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In this NBTB Springsteen Archive Series Review, co-hosts Hal Schwartz and Flynn McLean discuss the March 2025 release from the series, a show from the Wrecking Ball Tour recorded live in Omaha on November 15, 2012 that features a unique Nebraska focused setlist. Later, they also discuss potential shows for next month's release. For more information on exclusive NBTB content via Patreon, please visit: Patreon.com/NBTBPodcast. This show is sponsored by DistroKid. Use this link to support the show and get 30% off your first year: http://distrokid.com/vip/nbtb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we're talking about a topic that's hitting home for many—federal job layoffs and workforce shifts. But instead of dwelling on uncertainty, we're flipping the script. If you've been impacted by job cuts or are feeling that looming fear of change, this episode is for you. We're breaking down six powerful strategies to help you shift your mindset, leverage your skills, expand your network, and even explore new career paths—including the massive rise of knowledge-based entrepreneurship since COVID. This isn't just about survival—it's about thriving. Change is inevitable, but growth? That's a choice. And today, we're choosing to move forward with confidence. So grab your coffee, take a deep breath, and let's dive in!" And if you are looking for a community of support and encouragement, check out the local Women Leaders Association Chapter near you. www.womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Richmond VA, Rochester NY, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake City UT, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Juan PR, Seattle CA, Silicon Valley CA, Spokane WA, St Louis MO, Syracuse NY, Tampa FL, Tucson AZ, Tulsa OK, Washington DC

Join Julianne as she brings you a behind the curtain view of some of the great content offered at the Women Leaders Association, with this Women and Wealth Masterclass. In it you will learn that wealth is not just about money... true wealth is about health, well-being, and legacy! Did you know women control about 32% of the world's wealth and is valued at over $93 trillion dollars? But if that's the only metric of success we look at, we are missing the bigger picture. Join in today for a glimpse into one of the Women Leaders Association's special Masterclasses. For more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out www.womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Richmond VA, Rochester NY, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake City UT, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Juan PR, Seattle CA, Silicon Valley CA, Spokane WA, St Louis MO, Syracuse NY, Tampa FL, Tucson AZ, Tulsa OK, Washington DC, and Wichita KS. We also have very active state-level chapters such as California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota, South Carolina, Alabama,

Sister Bea M from Brea, CA speaking at the Cornhusker Roundup in Omaha NE in Aug of 1990, she is a funny lady. This ends a little abruptly. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Thumper and Generation One joins us today from Omaha Nebraska when he is not in California. He brings his songs Hope, New Day New Beginnings, Sky's The Limit and ONE, an anagram for Omaha NEbraska

On today's impactful episode hear from Mary Mazur as she shares her incredible story of transformation through the power of PSYCH-K. As a certified instructor of Psych-K, Mary has assisted many in helping them to birth their truest essence within themselves. By guiding her clients through embracing change, Mary has successfully helped may to re-program old beliefs that no longer serve their truest and highest selves. Through the study and application of Psych-K, Mary has discovered the pathway to unlocking clarity and peace within your leadership journey. Be sure to connect with Mary at igniteandhealyourlife.com and experience a true connection with love and light. For more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out www.womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR

How does Wendy Lankton go from a wife working in her husbands law firm in Montreal to being arrested in a drug conspiracy in Omaha Nebraska? It is quite the Odessey to what she is doing today. In this episode of Nightmare Success, host Brent Cassity interviews Wendy Lankton, who shares her harrowing journey from addiction to incarceration and eventual recovery. Wendy discusses the impact of the Federal CARES Act on her life while she was serving a 15-year Federal prison sentence. She shares her complicated experiences growing up in Nebraska, and the choices that led her to prison. She reflects on her time in Danbury women's prison, the challenges of COVID-19, and her eventual release into home confinement to serve out the years of sentence that she has remaining. Wendy shares what it was like getting out and living in home confinement for years. Throughout the conversation, Wendy emphasizes the importance of gratitude and advocacy for others in similar situations, highlighting the need for reform in the legal and prison systems. She is currently working in a law firm and going to law school. She is hoping to be an attorney that can give a greater voice to the justice impacted community. Show sponsors: Navigating the challenges of white-collar crime? The White Collar Support Group at Prisonist.org offers guidance, resources, and a community for those affected. Discover support today at Prisonist.org Protect your online reputation with Discoverability! Use code NIGHTMARE SUCCESS for an exclusive discount on services to boost your digital image and online repustation. Visit Discoverability.co and secure your online presence today. Skip the hassle of car shopping with Auto Plaza Direct. They'll handle every detail to find your perfect vehicle. Visit AutoPlazaDirect.com "Your personal car concierge!" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brent-cassity/support

On today's episode, hear from Brigitte Cutshall as she shares her journey of healing from cancer and the greatest lesson she learned about being her own advocate. For more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out www.womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Richmond VA, Rochester NY, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake City UT, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Juan PR, Seattle CA, Silicon Valley CA, Spokane WA, St Louis MO, Syracuse NY, Tampa FL, Tucson AZ, Tulsa OK, Washington DC, and Wichita KS. We also have very active state-level chapters such as California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oregon, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, Utah, Iowa, Nevada, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming.

On today's episode, hear from StressPal founder Pennie Sempell as she shares the truth behind burnout and practical tips you can use right now to overcome it. External stressors, adversity and conflict can deeply impact our capacity to effectively communicate, resolve conflicts and thrive in one's personal and professional life. Pennie assembled a team of subject matter experts and creative minds to develop groundbreaking, brain-based digital health tools for safeguarding and strengthening psychological flexibility, resilience and wellness through StressPal. To connect with Pennie be sure to visit her at https://stresspal.com/ and for more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Richmond VA, Rochester NY, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake City UT, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Juan PR, Seattle CA, Silicon Valley CA, Spokane WA, St Louis MO, Syracuse NY, Tampa FL, Tucson AZ, Tulsa OK, Washington DC, and Wichita KS. We also have very active state-level chapters such as California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia

"All the world's a stage," as Shakespeare famously wrote, and we are "merely players" performing roles, today as professionals or politicians or teachers in a classroom of students. or parents modeling behavior for their children.  In an era when traditional media, social media, and ever-present modes of telecommunications determine how these roles and personas are received and perceived, crafting images, honing messages, and telling stories around them has given rise to entire industries. Stuart Feigley is president of Feigley Communications, a Baton Rouge strategic marketing agency that specializes in creating ad campaigns across a wide spectrum of industries, including healthcare, education and government. Stewart co-founded the firm in 2006, and in the years since, Feigley Communications has handled such high profile local cleints as LSU, the La Dept of Health, and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber among others. Stuart is a native of Baton Rouge with 36 years experience in the field. After graduating from the LSU Manship School of Communications he went off to big national firms in Dallas and Ohio, where he worked for large corporate clients. He came home in 2006 to found Wright Feigley Communciations with the late Jeff Wright, rebranding the firm as Feigley Communications in 2016.  While Stuart is helping clients on the figurative stage, Sarah Klocke is working with people on the real stage – as in theater. Sarah is Executive Director of Theatre Baton Rouge, which has been delighting audiences in Baton rouge since 1946 with dramas, comedies and beloved Broadway musicals. You may remember we interviewed Sarah's predecessor Jenny Ballard on this show a while back. Sarah took her place in October 2023, as the organization was struggling to recover from the pandemic and the financial challenges it wrought on performing arts organizations across the country. Sarah came to Baton Rouge most recently from St Mary's College in Omaha Nebraska, where she was the program director of theater and communications. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by Ian Ledo and Miranda Albarez at itsbatonrouge.la.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bill C sober in 1967 and from St Catharines Ontario Canada (originally from the UK) speaking at the Cornhuskers Roundup held in Omaha Nebraska in 1990, he has a great energetic style. Event List: https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

20 years in real estate, Broker/owner of a RE/MAX office from 2010-2015 In Sioux City IA, started over in Omaha NE in Oct 2015 not knowing anyone in Omaha. Averages 50 deals a year now over 12 million in Volume per year, No assistant (crazy I know), in top 5% nationally in Berkshire Hathaway Home Services. 90% of my deals are as buyers agent [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

20 years in real estate, Broker/owner of a RE/MAX office from 2010-2015 In Sioux City IA, started over in Omaha NE in Oct 2015 not knowing anyone in Omaha. Averages 50 deals a year now over 12 million in Volume per year, No assistant (crazy I know), in top 5% nationally in Berkshire Hathaway Home Services. 90% of my deals are as buyers agent [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

20 years in real estate, Broker/owner of a RE/MAX office from 2010-2015 In Sioux City IA, started over in Omaha NE in Oct 2015 not knowing anyone in Omaha. Averages 50 deals a year now over 12 million in Volume per year, No assistant (crazy I know), in top 5% nationally in Berkshire Hathaway Home Services. 90% of my deals are as buyers agent [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

On today's episode hear from Co-founder of the Forehand Agency, Donna Forehand and she shares what it really takes to transcend they typical company culture into a true and authentic leadership atmosphere. Donna and her husband, Scott have helped hundreds of families with their Debt Free Life, Rescuing Retirement, and other programs. The Forehand Agency has also built a team of dynamic agents who are encouraged, supported, and passionate about helping protect families while up-leveling every aspect of producing abundant wealth. Be sure to connect with Donna at theforehandagency.com for more information. For more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Richmond VA, Rochester NY, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake City UT, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Juan PR, Seattle CA, Silicon Valley CA, Spokane WA, St Louis MO, Syracuse NY, Tampa FL, Tucson AZ, Tulsa OK, Washington DC, and Wichita KS. We also have very active state-level chapters such as California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee

On today's episode hear from Founder of True North Executive Coaching, Mara Benner as she dives into what true alignment for your success really requires. Mara says "I love combining my 25 years of corporate, nonprofit association leadership and governmental engagement with my personal love of integrative wellbeing, including my work with the GW Center for Integrative Medicine; which means my coaching technique is unique in recognizing that your success is dependent on the whole and complete picture of you." Listen in to learn how you can better understand YOU and how you can begin to level up your leadership using the golden nuggets Mara drops in this episode. To connect further with Mara, be sure to head over to https://truenorthexecutivecoaching.com/ And for more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out www.womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Richmond VA, Rochester NY, Sacramento CA, Salt Lake City UT, San Antonio TX, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, San Juan PR, Seattle CA, Silicon Valley CA, Spokane WA, St Louis MO, Syracuse NY, Tampa FL, Tucson AZ, Tulsa OK, Washington DC, and Wichita KS. We also have very active state-level chapters such as California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Colorado, Minnesota, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oregon, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, Utah, Iowa, Nevada, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming.

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Lee Emma Running is an artist based in Omaha NE who creates monumental public installations and arresting sculptures with cast iron, enamel, glass, bone, and handmade paper. She uses this work to engage audiences in conversations about the impact of human-built systems on the natural world. https://www.leerunning.com/https://www.instagram.com/lee.running/?hl=enhttps://www.jmkac.org/artist/running-lee/

On today's episode hear from Founder and CEO of Corporate Cleaning INC, Crystal Hughey. Crystal shares how her passion for cleaning turned into an award-winning, generational success, that continues to grow because of the relationships they build with their customers and within their team.  Crystal gives insight into what practical steps you can take to ensure your team is operating optimally. Be sure to connect with Crystal on LinkedIn and at https://www.corporatecleaning.us/  and For more stories & resources about and for Fierce Female Leaders, along with how to join a Women Leaders Association Chapter near you, be sure to check out www.womensleaderspodcast.com The Women Leaders Association has chapters in: Akron OH, Albany NY, Albuquerque NM, Atlanta GA, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, Birmingham AL, Boise IA, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charleston SC, Charlotte NY, Chattanooga TN, Chicago IL, Cincinnati OH, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Des Moines IA, Detroit MI, El Paso TX, Grand Rapids MI, Greensboro NC, Greenville SC, Hartford CT, Honolulu HI, Houston TX, Indianapolis IN, Jackson MS, Jacksonville FL, Kansas City MO, Knoxville TN, Las Vegas NV, Little Rock AR, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Madison WI, Memphis TN, Miami FL, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Norfolk VA, Oklahoma City OK, Omaha NE, Orange County CA, Orlando FL

About a month ago I saw Gallivant  (https://gallivant.bandcamp.com) at the world famous Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles and they destroyed. I had never heard of Joe, Sam, or Dakota prior, but  I was an immediate fan. Check them out and I think you will to. Hannah and I discuss with the boys: Road life, recording, when life gets in the way of art, Gallivan vs Vanmanda, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain's mysterious death and as always Rapid Fire. Great band. Fun show and we had some WIFI issues, but we powered through. Because life, duh.  Listen wherever you pod or watch....on YT   If you like the show, please subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@NewbergPod  You can follow Gallivant on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@gallivant5778 

In this episode, Roy Jones talks with Dr. Candace Gregory, from the Heartland of America, Omaha, NE.  Candace lays out what is required to be a successful frontline fundraiser and the characteristics needed to procure MEGA gifts for your nonprofit.  She announced in our podcast a $65 million capital campaign. Over the last two decades the ministry has raised more than $200 million to help the unsheltered and poor in her community to get back on their feet and succeed in life. 

It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy!Ticketmaster is evilElon Musk is divisiveGeorge RR Martin admits there are issues with season 2 of HotDNew Fantastic Four rumor might mean previous leaks were off just a bit.And so much more...Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsLinkin Park - NOTHING! The world was trolled. Now there was a second timer that stopped on 9:05. The band sent invites to their fanclub for a mystery event in LA on the 5th of sept.Oasis - Ticketmaster gunna ticketmaster… The dynamic pricing hits again. This time the UK government is going to investigate after Oasis tickets skyrocketed nearly 3 times their face value.https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-uk-government-will-investigate-ticketmasters-dynamic-pricing-model-after-oasis-chaos-195446622.html New Music/VideoBlessthefall - Drag Me Under  https://youtu.be/F53sP7JrfeU Still scene nonsense… but slightly more listenable in their older age. Almost trying for like a bro-core kind of sound/aesthetic.The Dead Dasies - I Wanna Be Your Bitch https://youtu.be/W20wHP6yV88 revival rock garbage. Let Buck Cherry cover this ground…Life of Agony - The Crow https://youtu.be/9lxhiCkFjGo tribute to Brandon Lee. Feels really contrived.AI video?Shadow of Intent - Flying the Black Flag https://youtu.be/GRBOrXvRiSc DAMN these kids just destroy it!!Tours/FestivalsPunk in the Park - Offspring and Pennywise headline. Featuring heavy hitters like Streetlight Manifesto, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and more. Nov 16 in San Diego. GA tickets start at $69.http://www.punkinthepark.com/ TSO - 2024 tour announced. As usual, 2 touring companies so LOTS of dates, with matinee and dinner shows.http://www.trans-siberian.com/ Escuela Grind - Bodybox, Wisdom and War, for support. Dreams on Algorithms tour. Starts Oct 8, in Omaha NE, through Oct 27 in Montreal.https://escuelagrind.ffm.to/dreamsonalgorithms Reg ‘ol NewsDevildriver - Long time guitarist Mike Spreitzer has announced his departure from the band. His plan it would seem is to focus on his solo work with Verona on Venus. His public statement seems to vaguely imply that with Dez splitting his focus between Devildriver and Coal Chamber it was affecting his “full time” musician status.https://blabbermouth.net/news/longtime-devildriver-guitarist-mike-spreitzer-announces-his-departure-i-have-decided-it-is-time-to-go-my-own-way Skillet - in response to Foo Fighters claiming they never allowed the use of their music to Donald Trump and RFK Jr, John Cooper, bass and vocals for Skillet, has come out and made it known that any candidate can use Skillet music as they wish. “I believe in America over party.”https://blabbermouth.net/news/john-cooper-doesnt-care-who-uses-skillets-music-at-political-rallies-i-believe-in-america-over-party Atreyu - New album “The Pronoia Sessions” is a collection of re-imagined acoustic songs from their back catalog. They have released the re-imagined version of “Becoming the Bull” as the first single.https://blabbermouth.net/news/atreyu-shares-becoming-the-bull-from-album-of-reimagined-greatest-hits-the-pronoia-sessions https://youtu.be/lhCHXvpXC7c https://youtu.be/g88kL0znPyA The Cure - Set to release the first new songs since 2008. “And Nothing is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye” have been songs on their live setlist for some time, but now they are finally releasing recordings of them for the first time. Novembre: Live in France 2022, Due for Oct 1 release.Oni - Jared Dines is joining the metal band full time. After having stepped in for touring purposes for the last 6 months Dines announced on his IG that he is joining the band for good. ALSO announcing SION 2 with Howard Jones in the works, and the next season of his reality show Musician Mansion.https://metalinjection.net/news/jared-dines-joins-oni-full-time SuggestsThomas Hogue - Master of Puppets Deathmetal https://youtu.be/uCPH9csQ6Bo?si=lH7U-swNI8ghpMS2 Mac Glocky - Bad Guy by Chevelle https://youtu.be/oaLFmTwZLbs?si=EIOIr4SBQ9SooQhI Gaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsFallout 76 - Balance path notes. Fire and Poison will now do DoT. Which has larger implementation issues that needed to be tackled for this update. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fallout-76-milestone-zero-update-patch-notes/ Marvel VS Capcom Fighting Collection - now coming to Xbox… sometime next year. Capcom Fighting Collection 2 as well.Reg ‘ol NewsConcord - The playstation and PC hero shooter will be shutting down this Friday after only 2 weeks. All players who paid for the game will get a full refund. Peak concurrent Steam players was 697.https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/playstation-shuts-down-concord-refund-players-1236128208/ X vs Brazil - in case you haven't heard; a judge on Brazil's supreme court has banned Elon Musk's social platform in that country. Even going so far as to put a nearly $9,000 fine PER DAY that any citizen uses a VPN to access it. As a means of fully enacting the ban, Brazil then went after Starlink, and froze their assets in that country. Starlink has since filed suit with the courts, but while that is tied up in the courts, Starlink has agreed to comply with the Judges wishes, at least for now, and restrict access to X.https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/elon-musks-starlink-will-comply-with-the-brazil-x-ban-after-all-181144471.html X TV App - Speaking of X. They have announced a new TV app is currently in Beta on a select few app stores (Amazon fire TV, Google TV, LG Panel). With plans to not only roll it out in other stores soon, but also to implement a new video tab in the existing app.https://x.com/XEng/status/1831094846540668986 Instagram - Stories are now getting comments. They are toggleable, and anyone can see them, but only mutuals can actually leave comments on the short lived stories.https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-stories-are-getting-comments-183051677.html Gamestop - The gaming retail chain is making a bit of a change in certain markets. With the industry trying HARD to push all digital, some locations will begin stocking previous generations of consoles, discs, and even cartridges, for classic PSX, Nintendo, Sega, and Xbox platforms.https://www.engadget.com/gaming/gamestop-pivots-to-retro-gaming-at-select-locations-180704406.html https://www.gamestop.com/retro-store-locator Astrobot - Launches this friday, but the game has leaked in full already.Xdefiant - Well it seems the hype has died. The game reportedly struggles to maintain 20K players across platforms, and if those numbers don't improve by the end of season 3 Ubisoft is threatening to pull support.https://insider-gaming.com/xdefiant-player-numbers-2/ SuggestsFallout 76 - New balance patch, and still on Game Pass, so why not?Comic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsUltimates - Issue 4 previews just dropped and they show that the origin of Dr. Doom in the new Ultimates universe is that he is a variant of Reed, and this arc is going to try and get his 616 life back. The Ultimates #4 Writer: Deniz Camp Artist: Phil Noto Letterer: Travis Lanhamhttps://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-teases-doctor-dooms-origin-in-the-ultimates-preview/ SuggestsUltimate X-Men is a superhero comic book series, which was published by Marvel Comics, from 2001 to 2009. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running X-Men comic book franchise as part of the Ultimate Marvel imprint.[1] The Ultimate X-Men exist alongside other revamped Marvel characters in Ultimate Marvel titles including Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four and The Ultimates.TV ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsSuperman & Lois - Final season changes. Moved from Tuesday nights to Monday nights (was supposed to go to Thursdays), and is being moved up by 10 days from the 17th to the 7th of Oct. Seemingly due to “game night” (scrabble and trivial pursuit) changes on CW. https://cosmicbook.news/superman-lois-finale-season-premiering-earlier-new-night Walking Dead: Darryl Dixon - Season 3 has already begun production in Spain. So it should be only a year between seasons instead of 2. https://bleedingfool.com/movies-tv-film/season-3-of-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-begins-production-in-spain/ TrailersAgatha All Along - https://youtu.be/VpyzRNzLwAs Sept 18 on Disney+.Yellowstone - Season 5 part 2 Nov 10 https://youtu.be/6PXuYlrORpc Reg ‘ol NewsOne Tree Hill - Reboot series in the works at Netflix. No word on exact format (i.e. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life VS Traditional).https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/one-tree-hill-sequel-netflix-sophia-bush-hilarie-burton-morgan-1235988148/ George RR Martin - The Game of Thrones author is admitting that things have “gone wrong” with House of the Dragon. On his blog, he called out a couple minor issues (i.e. using the wrong sigil for house Targaryon) but he also acknowledged the fact that season 2 ends in basically the same spot as season 1.SuggestsBeetlejuice: The Animated Series - animated television series that ran from September 9, 1989, to October 26, 1991, on ABC, and on Fox from September 9 to December 6, 1991.Loosely based on the 1988 film of the same name, it was developed by its director, Tim Burton, who also served as an executive producer. The series follows Lydia Deetz and her friend Beetlejuice and their adventures in the "mortal world" and the Neitherworld, a supernatural realm inhabited by various monsters. Danny Elfman, who composed the theme for the film, also arranged it for the series.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsRunning Man - Set to begin filming in November. Starring Glen Powell. Said to be a more faithful retelling of the Stephen King novel, where the Schwarzennegger version was a dramatic departure. https://cosmicbook.news/running-man-reboot-now-filming-with-glen-powell Nobody 2 - Bob Odenkirk's John Wick everyman movie is now filming the sequel. https://cosmicbook.news/nobody-2-filming-bob-odenkirk-set-photos Peaky Blinders - Netflix movie casts Barry Koeghan.  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barry-keoghan-joins-cillian-murphy-peaky-blinders-movie-1235986815/ Army of the Dead - Six Flags in New Jersey just opened an escape room attraction that puts you right in the world of the movie. Maybe its not such a dead franchise after all.TrailersApartment 7a - https://youtu.be/Kj2GqMvhbNM Julia Garner Rosemary's Baby prequel Sept 27 on Paramount+.Joker: Folie A Deux - sneak peak scene posted to YT. https://youtu.be/7edidziIotg 10-24Smile 2 - https://youtu.be/0HY6QFlBzUY Oct 18.Reg ‘ol NewsThe Apprentice - Trump movie to release before elections. Kamala DOCUMENTARY with the same release window. Sebastian Stan to play Trump. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/trump-film-the-apprentice-release-date-awards-campaign-1235984424/ SuggestsJohnny Mnemonic - Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film directed by Robert Longo in his feature directorial debut. William Gibson, who wrote the 1981 short story, wrote the screenplay. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future racked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated by megacorporations and organized crime. Keanu Reeves plays Johnny, a data courier with an overloaded brain implant designed to securely store confidential information. Takeshi Kitano portrays a yakuza affiliated with a megacorporation attempting to suppress the data; he hires a psychopathic assassin played by Dolph Lundgren to do so. Ice-T and Dina Meyer co-star as Johnny's allies, a freedom fighter and a bodyguard, respectively.STREAMING: PlutoRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsREFUTATION: The Batman The Game - James Gunn has killed rumors around a game based on the Robert Pattinson Batman character.CONFIRM: Sigourney Weaver in Mando - The actress has confirmed that she in fact HAS been cast in the Mandalorian and Grogu movie. https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-sigourney-weaver-confirms-mandalorian-grogu New RumorsPredator: Badlands - The next Predator movie is apparently borrowing, at least a little bit, from Disney's the Acolyte. According to a recently obtained casting call. 2 sisters (Thia and Tessa) begin their lives apart and are serving opposing missions, in which they will eventually cross paths on opposite sides.Fantastic Four - Julia Garner actually playing Frankie Raye nova and NOT Silver Surfer? This would be ever so slightly closer to comic accurate.Yellowstone - Kelly Reilly and Cole Houser are said to be in talks for a 6th season of the supposedly ending series. Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler. Would NOT be part of the Madison, the new sequel series starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Mathew Fox.Green Lantern - Josh Brolin rumored to be playing Hal Jordan for James Gunn.Booster Gold - Kumail Nanjiani said to be playing the time traveling superhero in the DCU.MK1 - New “leak” suggests Kabal, Jade, Skarlet, and Blaze as the MK characters for Kombat pack 3. Plus, again, we see Doom Guy, Ash Williams, Michael Meyers, and Fulgore as the guests. With Nightwolf, Kotal, Aaron Black, and Chucky as kameos. New Finisher called “Musicality” that has your opponent dance themselves to death. You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy!Ticketmaster is evilElon Musk is divisiveGeorge RR Martin admits there are issues with season 2 of HotDNew Fantastic Four rumor might mean previous leaks were off just a bit.And so much more...Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsLinkin Park - NOTHING! The world was trolled. Now there was a second timer that stopped on 9:05. The band sent invites to their fanclub for a mystery event in LA on the 5th of sept.Oasis - Ticketmaster gunna ticketmaster… The dynamic pricing hits again. This time the UK government is going to investigate after Oasis tickets skyrocketed nearly 3 times their face value.https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-uk-government-will-investigate-ticketmasters-dynamic-pricing-model-after-oasis-chaos-195446622.html New Music/VideoBlessthefall - Drag Me Under  https://youtu.be/F53sP7JrfeU Still scene nonsense… but slightly more listenable in their older age. Almost trying for like a bro-core kind of sound/aesthetic.The Dead Dasies - I Wanna Be Your Bitch https://youtu.be/W20wHP6yV88 revival rock garbage. Let Buck Cherry cover this ground…Life of Agony - The Crow https://youtu.be/9lxhiCkFjGo tribute to Brandon Lee. Feels really contrived.AI video?Shadow of Intent - Flying the Black Flag https://youtu.be/GRBOrXvRiSc DAMN these kids just destroy it!!Tours/FestivalsPunk in the Park - Offspring and Pennywise headline. Featuring heavy hitters like Streetlight Manifesto, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and more. Nov 16 in San Diego. GA tickets start at $69.http://www.punkinthepark.com/ TSO - 2024 tour announced. As usual, 2 touring companies so LOTS of dates, with matinee and dinner shows.http://www.trans-siberian.com/ Escuela Grind - Bodybox, Wisdom and War, for support. Dreams on Algorithms tour. Starts Oct 8, in Omaha NE, through Oct 27 in Montreal.https://escuelagrind.ffm.to/dreamsonalgorithms Reg ‘ol NewsDevildriver - Long time guitarist Mike Spreitzer has announced his departure from the band. His plan it would seem is to focus on his solo work with Verona on Venus. His public statement seems to vaguely imply that with Dez splitting his focus between Devildriver and Coal Chamber it was affecting his “full time” musician status.https://blabbermouth.net/news/longtime-devildriver-guitarist-mike-spreitzer-announces-his-departure-i-have-decided-it-is-time-to-go-my-own-way Skillet - in response to Foo Fighters claiming they never allowed the use of their music to Donald Trump and RFK Jr, John Cooper, bass and vocals for Skillet, has come out and made it known that any candidate can use Skillet music as they wish. “I believe in America over party.”https://blabbermouth.net/news/john-cooper-doesnt-care-who-uses-skillets-music-at-political-rallies-i-believe-in-america-over-party Atreyu - New album “The Pronoia Sessions” is a collection of re-imagined acoustic songs from their back catalog. They have released the re-imagined version of “Becoming the Bull” as the first single.https://blabbermouth.net/news/atreyu-shares-becoming-the-bull-from-album-of-reimagined-greatest-hits-the-pronoia-sessions https://youtu.be/lhCHXvpXC7c https://youtu.be/g88kL0znPyA The Cure - Set to release the first new songs since 2008. “And Nothing is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye” have been songs on their live setlist for some time, but now they are finally releasing recordings of them for the first time. Novembre: Live in France 2022, Due for Oct 1 release.Oni - Jared Dines is joining the metal band full time. After having stepped in for touring purposes for the last 6 months Dines announced on his IG that he is joining the band for good. ALSO announcing SION 2 with Howard Jones in the works, and the next season of his reality show Musician Mansion.https://metalinjection.net/news/jared-dines-joins-oni-full-time SuggestsThomas Hogue - Master of Puppets Deathmetal https://youtu.be/uCPH9csQ6Bo?si=lH7U-swNI8ghpMS2 Mac Glocky - Bad Guy by Chevelle https://youtu.be/oaLFmTwZLbs?si=EIOIr4SBQ9SooQhI Gaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsFallout 76 - Balance path notes. Fire and Poison will now do DoT. Which has larger implementation issues that needed to be tackled for this update. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/fallout-76-milestone-zero-update-patch-notes/ Marvel VS Capcom Fighting Collection - now coming to Xbox… sometime next year. Capcom Fighting Collection 2 as well.Reg ‘ol NewsConcord - The playstation and PC hero shooter will be shutting down this Friday after only 2 weeks. All players who paid for the game will get a full refund. Peak concurrent Steam players was 697.https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/playstation-shuts-down-concord-refund-players-1236128208/ X vs Brazil - in case you haven't heard; a judge on Brazil's supreme court has banned Elon Musk's social platform in that country. Even going so far as to put a nearly $9,000 fine PER DAY that any citizen uses a VPN to access it. As a means of fully enacting the ban, Brazil then went after Starlink, and froze their assets in that country. Starlink has since filed suit with the courts, but while that is tied up in the courts, Starlink has agreed to comply with the Judges wishes, at least for now, and restrict access to X.https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/elon-musks-starlink-will-comply-with-the-brazil-x-ban-after-all-181144471.html X TV App - Speaking of X. They have announced a new TV app is currently in Beta on a select few app stores (Amazon fire TV, Google TV, LG Panel). With plans to not only roll it out in other stores soon, but also to implement a new video tab in the existing app.https://x.com/XEng/status/1831094846540668986 Instagram - Stories are now getting comments. They are toggleable, and anyone can see them, but only mutuals can actually leave comments on the short lived stories.https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-stories-are-getting-comments-183051677.html Gamestop - The gaming retail chain is making a bit of a change in certain markets. With the industry trying HARD to push all digital, some locations will begin stocking previous generations of consoles, discs, and even cartridges, for classic PSX, Nintendo, Sega, and Xbox platforms.https://www.engadget.com/gaming/gamestop-pivots-to-retro-gaming-at-select-locations-180704406.html https://www.gamestop.com/retro-store-locator Astrobot - Launches this friday, but the game has leaked in full already.Xdefiant - Well it seems the hype has died. The game reportedly struggles to maintain 20K players across platforms, and if those numbers don't improve by the end of season 3 Ubisoft is threatening to pull support.https://insider-gaming.com/xdefiant-player-numbers-2/ SuggestsFallout 76 - New balance patch, and still on Game Pass, so why not?Comic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsUltimates - Issue 4 previews just dropped and they show that the origin of Dr. Doom in the new Ultimates universe is that he is a variant of Reed, and this arc is going to try and get his 616 life back. The Ultimates #4 Writer: Deniz Camp Artist: Phil Noto Letterer: Travis Lanhamhttps://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-teases-doctor-dooms-origin-in-the-ultimates-preview/ SuggestsUltimate X-Men is a superhero comic book series, which was published by Marvel Comics, from 2001 to 2009. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running X-Men comic book franchise as part of the Ultimate Marvel imprint.[1] The Ultimate X-Men exist alongside other revamped Marvel characters in Ultimate Marvel titles including Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four and The Ultimates.TV ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsSuperman & Lois - Final season changes. Moved from Tuesday nights to Monday nights (was supposed to go to Thursdays), and is being moved up by 10 days from the 17th to the 7th of Oct. Seemingly due to “game night” (scrabble and trivial pursuit) changes on CW. https://cosmicbook.news/superman-lois-finale-season-premiering-earlier-new-night Walking Dead: Darryl Dixon - Season 3 has already begun production in Spain. So it should be only a year between seasons instead of 2. https://bleedingfool.com/movies-tv-film/season-3-of-walking-dead-daryl-dixon-begins-production-in-spain/ TrailersAgatha All Along - https://youtu.be/VpyzRNzLwAs Sept 18 on Disney+.Yellowstone - Season 5 part 2 Nov 10 https://youtu.be/6PXuYlrORpc Reg ‘ol NewsOne Tree Hill - Reboot series in the works at Netflix. No word on exact format (i.e. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life VS Traditional).https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/one-tree-hill-sequel-netflix-sophia-bush-hilarie-burton-morgan-1235988148/ George RR Martin - The Game of Thrones author is admitting that things have “gone wrong” with House of the Dragon. On his blog, he called out a couple minor issues (i.e. using the wrong sigil for house Targaryon) but he also acknowledged the fact that season 2 ends in basically the same spot as season 1.SuggestsBeetlejuice: The Animated Series - animated television series that ran from September 9, 1989, to October 26, 1991, on ABC, and on Fox from September 9 to December 6, 1991.Loosely based on the 1988 film of the same name, it was developed by its director, Tim Burton, who also served as an executive producer. The series follows Lydia Deetz and her friend Beetlejuice and their adventures in the "mortal world" and the Neitherworld, a supernatural realm inhabited by various monsters. Danny Elfman, who composed the theme for the film, also arranged it for the series.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsRunning Man - Set to begin filming in November. Starring Glen Powell. Said to be a more faithful retelling of the Stephen King novel, where the Schwarzennegger version was a dramatic departure. https://cosmicbook.news/running-man-reboot-now-filming-with-glen-powell Nobody 2 - Bob Odenkirk's John Wick everyman movie is now filming the sequel. https://cosmicbook.news/nobody-2-filming-bob-odenkirk-set-photos Peaky Blinders - Netflix movie casts Barry Koeghan.  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barry-keoghan-joins-cillian-murphy-peaky-blinders-movie-1235986815/ Army of the Dead - Six Flags in New Jersey just opened an escape room attraction that puts you right in the world of the movie. Maybe its not such a dead franchise after all.TrailersApartment 7a - https://youtu.be/Kj2GqMvhbNM Julia Garner Rosemary's Baby prequel Sept 27 on Paramount+.Joker: Folie A Deux - sneak peak scene posted to YT. https://youtu.be/7edidziIotg 10-24Smile 2 - https://youtu.be/0HY6QFlBzUY Oct 18.Reg ‘ol NewsThe Apprentice - Trump movie to release before elections. Kamala DOCUMENTARY with the same release window. Sebastian Stan to play Trump. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/trump-film-the-apprentice-release-date-awards-campaign-1235984424/ SuggestsJohnny Mnemonic - Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film directed by Robert Longo in his feature directorial debut. William Gibson, who wrote the 1981 short story, wrote the screenplay. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future racked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated by megacorporations and organized crime. Keanu Reeves plays Johnny, a data courier with an overloaded brain implant designed to securely store confidential information. Takeshi Kitano portrays a yakuza affiliated with a megacorporation attempting to suppress the data; he hires a psychopathic assassin played by Dolph Lundgren to do so. Ice-T and Dina Meyer co-star as Johnny's allies, a freedom fighter and a bodyguard, respectively.STREAMING: PlutoRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsREFUTATION: The Batman The Game - James Gunn has killed rumors around a game based on the Robert Pattinson Batman character.CONFIRM: Sigourney Weaver in Mando - The actress has confirmed that she in fact HAS been cast in the Mandalorian and Grogu movie. https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-sigourney-weaver-confirms-mandalorian-grogu New RumorsPredator: Badlands - The next Predator movie is apparently borrowing, at least a little bit, from Disney's the Acolyte. According to a recently obtained casting call. 2 sisters (Thia and Tessa) begin their lives apart and are serving opposing missions, in which they will eventually cross paths on opposite sides.Fantastic Four - Julia Garner actually playing Frankie Raye nova and NOT Silver Surfer? This would be ever so slightly closer to comic accurate.Yellowstone - Kelly Reilly and Cole Houser are said to be in talks for a 6th season of the supposedly ending series. Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler. Would NOT be part of the Madison, the new sequel series starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Mathew Fox.Green Lantern - Josh Brolin rumored to be playing Hal Jordan for James Gunn.Booster Gold - Kumail Nanjiani said to be playing the time traveling superhero in the DCU.MK1 - New “leak” suggests Kabal, Jade, Skarlet, and Blaze as the MK characters for Kombat pack 3. Plus, again, we see Doom Guy, Ash Williams, Michael Meyers, and Fulgore as the guests. With Nightwolf, Kotal, Aaron Black, and Chucky as kameos. New Finisher called “Musicality” that has your opponent dance themselves to death. You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

