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There's only 90 minutes for Christian to complain about everything that went wrong for the Red Sox in their non-competitive Wild Card Series with the Yankees. Were the decisions Chad Tracy made with the bullpen really interchanged with Craig Breslow or were the calls all him? Then, between Sonny Gray's numbers the third time through an order and the struggles Erik Miller had been having, pulling Gray for Miller is more baffling than pulling Payton Tolle for Miller. And, the two outside veterans Gray and Willson Contreras seemed the most upset with the Sox strategy which could lead to an even longer offseason with the lockout included.

Your best people aren't failing you. Your job descriptions are. After 14 years of building ROI Online, I've watched the “just hire another person” playbook break down as software, customer expectations, and AI move faster than any team can manually keep up with. When we try to scale the way we did even a year ago, we fall into a legacy trap that creates invisible limits, wasted effort, and real burnout.We walk through a simple framework I use with clients to redesign roles for modern business growth: three levers that compound. Lever one is the human seat, the strategy, judgment, taste, and deep customer context that only a leader or tenured team member can bring. Lever two is the virtual assistant layer, where trained support handles necessary work that still requires flexibility and relationship awareness, without draining your highest-cost bandwidth. Lever three is the AI assistant and automation layer, where repeatable chores become workflows that scale, freeing both your leaders and your VAs to do higher-value work.You'll also hear why “the math of human effort is broken,” how to protect your most volatile asset (employees), and a practical way to turn any outdated job description into a leverage blueprint using Gemini Notebook and a clear prompt. If you want to scale without piling on headcount, improve profitability, and deliver a better customer experience, this is the mindset shift.Subscribe, share this with a business owner who feels capped, and leave a review with the lever you're going to pull first.Send us Fan MailSupport the show

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1: Botched execution in Tennessee || Lindsay Clancy attorney has some creative arguments 14:47 SEGMENT 2: STEVE BUCCI, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation who focuses on cybersecurity and military special operations || | TOPIC: National defense headlines of the day || Pilot stabbed his co-pilot in an attempt to crash an Israel-bound plane. How will America react? || Pete Hegseth doubled down on reducing the number of senior officers by 20% || Pulling all American troops out of Iraqheritage.orgx.com/SBucci 35:09 SEGMENT 3: CHRIS CORNER: Go back to tried-and-true ways of executing inmates https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1: Botched execution in Tennessee || Lindsay Clancy attorney has some creative arguments 14:47 SEGMENT 2: STEVE BUCCI, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation who focuses on cybersecurity and military special operations || | TOPIC: National defense headlines of the day || Pilot stabbed his co-pilot in an attempt to crash an Israel-bound plane. How will America react? || Pete Hegseth doubled down on reducing the number of senior officers by 20% || Pulling all American troops out of Iraqheritage.orgx.com/SBucci 35:09 SEGMENT 3: CHRIS CORNER: Go back to tried-and-true ways of executing inmates https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, I'm joined by Aneela Idnani to explore hair pulling, skin picking, and other BFRBs, and how understanding what's underneath the urge can help us respond with more awareness, compassion, and choice.  

In this episode we'll talk about:Knowing what deserves your attention… and what doesn't.Stopping treating every opportunity like an assignment.Giving your best work your best hours.Protecting enough quiet to hear what's actually yours.Not letting urgency decide your priorities.Staying with something long enough for it to compound.Learning to say no without needing to justify it.Making fewer things matter more.Being more devoted to the assignment than distracted by the noise.And more… START HERE…→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (22K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges. → https://mattgottesman.substack.com/aboutNEW HERE…→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play. → https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)CONNECT WITH ME…→ Instagram — @mattgottesman→ TikTok — @mattgottesman→ YouTube — @mattgottesmanRESOURCES…→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.comOTHER RELATED EPISODES:Faith Isn't Knowing the Whole Path… It's Taking the Next Honest StepApple: https://apple.co/3MB62IuSpotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN

Let's Grow Pulling Live - 09/28/2026RecapIf it is happening in pulling, we are talking about it. If we missed something, let us know.608 604 5068 jason@beermoneypullingteam.comFOLLOW US ON Social Media. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BeerMoneyPullingTeamFACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/beermoneypullingteamINSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/beermoneypullingteam

Todd Rosenbluth says ETFs have pulled in a record $1.5 trillion this year as investors increasingly use them as their default way to access markets. He highlights growing demand for active ETFs from BlackRock (BLK) and T. Rowe Price, plus thematic plays like the Global X Cybersecurity ETF (BUG). He also notes traditional firms like Northern Trust and Jensen are converting mutual funds into ETFs.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein more than two decades ago, the US has had a near-continuous military presence in Iraq... until now.The last troops have been withdrawn, ending a process started by Joe Biden and endorsed by Donald Trump. But the timing of the departure has been questioned - with the US still at war with Iran.According to Iraqi security experts, the withdrawal could give Tehran and its proxies free rein, while also risking a comeback from the Islamic State terror group.So, why have Americans decided to leave Iraq now? And what will it mean for the future of the country - and stability of the wider region?Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's military analyst Robert Clark, who served in the British military in Iraq and Afghanistan.There is more exclusive analysis and content on the conflict in the Middle East on the new Sky News Defence Insider app.Sky News Defence Insider is a subscription app designed for audiences seeking deeper insight into defence, security and global affairs.Download and subscribe here. Paid subscription required for full access. UK only. 18+. T&Cs apply.

Elijah woke up one morning with a familiar weight on his chest. It was the start of the kind of heaviness that had cost him two to three weeks with his people, over and over, for years. This time he caught it. He named what was happening, and then he made the harder choice: he answered his wife Christina's call and let her in. Dr Glenn and Phyllis Hill unpack why isolation can feel safer than connection, why staying silent is less kind than speaking, and what it looks like to step out of psycholation and into relationship, sometimes in as little as three minutes.In this episode:•Why familiar pain (shame, heaviness, loneliness) can feel safer than letting someone in•Psycholation: the psychological isolation that turns a hard morning into a lost month•Catching the pattern early and using the Core Emotion Wheel to name what's happening•The "I don't want to burden them" myth, and why not telling is less kind•"You're communicating it either way": how silence gets filled in with nineteen wrong guesses•Phyllis on moving day: loneliness, tears, and the text that changed everything•Glenn on why we don't need to pathologize people in order to be present with themAbout Elijah Runyan: Elijah is a certified Connection Codes coach, directs the Connection Codes coaching program, and serves as COO in The Connection Codes, wearing many hats to keep the mission running. He has been married to Christina for 20 years and teaches couples and individuals the same tools he shares so honestly here.Resources mentioned:

How can ag teachers make STEM feel less like an add-on and more like a natural part of agricultural education? In this episode, Pulling STEM into Ag: Systems Thinking That Teachers Can Use Next Week, we explore how systems thinking can help teachers connect science, technology, engineering, and math through authentic AFNR challenges. Tune in for practical ideas for connecting classroom/lab instruction, FFA, and SAE while making integrated STEM manageable, relevant, and applicable to students' everyday lives. Article: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/16/2/253?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article Authors: Neil A. Knobloch, Christopher J. Eck, Aaron J. McKim, and Hui-Hui Wang

The Chicago Bears expected left tackle Ozzy Trapilo to miss a good portion of, if not the entire, season after he injured his patellar tendon in January. Here's how Trapilo is on the cusp of pulling off an improbable injury return.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shaw-local-s-bears-insider-podcast--3098936/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Join us LIVE this October in Greenville, SC for LIMITLESS'26. Only 40 agents. Two days together. One goal: break through the limiting beliefs that are holding us back and upgrade the way we live and run our businesses.Get all the details here: https://limitless.tentenths.co________________Pulling your own market data is what turns an annual real estate portfolio report (aka market impact report or real estate review) into real expertise. Here's how to do it without overthinking it.In this conversation, Matt and Garrett break down why the agents who gather their own local stats have better conversations, spot micro-market trends others miss, and become the go-to expert when a market question comes up at a party. They get into exactly which numbers to pull for a Market Impact Report, what you can hand off to an assistant (and what you shouldn't), and how a monthly habit of doing these reports becomes the free throw practice of your business.Join your hosts, Matt Bonelli and Garrett Frey, for this tactical episode. Drop yur thoughts in the comments.

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Join us to celebrate our 300th episode! For anyone lucky enough to attend LambEx this year, Gus Balbontin was one of our favourite speakers. So, when he agreed to come on for our special 300th episode, we were beyond excited.The messages Gus shared during his talk have stuck with many. He challenged (and succeeded) in getting us to think differently and to question any long-standing assumptions we'd had. Gus grew up in sheep country in Patagonia before leaving Argentina at the age of 17 because of "a healthy disregard for the status quo". By 22, he'd dropped out of university, hitchhiked across South America, started his first business and landed his dream job at Lonely Planet, giving him a front-row seat to the disruption that came alongside the internet and ensuing technology boom. These days, Gus is an investor, founder, advisor, and speaker, working across startups, AI, robotics, 3D-printed wheelchairs, and climate technology. Gus doesn't claim to know exactly what the future will look like. Instead, he argues that we should be getting better at adapting to whatever comes next. He talks about why successful businesses and farms can become comfortable with systems that have worked for years, which is why disruption often looks ridiculous before it becomes obvious. His advice is to stop waiting for the future to become clear and start playing with it now. Try something unfamiliar. Follow a new idea down a rabbit hole. Make a small experiment. See what happens.We couldn't have asked for a better guest for our 300th episode. We hope this gives you a chance to think about staying relevant, challenging assumptions and being willing to rethink things that have worked well for a long time. Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: info@nextgenagri.com.Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.Check out the MSD range HERECheck out Allflex products HERECheck out Heiniger's product range HERECheck out ProWay's product range HERE

View all cards mentioned in this episodeGabe joins Andy and Anthony talk about his Obscura cube, starting with the prompt “collapse”. Gabe chose to build on the theme in both aesthetic and mechanical ways. Pulling heavily from zendikar sets he set a tone of a world after the collapse of civilization. Mechanically he hoped to create gameplay that put players in committed positions that could easily crumble. In the first half, before the event, they talk about the design process and fears and expectations. In the second they reflect on how the cube played out.Discussed in this episode:Collapse Cube by GabeTupelo Honey CubeObscura VodsEtherium LandscapeIf you'd like to show your support for the show, please consider backing Lucky Paper on Patreon or leaving us a review on iTunes or wherever you listen.Check us out on Twitch and YouTube for paper Cube gameplay.You can find the hosts' Cubes on Cube Cobra:Andy's “Bun Magic” CubeAnthony's “Regular” CubeYou can find both your hosts in the MTG Cube Talk Discord. Send in questions to the show at mail@luckypaper.co or our p.o. box:Lucky PaperPO Box 4855Baltimore, MD 21211Musical production by DJ James Nasty.Timestamps0:00 - Intro3:12 - Collapse7:17 - Risk / Reward14:05 - Balancing Vibes18:21 - Expectations23:09 - Postgame26:31 - Hatching Plans29:10 - Speed31:45 - Landcallers36:33 - Inferno Titan40:21 - Desert Cubes45:31 - Hindsight

To be a solid citizen of America can be frustrating. I see lots of crazy happening in this country, so much so that it becomes difficult to remind myself that it's only the tiniest amount. It's just that we now amplify it to make our points.We're getting fleeced—and Americans finally realize it.Not everybody, of course. Some people could catch the government standing in their living room holding their television and ask, “Do you need help loading that?”But millions of Americans have awakened to something disturbing: our lives are not nearly as much our own as we were led to believe.We've lived under the illusion of freedom for decades. We vote. We pay taxes. We complain about the government. Then we elect another group of people who promise to investigate the first group—usually just in time to qualify for government pensions.It's the world's longest-running magic act.The magician says, “Watch the Constitution.”And while you're watching, somebody steals your wallet, your healthcare, your retirement, your children's education, and half the appliances in your house because apparently your gas stove was melting Greenland.Then somebody sounded the alarm.What's that guy's name? Oh yeah…Donald Trump.Trump told Americans he would show us how the game is played. And whatever you think of the man, he certainly showed us the game.He walked into Washington, flipped on the kitchen light, and suddenly the cockroaches started holding press conferences.Trump didn't create institutional corruption. He interrupted its brunch.He exposed a government filled with nameless, faceless people who seem to wield extraordinary power yet somehow never appear on a ballot. Presidents change. Congress changes. Administrations change. But the same bureaucratic barnacles remain attached to the ship of state.Apparently, democracy means you can elect the captain—but good luck removing the barnacles.People call it the deep state. The establishment. The permanent bureaucracy. The administrative state. I don't care what name you use. When unelected people can outlast presidents, obstruct policies, selectively enforce laws, and never explain themselves to the public, we don't have public servants.We have squatters with dental plans.For years, I resisted the idea that some cabal pulls the world's strings. Now, I think you'd have to be a fool not to wonder who keeps supplying the string.Look at what we've learned.Government manipulated information. Media manipulated stories. Universities manipulated language. Corporations manipulated culture. And all of them expected us to believe they were operating independently.That's like five teenagers emerging from the same locked bathroom and insisting they were each in there alone. Kevin Jackson has been called, the "white-collar" Joe Rogan. Given their similar backgrounds in TV, comedy, and martial arts, it's easy to see why people enjoy Kevin's show so much. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Why does your dog pull on the leash? The answer may be a simple training gap, a habit that has repeatedly worked, or an emotional response to something in the environment. Pulling toward dogs and people can reflect excitement or greeting frustration, but it can also be driven by fear, social insecurity, or aggression.In this episode, Scott Sheaffer explains how to distinguish general leash pulling from trigger-driven reactivity, why dogs stop responding when they go over threshold, and how the leash itself can intensify frustration or fear. You'll also learn practical, humane strategies for teaching loose-leash walking, managing triggers, reducing rehearsal, and knowing when professional help is appropriate.Episode Link:Communicating Through the LeashYou can visit USADogBehavior.com for lots of dog behavior resources—almost all of them are free—including videos, blog articles, and past podcast episodes to help you understand your dog.If you'd like to learn more about working with Scott, please visit his website below.Find us at USADogBehavior.com.Follow us on Facebook.DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice. If your dog is displaying aggression toward humans, consult an experienced and knowledgeable canine behavior professional who uses humane, non-aversive methods, and always take precautions to keep others safe.Scott Sheaffer and USA Dog Behavior, LLC, are not responsible for any outcomes resulting from the use or interpretation of the information shared in this podcast.

Bryan Kohberger's family has entered the fight. In a statement exclusive to ABC News, the Kohbergers declared their full support for Bryan's bid to withdraw his guilty plea in the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. They said they want "the complete and unvarnished truth" told through a proper trial.Kohberger himself claimed in his petition that his former attorneys coerced him into confessing falsely. He's written that his parents and sisters were present for many of the discussions with his legal team before the plea. In his affidavit, he points to his family's involvement as proof that the pressure was real.Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins Tony to examine whether a highly narcissistic offender can orchestrate his own family as a PR operation from a prison cell. Is the family's statement genuine grief and denial, or calculated messaging? And what does Bryan Kohberger's psychology look like when the people who saved his life from the death penalty now publicly validate his claim that he never did it?A hearing on Kohberger's petition is set for June 2027.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#BryanKohberger #KohbergerFamily #IdahoMurders #KohbergerPlea #UniversityOfIdaho #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #KohbergerInnocence #HiddenKillers #TrueCrimePodcast

This week, Denny Love drops by to talk about his first-ever solo headline tour! He's built a huge, loyal following online, and now he's taking that connection on the road, bringing the community he's created together in person city by city.From being raised by his grandmother to touring and featuring for Chris D'Elia, we talk about the experiences that shaped him, building a career in comedy, connecting with people online and what it means to finally headline his own tour.Denny is such a good dude, and this conversation was just as real as it was fun. Enjoy!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Professor Julian Wamble returns to respond directly to listener reactions from the Lily Potter episode of Critical Magic Theory. Pulling from Patreon and Spotify comments, this Prof Responds episode tackles three flashpoints: why fans blame Lily for Snape's fall to the Death Eaters, whether her sacrifice for Harry counts as heroism or "just what mothers do," and why Lily remains a blank slate compared to James's character arc. The reflection centers on those who called Lily a "pick me," and why that label gets the story backward. Prof submits that if we're going to hold the "pick me" accountable, why don't we hold the picker accountable too?

Let's Grow Pulling Live - 09/21/2026Recap - MitasGuest - Mike SummersIf it is happening in pulling, we are talking about it. If we missed something, let us know.608 604 5068 jason@beermoneypullingteam.comFOLLOW US ON Social Media. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BeerMoneyPullingTeamFACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/beermoneypullingteamINSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/beermoneypullingteam

TRUMP THREATENS TO “ANNIHILATE” IRAN AT THE U.N.! DEAL OR DESTRUCTION? Make a deal or “I drive them into hell”. What happened in their 3-hour meeting after the speech? And what message was he sending the world? TRUMP ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR XI! SUCKING UP—or STRATEGIC DIPLOMACY? What are the top issues for Trump to address? What about the communist movement within the US? How can we combat that here at home? OZEMPIC, WEGOVY & SUDDEN BLINDNESS? THE LAWSUITS EVERY GLP-1 USER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT. What are patients claiming—and what does the science say? Is an OTC pain reliever a bigger threat? KAMALA & EL-SAYED TOGETHER ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL! TALK ABOUT AN AWKWARD REUNION. He didn’t support her in 2024 so why invite her? And why did he attend a meeting to discuss “black birthing people”? Is that really an issue he supports? With Dr. Bradley Thayer, “America’s 100 Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism”, Dr. Jeff Barke, RxforLiberty.com & Michael Levine, “Authentic PR”. Support Our Mission: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZMGRBFGDJKRS8See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Matthew Bradbury is a business consultant and Managing Director of BAMA (Business Acquisition & Merger Associates). Matt helps unleash the equity in your company for retirement, giving, or the next chapter in life. Along the way we discuss – The Journey (2:00), Value Driven (7:30), The "Bama" Brand (12:45), Business Evaluation (17:00), EBITA and Clean Numbers (20:15), Deal Killers (21:30), Tips for Success (25:00), Representation and Warranties Issurance RWI (30:00), Getting Ready to Sell (34:15), and Management Buyout (40:15).  Prepping to Sell Your Business? Reach out to Matt @ Business Acquisitions & Merger Associates This podcast is teamed with LukeLeaders1248, a nonprofit that provides scholarships for the children of military veterans. Help us sponsor 5 scholarships for 2026. Send a donation, large or small, through our website @ www.lukeleaders1248.com, PayPal, or Venmo @LukeLeaders1248.  Music intro and outro from the creative brilliance of Kenny Kilgore. Lowriders and Beautiful Rainy Day. 

This week, Chief Content Officer Matt Davis sits down with Arun Krishnan – SVP, Global Supply Chain & Strategy at AstraZeneca – to explore the Holy Grail of modern operations: the self-healing supply chain. Pulling back the curtain, Arun shares how AI and human judgment are combining to automate the routine, eliminate the guesswork, and protect patient safety at scale, all while bringing a genuine sense of joy back to the team by freeing them up for higher-level work.

Have you ever noticed that the moment someone starts pulling away, you suddenly want them more?Maybe they're taking longer to reply. Their texts are getting shorter. Or they haven't made plans to see you again. Nothing has actually happened, but you can feel that something has changed.And suddenly, someone you were still figuring out becomes the person you can't stop thinking about.Before you know it, the question has changed from “Do I actually want this person?” to “How do I get them to want me again?”Why does that shift happen? And why can not knowing where you stand feel even more painful than being rejected?In this week's video, I break down what's really happening in these moments, and I sit down with Gabby Bernstein to talk about why distance can trigger such an intense reaction in us, and how to stop it from taking over.Because sometimes, the person pulling away isn't the real reason it hurts this much.---►► Transform Your Life in 2 Powerful Days. Learn More About the Matthew Hussey Weekend Retreat at: MHRetreat.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when one partner needs emotional connection before sex, while the other experiences sex as one of the primary ways they feel emotionally connected? Too often, couples—and even therapists—get caught trying to decide which need should come first. In this episode, Dr. James Hawkins sits down with Dr. Laurie Watson, coauthor of Brave Love, Great Sex, for a rich conversation about why the emotional and sexual bonds in romantic relationships cannot be separated. Laurie explains how couples can become caught in two interconnected pursue-withdraw cycles: an emotional cycle and a sexual cycle. One partner may pursue emotionally while withdrawing sexually, while the other withdraws emotionally but reaches for connection through sex. Underneath both are familiar attachment questions: Do you want me? Do I matter to you? Will you respond to me? Am I safe needing you? James and Laurie explore how attachment history, childhood experiences with touch, body image, sexual functioning, anxiety, shame, and vulnerability can all shape what happens between partners in the bedroom. They also discuss why sexual withdrawal is not simply a lack of desire and sexual pursuit is not simply wanting more sex—both can be attempts to manage deeply vulnerable relational needs. Link to Brave Love Great Sex Podcast  Amazon Link for Brave Love Great Sex Book Welcome to the Leading Edge in Emotionally Focused Therapy, hosted by Drs. James Hawkins, Ph.D., LPC, and Ryan Rana, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC—Renowned ICEEFT Therapists, Supervisors, and Trainers. We're thrilled to have you with us. We believe this podcast, a valuable resource, will empower you to push the boundaries in your work, helping individuals and couples connect more deeply with themselves and each other. In this episode of Push the Leading Edge, Dr. James Hawk and Dr. Ryan Rana explore a powerful clinical question: What if, instead of always trying to get underneath protection, we slowed down and worked with it? Drawing from live sessions with George Faller and their own case work, they unpack how repetitive, honoring validation of protective moves can transform “stuck” couples—especially long-term pairs who have been looping in the same rigid patterns for years. You'll hear how protection shows up in withdrawers and pursuers, why it's more than “resistance,” and how treating protection as a pathway rather than a problem can unlock embodied emotion, reshape shame, and open the door for more organic Stage 2 work.  Top Ten Learning Points Protection is a doorway, not just a barrier. Protection (withdrawal, criticism, task-focus, etc.) can be a direct entry point into attachment longings and fears, not just something to get past. TEMPO as a multi-door model. TEMPO (Trigger, Emotion, Meaning, Protection) is like a car with four doors; you don't always have to enter through “E” (emotion)—you can enter through P: protection and still reach the heart. Rounds and rounds of validation change the nervous system. George's method involves extended, layered validation of protection (20–30 minutes), not just a quick nod. This repeated honoring of the positive intent behind protection visibly reduces pressure and invites live emotion to surface naturally. Protection is emotional dysregulation, not just “defensiveness.” Protective moves are embodied dysregulation driven by fear, shame, and threat—not a character flaw. People often hate the very protections they defend and feel deeply ashamed about them. Protection serves at least four functions at once. It protects self, protects partner, protects the relationship system, and preserves a sense of basic safety (e.g., “If I don't do this, we might lose the family/us”). Long-term couples are running habits, not conscious choices. After 7+ years of distress, partners often don't even know they're doing their protection move—it's become automatic, like breathing. A single powerful enactment doesn't automatically undo years of patterned protection. Deep validation reshapes the observing partner's view. When one partner's protection is validated in detail, the other partner gets a front-row, re-framed view of behavior they previously only experienced as hurtful. This can shift, “You're just being critical/checked out” into, “Oh, this is your way of trying to protect us and not give up on us.” You must deal with what's on top before you earn what's underneath. If therapists say, “I want to get underneath that,” but never really work with the protection, they often get blocked. You “earn the right” to deeper vulnerability by regulating and honoring what's on top (the protection) first. This approach especially helps withdrawers, pursuers, and concrete thinkers. Withdrawers: feel seen in their performance, tasking, and “keeping the peace” superpowers, instead of constantly being pushed to “do more emotion.” Pursuers: finally have their energy named as a protective, committed force rather than “too much” or “critical.” Clients wary of emotion / neurodivergent / highly concrete: protection-focused work feels practical and tangible, less abstract than pure emotion work. Protection work can set up a more organic Tango. George often spends a long time in Tango 1–2 space around protection—tracking, reflecting, and deepening. Once protection is truly validated and regulated, emotion tends to emerge organically, making Tango 2–3–4 smoother and more authentic, rather than forced. For EFT therapists, the episode offers a direct challenge: we already know how to track cycles, explore meaning, evoke emotion, and create new conversations—now we need the courage to bring those same skills into the sexual relationship. This is a conversation about helping couples develop the courage to open their hearts emotionally and sexually, creating the possibility for both brave love and great sex. A Core Line for the Episode Great sex and brave love are not two separate destinations. Emotional and sexual vulnerability can strengthen one another when partners learn to reach, respond, and remain present in both systems. Top Ten Takeaways 1. Emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy are reciprocal systems. Treating sex and emotional attachment as separate domains can cause therapists to miss how strongly each influences the other. Couples have multiple pathways toward experiencing security and connection. 2. Couples can become trapped in a “you go first” standoff. One partner may essentially say, “Connect with me emotionally and then I can open sexually,” while the other says, “Connect with me sexually and then I can feel emotionally close.” Both partners wait for the other to make the first vulnerable move. 3. Couples may have two different pursue-withdraw cycles operating simultaneously. A person can be an emotional pursuer and sexual withdrawer—or an emotional withdrawer and sexual pursuer. The emotional and sexual positions do not necessarily line up. 4. Sexual behavior carries attachment meaning. A sexual reach can communicate, “Do you desire me? Will you choose me? Am I important to you?” A missed response can therefore register in the nervous system as much more than simply not having sex. 5. Attachment history matters, but it does not explain everything about sexuality. Attachment strategies influence how people approach relationships and sex, but hormones, trauma, early sexual experiences, family messages, body experiences, and other developmental factors also shape the sexual system. 6. Sexual withdrawal deserves curiosity rather than judgment. Pulling away from sex may protect someone from profound vulnerability. A history of insufficient or unsafe touch can make needing physical closeness feel frightening rather than comforting. 7. Sexual pursuit is often about more than sex. The sexual pursuer may be reaching for reassurance, desirability, closeness, affirmation, or embodied connection. Anxiety about whether the partner will respond can intensify pursuit, just as it does in an emotional cycle. 8. EFT therapists already possess many of the skills needed to explore sexuality. Questions such as “What happened inside when your partner responded that way?” “What did that mean about you?” and “What did you need in that moment?” translate naturally from emotional-cycle work into sexual-cycle work. 9. Slow the sexual experience down frame by frame. Therapists can explore not only thoughts and emotions but physiological responses: arousal, loss of arousal, erection, orgasm, touch, tension, and bodily shutdown. Then help partners communicate what is happening rather than silently interpreting one another. 10. Therapist discomfort should not leave couples alone with one of their most vulnerable struggles. Therapists may worry that talking explicitly about sex is intrusive, inappropriate, or voyeuristic. Laurie's challenge is to remain gentle, respectful, and specific rather than avoiding the subject altogether. Couples often need help developing language for experiences they have been unable to discuss anywhere else. We aim to equip therapists with practical tools and encouragement for addressing relational distress. We're also excited to be part of the team behind Success in Vulnerability (SV)—your premier online education platform. SV offers innovative instruction to enhance your therapeutic effectiveness through exclusive modules and in-depth clinical examples.  Stay connected with us: Facebook: Follow our page @pushtheleadingedge Ryan: Follow @ryanranaprofessionaltraining on Facebook and visit his website James: Follow @dochawklpc on Facebook and Instagram, or visit his website at dochawklpc.com George Faller: Visit georgefaller.com If you like the concepts discussed on this podcast you can explore our online training program, Success in Vulnerability (SV). Thank you for being part of our community. Let's push the leading edge together!  

You can change direction.Even if your life has gone one way for years, even if certain thought patterns feel deeply ingrained, and even if some of those beliefs started in childhood, your current story does not have to be the final version.In this episode, I talk about why the hardest part of change is often not the action itself. It is getting there mentally.Old thoughts do not simply disappear because you decide to move in a new direction. They may show up when you are tired, discouraged, stressed, or in the middle of the night wondering whether anything is actually changing.That is why I think it matters to declare where you are going and keep reminding yourself.You are not going to be perfect. You may backslide. Some changes you thought would take days or months may take years because you are working through patterns that have been reinforced for a long time.That does not mean you are incapable of changing.Part of the process is learning to trust yourself to navigate it, recalibrate when you get pulled off course, hold yourself accountable without constantly tearing yourself down, and keep moving in the direction you chose.The old script may still exist.You are allowed to start writing another one.Brand new to Your Level Fitness?https://yourlevelfitness.com

Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd from Promethean Action join Jillian to break it all down and explain everything you need to know before November Elections.INSIDE THIS EPISODE:The Hidden Chessboard & US Sovereignty: Trade wars, proxy wars, and inflation are all hitting at once. Barbara and Susan say it's no accident, and American sovereignty is what's on the table.Globalism vs Nationalism, the American System vs the British System: A 250 year economic war is heading into its final round, and most Americans have no idea which side they're on.Scott Bessent, Operation Economic Outcast & the Petrodollar: The Treasury just went after the IRGC's money. Where that trail ends could shake the petrodollar, and the dollar in your pocket with it.Mark Carney, Canada & the EU: Canada just walked out on Trump and Ursula von der Leyen's bigger plan could crush Trump at the mid-terms.The Russia Ukraine War & Europe's Revolt: Ukraine is losing and European voters are furious, so who keeps this war going, and what do they get out of it?The AI Regulation Hoax / Anthropic Claude: Why would one of the biggest AI companies on earth beg Congress to regulate it? What the guests say is hiding behind the AI safety push should worry you.The Yen Carry Trade & a Bond Market Crash: The yen carry trade is unwinding and the bond market is flashing red. What happens if this bomb goes off?Gramsci, Cultural Marxism & the Tavistock Institute: The propaganda machine behind today's culture wars has an origin story you were never taught, and it's still running.Lindsay Clancy & the Culture War: Are the culture wars being orchestrated or amplified by people who want the West to fall? Jillian, Barbara, and Susan connect the dots.

A client DM about a fancy body-composition scale sends Krysta down a rabbit hole about why we're all so obsessed with gathering more data, more tools, and more frameworks — and why that obsession is quietly becoming our favorite form of procrastination. In this episode we dive into:• Why "I need more information" has become the most respectable-looking excuse for not taking action• How to tell the difference between genuinely useful data and anxiety dressed up as research• The real reason your consistency streaks don't add up the way you think they do• A simple 5-question filter to run before you buy the next tool, course, or coachThe Information Trap• A client asks about a fancy body-fat scale — and it turns out the real driver is anxiety, not data• We can now track nearly everything: sleep, HRV, macros, funnel conversions, open rates• Availability of information is starting to masquerade as necessity — being able to know something doesn't mean you need to• Watching everyone else's scans and rings online makes you wonder if that's the missing piece you're behind onWhy This Feels So Comforting• A "missing variable" is comforting because it means the past wasn't your fault — you just didn't have the right tool yet• Krysta's honest audit of her own nutrition tracking showed she wasn't nearly as consistent as she believed• Scrolling for the next framework or hack can quietly become procrastination that feels like progress• Pulling back from social media and asking "what am I here for?" led to more creativity, not lessBuilding Evidence You Can Actually Trust• Taking longer on something, like a client presentation, can prove you've leveled up — not that you're behind• Real self-trust means taking action before you feel certain, then using the results as evidence• Krysta's 45+ pound nutrition transformation came from raising her standards everywhere, not chasing a new supplement or metric• Relationships hold up a mirror — the standards she built for herself became the ones she wanted in a partnerFix Tip of the WeekBefore you add another tool, metric, or challenge, ask:• What exact problem am I expecting this to solve?• What decision will I make differently once I have this info?• Have I really followed through enough on what I know to say it isn't working?• Am I looking for information, or just reassurance?• If I follow through, then what happens next?No Such Thing of the WeekThere is no such thing as a piece of information that can replace the power of simply following through.Whether you're eyeing a new gadget for your fitness plateau or a new framework for your content, the answer usually isn't out there — it's in doing what you already know to do, long enough to find out what happens.Looking for more on this topic? Check out Episode 45 where we talk about the trap of over-optimizing everything.Follow Krysta:⁠@thekrystahuber⁠⁠⁠⁠@thefitnessfyx⁠⁠⁠@thespreadmktg ⁠

There is a moment many people reach where they begin talking about downsizing. Simplifying. Pulling back. And while clearing clutter from your life may be wise, shrinking your vision is a different thing entirely.In this message, Pastor Jimmy challenges one of the most common assumptions people make as life matures: that smaller is the next chapter. Drawing from Deuteronomy, Genesis, and the story of Abraham stepping outside his tent to count the stars, this sermon makes a bold declaration: God is not intimidated by increase. And He never intended His blessing to stop with you.

The Fed's 25 bps interest rate hike was expected, though the unanimous decision was not, says Michael Reinking. He highlights the "confusing story" he sees in what the FOMC projects to be a "timelier" return to 2% inflation. On the AI trade, Michael sees momentum very much intact, pointing to headlines from neoclouds like CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius (NBIS) signaling demand is going nowhere. ======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

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Raymundo calls out Amy for not making good on something he promised her and another show member. Amy defends herself with the truth. A blind caller shares how an Uber driver left her and her service dog in a dangerous situation with no crosswalk. Would you report the driver? Bobby weighs in and helps her out to make sure she has resources if it ever happens again. Eddie's salsa has now made it into schools! Bobby got word of how his wife REALLY feels about his salsa business. Does she love it or want him to stop? We find out how he is planning to scale his business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TP Crawford took close to a year. 3D render first, then find a factory that'll actually take the call, then prototypes, then shipping, air or sea. Hopelord walks through what it really costs to turn an idea into something physical.He also went to the RAW factory with Josh and saw the scale up close. One mill supplying essentially the whole world, and damn near pre-sold out while they were standing there.The detail he's proudest of isn't the look, it's the feel. The lighter sleeves are made in the USA and finished so they're almost velvety in the hand. Blazy said on a podcast that when he buys a lighter sleeve he buys Talking Terps, specifically for the texture. Hopelord's point: most people stop at the 3D print. Push the design all the way through and you get something people actually want to hold.Plus the collab list, Puffco, Alien Labs, Kumba and Pake from Japan, a bicycle with Dos Noventa in Barcelona, and how each one came together on its own timeline. The Toad Venom drop with The Flowery, which went to their black tier first at about 100 half ounces. Pulling the brand back for a year and a half to respect what's in people's pockets. And red hot 1,100 degree nails in 2013 with Action Bronson, which he'll be the first to tell you was horrible.Want the stuff we can't put on YouTube? Unreleased content and early drops weeks in advance at FSOTD.com.Subscribe for new episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Any team can fill a whiteboard with ideas in an hour. What most teams skip is the analytical thinking that tells them if they're solving the right problem. An idea pointed at the wrong problem is wasted no matter how clever the idea is, and you usually don't discover this mistake for years. By the end of this episode, you'll have four steps you can run on a real problem this week, the three thinking traps that can derail you, and a practice drill to sharpen your analytical thinking. To help explain how and the power behind this skill, I will use a real-world example. In the summer of 1854, cholera hit one small corner of London's Soho area, and by the time it burned out, 616 people were dead, most of them within a few streets of each other. The experts had an explanation ready. Cholera came from bad air, a poisonous vapor rising off filth and rot, called miasma, and that was the official position of the men in charge of public health. A doctor named John Snow didn't argue with them. He walked to the General Register Office, asked for the list of the dead, took that list out into the streets, and knocked on doors until he found that nearly all of them had lived a short walk from one water pump on Broad Street. We'll follow what he did as he applied each of the four steps I'm about to share. Let's get into it. What Is Analytical Thinking? Analytical thinking gets confused with critical thinking all the time, and the difference decides which skill you reach for. Critical thinking judges a claim: someone tells you something, and you ask whether it's true, who is saying it, and what they left out. I covered that in the critical thinking episode, and it's worth watching if you haven't already seen it. Analytical thinking starts when there is no claim on the table yet, just a mess. Sales are down twelve percent. Your best people keep leaving. A project that looked healthy in March is three months late in September. Nobody has handed you an argument to evaluate, so there's nothing yet to be critical of. You have to work out what's going on. Snow's story shows the gap. Critical thinking, applied carefully in 1854, points you straight at the Board of Health, because they were the credible source making a claim, and the credible source was wrong. In the critical thinking episode, we briefly touched on breaking a problem into pieces. In today's episode, we focus on breaking the problem into pieces and then analyzing each one. Why Analytical Thinking Is Eroding Most people remember Snow for the famous cholera map, the one with little black bars stacked along the streets of Soho, piling up around the pump. That map didn't exist in September 1854. A mapmaker drew it for a book Snow published the following year. The real work involved a list of names and a lot of walking. Today, most of us only ever see the finished map. We rarely do the work that produces it. Think about the last dashboard you looked at. The numbers arrived already cut into pieces, by region, by quarter, by product line, and somebody chose those cuts, months ago, for a question they had then. When the slicing arrives pre-made, you've inherited someone else's answer and never noticed. AI summaries go one step further. You ask what's going on, and you get back a paragraph shaped exactly like a conclusion: confident, organized, finished. It never asks you to decide where to look, and that decision is the skill. Like any skill, it only improves when you make it yourself. Keep the dashboard. But you need to be able to do the same work yourself, by hand, when the dashboard doesn't answer your question. The Four Steps Snow's work, and the work of anyone good at analytical thinking, has four steps: Break the problem into pieces Find the pattern inside them Test whether your read is right Look out for the thinking traps Step 1: Break the Problem Into Pieces A problem that feels overwhelming is a problem you haven't cut into pieces yet. The skill is deciding how to split it. The steps to break a problem into pieces: Write the problem down as a fact. "Renewals dropped from eighty percent to sixty-eight percent this year." Not "customers hate the new pricing." That one assumes the answer before you've done the work. Split the problem into pieces that add up to the whole. New customers and existing ones. This region and that one. Online and in-store. If the pieces overlap or leave something out, you'll double-count or miss what matters. Follow the piece that moved, and keep splitting it. If the drop sits almost entirely in one region, split that region again. If it's spread evenly across everything, that's a clue too, and it points you toward something that touches everything. Stop when a piece is small enough to act on or to ask a person about, because past that point more analysis just delays the decision. Get the rows behind the chart. Snow didn't work from a death rate for the district. He worked from eighty-nine names and eighty-nine addresses, and the addresses were where the answer was. How Snow split the problem made all the difference. Everyone else was sorting the neighborhood by what it smelled like. Snow sorted it by where people got their water. Done honestly, this is twenty minutes and one sheet of paper. At the end, you want a short list of pieces that add up, with the one that moved circled. Step 2: Find the Pattern Step 1 tells you where the damage sits. This step is about what those pieces have in common and finding the exceptions. Snow focused on the exceptions, starting with the ones that seemed to contradict him. There were only ten deaths in houses that sat closer to a different pump, so he visited those families. Five of them told him they always sent for water from Broad Street because they liked the taste better, and three more of the dead were children who went to school near the pump. Then he looked at the places that should have been hit and weren't. A workhouse on Poland Street, nearly surrounded by houses where people had died, held more than five hundred people and lost five, but it had its own well. A brewery sat on Broad Street itself, seventy men working a few doors from the pump, and none of them died. The owner told Snow his men got a daily allowance of beer and never drank the water. The cluster told Snow where to look, and the exceptions are what convinced him he was right. The steps to find the pattern: Hunt the exceptions in both directions. Who has the problem and shouldn't? Who should have it and doesn't? One exception, like the brewery, will usually teach you more than ten more examples that fit. Ask what the cluster and the exceptions share that nothing else does. This is the moment the analysis reveals something, so slow down here. Write out what's true of the cases that have the problem: where they are, who touched them, what they use, when it started. Then cross off anything that's also true of the cases that don't have it. Snow could cross off the street, the smell, the crowding, and the poverty, because the workhouse and the brewery sat in all of it and stayed healthy. What survived was the water, and whatever survives your crossing-off is the candidate. Keep asking why until you reach something you can change. Taiichi Ohno, the engineer behind the Toyota Production System, taught this with a machine that stopped. The fuse had blown, but it blew because a worn shaft had starved the bearing of oil, and the shaft wore out because nobody had fitted a strainer to keep scrap from getting into the machine and damaging the shaft. Stop at the first answer, and you replace the fuse, and the machine stops again next month. Two questions do most of the work in this step: What changed right before the numbers did? Who is closest to the problem and hasn't been asked? Snow's best evidence came from a brewery owner and a few families, and nobody had thought to ask any of them. What you want at the end of this step is one sentence naming the likely cause, written so that somebody could go and prove it wrong. "People who drank from the Broad Street pump got cholera" can be checked. "Something in the environment is making people sick" can't be checked, which is part of why the miasma theory lasted so long. Step 3: Test Your Explanation A pattern is your best read, but it's still a bet. Testing is how you find out whether the bet is any good before you spend money, or reputation, or lives on it. Snow's strongest evidence wasn't in Soho at all. A widow out in Hampstead, miles away, died of cholera on September 2nd. There was no cholera in Hampstead, and she hadn't been near Broad Street in months. But she'd lived there once, and she liked that pump's water so much she had a bottle of it brought out to her by cart. Her niece visited, drank the same water, went home to Islington, and died the next day. There was no cholera in Islington either. That's powerful evidence: a case far from the outbreak that only the pump could explain. On the evening of September 7th, Snow took his case to the parish authorities, and the next day the handle came off the pump. Here's the part people usually leave out. Snow wrote afterward that the deaths had already started to fall before the handle came off, so he couldn't claim the pump was still the source, and he refused to take credit the evidence didn't support. A local clergyman, Henry Whitehead, closed the case. Whitehead set out to prove Snow wrong, went house to house on his own, and ended up tracing the first case: a five-month-old baby at 40 Broad Street, whose mother had rinsed the soiled cloths into a cesspool a few feet from the well. Steps to test your explanation: Write down what else has to be true if you're right, then go looking for the case that would embarrass you. If the pump is the cause, people who drank from it far from Soho should get sick, and people living beside it who drank elsewhere should stay healthy. The widow in Hampstead was exactly that case. Define the criteria that would prove you wrong before you go looking. Why? Because if you decide afterward, you'll find a way to rationalize what you already believed. Hand your work to someone who wants you to be wrong. Whitehead set out to disprove Snow and ended up strengthening his case. Run the cheapest test you can. Pulling a pump handle costs nothing and can be undone tomorrow. Most business problems have a small, cheap test: a price change in one region, one week with a different process, one customer call. By the end of this step, you want a test you can run in a week and a result that would make you drop the idea. Step 4: Avoid the Analytical Traps Three failures show up again and again, and all three look like good analysis from the outside. The steps to stay out of the traps: Set the decision date before you start. The first trap is paralysis. You keep splitting and keep asking for more data, because deciding feels riskier than analyzing. Snow didn't wait for proof. He had a strong case and a cheap, reversible action, so he acted. Match the proof you need to the cost of being wrong: pulling a pump handle needs a strong case, and a decision you can't walk back needs a much stronger one. Round the number back to what you actually know. The second trap is false precision. A forecast of 23.4 percent growth sounds more rigorous than "somewhere between fifteen and thirty." If the inputs were guesses, the precision is invented, and everyone who sees it trusts the number more than they should. Carry the uncertainty through to the answer. Go find the numbers that disagree with you. The third trap is confirmation bias dressed up as data, and it's the most dangerous because it looks like evidence. You already believe the answer, so you find the slice of the numbers that agrees. The miasma camp had real observations on its side. Cholera did hit the poorest, most crowded, worst-smelling streets hardest. That was true, and it pointed at the wrong thing. I did a full episode on confirmation bias, and the short version is this: when the evidence against you is hard to find, that's when you need to look hardest. Three things to have in hand before you act: The date you'll decide An honest range instead of a false decimal The strongest evidence you could find against your own answer Practice Exercise: The Root-Cause Drill In the critical thinking episode, the exercise was a debate. This one is a drill, and you'll need a partner, because you'll see the structure of someone else's problem more clearly than your own. Each of you brings one real problem with a number attached. Something current, where you don't know the answer. For example: turnover on your team, or a metric that went the wrong way. Swap problems and break each one into pieces on a single sheet of paper, with the pieces adding back up to the whole. Give it fifteen minutes. Circle where the problem concentrates, then find one exception. If you can't find one, you haven't split finely enough. Ask why until you hit something changeable. Write the pattern as one sentence that could turn out to be wrong. Hand it back. The owner designs one test they can run within a week that could prove the pattern false. Meet again after the test. Compare what you expected with what happened. The gap between the two is where you learn the most. The first time, it'll feel slow. By the third, you'll catch yourself taking problems apart in meetings before anyone has finished describing them. The Rewards After the outbreak passed, the authorities put the handle back on the Broad Street pump, and the official inquiry blamed the epidemic on bad air. Snow's analysis was right; it was on paper, and the people in charge rejected it anyway. It took years for everyone else to catch up with what he had worked out from a list of names and a few weeks of knocking on doors. This is the reality of what analytical thinking will and won't do for you. It won't make people believe you, and on its own it won't win the room. What it does is get you to the right answer while everyone else is still debating which expert to believe, and give you the evidence to back it up. It gives you the early insight that others are missing. The next time a number goes the wrong way, don't start by guessing at the cause. Get the details, break the problem into pieces, and work from there.  

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Your business evolves over time, so why shouldn't your branding? In this episode of Building Your Brand, I chat with brand designer and self-styled "brand chef" Aiza Cheung of Studio Coya. We dive deep into why small business owners and service providers should stop flattening their services into generic lists and instead embrace the power of branding their signature offers. Aiza breaks down her signature food analogies to explain how your business brand acts as the restaurant, while your signature offer is that one distinctive dish everyone comes back for. We also talk about the brilliant concept of "themed branding," using pattern disruptions, and how you can steal clever campaign strategies from corporate giants to stand out in your own industry.   Key Takeaways The Restaurant vs. The Signature Dish: Your overarching business brand is there to nurture your audience and build general trust . Your signature offer branding is the entry point that shows clients exactly what specific solution you provide.   Pattern Disruption via Campaigns: Consistency builds trust, but audiences can become blind to the same visuals over time. Launching a dedicated campaign or signature offer provides a temporary window to play with new visual elements to peak curiosity.   Theming Grounds Your Messaging: Choosing an anchor or theme (like Aiza's food concept or Rachel Emma Wearing's space aesthetic) makes it exponentially easier to write copy, devise analogies, and feel creatively aligned.   Borrow from Other Industries: Instead of mimicking direct competitors, look outside your niche. Aiza looks to product-based food brands and hospitality to discover fresh ways to market online services.   Strategic Disruption vs. Trust: Standing out with an unusual industry colour palette is highly effective, but you must ensure your visual pattern disruption doesn't undermine the core trust required for your profession.   Episode Highlights 01:45: Aiza's journey from a linear design career to handling an unexpected redundancy that pushed her into running her studio   04:20: What exactly defines a signature offer and how service providers can apply the SaaS model to their programs   08:35: Pulling visual levers: Deciding how visually similar or distinct a sub-brand should be from your main parent brand   18:25: How Aiza stumbled across her food theme by mistake and how it transformed into her biggest marketing asset  20:15: Designing a theme that isn't loud: The story of The Two Lauras and their internal "comfy jumper and jeans" anchor   28:30: Why it is okay to play with visual trends in short-term marketing blocks rather than a permanent rebrand About the Guest Aiza Cheung is a brand designer, strategist, and the founder of Studio Coya . Known as the "brand chef," she helps online service-based businesses differentiate their primary brands and structure unique visual worlds around their signature offers. Website: studiocoya.com Instagram: @studiocoya Podcast: Nourish Your Brand Aiza's Free Theming Masterclass I would love to hear what you think of this episode, so please do let me know on Instagram where I'm @‌lizmmosley or @‌buildingyourbrandpodcast and I hope you enjoy the episode! This episode was written and recorded by me and produced by Lucy Lucraft lucylucraft.co.uk If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5* rating and review!

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Every time this podcast talks about coastal wetlands, the conversation goes straight to carbon. Marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and lock it in soil for centuries, and that story has earned coastal ecosystems a real seat at the climate table. Dr. Adam Langley, a global change ecologist and professor of biology at Villanova University and a research associate at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, thinks there's a second story hiding in that same soil that could matter just as much, or more: nitrogen. Langley and 37 co-authors just published the first global estimate of how much nitrogen the world's marshes and mangroves actually bury, and the number is staggering. Pulling from over 8,000 soil measurements across 255 tidal wetland sites worldwide, Langley's team calculated that coastal wetlands sequester roughly 3.2 teragrams of nitrogen every year, a figure Langley makes tangible by comparing it, loosely, to the mass of 700,000 African elephants or to the fertilizer applied to every cornfield in the United States. That's equal to somewhere between 13 and 15 percent of all the nitrogen buried in the world's oceans, a share nobody had managed to calculate on a global scale before this study. Nitrogen doesn't get the same climate spotlight as carbon, but its damage is intensely local: too much of it running off farmland and into estuaries fuels the algal blooms, oxygen dead zones, and red tides that can sicken and kill fish, manatees, and people. Coastal wetlands act, in Langley's words, like nature's kidneys, filtering that nitrogen out of the water and locking it away in oxygen-starved soil where it stays inert, as long as the wetland itself survives. And that's the catch. These wetlands have kept pace with sea level rise for 5,000 to 10,000 years by building soil vertically, but Langley's research suggests they can only keep up with about 8 millimeters of sea level rise a year, a threshold the global rate, now roughly double what it was 75 years ago, is edging closer to. Andrew and Langley dig into what happens on the other side of that threshold: wetland loss, boat-wake erosion along Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, and mangroves creeping poleward into places like Georgia for the first time on record, possibly helping some marshes hold their ground in the process. They also talk dollars: blue carbon's global value has been estimated at $191 billion, and Langley's team calculates blue nitrogen could be worth even more, a case he hopes gets policymakers to start managing nutrients with the same urgency as carbon. Takeaways: Coastal wetlands (marshes and mangroves) bury roughly 3.2 teragrams of nitrogen every year, drawn from a global database of over 8,000 soil measurements across 255 sites, the first estimate of its kind. That nitrogen burial equals 13 to 15 percent of the world's marine nitrogen burial. Human activity has more than doubled natural nitrogen inputs to ecosystems, arguably a bigger disruption to the nitrogen cycle than to the carbon cycle, even though nitrogen's damage shows up locally rather than globally. Blue carbon's global value has been estimated at $191 billion a year; blue nitrogen's could be even higher, an estimated $70 to $339 billion a year. Wetlands can generally keep pace with roughly 8 millimeters of sea level rise per year by building soil, but the global rate has already roughly doubled since the mid-20th century. Mangroves are expanding poleward, including a newly documented population in Georgia, which may help some marshes build soil and resist erosion better, though Adam expects overall coastal wetland area to keep shrinking as seas rise faster.

Week 1 is finally here and the guys are hyped to talk all things Washingto  Commanders vs Philadelphi Eagles.Hosted by:John Tayman Jessy Martin Scott Hartley Max Tayman and Tony Wheat 

Ryan pulls out a big one and no it's not what you think. 

Men don't understand women. It's a refrain that has been heard for centuries. Many men feel that no matter what they do, no matter how much they try to love their wives, she still does not feel secure or appreciated. This lack of understanding can end marriages, and we want to prevent that. Pulling from Devin and Kim Schadt's new book, The Marriage Gap, today we discuss the 4 core needs of every woman. We dig into what truly makes them feel loved, secure, and appreciated. We will explain the right and wrong ways to men should answer the needs of their wives.

Chris Grundemann joins Alexis and Kevin to discuss his career evolution from pulling cable to co-founding the Network Automation Forum. Chris shares insights on the challenges of adopting network automation, the impact of AI on the industry, the importance of professional networking, and strategies for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. AdSpot Sponsor: Meter Most IT... Read more »

Chris Grundemann joins Alexis and Kevin to discuss his career evolution from pulling cable to co-founding the Network Automation Forum. Chris shares insights on the challenges of adopting network automation, the impact of AI on the industry, the importance of professional networking, and strategies for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. AdSpot Sponsor: Meter Most IT... Read more »

Democrats only organize themselves to steal from us. PLUS, Former Boston Fire Commissioner, Joe Finn, tells Shaun about the Find Them Now initiative and as the environments we live in get more dangerous, we now need technology available to track firefighters and police officers when they are faced with dangerous situations. Sign their initiative to bring this serious matter to the FCC and the Trump Administration and allow indoor tracking technology a chance to save a first responders life! Tom Sodeika, Founder and CEO of Freedom Square and Freedom Chamber, tells Shaun about Freedom Chamber's 2nd Meet and Greet happening on Thursday, September 10 at Shannon's Deli in Lombard! Sign up here and meet other members of the Freedom Chamber helping keep the American Dream of owning a business alive!!AndThe Heritage Foundation's Dr. EJ Antoni discusses the reprivatization of our economy and compares it with the cautionary tale of Canada's tanking economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Share a commentA year of silence can look like success on the outside and feel like slow collapse on the inside. We pick up the story of King David after 2 Samuel 11, when adultery and murder seem safely buried, and we ask the question nobody wants to answer: what does hidden sin do to a person over time? Pulling language from Psalm 32, we talk honestly about guilt and shame, sleepless nights, and the heavy hand of God that won't let a true believer settle into the mud. Then we follow the moment God breaks the stalemate by sending Nathan. Instead of a public takedown, Nathan tells a tender story about a poor man's lamb, and David's outrage flares. That's where the trap closes, the defenses fall, and the prophet delivers the line that still echoes through every conversation about accountability and repentance: “You are that man.” We unpack why we're often quickest to spot a small version of our own sin in someone else, and how spiritual blindness can coexist with strong moral opinions. We also explore the meaning behind “caught red-handed,” why people hunger for forgiveness without questions, and why no religious system can simply wipe stains away on demand. Finally, we walk through the consequences Nathan names, the reaping-and-sowing principle that follows even real forgiveness, and what this teaches about Christian leadership, integrity, and spiritual restoration. If this challenged you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review with the line that hit you hardest.Learn more about twenty-five years of global impact, and reserve tickets to our gala. https://www.wisdomonline.org/mp/25 Learn more: https://www.wisdomonline.org/Support the show