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Nanna får äntligen passera som rasifierad när hon står mitt i havet av världens vitaste publik på Thåströmkonserten, och om intrigerna mellan medlemmarna i världens bästa orkester, Sault. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.

  In Gavin's last episode ever he bullies God into discussing Turkish dark wave, the Mets, the myth of imminent robots, his ACTUAL height, the anti-white origins of anti-Semitism, a brilliant golf hack, Jim Downey, feminist whore genocide, white guys for Kamala, violent trannies, Arynne Wexler, and finally the meanest letter ever sent to anyone, ever.

Well, that was certainly a wild weekend and after everything that went down, I hope you're a bit sober because there is a lot to unpack today. FYI, I'm not sober but that's beyond the point, let's get into this steaming pile. So Angi was at the show event at Cork & Kerry on Friday when Southpaw came in and tried to knock Tommy Hawk out of her DM's and then she went to a Top 5 of All Time Metallica show (when pressed what was knocked out of her top 5, she didn't know because she barely knows what planet she's on most days.) This was followed by a trip to Serb Fest which got her thinking about culture and created a Daily Discussion Topic for us. Angi sought to hear about funny or weird things from people's cultures so we started with hers. Promaja, which is a superstition about leaving two windows open at the same time and them causing a health risk while also allowing for the devil to come in. However, if you tuck your shirt into your pants, it keeps the devil from being able to get to your kidneys. Right, so her people are nuts, let's get to something more grounded in reality from Marris. He explained to us why smoke alarms are always chirping in black peoples houses. Aside from the fact that they never get changed, it has to do with different ones going off at separate times and not knowing which is the one that is going bad so they all just get ignored. In fact, he has vivid memories of being at his grandma's house and playing in the basement while that familiar chirp was going. I also have vivid memories but they mostly come from playing video games online. Anig and Michael both explained that this is a no go in their respective houses because it makes their dogs go nuts. Speaking of Michael, his contribution as a Brit is how much they love to use the "c" word. I personally think I must have been British in a past life because that is my favorite word and I use it to pepper pretty much all of my sentences off air. As for his white American side, he offered the love of Ed Hardy and unseasoned white chicken. I'd offer up mine but I don't know anything interesting about being Lithuanian, Polish and Greek so let's just go right to the Request Line. Kristen is Armenian as they have the evil eye. This is used to ward off bad stuff but if you happen to not be wearing yours, her 98 year old grandmother will pinch your butt which also works as protection it seems. Erin was married to a Serb for 16 years and learned that sitting on concrete causes hemorrhoids and eating popsicles in the winter will give you a sore throat. Chris is Scottish and told us how the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. He assumed they picked it because they drank too much. Jeff called into discuss how Polack's are cheap and always trying to save money. Eric is Sicillian and he has to get out of bed right foot first or else! If you are looking for more roadie thoughts or have your own, hit up our Facebook group (Angi Taylor Show) and drop us a comment.

Jesús Úbeda recuerda a Luis Sánchez Polack, más conocido como 'Tip´, que publicó el libro 'Cantares del Mío Tip´ al poco de que RTVE les censurara

Indiyah is here to talk all things LOVE ISLAND plus we discuss her gorgeous relationship with Dami, unrealistic body expectations and how to feel sexy & confident! Listen to the FULL PODCAST and follow us on: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/698SGqkqxUGZHWVnttwLCq Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/antics-with-ash/id1717079905?app=podcast  TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@anticswithashpod Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anticswithashpod/ Ash: https://www.instagram.com/ashholme/ Indiyah: https://www.instagram.com/indiyahhp/ 

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Admiro a la gente que busca hacer del mundo un lugar mejor, cambiando esas cosas que no le gustan. Tuve el lujo de volver a conversar con Fernando Polack. En el episodio pasado, habíamos conversado sobre la pandemia de COVID y las vacunas. Esta vez hablamos sobre la neurodiversidad y cómo la gente neurodivergente puede encontrar una forma de realizarse en la vida. ¡No se lo pierdan! Soy Gerry Garbulsky y quiero que juntos aprendamos durante toda la vida. Links de este episodio en http://aprenderdegrandes.com/polack2024 Más de Aprender de Grandes: Cursos: https://aprenderdegrandes.com/cursos El juego: https://aprenderdegrandes.com/eljuego El email de los lunes: https://aprenderdegrandes.com/newsletter Comunidad en WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Dc4b1Ax70pPG2kkv6uZm6O Aprender de Grandes está disponible en... Sitio: https://aprenderdegrandes.com/episodios Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@aprenderdegrandes Spotify: http://bit.ly/AprenderDeGrandesSpotify Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/AprenderDeGrandesApple ... y en tu reproductor favorito, buscando ¨Aprender de Grandes¨ Y en las redes sociales... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aprenderdegrandes/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aprenderdegrandes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/apdegran/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/apdegrandes/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aprenderdegrandes/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@aprenderdegrandes Música y sonido: Estudio Pomeranec (http://pomeranec.com).

Supporte den Podcast: Hier mit PayPal spenden! In dieser Episode begebe ich mich auf Neuland, denn ich spreche heute mit einer Make-Up Artistin. Die Menschen sind die stillen Stars im Hintergrund und sorgen dafür, dass vor der Kamera und auf der Bühne alles schick aussieht. Manchmal sorgen sie auch dafür, dass es ganz besonders verrückt aussieht. Es ist also ein unglaublich vielseitiger und spannender Beruf von dem ich einfach mal so garnix weiß. Es ist also unbedingt Zeit, das zu ändern und ihr könnt dabei zuhören. Ich wünsche euch ganz viel Spaß mit: Juliane Polack! Der Beitrag #S02/E05 – Juliane Polack – MakeUp Artist (KIZ, Scooter, Lars Eidinger, uvm.) erschien zuerst auf Tourgespräche.

Nube de Palabras: Entrevista con Fernando Polack 03-03-24

Air up | Use the code CHLOEVS10 for 10% off sitewide at https://airup.link/ChloeVSWorld Indiyah is back giving all the insider gossip & opinions on Love Island All Stars, recent break up drama & what went down when she hosted the MOBO's!  Listen to the FULL PODCAST and follow us on: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4UjhcQP... Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@chloevsthewor... Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chloevsthew... Chloe: https://www.instagram.com/chloeburrows/?hl=en Indiyah: https://www.instagram.com/indiyahhp/ If you'd like to work with us email the studio on: workwithchloevstheworld@fellasstudios.com

durée : 00:17:11 - L'interview de 9h20 - par : Léa Salamé - L'autrice Stéphanie Polack présente son nouveau livre, "Les corps hostiles". Maude y est en lutte avec son désir pour un homme typique d'un cliché détestable. L'écrivaine a souhaité un personnage hors de cet autre cliché femme fatale / mère / victime, pour explorer cette attirance qui nous déroute.

durée : 03:00:01 - Le 7/10 - Les invités de la Matinale de France Inter ce mardi 6 février 2024 : François Ruffin / Jean-Pierre Filiu / G. Roquette x C. Etienne / Stéphanie Polack / Margot Brancilhon

durée : 00:17:11 - L'interview de 9h20 - par : Léa Salamé - L'autrice Stéphanie Polack présente son nouveau livre, "Les corps hostiles". Maude y est en lutte avec son désir pour un homme typique d'un cliché détestable. L'écrivaine a souhaité un personnage hors de cet autre cliché femme fatale / mère / victime, pour explorer cette attirance qui nous déroute.

ESSENTIEL, le rendez-vous culturel de RCJ présenté par Sandrine Sebbane qui parlera de deux bandes dessinées : Celle d'Emmanuelle Polack pour « Rose Valland - L'espionne du musée » chez Gulf. Et celle de Pascal Bresson pour « Viktor Frankl un héritage pour l'humanité » chez Hugo. À propos du livre : « Rose Valland - L'espionne du musée  » paru aux éditions Gulf Réédition de Rose Vallant, l'espionne du Jeu de Paume (2009) en coédition avec le musée du Louvre avec : une préface de Laurence des Cars, Présidente-Directrice du musée du Louvre ; un nouveau format ; une nouvelle couverture ; une maquette intérieure modernisée au texte allégé plus adapté à un lectorat jeunesse ; une annexe documentaire sur la restitution des œuvres. Septembre 1940. Paris est occupé par les nazis. Rose Valland, alors attachée de conservation au musée du Jeu de Paume, assiste, impuissante, au pillage des œuvres d'art que les soldats du Reich entreposent dans ce musée avant de les envoyer en Allemagne. Bien décidée à sauver ce précieux patrimoine qui risque d'être détruit ou de disparaître à jamais, Rose Valland s'engage alors dans une résistance civile. Au péril de sa vie et par amour pour l'art, elle suit en cachette la trace des tableaux volés... Biographie de l'auteur Emmanuelle POLACK (75) est historienne de l'art. L'exposition " La dame du Jeu de Paume, Rose Valland sur le front de l'art " (Centre d'histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation, Lyon, 2009-2010) dont elle a assuré le commissariat est né des fruits de sa recherche sur le marché de l'art sous l'Occupation. Elle est l'autrice de plusieurs ouvrages documentaires et essais. Elle est missionnée depuis 2020 par le Louvre au sein de la direction de la recherche et des collections du musée pour vérifier dans ses collections la provenance des achats effectués entre 1933 et 1945. À propos du livre : « Viktor Frankl un héritage pour l'humanité   » paru aux éditions Hugo Viktor Frankl (1905 – 1997) est un célèbre professeur autrichien de neurologie et de psychiatrie à la faculté de Vienne en Autriche. Il est le créateur d'une nouvelle thérapie qu'il baptise : logothérapie. Dès l'âge de 15 ans, il correspond avec Freud. Très en avance sur son temps, il donne sa première conférence sur le thème : « À propos du sens de la vie ». En 1925, étudiant en médecine, il rencontre Freud tout en se rapprochant du cercle d'influence d'un autre éminent professeur, Alfred Adler. Mars 1938, les troupes allemandes pénètrent en Autriche. Frankl sabote alors les ordres reçus par les nazis et refuse de livrer des malades et handicapés mentaux pour le programme d'essai d'euthanasie baptisée « Aktion T4 » ayant pour projet d'assassiner les Juifs à grande échelle au moyen de chambres à gaz. Pour avoir refusé de collaborer, Viktor Frankl et toute sa famille sont envoyés dans le camp de concentration Theresienstadt, puis déportés au camp de la mort Auschwitz. Toute sa famille est assassinée. Durant sa déportation, Frankl observe minutieusement tous les déportés et se rend compte avec étonnement que les plus robustes, ceux qui sont dans l'action et qui mangent bien sont les premiers à mourir très vite, alors que les plus faibles résistent plus longtemps. « Face à l'absurde, les plus fragiles avaient développé une vie intérieure qui leur laissait une place pour garder l'espoir et questionner le sens. ». À la libération, en 1945, son expérience des camps lui permet de comprendre l'importance de trouver un sens à sa vie pour avoir l'envie et le courage de continuer. Il décide alors de créer sa propre conception qu'il appelle logothérapie : DONNER UN SENS A SA VIE, une forme d'analyse existentielle sur le sens de la vie. La logothérapie prend après-guerre une ampleur considérable et révolutionne la pratique thérapeutique en tant que science qui « se penche tant sur les raisons de vivre de l'homme que sur ses efforts pour les découvrir ». Viktor Frankl est l'auteur d'un best-seller vendu à plus de 16 millions dans le monde. Biographie de l'auteur Pascal Bresson est né le 22 décembre 1969 à Reims. Il vit actuellement à Saint-Malo. Depuis sa plus tendre enfance, il se passionne pour le dessin. C'est en découvrant les enquêtes de Ric Hochet, dessinées par Tibet dans le journal Tintin, qu'à 6 ans, il ambitionne de devenir un jour dessinateur. C'est vers l'âge de 12 ans (aidé par ses amis dessinateurs Tibet, René Follet et Mohamed Aouamri) qu'il concrétise son rêve en dessinant pour un journal Canadien 9ᵉ Art, une histoire complète pour un hommage à EP Jacobs... Vers 17 ans, il devient pendant plus de 2 ans illustrateur d'articles de presse pour le quotidien régional L'Union. En 1994, il publie une histoire de cinq planches dans le journal (À Suivre) chez Casterman et de nombreuses histoires pour divers fanzines... Chemin faisant, Pascal remporte quatre fois le concours d'affiche du Cirque Européen de Reims et se spécialise dans les illustrations pour la jeunesse. C'est ainsi qu'il publie de nombreux ouvrages chez de nombreux éditeurs tels que Hemma, Tournesol, Syros, Magnard... Il connaît un franc succès en 2000 avec la série Poulpia, la petite pieuvre écologique avec Brice Tarvel au scénario (éditions Cœur de Loup et Demgé Productions)... et c'est à cette époque qu'il devient ami avec le célèbre Nicolas Hulot. Pascal Bresson a aussi dessiné et écrit pour les éditions Ouest-France, terre-neuvas, l'impitoyable métier (3 prix dont celui de la ville de Brest) et Guillaume Seznec, une vie retrouvée en collaboration avec son ami Denis Seznec, le petit-fils... En 2010, Pascal scénarise 3 séries BD aux éditions Glénat : L'Affaire Seznec, L'Affaire Dominici (René Follet), et Ushuaïa, les Nouvelles aventures de Nicolas Hulot. En 2013, Pascal Bresson reçoit le Prix de la ville de Vigneux sur seine pour la série Ushuaïa. En 2014 paraît un nouvel album Plus Fort que la Haine avec son ami René Follet. Un album qui revisite la période sombre de la ségrégation raciale en Louisianne dans les années 1930 sous les yeux d'un jeune noir. Un album qui donne à réfléchir, un album engagé, un album humaniste.

Join Biti Roi in a critical and meaningful exploration of religious faith and doubt as filtered through the mind of a radical mystic, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and the luminous words of the Tikkunei Zohar. Dr. Biti Roi is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center of Contemporary Jewish Thought. Biti holds a Ph.D from Bar Ilan University and is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where she teaches kabbalah and Hasidism. She was a leader and participant in the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis and teaches at the Shalom Hartman Institute for various programs in Israel and abroad. Biti has won several prizes and post doctorate fellowships (Kreitman, Polack, Elyashar) at Ben-Gurion University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her book, Love of Shekhina: Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, was awarded the Matanel World Union of Jewish Studies Prize for the best book in Jewish Studies. Source: https://www.hartman.org.il/person/biti-roi/ 00:00 Excerpt 00:17 Opening 01:20 Why R' Nachman is still alive 08:29 A Personal Journey 15:01 R' Nachman 18:50 R' Nachman's Path 26:08 The Body 30:48 Radical Mystic 35:32 Scholar and Seeker 41:54 Question 47:39 Storyteller 59:06 R' Nachman and the Zohar 1:12:08 Core Themes 1:17:35 Thank you Join us: https://discord.gg/EQtjK2FWsmhttps://facebook.com/seekersofunityhttps://instagram.com/seekersofunityhttps://www.twitter.com/seekersofuhttps://www.seekersofunity.com Thank you to our beloved Patrons: Billy, Jackie, Andrew, Josh, Glenn, Zv, George, Ivana, Keenan, Gab, John, Victoria, Casey, Joseph, Brad, Benjamin, Arin, jXaviErre, Margo, Gale, Eny, Kim, Michael, Kirk, Ron, Seth, Daniel, Raphael, Daniel, Jason, Sergio, Leila, Wael, Simona, Francis, Etty, Stephen, Arash, William, Michael, Matija, Timony, Vilijami, Stoney, El techo, Stephen, Ross, Ahmed, Alexander, Diceman, Hannah, Julian, Leo, Sim, Sultan, John, Joshua, Igor, Chezi, Jorge, Andrew, Alexandra, Füsun, Lucas, Andrew, Stian, Ivana, Aédàn, Darjeeling, Astarte, Declan, Gregory, Alex, Charlie, Anonymous, Joshua, Arin, Sage, Marcel, Ahawk, Yehuda, Kevin, Evan, Shahin, Al Alami, Dale, Ethan, Gerr, Effy, Noam, Ron, Shtus, Mendel, Jared, Tim, Mystic Experiment, MM, Lenny, Justin, Joshua, Jorge, Wayne, Jason, Caroline, Yaakov, Daniel, Wodenborn, Steve, Collin, Justin, Mariana, Vic, Shaw, Carlos, Nico, Isaac, Frederick, David, Ben, Rodney, Charley, Jonathan, Chelsea, Curly Joe, Adam and Andre. Join them in supporting us: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seekers paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RKCYGQSMJFDRU

As parents, we want what's best for our teenagers and young adults, however, letting them explore with our support is also crucial. In this episode, Dr. Noha Polack, a board-certified pediatrician specializing in body image and weight issues in teens and pre-teens, talks about the particular difficulties sustaining a healthy lifestyle poses for young people and teenagers. She discusses how peer pressure, societal expectations, and body image affect weight loss efforts. Also, modeling positive behavior and language, emphasizing health over size or looks, and empowering teenagers to choose their own wellness trends are all effective methods for encouraging a healthy lifestyle, as it's critical to dispel common misconceptions about weight loss and realize that every person's journey will be unique owing to genetics and metabolism.  She emphasized that parents should let their children explore during the transition from high school to college or the workforce, but should also offer support when necessary and prioritizing one's mental health should come before starting any weight loss program for teenagers. Join us in promoting healthy lifestyles for teenagers and young adults and let's empower the next generation to lead healthier, happier lives!   Episode Highlights: About Dr. Noha Polack Unique challenges faced by teenagers and young adults in maintaining a healthy lifestyle The impact of social media on teenagers and young adults Strategies for parents to promote a healthy lifestyle in their teenagers Examples of language that the parents should be having with their kids and language to avoid The challenge of helping teenagers make informed decisions about online wellness trends Common misconceptions and myths about weight loss How parents can support young adults transitioning from high school to college or the workforce Importance of addressing mental health and emotional well-being in weight loss. Advice for parents, teachers, and mentors in supporting teenagers' health journeys   Connect with  Dr. Noha Polack: Website | progressivepediatrics.com and drpolack.com Facebook | www.facebook.com/healthykidsdoc Linked In | www.linkedin.com/company/progressive-pediatrics Instagram | @progressive_pediatrics Youtube | www.youtube.com/c/ProgressivePediatrics   About  Dr. Noha Polack Dr. Noha Polack is a board-certified pediatrician specializing in body image and weight issues in teens and pre-teens. In 1999, she launched her private practice, Progressive Pediatrics, where she and her team care for children and their families. Dr. Polack's mission is to change our current fear-based, weight-focused health message to a positive, health-focused one. She believes treating diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease is a physical and mental challenge. She advocates for and empowers teens and pre-teens to help them love their bodies and take control of their health journey. As a speaker, Dr. Polack's message is about messaging! She helps parents and other practitioners speak to teens and pre-teens, emphasizing health, realistic goals, and body positivity instead of weight and fear of diseases. Additionally, she encourages her patients and parents to focus on making small, positive changes in diet and movement as part of a health journey rather than crash dieting or striving for perfection.    Resources: FREE! Discover the 5 Reasons Your Weight-Loss Journey Has Gotten Derailed (And How To Get Back On Track!)

We got another Polack for you today, dear listeners, Richard Kuklinski. This one may be familiar to you though. While most of the Polish people in history have been the victims of evil, this one decided instead to lean into the evil and become a big ol' piece of shit. In so very, many ways. And we're gonna talk about 'em. So strap yourself in for the ride, and enjoy!

As a parent, doctor, and weight loss coach to other parents, I know that it often feels like there's no easy way to interact with our teens. Now factor in trying to talk to them about weight, body image, and health... We all want to good parents to our children, but there's no perfect way to do this. So the question I get frequently from my clients is this: How can I instill positive messaging about health in my children while making changes to what I eat on my weight loss journey? In this episode, Dr. Noha Polack, a board certified pediatrician, helps us answer this question as her and I talk about weight messaging with teens. Dr. Polack specializes in helping teens and pre-teens with body image and weight issues, and she believes that treating diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease is both a physical and mental challenge. Her passion is advocating for and empowering teens and pre-teens to help them love their bodies and take control of their health journey. Additionally, Dr. Polack teaches professionals and parents who encounter children in this age group to use the right words to communicate positive messages about health instead of focusing on weight. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed creating it with Dr. Polack. If you do, please be sure to "like" this episode and subscribe to the podcast. These small gestures help us a lot to reach other professional women over 50 who are interested in losing weight for the last time. Enjoy! ... Are you a professional woman over age 50 who's ready to lose weight for the last time? Join the Vibrant-MD weight loss course. Not sure if the Vibrant-MD weight loss course is right for you? Schedule a time to talk with Dr. Heather Awad directly to learn more. Sign up for our FREE course to get the step-by-step roadmap to permanent weight loss. You'll get a new formula that truly works for professional women over age 50, because it's long overdue that we say GOODBYE to the lousy old counting games.

Get ready to LOL because this morning's pod is more chaotic than Mitch!As our man dishes out another curveball, Sam Thompson, Indiyah Polack and DJ Tyler West try to figure out Mitch's moves for the millionth time AND mourn the loss of our on-off couple Scott & Abi.Plus, we delve into the Love Island group chat and play a prank on some past Islanders…Love Island: The Morning After is produced by Amy Elizabeth and Flossie Barratt for Lifted Entertainment

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, cerca de 100.000 obras de arte foram roubadas dos judeus pelos nazistas na França. Pinturas, esculturas, objetos de arte e até instrumentos musicais foram saqueados, e tiveram de ser recuperados e devolvidos após a guerra. Quase 80 anos após a Liberação, algumas obras ainda não voltaram a seus proprietários, ou melhor, aos descendentes de seus proprietários. Uma lei inédita que reconhece essas espoliações foi promulgada no país no domingo (23).   A nova regulamentação vai facilitar a restituição dessas propriedades saqueadas dos judeus entre 1933 e 1945. Muitos historiadores dedicam suas carreiras a rastrear essas obras, que geralmente são exibidas publicamente em museus. Identificá-las, provar sua espoliação e depois devolvê-las é, no entanto, uma tarefa meticulosa que pode levar anos.A nova lei facilitará aos descendentes de famílias saqueadas pelos nazistas a recuperação de suas propriedades. O alvo são as coleções públicas francesas, que supostamente contêm dezenas de pinturas, escritos e objetos tirados pelos nazistas de seus proprietários entre a ascensão de Adolf Hitler ao poder, em 1933, e o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em termos práticos, essa nova lei possibilitará o desvinculamento de determinadas obras do patrimônio público por decreto, após a realização de todas as verificações habituais, para que elas possam ser rapidamente devolvidas aos legítimos proprietários que foram vítimas da perseguição nazista. Até agora, era necessário ter paciência enquanto o vaivém parlamentar autorizava ou não a restituição de uma obra de coleções públicas.Missão especial para identificar obras roubadas por nazistasA devolução dessas obras deve ser ainda mais rápida porque, em 2019, a França criou uma Missão de Busca e Apreensão de Bens Espoliados para identificar obras culturais de procedência duvidosa.Até abril de 2023, 15 obras de coleções públicas francesas já haviam sido devolvidas aos seus legítimos proprietários, após anos de resistência administrativa. Com essa nova lei, os atrasos devem ser bastante reduzidos.A via-crúcis dos descendentesO cheiro de tabaco se espalha pela sala de estar de May Monteux. O cômodo não é tão pequeno, mas parece apertado: está cheio de móveis, com as prateleiras transbordando de livros, esculturas e bugigangas. Cada centímetro quadrado da parede é coberto por pinturas, algumas das quais têm uma história especial: foram roubadas pelos nazistas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.Seu proprietário era Marcel Monteux, avô de May. Esse colecionador de arte foi roubado por ser judeu. "Ele foi preso, internado no campo de Drancy em 31 de julho de 1944 e deportado para Auschwitz no comboio nº 77", diz sua neta à RFI, sentada em frente a uma xícara de café e algumas fotos antigas. "Ele não teve sorte, pois no dia seguinte houve uma greve dos ferroviários e os trens pararam de circular. Ele morreu assim que chegou; pegou tifo e não sobreviveu", lembra.Hoje, May, de 90 anos, continua a luta de sua avó, sua "ídola" que, durante a Liberação, conseguiu que muitas obras de arte pertencentes a Marcel Monteux lhe fossem devolvidas. O próprio colecionador está imortalizado em uma pintura: um jovem elegante de terno e gravata borboleta, posando com um charuto e um jornal. A pintura está pendurada na sala de estar de May, em frente ao sofá.Notas amareladas pelo tempoPara localizar as obras saqueadas que não foram devolvidas à sua família, a aposentada contou com a ajuda da historiadora Emmanuelle Polack, especialista no mercado de arte durante a Ocupação nazista na França."Ela dispunha de uma lista bastante vaga, porque meu avô, seu marido, era um jogador e um grande gastador", ironiza May. Por exemplo, quando ele pedia dinheiro emprestado, penhorava um quadro. Então, para não se confundir, ele fazia uma lista", relata a descendente. Uma espécie de inventário, portanto, da coleção de Marcel Monteux.Graças a essas anotações rabiscadas em papéis amarelados, May e Emmanuelle Polack conseguiram encontrar mais evidências para obter a devolução de uma pintura: Bord de rivière reflété dans l'eau, de Camille Bombois. A pintura está exposta em um museu em Passau, na Alemanha. No decorrer de seu trabalho, a historiadora viu essa pintura, cuja procedência era suspeita, e entrou em contato com o descendente do colecionador. Uma segunda pintura, exibida no mesmo museu alemão, também foi identificada como pertencente à família Monteux e retrata Jean-Paul Monteux, pai de May, pintado por Maurice Denis. No final do processo, duas obras foram encontradas e devem ser devolvidas nas próximas semanas."Razzia""Hitler foi recusado durante duas vezes na Escola de Belas Artes de Viena, e desenvolveu, por causa disso, uma amargura notável em relação ao episódio. Por causa disso, ele vai instituir um Estado-maior dedicadoà expoliação de obras de arte, especialmente aquelas que pertenciam às famílias judias, com uma cartografia muita precisa dos principais mercadores de arte, nos arredores da Praça Vendôme, em Paris, e igualmente nas grandes galerias da Rive Droite, e, depois, junto aos colecionadores mais famosos, como a família Rotschild", conta Emmanuelle Polack, historiadora e especialista no assunto.Quando Hitler chegou ao poder em 1933, ele não perdeu tempo e começou a fazer espoliações de obras de arte e outras propriedades, visando principalmente os judeus. Na França, a partir do verão de 1940, "houve uma grande pilhagem [Razzia, na expressão como é utilizada em francês, usando a palavra de raiz árabe]", explica Polack. Cerca de 450 caixas [cheias de obras de arte, nota do editor] foram levadas para a embaixada alemã. Rapidamente, não havia espaço suficiente, então o Louvre ofereceu três salas e, finalmente, o Musée du Jeu de Paume tornou-se o local para armazenar as obras espoliadas", lembra a expert.Após a Liberação, 60.000 objetos culturais saqueados foram devolvidos à França, graças ao trabalho da combatente da Resistência Francesa, Rose Valland. Uma grande parte foi devolvida, mas cerca de 2.000 pinturas, esculturas e objetos de arte cujos proprietários não puderam ser identificados ou encontrados foram confiados a museus franceses. Essas obras não pertencem aos museus nacionais", explica Emmanuelle Polack. "Eles são seus únicos protetores. Cabe a eles continuar a pesquisa de procedência", insiste."Trabalho de memória"Há vários anos, a historiadora vem ajudando o Louvre a restaurar obras em suas coleções que foram identificadas como espoliadas, ou cuja procedência é suspeita. Ela auxilia os curadores dos departamentos em suas pesquisas, direcionando-os especialmente para arquivos que possam fornecer evidências, como um catálogo de leilão da Ocupação que atestaria uma venda forçada.Mas a busca pela procedência se torna mais complicada a cada ano: os proprietários das obras, ou seus descendentes, desaparecem ou não sabem que sua família foi vítima de espoliação. Emmanuelle Polack é consciente disso: "Nunca conseguiremos devolver todas as obras, mas o que é realmente importante é fazer esse trabalho de memória. Parece-me que devemos isso à lembrança das vítimas dos abusos da Segunda Guerra Mundial, afirma à RFI.Antes da lei promulgada no domingo (23), mesmo quando uma obra era identificada como saqueada de um museu francês, era necessário recorrer à Justiça para devolvê-la, pois as coleções nacionais são inalienáveis. A nova regulamentação facilita as restituições.Um Chagall devolvido a herdeiros é leiloado por US$ 7,4 milhõesUma pintura de Marc Chagall, que está entre as 15 obras roubadas pelos nazistas e devolvidas pela França aos herdeiros das famílias saqueadas em abril do ano passado, foi vendida por US$ 7,4 milhões em novembro de 2022 em um leilão organizado em Nova York.A pintura a óleo "O Pai", pintada em 1911, foi adquirida em 1928 pelo luthier polonês David Cender, que perdeu todos os seus bens quando foi forçado a viver no gueto judeu de Lodz.Deportado para o campo de Auschwitz, onde a mulher e a filha perderam a vida, o músico sobreviveu e passou a morar na França em 1958, onde faleceu em 1966, sem recuperar sua pintura.Nesse ínterim, a obra foi exibida em exposições de arte e ficou demonstrado que foi o próprio Chagall quem a comprou de volta, provavelmente entre 1947 e 1953, desconhecendo sua origem, segundo o Ministério da Cultura francês.Após a morte na França do artista judeu de origem russa em 1985, "O Pai" passou a fazer parte das Coleções Nacionais em 1988, antes de ser enviado ao Centro Pompidou e preservado no Museu de Arte e História do Judaísmo de Paris.(Com informações recolhidas por Marion Cazanove, da RFI, e agências)

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The right resources will get you going, But the right mindset will get you far.   Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner, and Host of the Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy podcast, sits down with Noha Polack, accomplished board-certified pediatrician and owner of Progressive Pediatrics. From working for a bankrupt business to growing her own, Noha's story is an inspiration for all entrepreneurs. Tune in to learn about the life lessons she'd developed over years of trial and error.   3 KEY POINTS: Build your brand. Hire the right people. Always go beyond when serving clients.   EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: 22 years ago, Noha decided to create her own work environment after experiencing unfavorable working conditions. Marketing was different back then. Noha did face-to-face speaking engagements in childbirth education classes to market herself. Back in 2009. Noha took on a mutual friend's business and grew it significantly. Noha boosted her Social Media presence through YouTube videos and Facebook Live videos. Find a superstar for your front desk with an intelligent, understanding, and eloquent voice. Find physicians who mesh with your mindset so there's consistency in your practice. When hiring people, no one finds the right fit right away. It takes a little trial and error. When hiring, ask them what they want from the job besides money. If money is all they want, that's not the right fit. Post about other things aside from your primary practice. Noha highly recommends listening to the EntreMD Podcast by Dr. Una, as she considers it to be greatly instrumental in her journey. To avoid burnout, remember to take care of your health by taking frequent rests.   TWEETABLE QUOTES: “Go one or two steps beyond what others are doing.” – Noha Polack “You can go and make money anywhere, but if you don't enjoy the work, it's unlikely you're going to be good at it or stick to it.” – Noha Polack   CONNECT WITH JASON DUPRAT LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube Email: support@jasonduprat.com   ABOUT THE GUEST Noha Polack, MD, is an accomplished board-certified pediatrician in Hudson County and proud owner of Progressive Pediatrics. Dr. Polack was an employed physician since 1996 before her employer went bankrupt and soon decided to start her own private practice in the year 2000. Twenty-two years later, she grew Progressive Pediatrics from solo to 5 providers and two locations.   CONNECT WITH THE GUEST LinkedIn (Noha Polack) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/noha-polack-b402b212/ Founded company (Progressive Pediatrics) https://progressivepediatrics.com Youtube (Progressive Pediatrics) - https://www.youtube.com/c/ProgressivePediatrics   RESOURCES Want to become an IV Nutritional Therapy provider? JOIN our FREE masterclass: https://www.ivtherapyacademy.com/podcast Have a healthcare business question? Want to request a podcast topic? Text me at 407-972-0084 and I'll add you to my contacts. Occasionally, I'll share important announcements and answer your questions as well. I'm excited to connect with you! Do you enjoy our podcast? Leave a rating and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/hea Don't want to miss an episode? Subscribe and follow: https://followthepodcast.com/hea   RELATED EPISODES: #258: How To Hire the Best Candidates for Your Business - https://jasonduprat.com/listen/2022/06/14/how-to-hire-the-best-candidates-for-your-business/ #94: Tactical Tuesday: Marketing Your Business During The Coronavirus - https://jasonduprat.com/listen/2020/04/14/94-tactical-tuesday-marketing-your-business-during-the-coronavirus/ #241: Tactical Tuesday: 5 Ways To Scale & Expand Your Business Market - https://jasonduprat.com/listen/2022/03/29/241-tactical-tuesday-5-ways-to-scale-expand-your-business-market/   #HealthcareEntrepreneurAcademy #healthcare #HealthcareBoss #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #podcast #businessgrowth #teamgrowth #digitalbusiness

If Dance only looked at one side of the street it could almost appear that Grantham had gotten back to normal. There had been a rough few days after the fire, but they’d buried the dead, said words over them, and moved on. That didn’t mean that things were good but they could've been a hell of a lot worse. Food and supplies were dwindling, but since Dance had organized hunting parties, supplies were dwindling nice and slow. Sure, they'd have to do something about it, but right now the 203 surviving souls of the Town of Grantham were in need of a respite.If they could keep from getting wiped out by the wildlife or savage tribes – and if the coffee lasted long enough — they just might be O.K.Having given himself over to a philosophical turn of mind Dance could see how their predicament wasn't any different than any other frontier town. They were on the edge of the unknown struggling to survive. They had plenty of water and the weather, at least so far, was nice. He savored another sip of coffee and he resolved to enjoy what he could while he could.Walking up the street and taking his own sweet time about it, Speedy Pete was headed towards the jail. When he got close Dance asked, "Pete, how in the hell is it that you ain't dead? I mean I ain't complaining. I'm just saying, I know which way I lay the odds on that one…”Speedy Pete smiled slow and pushed his hat back. “Well sir, my Mama always said I'd be late to my own funeral. So what I reckon is… Death just shows up to where I'm supposed to be and when I’m not there, all punctual-lie, he get sick of waiting around. Goes off finds somebody else to do business with."Dance was so stumped by the unexpected elegance of his Deputy’s explanation all he could say was, “Fair enough, Pete.”"We step inside so I can make my report?""No, Pete she's in there schooling up them kids. Did you know that little girl can read?""School? But that school Ma’rm ran off. I mean afore we even… wound up here."“I know Pete. But the Widow Miller is intent on her children getting an education. And I have reconciled myself to the fact that it's wise to stay clear of the entire enterprise so I don't get my head mixed up with any book larnin’. Somebody’s gotta think straight around here,” Dance said with a wink.Pete missed the joke entirely and said, “You takin’ up with that Widder is one thing, but I’m not sure I'm OK with children living in a jail cell."“Makes ‘em easy to contain,” said Dance, blowing another joke right by Pete. “Besides, we ain’t got no other use for them cells. They’re for holding people for the Judge, and as the Judge ain’t coming no more. Miscreants are getting fined or hanged.” Dance looked in his coffee and said, “Well, I suppose you could say the one’s gettin’ hanged are just getting fined everything.”Pete puzzled on this for a moment then shook his head to clear it of philosophical speculations the same way that people will beat a rug to rid it of dust. Then he said,“Well, we got the watches all figured out, and I think them Polacks know where to be and when. But I can't understand a goddamn word they're saying most of the time.”Dance said, “That's OK Pete, nobody can.""They was jibber jabberin’ away about laundry! Something about that the Chinaman wasn't doing it for free no more. But I don’t think I heard it right. I mean why would a Chinaman watch a bunch of Polack’s laundry for free? Don't make no damn sense.""And anything else around here does?" asked Dance.“Well iffn I’m gettin’ any say in the matter, Sheriff, I'll take my mysteries in a language I can understand.”Dance finished his coffee and said,”Let’s go down and see what the fuss with the Chinaman is all about.”He took his cup into the jail and lifted a rifle from the rack. Penelope was sounding out words from a book and Mac looked up from a calculating slate to glare at the Sheriff. Dance couldn’t blame the boy much for his animosity. He reckoned he’d feel much the same. But Laura smiled at him and that was all that mattered. Then she saw the rifle in his hand and her smile faded. Dance said, “Just have to see about a crazy Chinaman,” by way of reassurance, but Laura’s smile did not reappear.By the time Dance got back outside the commotion had poured into the middle of the street and was headed right for him. Five thick-necked miners were following the Chinaman as he led a heavily-ladened mule up the middle of the street. Dance asked, “Now just where in the hell does he think he's going?"Pete said nothing, which, when Pete could manage it, was how Dance liked him best.One of the miners, looking about as at home in the sunlight as a freshly upturned mole, seized the mule’s reins. This upset the Chinaman and he shoved the miner, and tried to regain control of his animal. This angered the rest of the miners, and they piled on. Dance had to respect to the little Oriental fella. He didn’t go quietly. He kicked the first one square in the nuts and then started jumping and gesticulating like he had a bad case of the St. Vitus’. It worked well enough at first but there were just too many miners and too few pounds of Chinaman for him to have any real chance. The Chinaman dropped a second one with a chop to the throat and got a third with a kick to the kneecap. But then somebody got a hold of the Chinaman’s ponytail and gave it a yank and down everyone went into the dust.Dance shook his head at the whole mess. He wasn't getting mixed up in that crap, no sir. Beside him, Pete started forward, eager to do his duty. The Sheriff stopped him with his left hand and raised the rifle over his head with his right and fired. As the report died away all eyes in the pile of men looked to the Sheriff. Dance said, “All right! That's enough rolling around in the horseshit for one day."The pileup slowly disengaged revealing the Chinaman at the bottom. He seemed relatively unharmed. He barked a singsong phrase at the men around him and then started to walk off after his well-ladened mule. One of the Miners grabbed his ponytail and yanked him off his feet once again. Dance lifted his rifle from his shoulder, stepped in, and clubbed the miner in the back of the head. As the large, fleshy man collapsed to the earth Dance said, "I said enough! And, by God, I meant enough. Now what the hell is going on here?"The air was filled with languages that the Sheriff did not understand. He yelled for everyone to speak in English but, everyone could not. The one miner who spoke some English had a dislocated jaw, so Dance couldn’t understand him, even thought he was trying his best. The Chinaman stood with his arms crossed, not saying a word, and managed to be the most dignified party in the entire matter. Excepting the mule. As Dance was trying to sort out the mess, Pete went after the Mule, that was quietly plodding up the street, wisely trying to distance himself from this human foolishness. Then, Pete stopped in his tracks. Coming from the East, silhouetted by the morning sun, was a stranger coming in from the wilderness.“Sheriff…” said Pete.The commotion of men arguing and incompatible languages continued behind him, so Pete tried again, louder."Sheriff!"This time everyone looked up and saw the figure in his strange red robes, strolling into town as if he did it every day. All argument ceased. The Chinaman helped the clubbed miner to his feet. The miner, thinking that this meant the fight was still on, raised his fist to attempt a wobbly blow. The Chinaman slapped the fist away and pointed at the stranger coming into town. The miner forgot all about the fight. Dance, held his rifle loose in both hands, stood beside Pete and squinted at what was coming. He said, “Pete, run go get that Englishman. He's gonna wanna see this."Pete looked at the Sheriff, then at the stranger, then back to the Sheriff. He tried to get the sheriff the reins of the mule, but the Sheriff didn't take his eyes off the stranger. So Pete just dropped the reins and headed off with all the hurry he could manage. * * * By the time Archie arrived, limping in on his bad foot as fast as he could manage, the Stranger was standing at the end of main street. He was dressed in red robes and held a staff of plain wood in this right hand. Around his shoulder we wore a satchel, something like half a saddlebag on a leather strap. He had sandals and if he was scared by the crowd of townspeople that had assembled, he did not show it. His face was worn and his beard and hair were flecked with grey. He could have been anywhere from 50 to 80 years old. Archie said, “What do we do now?” The Sheriff said, “We go see if you and he have any languages in common.”“I’m not much of a translator,” said Archie, “Especially when I’m nervous.” “Relax. I’ve about half made up my mind to shoot him anyway,” said the Sheriff, and started walking. Archie hobbled along behind. As the Sheriff came closer the Stranger smiled and raised his hand in greeting. Dance gave him a thousand-yard stare.The Stranger said something that no one understood. Archie said something back in a different language. In response, the stranger reached into his satchel and pulled out a skin of water. He took a swig and then offered the bag to the Sheriff and Archie. When no one moved, the stranger shrugged. Then he said, “Orlap Bechtanar thrunce dak.”Archie shrugged.The stranger repeated the words then nodded to himself. From his satchel he removed a cut red gemstone, the size of a small melon. The Sun glinted off its facets and as he held in front of him it seemed a thing made of light rather than mineral. The Stranger took another step forward. Dance cocked the rifle and stepped forward to meet him. The stranger stopped and smiled again. Then he slowly set his satchel and staff on the ground. He removed his robes and revealed his weathered body, as gnarled as piece of long-dried driftwood. And written in scar tissue across his chest were the remnants of a cruel wound. The ribs of one side of his chest were partially caved in and gave the old man a disturbing asymmetry. Dance remained unmoved by any of this. And only moved his eyes to scan the horizon in case this was some kind of prelude to an ambush. Clad in only a loincloth the stranger held the red stone out in front of him with both hands and walked slowly towards the men.Beside him, Sheriff Dance felt more than saw people reaching for weapons in the crowd behind him. “Easy,” said Dance, “Ain’t no showdown. Worst he’s tried to do is kill us with a bad striptease.” He said it so well he almost managed to convince himself. The stranger spoke again. This time just a single word, “Mobruk. Mobruk. Morbruk.” He held the stone out to the Sheriff, encouraging him to take it, using the same tone of voice a Mother might use to get a toddler to take a mouthful of food. He looked directly into Sheriff Dance’s eyes and nodded encouragingly. “Mobruk.”The Sheriff reached out his hand and took the stone. He felt a shiver run up his arm and into his brain. He shook his head and then he understood what the man was saying. “Take. Take.”“What the hell!?!” said the Sheriff. “Good, we have connection,” said the Stranger. “We can now understand each other.” “But, I…” said Dance. He looked back to Archie and asked, “Can you understand him?”“Not a word. You can?”“I can. I don’t know how, but I can.”“Please share the gift of Ba-El with others. So that all may understand and peace may be on the world." The Sheriff looked at the stranger in his loincloth and said, “Yeah, I got a peacemaker too. Never seems to work like I want it to though."Archie said, “What does he say? If you can understand him, you must translate."Sheriff Dance handed Archie the glowing orb. Archie touched it and his eyes went wide."Yes," said the stranger, "you see now, his peace will spread. Glory be to Ba-El father of Harmony!"Archie said, “Wait. Run that by me one more time. Ba-El is some kind of deity? What is this then?” He asked holding up the orb,“and by what source is this powered?”The Priest of Ba-El said, “Please, I will answer all questions in time, but first spread Ba-El's gift, so that all may speak the same language."Dance took the orb back from Archie and asked, “You think everybody knowing what people are really sayin’ is going to bring peace?""It is a consummation devoutly wished," said the Priest of Ba-El."Well, let's just see about that.” Dance turned to the battered Miners and beleaguered Chinaman. He threw the orb to the Chinaman who caught it deftly. Dance said, “Pass it round!”The Chinaman’s eyes went wide with the shock of understanding the words. He looked at the orb, then back to the Sheriff. "How can you be speaking Chinese?!?""I don't know, how are you speaking English?""It is Ba-El’s gift,” said the Priest of Ba-El as he smiled at the wonder of shared understanding.“Yes you’ve said that,” said Archie. “Chinaman, give it over to them Polacks,” said Dance. “My name is not Chinaman, it is Liu Sung.”“Alright Loose Un’, give it over.”Liu Sung offered the orb to the Polish Miners. First, none of them wanted it, but finally the man Dance had hit with the rifle stretched out his hands and took the orb. Dance asked “Can you understand us?” “He stole our silver!!!” said the Miner“I did not. You try to rob me!" countered Liu.As the argument continued, Sheriff Dance looked back at the Red Priest and said, “Yeah, all sorted out. Happily ever after.” The Miner said, “His mule is full of silver. This crazy Chinaman was washing clothes for free. We didn’t pay him no silver. He didn’t mine no silver. The only way for him to get it was to steal it.”“Ah,” said Archie, “Deduction.”“I never steal,” said Liu.“Then how’d you get it, Chinaman!”“Liu. Liu Sung!” Dance stepped between them. “Easy Loose Un’! Let’s just take it one step at a time. Pete, fetch that mule over here.” The mule, who somehow was the most even-tempered party in the whole matter, was freighted with heavy panniers on each of his flanks. Sheriff Dance looked inside and found them filled with small leather sacks. He opened one of the sacks and found it filled with silver dust. “Alright. He’s got a shitload of silver. Mr. Chinam— I mean Loose ‘Un, you want to explain how you got all this silver?”“I did not steal,” said Liu Sung.“And I ain't saying that you did, but I am curious as to where it came from, and where you think you might be going out into that savage wasteland with it?”“I go back to the middle kingdom, back to civilization.""Ain't no civilization left, or ain't you noticed? We're on our own son,” said the Sheriff."Sung, Liu Sung. Sung is a proud name. The Sung do not steal.”“If I may promote harmony...” said the Priest of Ba-El.“Little harmony be real nice for a change around here,” offered Pete.“He looks as if he comes from the Kithai people, a vast empire far to the NorthEast of here.”Liu Sung said, “There has always been a middle kingdom. There will always be a middle kingdom.""An empire you say?” asked Archie. “There is a civilization? More than one? Then why? And who attacked us? And the tower that he saw?”The Priest of Ba-El smiled again and asked, “Which question would you have me answer first?”Dance said, “Now, just hang on. Let's get one thing straight before we go bending all the rest. Loose Un, where did the damn silver come from?”“These men work in the mine, chip, chip, chip, all day. They bring clothes to Liu Sung,” he said with particular emphasis on Sung, “and I wash them. End of day I pour out the water and save all the little pieces of silver I find. Why else I no charge them for laundry.” “We just though you vere crazy,” said one of the Miners. “I told you that was our silver!” said another. “If it's anybody silver it's DuMonts’, and that useless son of a b***h is dead. Loose Song,” said Dance, sincerely trying to get his name right. “You ain’t broken any law and as far as I’m concerned I wish you’d stick around. We need all the smart people we can get. But I suggest you stick around long enough to see what we can learn from our new friend." Dance turned to the Priest of Ba-El and said, "and you, new friend, you're gonna draw us a map.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit patrickemclean.substack.com

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Have you heard a fat joke? I am sure you have. Somebody probably laughed even though a child was ashamed. These jokes start early and many people don't have the tools to talk about weight in children. This is the reason that I am excited to chat with Dr. Polack. Dr. Polack is board-certified in pediatrics and she is passionate about advocating for healthy living in pre-teens and teens and helping them love their body. She often speaks to parents and professionals who encounter this age group to help them use the right language to communicate about health rather than weight. Dr. Polack has been practicing since 1996 and has spent most of her time at Progressive Pediatrics in Bayonne, New Jersey. Connect with Dr. Polack https://www.youtube.com/c/ProgressivePediatrics https://www.facebook.com/healthykidsdoc https://www.instagram.com/progressive_pediatrics/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/progressive-pediatrics/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/urcaringdocs/message

This week our old friend Dawn joins us. We talk about Johnny Depp's sad sexy energy and how to get rid of an old racist Polack. Follow Brian on Twitter @hackdis69. Support the show and get bonus audio/video episodes, ringtones, bonus footage and more!! All at patreon.com/brianmccarthy.

In this episode we talk about the importance of how to talk to your children or as a professional pertaining to weight loss.  Steps we can take to help them lose weight and develop a healthy relationship with food and loving themselves more.  What steps to take to help them understand the meaning of a health journey to live a healthy life.   To reach Dr Polack: https://progressivepediatrics.com/   https://progressivepediatrics.com/blog/   https://www.youtube.com/c/ProgressivePediatrics   https://www.facebook.com/healthykidsdoc   https://www.instagram.com/progressive_pediatrics/   https://www.linkedin.com/company/progressive-pediatrics/     Peace and blessings Clarissa   Website ->  https://clarissabooker.com   Wellness & Weight Loss Community Group->  https://bit.ly/wellbeinggroup   Free Masterclass - >  https://bit.ly/noneedtocount    Ready to start adding more plants onto your plate download free 7 Day Plant Based Challenge  -> https://www.clarissabooker.com/freeresourceses    Order journals ->  https://clarissabooker.com/journals   Find out more information on our program ->  https://www.clarissabooker.com/twa    Contact us here -> info@clarissabooker.com     

My guest Dr. Noha Polack, MD, FAAP received her bachelor's degree from Rutgers University in Biological Sciences and her medical degree from UMDNJ (now Rutgers Medical School) in Newark, NJ. She completed her pediatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. She has been practicing pediatrics in Union City and Bayonne, New Jersey since 1996, most of those years at Progressive Pediatrics. Dr. Polack loves pediatrics because she can make a difference in a young person's life that will last a lifetime. She is passionate about advocating for healthy living in pre-teens and teens and helping them love their bodies. Working on their mindset as well as their habits is my way of making a difference in the world. She speaks to all professionals who encounter this age group as well as parents to help them use the right language to communicate about health rather than weight. We talked about: Who or what helped to shape her career journey in pediatrics and lead her practice with a focus on Preteens and teens? How she decided that she would go out on her own and run a successful private practice. What does a day in the life of a pediatrician who serves pre-teens and teens look like and what challenges does she face. How does she get people to buy into changing their vocabulary or their mindset around what it means to be healthy and not focus so much on weight? Her thoughts around physicians especially women physicians lean into combat obesity in children, especially within those groups where there are health care disparities. What does self-care look like for her and what steps does she take to take time for herself? If you're ready to transition into a leadership role and need support during your career journey download my free Ebook, ‘The 10 Steps You Need to Transition into a Leadership Role'. Follow Dr. Noha Polack: http://progressivepediatrics.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/progressive-pediatrics/

As CEO and Co-Founder of HAP Investments, Eran Polack oversees a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate that is renowned for its location, proximity to mass transit, and innovative construction and design. Mr. Polack is an established entrepreneur with a long history of successful real estate ventures in Eastern Europe, Israel, and the United States. Mr. Polack's strengths are the early identification of emerging regions and the development of projects tailored for those markets. Mr. Polack was one of the first developers to identify East Harlem as well as the Journal Square neighborhood of Jersey City as areas in preliminary stages of urban revitalization. He was also an early leader in the revival of Neve Tzedek, a highly coveted neighborhood in the heart of Tel Aviv.

The Best of The Den is a best of some of the first episodes recorded at the "The People of Comedy" studio with the great James Webb who is moving on to bigger and better things in the Big Apple. We have Abi Sanchez talking throwing up, Julia Stoyanova being a Bulgarian fish out of water and Dale McPeek talking William Hung and me getting molested for beans in Mexico. Rebekah Gibson learns about Reggaeton, Aaron Putnam relapses and shits his pants and I record with Eric Pennell after crashing my car with a Polack. Ed Towns puts zooms comics in there place, JIm Flannigan likes to gamble,  Calvin Evans can't use drinking as an excuse for his bad behavior and Tito finishes it off with spooky bithches.    Support our Sponsor: lordvegas.com Promo code: loboden to save 25% LordVegas.com Limited-Run; T-shirts, hats, hoodies, jackets, wallets and bags Independent & Uncompromised ELEVATE-YOUR-LIFESTYLE Established for Life. Support The Lobo Den Podcast by joining the Patreon with bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/theloboden Recorded at "The People of Comedy Network" studios with the great James Webb:  https://www.instagram.com/thechicagopro/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uaze91r9DMg Check out the full episodes:   Episode 33 The Lobo Den Podcast Abi Sanchez "Puerto Rican"  https://youtu.be/NS--kJVJRb0   Episode 37 The Lobo Den Podcast Julia Tony Stoyanova "Bulgarian Influencer" https://youtu.be/E7zqQUxbDoU   Episode 38 The Lobo Den Podast Dale "Real Cute Dude" https://youtu.be/vKY-6aQPpwc   Episode 40 The Lobo Den Podcast Rebekah Gibson "I Like Reggaeton" https://youtu.be/Em_26Fkr5-Q   Episode 43 The Lobo Den Podcast Aaron Putnam “Dude You Sh*t Your Pants” https://youtu.be/J3Mly8m67VY   Episode 44 The Lobo Den Podcast Eric Pennell "Polish Car Accident"  https://youtu.be/U2sHBGm4xmw   Episode 45 The Lobo Den Podcast Ed Towns “Comedy Angel of Death” https://youtu.be/CwJ1YmAlSks   Episode 46 The Lobo Den Podcast Jim Flannigan "Clean Comedian..Not!" https://youtu.be/QXHPEvK9e8M   Episode 47 The Lobo Den Podcast Calvin Evans "Comedy Therapy Session" https://youtu.be/oFOzEUPT9Ak   Episode 48 The Lobo Den Podcast Tito "Tales from the Tinder"  https://youtu.be/Cn2nlDAecs8 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelobodenpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/lobo9110/ https://www.instagram.com/abisanchezcomedy/ https://www.instagram.com/julia.tony.st/ https://www.instagram.com/realcutedude/ https://www.instagram.com/bekahgibson/ https://www.instagram.com/comic_aaronputnam/ https://www.instagram.com/ericpennellcomedy/ https://www.instagram.com/edtowns/ https://www.instagram.com/jimmyflann/ https://www.instagram.com/calvinevanscomedy/ https://www.instagram.com/titos_tales/   Best Facebook Group Ever! https://www.facebook.com/groups/830054804387858 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theloboden Twitter: https://twitter.com/lobodenpodcast https://twitter.com/lobo9110   Donate: https://www.paypal.me/thelobodenpodcast Links: https://linktr.ee/theloboden

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As a parent, we want the best for our kiddos & want them to thrive. As people ourselves, we also understand how outside factors play a large role in how our self-confidence and body image anxiety builds. Please take a listen to our very first interview on BTP, as we deep dive in with physician, Dr. Noha Polack, on helping prevent child obesity and more important promoting healthy body image. In this episode you will learn how to: Answer some hard-hitting parent questions that come at us & signs we can be observant of with our children to help them be proactive with their bodies and self-esteem Empowering your kids with food choice Shift from scale measurements to willpower To find more on Dr. Noha Polack, please visit her website for a wealth of knowledge and resources, including her YouTube video series

Are you craving to go deeper in your practice and your understanding of yoga philosophy? If so, today's episode is for you because I'm sitting down with someone who lives at the intersection of yoga and philosophy: Rebecca Polack.Rebecca has been a yoga teacher for over 20 years and also holds a Doctorate Degree in Philosophy and Religion, with a concentration in yoga studies. She's sharing what she's learned through her philosophical and practical research on the power of getting creative as you work to understand what texts like the Yoga Sutras mean to you and your practice.Get full show notes and more information here: https://erikabelanger.com/125 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Krupp was terrified. In all his years of selling snake oil throughout the frontier — a figure he often exaggerated, but in truth amounted to no more than three years — he had seen many remarkable things but never had he seen Dr. Bartoleermere the Second’s Magic Elixir actually work. But it had happened. He had seen the little girl’s wound heal! And Dr. Krupp had no idea what to do next. As townspeople rushed about, frantic with news of the attack, Dr. Krupp walked in a circle in the center of town talking to himself. First, he wanted a drink but then he turned sharply and walked towards the livery stable and his wagon full of elixir. Then he looked around him in terror, certain he was being followed. Grantham, like all frontier towns, was filled with desperate characters; gamblers, miners, drovers, and cowboys down on their luck. What he had was absolutely priceless. Worth more than silver or gold.The patter sprang into his mind unbidden, "the Elixir of life itself… Freedom from man’s age-old enemies, pain, and death. The lauded and once mythical Panacea now made available through the miracles of the modern age.” What a pitch! And all the better for actually being true. He smiled to himself, then he frowned and changed directions once again.His wagon had elaborately painted canvas tarps on either side that proclaimed the value and wonder of Dr. Bartoleermere the Second’s Magic Elixir. The idea was to make it so a passerby couldn't help but notice such a magnificent example of the sign-maker’s art. And that cinched the argument. In a fright, he hastened to the freight yard knowing he must remove the signs and disguise his wagon.Along the way, he passed the Preacher crying out to the people of Grantham as he stood upon an overturned bucket. He was telling the people that these strange happenings were the work of the Lord. These signs and portents were meant to call the faithful to arms. Dr. Krupp avoided the Preacher’s gaze as he pushed his way through the crowd, afraid that the man might call him out… afraid of what that man might say. He crossed the main street, ducked through a narrow alley, and emerged on the edge of the freight yard. Wagons of all shapes and sizes crowded the dusty lot, but from the street, he could not see his wagon and sighed in relief. For the first time in his life, he was grateful that his advertising was obscured from the public. He checked to see that he was not being followed and then hurried in among the wagons with surprising speed for a man of his girth. Behind two battered Conestoga wagons, he found his rig with its colorful signs. He had paid five dollars a side to get them done in San Francisco and they were worth every penny. In fact, he had paid more for the signs than he had to get the patent medicine brewed, bottled, and labeled. In truth, the contents of the bottles had never been important. Grain alcohol, some hop, and something bitter would do it. Bitter because everyone knew that good-tasting things never made good medicine. And that was the secret, no one ever bought or sold a chemical formula. They paid for the prospect of relief from their ailments. And luckily for Dr. Krupp, the western territories were an endless wellspring of ailments. Wrenched backs, aching teeth, consumption, dysentery, hangover, boils, the pox, snakebite, yellow fever, tuberculosis, argue, gout, la grippa –- if you name a man's pain in detail he will believe that you have the cure for him. The secret wasn't in the bottle and never had been. It was in the *salesmanship.*At least it had been. But now… He shuttered to think what a working formula meant. If the one thing he was certain was fake turned out to be real… then was anything real? Was everything fake? Had he been the one being conned all along. He was lost in his own understanding. He climbed up on the side of the wagon and started untying the painted tarpaulin. As he worked he heard a strained cough behind him. He turned in terror, nearly falling off the wagon, but caught himself and dropped awkwardly to the ground. Off-guard and looking more like a thief than a proprietor he stared wide-eyed at the figure before him.Jean DuMont tapped his heavy cane on the ground, coughed into his handkerchief said, “I believe you have the medicine that I require.”Dr. Krupp opened and closed his mouth several times, looking more like a fish straining water through his gills, than the sharp-eyed huckster that he had been. Finally, his instincts kicked in and he said, “Well sir, you have come to the right place. The miraculous properties of the long-lost Panacea can be yours, for a price, of course.”“I assure you, money is no object,” said DuMont, playing along, “I am as rich as Croesus.” He was overcome by a coughing fit, then continued, “And eager to pay. But there is but one consideration. What guarantee of efficacy do I have?”“You have not heard of the remarkable transformation that Dr. Bartloleermere’s Elixir effected in the young girl who was mortally wounded at the river?”“Yes,” said DuMont, “But I did not see it.”“I assure you, as a gentleman, that this marvelous elixir,” he said, patting the side of his wagon, “will cure what ails you, or,” and he cringed to hear himself saying the words, “Or your money back. Would that be acceptable?”“Usually, your terms would be quite favorable, but these are… unusual times… so I will need a demonstration,” said DuMont. And then shot Dr. Krupp in the stomach with his derringer.It happened so fast that, Krupp didn’t understand that he had been shot. The barrels of the gun went off with a sound that seemed a little louder than the popping of the cork from a champagne bottle. There was no pain, but he felt a wetness on his abdomen, and when he touched his hand to his belly, it came away covered with blood. Dr. Krupp grew light-headed and slumped to the ground, still confused.Jean DuMont looked down at the smoking gun in his hand. Its pearl handles and etched barrel glittered. He said, “One of a matched set. Pretty isn’t it?” he put the still smoking gun into his coat pocket. When Dr. Krupp didn’t rise, DuMont shook his head and said, “Ahch, must I do everything myself?” He stumped over to the wagon with his cane, opened the side panel, and removed one of the bottles of medicine. He opened it, sniffed it, then handed it down to Dr. Krupp. Dr. Krupp looked up at DuMont and said, “You shot me!”“Yes, we are past that,” said DuMont, “You need to keep pace with the moment.” Krupp looked at the bottle, then back at DuMont. Then back to the bottle. He sucked it down in two gulps. Before Archie could make it back to the mine, one of the miners spotted him and came running. The man, Jablonski was his name was wide-eyed with madness, “Dere you are! You gotta help us! He’s gonna kill us sure!”“What? Whatever are you talking about? Calm down man, what is it.” “He gonna beat me to death with that heavy black cane of his. And it’s not my fault. Nonna dis is my fault. You gotta help me. You gotta get it back somehow or I gotta get outta town.”Archie grabbed Jablonski by his shoulders and shook him vigorously. Then he slapped him across the face. “Get a hold of yourself, man.” Instead of growing angry, or coming to his senses, Jablonski’s face dropped and his eyes went blank with a passive hopelessness that Archie found more terrifying than his previous ravings. A tear welled in Jablonski’s eye and he looked fearfully around him, whispering something that Archie could not make out. “What is that?” Archie asked gently. “The mine is gone.”“What?”“Gone… it’s not there anymore. It’s… it’s…” A tear streaked down the red handprint that Archie had left on his face and he felt guilty for slapping the man. When they got to the mine, a crowd of flinty-faced men, pale from long hours in the depths, stood in clumps stealing glances at the mine entrance and muttering evil things in German and Polish. From the outside, the mine was clearly there. Archie turned to a few of the miners and asked, “What has happened here? Is someone hurt?” The men shook their heads sullenly and turned away. Jablonski said, “It’s just gone…”“What do you mean GONE!” said Archie. “You mean there’s been a cave-in? Is someone hurt?”“No, Mister, sir. It’s something else. Something else in there I mean. In its place. None of us want to go in there. It’s… an unholy place.”“What do you mean an unholy place? Have you lost your mind? For God’s sake man, start talking sense,” Archie asked, but he could see by the fear on the men’s faces that Jablonski believed what he was saying, and the men did too. “Not for God’s sake, Mr. Sir,” said Jablonski. “You go see.”“Superstitious b******s,” said Pulaski, the Foreman, as he burst out of his office, “You’d scarcely even call them civilized Christians if they weren’t crossing themselves all the time. Good workers, for the most part — more trustworthy than the Chinee we run on the second shift. But the damned Popery is what does it. All the costumes and incense and Latin mumbo jumbo.” “Ah Pulaski,” said Archie, happy to see a relatively sane man, “What is going on here?”“I can’t get ‘em to come to work, and when I do round enough of ‘em up to put together a shift, they go in and come right back out again.” “It does appear to be there to you, doesn’t it? The mine, I mean,” asked Archie.Pulaski looked at Archie like he was the crazy one. “The damn entrance is right there. Come on!” said the Foreman, “Let’s go see what Jablonski is so afraid of.” And he handed Archie a fine brass miner’s lamp. As they walked to the mine, the pale-faced men parted silently and let them pass.Archie followed Pulaski into the mine, stepping carefully along the minecart rails. For the first twenty feet it seemed like every other mine Archie had ever been in, but soon the walls changed composition. The bare rock gave way to huge blocks of greenish-grey stone set without benefit of mortar. The minecart rails stopped suddenly and he was walking on a floor paved with the same stone. “What the hell?” asked Pulaski.Archie, a fine Anglican, fought off an urge to cross himself. The passage they were in opened up into a gigantic, vaulted hall, that the lamplight could not reach the top of. “Jesus Christ,” said Pulaski.Archie said, “By the look of it, I would say this was a temple to a far older God.”They played their lamps along the walls, but the feeble light didn’t allow them to make out the carvings or decorations there. What Archie could make out disturbed him. Glimpses of hideous flying creatures snatching up tiny human figures.Pulaski muttered, “We need light.” He strode back to the hallway and yelled, “Jablonski! Bring all the lamps!”“No Mister, Sir!” came Jablonski’s voice echoing back through the tunnel.“I need light, you superstitious Polack!”“It’s not natural boss, you come out of dere.” Archie stepped further into the room and played his flickering lamp along the walls. In the gloom, he saw strange, bas-relief carvings. Human figures warring with bestial, ape-like creatures in one frieze. In the next, another band of humanoids were beset by creatures that seemed little more than masses of tentacles. The argument in the tunnel reached a fever pitch. “Jablonski, I swear. If I have to come out there and get those damn lamps…” “Lamps, amps, mps, ps…” the word echoed in the depths of the mine. Mine? Chamber? Temple? City? Whatever this was, it was built on a gigantic scale and with painstaking craftsmanship. What was it for? How did it come to be here? Feeling immeasurably ancient and yet… somehow. Archie’s curiosity drew him deeper into the darkness of the massive room.“Goddamn it Jablonski! If you don’t fill that minecart with lamps and wheel it in here right now…” cried the Pulaski. “Ow ow ow ow…” echoed strangely through the chamber. And underneath it, Archie thought he heard something else, An answering sound from deep in the darkness. He could not be sure because it was obscured by Pulaski muttering, “And if there’s not some goddamn silver somewhere in here, Jablonski is going break the news to DuMont.”Archie looked back towards the entrance. Pulaski was silhouetted against the last feeble remnants of daylight that struggled in from the mine opening. Behind him, he heard a hollow clomp from deep below, but when turned back around, the sound did not repeat. At the edge of the feeble light cast by his mining lantern, Archie made out a large, static shape looming in the darkness. Even as fear pulled him backward, his curiosity drove him forward. Shaking a little, he advanced into the darkness. There he found what he thought to be a large sarcophagus, or perhaps altar, in the center of the room. He moved closer and saw that there were chips and deep gouges in the surface of the ancient, evil-looking stone. Large rings were fitted in the sides which were covered with incomprehensible lettering and horrifying pictographs. A few threads of rotting hemp rope dangled from one of the rings. He walked around to the long end of the stone altar and it all became horrifyingly clear to him. He saw where the grooves in the top led to a single downspout. He saw where the container would have been placed to collect the blood of a sacrificial victim. What unholy god or demon was this place consecrated to?Even as his emotions recoiled from what he saw, his scientific training kept him asking questions and gathering data. In a bizarre act of crumbling sanity, he started counting the marks in the surface of the altar. There were hundreds. But surely every sacrifice hadn’t left a mark. Many, many people had died on this altar.He stood, swaying with the horror of it all, yet still curious. He tried to read the characters carved into the side of the altar. The runes and glyphs were unknown to him but seemed tantalizingly on the edge of his understanding. And the more of the carvings he saw the closer comprehension seemed to be. It was like a word stuck on the tip of his tongue that he wished to spit forth into the world with a scream. Archie broke out in a sweat, spiking a fever from nowhere. Then he heard a chant as if the entire room was filled with unseen worshipers. He looked around and no one was there. Yet he heard them, crowding in close around him, the chant little more than a whisper, yet massive from the number of people crowded around him, fervently praying. Praying to what? Praying for what? The sound surrounded him. Smothered him. He felt unable to move. “Hey, Mister. What you got there?” he heard the Pulaski ask him from a long, long way off. Then Archie went blind. He could feel the warmth of his lamp still burning in his hand, but all he could see was darkness. And, in the darkness, he had a vision of a monstrous creature, a power of the Earth before the time of Man. It was mostly bat, but among its leathery features, Archie could make out a glimpse of sentience in its strangely human eyes. Was it a chimera? Or a horrid beast that evolution had forgot? He felt the pull of this creature, its immense mind, its burning eyes, an ancient, undying thing that whispered the promise of secret knowledge, life eternal, and power in exchange for blood. “Mister are you okay?” asked Pulaski, shaking his shoulder. Archie struggled to answer the question. When he opened his mouth to speak he heard the sound of claws on stone and the rush of stale air across leathery wings. “I… I… I’m fine” lied Archie, “I think I just need some fresh air.“Archie was proud that he had not run screaming to the sunlight at the end of the tunnel. When reached the outside the world seemed bright and normal yet somehow smaller than the vast, hungry darkness inside the temple. He staggered through the dusty yard and the miners looked at him with fear and concern. He could still hear the sound of wings. He looked around him frantically and realized that this too was hallucination or vision — as the vision of the sacrifice had been. But knowing something intellectually and getting rid of fear are two very different things. He plunged his head deep into a water trough. It was still frigid from the high desert evening and he felt the bones in his skull pop with the cold. But the ache he felt was real and it blocked out the visions of death and leathery wings. He held his head under the water until his lungs screamed for air. He flung his head up, shaking and flinging water all around him as he struggled to regain his breath. Pulaski, Jablonski, and the rest of the miners watched him with fear.“Mr. Croyton, are you all right?” asked Pulaski.Archie ignored the question. He stared at the black hole of the mine entrance like a duelist and said, “Torches! We need torches. And men to carry them.”He saw many of the miners recoil in horror. And who could blame them? Horror was what lay beneath that hill. Ancient, unknown evil. But it was not the remnants of a bestial faith that Archie found terrifying, but The same irrational, superstitious, darkness that had held humanity back since the dawn of time. And now that he was faced with it in its purest, most powerful form, he decided that he would not be afraid. There was a truth to it and it could be brought to daylight. And he would do it. Archimedes decided that whatever the cost, he would rather know, than fear blindly. When Pulaski hesitated, Archie took charge. He pointed at the men and then to the shoring timber. “You men, split that wood into f*****s, three feet long should be enough, and find rags, fabric, anything we can soak with oil. Mr. Pulaski, no one goes into that mine until I get back.” Pulaksi looked at the terrified miners and said, “I don’t think that’s going to be an issue.” As Archie turned and walked away, Pulaski asked, “Where are you going?”“To assemble a company.”Archie walked across the street and into the staging yard where the teamsters were camped. A few of the teamsters had pitched tents, but MacAllister, true to his word, was passed out under his own wagon, still drunk from the night before. “Gentlemen,” Archie barked, the horror in him driven off by the joy of the words growing inside him, “And such unfortunate ladies as there may be. Stand and be counted. Adventure awaits.” He was greeted by a litany groans and of curses. From beneath the wagon MacAllister, said, “The horses are done in. The women have been rode hard and put up wet. The squadroon is in no condition to haul. Begging your poxy, arse-riddled pardon, sir.”“The only cargo I require to be moved is your insolent carcass across the street. I’ve need of men to explore a ruined temple.”“Ruined temple,” asked MacAllister, opening one bloodshot eye into the light of a new day. Is there treasure then?”Dr. Krupp was certain that he was going to die. Slowly, painfully, most likely when his gunshot wounds became infected, but certainly, it would be death. He drank Dr. Bartoleermere the Second’s Magic Elixir as a desperate man clutches at fragments of his wrecked ship. Even after he had seen the miraculous recovery of Penelope Miller on the riverbank, even though his life depended on it, the snake oil salesman could not bring himself to believe that his elixir actually worked. He swallowed the foul-tasting liquid and sighed hopelessly. Standing above him, Jean DuMont watched all this with detached fascination. “Why did you shoot me?” asked Dr. Krupp. “I need to know how much of a fraud you were.”“You coulda just asked,” said Dr. Krupp, almost breaking into sob at the end. “I prefer to take my chances with other people’s lives.” “Jesus, this hurts!” “Ah,” said DuMont, hitting Krupp in the leg with his cane, “So it does not work and you are a fraud after all.”Krupp nodded once, tears streaming down his face, but then his eyes grew wide. He felt a warming sensation in his stomach, and a light, euphoric feeling all over. He giggled, then tore his shirt open. He wiped the pooled blood away and found that the wound had healed. He laughed again and stood up, smiling at Jean DuMont.“I’m okay. I’m okay! I’m going to live.”“Quite remarkable,” said Jean DuMont. “What is the formula?”“I don’t even know. I just bought it from a brewery in San Francisco,” said Dr. Krupp, just giddy from being alive. “Ah,” said Jean Dumont, “Pity.”“But I still have plenty of bottles to sell you! Though I’m going to charge you more since you shot me.”DuMont produced his other derringer from his right coat pocket and shot Dr, Krupp again. This time in the head. Krupp died instantly and fell to the ground. Not giving Krupp another thought, DuMont removed another bottle of elixir from the wagon and drank it. He was immediately overcome with a coughing fit. He hacked and hacked and hacked, bringing forth hunks of diseased, black lung tissue and spitting them onto the ground like strange, foul-smelling mushrooms He fell to his knees, wracked with pain, and vomited blood into the dirt. Then he tried to rise, staggered a few steps, and fell down. He rolled onto his back and drew his coat sleeve across the bloody mess of his mouth. Then he took a deep breath, exhaled it, and smiled. His lungs were clear and free of consumption. He rose, laughing like a madman. Get full access to Patrick E. McLean at patrickemclean.substack.com/subscribe

Just catching up? Here’s the story so far in ebook and audiobook formatIf you’re already on board, take a minute to leave a review on Part I on Amazon.—Sheriff John Dance hadn’t slept much. When the night started, they didn’t have any customers, so he sat outside on the porch waiting for the heat to die down. About eleven he took a quick turn around the town. There were few drunks, but everything was quiet enough. Those goddamn cowboys from Burdock’s place weren’t in town, so nobody was expecting trouble. He thought it was safe to go to bed. So he kicked the dust over to the Cavalier, Grantham’s third-finest rooming house, and had just about closed his eyes when Speedy Pete had come a-hammering on his door. Pete was out of breath and that was a bad sign. Speedy Pete’s nickname was ironical in nature, and he wasn’t one for hurry. Turns out Dance had been wrong about Burdock’s boys. Well the worst of them at least. Earlier in the evening, the youngest son, Charlie Burdock, had installed himself at Saloon #3. What the name of the establishment lacked in originality it made up for in accuracy, being the third saloon built on the spot. The first one had been blown over and the second had burned down. Dance didn’t want to speculate about what Act of God or gross negligence would result in Grantham receiving saloon number #4.He sent Pete in through the front and had him pretend to be staggering drunk. Pete was all but worthless in a fight, what with speed being of the essence, and smarts of a bonus. But Pete did have the virtue of being so non-threatening that he was liked by everybody. He was sort of the mascot of Grantham. Which came in handy. Dance slid in through the back and found the place empty but for Charlie, Pete, a dead man on the floor, and Oscar, bartender and unlucky owner of saloons one through three. Old Oscar’s eyes went wide and he almost gave the play away. Charlie didn’t notice. He was loaded to the gills and regaling Pete with the story of how the dead man got that way. Spit flew from Charlie’s mouth as he said, “And Pete, hand to God, he went for his pistol and… well, I HAD to shoot him. You wouldn’t arrest a man for defended hisself would you?”“No sir,” said Pete nice and slow, “that sure enough… ain’t no crime… that I know of.”Charlie slammed his palm on the counter and turned to Oscar Brace behind the bar.” See, Oscar — I told you. I TOLD YOU! Was self-defense, the law even says so!” Charlie said, putting a swerve on the word ‘says’. It was a convincing performance. Hell, even Dance wanted to believe him. Except for one problem. The poor b*****d on the floor wasn’t heeled. No evidence of a gun whatsoever. In fact, from what Dance could see, the rough lookin’ Polack on the floor had a surprised look on his face. Hell of a way to go. Dance hoped he’d live at least long enough to see Saloon #5.He eased his pistol out of the holster and carefully pointed it at the back of Charlie Burdock’s head. He put his thumb on the hammer but didn’t cock it, wary of the click. Dance stepped forward as quietly as he could. Part of him hoped Charlie Burdock would spin and try for his gun. He wouldn’t feel bad about putting this man down. Hell, he wondered if he shouldn’t just let fly now. He had done worse to better for less. But the damnable thing was, Dance liked Charlie. Hell, everybody did. Even if he weren’t no damn good. Another step. Charlie poured Pete a drink from his own bottle. Maybe he didn’t shoot because he knew that Pete would be flat rattled and never trust him again. And poor Oscar would be cleaning blood and brains off the bottles behind the bar. But it wouldn’t be the first bullet hole in the mirror behind the bar.Another step. Speedy Pete threw his drink back and looked to Dance as he brought his head down. Dance shook his head, *not yet.*It’d be better for the Sheriff’s office, in general, to have it done with right here, that was sure. Take Charlie in, he’d have to hold him until the Marshall came to fetch him. Three days at least, maybe a week. And Burdock was going to come for his boy. And he’s got thirty-some-odd hands at the Bar-D and the money to hire more. Most of whom feel a special attachment to Charlie.He took another step, this one over the dead man’s leg. Pete was slapping Charlie on the shoulder, they were both laughing about now. Oscar found a reason to head to the other end of the bar. All-in-all, it might also be better for Charlie if Dance had gunned him down. Likable though he may be, it was hard for Dance to see how there could be a happy ending for him. He’s a poor citizen and he’d make an even worse outlaw. Dance knew something about both. All Charlie’s good for is spending money and making trouble for his father. And everybody knows it, including Charlie. But the thing of it is, he’s a *good-time* Charlie. Everybody likes him. Including Dance. So Dance took one final step and brought the butt of the pistol down on Charlie’s head. Charlie slumped over the bar, then slid onto the floor. Sheriff Dance said, “You’re under arrest.”He had looked down at Charlie. And thought he didn’t look like a peaceful sleeper. He had an ugly, sorta pushed-in face. Like somebody had let a horse kick him when he was a baby. Dance took a swig from the bottle on the bar and said, “Deputy, let’s get him to the jail.”Pete heaved Charlie Burdock over his shoulder and off they went. Pete wasn’t fast and he wasn’t smart, but he was loyal and strong and that was enough for Sheriff Dance. They put Charlie in one of the cells, then Pete and Dance took the other one and tried to sleep. Charlie snored so loud Dance almost changed his mind, got up and shot him in the middle of the night.When he saw rosy-fingered dawn poking around the windows, Dance climbed down from the bunk, went out into the office and rolled himself a cigarette more from feel than sight. He lit it with a match but left the oil lamp on his desk dark. With the cherry of his cigarette bobbing in the half-light, he threw a couple of logs into the stove on top of the coals leftover from the night before. He belted his pistol on and stepped outside, happy to leave Charlie’s snoring and his liquor-sweat smell behind. Outside, Johnson’s Livery Stable was still across the street but was somehow obscured and shifting, as if it had become a ghost ship of a stable. The air was thick, filled with moisture. He exhaled cigarette smoke and it hung together almost like it had mass. Like... fog. By God, it was FOG he was seeing! There was no fog in this part of the Territories. Hell, Grantham barely ever even saw rain. The closest they came to water was when the wash at the other end of town formed a trickle in the spring as the snow melted somewhere on the far off-mountains. He turned his head to the right and looked down Main Street and gasped. He stood there, mouth open with a confused look on his face. He couldn’t make sense of what he saw. At first, he thought it might have been a mirage, but it wasn’t hot. The sun was barely up. He waited for his brain and his eyes to come to some kind of agreement about what he saw and what it actually was, but it didn’t come. So he stood there as the sun came up, watching it distrustfully and hoping that the full light of day show him what was real. What Dance had expected to see on the other end of town was the road to Bisbee cutting through a collection of dusty rocks and creosote bushes. But instead, the road stopped at full river. A river at least 300 yards across and God knew how deep. A river that didn’t look fordable, or even swimmable. And on the other side, a lush, green grassland dotted with trees likes of which he had never seen before. This was a totally different terrain, a different climate than what had been there when he’d gone to sleep the night before.He started at it until the cigarette burned down between his fingers. With a curse, he threw the wad of burning paper and tobacco into the street. Speedy Pete stumbled out onto the porch, yawned, and settled in on the rail next to Dance. He turned his head to see what the Sheriff was looking at and his jaw dropped open too.Sheriff Dance asked, “Pete, did you order a river from the Sears and Roebuck?”Without closing his mouth, Pete said, “Nah.”Dance said, “Well, c’mon, let’s go take a look.”“But Sheriff! What about our prisoner?”“Well he can’t come, Pete. He’s under arrest.”“I mean,” said Pete, as he leaned in and narrowed his eyes, “you think maybe this might be a Braddock trick so’s they can bust him outta jail.”Dance looked from Bill to the river and back again. A smile broke across his weathered face. He said, “Well Pete, if that’s a trick, then they got me.” And he chuckled all the way to get his rifle. Get full access to Patrick E. McLean at patrickemclean.substack.com/subscribe

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Bill Coletti is a crisis communications and reputation management expert with more than 25 years experience in managing high state crises. He's also the author of Critical Moment: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. You can learn these great hacks and ideas from Bill: His ABC model – rule No 1 in a crisis Why the key differentiator between a good and a great crisis response is speed. The 4 A's of reputation resilience How a company owns its brand, but the public owns its reputation.   Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services Find out more about Bill Coletti below: Bill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billcoletti/ Bill on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcoletti Kith Website: https://kith.co Bill's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Moments-Mindset-Reputation-Management-ebook/dp/B0757WXH8Z/   Full Transcript Below   ----more----   Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker. Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you. Bill Coletti is a special guest on today's show. He's a crisis communications and reputation management expert with more than 25 years' experience in managing highly state crises. He's also the author of Critical Moment: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. But before we get a chance to speak with Bill, it's The Leadership Hacker News.   The Leadership Hacker News   Steve Rush: Zoom office parties employers resorted to during the pandemic are no longer fit for purpose; end neither are the in-person team building exercises at work that took place before the pandemic, according to research from the University of Sydney in Australia. In a new paper, the University updates its study, originally released in 2009, which argues it's more important for leaders to focus on team building efforts on relationships with the parties are not very close versus those that are already close and to bring them closer still. In a statement, lead researcher Dr. Petr Mattus said, “Almost every day at work, workers are subjected to interventions that are implicitly or explicitly designed to change our networks of working relationships. Teams are formed, merged, restructured and staff reallocated office spaces when they're redesigned. And we expected to participate in drinks after work in team building sessions readily. All this work with the aim of improving workplace effectiveness, efficiency, collaboration, and cohesion, but does any of this really work?” Within the research, his colleague associate professor Julian Polack points out, “Among the participants that we interviewed. Some were really against team building exercises because they felt they were implicit or compulsory, and didn't welcome the management's interest in their lives beyond their direct work performance. We found that many people don't want to be forced into having or making friends or drinks, especially on top of their busy lives. And of course, many are already introverted and this just does not work.” Polack notes, “These activities often feel mandatory. People feel that management is being too noisy or trying to control their lives too much.” When it comes to team building on Zoom and any other online or virtual experience, some research completed by The Institute of Leadership & Management by Jay Luddit said, “We learned from the changing environment inflicted by the pandemic, that there is no one size that fits all. Employers offering flexibility around home working together with long hours, alongside other people's commitments. And finding unsurprisingly, people found initial favor with social interactions, but as time's gone, I started to really push against it.” Socializing works best when organic and when it's voluntary. So, allow people to choose when they engage and in doing so, you'll naturally be more fulfilling around creating a team environment. So, the leadership lens here is, how much time do we really spend understanding the internalization and the behaviors of our teams so that we can create the appropriate opportunity for socializing and networking. And I wonder if you just took a look around your team and the people that you work alongside now, how many of those Zoom pub quizzes and drink sessions are still going on today? I suspect there are a lot fewer than there were six months ago and therefore, what could be the next way that we gather in a virtual world to celebrate? That's been The Leadership Hacker News. If you have any insights, information, please get in touch. Start of Podcast   Steve Rush: Joining me on today's show is Bill Coletti. Bill is the CEO of Kit.co, he's the bestselling author of, Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management, he's a C-suite advisor and a strategist. Bill welcome to The Leadership Hacker Podcast. Bill Coletti: Steve, I'm really excited to be here and looking forward to a great conversation. Steve Rush: Me too, before we get into that conversation, though, it might be really helpful for our listeners to just get a sense of, who you are? How you've arrived at running Kit? Bill Coletti: That's awesome. So, I started my career, and so what we do is, we do crisis communications and reputation management for corporations and leaders. And I've started my career in politics. I ran political campaigns, did my first local government race, State Senate race when I was a senior in high school and then continue to be involved in politics through college, and then graduated on doing statewide campaigns and progressively larger races, and then took a five-year break and went to Eastern Europe and lived in Bulgaria again, doing politics and in Romania and Albania and a little bit in Bulgaria area and then came home in 2000 back to the United States and ran the United States Senate Campaign. And so, taking the skillsets of politics, which is as you know, in politics, it's very much crisis management. You're just trying to create one more crisis for the other guys that you have yourselves, or you're often trying to solve crises or fixed problems in a campaign is when we did that and applied those skillsets to a corporate context. And so, since around 2000, I've been doing this in a corporate context of working with corporations as they find themselves, their strategy misaligned with public's expectation. So that's where we spend all of our time now. Steve Rush: So, I guess politics was an incredible foundation for you to get those skills that not only understanding and responded to crisis, but as you rightly said, creating crisis for your opponents, what was maybe the one kind of stand out moment for you in your political career, where you could say right, that's definitely going to work in corporate world? Bill Coletti: You know, I think it is understanding attention span, understanding what motivates people and really understanding the limitations of your side. And so, I think great campaigns really understand who they are and what they stand for. Great candidates understand who they are and what they stand for. And what we've seen with corporations is that there's a key differentiator in crisis response between good and great. And good and great, the difference is speed, but the way you get fast is by understanding your mission and values, understanding what you stand for, and then there's elements of chain of command, so those two things equal speed. And so, what we've found with candidates is those that knew what they stood for didn't live in the middle of the road, took a position. They did better than candidates that tried to be all things to all people. And that's similar in a corporate context, not exactly universal, but similar in a corporate context. There are some differences that we can unpack if you want to talk about. But I think the biggest thing is, knowing who you are? What you stand for?  Can you actually walk the walk and not just talk it? Steve Rush: Yeah, neat. And I guess the whole 12 months that we've been in so far, it has been a crisis for most organizations. What has the pandemic bought about for you to deal with in the work that you now do with Kith? Bill Coletti: Yeah, so to two key insights, one is ABC, always be communicating. Companies, it's not an epiphany, but I think it became much more understandable and relatable that companies always have to be communicating in particular to their employees. And that's the second key insight that we picked up in this whole COVID experience is, that leaders, whether it be the CEO or a departmental leader or political leader. They have to be a source of truth because there are so many different sources of truth around COVID-19 is, that the leader of your company has to be a communicator and they have to drive that first insight of always be communicating. So, ABC, always be communicating. And then the second part is that leaders, CEOs, the business leaders have to be the primary spokesperson communicating what the path forward is and trying to be a source of truth. Steve Rush: It's definitely not the time for abdication at this point, is it? Bill Coletti: Not at all now, now is the time. And that's been a real epiphany. A lot of companies say, well, this reputation stuff, I don't really need to do that. I just serve my customer, serve my employees. But the public's expectations, running in parallel with COVID. In the United States and across globally, there are these issues related to social justice. These issues related to, or populations, groups of people are demanding corporations to take a stand. Those two things, COVID and social justice, public expectation have collided. So, there's no room for application. Even if there a small B2B lumber company. You have to have a position because your customers and then your customers, customers really demand you to have a position. Steve Rush: I love the notion by the way of ABC. always be communicating. And I totally get that. And it's something that's been really core to my heart, but I just wondered from your perspective, is there a danger in a crisis that's been, as long as the pandemic has been, that you can over-communicate? Bill Coletti: So, there's the possibility of that. I think it's a really, really high bar. Steve Rush: Yeah, right. Bill Coletti: I think it has to do with tone as much as volume of how much of it that you do. I think one of the great struggles that our clients have and that we have to work with them on one is, well, I've already said that, why do I need to say it again? Or I don't know when this is going to be over? And I don't know when we're going to be back in the office? I don't know when we're going to have a vaccination? Or I don't know what the government's going to do next? Is getting comfortable with uncertainty. That's been a great challenge for companies to figure out and for individual leaders, you know, (A) I've already told everybody that can be, I don't know what I'm going to tell them. It's okay. It is okay to say we don't know, but our best judgment or our best, here's what we're thinking about. That's really, really good enough to be able to communicate in that philosophy of always. Steve Rush: It's filling the gaps that people have the problem with. If they understand that you genuinely don't know what your strategy is, or you genuinely don't know what your next steps are, that's easy to deal with than them perceiving that you have got insight where you're just holding it back, right? Bill Coletti: Absolutely, and so back to that point, I made about the key differentiator between good and great crisis response is speed. The reason you're in the race, the reason that you need speed is you've got to fill the vacuum. If you don't fill the vacuum, somebody will fill it for you. Someone will tell your story for you, whether that be, you know, customer service rep, that's upset and tells it to somebody on the phone or internally at standing at the water cooler or on a Zoom call with your colleagues. Someone will tell that story if you don't fill in that breach. And so, you have to be conscious of that. The best remedy is always be communicating. I think the bar to your previous question is really high, but you can do that too much. Steve Rush: Awesome. Now you've written a best-selling book, Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. What was the inspiration for that? Bill Coletti: Yeah, it's a neat story.  I was in New York with a client, a remarkably talented female CEO and she had hired us and we were engaged in this crisis challenge. And it was about ultimately determined to be about a 7 to 10-day challenge, kind of where they were in the headlines, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Related to some operational challenges that they had. It was this slow burn, slowly unfolding challenge. During the course of the conversation, she and I had developed a friendship and a very consultative relationship. And I kept talking about this notion of reputation and reputation management, her focus, rightly so, and my focus was on the crisis. The moment, how do we get ourselves back to normal? Back to our position that we were before all the reporters started calling us? But I transitioned the conversation to, once we get through this, we're going to need to rebuild our reputation. And so, as an earnest consultant, I was full of jargon and full of, you know, Fluffernutter as I like to call it. And she challenged me and she said, Bill, I think I understand what you need, but I need a practical understanding of what you mean about reputation management, similar to the way I understand marketing, which is related to the four P's of marketing. Price, product, place promotion, if you're kind of an old school marketer, you might be familiar with the four P's. Price, product, place, promotion. It's the foundational underpinning of everything we know about the modern marketing mix. And we can quibble of whether digital and social media changed that, I don't believe that it is. Those four fundamentals are incredibly durable. So, her comment was Bill. I need to understand what you mean by reputation with a model like that. So, it was with that challenge that I flew home and on a cocktail napkin. And I said, well, what do I mean by reputation management? Fortunately, I had a three-hour flight. And then that let me build out what ultimately became the four A's of reputation management. And it sort of begins with this notion of awareness, goes to assessment, authority, and then ultimately action. And what the marketing mixes it, the four P's did for corporations, is it allowed leaders to assign responsibility and budget to four distinct disciplines. Price, product placement promotion, the four A's does the same thing when it comes to reputation management. It creates an organizational framework so that leaders can actually not just do good things and hope that it impacts their reputation, but actually articulating a quantifiable budget based rational model for how to grow your reputation. So, the motivation was this remarkably challenging in a positive way, CEO. They needed me to articulate reputation in a new way, and that's what the four A's. And that's where the book ultimately came from. Steve Rush: It's a really neat fit because marketing and reputation have very closely aligned, aren't they? What's your kind of take on how aligned they are? Bill Coletti: Yeah, it's interesting. I use the terminology. That a company owns its brand, but the public owns its reputation. Steve Rush: Yeah. Bill Coletti: And so, marketing is all about the brand. It's all about protecting the brand, growing the brand, changing customer experience, changing and drawing, making yourself more attractional so that people will swipe their credit card or write a check or do a purchase order or whatever the case may be. I think that reputation is formed by, certainly customers, but there are non-customers that have a perception and reputation. So, in the United States, we've got British Petroleum, BP. And if you live in the Gulf Coast of the United States, while I may not be a customer of a BP gas station, because it's just not convenient for me, it's not on my way home or to and from the office, but I certainly have a perception about BP, that is me articulating a position and articulating a belief around their reputation. Similar for Boeing. I am not going to be needlessly able to buy a Boeing jet engine. That's just not on our purchase list, but we have a belief and a perception around Boeing equipment because of what we've seen or heard in the media and understand that. So, brand is driven for check writers, people that are going to actually purchase it. That's the domain of marketers and I believe communications and the folks that think about reputation, that's where they live. They live in that notion of creating and growing a reputation long-term. So, I think there's a distinction because a company can control its brand, but it's the public that owns its reputation. Steve Rush: Yeah, that's a great reframe. Love it. So, in the book you talk about the four A's of reputation and management. Might be useful just to spin through the four A's and give our listeners a little bit of a nudge to in this (A). This is maybe what I think about? Bill Coletti: Yeah, that's awesome. So, model of these basic four A's really critical mindset is what I'm trying to articulate. So, the first one is awareness. And so, my work is often for corporations, but it's also for individuals. And so, it fits into both a human dynamic as well as to a corporate dynamic standpoint. So, the first thing is awareness. So, who are we? What do we stand for? What is the aspiration that we have for our reputation? So, it's really around awareness and understanding of self, self-meaning in the context of a corporation. How do we understand that? Second is assessment. Once I know who we are, and we're talking to and about ourselves, that's awareness. Assessment is to go ask others, let's go ask our stakeholders. Let's go ask, certainly our customers, let's ask our regulators, let's ask other people, our neighbors. And so, I talk about it in a context of communities, customers, and critics. So, let's actually go do assessment, which is good old fashioned survey research, or some form of public opinion research, where do we stand? Here's what we think, which is awareness. Assessing is where we actually validate that with the public. We then moved to authority and authority is the element of where you get buy in from your senior leadership team, where you're sharing the insight and that you actually have the ability to drive change, but you need to make sure that your leadership is bought in. Understands the value of reputation, understands the economics of reputation. And there's a whole lot of work that needs to be done with your leadership team. With the understanding of awareness, the understanding of assessment that leads to authority. The cover of the book then is all portrayed as a pyramid. At the top of that third level, which is authority. There's a solid blue line, and the solid blue line is a consultant or well-intentioned employee barrier. Because the last (A) is action, is that too often companies will ping pong around and decide to be overly focused on the cause, the issue of the day, whether it be LBGTQ issues, black lives matter, all critically important topics, whether they talking about global climate change, whatever these issues are. But unless an organization is aware, done some assessment, done some authority. You can't jump to action unless you've done that work. So that's why there's a blue line. So those are the four elements. Action is actually the manifesting and doing reputational boosting efforts campaigns to actually grow your reputation for the long-term, but you can't do it just like you can't. When I lived in Bulgaria, I had a buddy of mine who was a Marine and on Thursday night, before a Saturday morning marathon, he said, wow, well, heck, I can go do that. He failed miserably and running a marathon and jumping into action because he hadn't, wasn't very, self-aware, he hadn't really assessed his body and his wife really didn't give him permission to spend any time training over the next 48 hours. So that action kind of failed Steve Rush: I love that model on the basis that as you've already articulated. So, if you're an individual thinking about your reputation, you can apply. If you're running a team, if you're running a project or running an organization, those things still apply. Bill Coletti: Yeah, absolutely. And that's wonderful the way you say it that way, because as a firm, that's who we serve. And so, we serve individuals with a training product, where we call KITH ACADEMY, which is all about the mindset and behavior of superior communicators, what do superior communicators do? We work with teams on simulations. How do you actually simulate these crises? How do you think about what could or couldn't happen and exercise your team? We work with the organization, which is the bigger, comprehensive transformation reputation work that we do. And then we serve, give the situation, which is crisis response, where we come running and actually do crisis response. So yeah, so the four A's are very durable in both the human context, the team context, as well as organization Steve Rush: Now you've become renowned for helping folks get through crisis and deal within managed crisis. And I guess there've been lots of lessons to be learned from the pandemic in the last 12 months, but typically as a leader, what would be a response you would see more often from a leader in a crisis? Bill Coletti: I think head in the sand, this will blow over. There's a very poor assessment of smoke versus fire. People misinterpreting something as smoke when it really is fire or something that's fire, but it's really just smoke. There's also this notion that, you know, that's all just a social media chatter. This is really not that important. My customers, my key stakeholders, it doesn't really matter to me. So, there's an under appreciation and then there's an over appreciation. I think the key thing of how leaders respond is a misunderstanding of this evaluation of smoke versus fire. That's the key miss that I see over and over again.   Steve Rush: Yeah, and if you think about, there's likely to be crisis in every organization, whether it be small- or large-scale crisis to deal with, and it's the old adage of, it's not about the crisis is how you respond, right? Bill Coletti: Absolutely. Steve Rush: Yeah. Bill Coletti: Absolutely, and I like to talk about crisis. You know, there are normal operational business challenges that impact organizations that are not crises. Those are just things we got to manage through. We just have to manage through that event. I think this notion of crisis is something that really distracts me or takes me off my strategy. Because of the public's expectation or what the public thinks I should be doing, even though they never paid attention to before but they're paying attention now. That's what a crisis is, that really sort of sets the stage for this notion when I talk about critical moments, that the real distinction that organizations need to think about is, the comings and goings and business, that's why we're all in business. We just got to keep grinding and keep doing the work that we do, but something that takes us away from our strategy and this aligns us with what the public expects us to do. That's the greater challenge. Steve Rush: So, here's a little bit of side question for you Bill, that's kind of a sprung to my thinking, as we've been talking, is there a magic sauce to stop or prevent crisis happening in the first place? Bill Coletti: I don't think there's one thing. I think there some pretty well-established recipes to minimize the threat. Now things happen all the time, and so you can't manage against that. I think a global pandemic is one that we would've never mitigated against. We could have prepared for it better, but we could have never mitigated. So, I don't think you can ever be bulletproof on this stuff or crisis proof, but I think it could be crisis ready. And there are three simple things that I advise to clients to do. One is simplest basic form. Is that your weekly, monthly, quarterly staff meeting, whenever you get your team together, pull out the major newspaper of your choice, national or international newspaper and say, pull out a headline and say, what if this had happened to us? What would we do? How would we respond? The simple act of being aware of response, the simple act of asking questions about, how would we respond? It's a basic form of simulation. That's one of the best things that an organization could do. The second thing is actually invested in simulations, actually invest in training and testing and exercising your machine. How do we respond? What are our mission and values? What's the chain of command? Really exercising that with a various group of stakeholders within your organization. And then thirdly, most big sophisticated organizations have a risk management function. In most large multinational corporations. The risk management function is about what insurance do we need to buy in order to transfer risk so that we don't have to pay for an exposure that therefore we have insurance. There is great thinking that lives within the risk management organization, particularly for big global corporations and as well as most national corporations have risk managers. Leveraging the thinking of those risk managers, do simple simulations, do comprehensive simulations, but really leveraging the thinking of risk managers, those are three very concrete things that organizations can do. Again, the goal is not to become crisis proof, it's to have fewer of them, but also be more crisis ready. Steve Rush: I guess, another way of putting it, is strategic thinking, isn't it? Bill Coletti: Yeah, it is, in its simple form, and we need to do it. You need to do it in a thoughtful, realistic way because as you know, strategic thinking begets strategic planning and you cannot plan for every possible permutation. You need to think in a smart way, you need to use your imagination, but you got to be careful. And that's where risk management and risk planning lose credibility when you start chasing every crazy permutation. And so, what we've already experienced is everybody is writing pandemic plans. And I don't know about you. I don't know if we're going to have to deal with a pandemic. We might in three years, five years, fifty years, who knows, we might. But there is plenty of other risks that we could be thinking about. Steve Rush: Sure. Bill Coletti: And that's why I don't really over-index on the risk. I over index on the response. And how does an organization get ready to respond Steve Rush: I'm with you on that one, for sure. Yeah, so this part of the show is where I get to hack into your leadership mind and thinking about all of the great teams and experiences and folks that you've worked with and led, and the first place I'd like for us to go is for me to hack into your mind and look at your top three leadership hacks, what would they be? Bill Coletti: That's great. So, I try to be really, really conscious about clarity of communication as a leader. What is my vision and how do I articulate that? And I use a tool what's called an impact filter and an impact filter is where I take the actual time. Let's say, I want to plan a webinar. I want to plan a conference or something like that. Some sort of external vision, write a next book, whatever the case may be. Is that I go through this effort of using what's called an impact filter to articulate, what are the key characteristics? What's the best thing that could happen? What's the worst thing that could happen? What does success criteria look like? And that then forces me to write it down. So, I think pen and paper is one of the best leadership acts, is write down my vision and not just sort of pop it off. Because I've got sufficient throwaway in my organization that people will listen to what I say, but when I take the time to write it down, it's a lot more clear. So that's number one, is usage of an impact filter.   Related to that is trying to speak clearly. And don't lead by empowerment, but lead by agreement, is that I really want folks to agree that what we're talking about or what I request or what we're doing, everyone to agree, that's the right thing to do and really focus on this notion of leadership agreement. And the last thing I do is a leadership hack for me, is being very, very intentional about protecting my own personal space and my own personal time, because as an entrepreneur and as a leader of my own firm, having time and space to think about, what we're doing? Why we're doing it? And what we're going to do next? is a really wonderful, wonderful way for me to serve my team. And then if I marry that up with clarity using these impact filters, those are three things that I do that would try to sort of help me lead the organization I run. Steve Rush: I love those, and most entrepreneurs also suffer with that last one where they, you know, try to create that deliberate space, but often get munched between work and personal space. Bill Coletti: Yeah, very, very sad, but true, sad, but true. We all validate ourselves by how busy, busy, busy we are. Steve Rush: Yeah. Bill Coletti: And it's just, I've got an entrepreneur that I fly alongside of, completely different. He's in the real estate industry, but we're very close and I just watch him and it's exhausting for me simply to observe him, I have nothing to do with his business. But it is exhausting for me to observe him, and I think he could be so much stronger if he took those moments to pause. Steve Rush: Sure. The next part of the show we affectionately call Hack to Attack. So, this is where something in your life or your work hasn't worked out particularly well. It might have been an experience that had gone completely south for you, but as a result of that experience, it's now a positive in your life or your work, what would be your Hack to Attack? Bill Coletti: Yeah, such an amazing question. And if you don't mind, I actually feel compelled to be very personal about this. Steve Rush: If you're comfortable with that, we're absolutely delighted. Bill Coletti: Yeah, I went through a divorce and it was a very challenging moment and I was working at a global public relations firm and would have a big fancy title, a global practice leader, and got caught really short of not paying a lot attention to my family, not paying a lot of attention to the needs of my kids. And so that car accident, if you will, or whatever, slamming into a wall, but that moment created, really forced me to refocus on things that really mattered. And I was caught, and then it led me to this amazing, amazing relationship that I have with my wife now, Debbie, who is such an enriching treasure. So, if I had not gone through that journey, I would not as be close and connected as I was to my kids. I would not have gone over my entrepreneurial journey. And then I wouldn't have found my wife, Debbie and fallen in love and found an appreciation in such a different way. So that's a tragedy that lots of people go through. You can choose to make something good out of it. And I'm very appreciative of all of the characters in that play. Some are villains and some are heroes, but I'm so appreciative of all the characters in that play, because it let me stand here with you to talk about an entrepreneurial journey, which is very exciting, but more importantly as a better husband and a better father. Steve Rush: And I love the fact that you're comfortable in sharing it as well, so kudos to you for doing so, and thank you. I really appreciate that. Bill Coletti: Thank you. Steve Rush: And of course, any separation, any relationship breakdown, that's a crisis. And I suspect that it gave you also some additional foundations you're pulling on unconscious. Bill Coletti: Absolutely, and I tried to be intentionally conscious about that because you're absolutely right. And it is all about, one of the key learnings from that for me is, I still had a career. I still had a job. I still have clients. I still have responsibility, you know, to my parents, which I was responsible for their caregiving at the time. I really learned to compartmentalization, and when you realize the leaders that we work with, that I work with, that find themselves in a crisis, it's typically the worst day of their professional career. And they have to be really good at compartmentalizing because they've got their own personal paranoia about, how's this going to impact them and their career? How's it going to impact their company that they lead or responsible for? And then they've got whatever's going on at home or whatever is going on, where else in their life. So, this gave me a greater appreciation for compartmentalization and a greater appreciation for the multifaceted, the components of crisis that organizations need to go through. Steve Rush: Awesome lesson. Thanks for sharing. So last thing we want to do with you is give you a chance to do a bit of time travel, bump into Bill at 21, and you to give them some advice. So, what would your advice to Bill at 21 be? Bill Coletti: Be an entrepreneur earlier. You were very generous in sharing some of these questions in advance. So, I actually thought about this one. I just think the journey that I've been on the past six years as an entrepreneur and running my own firm has been so enriching to me. And it was something that I was conscious of in my twenties and thirties and forties of like, yeah, I don't want to do that. That's not really for me, but I would have explored it and neither my parents were overly entrepreneurial. But I think that journey for me has been the most transformational thing in my life. And it's transformed so many things positively in my life that I wish I had done it earlier. Steve Rush: Awesome, love it. Bill Coletti: Yeah. Steve Rush: So, folks are probably going to wonder, how do we get to understand a little bit more about what Kith do? How can I find a copy of Bill's book? Where's a good place for us to send them when we're done? Bill Coletti: Yeah, the basic one is our website. It's just Kith. K-I-T-H.co, Kith is our corporate website, Bill Coletti on Twitter, Bill Coletti on LinkedIn. That's C-O-L-E-T-T-I. And when you get to our website, there actually be a landing page and we'll put it in the show notes. Just a quick summary of some of the things that we talked about here that people want to share. And so, we'll have a link down in the show notes, but it'll be just our website. And for the people that understand what we talked about here, and I'll be able to share that. So, I'm pretty old school. Just old fashion email off the website works, LinkedIn works. And like I said, be pretty active on Twitter. Steve Rush: Awesome, and those show notes will be all over our social media and our website too Bill. So, we'll make sure that we help connect with people who want to spend some more time listening and working with you. Bill Coletti: That's awesome. Thank you very much. Steve Rush: Its thank you for me, actually, for you taking time out of your busy schedule and being with us and sharing some of your stories. It's been really lovely talking with you and thank you for being on The Leadership Hacker Podcast, Bill. Bill Coletti: Well, it is my pleasure to be here Steve. Thank you for what you do. You share tremendous content, that's so valuable to people. So, thank you very much for having me. Steve Rush: You're very welcome. I appreciate it. Thanks Bill.   Closing   Steve Rush: I genuinely want to say heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your day to listen in too. We do this in the service of helping others, and spreading the word of leadership. Without you listening in, there would be no show. So please subscribe now if you have not done so already. 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