Chris Blum is the executive director of the Heartland Cancer Foundation in Lincoln Nebraska. Chris joined the foundation after a 25-year career as a professional in the Boy Scouts organization and then working three years for the Nebraska Safety Council. Chris tells us that he is strictly Nebraska born and bred.   During his time as a Boy Scout professional, he did work elsewhere, but all roads eventually brought him back to Lincoln. He left scouting when the organization wanted him to move elsewhere to assume another position.   It was fun speaking with a nonprofit expert and professional. We talked about a number of issues faced by the not-for-profit world, and we even talked about the differences between for profit sales and not for profit fundraising.   Chris brings lots of insights to our conversation. For this being his first podcast appearance, he did quite well, and I think you will like what he had to say. At the end, of course, he gave information about how people can support the Heartland Cancer Foundation.   About the Guest:   Chris Blum joined the Heartland Cancer Foundation in August of 2022.  Chris has 30 years of non-profit leadership experience.  He has spent his career making every team better and every company or organization more efficient and more profitable.  Chris is skilled at recruiting people with talents and skills which compliment his to make the organization stronger.  Here in Nebraska, he has served as the Business Development Manager for the Nebraska Safety Council, the Chief Philanthropy Officer for the Nebraska Children's Home Society, and the Scout Executive/CEO for the Cornhusker Council, Boy Scouts of America.  He served in a variety of positions during a 25-year Boy Scout career with assignments in South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas.  Chris has a bachelor's degree in public relations from Northwest Missouri State University.   Chris provides strategic and professional leadership for all development and operational efforts of the HCF. He works with volunteers and other stakeholders to prospect, cultivate, and solicit support for growing HCF programs by leveraging all available resources.  Chris' professional goals are to develop long-term relationships with donors, friends, and community partners by deeply engaging them to realize their charitable goals and maximize their gifts of time, talent, and treasure to HCF.  Chris and his wife Lori are Nebraska natives (Omaha and Wahoo), they have a son, CJ, who attends Mickle Middle School.  Chris have been active in Rotary, and as a Cub Scout Den Leader, and currently coaches Junior High Cross Country and Track for St. John's Catholic School.     Ways to connect with Chris:   https://heartlandcancerfoundation.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cfbc6e1709361a145ed40d367&id=d94fe9ca05&e=9ea37134d3   https://heartlandcancerfoundation.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cfbc6e1709361a145ed40d367&id=01db9189e7&e=9ea37134d3   https://heartlandcancerfoundation.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cfbc6e1709361a145ed40d367&id=c4ffa1a2af&e=9ea37134d3   https://heartlandcancerfoundation.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cfbc6e1709361a145ed40d367&id=1a81f3f0cb&e=9ea37134d3   https://heartlandcancerfoundation.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cfbc6e1709361a145ed40d367&id=0112187c95&e=9ea37134d3   https://heartlandcancerfoundation.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cfbc6e1709361a145ed40d367&id=60e930e34a&e=9ea37134d3   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 ** 01:21 Hi and welcome wherever you happen to be to unstoppable mindset, where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Unexpected is always fun, and it's what we mostly do on unstoppable mindset. But I'm really glad you're here, and I want to welcome our guest today, Chris Blum, who is the Executive Director of the heartland Cancer Foundation. He's going to tell us about that and a lot of other stuff. And I know, Chris, you had a long stint in doing things in the boy scouts, and having been in scouting and and risen to the rank of Eagle with vigil in the Order of the Arrow, I'm very familiar with scouting as well, so we've got lots to talk about, and I want to welcome you and to unstoppable mindset and again, thank you for being   Chris Blum ** 02:02 here. Yeah, Michael, thanks for having me. So it's pleasure.   Michael Hingson ** 02:07 This is Chris's first podcast, so we'll try to be nice, but thanks for doing this. Why don't we start by maybe talking about the early Chris, growing up and all that, and kind of what, what, what drove you, what you learned, and anything else that you want to tell us about the earlier Chris   Chris Blum ** 02:28 Sure. Well, hey, I'm Midwest boy. I grew up in Omaha Nebraska. Council Bluffs, Iowa. If you know anything about Omaha Nebraska, you're familiar with the College World Series, so yeah, I was Yeah. Grew up average milk. Middle class family. Have two parents, one sister, two dogs. You know, lived in Omaha for seven years, and then both my parents were working in Council Bluffs Iowa, so we moved across the river and actually moved to the country because living on a gravel road went from city streets with sidewalks and a park right across the street to to a gravel road with eight houses on it and ended up going to high school at Council Bluffs Lewis Central. Played golf and ran cross country. Was very active in our East Side Christian Church and and I went to Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, thought I thought I wanted a career in broadcasting, so I did some work on the radio station and the TV station there in at school. Thought maybe I wanted to go into sports management. So my first job out of college was with a summer collegiate baseball team in St Joseph Missouri, the St Joseph Cardinals had a lot of fun working in a minor league baseball setting, but couldn't make any money, and didn't like spending my whole summer at the ballpark because I didn't get a chance to play Golf or do a lot of other things, and then an opportunity presented itself to go to work for the Boy Scouts of America in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. And having grown up in scouting, I thought, hey, this might be something that I'd be good at, and that that career lasted 25 years, took me to from South Dakota to Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and then back here to Lincoln, Nebraska, my wife's Nebraska native from Wahoo, and I'm from, as I mentioned earlier, Omaha, so we're. Like, hey, this is a great opportunity to come back home. All of our family is between Council, bluffs, wahoo and Lincoln. So we had, we've got 15 nieces and nephews. I think we got 15. I might be off on the count, but thought it'd be a good opportunity to put down some roots and stop moving all over the country and and then that has led me to to the heartland Cancer Foundation.   Michael Hingson ** 05:32 So when did you leave the scouts? From a professional standpoint,   Chris Blum ** 05:38 left the scouts in 2019 February, 2019 and then had a spent a couple years at The Nebraska Safety Council here in Lincoln, doing some business development and some marketing, helping them as a nonprofit work to keep keep the workers safe through OSHA trainings, we also had some driver ed programs for teaching teenagers how to drive safely and effectively. And then we also had a wellness component to make sure that the the employees of of our companies, you know whether they be manufacturing or in the desk, the office employees making sure that they're taking care of themselves, physically and mentally. You know little things like drinking enough water, getting up and stretching every few hours, having a stand up desk so that you, you don't spend eight hours a day sitting you and yeah. And had two years there, and then an opportunity to present itself, to come, come work for the Heartland Cancer Foundation. And so in in August of 2022, I came on board with the with the heartland Cancer Foundation. So   Michael Hingson ** 07:04 being with the scouts for 25 years, what prompted you to leave and go elsewhere?   Chris Blum ** 07:12 The biggest, the biggest thing was that they were asking me to move again. Oh, I, I had. They're no fun. Yes, set up roots here in Lincoln early on in my career. When you're single, it's easy to move every three or four years, even when you're newly married and you and your spouse don't have kids, it's Hey, it's kind of fun, a new adventure. But then when you realize your spouse has to give up her career and start all over and and you realize that the the raise that you got gets wiped out because your household income gets cut in half, and then you got to start all over with, you know, finding finding a gym to go to, Finding the grocery store, you know, meeting the neighbors finding, you know, the new house that you just moved into. Where's, where's the water shut off, where's the, you know, where's all the stuff I was used to, yeah. And so we had made the decision when we had moved to Lincoln, was that if, if we decided that the Boy Scouts wasn't going to work out for us. Could we stay in Lincoln? And again, we were around family. We had started to put down roots. My son had just started, you know, was into school and like, Look, I'm not uprooting all of this. And decided, you know, there's, there's an opportunity to do, do other things that I can do, and be very successful professionally and personally. And chose to, chose to leave the Boy Scouts.   Michael Hingson ** 08:58 Do you still have family in Omaha, Yes, yep, and that's not very far away.   Chris Blum ** 09:04 Nope. My mom and sister live actually in Council Bluffs. I've got an aunt that lives in Bellevue, which is a suburb of Omaha. And then my wife's got brothers and sisters, and I'll miss that. Count up, she's got seven brothers and sisters in Wahoo and and Lincoln. So we're all we're all right here. So, yeah, it's,   Michael Hingson ** 09:33 it is it is tough to move. And I know my wife passed away in November of 2022, and people started asking me after she passed, well, are you going to move because you've got that big house? And as as I love to say to people, first of all, moving is incredibly stressful, especially when you've been somewhere for a while. But. For me, I pay under 200 I pay under $2,000 a month for principal, interest, tax and insurance. Why would I move? It'd be costing me any a bunch more money to move anywhere. So sure. And the house is seven years old, so it's built to all the codes and solar and all that. So there's a lot to be said for being content with where you are. So I'm with you. I know that I've spent time in Lincoln and worked with the Department of Rehabilitation back there and then across the state somewhat. I have a former geometry teacher, Dick herbalsheimer, who was my sophomore geometry teacher. He now lives in Sydney, Nebraska. He kind of always wanted to move back there, even though he was teaching out in Palmdale, but we visited him. He is, what, 87 this year, and we always discuss the fact that he's older than I am, and he keeps telling me, I'm catching up. And I said, Nope, you're always going to be seven years ahead of me. I'm not going to worry about it, or not seven years you're going to be 14 years ahead of me, and I'm not catching up. Sure, that's kind of fun. But I like, I like Nebraska. It's a lot of fun to be there and so on. Well, you and it's interesting to hear what you say about the Safety Council. I haven't spoken at any State Safety Council meetings, but I've spoken at safety and emergency preparedness organization conventions, and had a lot of fun doing it, and really appreciate some of the kinds of things that you're talking about and what you're trying to teach people to do. Because, yeah, if you just sit all day, every day, and in an office at a desk, that's not good for anybody,   11:46 correct? Well, so   Michael Hingson ** 11:49 you, you, you went to the Nebraska well, to the heartland Cancer Foundation. Tell me about the foundation, if you would   Chris Blum ** 11:58 sure. So the the heartland Cancer Foundation was founded in 2008 by a local group of cancer doctors who, as they were helping their patients and treating their patients, they they saw a need to help them with their their basic expenses, their their car payments, their mortgage, their utilities, and then the the travel expenses to and from treatment. You know, those are, those are expenses that when you get a cancer diagnosis, they don't, they don't stop. You know, they wanted to do something locally for the local patients. You know, raising money for the national organizations for research is is important, but when you're going through treatment and struggling to figure out how to pay your bills, you don't really care about cancer research and funding that leaves the state. So these doctors put together this foundation, and over the past few years, they've just steadily grown it through some special events. We currently provide grants of $750 to cancer patients in Nebraska. You've got to be a resident of Nebraska, you have to be in active treatment, and you have to qualify financially. What we our requirements are, we take the federal poverty guidelines, and we times that by four, and the application process is pretty easy. It's online, or we can actually, we can actually mail a paper copy to a person working with their nurse practitioner or their social worker, the medical staff that they work with they get it filled out. Our turnaround time is about a about a day or two, depending on how, how quick our program director reads it and then, and then we we approve the grant. The The nice thing that I think we offer is we actually pay the bills directly to the mortgage company or the car company or the utility company for the for the patient, so that takes that burden off of them, or their family who's ever might be helping them out throughout the the whole process, if they, if the patient says, Hey, I my biggest need of those four categories is travel expenses to and from treatment, then we will, we'll mail them gas cards to that they can use for their. For their trips. Nebraska, being mostly rural, you know, a lot of our folks are driving outside of Lincoln, you know, 45 minutes an hour into Lincoln for treatment, or if they're in one of our outstanding community towns that we serve, whether it be Beatrice or Grand Island or Hastings, you know, they're, they could be driving, you know, 1520 minutes, you know. And the gas prices the last few years have kind of skyrocketed. So that's been our, our biggest need in the past couple years, to ensure that folks have, have the, have the travel expenses. And again, we we pride ourselves on immediate and practical financial assistance for for local cancer patients. So like I said, as long as you live in in Nebraska and you're in active treatment, you you're eligible, and we've been blessed that we've never turned down a request. So we're, it's something we're we're planning on continuing to a streak with. We hope we'll. We plan on continuing.   Michael Hingson ** 16:16 Are the grants one time grants? Or can people receive more than one? Or how does that work?   Chris Blum ** 16:20 They can, they can receive one every 12 months. Ah, okay, so, yeah, unfortunately, cancer doesn't usually get fixed in a year, no. So we, we offer, you know, after that 12 month cycle, they can, they can reapply. We also collaborate with other other foundations here in Nebraska, the Hope Foundation, the Grace Foundation, and angels among us is another one where we our patients can help. You know, if they get grants from them, we actually encourage that. We don't, we don't disqualify them because they get grants from somebody else. So, you know, we and we share that. We share those resources with our on our website. Hey, here's some other other areas of needs. Because as as great as the needs are for for cancer patients, our mission that we've stuck to is these are our four categories that we fund, and we'll give you money for their for these four if you need help outside of those four categories, here's some here are some people that you you should reach out to.   Michael Hingson ** 17:37 Are there similar organizations in other states,   Chris Blum ** 17:42 that is a very good question. I want to say yes, but I I don't know that for sure. I would. I have to believe that there are. I That's probably a something I need to be more aware of. But like I said, most of the stuff we have done has been all in Nebraska, so we are very familiar with the foundations in Nebraska that help. Again, the great thing about Google is we could probably, I could probably Google it more talented to be able to do this while I'm while I'm talking to you, but I don't want to mess mess that up and hit the wrong button and get cut off from the podcast here.   Michael Hingson ** 18:29 I know, I know what you're saying. We   Chris Blum ** 18:31 can probably Google and like I said, I'm sure there are groups   Michael Hingson ** 18:38 in other states well, and there are a lot of different organizations in Nebraska, as you say, what sets the HCF apart? What makes you unique and what you do? What   Chris Blum ** 18:50 makes us unique is that we provide the immediate, practical assistance, and it's, it's a quick turnaround time, you know, you're not, you're not applying, and then waiting, you know, you you apply and say, Hey, I need my mortgage paid for. We agree. We start, we start covering that mortgage. You know, that mortgage payment, you know, and and most of our, most of our clients at mortgage payments somewhere between one and three months. And so if we can take that burden off of an individual for that that amount of time, and they can spend now that that one to three months just focusing on healing and not having to worry about, how am I going to pay pay the mortgage this month? You know, we're we have a local, a local board of 12 members. So all our decisions are are made here in Lincoln. We're not we're not having to call somebody in in Dallas. We're not having to call somebody in New York. You know, if, if we have a, if we have something we need to do, we we talk to the board and we. Make a decision. Most of our, majority of our funding, is all raised here in Nebraska. And we do get several, several 1000s of dollars of support from the pharmaceutical companies through some educational programs that we run and why those dollars aren't headquartered here in Nebraska. They all have local, local representatives that live and work here in in Omaha or Lincoln, and that, you know, we're, we're we're based local. We serve local, you know, and our staff all lives here. Fact, our one, our one staff member who works part time for us, she worked at the Beatrice hospital for a time in the intake office. So she she was involved with the patients on a daily basis before she came to workforce. So, yeah, that's, I think that's what makes us unique. And again, we were, we were started by local doctors helping helping local patients. Several of those doctors are still involved. Several other spouses are still involved in our our impact. Guild, um, so I think that's a long winded question. Answer to your to your short question. Michael, sorry about that.   Michael Hingson ** 21:27 That's fair. So I'm curious you, you said something that at least prompts a question. So you get funding from some outside sources like pharmaceutical companies and so on. Do they ever try to restrict their funds, or is that part of the message that you send is you can't do that? Yeah,   Chris Blum ** 21:46 that's, that's part of our message is that, you know, we, they can't really restrict the the funds. And if they ask to to restrict the funds, we we just say that we're we can't accept them. So again, the four things that we support are mortgage payment, car payment, utilities and then travel expenses. So that's what we ask them to to support. And it's great that you the most of the companies again, because I'm dealing with local reps, they understand what we're doing. And then we can, we can just work, work through there. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 22:35 you've spent most, well, pretty much all, of your professional life in the nonprofit world, which, generally speaking, certainly from a financial standpoint, doesn't pay as much as working a lot of times in the corporate world, but you've been very successful at being a leader and building teams and so on. What? What makes you stay in the the nonprofit sector as opposed to going elsewhere.   Chris Blum ** 23:01 Oh, good question. I think part of it is in my Gallup strengths. You know, realized I'm a very mission driven individual, a lot of times working in the boy scouts. It, it gave me the the ability to act and operate like an entrepreneur, without the risk I didn't have. You know, there was, there was always a there was always an umbrella there. And so I like the flexibility. I like being able to to help folks. I've never really been a nine to five or so. There's a lot of times meetings, meetings and activities outside of the workday. It's a, it's more of a, it's more of a calling and being able to being able to help folks, is and give back. I think that's why I spent a lot of time with the Boy Scouts, is I knew what it did for me as a kid, and I thought, if I could this, this is my way to help, help give back. Was it the best camper, the best knot tire? I like camping, but I prefer a Marriott, yeah. And so I figured if I could help, you know, raise the money and handle stuff on the back end of things, that that would be something that would be my way of paying it, paying it back or paying it forward.   Michael Hingson ** 24:43 I hear you, I, I, I didn't mind going camping. I enjoyed it, but at the same time, it was always a whole lot more fun to stay indoors, as I learned a whole lot later in life. So there's, there's a lot to be said for hotels, but at the. Same time, I never regret the knowledge and all the information that I learned in my years as a scout, including camping and learning how to function in those kinds of environments, whether I choose to do it or not, having the knowledge is also a very helpful thing to to be able to tie yourself to Yes, and so I don't mind it a bit. How what? What caused you to start being a professional Scouter? What was it just a job that came up? Or how did that work out?   Chris Blum ** 25:38 Oh, so, yeah, that's an interesting story.   Michael Hingson ** 25:43 Love stories.   Chris Blum ** 25:45 When I left the so I was working in minor league baseball, as I mentioned earlier, and the season was over. September. I was actually working with the Wichita wranglers double a team in Wichita, Kansas. Season was over early September, and they said, Hey, we love you. We want you to work for us, the internship to be a full time job, but it's not going to start till January. Well, it's September. I, I got a car payment. I, you know, I got, you know, rent. I need to eat. I can't not work for four months. So I moved back to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and I answered an ad in the Omaha World Herald marketing and fundraising professional. Or maybe it was a, I think it was a marketing, public relations and fundraising professional position. Okay, so I go to the address on the paper back in those days, you didn't Google it. You Oh, the address. Okay, get out the road,   Michael Hingson ** 26:53 get the Thomas brothers map out. Yeah, and   Chris Blum ** 26:57 I showed up at the Boy Scout office. I'm like, Okay, this, this is odd. I didn't know that there was a professional side of scouting, and so I sat down, I interviewed and and they were telling me, you know, here's what you do. You you talk to people, you get a you recruit kids. You gotta raise money. I'm like, oh, that's kind of like sales, sales in minor league baseball, working in the stadium operations department, on putting on camperies, and they're like, Yeah, and you, you're not going to deal too much with kids, you know, you're not, you're not a scout master or a cub, cub scout master or a den leader. You're handling the business side of scouting. Okay, that makes sense. And so I I interviewed in Omaha. And boy scouts have a National Personnel System, so So I was in their system. Omaha didn't have a job. They didn't, they didn't select me for a job. But I got a call from the scout executive in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Scout executive is, would be the CEO of the local council or the local franchise. And I talked to him, he's like, Well, I've got a job for you. I need you to come up here and interview and say, Okay, I really, really don't want to drive three hours for an interview unless you're going to give me the job. And he said, Well, I can't enter. I can't give you the job without interviewing. Yeah. I said, Well, we've got a phone. Let's just interview here. And, and we bantered back and forth, and he's finally just said, Well, you just drive up here and take the interview so I can give you the job. Oh, there you go. So drove up and we talked and and he was telling me, he's like, now you're going to, you're, you're going to work 50 to 60 hours a week. Okay, well, that's a lot less than I worked in baseball. So alright. He's like, you're not going to make, make very much money. I I can only pay you $23,000 I'm like, well, that's, that's, you know, 1012, grand more than I made with the baseball team. So where do I sign? And he's like, Well, you're, you're going to cover 11 counties in South Dakota, so there's a lot of driving time. Okay, well, I've driven all over Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,   Michael Hingson ** 29:18 and I came here, didn't I? Yeah, I'm like,   Chris Blum ** 29:23 Okay, where do, where do I sign? And so I actually had relatives in my I had a aunt and uncle, great aunt and uncle that lived in winter South Dakota, which was going to be one of my, one of my communities that I would be in charge of. So, you know, I'm like, this is like, a no brainer. I think, you know, the good Lord's looking out for me. You know, go going from not having any job to getting a new job with a car and and a raise and benefits and and so, and I ended up working out of my house. So I had a I had an old desk that I, you know, fact, it wasn't even a desk before I got a desk. I had a two saw saw horses and and an old piece of plywood that I used as my desk because I I remembered reading something that Sam Walton, that's how his desk started. Well, if it's good enough for Sam Walton that it worked for me, and the price was right. I, you know, everything was free. So, so I started working for the Boy Scouts, and really, really enjoyed it. My first summer, I was in in charge of a traveling Cub Scout day camp. So we traveled and put on, kind of like a carnival event in all the communities in South Dakota and Minnesota, and I got paid to run around and shoot BB guns and bows and arrows, run around in shorts and a T shirt and, you know? And I'm like, wow, this is pretty fun. And so it never really felt like a job. I found my two, two good things I was really strong at in in scouting, was I was running good at running camps, making sure kids got signed up. Camps were full, they had a good time, and that we turned a profit. And I was really good at raising money. And realized, if you run camps for the Boy Scouts, it's kind of like being in minor league baseball. Your summers, you don't get a lot of time to do anything but, but work and be at   Michael Hingson ** 31:28 camp. How tough?   Chris Blum ** 31:29 If you raise money, you're always going to have a job. And a lot of times your summers are off, so or you're, you're spending your summers with donors, playing golf, or, you know, going to a ball game or, you know, and so my my skill set translated, you know, Boy Scout councils needed somebody that could relate to donors, raise money, work with marketing and project management. And so my career track with the Boy Scouts, took the the fundraising track and and the development track and and continued to sharpen that skill set, and ended up working for the Boy Scout foundation in Dallas, traveling around the country, working With Boy Scout councils and their and their donors to help figure out how to how to secure gifts of $100,000 to 5 million, and really understanding how to match the donors. Donors passion with the local council's vision, you know, to make sure that you know the donor wanted to give a give money to build a swimming pool, but the council needed a new dining hall, so let's not put a new swimming pool in. Let's figure out how to, how to make a new dining hall work, or find out, you know, does the does the donor really want to do a swimming pool? Or they just thought it was a neat idea, yeah. And so that was, that was kind of how it worked. And I, again, they, they needed local council leadership here in Lincoln as a CEO, and the powers to be at the Boy Scouts thought I'd be a good candidate. So I came here to to Lincoln to interview and and was selected to serve as the scout executive. And, like I said, did that for four years and and enjoyed it, but it when it got to the time that, hey, it's time for you to look at a new job somewhere else, and we want you to start over somewhere else. I think the options they gave me were Pennsylvania and Montana, and they said, why those sound great? Could have come 10 years ago. It would have been a lot easier for me to say, yeah, yeah. So yeah. That's how the kind of the Boy Scout, Boy Scout story started and   Michael Hingson ** 33:55 you you equated or mentioned early on about the fact that what they were asking you to do with the Boy Scouts was really like sales and so on. Tell me what, what do you think the differences are? Or really, are there differences between sales and what, what people do in traditional kinds of selling of things and fundraising? And I'll and I'll tell you why I asked the question, because my belief is that they're really the same thing. Obviously, there's a little bit more of a mission component to fundraising than sales, but really are they all that different?   Chris Blum ** 34:36 Oh, that's a that's a good question. In fact, one of my, one of my really good friends from my time living in Michigan. Matt Stevens is a professional sales coach with Jerry Weinberg and Associates. He's a Sandler assistant guy and and disciple and very talented and very good. There are a lot of a lot of similarities. I. Um, I, my, my viewpoint is that sales is more of a science fundraising, fundraising is more of an art, but they do intertwine. Yeah, the thing about really good sales people and the representative is both of them. It comes down to relationships, yeah, but with sales, the the best ones are the ones that are disciplined. They they know every day. I'm I'm going to make certain amount of calls, I'm going to talk to a certain amount of people, I'm going to meet with a certain amount of people, and then, and they've got that system in place where there's a follow up, okay, you need to, you need to follow back up this conversation. And so sales, in sales, it's about finding the pain point and getting at what the prospect really needs, and for them to tell you what they really need.   Michael Hingson ** 36:04 That's, of course, the real issue is that they need to tell you what they need. And, you know, I I really find that there is a science and an art to sales, because I think the best salespeople are really teachers, they're counselors, and most people don't get that. But I think that's as true for people in the fundraising world. Yeah, there are some differences, but, but I think there, there are, as you said, a lot of similarities, and I think that all too often we miss that and and the best fundraisers and the best salespeople are people who really can dig down and understand or or learn to understand what drives their customer or their donor?   Chris Blum ** 36:51 Yes, I agree. And in fundraising, a lot of times, in fundraising, I know early on, it was very transactional. Hey, I've got this golf tournament I'd like you to buy Forza or, you know, we're doing this fundraiser for this, this trinket or or recognition piece. You know, as I, as I grew up and went to work for the foundation, I really learned more about listening, you know, finding out what the donor, you know, asking them to tell their story. Why are, you know, tell me why you why you're involved in scouting. And once they start telling that story, then you start picking up, you know, bits and pieces. The other thing, I think, was fundraising, is if you can take two people and visit with the donor, you increase your odds of success, because you are going to hear something that the other person won't, and you can actually better strategize. And then a colleague of mine that I worked with at the foundation, he told me, he said, if, if you want somebody's opinion, you ask for their money. If you want somebody's money, you ask for their opinion. And it, it sunk in with me that. Well, yeah, if you, if you ask them what they think and how, you know how, how they think something should work. Or you show them the campaign brochure and, like, give me your thoughts on this, they'll lead you down the path. So similar to to salesman, and I know my friend Matt, he drives me crazy because he's always asking he, he always asks me questions. Or, you know, we go out to eat somewhere, we meet somebody, and, you know, 20 questions later, Matt's still having a conversation with a guy. And I'm like, dude, let's go. But he's, he's got that down. He, he asked, you know, fact Sandler, I've got it here on my desk that I think I got from him in one of his trainings. I I snuck was questions that you should, you know, and so, so, yeah, I think it's, they're very much related. And I think, you know, I've learned, you know, I'm, I've brought the sales discipline to the fundraising, and then I've and then some of the again, asking the questions and not not being, not being so much in a rush. I think that's part of the challenges with fundraisers and nonprofits as we are so into I got to get this money, I got to get this sponsorship for this, for this event, or our year end budget. We, you know, we got to get these year end gifts in. And we don't really, you know, we don't really stop and and and take a donor to coffee and just say, hey, thank you. Thanks for what you do for us. Yeah, why do you do what you do for us? And, once we start having those conversations, and we listen and we and we don't listen to and we're not sitting there thinking about what we're going to say next, that's where, you know, the magic happens. That's where the the sale, the. Or you know, you know. And sometimes I think, you know sales, you're selling a product, and we think that that customer needs that product. Well, do we know if we had asked the issue, right, if they need it? And sometimes they don't even know they need it. And and and I've, I sit on that end all the time, I get emails, hey, we can help you raise more money at this event. You know? We can help you with a bigger with a better CRM and, like, no, no, no, you know. And so, yeah, it I think again. Like I said, I've learned a lot from some of the my good friends that are salespeople and very successful. It's about the discipline. Put it in your calendar, you know. And I've actually been on, I was a sale Salesforce disciple for a few years at the foundation, and that was, to me, that was just too rigid, because, like, well, you met with, you met with Bill Smith three weeks ago. Proposal needs to be completed today, and sent like, Well, no, he's he's not ready. Yeah, you know. And so it felt like I was always managing, managing the tasks of the sales force, but, but understood why they were doing it, tickling it. Okay? It forced me to look okay, well, why isn't bill ready? Oh, because I haven't, I haven't found why. Or I haven't, you know, it's been three weeks since I've talked to him. So, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 41:30 there are, there are definite challenges. It's, it is true that that ultimately, you've got to really have the opportunity to step back and look at what the customer wants, or the donor wants, who is, in a sense, the customer. I know the Sandler system is often about pain. You know, well, what pain are you feeling as the person that we're trying to sell to? And can I figure out your pain? And that works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't, but it isn't any different in fundraiser fundraising, the The difference is that you probably don't call it pain. You call it more an issue of what drives me to want to give to this organization or that organization, or what what influenced me to even come there? And it amounts to the same thing, but we we tend to still put things in such rigid terms that we ultimately don't get back down to what is the what is the customer, the donor, or, in your case, the foundation, really need, and then you map a strategy accordingly.   Chris Blum ** 42:42 Yeah, and it's, it's really, again, goes back to, you know, I think sometimes in the fundraising world the nonprofit, we think we know why somebody, oh, they, they support us because they come to our golf term, okay, well, do you know why? You know. And a lot of times when you sit and ask, Why can't? Because, you know, definitely on the foundation, well, you know, Dr green asked me to to play in his Foursome, or Dr Nate Green was, was my wife's oncologist. Yeah, I was just gonna say, you know, Dr Dunder is my neighbor. You know, those are the, those are the type of things you know that you know, in my, my year and a half I've been here, I've been finding out, you know, you know, there's a ton of golf tournaments. Why do you, why do you come to our golf tournament? Well, my, my spouse, was a patient, or, you know, the foundation helped my, my uncle, or, you know, and so it's, it's finding that, and, and then the, you know, the question that I think we, we don't ask enough in the nonprofit, is, well, we, if we didn't do the golf tournament, would you still support the organization? You know, do you? Would you still support the mission? Because, from my standpoint, I would love to have somebody just write me the sponsor check, yeah, and not have to worry about, you know, paying for a golf course, and we're paying for, you know, if you put on a gala and you got to, you got to pay for the food, you got to pay for the venue. If we didn't have the gala, would you still write the check, you know? And a lot of times I get it the corporate money. It's easier to to be tied to, to an event because they they work at Mark, they look at it as a marketing or a public, public thing. But I think just again, having that conversation so that, you know, well, they're coming, this is why they're coming to the golf term. This is why they're coming to the Mardi Gras Gala, you know. And again, the challenge with with with nonprofits is that we, a lot of us, do a lot of non special events, and having having a lot of special events. But you know, you're not going to get the same sponsors back every year because the dates not going to align, or the person who wrote the check for that company got promoted or left the company and the new person isn't familiar with you. So I think again, that's a that's a question in the nonprofit world, we we need to ask, but a lot of times we're afraid of asking that, would you write us the check without coming to all the events, or if, if that's the why you're coming, or why you're writing the check is because the event that's that's also important to know, because then you know they're not coming if they're if we don't have this event. And I would guess that most, most supporters of your organization in the event, that's not why they're they're coming but,   Michael Hingson ** 45:49 but they do love the personal contact, yes,   Chris Blum ** 45:51 yes. And then they love to see the the stuff you know, the the program in action. And they, they like the personal contact and, but yeah, the the special events are very, very time, time intensive to to put on and, and so, yeah, it would be be much easier if we could just have somebody, you know, give the gift, because they support us and come back, you know, you know, come back next time. I can help so   Michael Hingson ** 46:28 and maybe if they start out coming because of the events and so on, as given the way you operate, as you gain more of a personal relationship with them, you may find that you can guide some of them away from just needing to come to the event to support the organization, and it may mean that you can get them to the point where they'll be a larger donor because you do the event, but also just because they they buy into what you're doing, And you're able to educate them about that? Yeah,   Chris Blum ** 47:02 absolutely. That's, that's where the magic happens is, is after the event, you know, how, how do you follow up? You know, is a thank you, a personal visit, you know, finding out, Hey, why? Why were you there? And, yeah, and we've, you know, we've, we've had some success here at the Foundation with that. We've got. We've got a couple donors. Yeah, they've, they've come to one or two of our events, but yet they, they call us towards the end of end of the year every year, like, hey, what else? What else can we help you with? And sometimes I don't even have to answer, like, we're sending you the check. Use it how you need it. So there you go. And I think a lot of the successful nonprofits around the around the country that they do the exact same thing. It's just with most nonprofits, you're always trying to put 10 pounds of potatoes in a five pound bag, and you literally could work 24/7, and and still be behind. And that's probably the same way in the corporate world. I'm fact, I'm sure it is, you know, and I had a, I had a friend a long time ago. He said, Yeah, faster planes and shorter runways, and that was back in 1993 so could almost say we've got supersonic planes and no runways now, so just how fast things move? The problem with   Michael Hingson ** 48:27 all that, though, is that it's not the planes and the runways, it's the roads getting to the airport that tend to slow you down a lot, right? I was reading an article a couple weeks ago all about how efficient, more efficiently. We have become an R with air travel and so on directly, but it's all the things leading up to it that take a lot longer than it used to, and it adds so much more stress in our lives, and that doesn't help either. But you know, with what you're doing, anyone who understands nonprofits and understands the mission of an organization, and buys into it, knows full well the value and the joy in a lot of ways that you get from doing what you do, and the joy of accomplishing a task, and that's probably a little bit different than what happens in a lot of sales environments, although, I would say for me, when I was selling computer products, and I would spend a lot of time talking with prospects about what they want, what they need, And and also making sure that my product was the one that would do what they need. And I had never had qualms about saying, you know, our product's not going to work for you, and here's why. And that always eventually was a very positive thing, because they would call me back at some point. Say, because of everything you taught us, we've got another project, and we know your product will do exactly what we want. So just tell us how much it is. We're not even going to put it out to bid. But that, again, is all in the relationship. And the joy of knowing that you helped someone really solve a problem is super so it is true that it translates into sales, but you got to look for that opportunity, and you got to look for that joy in your own life and what you do. And I think it is emphasized a lot less than looking at and understanding the mission of a nonprofit.   Chris Blum ** 50:34 Absolutely, good,   Michael Hingson ** 50:36 yeah, which, yeah, which is, was? It's part of the issue, part of the issue. So what does success look like for you? You, you clearly are, I would, I would say successful in what you do and so on. You enjoy what you do. So what is success to you?   Chris Blum ** 50:51 Oh, that's, that's an ever, yeah, ever moving. It is moving obstacle. I guess it just depends, I think, from a professional standpoint, at the foundation here, success is making sure we've got, we've got enough money to to never have to say no to a to an applicant, being able to to grow the foundation you know, you know, live, capitalizing on the success of of my predecessors. You know, the board, the previous director, Amy green, and the previous donors that have set us up for for success, continuing that and making sure that, you know, five or 10 years down the road, we've, we're given grants at, you know, $1,500 or 2000 or, you know, we're paying, we're paying everybody's mortgage for a year being able to, you know, and that, that's kind of pie in the sky. But the the success is that, you know, hey, we're able to fund everybody. You know, we are, we're in, we're we're covering every county in Nebraska, you know our when somebody says the heartland Cancer Foundation, they're like, yep, we know what they do. You need to, you need to support them. You need to get involved with them. I think, success wise, personally, you know, make sure that you know my my wife and son know that I don't spend more time at the office than I spend at home. But no, but their understanding is that when I'm in the office, they understand why I'm is because, you know, there's, there's a deadline for one of our special events, or that, you know, what I'm raising money for and engaging the community with is, is having an impact and changing the lives of cancer patients. But when I'm, you know, success looks like when I'm at home, that I'm, I'm present, you know, when I'm, when I'm at CJs baseball game or basketball game, I'm not on my phone, you know, checking emails or texts of people. I'm, if I'm on my phone, I'm taking a video or or a picture of him. You know, when, when we're at, when we travel to one of my wife, Lori's marathon trips, you know, I'm, I'm not working on the laptop. The laptop doesn't even come with me, you know. And you know, my, my role is the support. Okay, get out on the course. Cheer with her, you know. Make sure she gets to the start line on time. Make sure, you know, she gets picked up on time, and I've got, I've got the change of clothes and and the money to pay the for the massage table, if, if needed that. You know, that's my role. I think success on that end, making sure that what I the effort I give at the office, is the effort I give at home. And sometimes that's not easy,   Michael Hingson ** 54:06 but, but you do it, which is what is so cool, and you are very volitional about doing that. So Lori's a runner,   Chris Blum ** 54:12 yep, yep. She's, she's a marathon runner, half, half marathon runner. I try to be as well. I just my mind can't, can't stay focused for 26 miles. I can stay focused for 13 and and be glad that I'm done with with that part.   Michael Hingson ** 54:32 Does she work?   Chris Blum ** 54:33 Yeah, she's a, she's a seventh grade school teacher. Oh, cool. And so she's up. She's been a, she's been a school teacher since I married her, and then she she took some time off to run the household when my son was born, our son was born, so she, she was the CEO of the Blum household for nine years, and then she jumped back into the teaching world.   Michael Hingson ** 54:58 Now it's a team effort. Yes,   Chris Blum ** 55:02 and so, and yeah. And then success for me personally is making sure you know that I'm, you know, staying in relatively good shape and and and being healthy, and, you know, being proactive, you know, with my health and I need to do a better job of watching what I eat. From a healthy standpoint, I love watching cake and cookies and sugar. You know, desserts go into my mouth. But, you know, I like to make sure that I stay in shape through classes at the Y I teach a spinning class to help get help. Help participants start their day off. It's, it's a 530 Tuesday morning. So let's, let's get the day off while most people are sleeping. Let's, let's get the blood flowing. You know, set, set a good, good example for for our other family members who're still home in bed, but get, get yourself off to a to a good start, and just try to keep the body movement we're we're meant to move and and I, I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk, sitting in my car, sitting at, you know, tables, talking to people. So I gotta be up and moving and just making sure that I'm healthy. Because I, you know, want to be able to play golf and want to be able to, you know, survive and snow, yep, do things as I get get older.   Michael Hingson ** 56:43 There you go. What's the best piece of advice you've ever received? I'm sure that you've, you know, you had mentors and coaches and people that you've worked with, and a lot of people I'm sure have offered advice. What's the one that sticks out in your brain?   Chris Blum ** 57:01 One of my, yeah, one of my first bosses. He told me, always trust your instincts. It seemed like every time I'd ask him a question that I was, you know, or I had a something I was dealing with, trust your instincts.   Michael Hingson ** 57:16 Good piece of advice. That's that's always   Chris Blum ** 57:18 there. And then a co worker of mine when I was at the Boy Scout Foundation. He, he had a slogan, shut up and do stuff. And I just always thought that that, you know, it's kind of his version of Talk is cheap, you know. And so, yeah, I think trust your instincts. And then the shut up and do stuff always makes me laugh, but it's just something that I just kind of   Michael Hingson ** 57:49 remember and make sense. Well, where do you see the nonprofit world going in the next five or 10 years? I mean, we're seeing so many changes in so many things, and everybody is trying to grab a little piece of each of us and so on. Where do you see nonprofits going?   Chris Blum ** 58:08 It's it's going to continue to be a challenge. I think the nonprofits need to, need to refocus how we put together strategic plans. I mean, you know, having a three to five year plan is just non realistic anymore. Your your strategic plan is probably six to eight months, and then it's gotta, it's gonna, it's constantly evolving because, you know, the world is changing that that that quickly. I think nonprofits, those that are going to survive and be successful, need to operate more like a business. So many times in the nonprofit world, my experience is when times get tough, they cut back on marketing dollars. They let go of their development staff, which, in the for profit world, that would be like, Well, why are you, you know, if times are tough, you got to sell more so you got to, you know, your salesman. You got to, do, you know, make more sales. You make more product. You don't cut your sales force to in the for profit world. So I think nonprofit wise, we've got to operate. We've got to change our mindset. You know, not only the staff getting out of the scarcity mentality, but also our boards, making sure that our boards understand it's okay to end the year with a with a surplus, because you can use that surplus to put it into an endowment. You can use that surplus to fund cash flow to pay down debt. Having a surplus, you're a winning team. People. People want to be on a winning team. You know, you don't want to recruit new board members and say, Oh yeah, by the way, we're. We got, you know, a debt of this amount, and we don't know how to get out of it's, it's easy to recruit a board member. Hey, we had a we had a significant surplus. We were blessed because we were, you know, we tightened our belt. We were aggressive in fundraising and relationship building. And we've got money in the bank. Our balance sheets positive. So I think again, in five years, the nonprofits that continue to be aggressive and strategic with relationship building and sharing their mission and then operating like a business and not, oh, we don't want to spend money on this. Let's see if we can donate. Get it donated. Well, you're spending all your time and effort to try to get something donated that if you would have just spent the $500 to take care of it already been taken care of, but you just spent your your staff time and energy trying to get it donated, and a lot of times, it ends up costing you more to get it donated than if you would have just wrote the check. Yeah, and I think you know, and I do feel that several foundations are starting to understand that we've got to operate like a business. We don't, you know, because years ago, foundations that you could never put in your proposal that this is going to fund a staff position. You had to call it, you know, program delivery, yeah, and, you know, because nobody wanted to fund overhead. And if your overhead was over, you know, 40% or whatever, you just weren't doing stuff effectively, right? We've got to change. We're changing our the nonprofits that change their messaging to here's your impact. Yes, we have we might have 40% overhead, but we serve 30,000 people. Would you rather do that than have 10% overhead and serve 3000 people? Which impact do you want to make? And you know, the more people you serve, the greater impact that you have. Chances are your your overhead is going to be more and so sharing that message, getting your board to understand that, that it's it's okay to it's okay to budget a five or 6% raise for your staff. You know, well, the industry standard, and you know, in our industry, is three Well, 3% when you're making 150 or $200,000 sounds like a lot. You know, 3% when you're making 50 or $60,000 that's not a whole lot. A six or 7% raise, you know, is, is more impactful at that 50 or $60,000 level, and what you'll keep good quality people, you know it, you know, again, the nonprofit sector is always going to be here again, I think the the ones in five years, the ones that act like a business, that relate to donors, that take more of a relationship based for the fundraising part, and educating the donors. You know, sometimes I think, oh, they give us a lot of money, but do we really tell them what we're what we're about and and do we ask them to, do we ask them to critique our our annual report? Or do we ask them to, you know? Do ask them to review the golf or some assignments, just to say, hey, what do you what do you think you know? You know? And I've been guilty of this too, or they don't really need to know that. But sometimes it's, you know, it's just a courtesy, and maybe they see something. Hey, you know, I wouldn't put these two guys together because they're competitors or whatnot, but have we? Do we ask donors and, and our board, you know, their for their thoughts and, and, you know, so I think, yeah, five years down the road, it, it'll be interesting. I like to joke. I hope I'm retired by then, but my, my son, will be going into college then, so I think I'm going to still be working to to fund his college, his college adventure. But is, is he in scouting? He was in scouts we I was his den leader. He was one of the first lion cubs that we, that we had here in Lincoln, as lion cubs started and we got through arrow of light. And then he went to a first couple of his troop meetings. And then other other things got. Got to compete for his time, music, music in school. And it happens, baseball and basketball and our, our cub Dan went through that covid, those two covid years, and so it, it was. It was pretty rough. I. Yeah, I would like to see, it's going to be interesting to see the the effects that covid has had on that, on that group of kids that you know for basically three years actually, here in Lincoln. Three years were, you know, my son, yeah, third grade year. Half Year was work, learning from home. Yeah. Fourth grade year was all mask. Fifth grade year was, I think, all masks. So, you know, but a lot of those extracurricular activities for those three years, we weren't meeting in churches. We weren't, you know, we weren't doing the social things. I I'm curious to see how that, how that affects them down the road. And there were a lot of organizations that it covid really struggled. You know, the the service clubs that had, you know, relied on those weekly meetings, and those that weekly human interaction, those really struggled, yeah, and so he still, you know, he still reminds me when we're doing stuff, he's like, oh, gotta take this. Gotta be prepared, Dad, we don't. We don't need three bags for full of stuff. But okay, yep, you're, you're right. We need to, we need to be prepared. So had a, we had a great time in in Cub Scouts, and several of several the kids in Cub Scouts are now all on the baseball team and the basketball team and several of the parents. It's funny because few of the parents that I was the den leader for their kid, they're now the coach. They're the baseball and basketball coach for my son. So that just takes a village.   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:36 It does well if people want to support the heartland Cancer Foundation and reach out to you. How do they do that?   Chris Blum ** 1:06:43 It's, it's, again, real simple. Go online, Heartland Cancer Foundation, org, click the donate button. Or they can, and they can, you know, make a donation, cash check. You know, we can take, we can take Venmo, you know, we'll take, we can take stock gifts, you know, we, we can help, help anybody out who's willing to, to make an impact for cancer patients here in Nebraska. But yeah, our website, Heartland Cancer Foundation, org, tells you all about us. If you're, you know, if you're want to come to our Mardi Gras gala February 17, it's a that's a good time. It's like being in New Orleans without having to go to New Orleans. We we do a golf tournament in August here. So if you're, if you're a golfer, and find yourself in Lincoln, Nebraska, we'd love to have you at our at firethorne Country Club.   Michael Hingson ** 1:07:43 And if, if they'd like to chat with you, how can they do that?   Chris Blum ** 1:07:47 It's very, very easy. You can send me an email at Chris at Heartland, Cancer foundation.org, or you can can reach out to me cell phone number 972-835-5747, that's a that's a Texas number. I just learned that number. I wasn't going to relearn a new number when I moved to Lincoln here. So I actually use that to my advantage, because when it comes up, people think, Oh, they're calling me about lapsed auto insurance or life insurance. So I get to leave a voicemail, and they're like, Oh, the heartland Cancer Foundation.   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:22 Okay, yeah. Well, Chris, I want to thank you for spending all this time with us. I value it and really appreciate you telling us all the things that you have and on all the insights. It's been very educational for me and inspiring, and I hope it has been for everyone listening. I hope that you all enjoyed Chris's comments. We'd love to hear from you. Of course, as I always ask, I love a five star rating from you, if you would please, wherever you're listening to us, if you'd like to reach out to me. It's easy. It's Michael, H, I M, I C, H, A, E, L, H I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, E.com, or go to our podcast page, www.michaelhinkson.com/podcast and Michael Hingson is spelled M, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, S O Ncom/podcast, but again, love to get five star rating from you. We value that very highly. And any opinions and comments that you'd like to make love to read them. And so Chris, for you and any of you listening, if you know anyone else who ought to be a guest on unstoppable mindset, please let us know. We're always looking for people. And I have to ask Chris, since she said this is your first podcast, how did it go for you?   Chris Blum ** 1:09:38 Well, I enjoyed it. I guess probably need to get, need to get the see how many rating, five star ratings you get. Yeah, we'll have to see how that goes. But yeah, very, very nice. It. It was good. Brought me with the headset and the microphone. It brought me back to my radio radio station days in college,   Michael Hingson ** 1:09:58 and so I know the feeling. Well, yeah, well,   Chris Blum ** 1:10:01 me too. If you need, need another speaker down the road, I can, I can come up with some, some other topics to talk about, I guess.   Michael Hingson ** 1:10:09 Well, if you want to, you're welcome to to do that. If you want to shoot some more questions and all that, let's, let's do it again. Always will be, I'm always ready. Yeah, happy,   Chris Blum ** 1:10:20 happy to do it. But let's, let's see how many of your star ratings you get. If you get like, half a star for this one, then you're probably like, Yeah, we're gonna lose Chris's email. Nah.   Michael Hingson ** 1:10:29 Never happened. Well, thanks once again for being here and for all your time. All right. Thank   Chris Blum ** 1:10:35 you very much, Michael.   **Michael Hingson ** 1:10:40 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. 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ABOUT WYATT SIMONWashed-up basketball player turned Investor. Wyatt Simon owns and operates a $20M+ vertically integrated real estate portfolio and has mastered the BRRRR strategy. Wyatt helps students take control of their financial future by utilizing real estate. He is a member of Citylight Church, and the author of "Your First 100 Doors: A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Scaling a Rental Portfolio."    THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: Wyatt's journey to real estate investingDiscovering the BRRRR strategyHow he bought his first propertyScaling from SFH to MultifamilyHow he added value to his first house 3 Steps and hurdles encountered to scale his portfolioFinding partners and growing the team Vertical integration and Property managementTheir role as operators and how they complement each otherHow to look for their dealsMarketing channels and strategyUnderwriting and Target market Current portfolio in OmahaDirect mail and how it works for themAdvice for a 20-yr-old self First Entrepreneurial EndeavorFormal and Informal training shaped his journey His biggest mistake and what he learned from itConnect with Wyatt    KEY QUOTE:  “Success is built by habits that you have. It's all the private victories underneath that you have to do in order to get to that public victory. “    SUMMARY OF BUSINESS: Full Circle Real estate - A Full Service Multifamily Real Estate Investment Firm based out of Omaha Nebraska. We focus on strong cashflow midwest markets that are recession-resistant. Full Circle Equity partners get the added benefit of in-house property management with Wyatt's team, Full Circle Property Management. We believe managing buildings effectively is one of the single greatest things we can do to maximize our investments.  ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK   The Westside Investors Network is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.     The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to real estate professional that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management, and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.        #RealEstateInvesting #Multifamily #BRRR #buy #rehab #refinance #rent #repeat #SingleFamilyHouse #MultiFamily #BRRRRstrategy #Skillset #wholetailing #FHAloan #CashFlow #RealEstatePortfolio #StabilizeAssets #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #underwriting #TrackRecord #coach #habits #HabitsOfEffectivePeople #Scale #CosmeticUpdates #BuildingWealth #RealEstateDeals #RealEstateOpportunities  #WealthBuilding #InvestmentInsights #JoinTheWINpod #WestsideInvestorsNetworkCONNECT WITH WYATT:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wyatt.simon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wyattbuysbuildings/ Website: https://www.wyattsimon.com/,  https://fcequitypartners.com/        CONNECT WITH US   For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  ·    Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/   For information on Portland Property Management:  ·    Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com  ·    Youtube | @UptownProperties     Westside Investors Network  ·    Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/  ·    Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx  ·    Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/  ·    Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Tiktok| @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  

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The College Football Experience (@TCEonSGPN) on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network continues its 134 college football team preview series with the Nebraska Cornhuskers 2024 Season Preview. Pick Dundee aka (@TheColbyD) & NC Nick (@NC__NicK) break down the upcoming 2024 Nebraska Cornhuskers offense, defense, special teams and key in on the Nebraska 2024 schedule. Will Matt Rhule lead the Nebraska Cornhuskers to a break through season in Lincoln, Nebraska? What does Nebraska have to do to break the longest power 5 bowl drought in the nation?How will Dylan Raiola do in his first season as a college football quarterback? Will we see Heinrich Haarberg at all in 2024? Will the Cornhuskers run game be vastly improved with the likes of Gabe Ervin, Rahmir Johnson and Emmett Johnson? What should we expect from the Nebraska Cornhuskers wideouts Isaiah Neyor, Jahmal Banks, Janiran Bonner and Malachi Coleman? Does returning 3 of 5 on the offensive line from a season ago mean the Cornhuskers offense will be much better in the 2nd season of Marcus Satterfields offense?Last year Nebraska's defense showed great promise, can they capitalize on this in 2024? Will the defensive line be legit with the likes of Jamari Butler, Nash Hutmacher, and Ty Robinson? Will linebackers Javin Wright, John Bullock and MJ Sherman be among one of the best units in the Big Ten? How will the Cornhuskers secondary look with the likes of Isaac Gifford, Tommi Hill, Malcom Hartzog, DeShon Singleton and Marques Buford? Did the Big Ten deal Nebraska a great schedule heading into 2024? What should the Nebraska Cornhusker fans expect from year 2 of the Matt Rhule era? We talk it all and more on this Nebraska Cornhuskers edition of The College Football Experience. JOIN the SGPN community #DegensOnlyExclusive Merch, Contests and Bonus Episodes ONLY on Patreon - https://sg.pn/patreonDiscuss with fellow degens on Discord - https://sg.pn/discordDownload The Free SGPN App - https://sgpn.appCheck out the Sports Gambling Podcast on YouTube - https://sg.pn/YouTubeCheck out our website - http://sportsgamblingpodcast.comSUPPORT us by supporting our partnersCirca Sports - 16 MILLION in guaranteed prizes w/ Circa Survivor & Circa Millions - https://www.circasports.com/circa-sports-millionFootball Contest Proxy - Use promo code SGP to save $50 at - https://www.footballcontestproxy.com/Rithmm - Player Props and Picks - Free 7 day trial! http://sportsgamblingpodcast.com/rithmmUnderdog Fantasy code SGPN - Up to $250 in BONUS CASH - https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-sgpnGametime code SGPN - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code SGPN for $20 off your first purchase - https://gametime.co/ADVERTISE with SGPNInterested in advertising? Contact sales@sgpn.io Follow The College Experience & SGPN On Social MediaTwitter - https://twitter.com/TCEonSGPNInstagram - http://www.instagram.com/TCEonSGPNTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@TCEonSGPNYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCollegeExperienceFollow The Hosts On Social MediaColby Dant - http://www.twitter.com/thecolbydPatty C - https://twitter.com/PattyC831NC Nick - https://twitter.com/NC__NicK

Earl H did this "Catch the Buzz" workshop a number of times in different parts of the US, this one is from 2005 and was held in Sacramento California. This jumps right in on step six. This is part three of six.  I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Earl H did this "Catch the Buzz" workshop a number of times in different parts of the US, this one is from 2005 and was held in Sacramento California. This jumps right in from yesterday and starts with Earl answering a few questions about what he has covered already. This is part two of six.  I had a TON of emails about the first part so I did some rearranging and Ill be putting up the rest of them. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Earl H did this "Catch the Buzz" workshop a number of times in different parts of the US, this one is from 2005 and was held in Sacramento California. This is one of six but Im adding it as a single episode and was not planning on posting the other 5. That said, if you get into it and you would like to hear the rest shoot me an email. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

This workshop led by Tim M was one of a nine part zoom event hosted by the Friendly Circle Group out of Berlin Germany in 2022. Tim leads for the first 45 min followed by sharing and questions for the second half. The topic is - Using the Program to Get Through the Day. If you are interested in hearing the other parts of this workshop please email me. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Beth D and Katy L share on the topic of Dr. Bobs Nightmare out of the big book, this was recorded in January of 2019. This recording was provided by, The Big Book Awakening, a Womens Big Book Study for all who identify as Women and/or LBTQ+. They meet in person every Saturday in St. Paul Minnesota at 8:30am. If you would like to join them please visit https://scast.us/weaa I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Ending this spontaneous one step a day we are on Step 12. Presented by Chris S, he is speaking at an unknown event held in Union New Jersey in April of 2009. Chris is one of the most prolific speakers in AA. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 11. Presented by Sandy B, I have no idea where or when this one was recorded, but Sandy was a hugely popular circuit speaker for many years and always has something good to say. Tomorrow we wrap up with Step 12 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 10. Presented by Katie & Charlie P, at 3rd Annual Spring Break Big Book Weekend held in Bourne Massachusetts in 2012. Tomorrow Step 11 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 9. Chris L is speaking on the topic at the Melbourne AA Steps Weekend held in 2005. Tomorrow Step 10 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 8.  Allyson K is sharing on todays step at a 2004  Workshop called - A Woman's Perspective, this was held in New Jersey in 2004. Tomorrow Step 9 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 7.  Ann Marie G from Montclair New Jersey is sharing on Step 7 at the 4th Annual Montclair Big Book Study held in August of 2011. Tomorrow Step 8 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com  

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 6. Todays speaker is Russell S sharing on the Sixth Step at the Chabad, no idea when this was recorded. Tomorrow Step 7 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 5. Todays speaker is Stephanie O'K, sharing at a 12 Step Study held in Orlando Florida in 1996. This starts right in on the topic and ends a little abruptly because it is one part of a 6 part presentation that Stephanie on the steps, I do have the other 5 parts so email me if you would like to hear the whole thing. Tomorrow Step 6 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, we are hearing about Step 4. Todays speaker is Bob D from Las Vegas Nevada, he is speaking at the 19th Spring Conference held in Cocoa Beach Florida in 2009. Tomorrow Step 5 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Continuing this spontaneous one step a day, today we are hearing about Step 3 from a number of different speakers at the 2017 Fellowship of the Spirit Conference held in  Arizona. There are 3 designated speakers sharing 10 min. each, followed by folks coming up from the audience and sharing on the topic. Tomorrow Step 4 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

I posted a Step 1 meeting yesterday & thought, why not do them all. Today is Step 2 from, the 2024 6th Annual Emotional Sobriety Conference (zoom) held 3 days ago in June of 2024. Ralph W from Los Angeles is sharing on the topic. Tomorrow Step 3 from ???? I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Ron W from Los Angeles is speaking on Step 1 at the First Jersey Shore Roundup. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Billy H is from Neptune New Jersey he is sharing on Step 12 at the Broken Elevator zoom meeting held in November of 2022. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Brenda from Toronto is the opening speaker at this meeting at the Ontario Canada Regional Conference held in March of 2024, she is sharing on the topic Keeping Sobriety Fresh Over Time. After Brenda we have Mel C from Toronto sharing on the same topic. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Brian K from Hamilton Ontario is telling his story at the Kawartha District Roundup called Courage to Change this was recorded 6 days ago in June of 2024. Thanks to Tia for sending this along. I just added 4 new events to the event list. The 47th Annual Cornhusker Roundup being held in Omaha Nebraska in mid August.  Details: https://scast.us/chusk The Redwood Coast Roundup being held in early August in Fortuna Calif.  Details: https://scast.us/red   The 18th Annual Mountain AA Conference held in Big Bear Lake California in the middle of August.  Details: https://scast.us/mount The Sever cAAmpvention held in Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom at the beginning of September (this one looks like a lot of fun).  Details: https://scast.us/scv If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com