Podcasts about OMA

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Our guest this time, Elizabeth Gagnon is all about Tea. However, as you will discover, her Tea is not mostly the drink although at the end of our episode we do learn she does like some teas. For Miss Liz, as she is most commonly known, Tea stands for Teaching Educational Awareness.   Miss Liz's life growing up was hard. She was sexually abused among other things. It took her awhile to deal with all the trauma she faced. However, as she and I discuss, she made choices to not let all the abuse and beatings hold her back.   She tried to graduate from high school and was one course away from that goal when she had to quit school. She also worked to get her GED and again was only a few units away when life got in the way.   Liz's story is not to her a tragedy. Again, she made choices that helped her move on. In 2010 she began her own business to deal with mental health advocacy using her Tea approach. Liz will tell us all about Tea and the many iterations and changes the Tea model has taken over the years.   I am as impressed as I can be to talk with miss Liz and see her spirit shine. I hope you will feel the same after you hear this episode.   Miss Liz has written several books over the past several years and there are more on the way. Pictures of her book covers are in the show notes for this episode. I hope you enjoy hearing from this award-winning lady and that you will gain insights that will help you be more unstoppable.     About the Guest:   Elizabeth Jean Olivia Gagnon, widely known as Miss Liz, is an international keynote speaker, best-selling author, and the visionary behind Miss Liz's Tea Parties and Teatimes. A fierce advocate for mental health, abuse awareness, and peacebuilding, she's recognized globally for her storytelling platforms that empower individuals to share their truths “one cup at a time.” From podcast host to humanitarian, Miss Liz uses her voice and lived experience to ignite real change across communities and cultures.   A survivor of extreme trauma, Miss Liz has transformed her pain into purpose by creating safe spaces for open, healing conversations. Her work has earned her prestigious honors, including an Honorary Doctorate for Human Rights, the Hope and Resilience Award, and the World Superhero Award from LOANI. She's been featured on over 200 platforms globally and continues to lead through her podcast, social impact work, and live storytelling events.   Miss Liz is also a multi-time international best-selling co-author in the Sacred Hearts Rising and Unstoppable Gems book series. She's the creator of the TeaBag Story Award and the founder of her own T-E-A product line—Teaching Educational Awareness through fashion, wellness, and personal development tools. With every word, event, and product, Miss Liz reminds us that healing is possible, and that we all hold the power to be a seed of change.   Ways to connect with Elizabeth:   Social media links my two websites www.misslizsteatime.com www.misslizstee.com All my social media links can be found on those sites. Or my linktree.  https://linktr.ee/Misslizsteatime     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to talk to Miss Liz Gagnon, and I'm really interested to hear why she likes to be called Miss Liz instead of Elizabeth, or any of those kinds of things. But Liz also has some very interesting connections to tea, and I'm not going to give away what that's all about, but I'll tell you right now, it's not what you think. So we'll, we'll get to that, though, and I hope that we get to have lots of fun. Over the next hour, I've told Liz that our podcast rule, the only major rule on this podcast is you can't come on unless you're going to have fun. So I expect that we're going to have a lot of fun today. And Liz, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We are glad you're here.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:09 Well, thank you so much, Michael for having me. It's an honor to be here. I can't wait to dip into the tea and get everybody curious on what we're going to be spilling. So,   Michael Hingson ** 02:19 so how did you get started with the the name Miss Liz, as opposed to Elizabeth or Lizzie or any of that kind of stuff.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:28 Well, I have all those names too, Michael, I'll bet you   Michael Hingson ** 02:31 do. But still, Miss Liz is what you choose.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:35 Actually, Miss Liz was given to me at the age of four the same time my cup of tea was given to me at the age of four by my Oma. I that she just had a hard time saying Elizabeth. She was from Germany, so she would just call me Miss Liz. Miss Liz. And then I knew, Oh boy, I better move, right.   Michael Hingson ** 02:52 Yeah. If she ever really got to the point where she could say Elizabeth, very well, then you really better move.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 02:59 Well, she used to call me Elvira too, and I didn't like that name Elvira. Yeah, I don't know how she got Elizabeth from a viral but she used to call me a vira. I think maybe it was because her name was Avira, so I think it was close to her name, right? So, well,   Michael Hingson ** 03:17 tell us a little bit about the early Miss Liz, growing up and all that stuff, and little bit about where you came from and all that.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 03:25 Well, I come from a little town called Hearst, Ontario in Canada. It's about maybe 6000 population. I'm going to guess. I was born and raised there until the age of I think it was 31 when I finally moved away for the last time, and I've been in the East End, down by Ottawa and Cornwall and all that stuff since 2005 but My early childhood was a hard one, but it was also a strong one. I A lot of people will say, how do you consider that strong? I've been through a lot of abuse and neglect and a lot of psychological stuff growing up and but I had my tea, I had that little Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole that I could go down once in a while, just to keep me moving and keep me strong, right? So, yeah, my story was, was a hard one, but I don't look at it as a struggle. I look at it as as stepping stones of overcoming Stuff and Being that voice that I am today,   Michael Hingson ** 04:29 struggle, if you if you're willing to talk about a struggle, how   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 04:35 I was sexually abused by my uncle at the age of four, and then other family members later on, in couple years later down the road, but my uncle was the main abuser, and I became impregnant by my uncle and lost a daughter to stillborn. So there was a lot of shame to the family. Was not allowed to speak at this child for many, many years, I finally came out with her story. After my father passed, because I felt safe, because my family would put me into psychiatric wards when I would talk about my little girls,   Michael Hingson ** 05:06 wow, yeah, I, I don't know I, I just have very little sympathy for people who do that to girls, needless to say, and now, now my cat, on the other hand, says she's abused all the time, but that's a different story,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 05:25 right? But I strongly believe, Michael, that we all go through challenges and struggles in life to have our story, to be that voice where we are today, like like yourself, right? Had you not gone through what you went through, you would not have the story that you have   Michael Hingson ** 05:42 well, and I think that it also comes down to what you decide to do with the story. You could just hide it, hide behind it, or other things like that. And the problem is, of course, that then you don't talk about it. Now, after September 11, I didn't go through any real counseling or anything like that. But what I did do was I and my wife and I discussed it. We allowed me to take calls from reporters, and literally, we had hundreds of calls from reporters over a six month period. And what was really fascinating for me, especially with the TV people who came. I learned a whole lot about how TV people set up to do an interview. We had a Japanese company with two or three people who came, and that was it up through an Italian company that had 15 people who invaded our house, most of whom didn't really seem to do anything, and we never figured out why were they. They were there. But it's fascinating to see how   06:46 extras, Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 06:49 extra, the extras, yeah, but we but it was very fascinating. But the point was that the reporters asked everything from the most inane, dumb question to very intelligent, wise, interesting questions, and it made me talk about September 11. So I don't think that anything could have been done in any other way that would have added as much value as having all those reporters come and talk to me. And then people started calling and saying, We want you to come and talk to us and talk to us about what we should learn from September 11 lessons we should learn talk about leadership and trust in your life and other things like that. And my wife and I decided that, in reality, selling life and philosophy was a whole lot more fun and rewarding than managing a computer hardware sales team and selling computer hardware. So I switched. But it was a choice.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 07:48 Yeah, it is a choice, right? Michael, do you, do you stay in the self pity, or do you rise from it, right? And a lot of people were like, Miss Liz, how can you be so good hearted and open to people that have hurt you so bad? And I always said, since I was a little girl, Michael, I would not give anybody what others gave me. Yeah, you know that that little inner girl in me always said, like, you know what it feels like. Would you like somebody else to feel this way? And the answer is no.   Michael Hingson ** 08:16 And with people like your uncle, did you forgive them ever? Or have you,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 08:21 I forgive them for myself. Yeah, I that's how you do. You know, I'm not forgiving you and coming for your Sunday dinner and having roast beef and pretending that it was all fun and games. When I was younger, I had no choice to forgive him and to be around him, because that's how my parents were. You know, don't bring shame to the family and as a minor. Well, you you know you obey your parents and that, and I hate that word, obey I hear. You know, I grew up in a time where you respect your elders, right? Whether they were good or bad, you respected them. It was Yes, sir, yes, ma'am. You know whether they hurt you or not, you just respected these people. Do I? Do I have respect for them today, absolutely not. I pray for them, and I hope that they find peace within themselves. But I'm not going to sit in and apologize to somebody who actually doesn't give to to tune darns of my my apology, right? So my words?   Michael Hingson ** 09:23 Well, the the bottom line is that respect is something that has to be earned, and if they're not trying to earn it, then you know, why should you respect? On the other hand, forgiveness is something that you can do and and you do it and you move on, yeah, and   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 09:40 a lot of people don't understand the real forgiveness, right? They always tell me, Miss Liz, you haven't forgiven anybody. And I said, Yes, I have, or I wouldn't be where I am today, guys, yeah, if I wouldn't have forgiven those people for myself, not for them.   Michael Hingson ** 09:55 Now, see, that's the difference between people and my cat. My cat has no self pity. She's just a demanding kitty, and I wouldn't have her any of that. Oh, she's she's really wonderful. She likes to get petted while she eats. And she'll yell at me until I come and pet her, and then she eats while I'm petting her. She loves it. She's a cutie. She's 15 and going on two. She's great.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 10:17 Oh, those are the cute ones, right? When they stay young at heart, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:21 oh, she, she does. So my wife passed in 2022, and now stitch, that's the cat's name, sleeps up next to me. And so that works out well, and she was named stitch when we got her, not quite sure where the name originally came from, but we rescued her. We were not going to keep her. We were going to find her a home because we were living in an apartment. But then I learned that the cat's name was stitch, and I knew that that cat weren't going to go nowhere, because my wife had been a quilter since 1994 you think a quilter is ever going to give up a cat named stitch? So stitch has been with us now for over 10 years. That's great. Oh, wow. And there's a lot of love there,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 11:03 yeah. And, you know, these little connections, right? The Universe sends us, you know, the names and all of that. They send us pets as well as guidance. You know, my little guy is Tinkerbell, and everybody thinks that she's still a kitten. She she's going to be 12 in September, so, but she's still a little tiny thing. She kept the name. She just wants to be a little Tinkerbell. So   Michael Hingson ** 11:24 that's cool. What a cute name for a kitty. Anyway, yeah, well, so you, you grew up? Did you go to to college or university?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 11:34 No, I got out of school. I was half a credit away from high school graduation. I became pregnant for the second time, and then I got married at 18. While it was more or less I was I had no choice to get married or or I would have, my father would have took my daughter from me, my oldest, who is alive, and I I had already lost one, and I wasn't losing a second one. So I got married. I did go back to adult school in 2000 I got I was one exam away from getting my GED, and that night, I got a beating of a lifetime from my ex husband, because he didn't want me to get ahead of him, right? So, and then I went back again to try and get my GED three other times, and I was always four points away from getting what I needed to get it. So I was just like, You know what? The universe doesn't want me to have this piece of paper, I guess. Yeah, and I'm not giving up, right? I'm just it's not the right timing and maybe in the future, and it's always the y and s string that gets me the four point question guys on the math exam that gets me every time, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 12:49 oh, well. Well, I always thought that my wife, in so many ways, was was ahead of me, and it didn't ever bother me, and it never will bother me a bit, just things that she would say, creative things, just clever things. She clearly was ahead of me, and I think she felt the same way about me in various ways, but that's what made for a great marriage. And we we worked off each other very well, and then that's kind of the way it really ought to be. Oh boy, ego, ego gets to be a real challenge sometimes, though, doesn't   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 13:24 it? Oh yes, it does. So   Michael Hingson ** 13:27 what did you do when you didn't go off and end up going to school?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 13:32 I became a mom, and then I did the mom role, right? I grew up in a kind of like a redneck, hillbilly kind of family where the accent kind of kicks in once in a while. You know, it was barefoot and pregnant, you take care of the kids, cook and clean and be the wife and just obey. Once again, that word obey. You know, I grew up with that word a lot, and that's why you don't like that word. I'm surprised I'm even using it tonight. But, yeah, so it was just take care of the family and just live. And eventually, in 2005 a lot of things happened with my children and myself, and we just left and started a new life. In 2006 I felt ill. I was at work, and my left arm went numb, and I thought I was having a heart attack or or that they were checking me since I was little, for MS as well, because I have a lot of problems with my legs. I fall a lot, so we're still looking into that, because I'm in the age range now where it can be diagnosed, you know, so we're so in 2006 I became ill, and I lost feelings from my hips down where I couldn't walk anymore. So I had to make some tough choices, and I reached out to my family, which I kind of. Figured I'd get that answer from them. They told me to get a backbone and take care of my own life and stop because I moved away from everybody. So I turned to the foster care system to help me with my children, and that was a hard choice. Michael, it took me two and a half months. My children sat down with me and said, Mommy, can we please stay where we are? We we have friends. You know, we're not moving all the time anymore. I saw it took a while, and I signed my kids over legal guardianship, but I made a deal with the services that I would stay in the children's lives. I would continue their visits twice a month, and be at all their graduations, be at their dance recital, anything I was there. I wanted my children to know that I was not giving up on them. I just was not able to take care of them in my   Michael Hingson ** 15:50 home. Did they accept that?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 15:53 Oh, they did, yeah, and it was a bumpy road. The first five years. Was a lot of adjusting, and we were really close. I got to pick the foster homes, which is not usually the way it works. So and my children went through a lot of abuse as well. My ex husband was very abusive, so I knew that my daughter needed to be around horses. She loved to be around horses, so I found her home that had horses. And my other two children, I found a home where they had music, and music was really important to me, because music is what saved me as well during my journey, right? I turned to music to to get through the hard times. So yeah, the first five years was it was adjustments, and really good, and we got along. And after that the services changed, new workers came in, and then it became a nightmare. There was less visits happening. There was an excuse for a visit. There was oh, well, maybe we can reschedule this, or if we do them at five in the morning, can you show up? And of course, I was showing up at five and going to bed as soon as the visit was done, because I was by myself, so it was a journey, but and I I am grateful for that journey, because today me and my older kids, who are adults, were really close, and we're building that bond again, and they understand the journey that Mom had to take in order for them to have a home.   Michael Hingson ** 17:24 They understand it and accept it, which is really obviously the important thing,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 17:30 yeah. But it's been, it's been rocky. Michael, like, you know, we've had our ups and downs. We've had like you You gave up on us. Like, you know, we've had those moments. But my children now becoming adults and becoming parents themselves. They see that. They see what mom had to do, right?   Michael Hingson ** 17:47 So are you able to walk now and move around?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 17:51 Oh, yeah, I was. It took about six months for me to learn how to walk again. I still have a limb from time to time. A lot of people call it my penguin little limp, because I limped like a little penguin from time to time, because my what happened is I went through so much trauma in my life constantly that I they diagnosed me with conversion disorder, which is not really well known to to a lot of people. And what it does is it shuts the body down, so I have no control over when my body says it's going to take a break. It just says I'm going on holidays, and you just gotta deal with it. So there's days where I can't walk, right? There's days where I can't talk. It sounds like I'm drunk. My sight is blurred, plus I'm already losing my sight because of genetic jerusa and stuff like that as well. So, but I mean, it took everything in me to push myself. And what pushed me was I had this nurse that was really rough with me, and she would give me these sponge baths, and she would slam me into the chair. And I told her, I said, next week, you will not be slamming me in that chair. And the next week I got up and I took three steps, and then the next couple hours, it was four, five steps, six steps. And I was like, I got this. I know I can do this, but it took six months, Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 19:15 but still, ultimately, the bottom line is, no rugby or American football for you. Huh? Nope. Okay.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 19:24 No, not you know, not yet. Anyway, well, maybe you never know, right? I'm still young. I'm only 51 you never know what I'm going to be doing next year. I always tell everybody, Miss Liz is always on an adventure.   Michael Hingson ** 19:36 So yeah, but I'm I'm not, I'm not an advocate of going off for rugby or football, but that's all right, do whatever works.