all the professional people – the attorneys, the mental health professionals, like the coach, the financial neutrals sort of circle the wagons for the couple as they figure out their property settlement, as they come to decisions about how to raise their children in two homes. So it's a non-adversarial process that just ups the support from what might otherwise just be mediation. Christina: OK, and within that process, you're broaden as an expert to help with the co-parenting pace, and help them workout the logistics and communication around that? Karen: Correct. Typically, helping them go through their parenting plan worksheet and preparation for creating their state-mandated parenting, you know, contract – their parenting form. And I'm also typically helping them prepare for their financial meetings, really helping them unpack difficult emotions. So that when they walk into those business meetings, they can do that with a strong mind and a calmed heart. So, kinda both of those worlds in a collaborative process. Christina: OK, interesting! And so what are the issues that you encourage people to think about right upfront? What are the types of things that you would address at the very beginning? Karen: Right at the very beginning, I work with parents to bring their children into the room. One of the conversations that I know I can engage parents around is “Tell me about your children”. And I ask them specifically, “Tell me about being a parent to your child,” “So, what it's like to be a mom to Lucien?” “What is it like to be a dad for Michaela?” Depending on the configuration of the families, by the way of two moms, two dads, or a mom and a dad. And that way, I can really help them anchor, and I tell them specifically, everything we do from this moment forward is in the service of those little beings that I know are the center of your heart. And that includes how you learn to treat each other, how you bring this relationship – this intimate partnership or a marriage to a close. And how you renegotiate and strengthen; how you'll be a parenting team “until death do you part”? Christina: And a lot of parents I find it takes them a while to acknowledge that there will be that ongoing relationship. It seems to me quite difficult for a lot of people to wrap up the intimate relationship. But at the same time acknowledge that they really do need to work on having that constructive parenting relationship for the sake of their children. Karen: That's exactly right, and part of their resistance is often oriented around feeling forced to move too quickly into, what we might call friends as parents. And I'm very, very clear with intimate partners who are emotionally distraught, bereft, hurt, betrayed – that they may never be friends with their co-parent. And I don't need them to be friends. I need them to be respectful, and I need them to be civil and that will take time to find their way through their grief, through their hurt, through their pain. That will then allow them to be those things. In the meantime, what I want them to do is respectfully to separate. So less is more in this situation. Less communication, less back and forth, things that do need to be talked about haven't talked about in a guided setting, in a facilitated setting. Where someone can help manage the trauma, so that we're not re-traumatizing very, very tender hearts, very, very hurt people. Right? So our first step is how do we really separate so we can heal, grieve what we need to grieve – what we lost. So that we can begin to form a future where we can parent our children. Christina: Now, what will you say are your top tips that parents should really have at the forefront of their minds – specific tip? So being respectful is absolutely key. I'm thinking more tactical or strategic tips that will help them move towards a successful co-parenting plan. Karen: Step one: Choose your professionals – the people who are going to support you through your separation and your divorce. Choose professionals who are going to support you as a member of a family that's in transition. In other words, your allies don't need to champion you in this, on your co-parent. We don't need to feed that adversarial energy, OK. So choose professionals who can hold your pain while at the same time not pouring gasoline on a fire. Okay? Number one. Number two: Self-care. Self-care. Can I underline that enough? I want you to make sure you're sleeping. Please cut back on your alcohol use. Try an exercise everyday. Do what you can to be a good enough parent. Don't worry about falling apart from time to time. There are so many strong emotions that go with the losses of an intimate partnership and these changes in the family. We gotta be gentle with ourselves. So allow for that healing process. Know that there's gonna be grief. Try not to fight it. Try and work with it. OK? So that's number two. Choose your professionals wisely, do your self-care, acknowledge that there's grief. Right? The third piece, the third step is as your nervous system begins to settle down, then it's time to educate yourself about what it would mean to be co-parent. “How would I do that?” “How do I show up at curriculum night in two weeks when I know my other parent, you know my children's other parent, is gonna be there as well?” “How do I do that?” “Very practical. I can walk in the room, here's how I'll choose my seat, here's how I'll greet my co-parent, and then I'll step away.” So just recognizing that there are literally steps for how to do this that will help you heal, while simultaneously help you move forward. Christina: And I'd like to pick up on some of the terms that you used there. So you mentioned “other parent” and “my co-parent” – I'm curious, are those the words that you recommend people use to refer to each other? Using the term 'ex' which is so common in our culture is so negative. That has so many negative connotations attached to it. What are the terms that you recommend or that you find people use that sit well into.. that doesn't feel awkward? Karen: Right. So one of the first things I teach my parents who come into the office is that we're gonna begin a very active process of separating their husband-wife relationship, their spousal relationship, their intimate partnership, from their parenting. And the language that we choose really helps with that separation. You know, what we talk about is ending here is an intimate partnership, a marriage. What's not ending is that two people who became parents seven years ago, six months ago – whenever that occurred – eighteen years ago. And so I wanna help them get clearer and clearer about what are we closing up, what are we ending, what are we grieving? And what are we actually still engaged in? So I do ask my co-parent teams, don't use the term ex. How about, if you wanna identify your former spouse, how about former partner, former spouse? How about, you know sometimes we joke about 'wasbands'. But terms that are, are more endearing and less pejorative. Then some of the other terms, you know, jerk for example. Let's not use “I'm not co-parenting with a jerk”. “I'm co-parenting with my children's mother or father.” I also encourage them to reclaim just terms 'mom' and 'dad'. How many times did children of parents who are divorcing start to hear instead of “Go ask your dad” or “Go ask your mommy”, “Go ask your father” – with a  big 'your' in front of it. As if I've de-zoned that relationship, and that puts you over in a 'that' category; in “another camp”.  “Your father”, “Your mother”. And so parents actually practice that. What is it like to say “OK, when you're at home with dad...” as opposed to “When you are at your father's house...” Notice that it's not just my intonation, but my word choices that are gonna impact children. So, we start to practice. It's awkward, it's new, it's not what people do in the culture. But you know, we're helping parents reframe what their children's experiences which, over time, is much more enriching than feeling like they live in a divided home. Christina: It's amazing what a big change just one word can make. I actually hadn't heard that before and that's really eye-opening. My concept of 'dad' rather than 'your dad'. Even if you say it in a nice tone. Karen: Right. Christina: And so, what is your process for working with clients? Karen: Well, they know how to get to me... most people email and say, you know, 'we made a decision to separate, we'd like to meet with you'. They come in, we spend an introductory session just to make sure that they are clear about my process and that there's a good match – there's still a chemistry. I don't care who you are or how expert you might be. There's still chemistry you need to work with people that you feel comfortable with and feel like I can provide a trusting environment. Then we do many of the things that we've just talked about. You know, they introduce me to their children, they often bring pictures. I begin to lay the groundwork for separating, the intimate partnership from their parenting pair, their parenting team relationship. And depending on their readiness, we actually begin to talk about things like, “So if you're still living in the same home, when do you intend  to make that a two-home family?” “How do you imagine you might share your children?” So this is my language – share your children across two homes. “What are the skills you think you might need to keep their lives integrated and problem solved on their behalf?” That is part of what we'll be working through. I actually use a worksheet, it's available in the Parenting Plan Workbook, where parents talk about with each other the different options and 'why you might choose this one versus that one?', and ''how might we do the holidays in this first year too, but in yours three and beyond?' That might look quite different. So all of these is part of the psycho-education about how families adjust to a change of this magnitude. Christina: Now do you ever come across situations where one parent is interested in working with you and figuring out how to structure a positive co-parenting relationship, but the other spouse doesn't wish to participate? And if so, are you able to work with just one? Or how... do you have ways of trying to get the other parent interested in participating? Karen: Yes, I do. So just recently, I had a co-parent let me know that her co-parent's attorney didn't want her to see me. And so in that case, I ask if there was any chance that both of the attorneys – mom's attorney and dad's attorney –  will get on the phone with me just to talk about... My thought was that dad's attorney was uncertain or just simply didn't know what went on in my office. And so that would be one trick of the trade. The other is I usually can get a parent who wants to work with me to hook their other parent in by saying “Hey, she'll talk to you for free, give her a call, you can email her, here's her website, she'd be happy to give you a copy of her book, if you wanna contact her.” Like there are just things that I'll do to kind of say, Give me a chance. Just give me a minute, you don't have to work with me. Just come once. I mean that's my really big deal. Just come once. I don't need you to ever agree that you're gonna come back or that your'e gonna mediate your parenting plan with me. That's not important. But my experience is if I get them to come in once and find that out that it's actually safe, that's it's really about their kids, about that I really am neutral in terms of... You know I think sometimes dads are still afraid that working with a woman that I'll be biased toward a mom. And the fact is I have a very strong bias and I tell both parents that with these children need both their parents. And that what we know in terms of outcomes is that kids do better physically and emotionally when they have a strong and engaged relationship with both parents. It's not a competition about who's the better parent. Kids just need two good enough parents. That's what kids need. Christina: And parents must see once they go to that first meeting, they must see the immense value just right off the bat. I'm sure most people, once they realize what it's all about they go, “Oh, OK. I can see that this is gonna be really great for my kids going forward.” Karen: You know, there's a huge relief. Sometimes I have to slow down. Your listeners might not know, but I live in the Silicon Valley of the North. You know I live in the backyard of Microsoft and Amazon. And so sometimes my software engineers simply just need to be slowed down. They're all about efficiency and bullet points and box checking, and I sometimes need to spend a little time to say, “You know this is probably the most important contract that you will ever design. And you'll be living with it for, you know, however many years until their children are through college and although the contract expires in high school, at the end of high school, I really support my co-parents to really live inside a parenting plan structure until their kids are into adulthood, for their sake. So they don't fall into feelings of 'How can I meet both of my parents needs now that I'm in college?'. So sometimes it's about slowing dad down or mom down. Efficiency is really important – I know your time is extremely valuable, and just above your kids. And we're gonna find your way through it in the most efficient way possible with no corners cut. Because they deserve that. Most of the time I can get them to settle down. Christina: You've of course written the very popular book in the field, The Co-Parent's Handbook. And I see that you're now writing a new book about dating after divorce. So I'm wondering what advice do you have for parents on that topic? Karen: The new book will be out in the Spring, hopefully, that's the plan. It's called the Step-Family Handbook, and it's everything from first dates, as co-parents, to creating a step-family. And it's very, very important; a data point that most parents don't know is that the adjustment to step-family for children is actually more difficult than the divorce. And so as much as parents worry about their children during the divorce process, I really want them to understand that the transition to step-family is also an enormous, enormous adjustment. And although we, as parents, are often just so thrilled, so happy, so relieved, to be in love again, to have found a partner that's gonna walk forward with us – that's not necessarily our children's experience. And so recognizing the fears and trepidations that kids have really help guide how we introduce a new adult into their lives right from the beginning. So, that's what the new book will be about is that walk in that journey and how it skillfully pace, allowing children to recognize that we're now dating, that... what dating means, who this person is, how to build a relationship with the new adult who's not a parent? And who may be around our household in a parent-like capacity? Those are all skills and as a parent and a potentially soon-to-be-stepparent, learning that architecture and how it works is really important. Christina: Well thank you, Karen so much for sharing your wisdom with us today. What would be the best ways for our listeners to get in touch with you? Karen: The best way is by email. Just go to the website, which is coachmediatecounsult.com. There's a, you know, way to email me directly to my email address or through the website itself. Of course my phone number, I'm here in the States. People are welcome to call as well, email is a little easier. And you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter, and you know, Pinterest. So there's lots and lots of ways and I invite people to connect in any way that makes sense for them. Christina: OK, perfect! Well, Karen, thank you again for today and for all the really important work that you're doing for families. Karen: You're welcome. Thanks so much, Christina, for having me. It's really been my pleasure.

OK So tonight we have on UFONAUT RADIO's own Jesse Randolph as he joins us to talk about some big changes coming to his show, and some how we get deep into the whole Stan Romanek story. So tune in, and hang out with us, and listen to what became one of the best episodes of 2017 so far. IMO

OK So tonight we have on UFONAUT RADIO's own Jesse Randolph as he joins us to talk about some big changes coming to his show, and some how we get deep into the whole Stan Romanek story. So tune in, and hang out with us, and listen to what became one of the best episodes of 2017 so far. IMO

Hello, my cubicle confusers, open space side trackers, corner office orientors, home den distractors, and coffee shop confounders. My name is Brock Armstrong, and I am here, deep inside your ears, planting seeds of inspiration, to make you into a Workplace Hero. After you listen to enough of these podcast, I hope to replace the voice of your conscience - “put down that donut and get back to work - when was the last time you got up from your desk - do you really need to be looking at Facebook right now - always take the stairs.” Is that creepy? Maybe a little… anyway… In her book, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp said that “Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.” and I agree. It’s when you can truly shut out the world and focus on a problem that the complexity and confusion often falls away. Let’s face it, everything demands our attention these days. It’s not just our family, friends and co-workers but also our phones, our email and our social media that all fight for our attention at any given moment. It can be downright overwhelming at times and makes it really challenging to get focussed and get a job done. Yeah, I know that every generation thinks the one immediately following it is doomed but the cost of these now ingrained distractions to our personal and professional life is well documented. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine found that it takes a typical office worker 25 minutes to return to the original task after an interruption, and an experiment by the authors of The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success found that interruptions decreased work accuracy by a whopping 20%. So, I am not just Grandpa Simpson shaking my fist at a cloud or telling those kids to get off my lawn - being chronically distracted is an actual problem. Before I continue, let me interrupt you for a second… heh… I want encourage you to sign up for the Workplace Hero email newsletter over at workplacehero.me. The sign up form is on the righthand side of the page. Please know that because I believe strongly in the idea of Inbox Zero, you will only receive an email once per week, and it will be short, to the point and easy to delete. Best of all, just for signing up, you will receive a coupon code for 10% off at the online health and fitness store, GreenfieldFitnessSystems.com. Over there they have a huge array of supplements, gear, plans, coaches and clothing that will help keep you healthy and fit. So sign up for the newsletter at workplacehero.me and get your discount code for GreenfieldFitnessSystems.com now. Ok, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, distractions! Over at becomingminimailst.com that have a list of 10 unconventional habits that will help you live life with less distractions: 1. Turn off smart phone notifications. Our smart phones have quickly become one of the greatest sources of distraction in our lives. The average person now checks their mobile phone a hard to believe, 150 times every day (just short of every 6 waking minutes). To limit their distractive nature, turn off all notifications (Email, Facebook, Twitter, Games, even messages, etc.) as your own default setting. As a result, you will be able to check your apps on YOUR schedule at your appointed times throughout the day, not just whenever Aunt Mabel hits reply all on the brunch chain email. 2. Read/Answer email only twice each day. Ok, maybe three times a day. When we keep our email client open all day, we surrender our attention to the most recent bidder rather than the most important. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we understand why the habit of checking email only twice/day is promoted over and over again by some of the most productive people in our world today (Michael Hyatt, Scott Belsky, Tim Ferriss). Schedule your email processing and stick to that schedule. You will feel the benefits immediately. 3. Complete 1-2 minute projects immediately. Our lives and minds are often cluttered and distracted by the many unfinished projects around us (unanswered email, household chores, financial responsibilities). Fortunately, many of these projects can be completed in far less time than we think. To live with less distraction, if a project can be completed in less than 2 minutes, just stop and get ‘er done so you won’t think about it anymore. 4. Remove physical clutter. Unnecessary clutter is a significant form of visual distraction. Consider this: everything in our eyesight subtly pulls at our attention at least a little. And the more we remove, the less visual stress and distraction we experience. Clear your desk, your walls, your counters, your computer’s desktop, and even your home of unneeded possessions. You’ll love your newfound ability to focus. 5. Clear visible, distracting digital clutter. Just like physical clutter distracts our attention, digital clutter accomplishes the same. Desktop icons, open programs, multiple browser tabs, and other visible notifications all jockey for attention in our mind. Notice the digital triggers that grab your attention and then ruthlessly remove them. Spare no one! 6. Accept and accentuate your personal rhythms. Discover the rhythms of your day to make the most of them. For example, I do my best heads-down work in the morning, afternoons work well for meetings and physical work, and evenings are set aside for my me time—leaving late evenings for entertainment, chilling, and yes guilt-free distraction. Accepting and understanding our natural rhythms to the day/week provides healthy motivation to remove distractions during our most productive parts of the day knowing there is opportunity later to indulge them 7. Establish a healthy morning routine. Henry Ward Beecher once said, “The first hour is the rudder of the day.” He was absolutely right. Go to workplacehero.me/hardstuff to hear my take on how you should start your day. Basically, begin your days on your terms apart from distraction. If possible, I suggest that you wake first in your household. Drink your coffee or fix yourself a warm breakfast while you journal or read or simply enjoy the silence. Develop a distraction-free morning routine. It will lay the foundation for a less-distracted day. 8. Cancel cable / Unplug television. If you haven’t already cut the cord, it is difficult to argue against the distracting nature of our television. Researchers tell us the average American watches 37-40 hours of television each week. There is, of course, a solution to this madness: unplug your television completely. Or at least do what I do, put the TV away (behind the couch) every morning. But if this step seems too drastic a stretch for your family, you’ll never regret the simple decision to cancel cable. Your calendar will thank you for the extra time available. Your wallet will thank you for the extra dollars. And you’ll quickly wonder why you didn’t do it sooner. 9. Keep a to-do list. One of the most helpful and practical podcasts I have ever released can be found at workplacehero.me/todo. No matter how hard you try to manage yourself, new responsibilities and opportunities will surface in your mind from internal and external sources. The opportunity to quickly write down the task allows it to be quickly discarded from your mind. I use the Notes app that comes installed on all my Apple devices for my To Do list so I can add to it anytime I want to. In bed, in a meeting, on a bus, anytime! That way I can get it out of my head and on to my list. 10. Care less what other people think. The value of your life is not measured by the number of likes your Facebook post receives or the number of positive comments on your Instagram pic. Please understand, there is great value in humbly seeking opinion and appreciating the wise counsel of those who love you. But there is no value in wasting mental energy over the negative criticism of those who only value their own self-interests. Learn to recognize the difference. And stop living distracted over the opinion of people who don’t matter. If you have been listening to this podcast for a while, you probably get the idea that I like lists. And you would not be wrong. Over at success.com, Emma Johnson has a list of 6 suggestions that she thinks will help you eliminate distractions. 1. Stop digital pressures. Carve out blocks of time—whether for work, exercise or people you care about—and turn off your phone and computer. Download the free app SelfControl, which shuts off especially distracting websites such as social media or news pages for a set period of time. 2. Give yourself frequent breaks. Just because you can work 24/7 doesn’t mean your mind or body are designed to do so. Check out the advice Guest Hero, Hailey Rowe gave us at workplacehero.me/lowenergy for more info on taking breaks. 3. Mind your physical health. Exercise, plenty of sleep, healthy eating (including good fat, yummy protein, and tons of veggies) plus all of those things you know you’re supposed to do promote mental health and focus can really help you cut down on your natural distractedness. Set some health goals for yourself and stick to them. We will tackle how to do that in a future episode. 4. Turn off smartphone notifications. I know, we already talked about this one but I feel like it is worth a second mention. Limit the number of times per day you check and respond to email, text messages and social media. Remove the temptation to constantly keep an eye on these pests but shutting off their ability to buzz, beep and vibrate at you. 5. Knock out the most dreaded duties first thing in the morning. If you have a difficult email you must send? Bills to manage? Need to initiate a difficult conversation? Get it off your to-do list and out of your mind, freeing you to be productive. 6. Eliminate or minimize negative people in your life. These are people who play the victim, are stuck in unhealthy habits, or generally make you feel drained or maybe even bad about yourself. Surround yourself with those who are positive, focused, productive and ambitious. Remember the late iconic speaker Jim Rohn’s rule: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Choose wisely. And over at LifeHack.org, Sylwia Rytarowska has a few more suggestions that I thought were worth mentioning. She suggests that you declutter your mind. Cacophony of voices, text messages, tweets, sales pitches, and bold headlines fight for your attention. You hear a song on the radio and you can’t hear your own voice over its continuous replay in your head. The first thing you should do is notice that you’re running on autopilot. The next natural step is to turn it off. It’s not easy to fight your default mechanism at first, it’s deeply rooted, but it’s a matter of practice and mindfulness. Start exercising your impulse-control. Focus on here and now. When you feel yourself getting distracted, take a second and ask yourself “what is my focus right now?” Writing that report will go much easier if you enter the state of flow. Think about the direct impact you’ll make, if you carry out the task efficiently and on time. Think about the satisfaction you’ll feel afterwards. This is the best reward and it will keep you on track for the future tasks as you gain the momentum. Focus is your natural gift. Use it well. Clear your day up front before you start it. In the morning, before your workday begins, dedicate a few minutes to managing your schedule. A great way to do it is by applying the Covey time management matrix - http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-use-stephen-coveys-time-management-matrix-2015-12 . Have a moment to set your priorities and determine which tasks are truly vital and urgent that day, which are not so urgent but still very important and which you should avoid, either by delegating or eliminating altogether. This last type of tasks may be tricky because they will often be urgent, though uninspiring, issues, like questions from colleagues concerning their problems, phone calls and emails that you answer by default, only because you’ve always done it and that’s the way it’s always been. Well, it doesn’t have to be that way. Not really. Take control and make a conscious decision of what you’re going to when they come knocking. Once you’ve made it, hold on to it and ruthlessly follow through. Prepare your workplace. When you’re facing a lengthy or complex task involving concentration, prepare your place of work, so that you can avoid distractions and won’t need to make unnecessary breaks. Breaks aren’t bad in and of themselves. It’s the involuntary deconcentration accidental breaks that may cause a setback to your progress. Zen your computer. There are many cool ways to deal with distractions, such as social networking sites. There’s a great app called Anti-Social that blocks social media and lets you become more productive. It will block the sites that you waste your time on and can’t be turned off, which makes it an excellent help. There’s a great choice of apps that will track your computer use and tell you how much time you spend on individual sites. A few are: RescueTime, Klok, Slife and ManicTime. RescueTime, for instance, will give you a readout at the end of the day of your web activities. There are all kinds of apps to help you concentrate and remove unwanted temptations, and their use depends on the type of work you’re doing. If you do a lot of writing, there are the Mac-based WriteRoom and its Windows counterpart, Dark Room, which promise “distraction-free writing” by trimming your screen down to one function: Writing. There’s also the popular OmmWriter, which possesses a few cool features like meditative music and chromotherapy which create a unique environment to enable you to focus on your writing. A quick Google search will likely uncover anything you can think of. Solidify your attitude. To avoid possible distractions, manage your approach to the task. The “Act as if…” approach works nicely. It is simple: pretend you’re being watched and your task is approaching the deadline. It has been proven that our performance improves significantly if we know we’re being observed and assessed. In truth, we are evaluated all the time, either by people or by life itself. Close the door. Stephen King, the master of American Horror and a very diligent, prolific writer gives this advice in his book “On Writing.” If you can’t do that literally, do it figuratively. Tell everyone that you’re busy for a certain period of time and ask them not to disturb you. When I work from home, I have half-joked that I am going to buy a hat to wear that indicates that I am “not home” that I am actually “at work”. If you see me in that hat, you must pretend that I am not there. Kind of like an Elvin invisibility cloak but less nerdy and more absurdist. Manage the tasks. You’ve probably heard the saying that “you eat an elephant one bite at a time.” And yes, it does work.Take it one step at a time and don’t let fears and worries distract you from your work. You may also get a bit overwhelmed with small details. To get that problem out of your way, do the opposite: compile and put together a bunch of minor assignments and complete them all in a row. Now this next one I am going to include with some hesitation. Please take it on advisement. I rarely encourage anyone to work extra hours - even if they are getting paid for it. Ok? So here it is… Go an extra mile. As you’ve probably heard, there are no traffic jams on the extra mile. And literally, traffic is the number one time thief nowadays. If you arrive one hour early at the office and leave one hour later than everyone else, you’ll get much more done. Not only because you’ll avoid congested streets and lots of stress, but also the empty office won’t distract you from your productive efforts. Personally, I suggest merely shifting your day by an hour or so depending on whether you are a morning person or not. Start your day at 7 or 8:00 instead of 9:00 and then knock off at 3 or 4:00. That way you aren’t giving up any of your own precious time. Ok… I feel a little dirty after that one… so now, on to your homework! For the next 5 work days, before you go on to whatever you’re going to do next, think about what Einstein said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” If you just go on with your usual routine, default course of action and forget what you’ve heard here, the distractions win and you lose. So every morning this week, I want you to think about one thing you learned on this podcast that you can do right now or during the remainder of the day. Is it turning off a few more notifications on your phone or computer? Or is it putting headphones on (even if you aren’t listening to anything) to signal to coworkers that you aren’t available to listen what their dream was about last night? Or is it cleaning up your desk or workspace before you start your day? Or maybe you choose the two times of the day that you are going to check your email. Choose a different item each day and make that change. As Sylwia so eloquently said in the Lifehack.com article: “Your lifetime is made up of days, days of hours and hours of minutes. Although, a minute or ten doesn’t seem like much, the idea that you can waste a few minutes is the biggest, fattest lie you’ll ever tell yourself.” Let’s stop wasting time and make this week count. ** Workplace Hero is researched, written, narrated and recorded by me Brock Armstrong with editing help from Eleanor Cohen. Podcast logo by Ken Cunningham and original music by my band, The Irregular Heartbeats. Today’s heroic fodder was gleaned from internet writers Sylwia Rytarowska, Joshua Becker, and Emma Johnson.

