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Midlife…Maybe you've noticed it too.You still care deeply about your calling. You still want to make an impact. You still have ideas, responsibilities and people you love.But the pace you once kept doesn't fit quite the same anymore.Your energy has changed. Your capacity may have changed. Your roles are changing.And somewhere in the middle of it all, you may be asking, “What is this season for?”We've been talking a lot around here about a theology of time, how what we believe about God and time shapes what we do with our days. Today's conversation with Claire Davis of The Midlife Mentors adds another layer:The God who created time also created you. Your body isn't an inconvenience to your calling. Your limitations aren't something you have to outsmart. And a change in season doesn't necessarily mean you're becoming less useful.It may be an invitation to become more discerning about what you're carrying into the next one.Ready to Start Redeeming Your Time?If this conversation has you realizing it's time for a different rhythm, you don't need another productivity system. You need a place to start.I've put together the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit to help you begin asking the question that changes everything: “Lord, what is it time for?”Inside, you'll get the foundational tools to start giving what matters a home in your actual week, while leaving room for your capacity, your season, and real life.When you grab the Starter Kit, you'll also join me here on REDEEM Her Time, where we'll keep looking to the Author of Time for what it means to faithfully steward what He's entrusted to us.What If Midlife Isn't a Decline?Claire knows something about reaching the point where striving stops working. After years of putting so much of her identity and meaning into her career, work and brand, she experienced burnout and eventually found herself at the end of herself.And that's where God met her.What followed reshaped how she understood who she was and what her life was for.That's especially significant in midlife because so much is already changing. Children may be leaving home. Parents may need more care. Hormones change. And suddenly the roles that have answered “Who am I?” for decades don't answer quite as easily anymore.Claire describes midlife as an opportunity to get curious rather than assume we're in decline.What still matters? What have we been carrying because someone else told us success was supposed to look that way? And what might God be asking us to lay down so we have the capacity to hear what He's inviting us into next?As Claire put it:“It's not about adding. It's about subtracting. It's about taking things out and living more in our natural rhythms.”That sounds a lot like stewardship to me.Healthy Ambition Requires a Different RhythmI especially wanted to ask Claire about healthy ambition because the women in this community aren't looking for permission to stop caring.We want our lives to matter. We want to build, serve, love our families and use what God has entrusted to us well.The real question is what's driving our ambition, not whether we should have it.Unhealthy ambition can look a lot like stress, striving, and not-enoughness. And we can make our striving sound very spiritual.“I'm doing this for God.” “I'm serving people.” “This opportunity could make such an impact.”All of those things may be true. And we can still outrun our capacity.Claire reminded us that the body we're living in is also part of what God has entrusted to us. Sleep matters. Movement matters. Creating space to be with God instead of filling every available minute, even with good things, matters.And sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is remove something that no longer belongs, not squeeze another healthy habit into an already-full schedule.Faithful stewardship means discerning what God has entrusted to us and letting that determine our yeses, not doing less simply for the sake of doing less.So What Is It Time for Now?Toward the end of our conversation, Claire offered a simple place to begin.Take 10 minutes a day. Grab a journal. And get curious with God.Who does God say I am? What used to bring me joy? What might He be calling me toward now?You don't need to figure out the entire second half of your life in one sitting. You simply need enough space to begin listening.Because maybe this season isn't asking you to become more efficient at carrying everything you've always carried. Maybe it's asking you to discern what belongs now.So before you move on to the next thing, sit with this week's stewardship question: “What am I still carrying because it fit a previous season, but may not belong in the one God has me in now?”Don't rush to fix it. Get curious. Bring it before God. And then ask the question we've been practicing together: “Lord, what is it time for?”I'd love to hear what comes up for you in the comments.Ready to Let That Answer Shape Your Actual Week?Recognizing that your season has changed is one thing. Letting it change the way you live Monday through Sunday is another.Inside the Stewardship Circle, you'll start with the Faithful Week Framework™ to discern what God has entrusted to you in this season, decide what deserves your yes, and give those priorities a realistic home in your week, with room for your actual capacity and real life.Because great information can help us see differently. But transformation comes as we begin living differently.And change takes time. Pun fully intended.About Claire DavisClaire Davis is an award-winning coach, speaker, host of a top 1.5% global podcast and co-founder of The Midlife Mentors, helping midlife men and women thrive with clarity, confidence and purpose.With more than two decades of experience in health, wellbeing and resilience, Claire blends science-based strategies with real-world insights to help people navigate the psychological and physiological complexities of midlife. She's a certified health and business coach, personal trainer, NLP practitioner, stress-management consultant, menopause specialist and nutrition advisor.Take Claire's Free Midlife Reset AuditClaire also created a free Midlife Reset Audit to help you discover what may be holding you back from living your healthiest, happiest midlife, and where you may want to focus next without adding more pressure or burning yourself out.→ Take Claire's Free Midlife Reset Audit Get full access to REDEEM Her Time at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

In this recap episode, Lesley Logan and Brad Crowell dig into their favorite takeaways from the conversation with Tara Connaghan, a traditional Irish fiddle player from Donegal whose award-winning podcast decodes the unspoken rules of Irish music sessions. They unpack why unfamiliar spaces feel so intimidating to newcomers, the etiquette of joining as a beginner, the three kinds of people every new learner needs.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free.In this episode you will learn about:The importance of supporting local Black-owned businesses.The etiquette of easing into a group as a beginner.Brad's jazz sessions and what his class taught him about listening.Why daily practice outperforms one long session each week.How filling your cup makes everything else feel easier.Episode References/Links:upLift - xxll.co/uwseLevate Live Q&A - lesleylogan.co/elevateOPC Summer Tour (Powered by Balanced Body) - OPC.me/eventsOPC Flashcards - opc.me/flashcardsPilates on Tour - xxll.co/potNevada SPCA - https://nevadaspca.orgBy Black Business Directory - https://www.byblack.usSession Etiquette Website - https://www.sessionetiquette.comSession Etiquette Retreat - sessionetiquette.com/retreatIn Tune with Tradition Podcast - https://beitpod.com/taraconnaghanpodTara Connaghan IG - https://www.instagram.com/tarafiddleTara Connaghan FB - https://www.facebook.com/tara.connaghanTara Connaghan LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/taraconnaghanTara Connaghan YT - https://beitpod.com/arayoutubeSubmit your wins or questions - https://beitpod.com/questions If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSIDEALS! 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What's the etiquette? Do I have enough skills to be here? Am I allowed to sit here? Can I sit there? And she explained that you're scared because you just don't know how to enter the space. And I think it's really important to acknowledge that when we're a beginner at things, we're allowed to have some fear, you know?Lesley Logan 0:15  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:58  Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap, where my co-host in life, Brad and I are going to dig into the warm convo I have with Tara Connaghan in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to the interview, you can pause this, go listen to that, and then come back to this. You can listen to this, then go back to that. She has an Irish accent.Brad Crowell 1:12  Yes, she does.Lesley Logan 1:13  So sometimes that's fun to listen to.Brad Crowell 1:15  It sure was. She's also a musician. Love that.Lesley Logan 1:18  Yes, yes. And she has a great podcast as well. It's winning awards, even though it's brand new, because it's so niche. It's a niche in a niche. It's kind of amazing, but we'll get into that in a minute. First, today is August 20, 2026, and it's World Mosquito Day because, you know what? Those little fuckers need their own day. Honestly, because you need to be reminded that they suck. But you need to know how bad it is because it's...Brad Crowell 1:39  Literally.Lesley Logan 1:40  Oh, that's so funny! Pun wasn't intended, but I slayed that. So World Mosquito Day unites global health efforts every August 20th commemorating Sir Ronald Ross's 1897 discovery that mosquitoes transmit malaria. Well, thanks, Sir Ronald Ross. Do you think his parents named him Sir Ronald Ross, or he was Ronald Ross, and then they got the "Sir"?Brad Crowell 2:01  He got the "Sir."Lesley Logan 2:01  Oh, okay.Brad Crowell 2:02  Yeah.Lesley Logan 2:02  Well, this crucial day raises awareness about the ongoing threat of mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue, dengue?Brad Crowell 2:09  DengueLesley Logan 2:09  Dengue, Zika. Brad Crowell 2:11  Yeah, it would be normally known as dengue fever.Lesley Logan 2:13  Yeah, dengue fever, Zika, and yeah. Brad Crowell 2:16  Good luck on that one.Lesley Logan 2:20  Chikungunya. I'm reminding.Brad Crowell 2:25  It could be Chikungunya. Chikungunya.Lesley Logan 2:28  I'm not sure. Yeah. Anyways, well, my speech therapy didn't help me with that one. Discover how you can protect yourself, support research, and contribute to eradication initiatives worldwide. You know what you can do? Keep your fucking still water from being still. You guys, stir your pools. Don't let, you know, I listened to an episode of The Daily years ago when it was good, and it talked about how there are these mosquitoes that can live in a capful, you know those plastic water bottles? That size capful of water in a tire across continents. So on a ship that takes months, and then they can just spread. They don't need a lot of water anymore. So you guys have got to move your water around. Do you remember when we lived in LA and there was a big deal about the virus, and we were like at the airport. Everybody was on guard for puddles and drying things up. It was a weird community. It was before COVID, but LA had a community because people were getting... I don't think it was Zika, but there was a virus being carried by the mosquitoes, and it was a reason why even the airport had to clean up their water. They were giving out fines.Brad Crowell 3:31  I can't remember what it was, because Zika is usually in Asia, but it obviously can spread.Lesley Logan 3:37  So obviously, I talk about standing water around your home, but applying an EPA-registered repellent and raising awareness about mosquito-borne diseases is a great way to support the public health initiatives. Isn't it funny if we just start going around. Everybody today, I want you to go around and go, "It's World Mosquito Day. Do you have any standing water? Do you know how to get rid of mosquitoes?" So Vegas was notoriously known for having no mosquitoes, and now we have lots of mosquitoes. We have a whole mosquito problem, and at UNLV, there's a woman who studies the whole thing. But now we have mosquitoes, and it's really annoying because I thought I only got bit by mosquitoes when I was in Cambodia. Now we get bit all the time.Brad Crowell 4:10  It's not even, I mean, honestly, LA was, I felt like I got more mosquitoes in LA than Cambodia, but it depends on the time of year in Cambodia. I think it depends on the season, of course. But there definitely are mosquitoes there. We had a lot more in Thailand than Cambodia.Lesley Logan 4:26  Thailand killed me. Cambodia, I've learned to figure it out. And when you come to our retreat in Cambodia, we tell you what to do so you don't get bit. All right, you guys, what do we got going on? We're on our way back from the tour, actually. So we're probably either in El Paso or on our way to Tucson right now. We're gonna wrap it up in a few days in Las Vegas. And something you need to know, I'm really, really proud of. I started a teacher-training program for new teachers. So if you heard the rumor, it is true, and it's called upLift, and it will start early next year at a studio, hopefully near you. So, in fact, in the next couple weeks, I'll be taking applications from the people who want to license and teach the program, and then this fall, I'll be training them how to do it. Then I'll be working alongside them to make sure that it is done the way I know it will work and change your life and change the lives of the people that you teach. So you should go to xxll.co/uws if you would like to be a student. This is for first-time teachers or partially trained teachers, or maybe people who want to bridge into classical and they want it to be more of an in-person experience. So xxll.co/uws. And then for those who are already comprehensively trained and you want more of a master's program, you can go watch the recent eLevate Live Q&A call I did at lesleylogan.co/elevate. That's L-E-S-L-E-Ylogan.co/elevate. I did a mini class. I answered a ton of questions. We have a bunch of grads on there. We are filling 2028 as we speak, and only people who graduate eLevate can actually teach upLift. So if you are like, "Oh my God, how do I get my application in?" You won't even find out until you have done eLevate. So there you go. All right, you guys, we got a lot going on. Balanced Body sponsored our tour, so we're so excited because we have to take Contrology equipment everywhere, and we're spending a lot of time with them the rest of this year. I'll tell you more about that in a second. But thank you to Balanced Body for sponsoring our summer tour, and they are also sponsoring our winter tour this year, which we will announce next month. So make sure that you're on our email list so you don't miss out because literally on the summer tour, several cities sold out in one day. Brad Crowell 6:27  In one day. Lesley Logan 6:28  In one day.Brad Crowell 6:29  Yeah. So how do you get on the waitlist? Go to OPC.me/events.Lesley Logan 6:33  There you go. Go do that. Okay. So if you're new here, one of the ways you can actually support us is by being an OPC member. But if that's more of a commitment than you want to make, when you buy our amazing flashcards at opc.me/flashcards, not only do you support us and this podcast, but you're also supporting the Nevada SPCA. Just so you know.Brad Crowell 6:49  Yeah, but I just wanted to say before we move on, becoming a member, you can start with a trial. So it's a 40-day trial for 40 bucks, and you pick the trial based on the equipment you have access to, and then you get to come hang in this awesome community we have. We just revamped our community page, the whole community platform. It's really cool and just awesome people. So not only that, you can do it anywhere you are.Lesley Logan 7:15  Yeah, anywhere you are, at any level, with whatever you got. It's pretty great. It is the workout that works for you. That's what we say. So you guys, we're going to be home for a bit, and then we're going to be in Cambodia. You cannot join us this year in Cambodia, but you can certainly join us next year by getting on our waitlist. We will open up our early-bird special in January. If you hear a dog snoring in the background, her name is Darla. We cannot stop this; it's just going to keep going. But before we head to Cambodia, we're actually driving to Sacramento. I'm teaching, and we'll have a booth at the Sacramento POT. It is the Balanced Body 50th-Year Celebration. The ultimate, the penult, the penultimate, the, what do you call it? I mean, they've been celebrating all year long at all the different POTs.Lesley Logan 7:53  No, but anyways, it's at the headquarter area, and it's gonna be so much fun. And then after that, I'll be at the POT India. So I am at all the 50th anniversary POTS. Basically, I'll be aBrad Crowell 8:03  A 50-year celebration is called a golden jubilee or a golden anniversary.Lesley Logan 8:08  The Jubilee. I don't think they know that. I don't think they do either because they could have done a Jubilee instead of a whatever party. Anyways, here we are. So, if you want information about the Sacramento POT or what I'm doing in Goa, India, which, by the way, it looks stunning. I really will just say yes. I said yes because it's going to be at this stunning resort at the beach in Goa, and there's a bunch of Americans who are also going because they're like, "I wanted to take a workshop from you, and I've always wanted to go to India." And I'm like, "Well, see you there." Me too. So xxll.co/pot will get you information on both Sacramento and Goa. I have no idea how to get you information, but I am going to teach in China this year.Brad Crowell 8:44  Woo!Lesley Logan 8:45  This is a big deal.Brad Crowell 8:46  Yeah, just outside of Shanghai.Lesley Logan 8:47  Yeah, I don't even know how I'm getting there yet at the time of this recording. But we're figuring it out, everyone. Basically, here's what's going on. I am doing a lot of traveling with and without Brad this year because next year I'm not, because next year we're focused only on upLift, eLevate, our tours, and so it's quite an exciting time. I haven't said yes to anything for next year, and we're recording this in the summer, which is kind of insane because usually I'm already booked out, but we're not because we're saying, "Not yet, not yet." Anyways, all right, we got to get into this episode, but before that, Brad, what is the awareness that we're bringing people's attention to today?Brad Crowell 9:25  Yeah. So as you know, we switched to charity of the week instead of questions. So today we are doing something slightly different. We encourage you to seek out local businesses in your community to celebrate National Black Business Month. Yeah. So this month, instead of highlighting just one charity, we're focused on the whole month to go out and support your local Black-owned businesses. Why? Back in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was home to one of the wealthiest Black communities in the country, the Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street. In the span of about 15 years, it had built up hundreds of Black-owned businesses: grocers, theaters, hotels, doctors' offices, over 1000 homes. And then, over a two-day period, white mobs, some of them literally deputized by the city, burned more than 35 city blocks. They burned them to the ground, and as many as 300 people died. Roughly 10,000 were left homeless, and not a single person was ever prosecuted. Yeah, for decades it barely appeared in the history books, and Greenwood residents rebuilt, but the community never got back to where it fully was. Survivors were never compensated. So when we talk about supporting Black-owned businesses today, it's not just a nice idea; it's part of rebuilding something that was deliberately destroyed.Lesley Logan 10:42  It's crazy because I didn't learn about this. I heard about this around 2020.Brad Crowell 10:46  Yeah, I started to hear about this. Actually, there were TV shows that were focused on this in the superhero world, and I started watching it, and I was like, "Whoa, this is crazy! How did I never hear about this?" And then I started to really learn more about it, and it's just tragic. It's just unbelievable. It's unbelievable.Lesley Logan 11:04  Here's the thing: if a hurricane does this, we're in an uproar if the government doesn't go in fast enough and fix things, right? But this was deliberately done. This is not, it's just hate racism. Yeah. And then no one went in and helped any of these people, and so yet again, a group of people were set back even further. So not only did we not do restitution after slavery, when they finally do get ahead, well, let's burn it to the ground and create even more problems. And so it's just really fucking frustrating.Brad Crowell 11:34  There is a, you know, if you're wondering how to go support local Black-owned businesses in your community, there's a great resource that you can use, that is ByBlack.us. It's a national directory built by the U.S. Black Chamber of Commerce. It's searchable by location and even has curated city guides. So wherever you're listening from, you can find Black-owned businesses near you. And if you're local to us in Las Vegas, check out the Greater Las Vegas Black Chamber of Commerce at glvbcc.org, and also the Henderson Black Chamber of Commerce or the local directory called Black Biz Connect Las Vegas.Lesley Logan 12:16  Yeah, and that came up just when we were doing this search, so you can also figure that out by putting your city in. It's just a great thing to do if you want to just be... Here's the deal: we vote with our dollars, and so every single day there are things that we have to do for these fucking billionaires because we can't get away from it. But also, you can do this, and you can make small changes. So it's really important. We recently, at the time of recording this, had donated $800 to the Nevada SPCA, right? And I was like, "Oh, I know it's only $800," and they're like, "It's a lot of money. Thank you so much." It's from your flashcards for quarter two. And I said, "Oh, can I find out what does that do?" And they were able to show me what $800 can do, right? It can feed 114 shelter animals for one week. So when you take your dollars and you put them locally into a locally owned business, you are making major impacts. The ripple effects are things you can't even understand or see. And then when you direct that to being a Black-owned business, you are actually helping. It's just something that's really, really amazing because that means family members and friends of that business owner are seeing that they can be successful as an entrepreneur. If you can't see things happen in your life, it's really hard to be it till you see it. So I just think it's important. I thought it was a great way to honor this month. And so just put your city in and put "Black-owned businesses," and you'll get a list, I'm sure.Brad Crowell 13:33  Yeah, awesome. So thanks for supporting your local Black-owned businesses. And if you have any Black-owned businesses, or actually any charities at all, that you suggest that we do some research on and then bring to the pod, text us at 310-905-5534. 310-905-5534. Stick around. We'll be right back. Brad Crowell 13:54  All right. Well, let's talk about Tara Connaghan. Tara is a traditional Irish fiddle player from Donegal with nearly 40 years of experience playing music. I think she said more than 40 years of experience. In fact, I think she said she's been teaching for 40 years.Lesley Logan 14:10  I mean, she doesn't look that old, so I don't think she could be. I don't think she's in her 60s.Brad Crowell 14:14  Regardless, she's very, very clearly an expert. She's the creator and host of the award-winning podcast, In Tune with Tradition: Perspectives on Session Etiquette and Irish Traditional Music. That is a very niche pod.Lesley Logan 14:29  It's a niche in a niche.Brad Crowell 14:30  It breaks down the unspoken cultural rules of Irish music sessions. She also teaches adults and leads private immersion experiences in Ireland for musicians wanting to dive deeper on session culture. Side note: She actually has a tour coming up in September 2026, so next month. So go to sessionetiquette.com/retreat for details. Pretty sure she said it's happening in Ireland. Lesley Logan 14:55  I think so. And also, by the way, if you don't even know what Irish music is and session etiquette, don't be like, "What is this podcast episode about?" I don't know, because actually everything that we discussed about that can be applied to being a beginner at anything. So I really, really like it.Brad Crowell 15:09  Yeah. Yeah. So.Lesley Logan 15:11  Well, I'll just go first. So I think we can all understand. When you're a beginner, there can be a performance anxiety of sorts. You're not sure if you're wanting to be a knitter. Okay, an example: Andrea Maida and her husband and Brad and I went to a knitting store because Andrea Maida, a dear friend of ours, Pilates instructor, is a knitter. So we go to a knitting store, and there's a whole table of all these knitters, and they're just hanging out. And Andrea's like, "We can just go talk to them." And I'm, "I don't... are we allowed to go talk to them?" And then the first thing someone says, "Are you knit worthy?" Remember that? "Are you knit worthy?" And I was, "I don't know." If I was an aspiring knitter, I can tell you right now that I didn't feel welcome. I felt anxiety. But the other people, "Oh, don't let her get to you. You can sit down here." But I didn't know the etiquette of walking into a knit place. And so, when you are a beginner, there is an anxiety about how do I join? What's the etiquette? Do I have enough skills to be here? Am I allowed to sit here? Can I sit there? And she explained that you're scared because you just don't know how to enter the space. And I think it's really important to acknowledge that when we're beginners at things, we're allowed to have some fear, you know. Brad Crowell 16:15  100%. I mean, it's just natural. It's part of it. It's like getting on stage the first time you're on stage. Your throat is parched. You're completely freaking out inside, but it just takes practice. The more you do it, the less you're in that headspace. Yeah. But also, too.Lesley Logan 16:32  You play jazz, right? You play jazz.Brad Crowell 16:35  I played jazz. It's been a long time.Lesley Logan 16:37  But there are sessions. There's times when people get together to just play, and then there are times people can join in, right?Brad Crowell 16:43  Yes. So I'm going to talk a little bit more about that when I share what I really loved about this conversation. But yes, in the jazz world, it's called a jam session, right? And you hear musicians, "Let's get together and jam." I generally hate a jam session when it's not jazz music, honestly. It was interesting to hear her talk about the different levels of learning and the different layers of how people interact in a jam session. Because when I was younger, when I was studying jazz and I was performing, I play the trombone, for all of you who don't know. I started playing in fourth grade, and I went all the way through college studying very intentionally on the trombone. And I was really good at the time, really, really good. I wasn't ever recording on the trombone because what I was really passionate about was playing the bass and singing. So even though I was really good on the trombone, that wasn't really where my heart was at the time. When I was playing it in college, you'd get together with people, and if they were not that good on their instrument or they hadn't had a lot of experience playing with other people in a space where you're listening to other people, then you don't know what to do. And this is a perfect parallel. Have you ever been in a conversation where someone only talks about themselves?Lesley Logan 18:06  Yeah.Brad Crowell 18:06  The whole fucking time.Lesley Logan 18:08  Yeah.Brad Crowell 18:08  And they never ask a reciprocating question.Lesley Logan 18:11  Yeah.Brad Crowell 18:12  It's not a back-and-forth.Lesley Logan 18:13  Yeah.Brad Crowell 18:14  Yeah. Musicians can do that too. They can just take over.Lesley Logan 18:17  Well, and I think to wrap up my point, what I love is just like she says, once you learn the rules and the etiquette, the anxiety can disappear because you know what the rules are. I think a lot of times some of us are afraid to be beginners, and then we don't ever get to figure out what the rules are, so we never feel like we can be a beginner. But if you know what the rules are, then you know where you can play, right? I think, in a non-musical example, I get people who want to be on this podcast all the time. They're like, "We should do a pod swap." They pitch me. I'm okay. I love the balls. I love that confidence. They have 10 episodes. I have 700. I appreciate the invite, but that's not a mutual thing. I'm bringing so much more expertise. They're not going to have the conversation I want to have with 700 episodes with their 10. Or maybe they have a whole other following. They could back that up. Maybe they're up-and-coming. But really, no offense to them, it's not like they are below, but they actually need to go get experience with other people with 10 episodes, coming over here is not really going to be helpful for them because they don't really, you have to have experience to play. Like in Pilates, I absolutely love taking sessions from people who've been teaching for decades, right? But I'm not going to be, "Oh, you want to do a trade, Jay? Sandy, should we trade?" No. Not that I can't teach them something, but really it's not an equal exchange of information.Brad Crowell 19:37  Yeah, I mean, this rolls straight into one of the things I loved about the conversation. She was talking about the etiquette of joining sessions as a newbie or a beginner. She said it's a very gentle process where you're kind of coming into it in a gentle way, and the anxiety of it and the, you have to be self-aware enough to know that you are easing your way in. For me, the easy parallel is growing up in a large family where I had lots of aunts and uncles and thinking about Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner or something where everyone came over and they had the kids' table and they had the adults, right? And the kids' table, their conversation was generally about kid stuff, but I always ended up gravitating toward the adult table. And when I would get there, I had nothing to contribute to the conversation because I was 12, right? What do I know? I don't know anything about anything. But I'm listening to the adults talk about adult things, which I didn't even know what they were talking about. Didn't matter. I didn't have anything to contribute, so I didn't say anything, right? So when I was mentioning earlier, sometimes people can be in conversations where they 100% dominate the conversation, and it's not a conversation; it's one-sided. Alternatively, the other side of that is never contributing to a conversation and not having the confidence to speak up. And a lot of people never get past that, right? Even imagine if I was 12, then 15, then 18, and I'm still sitting at the adult table, but I'm not talking. I'm not participating in the conversation. I'm still taking it all in, but why am I not contributing back, right? So there's these two sides of the fence there. Lesley Logan 21:19  There's two extremes, and there's allowing yourself to be an observer because you're new to that table, and then at some point, you got to shit or get off the pot.Brad Crowell 21:27  Yeah, that's right. At some point, you actually have to participate. Lesley Logan 21:30  And I think where it happens is there has to be someone at that table who also invites you in. Brad Crowell 21:33  Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Lesley Logan 21:34  Remember the knitting table we started with? That woman who was, "Are you knit worthy?" I was, "I don't think so." I don't think I even replied to her. But then there was, "Oh, come sit down! Don't let her scare you!" Right?Brad Crowell 21:45  That's right.Lesley Logan 21:45  There needs to be someone who is aware of all the dynamics, who can be the guide.Brad Crowell 21:51  Yeah.Lesley Logan 21:51  You know, and so then you attach yourself to the guide, and you allow the guide to show you what's going on, what's the appropriate behavior here. We're watching The Pitt again, you guys. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. There's so much nuance to The Pitt. I love it so much. Dynamics, everything, everything. I can apply science of learning to The Pitt. All these different things, right? And that Mel King, bless her soul, her character just speaks in my heart. But she's going to high-five people after they save a guy's life, and no one high-fives her because that's not the etiquette. It's not what you do. It's your first day, babe. You're in their third hour, right? And so she's, "Oh, okay." She sits down. So she's trying to observe what the behavior is and trying to learn how to fit in. And it takes time. You're going to get it wrong. And that's the thing. You are going to fuck up at some point. You are going to think that you're invited in and you're doing the right thing. But actually, they changed the rules last week, and they moved it half an hour. And that doesn't make you a bad person. You just got to have self-awareness, you know, and then also a little gumption.Brad Crowell 22:50  Yeah, and I think, you know, thinking back to etiquette of joining a session as a newbie or beginner, it is valuable to sit at the kids' table when you're a kid so that you can have conversations with your peers, and then you learn something from that so that when you do move to the adults' table, you have some understanding of just how conversation works. So in the same way, with music. Lesley Logan 23:11  I think it's good to outgrow the kids' table because, yes, then you can recognize that you were the guide at the kids' table, and now you're over at the adults' table, so you can spot who the guide is over there. You know, I think it's good to have the experiences.Brad Crowell 23:24  Yeah, and that's definitely how it works with jazz and jamming. It's important to work with people who are, well, I mean, you talked about this specifically with Tara, the people who are where you once were, people who are where you are at now, and the people who are where you want to be, you know, so that you can be a guide, you can have fun with your peers, you can learn from someone who is where you want to be. And so, for example, here in Las Vegas, once a week I go to a local bar. They host a jam night, and it's a jazz jam night, and they encourage people to sit in. Bring your instrument, come play. We'll always welcome you in. You can always play for a tune or whatever. And then generally, what they'll do is they'll let you name the tune so that you have the confidence. "Okay, I know this song."Lesley Logan 24:16  Oh, I love that.Brad Crowell 24:16  You know, and then basically they all know all the songs. These guys are pro musicians. They're absolutely incredibly well-versed, and if they don't know the song, they can figure out the song in the moment. They're amazing, right? And so it's actually really intimidating because, especially if you're a newbie playing with a crew like that, those guys are the pros, right? And so it's great experience, but it's also like you're not really in their circle. You know what I mean?Lesley Logan 24:44  No. I do love how they approach that. I love that because they're actually saying, "Okay, you've been sitting here long enough. We can see that you're jamming with us. You're tipping your head to the beat or your foot to the beat. You can do something. You pick the song." So they're allowing you to have confidence in what you're going to do. And then they get to invite you in, and then after that they never have to again, or you get to keep coming. You broke the seal. It makes me think of David Doss as well. Remember when David Doss played at the Horse Trailer Hideout, and he noticed you were whistling, and then he's like, "Do you know the song?" He invited you in.Brad Crowell 25:14  Yeah.Lesley Logan 25:15  Because you have done karaoke, and you've been in bands, and you've toured as a singer. The stage doesn't scare you, but he does that with people all the time, and often they are not performers. Brad Crowell 25:26  Right. Often they're not. Lesley Logan 25:27  But he is allowing them to pick a song that they can do well. And I think that's just something for those of us, I think we all can take the application of etiquette and things like that to everything. I have people I go to learn from because they challenge me, right? There are people I challenge, and then there are people that I challenge to challenge people below. We all have to be doing that. Otherwise, first of all, the people that I go to, they go to people. Why? Because if they are not learning from other people, they're not going to be a good teacher for me. So I think we can all recognize where we are as the person who is the expert in one room, but maybe we're a beginner in this room. And how can we make sure that we're moving along, but we're also moving other people along? We can't always be the guide. At some point, we have to pass the torch.Brad Crowell 26:11  Yeah, you're right. You're right on the money on that. It is important to set yourself up to be a guide for the next generation coming along. There's one other thing I wanted to mention about the conversation before I moved on, and that is about the skill of listening and responding to others in a musical context, but also in a conversation. For example, I just did it. I acknowledged what you said, and then I changed the topic. Right? When I was in college, I don't even know how I met this professor, but he said, "Hey, I want you to come audition for this class. You can't just join the class; you have to audition for the class." I was, "Okay." So I didn't even know what that meant. He didn't give me anything to prepare. I didn't know what was going on, so I just brought a bunch of music with me that I could play. And he was like, "All right, cool. I want you to play this thing," and I just played it. And he was, "Okay, cool. Now I'm going to play this on my guitar, and I want you to play along with me." And then we did. And then he's like, "I'm going to let you lead, and then I'm going to play along with you." And I was, "Okay." And we did this half-hour audition, right? And afterwards, he asked me a few questions, and he invited me to join this class. And literally this entire class was what he taught was the art of listening, right? And it wasn't what the class was even called. I can't remember what it was called. It was an unbelievable class. And this guy is one of the most astounding musicians I've ever met. He could hear an entire song and then write the song down afterwards in musical notation. He had.Lesley Logan 27:41  That's a crazy memory.Brad Crowell 27:42  It was perfect memory and perfect pitch. He could listen to a song and understand exactly what was happening. He could see it and write it out. Lesley Logan 27:48  What a savant!Brad Crowell 27:49  Yeah, savant, completely. But what he did in that class was so awkward because there was no music. There was no jam. You didn't have a rhythm that you were playing to. He took our class and he said, "All right, today in class we've got a French horn, two guitars, a bass. We got a guy playing the timbale, which is a weird drum that is amazing, and we got a trombone player, and then there's a guitar player. So go." We're, "What do you mean, go?" And he's, "Someone can start playing, and then if you feel inspired by what they're playing, I want you to play off of what they're playing. And then other people are going to jump in, and they're going to play, and then you're going to play, and together it will turn into something." And we were, "What the hell?"Lesley Logan 28:35  Every day for a whole semester?Brad Crowell 28:37  Not every day. It was once or twice a week. I can't remember. But it became one of my favorite classes to go to. And he told us, "You're never allowed to record this class. This class is not about turning this into a song. That's not what this is. What we're doing here is we're listening to each other, and we're responding based on what we're listening to." It was amazing. Unbelievable.Lesley Logan 28:56  That's cool. By the way, based on the science of learning, that's exactly what you're supposed to do. You just throw people in, and then they have to start swimming.Brad Crowell 29:03  Yeah.Lesley Logan 29:04  If you don't, you just start drowning. So somebody feels the pressure enough to go, "Fuck it, okay?" And then other people are like, "Well, I don't want them to be alone," so they jump in. And then what happens is you start taking the knowledge that you have, the skill sets, and you start applying it to your long-term memory. It comes out of short-term memory. It moves into long-term memory because you're forced to hit recall because you're not actually reading any music. When you read music, you can leave that stuff in short-term memory and let it go. It switches to long-term because you're forced to listen and apply something that you've learned that could fit. It's fucking brilliant.Brad Crowell 29:37  Yeah. People have told me over the years, "Brad, when we're in a conversation, I feel like you're really listening to me," and I genuinely attribute that to this class.Lesley Logan 29:46  I would say you definitely do that better than I do on every day.Brad Crowell 29:49  Yeah, because I had to. I learned how to do that in the class, and now it's just part of it, you know. So anyway, just the art of listening and how do you listen and how do you participate in a group like that? How do you encourage and respond? And sometimes you're taking the lead. Sometimes you're not taking the lead.Lesley Logan 30:07  I think this whole thing you can apply to anything you want to do. Brad Crowell 30:10  Yep.Lesley Logan 30:10  Because everything is with people. So anyways, we have to wrap it up. Brad Crowell 30:14  I love it. Sorry, I got really excited about this episode. All right, stick around. We'll be right back. We're going to talk about those Be It Action Items. Brad Crowell 30:21  All right. So finally, let's talk about those Be It Action Items. What bold, executable, intrinsic, or targeted action items can we take away from your conversation with Tara Connaghan? She emphasized that time and consistency are the only true replacements for convenience in the learning process. Okay. Time and consistency are the only true replacements for convenience in the learning process. What does that actually mean? What is she talking about when we say convenience in the learning process?Lesley Logan 30:48  I think you've got to make learning easier. You have to not only do it for some time, but also consistently. So, for example, I'm doing the upLift Beta program right now. There's one person who, at the time of 30 days, has had halfway to 100 hours already, right? So that is time and consistency. They're picking up different things versus some people who only have nine. Now, I'm not saying one's better than the other. Actually, they're observing different things. But if you are only picking up something one hour once a week, you are going to have a harder time as the learning continues because you're having to restart and remember everything once a week versus if you were to even do 15 minutes every single dayBrad Crowell 31:27  Yeah.Lesley Logan 31:27  It might even be the same amount of time from the one time a week to the seven times a week. But because you have the consistency of picking it up, you're actually having more convenience.Brad Crowell 31:36  Yeah. She specifically said you don't build it up in one go; you build it up every single day. And it's more valuable to have 10 to 15 minutes a day than it is to do an hour once a week.Lesley Logan 31:46  It's the same, by the way, guys. This applies to everything. I do not write one newsletter at a time. I write all of them. I do not do one podcast at a time. We do several because the setup, the getting ready, all that stuff. It allows you. It's just better. So just be more consistent. You put it all together. You'll get there.Brad Crowell 32:02  I mean, Pilates and music, it's so much muscle memory, you know. And you can't cram muscle memory. It doesn't work. Motor learning does not work. She was equating it to brushing your teeth. You do it twice a day, forever. You've been doing it forever. So it gets to the point where it's rote. You don't even think about it anymore because you've done it so many times. You know how to do it without actually processing it. You can think about something else while you're doing that. She said, "How do you do this? How do you make sure that you get your 10 to 15 minutes a day in?" She said, "Keep your instrument in easy reach. Make it visible."Lesley Logan 32:36  Yeah, whatever your instrument is.Brad Crowell 32:38  Yeah.Lesley Logan 32:38  I love that.Brad Crowell 32:38  What about you?Lesley Logan 32:39  She said, "Pick the thing that fills your cup and go for it."Brad Crowell 32:42  Yeah, just in life.Lesley Logan 32:43  Yeah, in life, pick the thing that fills your cup and go for it. Do the thing that really gives you so much joy and fills your cup. And I think this is really important. A lot of times, a lot of us are focused on the thing we don't do well, and they're like, "Why can't I get this?" And there are people who can get that for you. I was coaching someone today for Profitable Pilates, and she's not good at tech, but I don't have an online business, right? And so I'm listening to her whole thing she's working on, and she's doing all the right things according to all the right coaches. Then it comes out she needs nine clients, and I was like, "Girl, you don't need to be online for these nine clients for your online business. You could just tell 27 people what you do and then ask them to refer you, and I bet you'll get nine people. At worst, you get three. Yes, those three people refer you three people." But you do not need to pick the thing that you're not good at to make this business work. You need to pick the thing that you're good at and make this business work. So it applies to everything. Pick the thing that fills your cup, and then do that thing because when you fill your cup, everything is easier, including being in rooms that scare you. So yeah, I'm Lesley Logan.Brad Crowell 33:44  And I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 33:45  Thanks so much for being here today. Make sure that you tell Tara what touched you, what made you think of something, what aha moments you had. Send in your wins to the beitpod.com/questions, and we'll see you later. Until next time, Be It Till You See It.Brad Crowell 33:57  Bye for now.Lesley Logan 33:58  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. 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You got a lot done yesterday.Answered the emails. Finished the project. Made dinner. Returned the call. Maybe even got the workout in.You crawled into bed thinking, That was a pretty productive day, if I do say so myself.But was it faithful?Because those aren't necessarily the same thing.You can have an incredibly productive day AND yet completely miss what God entrusted to you in it.And you can have a day that looks terribly unproductive on paper—a conversation that took longer than expected, an interruption you didn't plan for, a needed hour of rest—and be incredibly faithful.That's the conversation we're having this week on the REDEEM Her Time Podcast.Because I think we've gotten stewardship a little wrong.Sometimes we take all the productivity advice we've learned, add a Bible verse, pray over our planner...and call it Christian time stewardship.But stewardship has a completely different starting point:Productivity starts with my agenda. Stewardship starts with His assignment.In this episode, we're talking about:* Why stewardship isn't simply Christian productivity* What Matthew 25 reveals about the difference between an owner and a steward* Why what you believe about the Owner changes what you do with what He's entrusted to you* Why your week doesn't have to go perfectly to be lived faithfully* A simple Receive → Recognize → Respond rhythm to help you steward an ordinary TuesdayIf this conversation is helping you rethink your relationship with time, I'd love to keep going with you.Subscribe to REDEEM Her Time and I'll send you the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit to help you begin laying out your day around the question:What is it time for?A Better Question for Your DayInstead of ending today asking:How much did I get done?Try asking:Where was I faithful with what God entrusted to me?That's the measure we're after.Not perfection.Faithfulness.And if you're thinking, I don't just want to understand this. I want to actually live this way, that's exactly why I created the Stewardship Circle.Because change takes time. (Pun fully intended.)Inside the Circle, we're practicing faithful stewardship together week after week and season after season—with biblical guidance, practical rhythms, and support for living this out when real life changes the plan.I'd especially invite you to join us as an annual member, because becoming a faithful steward isn't something we accomplish in a month. It's something God forms in us over time.Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

Have you experienced False Hope Syndrome? Without telling you exactly what that is, I'm going to let you know chances are good that you have. I have certainly done so in more than one area of my life! False Hope Syndrome runs rampant in relation to weight loss. Listen in, learn exactly what it is and how to keep yourself safe from falling into the disappointment associated with False Hope Syndrome as you move forward in losing and maintaining weight loss.The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Dr. Nestor de la Cruz-Munoz on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdelacruzmunoz/From: How Much Weight Will You Lose After Bariatric Surgery? Nestor de la Cruz-Munoz MD, FACS, DABOMJuly 12, 2026 The Evidence Is Clear — And It's Not What Most Patients Expecto    The AACE/TOS/ASMBS guidelines are explicit: Very few preoperative factors are sufficiently predictive to give a precise individual weight loss number.This means the honest answer is not a number — it's a range.The Real Weight Loss Ranges by ProcedureThe most reliable metric is total weight loss percentage (TWL) — not excess weight loss.Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG)·       23–25% TWL at 1 year·       17–19% TWL at 5 years·       PCORnet (65,000+ patients): 18.8% TWL at 5 yearsRoux‑en‑Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB)·       28–31% TWL at 1 year·       21–26% TWL at 5 years·       20–27% TWL at 10 years·       PCORnet: 25.5% TWL at 5 years·       SM‑BOSS RCT: 27.5% TWL at 10 yearsOne‑Anastomosis Gastric Bypass (OAGB)·       Highest early TWL·       Emerging evidence suggests greater long‑term durability than SG and RYGB·       Randomized TrialsBy‑Band‑Sleeve RCT (3‑year outcomes):·       RYGB: 26.8% TWL·       Sleeve: 19.4% TWL·       Band: 14.0% TWLWeight regain after cessation of medication for weight management: systematic review and meta-analysiso   West S, Scragg J, Aveyard P, Oke JL, Willis L, Haffner SJP, Knight H, Wang D, Morrow S, Heath L, Jebb SA, Koutoukidis DA. Weight regain after cessation of medication for weight management: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2026 Jan 7;392:e085304. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-085304. PMID: 41500720; PMCID: PMC12776922.o   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41500720/·       The primary anti-obesity medications (AOMs) highlighted in this high-level study are newer incretin mimetics, specifically:o   Semaglutide (a GLP-1 receptor agonist)o   Tirzepatide (a GIP/GLP-1 receptor co-agonist)The Rebound Effect: High-Level EvidenceThis January 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis published in The BMJ synthesized data from 37 studies involving 9,341 participants, providing robust, high-level clinical evidence on what happens after stopping these medications:·       Rapid Return to Baseline: On average, patients return to their baseline weight within 1.7 years after stopping any weight management medication.·       Accelerated Regain for GLP-1/GIP Drugs: For those stopping semaglutide or tirzepatide, the rebound is even faster—returning to baseline weight in just 1.5 years.·       Faster than Behavioral Programs: The rate of weight regain after medication cessation is significantly faster than the regain observed after finishing behavioral weight management programs.·       Reversal of Health Benefits: Stopping these therapies also rapidly reverses their positive, beneficial effects on cardiometabolic markers.·       These findings emphasize that using these medications short-term without a more comprehensive, long-term approach to weight management leads to a rapid reversal of both weight loss and cardiometabolic improvements, and this is the real benefit we can offer to our patients: a long-term plan that can and should be updated on the course of their chronic disease and its natural course. Nothing in obesity treatment should be absolutely static.·      How to overcome past dieting failures. By Kristen A. Carter MSo   https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/health-and-human-nature/202103/false-hope-syndrome-reveals-big-problem-dieting·      Getting Real: Warning Signs of False Hope Syndrome. by Dan J. Tomasulo PhD., TEP, MFA, MAPPo   https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-healing-crowd/202209/getting-real-warning-signs-of-false-hope-syndrome·      Expected Weight Loss From Gastric Bypass – Calculatoro   https://www.obesitycoverage.com/weight-loss-surgeries/gastric-bypass/how-much-can-i-expect-to-lose·      Expected Weight Loss (after Sleeve)o   https://www.obesitycoverage.com/gastric-sleeve-reference-manual/

Tre notizie di oggi che sembrano lontane tra loro ma raccontano la stessa cosa: come il denaro si muove quando le condizioni cambiano. E capirlo prima degli altri è il lavoro dell'investitore informato.Berkshire Hathaway ha chiuso il secondo trimestre con un utile netto di 25,67 miliardi di dollari e ha riacquistato azioni proprie per 4,5 miliardi. Un segnale preciso: quando una società compra se stessa, sta dicendo qualcosa sul valore che vede nel proprio titolo. Non è motivazione, è allocazione del capitale. Dall'altra parte del mondo, Westpac riporta un calo del 20% nelle richieste di mutui in Australia dopo modifiche fiscali. Quando la leva fiscale tocca il credito, i consumi e i margini bancari seguono.In Italia, il PUN luce è sceso a 0,15207 €/kWh, un calo dell'11,6% in un solo giorno. Il PSV gas tiene meglio, -0,4%. Energia più economica significa bollette più basse, inflazione percepita in calo e costi ridotti per le aziende energivore quotate.Segui TraDetector Cafe su Spotify e Apple Podcasts. Approfondimenti e analisi su tradetector.com.

Great news in this episode! As adults, we get to create the identity we want to have! Yep – like so many other things in life, it is, in fact, easier said than done. However, I find the opportunity so very refreshing and exciting and am forever working on behaving more in line with the person I want to be… to live the identity I have chosen for myself! You have this opportunity… and dare I say responsibility… to create and live the identity YOU want for your life, too! Listen and pick up some tips on how to go about doing so!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Identity Gain After Disruption by Ryan C. Warner Ph.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/leadership-diversity-and-wellness/202605/identity-gain-after-disruption·      The Identity Crisis So Many of Us Face by Aigerim Alpysbekova MPH, PhD https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/trauma-growth-and-the-search-for-meaning/202512/who-am-i-the-quiet-identity-crisis-almost·      Gash, A. (2026). Don't bounce back, rebuild forward: How to reclaim your power when life breaks the script. Niche Press

Kendall went to Pilates and is FEELING IT! Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are celebrating the 1 year mark and Giuliana Rancic brought the receipts when clapping back at Jerry O'Connell. Plus Jared Leto faces even MORE Sexual Assault allegations, Law Roach's word is bible with Zendaya/Tom and Oprah is getting ahead of the headlines. Mike takes us Wayback for a Pun-filled look at the birthday of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Matt Damon is eyeing Broadway but can't do it until his daughters hit a certain age, Usher is feeling vulnerable and Tom Holland is so relatable. Bravo Bravo, 'Bleeping' Bravo and Mini Van Life! Also Hot To Go with Black Panther Controversy and a very Drunk Tony Romo. What our Insta-algorithms are saying about us!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I often hear from patients who have lost a significant amount of weight that they no longer know who they are! They don't recognize their bodies, for one thing, understanding that their head hasn't kept pace with the amount of physical weight they have lost. They also talk about not knowing how to live at this weight, noting their relationships are different, people treat them differently, and they feel uncertain about how and where they fit in! This is identity disruption and it is common after major life changes… and significant weight loss is a major life change! Listen in and learn more about identity, identity disruption and identity re-creation.The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Identity Gain After Disruption by Ryan C. Warner Ph.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/leadership-diversity-and-wellness/202605/identity-gain-after-disruption·      The Identity Crisis So Many of Us Face by Aigerim Alpysbekova MPH, PhD https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/trauma-growth-and-the-search-for-meaning/202512/who-am-i-the-quiet-identity-crisis-almost·      Gash, A. (2026). Don't bounce back, rebuild forward: How to reclaim your power when life breaks the script. Niche Press

I hear many of my patients say, in relation to losing weight and maybe especially when it comes to maintaining weight loss, “IT NEVER ENDS!” What they are referring to are the behaviors, the mindset, the necessary skills and tools one needs to develop in order to get rid of excess weight and just as importantly, to maintain the weight loss. I have a fun discussion with one of the women I recently heard utter these words! You'll likely get a chuckle listening to this episode while realizing the truth of the message… and how worth it all it is!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

Daily Dad Jokes (21 July 2026) The official Daily Dad Jokes Podcast electronic button now available on Amazon. The perfect gift for dad! Click here here to view! Shower Thoughts Podcast: We have another podcast called Daily Shower Thoughts, showcasing random, amusing and mind bending epiphanies. Search "Daily Shower Thoughts" in your podcast player or click here Email Newsletter: Looking for more dad joke humor to share? Then subscribe to our new weekly email newsletter. It's our weekly round-up of the best dad jokes, memes, and humor for you to enjoy. Spread the laughs, and groans, and sign up today! Click here to subscribe! Listen to the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ or search "Daily Dad Jokes" in your podcast app. Jokes sourced and curated from reddit.com/r/dadjokes. Joke credits: PropMop31, UtkG, Brave-Ad6627, YT_JRGRAND, johanssjoberg, prankerjoker, Nearby-Eggplant3841, StarvedAsian, YannyWolf, crazyfortaco, Healthy_Ladder_6198, ForTheWinMag, 1derin, MakeMistakesTV, 3Dbabble, LateralAxes, bradyg23, Hargol, keithasaurus, Aramike, raphiyale_, jstein916, thinkofsomethingkwik, , Original_Profile8600, DrhpTudaco, k_woz1978, Pun-isher42, mistermajik2000, GotMyOrangeCrush, marcEmarc1966, SufficientNarwhal, buggaboobooy, mosheg99, NamsaRay1, Swweeet, porichoygupto, Joel_Boyens, Bagabus, Joel_Boyens, Upvoter_NeverDie, Formal-Ad8037, waldo06, loonmaster2, darrenbosik, IEnjoyDadJokes, ITypeWithMyNose, graphicc_yt, dn151864 Subscribe to this podcast via: iHeartMedia Spotify iTunes Google Podcasts YouTube Channel Social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Discord Interested in advertising or sponsoring our show? Contact us at mediasales@klassicstudios.com Produced by Klassic Studios using AutoGen Podcast technology (http://klassicstudios.com/autogen-podcasts/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Dad Jokes (21 July 2026) The official Daily Dad Jokes Podcast electronic button now available on Amazon. The perfect gift for dad! Click here here to view! Shower Thoughts Podcast: We have another podcast called Daily Shower Thoughts, showcasing random, amusing and mind bending epiphanies. Search "Daily Shower Thoughts" in your podcast player or click here Email Newsletter: Looking for more dad joke humor to share? Then subscribe to our new weekly email newsletter. It's our weekly round-up of the best dad jokes, memes, and humor for you to enjoy. Spread the laughs, and groans, and sign up today! Click here to subscribe! Listen to the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ or search "Daily Dad Jokes" in your podcast app. Jokes sourced and curated from reddit.com/r/dadjokes. Joke credits: PropMop31, UtkG, Brave-Ad6627, YT_JRGRAND, johanssjoberg, prankerjoker, Nearby-Eggplant3841, StarvedAsian, YannyWolf, crazyfortaco, Healthy_Ladder_6198, ForTheWinMag, 1derin, MakeMistakesTV, 3Dbabble, LateralAxes, bradyg23, Hargol, keithasaurus, Aramike, raphiyale_, jstein916, thinkofsomethingkwik, , Original_Profile8600, DrhpTudaco, k_woz1978, Pun-isher42, mistermajik2000, GotMyOrangeCrush, marcEmarc1966, SufficientNarwhal, buggaboobooy, mosheg99, NamsaRay1, Swweeet, porichoygupto, Joel_Boyens, Bagabus, Joel_Boyens, Upvoter_NeverDie, Formal-Ad8037, waldo06, loonmaster2, darrenbosik, IEnjoyDadJokes, ITypeWithMyNose, graphicc_yt, dn151864 Subscribe to this podcast via: iHeartMedia Spotify iTunes Google Podcasts YouTube Channel Social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Discord Interested in advertising or sponsoring our show? Contact us at mediasales@klassicstudios.com Produced by Klassic Studios using AutoGen Podcast technology (http://klassicstudios.com/autogen-podcasts/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Dad Jokes (18 July 2026) The official Daily Dad Jokes Podcast electronic button now available on Amazon. The perfect gift for dad! Click here here to view! Shower Thoughts Podcast: We have another podcast called Daily Shower Thoughts, showcasing random, amusing and mind bending epiphanies. Search "Daily Shower Thoughts" in your podcast player or click here Email Newsletter: Looking for more dad joke humor to share? Then subscribe to our new weekly email newsletter. It's our weekly round-up of the best dad jokes, memes, and humor for you to enjoy. Spread the laughs, and groans, and sign up today! Click here to subscribe! Listen to the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ or search "Daily Dad Jokes" in your podcast app. Jokes sourced and curated from reddit.com/r/dadjokes. Joke credits: bigjawband, VERBERD, k_woz1978, Yaongyaong, Fourthson77, andersonfmly, wanna-buya-llama, Bradb717, kdlaz, PastorParcel, jwaldrip, darkvertex, GrymmTravel, vvlachos18, Stoatwobbler, MookieV, , mal221, KoopaKommander, Waitingforlunch, GK-Apollo, PastExternal56, Pun-isher42, ilikesidehugs, MrSteveA, bentnotbroken96, THPSROCKS, DYLBIGGLE, NoJudge2551, danuser8, crazyfortaco, Electrical-Search818, macetheface, thomasbrakeline, porichoygupto Subscribe to this podcast via: iHeartMedia Spotify iTunes Google Podcasts YouTube Channel Social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Discord Interested in advertising or sponsoring our show? Contact us at mediasales@klassicstudios.com Produced by Klassic Studios using AutoGen Podcast technology (http://klassicstudios.com/autogen-podcasts/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Dad Jokes (18 July 2026) The official Daily Dad Jokes Podcast electronic button now available on Amazon. The perfect gift for dad! Click here here to view! Shower Thoughts Podcast: We have another podcast called Daily Shower Thoughts, showcasing random, amusing and mind bending epiphanies. Search "Daily Shower Thoughts" in your podcast player or click here Email Newsletter: Looking for more dad joke humor to share? Then subscribe to our new weekly email newsletter. It's our weekly round-up of the best dad jokes, memes, and humor for you to enjoy. Spread the laughs, and groans, and sign up today! Click here to subscribe! Listen to the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ or search "Daily Dad Jokes" in your podcast app. Jokes sourced and curated from reddit.com/r/dadjokes. Joke credits: bigjawband, VERBERD, k_woz1978, Yaongyaong, Fourthson77, andersonfmly, wanna-buya-llama, Bradb717, kdlaz, PastorParcel, jwaldrip, darkvertex, GrymmTravel, vvlachos18, Stoatwobbler, MookieV, , mal221, KoopaKommander, Waitingforlunch, GK-Apollo, PastExternal56, Pun-isher42, ilikesidehugs, MrSteveA, bentnotbroken96, THPSROCKS, DYLBIGGLE, NoJudge2551, danuser8, crazyfortaco, Electrical-Search818, macetheface, thomasbrakeline, porichoygupto Subscribe to this podcast via: iHeartMedia Spotify iTunes Google Podcasts YouTube Channel Social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Discord Interested in advertising or sponsoring our show? Contact us at mediasales@klassicstudios.com Produced by Klassic Studios using AutoGen Podcast technology (http://klassicstudios.com/autogen-podcasts/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A actualidade luso-africana ficou marcada, esta semana, pelo fim da campanha eleitoral em São Tomé e Príncipe, com declarações dos quatro candidatos à magistratura suprema. A prisão preventiva de Domingos Simões Pereira na Guiné-Bissau gerou reacções a nível internacional e a defesa do líder do PAIGC conta agora com um advogado senegalês radicado em Dacar. Em Cabo-Verde, o primeiro-ministro foi acusado de vários crimes pelo Ministério Público, juntamente com três vereadores da Cidade da Praia, incluindo corrupção passiva, falsificação de documentos públicos e burla qualificada. Em São Tomé e Príncipe, mais de 142 mil eleitores são chamados às urnas, este domingo 19 de Julho. A RFI deu voz aos quatro candidatos à magistratura suprema. O Presidente cessante, Carlos Vila Nova, descarta advogar no seu programa a mudança do regime constitucional do arquipélago. O deputado e candidato Nito Abreu pronunciou-se sobre o sistema semi-presidencialista em vigor no arquipélago, que não considera ser um problema. O advogado Miques João alega não estar animado por um espírito de vingança, apesar de ter sido detido e de ter estado ligado à defesa do único civil condenado na sequência do caso 25 de Novembro de 2022 e o ataque ao Quartel general. Por fim o jurista, Eugénio Tiny, sem apoios partidários, descarta qualquer nececessidade de se aumentar os poderes do Chefe de Estado. A fechar a campanha eleitoral, o analista político são-tomense Abílio Neto considera que estas eleições presidenciais vão influenciar as legislativas marcadas para o próximo mês de Setembro.  "Vão influenciar muito porque todo o quadro político-partidário está fraccionado, está debilitado. Os partidos tradicionais estão todos eles a viver à base de conflictualidade intensa entre facções. Para mim, essa é que é a perspectiva interessante: tentar perceber se, na sociedade civil são-tomense, se a cidadania são-tomense está capaz de propor alternativas, muito mais do que olhar para o quadro tradicional dos partidos políticos, onde não se vê que venha nada de novo nem nada de especialmente interessante", analisou Abílio Neto.  Relativamente à Guiné-Bissau, a equipa de defesa de Domingos Simões Pereira, em prisão preventiva desde 11 de Julho, fica agora reforçafa com o advogado senegalês Boukounta Diallo, residente em Dacar. Boukounta Dialo denuncia uma justiça selectiva em termos de golpes de estado e questiona: que legitimidade tem uma acusação de tentativa de golpe quando efectuada por militares golpistas?  Em Paris, por ocasião de uma conferência organizada pela comunidade guineense, o presidente do PAIGC na diáspora, Francisco de Sousa Graça, apelou à acção da comunidade internacional, e apresentou os objectivos do "Livro Branco", documento que apresenta recomendações de sanções contra as autoridades golpistas de Bissau.  De notar que a cimeira da Cedeao decorre este domingo em Freetown, na Sierra Leoa, um evento em que a situação da Guiné-Bissau deverá ser debatida.  Quanto à revisão constitucional anunciada pelos militares e prevista para 30 de Agosto, um colectivo de 5 partidos políticos enviou na quarta-feira uma carta ao Presidente da transição, General Horta Inta-a, formulando uma série de exigências. Idrissa Djaló, é líder do PUN, Partido da Unidade nacional, que integra este colectivo, ele apela ao levantamento da proibição de reuniões afectando a liberdade de expressão. Em Cabo-Verde,  o Ministério Público acusou o Primeiro-ministro Francisco Carvalho e três vereadores da Cidade da Praia de mais 107 de crimes, incluindo corrupção passiva, falsificação de documentos públicos, burla qualificada, abuso de poder e atentado contra o estado de Direito Democratico. Por sua vez, Francisco Carvalho caracterizou esta acusação do Ministério Público como uma tentativa de golpe de estado disfarçada de oposição. 

We all know how important it is to ditch unhealthy habits and to establish healthy habits in order to lose weight and keep it off. Yet, the reality of doing so can be really difficult! I'm joined today by Amy Burtt, a life coach who lost a significant amount of weight herself by creating and sticking with healthy habits. She has wonderful tips to share with you that can make it easier for you to create and sustain the healthy habits you need in order to move in the direction of better health – in all areas of your life!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Amy Burtt: inspirewellness.infoo   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-burtt-941840404/

Most of us get tripped up by our own egos at times in life… we sabotage ourselves because we're afraid to ask for help or we want our friends or co-workers to think we have it all together or we exaggerate our success just a teensy tiny bit… Some people eventually figure out… often after embarrassing themselves or falling on their face… that our EGO is NOT our Amigo. Listen in and see how your ego may be interfering in your weight loss or weight maintenance success!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

*Bracket Stage continues July 8th at 8PM PT with LYON vs TSW, followed by G2 vs T1.Reporting live from Korea! On this episode of The Dive Driven by Kia, Azael and Kobe break down everything happening at MSI and look ahead to the rest of the tournament.Our hosts note that, while Pyke may not be a frequent page in LYON's playbook this split, each game in LYON's series against BLG remained competitive. When matches come down to clutch moments, they make for some of the most exciting series to spectate. TLAW unfortunately bowed out of MSI, and while T1 definitely taught them some tough lessons, they were still able to put together a dominant series against KC. From there, our hosts shifted their focus to the performances of the other regions, with a particular attention given to Europe.International experience itself seems to be playing a major role this year, impacting teams from every region. Do those long, rigorous hours competing in front of global audiences against the world's best truly prepare players for high-pressure moments like these? And can untested rookies make up for that lack of experience and still find success on the international stage?Looking ahead, only three matches have been decided thus far. First up is TSW vs. LYON, a matchup that could play into LYON's preferred style (though Pun is looking especially dangerous in the top lane). Next comes G2 vs. T1, where the biggest questions are: Who will rise to the occasion? Which team will adapt its strategies to exploit the other's weaknesses… if any can be found. Finally, HLE vs. BLG promises to be a fast-paced showdown unlike any other. According to Azael and Kobe, the deciding factor is simple: which talented roster performs better on the day.To wrap up this episode, our hosts revealed their ideal MSI matchup but tell us in the comments below: what matchup would you like to see before the tournament comes to a close?Timestamps:0:00 - Intro1:30 - LYON at MSI (so far)8:40 - Pressure at The Top15:02 - Play-In Recap (TLAW)18:24 - Circling Back to LYON21:59 - TOP Esports26:29 - Europe's MSI Showing31:59 - TSW vs LYON Lookahead40:32 - G2 vs T1 Lookahead51:41 - HLE vs BLG Lookahead

Dr. Glenn Livingston, a licensed psychologist and author of Defeat Your Cravings: The Back Door to Weight Loss joins me in this episode of Weight Loss Winformation. Dr. Livingston has extensive experience in the field of bariatrics, through his own experience with food obsession and obesity, as well as his work with thousands of patients, years of research and work as a consultant with his clients in the food industry. He and I discuss aspects of his approach with patients, agreeing on most topics and respectfully talking through those on which we have slightly different perspectives. Listen in and take in some helpful new ideas to incorporate into your process of creating a healthy lifestyle!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Defeat Your Cravings: The Back Door to Weight Loss by Glenn Livingston, PhD https://www.amazon.com/Defeat-Your-Cravings-Back-Weight/dp/B0CN3RJ5V3·      Glenn Livingston, PhD on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/drglennlivingston/

Walking After Stroke: What Your PT Knows That Your Doctor Doesn’t A doctor walked in, ran a reflex test, and told the patient they would never walk again. That same day, a physical therapist from Dr. Kory Langwell’s team arrived. The patient was in tears. And then they walked 70 feet. “I hope you go back and tell that doctor,” Kory said, “that they missed that.” Dr. Kory Langwell is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with over 15 years of experience. He runs a mobile home therapy practice across Southern California, and now coaches stroke survivors worldwide through his virtual program at Unlimited Potential Physical Therapy. In episode 410 of the Recovery After Stroke podcast, Kory broke down the realities of walking after stroke what’s actually possible, where the system fails survivors, and what a good physical therapist knows that most doctors don’t. The Moment the System Stops For most stroke survivors in the United States, recovery starts with intensity. In the hospital, you might receive three hours of therapy a day. Then you go home. Within weeks, that drops to thirty minutes, once or twice a week. “Insurance doesn’t know when your brain stops recovering,” Kory says. “Therapy ending doesn’t mean progress ends.” The problem is that for many survivors, the message lands the other way around. When the funding stops, the belief follows: that recovery is over, that this is where they plateau, that there’s nothing left to do. That belief, more than the stroke itself, can stall everything that comes next. The Plateau Is Not a Full Stop One of the most damaging phrases in stroke recovery is “you’ve plateaued.” It implies that the brain has reached its ceiling, that whatever function you have now is what you’ll have forever. Kory pushes back hard on this. “I’ve seen progress years, decades, 10 to 20 years after a stroke. Arms, hands, legs, walking ability. People just get fed up and stop looking for resources.” What a plateau usually means is that the current approach has stopped working, not that progress itself is impossible. The clinical response isn’t to discharge the patient. It’s to audit what they’re doing and change something. Different exercises, different load, different feedback. Reassess in six weeks. See what moves. Walking After Stroke: Why More Isn’t Always Better Walking after stroke is where survivors often get their first taste of both independence and confusion. The instinct, and it’s a good one, is to walk more. Further, longer, more often. But Kory draws an important distinction between the acute stage and everything that comes after. In the early weeks post-stroke, more isn’t always better. If someone can walk five steps, pushing them to twenty-five on back-to-back days may overtax the neurological system rather than rebuild it. Fatigue compounds quickly. Quality collapses. And when quality collapses, the brain reinforces the wrong patterns. “I’d rather have somebody walk 50 feet really well than 150 feet terribly,” Kory says. Visual feedback changes this completely. When survivors watch themselves walk in a mirror, or on a phone recording, they often see something very different from what they feel. Bill Gasiamis described exactly this: convinced his running gait was dangerous, he watched the footage and found it was far better than he’d thought. The problem wasn’t the movement. It was the feedback. Once a survivor moves into the chronic stage months or years post-stroke, the calculus shifts. Walking remains one of the best exercises available. Kory also recommends walking backwards in a safe environment like a hallway or near a kitchen sink: it challenges balance, engages the brain differently, and creates new neurological input. Why Falls Happen – And What Actually Prevents Them Falls after stroke aren’t random. They follow a pattern. The clinical term is proprioception: the brain’s sense of where the body’s joints and limbs are in space. After a stroke, this system is often disrupted. Survivors may not feel their foot on the ground, or may not register that a leg isn’t bearing weight the way it needs to. Add a divided attention task carrying a plate, thinking about turning off the television, reaching for something, and the risk multiplies immediately. Bill described this directly: he’d made a sandwich, sat down, finished eating, and went to stand up. His attention was on getting the plate to the sink without dropping it. His left leg wasn’t registered as being on the floor. He fell before he’d taken a step. The countermeasure is simple: stop, feel the floor, confirm the leg is active before moving, then carry the plate. Step by step, not simultaneously. Foot Drop, AFOs, and Electrical Stimulation Foot drop, where the muscles that lift the front of the foot are weakened or uncoordinated, is one of the most common walking challenges after stroke. Many survivors are placed in an AFO (ankle foot orthosis) to manage it. Kory’s view on AFOs is measured: they’re a tool, not a sentence. Whether to wear one, when, and whether to eventually stop using one depends entirely on the individual. “Take it off every once in a while if you’re in a safe environment,” Kory advises. “That gives new input to the brain a chance for things to improve.” Electrical stimulation is another tool worth exploring. Kory recommends starting with an affordable unit available on Amazon for around $40 to test whether the technique produces results before investing in higher-end systems. You can find Kory’s recommended unit at linktr.ee/unlimitedpotentialpt. The “Life Athlete” Mindset Kory calls his stroke survivor clients “life athletes.” Not because they run marathons or lift heavy, but because athlete thinking produces athlete results. Athletes track. They audit their approach. They celebrate small gains. They adjust when progress slows. And they don’t let one bad assessment from one clinician define what they believe is possible. “If somebody told you you’d never walk again, you can take that feedback and use it as motivation,” Kory says. “Or you can let it get you down. That’s up to you.” What to Do With a Limiting Prognosis When a doctor says “you’ll never walk again,” it’s rarely cruelty; it’s usually outdated thinking. General practitioners have limited training in neurological rehabilitation. Some are still working from research that concluded recovery stops at six months or a year. That conclusion was drawn from patients who stopped therapy and stopped trying, not from the brain’s actual ceiling. “I just want to leave the door open,” Kory says. The research on neuroplasticity is clear: the brain continues to adapt when given the right challenge, the right environment, and enough time. A prognosis isn’t a prophecy. It’s a snapshot of what one clinician observed on one day. Walking after stroke real, functional, independent walking is possible far longer and far later than most doctors suggest. And sometimes, it happens the same day they said it never would. If this episode has helped you, Bill’s book The Unexpected Way That A Stroke Became The Best Thing That Happened shares the tools and mindset that made the difference across his own recovery. If the Recovery After Stroke podcast has been valuable to you, you can support it financially at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. This blog is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your health or recovery plan. She Was Told She’d Never Walk Again – Her PT Proved Them Wrong | Dr. Kory Langwell (Interview) Dr. Kory Langwell on the therapy gap, foot drop, and why the plateau after stroke is a label not a limit. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – Walking After Stroke 07:24 Insurance and Therapy Limitations 11:22 Supporting Survivors and Caregivers 16:45 Community and Support in Recovery 26:57 The Impact of Electrical Stimulation in Rehabilitation 29:17 Walking: Quality Over Quantity in Recovery 30:25 Understanding the Stages of Recovery 36:39 Navigating the Challenges of Falling Post-Stroke 42:05 Setting Realistic Goals for Recovery 44:46 The Role of Medical Professionals in Rehabilitation Transcript: Introduction – Walking After Stroke Kory Langwell (00:00) So we had a client recently there. Doctor told them they were never gonna walk again. And literally, like they our therapist showed up, the patient was in tears, and then they walked 70 feet with our therapist. And it was all because it was a doctor that didn’t know them. They did like some reflex testing and said, you’re hyporeflexic, you’re never gonna walk again. And then literally that same day walked 70 feet. I was like, I hope you go back and tell them, BIll Gasiamis video 25, image (00:23) Before we get into today’s conversation, I want to extend a genuine thank you to everyone who supports this show. Whether you’ve joined as a YouTube member, contributed through Patreon, left a review, shared an episode, commented, or picked up a copy of my book, You Are the Reason This Podcast Keeps Going. Today’s guest is Dr. Corey Langwell. A doctor of physical therapy with over 15 years of clinical experience. Corey runs a mobile therapy practice across Southern California and now coaches stroke survivors worldwide through unlimited potential physical therapy, a virtual program built for people who can’t access the in-person care they need. In this conversation, we get into the gap that opens up the moment you leave hospital. While the word plateau might be the most dangerous word in stroke recovery, What physical therapists know about walking after stroke that most doctors do not, and what it actually takes to keep making progress, years or even decades post-stroke. If you’ve ever been told there’s a ceiling on your recovery, this episode is going to challenge that. Here’s my conversation with Dr. Corey. BIll Gasiamis (01:39) Kory Langwell, welcome to the podcast. Kory Langwell (01:42) Thanks for having me. BIll Gasiamis (01:43) Tell me a little bit about your background. Kory Langwell (01:47) Yeah, I’ve been a doctor of physical therapy for over 15 years and I’ve had my own mobile therapy practice for a little over five years. So helping people in their homes throughout Southern California with my staff of PTs, OTs, and speech therapists. And now we’re expanding to worldwide really with our virtual coaching program for people that have had strokes. So BIll Gasiamis (02:12) Worldwide. That’s awesome, right? So that’s where I found you on the TikTok app. And it’s a pretty decent channel to follow. Tell me just while we’re here and I remembered to ask, what is the TikTok handle? Kory Langwell (02:14) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It’s Dr. Kory Stroke Recovery PT and I can I can send you the link later on. But yeah, so I started two months ago and it’s been growing ever since. So BIll Gasiamis (02:38) Yeah, it’s really good because I think your information comes from the clinical background, something that I can’t do. I can put a lot of information out about my personal experience with stroke, what other people tell me about their experience, but your specific instructions around how to improve or how to do something differently or how to achieve an outcome with regards to whatever physical deficit people have after stroke. Is really helpful. So for people who are watching and listening, go to TikTok and probably the other social media channels, yeah, Kory? Kory Langwell (03:12) Yeah, yeah, I started a YouTube recently, unlimited potential physical therapy. And yeah, I’m also on Facebook, Unlimited Potential Rehab. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (03:22) Yeah. You’re one of those people. I often get asked where can I find somebody that’s going to help me with my stroke recovery? I can’t get there or whatever. And I’m I’m often the middleman. People think that I know everything about everyone, especially from Australia to the United States, right? But what’s weird is I do know a lot of people and I can connect people. So it’s great that we connected and I found you. And I think it’s really important that. Kory Langwell (03:39) Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (03:50) It’s your perspective and the way you think about recovery that’s different. And that’s why I reckon people A, should follow you and B, listen to this podcast episode. So don’t leave yet. F listen to the episode and then go and follow Kory on TikTok and all the socials. We’ll have all the links in the show notes. My first question is about the gap. Okay. So we’re often Kory Langwell (04:01) I appreciate that. BIll Gasiamis (04:17) Find ourselves as stroke survivors get sent home from hospital. Everyone does amazing things before we leave hospital. The care is amazing. They try and rehabilitate us as much as they can. They keep us alive. They send us home. But then the gap at home is we’re kind of left alone. Nobody to check in with us to make sure that things are kind of on track, that we’ve settled in. And it feels for a lot of people like recovery ends after therapy ends. But Can you give us a bit of a your your thoughts on that? Kory Langwell (04:54) Yeah, usually at least here in the States, people go from getting three hours of therapy a day in the hospital to literally dropping down to thirty minutes once or twice a week. So there is this huge gap where they just feel like they’re not getting enough and then that it really slows down their progress, or so they feel. and that’s where we’ve come in with our in-home care. But what I’ve seen is people just they need that accountability, whether it’s virtually or in person. And so that’s one thing that we really strive to do is just provide that that one-on-one support virtually. And also, you know, what I see with a lot of people is they think that, stroke recovery. Stops at you know, three months, six months, a year. We’ll probably talk about this more later on. But you just got to keep challenging yourself, doing new things. And I find a lot of times people get stuck on just finding random things on the internet, and then they just they don’t reach out or have the support that they need to move forward and make progress. So grant you just don’t want insurance to tell you when therapy ends or when progress ends. So that doesn’t mean your brain just immediately is yeah. Yeah, therapy’s done because insurance says it is and the brain just shuts off. I mean, I’ve seen progress years, decades, you know, 10 to 20 years after a stroke. I’ve seen progress with arms, hands, legs, general walking ability, you know, stuff like that. So it’s a lot of times they just people get fed up, they get frustrated, and then they stop doing or looking for resources. So BIll Gasiamis (06:26) Y the thing that you said is very interesting about insurance telling you when therapy ends. Now what they’re doing, what are they doing? Are they like I know what they’re doing fundamentally, right? They can’t forever pay somebody to have rehabilitation. And maybe they’re encouraged to pay them for as little as possible as well, because it costs money, right? So they they Kory Langwell (06:49) Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (06:53) come up with some kind of a conclusion or whatever, and then they say to people, Well, y that’s about it. You’re not going to really improve any more than that. And we need you to we we’re going to stop funding it. So how does that conversation go from what you understand? And can anyone intervene in that moment and continue the therapy? Is there a way to kind of argue your case to get more therapy? Insurance and Therapy Limitations Kory Langwell (07:24) Yeah, it’s a tough one. So having worked in hospitals in acute rehab units, having worked in outpatient clinics, and then now as my own mobile practice in people’s homes, I’ve seen the whole spectrum of therapy and the issues that come along along each step of the way. in the hospital, you know, it used to be therapy they would get six to eight weeks in the hospital a lot of times here in the States. And now it it used it dropped down to like three weeks for a lot of acute rehabs, and now they’re pushing it down to like 10 to 14 days. which is not a lot of time. And, you know, we used to be able to get people to near independence with a lot of their their skills, you know, the activities or ADLs, activities of daily living. But what I see now is a lot of times hospitals when I left the hospital world in November of 2021, at that point, it was like, let’s just get people to like minimum assistance, meaning they need about 25% or less, and let’s we gotta ship them out of here because it’s like it’s like a churn. It cause hospitals, to be honest. They’re big business. They they are, you know, it’s unfortunate. and they have some of the most highly trained therapists, but the therapists are kind of hamstrung from upper management, middle management, you know, being told probably from people above them that they can only do so much. in the states we have private equity buying out a lot of hospitals and stuff like that. So there are things are changing in the length of stay that clients get. Once somebody goes to home health, they usually only get like two to three weeks, once or twice a week, because the goal of home health is usually get them to outpatient, get them to a clinic. and when they go to a clinic, most of the time somebody will reach like a maintenance level where like they’re not really making a ton of progress and the therapists know they’re not gonna be getting reimbursed as well for that. So that gets really challenging and they have to write really good goals to help. you know, progress things or continue with therapy. So if your therapist is telling you in the outpatient clinic, that’s the one area where you can oftentimes have the best chance of extending therapy. They might be able to, you know, wiggle their way around writing new goals, higher level goals that you can work towards and progressing. And then other times they want to stop therapy for one to two months, three months and then reassess, you know, down the road, which is where a lot of times people seek us out for private therapies on the side. So It’s unfortunate, but yeah, the insurance game does have a their hand in it a lot of times, telling people when they can discharge or not. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (09:50) How hard is it for a therapist to know that the stroke survivor patient is not ready to go home, but you have to wind it up for them. Kory Langwell (09:59) Yeah. Whew, it’s really challenging. And usually, I mean, in out most outpatient clinics, you might get somebody two or three days a week if you’re lucky. Usually 30 minute sessions in in the clinic. Sometimes you have one-on-one places for an hour, which are great, or 45 minutes, but you’re it’s a volume game in the clinics because the reimbursements have shrunk in the outpatient world too. So they’re like, We need more volume here. And it’s unfortunate. It’s not on the therapist. It’s more on the, you know, just the the whole game that they have to do in order to survive, or else they would have to close up shop. But as far as like extending somebody, it it it can be a challenge. It’s it’s really you see it coming as a therapist, you know, and you’re in the outpatient insurance-based game. you’re like, ooh, you know, I I in about two to four weeks I can tell this is gonna be an issue with your insurance or whatnot. And most therapists, if you can get somebody to like 90% better. You know, that’s pretty darn good, especially after a stroke. there’s a lot of factors that go into that, a lot of variables. But yeah, so it’s it’s tough and getting somebody back to a hundred percent is can be challenging with the insurance game. BIll Gasiamis (11:07) Yeah, getting back to a hundred percent is Kory Langwell (11:12) It’s hard. It’s like the new one hundred percent or yeah, it’s another topic for yeah. BIll Gasiamis (11:13) my gosh. Yeah. The new hundred percent I pref yeah, that I love that. That’s a great statement actually, because a hundred percent, I mean Supporting Survivors and Caregivers BIll Gasiamis video 25, image (11:22) If this podcast has helped you in any way, here’s how you can help it reach more people. Share this episode with a survivor, a carer, or anyone who needs to hear that recovery doesn’t have an expiry date. Leave a review. It makes a massive difference. And if you’d like to support the show financially, you can do that through Patreon at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke or by becoming a YouTube member. Now it’s back to the show. BIll Gasiamis (11:50) I I have that challenge with a lot of stroke survivors who are early on in their recovery. They reach out and they say, you know, how long is this going to take for me to get better? And like, dude, like it might never get better. in that what they want is they want to go back to where they were before the stroke. And there’s n nobody’s going back there. Nobody at all. Kory Langwell (11:59) We don’t know. Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (12:11) Not a single person. And if there’s damage in the brain and the damage is permanent, which damage is in some instances, then you cannot reverse that damage. You have to accept that damage and then adjust and recover and overcome the challenges that you’ve been left with. And it’s such a difficult thing. But the new 100%, I love that, Kory, because I kind of am there. And if people ask me how do you feel, which nobody nobody understands to ask how do I feel after my stroke, my left side is completely numb. You know, I get spasticity. It doesn’t look visibly like other people experience spasticity. So I got away with that part of it. I don’t look like I’ve had a stroke, but I have the fatigue, I have the balance issues when I get tired, I have all these challenges that are always there and they’ve been there since two thousand and fourteen. Like it’s not going away. Kory Langwell (13:07) Yeah. There’s There are those silent problems too that like you said, like you’re doing so well in general that a lot of people just can’t see the fatigue or the how tight your arm feels or different things, which is oftentimes really challenging. But if you put it even, you know, towards like an orthopedic injury where somebody has like a shoulder surgery or a knee surgery, typically they also have like that new one hundred percent where it’s you know, it’s never gonna it’s hard to have it feel a hundred percent like it was before. There are certain instances where somebody might make this miraculous recovery. It does happen. Maybe they’ve had a TIA, a mini stroke, or you know, just made this miraculous recovery. Those those people do exist and it does happen. But what I find in the stroke community that happens a lot is there’s this everyone wants to compare themselves to other people, or they’re they’re wanting to get the answers from things, but there is no crystal ball on these recoveries, you know, for for neuro issues. It’s more like let’s see how it progresses in one month, three months, six months, a year, and then just continue to track because it is a lifelong issue that you have. have to manage and and continue to, you know, have things come up over over time. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (14:14) Yeah, I agree with that. So this next question I thought about how I’m gonna ask it a lot. So I’m gonna ask it just the way my gut’s telling me to ask it, which is how much bullshit is that you’ve reached the plateau? Kory Langwell (14:31) yeah, that’s a that’s a fun one. I I love the I love the the BS part of that. yeah, it’s tough. I mean, you can see a lot of times what you’ll see is like there’s almost, you know, you think of plateau as like a flat line. And a lot of times what we do see is you’re there’s still room for progress. Like maybe somebody’s feeling like they’re 60% back to their normal self. Well, if we can get you to 65%, would you take that? Like most people would say. You know, it’s either sixty or sixty five percent. Like, yeah, let’s do that. But a lot of times what I see is Progress has just slowed down, they get upset, you know, the doctor’s like, whoop, this is as good as it’s gonna get. This is where you’re at. You’ve plateaued and you’ve entered a maintenance stage. And what I often see with that is it’s that’s the time to shift something up, mix something up, do something different. so what we like to do is take into account what kind of audit what somebody’s doing when their exercises, their daily routine and all that, and then shift things in some certain way and reassess in six weeks to see if we can progress that or make any other changes. So just like with any other training, like if somebody was a bodybuilder going for a competition or a professional athlete, we take that kind of same approach to our stroke recovery. We call athletes in general. Like they’re life athletes, you know. So we wanna help people feel as independent and as strong as they can. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (15:50) That’s a great mindset shift, right? So if you consider yourself somebody who’s injured, somebody who’s never gonna be the same, all that kind of stuff, well, it might be accurate, but it may not be helpful in the way you approach your recovery. But an athlete, that’s very cool. Now I know some people say what an athlete runs on a track and field you know, facility. An athlete does this, an athlete does that. Well, Maybe, maybe they don’t, you know, maybe you can be your own version of an athlete that allows you to think about that constant and never ending pursuit of getting better and improving. And whether you’re getting better and improving your physical side or your mental attitude or your emotional side or your or your nutrition, you know. Community and Support in Recovery Athletes have all these things that they always constantly forever focus on and their gains come from, you know, that really last part, which is almost unattainable, but it’s about going for it. It’s about going for the last one percent. And then reflecting back, like you said, maybe twelve months later and going, Look how far I’ve come, rather than look what I can’t do or look what I haven’t achieved yet. It’s like, look what I have been able to achieve. That’s Kory Langwell (17:03) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s where and that’s where tracking comes into it. Are there, you know, your what what are your BIll Gasiamis (17:15) Such a different mindset. Kory Langwell (17:21) you know, your KPIs, your key performance indicators that you’re looking into as far as, hey, I was only lifting one pound with my arm and now I’m do lifting three pounds. Like that’s huge improvement in a, you know, what however long it’s been. So those whatever you’re tracking, it helps to you know, it could be your diet. Am I making good choices eighty percent of the time? Am I so making sure in like all of your life assets assets and that or facets of life, that’s what we try to do as well. And like you said, mindset, movement, muscle, all that. all those things together. we we you know, tie all those things into our our program. And I think everyone needs to do that as far as, you know, their strengthen those the mental muscle, the physical muscle, you know, they’re just as important. And having that support, whether it’s with a coach or whether it’s with family, friends, outsiders, you know, other stroke survivors, it’s really important. So BIll Gasiamis (18:14) Yeah, community is the I think biggest thing for me. because then with the right community, the one that I’ve created for myself, at least I get to talk about the things that bug me about what happened to me with people who one hundred percent understand it. And then that way, even if we’re different in our attitude in the way we go about things, at least we understand. Kory Langwell (18:35) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (18:45) And you’re totally being heard. Do know what mean? Like it takes one minute to listen to the story of a stroke survivor and to fully understand where they’re coming from because they’ve been through a a similar, a very similar experience to to myself. Kory Langwell (18:52) Yeah. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. for sure. It’s so true. I mean, as a therapist, I I never really I mean, I knew there was a mental toll to it, but having worked with people for, you know, they come on and they’re with us for several years, you really see the mental aspects, like the ups and downs that occur with that. And it’s so huge to you know, important to to focus on that as well. So and not lose sight of it. So those silent symptoms of the stroke, you know, like we were talking about as far as the the emotional aspect or other things of that. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (19:26) Yeah. Yeah, one of the biggest complaints that I get from stroke survivors, not about their spouse, but about people about people who haven’t had a stroke, right? So often it’s the spouse that gets the raw end of the stick. But it’s that they just don’t understand me. And it’s so true, right? There’s no way that that person can understand you unless they’ve had a stroke, and we do not want that for them. That’s better that they don’t understand you and that you have to learn how to explain yourself in a way Kory Langwell (19:53) Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (20:04) that gets the message across even if they don’t get it. Like it’s okay because they’re never gonna get it. We don’t want them to really ever get it. What we wanna do is accept that they can’t understand something that they have never experienced, which we don’t want them to experience. Kory Langwell (20:20) Yeah, that’s so true. I mean, the it a lot of times it comes from a good place. They’re like, just get up and move. Why are you so tired? or you know, things of that nature. And it y you’re right. They just they don’t understand it. It’s it’s tough. There really should be more caregiver support and education. I’ve tr I’ve strived to do that on my page or on my different resources that I’ve included on my bio. But yeah, it’s it’s in sh it’s a challenge for people to to see the whole picture and the recoveries process that’s going on with that. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (20:51) Yeah. How common is foot drop? Kory Langwell (20:56) yeah. Strokes you you do see it a fair amount. it’s what I see a lot of times with that. You know, when in the hospital, a lot of times I don’t like to immediately put somebody in like an AFO. Everyone knows ankle foot orthosis and stuff like that. but it’s something that I like to see how the body reacts initially to to the the weaker ankle or whatnot, and how is somebody compensating? So you’ll see somebody, you know, try to march their leg up to clear their foot through the gate cycle, or they’ll kick their their leg out to the side so that they don’t drag their foot or their toe. so I like to see. See what’s going on for the first week or so before we start trying to, you know, put a bunch of equipment on somebody. But honestly, it it’s it’s pretty common. it just depends on the nature or severity of the stroke. Most muscle recovery starts proximally, meaning like at the hip and then works its way down, or in the shoulder and then works its way down to the hand. so the ankle and the hand are usually the last to recover. but yeah, so it’s obviously it’s very noticeable on somebody’s walk gate or whatnot if they have it, or you know, as you just see their AFO and you’re like, that guy’s got foot drop, most likely, or whatnot. So yeah, just trying to figure out where’s is there are there other weak links up the chain and the knee, the quad, you know, your your your glutes, your hip, what other areas could use some help to help you get that leg through and help you be more independent? So BIll Gasiamis (22:28) Mm. Kory Langwell (22:29) really treating the whole ankle or the whole walking pattern, not just the ankle or the foot. Cause we a lot of times we get laser focused into one area after a stroke like my hand or my foot, but we gotta look at the whole body. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (22:41) So there is a conversation that happens again in the community about whether I should be wearing AFO or I shouldn’t. And you often hear people saying, I got rid of my AFO. it was causing me to walk badly or incorrectly and it was decreasing the muscle activity in the correct way. Kory Langwell (22:51) Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (23:08) And then you hear the exact opposite. Well, you know, you should definitely have an AFO so you don’t trip over, you don’t do this, you don’t do that. Like, how do you determine that whole should I or should I not have an AFO? And do some people definitely need an AFO? And then also are there some people who can transition out of an AFO? Kory Langwell (23:20) Yeah. Yeah, it it really is with a lot of neurotype issues, it it really does depend. You’ll hear the answer, it depends a lot of times in the neuro world, neurological issue or you know, in the stroke world. But on a case by case basis, it’s really how does somebody look? How independent are they with and without it? How much strength do they have in their the muscles on your shin and on the outside of your leg that help lift your ankle up? is it something that maybe you just wear it when you’re outside? And then when you’re inside the house, you’re getting that input. with your shoes off. I I really liked the shoes off, you know, kind of full input on how your foot’s moving. You can really see it visually, get some feedback there on what’s going on. So it it and it can change over time. Maybe somebody ditches it after a while or maybe they w they know like, hey, I’m gonna be going on this longer walk. I’m gonna use my AFO so I don’t get as tired because it can be more taxing and energy draining to have to, you know, lift your leg up more, kick it out to the side or whatnot. So we’re really trying to figure out what’s the best quality over quantity for for most folks so that they’re not overdoing it, but they still are getting you know, the appropriate amount of feedback and and to help them live their life, be as independent as possible. So I’m not against or for it. It’s just wanna it depends on the person. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (24:45) Sounds like it’s a tool to be probably continuously assessed and determine its usability and then also for some people determine whether or not it’s short term, long term thing. And then also keep looking at it. What I seem to also see is people get told something, they do it, and then they do it for a long, long time and nobody kind of ever intervenes a year later to say, where are we at with that? Kory Langwell (24:51) Yeah. Yeah. It you know, it it’s it’s good to take it off every once in a while if you’re especially if you’re in safe environment and just reassess things, you know, on your own or with a therapist or whatnot. That again gives new input and sensory, you know, feedback to your brain of like, what’s going on here? And that that’s a chance for that neuroplasticity to occur, which you know, is a is a is a big buzzword in the in the neuro world. But yeah, so we’re just trying to create those environments and those chances for, you know, things to improve and and reassess. assess things as as you’re going along. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (25:49) Can you explain to me briefly if you can, like what happens with foot drop, why does it occur? and why don’t I hear about the opposite of foot drop, which is the foot changing and going in the other direction? The Impact of Electrical Stimulation in Rehabilitation Kory Langwell (26:06) Yeah. so your your muscles on your shin, you know, like those those are the ones that people get shin splints on from working out or whatnot, your anterior tibialis muscle, those are a prime mover of lifting your foot up. And oftentimes the feedback and the timing, the coordination down to those muscles is just weakened or impaired. So you’ll see a lot of issues with that. You also have muscles on the outside of your shin. They’re called everters. So they evert or turn the foot out. So the combination of those everters and then the dorsiflexors that lift the foot up, those muscles are the two prime movers of that motion. They’re oftentimes affected with different strokes. And then so a lot of times what we end up using is like things. like electrical stimulation. I have a really good video on my YouTube, about eight to ten minutes long on how to set that up. but you can You c I I see a lot of good impact with the with the E stem, whether somebody’s laying down or sitting, or then there’s other things like the bioness for the leg and the arm, but the one for the leg to help with the timing and coordination, all that, all those things that go into it. So it’s just not just weakness, it’s that timing, coordination, balance, all those things combined. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (27:19) Got it, got it. So you’ve seen some positive, helpful, supportive kind of outcomes from those electrical stimulators at like Bioness and other other types. Kory Langwell (27:33) Yeah, yeah. I’ve even like I’ve I have one that I use with clients that I I bought on Amazon for like forty bucks because the the range is anywhere from thirty to forty bucks up to like hundreds of dollars. Or, you know, the Bioness is you I think they can get that covered with insurance, at least a partial bit of it, but those are a lot more expensive. like thousands of dollars from to my knowledge. But I what I’ve seen is I don’t see a huge difference between some of those cheaper versions and then the larger ones. some of the bigger ones, like the Bioness, you do get a little more feedback or like that since like it will come on at a certain point of your gait cycle. So it’s like, lifts the toes at a certain point. helps you go through whereas versus you know a standard ESTEM unit, you’re usually it’s on for like 10 seconds, it’s off for 10 to 30 seconds depending on the settings. So but as an exercise tool in the general, in general, if somebody’s having issues and they have good sensation to that area. So you don’t want to put it on somebody that like can’t feel their leg or whatever. But it can be very beneficial at like getting that sensory and then the motor or muscle input back to that area. So not saying it’s going to get to that 100%. But it’s gonna help you. it oftentimes does help people, even, you know, if it’s ten to fifty percent better, great. You know, that’s a huge difference with somebody getting around. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (28:53) Okay. So worth people considering the possibility of getting a forty dollar version just to sort of try it out and see whether or not it might be supportive. And then if it is and they want to get something more expensive, then go f go from there. your homework after this conversation is going to be to send us the links to every single thing you mentioned. So we can put it in the show notes and everyone can have a look at it. Now, with walking, Kory Langwell (29:12) Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Walking: Quality Over Quantity in Recovery BIll Gasiamis (29:23) I’m of the I’m I I’m I’m in the camp of do more in the from the perspective of if you’re only walking for a minute, try and get to two. If you’re walking for two, try and get to four and so on. And then if you can get to thirty minutes or an hour at some stage, doesn’t matter when, then that’s even better. but when we started that conversation about Kory Langwell (29:39) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (29:53) you joining me on the podcast and we share ideas about what we’re gonna talk about. You came back with me with regards to something about walking that people miss that could mean that walking further, longer, and more could actually be causing a problem. Tell me about about walking and the things that we can run into that make well, not things worse necessarily, but Not from an exercise perspective, but from a rehabilitation’s pers perspective. Understanding the Stages of Recovery Kory Langwell (30:20) Yeah. Yeah, I think it there’s a little differentiator in there. It’s like where what stage are you at in the recovery? So if somebody’s in that really acute stage, it’s you know, pretty fresh on the stroke, maybe it’s like somebody less than a month post stroke. We don’t want to get to the point where they’re just like you know, nearly exhausting themselves every single walk, you know, so there’s a time and a place for that. So you know, if somebody can only walk like five steps, we don’t want to go try to, you know, you’re gonna walk 25. And like you can do that every now and then, but don’t do it on like back to back days. Don’t do it on like back to back therapy sessions or whatever. So there’s a there’s a combination of like early on we want to make sure things are good quality. And then as we get moving forward, we want to progress in a fashion that’s comfortable and not over Taxing the neurological system, because a lot of times, as you know, fatigue plays a huge role in that. And how is that affecting you? Are you like you went for a super long walk, but now you’re down for the count for two days or you know, at least a day. So you know, walking a hundred feet can feel like a marathon early on. So it’s just making sure that you’re getting the right feedback, that accountability, support, where you’re it’s quality. in not just overdoing it. So I find that a lot where people want to do a ton of reps or like they’re doing an exercise, like they’re trying to lift their arm up, but they’re doing this the whole time, you know, and I’m like, you’re just you’re not lifting your arm, they’re just like tiring out their trap muscle as opposed to like some of the the delt or bicep or different areas. So like you’re just gonna get really bulky but traps up here, but you’re not really necessarily helping yourself versus if you did good quality and like keep that shoulder down. I’m just using that as an example. But for walking, you know, same thing. Like are you using a mirror for feedback? To see, like, I’m actually, I’m every step, I’m kind of falling off to the side. Why is that? I’d rather like have somebody walk 50 feet really well than like 150 feet terribly, you know. So it’s and that that again goes into more of the acute stage. Now, if somebody’s sub-acute, more of a chronic, it’s been 10, 15 years, go for it. Like, if you want, if you feel good about it, you’re not overtact taxing yourself, getting overtired or anything, you know, do what you can. Walking is one of the best exercises for you. I also like I I’m a big fan of walking backwards. So in a safe area like by the kitchen sink or a hallway or something, it just challenges your mind and it’s a really good balance exercise for somebody post stroke or with any neurological issue because it just told you you see somebody try it the first time, they’re like, What do you want me to do? Walk backwards. And then there’s tons of ways you can adjust the the intensity on that as well. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (33:01) So also I remember being in outpatient rehab and feeling like I actually wasn’t able to walk well. And then the therapist saying, Well, why don’t we just record it and have a look at how you’re walking? And it was also about running because I I wanted to run, but I didn’t want to run marathons. I just wanted to be able to run across the road if a car’s coming or something. And I said, Well, I’m a bit concerned about how that Kory Langwell (33:15) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (33:30) goes ’cause I don’t want to injure myself running, et cetera. And well he said, Well, why don’t we do a run, I’ll record you and I’ll then we’ll break it down and I’ll show you what you’re doing or what you’re not doing. And it turns out that my running style was fine. What wasn’t fine was the feedback that I was getting because it was completely different to the previous thirty seven years of my life. And I and because it felt different and my brain registered it differently, it It was scary. Like it was like, well, this doesn’t I’m gonna probably injure myself is how I I thought it. But when I saw the video, it was completely different. And sure, there was some instructions still about how to do it correctly, what I might be able to improve, especially with my left leg, but the but the overall picture was more positive than I t made it out to be. And that’s the challenging part. Sometimes we think we’re less capable than we are. Kory Langwell (34:06) Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and that’s why the visual feedback is so important, whether you record it with your cell phone or you know, just getting the real time feedback on with a mirror or something like that. It’s you know, you see that used in therapy a lot because you may not notice that you’re doing something and just having somebody tell you that isn’t gonna help as much as if you’re somebody’s telling you plus they’re showing you what you’re doing. Yeah, that that can be a huge, you know, help of like, you know, that I can feel that now. It’s good biofeedback. I can, you know, move on from there. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (35:01) Yeah. And so it sounds like there’s two parts to that conversation. Is sometimes we think we’re doing it better than we are, and sometimes we think we’re doing it worse than we are. So it’s really important to have somebody assess you or at least give you feedback and give you the opportunity to check your assumptions about yourself and then also to check via perhaps a recording to check, you know, how you are actually doing things. So you can see it from Kory Langwell (35:10) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (35:31) their perspective and then you can adjust as you’re going forward. Kory Langwell (35:35) Yeah, absolutely. BIll Gasiamis (35:37) So what about falling? That’s a huge issue after stroke. I fell quite a few times after surgery. The first time I fell, Kory, was about I don’t know, less than twenty-four hours after I woke up after brain surgery. And the nurse said to me, Have you been to the bathroom to movie bowels? And I was like, No, I haven’t been anywhere. And she said, Well, great, get up, I’ll let I’ll help you. get there and now she was a lot smaller than me and a lot thinner framed and she said just put your arm around me and I’ll help you get to the bathroom. Okay, cool. I did that and when I stepped out onto my left leg, from the left side of the bed, as soon as I put weight on it, without her having any idea, I completely fell straight to the ground, in the ward, screaming Kory Langwell (36:32) no. Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (36:36) I’ve got a fresh h scar and patch on my head from brain surgery literally twenty-four hours ago. so it became quite a concern after that because it was the first time I realized that my left side doesn’t work. And it was the first time I realized that th falling after a stroke with a cr a fresh craniotomy and all that kind of stuff is also very dangerous, right? So when I came home Navigating the Challenges of Falling Post-Stroke Kory Langwell (36:37) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (37:04) I was pretty independent and I felt really good about the fact that I was able to walk on my own. but when I got up from the couch one time and many other times when I’ve fallen, when I got up from the couch on time, I forgot to connect my new leg to my my standing up, my getting up from the couch. I had just eaten a sandwich. It was in a plate. I was the one that went and made the sandwich, sat down and started eating it. And then as soon as I finished it, I went to get up to take the plate to the sink. And my left leg wasn’t aware that it was on the ground. And I fell immediately. And I dropped the plate, I broke the plate, I smashed my ribs on the arm of the couch. I thankfully didn’t injure myself terribly, but it was a close call. And I always after that, I always made a point and still do in the morning when I wake up to get out of bed. Kory Langwell (37:41) Yeah. Wow. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (38:01) make sure my foot is on the ground before I stand up so that I don’t lose balance and fall. So that’s my that’s my story about falling, but also it’s very common in stroke survivors. I hear that a lot. Tell me about why falls happen after stroke. Kory Langwell (38:05) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, first off it Kinda hurts my therapist heart to hear that what you know, the nurse and you will fall in there. That’s where I’m like, he needed a PT evaluation to see how strong his legs are, where his, you know, sensation is and all that. Usually when we get somebody up, we want to make sure they’re safe at the edge of the bed. And then maybe we’re transferring just to like a a bedside commode in the the first time. And then you’re you you check that box then. We start moving towards walking once we make sure it’s safe. But sometimes the nurses get a little gung ho with things and get a little excited. we try to stay in our lane and, you know, just do the That PTS needed. but as far as like, you know, making sure somebody’s safe, it’s creating the right environment for them that, you know, like I mentioned, making sure they’re strong enough with their legs to, you know, and the most people will know as they started physical therapy what level they’re at, how much help they need, all those things. So, and then not over challenging somebody where we’re doing like very advanced balance exercises or doing very, you know, doing three tasks at once or like you carrying that dish, you know, and that’s a more your brain is like thinking, we’re good and I’m just gonna carry this dish and I’m gonna go turn off the TV while I’m getting up or whatever. And your brain’s like, nope, no you’re not, and you just fall over. So it’s like creating, you know, those too many environmental stimuli probably and then just where it kind of I don’t tricked your brain into to not focusing on where your your leg is at. We call that the proprioception or just realizing where your joints are, your limbs are in space. And sometimes that can be very affected after strokes. So we just wanna, you know, see how that looks, see how you’re moving, and and you know, go from there. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (40:08) You probably describe that better than anybody, actually. Proprioception is my is a challenge that I have, but nobody ever connected that to what you just said, too many things happening at once. And it was exactly that. I had a plate, I just finished a meal, and my goal was to get the plate back to the sink safely without dropping it. And it was my my attention was Kory Langwell (40:33) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (40:36) diverted away from making sure my leg was in the right position for me to stand up and was the muscles were activated, which I had been doing every day before that, right? I’d been making sure. But right now I had a plate in my hand and it was get up without dropping the plate. Kory Langwell (40:37) Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Yeah. Pun pun intended, step by step, right? Just looking into like, okay, my feet are on the ground. I am able to push myself up to stand. Now we’re gonna take a step slowly, you know, go through that. So yeah, it’s it’s making sure everything looks appropriate and is, you know, safe for that specific client. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (41:12) In my case I think now reflecting back on it, it would have been better if I’d gotten up and then reached over to pick up the plate and then moved to towards the the kitchen sink. And I think I was at home alone that day. And again, I screamed because before I knew it all was on the ground. Kory Langwell (41:27) Yeah. It happens. Yeah. Yeah. Setting Realistic Goals for Recovery BIll Gasiamis (41:35) It’s a very interesting thing to reflect back on it. under these sort of conditions where you and I are talking about things that seem they’re very glossed over. They’re not often spoken about in detail and people miss the the point. And sometimes people think I can’t do something properly, therefore I’m not gonna do it at all. But with regards to walking, what’s the best thing to do? about a walk that you haven’t been able to get back to the normal sort of style and and feel uncomfortable about doing. Some people will go, well, I’m opting out, I’m not gonna do that anymore because I can’t do it properly. It’s too difficult or it’s uncomfortable. Kory Langwell (42:21) Yeah. Yeah. I think it’s making goals that are you know, you hear about those specific, measurable, attainable, realistic time frame, the smart goals. So making sure that applies here. So It you gotta be able to walk before you can run, like with anything in life. So and that’s just you know, symbolic quote or whatnot, but you just wanna be able to do stuff that you can be working towards, but it’s also not so far out there that it’s like really hard. And then I see a lot of times people move those goalposts on themselves too much where they’re like, I got here. Now it’s like I wanna, you know, it’s you got to celebrate those small wins and then go from there as like far as you know, moving forward. So we had a client recently there. Doctor told them they were never gonna walk again. And literally, like they our therapist showed up, the patient was in tears, and then they walked 70 feet with our therapist. And it was all because it was a doctor that didn’t know them. They did like some reflex testing and said, you’re hyporeflexic, you’re never gonna walk again. And then literally that same day walked 70 feet. I was like, I hope you go back and tell them, you know, that that you missed that. So it’s BIll Gasiamis (43:15) Mm. Kory Langwell (43:36) really just making sure that you’re creating these sustainable goals that You know, and not letting people like that doctor that may not know you, a family member, you know, get in your ear and and cause these things that are detrimental to your your progress and take it in the right way. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (43:55) You can’t actually answer this and I’m putting you on the spot, but I’m gonna ask it anyway. Like I assume that doctors, therapists, everybody is about rehabilitating, supporting, helping people and all that kind of stuff. I I not assume they definitely are, right? But what do you think is behind a questi a statement like you’re never going to X again? Like I hear that so, so much and I thought that by the time we get to twenty twenty six that that won’t be a thing that I hear about so often. Like, but I I don’t think it comes from being nasty or trying to give people setbacks or whatever. But do you have a sense of what that might be? Is it training? Is it a lack of training? Kory Langwell (44:30) Yeah. The Role of Medical Professionals in Rehabilitation I think yeah, you see a lot of like GPs, general practitioners, they don’t really have great training in like neurological rehab. So if it’s a PM and R doc, like a physical medicine and rehab doc, I find usually they’re a little more open-minded or or willing to s you know see the the progress or or whatnot over time. If you go into a doctor’s appointment, you show up in a wheelchair and it’s been, you know, six months, the doctor’s probably your general practitioner is probably gonna be like, well, this is what it is. It’s been six months. And I think some of that is from old research that came out that you can’t make progress after six months to a year, which was more because they just stopped therapy, they stopped doing things and you know, didn’t see progress because of that. So it’s, you know, yeah, if you don’t do anything and you just sit on your butt, all day you’re you’re not gonna see progress or you’re not gonna change. So but yeah as far as from a doctor’s standpoint it it can also be case by case with the doctors as far as their own experience and whatnot. And I don’t think necessarily they ever mean like harm or anything. Maybe they are trying to be realistic with clients as far as like this is what I’m seeing. I don’t think you know, the chances of this are slim, but they they it’s probably just a way of wording it better versus saying you’re never gonna do something again because there’s so many different things that are coming out, like research wise, treatment, you know, like things change drastically now. so it’s I I just like to to leave a at least leave the door open for people to see that improvement. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (46:16) And walking doesn’t have to be the way you walked before. It could be a different version. It looked differently, feel differently, but it can still be walking. also I think it’s from ignorance, right? And again, ignorance, I don’t throw that out as a way to attack somebody, but it’s like literally that person hasn’t been in the space where Kory might work. They haven’t been in a space where they have seen people overcome some difficult challenges. Kory Langwell (46:23) Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (46:41) So they just make a assumption based on old thinking or something they heard in the past or old research that just stuck. And they’re just telling you, your job, your responsibility is to find new research to overcome that challenge because that research, it’s so bad if there was some and if they disseminated it to all the population in the medical community, and that has been continued to be passed on. I mean, that is so crazy that it persists and now. I just want to encourage people, do not believe anyone that tells you, A, you’ve hit hit a plateau, B, that you’re never going to do something again. And even though that might be true, just don’t believe it because there might be a technology around the corner that happens to solve that problem for you. You just don’t know about it yet. And always work towards the solution rather than focusing on the problem is kind of how I see it. And that’s generally what you guys tend to do. You guys tend to help people focus on. Kory Langwell (47:27) Yeah. Yeah. BIll Gasiamis (47:41) How do we overcome a problem? What’s the solution to this? Kory Langwell (47:46) Yeah, I think using it as motivation is is huge. So like you can take anything somebody tells you, you can take it one of two ways. And if you let it get you down, that’s up to you. Or if you’re like, Okay, I take that feedback, I appreciate it, but I’m not gonna accept it and use it as motivation to to strive to do better and move better. Like that that’s up to you. and who somebody is in their own, you know, life. So I always tell people it’s like, Well, what do you want to work on? You know, if some people are like, I don’t wanna do this anymore, I don’t wanna exercise, it’s like that’s up to you. So And other people they’re like, I want to push as hard as I can, I want to do what I can do. And so it’s really, you know, up to the what that somebody wants to do with their life and their progress, their recovery. BIll Gasiamis (48:28) Kory, it’s been an awesome conversation. Thanks so much for joining me on the podcast and saying yes when I reached out to have you on here and share your wisdom. Can you tell me where can people go and find th information about you? Kory Langwell (48:44) Yeah, so our our main website is unlimitedpotential.biz and you we have a health coaching page on there where people could message me on there if they want. I’ve had some people reach out. I’m pretty active in TikTok on on like DMs if people in my private messages of people reach out there as well. Dr. Kory, K-O-R-Y, stroke recovery PT. and then I’ll we’ll try to get you the handle there, the links on all that stuff. Those are probably the two best ways to reach me. I will say it’s really hard to give specific advice over a text or an email or whatnot. So I and there obviously I understand like there’s a lot of people that have financial issues or they they want the free advice or whatnot, but it’s just it’s really hard as a therapist to give a lot of that. I try my best and I can’t reach everyone doing that, but we really are able to to make a difference when we do work with people one on one. So yeah. BIll Gasiamis (49:36) Yeah. There might be programs that people can look into that you are offering either in house or somewhere else. That’s probably why I would encourage people to reach out to get an answer about your specific issue. Dr. Corey’s not going to do that. just like many people can’t answer a specific question about a problem that you may or may not have un unless they have information about your data or you know, they’re your physician or they have your scans and all that kind of stuff, that’s not gonna happen. But that’s okay. people can still follow you because your tips on TikTok are really cool. They’re on the mark and that’s where I love listening and learning from you. Kory Langwell (50:16) Thank you, I appreciate it. I’ll keep coming. BIll Gasiamis (50:19) Yeah, definitely keep them coming, man. it’s been a great thing, this social media thing because it brings information to people that otherwise wouldn’t be able to access it. Some people might be stuck with the doctor who said, You’re never gonna do this again. And that would be the most terrible place to be stuck and have nobody else to kind of throw a spanner in the works in that type of thinking and then suggest something more, more hopeful, more positive. Kory Langwell (50:34) Yeah. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. And it’s always good. I mean, I learn from stroke survivors all the time on what they’re going through. And it’s just, you know, it’s everyone working together around the world now. So I’m in I’m in California and we have, you know, like we’re talking you’re in Australia. I’ve talked to people all over the world now and it’s it’s just been great to to open those doors to a lot of people and you know, at least have conversations with them. So BIll Gasiamis (51:09) Doctor Kory, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. Kory Langwell (51:11) Yeah. Thanks. Thanks for having me. BIll Gasiamis video 25, image (51:13) Well, that was Dr. Corey Langwell, Doctor of Physi

A very wise woman during one of the weekly online support groups on the BariAftercare Facebook page bravely shared a story about how she had rewarded herself with highly processed, non-nutritious food after a stressful day she'd had. She then courageously acknowledged that she had engaged in self-sabotaging behavior and had called it a reward. This opened up a great conversation that I thought would be helpful to podcast listeners! So listen and learn!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Why We Self-Sabotage https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unlock-your-true-motivation/201911/why-we-self-sabotage·      4 Signs of Self-Sabotaging Your Joy https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202601/4-signs-youre-self-sabotaging-your-joy·      Self-Sabotage https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/self-sabotage·      Why Do We Self-Sabotage? The Psychology Behind Destructive Habits

Darwin Hearts Football Club founder Hem Bahadur Pun and Australian Nepalese Football Association President Vijay Raut join SBS Nepali to discuss their FIFA World Cup predictions. While both place Australia as their top pick, the discussion became a friendly contest as Raut backed Argentina and Pun supported Spain. Listen to their insights, analysis and expectations for the tournament. - डार्विनका सामुदायिक फुटबलमा सक्रिय र डार्विन हार्ट्स फुटबल क्लबका संस्थापक मध्येका एक हेमबहादुर पुन र सिड्नीबाट अस्ट्रेलियन नेप्लिज फुटबल असोसियसनका अध्यक्ष विजय राउतले एसबीएस नेपालीको रेडियो कार्यक्रममा सहभागी भएर आफ्नो विश्वकप अनुमानहरू साझा गरेका छन्। दुवैले पहिलो नम्बरमा अस्ट्रेलियालाई राखेका छन्। त्यसपछि भने अर्जेन्टिनाका समर्थक राउत र स्पेनले जित्छ भन्ने आशामा रहेका पुनबिच आफ्नो टिमलाई लिएर कत्तिको टक्कर परेको छ त सुन्नुहोस्।हाम्रा थप अडियो प्रस्तुतिहरू पोडकास्टका रूपमा उपलब्ध छन्। यो नि:शुल्क सेवा प्रयोग गर्न तपाईंले आफ्नो नाम दर्ता गर्नु पर्दैन। पोडकास्टमा सामाग्री उपलब्ध हुनासाथ सुन्न यहाँ थिच्नुहोस्। एसबीएस नेपालीका फुटबल सम्बन्धी सम्पूर्ण सामाग्री अस्ट्रेलियामा नेपाली भकुन्डो पोडकास्ट शृङ्खलामा सुन्न सक्नु हुन्छ।फिफा विश्वकप २०२६ का सबै १०४ खेलहरू SBS On Demand मा प्रत्यक्ष र निःशुल्क हेर्नुहोस्। प्रतियोगिताभरि पूर्ण रिप्ले, मिनी म्याच र हाइलाइट्स पनि उपलब्ध हुनेछन्। SBS On Demand फिफा विश्वकप सन् २०२६ का खेलहरू नि:शुल्क र प्रत्यक्ष हेर्न यहाँ जानुहोस्।एसबीएस नेपालीको प्रत्यक्ष प्रसारण हरेक मङ्गलवार र बिहीवार दिउँसो २ बजे SBS South Asian मा डिजिटल रेडियोमार्फत, आफ्नो टेलिभिजनको च्यानल ३०५ मा, SBS Audio एपमार्फत, SBS On Demand मा वा हाम्रो वेबसाइटबाट सुन्न सक्नुहुन्छ।साथै हामी सोसल मिडिया प्लेटफर्महरू फेसबुक, इन्स्टाग्राम र एक्स मा पनि रहेका छौं SBS Nepali का नाममा।

A few weeks ago I had my best friend on the podcast to talk about what our supportive relationship has looked like for over 30 years. In this episode, I talk with three woman who have more recently developed the kind of compassionate, safe, encouraging and supportive friendships that make going through the weight loss and weight maintenance journey so much more genuine, affirming, deep and so much more fun! Listen in and try to guess how long these ladies have known each other…The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

One of the sayings in today's culuture is “life be lifing.” Life isn't easy and things come up ALL the time time that throw us off balance, add emotional stress and we often times engage in coping skills that lead us away from our healthy goals. Caleshia has had more than her share of challenges since losing a tremendous amount of weight. Yet she has learned skills to not only help her stay on track with living a healthy life, but she has also found ways to bring joy into her life when life be lifin… as it always will. Listen and find some encouragement from this wise, wise woman!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

How often have you asked yourself this question: “When does it end?” I know I've uttered those words many a time in my life. When it comes to weight loss and weight maintenance, I'm guessing you've asked yourself that same question in relation to things like sliding back into old habits, telling yourself you'll never be able to lose weight, calling yourself despicable names when you get on the scale. WHEN DOES IT END? Listen to this episode and find out!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

You hear me talk all the time about the critical importance of having HEALTHY support as you go through the weight loss process and especially as you work to maintain weight loss! This is true when treating the disease of obesity, all other chronic diseases, and life situations like losing a job, or being a long-term caretaker for a loved one, becoming an empty nester and dealing with any stressful situation in life. It's also great to have healthy support people in your life to celebrate joyful and successful situations! In my 37 years of recovering from the chronic disease of addiction, I have known what it is like to have healthy support! My best friend and the person I can trust to celebrate the good things in my life, talk me through and be there with me through the difficult times in life, and give me the biggest hugs and most loving kicks in the shorts when I need them joins me in this episode. Together, we'll share what it has looked like over these 37 years to be the healthiest of healthy support people for each other! Plus we'll share some of the most fun antics we've shared over time!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

Have you ever seen Schitt's Creek? No? You really need to watch it. That's advocacy. And it's older than marketing itself - somebody took a bite of something and said, “You gotta try this.” Jason Grunberg, CMO of Forter, didn't watch the show until he got sick and had nothing else to do. By the time he was better, he was binge-watching instead of resting. In this episode, he breaks down what Schitt's Creek teaches B2B marketers about pointy characters, ownable positioning, brand as a bank, and why the transformation story is the only story worth telling. Together, we dig into why “safe is not where we make really strong emotional bonds,” what the Rosebud Motel's rebrand can teach any B2B company trying to differentiate, and why AI inflation has already made “AI” a meaningless differentiator. About our guest, Jason Grunberg Jason Grunberg is CMO at Forter, the identity intelligence platform for digital commerce. With a background spanning agency and in-house roles across B2C and B2B, he brings a rare perspective on what it means to treat every buyer as a consumer - because at the end of the day, a wrong decision costs someone their job, and nothing is more personal than that. What B2B Marketers Can Learn From Schitt's Creek Advocacy is the root of every decision. Jason didn't watch Schitt's Creek because of the awards or the marketing. He watched it because people he trusted kept telling him to. His takeaway for B2B: “Advocacy has been a core part of marketing and brand forever for anything. This is coded almost into the human experience - advocacy is the root of like how we end up making decisions and choices.” Before you chase the next channel, ask whether you're creating the conditions for your customers to tell their colleagues, “You really need to try this.” Pointy characters resonate more than representative ones. The safest instinct in B2B marketing is to round off your personas until they feel inclusive. Schitt's Creek did the opposite - and it's why strangers kept telling Jason the show was basically his family. Ian's takeaway: “The more pointy you make it, the more weird, the more absurd, it actually will resonate that much better.” Stop asking whether every CIO will see themselves in your story. Make the character want something specific, and trust the audience to find themselves in it. Brand is a bank - and technology is never the real differentiator. The Rose Apothecary didn't succeed because of its product formulas. It succeeded because of the experience, the distinctiveness, the emotional value. Jason connects it directly to his work at Forter: “Quality is replicable, at least now more so than ever. The brand has to mean something.” On technology positioning, he's blunt: “If there's always the push from your product team to be like, ‘This is the core differentiator,' I'm like, ‘Cool. That is 2,000 lines of code deep. That sounds really replicable. And it doesn't say I'm getting a raise if I buy this.'” “Safe is not where we make really strong emotional bonds. On the edges is where we do that - because on the inside, there's a lot of edge. We've just been conditioned to not show it all the time.” - Jason Grunberg Time Stamps [1:25] Meet Jason Grunberg, CMO of Forter [2:17] Why Schitt's Creek? The Show That Felt Like His Family [4:53] Jason's Role at Forter: Decisions AI and Customer-Centric Marketing [5:56] What Is Schitt's Creek? Character Development as a Foundation [12:11] Marketing Lesson #1: Advocacy Is Coded Into the Human Experience [15:56] Marketing Lesson #2: Pointy Characters Win — Stop Regressing to the Mean [23:14] B2B Is Still Consumer: Everyone Is a Person Making a Personal Decision [26:35] Marketing Lesson #3: Brand Experience — Rose Apothecary and the Bank Analogy [29:11] Marketing Lesson #4: The Rosebud Motel and the Power of Positioning [32:18] The Name, the Pun, and the Juxtaposition of Lowbrow and Highbrow [36:21] The Audacity of the Arc: Why Schitt's Creek Ended on Purpose [39:07] Final Thoughts and Takeaways Links Connect with Jason on LinkedIn Learn more about Forter About Remarkable! Remarkable! is created by the team at Caspian Studios, the premier B2B Podcast-as-a-Service company. Caspian creates both nonfiction and fiction series for B2B companies. If you want a fiction series check out our new offering - The Business Thriller - Hollywood style storytelling for B2B. Learn more at CaspianStudios.com. In today's episode, you heard from Ian Faison (CEO of Caspian Studios) and Meredith Gooderham (Head of Production). Remarkable was produced this week by Meredith Gooderham, edited by Jon Goldberg, and our theme song is “Solomon” by FALAK. Create something remarkable. Rise above the noise. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rassegna stampa economico-finanziaria del 19 Maggio 2026, strutturata per macro-temi e basata sulle principali testate giornalistiche nazionali.   Investimenti, Mercati e CrescitaTestate: Corriere della Sera / Il Sole 24 Ore / MF* L'America corre sull'AI, l'Europa deve accelerare. Il Corriere evidenzia il divario di produttività tra Stati Uniti e Unione europea: negli Usa l'intelligenza artificiale sta già sostenendo crescita, innovazione e lavoro qualificato, mentre l'Europa rischia di restare frenata da frammentazione normativa, ritardi negli investimenti e minore capacità di attrarre capitale umano.* PNRR, impatto più forte al Sud. Il Sole 24 Ore riporta le stime Ifel: il PNRR produce un effetto sul PIL pro capite del +3,26% nel Mezzogiorno contro +1,5% nel Centro-Nord. Anche l'occupazione cresce di più al Sud: +2,88% contro +1,22% nel Centro-Nord. Indicazione positiva: il Piano sta contribuendo a ridurre, almeno in parte, il divario territoriale.* Sport come industria: Internazionali di Roma da 1 miliardo. MF segnala che gli Internazionali di Tennis generano circa 1 miliardo di euro di impatto economico, 470 milioni di impatto sociale, 164 milioni di entrate fiscali e 417 mila spettatori paganti. Lo sport si conferma asset economico, turistico e reputazionale per il Paese.Industria, Imprese e FiscalitàTestate: Il Sole 24 Ore / MF / Italia Oggi* America's Cup 2027, pacchetto fiscale per Napoli e Cagliari. Il Sole 24 Ore segnala l'introduzione di esenzioni IRES e IRAP per nuove società e stabili organizzazioni coinvolte nell'evento. Le misure si applicano anche alla regata preliminare di Cagliari, dal 21 al 24 maggio 2026, e puntano ad attrarre operatori internazionali.* Piano Casa, pronti circa 1.000 immobili Inps. Il Sole 24 Ore evidenzia che il patrimonio Inps potrà essere utilizzato per l'emergenza abitativa. L'istituto dispone di oltre 23 mila unità immobiliari, di cui più di 7 mila abitazioni; il 70% è occupato e il 30% libero. Nel Lazio si concentra il 55% del patrimonio, in Lombardia il 13,5%.* Mercedes-Benz guarda alla difesa. Italia Oggi segnala l'interesse del gruppo tedesco per il mercato della difesa, confermando una tendenza più ampia: l'industria europea sta ricalibrando strategie e investimenti verso sicurezza, tecnologie dual use e commesse pubbliche.Fisco, Deficit ed EnergiaTestate: Corriere della Sera / La Stampa / Il Fatto Quotidiano / MF* Caro energia, l'Italia chiede flessibilità UE. Corriere, MF e La Stampa convergono sul nodo centrale: Roma chiede a Bruxelles di estendere la clausola di salvaguardia anche agli interventi contro il caro energia. La richiesta riguarda una spesa stimata tra 5 e 9 miliardi di euro, con l'obiettivo di sterilizzare parte dell'impatto su bollette e industria.* Accise carburanti, scadenza ravvicinata. MF segnala che il taglio delle accise termina il 22 maggio e vale circa 1 miliardo di euro al mese. Il governo valuta se prorogarlo, ridurlo o lasciarlo decadere. Gli autotrasportatori hanno annunciato mobilitazione dal 25 al 29 maggio.* Prezzi energia ancora elevati. MF riporta Brent sopra 110 dollari al barile, gas TTF intorno a 50 euro/MWh e PUN elettrico nell'area 120-130 euro/MWh. Secondo Cgia Mestre, lo shock energetico 2026 pesa circa 29 miliardi di euro su famiglie e imprese.* Italia con elettricità più cara della UE. Il Fatto Quotidiano evidenzia che nel 2025 il prezzo medio all'ingrosso dell'elettricità in Italia è stato di 116 euro/MWh, contro una media UE di 85 euro/MWh, circa +36%. Le fossili pesano ancora per il 52,3% della produzione elettrica italiana.Banche, Assicurazioni e Mercati finanziariTestate: MF / Il Sole 24 Ore* Euronext-Cdp, scontro sulla governance di Borsa Italiana. MF segnala l'audizione di Stéphane Boujnah in Commissione banche, fissata per giovedì alle ore 13. Il tema non è solo societario: riguarda il ruolo dell'Italia nel mercato unico europeo dei capitali.* Polizze vita, nasce il fondo di garanzia. MF riporta la nomina del CdA del fondo introdotto dalla legge di Bilancio 2024. A regime il fondo dovrebbe superare 3,5 miliardi di euro; le compagnie verseranno lo 0,4 per mille annuo delle riserve vita fino a raggiungere lo 0,4% complessivo entro dieci anni. Protezione prevista fino a 100 mila euro per cliente.* Commerzbank respinge l'OPS Unicredit. MF segnala che l'offerta prevede un concambio di 0,485 azioni Unicredit per ogni azione Commerzbank. La banca tedesca giudica l'operazione inadeguata e rischiosa; secondo il consensus citato, il target price mediano è 41,5 euro, circa +15,18% rispetto alla quotazione.Geopolitica, Energia e Rischio PaeseTestate: Corriere della Sera / Repubblica / Il Fatto Quotidiano / Domani / Foglio* Iran-USA, tensione alta ma spazio alla trattativa. Corriere e Repubblica ricostruiscono lo stop di Trump all'attacco contro l'Iran, con pressioni arrivate anche dai Paesi del Golfo. Il rischio principale resta lo Stretto di Hormuz, snodo cruciale per petrolio e gas.* Uranio e sanzioni, dossier ancora aperto. Le testate segnalano che Teheran propone una trattativa sul nucleare, ma restano dubbi sulle garanzie relative all'uranio arricchito. Il tema ha impatto diretto su energia, inflazione e mercati.* Cina e Russia rafforzano il dialogo. Foglio e La Stampa leggono l'asse Pechino-Mosca come elemento di pressione sull'ordine globale. Per le imprese europee aumenta il rischio di frammentazione commerciale e instabilità delle catene di fornitura. Lavoro, Salari e PATestate: Repubblica / Il Sole 24 Ore* Salario minimo, nuova proposta delle opposizioni. Repubblica segnala il rilancio del salario minimo a 9 euro lordi l'ora, con estensione ai contratti più fragili e interventi contro il lavoro povero. Tema rilevante per consumi, margini aziendali e contrattazione.* AI nella Pubblica Amministrazione. Il Sole 24 Ore riporta l'intervista al ministro Zangrillo: l'intelligenza artificiale può incidere su assunzioni, semplificazioni e servizi pubblici. Il punto positivo è la possibilità di aumentare produttività e qualità amministrativa, purché restino chiari controllo umano e responsabilità.

Remember back in the day… farther back from some of us than others… when you couldn't wait to sign up for summer camps? Chances are that you are now signing your kids or grandkids up for summer camps! Well… fear not! This summer camp is for YOU – the ADULT you that wants to get in better physical condition. You can do summer camp right from your very own home and still get to participate with other campers throughout the country who are eagerly working with Rob Demedio and his Busy Bariatric Summer Camp!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com

Schick's voice sounds high to begin the podcast.  Mother's Day recap.  Nebraska softball wins.  Youth coaching.  Mr. T sings about Mother's Day.  Karl Ravech with Pun 101.  Mike Rooney channeling his Nick Bahe.  Cheers videos.  An old hockey scout gets in trouble.  Trae Taylor to Ohio State?  Matt Rhule's buyout.  Recapping the polls.  Schick's son high-fived Rory McIlroy.  Tough actin' Tinactin. Connect with us! SchickandNick.com Facebook, Twitter, or email  We would hate it if you missed an episode! So PLEASE subscribe, rate the pod, and throw us a review. It helps us out so much! We'd likey that.  This is another Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a podcast network and digital media production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network by going to HurrdatMedia.com or Hurrdat Media YouTube channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, now… that sounds like a personal question! Wait… what even IS a window of tolerance? I'll give you some context clues by asking some more questions: 1) How well do you respond to daily stress? 2) How do you cope with intense emotional stressors? 3) What are your coping skills related to weight loss, food triggers, maintaining consistency? Finally… what are ways we can all learn to handle life stress, emotional triggers, and all of the issues related to weight loss and weight maintenance in healtier ways? Listen and and you're sure to learn some helpful tips!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      The Window of Tolerance and Chronic Illness by Katie Willard Virant, MSW, JD, LCSW https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chronically-me/202503/the-window-of-tolerance-and-chronic-illness·      Finding Your Zone by Jaimie L Lusk, Psy D, ABPPhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/threshold/202601/finding-your-zone·      What Is the Window of Tolerance, and Why Is It So Important? By Annie Wright LMFT https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/making-the-whole-beautiful/202205/what-is-the-window-of-tolerance-and-why-is-it-so-important·      Expanding the "Window of Tolerance" by Dr Esther R. Cole, CPsychol, M.A. Oxon https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifespan-psychology/202004/expanding-the-window-tolerance

You know that women tell their OB/GYN's pretty much everything about their lives… almost like the doctors are their personal therapists! Dr. Summers, a board certified gynecologist joins us today. He shares that so many of his patients over the years have talked with him about their issues with weight that he went and got board certified in obesity medicine, as well!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Dr. Summers http://summersweightclinic.com/https://www.instagram.com/the_weight_clinichttps://www.youtube.com/@theweightclinic-drsummers

Accountability is1111 one of the most important healthy adult skills we can develop! We have to develop this skill as most of us learned to react in negative ways when “confronted” with not following through with something we said we were going to do. We also shame ourselves horribly when we let ourselves down! Learning to be accountable in healthy ways… with compassion, is worth the effort. Listen in and learn how it's done!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      The Power of Accountability in Positive Changehttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/threshold/202508/the-power-of-accountability-in-positive-change·      The Difference Between Shame and Accountabilityhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/202102/the-difference-between-shame-and-accountability·      How to Be Accountable to Yourself and Why It Mattershttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/everyday-resilience/202508/how-to-be-accountable-to-yourself-and-why-it-matters

Did we invent glasses, or did we invent the problem that makes us need them?

Hearing loss might be the most ignored problem in waterfowl hunting--because you don't notice until it's too late. But a single shot or three aint that bad, huh? Dr. Grace Sturdivant of OtoPro grew up around the same guns and traditions most of us did. Now as an audiologist, she seeing firsthand what unprotected shooting actually does. She explains how damage happens each time you pull the trigger, why most hunters are already affected, why most hunters are unprotected, all available options--to include in-ear foam plugs--and how to choose the right gear for real-world hunting situations. If you hunt anything, this episode's worth hearing. Pun intended.    Visit the Legendary Brands That Make MOJO's Duck Season Somewhere Podcast Possible: MOJO Outdoors  Alberta Professional Outfitters Society Benelli Shotguns Bow and Arrow Outdoors Create the X Habitat Management App Ducks Unlimited  Flash Back Decoys GetDucks.com Migra Ammunitions onX Maps  Use code GetDucks25 to save 25% Sitka Gear SoundGear Use code GetDucks20 to save 25% Tom Beckbe USHuntList.com   Like what you heard? Let us know! • Tap Subscribe so you never miss an episode. • Drop a rating—it's like a high-five in the duck blind. • Leave a quick comment: What hit home? What made you laugh? What hunt did it remind you of? • Share this episode with a buddy who lives for duck season.   Want to partner? Have or know a story to share? Contact: Ramsey Russell ramsey@getducks.com  

Scott Solarick is a therapist who works with patients, many who have a history of trauma, either Big T or small t trauma, which we have talked about it prior episodes. Unresolved trauma can impact our present lives in negative ways, which could show up in the form of not following through with healthy lifestyle behaviors resulting in weight gain or regain. Scott emphasizes how important the relationship with a therapist can be in working through issues that interfere with you living your healthiest life. Scott and I had such a relaxed conversation. I know you will find him to be as engaging as I did!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Scott Stolarick LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-stolarick-lcpc-cctp-298734252/·      Scott Stolarick Mosaic Pathway Counseling https://www.mosaicpathwaycounseling.org/

Back by popular demand, Adel, a major contributor to BariAftercare… which, if you are not part of, you NEED to be! Go to www.bariaftercare.com and get involved! Adel had bariatric surgery 20 years ago. In the past three years, she has made a major positive shift in her life and is actively working to encourage others to follow suit! Listen as she shares her personal Gotta Do ‘Ems, 15 monthly habits she has incorporated into her life over the past 15 months… It just may inspire you to create your own!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Adel on Facebook.    https://www.facebook.com/adella.castanedadeboster

In this episode, Gavi proves how much he has learned about fundie culture by showing Sadie his INSPIRED AND PRESERVED translation from Fundie/Christian-ese to plain English of the Duggar Jail Emails that were obtained by Lilly Archive using the FOIA. Sadie then provides additional cultural context as well as a few things from these emails that stood out to her.In the extended Patreon edition of this episode, we discuss Amy Duggar King's April Fools Day post in which she joked about interviewing Bill Gothard.Sources, images, and additional material are located here (Yes it is a link to Patreon, but these things are not behind a paywall)https://www.patreon.com/posts/duggar-family-on-154932362/edit?postId=duggar-family-on-154932362SPECULATING ON THE IDENTITY OF JOE DUGGAR'S VICTIM IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Sadie was raised Fundie, Gavi was NOT! 03:39 - What do people miss? 05:56 - "Bless Your Heart" 07:50 - "I Love You and Jesus Loves You" 13:04 - The Letter from Austin Forsyth 18:33 - Gavi's Translation of Austin's letter 20:48 - Thank You to our Patrons! 22:22 - Josh Duggar's Jail Emails 26:13 - Chariots of Fire 27:37 - Josh is the Prodigal son 30:07 - Gavi's Translation of the Josh Letter 32:22 - Jim Bob is delusional 35:15 - Jim Bob's letter to Joe 38:27 - King David 40:29 - THE PUN 44:56 - God's Plan for Joe 47:34 - Gavi's Translation of Jim Bob's letter to Joe 50:18 - It will happen again 52:42 - Josh/Anna/John David Letters 56:13 - Will there be a trial? Joe Duggar's LawyerSubscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4q94gAnsoW2jME4SvVrrQJoin our Patreon for extended, uncensored, and ad-free versions of most of our episodes, as well as other patron perks and bonus content!https://www.patreon.com/LeavingEdenPodcastJoin our Facebook group to join in the discussion with other fans!https://www.facebook.com/groups/edenexodusJoin our subreddit! Reddit.com/r/EdenExodusBluesky:@leavingedenpodcast.bsky.social@hellyeahsadie.bsky.social@gavihacohen.bsky.socialInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/leavingedenpodcast/https://www.instagram.com/sadiecarpentermusic/https://www.instagram.com/gavrielhacohen/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Self-Compassion has been well researched and can make a big difference in how you approach your weight loss and weight maintenance process. There can be a slippery slope between self-compassion and self-pity, which we talked about a few weeks ago. Let's dig into this critical topic. You might want a piece of paper and a pen handy as there are some great tips for your day to day life in here!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.comThree Components of Self-Compassion Self-Compassion: A Therapy Technique for Negative Thoughts by Cara Gardenswartz, Ph.D.8 Simple Ways to Increase Self-Compassion by Sharon Martin, DSW, LCSWPity-Party or Self-Compassion? Recognizing the Difference by Teyhou Smyth, Ph.D., LMFTSelf-Compassion for Beginners By Adi Jaffe, PhD

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On this week’s Pluribus recap, episode three starts with Carol stuck in the memory of one more time when she didn’t try harder to make Helen happy. (For the record, Carol, we get it, we don’t like being cold either, but OH MY GOD that ice hotel looks SO COOL.) (Pun not intended.) From there,... The post Binary System Podcast #499 – Pluribus episode 3 first appeared on Pixelated Geek.

In this no-holds-barred episode, we dive deep into the wild world of self-defense, gear, mindset, and the gun community's self-inflicted wounds.  We kick things off asking the big question: Should you give OLight a shot? (Pun intended.) Flashlights matter when things go bump in the night—let's break down if OLight's worth your hard-earned cash or if it's just another shiny distraction. Next up: Concealed carry insurance—specifically US LawShield. Is it actually useful, or just another monthly bill? We weigh the pros (24/7 attorney hotline, criminal/civil defense coverage) against the realities of real-world self-defense scenarios, and how it stacks up in the broader CCW insurance landscape. Then we get real: The gun community is its own worst enemy. Infighting, gatekeeping, drama—why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot? Time for some tough love. Of course, no episode is complete without a classic mindset drop: Mike Tyson's iconic line, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face" (or mouth, depending on the version). We unpack how this brutal truth applies to training, prepping, and life when the SHTF. We switch gears to futuristic defense tech: Laser beam defense systems (think high-energy lasers taking out drones and rockets—sci-fi becoming reality).And for the aviation nerds: the legendary SR-71 Blackbird LA speed story—that epic ground speed check over Southern California where the pilot casually asks for a readout and gets "one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots." Pure on-stage vibe gold. Finally, some gear and talk: Getting ready for Moons Out, shoutouts to Koh-i-Noor mechanical pencils (precision drafting beasts), Tubi lead (for your art or notes?), Wacom tablets, and endless paper for when analog beats digital.  If you're into firearms, mindset, gear reviews, and unfiltered takes, hit play and join the conversation. Drop your thoughts in the comments: OLight yes or no? CCW insurance worth it? What's your go-to prep

An overweight child himself, Edward Abramson knows the path so many of you have travelled. He wrote It's Not Just Baby Fat to help adults address weight issues with children in a way that is helpful and not harmful. I'm guessing most parents have good intentions when they try to help their kids, but we all know that some of those well-intentioned methods used in the past did NOT, in fact, help kids lose weight at all! Listen in and learn healthy ways to address weight issues with people in your life whose weight is negatively impacting their health or lifestyle.The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      It's Not Just Baby Fat by Edward Abramson https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Just-Baby-Fat/dp/0615420753·      Edward Abramson, PhD https://www.linkedin.com/in/dredabramson/

Can one word change your life? Yes. Pun intended. Yes embodies a way of being and making decisions that can sometimes feel against the grain, scary, and add odds with a felt sense of safety and comfort. But often that area of discomfort, if leaned into, precipitates tremendous growth. In this episode, we walk through some personal stories where we said YES to opportunities, invitations, and ways of thinking that have helped us grow as humans.

Dr. Michael Emmanuelo is my personal chiropractor and I love getting adjustments because they help my overall health! In this episode Michael joins me and explains the many reasons a chiropractor can be of tremendous assistance as you lose weight and your body is readjusting in so many ways. Micheal talks about weight loss as it relates to pressure on the spine and other joints in the body, how changing center of gravity, improvements in mobility, and increased exercise can all benefit through chiropractic care. Michael also had a podcast about chiropractic medicine called The Adjustment. The link is in the show notes!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Emanuelo Family Chiropractic https://www.emanuelofamilychiropractic.com/·      Emanuela Family Chiropractic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emanuelofamilychiro/·      The Adjustment Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LfPPQqUOnnddu8TbUnQDT

I literally recommend Dr. Vera Tarman's book, Food Junkies, second edition to everyone for whom I complete a pre-surgical evaluation. She has a 3rd edition coming out soon that will include information about food addiction and the use of GLP-1 medications. Food Junkies is a book anyone even remotely thinks they may have an addiction to food… whether it's sugar, carbs, highly processed foods… take a listen. And here's a little clue… if your life is being negatively impacted because of your relationship with food – regardless of your weight – think health, relationships, depression… any way food or weight is causing problems in your life… please read this book!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Dr. Tarman's Facebook group: Sugar Free For Life Support Group: I'm Sweet Enough. https://www.facebook.com/groups/SugarFreeForLife·      Food Junkies, Second Edition https://www.amazon.com/Food-Junkies-Recovery-Addiction/dp/1459741978

Dr. Joelle, a doctor of nursing practice, has created an incredible program called the Empower Method,™ in which she combines functional medicine, lifestyle, medical hypnosis, energy healing techniques and emotional release to help people heal in body, mind and spirit. Dr. Joelle overcame her own struggle with weight issues and went on to learn through experience and education that healing often requires more than the use of traditional medicine. In this episode you'll learn some of the other techniques she uses that you can use to help yourself on your adventure to becoming your best, healthiest self!The Weight Loss Winformation Podcast gives you essential psychological information to help you lose weight and more importantly, to help keep you at a healthy weight for your body! No matter how you are working to lose weight and no matter how much weight you want to lose, Weight Loss Winformation will keep you moving in a positive direction. Let's get started because well… Why Weight? (get it? Pun intended… )?Resources:·      BariAfterare: www.bariaftercare.com·      Connie Stapleton PhD website: www.conniestapletonphd.com·      BariAftercare website: https://www.conniestapletonphd.com/bariaftercare·      BariAftercare Facebook page (for members only): https://www.facebook.com/groups/BariAftercare·      Kevin Stephens: Your Bariatric Buddy   https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbariatricbuddy/people·      Instagram: @ (Caleshia Haynes)·      Instagram: @therealbariboss (Tabitha Johnson)·      Instagram @drsusanmitchell (Dr. Susan Mitchell)·      Instagram: @lauraleepreston (Laura Preston)·      ProCare Vitamins (10% off with code ConnieStapleton)·      Rob DiMedio: https://www.busybariatrics.com/·      Dr. Joan Brugman: drjbrugman@outlook.com·      Dr. Joelle Chateauneuf https://empowerhealthandwellness.org/meet-joelle/

Author & Punisher is not fake music generated by a machine.  Rather, it is the brainchild of one man with a singular goal in mind; to compose and demonstrate the noise like no other.  In a core genre dominated by beeps, boops, and loops, Author & Punisher builds something real. (Pun intended) Don't be scared of the drone machines, they're not coming for us all, yet. Lucas and Joe have had their senses overwhelmed.  Are you ready to jump in with us? #discussmetal Discography Discussion Podcast Homepage - http://bit.ly/DiscographyDiscussion Subscribe to RSS - https://podcast.discussmetal.com/feed Join the conversation on Discord - http://bit.ly/discussmetalDiscord Join our Patreon: Discography Discussion on Patreon - http://bit.ly/discussmetalpatreon Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Discographydiscussion Twitter - https://twitter.com/discussmetal Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/discussmetal Listen to Discography Discussion on Spotify - http://bit.ly/discussmetalspotify Discography Discussion on Apple Podcasts/iTunes - http://bit.ly/discussmetalitunes Discography Discussion on Youtube Music - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpSnvPXjrGbD01zOMa2kHCUWfV6paUwB&si=FxvLmETuP1pKb5Pa Listen on Stitcher - http://bit.ly/discussmetalstitcher Listen on iHeartRadio - http://bit.ly/DDiHeartRadio Watch/Listen on Youtube - http://bit.ly/discussmetalyoutube Listen on TuneIn - http://bit.ly/discussmetaltunein Questions? Comments? Suggestions?  Submit a band request Here - http://bit.ly/DDBandSuggestions Email: questions@discussmetal.com www.discussmetal.com Album of the week Joe - Issues “Headspace” Lucas - Nuns of the Tundra “THE WORLD'S GONE CRAZY AND SO HAVE I” Media Mentioned In This Episode: "The One-Man Industrial Doom Metal Band" aka Author & Punisher via Noisey on Youtube: https://youtu.be/PrOTHl6Tldc

This week on the Long Island Tea Podcast, Sharon launches our new weekly laugh-out-loud opener “Pun and Done” before she and Stacy dive into the biggest Long Island stories—from community investments and travel updates to local history, winter adventures, dining highlights, and cultural moments happening across the Island.#ShowUsYourLongIslanderThe Long Island Sign GuyA beloved local fixture, The Long Island Sign Guy educates residents and visitors through creative roadside signs that spotlight Long Island's history, landmarks, and state parks, turning everyday exploration into meaningful moments of learning.Show us YOUR Long Islander by sending a DM or emailing spillthetea@discoverlongisland.com.#LongIslandLifeNew Women's Health Center Opens in Manorville-Northwell Health opened a $5 million, 10,000-square-foot women's health center in Manorville, bringing comprehensive multispecialty care to Eastern Suffolk County.MacArthur Airport Makes Travel Easier-Long Island MacArthur Airport now offers online discounted parking permits for Islip residents and affordable, walkable parking options for all travelers.Winter Long Island Restaurant Week-Running through February 1, restaurants across Long Island are offering prix fixe lunches for $24 and dinners for $29, $39, or $46 featuring diverse cuisines.Long Island Birthday Party Nostalgia-A recent Newsday feature sparked memories of classic Long Island birthday parties while highlighting today's go-to celebration spots for kids and families.LIRR Rewards Update-Long Island Rail Road riders can now earn a free ride after completing 10 single-ride trips, adding a new perk for regular commuters.Protecting Long Island's Waterways-Suffolk County is investing more than $18 million in projects focused on water quality, shoreline restoration, and climate resiliency.Winter Hiking on Long Island-From barrier beaches to forest preserves, winter hiking trails across Suffolk County offer scenic, peaceful escapes throughout the colder months.Long Island LitFest Comes to Northport-Broadway composer Marc Shaiman joins Melissa Errico at the Engeman Theater on February 9 for a special Long Island LitFest event celebrating literature and the arts.#ThisWeekendOnLongIslandFriday, January 30Basic Drawing with Julia Jane Moore – Gallery North, SetauketDisney's NEWSIES – Argyle Theatre, BabylonSaturday, January 31Matteo Lane – The Paramount, HuntingtonDRUM TAO – Staller Center, Stony BrookSunday, February 1Culper Spy Ring History & Real-Life CIA Stories – RonkonkomaAnnual North Fork Chili Cook-Off – Greenport Harbor Brewery, PeconicFor more events, visit https://www.discoverlongisland.com#CelebriTEAAlexa Ray Joel is making waves with new music while continuing to build her own artistic identity beyond her famous Long Island roots.Connect With UsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/longislandteapodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@longislandteapodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DiscoverLongIslandNYFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LongIslandTeaPodcastX: https://x.com/liteapodcastEmail: spillthetea@discoverlongisland.comShop: https://shop.discoverlongisland.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to episode 540 of the Outdoor Adventure Lifestyle Podcast. A Holiday Replay of episode 495 with Will Schafer. Will is the Founder of Altisnooze, The Sleep Aid for High-Altitude. This week, on episode 495, I'm talking with Will Schafer, founder of ALTISNOOZE. The First-of-its-kind sleep aid for high-altitude. After struggling for years with sleeping during alpine adventures, Schafer came to learn from a sleep doctor that altitude insomnia is a thing. He connected with formulation experts to develop a natural solution, ALTISNOOZE. Facebook   Twitter   Instagram Love the show? Subscribe,  rate, review, and share! Sign up for my Newsletter  HERE I'd love to hear your feedback about the show! You can contact me here:  rick@theoutdoorbizpodcast.com What Happened: For years, I chalked up my awful sleep in the mountains to bad luck. Every time I went to Summit County, Colorado, my nights were a mess—staring at the ceiling, waking up feeling like I'd been run over by a snowcat, and then trying to enjoy the outdoors while running on fumes. I blamed it on travel, excitement, bad pillows—you name it. But then I started noticing something weird. Friends on ski trips and camping adventures were having the same problem. Some of them, tough-as-nails hikers and backcountry warriors, were walking around like zombies after a single night at altitude. That's when I met Dr. Michael Breus, a legit sleep doctor, who hit me with a truth bomb: altitude insomnia is real. And worse? It affects up to 75% of people. Your body's struggling with low oxygen, which wrecks your sleep cycle, making it nearly impossible to rest. So, I set out on a mission to fix it. After a deep dive into research, testing a ridiculous amount of natural ingredients, and countless sleepless nights (for science), I created Altisnooze—a sleep aid designed specifically for high-altitude adventures, without the grogginess of melatonin. Principle: Bad sleep = bad adventure. Period. You can have the best gear, the most epic trail planned, and a perfect sunrise waiting for you—but if you don't sleep well, your trip is going to suck. Most people don't even realize altitude is the issue. They just assume they're bad sleepers, or that their body needs to "adjust." But waiting around for a week to acclimate? Not ideal when your trip is only a few days long. Good sleep isn't just about comfort—it's about performance, recovery, and actually enjoying the adventure you planned. Transition: A lot of outdoor lovers deal with this and don't even realize what's holding them back. They push through exhaustion, drink too much caffeine, or try to knock themselves out with melatonin—only to wake up feeling worse. That's exactly why I created Altasnooze. Because when you finally fix your sleep at altitude, everything changes—your energy, your performance, your mood, and most importantly, how much fun you have. That's Why: …we want to introduce you to Altisnooze and just dropped an episode of the Outdoor Adventure Lifestyle Podcast with Will Schaefer, founder of Altisnooze. He went from being a sleep-deprived mess in the mountains to developing a game-changing solution for adventurers who want to feel fabulous at altitude. In this episode, we dive into the science of altitude insomnia, how it messes with your body, and what you can do to fix it—so your next high-altitude trip doesn't turn into a sleepless disaster. Call to Action: If you've ever struggled to sleep in the mountains, this episode is your wake-up call. (Pun intended.) Don't let altitude ruin your adventure—get the inside scoop on fixing your sleep at high elevation and feeling your best.