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 19:42 Well, I'd like to watch football   19:45 that's different. I'd like to   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 19:47 check those boys out once in a while. Well, yeah, but yeah, no, I You just never know where I'm gonna go, right? Only the good universe knows where it's putting me next   Michael Hingson ** 19:58 year. So, so what kind. Of work. Did you did you do and, and what are you doing now? How to kind of one lead to the other?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 20:08 Actually, I started my business in 2015 of Miss Liz tea times. It was a fundraising Tea Party, but it started in my home. All I did was have a bunch of ladies over and celebrate strong women. And one lady really liked the layout that I did, and she's like, Can we do this in the community? I was like, I don't know. Let's try it. You know, if we don't try, we don't know. And then I went to the community for, I think, three years, we raised over $5,000 for different services that helped me along the way as well, and places that needed money for serving the community. And then we went virtual. When covid hit. The podcast came along, and I did that for five years, and I burnt myself out doing that. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl, so you either get nothing at all, or you get it all at once. So and and now I'm I've been writing and working on stuff and working on an E commerce business with a new way of serving tea, keeping people on their toes and wondering what's coming next. Uh, children's book is coming out soon. Uh, poultry book. So I've just been busy writing and doing a lot of different things.   Michael Hingson ** 21:14 What did you do before 2015 for worker income? Or did you   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 21:18 I worked in gas stations, chambermaid kind of stuff like that, something that wasn't too educated, because my ex husband didn't like that stuff, right? Don't try and be a leader. Don't try and be in the big business world. I'm sure he's his head is spinning now, seeing all the stuff that I'm doing, but that's on him, not me. So, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 21:41 yeah, absolutely, alright, let's get to it. Tell me about tea.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 21:49 Well, tea, tea started at four, and it was my OMA that gave me a cup of tea. And everybody thinks it's the beverage. It's not the beverage. We did have a cup of tea. So there is a beverage, there is a beverage involved. But she gave me words, and when I was little, I didn't understand these words. She said, reflect, recharge and release. And she came from the war in Germany, and she said the first thing I had was a cup of tea when I came to Canada, and she just knew that I was going to have a hard life. She knew that the family was kind of, you know, they had their sicknesses and addictions and stuff like that, so she just knew. And I was a quiet kid. I was always in the corner humming and rocking myself and doing stuff by myself. I didn't want to be around people. I was really loner. And she gave me these words, and these words resonated with me for years, and then I just kept hearing them, and I kept hearing Tea, tea. I know sometimes I'd be sitting in a room Michael by myself, and I'd be like, Okay, I don't want a cup of tea right now. Like, I don't know what this tea is like, but it was like the universe telling me that I needed to get tea out there. And I knew it wasn't a beverage. I knew it was. OMA gave me words. So we gotta bring words to the table. We gotta bring the stories to the table. She was giving me a story. She was telling me to stay strong, to recharge, to reflect, release all of the stuff that all of these things take right, to overcome stuff. You know, we have to reflect on the journey that we were put on, and recharge ourselves when we overdo ourselves and release, releasing and letting go of things that we know will never, ever get an answer to. So,   Michael Hingson ** 23:32 so you, what did you do with all of that? I mean that those are some pretty deep thoughts. Needless to say.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 23:38 Yeah, so I, I started with the tea time at home, and then when I went to the podcast, I would ask people, What is your tea? And then people were like, Miss Liz, I don't even like tea, like I'm a coffee drinker, or I like a good beer, or I'm just like, Okay, well, you don't even have to like the beverage. Like, it's not about the beverage. It's about our past, our present and our future. That's what the tea is, right? We all have that story. We all have the past, the present and the future, and how we how we look at it, and how we defined our stories, and how we tell our stories. So that's where the T is.   Michael Hingson ** 24:10 But you came up with words for the acronym eventually, yes, yes. When did you do that? And what were the words   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 24:20 I came up with the words I believe in 20, 2016 2017 and for me, it was teaching. I wanted to be a little kindergarten teacher when I was a little girl. So T was teaching right and teaching myself that the past was not going to define my future story. He was educational. I again. I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to educate people. I wanted to educate myself. Even though I didn't have those degrees and I didn't go to school and universities, I could still educate myself. I could still reach out. I could still research. I could still find answers myself. And a was awareness, just bringing awareness that our lives are different and. Can change them, right? Nobody can define how our stories end, except for ourselves. Yeah, and the A, A was awareness, and the awareness that, you know, that we can bring any form of awareness, good, bad or ugly, you know, and I bring a little bit of all of it through my stories, and through, through the the overcoming that I've had, right is, it's an ugly story. There were bad things that happened, but there are good results in the end, yeah, because had I not gone through what I went through, Michael, I would not be here having this conversation with you tonight,   Michael Hingson ** 25:37 or it'd be a totally different conversation, if at all you're right, absolutely. So you you deal a lot with being a mental health advocate, and that's very understandable, because of all of the things that that you went through. But what kind of really made you decide to do that?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 25:58 Mental health advocate was deep in my blood since 2010 when I went to the pharmacy and gave them all my medication and said, I no longer want any of this because they had me so numbed with antidepressants and painkillers and stuff that I didn't even know I had children. People were telling me, your kids are coming for a visit. And I was like, why are you telling me I have kids? Like I'm a kid myself, like I was going backwards. And I didn't know that I was married, that I had children, but my kids names were and I was just like, like, When is mom and dad coming to get me? Like, I was like, I was so messed up, Michael. And I was just like, I'm not doing this anymore. Um, August 29 of 2009 I brought my medication, and I said, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm taking ownership of my life. I'm being the advocate of my life. I do not need these pills. Yes, it will be hard, yes, I've got trauma, but there's another way of doing this.   Michael Hingson ** 26:55 Well, you're clearly a survivor, and you've made choices that demonstrate that by any standards, and obviously a mental health advocate, what do you think are some of the major misconceptions that people have about mental health today that they also just don't seem to want to get rid of?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 27:15 Well, a lot of people have this conception that if you take a pill, it's going to go away. You're healed, you know, and then they get hooked on pills, or they get hooked on this is easy fix, right? Like I said this afternoon in another interview, I did this certain this afternoon. Michael, you know, we get these diagnosis, but doctors don't really sit with us and explain the diagnosis to us, they don't really understand. They don't really explain the side effects of the pills that they're giving us, and then themselves, may not even know the full aspect of those diagnosis. They just put you on a checklist, right? You check A, B, C and D, okay. Well, you have bipolar. You got DCE and you got D ID, like, you know, it's charts, so we're not really taking the time to understand people. And mental health has a long way to go, a lot of a long way to break the stigma as well, because mental illness, most of it, cannot be seen. It cannot be understood, because it's inside the body, right?   Michael Hingson ** 28:23 Yeah. And a lot of people don't want to look and analyze that and try to help truly deal with it.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 28:32 Yeah. A lot of people will judge what they don't understand or what they're scared of understanding,   Michael Hingson ** 28:39 which is why it's fascinating, and we've had a number of people on unstoppable mindset who believe in Eastern medicine and alternative medicine, as opposed to just doing pills. And it's fascinating to talk to people, because they bring such insights into the conversation about the human body, and many of them have themselves, used these alternatives to cure or better themselves, so it makes perfect sense, but yeah, we still don't tend to want to deal with it. Yeah?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 29:17 Well, anything that's uncomfortable, right? We don't want to really face it, right? We want to run from it, or we want to say, Oh, it's fine. I'll get to it next week, and then next week comes to next month, and next month comes to next year, and you're still dealing with the the same trauma and the same pain, right? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 29:35 Well, so tell me about tea time with Miss Liz, because you've developed that. You've brought it into existence, and that obviously also helps deal with the mental health stigma. Tell me about that?   29:50 Well, I just   Michael Hingson ** 29:51 one question, but, well,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 29:53 I just really wanted to meet people, and I wanted to hear their stories, you know, because it gets lonely once in a while. And you're always telling your story, right? So I wanted to get other stories, but I didn't want to just deal with mental health. I wanted to deal with grief and abuse and things, everything that I've lived with, right? And it all goes back to trauma, like all three of them, abuse, grief, mental health, it deals with trauma in some form. And then I got, I got hooked to a bunch of people that found Miss Liz on on the airwaves, and then connected with you, Michael, you were a guest on Tea Time. Yeah, my last season, and, you know, and I got to go down a bunch of rabbit holes with a bunch of cool people. And tea time was just a place for everybody, just to come and share, share what they were doing and why they were doing it, right? So a lot a lot of the questions that I asked was your younger self way? What? How do you see your younger self to your older self, and why are you doing what you're doing today? And a lot of people are writing books because writing saved them through hard times in life as well. And a lot of mental health back in the 60s, 70s and 80s, were not spoken of. You know, it was really hush hush. Oh, that person's just a rebel, or that person's just a little crazy once in a while, or has too much to drink from time to time. So mental health wasn't really spoken about in those those decades, right? So,   Michael Hingson ** 31:27 yeah, and you know, but I hear what you're saying about writing, and you know, I I've written now three books, and I've learned a lot as I write each book, and I think there's a lot of value in it, but also it's more than writing, although writing is is a way to to really do it from the most personal standpoint possible. But as as you've pointed out, talking about it is also extremely important, and talking about whatever, whether it's a bad thing or a good thing, but talking about it as well as writing about it is is valuable, because if we take the time to do all of that, we'll learn a lot more than we think we will well.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 32:13 And there's so many different genres of writing, right? There's horror, there's fiction, there's non fiction, there's children's books, you know, but those are all storytellers too, in a different way.   Michael Hingson ** 32:24 Well, they are and and again, it's the the point is, though, that when you take the time to write, you really have to think about it, probably even more than, sometimes, than people, when they just talk about things. And as you're writing, like I said, you learn a lot no matter what genre of writing you're doing, you're putting yourself into it, and that, in of itself, helps educate and teach you   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 32:53 absolutely, you know, and I learned so much from a lot of the authors that were on Tea Time, You know, little tricks and little ways of making skits and scenes and characters and names for their characters. And I'd be like, well, where'd you get that name? And they'd be like, I don't know what, just a childhood name that was stuck with me for a long time. I really liked meeting authors that wrote their memoirs or stories, because I'm a person that likes truth. I'm a truth seeker. You know, if it doesn't, it doesn't match up. I'm just like, let me ask you more questions. Let me take you down this rabbit hole a little more. So,   Michael Hingson ** 33:35 yeah, well, a lot of people tend to not want to talk about their journey or talk about themselves, and they feel unseen and unheard. How would you advise them? What would you advise them to do?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 33:51 I felt that way for many years. Michael, growing up in the in the situation that I grew up in, right? You did, and I wrote my first book. I was a co author in the Sacred Hearts rising series by compiled by Brenda Hammond in Alberta. And her book, hear me, kept reaching out to me. I kept hearing I didn't even know what the book was. It was just the title was hear me. And I kept saying, I want people to hear me. I want I want to be heard like, I want people to know this, like I'm tired of living in silence, you know, just to keep everybody hush hush, because everybody's comfortable. So I reached out to Brenda, and that's how my writing journey started. Was with Brenda, and I wrote my first chapter in there, and and it just continued to the ripple effect into other books and other anthologies and other people. And I find that the universe is guiding me, like bringing me to the people that I need to see. You know, like meeting you. Michael, like, had I not started a podcast and met Mickey Mickelson, I would have never met you. Michael, so Mm hmm.   Michael Hingson ** 34:54 And he continues to to be a driving force in helping a lot of authors. Absolutely.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 35:00 Absolutely, yeah. I'm not even sure how Mickey found me. We had a video call, and the next thing I knew, we were working together for three years, and I got to meet incredible authors through Mickey. Creative edge, and it's, it was one of the driving force of Tea Time with Miss Liz.   Michael Hingson ** 35:19 I can't remember exactly how I first heard of Mickey, either, but we we chatted, and we've been working together ever since.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 35:29 Yeah, Mickey is pretty awesome. I still keep my eyes on Mickey, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 35:36 and for those who don't know, Mickey is kind of a publicist. He works with authors and helps find podcasts and other opportunities for authors to talk about what they do and to interact with the world.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 35:50 Yeah. And then I got Yeah. And then I got to meet other people that found me on the airwave, through my press releases and through me speaking at different events. I had other people reach out with their authors and their members and all of that. And I got to meet some really incredible people, like I've had doctors on Tea Time. I've had Hollywood directors on Tea Time. I've had best selling authors like yourself Michael, like, you know, I got to meet some really incredible people. And then I got to meet other people as well that were doing movements and orphanages and stuff like that. We reached over 72 countries, you know, just people reaching out and saying, Hey, Miss Liz, can we have tea? And absolutely, let's sit down. Let's see what? Where you gotta go with your tea?   Michael Hingson ** 36:35 So you're in another season of tea time right now. No,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 36:39 I'm not. A lot of people are asking me to come back. I don't know if I will come back. I am working on, like I said, the E commerce drop shipping company for Miss Liz. I'm working on children's book. I'm working on poultry. I'm doing a lot of interviews now for my own books, daytime books and stuff like that. But I am reconsidering coming back maybe for a couple surprise podcast interviews. So   Michael Hingson ** 37:07 well, tell us about the E commerce site, the store.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 37:11 Well, that was supposed to be launched on my birthday. I like to give myself birthday gifts because I'm by myself a lot. So two years ago, I gave myself the tea books for my birthday. And this year I was supposed to give the E commerce drop shipping, where we opened a second branch of Miss Liz's tea, where we changed the letter A to E, so T, E, E instead of T, E, A. But if you look at my OMA, who comes from Germany, T in Germany, is tee, so we're still keeping almost T, we're just bringing it in a different way. And   Michael Hingson ** 37:45 what does it stand for? Do you have definition   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 37:50 of it for the for this T? We have transcend embrace and envision. So transcend beyond the story that we all tell. Embrace Your embrace the journey that you're on and envision your dreams and visions that you can move forward.   Michael Hingson ** 38:07 So how's the E commerce site coming?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 38:11 It's coming along. We got a couple of hiccups. I just want to make sure that everything is good to go. We have over 100 different products, and again, we do not have the tea beverage on the site. So you guys can see that Miss Liz is staying true to herself, that it is not about a beverage, but we do have an inner journey happening. So you'll have to check that out. So we have some some candles and some journals, some fashion that Miss Liz has created. So there's a lot of cool things that you'll see, and then we have some collaboration. So if any of the businesses out there would like to collaborate with missus, because I'm big on collaboration, we can maybe come up with a brand or or a journal or something that we can work two brands together to create a bigger inner journey for people   Michael Hingson ** 39:02 to enjoy. Is the site up.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 39:05 It was up, and we had to take it down because there were some glitches in it, and I wanted to make sure that it so we're hoping that it's going to be going for June 1. I don't like to set dates, because then I get disappointed, right? If something comes up. So it was supposed to be May 17, guys, and I know that a lot of people were looking forward to it. My children were looking forward to it because of the fashion. And there's something for everyone on on the new website, for children, for parent, for mothers, for fathers, for family. So I wanted to make sure that everybody was included.   Michael Hingson ** 39:41 Tell me about some of the fashion things.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 39:44 So we have inner journeys. So I had an eating disorder from the age of 12 Michael, so I had a body image all the time. So I wanted to make sure that we felt beautiful about ourselves. So we have some summer dresses. In there, we have some swimwear. Swimwear was another thing that I didn't really like to wear growing up. I like to be covered a lot. So we and then we have undergarments for people to feel beautiful within themselves. And then we have hoodies and T shirts. But we have messages, little tea messages from Miss Liz.   Michael Hingson ** 40:23 Now, are most of these fashion things mainly for women, or are there some men ones on there as well?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 40:28 No, we have men. Men have stories too. So there, there's, I thought. So, yeah, we have men in there. We and we have, I'm really big on having men share their stories, because I have a son. I've said this on many platforms. I would want my son to have the same services that his mother has. So of course, there's a men where in there, there are children's wear in there as well, and there's some puzzles and some diamond art and all of that. So there's a little bit of everything in there.   Michael Hingson ** 41:00 So how do you use all of the different mechanisms that you have to promote awareness? I think I know the answer to this, but I'd like you to tell how you're promoting awareness, mental health and otherwise awareness.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 41:15 I think the way that I'm promoting myself and my brand, Michael is just show up and be yourself, believe in yourself and stay true to yourself, be your real tea, you know. And the way that I'm branding and marketing it is, I'm breathing different. So when you hear tea, you think the beverage right away. Well, then when you hear Miss Liz, you know, Miss Liz is not bringing a beverage. So right over the way you're getting different, right? And I like to keep people on your toes, because they think that they might know what's coming, but they don't know same as, like the fashion, where you might think you know what's coming, but then you'll be like, Whoa. This is not what I was thinking.   Michael Hingson ** 41:54 And you and you put as you said, sayings and other things on there, which help promote awareness as   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 41:59 well. Absolutely, yeah, and it's simple phrases that I use all the time. You tell me, I can't, and I'll show you I can. You know, it lives in you. These are some of the brand messages that I have on my on my merchandise. Also, men have stories too simple phrases. You know that we just gotta make awareness. It's so simple sometimes that we overthink it and we overdo it, that we just gotta keep it simple.   Michael Hingson ** 42:28 Mm, hmm. Which? Which make perfect sense? Yeah. So you, you talk a lot about mental health. Have we made improvements in society regarding mental health, and how do we do more to represent marginalized voices? Oh,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 42:50 we got lots of work to do. Michael, we're not even close, you know, we're just on the touch of the iceberg for mental health. We have all these organizations that are competing with each other instead of collaborating. I think we would really make a huge difference if we started working together instead of against each other. Or my service is better than your service. Let's start just collaborating together and working together as one. You know that all this division in the mental health world is what's causing the distractions and the delays in services and and getting help? You know, I think we just need to start working together. And collaboration is not weakness. It's not taking somebody else's product away. It's working together. It's teamwork. And I think we need more teamwork out there.   Michael Hingson ** 43:41 We also need to somehow do more to educate the governments to provide some of the funding that they should be providing to help this process.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 43:51 Absolutely, and I think the statuses need to really be looked at. They're not even close.   Michael Hingson ** 43:59 Yeah, I I agree there, there's a long way to go to to deal with it,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 44:04 absolutely. You know, just throwing numbers out there to have numbers, but not actually getting the real factual information out there can cause a lot more damage.   Michael Hingson ** 44:17 So if you could shift one mindset regarding mental health, what would it   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 44:24 be? Oh, good question. Michael, hmm, that we're not alone, okay, because a lot of people with mental illness think they're alone, but we're actually not alone. There's, there's a lot of people out there that are feeling the same thing as us,   Michael Hingson ** 44:47 and that's a mindset that people have, that we need to to deal with. We need to change. We need to teach people that the reality. Is there a lot of people, whether they've experienced the same things as as any individual has or not, isn't the issue. But there are a lot of people who do want to be more welcoming, and there are a lot of people who could learn to be more welcoming than they are   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 45:18 absolutely Well, I think it starts with a conversation, right? Having these conversations, a lot of people don't want to talk about mental health because they don't want to know the truth. They just want to know what society says, right, what the system say, what the services say, but they're not actually advocating for themselves. I think if we all started advocating for our mental health, we would make the impact and the change as well,   Michael Hingson ** 45:45 yeah, but we need to really, somehow develop a collective voice and Absolutely, and that's part of the problem. I know that with the world of disabilities in general, the difficulty is that, although it is probably well, it is one of the largest minorities, maybe the second largest in the world, depending on whether you want to consider women the minority. Although there are more women than men, or men the minority, the reality is that the difficulty is that there are so many different kinds of disabilities that we face and some that we don't even recognize. But the problem is that everyone totally interacts within their own disability to the point where they don't find ways to work together nearly as as much as they can. And it doesn't mean that each disability isn't unique, because they are, and that needs to be addressed, but there's a lot more power if people learn to work together   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 46:46 exactly. I'm with you, with that, Michael, because there's so many disabilities that you don't see right, that you don't hear about, somebody will talk about a new diagnosis that nobody knows about or is unaware of, like when I, when I talk about conversion disorder, a lot of people don't know about it, and I'm just like, check it out. You know, I'm a lady that actually has crazy papers, so if I go a little crazy on people, I can get away with it. I got the paper for it, right? So, but the thing is, the doctors, they they need more education as well. They need to be educated as well, not just the society, not just the public, but also the doctors that are working in those   Michael Hingson ** 47:29 fields. There's so many examples of that. You know, website access for people with disabilities is a major issue, and we don't teach in most schools, in most places where we where we have courses to instruct people on how to code, we don't really make making websites inclusive and accessible a major part of the courses of study, and so the result is that we don't tend to provide a mechanism where people shift their mindset and realize how important it is to make sure that their websites are fully inclusive to all. It's the same kind of concept. Yeah.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 48:12 Well, I think we all could learn a little bit more, right when we when we all get to this point where we we've learned everything. I think that's where society gets ignorant towards disability, right? You know, living with disability myself, Michael, I've had a lot of people say, Well, you look fine. There's nothing wrong with you. Why? Why? Why you like this? You know, why? And my answer is, why are you that way? Why are you judging something you're not seeing? You know, it's just like in grief, you don't see grief. It lives within us. You don't see abuse. The person is usually living within a home that is told what happens in the home. Stays in a home, you know, or they they try to mask it and hide the real truth, right? Yeah, and that, and that's a form of trauma as well, because we're being told to hush. So then when we start speaking, well, then we start doubting ourselves, right? The self doubt kicks in, oh, maybe I shouldn't say that, or I shouldn't do that, or I shouldn't, you know, be there. So you start to self doubt everything. I did that for many years. I self doubt why I was in a room with a bunch of people, or why I was speaking at that event, or why I wrote in that book, or and then I was just like, You know what? I am enough, and we all are enough, and we all can be seen in a different light. My   Michael Hingson ** 49:41 favorite example illustrating some of what you're talking about is that I had a phone conversation with someone once, and arranged for them to come to our apartment. I was on campus at the time, living in an on campus apartment, and the guy came out that afternoon, and I answered the door and he said, I'm looking for Michael Hinks. And I said, I'm Michael. Hanks, and his comment was, you didn't sound blind on the telephone. Now, I've never understood what it means to sound blind, but whatever. Wow. Yeah, it's, it's amazing, you know. And I was polite enough not to say, Well, you didn't sound stupid on the phone either. But yeah,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 50:22 right, that that would, that would be something I would say. Now, back in the day, I was a little mouse, now I'm a lion, and I'm just like, oh, yeah, right. Like, tap for Taft man, like,   Michael Hingson ** 50:33 Well, yeah, but there, there are ways to deal with things like that. But it, it still worked out. But it was just an amazing thing that he said, yeah,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 50:43 it surprises me what some people say. Sometimes I'm just like, Really, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 50:50 So you've done well, a lot of international speaking. Where have you traveled to speak?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 50:55 I spoke in Detroit in 2020, 20 or 2021, I can't remember the year Michael, but I spoke at the Sean fair tour, and I spoke on tea, of course, and my journey, and my story and my journey on how I'm just a different woman who wants to come to the table and make a difference. I just want to show people that if as long as we're trying, we can make a difference, as long as we're showing up, tired, broke, frustrated, we're making a difference, you know? And that's, that's my message to everybody, is just show up, just be you, and not everybody needs to like you, you know. I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I don't want to be everyone's cup of tea.   Michael Hingson ** 51:38 Mm, hmm. You can only do and should only do what you do, yeah, but   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 51:44 And yeah. And then I'll be speaking in October. I just spoke at an event here in Cornwall, in my local area, for empowered to recovery with Jay Bernard. Bernard, and in October, I'll be speaking in North Bay for an elementary student, my sister and she actually went to school with my sister. She actually found me through my books. And she's she runs this youth group, and she'd like me to go speak to the youths on empowerment and and and the tea, of course,   Michael Hingson ** 52:16 always worth talking to kids. It's so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. And the neat thing about the most neat thing about speaking to children is there's so much more uninhibited. They're not afraid to ask questions, which is so great.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 52:32 I love questions like, I I love when I talk to people and they have some questions like, What? What is this tea that you keep talking about? And I'm just like, the tea is just the grab guys. It's just to get you hooked. It's like going fishing and catching a good fish, like, I put the hook in the water, and you all come and you join and you have a tea with me.   Michael Hingson ** 52:56 But still, children are so much more uninhibited. If, if I deliver a talk, mainly to kids, even kindergarten through sixth or seventh grade, they're much more open to asking questions. Sometimes they have to be encouraged a little bit. But boy, when the questions start, the kids just keep coming up with them, which is so great.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 53:20 Great. It's that ripple effect that first person to break the ice, to ask the first question, and then it just rolls.   Michael Hingson ** 53:26 It's a lot harder with adults to get them to to do that. Yeah, and it is. It is, even then, though, when adults start to ask questions, and the questions open up, then we get a lot of good interactions, but it is more of a challenge to get adults to open and ask questions than it is children. And it's so much fun because you never know what question a child is going to ask, which is what makes it so fun, too, because there's so much more uninhibited   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 54:01 and the imagination of a child. I love speaking like what my granddaughter, she's four, and the conversations we have about dragons and tooth fairies and and good monsters, because I don't like bad monsters, she knows grandma doesn't like bad monsters, so we talk about good monsters. And it's just the stories, the imagination, that opens up new, new ways of seeing things and seeing life. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 54:29 you've gotten a number of awards, humanitarian awards, and and other kinds of awards. Tell me a little bit about those.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 54:36 Honestly, Michael, I don't know how I got those awards. I was just being myself, and I guess a lot of people nominated me for stuff, and they were just like, you gotta check this. Miss Liz out, you know, and even some awards, I'm just like, Why me? You know, all I did was be myself. I'm grateful for them, I and I appreciate the awards. But. I don't, I don't want to be known for the awards, if that makes any sense.   Michael Hingson ** 55:03 Mm, hmm, I understand well, but you've been successful. What does success mean to you?   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 55:10 Success means showing up for myself.   Michael Hingson ** 55:14 Tell me more about that.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 55:17 Of course. You know, success is different for everybody, right? Some people want the million dollars they want. They want the best seller they want. You know, they want the big business. They want the big house. For me, success is just showing up. Growing up. Nobody showed up for me. So I knew at a young age I had to show up for myself, and that was my success story. Was just showing up. There's days I really don't want to be here. I'm just tired of showing up, but I still show up tired, you know. So that's my success story, and I think that's going to be my success story until the day I die. Michael is just show up.   Michael Hingson ** 55:58 Well, there's a lot to be said for showing up, and as long as you do show up, then people get to see you, right? Yeah, which is, which is the whole point. And again, as we talked about earlier, that's the choice that you made. So you decided that you were going to show up and you were going to be you, and you also talk about it, which is, I think, extremely important, because so many people won't, not a criticism. But last year, I spoke at the Marshfield, Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival in April of 2024 and it was a and every year they hold this festival, and it's a celebration of American history. One of the people there was a secret service agent who rode in the car right behind JFK when he was assassinated, and it took him 45 years before he could talk about it. It was that traumatic for him, and he just wasn't able to move on. Eventually he was able to talk about it, and he was at the festival, as I was last year, and did speak about it. But it's it is hard, it is a major endeavor and effort to make the choice to show up, to to face whatever you have to deal with and move on from it or move on with it. I, you know, I talk about Karen, my wife passing, and I will never say I move on from Karen. I continue to move forward, but I don't want to move on. I don't want to forget her Absolutely. And there's a big difference between moving on and moving forward. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. Michael, no, that's it.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 57:45 You know, we look at life differently, right? Different perspectives and, and that's the whole thing with the T is looking at life differently. We all have a past, we all have a present, and we all have a future, right? And it's how we look at our past. Do we stay stuck in our past, like a lot of people are, mislead your in the past? No, I'm not. I speak of the past, but I'm not in the past. I'm in the present moment, and my trauma is real and it's raw, and I'm dealing with it, and I'm healing from it. And the future, I don't know where the future's taking me. I just buckle up and go for the adventure and see where it takes me. If it means writing another book or it means taking a trip or getting a job in a third world country, that's where I go. I'm, you know, moving forward from all of the trauma that I've lived through. I don't want to forget it. Mm, hmm. A lot of people like I would you change anything? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't change a single thing.   Michael Hingson ** 58:45 There's a difference between remembering and being aware of it and being bitter and hating it. And I think that's the important part,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 58:53 yeah. And speaking of the past is not it's not a bad thing. It because the past is part of us, right? We were little kids once upon a time like there, you know, not everything was all bad. There was good moments. You know, there was more bad times for me than there was good, but there were good moments. I had good memories of spending with my grandparents on the farm and, you know, playing in the wrecked up cars and pretending I was a race car driver and stuff like that, you know, playing in the mud, making mud pies, putting them in the oven. You know, these were good memories that I have, you know, so those are what I hold on to. I hold on to the good stuff. I don't hold on to that heavy stuff.   Michael Hingson ** 59:33 Well, at least at this point, what do you see in the future for Miss Liz   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 59:39 travel? I so want to travel. I, you know, I've traveled the world, well, 72 countries, in this rocking chair. I would like to take this rocking chair in person. I would like to have a stage. I would like to have people come and talk and share their stories on a miss Liz's platform stage. That is the goal for Miss Liz.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:01 To travel and to really meet people from a lot of new and different places,   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:00:07 absolutely, and meet all the guests I had on Tea Time. That is one of my goals. So when the universe gets on my good side, maybe I'll be traveling and meeting you face to face one day, Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:18 or we'll travel up there when, when we can, I know right now there are many challenges because of our governments putting roadblocks in the way. I've applied to speak at several events in Canada, and I've been told right now, well, the political situation, political situation is such that we can't really bring anybody in from the United States. And, you know, I understand that. I I think that there's so much to add, but I also understand that they don't want to take those chances, and that's fine.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:00:48 Yeah, we've been told the same, no traveling, vice versa. There's so, you know, it will calm itself down. We just got to give it some   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:57 time. It will, you know, it isn't going to go on forever, and we'll just have to deal with it. Well, if you had the opportunity to go back and give your younger Miss Liz some advice, what would it be? Drink More tea. Drink More tea of the liquid kind or the other kind.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:01:17 No. Drink the real stuff like drink, the beverage, drink the real stuff. Like, you know, speaking of tea all the time, you know, my favorite tea is jasmine tea. I wish I could drink more jasmine tea, but when I drink jasmine tea, it brings it brings back a memory of my Uma, and it it's hard for me so but drink more tea, like, actually sit down and have more conversations with OMA and see what else OMA had in   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:44 the back there for her. Yeah. Well, there you go. Well, I, I must say, I've never been a coffee drinker, but I got converted to drinking tea years ago, and I've been doing it ever since. My favorite is PG Tips, black tea, and I can get it from Amazon, so we do it.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:01:59 That's a good one too. Yeah, I'm not a real big tea drinker, but guys, I do know a little bit about tea.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:06 Well, I drink it more because it's a hot drink and it's got less calories than hot chocolate. Otherwise, I would be drinking hot chocolate all the time. But after September 11, I tend to clear my throat a lot, so drinking hot beverages helps, and I've just never liked coffee like I've learned to like tea, so I drink tea.   Elizabeth Gagnon ** 1:02:26 Yeah. What's for you? Yeah, he's good for you. Look what it did to me. It made me who I am today.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:32 There you are in so many ways. Well, I want to than

Voting in the 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Connecticut challenge is underway! The challenge celebrates the successes of the vital manufacturing industry and highlights the wide range of products produced by our world-class, highly skilled workforce. Featuring 16 Connecticut-made products, the single-elimination, bracket-style competition allows the public to vote on their favorite product.  This special episode of the CBIA BizCast shines a spotlight on these amazing companies, the cool things they make, and their incredible workforces. The companies in this year's challenge are: • American Woolen Company American Blazer : https://americanwoolen.com/ • Amodex Stain Remover: https://amodexusa.com/ • Beekley Medical Elequil Aromatabs Aromatherapy : https://beekley.com/ • Bic Consumer Products Lighter: https://us.bic.com/en_us • Element 119 System X Max G+ Ceramic Coating : https://www.element119.com/ • Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Frangible Joint : https://ebad.com/ • Fascia's Chocolates Chocolate Lava Cake: https://faschoc.com/ • Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. Horst Dreidel: https://horstengineering.com/   • Munson's Chocolates Pecan Caramel Patties: https://www.munsonschocolates.com/ • Naiad Dynamics Fin Stabilizer : https://www.naiad.com/ • Oma's Pride Woof Compete Recipes Dog Food : https://omaspride.com/ • Owl's BrewOwl's Brew Boozy Beverage : https://www.theowlsbrew.com/ • Rose Sisters Chips Baked Flour Tortilla Chips: https://www.rosesisterschips.com/ • Thule ReVert Bike Rack: https://www.thule.com/en-us/ • Urban Mining Pozzotive Glass Concrete: https://pozzotive.com/ • ZANEEZ HealthAnkleStone: https://anklestone.com/ The Coolest Thing Made in Connecticut is produced by the CBIA Foundation in partnership with CONNSTEP and made possible through the generous support of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, Image Marketing, Blue Back Square, Medtronic, the Connecticut Office of Manufacturing, and Forge. The winner will be announced at the Oct. 2 Made in Connecticut: 2025 Manufacturing Summit. After the competition, the Connecticut Science Center will open an exhibit Oct. 10 celebrating the 2025 Coolest Things Made in Connecticut.

Gerade die Arbeitgeberverbände haben ja sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten stets vermeintlich selbstlos dafür eingesetzt, dass der Staat die Finger von „unser Oma ihr klein Häuschen“ lässt. Klar, es ging dabei um die Erbschaftssteuer. Wie selbstlos die Lobbyisten wirklich denken, zeigt sich bei ihren jüngsten Vorstößen zu Einschnitten bei der Pflegeversicherung. Hier sollen künftigWeiterlesen

Oma und Jürgen essen zusammen im Restaurant und loben das Essen, sind aber kritisch gegenüber der Größe der Zwiebelstücke auf dem Steak und dem Paprikastücken in der Soße, die ihnen zu grob geschnitten erscheinen. Oma sieht darin ganz klar ein Zeichen des Niedergangs… Mit Michael Quast und Ricarda Klingelhöfer

In dieser Folge sprechen wir über S** mit dem dritten Knie und Claudijas 30-jährige Ehe, in der sie Entwicklungsräume hat und gibt. Wir sind uns sicher, 1848 war eine andere Zeit, es gab damals noch wesentlich mehr Elefantenkühe und andere Befindlichkeiten. Söhne waren nicht die Begleiter von Kindern und souveräne Fußballdiskussionen hatten keinen inneren Kompass. Wichtig waren damals und heute Wertschätzung, Zutrauen und Mitgefühl für Mütter und Nichtmütter, denn Handeln auf aktuellem Niveau, können Menschen immer nur dort, wo ihre Füße stehen. Unser gemeinsamer Nordstern ist der Kinderseelenschutz und „unsere“ Babys sind noch einmal ein Booster für unsere Mission. Wir haben einige steinige Wege und Störgefühle vor uns und wir wissen, wofür wir diesen Weg gehen. Unsere Warums trainiert Claudija mit Kissentoleranz an der heiligen Mauer, Anke mit Erinnerungen an ihren Personaltrainer und weil wir wissen, dass Reibungen verbindend sein können, besonders wenn die Hüften offen und die Hirne glitterflitterblockiert sind. Neue Wege sind wie häßliche Geschenke – etwas beschwerlich im Umgang. Dabei helfen Anke rosa Bonbonpullis und die Aussicht auf Gestalttherapie. Claudija, der Enkelin des Segelohrigen hilft das große Herz ihres Eichdechsenretters, der die Möwensprache spricht. Und damit auch der beingeknickte Marco immer mal wieder Fisch bekommt, braucht er Mut. Den hat er, weil er seine Traumas mit Claudijas Hilfe geheilt hat. Und wir beide haben Mut, das auszusprechen, was viele nicht hören wollen. Das stört und nicht, denn unser Traum sind wohlbehütete Kinder bei liebenden Eltern und gute Krippen. Dafür scheuen wir uns auch nicht, ins dunkle Land des Flitterglitters zu gehen – wir haben genug Licht in uns. Shine On! Hier gibt es „Die Krippenlüge“ bei Thalia https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1074855235 Hier findest du „Die Krippenlüge“ bei amazon https://amzn.eu/d/1zg3ZIz Hier findest du uns https://www.stolzundballmann.de Willst du ein Shinie sein? https://www.stolzundballmann.de/community Claudija Stolz https://www.claudijastolz.com https://fruehe-bindung.de Dr. Anke Elisabeth Ballmann https://www.ankeelisabethballmann.de https://www.lernmeer.de https://www.stiftung-gewaltfreie-kindheit.de

Willkommen zur Anti-Anti-Demo! Fangen wir mit einer genialen Quintessenz an und suchen nach der moralisch verwerflichen Zielgruppe von Jean-Remy von Matt. Schmeißt mit uns genussvoll Plastik aus dem Fenster in den Bio-Müll und hört euch weitere Beichten von der unzuverlässigen Erzählerin Iris an. Wer eine Wurmkiste hat, wird ausgelacht. Wenn ihr wissen möchtet, welche Meinungen wir verändert haben, fragt uns gern danach. Zum Beispiel im offenen Google-Dokument. Lasst euch von der Oma den Weg dorthin erklären – wahlweise auch zum Kitkat oder in die Fetisch-Klinik. Statt auf falsche Hasen reinzufallen, fallen bei uns echte Felsen. Das gibt eine Sauerei an der Ostsee, also auf zum passiv-aggressives Putzen! Erfahrt, warum Matthias seit über einem Jahr auf diesem Thema hockt, und was das mit Todesstrafe oder lebenslanger Haft zu tun hat. Klaut mit uns in der Bibliothek und schreibt Briefe an Amnesty International. Wir sind zwar gegen Glücksspiel, aber mit dem Sommelier aus Roulettenburg stoßen wir dann doch mal mit unseren Freigetränken an. Wenn ihr mit eurer Zeit auf uns wettet, macht ihr nichts falsch. Also: gut zuhören. Und nicht in Tempeln bumsen. Du möchtest uns eine Sprachnachricht für den Podcast schicken? Folge uns auf Instagram und nutze dort den Chat: https://www.instagram.com/coupleof_podcast/ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos und Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/CoupleOf Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

Oma und Sonja spazieren am Main entlang und bemerken dabei den verschlammten Radweg, der noch vom Hochwasser gezeichnet ist. Plötzlich entdeckt Oma den Nachbarn Herrn Giesler hinter einer Trauerweide im Gebüsch. Sie vermutet, er vergrabe gerade eine Katze - ist es möglicherweise Miezi, die verschwundene Katze von Sonjas Eltern? Mit Ricarda Klingelhöfer, Susanne Hasenstab und Christian Maatje

Jack Macejka, Vice President of National Accounts at The Advance Group, sits down with Jason Shapiro, Director of Business Development in South Florida, to talk about career growth, building trust in a fast-moving market, and what it takes to thrive in a region shaped by constant development. The two share stories from their early days in the business, compare Florida’s tri-county hustle to New York’s vertical pace, and reflect on the real value of networking, whether you're helping a neighbor move or landing a national account. Jack and Jason also discuss the importance of friendships in business and the future of Young Leaders across the OMA network. Catch more episodes at https://theadvancegrp.com/happenings/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wir sind zurück aus der Pause und bringen Euch durch den Sommer, der jetzt beginnt :-)  Sabrina lernt Fußball mit ChatGPT, Dennis durfte nicht nach Gelsenkirchen, Mü ist heiß wie Frittenfett und Henry wartet, dass das Kinderkarussel von Transfermarkt endlich mal die Bremsen löst...  Hier die Hintergründe zu Herthas Trikot:  https://www.berliner-kurier.de/hertha/dfl-posse-um-trikot-hertha-muss-rueckenstreifen-haben-osnabrueck-nicht-li.2347085   Henry Spietweh ist Autor und Podcaster aus Berlin, Unioner seit 25 Jahren, Reisekaderbegleiter und Eberesche im keltischen Baumhoroskop. Dennis ist der Herthaner "Biene Ritte Bär", Allesfahrer, Allesgucker, Spielverlaufvon1997auswendigwisser und unser Sprachrohr fürs Blau-Weiße. Mü ist Keeper von SPM Schöneiche in der Union-Liga, Dortmunder seit Chapuisat und Riedle, Hörer und jetzt auch Mitmacher, der Dennis anliefern muss.   Sabrina ist Ostwestfälin, von Oma und Opa zur Bielefelder Alm getrieben und hat auf deren Sofa mit Gerd Delling und Waldemar Hartmann alles über Fußball gelernt, was man nicht wissen muss. Und umgekehrt.     https://linktr.ee/ostwestgebaelle https://www.xn--ost-west-geblle-clb.de/ https://www.instagram.com/ostwestgebaelle.de/   Seid lieb zueinander!