Vicki from LegitChics shares her raw journey from food lover to child protector. Plus one of the most common foods around that can actually help regulate estrogen levels What you will learn about one food lover's journey that led her to protect children and families the most common food around that can actually help regulate estrogen levels, help with migraines and help eliminate PMS At the end of this episode I'll share with you one of the cheapest foods you can buy that can help transform your health if you're a food lover too, and Marilyn Monroe ate this food every day. OK that was a huge hint! Have you got any idea what food it is? You'll find out. On with the story This story comes to us from Vicki Marie, who is an incredible woman. Vicki is the founder of LegitChics.com where she shares other women's stories of their triumphs, survival, struggles, trauma, loss and grief, and what we all can learn from their experiences. In addition to founding LegitChics.com and being what she calls a Bad Ass Solopreneur, Vicki is also a Women's Empowerment & Resiliency Coach, a Family Safety & Family Enrichment Coach, a Crime Victim Advocate, a Social Worker, an Educator and a Survivor. So here's Vicki's story, which I'm going to share with you in her own words. Vicki's story: from food lover to child protector "I love food. I mean really love it. Let me put it this way - when my sister and I were having the team Edward vs. team Jacob debate (like all sisters do right!) - I went team Jacob all the way. I told her I could never give up food - especially Mexican food! To give up chips and salsa, enchiladas, tacos ... no fucking way! She laughed and tried to convince me to be on team Edward by saying, "You could always just eat a Mexican!" Oh, my God we laughed so hard I almost peed myself. But seriously - give up food? Come on." A lifelong struggle "My whole life I have struggled with my extra chub. I think my earliest memories of feeling self-conscious started in junior high - like most of us do at that age. "One time while making a sandwich my step grandmother made a comment about how much Miracle Whip I was putting on my ham and cheese sandwich and how that was going to go straight to my hips. "My dad commented on how wide my butt was getting. "Better yet was the time we got weighed in for PE in front of the whole class and one of the guys (yes, I remember you) held up a sign with my weight for the whole class to see. "In 8th grade I was fully grown and bigger than the awkward scrawny guys, and weighing in at 154 I was mortified. I maintained that weight all through High School and even following the birth of my daughter. But that wasn't good enough "I prayed and prayed God would just help me lose 20 pounds - that's all I asked for. Funny how living with extreme abuse by my mother and I was more worried about that 20 pounds than anything else. "I remember in High School a guy told me I was really pretty and all but that I'd get more boyfriends if I wasn't fat. I was devastated. What I'd give to be back to 154 lbs now. Looking back, I was perfect at that weight and size. I was in size 7 and 9s back then. I haven't seen that weight since my hysterectomy in 2003. "Following the hysterectomy, I gained 100 pounds within the first year and have been a size 22 or 3X consistency. Eating anything and everything "Since then it seems no matter what I do that weight will not budge. If I eat everything in sight or I diet like a crazy person it just stays the same. "I've tried to convince myself that people don't treat me any differently, that my kids (all 5 of them) don't love me any less, and to know me is to love me. But, even with my public confidence and my outwardly "I don't give a shit" attitude - deep down I care. "I eat when I'm happy, I eat when I'm sad, I eat when I'm stressed, I eat when I'm anxious, I eat when I want to set a sex offender on fire. You name the emotion and I'll eat it. "Do I have bad eating habits? Sure. Do I starve myself all day just due to the simple fact I didn't have time to eat then get home after work and eat everything that isn't nailed down because I'm so hungry? Yep. And, do I get fast food or a quick snack of beef jerky and chips at that gas station when I'm out with Law Enforcement investigating child abuse? Hell yes. "I have horrible habits. I know that. But like I said earlier, it doesn't seem to matter what I do - I can eat till I drop or diet and eat healthy and it doesn't matter. The weight stays the same. Never giving up "However, I'm trying again. It's been two weeks of salads, fat-free dressing, chicken breast, cucumbers as chips with my homemade killer salsa. That's actually really good by the way. But, I'm already missing and craving BBQ, tacos, steaks, loaded baked potatoes, cheese! Your killin' me smalls! I'm just keepin' it real. Helping people now "As a mom of 5 children, 28 years and counting parenting experience (you learn as you go believe me), a previous foster parent and Child Protection Social Worker and Investigator for the past 11 years, currently a Crime Victim Advocate and Women's Empowerment, Resiliency & Life Coach and a Family Safety & Family Enrichment Coach, I've worked with and helped hundreds and hundreds of women, children, and families in crisis. "I work with victims of crime, victims of physical and sexual abuse and assault, Domestic Violence, people who are struggling with substance use and abuse, mental health, trauma, families who experience the loss of a child or death of a loved one, as well as victims of child abuse and neglect. "I help families stay safe. "If you need help in any of those areas - I've got you covered. But, if you need help with weight like I do - get help from someone who is an expert in this field. "Barbara, I'm all yours girl! Whatcha got? Vicki Marie" Some ideas for Vicki and other food lovers (and you, if any of this sounds familiar) First of all, Vicki thank you SO much for sharing your story with us. I mean, what an incredible journey. I find it very inspiring - and I'm sure anyone listening does too. You've been able to take your experience of abuse and have the strength and courage to not only contribute to but also to build resources and a coaching practice to help others in similar situations. I just think that's incredible. You're one strong woman. Now you've asked me for a food tip, and yup, I've got a great one for you. You said that weightloss after your hysterectomy is a challenge, and I've definitely got some tips for you. Before I share them though, I just want to say for those of you listening that any advice I give here is based on my own personal experience. Each listener is responsible for his or her own health. I take no responsibility for anything you decide to do or not do as a result of what I say. So if you're in any doubt or you require medical advice in your particular situation, please contact the appropriate health professional. First some non-food tips OK. The first thing I'd say Vicki would be to make sure that you don't have an undiagnosed thyroid problem. I don't know if you've seen a doctor for that, but if you haven't, that might be a good place to start. The second thing I'd say has to do with my own experience in the area of abuse and weight issues. Sometimes extra weight can be our unconscious way of protecting ourselves. It sounds like you deal with really tough situations every day, so I wonder if it's possible that the extra weight helps you protect yourself unconsciously on some level. I say that because I used to have that problem myself, and also not all women gain weight after a hysterectomy. So there could be another reason. I'm not a therapist. I'm not a coach. I'm just a fellow survivor with a long experience of therapy, personal development and spiritual practices. And that's what came to my mind, so I wanted to share it in case it helps someone. The food tips First, what to avoid, especially for estrogen levels Now in terms of the food that can help you, first I want to tell you one food to avoid, OK? And that food is soy. The reason you want to avoid soy is because it has phytoestrogens that mimic estrogen in the body, which play havoc with your hormone balance. This is true not only for women, but for men and children as well. That's why you see men who aren't that overweight with man boobs. I mean, that's an estrogen thing. It's kind of scary, and I could talk for the entire podcast about why estrogen levels are important to control and how you can do that, but I won't. So, if you're drinking soya milk for example, please stop! Better choices for plant-based milks are any nut milk, or hemp, or rice milk, or coconut milk. Anything but soy. What to add into your diet Right, now here's a food for you to add into your diet Vicki. I don't know if you eat it or not, but hopefully you'll start now! It's a super common food that actually helps detox and eliminate excess estrogen. Apparently Marilyn Monroe ate this food every day. She also smoked and drank a lot, but she ate this one superfood every day. The best part is that this food doesn't come in a fancy package as a dried superfood powder that costs the earth. It's actually one of the cheapest foods you can get. You're gonna be surprised. Are you ready? The food is...carrot! Did you guess it? If you did let me know, OK? So why carrots? Raw carrots actually have a particular fiber that absorbs excess estrogen and helps get it out of the body. Isn't that cool? So if you know anyone suffering from PMS, including migraines, ask them to eat one raw carrot each day and see what happens. I'm not making this up. In the shownotes for this episode I'll link to an article by Dr Ray Peat where he explains more about estrogen levels and how he found that his migraines disappeared by eating one raw carrot a day. I'll also link to another article that explains the link between raw carrots and estrogen. Best way to eat your carrots Now how do you eat your one carrot a day? Well, it has to be raw. And for best results, you want to eat it in between meals, so just pick one up and munch on it. The best carrots are large, organic carrots. Just avoid any pre-peeled carrots, because the peel on the carrot helps protect it from picking up bacteria, and if they're organic, you don't have to peel them. You can just wash them to remove any excess dirt. And if you want to up your intake of carrots with your meals as well, try dipping them into my Spinach Dip, or shredding them to add to soups and salads. You'll find the Spinach Dip recipe in my 5-Minute Soups & Sides recipe ebook and I'll link to that in the show notes. To find out more about Vicki and the amazing work that she's doing, head over to legitchics.com Have YOU got a story to share? If you've got an inspiring story to share (and you'd like to know what food could have saved the day in your situation), I'd love to hear from you! Got a question, or a comment? Got a question, or a comment? Pop a note below in the comments, that would be awesome. You can also subscribe to the podcast to listen 'on the go' in iTunes. I hope you have an amazing day. Thank you so much for being here with me to share in my Clean Food, Dirty Stories. Bye for now! RESOURCES Article explaining link between raw carrots and estrogen: http://empoweredsustenance.com/raw-carrot-a-day/ Article by Dr Ray Peat on estrogen: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/natural-estrogens.shtml Recipe ebooks, including 5-Minute Soups & Sides: https://rockingrawchef.com/5-minute-recipes/     About Vicki MarieLegit Chics Founder & Editor-in-Chief | Bad Ass Solopreneur | Women's Empowerment & Resiliency Coach | Family Safety & Family Enrichment Coach | Crime Victim Advocate | Social Worker | Educator | Survivor Website Facebook Instagram Pinterest

Hello again listeners! All 6 of ya! HA! It’s that day of the week again, the one you have all chosen to change your attitude about and use it as a launching pad for an awesome week, right? NO? Did I hear you say NO? Well, then you should rewind your attitude a bit and focus on what WILL go well today and how you can kick this week in the ass?! Starting RIGHT NOW! Oh, and if you are listening on a different day, then reflect on how Monday went, how the week has gone so far or “went” if you’re listening on the weekend and reset your mind on the NEXT week Ok? So how are things going? Have you stepped out of your comfort zone even MORE? Have you made any changes in your habits, your life, your processes? Even little ones? And it’s not because you HAVE to, it should be because you want to. You WANT MORE and especially if things are going as you wanted them to…you sort of NEED TO make changes so you can get different results. And stepping out of your comfort zone usually is a way to make changes. Whether it’s personally or professionally, changes do come along whether you accept the changes or not. Taking time to understand your WHY – the why behind the change vs just changing is key as well. And oh, now I hear you say “Sandi I know. I know. I know what I need to do, BUT….. STOP RIGHT FRIGGN THERE! But what? What’s stopping you? What’s keeping you from “doing whatever it is that you KNOW YOU NEED TO DO? I was recently at Starbucks sitting outside working and heard two women talking. And one said that exact thing to the other. I know. I know. I know what I need to do but. Listen in to hear more about how to STOP saying you know what you need to do, and START doing it! And then comment here, or email me at SBAllard@GrowingForward.biz and tell me what you WILL STOP doing and why!

