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It's time to break your brain and build a new one.In this episode of The Positive Mindset Podcast, we dive into the unapologetic truth: your current mindset can't take you where you want to go. If you want wealth, freedom, and alignment — you need to think, feel, and vibrate like the version of you who already has it.We're not just talking motivation. This is a blueprint for identity shift.You'll learn:Why “thinking realistically” is keeping you brokeHow to eliminate low-frequency thoughts disguised as logicWhat it really means to activate the Millionaire FrequencyWhy your circle must match your vision — or they're outAnd how to reprogram your mind to expect abundance by defaultThis one's not for the faint of heart. It's for the version of you that's done playing small.Take a deep breath. It's time to tap in.- Henry----Social Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Say hi on TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Say Hi on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠----Email Me⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠henry@vibeabundant.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠----⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email List⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The American economy is growing, and, in many ways, it's looking a lot like the 1990s. Upward trends in productivity growth and employment paired with downward trends in inflation are cause for optimism. The question is whether we will maintain this trajectory or be derailed by this emerging era of uncertainty.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Skanda Amarnath about trade policy, fiscal and monetary policy, AI advancement, demographic trends, and how all of this bodes for the US economy.Amarnath is the Executive Director of Employ America, a macroeconomic policy research and advocacy organization. He was previously vice president at MKP Capital Management, as well as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.In This Episode* The boomy '90s (1:24)* Drivers of growth (7:24)* The boomy '20s? (11:38)* Full employment and the Fed (22:03)* Demographics in the data (25:37)* Policies for productivity (27:55)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. The boomy '90s (1:24)The '90s stand out as a high productivity growth, low inflation, high employment economy, especially if we look at the years 1996 to the year 2000.Pethokoukis: What got me really excited about all the great work that Employ America puts out was one particular report that I think came out late last year called “The Dream of the 90's is Alive in 2024,” and hopefully it's still alive in 2025. By '90s of course you mean the 1990s.Let me start off by asking you: What was so awesome about the 1990s that it is worth writing about a dream of its return?Amarnath: The 1990s — if you're a macroeconomist, at least — had pitch-perfect conditions. Employment was reasonably high, we achieved the highest levels of prime-age employment relative to the population. We had low and declining inflation, and that variable that we use to say, this is the driver of welfare over time, productivity outcomes, the amount of output we can spin up from finite inputs, was also growing at a very strong rate, and one that we haven't really seen replicated since or really in the decades before.The '90s stand out as a high productivity growth, low inflation, high employment economy, especially if we look at the years 1996 to the year 2000. We'd had high productivity maybe even afterwards . . . but that was also a period where a lot of that productivity was gained from the recession. When employment falls really quickly, productivity can go up for illusory reasons, but it's really that '90s sweet spot where everything was kind of moving in the right direction.Obviously, over the last several years, we've seen a lot of those different challenges flare up, whether it was employment during Covid, but then also inflation over the last few years. So . . . a model to build towards, in some ways.Some of us — not me, and I don't think you — remember the very boomy immediate post-war decades. Probably many more of us remember the go-go 1990s. One thing I always find interesting is how gloomy people were in those years right before the takeoff, which is a wonderful contrarian indicator that we had this period [when] we appeared to have won the Cold War but we had a nasty recession early in the decade, kind of a choppy recovery, and there was plenty of gloom that the days of fast growth were over. And just as we sort of reached the nadir in our attitudes, boy, things took off. So maybe that's a good omen for right nowIf we're a contrarian, and if the past can be present, maybe that is a positive indicator to consider. In some ways, it's a bit surprising how much you hear the talk about growth [being] stuck in a very low-growth environment. Over the last two years, we have seen above-trend real GDP growth, above-trend productivity growth. We're going to get some productivity data revisions tomorrow. Again, this measure of productivity is output per hour, so it's basically, to a first approximation, real GDP divided by hours worked. We've seen that the labor market has, largely speaking, held itself up over the last few years, and yet, at the same time, real output has accelerated.So that's at least something that suggests better things are possible. It's a sign that productivity can accelerate, and with the benefit of revisions tomorrow, we are likely to see at least . . . I'd say if you take a fair reading of the pre-pandemic trend on productivity growth, so five to 15 years, maybe you want to include the financial crisis and what happened before, maybe you don't, but you end up with something like 1.4 percent is what we were seeing. 1.4, maybe 1.45, that's a pretty generous view of pre-pandemic productivity growth.I would like to do better than that going forward.I would too. And since 2019 Q4, with the benefit of data revisions, until now, we're likely to see something like 1.9 percent — 50 basis points higher, 0.5 percent higher, we could ideally like to do even better than that. But it's 0.5 percent better over a five-year horizon in which whatever labor market weirdness spanned Covid, we've largely recovered from that. Obviously, there are a lot of different things that have changed between now and five years ago, but at least the data distortion issues should hopefully have been filtered out at this point. And yet, we probably are posting much better real output outcomes.So through a lot of this turbulence, through a lot of the dynamism that's kind of transpired over the last few years, especially in terms of business formation activity, there was a high labor turnover environment in '21 and '22. That churn has come down in more recent quarters, but we have seen better productivity outcomes.Now, can they sustain? There's a lot of things that probably go into that. There are some new potential risks and shocks on the horizon, but at least it tells you better things are possible in a way that if — I'm sure you've had these discussions throughout the previous decade, in the 2010s, when people made a lot of claims about why productivity growth was destined to be stuck, that we were either not innovating enough, or we were not able to capture that into GDP, or else there are just some secular reasons, and so I think it's an instructive moment. If people are actually looking at the data, the last two years, real output and productivity growth has been very impressive, objectively. And it's not just about, “Hey, we're reverting to the pre-pandemic trend and nothing more.” I think there are signs that this is something at least a little different from what an honest forecast pre-pandemic would've suggested.Drivers of growth (7:24)The three-legged stool is one where you want have a labor market that's strong, fixed investment that's growing (ideally faster than usual), and on the third leg it's the set of things that you can do to control really salient costs that everyone's paying.Let's talk about those signs, but first let's take a quick step back. When you look at what drove growth, and productivity growth, specifically, in the '90s, give me the factors that drove growth and then why those factors give us lessons for policymaking today.I think there are three drivers I can point to that are a little bit independent of each other.One is we had — I don't want to say a tight labor market, but especially a fully employed labor market is helpful in so far as, and we see this now over multiple episodes, especially when you're at high levels of prime-age employment, that's typically a point when there's a lot of human capital that's accumulated. People who have been employed for a while, they've been trained up, there's a little more returns to scale, they can scale revenue, they can scale output better. You don't need to add an additional worker to add additional unit of GDP.In the more tangible sense, it's that people are trained up, they have more tangible experience, productive experience. You're able to see output gains without necessarily having to add hours worked. We generally saw over the late ‘90s: Hours worked slowed down, but real GDP growth held up very well.The labor market wasn't contracting by any stretch, it was just, largely speaking, finding an equilibrium in which employment levels were high, job growth was solid if not always spectacular, but we were still seeing that real GDP growth could still be scaled up in a lot of ways. So there is a labor market dynamic to this.There is a fixed investment dynamic. Fixed investment growth is very strong in the late '90s. That was about information processing equipment, IT, software. We did telecommunications deregulation in 1996, which is meant to really expand and accelerate the rollout of things. That became the fiber boom. We saw a lot of construction that went into those sectors, and so we saw it really touch construction, we saw it touch equipment, and we also saw it effect intellectual property.An investment to prevent the millennium bug?There was probably a lot of overinvestment that also was born of some of that deregulation, but at least in terms of it adding to our welfare, making it easier for us to use the internet and the long-term benefits of that, a lot of that was built in the late '90s. You could probably point to some stuff in policy, obviously interacting with technology that was very favorable.The third thing I would say is also probably underrated is inflation fell over that whole period. While some of that inflation falling would've been some fortuitous dynamics, especially in the late '90s around food and energy prices falling, the Asian financial crisis, there were also things that were very important for creating space for the consumer to spend more. Things like HMOs. Healthcare inflation really fell throughout the '90s.Now, HMOs became more unpopular for a lot of reasons. These health management organizations were meant to control costs and did a pretty good job of it. This is something that Janet Yellen actually wrote about a long time ago, talking about the '90s and how the healthcare dynamic was very underrated. In the 2000s, healthcare inflation really picked up again and a lot of the cost-control measures in the private sector were less effective, but you could see evidence that that was also creating space in terms of price stability, the ability for the consumer to spend more on other types of goods and services. That also allows for both more demand to be available but also for it to be supplied.I think with all these stories there's a demand- and a supply-side aspect to them. I think you kind of need both for it to be successful. The three-legged stool is one where you want have a labor market that's strong, fixed investment that's growing (ideally faster than usual), and on the third leg it's the set of things that you can do to control really salient costs that everyone's paying. Like healthcare, obviously there's a lot of cost bloat, and thinking about ways to really curb expenditure without curbing quality or real consumption itself, but there's obviously a lot of room for reforms in that area.The boomy '20s? (11:38)Right now, you have still an increasing number of people who have had meaningful work experience over the last one, two, three, years. That human capital should accumulate and be more relevant for GDP growth going forward . . .So you've identified what, in your view, is a very successful mix of these very critical factors. So if you want to be bullish about the rest of this decade, which of those factors — maybe all of them — are at play right now? Or maybe none of them!Right now, the labor market is still holding up rather well. While we may not be seeing quite the level of labor market dynamism we saw earlier in this expansion, at the same time, that was also a period of great turbulence and high inflation. Right now, you have still an increasing number of people who have had meaningful work experience over the last one, two, three, years. That human capital should accumulate and be more relevant for GDP growth going forward, assuming we don't have a recession in the next year or two or whatever.If we do, I think it obviously would mean a lot of people are probably likely to not be as employed, and if that's the case, their marketable and productive skills may atrophy and depreciate. That's the risk there, but, all things considered, right now, non-farm payroll growth has been roughly speaking 160,000 per month. Employment rates adjusted for demographics are a little higher than they were before the pandemic. It's pretty historically high. That's not a bad outcome to start with and those initial conditions should hopefully bode well for the labor market's contribution to productivity growth.The challenge is in terms of real GDP growth. It's also a function of a lot of other factors: What are we going to see in terms of cost stability? I would generally say there's obviously a lot of turbulence right now, but what's going to happen to a lot of these key costs? On one hand, commodity prices should hopefully be stable, there's a lot of signs of, let's say, OPEC increasing production.On the other hand, we have also things about tariffs that are pretty significant threats on the table and I think you could also be equally concerned about how much this could matter. We've already had a bigger run-through of this with a lot of this supply chain turbulence, pandemic error stimulus, and how that stuff interacted. That was quite turbulent. Even if tariffs aren't quite as turbulent as that, it could still be something that detracted from productivity growth.We saw, actually, in the first two quarters of 2022 when inflation exploded, there were a compounding number of shocks on the supply side with the demand side that it did have a depressing effect on productivity in the short run. And so you can think if we see things on the cost side blow out, it will also restrict output. If you have to mark up the price of a lot of things to reflect different costs and risks, it's going to have some output-throttling effect, and a productivity-throttling effect. That's one side of things to be concerned about.And then the other side of it, in terms of fixed investment, I think there's a lot of reasons for optimism on fixed investment. If we just took the start of the year, there's clearly a lot of investment tied to the artificial intelligence boom: Data centers, all of the expenditures on software that should change, expenditures on hardware that should be upgraded, and there's a whole set of industrial infrastructure that's also tied to this where you should see capital deepening really emerge. You should see that there should be more room to scale up in capital formation relative to labor. You can probably point to some pockets of it right now, but it hadn't shown up in the GDP data yet. That was the optimistic case coming into this year and I think it's still there. The challenge is there's now other headwinds.The tariffs make me less optimistic. I really worry about the uncertainty freezing business investment and hiring, for that matter.I share your sentiment there. I think we learned in 2018 and -19, there were tariffs being implemented but on much smaller scale and scope, and even those had a pretty meaningful or identifiable impact on the manufacturing sector, leave aside even the other sectors that use manufactured inputs from imports or otherwise. So these are going to be likely headwinds if you're any kind of company that exports at any point in time to something across borders, you have to now incorporate higher costs, more uncertainty. We don't know how long this is supposed to stick. Are you supposed to assume this is going to be a transition period, as Treasury Secretary Bessent said, or is this something that is just like a little negotiation tactic, you get a win and then we move on?I don't think anyone's quite sure how this is supposed to play out and I worry both for the manufacturing sector itself because, contrary to the popular conception of it, we still export a lot of things. We still export, and the most competitive industries are exporting industries, and so that's a concern for whether you're a manufacturing construction machinery, you're Caterpillar, or if you're agricultural machinery and you're John Deere, you have to start to think about this stuff more and the risk that's attached to it. The hurdle rates to investment go up, not down.And on the other side of the ledger then we have, or at least in terms of the sectors that use manufactured inputs. Transformers are really important for building out the energy infrastructure if we're going to have load growth that's driven by AI or whatever else, we're kind of entering more uncertainty on that side as well, and not really clear what the full strategy is. It strikes me as going to be very challenging.And then on the monetary policy [side], and this is the difference, you had in the '90s a Federal Reserve which seems to have defeated the Great Inflation Monster of the 1970s while the Fed today is battling inflation.What do you make of that as far as setting the stage for a productivity boom, a Fed which is quite active and still quite concerned about that inflation surge and perhaps tariffs further playing into it going forward?I think the Fed's stuck in a hard spot here. If you think about a trade shock as likely being some mix of — well, it could be output throttling. Maybe the output throttling and the effects in the labor market are more outsized than the inflation effects? That was what we saw in 2018 and 19, but it's not a given that that's going to be the case this time. The scale of the threats are much bigger and much wider, and especially coming through a period now where there's higher inflation, maybe there's more willingness to raise prices in response to these shocks. So these things are a little different.The Fed has basically said, “We don't know exactly how this is going to play out and we're going to need to watch the data, keep an open mind, be pretty risk-averse about how we're going to adjust interest rate policy.” We've seen evidence of inflation expectations going up. That will not give the Fed a lot of confidence about cutting interest rates in the absence of other things getting worse. What the Fed's supposed to do in response to supply shock is almost a philosophical question because you obviously don't want to break things if there's really just a supply shock that is a one-off that you can see through, but if it starts to have longer term consequences, create bigger pain points in terms of inflation, it's just a tough spot.When I try to square the circle here — and this will be no surprise to the listeners — I can't help but thinking, boy, it would be really fantastic if all the most techno-optimist dreams about AI came true, and this is not just an important technology, but an unbelievably important technology that diffuses through the economy in record time. That would be a wonderful factor to add into that mix.If there are ways for that to be a bigger tailwind — and there could be, I wouldn't be too pessimistic about how that could filter through even the GDP data amidst a lot of these trade policy headwinds, we're expected to see a lot grand buildout of data centers, for example. There's an energy infrastructure layer to that.But even beyond the investment side, actually being used, improving total factor productivity. Super hard to predict, and no one wants to do a budget forecast under the assumption we're going to be doubling a productivity growth, but it would be nice to have.Sure would. I will say about one of the things on the inflation side, especially with the Fed, we've come through a period now where the Fed has kept restrictive interest rate policies, but only more recently have we seen a little bit more of that show up in financial markets, for example. So the stock market over the last two years has ran up quite a bit, historically, and only now we've seen some signs of maybe some pricing of risk and some of the issues around the Fed.Inflation data itself coming into this year, relative to the Fed's target on the Fed's gauges, it was right now about 2.6, 2.7 percent. Most of that reflects a lot of lags of the past, I would say. If you look through the details, you see a lot of it in how inflation is measured for housing rent. How inflation is measured for financial services really tracks the stock market, and then there's obviously some other idiosyncratic stuff around where they're using wages as the measure of prices in PCE, which is the Fed's inflation gauge. If you take that stuff out, we still have a little bit of inflation work to do in terms of getting inflation down, but it would sound pretty manageable. If I told you, actually, if you take away those lags, you probably get some only 2.2 percent, that seems like we're almost there.Let's take away a little more, then we get to two percent. We can just keep cutting things outAnd there would probably be conditions for a lot. But if we can give the benefit of the time and do no harm, there's probably a positive story to be told. The challenge is, we may not be doing no harm here. There may be new things that rear up, to your point. If you start just deducting stuff just because you think it lags, but you don't think about forward-looking risks, which there are, then you start to get into a more challenged view of how things improve on the inflation side.I think that's a big dilemma for the Fed, which is, they have to be forward-looking. They can't just say, well, this stuff is lagging, we can ignore it. That doesn't cash when you have forward-looking risks, but if we do see that maybe some of these trade policy risks go away, if there's a change of heart, a change of mind, I think you can possibly tell yourself a more positive story about how maybe interest rates can come down a bit more and financial conditions can be more supportive of investment over time. So I think that that is the optimistic case there.Full employment and the Fed (22:03)Taking people away from their job and then trying to just bring them back in several years later, don't expect the productivity dividends to be quite the same.For someone who cares about full employment, how would you rate the Fed's performance after the global financial crisis? Too tight?It was too tight and also it was an environment in which the Fed, at various points from 2010, maybe 2009, through to 2015, they were very eager to try and get interest rates up before the economy was giving their hard signal that it was time to raise interest rates. Inflation hadn't really reared its head, nor had we seen evidence of really strong labor markets. We were seeing a recovery that was very gentle, and slow, and maybe we were slowly getting out of it, but it was a slow grind. GDP growth was not particularly stellar over that period. That's pretty disappointing, right? We don't want do that again. Obviously, there are things like maybe fiscal policy could have been done differently, as well as monetary policy on some level, but I think the Fed was very eager to get off of zero to the point where they weren't looking at the data, just didn't like the fact they were at zero.Coming out of it, now it's like that recovery is a lot of wasted output. We lost a lot of output out of that. We lost a lot of employment out of that. It's kind of just a big economic waste. Obviously, this past recovery has been very different and Covid was a different type of shock relative to the global financial crisis.The thing that worries me is actually, when we start to look at the global financial crisis and we look at, say, even the recession from the dot com boom, or even the recession, to your point, in the early '90s, prime-age employment rates took a long time to recover and it's not ideal from a productivity perspective that you want to have people out of the labor force for long periods of time, people out of employment for an extended number of years —Also not good for social cohesion.The social fabric, yeah. There's a lot of stuff it's not great for. We don't want hysteresis of that kind. We don't want to have people who are, “Oh, because I lost my job, I'm not going to be able to get a new job in the foreseeable future.” A lot of skills, general intangible knowledge, that's kind of part of how people become more productive and how firms become more productive. You want that stuff to keep going on some level. That's also probably why even Covid was very turbulent. It's a lot of things that we kind of have in motion, we just switched it off and then switched it back on. Even that over a short horizon can be very disruptive. There was a reason, on some level, to do it, but it is also something to learn from: Taking people away from their job and then trying to just bring them back in several years later, don't expect the productivity dividends to be quite the same.So I look at those three recessions at least to say, if we're going to have slow recoveries out of those, it's going to cause problems. So it's a balance of Fed and fiscal policy, I'd say, because there are certain things — there was a 2001, -2, -3, there were attempts to lower taxes at the same time. That actually may have been the key catalyst, more so than the Fed cutting rates, but when you think about how the Fed is sometimes antsy to get off of low rates when the economy is depressed, that's not great. Right now the Fed has a very different set of trade-offs. Thankfully, on some level, for full employment especially, [we're] not in that world, we're now more trying to defend full employment, protect full employment, ideally not have a recession now, would be great.Demographics in the data (25:37)When you see how population growth has a twofold dynamic, we typically see in periods of high population growth are the periods also where you tend to see both strong investment but also inflation risk.I would love to avoid that. That's the last thing we need.I have two questions: One, how much do demographics, and there's been a lot of talk about falling fertility rates, is that something you think about much?I think demographics play a lot of tricks on the data itself. When you see how population growth has a twofold dynamic, we typically see in periods of high population growth are the periods also where you tend to see both strong investment but also inflation risk. Obviously, when you know that there's a bigger base of people who you can sell your goods and services to, you might be more inclined to go forward with a longer-dated investment with some confidence that there will be growth to validate it. On the other hand, it's also because there's more spending that's happening in the economy, that's higher growth, there might be more inflation risk.I think that those background conditions then filter in various ways. You can kind of see how Japan and Europe have, generally speaking, at least maybe prior to this pandemic-era episode of inflation, are seeing lower inflation rates, lower growth rates, though, too. So lower real growth, lower inflation, real per capita outcomes are always hard to square in terms of Japan's population is declining, but also Japan's real GDP, is it declining as much more or less? These things are very hard to identify going forward.I think it's going to just muddy a lot of different math as far as what counts as strong investment. We've gotten used to a world of non-farm payroll growth every month in the job report. If it's like 150,000 to 200,000, that's pretty solid and great. Do we need to change our expectations to it being a 100,000 is good enough because we're not actually expanding the working age population as much? Those things are going to have an effect on the macroeconomic data and how we evaluate it in real time. Even just this year, because for some people's assessments of what counts as strong payroll growth, there was a sense that payroll employment was strong in '23 and '24 because of immigration. I'm a little bit more skeptical than most of those claims, but if it's true, which I think it's still possibly true, that it's then the case right now if we do see less immigration, is that the breakeven, the place where what counts as healthy employment growth might be a lot lower because of it.Policies for productivity (27:55)Healthcare cost growth and managing it will be important both in terms of what people see in the budgetary outcomes, but also inflation outcomes.My last question for you, I'll give you a choice of what to answer. If you were to recommend a pro-productivity piece of public policy, either give me your favorite one or the least-obvious one that you would recommend.Right now, I'd say the things that worry the most in productivity, and it's on the table, is the trade policy. This stuff has adverse impacts on prices and investment, and it may have impacts on employment, too, over time, if they stick. We're talking about really high, sizable numbers here, in terms of what's threatened now. Maybe it's all bark and no bite, but I would say this is what's on the table right now. I don't know what else is on the table at the very moment, but I'd say that's a place where you have to wonder what's the merits of any of this stuff, and I think I'm not seeing it.I am more intellectually flexible than most about where sometimes some very specific, targeted, narrow trade barriers have a lot of sense in them, either because solving a particular externalities, over-capacity kind of problem that might exist. There are some intellectualized reasons you can offer if it's narrow and targeted. If you're doing stuff at a really broad-based level, the way it's currently being evaluated, then I have to ask, what are we doing here? I am not sure this is good for investment, and investment is also part of how we are able to unlock a lot of general corporate technologies, able to actually see total factor productivity growth and increase over time. So I worry about that. That's top of mind.Things that are kind of underrated that I think is really important over time, that'll probably be also important, both for people who are thinking about efficiency, thinking about where there's room for public policy to support productivity growth, I'd say healthcare is a really prominent place right now. Healthcare cost growth and managing it will be important both in terms of what people see in the budgetary outcomes, but also inflation outcomes. There's just a lot of expenditures there where there's not a lot of incentive for rationalization that needs to be brought. And there's a way to do it equitably. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit out there in terms of ways we can reform the healthcare system. Site neutral payments, being one easy example to point to.The federal government itself and private insurers, both of them, though, in terms of paying for healthcare, how they pay for healthcare and actually ensure cost control in that process, if we're able to do that well, I think the space for productivity is pretty underrated and could be quite sizable. That's also, I'd say, an underrated reason why the 2000s became far less productive. Healthcare services inflation, healthcare cost growth really exploded over that period, and we did not get a good handle on it, and we kind exited the '90s productivity boom phase. It was more obvious towards the latter half of the 2000s as a result.On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedMicro ReadsFaster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. 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This session shares my conversation with Sarah Amaral, Director, and Ariel Doggett, Programming & Volunteer Coordinator with the Franklin Senior Center. We had our discussion at the Franklin TV Studio on Thursday, August 29, 2024. We talk about Spirit week - Sep 9 to 13Social security session on Sep 10Remembrance on Sep 11Low vision support group Sep 12Monthly party “Broadway” - Sep 13Medical marijuana - Sep 17Still thinks he is funny - Sep 25Movie night - “Thelma” - Sep 26Eat around the World features India - Sep 27Chromebook units to check outAnd many other aspects of the very busy and fun place that the Senior Center is for the whole community, not just seniors!The show notes include links to the Senior Center page ,the calendar of events and to subscribe to the once a month newsletter The recording runs about 30 minutes, so let's listen in.--------------Franklin Senior Center page -> https://www.franklinma.gov/fsc September newsletter -> https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/uploads/september_2024_newsletter.pdf Subscribe to the newsletter -> by calling 508-520-4945September 2024 Calendar of Events -> https://www.franklinma.gov/node/39/events/month/39/2024-09 -------------We are now producing this in collaboration with Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) or 102.9 on the Franklin area radio dial. This podcast is my public service effort for Franklin but we can't do it alone. We can always use your help.How can you help?If you can use the information that you find here, please tell your friends and neighborsIf you don't like something here, please let me knowThrough this feedback loop we can continue to make improvements. I thank you for listening.For additional information, please visit Franklinmatters.org/ or www.franklin.news If you have questions or comments you can reach me directly at shersteve @ gmail dot comThe music for the intro and exit was provided by Michael Clark and the group "East of Shirley". The piece is titled "Ernesto, manana" c. Michael Clark & Tintype Tunes, 2008 and used with their permission.I hope you enjoy!------------------You can also subscribe and listen to Franklin Matters audio on iTunes or your favorite podcast app; search in "podcasts" for "Franklin Matters"

SHOW SUMMARY: In the latest Flashback episode of The Fix with Todd Martin & Wade Keller, we jump back seven years to part two of the August 16, 2017 episode of The Fix. CURRENT EVENTSG1 Finals and more stories from his trip including whether these are the best wrestling shows he's ever seen and how crowds are different than WWE and UFC big event crowdsAnalysis of big segments on Raw and Smackdown including the Baron Corbin MITB cash-inFatal Four-way hypeSeth Rollins and Dean AmbroseShane McMahonAnd moreMAILBAGBill Watts's potential had he been given more time to run WCWEric Bischoff's chances at success with the WCW buyout with Fusient MediaPaul Heyman's chances of succeeding if Dixie Carter hired him to run TNAWhether Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton last year had unplanned aspectsBaron Corbin's MITB cash-inA potential WWE point system tournament like G1Stereotypes in wrestling and the responsibly of fans and reporters to speak outAnd more

Book a Private Coaching + Breathwork Journey In today's episode I share my top five lessons learned from building a multiple 6 figure mindset coaching business and how you can apply them to your big manifestations today. We talk about the lessons, the stories, and everything in between. If you need a little motivation boost or want to learn more about how to expedite your manifestations, this is the episode for you.What we cover…The fear of going “all in”What you think the path looks like vs. what it actually looks likeThe importance of joy and excitement in manifestationHow other people speed up your manifestationStaying in your lane vs. getting outAnd more…FREE & LOW COST RESOURCES FOR YOU: Get the free journal here email list here! Check out my website here! Follow on Instagram @andiecolleen and TikTok @andie.colleen for more mini-trainings, tips, and advice. SUPPORT THE SHOW:Please subscribe, rate, and review over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to help support Mindset Magic! Follow along on Instagram and TikTok for updates, giveaways, and more inspo!

Blackjack! Welcome to Volume 21 of Finding Mastery's Ask Me Anything. We're back once again with our entertaining and insightful co-host – O'Neil Cespedes – and in today's conversation, we explore topics like:How to show our kids that we're invested in their success without pressuring themThe real meaning of “potential” and how to nurture itThe dangers of cognitive bias Finding a healthy level of FOPO, and avoiding FOPO's dark sideHow to move forward from trauma without looking backWhat it means to work from the inside outAnd so much more…And as always, we have a lot of fun with this. You'll hear about my regrettable diet as a college student, and what O'Neil learned in his disastrous audition for The Lion King.These AMAs are some of our favorite episodes. Your insightful questions both challenge and inspire us… they allow us to go deeper into the core principles we talk about here… it's awesome. Keep them coming.With Fire,MG and the FM Team-----WATCH this episode on our YouTube channel.Connect with us on our Instagram.Order my book, "The First Rule of Mastery" HERE!For more information and shownotes from every episode, head to findingmastery.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR HQ DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP: https://revelrosz.bandcamp.com MANY NAMED (The Second Body) ∴ songsigil01 by REVEL∴ROSZ The first SONGSIGIL in the REVEL ROSZ monthly series that builds to his first fully produced debut album. The songsigil is to be widereleased on bandcamp and all streaming platforms July 2024. It was imperative that the first of the series be revealed today, 7/7/24 due to celestial elections. You can view the videomancy component of the sigil here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0PJ4cnBu5w     The video was made in The Dimming Room and shot on analog film Hi8 camcorders along with my rusty sony DSLR. The glitch effects are all completely analog as one of the camcorders has a malfunctioning output - but I love the natural analog decay. Utilizing this along with in-camera lo-fi projection mapping is perfectly analogous to the song's production, as everything was performed and recorded somatically - no digital samples, sequencing or digital FX. Recorded with live drums and live manipulated analog FX, four track & cassette player manipulation, baritone electric guitar, casio circuit bent keyboard, 70's analog rhythm box and the live manipulated Robert Monroe tape samples! lyrics Prelude: Robert Monroe on The Out Of Body Experience 1989 I am the ghost that hangs aroundKeter dethroned and spit me outAnd the yell-hounds still tryna sniff me outBut I told you I'd be the ghost that hangs aroundCan't you hear them howlin? Them yell-houndsWell, they're bound to keep me found Back from the deadIt ain't like you readI chewed through Sekhmet's spacesWith a severed, bloody head And now these muckle black tykesDressed in dead's threadsThey done sic'd on meThey won't let me beHoney, time is of the essenceSo lay with me And I see you weep'Cause I'm not aroundA boy could get used toForlornin', and how! Never knew how many strangers feltI'm so deeply uncomfortableCome dig me outBefore the hounds will outCome on, dig me out Can't you hear them howl?Ooh-raA-hoo-ra Can't you hear meRappin' at your chamber doorYou say "Forever More"No matter howStrong enoughLook who's ghostin; vows now Look who's ghosting vows nowI am post hasteAnd I'm many namedBut I can't relateTo a dying day Check my pulse nowCan you replace?No, I had noneStill I was oneOh, I'm comin'Yeah, I'm comin' home Who's ghostin' who now?I'm many namedForever in one placeI am post hasteI am the mostTo cull awayNow many named Outro: Robert Monroe on The Out Of Body Experience 1989 Copyright: TRAVIS KEATS ROSS 2024 WE THE HALLOWED credits Released July 7, 2024"MANY NAMED" (The SECOND BODY)Written, performed, recorded, mixed by TRAVIS KEATS ROSS (Revelator Rosz)Recorded with live drums and live manipulated analog FX, four track & cassette player manipulation, baritone electric guitar, casio circuit bent keyboard, 70's analog rhythm box and the live manipulated Robert Monroe tape samples!Copyright WE THE HALLOWED / DAKOTA SLIM HYMNS Robert Monroe appears via the OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE cassette released 1989Copyright Audio Renaissance Deep Re-Mix and Master by BARRY WOOD of the OTHER ROOMotheroom.com Cover photo of Mary Mckeever in the Dimming Room by LOGAN FORD using a Hassleblad film camera NO GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WAS USED IN THE CREATION OF THIS ART AT ANY TURN. EVERYTHING WAS SOMATICALLY PERFORMED, MANIPULATED OR CAPTURED. SONGSIGIL / VIDEOSIGIL created by TRAVIS KEATS ROSSCopyright WE THE HALLOWED / DAKOTA SLIM HYMNShttp://pragmagick.com SUPPORT: ∴PATREON   / pragmagick   ∴ PAYPAL http://www.paypal.me/keatsross ∴  KEATS ROSS http://keatsross.com ∴ DAKOTA SLIM http://dakotaslim.bandcamp.com ∴ WE THE HALLOWED http://www.wethehallowed.org

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"They sat on the stoney ground, and he took a cigarette outAnd everyone else came down to listenHe said in winter 1963, it felt like the world would freezeWith John F. Kennedy and The Beatles.Yeah, yeah, ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-yaAh hey ma ma ma hey-y-yah, Life in a northern town"We thawed out and a Kennedy and a couple of Beatles are still in the news 60 years later. Please join me  on the Saturday Edition of Whole 'Nuther Thing on KXFM 104.7. Joining us are NRBQ, The Verve, Orleans, The Beatles, Roxy Music, The Byrds, Carole King, ELO, The Moody Blues, The Ronettes,  Bruce Hornsby, The Korgis, XTC, Dee Clark, Joe Farrell Quartet, Stevie Wonder, Hot Tuna, The Hooters, The Move, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, The Cascades, Chuck Berry, Neil Young, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Dream Academy...

I greet you in Jesus' precious Name. It is Monday morning, the 23rd of October 2023, and this is your friend Angus Buchan with a thought for today. We start with Galatians 4:9 "But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?"Why do we always want to go back to Egypt - Back to slavery, when the Lord has set us free? John 8:36 says:"Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." My dear friend, the Lord has set us free; why do we continually want to go back, as it were, to our former lives? 'No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of Heaven.' You and I need to press forward, looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. You know you can hear my voice. I'm so happy this morning. Why? Because it's raining! Beautiful rain is falling on my tin roof, and there is thunder and lightning, and we are rejoicing. Malachi 4:2 "And you shall go outAnd grow fat like stall-fed calves."When I was a very young man, 19 years old, I was in bonnie Scotland. There, the calves are put into stalls for months and months during the extremely cold winters. There is snow outside. It is freezing cold. When Spring comes, they open the stalls and let those young calves out. Oh, my dear friend, you've never seen anything like it in your life - They go running around the field eating the new green grass, tails up, prancing around. There's no way you can get them back into the stalls. An old cowboy saying - once you let a cat out of a bag, try and put him back in that bag again... He is not going back in the back!I want to say to you today: don't return to Egypt. Enjoy your liberty and your freedom in Christ. Remember, good people don't go to heaven. Believers go to heaven. Have a wonderful Monday; Jesus bless you, and goodbye.

The Great Invocation is a World Prayer that is incredibly powerful, especially in these dark times. Let's talk about it! The Great Invocation From the point of Light within the Mind of GodLet light stream forth into the minds of men.Let Light descend on Earth. From the point of Love within the Heart of God Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.May the Great Messenger of God return to Earth.From the centre where the Will of God is known Let purpose guide the little wills of men - The purpose which the Masters know and serve.From the centre which we call the race of men Let the Plan of Love and Light work outAnd may it seal the door where evil dwells.Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth. This is not a substitute for medical care. It is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure medical condition.   I graciously accept donations!  https://paypal.me/BlendedInsight?locale.x=en_US Or: https://www.blendedinsight.com/product/donate-3/ For more answers to common questions, please watch this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb1EA6tTWjk&t=3s Subscribe to my newsletter to receive a free download of my healings by topic: http://www.blendedinsight.com  Private sessions and extended downloads can also be purchased on my website: http://www.blendedinsight.com  The subliminal programs that I use and love: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1303345&u=1310277&m=27127&urllink=&afftrack= Subscribe to my podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blended-insight-podcast/id1434359312?mt=2 Subscribe to my podcast on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/susan-wilbanks Visit my affiliate amazon store here:  https://www.amazon.com/shop/blendedinsight My favorite styling program service here: https://www.stitchfix.com/invite/jy7nn8gr9d?sod=w&som=c Contact me: susan@blendedinsight.com  Connect with me: www.blendedinsight.com  www.facebook.com/blendedinsight --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-wilbanks/support

On the 321st episode of Piecing It Together, Chad Clinton Freeman joins me to talk about Mad Heidi. After a string of major blockbuster films, it felt like a fun change of pace to talk about a ridiculous, super cheesy "swissploitation" film. Puzzle pieces include Machete, Lady Snowblood, Conan the Barbarian and Inglorious Basterds.As always, SPOILER ALERT for Mad Heidi and the movies we discuss!Written by Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein, Gregory D. WidmerDirected by Johannes HartmannStarring Alice Lucy, Max Rudlinger, Caspar Van Dien, David Sfchofield, Kel MatsenaSwissploitation Filmshttps://madheidi.com/en-usChad Clinton Freeman is the founder of the Pollygrind Film Festival.Chad also runs the Headphones and Microphones Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1614239612381258And he also hosts and co-hosts multiple YouTube livestreams, including the HaM Show at https://www.youtube.com/@chadfreeman/featuredFollow Chad on Twitter at @pollystaffleMy sixth album, MORE CONTENT is available NOW on iTunes, Bandcamp and all other digital music stores! Make sure to check it out!My latest music video “Ascending" which you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypZ3Z8qeT8The song at the end of the episode is "Muffin Maker" from my comedy album The Pup Pups - "Who Wants Din-Din?"Make sure to “Like” Piecing It Together on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PiecingPodAnd “Follow” us on Twitter @PiecingPodAnd Join the Conversation in our Facebook Group, Piecing It Together – A Movie Discussion Group.And check out https://www.piecingpod.com for more about our show!And if you want to SUPPORT THE SHOW, you can now sign up for our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenShare the episode, comment and give us feedback! And of course, SUBSCRIBE!And of course, don't forget to leave us a 5 star review on Goodpods, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Podchaser!And check outAnd most important of all… Keep going to the theater to see new movies!

The International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd ed, lists the criteria needed for a diagnosis idiopathic hypersomnia.For a diagnosis of idiopathic hypersomnia, the following must be met:o excessive daytime sleepiness daily for at least 3 monthso cataplexy is not presento multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) shows 90%)o Long, unrefreshing naps (>1 hour)This episode is produced by Sleep Review. It is episode 2 of a 5-part series sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Visit Jazzpharma.com and SleepCountsHCP.com for more information.In episode 2, listen as Sleep Review's Sree Roy and neurologist-sleep specialist Margaret S. Blattner, MD, PhD discuss:o What are some barriers to diagnosing idiopathic hypersomnia?o Objective sleep testing is needed to diagnosis idiopathic hypersomnia. What polysomnography and multiple sleep latency test findings support a diagnosis of idiopathic hypersomnia?o What are some best practices for conducting a PSG and MSLT for a patient with suspected idiopathic hypersomnia?o What are some of the additional commonly seen supportive features of idiopathic hypersomnia?

The International Classification of Sleep Disorders, 3rd ed, lists the criteria needed for a diagnosis idiopathic hypersomnia.For a diagnosis of idiopathic hypersomnia, the following must be met:o excessive daytime sleepiness daily for at least 3 monthso cataplexy is not presento multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) shows 90%)o Long, unrefreshing naps (>1 hour)This episode is produced by Sleep Review. It is episode 2 of a 5-part series sponsored by Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Visit Jazzpharma.com and SleepCountsHCP.com for more information.In episode 2, listen as Sleep Review's Sree Roy and neurologist-sleep specialist Margaret S. Blattner, MD, PhD discuss:o What are some barriers to diagnosing idiopathic hypersomnia?o Objective sleep testing is needed to diagnosis idiopathic hypersomnia. What polysomnography and multiple sleep latency test findings support a diagnosis of idiopathic hypersomnia?o What are some best practices for conducting a PSG and MSLT for a patient with suspected idiopathic hypersomnia?o What are some of the additional commonly seen supportive features of idiopathic hypersomnia?

Today we have Sarah of Kansas City Mom Collective on the podcast to tell us allll the best recs around KC to check out with your family and little ones! WHAT WE DISCUSSED: Kid-friendly places to eat / barsSummertime activities / places to get membershipsBest parks to visit in the KC area Events and meet-ups for local mamas Options closer to north KC Ideas for kid's birthday parties Activities for fall Christmas lights & activity recommendationsFamily friendly places to stay in KC Places to hike around the cityUpcoming events to check outAnd more! CONNECT WITH KANSAS CITY MOM COLLECTIVE: Follow on IG: @kansascitymomcollectiveCheck out their site & all of their guides and resources: https://kansascity.momcollective.com/Check out their podcast: click to listen on Apple AFFILIATES / SPONSORS:Check out local mental health practice for women, The Counseling Collaborative: (#sponsored) Follow them on IG at @thecounselingcoCheck out their website & services HERE  Shop Tubby Todd products and use my affiliate link to get 10% off: tap here to shop  Follow me on IG at @wellnessforthewin and @wellnessforthewinpod Check out my blog for healthy recipes & wellness tips! JOIN MY EMAIL LIST HERE! Please be sure to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast!

In this week's minisode, host Lexie Smith breaks down how to nail the perfect subject line for your pitch. She emphasizes that even the most amazing pitches may go unread if the subject line fails to capture the journalist's attention. Lexie shares expert tips on creating attention-grabbing pitch subject lines and provides effective examples.Here's What You'll Learn:Tips on how to monitor open ratesInsight into why subject lines may not be effectiveExamples of pitching strategies her agency team usesExamples of effective subject linesTips on incorporating keywords into your subject lineHow journalists mitigate their inboxes Actionable advice on making your subject line stand outAnd more!Sign up For Lexie's Weekly Insider to Receive Insider Tips, Invites, & More at: https://theprbarinc.com/newsworthy/Ways you Can Work with THEPRBAR: https://theprbarinc.com/private-workshops/Instagram: @theprbar_inc

It's been a minute, but we're finally discussing the season/series(?) finale of Apple TV+'s “Ted Lasso.” Is it really the end? Will there be a spinoff? Maybe a continuation? In this spoilerific episode, we chat about:Nate's redemptionRebecca's psychic's predictionsKeeley and Jack and Roy and JamieCollin's coming outRupert's chilling outAnd so much more!We also go off-script, as usual, and discuss:The recent warning from the founders of ChatGPT about human extinction“The Little Mermaid”Kelly's (mis)adventures in movingNext week: “Tina” on Max (the streamer formerly known as HBO Max)-Original music by Garrett ThompsonFollow us on Instagram @GeekGirlSoupContinue the conversation on FacebookListen to Cort's podcast with Brad at PureFandom.comCheck out Susan's movie stats on Letterboxd Email your questions and comments to GeekGirlSoup@gmail.comGeek on!

On this week's show, I am joined by Adrian O'Connor, the founder of Global Accounting Network (GAN) Founded in 2011, GAN is a business of over 27 people headquartered in the UK with an office in Atlanta. In this episode, we talked about his journey of growth during the last 12 years, including:How he has built a remote-first culture with UK headquarters and a US based business all whilst personally living and working from Lisbon, PortugalHow he and his team have built a methodology and a process that has enabled them to have a much higher fill rate in the downturn of the economy. So as job flow has decreased, their fill rate has gone up to 78%.So if you're interested in building a remote-first company, having a US-based office, living abroad and working completely remotely, or you just want to know more about how you can have a much stronger fill rate in today's economy, this episode is for you.I hope you enjoy this episode!__________________________________________HoxoWe're on a mission to help brand recruitment agencies, giving them the means to stand out in the most competitive markets in the world.Here's how we can help:- Recruitment Agency branding- Personal Brand Academy for recruiters- Personal Brand ManagementCheck out our website and social profile for examples of our work in action and to hear what our clients have to say about us. Like what you see? Reach out: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubThinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint from RecruitHub and access key information including:- Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options- Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions- Co-founder MUST-knows- How to automate your way to faster billings- Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?- Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

On this week's show, I am joined by Adrian O'Connor, the founder of Global Accounting Network (GAN) Founded in 2011, GAN is a business of over 27 people headquartered in the UK with an office in Atlanta. In this episode, we talked about his journey of growth during the last 12 years, including:How he has built a remote-first culture with UK headquarters and a US based business all whilst personally living and working from Lisbon, PortugalHow he and his team have built a methodology and a process that has enabled them to have a much higher fill rate in the downturn of the economy. So as job flow has decreased, their fill rate has gone up to 78%.So if you're interested in building a remote-first company, having a US-based office, living abroad and working completely remotely, or you just want to know more about how you can have a much stronger fill rate in today's economy, this episode is for you.I hope you enjoy this episode!__________________________________________Hoxo Are you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubThinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint from RecruitHub and access key information including:- Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options- Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions- Co-founder MUST-knows- How to automate your way to faster billings- Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?- Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

So often, I hear my students say that their anxiety is worse when it's hot outside. And when I hear them say this, I know exactly what they mean! Because for so long, I would do everything I could to avoid feeling hot. Whether it was a warm summer day, crowded public transportation, or sitting in a meeting at work, the heat would make me feel SO many of the uncomfortable feelings I avoided for so long (dizziness, breathlessness, racing heart). I want to remind you, my friend, that there's nothing wrong with you for feeling anxious when you're hot. In fact, you're actually pretty normal for feeling this way! So in today's episode, I want to discuss some helpful points when it comes to heat-related anxiety...Being hot doesn't mean you're in any dangerHeat can mimic many anxious feelings and sensations Why you shouldn't worry about passing outAnd why you CAN handle the discomfort!GET FREE WEEKLY SUPPORT FROM ME: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/624daf138d82793f8155490fA HEALTHY PUSH INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ahealthypush/GET THIS EPISODE'S SHOW NOTES: https://www.ahealthypush.com/post/do-you-feel-really-anxious-when-you-re-hot-let-s-talk-about-it

This episode is a conversation with Tyler Kuhn, an experienced Alaskan Guide, and my hunting buddy, Shay Helm.Tyler spends most of his year living out of a tent hunting everything from moose to brown bears all over the north. His knowledge runs deep. I am glad to have had an opportunity to pick his brain. Because he had so many awesome stories and tips to share.Episode Overview:Ancient Food Preservation in AlaskaWhy he decided to pack his bags and start guiding in AlaskaAlaskan Mindset and why living in the north will make or break youBig Game Meat Care from A to ZEpic Grizzly bear story and eating Grizzly meatBest practices for your next pack outAnd much moreNEW BLOG: ULTIMATE FORAGING GEAR LIST - Check it outSupport the podcast via donations:https://www.patreon.com/poldiwielandhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/yearofplentySign up for the newsletter:www.theyearofplenty.com/newsletterSubscribe to the Youtube VLOG:https://www.youtube.com/@yearofplentypodcastDo you follow the podcast on social media yet?IG: https://www.instagram.com/poldiwieland/Twitter: https://twitter.com/theyearofplentyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/theyearofplenty/Connect with Tyler Kuhn and book a guided trip:https://www.ateamoutfitting.com/Subscribe directly using your podcast app. The show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and many other platforms!Please rate and review the show in the Apple Podcast and Spotify apps. This always helps the show get ranked so that more curious foodies can explore real food and drink with us.I want to hear from you! Take the LISTENER SURVEY: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KZW53RT

On this week's show, I'm joined by Antony Pitt. Antony is the president of Hanover USA and has been in the recruitment industry since 1996. I love this episode because Antony was so candid about his experience. He's running a business in the US with more than 30 staff. Hanover is a global business specialising in financial services recruitment, with 70 staff headquartered in London.What's really interesting about this episode is Antony talks about his challenge with alcohol addiction. He built his recruitment career in London, had a real issue with alcohol to the point where it was affecting everything in his life, and he decided to move to the US to change. When he got there, he was still suffering from his addiction, so he went into rehab. In this episode, Antony breaks down the story of how alcohol addiction can affect anyone, but also how with the right help and support, you can come out the other side and do wonderful things.He's now

For this episode, I'm excited to be joined by Daniel Puttick, the founder of LINKS Recruitment Group.They're headquartered in Cardiff, with 25 staff in offices in Birmingham and Bristol.Dan started the business in 2017 and reached rather quick success.He saw 7 figures of revenue and record profits inside the first few years. In Dan's words, he got to a point where he thought he'd made it. As they were making more and more money, he began investing in different businesses.He began starting work at different times, leaving the team to run the business.He essentially took his foot off the gas… It soon backfired!In this episode we talked about:

Two songs to lead us in prayer today for Concert Friday.1. Come to the Quiet by John Michael Talbot2. Rise Up by Andra DayLyrics to Rise UpYou're broken down and tiredOf living life on a merry go roundAnd you can't find the fighterBut I see it in you so we gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsWe gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsAnd I'll rise upI'll rise like the dayI'll rise upI'll rise unafraidI'll rise upAnd I'll do it a thousand times againAnd I'll rise upHigh like the wavesI'll rise upIn spite of the acheI'll rise upAnd I'll do it a thousand times againFor youFor youFor youFor youWhen the silence isn't quietAnd it feels like it's getting hard to breatheAnd I know you feel like dyingBut I promise we'll take the world to its feetAnd move mountainsBring it to its feetAnd move mountainsAnd I'll rise upI'll rise like the dayI'll rise upI'll rise unafraidI'll rise upAnd I'll do it a thousand times againFor youFor youFor youFor youAll we need, all we need is hopeAnd for that we have each otherAnd for that we have each otherAnd we will riseWe will riseWe'll rise, oh, ohWe'll riseI'll rise upRise like the dayI'll rise upIn spite of the acheI will rise a thousand times againAnd we'll rise upHigh like the wavesWe'll rise upIn spite of the acheWe'll rise upAnd we'll do it a thousand times againFor you

On this week's show, I was joined by Jo Sellick. In 2022, Jo was the sole founder of Sellick Partnership, a specialist recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester. Over the last 21 years, Jo has worked tirelessly to drive the business forward and has taken the business to £95m in revenue and 105 staff across multiple offices.In 2019, Sellick Partnership was 70% acquired by a French organisation with further plans for growth.. Little did they know that within a few short months, they were about to enter the pandemic!In this episode, I spent time understanding Jo's mindset, breaking down the barriers of what he went through in the early days, and the journey in between, from the start to now.He's one of the most personable, natural, and charismatic recruitment founders I've ever met.This episode is hugely inspirational and Jo gives away some practical advice.HoxoWe're on a mission to help brand recruitment agencies, giving them the means to stand out in the most competitive markets in the world.Here's how we can help:- Recruitment Agency branding- Personal Brand Academy for recruiters- Personal Brand ManagementCheck out our website and social profile for examples of our work in action and to hear what our clients have to say about us. Like what you see? Reach out: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWaEpisode Sponsor: RecruitHubThinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint and access key information including:- Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options- Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions- Co-founder MUST-knows- How to automate your way to faster billings- Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?- Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

If you think dieting means you have to be boring and it's impossible to eat outAnd you're keen to learn how to maintain a social life surrounded by and enjoying food and drink whilst losing 1-2lb a week, every week, then this episode is for you. Please do leave us a review so we know how we are getting on, and if you have any topics that you'd like us to dedicate an episode to, let us know!!!Click here to join the FREE 7 Day Weight Loss Accountability Challengewww.foodislifenutrition.comFacebook: @foodislife.nutritionInstagram: @foodislife.nutritionInstagram: @jambo.the.greatClick here to sign up to the Food Is Life daily email

The Opportunity Knocks podcast is back this week with an incredibly delicious guest, Tara Bench!

Season 6 | Ep 22 - Paul Sammeroff on how starting a rec business with two strangers backfired within 3 years!On this week's show, I'm joined by Paul Sammeroff, the Founder and Director of PAS Capital, a specialist recruitment firm headquartered in Glasgow that exclusively operates within the oil and gas markets.Paul's business is only three years old with just under 20 staff at the moment. What's really interesting is the story that Paul's been through in those last three years. He founded the company in January 2020, just before the pandemic, in partnership with two guys that he didn't know. He was introduced by a rec to rec. One of the guys had recruitment experience, the other had cash and Paul drove their everyday operations. Together they created a business, but Paul quickly realised that this wasn't becoming the partnership he had planned for. Sadly, the relationship didn't work out and this led to serious strain on Paul, both in business and with his mental health. By the end of 2022 last year, Paul had decided that enough was enough - he was ready to walk away and leave the business or buy out his partners. In this episode, Paul breaks down everything that he did, all the challenges he faced, and how he got to a positive outcome.I'm delighted for Paul that he's in a place that he's happy with, and I'm super excited for people to listen to this and learn the do's and don'ts of going into partnership with investors and anyone when launching a new entity. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!HoxoWe're on a mission to help brand recruitment agencies, giving them the means to stand out in the most competitive markets in the world.Here's how we can help:- Recruitment Agency branding- Personal Brand Academy for recruiters- Personal Brand ManagementCheck out our website and social profile for examples of our work in action and to hear what our clients have to say about us. Like what you see? Reach out: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWaEpisode Sponsor: RecruitHubThinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint and access key information including:- Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options- Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions- Co-founder MUST-knows- How to automate your way to faster billings- Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?- Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

"They sat on the stoney ground and he took a cigarette outAnd everyone else came down to listenHe said in winter 1963 it felt like the world would freezeWith John F. Kennedy and The BeatlesYeah, yeah ah hey ma ma mommy doo-din-nie-yaAh hey ma ma ma hey-y-yahLife in a Northern Town"Please take a musical journey back 60 years with me as we revisit the phenomenon known as "Beatlemania". Joining us will be Television, The Lovin' Spoonful, Dire Straits, The Moody Blues, Crack The Sky, Sweet Thursday, Fleetwood Mac, ELO, The Byrds, John McLaughlin, Genesis, Steely Dan, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Steve Miller band, The Who, Justin Hayward & John Lodge and Dream Academy.

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Chris Allaire, the founder and CEO of Averity, a specialist technology recruitment agency. Averity was initially headquartered in New York City but is now operating across the USA.They have 30 employees, are completely remote post-pandemic, and were awarded the best staffing firm to work for in the 10 to 20 employees bracket by the Staffing Industry Analyst, SIA, in 2022.Chris has got energy and is a big biller! This is his eighth startup team, and he clearly comes with a pedigree of knowledge and confidence that has enabled him to not only grow a business to 30 employees in eight years, but to grow one that is incredible to work for!In this episode, we break down Chris' career and his mindset around building a team and business, and what has made his organisation the best place to work for in the USA.Loads of information, loads of energy, loads of inspiration. I hope you'll enjoy the episode as much as I did recording it. __________________________________________ Sponsor: RecruitHub*Thinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint and access key information including:-Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options-Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions-Co-founder MUST-knows-How to automate your way to faster billings-Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?-Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

On this week's show, I am excited to be joined by Luke McCormack, the founder and CEO of McCormack Partners.Luke owns a specialist recruitment business in Glasgow that focuses on the commercial roofing and cladding sectors all over the UK.Luke reached out to me a long time ago to talk about personal branding, and I've witnessed his journey ever since. I've been unbelievably impressed by what he's achieved.Luke's got a team of seven billing just under a million pounds this year, and his process is absolutely crystal clear and mapped out:-He's the face of the business-He's built a brand that has him in industry magazines-He's running podcasts and videos-He gets lots of engagement online-He has someone booking all of his meetings-He sells 100% retained or exclusive assignments, paid upfront-The whole recruitment process and delivery are taken care of by Luke's teamBeing the face of the business, Luke requires the right people around him to deliver the retained assignment successfully within 30 days.It's a very different recruitment model to a lot of the businesses I've interviewed over the last few years, but one that I believe is becoming more common and hugely successful.Luke talks about where he got his inspiration from and his energy and drive to become successful despite his humble beginnings. He also breaks down how he does what he does in a visual document and talks about the future and his plans to dominate in the US in the future as well.Anyone listening to this will gain lots of value, especially smaller recruitment companies and potential startups who are thinking about disrupting and doing things differently by having a model that's modern and digital.You need to listen to this episode because Luke is doing something extra! Sponsor: RecruitHub*Thinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint and access key information including:-Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options-Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions-Co-founder MUST-knows-How to automate your way to faster billings-Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?-Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

On this week's show, I'm joined by Edmund Blogg, the co-founder of RecruitHub, the newest sponsor of The RAG Podcast.We've partnered with RecruitHub because I believe we're on a shared mission.These guys are a leading service accelerator for recruitment businesses. They provide new founders with the infrastructure to run their business from day one and allow them to focus on building it. They register the company, build the website and take care of all business finance and back office.They don't charge for startup costs or monthly bills. They don't chargee you anything until you make money!I know of loads of people who have been on the show, are in my network, or are clients of mine who have done amazing things with RecruitHub.Now, I wanted to get Edmund Blogg on the show because he started his career in recruitment, had a really decorated career, ran a global organisation, and then started RecruitHub four years ago. They now have 60 businesses in their portfolio and they reckon they're going to reach 100 by the end of the year.In this episode, you're not only going to learn loads about startup recruitment businesses, but also about levers for scale and exit planning. We're gonna talk about why Edmund spotted this opportunity, what's different about RecruitHub to others on the market, and some really useful tips and information for you in 2023. Edmund is a super smart guy. There's no surprise his business is doing so well. I can't wait to not only release this episode, but also partner with him!Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubThinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint and access key information including:-Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options-Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions-Co-founder MUST-knows-How to automate your way to faster billings-Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?-Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

MAKE 2023 your most Prosperous Year Yet!  Get your Manifestation and Prosperity Groove on my registering for Jill's course, which you can take at your own pace!SHIFT INTO PROSPERITY CONSCIOUSNESS for 2023!  Jill's on-line class, PROSPERITY PROGRAMMING, is a proven system which incorporates metaphysical and time tested techniques to attract more prosperity and abundance.  This is a powerful tool for shifting into a new vibration for a successful life:https://jilljardineastrology.com/prosperity-programming-sales-page/Get on Jill's mailing list for upcoming astrological information, workshops and specials: https://jilljardineastrology.com/free-resources/This episode is on the Winter Solstice.  The Winter Solstice is one of eight annual Solar Festivals. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, marking the return of the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere. The Ancients and native cultures have always celebrated these Solar Festivals as powerful times that were worthy of ceremony. Fires were lit to honor the Winter and Summer Solstices, thus the tradition of lighting the Yule Log derives from our pagan ancestors. Theosophical teachings which emerged in the late 19th century, derived from the Vedic wisdom of India, predicted the increasing importance of honoring the full moon, new moon, equinox and solstice cycles during the coming Aquarian Age. Well we are now in that Aquarian Age, and any ceremony or ritual, prayer or mantra that we perform on December 21 will be empowered at this Winter Solstice. There is a primal urge in humankind to be rekindled, rebirthed and renewed at these seasonal Solar Festivals which include the two Solstices, two Equinoxes,  and four cross-quarter days, honored by our ancestors, indigenous, and pre-Christian pagans.  These days of honoring the Earth and Sun are in order of their procession in the Gregorian calendar are:  February 2, know as "Imbolc," also called Candlemas which is the half-way point between the winter solstice and Spring equinox in the northern hemisphere.  Then the Spring Equinox on March 21. Beltane, honors the fruits of the Spring in the Northern Hemisphere  on May 1st.  Followed by the Summer Solstice on June 21st, Lammas on August 1, Autumnal Equinox on September 21," Samhain," also known as All Souls Day on November 1, and Winter Solstice on December 21st.  Most of you may be familiar with the Vernal or Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice (check out my previous podcast,) Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice.  But the cross-quarter days celebrated by our indigenous and pagan ancestors are less known and they are Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas or Lughnassah, and Samhain or All Soul's day.The Winter Solstice provides a powerful time of year to bring in more Inner Light.  Any rituals, meditations, or spiritual prayers and practices at this time of year will help to empower an individual or group in the coming New Year.  One powerful practice is to chant the "Great Invocation," at these annual Solar festivals. The Great InvocationFrom the point of Light within the Mind of GodLet light stream forth into the minds of men.Let Light descend on Earth.From the point of Love within the Heart of GodLet love stream forth into the hearts of men.May Christ return to Earth.From the center where the Will of God is knownLet purpose guide the little wills of men –The purpose which the Masters know and serve.From the centre which we call the race of menLet the Plan of Love and Light work outAnd may it seal the door where evil dwells.Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.Book your 2023 astrology reading: www.jilljardineastrology.com

“The Puritans feared that which was undomesticated.” — Jeff Hendricks“Our earliest American heroes were Morton's oppressors, Endicott, Bradford, Miles Standish. Merry Mount's been expunged from the official version because it's the story not of a virtuous utopia but of a utopia of candor. Yet it's Morton whose face should be carved in Mount Rushmore.” — Philip Roth “He held out the promise of America as an earthly paradise, a pagan, not a protestant prospect, a zone of pleasure, not salvation through suffering.” — John Seelye “Drink and be merry, merry, merry boys;Let all your delight be in the Hymens joys…Or make green garlands, bring bottles outAnd fill sweet nectar freely about.Uncover thy head and fear no harm;For here's good liquor to keep it warm.Then drink and be merry, Or yet, lasses in beaver coats come away, Yee hall be welcome to us night and day.To drink and be merry.” — Thomas Morton Today we are going to play with one of the greatest stories you probably have never heard of. Even in U.S. very little known about this story and it's a crime. If you have even a superficial knowledge of American history, you have almost certainly heard about the settlers who came to Plymouth in 1620. What you may not have heard about is that shortly thereafter a gentleman named Thomas Morton set up a different colony just down the road from Plymouth. At a time when most people arrived to Plymouth in chains, as indentured servants, Morton abolished servitude in his settlement he called Merrymount. At a time when his neighbors in Plymouth were brutally squashing religious dissent, Morton encouraged religious freedom. And on top of it all, he and his friends entertained extremely friendly relations with Native tribes even openly intermarrying. What makes the story even crazier is that Merrymount was well on its way to be more successful than Plymouth. When new settlers arrived on American shores, many took one look at ultra-strict Plymouth, another look at the freedom to be enjoyed at Merrymount and didn't need to be told twice which way to go. The only reason why Merrymount didn't make it in the history books you may have read is because the pilgrims turned to violence to destroy a community whose existence was a challenge to all of their beliefs. From that day forward, the name of Thomas Morton has largely been erased from history. Some people could refer to Morton as a victim of the Puritan brand of cancel culture. The Puritan story became mainstream, and Morton's name disappeared. This episode fixes this mistake. If you feel generous and enjoy History on Fire, please consider joining my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/historyonfire to access plenty of bonus content. If you'd like to go to Japan for a historical tour with yours truly as a guide, please check out https://geeknationtours.com/tours/signature-battlefield-series-classic-samurai-from-the-gempei-war-to-the-mongol-invasions-2023/Big thank you to Wondery's ‘This Job Is History' for supporting the show. You can listen to ‘This Job Is History” on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts or by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Also a big thank you to Trade Coffee. Trade is offering our listeners a total of $30 off your subscription plus free shipping at https://www.drinktrade.com/historyonfire

I am super excited to let you guys know that I have HUGE NEWS coming on December 15th!!!Are you stuck at a job that you hate? Have you been thinking about leaving "can't afford" to lose your guaranteed income?In today's episode, I brought on a very special guest. Say hello to Chris Myles, serial entrepreneur, blogger, YouTuber, podcast host, and affiliate marketer. In this episode, you'll learn what it takes to become an entrepreneur.In This Interview We CoverWhat is affiliate marketing?How to get into bloggingThe importance of coaching and investing in yourselfHow the playing field has leveled outAnd so much more!Links From The ShowConnect with ChrisWebsite: https://bloggerevolution.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/chrismylesofficialYouTube: youtube.com/c/benjisdadTwitter: https://twitter.com/benjisdad17Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blogger-evolution-easy-blogging-niche-site-hacks/id1524576940Connect with John: https://www.linktr.ee/johnmendez_realtor/ Connect with Walk 2 Wealth: https://www.linktr.ee/walk2wealth/ More About Chris MylesI got married in 2013 and found out we werepregnant with our first son in 2016. My wife sat me down and explained why she needed to quit her $40k a year job to she could provide "mommy-care" and not have to resort to "day-care".  So I started with niche blogging, YouTube and affiliate marketing. 18 months later, we were making enough to pay off our debt and retire my wife. I am a self proclaimed Seinfeld and the Office nerd and a huge sucker for a good Marvel Movie. I'm passionate about investing and online business, so let's chat!Become a Wealth-Builder Today! If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together! Join the community now!Support the showHOW TO SUPPORT THE WALK 2 WEALTH PODCAST: walk2wealth.supercast.com 1. Subscribe, Rate, & Review us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast platform. 2. Share Episodes with your family, friends, and co-workers. 3. Donate what you can financially to help us continue to bring great content that inspires you, and people like you around the world!4. If you want access to EXCLUSIVE content, live interviews, Ask Me Anything calls, our wealth-building community and so much more...BECOME A SUBSCRIBER TODAY! 5. If you don't want a subscription BUT, you know someone who would find it valuable. GIFT A SUBSCRIPTION NOW and help them progress in their Walk 2 Wealth.

This week's episode is brought to you in partnership with Zero Procure who are here to make procurement simple, offering great value and quality for products and services, all for zero cost. Just click on this link or visit their site at www.zeroprocure.com/podcast to help support both this podcast and your business.One of the many joys of hospitality is that it is a global industry, so imagine my delight when today's guest had his people reach out to my people (I have no people) to see if I'd be up for a chat? In looking into his background, I was thrilled to get him on the show.I chat to Travis "T-Bone" Talbot (There's a story there), Founder of Hospitality Arts Group (https://hospitalityarts.group/) and all round disruptor and Hospitality Outlaw, as he wonderfully puts it.Travis is a joy to chat to and he certainly brings the fun and energy so we get through loads, including:-The origins of T-BoneThe Resort experienceCruise shipsWorking round the roleHaving a world class mentorThe importance of a planDealing with the staffing crisisNightclubsMoving into marketing & PRCasino'sDoing less betterPositive StalkingThe Stories of HospitalityThe bartenders night outAnd a whole lot more. We also get stuck into solving the staffing crisis and there may be something new for you in here around that.Either way, it's a wonderfully positive chat with one the good guys of the industry,Enjoy!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacyChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Recession proofing your business is a critical mindset to get into, especially when the economy is slowing down.  I've said for years that a healthy and engaged list (or you may call it a database!) is the #1 thing you can do for yourself in order to create a sustainable business. From the time I was running sorority recruitment and teaching the members how to keep and maintain a list of potential new members to call when they had available openings, to running a $56 million dollar Real Estate Team  it all came down to our list of  past and potential clients. Show me your list, and I'll predict your revenue potential.  It's that simple. So simple it's hard in fact.  I'll wager that 60% or more of my listening audience has a database, and never uses it for more than an address book.  Your customer relationship management (CRM) software sits so lonely at times that it grows mold.  Now is the time to jump back in, re-engage your list and modernize your email campaigns.  Doing so can-and will!-increase the know, like, and trust factor you have with your subscribers. Before you jump in and hit send on that next newsletter (omg please don't send out a plain old newsletter.  That's so OLD my friends) you need to lean in and take a hard look at how to avoid the dreaded spam folder. In today's episode, I dive into 6 of the easiest ways you can take action on RIGHT NOW to not get yourself blacklisted in email land.  This isn't an exhaustive list, but it'll get you off to the races quickly and efficiently. 1.  Delete your unsubscribers (holy cow yes I know this is scary.  The last student I told this to almost hyperventilated on me.  But I promise I don't give you any action items to do that I don't do myself!)2.  Re-Engage subscribers who haven't opened or clicked an email from you in 6 months or more.  (ahem.  Assuming you've been sending out emails that is...)3.  Avoid common trigger words4.  Check your spelling and grammar for goodness sake5.  Create more clickable emails (my favorite!)6.  Give subscribers the easy button way outAnd then join me at www.realbosswomen.com/listbuilding for an immersive online course on how to build your list bigger and bigger to create sustainability.  You get LIFETIME access to the course (including all updates!) and entrance into the Facebook group where I jump in on the regular to take a look at your work, answer questions, and crowd source with you to get your creative juices flowing.  Follow Joanne! Pinterest Instagram @itsjoannebolt Join the Free Facebook group Get Weekly Tips by texting the word "tips" to 678-736-8055Leave us a review

Giving a tip in German is ein Trinkgeld geben or simply Trinkgeld geben.It's different from the US, and in this episode you'll learn:how much to tip for a coffeehow much to tip for an inexpensive, sit-down lunchhow much to tip for a nicer dinner outAnd you'll learn what to say when you give the tip.Trinkgeld geben, should you feel so moved: https://www.germanwithnicole.com/purchase/170665-Trinkgeld-geben ********Download your free A1-A2-B1 German Sentence Structure Guide:All the sentence structure you need at each level.5 pages of clear examples.Including English translations.Nicole Warner is Frau Warner of GermanWithNicole.com and is a German learner (certified level C2) and a certified instructor for German as a Foreign Language. She lived in Germany from 2003-2008 and has traveled widely in Germany. Frau Warner has helped people learn to communicate in German since 2010.GermanWithNicole.com - Your anchor on the stormy seas of German learning.™Music: Bonnie Ship the Diamond by Tim Beek

Straight out of college, Karah and her sister started a company to fill a major need in the marketplace. Almost 10 years later and 10 million dollars they've created an apparel brand that is not only generating a major return, but a huge impact as well. You're going to learn these three things and more. What the secret is to growing a successful apparel store The biggest mistakes to avoid when starting outAnd how to find a deeper purpose to make a bigger impact in the world Find out more about Angel Competition BikinisIf you're an online store owner who wants to know the 5 keys to successfully growing and scaling your business, we created a free 15-minute training where you can get instant access. Get it hereOnline Store owner? Join our free online communityReady to start selling on Shopify? Get an extended trial here:https://www.shopify.com/?ref=bitbranding  Try CommentSoldSubscribe to our YouTube channel where we put out new videos 2x per week here

Now THIS is a juicy episode!! Chelsea spills all the juicy details about starting a podcast! Spoiler alert - it's waaaay easier than you might think it is. In this episode you'll find:+ IF starting a podcast is right for you+ tips on formatting your podcast+ the best equipment for starting out+ how often to put episodes out+ if you should edit the show yourself or hire it outAnd so much more!Microphone recommendation HEREEric's info for show editing HEREBest GarageBand editing tutorial HEREThe BIG 3,2,1 Giveaway IS HERE!!+ entry option 1: leave a podcast review on iTunes+ entry option 2: snag the totally free, totally kickass masterclass HERE AND tag me on your IG stories when you watch it (@expandwithchelsea) - I want to see what you're learning -tag me on IG stories with your biggest takeaway!!Available prizes for the giveaway below: + 3x spots inside an Ahai energy healing circle ($77 value)+ 2x 1:1 60-minute intensives (can be used for energy healing, biz intensive or human design reading) ($397 value)+ 1x spot inside your choice of program - Synergy, Scale or Ignite ($2997 value)MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR

I am so excited to share the recording of this live masterclass with you!We cover everything from:Why real food?Primary and Secondary FoodsHow to nourish body and mind to prevent burn outAnd more!Ready to get your butt in gear, eat real food, organize your life, and feel fabulous?Join Krash Course in Transformation NOW! CLICK HERE for a free strategy session join.krissykrash.com

How well are you carrying your load? If you are feeling like things are overflowing in the stress department, you will want to join me in this solo episode inspired by this quote of Lou Holtz..."It's Not The Load That Breaks You Down, It's The Way You Carry It"What do you think of when you read that quote? It certainly hits home for how my life has been feeling lately so today we are talking about a few things!First I dive into why I am in the middle of an IG break and what I have learned from doing it (hint...part of it has to do with how well I was NOT carrying my load).Then I dive deep into why your stress feels different all the time.  You know how some days you are on top of the world and other days your fuse is so short it's dangerous for people to be around you? It is something you should know about called your window of tolerance!You can expect to learn:Stress vs StressorHypoarousal vs Hyperarousal nervous system responsesThe concept of allostasis, allostatic load and allostatic overload and why knowing this will make your life easier Letting go of shame when you feel dysregulatedThe window of tolerance and what affects it so you do or do not tolerate stressors from one day to the nextPractices to improve resilience (and what resilience means when it comes to stress)What is really keeping stressed outAnd you will get to hear about a brand new solo episode series diving into the types of thoughts that keep you stressed and stuck!So, so , so  grateful to be back finally on a solo episode with you! Don't forget I love to hear what you think! Tag me in on IG @loren.runion or send me a DM and let me know. Love what you hear? Leave me a review on Apple!Connect with Loren on Instagram |  Facebook | BlogTranscripts: Read the full transcriptRestore and Replenish Waitlist

This week we talk stress and health tracking with technology - talking to Susie Felber from Withings.Plus an update on the Election politics of Technology, an EPIC new app to check outAnd your calls - got a tech question - get in touch, head to EFTM.com and click ASK TREV

This week we talk stress and health tracking with technology - talking to Susie Felber from Withings.Plus an update on the Election politics of Technology, an EPIC new app to check outAnd your calls - got a tech question - get in touch, head to EFTM.com and click ASK TREV

“What's one of your earliest memories?” my friend Darrell asks me. At first, it's hard to remember. As I'm thinking back and back… I finally have one. Poetry! My grandmother and I loved to (and still do!) write, recite, and memorize poems. I remember one poem in particular to this day: “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein.  Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage outShe'd scour the pots and scrub the pansCandy the yams and spice the hamsAnd though her daddy would scream and shoutShe simply would not take the garbage outAnd so, it piled up to the ceilingsCoffee grounds, potato peelings… It continues on and I know the whole poem by heart to this day. What's really crazy though? It isn't just the poem I remember – I can still see the accompanying image of a looming, tottering garbage pile threatening to fall over. Even as an adult, that poem and image are etched in my memory.  My special guest today, Mike Gordon, has spent a lifetime illustrating books of all kinds. For 36 years, Mike has illustrated over 400 books and brought words to life in the form of images.  In this episode, we're taking the story and going beyond the words! We discuss going from blank page to the first drawn line, knowing when you're done drawing a character, the desire (or lack thereof) of recreating past characters, and the love for being an illustrator. What you will learn in this episode: Why quality can sometimes take a back seat to quantity What does NOT need to be in a story Why looking back might actually slow you down Who is Mike? British-born Mike Gordon is a designer, illustrator, and caricaturist who brings original, sophisticated styles and techniques to his work. In 1983, the talented and highly experienced artist started freelance illustrating and has illustrated over 150 books. He draws from his international experience in publishing, public relations, journalism, and advertising to aid his projects and improve his skill set. Mike's work incorporates fiction and non-fiction and has been seen in over 18 countries. He illustrates and designs for major publishers like HarperCollins, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Random Century, Western Publishing, Walker Books, Reed International, Ladybird, Longman, and Wayland. In addition, he's produced hundreds of greeting card designs for Hallmark in the U.S. and Gordon Fraser in the U.K., among other international giants. In his spare time, Mike enters cartoons in worldwide competitions which has added to his global reputation as a top humorous illustrator. Ever since 1993, he's set up operations in California where he's continued his stellar career, even gaining a nomination in the National Cartoonists Society Awards. Links and Resources: Mike Gordon Illustration Mike Gordon on Amazon Breadcrumb Books Storytelling School Website @storytellingschool on Instagram @storytellingSchool on Facebook

“There has never been and never will be another you.  You have a purpose – a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.”- Marie Forleo, author of Everything is FigureoutableOn this episode, Jessie dives into one of her TOP FAVORITE books, Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo.  We definitely put this book in the mindset category.  It has so many gems on creating an unbeatable internal belief system. Want to take action?  Heck Yeah!  Exercise 1:What's your #1 biggest challenge you're facing?Write it downThen write: “Everything is figureoutable.”Then act like this was trueBecause it is….Exercise 2:Write down your list of “I can't”s.Seriously what “can't” you do? Write a bunch of those down.Now…Cross them all outAnd re-write them with “I won't…”How's that feel? A bit more honest? A bit more empowering? *ONLY A FEW SYSTEMS LEFT!!!*  Order your 3x5 Life System and get the ENTIRE Mini-Course absolutely FREE... Get yours NOW while supplies last...we only have a limited number left![ORDER HERE]https://www.3x5life.com/collections/all/products/copy-of-3x5-life-system-note-card-versionEmail us at:  bryan.jessie@3x5life.com and we'll be happy to discuss how we might make a positive impact with your company teams through our 3x5 Life Workplace Wellness System. Enjoy this episode!With Gratitude,❤ Bryan & Jessiewww.3x5life.combryan.jessie@3x5life.comNot sure the best way to get started or how to connect with us and the 3x5 Life Community?  Follow these simple steps to hit the ground running!STEP #1 - Join Our Private Facebook Group "The 3x5 Life Community":  https://www.facebook.com/groups/3x5life.privateSTEP #2 - Connect with Us and The 3x5 Life Community on All Our Social Media Pages:Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/3x5life/Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/3x5_life/Pinterest:  https://www.pinterest.ca/3x5life/_shop/STEP #3 - Take a Picture of You Using Your Product, Tag Us on Social Media and We'll Send You a Free Coupon Code to Use Towards Your Next Order!STEP #4 - Share and Refer Your Friends, Family & Co-Workers!Intro Music Credits:“Looking For Adventure”: Composed by Tim McMorrisProduced by King's Crown Productions

This episode is on the Winter Solstice.  The Winter Solstice is one of eight annual Solar Festivals. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, marking the return of the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere. The Ancients and native cultures have always celebrated these Solar Festivals as powerful times that were worthy of ceremony. Fires were lit to honor the Winter and Summer Solstices, thus the tradition of lighting the Yule Log derives from our pagan ancestors. Theosophical teachings which emerged in the late 19th century, derived from the Vedic wisdom of India, predicted the increasing importance of honoring the full moon, new moon, equinox and solstice cycles during the coming Aquarian Age. Well we are now in that Aquarian Age, and any ceremony or ritual, prayer or mantra that we perform on December 21 will be empowered at this Winter Solstice. There is a primal urge in humankind to be rekindled, rebirthed and renewed at these seasonal Solar Festivals which include the two Solstices, two Equinoxes,  and four cross-quarter days, honored by our ancestors, indigenous, and pre-Christian pagans.  These days of honoring the Earth and Sun are in order of their procession in the Gregorian calendar are:  February 2, know as "Imbolc," also called Candlemas which is the half-way point between the winter solstice and Spring equinox in the northern hemisphere.  Then the Spring Equinox on March 21. Beltane, honors the fruits of the Spring in the Northern Hemisphere  on May 1st.  Followed by the Summer Solstice on June 21st, Lammas on August 1, Autumnal Equinox on September 21," Samhain," also known as All Souls Day on November 1, and Winter Solstice on December 21st.  Most of you may be familiar with the Vernal or Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice (check out my previous podcast,) Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice.  But the cross-quarter days celebrated by our indigenous and pagan ancestors are less known and they are Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas or Lughnassah, and Samhain or All Soul's day.The Winter Solstice provides a powerful time of year to bring in more Inner Light.  Any rituals, meditations, or spiritual prayers and practices at this time of year will help to empower an individual or group in the coming New Year.  One powerful practice is to chant the "Great Invocation," at these annual Solar festivals. The Great InvocationFrom the point of Light within the Mind of GodLet light stream forth into the minds of men.Let Light descend on Earth.From the point of Love within the Heart of GodLet love stream forth into the hearts of men.May Christ return to Earth.From the center where the Will of God is knownLet purpose guide the little wills of men –The purpose which the Masters know and serve.From the centre which we call the race of menLet the Plan of Love and Light work outAnd may it seal the door where evil dwells.Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.Book your 2022 astrology reading: www.jilljardineastrology.com

If you're anything like us you're probably crawling towards the finish line that is the end of the year.Yes, it's such an exciting time but there is SO much going on and it's so common to feel overwhelmed. So we thought what better time to bring you an episode on how you can deal with overwhelm with actionable tips that you can not only use now, but also carry through to any stressful times in your life.We speak with international keynote speaker, multi-award winning author and master facilitator, Lynne Cazaly. Lynne has a background in communications and she's written 8 books (and counting), her most recent ‘Argh! Too much Information, Not Enough Brain' is a practical guide to outsmarting overwhelm.Lynne can help you think better, make sense of information and handle the realities of overwhelm and information overload with her clever hacks and ingenious processes, tools and methods.Lynne takes us through:The 3 main aspects of exactly what causes us to feel overwhelmed How to identify the early signs of overwhelm and stop it in its tracksWhat to do if you feel like you have a never ending to-do list Her number 1 productivity hack that will instantly make you feel less stressed outAnd most importantly, how to actually outsmart overwhelm when it hits with proven, actionable methods that you can start implementing todayIf you want to connect with Lynne you can find her on LinkedIn or Instagram @lynnecazaly. Plus to check out more of her books, programs and work be sure to check out her website https://www.lynnecazaly.com.au/Want to continue the conversation? Come join our community of ambitious women https://www.facebook.com/groups/unapologeticallycommunity Maybe you're after a daily dose of inspiration and good vibes? Make sure you follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unapologetically.inc/ Or if you want to learn a little bit more about us and Unapologetically check our website https://www.unapologetically.com.au/ Thanks for tuning into the Unapologetic Podcast, make sure you hit that Subscribe or Follow button to stay in the loop about future episodes.

People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue is outAnd the Sexiest Man Alive is Paul Rudd …Julie Jordan, PEOPLE MAGAZINE's senior west coast editor interviewed Paul Rudd for the Sexiest Man Alive issue.What was the process?  How was Paul Rudd chosen?  How many knew at People Magazine?  VERY interesting process.  

Laugh with our daily morning show podcast!Subscribe for ad-free listening (plus uncensored option): https://bit.ly/3AVvltaGuess 'What's That Noise': https://bit.ly/3hsl4hcToday:Duryan schedules the dentist, flu shot AND the Covid booster all on the same dayPK and Denise on break down the effects of the booster shot Cami and Denise take on 'Match Two'Cami also tell us about running into another PK and DK listener at her hospitalWe learn about the 'triangle of death' (on our faces)Did You Know: A famous A list actress once hired a hitman to murder herselfDuryan catches a case of instant karma at the CostcoPK would like to ask: 'What's you know about Star Fox'?We make it to guess 172 as we try to solve 'What's That Noise'The gang thank our founding family before PK passed outAnd so much more!Play our games at www.PKandDK.com

Do you want to know how to find easier ways to get yourself booked to speak on more stages?Listen as Jackie Lapin shares powerful ways to get your message out to the world faster.Jackie Lapin is the founder of SpeakerTunity, and helps  leaders, authors, coaches, and speakers get booked to share their expertise.In this week's powerful episode "How to Best Find Easier Ways to Get Yourself Booked to Speak" you will discover...Why using multiple platforms to share your message and value is  essential for first-time authorsWhat you need to know about the differences between a speaker and podcast one-sheetHow to circumvent the "catch 22" dilemma of getting testimonials when you're just starting outAnd a whole lot more...Here's how to connect with Jackie

Laugh with our daily morning show podcast!Merch:Square Bear shirt: https://bit.ly/3hbeV98Get Emoji shirt: https://bit.ly/38O2wU2The Mug: https://bit.ly/3l3vIMgGuess 'What's That Noise' here: https://bit.ly/3hsl4hcToday:Do today's 'First Comments' hold the answer for 'What's that Noise'Franco and Duryan try to 'Match Two'A rapping chef inspires Duryan to do the same We attempt another round of birthday shoutouts.Duryan teaches you how to make chicken nuggets using only 3 ingredientsWe check FIVE more guesses as we try to find a winner for 'What's That Noise'Duryan brings home AnnabelleDenise shares an embarrassing video of PK working outAnd so much more!Play our games at www.PKandDK.com

 Today we are talking with Kate Ward who is the CEO & Co-Founder of The Dipp, and former founding Editor-in-Chief of Bustle Digital Group. She is an award-winning digital expert who has both built and transformed several companies with a data-driven creative, unique, and efficient approach to content. Kate has been named a member of Forbes "30 Under 30" and Ad Age's "40 Under 40," was selected for Business Insider's "Silicon Alley 100" list, and Business Insider's list of the "Most Influential Women In NYC Tech." Previously, Kate served as Executive Editor of Hollywood.com, and the Assistant News Director of EW.com.In today's episode we chat through the role of an Editor-in-Chief, how she's managed to drive massive digital traffic through a diversified content strategy, the realities of covering breaking news, the first steps she took in launching her current media company venture, and as always, much more. Here's what you'll learn:About what the different types of roles an Editor-in-Chief can play at a publication or online platform What digital media looked like in the past versus what it is now according to KateThe beginnings of Bustle Digital Group, what went into the process of creating it, and her role as Editor-in-ChiefWhat a data informed approach is to digital media and the importance of driving diversified trafficHow to build up sites to generate more digital traffic How to make sure your publication or online platform is staying on top of breaking news and events happeningHow and why Kate decided to create another digital media platform, The DippHow making sure the online experience is enjoyable when someone visits a websiteThe importance of taking a break to create space for more great ideas to come outAnd so much more! The Dipp: https://thedipp.com/Bustle Digital Group: https://www.bdg.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itskateward/?hl=enLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katemwardFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedippdotcomSnag Lexie's free Pitch it, Pitch it Good! Checklist at theprbarinc.com/pitchitgoodInterested in learning more about Pitchin'? Book a Free Consultation here.Instagram: @theprbar_incGo back to the homepage

Zoom, Go To Webinar, Easy Webinar, and the list never ends. Want to run webinars to build and grow your online business, but not sure which one you should go with?Well, Jonathan has used them all and he will break it all down for you. In this episode, you'll discover:Which webinar platform is the best in 5 key areasThe Pros and Cons of each webinar softwareWhat features you need and don't need when first starting outAnd much more! BONUS: Want to start an online business, but don't know where to start? For a limited time, you can grab our 9-page blueprint called: The Discover Your Message Blueprint. Just go to https://MarketYourMessage.com/DiscoverWhat's Next? Whenever you're ready... here are 3 ways I can help you: Step 1. Get the Book Your Message Matters Book: https://jmill.biz/MqjYJPStep 2. Discover Your MessageTake the 14-Day Discover Your Message Challenge: https://jmill.biz/pfeonPStep 3. Get Personal Help & Mentoring Apply to Jonathan's Mentoring Program: https://jmill.biz/pNzhrB

Women in wars on land and sea, whether queens or foot soldiers, rarely get their due—yet their lives are at least as interesting as their male counterparts’, not least because they had to leap through so many hoops to fight. Historian Pamela Toler wants us to know their names, and her book Women Warriors is a global history covering everyone from the Trung sisters, who led an untrained, 80,000-strong Vietnamese army against the Chinese Empire, to Cheyenne warriors like Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who knocked General Custer off his horse. There are at least a hundred killer screenplay ideas lurking in the history books—if only we bothered to look. This episode originally aired in 2019.Go beyond the episode:Pamela D. Toler’s Women Warriors: An Unexpected HistoryRead an excerpt about the Russian First Women’s Battalion of DeathRead Toler’s piece for us on Peggy Hull, the first woman accredited as a war correspondent by the U.S. militaryLearn about the lady pirates time forgot, including one who gave birth in the middle of a sea battle (and still won) and Cheng I Sao, who negotiated a sweet retirement package with the Chinese government when the Navy couldn’t take her outAnd meet Njinga, the West African queen who fended off the Portuguese (start at minute 21:30)Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women in wars on land and sea, whether queens or foot soldiers, rarely get their due—yet their lives are at least as interesting as their male counterparts’, not least because they had to leap through so many hoops to fight. Historian Pamela Toler wants us to know their names, and her book Women Warriors is a global history covering everyone from the Trung sisters, who led an untrained, 80,000-strong Vietnamese army against the Chinese Empire, to Cheyenne warriors like Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who knocked General Custer off his horse. There are at least a hundred killer screenplay ideas lurking in the history books—if only we bothered to look. This episode originally aired in 2019.Go beyond the episode:Pamela D. Toler’s Women Warriors: An Unexpected HistoryRead an excerpt about the Russian First Women’s Battalion of DeathRead Toler’s piece for us on Peggy Hull, the first woman accredited as a war correspondent by the U.S. militaryLearn about the lady pirates time forgot, including one who gave birth in the middle of a sea battle (and still won) and Cheng I Sao, who negotiated a sweet retirement package with the Chinese government when the Navy couldn’t take her outAnd meet Njinga, the West African queen who fended off the Portuguese (start at minute 21:30)Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week, we're doing a first-ever for the show and taking a deep dive into one specific sector: Edtech.Natasha Mascarenhas has covered education technology since Stanford first closed down classes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In the wake of the historic shuttering of much of the United States' traditional institutions of education, the sector has formed new unicorns, attracted record-breaking venture capital totals, and most of all, enjoyed time in a long-overdue spotlight.For this Equity Dive, we zero into one part of that conversation: Edtech's impact on higher education. We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun, Eschaton founder and college drop-out Ian Dilick, and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.Here's what we got into:How the state of remote school is leading to gap years among studentsA framework for how to think of higher education's main three products (including which is most defensible over time)What learnings we can take from this COVID-19 experiment on remote schooling to apply to the futureWhy ed-tech is flocking to the notion of life-long learningAnd the reality of who self-paced learning serves -- and who it leaves outAnd much, much more. If you celebrate, thank you for spending part of your Thanksgiving with the Equity crew. We're so thankful to have this platform and audience, and it means a ton that y'all tune in each week.Finally, if you liked this format and want to see more, feel free to tweet us your thoughts or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Talk soon!

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week, we're doing a first-ever for the show and taking a deep dive into one specific sector: Edtech.Natasha Mascarenhas has covered education technology since Stanford first closed down classes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In the wake of the historic shuttering of much of the United States' traditional institutions of education, the sector has formed new unicorns, attracted record-breaking venture capital totals, and most of all, enjoyed time in a long-overdue spotlight.For this Equity Dive, we zero into one part of that conversation: Edtech's impact on higher education. We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun, Eschaton founder and college drop-out Ian Dilick, and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.Here's what we got into:How the state of remote school is leading to gap years among studentsA framework for how to think of higher education's main three products (including which is most defensible over time)What learnings we can take from this COVID-19 experiment on remote schooling to apply to the futureWhy ed-tech is flocking to the notion of life-long learningAnd the reality of who self-paced learning serves -- and who it leaves outAnd much, much more. If you celebrate, thank you for spending part of your Thanksgiving with the Equity crew. We're so thankful to have this platform and audience, and it means a ton that y'all tune in each week.Finally, if you liked this format and want to see more, feel free to tweet us your thoughts or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Talk soon!

There's some awesome new applications for Augmented Reality in our market with Volkswagen adding cars to your driveway with just your phone, and even testing trampolines on for size in your backyard.Plus the Australian War Memorial's amazing new 3D exhibit you really have to check outAnd your calls on a wide range of topics, every week on the EFTM podcast.

There's some awesome new applications for Augmented Reality in our market with Volkswagen adding cars to your driveway with just your phone, and even testing trampolines on for size in your backyard.Plus the Australian War Memorial's amazing new 3D exhibit you really have to check outAnd your calls on a wide range of topics, every week on the EFTM podcast.

Have you ever looked at someone's progress in business and life and wondered how they were able to progress so quick? Raj Jana is one of those humans. He built his coffee company to 7-figures while working a full-time job in less than a year - and his life and business have gone from strength-to-strength after he hit that milestone. Raj's impressive journey has been built on hard work, commitment, resilience, and a desire to learn and grow and evolve. None of it was accidental. Instead, Raj has been able to cultivate a series of practices and mindsets that have empowered him to achieve "Accelerated Actualization".And journaling is one of the techniques that helped him to do this

Yes, unreasonableIt's so easy to settleWe think that's the right thing to do... is to be reasonableBut being reasonable it what often gets us into a big messA mess of settling for second bestA mess of copping outAnd a whole slew of other nastiesWhat if we could have it all?What if we could be unreasonable? In today's episode I break it down.  How to stop settling and start getting unreasonable.   Thanks for listening!  Until next time:  be authentic, be unapologetic, be boldly you.Want even more content from me?  Follow me on IG Follow me on FB @thejessicanevins --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedivineitgirlpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thedivineitgirlpodcast/support

A talk and medtation on The Great Invocation From the point of Light within the Mind of GodLet light stream forth into the minds of men.Let Light descend on Earth. From the point of Love within the Heart of GodLet love stream forth into the hearts of men.May Christ* return to Earth. From the centre where the Will of God is knownLet purpose guide the little wills of men –The purpose which the Masters know and serve. From the centre which we call the race of menLet the Plan of Love and Light work outAnd may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth. From The Tibetan...Lucis Trust  for more information https://www.lucistrust.org/the_great_invocation

Welcome, brave adventurers...... to the one hundred twentieth entry into our chronicle, recorded on Saturday May 23rd, and released Wednesday May 27th over at heroesrisepodcast.com.In this week’s Adventurer’s Pack, Ryu introduces us to the monsters of the Magical World. Next we check out some D&D news as we uncover:D&D Live 2020: Roll with AdvantageA DMs Guild module you might be interested in checking outAnd a new 5e Computer RPG not coming from Wizards of the CoastAfter that we take a Short Rest and head into the Archives of Candlekeep to continue our tour of the Sword Coast as we learn about the history of Baldur’s Gate; before finally heading over to the Scrying Pool to see what you have to say.LinksMagimundi BestiaryDrive Thru RPGWiki entryReturn to Glory DDAL Module for Red Nose DaySolasta: Crown of the MagisterMike Mearles back on TTRPG TeamD&D Live 2020 -- Roll With AdvantageA Short Rest: Archives of Candlekeep: Baldur’s GateArchives of Candlekeep: Baldur’s GateThis Week’s Community QuestionsAre you excited to release your inner greenskin and go adventuring for Red nose day?Do you want to see more D&D-based video games coming from other publishers, or are the planned ones from Wizards enough?And a virtual D&D Live. Are you tuning in, catching the videos later, or are you just going to wait for our in-depth and brilliant summaries and commentary? Tell us your plans. Heroes Rise are always on the lookout for new team members that have a passion for Dungeons and Dragons. Please know that all of our positions are volunteer, but we do offer a well known outlet for your work. If you have a particular skill that you believe could enhance our content, then send your contact information and experience to sendingstone@heroesrisepodcast.comYou can also follow us on the social media sites! We’re on Facebook! Head over to facebook.com/heroesrisednd and say "hi", or check us out on Twitter via @heroesrisednd for details of our show times and other fun stuff. You can also join us on Discord! http://discord.heroesrisepodcast.comLiked this episode? Totally hated it? Leave a comment below, or contact us using our handy web form.A special thanks to Vindsvept for making the awesome music you hear throughout the show, be sure to check him out at vindsvept.bandcamp.com; and a special thanks to the designer of our banners and avatars, Lo of Lo’s Lair -- you can find him on Twitter @RealLarryD and on Facebook at facebook.com/LosLairSupport the show (http://patreon.com/heroesrisednd)

Small as a peanut,Big as a giant,We're all the same sizeWhen we turn off the light.Rich as a sultan,Poor as a mite,We're all worth the sameWhen we turn off the light.Red, black or orange,Yellow or white, We all look the sameWhen we turn off the light.So maybe the way, To make everything rightIs for god to just reach outAnd turn off the light!” ― Shel SilversteinWe are all just human. Doing our best! It can be easy right now to look around and feel frustrated because there are SO MANY varying opinions about what is right, and what is wrong, and who is doing it best. It is important to step back and remember we all have more in common than it may initially seem, and we really are all doing our best.

Okay, welcome KBMD health fans and gut check project fans, it's time for COVID installment number two. These are the code files where essentially, myself and Dr. Brown, a co host we're going to address the latest in research for coronavirus as it applies to healthcare and our community. Dr. Brown, how are you doing?You know I'm doing is I'm doing well considering the state of how a lot of people are probably struggling through this process. Once again, the COVID files I think you and I really enjoy joking around and stuff, but this is not something that I want to joke around with today. So the show right now we're becoming much more sciency than we've ever been. And it is because I want to make sure that anything we discuss has a reference to it. So let's begin by saying that this is a show and not intended to treat diagnose anyone. I'm a medical doctor. With the current state of anxiety I'm trying to sift through hundreds of articles being published daily because this is a global problem. And I am fortunate enough to have our secret weapon which this week I was on Dr. Chang Raun's in Darrel Hill summit with Dr. Hyman and some other incredible people, Dr. Pompa, Dr. O'Brien and all these people and I, I told them all that Angie Cook is our secret weapon. And then on the CBOE SOS summit yesterday with Chevonne Sarna, I let it drop again. So Angie, thank you so much for working hard and diligently with me to try and get through all of this literature. Cats out of the bag. She is a certified nutritionist and Rn one of the smartest people I've ever met, and she sent me this email right before we went on. Today the numbers are staggering and the stories of what our healthcare workers are facing is heartbreaking. Please be careful. So what we're going to talk about today is mind blowing, to be honest. And I'm just going to be honest. In the sense this is no, this is not opinion. This is not based off of anxiety, or based...this is strictly the science. And this is not the time that I want to, I want to be perceived as I mean, because one of the concerns Eric, you and I've talked about this, I want to shout everything that I've learned from the rooftops, but I don't want to come off as somebody that's saying that I want to try and make money off of this particular crisis. That's not at all what I'm trying to do here. What I'm trying to do is show you the science. So that being said, I've got so much new information. Last time on our COVID one files, we're going to say how we're going to talk about what you can do with lifestyle and supplements. We're still gonna do that. Absolutely. And I actually learned a lot from being on Chang Raun's summit. You can look that up. It's Raun, Chang Raun. Some of his experts are functional medicine experts that understand the supplements better than I do. And I took notes while I was there. And I was a panelist on that. And the stuff that I talked about was really well received by his panelists as well. So everything is a moving target right now. So this is going to be I'm calling it a mic dropping show. Because if I don't get too geeky, and that's your job, Eric makes sure that I don't go into the weeds and be a nerd because I am a nerd to the nth degree. Angie and I have been nerding out crazy, like hair, you know, like reading articles and your hair just stands up because you're like, oh my gosh, there's no way this is here. Nobody else is talking about this. So if I come across here, and you're like, I've never heard of this. I feel like this it's because you're not spending 12 hours a day with the...a beast like Angie and I. She's uploaded over 20,000 articles to our Mendeley account. So I remember Dave Asprey when I listened to one of his podcasts. He's like, let me log into my Mandalay. I'm like, I wonder if his Mendeley is as big as my Mendeley, which is a repository of journal articles. So I'm super excited to get into this show. So that's my initial thoughts. That was my ramble. And I will, I will have everything else will be scientific data from here on out.Well, let's go ahead and start there. So we last on episode one. Basically, we broke down the various aspects of what is coronavirus? How is it directly affecting and we even talked about the stresses on resources. But now on today's show, not only do we want to leave everyone kind of with an idea on what they can do to supplement their own diet and the day to day things that they could be doing to basically improve their immune system as well as basically weather the storm better. Well, let's get a little bit more into the science of what's been some of the more recent data that I know that you and Angie shared because we've we've had a lot of conversations between last show, you going and doing now virtual clinic, me going and having meetings on transitioning the ASC over to possibly new ICU rooms, which is something we've never had to do before. So I'll let you kind of take it away there.Yeah. So you know, this is this is daily. It's hourly changing, let's be honest, and this is a global problem. So there's so many studies coming in what I think that makes us a little bit unique on the gut check project, is what we're doing is we're looking at the the data being published right now. 2020, late March, everything's been published, but then because of trying to link it to the 2003 we are able to look at articles back then also, because the SARS COV-2 virus structurally is extremely similar to the SARS first virus the COV. So a lot of these articles are a transitioning like that, where you can say that this is this and then because of that the links allowed us to find other things. So, a lot of what I'm going to talk about is preprints, meaning that I have access to articles that aren't even in publication yet. But the scientists are so passionate about it, that they're just sending it out. A lot of it comes from China because they have the most experience. I believe that when we did our first COV files last week, I don't know what was their 160,000 cases, something like that. I don't remember.Yeah, they confirmed and that's that's a pretty important thing. So we talked about that last week to confirm just because we're increasing confirm number doesn't necessarily mean Doomsday. It's just that we're able to actually confirm that a number of people actually have it. However, it does become a data point that we need to reconcile with. And we will yeah, we can we can get into that. But I just want to tell you I just looked about an hour ago and right now, the confirmed cases are 577,495. Mm hmm. That has jumped a bunch. There has been 26,447 deaths. I'm getting a lot of emails from healthcare workers who, when these patients are funneled to one institution, like my hospital, that institution, those health care workers are putting themselves on the front line. They are, they are the heroes. They are defending all of us by taking care of this and I just want to say thank you to every healthcare worker that is working shiftwork, that is in hospital, because you are the frontline of this and many times you don't even know if the person you're treating has this extremely virulent virus virulent being very contagious. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Yeah, without question. Thank you. Now, I this is not a doomsday podcast at all. In fact, to the contrary, what this is going to be is a complete bright light on this whole viral pandemic. I feel like we have spent this whole time figuring or looking at data and piecing together things that will bring hope to everyone. And that's what this podcast is going to be: how do you actually protect yourself? This is based off science. This is based off a bench research. I understand that some doctors would say, well, we need a randomized placebo control trial. We are not in an era right now where we need to do that. I understand that that is ultimately what we want to do. But in this I just want to protect people with things that we know have been around a long time. It doesn't have a whole lot of downside. So I have a moral obligation to do this and to share it with everyone here.Definitely, without question.All right, so let's let's talk about transmission, some of the newest information that's been learned. So everybody if anybody's new to the show, if anybody's wondering like, Why in the world is gastroenterologist talking about COVID19? Well, everyone's talking about cobit 19. So, doesn't matter if you're human, you're talking about it, but it's actually specifically relevant to me. And some of the newest information is this is that we now realize that the virus can be passed both through droplets in your respiratory system, and it can infect your gastrointestinal system. As it turns out the h2 receptor that we believe the virus attaches to that most have agreed to that the highest concentration is in the stomach and the duodenum which is the first part of your small intestine. So if you are eating food, that somebody has cooked for you or that, or maybe you've well, somebody else has to have cooked it for you, and you eat it, the virus can then get into your body through your gut, we now realize that somewhere between 30 to 48% of the COVID19 cases are actually starting in the gut. And 85% of those present with anorexia, or they're just not hungry. What's fascinating is that when you and I were talking, and we were going over those numbers last week, I was like, why is that and then the very next day, articles have come out and it's made the news now, but we were talking about it last week, about how one of the early signs of this could be Anosmia, which is lack of smell, right? Ageusia which is lack of taste. So my theory is that those people that have that that precedes the symptoms by a long time, or not a long time, we don't really know but it certainly is one of the preceding symptoms. So when I'm walking into my hospital and they have to scan me and see if I have a fever, first question that I'm asking is, how's your sense of smell? Because that is now a screening tool. So keep that in mind. The letter there was a article published from my college, not my college, I went to but the American College of gastroenterology, which is the society that I belong to. There was a report from China reporting that cases with someone who had contact with her brother from Wu Han, so a woman shows up with a fever to a hospital. Her brother had come from Wu Han to stay with her. She gets a fever she shows up says my brother was in Wu Han. I've got this they do a CT on her. And she has the ground glass appearance of the classic COVID19Right.tested negative four times on the sputum. One of the doctors was savvy enough to go test her stool. They did an immediate polymerase chain reaction a PCR. Her stool is positive, her sputum was negative.So the sputum technically you're saying that they the margin, there was a she basically was a false negative, correct?She was a false negative on the swab that they did. They did a total once they got her diagnosed, they knew that they were dealing with COVID19. So then she became sort of a case study where they did like five more swabs on her all negative. So what we're what we're talking about here is that the gut so as a gastroenterologist, I'm telling everyone right now your gut is your first line of defense. And we need to protect that you can do all you can for barrier to avoid droplets to get it in your eyes, your nose and everything. But you still gotta eat and all these people that are ordering takeout and everything. somebody's preparing your food That's a route of admission. And then this is not to create anxiety. This is just so that everybody understands this. And then I found another study, shockingly, that showed that there was viral shedding in the stool. Five weeks after viral shedding in the lung went down. So they recovered from COVID19. And then a group of physicians tracked these patients and they kept checking their stool. Five weeks after being normal, they still had virus in their stool. And on the last show, we did talk about the fact that the virus can live three to four days on steel and plastic, it can live in the air for hours. So if you've got maybe what we're talking about here is fecal oral. And I hate to say that because everybody cringes when I say that, but that's how all gastrointestinal bugs get passed.Well, I think we should address it you know, you're talking about science to layman's terms. So If we're addressing things like, keep your six foot distance, etc, that has a lot to do with the droplet transmission. Everyone's been told and we've learned as children growing older that we should wash your hands after going to the bathroom. But specifically, if you're going to the bathroom and and you've, you've had a bowel movement and you certainly if you've known that you've had exposure to Coronavirus or COVID19 be certain to be diligent about washing your hands after you finish the bathroom, even more so than in the past. So if you've always been washing your hands great, it's now's the time to make certain that you're diligent in the process of washing your hands, keep your hands clean, because the fecal to oral transmission is a real, is a real problem.I got called by a doctor today who wanted my opinion. Very intelligent doctor and he was like, hey, man, what's going on with this? It's it's all hype, whatever and I I started telling him about this kind of stuff. I said, no, it's this is this is real. We all need to...education is the key to controlling your anxiety. Remember that we're not here to cause anxiety. What I'm trying to say is, the more you know about this, the more you can control it. And what what we're going to do is talk about how to protect your gastrointestinal tract. Yesterday in shavon saunas CBOE SOS summit, I discussed how unfortunately, my theory is that if you've got CBOE bacterial overgrowth, or any other gastrointestinal problem in your upper small bowel, you probably have a compromised tight junction that will allow easier penetration. So my job is to let's fortify your gut. Let's make sure that your gut is strong. So when somebody comes knocking, you don't open the door. That's all you have to think of it.Just a quick reset it when he says tight junction is being breached. He's basically talking about the barrier in your GI tract basically, it can become permeable allowing you to become more inflamed or, or ill. So basically he's saying if you have this issue, what we're trying to do is protect it so you don't have that problem.So you're gonna do this a lot for the rest of the show. Basically, I want to say things that because I have been so into the weeds reading just super sciency stufflike what he says when he says into the weeds, he means like he's going to drill it, no I'm just kidding.I just it's just rabbit hole after rabbit hole because you hear a term and you're like, oh my gosh, what is that gonna go down over here and this and that. Alright, so I'm just going to talk about one of the coolest things coming out of Germany is there are some scientists that have a new rapid test to diagnose SARS COV-2 remember SARS. COV-2 is the virus that causes COVID 19. SARS COV-2 is the coronavirus the coronavirus is a family of viruses, this is the ridiculously tough, virulent, you know, bad one that's creating this pandemic. So some brilliant scientists realized that certain flavonoids, or polyphenols have a very high affinity to attach to the SARS COV-2 spike proteins. So you always see that picture of the, of the of the virus they always had it shown with a bunch of those little spikes all over the place. That's how come, Eric, you told me this earlier that's why they call it the corona because it looks like aLooks like a sunburst. That's what it is. That's how I learned it long ago, but it was called Corona because microscopically It looks like a big, big sunburst.Yeah. So normally, the way that these tests are done to try and determine this, what they're talking about is a diffusion test or what's called an agglutination test, but what these researchers showed is that two polyphenols luteolin and quercetin have a very high affinity and an inhibitory effect on the SARS COV 2 virus, I'll say it again, basically natural products, natural molecules in nature have the ability to attach to the virus. And what these guys proposed is that normally, when you have a test like this, you have to have an antigen, which is a protein that the antibody has to buy into or in this case, what you would do is use a very expensive antibody against COV-2. So they're trying to do tests like this, but they're taking blood from people or animals, getting the antibody and then if you put your sample if the antibody attaches, then you know that you've got SARS COV-2. These cats figured out that natural polyphenols attached to it. So what they do is they put the sample in, they put some polyphenols, there luteolin and quercetin and then if it clumps, then they go, that's positive. If it doesn't, then it's just chilling. That's, that's mind blowing.Yeah. So essentially, what you're saying is, is these polyphenols made the SARS COV-2 virus nonreactive. The antibodies had no, they didn't discern it whatsoever. So it was a negative test.No. So what it is, is they didn't necessarily make them reactive or non reactive. All they did is they could show that they surrounded it and smothered it. So when they found this in clumps, they knew that they had SARS COV-2. So this is just a preliminary test to say do you have it or do you don't, you can extrapolate that it can be both diagnostic and therapeutic. Meaning you can look at this and say not only can you diagnose it, but there's a very good chance that this same type of polyphenol may treat the virus. And that's what these researchers basically said in their conclusion. And what's awesome is they said this could probably be done with a lot of other viruses because of the antiviral activity. Soit's very, very interesting diagnostic, I'm almost certain whether it's therapeutic or not remains to be seen. It certainly is a natural compound to, at a minimum run interference for the SARS COV-2 virus.Yes, so you're probably wondering, Well, why in the world did you bring up some obscure tests that isn't even out yet? Because what's awesome is, these are all like preprints. These are scientists sharing stuff around the world. And I can almost follow when one guy references another guy, and then they do a study. The studies that I'm going to talk about in the beginning are all bench research that is called in vitro. When we describe something in vivo it's one we give it to a human. Right now, the virus is so new the novel Coronavirus is so new, that everything has to be done in a lab first to see what could be potentially effective in a human. So keep that in mind because that's that's an argument that a lot of people will say is oh, well, there's no randomized placebo controlled trials on humans blah, blah, blah, we're not we're not we need to stop something first. Need to control this and then we can flatten the curve. Get that R0 watch this, watch the first episode because we get way into the R0 thing get that R0 down, and then we can go there. So, dude, what I'm going to talk about is absolutely nothing short of extraordinary, extraordinary. And these are drugs that President Trump is telling all these private companies. I think there's like last week there was 35 different companies trying to produce products against this. There's a lot of them are called protease inhibitors. A protease inhibitor is an antiviral drug that we, that got discovered during the HIV era, where what they do is they block the virus's ability to grow up. So in other words, a virus tries to release his buddy. And then the protease inhibitor says, nope you're gone, and then they kind of kill the new viruses being produced. This is, and this, this prevents the viral cells from growing and maturing. And according to the scientists that are looking at clinical trials, they're trying different protease inhibitors to block SARS COV-2. So there's clinical trials going on with protease inhibitors that we know So, the first article that I want to talk, this is the title of the article, and I will let you, layman for me. Okay. All right. This is the actual title of the article. It is a pre print article. So it should be what we're talking about here. When I say pre print is I'm giving you information before way before it's going to make the news way before. So this is why this is a hopeful podcast, very hopeful podcast. Potential inhibitor of COVID19 main protease empro, from several medicinal plant compounds by molecular docking study.Okay. Well, let's see, it sounds to me like what we're trying to do is use a naturally occurring substance, to eventually stop a virus.Through the protease inhibitor method,Well you said layman's terms last time my neighbor said protease was never. You're right. Yeah, yeah. You and I have different neighbors. My neighbors and I talk protease all the time. I'm surrounded. All my neighbors are infectious disease doctors. SoI know it. That's, that's what my takeaway is from that is, we are going to find how nature can allow mammals, humans to consume a natural compound and stop a virus from spreading.Yeah, so correct. So what they did is a researcher in China was able to successfully figure out or crystallized the COVID19 protease, that's the key step. And these guys took that person's science and said, okay, what is a potential target, to stop that protease? And they develop this very complex, cool study where they could show the binding energies. So when they say docking, the cell has to dock onto another cell. And then if it infiltrates, then if you give a protease inhibitor, it can't move. So they want to know how tight it binds to that protease enzyme. And what they figured out was they looked at three HIV protease inhibitors and 11 polyphenols.So and then just to reset into layman's terms, if you're trying to keep track of the the words, the way that I kind of have charted this together is a virus uses a protease like a key. The protease is the key for the virus to infiltrate and then deposit this mRNA so it can replicate what Dr. Brown is talking about doing is how can I stop their key from working? How can I make it so that this virus can can't use the key the protease to where the virus is using that protease to break down the protein so it can inject its RNA?Yeah. So the viruses, like we talked about before, are amazing parasites, they have to get into a cell, they have to replicate, they take over the cell, and then the virus starts going around. So these guys knew that there's three they looked at three HIV proteases. And then they realized that there's naturally occurring molecules in nature called polyphenols. And they demonstrated that the drugs and these 11 polyphenols appeared to have potent attachments to the M Pro with the M Pro is the protease on COVID19. Therefore preventing the virus from replicating their fin...their final conclusion was like all good bench researchers. Further research needed to do human trials.Sure.So they have a model with the virus and these polyphenols bond tightly. Super cool.Yeah, no without question. So essentially, they're saying if we can find a way to stop impro from unlocking the cell, then SARS COV2, or the coronavirus cannot infiltrate these cells.Yeah, so that was really cool. And then mic drop. Another study comes out of this one's out of Turkey and Pakistan. And I'm going to reach out to these researchers. They were kind enough to list their cell phones and emails on this study. I'm not sure that they meant to do that. Doesn't happen all the time!I'm gonna I'm gonna hit them up and I just gotta find somebody that can translate for me if necessary. We're going to do this. Their article title is identification of potent COVID19 main protease. Now you know what a main protease is empro. These guys took the research from the person that discovered it and did the exact same thing as these other guys did. So identification of potent COVID19 main protease inhibitors from natural polyphenols. And in silico, strategy unveils a hope against Corona. What? These guys saw that study and went, wait a minute polyphenols seem to be the way to go. This could be a new hope for Corona. This is what these guys are talking about. It's out of two very prestigious academic centers in Turkey and Pakistan. These guys are absolute beasts, I should say, guys, I'm just assuming there's probably women on the team also, that's rude of me to say these guys, but these scientists are beasts. So since its main protease was figured out, and remember I'll say it one more time, the protease allows the virus to grow and replicate. That is why we figured it out for AIDS. So they did a study where they looked at 26 polyphenols and one prescription protease inhibitor called nelfinavir. OkaySo these guys had the guts to say let's see what happens when we compare polyphenols to the current antiviral therapy that we use for AIDS. These results are absolutely shocking, Eric, this is I cannot make this stuff up. This is where my skin my hair just starts bristling. Basically 24 of the 26 polyphenols bound tighter to the COVID protease, then the prescription drug did. I'll say that one more time. It bound tighter than the drugs that we're thinking of using. Nice.And I'm really having a hard time trying to not be enthusiastic here and try to be scientific. I said it's gonna be very somber, scientific thing, but I'm just now um these are lab people. And these these guys, I could tell by the writing that their that excited I mean, when, when the title says, you know, exciting new treatment for Corona like these are bench researchers that if the numbers make sense. So this is not something to say that 100% this will work in humans, what we have is bench research stage one, stage two is to work to a human pilot trial, stage three is to do a randomized placebo control trial and so on. But this is so exciting to see that this is proven in a lab that these 24 out of 26 polyphenols and what this tells me is certain polyphenols did slightly better than others, as best they could tell. But the molecular mechanism is very similar it all is and then what they determined was it was a dose dependent, so you had to have enough of it to do it. So pretty wild.I don't want to jump too far ahead. But questions that are popping up in my mind are going to be number one is binding for the most part, preventing the virus from carrying out its activity. Because, you know, you don't want to just bind and be happy that you are bound, and the virus can go on. And the other question would be, what, what are the categories of polyphenols that happened to perform better than others? And do they all still you said 24 out of 26. So we know that two probably aren't ideal, but what were the categories?No, no. 24 out of 26 outperformed the prescription drug. The other two just were about at the level of the prescription drug.Thank you for the correction. So 26 bound.And I just want to clarify one thing I'm you and I are not virologists. The concept of protease I think, is more of a replication thing than a that's how come it works so well to stop the virus. I think it's more of a prevents the virus from replicating as far as binding. There's some different science with that. So just and I'm not a virologist, I'm a butt doctor. So um, so then of course that starts, you start going down some crazy pathways. I found another article that identified myricetin and scutellarein or something like that, which are polyphenols. Somebody else did a study as a novel chemical inhibitor of the SARS coronavirus. by blocking the helicase. The helicase was described as something needed to replicate. Yeah. So what I meant by I've just been exhausted is I read these articles and then of course, you stop. And it's like, I gotta go look that up. And then you end up going down a helicase pathway and I was just like, oh my gosh. The science doesn't matter. What I'm saying is there's people that are now looking in 2020, because they're doing the same thing I'm doing, they've seen the data from 2003. And now they're trying to see if that works on SARS COV2. And it appears it does.Well, is it a helicase? Isn't that an enzyme? Yeah, we hear about the double helix or whenever you see DNA after it's been scripted, and you see the winding, you know, mirrored image. Helicases, the enzyme that allows the assemblage of the mirrored DNA if I if I remember correctly, I could be wrong on that.So that is, that is med school year two USMLE. was done with that. As long as it passed. Um, here's another super I think I get pulled a gene like they pulled the gene out or something like that. Sorry, I don't wanna get sidetracked. I'm just kind of like...I don't know. I mean, dude, it's like clearly We're gonna have to get a virologist on to explain all the terms just say you guys are idiots. You're using the terms incorrectly. Let me explain it to you cool. I I welcome any virologist to to help us get through this because this isn't our thing. I'm trying to figure out how to take care of my patients. That's all I'm doing right now. Speaking of that. Another study titled small molecules targeting severe acute respiratory syndrome, human coronavirus. These guys looked at over 10,000 compounds, including over 500 protease inhibitors, 200 drugs, 8000 synthetic compounds and 1000 traditional Chinese herbs. Of all of them 50 were found to be anti SARS COV not COV2 anti SARS cubs. So this was a study done after the original SARS outbreak. Okay. Two made the best cut, one being a molecule called Aescin-AESCIN, the extract of horse chestnut.Horse chestnut. Yeah. Wow.And the other is a drug called reserpine which is a high blood pressure drug used in Europe. Huh 10,000 different compounds and Aescin the extract of horse chestnut is there. Okay, that's cool.Yeah, it's a polyphenol,that is a polyphenol/saponin. And we know a lot about that you can go on atrantil.com and learn about Aescin and if you want. Pretty wild. So that's my this is where this is going to go. We're going to be able to figure out how to optimize the appropriate polyphenols to protect your gut to protect your health. Those are astounding studies. It's I mean, I'm just fascinated. Alright, so everyone knows this. We developed atrantil. Atrantil are three polyphenols I have been into the science of polyphenols for over 10 years now. So now that I'm looking at this, this is not a sales pitch. This is a oh, my goodness, the molecule that I've been studying for 10 years, which is super complex and all this, I'm finding scientists around the world studying it and having positive results. That's what this is about. Nothing more.Now, here's here's the interesting part, though. So if it happened to only be a prescriptive drug or something that were synthetic, it would almost be completely imperative that that multiple rounds of trials and testing be carried out. Simply for the safety profiles so that they can be safely used somewhere. The exciting part to me is that what we're talking about is something that is already naturally occurring and is safe for us to begin to utilize as kind of like internal PPE. That's how I think about it as a frontline worker...Say what...say what PPE isOh sorry, personal protective equipment. So that was...Yeah, so one of the issues that if you're not in healthcare, the term PPE is being used because we're all running out of gowns, masks, gloves.Everyone is and it hasn't even hit our area nearly as intensely as it has like the northeast or the west coast, we're we're running outAnd you you as essentially, somebody who controls airways and you have to intubate people, you aren't so in the line of fire, so to speak, you're on you're that frontline person. You're one of those if you're an ICU nurse, if you're an anesthesiologist if you're a respiratory tech salute all of you, because you guys are right there getting into it. Now, some would say, hey, you spent the first half of the show talking about gastrointestinal issues. Yeah, I salute my gastrointestinal colleagues as well. Because it looks like we're in the fight now also.Definitely. It's just it's the takeaway, though, from those those studies, those reviews that you just had, though, Ken, don't you think that the exciting part on top of we think that we may be onto something is that people can begin to take action now with at least the data that is applicable, it's safe to use it worst and at the bare bones worst if someone happened to just simply start eating more polyphenols that they would take in from fruit yet, if it didn't work? Well. They're still getting great fruit and fiber etc. There's there's really no downside to applying a little bit of this, this reviewed science as we as we wait to find out that these are actual adversaries to the coronavirus. Correct. So polyphenols if somebody's like man they've been talking about polyphenols this whole time, what does that polyphenols are the molecules that make vegetables and fruit, colorful, it's on the skin. Those are the molecules found heavily in the Mediterranean diet. And those are the molecules that we now believe are anti aging anti inflammatory molecules. That's how come that we've been studying this so much. So I've been using it for gut health. So if at the very least, when you eat, make sure your plate is colorful, everything should be colorful. If you can imagine when you go to McDonald's and get your whatever it is. thing you lay it out. It's got a monochromatic tan across the...Very yellow...very yellow plate.Very yellow plate. You want to have green reds and purples and When you're doing that you're getting your polyphenols in knowing that the polyphenols could potentially help this. So that's super make sure that you at the very least do this. We know that they are very potent antioxidant, anti inflammatory antibacterial and antiviral. Yes. data to show all of that.Yeah, definitely. No, that's that's it's just a great takeaway to know that you can actually possibly be taking some serious action for your benefit and your family's benefit today.Yeah, totally. Um, so let's kind of get away from polyphenols and talk about what else you can do. But you're gonna hear a recurring theme here. It's, it's or fortunately, Mother Nature knows how to do this. And you got to take advantage of that. So let's talk about something so I've been getting tons of emails and patients calling in everything, what do I do for this and that, so let's talk about zinc. Why is everybody saying zinc? Why did they get buy get bought off the shelves? Why is it there? Well, zinc, if you're low, then your immune cells won't function well. And intracellular zinc can block the enzyme that allows the virus to replicate, which is an RNA polymerase enzyme. One more time, you take zinc in, very small percentage of it gets put into the cell, where the zinc then just goes, come on now, and they just starts working on the virus's rep replicating system. That's how it works as an immune product. And so zinc is an essential mineral that we need to take in, but you got to get it into the cell. So some scientists realize that we have to figure out how to get more zinc, intracellular. I got to quit touching my face, I just realized I'm messing up my hair and I...I've been doing it the whole time.Yeah, I'm realizing just I mean, I just get I get, I get excited about this. We know that zinc can inhibit, specifically Coronavirus, RNA polymerase activity in labs, but it has to be intracellular. The problem is that once it's in the cell, it can do that. But it has to get in there. And that's difficult to do. Scientists have realized and I keep saying scientists have realized I'm just referring to other smarter people that have done these studies is what I mean. So other people that are smarter than me have figured this out that it needs something called an ionophore to get in. So it's like a fast pass or it's a it's there's a security guard at the cell door, and zinc like a my humans eating all kinds of zinc. I'm here to help out and the security guards like you need to come in with somebody you need to have a VIP with you. Well, they're looking at different things that work as VIPs and as it turns out, flavonoids which are In the class of polyphenols, not only act as antioxidants, but appears in this particular study that they drove zinc into the cells, then they showed that with mice, they could actually show a rapid increase in intracellular zinc, when the zinc was taken with polyphenols, or if you're taking polyphenols. And also taking zinc doesn't have to be the same time. And they did this through very complex fluorescent staining. So that is super wild. You need zinc, but you need intracellular zinc. So really pretty, that one kind of blew me away also. So I just got done talking about two bench studies, where they work as protease inhibitors. And now I just showed you how polyphenols can work as zinc ionophores. That should be like enough, and we actually have more stuff to talk about, which is nuts. SoSo just in just a quick aside if if you have a diet that's comprised of good Healthy meats. What else? Beans probably seeds, nuts, various nuts. That's where you'll find naturally occurring zinc or...Cashews. Cashews are a big one.Definitely there's there but there are definitely some zinc supplements out there. So as a as Brown lays out different things that you probably could take at a molecular level, I'm going to try to keep up and say, places where you can find them so that you can incorporate them into your daily intake of foods.Yeah, so unfortunately, I'm just geeking out on this. So if you if you figure out how to say, Well, if somebody's sitting there going, Wow, where do I get it? Yes, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. Um, something else. There was a study that came out of Korea, which showed that by certain probiotics in vitro, they could actually stop the hearing metabolism which this particular virus uses to get energy and one step further. That was in vitro then I found an article that showed that polyphenols work as an antioxidant by blocking xanthine oxidase which is part of the pureeing pathway. So the energy gets taken away from the virus as well. So that's super geeky. It's like, wow, it's like almost like every time somebody chooses to do a study on these polyphenols, they're finding a positive effect. We have gotten sicker since we have become industrialized, and we have refined foods. Having soil with rich and minerals and everything and eating the seasonal vegetables is probably a very effective way to protect yourself from a lot of illness. Not trying to say specifically COVID19 but doing that is probably a great way to protect yourself from a lot of things.Definitely hundred percent. I don't have a whole lot to add to that.Alright, so I'm tired of polyphenols, if I could ever say that I've only been talking about 'em for 10 years. So, alright. We did say on the first one that I want to give some recommendations about things that I'm telling my patients that I'm doing that my kids are doing that everyone that I think there's some science backing this. So other recommendations I'm telling I'm a big fan of fermented foods. I don't understand why but Germany continues to have this profound or I haven't, or a very a much lower death rate than the rest of the world. And I always laugh because I'm like, Is it the sauerkraut? I just keep coming back to them because the sauerkraut is it the beer. What is it, but so fermented foods, especially those that have Lactobacillus plantarum and bifidobacterium and lactobacillus generally will actually have been shown to have some antiviral activities. So now's the time to go out and get that kimchi now's the time to go out and eat that sauerkraut and that kind of thing. As you know, I'm not a huge fan of probiotics based on the science because not that it's there they're bad. But the science just isn't there and I don't want people spending a whole lot of money on things that don't work. I'm a big fan of polyphenol wrapped probiotics, kimchi, sauerkraut, things like that, because the insoluble cellulose, in my opinion probably works as a vehicle to get that bacteria to the colon. So, fermented foods. I'm kind of a fan of right now. We discussed zinc and vitamin C is an essential micronutrient that works as an antioxidant. What you will hear online right now and in forums is that studies in humans are extremely conflicting. So you have to go a little deeper than that. And that's the knee jerk that every doctor will say as well. The studies don't show that. I want to say this. Angie and I discovered an article with mice genetically grown, that do not have the capacity to make vitamin C. And then they took mice that are normal and they exposed...they exposed both groups to influenza, those without vitamin C died. Those who had it had a lot less inflammation and a lot less inflammatory cytokines. Right now in China there is an ongoing study where they're looking at giving IV vitamin C. So if you want to compare old studies that talk about the rhinovirus and does vitamin C help, what we know is looking at animal data, vitamin C is extremely important. And the reason why it's important is that we know it down regulates and inflammasome, inflammasome called NRLP. What that is, is we know that people are dying from what's called a cytokine storm, which is where your immune system overreacts to the virus. It starts with an inflammasome and then it becomes a domino effect. And just start turning on all these cytokines. So it also helps regenerate glutathione, which we're going to get into. And one of the only problems with vitamin C supplementation is if you take too much it can create some gi upset. When I was on Dr. Raun's summit, Dr. Lundqvist, who went on before me who's an expert in this did discuss something really cool, which I was unaware of when you are sick, you increase what's called your glute one receptors. So you will absorb more vitamin C that you take in, so your body knows when you're sick. So if you're not sick, and you're taking tons of it, you're probably gonna have some gi upset. If you're sick and you take a little extra, you'll probably be fine, which I thought was really cool. So I love learning from other really smart doctors. Next product everybody goes on vitamin D. Yes, we know that most people in the United States are vitamin d deficient in a systematic review, vitamin D appeared to protect individuals from acute respiratory infections. Vitamin D is expressed on both B and T cells, which are our immune cells. And what it does is it can modulate your immune response. I'll say that again, it can control your immune response. So it almost works more like a hormone in that it tells your body to not overreact, which is something super important. And low levels are associated with increased autoimmune disorders and increased infection rates. So looking at a different study, it looks like that taking high dose vitamin D on a weekly basis, which is what many doctors recommend, is not as effective in this particular case as taking a daily vitamin D supplement. So I would recommend somewhere around 1000 milligrams a day. Most supplements come in the 2500 to 5000 range but I'm on it and my family's on it as well. So super important to do thatThing here so vitamin D foods are lot of your oily fishes, dairy milk cheeses and I think some of the greens like collard greens and mustard greens I think have vitamin D and of course don't forget you need to convert it. Get sunlight, get sunlight every day.Yes, go out for walks. walk your dog Get out right now is a great time to get out. And yeah, thank you for saying this. I should have started with everything. I'm not saying get out. I should have started from the very beginning. Don't go out and buy a bunch of supplements. Try to eat the diet that has these ingredients in them first. Supplements supplement a healthy lifestyle, but is no substitute a healthy lifestyle. So that being said, Yeah, so thank you for bringing up those foods. And I will throw this at you now. A diet in healthy phytosterols. Phytosterols are vegetable oils that appear that they may block the binding site of these different Coronaviruses. In other words, the ACE-2 receptor that they keep talking about in the news uses cholesterol to bind to what is called a lipid raft and then that lipid raft of the virus binds to it and then it kind of slides down. I always think of it like the way that they describe those inflatable rafts when a plane lands on the water they come out and people come out that's how I think of it.Don't you want to get into a situation where nobody gets hurt but you get to pull it I always wanted to inflate that stinking thing.So a diet high in phytosterols. So things like you know what I'm gonna beat you to this one because I had that I actually had to look this up phytosterols isn't something phytosterols are very high nuts, legumes, grains and fruits and vegetables. It's a common theme here. We keep saying the same thing over and over. I mean, don't eat at McDonald's, eat your fruits and veggies, and healthy fish and things like that. And two more. And then this is this rounds out my list of science backed supplements that I can, I can at least lean on some data. Because there's a lot of things out there that people talk about. That is not my specialty is not my that I have not had a chance to get into. But n-acetylcysteine is something that I'm a big fan of, n-acetylcysteine (NAC) has some mucolytic properties. And in a 2017 meta analysis, meaning in 2017, they took all these studies, they found that treating patients with NAC NAC and n-acetylcysteine led to shorter duration of ICU stays in acute respiratory distress syndrome, which you geeked out on on the first episode explaining all about ARGS. So go back and watch the first episode because this is Eric's specialty, keeping people alive with that kind of problem. So salute to you for doing that kind of stuff. And Chinese protocols right now Chinese hospitals are using n-acetylcysteine as standard treatment when somebody comes in with coronavirus. It also does something really cool it increases glutathione levels. Glutathione is one of the most important cellular antioxidants. So what that does is it is a potent cellular antioxidant, and we need this for cellular health, cellular health kind of funny the guy that went on after me was Dr. Dan Pompa, who I who I love and his his whole his whole mission is cellular health, which is cool. A study looked at people with community acquired pneumonia, and they randomized them to either conventional treatment which would be antibiotics, and...conventional treatment antibiotics plus NAC. And what it showed was the NAC group healed quicker and had lower inflammatory markers. I'm currently taking like 600 milligrams BID, the dosages were all over the map in all these studies, but wow, okay. There's studies out here that show this and they essentially are you and I have talked about how NAC helps with alcohol metabolism, but this is a whole separate method. This is getting the glutathione and then ultimately, I'm recommending melatonin as well. Melatonin is a potent antioxidant. But one of the reasons is to make sure that you have everything functioning well. You got to sleep. During these very stressful times. You've got to get...try get eight hours of sleep. Please, please, please, please, please. And this is nuts. Kids don't seem to be affected by this virus and one of the speculative things is that kids have much higher melatonin than adults as we age we decrease our melatonin so over the age of 70 you have much less melatonin. I read an article describing how the higher melatonin that you have you in your NLRP3 inflammasome. inflammasome yeah.Is down regulated by melatoninNice.You have your highest melatonin traditionally between ages one and five. And as we age it decreases and if you do not have a high melatonin you are susceptible to a cytokine storm cytokine storm as we talked about is your body overreacting. So one last time did you write those all down Eric? Can you...I did.Tell everybody what what what I feel science backed things may help during this pandemic,In addition to a healthy diet of polyphenols or supplementation with polyphenols and of course we know where you can get that with Atrantil. There is strong science to suggest that you should couple a polyphenol diet with zinc, vitamin C, NAC or n-acetylcysteine, vitamin D, phytosterols, and melatonin. You can get zinc and NAC from meat, eggs, etc. Your vitamin C obviously comes from great citrus fruits and vegetables. Let's see here phytosterols there's tons of plants and seeds that have that in it and of course, if you don't produce enough melatonin that is a very common supplement. However, I will say though, that you want to be selective on probably where you where you buy melatonin that seems to be one of those. Oh yeah, yeah we that's a whole separate show. I actually pay to belong to examine.com and consumer labs.com. I'm a user because I go there and I have them do the analysis. That's a third party analysis. So any of these supplements make sure that they're third party analyzed. So those are the ones that I can sink my teeth into really deep and go, this clearly looks like this. Now, there's other things that a lot of other people will be like, oh, well, what about this? What about this? What about that? I'd like for instance, broccoli, broccoli, or sulforaphane? Sulforaphane comes in broccoli sprouts. I found some articles that show that coronavirus may decrease your NRF two pathway which is the pathway that leads to inflammation and that so I'm also taking that we know that that actually has some antibacterial effects. Shivan and I got kind of deep into it yesterday in the CBOE summit, where we talked about how I'm using that in my CBOE people as well. I'm having pretty good results. So that would be one that I can't really say, I've looked at the science, but I'm seeing anecdotal evidence and it's probably good for you anyways. So if it has some ability to help with this infection, that would be awesome. And we know that like, CBD attenuates the immune system, so it at least gets you back to balanced immune and neurologic systems. So I'm obviously a big fan of that. And that's you can go to our website and take a look there. I'm not saying not recommending it, that this is any type of cure treatment or benefit to this particular pandemic. I'm recommending to make sure that you're doing everything you can to try and improve your immune system.Definitely, if you're if you're a frontline health care worker, just be certain that you're doing all you can to take in a good diet. Be certain to get your exercise and know that you're probably hustling all over the hospital floor or OR just taking care of patients even if they don't happen to be COVID patients. You want to be certain that you're keeping yourself nice and healthy in that environment, get sleep, no matter what just prioritize sleep, your immune system just will never be as strong as it possibly can if your body is not getting rest, so sunlight, sleep in addition to a good diet, it will make for a much better outcome in the long run for certain.Definitely, we and we won't stop these installments for the COVID talks until we we more or less feel comfortable that we're heading that direction. I will say that we've been put in contact with an infectious disease doctor in the Department of Defense that actually he probably can't join us live or recorded on the next installment of of the COVID file. However, he is going to vet some questions that Dr. Brown has sent his way. Basically just just read his responses back. Yeah, absolutely. And we want to, once again, thank everyone who's worked in the hospital systems working, shift work, or EMS people. You guys are the true heroes because you are doing shift work you affect your sleep cycles, you're getting a lot of stress. I know I've talked to some emergency room physicians who are seeing other issues with this shut-in like, unfortunately some more domestic abuse going on and things like that because people are forced to being you know, the finances are tight, and the the quarters are tight and everybody is you know, struggling but hang in there. We're gonna get through this and what I just got done telling you even if you even if you're sitting there like it's been like what I like turning it because you guys like to joke around what do you do? I was just nerdy. Just bottom line is, it looks like we're heading in the right direction for figuring out how to how to stop this.That's perfect.Got a little bit different perspective as an ID doc, as well as tending to the pediatric side in combination with ID. That said, though, it probably won't be a full week until we come back with the next installment simply because we're finding some more time to dedicate collecting research and kind of really getting it organized. We certainly appreciate everyone sharing the last installment. Hopefully, we'll do the same here. And when the show notes for this one on the YouTube YouTube presentation, we'll be sure and list all of the supplement lists that that Ken laid out for you. And I don't know, it's a pretty powerful episode. I hope that people can begin to arm themselves and I think that the next time we're going to have some some good feedback and start rounding the corner to better days.Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, appreciate everyone tuning in. appreciate everyone staying home. It is real. We still have to practice at least right now. What's the you know we're in March. We're still practicing social distancing.I almost forgot and I'll put this in show notes also, if you're looking to just make a difference in your community, Ron Lynch is a really close friend of Dr. Brown and I his name as name is Ron Lynch. He just started intellihelp about a week ago or a week and a half ago and intellihelp and intellihelp.org IntelahelpHelp. HELP. Intellihelp can be founded intellihelp.org. And intellihelp is intellihelp on Facebook. What it does, it's a very free service if you are available to give and help in service in any way. They've done really, really well over the last almost 10 or 15 days of if a woman needs diapers to take care of her kiddos and she doesn't want to leave the house. She just basically posts it someone who happens to be coming back from grocery store drops it off someone that kiddo needs to have an availability to have a free lunch dropped off because they're not getting lunches from school. Yeah, intellihelp is there to serve those people and to give you the ability to give back to them and trust me, if you feel a little bit down in the dumps, you'll feel a lot better once you're able to help somebody else and you feel like that you're notThat's awesome. That's awesome. So how do we prevent like a you know, our partner Mike Logsdon from gettin' on Intellihelp said I need a Guiness delivered to my house right now.There's no way to prevent that from happening because because Mike may need that Mike may need that Guiness. That is true. I have a feeling that as close as you live once you get on intellihelp Ken you'll be...Loyda goes where are you goin'? Mike needs his Guiness again.There's nothing I can do. I'm going to drop off some diapers and some can some some black aluminum cans at Mike's house.Yes. I love that. Awesome. Well, Ron Lynch, kudos to you. That is badass. Awesome. Thank you for being part of the solution.Definitely, definitely. All right. Well, I think that's the the end of second summit will be like I said it won't be a week until we get the third in. And we'll get a little bit more regular, a little bit more frequent as more news evolves. We're just kind of setting the stage here. But yeah,And if everyone can just comment, and let me know if you want it this sciency not so sciency. I mean, we're, we're, we're all learning as we go during this, because the because everything's coming out by the hour. Yeah. And we have the ability to go as deep as you want. We have the ability to find stuff that is not in print yet. And that's what I like when we're talking about stuff. And then three weeks later, the news we were talking about the anazmio well before it even made the news.Yeah. Well wondering if it was true, right. Remember that you said have read this. I have no idea if this is even accurate. I mean, between that and people shoving hair dryers up their nose, we didn't know which direction to go.True. Heat up the nose. That's right.Don't do that. It's terrific idea. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank y'all so much for tuning in and sharing a next installment here rather soon and they may not all be nearly this long, we may have some shorter...How long was this?Right in an hour? What? Yeah.It felt like 10 minutes.It's just a lot of info. Well, thank you Ken and, Paul, thanks for of course for putting everything together. We will see y'all next time on next COVID installment. I'm Eric Gregor. That's Dr. Ken Brown here with a gut check project. We will see y'all next time.Stay safe, everybody.

How do you bootstrap an ecommerce business to 7-figures with a small team of 3?Find out in this episode of the Wavebreak Podcast.I'm joined by Adam Hendle, founder of men's personal care brand Ballsy.In this episode he shares:- How they've quickly grown to millions in revenue with a small team- Influencer marketing strategies for 2020- Branding advice to make your advertising and marketing stand outAnd much more. Don't miss out, listen now!The 5-Minute Ecommerce Email Marketing HackStop leaving money on the table. Without great email marketing, you're missing out on 6-7 figures per year of revenue and profit.Download this checklist, go through it, and in less than 5 minutes you'll know exactly what you need to do to increase your email revenue.This is our secret sauce and we're giving it all away for free, no strings attached.Click here to download the checklist for free.Links:WavebreakBallsyBallsy's InstagramAdam's InstagramLearn more about WavebreakThis episode is sponsored by...Klaviyo — Over 10,000 innovative brands are growing their businesses by listening and understanding to cues from their customers--easily turning that information into valuable marketing messages used to build highly segmented, automated email campaigns, such as win back campaigns or abandoned cart emails and more.Rewind - Automatic Backups — Get peace of mind with daily, automatic Shopify and Klaviyo backups.

A bubbly and busy Hiria let's us know that the product is ready to go, she's prepping for some talks and is focusing her last week in the Zero Carbon Challenge on the PledgeMe campaign to get 200 kits to organisations.btw: product pricing is very hard :)Hiria has also published a stack of updates as LinkedIn videos, go check them outAnd finally, as Hiria hear's others are now able to "pitch" the product she is looking for a co-founder by asking around and gonna go 50/50.- TEDxWellington: https://www.tedxwellington.com/- LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/hiriaterangi------------------------------------------------------The Whare Hauora update is brought to you by Hiria Te Rangi and Access Granted NZ.All the episodes: https://www.accessgranted.nz/whare-hauora/ Get all the Whare Hauora updates:- http://www.wharehauora.nz/ - https://www.facebook.com/wharehauora/ - https://twitter.com/WhareHauora Access Granted takes you behind the scenes of tech, media, and startups, hosted by Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Vivian Chandra, and others. See you at #WellyTechShare, Follow and Like us on:- https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ - https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ - https://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcast - https://nstagram.com/accessgrantednz/ Subscribe to the show:- https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/#WellyTech news and events- https://wellytech.accessgranted.nz/- https://www.meetup.com/WellyTech/- https://mobile.twitter.com/wellytechnz Buy the AG merch:- https://www.accessgranted.nz/shop/

In the first episode, I introduce myself and explore the importance of setting learning goals as an effective teaching strategy to enhance student learning and help to create life-long learners. I also provide simple methods to make the learning goals explicitly known by your students. Listen to the audio above or read through the summary below Learning Goals by Daniel Jackson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Intro to Dan Teaching since 2006Currently the Deputy Principal at my schoolI’m a Google Trainer and InnovatorPassionate about quality teaching and producing life-long learners like me Why the Effective Teaching Podcast Our systems are so focused on testing that we have changed education to test preparationThis produces teaching that is habitual and often not engaging for our studentsEffective teaching is not about increasing test scores it is about producing life long learners so students are life ready So... I intend to provide a single effective teaching strategy with examples of how you can implement itI hope to interview teachers who are in the classroom and have effective strategies they are using. If that is you, please contact me through TeachersPD.net Learning Goals We should have learning goals for:UnitsWellbeingLessons and AssessmentsLarge goals should have subgoals, eg) units should have lesson goals etc that can be used to track progress and know the next steps in the learning process.These need to be clear and understood by the students. IPut goals on the boardOn slides I useOn resources, I hand outAnd talk through them at the beginning AND as we achieve themCelebrate the achievements B/C setting and achieving the goals is fun, but learning is hard. Set learning goals with your students Have a go. Start your lesson today by going through the learning goals that the students will achieve today. Put them on the board and tick them off, or in your slides at multiple points so check them off AND see if it improves their engagement and your knowledge of how they are progressing in their learning.

In the first episode, I introduce myself and explore the importance of setting learning goals as an effective teaching strategy to enhance student learning and help to create life-long learners. I also provide simple methods to make the learning goals explicitly known by your students. Listen to the audio above or read through the summary belowLearning Goals by Daniel Jackson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Join the Facebook CommunityIntro to DanTeaching since 2006Currently the Deputy Principal at my schoolI'm a Google Trainer and InnovatorPassionate about quality teaching and producing life-long learners like meWhy the Effective Teaching PodcastOur systems are so focused on testing that we have changed education to test preparationThis produces teaching that is habitual and often not engaging for our studentsEffective teaching is not about increasing test scores it is about producing life long learners so students are life readySo...I intend to provide a single effective teaching strategy with examples of how you can implement itI hope to interview teachers who are in the classroom and have effective strategies they are using. If that is you, please contact me through TeachersPD.netLearning GoalsWe should have learning goals for:UnitsWellbeingLessons andAssessmentsLarge goals should have subgoals, eg) units should have lesson goals etc that can be used to track progress and know the next steps in the learning process.These need to be clear and understood by the students. IPut goals on the boardOn slides I useOn resources, I hand outAnd talk through them at the beginning AND as we achieve themCelebrate the achievements B/C setting and achieving the goals is fun, but learning is hard.Set learning goals with your studentsHave a go. Start your lesson today by going through the learning goals that the students will achieve today. Put them on the board and tick them off, or in your slides at multiple points so check them offAND see if it improves their engagement and your knowledge of how they are progressing in their learning.

Women in wars on land and sea, whether queens or foot soldiers, rarely get their due—yet their lives are at least as interesting as their male counterparts’, not least because they had to leap through so many hoops to fight. Historian Pamela Toler wants us to know their names, and her new book, Women Warriors, is a global history covering everyone from the Trung sisters, who led an untrained, 80,000-strong Vietnamese army against the Chinese Empire, to Cheyenne warriors like Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who knocked General Custer off his horse. There are at least a hundred killer screenplay ideas lurking in the history books—if only we bothered to look.Go beyond the episode:Pamela D. Toler’s Women Warriors: An Unexpected HistoryRead an excerpt about the Russian First Women’s Battalion of DeathLearn about the lady pirates time forgot, including one who gave birth in the middle of a sea battle (and still won) and Cheng I Sao, who negotiated a sweet retirement package with the Chinese government when the Navy couldn’t take her outAnd meet Njinga, the West African queen who fended off the Portuguese (start at minute 21:30)Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Greetings everyone, my name is Julie Masters and welcome to another episode of Inside Influence. In which I delve into the minds of some of the world’s most fascinating influencers – or experts in influence - to get to the bottom of what it really takes to own your voice - and then amplify it to drive an industry, a conversation, a movement or a nation.In this episode, we are going to be fusing the world of influence and rock n roll...A few months ago - I had the huge privilege of being introduced - and being able to spend some time with the incredible Mark Schulman - who at the time of this interview was in the middle of touring as the lead drummer for multi platinum - global phenomenon - Pink. In addition to having performed for over 1 BILLION PEOPLE during his career - alongside world class performers such as Cher, Billy Idol, Simple Minds, Beyoncé and Tina Turner. Mark is also the author of the very fitting Conquering Life’s Stage Fright. In which he interviews global powerhouses like Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos), Jeremy Piven (well known Actor from the Entourage) and Alan Bean (Apollo 12 Astronaut) - out of sheer determination - and a personal commitment - to decode the magic of world-class performance.In other words what it takes to show up, reframe your fears and own what you’ve got with every cell in your body.What I loved about listening to Mark talk about the learnings from - and the process of writing - that particular book. Is that it’s a philosophy that sums him up entirely. While others are partying hard on the tour bus - Mark is sat with his headphones on - trying to unpack what makes masterful performers great - so he can show up even harder at the next location.I first met him on a cold winter’s morning in Sydney - I’m not sure what I was expecting - maybe someone vaguely (and understandably) tired after performing in front of an insane 21,000 people the night before. But the man that burst through the door - and quickly shot out again determined to make me a coffee - literally lit-up-the-room. As I would soon find out - this is one of the most engaged, curious and energised human beings that you could ever spend time with.Which speaks to the heart of this concept of the rockstar mindset - that attitude and energy are the PRIMARY fuel of any kind of world class performance - and everything, down to the phone call you just took - and the Tweet you’re about to send - is a form of performance.Like any field, mastering performance at a world-class level - isn’t about faking it. Or just putting a show. It’s about choosing your state, harnessing your energy, commiting to a lifetime of consistency, showing up and leaving everything you’ve got in the arena.So what did we talk about. During our conversation, we went rockstar hard into so many questions I had since first starting to learn about Mark’s career - including:Why what we perceive as fear - can be reframed as something manageable with some simple mental tools - One of those that I really want you to listen out for is the question ‘Am I free to fail…?’ - which I have literally used a hundred time since this interviewThe habits and rituals that literally transform paralysing fear into excitementWhat it means to ‘pick the stick back up’ and carry on - after any major set backHow to embody 'real' confidence - and the difference between that and rockstar certaintyHow to get out of your own way - and be of service - choosing the words ‘I get to do this’ rather than ‘I have to’ do this before any performanceWhat he took from interviewing some of the most incredible performers of our time - and the moment that motivated him to seek them outAnd why to him having a rockstar mindset is less about fame - and more about understanding that there are no small moments - every moment is criticalSo… get ready to flex your rock star muscles and soak up the insights of the insanely intelligent and insightful human being. Whether you’re a musician, a parent, a CEO, a doctor, a carpenter - or someone contemplating the next great leap. This episode is for the that moment - that moment when you have to choose between showing up with every shred of what you’ve got - or letting an opportunity to make real (and memorable) impact pass you by.So please - sit back - and enjoy my once in a lifetime conversation with Mark Schulman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

DIY - How to make the map it self: You’ll need:1 piece of poster board (they come in massive sizes which is great, but you can always cut them to size),you’ll need some different colored sheets of construction paper,color pencils, markers, crayons whatnota mason jar or other sized circle shaped items that you can trace.You might want to cut images out of some magazines, so you might need magazines.You’ll want a glue sticksome scissors and;a list of at least five goals or task or ideas that you are working with.Again if you’re using the app, they walk you through all that.How toStep 1: cut out the five different sized circles,write down your goals or tasks or ideas in bold letters on the circles you cut outAnd glue them to your poster boardThen draw at least three solid lines coming out in different directions out from each main idea. Like spiders legsAnd list out the supporting ideas, or the steps you’d need to take to reach that goal.

Today, four subjects:Countering right-wing spin on the election resultsA sober reminder on the health care front about what this is all about, beyond the left-right ideological battleHow the Bush administration is trying real hard to cause the most damage on its way outAnd, on a personal note, what Obama's win means to me, and what I think is the best way to persuade him to move in a strong

It's too early in the morning and I am podcasting after finishing an episode of the Renaissance Festival podcast dedicated to pirates. Songs: "Irish Rover" by Sligo Rags from The Night Before the Morning After "Patriot Game" by Brobdingnagian Bards from Songs of Ireland Notes: Pirate Music and Pirates of the Caribbean Coming back off the road What's with Cats who lie on top of you? Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Black Jack Murphy Live recording from a house concert Irish Roverwords and music traditional In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixWe set sail from the cold Cobh of Cork.We were sailing away with a cargo of bricksFor the grand city hall of New York.In an elegant craft, she was rigged fore-and-aftAnd oh, how the trade winds drove her.She had twenty-three masts and withstood several blastsAnd they called her the Irish Rover. There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee,There was Hogan from County Tyrone.There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of workAnd a chap from West Meade called Mallone.There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a ruleAnd fighting Bill Casey from Dover.And a man Mick McCann from the banks of the BannWas the skipper in the Irish Rover. We had one million bags of the best Sligo ragsWe had two million barrels of bones.We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails,We had four million barrels of stones.We had five million hogs, we had six million dogs,We had six million barrels of porter.We had eight million sides of old blind horses hides,In the hold of the Irish Rover. We had sailed seven years when the measles broke outAnd the ship lost her way in a fog. (big fog)And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two,Myself and the captain's old dog. (small dog woof)Then the ship struck a rock. Lord, what a shock!Then she heeled right over,She spun nine times around, and the poor old dog was drownedI'm the last of the Irish Rover. Patriot Gamewords and music by Dominic Behan Come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing,For the love of one's country is a terrible thing.It banishes fear with the speed of a flame,And it makes us all part of the patriot game. My name is O'Hanlon, and I've just turned sixteen.My home is in Monaghan, and where I was weanedI learned all my life cruel England's to blame,So now I am part of the patriot game. This Ireland of ours has too long been half free.Six counties lie under John Bull's tyranny.But still De Valera is greatly to blameFor shirking his part in the Patriot game. They told me how Connolly was shot in his chair,His wounds from the fighting all bloody and bare.His fine body twisted, all battered and lameThey soon made me part of the patriot game. It's nearly two years since I wandered awayWith the local battalion of the bold IRA,For I read of our heroes, and wanted the sameTo play out my part in the patriot game. [extra verse I found]I don't mind a bit if I shoot down policeThey are lackeys for war never guardians of peaceAnd yet at deserters I'm never let aimThe rebels who sold out the patriot game And now as I lie here, my body all holesI think of those traitors who bargained in soulsAnd I wish that my rifle had given the sameTo those Quislings who sold out the patriot game. Lyrics to Patriot Game found here.