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SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 131*Ultra High Energy Gamma Rays Detected in the Milky Way's CoreScientists have detected ultra high energy gamma rays emanating from the centre of the Milky Way. This discovery, reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, offers a new perspective on the violent phenomena occurring in the galactic core. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory in Mexico, researchers measured these gamma rays at over 100 tera electron volts, providing insights into the cosmic processes involving Sagittarius A, the galaxy's central supermassive black hole.*Discovery of a Potential Triple Black Hole SystemAstronomers have identified what may be the first triple black hole system, located 8,000 light years away. This discovery could be the first direct evidence of gentle black hole formation, challenging the typical violent supernova origin theory. The system includes a central black hole, a closely orbiting star, and a far-off companion star, suggesting a more subtle formation process known as direct collapse.*NASA's New Deployable Solar Array System Faces ChallengesNASA has encountered issues with its new deployable solar array and antenna system on the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 4 spacecraft. The lightweight integrated solar array and antenna system, designed to enhance power and communication capabilities, is not deploying correctly due to a bent boom. This technology aims to support future deep Space missions with improved efficiency.The Science RobertA recent study reveals that standing, as opposed to sitting, does not improve cardiovascular health, despite the popularity of standing desks. Fossilised remains of a new giant elephant species have been found in India's Kashmir Valley, shedding light on elephant evolution. AI-assisted colonoscopies show a slight improvement in polyp detection. Meanwhile, Apple releases its first AI update, focusing on privacy and user data protection.www.spacetimewithstuartgary.comwww.bitesz.com

Tyler Axness is broadcasting from the Firehouse Pub promoting the Headwaters Music festival with Pam Erlandson and Ted Petron. The event goes from Thursday, July 18 through Saturday, July 20.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Capillary Technologies is a managed SaaS solution powering 500+ loyalty programs with its best-in-class loyalty technology platform and expert services. Founded in 2012, Capillary has a strong global presence across the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, working with 400+ brands like Tata, PUMA, Shell, Petron, Domino's, Kanmo Group, and Marks & Spencer. The platform's suite of products—Loyalty+, Engage+, Rewards+, Insights+—are all AI-powered and sit on top of a powerful consumer data platform that has touched more than a billion end customers.As part of the Loyalty Expo Speaker Preview Series, Loyalty360 interviews presenters who will lead dynamic sessions at this year's Loyalty Expo in Orlando, Florida, from June 4–6.  Mark Johnson, CEO of Loyalty360, spoke with Don Smith, Chief Consulting Officer at Capillary, about the upcoming session he will lead in June. The session will address the mechanics of customer loyalty programs and what metrics to tap into when measuring customer loyalty efforts. Read the article here:  https://loyalty360.org/content-gallery/daily-news/capillary-s-2024-loyalty-expo-session-understanding-the-mechanics-of-customer-loyalty-programs-and

Capillary Technologies is a managed SaaS solution powering 500+ loyalty programs with its best-in-class loyalty technology platform and expert services. Founded in 2012, Capillary has a strong global presence across the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, working with 400+ brands like Tata, PUMA, Shell, Petron, Domino's, Kanmo Group, and Marks & Spencer. The platform's suite of products—Loyalty+, Engage+, Rewards+, Insights+—are all AI-powered and sit on top of a powerful consumer data platform that has touched more than a billion end customers.As part of the Loyalty Expo Speaker Preview Series, Loyalty360 interviews presenters who will lead dynamic sessions at this year's Loyalty Expo in Orlando, Florida, from June 4–6.  Mark Johnson, CEO of Loyalty360, spoke with Don Smith, Chief Consulting Officer at Capillary, about the upcoming session he will lead in June. The session will address the mechanics of customer loyalty programs and what metrics to tap into when measuring customer loyalty efforts. Read the article here: https://loyalty360.org/content-gallery/daily-news/capillary-s-2024-loyalty-expo-session-understanding-the-mechanics-of-customer-loyalty-programs-and

Spaudos apžvalgoje – „Kultūros barai“.Kuo meno pasauliui svarbi Petronėlės Gerlikienės kūryba? Kodėl menininkės karjerą ji pradėjo sulaukusi garbaus amžiaus?Kol vieni nekantrauja, kada galės atsiversti „Knygų mugėje“ įsigytą romaną, kai kurie negali sutelkti dėmesio ir ramiai perskaityti bent puslapio. Kodėl specialistai rekomenduoja atsispirti skaitmeninėms pagundoms ir kaip sekasi jaunimui kovoti prieš ekranus?Vasario 22-ąją dainininkui James Blunt sukanka 50 metų.„Šią mugę pasitinkame tvirtai įsitikinę, kad Vilniaus knygų mugė – tai platforma ne tik literatūrai, bet ir svarbioms visuomeninėms diskusijoms pristatyti“ – taip prasidedančią Vilniaus knygų mugę pristato organizatoriai. „2 metai, 3657 dienos“ – Kaune pristatoma ukrainiečių scenos menų programa antrosioms Rusijos vykdomo karo Ukrainoje metinėms atminti.Ved. Karolina Bieliauskaitė

Get ready for a wild ride with the Petron Philippine Overland Expedition! This episode takes you inside an offroad competition about endurance, teamwork, and navigating the untamed beauty of the Philippines.

Hosts Alan Sardana & Dr. Joshua Liu speak with Dr. Alexander Petron, CMIO at WellSpan Health, about "Harnessing Ambient Voice Tech to Tackle Staff Burnout, Balancing Patient Satisfaction with Clinician Wellbeing, Knowing "Your Why" to drive Clinical Outcomes, and more." Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Alsėdžių gyventojai neapsiriboja kažkada gyvavusia Alsėdžių respublika, kuria naują – Jaunų žmonių!Miestelio istorijos išskirtinius įvykius pristato senoji mokytoja Ancelė ir davatka Petronėlė: Plungės r. Alsėdžių Stanislovo Narutavičiaus gimnazijos direktoriaus pav. ugdymui Daiva Gramalienė ir Žemaičių Kalvarijų kultūros centro Alsėdžių filialo suaugusiųjų teatro mėgėjų kolektyvo vadovė Vaida Silkauskienė.Alsėdžių pažinimo centras. Seniūnė Danutė Repšienė.Kadetų dvasia ugdomi Alsėdžių gimnazijos moksleiviai. Direktorius Regimantas Kavaliauskas.Alsėdžių seniūnijos bendruomenės pirmininkas Žydrūnas Purauskis apie naują darinį Žemaitijoje, gal ir Lietuvoje – Alsėdžių jaunų šeimų respubliką!Renavo dvaro sodyba. Direktorius Deividas Makavičius ir muziejininkė Nomeda Vėlavičienė.Ved. Jolanta Jurkūnienė

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Alexander Petron, CMIO at WellSpan Health about "Harnessing Ambient Voice Tech to Tackle Staff Burnout, Balancing Patient Satisfaction with Clinician Wellbeing, Knowing "Your Why" to drive Clinical Outcomes, and more..."

In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market: Sponsors of the 88MW Binh Thuan onshore wind farm in Vietnam — Filipino power producer ACEN (65%) and Vietnam-based BIM Group (35%) — are expected to sign the financing backing the scheme by month-end Philippine oil company Petron Corporation, the largest oil refining firm in the country, is testing bank appetite with a $550 million five-year term loan There is going to be a major change in the world of supply chain finance (SCF) next year that will bring more transparency to SCF programmes. TXF's Katharine Morton asks, what do the new FASB standards mean for corporate suppliers and buyers and for investors?  Like what you hear? Hit subscribe to stay up to date and for all the latest news online visit www.txfnews.com today.

On this episode of Solely Singleton, Brad and Eric go over the one thing that most cubists have, pets! That's right voters, you finally get an episode devoted to Isamaru and Mowu. Of course, however, I'd be remiss to not mention some of the other highlights, such as: Brad romantically  reminiscing about the good old days when everyone had the pox; discussions about numerous cards that your hosts would cut from rich cubes that poor cubes would kill for; Brad and Eric clearly communicating the prompt beforehand; and Eric holding his momentum until the end of every sentence. 00:30 - Intro 01:27 - Initial Thoughts 02:45 - Main Topic 46:50 - Final Thoughts 48:01 - Outro     Show Links:   Solely Singleton Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SolelySingleton Magic Only Feed of Solely Singleton: http://solelysingletonmtg.libsyn.com/   Season 14 Show Notes InkedGaming Affiliate Link: https://www.inkedgaming.com/collections/artists/solely-singleton?rfsn=4880595.65410f&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=4880595.65410f   Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Starter Cube (2021 Edition): https://www.cubecobra.com/cube/list/thestartercube The Misers Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/themiserscube Brad's Main Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/drruler Eric's Travel Cube: http://www.cubecobra.com/cube/overview/travelcube Christian's Peasant Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/spooty Our Producers for May: Robert Taleno Daniel McKinnon   Our Biggest Supporters: JeFF Stumpo Cube Cobra Squerson Phizzled Andrew Pope   Our Supporters: Riku  Wasson An Ed Yoon gbrell Connell Parish Chris Smith Matt DeFisher Landscape Christopher Capasso Ryan Cory Graham Shawn Martin-Truesdell Tom  Logan Adams KitsuneCurator LordFluffy    Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on discord and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel free to email more detailed questions and comments to the show's email address.   Your Hosts: Brad (DrRuler) & Eric (OnekuoSora) Brad's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrRuler Eric's Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnekuoSora Show Email: SolelySingleton@gmail.com Show Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Edited by: BowTieJones   Show Mailing Address: PO Box 70893 Rochester Hills, MI 48307   Licensed Music Used By This Program:   “There It Is” by Kevin MacLeod From the Free Music Archive CC BY   “Thursday & Snow (Reprise)” by Blank & Kytt From the Free Music Archive CC BY   “Chiaroscuro” by Andrew Codeman From the Free Music Archive CC BY   “Groovy Baby” by Jason Shaw From the Free Music Archive CC BY

On this episode of Solely Singleton, Brad and Eric go over the one thing that most cubists have, pets! That's right voters, you finally get an episode devoted to Isamaru and Mowu. Of course, however, I'd be remiss to not mention some of the other highlights, such as: Brad romantically  reminiscing about the good old days when everyone had the pox; discussions about numerous cards that your hosts would cut from rich cubes that poor cubes would kill for; Brad and Eric clearly communicating the prompt beforehand; and Eric holding his momentum until the end of every sentence.  00:30 - Intro 01:27 - Initial Thoughts 02:45 - Main Topic 46:50 - Final Thoughts 48:01 - Outro Show Links:   Solely Singleton Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SolelySingleton Magic Only Feed of Solely Singleton: http://solelysingletonmtg.libsyn.com/   Season 14 Show Notes InkedGaming Affiliate Link: https://www.inkedgaming.com/collections/artists/solely-singleton?rfsn=4880595.65410f&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=4880595.65410f   Solely Singleton Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Solely Singleton Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SolelySingleton The Starter Cube (2021 Edition): https://www.cubecobra.com/cube/list/thestartercube The Misers Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/themiserscube Brad's Main Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/drruler Eric's Travel Cube: http://www.cubecobra.com/cube/overview/travelcube Christian's Peasant Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/spooty Our Producers for May: Robert Taleno Daniel McKinnon   Our Biggest Supporters: JeFF Stumpo Cube Cobra Squerson Phizzled Andrew Pope   Our Supporters: Riku  Wasson An Ed Yoon gbrell Connell Parish Chris Smith Matt DeFisher Landscape Christopher Capasso Ryan Cory Graham Shawn Martin-Truesdell Tom  Logan Adams KitsuneCurator LordFluffy    Contact Information: You can interact with Solely Singleton by joining the hosts on discord and twitter to give input to improve the show.  Feel free to email more detailed questions and comments to the show's email address.   Your Hosts: Brad (DrRuler) & Eric (OnekuoSora) Brad's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrRuler Eric's Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnekuoSora Show Email: SolelySingleton@gmail.com Show Website: https://www.solelysingleton.com/ Edited by: BowTieJones   Show Mailing Address: PO Box 70893 Rochester Hills, MI 48307   Licensed Music Used By This Program:   “There It Is” by Kevin MacLeod From the Free Music Archive CC BY   “Thursday & Snow (Reprise)” by Blank & Kytt From the Free Music Archive CC BY   “Chiaroscuro” by Andrew Codeman From the Free Music Archive CC BY   “Groovy Baby” by Jason Shaw From the Free Music Archive CC BY

July 2nd 2022 Today Yuriy is in a nomadic area of Ukraine in a pick-up truck with a machine gun in the back, and a black dog called Petron. He gives the story of the wild areas of Ukraine and the people who lived there and why there's a dog named Petron joining him on patrol. Follow @fightingforukraine on instagram to see a photo of Petron in the truck. Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: ​​https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy  Yuriy's GoFundMe campaign to support his family: https://gofund.me/6bef49ba  ----more---- You can show your support for the Kyiv Declaration here: https://kyivdeclaration.org   Here are some organizations where you can donate: World Central Kitchen WCK is currently stationed in several locations near the Ukranian border. WCK provides fresh, nourishing meals for communities in need of relief from war and climate disasters. https://donate.wck.org/give/236738/#!/donation/checkout    Red Cross The Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will continue to respond to existing and emerging humanitarian needs. https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal   Voices of Children Voices of Children helps children affected by the war in eastern Ukraine. They provide psychological and psychosocial support to children. It helps them overcome the consequences of armed conflict and develop. https://voices.org.ua/en/donat/   Save the Children Save the Children is Distributing essential humanitarian aid to children and their families https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/where-we-work/europe/ukraine   Revived Soldiers of Ukraine Revived Soldiers Ukraine (RSU) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to the people of Ukraine so that they may fulfill fundamental rights and freedoms such as right to life, right to appropriate and affordable medical care, freedom of belief and freedom for an adequate standard of living. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=EECANTTJNHN7Y  

Welcome to LUNA Listens! This is where we publish all our blog posts in audio form for you to listen to at your own pace. Today we have 'Epilepsy - More Than Just Seizures' by Faustine Petron (she/her). Faustine shares with us how epilepsy impacts your life beyond just seizures. You can follow Faustine on her instagram @thehoodwriter and read her post on our website www.thelunaproject.org.uk Find us on: Instagram - @thelunaprojectuk Twitter - @theLUNAprojectt Facebook - The LUNA Project

On this week of the Made in America podcast, we are welcoming Petron Automation's VP of Business Development, Paul Thornberg! Paul talks to Ari about career development, being patient when doing business, and understanding customers' needs. He expresses the importance of listening to the industry and wearing multiple hats to get the job done. Paul explains how his current role at Petron Automation has been the right fit for him from a personal and cultural standpoint. He believes a culture full of open ideas helps the company stay connected and motivated!  Paul Thornberg, VP of Business Development, Petron Automation  Petron Automation's Website: https://petronautomation.com/ Petron Automation's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/petron-automation-inc/ Petron Automation's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Petron-Automation-548908661887645 Paul's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-thornberg-91918314/ Ari Santiago, CEO, CompassMSP Company Website: https://compassmsp.com/ Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MadeinAmericaPodcast Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/made-in-america-podcast-with-ari Company YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/MadeinAmericaPodcastwithAri Ari's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asantiago104/ Podcast produced by Miceli Productions: https://miceliproductions.com/

The Alpha Scouts on their discovery missions detected concentrated supplies of Silver, Iridium, and Platinum just to name a few of these precious metals. The availability of these exotic metals made it much easier to produce and develop interplanetary space craft, space outpost and even large colonies.

Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/215 Show Sponsor:  Turtlebox Audio:  https://wetflyswing.com/turtlebox Jonathan Mckenzie, the co-founder of Turtlebox Audio is here to share the story of how they created a great Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker that sounds great and is ready for the outdoors. Jonathan describes how it all started with him and his best 3 buddies and now has become a group of 4 families, 25 people with kids running around the headquarters.  Jonathan, Will, Regan, and Jeff Show Notes with Jonathan Mckenzie  - TWS - True Wireless Stereo vs the mono single speaker.  If you get two turtlebox speakers you can do TWS. - Will Bradley is the guy who rallies people, Reagan is the CFO, Jeff Besner has the big company exposure. - I noted the Outdoors Online Podcast and the Jessica Shambora community podcast. - Duck Camp out of Austin, Zilker Belts, Chama Chair hunting chairs, Pak Mule, Twisted X Brewery and others are big Texas companies that are part of the Tejas Collaborative. - Don Julio 1942 or some in the $60 range like Petron or Teirra noble are good for Tequilla.  We get a little lesson on Tequilla here so worth a listen. - The Devil's River trip is coming up that is a classified pristine River out of Texas. You can find Jonathan at TurtleboxAudio.com "Listen Responsibly" -Jonathan Mckenzie Turtlebox Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker Conclusion  We get the full Turtlebox story from Jonathan Mckenzie on how he co-founded Turtlebox Audio 8 years ago and has created a great outdoor Bluetooth Speaker focused on fishing, hunting and outdoor enthusiasts. We get a glimpse of where Turtlebox might be heading next and why they are doubling down on the hunting and fishing niche.  If you want to hear an amazing company founder, amazing passion, and a product you can stand behind, this is the episode for you. Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/215

Our hosts visit with Kara Petron, Kristi Westerbur & Ginny Stage

Starbucks. Isang sikat na coffee store na parang kabuten'g nagsulputan sa ating bansa. Makikita sa halos lahat ng mga malls gaya ng Mall of Asia at Festival Supermall. May mga pwesto din sila sa mga gasoline stations katulad ng Shell at Petron (correct me if i'm wrong). Kakompetensiya ng Coffee Bean, Seattle's Best, Gloria Jeans at Coffee Authority. May iba't ibang uri dito ng kape. Espresso, Latte' at pwede ding icustomize. Mayroon din namang mga fruit shakes gaya ng Mango Passion Fruit. Kakaiba rin ang ambiance dito dahil sa tugtuging may pagka-classic ang dating. (Trivia: Starbucks 6750 ang pinakunang Starbucks sa Pilipinas). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/damuhan/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/damuhan/support

Hey there Petron's of Lameboy Town! Oh boy, we got a good one for you this week. Want to know a little more about Outriders? Tune in to get Andy's take as he dove headfirst into the game over launch weekend. Can Outriders blossom into one of the biggest hitters in the shooter looter genre? Only time will tell! Also, hold on to your pants as Luke lectures Sami and Andy on their inability to commit to playing multiplayer games with him. Will his desperate rant get them to cave…probably not. What's that smell, oh crackerjacks? That's right, it's Baseball season and Microsoft had some big news with the announcement of MLB the Show coming to GamePass. Could this lead to more Sony exclusives making their way over? Finally but not least, stop by to get your update on what CD Project Red plans on doing with Cyberpunk's future. Let see if they can win back their PS4 user base! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lameboy-games/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lameboy-games/support

On today's WUL, I talk with Michael Petron. Michael is a 22 year old full-time online marketer and today he shares how he got into this industry, his Tiktok strategy, and how he was able to turn his online business from a side hustle to a full time job.

U of U/Utah Jazz team doc Dr. Dave Petron joins The Drive to give an update on Pac-12 fall sports, possibility of football before Jan. 1, 'game changing' Quidel partnership + more:

Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the mind George show. And really, uh, today's episode is really going to make sense as to why this podcast is named the mind of George show. Probably one of the biggest hidden. Secrets to my success. Most of my friends success and for whatever reason is not talked about enough.Um, and so I have a very special guest today, probably the world's most interesting man that I know. And I've talked to recently, which I'm excited to bring into and we're going to be unpacking a lot of fun stuff. Probably around mindset, stress, relief, anxiety, changing habits, setting yourself up to win as an entrepreneur and your business and your life and whatever else that we can get into.So without further ado, I'd love to introduce my dear friend and I'm going to let him pronounce his name, but his name is Alp. And how do I say your last name?  I always feel, I always feel like I want to say it in, like, it's a one word, like it's a one name, like,  your name? And that sounds like so Royal. Um, but I'm super excited to have you my friend.So good morning. Welcome to the show. Good morning. Nice to be here. Thank you very much for the invitation. Of course, I'm going to kick it off. Like I do everybody and everywhere and you've had an interesting life, but I want to go right to that, that relating point. So when you think back, uh, cause you've been in business for a while, you've been playing this game for a long time.When you think back, what is the biggest mistake that you have ever made in business and what did you learn from it? I think the biggest mistake is that I have listened to so called experts rather than my own opinion and voice, you know, I probably spent, I don't know how many thousands and thousands to, uh, experts and coaches who all knew better or at least seem to know better.And in the end things didn't work out the way. They should have been, not because they were not qualified necessarily, not because they didn't know what they are talking about, because I think at the end of the day, it's us living our lives also in business. Right. So, and somehow we don't know why something might make sense, but we, we feel it.And if we do not go after this, we are not in our own power. So if we, if we give away the power just to experts, because we believe somebody else has the wisdom for our next step, basically this might or might not be true depending on where we are coming from. That's um, that's a powerful lesson. I've learned that one too.Uh, it's probably like one of the number one things that I bump into a lot with like people I coach and students, and even, even a lot of the industry in which we're in, right? Like experts selling the answers for you. When I, when I think what really is, and we're going to get into this, but, but really what it is is that.You know, you know, there's all these wise quotes that like when the student is ready, the teacher appears. And I, I think there's this consumption, um, like this dopamine hit of like advocating our own responsibility and our own wisdom thinking. That somebody else will give it or have it, and the analogy.And I'm going to ask for your thoughts on this, but the analogy that I always use, and I believe my buddy, Jeff Spencer, was the owner, said this to me or something in context. And it always stuck with me. And it's like, Olympic athletes are Olympians with, or without a coach. The coach's job is to help navigate blind spots and keep them on track.But they're the ones running the race. And when I, us as human beings, Like we innately when we spend time alone or connecting to our breath or feeling our emotions, what we're tapping into is wisdom. And that wisdom is like a barometer, right? Like I wrote an email about this the other day. You can either be a thermostat or you can be a thermometer, right.And thermometer, just react all you can do. Like I can freeze you in a block of ice and all you can do is tell me, you can. It's colder. I can shove you up Satan's ass and all he can tell me it's really hot. Right? Like you can't do anything about it, but a thermostat reads the room. It identifies like, Oh, it's a little hot.Let me turn it down a bit. Or it's a little cold. Let me turn it up a bit. And so. Would that lesson that you learned and, and I'm going to let everybody get into your backstory in a minute. But with that lesson, what are your thoughts like as a hypnotherapist and somebody who walks people through this, right.Is that something common that you see? And then as you see it, what are some of the. The, the quote, unquote tools or awarenesses or distinctions that can help navigate that process. So like you wouldn't make that mistake again, or you would make sure that when you hire that coach or find that expert, that it's the right time for the message to be received.Like how do you navigate that? Um, I think what we all need is to learn how to tell the difference between discursive mind. And what I would call real intuition. And let, let me give you a hint, a real intuitive insight. Doesn't make you necessarily excited. Doesn't let you up. It can be totally quiet, but very powerfully.So if you have a deep insight, it's almost neutral. What, but with such a power. That, you know, that's it, that's true. This might sound now more, let's say more mystical and far away than it is. I mean, you're married, right. And have kids. Yes. I have that. There was a point in your relationship where you just knew that's the one, okay.That I'm going with, whether this is something that you felt immediately. Or that came after a couple of dates, but you just knew you didn't need an expert to tell you, Hey, that's the girl. I mean, you didn't need to hire a coach to tell you and ask her, which of these girls is it? You know, or which ones should I, you just knew.And I think if we get lost in being in distractions, But also within our own mind, then, then we lose track of it. And some are what I basically do is teach people how to recognize, uh, this true voice that can be very silent. Yeah. Yeah. I think. And I, and I, and I'm super familiar and, and we've, we've talked about this at length on, on their calls before, and I want to bring it here.And, and for me, what my gut tells me is that one of the reasons that people we'll miss that wisdom or that intuition, whatever you want to call it is because of the lack of space that we create. In our days, right? Yes. Okay. Like how do you go about that? Right. So like, we hear all these things about morning routines, afternoon routines, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.And I had this like unhealthy relationship with some of those words. Right. You hear meditation thrown around like it's candy. Right. And you're like, Oh, I can't meditate. I can't turn my brain off. I can't let, I'm like, yeah. Yeah. And now, you know, 20 years later, I'm like, I meditate every day, but it's not what I thought it looked like.Right. And I take space every day and it's not what I thought it looked like, but yes, you know, for me, and I'm more making a statement here, but I would love your thoughts on it is that I think one of the biggest enemies of my success in my life was the fact that I always thought I had to fill more space rather than create more space.Yes. Is that something that you see a lot of as well? Oh, totally. And it has become more crazy. I mean, look, look, I'm 50 now. So I grew up in the seventies and eighties when I went to a retreat, it was 98 and I was 28 years old and, uh, smartphones had just started. And when I came out, like, Fi first time, like four years later when I was in closed retreat and I saw everybody running around in what I perceived talking to themselves and we didn't, we didn't even have smartphones.I'm talking about the first nowcast even, this was for me, like, Holy fuck, that they can't even, and I saw everybody in a supermarket talking to each other. And I said they can't even make a decision on what they're going to buy by themselves. They need to chat about it. I mean, me included now I'm chatting with my wife, the two of us.So it's, it's crazy. Yeah. Once you have the technology use it, but it worked against us and nowadays it's even more crazy. Yeah. I mean that my people are so addicted into this. Let me give you right away. Everybody want advice? Just start by going to the toilet without this damn thing. I'm sorry. If you can even shit alone, you do not have left life.And I mean, like, I think that is summary that I've ever heard. Like that just summed up like 10 years of personal development work in one sentence for me, if you can't shit without your phone, you're not living life anymore. No. And, and, and like, I think important, like for everybody to understand, you know, I love technology.I think it's amazing. I think it's a tool, right. But it's a tool. It's not something that, that we were acquired. Like it doesn't keep our heart beating it. Doesn't fill our auction with lungs. It's a tool that helps us utilize those things. And I still like. I'm an addict. I have an addictive personality. I understand that I'm self aware of those things.And like obviously, you know, the work I've done to yes, yes. But human beings are addicts. We get into something, a dopamine hit a level of control, a serotonin dump, and then we exploited until no end to where the impulse or not the impulse to hit that we get get. Dissipated. And then we have to do more of it and then we end up just completely, completely deprogramming ourselves.And so I want to anybody, a little bit of context, because everyone's going to be like, okay, I got this guy. Um, can you give everybody, and I don't care how long this goes, cause I love your story, but can you, you said when I went to that retreat and then four years later when I came out and a few people have some Zeigarnik effect going on right now, can you tell everybody kind of your background, your story.Where you were that and how you got to here. Right? Look, it, it all started with me practicing martial arts at a very young age. Uh, with 15, I was looking for the hardest, hardest and toughest style around, and I happened to have been lucky and came to my later teacher that the first thing he did was made us sit and meditate for 10 minutes.And this was the toughest thing I ever experienced to my life. So far. I said, I go no further because no amount of fighting. Yeah. Yeah. I was a kid in the streets. I grew up in the streets, you know, fighting was daily, was nothing particularly unknown to me. This was a life that I knew. Uh, but to sit by myself for 10 minutes, seem to be.Hell. And I said, that's it. So I started meditating, went out when I was, uh, 14, started meditating regularly when I was 15. And from this point of view, this, uh, this point, this became very important in my life later, I discovered, uh, all, all kinds of traditional schools, Taoist meditation schools, Zen Buddhism, Buddhism, and I found home in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.And at one point with 28, I had to ask myself the question, do I just want to practice this as a hobby? And I was doing it one to two hours a day, you know, this, this was still hobby level for me. And I say, okay, either I dive in now deeply commit fully, or I just stop. Because I couldn't take it anymore as well.I have to say it. Wasn't just curiosity. It was pure suffering that drove me there. I couldn't, I couldn't find a way to get happy. Impossible. I saw the impossibility for me, how to experience real happiness and I didn't see any fricking anybody else around me that was happy and nothing convinced me. No, no.Going into business more deeply making money. I, at this time, I was lucky since I started teaching and coaching. When I was 17 already had my first clients there. I have business owners who are miserable as fuck. I mean, well, that's not a role model to go after. Right. I said that can't be this. So I went for passion.So I made really my passion martial arts, my profession, meditation by profession, early on, et cetera. But you know, after a while your passion becomes your job and it's not so interesting anymore as well. Somehow it's I couldn't feel this deep hole and I was filling in my life. So it was 28. I decided I go full into practice.Um, at this time in Tibetan Buddhist tradition, we have two options. We go to celibacy way. So it's a monastery for monks and nuns. And in our school, we have both, or I go to  Bay, which is called the Nakba tradition or in Tibetan or a yoga. If you want, like day, you could practice without celibacy. And I went to this past with my former girlfriend at this time.So we went to lay way. We built the center and the first one and a half years, and then went into retreat and all in all I spent like, yeah, five and a half, six years in closed retreat, seven years of it altogether out of society. So, Oh, you, you were, you were 28, right? 28 years old. And you were like, literally doing everything, like chasing that hit, right.Martial arts, coaching, everything, all of it. And these people that were in front of you, you're like. I don't want to go there. Like that is not where I want to end up. And it was like enough of a pattern interrupt. You're like, if these are my options, I either just have to accept my misery or I have to do something.To go find myself, create my happiness and dive all the way in. So you made the decision to go into a Tibetan Buddhist, uh, the non celibate route. And then you went into, you built a center first, or did you go right into look? It was also a land that was given to two very experienced yoga teachers that I had, who was a couple of who spent like 17 years in retreat.At this time, enclosed retreats so that they were empowered to doc is a late chapter. The monastery was one of the biggest Tibetan Buddhist school. It wasn't a karma Kagyu tradition by the way, people who are familiar with this might recognize this, uh, this wasn't France. And, uh, so the land was there. We had some, this was a former farm and we didn't need to transform everything.So for one and a half years, we were working daily. No music, no distraction, no nothing concrete in the morning, working with concrete in the morning, learning Tibetan instruments in the evenings, studying Tibetan, all of it. So because we had to build and learn and prepare in the same time. So w really a tough school.It was really traditional Tibetan style, like no distractions and you fully commit. And, and, and also you're, you're depending on, uh, people's donations. I mean, so also, I mean, my family, of course, they sought his loss to occult and, you know, it was not that I prepared to go there. And for me it was really okay.Goodbye. Everybody I'll keep writing, but that's it I've chosen my life. And uh, with all the law that I had of course, but of course they thought, okay, this kid is lost. So, and, but I was the happiest how I was, how I run, like how ironic you were lost, but yet you were actually found Oh, absolutely. Right.What you lost was the attachment to everything. Totally. Oh, totally. And you know, I, I never forget this feeling of really selling everything and having, uh, basically just two bags with which, which we had to France and money for three months. Was it? And nothing, no backup, no retirement plan. No, uh, nothing.It was so liberating, so liberating because that's what I wanted to do. And I, and I felt before this, I never had this feeling of waking up and having the feeling. Does it make sense suddenly at the feeling I lived the life that makes sense to me, you know, it doesn't have to be monastery. It doesn't necessarily even have to be meditation, but you need to get this.Sense in life or you feel like this makes sense, this matters. And I wanted to be literally ready to die every day. And I could, at this time I laid down in bed and I said, I'm ready. I'm ready, universe. I'm ready. God, whatever your frame of reference is, take me. I'm ready. Great day. I had a great day and the next morning that's really what a great opportunity again, let's go for it.Yeah. Let's let's let's dig into the dirt. Let's let's uh, Let's get scolded by my teachers. Yeah. Growth and learning. Right. Like alive, like, you know, it's, it's interesting. Um, and I, I love, I love all of this and it, and I have a little bit of militaristic in me. Right. So I love this and I, I retake not hunt all the time, but then on the other side, I go read stoicism to slap me in the face.Right. Marcus earlier just always has a way to like, yeah. Get me right in my soul. And it's really interesting because I have this barometer. I can tell like how grounded I am, how good my day is going to go based on how I feel when I think about the inevitable. When I think about death, when I think about, you know, that memento, Mori that I at any moment, and it's really, really become an interesting barometer for me, because like, as I'm sitting here and I think about my son at school and my wife out at the ranch right now, and I had that moment of like, Oh, I miss them.I want them in this moment. And I find myself out of the moment I get anxiety. And then I'm like, okay, okay. And then I check in my morning this morning. Oh my God. I filled my son's tank. I filled my wife's tank. I've literally filled my purpose this morning. And it's 9:00 AM. And I'm getting teary eyed thinking about this now.And then I'm like, and then it's like this overwhelming feeling of like peace. And surrender. Yes. And for me it comes from awareness, right? Like it's just, yeah. I think the whole world is a little bit of it right now. Like here's the red pill, whether you liked it or not. Right. But it's time to plug back in and that awareness is key.So my question, so you spent. Of like seven and a half years basically isolated from them. Right. Right. When you, cause I had been thinking about this, right. So you had already been practicing, you know, for one to two hours a day. Right. And you're like toe touching and you realize like, I can't keep doing this.I gotta go. Or NACO. Absolutely. And then you committed, was there a period? And I'm really interesting to hear your perspective on this. Was there a period of like when you committed and like you got there that you basically went through like withdrawals and shedding, like of like core. Yeah. Can you tell me about that?Yeah, of course. The thing is, um, to preparation was still nice because, you know, you could go as soon. I mean, the first commitment we made, like it starts with six weeks, this was like a mini retreat. I mean, I call it mini. I mean, for most people, this is like, how the hell am I going to get six weeks in my life?Anyway, I mean, I would get crazy. It was one day in retreat, right? You, you need, you need some gradual growing into this, of course, but then the next big commitment was immediately for three and a half years, almost three years, three months and three days in a group. Oh man, the first year was tough. Tough.Tough. Tough, tough, tough, tough. So people think when I say I wasn't a monastery, because that's the best word we have because it's actually, it's called first of all, it's called a retreat Tibetan Dropcam second retreat. It's called putting a limit, the Tibetan word for retreat. It means some it's a limit.You put limits and creating limits. It is what creates growth, but do not think. This is a fun journey. I mean, all literally all my projections to the world came up, uh, being, being projected to the few people, the poor ones that have been with me in retreat. Right. And, and, and then the situation you experienced in retreat is really like, you know, this movie from the nineties Groundhog day, right?Tim Murray, uh, or Jim Murray. I don't remember bill Murray, bill Murray. You always make up the same day, same people, same situation, same retreat. And then the first year is like his first days where his ego try to hold ground. And then, uh, the withdrawal of the addictions of your habits. That somehow do not find any more possibility to live themselves out.And then all the demons come up. I went through depression, possibly psychotic episodes, all of it. And this in itself is what's meditation truly about sorry to bring it to you guys, but people think it's just Lala land. No, it's not. No, it's not think of meditation, really, that entry journey into therapy, then you're much closer to its true meaning.And this was, I would call it even the early days, uh, therapy, uh, technology. Not necessarily working only on personality. Like we can do precisely with, with, uh, um, nowadays, uh, therapies and, and, and, and it's psychology, but it's working really on the depth levels of your soul and your basically attachments.And one of the most basic attachments is actually wanting to be happy and you need to learn to be happy while being unhappy. And it does as something people can't write, wrap their head around, but I say, as long as you cannot be happy while being unhappy, then you're not happy. You're not really happy.You know, the real happiness must be being in a place where it doesn't matter that you're temporarily going through something that your mind or your body is experiencing suffering. Because guess what? Inevitable in this life, if you do not want to suffer. Don't exist, ceased to exist, but even this is not optional.Even if you kill this body journey goes on, man. There's no escape until you surrender to what is inevitable. Yeah, I think God like, Oh, so first, like thank you for sharing all this for everybody, everybody listening right now. This is probably the fastest summary of what the last 15 years of my life has felt like.And it's mind blowing to me that like I've invested like seven figures. I mean, an elk knows I've probably done every. Therapeutic modality on the planet from PTSD recovery, like EMDR, CBT, prolonged exposure, silent retreats, breathwork retreats, meditation, plant medicine, hypnotherapy, like I've done them all.And what is so mind blowing to me? What is so mind blowing to me is like, and I know all of them support, right? Like all of them have got me to a point, but still to this day, nothing. And I mean, nothing comes close then me. Spending time alone. Like nothing, totally nothing. Totally. So I used to call it my pain cave.Right. Cause I had that Marine in me. Right. I'm like, what are you going? Why are you going on like an eight hour hike? And like in silent? And I'm like, Oh, I'm going to my pain cave right. On a train. But I really was never going to train. I was going to find the depths of my soul, go deep into my shadows, explore what they were and you know, for all of you that aren't woo.Just go look up, call young and start diving into shadows and shadow and ego shadows and things like that. And so, you know what you said, the two things that you've said. One of them hit me like a ton of bricks. And you said the addictions to your habits, the addictions to your habits. And like, my brain gets that right.And something, I work on a lot and it's like this construct of that I somehow can control. The triggers in my life by creating a false veiled environment that basically protects me. And then I create habits that keep that illusion of protection going forward and everything looks good. But then the moment, and I mean, the moment.Something doesn't look like my ego or brain instructed it as it's like, I swing the other way and the life is over, right? Like this has been one of my biggest lessons as an entrepreneur. So being addicted to your Abbott's, um, you know, with what you're talking about going in to retreat and by the way, I love, um, I love the humility of like what you've done.And for those that didn't catch it. If you're not familiar with like Tibetan Buddhism, like when they live, they go do service and they walk around and they meet people and they literally survive off the donations of others, their donation of food, that donation of goods, like it's literally, probably it is a full servant, self servant support other people.I obviously, I'm assuming the humility of that is a very big, big lesson in what it is, but. But when you, when you said that addiction to your habits, like a, my immediate brain was like, wow, I've read this. I see this, I do this. And it's, every time I get somewhat comfortable in what I'm doing, complacency comes in.It's, it's a matter of weeks before it's like, An atomic bomb gets dropped in the middle of it. Right. So blessing, blessing. Totally, totally. For me, for me. And I would love to hear your thoughts on this, because for me, the reason it was an atomic bomb is because my habits were the doingness of it rather than how I saw it and the beingness of it.Right. And so for everybody listening, the tangibility of like, yes, I know every day I'm going to record a podcast, I'm going to write 12 emails. I'm going to do whatever. But regardless of whether I do any of those or not, The intention of like, I'm going to spend 30 minutes by myself making a plan. And silence is my new measuring stick, which allows me to navigate what happens.So for people that are listening that are like, God, like, Oh my God, I totally jumped on my phone in the morning. I totally, you know, boom, boom, boom. Like, how do you go about breaking down that addiction to habits? Like what do you do to help break that down or create a new container or create space to start?I don't know, feeling some of these things processing these things. I think, first of all, light, like you described it wonderfully life will teach if you do not take care of it by by yourself. So, so even if you don't do nothing, uh, be sure life will kick you. I mean, we live in a world of abandoned blessings.You just need to realize. That it's there to serve you, that you're your so-called problems are there to serve you, serve you. There is, uh, it's, it's just a friendly universe. Really? It is, but we need to discover this. So, and then how do you break down the habits? Is that your question? Yeah. Like something, something along those lines, like, so let's call it a pattern interrupt or a wedge, right?Like, there's this, there's this point where I think, you know, even listening to this, you know, there's really like one of two options. You're like, Oh, I'm aware of this. I know this. Or. I have no clue, but I get hit with these same things. So Scott Carney, um, calls us the wedge, like the reason I do breathwork and cold therapy.Right. It's the wedge it. So when I'm like going along in my day, and then all of a sudden, boom, my immediate reaction isn't to jump in, in react. It's a wait, pause, like take a breath, like what's happening. Right. Like to, to pause that wedge, I mean, this unpacked is like attachment to things then where the things come from and then ego and then ego death.But I think really, yeah. For most people, like, especially given the state of the world, it's that there's a lot of external triggers coming in every single day. There's a lot of uncertainty and ambiguity and there's going to continue to be. So when you think about that, maybe a better question would be like, when you think about that, like what's something or what are some ways in which we can practice.Daily to be in that space to, to understand that life is going to happen. And we can teach ourselves the lesson or like, how do we handle the triggers from the world, the ambiguity, the uncertainty, the whatever's going to come in? Like, what are some things or, or ways to think about it? I think the most important thing is that, that you understand that, uh, we are not here on this life to be entertained.This life is not for consumption. It's for learning and, and it's, it's really like this. Either you grow and learn daily and growing and learning is not coming from the world going your way. So I would consider it really problematic if too much goes your way. I mean, just, just look at, um, I know, I know I'm taking a long route now.Right. But I think I need to explain because if I just give a tactics, people won't get it go the long way I want the, I want the hallway. I want the whole, yeah. Okay. The first thing is that you need to understand, basically, let me get back to two basic Buddhism. The four noble truth does world does life.Is suffering, but not in a net negative way. That's a good news. In the sense of, you know, you will experience this satisfaction. Why? Because the world is never like you imagine it to me, there is a discrepancy, a basic discrepancy between all the things that we want. All the things that we imagine life. I mean, let's take something very basic that we all, most people love sex.The imagination of it, the thought of it is always more shiny is always better than even the best possible sex until we let go. And then it's turning around. So most people imagine life, they plan life. Like you say, to protect. To, to reach our vision of it. Instead, the real trick is have a vision, uh, have a plan, but so you have a direction that you give yourself with awareness in order to really discover what's the lesson on the way for you personally?I don't know if I get too abstract right now. No, no, no, no. Keep going. I love it. I love it. All right. Okay. Yeah, not abstract at all. I mean, and I think, and I'll just kind of unpack it so you can keep going. So when I, when I think about it, right, and like, It's that expert, like my buddy, my friend, Christine Hassler she talks about it.It's that expectation hangover, right? Like it's supposed to look a certain way and then it doesn't. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And we get so attached to what it looks like rather than the process of pursuing it and the growth that happens along the way. And so really the point of setting a vision or setting a goal is to give ourselves a bearing understanding that it's not going to be a straight line and it might adjust, but at least like we're heading in that direction of growth of learning progress.Absolutely. And especially what you'd really need to learn. Right. And there's, there's different layers of learning. The most fundamental that we need to learn is that this suffering is created. Like you say, it's, it is as long experience as you do not discover the real source of true happiness for which you do not need to accomplish anything or do anything.It's your real nature. So being in your head, being in your ego is suffering. As long as this is your reality, you can try to create the most beautiful dream. And the biggest curse is that things will come true. Look at all the celebrities who seem to have, who seem to have everything and then break it all down because there's wisdom in braking one's own perfect life down.Because in order almost to create a balance between, uh, the creation of mind and the basic, uh, fundamental nature of mind, which is emptiness, which is spaciousness. We all want to create, we all want to fill the room, but nobody dares to be the room or experience the room at least. And that's, that's a important balance of life.So there is creation and there is distraction. There is emptiness that you need to experience in the form of space in your life, in your mind, and for accomplishment going for your goals. And when things do not go your way, what you experience for the moment is the possibility of experiencing emptiness.Of getting space is a moment of fuck things. Don't work out. What do I do now? And instead of just running into more thinking, just give it, give it a space and say, okay. And there's a moment of almost like a blank that might lead you to actually perceiving what is.I don't know if I'm too far off. No, like, I feel like you're speaking to my soul, right? Like, yeah. I know you get me. That's the problem because I see who you are. I resonate with where you are at, but I'm afraid sometimes I might lose some listeners too. No, no, this is, this is so, I mean, I mean unpacked, like I think it depends on the level, but from a really, really easy standpoint, it's.It's that pause button, right? Like, no matter what happens, like you can't lose with space. Like, what you're talking about is, you know, it's so like we live in a culture that perpetuates , which is actually creating less, less, less, less, less, less, less, and there's this entire. Train of thinking like there's cognitive dissonance, like you wouldn't believe, right.It's like more go into debt, this, get this, get this they get. And then it's that, it's that odd. Jamie smart calls it that toxic thinking. I'll feel this way when I'll get there. I'll have this. When, where, you know, you, you do anything, whether you study, you know, Buddhism or personal development or any basic psychology.It's not, uh, it's not Doobie habits be, do have wraps. And that distinction is, is absolutely massive. And so, so I know for me, somebody who's experienced a lot of trauma, both in my life and my childhood in the military, but even as an entrepreneur, like traumatic events happen as entrepreneurs every day, like I've lost two companies in the last four months, right?Like some of the most. Challenging financial times that I've ever had in my life. And I'm the happiest I have ever been. I'm wasn't as crazy. I'm like, I'm like, okay, cool. Well, and I know I'm one of those, like sometimes I need a lot of pressure to feel it right. And it's like, but at the end of the day, I remember like, thinking about like, Oh, how am I going to pay that credit card bill seven years ago when it was two grand and I couldn't sleep all night and now I have, you know, 50 grand a month in overhead.I'm like, Oh, I'll figure it out. And I'm like, and if I don't, I don't right. Like, yes, you know, at the end of the day, but I think what it really boils down to what you said, that you said it. And it was that space, right? You said everybody wants to build the room, but nobody wants to be. Yeah, like there's this thing where, and I don't care what you call it.Pause, pattern, interrupt, where it's like, Whoa, Hey, remember, even if you go into the hero's journey with Joseph Campbell, the journey doesn't end when they slay the dragon, it ends when they come back and teach the village, which requires reflection. And retrospection and looking at like what worked and what didn't work.And then like, okay, what do I do? It was never about the dragon, because I think what a lot of people don't understand is once you slay one, the next one's bigger anyways. So take a moment to reflect, take the lesson. Yeah. I mean, w what I would love to, to add, please, it's now, now. Uh, the listeners might be at a different point in their journey.And let me map out in a very simple way, how they can identify where they are. Yeah. Because look, I see it metaphysically. We are on a journey from victim to vehicle the three weeks. Right? So most people live in the state of Wickham. Life happens to us. Everything sucks. I don't know why. And I'm suffering.That's that's, it's something we all know. We also might go back down all the time. The next step is to get into action and to momentum and all the self development space that is emphasizing taking action, uh, making goals, having morning routines, all of that is super important for the second step. So in order to, you know, everything has its place.Yes, get into action. Create your life. Don't be passive can achieve goals. You can create something in order to already accomplish the first step into, into, uh, um, discovering wisdom, which is we are co-creators with life. Life is not just happening to us. We co-create in this time of the year, second stage, which is becoming the Victor, right.The winner, uh, to, to, to get life and things done. This is the entrepreneurial stage I would say, create, uh, do, make things happen. And action, action, action. Without action and go was nothing happens. But then many entrepreneurs, like you are at a stage where they experienced, you know, like, yeah, I have it, it, I build it, it goes down.I build it. It goes down, but still they're not fulfilled. Right. I have a client who owns, like, I don't know, six companies. Uh, he made his business through to buy and grow companies, but she came to me more or less miserable and say, you know, I don't know what's missing then. I mean, even if I reach now the a hundred grand to 200 grand, 200.A million. I mean, granted million, my level talking my level, uh, he will, he will, uh, he still thinks, I don't know, man, this doesn't feel right anymore. I say, yeah, because you're already a Victor. That's what you can do. So building another company will not do it. You just have no freaking idea what else to do with your life.So he needs to learn to become vehicle, stop creating, let life happen through you. And this is very scary for most people who are very accomplished, who reach goals, who know how to make things happen because that they need to embrace even more space. And if you do not do it, then life kicks you in the chin.Like it happened to you. You lose two companies. Oh my order. Oh, not because now you enter the next stage of creation. My friend, you will create from space. You will create not miserable, hustling, hustling, hustling, hustling, finally getting things done. And almost not being able to rejoice because you're saying, was this worth it?No, you start happy now you will be happy tomorrow on the way. And you will be happy when it's accomplished this pulling back on the beach. This podcast wouldn't have existed if I didn't lose those companies. Like literally, this would have never eight years in the making of wanting to launch a podcast, wanting to do it, talk about it, own the equipment for eight years.And it was literally, yeah. The smack in the face that was like, okay, you don't want to do it on your own. And you've been denying what you've been called to. And you've been pushing off and making, she says, fine, hello, smack in the face. Right. My wife, my wife tells me all the time. She's like, the universe is going to keep kicking you in the mouth until you learn the lesson.Right. And I just, I laugh at it because I look back now, my wife is so wise and like, obviously all of you can laugh at me through this because I'm okay with that. But it's like, You know, the whole analogy. They teach this and personal development, right? Like different jobs, same boss, different relationships, same partner, right.It's not them. It's us and our patterns and our views and everything. And. You know, when you said like those three stages of victim to Victor to vehicle? Really the biggest distinction for me is like, I stopped being the victim a long time ago, but I lived in this Victor, like, I'm going to repeat what happened to me as a victim.I'm an approved the victim side wrong. I'm going to prove it. And it always got to this point, but then it was never, but it was then once I realized that. When I got smacked in the teeth, one more time that it wasn't happening to me and I didn't get to beat it. It was like, Oh, there's a lesson in this.What am I missing? And then like, when you just, I said, let life happen through you. That was like the clearest thing ever. Like who, who am I to think? Like, That I know now I might have a wisdom and intuition and a voice that I share and I trust in that moment. But once it's out of my mouth, that's it I'm surrendered to what comes next.I'm not like, Oh, I'm going to say this and I'm going to do this and it's going to lead because that puts me back into Victor. And so, yeah, that, Oh, I've never heard it broken down like that. That was really good, but that's, that's how I approach all my sessions that I, how I approach. Even, even my, my interview with you, I had zero preparation.You know why? Because it's, it's not important either. Either. We almost like might sound more esoteric than, I mean, we channel truth, we embody wisdom. Then it also doesn't matter what happens or not happens because it's not happening to you guess what? Life, life didn't even kick you. Who are you to judge that you have been killed?Yes. You know, it's the next stage storage because in your own evolution, you have come to a point where you have your heart and your soul to share much more than your marketing knowhow. And that's why I feel attracted to you. I, you remember our first conversations, you know, I hardly just discovered you, you made this offer.It was a lighthouse. I said, You know, I don't know you. I have no idea of what you did and I don't care, but I trust you. I decided I trust you because there was something in your vibration, how you show up in this world. There was a right. And look how we connect it. Totally, totally. You know, it's so funny you say that like everything from like the prep I'm like, I didn't prepare either.Right. And you know, the thing is, is like, that's also like what we spend our days teaching people and everything, but it's just this, I believe I call it source flow, intuition wisdom, but like the example I was given, it's like everybody, and I love this. Right. And it's going to land for everybody when you're working out in the morning and no music, you always have your best ideas when you're in the shower.Not on your phone. You always have your best ideas, right. When you're laying in bed and you can't fall asleep. Cause you're afraid you're going to lose it. It's when we create that space. Oh yeah. That, that flow comes in. Call it what you want. I call, I call it wisdom. It's yours. It's yours. Yes. And I think like, even going back to the sick, if I had to say anything like really.I'm at the point now where I'm almost obsessed about space. And it's been really interesting to see like sometimes, like, I look now with like what I get done in a day without making a list. And if I had that accomplishment eight years ago and I was like, this is what you got to get done today. I'm like, this is going to take me four weeks.There's no way I can do this in a day. Right. But it's like, when I don't know, Oh man, no, I love this. I absolutely absolutely love this. And you're gonna, if you live from space things, get. Can get done in a way that's, that's almost magical. And this is, this is a real thing. And this is what people really misunderstand was the law of attraction.You know, it's not that you can desire things to you based on your ego. And you become a manifestor when you embrace space and don't give a shit. If something comes to your life or not, then real manifestation happens. And it's not, you do not create from ego as long as you create from ego. Good luck.First learned the lesson of being a Victor. Right. I mean, get your shit together, get a job. Instead of just sitting on your bum and meditating on a million dollars, right. That's not going to help you. Yeah. Meditating on a million dollars. Isn't going to bring it in. No, not really. Right. And, and the thing is, uh, life is your best teacher.If you open up to it and surrender to it and. Uh, my path was through meditation because of what meditation does is it's the perfect container to get in touch with space, you know, and real meditation is so simple that it's damn difficult, the highest levels of meditation, uh, almost without instruction, you basically have to be.What the fuck. I mean, you can start with B and most, most people do not know how to be without thinking they think I might. And all I can really invite everybody is like, discover yourself, give yourself a chance to die. Having discovered your deepest self, which is happy by no reason. Which is blissful, which is, uh, totally peaceful, which is, uh, I it's it's the best you could not even imagine.And it's there right for you. If you just shut the fuck up for a moment. I mean, internally shut up the fuck and sit down and just. Give space, give the universe, give grace a chance to come into your life so that you re recognize it. It comes to your life, whether you recognize it or not, but usually you call it a curse.You say, why is that happening to me? Always this, uh, you know, like stop bitching around, sit down. Open up to what it is. Yeah. I think, you know, when we talk about meditation, I think that was one of the hardest things for me was I had that, that chatter, right. Our monkey mind, right. You know, the programming we have up there that needs to shut up.Sometimes having it have to look a certain way having to do anything. And I didn't realize that most of my life, I was meditating through movement. I just wasn't recognizing what it was, but like, You know, I think about, and I can't think of anybody who can't tell me this, like that moment when you're like, Oh, I don't want to go to the gym and you start moving.And then like, you're 10 minutes in 15 minutes in. And then all of a sudden you literally feel like a superhero. It doesn't matter how good of shape or not. Like you just get grounded and connected and in flow. And, um, you know, when you said that a minute ago, what popped into my brain when you said like, To fall in love with yourself deeply or them see yourself deeply.I like the thought that PAMA has see yourself as you are not how you think you are. Yes. And yes, that concept for me is something I, I really, I work, I don't work on it. I, I observe like every day of like, when I'm going through my day, like, cause like now I have the tools and the things to recognize like what's happening, how I'm feeling, explore those feelings.But it's, it's a really interesting thing on how quickly. Even with what I've had in my life and where I am and where I'm going, how quickly it can go from. I am who I am to I'm that thing, or I'm that thought? Or I'm that blank or I'm not result. And so one of the best things for me in this, uh, I'm like, I don't know, I'm not this.Okay. I'm pretty smart. But I like, I need like quick hits. And so I grabbed a tick, not Huns, like mini version of his meditations. Right. And there's this one that I always remember. And it's, it's always about walking. Right. And I, I, I read it before I go and he's like walk and he's like, but don't think I'm like, Oh, what do I do?And I think he's like, no, no, feel your foot. What did you step on in that moment? What did you see? What did it look like? And, and it's like this. Training in this practice of, of being in and like this moment, like the moment comes and it's gone. And I don't think about the moment again. It's the next step?It's the next step? And I'm so for me, walking is like literally one of my favorite ways to get into it now. But what would you recommend for people? Because like, obviously I understand the thing that, yeah, that's, that's good. I think they're the. I might not be very popular with what I say now. Good. That means this is why we're friends.Yes. Uh, thing is I think most meditation instruction out there is crap. Not, I mean, first of all, most meditation teachers have no fucking idea what they're talking about. You know, I've, I've probably meditated 30,000 probably more hours. And I consider myself, I didn't even scratch the surface and I do not teach meditation.I don't, you know, because I had teachers, I let, let me just say it without commenting. Who could, who could go through walls? Let me say it like this when you're there. Okay. Start opening your mouth. Sorry. That's that's my criteria. Right? So, I mean, it's the equivalent. When you're deep into something, look you've been doing into business.Uh, if there is a rookie who Fred to business books who is, was living in the basement of his mom, uh, and, and talks about being an entrepreneur with some. I don't know, some fake bullshit that he's proposing. Do you take him much serious as an entrepreneur? Who's well, you know, best thing you would have, like say, yeah, go on.Maybe someday you discover real business. I mean, it's fine. You know? Um, and I mean, this was all my love. I mean, it's, it's correct. Everybody is talking about mindfulness has become the thing now, but mindfulness. Damn, it's hard. You don't mind talking about mindfulness and real mindfulness is almost like saying, Hey, start to power.Lift was the double weight with double body weight when you've never lifted before, when you never lifted before. Stop. Yeah, stop there. Just start slowly. The first thing that people who want to get into meditation is first to get comfortable creating a habit. You don't know, you do not need more than five minutes, but to them every day and use them as a concentration practice, make it very simple.Do not try to be aware of what is going on, whatever. Just learn to focus one's mind because these are the basic bicep curls that you first need to accomplish. You need to train the mind, but basic concentration. First after you have build up support, efficient power to focus your mind, for example, that you can count from within the meditation period without being distracted, simple, counting one, two, three, four.Most people can't count until 10 without having to start over because, uh, what was I at eight or nine? I don't know the mind. So distracted. First learn to count if you get until a hundred great count until 200, maybe you get to a thousand and you can either count or you can focus. Um, I mean, counting your breath, for example, right?Uh, already the instruction recognize the breath going in and out and be aware is too advanced for most people. They can't do it and forget about not wanting to think. You do not take thoughts as an object until you can make at least like, like a thousand curls, which would be like counting until thousands.You know, if meditation is taught in a proper way, very gradually so that you accomplish one step after the other, it becomes fun. Otherwise people. Get to high level instructions because the high level instructions are great. And the teachers who teach them mean them, but they come from a context where you dedicate fully into a meditation practice.Well, you live either in a monastery, but you're surrounded by this. And then it's fine to get this high level teachings. I got high level of teachings where had not the, the slightest idea. What do I do with this? But I was sitting all day. I had time to figure it out. If you just have five to 10 minutes, you know what will happen?People will think about meditating while pretending to meditate. And then just repeat to what they've read about meditation. This doesn't bring you anywhere. Yeah. I just, you said this earlier, you said life is not for consumption. It's for learning. Oh, yeah. And I think that, that ties that in so well that like, even in that practice, like the diligence intention and the discipline and be like, God, I got to seven.Okay. I'm going to start over. And like learning through that process instead of the ego checking the box of like, look I did it, or it looked a certain way, like, and I'll actually give everybody an example. Cause people know I'm a nut and I do cold therapy. Right. Like I love ice baths. Right. Well, what everybody doesn't know is that when I started them.I kept the water at like 40 degrees Fahrenheit. So three to four degrees Celsius. And everyone's like, okay, when you go. And I did all my breath work the first 14 days, I didn't last more than nine seconds. I couldn't like, I physically couldn't. And like, I knew that physically, I wasn't going to die and I wasn't going to get hurt, but I literally wasn't at the point where I could break through that wall, break through that resistance.And I was like, I'm still gonna go. And so then it became fun. I'm like, well, maybe I'll get 10 seconds today. And I like jumped in and I was like, boom. And then it was the most. In amazing. Thanks. I wasn't posting about this. Nobody knew it was 4:00 AM me, myself, and it was like day 17. I was like 10 seconds and I jumped in and the wall was gone and I ended up staying in for 13 minutes and then I was like, Oh my God.And then I was like in right. But then the next day it was like two and I just respected the process. Like I respected my body and I realized like, Hey, if that's what it feels like, Maybe I'm not supposed to push through this. Maybe this is the lesson. Maybe this is rather than try to control, like surrender, like, and being able to discern like, Oh, this is me quitting.I'm like, no, I'm up at 4:00 AM doing my breath, working, getting in the cold water. I've already won the game. Whatever happens in that tub is a bonus and that's, that's kind of how well humility it's exactly this kind of humility that we need in life. You need to be humble enough to feel I don't win at this, and yet I'm going to do it.You need to be humble enough. Nowadays, everybody wants to start off being a big shot. Meditator. Talk about meditation, uh, teach meditation to the world, have a YouTube channel about meditation, proclaim it just to Vince themselves. That it's good for them thing because they've never experienced it themselves because if they would.They would not teach it. They would sit down and meditate more and more. I needed to be kicked out of retreat to get back into life. Do not think that I was fed up. Oh, well, why, why would I ever go? And when my teachers would teach us who kicked me out? Well, that's enough. The best teachers. Yeah. It's a thing you don't start with when you learn something, do not try to be a master.I mean, like in business, everybody, I mean, you do not start a lot. It, how you say, you know, get out, do it be, have the humility that it takes time. Yeah. I don't buy into this bullshit either. You make a million right away or it's not going to work. It's even not about the million in the first place. Anyway.Nope. No, and it it's having the humility, but the self awareness to realize, like you've never made it. Like the moment, the moment you're like, Oh, I crossed the finish line. Like get ready. Cause it's about to be a rough ride. Like I tell everybody that's like, I've been teaching email marketing for God 11 years now and I'm considered one of the best at it.And I literally sat down elk like two months ago and I'm like, something's missing, something's missing. I'm like, I can't talk about this anymore. I'm not practicing it enough. Screw it. I'm writing an email every day. And literally every day I write an email and I send it to people and I'm like, okay, And I'm going through my own process again.But like I said, it's the next level. It's the next level. And like mastery, isn't something you do. It's something you live. I think you are it's, it's just part of it. Like meditation. Isn't something you do. The habit gets you into the momentum, but then it's something that you, you are like, you live it, you breathe it, you happen with it.And that's, I dunno, like for entrepreneurs, for anybody listening to this, like. I want to change the thinking of like, I'm going to do this for a hundred days to like, I'm going to embody this. I'm going to be like, I'm going to be a student of this. Like, I love this because it's really the only way anything else is atrophy in my opinion.Right? Like it's just atrophy and it's just such a, a profound business. Oh, in line was, was I share some of the highest teachings of my teachers who is in it, you know? So there's. One, whenever you think I got it. You're more far away from it. The moment you think I got it in meditation, you're far away from it.That's the thing, the moment you think, uh, I know what I'm talking about. I really know. And start talking or teaching about it. You lose it. That's that's very true in meditation. And let me give you quick advice before you buy into any gurus of meditation, et cetera, whoever tells you they got it is full of crap.The real teachers, the real advanced ones say exactly the words that you just said. And for me, that's why you're an authentic teacher, also business, because to say you embody it, you become the path. For dos who have become the path. It doesn't matter. Where does it, I mean, I love it. How you put it. It's an infinite game.Wake up. It's an infinite game. So how do you play an infinite game from the point of view, learn this technique and then you get it. There's nothing to get it. Get into the habit and the humor ability of learning, of doing, of embodying things. And, and I so love it. If you approach all what you do exactly was this is perfect.You know, like in order to say, do this 12 sequence email, and you get a million, what the fuck, right? Yeah. No, like right. Pouring all your wisdom, all your heart like you do. And I read these emails. And they touch me. There is something in it and you could write whatever you want. It's not the content. It's the intention that gets through.Yes. And the best salespeople in the world will tell you and teach you for everybody listening. That sales is just a transference of energy. That's all it is. And so like all of that matters today and you, you know, earlier we were talking about breaking through a level, right? Like this is gonna sound really interesting, but like eight weeks ago I became a parent to three snakes.Right. So we went from having. No animals except horses. And then my wife and my daughter went to the pet store to get a fish and a hamster for my son and my daughter, and came home with a ball Python. And I was like, Oh, so we got the thing that eats the hamsters. Okay. I'm cool. I had a, I didn't have a fear of snakes, but I'd never really like handled them.So I didn't know. And then I became like the herpetologist and then we got two more and like, daddy's like the snake whisper, but what I love and I mean, I love them. Like I watch them every month and they shed their skin once a month. And if they do not shed their skin, they cannot grow. And it's like the metaphor, like, and I have one sitting in front of me, she's sleeping over there, but at my desk that I can see, and like, I look at them and I'm just reminded like every day they live and they be right.And then as a part of their process, If they don't shed, if they don't experience that process and letting go and leaving it behind, they can't grow anymore. They get infections, they die. And like watching mother nature happen. It's really powerful for me. When I look at things and I'm like, Oh, wow, that happened.I'm letting something go. I shed, I learned a lesson. I moved through it versus like, let me hold onto it. It don't take my skin. I don't want the new one. Right. Like I want to hold it forever. Yes. Yes. And so I, man, I just, I think there's so much, I mean, there's, this could be a, an 18 hour episode cause we could unpack all of that.Um, yeah. And I gotta apologize for everybody. I was so excited to get into this with ALP. I forgot to tell you guys where to find him at the beginning of the episode. So I'm gonna do it now. Um, the easiest place to find LPs on Facebook, just Adam's a friend or shoot him a message. His name is spelled. A L P and then his last name is tickin.T E K I N. So ALP space, T E K I N. I just wanted to get it out there before we go any deeper, because I'm just like, I forgot to tell everybody. Great. And I think one of the things that right, as a native with me a lot, um, is I have this. I feel like, and this is just self awareness that I modulator a lot between Victor and vehicle, Victor and vehicle.Right. I heard you say, you know, like, yeah. And like, I love the daily practices. Like I'm doing a challenge with high speed daddy right now, 75 days. And like I'm pushing and I love it. But then I've also found the points where I see like, Oh, I'm winning it versus like, Oh, I'm in it. Right. Oh, I'm winning and I'm in it.And what you said. About the meditation. Like as soon as we're done, I'm going on a walk and I'm counting to 100 and I'm just going to go walk and I'm going to see kind of what happens. And I love like, it's like this play in it, like this childhood play of like, it's a game, but it's not, it's not a game that has to be won.It's not a game that like you die and you lose if you don't make it to a hundred. Perfect. Yes. I just, I think that's such a profound, like, no, you know, I'm, I'm meditating. For a lot of years and there's days I would say I can't count until five. Yeah. Almost. And it's okay. Yeah. Nope. Guess what? Almost nothing.You know what? I gained a whole lot of awareness about what's going on with me, that thing, because guess what? Sometimes I am distracted sometimes. Uh, Petron's come up. Deep rooted patrons. I mean, just the other day, people imagine me, for example, another misconception a Oh, be so cool accomplish this and that.I wanted to pick up a fight. It was a guy at a beach and all, I mean, I just, I mean, really like, because, you know, they were playing ball nothing and cute situation, but somehow I felt my family is, is in threat, you know? So then something else came through right. And old habit. Luckily, I didn't go into a fight, like what I have in the past, you know, like, okay, what the heck?And then I could switch in two minutes, but this was like, wow, where did this come from? And then I recognize, Oh, that was still a pattern. Uh, that was the way triggered, maybe about a voice, a particular style of the guy looking at me at the beach, whatever something got triggered and we are never done.And then it's this and it's perfectly fine. And it's okay. Then I went through this guy. Hey, say, sorry. If I was rough and apologize. Immediately and good friends and all good again, you know, like, but we never know what comes through. Yeah. And, and that's, that's perfectly all right. Yeah. I think like, I, this is just like a walking value bomb of everything that we've talked about.Um, and my, it just triggers my brain. It's so validating for all the work that I do and I've invested in myself cause it's, it's really, it's really refreshing. And the one thing, um, My buddy Stephanos and I talk about all the time is that, you know, I still have parts of me as an entrepreneur, as a human that wants a finish line, like that wants a finish line.So what I did is I replaced the finish line with awareness and I tell myself the finish line is when I'm aware in spite of action. Right. And so agnostic of action. And so. I understand my psyche right now. And I'm like, I need that finish line. It's like, so my finish line today is to be aware of what's happening and do nothing with it.Like just to be aware. And I think it's just such a profound. Distinction and thought process to keep with. Right? Like I wrote an email the other day, about a lot of the times we end up with problems because don't ask the right questions. And you know, when we think about this, it's like really, no matter what you do, you throw out all the bullshit that you see of like, Oh, wrote these 12 emails and I'll get you a million dollars a year.You're one funnel away. I'm like, no, no, you might be one funnel on 843 edits away. Yeah, but you have to continually be in this game. Like it's an infinite game and it's a game. It's something that has to be played and practiced and you know, you can't drop the ball and they'd be like, I quit. I'm done forever.Or my favorite analogy that lands every time is get a flat tire and slash the other three. It's like, no change the tire. Maybe you don't drive through the pothole next time and keep going. And it's about resiliency and forgiveness and awareness. So I don't know. I don't even know. You have anything else you want to say?Like, I'm just like, I'm happy as a pig and shit right now. Does this relate it to business? Uh, two, two questions for everybody for all entrepreneurs. First of all, why are you really playing this game? If you're just in for the money, ask yourself. Okay. I reached the goal. And then what if your fantasy is exit?Why don't you fucking exitright away? You know, it just, you can live in the streets. You absolutely can. I had the happiest face on, on the ego level fulfillment, right. By having round a hundred bucks a month to live as in, in retreat, more or less, and sometimes not knowing next week where the next food will come from. You think you cannot have this?It's an illusion. No. If you want to exit, if you would just hustle in order to quit working one day, just don't bother. Stop hustling right away. If not ask yourself, what am I looking for? What kind of validation? What do I want to prove to myself or to whom do I want to prove whatever. And guess what you do not need to accomplish anything to be worthy.You do not need to accomplish anything to be a fully happy, functional human being that can live a fulfilled life.And when you notice then strive for this becoming your reality. And then you're happy, no matter what, happy with $1 in the bank, happy with a depth of $1 million. I don't know. I haven't experienced this, but maybe I wouldn't, I shouldn't open my mouth so wide, but basically yes. You know, like, because, you know, look one and a half years ago I saw my dad passing away.And it was so beautiful to see. My dad was a, uh, was an entrepreneur who broke down, who couldn't get out somehow. That's the story I told myself who, who couldn't, um, deal was the fact that several times he went bankrupt and after the last time he basically gave up, gave up on himself, burnt out. So this was the story, how I saw him and he had the most peaceful and happy death.He was okay with himself

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"Be prepared for a lot of rejection. Whether it's people closing the door in your face, or people telling you that you will never make it!" John Paul DeJoria Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Founder & Chairman Emeritus Petron Spirits (acquired by Bacardi $5.1Billion) is interviewed by David Cogan founder of Eliances and host of the Eliances Heroes show broadcast on am and fm network channels, internet radio, and online syndication   

"Be prepared for a lot of rejection. Whether it's people closing the door in your face, or people telling you that you will never make it!" John Paul DeJoria Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, John Paul Mitchell Systems, Founder & Chairman Emeritus Petron Spirits (acquired by Bacardi $5.1Billion) is interviewed by David Cogan founder of Eliances and host of the Eliances Heroes show broadcast on am and fm network channels, internet radio, and online syndication   

In episode 44 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast, Jesper and Autumn shared the results of a survey which asked readers about permafree books. They are now back with an update on the survey results as many more responses has come on since episode 44, and in addition, Autumn have taken her book 1, Born of Water, off permafree.  What has happened to Autumn's book sales now that Born of Water is no longer available for free? Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.  SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (1s): You're listening to the Am Writing fantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need an literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt, and Jesper Schmidt. Hello, I'm Jesper. Narrator (32s): And I'm, Autumn. This is episode 86. Jesper (36s): of the Am writing fantasy podcast. And as promised this episode will cover the results after taking a book off Permafree like Autumn have done with her book. Born of water. Yes. I love running my life as an experiment to help other people as I seem to be doing constantly. Yeah. Yeah. But it's been actually quite a long while since we recorded, even though, of course, for, for the listener. Well, we released an episode last week and we are releasing one this week, but, but we have, we have prerecorded some episodes because of summer holidays. Jesper (1m 13s): So we actually haven't done this for a while, or I know it's been three weeks, so yeah. To everyone else it's been seamless, but for us it's been three weeks. So I'm so glad to have you back as I've hinted in the student Q and a that we just had before this that, you know, even though you did all your homework before you left and we prerecorded everything, I was still alone in charge of this ship. And there's always more in charge of a ship than you realize when you're like, Oh, I tried, I tried so hard not to bug you too much, even though I know you were on a staycation instead of a real vacation, but yeah, no, no, nobody is great being back. Jesper (1m 55s): It feels nice to get into it again. And even, even discovering out of our conversations before the recording, that there was a few things that I was supposed to do that I couldn't quite remember the context of anymore. It was a good vacation. So, I mean, how was it in Denmark? I mean, I know the couple of times that we emailed that you said it wasn't exactly summer weather over there. No, it feels the whole thing feels a bit odd, to be honest. Jesper (2m 25s): I mean, I guess I could say it's been fairly a fairly good vacation, but we didn't do any traveling of course, due to COVID-19 like the rest of the world. So we visited some friends, we had some family over and we did some day trips here and there with the kids to just go and do some stuff, that sort of thing, you know, but yeah, as you said, unfortunately, the weather has not been the best. So yeah, my wife said the other day that it doesn't feel like a vacation. It more feels like a very, very long weekend and that's actually a bit how I feel about it too. Jesper (2m 59s): And I'm actually sure that, you know, because we were also working from home home in this pandemic isolation and in the months leading up to the vacation, I think that hasn't helped on this feeling because it's all just sort of blurred together in one big mess there. So I don't know all in all it was okay. But I've had better vacations to be honest. Autumn (3m 21s): Well then I'm sure you didn't get to go any word too interesting, but at least, you know, the family's safe and you did get some time off and got to spend some time with your kids. So I, and the wife always nice. Yeah. Jesper (3m 32s): Yeah. That's good. I dunno. The last couple of days it's starting to get warmer like that. I said this yesterday to my wife as well. I'll bet you, once we get into the end of August, once we are fully back to work, then it will start getting really nice and really warm and wonderful. Right. In the last couple of days, it has actually started heating up a pit just as we return to work. And I don't know if that's, yeah, I don't know if that's why, but both the day before yesterday and yesterday I had really troubling sleeping. Jesper (4m 6s): What can a dozen of times it also last night? So I don't know if it's because it's getting warmer or something, but it's just really annoying. I fall right back to sleep. So that's, that's fine, but it's still interrupts the sleep rhythm. So I, yeah, I feel a bit tired because of it. And then I guess two days, 14 hours of work hasn't helped. I guess Autumn (4m 33s): You just put it this like marathon day, it's like welcome back by the way. You're an hour 14 of being awake and getting work done. So thanks for holding in there. And now you're recording a podcast. So talk about needing a vacation now. Jesper (4m 50s): And when we returned from vacation, that the first thing you need is a vacation. Absolutely. I think that's typical though. So, but how has things been on your end over the last three weeks or Autumn (5m 2s): It's working myself to the bone on him writing fantasy. It's been good. I mean, we had our own, well I'll share my two big successes. And one is that I mentioned my Adam, my husband, Adam has been working on 105 year old wood and canvas coup. And we, he finally got it to the point where we put it in the water and it floated. So Jesper (5m 27s): Yeah, I saw, I saw you posted a picture of a, you say Autumn (5m 31s): Yes. Yeah. So I even got to take it out myself. So again, I think that was just so you could see pictures of it from, from the shore, but it was a very successful venture and it's wonderful to see this thing that came to us in really horrible condition. I mean, the canvas was rotted and falling off and, and it didn't even, he's not a huge woodworker. He's become a massively good woodworker in the last couple of months, learning how to shape Cedar into a canoe. And it is beautiful and it was paddles really well. Autumn (6m 4s): So that was a wonderful success. And then the other thing is, it was funny, cause we've just been talking about this with some of the students I've started. I usually wrote in the evening and I'd try to give him like 500 words while I recently said, screw checking the news and checking email. I'm going to sit down first, as soon as I get my cup of tea and I'm going to try to write for like 45 minutes. And I have top some days if I get a chance already to get in the evening, you know, for maybe a half an hour. And so I've been hitting like 2000 words a day by doing this. Autumn (6m 35s): So a story that in March was over a year old and completely stalled. If I got a hundred words in, I was felt like I was pulling teeth and really lucky. I'm five chapters away from finishing book one. So I feel I'm in the middle of the climax and it's very exciting. And I have lots of scenes already developed in the plot, pretty much developed for books, twos, and threes. The rate I'm going, I should finish before December, which means an early, late winter, early spring release for a trilogy next year. Autumn (7m 6s): Plus the books we're going to be writing plus some nonfiction. I'm thinking if everything pans out the way it's supposed to, I'm going to hit 30 books in 2021. I'm feeling pretty good about that. I'm just feeling really good to feel, to be writing again and be hitting my word count. So then for us, the summer weather is beautiful. The tomatoes are ripening and we're eating zucchini. Like it is the only available food source on the planets. It's become a bit of a joke whenever my husband goes out and comes back with zucchini, but Oh, you know, you can turn them into scones. Autumn (7m 41s): So I've been experimenting with zucchini quite a lot. It's been a good summer. I'll take it. I'm hoping August is also equally enjoyable and it was a little bit less stressed because I'm not the only one in charge of M writing fantasy. Narrator (7m 56s): Oh, a week on the internet with the am writing fantasy podcast. Jesper (8m 1s): So first things first, we want to give a huge shout out and warm, welcome to Janine and Eric who joined us on patron. Yes, I, it was a while you were away and we weren't recording. So it's one of those is at least a little belated, but thank you. And welcome. We're so happy for your supports. Yeah. So thank you so much to both of you without Patrion. And those of you who chime in with just a dollar a month, you know, I can't say for sure that we would keep these recordings going, but because of you, then we will, for sure. Jesper (8m 39s): So thank you a lot for that. And I said, I guess I should also say if, if you dear listener, haven't considered supporting the writing fences, you podcast on Petron yet we would love it. If you could click the link in the show notes and check out the awesome rewards that you Can get your hands on by joining us over there. Autumn (8m 60s): Yes. Please come join us. There's lots of great posts and tips and some really good perks, like the Q and a sessions we have. So come home, come over and see what we have. Jesper (9m 11s): Yeah. And I also wanted to mention something else a ahead of you might having something to add autumn. I don't know, but I wanted to mention that we received an email from our podcast host and they told us that we have now passed 10,000 downloads at the end writing fantasy. Autumn (9m 29s): So that's amazing. That's another big celebration. We have so much to just celebrate today. I mean, we're, we're recording this. We're actually on release day for three books. So this is just, just been a fantastic summer, 10,000 downloads. We're got books coming out new courses. This is just no wonder. We're both like what's what is this task that we're supposed to be doing about which, which of our many projects? Yes. Jesper (9m 56s): Yes. So for sure, a huge thank you to everyone who listens to the new episodes that we release every single Monday here without you. There wouldn't be much point in sitting here in front of the microphone in the first place. So thank you a lot. And thank you for getting us to 10,000 downloads. And of course we hope that there will be much more to come. Autumn (10m 19s): Absolutely. I mean, we were already in deep discussion about our secret, what we're going to do on our hundredth episode. So that is coming up this fall. So that'll be really exciting to announce. Jesper (10m 34s): Yeah. Yeah. Anything else we need to cover? Autumn (10m 37s): Oh, nothing. I just, I know I've been giving a big shout out to our type of slayers for you guys. You know, this is the only one we're releasing this on a week or two. So this is not too far in the past, but as I said, it's release day for our books and just the feedback from the type of slayers, normally their help, but some of those early reviews and also just the personal notes that they put in when they sent in some of the little typos that they did spot for us, we're really touching and encouraging. Autumn (11m 8s): And we're exactly the reasons why we're releasing these books to know that, you know, these people signed up just to help us fix up the books right before publication. And they came out of it saying that, you know, words like that helped them tremendously help them find their passion again, for a story they were working on and solve all these problems. And it was just like, just, just, wow. It blew me on the way to know how much we are helping writers. And I'm just, thank you. Autumn (11m 38s): Thank you for sending in those notes as well as for your help for hitting today and being actually able to release the books. Jesper (11m 46s): Absolutely. Yeah. And of course, if the listener here has not checked out those books, then just go to wherever you normally book, if that's Amazon or Kobo or wherever and searched for one of our names and you will find the plotting books and the workbooks and the story idea book, all three of them just released today as we're recording this on the 3rd of August. So go and check that out. Okay. Jesper (12m 16s): So as we set up top, we're going to talk a bit about how it has gone since you took one off Permafree autumn. And, but I guess maybe we should just start out by defining Permafree. What does that mean? Autumn (12m 32s): Sure. Well, and I can also give you a time as long as a week, cause it's a good discussion of when a book is PERMA free, which means permanently free. So on Amazon, or actually to do this, you have to be wide, you have to be on Kobo and Barnes and Nobles. You have to be on all those platforms. And the book has got to be free, no signing up for an email list or anything. This is literally you just go to Amazon and it is listed as a free book permanently, not on a five day Kindle countdown, just free all the time, every day, 24 hours seven. Autumn (13m 5s): And my book board of water, I don't know how many readers actually or listeners actually know this, but for a while I was actually with a publisher. And it was when I got my books back in may of 2015 that I put a born of water, which had been initially published in February, 2012. I finally put it on permanently free on, in May, 2015, and it's been free ever since widely distributed any platform. Autumn (13m 36s): And so this was a big change to say something that has been free for five years, I'm going to put a price tag on it. And that's what I did this end of may. I made it 99 cents. Huge deal. Jesper (13m 53s): Yeah. And maybe also for context, we talked about whether or not Permafree books is like a viable sales strategy. We talked about that back in episode 44. So which was released on the 28th of October, 2019. So if, if you need some more context than I would say, go back and listen to episode 44 and then come back here and, and continue listening to this because there we explain a lot about the behind line thinking and strategy about why we don't think that Permafree books is a good strategy anymore, but we're not going to dive into all of those details here once again. Jesper (14m 38s): So if you want that, didn't go back to episode 44, but otherwise we're just going to focus on what was the results then from pulling a book away from Permafree and all of a sudden asking people to pay for it. But that is a great, Autumn (14m 54s): You know, groundwork for why. I mean, there's a lot of reasons why I would choose to do this. One is, you know, at five years into Permafree, the downloads were dwindling. It was harder to give away even a free book because it's been free for so long. There's no excitement about picking up a book. That's going to be free next month, when it's already been free last year, how many new readers was I really reaching? And we also had the survey and that was a pretty big eyeopener. And you have the results, some updated results from the survey. Autumn (15m 25s): And that kind of also got me thinking of really, should this book still be free? I mean, should a permit free be permanently free or should it be something maybe every couple years you rotate through as you open up a new series? Jesper (15m 40s): Yeah. So maybe we could start that and then you can get into the results of it. Maybe we can start with the survey because as a preparation for episode 44, back then in October, 2019, we, we had a thinking that, you know, the Permafree strategy is a, it's a, well, I was about to say old strategy, but in publishing terms, oldest just means a couple of years, a lot of things happened a couple of years, but it's a couple of years old strategy. And our thinking was that I think that the Permafree strategies losing some of its allure and some of its effectiveness. Jesper (16m 18s): So we created a survey where we basically, instead of us being author speculating about it, we decided, well, why not ask the readers? So we did. And back then in episode 44, we shared the results of all the responses we got for that survey. And of course now we are in August, 2020. So we have gotten some more responses since then. And I can just go through them one by one here, just to bring everybody up to speed. Jesper (16m 48s): And then you can talk about your experiences and results afterwards. Yeah. So I w I would say first off before we get into the actual questions and answers that none of what we set in episode 44 has really changed. It's still the same. We've just got more volume on the responses, but the conclusions are still the same as I also expected when we recorded episode 44, I also said that I doubted that it would change, even though we got more responses, but we do now we have 575 responses. Jesper (17m 25s): So that's quite quite a good, let's say mock for, including upon. I would prefer, as I also said back in episode 44 to get a thousand, but well, we have 575, so yeah. Do with what you want, but I can just go over it one by one here, tell you the questions and then the answers, I think there was five. So the first question, yeah, the first question was, are you more likely to take a chance on a new author? Jesper (17m 55s): If the book is free and here 32.5% says, yes, I prefer to only pay for books written by authors. I already know while 67.5% says, I don't mind purchasing a book from an author I'm not familiar with if the book otherwise sounds and looks interesting. So that was already a bit, a bit interesting to see. Okay. So people actually don't mind giving a new author chance, even if they have to pay for the book. So at least for people selling their books, then that's, that's a good indicator to start with. Jesper (18m 31s): Absolutely. So we then funneled all of those who said that they prefer to only pay for books written by authors, that they already know. We didn't ask only that top of the respondees, a separate question, and we didn't ask them what if the same book from that same author you've never heard of had great reviews. Could that make you want to purchase the book, even though you normally only pay for books written by authors, you know, and then 66.3%. Jesper (19m 5s): Yes. That would make me change my mind, providing the book otherwise sounds and looks interesting to me while only 33.7% said, no, I simply don't want to pay for a novel, unless I already know that the author already know the author and question writes the kind of stories that I like to read. So yeah. Great reviews really matters as we can see from that questions. And of course we can come back to that, but born on water has a ton of reviews. Jesper (19m 35s): So that's, Autumn (19m 36s): Yeah, I'll be mentioning that it helps, but it also actually caused a small problem, but we'll come back to that. I'll leave the tension right there. Now I'm curious as well. So then we asked Jesper (19m 51s): If you bought a book, is it the next book you'll start reading and here 40.3% says, yes. I usually start reading it as soon as I'm able, while 59.7% says, no, I often add it to my, to be read list and we'll come back to it as some later date. And then we asked the exact same question, but now we asked what if it's a free book? So we asked if you were downloaded a free book. Is it the next book you will start reading. And now we have 29.9% saying, yes. Jesper (20m 25s): I usually start reading it as soon as I'm able, while all of a sudden the 59.7% who before said that they added to the, to be read list. Now John jumps from 59.7% to 70.1% who says, no, I, I just add it to my, to be read list. So you're basically losing like a bit more than 10% of people there because it's a free book. They are much more, 10% modern, 10% more inclined. I know you can't say that, but 10% are more inclined to add it to a TUPE read list rather than starting reading it while as while they, and it makes sense. Jesper (21m 4s): Right? So if they pay for the book, they are more inclined to start reading it right away. Autumn (21m 9s): Absolutely. It makes sense. Definitely. Jesper (21m 12s): Yeah. So if we then assuming that people are adding stuff to dare to be reckless, we wouldn't curious how long is this to be readily then? So we ask people how many unread books do you have on your E reader? That being the Kindle, the phone, the nook, or whatever it is that they read books on. And we have 8.2% saying that they don't have any, they always finish their current read before they buy or add a new book. So that was only 8.2%. Jesper (21m 43s): I believe that 19 and 17.7% says that they have between five and 10, 19% says that they have less than five, but then the whopping 56% of all the people says that they have more than 10 books in there to be read list. Wow. And this was exactly what we were concerned about when it comes to Permafree that people just download free books, stuff, them on their Kindle. And usually they just forget about it. They never get back to more than 10 books. Jesper (22m 13s): That's a lot just sitting there. You can't even remember that you had them after a while Autumn (22m 18s): Right now. Yeah. You open it up and you're like, Oh yeah, I don't even remember what that's about. Yeah. Because when you see the cover on your e-reader, you don't see the blurb, you don't, you don't know why you got it. You literally are just going off of a cover and a memory of whether or not it's the next book you read. Yeah. Jesper (22m 38s): And the question is just more than 10. So it could mean that they have even 20 or 30 books sitting around Kendall. Right. And they never kind of get to it. So that was the whole problem with the, and, and again, going back, maybe three, four, five years, the Permafree strategy worked really, really well because it was brand new. It was difficult to find Permafree books. So people just loved it and they wrapped the free books. They read them and they moved on to buy the rest of the series, which is the whole point of the Permafree strategy. Right. But the problem is nowadays a lot of people off of free books, I do it myself. Jesper (23m 12s): I have not pulled my book off Permafree, but that's more because of all the tasks related to do it. So I have too much else to do, but I really should be doing it. I'm preaching here on the podcast and also in episode 44 that you should be doing it, but I haven't done it myself. So shame on me. But yeah, I think this is the object of the property or the core of the problem, right? There's just too many free books out there. And then to wrap the survey up, we asked in your view, free books, more likely to be of poor quality than the you pay for. Jesper (23m 46s): And the reason we asked that was basically because at least within author circles, there's been different conversations, you know, on Facebook groups for authors and stuff like that, where authors have been speculating that, well, usually readers will equate the free books with poor quality. So we said, okay, fine. Let's just ask the readers if that's the case or not, and get it out of the way for once and fall. And actually 80.3% said, no free books can be just as good as those you, I pay for that leaves only 19.7% who says yes, in my experience, free books often suffer from issues with editing plot, characterization and so on. Jesper (24m 30s): So I think that sort of put that point to rest rate in general readers do not believe that free books should be of poor quality or is of poor quality, Autumn (24m 40s): Which I think is definitely a big wind for indie authors that we've come from that initial stigma when independent publishing was first out, that, you know, it just wasn't as good as the others, you know, the traditional publishers. I think we've overcome that. And we are indie publishers and authors are shining examples of how good writing can be. I agree. So, yep. Jesper (25m 5s): What's that update, as I said, the conclusions are exactly the same as what I shared in episode 44, we just have a bit of more bit more volume on the responses, but yeah, Autumn (25m 16s): Well, it's just awesome. So we had the survey that said, you know, permit we've from what we are seeing ourselves, we knew Permafree, weren't working as well. We knew readers were willing to pay for a book. I mean, it helps to maybe have the first book as a reduced price as kind of an intro offer. But you know, there's also this huge discussion out there of if you're only giving away free books, are you just teaching the people who are reading your books, that they should always be free? I mean, I know, I think every author who offers a free book has gotten at least a few people asking questions and saying, can I have the next book for free? Autumn (25m 49s): You're already giving one away. Why not give away the rest? And most of us hopefully stick to our guns saying, you know, that took two years of my life. And I was like, at least 9 cents. Jesper (26m 0s): Yeah. The only reason I can keep writing books is because some people pay for them. Right. Autumn (26m 6s): Oh. And so there was all these ideas going on in my head. We had this survey that was hard facts. I also happened to have joined. I want to give a huge shout out to Brian Cohen. He runs these amazing AMS as author challenges, which run for five days. And so just on a whim, I joined one because I used to run a lot of AMS ads, but when you're running a Permafree, it's really hard to offer that on Amazon. And I'm like, I hadn't been doing it recently. So I thought I joined it to actually work on AMS ads for my bundles and ended up talking to him quite lot about how do you run this for a Permafree? Autumn (26m 45s): And he gave me some tips. So I started running born of water as a Permafree and, and just a really, it's an incredibly low bid. Right. And so you're just kind of showing up at the tail end when everyone else is running out of money, you might show up at the end and you start getting noticed a little bit more and get some organic growth. And it was good. So it was something in addition to my normal normal marketing that I'd send out to advertisers like Freebooksy and all those places where you could, you know, send out your free book. And, but even those, I mean, those were really, I remember when you could get like 10,000 downloads by getting a Freebooksy offer. Autumn (27m 20s): And now it's like, if you get 1200, you're doing really well, giving away a free book is really hard, especially a book that has been free for five years. And then on top of all of that, I picked up a book, read through calculator. So I have a series born of water as the first of a trilogy, but then there's a second trilogy that starts six months after the last book in the first trilogy. So it's really six books. Plus I even have a companion and a compilation of short stories. So I'm talking about, I usually don't count those when I look at things like read through, right? Autumn (27m 54s): But technically I have an eight book series going on and jokingly with a few readers recently who found out, I had been thinking of a, another trilogy they're kind of prodding me along. So it might be even more. And I took all of my stats from 2019. So whole year's worth of stats of downloads and read through rates. And that's what I use that to calculate my readthrough rates. And I found that I was so happy. I had this book one and the read-through rate. Autumn (28m 26s): I could give away thousands and thousands and thousands of books, but my readthrough rate to book two, because it was a freebie is incredibly low. But after that, once I read book two, it was over a hundred percent, which made me laugh, who had read book three and then to go to the next trilogy, go ahead. Jesper (28m 47s): Now I was just to add, because that, that actually links up very nicely with what we were just looking at with the survey results, right? Because a lot of those book ones just ended up on to be read list. And that's why you have a poor read-through rate. Not because the book is poor, but because they never read it. So they never go on to book two. Autumn (29m 6s): Yeah. 4% was my readthrough. Larry, I think it was, it was incredibly small, but then book two, two book three, you know, it was a hundred percent. And then I would lose 60% to go to the second trilogy, which could be me. And it wrapped up very well. So maybe they they're done. They want to go to the other books. Quite normal. 60% is actually not bad. But then again, it jumped back to a hundred percent to finish off that trilogy. So we're talking about a really strong read through rate. When you add that up, considering how many times I had to give away born of water, giving away book earned me 41 cents for every giveaway. Autumn (29m 46s): And I had to give away thousands of books. So, I mean, we're talking about 41 cents for each giveaway, but if my readthrough wait between book one, born of water and it's book two, if that happened to be close to the second series where it was like 60%, I could actually earn $7 and 21 cents after off of every sale of book one, which also means I would have to sell a lot less of them to earn a lot more money, to be earning $7 and 21 cents off of every reader instead of only 41 cents off of every reader. Autumn (30m 22s): So there's a lot of stuff that I'm like, okay, wait, I'm playing with AMS ads. They're actually working. I'm selling more books. I have this book that has at, at this time, it was just under 300 reviews. It's now over 300 reviews. It's got a solid track record. I'm gonna, I'm gonna go ahead and try this. And I did. I let readers know that may was the last ditch effort. Last time you're going to be able to see this for free, unless you sign up to get it through like my newsletter. Autumn (30m 53s): I do have it still as a signup or that's one way to get it for free, but otherwise on all the platforms, it's a whole whopping 99 cents. But it's edited was may, was fantastic for book sales and for giving it away. It was like going back to the old days where people were picking it up left and right, because I was really shaking the tree and letting people know this is it. This is, this is it. This is the end of the run. It is time. This book is no longer free. So yeah, may was really fun. Autumn (31m 24s): And I was running just so people know all the steps for this. I was not just sitting there letting people know it was coming off a Permafree. I was running my AMS ads at this low amount to get those targets. I was starting to already gather those keywords, getting those books, getting everything ready. So that on June 1st, when I had, Oh, you know, you know how Amazon goes, I actually did it a few days before. So June one comes up and I can switch all those AMS ads over to a higher bid rate. I had everything set up and going, you know, over a hundred, I think ads already made. Autumn (31m 55s): And boom, I hit the ground running June 1st with a book that was 99 cents. And how do you think that, how do you think all of June went and for me, which, you know, it was probably a big hint that I asked that we record this in August instead of July. Jesper (32m 10s): Yeah. Well I can of course guests there, but it did not go as planned. No, no, but, but the, the thing is also with those AMS ads that you need time to build up the momentum do and, and, and just switching the apps on often doesn't do much short term. And also it also takes time before you have the apps running for a while so that you can add that. Or you can collect the data and conclude based on the data where to focus your next set of ads. Jesper (32m 43s): So, so it's more like I see AMS as very much like a continual optimization kind of effort, where, where you start out with a starting point with what you think might work as keywords and such. And then you run those. Once you get enough impressions on them, you will start seeing, okay, decent, these steps works. So then you can start building towards that direction. And over time you get there and you get some really, really well performing ads, but it takes time. And I think that that might be a bit of a misconception in general that some people believe, yeah, you just Chuck in a set of keywords and then you bid something and then you'll get sales, but that's not how it works. Autumn (33m 24s): No, and I, what I was expecting was something that was going to happen, like my bundle, the rise of horror there. So where you can get all, you get four books for in the bundle. And for that one, you know, it's a typical, you struggle basically to get Amazon, to spend your $5, your trying to get readers. It's a slow burn process. And I would definitely say anyone who wants to try this, you are in this for the long haul and expect the first months to be painful. You're learning, it's a huge steep mountain that you're learning and you're climbing up. Autumn (33m 55s): And if I have to admit having a free book and just like once a month slapping to free Booksy or these other places say, Hey, you know, promote my book. That is so easy. If you like easy street, stay with easy. This is hard. This requires time that you've got to make every single week and you've got to not be intimidated. And you've got to be able to either ask questions of other people or kind of be good at marketing and not easy to give up and solve the problems. So, yeah, for June, I, I had the opposite problem that anyone told me was going to happen. Autumn (34m 31s): I actually had to slow down the ads because they were spending like, like I was a millionaire and I could spend money like crazy, but they weren't all ending up in sales. Oh my gosh, Jesper (34m 43s): Where you're getting very high IO. Autumn (34m 45s): I was bidding at what Brian Cohen and his AMS ads challenge was telling me is a good bidding rate for a book in a series. So we're talking in the 30 cent range, not really high. This is pretty much standard first in a series. This is about what you should start at. And it was crazy cause people were clicking on it left and right, because it had 300 reviews. It has a very solid cover, but not, not that many people were buying. So you and I worked together and I tweaked the blurb a little bit, which helped, but it was still outpacing. Autumn (35m 19s): I mean, my happily, my total amount of book sales covered what I paid for Amazon ads for June. But there was a moment of Holy crap. I don't like seeing negative ROI is on a series that was my money maker up to this point. And my biggest conclusion is, yeah, pupils see a book for 99 cents. 300 reviews. Cover is decent. They click on it. You don't read much else. It doesn't matter what else, what my hook could say, they're just going to click on it. Jesper (35m 52s): Indeed. And that's of course the difference between the click through rate versus the conversion rate, right? So the click through rate is basically being determined by the number of reviews and the cover because that's the people, that's what people see when they see the ad. So they might see if you want to you, of course, it's possible to put in a bit of custom text in the app if people want to do that on the AMS app, but in general, it's the cover. And it's the number of reviews that will make people click. So that's the clicks. So you can have a very high click through rate, which will then indicate that your cover is good and your number of reviews is working in your favor. Jesper (36m 31s): But then once they arrive on the sales page, if we can call it that or a product page, when meaning the actual page on Amazon that shows the book and you have the book description and you have the biolink and all that, then there is two things affecting the conversion rate on that page. And that of course is the book description that factors in a lot to whether or not people. So they might've clicked on, Oh, that cover looks interesting. So they click on the ad, they come to the book page and then they read the blurb and it's like, what? No, this is not me. And then gone. Jesper (37m 1s): They are right. So that really needs to hook them, or it can also be the look inside. So if people check the sample writing and they scroll through the first couple of pages on the login side, on Amazon, and then they, if it doesn't engage them enough there, then that might stop the conversion as well. So they don't buy it. They don't click the buy button. Right. But yeah, it was just to give a bit of context for Lou in terms of things to look for. Autumn (37m 27s): And these are the things you have to be aware of. And there's also the fact that I am trying this on at, you know, targeted ads with targeted keywords that I've only been trying for two months and to get keywords that are really gonna fit in my book and reach the correct audience. It's going to take a lot longer than two months to really gather that data. So I'm basically spending a whole bunch of money to get keywords, and it's just getting confusing. I'm basically, you know, going to Facebook and say, Hey, you like books. Autumn (37m 57s): Here's my book. And it's too much. It was, I needed to slow it down. And that was basically what I learned is I needed to basically just keep reducing my bid point every week until I got to the point where I got a positive ROI, which I did. Yay. I'm so excited. So I finally had my first month where, or my first week where I had a positive ROI. And of course this is difficult because I'm talking about readthrough rates. So I'm not looking at just the ROI on book one, I'm looking at how things are going for the entire series. Autumn (38m 30s): Are people reading through? Cause I am, that is going to determine my overall amount I can bid I've finally achieved what I was looking for, where I feel comfortable now trying to look for new keywords. So I'm still really at the beginning stages, but that was my biggest to me. It was my biggest hurdle is I just don't have the financial wherewithal to keep spending every ounce of money I'm getting from my books just to cover AMS ads. I kinda, you know, like eat and, you know, I'm a full time author. This is really kind of, you know, bread and butter for me. Autumn (39m 1s): So there were definitely those first month cringing pain of why the heck did I do this? This was so easy before, but now that I'm finally seeing income, again, I can start generating more ads looking for more keywords, starting to pull out the ones that are gonna work in the longterm. And I think that initial shock of being able to actually spend everything that Amazon, you know, that I want to throw at Amazon is going to be a good thing. Autumn (39m 33s): When I finally hit the right target. I mean, I might still work on the blurb a little bit. It's going to be a matter of checking out keywords, but once I have all the pieces in place, this could be really, really good. I just know it's going to be six months to longer, eight months, nine months a year from now, where will I be with this? I think it'll be in a really good place. And I'm, as I mentioned earlier, in this episode, I'm going to be having another series. I'm going to be trying all this again with fresh, with a series that has never been Permafree as well, but it's definitely been a learning curve. Autumn (40m 10s): And I think the biggest thing is just not having those moments of panic when, especially when you see income going out faster than, you know, you really had planned, I was expecting, you know, few sales, slow burn, trying to accumulate keywords like I was doing with the bundle. And instead I had, you know, the acetylene torch set on high. I was not prepared for that. You know, if I had hit all the right keywords the first time out and it had just zoomed off the rocket, that would have been fantastic, but that's not really realistic. Autumn (40m 46s): It wouldn't be a good learning session to be able to share with all of our listings. So what happens when you take your book off a permit for you? There has to be some pain involved, not just like there's one seller. Oh yeah. I had to do it this way, but I think, you know, I will definitely have to maybe put in our schedule or if listeners would like a check in, you know, let us know in the comments and we can check in again in six months or so and see how the process is going. Cause at this point now I am just trying to get, I had some ads that were not doing anything. Autumn (41m 19s): So I'm trying to wake those ads up and I'm just trying to keep that positive ROI going. But again, it's a series, it's a readthrough. So I have book I'm selling and there's going to be this lag before people get all the way through the series and I'll see the income it. So this is going to be a very slow stepping stone process. I mean, unless I win the sweepstakes or something and I have a million dollars, I can throw it a run, everything, you know, once to see it all get figured out. Autumn (41m 50s): And just a couple of months, I don't see that happening. I think this is going to take me a lot of time because I don't, I just simply physically can't dump a thousand dollars a month or more onto just AMS ads just to see what happens. Be really, if anyone is a multimillion out there and they don't know what to do with it, and they would like to help me run this experiment, I will have to spend your money when it's my money and my family, you know, I'm trying to take it a little bit slower. Autumn (42m 22s): That's fair enough. Yes. But I will say the conversion rate is up Jesper (42m 28s): Excellent. Next week we will look at the well known trips and fantasy and also evaluate if they are quote unquote, good or bad. 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Every story needs a villain. Someone to oppose the protagonist. However, there are some traits that will make the antagonist memorable and feel like a real person, with true motives. In episode 77 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast, Autumn and Jesper explore how to create the best villain for a novel. Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday. SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (2s): You're listening to The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast in today's publishing landscape. You can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now onto the show with your hosts Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello? I am Jesper and I'm Autumn. This is episode 77 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. And today's episode is sort of a continuation of last week's episode where we shared 10 Traits that makes a protagonist great. So, today we will do the same thing, but this time it's the antagonists, or the villains turn And I was so, Autumn (55s): So looking forward to this one and it ended up being so hard or it's so much harder than the heroes. Yeah, it was a actually. Jesper (1m 4s): But yeah, I hope it's got to be just as much fun as last week, but at least in coming up with the 10 items and that wasn't even a bit harder. And I, as I said before, we started recording, I felt like the first six or seven of them, those were quite easy. But then number eight, nine, 10 at the bottom end of the list, those where a bit harder. Yeah. I had to think a while, but those, Autumn (1m 27s): Yeah, I would've had been happy if we're coming up with the top five things for our top. Traits for Villain, but I'm in, it's two. I told you this, I a sat down the sporting and stared at my computer until I came up with my final two. I really had a forced myself to think this went through and I might the heroes, I try to do the hero's like in positive traits, but this one that ended up being more, the things Villain shouldn't be so will have to see how much we overlap this time. It's interesting. Jesper (1m 57s): Interesting. But anyway, will get there first. How were things on your side of the Atlantic? It's good. It's good. We, we have guests over the weekend, so yeah, that was quite good. Yeah. Autumn (2m 11s): Koshi and a nice to see some friends and a quick visiting, but of course we couldn't hug each other due to the COVID-19 situations. So that was a bit weird, but at the same time, at least having friends in the house For me, after a long while in isolation, that felt a bit like returning to normal, at least. So that was quite nice. Oh, that's excellent. Yeah. It it's good to be able to see people again. And we haven't, we seen a few extra people, but it is difficult because I know even my parents had said, do you know someone? Autumn (2m 42s): They haven't seen happen to me driving by? And so my dad in the guard and instantly when you go hug and it's like, he's immuno-compromised, you can't do that. You gotta think before you tackle somebody and is yeah, but it was also when we, you know, we had to remind ourselves when they, when, when they entered that we couldn't hockey to it because it feels natural. Jesper (3m 4s): That's what you do. So that was a bit weird, but, but I think other than that, it was, it was very nice. A guy with a bit of normal T in the light again. And, but I think otherwise it, she has also been quite a busy week. I got all my modules, it was completed. I'm so impressed. It only took like two years. I'm so swamped with formatting and creating pictures for the books were going to be releasing here over this summer that I still behind on my modules, but I'll get there. Jesper (3m 38s): I'll get there. Yeah. But in the meantime, I also got started on the self publishing success course that this week course. So I started on that earlier today and I actually upload it the first module fully recorded and uploaded to our hosting platform as well. That is fantastic. Oh yeah, that's good. So nine more modules to go and I would really love it if it would be possible for me to have all of them done before summer holiday. But I don't know if that's going to be go on holiday in, you'd be like, could you build a website while I'm gone? Jesper (4m 14s): So I seen her, this was going, I was planning on doing my world building modules. Well, you were on vacation. So just keep that in mind. Right. All right. Yeah. Well, it's not me. It's more the model or listeners who we'll be on your back because the sooner you get done, then as soon as they will have their free cost delivered two to, I need to clear, I've heard several people say I need to clone myself, or you can think that I just need to clone myself. Yeah. It can be that hot. Right. Of course, there's got to be a magic fairy or something around here who can figure it out for me or a mad scientist. Jesper (4m 50s): Somebody's put in a way to put in an add in the newspaper that your looking for a math scientist, because we need to get more worked. Yeah, I'll do that. Just kind of, not that cracks starts responding to that app should actually be kind of funny. Yeah. Well, at least we we'll have some stuff to read out loud on the, on the Podcast afterwards. I'll do a Facebook ad. That will be even more entertaining. Yeah. Autumn (5m 21s): Yeah. Okay. But how about you then? You seen any people have done anything interesting over the last week? Oh, the person who owns the land, the cabin is on its head. Her daughter is up for 'em of ones from Georgia and the other's from Boston. And so I've seen them and actually got to give everyone a little bit of a tour of the cabin and the work we did. And then, you know what? My, my big project has been three years in the making. I finally put together the trailer two, my Epic Fantasy series. Autumn (5m 52s): So both trilogies combined into one trailer, because if you've got to do it, you might as well just do it for everything. And so I'm so excited to have that three year task off my back burner list. So that feels really good. Yeah. I can understand the why. Yeah. That's good. We got the internet WRITING Fantasy Podcast Oh, well, first of all, a huge and very warm welcome to Jeffrey Crosby who joined us on Petro on there. Autumn (6m 29s): That's right. I saw he joined this last week. So welcome. I hope you're enjoying their, all the tips that are up there on Patrion and the fun in the exclusive benefit's as well. Yeah. That was a, of, there was a ton of posts. I think Petron has started list. I don't know if they've already done or always I'm interested on this and not quite sure, but I have noticed how, if you go to the site, when, if you're not locked in, like, like we normally are, then it we'll list how many posts are in there. Jesper (6m 60s): What kind of categories in just like modern a hundred in writing. And I don't know what it was like 40 world building, or I can't remember how many, but it was a lot. So it had been that busy. Yeah. So there was a lot of posts in there that ah, that one can dive into. So, but that was great. Thank you so much, Jeffery for it, for joining us. And we also need to give a heartfelt thank you to say it, who increased his pledge and totally made me smile with his recent comments. Autumn (7m 32s): I actually have to save this. One's ate because I do. There's a few comments that every once in a while, just to make you feel like Yeah and he, I, we were talking about some of his world building because we have a little task world building extravaganza going on on my Monday post. And he replied too, one of them as such an amazing answer. Or you rock it with those smiley face. I'm like, Ohh, that's going on in my little Pinboard for when I need to smile. So yeah. That, and then sometimes it's this short sweet, enthusiastic in heartfelt one's that just make it kind of like, Oh yeah, I'm saving it. Jesper (8m 6s): Its awesome. Yeah. So I'll have to say that the way it is, those of you who choose to help us on Petro on that are the backbone of this show. It truly is, you know, it's you who keep this show going. So it means a lot to us that you are supporting us if you're listening and you haven't yet checked out Petra, there is a link in the show notes. So please go and check it out. You know, as a patron supporter, you are getting access to a ton of perks on top of all those a story's and, and, and post out there we just talk about, but there was a lot of other purchase. Autumn (8m 41s): Well, and you get in for just a dollar a month, so it doesn't get much more affordable than that. So check it out. It really makes us happy. Yes anything from a THE worldwide web world web. And they're saying, well, yeah, I know. And to see now it was a tongue twister am not going to be able to figure it out. No, I mean, I Am Writing Fantasy group, it's been a ton of fun again. This week there's been some really good posts and they've been continuing with a, some of their breaking down trope. Autumn (9m 15s): So it's just, ah, again, I've only been into a couple of times as a week. It's been, it was such a crazy week, but I do love seeing how everyone is interacting and it's a great resource too. If your looking for some tips, some feedback, just everyone is so nice and response to all the questions and you are usually answering things before I ever even get in there. So it's wonderful platform. So it comes to search for us on Facebook, under Am Writing Fantasy and come check us out and join the group. Jesper (9m 52s): Yes. Yes. So as we talked about at the top of the show here, we, we did have a lot of fun last week, actually automated through our list of 10 Traits and we try to see how much a will that we have it yet. So we can do the same this week, but I wonder how much overlap there's going to be a one sheet. I said that last week as well, but I am actually agreeing with you this week. I know because especially, cause you sounded surprised at my mine are more of what Villain shouldn't be. So I'm thinking maybe we won't have quite as much overlap this time. Autumn (10m 25s): Yeah. I've been, I don't know. I, off the last weeks experienced, I feel like so much less confident about my ability to, to have this run, right. Because Oh, you know, a boy I was wrong as well. So I don't know why should I predict how many overlapping Traits we have this time? Alright, well I'm going to say, I'm going to go with under 50% at this time. So do you want to go with it over? You want to switch places from last week or, or, you know, what does that mean? Autumn (10m 55s): And there are four, I think will have about 40 to 50% overlapping out of the 20 or 20 Traits each week or a 10 Traits each to the 20 total. I'm saying maybe eight to 10 will overlap. Jesper (11m 10s): Yes. Autumn (11m 12s): Eight to 10. What do you mean? Yeah, I think eight we'll have eight or so. Yeah. Eight. So about four or five of our as well, at least five over there. And last week we have seven. Was it a yeah. Well I think it was a 13 cause I added up, you know, a 13. Yeah. I was 13 out of 20 overlaps, so right. Yeah. So, Hm. Okay. I'll I'll be bold at this time. We'll say Oh 11. Autumn (11m 42s): All right. You see a 11 sounds good. So that means like six out of 10. It should be overlapping. Yeah. And I'm saying four to songs sang right around. I'm saying it a little less than a week to 10. Yeah. You somewhere in there. So we're a little, we're really close and are guesstimate of how it much overlap will be. We'll probably ended up with like 20 or something. Oh, well, okay. If that happens again, I don't know. I I'll be lost for words. Jesper (12m 13s): Are we good? Oh, we'll have to give it a go. Alright. I started last time. So I think you should kick us off with your number 10. Okay. Yeah. I can do that after. So you don't need to have a notepad there so that you can keep track of our overlapping them. I will. So again, reader a listener's if you happen to hear some typing, I'm just trying to keep track of, of what we are. And if you, if you keep track and find out we're wrong, please let us know if I miscount. Jesper (12m 44s): OK. So I will start with number 10 and I think as well as last time around, let's try to see if we can just share a bit of thoughts about why we picked each one is I think that's yeah. Okay. This sounds good. OK. So I will start out and again, as I said in the beginning, the last three ones, that means numbers, not a spot number is eight, nine, and 10. Those were really hot. I have trouble finding one. So I think it gets better than further down to watch. Jesper (13m 15s): Number one, we get like a So number 10 was a guy being jealous. Oh, how interesting. And yeah, because when I have, so that's no overlap. Okay. But it's just like being jealous as an emotion. We all can relate to M and a technician who is perhaps feeling jealous of what the protagonists have, or maybe it could be jealous about some of the protectionist personality traits, you know, that the Villain wishes that I could be like this and that, or do like whatever, you know, it, I think it makes the Villain instantly relatable because as I said, jealousy is something we all understand. Autumn (14m 1s): So I think that's good trait. What is a good day? I don't disagree, but it's not what I thought of, but yes. So it's definitely makes them a very relatable person. So yes, I agree. My number 10 is not like a huge one, but it's one is definitely a per more personal than in a more generic Hey this is a good Villain. So for me, one thing that I do live in a really good Villain that really kind of makes me like it is sarcasm. I know it sounds silly, but I love good sarcastic Villain and Someone with like a dry wit and maybe a well earned arrogant air, sort of like they not only think that there better than everyone else, they've pretty much proven it. Autumn (14m 41s): And they have the, the wit, the sarcasm to remain others with some veil threats or amused patience. You know, I know it's maybe my little cynical side, but yes, sometimes you get those characters who had that half smile, a Glint in their eye while there are also a stabbing you and I'm like, I'd love those guys. So that's when I liked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I agree. And I, especially like, you know, if, especially in movies, you know, if, if, if you have this really bad, Villain there, Andy. Jesper (15m 16s): And it was just like, he just care at all day. You know, we could just see like, he is completely unimpressed by, by the, by the Hero or the army that his before him or whatever, it was just like, Oh, whatever. . Yeah, exactly. Just like, okay. I Yeah, if I'm ever, like, if I was ever a super villain, that is totally they'll persona. I want to go for it. Yeah, yeah, indeed. Yeah. It was just, Oh, I don't know. I shouldn't have thought a set up because now I lost a penny dreadful. Jesper (15m 46s): We just talked about over this weekend that there was a new season of penny dreadful. I haven't watched it, but, but my, our friends who visited have watched it in the end, they set the, actually that there was two gods' in that new season. He was just, it was a good and a bad or a good and evil God. And they are sort of competing, you know? Oh, well the evil God has just being really evil in manipulating or a human or mankind. So I have to watch that after he set that up, it's like, okay, no, I have to watch it. Autumn (16m 16s): Yeah. And that's funny cause we're just looking for a news show and we've been watching, we just started on upload, which is quite interesting. But I am gonna add that one to our cue because I did see it night for God and it would come out. So I thank you. Yeah you can watch it right after what's the tiger King. What you're really trying to avoid. I actually have watched that episode four, but that's when Adam was a way and he does a lot. It was better than I thought I will actually fish it out. Yes. I will finish it at some point when I'm not torturing my husband. Autumn (16m 47s): Cause he refuses to have anything to do with it. So I've got to spend some quiet time. So for sarcasm, it's not one you have, so there is no overlap. No, no, I don't think that that so far, no is zero for zero. All right. This is unusual. I just kind of know, but this was going to end up with just like last week, last week I was way off in my prediction and not going to be way off again. It will be interesting. Okay. So you want to have my number nine, so lets go for it. Jesper (17m 20s): Okay. Vengeful fit. Ooh. That's an interesting lion. I think this is a good one. You know, somebody who has an Axe to grind, it's a, it's a believable person, but also interesting because one day a vengeful about something. We also want to understand why and we want to learn what happened to the person. So I think that's a good trait for a Villain that it's a very good training and I had something maybe similar, but it's not really close enough. So I'm going to say no overlap, but I knew it was just so weird. Autumn (17m 52s): We, again, I think it's because we struggled so much with this one. After we out of sync, freezing through something wrong, you know what it is? It's a Monday, but it's always a Monday so Hey, all right. Yeah so nine, my number nine is smart and I don't just being clever, but I mean like truly intelligent to the point of DVS and our thinking the Author because goodness knows I had a Villain one of my favorite villain's and I could see he was always out at maneuvering MI. I thought he was gonna win the entire trilogy. Autumn (18m 22s): So I really did not trust him except two trust in that he had figured out what he was doing and tell me eventually. So if this is, especially, if you think about it logically though, this is if you're a Villain your antagonist is a figure who is like risen Farr from the ranks, like maybe started as a peasant and Roosen up through the government or something like that. That is someone who is going to be able to outfox just about anyone to have come so far. So I really like a master chess player of whose doing the long game and can handle the short game. Autumn (18m 55s): That's just so impressed with me when I'm just like, Jesper (18m 58s): Wow. Fully agree. Fully agree. Yeah. I think we'll have some overlap there. Some of us, we got one I think. Yeah. I don't think we, I think I haven't worded it exactly like that, but I think it's closest to some of my other ones. So all right. But number eight is a persuasive. Ooh, because I mean, they're, there's a few of the Traits on my list. You had to come here and that will compliment this one. So I hope it's not too much of a cheat because if there's too much overlap with one, some of my other ones, but, but I just think that, you know, a Villain who is able to give a logical argument as to why it is necessarily to do what he or she's doing. Jesper (19m 45s): It just works wonders in showing the reader that this is a, you know, this is a real person that doesn't mean that the Rita has to agree with a logical argument, but it just like as long as you can follow the logic behind it, if you see what do I really liked that? Mmm. Because it, it shows the real person behind this scheming and what not. Right. So I like that. I like Autumn (20m 10s): That too. I'm trying to decide if it's similar to what I have are not, will have to decide to when we get there. But yeah. And I kind of did the same thing. Some of mine kind of built off of each other and I wasn't trying to treat cheat as well, but I thought there was kind of different, different veins or flavors. Yeah. That's a different one. So that's all fine. I don't have good solid words like persuasive for some of mine. Maybe I just wasn't trying hard enough, but my number line or phrases to my number eight is committed to what they are seeking. Autumn (20m 43s): I mean, they are so committed. They would give up their mother, their best friends or lovers achieve whatever their goal is. And they would do without any hesitation are coughing. There will be like, sacrifices must be made your It so forth. But I like that level of commitment. They don't sit there and go, Oh God, what's the right thing to do. They're just do it. Yeah score another one at another point from me. I think I have that. Great. Excellent. That's so encouraging. You have some overlap, you know, we were getting close to two. Jesper (21m 14s): I need to get to 11. I don't want to be off one book now after I've come miscalculate it last week, I want to have this one right here. We need to get to 11. All right. What I'm at now? You're at one to two to that's all I'm counting us as a long way. Two were only on seven. There is hope. Okay. So number seven is likeable qualities. Oh and this is short of a flipping at the whole thing on his head, I guess. Jesper (21m 46s): But I think that's a good one because the bad guy who isn't bad all the time, it's a much more complex character. And I really like it when the bad guy, all of a sudden does something that is quite likable. And then the next moment he is putting it back to being a bad guy. I really think that that works well because nobody's bat all the time for, just for the sake of being bad. So I liked that. Yes. And definitely overlap, but I have a word. It is slightly different, but Hey, we've got that one comm, so that's a good, I'm getting close to home. Autumn (22m 20s): So my number is seven is again a phrase, but a character who is not just evil because the Author needs an evil character to pit the heroes against. And then they just go in, they give 'em like every bad trait that could think of like, Oh, you should just eat baby. He is or kicks puppies or a starves dragons or, or whatever. But I don't like just a list of evil for the sheer sake of making someone hoard that you'll just hate. They should have an actual personality, an arc reasons for doing what they do and all of those things. Autumn (22m 52s): So I just, I still think even about the star Wars in the evil empire. And I mean, I think it took until maybe the clone Wars and stuff are making, you know, you do assume that dark Jetta in a dark forest is the reason is, is evil. But obviously I still feel like I missing something like why are there so evil people in the evil empire who seemed pretty decent? So I don't know which Cypress was to be rooting for it. It seemed to be heroes. Is that, aren't that decent? So what's the deal. Jesper (23m 23s): Yeah. Yeah. I think we have some overlap there as well, but let's see. Alright. You can't make that up just because you want to win and I can just start saying, Oh, which one was the second one you had before? And then yeah. Yeah. That's my next, you keep asking what's account. No. OK. I need two more. Yeah, I know. I'm gonna, you know, I might not give you the Real so you watch out, He has some typing. That's just me correcting my notes. You have to do something else. Jesper (23m 54s): All right. Number six unethical. And so I think we actually have some overlap here is just, just the words that we've chosen to it for it basically, but you know, Great villains. So they tend to do terrible deeds, but what makes it work is when the Villain firmly believes, like sincerely believes that the end goal just justifies the means so that the antagonist we'll, you know, well basically put aside normal moral conduct are moral considerations. Jesper (24m 32s): And just to feel like this doesn't apply to him or her, that that really becomes a pretty frightening character when they do stuff like that. Autumn (24m 40s): And what do you know what's really interesting about your number six is it's pretty much my number, so I, I didn't, I could get a bonus point. So if we end up a 10, then it comes to 11 because there is a bonus. It kind of goes both ways. But I guess, yeah. It's because I, I phrase it, this just fully believes what he or she is doing is right. And again, I don't mean is that the necessarily that they don't think that there are evil, but that what they are doing is the right thing to do. Autumn (25m 11s): And it's really the hero. That's upsetting the balance of how things must be in their eyes. But yeah, just that total commitment of what I'm doing is the right thing to do. So I think it was almost exactly a phrase you used in there. So I think we're pretty much on par for that way. Nice. Okay. I'm getting close. So you might still where you might get this one. I hope so. Otherwise it'll be embarrassing and I can't sleep tonight will probably end up like, well, we can't rent a, it ended up at 18, but will probably end up with 12 or 15 just to spite us both. Jesper (25m 48s): Ah, okay. At least I'm closer this week, last week I was so bad. Okay. Number five is past wounds. So what I mean by that is an antagonist who have suffered something in the past. You know, it's probably some emotional wound and then how that informs the way he, as she behave in the precedent. I think that also makes for a compelling Villain. It also gives the reader a plausible explanation as to why this person behaves the way he or she does. Jesper (26m 25s): And, but I have to say, you're also have to be careful and come up with something good here, you know, something a bit original because yeah, yeah. The, the, the kid who lived in the street and was an orphan, whatever, you know, that's just, I know I've grown pretty tired of those. So I don't think that's a good past wounds. So you have to, to find something that hasn't been seen a million times before, but, but if you can do that, I think it gives a good origin story for the Villain, but it also gives a good explanation as to why they might think a bit differently than the rest of us. Autumn (26m 59s): Now, see, I'm wondering if, is it possible to have an anti overlap that might be erase a point Jesper (27m 7s): Only if we, our 12th than it will count because we get to pick on it then it absolutely. But its only something I can answer in hindsight. I don't know if it's been Autumn (27m 17s): So it, it should be a double and tie overlap because my number five is not just eval because of a past trauma. So I prefer a failed character arc. Even if its a character arc we, or we haven't seen in the current book, something that happened before the story started, but sort of like where the character made a, they had a choice of like the good internal motivation, but they chose to go with like power or fame or control instead of doing the good thing protecting the week or something like that. Autumn (27m 49s): So, so for me like someone abusing the character as a child is not a good, an excuse to be evil as an adult. I just, I want to see a series of bad choices and bad decisions that went wrong that led them to do increasingly evil or misguided things. I like that set of series and not just, Oh, this event happened in the past and therefore I'm bad. I'm kind of, to me, it's almost like a victim mentality and I want to see someone who's just taken the wrong turn even in despite themselves. Autumn (28m 23s): I guess I like a more nuanced growth. So almost the opposite of yours if I'm reading it correctly. Jesper (28m 32s): Yeah, no, I actually agree with what you're saying. I don't know if it's completely opposite because it's more like, OK, so yeah. I want to go with the orphan kid who lived in the street. Right. But, but okay. So something terrible happened and so it may have becomes like your coping mechanisms for how you survived, you know, so okay. Something bad happened and I try to do with the nice thing and I tried to talk to the people or whatever. Right. Nothing happened. It didn't help me. Then I beat them up and that actually helps, you know, something like this and that. Jesper (29m 6s): And then it builds on, on top of each other because then, then I started incorporating into my mindset. Okay. If I, if I need to, if I need to get my way, I need to beat people up and then you do that as a child. And then, you know, when you get older and you get adult, then it sort of accumulates into nastier and nastier things that you or the Villain is doing. Yeah. Autumn (29m 27s): Yes. So maybe it is an overlap because we're basically both saying that maybe there was something that started the tendency towards the evils site, you need some sort of trigger trigger. And then after that though, that's not the only excuse, they also continue on a path that makes that develops. That makes it more nuanced and keeps reinforcing it into this evil character. So I guess it is the same and again, on the exact same number, which is kind of funny. Jesper (29m 58s): Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll see where we end up and then we'll decide if it was to say more if it needs to add or subtract. OK. Depends on where we asked if we had a 10 or 12 or Indian, then we'll see. Alright, alright. Now before this is intelligent and I find this one important it's very much along those same lines. Just what you've said already, because I don't think there's anything scary about Villain who just keep doing stupid mistakes. Jesper (30m 31s): You know, the Chip's keeps falling into the hero's favor. That's really annoying a I don't like that. A Serita and its incredibly frustrating, but as a villain who is an extremely intelligent and our maneuvers, every body at every turn that is just, I love that is definitely. And yeah, so that's why it, it was my number and nine, but its to me a very, it's just an important feature to have in the villain. And that's why I could probably be the two, your number for Yeah. And what's funny is my number for was pretty much your number seven. Autumn (31m 3s): So mine is, has good Traits so that relates to be, that relates to what I said before about believing what they're doing is right. But they earnestly believed they have the answer too, an important question or their, the only one who was powerful in or can get this done. Right. You know, or like you said, maybe they love someone or their kind of children or misfits, but there's truly something deeply decent somewhere in them. I think that's so important because no one, no one is so 100% truly evil. Autumn (31m 35s): Maybe if your writing Christian literary, a religious lit and you have to have a devil that is truly, truly, truly all encompassing evil. But heck I mean, even if you watch supernatural, most of the devil characters on their are actually kind of likable. So it's just kinda the world right now. We've seen things gray. I think that is important, but it also balances it also balances outright because it, it makes for a more three dimensional character. If you're also have some good traits of a loosely and it, again, I think it's interesting to have a character or an evil character that's a more nuanced and that they feel more real because again, not everyone is that bad. Jesper (32m 18s): Okay. We enter Top I am not going to count how many we know are serious. We've had quite a few overlaps recently, so will have to see how this ends. Yeah. Yes. So let's see if we can agree in the Top. So my number three is formidable. That's an interesting one and yeah. And yeah, But the word formidable doesn't have to be understood as raw strength, you know, it can be, but it doesn't have to be, it can also relate to, well, some of the stuff we already talked about, so being like exceptionally cunning, but it could also be a person who has a great wealth in a lot of resources at their disposal. Jesper (33m 0s): Something that just makes them miserable. Well, that Villain but more of a position to the Hero as such so that it adds tension. And the more attention we get, the better to story we have formidable is a very good Autumn (33m 16s): And that's what kind of be another one where I might have to ask the question of, do we have an anti overlap, but it's not my number of three will come back to it. Tune obviously it, we only have three left. So my number three is again, this is where I'm starting to get into the negatives. My number three is me. They may not be an evil at all. My favorite villains are not necessarily evil. I mean, I truly love a good antagonist that has almost like a competitor to the protagonists. Autumn (33m 47s): So they could just be taking a different approach on what needs to be done. And it's more like a race to see who can get the upper hand and solve the issue first because to me and not every story has to be good versus evil two, make it full of tension. Not every hero has to be a hundred percent justifiably. Correct. And right. And good. So it sort of THE Hey, Hey, you know what, you're a hero. You're a Villain does not need to be a necessarily evil. They could just be a very nuanced character and a different position was a different take on things. Autumn (34m 19s): And it's just not working for your here or whatever. They believe maybe works for their set of people, but it doesn't work for the set of people that the Hero is from. And so that's where the clashes, the Rite in their own each of their own way, but buy being right there are hurting each other or somehow those are much more nuanced novels, but I do find them engaging. Oh a very interesting, I think that overlaps and so, okay. Interesting. All right. Autumn (34m 49s): So I'll put an overlap in, I'll leave my question to Mark with who are formidable to see if it is like one of my final to we'll have to answer that soon. Okay. Yes. Yes. Jesper (34m 59s): Okay. My number two is one that you have more or less already set up word by word that I think I just probably labeled the different the, I called it determination, but this is basically just the Villain who is unyielding. You know, somebody who is pursue a goal until the very end, no matter what it takes. Yeah. And that is pretty scary. That's what you already said it as well. Definitely. It's just someone who has committed. I think it is what I put it. Yes, definitely an overlap there. Jesper (35m 32s): So my number two, and this is my anti to your formidable is not all powerful. So I think I've seen it more that the opponent is the villains to formidable, but I like once who are not all powerful there, you know, either whether you call him magic power, wealth, there's they are also working in a system of constraints. Autumn (35m 54s): Plus they have to be able to be defeated. So they have some weakness, blind spot or arrogance, that's going to leave them exposed. So that's my number two is that they're not all powerful so that they're not a 100% formidable. So I dunno, is that an overlap? Where is it a, not an overlap. Yeah, Jesper (36m 11s): But this is formidable and necessarily mean that you're all powerful. Yeah. Autumn (36m 14s): No, not necessarily. That's why I'm thinking it's not quite the same thing. So we might not have an overlap there it's similar, but yes. Jesper (36m 21s): Different. Yeah, no, I think you're saying something slightly different, to be honest, I didn't mean mine to sound like you have to be unbeatable or something like that. That was not the point of it. But I think still you might be saying something slightly different, Autumn (36m 39s): So we are going to call those no overlaps, but they're pretty, they're almost along the same veins were, you know, there is this, they are incredibly challenging in, on one hand, but on the other, they have weaknesses as well. So there kind of like two sides at the same coin. Yeah, Jesper (36m 56s): Yeah, yeah. I agree difficult, but okay. Autumn (37m 2s): Is there a number one number one, right. This will be interesting. What is your number one answer? Jesper (37m 9s): Yeah. So this was the one that I found most important out of all of the Traits to give to a year. And I called this one Modi. And what he meant by that was, you know, an antagonist who clearly knows what he or she wants. That's just a lot more interesting. And again, it is overlapping some of the stuff you said earlier as, or one is never an evil for the sake of being evil. So a good antagonist who believes in what he or she is doing is very important. Jesper (37m 45s): And also the fact that at the antagonist will see him or herself as a hero while thinking that the protagonist is the real Villa. So it's one of those I have to be holder kind of things that you have already mentioned. Yeah. But I Autumn (38m 0s): Really, when they have, when the Villain truly believes what their doing is right in justifiable and it's the Hero, who's the evil one eye just, and you get sucked into their mindset almost. That is a fantastic character. That's the way she is. I kind of cheated because my number one is very similar to my Hero number one. And that it is again that you can take these lists in all of these ideas. But what I want is a, well-developed a fully developed character and with an antagonistic, because I actually really like to a point of view of character, because like I just said, I wanted to be sucked into their mind. Autumn (38m 37s): I want to see the world through their lens and see it makes me question what, you know, the Hero is seeing it, is it right? I like that kind of internal tension of getting to decide who is the right viewpoint. So I don't want them to have all the Traits we listed at which some of them kind of do contradict each other. So they shouldn't just be the list of these as well. Not quite 20 But 20 different traits that they should be something unique. And again, I mean, one of my favorite villains actually ends up joining the hero's in the second trilogy because it was such a cool character. Autumn (39m 12s): He's still not good, but he's still not evil. He's just very complex. And I guess if I could have chosen one word for a character for a Villain complex, maybe should have been my number one choice. Not that. Yeah. That's also a good one. All right. Well, do I, is it time to add a note? So what's the score that overlap my number one. Does that count as an overlap or not? I'll decide one day, if I have put a question Mark. Autumn (39m 44s): So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, or 13, 13, 13 out of the 20th, which is the exact same was last week. We had 13 out of 20 last week. I had an expected that, no, I didn't either. I thought we'd be further apart. So, and as usual, we tended to agree too, with each other about the ones we chose, including complex. Autumn (40m 14s): The one that my 11th one I've thrown out there. It's two, you were consistent. I feel good. All right. This will be a lot better than the last time I guessed a little higher. I have wouldn't have guessed there team. And that is hilarious. We were totally consistent. Apparently is. So even though, even though we're creating these lists felled a lot harder than if it really did it last week, I sent you Bonnie Tyler's I need a Hero I couldn't no pop songs came in my head. Autumn (40m 47s): Maybe if anyone listening has a good Villain theme song, just go ahead and put in the notes. We obviously need some Villain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did some Villain inspired music. Yeah. What would be a good Villain song? You know, hit us up on in the Facebook group on Twitter or in the common sections here on the podcast or whatever, you know, I would like to know what what's a good Villain saw would be good, but I think that's what we were lacking, but I think of all, you know, take from this and this list have 20 different things were 13 of them would be really close to what, the way it's just, I just have to put that in their, just in case anybody who was very close to be my social Jesper won this week, I one last week. Autumn (41m 39s): I can remember that, but I think that nevertheless, you take what you can come from this 20 items on, use it as inspiration. I think all the antagonist is a critical part of any story. And he, or she is the one who forces the Hero to find smart and clever ways to solve his or her problems and can also at times service to the catalyst for the character arc. Jesper (42m 5s): So all of what we talked about here is actually really important. Absolutely. And Hey sometimes by seeing the antagonist lens, maybe the character of the hero will grow and see a bigger version of the world than they would have otherwise. Absolutely true. So take what you can from this and next Monday or Tuesday, and I will discuss whether or not marketing counts as working on your author business or not. Autumn (42m 36s): Yeah. Narrator (42m 37s): If you like what you just heard, there's a few things you can do to support The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. You can also join Autumn and Jesper on patreon.com/am Writing Fantasy for as little as a dollar a month. You'll get awesome rewards and keep The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast going to stay safe out there and see you next Monday.

Dr. David Petron joined DJ & PK Friday morning to talk about the phased re-opening and reintegration of student-athletes for the University of Utah athletics department.

Dr. David Petron joined DJ & PK Friday morning to talk about the phased re-opening and reintegration of student-athletes for the University of Utah athletics department.

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Despite the initial hype, the rose-tinted optimism surrounding chatbots seems to have faded recently. But behind the scenes, some chatbots are quietly transforming the way brands interact with people, increasing lead conversions for businesses and helping them scale. We speak to the guys behind AiChat, the company that’s helped Petron, Mitsubishi Motors, Philips and other top brands, about why some chatbots are outliving their competitors and how they could be key to your business’ success.

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English modernism. A writer, painter and sculptor, who moved from an English country house to Mexico City, via Paris and New York, Carrington’s life spanned incredible political changes and numerous cultural movements, yet her interests and style remained consistent across the different fields in which she worked. This week, Juliet talks to Mexican novelist and critic Chloe Aridjis about her personal and creative relationship with Carrington, as well as Carrington’s life and work, and its influence on Josh Appignanesi’s new film Female Human Animal, in which Chloe and Juliet both appear. WORKS REFERENCED WORKS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON The Debutante and Other Stories (2017) - https://www.silverpress.org/the-debutante-and-other-stories/ Down Below (1943) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-strange-irreverent-worlds-of-down-below-and-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/ The Hearing Trumpet (1974) - https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/surreal-old-people-leonora-carringtons-the-hearing-trumpet/ Tate Liverpool exhibition (2015) CHLOE ARIDJIS, Book of Clouds (2009), Asunder (2013) and Sea Monsters (2019) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Aridjis Homero Aridjis - https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=13 André Breton Claude Cahun Robert Capa - https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/the-mexican-suitcase-a-fascinating-chapter-in-the-history-of-photography/ LEWIS CARROLL, Jabberwocky (1871) Ithell Colquhoun - http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/ Salvador Dalí HUGH SYKES DAVIES, Petron (1935) - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/hsd-watson.html Toni Del Renzio - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Eisenstein in Guanajuato (dir. Peter Greenaway, 2015) Max Ernst, ‘Two Children Menaced by Nightingale’ Female Human Animal (dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018) - http://film.britishcouncil.org/female-human-animal DAVID GASCOYNE, Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) - http://www.bookride.com/2012/08/mans-life-is-this-meat.html DAVID GASCOYNE, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/poetry Ernő Goldfinger Peggy Guggenheim ALDOUS HUXLEY, Eyeless in Gaza (1936) International Surrealist Exhibition (Burlington Galleries, 1936) Edward James - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y9gsw Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/meng-jen-madg.html The Kabala Frida Kahlo Edward Lear E.L.T. Mesens - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/e-l-t-mesens-1624 Violette Nozières - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/162742317295/e-l-t-mesens-violette-nozieres Octavio Paz Benjamin Péret - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=2 Beatrix Potter Gisèle Prassinos - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43480/gis%C3%A8le-prassinos-reading-her-poems-surrealists ¡Que Viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1932) HERBERT READ, Surrealism (1936) Diego Rivera Mary Shelley Dylan Thomas Marina Warner - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/leonora-carrington-from-high-society-to-surrealism-in-praise-of-100-years-on Imre Weisz

Quando começou a obsessão pela “postura ideal”? Como a postura incorporou, ao longo do tempo, tantos significados e estigmas? Como a história da Postura esclarece a maneira que lidamos com a saúde e a dor nos dias de hoje? E o que a ciência atual diz sobre a relação postura e dor? Se liga no que deu! Esse podcast é parte do canal Fisio na Pauta. Nesse canal, assuntos relevantes serão discutidos usando a ciência e o ceticismo como pedras fundamentais. Minha intenção é oferecer informação sobre saúde, ciência, reabilitação e claro… Fisioterapia! O Fisio na Pauta Podcast é uma produção independente, elaborado por um fisioterapeuta disposto a disseminar conhecimento em prol da evolução da ciência da Fisioterapia. O conteúdo desse programa é meramente informativo e não deve ser utilizado como conselho médico, uma vez que o conteúdo científico está constantemente evoluindo. Em caso de sintomas e/ou dúvidas, recomendo procurar um profissional da área da saúde. 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European spine journal, 16(6), 841-850. Barrett, E., O'Keeffe, M., O'Sullivan, K., Lewis, J., & McCreesh, K. (2016). Is thoracic spine posture associated with shoulder pain, range of motion and function? A systematic review. Manual therapy, 26, 38-46. Canales, J. Z., Fiquer, J. T., Campos, R. N., Soeiro-de-Souza, M. G., & Moreno, R. A. (2017). Investigation of associations between recurrence of major depressive disorder and spinal posture alignment: A quantitative cross-sectional study. Gait & posture, 52, 258-264. Dankaerts, W., O'sullivan, P., Burnett, A., & Straker, L. (2006). Altered patterns of superficial trunk muscle activation during sitting in nonspecific chronic low back pain patients: importance of subclassification. Spine, 31(17), 2017-2023. Graup, S., Santos, S. G. D., & Moro, A. R. P. (2010). Descriptive study of sagittal lumbar spine changes in students of the federal educational system of Florianópolis. Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 45(5), 453-459. Dreischarf, M., Pries, E., Bashkuev, M., Putzier, M., & Schmidt, H. (2016). Differences between clinical “snap-shot” and “real-life” assessments of lumbar spine alignment and motion–What is the “real” lumbar lordosis of a human being?. Journal of biomechanics, 49(5), 638-644. Grundy, P. F., & Roberts, C. J. (1984). DOES UNEQUAL LEG LENGTH CAUSE BACK PAIN?: A Case-control Study. The Lancet, 324(8397), 256-258. Ross, J. R., Nepple, J. J., Philippon, M. J., Kelly, B. T., Larson, C. M., & Bedi, A. (2014). Effect of changes in pelvic tilt on range of motion to impingement and radiographic parameters of acetabular morphologic characteristics. The American journal of sports medicine, 42(10), 2402-2409. Ekelund, U., Steene-Johannessen, J., Brown, W. J., Fagerland, M. W., Owen, N., Powell, K. E., ... & Lancet Sedentary Behaviour Working Group. (2016). Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women. The Lancet, 388(10051), 1302-1310. Gupta, N., Christiansen, C. S., Hallman, D. M., Korshøj, M., Carneiro, I. G., & Holtermann, A. (2015). Is objectively measured sitting time associated with low back pain? A cross-sectional investigation in the NOMAD study. PLoS One, 10(3), e0121159. Hey, H. W. D., Wong, C. G., Lau, E. T. C., Tan, K. A., Lau, L. L., Liu, K. P. G., & Wong, H. K. (2017). Differences in erect sitting and natural sitting spinal alignment—insights into a new paradigm and implications in deformity correction. The Spine Journal, 17(2), 183-189. Laird, R. A., Kent, P., & Keating, J. L. (2016). How consistent are lordosis, range of movement and lumbo-pelvic rhythm in people with and without back pain?. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 17(1), 403. Korshoj, M., Jorgensen, M. B., Hallman, D. M., Lagersted-Olsen, J., Holtermann, A., & Gupta, N. (2018). Prolonged sitting at work is associated with a favorable time course of low-back pain among blue-collar workers: a prospective study in the DPhacto cohort. Scand J Work Environ Health. Lewis, J. S., Green, A., & Wright, C. (2005). Subacromial impingement syndrome: the role of posture and muscle imbalance. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 14(4), 385-392. Sarikaya, S., Özdolap, Ş., Gümüştasş, Ş., & Koç, Ü. (2007). Low back pain and lumbar angles in Turkish coal miners. American journal of industrial medicine, 50(2), 92-96. Lunde, L. K., Koch, M., Knardahl, S., & Veiersted, K. B. (2017). Associations of objectively measured sitting and standing with low-back pain intensity: a 6-month follow-up of construction and healthcare workers. Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 43(3), 269-278. Damasceno, G. M., Ferreira, A. S., Nogueira, L. A. C., Reis, F. J. J., Andrade, I. C. S., & Meziat-Filho, N. (2018). Text neck and neck pain in 18–21-year-old young adults. European Spine Journal, 1-6. Oliveira, A. C., & Silva, A. G. (2016). Neck muscle endurance and head posture: a comparison between adolescents with and without neck pain. Manual therapy, 22, 62-67. Nolan, D., O'Sullivan, K., Stephenson, J., O'Sullivan, P., & Lucock, M. (2018). What do physiotherapists and manual handling advisors consider the safest lifting posture, and do back beliefs influence their choice?. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 33, 35-40. Noll, M., Candotti, C. T., Rosa, B. N., Valle, M. B., Antoniolli, A., Vieira, A., & Loss, J. F. (2017). High prevalence of inadequate sitting and sleeping postures: a three-year prospective study of adolescents. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 14929. Plummer, H. A., Sum, J. C., Pozzi, F., Varghese, R., & Michener, L. A. (2017). Observational Scapular Dyskinesis: Known-Groups Validity in Patients With and Without Shoulder Pain. journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy, 47(8), 530-537. ÖZYÜREK, S., GENÇ, A., KARAALİ, H. K., & ALGUN, Z. C. (2017). Three-dimensional evaluation of pelvic posture in adolescents with and without a history of low back pain. Turkish journal of medical sciences, 47(6), 1885-1893. Pape, J. L., Brismée, J. M., Sizer, P. S., Matthijs, O. C., Browne, K. L., Dewan, B. M., & Sobczak, S. (2018). Increased spinal height using propped slouched sitting postures: Innovative ways to rehydrate intervertebral discs. Applied ergonomics, 66, 9-17. Greenfield, B., Catlin, P. A., Coats, P. W., Green, E., McDonald, J. J., & North, C. (1995). Posture in patients with shoulder overuse injuries and healthy individuals. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 21(5), 287-295. Théroux, J., Stomski, N., Hodgetts, C. J., Ballard, A., Khadra, C., Le May, S., & Labelle, H. (2017). Prevalence of low back pain in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: a systematic review. Chiropractic & manual therapies, 25(1), 10. Kapron, A. L., Anderson, A. E., Aoki, S. K., Phillips, L. G., Petron, D. J., Toth, R., & Peters, C. L. (2011). Radiographic prevalence of femoroacetabular impingement in collegiate football players: AAOS Exhibit Selection. JBJS, 93(19), e111. Heino, J. G., Godges, J. J., & Carter, C. L. (1990). Relationship between hip extension range of motion and postural alignment. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 12(6), 243-247. Richards, K. V., Beales, D. J., Smith, A. J., O'sullivan, P. B., & Straker, L. M. (2016). Neck posture clusters and their association with biopsychosocial factors and neck pain in Australian adolescents. Ruivo, R. M., Pezarat-Correia, P., & Carita, A. I. (2017). Effects of a Resistance and Stretching Training Program on Forward Head and Protracted Shoulder Posture in Adolescents. Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, 40(1), 1-10. Shacklock, M., Yee, B., Van Hoof, T., Foley, R., Boddie, K., Lacey, E., ... & Airaksinen, O. (2016). Slump Test: Effect of Contralateral Knee Extension on Response Sensations in Asymptomatic Subjects and Cadaver Study. Spine, 41(4), E205-E210. Christensen, S. T., & Hartvigsen, J. (2008). Spinal curves and health: a systematic critical review of the epidemiological literature dealing with associations between sagittal spinal curves and health. Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, 31(9), 690-714. Widhe, T. (2001). Spine: posture, mobility and pain. A longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence. European Spine Journal, 10(2), 118-123. Lewis, J. S., Green, A., & Wright, C. (2005). Subacromial impingement syndrome: The role of posture and muscle imbalance. Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery, 14(4), 385-392. Grob, D., Frauenfelder, H., & Mannion, A. F. (2007). The association between cervical spine curvature and neck pain. European Spine Journal, 16(5), 669-678. Chen, Y., Luo, J., Pan, Z., Yu, L., Pang, L., Zhong, J., ... & Cao, K. (2017). The change of cervical spine alignment along with aging in asymptomatic population: a preliminary analysis. European Spine Journal, 26(9), 2363-2371. Kent, P., Laird, R., & Haines, T. (2015). The effect of changing movement and posture using motion-sensor biofeedback, versus guidelines-based care, on the clinical outcomes of people with sub-acute or chronic low back pain-a multicentre, cluster-randomised, placebo-controlled, pilot trial. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 16(1), 131. Urrutia, J., Espinosa, J., Diaz-Ledezma, C., & Cabello, C. (2011). The impact of lumbar scoliosis on pain, function and health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women. European Spine Journal, 20(12), 2223-2227. Yosifon, D., & Stearns, P. N. (1998). The rise and fall of American posture. The American historical review, 103(4), 1057-1095. Claus, A. P., Hides, J. A., Moseley, G. L., & Hodges, P. W. (2016). Thoracic and lumbar posture behaviour in sitting tasks and standing: Progressing the biomechanics from observations to measurements. Applied ergonomics, 53, 161-168. Balling, M., Holmberg, T., Petersen, C. B., Aadahl, M., Meyrowitsch, D. W., & Tolstrup, J. S. (2018). Total sitting time, leisure time physical activity and risk of hospitalization due to low back pain: The Danish Health Examination Survey cohort 2007–2008. Scandinavian journal of public health, 1403494818758843. Preece, S. J., Willan, P., Nester, C. J., Graham-Smith, P., Herrington, L., & Bowker, P. (2008). Variation in pelvic morphology may prevent the identification of anterior pelvic tilt. Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy, 16(2), 113-117. H. Schmidt, M. Bashkuev, J. Weerts, F. Graichen, J. Altenscheidt, C. Maier, S. Reitmaier, Variations during repeated standing phases of asymptomatic subjects and low back pain patients, Journal of Biomechanics (2017) Genebra, C. V. D. S., Maciel, N. M., Bento, T. P. F., Simeão, S. F. A. P., & De Vitta, A. (2017). Prevalence and factors associated with neck pain: a population-based study. Brazilian journal of physical therapy, 21(4), 274-280. Nolan, D., O'Sullivan, K., Stephenson, J., O'Sullivan, P., & Lucock, M. (2018). What do physiotherapists and manual handling advisors consider the safest lifting posture, and do back beliefs influence their choice?. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 33, 35-40. O'sullivan, K., O'sullivan, P., O'sullivan, L., & Dankaerts, W. (2012). What do physiotherapists consider to be the best sitting spinal posture?. Manual therapy, 17(5), 432-437. Kim, S. W., Kim, T. H., Bok, D. H., Jang, C., Yang, M. H., Lee, S., ... & Oh, J. K. (2017). Analysis of cervical spine alignment in currently asymptomatic individuals: prevalence of kyphotic posture and its relationship with other spinopelvic parameters. The Spine Journal. Zemp, R., Fliesser, M., Wippert, P. M., Taylor, W. R., & Lorenzetti, S. (2016). Occupational sitting behaviour and its relationship with back pain–A pilot study. Applied ergonomics, 56, 84-91. https://medium.com/@thomas_jesson/upright-and-uptight-the-invention-of-posture-fe48282a4487 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/05/are-you-sitting-comfortably-the-myth-of-good-posture https://www.bettermovement.org/blog/2014/does-bad-posture-cause-back-pain?rq=posture https://www.painscience.com/articles/posture.php https://cor-kinetic.com/science-behind-assessing-blaming-posture-pain-bs/ https://cor-kinetic.com/the-definitive-guide-to-posture-pain-in-3-minutes-flat/

Quando começou a obsessão pela “postura ideal”? Como a postura incorporou, ao longo do tempo, tantos significados e estigmas? Como a história da Postura esclarece a maneira que lidamos com a saúde e a dor nos dias de hoje? E o que a ciência atual diz sobre a relação postura e dor? Se liga no que deu! Esse podcast é parte do canal Fisio na Pauta. Nesse canal, assuntos relevantes serão discutidos usando a ciência e o ceticismo como pedras fundamentais. Minha intenção é oferecer informação sobre saúde, ciência, reabilitação e claro… Fisioterapia! O Fisio na Pauta Podcast é uma produção independente, elaborado por um fisioterapeuta disposto a disseminar conhecimento em prol da evolução da ciência da Fisioterapia. O conteúdo desse programa é meramente informativo e não deve ser utilizado como conselho médico, uma vez que o conteúdo científico está constantemente evoluindo. Em caso de sintomas e/ou dúvidas, recomendo procurar um profissional da área da saúde. 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Músicas: DJ Cam Quartet | Rebirth of Coll – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU0ZmbBY9QI Domenico Imperato | Postura Libera – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiHCc0cYJJI Projeto Chumbo | Postura – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJZcF0tTK8k Two Bigs | Postura - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSIOEPko2zM Potencial 3 | Nossa Postura - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIYTbhNPFm8 Criolo | Fio de Prumo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2L0cX5XNoI Os Lunáticos | Nossa Postura - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAc5ueNfdxM&list=PL3WocOFabcqeGDgb4Hu2-olrhwOLYM8CJ&index=10 Foto da vitrine: photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33772445@N07/5862747046 Referência bibliográficas: Gilman, S. L. (2014). “Stand Up Straight”: Notes Toward a History of Posture. Journal of Medical Humanities, 35(1), 57-83. Murrie, V. L., Dixon, A. K., Hollingworth, W., Wilson, H., & Doyle, T. A. C. (2003). Lumbar lordosis: study of patients with and without low back pain. Clinical Anatomy, 16(2), 144-147. Laird, R. A., Gilbert, J., Kent, P., & Keating, J. L. (2014). Comparing lumbo-pelvic kinematics in people with and without back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 15(1), 229. Cuéllar, J. M., & Lanman, T. H. (2017). “Text neck”: an epidemic of the modern era of cell phones?. The Spine Journal, 17(6), 901-902. Meziat-Filho, N., Ferreira, A. S., Nogueira, L. A. C., & Reis, F. J. J. (2018). “Text-neck”: an epidemic of the modern era of cell phones?. The Spine Journal, 18(4), 714-715. Hrysomallis, C., & Goodman, C. (2001). A review of resistance exercise and posture realignment. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 15(3), 385-390. Herrington, L. (2011). Assessment of the degree of pelvic tilt within a normal asymptomatic population. Manual therapy, 16(6), 646-648. Geldhof, E., Cardon, G., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., & De Clercq, D. (2007). Back posture education in elementary schoolchildren: a 2-year follow-up study. European spine journal, 16(6), 841-850. Barrett, E., O'Keeffe, M., O'Sullivan, K., Lewis, J., & McCreesh, K. (2016). Is thoracic spine posture associated with shoulder pain, range of motion and function? A systematic review. Manual therapy, 26, 38-46. Canales, J. Z., Fiquer, J. T., Campos, R. N., Soeiro-de-Souza, M. G., & Moreno, R. A. (2017). Investigation of associations between recurrence of major depressive disorder and spinal posture alignment: A quantitative cross-sectional study. Gait & posture, 52, 258-264. Dankaerts, W., O'sullivan, P., Burnett, A., & Straker, L. (2006). Altered patterns of superficial trunk muscle activation during sitting in nonspecific chronic low back pain patients: importance of subclassification. Spine, 31(17), 2017-2023. Graup, S., Santos, S. G. D., & Moro, A. R. P. (2010). Descriptive study of sagittal lumbar spine changes in students of the federal educational system of Florianópolis. Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 45(5), 453-459. Dreischarf, M., Pries, E., Bashkuev, M., Putzier, M., & Schmidt, H. (2016). Differences between clinical “snap-shot” and “real-life” assessments of lumbar spine alignment and motion–What is the “real” lumbar lordosis of a human being?. Journal of biomechanics, 49(5), 638-644. Grundy, P. F., & Roberts, C. J. (1984). DOES UNEQUAL LEG LENGTH CAUSE BACK PAIN?: A Case-control Study. The Lancet, 324(8397), 256-258. Ross, J. R., Nepple, J. J., Philippon, M. J., Kelly, B. T., Larson, C. M., & Bedi, A. (2014). Effect of changes in pelvic tilt on range of motion to impingement and radiographic parameters of acetabular morphologic characteristics. The American journal of sports medicine, 42(10), 2402-2409. Ekelund, U., Steene-Johannessen, J., Brown, W. J., Fagerland, M. W., Owen, N., Powell, K. E., ... & Lancet Sedentary Behaviour Working Group. (2016). Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women. The Lancet, 388(10051), 1302-1310. Gupta, N., Christiansen, C. S., Hallman, D. M., Korshøj, M., Carneiro, I. G., & Holtermann, A. (2015). Is objectively measured sitting time associated with low back pain? A cross-sectional investigation in the NOMAD study. PLoS One, 10(3), e0121159. Hey, H. W. D., Wong, C. G., Lau, E. T. C., Tan, K. A., Lau, L. L., Liu, K. P. G., & Wong, H. K. (2017). Differences in erect sitting and natural sitting spinal alignment—insights into a new paradigm and implications in deformity correction. The Spine Journal, 17(2), 183-189. Laird, R. A., Kent, P., & Keating, J. L. (2016). How consistent are lordosis, range of movement and lumbo-pelvic rhythm in people with and without back pain?. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 17(1), 403. Korshoj, M., Jorgensen, M. B., Hallman, D. M., Lagersted-Olsen, J., Holtermann, A., & Gupta, N. (2018). Prolonged sitting at work is associated with a favorable time course of low-back pain among blue-collar workers: a prospective study in the DPhacto cohort. Scand J Work Environ Health. Lewis, J. S., Green, A., & Wright, C. (2005). Subacromial impingement syndrome: the role of posture and muscle imbalance. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 14(4), 385-392. Sarikaya, S., Özdolap, Ş., Gümüştasş, Ş., & Koç, Ü. (2007). Low back pain and lumbar angles in Turkish coal miners. American journal of industrial medicine, 50(2), 92-96. Lunde, L. K., Koch, M., Knardahl, S., & Veiersted, K. B. (2017). Associations of objectively measured sitting and standing with low-back pain intensity: a 6-month follow-up of construction and healthcare workers. Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 43(3), 269-278. Damasceno, G. M., Ferreira, A. S., Nogueira, L. A. C., Reis, F. J. J., Andrade, I. C. S., & Meziat-Filho, N. (2018). Text neck and neck pain in 18–21-year-old young adults. European Spine Journal, 1-6. Oliveira, A. C., & Silva, A. G. (2016). Neck muscle endurance and head posture: a comparison between adolescents with and without neck pain. Manual therapy, 22, 62-67. Nolan, D., O'Sullivan, K., Stephenson, J., O'Sullivan, P., & Lucock, M. (2018). What do physiotherapists and manual handling advisors consider the safest lifting posture, and do back beliefs influence their choice?. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 33, 35-40. Noll, M., Candotti, C. T., Rosa, B. N., Valle, M. B., Antoniolli, A., Vieira, A., & Loss, J. F. (2017). High prevalence of inadequate sitting and sleeping postures: a three-year prospective study of adolescents. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 14929. Plummer, H. A., Sum, J. C., Pozzi, F., Varghese, R., & Michener, L. A. (2017). Observational Scapular Dyskinesis: Known-Groups Validity in Patients With and Without Shoulder Pain. journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy, 47(8), 530-537. ÖZYÜREK, S., GENÇ, A., KARAALİ, H. K., & ALGUN, Z. C. (2017). Three-dimensional evaluation of pelvic posture in adolescents with and without a history of low back pain. Turkish journal of medical sciences, 47(6), 1885-1893. Pape, J. L., Brismée, J. M., Sizer, P. S., Matthijs, O. C., Browne, K. L., Dewan, B. M., & Sobczak, S. (2018). Increased spinal height using propped slouched sitting postures: Innovative ways to rehydrate intervertebral discs. Applied ergonomics, 66, 9-17. Greenfield, B., Catlin, P. A., Coats, P. W., Green, E., McDonald, J. J., & North, C. (1995). Posture in patients with shoulder overuse injuries and healthy individuals. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 21(5), 287-295. Théroux, J., Stomski, N., Hodgetts, C. J., Ballard, A., Khadra, C., Le May, S., & Labelle, H. (2017). Prevalence of low back pain in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: a systematic review. Chiropractic & manual therapies, 25(1), 10. Kapron, A. L., Anderson, A. E., Aoki, S. K., Phillips, L. G., Petron, D. J., Toth, R., & Peters, C. L. (2011). Radiographic prevalence of femoroacetabular impingement in collegiate football players: AAOS Exhibit Selection. JBJS, 93(19), e111. Heino, J. G., Godges, J. J., & Carter, C. L. (1990). Relationship between hip extension range of motion and postural alignment. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 12(6), 243-247. Richards, K. V., Beales, D. J., Smith, A. J., O'sullivan, P. B., & Straker, L. M. (2016). Neck posture clusters and their association with biopsychosocial factors and neck pain in Australian adolescents. Ruivo, R. M., Pezarat-Correia, P., & Carita, A. I. (2017). Effects of a Resistance and Stretching Training Program on Forward Head and Protracted Shoulder Posture in Adolescents. Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, 40(1), 1-10. Shacklock, M., Yee, B., Van Hoof, T., Foley, R., Boddie, K., Lacey, E., ... & Airaksinen, O. (2016). Slump Test: Effect of Contralateral Knee Extension on Response Sensations in Asymptomatic Subjects and Cadaver Study. Spine, 41(4), E205-E210. Christensen, S. T., & Hartvigsen, J. (2008). Spinal curves and health: a systematic critical review of the epidemiological literature dealing with associations between sagittal spinal curves and health. Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, 31(9), 690-714. Widhe, T. (2001). Spine: posture, mobility and pain. A longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence. European Spine Journal, 10(2), 118-123. Lewis, J. S., Green, A., & Wright, C. (2005). Subacromial impingement syndrome: The role of posture and muscle imbalance. Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery, 14(4), 385-392. Grob, D., Frauenfelder, H., & Mannion, A. F. (2007). The association between cervical spine curvature and neck pain. European Spine Journal, 16(5), 669-678. Chen, Y., Luo, J., Pan, Z., Yu, L., Pang, L., Zhong, J., ... & Cao, K. (2017). The change of cervical spine alignment along with aging in asymptomatic population: a preliminary analysis. European Spine Journal, 26(9), 2363-2371. Kent, P., Laird, R., & Haines, T. (2015). The effect of changing movement and posture using motion-sensor biofeedback, versus guidelines-based care, on the clinical outcomes of people with sub-acute or chronic low back pain-a multicentre, cluster-randomised, placebo-controlled, pilot trial. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 16(1), 131. Urrutia, J., Espinosa, J., Diaz-Ledezma, C., & Cabello, C. (2011). The impact of lumbar scoliosis on pain, function and health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women. European Spine Journal, 20(12), 2223-2227. Yosifon, D., & Stearns, P. N. (1998). The rise and fall of American posture. The American historical review, 103(4), 1057-1095. Claus, A. P., Hides, J. A., Moseley, G. L., & Hodges, P. W. (2016). Thoracic and lumbar posture behaviour in sitting tasks and standing: Progressing the biomechanics from observations to measurements. Applied ergonomics, 53, 161-168. Balling, M., Holmberg, T., Petersen, C. B., Aadahl, M., Meyrowitsch, D. W., & Tolstrup, J. S. (2018). Total sitting time, leisure time physical activity and risk of hospitalization due to low back pain: The Danish Health Examination Survey cohort 2007–2008. Scandinavian journal of public health, 1403494818758843. Preece, S. J., Willan, P., Nester, C. J., Graham-Smith, P., Herrington, L., & Bowker, P. (2008). Variation in pelvic morphology may prevent the identification of anterior pelvic tilt. Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy, 16(2), 113-117. H. Schmidt, M. Bashkuev, J. Weerts, F. Graichen, J. Altenscheidt, C. Maier, S. Reitmaier, Variations during repeated standing phases of asymptomatic subjects and low back pain patients, Journal of Biomechanics (2017) Genebra, C. V. D. S., Maciel, N. M., Bento, T. P. F., Simeão, S. F. A. P., & De Vitta, A. (2017). Prevalence and factors associated with neck pain: a population-based study. Brazilian journal of physical therapy, 21(4), 274-280. Nolan, D., O'Sullivan, K., Stephenson, J., O'Sullivan, P., & Lucock, M. (2018). What do physiotherapists and manual handling advisors consider the safest lifting posture, and do back beliefs influence their choice?. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 33, 35-40. O'sullivan, K., O'sullivan, P., O'sullivan, L., & Dankaerts, W. (2012). What do physiotherapists consider to be the best sitting spinal posture?. Manual therapy, 17(5), 432-437. Kim, S. W., Kim, T. H., Bok, D. H., Jang, C., Yang, M. H., Lee, S., ... & Oh, J. K. (2017). Analysis of cervical spine alignment in currently asymptomatic individuals: prevalence of kyphotic posture and its relationship with other spinopelvic parameters. The Spine Journal. Zemp, R., Fliesser, M., Wippert, P. M., Taylor, W. R., & Lorenzetti, S. (2016). 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Mala Tribich MBE shares her incredible story of survival as the country marks Holocaust Memorial Day 2018. Noemie Lopian talks about her father's book ‘The Long Night' - the memoirs of Holocaust survivor Ernst Bornstein. Yael Toledano of Jewish Blind & Disabled tells us about their 'PETron 2018' campaign, in a bid to crown Britain's cutest Jewish pet. On the Schmooze we ask how do we keep the memory of the Holocaust alive once there are no survivors left. Our Rabbinic Thought for the Week comes from Rabbi Andrew Shaw of Mizrachi UK. THIS EPISODE IS DEDICATED TO DAVID KAY

Pasak Klaipėdos r. Kretingalės kooperatinės žemės ūkio bendrovės vadovo Gerardo Liorenšaičio, iki šiol visiškai nuostolingų metų nebuvo tik todėl, kad gelbėjo išmokos. Meno vadovė Stasė Novikienė ne šiaip groja – pernai konkurse „Petronės armonika” laimėjo didįjį prizą – Petronės armoniką. Ūkio naujienos.

Šiluva, piligrimų pamėgta vieta, traukia ne tik maldininkus iš visos Lietuvos, bet ir turistus iš kitų pasaulio kraštų. Miestelis, kuriame gyvena daugiau kaip penki šimtai gyventojų gyvas ir vasarą, ir žiemą. Žinoma, daugiausiai žmonių sutraukia garsieji Švenčiausiosios Mergelės Marijos gimimo atlaidai. „Norintiems plačiau pažinti Šiluvą ir jos apylinkes, atsiveria netikėtos vietos, pažintiniai takai. Viskas daroma lankytojams ir svečiams. Vis dažniau užsukama ir į Šiluvos kultūros namus“, – mintimis dalijasi Juozas Šlepas, Šiluvos seniūnas.Netoli Šiluvos galima aplankyti Akmenės koplytėlę ant akmens. Žmonių pasakojimu šis akmuo yra stebuklingas ir nuo seniausių laikų visų gerbiamas. Pagonybės laikais ant jo kūrendavo šventąją ugnį. Vėliau žmonės prie akmens eidavo prašyti sveikatos, melstis paguodos sunkiausiomis gyvenimo akimirkomis. Pirmoji koplytėlė pastatyta ant akmens prieš šimtą metų buvo Šv. Elžbietos statula. Netaisyklingos formos ir nelygaus kauburiuoto paviršiaus riedulys yra geologijos ir archeologijos paminklas. Kiek tiesos, o kiek yra išgalvotų dalykų? Pasakoja prie akmens gyvenanti Petronėlė.Šiluvos ir Tytuvėnų miestelius skiria vos aštuoni kilometrai. Juos sieja žmonės, istorija ir kultūra. Šiluva priklauso Tytuvėnų regioninio parko direkcijai. Su Šiluva ir jos apylinkėmis supažindina kultūrologė Agnė Buchaitė ir kviečia apžiūrėti žydų kapinaites.

Šiluva, piligrimų pamėgta vieta, traukia ne tik maldininkus iš visos Lietuvos, bet ir turistus iš kitų pasaulio kraštų. Miestelis, kuriame gyvena daugiau kaip penki šimtai gyventojų gyvas ir vasarą, ir žiemą. Žinoma, daugiausiai žmonių sutraukia garsieji Švenčiausiosios Mergelės Marijos gimimo atlaidai. „Norintiems plačiau pažinti Šiluvą ir jos apylinkes, atsiveria netikėtos vietos, pažintiniai takai. Viskas daroma lankytojams ir svečiams. Vis dažniau užsukama ir į Šiluvos kultūros namus“, – mintimis dalijasi Juozas Šlepas, Šiluvos seniūnas.Netoli Šiluvos galima aplankyti Akmenės koplytėlę ant akmens. Žmonių pasakojimu šis akmuo yra stebuklingas ir nuo seniausių laikų visų gerbiamas. Pagonybės laikais ant jo kūrendavo šventąją ugnį. Vėliau žmonės prie akmens eidavo prašyti sveikatos, melstis paguodos sunkiausiomis gyvenimo akimirkomis. Pirmoji koplytėlė pastatyta ant akmens prieš šimtą metų buvo Šv. Elžbietos statula. Netaisyklingos formos ir nelygaus kauburiuoto paviršiaus riedulys yra geologijos ir archeologijos paminklas. Kiek tiesos, o kiek yra išgalvotų dalykų? Pasakoja prie akmens gyvenanti Petronėlė.Šiluvos ir Tytuvėnų miestelius skiria vos aštuoni kilometrai. Juos sieja žmonės, istorija ir kultūra. Šiluva priklauso Tytuvėnų regioninio parko direkcijai. Su Šiluva ir jos apylinkėmis supažindina kultūrologė Agnė Buchaitė ir kviečia apžiūrėti žydų kapinaites.

FrackingSENSE: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Hope to Learn about Natural Gas Development. The Center of the American West, CU Continuing Education, Boulder County, and the AirWaterGas Research Network invite you to a new lecture series. Beginning on February 26th, on Tuesday nights through May, a speaker with substantial expertise on natural gas development will provide a measured, honest exploration of this controversial topic. Each presenter will be scrupulous about acknowledging areas of uncertainty (“What We Don’t Know”), and emphasizing open questions that require careful deliberation. Throughout the series, CU historian Patty Limerick will act as moderator. Recognizing that many members of the audience will hold strong opinions, we look forward to honest – and civil and respectful – discussions of a crucially important topic.