Podcasts about OMA

In der heutigen Podcastfolge sprechen Virginia und Dorothea über das schwierige Gefühl – und das oft mitschwingende schlechte Gewissen –, die eigenen Kinder in fremde Betreuung zu geben. Sie teilen, warum es ihnen manchmal schwerfällt, loszulassen – und wie dabei auch Erinnerungen aus der eigenen Kindheit eine Rolle spielen. Früher war es oft selbstverständlich, dass Kinder bei den Großeltern betreut wurden, wo vieles vertraut war – und das Essen von Oma bleibt für viele bis heute unvergessen. Eine persönliche Folge über alte Prägungen, neue Realitäten und den Versuch, den eigenen Weg zwischen Familie, Alltag und Bauchgefühl zu finden. Folgt uns auf unseren Socialmedia Kanälen: https://linktr.ee/virginiaernst?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

Ein einziger Satz kann ein Leben verändern. Vielleicht erinnerst du dich an deinen ersten: „Du hast aber zugenommen.“ „Das Kleid steht dir nicht.“ „Mit dieser Nase…“ Für viele von uns Frauen beginnt es früh – oft schon als Kinder. Studien zeigen: Über 70% aller Mädchen hören ihren ersten negativen Kommentar über ihren Körper vor dem 12. Lebensjahr. Und was dann passiert? Diese Sätze werden zu unsichtbaren Narben. Sie begleiten uns über Jahrzehnte – beim Anziehen, beim Tanzen, in Beziehungen, im Job. In dieser UNTAMED-Episode erzähle ich meine eigene Geschichte:

Reelika on kahe lapse ema ja sotsiaaltöö taustaga naine, kelle isiklik teekond läbi ärevuse ja sügava depressiooni viis ta enesetervendamise ja energiatöö maailma. Pärast aastaid kestnud sisemist kriisi, milles ta ei suutnud isegi kodu tänavast kaugemale minna, leidis ta oma tee tagasi elujõu ja tasakaalu juurde tänu teraapiale ja energiatööle. Tänaseks on ta ise terapeut ja õpetaja, kes toetab inimesi ärevuse, pingete ja sisemise tasakaalutuse ületamisel, kasutades selleks enda loodud meetodeid, mis põhinevad nii isiklikul kogemusel kui praktilisel teadmistepagasil. Tema töö keskendub ärevusest ja madalseisust vabastamisele, sisemise rahu ja eneseusaldamise taastamisele, igapäevase mõttetöö ja energiatasandil muutuste loomisele, sügava kohalolu ja iseendaga kontakti arendamisele. Reelika lähenemine on lihtne, inimlik ja samm-sammult üles ehitatud – ta ei ravi, vaid õpetab inimesel iseend tervendama. Ta usub, et tõeline muutus algab teadlikkusest, julgest märgata ja lubamisest. Lisaks individuaalsetele seanssidele pakub ta ka veebikursusi, pikemaid programme, soodustusega pakette ning toetust ka video teel. Rohkem infot: www.reelikaraska.ee Soodustused sulle kuulaja ja vaataja mõlema Reelika teenusele -10%. Läbi tema kodulehe teenust broneerides saab lisainfo kasti kirjutada sooduskoodi, milleks on "CHRISKALA". --- SAATE TOETAJAD MILLION MINDSET KIRJASTUS - kasuta sooduskoodi "chriskala" ja saad kõikidelt raamatutelt -10% soodustust. www.million.ee RUTH TERRAS BRÄND - kirjuta ostukorvis märkuste lahtrisse sõna "chriskala" ja saad üllatuskingituse ostu korral. www.ruthterras.eu KONTAMO BRÄND - kasuta sooduskoodi "PODCAST" ja saad kõikidelt toodetelt, ka juba soodustuses olevatelt komplektidelt -8% soodustust. www.kontamo.ee MAMACACAO BRÄNd - kasuta sooduskoodi "KAKAOKUU5" ja saad kõikidelt toodetelt nende e-poest -5% soodustust. www.mamacacao.eu --- HEAD MÕTTED "Ma aitan inimesi, kes on ärevuse küüsis, depressiooniga ja eluliste madalseisude küüsis jne." "Inimesed on erinevad ja probleemid tekivad kui hakkame ennast võrldema teistega." "Kui me oleme mõttega kuskil kinni, siis me tõmbame end sinna sügavamale sisse." "Kui kõik tundub hapu ja halvasti, siis vaata seda positiivset, mis on sinu ümber." "Kui sa ei leia endas tahtejõudu muutusteks, siis need muutused ei tule ka." "Keha reageerib teatud emotsioonidele." "Paanikahood tulevad lainetena ärevushoogude vahel." "Kui inimestel on energeetilisi blokeeringuid, siis ei saagi asjad joosta." "Kui me endas kõhkleme, tekib usalduse küsimuse teema iseenda vastu." "Kui sa oled otsuse juba vastu võtnud, siis hakkab lahendus lahti rulluma." "Oma probleemidele lahenduste leidmiseks soovitan ikkagi leida inimese, kes on sarnaseid asju kogenud ning teab, millest ta räägib." "Kõik meie ümber on energia ja kõik, mida me enda ellu loome koosneb energiast." "Soovitan maandada ennast kaks korda päevas." "Pead olema iseenda jaoks olema äge ja eriline." MÄRKMED Sooduskood "chriskala" toob -10% soodustust Reelika teenustele. https://www.kursused.reelikaraska.ee https://www.reelikaraska.ee ---

The Henry and Lisa Manoucheri Parsha Shiur Parshas Ki Savo - Elul    The Charlie Kirk Assassination - What's Next?  & To Uphold is to ALSO  (but NOT Primarily)  CONDEMN   

See on suur sünnipäev ehk meie 300. osa. Sellepuhul ka natuke teistsugune episood. Saade on salvestatud 30 august 2025 toimunud üritusel Hip Hop Pargis. Oma teekonnast ja loomest jagavad mõtted äsh ja Ruudi Spitson. äsh: https://www.instagram.com/assipupp/ Ruudi Spitson: https://www.instagram.com/ruudispitson/ ———————————————— Taskurööking: https://www.instagram.com/da_taskurooking/ https://www.facebook.com/Sabkajamaci/ https://soundcloud.com/taskurooking https://open.spotify.com/show/1foUI6wSff9r4iAAtK2xqG?si=0ffa91ba9d93461c/ https://discord.com/invite/9u74rr9SWE/ Kui soovid meie tegevust toetada siis: https://www.patreon.com/c/taskurooking/ Kirjuta meile: taskurooking@gmail.com

Wir feiern GEBURTSTAG! Die 300. Folge Jack&Sam - 6 Jahre edel, wahrhaftig und ehrenlos (und jetzt auch pädagogisch wertlos) müssen gefeiert werden. Deshalb gibt es heute eine sehr bunte Mischung: Zeltfestpartys, Pilzinfektionen und Teppichboden wie bei Oma. Jacko war auf der Kirmes, hat an der Tanke vorgetrunken, betrunken einen Schlüsselanhänger machen lassen und festgestellt: Manche Wochenenden fühlen sich mit 30 plötzlich wieder an wie mit 17. Währenddessen kämpft Sam mit Stillproblemen und einem Pilz an der Brust – das Fungi-Game hat offiziell ein neues Level erreicht. Jacko berichtet außerdem vom England-Urlaub und es steht zur Diskussion, ob fleckiger Teppichboden und eine DVD-Auswahl vielleicht doch cooler ist als eine perfekte Skandi-Wohnung. Hier findet ihr alle Deals unserer Werbepartner: https://linktr.ee/jackundsampodcast

Gestern Abend Schützenhaus Bad Dürkheim, heute Deidesheimer Hof in Deidesheim. Was für zwei Welten! Unterschiedlicher können sie kaum sein. Gestern eingeladen im Schützenhaus – very, very special! Heute wieder eingeladen im Deidesheimer Hof – voll, lebendig, wunderschön. Ich liebe diese Kontraste. Der Unterschied: Service, Essen, Atmosphäre – und natürlich Preis. Und jetzt die entscheidende Frage: Welche Kunden ziehst du an? Welche willst du haben? Was für ein Umfeld passt wirklich zu dir? Gleiches gilt für deinen Job, dein Team, deinen Coach: Willst du hochpreisig, mittendrin oder Low-Budget? Du entscheidest, in welcher Welt du lebst. Wie sagte meine Oma so schön: „So wie du dich bettest, so liegst du.“ Und ja – sie hatte recht. Was willst du wirklich? Und was nie mehr? Sonntag Nacht bekommst du wieder 168 Stunden geschenkt – for free. Was machst du damit? Ich habe meine Woche klar durchgeplant: Bürotime Massage TCM, Osteopathie, Infusionen Venedig – fünftes Expertenbuch schreiben Dann: Weissenhaus Mastermind mit Prof. Dr. Oliver Pott Hochzeit am Tegernsee – 200 Gäste, Lamborghini-Fans inklusive Danach: St. Moritz – Mindset Bootcamp Mindset ist alles! Dein Denken entscheidet über dein Leben. Du denkst täglich tausende Gedanken – aber in welcher Qualität? Jammernd oder kraftvoll? Dann startet das nächste Highlight: Born to be free – wir sind alle geboren, um frei zu sein! Tu alles dafür. Triff eine Entscheidung. Zieh es durch. Anschließend: Speaker Training – wie sprichst du klar und überzeugend, ohne ähm, ähm? Raus mit dem Ähm! Das ruiniert deine Wirkung – und du kannst lernen, es zu vermeiden. Und ja, bald ist schon Oktober – die Speaker Cruise steht an. Was willst du noch dieses Jahr bewegen? Ich habe entschieden: Ich komme zurück in die Beauty-Wellness-Welt. Nach fast 15 Jahren Pause starte ich wieder voll durch – mit 38 Jahren Erfahrung. Damals lernte ich Milena Kostic kennen – das ist 26 Jahre her! Jetzt geht's gemeinsam weiter. Und nächste Woche: Venedig – Expertenbuch #5. Du kannst dabei sein. Zwei Plätze sind noch frei. In 2,5 Tagen schreiben wir dein Buch. Kein Witz. Viele sagen, das geht nicht – bis jemand kommt und es beweist. Du bekommst Motivation, Anleitung, Umsetzung. Mit dabei: Ulrike Hoch – Ex-Bankdirektorin, heute Künstlerin Dr. Yvonne Mackert – Expertin für Patientenverfügung Dr. Eva Zwicker – Gefäßchirurgin Milena Kostic – Therapeutin seit 40+ Jahren Alle Teil meines Expertenrats – und du kannst dazugehören. Willst du ins Fernsehen? Auf die Bühne? Ein Buch schreiben? Dann nutze die Chance. Schreib mir eine PM oder kommentiere.

Von der Schuhverkäuferin zur Unternehmerin mit Herz – die inspirierende Keynote von Annika Dransfeld!   In dieser bewegenden Rede nimmt uns Annika mit auf ihre Reise: von einem Job, der ihre Seele kleiner machte als eine Schuhschachtel, hin zu ihrem eigenen Traum der Freiheit

Liah ist mit ihrer Mutter aus einem fernen Land gekommen. Sie fühlt sich oft einsam, denn sie versteht die fremde Sprache nicht. Ihre Rettung ist der Wolkenknopf. Wenn sie durch ihn durchschaut, dann kann sie ihr altes Zuhause sehen, Oma und Opa und auch ihre beiden Katzen Ari und Bo. Als sie eines Tages Kitty auf dem Spielplatz trifft, verändert sich ihr neues Leben völlig. Von Maria (Bearbeitung) Schüller.

Triggerwarnung: In dieser Folge wird über sexualisierte Gewalt, digitale Übergriffe sowie andere Formen schwerer Straftaten gesprochen. Die Inhalte können belastend sein. Wenn du selbst betroffen bist, findest du Unterstützung beim Hilfetelefon „Gewalt gegen Frauen“ (116 016, rund um die Uhr, anonym und kostenfrei) sowie beim Weißen Ring (116 006, Opfer-Telefon, täglich von 7 bis 22 Uhr). Wer sagt denn, dass nicht Oma dich betrügt beim Enkeltrick? Und das mit der Ruhe, wenn man zahlt? – Mit dieser subversiven Moderation überspielt Jan mal wieder, dass er keinen Dunst hat, wie der Enkeltrick funktioniert. Gut, dass Britta und Maraike wieder Anja und Rüdiger in die KANZLEI AM MIKROFON eingeladen haben. Die beiden haben im Polizeidienst so ziemlich alles erlebt. Und so geht es in einer kriminellen halben Stunde vom Schockanruf über Ransomware-Angriff und Sextortion bis zur Kindesentführung. Was ihr hier hört, bringt euch weiter, stellt aber keine Rechtsberatung dar. Es kann insbesondere keine individuelle rechtliche Beratung ersetzen, welche die Besonderheiten des Einzelfalles berücksichtigt. Insofern verstehen sich alle Informationen ohne Gewähr auf Richtigkeit und Vollständigkeit.

Bim bim Bim, es ist wieder Zeit für Nachtgeflüster. Wie immer am Donnerstag nehmen wir euch mit in die Erlebnisse unserer Community. Ein riesiges Dankeschön an euch alle für die vielen Einsendungen und euer Vertrauen ... ohne euch gäbe es dieses Format so nicht.Hier die Geschichten dieser Folge:- Marie – Geisterkinder im Betzeloch- Natalie – Nächtliches Türrütteln mit Katze- Paul – Abdruck einer Kinderhand und mysteriöse Stimme- Caro – Unheimliche Stimme im Krankenzimmer- Chrissi – Begegnung mit Lichtwesen oder Schlafparalyse- Anonym – Eibe mit gruseligen Puppenteilen- Karin – Schlafparalyse und Fratze im Zimmer- Julia – Schlafparalyse und letzte Abschiedssignale- Matthias – Vorahnungen von Todesfällen- Anonym – Erlebnis der Mutter- Anonym – Mögliche Besessenheit und Exorzismen- Jenny – Offene Schränke im alten Abtei- Jenny – Katze festgehalten, Gebet hilft- Anonym – Zeichen von Großvater und Mutter- Anonym – Tochter hört Oma antworten

In dieser Folge plaudern Sabrina, Mü, Dennis und Henry über die anstehenden Bundesliga-Spiele – und werfen dabei einen Blick auf Teamdynamiken, Verletzungspech und die Erwartungen, die auf den Schultern der Mannschaften lasten. Außerdem geht's um den Frauenfußball: von wachsendem Interesse über unterschiedliche Sichtweisen bis hin zu den kleinen und großen Herausforderungen, die der Sport noch zu meistern hat. Zum Auflockern haben die Vier wieder ein Quiz im Gepäck – diesmal rund um herrlich schräge Vereinsnamen aus aller Welt, die für jede Menge Lacher sorgen. Und zum Schluss darf auch die deutsche Nationalmannschaft nicht fehlen: eine Analyse der aktuellen Lage unter Julian Nagelsmann, inklusive der Frage, wohin die Reise eigentlich geht.     Henry Spietweh ist Autor und Podcaster aus Berlin, Unioner seit den 90ern, 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!

Sabine Schönthaler List ist auch zertifizierte Lebens-, Sterbe- und Familientrauerbegleiterin. Sie erzählt: Das Begräbnis meiner Oma haben wir selbst gestaltet. Ich habe mit meiner Familie geweint und gelacht – als sich mein Bruder und ich bei ihrer Aufbahrung an unsere Kindheit erinnert haben: - an die Leberkäs-Semmeln, die sie uns jede Woche am Karmelitermarkt gekauft hat, - an unsere Sommerferien in unserem Haus in Vorarlberg und - an unsere gemeinsamen Erlebnisse in unserem Garten in Niederösterreich. -Wir hatten eine schöne Zeit mit und bei ihr. Weniger schön waren die letzten Monate meiner Oma. 2014 hatte sie einen Schlaganfall und verbrachte die letzten drei Monate ihres Lebens in einem Hospiz in Niederösterreich. Als sie im Februar 2015 dort verstarb, waren mein Bruder und ich in den letzten Stunden bei ihr.

Selten kommen wir im Alltag mit Edelmetallen wie Gold oder Silber in Kontakt, es sei denn wir benutzen einmal wieder Oma's vererbtes Silberbesteck. Trotzdem wissen wir, dass diese Edelmetalle irgendwie einen hohen Wert haben und immer mehr Menschen investieren ihr Geld in sie. Welchen Wert haben sie? Warum übersteigt der Gold-Wert den von Silber um das 100-fache und was bitte ist der "COMEX" Markt?

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.

The Henry and Lisa Manoucheri Parsha Shiur Parshas Ki Seitzei - Elul  (2025-תשפ״ה)  Apathy is NOT an Option  &  How To Evoke Passion 

Seit Mitte der 80er-Jahre verkörpert Ernie Reinhardt die Kultfigur Lilo Wanders, die im TV als humorvolle Aufklärerin über Sexualität bekannt wurde. Als er noch ein Kind war, vermutete bereits seine Oma, dass Ernie wohl "vom anderen Ufer" sei. Wiese, Tim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Im Gespräch

Waarom schamen we ons toch zo snel? Wat betekent het woord ‘cringe’ eigenlijk? En wat is het met dat stemmetje in ons hoofd dat ons zo laat twijfelen aan onszelf? Deze aflevering zit boordevol heerlijke (herkenbare) anekdotes, hilarische momenten en Eva probeert Noraly zelfs over te halen om een keer in de Playboy te staan (!). Een gesprek over Roos, die haar kinderen graag plaatsvervangende schaamte bijbrengt, over Noraly, die haar dochter duidelijk heeft gemaakt dat ze zich nooit, maar dan ook nooit voor haar hoeft te schamen, en over Eva, die vindt dat het woord ‘cringe’ een rebranding verdient naar ‘lief’. Want eigenlijk bedoelen we het allemaal hartstikke goed, toch? In de 80e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over ‘cringe’.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dialekt, Essen, Familie, Region: Was macht Heimat für euch aus? Und was verbindet ihr mit dem Wort Heimat? Ist es das Lieblingsessen bei Oma oder doch die eigene Wahlheimat, in die ihr selbst gezogen seid und wo ihr euch alles selbst aufgebaut habt? Darüber haben Felix und Melissa mit euch gesprochen. Unser Podcast-Tipp: DER ABSTURZ VON MOIS https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/der-absturz-von-mois/urn:ard:show:b0688a9a92fdab11/