Okay, you have the iPads or shiny new Chromebooks in your classroom. What do you want to do with them?  How are you letting your students use them in their learning?  Apps?  Websites?  Which ones are the cools ones today? Okay, you have the iPads or shiny new Chromebooks in your classroom. What do you want to do with them?  How are you letting your students use them in their learning?  Apps?  Websites?  Which ones are the cools ones today? Okay, you have the iPads or shiny new Chromebooks in your classroom. What do you want to do with them?  How are you letting your students use them in their learning?  Apps?  Websites?  Which ones are the cools ones today? Okay, you have the iPads or shiny new Chromebooks in your classroom. What do you want to do with them?  How are you letting your students use them in their learning?  Apps?  Websites?  Which ones are the cools ones today? Sharon and I share our thoughts on what it means to use technology in the classroom in a meaningful way.  Hint:  It is about the learning! Join us as we figure all this out and more! Transcript [Welcome to the Teaching Bites Podcast. Here are your hosts, Fred and Sharon Jaravata.] Fred Jaravata: Ba-ba-da-bomp-bomp. Sharon Jaravata: Bomp-bomp. Fred Jaravata: Hi everyone. I’m Fred Jaravata. Sharon Jaravata: And I’m Sharon Jaravata. Fred Jaravata: Welcome to the Teaching Bites Show where we connect you … Sharon Jaravata: With people and ideas to take your teaching to the next level. Fred Jaravata: Yes. Sharon Jaravata: Hi everyone! Fred Jaravata: We are recording live from San Francisco on this Labor Day weekend and we really hope you guys are enjoying or have enjoyed when you listen to this your Labor Day weekend, right? I know everyone has started school. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: And we’re back to the grind. We’re back to the grind and just know, take care of yourself and take some breaks here and there. OK? Sharon Jaravata: Take a day off. Fred Jaravata: If you can. Sharon Jaravata: Not because you’re sick. Fred Jaravata: But also after work, go for a run. Do the yoga class. Get a massage, a chair massage. I think I mentioned this before. Get a chair massage at the mall. Sharon Jaravata: Those are cool. Leave your clothes on. It’s 15 minutes. Done. Fred Jaravata: Yes. Leave your clothes on, please. Well, for me, yeah. OK. So on this episode, we’re going to talk about – real quick about how to use technology in the classroom. Now we know that a lot of schools have started or probably in year one, year two, maybe in year three and four, that they have laptops, iPads, Chromebooks in their classroom available now. Sharon Jaravata: So I actually want to stop right there. So when you say technology, do you mean those kinds of electric devices … Fred Jaravata: Now, let me stop right there. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: I’m going to clarify that. So let me continue with that. People think that the Chromebooks, iPads – there’s this misconception. Well, I guess the media – everyone talks about technology and rightfully so. When we talk about technology, it’s basically the newest things, right? We think of a technology company, Facebook, Google. The shiny objects, right? We don’t think of Ford is a technology company. We don’t think McDonald’s a technology company. Though they use technology, right? Now technology could also include – let me clarify this – cardboard, a knife, spoons, forks. Those are all technology. Those are old technology. Sharon Jaravata: Pencils. Fred Jaravata: They still work. Exactly. They still work, right? And they still enhance us, right? They enhance humans. They make us do things better. We eat better with a fork and knife, spoons and utensils, right? We cook better with slow cookers and all that. All right? So technology and education almost always means the shiny tablet, the Chromebook and so on. Sharon Jaravata: OK. Fred Jaravata: OK? Sharon Jaravata: OK, good. Fred Jaravata: But how to use it – so I’ve been teaching technology and computers since 2004, right? And I’m an innovation teacher and I’m glad – I’m really glad I don’t have the word “technology” in my title at work and I’m the K8 Educational Innovation Coordinator. Sharon Jaravata: What does that mean? Fred Jaravata: I work with both faculties. There’s a boys’ school. There’s a girls’ school, elementary schools. Girls’ high school group, boys’ high school. I primarily work for K8 and I work with the faculty for boys’ school and faculty with the girls’ school. It’s about let’s say – I don’t know, 60, maybe 70, 75 teachers I work with. Not all the time. It’s all staggered out. I work more with teachers more – more teachers I work with than others. I also work with the students, right? So I teach the students iPad boot camps. I teach them how to use the iPad, how to use – how to get in their email, Google Apps for Education. They also train the teachers in using all that as well. I also nudged the teachers, a friendly nudge to have them start innovating, meaning do something new and different or something new and – yeah, a little different. Sharon Jaravata: Doing something old in a new way. Fred Jaravata: In a new way, instead of doing a word processing – typing up a word processing document, have the students create a podcast. Sharon Jaravata: So that leads into your SAMR model. Fred Jaravata: Right. So going back to the how to use technology in the classroom, I’m going to say in parenthesis [0:04:46] [Indiscernible] in a meaningful way. Sharon Jaravata: Yes. Fred Jaravata: OK. So the thing is in SAMR, I think some of the people may have heard this already. We mentioned it a few episodes ago. The S-A-M-R model and I forget the gentleman who created that – this model. But it’s widely referenced when creating a – or using technology in the classroom. OK? And the other models too. We have the Bloom’s Taxonomy. That’s also referred to and also the 4Cs, the 21st century skills. All right? But going back to the SAMR model, the S stands for substitution. A is augmentation. M is for modification and R is for redefinition. All right? So what does that mean? There is a great info graphic of the SAMR model and they use coffee cups, right? Coffee, right? Say you go to Starbucks or Peet’s or whatever, Blue Bottle. If you have that, great, or Philz Coffee. So S, it’s substituting things, right? So it’s the technology. It acts as a direct tool or a substitute, but no change, no real change. It’s like the cup of coffee. There’s no real change. But when you start augmenting it, OK? The A part, when you augment your coffee, you start adding more function to it or a different – an improvement to it. So instead of just coffee, now you add like steamed milk. It becomes a latte with foam and so what – it’s essentially still coffee but you’re adding – instead of cold milk, you’re adding steaming, frothy milk, right? So you’re changing it. You can see there’s a different texture to it. There’s a different taste to it than regular coffee. Sharon Jaravata: Right. Fred Jaravata: I will talk about the assignments, how that can – how does it look like? Sharon Jaravata: So would you say this is like a continuum maybe? Fred Jaravata: Yes, you can start off with the S and then move on, right? We all start simple and I will talk about that later. But the modification, the M part, it’s where you are starting to allow for more redesign. So instead of a cup of coffee or a latte, now you’re going to start adding like a caramel macchiato. You see how it has transformed? Sharon Jaravata: Because I think – so I used to actually work at a coffee station back in college. Fred Jaravata: Yes. Sharon Jaravata: And I had to make all these drinks and I don’t even drink coffee myself. But I remember – I think a macchiato is where you combine espresso and coffee. I forgot. Fred Jaravata: See? You’re enhancing it now, right? Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. From what I remember, it’s not just straight coffee. We just put it in a machine. Fred Jaravata: Right. You’re doing something more to it, right? It has become different. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: And then the R, now you are the technology – in terms of technology of the classroom. You’re creating something pretty new, right? Something completely different. So in this example, coffee, like Starbucks pumpkin spice. Sharon Jaravata: Oh, fall. Fred Jaravata: Right. Sharon Jaravata: The fall drinks. Fred Jaravata: Fall is coming. So it’s different now. It has a different taste, a different texture. It’s also for the time, the fall you were saying. So you’re definitely making that different. You’re transforming it little by little. Another way to think about it is – another info graphic by I think Sylvia Duckworth. She made the same info graphic. Sylvia Duckworth, she’s a very popular graphic facilitator. She draws amazing pictures of people’s talks, like TED Talks and so on. She made this little essay on our … Sharon Jaravata: You might have seen her on your Facebook feed or stuff. Fred Jaravata: Yeah, she’s all over the place. Sharon Jaravata: So let me interrupt you. Actually I looked up macchiato just because I wanted to make sure that our audience knows. It is sometimes called an espresso macchiato. It’s an espresso coffee drink with a small amount of milk, usually foamed. So I was kind of right. Espresso, coffee, a little bit of milk. Fred Jaravata: Now you want me to drink some coffee. Sharon Jaravata: OK. Fred Jaravata: Anyway, moving on. OK. So think about – you’re at the beach, right? The SAMR model, how to use technology. How do you integrate technology? We’re using the SAMR model. Say if you’re at the beach. You’re looking out. That’s like – you’re looking into the water. That’s using no tech. Now if you take the boat or the canoe, and you’re rolling across the water, that is using a little tech, right? But now the SAMR model encourages to go deeper. The next step besides – after the boat, you snorkel. You’re going deeper now. Sharon Jaravata: But you’re still close to the water. You’re just under more. Fred Jaravata: And then the next one is modification, going much deeper. So it’s like scuba diving, right? But it’s deep now. Then the last one is redefinition, the R part. It’s taking a submarine going way deep. You’re exploring more. So basically exploring, right? Sharon Jaravata: I like that picture. Fred Jaravata: Yeah, it is a very cool info graph in a way. It defines it really well. So real quick, I don’t have the thing right here in front of me to refer to. So it’s like taking – so S, substitute. It’s just basically – you’re taking the person’s notes or a paragraph that they wrote by hand and you’re just putting it on Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Sharon Jaravata: Or typing it, yeah. Fred Jaravata: You’re just typing it out. That’s it. Nothing special. It’s digitized now. Cool, right? But that’s all right. Now, the augmenting part, now you take that same document, the digitized document now, and you’re transforming it into a PDF. You’re emailing it to people. So now you’re sharing it what way. Sharon Jaravata: So the reach is bigger. It’s not just your classroom. Fred Jaravata: Yes. And then now, you are – the next part is M. After that, you can take a Google doc, typing it out. But now you’re sharing it with others that way. You’re sharing it. Sharon Jaravata: Is that kind of what you just said with augment though? Fred Jaravata: Yeah. But the other one is email. Sharon Jaravata: Oh. Fred Jaravata: Right? So it’s living in your computer. The original document is living in – you email the document out. The M part is where you have a Google doc and you’re sharing it and it’s live. As you make changes, it changes automatically for other people. Sharon Jaravata: OK. And then they can interact … Fred Jaravata: Not yet. That’s going to be the R. Sharon Jaravata: Oh. Fred Jaravata: That’s the redefinition part. Sharon Jaravata: OK. Fred Jaravata: So you’re sharing with other people but you’re not sending this in a PDF. You’re sending a link and as you type – this is the M part – people can see the live things happening. They’re not interacting, not yet. So they can watch it. Sharon Jaravata: So that’s one way. Fred Jaravata: One way still. Maybe there are some differences and you could probably – some experts in SAMR may argue against that and please let me know. The R part now is when you get a bunch of students working on the same document. Sharon Jaravata: In real time. Fred Jaravata: And then – I guess that includes the teacher going in and giving comments on how to improve it. Sharon Jaravata: OK. Fred Jaravata: Does that make sense? I know I went fast and probably I’m tweaking the SAMR model a little bit. But that’s what I remember. But I hope that makes sense. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. So if I’m a new teacher, right? Do I start with S and then gradually go to R or just try to jump to the R? Fred Jaravata: You gradually – I think as a new teacher, gradually move to the R, right? So you start with S. Yeah, type it out. That’s fine. And then you move into like a – you send it as a PDF. But I think a lot of people have done that a lot already. Sharon Jaravata: I guess it would depend on what you’re doing too, what kind of project or assignment, right? Fred Jaravata: Right. But the SAMR model is great. But I always refer to the 4Cs, 21st century skills. The 4Cs are important because they encourage you – those offer guidelines to add. The Cs are collaborate, communicate, be creative and collaborate. Did I say that right? Sharon Jaravata: Creativity. OK. Fred Jaravata: No, no, critical thinking. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. It was – I forget too. Fred Jaravata: OK. Critical thinking, collaborate, communicate and creativity. Sharon Jaravata: Yes. Fred Jaravata: Those four Cs, they offer me a guide myself in how to reach my students to do that. I want my students to do those things, one of those things, right? Sharon Jaravata: And sometimes that’s correlated with the common core state standards too. Fred Jaravata: Exactly. And it goes to the Bloom’s taxonomy of – you know, on the bottom of the triangle. Remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create. These models, they’re all very similar. There are other info graphics to put into each other and how they do relate. They all relate to each other. But yeah, maybe in a different episode, we will talk about Bloom’s taxonomy and how that can be flipped over. I think we mentioned that before. But we will analyze that a little more on a different episode. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: So there’s a great – another great info graph that has been shared since like 2013 and it’s by a man named – a teacher named Bill Ferriter. You can find him at WilliamFerriter.com. Bill Ferriter https://www.flickr.com/photos/plugusin/9223386478/in/datetaken/ Sharon Jaravata: We will put these in the show notes, right? The info graphics. Fred Jaravata: This is a very good one and it’s also – this is in George Couros who I follow a lot on Twitter and I bought his book. I love his book called The Innovator’s Mindset and he refers to this graphic and after this graphic, he worked with Bill to make a new graphic for leaders. But going back to this first info graphic that Bill made. So it says on the top, “What do you want your kids to do with technology?” OK? And on one side – it’s like a T-square. On one side, you have wrong answers. On the right hand, you have right answers. By George Couros https://www.flickr.com/photos/plugusin/with/9223386478/ So let’s go to the wrong answers first. OK? So what do you want your kids to do with technology? I want my kids – these are running answers. I want my kids to do – to make Prezis. I want my kids to start blogs. I want them to create Wordles. I want them to publish Animoto videos, making video slideshows. I want my students to design flip charts. I want my kids to produce videos. I want to post to Edmodo. I want to use whiteboards. I want them to use – I want them to develop apps, right? Those are the wrong answers of what you want your kids to do with technology. Sharon Jaravata: From what it looks like to me, there’s – for every wrong answer, there’s the right answer that’s correlated across to it. So for example, the wrong answer is make Prezis and the right answer is raise awareness. Fred Jaravata: Exactly. So what is Prezi? Prezi is just a fancy PowerPoint. It’s a fancy keynote, right? You can go zoom it in, zoom out. I get like seasick when I see that stuff. If it’s don’t really bad, you know. But yeah, Prezis or presentation apps or keynotes. I want my kids to do PowerPoint. It’s just basically just raise awareness. Sharon Jaravata: So the wrong answers are if – if you guys haven’t figured out, those are the tools that you use in which to extract these big ideas. Fred Jaravata: So the big ideas, the right answer – let’s go to the right answers, the right way to use technology and the info graph by Bill Ferriter. You want them to raise awareness. You want them to start conversations. You want them to find the answers to their own questions. You want them to join in partnerships. You want your students to change minds, convince others. So a lot of communication is important. Sharon Jaravata: Persuasive writing. Fred Jaravata: Right. You want your students to make a difference. You want them to take action and you want them to be agents of change or drive change in the world. So these are our huge, big ideas, right? These aren’t tools we’re talking about. Technology are the tools to do all these big ideas. Sharon Jaravata: Right. I think the thing is – because a lot of the teachers, they see or hear that oh, look at that school. They’re doing – they’re using all these shiny tools. Then maybe I should be doing that, but not really understanding that – what the purpose of it is, right? Fred Jaravata: Sometimes a lot of my faculty and my colleagues – I love them to death, but sometimes they’re so fixated on the app. Oh, I saw a cool app. I saw this cool app. It can do this, this, this, this. Cool! That’s great. I always support them. But I also tried to make sure – what is the learning goal? What do you want them to do? I’m glad you found a great app. There are always great apps out there. But they still need to support learning. All right? There’s another info graphic that continues this, the George Couros. He talked about this and another info graphic was created for this. The question is, “What do you want leaders to do with technology?” OK? Now, the shares on the left hand side again like a T-square. So good answers. Sharon Jaravata: I think you mean T-chart. Fred Jaravata: A – what did I say? Sharon Jaravata: T-square. Fred Jaravata: OK, T-chart, sorry. What do you want to do – what do you want leaders to do with technology? Some good answers are like I want – you want them to tweet. You want them to use Google apps or Office 365 or whatever. WordPerfect, if you’re still on that. Write a blog post. Sharon Jaravata: It’s still around? Fred Jaravata: Yes it is actually. I guess the legal people, the legal professionals, they use WordPerfect. Sharon Jaravata: OK. Fred Jaravata: You use Learning Management System, the LMS. You want to publish a video, text reminders, blah, blah, blah, develop a website. The better answers are you wanted to build relationships. Technology is for building relationships. That’s the key right there. You want the leaders and your students to build relationships and that’s where technology is very powerful, right? Yeah, you can – I’ve seen teachers use – what is that? Flat Stanley? Remember that? Flat Stanley. Sharon Jaravata: The character. Yeah, from the book. Fred Jaravata: And then they use an envelope or a cardboard or whatever, one of those big interoffice envelopes. Sharon Jaravata: Manila envelopes. Fred Jaravata: And then they send it around the world, send it around the country and they – the whole – they share. Where would it go, right? Where did it go? That’s cool. But now, you can only reach one person at a time. It’s very short or you have pen pals, which is great, right? It still works and I still encourage that. But – so you’re building relationships and there’s something said to be – having handed to – with the real envelope. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: Right. Handed a note, right? Sharon Jaravata: Uh-huh. Fred Jaravata: But you can accomplish pretty much now today that – the building relationships with an email, as long as you write the email in a proper way that’s empathetic and that’s actually personal, right? You can send that email. You could tweak it and personalize emails. You can send to a hundred people at one time, right? You just change the name. Sharon Jaravata: Just click it. Fred Jaravata: You can click it. But I advise you, you had to personalize each one. But you can send it and it goes boom! It goes out all over the world, wherever you want to, right? Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: That’s another way of using technology and how powerful it can be. But here it is. Whatever you do, when using technology in the classroom, make sure it’s meaningful. All right? Make sure it’s simple. Don’t get overwhelmed with it because you can have all these – thousands of apps are available. Sharon Jaravata: Well, start small, right? Fred Jaravata: Right. And my favorite app, people, I’ve said this before, over the past couple of years – years of using – in this podcast, the Camera is my favorite. OK? Because you can slow mo, time lapse. You can reverse it, replay back. You can slow mo backwards. You can share it. You can make movies. You can do tutorials. The Camera is the best one. OK. I have this thing, the three Es. I have these things with 3Es, 4Cs, blah, blah, blah. I always say things like that. Sharon Jaravata: Well, we know teachers. We have all acronyms and short cuts. Fred Jaravata: I like this acronym, the – it’s not an acronym but the 3Es helps you remember. Make sure that the technology you’re using – or anything really. This goes beyond the lesson. Make sure that your lesson or your – the technology is effective first thing and then make sure it is efficient. Don’t go all over the place. Make sure it’s efficient unless you have some kind of design in a way that’s kind of complicated. But overall, keep it efficient and lastly, keep it elegant. What does effective mean? Make sure it works. What does efficient mean? Make sure it’s not too many steps, right? What does elegant mean? It kind of has to be designed well, right? It has to be designed well. So you can flow easily from one task to another. You’re elegantly moving from one app to another app, to another app, to the person where you want to do – or the learning outcome you want to do. So it has to flow well. That’s the elegant part. Sharon Jaravata: So I guess I can also – so maybe it means it just makes the experience for the user or the audience smooth, right? Fred Jaravata: Yeah, a smooth experience. It has come down to it. Yes. For the creator, for the receiver, the person you’re trying to reach. Have an elegant solution to that. Sharon Jaravata: So would you say that’s also a continuum, like in order? You could try to do the first two first, like efficient … Fred Jaravata: Yeah. Sharon Jaravata: And effective first. Fred Jaravata: Yes. Sharon Jaravata: That’s the most important. Fred Jaravata: Keep it. Yeah, make sure it’s effective. It would be clunky though. If it’s effective, it can be clunky. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: All right? Again, that’s how you – make sure you use technology in the classroom in a very – in a meaningful manner. All right, folks. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: I talked a lot today. Sharon Jaravata: Full tips, yeah. Fred Jaravata: All right. Let me check. OK, yeah, I did record this. I’m glad. Sharon Jaravata: Can you imagine if we do it again? Fred Jaravata: That’s my biggest fear. You know, podcast people. I think I’m recording and we’re talking and talking and talking. So many knowledge bombs but they forgot to punch record. Sharon Jaravata: So far I’m not going to worry. It has not happened to us. Fred Jaravata: Not yet. All right, folks. Make sure you subscribe to our show. Thank you for joining our show. Make sure you share our show with other teachers. We’re getting a lot of people every day listening to our show and we’re very, very grateful. We’re here to serve you. If you have any questions, please email me at Fred@teachingbites.com. Sharon Jaravata: And you can email me at Sharon@teachingbites.com and of course find us on our website TeachingBites.com. Fred Jaravata: In all the social media, we’re out there. Sharon Jaravata: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: All right? Sharon Jaravata: OK, everyone. Have a good day! Be super! Fred Jaravata: Bye. Sharon Jaravata: Bye.

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Coming live from Atlanta, GA at the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools Conference! On this special episode, I interview Leigh Northrup from the Cannon School in North Carolina and Nicholas ColeFarrell from the Brandeis School in San Francisco and we discuss what maker spaces in schools is all about and why and how it can be a game changer. I never met either Leigh or Nicholas in person prior to this conference. Leigh and I only “met” a few times on our Skype planning sessions for our deep dive presentation called “Leading Cultural Change From Within Your School Makerspace.”  Nicholas also presented, not only once—but twice! Here is our deep dive presentation slides for you to check out! I think you’ll enjoy this experience as we went to a local bar sitting in the beautiful Atlanta spring weather and chat about their experiences as presenters and attendees and what interesting things they saw and heard and what take-aways they had.  It’ll seem that you’re sitting with us as you hear the ambient sounds around us. I want to give a shout Howard Levin, our Director of Innovation and Technology at our school, Convent & Stuart Hall, Schools of the Sacred Heart of San Francisco and Sarah Hangawald and Kelsey Vrooman and the rest of the team at ATLIS for making this work.  Big ups to my new friends and peers who I met at this conference. I hope to get their stories on our podcast someday. Check out the #ATLISac on Twitter for all the tweets that came out of the conference. ATLIS 2017 will be in Los Angeles, CA so stay tuned at http://www.theatlis.org/ You can find both Leigh and Nicholas on twitter as @LeighNorthrup and @ncolefarrell   Transcript Fred Jaravata: Hey everyone. Fred here. I’m in Atlanta, Georgia for the ATLIS Conference, the Association of Technology Leaders and Independent Schools and today, I have two very cool guests. I’m supposed to have three but I have two right now. We have Leigh and we have Nicholas and I’m going to give them the time to introduce themselves but it’s really cool what they’re doing. They’re doing amazing things and as part of our tagline, we want to help you, you teachers out there to take your teaching to the next level. OK? So let’s start off with the first, Nicholas. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: This is Nicholas here. Although there are only two guests, Leigh and I have the strength of 10 men or 10 people in that way. So really you’ve got like 20 guests here. Fred Jaravata: Nice, OK. So quick intro, so tell us what you do and – yeah. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Sure. So my name is Nicholas. I’m Director of Technology at The Brandeis School in San Francisco, a fellow San Franciscan like my man Fred and … Fred Jaravata: But we never met before. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: No. Fred Jaravata: So it’s great. This is the first time we met. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: We’re internet friends. So this is kind of IRL time for us, which is nice. But yeah, no, we run an awesome technology program and a tinkering and making program there at the Brandeis School and yeah, we’re really excited about me being here and about the work that’s happening and about the work that Fred is doing. It’s really nice sharing our ideas on the podcast. Fred Jaravata: Very cool. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: And we’re just setting up a podcasting studio ourselves and we’re podcasting, so it’s good to be on this. Fred Jaravata: Very cool. And our next guest. Leigh Northrup: Hi. I’m Leigh. So thanks Fred for letting me be a part of this today. I’m from Concord, North Carolina which is just north of Charlotte and got the really cool opportunity to do a deep dive session with Fred. So we kind of had the coastal connection working with North Carolina and California. But I’m the Dean of Innovation and Technology at Cannon School. It’s a JK through 12 independent school. Been there for 15 years and – did I give my title? I’m the Dean of Innovation and Technology. Fred Jaravata: Yes, you are. Right. Leigh Northrup: And I run a big maker space there. So I haven’t always done that. I’ve been kind of the middle school tech guy for a long time. So like any teacher in an independent school, I wear lots of hats, lots of coaching, lots of everything. But really my primary focus right now is getting a really awesome space up and running and doing some cool stuff with kids in there. Fred Jaravata: And you guys are doing amazing things. I’m watching your presentations and you guys are doing amazing things. It’s making me wanting to take my teaching to the next level. So you guys presented and Leigh and I, we presented together and actually, you Nicholas, you presented twice at this conference. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, one definitely better than the other. No, just kidding. So yeah. Fred Jaravata: Tell me about the experience, the whole experience and the title of it. You don’t have to go deep in it, but at least quickly just go over what you did and how it felt. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: For sure. So yesterday, we presented on early maker space implementation and I was like – you know, have to be teamed up with the crew from the Iolani School in Honolulu and … Fred Jaravata: Iolani in the house. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, absolutely, those students. That school is just phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. They’re doing such exciting stuff there. In a way, it was just sort of like I was kind of the – it was my presentation and then like I spent the rest of the time scraping everyone’s jaw off the floor when they saw Iolani’s work, which is super awesome. But we talked about really like the approach behind sort of like maker space and some of the pedagogical and curricular aspects of it and then we shared three case studies based on the create-build space we have at Brandeis and then the two spaces they have at Iolani. So it was really nice to kind of get in with them and work on it. Fred Jaravata: How did you guys connect? How did you guys – was it through Skype? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah. So we hopped on Google chat a few days ago or a Google Hangout. But we’ve been sort of sharing on a Google slide presentation and sending emails back and forth and figuring out what that workload was like. But it was super seamless and we all just kind of jumped in and threw our slides in, put them on a common template and then checked back in every once in a while. They have to work right near each other, so I was kind of the oddball out in California. Fred Jaravata: Hey, that’s cool. I think one of the things about teachers, we need to collaborate, right? It’s good to collaborate outside and technology has really made us closer that way. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: For sure, for sure. And it was really good to sort of figure out what their workflow was. I kind of had my own ideas of how we would go about it and I think they did too and we kind of met each other in the middle and really worked and it was super cool. Other than the time difference which I think you guys … Leigh Northrup: Oh, yeah. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: It was tough to kind of schedule that out. But yeah, no, it was a super positive experience and I tell you what, an hour and 45 minutes goes so fast, right? So we were like, “How are we ever going to fill up this time?” and then after an hour and a half, we’re like, “We can have three more hours and still fill the time.” So yeah, there were a lot of great ideas generated at the session for sure. Fred Jaravata: Awesome. All right, Leigh. We presented together but I’m going to get your perspective and how our job went. Leigh Northrup: I think it went great and Sarah Hanawald, the Executive Director of ATLIS kind of was selling this to me last year and she’s like, “I really want you to present at ATLIS. I’m going to connect you with somebody really great and you’re going to learn just as much from the experience as you will be able to teach.” Nicholas Cole-Farrell: And then you got stuck with Fred. Leigh Northrup: I did. Fred Jaravata: Yeah, I know. Leigh Northrup: I’m still mad at Sarah about that. But all kidding aside, like she was absolutely right. The opportunity to connect with somebody on the other side of the United States and be able to share ideas with and not just learn but also have – feel very validated with what I’m doing was very – very close to what Fred is doing and we would have a lot of moments where we were saying, “Oh wow! I do something very similar in our space!” and we just had a lot of fun kind of connecting that way. So our presentation was actually on leading cultural change through our maker spaces and a lot of maker spaces are going up and people are popping them in and a lot of school leaders are like, “Oh, we need a maker space because the school down the road has a maker space,” and anybody can go out and buy a couple of 3D printers and put some whiteboard paint on the wall and some rolling chairs. Fred Jaravata: Like today, right? Leigh Northrup: Yeah. Well, I’ve got a maker space. Now I can put that on my website. But it has to be more intentional than that and that’s what Fred and I were trying to convey in our session was OK, now you have the space or you’re getting a space. But what’s the point of the space? How are you going to help these kids learn in that space and what are you going to actually teach them to do? Because you know what? Just the cool stuff that’s on the table, that you’re using to make or have made, is worthless unless the kid learns life skills through that process. So that’s where we got going and the session was interesting. I mean we planned it for three months and it didn’t really resemble what we set out to do. But we have always said part of that whole maker experience is being able to adapt to different situations and being able to get into a room and be like, “Oh, I don’t have that material. I need to make this different material. Whatever are we going to do?” That’s what we did in that presentation. We saw the room and we actually just really had a fantastic conversation with several other really awesome educators in our presentation and learned a lot from them and hopefully they got something out of the presentation as well. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: There was a pretty good audience there. So especially there was one person there that was pretty awesome … Fred Jaravata: Yeah, that’s the one thing. It’s like we share what we know. But what I’ve learned also, it’s also about the – you see the similar things. Everything is familiar. We’re doing very similar things, very familiar things. But it’s like not déjà vu but the other way around, [0:07:52] [Indiscernible]. Have you heard that term? It’s like you’re taking something familiar but seeing it in a new light. So it was just like that for me. [Crosstalk] Fred Jaravata: Yeah, probably. By the way, we are at a bar drinking beers. So we’re … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Seltzer, seltzer, we’re all drinking seltzer. Fred Jaravata: It’s OK. This is the unprofessional development podcast. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: But yeah, no. Again, it’s like there’s that moment and I think you guys experienced that. I experienced it with both of my talks. It’s sort of like not only are you sharing out ideas, but you’re also kind of like, oh yeah. Like other people are saying this too. This kind of validates the work that I’m doing and we had that with my second talk today. We did one on getting things done in education and it was just sort of like one of those roomful of – yes, it’s like a roomful of nods. Just like a bunch of folks are smiling and nodding and like it was the most awesome disruptive classroom where people are just calling out and raising their hand and folks are really like well-behaved at first and they got bold and it was super cool. It was just like – it was a really fun session that we did and that and folks really kind of were like, “This is what I needed.” Somebody was like, “This is the best session ever!” I was like, “Don’t say that too loud.” But it felt really good to have – like have other folks being like, you know, nobody is really talking about this and figuring out like, you know, that – you know, I don’t necessarily have an answer to these questions. But if we start the conversation, that’s the part. I feel like in your session, you guys really hit on that. It’s like there is no answer. But we just need to be talking and that to me – when that theme starts coming up, it’s like, OK, the work that we’re doing is pretty righteous for sure. Fred Jaravata: All right, gentlemen. So guys, what’s one thing or one cool thing that you saw, that you experienced besides your talk at ATLIS 2016? What’s one thing you will take back with you? Leigh Northrup: I think the emphasis on coding and programming and I use those words a lot in my space and I’ve obviously adopted a lot of those things because all those tools are great. But unless you’re learning how they work and you’re teaching kids how to make them work, they’re kind of useless and seeing – getting a feel for what other people are doing with programming and not just sitting down and coding and making the ball go from one side of the screen to the other, but actual flying drones and making – like doing cool stuff with what we know. It’s not just making LED lights turn on and off. They’re practical application with something that … Fred Jaravata: Some purpose. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, and that’s like – the plus one on that is that idea of like not only just coding by computational thinking and figuring out how – like what that looks like in a larger context. It’s like we’re – you know, we’re not going to fool ourselves and think that all of our students are going to be programmers or coders. But if they have that familiarity, but they also have done that development in terms of shaping the way that they think about learning and computational thinking. To me that was like what Dr. Stager’s session was this morning. It was like right there and for me definitely, Sylvia Martinez’s discussion, equity and access and women and [0:11:09] [Indiscernible]. That’s such an important conversation to have and like her thanking us as men for being in the room. It’s like yeah, obviously we’re going to be … Leigh Northrup: It’s a no-brainer. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: This is a completely important thing and it’s our responsibility as technology leaders to start that conversation and to keep that going at our schools. Fred Jaravata: Right. OK. So how do – now I’m going to go beyond ATLIS and going back to your worlds. Quickly, how do you guys engage your students? How do you motivate your students? How do you motivate them? I think this is one question a lot of teachers want to know. They’re always asking. But how do you do that especially in today’s world? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, I mean I think the simplest – I’m sure Leigh will be with this too, but it’s like just this idea of asking your students questions, right? Don’t just go in and be the – try to be the smartest person in the room. That’s not the job of an educator by any means. So whether it’s like inquiry-based learning, whether it’s – just simply asking them and checking in with students, get – you know, get down on your knee and be like, “What’s going on?” and engaging with students on their level. Like to me, that’s the best way to engage your students. It’s like how is it going? We did this project with the Shadow a Student Day a few weeks ago where I followed an eighth grader around for the day and it was just the most phenomenal day. Fred Jaravata: Oh, you did? OK, that’s cool. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: I did gym class. I got changed for gym and I did gym class. Fred Jaravata: The teachers knew this. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, teachers would come up and they would be like, “I’m sorry. I’m not Mr. Cole-Farrell today. I’m Nicholas. I’m an eighth grade student. I just transferred here.” Fred Jaravata: That’s a really cool idea. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: It was phenomenal and it was really an empathy project. But like for the first few classes, our students were like, “Oh, he’s just spying on us.” I’m like no and then the teachers were like, “He’s spying on us.” Like, no, no, I’m just trying to get a feel for what the day was like and like for me, there were so many insights of like this is like the minutia of an eighth grade student and this is what it’s like – it’s like you know what? When there’s no passing time to be – between classes, that’s really hard. It’s really hard to get to your next class on time. So yeah, so something like that to me, like engaging the students. Like the key is just like asking them questions and showing like interest in the work that they’re doing. Leigh Northrup: Mine from like a – more of a maker space perspective is giving them opportunities to do what they want to do. One of our school focuses this year, it’s part of our adaptive expertise traits but also a big piece of what we paid special attention to this year. It was autonomy and giving those kids the opportunity to come in and just do what they want to do and if kids aren’t screwing around, they’re usually doing something pretty cool. If you give them the opportunity and the tools and you say – you show them that there’s some worth to what they want to do. A good example of that is I had some kids that wanted to do hydroponic plants for this year. So when they came in the following week, I had over $300 worth of equipment so that they could build a big hydroponic planter. I think that they talked about it but then they were kind of almost expecting, oh, that would be something that we could do but will never do because nobody is going to believe in us and then all the piping was sitting there and now the kids have hydroponic salad bar day every Wednesday when we harvest the lettuce from their planter that they’ve created all by themselves. Fred Jaravata: That’s awesome. As a teacher’s perspective, how do you vet that? How do you trust the kids will do that? How do you do that? Leigh Northrup: Well, the follow-through is something big and I always put a tough task in front of one of those things. So I had some kids that wanted to do a – and this sounds a little silly and definitely not one of the most engaging maker space projects we’ve ever talked about. But they wanted to build a Pokemon website. Eighth grade boys want to build a Pokemon website. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Why wouldn’t you? It’s phenomenal. Fred Jaravata: Wow. OK, cool. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah. Leigh Northrup: And I said to the guys, I was like, “Are you going to follow through with this?” Oh, yeah! Like, how many times have we heard, “Oh yeah! I’m going to follow through with that Mr. Northrup.” So what I made them do is write me a proposal because to get all that stuff hosted outside of like Google sites and things like that, it’s pretty expensive and they wanted their own domain and obviously I was going to pay for it. But I wanted them to prove to me that they were serious about it. So I made them do a little bit of paperwork and I made them do a little presentation and they followed through and they showed me the 350 Pokemon cards they were going to be able to talk about and all of those things. At the end of that time, I was like, “You got me!” Like, OK, you’re good. Fred Jaravata: You’re passionate. You love it. Yeah. Leigh Northrup: And you know what? Even if that project falls on its face … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: How could it though? Come on. Leigh Northrup: Well, it can. It probably will. Fred Jaravata: You’ve been there, right? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: I can’t have a dot Pokemon domain. If not, we should like rally for it. That’s pretty awesome. Leigh Northrup: We should and the other flipside of that, because that was the kind of success story. But back to the hydroponic planet, one of them was the aquaponic and I had an eighth grade boy that – he was like, “Oh, we need to do fish!” Once he saw this thing coming in, he was like, “I want to do an aquaponic planter.” I’m like, “All right.” I’m not going to use any names here but I’m like, “All right.” The exact same exercise. I want you to write me a proposal about how often you’re going to clean it, how you’re going to feed it, how you’re going to check the chemicals because Mr. Northrup does not want a fish tank in his room at all. But if the student was going to do a lot and lead a club or something like that, I’m totally in. So the first week went by. I was like, “Where’s your proposal?” I’m working on it. Needless to say, I don’t have a fish tank in my room. Fred Jaravata: Right. OK, good. Leigh Northrup: That proposal never amounted to anything but once they saw that – you know what? Making something awesome is hard. Like, it’s not just something that somebody is going to hand you on a plate. There’re going to be some effort involved and once kids understand that and they realize, “You know what? You better take me seriously.” I’m going to take you seriously. Cool things can happen. Fred Jaravata: Right. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, for sure, for sure. Fred Jaravata: That’s awesome. I got to try that. I got to do that. Hard work upfront. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, yeah. It’s like give me your elevator pitch. Fred Jaravata: Yeah, exactly. Leigh Northrup: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: OK. So give me a “ta-da” moment, a “ta-da” moment that you in your teaching – something that really just like blew yourself away. Like, boom! I want to try this – something cool. It doesn’t have to be that big, but something like, OK, this is good stuff. Your “ta-da” moment. Leigh Northrup: Right. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Give me a minute. Leigh Northrup: I just say the … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah. Fred Jaravata: All right, cool. Leigh Northrup: I got one that I can go with. Fred Jaravata: OK, all right. OK. All right, Leigh. Go for it. Leigh Northrup: So I apologize you guys because we kind of talked about this yesterday in the session. But one of the “ta-da” moments for the Cannon School this year in our space was the creation of a quadratic sound diffuser and the kids made it out of cake cups. The kids worked really hard for six weeks and this is going to be the abbreviated story. Hopefully Fred will put some email information or some Twitter stuff on there. Fred Jaravata: Well, actually, I will put your contact information and people can get in touch with you. Leigh Northrup: Cool. If you’re more curious about this project, I would love to talk to you more about it. But the kids built a quadratic sound diffuser out of recycled cake cups to solve some problems and turned out to be really cool and over the course of six weeks, they built a quadratic sound diffuser and they cleaned out 1800 cake cups to make this and they worked really hard and they talked to math teachers what a quadratic formula is and they made it and they had – they knew exactly what they were doing and the built it and then they tested it and they realized that it actually made the room louder. What was so cool about that is that in independent schools, when kids work hard and they do everything right, they’re expected to be rewarded with an A and that’s not the way the world works. To teach these kids or give them opportunities to fail even though they did everything right is in my opinion one of the most powerful opportunities we can give a kid because then they finally learn that it’s not about the grade. It’s not about the validation that OK, they did it correctly. It’s about the learning that went on before the result was achieved and just some really special learning moments came out of that. The kids, they were actually little scientists. Like – and we had the conversation. What awesome thing ever worked the first time? Like, nothing ever works the first time! And they got to experience that firsthand, which was really cool. Fred Jaravata: Well, they got that out of the way. That failure, they got that out of the way and then they can start getting better and better and better and faster. Leigh Northrup: How many times as adults have we failed? Like we fail constantly. Fred Jaravata: All the time. I failed waking up this morning … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: We [0:19:38] [Inaudible]. Fred Jaravata: That’s awesome. Really cool. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah. That was awesome Leigh. I feel like mine – I got a rinky-dink one compared to that. But for me, we’re setting up our build space, which is our sort of woodshop high def prototyping studio this year and we’re setting up with sixth through eighth grade students who were there and elected and one of the tools we brought in was a scroll saw and some of the tools we definitely specifically designed to bring into our studio and that one was sort of like – yeah, that looks like something we should have. For my own part, I will say there wasn’t much planning behind that. But it looked pretty cool. So we brought it in and three students unboxed it and set it up, which is awesome, followed the instructions, built it and then they said, “So how do we use it?” and I kind of raised my shoulders and said, “I don’t know.” Fred Jaravata: I don’t know. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: And it was like I don’t know but there’s a “how to scroll saw” book arriving next week and they’re like, “OK.” So this was Friday and the book was due to come Monday. They looked at each other. They pulled out their phones. They went on to YouTube and watched the video on how to scroll saw and like the sort of like new Yankee workshop, this old house type video came on and they watched it. They watched about seven minutes of it, put the phone down, grabbed the piece of wood and immediately started scroll-sawing and cut out their names in a piece of reclaimed redwood and that happened within probably about 30 minutes and it was like, OK, that’s what learning looks like. It looks like me not being scared of not knowing and them taking action and knowing that they have the agency and the tools to do it. To me, that’s the “aha” moment of like, yeah, this is what learning looks like in the maker space. Leigh Northrup: One of the things we talked about in our session yesterday was the whole maker ethos and one of those is do it yourself. Like, don’t wait for Nicholas or Fred or Leigh to show you how to do something. Just go figure it out. Like, we didn’t have YouTube when we were growing up. Like, oh my gosh, the trouble I could have caused with learning how to do different stuff would have been awesome. But now kids are just constantly waiting for the teacher to tell them what to do next and we have to stop that. I totally agree with you in that moment. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: To me, it was like this is learning. This is what learning looks like in this space and like in hearing your session yesterday, it’s like yeah, yeah, that’s it. And that’s – to me, like that’s one of the common themes of like when you empower students, I mean you give them that agency. They’re going to take that action for sure. Leigh Northrup: Well said. Fred Jaravata: That’s awesome. That’s great. All right guys. A couple more questions left. All right. So time-saving tip. How do you save time? I know you Nicholas had a getting-things-done type of flow. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, I don’t want to waste your time with that, but yeah. No, we did … Fred Jaravata: But give me a time-saving tip though for like teachers that they can take now or consider for next year, something that will save them time. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, yeah. For me, it’s about – I have two because like – you know, what? I’m not just going to follow the rules. But one of the things I do is like we like to calendar time into our schedule to do specific things. Like say, you calendar time in to do a project or calendar time in to read a book and especially with classroom teachers knowing that their time is really tight. Like be really disciplined and really like set your time and be like this is my time and it just will not be interrupted for this. The other thing we do is like we really like to try scheduling mail. So like working towards inbox zero and if there’s a mail that you’re not ready to process, schedule and have it delivered to you at another time and that will like free up sort of your … Fred Jaravata: Is there an app for that? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah, I mean there are a lot of different apps. So like I use Airmail on iOS. Mailbox before it got – you know, before they put it in the ocean and that one worked really well. But any app that you can have boomerang. I think on Gmail, on the web works. But if anything that you can do to sort of clean out your inbox and get it as low as possible. The line we say is, “Your inbox is not your to-do list.” Fred Jaravata: Right. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: So really figuring out how you can manage. Your brain is only set to do a certain number of things and as clear as you can keep that, that’s where your ideas can come from. Fred Jaravata: That’s awesome. Leigh Northrup: It’s so awesome and I just got like two ideas from you because I am such a time-waster because I love to tinker and I love to play and so … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: It frees up time for me to do that. Leigh Northrup: Oh, the new toy comes in and I see the box come in and I’m like – I know I have to do that. But I don’t want to do that. I want to do this and being able to kind of calendar my time and I’m going to re-listen to this podcast and try and reflect on some of those things. That’s really good and I’m going to go in a completely different direction and again, I know I keep coming back to the whole maker space concept and that’s much bigger than that. But a lot of making takes prep materials and a lot of – you don’t really have the time to cut every piece of wood, to drill every hole, to cut every piece of PVC when you have 80 kids coming in for a 45-minute class period. We talked about proving worth to teachers and things like that. They need to be able to see that their kids can come in, make something and their curriculum is enhanced and it has to be done quickly. If their impact is one day’s worth but that project takes four classes, then all of a sudden, teachers are like, well, I will dedicate one class period per year to the maker space because that’s all they can afford to give. So I have to do a lot of that work upfront. So my kind of time-saving tip is I have a group of – and they’re boys, which I know is stereotypical but I have an eighth grade maker space prep team, which I say prep team assemble. You know, that’s always the subject line. These little boys, they just want to do – they’re like little worker bees and they just – they come running at their study hall and they’re good students, so they can afford to miss it and they just – they’re like, “All right Mr. Northrup. What do you need?” I need 80 four by four pieces of quarter-inch plywood cut and poof! There it is like by the end – at 30 minutes and these guys are just like making widgets and they’re just so excited to be a part of it and the next day, when those kids come in and all of those pieces of Plexiglas are cut, all of those pieces of wood are cut, the holes are drilled and I’m not taking anything away from the experience that those kids are having the next day because they just kind of get to focus on the learning, on the making and the learning. But they don’t have to do the meaningless prep work associated with it. Boys have like a sense of pride. They’re like, “I did that. I made that big pile of equipment that you guys are getting ready to make cools tuff with.” So yeah, my maker prep team saves me hours every week. Fred Jaravata: And then other teachers are not in the maker space but they can use other – they can think of that concept and have other – their students do something else, have something else. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah. My wife tried to have students grade her tests and that didn’t go so well. Fred Jaravata: All right guys. Last question and this is a big one. What is the best advice you can give teachers? What’s the best advice? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: We love you. That’s the best advice, really. No, just keep going. Keep going strong. Know that you’re supported by your administration, by your leadership and by your students. Your students really need you and the work that you’re doing is really – you’re doing God’s work really. You’re doing – teachers are doing the most phenomenal work out there. So as a school leader myself or administrator, I really appreciate all of what our teachers did and as a – about to be kindergarten parent in another district. I really appreciate what those teachers are going to do for my kids. Leigh Northrup: I’m going to quote – because I want to piggyback off that and Vinny … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: For the Vin. Leigh Northrup: For the Vin. He told me last night as an administrator. Be the black. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Yeah. Leigh Northrup: I was really touched by that because I – he was talking about we want our teachers and our kids to be stars and to shine brightly. But as administrators, we need to take a step back and be the black that’s behind that because those stars don’t shine brightly unless they’re pitch-black behind that. Nobody notices. Nobody says, “Oh, that star is beautiful because of the black,” and again, I’m just totally stealing his words from last night because I was really touched by that. But we have to do all of that prep work, all of those long nights so that our teachers can show up and just have these dynamo moments. Like, I – my seventh grade science teacher rolled in and there was a nine-foot beach ball in there and a 3D printing project that I had worked countless hours on. You know, have the kid that just showed up and saw the nine-foot beach ball and he literally stopped in his tracks and he goes, “I love science!” He just looked at her and he looked at his teacher and he was like, you know, just thankful of this opportunity. He had no idea what we were going to do with the beach ball. He had no idea what was going to happen today, but he knew he was in the maker space and he knew that there was a nine-foot beach ball hanging from the ceiling and he didn’t care what he was doing. So I felt like that was an opportunity where I got to be the black. I got to just be – I got to sit back and watch this teacher shine and watch the student be totally engaged with learning. Fred Jaravata: That’s awesome advice, gentlemen. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: And keep listening to Fred’s show. It’s awesome. Leigh Northrup: Yeah, that’s actually my number one tip, that too. Fred Jaravata: Well, OK, guys. Thank you guys very much for joining this show. But before we leave, I want – our teachers, if they need to get in touch with you, how can they do that real quick? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: You can find me on Twitter. It’s @ncolefarrell and I would love to find you there for sure. Our maker space is at createbuild.space. Fred Jaravata: Cool. Leigh Northrup: And I’m @leighnorthrup. There’s a goofy picture of me kayaking there and I’m usually in front of mountain or doing something outside. So I’m not the nerd inside. Those are the pictures I like out there. So … Nicholas Cole-Farrell: That’s me. Leigh Northrup: But I look forward to connecting with anybody who wants to hear more about what we’re doing over in North Carolina. Fred Jaravata: Yeah. Thank you guys. I highly suggest you guys who are listening, check out what these guys are doing, what Nicholas and Leigh are doing. They’re doing amazing, amazing things. Connect with them. Let me know if you have any questions also and then we will get you guys started. All right? Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Thanks Fred. Leigh Northrup: Thanks Fred. Fred Jaravata: Thank you guys, gentlemen, for doing this. I appreciate it. All right, cool. Nicholas Cole-Farrell: Thank you. Leigh Northrup: Thank you. Fred Jaravata: All right. Next one is on me.  

"Keep it warm, KEEP IT WARM!" When someone is having sourdough trouble, I ask: "Is it warm enough?" Which begs this question... If it needs to be warm, will cold ingredients kill it or will it be OK? So asks Tami T, and I'm answering today. For video replay, links, and more, visit the show notes at http://TradCookSchool.com/aw020

We're under tons of pressure all the time -- as writers, family members, employees, and just as human beings in general. That stuff can really get to you -- and that's what we're talking about in Episode 036 of the Write Now podcast. Under pressure. Pressure surrounds us all the time -- and I'm not just talking about the type that keeps our heads from exploding. I'm talking about the type that keeps us in line socially, that often dictates our behavior without us even realizing it. Pressure isn't necessarily good or bad -- it's just a neutral force that presses against us, against our morals and values and strength of character. And we can decide how we respond to it. And that's what today's episode is all about: how to take a step back and reassess the pressure you're under. It's about how to deal with and respond to pressure in a way that creates positive outcomes (inspiration) instead of negative outcomes (crippling fear & doubt). At the end of the day, pressure doesn't control you. Your decisions about how you react to pressure determine how things turn out. So give today's episode a listen, and give in to the pressure -- in a good way, in a way that keeps you writing and fulfilled. Speaking of pressure... I've decided I'm going to write a book this year. I can't tell you whether or not it'll be any good. But it's something I've wanted and needed to do for a really long time now, and I've decided to commit. One thing I do know is that it's going to take a ton of time and hard work. So I'm going back and listening to Episode 009, "Say Yes To Writing", and remembering that when you say "yes" to one thing, it means you say "no" to something else. And that can be a good thing. So I'm honing my naysaying abilities. More about what that means in an upcoming episode. The Book of the Week is not really a book. OK SO. I am still working on reading Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. It's really, really good, but also really, really long. (And I've been really, really busy.) HOWEVER! The Black Tapes Podcast has been my companion this week during my workouts, and I've gotta say -- this modern radio drama really takes the "work" out of "workout." It's the serial story of a naive audio journalist who finds herself in the midst of an adventure when she begins investigating the videotape collection of a paranormal investigator who doesn't believe in the paranormal. Something fun for you to listen to while you're awaiting new episodes of the Write Now podcast. ;) Keep up-to-date on my book-reading adventures on Goodreads. Coming soon: MERCH! My friends! I am currently building a store where you will soon be able to support my work at the Write Now podcast with sweet, sweet merchandise (a.k.a. MERCH)! Get very, very pumped. :D Until then, please do feel free to take full advantage of my Tip Jar: Do you feel the pressure to be great? Let me know via my contact page, or simply email me at hello [at] sarahwerner [dot] com. I can't wait to hear from you. :) Subscribe to the Write Now podcast for free! Listen to the full podcast episode for free (as always!) using the controls at the beginning of this post, or listen & subscribe for free (as always!) using your favorite app/website/podcatcher:          Help support this podcast on Patreon! >> The Write Now podcast is on all of the social mediums! LITERALLY. (Maybe.) Connect with the Write Now podcast on your favorite social media platform(s): Twitter | Facebook | Ello | Google+ | Pinterest | Tumblr Leave me a review. Like the Write Now podcast? Help me reach more listeners on iTunes when you write a five-star review. I might even read your review on the air!

What I remembered about business while wrestling with my 9 year old twins this weekend. On today’s episode Russell talks about wrestling and how beating your opponent requires that you have an angle and why business works the same way. Here are some cool things in this episode: Why you need to have a different angle in your business to have success. How you can find an angle in your business to beat others in the same market. And how all that relates to funnel hacking. So listen below to find out why you need to have the right angle to differentiate your business and have fast success. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone! This is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing In Your Car or Marketing In My Car or something like that. Hey, everyone. So, I was wondering today. How many of you guys actually listen while you’re in your car? Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m the dude in the car and you guys are all marketing at your house or in your office. I don’t know. But anyway, I appreciate you guys been on today. Hope things are going amazing for you and your companies. And I’ve got a bunch of fun stuff to talk to you about. Last night or not – it was actually Sunday, I was sitting around after church thinking about stuff and I started mapping out ideas for cool things I want to share with you guys. So I’ve got a list of cool stuff to share with you guys. So, that’s my game plan for the next few days. Today, what I want to share or talk to you guys about a little bit, and hopefully this will help you guys when you’re thinking about positioning your products and your services and even your brand as a whole. And kind of the back story behind this, most of you guys at this point know that I’m a wrestler. I wrestled through high school. I was a state champ. I took second place in the country. I was an all-American, ended up wrestling at BYU until they cut the wrestling program that went to Boise State and I became one of the top – I think the highest I was ranked was 14th so top 14 wrestlers in the country. And I trained for Olympics for a little while. In fact, we built a whole Olympic Training Center. Anyway, recently I built my own wrestling room at my backyard. So I’m obsessed with it to say the least. But anyways, it has been fun. As I built my own wrestling room, I’ve been working with my kids. Teaching them wrestling…. I got some jiu-jitsu guys coming over, teaching them some wrestling and it has been really fun. So it was kind of fun because it has kind of given me a chance to kind of re-remember a lot of the fundamentals of wrestling, of things that we take for granted because we just do them instinctively. But you start trying to break it down for someone else like, “Oh, this is why you do that and this is how you do that,” and things like that. So in wrestling, one of the really interesting things when you’re wrestling someone, if you guys watched a wrestling match before, people come out and they come like head to head typically and it looks like the heads are smashed together and they’re trying to punch each other in the face, trying to get in on each other’s legs, right? So from the outside looking at it, you probably don’t know what’s happening. You’re like, “Oh, that’s kind of weird.” But if you look at what the goal of a wrestler is, like when we’re getting in there and we’re tying up, and we have our head to head and we’re pushing and pulling and moving people around, our entire goal of that is we’re trying to get an angle. OK? We’re trying to get somebody to step so that we’ve now got an angle we can attack them from. I know that it’s very difficult if not impossible for me just to shoot directly like through somebody. It’s really hard. The way that if I want to take somebody down, I’ve got to move and move and move until I can get them take a little step and then I can take an angle. And as soon as I got an angle, instead of going head to head, I’m going to head to like me going through their ear type thing. I have an angle. Now, it opens up the whole world to me. Now, I can actually get it on their legs. I can take them down. But it’s a hundred percent – it all requires me getting an angle like if I want to takedown on somebody, it’s just how it works. And so, I was thinking about that as I was showing my kids, like I was showing Bowen, one of my twins, like we’ve been doing like these things where he pushed and we’re doing inside control and trying to like get in good position, I told him how like I just want him to push and pull. I was like, “Watch. When you pull right here, what happens is I step and then check it out. Now, we’re not head to head. Now, you’ve got a little angle on me. Now, it opens up a shot where you can actually get on my leg and you can take me down.” And so for wrestling, that’s the whole point is I’m in there beating the trash out of the other dude’s head trying to move him all with a hope that I can get a little bit of an angle. And as soon as I get that angle, as soon as it opens up, boom! Takedown’s there and I can score. All right. So there is the metaphor. So, how does that relate to business? OK? So in business, I see so many people where when they say, “Hey, I’m going to be in this business or this market.” They pick what they want it to be. And then I think part of it is a disservice that I’ve done because I talk a lot about funnel hacking. So they say, “OK, this guy has got this.” And they go and they make the exact same thing. Now, what just happened now that you got this new business? You’ve just stepped up and you’re head to head with someone. You got the exact same product, exact same offer, exact same everything as these guys. OK? And that’s going to make it difficult. I’m not saying you can’t be successful. OK? There are some people – like for example, this week is actually the world tournament in Las Vegas for wrestling and there’s an Olympic champ named Jordan Burroughs who has got the best double leg I’ve ever seen in my life. And he can just plow through everybody like he’s so dominant. Like this dude does box jumps higher than his head. He’s got the strongest legs and hips and he just can plow through anybody. He doesn’t even need an angle. Just boom! He’s just taken you out, right? But for average humans and the majority of people, we got to have an angle, right? And so, the same thing for you, if you go head to head with someone, you have the exact same thing and you funnel hack them exactly, what just happened? Now, you’re going up against someone else who if you funnel hack someone well, you’re going to get some perfect competition and you can’t – this could be hard for you to score to make money. And so, what I want you guys thinking about a little bit is the angle. What’s your angle? What makes what you do different than what everybody else is doing? Okay? When I’m funnel hacking someone, I’m looking for a process. I’m looking for price points. I’m looking for things like that. I’m looking for layout. But as soon as I figure that out, my next goal is how do I make mine different or better or more unique or what’s my angle? What makes me – why is there a purpose for me to exist in this market that I’m stepping into? I got a friend. His name is Mike Lovitch and Mike is one of the smartest dudes I’ve ever met. He owns a company called RealDose and a bunch of other things. He owned a company called Hypnosis Network. I think he may still own that. I don’t know. But he was the one when we trying to create weight loss offer back in the day and I was doing what I kind of do. I was like, “OK, here’s one that’s successful. Let’s model it.” And he kind of made this really good point to me. He said, “Every market is kind of like its own little ecosystem.” And if you look at an ecosystem, there’s like – let’s say it’s weight loss. There is Mike Geary, he owns The Truth About Abs. Then over here is so and so and they own high fat. And over here, so and so, they own low fat. And over here is – you see these ecosystems, this little world. And if you come in and you got exact same thing with somebody else, suddenly, you’re competing with them and if they’ve got a bunch of partners, now you’re competition to everybody, and nobody is going to let you in the cool kids’ crowd. If you can come in and look around, look at the ecosystem and see where everybody is at and then figure out what’s not being served? What’s the message or the thing or the product or the service that nobody else has done or at least nobody else has done well? And that’s how you find your angle. There you get it and you find that spot. And now, you look at all these other people in your ecosystem. Instead of you becoming head on head and direct competitors with them, because you’ve got an angle, now you’ve opened up partnerships with all of them. So, all of your potential competitors all become your potential partners. And that’s a big key with this. So I want you guys thinking about that today, just really figuring out like what’s your reason for existence in your ecosphere? The market you picked, where are you different? Why should someone care that you exist? And if you can’t answer that, you need to start thinking about it more because right now, you’re going head to head like I would in a wrestling match. And until I find that angle, I got to push and pull and move and just grind this guy until I can get a little bit of an angle, find my spot in the ecosystem and then boom. As soon as I do that, that’s when growth explodes. That’s when you start having tons of success very, very quickly is by finding that angle, finding the difference in your world, in your ecosystem, in your market and then blowing that up and exploiting it. That’s where you have success quickly. So I want you guys thinking about that because I think it’s really kind of the next evolution of funnel hacking. It’s not just – funnel hacking is all about finding all those pieces, the proven success road model. Then the second step is now you coming back and saying, “Now, OK. What’s my angle? What makes me different than everybody else? Why should I exist?” That’s what you really got to start thinking about. So, I want to put that in your head today. I was thinking about when we launched ClickFunnels, out there in the market, there was a bunch of other people doing stuff similar. We had LeadPages, we had OptimizePress, we had Unbound and a bunch of different things. And so – in fact, our initial thing when we first started, Todd, my business partner in ClickFunnels, he was like, “Oh, we can clone ClickFunnels in a weekend. Like that’s the easiest. Like I can literally, in a weekend we can have our LeadPages. We can literally clone LeadPages in a weekend and we could be going head to head with them.” OK, that’s cool. But now, we are like direct competitors like there’s no differentiation. There’s no – all these other things we missed. How do we – like what’s our angle? What makes us different? What do we want to be? What do we want to be different? How do we – how can we serve this market better than anyone else has in a different way? And now, it’s kind of – from those questions and from that conversation is where ClickFunnels was born. So that is my question for you. I want you to look around your ecosphere, the market that you’re in or the market that you want to be in and let me know why you exist, why people should care about you. What’s your angle? What’s different? Because as soon as you figure that out, as soon as you figure out than angle, as long as it is a good angle, sometimes I get an angle on somebody that puts me in bad position then they take me down. That’s not good either. You don’t want a bad angle. As soon as you get the right angle, that’s when you can score, that’s when you can start growing your company quickly. And I’m sure it’s the same in most sports. I always think wrestling is the best, and it is. But I think most sports, I played football for a while. I played basketball. Like all those sports are the same thing, it’s all about angles. Like if you don’t have the angle, you’re going straight on, it’s hard to compete. But as soon as you figure out the angle, it changes everything. So, that’s the message. That’s the moral for today. Start thinking through that because that’s going to help you guys to grow and differentiate yourself from everybody else. All right. With that said, I am almost to the office. I’ve got an amazing day today. We got some cool stuff happening. I’m working on the ClickFunnels 2.0 re-launch which is turning out so exciting, so amazing. I’ve spent all night last night building out new affiliate center for ClickFunnels inside of ClickFunnels, which is exciting. If you guys haven’t used the backpack plugin inside of ClickFunnels, it’s pretty awesome. So we built out a whole affiliate center. And this weekend, I also went and I built out all my autoresponder sequences inside of Actionetics for all the DotComSecrets side of the business. Then today and tomorrow, I’ll be building them out inside of the ClickFunnels side. So, pretty exciting. I’m having a lot of fun with it. I’m excited to be able to share Actionetics with you guys because it is amazing. If you ever look in the emails that have come out over the last three days from me, those are all ClickFunnels emails. And look how amazing they look, except for an iMac or was it Apple Mail? Apple Mail, out formatting is off. But everywhere else, we look amazing. So we’ll get there. But I think you guys are excited to be able to play with it and see it. And you’ll see how we’ve taken the concept of autoresponders and then got our angle on like why is ours different, why is it better, how does our tool help you dominate people more than anybody else’s? So you will see, my friends, you will see. Anyway, that’s it for today you guys. Have an awesome day. Go out there figure out your angle and let’s make some more money, serve some more people and have an awesome day. Thanks everybody!

OK… So... I am rarely one to say “I told you so.” But sometimes I just can’t help myself.   As you will hear on this week’s PODCAST, my dear friends, I told you so.   All courtesy of Jesus.    All centered upon a #MostSignificantParable.   One of a duet of parables, actually. The first having been discussed at length last week. The second to be discussed here and now.   Get ready to think. Be prepared to process. Buckle yourself in as we once again (thanks to Jesus) shift a paradigm.   In short, get ready to view the world differently.   Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play.     God bless you as you listen!

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Welcome to the Digital Media Branding Podcast Episode 018 How To Make Great Marketing Videos Hello, I’m your host Carlos Quintero. I own a full service digital media branding and marketing company based out of Fargo, ND called MediaOnQ. Because this is our Thanks Giving edition of the Digital Media Branding Podcast, we are going to change up the format a bit. Today we’re going to go over some tips to help you make great marketing videos and hopefully inspire a viral campaign for your company. I’ll also share with you a valuable resource to help you create your own videos so that you can fast-track your video marketing campaign. We’ll also go over the components of viral video marketing and I’ll share my thoughts on the whole Google+ - YouTube Comments Merge. Before we dive in, I have an important announcement for you. Moving forward, we will be releasing our weekly podcast episodes on Tuesday’s at Noon that is 12pm CST or GTM -6. Before I go on, I want to thank all of you for listening to our podcast and for all the feedback. We really appreciate it. Thank you. So with that, let’s get started. At MediaOnQ we structure our marketing around building Active Brands. This basically means that the marketing objective is to get the message where the customers spend their time or already are. Unlike traditional marketing, taking this approach allow us to go after our target audience rather than wait for them to come and hope that they consume the message. There are a number of components to building an Active Brand and Video, or more specifically web video is one of them. In today’s social media fueled world, video marketing has become more crucial toward building a successful digital brand. Prior to the internet, the use of video in a marketing campaign meant that you had to produce an ad that would then run on TV or Cable.  In doing so, you really had one of two options. Well in some markets you had these two options. The first is to use the TV or Cable’s own production department to make an ad for you. This typically meant that you would end up with a PowerPoint Slideshow  with bulleted text and a logo, type of ad which in my opinion is about as compelling as say chewing on tin foil. Still today, you see these type of ads all over small market television and cable stations… Option two would be to hire a video production agency to help you put an ad together. The combined expense of producing the video ad and then buying the television or cable spot made it hard for many small businesses and organizations to even consider this as a possible marketing strategy. Fast Forward to Today and Thanks to Technology Advancements…anyone and just about everyone can leverage video marketing through YouTube and other channels. And if you’re interested outsourcing the video production you now don’t have to spend a ton of money on video production.  In fact, MediaOnQ has 30-Second video ad packages that start at around $900 for a fully produced spot. So we’ve come a long way. OK - So what makes online video marketing so powerful? The key is in the way that people interact with the content. Here’s what I mean. Let’s say that you’re looking for information on that Christmas present you’re getting for your loved one. If both of the following offered the same information… Would you be more likely to read a blog post or would you be more likely to watch a video? Research tell us that only 2 out of 10 or 20% of web visitors will read text on a web page but 8 out of 10 or 80% will watch a video containing that same content. You may have heard that visitors who watch a video on your website typically stay 2 minutes longer on that website. But did you know that because they stick around longer, they are also 64% more likely to purchase from you? And when you ad video to a web page, you increase it’s chance of ranking on page-one of Google’s results by 50%. Hopefully some of this research inspires you to add video marketing to your efforts. Let’s go over some types of marketing videos and possibilities, keeping in mind that sky really is the limit here. So one approach might be to Tell a Story. Just so that we are all clear here, this is not the famous elevator pitch type of story, but rather the type of story that your audience wants to hear. When you focus on the benefit to your audience, you are more likely to create that emotional connection and reaction with your video. There are two videos that come to mind which in my opinion did a great job at telling a story. The first is the Built in Detroit campaign that Chrysler launched around 2012. You may’ve noticed that they’ve continued to build on it since then… The second is another car brand. Ford switched it up in 2013 by treating their video commercials into mini-movies or short stories.  One of the most memorable spots for me is where the women break into the guy’s apartment to get a painting…they get the painting and get away in a Ford…in the end it was her painting anyway. Even though I work in the industry, I don’t typically remember Television Commercials with that level of detail… You could also offer a video testimonial and combine it with the story telling. Testimonials tend to work well for attorneys, accountants, dentists and other healthcare professionals. Another type of video that you might consider is one that showcases your strengths. A product or service demo is a quick way for you to show your audience visually what exactly you and your company can do for them. At MediaOnQ we’ve seen success around videos that get to the point quickly.  So unlike story telling you need to be concise and quick with your message.  Oh and don’t get me wrong, you should still provide some level of entertainment. I mean, you would not want to have someone simply reading off bullet points on a product or service in front of a camera. Another approach could be a straight forward sales pitch.  Give your customers a run-down on what your product or service has to offer.  The goal is to generate interest by showing your audience how your product or service will benefit them or how you stand out from your competitors. A quick example of this type of approach would be the various auto insurance commercials that we often come across.  They have a service which is packaged as a product and then they focus on price, while some of their competitors focus on the service after the sale… If you have a product or service that is in development, then you might want to create a teaser. A teaser would allow you to show short highlights of the product or service. Giving the audience enough to get them interested in the product or service but also allowing you room to complete or modify the full version. We see examples of this type of video in movie trailers or with video game trailers. The objective is to create buzz around the announcement or launch date. These are just a few of the types of videos that you might consider producing for your company and of course you would be able to mix and match any of these to best suit your offerings. There are a few things to keep in mind when coming up with the video concept and message. You’ll want to determine if the video will target your existing customers or will it target your prospects? And keep in mind that all videos should strengthen your brand. So now I want to share that video creating resource that I mentioned earlier. MediaOnQ’s Brand Promise is to help you - that’s all of our customers and audience, compete in today’s web economy. So, we’ve started to put together a series of How To videos on Video Production and Post Production which are now available on our YouTube Channel. We currently have 6 videos in that play list covering topics like How To Shoot Better Video With Your iPhone, Video Concept and Production Principles, How To Set Up a Video Shoot Location and How To Shoot for the Edit. You will find a link at taking you directly to our YouTube page so that you can access these videos and I will also include a link in the show notes. We plan on continuing to build this collection to cover more video production and post production topics to include color grading and video marketing techniques. If you have a suggestion as to what kind of video would be helpful to you and your business please email us at . We’ve decided to expand on our brand’s promise beyond this podcast as a way to give thanks to our community.  We’re really excited to see where this goes and hope that some of these tips are useful in your own video marketing strategy. Also, it is worth mentioning that if you would rather look for these videos directly on YouTube, you’ll want to search for MediaOnQ or CarlosQ00 (zero, zero) so you can get to them quickly. Apparently my full name is fairly common… So now let’s talk for a moment about a Viral Video Campaign… Many of our clients always associate web video with viral video.  Unfortunately going viral is not easy. If it was, everyone would do it. I’m bringing this up because like all things, it takes time to build a community…so if your videos don’t instantly hit the hundreds or thousands of views…don’t give up. Now, a viral video does not have to be edgy. So if you have a conservative brand or product you can still go after producing a viral video. So once you’ve set your sights on viral video marketing you will want to include these three components to help increase the chance that your video will go viral. Be Funny because what is mostly shared is typically funny or amusing in some way. Be Interactive so when you receive feedback or any type make sure to respond as this means that viewers are engaged. Be Relevant people care about issues and things that matter or are happening in the world today. When a video speaks to those issues in a fresh new way, viewers tend to respond. While you may not end up with the new viral sensation, that fact that you created a marketing video that speaks to your customer base or target audience; will in itself be a great way to increase your visibility and it will provide a unique way for you to connect with your prospects. If you use YouTube or Google+ you probably heard or noticed that YouTube comments are now Google+ comments. If you want to comment on a YouTube video, you have to have a Google+ account. This in my opinion gives videos that added boost from the Google+ community because now when someone makes a comment it is posted in their own Google+ page as well as on the Video’s YouTube page…generating more exposure for that video. Not everyone views it that way and some are even a bit upset about the merge. Obviously, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I respect that. He is my take on this whole thing. We know that Google owns Google+ and YouTube. We also know that they offer the Google+ community and YouTube service free of charge to all of us. Frankly Google can and has done whatever Google wants to do with their own properties. If any of us don’t like it we have the right to opt-out and not participate. Personally, I am thankful for having access to FREE resources like YouTube as I believe that they have helped my company and many of my clients. If you’d like to share your thoughts you can email me at or comment on the podcast show page at . We’ve covered different types of video marketing approaches, talked about the new video production and post production resources on our YouTube channel and discussed vital components of viral videos. I hope that you found this information helpful.  Please subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review as this helps ensure that others who may benefit will find this podcast. As always, your feedback is appreciated so if you’d like to suggest a topic for discussion on a future show please email us at If you’re in the States, I hope that you have a great Thanks Giving.  And if you’re outside of the United States I hope that you too enjoy the rest of your week. Join me next week where we’ll continue to discuss digital media branding and marketing techniques to help you compete in today’s web economy. Until next time, I’m Carlos Quintero.  Thank You for listening.

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