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You could have the perfect offer and still get ignored. In this episode, I'm sharing the (no longer) secret weapon that will grab more attention and make you more money in your business. Storytelling is one of the most valuable skills you can build as an entrepreneur. I break down what I'm learning from studying great storytellers, how the right story can make people care about something they would normally scroll right past, and why this skill can make your ideas, offers, and brand more memorable. Plus, I share the unexpected way practicing storytelling is changing how I experience my own life. Get ready to communicate your ideas in a way people actually remember, and make what you're selling matter to the people you want to reach. Check out our Sponsors: Shopify - Launch your business before Black Friday, go to shopify.com/happy to start your free trial. Monarch Money -  Get your first year of Monarch Core for half off at http://Monarch.com with code EYH. Northwest Registered Agent - Visit http://northwestregisteredagent.com/EarnFree and start using free resources to build something amazing. Fabric - Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family. Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/EARN. Meetfabric.com/EARN. Quince - Find the fall pieces you'll reach for most at Quince. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns and when Quince asked how you heard about them, let them know it was here on Earn Your Happy. Gloss Genius - Run a business that takes appointments? Use code HAPPY at glossgenius.com/earnyourhappy for 50% off your first two months of a premium plan. HIGHLIGHTS How to make your ideas, offers, and expertise matter to the people you want to reach. The skill that can help you sell more, even as your business and offers evolve. How to turn ordinary experiences into memorable stories people actually want to hear. What separates people with incredible expertise who get overlooked from the ones people can't stop watching. How to communicate your value in a way that makes people feel something instead of scrolling past. The overlooked habit that can give you an endless supply of stories to use in your content and business. How becoming a better storyteller can make your brand more memorable without needing a more exciting life. The unexpected way storytelling can help you become more present and interested in your own life. How to find meaningful stories in moments you normally wouldn't think twice about. Why paying closer attention to your everyday life can change both the way you communicate and the way you experience it. RESOURCES Get on the waitlist for the next Million Dollar Guest at milliondollarguest.com to learn how to tell stories on podcasts that connect to your offer, move people, and help monetize your podcast. Get on the waitlist for Mentor Collective Mastermind HERE! Try glōci for 40% off your first order with code HAPPY at checkout - head to getgloci.com FOLLOW Follow me: @loriharder Follow glōci: @getgloci

Are you paying attention to your numbers—or just hoping the end of the year works itself out?In this episode, Elaine gets candid about money, empty appointment slots, education, retirement, and why stylists can't afford to coast through the final three months of the year.

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Most people spend more time thinking about what they hope to make in a trade than what they could lose. That's one of the biggest differences between beginners and experienced traders. In this episode, Blair Nightingale explains why successful trading begins long before you place a trade. Instead of chasing profits or relying on guesswork, successful traders develop a plan, manage risk, and follow a repeatable system that helps them make objective decisions. Whether you're preparing for your first trade or looking to become more disciplined, these foundational principles can help you approach the market with greater confidence and consistency. In this episode, you'll learn: ✔ Why successful traders focus on managing risk—not chasing profits ✔ The importance of position sizing before entering a trade ✔ Why every trade should begin with a written plan ✔ How stop-losses and profit targets remove emotion from trading ✔ Why technical analysis is about probabilities—not predicting the future At TRADEway, we believe trading isn't about guessing, gambling, or chasing the next big win. It's about developing the knowledge, discipline, and systems that help you make wise, consistent decisions over time.

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Revelation 12:1-14:5 Following the Lamb in a world of dragons requires resilient faith and wisdom.

Saturday Daily Rosary - SPOKEN MALE VOICE with AMBIENT MUSIC by artist: Amaranth Cove  - Song Title: Lost in Thought This week's collection of beautiful music welcomes you into a calm state of prayer as together, we offer up our daily prayer and intentions alongside this daily rosary. This rosary contains the joyful mysteries, recited on Mondays and Saturdays.  These mysteries focus on the Incarnation and Jesus' early life, with fruits including humility and love of neighbor. Join in the communion of saints in praying the rosary, as it connects you with the communal prayer of the universal Church and the saints throughout history, fostering a profound sense of spiritual solidarity.  The spoken portion of this rosary is 20 minutes, with extended music for additional meditation.  All music in this video is licensed thru Epidemic Sound Publishing. May this Rosary become a faithful companion to your prayer life. Additional prayer tools at www.rosarywristband.com 30 MINUTE TRADITIONAL ROSARY - JOYFUL SATURDAY - SPOKEN ONLY https://youtu.be/8NCv89Qk4Zw ROSARY - SPOKEN ONLY VERSION: Saturday - SPOKEN ONLY https://youtu.be/vv8l7xMAOmM MOST VIEWED SATURDAY ROSARY: Calm Music    https://youtu.be/ryTdYnt1eUI MOST VIEWED ONE HOUR ROSARY DEVOTION: Complete Rosary    https://youtu.be/rrNMRJ5oH-Q MOST VIEWED SLEEP ROSARY: 4 Hour Sleep Rosary    https://youtu.be/4a-uaEEJOF4 Consider a donation through PayPal to help us continue creating quality content:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?business=CHerrera720037%40gmail.com&cmd=_donations¤cy_code=USD&item_name=Donation+to+The+Communion+of+Saints&return=https%3A%2F%2Frosarywristband.com%2Fhome Blessings, Chris - The Communion of Saints Email: chris@rosarywristband.com Simply, easy and quick rosary prayers for everyday recitation and reflection.   This collection of Catholic rosary videos in english serve as a daily devotion and feature calm background music and nature soundscapes.   Choose from audio only or follow along video with all mysteries: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Luminous.  Listen before sleep or any time for renewed focus and peace. "Together we pray" Visit rosarywristband.com for comfortable one decade rosaries. #Rosary #JoyfulMysteries #CatholicMeditation #SaturdayRosary #todayrosary #todayrosaryinenglish 

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The #1 symptom with IBD is fatigue and while some acceptance is important - there are also so many nutrition connections with fatigue that we don't want to completely ignore it either.The most common nutrition related fatigue reasons we see:

Invest with Marcellus: https://invest.marcellus.inIndia's demographic dividend has been one of the most widely used arguments for investing in Indian equities. But what happens when that demographic story starts to change?In this episode of Coffee & Investing, Saurabh Mukherjea and Nandita Rajhansa discuss India's rapidly changing demographics and what they could mean for Indian investors.They explore why the long-standing "young India" narrative may no longer hold, how falling fertility rates and rising age at first marriage are reshaping Indian society, why population growth is already slowing or reversing in parts of the country, and how these shifts could affect consumption, corporate earnings and equity returns.They also discuss why investors may need to rethink portfolios built around mass consumption and consider greater exposure to premium consumption, healthcare, exports and global equities.

In this episode, Carol looks forward to the dark ,Nick wants more light, and they help with charging electric cars and with activities that don't require much effort

"You have stuff locked in there that's stopping you from being the full person you are meant to be in this lifetime." — Donna Hartley Raymond Aaron spent 60 years unable to touch his right collarbone. Chiropractors, psychiatrists, every kind of specialist — none of them could touch it. One past life regression session changed that permanently. Donna Hartley, former Miss Hawaii, international speaker, and author of the Fire Up series, arrived at the same work by a completely different path. She reads the Akashic Records directly — seeing the past life patterns quietly shaping your health, your relationships, and your sense of worth. She did five such readings in the 70 minutes before this conversation. The two compare their methods, swap stories, and find they've been working the same territory from different directions. Donna shares the medieval life she uncovered during open heart surgery that explained three cardiac procedures — and a surname she didn't decode until her fifties. They discuss soul clusters, the veil that lifts around age six, Hitler's karmic future, and what it looks like when someone finally decides to stop carrying a pattern forward into another lifetime. Learn more and connect: Donna Hartley — https://www.donnahartley.com Resources mentioned: Donna Hartley — past life sessions, videos, and the free Zip It, Pay Attention video — https://www.donnahartley.com; Chicken Soup for the Soul (Jack Canfield) — https://www.jackcanfield.com; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

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Stop scrolling and please pay attention to me... a plea from your child Guest: Rehana Adam by Radio Islam

Today, Sarah Small looks at Hebrews 1:1-4 and how God speaks to us, God shows us himself and how Jesus reveals who he is.

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You might think paying attention is easy. And to some degree, you're right. But there are different types of attention, and knowing how and when to turn them on and off can save you energy and strokes during your round. LKD breaks it down. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

During tonight's show, Brooks and the boys discuss their final thoughts ahead of week three. We are also going to give our best bets of the weekend. During the local hour, we are going to name some things Georgia fans need to pay attention to this weekend. #collegefootball Use the linkhttps://www.hardrock.bet/media-partners/filmguy?pid=media_partnership&c=filmguy to take advantage of Hard Rock Bet's latest offers! Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/FILMGUY10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorER1HarPFY2LnaE-o7-Buoaixs652Lkv_NzIGKModpY-HVb1sV Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorSWVqg5rlU_J9F7pluw8PS5w0WleTpUI__e81vY_hCHSllA_mN Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorER1HarPFY2LnaE-o7-Buoaixs652Lkv_NzIGKModpY-HVb1sV Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorSWVqg5rlU_J9F7pluw8PS5w0WleTpUI__e81vY_hCHSllA_mN Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

During tonight's show, Brooks and the boys discuss their final thoughts ahead of week three. We are also going to give our best bets of the weekend. During the local hour, we are going to name some things Georgia fans need to pay attention to this weekend. #collegefootball Use the linkhttps://www.hardrock.bet/media-partners/filmguy?pid=media_partnership&c=filmguy to take advantage of Hard Rock Bet's latest offers! Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/FILMGUY10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorER1HarPFY2LnaE-o7-Buoaixs652Lkv_NzIGKModpY-HVb1sV Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorSWVqg5rlU_J9F7pluw8PS5w0WleTpUI__e81vY_hCHSllA_mN Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorER1HarPFY2LnaE-o7-Buoaixs652Lkv_NzIGKModpY-HVb1sV Follow Brooks on Twitter: twitter.com/brooksaustinba Follow Brooks on Instagram: Instagram.com/brooksaustinba Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brooksaustin Merch: https://www.universitiesforever.com/collections/the-film-guy?srsltid=AfmBOorSWVqg5rlU_J9F7pluw8PS5w0WleTpUI__e81vY_hCHSllA_mN Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Your sleep changes. Your cycle changes. The heat, the fatigue, the fog, none of it seems to follow the old rules anymore, and it's easy to turn those changes into a verdict on yourself. In this episode of The Queen Reset, certified holistic health coach Aja Diack gives you a concrete way to tell the difference between what's common in midlife and what's worth a call to your provider, plus a simple three-level way to observe your body (notice, find the pattern, decide what kind of support it needs) and a seven-day tracking template you can start today. You'll leave knowing exactly what to watch for, what to write down, and what to do with what you find. This episode does not replace medical care. If something changes suddenly, feels severe, or does not lift, please talk with your healthcare provider. Short summary: A concrete, judgment-free way to tell common midlife body changes from ones worth checking, with a seven-day tracking template and one clear next step.  

On this episode of Impact Theory, we dive deep into the hidden shifts reshaping the global economy with Felix Bryn. With powerful forces at play—from political pressure on the Federal Reserve to global gold reserves flowing out of the U.S., sovereign wealth funds dumping American debt, and the rise of a new digital dollar infrastructure—Felix unpacks the four quiet levers that are fundamentally resetting the money system right before our eyes. Joined by insightful commentary, we unravel why traditional notions of "safe" investments may no longer apply, the critical role of the bond market, and what ordinary people can actually do to navigate this new financial landscape. If you want to understand how your money is being impacted today and what you can do to protect your future, this episode is essential listening.Tailor Brands: Check out Tailor Brands to get started with your business today: https://bit.ly/TailorBrandsSeptQuince: Free shipping and 365-day returns at https://quince.com/impactpodElevenLabs: Book your demo at https://elevenlabs.io/impactpodCash App: Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/v6nymgjl #CashAppPod*Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Cash App Green features, Savings, Direct deposit, Round ups, Overdraft coverage and Discounts provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosure.Butcherbox: Go to https://ButcherBox.com/IMPACT to get $20 off your first box, plus your choice of free ribeye, new york strip, or filet mignon in every box for a year — with free shipping alwaysPerplexity: Start your free trial of Perplexity Computer today at http://PPLX.ai/impact andexperience the next phase of AI. #ad makeupPipedrive: Get more leads and grow your business. Go to https://www.pipedrive.com/impact and get started with a 30-day free trial.Netsuite: For the first time ever you can try NetSuite Next for free. If your revenues are at least in the seven figures, go to https://NetSuite.ai/Theory.What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here:Want my help starting a business? Join me here inside Zero To FounderSign up for my AI Masterclass: AI MasterclassFOLLOW TOM:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeuYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeuSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Why does it matter what we put in our bodies? In this personal episode, Julie shares how her relationship with food has changed over the years and why she now sees food as nourishment rather than something tied only to weight or appearance. She offers simple encouragement for making intentional choices without guilt, obsession, or the pressure to eat perfectly. Join Abundant Life Mentor, Julie Lefebure, each Tuesday as she offers real encouragement for your real life right now through a fresh, hope-filled perspective, a lighthearted inspiration, and Biblical insights. Each episode will lift your spirits and equip you to be a light in this world. Find extra encouragement at julielefebure.com/resources/.Support us on PayPal!

AI is changing how businesses operate, and the elevator industry isn't immune. In this live conversation, I met with Jonathan Taub, President of Fieldboss, who has over twenty years of experience in software strategy, implementation, and customer success running high-performing operations. We discussed what AI means for elevator professionals and companies, what opportunities and concerns are emerging, and how it could affect company valuations, job responsibilities, and the value of employees' skills. The goal of this conversation is to clarify: where an elevator company should start with AI, what risks companies should consider before adopting new technology, and what AI could mean for your business, your skills, and your career.Chapters:00:00 Intro: AI and the Elevator Industry00:54 Jonathan's Journey Into Software and Elevators07:03 How AI Has Changed Since the NAEC Conference10:28 Why Elevator Companies Need to Pay Attention to AI12:35 What AI Means14:24 AI Governance, Security, and Guardrails20:26 What AI Can Do for Elevator Companies 23:22 The Future of AI, IoT, and Predictive Maintenance26:19 Where AI Can Have the Biggest Impact31:00 AI Opportunities for Independent and Large Contractors34:33 AI Adoption Starts With Operations38:01 Making Technology Transformations Work42:59 AI, Technology, and Elevator Company Valuations45:51 How AI Could Change Elevator Careers49:18 The Human Skills That Will Matter More52:16 How Elevator Companies Can Start Using AIResources: Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@elevatorcareers/ Submit a Topic Idea for the Podcast: https://elevatorcareers.net/ Connect With Us: linktr.ee/AllredGroupA Message From Our Sponsor: Looking for top-tier talent to join your team? Call The Allred Group for your elevator recruiting needs! With a deep network and unmatched industry expertise, we quickly connect you with skilled professionals who are ready to elevate your team. Let us handle the hiring process, so you can focus on growing your business with the best in the industry. Reach out today, and let us help you take your business to new heights! To contact us go to: https://allredgroup.com

A year ago, a Christian was shot on American soil. Pastor Ben reflects on people's reactions and what Christians should learn from Charlie's example.Apologetics Resources:Tactics by Gregory KouklCrossExamined.orgReasons to Believe by Dennis Moles and Ryan Whitson

In this episode Andrea Samadi explains the concept of sleep stress — a wearable-device measured how physiologically activated your body remains during sleep — and places it within a neuroscience-based movement and recovery framework. She reviews the autonomic nervous system (sympathetic vs. parasympathetic), how WHOOP estimates sleep stress from heart rate and HRV, and why trends over weeks matter more than single nights. Using her six-month data, Andrea shares how recovery habits and removing alcohol coincided with an 89% drop in nightly high sleep stress. The episode ends with practical steps and a seven-day experiment to help you observe and reduce nighttime physiological activation by changing daytime behaviors, sleep environment, and training timing so your body can better recover and adapt. When Sleep Isn't Rest—What “Sleep Stress” Reveals About Recovery: The Story Behind My 89% Drop in Sleep Stress Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we bridge neuroscience, social and emotional learning, and human performance so we can create measurable improvements in our well-being, achievement, leadership, productivity and results. I'm Andrea Samadi, and if you've been following along through Season 16, you'll know that we have been building what I call The Brain's Operating System for Human Performance—a neuroscience-based framework designed to help us understand how the different systems of the brain and body work together to influence how we learn, adapt, connect, lead and ultimately perform. We are currently in Phase 3: Movement, Learning and Cognition, where we have been following a central pathway: Movement → Adaptation → Performance Movement creates a stimulus. But movement alone does not make the brain or body stronger. We must be able to recover from that stimulus before adaptation can occur, to give us our desired outcome of improved performance. This is why our recent bonus episodes have moved beyond exercise itself and into the recovery signals that help us understand whether our bodies are successfully handling the demands we are placing upon them. In Bonus Episode 3[i], we explored the hidden story behind my resting heart rate. My data showed that it was not merely a measure of fitness—it was also reflecting the total load my body was carrying. During the higher-stress months of January and February, my resting heart rate remained elevated at approximately 56–58 beats per minute. As I placed greater emphasis on sleep, hydration, Zone 2 movement, sauna, meditation and recovery, it gradually fell to 54 and then 53 beats per minute. The lesson was that a lower resting heart rate signals that the body is working less during rest, and recovering more efficiently. The idea is to learn what your baseline is, and see how you can improve this number for a more efficient RHR. In Bonus Episode 4[ii], we explored restorative sleep and learned that sleep quality is not measured by duration alone. Deep sleep supports physical restoration and repair, while REM sleep plays an important role in memory, learning and emotional processing. Because longer REM periods tend to occur later in the night/morning time my regular 4:00 AM wake time may give me less opportunity for that REM-rich portion of sleep—which is the tradeoff I'm choosing--since waking early allows me to exercise. Two additional hours in bed would not guarantee two more hours of REM, but they could create a greater opportunity for more REM sleep. The lesson was not to choose sleep over movement or movement over sleep. It was to protect enough sleep while still making room for movement, so the brain and body have the opportunity to adapt. Throughout these bonus episodes, I'm sharing patterns from my WHOOP wearable device[iii] data—not because everyone's numbers should look like mine, but to demonstrate what can happen when we measure consistently, look for trends and test small changes. The goal is not comparison. It is to help each of us better understand our own baseline and use that information to improve our habits, recovery and results. While examining my own sleep data for these recent bonus episodes, another question came to my mind. It was while looking this sleep stress score. What if we are sleeping—but our physiology remains unusually activated throughout the night? How would we even know if this was happening? This is another measurement I can see with this wearable device. What if our eyes are closed and we are technically asleep, but the body is still working harder than usual? What if our sleep isn't giving us the rest and recovery that we need. This brings us to today's question: What is Sleep Stress? One of the most valuable metrics I have been tracking this year is not simply how long I sleep or how much deep and REM sleep I achieve. Those are all important to me, but something stood out with these sleep scores to me, this year. It is the amount of time my body spends in a state of elevated physiological stress while I am asleep. When I examined my most recent six-month trend, I noticed something that kind of stopped me in my tracks. My average time in WHOOP's high sleep-stress zone (monthly score from January 2026 till now) initially rose from 21 minutes to a peak of 35 minutes (around April/May) where I noticed my sleep scores were terrible with International travel, but I can't blame everything on just the travel and times zones. I knew I was off track with rest and recovery. How much I was off, I'm not sure because Whoop confirmed my scores with the times zones might have been inaccurate, but either way, even if my sleep stress peaked at let's say 25 minutes, it still showed me that I was doing something to keep my body stressed out while I was sleeping. As I paid attention to rest and recovery, the scores began to improve in May, June, July, August…until now. 35 minutes of high sleep stress went…to 18…to 14…to 5…and finally to just 4 minutes of sleep stress each night. That is an approximately 89% decrease from my six-month peak. The data cannot tell me that one specific behavior caused this change. But it does suggest that my body has become progressively less physiologically activated while I was asleep. And this helped me see recovery in a new way. Sleep duration tells us how long we slept. Sleep stages estimate the type of sleep we experienced throughout the night. Sleep stress gives us another window into how physiologically activated the body remained during that sleep. In today's BONUS EP 5 we will explore: What Sleep Stress measures The sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system Where Sleep Stress fits into the Movement Loop What I noticed in my six-month results What the results show—and what they cannot prove How you can monitor nighttime physiological stress And practical tips to help your body settle and recover Let's begin with the nervous system and what's working behind the scenes while we are asleep. The Autonomic Nervous System To understand Sleep Stress, we first need to understand the autonomic nervous system and how ACTIVATION and RECOVERY work together. We covered this topic on a very early EP 59[iv] with Suzanne Gundersen on “Putting the Polyvagal Theory into Practice” and then again with educational neuroscientist Dr. Lori Desautels and Michael McKnight[v]. You can review those episodes if you want a deeper dive here. The autonomic NS is the part of the nervous system that regulates many of the functions that happen automatically, without requiring conscious thought. It helps manage: Heart rate Blood pressure Breathing Digestion Temperature regulation Energy use And our physiological responses to changing demands in our life experiences Two of its primary branches are the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system helps mobilize the brain and body when we need energy, alertness or action. It is often called the fight-or-flight system. We need this sympathetic activation to wake up, exercise, concentrate, solve problems, respond to challenges and perform under pressure. When sympathetic activity rises, heart rate may increase, breathing may become faster and energy becomes more readily available for action. That is exactly what we want when climbing a mountain, completing an intense workout, delivering a presentation or responding to an immediate challenge. The problem is not activation itself. The problem may arise when the body has difficulty shifting out of that activated state after the challenge has passed. The parasympathetic nervous system supports the restorative side of this process. It is often described as the rest-and-digest system because it helps the body conserve energy, digest food and create conditions that support rest and recovery. When our parasympathetic NS is activated, heart rate generally slows and the body becomes less physiologically activated. But the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are not simple on-and-off switches. They continually interact throughout the day and night. Healthy regulation depends on our ability to move flexibly between activation and recovery as our life circumstances change. I'm sure you've heard people talking about how they “regulate” themselves, or take themselves from a high stress state, to lower stress state usually through intentional breathing, (I've just started to add this technique), physical movement (my go-to way to get back to myself when I have time) and some people use sensory grounding to get themselves out of anxious loops. American neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman suggests the physiological sigh as a breathing technique “to reduce stress and anxiety in real-time, while they are still engaging in life.”[vi] He does say that this pattern of breathing is something that we all engage in when we are in deep sleep (our dogs do it too), a double inhale, followed by an extended exhale. He says it works well to reduce stress because “it offloads a lot of carbon dioxide all at once.” Until I started to look at this sleep stress number, I didn't realize that even during healthy sleep, our autonomic activity fluctuates. Deep sleep is generally associated with greater parasympathetic influence, while REM sleep can include more variable heart rate, breathing and sympathetic activity. This means that brief periods of increased physiological stress during sleep are not automatically signs that something is wrong. The more useful question is: Can my body move flexibly between activation and recovery—or is it remaining unusually activated for extended periods? What Does WHOOP Mean by Sleep Stress? WHOOP estimates physiological stress using signals that include heart rate and heart-rate variability, or HRV, compared with your personal baseline. Its Sleep Stress view shows the proportion of the night spent in low, medium and high physiological stress zones. This is an important distinction: A wearable does not directly measure your thoughts or emotions. It cannot know whether you are worried, excited, digesting a late meal, fighting an infection or recovering from a difficult workout. It also does not directly measure the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system. Instead, it uses cardiovascular signals to estimate how physiologically activated your body appears relative to what is normal for you. Elevated nighttime stress can potentially be influenced by: Mental or emotional strain Alcohol Illness or an emerging infection A late or heavy meal Intense exercise close to bedtime Accumulated training strain Dehydration Heat or an uncomfortable sleep environment Travel and disrupted routines Hormonal changes Certain medications Or sleep-disordered breathing Sleep Stress should therefore be treated as a signal to investigate, not a diagnosis. One elevated night may not mean very much. The greatest value comes from observing your own patterns across several weeks and comparing those patterns with your behaviors, environment, training and health. Where Sleep Stress Fits in the Movement Loop Our original Phase 3 framework was: Movement → Adaptation → Performance But we can now expand this pathway: Movement → Physiological Load → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance Movement provides a challenge to the brain and body. That challenge creates physiological load. Recovery gives the body an opportunity to respond to the load, repair what was challenged and build additional capacity. That process is adaptation. And the capacity created through adaptation supports future performance. Sleep Stress sits within the recovery stage of this loop. It helps us investigate whether the body is successfully downshifting from the demands of the day or remaining more activated than usual during the recovery window. This does not mean that every increase in nighttime stress prevents adaptation. The body is dynamic. Exercise, digestion, illness, temperature and different stages of sleep can all affect nighttime physiology. But if elevated Sleep Stress becomes a repeated pattern, it may indicate that the body is carrying more load than it is currently absorbing. This is why Sleep Stress belongs in Phase 3: Movement supplies the challenge. Recovery determines how effectively we absorb it. Adaptation builds capacity. And capacity supports performance. What My Six-Month Results Show When I examined my 6-month Sleep Stress results from March 17 through September 12 when I was writing this episode, I first looked at six consecutive monthly windows: March 17–April 15: 21 minutes of average high Sleep Stress April 16–May 15: 35 minutes May 16–June 14: 18 minutes June 15–July 14: 14 minutes July 15–August 13: 5 minutes August 14–September 12: 4 minutes The pattern was not a straight decline. My average high Sleep Stress initially increased from 21 to 35 minutes. That April-to-May period (with International Travel) was the highest point in the six-month window—a 67% increase from the preceding month. The nightly graphs also show more frequent and more substantial periods in WHOOP's high-stress zone during that time. The data cannot tell me exactly what caused the increase. It may have reflected accumulated emotional stress, training load, disrupted routines, sleep timing, travel, temperature, or several factors interacting at once. But after that 35-minute peak, the direction changed: 35 → 18 → 14 → 5 → 4 minutes That is an approximately 89% reduction from the peak. This was not the result of one isolated night or a single unusually good week. It was a progressive decline across four consecutive monthly windows. When I switched to WHOOP's full six-month view, however, I initially noticed what appeared to be a contradiction. My six-month average was 16 minutes in the high-stress zone—60% higher than my preceding six-month average of 10 minutes. How could my current Sleep Stress be improving so dramatically while the six-month comparison still showed an increase? The answer is that a six-month average is a lagging measure. You can see my 6 month data in the show notes. This graph includes the elevated spring period, particularly the April-to-May peak of 35 minutes. Those earlier nights continue to pull the six-month average upward, even though my more recent results are much lower. The percentage of each night spent in WHOOP's different stress zones makes the recent change especially clear. During the April-to-May peak: 6% of my sleep was in the high-stress zone 27% was in the medium-stress zone 67% was in the low-stress zone By August 14 through September 12: High-stress sleep had fallen to 1% Medium-stress sleep had fallen to 10% Low-stress sleep had risen to 89% This may be the most meaningful finding in the entire six-month trend. I did not simply spend less time in WHOOP's high-stress zone. A much larger proportion of my night shifted into the low-stress zone. From spring into early summer, my high Sleep Stress had already begun to decline as I was focused on my health routine it kept dropping—from 35 minutes to 18 and then 14 minutes. I was living my life as usual. Three observations help explain what I think this pattern means. Observation One The Spring Peak Was Worth Investigating The 35-minute average represented a 67% increase from the preceding monthly window. The nightly graphs also show more frequent and more substantial periods in WHOOP's high-stress zone during that time. Something was placing a greater physiological demand on my system, but the screenshots cannot tell me precisely what it was. The increase could have reflected emotional stress, training load, disrupted routines, sleep timing, travel, illness, temperature or several factors interacting at once. This is why wearable data becomes more useful when it is paired with context. The number shows us what changed. A behavior log helps us investigate why it may have changed. Observation Two The Improvement Began Before August My Sleep Stress did not suddenly improve in one week. After the April-to-May peak, it declined across four consecutive monthly windows: 35 minutes fell to 18, then 14, then 5 and finally 4 minutes. That suggests an ongoing recovery shift rather than one isolated good night. By the latest monthly window, 89% of my sleep appeared in WHOOP's low-stress zone, compared with 67% during the spring peak. My body appeared to be spending progressively more of the night in a lower state of physiological activation relative to my baseline. Observation Three One Change May Have Strengthened the Trend Then, on August 7, I changed one thing. My movement, training, sauna, hydration and sleep practices remained relatively consistent. The clearest variable I intentionally changed was this: I stopped drinking alcohol. The timing matters. My July 15-August 13 average, which contained only the first week of the alcohol-free experiment, was already down to 5 minutes. Because most of that monthly window occurred before August 7, alcohol removal cannot explain the entire decline. But after I removed alcohol, my Sleep Stress remained at its lowest level and fell again to 4 minutes. During the same period, my HRV increased, my resting heart rate decreased and my overall recovery improved. These measures are related rather than completely independent-WHOOP's Stress Monitor itself uses patterns in heart rate and HRV. Still, when several parts of my recovery picture begin telling a consistent story after one clearly defined change, the pattern becomes more compelling. The data does not prove that removing alcohol caused every improvement. The most responsible conclusion is that my recovery had already begun improving and alcohol removal may have helped reinforce and sustain that progress. My Biggest Aha Moment My biggest realization was this: I was not improving my sleep only by changing what I did at night-such as cooling the room, using a sleep mask or limiting phone use before bed. I was improving my nights by changing my days. This is exactly what Dr. Kristen Holmes suggested we do on EP 4054. Everything we do during the day contributes to the total load our bodies must process: The emotional stress we carry The timing and intensity of exercise The food we eat The time we eat it Alcohol Hydration Light exposure Travel Work demands And whether we create moments of recovery between those demands The night can become a physiological reflection of everything that came before it. For years, many of us have assumed that being exhausted guarantees a good night's sleep. But exhaustion and regulation are not the same thing. We can be deeply tired and still physiologically activated. The goal is not to exhaust the body until it shuts down. The goal is to help the body transition from meeting the demands of the day into the conditions required for recovery. How Can YOU Measure Nighttime Stress? WHOOP provides a specific Sleep Stress view, but you do not need WHOOP to begin observing your recovery patterns. Depending on the wearable or device you use, you may be able to track: Sleeping heart rate Resting heart rate Overnight HRV Respiratory rate Skin-temperature deviation Sleep disruptions Restlessness Blood-oxygen trends And recovery or readiness scores The most important consideration is your personal baseline. Your HRV, resting heart rate and respiratory rate should not be judged against someone else's ideal number. Begin by learning what is normal for you. Then look for: Sudden deviations Repeated elevations Changes lasting several nights Connections with specific behaviors (I noticed that sleep stress was ALWAYS there after no more than 1-2 glasses of wine) And whether multiple measures change together (I noticed that after a long hike, if I chose to have a drink that night, even one glass of wine, sleep stress would be there the next day). There was no escaping what elevated it for me. Even without a wearable, you can begin tracking subjective signs of recovery. Each morning, ask: How many times did I awaken? Did I feel restored when I woke up? Was my mind calm or racing before bed? Did I wake with tension, a racing heart or unusual warmth? How was my energy, mood and focus the following day? You can then compare those observations with factors such as: Alcohol Meal timing Exercise timing Emotional stress Illness Travel And changes in your sleep environment The purpose is not to become anxious about every fluctuation. The purpose is to find patterns that help you make better decisions. It did help me to have a wearable to notice just how consistent my sleep stress was with certain behaviors. Can you measure Sleep Stress without a wearable? Not in the same way. Without overnight heart-rate and HRV data, we cannot calculate WHOOP's Sleep Stress score—and we may not consciously feel that our physiology remained activated. That was true for me. I did not feel stressed while I was sleeping. I needed the data to show me that my body was experiencing something my conscious mind could not detect. Without a wearable, we can still watch for indirect clues: repeated awakenings, morning fatigue, an elevated morning pulse, daytime sleepiness or a bed partner noticing snoring, gasping or restlessness. A sleep diary can help connect those clues with our daytime behaviors. The wearable did not create the stress. It made an invisible physiological pattern visible. How Can We Lower Sleep Stress? There is no single method guaranteed to lower nighttime stress because the underlying cause may differ from one person to another. The following ideas are best approached as individual experiments. Examine Alcohol Alcohol can make us feel sleepy, but sedation is not the same as restorative sleep. Try reducing or removing alcohol for several weeks and observe what happens to your Sleep Stress, HRV, resting heart rate, awakenings and morning energy. Look for a trend rather than expecting every night to improve. This isn't the first time I've removed alcohol while creating certain conditions for my body to perform at its best over the past 7 years of this podcast, and prior. I remember first hearing Dr. Daniel Amen talking about how alcohol isn't a health food, and that he suggests no amount to be healthy for the brain. When I first heard him say this, I did think, “Oh come on, Dr. Amen, say it's not so” because I don't eat junk food (we'll cover this topic next) so I would almost look to find some research that would allow even just small amounts. You can hear what Dr. Huberman[vii] suggests on his riveting episode on this topic, and I'm sharing that my reduction with sleep stress was significant enough for me to decide that cutting it out of my diet would be a permanent decision. This is a personal decision though and what might be significant for me with my results, might not be what you notice. Finish Eating Earlier A large or heavy meal close to bedtime may keep the body active through digestion. Experiment with finishing dinner earlier and leaving a consistent interval before sleep. Then observe whether your nighttime heart rate, Sleep Stress or restlessness changes. I've always had dinner around 5pm and don't eat anything after 6:30pm (except the occasional hot chocolate). Create an Evening Wind Down The brain and body need a transition between daytime demands and sleep. Your off-ramp might include: Dimming the lights Reducing stimulating content Reading Meditation Slow breathing NSDR Gentle stretching A warm shower or bath Writing down tomorrow's priorities Or following a consistent bedtime routine The purpose is to give the nervous system repeated cues that the demands of the day are ending. I like an Epsom salt bath when I'm home to transition from a work day, to night time. Balance Training With Recovery Exercise generally supports sleep and long-term health, but timing and intensity can affect individuals differently. If you repeatedly notice elevated nighttime stress after late, intense workouts, experiment with completing those sessions earlier. You might replace a late high-intensity session with walking, gentle mobility or recovery work and then compare the results. I did notice that on days I go to the gym after work, I do have higher stress that next morning. It's not always easy to fit everything in early mornings. Practice Regulation During the Day Do not wait until bedtime to address accumulated activation. Small recovery periods throughout the day can include: Brief movement breaks Time outdoors Slow breathing Space between meetings Short periods without digital stimulation Meditation Recovery does not begin when your head hits the pillow. It is built into the rhythm of the entire day. Optimize the Sleep Environment Examine the physical conditions surrounding your sleep: Is the room comfortably cool? Is it dark? Is it quiet? Are notifications turned off? Are pets or other interruptions waking you? Does your bedding help regulate temperature? Has travel disrupted your routine? Sometimes the source of elevated nighttime activation is due to your environment. Pay Attention to Possible Health Signals A sudden increase in nighttime stress—especially when accompanied by changes in resting heart rate, respiratory rate or skin temperature—may occur when the body is fighting an illness. Persistent changes deserve attention, particularly if they are accompanied by loud snoring, gasping during sleep, chest symptoms, unusual shortness of breath or significant daytime sleepiness. A wearable cannot diagnose sleep apnea, an infection or another medical condition. Its role is to help us notice when something has changed and decide whether further evaluation may be appropriate. A Seven-Day Sleep Stress Experiment This week, select only one or two variables to change. Your experiment does not have to involve alcohol like mine did. I honestly just stopped enjoying it, so it was an easy variable for me to pick. Don't ask me to give up coffee though. I won't be participating in any caffeine reduction experiments. Choose one variable that may be influencing your nighttime physiology, keep everything else as consistent as possible, and watch the trend—not one isolated score. You might: Avoid alcohol Finish dinner earlier Move intense exercise away from bedtime Create a 20-minute evening wind down routine Practice five minutes of slow breathing Or make the bedroom cooler and darker Each morning, record: Time in high Sleep Stress, if available HRV Resting heart rate Respiratory rate Number of awakenings And how restored you feel on a scale from 1 to 10 At the end of the week, ask: What changed? What remained consistent? Which behaviors appeared to help my body settle? Which behaviors were followed by greater nighttime activation? Do not try to produce a perfect score. The goal is to identify a pattern you can repeat. Review and Conclusion To close out this BONUS EP4, where we explored Sleep Stress—not as another score to chase, but as a window into what the body may be experiencing while we sleep. We learned that Sleep Stress estimates how physiologically activated the body remains during the night. It is different from sleep duration, which tells us how long we slept, and sleep stages, which estimate the kinds of sleep we experienced. To understand this metric, we looked at the two primary branches of the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system mobilizes energy so we can move, focus, respond and perform. The parasympathetic nervous system supports conservation, digestion, restoration and recovery. Neither branch is inherently good or bad. We need activation to meet life's demands, and we need the ability to downshift when those demands have passed. Healthy regulation is not the absence of stress. It is the flexibility to move between activation and recovery. We also learned that WHOOP does not directly measure either branch of the autonomic nervous system. It uses patterns in heart rate and heart-rate variability, compared with our personal baseline, to estimate physiological stress. That makes Sleep Stress a useful signal—but not a diagnosis and not proof of what caused a particular change. This metric fits within the recovery stage of our expanded Movement Loop: Movement → Physiological Load → Recovery → Adaptation → Performance Movement creates the challenge. But the challenge alone does not build greater capacity. The body must be able to absorb the load, recover from it and adapt. When I examined my own six-month results, I saw my average high Sleep Stress rise from 21 minutes to a spring peak of 35 minutes. It then declined across four consecutive monthly windows: 35 → 18 → 14 → 5 → 4 minutes That represented approximately 89% reduction from the highest month The proportion of my sleep in WHOOP's low-stress zone also increased from 67% during the spring peak to 89% in my most recent monthly window. My recovery had already begun improving before I had cut out alcohol on August 7, so alcohol removal cannot explain the entire decline. But when I kept the rest of my routine relatively consistent and removed alcohol, my Sleep Stress remained at its lowest level. At the same time, my HRV increased, my resting heart rate decreased and my overall recovery improved. This does not prove that one behavior caused every change. But it gives me good reason to believe that removing alcohol helped reinforce an already improving recovery pattern. And that brings me to the most important lesson from this experiment: I did not improve my recovery by asking my body to do more. I improved it by creating better conditions for my body to recover from everything it was already doing. So tonight, instead of asking only: “How many hours will I sleep?” Think about-- “What am I doing today that will help—or prevent—my body from settling tonight?” Because the night does not begin when we close our eyes. It carries the accumulated effects of how we moved, trained, ate, worked, regulated and recovered throughout the day. Movement creates the stimulus. Recovery allows us to absorb it. Adaptation builds our capacity. And greater capacity prepares the brain and body to perform tomorrow. I'll see you next time for Episode 407, where we will revisit Jason Wittrock's work through a current and carefully defined lens. We'll examine his experience with nutrition and fasting as the perspective of an applied practitioner and personal case study, while comparing those ideas with current evidence surrounding nutrition, blood-sugar stability, metabolic flexibility, recovery and performance. Because if recovery determines how well we adapt to a challenge, metabolism determines whether the brain and body have the energy required to power that adaptation. And the brain and body cannot sustain performance without the energy required to power the system. I'll see you next time. REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EP 3 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-hidden-story-behind-your-resting-heart-rate/   [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EP 4 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/is-your-4-am-hike-costing-you-rem-the-movement-vs-sleep-trade%e2%80%91off/   [iii] whoop.com   [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EP 59  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/suzanne-gundersen-on-the-polyvagal-theory-in-practice/   [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast “The Future of Educational Neuroscience”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/lori-desautels-and-michael-mcknight-on-the-future-of-educational-neuroscience-in-our-schools-and-communities/   [vi] Dr. Andrew Huberman Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety. The Physiological Sigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUuc   [vii] Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.hubermanlab.com/subtopics/effects-of-alcohol-on-the-brain-and-body  

This is a relationship term that has caught on for all the reasons you’ll never guess. We are all so burned out from flag culture… red flags, green flags, yellow flags… that we’ve started to turn every small, quirky habit into a referendum on our relationships. Experts say the unusual and yes, even mildly annoying habits of your partner or a potential partner are NOT evidence that someone is incompatible with us. We’ve stopped dating each other and are constantly surveilling and labeling one another. We go over some hilarious examples, and some of our own beige flags, to remind us all that some of the strange things we do, may end up being the most endearing if we just look at them through a different lens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a relationship term that has caught on for all the reasons you’ll never guess. We are all so burned out from flag culture… red flags, green flags, yellow flags… that we’ve started to turn every small, quirky habit into a referendum on our relationships. Experts say the unusual and yes, even mildly annoying habits of your partner or a potential partner are NOT evidence that someone is incompatible with us. We’ve stopped dating each other and are constantly surveilling and labeling one another. We go over some hilarious examples, and some of our own beige flags, to remind us all that some of the strange things we do, may end up being the most endearing if we just look at them through a different lens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a relationship term that has caught on for all the reasons you’ll never guess. We are all so burned out from flag culture… red flags, green flags, yellow flags… that we’ve started to turn every small, quirky habit into a referendum on our relationships. Experts say the unusual and yes, even mildly annoying habits of your partner or a potential partner are NOT evidence that someone is incompatible with us. We’ve stopped dating each other and are constantly surveilling and labeling one another. We go over some hilarious examples, and some of our own beige flags, to remind us all that some of the strange things we do, may end up being the most endearing if we just look at them through a different lens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a relationship term that has caught on for all the reasons you’ll never guess. We are all so burned out from flag culture… red flags, green flags, yellow flags… that we’ve started to turn every small, quirky habit into a referendum on our relationships. Experts say the unusual and yes, even mildly annoying habits of your partner or a potential partner are NOT evidence that someone is incompatible with us. We’ve stopped dating each other and are constantly surveilling and labeling one another. We go over some hilarious examples, and some of our own beige flags, to remind us all that some of the strange things we do, may end up being the most endearing if we just look at them through a different lens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lisa Rusczyk and Dona Murphy have Patti on the show to tell about her fascinating life and new book. She collects paranormal dolls, teaches mediumship (has a live class for $20!) and had been involved in show business for many moons. She integrated her work into life work quite by accident, or was it?This is a video podcast on Spotify and YouTube.Want to know more about Patti?Patti Negri, renowned Psychic-Medium and “Good Witch,” is best known for her recurring appearances on Travel Channel and Discovery+'s hit series Ghost Adventures and YouTube's leading paranormal show, TFIL Overnight with Elton Castee.She is the international bestselling author of Old World Magick for the Modern World: Tips, Tricks & Techniques to Balance, Empower & Create a Life You Love and Dollcraft, her popular Llewellyn release exploring haunted dolls and magical poppets.Patti's extensive television and media career includes appearances on Portals to Hell, MasterChef, Wipeout, and America's Got Talent, along with collaborations with Lilly Singh, LaurDIY, Good Mythical Morning, AwesomenessTV, and many other leading creators and influencers. She has appeared on numerous magazine covers, contributed to more than 20 books, and conducted séances for radio, film, and television, working with notable figures including Emma Stone, Jon Voight, Meghan Trainor, and Gregory Hines.Patti hosts the award-winning weekly podcast The Witching Hour and co-hosts The Witch's Movie Coven. She is also a founding partner and Vice President of the paranormal streaming service PARAFlixx.com, as well as a founding partner and Headmistress of University Magickus, an online school of spirituality and mysticism, available at UniversityMagickus.com and MagickU.org.Social Media linksWebsite:  pattinegri.comhttps://www.facebook.com/PattiNegriPsychicMediumhttps://instagram.com/patti.negrihttps://www.tiktok.com/@pattinegrihttps://twitter.com/PattiNegrihttps://www.youtube.com/user/pinkkaire (tons of videos)IMDB link:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624468/Support the podcast! Listen, Subscribe, Share, Tell, Be Psychic! Comment!Thank you for watching and listening!

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What does NVIDIA really get from Hugging Face—and what is Silicon Valley missing about China?Zavain Dar, co-founder of Dimension and an early Hugging Face investor during his time at Lux Capital, joins Eric Newcomer to unpack NVIDIA's open source strategy, the competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, and why his trips to China changed how he thinks about the future of technology.They discuss China's AI and biotech boom, the limits of US chip restrictions, and why American startups are building on Chinese models. Plus: Dimension's Coefficient Bio exit to Anthropic, whether AI can make most human diseases treatable in our lifetime, and why human trials remain a bottleneck.Subscribe to Newcomer for more reporting on the people, companies, and deals shaping Silicon Valley: https://www.newcomer.co

What if becoming a healthier leader at home doesn't require a major overhaul, but simply a two-degree shift? High-capacity leaders know how to solve problems, make decisions, and get things done. But the skills that make you effective at work don't always translate at home. That's because your greatest strengths, like your drive, capacity, and ability to fix things, can keep you from slowing down, listening, and connecting with the biggest fans under your roof. In this episode, Dr. Josh explores how small relational shifts can change the way you lead in your marriage and family. He also provides small, practical, two-degree shifts that can change the trajectory of your family and the atmosphere of your home. You don't need a 90-degree turn. You just need two degrees. *Thank you to Bernhardt Watches for sponsoring this episode! Click here and be sure to use the code FAMOUS at checkout for $100 off your timepiece! https://www.bernhardtwatch.com/ Time Stamps:0:00 The 2-Degree Shift That Changes Everything 1:30 Why High-Capacity Leaders Struggle at Home 2:28 You Don't Need a 90-Degree Turn4:38 The Rubber Band That Changed How I Parent8:00 The Three Most Important Words You Can Use in Your Home9:30 Why Leadership at Work Doesn't Translate at Home11:10 From the Pain Cycle to the Peace Cycle13:50 How to Pay Attention to Your Unrealized Emotions21:00 The 2-Degree Shift That's Gold for Your Children 22:45 The Most Powerful Two-Degree Shift for Your Marriage 24:05 Find Your “Adirondack Chair” Moment 25:15 Pick One Shift. Practice It for 30 Days Show Notes: Looking for one-on-one coaching to be famous at home? https://www.famousathome.com/individualcoachingMen, sign up for the Living Legacy Cohort. Starts Jan. 2027. Seats are limited. https://www.famousathome.com/menscoaching Looking for a marriage intensive with Famous at Home? Apply now.  https://www.famousathome.com/coaching Get a copy of the Famous at Home book: https://amzn.to/4cm9mRS Follow Josh on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/joshua.straub Sign up for our email list and Famous at Home Starter Bundle: https://www.famousathome.com/newsletter Download NONAH's single Find My Way Home by clicking here: https://bellpartners.ffm.to/findmywayhome

The market is changing and today we are talking about the growing risks and shifting dynamics as Wall Street returns from the summer and investors face higher interest rates, persistent inflation, and expensive valuations. We examine why strong economic data can actually be bad news for stocks if it reduces the need for Fed rate cuts and we also discuss the changing role of bonds in diversified portfolios, the importance of sequence-of-returns risk for retirees, the difficulty of comparing investment performance to the S&P 500 during an unusual year, and why investors should focus on the investing fundamentals. We review trends across commodities, gold, Bitcoin, oil, small caps, technology, and the S&P 500, while making sure you remember to proceed with caution heading into historically weaker months. We discuss...  Why an expensive market does not necessarily mean investors should stay out, especially after decades of elevated valuations. How investor ego can lead to poor decisions, including repeatedly buying declining stocks simply because they appear cheaper. Why valuation must be considered relative to a company's expected growth rather than viewed as a standalone P/E ratio. Higher inflation and interest rates are major risks that could eventually pressure stock valuations and economic growth. How rising interest rates can hurt long-term bonds, utilities, housing, highly leveraged companies, and businesses dependent on borrowing to grow. Why investors should pay closer attention to commodities as inflation and geopolitical disruptions affect prices. How stronger-than-expected employment data could be bad news for markets because it may reduce the Federal Reserve's need to cut rates. We examined the unusually long drawdown in the bond market and why traditional stock-and-bond diversification has not worked as well since the pandemic. Bonds should serve a specific purpose in a portfolio, such as income, liquidity, liability matching, or near-term spending needs. The market's unusual performance this year, including the outsized influence of semiconductor and technology stocks on overall index returns. The dangers of relying on financial media and developing an independent investment view based on facts, fundamentals, and personal research. A warning against shorting the overall market and a reminder that there are other ways to manage portfolio risk and hedge against downturns.   Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth Douglas Heagren | Mergent College Advisors Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moneytreepodcast Follow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/money-tree-investing-podcast Follow on Twitter/X: https://x.com/MTIPodcast For more information, visit the full show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/the-market-is-changing-849 

Who has your attention?In a world where screens, money, health, worries, ambitions, and countless other forces compete for our focus, John Ortberg asks a deeper question: Who is my master?Psalm 143 teaches us how to pay attention to God through two important practices: focused attention and open attention.John explores why attention is so powerful, how what we consistently attend to can actually change us, and how we can learn to notice God's presence throughout an ordinary day.The invitation is simple:Pay attention to the God who is already paying attention to you.In this episode: Psalm 143 • attention • distraction • spiritual formation • neuroscience • noticing God#Psalm143 #JohnOrtberg #SpiritualFormation #Attention #Psalms #ChristianFaith

-- On the Show: -- Josh Turek, Democratic nominee for US Senate from Iowa, joins us to discuss the race and how Trump's tariff policies are crushing Iowa farmers -- Security expert Peter Van Praagh warns Donald Trump plans to challenge the midterm results while deploying federal election monitors -- Donald Trump has a dangerous combination of cognitive decline and narcissism, leading to errors going uncorrected by aides -- Republican organizers offer free text-message tickets for Donald Trump's midterm rally after key candidates decline invitations -- Senator Rick Scott pledges that Republicans will follow Donald Trump's lead despite the president's 33% approval rating -- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin struggles during a Fox News interview regarding September 11th anniversary comments -- David urges viewers to pre-order his book "Pay Attention" to beat Senator Ted Cruz on the bestseller lists -- On the Bonus Show: Canada places tariffs on American products, some Republicans are open to raising the Social Security cap, Trump teases renaming New Mexico to "New America"

Pastor Jacob Bell teaches from Hebrews 2:1-4, encouraging us to fix our attention on Jesus.

The S&P 500, QQQ, Treasury yields, and September seasonality are creating one of the most important stock market setups to watch right now. In this video, I break down the key support levels, market pullback risk, sector rotation, technology weakness, and areas of strength so you can understand what the charts are actually telling us instead of panicking every time the market turns red.Join our Exclusive Patreon!!! Creating Financial Empowerment for those who've never had it.

Biblical Finances Big Idea: Faithful finances begin when you live on what you have. 1. Contentment Has to Be Learned 2. Decide What Is Enough 3. Pay Attention to Where Your Money Goes 4. Stop Spending Tomorrow's Money Today Takeaway: Live on what you have. Christ is enough. Next Steps: 1. Know what comes in. Write down monthly take-home income. 2. Know what goes out: Review the last 30 days of spending. 3. Find three leaks: Coffee, eating out, subscriptions, impulse… 4. Practice “not yet.”

What if you didn't need to post on LinkedIn every day to build real authority?For years, the dominant LinkedIn advice has been pretty consistent: post constantly, engage with bigger accounts, chase visibility, and keep feeding the algorithm.But what if there's a quieter—and more sustainable—way to use LinkedIn?In this episode, Mel shares what he's learned after nearly four years of experimenting with LinkedIn, growing from roughly 400–500 followers to nearly 5,000 and generating more than 700,000 views without posting every day.More importantly, he explores why LinkedIn may be becoming increasingly valuable for therapists as AI changes the way expertise is discovered online.In this episode:Why Mel shut down a Facebook community of nearly 10,000 people and began experimenting with LinkedInWhy therapists may be overlooking one of the best platforms for building professional authorityThe problem with the “post every day” approach to LinkedInWhy your referral sources, collaborators, publishers, podcast hosts, and speaking opportunities may already be on LinkedInHow LinkedIn can help create a broader digital footprint around your expertiseWhy specificity matters more than having a massive followingHow to turn years of clinical experience into content people can actually findWhy your LinkedIn profile should function more like a search result than a traditional resumeHow to use LinkedIn search to find referral partners, collaborators, journalists, publishers, and other opportunitiesMel's “Quiet LinkedIn” approach to posting consistently without burning outWhy the goal isn't necessarily more followers—it's more signalInstead of trying to win the follower or engagement game, Mel proposes playing a different one: the authority game. Tune in for the strategy! The goal isn't virality.It's becoming the obvious expert in your specific corner of the world.--RESOURCES Building and managing the practice you truly want can feel overwhelming. That's why Alma is here—to help you create not just any practice, but your private practice.With Alma, you'll get the tools and resources you need to navigate insurance with ease, connect with referrals that are the right fit for your style, and streamline those time-consuming administrative tasks. That means less time buried in the details and more time focused on delivering exceptional care to your clients.You support your clients. Alma supports you.Learn more at sellingthecouch.com/alma and get 2 months FREE–an exclusive offer for STC listeners.--FREE WORKSHOP: Your LinkedIn Profile is Either Working For You Right Now — or It Isn'tJoin Mel on September 18th for a free 60-minute live workshop designed to help therapists turn LinkedIn into a 24/7 silent referral partner—without becoming a content machine. You'll learn how to optimize the five parts of your profile that matter most, make your expertise easier to discover by both humans and AI search engines, and build a quiet online presence that can lead to referrals, speaking opportunities, podcasts, and more.Save your spot at: https://melvinvarghese.kartra.com/page/linkedin

You can find his channel  @ThorogoodFilms    ​ Sacramento Estuary Conference Oct 16 and 17 https://www.livingstonescrc.com/events/sacramento-estuary-conference-2026/2026-10-16 What is the TLC? ("This little corner of the Internet" also know as "the corner" https://youtu.be/Y3vqSjywot8?si=IVS3bnriwje5syPO TLC Search tool. https://thislittlecorner.net The Flotilla List: https://thislittlecorner.net/channels https://www.livingstonescrc.com/give Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg https://www.meetup.com/sacramento-estuary/ My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Bridges of meaning https://discord.gg/UKg8k93c Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333  If you need the RSS feed for your podcast player https://paulvanderklay.podbean.com/feed/  All Amazon links here are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program. Amazon pays me a small commission at no additional cost to you if you buy through one of the product links here. This is is one (free to you) way to support my videos.  https://paypal.me/paulvanderklay Blockchain backup on Lbry https://odysee.com/@paulvanderklay https://www.patreon.com/paulvanderklay Paul's Church Content at Living Stones Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh7bdktIALZ9Nq41oVCvW-A

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The 8am hour of Wednesday's Mac & Cube kept on with Larry Williams, from Tigers Illustrated, telling us why Dabo Swinney is currently in a dream spot, why the big question is "Who are the other guys?," and how the game against LSU will play out; then, Cole & Greg get into a few games people haven't mentioned but will be worth paying attention to; later, RJ Young, from FOX Sports, says why he's most intrigued to see Pete Golding & Ole Miss take the field, how many teams can truly win it all, and why the Big Ten vs. SEC debate has been decided; and finally, the guys go over more games that are compelling. "McElroy & Cubelic In The Morning" airs 7am-10am weekdays on WJOX-94.5!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brock and Salk react to Friday’s Seahawks preseason game against the Chiefs and discuss the roster moves made yesterday. They talk about the Mariners sweep at the hands of the Blue Jays over the weekend, Jalen Milroe’s improvement over the course of preseason, and more in Need To Know. They discuss the lack of focus from the Mariners and try and figure out why it seems like the players don’t have their heads in the game. And Brock gives his takeaways from the Seahawks final preseason game against the Chiefs, roster cutdowns, and more in Blue-88.

Fr. Robert McTeigue continues his "Novel Prophecies" series with E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. Written more than a century ago, the story imagines people living apart from one another and relying on technology for nearly everything. Does Forster's world still look quite so far-fetched today? Father finishes with Weekend Readiness to help prepare you for Sunday Mass.   Show Notes The Machine Stops - E.M. Forster Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again Moms Love This Initiation Ritual Freshmen Must Go Through at This Oklahoma High School Christianity-hating activist moves to tear down historic Los Angeles cross — but proud LA group is having none of it White liberal woman says she aborted her baby because of how much she loved him Daily Readings - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time iCatholic Mobile The Station of the Cross Merchandise - Use Coupon Code 14STATIONS for 10% off | Catholic to the Max Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! "Let's Take A Closer Look" with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. | Full Series Playlist Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Hey Heal Squad! What better way to celebrate the back-to-school season than with one of TV's most iconic high schoolers: the one and only Jennie Garth, aka Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills, 90210. Since leaving West Beverly, Jennie has built an incredible life and career…. starring in What I Like About You, competing on Dancing with the Stars, raising three daughters, writing her memoir I Choose Me, and creating a whole new chapter around what it really means to choose yourself. Today, Jennie opens up to Maria about the rock-bottom period after her divorce and the biggest mistake she says she made: isolating herself instead of letting people support her. She shares what actually helped her climb out, like  friendship, nature, therapy, creativity, and becoming determined to feel joy again. They also look back at the 90210 years, what it was like to spend her entire young adulthood on set, why leaving the show felt like a grief process, and how the cast eventually found their way back to one another later in life. Plus, Jennie gets candid about her health journey… from a shocking jet ski accident with Luke Perry to severe memory issues that led her to Dr. Amen and a brain scan. This one is part nostalgia, part healing, and a powerful reminder that sometimes choosing yourself starts with simply deciding you want to feel better, and staying persistent until you do. Enjoy! HEALERS & HEAL LINERS Isolation Makes Hard Times Harder: After her divorce, Jennie admits she isolated herself out of shame and now wishes she had let her friends support her sooner. Getting outside, hiking with friends, meeting new people and allowing laughter back into her life helped her begin climbing out of that period. Pay Attention to What Your Brain + Body Are Telling You: Jennie's severe memory issues became so concerning that she feared early-onset Alzheimer's or dementia. A brain scan revealed irregularities that Dr. Amen could be connected to a past head injury, while Jennie also believes then-unrecognized perimenopause was contributing. You Have to Be Persistent in Your Quest to Feel Better: Jennie says she became determined to feel joy again, trying different therapies, workshops, spending time in nature and eventually rediscovering creativity through designing a home. Her takeaway: change required consistency, figuring out what kind of life she actually wanted, and doing more of what made her feel alive. Join us at our Canyon Ranch 2026 Retreat: https://www.canyonranch.com/lenox/retreats/heal-retreat-maria-menounos HEAL SQUAD SOCIALS IG: https://www.instagram.com/healsquad/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@healsquadxmaria HEAL SQUAD RESOURCES: Heal Squad Website:https://www.healsquad.com/ Heal Squad x Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HealSquad/membership Maria Menounos Website: https://www.mariamenounos.com My Curated Macy's Page: https://stylecrew.macys.com/@mariamenounos EMR-Tek Red Light: https://emr-tek.com/discount/Maria30 for 30% off Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/host GUEST RESOURCES: Follow Jennie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniegarth/?hl=en More Info on I Choose Me Memoir, Podcast & More: https://jenniegarth.com/ Read Jennie's SubStack: https://substack.com/@itsjenniegarth Shop Me By Jennie Garth: https://jenniegarth.com/pages/me-by-jennie-garth ABOUT MARIA MENOUNOS: Emmy Award-winning journalist, TV personality, actress, 2x NYT best-selling author, former pro-wrestler and brain tumor survivor, Maria Menounos' passion is to see others heal and to get better in all areas of life. ABOUT HEAL SQUAD x MARIA MENOUNOS: A daily digital talk-show that brings you the world's leading healers, experts, and celebrities to share groundbreaking secrets and tips to getting better in all areas of life. DISCLAIMER: This Podcast and all related content (published or distributed by or on behalf of Maria Menounos or http://Mariamenounos.com and http://healsquad.com) is for informational purposes only and may include information that is general in nature and that is not specific to you. Any information or opinions provided by guest experts or hosts featured within website or on Company's Podcast are their own; not those of Maria Menounos or the Company. Accordingly, Maria Menounos and the Company cannot be responsible for any results or consequences or actions you may take based on such information or opinions. This podcast is presented for exploratory purposes only. Published content is not intended to be used for preventing, diagnosing, or treating a specific illness. If you have, or suspect you may have, a health-care emergency, please contact a qualified health care professional for treatment.

Jon Ossoff publicly exposes Trump's purported fling with a young staffer. Brian interviews David Pakman and Brian Poindexter, the Democrat running against scandal plagued Max Miller.Order my new book, THE DAY AFTER: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/thedayafter Order David Pakman's Pay Attention: https://bit.ly/m/attentionSupport Brian Poindexter: https://poindexterforcongress.com/Written by Brian Tyler CohenProduced by Sam GraberRecorded in Los Angeles, CASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.