Jorge Diego conversa con el arquitecto Viviano Villarreal de Mass Operations sobre la importancia de participar en concursos y certámenes en el mundo del diseño y la arquitectura. Desde su experiencia ganando el Premio Firenze Entremuros hasta proyectos internacionales con OMA, Viviano reflexiona sobre cómo estas plataformas ayudan a definir trayectorias profesionales, abrir oportunidades y medir el propio trabajo frente a pares.La charla aborda temas como el valor simbólico de los premios, las diferencias entre certámenes y concursos, la historia de estas prácticas en la arquitectura, y cómo decidir en cuáles vale la pena invertir tiempo, dinero y energía. Un episodio para quienes buscan entender el ecosistema del reconocimiento profesional, más allá de la estatuilla.Escucha este episodio si estás…• Iniciando un despacho o carrera profesional.• Analizando si te conviene aplicar a concursos o premios.• Buscando visibilidad para tu trabajo como arquitecto o diseñador.• Interesado en estrategias de crecimiento profesional en industrias creativas.• Reflexionando sobre el valor cultural y simbólico del reconocimiento.Viviano Villarreal-Buerón es un arquitecto mexicano con trayectoria internacional. Egresado del Tecnológico de Monterrey y con una maestría en Diseño, Teoría y Pedagogía por SCI-Arc en Los Ángeles, ha trabajado en ciudades como Hong Kong, donde colaboró con el despacho OMA y Rem Koolhaas, al igual que en diversos despachos que le permitieron absorber influencias de Europa, Asia y América. Su práctica, Mass Operations, ha sido galardonada con premios como el Noldi Schreck y Firenze Entremuros. Con publicaciones en medios internacionales y una presencia constante en congresos, Viviano se ha consolidado como una de las voces más relevantes de la arquitectura contemporánea mexicana.Puedes seguir en Instagram a Viviano Villarreal-Buerón@massoperations Show Notes y Links relacionados a este episodioUn consejo: Participar en concursos que sumen valor y aprendizaje, no solo estatuillasRecomendaciones: • Libro: "The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome" de Jake Morrissey → https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Design-Bernini-Borromini-Transformed/dp/0060525347• Revisar: Concursos en ArchDaily → https://www.archdaily.com/search/competitions• Documental: “The Competition” → https://www.thecompetitionmovie.com/• Viviano Villarreal Buerón → https://crgs.udem.edu.mx/arte-arquitectura-y-diseno/academia/profesores/viviano-villarreal-bueron• Mass Operations→ https://www.massoperations.com/• Premio Firenze Entremuros → https://www.premiofirenzeentremuros.com/• OMA (Rem Koolhaas) → https://www.oma.com/partners/rem-koolhaas• Guggenheim Helsinki Competition → https://www.archdaily.com/tag/guggenheim-helsinki• Centro de las artes escénicas de Taipei → https://www.oma.com/projects/taipei-performing-arts-centerEste episodio es patrocinado por (sponsor)(link)No te pierdas nuestros episodios, publicamos todos los Martes.Síguenos en: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/designaholic.mxFacebook https://www.facebook.com/designaholicmx/Twitter https://twitter.com/designaholicmx Suscríbete a nuestro newsletter semanal “Las 5 de la Semana” aquí: https://link.jde.design/prfNuestra página web es: http://designaholic.mxTambién te dejo mi cuenta personal donde además de publicar sobre mi estudio y los proyectos que hacemos, comparto mucho más sobre Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jd_etienneTwitter https://www.twitter.com/jd_etienne Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Parshas Shof'tim - Elul  (2025-תשפ״ה)  What's the Problem with the ‘Chareidim'? Secular Governance, and Decaying Societies  Vs  Torah Governance, and the Messianic Era 

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.

Na een vechtscheiding in 2010 vertrekt de 70-jarige Christina naar België. Ze emigreert samen met haar moeder, en leeft daar van haar AOW. Vijftien jaar later wordt haar zaak behandeld in de rechtbank: ze wordt verdacht van fraude én drugssmokkel. Na het overlijden van haar moeder, in 2012, meldde Christina dat niet, waardoor ze nog elke maand AOW van haar moeder ontving. Dat is strafbaar. Daarnaast verdenkt het Openbaar Ministerie haar van drugssmokkelen. Nadat ze opnieuw emigreerde, nu naar Oostenrijk, smokkelde ze wekelijks met de trein drugs naar haar nieuwe thuisland. Toen ze daarvoor in de gevangenis zat, gaf ze dat niet door aan de Nederlandse overheid, waardoor ze ook onterecht AOW voor zichzelf ontving. In de rechtbank was de inmiddels 85-jarige vrouw niet aanwezig. Vanwege gezondheidsproblemen kon ze niet naar de rechtbank komen. Ze woont nu in Spanje. Verslaggever Jorina Haspels volgt de zaak namens AD Haagsche Courant: „Wat ik wel apart vond is dat het zo’n zaak behandeld wordt, terwijl het OM enorme achterstanden heeft en zedenzaken niet behandeld kunnen worden. Dan vraag je je wel af of we onze tijd niet een beetje beter kunnen gebruiken.’’See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wir haben uns endlich alle wieder live beieinander, die Pizza ist auf dem Tisch, Brini hat ihr Soundboard zurück und wir können alle Dennis trösten (oder auch nicht), dessen Hertha den Fehlstart rund gemacht hat. Der Trainer soll aber bleiben. Union verliert das neunte mal hintereinander im Westfalenstadion, Dortmund zeigt die Reaktion, die sich Mü gewünscht hat und Union bleibt auf den Außen zu langsam. Am Deadline Day passiert bei unseren drei Vereinen kaum etwas, Diogo Leite ist immer noch da, das ganze Dominospiel hat sich einfach nicht bewegt, einzig Lucas Tousart hat nach Hause gefunden. Der Fußballgott hat bei Loriot persönlich gelernt und beschert der Hertha zwei Tage nach der Schmach gegen Elversberg ebenjene als Los. Union darf gegen Bielefeld ran, letztes Jahr die Endstation. Und Mü hat ja behauptet, es gäbe keine schweren und leichten Lose und deshalb muss die Dortmunder Borussia zur Strafe direkt nach Frankfurt. Aber all das mit viel Humor und natürlich aufgelockert von einem Quiz, das einfach keinen Gewinner finden will.  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!

Das Sandmännchen hat dir viele Geschichten mitgebracht. Freu dich auf “Licht an!” mit “Versteckt und gefunden”, Jan und Henry mit “Der Panda mit dem Einkaufszettel”, Kalli mit "Kalli-Robinson", Raketenflieger Timmi mit “Der Zuckerplanet”, Rita und das Krokodil mit “Am Strand”, freu dich auch auf Herrn Fuchs und Frau Elster mit “Das geflügelte Ungeheuer”, das Märchen "Der Taschenzwerg” (erzählt und gespielt von Stefan Kaminski) und auf viele Kinderlieder (“Oma gibt mir Schokolade” von Deine Freunde, “Die Ameisenstraße” von Erwin Grosche, “Der Tango der Gefühle” von Ich und Herr Meyer, “Eine Insel mit zwei Bergen” von Dolls United , “Ich hab`s viel besser als du” von Masha Qrella,“Lied vom Fliegen" von Reinhard Lakomy und “Ich sammel Steine” von Jan Haarmeyer)!

Der Start ins neue Schuljahr: Wie gelingt es, dass Kinder motiviert bleiben, Eltern entspannt und auch Oma und Opa ihren optimalen Platz finden? Tipps von Katharina Weiner, sie war viele Jahre lang persönliche Assistentin des bekannten dänischen Familientherapeuten Jesper Juul und leitet das Familien-Beratungsinstitut "familylab" in Österreich im Gespräch mit Alice Herzog.

Der Start ins neue Schuljahr: Wie gelingt es, dass Kinder motiviert bleiben, Eltern entspannt und auch Oma und Opa ihren optimalen Platz finden? Tipps von Katharina Weiner, sie war viele Jahre lang persönliche Assistentin des bekannten dänischen Familientherapeuten Jesper Juul und leitet das Familien-Beratungsinstitut "familylab" in Österreich im Gespräch mit Alice Herzog.

Mag je iemand eigenlijk wijzen op een slechte adem? Is het een goed idee om parfum cadeau te geven? Welke geuren zouden eigenlijk verboden moeten worden? Denk aan taxi’s die ruiken naar te heftige aftershave, visagisten die met rook vingers aan je gezicht zitten, of situaties waarin iemand anders zonder te vragen jouw tandenborstel gebruikt! Zoals Noraly zegt: “What about wierook?” In deze aflevering gaat het over geuren in de breedste zin van het woord: parfum, lichaamsgeuren, herinneringen aan specifieke geuren, vakanties en nog veel meer. Zo komen we erachter dat Roos onpasselijk wordt van kokos, dat Eva haar parfum en douchegel bewaart voor speciale momenten, en dat Noraly vertelt dat je van bruine bonen last kunt krijgen van ‘puffen’. Haar tip? Op zo’n moment vooral niet samen in de auto stappen! In de 79e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over geuren.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.

The Psychology Behind the Parsha Parshas Shof'tim - Elul  (2025-תשפ״ה)  A Fusion of Church and State  Chodesh Elul is sponsored in memory of our Oma, Molly Tennenbaum, whose wisdom supported all of us. May her neshama have an Aliyah.  Love, her grandchildren and great grandchildren.  Chodesh Elul is sponsored by Nat and Etti Perez and family for the success of their children and L'Iluy Nishmas David Ben Mesoda z”l(David Bitton), beloved father and grandfather. His dedication and great middos are dearly missed on his fourth yahrtzeit.  This week's shiur is dedicated for a Refu'ah Shleima for Avraham Shmuel ben Kreindle Yehudit. May HaShem continue to give him & his family the koach they need to finish this journey.

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! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. 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.

De schoolperiode: de plek waar we grotendeels gevormd zijn, zowel letterlijk als figuurlijk. Hebben de drie generaties vroeger veel gespijbeld? Is het beter om een beetje onzichtbaar te zijn op de middelbare school? En is het belangrijk om één docent te hebben die je écht ziet en tegen wie je opkijkt? In deze aflevering een gesprek over Roos, die aangeeft hoe lastig het eigenlijk is voor scholieren die helemaal niets te zeggen hebben op de middelbare school. Over de nonnen van wie Noraly les kreeg, de strenge straffen die ze op de kostschool kreeg, en Eva die een flesje wodka meenam naar haar middelbare schoolreünie. In de 78e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over hun schoolherinneringen.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

https://ontargetpodcast.caMod Marty may be on vacation from the daily grind, but he's never on vacation from bringing you On Target. This week's episode is packed with sizzling 60s soul, R&B, and mod cuts that prove the music never takes a break. Even while kicking back, he's spinning sharp selections with unmatched style. Hit play and soak up the soundtrack.-----------------------------------------------The playlist is:"This Is Soul / Soulfinger / Soul Man"Paul Nero- Nero's Soul Party LP"Organ Shout"Dave "Baby" Cortez- Chess"Annie Is Back"Little Richard- Regency"My Baby Left Me"Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup- RCA-Victor"T.C.B. Or T.Y.A."Bobby Patterson- Jetstar"Gonna Put It On Your Mind"Dorothy, Oma & Zelpha- Chisa"Could I Forget You"Tyrone Davis- Atco"Pedal Pusher"The Ventures- Dolton"6 Times"Ronnie & Natalie - WMC"She Ain't No Use"Ugly Ducklings- Yorktown"Nothing Can Compare To You"The Velvet Satins- General American"Screamin' And Shoutin'"The Fabulettes- Sound Stage 7"You've Got That Something Wonderful"Percy Sledge- Atlantic"The Same Thing That Can Make You Laugh"Ray Charles- Stateside"Big Town Boy"Shirley Matthews- Tamarac"The Micro Mini"The Harvey Averne Dozen- Atlantic"Why Can't I Get You"The 5 Man Cargo- Rumble"Rockin' Robin"The Rivieras- Delta"Games"MRQ (The Modern Rock Quartet)- RCA-Victor"Nothing But A Heart Ache"Billy Martin & The Soul Jets- London"California Dreaming"Bobby Womack- Minit

Wat kunnen we met de Nederlandse nuchterheid? Zijn we trots op onze cultuur? En wat brengt de Nederlandse cultuur ons eigenlijk? In deze aflevering gaan we in gesprek met Roos over het binnenstappen van een figuurlijke arena, met Noraly over het Nederlandse onderwijs dat zij kreeg op Curaçao, en met Eva over de hutspot die zij meekreeg op brood. Ze bespreken hoe nuchterheid, tradities en persoonlijke ervaringen hun blik op Nederland vormen. In de 77e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) openhartig over de Nederlandse cultuur.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

Deze week gaat het over de dood. Dit kan een zwaar en beladen onderwerp zijn, en iedereen kijkt er op een andere manier tegenaan. Geloof jij in het hiernamaals? Wat kun je doen om jezelf rust te geven rondom dit onderwerp? En is het belangrijk om er veel over te praten? Ook behandelen we deze week weer een dilemma van een luisteraar. Een gesprek over reïncarnatie, over geloof en erfenisruzies, over het taboe dat praten over de dood heet, én over kinderboeken die een grote troost kunnen zijn in tijden van rouw. In de 76e aflevering van Generatie Vrouw praten Noraly Beyer (79), Roos Schlikker (50) en Eva Breda (28) over de dood.Support the show: https://libelle.nl/generatievrouwSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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)

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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.

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.