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Join KItchen Chat host Margaret McSweeney as she steps both into the future and back in time, to the hallowed, historic grounds of the Raffles London at The OWO. Experience the property’s recent magnificent transformation of the Old War Office, a building where history was profoundly made, from the days of Winston Churchill to Ian Fleming’s… The post Raffles London at The OWO: A Taste of Luxury, History and Hospitality appeared first on Kitchen Chat.
As Singapore’s ultra high net worth individuals look beyond borders, legacy real estate is emerging as a resilient wealth strategy. Charlie Walsh Head of Residential Sales for London's The OWO Residences by Raffles shares why historic, branded assets like The OWO (formerly known as Britain's Old War Office) are attracting Asia’s elite — and what this means for global property portfolios. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Na początku audycji Sławomir Sokołowski, wiceprezes Fundacji „Universitas Varsoviensis”, komentuje tragiczne zdarzenie morderstwa na kampusie Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Następnie wraz z Darkiem Malejonkiem, muzykiem znanym m.in. z zespołu Maleo Reggae Rockers, zaprasza na Festiwal Piosenki Dziecięcej im. Króla Maciusia I. Goście wspominają postać Janusza Korczaka i podkreślają, jak wielką rolę odegrał on w misji upodmiotowania dzieci. Piotr Mistachowicz, dyrektor Wydawnictwa Esprit przedstawia słuchaczom s. Bożenę Marię Hanusiak, pustelnicę i zachęca do przeczytania jej książki, zatytułowanej Maryja Matka Nadziei. Rozważania czcicieli Maryi na miesiąc maj. Konrad Mędrzecki i Małgorzata Kleszcz łączą się też z przebywającą w Watykanie Hanną Tracz. Korespondentka Radia Wnet komentuje nastroje w Rzymie podczas konklawe i wprowadza materiał przygotowany przez Radio Watykańskie: Historia papieskich imion. W drugiej godzinie audycji, redaktorzy poruszają ważne wątki polityczne i społeczne. Łączą się z Arturem Żakiem, który komentuje decyzję ukraińskiego parlamentu o ratyfikacji umowy w sprawie zasobów mineralnych. Następnie prezentują rozmowę z lekarzem psychiatrą Adamem Zabrzygrajem. Nasz gość jest jednym z autorów listu opublikowanego w Kwartalniku Psychiatra, wchodzącego w polemikę ze stanowiskiem Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychiatrycznego oraz Konsultanta krajowego w dziedzinie psychiatrii. Owo stanowisko dotyczy wskazań do legalnego przerwania ciąży z przyczyn psychiatrycznych. Zdaniem naszego gościa, dokument ten nie odnosi się do danych naukowych i powołuje się przede wszystkim na dość wybiórczo potraktowany stan prawny.
The "Discovery" crew is jumping farther than they've ever gone before in "New Eden". A new Red Signal from the far end of the Beta Quadrant leads them to a colony somehow descended from WW3-era humans. Meanwhile, Tilly makes bad choices with a rock and Owo gets convenient-but-pointless background! Also this week: up yours, Phlox; empathy, in this economy?; and recasting TNG! [Timestamps: New Eden: 02:13; Fantasy TNG Actors: 1:00:17] [Check the picks: https://www.tumblr.com/sshbpodcast/778476642669625344/fantasy-casting-tng?source=share]
1117. Hoy quiero hablaros de ‘Microemprendedores', un podcast en el que he tenido la suerte de trabajar junto a Europa Press y CaixaBank, y que tiene como objetivo dar visibilidad a pequeños negocios y emprendedores que han convertido una idea en un proyecto real.‘Microemprendedores' es un podcast quincenal que, en episodios de entre 15 y 20 minutos, nos trae noticias relevantes sobre el mundo del emprendimiento, entrevistas con empresarios que han conseguido hacer crecer su negocio y una sección final con frases inspiradoras de grandes referentes. En definitiva, un espacio pensado para quienes ya están emprendiendo o quienes aún están en la fase de planificación y buscan motivación para dar el salto.En este episodio, hago un repaso por algunos de los invitados que ya han pasado por este podcast. Desde José Fuertes, CEO de OWO, que ha revolucionado la realidad virtual con su chaqueta háptica, hasta Daniel Mayo, que ha reinventado la hotelería con sus Vivood Landscape Hotels. También encontramos historias como la de Rubén Martínez, quien ha apostado por la inteligencia artificial en su empresa Biyectiva Technology, o la de Jorge Llopis, que junto a su socio Daniel García ha montado un brunch especializado en comida real en pleno centro de Madrid, llamado 'Las Cinco Hileras'.Cada episodio cierra con una cita inspiradora de emprendedores célebres, que deja en el oyente una última reflexión. Desde frases de Steve Jobs hasta lecciones de Ferran Adrià o Michael Jordan, todos los capítulos cierran con una idea que invita a seguir adelante.Además, quiero aprovechar para reconocer el trabajo de mis compañeros Alfredo Guardia, Carmen Martínez y, sobre todo, Ana Marchal, que semana a semana están detrás de este proyecto, haciendo que cada episodio llegue con la mejor calidad posible.Si te interesa el mundo del emprendimiento y buscas inspiración para arrancar o hacer crecer tu proyecto, te invito a descubrir ‘Microemprendedores'. Puedes encontrarlo en tu plataforma de podcast favorita: https://pod.link/1776594779_________________¡Gracias por pasarte 'Al otro lado del micrófono' un día más para seguir aprendiendo sobre podcasting!Si quieres descubrir cómo puedes unirte a la comunidad o a los diferentes canales donde está presente este podcast, te invito a visitar https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/unetePor otro lado, puedes suscribirte a la versión compacta, sin publicidad y anticipada de este podcast, 'El destilado del micrófono' a través de la plataforma Mumbler a través de: https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/destilado (Puedes escucharlo en cualquier app de podcast mediante un feed exclusivo para ti).Además, puedes apoyar el proyecto mediante un pequeño impulso mensual, desde un granito de café mensual hasta un brunch digital. Descubre las diferentes opciones entrando en: https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/cafe. También puedes apoyar el proyecto a través de tus compras en Amazon mediante mi enlace de afiliados https://alotroladodelmicrofono.com/amazonLa voz que puedes escuchar en la intro del podcast es de Juan Navarro Torelló (PoniendoVoces) y el diseño visual es de Antonio Poveda. La dirección, grabación y locución corre a cargo de Jorge Marín.'Al otro lado del micrófono' es una creación de EOVE Productora.
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In this conversation we discuss what it means to transform an monumental building like the OWO - the Old War Office - and the voices that contribute to the past, present and future of the space. To unpack the OWO, we're joined by David Scowcroft (Project Director) and Charlotte Partridge (Associate Director) from EPR Architects - one of the key partners for the LFA. During the conversation David and Charlotte explore the process of undertaking a transformation like this, the people involved, and the hidden stories that have arisen through their journey with the project. Download the transcript for the conversation here To learn more about the speakers and their work: Head to the EPR website here, or by give EPR a follow on Linkedin here. If the conversation has got you inspired to be part of LFA2025, find out how you can get involved in LFA2025 here.
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An escort asks her best friend for help on a job.by Cybotic. listen to the podcast at Steamy Stories. Erotic Appointment:Sophie stared at her friend in shock. “You can't be serious!”Millie was red-faced, but desperate. “Please? There's nobody else I can ask. I need your help.”“How long have you been doing this?”“Almost two years.”“Two years?” Sophie exclaimed. “And you kept it from me? We've been best friends for twenty years, ever since kindergarten. How could you not tell me?”“Look, it started when I took that trip to Australia to see my grandmother just before she died. I had exhausted my savings just getting down there. I had no money for the return trip or to cover my rent or car payment when I did get back.”“Okay,” Sophie said. “You could have called me. I would have found a way to help.”“I almost did. But then I was sitting in a bar in Sydney, drinking my last twenty dollars. A creepy, older man tried to pick me up. I said No. I turned him down flat. Then he offered me money. And I said Yes. I have been saying Yes ever since. I built a website and advertised on various escort sites. I got a new phone for my new job. And I was too embarrassed to tell you any of that.”Sophie realized that she had no right to judge Mellie. She had herself once been living with a boyfriend she'd come to despise. But she'd delayed ending the relationship because he was paying the rent and she couldn't afford a place of her own. She'd had sex with a guy for financial reasons. Morally, she'd made the same choice as her friend. It would be hypocritical to refuse her friend this favor.“All right,” she said, reluctantly agreeing. “I'll do it. Just don't expect me to make a habit of this. When and where does this happen?”“Tonight. I've booked a room at the Brighton Hotel,” Mellie said, relieved that she wouldn't have to cancel.“What do I wear to something like this?” Sophie asked, picturing a Victoria's Secret runway model.“Something comfortable but attractive. Jeans and a T-shirt. Or a dress if you'd like. It doesn't have to be sexy, so long as we don't look like slobs.”“Lingerie?”“Not necessary. See, we don't have to seduce these guys. No effort required. The moment they went on my website and clicked the ‘Book Appointment' link, the seduction was accomplished. I don't usually bother with underwear at all. Less to take off and put on again. But bring a swimsuit. We can use the hotel pool before the appointment.“"And after?” Sophie said, thinking how dirty she would probably feel afterward.“Well, you can get back in the pool afterward,” Mellie agreed. “I won't have time. I have more than one date scheduled tonight.”“How many?”“Four more. Five, altogether. If nobody cancels, it will be a busy night.”“Five? Really? You're going to let five different guys fuck you? In one night?”“That's the job,” Mellie said with a light laugh. “I've been fucked by more than a thousand men in the two years I've been at this.”“You count them?”“I do, yes. At first, I kept a journal, detailing each encounter. But it got to be too tedious. The experiences are exciting and fun but writing about them gets repetitive. Eventually, I was just making quick notes of the date, the location, and a description of the guy with whatever name he gives me. And since I always verify appointments by phone, I also have each guy's number. And I put it all in a database file. It helps a lot when I get repeat clients and regulars. I can look at my records and know a guy's likes and preferences. And, as a bonus, I know for a fact that I've been with over a thousand different men.”“Wow,” Sophie whispered. “Aren't you afraid of getting pregnant? Or a disease?”“I'm on birth control. And there is this special tree that grows in Australia. The Spotted Melaleuca. It produces an oil that enhances the human immune system. Almost 100% of infections are prevented. And the very few that aren't stopped completely are too weak and damaged to cause any harm. A girl I met down there is sending me a regular supply of Spotted Melaleuca tea. I never get sick anymore. No viruses. No bacteria. I can't even get food poisoning.”“Why don't they sell it here?”“Australia won't allow it to be exported. The US and Germany would rip out the forests to claim all of it for themselves.”“Can I have some of the tea?”“That depends,” Millie said. “It's pretty expensive stuff. Do you know what OWO means? Or BBBJ?”“No. Is that important?”“How about CIM?”“Again, I must say No.”“One more. Do you know what FS means?”“No clue,” Sophie said with a shrug.“OK. They're all shortcut terms escorts use. OWO means Oral With Out. Without a condom, that is. BBBJ, Bareback Blowjob, means the same thing. CIM means Come In Mouth. And FS means Full Service. That refers to regular penis-in-vagina sex. These are pretty standard offerings."I'm a very popular escort because I offer even more. My clients can get BBFS and CIP. That's Bareback Full Service and Cum In Pussy. I don't require condoms if the guy is willing to pay my Bareback rates. These guys coming tonight have already agreed to the rate. If you're willing to provide the service, I'll share my Melaleuca stash.”Sophie didn't have an answer. “I don't know. I can't promise anything. But if you'll let me have some of the tea, I promise to seriously consider trying.” She didn't even let her boyfriends fuck her without a condom. Now Millie was asking her to let a total stranger do it. And even to let him come inside her. She wasn't sure she could do it, Melaleuca or not.But Mellie was satisfied with even the possibility. She handed Sophie an envelope she'd pre-prepared, just in case they came to an agreement. It contained the hotel room number and a keycard, a note as to the time of the appointment, and a packet of the Melaleuca tea, with instructions. Then she left to make her own preparations.She returned at 1:30 to pick her up and drove them both to the hotel. After checking in, Mellie bought them lunch in the restaurant's little café, then they got into their bikinis to enjoy the pool. Sophie noticed a couple of older guys staring at her, paying a lot of attention to her tits.Usually, such a thing annoyed her. But she was here to have sex with a stranger. By comparison, it didn't seem to matter that these strangers were lusting after her. So let them look. Let them drool. She even managed to laugh when Mellie “accidentally” flashed them.At seven p.m., they went up to their room. They took turns in the shower, then got dressed. To boost her confidence for the upcoming ordeal, Sophie needed to make herself feel sexy. So she had chosen a pair of Daisy Dukes and a pink half-shirt. No bra. No panties. Mellie laughed to see her, wearing the comfortable jeans and t-shirt she had suggested to Sophie.At seven-thirty, the clients texted Mellie to confirm their appointment. She sent them the name of the hotel and the room number and told them to be prompt.At seven-fifty-four, the detectives on television were wrapping up the murder of a call girl, a storyline that didn't give Sophie much confidence. She took a big gulp of the whiskey Mellie offered her and savored the burn and buzz as the last few minutes counted down.At seven fifty-eight, there was a knock on the door. Sophie stood and watched as Mellie let the two guys in. They were not unattractive, but they were middle-aged and a little overweight. Neither was someone she'd give more than a glance at if she'd seen them in a bar.The taller, blonde one seemed nervous and inexperienced. Sophie suspected it was his first time engaging a prostitute. But the shorter guy, with the slight smirk on his face, had an expression that said this was nothing new for him. She wondered which one was hers.“Come in!” Mellie said to them. “As I told you in the text, Michelle couldn't come tonight. This is my friend Sabrina.” For tonight, Sophie was Sabrina.“Is she as friendly as you?” the shorter one asked.“She's very friendly,” Mellie said. “But how friendly do you want her to be?”“Does she do bareback?”Mellie glanced over at her friend. Sophie forced herself to nod. It was a tiny, brief gesture, barely there at all, but the message was communicated.“She does,” Mellie told the guys. “If you meet the price.”“That's no problem. A thousand dollars, right?”“Yes. But that's a thousand per guy, per girl. If you each want to fuck a girl, no condom, and come inside her, you each have to pay a thousand. If at some point you want to switch girls, that's another thousand each.”The short one nodded. “All right. I don't think we'll be switching. Just one on one. Bareback for both.”“Fine,” Mellie told him. “Two thousand dollars, please.”Sophie watched as the men paid Mellie. There was more negotiating and more money changing hands, but she had stopped listening. She'd forgotten to ask if she was going to get any of that money. A thousand dollars would be nice. She wasn't entirely sure she wanted it, though. Fucking one of these guys as a favor for a friend was one thing. If she took the money, she'd be a prostitute herself. She wasn't ready to make that choice yet.But she'd already agreed to the first part. And Mellie had the money. Whether Sophie got any of it or not, it was time to honor her promise. Mellie already had her shirt off and was shimmying out of her jeans.Other than a thong bikini she'd never had the guts to put on, Sophie was wearing the skimpiest clothes she owned and no underwear. It was supposed to make it easier to undress at this moment. But there was still a significant difference between almost naked and naked.It was kind of a relief when the short one came up to her, grabbed the hem of her shirt, and asked, “May I?” Sophie nodded and let him pull it up and over her head, leaving her tits bare for this guy she didn't even know.She didn't want his hands on her again, so she took the initiative and removed her Daisy Dukes herself. Now she and Mellie were both naked. And in front of two fully-dressed men she'd only just met. She'd had nightmares like this. But there was a strange excitement about feeling their hot eyes on her.The short one started moving toward her, but she wasn't quite ready for that. To stall him, she pointed at his clothes. “Your turn,” she said. She was more than a little intimidated at the idea of seeing him naked, but she was surprised to find she was looking forward to it as well.She didn't know their names, and she didn't want to. But she needed some new way to label them. It was inappropriate to keep calling this man “the short one” as he was taller than Mellie or herself. Prostitutes called their customers “johns,” she remembered. As she was about to commit her very first act of prostitution, it would be fitting to refer to them as John 1 and John 2.And John 1 now had his clothes off. His dick was stiff and pointing at Sophie with clear intention. But Mellie had rules for these encounters. “Did you guys read the website?”“Of course,” John 1 answered.“Then you remember that you're required to take a shower first. Hurry up so we can get down to business.”The guys went into the bathroom, leaving the door open, obviously uncomfortable being naked with each other. They were in and out within five minutes.“Blowjobs first,” Mellie whispered in her ear as the guys came out, toweling off vigorously. “You have given one before, haven't you?”“Of course,” Sophie hissed back. “I taught you how to do it, remember?”“Oh, right! The banana. Back in the dorms. That was a valuable lesson.”But the guys were ready now. Mellie took John 2 to one of the hotel beds. Sophie followed her example and led John 1 to the other. He sat down and scooted back expectantly, lying back with his legs spread and his hands behind his head.Sophie was almost amused. If some boyfriend had waited so arrogantly to be serviced, she would have teased him to the point of torture before finally refusing. But this guy had a right to his expectations.This was it. No more delays. But Sophie was ready now. And she enjoyed giving blowjobs. She had turned it into an art form. Back in college, she had insisted that Mellie learn how to give head. But Sophie had picked up new skills and techniques since then.John 1 smelled like soap, which Sophie appreciated. She liked Mellie's shower rule. Starting at his feet, Sophie ran her hands up his legs, slowly, tickling as she did so. But she stopped short of his groin. She had special plans for that area.Sophie didn't give blowjobs any more. She gave massages with her tongue. Where her fingers had stopped stroking, she started to lick, tasting his upper thighs. She let her cheek brush against his balls but otherwise ignored them. Their time was coming.Like a cat, she bathed him, licking his thighs, his abdomen, almost to his navel, making a wide circle around his jutting erection, careful to avoid contact. With her thumbs, she rubbed the valley where his legs met his body, just a millimeter or two from his balls.He grunted lightly when her thumb lightly brushed against the little ball hairs. It was a barely-there touch. It could have almost been an accident. With her tongue circling his cock, coming ever closer, there was almost no chance that such a thing would happen accidentally. But it was possible.And that held a great deal of the eroticism.Sophie knew that when a girl flashes her boyfriend, it's exciting for them both. But if a guy just happens to see the wind blow up the skirt of a girl not wearing underwear or if he spies on a girl skinny-dipping in a creek, that's even more of a thrill. It's the same for the girl who decides not to put on panties on a very windy day or swims naked in a stream when she knows there are guys nearby that might see her. Sexy little accidents are much more erotic than anything deliberate, even if the accidents themselves are deliberate.Sophie brought her tongue to the base of the cock and licked around it, never climbing higher up the shaft than the roots of the curling hairs. She'd read a book once that described blowjob techniques and she'd practiced them on an old boyfriend. And right now, it was much easier to simply go through the exercises than to think about the total stranger whose penis she was tasting. And she absolutely did not want to remember that this performance had been paid for.“My mother would be so ashamed,” Sophie thought to herself as she massaged the john's balls with her tongue. She liked the tight, wrinkly skin and the taste of male sweat. It wasn't a pleasant flavor, but it was an exciting one. Sophie could feel her pussy watering just from the mental stimulation of pleasing this dick.A quick glance to the other bed showed her that Mellie was already bobbing up and down on John 2. It wasn't a race, but Sophie was a big believer in fair play. What one john got, the other should get. It was time to stop teasing.She ran her tongue up the underside of John 1's cock, from his balls to the crown to the very tip. Because it excited her, she did it again a second time. She almost giggled when the john shivered with delight under her efforts.As she reached the tip of him again, she opened her lips and took him in. He was thick and hot in her mouth. Sophie pushed her head forward, letting him slide deeper until he was almost triggering her gag reflex. As much as she enjoyed giving head, deep-throating was beyond her capabilities. But just filling her mouth with him was just thrilling.It had been months, almost a year, since Sophie had last tasted a cock. She'd missed it. Her last boyfriend had left after she'd caught him cheating and she'd been unwilling to get this close to any guy since.Perhaps there were benefits to Mellie's lifestyle. A cock in her mouth every single day, for one. Sophie could definitely go for an arrangement like that. And she would have no reason for jealousy. She'd be the reason for other women to get jealous. The whore is not even the other woman in such an encounter. She's just a vendor, selling a service to the guy who wants more than the wife and the mistress.Sophie bobbed on him, swiping her tongue back and forth as she slid her lips up and down his shaft. He was breathing heavily and moaning as she worked his dick with her mouth. She could almost taste his cum and wanted it on her tongue.But John 1 was grabbing her head and pushing her off and away. “No,” he said. “I need to fuck your cunt.”It was the worst of the bad words. But Sophie welcomed it. She was not a woman today. She was a cunt. A professional cunt. A cunt for hire.But she was also a pair of professional tits. Sophie moved up the john's body and let his cock nestle between her tits. She lowered her head and kissed his belly, moving from side to side, massaging the dick with her breasts.The john was getting impatient, she sensed. Sophie sighed with some regret, enjoying the penis on her tits. But she had a job to do, even if she wasn't getting paid for it. She crawled up the bed and flopped down on her back next to John 1. “Fuck me,” she said.“No condom?” he asked, making sure he was clear on the agreement.“No condom,” Sophie confirmed. “Put it in bareback. Come right inside me.”John 1 climbed on top of her. Sophie opened her legs in welcome, lifting her knees to give him a cradle. She reached down between her legs and took hold of his cock, still wet from her mouth, and positioned it at her entrance.He lowered himself onto her, sliding inside. Sophie couldn't help the little grunt that came out of her at the shock of being invaded. But it was a delightful sensation, one that she'd denied herself for too long.Maybe Mellie had the right idea after all. Women want sex as much as men. To get fucked every night and get paid for it would be just heaven. Mellie had had over a thousand cocks inside her. That was amazing. That was suddenly Sophie's new fantasy. She wanted that for herself.She looked up into the face of the stranger above her. There was a freedom in not knowing his name or anything about him. She didn't have to pretend to orgasm, even though that cock pounding her might do the job anyway. She didn't have to like him or visit his family or cook him dinner. All she had to was spread her legs and let him fuck her. That was easy and fun.And the freedom went both ways. He was paying for this service. He didn't have to be embarrassed about asking for things. While most guys would never in a million years admit to a female they're interested in that they've been with a prostitute, John 1 and all the other johns could speak freely in front of the prostitute herself. That meant he could be honest about all the other fantasies he'd been having as well.Sophie studied his face as he drove himself in and out of her. It felt wonderful. Maybe too wonderful. She was getting close to climax. Was a whore supposed to orgasm? The guys probably liked it to happen, or at least to believe that it happened. But Sophie felt kind of shy about it.It was already surreal that she and Mellie were getting fucked side by side in the same hotel room. And it was even weirder that two total strangers were doing the deed. It was unbelievable that Sophie was on her first ever job as a working prostitute. She was coming to terms with all of that. But maybe it was unprofessional to come with a john.If she did come, which was starting to seem more and more inevitable, she didn't care if John 1 knew. He deserved to know. It would probably boost his ego and make this experience an even better bang for his bucks. It was a little weirder to think about John 2 being aware of it. He wasn't the one fucking her. It would be like somebody walking in on her masturbating. But Sophie could handle that, she thought. It was, however, incredibly embarrassing to think about Mellie knowing.The guys were strangers. She would never see them again. But Mellie was her best friend. It was too strange to think of her seeing Sophie in climax. And Mellie was a professional whore. Sophie didn't want to make a bad impression on her.But suddenly it was too late to even think about it as all her thoughts dissolved and the orgasm took her. She wrapped her legs around her john and tried to pull him in as deep as possible as she trembled beneath him.Somewhere in the back of her mind, she was aware that John 1 was also coming, pumping his seed into her. She had always avoided that in the past. Only one man had ever been allowed to fuck her without a condom, and to pop in her pussy. Her other three previous partners had been required to wear condoms. No man goo in her cunt, thank you very much.But today, she welcomed it. It fed her own ongoing ecstasy. His thick, pulsing cock and the warm wetness flowing into her pussy were the most erotic experience she'd ever had. The fact that she didn't even know this man's name made it even hotter that she was receiving his cum.But even that exquisite thought faded under the onslaught of pure joy that claimed her, body and soul. Sophie ceased to exist. There was only the orgasm. It took her through a scenic tour of Heaven, hitting all the highlights and wonders, then brought her back to Earth, and left her lightly sleeping.Slowly, she came back to herself. John 1 was still on top of her, still inside her, resting and recovering from his climax. Sophie looked over to the other bed, where Mellie was still getting fucked by John 2. It was a beautiful sight for the sheltered eyes of Sophie, who had never even watched a porn movie.Mellie's legs were wide open, cradling her john between them, blocking Sophie's view, so she couldn't actually see his cock entering her friend. She desperately wanted that sight, but it was still exciting to watch him thrusting against Mellie.Mellie was moaning convincingly, very professional in Sophie's opinion. And John 2 was panting and grunting as he fucked her. Her own john seemed to be dozing. so this was like a private, live sex show for Sophie's eyes only.She watched with her eyes wide and a broad grin on her face as John 2 made a final deep thrust and groaned as his whole body quivered in orgasm. Mellie had her head thrown back in a marvelous simulation of coming. Sophie wondered if it was maybe genuine after all. It was wonderful to be watching this with John 1's cock still buried deep within her.But all too soon, it was over. John 2 finished coming and John 1 woke up. Both men disengaged and stood up. Embarrassed to be naked in front of each other, they started pulling on their clothes. Sophie supposed she needed to rise and dress as well, but she was feeling too relaxed. And Mellie seemed to be in no hurry.Mellie came over to where Sophie was lying, climbed up on the bed, and suddenly climbed on top of her in a 69 position. What the hell was this?Sophie had never in her life really seen a pussy. She'd examined her own with the safe distance provided by a mirror, but that was it. Now Mellie's pussy was right above her face, shaved smooth, shiny with wetness, and the lips still slightly parted from the recent plowing by John 2's cock.It was not a sight she was really prepared for, and then Mellie sat down right on Sophie's head, pressing her used pussy hard against her face and grinding. Sophie had to breathe through her mouth when her nose slipped into friend's entrance.And then Mellie's tongue and at least two fingers were in Sophie's own pussy. She gasped to realize that her friend was scooping the cum out of Sophie's cunt and licking it all up. And a warm, salty flavor informed her that Mellie was pushing out her own deposit of semen onto Sophie's lips.She hadn't agreed to this. It hadn't even been discussed. She didn't mind the taste of cum. She liked giving blowjobs and making a guy come right on her tongue. But she wasn't sure she wanted to eat cum out of a pussy. That was going just a bit far for her first time in this job.But then Mellie was getting off her and pulling Sophie up to a sitting position. Mellie made a show of licking her face, cleaning off all the cum. It was oddly erotic to have her face licked, Sophie thought. She wouldn't mind having that on a regular basis. And now that she had experienced it, a girl's tongue and fingers in her cunt hadn't been bad at all. Whores did lesbian shows for their clients sometimes, didn't they? How many women had Mellie been with, Sophie wondered.Mellie opened her mouth to let the guys see their cum on her tongue, then smiled and swallowed it down. Happy and satisfied, the boys left the room and Sophie was alone with Mellie.“You did great,” Mellie said. “Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have no idea how much I appreciate you.” She went to the hotel desk drawer and pulled out the money the guys had given her.“I charge a thousand dollars for Bareback Full Service, Cum In Pussy, and another five hundred to eat a guy's cum out of a girl's pussy. Both guys paid the price, so here's your half. Fifteen hundred for an hour's work.”Sophie took the money slowly. She had done it. She had taken money for sex. That made her a whore for real and forever. She could never again look down on strippers or porn stars or even sluts. She had fucked for cash. There was no coming back from that. And she didn't regret it.“I'm sorry,” Mellie said, “but I have to throw you out. You can share a shower with me if you'd like, but we have to make it quick. I've got another client coming in about ten minutes and then two more in quick succession. I would really appreciate it if you'd go down to the pool for a while and maybe the bar or the coffee shop. You can even go home if you'd like. But I need the room."There's a shower in the pool locker room,” Sophie said, amused at her friend's dilemma. “And I am hungry. A margarita would taste pretty good right now. I can stay gone for a few hours. I'll have my phone with me. Call me when the coast is clear.”Sophie took a deep breath, committing herself, and added, “You can call me if you need another girl too. And not just for tonight.” Then she put on her revealing, but respectable bikini, and covered it with the slutty Daisy Dukes and half-tee. With a last look at Mellie, she left the room, hoping to be called back soon.by Cybotic for LiteroticaDisclaimer: This is a fantasy. There is no magical Australian plant that prevents STDs.
An escort asks her best friend for help on a job.by Cybotic. listen to the podcast at Steamy Stories. Erotic Appointment:Sophie stared at her friend in shock. “You can't be serious!”Millie was red-faced, but desperate. “Please? There's nobody else I can ask. I need your help.”“How long have you been doing this?”“Almost two years.”“Two years?” Sophie exclaimed. “And you kept it from me? We've been best friends for twenty years, ever since kindergarten. How could you not tell me?”“Look, it started when I took that trip to Australia to see my grandmother just before she died. I had exhausted my savings just getting down there. I had no money for the return trip or to cover my rent or car payment when I did get back.”“Okay,” Sophie said. “You could have called me. I would have found a way to help.”“I almost did. But then I was sitting in a bar in Sydney, drinking my last twenty dollars. A creepy, older man tried to pick me up. I said No. I turned him down flat. Then he offered me money. And I said Yes. I have been saying Yes ever since. I built a website and advertised on various escort sites. I got a new phone for my new job. And I was too embarrassed to tell you any of that.”Sophie realized that she had no right to judge Mellie. She had herself once been living with a boyfriend she'd come to despise. But she'd delayed ending the relationship because he was paying the rent and she couldn't afford a place of her own. She'd had sex with a guy for financial reasons. Morally, she'd made the same choice as her friend. It would be hypocritical to refuse her friend this favor.“All right,” she said, reluctantly agreeing. “I'll do it. Just don't expect me to make a habit of this. When and where does this happen?”“Tonight. I've booked a room at the Brighton Hotel,” Mellie said, relieved that she wouldn't have to cancel.“What do I wear to something like this?” Sophie asked, picturing a Victoria's Secret runway model.“Something comfortable but attractive. Jeans and a T-shirt. Or a dress if you'd like. It doesn't have to be sexy, so long as we don't look like slobs.”“Lingerie?”“Not necessary. See, we don't have to seduce these guys. No effort required. The moment they went on my website and clicked the ‘Book Appointment' link, the seduction was accomplished. I don't usually bother with underwear at all. Less to take off and put on again. But bring a swimsuit. We can use the hotel pool before the appointment.“"And after?” Sophie said, thinking how dirty she would probably feel afterward.“Well, you can get back in the pool afterward,” Mellie agreed. “I won't have time. I have more than one date scheduled tonight.”“How many?”“Four more. Five, altogether. If nobody cancels, it will be a busy night.”“Five? Really? You're going to let five different guys fuck you? In one night?”“That's the job,” Mellie said with a light laugh. “I've been fucked by more than a thousand men in the two years I've been at this.”“You count them?”“I do, yes. At first, I kept a journal, detailing each encounter. But it got to be too tedious. The experiences are exciting and fun but writing about them gets repetitive. Eventually, I was just making quick notes of the date, the location, and a description of the guy with whatever name he gives me. And since I always verify appointments by phone, I also have each guy's number. And I put it all in a database file. It helps a lot when I get repeat clients and regulars. I can look at my records and know a guy's likes and preferences. And, as a bonus, I know for a fact that I've been with over a thousand different men.”“Wow,” Sophie whispered. “Aren't you afraid of getting pregnant? Or a disease?”“I'm on birth control. And there is this special tree that grows in Australia. The Spotted Melaleuca. It produces an oil that enhances the human immune system. Almost 100% of infections are prevented. And the very few that aren't stopped completely are too weak and damaged to cause any harm. A girl I met down there is sending me a regular supply of Spotted Melaleuca tea. I never get sick anymore. No viruses. No bacteria. I can't even get food poisoning.”“Why don't they sell it here?”“Australia won't allow it to be exported. The US and Germany would rip out the forests to claim all of it for themselves.”“Can I have some of the tea?”“That depends,” Millie said. “It's pretty expensive stuff. Do you know what OWO means? Or BBBJ?”“No. Is that important?”“How about CIM?”“Again, I must say No.”“One more. Do you know what FS means?”“No clue,” Sophie said with a shrug.“OK. They're all shortcut terms escorts use. OWO means Oral With Out. Without a condom, that is. BBBJ, Bareback Blowjob, means the same thing. CIM means Come In Mouth. And FS means Full Service. That refers to regular penis-in-vagina sex. These are pretty standard offerings."I'm a very popular escort because I offer even more. My clients can get BBFS and CIP. That's Bareback Full Service and Cum In Pussy. I don't require condoms if the guy is willing to pay my Bareback rates. These guys coming tonight have already agreed to the rate. If you're willing to provide the service, I'll share my Melaleuca stash.”Sophie didn't have an answer. “I don't know. I can't promise anything. But if you'll let me have some of the tea, I promise to seriously consider trying.” She didn't even let her boyfriends fuck her without a condom. Now Millie was asking her to let a total stranger do it. And even to let him come inside her. She wasn't sure she could do it, Melaleuca or not.But Mellie was satisfied with even the possibility. She handed Sophie an envelope she'd pre-prepared, just in case they came to an agreement. It contained the hotel room number and a keycard, a note as to the time of the appointment, and a packet of the Melaleuca tea, with instructions. Then she left to make her own preparations.She returned at 1:30 to pick her up and drove them both to the hotel. After checking in, Mellie bought them lunch in the restaurant's little café, then they got into their bikinis to enjoy the pool. Sophie noticed a couple of older guys staring at her, paying a lot of attention to her tits.Usually, such a thing annoyed her. But she was here to have sex with a stranger. By comparison, it didn't seem to matter that these strangers were lusting after her. So let them look. Let them drool. She even managed to laugh when Mellie “accidentally” flashed them.At seven p.m., they went up to their room. They took turns in the shower, then got dressed. To boost her confidence for the upcoming ordeal, Sophie needed to make herself feel sexy. So she had chosen a pair of Daisy Dukes and a pink half-shirt. No bra. No panties. Mellie laughed to see her, wearing the comfortable jeans and t-shirt she had suggested to Sophie.At seven-thirty, the clients texted Mellie to confirm their appointment. She sent them the name of the hotel and the room number and told them to be prompt.At seven-fifty-four, the detectives on television were wrapping up the murder of a call girl, a storyline that didn't give Sophie much confidence. She took a big gulp of the whiskey Mellie offered her and savored the burn and buzz as the last few minutes counted down.At seven fifty-eight, there was a knock on the door. Sophie stood and watched as Mellie let the two guys in. They were not unattractive, but they were middle-aged and a little overweight. Neither was someone she'd give more than a glance at if she'd seen them in a bar.The taller, blonde one seemed nervous and inexperienced. Sophie suspected it was his first time engaging a prostitute. But the shorter guy, with the slight smirk on his face, had an expression that said this was nothing new for him. She wondered which one was hers.“Come in!” Mellie said to them. “As I told you in the text, Michelle couldn't come tonight. This is my friend Sabrina.” For tonight, Sophie was Sabrina.“Is she as friendly as you?” the shorter one asked.“She's very friendly,” Mellie said. “But how friendly do you want her to be?”“Does she do bareback?”Mellie glanced over at her friend. Sophie forced herself to nod. It was a tiny, brief gesture, barely there at all, but the message was communicated.“She does,” Mellie told the guys. “If you meet the price.”“That's no problem. A thousand dollars, right?”“Yes. But that's a thousand per guy, per girl. If you each want to fuck a girl, no condom, and come inside her, you each have to pay a thousand. If at some point you want to switch girls, that's another thousand each.”The short one nodded. “All right. I don't think we'll be switching. Just one on one. Bareback for both.”“Fine,” Mellie told him. “Two thousand dollars, please.”Sophie watched as the men paid Mellie. There was more negotiating and more money changing hands, but she had stopped listening. She'd forgotten to ask if she was going to get any of that money. A thousand dollars would be nice. She wasn't entirely sure she wanted it, though. Fucking one of these guys as a favor for a friend was one thing. If she took the money, she'd be a prostitute herself. She wasn't ready to make that choice yet.But she'd already agreed to the first part. And Mellie had the money. Whether Sophie got any of it or not, it was time to honor her promise. Mellie already had her shirt off and was shimmying out of her jeans.Other than a thong bikini she'd never had the guts to put on, Sophie was wearing the skimpiest clothes she owned and no underwear. It was supposed to make it easier to undress at this moment. But there was still a significant difference between almost naked and naked.It was kind of a relief when the short one came up to her, grabbed the hem of her shirt, and asked, “May I?” Sophie nodded and let him pull it up and over her head, leaving her tits bare for this guy she didn't even know.She didn't want his hands on her again, so she took the initiative and removed her Daisy Dukes herself. Now she and Mellie were both naked. And in front of two fully-dressed men she'd only just met. She'd had nightmares like this. But there was a strange excitement about feeling their hot eyes on her.The short one started moving toward her, but she wasn't quite ready for that. To stall him, she pointed at his clothes. “Your turn,” she said. She was more than a little intimidated at the idea of seeing him naked, but she was surprised to find she was looking forward to it as well.She didn't know their names, and she didn't want to. But she needed some new way to label them. It was inappropriate to keep calling this man “the short one” as he was taller than Mellie or herself. Prostitutes called their customers “johns,” she remembered. As she was about to commit her very first act of prostitution, it would be fitting to refer to them as John 1 and John 2.And John 1 now had his clothes off. His dick was stiff and pointing at Sophie with clear intention. But Mellie had rules for these encounters. “Did you guys read the website?”“Of course,” John 1 answered.“Then you remember that you're required to take a shower first. Hurry up so we can get down to business.”The guys went into the bathroom, leaving the door open, obviously uncomfortable being naked with each other. They were in and out within five minutes.“Blowjobs first,” Mellie whispered in her ear as the guys came out, toweling off vigorously. “You have given one before, haven't you?”“Of course,” Sophie hissed back. “I taught you how to do it, remember?”“Oh, right! The banana. Back in the dorms. That was a valuable lesson.”But the guys were ready now. Mellie took John 2 to one of the hotel beds. Sophie followed her example and led John 1 to the other. He sat down and scooted back expectantly, lying back with his legs spread and his hands behind his head.Sophie was almost amused. If some boyfriend had waited so arrogantly to be serviced, she would have teased him to the point of torture before finally refusing. But this guy had a right to his expectations.This was it. No more delays. But Sophie was ready now. And she enjoyed giving blowjobs. She had turned it into an art form. Back in college, she had insisted that Mellie learn how to give head. But Sophie had picked up new skills and techniques since then.John 1 smelled like soap, which Sophie appreciated. She liked Mellie's shower rule. Starting at his feet, Sophie ran her hands up his legs, slowly, tickling as she did so. But she stopped short of his groin. She had special plans for that area.Sophie didn't give blowjobs any more. She gave massages with her tongue. Where her fingers had stopped stroking, she started to lick, tasting his upper thighs. She let her cheek brush against his balls but otherwise ignored them. Their time was coming.Like a cat, she bathed him, licking his thighs, his abdomen, almost to his navel, making a wide circle around his jutting erection, careful to avoid contact. With her thumbs, she rubbed the valley where his legs met his body, just a millimeter or two from his balls.He grunted lightly when her thumb lightly brushed against the little ball hairs. It was a barely-there touch. It could have almost been an accident. With her tongue circling his cock, coming ever closer, there was almost no chance that such a thing would happen accidentally. But it was possible.And that held a great deal of the eroticism.Sophie knew that when a girl flashes her boyfriend, it's exciting for them both. But if a guy just happens to see the wind blow up the skirt of a girl not wearing underwear or if he spies on a girl skinny-dipping in a creek, that's even more of a thrill. It's the same for the girl who decides not to put on panties on a very windy day or swims naked in a stream when she knows there are guys nearby that might see her. Sexy little accidents are much more erotic than anything deliberate, even if the accidents themselves are deliberate.Sophie brought her tongue to the base of the cock and licked around it, never climbing higher up the shaft than the roots of the curling hairs. She'd read a book once that described blowjob techniques and she'd practiced them on an old boyfriend. And right now, it was much easier to simply go through the exercises than to think about the total stranger whose penis she was tasting. And she absolutely did not want to remember that this performance had been paid for.“My mother would be so ashamed,” Sophie thought to herself as she massaged the john's balls with her tongue. She liked the tight, wrinkly skin and the taste of male sweat. It wasn't a pleasant flavor, but it was an exciting one. Sophie could feel her pussy watering just from the mental stimulation of pleasing this dick.A quick glance to the other bed showed her that Mellie was already bobbing up and down on John 2. It wasn't a race, but Sophie was a big believer in fair play. What one john got, the other should get. It was time to stop teasing.She ran her tongue up the underside of John 1's cock, from his balls to the crown to the very tip. Because it excited her, she did it again a second time. She almost giggled when the john shivered with delight under her efforts.As she reached the tip of him again, she opened her lips and took him in. He was thick and hot in her mouth. Sophie pushed her head forward, letting him slide deeper until he was almost triggering her gag reflex. As much as she enjoyed giving head, deep-throating was beyond her capabilities. But just filling her mouth with him was just thrilling.It had been months, almost a year, since Sophie had last tasted a cock. She'd missed it. Her last boyfriend had left after she'd caught him cheating and she'd been unwilling to get this close to any guy since.Perhaps there were benefits to Mellie's lifestyle. A cock in her mouth every single day, for one. Sophie could definitely go for an arrangement like that. And she would have no reason for jealousy. She'd be the reason for other women to get jealous. The whore is not even the other woman in such an encounter. She's just a vendor, selling a service to the guy who wants more than the wife and the mistress.Sophie bobbed on him, swiping her tongue back and forth as she slid her lips up and down his shaft. He was breathing heavily and moaning as she worked his dick with her mouth. She could almost taste his cum and wanted it on her tongue.But John 1 was grabbing her head and pushing her off and away. “No,” he said. “I need to fuck your cunt.”It was the worst of the bad words. But Sophie welcomed it. She was not a woman today. She was a cunt. A professional cunt. A cunt for hire.But she was also a pair of professional tits. Sophie moved up the john's body and let his cock nestle between her tits. She lowered her head and kissed his belly, moving from side to side, massaging the dick with her breasts.The john was getting impatient, she sensed. Sophie sighed with some regret, enjoying the penis on her tits. But she had a job to do, even if she wasn't getting paid for it. She crawled up the bed and flopped down on her back next to John 1. “Fuck me,” she said.“No condom?” he asked, making sure he was clear on the agreement.“No condom,” Sophie confirmed. “Put it in bareback. Come right inside me.”John 1 climbed on top of her. Sophie opened her legs in welcome, lifting her knees to give him a cradle. She reached down between her legs and took hold of his cock, still wet from her mouth, and positioned it at her entrance.He lowered himself onto her, sliding inside. Sophie couldn't help the little grunt that came out of her at the shock of being invaded. But it was a delightful sensation, one that she'd denied herself for too long.Maybe Mellie had the right idea after all. Women want sex as much as men. To get fucked every night and get paid for it would be just heaven. Mellie had had over a thousand cocks inside her. That was amazing. That was suddenly Sophie's new fantasy. She wanted that for herself.She looked up into the face of the stranger above her. There was a freedom in not knowing his name or anything about him. She didn't have to pretend to orgasm, even though that cock pounding her might do the job anyway. She didn't have to like him or visit his family or cook him dinner. All she had to was spread her legs and let him fuck her. That was easy and fun.And the freedom went both ways. He was paying for this service. He didn't have to be embarrassed about asking for things. While most guys would never in a million years admit to a female they're interested in that they've been with a prostitute, John 1 and all the other johns could speak freely in front of the prostitute herself. That meant he could be honest about all the other fantasies he'd been having as well.Sophie studied his face as he drove himself in and out of her. It felt wonderful. Maybe too wonderful. She was getting close to climax. Was a whore supposed to orgasm? The guys probably liked it to happen, or at least to believe that it happened. But Sophie felt kind of shy about it.It was already surreal that she and Mellie were getting fucked side by side in the same hotel room. And it was even weirder that two total strangers were doing the deed. It was unbelievable that Sophie was on her first ever job as a working prostitute. She was coming to terms with all of that. But maybe it was unprofessional to come with a john.If she did come, which was starting to seem more and more inevitable, she didn't care if John 1 knew. He deserved to know. It would probably boost his ego and make this experience an even better bang for his bucks. It was a little weirder to think about John 2 being aware of it. He wasn't the one fucking her. It would be like somebody walking in on her masturbating. But Sophie could handle that, she thought. It was, however, incredibly embarrassing to think about Mellie knowing.The guys were strangers. She would never see them again. But Mellie was her best friend. It was too strange to think of her seeing Sophie in climax. And Mellie was a professional whore. Sophie didn't want to make a bad impression on her.But suddenly it was too late to even think about it as all her thoughts dissolved and the orgasm took her. She wrapped her legs around her john and tried to pull him in as deep as possible as she trembled beneath him.Somewhere in the back of her mind, she was aware that John 1 was also coming, pumping his seed into her. She had always avoided that in the past. Only one man had ever been allowed to fuck her without a condom, and to pop in her pussy. Her other three previous partners had been required to wear condoms. No man goo in her cunt, thank you very much.But today, she welcomed it. It fed her own ongoing ecstasy. His thick, pulsing cock and the warm wetness flowing into her pussy were the most erotic experience she'd ever had. The fact that she didn't even know this man's name made it even hotter that she was receiving his cum.But even that exquisite thought faded under the onslaught of pure joy that claimed her, body and soul. Sophie ceased to exist. There was only the orgasm. It took her through a scenic tour of Heaven, hitting all the highlights and wonders, then brought her back to Earth, and left her lightly sleeping.Slowly, she came back to herself. John 1 was still on top of her, still inside her, resting and recovering from his climax. Sophie looked over to the other bed, where Mellie was still getting fucked by John 2. It was a beautiful sight for the sheltered eyes of Sophie, who had never even watched a porn movie.Mellie's legs were wide open, cradling her john between them, blocking Sophie's view, so she couldn't actually see his cock entering her friend. She desperately wanted that sight, but it was still exciting to watch him thrusting against Mellie.Mellie was moaning convincingly, very professional in Sophie's opinion. And John 2 was panting and grunting as he fucked her. Her own john seemed to be dozing. so this was like a private, live sex show for Sophie's eyes only.She watched with her eyes wide and a broad grin on her face as John 2 made a final deep thrust and groaned as his whole body quivered in orgasm. Mellie had her head thrown back in a marvelous simulation of coming. Sophie wondered if it was maybe genuine after all. It was wonderful to be watching this with John 1's cock still buried deep within her.But all too soon, it was over. John 2 finished coming and John 1 woke up. Both men disengaged and stood up. Embarrassed to be naked in front of each other, they started pulling on their clothes. Sophie supposed she needed to rise and dress as well, but she was feeling too relaxed. And Mellie seemed to be in no hurry.Mellie came over to where Sophie was lying, climbed up on the bed, and suddenly climbed on top of her in a 69 position. What the hell was this?Sophie had never in her life really seen a pussy. She'd examined her own with the safe distance provided by a mirror, but that was it. Now Mellie's pussy was right above her face, shaved smooth, shiny with wetness, and the lips still slightly parted from the recent plowing by John 2's cock.It was not a sight she was really prepared for, and then Mellie sat down right on Sophie's head, pressing her used pussy hard against her face and grinding. Sophie had to breathe through her mouth when her nose slipped into friend's entrance.And then Mellie's tongue and at least two fingers were in Sophie's own pussy. She gasped to realize that her friend was scooping the cum out of Sophie's cunt and licking it all up. And a warm, salty flavor informed her that Mellie was pushing out her own deposit of semen onto Sophie's lips.She hadn't agreed to this. It hadn't even been discussed. She didn't mind the taste of cum. She liked giving blowjobs and making a guy come right on her tongue. But she wasn't sure she wanted to eat cum out of a pussy. That was going just a bit far for her first time in this job.But then Mellie was getting off her and pulling Sophie up to a sitting position. Mellie made a show of licking her face, cleaning off all the cum. It was oddly erotic to have her face licked, Sophie thought. She wouldn't mind having that on a regular basis. And now that she had experienced it, a girl's tongue and fingers in her cunt hadn't been bad at all. Whores did lesbian shows for their clients sometimes, didn't they? How many women had Mellie been with, Sophie wondered.Mellie opened her mouth to let the guys see their cum on her tongue, then smiled and swallowed it down. Happy and satisfied, the boys left the room and Sophie was alone with Mellie.“You did great,” Mellie said. “Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have no idea how much I appreciate you.” She went to the hotel desk drawer and pulled out the money the guys had given her.“I charge a thousand dollars for Bareback Full Service, Cum In Pussy, and another five hundred to eat a guy's cum out of a girl's pussy. Both guys paid the price, so here's your half. Fifteen hundred for an hour's work.”Sophie took the money slowly. She had done it. She had taken money for sex. That made her a whore for real and forever. She could never again look down on strippers or porn stars or even sluts. She had fucked for cash. There was no coming back from that. And she didn't regret it.“I'm sorry,” Mellie said, “but I have to throw you out. You can share a shower with me if you'd like, but we have to make it quick. I've got another client coming in about ten minutes and then two more in quick succession. I would really appreciate it if you'd go down to the pool for a while and maybe the bar or the coffee shop. You can even go home if you'd like. But I need the room."There's a shower in the pool locker room,” Sophie said, amused at her friend's dilemma. “And I am hungry. A margarita would taste pretty good right now. I can stay gone for a few hours. I'll have my phone with me. Call me when the coast is clear.”Sophie took a deep breath, committing herself, and added, “You can call me if you need another girl too. And not just for tonight.” Then she put on her revealing, but respectable bikini, and covered it with the slutty Daisy Dukes and half-tee. With a last look at Mellie, she left the room, hoping to be called back soon.by Cybotic for LiteroticaDisclaimer: This is a fantasy. There is no magical Australian plant that prevents STDs.
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When Orunmila decides to visit Owo, the oracle did not reveal what he could expect upon his journey. Is Orunmila walking into a trap? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theasheshop/support
OwO it's VTuber time! This week we grab out pet aligators and wrap them in a trench coat to investigate the wild world of Holocure - Save the Fans! We're talking jazzy beats, explosions of color, shrimp simps, skeletons with baseball bats, and (you guessed it!) six-legged monsterific horrors that would be well at home in any HR Geiger film. To navigate this deep sector of internet a-pog-rypha, we're joined by VTuber and friend of the show Daniru17! We'll need all the help we can get unraveling the mysteries of the Shubangelion and where exactly that character upgrade tab in the shop is. Here's where you can find Daniru17 on the interwebz! Twitch: daniru17 Youtube: daniru17 X/Twitter: Dani_daniru Custom RSS Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Music 2:02 - game stats 3:07 - one sentence description 25:12 - our story begins 1:07:20 - rankings and final thoughts 1:15:09 - similar games Next episode: Summer Music Fest and listener emails! Contact us at grogpodzone@gmail.com! https://grogpod.zone Intro music: Emmet Cohen Trio ft. Patrick Bartley - After You've Gone Outro music: eufrik - Suspect
The best hotels are a destination unto themselves. On this week's episode of Unpacked, AFAR senior deputy editor Jennifer Flowers reveals the 31 properties that made our 2024 Best New Hotels list and why booking a hotel is the most important choice you'll make for your trip. The list is a collection of the best hotels that opened in the past year, but these hotels are much more than just a place to sleep and store your clothes. There are places where you can literally touch history, like at the Raffles London at the OWO, where Winston Churchill once presided. If you love design, you can book a few nights at the Violino d'Oro in Venice, where everything you might touch was made by local artisans. Or, if you want to get off the grid and outdoors, there's the Shinta Mani Mustang in a remote corner of Nepal that doesn't see many tourists. Jenn joined the podcast to talk about how she put together the list, what she looks for in a great hotel, and how—as she puts it—“when you check into a hotel, it can actually be the destination.” Meet this week's guest Jennifer Flowers, AFAR senior deputy editor Resources Read this week's show notes, including a full transcript of the episode. Read the full list of the 31 best new hotels. Follow Jenn on Instagram and LinkedIn. Subscribe to AFAR's hotels newsletter. Follow the podcast to ensure you don't miss an episode. Subscribe to AFAR's YouTube channel for a full video of the conversation. Be sure to subscribe to the show and to sign up for our podcast newsletter, Behind the Mic, where we share upcoming news and behind-the-scenes details of each episode. And explore our second podcast, Travel Tales, which celebrates first-person narratives about the way travel changes us.
Eyes of the world are on the U.S. as the primary remaining threat to the OWO. Guest Amanda Grace helps us learn how strategies for open borders, planned infiltration and economic collapse will actually serve the restoration of nations.Use this link for the Complete Show NotesI welcome your feedback. Email me at: FaithToLiveBy@PamelaChristianMinistries.comCONNECT WITH TODAY'S GUEST: Amanda GraceAmanda is a highly respected woman of God known for insightful prophecies and in-depth Bible teaching. She began Ark of Grace Ministries in 2014 with a passion to bring people into a closer relationship with the Almighty God, through His son, Jesus Christ, who is the only way to the Father and experience true freedom.Ark of Grace is also an animal sanctuary that currently houses 60 rescued animals. Most of these came as lost, abandoned, and disabled animals. Ark of Grace Ministries embodies the love and compassion of Jesus Christ, who cares for all of His creation. Moreover, Amanda cares for her husband Chris, who miraculously survived a traumatic brain injury. Through their testimony, they teach others how the Lord can move powerfully in every circumstance of life. Ark of Grace is truly an inspirational ministry that is transforming lives! https://arkofgrace.org/LINKS FROM SHOW CONTENT:Open Borders Flooding Voter Role Article: https://www.wnd.com/2024/02/open-border-flooding-voter-rollsGovernor Gregg Abot's letter to President Biden: https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Border_Statement_1.24.2024.pdfIntercessors for America Nations Prayer Guide: https://whitehorsewatchmen.com/prayer-alert-border-crisis-prayers-from-intercessors-for-america/ FOR FURTHER STUDY:65 Times Biden Gutted Border Security Since Taking Office: https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/05/65-times-biden-gutted-border-security-since-taking-the-white-house/More than One Million Illegals Since October: https://americanfaith.com/more-than-one-million-migrants-encountered-since-octoberBiden Administration Guilty of Treason? https://americanfaith.com/senate-advances-95-billion-foreign-aid-bill-does-not-include-border-securityTexas Reaction to Senate $118 Billion Border Proposal: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/05/texas-reaction-border-deal-ukraine-israel/
“From a hidden region of Colombia to a high-profile hotel debut in London, this episode is for adventurers, foodies, escapists, and big-city lovers—basically anyone who cherishes travel and is interested in exploring new places,” Bruce says. Throughout the episode, you will hear the insights and advice of luxury travel leaders whom Bruce Wallin, Travel That Matters host and award-winning travel writer and editor, surveyed at the annual Virtuoso Travel Week, the world's leading luxury travel conference. You'll also hear the reactions and analysis of Bruce and his guest, fellow travel journalist Jackie Caradonio. While the better-known locations were not forgotten, like New York City, Boston, London, and Tokyo, Bruce and Jackie take listeners to Lamu and Ko Yao Yai, Riga and Dubrovnik, and far beyond. Listeners of this Travel That Matters episode will be ahead of the travel curve, discovering new hot spots to visit before they're on everyone's vacation radar. Some of the destinations will shock you! Plus, listeners learn things like which country has the largest variety of bird species, where the first Blue Zone was, where the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be held, how you can cycle over 900 miles across six prefectures, and other unique facts about this beautiful world we love to explore. --- Travel That Matters would like to thank Virtuoso, the leading global network of luxury travel advisors, for including us at the annual Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas. You can find out more details about all of the locations mentioned in the episode, below: Dolomiti Superski - https://www.dolomitisuperski.com/en/home Sella Ronda ski circuit - https://www.dolomitisuperski.com/en/Experience/Sellaronda-Grande-Guerra Via ferrata mountaineering circuit - https://www.dolomitemountains.com/en/resources/dolomites-tips/via-ferrata-climbing-the-iron-paths-of-the-dolomites Rosa Alpina - https://www.aman.com/resorts/rosa-alpina Hotel Cristallo - https://www.hotelcristallo-altabadia.it/en Hotel de Lën - https://hoteldelen.it/en/hotel-de-len/ Alpinn Food Space & Restaurant - https://alpinn.it/en/ Hotel Ciasa Salares - https://www.ciasasalares.it/en/ Jannah Lamu - https://www.jannahlamu.com/ White Sand Villas Zanzibar - https://www.whitesandvillas.com/ The Surrey - https://www.corinthia.com/new-york/ Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi - https://www.tatiananyc.com/ The Hispanic Museum & Library - https://hispanicsociety.org/ Good Food Festival Dubrovnik - https://tzdubrovnik.hr/lang/en/news/good_food_fest/index.html Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica - https://www.fourseasons.com/costarica/ Hacienda Altagracia, Auberge Resorts Collection - https://aubergeresorts.com/altagracia/stay/ Nayara Springs - https://nayarasprings.com/ Rocco Forte Hotels, Liscia di Vacca - https://www.roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/liscia-di-vacca-sardinia/ Nordic Luxury - https://www.nordicluxury.is/ Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino - https://www.mandarinoriental.com/en/costa-navarino/messenia Kempinski Grand Hotel Riga - https://www.kempinski.com/en/grand-hotel-kempinski-riga Seabourn Cruises - https://www.seabourn.com/en/us Raffles Boston - https://www.raffles.com/boston/ Raffles London at the OWO - https://theowo.london/ Four Seasons Hotel Boston - https://www.fourseasons.com/boston/ The Newbury Boston - https://www.thenewburyboston.com/ O Ya - https://www.o-ya.restaurant/ ICAA New England - https://www.classicist-ne.org/ Grace by Nia - https://www.gracebynia.com/ Anantara Koh Yao Yai Resort & Villas - https://www.anantara.com/en/koh-yao-yai-phuket 62 Nord - https://www.62.no/en Secret Atlas - https://www.secretatlas.com/ Pacific Cycling Road Japan - https://www.mlit.go.jp/road/bicycleuse/good-cycle-japan/national_cycle_route/pacific_en.html Tswalu Kalahari Reserve - https://tswalu.com/ Mount Nelson, a Belmond Hotel - https://www.belmond.com/hotels/africa/south-africa/cape-town/belmond-mount-nelson-hotel/ Rebecca Masri - Little Emperors - https://littleemperors.com/ Pavia Rosati - Fathom - https://www.fathomaway.com/ Andrea Grisdale - IC Bellagio - https://icbellagio.com/ Javier Arredondo - Virtuoso - https://www.virtuoso.com/travel Amanda Elder - Kempinski Hotels - https://www.kempinski.com/en Omer Acar - Raffles - https://www.raffles.com/home/ and Orient Express - https://www.orient-express.com/ Ian di Tullio - Minor Hotels - https://www.minorhotels.com/en Deborah Frank - Luxury Magazine - https://www.luxurycard.com/magazine Gilberto Salcedo - ProColombia - https://procolombia.co/ Pradeep Raman - Corinthia New York - https://www.corinthia.com/new-york/ Christian Leibel-Cote - Collette - https://www.gocollette.com/en Mina Agnos - travelive - https://www.travelive.com/ Bobby Huebner - Skylark - https://skylark.com/ --- To learn more about what Jackie is up to, be sure to follow her https://www.instagram.com/jackiecaradonio/ or check out her website https://www.jackiecaradonio.com/ Travel That Matters is a CurtCo Media production. 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Philippe Leboeuf talks on the eve of the opening of Raffles London at The OWO.
Despite the grim economic outlook, London's enjoying an unprecedented boom in luxury hotel launches that will see thousands of lavish new rooms opening over the next two years.The Standard's front page reports at least 13 high-end hotels are scheduled to open by 2025, many from world-renowned operators launching in the capital for the first time, while others get major refurbishments to tempt elite customers from their cash.It comes as the £1.1 billion Peninsula London near Hyde Park Corner prepares to open its doors, with the starting price at £1,300-a-night - but does that include breakfast?The Peninsula will be followed by the £1.5 billion Raffles London, which has been built in Whitehall's cavernous former War Office building, rebranded Raffles London at The Owo, The Leader podcast is joined by Evening Standard business editor Jonathan Prynn and John O'Ceallaigh, founder of luxury travel consultancy Lute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
https://chtbl.com/track/118312/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkinglead/TLP_498_The_World_Is_Burning.mp3 Ton Jones joins Lefty on this Talking Lead episode to wish the 1984 Iconic movie Red Dawn a Happy 39th Birthday and oh, by the way it's Ton's Birthday too! We are all over the map with this episode. Lefty and Ton talk about all the sudden wild fires occurring throughout the World and who could be behind them...OWO? What happened to the Boy Scouts Of America? Ear infections, how to cure them. Trick shots with airguns, building a 458 SOCOM AR, new bags from Mission First Tactical and much more...Grab a cold adult beverage and enjoy the ride!
This week's episode of Oversharing is brought to you by caffeine and the power of positive thinking! We talk sleep deprivation, road trips, and saying goodbye to Matt's childhood home, as well as answer a couple listener questions. An episode of OWO wouldn't be complete without Greg's Reads of the Week, and the Word of the Week is one that Jo finds absolutely revolting so stay tuned for that one! Greg's Reads of the Week- ‘Greedflation' is replacing inflation as companies raise prices for bigger profits, report finds - MarketWatch- 18 Deer-Resistant Shade Plants to Have in Your GardenIf you've got a voicemail or want our (likely unqualified) advice on something, hit us up at the Speakpipe link below!http://www.speakpipe.com/oversharingwiththeoverbysIf you'd like to email us you can reach the pod at oversharing@jojohnsonoverby.com!CONNECT:TikTok: @jojohnsonoverby / @mrjojohnsonInstagram: @jojohnsonoverby / @matt.overbyWebsite: https://jojohnsonoverby.com/Watch the Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL29Si0ylWz2qj5t6hYHSCxYkvZCDGejGq
Aingeal Rose & Ahonu interview Margaret Gallagher on the forthcoming disclosure trauma.
Presented by Design Anthology UK in partnership with Accor, this is the sixth episode in a special six-part series of The Design Dialogues exploring the intersection of design and travel.Anne Becker Olins is the global chief design and technical services officer for Ultra Luxury and Luxury at Accor. She meets editor-in-chief of Design Anthology UK Elizabeth Choppin to discuss the role of heritage and legacy in today's hospitality design through the lens of the new Raffles London at The OWO — a feat of restoration and craft opening soon at one of London's most iconic Whitehall addresses. This conversation was recorded live from the Haldane Suite, Winston Churchill's former office the Old War Office
Ahonu interviews Aage Nost on consciousness, healing, the future, aliens, and more! #5thdimension #aliens #ascension #awareness #ets #extraterestrials #healing #negativeagenda #owo #spirituality
My guest, Derek Johnson (Part III) shares his unique research which is confirmed through high level military, intelligence and communication personnel and is consistent with God's prophetic promises through Julie Green and others. SHOW NOTES CONNECT WITH TODAY'S GUEST: My guest, Derek Johnson, is a Christian brother, and a United States Army veteran, with a Bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama, and a Masters in Business from Colorado State University where he finished with National Academic and Military Honors for a 3.8 GPA. Through his own in-depth research, Derek puts a keen focus on a Blueprint that outlines the Covert Sting Operation that's been taking place visually since October 2016, for the common, every day, hard working American, via Military Law, Military Regulations, Military Orders, Military Symbols, Code Language/Optics, the United States Constitution and United States Codes https://thedocuments.info and https://www.derekjohnsononcountry.com and https://linktr.ee/1776nation LINKS FROM SHOW CONTENT:Last week's podcast “David vs. Goliath – America vs. OWO https://www.charismapodcastnetwork.com/show/faithtoliveby/703e02d9-f950-48f6-a5b1-c3b7851e4b9d/David-vs.-Goliath--America-vs.-OWO Alex Newman's book: “Deep State The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes” https://amzn.to/3V7VjW1 Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theories: https://t.me/realKarliBonne/167343 Department of Defense %979 Million Contract: https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/in-2021-joe-bidens-department-of-defense-awarded-a-billion-dollar-contract-to-peraton-to-counter-misinformation-by-censoring-social-media-content/ Our children's indoctrination into all sorts of deviant lifestyles. Scroll past the top block to read the article. https://stopworldcontrol.com/announcement/ Passionate and well-informed father address a school board with the specific text books being used in public schools for children as young as five years old. https://twitter.com/i/status/1650888608704757760 Explosive testimony from a whistleblower on crimes against children propagated by the US government... https://t.me/TheStormHasArrived17/13007 Biden's Open Borders: five people shot in Texas https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/us/texas-shooting-suspect-manhunt.html Eight year old girl examined DNA evidence showed she'd been raped by 67 different men https://wsau.com/2023/04/24/report-migrant-girl-raped-by-67-men/ World Health Organization @JamesRoguski https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/exit-the-who #WorldHealthOrganization https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/may-is-international-exitthewho-month Global warming truth: https://t.me/HATSTRUTH/4396 673 University Professors in North Carolina singed a letter OPPOSSING legislation that would require courses on America's Founding, and Constitution. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/673-university-professors-sign-letter-opposing-courses-americas-founding-constitution David Sacks' explanation of how the professional class spread the woke phenomenon across every major institution in our society. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/24/david_sacks_how_the_professional_class_spread_the_woke_phenomenon_across_every_major_institution_in_our_society.html Truth Seeker Q the Storm Rider Official Page https://t.me/qthestormrider777 Julie Green's Prophetic Word of 5/1/2023: https://rumble.com/v2lf44s-there-is-an-end-coming.html To get any of my books or products visit my web site and use the promo code TRUTH to receive a 20% discount at check out. https://www.PamelaChristianMinistries.com FOR FURTHER STUDY:Julie Green Prophetic Words: https://rumble.com/v2j8le2-a-warning-on-what-is-coming.html and https://rumble.com/v2jdwe6-the-time-has-come-for-the-wake-up-call.html Johnny Enlow Prophetic Words: https://www.elijahstreams.com/watch/watch.php?ID=1328 Donna Rigney Prophetic Words: https://www.elijahstreams.com/watch/watch.php?ID=1330 Amanda Grace Prophetic Words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqIqAccVJ8 FEMA Continuity of Government Guide: https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_reconstitution-managers-guide.pdf ACTION STEPS: Get Julie Green's Marching Orders/ Action Items and Decrees and Declarations for His People: https://www.jgminternational.org/blog BONUS:Bush, 9-1-1 the CIA and Secret Societies, which further confirms what Alex shares in his book about the very deep tentacles of the Deep State and how they've been hiding in plain sight for so long. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1651650776408948736.html Clay Clark's ReAwaken America Tour - use this link and enter FTLB promo code to get a 10% discount: https://timetofreeamerica.com/ The Plan to Save the World: https://rumble.com/v23gzmq-the-plan-to-save-the-world-may-the-almighty-protect-and-guide-us-all.html SUPPORT: If you've been blessed by my podcasts, please show your support. 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In a revealing interview with Penny Kelly, Ahonu & Aingeal Rose discuss ETs, energetic upgrades, consciousness, healing, the future, and more!
This week we investigate why Matt refuses to take a compliment or provide unsolicited feedback, whether or not anyone in the house has thrown up since last week, and why our toddler is observing daylight savings time weeks late. We get into how we are changing up our routine as we enter spring and how we ended up here in the first place. And it wouldn't be OWO if we didn't get to some voicemails (kinda?)Greg's Reads of the Week- Record Household Debt Could Turn Into Major Problem - Bacterial toxin may trigger multiple sclerosis onset and relapse- The Unspoken Reason Why Many Doctors and Nurses Are Quitting | Time- Bonus - beds shaped like front loadersIf you've got a voicemail or want our (likely unqualified) advice on something, hit us up at the Speakpipe link below!http://www.speakpipe.com/oversharingwiththeoverbysIf you'd like to email us you can reach the pod at oversharing@jojohnsonoverby.com!CONNECT:TikTok: @jojohnsonoverby / @mrjojohnsonInstagram: @jojohnsonoverby / @matt.overbyWebsite: https://jojohnsonoverby.com/Watch the Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL29Si0ylWz2qj5t6hYHSCxYkvZCDGejGq
Today, we're joined by a titan of the travel industry. Divia Thani is the global editorial director of Conde Nast Traveler magazine, overseeing seven editions of the title across the globe, including here in the UK. If you're not familiar with Conde Nast Traveler, It's the ultimate guide to the world's most exciting destinations, hotels, resorts, restaurants, and experiences. Divia is at the helm of it all and has been shaping the brand's voice and vision for several years now, having served as Editor in Chief of Condé Nast Traveller India for a decade.Born and raised in Mumbai with family based across the globe, Divia's travel diaries today take us far and wide, across Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. From ultra luxury hotels, to affordable homestays, belly dancing in Egypt to a shamanic experience in Mexico, her inspiring recommendations are sure to spark your wanderlust. Stay tuned for a quick fire round at the end, where Divia answers some of the questions you sent me on Instagram and offers some brilliant travel advice. Destination Recap:Lagos, NigeriaMumbai, IndiaTaj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, IndiaOberoi Mumbai, IndiaLondon, EnglandBradford, Pennsylvania, USAJohannesburg, South AfricaOne & Only Palmilla, Cabo San Lucas, MexicoMayascrest, Himachal Pradesh, India Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab, IndiaRaffles the OWO, London, EnglandMandarin Oriental, London, EnglandPeninsula London, EnglandVietnamThailandJapanArgentinaEgypt Alexandria, EgyptThanks so much for listening today. If you'd like to hear more from the podcast don't forget to hit subscribe, or if you use Apple Podcasts to press follow so that a new episode lands in your podcast app each week. If you want to be the first find out who is joining me on next week's episode come and follow me on Instagram I'm @hollyrubenstein, and you'll also find me on Twitter and TikTok as of a few weeks ago, also @hollyrubenstein - I'd love to hear from you. And if you can't want until then remember there's the first eight episodes to catch up on, that's over ninety episodes to keep you busy there. Don't forget that all the destinations mentioned by my guests are included in the episode show notes here on your podcast app, and listed on my website, thetraveldiariespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nigerians are heading to the polls on Saturday and security is a priority issue for many people. The incoming government will be faced with varying security challenges in different parts of the country. And violent attacks have increased in many places over the past decade. But one attack last year – on the Catholic Church in Owo – shook the country. More than fifty people were killed in the previously peaceful region. So, what have we learned in the months since the attack? And how is the community there healing? #AfricaDaily
About VictorVictor is an Independent Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect working mainly on Amazon Web Services (AWS), designing: secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud architectures, dealing with large-scale and mission-critical distributed systems. He also has a long experience in Cloud Operations, Security Advisory, Security Hardening (DevSecOps), Modern Applications Design, Micro-services and Serverless, Infrastructure Refactoring, Cost Saving (FinOps).Links Referenced: Zoph: https://zoph.io/ unusd.cloud: https://unusd.cloud Twitter: https://twitter.com/zoph LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grenuv/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. 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I know, I know. It's a spooky season and you're already shaking. It's time for caching to be simpler. Momento Serverless Cache lets you forget the backend to focus on good code and great user experiences. With true autoscaling and a pay-per-use pricing model, it makes caching easy. No matter your cloud provider, get going for free at gomomento.co/screaming That's GO M-O-M-E-N-T-O dot co slash screamingCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. One of the best parts about running a podcast like this and trolling the internet of AWS things is every once in a while, I get to learn something radically different than what I expected. For a long time, there's been this sort of persona or brand in the AWS space, specifically the security side of it, going by Zoph—that's Z-O-P-H—and I just assumed it was a collective or a whole bunch of people working on things, and it turns out that nope, it is just one person. And that one person is my guest today. Victor Grenu is an independent AWS architect. Victor, thank you for joining me.Victor: Hey, Corey, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.Corey: So, I want to start by diving into the thing that first really put you on my radar, though I didn't realize it was you at the time. You have what can only be described as an army of Twitter bots around the AWS ecosystem. And I don't even know that I'm necessarily following all of them, but what are these bots and what do they do?Victor: Yeah. I have a few bots on Twitter that I push some notification, some tweets, when things happen on AWS security space, especially when the AWS managed policies are updated from AWS. And it comes from an initial project from Scott Piper. He was running a Git command on his own laptop to push the history of AWS managed policy. And it told me that I can automate this thing using a deployment pipeline and so on, and to tweet every time a new change is detected from AWS. So, the idea is to monitor every change on these policies.Corey: It's kind of wild because I built a number of somewhat similar Twitter bots, only instead of trying to make them into something useful, I'd make them into something more than a little bit horrifying and extraordinarily obnoxious. Like there's a Cloud Boomer Twitter account that winds up tweeting every time Azure tweets something only it quote-tweets them in all caps and says something insulting. I have an AWS releases bot called AWS Cwoud—so that's C-W-O-U-D—and that winds up converting it to OwO speak. It's like, “Yay a new auto-scawowing growp.” That sort of thing is obnoxious and offensive, but it makes me laugh.Yours, on the other hand, are things that I have notifications turned on for just because when they announce something, it's generally fairly important. The first one that I discovered was your IAM changes bot. And I found some terrifying things coming out of that from time to time. What's the data source for that? Because I'm just grabbing other people's Twitter feeds or RSS feeds; you're clearly going deeper than that.Victor: Yeah, the data source is the official AWS managed policy. In fact, I run AWS CLI in the background and I'm doing just a list policy, the list policy command, and with this list I'm doing git of each policy that is returned, so I can enter it in a git repository to get the full history of the time. And I also craft a list of deprecated policy, and I also run, like, a dog-food initiative, the policy analysis, validation analysis from AWS tools to validate the consistency and the accuracy of the own policies. So, there is a policy validation with their own tool. [laugh].Corey: You would think that wouldn't turn up anything because their policy validator effectively acts as a linter, so if it throws an error, of course, you wouldn't wind up pushing that. And yet, somehow the fact that you have bothered to hook that up and have findings from it indicates that that's not how the real world works.Victor: Yeah, there is some, let's say, some false positive because we are running the policy validation with their own linter then own policies, but this is something that is documented from AWS. So, there is an official page where you can find why the linter is not working on each policy and why. There is a an explanation for each findings. I thinking of [unintelligible 00:05:05] managed policy, which is too long, and policy analyzer is crashing because the policy is too long.Corey: Excellent. It's odd to me that you have gone down this path because it's easy enough to look at this and assume that, oh, this must just be something you do for fun or as an aspect of your day job. So, I did a little digging into what your day job is, and this rings very familiar to me: you are an independent AWS consultant, only you're based out of Paris, whereas I was doing this from San Francisco, due to an escalatingly poor series of life choices on my part. What do you focus on in the AWS consulting world?Victor: Yeah. I'm running an AWS consulting boutique in Paris and I'm working for a large customer in France. And I'm doing mostly infrastructure stuff, infrastructure design for cloud-native application, and I'm also doing some security audits and [unintelligible 00:06:07] mediation for my customer.Corey: It seems to me that there's a definite divide as far as how people find the AWS consulting experience to be. And I'm not trying to cast judgment here, but the stories that I hear tend to fall into one of two categories. One of them is the story that you have, where you're doing this independently, you've been on your own for a while working specifically on this, and then there's the stories of, “Oh, yeah, I work for a 500 person consultancy and we do everything as long as they'll pay us money. If they've got money, we'll do it. Why not?”And it always seems to me—not to be overly judgy—but the independent consultants just seem happier about it because for better or worse, we get to choose what we focus on in a way that I don't think you do at a larger company.Victor: Yeah. It's the same in France or in Europe; there is a lot of consulting firms. But with the pandemic and with the market where we are working, in the cloud, in the cloud-native solution and so on, that there is a lot of demands. And the natural path is to start by working for a consulting firm and then when you are ready, when you have many AWS certification, when you have the experience of the customer, when you have a network of well-known customer, and you gain trust from your customer, I think it's natural to go by yourself, to be independent and to choose your own project and your own customer.Corey: I'm curious to get your take on what your perception of being an AWS consultant is when you're based in Paris versus, in my case, being based in the West Coast of the United States. And I know that's a bit of a strange question, but even when I travel, for example, over to the East Coast, suddenly, my own newsletter sends out three hours later in the day than I expect it to and that throws me for a loop. The AWS announcements don't come out at two or three in the afternoon; they come out at dinnertime. And for you, it must be in the middle of the night when a lot of those things wind up dropping. The AWS stuff, not my newsletter. I imagine you're not excitedly waiting on tenterhooks to see what this week's issue of Last Week in AWS talks about like I am.But I'm curious is that even beyond that, how do you experience the market? From what you're perceiving people in the United States talking about as AWS consultants versus what you see in Paris?Victor: It's difficult, but in fact, I don't have so much information about the independent in the US. I know that there is a lot, but I think it's more common in Europe. And yeah, it's an advantage to whoever ten-hour time [unintelligible 00:08:56] from the US because a lot of stuff happen on the Pacific time, on the Seattle timezone, on San Francisco timezone. So, for example, for this podcast, my Monday is over right now, so, so yeah, I have some advantage in time, but yeah.Corey: This is potentially an odd question for you. But I find an awful lot of the AWS documentation to be challenging, we'll call it. I don't always understand exactly what it's trying to tell me, and it's not at all clear that the person writing the documentation about a service in some cases has ever used the service. And in everything I just said, there is no language barrier. This documentation was written—theoretically—in English and I, most days, can stumble through a sentence in English and almost no other language. You obviously speak French as a first language. Given that you live in Paris, it seems to be a relatively common affliction. How do you find interacting with AWS in French goes? Or is it just a complete nonstarter, and it all has to happen in English for you?Victor: No, in fact, the consultants in Europe, I think—in fact, in my part, I'm using my laptop in English, I'm using my phone in English, I'm using the AWS console in English, and so on. So, the documentation for me is a switch on English first because for the other language, there is sometimes some automated translation that is very dangerous sometimes, so we all keep the documentation and the materials in English.Corey: It's wild to me just looking at how challenging so much of the stuff is. Having to then work in a second language on top of that, it just seems almost insurmountable to me. It's good they have automated translation for a lot of this stuff, but that falls down in often hilariously disastrous ways, sometimes. It's wild to me that even taking most programming languages that folks have ever heard of, even if you program and speak no English, which happens in a large part of the world, you're still using if statements even if the term ‘if' doesn't mean anything to you localized in your language. It really is, in many respects, an English-centric industry.Victor: Yeah. Completely. Even in French for our large French customer, I'm writing the PowerPoint presentation in English, some emails are in English, even if all the folks in the thread are French. So yeah.Corey: One other area that I wanted to explore with you a bit is that you are very clearly focused on security as a primary area of interest. Does that manifest in the work that you do as well? Do you find that your consulting engagements tend to have a high degree of focus on security?Victor: Yeah. In my design, when I'm doing some AWS architecture, my main objective is to design some security architecture and security patterns that apply best practices and least privilege. But often, I'm working for engagement on security audits, for startups, for internal customer, for diverse company, and then doing some accommodation after all. And to run my audit, I'm using some open-source tooling, some custom scripts, and so on. I have a methodology that I'm running for each customer. And the goal is to sometime to prepare some certification, PCI DSS or so on, or maybe to ensure that the best practice are correctly applied on a workload or before go-live or, yeah.Corey: One of the weird things about this to me is that I've said for a long time that cost and security tend to be inextricably linked, as far as being a sort of trailing reactive afterthought for an awful lot of companies. They care about both of those things right after they failed to adequately care about those things. At least in the cloud economic space, it's only money as opposed to, “Oops, we accidentally lost our customers' data.” So, I always found that I find myself drifting in a security direction if I don't stop myself, just based upon a lot of the cost work I do. Conversely, it seems that you have come from the security side and you find yourself drifting in a costing direction.Your side project is a SaaS offering called unusd.cloud, that's U-N-U-S-D dot cloud. And when you first mentioned this to me, my immediate reaction was, “Oh, great. Another SaaS platform for costing. Let's tear this one apart, too.” Except I actually like what you're building. Tell me about it.Victor: Yeah, and unusd.cloud is a side project for me and I was working since, let's say one year. It was a project that I've deployed for some of my customer on their local account, and it was very useful. And so, I was thinking that it could be a SaaS project. So, I've worked at [unintelligible 00:14:21] so yeah, a few months on shifting the product to assess [unintelligible 00:14:27].The product aim to detect the worst on AWS account on all AWS region, and it scan all your AWS accounts and all your region, and you try to detect and use the EC2, LDS, Glue [unintelligible 00:14:45], SageMaker, and so on, and attach a EBS and so on. I don't craft a new dashboard, a new Cost Explorer, and so on. It's it just cost awareness, it's just a notification on email or Slack or Microsoft Teams. And you just add your AWS account on the project and you schedule, let's say, once a day, and it scan, and it send you a cost of wellness, a [unintelligible 00:15:17] detection, and you can act by turning off what is not used.Corey: What I like about this is it cuts at the number one rule of cloud economics, which is turn that shit off if you're not using it. You wouldn't think that I would need to say that except that everyone seems to be missing that, on some level. And it's easy to do. When you need to spin something up and it's not there, you're very highly incentivized to spin that thing up. When you're not using it, you have to remember that thing exists, otherwise it just sort of sits there forever and doesn't do anything.It just costs money and doesn't generate any value in return for that. What you got right is you've also eviscerated my most common complaint about tools that claim to do this, which is you build in either a explicit rule of ignore this resource or ignore resources with the following tags. The benefit there is that you're not constantly giving me useless advice, like, “Oh, yeah, turn off this idle thing.” It's, yeah, that's there for a reason, maybe it's my dev box, maybe it's my backup site, maybe it's the entire DR environment that I'm going to need at little notice. It solves for that problem beautifully. And though a lot of tools out there claim to do stuff like this, most of them really failed to deliver on that promise.Victor: Yeah, I just want to keep it simple. I don't want to add an additional console and so on. And you are correct. You can apply a simple tag on your asset, let's say an EC2 instances, you apply the tag in use and the value of, and then the alerting is disabled for this asset. And the detection is based on the CPU [unintelligible 00:17:01] and the network health metrics, so when the instances is not used in the last seven days, with a low CPU every [unintelligible 00:17:10] and low network out, it comes as a suspect. [laugh].[midroll 00:17:17]Corey: One thing that I like about what you've done, but also have some reservations about it is that you have not done with so many of these tools do which is, “Oh, just give us all the access in your account. It'll be fine. You can trust us. Don't you want to save money?” And yeah, but I also still want to have a company left when all sudden done.You are very specific on what it is that you're allowed to access, and it's great. I would argue, on some level, it's almost too restrictive. For example, you have the ability to look at EC2, Glue, IAM—just to look at account aliases, great—RDS, Redshift, and SageMaker. And all of these are simply list and describe. There's no gets in there other than in Cost Explorer, which makes sense. You're not able to go rummaging through my data and see what's there. But that also bounds you, on some level, to being able to look only at particular types of resources. Is that accurate or are you using a lot of the CloudWatch stuff and Cost Explorer stuff to see other areas?Victor: In fact, it's the least privilege and read-only permission because I don't want too much question for the security team. So, it's full read-only permission. And I've only added the detection that I'm currently supports. Then if in some weeks, in some months, I'm adding a new detection, let's say for Snapshot, for example, I will need to update, so I will ask my customer to update their template. There is a mechanisms inside the project to tell them that the template is obsolete, but it's not a breaking change.So, the detection will continue, but without the new detection, the new snapshot detection, let's say. So yeah, it's least privilege, and all I need is the get-metric-statistics from CloudWatch to detect unused assets. And also checking [unintelligible 00:19:16] Elastic IP or [unintelligible 00:19:19] EBS volume. So, there is no CloudWatching in this detection.Corey: Also, to be clear, I am not suggesting that what you have done is at all a mistake, even if you bound it to those resources right now. But just because everyone loves to talk about these exciting, amazing, high-level services that AWS has put up there, for example, oh, what about DocumentDB or all these other—you know, Amazon Basics MongoDB; same thing—or all of these other things that they wind up offering, but you take a look at where customers are spending money and where they're surprised to be spending money, it's EC2, it's a bit of RDS, occasionally it's S3, but that's a lot harder to detect automatically whether that data is unused. It's, “You haven't been using this data very much.” It's, “Well, you see how the bucket is labeled ‘Archive Backups' or ‘Regulatory Logs?'” imagine that. What a ridiculous concept.Yeah. Whereas an idle EC2 instance sort of can wind up being useful on this. I am curious whether you encounter in the wild in your customer base, folks who are having idle-looking EC2 instances, but are in fact, for example, using a whole bunch of RAM, which you can't tell from the outside without custom CloudWatch agents.Victor: Yeah, I'm not detecting this behavior for larger usage of RAM, for example, or for maybe there is some custom application that is low in CPU and don't talk to any other services using the network, but with this detection, with the current state of the detection, I'm covering large majority of waste because what I see from my customer is that there is some teams, some data scientists or data teams who are experimenting a lot with SageMaker with Glue, with Endpoint and so on. And this is very expensive at the end of the day because they don't turn off the light at the end of the day, on Friday evening. So, what I'm trying to solve here is to notify the team—so on Slack—when they forgot to turn off the most common waste on AWS, so EC2, LTS, Redshift.Corey: I just now wound up installing it while we've been talking on my dedicated shitposting account, and sure enough, it already spat out a single instance it found, which yeah was running an EC2 instance on the East Coast when I was just there, so that I had a DNS server that was a little bit more local. Okay, great. And it's a T4g.micro, so it's not exactly a whole lot of money, but it does exactly what it says on the tin. It didn't wind up nailing the other instances I have in that account that I'm using for a variety of different things, which is good.And it further didn't wind up falling into the trap that so many things do, which is the, “Oh, it's costing you zero and your spend this month is zero because this account is where I dump all of my AWS credit codes.” So, many things say, “Oh, well, it's not costing you anything, so what's the problem?” And then that's how you accidentally lose $100,000 in activate credits because someone left something running way too long. It does a lot of the right things that I would hope and expect it to do, and the fact that you don't do that is kind of amazing.Victor: Yeah. It was a need from my customer and an opportunity. It's a small bet for me because I'm trying to do some small bets, you know, the small bets approach, so the idea is to try a new thing. It's also an excuse for me to learn something new because building a SaaS is a challenging.Corey: One thing that I am curious about, in this account, I'm also running the controller for my home WiFi environment. And that's not huge. It's T3.small, but it is still something out there that it sits there because I need it to exist. But it's relatively bored.If I go back and look over the last week of CloudWatch metrics, for example, it doesn't look like it's usually busy. I'm sure there's some network traffic in and out as it updates itself and whatnot, but the CPU peeks out at a little under 2% used. It didn't warn on this and it got it right. I'm just curious as to how you did that. What is it looking for to determine whether this instance is unused or not?Victor: It's the magic [laugh]. There is some intelligence artif—no, I'm just kidding. It just statistics. And I'm getting two metrics, the superior average from the last seven days and the network out. And I'm getting the average on those metrics and I'm doing some assumption that this EC2, this specific EC2 is not used because of these metrics, this server average.Corey: Yeah, it is wild to me just that this is working as well as it is. It's just… like, it does exactly what I would expect it to do. It's clear that—and this is going to sound weird, but I'm going to say it anyway—that this was built from someone who was looking to answer the question themselves and not from the perspective of, “Well, we need to build a product and we have access to all of this data from the API. How can we slice and dice it and add some value as we go?” I really liked the approach that you've taken on this. I don't say that often or lightly, particularly when it comes to cloud costing stuff, but this is something I'll be using in some of my own nonsense.Victor: Thanks. I appreciate it.Corey: So, I really want to thank you for taking as much time as you have to talk about who you are and what you're up to. If people want to learn more, where can they find you?Victor: Mainly on Twitter, my handle is @zoph [laugh]. And, you know, on LinkedIn or on my company website, as zoph.io.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:25:23]. Thank you so much for your time today. I really appreciate it.Victor: Thank you, Corey, for having me. It was a pleasure to chat with you.Corey: Victor Grenu, independent AWS architect. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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High Performance Coaching - Mit den richtigen Business-Strategien gefühlt "unmögliches" schaffen Mike OWO, auch bekannt unter "OWO" startete sein erstes Unternehmen mit nahezu keiner Erfahrung nur mit der reinen Passion für Technologie (Social Media). Doch er erkannte sehr schnell, dass eine Leidenschaft für ein Thema alleine nicht ausreichend ist. So begann die wirkliche Reise. Im Selbststudium und in Folge mit diversen Fortbildungskurse in den Themenbereichen: Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Motivation, Marketing, Strategie & Unternehmensaufbau. Mit diesem Schritt sowie die Liebe für Bewegung/Fitness & Kampfsport erstellte er verschiedenste Coaching Programme sowie ein System wie man zu einem high Performer im Business und Leben wird. High Performance Coaching - Burnout bringt zum nachdenken Mit dem tiefen Wunsch erfolgreich zu werden, gründete er innerhalb kürzester Zeit sein zweites Unternehmen. Doch Erfolg hat seinen Preis und um auch sicherzustellen dieses zu erreichen, arbeitete er 7 Tage die Woche mit der Devise: "Was auch immer es kosten möge." Das Problem war, permanente Anspannung & es wirklich zu wollen, führt nicht schneller ans Ziel. Die Folge = der erste Burnout. Doch genau in dieser Situation tat sich eine neue Perspektive auf den OWO war und ist nicht der einzige der von diesem "so-schnell-wie-möglich-bis-zum-geht-nicht-mehr-arbeiten-gedanken" geblendet wurde. Nachdem zweiten Burnout, welcher der Auslöser für einen Kurswechsel war, ging er noch mal in sich, da ein Burnout aktiv dafür sorgt, dass man sich zum Nachdenken nehmen muss. Entwickelte sich das Ziel weg von HART arbeiten & erfolgreich sein zu SMART und mit Leichtigkeit seine Ziele erreichen. So ging es von diesem Zeitpunkt in die Motivationssprecher-Richtung. High Performance Coaching - Mischung aus Motivation, Wissen und Business-Strategien Nach mehr als 10.000 Stunden Coaching & Vorträgen für die verschiedensten Klienten national und international, erkannte er, dass Motivation und Wissen nicht genug sind, um außerordentliche Ergebnisse zu produzieren. So entstand auch das heutige Konstrukt des High Performance Coaching, in welchem er Klienten erprobte Business-Strategien zur Verfügung stellt und diese komplett individuell mit ihnen umsetzt. Auf einer Basis von Coaching, Consulting & Strategie. Dein größter Fehler als Unternehmer?: Mit den falschen Menschen, besser gesagt falschen Geschäftspartner zu arbeiten, die nicht abliefern können oder ausschließlich auf ihren eigenen Vorteil bedacht sind (waren). Deine Lieblings-Internet-Ressource?: Das Smartphone in Kombination mit den verschiedensten Messengern. Einer meiner Haupt-Messenger ist der Facebook-Messenger & WhatsApp. Hier rüber findet der Großteil meines gesamten Business statt. Deine beste Buchempfehlung: Buchtitel 1: Buchtitel 2: Kontaktdaten des Interviewpartners: www.theowo.com https://www.instagram.com/theowo/ Goodie für unsere Hörer: kostenloses Stratiegespräch im Wert von € 4.997,-. Schreib Owo einfach per Insta oder über seine Website an und bezieh Dich auf dieses Interview. Ganz einfach :) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mehr Freiheit, mehr Geld und mehr Spaß mit DEINEM eigenen Podcast. Erfahre jetzt, warum es auch für Dich Sinn macht, Deinen eigenen Podcast zu starten. Jetzt hier zum kostenlosen Podcast-Workshop anmelden: http://Podcastkurs.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So fing alles an. Hier geht´s zur allerersten Episode von TomsTalkTime.com – DER Erfolgspodcast. Und ja, der Qualitätsunterschied sollte zu hören sein. Aber hey, dass war 2012…
CHAPTER 4 The Connection - So there are two types of connections I would like to share with you. The first type of connection is how you digitally connect the value we identified in chapter 3 with the person(s) we identified in chapter 2. And the second type of connection we will discuss is how to mentally connect your brand with the person(s). --> READ THE BLOG POST HERE https://myempirepro.com/digital-marketing-certified-chapter-4-the-connection-content-creation/ --> WATCH VIDEO VERSION HERE https://youtu.be/nnXem7zRQBw Let's take it backwards a little bit. In the previous chapter, we talked about value. You learned how 85-90% of actions and acquisitions are initiated and triggered as emotional reactions; some justify with logic later. We also reviewed a little about the motivation theories and how your competitors are probably selling products that have only 10% of the value you offer at 10 times of your prices. And they are selling them almost effortlessly to people that may not be able to afford it ordinarily. We reminded ourselves of the six basic human needs, certainty, variety, significance, contribution, growth, and connection. And we discussed how you can use it to almost seem like you are creating value out of thin air. When your message or “the value” covers just three of these six needs, it will simply come off as stupid for your person(s) to pass on your offer. Every website, webpage, video, image, blogpost on your hubs need to be exchanging value with the users. A part of value is the user experience. How they feel as they travel that journey from discovery to conversion is your responsibility precisely because it's ultimately valuable to you and the business you are building. What you are offering may be the best in the market but we may never find out if whatever that is doesn't translate to what is valuable to your users. It's not just the product; it's everything, even at the most micro-levels, that they will encounter in the process of interacting with your business; the experience. So we now have to expand a little bit on value creation to create and establish strong connections digitally and mentally with your person(s). How do you show up in their dreams at night and stress the sh*t out of their sleep if they don't buy? 1995-1996… Owo. Ondo State, Nigeria, West Africa. I was a 15 or 16 years old teenager. I would go visit my father in the office during the day where he was serving as a General Manager at his Uncle's company. I had been going to the office for a few years during holidays but I did it more after graduating high school. I didn't go to University right away because we had opted for me to come back to the United States after 12 of my developing years in Nigeria. I was at home for two years filling the gap of time; just waiting to secure accommodation in the States. My father had wanted me to study Architecture; that was his dream. But one day during another visit to his office, I found out becoming an architect wasn't my dream. It was the first time a website was opened in front of me on a 3 piece-suite equipment; a personal computer. The secretary at the office was testing it out and he would try numerous times to connect to the internet. Thinking about it now, it was a painful process.. But not really because the frame of reference did not involve a broadband connection as we know it today. It was exciting that he literally pulled up Toyota's website that never could load a full Toyota logo; the connection was too slow. There was a blue placeholder but it was fascinating enough at the time. I've never left computing since then. During that short break between high school and coming back to continue schooling and life in the States, I went over to the next biggest city, Akure, where I spent three months and became certified in Database Management. I shared this story with you to establish a connection between you and the fact that the internet has grown from about 40 millions users in 1995 to more than 5 billion users at press time. If there are internet users increasing at that pace, that means that there are producers consistently connecting them to value increasingly and making stupid amount of money doing it. Most websites back in 1995 were designed to provide information and not initiate transactions. But it's a different story today. You can now buy a whole car on the internet and have it delivered to your home. Therefore it's no longer enough to show a logo, and the company's mission statement. Many businesses still have websites that can't exchange money for product and services. A lot of them felt the heat and disadvantage of that in 2020 when covid hit our world. My business doubled in that particular year because I was positioned to serve that market right from home. Sadly, many established businesses went under for not paying attention in all these years. You have created the right offer. And you have done the market research, identified the right audience, the gurus and the brands they are presently following. In fact, you are already paying time and money to attract them as visitors to your website. But the traffic is not converting to sales quickly enough for you. And you figured, it's probably because you are just not getting enough traffic to the website. So you have to come up with more funds to buy marketing and advertising in the hopes that enough prospects will convert to customers. Soon enough, you discovered that you are just multiplying your problems with money you don't have and garnering more debt. It's not working. You quit and ran back to giving away free money to the agencies that still want to sell you newspaper and yellow book ads. Do yellow books still exist? It is important to pre-design and pre-determine how you want to connect your value (the offer) to the person(s) based on what type of pre-framing the person(s) (the prospect) had been exposed to. When your prospects know, like and trust you, they will buy without too much effort from you. Forget about that; when they feel like they know, like and trust you, they will buy even more from you. All of that is emotionally and mentally triggered if you know what you are doing. I call it the KLT factor. Does the prospect feel like he or she knows, likes and trusts you? If you can't answer that question, you are probably going to struggle with converting prospects to customers, clients and deals. We use a formula called the “I.L.S.D.T.R.R” to build your KLT factor (a.k.a brand equity) in the digital space. The acronym stands for invest, learn, share, do, teach, refine and repeat. Let's break it down. The idea is to build digital agents and leave thousands of your footprints everywhere in the digital space without burning your resources up while doing it. If you follow me on social media, you can see us practicing what we preach with literally thousands of videos and articles everywhere. This is it. I want you to INVEST time and possibly money in LEARNING, then SHARING what you are learning as often as possible via online videos, blogposts, infographic and more. After that, you actually want to DO (execute on) what you are learning in order to create experience or tacit knowledge. If your business module permits it, you can build your business even faster by taking the sharing to the next level which is actually TEACHING from your knowledge and experience for a fee or more KLT factor and brand equity. Then I want you to refine and repeat that process over and over again in order to create a massive web of nodes that link back to your hub. When you do this, you will build a massive brand equity that makes it super simple to connect your value to your person(s). All these digital agents that you are creating will work for you forever. You couldn't erase them off the internet if you try to after a while. And that is a good thing. This is what I meant earlier when I mentioned pre-framing the prospects ahead of actually presenting them with an offer. The connection doesn't start at the sales presentation. It starts before they even discover there is something to buy from you. How cool would it be if your prospects are already asking you where to sign up before knowing if you have anything to sell or not. That's the outcome of orchestrating a strong connection of value with your audience upfront. By positioning yourself and your brand to help your audience by actually helping them, their minds are pre-framed to recognize your brand and business as their problem solver. Sure, a properly scripted sales presentation is still necessary because some of them may have skipped to that part in your customer journey. But most of your time, energy and resource is best spent steering new prospects through a discovery point where you are actually helping them first before asking them to pay for something. They usually start off with a question to answer or a problem to solve. Most people appreciate some useful information first before attempting to sell them on buying stuff. In fact, there is a sector of your market that price point is really not a determining factor in their decision making process to buy. It boils down to the KLT factor and brand equity. They need to feel like they know, like and trust you. And then they will pull out a credit card if anything remotely looks like their problem is solved. The return on investment in learning, sharing, doing, teaching, refining and repeating is literally infinite especially if you add consistency to it. In the world of digital marketing, we call this content creation. The idea is to come up with topic ideas that will appeal directly to your ideal customers' needs. So I want to share four idea sources that will help you generate more than enough ideas to invest time and possibly money in learning more about so you can share. Idea Source Number 1 - Write down 10 commonly or frequently asked questions that your ideal customers tend to ask. If this is a business that you are qualified to serve in, it should be pretty simple. Let me give you a quick secret. You could be learning the business at the same time, in real time and using these same content creation skills to attract a significant size of the market. When you teach, you literally learn twice. Most people in any business end up complacent and never learning anything new for years. But when you use this method to create thousands of connections and digital agents for prospects before getting to see your offer, you will remain at the top of your game. Idea Source Number 2 - For this one, come up with and write down 10 questions you would advise an ideal prospect to ask your competitors. Of course, you want to make sure these are questions and problems that your content and products have answered and solved. Idea Source Number 3 - Identify 10 common problems that your ideal prospect faces. It doesn't have to directly be linked to the problems that your product solves. But I want you to do it because the information you will provide in the content will actually serve an audience. But in addition to that, you may end up creating a tangible and usable solution if the piece of content is attracting a big enough audience. Last but not least… Idea Source Number 4 - Invest time to learn about 10 common mistakes that an ideal prospect would or could make and share each one as a piece of content. In addition to that, share tips on how to avoid the mistakes. I've used this same method of connection to build my business and the good thing about it; you can verify. At press time, about 840 myEmpirePRO web pages are resulting and indexed on the Google Search Engine Results Page. (THE SERP). And on another web property that I am building with my wife, LOLAandOLA.com, about 1,370 web pages of content are resulting and indexed. I am not even talking about other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and many others that thrive off of picking up your content and connecting them with potential prospects all around the world for free. 65.78% of our audience at myEmpirePRO in the last 28 days from presstime are coming from the United States. 13.46% are coming from China. 3.77% are coming from Canada. The audience or traffic were connected from 48 different countries. The beauty about digital marketing is the fact that you are also collecting tons of data with the various default activities of setting up and running these campaigns. That's why I am able to share these results with you. In fact, you can check it yourself. All you have to do is place this string ‘site:' before any site with no spaces between them and search. For example, a simple search of ‘site:myempirepro.com' will show the top of the SERP (search engine results page) and it will show you how many pages have been indexed from the site. What about YouTube? We've published 1,304 videos and they are all working in our favor to connect more prospects to our hub. All these digital agents are not built overnight and they don't need to be built overnight. In fact, all it takes is one good piece of content to create a $10,000 day. But that also depends on what you are selling and your business model. You just never know what answered-question would resonate with someone's deep pain. The more you put out there, the better. In order to execute a massive connection, KLT and brand equity campaign, you have to create a main online hub where everyone comes to from all these different sources you will be putting out there. The main hub is a content management system and I recommend good ol' Wordpress. On the internet today, we have websites designed to simply display information like the Toyota website from 1995 in that story I shared with you earlier. But we also have websites designed to manage databases of content, users, and users' information. We call them a content management system (CMS). You have two options. You can build and code your CMS with all the bells and whistles that makes it a robust system to create millions of dollars in online transactions from scratch. The second option is what I recommend which involves leveraging existing tools and systems that allow you to customize with add-ons to perform even better than systems that are built from scratch. Which option do you think you should go with? Okay. That wasn't a trick question. It's a simple question and it has a simple answer which is to leverage tools and systems so that you can get to making money as soon as possible. At press time, Wordpress powers a little more than 40% of the websites online and their content management system. I recommend it because it works just like the iPhone and the Android phones. It's an open source that allows vendors to continue to code additional features many of which you can leverage for free. That's why I recommend Wordpress in addition to the fact that I personally use it to manage my content marketing campaign. But there are also two different kinds of Wordpress websites. Fully-hosted Wordpress website which is host at wordpress.com and Self-hosted Wordpress website which means you are in full control of the features you attach to it. You will understand fully later many reasons why it is better to go with option number 2 in addition to the fact that you are able to control how you are branded online. Brand control is non-negotiable as we move into the future because competition is increasing. With a brand you create, you will eliminate a significant number of your competition because of brand loyalty; the same effect that Apple has on its customers. I recommend that you set up your self-hosted Wordpress hub with the company at this link for less than $10 per month. - myEmpirePRO.com/hosting All of these you've learned thus far without setting them up as a system is just another job that will occupy your life with redundant activities and minimum wages. So in the next chapter, we will talk about changing these new insights into an automated system that takes your prospects on a journey from discovery to conversion and a happy customer. By now, you are understanding slowly that setting up a website is just the bare minimum of digital marketing. Most websites on the internet are a ghost land. No one is visiting them much less initiating a transaction. So there is a distinct difference between a digital marketer and a website designer or developer. The former is a minimum of a 6 figure career as a job and a 7-9 figure income when you use this skill as an entrepreneur. The latter is darn near a minimum wage job. With systems, you can scale a campaign beyond what's possible when all you've got are linear operations involving humans at every segment. You will learn about different segments in a customer's life cycle and how systems can scale from 10 customers to 100 and to 1,000 customers being served simultaneously. The last thing I want you to do is know all this cool stuff only to get stuck behind a laptop for 16 hours a day. While I definitely want you to understand the concepts that make this work, I will be sharing with you how to set, forget and collect on a regular basis leveraging the concept of systems..
A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - At least 40 people — most of them children — died in a fire in a Coptic Orthodox church in Giza Governorate, Egypt, on Sunday, according to government and church officials. The cause of the blaze has so far not been established. Reuters reported that an electrical fire broke out at the church where people gathered during the Divine Liturgy celebration. The blaze reportedly blocked the exit from the church and caused a stampede. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252035/reports-of-at-least-40-people-most-of-them-children-killed-in-church-fire-in-egypt Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he spoke with Pope Francis over the phone on Friday and thanked the pope for his prayers and humanitarian support. In a tweet posted on August 12, Zelenskyy wrote that he had briefed the pope on Russia's “horrible crimes” and aggression against Ukraine. “Our people need support of world spiritual leaders who should convey to the world the truth about acts of horror committed by the aggressor,” the Ukrainian president said. Pope Francis has repeatedly expressed his interest in a potential visit to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Pope Francis is scheduled to participate in September in the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, where he could potentially meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, who is expected to participate in the congress. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252031/in-phone-call-president-zelenskyy-thanks-pope-francis-for-praying-for-ukraine At least seven people have been arrested in connection with a devastating June massacre at a Catholic Church in Nigeria, the governor of Ondo State in the West African country has confirmed. Four of the arrests were made on August 1, according to General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Nigeria's Defense Staff. One of the arrested suspects is a high-ranking member of ISWAP — the so-called Islamic State in West Africa Province and a breakaway faction of Boko Haram, a group that at least one government official had blamed following the attack. Two other suspects were arrested Aug. 9, and Ondo State's governor, Arakunrin Akeredolu, reported that another person who housed the suspects before the attack was also arrested, Vatican News reported. It has not yet been announced if the suspects have been formally charged, and their names have not been released. On June 5, several gunmen attacked Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Nigeria, killing at least 40 people and injuring scores more with bullets and explosives. The victims spanned in age from a 2- and a 3-year-old all the way to 85. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252029/arrests-made-in-nigeria-pentecost-massacre Today, the Church celebrates the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This significant feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth, when both her soul and her body were taken into the presence of God. Although the bodily assumption of Mary is not explicitly recorded in Scripture, Catholic tradition identifies her with the “woman clothed with the sun” who is described in the 12th chapter of the Book of Revelation. Venerable Pope Pius XII confirmed this belief about the Virgin Mary as the perennial teaching of the Church when he defined it formally as a dogma of Catholic faith in 1950, invoking papal infallibility to proclaim, “that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/the-assumption-561
Back in May, 20 Nigerian Christians were brutally martyred by the Islamic militant group ISIS. In June, 40 more Christians died in Owo, Nigeria, in a terrorist attack against a church. Though it is not clear who is responsible for that attack, what is clear is that Christians continue to be severely persecuted in this West African nation. The persecution, which has been ongoing for years, is part of a long history of conflict with Islam. In 1953, Christians made up only 21.4% of the population in Nigeria. Today, about half of the country's population, about 96 million people, are Christians. To put that number in perspective, Germany, the largest country in Europe, has a total population of less than 84 million. Much of the Christian growth in Nigeria has resulted from education efforts by Western missionaries, though the country has long had a Christian presence. Nigeria's Christians live primarily in the southern, farming part of the country. They are mostly under attack by Islamists and the Muslim Fulani, who live mostly in the northern herding areas. They also face the threat of Boko Haram, a ruthless Islamist terrorist organization whose name literally means Western learning (boko) is prohibited (haram). Boko Haram was founded in 2002 to overthrow Nigeria's government and impose strict sharia on the country. The group was relatively quiet until 2009, after which conflicts with police escalated. By December 2010, Boko Haram began a campaign of suicide bombings and attacks on churches and government buildings. In 2014, they began to attack schools. In one attack, 59 school boys were burned alive or shot. In another, 276 school girls were kidnapped. In both cases, the victims were Christians. Boko Haram has also conducted massacres in mosques that do not support their radical ideology. Also in 2014, Boko Haram pledged loyalty to ISIL. That loyalty ended in 2016, when ISIL ordered Boko Haram to stop attacking Muslims. Currently, there are three Islamist terrorist groups that originated with Boko Haram: Boko Haram proper, the Islamic State West African Province, and Ansaru, an al-Qaeda affiliate. All are engaged in terrorism, not only in Nigeria but also in surrounding countries, with much of it aimed at Christians. As dangerous as these explicitly Islamist groups are, the Fulani herdsmen are worse. Because the Fulani territory in north Nigeria is suffering from a long-term drought, the Fulani are moving south to access water. In the process, the herdsmen have been raiding and burning villages, slaughtering villagers, destroying crops, and engaging in a host of other atrocities in order to take the land for themselves and drive out Christians. President Muhammadu Buhari is a Fulani. Though he has attempted to address some of the economic issues that drive Fulani militancy, he has denied that religion plays any role in the conflict. He points out, for example, that Muslim villages have also been raided. Still, the vast majority of attacks have come against Christians, and the Fulani's history of Islamic militancy dates back to the late 17th century. Though contemporary Fulani militancy reveals a struggle between nomadic herders and farmers going on for millennia, denying the religious dimensions of these attacks is pure propaganda. Christian villages are deliberately targeted, Christian houses and churches are burned, and Christians driven off or slaughtered. Although up-to-date numbers are hard to come by, between the Fulani and Boko Haram and its offshoots an average of 13 Christians per day were killed in Nigeria last year. That's 372 per month or over 4,450 alone. In the last 12 years, 43,000 Christians have been killed by Islamic radicals in Nigeria. And these numbers do not include those injured, beaten, or driven from their homes. What has happened to Nigerian Christians meets the established international standards for genocide. Christians must not forget the spiritual aspects at the root of this conflict. God is moving and the Church is expanding across Africa. In 1900, there were just 9.64 million Christians on the continent; today there are over 692 million. It is not surprising to see Satan counterattacking by inspiring persecution. For our Nigerian brothers and sisters, we can fight on two fronts. First, we must continue to lobby our government on behalf of suffering Christians, asking our officials to put pressure on Nigeria to take more decisive action against Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsmen. Second, we must lobby Heaven, for both our persecuted brothers and sisters and their persecutors, praying that God's kingdom would advance and win even the jihadis to Jesus.
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On June 5th, armed men attacked worshipers at a Catholic Church in the city of Owo, Nigeria. Scores of people were reportedly killed and many more injured. My guest today, Idayat Hassan, is director of the Center for Democracy and Development in Nigeria. We kick off discussing this church attack as well as another high profile recent attack on a train in northern Nigeria. Idayat Hassan then describes how these attacks fit into broader patterns of insecurity in Nigeria. The increasing insecurity in parts of Nigeria today comes less than a year ahead of major national presidential elections scheduled in February 2023. But as Idayat Hassan explains the candidates are not emphasizing getting to the root cause of insecurity -- which she forcefully argues stems from a broken judicial system.
Funerals have begun for some of the forty people killed after armed men burst into a Catholic church in the town of Owo in the South West of Nigeria – shooting anyone who moved, and setting off explosives. The town's medical facility has been overwhelmed with casualties – many of whom had been shot. The authorities say they suspect the extremist group Islamic State West Africa Province carried out the attack. If confirmed, it would be the first attack by the IS-linked militants in southern Nigeria - signifying an expansion of its violence. But questions are being asked about why armed men could so brazenly attack a church in the very middle of a town, and then apparently just melt away like ‘ghosts'. Africa Daily hears the stories of those who lived through the attack – and asks, if such an horrific attack can take place in an area that's previously been relatively safe, is there anywhere in Nigeria that's not impacted by violence and insecurity?
A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A Nigerian government official said Thursday that the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is suspected as the perpetrators of a massacre at a Catholic church last week that left dozens dead. In the June 5 attack, gunmen opened fire on Catholic worshipers attending Pentecost celebrations at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, in southwestern Nigeria. Initial reports suggested that more than 50 people were killed, including children, and others injured. The official death toll for the attack currently stands at 40, with 61 injured people still in hospital. ISWAP is considered a breakaway faction of Boko Haram, another Islamic extremist terrorist group which has killed thousands of Christians and displaced millions of people in Nigeria and neighboring countries in recent years. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251507/nigeria-church-massacre-isis-affiliate-group-suspected-as-perpetrators-government-official-says Pope Francis' July trip to the African countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan has been postponed for health reasons, the Vatican said on Friday. Pope Francis was planning to spend July 2-5 in the Congolese cities of Kinshasa and Goma, and July 5-7 in the South Sudanese capital Juba. The 85-year-old pope has been suffering from a painful inflamed ligament in his knee, limiting his ability to walk. He has been using a wheelchair during public appearances since last month. He is still scheduled to visit Canada on July 24-29. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251510/pope-francis-postpones-trip-to-democratic-republic-of-congo-and-south-sudan Washington DC authorities will allow a private pathologist to examine the remains of five babies the group claims it recovered from a DC abortion clinic. The pro-life group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said this spring that they had obtained 115 aborted babies from a driver for a medical waste company to bury them in a dignified way. Five of those babies appeared to be of late-term gestation. DC officials said the city's medical examiner would not perform autopsies on the five babies. Pro-life groups have expressed concern that the manner in which the babies died violated federal law. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251506/dc-aborted-babies-private-autopsy-ted-cruz-how-they-died Today, the Church celebrates Blessed Edward Poppe. He was one of 11 children born to a modest, pious family in Belgium. He was drafted to the military in 1910 and served as a battlefield nurse during World War I. His prayers to St. Joseph during that time led to the miraculous freeing of several prisoners of war. He was ordained in 1916 at the age of 25 and served as associate pastor, focusing his ministry to the poor, children and the dying. He also taught catechism and founded Eucharistic associations. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/blessed-edward-poppe-503
Friends of the Rosary: This Pentecost Sunday unidentified terrorists launched a gun and bomb attack at the end of a Catholic Mass in southwest Nigeria, killing at least 70 Christians. The horrific attack took place at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in the city of Owo. Along with Pope Francis, through our daily Rosary, we want to express our spiritual closeness to Nigerian Catholics mourning the victims of this massacre and their families. We implore the divine healing and consolation upon the injured and those who are grieving. We entrust Jesus and Mary, with the intercession of Francis Xavier, to comfort Nigerian Catholics, but also to provide divine justice against these evil spirits who dwell on Earth causing extreme pain. The Father of Lies engineers evil acts among his followers. We the faithful respond by invoking the Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangel through the Holy Rosary. Ave Maria! Jesus, I Trust In You! + Mikel A. | RosaryNetwork.com, New York [ Second Year Anniversary | In the Memory of María Blanca ] • June 7, 2021, Today's Holy Rosary on YouTube — Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET
Siamo tornati in Nigeria, dove le vittime della strage nella chiesa di Owo continuano a salire: ne abbiamo parlato con la fotogiornalista Temilade Adelaja.Subito dopo siamo andati negli USA, dove cinque membri dei Proud Boys sono stati incriminati per l'assalto a Capitol Hill del 6 gennaio dello scorso anno: ne abbiamo parlato con Federico Leoni (inviato Sky Tg24). Siamo tornati in Ucraina, per analizzare le parole dell'ex presidente russo Medvedeeev con Eleonora Tafuro (ricercatrice ISPI - Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, esperta di Russia, Asia Centrale e Caucaso). E infine abbiamo fatto una nuova tappa nel Regno Unito dopo lo scampato pericolo (almeno per ora) per Boris Johnson del voto sulla fiducia di ieri: ne abbiamo parlato con Giorgia Scaturro (giornalista e producer da Londra).
A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis has expressed his “spiritual closeness” to Nigerian Catholics mourning the victims of a massacre at a church on Pentecost Sunday. In the June 5 attack, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Catholic worshipers attending Pentecost celebrations at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, in southwestern Nigeria. Initial reports suggested that more than 50 people were killed, including children, and others injured. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251467/nigeria-church-massacre-pope-francis-mourns-victims-of-unspeakable-violence In response to a federal court decision affirming the constitutionality of Oklahoma's death penalty protocol, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City on Monday called on state lawmakers to end the death penalty. A US District judge had ruled against 28 Oklahoma death row inmates' argument that one of the drugs the state uses in its lethal injection protocol, the sedative midazolam, is an insufficient painkiller which makes the dying process severely and unconstitutionally painful. “No matter the decision of the court on Oklahoma's protocol, the use of the death penalty only contributes to the continued coarsening of society and to the spiral of violence,” Coakley said in a statement. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251468/okc-archbishop-calls-for-end-to-death-penalty-in-state-amid-court-decision-affirming-its-constitutionality Two Catholic priests martyred under the Ottoman Empire were beatified in Lebanon over the weekend. Father Leonard Melki and Father Thomas Saleh were Capuchin friars and missionaries in what is now Turkey who were arrested, tortured, and martyred by the forces of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and 1917 respectively. Melki was given a choice: convert to Islam and be freed, or die as a Christian. Refusing to apostatize, the Lebanese priest was forced to march with more than 400 Christian prisoners into the desert, where he was killed “in hatred of the faith” on June 11, 1915. Saleh was arrested and sentenced to death after giving shelter to an Armenian priest during the Armenian genocide. Before his death, he said, “I have full trust in God, I am not afraid of death,” according to the Capuchin Order in Lebanon. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251464/catholic-priests-martyred-under-ottoman-empire-beatified-in-lebanon Today, the Church celebrates Saint Anthony Mary Gianelli. Ordained a priest in 1812, in 1827 he founded the Missionaries of St. Alphonsus, which lasted until 1856. He also founded the Oblates of Saint Alphonsus in 1828, which lasted only 20 years. The Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden, which he founded in 1829, still continue their ministry in education and among the sick in Europe, Asia and the United States. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-anthony-mary-gianelli-493
A curfew has been imposed in the Nigerian town of Owo in Ondo state following the massacre of dozens of people during Sunday Mass at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church. We hear from the Pan South African Language Board in Cape Town, following widespread fury as Irish airline RyanAir orders South African passport holders to prove they can speak Afrikaans before they can fly. And Mali's military rulers express disappointment after the regional body, Ecowas, fails to lift economic sanctions.
Siamo tornati in Ucraina, dove oggi è il 103simo giorno di guerra, per approfondire gli ultimi sviluppi con Evgeny Mathiushenko, redattore e giornalista per Ukrinform, agenzia di stampa di Stato di Kiev. Subito dopo siamo andati in Nigeria, a Owo, nello stato meridionale di Ondo, dove un atroce attacco contro una chiesa ha provocato 21 morti confermate e almeno altre 30 presunte: ne abbiamo parlato con Giovanni Carbone, professore ordinario di Scienza Politica presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano e Responsabile del Programma Africa di ISPI - Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale. Infine siamo andati a Londra, dove tra qualche ora il premier britannico dovrà affrontare un voto di sfiducia: ne abbiamo parlato con Giorgia Scaturro, giornalista e producer da Londra per Radio24 e con Daniele Meloni, giornalista per Start Magazine e Atlantico Quotidiano, autore del libro "Boris Johnson - L'ascesa del leader conservatore e il Regno Unito post-Brexit (Edizioni Giubilei Regnani).
A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - At least 50 people were killed and others injured Sunday when gunmen attacked worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria. Gunmen reportedly fired at Catholic worshipers attending Pentecost celebrations and detonated explosives. The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need denounced the “Pentecost massacre” on June 5 in Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, as “another terrorist act in Nigeria, one more on the long list of crimes against Christians.” The identity of the gunman is not yet known. The archbishop of Owerri condemned “in the strongest terms the spilling of innocent blood in the House of God.” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251458/nigeria-catholic-church-attack https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251462/catholic-charity-urges-world-leaders-to-condemn-nigeria-church-massacre Pope Francis condemned the war in Ukraine after Russia's ongoing invasion of that country reached the 100-day mark. June 3 marked 100 days since the beginning of Russia's invasion that has left thousands dead. The United Nations estimates that nearly 7 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion, with many more displaced or stranded within Ukraine. Pope Francis, an outspoken advocate for the Ukrainian people, has expressed a desire to meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow and to travel to Ukraine when the “right time” comes. His comments come after he consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in March. At the end of May, he prayed the rosary for peace in Ukraine and around the world. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251457/pope-francis-ukraine-war-100-days Expectant mothers, babies, and their families can find comfort and encouragement alongside material help like cribs, diapers, and baby formula through the Saint Gabriel's Call ministry in Rhode Island. Saint Gabriel's Call is a ministry under the Providence diocese's Office of Life and Family. It offers free and confidential services including financial, material, social, emotional, and other support for mothers and children. The ministry can help provide cribs, car seats, and furniture as well as baby clothes, linens, diapers, formula, toys, household goods, toiletries, and gift cards. The ministry has three locations in Providence, and five elsewhere in Rhode Island. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251450/pregnant-women-and-their-babies-can-find-help-among-rhode-islands-catholics Today, the Church celebrates Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a priest of the Society of Mary and the founder of the Little Brothers of Mary, a congregation of brothers devoted to the education of the young. The Church also celebrates Saint Norbert of Xanten, who started out as a frivolous and worldly cleric, but was changed by God's grace into a powerful preacher and an important reformer of the Church during the early 12th century. He is the founder of the Norbertine order. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-marcellin-champagnat-262 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-norbert-491
In this episode, I speak with Nigerian-based 3D artist Owo Anietie about his NFT project Afrodriods, which is one of the biggest NFT projects from Africa. He shares the central idea behind Afrodroids being an android which is part machine and part human that houses the human consciousness. The droids live in a dystopian world set in the year 3045 where there are no humans on earth. Owo created over 12,000 unique pieces for his project which sold out in under 11 minutes when it was released. We also talk about his charity work with https://www.instagram.com/dreamcatchersda/ Dream Catchers Academy for girls, founded by https://www.instagram.com/seyi_oluyole/You can connect with Owo at https://www.instagram.com/owo_anietie/ and https://twitter.com/OwoAnietieCheck out the afrodroid collection at https://opensea.io/collection/afrodroids-by-owoKindly support the podcast by leaving a short review, it would really make a difference. #judeslist
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