In een reeks van 6 korte podcasts nemen we u wekelijks mee in de wereld van grootouders van hoogbegaafde kleinkinderen. Via gesprekken met Leonieke Boogaard en Noks Nauta worden de belangrijkste vraagstukken belicht.Vandaag gaan we het hebben over hoogbegaafdheid en opvoeding. Als grootouders ben je vaak op een andere manier betrokken bij de opvoeding van je kleinkinderen en ervaar je dit vanuit een ander perspectief dan de ouder. Wellicht herken je al veel vanuit je eigen ervaring en wat je gezien hebt bij je eigen kinderen  en wil je dit delen om te voorkomen dat je kleinkinderen voor dezelfde uitdagingen komen te staan. Welke rol kun je als grootouder nemen om een mooie rol te spelen binnen het leven en de ontwikkeling van je kleinkind?  Brochure NTCN: Ouder zijn van een hoogbegaafd kind: opvoeden, ondersteuning en onderwijs https://www.flipsnack.com/C5987AEEFB5/brochure-voor-ouders-van-hoogbegaafde-kinderen-vxjyjjpd1j/full-view.html

„Unsere“ Babys sind da! Claudija ist endlich vollverliebte Oma, Anke weggeblödete Tante und entsprechend geistreich ist dieser Podcast. Wir schwelgen im Babyglück und schicken uns bis zu 1000 Babyfotos täglich. Wir staunen ehrfürchtig über „unsere“ Wunder. Wir analysieren blutige Knubbeldinger auf den Babybäuchlein und Stirnfaltenähnlichkeiten. Und wir sprechen über neues Leben, neue Rollen, Konfliktpotentiale mit Großeltern und Wochenbettroutinen. Sicher sind wir uns: Mütter sind der Safe Space für Kinder und es ist das größte Glück für „unsere“ Babys, wenn vorerst keine Trennungen stattfinden. Anke beobachtet, dass Mutterliebe und der außerkörperliche Mutterleib höchste Bedeutung haben und Claudija erzählt vom Entwicklungsheilen und dem Segen, den dieses der jeweils nächsten Generation bringt. Ankes Baby ist der jüngste Podcastgast aller Zeiten und kommentiert mit charmantem Schluckauf die Tragetuchgeschichten der Shinieschwestern. Und wir haben Referenzgefühle, wenn es um zwangsgesteuertes Bügeln geht, denn das können durch Stillzheimer beeinträchtigte Elefantenkühe auch dann, wenn nur noch das Resthirn funktioniert. Claudija erzählt von 200.000 Windelwechseln, Anke von singenden Windeln, beide schwärmen von Fäustchen, Füßchen und Feinfühligkeit. Und beide wissen: Wahrheiten verändern sich oft pfeilschnell, wie die Saurierforschung jüngst durch die Entdeckung des „Mirasaura grauvogeli“ zeigt. Es liegen oft Universen und Diskrepanzen zwischen Fakten, Gefühlen und Meinungsbildungen. Kongruenz finden beide derzeit nur in ihrer Dankbarkeit für das Leben und darin, dass liebende Großmütter und Tanten die größten Schätze sind. Shine On! Hier gibt es „Die Krippenlüge“ bei Thalia https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1074855235 Hier findest du „Die Krippenlüge“ bei amazon https://amzn.eu/d/1zg3ZIz Hier findest du uns https://www.stolzundballmann.de Willst du ein Shinie sein? https://www.stolzundballmann.de/community Claudija Stolz https://www.claudijastolz.com https://fruehe-bindung.de Dr. Anke Elisabeth Ballmann https://www.ankeelisabethballmann.de https://www.lernmeer.de https://www.stiftung-gewaltfreie-kindheit.de

Queen Mum, die Mutter von Queen Elizabeth, war mehr als eine mild lächelnde Oma. Sie war eine starke, beliebte Frau, die vollkommen hinter der Krone gestanden hat. Großen Mut zeigte sie im Zweiten Weltkrieg, als sie in London blieb und den Menschen Trost spendete. Royalexpertin Annelie Malun hat Royal-Reporter Jürgen Worlitz zu Gast, der Queen Mum bei einem Besuch in Berlin erlebt hat.

In dieser Folge: Anton glaubt, dass seine Eltern ihn nicht mehr lieb haben. Sie haben ja jetzt das neue Baby, seine kleine Schwester. Im Wald lernt Anton, dass es ein manchmal anstrengend aber eigentlich sehr schön ist, Geschwister zu haben.

What does it mean to be an architect today, and is the traditional path still the most valuable one?To kick off Season 11, we welcome the three hosts of the Most Podern Podcast: Alex Yuen, Minkoo Kang, and Libo Li. They are three friends who, since their architectural education, have forged distinct, non-traditional careers that challenge the conventional definition of practice. The episode delves into their journeys as an architect-developer, an OMA designer turned developer and MIT instructor, and a self-proclaimed "career job changer" now working as a data engineer at Meta.The conversation starts by exploring the complex relationship between title and identity. How do you introduce yourself when your work spans architecture, development, academia, and big tech? This question opens up a candid discussion about the profession's insecurities, the value of an architectural education versus its real-world blind spots (like economics and finance), and the constant struggle to define and advocate for the value architects provide.The hosts debate whether people like them, who have stepped outside the traditional lines, make it harder to define that value, or if they are simply responding to a profession in need of new models. They tackle the "rule books" architects often ignore, the ones written by capitalism and market forces, and question the cultural mindset that often prevents practitioners from adapting."The hypothesis should be - design is not valuable and you should try to disprove that, which is a totally different way of looking at the problem." - Libo LiThis episode is packed with invaluable advice for both aspiring architects and fed-up mid-career professionals. From questioning your professors to getting comfortable with discomfort and learning to code, the hosts share actionable steps for anyone looking to make a change. Finally, they look to the future, discussing the end of the "Starkitect" era, the potential for AI to create single-person powerhouse firms, and why finding a support network is critical to making any leap.Guests:Alex Yuen is a licensed architect, educator, and co-founder of Co, a California-based design and development firm focused on affordable housing. He also teaches urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.Minkoo Kang is an architect-turned-developer and an instructor at MIT's Center for Real Estate. A former designer at OMA, his work now focuses on understanding the financial forces that shape the built environment. He is the co-author of the newly released book, Value of Design.Libo Li is a data engineer at Meta and the author of the newsletter Building Probable, which explores data and the built environment. A self-described "career job changer," his path has taken him from architecture to data engineering, startups, and now big tech, driven by a desire to learn from different industries.Is This Episode for You?This episode is for you if: ✅ You are navigating a non-traditional career with an architecture degree. ✅ You question the traditional definition of architectural value. ✅ You are a student considering a career in architecture and want a realistic perspective. ✅ You are a mid-career professional feeling "fed up" and contemplating a change. ✅ You are curious about how economics, tech, and AI are reshaping the future of practice.What have you done to take action lately? Share your reflections with us on social and join the conversation.

Welke les heeft je eerste liefde je meegegeven? Kun je je partner redden in je relatie, en waarom ligt er toch zoveel druk op het vinden van de ware liefde? Een gesprek over je eerste liefdeservaring, over het plannen van je gezin, over rouwen om je ex in je huidige relatie, en over nagejaagd worden door potentiële partners. In de 75e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over eerste liefdes.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bim Bam bim, NF 107 ist da – heute mit folgenden Einsendungen. Danke, dass ihr uns eure Geschichten anvertraut:- Kat: Berichtet von einer mysteriösen Katze, die nicht da ist, und von Albträumen.- Franzi: Erzählt von einem schwarzen Wolf, der sie seit ihrer Kindheit verfolgt – zuerst in Träumen, dann im echten Leben.- Anonym (Reinkarnation): Teilt Erinnerungen an ein früheres Leben und die seltsamen Aussagen ihres Sohnes über "allererste Eltern".- Moni: Hat Träume, die sich bewahrheiten, und erlebte die Erscheinung einer weißen Frau kurz vor dem Tod ihrer Mutter.- Anonym (Oma & Donner): Glaubt, dass der Donner bei der Beerdigung ihrer Oma deren Abschiedsgruß war.- Julia (Audio): Spricht über nächtliche Kontakte.- Steffi (Audio): Erzählt von unheimlichen Erlebnissen in einem Mehrfamilienhaus.- Anonym (Vorahnungen): Berichtet mehrere Erlebnisse, bei denen sie Visionen und Vorahnungen hatte, die sich später bewahrheiteten.- Gabi: Erlebte die verstorbene Oma an ihrem Bett und wie ihre eigene Mutter nach ihrem Tod ihrer Tochter half.- Jenny: Hat mit ihrer Tochter Laila zwei sehr unheimliche Kindheits-Erlebnisse auf einem Friedhof und zu Hause.

Enkelkinder können eine Freude sein! Doch wenn sich Oma und Opa in die Erziehung einmischen oder Absprachen ignorieren, drohen Konflikte in der Familie. Großeltern zu werden, bedeutet nämlich auch, die eigenen Überzeugungen zu hinterfragen - ohne sich um des Friedens willen total anzupassen. Ein Balanceakt! Autorin: Justina Schreiber (BR 2025)

Exploring bird flu prevention with farm owner Shannon Hayes. Discover boot washing, flock protection with coyotes, and best practices in biosecurity. Summary

Es sind Ferien, Oma ist auf Festivals unterwegs und Familie Teenie-Stuss wieder auf dem Weg nach Italien. Von René Steinberg.

Ben freut sich über das neue Handy, das er geschenkt bekommen hat. Nun kann er ganz allein telefonieren und Fotos machen. Als erstes ruft er seine Oma an. Doch nicht sie meldet sich, sondern ein Kobold! Und der hat nichts anderes im Sinn, als Ben zu ärgern. Die Freude am neuen Handy ist verdorben. Ben überlegt, wie er diesen verflixten Kobold wieder loswird. Alle 2 Folgen der OHRENBÄR-Hörgeschichte: Koboldspuk im Handy von Manfred Lafrentz. Es liest: Harald Schröpfer. ▶ Mehr Hörgeschichten empfohlen ab 6: https://www.ohrenbaer.de/podcast/empfohlen-ab-6.html ▶ Mehr Infos unter https://www.ohrenbaer.de & ohrenbaer@rbb-online.de

Ben freut sich: Er hat ein Handy bekommen. Nun kann er allein telefonieren und Fotos machen. Als erstes ruft er seine Oma an. Doch nicht sie meldet sich, sondern ein Kobold! Aus der OHRENBÄR-Hörgeschichte: Koboldspuk im Handy (Folge 1 von 2) von Manfred Lafrentz. Es liest: Harald Schröpfer. ▶ Mehr Hörgeschichten empfohlen ab 6: https://www.ohrenbaer.de/podcast/empfohlen-ab-6.html ▶ Mehr Infos unter https://www.ohrenbaer.de & ohrenbaer@rbb-online.de

Geen zorgen: dit wordt géén stoffige kunstles. Deze aflevering zit bomvol herkenbare momenten, scherpe inzichten én een flinke dosis humor. Want eerlijk… wat als je eigenlijk niks snapt van kunst? Moet je dan doen alsof, of kan het ook anders? Is kunst alleen voor mensen met een filosofiestudie? En zo nee, hoe geniet je er dan nog meer van? We hebben het over Roos die een pijnlijke les leerde over domme vragen stellen. Over de pijnlijke waarheid achter vrouwelijke kunstenaars die je zelden in het museum ziet. Over mannen in glittertops en janken in musea. En Eva? Die doet een verrassende bekentenis die een statement uit een eerdere aflevering volledig onderuit haalt. Je begrijpt: in aflevering 74 van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over kunst. Hoe werd Eva een Swiftie? Column Eva over Taylor Swift:https://www.flair.nl/columns/column-eva-taylor-swift-ontgroening~b85a58b6/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2FColumn Nico over Taylor Swift:https://www.libelle.nl/columnisten/nico-dijkshoorn-taylor-swift~b47e0455/Nummer: The man - Taylor Swifthttps://open.spotify.com/track/3RauEVgRgj1IuWdJ9fDs70?si=_nr5fvuBSI-GysiJ0hWUrANummer: Out of the woods - Taylor Swifthttps://open.spotify.com/track/045ZeOHPIzhxxsm8bq5kyE?si=FieQpETdSzaiSDRfrqUJPANummer: The last great American dynasty - Taylor Swifthttps://open.spotify.com/track/2Eeur20xVqfUoM3Q7EFPFt?si=9NWV_kYrQ-uMLSgPaukbhgDocumentaire op Netflix: Miss AmericanaConcert op Disney+: The Eras TourSupport the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hoe doen sommige mensen dat toch: een knopje in hun hoofd vinden waarmee ze stress gewoon uit kunnen zetten? Bestaat dat echt? En is het waar dat vooral mannen dat kunnen, of hebben vrouwen ook zo'n knopje? Waar blinkt het vrouwenbrein eigenlijk in uit, en hoe kunnen we daar nóg slimmer gebruik van maken? In deze aflevering praat Roos over haar man, die het voor elkaar krijgt om tijdens stressvolle momenten doodleuk een uur op de wc te zitten (iets waar zij stiekem best jaloers op is). Eva vertelt hoe ze soms gek wordt van haar eigen hoofd en zoekt naar manieren om daar beter mee om te gaan. En dan is er Noraly, met zo’n opgeruimd brein dat ze nog nóóit heeft liggen piekeren over een man. Hoe doet ze dat toch? Ook lanceren de vrouwen van Generatie Vrouw een nieuwe rubriek, waarin een luisteraar vraagt hoe ze haar hoofd koel kan houden tijdens het daten, vooral als ze iemand écht leuk vindt. Hoe tempert ze haar verwachtingen? De drie generaties delen hun advies. Dat, en meer, hoor je in aflevering 73 van Generatie Vrouw, waarin Noraly Beyer (78), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28), praten over het vrouwenbrein.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the partner running the New York outpost of Rem Koolhaas's legendary firm OMA, this architect has done that rarest of things: established himself as a cultural figure in his own right. On this Season 13 finale, Dan speaks with Shigematsu about growing up in the heyday of 1980s Japan, how his love of filmmaking inspired his career in architecture, how he nailed his job interview with Koolhaas, his soon-to-be-completed expansion of Manhattan's New Museum, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In der heutigen Folge spreche ich mit der inspirierenden Tamara Wasner - Krankenschwester, Unternehmerin, Visionärin und Co-Gründerin von xunt, einem österreichischen Unternehmen, das bunte, stylische Stütz- und Kompressionsstrümpfe neu gedacht hat.Wir tauchen ein in Tamaras inspirierende Unternehmergeschichte – von der Pflege zur Produktinnovation, von der Garage zur Zauberwerkstatt, von Zweifeln zu 100.000 Websitezugriffen nach 2 Minuten 2 Millionen. Was 2018 mit einer Idee aus der Pflege begann, ist heute ein Herzensbusiness mit internationalem Wachstum, einem großartigen Team und einem klaren Ziel: Kompression soll gesund, mutig & schön sein.Wir sprechen über:▶️ Wie aus einer Alltagserfahrung ein Unternehmen wurde▶️ Warum Scheitern dazugehört und Kritik oft mehr über andere aussagt▶️ Wie man Leadership ganz bodenständig & echt lebt – auch als Paar▶️ Welche Kraft in einer klaren Vision, hochwertigen Produkten & echter Kundenliebe steckt▶️ Wie KI, Struktur und bunte Leidenschaft zusammenwirkenTamara teilt ehrlich, warmherzig und voller Energie, was es bedeutet, dran zu bleiben, wenn andere zweifeln und wie man ein Business baut, das vom Herzen und für Menschen ist, denn: „Der Strumpf arbeitet für dich.“Viel Freude beim Hören!Mehr über xunt & Tamara

„Stell das doch auf diese Seite, dann kann Oma das auch mal sehen!“ Mit dieser harmlosen Idee beginnt die Weltkarriere eines sehr jungen Mannes. Und fällt zusammen mit der Erfindung einer heute nicht wegzudenkenden Plattform: Youtube. Denn so beginnt tatsächlich alles, Justin Bieber ist ein sehr frühes Youtube-Phänomen. Die Plattenfirmen, die Medien, niemand kann sich am Anfang vorstellen, was daraus entstehen kann…"Mensch! Promi Skandale und ihre Geschichten" ist eine Produktion der Wake Word Studios. Executive Producer: Ruben Schulze-Fröhlich, Christoph FalkeRedaktion: Heiko Behr, Mira DöngesHost: Mira Dönges, Heiko BehrSounddesign: Felix StäbleinProduktionsleitung: Josephine Aleyt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, John is joined by Jonny Van Ommering, Part-Owner and Operator of Oma's Family Farm. Together they discuss the history of Oma's family farm, the impact of the farm and family on the community, and the events they have coming up!To learn more about Oma's Family Farm,Oma's Family Farm WebsiteOma's Family Farm FacebookOma's Family Farm InstagramTo contact John Olsen,619-855-1151John@TheSanteeGuy.comJohnOlsen.comJohn Olsen RE Facebook Santee Update Facebook 

Sorgen Geschwister nun eher für Futterneid oder sind sie die beste Schule, um Teilen zu lernen? Das mag von Familie zu Familie unterschiedlich sein, wie es bei meinem heutigen Gast war, erfahrt Ihr schon ziemlich am Anfang des Gespräches. Die Schauspielerin Bettina Zimmermann, die 1975 im niedersächsischen Großburgwedel zur Welt kam, wuchs mit 2 älteren Schwestern auf. 4x pro Woche war Leistungssport angesagt, Kunstturnen, Wettkämpfe. Als Model verdient sich Bettina das Geld für den Schauspielunterricht, feiert mit den Blockbusters „Mondscheintarif“ und „Erkan und Stefan“ ihren Durchbruch und ist seitdem in unterschiedlichsten Projekten zu sehen, gerne auch in Mini-Serien an der Seite ihres Mannes Kai Wiesinger, mit dem sie seit 2014 zusammen ist. Insgesamt 4 Kinder gehören zur Familie. Als Bettina selbst noch Kind war, liebte sie Graubrot mit Leberwurst oder einfach mit Butter und Ketchup. In „Toast Hawaii“ sprechen wir über Kaffee in der Morgensonne und die Paradiescreme vorm Fernseher bei Oma, darüber, daß es sich bei ihrem Mann nun zufällig auch um den perfekten Pizzabäcker handelt, wir reden über eigene Bienenvölker, Minze im Garten, böse Mäuse und die Freude am Brotbacken. Geht los. *** WERBUNG Toast Hawaii wird unterstützt von dmBio, die Bio-Lebensmittelmarke von dm-drogerie markt. Ganz nach dem Motto „Natürlich lecker erleben“ bietet dmBio mit mehr als 550 Produkten eine vielfältige Auswahl – von leckeren Snacks für zwischendurch bis hin zu original italienischen Tomatensaucen. Haben auch Sie eine dmBio-Geschichte, die im Podcast erzählt werden soll? Dann schreiben Sie uns gerne unter rustberlin@icloud.com ÖKO-Kontrollstelle: DE-ÖKO-007

Hoe anders voelt een verliefdheid op je 80e dan op je 20e? Hebben Noraly, Roos en Eva ooit een turbulente of totaal onverwachte verliefdheid meegemaakt? En hoe overleef je die eerste, koortsachtige weken met een nieuwe crush? Een gesprek over bindingsangst en de allereerste ‘ik hou van jou’. Over verliefd zijn op vriendinnen, geheime aanbidders, en de verwarring die daarbij komt kijken. Over Eva, die net verliefd is en ontdekt hoe het voelt om een rustige, ‘kalme’ liefde te ervaren, en over Noraly, die verliefdheid vooral als een soort ziekte ziet. In de 72e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (78), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over verliefdheid.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Was als Sorgerechtsstreit begann, gipfelt in der Silvesternacht 2024 in Gewalt: Steakhaus-Erbin Christina Block steht ab Freitag vor Gericht, weil sie die Entführung zwei ihrer vier Kinder veranlasst haben soll. Die Kinder waren zu dem Zeitpunkt in Obhut ihres Ex-Mannes Stefan Hensel. Am Freitag, den 11. Juli, fängt der Prozess an. Mitangeklagt ist auch Christinas Lebensgefährte, der Sportjournalist Gerhard Delling. Auch Tochter Klara (14), die damals mit entführt wurde, tritt als Nebenklägerin auf und will gegen ihre Mutter aussagen. Alle neuen Entwicklungen des Falles und auch noch mal ein Rückblick auf die vorangegangenen Geschehnisse bespricht Lilly Burger mit BUNTE-Redakteur Stefan Blatt in einer neuen Folge BUNTE Menschen. Außerdem: Schauspielerin Jasna Fritzi Bauer überrascht ihre Lebensgefährtin mit der Verkündung ihrer Trennung, Sängerin Katy Perry und Orlando Bloom verbringen trotz Trennung einen gemeinsamen Familienurlaub mit Tochter Daisy und Prinzessin Kate spricht offen wie nie über ihre Einsamkeit nach der Chemotherapie. Im Horoskop fragen wir die Sterne, wie sie für Schauspielerin Katja Riemann stehen, die bald Oma wird.

Marina sitzt wegen versuchten Mordes für über zehn Jahre im Gefängnis. Ihr Ex-Partner hat den Anschlag nur knapp überlebt. Die beiden haben eine sehr lange und, auf beiden Seiten, gewaltvolle Beziehung hinter sich. Marinas Kinder und Enkelkinder sind schockiert von ihrer Tat und Verhaftung, trotzdem können sie sich ein Leben ohne ihre Mutter und Oma nicht vorstellen. Die sitzt ihre Strafe ab und muss sich an den Gefängnisalltag gewöhnen. Das fällt ihr schwer, denn die Isolation und strengen Regeln nagen an Marina. Aber hat sie es anders verdient? Schließlich hat sie versucht einen anderen Menschen zu töten. Wie zeitgemäß sind Haftstrafen noch? Und muss Marina wirklich über zehn Jahre im geschlossenen Frauenvollzug verbringen? Diese Folge ist eine Wiederholung aus dem Oktober 2023. Autorinnen: Uta Eisenhardt und Martina Reuter Regie: Dennis Kogel Produktion: Bodo Pasternak, Katrin Witt & Nina Kluge Sprecher: Daniel Hirsch Redaktion: Kim Neubauer Und hier noch ein Podcast-Tipp: “Based on a true Story – Die Könige von Malle” https://1.ard.de/based-on-a-true-story-audiothek

Das Sandmännchen hat dir viele Geschichten mitgebracht. Freu dich auf “Meine Schmusedecke” mit “Der Hund”, Jan und Henry mit “Die Oma in der Ritterrüstung, Kalli mit "Kalli-Wolke", Piratengeschichten mit "Ganz doll krank", “Die Moffels” mit “Luzi und der Mondzauber”, freu dich auch auf Herrn Fuchs und Frau Elster mit “Die Vogelscheuche August”, das Märchen "Hase und Igel” und auf viele Kinderlieder (“Hundemüde” von Markus Reyhani, “Der Mond” mit der Hexe Knickebein, “In der Wolkenfabrik” von Toni Geiling, “Eine Giraffe mit Halsweh” von Christiane Weber, “Oma” von Radau, “Elvira Firlefanz” von Sebastian Krumbiegel und “Hase und Igel” mit Hannes Wader)!

Welke generatie was het meest rebels? Wie komen het meest op voor vrouwenrechten? En op welke manieren kun je microfeminisme toepassen? Een gesprek over Noraly die vertelt hoeveel pijn het haar doet dat je uitspreken niet altijd helpt. Over Roos die aangeeft dat ze het vroeger met haar vriendinnen nooit over wereldzaken had. En Eva is moe van het feit dat we tot op heden nog steeds niet zijn waar we zouden moeten zijn als het gaat om emancipatie. In de 71e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (78), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over rebellie.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Die Erdmännchen Jan und Henry können nicht einschlafen, denn sie hören ein seltsames Geräusch. Es klingt wie eine Oma, aber in Ritterrüstung. Das Sandmännchen hat dir aber nicht nur diese Geschichte mitgebracht, sondern auch noch das Kinderlied "Oma" von Radau.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Waarom zijn er anno 2025 nog steeds zo weinig openbare toiletten voor vrouwen? En waarom vinden we het zo vervelend als mensen ons horen plassen? En gaan we altijd net te laat naar het toilet, waardoor we met buikpijn rondlopen? Het is toch een doodnormale, menselijke behoefte!Een gesprek over Noraly, die ooit een plastuit heeft uitgetest (in de auto!), over Roos, die kennis heeft gemaakt met een Japans toilet met allerlei toeters en bellen, en over Eva, die heeft wildgeplast op een gletsjer onder de sterrenhemel. In de 70e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (78), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over wildplassen.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Dennis ist eigentlich ein ganz normaler Berufsschüler aus Hürth. Er spielt gerne Playstation und lässt sich von Oma mit Currywurst verwöhnen. Alles also kein Problem, wenn Dennis nicht unsere geheime Studionummer rausgekriegt hätte. Von 1LIVE.

Anon tells us about the time they almost bought a haunted house. Laurie Dawn's aunt is Betsy's voice doppelgänger. Stephanie is librarian at the haunted North Providence Union Free Library in Rhode Island. R got a not-so-spooky sign from their Oma. Adrian tells about a possible Mothman sighting and personally seeing an alien.Please send us your own true paranormal experiences in either a voice memo or e-mail to funnyfeelingpod@gmail.com. Advertise on A Funny Feeling via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Özge und Minusch teilen ihre Erfahrungen als Töchter mit Migrationshintergrund und vertreten zwei Perspektiven: die der jüngeren und die der älteren Schwester. Welche Rollenkonflikte haben sich als jüngere Schwester oder ältere Schwester ergeben und inwiefern kollidieren unsere erlernten Rollen mit dem Feminismus, den wir vertreten? Wie gehen wir heute als Erwachsene mit Schuld und Verantwortungsgefühlen den Eltern gegenüber um?Dass die beiden mit ihren Gedanken und Gefühlen nicht alleine sind, weiß auch Meltem Yurt vom SWR-Format Migratöchter. Sie berichtet von den Rückmeldungen ihrer Community zu Schuldgefühlen gegenüber den Eltern und gibt Tipps, wie es gelingt, Grenzen zu setzen.Wir haben ein Buch geschrieben!Am 9. September erscheint „Resist! Weich bleiben in harten Zeiten“ beim Leykam-Verlag. Das Buch könnt ihr jetzt schon vorbestellen. Außerdem wollen wir am 12. September mit euch die Buchpremiere im Pfefferberg Theater in Berlin feiern. Wenn ihr dabei sein wollt, könnt ihr hier Tickets bestellen.Danke an alle, die den Lila-Podcast bereits unterstützt haben und uns damit über Wasser halten.Dennoch reichen die Crowdfunding-Einnahmen noch nicht aus, um alle 14 Tage eine Folge und einen Newsletter zu finanzieren. Wir freuen uns, wenn du uns mit einem kleinen (über einen großen freuen wir uns natürlich auch) Beitrag unterstützen möchtest.Links und HintergründeMeltem Yurt auf InstagramTikTok über den Druck auf älteste Töchter von @ilaaffourahSWR Kultur: Buch "Mama, bitte lern Deutsch" von TikToker Tahsim DurgunLila-Podcast: Weiblich, migrantisch, feministisch: Mama, Oma und ich über das Leben als türkische FrauDLF Nova: Parentifizierung: Was es mit uns macht, wenn wir nicht Kindsein durften SZ: Was sind wir unseren Eltern schuldig? Tagesschau: Tickt die älteste Tochter anders?Studie: Examining the effects of birth order on personality Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gefühlte Fakten - Folge 293: Reiernde Geier! Christian "Eros" Huber und Tarkan "ich habe Schulden, weil ich in Schamhaarfirseurläden investiert habe" Bagci geben sich wieder die Ehre. Wir reden über die Kentucky Fleisch Dusche von 1876 (und ganz egal, was du dir jetzt grad darunter vorstellst, es war verrückter), eklige Dinge, die man zwischen den Fingern haben kann (und ganz egal, an was du jetzt gerade denkst, Tarkan hatte was ekligeres). Außerdem hat Tarkan eine Oma auf dem Gewissen. Vielleicht. Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/gefuehlte_fakten Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

 If you love historical fiction and want books set in places other than North America or England, Lynn U. Watson has a series for you. Listen in to see what you'll find in Frayed Promises. note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you.  Set in the late 19th century, Frayed Promises is full of family drama and life lessons we could all use a reminder on.   Frayed Promises by Lynn U. Watson Sequel to The BookFest® Award Winner, Tangled Promises Wurttemberg, Germany, 1881 “I'll keep your secret. But, Clara.” Oma looked her granddaughter in the eye. “Choices carry consequences.” Clara and Daniel--the Baron's daughter and the family carriage driver, followed their hearts and married secretly, circumventing nobility's rules. They conduct their lives separately while sneaking every opportunity to be together. When Clara is forced to reveal her marriage, can she also hide the life growing inside her, and what punishment awaits from her father? If Vati sends her away, Daniel promises to follow. But unexpected family troubles bring them face-to-face with the words of Proverbs 16:9. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. Her grandmother's last warning spins like a tempest threatening to shipwreck their joy and fray every promise they have made. Will they trust that God gives impossibilities beautiful endings? If you enjoy stories of faith in the face of society's pressures and trusting God in times of struggle, you'll love this closed-door romance that will keep you guessing until the end. For readers of Tracie Peterson and Ann H. Gabhart. NOTE: Inconvenient pregnancy, sanctity of life, and past abortion are a part of this story—handled with gentleness and grace. Learn more about Lynn on her WEBSITE and follow her on GoodReads and BookBub. Also, don't miss the episode about Tangled Promises HERE. Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple Castbox Google Play Libsyn RSS Spotify Amazon and more!

In this enlightening conversation, Meg Rittmanic hosts Douglas and Fiona Phillips, a couple celebrating 50 years of marriage. They discuss the profound partnership in their relationship, the spiritual depth of Fiona's art. The couple shares personal challenges, including a health crisis in their family, and how they navigated these together. Fiona's passion for mental health awareness is highlighted through her art, and they explore the symbolism in her painting 'Firstborn,' depicting Heavenly Mother and Father. Doug shares a poetic reflection on divine design, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the roles of both Heavenly Parents in our lives. In this conversation, Meg, Doug, and Fiona explore the themes of love, compassion, and the divine feminine, particularly focusing on the role of Heavenly Mother in their lives and relationships. They discuss the foundational principles that have allowed their marriage to flourish over 50 years, acknowledging the diverse experiences of others in relationships. The conversation emphasizes the importance of agency, personal growth, and the evolution of understanding within the Church regarding Heavenly Mother, while also recognizing the need for voices to speak out about these experiences.Fiona Phillips is a retired art professor, proud mom of five, and grandma to 13 wonderful grandkids. She is blessed to be married to Douglas, the love of her life! Originally from England, she moved to California with her family when she was just a pre-teen. Her art studio focuses on themes of water, women, nostalgia, and spirituality. One of her standout projects focused on raising awareness of the stigma surrounding mental illness was shown at DSU, Art Access Gallery and the OMA. She created 50 large portraits of adults, teens, and children, many of whom were personally affected by mental health challenges. Fiona's paintings explore themes of faith, our relationship to our Heavenly Parents, and our equality as children of God. Her work has been featured in three International Art Exhibitions by The Church. her paintings and poetry have been published in The Ensign, Liahona, and Exponent II magazines. Most recently Fiona has shown with the Oceanside Museum of Art, the Restore Conference, the Compass Gallery and galleries in California.She's earned numerous “Best of Show” awards and has had solo exhibits in Utah, California, Nevada, and Arizona. She has also earned two master's degrees—an MA in Humanities/Art and an MFA in Visual Art.Dr. Douglas Phillips is a multifaceted individual whose journey blends faith, music, medicine, and a deep connection to his roots. Born and raised in Southern California,Douglas joined the Church of Jesus Christ when he was 18 then embarked on a mission to Spain, an experience that deeply influenced his personal and professional life. Shortly after his return he was married to Fiona, his high school sweetheart.Before pursuing medicine, Dr. Phillips was immersed in the music scene, playing piano and writing songs for a pop music group. This creative outlet honed his discipline and collaborative skills, which would later serve him well in his medical career.He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , followed by radiology specialty training at the University of California, San Francisco.Now retired, Dr. Phillips enjoys life in Southern California, where he continues to explore his passions and contribute to his community. His unique blend of experiences offers a rich perspective on the intersections of faith, creativity, and medicine.Douglas and Fiona have served 2 senior missions together, a member/leader service mission in a Spanish Ward in West Valley UT and as the Area Mission Medical Advisor and Assistant serving the 9 mission units in Southern California.https://fionabphillips.com/https://fionabphillips.com/faith/https://www.patreon.com/c/InHerImagePodcast

We are super excited to bring you this very special episode with Brandon's Oma! Watch this episode ad-free and uncensored on Pepperbox! https://www.pepperbox.tv/ WATCH THE AFTERSHOW & BTS ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/UnsubscribePodcast ------------------------------ THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! GHOSTBED Right now, prices are already lower—but you'll get an extra 10% off when you use code UNSUBSCRIBE at checkout. Go to https:// GhostBed.com/unsubscribe to get started! HOF Get a 7-Day Free Trial + 50% Off your first month with code UNSUB. Just download the HOF app on iOS or Android, enter code UNSUB, and you're all set! SURKSHARK Go to https://surfshark.com/unsubscribe and use code unsubscribe at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! TUSHY Over 2 Million Butts Love TUSHY. Get 10% off TUSHY with the code UNSUBSCRIBE at https://hellotushy.com/UNSUBSCRIBE ------------------------------ UNSUB MERCH: https://www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/unsubscribe-podcast ------------------------------ FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Eli_Doubletap https://www.instagram.com/eli_doubletap/ https://www.twitch.tv/Eli_Doubletap https://x.com/Eli_Doubletap https://www.youtube.com/c/EliDoubletap Brandon Herrera https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonHerrera https://x.com/TheAKGuy https://www.instagram.com/realbrandonherrera Donut Operator https://www.youtube.com/@DonutOperator https://x.com/DonutOperator https://www.instagram.com/donutoperator The Fat Electrician https://www.youtube.com/@the_fat_electrician https://thefatelectrician.com/ https://www.instagram.com/the_fat_electrician https://www.tiktok.com/@the_fat_electrician ------------------------------ unsubscribe pod podcast episode ep unsub funny comedy military army comedian texas podcasts #podcast #comedy #funnypodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices