Podcasts about protecting

Conservation starts with the small things, and the future of hunting depends on what we choose to leave behind.Recorded live from DUX 2026, host Wade Shoemaker sits down with Ryan Yarnell, Hunt Marketing Manager for Turtlebox Audio, for a conversation about duck hunting, outdoor traditions, conservation, and the responsibility hunters have to protect the places they love.Ryan shares stories from a lifetime spent outdoors, from growing up duck hunting with family in Arkansas and East Texas to guiding hunters, working in the outdoor industry, and eventually joining one of the fastest-growing outdoor brands in America. The conversation explores Turtlebox's rapid growth, the importance of community, and why stewardship matters more than ever in today's hunting culture.Along the way, Ryan reflects on public-land hunting, the value of mentorship, raising the next generation of outdoorsmen, and how simple actions like picking up trash or helping another hunter can leave a lasting impact on conservation.Topics CoveredGrowing up hunting in Arkansas and East TexasWaterfowl hunting traditions passed down through familyRyan's journey through guiding and the outdoor industryTurtlebox Audio's growth and outdoor communityPublic-land hunting lessons and storiesRaising the next generation of huntersConservation, stewardship, and hunter responsibilityWhy small actions make a big difference outdoorsListen now: www.ducks.org/DUPodcastSend feedback: DUPodcast@ducks.orgSPONSORS:Bird Dog Whiskey and Cocktails:Whether you're winding down with your best friend, or celebrating with your favorite crew, Bird Dog brings award-winning flavor to every moment. Enjoy responsibly.

Send us Fan MailAI is making real estate faster, smarter, and easier to scale - but it's also making fraud cheaper, faster, and more convincing. The agents and brokerages that win next may not be the ones using the most AI, but the ones consumers trust with their money.Gary Pickren lays out the new reality real estate professionals are walking into, where fabricated emails, cloned voices, manipulated documents, and AI-generated video can all be used to fool buyers, sellers, and even seasoned teams. The upside is real. So is the risk.You'll hear how AI is already improving marketing, communication, research, contract review, scheduling, and transaction management, while simultaneously raising the stakes around identity, verification, and client protection. The conversation centers on a critical shift: technology can accelerate your business, but trust is what will separate the companies people choose.You'll discover why deception is becoming more accessible than ever, what that means for real estate operations, and how forward-thinking firms can build systems that protect clients before a problem happens. Gary also explains why confidence alone is no longer enough - modern consumers want proof that you have safeguards in place.If you work in real estate, lead a brokerage, or care about how AI is reshaping high-trust industries, this is essential listening. It's a wake-up call about the future of the business and a reminder that in an AI world, trust is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage.You'll learn about:• The difference between fraud detection and fraud-resistant design• Why "recognition is not authentication"• The Transaction Trust Ceremony• Transaction verification passphrases• The Two-Channel Rule• Why financial instructions should never change by email alone• Protecting employees from AI-powered social engineering• Protecting your digital identity• Creating a Zero-Trust Closing• The S.T.O.P. fraud-prevention framework• Five changes REALTORS® can make immediately• Risk-tiering transactions for attorneys, lenders and title companiesAnd remember the simplest rule from this episode:MONEY MOVES = TWO CHANNELS.If money is moving or financial instructions suddenly change, stop and independently verify before acting.If this episode could protect one agent, buyer, seller, lender or closing professional from fraud, share it with someone in the industry.#RealEstate #ArtificialIntelligence #AIFraud #RealEstateFraud #WireFraud #Cybersecurity #Realtor #RealEstateAgent #ClosingAttorney #MortgageFraud #Deepfake #RealEstateTechnology #DishinDirtDon't forget to like us and share us!Gary* Gary serves on the South Carolina Real Estate Commission as a Commissioner. The opinions expressed herein are his opinions and are not necessarily the opinions of the SC Real Estate Commission. This podcast is not to be considered legal advice. Please consult an attorney in your area.    

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the people who actually know the product disappear—and customer service becomes a phone tree, a 90-minute hold, or an ordering department that cannot answer a technical question?This week, Steve Sherwood and Wayne Ivusich examine the decline of accessible technical support across the pool and spa industry. Wayne reflects on his 32 years with Taylor Technologies, where he answered technical questions, developed educational materials, and taught an estimated 45,000 to 50,000 industry professionals. Since Taylor's acquisition by Fluidra, much of that direct technical access—and even some of Wayne's educational content—appears to have disappeared.The conversation expands into a larger industry problem: corporate consolidation may preserve a product name, but it does not necessarily preserve the people, knowledge, or customer relationships that built the brand.Before that, Steve is joined by Pat from the California Pool Association for the Insurance Interlude. They discuss how installers can protect themselves when equipment works correctly at completion but fails—or gets damaged—months later. Photos, service records, clearly defined warranty terms, and a documented follow-up may be the only things standing between you and somebody else's blame game.Topics discussed include:Protecting your company after completing equipment installationsDocumenting that equipment was operational when you leftWhy a written follow-up can become valuable evidenceDistinguishing parts warranties from free laborDamage caused by homeowners or subsequent service techniciansThe importance of maintaining complete water-chemistry recordsWayne's 32-year career with Taylor TechnologiesWhat Fluidra's acquisition of Taylor meant for technical supportThe loss of experienced educators and product specialistsSteve's experience waiting 90 minutes for manufacturer assistanceWhy sales representatives have become unofficial technical-support channelsThe value—and danger—of relying on Facebook groups for answersKnowing not only what questions to ask, but whom to askWhy genuine mentorship teaches people to investigate instead of merely supplying answersHow Talking Pools can serve as an industry resource when manufacturers cannotThe label may survive an acquisition, but the institutional knowledge does not survive unless somebody deliberately protects it. When the experts disappear, customers are left owning products without reliable access to the people who understand them.Have a pool, spa, chemistry, equipment, service, or business question you cannot get answered? Email the Talking Pools Podcast team at talkingpools@gmail.com.Support the showThank you so much for listening! You can find us on social media:FacebookInstagramTik TokEmail us: talkingpools@gmail.com Support the showThank you so much for listening! You can find us on social media:FacebookInstagramTik TokEmail us: talkingpools@gmail.com

Why do people hate success, wealth, and those who refuse to think small?In this breakdown, Marquett addresses accusations about Black women, explains why he rejects a poverty mindset, and dives into the psychology behind jealousy, excuses, scarcity thinking, and resentment toward successful people.He also shares lessons from growing up in poverty, building wealth without “lucky breaks,” protecting your time, thinking from abundance, and refusing to let your circumstances become your identity.This conversation is bigger than money—it's about mindset, accountability, ambition, and learning to build instead of hate.

Nakita mo na ba ang paborito mong artista na nag-aantanda bago ang recording o photoshoot? Ang pananampalataya ng mga Katolikong celebrities na ito ay Punto por Punto — deboto pala sila!Sa episode na ito ng The Jay Aruga Show, tampok ang 5 celebrities na HINDI mo aakalaing palaging nagsisimba at nag-aantanda — mula sa tennis court ni Alex Eala, hanggang sa concert stage nina Sarah Geronimo at Matteo Guidicelli, hanggang sa TV studio nina Kyline Alcantara at Melai Cantiveros.Alamin:

What happens when you know something is wrong, but no one believes you?In this heartfelt episode of Love Conquers Alz, Susie Singer Carter and Don Priess welcome Nancy Treaster, co-founder of  The Caregiver's Journey, to discuss her husband, Kim Treaster's battle with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and the long road to an accurate diagnosis. Nancy is a certified caregiving consultant and co-founder of The Caregiver's Journey, Nancy shares the subtle behavioral changes that first raised concerns, the frustration of being told it was "just anxiety," and why caregivers must trust their instincts when something doesn't feel right. Together, they explore the differences between Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal Dementia, the challenges of language loss (primary progressive aphasia), and the importance of advocating for a loved one when the medical system falls short.The conversation also dives into some of the most emotional aspects of caregiving:• Recognizing the early signs of FTD• Why spouses and family members often notice symptoms first• How to advocate for an accurate diagnosis• Protecting your loved one's dignity throughout the disease• Navigating aggression, incontinence, and difficult behaviors with compassion• What it means to become a "pragmatic caregiver" and find peace in the present moment• Why love can endure, even when memories fadeNancy's wisdom reminds us that while dementia changes relationships, it doesn't erase love.If you're caring for or walking beside someone living with FTD or any dementia diagnosis, this conversation will leave you feeling seen, supported, and inspired.* The short film mentioned in the podcast:  Love At First Sight starring British actors Sir John Hurt and Phyllida Law Send us Fan MailIf someone you love experienced neglect in a nursing home…Then you know how desperately the system needs to change.  History has shown us that It takes people power to change anything worthwhile. That's why we we're launching something that's never been done before. On September 27, communities across the country are coming together for the first-ever National Long-Term Care Reform Day.This is a peaceful national walk for dignity, accountability, and change in long-term care.We'rSupport the showNo Country For Old People; a Nursing Home Exposé is STREAMING NOW on Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0F7D1RR5X/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r) Visit the No Country For Old People Website for more information.Please watch. Review. Share.Be a ROAR-ior!! JOIN THE R.O.A.R. MOVEMENT (Respect, Oversight, Advocacy, Reform) for quality long term care! Visit the ROAR 4 LTC Website for more information and consider participating in the inaugural National National Long-Term Care Day, Sunday, September 27th The 1st ever ROAR 2026 National Walk for Long-Term Care Reform! Found out more here: https://www.roar4ltc.org/roar-2026-walkFollow us on Twitter, FB, IG, & TiK Tok

AI is changing hiring in ways that go far beyond candidates using ChatGPT to answer interview questions. The harder problem is knowing whether the person on screen is actually who they claim to be, whether their answers are their own, and what happens if someone with malicious intent gets access to company systems.Yagub Rahimov, CEO and founder of Polygraf AI, joins The Tech Trek to discuss the growing trust problem surrounding AI assisted interviews, deepfakes, impersonation, and security. He explains why organizations need more visibility into the hiring process without turning every unusual behavior, accent, or response into a reason for suspicion.What You'll Take Away• AI interview fraud is not simply a recruiting problem. Once someone enters the company, identity and access become security concerns.• Detecting suspicious candidates based on human intuition alone can create false positives. Rahimov argues for using technology to create evidence and visibility.• Small pieces of public information can reveal far more about a company than leaders realize when they are combined through what Rahimov calls mosaic intelligence.• Protecting company information means thinking beyond traditional security controls to what employees, executives, and systems expose publicly.Key Moments02:27 How AI tools can turn legitimate technology into an interview cheating mechanism05:35 Why hiring fraud can become a security and data access problem07:43 Using voice, conversation context, and AI detection to improve visibility during interviews11:43 Why increased AI uncertainty should not lead companies to distrust everyone14:28 What organizations should think about after a candidate actually gets hired19:40 The continuing race between increasingly capable deepfakes and detection technologyOne Line That Stuck“Tech problems have tech solutions.”Follow The Tech Trek for more conversations about AI, engineering, data, product, and how technical teams are adapting.

How to Extend Your Healthspan with Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti Living longer is not the real goal. Living longer with the strength, energy, mental clarity, and independence to enjoy those years is what matters. In this episode of The Customer Service Revolution Podcast, John DiJulius speaks with Dr. Sandeep "Dr. Deep" Palakodeti, founder and CEO of Velocity Health and author of The Ultimate Asset: Extend Your Prime, Not Just Your Lifespan. They explore how proactive longevity medicine, personalized healthcare, better diagnostics, and sustainable lifestyle changes can help people extend their healthspan—not simply their lifespan. What Is the Difference Between Lifespan and Healthspan? Lifespan measures how long someone lives. Healthspan considers how many of those years are lived with physical capability, cognitive health, energy, and functional independence. Dr. Deep explains that most people do not simply want more years. They want to remain active, mentally sharp, and capable of caring for themselves as they age. John connects that goal to his philosophy of living an extraordinary life. Developing your full potential is not only about personal achievement; it affects your family, employees, customers, and everyone who depends on you. How Much of Our Health Is Determined by Genetics? Genetics can increase a person's risk for certain diseases, but increased risk does not always determine the outcome. Dr. Deep discusses how sleep, cardiovascular fitness, metabolic health, nutrition, exercise, and other environmental factors may influence long-term health. Understanding your risks can help you and your healthcare team make more informed decisions earlier. Why Is Traditional Healthcare Often Reactive? The traditional healthcare system frequently gives physicians limited time with each patient. This can make care feel rushed, impersonal, and focused on responding to problems after they appear. What Is Concierge Precision Medicine? Concierge precision medicine uses a smaller patient panel, longer appointments, advanced diagnostics, ongoing coaching, and more direct physician access to provide proactive, relationship-based care. Velocity Health uses a digital-first model that serves patients across all 50 states. Members work with a physician, concierge, and human performance specialist to understand their health data and build a personalized plan. Can Technology and Medication Replace Healthy Habits? No medication, supplement, or emerging therapy eliminates the need for sleep, nutrition, movement, strength training, and mental well-being. Dr. Deep explains that tools such as GLP-1 medications or hormone replacement therapy may provide momentum for appropriately selected patients under medical supervision. However, lasting results require sustainable behavioral change and professional guidance. What Are the First Steps Toward a Longer Healthspan? Dr. Deep recommends beginning with three areas: Improve the quality and consistency of your sleep. Measure meaningful health indicators under qualified professional guidance. Find a physician or healthcare team willing to provide personalized, relationship-based care. Key Takeaways Healthspan is more meaningful than lifespan when the goal is to remain active and independent. Genetics can affect disease risk without completely determining a person's future. Sleep, exercise, nutrition, metabolic health, and mental well-being remain foundational. Advanced diagnostics can reveal risks that routine healthcare may not identify early. Concierge medicine is designed around accessibility, time, relationships, and proactive care. Medication should be treated as a clinical tool—not a replacement for healthier behavior. The best health plan is personalized, measurable, medically guided, and sustainable. Protecting your health helps you continue contributing to your family, organization, and community. Memorable Quotes "Functional independence is what we want." — Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti "You can only manage what you measure." — Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti "The new flex is being healthy." — Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti "Being independent allows me to have one boss and one boss only, and that's the patient." — Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti "Living our life to its fullest potential is a responsibility." — John DiJulius "We all have seeds of potential." — John DiJulius Episode Chapters 00:00 Introducing Dr. Sandeep "Dr. Deep" Palakodeti 02:23 How Velocity Health delivers digital-first precision medicine 07:08 Why personal health belongs in a leadership conversation 12:44 How genetics and lifestyle influence long-term health 17:47 Lifespan versus healthspan and functional independence 20:08 Traditional healthcare versus concierge medicine 26:37 GLP-1 medications, hormones, peptides, and medical guidance 30:07 Using diagnostics to build a personalized health plan 38:23 Why health may be the new status symbol 40:59 Why medication cannot replace healthy habits 44:56 Longevity medicine for women and couples 46:19 Three ways to start improving your healthspan 48:30 How to learn more about Velocity Health Learn more about Velocity Health at VelocityHealthClinic.com. This episode is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning or changing any medication, treatment, supplement, or health program. 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Learn more at https://thedijuliusgroup.com/membership/ Learn More If your organization is working to improve customer experience but struggling to connect it to measurable business outcomes, The DiJulius Group can help. Visit: https://thedijuliusgroup.com Listen to more episodes: https://thedijuliusgroup.com/the-customer-service-revolution-podcast/ Subscribe We talk about topics like this each week; be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss an episode.

From Burnout to Protection with Glennae Davis | Fortified Life Ep. 245Show notes:On Episode 245 of The Fortified Life Podcast with Jason Davis, special guest Glennae Davis, BSN, RN, joins the conversation to examine how workplace discrimination can become a root cause of chronic stress, declining health, burnout, and workforce loss.Glennae is the founder of Glennae's RX for Life™ and creator of the Workforce Care Model™, a nurse-led framework designed to address the serious effects of workplace discrimination.Drawing from more than 20 years of nursing experience, she equips Black career women and professionals with practical tools to navigate workplace systems, protect their health, preserve their employability, and maintain their dignity and faith.Her work bridges healthcare, labor rights, and spiritual accountability to offer real-world solutions that help individuals and institutions move from burnout to protection.In this powerful episode, listeners will learn about:• The connection between workplace discrimination and chronic stress• How unhealthy workplace systems can affect physical and emotional well-being• Practical ways professionals can protect their health and careers• The importance of dignity, faith, and spiritual accountability• How the Workforce Care Model™ helps move people and organizations from burnout to protectionTune in for an important conversation about workplace wellness, professional survival, faith, advocacy, and creating safer systems for working professionals.Hosted by Jason DavisSpecial Guest: Glennae Davis, BSN, RNThe Fortified Life Podcast — Episode 245Jerry Royce Live WorldwidePositive Power XXI Studios

In this episode of Nursing EDge Unscripted, host Dr. Kellie Bryant is joined by Dr. Kimberly Kelly-Cortez and Dr. Kelli Selvage of Chamberlain University to examine the changing landscape of cheating and academic integrity in nursing education. The conversation explores how artificial intelligence, social media, wearable technology, and the commercialization of cheating are creating new challenges for nurse educators while raising concerns about clinical judgment and patient safety. The guests discuss practical strategies for promoting academic integrity, including redesigning assessments, fostering authentic learning experiences, and helping students understand the ethical responsibilities of the nursing profession. They also emphasize the importance of creating a culture of integrity through clear expectations, faculty development, and institutional support rather than relying solely on punitive measures. Throughout the episode, the discussion highlights why protecting academic integrity is essential to preparing competent, trustworthy nurses who are ready to provide safe, high-quality patient care.Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the leading organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. Find past episodes of the NLN Nursing EDge podcast online. Get instant updates by following the NLN on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, and YouTube. For more information, visit NLN.org.

This week on Veterinary Ramblings, Mike Brampton and Julian Hoad are joined by Dr. Marc Abraham to explore animal welfare, grassroots campaigning, legislation, and the power of education to create meaningful change.The episode dives into Marc's work as a vet, animal advocate and author, from visiting schools and literary festivals with his children's book to his work exposing puppy farming through the documentary "Dogspiracy". He shares insights from going undercover in Amish puppy mills in Pennsylvania and how the film helped open new educational conversations with breeders and veterinary professionals.Marc also reflects on the decade-long grassroots campaign behind Lucy's Law, which brought an end to commercial third-party sales of puppies and kittens in the UK. He explains why legislation is only the beginning, creating the framework needed for enforcement, investigation and prosecution.The conversation also explores what makes political campaigning effective, the role of APDAWG in bringing grassroots voices into Parliament, and why patience, collaboration and giving policymakers practical solutions can be more powerful than confrontation.From animal welfare legislation to veterinary-client relationships, Marc also discusses the difficult conversations vets face when treating animals affected by extreme breeding, and why keeping communication open is essential to protecting the animal in front of them. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! In 2017, two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald launched his podcast, Money Making Conversations Master Class. Rushion McDonald’s “Keep Winning” #2 – Key Takeaways In this episode of Money Making Conversations Masterclass, Rushion McDonald shifts the discussion from personal value proposition to building and protecting a business through effective employee management. His message is simple: a great business idea can fail if the wrong people are responsible for executing it. Top Lessons 1. Your Employees Can Make or Break Your Business No matter how strong your product, service, or vision may be, success depends on having the right people helping you deliver it. A weak team can undermine even the strongest value proposition. 2. Five Reasons Companies Struggle to Find Great Employees Keeping poor performers because of personal relationships or loyalty. Hiring repeatedly from the same circle of recommendations. Refusing to admit that hiring mistakes may be coming from leadership. Hiring based solely on experience rather than adaptability. Believing there are no good candidates available. Rushion emphasizes that leadership must take responsibility for the quality of its hiring decisions. 3. Don't Build a Business on Hope Many businesses fail because they operate on optimism rather than planning. Rushion stresses the importance of having: A budget An accountant Human resources processes Clear hiring standards Successful businesses are built on systems, not wishes. 4. Be Willing to Let Employees Go One of the hardest responsibilities of leadership is termination. Rushion advises employers to: Be clear about performance expectations. Document problems. Communicate concerns early. Have witnesses present when necessary. The goal is not punishment but accountability. 5. Poor Customer Service Destroys Value Rushion shares a story about a restaurant where employees displayed poor attitudes, lacked preparation, and failed to serve customers properly. His lesson is that customers judge a company through employee behavior. A business can spend years building its reputation and lose it through poor service. 6. Raise Your Own Value Before Asking for More For employees, Rushion recommends thinking beyond the current position. Instead of focusing only on the job you were hired to do: Look for additional responsibilities. Set higher goals. Become indispensable. Increase your value to the organization. When your value grows, opportunities and compensation often follow. 7. Be Careful Hiring Family Members Rushion identifies several common mistakes: Hiring family simply because they're family. Hiring relatives because you feel sorry for them. Giving jobs to relatives who need financial help. Hiring family members who already owe you money. Hiring someone solely because a parent or relative recommended them. Business decisions should be based on qualifications and fit, not emotions. 8. Use a 90-Day Probation Period Rushion believes a structured probation period helps protect both employer and employee. Key checkpoints include: 30 Days: Review performance and reinforce expectations. 60 Days: Evaluate progress and determine whether improvement is occurring. 90 Days: Decide whether the employee is a long-term fit for the organization. Consistent evaluation prevents small problems from becoming major issues. Keep Winning Quote “Do not let an employee destroy your company. If they do, it's because you let them.” Bottom Line Build your business with the right people. Hold employees accountable. Create systems for hiring and evaluation. Avoid emotional hiring decisions. Protect your value proposition by surrounding yourself with people who help your vision grow. That's how you keep winning. #SHMS #STRAW #BEST Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Celebrate Kids Podcast, Dr. Kathy Koch and Wayne Stender explore why screens may affect children differently at key stages of development and what kids need from parents that technology cannot provide. They discuss the importance of love, touch, interaction, working memory, and real world experiences while helping parents think beyond simply limiting screen time. Parents will be encouraged to consider not only how much screen time their children have, but what that screen time may be replacing and whether their kids are getting the attentive, face-to-face relationships they need to grow well.

Dr. Hannah Spier joins Trending with Timmerie. A Norwegian-born psychiatrist and cognitive behavioral psychotherapist based in Zurich, she dissects how liberal narratives, pop-therapy fads, and identity politics have reshaped the mental health field. Episode Guide Trending high functioning depression – The increase in young people posting about suicidal attempts and ideas on social media (1:39) What do you do with high functioning depression? (14:15) Recognizing genuine depression & suicidal risk (26:30) Face transplants (36:36) Living organ donation shutdown in KY for harvesting living organs (46:20) Resources mentioned: Motherhood Is Being Labeled as a Psychiatric Diagnosis https://relevantradio.com/2026/04/motherhood-is-being-labeled-as-a-psychiatric-diagnosis/ Episode with Dr. Hannah Spier https://relevantradio.com/?cat=23210&s=hannah+Spier A Face Transplant from Another Person https://relevantradio.com/2026/02/a-face-transplant-from-another-person/ Womb Transplants https://relevantradio.com/2026/07/deextinction-genetic-engineering/ Protecting our loved ones – hospice & euthanasia https://relevantradio.com/2026/06/protecting-our-loved-ones-hospice-euthanasia/ What does the church require medically to keep someone alive? https://relevantradio.com/2024/08/navigating-medical-decisions-as-catholics/ Why IVF is bad for women and against Church teaching https://relevantradio.com/2025/02/why-is-ivf-bad-for-women-special-podcast-highlight/

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! In 2017, two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald launched his podcast, Money Making Conversations Master Class. Rushion McDonald’s “Keep Winning” #2 – Key Takeaways In this episode of Money Making Conversations Masterclass, Rushion McDonald shifts the discussion from personal value proposition to building and protecting a business through effective employee management. His message is simple: a great business idea can fail if the wrong people are responsible for executing it. Top Lessons 1. Your Employees Can Make or Break Your Business No matter how strong your product, service, or vision may be, success depends on having the right people helping you deliver it. A weak team can undermine even the strongest value proposition. 2. Five Reasons Companies Struggle to Find Great Employees Keeping poor performers because of personal relationships or loyalty. Hiring repeatedly from the same circle of recommendations. Refusing to admit that hiring mistakes may be coming from leadership. Hiring based solely on experience rather than adaptability. Believing there are no good candidates available. Rushion emphasizes that leadership must take responsibility for the quality of its hiring decisions. 3. Don't Build a Business on Hope Many businesses fail because they operate on optimism rather than planning. Rushion stresses the importance of having: A budget An accountant Human resources processes Clear hiring standards Successful businesses are built on systems, not wishes. 4. Be Willing to Let Employees Go One of the hardest responsibilities of leadership is termination. Rushion advises employers to: Be clear about performance expectations. Document problems. Communicate concerns early. Have witnesses present when necessary. The goal is not punishment but accountability. 5. Poor Customer Service Destroys Value Rushion shares a story about a restaurant where employees displayed poor attitudes, lacked preparation, and failed to serve customers properly. His lesson is that customers judge a company through employee behavior. A business can spend years building its reputation and lose it through poor service. 6. Raise Your Own Value Before Asking for More For employees, Rushion recommends thinking beyond the current position. Instead of focusing only on the job you were hired to do: Look for additional responsibilities. Set higher goals. Become indispensable. Increase your value to the organization. When your value grows, opportunities and compensation often follow. 7. Be Careful Hiring Family Members Rushion identifies several common mistakes: Hiring family simply because they're family. Hiring relatives because you feel sorry for them. Giving jobs to relatives who need financial help. Hiring family members who already owe you money. Hiring someone solely because a parent or relative recommended them. Business decisions should be based on qualifications and fit, not emotions. 8. Use a 90-Day Probation Period Rushion believes a structured probation period helps protect both employer and employee. Key checkpoints include: 30 Days: Review performance and reinforce expectations. 60 Days: Evaluate progress and determine whether improvement is occurring. 90 Days: Decide whether the employee is a long-term fit for the organization. Consistent evaluation prevents small problems from becoming major issues. Keep Winning Quote “Do not let an employee destroy your company. If they do, it's because you let them.” Bottom Line Build your business with the right people. Hold employees accountable. Create systems for hiring and evaluation. Avoid emotional hiring decisions. Protect your value proposition by surrounding yourself with people who help your vision grow. That's how you keep winning. #SHMS #STRAW #BEST Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. 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In this episode of Lead Culture, Jenni Catron shares what she learned during an extended summer break and why stepping back can be essential for sustainable leadership. She reflects on the tension between doing and being, the challenge of slowing down, and how time away revealed deeper questions about purpose, significance, and identity.Jenni opens with a reminder that culture does not take care of itself and that leaders must lead with intention. She then shares how her sabbatical included time with friends and family, reading, rest, and intentional disconnection from social media, email, and Slack. Even though the break was restful, it also surfaced a struggle many overachievers face: feeling significant only when they are productive.A major takeaway from the episode is that nothing magical happened on sabbatical — and that was the point. Instead of chasing big ideas or a new vision, Jenni focused on stillness, presence, and making space for what matters most. She describes how this time helped her recognize the importance of creative space, mental rest, and the right-brain work of meaning-making and reflection.Jenni also connects her personal experience to a broader cultural insight, referencing Arthur Brooks' research on how modern life often overvalues efficiency and problem-solving while undernourishing meaning, creativity, and human connection. She shares how this tension was made even more vivid in the wake of an EF3 tornado in her community, where people rallied together and reminded her that people are the point.Key TakeawaysHealthy leaders need rhythms that sustain them.Rest is productive when it creates space for meaning and clarity.Leaders often confuse being with doing.Creativity, stillness, and reflection are essential leadership practices.People should remain the priority, even in busy or crisis-filled seasons.Questions Jenni Asks LeadersWhat can you do that disrupts your rhythms and lowers your heart rate?How can you disconnect your doing from your being?Are you making space for quiet, creativity, and presence?What rhythms do you need to lead in a healthy, sustainable way?Resources MentionedInvitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley BartonThe Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark ComerThe Sabbatical Journey by Alan BriggsThe Meaning of Life by Arthur BrooksJenni's book Clout: Discover and Unleash Your God-given InfluenceClosing EncouragementJenni ends by encouraging leaders to protect the rhythms that keep them healthy, purposeful, and present — not only for their own well-being, but for the health of their teams and cultures. To connect with Jenni, email jennicatron@get4sight.com.We need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us:Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we're available wherever you listen to podcasts.Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

On the show floor at Black Hat USA 2026, Marco Ciappelli connected with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak, about a change in where the company draws the line around who gets protected. BlackCloak launched Impersonation Protection several months ago for the C-suite and their families. Clients came back asking for more reach. Why does deepfake risk extend past the executive? Because the people surrounding an executive hold the access attackers want. Pierson lists the trusts and estates attorney, the private wealth manager, the lawyer, the spiritual advisor, the dog walker. Each one is a plausible caller with a legitimate reason to reach out about money, schedules, property, or family. The economics moved too. Pierson contrasts an era when a convincing fake needed something close to a studio operation with what the same result costs now: a laptop, a small sample of audio or video, roughly three minutes of processing, live video and audio. He points to the February 2024 case where a finance employee acted on an impersonated CFO and twenty five million dollars went out the door. The expanded capability lets a member extend coverage across their circle at no cost to the invited contact. Pierson says the platform can now scale to hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of individuals at a single company, along with family members and key contacts. The point, as he frames it, is to stop the deepfake where it starts, which is at the human. What changed for executive protection over the past year? Physical and digital stopped being separate programs. Pierson traces that shift to the murder of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, and to the questions corporate security teams started asking afterward. Digital breadcrumbs sit on data broker sites and across the deep and dark web, and erasure is unrealistic, which moves the work toward protection rather than removal. That thinking shows up in the product. Members receive travel advisories tied to where they are going, and a CISO can pair a world threat dashboard with cybersecurity guidance for a specific trip. Behind it sits eight years of member data and one of the larger deception networks aimed at individuals, which shows BlackCloak where targeting concentrates, from executive airports to the Olympics to the World Cup. This is a Brand Briefing. A Brand Briefing is an on-location conversation recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026, putting a spotlight on the guest and their company and pairing it with the editorial reach of ITSPmagazine. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/performance/#briefing GUEST Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO at BlackCloak On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchristopherpierson/ RESOURCES Black Hat USA 2026 event coverage from ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/black-hat-usa-2026-cybersecurity-event-coverage-in-las-vegas Learn more about BlackCloak: https://blackcloak.io The BlackCloak Digital Executive Protection Platform: https://blackcloak.io/product/ BlackCloak extends deepfake protection to the executive's entire trusted circle: https://blackcloak.io/news-media/blackcloak-extends-deepfake-protection-to-the-executives-entire-trusted-circle/ Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight ▶︎ Get your own Brand Briefing at an upcoming event: https://www.studioc60.com/buy-brand-briefings KEYWORDS chris pierson, blackcloak, marco ciappelli, brand briefing, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, black hat usa 2026, digital executive protection, impersonation protection, circle of trust, deepfake, executive protection, ciso, data brokers, threat intelligence, travel advisory, social engineering, wire fraud, personal cybersecurity Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tomer Tzaban, a former Israeli counterterrorism operative who spent a decade conducting undercover missions in Gaza, has detailed his experiences in a podcast interview about his book, “The Ghosts of Rafah: An Undercover Counter-Terrorism Agent in the Heart of the Middle East Conflict.” Tzaban spoke with Alan Skorski on the Alan Skorski Reports podcast about his years with the elite Shimshon unit, where he served from 1986 to 1996. The unit operated undercover inside Gaza, with agents frequently assuming Arab identities and relying on disguises and carefully developed cover stories. Tzaban described operations that involved tracking terrorist suspects, preventing attacks and targeting members of armed groups. One operation involved a group of terrorists who, according to Tzaban, had disguised themselves as young Orthodox Jewish men as part of a plan to abduct Israeli soldiers and hold them for ransom. Tzaban also described an operation in which an intended target was located in a heavily populated area. The team abandoned the mission after a large number of children emerged from a nearby school, he said. Protecting civilians took precedence over completing the operation, consistent with the procedures under which the unit operated. Maintaining a convincing disguise required attention to details that went far beyond clothing and appearance. Tzaban said operatives had to understand local customs, speech patterns and even seemingly insignificant differences in daily life. He recalled that agents avoided strongly scented personal-care products because unfamiliar fragrances could make them appear out of place. Teams also worked with local Arabic speakers who could navigate regional dialects and social nuances. According to Tzaban, Gaza's different areas had distinct dialects, making language a potentially dangerous vulnerability. An operative could speak Arabic well and still attract attention by using words or pronunciation associated with another region. The conversation also touched on “Fauda,” the Israeli television series about undercover counterterrorism operatives. Tzaban said he knows several actors involved with the series and believes some of the show's early storylines drew heavily on the kinds of missions conducted by units such as Shimshon. His book recounts individual operations while also examining the personal cost of spending years working undercover. Tzaban described the constant pressure of maintaining a false identity and the psychological effects that could continue long after an operation ended. Tzaban also discussed security concerns in Europe, arguing that some extremist organizations have pursued strategies for decades that are now becoming more visible. He warned that Western countries, including the United States, should study those developments rather than wait until similar threats emerge at home. The interview concluded with a discussion of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the intelligence failures that preceded it. Tzaban said the attack represented a profound turning point for Israel and had consequences that extended far beyond the immediate security failure, changing the way many Israelis and Jews view the country's security and the threat posed by Hamas. “The Ghosts of Rafah” draws on Tzaban's experiences to provide a firsthand account of Israel's undercover counterterrorism operations in Gaza during the 1980s and 1990s. Watch the interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ2_UjnyWOY&t=4s Alan Skorski Reports 12AUG2026 - PODCAST

  In this episode of Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill, Dr. Jill Carnahan welcomes renowned neurologist and bestselling author Dr. David Perlmutter to explore the emerging science behind brain health, neuroinflammation, and cognitive resilience. Drawing from his groundbreaking new book, Brain Defenders, Dr. Perlmutter explains how microglia—the brain's immune cells—play a central role in protecting or damaging the brain depending on our metabolism, lifestyle, and environment. Together they discuss why Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease begin decades before symptoms appear, why inflammation and insulin resistance are major drivers of neurodegeneration, and what we can do today to protect lifelong brain health. Whether you're concerned about memory loss, dementia prevention, or optimizing cognitive performance, this episode offers science-backed strategies to build a healthier, more resilient brain.

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A Jesus Entrepreneur Collective Commentary with Stan Hustad   There is a version of Jesus that almost everybody can live with. Gentle Jesus. Welcoming Jesus. Compassionate Jesus. Jesus with the children gathered around him. Jesus healing the sick, feeding the hungry, forgiving sinners and telling frightened people not to be afraid. That Jesus is real. But he is not the whole Jesus. And in this challenging edition of the Jesus Entrepreneur Collective, Stan Hustad asks his audience to confront another side of Jesus—the strong, courageous, sometimes confrontational Jesus who was willing to say things that made powerful people uncomfortable. This is Jesus, the Man of the Millstone. And his warning concerning the vulnerable—especially children—is difficult to dismiss. Jesus said that whoever causes one of the "little ones" to stumble would be better off having a great millstone hung around his neck and being cast into the sea. Those are not gentle words. They are not politically convenient words. And they certainly do not sound like the harmless, perpetually agreeable Jesus sometimes presented by modern culture. They are the words of someone who took the protection of the vulnerable with extraordinary seriousness. Jesus Was No Wimp Hustad begins the program with an observation he has made repeatedly throughout his years of broadcasting, teaching and coaching: Jesus was not weak. He was compassionate without being timid. He could welcome a child, touch a leper, forgive a sinner and comfort a grieving family. But he could also challenge religious authorities, confront hypocrisy, overturn tables and stand before political power without surrendering his convictions. Hustad recalls the famous scene from the classic film Ben-Hur. A Roman soldier attempts to prevent Jesus from giving water to the exhausted prisoner. Jesus simply rises and looks at him. No speech. No violence. No threat. Just presence. And the soldier backs away. Whether or not the cinematic scene tells us precisely what the historical Jesus looked like, it captures something important about him: Strength does not always have to shout. Real authority does not require bullying. Courage does not require cruelty. And conviction does not require hatred. That distinction becomes especially important when Christians enter the difficult moral arguments of their time. Don't Mess With the Children The program then moves directly into one of the most contentious issues in American public life: abortion, particularly political efforts to permit abortion very late in pregnancy. Hustad makes no attempt to hide his position. He believes unborn children possess profound human worth, and he believes Christians should speak clearly in their defense. But the challenge goes deeper than a political argument. His question is: What does Jesus' warning about protecting the vulnerable require of people who claim to follow him? That question cannot simply be handed to politicians. It belongs to pastors, business leaders, entrepreneurs, parents and grandparents, teachers, broadcasters and communicators, and ordinary Christians sitting quietly in church pews. The millstone passage is disturbing precisely because Jesus intended it to be disturbing. He deliberately chose an image his listeners would understand: an enormous grinding stone, potentially so heavy that an animal was required to turn it. Then Jesus attached that image to a warning about harming or corrupting the vulnerable. Whatever one's politics, those words should stop a follower of Jesus long enough to ask: Do I take the protection of vulnerable human life as seriously as Jesus apparently did? That is the challenge. Not hatred. Not harassment. Not threats. Not personal condemnation. A challenge of conscience. Conviction Without Cruelty There is another challenge here for the Christian entrepreneur. It is possible to believe something strongly and still behave badly while defending it. Christians do not receive permission to become cruel simply because they believe their cause is righteous. Jesus demonstrated another way: strong convictions, courageous words, compassion for people. Those three belong together. The Jesus Entrepreneur Collective therefore does not call people to attack those with whom they disagree. It calls people to become courageous enough to speak, thoughtful enough to listen, disciplined enough to understand the issue, and compassionate enough to remember that every person in the argument remains a human being. The unborn child matters. The frightened mother matters. The father matters. The physician matters. The person who profoundly disagrees with you matters. Truth and love are not competitors. The difficult task of Christian leadership is learning to practice both. Jesus the Marketplace Man Hustad then returns to one of the recurring themes of the Jesus Entrepreneur Collective: before Jesus became an itinerant teacher, he spent many years in the ordinary world of work. He knew customers. He knew deadlines. He knew workmanship. He knew expectations. He knew what it meant to make something useful and have another person judge its value. Whatever modern occupational title we apply to the ancient tekton, Jesus knew the marketplace. That matters to Hustad because Christianity should never be confined to Sunday morning. If Jesus is Lord, then Jesus belongs in Monday morning too—in the office, in the shop, in the sales meeting, in the boardroom, in the classroom, behind the microphone, and in the difficult public conversations that respectable people would sometimes prefer to avoid. The Jesus Entrepreneur Collective exists in part to recover that connection between faith, courage, work, enterprise and public responsibility. Become an Apprentice Perhaps the most important word in the program is not entrepreneur. It is apprentice. Christians traditionally call the followers of Jesus "disciples." Hustad suggests that modern people might better grasp the idea if they thought of themselves as apprentices. An apprentice watches the master. Studies the master. Practices what the master does. Learns how the master thinks. Makes mistakes, receives correction and tries again. So Hustad poses a far more demanding question than simply, "Do you believe in Jesus?" He asks: Are you apprenticed to Jesus? Are you learning his courage? His compassion? His way of dealing with people? His willingness to challenge conventional wisdom? His concern for the vulnerable? His ability to combine strength and grace? And his willingness to accept the consequences of telling uncomfortable truths? That is considerably harder than simply claiming a religious identity. What's Your MOU With the MOU? Hustad closes with one of his memorable plays on words. Businesspeople know the term MOU—Memorandum of Understanding. So he asks: What is your MOU with the MOU—the Master of the Universe? What exactly is your understanding with Jesus? What have you agreed to do? What responsibilities come with calling yourself his follower? What happens when his teaching conflicts with your politics, your profession, your comfort, your financial interests—or even your friends? Perhaps every Christian entrepreneur needs a personal memorandum of understanding: This is what I believe. This is whom I follow. These are the people I will protect. These are the principles I will not sell. This is how I will treat people who disagree with me. And this is the courage I intend to practice when remaining silent would be easier. That may be what apprenticeship to Jesus looks like in the modern marketplace. And perhaps that is why the image of the millstone still matters. It reminds us that the Jesus who welcomed children was also fiercely serious about what happened to them. Grace was real. Love was real. And so was accountability. THINGS TO REMEMBER Jesus was compassionate, but he was not weak. His love included courage, confrontation and moral seriousness. Protecting the vulnerable is not merely a political issue. For followers of Jesus it is a matter of conscience and discipleship. Conviction does not excuse cruelty. Christians should be able to defend what they believe without dehumanizing those who disagree. Christianity belongs in the marketplace. Faith that disappears when business, money, reputation or controversy enters the room is worth examining. A disciple is an apprentice. Following Jesus means more than admiring him. It means learning to live differently because of him. THINGS TO SHARE Share this program with someone who believes Jesus was merely "nice." Share it with a Christian business leader who is trying to determine how faith should influence difficult decisions. Share it with someone who disagrees with Stan. In fact, that conversation may be particularly worthwhile. The goal should not be to create another shouting match. The world already has plenty of those. The better goal is to create an uncomfortable but honest conversation about human dignity, courage, responsibility, children, conscience and what following Jesus actually requires. THINGS TO DO Before criticizing somebody else, examine your own MOU with the Master of the Universe. Ask yourself: Where am I remaining silent because speaking might cost me something? Where have I confused being loving with being agreeable? Where have I confused being courageous with being angry? Who are the vulnerable people around me whom I have a responsibility to protect? If someone watched my business life for a month, would they discover evidence that I am actually apprenticed to Jesus? Then choose one action: Speak. Serve. Protect. Give. Apologize. Learn. Challenge. Encourage. Or simply refuse to remain comfortably indifferent. AND NOW, A CHALLENGE Stan Hustad has made his argument. You are welcome to challenge it. If you believe he has gone too far, tell him. If you believe he has not gone far enough, tell him that too. If you think his interpretation of Jesus is wrong, make your case. And if this program caused you to reconsider something you had comfortably stopped thinking about, tell him that as well. Write Stan at stan@witradio.net. Better yet, don't keep the conversation between Stan and you. Share this article. Share the program. Start a conversation. And if the idea of becoming an apprentice to Jesus—in your life, profession, business and marketplace leadership—strikes a chord, talk with Stan about becoming part of the Jesus Entrepreneur Collective. Because perhaps the world does not need more people who merely admire Jesus. Perhaps it needs more people willing to apprentice themselves to him—and then have the courage to live like it.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! In 2017, two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald launched his podcast, Money Making Conversations Master Class. Rushion McDonald’s “Keep Winning” #2 – Key Takeaways In this episode of Money Making Conversations Masterclass, Rushion McDonald shifts the discussion from personal value proposition to building and protecting a business through effective employee management. His message is simple: a great business idea can fail if the wrong people are responsible for executing it. Top Lessons 1. Your Employees Can Make or Break Your Business No matter how strong your product, service, or vision may be, success depends on having the right people helping you deliver it. A weak team can undermine even the strongest value proposition. 2. Five Reasons Companies Struggle to Find Great Employees Keeping poor performers because of personal relationships or loyalty. Hiring repeatedly from the same circle of recommendations. Refusing to admit that hiring mistakes may be coming from leadership. Hiring based solely on experience rather than adaptability. Believing there are no good candidates available. Rushion emphasizes that leadership must take responsibility for the quality of its hiring decisions. 3. Don't Build a Business on Hope Many businesses fail because they operate on optimism rather than planning. Rushion stresses the importance of having: A budget An accountant Human resources processes Clear hiring standards Successful businesses are built on systems, not wishes. 4. Be Willing to Let Employees Go One of the hardest responsibilities of leadership is termination. Rushion advises employers to: Be clear about performance expectations. Document problems. Communicate concerns early. Have witnesses present when necessary. The goal is not punishment but accountability. 5. Poor Customer Service Destroys Value Rushion shares a story about a restaurant where employees displayed poor attitudes, lacked preparation, and failed to serve customers properly. His lesson is that customers judge a company through employee behavior. A business can spend years building its reputation and lose it through poor service. 6. Raise Your Own Value Before Asking for More For employees, Rushion recommends thinking beyond the current position. Instead of focusing only on the job you were hired to do: Look for additional responsibilities. Set higher goals. Become indispensable. Increase your value to the organization. When your value grows, opportunities and compensation often follow. 7. Be Careful Hiring Family Members Rushion identifies several common mistakes: Hiring family simply because they're family. Hiring relatives because you feel sorry for them. Giving jobs to relatives who need financial help. Hiring family members who already owe you money. Hiring someone solely because a parent or relative recommended them. Business decisions should be based on qualifications and fit, not emotions. 8. Use a 90-Day Probation Period Rushion believes a structured probation period helps protect both employer and employee. Key checkpoints include: 30 Days: Review performance and reinforce expectations. 60 Days: Evaluate progress and determine whether improvement is occurring. 90 Days: Decide whether the employee is a long-term fit for the organization. Consistent evaluation prevents small problems from becoming major issues. Keep Winning Quote “Do not let an employee destroy your company. If they do, it's because you let them.” Bottom Line Build your business with the right people. Hold employees accountable. Create systems for hiring and evaluation. Avoid emotional hiring decisions. Protect your value proposition by surrounding yourself with people who help your vision grow. That's how you keep winning. #SHMS #STRAW #BEST Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. 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From 08/11 Hour 2: The Commanders have taken a massive hit to their offensive line after Laremy Tunsil's injury. How should Washington fill that massive void to protect Jayden Daniels' blind side?

08/11 Full Show: Hour 1 - 1:00 Hour 2 - 45:00 Hour 3 - 1:27:00 Hour 4 - 2:09:00 The Sports Junkies highlight the top headlines surrounding the sports world. Today's guests were Logan Paulsen and Kevin Sheehan.

The difference between being healthy or not healthy mostly comes down to the simple things within your control like eating nutrient-rich foods, incorporating movement into your daily routine and following a stable sleep schedule.Like Paul, BIOptimizers co-founders, Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart, constantly test, test and test their bodies, beliefs and products to ensure those simple things are always protecting and enhancing better health.Building on that theme of experimenting, Matt talks about the 80,000+ experiments he's done on BIOptimizers products over the years and Wade shares his bucket theory of nutrition that will make your health more bulletproof this week on Spirit Gym.Besides the many great BIOptimizers products Wade and Matt have developed, you'll want to check out the BIOptimizers Nutrition Coach Program. Look for Matt and Wade on social media via Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Listen to the BIOptimizers Awesome Health Podcast hosted by Wade on Apple Podcasts.Timestamps2:19 Is maltodextrin in your electrolyte drink?6:08 BiOptimizers' bio-lab recently topped the 80,000 mark in experiments.10:17 Wade's concussion theory.24.28 “Matt loves running experiments on everything.”32:42 Do you have a zinc deficiency?38:32 Can you really feel the truth?51:30 How to make your health more bulletproof.1:00:37 Wade's bucket theory of nutrition.1:08:55 Feeling the sensation of a weightlifter's/athlete's heart.1:16:38 Understanding cofactors.1:22:53 “One of the hardest things [for humans] to absorb is fat soluble molecules.”1:33:21 Protecting your microbiome.1:45:44 Wade's small confession.1:53:30 The power of the placebo and the biology of belief.2:02:00 The benefits of experiential reality.2:17:06 Substitute the word belief for hypothesis and your life will change.2:23:00 “Children are the ultimate health hack.”ResourcesThe Ultimate Nutrition Bible by Matt Gallant and Wade LightheartOrthomolecular Psychiatry: Treatment Of Schizophrenia by Dr. David Hawkins and Dr. Linus PaulingBioaccessibility, bioavailability and metabolism of functional foods, Handbook of Functional FoodsPaul's podcast conversation with Jason ChristoffHildegard von Bingen's Physica by Saint Hildegard of Bingen and Priscilla ThroopThe Fat of the Land by Vilhjalmur StefanssonYour Body's Many Cries for Water by Fereydoon BatmanghelidjThe Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life by Robert Becker and Gary SeldenTuning in to Nature by Philip CallahanBiochemical Individuality by Roger WilliamsFind more resources for this episode on our website.Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear MusicThanks to our awesome sponsors:PaleovalleyBIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL15Organifi CHEK20Spirit GymCHEK InstituteWe may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

Illinois has joined a growing number of states that regulate the way social media companies can interact with minors. The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act aims to create guardrails for kids while still giving them an option to learn and connect with people through social media. In the Loop chats with experts about what families need to know about these new regulations and the potential privacy concerns of age verification.GUESTS: Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital WorldMarshini Chetty, professor of computer science, University of ChicagoMawa Iqbal, WBEZ senior statehouse reporter For a full archive of In the Loop interviews, head over to wbez.org/intheloop.

In this episode, Walter dives headfirst into the absurdities of modern life, starting with the staggering (and potentially scammy) costs of freezing eggs. He is joined by Canadian broadcaster Dave Scott to expose the truth behind Canadian forest fires, review the latest "farce" of government UFO/UAP disclosures, and dissect Amazon Prime's smash-hit teen drama Sterling Point. Later, Walter takes aim at the WNBA's failure to protect its $40 million asset, Caitlin Clark.

In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, Jennifer Anderson, registered dietitian and founder of Kids Eat in Color, shares how parents can help kids develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies—without shame, restriction, or diet culture. Plus, practical tips for school lunches and making family meals easier and more affordable.Know someone who might appreciate this episode? Share it with them!And if you love the podcast, FREE ways to help us out:1- Rate and review the podcast in your podcast player app2- “Like” this post by tapping the heart icon ♥️3- Share this with a friend. THANK YOU!You can listen wherever you get your podcasts or check out the fully edited transcript of our interview at the bottom of this post.We talk about:03:00 What does a healthy relationship with food and our bodies look like?05:00 Protecting kids from body image and weight concerns07:00 Boys, body image, and the pressure to look “ripped”09:00 Talking to kids who are worried about being in a bigger body12:00 Helping kids develop a healthy relationship with food14:00 Treats, limits, and avoiding shame or moralizing around food21:00 Can kids really regulate how much they eat?24:00 Neurodivergence, interoception, and mindful eating30:00 Emotional eating, comfort, and food as connection32:00 Simple strategies for packing school lunches37:00 Feeding a family when time, money, and energy are limited39:00 Why simple dinners are good enough42:00 Jennifer's book and pre-order bonuses44:00 The parenting advice Jennifer wishes she'd known earlierResources mentioned in this episode:* Jennifer's Book Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters* Search “Kids Eat in Color” to find Jennifer on all social media platformsConnect with Sarah Rosensweet:* Instagram* Facebook Group* YouTube* Website* Join us on Substack* Newsletter* Book a short consult or coaching session callxx Sarah and CoreyYour peaceful parenting team- click here for a free short consult or a coaching sessionVisit our website for free resources, podcast, coaching, membership and more!>> Please support us!!! Please consider becoming a supporter to help support our free content, including The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, our free parenting support Facebook group, and our weekly parenting emails, “Weekend Reflections” and “Weekend Support” - plus our Flourish With Your Complex Child Summit (coming back in the fall for the 3rd year!) All of this free support for you takes a lot of time and energy from me and my team. If it has been helpful or meaningful for you, your support would help us to continue to provide support for free, for you and for others.In addition to knowing you are supporting our mission to support parents and children, you get the podcast ad free and access to a monthly ‘ask me anything' session.Sarah: Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Peaceful Parenting Podcast. Today's guest is Jennifer Anderson, nutritionist and founder of Kids Eat in Color. Jennifer has a new book coming out all about helping kids develop a good relationship with food and with their bodies. That's what we're talking about in today's episode.Along the way, we also touched on some great tips for packing school lunches and making meals easier and more affordable. There's so much conflicting information out there about feeding kids, and with their physical and mental health at risk, knowing what to do can be very stressful for parents. I love Jennifer's common-sense and relaxed approach to eating and feeding, and I hope you do as well.If you like this episode, please share it with a friend so more parents can learn about peaceful parenting. If you're a fan of the podcast, you can help us out not only by sharing it, but by leaving a review and a five-star rating in your podcast player app. While you're there, don't forget to follow the show so you don't miss an episode. If you'd like to support us even more, you can become a supporter on Substack to help us offset the cost of making the show. We'll put a link in the show notes.Okay, let's meet Jennifer.Hey, Jennifer. Welcome back to the podcast. This is your second time with us.Jennifer: Thank you so much for having me.Sarah: Yeah, I'm so excited. You have a new book coming out, so maybe you could introduce yourself and then tell us about your new book, which is available for pre-order and coming out in September. We will link to that in the show notes, but tell us a little bit about who you are and about your new book.Jennifer: Sure. I'm a registered dietitian. I have two kids who have not been easy to feed, and I'm the founder of Kids Eat in Color and the CEO of Better Bites. I'm so excited to have this book coming out. It's called Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life. I just cannot wait for parents to have this resource.Sarah: Amazing. You were telling me before we started that the focus of your book is having kids have a healthy relationship not only with food, but with their bodies. Maybe we could start out by talking about—obviously, this could be a very long conversation—but some of the top things you've found that are really helpful, sort of dos and don'ts, in terms of having kids have that healthy relationship with food.And also, what do you mean when you talk about a healthy relationship with their bodies? Maybe that's a two-part question.Jennifer: Yeah. I love that you framed it as a two-part question, because it is kind of a two-part question, but I feel like that's only because in English we don't have a way to describe the fact that these things are deeply connected in us.When I think about a healthy relationship with food, I want to make sure kids know how to take care of their bodies. They know what a balanced diet looks like. They're able to enjoy food, whatever kind of food it is. And also, we want kids to be able to really appreciate and live in their bodies, experience life through their bodies, and not have this deep what's called internalized weight bias, where thin is the ideal. Thin is what everybody is shooting for. You should either be worried about how thin you are or trying to get thinner. That is a soul-sucking way of living when we're so focused on weight and diet culture.So we want to give kids another option. We want to give kids the ability to really appreciate their bodies, and yet we also want to do so in a way that they're still able to care about the health of their bodies in a way that's healthy, as opposed to just diet culture.What I call this is embodied independence, where kids are independent. They know all the things they need to do, and they're also embodied. They're living in and experiencing their bodies.When we think about what we want to do and what we want to not do, we want to model what we want kids to do, ideally, and this is in every single area of parenting, including eating. That's where the independence comes from. We're modeling, and we're also providing the boundaries and opportunities for them.I always tell parents, “You are in charge of your restaurant at home. You're the head chef. You're going to set when your restaurant hours are, you're going to set what's on the menu, you're going to set all these things.” As you're doing that, you are teaching your child what is part of a healthy lifestyle.On the other side, we're thinking about their relationship with their body. We want to minimize internalized weight bias, and that means we're not discussing body sizes or body shapes. We're not weighing ourselves in front of our kids. One of the most powerful things you can do as a parent is to not discuss your body size or shape and not discuss any weight-loss attempts at any point, if that's something you ever engage in. Those two things are huge risk factors for disordered eating and eating disorders. If we could just not do that, that would actually be huge.Sarah: I feel like that's actually a real gift my mother gave me. She never talked about her weight or diets or her body, really, at all. And I feel like I'm one of the few people I know who—I'll say at least until perimenopause recently—had no body-image issues for my whole adult life. I think that really did stem from being raised without that being a thing that people were talking about.Jennifer: Yeah, absolutely. It was discussed in the groups that I grew up in. At the same time, my parents were like, “No, you are not allowed to look at beauty magazines or teen magazines.” I don't remember really pushing back on that as a teenager, but now I am so grateful because, whether it's social media now or teen magazines or so many other things, so many of them are focused on body image: how thin you are, how to get thin, how to stay thin, all this stuff. And that stuff is just toxic.Sarah: Yeah, and it used to just be for girls, right? And now boys are—I have so many clients who've said their son wants a six-pack, and they're eight or nine years old and won't take off their shirt to go swimming.Jennifer: My kids are right now into parkour, and it's interesting to watch because we've been very careful about what we've said about them. They've recently started talking about six-packs and strong cores and all that because, in reality, my son is like, “I need a stronger core because that will help me flip better.” And he's 100% right that his core strength is going to determine his success in this sport in a lot of ways.At the same time, getting ripped is not the phrasing that I would really prefer because so much of that is focused on image, right? And yet this is what they're hearing. My kids are 11 and 13, but it really started last year, when they were 10 and 12, where they're just kind of being exposed to these ideas of fitness.So when we think about kids understanding this, yeah, we have to have them understand their physical fitness, and then we also have to help them understand that it's not about looks. It is about how we feel. It's about what we can do. It's about how we can serve people. It's about so much more than just how we look.So as I think about my kids getting ready to do these things and doing these things, I'm going to continue to focus on, “This will help you flip,” not, “This will help you look ripped.”Sarah: Talk a little bit more about some of the dos and don'ts about the healthy relationship. We've sort of focused on our bodies. Actually, you know what? Before you do, I want to ask you about something else first, so we'll stay on that for another second.If you have a child who is in a bigger body and they're concerned to obsessed about being in a bigger body and feeling like that's, quote, “bad,” how do you talk to them about that?Jennifer: So I think the first thing is—and I have a framework in the book that, even though it's kind of cheesy, I call the LOVE framework—we want to listen. We really want to listen, and then we want to validate. Because if a kid is coming to us and saying, “I'm fat. I want to lose weight,” one, we don't really know what they mean by that. We don't know where that came from. Are they being teased? Did they hear something? Are their friends all trying to lose weight? We have to listen and understand.And then we have to say, “Yeah, you feel like you want to lose weight. You're feeling bad right now. You're telling me that your body is rounder than your friends'.” As we validate, we want to use neutral, factual language. If they're describing their body in negative terms, we don't want to say, “Oh no, you're wrong,” because that's not right, and it's also not bad to be in a bigger body. And so if we're like, “Oh, no, no, no, you're not fat,” that's not helpful because we're just invalidating their whole experience, and we're also reinforcing the idea that fat is bad.Instead, we want to be like, “Oh yeah, you're right. I've noticed that in our family, we all have softer tummies. We all have rounder tummies.” When we're using basic descriptive language that's not negative, we help them reinterpret their body in a way that is more neutral, where we can then eventually move away from this judgment of body size and shape to an acceptance of body size and shape, where that's just not part of what we're talking about. It's just like, “Oh, it's neutral. This is just a body,” and let's move on to something more interesting.And then, after we've listened and validated, we really want to see if there's something that we need to take action on. We're saying, “Okay, do I need to help my child learn coping skills for being bullied? Do I need to talk to the school? Do I need to talk to their friend's parents? What is my role now in figuring out what needs to happen? Is my child showing signs of having disordered eating? Have they put themselves on a diet?”Those are the sorts of things where you want to take it seriously. If they're restricting themselves from different foods or they're doing things to try to change the size of their body, then is the time to involve a professional. Whether it's a counselor, an eating disorder therapist, their doctor, whoever it is, that is the time. I know it's hard when we think, “Oh my gosh, my kid potentially has disordered eating or an eating disorder.” That can fill parents with a lot of guilt and fear and shame and all that sort of thing. Don't let that stop you from getting your child help as soon as possible.Sarah: Yeah, this is not a DIY project.Jennifer: Yeah, it's not. Now, of course, you can be DIY-ing it all the way up to that point, but at the point where you see a big red flag, go bring somebody else in.Sarah: So what are some tips for helping kids have a healthy relationship with food?Jennifer: I love to talk about food factually, the same way we would talk about bodies. It's like, “Oh, these are the names of foods. They're hard, they're crunchy, they're savory, they're sweet, they're delicious,” as opposed to this sort of, “These are healthy foods, and these are not healthy foods.”It adds a level of complication that is too simple and also contributes to a very rigid perspective of food and eating. Potentially, that can even leak over into how people think of their bodies.Sarah: Yeah, because it just occurred to me—I was reflecting before, when I was thinking of questions to ask you—that I do know someone who talks to their child about, “We have to eat healthy food before we eat the unhealthy food.” And why would you ever want to tell your child that you're giving them something unhealthy anyway? “Have this dangerous toy.” You know?Jennifer: Yeah. “Don't play with the dangerous toy until you've played with the safe toy.” I completely agree with that, and I think it comes from a very well-meaning place where, again, we're wanting to pass on this information that empowers kids to nurture their bodies for the rest of their life.So it's all coming from a good place. We just have to think that kids will internalize this sort of, “Wait a second. You're giving me all this healthy food, but then we have this unhealthy food. Why are you giving me unhealthy food? And also, am I bad if I eat this unhealthy food? Should I feel guilty? Should I feel afraid of it?” There are a lot of things that kids can take from these conversations.Now, it doesn't mean that if you're using this language, you have ruined your child or you have given your child an eating disorder. I am telling you, kids are not that easy to ruin. And you can give them new skills, though, which is just to understand every food does something different in your body, and we can listen to our body to find out what's right for us. Because let's say you have an allergy. Yeah, there are some foods that are truly unhealthy. You're going to have a really bad reaction. And there are also foods where, if you eat too much of them—and this is truly just about every food, including water—if you eat too much of it, you can also become unhealthy.You can't just live on broccoli. I promise you. That's not healthy. And we see this in people who become really obsessed with healthy eating. They become very unhealthy. They're unable to maintain their physical and mental health and social health. It affects all their relationships. So I like to get away from this unhealthy/healthy thinking.And it is so healthy to be able to sit down and enjoy a bowl of ice cream. We're visiting my parents right now, and my two kids had these big bowls of ice cream, and also the two baby cousins, who are two and not even quite one yet, my mom was giving them ice cream too. I was like, “This is such a grandma move right now.”But here they are, they're all together enjoying their ice cream, and the two-year-old had sprinkles for the first time. It was just this really amazing bonding moment. I don't want my kids, in the back of their heads, to think, “Oh my gosh, I shouldn't have eaten that much ice cream,” or, “I shouldn't have eaten that ice cream,” or, “That was unhealthy for me.” I just don't want that for them.Sarah: Yeah. You want to enjoy the food that you're eating, no matter what the food is. So how do you talk about it then? I've heard some people say “sometimes food,” like, “This is food that we don't eat every day.” How do you talk about or differentiate?Jennifer: You can model that, and I like to do what's called predictable parenting, where you're just going to be really consistent about whatever you're going to do, and you're going to help your kid get in touch with their hunger and fullness cues. So you're going to serve them meals, but you're also going to be like, “Sorry, you can't have a snack right now because dinner's in 30 minutes.”You're going to have a really predictable routine of meals, and that has the purpose of developing their embodiment, which is actually being able to tune in and listen: What is going on inside of my body? What does it need? How do I respond to it? One thing you do is just have an eating routine. That actually goes a really long way in helping kids have a good relationship with food.Then you want to talk about food neutrally, and you want to model what a balanced diet looks like. If you really own your role as the restaurant owner, you're not going to be making multiple meals. You're going to be making one meal for the family, in most cases, and you're always going to make sure there's at least one food on there that your child's comfortable with. It doesn't have to be their absolute favorite food, but it's got to be something that they're comfortable with.Sarah: Something they'll eat.Jennifer: Yeah, something they'll eat, in most cases. Although kids are eating eggs several times a week for their whole life, and then one day my son's like, “I don't like eggs. I've never liked eggs.” I'm like, “That's just so not true.” So you never know, which is why I say something they're comfortable with, something that they almost always eat.Then you can model what a balanced diet looks like. You're probably not going to serve candy for meals. Maybe you add a little candy onto a meal or snack, and that's a strategy people often use, and that's fine. But you're going to show that every single meal—or most meals—has a fruit or a vegetable. I like to think of it in terms of a protein food that also has fat, an energy food, which is a carbohydrate-rich source, and then also color, which is fruits and/or vegetables. That's kind of how I think of a balanced meal.We want to model that for kids for most of their meals and most of their snacks. They will absorb what that means. And so without saying anything, without being like, “Oh, this is a sometimes food. This is an always food,” you're going to show them that it's only there sometimes.Sarah: Right.Jennifer: And you're also going to show them that other foods are there all the time. Now, as kids go out, they're going to get hyped up on candy and sweets. It's not like these are going to be, quote, “neutral foods.” They're not. Maybe when they're in preschool, but by the time they're six and in school, with friends and parties, they know that these other foods are different. They know.On social media, I've heard, “Oh, we can never restrict kids. We can never say anything that suggests they're different.” I'm sorry. Hyper-palatable food—meaning candy, things with added sodium and sugar and fat—they are so different.Sarah: Right. Your brain knows they're different.Jennifer: Yeah. The kids know they're different. So we don't have to hide the fact that we know they're different. We can also set some limits, but we just want to be consistent about them. Like, “Oh, you can have two cookies.” Sometimes we might want to give kids more cookies. You might even say, “Hey, I want my kid to be able to choose how many cookies they have.” That's all totally fine, and it's all within the bounds of something that's going to help kids have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies.Sarah: I mean, I guess it depends, too, on the access, right? Like you were saying, you're the executive chef of your restaurant. What we did, which I think worked pretty well, was we only occasionally had—I'd buy ice cream once in a while, and we'd eat it until it was gone. Or we'd have chips once in a while, or we'd make cookies once in a while. They sort of had, not 100% free access, but everybody would eat it, and then it would be gone, and then we wouldn't have that stuff in the house anymore.But the funny thing is—I mentioned to you before that two out of my three kids have been moved out of the house for a while—and I figure now my 19-year-old, I can buy chips and she can decide to eat them or not. So they come home and they're like, “When did we become a chips household?” I feel like at a certain point you can just have in your house whatever you want and your kids are adults. But it's hilarious because they're like, “And bacon? When did you start buying bacon regularly?”Jennifer: Right. And I think ultimately they're going to grow up. They're going to decide what they have in their house, and you're going to decide what's in your house. We just want to kind of get them to that point where they can enjoy all foods without any guilt.Like, yeah, you made cookies and you enjoyed them together, and then that was that, and then you didn't have them around for a while. You weren't sitting there saying, “Oh, well, cookies are bad for you, and so we only have them sometimes.” No, cookies aren't bad for you. They're only bad for you if you're eating so many cookies that it's pushing out all the other food that you need.Sarah: Yeah. So that reminds me of why I brought that up, which was that you can't really ask kids to self-regulate, in my opinion—tell me what you think—if that food is available all the time in your house. Most kids, I think, would have cookies all the time if the cookies were just freely available 24/7. So I don't know. Tell me what you think about that.Jennifer: Yeah, this is a great question. If you go on social media these days, you'll see people who are like, “Kids can totally regulate. Kids know when they're hungry and full. Kids can listen to their hunger and fullness cues.” After doing so much research for this book and also having parented—I don't have as much experience as you, but I'm at 13 years—I agree some kids can regulate, but a lot of kids cannot.And here's the reason. It's because, again, that hyper-palatable food has a different effect on their brain than other foods. And if it was an ultra-processed food, meaning it's a food that was kind of created in a factory or the recipe was designed by a multinational snack corporation, they have done so much research to find out the exact recipe that's going to make people eat the most of it, override their hunger and fullness cues, and therefore buy more of it.Sarah: Or even their enjoyment cues. Like people eating things and eating, and they're not even really enjoying it anymore.Jennifer: They are overriding their body, and I think it's unfair to ask children to try to regulate that and to put that on them. Again, some kids are good at this, and if that's one of your kids and that's just how they work, fine. That's fine. You don't have to set limits.The key, whether we're letting kids eat as much as they want or we're setting limits, isn't whether we're setting limits or not. It's how we're setting the limits. So if I want to set a limit on cookies, what I want to say is, “We're all having two cookies today,” and that's it. I'm not saying, “Because it's a sometimes food,” or, “Because it's bad for you,” or, “Because if you eat too much you're going to gain weight,” or, “Because you don't have self-control.” I'm not saying any of those things.What the research has shown, and what's just been observed, is that kids who have a higher weight hear more of these qualifications from their parents: “Because of this,” “Because you...” “Because that's just too much.” That part is where you're adding on guilt, shame, and worry, and that's what we want to avoid. So when we just say, “Hey, everybody's having two cookies,” that's just the facts. I'm going to enforce it, but I'm not adding anything to it. It's in the addition that we run across problems.Sarah: Right. More like moralizing. That makes so much sense. I like how you said some kids can regulate and some kids can't, in terms of the amount that they're eating and the kinds of food that they're eating, because I really did follow all of that sort of intuitive feeding advice for kids. And I did have one child who really had a hard time regulating whether they'd eaten enough, or eating past the point of fullness, and the things that they wanted to eat.It wasn't until I discovered through some research the connection between ADHD and feeding and found that there are some kids where you can sort of let them more intuitively know what their body needs and wants, and other kids you have to teach mindful eating, which is what we found really solved the issue. Because I was afraid to say anything, you know, because I didn't want to make this kid feel bad about themselves or their body. But as soon as we had a way to talk about it that was about mindfulness rather than that sort of intuitiveness—I don't know if you see those two things as different, but that's sort of how I came to think about it.Jennifer: Yeah. So here's the thing with intuitive eating. It was a model, and it's the name of a book. It was a model designed for adults—a very specific group of women, in fact—to come out of diet culture and to get back in touch with their bodies. Of course, that's a huge simplification, but it was never designed for children.And you may have heard of the division of responsibility in child feeding. That was also designed by a dietitian and eating disorder therapist for the purpose of helping private-practice eating disorder clients—children. But the thing is, that's a very specific group of people in both cases. So to take a model that was designed for a specific group and now say this is applicable to all children, I don't think is fair. It's not evidence-based, and it's something that I've really had to do a lot of thinking about over the past two years.Also, seeing so many kids grow up over the years and helping so many families in the Better Bites programs and things, I've been thinking, yeah, this model of always letting your child decide how much to eat, or how much to eat of what foods, actually is not great for many kids.Sarah: Yeah, it wasn't great for one of mine.Jennifer: Neurodivergent kids especially, whether it's ADHD or autism or something else, sometimes don't have as strong of a sense of interoception. And this is true even of some neurotypical kids.Sarah: Yeah.Jennifer: So the interoceptive sense is the ability to tell: Am I hungry? Am I full? Do I have to go to the bathroom? Am I hot? What is going on inside of my body, and do I know how to respond to it? Do I know how to make sense of that experience?Some people describe being anxious as being very, very hot. Like, what do you do if you're very, very hot? They have to learn over time, “Oh, that also means I'm anxious. Therefore something is worrying me. Therefore I need to address the thing.”So for a lot of kids, we have to walk them through that experience. One of the most powerful ways we can do that is by narrating our internal experience, where we're saying, “Oh, I'm cold. You see these goosebumps on my arm? That's telling me I'm cold, and I'm kind of shivering. I'm going to put on something else. Oh, that makes me feel warm.”Or, “I hear my stomach grumbling, and I feel empty, and I feel kind of grumpy. That's telling me I'm hungry, and so I'm going to plan to eat a snack. I have snack in 15 minutes,” or, “It's time for a snack right now.” And then as I'm sitting at the table, saying, “Oh, you know, I'm starting to feel my tummy fill up.” At some point you're like, “Ah, I'm feeling full now. I'm going to stop eating.”But like you're saying, for some kids, we actually have to teach them explicitly. Some of these kids are going to have a harder time potty training. They may have a harder time learning a lot of things and how to respond to their body because they have to be taught explicitly.Fortunately or unfortunately, that kind of falls to us to help them because we're the ones who are with them so much of the time, and they're most likely to be relaxed around us and able to learn. The more we can narrate our experiences—although that can be exhausting, I know—the more they can start to make those connections.Sarah: That makes a lot of sense. And I think also the interoception thing that you mentioned is really a big part of it. Then there's also that eating can be very regulating in terms of the chewing action and being able to differentiate hunger from boredom. There are so many things that some people or children just know, and some people or children need to be, as you said, explicitly taught those things.Jennifer: Yeah. It's just something that they don't know, and their body doesn't automatically make those connections. And that's so true, especially with chewing.If you find your child is eating a lot when they're bored or when they're lonely or when they have negative feelings or hard feelings, one of the things you can really fall back on is your eating routine, where you're like, “Okay, we're going to eat our meals at these times. We're going to eat our snacks at these times.” It kind of keeps everybody on the same page in terms of when we're eating.And then it's a little bit harder to say, “Oh, I'm going to use food to help my kids soothe themselves,” because that's really tempting when we know, “Hey, if I just give them a snack, they're going to calm down.” I'm definitely a big fan of occasionally using food as a pick-me-up because what a great tool. We could be feeling bad, and then we can eat something, and all of a sudden we can feel so much better.Sarah: My daughter this morning had to have some blood work done, and she texted me, “The blood work hurt my arm so much. My arm is just killing me, and so I bought myself an almond croissant to feel better.”Jennifer: Ah.Sarah: I said, “Great self-care.”Jennifer: Yes. Great self-care. At the same time, if that's our only tool, then we're in trouble. And so I think we have to kind of help our kids. I'm never down on somebody, or myself, for eating just for the purpose of feeling better or just for the purpose of enjoyment. We think about receiving meals from people in tricky times in our lives, or eating something that someone gives us even when we're not hungry. It can still build connection and be such an uplifting experience.Sarah: Well, and food is so nurturing, too. Again, before we started our recording, I was telling you how my 22- and 25-year-olds, who don't live at home anymore, I really use food as a way to show my care and love for them when they no longer, quote, “need it,” right? Like making them food.Once last year, I made a lasagna and took a picture of it and sent it to them and called it “son bait.”Jennifer: That's right.Sarah: So yeah, food really is nurturing. And I think what I've come to think about it is, as long as you just don't do that all the time, right? Have seconds when you're not hungry because it's your favorite food, as long as you don't do that every single time you eat.Jennifer: Yeah. I think having the ability to be flexible goes so far in our well-being. When we're really inflexible, sometimes our life circumstances call for inflexibility. If we have very tight deadlines for when we can eat and when we can't eat, or maybe we're working through a health issue or something like that where we just really have to be a little bit more mindful of what we're eating, maybe we have a little bit less flexibility.But if we're out of that season, we're in a different time, then we can be more flexible during that time. I think the key is we're not over-moralizing this experience. Instead, we're enjoying it, we're participating in it, and we're learning to connect to real life, not just eating away all of our hard times or avoiding all of our hard emotions or things like that.Sarah: That makes so much sense. Okay, let's shift gears a little bit. I'm talking to you—I know school has already started in some parts of the country, and it's starting in the next few weeks in other parts of the country. And with school comes packed school lunches.Jennifer: Right.Sarah: And I think every parent out there is like, “Oh, I've got to start making lunches again.” So do you have any sort of hot tips for things that you find—are there ways to cut corners to pack lunches that kids will eat, that are healthy and nutritious, and also don't take a ton of time or money to do?Jennifer: Sure. So when I'm packing lunches, first I just kind of start with the same formula, which is a protein food, an energy food—which is what I call a higher-starchy carbohydrate food—and then the color, the fruits or vegetables.If you want to really cut corners, get yourself a lunchbox that only has three containers. That's one of my big tips. A lot of these fancy bento lunches have four, five, six containers of food, and then often people feel pressured to fill it with six different kinds of foods. That's just a lot for you to think about. I have all the different lunchboxes because it's part of my job, and we often send ones that have a few more compartments, but that can be stressful. I've definitely felt that, where I'm like, “Just give me three containers.”Also think, “Is there something that I can use from dinner or another meal that I made earlier in the week in this lunchbox?” The more you can incorporate that, the better. Or, if you can't, see if you can make it during your dinner meal. When you're already in the kitchen, things are already a mess. It might look like a bomb went off in your kitchen, where there's a half-made lunchbox, there's a half-made dinner, but if you're the sort of person who can kind of manage that chaos, then do it then, because then you only have to clean up once. It's already chaos; you're just adding a little bit more chaos.And you can also train your kids to help you, depending on your kids, of course. That can be a way for them to help save time for you. And then also kind of lean into maybe a baby carrot or a cucumber that you just chop, chop, or stuff where you're cutting it up but it doesn't feel that hard for you.I think so much of what's hard and easy—I was kind of talking to my Instagram audience about this recently—is individual. Making meatballs to me is a bridge too far. That just feels so hard and tedious. And a lot of people are like, “Oh my gosh, it feels so easy to me.” So I think a lot of this is what feels hard and what feels easy to you, and kind of run with that. Don't compare your child's lunchbox to everybody else's.If your kid is going to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day, if you can send peanuts, or a sunflower seed butter and jelly sandwich every day, go ahead. Send them with the same lunch every day if they're the kind of kid who just needs the same lunch every day. If your kid needs a different lunch every day, obviously that's a little trickier.But also, if you can say, “Okay, can I use something from dinner?” that can really help. My kids have also learned that they kind of like soup at lunch, and I freeze it in one-cup segments, little portions. They know how to take it out of the freezer, put it in the microwave, heat it up, and put it in the thermos. That's something that I was able to train them to do.So any prep that you can do outside of it, when you're already doing something else, is just going to save you a little time. And then if you can also save time with cleanup by doing it at the same time as dinner, that can be really helpful. We have a whole bunch of under-15-minute lunches in my Everyday Lunches e-book, as well as mix-and-match guides.Sarah: Okay, nice.Jennifer: And they can be really fun. I think engaging your kids, too—finding out what are they going to actually eat, asking them questions. “Does this lunch look okay?” If it comes back uneaten, ask them what was wrong with it so that you can kind of iterate on lunches as well.Sarah: I once accidentally sent a thermos full of hot water with one of my kids to school. I forgot—I think it was probably macaroni and cheese that I was putting in it—and I forgot to put the macaroni and cheese in.Jennifer: Oh my gosh. There are so many times that I've messed up on lunches in one way or another. You do the best you can, you know?Sarah: Yeah. I mentioned before when we were talking about lunches that making food—and I'm somebody who cooks a lot, and I've made a lot of food for 25 or 26 years now with kids—it does take a lot of time and money and energy to make, I'm going to say, “nice food,” whatever that means to you. But the food you feel good about serving your family.If you're short on time, money, energy, or one, two, or three of those things, what's the best use of resources, do you think, for feeding families if you're short on some of that stuff?Jennifer: First, go for frozen fruits and veggies. Just go right there, because that is no compromise whatsoever. It's just a different form of the same food.Sarah: They're often cheaper too, I find. Especially frozen fruit is a lot cheaper than fresh fruit.Jennifer: Yeah. Lean into that first. Also, find some cooking methods that are easy. The other day I put a bunch of chicken thighs in the Crock-Pot and poured some salsa over it. It was delicious at the end of the day. It took me five minutes, if that. I'm trying to think of what I served with it. I think it was leftover rice or something that was already leftover, something I could just quickly heat up in the microwave.I can't remember what we did for veggies, but I could have also added on the side of that just a couple bags of frozen peas, and we would've been good, right? So some bread and some frozen peas. I had a meal that took me maybe 15 minutes to make, very economical. It's really kind of looking for those time-saving prep methods and then saying, “Okay, what can we do?”Sarah: Yeah. One thing I always talk to overwhelmed parents about is trying to just really, really simplify dinner. Coming home, daycare pickup, everyone's tired, blah, blah, blah. And I always have this funny story. Once when I was pregnant with my third, and my other two were two and five, my husband had an out-of-town job for four months, and I was in school full-time.Jennifer: Oh my God.Sarah: It was exhausting. And I would make eggs for dinner a lot.Jennifer: Oh my goodness, yes.Sarah: Eggs and baby carrots and toast were the go-to dinner, to the point where one Saturday morning I said to my sons, “Who wants some fried eggs for breakfast?” And my two-year-old said, “Silly Mommy, fried eggs are for dinner.”Jennifer: I love that. Oh my gosh, we went through years and years and years where at least once a week we had eggs and toast and baby carrots, or some microwave peas or something from the freezer.Canned soup is an okay dinner. There are so many things that I think people are feeling kind of hard on themselves about. Don't listen to other people's rules. What is working for you right now? Go with that.Sarah: Yeah, like pesto pasta and jarred spaghetti sauce and noodles and apple slices. And I think sometimes it's hard for parents, too, because they like to cook and they want to make nice food for themselves, right? But something has to go.Jennifer: Yeah. Something's gotta go, man. Making something nice for yourself—do it when you have a chance, but otherwise it's okay to let that go for now. You'll get it back.That's the other thing. We feel like, “Oh, I don't want to give up this part of myself.” You're not giving it up. You're just saying, “Hey, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do other things right now, and then at a different stage I will do that again.” I'm actually cooking a lot better now that my kids aren't holding onto my feet and fighting while I'm trying to cook.Well, they still do that, but they're not really getting in the way of cooking. It's so hard to cook with little kids around.Sarah: Totally.Jennifer: I always say I would notoriously let my kids make a huge mess while I was making dinner, and I call it a “time loan.” They're making a huge mess, but I was able to actually get dinner on the table. I got that time, and then, yeah, I'll have to pay it back. I'll have to clean up their mess when they were really little, but it's worth it.And I will also say, if you're having a really hard time budget-wise, but you still have some time to cook, I have a meal plan that's specifically designed to save money. It's all about making the most of the food, using up all leftovers and preventing waste and all that, so that you can really spend significantly less—Sarah: Yeah, I think I saw that a few years ago. We'll link to that. You've had it for a while, right? It's called Affordable Flavors.Yeah, we'll link to that in the show notes. One thing I'm just remembering that we did when my kids were little is there was another family—this woman who had kids around the same age—and we lived a few blocks away. Once a week, we would make double dinner and give it to the other one.Jennifer: I love that.Sarah: Yeah. She was Japanese and a really nice Japanese cook, and my kids actually, to be totally honest, weren't huge fans of her dinners, but my husband and I certainly were.Jennifer: Oh, that's great.Sarah: Yeah. But it was really nice. Once a week, you didn't have to make anything because somebody gave you dinner. And it's not very hard to make double of your own dinner. So if anyone has a neighbor that they could do that with, it was really a nice thing to do.Jennifer: Yeah. That's a great idea.Sarah: Well, thank you so much. Tell us about your book launch. We'll put any links in the show notes, but you told me before that you had some prizes and things for the pre-order.Jennifer: Yeah. So there are a bunch of pre-order bonuses. As soon as you buy the book, you can upload either your receipt or, let's say you requested it from the library, you can upload just proof of that request. I have some printables—how to talk to kids about red foods, orange foods, yellow foods—that are super popular. I usually sell it, but I'm giving that away as a pre-order bonus.There are also mealtime conversation cards coming. There is a live call with my mom that I'm going to be doing that's also recorded, so depending on when you hear this, it's still available. There are also conversations like, what do you say if your kid comes back and says, “I'm fat”? What are some scripts? There are some scripts for that. There's also my bedtime snack chart. There are a lot of tools where you're like, “Okay, I want to make some improvements in different areas.” There are pre-order bonuses that give you tools for almost every area that you could want to apply.And then I'm also doing a really fun book tour where I'm meeting with child feeding and food specialists from all over the United States over time, and I'm going to be posting my interviews online for everybody to see. It's almost like a short-term podcast kind of demo. It's going to be a lot of fun for people to follow along.Sarah: Great. Well, thank you so much for coming on. One last question, which I ask all my guests—and I've asked you this before, so I can go back and compare and see if you answer it the same way—which is: If you could go back in time to your younger parent self, what advice would you give yourself? It can be about anything. It doesn't have to be about food or feeding.Jennifer: Sure. So now that I'm 13 years in, I think the one thing that would've been so helpful for me to know is: It's not my job to make my kid happy. It sounds so simple now, but I'm like, no, it wasn't my job to try to make them stop crying. It was my job to just hold a boundary and be there.And when I stopped, when I just kind of let go of that idea of trying to make them happy, oh my gosh, the weight, the drama—it just went away. It's like, “Oh, it's okay for you to be unhappy. That's you and your feelings over there, and I'm here to support. I'm here for you.” And also, it's not my job to fix that.Sarah: Yeah. Great. Well, thank you so much. Best place for folks to go and find out more about you and what you do?Jennifer: Kids Eat in Color, whether that's kidsincolor.com or on your favorite social media. I'm there.Sarah: All right. Thank you so much, Jennifer.Jennifer: Thank you so much for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahrosensweet.substack.com/subscribe

Back and neck pain isn't always caused by something obvious. Sometimes it's the little things you do every day without even thinking about them. In this episode, we share simple tips to help reduce unnecessary strain to keep your back and neck feeling their best.   To support more content like this, become an AARP member at aarp.org. And don't forget to subscribe for more tips and tricks to help make your life a little easier — and happier!

I WAS THINKING: The WNBA's Political Pickle. Fever forward Sophie Cunningham inadvertently became the face of the “protecting women’s sports” movement after an interview with ESPN was published on July 21st. Now former NBA players are “declaring” for the WNBA draft // Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out New AI Vision in 6,500-Word Essay. Five Things to Know About Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto. Mark Zuckerberg's yacht didn't hear boat's call for help off Alaska coast, spokesperson says // A ghost ship with a crew of cats? Empty boat near Tacoma beach full of mews

What if the fastest path to a six- or multi-6-figure expert business is refining what you already have, instead of adding more to it? In this episode, I'm walking you through a real case study from one of my three-hour strategic intensives with a registered dietitian who works with chronic skin conditions. She's excellent at what she does, with the client results to prove it, and her best month ever was still $7,000, with plenty of unpredictable months in between. I'm sharing the exact changes we made in that single session: why we doubled her price from $2,197 to $4,500, how we rebuilt her six-month program into a nine-month offer designed around the actual result, the friction problem that was quietly killing her sales conversations, and the marketing plan we built without a single Instagram post in it. If your income swings between great months and crickets, or you've quietly started backing off your marketing because it doesn't seem to be working anyway, this episode will show you how simple the fix can be. Timeline Highlights [02:49] – Meet the client: a highly skilled dietitian whose best revenue month was $7,000, and why that number made sense [05:28] – The inquiry ghosting cycle, and how it quietly convinces expert women to stop marketing altogether [08:09] – Running the math out loud: why her $2,197 program made her 10K goal impossible before marketing even started [11:18] – The trap of setting your prices by looking at what your peers charge [12:54] – The luxury experience myth, my $1,200 laser treatment story, and why people pay for outcomes [18:31] – Moving the program from six months to nine, because that's when her clients get the full result [20:42] – Finding the three-phase framework that was hiding inside her existing client process [26:21] – Doubling the price to $4,500, and the confidence check I run before any client raises a price [29:30] – The sales process teardown: a $55 mystery consult, no visible pricing, and a friction problem disguised as a demand problem [36:50] – Rebuilding her website around conditions instead of programs, and the difference between showing and telling [41:00] – Building a marketing plan with zero social media: discovery, depth, and increasing your surface area of luck [47:26] – Why the fast stuff comes first, and the deadline we pulled a full month closer Top Quotes from the Episode "People pay for outcomes. Everything you put into your program is there to make the outcome more likely for the right person." "You can't hit a goal that isn't compatible with your numbers. It doesn't matter how well the plan works if the math was never going to get you there." "Selling is leading somebody to what they already want. You share the process, the timeline, and the honest truth of what it takes, and you let them decide." "She thought she had a demand problem. What she actually had was a friction problem." "You're allowed to have standards. Protecting your calendar from people who aren't a fit is respectful to them and to you." "The online world has convinced experts that social media is the price of having a business. It's one tool, and if you hate it, pick a different one." "For an established expert, the fastest way to more revenue is usually subtraction: cutting and refining what already exists until it's the straightest path to the goal." Links & Resources CEO Type Quiz Want a strategic intensive of your own? DM me the word "intensive" on Instagram @laura.schoenfeld or email hello@lauraschoenfeld.com If this episode resonated with you, follow the podcast, leave a review, and share it with someone whose income deserves to be as consistent as their expertise.

Ovetta Sampson is a design researcher, AI leader, and founder of Right AI. She previously served as VP of ML and AI Platform Design at Capital One and worked at Google and IDEO. Ovetta brought that experience to the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, focusing her keynote on a question that often goes overlooked: what happens when people interact with increasingly powerful machines? To help us answer that question, Ovetta offers a pair of frameworks that center on human engagement risk, responsible AI, and rethinking how product teams design AI products. Building AI responsibly requires more than better models or more sophisticated tools. Product builders must also understand the cognitive, social, cultural, and physical risks that can emerge when humans interact with technology. AI inherits many of the biases embedded in the data used to build it, Ovetta says. So organizations need to rethink how disciplines collaborate; as the lines between traditional product, design, engineering, and security silos blur, responsible AI requires organizations to redesign not only their products, but also the processes used to create them. Here's what else we learned: Human Engagement Risk Belongs in AI Product Design Ovetta's human engagement risk (H-E-R) framework is based on a fundamental premise: technology can harm people when designers fail to account for how humans behave around machines. The H-E-R framework identifies cognitive, social, cultural, physiological, and community risks. These risks become especially important with generative AI, where people can easily attribute human qualities to systems that do not actually possess them. As a result, AI product teams must consider psychological and cognitive outcomes alongside traditional usability concerns. Ovetta cautions: “There are real dangerous risks when we engage with machines and don’t mindfully think about the outcomes that can happen when we don’t protect humans psychologically, cognitively, physically, and physiologically.” AI Strategy Starts With Executive Leadership Responsible AI also requires leadership decisions that extend beyond individual tools or experiments, Ovetta says. Many mid-sized organizations are hesitant to adopt AI because executives are concerned about intellectual property, trust, and data leaks. Meanwhile, employees may already be integrating AI solutions without an overarching organizational strategy. It's a disconnect that creates opportunity for leadership to establish clear priorities before adoption becomes fragmented. AI strategy starts at the top, Ovetta adds, because executives have the authority to establish the conditions under which technology gets developed and used. “Once the C-suite understands the risk to their shareholders, to their products, to their employees, to their customers, it is much easier for me to bring in the implementation of how to mitigate those risks.” Dismantling Silos Is Essential for Effective AI Development AI challenges the traditional handoff model in which designers, engineers, security, legal, compliance, and other teams work separately before passing projects along. Ovetta says AI development requires continuous cross-functional input instead. Her D-C-R framework – draft, critique, revise – organizes teams around development stages, bringing the right expertise into each phase. “Instead of saying, ‘I’m a designer' or ‘I’m a researcher,' or ‘I’m a product manager,' or ‘I'm an engineer,' we say, ‘I’m in the draft mode,'” Ovetta adds. “Each skill set in that move brings what they need to get that draft ready for critiquing, right? And so it’s something that I give to organizations and teams to try to reimagine how they actually do their jobs.” Ovetta Sampson is not arguing for less innovation with AI; instead, she's arguing for a different definition of responsible innovation – one that embeds human consequences, executive accountability, and cross-functional collaboration into the product development process itself. [03:10] Protecting the fragility of humanity. There are a lot of things us humans engage in, especially what I call the cognitive biases, that make engaging with machines and other automated systems that make it risky for us. [05:57] The H-E-R Framework. But what it really is, is there are five dimensions. There’s the cognitive, there’s the social, there’s cultural, there the physiological. And then the overall community risks that when humans engage with machines, that can happen.  [10:08] LLMs built on ‘traumatized data sets.’ Generative AI has no moral code. It does not know truth or fact. And accuracy is not in its wheelhouse. In fact, it’s not in this training and it’s in its goals. So why when we type something into chat GPT, we expect truth back? I don’t know. [13:24] Protecting my values as a creator. That’s where I really want to start, because I don’t want to be a part of that. I don’t want to part of designing something that harms people. [14:00] I observed one reoccurring truth. Whatever is happening in the basement of a company starts in the C-suite. So if there is sexism, if there’s homophobia, if there racism, if there is bad culture, if it starts at the C-suite. Because the C-suite is the person who has the ultimate authority about what occurs in every floor of an organization. [18:26] The D-C-R framework — draft, critique, revise. The D-C-R framework is something I created because I was trying to explain to designers and product and engineers how their processes would change when they’re designing for and with AI. Each one of these disciplines should go through that makes the handoffs more like a circular iterative. The post 194 / Ovetta Sampson: Designing AI Products Around Human Needs – Not Just Technology appeared first on ITX Corp..

Dekada nang dinodokumento ng music photographer na si Niña Sandejas ang ilan sa pinakamahahalagang artists, banda, gigs, at eksena sa Filipino music at art. Pero para sa kanya, hindi lang ito tungkol sa pagkuha ng magagandang litrato—tungkol ito sa pagdodokumento ng kasaysayan at pagpreserba ng kultura.Sa episode na ito ng The Linya-Linya Show, pinag-usapan namin ang kanyang buhay at trabaho bilang music photographer, ang halaga ng documentation, at ang pagtatayo niya ng sariling publishing house na alt164. Kinuwento rin niya ang realities ng pag-publish ng sariling libro, at kung bakit mahalagang magkaroon tayo ng mga aklat at archives na nagkukuwento ng visual history ng Filipino music.At siyempre, pinag-usapan namin ang kanyang Greyhoundz book—at kung paano ang pagsuporta sa isang libro ay nakakatulong din para makagawa pa ng mas maraming libro tungkol sa iba't ibang artists, photographers, at eksena sa Pilipinas.Isang insightful na kuwentuhan tungkol sa photography, publishing, music, history, at kung bakit mahalagang idokumento at pangalagaan ang kulturang binubuo at isinasabuhay natin ngayon.Listen up, yo.

The integration of Apple Maps in Ford's future electric vehicle platform generates discussions of the auto industry picking and choosing technology. The MacVoices Live! panel also examines security risks involving Claude Cowork and exposed shared chats, OpenAI's dispute with Hugging Face, and the hazards of autonomous AI tools. If that wasn't enough, selfie-based account recovery puts a new spin on the facial recognition.The panel includes: Chuck Joiner, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Jeff Gamet, and Mark Fuccio.  This edition of MacVoices is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. Get access to the MacVoices Slack and MacVoices After Dark by joining in at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Apple Maps integration in Ford's electric vehicle platform03:10 Ford, CarPlay, battery data, and vehicle navigation05:28 Claude Cowork escapes its Mac sandbox08:31 Building trust before granting AI access10:24 Claude shared chats appearing in search results13:07 What was actually exposed through shared links14:18 OpenAI, Hugging Face, and a $100 million compute demand17:07 Using Chinese open models to investigate AI systems20:13 Local models, Apple hardware, and infrastructure economics23:08 Sandboxing outside models and security concerns26:21 OpenAI's move-fast approach and emerging risks28:23 Protecting proprietary AI models from replication30:03 Google account recovery using a video selfie32:14 Privacy desensitization and facial-data concerns34:32 Facial authentication, passkeys, and spoofing risks37:32 Masks, twins, voice cloning, and account security39:18 TSA PreCheck, Clear, and biometric tradeoffs42:23 Facebook verification through video selfies44:16 Public photos, facial models, and loss of image control47:11 Deepfakes, generated portraits, and digital identity49:07 The uneven value people place on privacy50:38 Closing comments and panel contact information Links: Claude Cowork escaped sandbox on Mac, had full access to all files https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/claude-cowork-escaped-sandbox-on-mac-gain-full-access-to-all-files/   Your Claude Chats May Have Been Exposed on Google https://lifehacker.com/tech/your-claude-chats-may-have-been-exposed-on-google   Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/   Hugging Face wants $100mn of compute from OpenAIhttps://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand   Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-now-lets-you-log-into-your-account-with-a-selfie/   Meta now has free verification for Facebook users, as long as they're willing to upload a video selfie https://www.fastcompany.com/91579402/facebook-free-verification-badge-meta-video-selfie-feature   Facebook Verified is here, so you can tell if your new friend is really an AI https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/24/facebook-verified-is-here-so-you-can-tell-if-your-new-friend-is-really-an-ai   Facebook announces face scanning to confirm you're a human - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/24/facebook-announces-face-scanning-to-confirm-youre-a-human/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site:https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

The integration of Apple Maps in Ford's future electric vehicle platform generates discussions of the auto industry picking and choosing technology. The MacVoices Live! panel also examines security risks involving Claude Cowork and exposed shared chats, OpenAI's dispute with Hugging Face, and the hazards of autonomous AI tools. If that wasn't enough, selfie-based account recovery puts a new spin on the facial recognition. The panel includes: Chuck Joiner, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Jeff Gamet, and Mark Fuccio.  This edition of MacVoices is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. Get access to the MacVoices Slack and MacVoices After Dark by joining in at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Apple Maps integration in Ford's electric vehicle platform 03:10 Ford, CarPlay, battery data, and vehicle navigation 05:28 Claude Cowork escapes its Mac sandbox 08:31 Building trust before granting AI access 10:24 Claude shared chats appearing in search results 13:07 What was actually exposed through shared links 14:18 OpenAI, Hugging Face, and a $100 million compute demand 17:07 Using Chinese open models to investigate AI systems 20:13 Local models, Apple hardware, and infrastructure economics 23:08 Sandboxing outside models and security concerns 26:21 OpenAI's move-fast approach and emerging risks 28:23 Protecting proprietary AI models from replication 30:03 Google account recovery using a video selfie 32:14 Privacy desensitization and facial-data concerns 34:32 Facial authentication, passkeys, and spoofing risks 37:32 Masks, twins, voice cloning, and account security 39:18 TSA PreCheck, Clear, and biometric tradeoffs 42:23 Facebook verification through video selfies 44:16 Public photos, facial models, and loss of image control 47:11 Deepfakes, generated portraits, and digital identity 49:07 The uneven value people place on privacy 50:38 Closing comments and panel contact information Links: Claude Cowork escaped sandbox on Mac, had full access to all files https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/claude-cowork-escaped-sandbox-on-mac-gain-full-access-to-all-files/   Your Claude Chats May Have Been Exposed on Google https://lifehacker.com/tech/your-claude-chats-may-have-been-exposed-on-google   Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/   Hugging Face wants $100mn of compute from OpenAI https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand   Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-now-lets-you-log-into-your-account-with-a-selfie/   Meta now has free verification for Facebook users, as long as they're willing to upload a video selfie https://www.fastcompany.com/91579402/facebook-free-verification-badge-meta-video-selfie-feature   Facebook Verified is here, so you can tell if your new friend is really an AI https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/24/facebook-verified-is-here-so-you-can-tell-if-your-new-friend-is-really-an-ai   Facebook announces face scanning to confirm you're a human - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/24/facebook-announces-face-scanning-to-confirm-youre-a-human/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site: https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:      http://macvoices.com      Twitter:      http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner      http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:      https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:      http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:      https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:      https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes      Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

What does it actually look like to raise three kids, homeschool, run a business, work from home, and still have a life?We're sharing a behind-the-scenes look at what's worked for us, what hasn't, and what we've learned after nearly 10 years of parenting while running our business. We talk childcare, routines, quiet time, Sunday planning, outsourcing, marriage, decision fatigue, and why we've stopped looking for the schedule that will finally “figure it all out.”Chapters:00:00 Recording from the Trader Joe's parking lot02:11 The biggest lesson: flexibility07:02 What we thought parenting + business would look like09:26 Can you actually “do it all?”14:11 Why there's no perfect schedule16:38 Creating rhythms that reduce decisions21:00 Our Sunday meeting + defining a successful week25:31 Boundaries between work and family26:15 How we use childcare27:51 How we divide work when the kids are home30:16 Outsourcing inside the business31:40 Why we hired a family assistant34:00 Protecting your marriage while working together35:03 Extra grace required39:47 Good doesn't always mean right42:09 Building the family you actually want43:00 You're not alone in figuring this outConnect with us:Instagram: @bradandjeneducation @bradandjenlearn.bradandjen.comKeywords:working parents, working from home with kids, work life balance, parenting and business, homeschooling, homeschool parents, entrepreneur parents, working mom, family business, childcare, family routines, time management, marriage and business, family rhythms, raising kids, creative entrepreneur

Podcast: Exploited: The Cyber Truth Episode: When Cybersecurity Becomes a Safety Issue: Protecting Autonomous and Critical SystemsPub date: 2026-08-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of Exploited: The Cyber Truth, host Paul Ducklin is joined by RunSafe Security Founder and CEO Joe Saunders and returning guest Hemanth Tadepalli, Senior Cybersecurity and Compliance Manager at May Mobility, to explore why cybersecurity and safety are becoming inseparable as software takes control of vehicles and other critical systems. Drawing on his experience securing autonomous mobility platforms, Hemanth explains how connected vehicles have expanded the attack surface across software, cloud infrastructure, APIs, sensors, AI models, and supply chains. Joe explores how organizations can build resilience into software, protect legacy and resource-constrained systems, and move beyond the costly cycle of finding, patching, and deploying fixes. Together, Joe and Hemanth discuss: Why cyber-physical systems require a different security mindsetHow autonomous vehicles connect cybersecurity with physical safetyWhy compliance should be a baseline—not the end goalHow AI is changing both cyberattacks and defenseWhere software resilience and runtime protection fitWhy public trust depends on consistency, transparency, and safetyHow security, engineering, and compliance teams can work together Whether you secure autonomous vehicles, industrial equipment, medical devices, or other critical systems, this episode offers practical lessons for building software that is secure, resilient, and worthy of public trust.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RunSafe Security, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Protecting Your Agency: Legal Essentials with Sharon ToerekRunning a marketing agency without proper legal protection is like building a house on sand. One contract dispute, one IP claim, or one AI mistake could cost you everything you've built.In this episode, I sit down with Sharon Toerek, founder of Toerek Law and the leading attorney specializing in legal protection for creative agencies and marketing firms. For over 13 years, Sharon has been the go-to expert helping agencies navigate contracts, intellectual property, employee agreements, and now AI risk management.What You'll Learn:Why 90% of agency contracts fail and the critical elements yours must includeThe IP mistakes that cost agencies millions in lost revenue and legal feesHow to protect your agency from AI-related liability with policies and contractsFair competition covenants that stop clients from poaching your best talentWhy legal should be a profit center, not just risk managementThe "work for hire" myth that undervalues your creative assetsHow to work safely with offshore talent without exposing client dataCreating AI governance that protects you AND educates your clientsKey Takeaways:✅ Never transfer IP ownership until you've been paid in full ✅ Include non-solicitation clauses to prevent client poaching ✅ Require deposits or retainers to protect cash flow ✅ Create written AI policies (internal AND client-facing) ✅ Update contracts regularly for privacy, AI, and accessibility laws ✅ Train your team on platform terms and conditions ✅ Build a network of fellow agency owners who understand the pressureEpisode Timestamps:0:00 Intro to Sharon Toerek and today's topic0:25 How Sharon became an entrepreneur1:17 Early influences from entrepreneurial parents3:03 The realities of entrepreneurship: highs, lows, and resilience6:06 Sharon's journey from big law to founding her niche firm8:17 Why she focused on marketing agencies and creative businesses12:46 Why legal should be a profit center for agencies13:46 Why every agency needs a real contract15:15 Key contract issues agencies often miss16:13 Exclusivity, fair competition, and payment terms18:04 Why clarity in agreements matters in disputes22:30 Why contracts need regular updates for privacy, AI, and accessibility laws24:19 Client responsibilities in agency agreements28:11 The biggest IP mistakes agencies make29:07 Contractor and freelancer IP risks30:33 AI-related legal risks for agencies32:05 Working with offshore freelancers and contractors34:32 How agencies should build AI policies and contract language38:33 Why agencies should help clients understand AI governance40:59 Sharon's podcast and community leadership work44:46 Why relationships matter in business growthAbout Sharon Toerek:Sharon Toerek is the founder of Toerek Law, specializing exclusively in legal protection for marketing agencies and creative service firms. After years in big law, Sharon recognized that nobody was truly serving the unique needs of agencies—from service agreements to IP protection to employee poaching prevention. Today, Toerek Law is the premier legal partner for agencies looking to grow profitably while protecting what they've built.Connect with Sharon:Toerek Law

In Health Hot Take #2, Dr. Will Cole and Andrea go deep on something generating real alarm — not just on social media, but in town halls across the country. AI data centers: what they're emitting, what they're consuming, and what they're doing to the communities around them. They also pull back the curtain on the philosophical movement driving AI acceleration — from 19th century Russian philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov to Nick Land's dark enlightenment and the documented connections to key Silicon Valley figures. Plus: the practical EMF mitigation steps everyone can take, how to help bees survive a changing world, and why this is ultimately a call to be informed, empowered, and present. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.Sponsors:Take the first step and learn at a pace that works for you. Visit WaldenU.edu.Use code WILLCOLE at puori.com/WILLCOLE to get 32% off your first Puori Grass-fed Whey Protein order when you start a subscription.Use code BEINGWELL at Monarch.com to get your first year of Monarch Core half off at just $50.Head to BIOPTIMIZERS.COM/AOBW and use code WILLCOLE for 15% off your orderUse code willcole at aurahouse.com for 10% off your first order. Completely worth it.Use the links in my show notes to check your registration, get registered, or receive election reminders. You can also visit vote.online or @vote on Instagram for more information.Check Your Registration - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/check-your-registration?partnerId=cbc1e590 Get Election Reminders - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/get-election-reminders?partnerId=cbc1e590 Register To Vote - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/register-to-vote?partnerId=cbc1e590 Pledge To Register - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/pledge-to-register?partnerId=cbc1e590Produced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us Fan MailSauce Mackenzie is back with an unfiltered episode of the Concrete Genius Podcast.This episode starts with some classic Concrete Genius—men's hygiene, confidence, taking care of yourself, the Indiana State Fair, ambition, success, jealousy and why Sauce believes men have to stop letting other men define masculinity for them.Then the conversation gets serious.Sauce responds to Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White making headlines around the WNBA and the transgender-athlete debate. His position is clear: he believes women's sports should be reserved for biological women—but he also believes making a mockery of the WNBA for political attention does nothing to protect women.That leads into a much larger conversation about women's rights, protecting children, parental responsibility, Christianity, gender identity, the Black family, politics and whether Americans can still disagree on controversial issues without automatically becoming enemies.Sauce also challenges men who claim to be defending women to speak just as loudly about domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, workplace harassment and other issues affecting women every day.This one is raw, controversial and completely unfiltered.Topics include:• WNBA and women's sports• Enes Kanter Freedom & Royce White• Transgender athletes and biological sex• Protecting women beyond politics• Children, parents and gender conversations• Christianity, faith and modern culture• The Black family• Masculinity, hygiene and confidence• Ambition, money and jealousy• Indiana State Fair commentary

In today's episode George Wright III argues that the economy profits from distractions and that entrepreneurs face constant pulls from notifications, people, meetings, and opportunities, making focus essential. George shares that your future is determined more by what you ignore than what you pursue. Attention, more than time, is the most valuable asset because scattered attention wastes available time and breaks momentum, creating hidden opportunity costs. Focus requires intentional elimination rather than better time management, requiring fewer priorities, saying no—even to good opportunities that don't align—and protecting what matters. Consistent concentrated effort compounds over days, weeks, and months into exponential results, so you are challenged to identify one key priority and eliminate distractions to protect it.00:00 Distraction Economy00:55 Show Format Overview01:35 Ignore to Win01:55 Attention Is Everything03:09 Hidden Cost of Interruptions04:22 Eliminate Not Organize06:07 Saying No to Good07:43 Focus Compounds Results09:51 Weekly Focus ChallengeThanks for listening, and Please Share this Episode with someone. It would really help us to grow our show and share these valuable tips and strategies with others. Have a great day.George Wright III“It's Never Too Late to Start Living the Life You Were Meant to Live”FREE Daily Mastermind Resources:CONNECT with George & Access Tons of ResourcesGet access to Proven Strategies and Time-Test Principles for Success. Plus, download and access tons of FREE resources and online events by joining our Exclusive Community of Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and High Achievers like YOU.Join FREE at DailyMastermind.comFollow me on social media Facebook | Instagram | Linkedin | TikTok | YoutubeGrow Your Authority and Personal Brand with a FREE Interview in a Top Global Magazine HERE.

Country hitmaker Cyndi Thomson joins Jamie on Jrodconcerts: The Podcast for an open, reflective conversation on her return to music, learning to protect her peace, and the full-circle journey back to songwriting. In the early 2000s, Cyndi made history with her record-breaking No. 1 debut single "What I Really Meant to Say" and her smash album My World. At the peak of her initial success, she chose to step out of the spotlight to proritize her well-being, eventually launching her jewelry brand, Haybelle Co. Now, 25 years after My World, Cyndi is embracing a new chapter defined by lived experience and creative freedom. Topics Discussed: Rooted Values: Growing up in Tifton, GA, and how intentional parenting shaped her foundation. Protecting Peace: Learning to establish firm boundaries and maintain a positive mindset in the music industry. Stepping Away & Returning: Moving from music to entrepreneurship with Haybelle Co., and the transition back into the studio. Social Media vs. Mystery: Navigating modern connectivity while preserving the classic mystery of an artist. New Music: The stories behind her single "Perfume On The Floor" and her new duet with Vince Gill, "Eighteen Summers." Perspective: Reuniting with collaborator Tommy Lee James and keeping industry recognition in context. ___ Follow & Connect: Stream Cyndi Thomson's new music: "Eighteen Summers" (with Vince Gill) & "Perfume On The Floor" Explore Haybelle Co.: haybelleco.com Follow Jrodconcerts: The Podcast on Instagram & YouTube: @Jrodconcertsmedia ___ Support The Show: Apple Pay: Whether you're shopping online for everyday needs or treating yourself, skip the hassle. Shop with Apple Pay. Terms apply. https://www.apple.com/apple-pay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Ten Commandments Series, we are looking at each commandment individually to see how they all apply to our present day personal Christian lives. In our systematic examination of each of the first five commandments, we have seen a powerful interconnectedness that deepens their meaning to us. The first three focus on God as our sole object of ultimate worship and loyalty. The Fourth Commandment to remember the Sabbath teaches us as Christians to rest in God through Jesus, making sure our motivations in life are continually spiritually focused. The Fifth Commandment to honor our father and mother was the first one to fully focus on our interpersonal human relationships. This respect and honor towards parents are the clear foundation for the rest of the commandments, which set rigid guidelines for the mutual respect we should have for all of humanity. Murder, according to Jesus, begins long before any physical act. Christians become guilty of murder—”spiritual murder”—when anger, contempt and destructive words diminish another person's God‑given worth. The Sixth Commandment calls us to protect the sanctity of life by practicing humility, reconciliation and honoring the image of God in everyone. There’s a progression This teaching shows a metaphorical progression: anger places us in danger of judgment in court, contempt places us in danger of the high court, and calling someone a fool places us in danger of losing everything through God’s righteous judgment. Jesus is revealing that for Christians, murder begins long before any physical act. It starts in the heart, where anger, contempt and destructive words diminish another person's God-given worth. For Christians today, modern expressions of this potential spiritual murder includes dehumanization, online hostility and the quiet killing of hope through criticism or belittling. Scripture consistently teaches that our words carry power to bless or curse, to build or destroy. When we diminish someone's identity, worth or potential, we violate the spirit of the Sixth Commandment. Fortunately, Jesus offers a clear remedy for this sometimes subtle but massive challenge. It begins with humility, reconciliation and intentional care for our brothers and sisters. As light bearers, Christians are called to protect life in every form—physical, emotional and spiritual. Jesus' application of this sixth Commandment to his followers challenges us to look honestly at how we react, how we speak, and how we form judgments, so that our conduct reflects the value God places on every single human being. Key Takeaways • Murder begins in the heart long before any physical act. • Anger, contempt and degrading speech place believers in spiritual danger. • Jesus raises the Sixth Commandment to a higher, inward standard. • Dehumanization and slander are modern forms of “spiritual murder.” • Protecting the sanctity of life includes guarding others' hope and potential. • Christians must practice humility, reconciliation and intentional respect.

"Send us a message!"Salon owners are constantly looking for answers.What product line sells best? Should I add a head spa? Are Google Ads worth it? What software should I use? Should I expand?Those sound like reasonable business questions. But what if the answer has nothing to do with the actual problem you're trying to solve?In this episode, we talk about learning to diagnose a business problem before jumping to a solution. We use examples from retail, marketing, new services, hiring, profitability, and some of our own mistakes at Hello Hair Co. to show why copying someone else's answer rarely fixes what's happening inside your business.We also get into something we believe strongly: business is its own skill. Being great at hair doesn't automatically teach you finance, leadership, marketing, hiring, systems, operations, or strategy. Those skills have to be learned just like anything else.If you constantly find yourself looking for the next product, service, strategy, coach, system, or quick fix, this episode is about slowing down long enough to figure out what question you should actually be asking. The Big Idea: Better business decisions don't start with better answers. They start with understanding the problem you're actually trying to solve.Key TakeawaysThe question you're asking may not reflect the problem you actually have. New products and services won't fix weaknesses in the underlying business. Marketing can't solve poor retention, bad pricing, or an unprofitable business model. Being good at hair and being good at business require completely different skill sets. Coaches, books, podcasts, and systems should support your thinking—not replace it. You can't want success more than an employee wants it for themselves. Holding onto the wrong people can damage the team you're trying to protect. Sometimes improving your business means removing something instead of adding something. Mission, vision, and core values can serve as practical filters for business decisions. Every yes consumes bandwidth and may prevent you from pursuing a better opportunity. Timestamps00:00 — Opening takes: lifelong education & positioning 04:00 — Are salon owners asking the wrong questions? 05:00 — The three layers behind every business problem 08:00 — Why changing product lines may solve nothing 10:00 — Amazon isn't your salon's competition 11:00 — The danger of shiny new solutions 14:00 — Head spas, permanent jewelry & adding new services 15:00 — Marketing can't fix every business problem 17:00 — Business is its own skill 21:00 — Coaches, systems & outsourcing your thinking 24:00 — What our biggest mistakes taught us 25:00 — You can't want success more than your employees do 27:00 — Protecting your team and culture 29:00 — The team that gets you from 1 to 10 31:00 — Sometimes the answer is removing something 32:00 — A simple filter for making business decisions 34:00 — Pause before looking for the answer Reflection: What problem are you actually trying to solve?Before you add something, buy something, hire someone, change systems, or ask another owner what worked for them, spend some time figuring out whether you're solving the actual problem—or just treating the symptom.Your business should serve you, so that you can serve others.And better business decisions don't always come from finding better answers. Sometimes they come from asking better questions.Links and Stuff:Our Newsletter Mentoring InquiriesFind more of our things:InstagramHello Hair Pro Website

Mildred V. Palmer, Founding Partner at Navigant Law Group, joins Jon Hansen on Let's Get Legal to discuss estate planning, including how to handle unequal inheritance distributions, joint bank accounts, and protecting inheritances for a child during a divorce. For more information, call (847) 253-8800 for a free consultation.

Van and Rachel react to results from the August primary races, Sophie Cunningham weighing in on trans athletes, A$AP Rocky opening up to Jason Lee. Then, author and political leader Stacey Abrams returns to weigh in on the ongoing fight for voting rights. (0:00) Intro (5:39) Primary race results (19:26) Sophie Cunningham on trans athletes (30:01) A$AP Rocky on his relationship with Rihanna (42:25) Stacey Abrams joins the show (1:40:10) Did Van see this?  Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Stacey Abrams Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If your spouse has started to feel more like a roommate than a partner, you're not alone – this is a normal cycle that most couples face at some point. Protecting time for friendship, shared interests, and honest check-ins can help you and your spouse get back in sync. _______________ We want your marriage to thrive! Learn more at http://xomarriage.com Dave and Ashley Willis spent thirteen years in full-time church ministry before devoting their work entirely toward the global mission of building stronger, Christ-centered marriages. Their marriage-related books, blogs, podcast, speaking events and media resources have reached millions of couples around the world making Dave and Ashley one of the most recognized and trusted couples in marriage ministry. Dave and Ashley partnered with XO Marriage in 2018. XO Marriage is the nation's largest marriage-focused ministry. The Willis family includes four sons and a rescue dog named "Chi Chi." When Dave and Ashley aren't writing and speaking, they love hanging out with their family, watching movies and going on long walks which is also where they develop many of their marriage ministry content ideas. Learn more about Dave & Ashley at daveandashley.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices