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Lead Pastor Jed Coppenger continues the series, How to Kill a Giant, and Other Lessons from the Life of David.To learn more about FBC Cumming, find us online at www.fbccumming.org, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FirstBaptistCumming, or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fbccumming/.

Lead Pastor Jed Coppenger continues the series, How to Kill a Giant, and Other Lessons from the Life of David.To learn more about FBC Cumming, find us online at www.fbccumming.org, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FirstBaptistCumming, or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fbccumming/.

Discipleship Pastor Cole Wilkins continues the series, How to Kill a Giant, and Other Lessons from the Life of David.To learn more about FBC Cumming, find us online at www.fbccumming.org, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FirstBaptistCumming, or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fbccumming/.

To be a great finance leader, one needs to have both hard and soft skills. Today's guest believes in running towards the hard market, asking dumb questions, and showing up as your whole self at work. Craig Conti is the EVP and CFO of Verra Mobility, the almost $900 million in revenue, publicly-traded company that is responsible for the silent infrastructure behind seamless tolling, traffic enforcement, and smart mobility. Apart from providing a visual breakdown of his approach to mitigating risk, he shares a wealth of wisdom from his years in finance. Hear about why Craig prioritizes investing in existing customers when it comes to capital allocation and how he explains Verra Mobility's complex business model to non-finance people in the organization. This episode covers impostor syndrome, the difference between cost avoidance and cost savings, and why it may be more beneficial for you to work at a paper mill than at Apple, Meta, or Google.—LINKS:Craig Conti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigcconti/Verra Mobility: https://www.verramobility.com/CJ on X (@cjgustafson222): https://x.com/cjgustafson222Mostly metrics: http://mostlymetrics.comRELATED EPISODES:Uncovering Blind Spots and Other Lessons from High-Growth Companies with Five-Time CFO David Lapter. —TIMESTAMPS:(00:00) Preview and Intro(02:35) Sponsor – NetSuite | Planful | Tabs(06:20) An Intro to Verra Mobility(11:36) Continually Investing in Existing Customers(14:47) Explaining Your Business Model When You Have Multiple Business Lines(17:02) Sponsor – Rippling Spend | Pulley | Tropic(21:10) A Tip for Orienting Outsiders to Your Business(22:56) Decoding Finance for Non-Finance People in Your Org(29:33) Cost Avoidance Versus Cost Savings(31:00) How Having Resources To Reinvest Affects Capital Allocation Decisions(34:12) A Skillset for Stepping Into New Roles: Stupid Questions(38:55) Imposter Syndrome(40:52) A Visual Framework for Mitigating Risk(44:52) Known Risks Versus Unknown Risks(46:07) Why Incentives Need To Align With Risk and Reward(50:40) The Feedback Loop: Crisis Management to Future Risk Management(52:16) Hard Skills Versus Soft Skills in Finance(56:51) The Benefits of Bringing Your Whole Self To Work(59:12) “Always Run to the Tough Market”(1:03:34) “Life Comes Down to a Series of a Couple of Interactions”(1:08:04) Long-Ass Lightning Round: Bad Hiring Decisions(1:10:05) Advice to Younger Self: Move at Your Own Pace(1:11:46) Finance Software Stack(1:13:18) Craziest Expense Story—SPONSORS:NetSuite is an AI-powered business management suite, encompassing ERP/Financials, CRM, and ecommerce for more than 41,000 customers. If you're looking for an ERP, head to https://netsuite.com/metrics and get the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning.Planful's financial planning software can transform your FP&A function. Built for speed, accuracy, and confidence, you'll be planning your way to success and have time left over to actually put it to work. Find out more at www.planful.com/metrics.Tabs is a platform that brings all of your revenue-facing data and workflows - billing, AR, payments, rev rec, and reporting - onto a single system so you can automate and be more flexible. Find out more at: tabs.inc/metrics.Rippling Spend is a spend management software that gives you complete visibility and automated policy controls across every type of spend, saving you time and money. Get a demo to see how much time your org would save at rippling.com/metrics.Pulley is the cap table management platform built for CFOs and finance leaders who need reliable, audit-ready data and intuitive workflows, without the hidden fees or unreliable support. Switch in as little as 5 days and get 25% off your first year: pulley.com/mostlymetrics.Tropic is an intelligent spend management solution that consolidates your spend data and processes into one unified offering, enabling insights and decisive action. Take control of your spend with intelligent spend management at tropicapp.io/mostlymetrics.#financeleader #softskills #mitigatingrisk #capitalallocation #chieffinancialofficer Get full access to Mostly metrics at www.mostlymetrics.com/subscribe

Lead Pastor Jed Coppenger begins a new series, How to Kill a Giant, and Other Lessons from the Life of David.To learn more about FBC Cumming, find us online at www.fbccumming.org, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FirstBaptistCumming, or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fbccumming/.

Send us a text In this episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being Classics!  Leslie rereads 2 of her lifetime favorites, and Laura reads 2 that she never picked up before...no judgement!! We will also share a Book in Hand. Let's dig into this bundle of wonderful Classics!Featured Books:Pride and Prejudice - The Complete Novel with 19 Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand by Jane Austen (curated by Barbara Heller) (LH)And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (LH)Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (LP)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Illustrated by Robert Ingpen (LP)Book in Hand:Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (LH)Books Mentioned in This Episode:The Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. MontgomerySense and Sensibility by Jane AustenBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThe Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictAdditional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:Little Women by Louisa May AlcottTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemmingwayWays to contact us:Follow us on Instagram - @thebookbumbleFacebook:  Book BumbleOur website:  https://thebookbumble.buzzsprout.comEmail:  bookbumblepodcast@gmail.comHey Friends, please rate and review us!

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- A Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 2- Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly Hollow by Blythe Baker 3- Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig 4- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Lan Nguyen-Colgate - A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin 5- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 6- "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (Short Story) 7- The Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 8- House of Cotton by Monica Brashears 9- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 10- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs and Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty 11- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 12- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 13- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 14- Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala 15- The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff 16- The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo 17- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 18- The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin 19- Heavenly Bodies by Amani Erriu 20- Fallen Stars by Amani Erriu Media mentioned-- 1- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Netflix, 2024) 2- The Lovely Bones (Max, 2009)

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- A Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 2- Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly Hollow by Blythe Baker 3- Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig 4- A 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Lan Nguyen-Colgate - A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin 5- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 6- "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (Short Story) 7- The Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 8- House of Cotton by Monica Brashears 9- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 10- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs and Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty 11- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 12- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 13- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 14- Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala 15- The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff 16- The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo 17- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 18- The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin 19- Heavenly Bodies by Amani Erriu 20- Fallen Stars by Amani Erriu Media mentioned-- 1- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Netflix, 2024) 2- The Lovely Bones (Max, 2009)

Hi Technically Human listeners! Welcome back to another episode of the show. Today I'm sitting down with Alva Noë. We talk about his new book, The Entanglement, and the relationship between technology, philosophy, and art. In The Entanglement, Professor Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature. Neither biology, cognitive science, nor AI can tell a complete story of us, and we can no more pin ourselves down than we can fix or settle on the meaning of an artwork. Even more, art and philosophy are the means to set ourselves free, at least to some degree, from convention, habit, technology, culture, and even biology. Dr. Alva Noë is a philosopher of mind whose research and teaching focus is perception and consciousness, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of Action in Perception (MIT, 2004); Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009); Varieties of Presence (Harvard, 2012); Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2015), Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark (Oxford, 2019) and, most recently, Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World (Oxford 2021).  He holds a Bachelor of the Arts degree from Columbia University; a Bachelors of Philosophy. from University of Oxford;  and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He teaches in the philosophy department of UC Berkeley.

Today's guest on Heroes & Headwinds is Maisie Ganzler. Author, speaker, and corporate advisor, Maisie is an expert on how companies can make positive change in supply chains and other systems. For two decades, Maisie drove strategy for Bon Appétit Management Company and she positioned the company as a leader in sustainable purchasing. She is also the author of You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: and Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company. She joins us today

Phantom phone buzzes? Painless mosquito bites? Toy masks flipped inside-out? It might be your brain bringing order to its complex world. In episode 109 of Overthink, Ellie and David interview cognitive philosopher Andy Clark, whose cutting edge work on perception builds off theories of computation to offer an intriguing new model of mind and experience. He explains why the predictive processing model promises a healthier relation to neurodiversity, and they all explore its real-world applications across placebos, road safety, chronic pain, anxiety, and even the accidental success of ‘positive thinking.' Plus, in the bonus, Ellie and David discuss depression, plasticity, qualia, zombies, and what phenomenologists can bring to the cognitive table.Check out the episode's extended cut here!Works Discussed:Thomas Bayes, An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of ChancesAnjali Bhat, et al., "Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?"Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape RealitySarah Garfinkel, et al., "Knowing your own heart: distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness"Hermann von Helmholtz, Treatise on Physiological OpticsDavid Hume, A Treatise of Human NatureAlva Nöe, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of ConsciousnessAnil Seth, Being YouThis Might Hurt (2019)Support the Show.Patreon | patreon.com/overthinkpodcast Website | overthinkpodcast.comInstagram & Twitter | @overthink_podEmail | dearoverthink@gmail.comYouTube | Overthink podcast

Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Maisie Ganzler, the go-to expert on how companies can make positive change in supply chains and other entrenched systems. Ganzler has been featured in leading media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fast Company, and Bloomberg. She is also the author of "You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime and Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company." Throughout this episode, we discuss the complexities of implementing sustainable business practices and how companies can authentically integrate these practices into their operations and marketing strategies. Key Takeaways With over 30 years of experience at Bon Appetit Management Company as Chief Strategy and Brand Officer, Maisie Ganzler shares her insights into the practicalities of sustainability. She emphasizes the importance of defining sustainability specific to one's industry, advocating for a tailored approach that resonates with both internal stakeholders and customers. Through real-world examples, such as the challenges faced by industrial hog operations, Ganzler highlights the significance of firsthand experiences in driving genuine change. Ganzler also discusses the critical role of authenticity and personal passion in sustainability efforts. She warns against superficial commitments driven solely by market trends, underscoring the need for sincere and strategic initiatives that align with a company's core values and operational capabilities. Additionally, Ganzler introduces the concept of the Circle of Responsibility Matrix, a tool used to track and manage sustainability commitments, ensuring continuous progress and adaptation in the face of changing circumstances. By integrating these insights, businesses can navigate the intersection of profitability and sustainability, making meaningful changes that benefit the environment, society, and their bottom line. Connect with Maisie Ganzler on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/maisie-ganzler/ Grab a copy of You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company - amazon.com/You-Cant-Market-Manure-Lunchtime/dp/1647825679/ If you liked this episode please consider rating and reviewing the show. Click here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-duct-tape-marketing-podcast/id78797836 scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode. Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/ducttapemarketing/ Stuck trying to figure out your marketing strategy? Get Your Free AI Prompts To Build A Marketing Strategy HERE - dtm.world/freeprompts

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Having recently retired from her role as chief strategy and brand officer for Bon Appetit Management Co., Maisie Ganzler still has a special place in her heart for helping the food and beverage industry reach its sustainability potential. Ganzler remains a strategic advisor for Bon Appetit, but she also has published a book titled, “You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime, and Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company.” In conjunction with the release of the book this week, Ganzler joins the Food For Thought podcast to discuss how processors can better communicate their sustainability initiatives and achievements, avoiding greenwashing and improving their image and the trust their customers and consumers have in their brands.

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao   ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT   This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/   Dr. Alva Noë is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a philosopher of mind whose research and teaching focus is perception and consciousness, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of Action in Perception; Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness; Varieties of Presence; Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature and, most recently, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are.   In this episode, we focus on The Entanglement. We discuss what art is, how art relates to the study of perception, embodied cognition, and the entanglement between life and art. We talk about human nature, and how we need to go beyond science to have a full understanding of the human experience. We discuss what philosophy is, and whether it is exclusively done by professional philosophers. We talk about the relationship between art and ethics. We discuss whether and how science relates to philosophy and art. Finally, we talk about how we can make sense of our feelings of uneasiness and uncertainty in the current cultural and political context through the framework that Dr. Noë presents in the book. -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: PER HELGE LARSEN, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, OLAF ALEX, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, PHIL KAVANAGH, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, FERGAL CUSSEN, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, ROMAIN ROCH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, NELLEKE BAK, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, SUNNY SMITH, JON WISMAN, WILLIAM BUCKNER, PAUL-GEORGE ARNAUD, LUKE GLOWACKI, GEORGIOS THEOPHANOUS, CHRIS WILLIAMSON, PETER WOLOSZYN, DAVID WILLIAMS, DIOGO COSTA, ANTON ERIKSSON, CHARLES MOREY, ALEX CHAU, AMAURI MARTÍNEZ, CORALIE CHEVALLIER, BANGALORE ATHEISTS, LARRY D. LEE JR., OLD HERRINGBONE, MICHAEL BAILEY, DAN SPERBER, ROBERT GRESSIS, IGOR N, JEFF MCMAHAN, JAKE ZUEHL, BARNABAS RADICS, MARK CAMPBELL, TOMAS DAUBNER, LUKE NISSEN, KIMBERLY JOHNSON, JESSICA NOWICKI, LINDA BRANDIN, NIKLAS CARLSSON, GEORGE CHORIATIS, VALENTIN STEINMANN, PER KRAULIS, KATE VON GOELER, ALEXANDER HUBBARD, BR, MASOUD ALIMOHAMMADI, JONAS HERTNER, URSULA GOODENOUGH, DAVID PINSOF, SEAN NELSON, MIKE LAVIGNE, JOS KNECHT, ERIK ENGMAN, LUCY, YHONATAN SHEMESH, MANVIR SINGH, AND PETRA WEIMANN! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, TOM VANEGDOM, BERNARD HUGUENEY, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, THOMAS TRUMBLE, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, JONCARLO MONTENEGRO, AL NICK ORTIZ, AND NICK GOLDEN! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, BOGDAN KANIVETS, ROSEY, AND GREGORY HASTINGS!

Podcast: The Long View (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Dan Haylett: Retirement Planning = Life PlanningPub date: 2023-12-05Our guest on the podcast today is Dan Haylett. Dan is a financial planner and head of growth for TFP Financial Planning based in the United Kingdom. Dan focuses on financial planning, retirement planning, and life planning for people over age 50. He also hosts a podcast called The Humans vs. Retirement that is centered on the behavioral aspects of retirement. Prior to joining TFP, Dan occupied several positions in the asset-management industry.BackgroundBioTFP Financial PlanningThe Humans vs. Retirement podcastRetirement“How to Become a ‘Retirement Rebel' for a Higher ‘Return on Life,'” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Retirement Is a Flawed Concept, With Carl Richards,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 19, 2023.“Navigating the Changing Relationship With Your Spouse in Retirement, With Ashley Quamme,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 5, 2023.Identity and Purpose“Retiring With a Bang: Harvard's 85-Year Study Unlocks Secrets to a Long and Happy Life,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Happiness, Fulfillment, and Contentment in Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“The Anchors of Retirement Well-Being,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Retirement Should Not Be Viewed as the Third and Final Phase of Life,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.Psychology of Spending“Understanding the Deep-Seated Fear of Running Out of Money and Its Impact on Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“From 4% Rule to 8% Fool: Unleashing Your Inner Retirement Spending Rockstar,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“The Psychology Behind Spending Money in Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Annuitized Income and Optimal Asset Allocation,” by David Blanchett and Michael Finke, papers.ssrn.com, Sept. 22, 2017.“Dan Haylett: Is It Good Advice to Give Money Away?” by Dan Haylett, essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk, July 27, 2022.Other“Lessons and Experiences Through the Lens of a Real-Life Retirement Journey, With Andy Murphy,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 26, 2023.“6 Weeks Into His Retirement! An Inspirational Real Retirement Story With Neil Jones,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, Nov. 17, 2023.“How to Light Your Retirement Torch With the Father of Life Planning, George Kinder,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, Oct. 6, 2023.“Carl Richards: It Should Be OK to Relax Out Loud,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, July 27, 2021.“Michael Kitces: How Higher Yields Affect Asset Allocation and Retirement Planning,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, May 9, 2023.Mitch AnthonyPaul ArmsonThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Morningstar, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Long View (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Dan Haylett: Retirement Planning = Life PlanningPub date: 2023-12-05Our guest on the podcast today is Dan Haylett. Dan is a financial planner and head of growth for TFP Financial Planning based in the United Kingdom. Dan focuses on financial planning, retirement planning, and life planning for people over age 50. He also hosts a podcast called The Humans vs. Retirement that is centered on the behavioral aspects of retirement. Prior to joining TFP, Dan occupied several positions in the asset-management industry.BackgroundBioTFP Financial PlanningThe Humans vs. Retirement podcastRetirement“How to Become a ‘Retirement Rebel' for a Higher ‘Return on Life,'” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Retirement Is a Flawed Concept, With Carl Richards,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 19, 2023.“Navigating the Changing Relationship With Your Spouse in Retirement, With Ashley Quamme,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 5, 2023.Identity and Purpose“Retiring With a Bang: Harvard's 85-Year Study Unlocks Secrets to a Long and Happy Life,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Happiness, Fulfillment, and Contentment in Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“The Anchors of Retirement Well-Being,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Retirement Should Not Be Viewed as the Third and Final Phase of Life,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.Psychology of Spending“Understanding the Deep-Seated Fear of Running Out of Money and Its Impact on Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“From 4% Rule to 8% Fool: Unleashing Your Inner Retirement Spending Rockstar,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“The Psychology Behind Spending Money in Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Annuitized Income and Optimal Asset Allocation,” by David Blanchett and Michael Finke, papers.ssrn.com, Sept. 22, 2017.“Dan Haylett: Is It Good Advice to Give Money Away?” by Dan Haylett, essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk, July 27, 2022.Other“Lessons and Experiences Through the Lens of a Real-Life Retirement Journey, With Andy Murphy,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 26, 2023.“6 Weeks Into His Retirement! An Inspirational Real Retirement Story With Neil Jones,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, Nov. 17, 2023.“How to Light Your Retirement Torch With the Father of Life Planning, George Kinder,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, Oct. 6, 2023.“Carl Richards: It Should Be OK to Relax Out Loud,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, July 27, 2021.“Michael Kitces: How Higher Yields Affect Asset Allocation and Retirement Planning,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, May 9, 2023.Mitch AnthonyPaul ArmsonThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Morningstar, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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Our guest on the podcast today is Dan Haylett. Dan is a financial planner and head of growth for TFP Financial Planning based in the United Kingdom. Dan focuses on financial planning, retirement planning, and life planning for people over age 50. He also hosts a podcast called The Humans vs. Retirement that is centered on the behavioral aspects of retirement. Prior to joining TFP, Dan occupied several positions in the asset-management industry.BackgroundBioTFP Financial PlanningThe Humans vs. Retirement podcastRetirement“How to Become a ‘Retirement Rebel' for a Higher ‘Return on Life,'” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Retirement Is a Flawed Concept, With Carl Richards,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 19, 2023.“Navigating the Changing Relationship With Your Spouse in Retirement, With Ashley Quamme,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 5, 2023.Identity and Purpose“Retiring With a Bang: Harvard's 85-Year Study Unlocks Secrets to a Long and Happy Life,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Happiness, Fulfillment, and Contentment in Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“The Anchors of Retirement Well-Being,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Retirement Should Not Be Viewed as the Third and Final Phase of Life,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.Psychology of Spending“Understanding the Deep-Seated Fear of Running Out of Money and Its Impact on Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“From 4% Rule to 8% Fool: Unleashing Your Inner Retirement Spending Rockstar,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“The Psychology Behind Spending Money in Retirement,” by Dan Haylett, humansvsretirement.com.“Annuitized Income and Optimal Asset Allocation,” by David Blanchett and Michael Finke, papers.ssrn.com, Sept. 22, 2017.“Dan Haylett: Is It Good Advice to Give Money Away?” by Dan Haylett, essexcommunityfoundation.org.uk, July 27, 2022.Other“Lessons and Experiences Through the Lens of a Real-Life Retirement Journey, With Andy Murphy,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, June 26, 2023.“6 Weeks Into His Retirement! An Inspirational Real Retirement Story With Neil Jones,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, Nov. 17, 2023.“How to Light Your Retirement Torch With the Father of Life Planning, George Kinder,” The Humans vs. Retirement podcast, humansvsretirement.com, Oct. 6, 2023.“Carl Richards: It Should Be OK to Relax Out Loud,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, July 27, 2021.“Michael Kitces: How Higher Yields Affect Asset Allocation and Retirement Planning,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, May 9, 2023.Mitch AnthonyPaul Armson

Join Katie and Riley as they discuss memoirs and why they like them. Listen in as they talk about death, eels, families, ships, and more, so stay tuned. Books Mentioned The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah I'm A Terminal Cancer Patient, But I'm Fine by Hilnama I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Humans are creatures of habit. We have habits for talking, eating, walking, sleeping–we don't question these habits; much of it happens on autopilot. But it's through art and philosophy that allows us to take a step back from those habits and examine them in a meaningful way.This is the argument that Alva Noë, professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, makes in his book The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are. He's also written a number of books that tackle philosophical questions surrounding how humans interact with the world, like Action in Perception and Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World. Alva and Greg discuss how art and philosophy help us break free from the habits we're saddled with, what's really happening in the brain when we deem something “aesthetic,” and what it means to truly see the world. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:Philosophy and life are entangled19:49: I think philosophy happens throughout our lives. It happens not only in the law, it happens in the laboratory, and it probably happens in your discussions with your partner at the dinner table sometimes. Art [and] philosophy is a moment in our thought processes. So, in a way, I want to say that there is all the difference in the world between business as usual and the work of philosophy and art. But outside in the wild of our lives, whether our legal lives, our political lives, our social lives, our family lives, there's lots of opportunities for art and philosophy.There is no STEM without art and philosophy06:23: Art and philosophy are really important, and they are important in ways that the popular ideas in our civilization at the moment about the preeminence of science, technology, engineering, and math, this kind of STEM worldview really misses the point. There is no STEM without art and philosophy.Language isn't an automatic thing that we do following the rules blindly38:39: To be a language user is to have resources for coping with problems that arise in the course of that activity: misunderstandings, needs for clarifications, demands for repetitions, or justifications. So, to be a speaker is not just to do this kind of automatic thing. It's to be able to reflect on what we're doing. So, the ability to reflect is presupposed at the ground level. See, this is why I want to resist the hierarchy idea because there are two levels. There's the use of language, and there's the reflection about language. But it turns out that the ability to be a user of language presupposes that you're also able to reflect on language.Great philosophers start debates13:36: What makes a philosopher a great philosopher? Not that they landed on the truth, and we all know it, but rather that they started a debate that we're still having. That's what greatness is. So, as a philosopher, I'm very interested in what is the value of these non-utilitarian things that are so important to us. Why are they so important to us? And, that's where I want to say, actually, they are opportunities for us to finally grow and change and not just be trapped by the habits of culture, by the ways of doing things.Show Links:Recommended Resources:James BaldwinSeeing Through Clothes by Anne HollanderJohn RuskinP.F. StrawsonRoy HarrisHubert DreyfusIan HackingGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at UC Berkeley Alva Noë on WebsiteAlva Noë on LinkedInAlva Noë on TwitterAlva Noë on Talks at GoogleHis Work:The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We AreStrange Tools: Art and Human Nature Action in PerceptionOut of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of ConsciousnessLearning to Look: Dispatches from the Art WorldInfinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark

A key figure who represents the American Civil Rights Movement is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But the figure who inspired Dr. King was Mahatma Gandhi, the spiritual leader who used nonviolence and civil disobedience to help India achieve independence from British rule in 1947. Arun Gandhi, his grandson, talked with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, on March 8, 2022, about the link between his famous grandfather and Martin Luther King, Jr. Arun Gandhi died on May 2, 2023. This program is part of the In Focus summer book series, The Storyline. Two of Arun Gandhi's books are "Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence" and "The Gift of Anger, and Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi." Now that we're in June, it's the traditional time for the supreme court to release some of its most important decisions. On Thursday a ruling in the Allen V. Milligan case was announced, and it had major implications for the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 following the Selma to Montgomery march. Troy Public Radio's Operations Manager and News Director, Kyle Gassiott, was tapped to report the story for NPR's Morning Edition and daily news podcast Up First.  

A key figure who represents the American Civil Rights Movement is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  But the figure who inspired Dr. King was Mahatma Gandhi, the spiritual leader who used nonviolence and civil disobedience to help India achieve independence from British rule in 1947.   Arun Gandhi, his grandson, talked with Carolyn Hutcheson, In Focus host, on March 8, 2022, about the link between his famous grandfather and Martin Luther King, Jr.  Arun Gandhi died on May 2, 2023.  This program is part of the In Focus summer book series, The Storyline. Two of Arun Gandhi's books are "Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence" and "The Gift of Anger, and Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi."

Welcome to Episode 5 of the 2nd season of The R.A.C.E. Podcast. Today I am honored to be joined by Cecilia Muñoz. Cecilia is a giant before, during, and since her tenure in the Obama White House. She has navigated complex spaces where there are unimaginable pressures in high-stakes decision-making. This conversation reminds me why leaders who address racial equity and their work must look fully into the identities that the world can and cannot see.Meet Cecilia Muñoz:Cecilia Muñoz is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology with over three decades of experience in the non-profit sector and 8 years of service on President Obama's senior team. She is the author of the award-winning More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You...and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise, which shares insights from her career as well as the careers of other notable women of color. She is also a contributing author to Immigration Matters, West Wingers, What My Mother Gave Me, and This I Believe.Cecilia spent two decades at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US); winning a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on immigration and civil rights. She served in President Barack Obama's West Wing, becoming the first Latino to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council. She serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Kresge, MacArthur and Joyce Foundations, New America, Protect Democracy, and Civic Nation.  She also serves on the boards of Headspace Health and AdHoc. Listen in as Cecilia shares:Her identities and the role they have played in her life journey Her experience with Colorism as a “white passing” Woman of ColorThe message she would tell the younger version of herselfWhat she wants listeners to know, do, and feel when doing Racial Equity work  Learn more and connect with Cecilia Muñoz:Website: Cecilia MuñozTwitter: Cecilia MuñozHi listener! Please take our short Listener Survey HERE to give The R.A.C.E. Podcast team feedback on the show. We will use the feedback to inform how we approach conversations in the future. Upon completion, you will be entered in our quarterly drawing for a $100 Visa gift card! Your email address will only be used for this purpose. Thanks in advance - we appreciate your feedback.Connect with Keecha Harris and Associates: Website: https://khandassociates.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keecha-harris-and-associates/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/khandassociates YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukpgXjuOW-ok-pHtVkSajg/featured Connect with Keecha: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keechaharris/

This week I had a chance to sit down with my friend and coach Elli Richter to catch up and discuss her new book, WTF is Human Design, that she co-authored with Helen Hall. Elli is the coach I mentioned in my book who gave me the golden advice to learn to have my own back and be my own best friend. This advice has had a profound effect on the last decade of my life as I've healed and grown. I this 3rd episode with Elli we discussed the new tools she has been using in her practice that allow people to understand themselves, their energy, and how to feel their best. Her new book is titled "WTF is Human Design" co-authored with Helen Hall. If you want to learn more about Human Design or the other tools Elli discussed in this episode, preorder WTF Is Human Design". To learn more about Elli or to work with her, check out her website: ellirichter.com Also, Elli mentioned The Biology of Belief" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Biology of Belief and The Honeymoon Effect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Honeymoon Effect, by Bruce H. Lipton. Finally here are the first two episodes where Elli appeared on It's the Journey: Episode 7: Elli Richter-Helping People Remember Who They Are Episode 34: Elli Richter, Practicing Letting Go, and Other Lessons from Life on the Road --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carlopodcast/support

A verse-by-verse study of Matthew 14, and John 5-6 (the healing at the pool of Bethesda the death of John the Baptist, feeding the 5000, walking on water, and the Bread of Life discourse). This lesson focuses on the moving of the water, hope against hope, like Father like Son, Greater Works, degrees of glory, calling the witnesses, Herod and John, fear of man, good news and bad news, compassion fatigue, loaves and fishes, watching as we row, sinking and rising, catching a fish or teaching to fish, the bread of life, hard sayings, drink or die, and more. 0:00 Introduction 3:44 The Pool of Bethesda 11:44 The Moving of the Water 15:57 The Man at the Pool 24:21 Another Sabbath Controversy 35:10 Like Father like Son 40:07 Greater Works 46:01 Work for the Dead 54:05 Degrees of Glory & the JST 1:02:59 Calling the Witnesses to the Stand 1:11:47 Scriptural Witness 1:25:53 Confusion over Jesus & John 1:30:28 Herod & John the Baptist 1:38:54 Herod's Fear of Man 1:47:56 The Martyrdom of John 1:54:58 The News Reaches Jesus 1:57:35 Withdrawing to Mourn 2:03:57 Compassion Fatigue 2:10:25 Multiplying Compassion 2:18:22 Send Them Away 2:27:41 Whence Shall We Buy Bread 2:38:45 5 Loaves & 2 Fishes 2:43:07 Blessing the Bread 2:56:18 Other Lessons from the Loaves 3:04:00 Wanting to Crown Him King 3:08:50 Another Storm at Sea 3:15:21 Walking On the Water 3:24:54 Peter Walks on Water 3:33:24 Peter Starts to Sink 3:41:20 Back in the Boat 3:48:33 Setting Up the Sermon 3:54:36 Catching Fish or Teaching to Fish 4:05:56 The Bread of Life 4:14:01 Flesh as Bread, Blood as Water 4:19:05 Hard Sayings 4:31:25 To Whom Shall We Go 4:43:02 Drink or Die 4:46:13 Conclusion

In 2010, Lynda Teller Pete was living in Denver with her husband Belvin, working full-time in a demanding government job in the Department of Labor, living the life on a modern urban Indian, doing a little weaving in her spare time. Then she pivoted. Quit the job and sat down at her loom and made the commitment to return to her roots. With her older sister, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Lynda began teaching weaving classes and producing award-winning tapestries. In 2017, the two of them wrote Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today. They followed this with How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman, both published by Thrums Books/Schiffer Publications. And at the same time, Lynda collaborated on another book for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and she curated exhibits and lectured across the country. She and Barbara were featured in a segment of the PBS series Craft in America. She keeps a full teaching schedule, including classes for Navajos only as well as more culturally focused classes for non-indigenous students. In 2022 she was elected to the board position for Equity and Inclusion by the prestigious Textile Society of America, and in the same year she was recipient of a Luce Foundation fellowship for Indigenous Knowledge, which will result in the translation of How to Weave a Navajo Rug into her native language. Her list of accomplishments and responsibilities goes on and on. And yet most any night, late into the night, you would find Lynda at her loom, rhythmically beating the pattern wefts into place in yet another tapestry. For after all, night is when the spider does its work. Visit the Long Thread Podcast website (https://longthreadmedia.com/podcast). This episode is brought to you by: You'll find the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). Choose from a rainbow of hand-dyed colors. Love natural? Their array of wild silk and silk-blends provide choices beyond white. Treenway Silks—where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed. Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas's website (https://navajorugweavers.com) How to Weave a Navajo Rug (https://schifferbooks.com/products/how-to-weavenavajo-rug) by Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas Spider Woman's Children (https://schifferbooks.com/products/spider-womans-children) by Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas The Tellers on Craft in America (https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/lynda-teller-pete) Textile Society of America (https://textilesocietyofamerica.org/) Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowships 2022 (https://www.firstnations.org/2022-luce-indigenous-knowledge-fellows/)

It can be hard to follow your life's purpose and work in a job that you are passionate about. For many of us, we fall into roles that pay the bills or feel socially acceptable. BUT sometimes when we dare to leap and follow our heart's desire, we can come out the otherside living our passion. This week, Rebecca Canup joins us to share her journey of leaping from her job in healthcare to her dream job as a poet and how to get here she needed to…. Heal her womb Get vulnerable with her fears and her desires Trust that making the move would provide her with the life she dreamed of Jumping is not always easy, but it is always worth it when we follow the whispers of our heart, our womb and our truth. Rebecca Canup is a Canadian poet and writer. In 2020 she left her full time healthcare job to pursue writing full time. Since then she has birthed her first two poetry books - “Women Born in Fire, Burning with Grace and Other Lessons” and “Where the Sand Meets the Ocean”- as well as birthing her son. Listen to this episode to find inspiration on how you too can dial in on your heart's desires and start living the life you were called to live. RESOURCES: Rebecca's Website www.burnforwords.org is where you can purchase her books and learn more about her programs Find her on social (facebook and instagram) at @burnforwords Song: Daydream by Lily Meola - click here Grab your copy of my Free Charting Journal by clicking here Join us in the Shee Sisterhood to learn more about how to Cycle-Syncing your life - click here to join Do you have questions about your cycle, your hormones or how to live aligned with your womb wisdom? Email your questions to thealignedwomb@gmail.com and we may answer them with one of our brilliant guest speakers.

On Today's EpisodeRodents and PEX Piping [00:00 - 06:37]PEX piping is becoming more and more popular and for good reason! There are a ton of pros to using PEX . However, there is one BIG CON. Dan and Hailey discuss how to avoid running into problems if you have PEX plumbing in your home. Are You Paying More for Your Water Than You Should? [06:38 - 19:00]Dan and Hailey are Joined by Mark from Great Lakes Plumbing to discuss plumbing maintenance and common signs that you have a plumbing issue that is costing you money every month!Contact Mark at the Plumber is Here!Give Yourself a Break (and Other Lessons from 2022) [19:01 - 39:31]As we say goodbye to 2022, Dan and Hailey look back at the year and discuss the most important lessons they learned. If you're a DIY'er or an aspiring DIY'er, these are rules to live by.

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In this third of a three-part series, Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi, talks with Carolyn Hutcheon, In Focus host, about his grandfather's views of religion and the separation of India and Pakistan when British colonial rule ended in 1947.  Dr. Gandhi is the author of several books - "The Gift of Anger and Other Lessons from My Grandfather" and "Legacy of Love, My Education in the Path of Nonviolence."   Troy Public Radio will feature a one-hour special with Arun Gandhi in the summer of 2022.

This weeks episode:Ryan and Brian are discussing the Samaritans this week. There are several stories from the life of Jesus that mention the Samaritans. There is an obvious tension in scripture between the Jewish people and the Samaritans, but we don't get a whole lot of background information on that tension. So, they look at the historical background of the Samaritans and why Jesus' interactions with the Samaritan women at the well and the story of the good Samaritan were so important. The episode is full of historical information and is a fun conversation. Links:https://thebiblebistro.com/podcast/e007/ (The One about the Time between the Old & New Testaments - https://thebiblebistro.com/podcast/e007/) https://thebiblebistro.com/podcast/e012/ (Exploring the Temple Theme in the Gospel of John - https://thebiblebistro.com/podcast/e012/) https://thebiblebistro.com/podcast/e030/ (Sparrows are the Worst & Other Lessons from the Apocrypha - https://thebiblebistro.com/podcast/e030/) Support Ryan and Brian's Bible BistroPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebiblebistro (https://www.patreon.com/thebiblebistro) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebiblebistro (https://www.facebook.com/thebiblebistro) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebiblebistro/ (https://www.instagram.com/thebiblebistro/) Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3H7qRmg (https://apple.co/3H7qRmg) Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3I7Gw6A (https://spoti.fi/3I7Gw6A) Website: https://www.thebiblebistro.com/ (https://www.thebiblebistro.com) Ryan and Brian's Bible Bistro is a podcast all about the Bible, theology, and all things related to the Christian faith.

How can we turn challenges into opportunities? Steven, a million-dollar CEO, joins Curtis May to talk about the power of passive real estate investing. Steven is a podcast host of The Investor Mindset Podcast and an active investor who established Commercial Real Estate Investments for his clients at VonFinch Capital. In this episode, Steven shares the importance of knowing your market. He says that if your market is everybody, you are serving nobody. He emphasizes that the primary asset of any business is the self, and the company itself is the investment. Steven and Curtis also tackle why it is vital to know your purpose and “why” in a business. According to them, these things will serve as fuel to keep you going and will make you excited every single day. Lastly, Steven wants to impart that challenges and problems are opportunities in disguise. Curtis's motto is that what you learn today and how you position yourself will determine your future financial well-being 5, 10, 20 years from today. To learn more about how to manage your wealth in a practical way, visit www.practicalwealthadvisors.com  Links and Resources from this Episode www.practicalwealthadvisors.com Email Curtis for a free report - curtmay@gmail.com Call his office - 610-622-3121 Connect with Steven Pesavento LinkedIn Instagram Website Facebook Books: Principles of Success Ultimate Guide to Passive Investing Special Listener Gift Schedule a 15-Minute Call with Curtis Free Ebook Financial Planning Has Failed Show Notes Who is Steven - 0:30 The ideal business and clients - 4:08 Your #1 asset is you, and your #1 investment is your business - 9:05 Passive real estate investing: your what and why - 10:03 The myth in real estate investing - 11:50 Vetting on a good operator: doing an excellent due diligence - 14:40 Facts combined with voice and body language: trusting your gut when in doubt - 19:20 Important universal success principles to Steven - 21:30 Challenges are opportunities - 25:00 How to access the 5 Success Principles and Other Lessons - 25:48 Be ultra focused, focus on one major area only - 27:00 If you do not have money, don't invest - 31:35 Steven's valuable experience on investing and coaching - 32:26 The final question - 35:07 Review, Subscribe and Share If you like what you hear please leave a review by clicking here Make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so you get the latest episodes. Click here to subscribe with Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe with Spotify Click here to subscribe with Stitcher Click here to subscribe with RSS

This past year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Undaunted Courage, which has become known as the bible for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book, written by Stephen Ambrose, had the feel of a novel, and captured the interest of millions of readers just in time for the 200th anniversary of the Voyage of Discovery. Ambrose's book has also inspired many people to explore this expedition in their own unique ways, including our two guests for this episode. Stephenie Ambrose-Tubbs, who is obviously related to Stephen, met her husband on one of her family's first of many expeditions of their own along the Lewis and Clark Trail, and she has written a wonderful book called Why Sacagawea Deserves a Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail. And Corrie Williamson, an accomplished poet who grew up in Virginia, the heart of Lewis and Clark's upbringing, offers her own unique take on Lewis and Clark with her collection The River Where you Forgot My Name. The title is based on the fact that William Clark named the Judith River in Montana after a young girl he would eventually marry. The only problem was her name was actually Julia, and we would all love to be a fly on the wall when Clark came around to explaining this faux pas.

Bill welcomes author Lyanda Lynn Haupt to the show. Lyanda is an award-winning author, naturalist, ecophilosopher, and speaker whose writing is at the forefront of the movement to connect people with nature in their everyday lives. Her newest book is Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit(Little, Brown Spark 2021). Lyanda's previous books include: Mozart's Starling (Little, Brown, April, 2017), winner of the Washington State Book Award: The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, (Little, Brown in fall, 2013), finalist for the Orion Book Award; Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, (Little, Brown in July 2009), winner of the 2010 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award; Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks, (Little, Brown, 2004); and  Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Sasquatch), winner of the 2002 Washington State Book Award. Lyanda has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and been a seabird researcher for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Orion, Discover, Utne, LA Times, Image, Huffington Post, Wild Earth, and Conservation Biology Journal.  

The Kids and YA Gift Giving Guide (Episode 027) was my most popular episode last year, and it's not hard to see why – kids are friggen awesome. Today I'm sharing something that's usually reserved for my Patrons: the outtakes from that episode. I'm gearing up to start work on the 2021 Kid's Episode, so if you know a young person who likes to read, stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear how they can be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast. Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Do you know a young person who'd like to appear on the 2nd Annual Kids/YA Gift Guide Episode? GO HERE! Listen to the First Kids/YA Gift Giving Guide Episode HERE. These are the books the kids talked about in Episode 27:   Henry: The Amazing Spiderman World of Reading This is Spiderman by Marvel Press   Charley: Thea Stilton and the Land of Flowers Thea Stilton Cloud Castle Thea Stilton Treasure Seekers   Katie: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls   Jaden: The Pandava Series by Roshani Chokshi Jaden's favorite is Book 2, Arusha and the Song of Death   Jack: The Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter There are several series; Jack's favorite is the New Prophecy Series His favorite book in that series is  Warrior Cat: Sunset by Erin Hunter   Miles: The Geronimo Stilton Books Miles mentioned the following: Geronimo Stilton: The Island of Dragons Thea Stilton: The Land of Flowers Thea Stilton and The Dragon's Code Geronimo Stilton: The Wizard's Wand Geronimo Stilton: The Kingdom of Fantasy Dog Man Books Series by Dav Pilkey   Joey Scythe by Neal Shusterman (Part of the Arc of a Scythe Series) Dry by Neal Shusterman Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler: Alive, Alight, Alone Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling The Story Thieves Series by James Riley: Story Thieves, The Stolen Chapters, Secret Origins, Pick the Plot, Worlds Apart   Jala The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (Part of the First Law Trilogy) The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi   Erin Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The Mother Daughter Book Club Series by Heather Vogel Frederick (Erin's favorite is Pies and Prejudice) We Were Liars by E. Lockhart   Ella Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris   Aidan Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

The Kids and YA Gift Giving Guide (Episode 027) was my most popular episode last year, and it's not hard to see why – kids are friggen awesome. Today I'm sharing something that's usually reserved for my Patrons: the outtakes from that episode. I'm gearing up to start work on the 2021 Kid's Episode, so if you know a young person who likes to read, stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear how they can be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast. Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Do you know a young person who'd like to appear on the 2nd Annual Kids/YA Gift Guide Episode? GO HERE! Listen to the First Kids/YA Gift Giving Guide Episode HERE. These are the books the kids talked about in Episode 27:   Henry: The Amazing Spiderman World of Reading This is Spiderman by Marvel Press   Charley: Thea Stilton and the Land of Flowers Thea Stilton Cloud Castle Thea Stilton Treasure Seekers   Katie: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls   Jaden: The Pandava Series by Roshani Chokshi Jaden's favorite is Book 2, Arusha and the Song of Death   Jack: The Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter There are several series; Jack's favorite is the New Prophecy Series His favorite book in that series is  Warrior Cat: Sunset by Erin Hunter   Miles: The Geronimo Stilton Books Miles mentioned the following: Geronimo Stilton: The Island of Dragons Thea Stilton: The Land of Flowers Thea Stilton and The Dragon's Code Geronimo Stilton: The Wizard's Wand Geronimo Stilton: The Kingdom of Fantasy Dog Man Books Series by Dav Pilkey   Joey Scythe by Neal Shusterman (Part of the Arc of a Scythe Series) Dry by Neal Shusterman Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler: Alive, Alight, Alone Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling The Story Thieves Series by James Riley: Story Thieves, The Stolen Chapters, Secret Origins, Pick the Plot, Worlds Apart   Jala The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (Part of the First Law Trilogy) The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi   Erin Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The Mother Daughter Book Club Series by Heather Vogel Frederick (Erin's favorite is Pies and Prejudice) We Were Liars by E. Lockhart   Ella Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris   Aidan Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

#022 - Join Jennie for the “be your best self” episode where she talks with wizard of nutrition, Billy Merritt. Billy exudes contagious good vibes, and you're sure to catch the wave as they discuss:the diet/exercise/sunshine/hydration/sleep/stress-management/prayer equation.why Billy believes ecstatic dance is the best exercise you can do.how adversity can lead to a well-defined sense of purpose.how you can mitigate the side effects of prescription medications with a superior diet.Episode #017: Adam Schaueble on Adding Value (or Generosity as a Business Model). Adam is the host of the networking event for podcasters, where Billy and Jennie met.Listen to Billy interview Jennie on his show, The Superior Health Podcast.Read more about resilience here: Mark Manson's Potty Mouth, Coronavirus and Other Lessons in ResilienceStarTribe.org–Visit to learn more about Billy's monthly dance events.InfinityGreens.com–Visit to get The Infinity Health Manual and use promo code “Jennie10” to get 10% off amazingly powerful health products. I cannot say enough good things about his Infinity Greens formula. Try it for yourself and see if it doesn't DOUBLE your energy levels!Also, be sure to follow me, Jennie, at Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest @YourCreativeFairyGodmotherThanks so much for listening, darlings! Be sure to hit subscribe so you don't miss next week's interview with the most. prolific. creator I have ever met.  No exaggeration. Your head is going to explode (in the best way possible).✨✨If you think this content is deserving of a tip, I'd be ever so grateful if you'd leave one here. I plan to use all proceeds for magick supplies and I promise to use my powers for good.

Ellie chats about the history of burial practices and why we as a society are so afraid of death. The origins of some of our culture's traditions to mourn the dead are also discussed. Sources: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Support us: queersforfears.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/queersforfears/support

Sarah Barrett is a principal IA Manager at Microsoft. She's been writing compellingly about information architecture in Medium, and in this conversation, we focus on her most recent posts, which deal with how architectural scale affects our perception of information environments. Download episode 64 Show notes Sarah R. Barrett @documentalope (Sarah Barrett) on Twitter Known Item (Medium publication) Microsoft Learn MSDN docs.microsoft.com World IA Day Breadcrumb navigation Rachel Price Websites are not living rooms and other lessons for information architecture by Sarah Barrett Understanding Architectural Scale: Tabletops and landscapes by Sarah Barrett Microsoft Bob The Informed Life episode 17: Rachel Price on Improvisation Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links. Read the transcript Jorge: Sarah, welcome to the show. Sarah: Thank you for having me. This is so exciting. Jorge: Well, I'm excited to have you here. For folks who might not know you, would you mind please introducing yourself? About Sarah Sarah: Sure. My name is Sarah Barrett and I lead the information architecture team for Microsoft's Developer Relations organization. So, in addition to the kind of stuff that you might think of as standard developer relations, like advocates going out and doing talks about Microsoft technologies and that kind of thing, we also have a huge web presence. So, we publish Microsoft Docs, developer.microsoft.com Learn, which is a training and kind of like micro-learning platform. All of the information about Microsoft certifications, a Q & A site, a whole bunch of other stuff. So, it's really everywhere where we're not trying to sell you stuff; we're just trying to teach you how to use all of Microsoft technical products. It's a really fun, huge problem. And we've got a good-sized information architecture team for information architecture teams, which tend to be small. So that's really exciting. Before that, I was a consultant and I worked with a lot of different companies looking into how they solve their information architecture problems. But I wanted to go in-house somewhere, so I could actually sit with a problem and work with people in order to make it happen rather than just creating some shelfware, which everybody does, no matter how good your work is because organizations just aren't ready for it. So, I've been in house there for about three and a half years. It's been a really fun challenge. Jorge: That's great. I think I'm going to be revealing my age here by saying that at one point, I had an MSDN subscription where I would get these big boxes full of CDs, basically. And I'm guessing that with the advent of the internet, those things are no longer distributed on CDs and your team looks after the organization of all that content. Is that right? Sarah: Yeah. So, I mean, the funny thing about information is that it did not arise with the internet, as you know. This stuff has been around for a really long time. And even you know, a tech company like Microsoft is newer than many others, but like all of that information about MSDN did not go away. And MSDN TechNet, which was kind of IT pro side... originally, they would mail you physical CDs, and that was kind of the gold standard. Then all that stuff got put on websites. There was msdn.com. And we just finished migrating all of msdn.com over onto Docs - docs.microsoft.com. A lot of that information is still stuff that we're half-heartedly organizing and trying to find a place for because that history is so long. Jorge: From my brief experience with it, I get the sense that it is a massive amount of content. And it's also content that is undergoing constant revisions, because it deals with the documentation that developers need in order to use Microsoft's products and platforms, correct? Sarah: Yeah. So, it's a funny thing, because I sort of feel like if you were to go to docs.microsoft.com, which is the main thing we publish, you'd look at it and go, "somebody does the IA for this?" Like, it doesn't look like there's a lot of IA there — which, I promise you, we do! And we're even good at it. It's just a huge... it's a huge problem. It's a huge space. It's an enormous ecosystem of things. And a lot of the work we do is really around strategy and policy and winning hearts and minds and that kind of thing. It's been a long process. And yeah, because it is so big, so many different teams at the company publish to it, it's really more of a platform than a product. The way you talk about websites as places and emergent places rather than products or services or something like that, is extremely true for us, because it is something that lots of people are creating in an ongoing way all together, in perpetuity. And it changes constantly. So, a lot of what we do is try to adjust rules, try to incentivize different behaviors, create standards and structures around what people do rather than just architecting a site and saying, "cool, it's architected. There's your IA! It's done." There's no room for that in our work. Jorge: What I'm hearing there is that you are more the stewards of the place than the people who are structuring the nitty gritty content. Is that fair? Sarah: Absolutely. You know, we create guidelines for how you structure a table of contents or the kinds of things you put in navigation. We don't actually do any of it for you if you're a publisher on our platform. How websites are not living rooms Jorge: Well, that sounds super interesting, exciting, and necessary, I would imagine, especially in such a large distributed system. I've been wanting to have you on the show for a while, but what prompted me to reach out to you was a post you published to Medium called, "Websites are Not Living Rooms and Other Lessons for Information Architecture." I was hoping that you would tell us a bit about this. What do you mean by "websites are not living rooms?" Sarah: This article that you're talking about came out of a workshop I put together for World IA Day, when you and I last met in Switzerland. And the idea of the workshop really arose out of this work I was doing at Microsoft, which is so different from the consulting I was doing before. I often found, as a consultant, people are very ready to treat you as an expert. And oftentimes when you come in as part of a consultancy or an agency, some project sponsor or kind of some champion for there even being an information architecture problem that needs to be solved by a consultant, has done so much legwork for you in convincing everybody that this is a problem, in convincing everybody that information architecture is a thing. You know, somebody has done so much of that work. And so, everybody's very primed to treat you like an expert and accept the basics of what you're telling them when you come in in that context. When I started at Microsoft, I was the only information architect. There are more of us now, but at the time it was only me. And in retrospect, like I still can't figure out why they hired me, because I spent the first, probably 18 months I was there going to meetings with extraordinarily nice and talented people who I adore... but going to meetings with them and then being like, "I don't see why you have to have breadcrumbs. I don't see why things in the navigation all have to go to the same website. Why?" And it was... it wasn't hostile, but it was a challenge to explain the first principles of everything that tend to be true about information architecture. Like, "yes, you ought to have breadcrumbs on every page." Like, "yes, the steps in the breadcrumbs should go to pages where you can get to the subsequent breadcrumbs!" Very nitty gritty details like that, where I had never had to explain how breadcrumbs worked before because usually we all just have such a shared mental model about them. And one of the things that comes out of this so frequently, and the example I use in the article actually comes from my colleague Rachel Price, from her consulting days where people often come with a very simple idea of how they feel like it should just work. And those ways, like, "why can't we just..." so frequently comes from an experience in the real world, where I think the example that Rachel has is she was working on a product that was for college students. And the product manager was like, "why can't it just be a dorm room? And my backpack is on the floor and my wallet is in my backpack. And if I need to change something about my payment, I go in the backpack and I get my wallet. Why can't it just work that way?" And as an information architect, like I know in my bones that the answer is, "it can't. That will not work!" But it's really actually very hard to explain why, other than like, "that's weird and we tried it in the nineties! But it won't work." And so, a lot of this article is about like, okay, why does that idea of structuring something like physical space — why does it feel so appealing? Why does it seem so easy? And then why is won't it work? Why is it a red herring? Jorge: And what you're talking about here, I want to unpack it for the folks who are listening, is the idea that you can structure a digital system in ways that mimic the ways that we structure our physical environments, where we do things because, hey, we're used to operating in a living room or an office or what have you, why can't we just have the same affordances and signifiers, but presented in a two dimensional screen somehow. Is that right? Sarah: Yeah. And it seems like it ought to work, but it really doesn't. And it's because... and the point I'm making in the article is that there are implicit rules to how physical spaces work and I'm actually working on the next article in this series to unpack some of those more. I'm trying to get it published this week as we record it. But I have a two-year-old, so we'll see how that works. There are implicit rules to how these spaces work in the real world. And it's easy to mimic the look and feel of a physical space without actually following those implicit rules. So, we need to unpack what the implicit rules are. Jorge: The example that you bring up in the article is one that... again, I'm going to reveal my age by saying this, I remember being on the market, which is Microsoft Bob. And there might be a lot of folks in the audience who are not familiar with Microsoft Bob. How will you describe It for someone who hasn't seen it? Sarah: It wasn't the only one of these kinds of products. I think there were a lot of them in the early days of software and the internet. We didn't have this one, but I remember the very first computer I used that accessed the internet... it had other things that were like this. But it was basically that Microsoft was trying to sell the idea of an operating system and a personal computer to a home market. And in order to make it more accessible and appealing, they tried to structure the desktop, or like the operating system, as if it were a house. And so, the idea was that your accounting would be in a checkbook that was on a little drawing of a desk, which was in a study. And if you wanted to look at your contacts, that was in a Rolodex on the desk. If you wanted to do something that wasn't in a study or an office context, you would go to a different room, and that would be there instead. And it has some weird rooms. I've never actually used it, so I've only been able to kind of piece it together from stuff on the internet. But there's like a barn or something — it gets very strange! There are obviously parts of it that are just silly, where, you know... why do you need that room? But there are also parts of it that just, again, they don't follow the rules of how architectures are going to work, so it's not going to work. And it provides a kind of fun counterpoint to realistic requests and objections that you do get doing this kind of work. Metaphors Jorge: We use the desktop and file folder metaphor in interacting with our… let's call them personal computers as opposed to mobile devices. And that is a metaphor; it's not inherent to the underlying technology. Why would you say that the desktop and file folder metaphor works whereas the architectural metaphor doesn't work as well? Sarah: Yeah. I think there are a couple of things going on. This is very much like the subject of the next article that I'm working on. Which is that I would argue that our brains understand space at different scales. And we understand what I call tabletops, but you could also call a desktop or something like that in a very different way than we understand larger scale physical space, like a room, a house, a city, and then you even get into a nation and understanding that scale of space, which is huge. We understand those things in very different ways, and a lot of the ways that the personal computer and like the notion of the desktop have evolved to work mirror the ways our brains expect tabletop-like spaces to function. Tabletop-like spaces, I think in general... you can see them all at once or at least see how you would get to all of their pieces at once. And they consist of small moving parts. In a very similar way to how, if you're working at an analog desk, you can just have your stuff around you and you see it in your peripheral vision and you can affect most of the things around you. This is very different to how larger scale spaces work, where you can't see them all at one time and you have to construct a mental model of that space by moving around it and stitching those pieces together over time. There's a whole neuro-biological component to this where we have certain kinds of cells called place cells that fire in certain kinds of circumstances that tell you, “Ah, this is a new place." And that doesn't happen when a small object moves around you on a tabletop. It does happen when you move from room to room. And so when we're in more operating system-like experiences or more app-like experiences, you know? You and I are talking to each other on Zoom right now. That really functions like a tabletop. Everything's right there. I could open stuff up, but it works more like drawers or something like that. It's not at all like something like Microsoft Docs or the BBC's website or any other kind of like large, content-based website, which is really much more like a landscape where you have to kind of move around from place to place and reconstruct a picture of it. And so, the big argument there — and this is something that I work with my designers on a lot — the big argument there is you have to be really clear about what you're building so you know what kinds of rules to use, because those things are actually really different. And most of the time we just kind of go, "eh, it's sort of like an app, right?" Like, "what is this app like?" And it's like, "Oh, its website-like." We know that Zoom and the Wall Street Journal don't and shouldn't work the same way, but we have a hard time articulating why. And for me, it's that difference in architectural scale and how our brains understand it. Agency Jorge: I find that idea super intriguing. I'm wondering if you could elaborate or give us examples of how something like the Wall Street Journal would differ from something that is more... I don't know, a communication tool like Zoom. Sarah: Yeah. So gosh, I wish I'd opened the article up, because I haven't thought about this a couple of days, but they vary in some kind of predictable ways. One is the scale of the things around you. Something like Zoom tends to have a lot of little pieces or I use Keynote as an example too. The reference, in the real world that you're using as metaphors, tend to be smaller and the actual elements in the interface tend to consist of a lot of little things. Whereas in a more landscape-like environment, you're dealing with a few big things. In a real-world landscape, those are buildings. Those are landmarks. They are mountains that are far away, as opposed to like objects that you have on a table around you. And we have a similar scale with the tabletop kind of apps versus landscape-y websites. You also get different degrees of agency. I have a lot of say over exactly what Zoom does. Perhaps not as much as one might like, but I can customize something about it, and I would expect that customization to persist. I can rearrange things. There's not a lot of expectation that I can do anything to gov.uk, other than maybe put my information in a form. I'm not going to do a lot of customization. It's not going to remember a lot of details from time to time. We also talk about kind of how you interact with the thing. The best way to learn something like Zoom, even if they put an overlay on it, is just to kind of poke at stuff. You know, turn that on and off and see what it does. You move things around you, open up settings. It really rewards interaction. Whereas with a large content-based landscape-like website, you have to move around. You're walking around and looking at stuff. You're moving from page to page and forming that mental model rather than poking at stuff to see what it does. There are a few different things like that. And then they come with different expectations too. There's a real expectation of intimacy with tabletops or with app-like experiences, even if they are a web apps. You kind of expect that it's yours in some way, and you don't expect that kind of of more websites that seem more like public goods. And we run into funny situations with that, like with things like Twitter, which I would argue functions like a tabletop, even though it's kind of a web app. You can experience it as an actual app too, but it's mine. I don't go anywhere. I just push buttons and do things on it and my stuff is there. And there all kinds of stories about people getting wildly upset about a new line showing up or a design change happening. I remember how much everybody freaked out when they went from 140 to 280 characters. You tend not to get such a feeling of ownership and people being so concerned about changes in websites that feel like public accommodations. You know, people have lived their lives in docs. They spend tons of time there. They don't tend to care very much about the exact details of the design or something like that. Because it doesn't feel like theirs. Jorge: If I might reflect that back to you, this principle of understanding the scale at which we're working seems to have something to do with the degree of agency that you have over the thing that you're interacting with. And the more granular the level of control that you have with the thing that you're interacting with, the more... I'll use the word intimate, maybe the more like personalized... it's something that you use as opposed to something you inhabit, in some ways. Is that right? Sarah: Very much so, yeah. And I think it's really like, "does your brain think that this is a place or not?" We don't expect places for the most part to be only for us that no one else could ever get into. It's an easy jump to be like, "ah, yes. Other people are here too. This is not just only for me." Whereas something at a much smaller scale... like, I don't expect other people to be messing around with my nightstand. Or my desk at work. Even though theoretically they could, but it's my stuff and I left it there. And there's that greater expectation of control and of intimacy. Naive geography Jorge: Great. So, I don't know if to call these principles or just things to be mindful of when doing this kind of work. You've mentioned scale as one of them, and you've already said that there's another post coming out specifically on that. In the post that is currently published, you mentioned three other principles, if we might call them that. And I was wondering if you could, recap them for our listeners. So, scale is one. A second here you say, "leverage the principles of naive geography." What does that mean? Sarah: I came across a really interesting article a few years ago that is by geographers for geographers, which is like not a field I'd thought about at all. And I was looking into the idea of cognitive maps and cognitive mapping with the idea of like, "oh, do people have like complex maps in their heads that they navigate and are those things the same in the real world and the digital world?" And the answer is, for the most part, no, we don't have maps that have any integrity to them. There are a couple of exceptions, but this was the theory for a while, and it's been pretty disproven. It's not a thing we have. We do, however, have representations of ways to get places in our head. I distinguished between the kind of tabletop more small-scale and the landscape more large-scale because we don't need these representations and we don't form them for small scale experiences. If you can rely on everything you need being in your peripheral vision, your brain doesn't bother remembering where everything is. Because it can get that kind of continuous sensory input. But for these larger-scale experiences where you have to construct a representation over time, and you have to reason against that to figure out where you're going. We construct those representations. And the interesting thing about it is that we're very good at it. I talk about that a little bit in this article with all kinds of cultural traditions that rely on remembering things by relying on how good humans are at remembering places and how to get between places. We're very good at it. But like more interestingly to me, we also make a lot of mistakes while we do it and we make those mistakes in predictable ways. So, one of the principles of naive geography that I think is just fascinating is that for the most part, when we remember things, we remember the earth as flat and square. We're very bad at remembering or estimating depths and heights in comparison to lengths and widths and distances and that kind of thing. Our brains really smoosh everything down. We also, for instance, think about distance in terms of time, not absolute distance. And so, they have eight of these or something like that. And the idea was that naive geography is how everybody understands geography and makes geographic calculations, even if they are not geographers. And they compare it to the idea of naive physics, which is that you can tell what's going to happen when you throw a ball without being a physicist. Like we can figure that out. The same way as we can give directions, we can make judgments and we can reason based on distances without being a geographer. And we're good at it, but we're also bad at it in these kinds of known ways. And I found that almost all of those ways are relevant for digital spaces as well as physical spaces. So, we go into exactly how those work and how you can apply them to your designer information architecture work. Wayfinding Jorge: Another principle here says, "check your wayfinding." That sounds like it's related to this concept of naive geography. What's the distinction here between wayfinding and what we've been talking about so far? Sarah: Yeah. I think of it as, naive geography is what humans do. And developing wayfinding principles or instantiating those way-finding principles in our designs, is what we as information architects do. Basically, it's great to know that people's brains mislead them in this standard way that we can predict, but you have to turn that into something that we can use because nobody I work with cares as much about neuroscience as I do, you know! Or geography, or cognitive mapping, or any of these things. We have to change it into guidelines and principles that I can give to product designers and developers and that kind of thing. And so, for wayfinding, it's really bringing it out of the more esoteric and theoretical space of like landscapes and tabletops and whatever is happening with cognitive geography and this kind of thing into like, "okay, what does that mean?" It's very simple stuff that I largely adapted from museum exhibit design, where it's like, "hey, you need to make sure people have landmarks. You need to pave paths so they know where to go." And we tie that back to the principles of naive geography to figure out why. I tend to illustrate this with grocery stores because I find that they have great wayfinding and it is way more accessible than a lot of the other examples people use like airports, especially with none of us have been in an airport for a year. And grocery stores make a lot of complex things very findable. I often have conversations with stakeholders where they're like, "well, no wonder nobody can find anything. We have 200 products!" And like the average grocery store has something like 800,000 SKUs, and you never are surprised that you can find your brand of maple syrup or be sure it's not there. Which is like the gold standard of wayfinding as far as I'm concerned. So, you can use the structure well enough to be sure that something doesn't exist. "Oh, that's so findable, it's great!" So, we talk about the specific things that you need to check that you're doing in your experience to make sure people can use those naive geographic skills they have. Jorge: And that's a learned skill, right? Knowing to expect something to be there and realizing that it isn't because of its absence is something that you have to pick up. This weekend, I took my kids to Barnes and Noble. They were wanting to buy some books and as convenient as it is to do it online, it's still quite pleasurable to browse through the shelves. And I was explaining to them how the books are organized alphabetically by the author's last name on the shelves. And that came up in the context of looking for a specific book and realizing that it wasn't there because the author's name wasn't on there. That's kind of what we're talking about here. Sarah: Yeah, absolutely. Jorge: This example of the grocery stores is also useful in that perhaps we understand these organization schemes at different levels of granularity. Once we understand how a grocery store is organized, we can find our way from the very highest level of the organization scheme all the way down to a specific product. And, at the highest level, the distinction that sticks in my mind is this phrase that I've heard used for people looking to eat healthier. They say, "shop the perimeter." Shop the edges of the grocery store, because that's where the fresh foods are kept. Whereas all of this stuff in the middle is processed foods. And that's a very high-level distinction that once you understand it, you can navigate that environment differently. Sarah: Yeah, that's also a great example of being able to reason based on a structure, rather than on content. Which is another gold standard of doing information architecture, I think. If somebody can understand the structure and your wayfinding and experience well enough that they can go, "hmm, I'm going to go around the edges!" Rather than saying, "I'm going to go to the lettuce and then I will go to the chard!" You know, that's what we dream of creating for our users. Standard elements Jorge: I want to move on to the last of the principles that you present in the article. It says, "use standard elements intentionally." What do you mean by 'standard elements'? Sarah: Occasionally, I get comments or people worrying that our information architecture isn't innovative enough that we're not doing anything surprising or introducing anything brand new. And I feel very strongly that your architecture is not the place to surprise people. Like, there are actual architects out there building very innovative homes that no one wants to live in. And I have no interest in doing that. I really want us to use the oldest, most standard, most expected way of doing things. I think the example of the grocery store is another great way here. There's a lot of benefit to not innovating in the layout of a grocery store. There probably is some benefit in innovating a little bit around the edges or in some details, but you gain a lot from making it legible and making it expected for people. And so, that one is really about... okay, given these things that we expect to have: we expect to have global navigation, we expect to have metadata on content, we expect to have titles and breadcrumbs... how do we unpack what each of those things is doing for us and make sure that between the suite of those elements we are using? Because you never use just one, you use lots of them together. Between all of those elements, we are presenting a coherent, complete view of the wayfinding people need. And this comes up a lot for us in things like design reviews, where the group will decide that we really don't need a content-type label on that card. And I'll say, "okay, the thing that that is doing for us is this thing!" Like, it is fulfilling this wayfinding need. How else are we going to do that? Because if you want to take this label off, I have to pick up the slack somewhere else. Whereas if somebody says, "oh, hey, I think we don't actually need..." I don't know, "we don't use breadcrumbs on this page or something." I can say, "okay, cool." Because actually that same need for being able to zoom out or being able to orient yourself relative to a landmark is actually being taken care of in these three other ways on the page already. So, if we lose that one, it's okay. It can help you make decisions about those trade-offs with design elements. It can also help you check the things that you absolutely need to be coherent with each other, that you need to be consistent because they're trying to do the same thing. And if they give people two different sets of information, that's worse than not having it at all. Jorge: It's an exhortation to be mindful about not just the elements you're using, but why they're there, right? Sarah: Yes, and all of this is really because, again, I had ideas about what I was doing as an information architect and I didn't have great answers for the little granular-wise. And so this is a result of my exploration of, okay, well, why? Why do we need them to work that way? And so, I'm sharing it with everybody else. Jorge: I'm wondering how thinking this way has affected your own work? Sarah: So much of information architecture is in the people and not the models. And so, my work has been about gaining allies and building relationships and getting people on board, and a good explanation that you can be confident about that doesn't rely on, "just trust me!" goes a really long way. Being able to break it down and decide where I make trade-offs and where I can accept more dissent, where I can encourage that and really learn from it versus where I really need to double down and say, " no, we need this." That's made a huge difference in my ability to get things done and to just build better experiences. Closing Jorge: Well, that's great. I'm very excited to see the upcoming posts in the series. It sounds like you're well ahead with the one about scale. Where can folks follow up with you to keep up to date with what you're writing and sharing. Sarah: Yeah, you can find me on Twitter @documentalope, or you can find everything I and my colleague Rachel Price write at a Medium publication called "Known Item." Jorge: Fantastic. And I have to call out that Rachel is a previous guest in the show as well. And I'll link to the conversation we had in the show notes. It's been so great having you on the show, Sarah. Sarah: Thank you so much. It's been fun. Jorge: Thank you.

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Ten Low, Slipping, The Ugly Cry, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Ten Low by Stark Holborn The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors by Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn with Nicole Weisensee Egan Slipping by Mohamed Kheir, Robin Moger (Translator) The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson The Marvelous by Claire Kann Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Bram The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey WHAT WE'RE READING: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Dune by Frank Herbert The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love by Jared Reck  We Two Alone: Stories by Jack Wang Daughter of Sparta by Claire Andrews  The Dive: The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue by Stephen McGinty  When You and I Collide by Kate Norris We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat by Cassandra Newbould  Bones of Hilo by Eric Redman The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum   One Two Three by Laurie Frankel  Vulnerable AF by Tarriona Ball The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid  The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young The Stone Loves the World by Brian Hall The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm The Listening House by Mabel Seeley  HOMES by Moheb Soliman Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs The Doomsday Book of Fairy Tales by Emily Brewes Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn It All Begins with Jelly Beans by Nova Weetman The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster by Kevin Cook  The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian Rabbits by Terry Miles The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright Dust Off the Bones by Paul Howarth And Now You're Back by Jill Mansell Kin: A Memoir by Shawna Kay Rodenberg Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams  Heartbreakers and Fakers by Cameron Lund Swimming to the Top of the Tide by Patricia Hanlon Night Came with Many Stars by Simon Van Booy  The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton by Eleanor Ray Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa Animal by Lisa Taddeo  Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez Hollow Chest by Brita Sandstrom ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out to Your Boyfriend in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Lessons on Love, Race, and Sexuality by JP Brammer The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms Book 1) by Tasha Suri  The Sea Is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt The Fugitivities by Jesse McCarthy From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle The Hidden Palace: A Tale of the Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker  The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D'Anieri Legends of the North Cascades by Jonathan Evison Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning by Alan Maimon Of Princes and Promises by Sandhya Menon I Don't Forgive You by Aggie Blum Thompson In: A Graphic Novel by Will McPhail See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#016 - Join Jennie for the “vulnerability” episode where she dishes on what she's been afraid of her whole life and how that kept her from showing up in her life and business. She learned the tips she'll reveal in this episode the hard way, and her fingers and toes are crossed that sharing them will help you take action on your big idea sooner rather than later. Courage is contagious, and here's hoping we can all rub off on each other and do the thing.The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron.The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield.Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert.Daring Greatly, by Brene Brown. Check out these blog posts about core values:Knowing Your Core Values Makes These 5 Things EasierHow to Determine Your Personal Values and Be Better at EverythingGet a handle on shame with the shame monster in Big Mouth.Brene Brown's "Man in the Arena" speech can be found here.Permission to Screw Up, by Kristen Hadeed. Here's the post on resilience. Oh, how I wish everyone in the world would read it:Mark Manson's Potty Mouth, Coronavirus and Other Lessons in ResilienceRejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection, by Jia Jiang. Follow me: Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest @YourCreativeFairyGodmotherWord of the day: Entelechy. The realization of potential.I hope this episode motivates you to get out of your own way and discover your entelechy.Thanks so much for listening. Please be sure to subscribe to the show so you don't miss next week where I talk to Adam Schaeuble about his mad skills at connecting people and how he uses generosity to grow his business. It's gonna be a good one!✨✨If you think this content is deserving of a tip, I'd be ever so grateful if you'd leave one here. I plan to use all proceeds for magick supplies and I promise to use my powers for good.

This week on Page Love, Greg returns to talk about "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory" by Caitlin Doughty. (bookshop.org/a/7227/9780393351903) Page Love is a weekly book review podcast to help your reading list grow. Caitlin wrote “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” to unmask the billion dollar industry western culture has created to hide death from ourselves. The book talks about cremation, embalming, funerals, and even dips into death practices of other cultures both past and present. You know Greg from past episodes of Page Love like “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “The Last Lecture”. Greg also wrote and produced our show music! He’s a long time friend and a fellow book lover who I am excited to have back on the show. Buy your copy of “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” or any book you'd love to read from our Bookshop page to support our Podcast and independent bookstores with your purchase. (bookshop.org/shop/pagelovepod) As a thank your for you purchase, you can complete this form (https://forms.gle/dnD7uiCEheZwLmxx8) and receive a set of three Page Love bookmarks! If you're ever in Washington DC, visit Lost City Book lostcitybookstore.com or Capitol Hill Books www.capitolhillbooks-dc.com Support Greg by streaming his new single here https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/gregmessmer/prescience and you can even pre-save his upcoming work here https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/gregmessmer/lo-fi-chill-beats-to-cookbake-to-deluxe Please review our show and share this episode or any of your favorite episodes with your friends to help our audience grow. Follow our show on Twitter and Instagram @PageLovePod and visit our website (www.pagelovepod.com). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pagelove/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pagelove/support

“What Simon’s Mother-in-Law Does Next and Other Lessons” from 2021-02-07 by Matt Matthews.

My guest in this episode is Mike Bergin, creator of 10,000 Birds, one of the oldest and most popular birding websites on the planet. Mike was an early pioneer of nature blogging, carving a playbook for others to follow, and creating a community of birding bloggers. This carries on today, where his site has expanded to include top tier writers with diverse interests from across the globe.In this episode we discuss the 10,000 Birds evolution, including how Mike grew the site, the challenges he encountered and overcame, and "transferable lessons" that can be used in other online pursuits. We dig into the unexpected opportunities that arose, as well as the lifelong community of friends and colleagues that it has created.Mike also runs a podcast of his own, Tests and the Rest, relating to his other craft of college admissions prep, where he's been able to apply many of these lessons he learned through 10,000 Birds.We have a wide-ranging discussion beyond the nuts and bolts of building an online community, including bird names and moving away from "honorific" naming, ecotourism (and a great quote from Mike: "True ecotourism compels you to care about the place"), why birders make great neighbors, and some of Mike's favorite field guides and books. Links To Topics DiscussedPeople and OrganizationsCorey Finger - Co-publisher of 10,000 BirdsCharlie Moors - early writer from Britain on 10,000 BirdsRick Wright's Blog, which delves into many fascinating topics, including bird name etymology and history. Clare Morton - the Australian writer that Mike mentionsDragan Simic - the Eastern European write Mike mentionsThe Bronx Zoo - one of Mike's childhood influencesBooks and Other Items DiscussedMike's Recommended Field Guides - Sibley's is his favorite, but he also likes the Crossley guidesThe Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America - SibleyThe Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America - SibleyThe Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds - CrossleyThe Crossley ID Guide: Raptors - CrossleyThe Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl - CrossleyMike also recommends "What the Robin Knows" by Jon Young, which focuses on learning bird behavior - and especially vocalizations - to better learn what is happening in the environment. Jays and Crows "mobbing" behavior is an easy example, and this book gets much deeper.Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks, by Lyandra Lynn HauptMike's article on "Wood-warbler Names Done Right"Space Coast Birding and Wildlife FestivalRio Grande Valley Birding FestivalGrey Treepie - one of the highlight birds Mike saw in Hong KongThe Biggest Week in American Birding - Yes, it really is one of the bigger weeks in birding, held during migration in Ohio.

Today we’re changing up the format a bit. With the holidays coming up, it’s time to start thinking about gift giving. I invited a bunch of my favorite young Bookworms, ages 5-23, to tell me about their favorite books. I love talking to kids, and I love talking about books – so this episode was an absolute delight to record. I hope you will find plenty of books for all the young people in your life. Remember your local indie bookstores when doing all of your shopping! Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Discussed in this episode:   Henry: The Amazing Spiderman World of Reading This is Spiderman by Marvel Press   Charley: Thea Stilton and the Land of Flowers Thea Stilton Cloud Castle Thea Stilton Treasure Seekers   Katie: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls   Jaden: The Pandava Series by Roshani Chokshi Jaden’s favorite is Book 2, Arusha and the Song of Death   Jack: The Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter There are several series; Jack’s favorite is the New Prophecy Series His favorite book in that series is  Warrior Cat: Sunset by Erin Hunter   Miles: The Geronimo Stilton Books Miles mentioned the following: Geronimo Stilton: The Island of Dragons Thea Stilton: The Land of Flowers Thea Stilton and The Dragon’s Code Geronimo Stilton: The Wizard’s Wand Geronimo Stilton: The Kingdom of Fantasy Dog Man Books Series by Dav Pilkey   Joey Scythe by Neal Shusterman (Part of the Arc of a Scythe Series) Dry by Neal Shusterman Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler: Alive, Alight, Alone Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling The Story Thieves Series by James Riley: Story Thieves, The Stolen Chapters, Secret Origins, Pick the Plot, Worlds Apart   Jala The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (Part of the First Law Trilogy) The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi   Erin Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The Mother Daughter Book Club Series by Heather Vogel Frederick (Erin’s favorite is Pies and Prejudice) We Were Liars by E. Lockhart   Ella Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris   Aidan Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (Note: If you shop using my affiliate links, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

Today we're changing up the format a bit. With the holidays coming up, it's time to start thinking about gift giving. I invited a bunch of my favorite young Bookworms, ages 5-23, to tell me about their favorite books. I love talking to kids, and I love talking about books – so this episode was an absolute delight to record. I hope you will find plenty of books for all the young people in your life. Remember your local indie bookstores when doing all of your shopping! Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram/Facebook   Discussed in this episode:   Henry: The Amazing Spiderman World of Reading This is Spiderman by Marvel Press   Charley: Thea Stilton and the Land of Flowers Thea Stilton Cloud Castle Thea Stilton Treasure Seekers   Katie: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls   Jaden: The Pandava Series by Roshani Chokshi Jaden's favorite is Book 2, Arusha and the Song of Death   Jack: The Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter There are several series; Jack's favorite is the New Prophecy Series His favorite book in that series is  Warrior Cat: Sunset by Erin Hunter   Miles: The Geronimo Stilton Books Miles mentioned the following: Geronimo Stilton: The Island of Dragons Thea Stilton: The Land of Flowers Thea Stilton and The Dragon's Code Geronimo Stilton: The Wizard's Wand Geronimo Stilton: The Kingdom of Fantasy Dog Man Books Series by Dav Pilkey   Joey Scythe by Neal Shusterman (Part of the Arc of a Scythe Series) Dry by Neal Shusterman Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler: Alive, Alight, Alone Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling The Story Thieves Series by James Riley: Story Thieves, The Stolen Chapters, Secret Origins, Pick the Plot, Worlds Apart   Jala The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (Part of the First Law Trilogy) The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi   Erin Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The Mother Daughter Book Club Series by Heather Vogel Frederick (Erin's favorite is Pies and Prejudice) We Were Liars by E. Lockhart   Ella Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris   Aidan Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (Note: If you shop using my affiliate links, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

On the latest episode of the DMPL Podcast, we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with some great books by Latinx authors. Janeé is up first to talk about kid's books, and then we're joined by Elizabeth, who gives us some adult book selections: Show Notes Book Links Vamos! Let's Go Eat, by Raul the Third; illustrations by Elaine Bay We Are Not From Here, by Jenny Torres Sanchez Merci Suárez Changes Gears, by Meg Medina Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Elizabeth's Other Book Picks: The Last Great Road Bum: A Novel by Héctor Tobar #ownvoices Fiction The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera Afterlife by Julia Alvarez A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia #ownvoices Nonfiction Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You... and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo  Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noe Alvarez Upcoming Programs Calle Sur: Music and Bilingual Virtual Storytime/Calle Sur: Música, y Cuentos y Canciones Bilingües | September 24 | 4:00 PM Voting Rights in Iowa: Don't Be Intimidated, Vote | September 24 | 7:00 PM Flu Shot Clinic with Polk County Health | September 28 | 5:00 PM Teen Chefs: Homemade Tortillas with Marianela Blanco | September 30 | 5:30 PM Fall Book Bites | October 1 | 6:30 PM  

Meet Denice Torres | Fortune 50 Senior Executive – Founder of The Mentoring Place - Author – Keynote SpeakerDenice grew up in a lower-middle-class family in Gary, Indiana where she worked as a janitor in a steel mill to save money for college. As a Hispanic, Polish, gay woman from humblebeginnings and a wicked sense of humor, she didn’t exactly fit the mold of a corporateexecutive. Driven by equal parts ambition and fear, she began her career practicing law (for the longest year of her life) and eventually joined a large, Midwest pharmaceutical company where she worked her way up the ranks of management. Denice later joined Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world where she was president of multi-billion-dollar companies in pharmaceutical and consumer sectors. Most notably, she was responsible for leading the successful turnaround of the company that makes Tylenol when products were removed from store shelves due to quality challenges.Denice’s rise to executive leadership was filled with ups and downs and fueled by what sherefers to as an “asses on fire” mentality to keep going. She has received many awards such as Healthcare Businesswoman of the Year, Mother of the Year at J&J/Working Mother, Diversity Champion of the Year, and has featured in Latina Style, WorkingWomen and other publications.She has also served as a keynote speaker for many Fortune 500 companies on the topics of leadership, change management, and women’s empowerment.In 2019 Denice founded The Mentoring Place, an online platform for helping women navigate their careers through real-world, no BS insights and guidance. In a matter of weeks, thousands of women signed up for her bi-monthly live streams. In 2020, Denice is launching her first book, “Flip the Tortilla and Other Lessons in Resilience, Optimism, and Mojo.” In October, “Flip the Tortilla, a weekly podcast about women, careers, courage, and resilience – mixed with humor and some irreverence – will be available on all major podcast platforms. Denice doesn’t believe women should send the elevator down when they get to the top. Instead, she says women should go back and lead other women by the hand - through the muck and uncertainty– to help them achieve their goals.Denice lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania with her wife, Kim, and their 19-year-old daughter,Sierra, who was born with cerebral palsy. Sierra has taught Denice incredible life lessons that she happily shares in all her interactions.Connect with Denice! www.thementoringplace.com

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking with one of the most beloved writers in the history of science fiction and fantasy, Lois McMaster Bujold, about working and writing in these strange times, her semi-retirement and how she came to write and publish the Penric and Desdemona series, and much more. Books mentioned include: The Physicians of Vilnoc (Penric and Desdemona #8) by Lois McMaster Bujold  Penric's Progress by Lois McMaster Bujold Penric's Travels by Lois McMaster Bujold Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher Swordheart by T. Kingfisher Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty      

On this episode, we sit with the author of More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise, Cecilia Muñoz. Drawing from her experience as the first #Latinx to serve as the White House Domestic Policy Council (under President #Obama) and decades fighting for the rights of #immigrants while at #UnidosUS, Cecilia talks to us about her four strategies to combat #selfdoubt, the importance of #empowering your team, and the everyday #heros around us.    Cecilia now serves as vice president for public interest technology and local initiatives at New America and is a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award. Learn more about Cecilia at http://www.ceciliamunoz.com and order your copy of More Than Ready at here (https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=More+Than+Ready) .   Tamarindo podcast is the Latinx show where hosts discuss politics, pop culture, and how to balance it all con calma, hosted by Brenda Gonzalez and Ana Sheila Victorino. Join us as we delve into discussions on culture, politics, identity, representation, and life! Find us at https://www.tamarindopodcast.com/. Producer Jeff provides original music and sound engineering. Michelle Andrade edits the show. If you want to support our work, please rate and review our show here. (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tamarindo/id1102882792?mt=2)   Follow Tamarindo on Instagram @Tamarindopodcast (https://www.instagram.com/tamarindopodcast/) and on twitter @tamarindocast (https://twitter.com/TamarindoCast) or   Follow Brenda on instagram @SweetPixNaranja (https://www.instagram.com/sweetpixnaranja/) and on twitter @BrendaRicards (https://twitter.com/BrendaRicards)   Follow Ana Sheila on instagram @la_anasheila (https://www.instagram.com/la_anasheila/) and twitter@Shelli1228 (https://twitter.com/shelli1228)

Antropoloģes un Oksfordas Universitātes asociētās profesores Daces Dzenovskas monogrāfija “Eiropeiskuma skola: iecietība un citas politiskā liberālisma mācības Latvijā” (School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia), kuru 2018. gadā publicējusi Kornela Universitātes izdevniecība, nule kā saņēmusi nozīmīgu novērtējumu - tā ieguvusi Baltijas studiju veicināšanas asociācijas galveno balvu. Par īpašu atzinību izpelnījušos grāmatu un citām pētnieces akadēmiskajām interesēm attālināti runājam raidījumā Zināmais nezināmajā ar Daci Dzenovsku. Skaidrojam, kā tas ir pētīt Austrumeiropu, strādājot un dzīvojot Lielbritānijā. "Grāmatas mērķis ir parādīt, kas ir liberālisms pēc aukstā kara mūsdienu vēsturiskajā kontekstā, kā tas izskatās, no kādām praksēm sastāv praktiski eksistējošais liberālisms. Secinājums, ka tas kā vēsturisks veidojums ir sava veida ideoloģija, kas pieprasa, lai cilvēki radikāli maina savu izpratni par indivīdu, tā attiecībām ar līdzcilvēkiem, kolektīvu," atklāj Dzenovska. "Piemēram, grāmatā ir nodaļa par valodu, kas apskata valodas ideoloģiju šajā sakarā. Ja iecietības veicinātāji strādāja ar valodas ideoloģiju un uzskatīja, ka vārdi rada pasauli, ne to reprezentē. Tie, kas nepiekrita viņu uzskatiem, atzina, ka valoda vienkārši izsaka vai reprezentē pasauli. Mēģināju skatīties, kas lietām ir apakšā, no kā tās sastāv," turpina pētniece. Dzenovska par atgādina par debatēm, ko savulaik raisīja vārds žīds, vai tas, lietots sabiedriskā telpā, ievaino cilvēku.  "Tas, ka vārds ievaino ir specifiska veida valodas ideoloģija, kas ir atšķirīga no tās, ka valoda vienkārši izsaka to, kas jau ir," norāda Dzenovska. Viņas vēlme pētījumā bijusi dziļi skatīties uz pamatpieņēmumiem, kas ir pamatā tam, ko uzskatām par liberālismu, vai tam, ko uzskatām par nacionālismu. "Gribējās aicināt sabiedrību padomāt, faktiski kritiski distancēties no politiskajām debatēm, lai palūkotos, par ko ir strīds. Kā mēs sevi pārveidojam kā cilvēki, kā sabiedrība, lai pievērstos vienam vai otram virzienam," norāda Dzenovska. Literatūru var pētīt arī no gastropoētiskā aspekta Pasakās, romānos un citos literāros darbos varoņi ne tikai risina dažādus jautājumus, bet arī mielojas ar gardiem ēdieniem un dzērieniem. Tāpēc nav pārsteigums, ja kādu īpašu zupu vai cepeti saistām ar izlasītu grāmatu. Šie ir daži no aspektiem, kurus aplūko gastropoētika, taču gastropoētikas pētījumi var sniegt arī krietni plašāku informāciju gan par nacionālās identitātes veidošanos, gan sociālām problēmām sabiedrībā. Par riekstu gaņģiem un mandeļu gaņģiem stāstīts latviešu rakstnieka Kārļa Skalbes pasakā „Kaķīša dzirnavas”, kas tapusi 20. gadsimta sākumā. Vai Kārlis Skalbe un viņa laikabiedri rada iespēju mieloties ar riekstiem un mandelēm? Rast atbildi šim jautājumam būtu detektīva cienīgs darbs, taču zināms ir tas, ka literatūru var pētīt gastropoētiskā aspektā, priekšplānā izvirzot tieši gastronomiju un ēdienu. 13 pētnieki no vairākām Latvijas un citu Eiropas valstu augstskolām uzsākuši projektu, kura ietvaros paredzēts ne vien pētīt literāros darbos atspoguļoto ēdiena dimensiju, bet arī analizēt, ko šis ēdiens stāsta par Latvijas iedzīvotāju nacionālo identitāti. Gastropoētiku un pētnieku ieceri plašāk skaidro projekta galvenā izpildītāja, Latvijas Universitātes Humanitāro zinātņu fakultātes vadošā pētniece Astra Spalvēna. "Gastropoētika ir viens no literatūras pētniecības veidiem, kas pēta ēdienu esamības veidus literāros tekstos, kā mēs redzam ēdienu gan literatūrā, gan pavārgrāmatās. Jāņem vērā arī  tas, ka ar ēdienu saprotam dažādu parādību kopumu, gan ēdiens un dzēriens, gan ēšana, gan ēdiena pagatavošana, pasniegšana, ēdienreizes. Ēdiens kā pārsedzošs termins," skaidro Astra Spalvēna. "Tekstu klāsts ir plašs, bet nav daudz literāru tekstu par ēdienu. Dzejā reti kad par ēdienu ir runa, tajos gadījumos, kad tā ir, tas patiešām kļūst interesanti," norāda pētniece. Protams, ka ēdienus literatūrā varētu analizēt arī no sociālantropoloģiskā viedokļa, piemēram, vai riekstus un mandeles savā ikdienā mēs saistām ar pārticību, jo riekstu un mandeļu gaņģi Kārļa Skalbes „Kaķīša dzirnavās” stāsta par turību un labu dzīvi. Vai, piemēram, moments no Marsela Prusta romānu cikla „Zudušo laiku meklējot” par madlēnas cepumiņiem rosina arī mums tos pagaršot. Astra Spalvēna min, ka kopā ar pētnieku komandu ir vērts arī padomāt, kā konkrētā projekta rezultāti varētu radīt sociālu ietekmi ilgtermiņā. Projekta galarezultāts būs kolektīva monogrāfija, un tuvāko trīs gadu laikā gan Latvijas Universitātes mājas lapā, gan sociālo tīklu platformās noteikti vēl uzzināsim par pētnieku atziņām gastropoētikā.  

LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, AND RATE Every week, Indivisible Chicago Podcast host Tom Moss talks to politicians, newsmakers, academics and activists about resisting the Trump agenda. The ICP is also a great way to keep up with what’s happening in Indivisible Chicago. * Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or listen online at IndivisibleChicago.com/podcast. * Take a minute to rate us on iTunes. It helps us get the word out about the ICP. https://apple.co/2oR4UlH INDIVISIBLE CHICAGO PODCAST SHOW NOTES FOR MONDAY, MAY 4, 2020 _1. Recently the Indivisible Chicago Alliance signed on to support the Illinois Fair Tax Amendment. It is not surprising that powerful forces have aligned to oppose it, but fortunately, powerful forces are organizing to support it as well. Amisha Patel, is the Executive Director of the Grassroots Collaborative, and she joins this week to offer common sense responses to arguments listeners might hear from certain family and friends. More info is at yesforfairtax.org and grassrootscollaborative.org. _2. Cecilia Muñoz was a senior member of Obama’s White House Leadership team. She’s also the author of a new book: More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise. With most of the country still on lockdown, with cruelty and injustice emanating from the White House, and with a difficult election year ahead, there is no better time to talk about the qualities of leadership.

In our latest episode of our series, Taking On Covid-19, Abby spoke with Cecilia Muñoz, Obama's former Director of the Domestic Policy Council, about her role in the administration's 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic response and the importance of collaboration between federal and state government when addressing public health crises. Cecilia also previews her newly released book, "More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You....and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise."

Latina Theory Episode 35 Hosts Maria Isa (https://www.facebook.com/mariaisalolita?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARD2QS_iYoEKGy33HgJAbb67_2VICmeGJdaiXmQs1WwstWA8Fxw1DcQa82kjpFlDXkuSv8kZif4ok6sa&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARATzrkfe66i4bNFIab3zBc2LE-rzFm4omJWoeQ7vvoecpfBN20Sd0dauCCY6wFHgrOywj-OAL56pSe19gpS315t6YFgAXJt2a1LzhFA1sJJIUrK2gv53SK3l0MKaZ7nXlP7Ng_aw9vqC6IGCSTM8cqO0R0KvbnmGlDclNuhhCDuqERdjdqVRRo52C7ZpyZKEDWgHr5_64p5KWQCa-hWeRzVdUxyn-Zll7wOs9dYjffZ2QBp5vtO-LqWRxTbpkWHdJnRuepr_B6uYheMGSjU01IwT0bvCTGOVUcBktKmA_7SNIRI-hlUGgZj5Bn4POZIiEAAi8A08J2N7erM5R0aXVucSQ) and Jessica Lopez Lyman (https://www.facebook.com/jlopezlyman?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCOn9euvsJr8nJGAYbY7AaiCwttMGiRMYISwR1R1a0hu-jh8i2FdRGbDUKOhQpc8IKPl0kCDcpXlDLI&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARATzrkfe66i4bNFIab3zBc2LE-rzFm4omJWoeQ7vvoecpfBN20Sd0dauCCY6wFHgrOywj-OAL56pSe19gpS315t6YFgAXJt2a1LzhFA1sJJIUrK2gv53SK3l0MKaZ7nXlP7Ng_aw9vqC6IGCSTM8cqO0R0KvbnmGlDclNuhhCDuqERdjdqVRRo52C7ZpyZKEDWgHr5_64p5KWQCa-hWeRzVdUxyn-Zll7wOs9dYjffZ2QBp5vtO-LqWRxTbpkWHdJnRuepr_B6uYheMGSjU01IwT0bvCTGOVUcBktKmA_7SNIRI-hlUGgZj5Bn4POZIiEAAi8A08J2N7erM5R0aXVucSQ) interview Cecilia Muñoz, a political advisor who served eight years on President Obama's senior staff, first as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, then as director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is currently the Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at New America. Her latest book More than Ready : Be Strong and Be You...and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise is out now! Our second half of the episode we highlight the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act being signed into Minnesota law this passed week by Governor Tim Walz becoming the first Insulin Affordability Act signed in the nation. Jessica highlights some great LatinX series to check out while being quarantined and our playlist continues to keep the vibe. Playlist:  Las Cafeteras- "I'm not your puppet" Tribe Called Quest - "Oh My God" Chicano Batman - "Pink Elephant"   

This week Alice and Kim talk new releases, Earth Day reads and more from the world of nonfiction. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Book Riot Insiders, and TBR. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction News Newsmaker: Stacey Abrams The Pulitzer Prize announcements are postponed. New Books American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki Mockett In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Alice Quick Mentions: The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask Kim Quick Mentions: Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You…and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz Earth Day The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here by Hope Jahren The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg Reading Now KIM: Writers and Lovers by Lily King ALICE: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA - @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss The Subtweet, Hidden Valley Road, We Didn't Ask for This, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Neal Porter Books, Holiday House, and Hello, Neighbor! The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers by Matthew Cordell, and Entangled Teen, publisher of Crave by Tracy Wolff. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World by Olga Khazan Goodbye from Nowhere by Sara Zarr The Subtweet: A Novel by Vivek Shraya Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel by Anne Tyler We Didn't Ask for This by Adi Alsaid Sin Eater: A Novel by Megan Campisi Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker WHAT WE'RE READING: When You  Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk The Sleeping Nymph by Ilaria Tuti MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet by Richard Wagamese Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood by Emma Hansen Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth Cut to Bloom by Arhm Choi Wild Into the Tall, Tall Grass by Loriel Ryon Crazy for Birds: A Celebration and Exploration of Eggs, Nests, Wings, and More by Misha Maynerick Blaise Marie Curie and the Power of Persistence by Karla Valenti, Annalisa Beghelli The Burning by Laura Bates Choice Words: Writers on Abortion by Annie Finch The Magic in Changing Your Stars by Leah Henderson The Postman From Space by Guillaume Perreault The Five Archetypes: Discover Your True Nature and Transform Your Life and Relationships by Carey Davidson Broadway for Paul: Poems by Vincent Katz White Silence by Jodi Taylor The Rough Pearl by Kevin Mutch Moments of Glad Grace: A Memoir by Alison Wearing Malicroix by Henri Bosco, Joyce Zonana (Translator) Temptation by Janos Szekely, Mark Baczoni (Translator) Conjure Women: A Novel by Afia Atakora Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble by Gurihiru, Mariko Tamaki Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult by Marianne Boucher To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters Living Your Best Life According to Nala Cat by Nala Cat The Loop by Ben Oliver Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents by Natalia Hailes, Ash Spivak, Louise Reimer Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science by Alan Levinovitz Demo: Poems by Charlie Smith Philosophy in the Garden by Damon Young Learning by Heart: An Unconventional Education by Tony Wagner The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård, Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator) Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them by Edan Lepucki Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick The Golden Girls: Forever Golden: The Real Autobiographies of Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, and Blanche by Christine Kopaczewski The Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge Mitchum by Blutch, Matt Madden (Translator) Aren't You Forgetting Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge by Kari Lizer The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer: Everything You Need to Know About Craft, Inspiration, Agents, Editors, Publishing, and the Business of Building a Sustainable Writing Career by Kevin Larimer, Mary Gannon Nat Enough by Maria Scrivan Pets by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Lila and Hadley by Kody Keplinger More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Munoz Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating by David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Hand The Engineer's Wife: A Novel by Tracey Enerson Wood Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade Neck of the Woods: Poetry by Amy Woolard Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel by Elizabeth George Little Josephine: Memory in Pieces by Valérie Villieu and Raphaël Sarfati The Pelton Papers: A Novel by Mari Coates The Truth about Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown The King's Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution by Eliot Pattison Forever Glimmer Creek by Stacy Hackney A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer (translator) Spit Three Times by Davide Reviati, Jamie Richards (translator) Bonds of Brass: Book One of The Bloodright Trilogy by Emily Skrutskie Indigo by Ellen Bass Alabama Noir (Akashic Noir) by Don Noble Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington This Lovely City by Louise Hare So This is Love: A Twisted Tale by Elizabeth Lim Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr by David Carr, Jill Rooney Carr The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America by David Stout The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline by Loretta Lynn and Patsy Lynn I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays by Michael Arceneaux Raphael, Painter in Rome: A Novel by Stephanie Storey The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan Thieves of Weirdwood by William Shivering, Anna Earley (Illustrator) The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park The More Extravagant Feast: Poems by Leah Naomi Green The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke by Sallie Bingham The Immortals of Tehran by Ali Araghi Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson A Bad Day for Sunshine: A Novel by Darynda Jones Theft by Luke Brown Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change by Daniel Mathews The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey Betsey: A Memoir by Betsey Johnson, Mark Vitulano Queen of the Owls: A Novel by Barbara Linn Probst Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels by Lisa Brown Sword in the Stars: A Once & Future novel by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta A Tender Thing by Emily Neuberger The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund Mary Underwater by Shannon Doleski In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance Check, Please! 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Pam Zhang A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe The Wolf of Cape Fen by Juliana Brandt The Third Sister by Sara Blaedel The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski They Went Left by Monica Hesse The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel by Lisa Wingate The Last Summer of Ada Bloom by Martine Murray The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson The Glass Magician by Caroline Stevermer It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson Storyville!: An Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction by John Dufresne, Evan Wondolowski The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (translator), David Boyd (translator) Camping with Unicorns: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure (Volume 11) by Dana Simpson The Beauty of Your Face: A Novel by Sahar Mustafah Little Universes by Heather Demetrios Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed Something She's Not Telling Us: A Novel by Darcey Bell Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan On the Horizon by Lois Lowry, Kenard Pak (Illustrator) The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me by Gae Polisner Dragman: A Novel by Steven Appleby The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship by Greg King, Penny Wilson A Mother's Lie by Sarah Zettel Afterlife by Julia Alvarez A Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York by Bill Greer Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega Tales From the Loop by Simon Stålenhag Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth by Helen Pilcher Broken by Don Winslow Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty by Iris Krasnow Strike Me Down: A Novel by Mindy Mejia Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward Attention: A Love Story by Casey Schwartz Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward, Gina Triplett (Illustrator) The Drive by Yair Assulin, Jessica Cohen (translator) The Astonishing Life of August March: A Novel by Aaron Jackson Ruthless Gods: A Novel (Something Dark and Holy) by Emily A. 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Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2S6u9zo-htz-4 The God of the Bible is unique, not only as Creator, but as Trinity: we worship One God who exists eternally in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Choosing words to describe this reality is difficult; after all, there’s nothing else just like God. So, we rely on the words of Scripture summarized very carefully in the historical creeds, which were developed in extensive, Scriptural study and debate. But the question is anything but coldly academic: in this episode we discuss how our salvation depends on the personal and interpersonal nature of the triune God. This episode features: No More Mormon Jokes, the Great Puritan Theologian John Milton, the Dark Side of the Force, Be Good and Don’t Run with Scissors and Other Lessons from the Historical Jesus, Emily’s Appalling Lack of Cultural Literacy, and the SHOCKING TRUTH: What Really Happened at the Council of Nicea? Athanasian Creed (excerpt on the Trinity) 21. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten. 22. The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten. 23. The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding. 24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. 25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another. 26. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal. 27. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. 28. He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity. Links St. Patrick’s Bad Analogies (yet again): https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/ Paradise Lost - John Milton: https://amzn.to/2YPWL21 Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: - Book: https://amzn.to/2PO6cee - Show: https://amzn.to/2Q9YeMH The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Carl L. Becker: https://amzn.to/2RRfAk4 The Athanasian Creed: - Text: https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html - Greg’s Commentary: https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-theology-of-the-ancient-creeds-part-4-the-athanasian-creed --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support

Not many people serve in an Administration for all eight years at a senior level. It’s exhausting, often daunting work. But, Cecilia Muñoz, New America’s Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives, did just that. First as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, then followed by five years as Director of the Domestic Policy Council. Before working in government, Cecilia was Senior Vice President at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US), the nation’s largest Hispanic policy and advocacy organization, where she served for 20 years. She is soon to release a fascinating and timely new book called More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You . . . and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise. As the daughter of immigrants from Bolivia, and one of the most successful women in Washington that Anne-Marie Slaughter knows, she wanted to find out from Cecilia what resilience has meant to her own life, both personally and professionally.

November is Non-Fiction November. I have my husband Jesse joining me this week to talk about some non-fiction about death or the death industry. If you want more non-fiction recommendations, you can check out the first time we did Non-Fiction Horror Episode with ABookOlive. Shownotes This week's sponsor:  The Tear Collector by Shawn Burgess Pre-Order at Amazon and Barnes & Nobles   Books Mentioned:  Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and TJ Mitchell From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson

Tamara K. Anderson interviews Sarah Gowans on the Stories of Hope in Hard Times podcast. After a bike crash, Sarah’s daughter was diagnosed with kidney disease, and then her marriage fell apart. She shares lessons on survival with God’s help.Sarah Gowans: Lessons from a Bike Crash, Kidney Disease, and DivorceBioSometimes people have periods of their life that seem to follow the saying,“when it rains, it pours.” Sarah Gowans had 3 years (2009-2012) where things seemed to go from bad to worse. First, she was hit by a car while riding her bike, then her daughter almost died from Kidney disease, and while she was helping her daughter recover her husband told her he no longer wanted to be married.Sarah is a wife and mother of 5 daughtersShe has been studying health and wellness for over 10 years.Sarah is a Licensed Massage Therapist and a member of the American Footzonology® Practitioners Association.She has presented on health, relationships, and lifestyle on radio, and other various events.Sarah is a lover of nature, hiking, running, cycling, and water and snow skiing, yoga, and strength training.She is an avid reader.She also spends time each day meditating and connecting with her spirit and God.Bike CrashSarah had a car turn in front of her while she was biking and hit the car with her head, shoulders and face. It was the most painful thing she had experienced up to that point. Miraculously she didn’t break any bones, but did chip some teeth, had a big gash and some pretty sore.This was her little wake-up call, even though Sarah didn’t know it yet. Life was about to change for her and it was time to do some growing.First Lessons LearnedWork with your healthcare practitioners to help you take care of body especially when you go through physical trauma.Prioritize taking care of your body because you need your health to keep going.Sarah feels like the pain and recovery she experienced after the bike crash was physical pain, whereas the pain she would soon experience was more emotional and spiritual pain. She explained that if she had to pick between physical pain and emotional pain, she would pick physical pain every time.Daughter with Kidney FailureOne day Sarah noticed that her 7-year-old daughter Halle looked heavier all of the sudden. A few days later as she went to help her bathe, she noticed even more that her body just looked swollen. Halle’s ankles, stomach and even eyelids were swollen, and Sarah knew this wasn’t normal.So, she took her to the doctor who did some blood and urine tests to see if they could figure out what was wrong. The doctor called them to come back when the tests were done and had them come right back into his office instead of going to the waiting room. That was Sarah’s first clue that something was really wrong.The pediatrician told them there was something wrong with Halle’s kidneys, and because he had studied with a nephrologist (kidney doctor) at one point he was able to recognize the signs and symptoms before she got worse. He said he believed their daughter had Minimal Change Disease.What is Minimal Change Disease?Minimal Change Disease is a disease of the kidneys. The first thing to know is that kidneys are supposed to filter waste out of our blood several times per day. Kidneys are supposed to leave proteins in the blood, but Halle’s kidneys were filtering the protein out and it was spilling over into her urine. This causes edema, or swelling.The reason it is called Minimal Change Disease is that if you were to compare a healthy kidney biopsy and with a diseased kidney biopsy under a regular microscope, they would look the same. It isn’t until you look at the biopsies under an electron microscope where you can see that the filters aren’t working. This is why it is called Minimal Change Disease–because you can’t see a change under a regular microscope.Blessings and TreatmentThe fact that their pediatrician diagnosed Halle correctly quickly was the first blessing Sarah noted because often patients go undiagnosed for many weeks while doctors urge their patients to change their diets and try other remedies. The wait is not good for the kidneys.They ended up going to a nephrologist up at the University of Utah, and the doctors gave Halle a good prognosis. They thought they’d be able to manage the disease with steroids.Sarah realized how serious this was when she took her first prescription of Prednisone to be filled at the pharmacy and the pharmacist looked at the prescription and told her the doctor must have made a mistake because that dose was way too high for a 7-year-old girl. Sarah just burst into tears because she knew it wasn’t written incorrectly–it had to be a high dose to kick Halle’s kidneys into gear.They were hopeful that these massive doses of steroids would help her kidneys and decrease the swelling that was so painful. As they started the high dose it would decrease the swelling, but the doctors didn’t want to keep her at such a high dose, so they would then taper her down, and the swelling would increase again. So it was a cycle for several months up and down.Prayers Don’t WorkOne night in particular, Halle came to them in tears begging that they would help her because it felt like there were knives in her legs. Of course as a mom, Sarah wanted so badly to just take the pain away.Sarah grew up believing in God and so it was natural for her to turn to God and pray with Halle for relief from the pain. Unfortunately even with the prayers the pain didn’t decrease. Halle eventually just cried herself to sleep. This went on for a while and it was so hard for Sarah to watch her daughter suffer.After several cycles and Halle coming to her for comfort and prayers, Halle finally told Sarah, “Mom, we’ve said prayers. Prayers don’t work. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t help.” Sarah’s heart sank, but she knew her daughter was right. Prayer wasn’t changing anything yet she didn’t want Halle to lose her faith so young.Crisis of FaithThat night Sarah went to her knees and prayed for help. She was almost to the point of losing faith herself. It was a crisis of faith for her. She had believed in God her whole life and her life had been pretty good so far. This was the hardest trial she had experienced until that point.She began to wonder if God really was there. Her child could be dying and she was doing the best that she could. It seemed like God was silent.Sarah began to wonder what she really believed. Did she believe that God really did answer prayers even when He was silent?Sarah wondered how much faith she really had if this was all it took to knock her off the rails. She came to the conclusion that either she had faith or she didn’t. She knew she didn’t feel God right then, but decided she could choose faith or not.She decided to choose faith.What Helped Sarah Choose Faith?When I asked Sarah what made her choose faith she said it was a combination of a few things:It was deeply ingrained in her soul that God lived. She had been taught that since she was little.Sarah also remembered times in the past where she knew that God had answered her prayers. She had also had experiences where she knew God was there.She decided she knew her faith was deeper than her doubts, and she thinks that is because she chose to read her scriptures, pray, and do things to bring her closer to God for many years.Finally–An AnswerAfter Sarah made the decision to choose faith, she prayed for some kind of answer to know what to tell Halle so she didn’t lose faith. The answer didn’t come right away, but as she was reading in her scriptures the next day the answer finally came.Sarah was reading about a people that were in bondage and were slaves and they cried unto God because the burden was too heavy. God told them that He would make their burdens light so that they could continue to carry the heavy load.This was her answer. The answer wasn’t that God would take the burden away. The answer was that God would make them stronger so they could carry the burden. She realized then that this was part of her journey and Halle’s journey to make them both stronger and it wasn’t right for her to try to pray that away.So, Sarah knew she needed to change her prayer that God would strengthen them to bear their burden. This was hard because as a parent she wanted to take her daughter’s burden away. Sarah didn’t want to see Halle suffer, but she also knew now that she needed to be strong for her.So, Sarah took Halle aside and taught her God’s answer and that they did need to change their prayer that she would be strengthened as she carried her burden. It was a powerful teaching moment for her and Halle to realize that God is there and He answers their prayers.This lesson is applicable to all of us who struggle and want our burdens taken away. Sometimes we just need to change our prayer and ask God to help make us stronger so we can bear the challenge.Other Lessons from Kidney DiseaseDon’t blow up the problem in your mind and make it worse than it is. We sometimes imagine the worst case scenario and then spend so much time worrying that is going to happen, when it doesn’t.Halle was prayed over or “blessed” several times and told she would be okay. And then she would relapse and Sarah would wonder why she wasn’t okay. Sarah learned that God’s timing is not our timing and that truly in the end Halle was okay, but just not as quickly as Sarah hoped she would be.So Sarah developed patience as she learned to trust in God and his timing (even though it just wasn’t as fast as she had hoped it would be.) Never pray for patience, by the way. God seems to know we need patience and He gives us ample opportunities to develop it over days, weeks and years. These growing pains take time, and we need to allow God to work and change our insides.To conclude this part of the story, Halle went through several more cycles over the next 5 years and even had to try chemotherapy to finally get her kidneys to respond normally. She hasn’t had a relapse since she was 12-years-old.Marital Challenges & DivorceSarah was in the car accident in August 2009, Halle began having kidney problems in September, and then in January 2010 her husband came to her and said. “I don’t think I love you anymore and I don’t want to be married anymore.”This happened right as she was taking care of her daughter, getting up in the middle of the night to give her medication.This was devastating to Sarah! She was shocked and surprised!She told him that they could do this and she was willing to go to counseling.Counseling“Never in my mind was divorce an option for me” Sarah admitted.So, they started going to counseling. But he wasn’t sure if he wanted to be married–he was kind of on the fence.Finally their counselor told him, “I cannot counsel someone who isn’t sure if they want to be married or not. So, you need to decide. Either you are in or you are out. If you are in, then I can counsel you. If you’re not sure, there is nothing I can do.”So, he stopped going to counseling because he needed time to think about this decision. Meanwhile, Sarah kept going to counseling so she could deal with the situation.So, they lived in limbo for about a year. Living is limbo is so hard! Anyone who has ever been paralyzed by this type of indecision of not knowing how things will turn out knows how hard this is.“If you are waiting and you can’t move forward, it is hard!” Sarah commented.Sarah now feels that this “limbo” time gave her time to work on herself.Her counselor recommended a book called, The Road Less Traveled, which started an inner journey for her. “Regardless of whether my marriage worked out or not, I needed to work on me.” Lesson: Putting God FirstSarah came to realize through this journey that she depended on her husband for her happiness and security, and that at times she even placed him before God. And that wasn’t how it was supposed to be.“That is one of the things I came to realize, that I need to rely more on God and less on man. It is crucial that God is first in our lives,” Sarah emphasized.So, Sarah was able to develop true faith and trust in God. She had to ask herself, if her husband were gone, would she still have faith in God?Sarah came to realize that she could not control her husband. She could only control herself and her decisions and actions.She spent this year, strengthening her faith, strengthening her character, figuring out who she really was as a daughter of God.Here are the 6 Things Sarah Did to Deepen Her Relationship With GodShe spent time in prayer: “I really learned during that time to talk to Heavenly Father instead of just saying a prayer.”Reading the book The Road Less Traveled, helped guide her on this journey.Sarah learned to meditate–meditates means she cleared out the negative, and said positive affirmations.She also learned to study her scriptures looking for answers instead of just reading them to check a box in her head.Sarah also thought about and found things to be grateful for–and thanked God for these things.She also found great value in being still.Up until this point, Sarah lived the gospel of Jesus Christ in her head. She knew it was good and right, but it wasn’t in her heart.Favorite Bible VersePhilippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ…” became Sarah’s favorite scripture through all of these trials because she knew she couldn’t do it on my own. It was too big. She needed Him!Lesson: ForgivnessSarah shared the story of how it was hard for her to be able to forgive when the pain was so deep. She tells the story of knowing a meeting was coming up where she would have to face someone she knew she needed to forgive, but it was just so very heavy. She knew she couldn’t do it on her own.Finally, in desperation, Sarah dropped to her knees and told God how she wanted to forgive this person but needed and begged for help. She said she was putting out the intention and desire to forgive, but the burden of the pain seemed to big to be able to overcome on her own.What happened during the meeting was a miracle, “Christ came in and took my heart and He put His heart in my heart. and I just melted and I genuinely wanted to give that person a hug and tell them ‘I forgive you.’ It was not me. It was Christ stepping in and doing what I could not do on my own.”Sarah said there are some people like Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place who went through so much worse in a concentration camp, but she too had a miraculous experience where she was able to forgive.You don’t have to carry pain and sorrow and heavy burdens on our own–turn it over to God.Tip: Forgive sooner versus later so you don’t have to carry it around so long.Lesson: There is Great Power in Good MusicThere were times when Sarah didn’t think she could go any further, even with God’s help. She felt very lonely.There were three songs she played repeatedly when she was in despair:Sarah’s Dark Days Playlist“Strong Enough” by Matthew West“When Faith Endures” by Alex Boyé“Beautiful Heartbreak” by Hilary Weeks“When you are given a heavy burden that is hard to bear, let music help lift you,” Sarah advised.Cut out the yucky music and media and replace it with positive and uplifting music. It will cheer you up and help you keep going.Lesson: Journaling and CounselingIt is important to process things that are heavy either in writing or talking it out or perhaps doing a bit of both.One counselor, Andrea Carver, taught Sarah to keep both a dark notebook and a light notebook. You write your dark, negative thoughts in the dark one and your positive thoughts in the light one.Get those negative thoughts out of your head. Don’t give them power–write them down. Get them out and then heal.An important thing to remember is to write two light thoughts for every dark thought.If you aren’t a writer, go to a therapist and get the negative stuff out that way.You do need to process all of the change and the hard things, and talking to a friend or therapist will help you do that. Journaling will also help you process your tough times.Be patient with yourself. Sarah had a point where she chanted the mantra, “I have to be like Christ, I have to be like Christ,” but then it dawned on her, “but I’m not Christ.”Be kind to yourself. Be like Christ, but remember we don’t have to be Him.Be human. Be where you are with the intention of improving.Contact Sarahwww.becomingme.bizAlthough Sarah is not currently working, this website has her info where people can reach out and find her.Shareable Thoughts & Memes 

In this episode, Amber, Shannon, Brooke, and Natalia are discussing some of their favorite memoirs. Books mentioned In this episode are: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the teachings of Plants Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: a True Story of Dying Ten Times To Live Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory Michelle Obama, Becoming Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean Tessa Fontaine, The Electric Woman: A Memoir In Death Defying Acts Clara Hughes, Open Heart, Open Mind Kevin Hart, I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons Katherine G. Johnson: Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Tara Westover: Educated Jesse Thistle, From the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis, Homeless, and Finding My Way Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was shot by the Taliban You can always contact the Book Bistro team by searching @BookBistroPodcast on facebook, or visiting: https://www.facebook.com/BookBistroPodcast/ You can also send an email to: TheBookBistroPodcast@gmail.com For more information on the podcast and the team behind it, please visit: http://anchor.fm/book-bistro.

As a new series following up my "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" series, I'm starting "Other Lessons" to talk about other things I've learned during my time at Wizards. This podcast's lesson is "People overrate ideas and underrate execution."

The former president and CEO of 20th Century Fox Television reflects on an action-packed 50 year career in entertainment. Read his new book "You Can't Fall Off the Floor and Other Lessons from a Life in Hollywood" (co-written by his grandson Nick Katleman), available now from Simon & Schuster.

Welcome to Episode 8 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Not what your enemy sees and hopes that you will, but what’s really there." Book 4, Chapter 11   "If all the rest is common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God—saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it—this life lived with simplicity, humility, cheerfulness—he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be." Book 3, Chapter 16   "People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul." Book 4, Chapter 3   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Things we mentioned on today's podcast:   [Article] Facing your Mid-Career Crisis - Kieran Setiya, Harvard Business Review [Book] Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull [Book] Getting Things Done by David Allen [Talk] Be Humble - and Other Lessons from the Philosophy of Water - Raymond Tang, TEDx [Person] Dashrath Manjhi, the man who carved a tunnel through a mountain [Film] Pursuit of Happyness       Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen    

Casey Fenton ~ Founder of CouchSurfing and Upstock ~ Current Series ~ 100 Interviews with 100 Major Influencers   Imagine being a young man hacking the University of Iceland's directory to meet new people and trying to find a couch to crash on for a free place to stay.  Then turning that concept into a 20 million person platform that changed the way people travel. Casey Fenton is that young man and the platform he built is called Couch Surfing.   Casey joins us on the podcast today for a really exciting chat. These days Casey has built a new business called Upstock that is modernizing an antiquated stock option system that allows team members and employees to earn equity instantly without an undue cash burden on the company. He got this idea from his days at CouchSurfing when he didn't have the ability to give his team and employees a shared part of the company. This frustrated him and it created a passion that started Upstock and the drive to help businesses help themselves. We dive into Casey's passion about Upstock today but also chat about the book on human egos that Casey is writing. He has another mission to help people understand their egos better and how we can use them for good. Of course, we also discuss about the Couch Surfing story and how it led Casey on a wild ride of world travel, startups, venture capitalists, challenges with the US taxation system, helping business grow and changing the way people travel all around the world.   04:19: Climbing the Great Pyramids 08:46: Casey on His New Business Upstock 17:50: Examples of Sharing Equity w/ Team Members 23:16: Casey on Gamifying Business 26:06: Ideas on Gamifying for Entrepreneurs Today 31:46: Ego Hacking 45:01: The First Couch That Casey Surfed On 48:47: Number One Lesson from CouchSurfing 51:32: Other Lessons from CouchSurfing 55:31: Casey on Influence   Contact Info: https://upstock.io/ http://www.caseyfenton.com/ http://bit.ly/egohack

In this week's episode, Kim and guest co-host Sharifah recommend books by people with interesting jobs and personal essay collections by smart and funny women. This episode is sponsored by Unapologetic by Charlene A Carruthers and Elizabeth Warren by Antonia Felix. Book Riot also wants to know about your reading habits. Hop over and take our Fall Reader Survey before Sept. 10 for a chance to win a $100 gift card to the Book Riot Store: bookriot.com/fallsurvey NEW BOOKS To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope by Jeanne Marie Laskas “Dear Mr. President” by Jeanne Marie Laskas in the Guardian Ten Letters by Eli Saslow Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi Bureau of Spies by Steven T. Usdin The Provocative Colette by Annie Goetzinger Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen LABOR DAY/STORIES OF WORK Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty This is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario MOSTLY FUNNY PERSONAL ESSAYS We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby A Field Guide to Awkward Silences by Alexandra Petri Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul READING NOW Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood The Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis Peters

Alternative mortician, YouTube personality, and New York Times bestselling nonfiction author of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty, rang me up this week to chat about changing the West’s relationship to death, the challenges of running a non-profit funeral home, and how to write a bestselling book in your spare time. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! Caitlin is the creator of “Ask a Mortician,” a web series that boasts over 300,000 subscribers, and the founder of The Order of the Good Death, a nonprofit that advocates for death acceptance and an alternative to Western funeral industry practices. Her first bestselling book and memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory, chronicled her experiences as a young woman working in a crematorium. Her latest, From Here to Eternity, resumes her exploration of the field to explore “… how other cultures care for the dead,” and “… is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown in America.” Her mission to reform the death industry has led to features on NPR, BBC, The New Yorker, Vice, The Atlantic, the New York Times, and many others. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In this file Caitlin Doughty and I discuss: Her strong voice for change and how that got her an agent How a full-time mortician finds time to write bestselling books The sense of doubt that all writers face How her greater mission overtook her fear of writing Why writers need to be less precious about their work The Muse of Death Why you need to Tweet an inspirational writing quote to Caitlin @TheGoodDeath – #TheWriterFiles – after you listen to this show Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes If you’re ready to see for yourself why over 201,344 website owners trust StudioPress — the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins — just go to StudioPress.com From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death – Caitlin Doughty CaitlinDoughty.com

This week we welcome Caitlin Doughty — mortician, funeral home owner, the creator of the web series “Ask a Mortician”, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the bestselling books Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Read More

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Human Consciousness is a fascinating research topic. Discussed previously in a number of Bridging the Gaps conversations, cutting edge research on consciousness – an ungrasped concept and an unsolved problem in science today – will keep appearing here at this Portal for Curious Minds. It is widely accepted that consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. An important question is where does consciousness arise; does this arise from a single seat in the brain or is this a distributed phenomenon involving various interconnected parts and networks of the brain. Whatever is the answer to this question, most researchers relate this phenomenon with the working of human brain. Alva Noe – part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist – restates and re-examines the problem of consciousness and proposes that we should abandon “200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain”. Alva Noe is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center of New Media. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995. The focus of this conversation with Alva Noe is his book “Out of Our Heads: Why You are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness”. One of the main concepts that Alva Noe presents in this book is that consciousness does not happen in the brain and it is not located in our brains; he suggests that rather than being something that happens inside us, consciousness is something we do. In this conversation we discuss in detail this “fresh attempt at understanding our minds and how we interact with the world around us”.

WORD Christchurch Festival, 28 August, 2016 We welcome Caitlin Doughty, author, mortician, death positive advocate, and presenter of the smart, funny and informative ‘Ask a Mortician’ web series. According to the Guardian, Doughty’s memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium, which charts her early years in the funeral business, is ‘a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death’. Doughty explodes taboos with wit, wisdom and insight, and tells it straight in matters of death and dying. With Christchurch coroner Marcus Elliott. Presented by Kate Sylvester

This week's guest is Mariavittoria Mangini, PhD, FNP. Dr. Mangini is a member of the board of directors of the Women's Visionary Congress, and has been a family nurse midwife for twenty five years. She has written extensively on the impact of psychedelic experiences in shaping the lives of her contemporaries, and has worked closely with many of the most distinguished investigators in this field. Her current project is the development of a Thanatology program for the study of death and dying. Jonathan was alerted to her work and her resonance with Psychedelic Parenting when a listener passed along a digital copy of her 2000 PhD dissertation entitled Yes, Mom Took Acid: The Sociohistorical Influence of Prior Psychedelic Drug Use in Adults. We soon discovered that not only was she a WVC board member, but also working in a family practice that incorporated cannabis as a regular part of their work. In this talk, Jonathan and Dr. Mangini discuss the upcoming Women's Visionary Congress NYC Salon (where the Psychedelic Parenting Away Team will be tabling), the role of psychedelics in the history of the baby boomer generation, the growth of interest and understanding of death in American culture as the boomers "run out of runway," and Dr. Mangini's role in the resurgence of Psychedelic Studies though her efforts, with George Greer and Charles Grob on the 1998 Monograph Edition of The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs As always, we ask that if you find value in this work, that you consider making a tax-deductible donation to Psychedelic Parenting through our Fiscal Sponsor, MAPS, using the button below: donate-button TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: Women's Visionary Congress NYC Salon Tickets Psymposia's "Visionary Women" afterparty event Dr. Mangini's Bio (WVC board members) Speakers at NYC Salon Allyson Grey Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) Katherine MacLean, PhD Julie Holland, MD Moody Bitches The Pot Book (editor) The Trips Festival Wikipedia entry The Trips Festival DVD The Merry Pranksters Wikipedia Entry Stanislav Grof Erowid Character Vault Personal Website Joan Halifax Wikipedia Entry Upaya Zen Center Bio Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1998 Monograph Issue Betty Eisner Erowid Character Vault Wikipedia Entry The Trip Treatment by Michael Pollan Shpongle Ecofarm Conference The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead Tobacco: A Forgotten Healing Plant Dr Frank Lucido Alice In Wonderland Statue in Central Park Map LSD: Problem Child and Wonderdrug (Albert Hoffman 100th Birthday Symposium) Thanatology Order of the Good Death Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Ask a Mortician YouTube Channel Undertaking L.A. Death Salons Mutter Museum in Philadelphia Getty Villa Museum in L.A. The Giver 1993 book by Lois Lowry 2014 Film starring Jeff Bridges Wikipedia Entry

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This month’s theme is Corpses, and our guest is Caitlin Doughty, whose book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory is a fascinating, honest, and often hilarious memoir about her life as a mortician. We also talk literary corpses in all their various states of decomposition.

Take My Spouse, Please (Trumpeter Books) In love as in comedy, timing is everything. One bad night doesn't mean it's time to quit. Have patience: great marriages, like a successful comedy career, take time. Turns out the cardinal rules of comedy have an uncanny resemblance to the “rules” of building a strong marriage. With humor and grace, writer and comedian Dani Klein Modisett shares a map for navigating your marriage through rough patches, bad jokes, and even nights when you bomb. Take My Spouse, Please shows how thirteen tried-and-true rules of comedy, when applied to marriage, keep you and your spouse connected, enjoying each other, and getting through those inevitable tough times. Bottom line: there is (almost) always room to laugh at a trying situation and, more important, with each other. Along with anecdotes from well-known comedians, comedy writers, marriage counselors, and long-term spouses, Dani delivers the core premise: humor matters. Praise for Take My Spouse, Please “This book makes you realize how valuable laughter is in a marriage. Buy it for your spouse and add years to your relationship.”—Ben Stiller “A wonderful, humorous read for anyone in a marriage or thinking of being in one. My wife, Estelle, and I had the good fortune of being married for sixty-five years. When anyone asked her about making a marriage last, she always replied, ‘Marry someone who can stand being with you.'”—Carl Reiner “My wife and I are either killing or bombing in our marriage, and Dani Modisett's book explains how that's actually a good thing. Finally, some validation that a marriage between two insane people can be a beautiful thing.”—Jim Gaffigan, comedian “Having been married for twenty-seven years and writing about relationships for thirty-five years, I can see that Dani Modisett has captured the straight truth in this book. If you aren't laughing through the years, you aren't sticking together through the years. Sustaining a marriage is tough stuff, and this book, crammed with stories of resilience and humor, is proof that it is possible.”—Iris Krasnow, best-selling author of The Secret Lives of Wives “In her quest to get more humor into her family life, Modisett has written a book with great passion and huge heart. A delight for anyone who is, was, or might ever be married.”—Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure “Filled with humor, aspirational stories, and practical tips, Take My Spouse, Please helped me reflect on my most cherished relationship: my marriage. It made me feel hopeful about what it takes to stay connected, to grow, and most important, to keep laughing together—always.”—Mallika Chopra, author of Living with Intent “A welcome relief from typical how-to marriage manuals. Highly recommended for everyone who wants more joy and more love in their relationship.”—Ken Page, author of Deeper Dating “Other than having sex, I can't think of anything better for two people who love each to do than to laugh together. Modisett knows this and delivers a book with inspiring stories of happy marriages and highly doable advice to help couples of all kinds.”—Jill Soloway, writer and comedian “For many Irish Catholics, the idea of leaving a marriage after vowing to stay is an idea that if acted upon will lead to eternal damnation. In Dani Modisett's funny, insightful book, she provides wonderful examples of many marriages that last because of shared happiness and understanding rather than fear of a forever spent in hell.”—Mike O'Malley, producer, writer, and actor “My life's work is all about comedy, love, and laughter. Dani manages to look at the most important love relationship we have—our marriage—and see it through the lens of a comedian, coming up with meaningful ideas that can't help but provide results. What a book!”—Yakov Smirnoff, stand-up comedian and actor “I got married six months to the day after I met my now-husband. Best and most irrational thing I have ever done. People laughed at me. Now I know why my marriage works so well—it's because we were two physicians inadvertently following the rules of comedy. Dani nails it, prescribing strategies to keep relationships healthy, honest, and fun. Doctor's orders: read this book!”—Dr. Cara Natterson, New York Times best-selling author of the American Girl advice book The Care and Keeping of You  Dani Klein Modisett is a comedian and writer who has been working in the comedy world for the past twenty years. She created and produced several live shows, most notably “Afterbirth . . . Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine,” which ran for ten years in Los Angeles and several major U.S. cities. In addition, Dani has written and produced a variety of online video content, including a series for Deepak Chopra, and a short video that is also titled “Take My Spouse, Please,” which was featured in the New York Times. Dani is the editor of the anthology Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Parents Magazine, LA Parent Magazine, Mom.me and the Huffington Post. Dani lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her two sons.  Johanna Stein is a writer/director/author/forward/slash/abuser whose work has been on Comedy Central, CBS, HBO, The Disney Channel, and recently in the viral video, "MomHead". Her comedic essays can be seen in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Parents Magazine and in her book, How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane (and Other Lessons in Parenting from a Highly Questionable Source). For more info: www.johannastein.com.

Carl Davis CBE is a composer and conductor, best known for his film and television music including The World at War; Pride and Prejudice and The French Lieutenant's Woman. He has also created symphonic scores for a range of Charlie Chaplin's movies such as The Gold Rush and City Lights. He conducts a live orchestra in London and Birmingham at the screening of two classic silent movies: Buster Keaton's The General and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. Philharmonia at the Movies: The General is at Royal Festival Hall. Friday Night Classics - Charlie Chaplin is at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. The BFI DVD Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies featuring music by Carl Davis is on general release. Samantha Ellis is a journalist and playwright. Her new play Operation Magic Carpet is based on her own experiences as the daughter of Iraqi-Jewish parents who fled Baghdad before she was born. Featuring a child heroine, the play tackles the stories of second generation immigrants who have never visited the countries their parents came from. Operation Magic Carpet is at Polka Theatre, London. Simon Annand has been a photographer for over 30 years. His work focuses on all aspects of the theatre including production and rehearsal photos, posters and his own project called The Half about actors preparing for the stage. His new exhibition features images of some of Britain's leading playwrights and marks the 10th anniversary of The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. 2015 Bruntwood Prize Exhibition: Portraits of Playwrights by Simon Annand is at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and writer. Her book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, tells the story of her apprenticeship as a mortician at a crematorium in San Francisco. It also tackles society's fear of death and the funeral industry's approach to the dead and their families. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - and Other Lessons from the Crematorium is published by Canongate. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below. Generally speaking, our culture is not one that deals well with death. Caitlin Doughty, an LA-based mortician and best-selling author, is on a life-long quest to change this. When we spoke, we discussed: —how she became a "death professional"  —the biggest misunderstanding that most people have about the work she does —and how, with her new venture Undertaking L.A., she aims to help people help themselves...to take care of dead bodies. About Caitlin Doughty: Caitlin Doughty is an LA-based mortician and writer who founded The Order of the Good Death, a movement focused  on preparing "a death phobic culture for their inevitable mortality." Doughty hosts a regular video series called Ask a Mortician and is also the author of The New York Times bestseller Smoke Gets In Your Eyes...and Other Lessons from the Crematory. Photos: Used with permission from Caitlin Doughty. Production notes: This episode was edited by Chris Walton of Visual Story Productions. The interview was conducted via Skype, and unfortunately we didn't have a good connection. I'm grateful to Chris for cleaning up the sound as much as possible, and I would ask that you consider the remaining effects "atmospheric." Thanks also to forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek for suggesting Caitlin Doughty as an interview subject.  

It's our Halloween show, and we talk to the most fun mortician on the planet, Caitlin Doughty. You may know her from her popular webcast "Ask a Mortician," hosted on her website "Order of the Good Death." We talk about morbid kids (it gets better), "secondary flaccidity," the greatest death movie ever, and her new book, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematory."

Point of Inquiry welcomes Caitlin Doughty, creator of the cult classic web series Ask A Mortician, which gives unvarnished answers to questions about dead bodies and the death industry. Caitlin has tackled topics ranging from "What to say to a grieving person?" to "How could my titanium hip implant end up as part of a road sign in the Midwest?"    Caitlin is the author of the new book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory, the story of her stint as a crematory operator in Los Angeles. She went on to become a licensed mortician to launch a one-woman crusade to change our culture's attitudes about death. 

Transmedia and story engineering were hot topics at this year's Willamette Writer's Conference in Portland, Oregon. Tom shares his key takeaways, insights, and lessons learned from speaking at and attending the conference. In the show, we discuss transmedia and the future of media. Content is the greatest marketing tool you will ever have, and transmedia […] The post 034: Transmedia, Story Engineering, and Other Lessons from the 2014 Willamette Writer's Conference appeared first on TCK Publishing.

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HR Happy Hour- Episode 104 - 'You Still Can't Fire Everyone' Sponsored by Aquire Thursday June 9, 2011 - 8:00PM ET Call in 646-378-1086 Follow on Twitter - #HRHappyHour This week on the show we will talk with Hank Gilman, executive at Fortune Magazine, and author of the recent book, 'You Can't Fire Everyone, and Other Lessons from an Accidental Manager'.  Hank has had a long and successful career as a writer and editor at some of the world's most prominent publications like the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and even the Beaufort Times. But like many successful and talented professionals, Hank's introduction to the world of 'management' was not at all planned for or simple. Why do organizations simply promote the best workers to management positions without really equipping them with the skills and tools they will need to succeed? What is it like to go from 'one of the team' to leader of the team in one fell swoop? And what has Hank learned about hiring, firing, motivating, and guiding teams of talented and creative people in his years in the journalism business? I hope you can join Hank and I this Thursday June 9th at 8:00pm ET for 'You Still Can't Fire Everyone'.

This week we take an indepth look into the sacred cultural practice and art form of Diné (Navajo) weaving with internationally acclaimed authors, educators, and fifth generation weavers Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas. Recommended reading and browsing:Lynda's and Barbara's books: Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today and How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider WomanLynda's and Barbara's website: https://navajorugweavers.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Fifth generation Diné (Navajo) weavers Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas have been instrumental in rewriting the history and narrative surrounding Navajo weaving, a realm that for too long has been dominated by non-Diné voices. This is exemplified by their two groundbreaking books Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today and How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman, as well as their integral role in the creation of the exhibition Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. Curator Hadley Jensen also joins us. Recommended reading and browsing:Lynda and Barbara's books: Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today and How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider WomanLynda and Barbara's website: https://navajorugweavers.com/Shaped by the Loom exhibition website: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions/117/n-aSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy