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Este episodio vamos a salirnos de GTD y vamos a ver un sistema de gestión de listas ideado por Mark Forster. Veremos en qué consiste, como lo hemos aplicado y sus diferencias con GTD. Enlace al post: https://www.aprendiendogtd.com/podcast-productividad/sistema-de-gestion-listas-de-tareas-extensas Enlaces de interés: Get Everything Done. Blog de Mark Forster - http://markforster.squarespace.com/ The Ultimate Time Management System - http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2013/6/13/the-ultimate-time-management-system.html Time Management Systems - http://markforster.squarespace.com/tm-systems/ Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00L845MZK Get Everything Done: And Still Have Time to Play - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00L845MFK Secrets of Productive People: 50 Techniques To Get Things Done - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00OGLKJUU How to Make Your Dreams Come True - https://www.amazon.es/dp/B00KIO9D1K https://www.aprendiendogtd.com https://www.aprendiendogtd.com/productividad-solidaria/ https://pabloparedes.es Grupo Telegram: https://telegram.me/AprendiendoGTD Canal de YouTube: https://www.aprendiendogtd.com/youtube Email: info@aprendiendogtd.com Feed: https://www.ivoox.com/aprendiendo-gtd-podcast_fg_f1286811_filtro_1.xml iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/es/podcast/aprendiendo-gtd-podcast/id1112186543?mt=2 Manolo @manolo_molero Luis @lsblasco Sergio @spantigaramos Pablo @paredes94 David @dasanru Podcast @aprendiendoGTD Sintonía: "All the Fixings" de Zachariah Hickman

“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. Miss a meal, but don't miss a book.” — Jim Rohn As we enter the holiday season, now is the perfect time to acknowledge the people who have played an important role in your life — and to get in the orbit of people who could play a pivotal role in achieving your goals. In this minisode, I'm going to share a list of books and other tips to help you do that. Remember to allocate some time to fill your own cup so you can hit the ground running in 2025. Onward, James PS — ⁠⁠Join 14K+ other subscribers enjoying exclusive free content on YouTube⁠⁠

My guest today is Nigel Bloomhall, Co-founder and CEO of Invisible Urban Charging. Invisible Urban Charging provides electric vehicles as a service, which means they design, install, own, and maintain chargers for investors, fleet managers, and corporates eager to electrify transportation while avoiding the capital expense and uncertainty associated with being a novice in the sector. They've signed partnerships with giants like CBRE to install over 1 million chargers. Nigel brings three decades of experience in power utilities, energy, and banking across multiple continents. In this episode, you'll learn these four important takeaways and much more. Why he flew from New Zealand to the US for a 15-minute meeting and how it catapulted his company to faster growth Why he focuses on level 2 chargers, not fast chargers What he learned from pitching 283 investors How aiming for bigger goals is easier than more humble ambitions

This week I'm excited to speak with Adrienne Bellehumer. Adrienne the founder of Bellehumeur Co. and co-partner of Risk Oversight, based in Calgary, Alberta. Adrienne is also the author of the book, The 24-Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations: Including the 6 Steps of Dynamic Documentation. In this episode she is here to shed light on the often overlooked yet crucial practice of documentation and its profound impact on both personal productivity and organizational success. As we dive into the conversation, we'll explore the six dynamic steps of documentation—capturing, structuring, presenting, communicating, storing, and leveraging—and learn why both "little d" everyday habits and "big D" corporate initiatives are essential for our effectiveness. Adrienne will share her insights on the 24-hour rule, a powerful strategy for activating information and maintaining momentum. In addition we'll examine common misconceptions around documentation and discover how it can indeed propel individuals and teams forward rather than being seen as a burden. Get ready to rethink your meetings, create buffer times for processing information, and find out how to align your note-taking with your attention span, enhancing focus and productivity. Plus, you'll learn about the collaborative magic of real-time, communal editing, and the art of iterative processes in documentation. ______________________________________ Connect with Adrienne: Website  LinkedIn Risk Oversight  ______________________________________ Connect with Erik: LinkedIn  Facebook  Instagram  ______________________________________ This Podcast is Powered By: Descript Descript 101 Castmagic Ecamm Podpage Rodecaster Pro Top Productivity Books List Make sure to support the show by checking out the sponsors! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey! On today's ep I'm interviewing Laura Vanderkam, the author of several time management and productivity books, including the new Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters, along with Juliet's School of Possibilities, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the host of the podcast Before Breakfast and the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com. Buy Laura's book Off The Clock, Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done: https://amzn.to/49j0bNo But Laura's other books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Laura-Vanderkam/author/B001JRX55A?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ Time Smart by Ashley Willans - https://amzn.to/3IW8OTl ✨ Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management - https://amzn.to/3IWT6rb SHOP ✨ The Intention App - Manage Your Mind to Create a Life That Feels Good ⇢ ⁠https://www.theintentionapp.com/⁠ ✨ The Life Map - Part eBook, part digital workbook. Use The Life Map (2.0) to create your most incredible year yet ⇢ https://www.muchelleb.com.au/the-life-map CONNECT WITH ME

Adrienne Bellehumeur is a dynamic professional who brings a unique blend of expertise and creativity to the world of documentation and workflow best practices. As the Director and Owner of Risk Oversight, a leading firm specializing in governance, risk and compliance, internal audit, Sox and CSOX programs, she has a deep understanding of the intricacies involved in these areas. Adrienne is also the founder of Bell Humor Co., where she leverages her skills as a consultant, speaker, trainer, and writer to help organizations improve their documentation processes. Her book, "The 24 Hours Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations," is a game-changer in the field, offering practical insights and strategies for maximizing productivity and effectiveness. With her extensive experience and passion for her work, Adrienne is a trusted resource for professionals seeking networking opportunities in Calgary.In this episode, you will be able to:Expand your professional network and make valuable connections with Calgary's business leaders.Discover the exclusive benefits and opportunities that come with Calpeet Club membership.Gain expert insights and advice on professional growth to advance your career.Learn the importance of proper documentation for scalability and efficient business operations.Connect with and support Calgary's thriving business community for mutual growth and success.Get Connected with Adrienne:httwww.linkedin.com/in/adriennebellehumeur/www.riskoversight.ca www.bellehumeurco.comVisit www.calpeteclub.com for information on our next networking and membership opportunities.https://calpeteclub.com/https://twitter.com/calpeteclubhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/calgary-petroleum-club-3a5868117/https://www.facebook.com/calpeteclubhttps://www.youtube.com/user/calpeteclub

Adrienne Bellehumeur, Director and Owner of Risk Oversight, discusses her book “The 24-Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations.” Her book is being called the first "mass market" book on documentation best practices. Listen for perspective and advice you can use today. Host, Kevin Craine

Business Consultant & Author Adrienne Bellehumeur discusses her book 'The 24 Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations', which entails her six proven steps of how documentation can become a team's new superpower.

Adrienne Bellehumeur, productivity and compliance expert and cofounder of Risk Oversight, shares insights from her book "The 24-Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations."  Learn how to turbocharge your effectiveness and convert ideas, plans, meetings, and proprietary knowledge into purposeful action. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn About Business Owners Radio: Business Owners Radio is a podcast that brings you insights, inspiration, and actionable advice from successful entrepreneurs and business experts. Hosted by Shye Gilad and Craig Moen, our show aims to help you grow your business and achieve your goals. Join us every week for new episodes packed with valuable tips and resources. Sponsorships: Are you interested in sponsoring an episode of Business Owners Radio? Reach out to us at email to discuss advertising opportunities.

Laura Black successfully climbed the corporate ladder to become a successful attorney. When retirement hit, her descent down that same ladder was marked by loss and marginalization. She no longer possessed the CEO status she placed so much of her worth in, her children fled the nest for lives of their own, and she had to cope with the decline and eventual deaths of her parents. Plus, well, aging, which is hard in itself. In a nutshell, Laura discovered that as a mature woman, mother and wife, it can be harder to find true happiness after leaving a long-term career.  Laura's first book, Big Butts, Fat Thighs, and Other Secrets to Success, empowered women to accept and use their vulnerabilities in forming critical business relationships. Laura's latest book, Climbing down the ladder, a journey to a different kind of happy investigates how woman can keep their identify after losing their business card.

Tom Fox's guest in this episode of Innovation In compliance is Adrienne Bellehumeur. They discuss the significance of gap analysis in the design of internal controls, and why having a thorough understanding of design is critical to the success of gap analysis. They emphasize the importance of continuous improvement and avoiding a "pass-fail" approach to internal control programs. Adrienne also shares her five principles for creating high-value compliance programs. Adrienne Bellehumeur is the Director and Co-owner of Risk Oversight, a firm specializing in internal controls, internal audit, and compliance programs. She has written a book called The 24-Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations: Including the 6 Steps of Dynamic Documentation, which is set to be published on March 7th and is geared towards managers who are seeking solutions through documentation. This book aims to provide a fun and foundational approach to documentation for the modern knowledge workforce and is the first mass-market book on documentation best practices. Some of the key points discussed during the show include: Adrienne's background and current role at her company, Risk Oversight, which specializes in delivering services to mid-sized oil and gas companies in the engineering sectors. The purpose of gap analysis is to identify areas for improvement in processes and controls to support operational effectiveness. Adrienne's belief that internal controls should focus on good habits, accountability, and continuous improvement rather than just ticking boxes. How Risk Oversight helps companies fulfill their obligation of oversight by providing entity-level control review and understanding best practices in governance. The two best practices for board minutes, the "Goldilocks principle" and the "business judgment rule." The Caremark doctrine in Delaware and the importance of documentation of major risk management decisions. Adrienne's book The 24-Hour Rule, which is a mass-market book on documentation aimed at managers looking to solve problems through documentation and is applicable to various industries. KEY QUOTATION: “Risk management is about action.” – Adrienne Bellehumeur  Resources  Adrienne Bellehumeur | LinkedIn | Twitter  Risk Oversight |  The 24-Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations: Including the 6 Steps of Dynamic Documentation

If you listened to Episode 1 of the Uplevel Dairy Podcast, you may recall our guest, Jared Dueppengiesser, the impressive young manager at Milk Source's Rosendale Dairy who talked about lowering employee turnover. One of the tools he credited with this was a book called Give Your Employees C.R.A.P.: The Success Formula for Building Employee Loyalty, by author and employee retention expert Jeff Kortes. On this episode, Jeff joins us to talk about the success formula for building employee loyalty. And you are in for a treat because Jared is jumping on with us again, along with his colleague Jessi Schoofs, manager of Milk Source's La Clare Family Creamery's retail store, who is also applying Jeff's concepts to her team. What you'll learn: - What is C.R.A.P. and why does it work? - How Jared uses these principles at Rosendale Dairy - The C.R.A.P. coin and how Jessi uses it to empower her team - C.R.A.P. in action Jeff Kortes is an employee retention and recruitment expert and author of Give Your Employees C.R.A.P. and 7 Other Secrets of Employee Retention. Contact Jeff Kortes: https://jeffkortes.com/ 414-421-9626 jeff@jeffkortes.com Are you a manager who is stressed out by employee turnover and disengagement, but don't have time to step out of the day-to-day to take classes and courses? We are developing the Uplevel Dairy Employee Management Master Class for you. Head to UplevelDairy.com to join the waitlist. Head to UplevelDairy.com to read the blog and join the Uplevel Dairy email list to receive new podcasts, blogs and offers from Uplevel Dairy in your inbox. To listen to more episodes, head over to Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Don't forget to rate and review! Connect with Peggy: peggy@upleveldairy.com Follow Uplevel Dairy on: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

Do you have a loved one suffering from dementia? Are you worried about your own cognitive health as you age? If so, this episode of The Hormone Prescription Podcast is for you!   Our guest, Dr. Heather Sandison, the founder of Solcere Health Clinic, and Marama, the first residential care facility for the elderly of its kind, and a leading expert in the field of integrative medicine, shares her insights on how to protect your brain and prevent or reverse dementia.   In this episode you will learn: The role that hormones play in brain health The benefits of lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, for cognitive health The genetic determinism of Alzheimer's disease and what you can do to mitigate your risk The tests and treatments available to prevent and treat dementia The complex system science approach versus the reduction approach to brain health And much more!   If you are interested in learning more about how to protect your brain and prevent or reverse dementia, this episode is a must-listen!   (00:00): Do you think that dementia is a done deal and that once you get it, you'll always have it. Well, you need to listen up because that's actually a lie.   (00:12): So the big question is how do women over 40, like us, keep weight off, have great energy balance. Our hormones in our moods feel sexy and confident and master midlife. If you're like most of us, you are not getting the answers you need and remain confused and pretty hopeless to ever feel like yourself. Again. As an OB GYN, I had to discover for myself the truth about what creates a rock, solid metabolism, lasting weight loss, and supercharged energy. After 40 in order to lose a hundred pounds and fix my fatigue. Now I'm on a mission. This podcast is designed to share the natural tools you need for impactful results. And to give you clarity on the answers to your midlife metabolism challenges, join me for tangible natural strategies to crush the hormone imbalances you are facing and help you get unstuck from the sidelines of life. My name is Dr. Kyrin Dunston welcome to the hormone prescription podcast.   (01:05): Hi, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the hormone prescription with Dr. Kyrin. Thank you so much for joining me today. If you believe that dementia is a done deal in that, once you have it, you will always have it. It will progress and get worse. Then you need to listen up because that is just not true anymore. The truth is that you can prevent and reverse cognitive decline and Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. When you take a root cause all systems approach. And my guest today is an expert on this. She is going to break it down for you. She's also hosting a wonderful summit that is coming up on Alzheimer's and cognitive functioning and dementia and how to prevent and reverse it. So I definitely want you to attend that. We'll have the link in the show notes, because this is for everyone.   (02:00): You know, don't hear this title and think, oh, uh, my brain is fine, right? It takes decades to develop cognitive decline and dementia. And so if you have a brain, and you're a human, and you're getting older, which is just about every one of us, then you need to listen up, cuz you need to be doing things, taking steps to protect your precious brain, your mainframe computer. Now. So we'll dive into talking to Heather. She gave a masterclass today about all the things that you need to be doing for your brain. Don't be overwhelmed though, because in her summit she's going to go into with experts like me, way more detail. And of course I'm the hormone expert and hormones. You definitely need a prescription for hormones. If you want to protect your brain, you cannot have optimized brain function without it. So we'll dive into that, but I'll tell you a little bit about Dr.   (02:56): Heather and we'll get started. She's really rather remarkable. Dr. Heather Sandison is the founder of SOCE health clinic and MIMA the first residential care facility for the elderly of its kind at SOCE Dr. Sandison and her team of doctors and health coaches focused primarily on supporting patients, looking to optimize cognitive function, prevent mental decline and reverse dementia by addressing root causes of imbalance in the brain and body. This is something all of you should be doing. She was awarded a grant to study an individualized integrative approach to reversing dementia and is a primary investigator on the it H N C L R clinical trial at Marama. Dr. Sandison has created an immersive residential experience in the lifestyle proven to best support brain health. She understands that changing her diet, adding nutrients, creating community and optimizing a healing environment are all challenging. Even for those with full cognitive capacity at Marama, she's done the work for you, all you or your loved one need to do is show up. She is also the host of the reverse Alzheimer's summit and collective insights podcast, where she works to share what is possible for those suffering with dementia. Welcome Dr. Heather Sandison.   (04:23): Thanks. It's so exciting to be here with you.   (04:25): Yeah, I am so excited about your summit coming up. Many of my listeners know that my mom suffers with advanced Alzheimer's and I really I'm so passionate about helping others to know how to prevent and reverse cognitive decline. Cuz personally, I think it is the most devastating disease someone could be diagnosed with. How did you come to be so passionate about preserving cognitive capacity and preventing and reversing Alzheimer's?   (04:59): Well, as you know, it's an absolutely torturous disease, not only for the person experiencing it, but for all of their loved ones who have to watch this slow painful demise. And the reason I became so passionate was because there's a bit of injustice in this, right? I was told that there was nothing you could do for dementia by very well meaning very well educated instructors when I was in school just 10, 12 years ago, right? Like this is very recent history I was told. There's nothing you could do to suggest otherwise is to give someone false hope and that's just cruel. Right? So don't do that. And then fast forward a few years I saw Dr. Bison speak at a conference and I was really intrigued because his approach, he was saying, you could reverse dementia. You could reverse cognitive decline. And his approach made a lot of common sense.   (05:54): It just wasn't common practice to kind of put all of functional medicine together and apply it to someone with dementia. So what he was describing was BA essentially complex system science approach, the opposite of the reductionistic approach that conventional medicine has been taking for decades, where they try to create one pill or one IV formula that's gonna cure Alzheimer's right. And then everybody's gonna get on it and nobody's gonna have it again. Well, this is really a false premise. It doesn't work because it's based on this idea that beta amyloid plaques or tell proteins these pathological or, or histological really physiological changes. They're almost like scar tissue in the brain that they are the ones that cause dementia or, or Alzheimer's when in fact it's what causes that scar tissue is what causes dementia. And so what I saw after seeing Dr Bison speak was that I was intrigued, right.   (06:55): I, I was skeptical, but I was curious. And so like when I had and did his training, I came back to my office still skeptical, but my first patient Linda came into my office after I was on Dr. Bison's website. Right. I was on the list of people who had been trained by him. And so I had patients showing up asking, uh, because there weren't other people in San Diego who had been trained by him at that point. And so Linda came in with her husband, very enthusiastic, totally committed to doing everything she could. Now for your listeners who aren't familiar with a mocha score, this is the Montreal cognitive assessment. And it's a score out of 30. So 30 is perfect. We really wanna get over 26, especially as we're aging. And when we start to be able to measure cognitive decline. So this can be sometimes you hear this called mild cognitive impairment.   (07:46): And I won't go on the tangent about how I feel about that use of language . But as you get down into the teens, lower teens, this is Alzheimer's disease. This is relatively severe dementia, where you're having trouble taking, having a conversation. Maybe you get lost in familiar places. You aren't nonverbal. Like you can still have a conversation, but often you're repeating yourself. Unable to work is very typical at this stage. Now, by the time you get to a two, a three, a four, this person is, is answering with yes or no statements, right? They're they can't hold complex concepts in their mind. They can't hold questions for very long. And this is where Linda was. Linda was at a two out of 30. So she could answer with yes or no. Her handwriting had been affected. So it was a bit shaky. It was at a very severe slant.   (08:35): It was very, very small letters. Her relationship with her husband of course, was severely affected. They couldn't hold a conversation and he loved her so much. I mean, it was so inspiring to watch how committed he was to her and how much he wanted to work hard to get her back. And I could see in Linda, she had this big, bright smile, and she was in there. She wore these loud, amazing clothes, you know, lots of mismatch and lots of color and hats and accessories. It was just great. And you could see who she had been and these little remnants personality that were peaking through. Well, her and her husband went home and they got out of a moldy bedroom. She got hers removed from her mouth. She got on biodentical hormones. She started all of the supplements. They went fully keto. They started ballroom dancing three to four times a week.   (09:28): And they started walking like vigorous walking exercise every day of the week and low and behold, six, seven weeks later, she came back and her mocha was a seven. Her life had been transformed. So she was now bickering with her husband about something that had happened on the ride to the clinic, which I was just like in disbelief. I could, I thought, you know, I was looking at her mocha scores, her worksheets and going, did we do it wrong? Like, did we miss anything? Like I just, my brain couldn't process that this was possible because I had been told the old refrain that people are still told that, that you couldn't do this. That this was impossible that I started crying because I was like, wait, what? This really works. And especially, I didn't have the confidence that it would work with someone with such severe disease.   (10:18): So when I saw in that moment, when I saw what was possible for Linda, I mean, how could anyone not commit themselves to this for the rest of their lives, right? Like this is possible for Linda. Then what's possible for everyone else who is younger. Who's just noticing those first signs that their brain isn't working the way it used to 10 or five years ago. What's possible for people who know their genetic risk, if they can prevent it from ever even starting. We know that dementia, the changes in the brain, the inflammation, the toxic assaults, the, the infections, the imbalances that cause dementia, the trigger that scar tissue formation, those imbalances start decades before anyone notices changes in their cognitive function, in their memory. And so if we can intervene sooner, we can make Alzheimer's optional. People do not have to go down the torturous path that your mom has.   (11:19): You could be scared. Your children could be spar. The torture of having to watch that of having to put someone in a home because they don't feel like they have the capacity to both raise their own children, work their full-time job, manage their house and care for the, their debilitated loved one with dementia. My life's purpose is changing the narrative around this, which is why I was so grateful that you joined me on the reverse Alzheimer's summit to help me in this crusade around telling people that I'm sorry, respectfully. I disagree with your neurologist who told you here's acept and Meda. It doesn't work very well. Get your affairs in order. There's nothing else that can be done. There's actually an overwhelming amount that can be done to support someone who's noticing their memory fading.   (12:07): Oh my gosh. She said so much in there. And when you told Linda's story and how she and her husband just went and made radical changes in seven weeks had marked improvement. I cried because it's just such demonstrative of what is possible when people really take this seriously and they do all the things and they radically reevaluate and change their lifestyle. What is possible? It's sad to me that it requires us to have such pain in order to do it. We have to go so far that people aren't willing to do it, but I love that they did it. Oh my gosh. You've said so many things. all right. So let's dive into this, but I, I think this idea of complex systems science approach versus reduction approach really is the whole shift in paradigm in medicine that is about antiaging, metabolic, functional medicine.   (13:06): It is the healthcare revolution. It is the next frontier. There's so many areas where we take this reductionist approach. Like it's just a disease, it's just symptom management and you have to deal with it and you have to control it, particularly not only with dementia. I think dementia is where this shows up as just this hopeless attitude of, oh, this is it. Get your affairs in order here, take these medicines. They don't really help. So let's dive a little into all the things that you've got to do, but I wanna start by talking, you mentioned genetic risk and I know people have heard there's Alzheimer's gene. They can't, most people readily access this, or maybe they can maybe, you know, of a place that people can get this, unless their doctor orders it. Can you talk a little bit about the genetics? What is the genetic determinism level with Alzheimer's and what's available? Mm-hmm   (14:04): yeah, there's a lot of agency here, right? Like, so even if you have the worst genetics, there's still a chance that you'll be in the camp that doesn't get dementia. Right. So there it's much more about epigenetics than it is about genetics. Right? So that, that, the way I describe it to patients is it's as if an architect has written the, has drawn the plans for a house and that's your genetic, so that's the plan. And then where you build that house, if it's by the beach, or if it's up in the mountains or it's in the desert, if there's carpet or tile, or, you know, if it's facing east or west, if there's a happy family or a sad family in it, right? Like all of these epigenetic effects determine what that house ends up looking like. And, and if it's a great house to live in or not, and that's essentially your body, right?   (14:50): So there's this genetic plan. And then there's the phenotype or what actually gets expressed, which is the actual house that gets built. Right? And so what we put into that house, what we put into that house that, you know, houses our soul that is so critically important to how that plan gets manifested. And so when we look at genetics, there are a few things and we are now, uh, you do have to get it through a doctor, but we are now offering the Alzheimer's risk test. And this takes not only APO E for genetics. So APO E genetics, let me describe APO E real quick, because this is kind the one that people know the most about and is the most indicative of late onset Alzheimer's. So there are a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's and this would be your AP P your amyloid precursor protein and your Priscilla one and two.   (15:41): We do not test for that. So for that, we have people go to a geneticist and, and understand their risk there. Now, even if they do have that risk, that elevated risk, we wanna be as proactive as possible, right? This just means you need to work a little harder than your neighbor or your spouse to do all of the things on the bison protocol and prevent this risk for manifesting. There is still a way this genetics are not determination, right? You, you, it's not black and white that you are destined to have, uh Alzheimer's if you have these genes. So, but what we wanna do is we wanna get on top of it faster. So then APO E APO E our ancestors all had APO E four, four, APO E basically predisposes you to create amyloid plaques earlier, quick, more quickly, when you are exposed to something that's causing inflammation in the brain.   (16:34): So amyloid and tell proteins that they're antimicrobial, they're there to protect us. So they've been vilified and conventional medicine as the cause of Alzheimer's, but they're actually there in response to a trigger in the brain. And so, if you are creating these quicker, you do have a higher risk of dementia. And what we see this also APOE also affects fat metabolism, particularly saturated fat metabolism. So if you have a co you have a copy from mom, a copy from dad, and if you have an APOE four from mom and an APOE four from dad, you have a 50% chance of developing dementia. So my job is to make sure you're in the 50% that never gets any sign of cognitive decline. Now, the general population has about a 13% risk of developing dementia. So this is a highly increased risk. Now, if you have an APO E there's two, three, and four, two is pretty rare, but a three, four, it happens.   (17:30): And this means you've got one, a three from mom or dad, and then a four from mom or dad. You have about a one in three risk of getting dementia. So again, I wanna keep you in that 66% that never gets dementia. Then if you have a, a two, three or a three, three or 2, 2, 1 of the other combinations without a four from mom or dad, then you have about a 9% risk of developing dementia. There's a little bit of protection actually from having an APOE two. So we use the Alzheimer's risk test, which takes another 112,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms, and takes them through an algorithm that was developed in the UK, and then gives someone a score. A very it's easy to look at, right? It's not a lot of snips. It's not one of these kind of through the internet, you get your raw data things.   (18:16): This is a, this gives you a score that has a, a lot of very sophisticated data. That's been compiled and then analyzed. And it gives you a score out of one. So one being very high risk, zero being very low risk, and it includes a O E four, but also other genetic snips, single nucleotide polymorphisms. So if I'm talking to someone who is, say the daughter of someone with dementia, or the son of someone with dementia, maybe even the sibling or cousin of someone with dementia, this is a great test to take because there are people with a O E four who actually have relatively low genetic risk. There are people without a O E force positive alleles who have relatively high risk. And so we don't wanna oversimplify. Uh, and this test is the most accurate in determining whether or not someone will develop dementia. It's even more accurate than looking at amyloid in say, imaging or cerebral spinal fluid, or however, they're they find, um, ways to do that. Now, uh, I think they might even have a blood test that's available for research.   (19:22): Okay. I know everybody's listening and, and really, I have never met a person who's not concerned about this. Although most women are most concerned about breast cancer. They're I think this is really where they should focus, because if you do get breast cancer in this day and age, you're most likely not going to diet from it, but an Alzheimer's dementia will certainly pause significant disability and premature death. So people can get this from your clinic. Can they get this from any doctor? Cuz I know there are women listening who are like, okay, I hear you, Dr. Heather, I need this test. Where do I get it?   (19:58): So anyone in the us can get it through our clinic. What we do is we have a doctor who will review it with you and then they can help you find a BR trained provider near you. If you have high risk, we're gonna wanna do that quick. But if you have low risk, you know what a relief. So we have a doctor who can help you get that test. It's it's a pretty new test. It's clear. So it it's not reimbursed by insurance yet. So it's on the cutting edge. It's used most commonly actually in the pharmaceutical industry so that the scientists there can determine who's at higher risk and then target those people for drug discovery and for, and for the, the science that they're doing. Now, we wanna apply this so that we can get people preventing dementia. And so that's why I've really done my best to make it as widely available as possible, even though not many doctors in the us are offering it. So through my clinic, anywhere in the us, you can get this test done. And then we'll, you'll talk to a doctor here at Ary who will talk you through the implications and, and the interpretation of that, and then help get you supported by the bison train provider who can take it from there.   (21:05): Okay. Awesome. And we will have the links and the show notes for all of this. So you can go there and get the links. And Dr. Heather has a great download for you, which will come to before we wrap up. So, okay. So we've got our risk, everybody. I think everyone should get checked now do not wait. And then let's talk about this complex system science approach versus reduction approach. You mentioned my favorite topic, hormone therapy. My mom was without hormones for, you know, over three decades. And that really was the only risk factor she had for dementia. And I am a huge proponent of the benefits of hormone replacement therapy. Not only for cognitive function, I mean, se what is it? 77 or 79% reduction in getting Alzheimer's if a woman is on hormone replacement therapy, I mean, that's just insane. It should be criminal not to give it   (22:05): Well, you, you mentioned the breast cancer risk, right? This is I think what, yeah, a lot of people from pulling the trigger on a hormone replacement and I think what you said was perfect, right? Like, no, of course we don't want anyone to get breast cancer. However, there's been a lot of data that was misconstrued by the media that was misinterpreted. You know, they've gone back to the women's health initiative study and put some caveats on this whole idea that there was an increased risk of breast cancer. That was with oral estrogens. That was when non-bio identical estrogens. So we're not talking apples to apples when we consider bio identical hormone replacement now. And when you think about aging and what's going to be the most torturous, the most debilitating, the most expensive breast cancer is highly treatable. We are so lucky that we live in a time when breast cancer is really highly treatable. Mm-hmm . So even if there is this like a little bit of increased risk, which my understanding of the data.   (23:05): Actually it's reduction, there's a reduction in risk of getting breast cancer. If you're on biodentical hormones. So you have a reduction in risk of breast CA of cancers. It all cause mortality, the, any reason for death, you have a reduction in risk for, and then the two things that affect women as they age, the most that are the most debilitating are gonna be a fall or dementia. These are gonna be the things that end you up in, in skilled nursing for too long, and then result in death and a torturous death where you're separated from your family, because you have to be in, in, in, you know, some kind of high acuity care and then dementia. I mean, this is torturous. Not only because just in and of itself, it's absolutely demoralizing. You lose all of your, of course cognitive capacity over time, but you also, you lose your dignity more than anything.   (23:54): And this can last for a decade or more. No one knows when the torture is going to end it also it's financially bankrupting, right? Not only is it emotionally bankrupting and exhausting for any caregiver, it is financially bankrupting as well. And so if we can prevent falls and we can prevent dementia by getting on hormones, particularly if someone already has say osteoporosis or risk of bone disease or has risk of dementia, either genetically or they're starting to notice changes, particularly as they go through menopause, then the risks are far outweighed by the benefits when we consider hormone replacement therapy, if it's bio identical and the estrogen is used topically.   (24:39): Yeah. So, so well said, thank you for sharing all of that. I agree. And wouldn't you say that the causes, uh, the factors that contribute to the creation of dementia are, are similar same factors to what contribute to bone thinning and osteoporosis.   (24:59): Absolutely. Well, that's one of the amazing things about this co this complex system science approach, right? Is that instead of saying, what's that one thing that causes dementia, what we say is, Hey, how can we get every cell in the body working and functioning better? And when we do that, well, low and behold, the side effects are that your blood pressure normalizes, your hemoglobin A1C goes back to normal. You no longer have diabetes, your osteoporosis starts to improve. Yeah. The, the kind of the four part approach to like my formula for osteoporosis is estrogen replacement with, of course with progesterone and testosterone got nice and balanced and help with muscle building. So biodentical hormone replacement with estrogen being most important there, vitamin D with K minerals and then, uh, weight bearing exercise. And with those four things, I also like to check osteocalcin and beta cross ops and the blood every six months and then a DEXA scan every two years. And with that kind of plan, that basic simple plan. I see the majority of my patients, their bones get stronger on Dexus year, uh, every other year when we check.   (26:07): Yes. Awesome. So I hope everybody's listening and taking care of these things. And I know in the summit that you're hosting, I'm super excited about it. You have experts that are gonna go in way more detail into all of these. So everybody listening needs to click the link in the show notes and sign up for that now, because you know, hopefully you're getting the, the message loud and clear that dementia is preventable and you can do things and you need, need to get on this early and often and take care of it. Or if you're already walking down that lane that you need to get out of it. So definitely wanna check that out, but briefly, what are some of the other factors I know you've touched on them. We've D we've talked about genetics in a little more detail, bioidentical hormones. What are some other factors that need to be addressed?   (27:02): Yeah, well, we're giving away the keto diet guide. So I wanna talk a little bit about the fuel that brain runs on. So the vast majority of us live our days in glycolysis burning sugar for fuel. So ATP is that fuel it's like that gasoline that gets our cells going. It gives them all the energy to make new memories, to make those connections in the brain. We've all had that feeling of being kind of tired and it's a heavy lift to do something mentally. Well, if we are on our burning sugar for fuel that over time as we age, our brains are less sensitive to both sugar and to insulin that allows the sugar into the cells from the blood into the cells to be turned into fuel. So this doesn't work as efficiently. Now this is regardless of if you have diabetes or insulin resistance, anyone as we age, if we have been on a sugar, uh, burning carbohydrates for fuel.   (27:55): And when I say sugar, I also be pasta bread, corn, you know, tortilla chips, all of the carbs, even squash and fruit. When we have been having consuming that every day for our entire lives, we don't get an opportunity to go into ketosis and burn fat for fuel. And so the brain starts to become less sensitive. It no longer efficiently burns sugar. And what we can do, this is the magic of the ketogenic diet is that we can flip the switch. We can turn our energy production from turning sugar into fuel, to turning fat into fuel and just switching the fuel. I mean, this is I, this is just divine design. It makes me I would get chills. When I think about how intelligent the body is and how is able to change out the fuel and burn it really efficiently. And so what people notice is that after getting on a ketogenic diet, they sleep better. They wake up with more energy, they lose weight. If that's the goal, cuz it's, it's very modulating for weight, their blood sugar improves and their memory comes back. They feel sharper cognitively. So I don't know if Kyrin you've ever been asked like, yo, is there a way that you can get more hours in my day? I just feel like there's not enough time   (29:16): For everything,   (29:17): Especially women, right? We're like doing so much constantly juggling and a ketogenic diet in my personal experience is the way to get another for me. I get another hour and a half in my day because instead of dragging myself out of bed at six 30 or seven, I'm up at five and I'm ready to go. This is certainly for me. I personally find it magic. And for so many of my patients, there was actually a, so many of my patients also report this. Now there was a, a trial done. It was a small feasibility trial of just nine participants. It was done in Florida and it was published in January of 2022 where they took nine again, nine participants with some co measurable cognitive decline. And they put them on a ketogenic diet for just six weeks. And they had statistically significant changes in cognitive functions. Six weeks later, if you were struggling with cognitive issues, this is the first spot. This is the first place to go. This does a lot of the heavy lifting. And I would say, this is about if I were to weight all of the interventions, cuz there's a lot, right? This can start to feel overwhelming and complex. But if I were to weight them, I would say the ketogenic diet does about half of the lifting.   (30:28): I love that you really put it into perspective. So it's not about weight. I think people hear keto diet and they think it's only about weight. And a lot of people don't have a weight problem, completely dismiss it, but you really highlight the importance of it and this metabolic flexibility and theology that you get with it. It's like the diet that keeps on giving. But do you think people should do it all the time?   (30:56): Yeah. Such a great point. I'm so glad you said that because no, it's just as bad to always be burning sugar for fuel as it would be to always be burning fat for fuel. So that term metabolic flexibility is really the goal. Our ancestors, our hunter gather ancestors did not have sugar available all the time. They did not have fat available all the time. They had periods of fasting. And so again, our divine design, the way we are, our design is to go back and forth between ketosis burning fat for fuel and glycolysis burning sugar for fuel. And when we, if our body, the chance to do that, the way our hunter gather ancestors did our body works better. It's almost, it's a bit of a stressor. This concept is called the hormetic effect or hormesis where we ask the body to be under a little bit of stress, just like exercise does this. Some calorie restriction or intermittent fasting can do this. And then the ketogenic diet is a fasting mimicking diet where we stress the body a little bit in order to get it to be more resilient. And so as we do that, we, we have, we also get, as you mentioned, auto, we senescent cells are kicked out of the system. We recycle them. We get rid of them. So that the cells that, that replace them are new and more efficient, more optimally functioning.   (32:17): Yes. Awesome. What other factors? So you, you laid it out keto diet as big does 50% of the heavy lifting. I love that. What are some other factors though that people might be alerted that they might need to attend to in   (32:31): Our practice at SOCE? And certainly through the medicine protocol, we wanna be comprehensive about how we do this. So there are two big things that increase my confidence that this approach is going to work one you're early on in the disease process. So you've just started noticing changes. If you even have it all the best is prevention, right, where you've never even noticed changes. So first thing that increases confidence is that we aren't waiting until the disease is severe. The second thing that increases my confidence is how comprehensive you can be about applying the treatment plan. So if you can do all of it, then my confidence goes through the roof. This is a lot like Linda. They did it all and they did it all right out of the gate and they got the benefits. So I get it. Not everybody's able to do that.   (33:15): And even small changes you will get benefit from. But as we stack them on top of each other, you get, you get this kind of virtuous cycle. They all work better when they work together. Okay. So we wanna be systematic about how we approach this and Dr. Bren trains providers this way. And certainly at Ary, we aim to be, uh, systematic and have check boxes, right? Because it can be a lot and feel overwhelming. So the way I think about it is we want to address there's five primary things that cause complex chronic disease. In my model, that it's toxicity, which have three flavors of toxicity microtoxins or biotoxins that come from the indoor air environment, most commonly heavy metals and then chemical toxins. These are things like petrochemicals. If you live near the freeway, this can be parabens, PCBs, SS, pesticides, herbicides, things that are in groundwater that contaminate groundwater, uh, those can come from lots of areas in the environment, but we can measure all three flavors of those toxins and then we can get them out and check that box that hopefully becomes something that you complete.   (34:21): So you get rid of all the mycotoxins get rid of all the metals, change up your environment at home or the personal care products or the cleaning products you use. And then we don't have to worry about that anymore, unless there's a new exposure. So toxins, I start there because that's a nice way to kind of check that box and move on. Now your cells can work better, cuz they're not defending you from toxicity or they're not, they're not trying to, uh, the way that Dr Renison puts it. It's great. Um, he says, imagine your brain is like a country. My brain is St right? You're focused on fighting off invaders like infections or defending from things like toxins. You're not building the infrastructure of new memories of roads and schools, right? In this analogy, you're not creating new memories. You're too busy defending, right?   (35:06): All of your resources are going in that direction. So we wanna get rid of toxins. We wanna have enough nutrients, right? We've gotta have the resources. We've gotta have the building blocks. We need those amino acids. We need those fats. We need those minerals to make all of these biochemical reactions that are necessary for memory building for quick thinking, we need all of those present. If we're depleted, then that's not going to happen efficiently. And then third, we wanna address stressors on the system. So this could be things like sleep deprivation. This could be as stress from, you know, psychosocial stressors, ort S D caregivers are very high risk of developing dementia. They have two and a half times the risk of the population, just because you're a caregiver for someone with dementia, because we often right caregivers wanna put the person they're caring for first.   (35:57): So they're not getting their own exercise. They're not getting enough sleep. It's highly stressful situation. So I really encourage caregivers to listen closely and prevent this disease. Managing stressors. I often will recommend meditation. Meditation is personally something I benefit from having a regular daily practice of mindfulness, meditation, prayer, whatever feels best for you. So managing stressors is another one. Then structure is another one. So we have toxins, nutrients, stressors, structures, structure is gonna be, is your airway open? Are you getting, are you getting oxygen to your brain at night? If you have sleep AP, even if it's mild sleep apnea, you wanna treat this aggressively. I don't care what sleep medicine says. If you are having apnea events at night, that is basically mild brain damage. And I am not okay with that. We have to treat. So whether that means going to your dentist and getting an oral appliance that keeps your airway open.   (36:59): Some people use the mouth tape. I know that sounds a little bit counterintuitive, but you can tape your mouth closed at night so that it forces you to breathe through your nose. Some people will get the nasal strips that, and I like the breathe, right? If you get the generics, they don't work as well. There's of course, the C a P the, the, which has forces pressure into the airway. The other thing that you can do is get the a, a P, and this is the Cadillac. What, from what my patients tell me, this is the Cadillac of C P much more Cadillac.   (37:30): Why is that? Why did they say that?   (37:33): The con, so the AAP is alternating pressure. So the C a P is continuous pressure. And so it doesn't matter what your body's doing. There's no feedback in the system. It just blows, you know, pressure in air I interior system. And when you use the AAP, it adjusts as you're sleeping as, and as you go into different events and then getting the mask that fits right or getting the pillow, whatever, I know that it can take effort going back and forth with sleep medicine, and it can be costly, but this is worth it. Find what works for you. And I've had patients say, oh, I feel like I'm gonna die when I have that mask on. And then it, I push them like, no, no, you've gotta figure this out and do something. Whatever works for you. And then, sure enough, a couple weeks later, they're like, I can't sleep without it.   (38:21): I it's changed my life because now I wake up feeling rested for the first time in a decade or more. So treating sleep apnea, excuse me, very, very important, getting enough, sleep enough rest. And then of course, you know, structurally traumatic brain injuries put people at risk for dementia. So again, the falls, you know, if a woman has a fall regularly and she's hitting her head, this is a really big deal. I'll also say here, the research on women and traumatic brain injuries is lagging behind because a lot of this is done on professional athletes and combat veterans, where there is an epidemic of untreated brain traumatic brain injuries that happens in women who are victims of domestic abuse. And I really hope that in the next couple of years, we see a lot more resources going into this because it's just such a tragedy.   (39:14): Just the way I think about our seniors, right? Who are unnecessarily suffering with dementia is that this it's the squandered resource. They are these people at the height of their wisdom and experience who are, are leaving society. And my job is to help bring them back into the fabric of society so they can be contributing to their families while women who are victims of domestic violence is a very similar thing, but almost just more awful to think about that. We don't know what the combination of asphyxiation. So if someone's being, this gets so graphic and Ugh makes me shutter, but someone who is being both strangled and having, getting traumatic brain injuries at the same time is really having severe detrimental effects on their brain. And we don't know what if progesterone is high. What if she's at a place in her cycle where progesterone is high or low or estrogen is high or low, and these things are happening at the same time and it's happening repeatedly, right?   (40:09): If this is something that ha occurs over and over again, what we see is that these women don't get the help that they need. We don't have the science going into what's going on. And then, because they have essentially a form of dementia, their social worker, who, whoever is there to help them, doesn't realize that maybe they're not working the plan. They're not following the instructions just because they're so overwhelmed and their brain isn't working any as well as it used to because of these injuries. So I really hope that, you know, as speaking to a female audience, there needs to be more compass. There needs to be more support for those who are suffering with dome domestic abuse. And we basically need to understand that they have a form of dementia. Structurally traumatic brain injuries are a very big deal, right? If you get hit over the head with a baseball bat, if you were in a car accident, if you've slipped and fall and hit your head and lose consciousness, even if you don't lose your con lose consciousness, if you have headaches or some sort of recovery time after this is a sign that you have inflammation in your brain, and there are things that we can do right away.   (41:17): Afterwards, we use IV N a D S choline, PSAL serum, high dose fish oils, high dose meth B12, and the sooner we can treat a traumatic brain injury, the better the, the potential that there will be significant recovery. So we talked about toxins, nutrients structure, and now infections. So therefore infections that really stand out here, what is herpes? So herpes. If you ever get outbreaks, whether they're cold sores on your mouth or genital herpes, you wanna treat this relatively aggressively. So I'm a naturopathic doctor, right? I got a big med per medication person, but when it comes to herpes and, and chronic herpes outbreaks, you wanna be treating that aggressively because that can trigger inflammation in the brain, right? We know that herpes kind of stays dormant in the nervous system. Well, whenever it gets retried, that is causing more inflammation in the brain. And this comes out of studies in Taiwan where there's big epidemiological data that showed that people who were treated aggressively with like a, an antiviral, a medication, a prescription antiviral had a lower incidence of dementia than those who had herpes, but were not aggressively treated with, with the pharmaceuticals.   (42:25): So we wanna be getting ahead of that, basically, making sure that those outbreaks are not happening regularly and work with your doctor, of course, on that. So herpes is one PGE GVAs is another. So this is oral health, making sure that there aren't infections in the mouth part of this is just geography, right? You, your mouth is pretty close to your brain. The other thing is that when you get, uh, many people will know that in dentistry, if you've had a knee replacement or a hip replacement, before you go in for a cleaning, you take an antibiotic. Well, the reason is because when you get that cleaning, it introduces those bacteria into your blood and it, that bacteria can then get onto that artificial joint and not be detected and create a, a big problem. It can also create heart disease. It can create cardiac inflammation, can lead to strokes and to cardiac events, and it can trigger the inflammation associated with dementia.   (43:20): So we want to make sure that our oral health, you health starts in the gut and the gut starts in the mouth. So this is really critical that we ha see, I think, a biological dentist we're getting cone being x-rays so that we're catching any insidious small infections in there, early on and effectively treating them. So we have herpes P and GVAs and Lyme disease. So neuro Lyme can be very debilitating. There's a lot of controversy in the field around Lyme, but my opinion is that that there's ly or co-infections present for anyone exhibiting symptoms of dementia, or Alzheimer's that you wanna aggressively treat that with a Lyme literate doctor and get rid of that once. And for all, a neuro Lyme can be very debilitating and also confusing because Lyme is the great imitator. So it looks like a lot of other things and will often go undetected.   (44:13): So anyone with dementia, I do screen them for Lyme and Lyme coinfections. And then the fourth one, many people are familiar with is COVID 19, right? So I know there are a lot of people who would not associate themselves with having dementia at all, but they've suffered with the brain fog following COVID and these viruses. And I think COVID was such a great illustration that it's really these foundations. And I would say it's stressors, structure, nutrients, and, and toxic burden that create whether or not we have balance in those, right? If we have balance the right amounts in the right places at the right times, we have the right amounts of things, then our immune system functions. Well, right. And these are the people who got COVID, but never had a single symptom. And then if we have a lot of imbalance in the system, these are gonna be the people who got COVID in either passed away, right.   (45:03): Unfortunately, or who suffered with long haul COVID right. There's alway already some sort of inflammation, some sort of imbalance. And then that virus comes in and the host that body, that house, that we're in succumbs to the perpetuating cytokine storms or whatever is next in terms of signaling that comes after that virus. And so we want to make sure we're getting that house in order those foundational pieces set. And also looking at that, you know, going back and reassessing, if somebody is struggling with long haul COVID, how can we optimize this? The function of every cell in the body, get those cytokines out. Plasmapheresis is something that's been looked at for dementia, as well as for long haul. COVID so DNRs or the Gupta program. I'm, I'm a fan of the Gupta program for retraining, the limbic system and helping with long haul. COVID there's a lot that we can do. But again, this is, this is part of that landscape of things that lead to dementia over time, that triggering of inflammation of that cytokine storm, that then trigger the production of beta amyloid plaques Andal proteins, which cause are related to, um, Alzheimer's dementia.   (46:18): Woo. Okay. Everybody take a deep breath. I know some people are hyperventilating right now, cuz they were with you on the keto diet and now they're like, oh, I have to do what. Okay. Just breathe. Y'all you're gonna go to the summit. Number one. And you're gonna get way more detail on everything. Dr. Heather has talked to you about today. So you're gonna know exactly what to do after you go to the summit. Exactly. So don't hyperventilate. You don't have to learn it all today and you're gonna go download her keto guide. Number one, we're gonna have the link in the show notes. Um, but I'll, I'll speak it out. It's SOCE right. S O L C E R e.com.   (46:59): Yeah. SOCE solutions for the Cerebra soul or soul shining light. Uh, like sun on the brain. SOCE   (47:06): There we go. Okay. So we'll have that in the show notes, we will have the link to join the summit in the show notes. So you definitely wanna go there. If you're driving, don't click it now, but wherever you're going, when you get there, click it and sign up. You will have experts. There are gonna tell you exactly what to do, including me. We'll talk about biodentical hormones. Of course, my favorite topic, Dr. Heather, thank you so much for this very insightful and inspiring. Look at dementia and Alzheimer's and how we don't have to go down that road. Have, you know, that story that the person's walking down the road and every time they walk down the street, they fall into the same hole. And then even though they try and go, the next time they try to walk around it, they end up falling in it and sometimes they walk past it, but then they end up falling in the hole and sometimes you, the person eventually learns that they can just go down a different street. So it kind of reminds me of that story. You can just go down a different street. People, you don't have to go down the street that most people in, in developed countries are going down towards, uh, dementia or cancer. All the things we're talking about also reduce your risk of cancer. Oh, by the way,   (48:21): All those scary diseases of aging. They are complex chronic diseases and conventional medicine, unfortunately does not shine in that space. Right? If you're in a car accident, if you have a bacterial infection, get to the ER, get to urgent care. But when we talk about diabetes, dementias cancers, this is really where we need to take a step back and take this more comprehensive complex system science approach and get all of those cells working optimally.   (48:50): Yes. Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Dr. Heather, we will see you at the summit. Thank you for joining us.   (48:55): Thank you so much. It's been such a pleasure to be here   (48:58): And thank you all for joining us for another episode of the hormone prescription podcast with Dr. Kirin. I know that you learned something that you can start implementing today in your life to improve your health and go down a different street. I look forward to hearing what that is. Join me on Facebook or Instagram at Kirin Dunston MD, and we will have a conversation about it. And until next week, peace, love and hormones y'all.   (49:25): Thank you so much for listening. I know that incredible vitality occurs for women over 40. When we learn to speak hormone and balance these vital regulators to create the health and the life that we deserve. If you're enjoying this podcast, I'd love it. If you give me a review and subscribe, it really does help this podcast out so much. You can visit the hormone prescription.com, where we have some free gifts for you, and you can sign up to have a hormone evaluation with me on the podcast to gain clarity into your personal situation until next time, remember, take small steps each day to balance your hormones and watch the wonderful changes in your health that begin to unfold for you. Talk to you soon.   Learn how to begin Keto, get food lists, how-tos, tips, and checklists from Dr. Heather Sandison's free Keto Diet Guide. 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Hey, there! I begin this week's episode with a tea talk about hot chocolate (ironically) in an inspiring mug, give a life update about my thoughts regarding moving across the globe, and then dive into the content for this week, which are ten of the life lessons I learned during my first semester at college. Finally, I give a recommendation on YouTube and sign off. TO GET DIRECTLY TO THE CONTENT, SKIP TO 12:14 FOLLOW THE PODCAST'S INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/theasteapodcast?igshid=r04b2760fkdl CONTACT ME THROUGH: theasteapodcast@gmail.com (for business inquiries, sponsorships or to tell me what you think about this podcast!) SEND ME A VOICE MESSAGE: https://anchor.fm/th351a-beaury/message CHECK OUT THE DESIGNERS OF MY COVER ART: https://instagram.com/sofiarrublacreative?igshid=1xtsd1w69zkkl https://instagram.com/cuerpobaldio?igshid=1jq5cb59nm2z Listen to my other podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3RhYyCBLVwBuNimne4zVCO?si=AG_LzDsuQdqBYedSmFOkfQ Follow my TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJwKjr2L/ START YOUR PODCAST NOW BY HEADING TO anchor.fm CHECK OUT THE THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE): Notability: https://notability.com/fr Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And the Other Secrets to Success, One Releationship at a Time- Expanded and Updated by Keith Ferrazzi: https://www.amazon.fr/Never-Eat-Alone-Expanded-Updated/dp/0385346654 Eloise O'Connor on YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC5mBcpqVMRWZANXriv-GOdQ Eloise's video on French slang: https://youtu.be/vJOUHrlsJS4 Eloise's video on flirting in French: https://youtu.be/-eNari6jCHU HERE ARE SOME QUOTES I LIKED FROM THIS WEEK'S EPISODE: “If you keep working hard, there's no reason for you to fail” “There's nothing you can't learn, most of the time, it's a problem of wanting to learn it” “Be professional with professors inside the classroom, and friendly outside of it” Thanks for tuning in, have a beautiful week!

Death, grief and loss are universal experiences - including the inevitable grief that accompanies the loss of our parents - an unavoidable season that comes in many different forms. In this final episode of Season 01, Petra speaks with journalist, broadcaster and former magazine editor, Wendyl Nissen, about her relationship and journey with her late mother who suffered from Alzheimer's, and whose story she wrote about in her book My Mother and Other Secrets. Petra is then joined by her friend, Te Waka McLeod (Ngāti Mutunga, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi), who shares vulnerably about navigating grief since losing both her parents in her 20s. She also gives/gifts us an insight into the way tangihanga are carried out in Taranaki, where she is from - and how these traditions have supported her grief. Song credit: Korimako, Performed by Aro, Written by Emily Looker and Charles Looker and published by Songbroker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've decided to do a series of episodes on the fundamentals of good health - each containing the best practical information we've come across for improving the quality of your life and achieving your goals. We're focusing on the most commonly asked-about areas, such as stress and hormesis, movement and exercise, and diet and nutrition. Today we're kicking it off with a discussion about one of the most important, often the most frustrating, and easily the most overlooked pillar of health: sleep. On this podcast, Megan Hall and Clay Higgins draw from their years of combined health coaching experience to bring you their best advice for getting great sleep. They explain why you should care about the quality of your nighttime routine, and they discuss the impact of light, food and exercise on your ability to sleep well. They also share their opinions on supplements and technology designed to enhance sleep and talk about some of the more common behaviours that can lead to insomnia. Be sure to follow along with Megan's outline to get the most out of this episode. Here's the outline of this episode with Megan Hall and Clay Higgins: [00:01:30] Why we should care about sleep. [00:02:36] Quality vs quantity of sleep. [00:02:49] Mike T. Nelson's podcast: Why telling your clients to sleep more is horrible advice. [00:05:23] Circadian rhythm. [00:09:12] Strategies for reducing caffeine intake. [00:13:35] Daytime; chrononutrition and meal timing. [00:14:23] Higher and longer postprandial triglyceride elevation with the same high fat meal at night compared to during the daytime. Study: Sopowski, M. J., et al. "Postprandial triacylglycerol responses in simulated night and day shift: gender differences." Journal of Biological Rhythms 16.3 (2001): 272-276. [00:14:33] Better glucose sensitivity in the AM and during the day compared to at night; Study: Johnston, Jonathan D. "Physiological responses to food intake throughout the day." Nutrition research reviews 27.1 (2014): 107-118. [00:14:58] NBT Podcast with Bill Lagakos: Why You Should Eat Breakfast (and Other Secrets of Circadian Biology). [00:16:13] NBT Podcast with Ted Naiman: Protein vs. Energy for Improved Body Composition and Healthspan. [00:18:40] Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear. [00:19:43] Consistency in meal timing. [00:24:14] Timing of exercise. [00:27:13] Cognitive work; Brain activity during the day may increase the need for sleep at night; Study: Reichert, Sabine, Oriol Pavón Arocas, and Jason Rihel. "The neuropeptide galanin is required for homeostatic rebound sleep following increased neuronal activity." Neuron 104.2 (2019): 370-384. [00:27:52] Bright light during the daytime hours makes you resilient to light-induced melatonin suppression at night; Study: Kozaki, Tomoaki, et al. "Effects of day-time exposure to different light intensities on light-induced melatonin suppression at night." Journal of physiological anthropology 34.1 (2015): 1-5. [00:30:12] Evening/nighttime strategies and solutions. [00:30:23] An early dinner is ideal; take a walk after. [00:31:43] Alcohol as disruptive to sleep. [00:34:34] Avoiding stress. [00:34:45] Dim/orange lights; Philips hue light bulbs; Blue blocking glasses. [00:37:40] f.lux and Iris. [00:38:32] Evening routines. T-WE tea, Cougar Tranquilizer. [00:39:53] Glycine; Chris Masterjohn on Why You Need Glycine. [00:44:22] Bedroom environment: temperature, darkness, quiet. [00:46:16] Eight Sleep. [00:49:44] Mouth taping; NBT Podcast with James Nester: How to Fix Your Breathing to Improve Your Health [00:54:12] Greg Potter's articles on sleep onset insomnia and sleep maintenance insomnia. [00:54:28] NBT Podcast with Ashley Mason: How to Use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. [00:54:37] Go camping to retrain the circadian clock; Study: Wright Jr, Kenneth P., et al. "Entrainment of the human circadian clock to the natural light-dark cycle." Current Biology 23.16 (2013): 1554-1558. [00:56:33] Schedule a free 15-min call with Megan or Clay.

Wendyl Nissen is a journalist, broadcaster and former magazine editor who is the author of ten books, mostly about living a chemical-free, old-fashioned life. She gave up her corporate life 15 years ago and now lives in the Hokianga with her husband, her father, 20 chickens, two cows, two dogs and three stray cats.Wendyl's most recent book, My Mother and Other Secrets tells stories of mothers and daughters, ageing, the way deep family traumas echo down through the generations and how uncovering old family secrets led Wendyl to a better understanding of her mother.

30-year special operations veteran Dan Schilling shares how to tell the difference between a genuine feeling of impending danger and implicit bias, how we can talk to our kids about becoming more aware of our surroundings, and how to stay safe in general. Dan's new book is The Power of Awareness and Other Secrets from the World's Foremost Spies, Detectives, and Special Operators on How to Stay Safe and Save Your Life.

Arianna Huffington is an author, columnist, and businesswoman. She was a co-founder of The Huffington Post and the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. She is also the author of fifteen books. Time Magazine named her one of the world's 100 most influential people, and she built a business she sold for $315 million. In today's episode, we'll explore how Huffington became so successful in her entrepreneurial journey. We'll discuss the tectonic shifts she leveraged and other secrets to her success. Huffington's Entrepreneurial Story Early Life and Career Arianna Huffington was born on July 14, 1950, in Athens Greece. At the age of 16, she moved to England. She studied at the University of Cambridge and earned an economics degree(Source: Britannica.com). After she finished her education and lived in England and a few other places, Huffington moved to the U.S. and became involved in politics, writing books and articles, appearing on several radios and tv shows, and speaking at conventions (Source: Wikipedia.org). Huffington Post In 2005, Huffington co-founded the Huffington Post. When the site launched, “it was structured as a group blog, publishing the words of hundreds of guest contributors each week.” AOL acquired the Huffington Post in 2011 for $315 million, and Huffington became “President and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, a new venture that included all the content from the Website and AOL.” (Source: Britannica.com) In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize (source: Crain's New York).  In June 2015, Verizon Communications acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media (source: PR Newswire). Thrive Global To launch her new enterprise, Thrive Global, Huffington left AOL and the Huffington Post Media Group. Thrive Global offers science-based solutions to end stress and burnout (Source: wikipedia.org). Huffington said, "After my collapse from sleep deprivation and exhaustion in 2007 I became more and more passionate about the connection between well-being and performance. And as I went around the world speaking about my experience, I saw two things: First, that we're facing a stress and burnout epidemic. And second, that people deeply want to change the way they work and live . . . That's why I launched Thrive Global—to go beyond raising awareness and create something real and tangible that would help individuals, companies, and communities improve their well-being and performance and unlock their greatest potential. At Thrive Global, helping you achieve these goals is our mission and our passion." (Source: thriveglobal.com) “Too many of us leave our lives—and, in fact, our souls—behind when we go to work.” - Arianna Huffington Tectonic Shifts Leveraged Here are some of the tectonic shifts Huffington used to achieve her success. User-Generated Content The Huffington Post uses user-generated content, in the form of guest blogging, for much of its content. Guest blogging happens when someone publishes their article on a blog or online publication that they don't own or regularly contribute to. Guest blogging usually comes with building brand awareness, strengthening credibility, or showcasing expertise for the writer. “For the host blog that is publishing [a] guest post, they will receive a free piece of content that they do not have to write themselves or pay someone else to write it for them. The writer of the guest post, on the other hand, will get to enjoy the perks of amassing a growing readership and driving more traffic to their respective websites.”  The writer will also get instant exposure, expand their network, engage with other contributors, boost their social media follower count, strengthen their backlink profile, collect feedback, and refine their content (Source: ignitevisibility.com). The Huffington Post used guest blogging when it launched and continues to use it today. It is a great way for them to get lots of content out quickly and expand their audience to include the audience of their many writers.  When I worked at Deseret Digital Media, they also very effectively leveraged user-generated content from guest writers, and I saw firsthand the tremendous value that brought the organization. Media and Social Media Huffington has had a big presence in the media that helped her to become an influencer. According to Wikipedia, she was a panelist on the weekly BBC Radio 4 political discussion program Any Questions? and the BBC television panel games Call My Bluff and Face the Music. She served as co-host of BBC's late-night chat show Saturday Night at the Mill for four weeks. At one point she was the co-host of the weekly, nationally syndicated public radio program Both Sides Now with Mary Matalin.  Before starting The Huffington Post, Huffington hosted a website called AriannaOnline.com. In 2008, She appeared as herself on an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in May 2010. Huffington played herself in the Family Guy episode "Brian Writes a Bestseller" along with Dana Gould and Bill Maher in a live segment of Real Time with Bill Maher (Source: wikipedia.org). Huffington has become a LinkedIn influencer, writing about success and sharing professional insights. She has almost 10 million followers on LinkedIn and more than 2 million on Twitter. Other Secrets to Success Here are two other secrets Huffington has learned in her career.   1. Creativity Comes When We Step Away from Technology   When Huffington collapsed from burnout and exhaustion two years after starting the Huffington Post, breaking her cheekbone as she fell, she started to reevaluate how she was living her life. She said, “That was really the beginning of reevaluating my life and recognizing that I, like millions of other people around the world, had been suffering from the delusion that in order to succeed, we have to burn out.” “And yet all the latest science disproves that. It actually proves that we need time to recharge, to sleep, to unplug from technology, and I became such a passionate evangelist for this message.”  “My best piece of advice is to make sure that entrepreneurs connect with their own wisdom and creativity, and that's becoming harder and harder because we are so addicted to technology.” (Source: cnbc.com) According to Hype Magazine, 65.7% of Americans admit to sleeping with their phone at night. “We are constantly engaging in notifications, social media, texts, emails. And yet the most creative moments come when we put all that aside. That's why sometimes people's best ideas come in the shower. So as an entrepreneur, make time for that reflection, ability to connect with your best ideas, and not to be constantly distracted,” Huffington said (Source: cnbc.com).   2. Love What We're Doing   When Huffington was asked her best advice for starting a business, she said that we need to make sure we really love what we're doing and believe in our products and services. She said, “When the Huffington Post was first launched in May 2005, there were so many detractors. I remember a critic who wrote, ‘The Huffington Post is an unsurvivable failure.' . . . So when you get reviews like that and detractors like that, you have to really believe in your product. And when you believe in your product, you are willing to deal with all the naysayers and persevere. That for me is the best advice I got and the best advice I can give.” Key Takeaways Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode: We have to remember to take care of ourselves and give ourselves time to rest and recharge. Guest blogging can be beneficial for both the host blog and the guest blogger.  Huffington has gained many followers and gained a lot of credibility by being very prevalent in the media throughout her career. Technology can inhibit our ability to be creative as entrepreneurs. Consider setting aside time to step away from it. To persevere through hard times and reviews from harsh critics, we must love what we're doing and believe in our product.  Connect with Arianna Huffington If you enjoyed this article and want to learn more about Huffington or connect with her, you can find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariannahuffington/.  Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer? Did you like today's episode? Then please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content: Get a free Monetization Assessment of your business Subscribe to the free Monetization eMagazine. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.  Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram and Twitter. Share Your Story  Have you seen a difference in your creative side when you step away from technology? Please join our private Monetization Nation Facebook group and share your insights with other digital monetizers. Read at: https://monetizationnation.com/blog/86-how-arianna-huffington-started-the-huffington-post-and-became-one-of-the-worlds-100-most-influential-people/ 

John D. Rockefeller is considered the richest man to ever live. His net worth, when adjusted for inflation, would be more than $340 Billion in today's currency, beating the richest person alive today, Jeff Bezos, by more than $150 Billion (Source: celebritynetworth.com). In today's episode, we'll learn how Rockefeller became so successful through his entrepreneurial journey. We'll discuss what tectonic shifts (including the lightbulb, automobile, Civil War, railroad, and more) he leveraged to boost his success. We'll also detail the other secrets like perseverance and stress management that he used to accomplish so much. Rockefeller's Entrepreneurial Journey His Start in Entrepreneurship John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839. By the age of 16, Rockefeller had his first real office job as an assistant bookkeeper. After success in that job, he partnered with Maurice B. Clark to start their own business in produce. The company, Clark & Rockefeller, earned $4,400 in the first year and $17,000 in the second, which is about $530,000 in today's currency (Sources: biography.com and the successbug.com). Standard Oil Co. In 1863, Rockefeller went into the oil business, opening up a refinery near Cleveland, Ohio. Many others sought success in the oil business but ultimately failed. Rockefeller's success in this venture may have been because, unlike other refineries that would keep the 60% of oil product that became kerosene and dump the other 40% in rivers and massive sludge piles, Rockefeller sold the 40% others were wasting as lubricating oil, petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, tar, and other by-products. In other words, he monetized an asset he already had. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil Co., and by 1872, he had purchased 22 of the 26 competitors in Cleveland. The company also acquired their entire supply chain, adding their own pipelines, tank cars, and home delivery network (Sources: biography.com and the successbug.com). Corporation Challenges Standard Oil controlled more than 90% of the oil industry, causing legislators to take notice. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created. Rockefeller had to dissolve Standard Oil and allow each property to be run by others, though the corporation's board maintained control over the individual properties (Sources: biography.com and the successbug.com). In 1909, “New Jersey . . . changed its incorporation laws to effectively allow a re-creation of the trust in the form of a single holding company. Rockefeller retained his nominal title as president until 1911 and he kept his stock.” However, in 1911, “the Supreme Court . . . found Standard Oil Company . . .  in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.” At this time, Standard “still had a 70% market share of the refined oil market but only 14% of the U.S. crude oil supply. The court ruled that the trust originated in illegal monopoly practices and ordered it to be broken up into 34 new companies.”  These companies included Continental Oil, which is now part of ConocoPhillips; Standard of Indiana, which is now part of BP; Standard of California, which became Chevron; Standard of New Jersey, which later became, Exxon, and is now part of ExxonMobil; Standard of New York, which became Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil; and Standard of Ohio, which became Sohio, now part of BP. “Rockefeller, who had rarely sold shares, held over 25% of Standard's stock at the time of the breakup. He and all of the other stockholders received proportionate shares in each of the 34 companies.” Rockefeller had reduced control over the oil industry. However, over the next 10 years, the breakup would prove to be immensely profitable. “The companies' combined net worth rose fivefold and Rockefeller's personal wealth jumped to $900 million.” (Source: wikipedia.org) Philanthropy Rockefeller believed in the Methodist preacher John Wesley's dictum "gain all you can, save all you can, and give all you can." (Source: wikipedia.org) It isn't possible for me to include all of Rockefeller's philanthropic endeavors because there are just too many, but here are a few. “In 1884, Rockefeller provided major funding for Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in Atlanta for African-American women, which became Spelman College. His wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller, was dedicated to civil rights and equality for women.” When speaking about Laura, Rockefeller said, "Her judgment was always better than mine. Without her keen advice, I would be a poor man."  “The Spelman Family . . . along with John Rockefeller, were ardent abolitionists before the Civil War and were dedicated to supporting the Underground Railroad. John Rockefeller was impressed by the vision of the school and removed the debt from the school. The oldest existing building on Spelman's campus, Rockefeller Hall, is named after him.” (Source: wikipedia.org) After his retirement, Rockefeller also helped pay for the University of Chicago, donating more than $80 Million to it. He helped found the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which was later named Rockefeller University (Sources: biography.com and the successbug.com).  Rockefeller “founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1909, an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease.” (Source: wikipedia.org) By the end of his life, he had donated more than $530 million to various causes (Sources: biography.com and the successbug.com). This is one of the best parts of capitalism and entrepreneurship. They give entrepreneurs the resources and ability to make far greater social contributions. Tectonic Shifts Rockefeller Leveraged The Light Bulb and the Automobile Before the introduction of electricity, oil was the main source of lighting. Whale oil was expensive, but kerosene helped that become available to the working and middle classes, and Rockefeller took advantage of that. However, the invention of the lightbulb changed all of that. It “gradually began to erode the dominance of kerosene for illumination.”  Standard Oil had to adapt to this tectonic shift by “developing a European presence, expanding into natural gas production in the U.S., and producing gasoline for automobiles, which until then had been considered a waste product.” (Source: wikipedia.org) Rockefeller was able to find success with the tectonic shift of the automobile. Food Supplies During the Civil War As mentioned earlier, Rockefeller and his partner went into the produce business early in his career. Their business did well in its first two years, but when the Union Army called for large amounts of food and supplies in the Civil War, their profits soared. During the Civil War, “Rockefeller tended his business and hired substitute soldiers. He gave money to the Union cause.” He said, “I wanted to go in the army and do my part. But it was simply out of the question. There was no one to take my place. We were in a new business, and if I had not stayed it must have stopped—and with so many dependent on it.” “When the Civil War was nearing a close and with the prospect of those war-time profits ending, Clark & Rockefeller looked toward the refining of crude oil.” (Source: wikipedia.org) The Railroad Rockefeller “was well-positioned to take advantage of postwar prosperity and the great expansion westward fostered by the growth of railroads and an oil-fueled economy. He borrowed heavily, reinvested profits, adapted rapidly to changing markets, and fielded observers to track the quickly expanding industry.” Standard Oil “became one of the largest shippers of oil and kerosene in the country. The railroads competed fiercely for traffic and, in an attempt to create a cartel to control freight rates, formed the South Improvement Company offering special deals to bulk customers like Standard Oil, outside the main oil centers. The cartel offered preferential treatment as a high-volume shipper, which included not just steep discounts/rebates of up to 50% for their product but rebates for the shipment of competing products.” (Source: wikipedia.org) Our Business Should be About Our Passions—Not Money “If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” - John D. Rockefeller Rockefeller truly loved what he did. He knew business would be better if there was something bigger behind it than money (Source: 2x.co). “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.” - John D. Rockefeller Credibility Though Rockefeller wasn't perfect, he cared a lot about his credibility. He often struggled to get the amount of money he needed to achieve his goals, but he won the trust of banks and investors, enabling him to take his business farther than he would have been able to otherwise. It is said that Rockefeller remembered 3,000 of his employees' names (Source: 2x.co). An impressive accomplishment that showed his employees that he cared about them, pushing his credibility through the roof because of the respect they likely had for him. By showing people we care about them by doing something as simple as remembering their names, we can boost our credibility. In addition, it will help us build stronger relationships with those we work with. Building “Skyscrapers” on Land We Own As Standard Oil grew and purchased its competitors, it got into the business of buying pipelines and terminals and setting up a system of transport for its own products. Standard came to control or own almost every aspect of the business, and its grip on the industry tightened. It even bought thousands of acres of forest for lumber, drilling, and blocking competitors from running their own pipelines (Source: biography.com). While the monopoly was later deemed unlawful by Congress, we can still learn the value of controlling the aspects of our businesses from this example. If we build our business on a platform that we don't own, we have limited control over that platform, and the platform can change the rules and have a huge impact on our business.  Other Secrets to Success Perseverance “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” - John D. Rockefeller As entrepreneurs, our businesses might not take off right away despite our hard work. Rockefeller had to start out his career as an assistant bookkeeper before he could start the business he wanted to. He persevered in that job until he and his partner could start their own business. Sometimes our goals take longer than we expect, or we have to do things we don't want to in order to reach them. It is important to keep our goals in mind and let them drive us when things aren't how we want them to be. If we work hard and persevere, things often get better. Keeping a Cool Head When circumstances went wrong and others began panicking, Rockefeller was known for keeping his cool. Even though he started his career during a great market depression, he remained calm, being careful and watching others learn from their mistakes (Source: forgefinancialfreedom.com and 2x.co). “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” - John D. Rockefeller We, too, can keep our heads during stressful situations, and it will help us make better decisions. It will also encourage our employees and associates to remain calm as well.  Stress Management There were several periods of Rockefeller's life where he experienced great stress. In the 1870s and 80s, Rockefeller was carrying out his plan of consolidation and integration and was being attacked by the press while doing so. He complained that he couldn't stay asleep most nights. He later said, “All the fortune that I have made has not served to compensate me for the anxiety of that period.” When he was in “his 50s Rockefeller suffered from moderate depression and digestive troubles; during a stressful period in the 1890s he developed alopecia, the loss of some or all body hair.” Rockefeller started wearing toupées by 1901. Unfortunately, his hair never grew back. However other health complaints subsided when he lightened his workload. To help manage his stress, here are a couple of tactics Rockefeller used. The Importance of a Consistent Schedule Rockefeller had to keep a meticulous schedule, planning every minute, otherwise, his day would fall into chaos. He never diverged from it. However, he didn't let it control him either. He was the master of his schedule, and the schedule was not the master of him.  By keeping such a strict schedule, he was able to be in the present moment. He could focus more easily because he devoted time to each of the important things in his life, and therefore, he wouldn't get distracted by other things (Sources: forgefinancialfreedom.com and 2x.co). “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.” - John D. Rockefeller The Importance of Rest One aspect of Rockefeller's schedule was his time dedicated to rest. He loved to nap after lunch and dinner. When he was in his 30s, he installed a telegraph wire between his work and home so he could spend 3-4 afternoons during the week at home, gardening and enjoying the outdoors (Source: cnbc.com). Entrepreneurs often forget how important balance is in life. We often get excited about the ventures we are working on and forget that it is crucial to take time to relax or be with loved ones so we don't exhaust ourselves and burn out.  “It is remarkable how much we all could do if we avoid hustling, and go along at an even pace and keep from attempting too much.” - John D. Rockefeller Faith During his childhood, Rockefeller attended a local Baptist church with his mother and siblings. Rockefeller's mother was very religious. She was a major influence for him in religious matters. While they were at church, she would encourage him “to contribute his few pennies to the congregation. He came to associate the church with charity.” Religion became a guiding force throughout his life, and he believed it was the source of his success (Source: wikipedia.org). As a devout Northern Baptist, Rockefeller read the Bible daily, attended prayer meetings twice a week, and even led his own Bible study with his wife. He supported Baptist missionary activity, funded universities, and heavily engaged in religious activities at his church. While traveling the South, he donated large sums of money to churches belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention, various Black churches, and other Christian denominations. One time, Rockefeller paid for a slave's freedom, and another time he donated to a Roman Catholic orphanage. As he grew rich, his donations to churches became more generous (Source: wikipedia.org). Key Takeaways Here are some of my key takeaways from this episode: We can boost our credibility by remembering our associate's names. Having good credibility can lead to help from people like bankers and investors. This help can allow us to take our business further. We should build skyscrapers on land we own. Perseverance is one of the most important attributes an entrepreneur can have.  Keeping a consistent schedule can help us focus more easily and be more efficient in our work. In addition, taking time in our schedule to relax can help us keep a balanced life. We can make better decisions and help our associates remain calm if we keep a cool head in stressful situations. Philanthropy is one of the best parts of capitalism and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs have the resources and ability to make far greater social contributions. Rockefeller leveraged many of the tectonic shifts like the light bulb and the railroad. We can leverage the tectonic shifts in our time to gain success. Want to be a Better Digital Monetizer? Did you like today's episode? Then please follow these channels to receive free digital monetization content: Get a free Monetization Assessment of your business Subscribe to the free Monetization eMagazine. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation YouTube channel. Subscribe to the Monetization Nation podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.  Follow Monetization Nation on Instagram and Twitter. 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Over the past week, Francesca Rudkin has been reading the new book by Wendyl Nissen, and it's been a compelling and utterly gripping read from the first page for her.The book stems from Wendyl's decision in 2018, to take her parents in, to live with her and husband Paul in their Hokianga home.At the time, her mother Elis, had early stage Alzheimer's.While caring for her mother, Wendyl learned of family secrets and stories that she had never heard before.Stories of loss, grief and love, that gave Wendyl a new understanding of her mother and her family.Those stories are now a book, My Mother and Other Secrets.Wendyl Nissen joins Francesca Rudkin from the beautiful Hokianga.LISTEN ABOVE

Roseanne Liang is a Kiwi film director with her sights on the big league.She first made a name for herself with her 2005 autobiographical documentary Banana in a Nutshell, followed by romcom My Wedding and Other Secrets in 2011.But it was with her 2017 action-short Do No Harm that Liang found international acclaim - and now she has directed her first big Hollywood action thriller.It's called Shadow in the Cloud, and the film has met great reviews. It was named People's Choice in its section of the Toronto Film Festival and has Liang touted as a director to watch in 2021She joined Francesca Rudkin to discuss her Hollywood debut.LISTEN ABOVE

Marilyn Monroe was America's Sweetheart for quite some time and her tragic death broke hearts for many, many years.  Unfortunately, it was as suspicious as it was sad.  Many still don't believe that it panned out the way that the official story tells it... Marilyn Monroe’s Famous Final Phone Call Involved Serious Threat to President Kennedy OCT 7, 2019 https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/marilyn-monroes-final-phone-call-threatened-president-kennedy/ Marilyn Monroe Biography (1926–1962) UPDATED:AUG 13, 2020, ORIGINAL:DEC 8, 2017 https://www.biography.com/actor/marilyn-monroe Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Marilyn Monroe". Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Dec. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe. Accessed 22 January 2021. How Marilyn Monroe's Childhood Was Disrupted by Her Mother's Paranoid Schizophrenia In and out of foster care, the Hollywood icon struggled to connect with her mom. TIM OTT UPDATED:SEP 9, 2020ORIGINAL:JUN 13, 2019 https://www.biography.com/news/marilyn-monroe-mother-relationship Before Marilyn Monroe And Joe DiMaggio, There Was Norma Jeane And James Dougherty By Aimee Lamoureux Published May 4, 2018 Updated October 9, 2018 https://allthatsinteresting.com/james-dougherty http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351945 Marilyn Monroe's Most Famous Lovers: Truth vs. Rumor From John F. Kennedy to Jerry Lewis, a look at Marilyn Monroe's great loves and rumored flings By Mike Miller August 23, 2017 https://people.com/movies/marilyn-monroes-most-famous-lovers-truth-vs-rumor/ Marilyn Monroe's Later Career By: Susan Doll https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/marilyn-monroe-later-career8.htm JFK, RFK AND MARILYN MONROE: POWER, POLITICS AND PARAMOURS? Anthony Summers, Special to the News/Sun-Sentinel October 27, 1985 https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-10-27-8502170081-story.html Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC, June 21, 1956 By ANDREW GLASS 06/21/2013 https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/this-day-in-politics-093127 Biographies & Memoirs Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Chapter Seventeen 1957–1959 https://erenow.net/biographies/marilyn-monroe-the-biography/17.php Peter Lawford – Mysterious Secret Keeper of the Rat Pack (June 1, 2014) by Barry Bradford http://barrybradford.com/peter-lawford-mysterious-secret-keeper-rat-pack/ MAY 14, 2018Frank Sinatra’s Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File: The FBI documented Old Blue Eyes’ every move for 40 years. By ERIN BLAKEMORE https://www.history.com/news/frank-sinatra-mob-ties-fbi-file https://youtu.be/kW1gLnkfUxc PEOPLE.COM POLITICS PEOPLE Explains: All About Marilyn Monroe's Alleged Affairs with JFK and Brother Bobby By Tierney McAfee August 04, 2017 https://people.com/politics/marilyn-monroe-affair-john-f-kennedy-robert-f-kennedy/ Marilyn Monroe's Later Career By: Susan Doll https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/marilyn-monroe-later-career12.htm Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94 By Enid Nemy Feb. 7, 2000 https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/07/us/frederick-vanderbilt-field-wealthy-leftist-dies-at-94.html MARILYN MONROE FBI FILES REVEALEd December 28, 2012 By ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Associated Press https://themarilynmonroecollection.com/marilyn-monroe-fbi-files-revealed/ aborted JFK’s love child and fell into depression over RFK days before suicide, book says, News Reporter THE US SUN Apr 29 2020 https://www.the-sun.com/news/754916/marilyn-monroe-john-f-kennedy-love-child/ FBI records : The Vault https://vault.fbi.gov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQf0xd2fmBQ HISTORY: MARILYN MONROE'S FORGOTTEN RADICAL POLITICS BY LILY ROTHMAN (JUNE 1, 2016) https://time.com/4346542/radical-politics-marilyn-monroe/ Private Investigator: 'I listened to Marilyn Monroe die' By Eric Morales (Jun 10, 2013) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351945 Marilyn Monroe Mystery Persists : 23 Years After Her Death, Questions Continue to Generate Controversy By ROBERT WELKOS AND TED ROHRLICH SEP. 29, 1985 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-29-me-18753-story.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/marilyn-monroe-died-clutching-chilling-22478091 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBOtmY7bHak

Back when we first started working with clients we ordered all the fancy tests for everyone who walked in the door. We tested the gut (not one test, but two), hormones, cortisol, and organic acids, to name a few. It got to be pretty expensive but it seemed to be the best way to figure out exactly what to do next. Our process has evolved over the years, and now we start with just simple, inexpensive blood chemistry. This saves our clients a ton of money and time, and they still get great results. On the podcast today, NBT Scientific Director and coach Megan Hall and I discuss the advanced (and not-so-advanced) biomedical tests we’ve run for clients over the years. We talk about the ones we still use and the ones we quit - and why. Megan explains why you should be sceptical of genetic testing, and the wealth of information you can derive from basic blood chemistry. We also talk about bloodsmart.ai, the software we use at NBT to give personalised predictions of problems in your body that can help you decide on further testing and/or actions you want to take. We also talk about some software improvements I’ve made recently. Here’s the outline of this interview with Megan Hall: [00:02:23] Megan's outline for this podcast. [00:02:39] Testing in the early days on NBT. [00:05:43] Chris and Jamie on Ben Greenfield’s podcast in 2014: 7 Signs Your Cortisol And Adrenals Are Broken. [00:06:32] Ben Greenfield podcasts with Christopher Kelly: The Little-Known Test That Tells You Everything You Need To Know About Your Metabolism and Why Is My Cortisol High Even Though I’m Doing Everything Right? Hidden Causes Of High Cortisol, The DUTCH Test & More! [00:07:00] Gut tests. [00:07:42] NBT podcasts featuring Lucy Mailing, PhD: 1. How to Optimise Your Gut Microbiome and 2. Microbiome Myths and Misconceptions. [00:09:00] Hormone testing. [00:09:25] Books by Robert Sapolsky: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition, and Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. [00:10:07] Hans Selye. [00:13:37] Entraining circadian rhythm; Podcasts: How to Use Time-Restricted Eating to Reverse Disease and Optimize Health, with Satchin Panda, PhD; Why You Should Eat Breakfast (and Other Secrets of Circadian Biology), with Bill Lagakos, PhD, How to Entrain Your Circadian Rhythm for Perfect Sleep and Metabolic Health, and Morning Larks and Night Owls: the Biology of Chronotypes, with Greg Potter, PhD. [00:16:09] Genetic testing. [00:17:31] Podcast: How to Win at Angry Birds: The Ancestral Paradigm for a Therapeutic Revolution, with Josh Turknett, MD. [00:18:38] Direct to consumer genetic testing: 40% of variants in raw data were false positives; Study: Tandy-Connor, Stephany, et al. "False-positive results released by direct-to-consumer genetic tests highlight the importance of clinical confirmation testing for appropriate patient care." Genetics in Medicine 20.12 (2018): 1515. [00:18:59] Promethease. [00:19:46] 95% of the genome is "non-coding". [00:21:59] Growth mindset; Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck; Podcast: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes - But Some Do, with Simon Marshall, PhD. [00:24:19] Jeff Kendall-Weed; Podcast: How to Create a Career Doing a Sport You Love. [00:25:06] Andrew D Huberman on Joe Rogan, Rich Rolls, Instagram. [00:27:06] Glycomark. [00:28:34] NutriSense; Podcast: Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Prevent Disease and Increase Healthspan, with Kara Collier, RDN. [00:29:59] Salivary 1,5-anhydroglucitol inversely related to dental caries in children; Study: Syed, Sadatullah, et al. "Salivary 1, 5-Anhydroglucitol and Vitamin Levels in Relation to Caries Risk in Children." BioMed research international 2019 (2019). [00:30:34] Tests that have stood the test of time. [00:33:32] Josh Turknett’s 4-quadrant model. [00:34:48] bloodsmart.ai. [00:36:02] The value of a basic blood chemistry. [00:38:23] NBT podcasts featuring Ivor Cummins: How Not to Die of Cardiovascular Disease and Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC): A Direct Measure of Cardiovascular Disease Risk. [00:38:33] NBT podcasts featuring Malcolm Kendrick: Why Cholesterol Levels Have No Effect on Cardiovascular Disease (And Things to Think about Instead) and A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World. [00:39:26] CAC scan: Find a scan centre near you; Widowmaker movie; Irish Heart Disease Awareness website. [00:43:02] Items that can be forecast by bloodsmart.ai, with their sensitivity and specificity. [00:43:45] PhenoAge (example); Podcast; How to Measure Your Biological Age. [00:44:17] Optimal vs Standard reference ranges. [00:48:41] Testing: the future. [00:50:02] Recent bloodsmart.ai software updates. [00:50:32] Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 9/24/20 press release: Recommendations About the Use of Dental Amalgam in Certain High-Risk Populations: FDA Safety Communication. [00:51:43] Take the 7-minute analysis. [00:54:48] Email us with your ideas for bloodsmart.ai. [00:55:24] Book a free 15-minute starter session.

As a mechanical engineer, Minal's first job was working in the software industry with 3D-CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing). At the time, designing and building cars was a booming industry that had yet to see countless recessions take their toll on the Michigan economy. While working with 3D CAM, Minal saw the power of software and knew that's what he wanted to do. He also knew it was where the future was headed, because according to Minal, “I quickly realized, EVERYTHING is going to be related to computer science.”His pursuit led him to get his Master's in computer science, and eventually, because he wanted to be able to speak the language of business, he obtained his MBA.Minal is the Director of Process, Governance, Tools & Metrics at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), but he's in the unique position to be able to speak on two very different program management fields: using waterfall techniques to build hardware and using Agile to build software.  He gives one of the best two-minute explanations on what Agile is, and how it differs from infrastructure projects that I've ever heard, and if you've got any interest in either, you should listen to the full episode. Listen to the podcast for all the insights and to discover his recommendations on leadership. 1:20 - Minal's background and getting his start as a Mechanical Engineer 5:23 - Minal's Aha moment 8:00 -  The boom of as-a-service businesses 8:45 - Why software as-a-service is still not working11:02 - The difference between public cloud and private cloud13:13 - Metrics - What it means to him, and how you need to have data set up. 14:19 - “What executives need is insights”15:00 - The biggest challenge with data 16:40 - How to get the right metrics in place21:00 -  The best explanation of Agile I've ever heard30:35 - Minal on leadershipShow Notes: Join the community at The Omar Project The Executive Arena: Mastering the Art of Corporate Politics, Perceptional Messaging, and Other Secrets to Success in Today's Corporate WorldWho Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life  The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter  Interested in rebranding yourself in another industry? Join my course at engineeringleadershipacademy.com

Laurel Clark is a teacher of adult education in metaphysics, dreams, visualization, and holistic living. She is the owner and developer of Whole Life Resources, the Chair of the Board and past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and past president of the School of Metaphysics. She is the author of Intuitive Dreaming, Karmic Healing, The Law of Attraction and Other Secrets of Visualization, Concentration, and contributor to a number of other published books.Laurel offers classes and workshops to businesses, professional groups, and organizations to aid people live more purposeful lives. She is also an ordained minister in the Interfaith Church of Metaphysics, a counselor, and mentors people to develop their creativity, cultivate intuition, manifest their passions and fulfill their destiny.She can be reached at www.laurelclark.com.

When your world is rocked with a betrayal that involved your husband, dating sites, and your close friend, you have two choices: to become bitter or better. Today's guest Victoria Weston didn't let what happened her define her. Not only did she take this life-defining moment to become fabulous––she used this opportunity to help show other's the way. When one woman succeeds, we all succeed. Today's episode is an inspiring one, and Victoria motivates us to live our best life. Victoria is a modern-day "Samantha" from "Sex in The City" and lives life on her terms. Victoria ended up moving to Boston to start over after leaving her husband, but she didn't allow a devastating heartbreak to define her. She used that time to work on herself, empower others, and couldn't be happier. Victoria is currently developing a website and writing a tell-all book called "Victoria's Other Secrets." Tinder ended Victoria's marriage yet brought her back to life. Tinder gave Victoria her confidence back and opened up a whole new world.Kerry Brett and Victoria Weston cover a lot of ground in this episode. Topics include:Video dates abroad.Tinder Passport.Life after divorce.How to know what's best for you?Digging deep and learning what makes you happy.Action creates a reaction, take action to help yourself.You don't have to have romantic love to have love in your life.How you feel about yourself sets the stage. Focus on loving yourself, and the rest will follow.How to overcome the stigma of being divorced?When one woman succeeds, we all succeed.What does it mean to be in the sacred sisterhood of women?When choosing images for your online profile, pick one photograph living your best life, or participating in an activity you love. This photograph will portray you in a good light, and your authentic self will shine through.To find more information about Victoria Weston, you can follow her on Instagram @victoriasothersecrets.

With summer right around the corner, huge kiosks of sunscreen are on display at stores everywhere, reminding us to fear the sun. We’ve been told for years that sunlight is something to guard against - and, of course, most of us know someone who’s had a suspicious mole removed. But we also know the sun is needed for vitamin D production - plus, it just feels great on our skin! And obviously our ancestors weren’t slathering on Coppertone when they left the cave. It seems to be a no-win situation until you learn the facts about sunlight. NBT Scientific Director Megan Hall is with me today to talk about the critical role of sunlight for health and wellness. She outlines the many benefits of sun exposure that go far beyond vitamin D production and sets the record straight on UVA vs UVB rays, skin cancer, and how sunscreen is actually working against you. Here’s the outline of this interview with Megan Hall: [00:00:11] Megan's new puppy. [00:03:35] Podcast w/ Kira Furie: Breaking Through the Diet Culture: Medical Care for Every Size. [00:05:42] Vitamin D and conditions associated with low levels. [00:07:40] Book: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, by Robert Kolker. [00:08:22] Optimal Levels and dosing of Vitamin D. [00:12:55] Vitamin D Calculator. [00:13:47] COVID-19 and Vitamin D; Studies: 1. Glicio, El James. "Vitamin D Level of Mild and Severe Elderly Cases of COVID-19: A Preliminary Report." Available at SSRN 3593258 (2020); 2. De Smet, Dieter, et al. "Vitamin D deficiency as risk factor for severe COVID-19: a convergence of two pandemics." medRxiv (2020); 3. D’Avolio, Antonio, et al. "25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are lower in patients with positive PCR for SARS-CoV-2." Nutrients 12.5 (2020): 1359; 4. Meltzer, David O., et al. "Association of Vitamin D Deficiency and Treatment with COVID-19 Incidence." medRxiv (2020). [00:15:20] Vitamin D and ACE2. [00:17:46] Benefits of sunshine beyond vitamin D. [00:18:01] Circadian rhythm. [00:18:29] Satchin Panda; Podcast: How to Use Time-Restricted Eating to Reverse Disease and Optimize Health. [00:18:30] Bill Lagakos; Podcast: Why You Should Eat Breakfast (and Other Secrets of Circadian Biology). [00:18:35] Nitric oxide. [00:19:01] Malcolm Kendrick; Podcasts: Why Cholesterol Levels Have No Effect on Cardiovascular Disease (And Things to Think about Instead) and A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World. [00:19:25] Homocysteine; glycocalyx. [00:21:20] Ivor Cummins; Podcasts with Ivor: How Not to Die of Cardiovascular Disease and Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC): A Direct Measure of Cardiovascular Disease Risk. [00:22:24] UV exposure suppresses symptoms of metabolic syndrome; Study: Geldenhuys, Sian, et al. "Ultraviolet radiation suppresses obesity and symptoms of metabolic syndrome independently of vitamin D in mice fed a high-fat diet." Diabetes 63.11 (2014): 3759-3769. [00:22:54] Melatonin. [00:25:39] Serotonin; Study: Lambert, Gavin W., et al. "Effect of sunlight and season on serotonin turnover in the brain." The Lancet 360.9348 (2002): 1840-1842. [00:26:26] Immunomodulation. [00:26:45] Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis; Reduced risk of MS: van der Mei, Ingrid AF, et al. "Past exposure to sun, skin phenotype, and risk of multiple sclerosis: case-control study." Bmj 327.7410 (2003): 316; Reduced risk of depression and fatigue: Knippenberg, S., et al. "Higher levels of reported sun exposure, and not vitamin D status, are associated with less depressive symptoms and fatigue in multiple sclerosis." Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 129.2 (2014): 123-131; MRI neurodegeneration scores inversely associated with sun exposure: Zivadinov, Robert, et al. "Interdependence and contributions of sun exposure and vitamin D to MRI measures in multiple sclerosis." J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 84.10 (2013): 1075-1081. [00:27:20] UV treatment increased glucagon-stimulated insulin secretion; Study: Colas, C., et al. "Insulin secretion and plasma 1, 25-(OH) 2D after UV-B irradiation in healthy adults." Hormone and metabolic research 21.3 (1989): 154-155. [00:27:27] Prevention and treatment of skin conditions; Study: Søyland, E., et al. "Sun exposure induces rapid immunological changes in skin and peripheral blood in patients with psoriasis." British Journal of Dermatology 164.2 (2011): 344-355. [00:27:49] Sun exposure related to life expectancy; Study: Lindqvist, Pelle G., et al. "Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death: a competing risk analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort." Journal of internal medicine 280.4 (2016): 375-387.  [00:30:14] Outline of this interview. [00:31:04] UVA and UVB rays; UVB needed for Vitamin D Production: Wacker, Matthias, and Michael F. Holick. "Sunlight and Vitamin D: A global perspective for health." Dermato-endocrinology 5.1 (2013): 51-108. [00:31:31] Inverse correlation between dose of UVB and melanoma: Study: Godar, Dianne E., Madhan Subramanian, and Stephen J. Merrill. "Cutaneous malignant melanoma incidences analyzed worldwide by sex, age, and skin type over personal Ultraviolet-B dose shows no role for sunburn but implies one for Vitamin D3." Dermato-endocrinology 9.1 (2017): e1267077. [00:33:43] Sunscreens; coral bleaching: Downs, Craig A., et al. "Toxicopathological effects of the sunscreen UV filter, oxybenzone (benzophenone-3), on coral planulae and cultured primary cells and its environmental contamination in Hawaii and the US Virgin Islands." Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology 70.2 (2016): 265-288.  [00:43:20] Join the discussion on the NBT forum when you support us on Patreon.

Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews take a deep dive into what it takes to building authentic and impactful relationships. They'll be focusing on the relationship funnel (not the sales funnel) and highlighting what it takes to build relationships that will grow your business and your life. Learn the five C's of relational business development, as well as the three power questions to ask in every one-on-one interaction. Discover some simple shifts in intention and action that will immediately enhance your relationship building Most important, learn to embrace a relationship intention and strategies for high impact relationship building. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes In this episode you'll learn … The difference between your relationship funnel and your sales funnel … and why it matters Explore the five C's of relational business development – Creativity, Compassion, Consistency, Curiosity and Connection The three (3) power questions to use in every one-on-one interaction The ways that the 10 x 10 approach to networking and relationship building will help accelerate the quantity and the quality of your relationships Essential shifts to move from transactional networking to relational interacting Resources It's Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships, by Tommy Spaulding Never Eat Alone: And the Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, by Keith Ferrazzi The Impact Leadership Podcast, Episode 6 (Stop Networking: Simple Shifts to Transition from Transactional Networking to Relational Connecting for More Impact) The Impact Leadership Podcast Cardivera

Today we celebrate the Father of Paleobotany and the botanical illustrator honored by King Charles X. We'll learn about the botanical painter who got sick of painting flowers (he'd painted 800 of them) and the botanical illustrator who worked for Curtis's Botanical Magazine and Kew Gardens. Today’s Unearthed Words feature the hidden (and often unappreciated) transformations happening in our garden during January. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that helps us understand plant physiology through an intimate and entertaining memoir. I'll talk about a garden item that can help you propagate your house plants, and then we’ll wrap things up with the birth flowers of January. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Curated Articles Horniman Museum's gardener Wes Shaw - Gardens Illustrated Horniman Gardens, Forest Hill, London - Spotlight: Wes Shaw "The last place that blew me away was GARDENS BY THE BAY in Singapore. Amazing conservatories, landscaping & planting - taking horticulture to a new level. While I was there, I saw gardeners abseiling down the side of green walls and volunteers using tweezers to pick over the beds. Gardens should continuously change and evolve. I never see the point of keeping something looking the same as it did at some point in the past. What’s the next big project task you’ll be tackling in the garden? We are planning a Winter Garden for an area of the Horniman Gardens that needs a bit of a refresh.”   High Society: The Expert’s Guide To Alpines Here's a great post from @AlysFowler featuring Richard Wilford - an alpine lover and head of design and collection support at the Royal Botanic Gardens @KewGardens. "What Richard doesn’t know about alpines isn’t worth knowing. 'We’ve got a very tall house to grow some very small plants' he jokes. Alpines are surprisingly easy and hardy and perfect for tricky corners and small plots. As their name suggests, alpines are from areas of high elevation, so they love full sun, cool roots, and cold nights." Check out Richard Wilford’s Five Easy Alpines: Sempervivum: will grow on sunny rocks, cracks in walls, and stony places. Put a little compost into the niches first, then nudge them in. Alpine pinks Dianthus alpinus: a tiny mat-forming evergreen with bright pink flowers. It likes free-draining conditions and suits pots, gravel path edges, and window boxes. Erinus alpinus, or alpine balsam: forms neat rosettes of narrow leaves and loves crevices. Campanula cochlearifolia (fairy thimbles or ear leaf flowers): Nodding blue flowers - Keep its feet well-drained. Phlox douglasii: A low-growing perennial - it grows in dry woodlands. It needs a dry winter, but good drainage and a sheltered spot by a wall will work.   Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1801 Today is the birthday of the French botanist and the Father of Paleobotany Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ("Bron-yahr"). Adolphe-Théodore was born in Paris. His father, Alexander, was a geologist. There’s no doubt his father’s work helped Adolphe-Théodore become a pioneer in the field of paleobotany. A paleobotanist is someone who works with fossil plants. Plants have been living on the planet for over 400 million years. So, there are plenty of fossil plants to study and catalog. As one of the most prominent botanists of the 19th century, Adolphe-Théodore worked to classify fossil plant forms, and he did so even before Charles Darwin. Adolphe-Théodore’s work provided content for his book on the history of plant fossils in 1828. Adolphe-Théodore published his masterpiece when he was just 27 years old. Adolphe-Théodore’s writing brought him notoriety and gave him the moniker "Father of Paleobotany." He was also called the "Linnaeus of Fossil Plants." Adolphe-Théodore was not so much a fossil plant discover as he was a fossil plant organizer. He put fossil plants in order and applied principles for distinguishing them. In 1841, at the age of 40, Adolphe-Théodore received the Wollaston Medal for his work with fossil plants. It is the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. It must have made his father, Alexander, very proud. Adolphe-Théodore was a professor at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He was the backfill for Andre Michaux, who had left to explore the flora of North America. Adolphe-Théodore's wife died young. They had two boys together, and when Adolphe-Théodore died, he died in the arms of his eldest son.   1825 King Charles X honored the Belgian botanical illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté with the Legion of Honor. To this day, Redouté is one of the most renowned flower painters of all time. Redouté was born into a Flemish family of painters. Growing up, his family supported themselves by creating paintings for the home and for the church. Redouté was an official court draftsman to Queen Marie Antoinette. One evening around midnight, she summoned him to appear before her, and she asked him to paint her a cactus. She was exerting her control; she wanted to see if Redouté was as talented as was reported. (He was.) Redouté also became a favorite of Josephine Bonaparte. Redouté’s paintings of her flowers at Malmaison are among his most beautiful works. Today, Redouté is best known for his paintings of lilies and roses. Roses were his specialty.  And, Redouté's work earned him a nickname; he was known as "the Raffaele of flowers.". Now, if you'd like to really treat yourself or get a special gift or a gardener in your life, you should check out the book by Werner Dressendorfer called Redouté: Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers. This is a large coffee table book. It is probably one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen; again, it's called Redoute: A Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers. This book came out in September of 2018, and I finally just got myself a copy of it after mulling it over for over a year. the book features 144 paintings by Redouté that were published between 1827 and 1833. it's is truly one of my favorite books in my Botanical Library. When this book first came out, it retailed for $150. You can get new copies of Redouté: Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers by Werner Dressendorfer and support the show - using the link in Today Show notes for $83. I managed to get an excellent used copy for $65. But, as I said, this is an investment piece, and it's also extraordinarily beautiful. I guarantee if you have this book sitting out, your visitors will be sure to comment, and they probably won't be able to resist looking through the beautiful paintings. Glorious.   1836 Today is the birthday of the botanical painter Henri Fantin-Latour (Fahn-tahn Lah-tur”). It's kind of humorous to me that we end up discussing Henri Fantin-LaTour today - right after Pierre Joseph Redoute - because Henri painted flowers as well. But, unlike Pierre Joseph Redoute, Henri got so sick of painting flowers that he could find no joy in doing it for the end of his career. All together, Henry painted well over 800 pictures of flowers over 32 years between 1864 and 1896. By the end of his career, the entire genre of still life flower painting was life-draining to him. He despised it. Yet, it's how he made a living, and many of his paintings bought to be displayed in homes. The painter James Whistler talked up Henri’s work so much that his flower paintings were quite famous in England. In fact, during his lifetime, he was better known in England as a painter than he was in his native France. Henri also painted portraits, as well as group portraits of Parisian artists, and he even painted imaginative compositions. He enjoyed painting portraits and his other creative work more than painting flowers. But, it was always the flower paintings that sold, and so he kept painting them to support himself.   1892 Today is the anniversary of the death of the exceptionally talented Scottish botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch. He was 75 years old. Fitch was one of the most prolific botanical artists of all time. His illustrations were stunning, and he used vivid colors for his work. In 1834, Walter began working for William Hooker. Hooker was the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Walter's very first published plate was of a Mimulus Rose. He didn’t know it then, but it was one down, and he had over 2,700 more to go. Hooker loved Walters’s work because his paintings reflected the way the plants appeared in real life; they weren't fanciful or embellished, yet they were beautiful. In short order, Walter became the sole artist for the magazine. When Hooker became the director of Kew, the promotion meant moving to London. He talked Walter into moving, too. Pretty soon, Walter was not only making illustrations for the magazine but for everything published at Kew. At the end of his career, around the age of 60, Walter got into a disagreement with William Hooker’s son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, over his pay. Walter left his post at Kew and became a freelancer. During his lifetime, Walter created over 12,000 illustrations that found their way to publication in various works.   Unearthed Words There is a famous saying, slow as molasses in January. We often think nothing is happening in our gardens during the winter, As Alfred Austin said in his poem, Primroses (Primula vulgaris): Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say. But this belief that January is a dead time in the garden… well, nothing could be further from the truth. Today's Unearthed Words are all about the productivity that takes place in our gardens in January.   January is the quietest month in the garden. ... But just because it looks quiet doesn't mean that nothing is happening. The soil, open to the sky, absorbs the pure rainfall while microorganisms convert tilled-under fodder into usable nutrients for the next crop of plants. The feasting earthworms tunnel along, aerating the soil and preparing it to welcome the seeds and bare roots to come.   — Rosalie Muller Wright, Editor, Sunset Magazine   Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart.  She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again, fairer and stronger.  She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. — Hugh Macmillan, Scottish Minister & Naturalist, 1871   Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass. —  Edward Thomas, British Poet     "You think I am dead," The apple tree said, “Because I never have a leaf to show- Because I stoop, And my branches droop, And the dull gray mosses over me grow! But I'm still alive in trunk and shoot; The buds of next May I fold away- But I pity the withered grass at my root." "You think I am dead," The quick grass said, "Because I have parted with stem and blade! But under the ground, I am safe and sound With the snow's thick blanket over me laid. I'm all alive, and ready to shoot, Come dancing here- But I pity the flower without branch or root." "You think I am dead," A soft voice said, "Because not a branch or root I own. I have never died, but close I hide In a plumy seed that the wind has sown. Patient, I wait through the long winter hours; You will see me again- I shall laugh at you then, Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers." — Edith Matilda Thomas, American Poet   Grow That Garden Library A Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger The subtitle to this book is: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants This book came out in April of 2015. Ruth Kassinger didn’t always have a green thumb. in this book, she'll tell you that until she completely understood how plants actually worked, she couldn't know precisely what they needed. Her story starts this way, “This book was born of a murder, a murder I committed.” The victim - it turns out-was a beloved kumquat tree. Ruth had decided to prune it. Her efforts made the tree turn brittle and brown. It made her wonder: Why did the kumquat die when a rose bush and a crepe myrtle that was pruned the very same way were both thriving? The dilemma is what made Ruth begin a quest to understand more about plant physiology. This book is part memoir and part science-class. Ruth writes with a friendly voice. This book is a beautiful way to learn basic botany - the marvel of flowers, roots, stems, and leaves. While we're learning botany from Ruth, we also get to know her personal stories. Ruth shares how she learned to become a better gardener. Initially, Ruth made the same mistakes we all make: over-watering, under fertilizing, making untrue assumptions about what plants need. You can get a used copy of A Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $5.   Great Gifts for Gardeners 3-Bulb Vase (Plant Terrarium) with Wooden Stand Retro Wooden Frame -3 Glass Plant Vases - for Desktop Rustic wood and vintage design, these decorative glass vases are perfect for propagating plants like hoya, pathos, Swedish Ivy, etc. It is a gorgeous plant prop for your home. The frame is made of natural wood, mottled surface; three bulb vases are made of High boron silicon heat resistant glass. The wooden stand size : 5.5"H x 11" W x 4" D; Each vase : 3.74 H x 2.75 W; Opening – 1 inch Diameter. Perfect for the desktop, in office, or home. Accessories complete- Easy to set up - ready for water (the hexagon screwdriver and screws are included).   Today’s Botanic Spark January’s birth flowers are the carnation and snowdrop. Let’s take a moment to celebrate both. Carnations Carnations are some of the world's oldest flowers. They have been cultivated for over 2000 years. The Greeks and Romans used them and garlands Carnations are part of the Dianthus family. Their Latin name is Dianthus caryophyllus. The etymology of the word Dianthus is from two Greek words. Dios means Divine, and Anthos means Flower. And, the translation of dianthus means "Flower of the Gods." Carnations have different meanings based on their color. White carnations symbolize good luck and pure love. Pink carnations represent admiration, and a dark red carnation represents affection and love. Snowdrops January’s other birth flower is the Snowdrop (Galanthus). Snowdrops were named by Carl Linnaeus, who gave them the Latin name Galanthus nivalis, which means "milk flower of the snow." Snowdrop is a common name. They were also known as Candlemas Veils because they typically bloom around Candlemas or February 2nd. Snowdrops are an indicator flower signaling the transition from winter into spring. Thus, the meaning of a Snowdrop blossom is Hope. The word Galanthophile is the name given to people who love snowdrops. And here's a Fun Fact: a substance extracted from snowdrops is used to treat Alzheimer's Disease.  

Inclusively Yours is an equality-minded wedding planning podcast, brought to you by the leading inclusive wedding publication Love Inc. Magazine. Choosing a venue is perhaps one of the biggest — if not the biggest decisions that you're going to make for your wedding day. The venue's availability can dictate your actual wedding date, and its style can play a huge role in your overall aesthetic. And because of this, it needs to be one of the first decisions that you make during your planning process … and it's usually one of the most expensive. But it doesn't have to be! Today we're chatting with the queen of savings, Jessica Bishop from The Budget Savvy Bride and author of the best-selling book, "The Budget Savvy Wedding Planner and Organizer," and she's sharing her money saving tips and tricks to finding and booking your venue.  Jessica's known as the budget wedding expert, and has shared her money saving tips and tricks with outlets such as Good Morning America, Brides, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, Refinery 29 and more. Her first book, "The Budget Savvy Wedding Planner and Organizer" is an Amazon best-seller. First Step to Finding a Venue The first step to finding a venue, you need a budget in place! And the first step to getting a budget in place is sitting down with your partner and any contributors. “You should definitely sit down with your partner and discuss kind of if no one else could contribute at all, what the 2 of you would be comfortable spending or could realistically afford to spend. Some couples will decide to delay their wedding or have a longer engagement so they can save up. And more and more couples I think are paying for the majority of things themselves. So that tends to be a big factor.  But then, yeah —going and sitting down with all those other contributing parties, if you are lucky enough to have some financial donors or contributors. And just kind of setting those expectations for what things typically cost. Doing some research on sites like The Knot, or WeddingWire. Or there's a site called costofwedding.com that I always recommend couples checking out. You can actually look based on geographical area. I think you can type in your zip code and see submitted figures there. Then sitting down with all those contributing parties and kind of making a plan for-- Are they going to cover things when a bill comes in? Are they going to give you the money all at once in a lump sum? Like setting those expectations is like the best way to avoid stress and conflict throughout the process.” How much of your budget should you set aside for your wedding venue? On average, you should expect 40-50% of your budget be allocated to reception costs: venue fee, rentals, catering, the bar and entertainment. “It really depends on if you choose like an all-inclusive venue that includes all of those odds and ends - versus a raw space where you're bringing everything in — you’re going out and finding rentals, you're going out and hiring a separate caterer. And so the venue fee might not be quite as high.” Venue budget breakdown and sneaky costs to look out for: “Venues that offer kind of more of those services included in their venue fee, their amenities and conveniences basically that you aren't getting when you go to like a raw space and bring in everything yourself. So things that can kind of surprise you are things like cake cutting fees and clean up/setup fees. If there needs to be extra like attendants on site for, to liaise with the event vendors who are bringing in different items for the wedding day. Those are good things to look out for.” “And then of course like your timeline. Do you only have a certain amount of time set aside? What's your, what's the earliest you can come in, what's the latest you can be there? Is there an additional fee if you overstay that time limit? Because that can cut into your party time if you need to have everything cleaned up and be out of there by that deadline. So those are definitely some good things to keep in mind.” Out-of-the-box venues “I think it's so cool when couples choose kind of a less traditional venue, and they do tend to be a bit more cost-effective. Because they're a lower fee, and you do have more control over each different aspect — because you can select the caterer, the rentals that best suit your budget or your aesthetic, whichever might be a priority. But I think some of the most interesting ones that I've seen are things like libraries for couples who are like big book lovers. Or a good one that that we published several years ago was like at, like an aerospace kind of museum.” “It’s really cool because when a couple chooses a venue, that can their shared interest or part of their love story. It's just an extra personal detail. And if you can also save money in the process, that's great. But some great places to find venues like that - I really love Peerspace. They have kind of an event rental platform essentially, but instead of being like Airbnb, where you're renting a place where you spend the night,  they rent out raw spaces that you can rent for either photo shoots or events or all different sorts of things. And you can sort by your event type or what the purpose of the rental is, and that's really handy.” “But I think like your best cost savings are going to come with like kind of a more intimate wedding in a place like that. But one thing that I'm currently working on over at Budget Savvy Bride, is we're launching what we're calling, The Savvy Wedding Guide. And we're going to be featuring some of these offbeat, a little bit alternative wedding venues in order to try to share those hidden gems with the couples who are looking for them. They tend to be places like community centers or like VFW halls or like lodges, local unionized groups who rent their spaces out, and it's really affordable and you can easily customize them, because they're kind of just blank spaces. So yeah, that's a resource that we're currently working on now, hoping to launch soon.” Things to keep in mind when touring an out-of-the-box venue: Make sure there are power outlets for lighting and DJ, easily-accessible bathrooms, and see if they have basic rentals such as tables, linens and chairs, or if those will need to be sourced. “Basically every single line item detail that you would need to put together a wedding reception. It's a good idea to ask - just line by line, all those details. I actually have a great downloadable, printable form on The Budget Savvy Bride, with some great questions to keep in mind and ask when you visit a venue.” Other Secrets to Savings: Choosing a less popular day of the week or time of the year can save you a lot of money. “I'm dying to be invited to a brunch wedding, because I love brunch. Yeah, so Sundays, Fridays — I'm hearing that people are doing mid-week weddings. I haven't been invited to one personally, but obviously it'll depend a lot on your guest list and who you think might be able to attend an event that's not on a weekend. But you can save significantly by choosing a date other than Saturday. And also, knowing what kind of peak seasons are in your area. It obviously depends on the area of the country that you're in. But generally spring and fall are the busy wedding seasons. So going for like winter. And then if you're in a really, really hot area — sometimes even going in like the dead of summer can save you potentially.” “Another thing I really encourage all couples who are like looking to save as much as possible, is to keep an eye out for venues that will allow you to bring in your own alcohol. It can be a huge saver, just because you have so much more control over the cost per bottle of liquor or wine - so that can save you significantly, honestly. Because the markup tends to be so high with caterers — so that's a big one.”   LINKS: The Budget Savvy Bride Website:https://thebudgetsavvybride.com The Budget Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer: http://bit.ly/2OrRD1d Cost Of Wedding Resource Site: https://www.costofwedding.com/ Peerspace: https://peerspace.com Savvy Wedding Guide: https://thebudgetsavvybride.com/directory Printable Venue Form from The Budget Savvy Bride: https://assets.thebudgetsavvybride.com/wp-content/uploads/Downloads/Ultimate%20Savvy%20Wedding%20Venue%20Guide.pdf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/budgetsavvybride/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/budgetsavvybride Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/savvybride/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/savvybride   Inclusively Yours is a production of Love Inc., a leading equality-minded wedding publication. You can listen to us wherever podcasts are found, and while you're there leave us a review. To advertise on our podcast, email us at advertising@loveincmag.com. And you can find and follow us @loveincmag across all social media platforms.   

Brian Sanders is the filmmaker behind the documentary, Food Lies, and the host of the Peak Human Podcast. Brian’s background is in mechanical engineering and technology, and he’s driven to help others reverse chronic disease using ancestral health and wellness principles. Brian has recently partnered with a physician as a health coach and is building technology to help people communicate with their doctors, track their health, and implement a healthy diet.  In this podcast, Brian and I talk about his film, which touts the benefits of a nutrient-dense whole food diet and debunks myths about eating meat and saturated fat. We discuss the many aspects of his ancestral-health outreach, including his Nose to Tail farm that ships 100% grass-fed meat and the SAPIEN diet plan he makes freely available to everyone. Here’s the outline of this interview with Brian Sanders: [00:00:19] Documentary: Food Lies (still being crowdfunded). [00:00:28] Brian's background; family health problems. [00:02:17] Mark Sisson. [00:03:21] Documentary: What the Health. [00:03:55] Food in Hawaii. [00:05:48] Weston A Price. [00:11:03] Veganism in LA. [00:12:48] Vinnie Tortorich; FAT: A Documentary. [00:15:26] Carnivore vs vegan as a business model. [00:16:45] SAPIEN Diet. [00:20:38] Denise Minger; Kitavans, Tsimane in Bolivia. [00:24:30] Calories do matter. [00:26:35] Ted Naiman. [00:26:59] Amber O'Hearn; Podcast: A Carnivore Diet for Physical and Mental Health. [00:27:09] Bioavailability of zinc from oysters when eating corn tortillas and beans: Solomons, Noel W., et al. "Studies on the bioavailability of zinc in man. II. Absorption of zinc from organic and inorganic sources." Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine (1979). [00:31:35] Paul Saladino. [00:32:15] Book: The Good Gut: Taking Control of your Weight, Your mood, and Your Long-Term Health, by Justin Sonnenburg. [00:32:49] Gary Taubes. [00:33:07] Bill Lagakos on animal fibre.  Podcast with Bill: Why You Should Eat Breakfast (and Other Secrets of Circadian Biology). [00:34:59] Top priority: Get yourself fat adapted. [00:36:54] Mike T Nelson; Podcasts: 1. High Ketones and Carbs at the Same Time? Great Performance Tip or Horrible Idea…, 2. The Importance of Strength Training for Endurance Athletes, 3. How to Assess an Athlete: The Best Principles, Methods, and Devices to Use. [00:41:00] Dr. Gary Shlifer.  [00:41:25] Virta Health. [00:42:48] Nose to Tail; US Wellness Meats. [00:44:48] Dr. Frank Mitloehner. [00:45:29] Diana Rodgers, RD, Sacred Cow film; Podcast with Diana Rodgers: Kale vs Cow: The Case for Better Meat. [00:45:45] Savory Institute; Robb Wolf on sustainable meat farming. [00:45:55] Book: War on Carbs, by Mark Bell. [00:48:45] Peak Human Podcast guests: Prof. Tim Noakes, Jeff Volek, Mark Sisson, Paul Saladino. USDA scientist Dr. David Klurfeld.

Garth Stein joins me to talk about his wildly successful bestselling book, The Art of Racing in the Rain – and how it’s now a major motion picture (premiers August 9th). You’ll love Garth’s stories, and the behind-the-scene look at why the book has become so popular, as well as how he was able to describe so accurately what racing is really like (hint: Garth raced Spec Miata). In addition to The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth has authored three other novels—A Sudden Light, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, and Raven Stole the Moon—as well as a full-length play, Brother Jones, which had its premiere in Los Angeles and was described as “brimming with intensity” by The Los Angeles Weekly. In case you missed it (where have you been?!), The Art of Racing in the Rain is the story of a beloved philosopher dog named Enzo who teaches us everything we need to know about being human. A major motion picture starring Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia, and Amanda Seyfried was filmed during real IMSA race events at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, as well as Pacific Raceway in Seattle (where the story began). The Art of Racing in the Rain book has sold more than 6 million copies world-wide, been translated into 36 languages, and spent more than three years on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel inspired a Young Reader edition as well as four children’s picture books, and a stage adaptation by Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle. Garth’s Speed Secret: visualize where you want to be.  Garth’s website: http://www.garthstein.comTwitter: @garthstein Instagram: @garthstein Facebook: www.facebook.com/garthsteinauthor

Back on the show today is Greg Potter, PhD, Content Director at humanOS.me. Last time Greg was here we discussed entraining circadian rhythm to attain perfect sleep. Today we’re examining circadian biology from a different angle, focusing specifically on chronotypes. Are we biologically wired to be morning larks or night owls? Or do these tendencies stem from social conditioning and modern influences? On this podcast, Dr. Tommy Wood talks with Greg about the biological underpinnings that may have resulted in distinct chronotypes. They discuss the environmental factors that contribute to early or late tendencies and the impact of having a “late” chronotype on health outcomes. Greg also shares his best practical strategies to optimize the circadian system for the purposes of health, sleep, and productivity. Here’s the outline of this interview with Greg Potter: [00:00:00] Try a humanOS Pro Membership for $1 for the first month (use code: NBT). [00:00:10] Greg’s previous podcast: How to Entrain Your Circadian Rhythm for Perfect Sleep and Metabolic Health. [00:02:04] Satchin Panda podcast: How to Use Time-Restricted Eating to Reverse Disease and Optimize Health. [00:02:12] Bill Lagakos podcast: Why You Should Eat Breakfast (and Other Secrets of Circadian Biology). [00:02:44] Chronotypes. [00:03:33] Michael O'Shea, author of Aspects of Mental Economy (1900). [00:04:03] Colin Pittendrigh and Serge Daan. [00:04:40] Horne and Östberg study: Horne, Jim A., and Olov Östberg. "A self-assessment questionnaire to determine morningness-eveningness in human circadian rhythms." International journal of chronobiology(1976). [00:04:45] Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ). [00:05:45] Composite Scale of Morningness; Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ). [00:07:19] Objective measures of biological timing: actimetry; Actiwatch; melatonin rhythm, core body temperature, cortisol. [00:09:20] The circadian system explained. [00:12:19] Time cues (zeitgebers). [00:11:39] Entrainment. [00:15:12] Phase angle of entrainment; Jeanne Duffy, PhD. [00:17:36] Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells; David Berson, PhD; Samer Hattar. [00:18:49] Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN); Studies: Moore, Robert Y., and Victor B. Eichler. "Loss of a circadian adrenal corticosterone rhythm following suprachiasmatic lesions in the rat." Brain research(1972); and Abe, K., et al. "Effects of destruction of the suprachiasmatic nuclei on the circadian rhythms in plasma corticosterone, body temperature, feeding and plasma thyrotropin." Neuroendocrinology 29.2 (1979): 119-131. [00:19:36] Phase Response Curve. [00:22:03] Sleep homeostasis: the pressure to sleep that accumulates with more time awake. [00:24:26] David Samson, PhD; Sentinel hypothesis, study: Samson, David R., et al. "Chronotype variation drives night-time sentinel-like behaviour in hunter–gatherers." Proc. R. Soc. B 284.1858 (2017): 20170967. [00:28:35] Kenneth Wright, Jr.; Study: Wright Jr, Kenneth P., et al. "Entrainment of the human circadian clock to the natural light-dark cycle." Current Biology 23.16 (2013): 1554-1558; Follow up study: Stothard, Ellen R., et al. "Circadian entrainment to the natural light-dark cycle across seasons and the weekend." Current Biology 27.4 (2017): 508-513. [00:32:49] Weaker time cues: 88% of time indoors, light pollution. [00:35:56] Twin studies on diurnal type: Vink, Jacqueline M., et al. "Genetic analysis of morningness and eveningness." Chronobiology international 18.5 (2001): 809-822. [00:36:24] Familial advanced sleep phase syndrome; Study: Toh, Kong L., et al. "An hPer2 phosphorylation site mutation in familial advanced sleep phase syndrome." Science 291.5506 (2001): 1040-1043. [00:37:48] Delayed sleep phase disorder; study: Patke, Alina, et al. "Mutation of the human circadian clock gene CRY1 in familial delayed sleep phase disorder." Cell 169.2 (2017): 203-215. [00:38:17] Gene variants involved in the sleep timing; Studies: Hu, Youna, et al. "GWAS of 89,283 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with self-reporting of being a morning person." Nature communications 7 (2016): 10448; and Jones, Samuel E., et al. "Genome-wide association analyses in> 119,000 individuals identifies thirteen morningness and two sleep duration loci." Biorxiv (2016): 031369. [00:41:33] Economic benefit of later school start times: Hafner, Marco, Martin Stepanek, and Wendy M. Troxel. "Later school start times in the US." An economic analysis (2017). [00:46:03] Health effects of late chronotype. [00:47:23] Study: Knutson, Kristen L., and Malcolm von Schantz. "Associations between chronotype, morbidity and mortality in the UK Biobank cohort." Chronobiology international (2018): 1-9. [00:48:35] Chronotype and cognitive performance; Study: Kyle, Simon D., et al. "Sleep and cognitive performance: cross-sectional associations in the UK Biobank." Sleep medicine 38 (2017): 85-91; and van der Vinne, Vincent, et al. "Timing of examinations affects school performance differently in early and late chronotypes." Journal of biological rhythms 30.1 (2015): 53-60. [00:50:10] Social jetlag; Study: Wittmann, Marc, et al. "Social jetlag: misalignment of biological and social time." Chronobiology international 23.1-2 (2006): 497-509. [00:51:10] Social jet lag and poor health; Study: Roenneberg, Till, et al. "Social jetlag and obesity." Current Biology 22.10 (2012): 939-943. [00:53:01] Calculating social jetlag; Article: Jankowski, Konrad S. "Social jet lag: Sleep-corrected formula." Chronobiology international 34.4 (2017): 531-535. [00:55:23] The effect of seasonality on circadian rhythm. [00:57:40] Seasonal changes in gene expression; Study: Dopico, Xaquin Castro, et al. "Widespread seasonal gene expression reveals annual differences in human immunity and physiology." Nature communications 6 (2015): 7000. [00:58:54] Latitudinal differences in chronotype; Study: Putilov, Arcady A., et al. "Genetic-based signatures of the latitudinal differences in chronotype." Biological Rhythm Research (2018): 1-17. [00:59:22] Effect of latitude on delayed sleep phase syndrome: Pereira, Danyella S., et al. "Association of the length polymorphism in the human Per3 gene with the delayed sleep-phase syndrome: does latitude have an influence upon it?." Sleep 28.1 (2005): 29-32. [01:01:46] Book: The Power of When By Michael Breus, PhD. [01:02:31] Molding the environment to support health outcomes. [01:04:26] The most important ways to optimize the functions of the circadian system. [01:05:06] James Hewitt podcast: How to Sustain High Cognitive Performance. [01:07:12] Blog post: Writing a To-Do List Might Help You Fall Asleep Faster. [01:08:55] Digital sunset: f.lux, Twilight (Android). Night Shift (iOS). [01:11:21] Body Scan meditation: Mark Williams or Sharon Salzberg. [01:14:12] Video: AHS18 - The Athlete's Gut: Pitfalls of Fuelling Modern Performance. [01:14:25] Effects of irregular meal pattern; Study: Alhussain, Maha H., Ian A. Macdonald, and Moira A. Taylor. "Irregular meal-pattern effects on energy expenditure, metabolism, and appetite regulation: a randomized controlled trial in healthy normal-weight women, 2." The American journal of clinical nutrition 104.1 (2016): 21-32.

Laurel and I talk about visionary, dedicated teacher, living more creatively with purpose, meditation, whole minded living, nighttime dreams interpretation, visualization, intuitive development, School of Metaphysics, it’s a lifelong journey to trust intuitiveness, pay attention!, distinguish between intuition and imagination (ego brain thought), science behind it, awareness - where do our thoughts come from?, reoccurring dreams and self-conscious mind, a 17 year old dream regarding 9/11, letting down your guard, connection of people, college nightmares, dream journal, "Law of Attraction and Other Secrets", dreaming in b&w v color, stages of sleep, add, lesson of the bells and universal laws.

Welcome to Evolution Revolution Radio with Dulcinea that launched officially on October 25th, 2007 with Sedona Talk Radio, and from Episode 22 to Current, Dulcinea Independently Produces, Hosts and Creates Evolution Revolution Radio. There are over a hundred Episodes recorded with Authors, Leaders, Teachers and more. New recordings are in the works- SUPER Exciting! Evolution Revolution Mission Statement: Evolution Revolution is focused on offering listeners intuitive and balanced information that fosters transformation, both personally and globally, ultimately raising the consciousness on planet earth. In this Episode recorded LIVE on Thursday, May 22, 2008, Author & Professor, Dr. Laurel Clark explores her book release, "The Law of Attraction and Other Secrets of Visualization." www.som.org ~*Please join us each week for inspirational conversations with authors and leaders.~* Be well, Dulcinea Dulcinea Contreras, MA, AMFT, APCC www.DulcineaContreras.com www.HelloDulcinea.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dulcinea-contreras/support

This week we're learning about botany and the colorful science of gardening. Author Ruth Kassinger joins us to discuss her book "A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work." And we'll speak to NASA researcher Gioia Massa about her work to solve the technical challenges of gardening in space. 

Garth Stein is an author whose book The Art of Racing in the Rain is the most recommended by automotive enthusiasts here on Cars Yeah. The Art of Racing in the Rain has sold more than 4 million copies in 35 languages and was on the New York Times bestseller list for three years. That book inspired a Young Reader edition as well as a children’s picture book adaptation and a stage adaptation. Garth has also written a series of children’s books about a dog named Enzo. His latest novel is A Sudden Light and previous acclaimed novels include: Raven Stole the Moon and How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets. Garth is the author of a full-length play, Brother Jones, and before turning to writing full-time Garth was a documentary filmmaker.

Full Notes https://www.salestuners.com/zuzic/ Takeaways Understand DISC Profiles: Understanding how a person thinks, and then communicating with them how they want to be communicated with, is key. One method to help identify how to most efficiently communicate with others is to learn about the personality traits that drive them using a tool like the (DISC) Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness Personality Test. Keep Your Energy Level Up: You have the answer to the tough questions, so sell with that in mind. Think outside the box. Ask the tough questions and run through walls in the process because you are confident in the answers you have to provide. Most importantly, do all of it with your head held high. The ability to stay positive amid the challenges you face will define who you become as a salesperson. Don’t be Single Threaded: In a hunt for whales, the bigger picture is essential in the road map to sales success. There is no single thread in larger organizations, where multiple decision makers are involved in sales decisions. Remembering to leave an impact on all the key players will help set you apart from the crowd. Book Recommendations Never Eat Alone: And the Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon Sponsor Octiv – Transform the way your sales assets are created, distributed and tracked around the world. Because a better sales process is a better buying experience. Subscribe to SalesTuners

Dr. Ray Lauk is the owner and founder of Dr. Ray’s Toffee in LaGrange, IL. He is also the Business Manager of the Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89 and performs storytelling and stand-up comedy in Chicago and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Ray holds three UIUC degrees—a Ph.D. in Educational Administration, an MBA, and a Master’s in Elementary Education. He is an adjunct professor of educational finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Concordia University, and the College of New Jersey’s international master’s program in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Ray has completed six Chicago Marathons and is registered for the 2017 marathon. The Story Behind Dr. Ray’s ToffeeFrom the beginning, there was toffee! [3:06] Here’s what Dr. Ray enjoys most about the production side of making toffee. [5:12] Naming the company. [14:02] Logo creation and Dr. Ray’s unique font style. [15:08] The growth strategy. [30:39] Candle Flickering MomentsDr. Ray’s experience with Facebook ads. [9:36] There’s a big difference between making a single batch and producing toffee in large quantities. Hint: It has to do with the stirring. Hear how Dr. Ray overcame the problem. [18:36] Business Building InsightsThe details and added bonus of working from a commercial kitchen. [12:05] Two strategies that consistently bring in business. [23:00] Another way to think about live events like trade shows and craft fairs. [25:01] The power of a story. [27:03] Success TraitDr. Ray learned this in the early years when teaching a difficult student. Never give up! [34:58] Productivity/Lifestyle Tool Fast Company Magazine (http://amzn.to/2gsKT2f) INC Magazine  (http://amzn.to/2gsAcgq) Recommended Reading and Listening (http://www.giftbizbook.com) Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets to Success One Relationship at a Time (http://amzn.to/2fwlsZ8) by Keith Ferrazzi Contact Links Website (http://www.drraystoffee.com) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/drraystoffee/) LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/raylauk) If you found value in this podcast, make sure to subscribe and leave a review in (http://www.giftbizunwrapped.com/GooglePodcasts) . That helps us spread the word to more makers just like you. Thanks! Sue

 Overview of Episode #13: In this episode you'll hear real life examples from real people about their best and worse bosses, what they did that worked or didn't work and the impact it had on them and the business. I share Important research about what you specifically need to do as a leader to improve revenue, increase customer service, drive productivity and reduce turnover. Learn about four important leadership skills you can master to become a best boss! Important research that tells you EXACTLY what you need to do as a leader to improve revenue, increase customer service, drive productivity and reduce turnover. Real life examples from three different people about their best and worse bosses. Four important best boss skills Contact Suzie Schedule a Complimentary Consulting Call or Send Me Feedback FREE OFFER, Get This eCourse:  Managing My Team - Building My Leadership Skills Six Week, Self-Paced eCourse Three simple steps to get this class for free: 1) Subscribe to this show via iTunes (for iPhone and iPad users) or via Stitcher and, 2) Leave a Review.  3) Send me an email suzie@pricelessprofessional.com letting me know that you subscribed and left a review, and I will send you materials for: Managing My Team - Building My Leadership Skills Six Week, Self-Paced eCourse Full shownotes online: www.pricelessprofessional.com/fourskills Timing on Recording: @ 5:03 --- Topic #1:  Who Were Your Best and Worse Bosses? Beth Zullo describes her best boss Kelly Vandever, Speaking Practically, describes her worse boss It's Sunday night and you are getting ready for work.  How did you feel when you were going to work for your best boss?  What about for your worse boss? Favorite quote, "I may forget what you said and did, but I will NEVER forget how you made me feel." Best Boss Descriptor themes that I've heard over the years, from all types of audiences: that he or she was a good listener; they were fair; they're very knowledgeable;  knew their job so you respected them; could be tough, but also kind, and supportive; he was  direct and a good communicator.  Worse Boss Descriptor themes that I've heard over the years, from all types of audiences:  he or she never listened; they were unfair; played favorites; she was arbitrary in her decisions so I never knew which way they were going to go; dictator; too easy/pushover;  cruel, mean jokes; inconsistent; weak, and not honest.  Impact of a bad boss on morale and performance.  Kelly Vandever's experience.  "We wanted to be heard... innovation comes from people being willing to step up..."   Timing on Recording: @  21:25 --- Topic # 2: Gallup's Research: EXACTLY What You Need to Do Recap of Gallup's Study: First Break All the Rules: What Great Managers Do Differently Effective leaders per 25 person team:  increased profitability through higher monthly revenues (a minimum of $80,000 month) increased customer loyalty, lower turnover and a big increase in productivity. Gallup determined that high performance teams and the strength of the workplace can be assessed with these twelve questions that are broken down into four main categories that represent the employees mindset. WHAT DO I GET? 1.    Do I know what is expected of me from work? 2.    Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right?WHAT DO I GIVE? 3.    At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day? 4.    In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work? 5.    Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about me as a person? 6.    Is there someone at work who encourages my development?DO I BELONG HERE? 7.    At work, do my opinions seem to count? 8.    Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel important? 9.    Are my co-workers committed to doing quality work? 10.    Do I have a best friend at work?HOW CAN WE ALL GROW? 11.    In the last six months, has someone at work talked to me about my progress? 12.    This last year, have I had opportunities at work to learn and grow? Timing on Recording: @  28:14 --- Topic #3: Four Skills Best Bosses Have Mastered These four skills: Easy to understand and discuss. Just make sense. Practical and point things you can begin doing more of, right away.  Foundational skills that can be used in every conversation and interaction. Universal, base line skills for ALL levels of leadership    The acronym to remember the four skills: C.A.L.L. C- Cultivate a positive sense of self in others. A -Address problems quickly by focusing on behaviors and facts. L. Lead by inviting input and participation. L. Listen aggressively. These skills will help you:  Help people rise to their potential and a higher level of performance Act quickly and be direct and specific when there are problems Get to get into the habit of getting people involved  n decisions so that they are more committed to the decisions that are made and help you make better decisions Become one of those very rare leaders who listens to, really listens, to people.  (When you master Listening Aggressively skill people will talk about you with wonder and awe, they will follow you and stay with you!) Timing on Recording: @ 30:15 --- Topic #4: Cultivate a Positive Sense of Self in Others Cultivate a Positive Sense of Self in Others - This is the ability to sustain or build self confidence in others.  Kelly shares about her best boss, and how she did this skill really well. Definition of Sense of Self:  This is a measure of a person's awareness of who they are;  it is a person's ability to discern their own self-worth. People ARE responsible for their own sense of self, (background, choices, and more) but you can, as someone's leader, positively influence how well they see or believe in their ability to potentially do something, by your expression, of their value. What Beth Zullo's best boss did – when she started new on the job. I'm always thinking, in every conversation, with every personfrom my neighbors to my clients: - Can I cultivate a positive sense of self in this conversation? - Can I make things better by my contribution? - Can I see something good in this person and express it either by my actions or by just listening well or by reminding them of something that they've done well? - Is what I am about to share – going tohelp this person, hurt this person or am I just saying something to make me look good.  (From another favorite book: Unleashed! Expecting Greatness and Other Secrets of Coaching for Exceptional Performance ) As a leader – if you can think about yourself as a person who is an advocate for each person's potential and NOT primarily a judge or critic around what is not working, according to Gallup's research, you will create a stronger team. 3:1 ratio - three to one, three positives, for every one course correction We're talking about seeing someone's potential – and projecting that good to that person through your actions and words.  GREAT leaders – positively influence others.You have to decide that that means something, and that you want to be that kind of leader.  Ask yourself: have I left this person, after my interaction with them, in a stronger frame of mind? Have I strengthened them in some way by expressing my belief in them? Phil Davis shares about finding your "True North"  and reminds us that leadership is a sacred duty.   Timing on Recording:  @ 49:43 --- Topic #5: Address Problems Quickly.  Focus on Behaviors and Facts This is the ability to quickly, specifically and factually discuss problems and employee performance. Behaviors: Facts Specific Objective Rational  Creates More Openness to Discussion... and you'll make more progress What you see someone do, things you see and hear Attitude: Opinion General Subjective Emotional   Will Create Defensiveness... will create more arguments. What you think someone is feeling or thinking My own Best Boss story with Tony My materials and training via online classes http://pricelessprofessional.com/leadershiponline Timing on Recording: @ 55:54  --- Topic #6:  Lead By Inviting Participation and Input  This is the ability to improve connection, personal rapport and commitment by inviting participation and exchange of information and opinions. Gallup survey number 7 out of the 12, in the section where employees are thinking – Do I belong here?  And the first statement is: Do my opinions count? Beth Zullo, how her best boss did this… Power formula: ED = RD X CD.  (Effective decisions equal the (right decisions) multiplied by (commitment to the decisions)    Your employees want and need to be heard… A very wise leader that I respect greatly and who is one of my best leaders always said, "I may not obey but I can definitely listen." www.pricelessprofessional.com/audible  -   Free Audio Download, with a 30 day trial using my link: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High  It's a mature thing to do as a leader, not to shut people down, or not to do the other thing, which is just to have everybody vote. If you do either one of those things too often, it will shut people down and you won't get the level of commitment that you want.  Actions You Can Take: - Sharing information with team members. - Giving team members recognition for their contributions. - Delegating a task to a team member. - Involving team members in decision making. - Asking team members for their ideas about a problem. - Asking team members for their help Timing on Recording: @ 1:10:13  --- Topic #7: Listen Aggressively Listening aggressively is to hear with determination and energetic pursuit, demonstrating a desire to understand. Here's Beth's best bosses ability to listen well… Being present with someone is a gift.  There's a great quote that I love here. It says, "The greatest compliment that was ever paid to me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer”  Thoreau A book recommendation: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.  One of the seven habits:  Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood. So powerful. You want to understand where people are coming from, even if you disagree with what they are saying. Free audio download with a 30 day trial using my link: pricelessprofessional.com/audible   Listening aggressively means that you are focused on hearing in a determined and energetic way.  When you are doing it well, you demonstrate your desire to understand by asking questions and listening with NO agenda other than to understand. Beth shared about her boss and how he made people feel, “It made a person feel good – wow, he heard me.” There are so many people who are not good at listening aggressively. It's, basically, listening to others without interrupting. It's listening and expressing support. It's asking questions to get more information. It's having an open mind, even when you disagree with what they're saying. Even if the other person is being defensive, you stay focused on listening so that you truly understand.  It's a key skill as a parent, coach, friend, family member AND in arbitration and closing any kind of conflict. The tool I use to help myself listen aggressively, and that I teach in workshops is: RPSA.  This stands for powerful steps in listening:  reflect, probe, support, advise.  My Article: The Forgotten Charismatic Leadership Skill: It Might Surprise You...  We all have some negative listening habits.  My Article: Improving Listening Skills  - Do You Have Any of These Negative Listening Habits   Timing on Recording: @ 1:10:13  --- Topic #8: Thank You and Free Offer THANK YOU: Beth Zullo. I wish you well as you move from her role at GGC and goes back into teaching, where she'll be helping middle schoolers. If you need help with a presentation, and or giving your people to permission to speak contact: Kelly Vandever – Speaking Practically. Her website: www.speakingpractically.com If you need help to Outsource HR functions, or need consulting on compensation, strategy or business alignment, contact: Phil Davis – Flex HR.  His website: www.flexhr.com FREE OFFER, Get This eCourse:  Managing My Team - Building My Leadership Skills Six Week, Self-Paced eCourse Three simple steps to get this class for free: 1) Subscribe to this show via iTunes (for iPhone and iPad users) or via Stitcher and, 2) Leave a Review.  3) Send me an email suzie@pricelessprofessional.com letting me know that you subscribed and left a review, and I will send you materials for: Managing My Team - Building My Leadership Skills Six Week, Self-Paced eCourse     Subscribe via iTunes or Leave a Review Related Podcasts:  How to Train and Retain the Millennial / Generation Y Employee M.O.R.E. 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This week we're learning about botany and the colorful science of gardening. Author Ruth Kassinger joins us to discuss her book "A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work." And we'll speak to NASA researcher Gioia Massa about her work to solve the technical challenges of gardening in space. 

Kim is the award-winning Speaker, Author, Strategist and CEO of IO Creative Group, a results-driven marketing and PR agency. She is a techie marketing geek with great shoes, a hatred for awareness campaigns and an obsession with marketing that has a sharp focus on ROI. She is the Author of Awareness Campaigns are Stupid and Other Secrets to Stop Being an Advertising Victim and Start Monetizing Your Marketing.Kim is the award-winning Speaker, Author, Strategist and CEO of IO Creative Group, a results-driven marketing and PR agency. She is a techie marketing geek with great shoes, a hatred for awareness campaigns and an obsession with marketing that has a sharp focus on ROI. She is the Author of Awareness Campaigns are Stupid and Other Secrets to Stop Being an Advertising Victim and Start Monetizing Your Marketing.

Healing for a Higher Purpose with Dr. Laurel Clark Dr. Laurel Clark is the national President of the School of Metaphysics, a not-for-profit educational and service organization headquartered in Windyville, MO.  She has been teaching courses in Applied Metaphysics for 28 years.  She has directed and supervised School of Metaphysics centers in Michigan, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, and Kentucky.  Dr. Clark is a dynamic public speaker who has given lectures, workshops, and seminars to colleges and universities, professional and business groups, corporations, hospitals, hospices, and civic and social organizations since 1979.  She is a certified psi counselor, an ordained minister in the Interfaith Church of Metaphysics, and devotes her life to humanitarian service.  Dr. Clark is the author of the books The Law of Attraction and Other Secrets of Visualization, Dharma:  Finding Your Soul's Purpose, Karmic Healing, Vital Ingredient:  Healing for a Higher Purpose, Concentration, and  Shaping Your Life: The Power of Creative Imagery.  She is co-author and editor of Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery and a contributor to the books Uncommon Knowledge, How to Raise an Indigo Child, Total Recall and Power of Structure. To find out more about Laurel and the School of Metaphysics visit http://www.som.org/

Amy recently heard a discussion about younger women who might be considering not having kids at all rather than dealing with the work-family conflicts we all face.  Sheryl and Amy tell those younger women what they would like them to know:  motherhood does rock your world, but we can't imagine our lives without it.Then writer Paula Spencer adds her perspective in Mojo Mom's guest segment.  Paula has a wide variety of experiences, as the mother of four, the author of the book Momfidence:  An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a founding senior editor of the caregiving resource website, Caring.comYou can learn more about all of Paula's work at her website www.PaulaSpencer.com