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 Discover what is a thought leader and how to become one Find out how you can reach more people and share your knowledge in your expertise Learn more on why content wrapped in community is more important and valuable than having just content alone Resources/Links: Wanting to Become a Thought Leader and Maximize Your Potential in Your Field of Expertise? Learn more on How You Can Accomplish Everything You Want as a Thought Leader: thoughtleadershipleverage.com Summary Have you been wanting to inspire others through your field of expertise? Do you want to know how you can become an accomplished thought leader? Are you struggling with connecting with other people and getting your message out there? Peter Winick is the Founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. For the past two decades, he has helped individuals and organizations build and grow revenue streams through designing and growing their thought leadership platforms as well as acting as a guide and advisor for increasing business to business sales of thought leadership products. In this episode, Peter shares what makes a leader a thought leader and how you can be one too. He also talks about his insights on the change of the pandemic when it comes to marketing and connecting your content and value to other people. Check out these episode highlights: 01:21 - Peter's ideal client: “I do have several, sort of, client avatars as I think everybody should have. So, it's an author, it's a speaker, it's a thought leader, it's an academic, it's a consultant or a small consultancy, and potentially some CEOs.” 02:43 - Problem Peter helps solve: “The problem that we solve for most of our clients is how do you scale and leverage either for impact or to increase the velocity of the monetization and the reach.” 03:23 - Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Peter: “So it could be- I mean, it's kind of a continuum. So, on one end of the spectrum, it could be, "Hey, I've been at this for a while, and I'm doing well, but..." Right? It's not growing, it's not moving.” 04:29 - Common mistakes that people make before they find Peter's solution: “Well, I think there's a lot. I think it's not being self-aware, or honest enough about what they're great at and what they're not.” 05:29 - Peter's Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Check out Peter's Quiz: thoughtleadershipleverage.com 06:00 - Q: Where are the opportunities? A: I always look at applying the same amount of creativity and thoughtfulness to the business side of thought with their business as they do to the thought leadership side. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “People are not so much only looking for content in this market. They're looking for content wrapped in the community.” -Peter WinickClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:10 Greetings, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Marketing the Invisible. My name is Tom Poland, beaming out to you from little Castaways Beach in Queensland, Australia, joined today by Peter Winick. Peter, good day. Sir, a very warm welcome. Where are you hanging out? Peter Winick 00:23 I am in New York. Tom Poland 00:24 New York City, slightly bigger than Castaways Beach where we have 200 residents. Peter Winick 00:29 A little bit. Tom Poland 00:30 A little bit more interesting too, probably. So, for those who don't know Peter, he's the Founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Leverage. And we've worked together, and I was really, really impressed with Peter's strategic perspective on leadership, products, marketplaces, and more. For the last 20+ years, he's helped organizations and individuals build and grow revenue streams- plural- through...

Everyone uses a network to access the internet, but how well do you understand the network you use? In this episode Steve Ovens joins us to give a basic network overview as well as answer questions you sent in! -- During The Show -- 02:00 Setting up Network Segment Reverse Proxy - Cameron Nginx Reverse Proxy (https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-proxy/) Kernel networking Issue - James BCM4354 WiFi Card RPM Fusion Link from Conan Kudo (https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=18141) Should we all use IPV6 IPV6 is only being deployed in Telcos Short Answer No How to Wireguard into my network? 10:50 FireJail FireJail (https://github.com/netblue30/firejail) Sandboxes applications using native Linux Kernel features Open Source Requires 3.x+ Kernel Bubblewrap (https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap) Alternative to FireJail Steve Ovens Talks/Articles Linux Namespaces (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/7-linux-namespaces) Mount Namespaces (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/mount-namespaces) Building Container Namespaces (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/building-container-namespaces) Cgroups Part One (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/cgroups-part-one) 14:00 Gadget of the week Orico Tool-Free USB 3.0 Enclosure (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A5323NO/ref=twister_B07C3NTZ9V?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1) 18:00 Networking Segment Caller Scooter Q: Sync Photos between Apple and Android Devices? A: Nextcloud Agent A: Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) Q: Where can I find the Multipass app A: I will look into this A: Last resort chrome app Caller Tony Q: Rsync/backup advice A: Rsync A: ZFS send/receive A: Bacula (https://www.bacula.org/) A: SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com/) Q: Monitoring backups A: Librenms (https://www.librenms.org/) A: Site visits/manual What is an IP address What is my IP (https://www.whatismyip.com/) Type what is my IP in duckduckgo.com What is a Default Gateway Usually your router What is Bridge Mode All traffic gets passed through What is a MAC Address Unique hardware address Never changes Added to all packets What is a Subnet Mask How many computer are in a IP Range Class C Networks have 254 usable addresses How to separate large networks Use Subnets (no security) Use VLans Trouble Shooting Ping default gateway Check DNS DNS Phone Book for the internet Translates Domain Names to IP addresses Slower but Private DNS - Quad9, OpenDNS Faster but not Private - Google Static vs Dynamic IP addresses Dynamic is DHCP Reserve static address in DHCP server Wireguard YouTube Tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n00ayGUdCaI) Call to Action We will have community rooms/booths Matrix Chat (Element) will be used again this year SELF will be virtual this year, hosted again by yours truly! SELF Call for Talks (https://southeastlinuxfest.org/?nltr=MTE7MTIzMjtodHRwczovL2Zvcm1zLmdsZS9IeHoxNTRuS1NybkJXUkc0QTs7YmNmYmE5YmY2M2NmMDA5ODg5NWI3Y2ZlYjUzOGRkMzQ%3D) SELF dates June 10-12 Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/226) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: &Z87xKcPScripture: John 15:1-17, Psalm 139:23-24Discussion Questions: Q: Be honest - have you ever tried to figure out why something wasn’t working, only to realize it wasn’t plugged in? How did that make you feel? How does that help you understand today’s Scripture? Q: Read John 15:1-5,9,16. How do these verses help you understand what your relationship with Jesus should look like? Q: Where do you feel solid in these things & where are you struggling?Q: Why is “pruning” an act of love & such an important part of a relationship with Jesus?Q: Read John 15:12-13,17. How do these verses shape the way we should look at our relationships with each other?Q: Read John 15:14-15. To be a “friend” of Jesus means we partner together with what he is doing? Where/how do you see Him at work & how can you join in? He Is Faithful Waymaker Who you say i am What Love My God Glorious Ruins

Going Deeper Discussion1. Assuming that you care about March Madness, how do you pick your brackets?Based on strength of schedule? Based on tournament ranking? Based on uniform color? Based on personal affiliation? Based on the team mascot? Other? 2. How are you tempted to live from the wrong scorecard? 3. What’s one characteristic from Jesus’ Scorecard that you’d like more of in your life?4. Have you ever officially switched from the world’s scorecard to Jesus’ scorecard? Share about that journey and/or moment in your life. Teaching NotesQ: What scorecard am I using in my life? They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest. Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.” Mark 9:33-35World’s Scorecard: winners finish firstJesus’ Scorecard: winners finish last And Jesus says, “...for whoever is not against us is for us.” Mark 9:40 World’s Scorecard: winning comes through competitionJesus’ Scorecard: winning comes through commonality“...at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’” Mark 10:6 World’s Scorecard: marriage can end in dismissalJesus’ Scorecard: marriage begins in dignity “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Mark 10:14 World’s Scorecard: status and access comes through hierarchyJesus’ Scorecard: status and access comes through humility “Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go sell everything you have and give to the poor…” Mark 10:21 World’s Scorecard: the goal is not prosperityJesus’ Scorecard: the goal is now generosity “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:42-45 World’s Scorecard: we lead positionallyJesus’ Scorecard: we lead sacrificially “Jesus of Nazareth, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Mark 10:48 World’s Scorecard: some people are expendableJesus’ Scorecard: everyone is essential The Quaker author Richard Foster writes, “Power can destroy or create. The power that destroys demands ascendency; it demands total control. It destroys relationships; it destroys trust; it destroys dialogue; it destroys integrity. And this is true whether we look through the macrocosm of human history or the microcosm of our own personal histories.” The Disciplined Life - Reflections on Money, Sex, & Power, pg. 176 Q: Where have you been living from the wrong scorecard? Q: What’s one characteristic from Jesus’ Scorecard that you’d like more of? Q: What if you’ve never lived by Jesus’ scorecard? IT’S TIME TO CHANGE TEAMS.Learn more about the ONE campaign and ways you can be involved here.Sunday Set ListWFC Lenexa/OnlineJesus Is Our King- The Collective KCThe Blessing- Kari JobeIt Is So- Elevation WorshipBroken Vessels- Hillsong UnitedWFC SpeedwayUnstoppable God- Elevation WorshipAvailable- Elevation WorshipGoodness of God- Bethel MusicJesus Is Our King- The Collective KCBe sure to save our Spotify Worship Playlist, updated weekly with the upcoming Sunday’s set!Watching Group Content + DiscussionFind weekly watching group content here.What stood out to you from today’s viewing?How would you summarize these chapters in a sentence or two?What did you learn about Jesus in these chapters?What did you learn about people/humanity in these chapters?What is God asking you to do, be, embrace, change and/or believe from these chapters?

Q: Where can you always find money? A: In The Dictionary! Q: How is the moon like a dollar? A: They both have 4 quarters!  Have you ever pondered the importance of Financial Therapy? How have your emotions impacted financial decision-making, particularly in the midst of a Global Pandemic? Although the subject of finances is one which weighs heavily upon the minds of most during this time in our collective history, Bob Wheeler, is not only a financial expert, he is also a fan of satire who wears the role of CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store. Super excited and immensely appreciative to speak with financial expert, and stand-up comic, Bob Wheeler, who I am sure will have us laughing all the way to the bank! (Hardy Har Har!). A NOT-TO-BE-MISSED Show on my C-Suite Radio / C-Suite Network Host Page! As a man of true integrity with infectious energy, Bob Wheeler’s crusade for personal growth has cross-pollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances. His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship with money in his book, The Money Nerve: Navigating The Emotions Of Money, his online course, Mastering The Emotions Of Money and his podcast, Money You Should Ask. While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously pursued his love of satire and ventured into the realm of standup comedy. From his thirty years of helping clients, Bob has distilled a concoction of warmth, humor, information, motivation and budgeting directives that he offers to anyone with financial concerns. He is also currently the CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store. Bob’s world travels have led him to high altitudes. He has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ascended to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and hiked several smaller mountains in between. With charm and humor, his experiences on the road, in the office, or running a Greek marathon, feed his wit as a stand-up comic and financial motivator. Uplifting you to fear less and to live more!  #Grateful #Radio #Podcasts #CSuiteRadio #CSuiteNetwork #CTRN #HaltonHonda #Forever #AHAthat #VRRMediaProductions #CrackingTheRichCode #BrittVentures #JimBritt #KevinHarrington #GoldsmithStakeholderCenteredCoaching #Entrepreneurs #LivingFearlessly https://livingfearlesslywithlisa.com/event/financial-therapy-with-bob-wheeler/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this class, we are going into volume two of seven. I'll be answering the questions from the entrepreneurship class of Prairie High School. Shout out to them for providing great questions! [01:58] 8) Q: Where did you go after playing professionally and why? [05:16] 9) Q: What advice do you have for us high school students in trying to start up a business with a new product? [11:01] 10) Q: After failing at first, how were you able to change your mindset and completely change your career around for the better? [16:41] 11) Q: what do you think was the most important step in marketing yourself and your brand? [19:55] 12) Q: What is an essential item that you have that keeps you organized or on track? [22:33] 13) Q: What has been your favorite project to work on? [31:19] 14) Q: Do you usually wake up at 3.45 am with no alarm clock? [31:35] Recap Episodes Mentioned: 1101: Codification Of Your Knowledge https://dreallday.com/1101- 741: How To Make More Time For Yourself https://dreallday.com/741- 1699: 4 Ways To Avoid Living In The Past Forever: Sacrifice Your Sacred Cows https://dreallday.com/1699- 635: Sometimes You Just Need To Put More Time In https://dreallday.com/635- 941: How To Develop Mental Toughness https://dreallday.com/941- 1386: How to Develop And Maintain Mental Toughness https://dreallday.com/1386- --- Next Steps - 1) Get The Free Books: The Mirror Of Motivation: https://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: https://BallOverseas.com Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: HoopHandbook.com/Free 2) Join the texting community: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 or go to DreAllDay.com/Text Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know! Find Dre on social media: Instagram [instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Twitter [Twitter.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [youtube.com/dreupt] Work On Your Game Podcast is at: WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com Apple Podcasts | SoundCloud | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Blueberry | Player.FM

In this, the very first show of 2021, Dean, Chris and Mads talk about their experiences playing December's game club game Exile on the BBC Micro. Thanks to all of our Patreon’s who made this episode possible. William E Rimmer Ninjixel TJ Andy Hudson Ricardo Engel Adrian Nelson Alastair Barr Straight2Video RoseTintedSpectrum Matthew W James Bentley Wiedo Belochkin Tony Parkinson Gaz H Mal Woods Zach Glanz Richard Rogers Cane and Rinse LamptonWorm Salvio Calabrese Mitsoyama Rhys Wynne Clint Humphrey MARK BYLUND Paul Ashton Chris Rowe Jon Sheppard Laurent Giroud Martin Stephenson Aaron Maupin Jim-OrbitsIT Jon Veal Thomas scoffham Andy Marsh Patrick Fürst Laurens Andrew Gilmour Stephen Stuttard Matt Sullivan Magnus Esbjörner Darren Coles Garry Heather Edward Fitzpatrick Nick Lees Blake Brett   Q and A with Peter Irvin. Q: Where did the concept of the game come from? Was it influenced by earlier videogames? A: The concept for Exile started as just the idea of a man with a jetpack exploring an underground cavern system, having to solve problems to progress, fighting off hostiles. It wasn’t influenced by other games, more from TV/film - like Star Trek, Blakes 7, Forbidden Planet. Q: Was the game built around the plot or did the mechanics of the game come first? A: The mechanics came first and we kept adding stuff to the game engine until we knew what the limits were and how far we could go with the resources available. The plot crystallised over time, after we worked out what could be achieved, then we had to populate the map to match and make a playable game. Major way points were decided, like the Rune Door and Triax’s lab, and the scattering of other puzzles, equipment and encounters designed to get the player equipped to pass through these way points. However we sometimes had “we could add this cool thing” moments and had to include that - like the digital speech on the large RAM BBC micro version. Q: Nowadays, there is infinite memory to craft a story and provide lots of context for the game. That was not possible for you. How early did you develop the idea of a novella? A: To include a novella was decided quite late in the day. Yes, it was a way to help explain the game back story better but it was also a way to add perceived value to the game, and reduce piracy - the thinking being that people would pay more and pirates would think they were missing out on important stuff if they did’t have the full package, though I’m not convinced by that. Q: How much of what you and Jeremy learned from Thrust did you carry forward into Exile? A: With Thrust, Jeremy showed that implementing physics well - gravity, thrusting, multi-body mechanics - was actually rewarding for the player; it was pleasing just to fly around. We were both interested in physics so that had to be a big part of Exile, and a lot of time was spent getting the physics engine right - all the acceleration rates, gravity, impacts, wind forces, floating, etc work in balance and to feel ok but coded with very little memory. Q: Were there any interesting alien life forms that you prototyped but had to cut? A: There were a few but the details are lost to me by the passing of time. Most memorable now was a dog - which was to be the player’s faithful companion, helping out as best he could. He was included from the beginning as it came over from an unfinished game I was doing before Exile called “Wizard’s Walk” - a wizard travelling down a long pretty cave populated by hazards. The dog used too much RAM for its graphics in Exile - it needed extra frames due to walking up diagonals. It also had to be indestructible, and manage to get around the map as well as the player or the game wouldn’t work, so it ended up being removed and we put in Fluffy which was small alien bundle of pixels and trivial code to control. Q: Some game reviews show screenshots that are clearly from a different game map. Were review copies sent out that were radically different or were these more likely pictures from earlier prototype builds? A: I don’t recall any wrong maps being reviewed. Perhaps on the Amiga version? The BBC Micro Exile game map was generated by a tiny algorithm to produce the straight tunnels, a scattering of caverns, some individual tiles and areas that could be hand-defined (like for the top ship, the top underground base, Triax’s lab, various doors, etc. The map code was fixed in stone at a very early stage because changing it would have meant repopulating the entire game. Q: The manual quite bluntly tells players that it’s a game which requires thought. Where you worried that people wouldn’t “get it”? A: Exile was hard to play in parts and required people to use their brains in some places to solve the natural puzzles. That wasn’t the way games were back then - most were short duration entertainment requiring little thought. We designed Exile as the sort of game we wanted to play, hoped others would accept it, but knew if they got stuck they could ask their friends or get advice from one of the games magazines. It isn’t a “levels game” where you just shoot your way through and collect stars, it was more like a movie - one big adventure. It was also more difficult than it should have been partly due to the limitations and efficiencies of the physics engine and shared general purpose code between many creatures. Many people didn’t complete Exile, or even get as far as the excitement of destroying the maggot machine, the earthquake and the flooding caverns, but I like to think they still got value for money. It’s hard to balance a game for all abilities when the resources are so tight and trying not to allow dead ends in progress were the player to have inadvertently wasted all the required resources to overcome upcoming obstacles, but in retrospect perhaps some things should have been easier. Q: The purple, vertical blast door near the start has a gap at the top which can be flown through, with enough time and patience. Did you know about it when the game shipped, but decided it wasn't a big enough game-breaker to fix? A: There were many such collision “features” - a side effect of a general purpose physics engine with limited resources to prevent special cases. Anyway, quantum tunnelling happens in physics, so surely that’s fine! Q: Are there any (other) bugs in the game which you look back on now and think “ah, if only we could patch it!”? A: There were many of what I call “features” rather than bugs in Exile and I think we knew about most of the ways things could go wrong but had no spare RAM to fix. My favourite one was, with your back to a vertical door, holding something, suddenly turning around while thrusting forward and do a throw - the thrown object can usually be made to appear on the other side of the door to you. Sometimes you could use a similar system to get yourself through! There were so many things to balance - like the relationship between the speed of a firer, the speed and dimensions of bullets and the thickness of doors, otherwise they could tunnel through the door or bullets hit the firer. Q: Did it bother you that the published solutions made use of physics/engine glitches to get the coronium rocks out of the eastern area, instead of the 'correct' solution which involves creating additional coronium by luring slimes through a piece of solid rock, converting them to yellow balls, then passing them through the underwater structure containing red blobs to the west of the windy shaft? A: No, I’m not really bothered about players making use of things they found. Exile is about exploration and experiment, so finding shortcuts, even if relying on “features” is still in that spirit. We wanted several ways to do many of the puzzles anyway, and the eastern tunnels were meant to be a natural area uncorrupted yet by Triax, where the player could experiment to discover the tools they would need in the western caves. This probably didn’t come across to the player. Also some of the puzzles were a bit contrived I suppose - nevertheless rewarding if you solved them. Q: Which version of the game do you consider definitive? A: The BBC micro version was the most definitive. It was the first and a genuine struggle to make happen at all, and I believe took that platform to its limits. I hated the Electron version - there was no way to avoid having a border of white noise (ie code) around the game view - buyers must have been so forgiving. Q: We are aware of the tragic circumstances around Jeremy’s death. Was a sequel planned before he died? A: From fading memory, I think we were still working on bits and pieces with the original game - like an Amiga CD 32 console game, and we had tried to get publishers interested in a Sega Mega Drive version but the console market was very controlled, with publishers taking few risks on unconventional product due to the costs of making the expensive ROM cartridges. You almost had to have a working game already on the platform to be considered seriously and with development systems hard to come we didn’t have the funds to make that happen ourselves. There were some explorations into making use of the code for a new game but nothing solid. Q: You had a version of the game planned for iOS and Android back in 2010. Are we correct to assume that that project has been discontinued? A: No, it is my intention that this should still happen. It’s difficult to know how non-retro it would need to be to have any measure of success against todays effects-driven offerings, though computer gaming is a broad church. Q: If the mobile project had gone ahead, would there have been any fundamental changes to the game? A: The first release would be very familiar, but enhanced in details, the plot cleaned up - more obvious - and easier to play. The control system on a touch screen can’t depend on the zillion keys that Exile required either! I don’t think it should stray too far from the original fundamentally as the audience would include fans of the originals; but sequels could go much further.  

Q: Where is my soul? A: You are one of the people whose soul is outside of themselves. That is very good. You get to be other people.

Full Worship Gathering Password for Recording: d1Vn=wdvScripture: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3, John 13:34-35, John 17:20-21Discussion Questions: Q: What does “church” mean to you & why? Is it something you love and gravitate towards, or something you resent & avoid? Q: In what ways is it hardest for you to love both your local church & the global Church? What would it take for you to see those as opportunities to live out Jesus’ call to reflect His sacrificial love? Q: Why do you think Jesus connected loving Him & loving each other, especially within the Church?Q: Where is the battle between your old, pre-Jesus way of living & your new, Jesus-based way of living the most fierce? Q: Would you say you “crave” time talking with God, studying His Word & simply spending time with Him? Why or why not? Q: How do these concepts help you grow as a disciple who loves God, loves people, & serves the world (lives on mission) in everyday life?

In this episode we engage in a discussion about chapter five of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,"Diagon Alley," by J.K.Rowling and how separate the wizarding world is from the world is from the muggle world and how this relates to events today. We also dive into how amazing this chapter is and all the groundwork it lays. Links: -Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/potterpeople-Gmail: potterpeoplethepodcast@gmail.com-Twitter: @potter_peopleHow to contact Potter People:If you would like to contact us for any reason; theories, comments, Quizzler answers...You can go to potterpeoplethepodcast@gmail.com. Don't hesitate to email in!The Quizzler:Last week's question: Q: "Where did the Dursleys stay before the shack?" A: "The Railview Hotel."This Week's Question: "How often do the goblins of Gringotts check their vaults?"You can respond on our twitter, or to our email, and we would LOVE to hear from you!How to support us: If you would like to support our podcast, you can go to http://www.patreon.com/potterpeople at any time! We would love your support and we appreciate our patrons very much. We hope to see you on pareon!Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/potterpeople)

“The universe is gonna slap the shit out of you and throw you around until you realize your own worth.” Knowing when to take action is really important in creating the life you really want. In today’s episode I answered your alignment questions and there were quite a few about  surrendering vs taking action and being controlling. We also discussed healing, finding your purpose, and moving on from breakups. Tune in to get clearly aligned! Love,Olena _____  Stuff we talked about:What alignment isQ: How can you fully surrender and have faith?On surrenderOn the need to controlAllowing healing“Control never feels easy.”Creating a happy place is your mindQ: How you deal with feeling judgemental towards others, especially when you know you are right?Book: Conversations with God by Neale Donald WalshWhat contrast is an opportunity for…Q: Where is the fine line between being a deliberate creator and surrendering?“Action that is out of alignment is just busywork.”The mistake we make in the present momentQ: How to use Alignment and Law of Attraction to figure out my own purpose?My own experience figuring out my purpose“Enjoy the not knowing as much as knowing.”Q: Can we reprogram a wounded soul without letting it heal?Book: A Return To Love by Marianne WilliamsonYoutube Video: 10 Most Life-Changing Books (on my channel)Q: How do you deal with competition?The universal filtration systemOn scarcity mindsetQ: How to deal with a breakup when you think he’s the man of your dreams?My first boyfriend“The universe is gonna slap the shit out of you and throw you around until you realize your own worth.”Raising standardsJudgement vs. observation Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. The content shared on this Podcast and my website is for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Please consult with your medical provider(s) before making any health changes. 

Q: How about advice or suggestions on coaching or leading up? Don’t think this topic has been discussed on the podcast. Examples always help! I enjoy what you’re covering. Keep it up! Q: Where have you seen the biggest change/impact from your leadership development focus at Be Hope? Q: I have an employee that has been identified as having leader potential… he seems to want to be at leader status but isn’t necessarily putting in the work to get there… I have offered him a variety of different opportunities but I don’t feel the initiative is there. You mentioned in one of the podcasts that if people keep denying the opportunities that you have presented to allow them to advance then you stop asking. The questions: 1. Do you tell people that if they continue to deny opportunities then you’re going to stop asking them to do things? Would this be a one on one taking point?
 2. Am I just offering the wrong opportunities?
 3. Is there some consideration I should make in changing the way I facilitate the opportunities? Q: Is there a leadership checklist? What I mean by that is if you feel like your team is doing well and you’re trusting their choices but you want to make sure that everyone else feels the same what do you do? I often do one on one meetings with each staff member usually at least quarterly and I always ask for feedback on my leadership and what I can do better and very rarely does anyone give me an answer…. and I don’t think that’s because I’m doing a fantastic job all the time. Our company is going to roll out some sort of 360 manager survey that all staff will receive so that will be helpful but without that what do you do? Q: You seem to have the ability to take in a lot of ideas and suggestions and quickly process them and get to the root concern, or the core ideas that needs to be addressed. How did you learn to do that? Q: What are you listening to and reading that excites you? Q: What should the church be doing differently to draw men out of isolation and into becoming the godly leaders they are designed to be at home, work, and the community?

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My opening line to was “well, it’s been interesting times since we last talked at the end of January!”. Since Rod has biked himself around Aotearoa and we’ve had a virus. I promised you I’d do an annual interview with him on the state of the nation, but as Rod’s spent the past month investigating the impact of Covid-19 on our economic and business spheres, the time for another chat is now. Thanks Rod for generously sharing your insights on our response to this event in a global context - after a listen here you can read more in his recent series of columns.  This episode is a little over 52 minutes, so here’s a few cheat times so you can skip to certain bits if you’re interested in his thoughts on a particular question I asked him: 2:03 Q | How do you see things unfolding around the globe with this outbreak health-wise?   13:12 Q | How do you see the economic impact rolling out globally as we stand today? 22:51 Q | Where does the Reserve Bank get its cash from?  25:18 Q | How would you rate the job our Governor of the Reserve Bank is doing right now?  29:01 Q |  What are your concerns around our inbound/outbound supply chains going forward? 39:13 Q | What are the things we need to be working on as a nation as we move forward?

I am honored to introduce today's guest, Phil Cousineau. Phil is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, teacher, editor, travel leader, storyteller and TV host. We will be discussing a range of topics, such as the meaning of forgiveness and atonement, the importance of presence, and our collective longing for wholeness. The following is a taste of my conversation with Phil. Q: Where does forgiveness end? Where does compassion end? Phil: (Quoting Dr. Jacob Needleman): You ask them three times for forgiveness. Now, the first time, they may still be angry at you. The second time, they may not have gotten over you. And then, the third time, they could forgive you or they have become so obtuse and so bitter that they still refuse, well, on, let's say, on the grand scale of things, your karma is free. You have done what you need to do on the spiritual plane. Q: How do you define atonement? Phil: At-one-ment. It’s like many of the classic definitions of beauty, which is all forms of harmony and wholeness. Q: How does atonement relate to forgiveness? Phil: The act of forgiveness is kind of going halfway and then stopping. Doing something to make amends that is psychologically commensurate with the damage that was done, then the healing can begin. Q: How does one get to forgiveness when there’s a complex blend of multiple layers of mutual wrongdoing, with each party blaming the other? Phil: If we do not learn how to forgive in our relationships, in the workplace, and in our political activism, a kind of soul rust sets in. When asked if there’s one last thing he’d like our listeners to hear, Phil says, “People will risk themselves for others, and I once asked Joseph Campbell why this is so? And I can still hear the beautiful cadence in his voice when he gave me the answer on camera, “It's because we know at the end of the day, we are one.” About Phil: Phil Cousineau is a writer, teacher, editor, independent scholar, documentary filmmaker, travel leader and storyteller. His life-long fascination with the art, literature and history of culture has taken him on many journeys around the world. He lectures frequently on a wide range of topics--from mythology, film and writing, to beauty, travel, sports and creativity. He has published more than 35 nonfiction books and has over 20 scriptwriting credits to his name. He is the host and cowriter of the PBS and Link TV series, “Global Spirit.”

 Learn how to align buyer experience with sales and marketing for a smooth path to purchase and increased sales productivity Discover how to deploy a Linkedin content strategy that attract 300% leads Learn how to craft a digital brand that is niche-specific, sales-focused, and empowering to be able to authentically attract leads and increase sales Resources/Links: Rethink Your Content. Stop Selling and Start Adding Value: Check out Skaled's Team Free Audit and Assessment: https://skaled.com/digitalpresence Summary Where do you think digital presence going in 2020 and beyond? And what is that going to mean for sales as a profession? People that are going to win are the people that understand how to leverage technology. And if you’re not staying well-versed on those then, you’re losing quite a bit of efficiency and effectiveness. Rethink your content. Stop selling and start adding value. Pay attention to your digital brand. Jake Dunlap designs repeatable, sustainable sales models and processes that outperform industry standards. As the Founder + CEO of Skaled Consulting, he helps executives around the world accelerate business growth with data-backed sales solutions. Before building Skaled, he held the roles of VP of Sales at Nowait (acquired by Yelp), Head of Sales + Customer Success at Chartbeat, and VP of Sales at Glassdoor. In this episode, Jake shares how he helps organizations and companies to be buyer-centric focused, fix their bandwidth problems, craft and implement a consistent audience development strategy for sales success. Check out these episode highlights: 01:32 – Jake's ideal client: "Yeah. We really have two ideal clients. One is a company that's going through various stages of scaling. You know, you really only need a firm like ours as you're trying to ramp up or do something different. And so, as companies are growing, usually things start to break. And that's when they call in people like us to get hands-on and help them." 02:06 – Problem Jake helps solve: “The first problem that we solve is basically bandwidth. Every organization has smart, capable people internally to do things, but there are only so many hours in a day.” 03:17 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Jake: "They focus on digital presence." 04:30 – What are some of the common mistakes that folks make before finding Jake and his solution?: "Well, step one is that they try to take a command and control, right? So marketing is going to pre-approved content that they're going to send out and disseminate to people. Either on their own internal internet, via social media platform, or Elevate LinkedIn own platform. And they're not really, in marketing instead is not, hasn't figured out how to empower people." 05:35 – Jake's Valuable Free Action(VFA): "Have a consistent audience development strategy." 06:21 – Jake's Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Rethink Your Content. Stop Selling and Start Adding Value: Check out Skaled's Team Free Audit and Assessment: https://skaled.com/digitalpresence 07:02 – Q: Where is digital presence going in 2020 and beyond? And what is that going to mean for sales as a profession? A: People that are going to win are the people that understand how to leverage technology. And if you're not staying well versed on those then you're losing quite a bit of efficiency and effectiveness. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “People that are going to win are the people that understand how to leverage technology. And if you're not staying well-versed on those then you're losing quite a bit of efficiency and effectiveness.'”-@JakeTDunlapClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: 0:09 Hello everyone,

In Part II of three episodes, Dan Pink answers questions from listeners. Each insight could be a discussion unto itself. Listen in on how organizations can navigate remote work challenges, better leverage older workers, the pros and cons of fear as a motivator, selling insights, the bane of busyness, how technology can hinder and help, and the power of kindness.   Key Takeaways [1:35] Q: What is the hardest thing to sell? Selling something that goes against the person’s existing identity and moral beliefs. [6:25] A lot of the issues people tend to have are typically due to time constraints, not lack of desire. The key is being able to focus 100% in the moment when you’re doing a task. [8:20] Q: Your thoughts on remote work and how can companies maximize this? Face-to-face social connection is hugely important towards maximizing human connection and productivity. [10:25] Q: Where does fear serve us and where does it hinder us? Fear shouldn’t be used as a leadership motivator, but that doesn’t mean leaders should abandon it entirely. [14:05] Q: Advice for older workers? Spend time with people who are younger than you and you are an undervalued asset. [18:20] Q: Thoughts on ‘always being busy’? Being busy is a performance and when you’re busy you don’t have to face the ‘harder’ life questions. [22:10] Q: In this technological environment, is bureaucracy decreasing or increasing in our organization? The answer is ‘yes.’ [23:55] Q: What advice would you give to your 20-year-old self? Dan’s 20-year-old self wouldn’t listen to him.   Quotable Quotes “What we do is make visceral emotional decisions and then use reason to justify that emotional belief.” “People shouldn’t be remote working all the time. You have to bring people together face-to-face.”   “Fear is very short term. Fear allows you to see up close, but fear doesn’t allow you to see out into the future.” “These middle-aged workers are much more valuable than companies are realizing. They are an undervalued asset.”   “My 20-year-old self was so incredibly sure of himself and so not open to other interpretation, and so lacking in humility.”   “Don’t go based on your assumptions about how the world works. Ask questions and try to find stuff out.” “Be kinder. Act with more kindness. The older I get, the more I value kindness and understand the influence of kindness in the world.”     Where to follow Dan Pink Twitter: @DanielPink Facebook: @DanielHPink Website: DanPink.com   Resources and Books Mentioned When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, by Daniel H. Pink Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, by Daniel H. Pink Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself, by Daniel H. Pink Leaders: Myth and Reality, by Jason Mangone, Jeff Eggers, and Stanley A. McChrystal Team Of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley A. McChrystal My Share of the Task: A Memoir, by General Stanley A. McChrystal Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, by Bill George Courage: The Backbone of Leadership, by Gus Lee with Diane Elliott-Lee Dr. Vivek Murthy Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives, by Daniel Levitin “The Lesson to Unlearn,” by Paul Graham Salesbrain.com How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen   The Leadership Podcast is Sponsored by:     Cultivate Grit. Amplify Action. The Self-Reliant Leadership® Manifesto reveals the Three Pillars of a Self-Reliant Leader, which encompass the character attributes, interpersonal skills, and levers required to lead today’s workforce. Get your free copy HERE.     Free downloads of Quick Reference Guides on Delegation, Time Management, Sales, and more.    ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Strategic Partners   The Leadership Podcast is proud to announce a new initiative with thoughtLEADERS to provide very short podcasts called Chalk Talks. They’re bitesize hacks on common (but challenging) leadership issues. Interested in learning more?  You can only access the Chalk Talks by subscribing to our mailing list at The Leadership Podcast.   Beyond the Uniform offers over 300 free episodes to help military Veterans succeed in their civilian career. This includes overviews of potential career paths, deep dives on necessary skills to succeed, and reviews of other free services that support the military Veteran community. You can find more info at BeyondTheUniform.org.

What are we trying to assess when we ask the Q - "Where are you from?" Why are we asking that question? Who do we ask it of more often? Is it a mere geographic query? Why do we categorize people into preconceived boxes in our mind? Is it out of fear and suspicion? Or is it out of pure curiosity to learn about the myriad of colors, races, cultures, experiences, and ideologies people come in?  Ultimately, with time and the willingness to move beyond the obvious exterior differences, do we realize that in the end, people of the world (no matter where they are 'from') are all from 'here' and more similar than we might expect. If only, we can move beyond the loaded Q.  Share your thoughts with us on our social media and write to us LifeofaGlobalDesi@gmail.com! 

Note: The time signatures [00:00] below indicate the start of a question if you'd like to skip to a particular one of interest in the audio file.[00:21] - Q: Why was Zechariah “punished” for questioning God, but others- Gideon- were not?[01:58] - Q: How old do you believe the earth is? If man has been here since the first week, did we coexist with dinosaurs?A: Based on the genealogies recorded, 6-10K years old. Yes, according to Gen 1:24-31 God created dinosaurs and man on the same day living together. A fossil record also supports both man and dinosaur living together.[08:58] - Q: Where do animals go when they die?A: See Eccl 3:21 which alludes to the concept of the spirit of man and beast. Rev 21:6 notes that we will be fully satisfied in heaven. Book suggestion by Randy Alcorn “Heaven”[12:01] - Q: Do you have any suggestions on Bible reading programs for the start of the new year? What works, what doesn't, etc? And how do you guard against this discipline becoming just a mechanical exercise?A: Read what you’re in the mood for from the bible to keep yourself engaged.[14:29] - LIVE AUDIENCE Q: Why is demon possession primarily mentioned in the New Testament versus the Old Testament?[15:20] - LIVE AUDIENCE Q: Do you think there is anything the church has failed to do with our societal confusion with sexuality and gender confusion situation?A: See the excellent sermon from Pastor Jeremiah on homosexuality and how we’re to respond as Christians. [22:01] - Q: Short-term vs long-term missions work, what the right balance between the 2 should be, when does helping sometimes hurt (in the case of short-term trips being more about the people going than the ones being served, a team coming in with their own agenda rather than local partnership... etc).[25:50] - Q: After a spouse dies, does the surviving spouse love in the same way again? If there is another love, will it be the same or will it be a different love?[27:51] - Q: Why do you think church people struggle with those who might not be led by the same life choices? Ex (view-meaning) married people to singles: When are you going to settle down and marry? or Parents to Newlyweds: When are the babies coming? Maybe that isn't where the Lord is leading.[29:10] - Q: When I'm struggling with a life situation where God doesn't seem to be answering, why do people tell me, "you just need to have more faith"? It just makes my pain worse.A: It’s not about the amount of faith you have, but whom you have your faith in. See Matt 17:21[31:24] - Q: In Job 38:7 the Bible says the morning stars sang together. Jesus and Lucifer are both referred to as "the morning star" in Revelation and Isaiah, so who is being mentioned here?A: The morning star in this context refers to God’s angels in a general sense, no specific angel or person. Job 38:7 specifically is a reminder to Job that He is God and we are not![32:51] - Q: What is the church's response on protecting kids from sexual immorality NOW in this sex driven culture? Some possible ideas; promote early marriage to avoid temptation? Also what can parents do to help?A: Parents are the disciple-makers of their children. The source of authority is always God’s Word and it’s the parents’ responsibility to sow God’s Word into their own children’s hearts.[35:45] - Q: Do you think today’s church has replaced Israel?"A: No, see Romans 11[37:01] - Q: What was the reason/symbolism/significance of baptism when JTB was baptising? Was baptism a new thing? How did the aspect/act of getting baptized help? Repentance of sins was encouraged. What did the priests/sanhedrin/pharisees think about JTB doing this? How did JTB create baptism? Was he the first or was this a new thing?A: John’s baptism was for repentance and to prepare the way for the Messiah, see Acts 19:4 and Luke 3.[39:52] - LIVE TXT Q: When we pray, are we only to address God the Father, or can we also pray to Jesus and the Holy Spirit?A: We are praying to God the Father in Jesus’ name while the Holy Spirit also prays with us.[40:36] - LIVE TXT Q: Who / what are angels?A: Eternal beings that God created for His glory.[41:35] - LIVE TXT Q: What are your thoughts about people who claim to cast out demons or perform exorcisms?A: See Eph 6[42:44] - LIVE TXT Q: Luke 11:12-14 tells of Jesus cursing the fig tree for not having figs. However, it was not fig season. Why would Jesus do this? How is this different from Christians not having a specific spiritual gift, such as teaching? Are we still expected to teach?A: The Holy Spirit gives gifts as God provides them. See the sermon on the fig tree from Pastor Jeff as we studied the book of Mark.See James 3 on a warning to teachers and a fantastic sermon on this topic by Michael Wolski.[44:36] - LIVE TXT Q: Due to abortion being a so controversial, and in my opinion a human rights issue, ...1. what does the Bible say about pre-born life? (Psalm 139, Jeremiah 1:5). 2. The church does need to speak truth in love, but is this an instance, like slavery, where we need to get more involved directly?A: This is a modern day version of child sacrifice to demons as outlined in the Old TestamentAny question that was missed due to time constraints during the service Pastor Jeff will address the answer on the blog.Sermon Notes (PDF): BLANKHint: Highlight blanks above for answers! Small Group Questions (Whole Group):Review the questions submitted above. Discuss any of these that stuck out to you, or that maybe your group finds particularly interesting.Breakout Questions:Pray for one another!

In today's podcast, you'll hear a snippet from one of our Monday Q&A calls that form a part of our Little Peace of Mind programs. Tania (our in-house Little Peace of Mind coach) shares three simple stories of how thought creates reality - which is then experienced as if it's true. Q- Where are you doing this? A - Only everywhere. Enjoy.

JoJoe explains the spiritual dimensions that exist, and the health levels that we have to balance in our lives. Q:Where are you in your life-- at the moment? sometimes you will come to realize that certain friendships can dissolve in the strangest ways. Q: Are you living or are you afraid to do so? JoJoe's Music Mood : Whodini-Friends & The Carters- Friends. Email : nobuts.justcoconuts@gmail.com

In this special episode of the podcast, Jessica Paige and Lupita Sandoval share their journey of grieving in the arms of God. These two friends stop by to open their hearts to all of us and share the healing that has taken place in the midst of their mourning. Jessica, 27, lost both of her beloved parents in recent years and Lupita, 26, lost her mother last year just one short month after she received a cancer diagnosis. They answer the question that lies heavy on any grieving heart: “Where do I go when hope is gone?” About the Speakers: Jessica is a San Diego native who loves to travel, try new Airbnb's, and discover the best chai tea lattes at different cafes! She is currently taking on photography as a hobby that might turn into a career. She has been a disciple of Christ for almost 9 years and couldn't be more sure that following God was the best decision she ever made. Lupita is also a San Diego native and a nature lover. As she pursued her major in Environmental Science, she learned about God and became a member of the San Diego Church of Christ. Episode Notes: Lamentations 3:18-21: I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.” I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”Q: Where do I go when hope is gone? John 11:4We need to acknowledge the kingdom and the ways God wants to use His people to share His comfort with you. Philippians 4:7- And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."You have access the peace that passes understanding through God’s love and comfort. Thanksgiving and grief go hand in hand. Reference to “A Shepherd’s Look at Psalm 23”It’s in the valleys that we find God’s refreshment. Don’t forget- God can restore your spirit. It is so important to learn what your needs are so that you can communicate them to those around you.Practicals for those in the valley of grief:1. Recognizing WHEN you are grieving can be hard, but we can learn to sit in that and accept the emotions and the questions that come along with it, instead of trying to push them away. 2. Grief doesn’t have boundaries- it will spill into your work, your relationships, and everything else. And you will feel it in different and unique ways. Acknowledging this is empowering. 3. Prayer is so important in the grief process- you can come to Him as you are and be real with the rawness of your emotions in order to access some of His peace and comfort. Tips for comforting those around us that are grieving:Just Ask. Don’t be insecure. Ask what your friend’s needs are all often because it my change on a daily basis. Don’t be afraid to ask questions! What NOT to say to someone grieving: “Well AT LEAST (fill in the blank).” Try to avoid attempting to lessen the hurt because honestly, you can’t. Support the show (https://tithe.ly/give_new/www/#/tithely/give-one-time/678206?giving_to=Woven%20In%20Truth%20Podcast)

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This week Aaron and Tracy chat with artist Peter Staley about blending creativity and construction.   LET’S CHAT! You can always call and leave your questions and comments on our voicemail! 978-709-1040   QUICK FACTS ABOUT PETER’S WORK: - Peter refers to his structures as shrines to nature. - His first woodworking was building stretchers for paintings and then he moved on to set design. - Once he built his own store (his wife’s kids shop), a lot of people had him start building their stores. He likes to bring nature inside. - Recently he’s been building a lot of cabins, which was a natural progression after building a work cabin for his wife’s second store. His latest cabin is a liveable space, 200 sq ft with a sleeping loft and outdoor shower. - His nature inspiration stems from his time in the Adirondacks as a child. https://visitadirondacks.com - Peter can look at a space and visualize what he wants to do with it. - Peter sees his builds as art and it’s a very spiritual process. - His favorite materials are: cedar and shou sugi ban. - He loves buying from Angel City Lumber- https://www.angelcitylumber.com - Peter feels this medium is the one that connects with people the most, whereas his art doesn’t necessarily connect with everyone. - Peter’s tip for creating a more functional small space is: laying stuff out with blue tape and seeing how it would feel to move around in the space. - “I would like someone to enter a space I made and have a spiritual experience.” - Peter’s suggestion for the beginner: “Get some tools and start playing around. Make a box!” - Peter believes everything needs to go as green as possible. He’d like to see a return to natural and comfortable materials.   SOCIAL QUESTIONS: Q: Do you feel you have a signature style? A: Not on purpose, but yes. Peter doesn’t try to make things in his style, it’s just his natural progression.   Q:  How long is the planning process? A: A couple of weeks.   Q: Where does your inspiration come from with your art? A: It just comes to Peter and he needs to get it out.   Q: Is it hard to see a structure decorated in a way that doesn’t fit your intention for the space? A: At first it is, but then you get used to it.   FIND PETER: Website (Build) | https://www.mindtreearts.com Website (Art) | http://www.peterstaley.com The Gram | https://www.instagram.com/mindtreearts & https://www.instagram.com/p_staley   FOLLOW US on Social Media: Website | https://howtohome.com/ Instagram | http://bit.ly/2WqVfSp Twitter | http://bit.ly/2RRyYij Facebook | http://bit.ly/2MC3Hdc Youtube | http://bit.ly/2SifqTH SUBSCRIBE to the How to Home Podcast: Itunes | https://apple.co/2DL0lSp Android | http://bit.ly/2B9k7Fm Stitcher | http://bit.ly/2DM0W6c Spotify | https://spoti.fi/2GcRCKo   THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR FILTERBUY.COM

Replay of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from 6-8-19 Heard on 860AM WNOV & W293cx 106.5FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 9-10AM CST Heard on WAAM 1600 AM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on WWDB 860 AM Philadelphia, PA Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on KMET 1490 AM Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM pst Banning, CA listen here during show hours for your station: WNOV https://tinyurl.com/y8lwd922 WWDB: https://wwdbam.com/ WAAM https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft KMET https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Contact Joey and Holly: Email them at TWVGshow@gmail.com Reach the show anytime through the Instant access text hotline 414-368-9311 Thank you for listening and downloading the show. Topics: Joey and Holly Talk about common garden pest 1. pill bug/roly poly/ potato bug - eats young seedlings/transplants - can trapped with beer or essential oil spray - peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, cinnamon oil, citrus oil, citronella oil, rosemary oil, oregano oil and tea tree oil. 2. Tomato hornworm 3. Squash vine borer 4. Japanese beetle 5. aphids 6. Potato beetle Segment 2 Tree care with Iv organics https://ivorganics.com/ Q: IV Organic is “A Leading Garden-Product YouTube Channel” with over 50,000+ subscribers & millions of views from gardening enthusiasts, from around the world! How did you accomplish that? Q: IV Organic 6 Macros PLUS+; interesting name! Is the Macros in the name short for MacroNutrients? Q: Where can we find IV Organic brand products? Segment 3 Joey and Holly talk with their guest Wendy Kiang Spray of http://www.wendykiangspray.com/ Wendy is a passionate gardener, garden speaker and writer whose articles and contributions have appeared in national publications and books. She is also the author of The Chinese Kitchen Garden. Tell us more about your book, The Chinese Kitchen Garden, what does the content consist of? Is there something in there you want to share specifically with us? What inspired you to write this book? You’ve found gardening as a way to help you connect with your father - how did that occur and why are you glad it did? What are some chinese/asian vegetables that can be grown in almost anyone’s kitchen/backyard garden? Where can we find more about you and your book? Segment 4 Joey and Holly answer gardener's questions Q:I have my raise garden set how do I start with planting my vegetables'? Do I start by making rows to put my seeds in? I have Kentucky pole beans, carrots, cucumbers, red mercury peppers, red cherry large tomatoes, and brussels sprouts. My raised garden is 4ft x 8ft. Will this be enough room? Q: Does topping onions help or hurt the production Q: How to deal with strawberry runners Check out the following sponsors that make the radio show possible: Thank you Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com IV Organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. Earth of www.drearth.com organic Root maker of www.rootmaker.com Flame Engineering Inc. of www.flameengineering.com Use coupon code WVG19 to get free shipping. Pomona Universal Pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Bobbex of www.Bobbex.com: Beans & Barley of www.beansandbarley.com MIgardener of www.MIgardener.com Outpost Natural Foods Co-op of www.outpost.coop Root Assassin of www.rootassassinshovel.com . Handy Safety Knife of www.handysafetyknife.com Use promo code WVG to get 10% off &free shipping one time use only BioSafe of www.biosafe.net Save 10% on your next order use coupon code TWVG at checkout Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pro Plugger of www.proplugger.com Dharmaceuticals of www.dharmaceuticals.com Soil Savvy of www.mysoilsavvy.com Use coupon code TWVG19 to save 10% at checkout Tomato Snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Drip Garden of www.dripgarden.com Drip Garden Wisconsin Greenhouse company https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Standard Process Inc. of www.standardprocess.com Big Fat’s Hot Sauce of www.bigfatshotsauce.com Soil Diva of www.soildiva.net World’s coolest floating rain gauge of www.WorldsCoolestRainGauge.com Clyde’s vegetable planting chart of www.clydesvegetableplantingchart.com NuNu Natural Healing of www.nunuhealing.com RowMaker of www.rowmaker.com Eco Garden Systems of www.ecogardensystems.com Use coupon code (wiveg2019) and get $295 off the list price of $1,695 PLUS free shipping (a $250 value). Shield n seal of www.shieldnseal.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center of www.bluemels.com Phyllom BioProducts of PhyllomBioProducts.com Norwalk juicers of www.norwalkjuicers.com Use coupon code Garden talk Free Continental US shipping on the Model 290 Juicer Tree Ripe of https://www.tree-ripe.com/ Hydrobox of https://gohydrobox.com/

 Find out how to maximize the value of your lead through relational marketing Learn how charging more can transform your business, help triple your net profits and allow you to double your time off Free valuable actions to implement that can help you take a prospect to become a perfect buyer Resources/Links: Steve Martile’s 9-step FREE Course: Endless Top-of-the-Line Client Leads for Your Business: Join Here:www.freedomeducation.ca Summary Steve Martile is a marketing consultant, coach, and self-help teacher who lives in Sudbury, Canada. In this episode, Steve shares how he helps coaches, consultants and speakers triple their net profits and double their time off by retaining higher paying clients without being manipulative, and without working so hard. Check out these episode highlights: 02:29 – Steve's ideal client: professional training, management,or consulting agency owner, self-employed, or with 1-10 employees 02:03 – Problem he helps solve: being in front of qualified sales conversations so that they've got appointments booked in their calendar through relational marketing that sells itself 03:07 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Steve: servicing at lower fees, experiencing low conversion-closing ratio, offering low-value on client work 04:34 – Common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem: they think that they’ve got lead generation problem when in fact they’re talking to the wrong audience, and they're unclear on their perfect buyer or perfect avatar 05:039 – Steve’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): clarify your perfect buyer, write an offer for that buyer send them to a call-to-action, and finally send an offer. 07:28 – Steve’s Valuable Free Resource(VFR): www.freedomeducation.ca 08:01 – Q: Where do you find your perfect buyer? A: I always suggest doesn't matter if it was B2B or B2C, start on LinkedIn Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Once you start to charge more you're going to be billing up more time for more time with your clients.” -@steve_martileClick To Tweet “When you get really clear on who your perfect buyer is and what happens is you get more of the right people on a conversation.” -@steve_martileClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: Hello everyone. Very well welcome to another edition of Marketing the Invisible my name is Tom Poland beaming out to as always from Little Castaways Beach in Queensland, Australia joined today by Steve Martile. Tom Poland: Steve, a very warm welcome sir. Where are you hanging out? Steve Martile: I'm in Sudbury,Ontario. Bought a four-hour bus ride, north of Toronto. So way the heck out here. We've got about 100 lakes in the surrounding area a small town about a hundred thousand people. Tom Poland: So you like a hunter, and a bushwalker, and a bear wrestler? Steve Martile: None of those but I do play hockey in the winter and I love swimming and tennis and all the old stuff fabulous. Tom Poland: So we sell our fabulous outdoor areas. Well, we better get on with the interview. For those of you don't know Steve. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers triple the net profits and double that time off. Wow. Tom Poland: By retaining higher paying clients without being manipulative and without having to work so hard. In fact I saw Steve posts some comments and feedback to some other online marketers in the forum we're in. And I was so impressed with his astuteness that I asked him to come on the show. So that's how we got connected. Tom Poland: So let's rock and roll the subject, a specific subject matter today is 'How to get clients with Video' and Steve's going to show us how to do that in just seven minutes. Steve our time starts now.

I'm frequently asked how I found my 'big idea'. Here are some helpful things to consider that should help you land something that you love AND that’s lucrative...   Let me ask you a question...   Are you:   Struggling to identify what you should sell? Trying to validate what you're about to sell?   If you answer ‘YES’ to either of these questions, then grab a notepad and pen... because this could be one of the MOST powerful lessons you’ll EVER learn, so take notes.   What I’m about to teach you is the EXACT opposites what I learned in college.   I’ll probably ruffle some feathers by saying what I’m about to say, but whatever…   You’re also gonna get a sneak peek into my Core Problem Planner.   YOUR BIG IDEA   So what is your BIG IDEA... and how do you find it?   Your BIG IDEA is the one thing that represents the core of an entire business.   The mistake that most people make is that they try to create the problem and then provide the solution.   This was what I was taught at college... and many infomercials are created this way too.   I'm NOT saying it doesn't work, but I'd rather find a group of people who already have a problem.   IT’S SO MUCH EASIER!   You find what problems your red ocean is suffering from already, then you solve a legitimate problem.   So…   Q: How do I come up with my one BIG IDEA? A: I don't come up with it.   (… this was something that tripped me up for a long time.)   Instead: I go to an insanely competitive red ocean, (which is exactly the opposite that I was taught in college), and figure out the problems that they are ALREADY having. Then I rank the problems.   Something that I'll bring you guys through, in far more detailed than I did last OfferMind, is what I call The Core Problem Planner.   YOUR CORE PROBLEM Each one of your businesses should solve a core issue.   So I look at a red ocean to figure out what the problems they're already experiencing.   Remember…   I don't need to create the problem, it already exists.   Then I start ranking the problems against a series of criteria...   BECAUSE not all problems are:   Created equal. Understood by everybody in the red. Something people are willing to pay money for.   If you’re coming to OfferMind, (which I hope you are), this is the stuff I talked about with pictures, drawings, formulas, and maps.   Someone asked me, “Stephen, where all these formulas you’re forever talking about?”   THEY’RE AT OFFERMIND ... just dropping that out there ;-)   So come to OfferMind and you’ll learn:   What to look for in a red ocean. Which red ocean to choose. What an ocean is #period. What signs to look for when you pick a problem to solve. How to create a new offer. How you launch your offer to that red ocean.   It's very granular.   Theories are cool. I love teaching mindset stuff, (that's really my main role with the OFA Challenge).   ...but at the heart of it, I think some of that stuff gets fluffy.   I want:   Formulas Patterns Maps Blueprints   ... that's the stuff I get motivated over.   I'm a geek, man. I'm a geek, but geeks get paid! So whatever…   YOUR CORE OFFER   I love watching Shark Tank, not because I believe in VC funding, I like seeing the ideas people come up with.   ...but lots of times people have these ideas that *they* came up with.   *WRONG*   It shouldn't come from you!   The Core Problem Planner helps you identify the problems that are already being experienced in the red ocean.   Then you rank them according to several things:   How easy can I talk about the problem? (Not the product, the problem.)   You lead with the problem, not the solution.   This is the opposites of what I was taught in college.   So when it comes down to it...   I don't come up with the main idea. It shouldn't come from me. I'm not the one filling my own wallet. I'm not the one who's gonna be paying for this.   What I do is I go into the red ocean, and rank out all the problems... and based on a bunch of criteria, I find what I call The Core Problem.   Which means that my entire NEW…   Idea Blue ocean Opportunity   ... is NOW based on me solving that core problem.   The Core Offer solves The Core Problem.   I'm very methodical about the way I pull stuff out. Just coming up with ‘a good idea’ is too freakin' risky.   I'm an entrepreneur and I'm okay with risk... but I want it to be calculated.   So the thing I've come up with over the last two-three years is how to go identify and rank problem in the red ocean, then create what I call ‘The Core Offer.’   ... that’s what my book will be about, but OfferMind also goes into this stuff.   Day #1: I'm gonna teach this whole framework to you Day #2: We’ve got Russell and Dana Derricks are coming in. I'm talking with Myron Golden (I got a soft Yes, we're just trying to make sure dates are fine). I'm gonna try and get Mark Joyner and Bill Glazer. CREATING YOUR BIG IDEA   I have a very unique take on Offer Creation, but the ‘BIG IDEA’ is not something that I come up with on my own anymore...   The BIG IDEA is fueled by the problems that ALREADY EXIST in the red ocean.   I want to make sure that there’s a genuine problem before I go build a whole freakin' business around solving it.   The BIG IDEA doesn't come from me. It is fueled by those that I hope will buy it, and that makes it less risky.   It means…   I don't have to be a creative psycho genius. I just have to be a detective. I can just understand the frameworks.   It’s a 30,000-foot view.   BECOMING CATEGORY KING   I'm the category king of two different oceans right now. One was accidental, one totally on purpose.   However…   The thing that causes that Blue Ocean is an idea more than a product. The product just fulfills on the idea.   I don't create the problem.   I'm just gonna solve a legitimate problem in a highly competitive red ocean, which means:   A lot of people have that problem… and then, I solve that problem with an idea.   One of the things I've learned is that if I try to come up with the idea on my own, it's almost guaranteed to fail out of the gate.   It's far more risky.   I'm not saying it won't win. I'm saying the chances of it winning are smaller. The blue ocean doesn't exist until you create it by siphoning customers from the red.   ...but too many times this is what happens:   Imagine yourself on an island...You’ve got some knick-knacks. One day, you put all your knick-knacks in a cart and decide to sell them...   Q: Where are you gonna push your cart to sell your goods? A: Where the people already are!   Just because your product is new, it doesn't mean you go to a place that’s new and deserted to sell it.   … but that's what most people do, # no cash in that!   People don’t buy just because:   No one's doing what you’ve done You're different   *THAT’S STUPID*   You have to take your product and push it to where EVERYBODY is already… and it has to be something they actually WANT!   Does that make sense?   Your products don't necessarily need to be that new, but your offer, that's the new thing.   Truly, you could have tons of stuff that people have already sold, but you need to bundle them together as a NEW offer.   Then you sell to wherever there's the most foot traffic # the red ocean.   Your offer product will be blue, but you sell it to the red ocean. CREATING A BLUE OCEAN   Over time, your market changes from the red ocean where all the competition is, to the blue that you’ve created.   You have a new offer that's a brand new that has never existed and you're selling it to an existing marketplace...   But as people buy, you're pulling them (with an idea) over into a NEW blue ocean.   The new vehicle is almost more of an idea than a product. The product just fulfills on it.   As people start to buy, they get siphoned off over into a blue ocean.   So, let me ask you another question...   Q: Is it easier to sell to people who:   Have never bought from you before? Are already your customer?   A: Second money's always easier than the first money.   So as people are leaving the red, (and they're coming over to the blue), you start getting a little pocket of people who are your current buyers.   Whoo, my friend... therein, lies power!   The book Ready, Fire, Aim says that at the start of your business, your main purpose is to get a qualified mass of customers. Then eventually, you’ll want to sell something to your existing customer base that's MORE expensive.   What's cool about gaining a lot of customers quickly, is that it makes any subsequent offer or product that you drop out to them, highly likely to succeed right out of the gate…   ...because so many of your existing customers will purchase it.   Does that make sense?   I am NOT the creator of the blue oceans that I run. I'm the facilitator of the solution. BLUE OCEAN MESSAGING   Think about this:   I'm NOT a professional copywriter, and yet we make really good money.   How do I do that? A lot of you guys know I sell in the MLM space, right? It's real easy to get intense in that space.   Q: Why?   What is the vehicle everyone is convinced gives them success in MLM? What's the method that they are all taught? Talk to who?   A: “Talk to your friends and family.”   So... I'm the anti-red message.   I choose whatever problem that the majority are having… and I become the anti-red voice.   I've never been on a three-way call. I don't do hotel meetings.   … I don’t do any of that crap! I am very anti those methods in my messaging.   I’ve become the anti-red voice of the traditional method that MLM encourages. Q: Who does that call out?   A: It calls out those who are inside the red ocean and feeling the pain of the accepted methods.   When those people hear my message, they perk up and go:   “I didn't know there was another option!”   I don't need to sell people on MLM as a concept, they’ve already bought in… they just freakin’ hate the methods they’re using! HEAD TO HEAD WITH RUSSELL…?   Think about my offer creation stuff...   I sell to people in the ClickFunnels space because they're already sold on things like ClickFunnels.   They're voting with their wallets and not their mouths. However, in this case, I NOT the anti-ClickFunnels voice. Instead, I’m anti the methodology that most people use to get success with ClickFunnels.   I'm never gonna be anti-ClickFunnels. I never gonna throw rock at ClickFunnels. That would be STUPID (all caps).   My Offer Creation is complimentary, NOT competitive to ClickFunnels.   HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS   I've learned that my positioning, (in relation to vehicles, solutions, or products that already exist), is a higher signifier of my success than how good my product is.   That's sketchy stuff for me to say, and I’ll probably ruffle some professors feathers by saying that kind of thing.   But…   I’ve found that people frequently have FASTER AND MORE success when they position themselves in relation to the existing red ocean, rather than make a brand new, prolific product that’s never been seen before…   You can go prolific, but I've seen far more people create success with:   D / F level funnel building skills D / F level, right offer creation /sales message writing Terrible promotion Terrible on podcasting or whatever… A poor attractive character   … when they position themselves with an anti-red message that speaks to a pain point that the red ocean is already experiencing.   … because when the customer sees that message, they feel:   “Crap! I've been looking for a solution... I just didn't know which one I should choose!”   … and then the business who understands their pain becomes the obvious choice and solution!   The book Play Bigger talks about that quite a bit…   I lead with the problem, NOT the solution, and then it’s assumed that I have the BEST solution.   I lead with me understanding what the issues currently are... NOT with, “How can I create a problem so that they'll buy my solution?”   That SUCKS!   A lot of people teach and I'm very against it.   SO WHAT’S THE ALTERNATIVE?   OfferMind is extremely proven out methods and models for causing cash, regardless of price point, industry, or product.   It’ll get you so much closer to launching something that's good enough to make a lot of money than just coming up with something new.   When I'm creating the content for this kind of stuff, I literally walk through my bookshelves and think to myself:   What are the issues that everyone's experiencing? How can I help people identify a red ocean more? How can I help people know what to look for when they have found the red ocean? What is it that people need to understand about the red that fuels the blue? What is it about the blue that makes it so attractive for the Reds?   These are those kinds of questions that I look for.   I read the most geeky, boring, dry books that have ever been written on the face of this planet to try and figure out those answers for you.   I go into deep dives in my Bat cave. My whole floor becomes a studio.   I take out all these legal pad pieces of paper, (it's a lot of legal pads). I write down core ideas. I group them in the corners of the room. I'm studying and doing learning deep dives and remember things I learned at the foot of Russell.   I hate rah-rah... if you guys think I’m a motivational speaker, I'm so sorry, that means I’m failing.   I am NOT a motivational speaker. You might find a motivating, but I'm NOT a motivational speaker.   I don't know why, but for some reason, I gotta be honest with you guys, I used to make fun of live events a little bit.   I thought:   “Oh, they just want money”... or they just get in like this rah-rah state and crap like that.   ...and so I was a little bit of a skeptic.   But then I went to some live events, and I was like:   “That’s like I took two semesters of college and forced it into two days.”   I feel like it's actually how you take a year and force it into a day or two to quickly learn something that would usually take you A LOT of money and time and energy and effort.   I like to dive into patterns and that's kinda my unique ability. When I was in elementary school, I had a hard time knowing what I was good at., and it was an active conversation with my parents…   “Well, maybe you’d be kinda good at this?” “You know what.. it'd be really cool if you could go try this.”   … and I was like, “Yeah, I'm not that good at that.”   It’s not that I had to be good in order to continue pursuing something, but the thing that I kept trying to figure out was like:   “What is it that I actually do?”   *I'm the orchestrator*…   “I don't know how to play that instrument, but y'all want it, and I know someone who's probably good at fulfilling that. Boom! Why don't you come in here!”   ...that's way better. # geeks get paid   Hey,   I know this game can take a few tries to get the money flowing, especially the first time, right? And that can suck.   I also know from experience how frustrating it can be to know your business is just a few tweaks away from your next big payday…   But you don't know what tweaks to make.   I've felt completely paralyzed by that in the past, and it sucks.   I've been blessed to work with thousands of new and successful businesses over the last three years, and two things have really shocked me.   #1: I began noticing the pattern to success is vastly the same, but everyone's spot on the path is obviously different.   #2: I've been shocked and overwhelmed by the number of people asking for my help, my systems, and funnels in their business.   Well, until now I've never had a system or product in my own business to help you build yours.   Now, I'm finally able to be public about all this...   If you'd like my help to build your offer or sales message funnel and even your content machine, go to myofferlab.com.   The path to online and offline success is 80 percent the same regardless of the product, price point or industry, and it works if you're new or already a killer in business.   You can get more details on how to get my personal attention and frameworks in your own business by going to myofferlab.com   In-person classes are limited to 60 people each, and frankly, I can only do about two of these a year. 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This is a continuation of last weeks sermon and the notes are the same but they are included below. We have been physically born into a life that we cannot live because our only option in handling the problems of life is to do so sinfully. We must die to this life, and that is only possible by placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. When we are born into this world, we are dead to the things of God (Eph 2:1-2). But God makes us alive to Him at the moment that we believe in Jesus (Eph 2:5). This means that we have, in turn, died to sin, and have been raised to a newness of life.The believer in Jesus Christ is placed “in Christ” at the moment of faith. This establishes the believer with a new identity, being a new creation, and now having a glorious standing of righteousness before a holy God. Jesus’ perfect provision is our distinct privilege.Do we reallybelieve this? Our answer is predicated on our belief in the truthfulness of God’s Word, for in it are the factsof all history, seen and unseen, natural and supernatural, past, present, and future. Reality finds its meaning and purpose only in God’s holy Word.Why are we Missing the Power to Live the Christian Life?For many, Scripture seems disconnected from the “reality” of our modern age causing us to reluctantly dismiss the biblical record of the Holy Spirit’s work as borderline fiction. Such unbelief in the Bible’s accuracy has robbed us of the Spirit’s power in our lives. If we are not believing in what God has already said, why would we believe that He would work gloriously among us? When we render the Word of theLord as being mundane and ordinary, the Lord passes us by, just as He did in Nazareth. We are told haunting words by Matthew, “And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief” (Matt 13:58). However, the Spirit’s power has been freely given to all who believe in Christ being freely available in abundance, and yet it lies dormant because of our unbelief, and more particularly our unbelief regarding what God has said in His holy Word. The believer in Christ is already “in Christ!” Thus, our position before God is one that is established in victory because Christ is victorious over sin, death, and the grave. His win is the provision for our lives to “win” also. Van Gelderen explains, “As children of God, Christ is living in each of us right now… Faith turns what is true provisionally into experience practically. We simply must choose to depend on the reality of the words declared by God in order to access the benefit of what God says is so.”[1]“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” (John 15:7). Believing His Word, moment by moment, is what it means to “abide,” and abiding in Christ is the answer to our power problem. Jesus references His own abiding in the Father in John 15:10. He tells His disciples, “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just asI have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love” (emphasis added). Just as Jesus’ life was a model of constant obedience to the Father, so our lives in abiding in Christ must be one of constant obedience to Him. This is not a “do more, try harder” approach, but a “trust Him fully” way of thinking. No one obeys a command without believing it to be true. So it is with the relationship of “believing” and “obeying” in the Christian Life. This means that His Word is paramount and there are no worthy competitors. With His Word being our chiefconviction, we find our lives full of the Spirit’s power because all has come under submission to His will.[2]R.A. Torrey brings understanding to Jesus’ words regarding the power that is available when the believer is abiding in Christ. He writes, “If we are to obtain from God all that we ask from Him, Christ’s words must abide or continue in us. We must study His words, fairly devour His words, let them sink into our thought and into our heart, keep them in our memory, obey them constantly in our life, let them shape and mold our daily life and our every act.This is really the method of abiding in Christ. It is through His words that Jesus imparts Himself to us. The words He speaks unto us, they are spirit and they are life (John 6:63). It is vain to expect power in prayer unless we meditate much upon the words of Christ, and let them sink deep and find a permanent abode in our hearts. There are many who wonder why they are so powerless in prayer, but the very simple explanation of it all is found in their neglect of the words of Christ.”[3] Power in the Christian Life is NEVER our power, but the power of the Spirit flowing through us because we are in full dependency of the Word of the indwelling Christ. We must well-remember that Truth is a Person, Jesus Christ, and this Person operates and is who He is in complete consistency with His Word. This is a sound and consistent factto rest ourselves upon.Factshave power, and those facts are found ONLY in God’s Word. When we speak of facts, we are speaking of authority. Understanding this, every situation, decision, and concern must have an authority in place. Therefore, it must be brought to the Word of God. It is the engine that provides the power for the F-Train to move forward. The remaining cars of faithand feelingshave no real power. Therefore,they only lead in wrong directions and to wrong responses. Their proper place is in submission to the authority (facts), for only the authority has power.Sadly, there are many instances in life where God’s Word is not the authority. This finds the other cars of faithand feelingscompeting for the lead position, and in turn, stalling all progression and growth in the Christian Life. Let’s look at the problems that are created when God’s Truth is removed from the forefront of our lives.When “Faith” is the Lead CarThis is a particularly sensitive area for many people because it strikes at the core convictions that one holds dear. Some have “grown up this way,” or “that’s just the way we do it,” or “It’s a Jeep thing, you wouldn’t understand.” You get the picture. Using the above rationales are really a defense mechanism to excuse sin. Some of the common phrases that are identifiers of this are:· I believe…· I think…· You ought to…· You shouldn’t…· Well, everybody does/believes/etc.· Well, they say… (who are “they”?)All of these have one thing in common: they are rooted in man’s opinion, having no foundation for their assertions, stemming from the biased minds and corrupted hearts of created, fallen beings. Each statement makes a man-centered assumption about how life should be or how situations and relationships should be handled, but fall seriously short when asked to provide a greater reason for these convictions other than, “Well, that’s just what I think ought to happen.” Life’s decisions should not be based on shaky ground.Only God is True. Only God is Eternal. Only God is the Creator. Therefore, His commentary and interpretation of existence, as foundin the Bible, is the final authority, telling us the Truth (facts) about everything.Though the person is obviously “believing” in something (faith), the object of their belief is not the Word of God. Therefore, it is considered unbelief, regardless of motives or heartfelt sincerity.Paul stresses the maturity that comes from a church body that is benefiting from the implementation of the Word of God as they are being taught it. He writes, “we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming” (Eph 4:14). The “trickery of men” and “deceitful scheming” are the false convictions (faith) that stem from a sinful mindset. The Word of God must be at the forefront if we are to think correctly about life, existence, relationships, eternity, etc.“I’m Religious”Many people portray a sincere “faith” and they communicate this by stating, “I’m religious,” “well, my faith is my own,” or something like “you believe in your god and I will believe in mine.” Another favorite is, “I think that god would…” In each of these statements their convictions about deity are revealed, demonstrating a god who has been fashioned according to their personal expectations. The very idea of deity has been diluted seeing that man is really in control. This is exactly the type of deity that the human race clamors after… one that can do or not do, be or not be, everything that the person who worships it wishes that it would do or not do, be or not be. Who is REALLY superior in this relationship?The self-serving nature of such diminished faithhas shown itself in all religions, being nothing new. Looking at Acts 17:22-27, we find Paul’s words to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers at Mars Hill. He notes that they are “very religious” (17:22). Faithis not their problem. They very much believe in a whole lot of gods, beings, and deities (17:16b). But as stated before, because their belief was not placed in the Wordof God, it is actually unbelief. Paul also notes one altar that was “to an unknown god” (17:23). Notice that this was a place of “worship” (feeling) that had an ascribed object as its focus (“an unknown god”) who is without identity or substance, having no foundation (unlike the factsof God’s Word). Yet, they were “very religious” (faith). How does Paul correct the F-TRAINof the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers?Paul tells them the facts. Follow the train of thought (no pun intended): 1. God made the world (17:24a). He is the Creator of all things. 2. He is the “Lord (Master) of heaven and earth” (17:24b) who is beyond temples, structures, and altars (17:24c). 3. He is not served with human hands because He is self-sufficient and is in need of nothing (17:25a). 4. He is the one who gives the human race life and breath. He is the Life-Source (17:25b). 5. God created them, and every man who has ever lived (17:26a), and He alone determines the when and where of their existence (17:26b) so that every person would know Him personally (17:27). Paul gave these “very religious” people an engine (facts) to get their F-TRAIN moving. He immediately identified the problem that Athens was facing. They had faith, though it was faithin the wrong object (unbelief), and by worshiping these “unknown” gods and having an air of superiority (Acts 17:21), they had feelings(worship) that were being dictated by their misdirected faith/unbelief. What they needed was something worth believing in; something sure and certain; something worthy of devotion. So, Paul introduces to them their Creator (facts) so that they can believe in Him (faith) and worship (feelings) the right and true Object. It is essential for faithto always be found in the facts, for faithwill always have worshipas the primary feelingthat follows it. “Worship” (literally “worth-ship”) ascribes value to an object. If you are enthralled with a celebrity, it is because you believe (faith)that they have done well and you are ascribing a higher value to them. The feelingthat proceeds out from that conviction (faith)is elation, pride,or what have you, because worth has been ascribed to this object. Faith will always have worshipas the primary feelingthat follows it.Misplacingfaith in something other than God’s Word leads to worship being ascribed to something other than God. This is the fabrication of idolatry in the heart, leaving one’s affections unchecked with trust and worth being issued to an object of complete inferiority. All things are less than God. Jeremiah the prophet exclaims, “There is none like You, O Lord; You are great, and great is Your name in might” (Jer 10:6).Identity CrisisOne of the greatest cries among this current generation is “Who am I?” This question is a result of banning the Creator God from the education of children, and thus banning His given purpose for our identities. Today we are seeing a flesh-led quest for identity in YouTube videos, Facebook posts, Snapchat, Instagram, etc., as well as the gay, lesbian, and transgender movement. Shock and awe are the calling cards of the culture and conformity is demanded in the name of originality (notice the contradictions that these worldviews create).It was obvious that the Spirit wanted us to know our identities up front. Only twenty-six verses into the first chapter of the Bible we read, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth’” (Gen 1:26-28).With His Word, God established the unchanging factof our identity. Every person is made in His likeness and in His image. This Truth holds great weight and significance, showing the Creator to be full of care and creating us for a purpose. Yet, our nation’s suicide rate among young people is skyrocketing. Could it be that the quest for “Who am I?” has already been answered by God, but the problem is that many are led to believe (faith) something else, leading to feelingsof inferiority, insignificance, and marginalization?This is a factthat is true for the Christian as well as the non-Christian. For the believer, they have an extra advantage, with the Holy Spirit residing in them and leading them into all Truth (facts- John 16:13). These factskeep us grounded in trying times, for we have the risen Lord hiding us with Himself in the Father (Col 3:3). The believer has died to this life of sin and has been raised to a newness of life, being given a new identity by being “in Christ!” How helpful this is in such confusing and trying times. Handley Moule captures this, writing, “In temptation, in spiritual languor and decline, in care and perplexity and toil, let me draw upon the fact – not the feeling but the fact – of ‘Christ in me.’”[4]When “Feelings” are the Lead CarThe idea that “feelings” can be the lead car are more of an excuse than a reality. What is meant by this is that all feelingsare actually a result of what it is that we are truly believing (faith), or what we are valuing as the “most true” concept at any given time. By believing something other than God’s Word, we have settled for a lesser truth that is really no truth at all because it is not God’s Truth (facts). In a situation where a heinous crime is committed because of someone’s reaction to something that they were surprised with, we may describe such rash actions as a “blind rage” (feelings). However, if the police believe that the person had pondered this crime for some time before committing it, they would call this “premeditated,” meaning that they had been believing (faith) this to be the right response for some time.We often phrase the reasons for our beliefs about something as “well, I feelthat…” when feelings are actually the result of our faithin a matter. When a reason is asked for why we did something wrong, we usually respond with a feelingsanswer: “I felt like I had to…” Many times, we find that the only way that we can express ourselves is in terms of feelings.It would seem that the three most prominent feelingsthat we are faced with are doubt, anger, and revenge.DoubtInMatthew 11:2-6, we return to the moment where John the Baptist struggled with doubts (feelings) about Jesus being the Promised Messiah. Though he himself had been His forerunner, John’s present situation made his susceptible to doubts (feelings), finding himself in a prison at the order of King Herod, all because he stood up for the truth (facts). “Are You the Expected One,” he asked through his disciples, “or shall we look for someone else?” (Matt 11:3). John’s feelingsabout his current situation had taken the place of the lead car, causing unbelief (faith) in who Jesus is. When we find ourselves in difficult situations, and especially in situations that are going to go on for some time, we may be tempted to lose faithin the facts. As a model example, Jesus does not scold John for his doubt (feelings), but turns his attention to the factsof Scripture: “the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them” (Matt 11:5). All of this was happening in John’s day, yet, knowing the Scriptures, John would have understood that the prophecies of the Messiah as told by Isaiah were being fulfilled (Isa 29:18-19; 35:5-6; 61:1). Therefore, Jesus was placing the facts at the front of the conversation so that John would have faithin them, and in light of this new stability, his feelingswould change.AssuranceThis is true for those Christians who are struggling with an assurance of salvation. Whether it is where they are in life, their past sins creeping up to beat them down, or some ongoing sin in their lives that they just can’t shake, many Christians, who are eternally secure in Christ, frequently doubt their salvation. They feellike they are not saved. Because they are not willing to conclude that they are lost shows that they are not fully buying in (faith) to the idea, but they are struggling, nonetheless. In this case, feelingsare leading the train, faith is being placed in those feelings, which will ultimately cause a reinterpretation of the facts, concluding in something like “Jesus will only keep me saved if I am a good person who only commits little sins.” By letting their feelingstake the lead car, and by believing those feelingsas truth, the F-TRAINis now traveling backwards with the factsbeing reinterpreted by their feelings. Is this factual? What does the Truth (facts) say about this matter?There are many verses and whole passages that could be cited that speak to the eternal, forever security of the believer in Christ, but we will only choose two, and with minimal elaboration. First, Romans 8:38-39states, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Nothing, not even ourselves, can separate us from the love of God. This is a fact; a Truth with power to propel us forward if we would only believe (faith) what God is telling us. If we do, we will not just feelsaved, we will feelblessed!Another good passage that needs little explanation is 2 Timothy 2:13. It reads, “If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” The word “faithless” here actually means, “to have nobelief, disbelieve.”[5]This means that even if we are unbelieving in our lives, the Lord remains faithful to His promise of eternal life to us. Lea and Griffin explain this writing, “Paul was asserting that despite human unfaithfulness God’s saving purpose has not retreated. Timothy and all those with him were to continue their endurance that they might experience God’s blessing. Paul did not state these words to open the door to apostasy and disobedience but to soothe a troubled conscience and to provide encouragement to return to God.”[6]God is always faithful to His promises (facts) and He has promised us eternal life.AngerAnger is a big one! Everyone struggles with getting mad, and sometimes at the littlest things. However, being angry is not the real issue. As stated above, anger is the result (feeling) of a conviction (faith) that we are holding tightly. For those who seem to have a habitual problem with anger, their ultimate issue is the need to have control in situations. This is derived from a pride problem that believes (faith) that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Only their way is the correct way, and everyone else is “ignorant, stupid, uneducated,” or “means well, but they really don’t know what they are talking about.” This is pride, and when pride does not get its way, and a situation is not able to be controlled in the manner that “we think” (faith) it should be controlled, we get angry (feeling).Pride is the exact same sin that the devil had/has (Isa 14:13-14). It is a natural conclusion to see that this should have no part in us. Pride asserts one’s rights and fosters entitlement (faith). We feellike we deserve something or should be listened to because of who we are or what we have done, but these are really the convictions that we hold dear (faith). None of this is acceptable before the eyes of the Father. Instead, we are to humble ourselves before Him. How do we correct the problem of our cars getting out of order when it comes to anger?James 1:19b-20states, “Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” Being rash (feelings) never works. What we should seek in every situation is for God’s righteousness to shine forth and be the center of attention. Only He is right (facts), we are not. Our anger (feelings) will not accomplish His righteousness in any situation. Therefore, anger must be abandoned as a suitable option in handling conflict. By holding fast to this Truth (fact) and believing (faith) that it is in fact true, our feelingswill come to a place of humility knowing that it is possible for God’s righteousness to be displayed in every trial. This is not a “maybe” situation, but a certainty that rests upon our submission to His Word (facts). Will He not do what He has said?Biblically speaking, it is not wrong to be angry if you are angry about the right things. Ephesians 4:26-27says, “Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.” You can be angry about something and not sin. But the way to allow for anger to become sin is if you are not dealing with it properly. If it is prolonged, the devil will grab a foothold in your life. Being angry because of the abortion problem in the United States is a real and right reason to be angry. Being angry because you were lied to is a legitimate reason because truth (facts) has been bypassed for falsehood. But each of these situations needs to be addressed in the heart and brought before the Lord. They are not to fester and grow to an unhealthy dynamic. You see, feelingsare not bad when they are properly placed at the end of the train because of the faiththat you are exercising in the Truth of God’s Word (facts).RevengeWe’ve all been there. When someone has wronged us, they need to pay! So, we devise ways in our mind that they are going to pay, how we wish to see them pay, or how we are going to make them pay(feelings). The factis, we have been wronged and we will not allow ourselves to be treated in such a horrible fashion (feelings). So, obviously revenge is the best option… or is it?In Romans 12:19, Paul writes, “Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord.” This is Truth (fact). We may feeldisenfranchised in some way, but we must remember that the Lord knows all things and that He will bring all situations to justice. By claiming (faith) this Truth (fact), we can now rest (feeling) in God’s care, knowing that He will take care of what or who has wronged us with much greater precision than we would ever be able to muster in our sinful flesh.______________________________________Q: Do you believe what God has said about who you are, your current situation, the choices that you are making, or the handling of your future? If not, why not? Q: Where did God get it wrong? Where has His Word misspoken? How has He failed you in the past convincing you that you cannot trust Him anymore? Such questions should expose the root of the real reason why we are not trusting what He has already said in His Word. We are either convinced that there is a greater truth than what He has said about a particular matter (faith)or we know that His Word will keep us from the excitingly sinful situation that our flesh wants to participate in (feelings). Such conclusions dismiss the factsaltogether, exchanging God’s revealed Word for our sinful desires. ___________________________________It is possible to abide in Christ. We can experience the fullness of who He is because He is in us. In looking to Him as the Truth, and therefore looking to God’s Word as given through Him, we are submitted to His facts. He is so much more than many of us initially think or believe. Let’s close by illustrating this with a personal account of this grand realization. Charles Trumbull (1872-1941) was the editor of the Sunday School Times periodical. He was a committed and devout man, constantly championing the cause of Christ for some twenty years before He fully grasped the significance of Christ in him. He obviously knew the Word and all that it taught of Christ and the Christian Life, but he came to realize that he was not confidently convinced of what it was actually saying to him about the nature of Christ’s Life in relationship to his person. In the profound little booklet The Life That Wins, we find his personal testimony in coming to this profound realization. He writes, “I had always known that Christ was my Savior, but I had looked upon Him as an external Savior, one who did a saving work forme from outside, as it were; one who was ready to come close alongside and stay by me, helping me in all that I needed, giving me power and strength and salvation. But now I knew something better than that. At last I realized that Jesus Christ was actually and literally withinme and that He had constituted Himself my very life, taking me into union with Himself- my body, mind, and spirit- while I still had my own identity and free will and full moral responsibility. Was not this better than having Him as a helper or even than having Him as an external Savior? To have him, Jesus Christ, God the Son, as my own very life. It meant that I need never again ask Him to help me as though He were one and I another, but rather simply to do His work, His will in me and with me and through me. My body was His, my mind His, my will His, my spirit His- and not merely His but literally a part of Him. What He asked me to recognize was that ‘I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me.’ Jesus Christ had constituted Himself my life- not as a figure of speech, remember, but as a literal, actual fact, as literal as the fact that a certain tree has been made into this desk on which my hand rests. For ‘your bodies are members of Christ,’ and ‘ye are the body of Christ.’”[7]The F-TRAINis a simple illustration that points to this greater truth. Christ, the Word of God, is telling us the Truth (facts) about life, reality, and Himself. His Word is giving us the answers, the factsabout every situation. By believing (faith) upon what He has already told us, we find heights previously unknown and provision much deeper than first assumed. How can humility and gratitude (feelings) not be the result of such amazing grace? “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son” (1 John 5:11b). To live our lives in the light of His Truth (facts) is to have Him live His Life through us. This is most certainly a Life worth living![1]John Van Gelderen, Experiencing Jesus: Personal Revival Through the Spirit-Filled Life(Ann Arbor, MI: Revival Focus, 2017), p. 105-106.[2]See H.C.G. Moule, Practicing the Promises (Chicago: Moody Press, 1975), p. 65-71.[3]Reuben Archer Torrey, How to Pray(Chicago; New York: Fleming H. Revell company, 1900), p. 71–72.[4]H.C.G. Moule, Practicing the Promises (Chicago: Moody Press, 1975), p. 54.[5]Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon, p. 57.[6]Thomas D. Lea and Hayne P. Griffin, 1, 2 Timothy, Titus, vol. 34, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1992), p. 211.[7]Charles G. Trumbull, The Life That Wins(Fort Washington, PA: CLC Publications, 2015), p. 20-21.

We have been physically born into a life that we cannot live because our only option in handling the problems of life is to do so sinfully. We must die to this life, and that is only possible by placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. When we are born into this world, we are dead to the things of God (Eph 2:1-2). But God makes us alive to Him at the moment that we believe in Jesus (Eph 2:5). This means that we have, in turn, died to sin, and have been raised to a newness of life.The believer in Jesus Christ is placed “in Christ” at the moment of faith. This establishes the believer with a new identity, being a new creation, and now having a glorious standing of righteousness before a holy God. Jesus’ perfect provision is our distinct privilege.Do we reallybelieve this? Our answer is predicated on our belief in the truthfulness of God’s Word, for in it are the factsof all history, seen and unseen, natural and supernatural, past, present, and future. Reality finds its meaning and purpose only in God’s holy Word.Why are we Missing the Power to Live the Christian Life?For many, Scripture seems disconnected from the “reality” of our modern age causing us to reluctantly dismiss the biblical record of the Holy Spirit’s work as borderline fiction. Such unbelief in the Bible’s accuracy has robbed us of the Spirit’s power in our lives. If we are not believing in what God has already said, why would we believe that He would work gloriously among us? When we render the Word of theLord as being mundane and ordinary, the Lord passes us by, just as He did in Nazareth. We are told haunting words by Matthew, “And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief” (Matt 13:58). However, the Spirit’s power has been freely given to all who believe in Christ being freely available in abundance, and yet it lies dormant because of our unbelief, and more particularly our unbelief regarding what God has said in His holy Word. The believer in Christ is already “in Christ!” Thus, our position before God is one that is established in victory because Christ is victorious over sin, death, and the grave. His win is the provision for our lives to “win” also. Van Gelderen explains, “As children of God, Christ is living in each of us right now… Faith turns what is true provisionally into experience practically. We simply must choose to depend on the reality of the words declared by God in order to access the benefit of what God says is so.”[1]“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” (John 15:7). Believing His Word, moment by moment, is what it means to “abide,” and abiding in Christ is the answer to our power problem. Jesus references His own abiding in the Father in John 15:10. He tells His disciples, “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just asI have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love” (emphasis added). Just as Jesus’ life was a model of constant obedience to the Father, so our lives in abiding in Christ must be one of constant obedience to Him. This is not a “do more, try harder” approach, but a “trust Him fully” way of thinking. No one obeys a command without believing it to be true. So it is with the relationship of “believing” and “obeying” in the Christian Life. This means that His Word is paramount and there are no worthy competitors. With His Word being our chiefconviction, we find our lives full of the Spirit’s power because all has come under submission to His will.[2]R.A. Torrey brings understanding to Jesus’ words regarding the power that is available when the believer is abiding in Christ. He writes, “If we are to obtain from God all that we ask from Him, Christ’s words must abide or continue in us. We must study His words, fairly devour His words, let them sink into our thought and into our heart, keep them in our memory, obey them constantly in our life, let them shape and mold our daily life and our every act.This is really the method of abiding in Christ. It is through His words that Jesus imparts Himself to us. The words He speaks unto us, they are spirit and they are life (John 6:63). It is vain to expect power in prayer unless we meditate much upon the words of Christ, and let them sink deep and find a permanent abode in our hearts. There are many who wonder why they are so powerless in prayer, but the very simple explanation of it all is found in their neglect of the words of Christ.”[3]Power in the Christian Life is NEVER our power, but the power of the Spirit flowing through us because we are in full dependency of the Word of the indwelling Christ. We must well-remember that Truth is a Person, Jesus Christ, and this Person operates and is who He is in complete consistency with His Word. This is a sound and consistent fact to rest ourselves upon. Facts have power, and those facts are found ONLY in God’s Word. When we speak of facts, we are speaking of authority. Understanding this, every situation, decision, and concern must have an authority in place. Therefore, it must be brought to the Word of God. It is the engine that provides the power for the F-Train to move forward. The remaining cars of faithand feelingshave no real power. Therefore,they only lead in wrong directions and to wrong responses. Their proper place is in submission to the authority (facts), for only the authority has power.Sadly, there are many instances in life where God’s Word is not the authority. This finds the other cars of faithand feelingscompeting for the lead position, and in turn, stalling all progression and growth in the Christian Life. Let’s look at the problems that are created when God’s Truth is removed from the forefront of our lives.When “Faith” is the Lead CarThis is a particularly sensitive area for many people because it strikes at the core convictions that one holds dear. Some have “grown up this way,” or “that’s just the way we do it,” or “It’s a Jeep thing, you wouldn’t understand.” You get the picture. Using the above rationales are really a defense mechanism to excuse sin. Some of the common phrases that are identifiers of this are:· I believe…· I think…· You ought to…· You shouldn’t…· Well, everybody does/believes/etc.· Well, they say… (who are “they”?)All of these have one thing in common: they are rooted in man’s opinion, having no foundation for their assertions, stemming from the biased minds and corrupted hearts of created, fallen beings. Each statement makes a man-centered assumption about how life should be or how situations and relationships should be handled, but fall seriously short when asked to provide a greater reason for these convictions other than, “Well, that’s just what I think ought to happen.” Life’s decisions should not be based on shaky ground.Only God is True. Only God is Eternal. Only God is the Creator. Therefore, His commentary and interpretation of existence, as foundin the Bible, is the final authority, telling us the Truth (facts) about everything.Though the person is obviously “believing” in something (faith), the object of their belief is not the Word of God. Therefore, it is considered unbelief, regardless of motives or heartfelt sincerity.Paul stresses the maturity that comes from a church body that is benefiting from the implementation of the Word of God as they are being taught it. He writes, “we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming” (Eph 4:14). The “trickery of men” and “deceitful scheming” are the false convictions (faith) that stem from a sinful mindset. The Word of God must be at the forefront if we are to think correctly about life, existence, relationships, eternity, etc.“I’m Religious”Many people portray a sincere “faith” and they communicate this by stating, “I’m religious,” “well, my faith is my own,” or something like “you believe in your god and I will believe in mine.” Another favorite is, “I think that god would…” In each of these statements their convictions about deity are revealed, demonstrating a god who has been fashioned according to their personal expectations. The very idea of deity has been diluted seeing that man is really in control. This is exactly the type of deity that the human race clamors after… one that can do or not do, be or not be, everything that the person who worships it wishes that it would do or not do, be or not be. Who is REALLY superior in this relationship?The self-serving nature of such diminished faithhas shown itself in all religions, being nothing new. Looking at Acts 17:22-27, we find Paul’s words to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers at Mars Hill. He notes that they are “very religious” (17:22). Faithis not their problem. They very much believe in a whole lot of gods, beings, and deities (17:16b). But as stated before, because their belief was not placed in the Wordof God, it is actually unbelief. Paul also notes one altar that was “to an unknown god” (17:23). Notice that this was a place of “worship” (feeling) that had an ascribed object as its focus (“an unknown god”) who is without identity or substance, having no foundation (unlike the factsof God’s Word). Yet, they were “very religious” (faith). How does Paul correct the F-TRAINof the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers?Paul tells them the facts. Follow the train of thought (no pun intended): 1. God made the world (17:24a). He is the Creator of all things. 2. He is the “Lord (Master) of heaven and earth” (17:24b) who is beyond temples, structures, and altars (17:24c). 3. He is not served with human hands because He is self-sufficient and is in need of nothing (17:25a). 4. He is the one who gives the human race life and breath. He is the Life-Source (17:25b). 5. God created them, and every man who has ever lived (17:26a), and He alone determines the when and where of their existence (17:26b) so that every person would know Him personally (17:27). Paul gave these “very religious” people an engine (facts) to get their F-TRAIN moving. He immediately identified the problem that Athens was facing. They had faith, though it was faithin the wrong object (unbelief), and by worshiping these “unknown” gods and having an air of superiority (Acts 17:21), they had feelings(worship) that were being dictated by their misdirected faith/unbelief. What they needed was something worth believing in; something sure and certain; something worthy of devotion. So, Paul introduces to them their Creator (facts) so that they can believe in Him (faith) and worship (feelings) the right and true Object. It is essential for faithto always be found in the facts, for faithwill always have worshipas the primary feelingthat follows it. “Worship” (literally “worth-ship”) ascribes value to an object. If you are enthralled with a celebrity, it is because you believe (faith)that they have done well and you are ascribing a higher value to them. The feelingthat proceeds out from that conviction (faith)is elation, pride,or what have you, because worth has been ascribed to this object. Faith will always have worshipas the primary feelingthat follows it.Misplacingfaith in something other than God’s Word leads to worship being ascribed to something other than God. This is the fabrication of idolatry in the heart, leaving one’s affections unchecked with trust and worth being issued to an object of complete inferiority. All things are less than God. Jeremiah the prophet exclaims, “There is none like You, O Lord; You are great, and great is Your name in might” (Jer 10:6).Identity CrisisOne of the greatest cries among this current generation is “Who am I?” This question is a result of banning the Creator God from the education of children, and thus banning His given purpose for our identities. Today we are seeing a flesh-led quest for identity in YouTube videos, Facebook posts, Snapchat, Instagram, etc., as well as the gay, lesbian, and transgender movement. Shock and awe are the calling cards of the culture and conformity is demanded in the name of originality (notice the contradictions that these worldviews create).It was obvious that the Spirit wanted us to know our identities up front. Only twenty-six verses into the first chapter of the Bible we read, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth’” (Gen 1:26-28).With His Word, God established the unchanging factof our identity. Every person is made in His likeness and in His image. This Truth holds great weight and significance, showing the Creator to be full of care and creating us for a purpose. Yet, our nation’s suicide rate among young people is skyrocketing. Could it be that the quest for “Who am I?” has already been answered by God, but the problem is that many are led to believe (faith) something else, leading to feelingsof inferiority, insignificance, and marginalization?This is a factthat is true for the Christian as well as the non-Christian. For the believer, they have an extra advantage, with the Holy Spirit residing in them and leading them into all Truth (facts- John 16:13). These factskeep us grounded in trying times, for we have the risen Lord hiding us with Himself in the Father (Col 3:3). The believer has died to this life of sin and has been raised to a newness of life, being given a new identity by being “in Christ!” How helpful this is in such confusing and trying times. Handley Moule captures this, writing, “In temptation, in spiritual languor and decline, in care and perplexity and toil, let me draw upon the fact – not the feeling but the fact – of ‘Christ in me.’”[4]When “Feelings” are the Lead CarThe idea that “feelings” can be the lead car are more of an excuse than a reality. What is meant by this is that all feelingsare actually a result of what it is that we are truly believing (faith), or what we are valuing as the “most true” concept at any given time. By believing something other than God’s Word, we have settled for a lesser truth that is really no truth at all because it is not God’s Truth (facts). In a situation where a heinous crime is committed because of someone’s reaction to something that they were surprised with, we may describe such rash actions as a “blind rage” (feelings). However, if the police believe that the person had pondered this crime for some time before committing it, they would call this “premeditated,” meaning that they had been believing (faith) this to be the right response for some time.We often phrase the reasons for our beliefs about something as “well, I feelthat…” when feelings are actually the result of our faithin a matter. When a reason is asked for why we did something wrong, we usually respond with a feelingsanswer: “I felt like I had to…” Many times, we find that the only way that we can express ourselves is in terms of feelings.It would seem that the three most prominent feelingsthat we are faced with are doubt, anger, and revenge.DoubtInMatthew 11:2-6, we return to the moment where John the Baptist struggled with doubts (feelings) about Jesus being the Promised Messiah. Though he himself had been His forerunner, John’s present situation made his susceptible to doubts (feelings), finding himself in a prison at the order of King Herod, all because he stood up for the truth (facts). “Are You the Expected One,” he asked through his disciples, “or shall we look for someone else?” (Matt 11:3). John’s feelingsabout his current situation had taken the place of the lead car, causing unbelief (faith) in who Jesus is. When we find ourselves in difficult situations, and especially in situations that are going to go on for some time, we may be tempted to lose faithin the facts. As a model example, Jesus does not scold John for his doubt (feelings), but turns his attention to the factsof Scripture: “the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them” (Matt 11:5). All of this was happening in John’s day, yet, knowing the Scriptures, John would have understood that the prophecies of the Messiah as told by Isaiah were being fulfilled (Isa 29:18-19; 35:5-6; 61:1). Therefore, Jesus was placing the facts at the front of the conversation so that John would have faithin them, and in light of this new stability, his feelingswould change.AssuranceThis is true for those Christians who are struggling with an assurance of salvation. Whether it is where they are in life, their past sins creeping up to beat them down, or some ongoing sin in their lives that they just can’t shake, many Christians, who are eternally secure in Christ, frequently doubt their salvation. They feellike they are not saved. Because they are not willing to conclude that they are lost shows that they are not fully buying in (faith) to the idea, but they are struggling, nonetheless. In this case, feelingsare leading the train, faith is being placed in those feelings, which will ultimately cause a reinterpretation of the facts, concluding in something like “Jesus will only keep me saved if I am a good person who only commits little sins.” By letting their feelingstake the lead car, and by believing those feelingsas truth, the F-TRAINis now traveling backwards with the factsbeing reinterpreted by their feelings. Is this factual? What does the Truth (facts) say about this matter?There are many verses and whole passages that could be cited that speak to the eternal, forever security of the believer in Christ, but we will only choose two, and with minimal elaboration. First, Romans 8:38-39states, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Nothing, not even ourselves, can separate us from the love of God. This is a fact; a Truth with power to propel us forward if we would only believe (faith) what God is telling us. If we do, we will not just feelsaved, we will feelblessed!Another good passage that needs little explanation is 2 Timothy 2:13. It reads, “If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” The word “faithless” here actually means, “to have nobelief, disbelieve.”[5]This means that even if we are unbelieving in our lives, the Lord remains faithful to His promise of eternal life to us. Lea and Griffin explain this writing, “Paul was asserting that despite human unfaithfulness God’s saving purpose has not retreated. Timothy and all those with him were to continue their endurance that they might experience God’s blessing. Paul did not state these words to open the door to apostasy and disobedience but to soothe a troubled conscience and to provide encouragement to return to God.”[6]God is always faithful to His promises (facts) and He has promised us eternal life.AngerAnger is a big one! Everyone struggles with getting mad, and sometimes at the littlest things. However, being angry is not the real issue. As stated above, anger is the result (feeling) of a conviction (faith) that we are holding tightly. For those who seem to have a habitual problem with anger, their ultimate issue is the need to have control in situations. This is derived from a pride problem that believes (faith) that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Only their way is the correct way, and everyone else is “ignorant, stupid, uneducated,” or “means well, but they really don’t know what they are talking about.” This is pride, and when pride does not get its way, and a situation is not able to be controlled in the manner that “we think” (faith) it should be controlled, we get angry (feeling).Pride is the exact same sin that the devil had/has (Isa 14:13-14). It is a natural conclusion to see that this should have no part in us. Pride asserts one’s rights and fosters entitlement (faith). We feellike we deserve something or should be listened to because of who we are or what we have done, but these are really the convictions that we hold dear (faith). None of this is acceptable before the eyes of the Father. Instead, we are to humble ourselves before Him. How do we correct the problem of our cars getting out of order when it comes to anger?James 1:19b-20states, “Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” Being rash (feelings) never works. What we should seek in every situation is for God’s righteousness to shine forth and be the center of attention. Only He is right (facts), we are not. Our anger (feelings) will not accomplish His righteousness in any situation. Therefore, anger must be abandoned as a suitable option in handling conflict. By holding fast to this Truth (fact) and believing (faith) that it is in fact true, our feelingswill come to a place of humility knowing that it is possible for God’s righteousness to be displayed in every trial. This is not a “maybe” situation, but a certainty that rests upon our submission to His Word (facts). Will He not do what He has said?Biblically speaking, it is not wrong to be angry if you are angry about the right things. Ephesians 4:26-27says, “Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.” You can be angry about something and not sin. But the way to allow for anger to become sin is if you are not dealing with it properly. If it is prolonged, the devil will grab a foothold in your life. Being angry because of the abortion problem in the United States is a real and right reason to be angry. Being angry because you were lied to is a legitimate reason because truth (facts) has been bypassed for falsehood. But each of these situations needs to be addressed in the heart and brought before the Lord. They are not to fester and grow to an unhealthy dynamic. You see, feelingsare not bad when they are properly placed at the end of the train because of the faiththat you are exercising in the Truth of God’s Word (facts).RevengeWe’ve all been there. When someone has wronged us, they need to pay! So, we devise ways in our mind that they are going to pay, how we wish to see them pay, or how we are going to make them pay(feelings). The factis, we have been wronged and we will not allow ourselves to be treated in such a horrible fashion (feelings). So, obviously revenge is the best option… or is it?In Romans 12:19, Paul writes, “Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord.” This is Truth (fact). We may feeldisenfranchised in some way, but we must remember that the Lord knows all things and that He will bring all situations to justice. By claiming (faith) this Truth (fact), we can now rest (feeling) in God’s care, knowing that He will take care of what or who has wronged us with much greater precision than we would ever be able to muster in our sinful flesh.______________________________________Q: Do you believe what God has said about who you are, your current situation, the choices that you are making, or the handling of your future? If not, why not? Q: Where did God get it wrong? Where has His Word misspoken? How has He failed you in the past convincing you that you cannot trust Him anymore? Such questions should expose the root of the real reason why we are not trusting what He has already said in His Word. We are either convinced that there is a greater truth than what He has said about a particular matter (faith)or we know that His Word will keep us from the excitingly sinful situation that our flesh wants to participate in (feelings). Such conclusions dismiss the factsaltogether, exchanging God’s revealed Word for our sinful desires. ___________________________________It is possible to abide in Christ. We can experience the fullness of who He is because He is in us. In looking to Him as the Truth, and therefore looking to God’s Word as given through Him, we are submitted to His facts. He is so much more than many of us initially think or believe. Let’s close by illustrating this with a personal account of this grand realization. Charles Trumbull (1872-1941) was the editor of the Sunday School Times periodical. He was a committed and devout man, constantly championing the cause of Christ for some twenty years before He fully grasped the significance of Christ in him. He obviously knew the Word and all that it taught of Christ and the Christian Life, but he came to realize that he was not confidently convinced of what it was actually saying to him about the nature of Christ’s Life in relationship to his person. In the profound little booklet The Life That Wins, we find his personal testimony in coming to this profound realization. He writes, “I had always known that Christ was my Savior, but I had looked upon Him as an external Savior, one who did a saving work forme from outside, as it were; one who was ready to come close alongside and stay by me, helping me in all that I needed, giving me power and strength and salvation. But now I knew something better than that. At last I realized that Jesus Christ was actually and literally withinme and that He had constituted Himself my very life, taking me into union with Himself- my body, mind, and spirit- while I still had my own identity and free will and full moral responsibility. Was not this better than having Him as a helper or even than having Him as an external Savior? To have him, Jesus Christ, God the Son, as my own very life. It meant that I need never again ask Him to help me as though He were one and I another, but rather simply to do His work, His will in me and with me and through me. My body was His, my mind His, my will His, my spirit His- and not merely His but literally a part of Him. What He asked me to recognize was that ‘I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me.’ Jesus Christ had constituted Himself my life- not as a figure of speech, remember, but as a literal, actual fact, as literal as the fact that a certain tree has been made into this desk on which my hand rests. For ‘your bodies are members of Christ,’ and ‘ye are the body of Christ.’”[7]The F-TRAINis a simple illustration that points to this greater truth. Christ, the Word of God, is telling us the Truth (facts) about life, reality, and Himself. His Word is giving us the answers, the factsabout every situation. By believing (faith) upon what He has already told us, we find heights previously unknown and provision much deeper than first assumed. How can humility and gratitude (feelings) not be the result of such amazing grace? “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son” (1 John 5:11b). To live our lives in the light of His Truth (facts) is to have Him live His Life through us. This is most certainly a Life worth living![1]John Van Gelderen, Experiencing Jesus: Personal Revival Through the Spirit-Filled Life(Ann Arbor, MI: Revival Focus, 2017), p. 105-106.[2]See H.C.G. Moule, Practicing the Promises (Chicago: Moody Press, 1975), p. 65-71.[3]Reuben Archer Torrey, How to Pray(Chicago; New York: Fleming H. Revell company, 1900), p. 71–72.[4]H.C.G. Moule, Practicing the Promises (Chicago: Moody Press, 1975), p. 54.[5]Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon, p. 57.[6]Thomas D. Lea and Hayne P. Griffin, 1, 2 Timothy, Titus, vol. 34, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1992), p. 211.[7]Charles G. Trumbull, The Life That Wins(Fort Washington, PA: CLC Publications, 2015), p. 20-21.

It wasn't on purpose, but there's a certain style of coaching that I like to live by. It’s certainly effective, but can make some people... not like me, ha!   I've never seen anyone make a million dollars who wasn't trying to.   After coaching thousands of people I’d be an idiot to not see patterns…   When I first started coaching at ClickFunnels everyone thought that I’d be teaching strategy. However, the truth is that getting MOST people to move forward with strategy takes a MASSIVE amount of work on their mindset. PERSONAL GROWTH MAT TIME   In One Funnel Away Challenge, I'm the guy who yells every day. BOOM! I yell a lot. I’m kinda NO BS. So I want to explain to you the difference between sympathy versus empathy, as it relates to my coaching.   Here are a couple of observations I’ve made from all my hours of coaching:   People often come with the expectation that I’ll just tell them to click a button and they’ll make millions! (Even though ClickFunnels is probably the closest to that of anything that's out there… that still NOT gonna happen.) People fight the shift they have to go through personally because it can feel like pain... pain is not the right word, but sometimes a shift can feel like pain.   You have to go through a shift. You have to uninstall crap in your head and reinstall NEW beliefs.   A lot of it comes down to shedding beliefs that we’ve been taught about money either from parents or other authority figures.   Success has MORE to do with your beliefs around money than the patterns or strategies I'm teaching.   I'm trying to prep your brain so when you hear me speak you don’t put up a wall ...or think, “Well that works for Steve ‘cause he's Steve.”   Man, I was NOT Steve three years ago.   Sales Funnel Radio has only been out for three years.   When I started publishing my acceleration just went through the roof. It was NUTS! That's why I keep telling all of you guys to freakin’ publish. It'll change your life.   If you feel yourself having a little negative knee-jerk reaction that you're not quite controlling to anything I say, then check yourself!   Sit back and ask, “Why am I having this reaction?” FOR EXAMPLE:   If I say, “Hey, please be a capitalist pig and get as rich as possible  because it gives you more ability to help people in this world...”   … I know that as I'm saying that I know people often feel this little knee-jerk reaction.   ( I know just because I work with tens of thousands of people )   ...but Stephen! I was taught this way. ...but that means that I have to experience personal growth in order to consume and believe that belief.   I'm NOT making fun of you. I just want you to be wary of the things that you're telling yourself.   That's the stuff that's keeping you back. That’s the stuff that you have to self-identify and be prepared to question:   “Oh my gosh, I have some false beliefs I didn't realize they were there.”   That's NOT easy to do. I know it's NOT easy.   GET OUTTA YOUR OWN WAY One of the major reasons why someone will stop their progress in a programs I'm teaching isn’t because what I'm teaching is hard…   *IT’S JUST NEW*   People stop because they hit a personal growth zone that their NOT expecting and it's uncomfortable.   So people start looking around for excuses, “Hey Stephen, this is really good... but it's just a lot of material!”   I'm like:   “Oh is that the excuse you're using to slowly back away from what I told you to do?” Is that the excuse you're using to back away and logically justify removing yourself from growth?   That's some fiery crap, but I say that stuff in my programs because people need to understand what's going on.   TRUTH   The NEW ways and methods that I teach are NOT any less true because you won’t find them in college textbooks or mainstream books and media.   Truth does not require consensus.   I heard Myron Golden say that recently. It's a great quote.   Truth does not require consensus!   … which is awesome. It's really good news!  But it's also really sucky because most of us feel like we're running alone in the game for a while.   It's NOT that what I'm teaching you is not true, but rather it’s a question of how well you’re adhering to it?”   No! Adhering is the wrong word.   I hate constriction. I don't do well with someone trying to constrict or confine me. I'm bad at that.   Adhering is the wrong word, my bad…   How well are you growing?  If you measure you against you... NOT somebody else.   Half of getting over false beliefs is just understanding WHAT false beliefs you have. As soon as *YOU* understand that you have a false belief, you can just kind of uninstall it.   Like, “Oh crap that's NOT true! Where did I learn that?   Parents? A Teacher? Some Authority Figure?   Maybe you’ve always believed that, but is it true? For that person, in that time, in that scenario, it may have been true...   But that blueprint doesn’t have to be YOUR blueprint.   INSTALLING PERSONAL GROWTH   I know what I'm talking about because I've gone through the same process to uninstall my own false beliefs ... AND it’s still going on.   I know which false beliefs I'm hitting now and I'm trying to overcome them. It’s Me Against Me.   Most people are looking to have some kind of logical release from the pressure of moving forward. The positive pressure, growth pressure... the type of pressure you get in the gym.   People make an excuse and they pick it up like a flag. They use it as a banner. That's the theme they use to run out of my world. I see it all the time:   I don't really have time. I don’t have the money to do this. I haven't quite found my voice yet. We are all individuals, but our brains still tend to work logically and emotionally in the same kind of way.   So when I say it’s time is build a funnel… all the excuses appear:   Q: But how do I build a funnel?   A: Click Add Funnel!   Q: Where’s the button?   A: It's the BIG orange button in the center at the top of the screen.   Q: But how do I do it?   A: Are you freaking kidding me?   You just want me to tell you that you're NOT a good fit. So you can release yourself from taking action. I will NEVER do that!   In fact, I was telling a good friend last night, I have empathy because I've been through that personal growth. That doesn't stop.   Your personal growth just increases and the problems you're trying to solve change.   EMPATHY VERSUS SYMPATHY   I have empathy for the person who is poor right now and who’s trying to make it work…   Because I've been there.   That was three or four years of my life. It was so hard. It was hard emotionally and hard on my self-esteem.   However, I don't have sympathy for the scenario or that person who is trying to get me to say, “You're probably not a good fit.” So that they can go back to their friends and family and save face by saying:   “Steve said I wasn’t  a good fit because of x, y, and z.”   Without the courage to change belief and take action the model work for them … so they're trying to save face. They're trying to save status… I'm NOT gonna give you that card EVER because I believe you are better than you think you are.   We're all trying to progress and trying to grow, but you’ll only do that if you recognize your false beliefs.   EXCUSES   There are over 500 Two Comma Club Award winners. 500!   How much more social proof does someone need to start taking some freaking action in their life? BUT that's not the problem…   The problem is when someone says:   I'm gonna go make my first funnel. I'm gonna go make my first sales message. I'm gonna do a webinar for the first time. I'm gonna do a podcast   AThey get into one my programs and pay me for it...   I tell them exactly what to do...   Because it's just a freaking pattern.   It's all a framework. It's all a model. It's all a pattern.   Then I say, “Did you do what I assigned you last week?” They say, “Well, no, I haven't quite done it yet, but I went through the videos.”   So, you're telling me that you:   Went through the videos. Learned the patterns, the models and the frameworks   ...but you didn't take action on it?   That screams internal hangup. That screams massive, massive voice going on inside the head.   I'm NOT throwing rocks at the fact that you're having those challenges. EVERYONE experiences these challenges with every new opportunity that we take.   It's part of the demons-in-the-head game that we all get. Not just in entrepreneurship, but in every single thing we do in our lives. I'm NOT throwing rocks at the fact that it happens.   I'm throwing rocks at the fact that people use it as a banner to give up.   Rather than take the opportunity to grow, people step back and say, “Well, Stephen, I really want to be able to do this, but it's not a good time for me.” *BULLCRAP*   No time is a good time. That's freaking garbage. I'm gonna call BS on that.   I have empathy. No sympathy though. I have NO sympathy. I'm not gonna sit back and say, “Oh, you're probably right.” That's NOT a good coach.   I'm not here to make you feel good. I'm not here to make you feel better. I'm here to make YOU better. That's the role that I serve.   It's not for me to be like this, “Oh, it's okay. Let me care about your emotions more than your output.”   I don't care about effort. I care about outcomes.   OUTCOME MODE   My Content Team is so freaking awesome. Not one of them will step back and say,   “Well, Stephen, I tried to get the episode out on time, but I tried but just didn't cause Glee was on.”   You gotta treat this as a business.   I don't pay for effort. No one does. That's just freaking capitalism, baby.   My content team is so freaking awesome because they all know that.   The funnel building team that I've built all know that I'm paying for outcomes, NOT effort.   The same is true for you and your growth, but most people don't go there.   I'm trying to help people self-identify when they are in effort mode, which is like pansy-zone... and when they are in outcome mode, which is like:   “I know it might hurt because I need to grow, but I'm willing to feel a little pain in order to get the outcome in myself, and the change that myself requires to have a successful business.”   Sometimes people get on my coaching calls because they want to feel the semblance of growth and progression.   They keep getting on the calls and they say, “I got on the call today. I feel momentum. I'm doing it.”   *Even though they haven't done ANYTHING*   You getting this? … just trial closing ya ;-)   GETTING HONESTPeople have a hard time until they get a little tough with themselves. Not that you have to be tough...  just HONEST.   When people get honest with themselves about:   Where they are? Where they're not? Where they're efforts are providing real fruits... and where they're not? Where they are trying to get released from growth? Where they're actually growing?   Until someone actually sees and identifies their own false beliefs and BS, it’s tough.   “Stephen, I don't have my first follow-up yet. I just don't have any time.”   I ask them to do a time study and it turns out they’re watching freakin’ four hours of Netflix a day! Are you kidding me?   I’ve got no sympathy. I won't grant you any. I got empathy because I've been there. No sympathy though, I'm never going to give someone that privilege.   I'm never going to give someone the release or the license of this is what you need to be doing.   EXCUSES   If you’re feeling kinda  twingy in the brain or the heart... and you're like,“GAH!”   I'm NOT trying to make anyone mad.   I'm trying to help you self-identify where your false beliefs about this game are?     “Stephen, I would totally move forward on this, but for me right now…”     Don't you dare throw the ‘right now’ and ‘time thing’ at me! I hate that one. It drives me up the freaking wall.   “I just don't have time to pull this off.”   Are you serious? Are you kidding me? I was full-time in the army. Full-time college. Married. Kids...   I had to learn how to learn faster in college so I could squeeze out two-three hours of funnel building time a day.   I hardly slept for a little while. Was it worth it? You better freakin’ believe it. Yes!   I don't do that now. I believe in hustle but not like 24/7 hustle. Sorry, Gary V.     HUSTLE AND HARVEST   There's a time and season for everything. I call it the hustle and harvest phase   I'm gonna hustle and build the thing… because time is valuable. I'm gonna build my thing quickly, and I'm gonna hustle.   I'm going to be willing and open to experience pain in order to get it done, personally, on an internal believe level…   I’m just NOT gonna wear not sleeping for three days as a badge of honor, #funnelhacker. I think that's crap.   There are times and seasons for funnel hacking at massive hustle speed where you don't sleep. I get that, but…   That's NOT the point. That's NOT sustainable. That's NOT why I do what I do.   I Hustle and then I Harvest.   In the harvest phase, I'm building a lot of systems. I used to call it Build and Harvest, but there’s nice alliteration to Hustle and Harvest...   So now it's Hustle and Harvest. Hustle, Harvest, Hustle, Harvest.   I don't always run hard.   Man, sometimes I'll sit back and watch The Office for the fourth time... and that’s ok.   I'm NOT trying to ALWAYS be on 100% output.   EFFORT & RELAXATION   I've had multiple people ask me, “Stephen, do you ever take a break?” I'm like, “Yeah.”   I took a huge break last night. It was awesome. It was so nice. It was so cool. I didn't do anything. I was so lazy.   When I prepared my speech and slides for Funnel Hacking Live I did a combination of massive concentrated effort mixed with massive, aggressive relaxation.   BUT it's the hustle phase that I'm trying to get people into with the One Funnel Away , the Two Comma Club X, and all of my programs.   I'm trying to get people to identify in themselves what they are deciding to hold themselves back with because they don't want to experience growth.   Empathy. Not Sympathy. I CHALLENGE YOU   Know before you go I want to challenge you, (don’t just read this and take no action)...   I challenge you to write just the one false belief you know you've been using a banner to not move forward in your life. I challenge you to do that.   You get bonus points for this one if you decide to post about it. Do some kind of publishing about it. Like, “Hey, look, I realized I've identified I want this but….”   It's not vulnerability. It's not weakness. It's Truth.   Tell the truth... and tell everybody:   “I've been wanting to go do this, but I haven’t done it in my life because I've had a hard time with these beliefs and overcoming them... but I know they're false.”   Let everyone know that's what you’re working on and your plan to get over it. I promise you're gonna have an army of people who are excited for you and want to help you overcome.   I challenge you to identify what's been holding you back.   BOOM! Until Next Time - KEEP CRUSHING IT!   Hey, just real quick:   A few months ago Russell asked me to write a chapter for a secret project he was doing. I had to write a chapter for a book, this was the letter I got from him.   He said:   "Hey Stephen, let me ask you a quick question...   You suddenly lose all your money, along with your name and your reputation, and only have your marketing know-how left.     You have bills piled high and people harassing you for money over the phone.   You have a guaranteed roof over your head, a phone line, an internet connection, and a ClickFunnels account for only one month.   You no longer have your big guru name, your following, your JV partners. Other than your vast marketing experience, you're an unknown newbie...   What would you do from Day1 - 30 to save yourself?   Russell Brunson   Hey, if you want to see my answer and a bunch of other marketers who also answered that in this amazing book and summit, just go to 30days.com/stephen.    You can see the entire summit, you can see the book, you can see what we wrote in there and each of our detailed plans. Just go to 30days.com/stephen.

The biggest mistake I see people make when approaching others of influence is they enter the relationship without adding value to the other.   This is my campaign I used to approach Russell Brunson about Keynoting at OfferMind 2019...   HOW RUSSELL BRUNSON HELPED ME CREATE OFFERMIND   I wanted my own event real bad, so last year, when Russell Brunson came out with his 30-Days Book, I decided to piggyback off the launch to build my event.   Each affiliate received a $100 for each person who signed up through their link.   375 people bought the book through me which meant that I could use that income to create a sweet event.   Each person who bought the 30 Day Book with my link also got a free ticket to my first OfferMind.   We found a room that would hold 180 people, and about 160 RSVP’d to get tickets.   There's always a 5 - 10% no-show rate on all events, no matter what you do (crazy, I know),  so on the day, we ended up with roughly 150 showing up, which is pretty good for the first time.   I know that OfferMind is an event that I will probably do each year, so I wrote down my dream list of potential speakers on my whiteboard.   You can guess who was top of that list, right? ;-)   HOW NOT TO PITCH YOUR DREAM 100   People have asked:  “Stephen, you’re friends. Why didn't you just ask Russell to speak at Offermind?”   Well, first of all, I’d NEVER leverage a relationship for the sake of my business. So I'm gonna do EVERYTHING I would normally do to Russell that speaking at OfferMind was a GREAT idea.   I created a full-out stack and offer for him with closes, calls to actions, AND a fast-action bonus!     If you're gonna ask an influencer to do something, you better go the freakin' distance.   The absolute worst way to get someone to speak at your event (especially a dream 100 influencer) is to send them a message and say, “You wanna speak at my event?”   I've been asked to speak at two events recently, where I can tell my name was just being used to fill their event.   I will NEVER do any business with those individuals the rest of my life, they burned the bridge so hard.   You're gonna NOT get an influencer to show up for your business by walking up and saying, “Hey, you being coming to my event would truly be awesome for me and my business.” That's stupid!   You need to make your OFFER amazing and speak their language.   That's exactly what I did with Russell Brunson, and thankfully he agreed. I'm really pumped! The reason I'm sharing this with you is two-fold:   #1: I want you to come to OfferMind.   #2: I want to show you how to approach a Dream 100 influencer   Next, I’m gonna go through the script and offer I created for Russell to show you how I presented it, but if you wanna download the script, all you gotta do is get a ticket for OfferMind.   I'm handing the script out to each person who grabs a ticket at OfferMind.com. PITCHING MR RUSSELL BRUNSON   So, instead of just asking Russell straight out… I started dropping hints.   My first move was to send him a Vox saying, “I'm NOT asking you to speak at OfferMind, I'm just telling you I'm trying to think of ways to get you to speak at OfferMind.”   I was kinda messing with him, and surprisingly, he messaged back, and  said, “I want sushi while getting a massage.”   I said, “As long as it's not me doing them, yeah.”   So two days later, I walked into his office with a masseuse gift certificate from his favorite masseuse and sushi for the entire ClickFunnels office.   I also wrote a sales script and created a stack slide to pitch him on keynoting at OfferMind.   I wrote out the vehicle, internal and external related false beliefs that  I knew he’d go through when I asked him to keynote at my event.   I went through the whole marketing process and created an offer and wrote a full freakin' script. I probably spent five hours writing it.   This was a spawn of my brain. Sometimes that's great, and sometimes it's dangerous... right now, it's great.   Here’s how I did it…   CREATING AN OFFER FIT FOR RUSSELL BRUNSON   I took Russell’s webinar script which he knows inside out, (I use that script a lot too), and I went slide by slide from the stack slide on, to create an entire script.   What you’re gonna get when you choose to keynote at OfferMind 2019. The first thing you're gonna get when you commit to keynote at OfferMind 2019:   #1: First, you're gonna be the featured keynote speaker, with ads, paid content, hyper fans all promoting the event.   Also, Steve's personal closing team will be calling his audience after any purchase throughout the year leading up to the OfferMind event to sell 'em tickets. Whoa!   *On the right side, I added in a lot of trial closes which imitate what you'd expect a person's brain to be going through as I'm speaking...   It’s a two-sided conversation that I'm having both with Russell, but it’s also what’s going on inside of his own head.   #2: Secondly, you're gonna get more paid traffic to your One Funnel Away Challenge, Steve's ad team will drive paid traffic to each of your One Funnel Away Challenges throughout the year.   Each One Funnel Away buyer who buys through Steve's affiliate link will get credit for an OfferMind ticket where they'll further get ClickFunnels indoctrination from Stephen.   Wow, that's pretty awesome, right? Now you're probably thinking…   (Okay, now, I'm starting to hit secondary objections.)   Right now, you're probably thinking, “Is Steve Larsen or OfferMind even big enough for my level of influence?   (That's a vehicle-based objection right there, I'm hittin' it on the head.) And... “Could the decision to speak threaten my status as the CEO of ClickFunnels?”   You're probably thinking that right? Great question! We thought of that too. So, the third thing you're gonna get…   (And so there's literally a piece of the offer combating each one of those objections exactly as I’d do in any script.)   #3: So, the third thing you're gonna get high-end stage and event designers with professional media coverage to make this the coolest experience.   Steve has already hired the same A/V companies that do a lot of the Funnel Hacking Live and Two Comma Club X stages and they'll put on the event so the caliber will match your caliber.   Steve's caliber will match your caliber.   We'll also have professional photographers and videographers taking pictures, recordings, and B-roll that we'll turn over to you afterward for your own use.   (He's always looking for cool B-roll.)   You'll have your own custom backdrop and smoke that comes out. The crowd will be chanting, “Russell, Russell, Russell,” with Seven Nation Army blaring when I invite you onstage.   Additionally, the audience will be wearing the same Funnel Hacking or funnel promoting t-shirt like a uniform... which I will provide.   If that isn't enough, Steve will personally yell in the face of anyone NOT absolutely going nuts when you walk up.   *Um, my jaw just dropped* Are you starting to imagine how epic you're gonna look on the stage of OfferMind?   If you listen carefully, you probably already can hear them chanting, right? “Russell, Russell!”   BUT if you're like me, you're probably thinking, “Ah but, what would I even talk about?”   (I know he's gonna think that)   *How do I know? Because I sat in a room with him for two years. He's gonna go, “Um, I don't even know what to talk about? That's alright I'll figure it out later.”   I know he's going to say that, but I wanna make sure I answer that concern as well. It's very much an internal-based concern:     “I can see OfferMind would be a cool thing to do, but what would I talk about? Do I have the personal capacity to jump in and do that?”   He's gonna wanna over-deliver. So the objection is gonna be content focused, and what’s he gonna talk about?  So I'm gonna bring that up ahead of time.   Ah, but what are you gonna talk about... and for how long? #4: So the fourth you're gonna get topic and length autonomy. You'll have 500 - 800 people in the room...   *We're going for 500 to 800 people (if it’s possible with the event space). I'm sure we'll figure it out... but 500 people at least is what we're goin' for.   Steve will be speaking the full first day, and we'd like you to keynote on day two. You'll be the last speaker and have total control on what you talk about and how long you wanna go.   Feel free to test new material or talk about anything you want, but at the end of your speech…   (Okay, now I'm gonna tie into something that he wants)   It's not just WHAT does Steve Larsen want... It's HOW can I make my purposes align with Russell Brunson's purpose?   *If you're trying to Dream 100 somebody, aligning with their purpose is a major key...   At the end of your speech, Steve would like some time to interview you on-stage, sitting on couches, about your new Traffic Secrets book... releasing a few months before or after OfferMind... Feel free to pitch him!   Already, as one of your top product affiliates, Steve will drive heavy traffic to your new book using that interview you do with him onstage.   At the end, the crowd will go nuts and cheer you offstage. Steve will take a few open questions as you leave through our secret backstage door to avoid swarming.   (I know he's concerned about that, so I'm gonna put that in)   Woo! I don't know about you, but this is getting pretty amazing, right? By now you're starting to see how insane this all will be, right? Luckily, Steve is a safe bet too…   Imagine yourself speaking on his stage.   Think of how epic the ads will look to have a sweet stage interview promoting your NEW Traffic Secrets Book.   As a busy CEO, you're probably saying inside…   (Here comes the external-based concern)   ... “I might not have the time or mental bandwidth to add another thing in my life.” Right? So here's the fifth thing in the offer.   #5: You're gonna get your choice of the actual event date to fit your schedule.   (Oh! There's the one-two punch, right!)   Q: What's the biggest reason someone would probably NOT be able to come speak or keynote when they want to?   A: Scheduling! So what if I just let him choose the schedule? Steve isn't here to add stress and understands firsthand what you do and the speed of your office. He doesn't expect you to stay the whole time or try to sprint from one thing to the next just to squeeze in a stressful pitch or speech.   Keep it all simple by telling him what day works for you, he'll plan the event date around you.   Oh, and don't worry about travel either, a limo will pick you up from ClickFunnels headquarters and take you to the event room where you'll be greeted by Steve and taken to your private room.   Prüvit Ketones, (which he loves, I love, I drink every day) Bullet Bars, Quest Bars, Hydrogen water will be chilled and waiting for you in a private retreat and recharge room.   Bring anyone you like with you, and the limo will take you back when you're ready.   *Now I know that he doesn't wanna even think about travel. So I'm gonna take care of that. Even though it's local, I'm gonna send a limo to pick him up ‘cause he's the man.   Dang, this sounds super awesome, right? This sounds like a no-brainer! What will everyone think when the limo arrives to pick you up? Imagine their faces.   Imagine stickin' it to that daycare next door; can't tell you where to park, right?   (There's a daycare right next to ClickFunnels that's a little bit moody about where you park. So I threw in a little humor here)   This will be one of the easiest and coolest speaking experiences you've ever had.   HE SAID, YES!   I want you to see like what lengths I went to to make this happen:   I bought sushi for the whole office. I didn't say why I just arranged it and got it there.   We called his favorite massage places to figure out where he got his last massage last because I knew he liked it.  We had to go hunting to figure out who that was so we could get it book it again.   Then in the office, on-camera, in front of a bunch of people, I read this script to him:   Just to recap, here's what you're gonna get when you agree to keynote at OfferMind 2019:   You're gonna be the featured keynote speaker.   You get more paid traffic to your One Funnel Away Challenges throughout the entire year.   You get a high-end stage and event designers with media coverage that's amazing.   Topic and length autonomy.   Your choice of the actual event date to fit your schedule.   Dang! That's a really good deal, but wait, there's MORE... on top of everything above... if you confirm with Stephen soon, (so he can start preparations), you'll also get:   Your own speaker highlight video created at Steve's expense and given to your two video guys for any B-roll they'd like to use.   You're gonna get a copy of your Traffic Secrets book interview that you do with Steve onstage for more B-roll epicness.   I'm gonna give you a couples massage by your favorite masseuse, (gift certificates already attached).   Sushi, from your favorite local restaurant which will already be in the kitchen today at noon.   Professional recordings of Steve screaming, “It's Monday, baby! It's Tuesday, baby!” … and so forth, so you can use them for all those ideas you keep bringing up. (Yeah his voice has that weird ability.)   Man my face is starting to melt. This offer is too cool, OfferMind must teach really cool offer creation methods. I just wish Steve let this offer last forever.   The total value of this offer is incalculable. It's too awesome, but unfortunately, it can't last long due to overexposure of pure awesomeness.   So, to take advantage of the positive effects this offer will have on your:   Offer   Mission   Bottom line   ….just open up your phone right now and Vox Steve the phrase, “On like Donkey Kong.”   Again, that's, “On like Donkey Kong” to get started now. Luckily for you, we've recently started accepting talking or typing options on Voxer. Now, Steve had two options when he made this offer …   (I went and I grabbed a lot of the closes he likes to use in webinars)   The first was to go as weak sauce as possible, be a little pansy, be a little Sally, and approach you with the question, “Will you speak at my event?” in a stupid dumb voice with no value added back to you.   But that wouldn't really incentivize you to agree to this…   ... and Steve's beard would shrink two sizes too small.   The second option was to make it as cool and memorable as he could be dumping all profits from his One Funnel Away affiliate earnings into a sick, awesome, kick sissies in the teeth event where you can nerd out to whatever level you want.   Now let me ask you a question:   If all this did was let you get in front of a group of people of your hyper-followers already in your community, would it be worth it? Of course, right?   If all this did was let you test your material and thoughts before you test them on your own platforms, would that be worth it? Yeah!   And like I said, you'd be getting tons of creative assets at Steve's expense just for showing up.   If all this did was give you another chance to promote your new awesome book, build pressure for the launch, and push more people to ClickFunnels, would it be worth it? Absolutely, right?   Steve knows you…   He knows you're gonna spend hours behind your computer promoting your new book when it launches...   Why not spend some of that time in an awesome, local, professional location with a swarm of people who already know, love and buy from you?   Again, get started on this risk-free offer now, simply open up your phone and Vox Steve the phrase, “On like Donkey Kong.” Again, that's. “On like Donkey Kong.”   (He has a shirt that says that and he loves it. He says that phrase a lot.)   To make it even easier, Steve has already Voxed you this phrase. You don't even need to type it, just forward it back to him.   Remember, this offer won't last forever!   Just think, what's one extra Traffics Secrets book buyer worth to you? $7.95, $9.95, or even $50,000 each and every year. What would that do for you and your family?   Imagine getting that new BioHacking test, or even a second Cryosauna, which you can shove Steve in again.   ( There are a few inside jokes… I'm gonna skip some bits here)   Remember, this isn't a cost, it's an investment!   Just open up your phone right now and Vox Steve the phrase, “On like Donkey Kong,” to get started.   Agents are standing by for your Vox.   Again, to keynote at OfferMind, simply pick up your phone right now and look at it, let it recognize your face, look at it, open up the Voxer, and tell Steve, “On like Donkey Kong,” (talk or type accepted) and Steve will handle the rest.   Remember, you're just one Vox away. THE DREAM 100   On my Dream 100 speaker list, along with Russell Brunson, I have:   Mark Joyner,  he created a book called The Irresistible Offer many years ago.   Dean Holland   Todd Brown   Jay Abraham   Dana Derricks   These are all some of the best *living* offer creators. I don't know anyone beyond that list, that's really it…   I’ll reach out to Dean Holland and Dana Derricks because they’re on the same level of influence as me, so that's an okay thing to do. I'm sure that they'll say “Yes,” hopefully so.   If NOT they're gonna get tagged inside this episode for Sales Funnel Radio, and I'll ask them that way as well.   But Russell gets approached like crazy by tons of people. So he's got walls and barriers just to keep his own sanity. We can all understand that, right?   So to approach influencers who are above your status, you’ve gotta go all out...   I got a pretty awesome Dream 100 package in the mail.   I was handed an envelope and inside, somebody (this is actually very clever), had attached an actual hundred dollar bill.   They attached a hundred dollar bill and said, “We know your goal was to always do 10 grand a day, so a hundred dollars should buy 14 minutes of your time. Please read the letter and see if you would like to spend the time.”   That’s super cool!   STATUS DECREASE   One of the principles of the Dream 100 is that:   If what I'm offering presents a risk of a status decrease, the answer will be, NO!   This is more important than whether or not the event fits into their schedule.   So I'm crafting an offer with stories and I'm listing out his false beliefs.   If it's gonna decrease his status, or if there's any risk that it will, he's already gonna say, NO.   So I need to show ways to increase his status while protecting it from decrease at the same time.   Does that make sense?   I’m gonna answer the objection of, “Oh crap, will this decrease my status?” I'm gonna say, “No, in fact, here's how it will increase your status.”   So one of the BEST things you can do when approaching a Dream 100 influencer is to know what campaigns they’re running.   I need to know what campaigns an individual is already running that I could piggyback off to increase their status?   The internal hang-up definitely is NOT, “I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough.” Instead, for Russell, it would probably be, “What do you want me to teach?”   For him, it's not so much about money obviously... he's probably gonna have a time-based concern 'cause he's Russell Brunson. He's also gonna have a mental shelf space concern.   It's NOT, I don't have enough to teach, it's, “Oh my gosh, I have to spend time planning what I'll teach.” That's a real concern. That's a BIG issue.   I solve each one of these pain points inside of the offer.   Q: Where am I fishing out of right now? Where's my market?   A: ClickFunnels.   Q: What's the new opportunity?   A: OfferMind.   There are parts of the offer designed to scratch, soothe and satiate all the concerns that come from the vehicle, internal, external-based objections...   And then, there are a few pieces that are just awesome and straight from me. X-A-V-I-E-R   Here's the XAVIER model for drafting offers created by yours truly, and highly featured in my book coming out soon called Your Core Offer.   Go to YourCoreOffer.com if you wanna get on the waiting list.   X = what you want to sell.   A = what they want to buy.   These are NOT ALWAYS the same thing.   When you sell something to somebody, they don't ALWAYS want what you want to sell.   For Example:   Russell wants to sell Funnel Hacks web class. When he sells Funnel Hacks web class you pre-buy ClickFunnels for six months with a whole bunch of programs.   The A: the anchor of the offer, is ClickFunnels itself. People just want ClickFunnels; so that's a prime example of what I'm talking about there.   Now, back to my offer to Russell…   So X - equals:   Russell what you're gonna get when you come speak at OfferMind 2019, the first thing you're gonna be the only keynote speaker at OfferMind. I'm gonna put ads with a lot of ad money behind it, content, fans, all promoting your appearance and your name.   *One of the things I'm gonna give him is status. That's one of the ways I'm fighting the status decrease thing, but it's not the exclusive place that I'm fighting it yet.   A - equals:   Each One Funnel Away Challenge buyer in 2019 who buys through Steve's affiliate link will get credit to OfferMind for further ClickFunnels indoctrination from you and Steve.   That's HUGE! What did I just do?   ‘A’ is the anchor of the offer, it is the part of the offer that’s the sexiest. The thing that the other person wants the most.   I know Russell is spending a ton of time, money, effort, energy, and resources on this One Funnel Away Challenge.   He's re-launching it, and it's gonna be massive. He's gonna push hard to get a ton MORE people in One Funnel Away Challenge than are probably in ClickFunnels right now. So the question is: What could I do to best support that?   What if I attached my OfferMind tickets to that again to fill the events, promote him, promote ClickFunnels and align myself with what he's trying to do.   That's a no-brainer because now the offer’s NOT about me.   DON’T PITCH AN IDEA LIKE THIS   I hate it when somebody walks up, and they're like, “Stephen, I'm so excited man, why don't you come get on my show because you’d be great and you’d bring tons of people to my show.”   ...I'm like, “Wow, okay, what’s in this for me? This is a two-way relationship, you're just goin' one way though. That’s hurting our relationship by you approaching me like that.”   STUPID! STUPID! It's D-U-M-B!   You’re gonna trigger:   Fear of status decrease, “Why on Earth is this for me?”     Rejection...   Objection...   Tons of stuff  like:   “Oh, my gosh, NO. I don't have time for that.”   “What would you want me to teach? Nah!” *status decrease*   “There's no way that vehicle aligns with where I'm moving.   This is key; when I’m dropping something out to a Dream 100 influencer...   I'm aligning with their current mission... so part of their offer is also part of my offer.   Dana Derricks just did this to me, and it's one of the reasons why he's speaking at OfferMind.   ALIGN   I was on Voxer with Dana, and he goes, “Dude, I would love to pre-buy some OfferMind tickets next year to give away because I want my people to go through some of your stuff.”   I was like, “Sick, super cool. Yeah, that'd be awesome.”   What did he do?   He said, “Let me give your tickets away as part of my offer.”   Russell Brunson did the exact same thing with Grant Cardone for his 10X Event.   He went to Grant Cardone pre-bought a thousand of your tickets to give away as part of his current offers.   What does that do?   It spikes the value, someone else fulfills on it, aligns the two offers together.   That's part of the “A” in anchor for XAVIER. Does that make sense, you guys gettin' this? I'm NOT trial closing... Does that really make sense? This is HUGE. This is a BIG BIG deal right here.   In my pitch, it went like this:   Each One Funnel Away Challenge buyer in 2019 who buys through Steve's affiliate link will get credit to OfferMind for further ClickFunnels indoctrination from you and Steve…   Meaning: I am going to go and push One Funnel Away Challenge really really hard. When people buy the One Funnel Away Challenge through me, I'm gonna give them credit to get an OfferMind ticket where you can speak to more of your people and continue to get them inside ClickFunnels.   That's HUGE!  It aligns both me and Russell.   VEHICLE OBJECTION?   Q: What's the vehicle-based fear here?   A: Probably status decrease: “Is this good enough?” That could be the potential major concern about speaking at OfferMind. “Is he big enough?”   Russell would never boastingly say that, but you get what I'm saying… He’s Russell Brunson, right!   I'm like, “Oh don't worry about it...   To protect your status I want you to know that we hire the exact same A/V team that designed your Funnel Hacking Live stages, and they're gonna put on the OfferMind stage. The stage caliber will match your caliber.”   One of the most frustrating things I've ever experienced ever is to show up to an event that I've been invited to speak at, and you can tell that there wasn't much thought put into the experience in the room.   That's why OfferMind costs me so much money... and it did it cost me a lot of money. I actually went in the hole just a little bit... because I wanted to create an experience.   You can find out MORE about how I created OfferMind and made it an experience here. I specifically made it so it felt like you were entering a new environment... (which is so freaking key, it is ridiculous!)   I'm letting Russell know:   We have all the old OfferMind recordings. This is what it looked like last time. It was very professional. It was amazing; very top-notch and high caliber... it’ll be the same kind of thing.   Rest assured, it's the same people you're used to working with, so there won't be any new faces when you're getting mic'd up. There won't be any new experiences.”   Does that make sense?   INTERNAL OBJECTIONS This is how I'm combating the internal hangup, “What would you want me to teach?”   I see it’ll be cool, but…   How will I?   How can I?   Do I?   Will I?   Do I know enough?   I don't know what to talk about?”   It’s ALL the ‘I’s’... I know one of your strategies, Russell, is to go in and test your material on smaller crowds before you go to your major one. Feel free to do that at OfferMind.   Let your noggin have the playground and the fun crazy zone that you wanna go to, and test your material on my audience.   Does that make sense?  I just solved that internal objection for him.   EXTERNAL OBJECTIONS   How will I solve the objection: “I don't have time to speak at your OfferMind, but I want to...”   I believe it's a good vehicle.   I believe I could pull off.   BUT I DON’T have time/ money/ resources #externalbasedobjection   Don't worry about it, man. You will choose the actual date of the event so that we can make sure you can get there.   We know what date it's gonna be, but if it came down to Russell NOT being able to speak, and us just choosing a different date that's a few weeks difference…   We will Change the Freakin' Date.   That's a SICK OFFER!   From his perspective, it’s like, “Oh man, he's gonna change his whole event!”   Well, yeah, we're talking seven months in the future, so, yeah, we'll definitely change the date if we need to.   That's a BIG offer right there.   I've been asked to speak in several locations in the past little bit including Australia and Greece... It's not that I don't want to, it's a date issue…   So if Russell has control over the time and date, and it came down to it and I'm like, “Dude, what day? Say it, just, and we'll do it.” He's like, “You know what, I could come to downtown Boise, so I don't need to travel anywhere.”   I'm making it EASY.   A limo will pick you up from CF headquarters and take you to the event.   And he can talk as long as he wants to. Does that make sense? Like, this just got sexy, man.   He doesn't need to worry about travel, it's close to him, it's right there, it's downtown Boise at a SICK venue. THE CTA   Reason to Act Now... (this is what he told me he would like to have)   A couples massage: he wants a massage from his favorite masseuse. We already set it up.   Sushi from his favorite sushi place.   I mean that's a sexy offer...  it's NOT just, “Dude, come speak at my event so that I can fill it with people who are interested to see you.”   Some more things I'm gonna add inside this offer are:     We’ll send you the professional recordings.       We’re gonna have professional photographers there to take pictures.       His own private room where he can go and just kick back, and there are snacks and drinks in there.     I know you're always looking for new material. You can have the recordings. You can have the pictures... very very high-end stuff so that you can look like a rockstar on my stage.   That’s what would motivate a Russell Brunson-esque figure.   So what I'm trying to help you guys understand is like, when you're doing offers, and especially when it comes to Dream 100…   Offer creation for Dream 100 is NOT the same thing as offer creation for customers. It’s NOT the same thing as offer creation for affiliates. It’s NOT the same thing for offer creation for front-end product. It's all different. You gotta understand exactly WHO you're speaking to. THIS DIDN’T HAPPEN…   The last thing I tried to do was find a local actor to play Claude Hopkins,  tell a fast origin story, and hand him a piece of paper with the offer and the call to action.   Claude Hopkins was one of the original offer creators.   You probably know about Claude Hopkins if you've been following me.   Claude Hopkin was the first guy to put an ad on a car.   He actually popularized the concept of brushing teeth so that they could sell toothpaste!   Seriously, brilliant, brilliant man; late 1800s.   Anyway, I wanted some dude to gonna dress up like Claude Hopkins and walk up and say:   “What's up? My name's Claude Hopkins, I was one of the first offer creators in America: Hey that Steve Larsen, you should really go talk to him about his event.”   ...and then hand off the offer, the gift certificate for the massage...  the sushi already on the table.   It's Pretty Sexy… but unfortunately, the Claude Hopkins bit didn’t happen.   PLAYING FULL OUT   I wanted to go full out because I knew that if Russell said, “Yes!” Then it would be a lot easier for us to get two or three other really high-end people to speak at OfferMind.   It was definitely worth crafting a campaign for.   I want to be able to bring in some of the best to OFFERMIND, and Russell obviously is THE BEST!   Remember I talked about how important it is to follow the framework master, and Russell is that guy! Why would I bring in anybody else?!   So that why I went to soooo much effort crafting this offer for Russell to keynote.   It's was an offer NOT a request.   It's WASN’T,  “Come look at me…”   I'm not gonna EVER do that. That's the fastest way for you to put a bad taste in their mouth when you're talking to a BIG influencer... even if we're friends.   In any influencer scenario, you got ONE SHOT to set up the way they're gonna look at you FOREVER. It really does matter!   So, when I talk to the other offer creation rock stars I want to bring to you, I will craft a custom campaign for each individual.   Campaigns are a dying art (It’s NOT the same thing as a Facebook ad). I will craft a campaign, NOT just an offer, NOT just a sales message, and reach out to each individual to try and get them to come to speak at OfferMind. BOOM!   If you're just starting out you're probably studying a lot. That's good. You're probably geeking out on all the strategies, right? That's also good.   But the hardest part is figuring out what the market wants to buy and how you should sell it to them, right?   That's what I struggled with for a while until I learned the formula.   So I created a special Mastermind called an OfferMind to get you on track with the right offer, and more importantly the right sales script to get it off the ground and sell it.   Wanna come?   These are small groups on purpose, so I can answer your direct questions in person for two straight days.   You can hold your spot by going to OfferMind.com. Again, that's OfferMind.com.  

In this bonus episode, we are joined by Kevin Henderson, the head of US operations for Pimax.Q: Kevin, tell us about yourself, your tech history and how it lead to Pimax?Q: Did you ever try in of the early VR machines in the 80s or 90s?Q: Communication from Pimax is a concern, as Spokesperson will be improving communication? Q: Pimax was supposed to ship in early 2018, but it ended up being 1-year later, was there a particular holdup? Q: You mentioned an 8% defect rate, it seems the cable is the biggest culprit, what steps has Pimax done to rectify that and other quality issues? Q: What are Pimax's distribution plans heading into general release? Q: Will the audio strap be shown at GTC? Q: Should we expect parallel or linear development and release of accessories?Q: Will the wireless module require compression, and are Pimax partnering with another company on the module? Q: Has there been any talk with other tracking systems other than SteamVR, such as Mo-Sys?Q: Is there a chance for Pimax to make a tracking puck? Q: Is there any news or updates on lighthouse availability?Q: What is the status of the 8KX, and have you tried it? Q: We assume you have a 5k+, 8k, and 5kBE. Which is your favorite? Q: Can you talk about anything Pimax had to hone in on, such as the lenses, and will there be additional refinements? Q: Let's talk about the Oculus software support integrated into PiTool. Is it Revive or Pimax solution? How will it be supported going forward? Q: Is there a difference in the LCD panels for newer builds vs older builds?Q: Can you update us on the eye-tracking module?Q: Where do you see VR going in the next few years? Not just from Pimax perspective, but industry wide? [Q: The Community likes you, but they still want a Kickstarter update for each SKU, can you give us one? Q: Steve gets corrected on ending on a high-note (regarding delivery) Q: What are you favorite games to play on the Pimax, what do you look forward to playing? Q: What GPU do you use? Q: Do you adjust SS in PiTool or SteamVR? Q: Do you have any concerns of Pimax's unique market window of wide-FOV could close with other hardware announcements like StartVR, Xtal, ect? Q: The floor is yours! Q: Do you think VR displace home TVs, home-cinema? If so, when? Q: Closing Note: We are now streaming live on Youtube when we record the latest episode, audio version will always be made available in podcast form. Also, please keep in mind the live nature of the Roundtable when listening back to the podcast uploade-mail: vrroundtable@gmail.comYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/vrroundtableFollow us on Twitter @VR_RoundtableFollow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/VRRoundtableFollow Gary on Twitter @ReckonerVRFollow Steve on Twitter @Scubasteve2365Follow Anthony on Twitter @VRGameRankingsFollow Chris on Twitter @Virtually_Chris

This is one of the reasons I pursue this game so hard. Check out the other options you have to this funnel game…   Today, I'm gonna teach you The Wealth Formula, and why I'm so jazzed about this Funnel Game.   I'm really pumped to share this with you.   I ran through The Wealth Formula at my exclusive OfferMind event, so you’re gonna get a sneak peek behind closed doors...   Right now, I'm doing the One Funnel Away Challenge which is specifically targeted at people who are people new to funnels.   The Wealth Formula is my answer when someone says, "Stephen, this is really cool, but it seems like a lotta work. There's gotta be another way?  How long does it take the average person to be successful with this?"   ...I hate that question, it drives me nuts. I’m like, “Well, how bad do you wanna make a million bucks?” What Yield Will You Learn To Earn?   One of the benefits hanging out with the amazing people at ClickFunnels was that I got some cool insights into the books and courses they rated. I got to see who the gurus learned from...   If a guy who runs a hundred million dollar company thinks something’s cool… then I should probably think that's cool too, right!   Ya know what I mean?   If I hear, “Hey, I really learned a lot from this...” I'm like, "What was the name of that again?"  I'm gonna look it up and buy it.   I bought so many books when I worked at ClickFunnels... because I was just like, “If Russell thinks that's amazing, I need to make sure I have that info for the future.”   I’d be sitting feet away from people like Tony Robbins or  Robert Kiyosaki, and if they said, "I read this great book recently... " I’d be like, Boom! BUY IT.   The Wealth Formula was one of the things I heard about, for the first time, while I was at ClickFunnels... and it was life-changing for me.   I already believed in funnels, but this was amazing.   Capitalist Pig, Baby!   At OfferMind I did a presentation called: “What Yield Will You Learn To Earn?”   I walked through how much money you can typically expect to get from different kinds of investment vehicles…   I know there are people out there making MORE money from some of the ways that I  talk about, but I'm talking about the 80 percent majority.   I don't wanna learn stuff where I have to learn exceptions to the rule in order to make cash. I'm interested in the rule.     … the cash causing models.   If I do  X, Y, and Z, will I get this amount of money? I'm looking for the 80 percent rule. The default that makes the cash most of the time.   Let me show you how the Wealth Formula plays out…   THE WEALTH FORMULA   QUESTION #1: Figure out how much money you're willing to put away into an investment account every month for the rest of your life? You don’t touch it, it’s just meant for investments. Write that amount down.     For this example, I'm gonna use $165...   Can you put $165 in an account every month?   If you're like "Hey, I can't do that right now." That's okay, you're solving the problem ahead of time... and that's cool. QUESTION #2: How long will you leave it there?   Okay, let's say 25 years.   For 25 years, you're not gonna touch that money. It's not meant for income. QUESTION #3: What yield will you get? What yield you’ll get depends on the investment vehicle you choose? … And that's one of the things I wanna talk about here. QUESTION #4: What’s the total amount of money you want?   Let's say, a million dollars… that’s a nice round number ;-) So now, I wanna run through a few examples with you… because if you knew how to earn a higher yield... what would that mean for you?  CLUE: *IT’S HUGE*     RETURN ON INVESTMENT…   WEALTH SCENARIO #1:   So let's say you take $165 every single month at a yield of zero percent (and just put it under your mattress) for 25 years.   How much money would you have?   After 25 years, you’d have $49,500.   I know you mathematicians are freaking out over the fact that it's zero percent, just get past that... you’d have $49,500...   Could you live off of that if you retired? Probably not, right?   You’d get creative real fast…   WEALTH SCENARIO #2:   Let's say you take $165, and you want to learn to earn 3 percent for 25 years.   Q: Where can you guarantee to learn to earn 3 percent?     A: Some savings accounts… I'm talking guaranteed, you understand? There are some savings accounts out there right now, not many anymore, but there are some that'll give you 3 percent if you just leave it alone.     Q: What would the total be after 25 years? After 25 years, the total would be $73,775 (I left out the cents).   Let’s keep going…   WEALTH SCENARIO #3:   $165 per month at 6 percent for 25 years…   Q: What's an investment vehicle that’ll guarantee you that return on your money for 25 years?   A: A Certificate of Deposit (CD) from a bank. You can totally get six percent from a CD. You loan the bank your money for 25 years, and you get back six percent back after that.     … 25 years at 6 percent equals $114,000. WEALTH SCENARIO #4:   Let's say you learn to earn seven percent…   Q: What investment vehicle would allow you to earn 7 percent over 25 years?     A: Last year the average mutual fund made seven percent from a 401k... ain't that crazy? Yeugh. That sucks! How much is inflation?   Do you think the value of money's gonna go up or down?  DOWN, right! It's on the way down… Not only can China buy us now, I think Canada could too. The dollar's going down baby. They're the one that made the American flag for three dollars and sent it over.   So…   If you put $165 per month in a 401K at 7 percent,  after 25 years you’d have…   ...$134,000.   WEALTH SCENARIO #5:   Okay, let's say you take $165, and you want learn to earn ten percent...   Q: What’s a guaranteed way to earn ten percent for 25 years?   A:  A Mutual Fund will do that. Again, NOT a lot of them offer that much anymore, but if you can find one, it’s pretty much a guaranteed return, right?     I'm looking for very sustainable, secure things that you can put your money into.   If put your $165 per month into a mutual fund offering 10 percent, after 25 years, that's gonna turn into $220,000.   Right next one…   WEALTH SCENARIO #6:   $165 per month at 16 percent for 25 years...   Q: What will get me a 16 percent return? Options start to get a little bit lower, right?   A:The empanada food franchise that we created at college came in at 16 percent.   At the end of that semester, we had to do a full financial P&L statement…   I was so embarrassed at my numbers. I stood up and said: "We only got 16 percent returns, but at least we learned a lot."   The professor said: You got 16 percent?" I was like, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I know... I tried really hard. It sucks! Fire me, please." He said: "That's amazing in the food business! That's not easy." He was the CMO of Denny's...   My knee jerk reaction was to yell out, "That Sucks! I'm never going into the food business, ever... “   ...It's not like that returns guaranteed, and it's not nearly as passive as some of those other models we’ve talked about! 16 percent over 25 years would yield….   ...$654,000. WEALTH SCENARIO #7:   Q: What investment vehicle will yield 20 percent returns on your monthly investment of $165 over 25 years?   Q: Tax Lien Properties are hyper guaranteed by the government.   You could take $165 every single month, package it up, and once a year go down to the courthouse steps and buy as many tax lien properties as possible, and the government says, "I guarantee you 18 percent ...  or even a 36 percent return."   Did you know you could do that? Interesting, right?     Over 25 years, that would turn into 1.4 million dollars.   Congratulations, I made you a millionaire! Is that cool? ...it's freaking pennies, let's keep going…   WEALTH SCENARIO #8:   $165 every single month for 25 years at a return of 25 percent.   Q: What vehicle would give you that kind of return?   A: Fix and Flips will definitely do that, right?     I've got great friends that do this. They'll try and flip hundreds of houses in a year. Obviously there are variants, but 25 percent is a totally realistic number. It's kinda low, but it’s a realistic...   Let's keep going...   WEALTH SCENARIO #9:   Let's say I put a dollar a month into something every month for 25 years, and I get a hundred percent return...   What would my return be after 25 years?   It's freaking huge = 375 million dollars!   Now I know you guys are gonna laugh at this... but it's to illustrate a point…   Q: What vehicle could give you that return on investment?   A: Sales Funnels!   I've never had such insane, consistent returns in anything like the funnel game... Let me show you how this works …   HOW TO RUN A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS   There was a guy who came to Russell for a funnel. He taught you how to kill people. He was teaching self defense. Not like karate, “I'm gonna use this move, that move…” It was the dirty foul play, let's just make you live kinda stuff.   We hung out in Russell's garage on his wrestling mat for two days. I had to mimic poking Russell's eye out with my thumb, and all this crazy crap.   These guys were amazing at what they did. They taught us all about biology and the way the body really is: “Hit that organ. Then boom! It's done.”   I was like, “Holy crap, I love you, Russell. This is really heavy. Oh man.”   We weren't allowed to talk to each other. We were each others test dummies for two days. It was effective, but it was heavy.   We built this awesome funnel for him, and John starts driving traffic and we’re putting $1 in and he was getting a $1.30 back out.   But he was pissed. He was so mad at us.   I was like, "What is wrong with you?"   It would go up to $1.40, $1.50, then back down to $1.30… back and forth… He was asking us, "What's going on? This is crazy."   We were like, “What is wrong with you? We’d be throwing a party right now!”   They were putting a dollar in, and getting $1.50 back out, plus some customers and people on their list.   Just upsell something... and that's a million dollar scenario.   Even if you’re just breaking even, you're getting customers for free. That’s a million dollar scenario... even if you suck.   INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT   My whole goal is to put a dollar in and get two dollars back out… c'mon let’s keep em going.   When I launched ads for Secret MLM Hacks, I put $4,000 in ads. That week, $8,000 came back out.   Then I put that $8,000 back in, and $16,000 came back out. I was like, "This is sick, let's do it again."   The next week I grabbed that $16,000 and $32,000 came back out. I was like "Oh, my gosh! This is starting to get big. Phew!"   I didn't take profit (That’s very key, don't take profit for a while), then I took that $32,000, and put it back into ads, and that month, “Crap! Only $48,000 came back out.” Darn it!   $4,000 turned into $48,000… Does that sound good to you?   Find an investment vehicle that does anything like what funnels can do? *That's my point*   There’s no better investment opportunity, no better vehicle for making it rain in your life than learning this sales funnel game.   NO COUPONS!   When someone comes to me and says, "Oh, I could save you a couple of percentage points on your house." I don't freaking care!   I am focused on how to make money, not save it. I'm not a coupon cutter. ...And I want you to have that same mentality too!   My mom is amazing… she'd walk into a grocery stores and we'd get two grocery store, grocery carts full of food, and they'd give her $400 at the same time. It was like, “I dunno how you deal with coupons?” but she figured out a way to do it. It was nuts.   BUT…   If you take the same amount of effort and just figure out how to play a piece of this funnel game the return on investment can be huge.   It's not like school….   You don't need to get an A in funnel building to make a lot of money. You can get an F, and put a dollar in and still get a dollar fifty back out.   That’s a fifty percent return. You see what I'm saying with this? This is where Papa Larsen comes out a little bit…   Okay, check this out… When I first launched I put a dollar in, and got four back out for a while.   ...Then ad fatigue starts, and that's totally normal,  and now, “Oh crap, I'm  putting a dollar in and only getting two dollars back out. Oh dang it.”   That's awesome!   What's the move at that point?   You call your ads person and say, "TURN IT UP!" Borrow if you need to and dump that cash in! Does this make sense?   This is how I've done it.   Maybe you broke even, or lose money the first few times you do it. Sweet! Who cares?   I've never taken a loan. I've never put a dollar of my own into my ads...   This is what I do instead:   Build up the audience   Sell the audience   They guide me in the creation of the thing I sell to them   They give me the cash   I take that cash and I dump it immediately back into ads; Boom back in. Boom back in. Boom back in   … those numbers start to get real big real fast after the fifth or sixth time. How much did it cost me to build that audience? Nothing, because I'm publishing on a podcast. I've never put a dollar of my own into my business. Ever!   THAT is why you learn to be a funnel builder. Welcome to the greatest game ever!   The numbers are easy to work, and you can suck at it and still make a lot of money…   But too many people are like, “I can't launch yet it needs to be perfect.” Oh man!   If I put a dollar in, I get 50 percent return back out. That's super realistic returns right there... and that's how a lot of people do it.   All these people that make a million dollars in three or four months, and get the actual Two Comma Club Award, this is how they do it! They just know the numbers.   I'm NOT even thinking about the fact that I might have an upsell, I'm just thinking on that funnel...   You go and add another funnel, and “Bam!” Way more money.   Who was it that said, “A well-executed idea is worth ten lifetimes of hard work.”?  I think it was J. Abraham... on a beach!   Anyway, $1.00 in, $1.50 back out for 25 years...   If you just did that... and you sucked... No upsells or anything else…   That's five million dollars.   Does it install hope in the noggin?   You can afford to suck at it the game for a while, but most people aren't willing to do that... or to get help when they need it.   ...don’t let that be you!   You can be real bad at the game and still make it rain   Mmm…. Oh, that's good one. It's gonna be on a T-shirt soon ;-)   Boom! Until Next Time…   Hey, I know this game can take a few tries to get the money flowing, especially the first time, right? And that can suck.   I also know from experience how frustrating it can be to know your business is just a few tweaks away from your next big payday, but you don't know what tweaks to make. I've felt completely paralyzed by that in the past, and it sucks.   I've been blessed to work with thousands of new and successful businesses over the last three years, and two things have really shocked me.   #1: I began noticing the pattern to success is vastly the same, but everyone's spot on the path is obviously different.   #2: I've been shocked and overwhelmed by the number of people asking for my help, my systems, and funnels in their business.   Well, until now I've never had a system or product in my own business to help you build yours. Now, I'm finally able to be public about all this.   If you'd like my help to build your offer or sales message funnel and even your content machine, go to myofferlab.com.    The path to online and offline success is 80 percent the same regardless of the product, price point or industry, and it works if you're new, or are already a killer in business.   You can get more details on how to get my personal attention and frameworks in your own business by going to myofferlab.com   In-person classes are limited to 60 people each, and frankly, I can only do about two of these a year. Get more details, and even jump on the phone with us for free at myofferlab.com

Topic: Books Q: How often do you read books? A: I read books almost every night before I go to bed. Q: What’s your favorite type of book? A: I love reading about different cultures. Q: What can you learn from books? A: Books can broaden my horizon about thousands of things around the world, and books are also my best friends. Q: Where do you read books? A: I read books at home, sometimes in the library. Q: What’s the most interesting book you have ever read? A: I think that would be Nepal, a book written about the country of Nepal, published in 1999. Q: How long does it take you to finish a book? A: Well, it depends on the length of the book, but it usually takes me a week to finish a 300-page book. Q: Do you usually bring books with you when you travel? A: Yes, I do. When I’m at the airport or bus station, I read books to kill time. Q: Is there any bookstore or library in your area? A: Unfortunately, there are none near my house. The nearest one is 3 kilometers away. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationpartner/support

Introducing the I Am Clovis Ambassador Program! Full Show Notes - https://clovis.show I Am Clovis Free 7-Day Trial - iamclovis.com/start Topics Covered: 5:48- How Did AMA's Start? 9:44- You've taught me more than I've taught you... 16:14- Why Clovis is changing... I am a crap salesman. 20:37- ANNOUNCEMENT! CLOVIS AMBASSADORS! 32:38- FB Check 33:02- Q: "Where can I find more content?" 33:28- Q: "How does physical product subscriptions work into this new membership?" 34:08- Q: "What about a Clovis app?!" 35:18- Commenting on Comments: "I just had a second stent put in and I'm ready for any suggestions" 36:10- Q: "If beef says 'grass fed' is it really grass fed grass finished?" 38:40- Q: "Will there be changes for Clovis kids?" 40:48- Commenting on Comments: "It's tough because there are other influences in my kid's lives" 44:54- Q: "Our kids are sicker today than any other time in history. How have genetics and diet played a role?" 49:09- Commenting on Comments: "My nephew's school is trying to get my sister to put him on ADHD medication" 51:11- Commenting on Comments: "My son broke his leg and I used it as an opportunity to change our household!" 51:31- Commenting on Comments: "People blame autism on vaccines…" 52:15- C-Sections vs. Vaginal births and the effects of both (this science is NEW) 54:26- Commenting on Comments: "We trust our obgyn's to know better. We can't go back and re-do, but we can move forward." 59:51- Commenting on comments: "So many times babies getting stuck in the birth canal involves bad posture" 01:00:08- Q: "I've been on a low sugar diet since Christmas and I'm running out of food ideas, any ideas?" 01:00:49- Commenting on comments: "I had that the bad doctors give doctors a bad name when there are so many good ones" 01:01:31- Commenting on Comments:" I'm about to start a standing desk movement at my University" 1:02:38- Q: "As you heal your QL will you keep me posted? I'm suffering with mine" 1:06:20- Suggestions for a Functional medicine doctor 1:07:11- Q: "What's a really good app for macros?" 1:09:32- Q: "Would Clovis help with Dementia?" 1:11:33- Q: "Would sharing the carb manager app be better than nothing for people who aren't Clovis?" 1:13:12- Q: "Why is cooked kale better than raw kale?" 1:14:22- Here's the skinny on baby formula- 1:15:09- Q: "Arthritis supplementation suggestions?" 1:16:30- Commenting on Comments: "I had neck surgery 13 years ago and have tingling numbness. I'm Clovis now, thank you!" 1:20:02- Commenting on Comments: "I feel like Clovis, in a nutshell, is basically learning to read between the lines" 1:20:42- Wrap Up! Show Notes and Resources:

Note: The time signatures [00:00] below indicate the start of a question if you'd like to skip to a particular one of interest in the audio file.[02:53] - Q: When was Jesus born? Why do we celebrate on December 25th?[03:54] - Q: Is celebrating Christmas ordained or supported by scripture?[06:17] - LIVE AUDIENCE Q: I have a friend who is young in her faith yet she got a tarot card reading. I’ve been mentoring her about her faith and she also has a young daughter. I’m trying to figure out the best way to talk to her about these tarot cards and she’s also asking about her horoscope. How would you confront her in a loving way about this.A: See 1 Peter[08:23] - Q: I believe that an important aspect of the virgin birth is that in order for Jesus to be sinless, He needed to be free from Adam’s sin. I think that Adam's sin is perpetuated in humanity through the seed of man. By being conceived by the Holy Spirit instead of the seed of a man, Jesus was not conceived with Adam's original sin and can start completely sinless. Do you agree?A: Yes![09:33] - Q: What is HBC principle on tithe and offering?A: See 2 Cor 8:3 - For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord…2 Cor 8:12 - For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.2 Cor 9:7 - Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.Re-listen to the I Love to Give sermon series on God’s view of money.[16:16] - Q: God is always referred as 'He' and 'Father'. Does this gender pronoun and title refer to a physical characteristic of God of His relationship with us? I.E. If the Holy Spirit is God; should we refer to it (Holy Spirit) as 'He'? Typically we don't assign a gender pronoun to spirits in the English language unless were able to assign the spirit to a person's gender.[19:06] - Q: Why does God forbid women to be an “elder” or hold some authority in church?A: See 1 Timothy 2:12-14 - I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.[24:45] - LIVE AUDIENCE Q: Can you help me understand the verse (James 2:17, 22-24), “faith without works is dead”? Doesn’t that contradict what we’re taught to believe that we’re just fine “saved” through faith and not works as it says in Romans?[29:44] - Q: If we came from Adam and Eve shouldn't we all have the same last name and be the same family?A: See Acts 17:26 - And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place…[32:52] - LIVE TXT Q: How do we guard ourselves against legalism? I.E. If I abstain from drinking, how do I guard against pressing others to not drink or get self-righteous or prideful in my abstinence?[36:46] - Q: Where did Cain's wife come from?A: See: Genesis 3:20 - The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.Genesis 5:4 - The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.[37:58] - Q: At what point during a human's development is it "issued" a soul? At conception? Sometime while in the womb? Or at the baby's first breathe?A: See Luke 1:41 - And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit…Psalm 139:13 - For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.[39:44] - LIVE TXT Q: If John knew when the rapture happened (when God showed him) why doesn't it say in the Bible when the rapture will happen?A: Soon!Any question that was missed due to time constraints during the service Pastor Jeff will address the answer on the blog.Sermon Notes (PDF): BLANKHint: Highlight blanks above for answers! Small Group Questions (Whole Group):Review the questions submitted above. Discuss any of these that stuck out to you, or that maybe your group finds particularly interesting.Breakout Questions:Pray for one another!

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After a while some businesses have a hard time coming up with what to post about in their social media. It can be a challenge! Today Catherine shares 10 social media campaign ideas to enrich your game. Let’s take a step back. Q: Who is your audience? A: Craft campaigns with your audience in mind. Q: Where are they in their life? Where are they in their day? A: Learn how to speak their language and keep their attention. For example, if your audience is usually on-the-go, keep your captions and status updates short. Then, over time you can gradually shift to longer posts. Varying the posts is also effective, too, to keep things fresh. Across any and all social media platforms Catherine shares these 10 ideas : New followers intro - Introduce yourself to new customers and challenge yourself to include new tidbits for your long-time customers. Staff intro or update - Feature the members of your team. If they aren’t comfortable with being in front of the camera then of course be respectful of that. Maybe you could let them take over the posting for a week so your customers can get to know them, too. Day in the life - People love these insights because, let’s face it: we’re all voyeurs. Product lifecycle - From start to finish, show what you make. Service lifecycle - Same thing here; show what you do. Customer testimonial - You should be doing this already, but keep it in the rotation. Upcoming event - Big events should be announced months in advance. Then reverse engineer your reminder posts so that you’re telling people on the day of and the day before, etc. How it’s made - Show your customers a behind the scenes glimpse. In the news - Set up Google alerts to tell you about news in your industry so that you can be relevant. Branded hashtag - These can help with searching through your posts that may have to do with a certain event or promotion and also the communication of your core values. “A hashtag is more than just a way for people to find you and for you to organize a specific theme or topic on social media but it’s also a way to encompass your brand experience and to give people and at a glance summary of what it is your trying to accomplish.” Link to articles on how to use hashtags: https://www.brightplanning.com/hashtag-this/ https://www.brightplanning.com/the-best-and-worst-ways-to-use-hashtags-in-your-campaign/ Link to Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon SNL sketch about too many hashtags that will make your day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57dzaMaouXA

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TrueOS becoming a downstream fork with Trident, our BSDCan 2018 recap, HardenedBSD Foundation founding efforts, VPN with OpenIKED on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on a System76 Galago Pro, and hardware accelerated crypto on Octeons. ##Headlines## TrueOS to Focus on Core Operating System The TrueOS Project has some big plans in the works, and we want to take a minute and share them with you. Many have come to know TrueOS as the “graphical FreeBSD” that makes things easy for newcomers to the BSDs. Today we’re announcing that TrueOS is shifting our focus a bit to become a cutting-edge operating system that keeps all of the stability that you know and love from ZFS (OpenZFS) and FreeBSD, and adds additional features to create a fresh, innovative operating system. Our goal is to create a core-centric operating system that is modular, functional, and perfect for do-it-yourselfers and advanced users alike. TrueOS will become a downstream fork that will build on FreeBSD by integrating new software technologies like OpenRC and LibreSSL. Work has already begun which allows TrueOS to be used as a base platform for other projects, including JSON-based manifests, integrated Poudriere / pkg tools and much more. We’re planning on a six month release cycle to keep development moving and fresh, allowing us to bring you hot new features to ZFS, bhyve and related tools in a timely manner. This makes TrueOS the perfect fit to serve as the basis for building other distributions. Some of you are probably asking yourselves “But what if I want to have a graphical desktop?” Don’t worry! We’re making sure that everyone who knows and loves the legacy desktop version of TrueOS will be able to continue using a FreeBSD-based, graphical operating system in the future. For instance, if you want to add KDE, just use sudo pkg install kde and voila! You have your new shiny desktop. Easy right? This allows us to get back to our roots of being a desktop agnostic operating system. If you want to add a new desktop environment, you get to pick the one that best suits your use. We know that some of you will still be looking for an out-of-the-box solution similar to legacy PC-BSD and TrueOS. We’re happy to announce that Project Trident will take over graphical FreeBSD development going forward. Not much is going to change in that regard other than a new name! You’ll still have Lumina Desktop as a lightweight and feature-rich desktop environment and tons of utilities from the legacy TrueOS toolchain like sysadm and AppCafe. There will be migration paths available for those that would like to move to other FreeBSD-based distributions like Project Trident or GhostBSD. We look forward to this new chapter for TrueOS and hope you will give the new edition a spin! Tell us what you think about the new changes by leaving us a comment. Don’t forget you can ask us questions on our Twitter and be a part of our community by joining the new TrueOS Forums when they go live in about a week. Thanks for being a loyal fan of TrueOS. ###Project Trident FAQ Q: Why did you pick the name “Project Trident”? A: We were looking for a name that was unique, yet would still relate to the BSD community. Since Beastie (the FreeBSD mascot) is always pictured with a trident, it felt like that would be a great name. Q: Where can users go for technical support? A: At the moment, Project Trident will continue sharing the TrueOS community forums and Telegram channels. We are currently evaluating dedicated options for support channels in the future. Q: Can I help contribute to the project? A: We are always looking for developers who want to join the project. If you’re not a developer you can still help, as a community project we will be more reliant on contributions from the community in the form of how-to guides and other user-centric documentation and support systems. Q: How is the project supported financially? A: Project Trident is sponsored by the community, from both individuals and corporations. iXsystems has stepped up as the first enterprise-level sponsor of the project, and has been instrumental in getting Project Trident up and running. Please visit the Sponsors page to see all the current sponsors. Q: How can I help support the project financially? A: Several methods exist, from one time or recurring donations via Paypal to limited time swag t-shirt campaigns during the year. We are also looking into more alternative methods of support, so please visit the Sponsors page to see all the current methods of sponsorship. Q: Will there be any transparency of the financial donations and expenditures? A: Yes, we will be totally open with how much money comes into the project and what it is spent on. Due to concerns of privacy, we will not identify individuals and their donation amounts unless they specifically request to be identified. We will release a monthly overview in/out ledger, so that community members can see where their money is going. Relationship with TrueOS Project Trident does have very close ties to the TrueOS project, since most of the original Project Trident developers were once part of the TrueOS project before it became a distribution platform. For users of the TrueOS desktop, we have some additional questions and answers below. Q: Do we need to be at a certain TrueOS install level/release to upgrade? A: As long as you have a TrueOS system which has been updated to at least the 18.03 release you should be able to just perform a system update to be automatically upgraded to Project Trident. Q: Which members moved from TrueOS to Project Trident? A: Project Trident is being led by prior members of the TrueOS desktop team. Ken and JT (development), Tim (documentation) and Rod (Community/Support). Since Project Trident is a community-first project, we look forward to working with new members of the team. iXsystems ###BSDCan BSDCan finished Saturday last week It started with the GoatBoF on Tuesday at the Royal Oak Pub, where people had a chance to meet and greet. Benedict could not attend due to an all-day FreeBSD Foundation meeting and and even FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board meeting. The FreeBSD devsummit was held the next two days in parallel to the tutorials. Gordon Tetlow, who organized the devsummit, opened the devsummit. Deb Goodkin from the FreeBSD Foundation gave the first talk with a Foundation update, highlighting current and future efforts. Li-Wen Hsu is now employed by the Foundation to assist in QA work (Jenkins, CI/CD) and Gordon Tetlow has a part-time contract to help secteam as their secretary. Next, the FreeBSD core team (among them Allan and Benedict) gave a talk about what has happened this last term. With a core election currently running, some of these items will carry over to the next core team, but there were also some finished ones like the FCP process and FreeBSD members initiative. People in the audience asked questions on various topics of interest. After the coffee break, the release engineering team gave a talk about their efforts in terms of making releases happen in time and good quality. Benedict had to give his Ansible tutorial in the afternoon, which had roughly 15 people attending. Most of them beginners, we could get some good discussions going and I also learned a few new tricks. The overall feedback was positive and one even asked what I’m going to teach next year. The second day of the FreeBSD devsummit began with Gordon Tetlow giving an insight into the FreeBSD Security team (aka secteam). He gave a overview of secteam members and responsibilities, explaining the process based on a long past advisory. Developers were encouraged to help out secteam. NDAs and proper disclosure of vulnerabilities were also discussed, and the audience had some feedback and questions. When the coffee break was over, the FreeBSD 12.0 planning session happened. A Google doc served as a collaborative way of gathering features and things left to do. People signed up for it or were volunteered. Some features won’t make it into 12.0 as they are not 100% ready for prime time and need a few more rounds of testing and bugfixing. Still, 12.0 will have some compelling features. A 360° group picture was taken after lunch, and then people split up into the working groups for the afternoon or started hacking in the UofO Henderson residence. Benedict and Allan both attended the OpenZFS working group, lead by Matt Ahrens. He presented the completed and outstanding work in FreeBSD, without spoiling too much of the ZFS presentations of various people that happened later at the conference. Benedict joined the boot code session a bit late (hallway track is the reason) when most things seem to have already been discussed. BSDCan 2018 — Ottawa (In Pictures) iXsystems Photos from BSDCan 2018 ##News Roundup June HardenedBSD Foundation Update We at HardenedBSD are working towards starting up a 501©(3) not-for-profit organization in the USA. Setting up this organization will allow future donations to be tax deductible. We’ve made progress and would like to share with you the current state of affairs. We have identified, sent invitations out, and received acceptance letters from six people who will serve on the HardenedBSD Foundation Board of Directors. You can find their bios below. In the latter half of June 2018 or the beginning half of July 2018, we will meet for the first time as a board and formally begin the process of creating the documentation needed to submit to the local, state, and federal tax services. Here’s a brief introduction to those who will serve on the board: W. Dean Freeman (Advisor): Dean has ten years of professional experience with deploying and security Unix and networking systems, including assessing systems security for government certification and assessing the efficacy of security products. He was introduced to Unix via FreeBSD 2.2.8 on an ISP shell account as a teenager. Formerly, he was the Snort port maintainer for FreeBSD while working in the Sourcefire VRT, and has contributed entropy-related patches to the FreeBSD and HardenedBSD projects – a topic on which he presented at vBSDCon 2017. Ben La Monica (Advisor): Ben is a Senior Technology Manager of Software Engineering at Morningstar, Inc and has been developing software for over 15 years in a variety of languages. He advocates open source software and enjoys tinkering with electronics and home automation. George Saylor (Advisor): George is a Technical Directory at G2, Inc. Mr. Saylor has over 28 years of information systems and security experience in a broad range of disciplines. His core focus areas are automation and standards in the event correlation space as well as penetration and exploitation of computer systems. Mr Saylor was also a co-founder of the OpenSCAP project. Virginia Suydan (Accountant and general administrator): Accountant and general administrator for the HardenedBSD Foundation. She has worked with Shawn Webb for tax and accounting purposes for over six years. Shawn Webb (Director): Co-founder of HardenedBSD and all-around infosec wonk. He has worked and played in the infosec industry, doing both offensive and defensive research, for around fifteen years. He loves open source technologies and likes to frustrate the bad guys. Ben Welch (Advisor): Ben is currently a Security Engineer at G2, Inc. He graduated from Pennsylvania College of Technology with a Bachelors in Information Assurance and Security. Ben likes long walks, beaches, candlelight dinners, and attending various conferences like BSides and ShmooCon. ###Your own VPN with OpenIKED & OpenBSD Remote connectivity to your home network is something I think a lot of people find desirable. Over the years, I’ve just established an SSH tunnel and use it as a SOCKS proxy, sending my traffic through that. It’s a nice solution for a “poor man’s VPN”, but it can be a bit clunky, and it’s not great having to expose SSH to the world, even if you make sure to lock everything down I set out the other day to finally do it properly. I’d come across this great post by Gordon Turner: OpenBSD 6.2 VPN Endpoint for iOS and macOS Whilst it was exactly what I was looking for, it outlined how to set up an L2TP VPN. Really, I wanted IKEv2 for performance and security reasons (I won’t elaborate on this here, if you’re curious about the differences, there’s a lot of content out on the web explaining this). The client systems I’d be using have native support for IKEv2 (iOS, macOS, other BSD systems). But, I couldn’t find any tutorials in the same vein. So, let’s get stuck in! A quick note ✍️ This guide will walk through the set up of an IKEv2 VPN using OpenIKED on OpenBSD. It will detail a “road warrior” configuration, and use a PSK (pre-shared-key) for authentication. I’m sure it can be easily adapted to work on any other platforms that OpenIKED is available on, but keep in mind my steps are specifically for OpenBSD. Server Configuration As with all my home infrastructure, I crafted this set-up declaratively. So, I had the deployment of the VM setup in Terraform (deployed on my private Triton cluster), and wrote the configuration in Ansible, then tied them together using radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible. One of the reasons I love Ansible is that its syntax is very simplistic, yet expressive. As such, I feel it fits very well into explaining these steps with snippets of the playbook I wrote. I’ll link the full playbook a bit further down for those interested. See the full article for the information on: sysctl parameters The naughty list (optional) Configure the VPN network interface Configure the firewall Configure the iked service Gateway configuration Client configuration Troubleshooting DigitalOcean ###FreeBSD on a System76 Galago Pro Hey all, It’s been a while since I last posted but I thought I would hammer something out here. My most recent purchase was a System76 Galago Pro. I thought, afer playing with POP! OS a bit, is there any reason I couldn’t get BSD on this thing. Turns out the answer is no, no there isnt and it works pretty decently. To get some accounting stuff out of the way I tested this all on FreeBSD Head and 11.1, and all of it is valid as of May 10, 2018. Head is a fast moving target so some of this is only bound to improve. The hardware Intel Core i5 Gen 8 UHD Graphics 620 16 GB DDR4 Ram RTL8411B PCI Express Card Reader RTL8111 Gigabit ethernet controller Intel HD Audio Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB NVMe The caveats There are a few things that I cant seem to make work straight out of the box, and that is the SD Card reader, the backlight, and the audio is a bit finicky. Also the trackpad doesn’t respond to two finger scrolling. The wiki is mostly up to date, there are a few edits that need to be made still but there is a bug where I cant register an account yet so I haven’t made all the changes. Processor It works like any other Intel processor. Pstates and throttling work. Graphics The boot menu sets itself to what looks like 1024x768, but works as you expect in a tiny window. The text console does the full 3200x1800 resolution, but the text is ultra tiny. There isnt a font for the console that covers hidpi screens yet. As for X Windows it requres the drm-kmod-next package. Once installed follow the directions from the package and it works with almost no fuss. I have it running on X with full intel acceleration, but it is running at it’s full 3200x1800 resolution, to scale that down just do xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.5x0.5 it will blow it up to roughly 200%. Due to limitations with X windows and hidpi it is harder to get more granular. Intel Wireless 8265 The wireless uses the iwm module, as of right now it does not seem to automagically load right now. Adding iwm_load=“YES” will cause the module to load on boot and kldload iwm Battery I seem to be getting about 5 hours out of the battery, but everything reports out of the box as expected. I could get more by throttling the CPU down speed wise. Overall impression It is a pretty decent experience. While not as polished as a Thinkpad there is a lot of potential with a bit of work and polishing. The laptop itself is not bad, the keyboard is responsive. The build quality is pretty solid. My only real complaint is the trackpad is stiff to click and sort of tiny. They seem to be a bit indifferent to non linux OSes running on the gear but that isnt anything new. I wont have any problems using it and is enough that when I work through this laptop, but I’m not sure at this stage if my next machine will be a System76 laptop, but they have impressed me enough to put them in the running when I go to look for my next portable machine but it hasn’t yet replaced the hole left in my heart by lenovo messing with the thinkpad. ###Hardware accelerated AES/HMAC-SHA on octeons In this commit, visa@ submitted code (disabled for now) to use built-in acceleration on octeon CPUs, much like AESNI for x86s. I decided to test tcpbench(1) and IPsec, before and after updating and enabling the octcrypto(4) driver. I didn't capture detailed perf stats from before the update, I had heard someone say that Edgerouter Lite boxes would only do some 6MBit/s over ipsec, so I set up a really simple ipsec.conf with ike esp from A to B leading to a policy of esp tunnel from A to B spi 0xdeadbeef auth hmac-sha2-256 enc aes going from one ERL to another (I collect octeons, so I have a bunch to test with) and let tcpbench run for a while on it. My numbers hovered around 7Mbit/s, which coincided with what I've heard, and also that most of the CPU gets used while doing it. Then I edited /sys/arch/octeon/conf/GENERIC, removed the # from octcrypto0 at mainbus0 and recompiled. Booted into the new kernel and got a octcrypto0 line in dmesg, and it was time to rock the ipsec tunnel again. The crypto algorithm and HMAC used by default on ipsec coincides nicely with the list of accelerated functions provided by the driver. Before we get to tunnel traffic numbers, just one quick look at what systat pigs says while the ipsec is running at full steam: PID USER NAME CPU 20 40 60 80 100 58917 root crypto 52.25 ################# 42636 root softnet 42.48 ############## (idle) 29.74 ######### 1059 root tcpbench 24.22 ####### 67777 root crynlk 19.58 ###### So this indicates that the load from doing ipsec and generating the traffic is somewhat nicely evened out over the two cores in the Edgerouter, and there's even some CPU left unused, which means I can actually ssh into it and have it usable. I have had it running for almost 2 days now, moving some 2.1TB over the tunnel. Now for the new and improved performance numbers: 204452123 4740752 37.402 100.00% Conn: 1 Mbps: 37.402 Peak Mbps: 58.870 Avg Mbps: 37.402 204453149 4692968 36.628 100.00% Conn: 1 Mbps: 36.628 Peak Mbps: 58.870 Avg Mbps: 36.628 204454167 5405552 42.480 100.00% Conn: 1 Mbps: 42.480 Peak Mbps: 58.870 Avg Mbps: 42.480 204455188 5202496 40.804 100.00% Conn: 1 Mbps: 40.804 Peak Mbps: 58.870 Avg Mbps: 40.804 204456194 5062208 40.256 100.00% Conn: 1 Mbps: 40.256 Peak Mbps: 58.870 Avg Mbps: 40.256 The tcpbench numbers fluctuate up and down a bit, but the output is nice enough to actually keep tabs on the peak values. Peaking to 58.8MBit/s! Of course, as you can see, the average is lower but nice anyhow. A manyfold increase in performance, which is good enough in itself, but also moves the throughput from a speed that would make a poor but cheap gateway to something actually useful and decent for many home network speeds. Biggest problem after this gets enabled will be that my options to buy cheap used ERLs diminish. ##Beastie Bits Using FreeBSD Text Dumps llvm’s lld now the default linker for amd64 on FreeBSD Author Discoverability Pledge and Unveil in OpenBSD {pdf} EuroBSDCon 2018 CFP Closes June 17, hurry up and get your submissions in Just want to attend, but need help getting to the conference? Applications for the Paul Schenkeveld travel grant accepted until June 15th Tarsnap ##Feedback/Questions Casey - ZFS on Digital Ocean Jürgen - A Question Kevin - Failover best practice Dennis - SQL Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

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Our first mailbag episode! Lee, Will, and Jake will be answering questions that people in the forums have been asking; there are lots of great questions, some fun questions, tons of insightful answers, and even some differing opinions. Link SVS Forum Check out the SVS forums. You do not have to be a subscriber to participate in the forums. It’s a safe space with a super helpful community, where you can post questions or your work (anywhere from sketches to finished painting) and get feedback from the SVS community. Q: Where do we (Will Jake and Lee) see themselves in ten years? 4:00 Having a 10 year plan is advantageous. It allows you to have direction. You can even have a 1, 2, 5, and 10 year plan (Jake likes to do this). It’s best to make your plans project focused. Make sure that in those plans you are planning big projects. Maybe it is a project every year, or every two years. Some people get so involved with just one big project and they noodle at it and go back and forth and keep going back and fixing things as they improve and they can end up spending 10 years on a single project with no finished product to show for it. Try to apply the concept “finished not perfect”. Jake’s Finished Not Perfect YouTube Making an actual plan helps you get the things done as you work to advance your career. Jakes 10 Year Plan: 10 children’s books finished and 5 more graphic novels drawn. He also wants to see where he can take some of those projects and see if they can advance to another form whether it’s a movie, video game, or TV show. Will’s 10 Year Plan: Has matured to the point where he really values the projects he is working on, more than just pumping them out. Has gotten Bonnepart Falls Apart out and he wants to get the next book out and see if they can keep this series going. Will Terry Bonnepart Falls Apart WIll loves teaching and organizing concrete information to help students, where sometimes in college you get bits and pieces of the content. Over the next 10 years he’s going to be trying to create provide a solid curriculum and sees himself doing this within the next couple years. He also wants to start writing and illustrating and getting his own books out. Lee’s 10 Year Plan: Wants to start focusing on the quality and the meaning behind the work and slow down. He enjoys writing books and creating content for the illustrations. He wants to be writing in 10 years and writing his own books, maybe 1 book per year. Also, loves the freedom that comes with online teaching and wants to try to teach 2 classes a year and recruit other teachers. SVS allows Lee to create the classes he thinks will be valuable. SVS Learn Website While Jake, Will, and Lee, matured in their career they came to realize what work became fulfilling to them. Focus on meaning and quality. Consider the questions: what does your ideal day look like and what brings value to you? Q: How to do get ready for a Comic Cons or Art Fair? 14:03 Big question! We are thinking of creating a class to go over this, because all three have done these events and gone through mistakes and have a lot to share. There are a lot of principles to learn. Here is one: Start small- go to a convention. Start observing and go into research and development mode. You want to reverse engineer the convention. Ask yourself: Which tables are you afraid to walk up to, and why? Which tables do have no problem approaching, and why? What made you attracted to a booth? what made you stop in your tracks? Why did you buy from this person? These are the things to consider. You can approach people and ask questions. I.e. Where did you get this banner printed? Find out where you can start. Be respectful of artist’s time. Understand the difference between Comic Cons and Art fairs. Art Fairs have a different crowd. It is much more fine art based. Where people are looking to buy more original art to decorate their house. Whereas Comic Cons are indoor and you sell a lot more work at a cheaper price. You should ask yourself why you want to do this: is it to receive validation? To make money? To build a more personal fan base? You can measure success with you own personal answers to these questions. Q: What are your methods and approaches for time efficiency and consistency for a long project? 22:15 This has been address in a Third Thursday. 3rd Thursday Find short-cuts. I.e. If Will needs to do a lot of grass for a project he will do a whole page of grass and then copy and paste it, and use it throughout the project rather than hand paint each strand on each page. Also, for character consistency he will do head studies for characters you’ll see a lot and then throw them in the right place. I.e. high angle, low angle, straight on, etc. Q: How do you get motivated when you lose steam halfway through and don’t feel motivated? Lee: starts with his favorite spread and then prints it out nice and hangs it up, it acts like a beacon for the rest of the project. He then will do the page he dreads the most because he still has energy. He also mixes his projects in a day and tries to have some other fun projects or paintings. Every painting in the book doesn’t have to have equal value, some pages are just necessary and get you through the book. All spreads don’t bring the same enjoyment. Jake: Create visual checklist/boxes. I.e. layouts, rough sketches, line work, ink, color, for each page. Finds satisfaction in the bubbles being filled. Time yourself, see how long you spend on a page, etc. And then you can budget your time and plan some other projects for the middle so you don’t get bored. Jake like Lee also likes to pick a fun spread to start off with that he is looking forward to, and this also helps the publisher get a feel for the art and makes sure it’s inline with their vision. Ask for more time if you need it but when setting the deadline anticipate more than you really need. Often the client is willing to give you some extra time. Q: What are the differences to being an illustrator or content creator? 32:18 Writing is hard, it takes time. There is a lot of hard work that goes into the writing process. You’re creating a world, and the characters, and there is a lot of nuance to it. If you are a content creator, you are ensuring your own longevity. You aren’t dependent on others always giving you work, and you aren’t sitting around. If you don’t have work you are still moving creating content. This often leads to more paid work. There is a difference between creating the entire visual world vs. just visualizing the world. Contents creators are able to move forward. The writer illustrator understands what needs to be in the text and what can be only illustrations. Success comes easier with these artist/writers that understand the process of perspective, creation, and building of the story. Be apart of the creation and make your own thing. Comes down to failure. Failure is a part of the process get use to it! Q: What is your process in doing master copies? 41:35 Start by studying the image. Start from the ground up. Learn the gesture, structure, shadow, light, and color. Studying process books that break down the steps. I.e. Art of … books. Understand the pattern of what is going on in the master copy. Lee: Understand why you want to do a master copy of this art? Ideal portfolio assignment:Choose 10-20 pieces of work that you wish you did. Look for the consistency and theme. What medium pops up the most. Find approach. Find similarities and difference. Find Go in more informed before actually starting the master copy. Master coping is a great artistic exercise. Understanding the artist and their thought process. Consider: why did they make certain discussion in their art? How did the solve certain problems? How did they figure things out? Don’t just draw a lot but draw with a purpose and be deliberate. Master the basics/ foundations of art. Q: If you can illustrate a small story based off a favorite song what would it be? 50:10 Music is inspiring and provide really great creative inspiration. Challenged to illustrate how a song feels. This could be a artistic challenge. Lee: Tom York without Radiohead. New Order is a classic. David Hone and Lee have an assignment- pick a song a illustrate the song, then the class gets to listen to the song and guess which art fits. Will and Jake are hipsters and listen to London Grammar, Florence and the Machine, Foster the People. Jake: Help by the Beatles would be a great children's book. Will: Permission to love. Will’s Peguin’s Dancing to Permission to Love Beatles YAY or NAY?!?! Q: What is the biggest mistake that amateur artists and students make? 57:38 With the art: Artists need to do the groundwork, previsualization work, character studies, scene studies, color studies, and little tests. Create drafts and sketches, work out all the problems, think about what the image is trying to say, is the image working are a narrative? Amateur artists and students don’t do this will or enough. With the career: Fail to do... Artists need to do the groundwork of understand the field that they want to get into or think they want to get into. Know where you want to be and what it takes to be there. Understand the job whether that is illustration, animation, freelance, and etc. Consider what illustrators do you like, what is the job like day to day, what are some nuances of the job, and what is the job market like. Amateur artists and students don’t do this will or enough. Q: How can I do better in contest? 1:04:20 Enter contest and be comfortable putting your work out there. As a content creator you need to get use to this. With contest- yes, enter them but read the fine print. If you enter and lose learn from the experience. Deconstruct your work and the top art pieces. Be humble enough to look at the winners and think about what they did better and implement those principles into your own work. Q: Do you recommend going to college for illustration? 1:05:50 There are so many factors and this is a complex questions. Jake: If money not a problem do it but if you don’t take what you do have and make a self learning program. Be smart, self motivated and get you can receive the same or better education for much cheaper. Lee: With technology now you can custom build your education from the whole world. There are a lot of choices now. The school is not guarantee to work. Build your portfolio. LINKS svslearn.com Jake Parker, http://mrjakeparker.com. Instagram: @jakeparker, Youtube: JakeParker44 Will Terry, http://willterry.com. Instagram: @willterryart, Youtube: WillTerryArt Lee White, http://leewhiteillustration.com. Instagram: @leewhiteillo forum.svslearn.com Podcast production and editing by Aaron Dowd. Show notes by Tanner Garlick.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 37 minute interview with Andy Demi on Crypto Trading. Or register for Andy's FREE Crypto Trading & Investing Webinar How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 100 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

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In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 33 minute episode about a mysterious trading nomad. Includes clips form my Free Supply & Demand trading webinar with Andy Demi Watch Andy's Free Webinar & Learn His Strategy How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 100 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

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This week's and next week's podcasts will focus on a Q&A session I had with two college students. They fired questions at me that are on their minds, as well as career-related questions their friends wanted to ask. Here are the questions we cover this week (for my answers, listen to the podcast!): Q: When should we start looking for an internship? Q: Where can I look for an internship? Q: How early in college should I start thinking about my career? Q: What can I start doing to make sure I have a job at graduation? Q: Does the major I choose require me to work in that industry? Conversely, do I have to have a specific major to get the job I want? Q: What do employers care about when they are hiring recent college graduates? In other words, what are they looking for? Q: What are some of the worst mistakes I can make on my resume? Q: Should a resume be one page? Q: Is it okay to be more creative with our resume, such as layout, format, color, etc? Q: What are the most important things I should have on my LinkedIn profile? Q: What's the best way to get letters of recommendation? Q: How do I get more connections on LinkedIn? Q: What's the story with the Endorsements section of LinkedIn? Q: How often should I be updating my LinkedIn profile? Q: Should I have business cards, and how should I use them? Q: I don't know anyone in my field. How do I begin networking? Q: What are some tips for making the most of approaching companies at career fairs? Q: What are the best networking tips for someone who hasn't networked before? Q: What are the critical elements of an effective elevator pitch? Q: How long should I wait after a job interview to follow up? Q: What are some good questions to ask the interviewer? Q: Should I bring up salary during the interview? Q: As a recent college graduate, how much wiggle room is there in negotiating my salary? Q: How do I showcase my personality in an interview? To visit my website: www.exclusivecareercoaching.com Follow My YouTube channel (Lesa Edwards); it's chocked full of value career management content is easily digestible bites. Want to speak with an expert about your career/job search goals? Need help figuring out what's holding you back from achieving your dream career? Let's talk. Here's the link to schedule a 30-minute consult call with me:  www.timetrade.com/book/D6KLN. Hope to see you soon! 

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 54 minute interview with Ali Crooks. How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 100 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 54 minute interview with Andre Minassian. How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 54 minute interview with Will Hunting. How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 54 minute interview with Daniel Cheung! How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 54 minute interview with Octavion Gibson! How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full 62 minute interview with Elliot Guinn! How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full interview with Scott Redler! How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning To The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full interview with Charlie Burton! How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning To The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

In just minutes from now, you can be listening to my full interview with Moritz of Tradeciety! How much would you pay to spend an hour with a trader of this caliber? Chances are, you’d never get the chance, but in just minutes from now, you will! And as a special bonus, you will also get 30 days of FREE access to my entire library of interviews with over 90 of the world’s best traders and it's only $5! Click Here To Start Learning From The World’s Best Traders Frequently Asked Questions Q: Can I listen on my Smartphone like a normal Podcast? A: Yes, you can download episodes and listen on Apple’s Podcast App, the Overcast App or on Android’s Podcast Addict App. Q: How often do you release new interviews? A: I promise  up to 4 new interviews a month, sometimes more. Q: Can I listen to the interviews online? A: Yes, when you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes and listen to the interviews. Q: Where can I see the charts and videos left by the traders?A. When you are logged into your Pro Membership you can see all the show notes below the player. Q: Can I cancel the subscription at any time? A: Yes, you can cancel at any time via the members area.

Ep#71: Welcome to Ask ALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it’s our monthly Member Q&A where ALLi Members’ have their most pressing self-publishing questions analyzed and answered. Join your regular hosts for the Member Q&A: indie author's David Penny & Debbie Young. Summary of our Ask ALLi Self-Publishing Member Q&A Topics: Q: Should you use British English or American English? Q: Should a new version become a new book? Q: Can you gain the same visibility for a book on Amazon if you sell it directly? Q: What are some easy book publishing alternatives? Q: How can you check the reputation of a self-publishing service? Q: Is it best to use IngramSpark together with CreateSpace for print? Q: How can I make it seem like I’m a publishing company with a catalogue of books? Q: What’s the industry standard for rights and royalties and what reimbursement arrangement should I use with my illustrator? Q: Where can I get a foreign rights contract template? Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fringe, ALLi’s free online author conference. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish. About your hosts ALLi’s Technical Manager David Penny is the author of the best selling Thomas Berrington Historical Mystery series set in the final years of Moorish Spain, and before returning to writing full time he worked in education, printing and publishing, and for 25 years ran his own software company. Connect with David on Twitter @DavidPenny_ ALLi’s Publications Manger Debbie Young enjoys sharing best practice with our members around the world, as well as running two local authors’ groups and the Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest on her home turf. Small wonder, then, that her cosy mystery series, the Sophie Syers Village Mysteries, is set in a small English village populated with authors and booksellers. Connect with Debbie on Twitter @DebbieYoungBN       Welcome to Ask ALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it’s our monthly Member Q&A where ALLi Members’ have their most pressing self-publishing questions analyzed and answered. Join your regular hosts for the Member Q&A: indie author's David Penny & Debbie Young Summary of our Ask ALLi Self-Publishing Member Q&A Topics: Q: Should you use British English or American English? Q: Should a new version become a new book? Q: Can you gain the same visibility for a book on Amazon if you sell it directly? Q: What are some easy book publishing alternatives? Q: How can you check the reputation of a self-publishing service? Q: Is it best to use IngramSpark together with CreateSpace for print? Q: How can I make it seem like I’m a publishing company with a catalogue of books? Q: What’s the industry standard for rights and royalties and what reimbursement arrangement should I use with my illustrator? Q: Where can I get a foreign rights contract template? Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which includes a beginners and advanced self-publishing salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fringe, ALLi’s free online author conference. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish. Visit our Self-Publishing Advice Center here: selfpublishingadvice.org About your hosts: ALLi’s Technical Manager David Penny is the author of the best selling Thomas Berrington Historical Mystery series set in the final years of Moorish Spain, and before returning to writing full time he worked in education, printing and publishing, and for 25 years ran his own software company. ALLi’s Publications Manger Debbie Young enjoys sharing best practice with our members around the world, as well as running two local authors’ groups and the Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest on her home turf. Small wonder, then, that her cosy mystery series, the Sophie Syers Village Mysteries, is set in a small English village populated with authors and booksellers.

Q: Where is the best place to find massive LAFFS, monstrous new music, charming chat (both kinds: serious and silly) AND at least 40 minutes of hot nineties guys playing board games? A: The new ‘Quiz Night’ Episode of Wolfmania The Podcast, of course. In this week’s very special, ever-so-slightly-harrowing, 100 minute monster jam Andrew and Tim pay a surprisingly heartfelt tribute to the great Harry Dean Stanton and Grant Hart (and then ruin it with a still-heartfelt-but-possibly-poor taste musical homage). We help to discover the NHS’ hottest new lie-down comedian, go slamdancing with the Quincy punks, and test our knowledge (and patience) as we play a politically-charged game of Mike Read’s Pop Quiz. Plus: Jesus Jones doing yoga! Florence and the Machine’s choreographer! Judas Priest in an MRI machine! Font news! Instagram stickers! Totally Killing the Community Clinic! Kim Wilde! Morrissey knows about Phil Collins! Relax! ChIPS! Mayhem! Escape Goats! Busker Du! Heavy weather! More! Warning: This week’s episode has some swearing left in it. Because it’s cool when Harry Dean Stanton does it.

Welcome to The TopDollar Hour. This is Tunacan Jones. Tonight's show is 3 hours that feature the work of Grant Hart.In Husker Du, Nova Mob and his solo work, he was always honest with the art, relationships and the emotions involved. His music and words has influenced my own work from first listens to the revisits that I have done in the last couple of days. These next 3 hours, i hope, will give you what he gave me. I'll start the show witha fun bonus track, an intro demo from The Last Days of Pompeii, named simply, It's Nova Mob Nova Mob - (Intro) It's Nova Mob (bonus track) (1:26)Nova Mob - Wernher Von Braun (2:17)Grant Hart - Barbara (4:17)Hüsker Dü - She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man) (3:21)Grant Hart - A Letter from Anne Marie (6:00)Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue (2:42)Nova Mob - Admiral Of The Sea (79 A.D. Version) (2:24)Grant Hart - I Will Never See My Home (4:36)Grant Hart - Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou (3:45)Hüsker Dü - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely (3:31)Husker Du - Terms Of Psychic Warfare (2:19)Hüsker Dü - Sorry Somehow (4:29)Nova Mob - Introduction (3:16)Nova Mob - Over My Head (3:42)Hüsker Dü - Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope (3:15)Nova Mob - The Last Days of Pompeii (rough mix) (4:18)Nova Mob - Little Miss Information (3:49)Hüsker Dü - Dead Set on Destruction (3:01)Grant Hart - Twenty-Five Forty-One (4:47)Nova Mob - If I Was Afraid / Coda (6:02) Q: Have your sources of inspiration for song writing changed over the years?A: I would say that it’s probably more broad now. Quite a bit more broad. For example on the last album released, as well as there being the Echo and Narcissus song, there’s a song about Charles Hollis Jones, who’s a furniture designer, as well as something that is based on a remark made by a Buddhist monk during the selection of the Panchen Lama. He said, in reference to the candidate for Lamahood: “Oh, he is like the reflection of the moon on the water but he’s not the moon” and I used that as an inspiration. I guess I would have to examine the earlier stuff but I think it was probably more like emotional involvements, feeling your way through relationships and things like that. But that seems to find it’s integration into the new stuff as well.Interview by Imelda Michalczyk(August 2013)Rockshot MagHüsker Dü - She Floated Away (3:38)Grant Hart - I Am Death (2:33)Grant Hart - I Knew All About You Since Then (2:08)Hüsker Dü - No Promise Have I Made (3:41)Husker Du - Books About UFOs (2:49)Grant Hart - California Zephyr (2:59)Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer (3:02)Grant Hart - Shine, Shine, Shine (4:33)Hüsker Dü - Green Eyes (3:02)Nova Mob - See and Feel and Know (2:43) Q: Where do songs come from? I've listened many times to this explanation: "they are out there floating and you just have to be 'tuned' so you can get them". It's the classic idea of inspiration as an outer force. Is it just easier to attribute it to higher powers?A: I believe we attribute to higher powers that which we find god-like in ourselves. There is a mystical moment often called the moment of inspiration when we realize we have an exciting idea. If it were a duplicable event, then it would not be special feeling. There is a certain gloating that happens when we realize that we are to be given credit for something that just occurred. What is better than to be able to say, if only for a moment, “I am brilliant!"' Whether we acknowledge it or not it, is satisfying to be creative, to be a creator, to match God. Doing what we like to do, in a fashion and to a degree uncommon, (it) feels pretty fucking good.From an Inteview by Luis Boullosa(August 2013)Website: Perfect Sound Forever Hüsker Dü - Turn On The News (4:27)Hüsker Dü - Keep Hanging On (3:19)Grant Hart - You're the Reflection of the Moon on the Water (4:20)Hüsker Dü - Never Talking To You Again (1:40)Grant Hart - She Can See The Angels Coming (3:47)Hüsker Dü - Every Everything (1:58)Hüsker Dü - Actual Condition (1:52)Nova Mob - The Sins of Their Sons (2:49)Hüsker Dü - Dreams Reoccurring (1:40)Grant Hart - Now That You Know Me (3:56)Grant Hart - Come, Come (3:17)Grant Hart - Underneath the Apple Tree (3:09)Grant Hart - Teeny's Hair (3:17)Grant Hart - It Isn't Love (4:15)Grant Hart - Charles Hollis Jones (4:23)Grant Hart - Out of Chaos (1:57)Grant Hart - Morningstar (4:19)Grant Hart - Awake, Arise! (5:16) Grant Hart had demons that could fuel a life or tear it down. He has managed to navigate through them all with his relationshop to art, music and the written word. His success was defined by his unwillingness to compromise on an artistic and personal level. As the cliche goes, it was a blessing and a curse. Grant Hart's legacy, however, is best left up for him to define.“A long time ago, I started looking at my permanent record — the history of me after I’m gone,” Grant Hart said. “Even to speak of it reeks of egotism run wild. But I think when all is said and done, the work that I produced in this lifetime will more than repay the world for any inconvenience I’ve caused it.” - from a 2009 Star Tribune interview.We're going to end the show with Grant Hart's song, "The Main" from his first solo album, "Intolerance", which was released on December 12, 1989.Thank you for listening. Grant Hart - The Main (4:06) Husker Du 1979-1988Nova Mob 1989 - 1994Grant Hart (Solo) 1995 - 2013

Clinical sexologist Dr. Doe gets the giggles listening to the producer of Sexplanations, Matthew Gaydos, answer your sex questions. Sextra Credit: Answer the questions yourself. Q: What does "sexually active" mean? Q: Who do you have sex with? Q: Is there something people do in their sex lives that they think is good but you think is dysfunctional? Q: How do I get my sex drive back? Q: How can I learn about sexuality without experimenting? Q: Can you explain asexuality? Q: Does anyone else think speculums look like a duck? Q: What can I do if I'm allergic to latex? Q: How do I get started masturbating? Q: What is the how-to on vaginal hygiene? Q: What is the difference between an STI and an STD? Q: Do I have to do anything differently with a condom if I have a foreskin? Q: How can we know we're being safe and doing it right? Q: What do you masturbate to? Q: What should I know about choosing a dildo? Q: Can you talk about periods? Q: What are the pros and cons of the birth control pill? Q: Where do I go to talk about my asexuality? Q: What's the best way to clean out sebum before it turns into smegma? Q: Can you eat smegma? Q: How come when I finger myself, it feels completely different than when my partner fingers me? Q: Can you get pregnant from a handjob or a blowjob? Q: Can you lose your virginity to a speculum? Q: What is BDSM? Q: What do you think about sapiosexuality? Q: What are your thoughts on shaving pubic hair? Q: How do you feel about sex for recreation? Q: How do you feel about the legality of prostitution? Q: How do you go about choosing a dildo?

Welcome to episode 153, this week I discuss my thoughts on @ mentions in LinkedIn posts. There seems to be a growing trend out there and I’m not sure it’s all good. But first…… Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week It looks like LinkedIn are making no headway with Russia; Russia says ‘nyet,’ continues LinkedIn block after it refuses to store data in Russia Perhaps Jeff Weiner needs to have a word with his new President…..I believe he has some good contacts in Russia!! Update Last week I featured a question from Jamie…..firstly I used the wrong name! It was actually from Robert Curley….apologies Robert. Giles got in touch with a solution to this issue. Apparently the URL; http://www.linkedin.com/people/invites still works and will take you back to the old sent invites page, this version allows you to see the message you sent (assuming you had personalised the message in the first place) Thanks to Giles Davis for that. New Desktop Design Update LinkedIn are now rolling out more ‘advanced’ filters in search, I don’t have the feature yet but I saw this screenshot this week. Whilst LinkedIn are clearing adding features back in, they don’t seem to be fixing bugs as quickly! Recommendations are still badly broken and I’m finding the lack of the ‘hover over profile preview’ really annoying. @ Mentions. Are they being overused? I’m noticing an increasing amount of posts that are using the @mention feature in what I feel is an inappropriate manner. The above example is one but I have also seen it where someone posts something less promotional - maybe some content and @mentions a ton of people. This would be OK if those people are asked to contribute or answer a question but in isolation it feels a bit pushy to me. The hidden message seems to be ‘Please share my content’ but there are better, more personal ways to ask someone to share your content. I have also noticed a growing trend towards @mentions in comments. This can work very well for instance the below example where I am being asked to help or you might ask for someone’s point of view; But I have also noticed a lot of people just tagging someone…no comment or question just their name. This is being used as a way to share the post with someone, which is good but the right way to do this is to ‘share’ the post via a message That is how I see it but I’m interested to know what you think. Drop me a line at mark@linkedinformed.com or better still, leave me a voice mail by clicking on the link at the side of this page (see image below) Q - Why don't I get notified when all my contacts post an article? Previously we received a notification when one of our contacts had published a Pulse blog (now article). Now I only see a few notifications from my contacts publishing articles. This week I know of two people who published an article, but it did not show in my Notifications! Ans - The algorithm has definitely changed on this front. The problem is that so many people are publishing articles and LinkedIn does not want to overwhelm you! I think they will only notify you when someone you have shown more interest in posts. Activity and engagement definitely helps the algorithm to make better decisions for us so perhaps try engaging more with those members and their articles. Q - Where do I go to browse through my draft articles. Is this missing from the new UI? Ans - No the link you need is shown below; Social Media Communication Talk I’m delivering a short TED style talk this coming week in Manchester. It’s not specifically about LinkedIn but more about how we are all learning how to communicate again with social media. If you are in the area, why not come along and say hello. This is also a brand new talk so I would really appreciate some feedback. TED Discussion Group Event. 14th March 7-9pm, Manchester

PIEMONT on: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Piemontmusic/ - SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/piemont HOW I MET THE BASS on: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/howimetthebass - Twitter: https://twitter.com/howimetthebass - Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/HowIMetTheBass 3 QUESTIONS to PIEMONT: Q: Talking about your mix: what do these tracks mean to you? How did you meet the bass? A: Compared to most of our colleagues we haven't been DJing that long. We were producers first and started with DJing about 10 yeasrs ago. In our youth, we weren't much into dance music at all. Rather, we were listening to all kind of non electronic rock music and were playing in bands as guitarists and singers. We both found, however, our way to electronic music in early days via French House-acts as for instance Daft Punk and Le Rythmes Digitales or Propellerheads. The tracks we selected for this podcast were actually the ones that inspired us most while we started our music ambitions with Piemont. Some of these tunes still keep inspire us and have pretty much an effect on how we sound today. Q: Where´s your favorite place to play your music on this planet? A: Well, difficult to decide. We really enjoyed our Japan tour which was our most remarkable experience so far. We definitely love to play in Switzerland since we dig the diverse club scene and have lots of friends living there. Of course we like Berlin clubs like Watergate and Kater Blau where we had some amazing parties. Q: Which Piemont releases are coming up next? A: We have some cool stuff coming up the next month. First of all we have signed our third EP to our favourite imprint from Italy: Lapsus Music. Moreover, we‘ll release our first EP on Berlin based 'Keno Records'. We've also a bunch of remixes coming up for the likes of Milk & Sugar Recordings and Wally Lopez.

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Ep#25: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here’s the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: Is ALLi continuing to work with Ingram Spark this year and are they offering a self-publishing discount to ALLi Members? Q: Do you have Insights about iUniverse Services? Q: What are the legal issues about setting up your publisher imprint? Q: What are the differences between CreateSpace and Ingram Spark POD distribution services? Q: Should authors release their books in Hardback? Q: Do ALLi maintain a list of reputable book Editors? Q: Is there such a thing as a "Book Shepherd" who could help an aspiring author publish their first book? Q: Is there any recourse if my publisher won't take my book off Amazon or Barnes and Noble? Q: I'm publishing my book via Lightening Source, but on CreateSpace it shows that it has a long lead time for delivery. Is there anything I can do about this? And why is this happening to a POD version of my book? Q: Where can I find my ALLi Author Seal (and affiliate code?) Q: What's the #1 Marketing Tip for Authors? Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fringe, ALLi’s free online author conference. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish. About your hosts Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author, as well as writing non-fiction for authors. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporations across the globe before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur in September 2011. Connect with Joanna on Twitter @thecreativepenn Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. Connect with Orna on Twitter @OrnaRoss

Ep#23: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn answer members' questions on writing, publishing and promoting books. Here’s the questions posed to Orna and Joanna this month: Q: If I get a Bookbub, what other promotional activity should I be doing? Q: Has anyone had experience with Kirkus Reviews or other paid review sites? Q: Is 2 books enough for a box set? Q: “Translating is the new black” but how do you assess the final work? Q: How can I copyright protect the short stories that I’m selling directly from my website? Q: Where should I start with publishing a printed illustrated children’s book? Q: How do you make your characters seem unique? Q: What’s the best way to get Amazon Reviews, and how many reviews should I aim for? Our weekly Self-Publishing Advice broadcast is brought to you by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. This Member Self-Publishing Q&A is one of four regular shows, which include a more advanced salon, a beginners' salon and a special guest highlight presentation from the Indie Author Fringe, ALLi’s free online author conference. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our self-publishing advice center, www.selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at www.allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish. About your hosts Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author, as well as writing non-fiction for authors. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant in large corporations across the globe before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur in September 2011. Connect with Joanna on Twitter @thecreativepenn Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. Connect with Orna on Twitter @OrnaRoss

RSR003 - Joe Gilder - HomeStudioCorner.com Recordingstudiorockstars.com Text RSROCKSTARS to 33-444 and get free content delivered to your email! Get FREE Mix Training Videos at MixMasterBundle.com     My guest today is Joe Gilder. He is songwriter, producer, engineer, teacher and innovator in the online world of music production, blogging, and podcasting. Joe’s focus is the home studio owner, to help you create the best recordings you can. He has created a fantastic resource and website called HomeStudioCorner.com   In his own words: “Home Studio Corner (HSC) exists to help home studios excel. It gives you LOTS of ways to expand your recording knowledge, hone your recording skills, and make better recordings.”   Joe offers articles, videos, podcasts, and training products so that you can start learning for free now and dive in for much more in depth training when you are ready.   Here are some of the topics we discussed on the show.   Dueling Mixes: Dueling Mixes is for users who are comfortable with their DAW and want to go deeper into what the program can do. The site offers alternate mixes of the same song so the user can compare the two and see how different a single track can be mixed. They can also download the original track to mix the song themselves. Joe and his co-host Graham Cochrane create videos on how they mix the songs to give you insights into the process.   “Home Studio Corner” & “Simply Recording” Podcast: Joe talks about the production of one of his albums from 2010. He brings up the 80/20 rule which states 80% of your results comes from 20% of the inputs given. He talked about how he was going to write 50 songs in 12 weeks to create at least 10 that he was proud of.   Predicting The Cost of a Record: Joe talks about how to plan out how long and how much time it will cost to complete a record. This goes back to knowing how long it takes you to accomplish something in order to accurately predict how long the process will take. Joe talks about the value of salesmanship when quoting a client on how much his services will cost.   Recording Advice - Q&A: Q- “What is the most important advice you have?” A - “Getting it right at the source.” Q - “What was an important failure or setback that became an important learning lesson for you in the studio or in your musical journey? A - “The more I learned about the proper way to record music, the less time I spent creating it.” Q - “Tell us about a moment of success in your recording career.” A - “Listening back to old recordings and noticing how the emotion of the songs are still coming through, even after so much time.” Q - “Where can we find your album “Better This Way?” A - “You can find it at http://www.joegildermusic.com/ Q - “Tell us about something you’re excited about right now.” A - “I am most excited about writing more music, especially in the studio with my drummer and bassist.” Q - “How do you imagine capturing that writing process with a group of people like that?” A - “I think it would be let’s just set up a recording session and jam until we come up with something or jam to a click to build a track that way.”   The “Jam Session” Q&A: Q - “What was holding you back from getting started in recording?” A - “Feeling like I had to do everything myself.” Q - “What was some of the best advice you received about recording?” A - “Get it right at the source.” Q - “How about a tip hack or secret sauce that you would like to share from your experience?” A - “Committing to time-based effects at the time of the recording.” Q - “Do you have a favorite book you would like to share?” A - “I love the War of Art by Steven Pressfield.” Q - “Can you share a favorite hardware tool of the studio?” A - “I love the Avid Eleven Rack for the different guitar tones I can get.” Q - “How about a favorite software tool?” A - “Presonus Studio One. I don’t even have Pro Tools installed anymore.” Q - “Would you like to just drop a reference to one favorite new feature that exists in it that you’re liking a lot right now?” A - “I like the feature that lets you to route the plug-in chain on any channel and split the signal, and do different things on each part of the signal” Q - “How about a great resource for the business part of the recording studio?” A - “The Audio Income Project is the great resource for freelance engineers at http://www.audioincome.com/sp/24311-order” Q - “If you were dropped into a strange city and you could only take a simple setup for recording, what would you choose, how would you find people to record, and how would you make ends meet right away to continue recording?” A - “The rig - a laptop with Presonus, an interface, and a mic. People to record - you have to go to where the musicians are and find them. Q - “What if someone is in a town that doesn’t have many musicians?” A - “Everything can be done online now. http://crowdaudio.com/ is a great place for finding songs to mix.” Q - “How can our listeners follow you?” A - “http://www.homestudiocorner.com/, Simply Recording Podcast,   https://twitter.com/joegildermusic, https://www.facebook.com/joegilder For more about Joe go to HomeStudioCorner.com RSR003 - Joe Gilder - HomeStudioCorner.com   Recordingstudiorockstars.com Text RSROCKSTARS to 33-444 and get free content delivered to your email!   My guest today is Joe Gilder. He is songwriter, producer, engineer, teacher and innovator in the online world of music production, blogging, and podcasting. Joe’s focus is the home studio owner, to help you create the best recordings you can. He has created a fantastic resource and website called HomeStudioCorner.com   In his own words: "Home Studio Corner (HSC) exists to help home studios excel. It gives you LOTS of ways to expand your recording knowledge, hone your recording skills, and make better recordings."   Joe offers articles, videos, podcasts, and training products so that you can start learning for free now and dive in for much more in depth training when you are ready.   Here are some of the topics we discussed on the show.   Dueling Mixes: Dueling Mixes is for users who are comfortable with their DAW and want to go deeper into what the program can do. The site offers alternate mixes of the same song so the user can compare the two and see how different a single track can be mixed. They can also download the original track to mix the song themselves. Joe and his co-host Graham Cochrane create videos on how they mix the songs to give you insights into the process.   “Home Studio Corner” & “Simply Recording” Podcast: Joe talks about the production of one of his albums from 2010. He brings up the 80/20 rule which states 80% of your results comes from 20% of the inputs given. He talked about how he was going to write 50 songs in 12 weeks to create at least 10 that he was proud of.   Predicting The Cost of a Record: Joe talks about how to plan out how long and how much time it will cost to complete a record. This goes back to knowing how long it takes you to accomplish something in order to accurately predict how long the process will take. Joe talks about the value of salesmanship when quoting a client on how much his services will cost.   Recording Advice - Q&A: Q- “What is the most important advice you have?” A - “Getting it right at the source.” Q - “What was an important failure or setback that became an important learning lesson for you in the studio or in your musical journey? A - “The more I learned about the proper way to record music, the less time I spent creating it.” Q - “Tell us about a moment of success in your recording career.” A - “Listening back to old recordings and noticing how the emotion of the songs are still coming through, even after so much time.” Q - “Where can we find your album “Better This Way?” A - “You can find it at http://www.joegildermusic.com/ Q - “Tell us about something you’re excited about right now.” A - “I am most excited about writing more music, especially in the studio with my drummer and bassist.” Q - “How do you imagine capturing that writing process with a group of people like that?” A - “I think it would be let’s just set up a recording session and jam until we come up with something or jam to a click to build a track that way.”   The “Jam Session” Q&A: Q - “What was holding you back from getting started in recording?” A - “Feeling like I had to do everything myself.” Q - “What was some of the best advice you received about recording?” A - “Get it right at the source.” Q - “How about a tip hack or secret sauce that you would like to share from your experience?” A - “Committing to time-based effects at the time of the recording.” Q - “Do you have a favorite book you would like to share?” A - “I love the War of Art by Steven Pressfield.” Q - “Can you share a favorite hardware tool of the studio?” A - “I love the Avid Eleven Rack for the different guitar tones I can get.” Q - “How about a favorite software tool?” A - “Presonus Studio One. I don’t even have Pro Tools installed anymore.” Q - “Would you like to just drop a reference to one favorite new feature that exists in it that you’re liking a lot right now?” A - “I like the feature that lets you to route the plug-in chain on any channel and split the signal, and do different things on each part of the signal” Q - “How about a great resource for the business part of the recording studio?” A - “The Audio Income Project is the great resource for freelance engineers at http://www.audioincome.com/sp/24311-order” Q - “If you were dropped into a strange city and you could only take a simple setup for recording, what would you choose, how would you find people to record, and how would you make ends meet right away to continue recording?” A - “The rig - a laptop with Presonus, an interface, and a mic. People to record - you have to go to where the musicians are and find them. Q - “What if someone is in a town that doesn’t have many musicians?” A - “Everything can be done online now. http://crowdaudio.com/ is a great place for finding songs to mix.” Q - “How can our listeners follow you?” A - “http://www.homestudiocorner.com/, Simply Recording Podcast, https://twitter.com/joegildermusic, https://www.facebook.com/joegilder   For more about Joe go to HomeStudioCorner.com

Q: Has the real estate investment market reached its peak? A: Yes-for this cycle. How high it can go is yet to be determined. Q: Where are the next areas to be developed? A: Interest in Manhattan shifts west. Properties near transportation most desirable.

Q: Where did the vampire open his savings account? A: At a blood bank Q: Why doesn’t anyone like Count Dracula? A: He’s a pain in the neck Q: When is a vampire movie NOT a vampire movie? A: When it’s a VAMPIRE COP movie! Fresh off the success of 1987’s CANNIBAL HOOKERS and 1989’s SCREAM DREAM, Donald Farmer decided to meld together HORROR and ACTION and came up with a cop that TAKES A BITE OUT OF CRIME! And this Vampire Cop *SUCKS*! Moe and Doug say FANGS for the memories as they BAT their eyelids at the numerous unclothed boys and GHOULS. OTHER PUNS! So much is at STAKE! DUELING RAY ROMANO IMPRESSIONS! This episode has it ALL. Enjoy VAMPIRE COP! Want more of this goodness? Support No-Budget Nightmare on PATREON! Go ahead and check out NO-BUDGET NIGHTMARES on Facebook! You’ll be our best friend. Or check out Moe and Doug on Twitter! And head over to Daily Grindhouse for all of your horror/exploitation film writing needs.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Dr. Marc Faber, renowned investor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, speaks with our host Nina Xiang. Dr. Faber shares his thoughts on why China's economic problems are solvable, explains the reasons behind his belief that China is likely to keep its currency stable, and rebukes the argument that capital may be flying out of China for a lack of confidence in the world's second largest economy. Read an excerpt or watch an abbreviated video version of the interview. Be sure to listen to the full interview in the audio podcast. Don't forget to subscribe to China Money Podcast for free in the iTunes store. Q: We are in your spectacular house in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The walls are covered with pictures from China's Maoist era and the Cultural Revolution. From where you stand, how is the Chinese economy doing? A: In order to understand China, you have to go back in history. After the revolution and the opening up, the growth during the 1990s up until now has been mind-boggling. In 1980, China consumed 2% of the world's industrial commodities. By 2000, it was 12%, and now it is 47%. Now the growth in China is obviously slowing down. But if you look at the U.S., there were 19 recessions during the 19th century, then the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the country continued to grow. So, I wouldn't be too worried about the problems in China for the near term. I think it's solvable. Hopefully, it is painful because the society needs some pain from time to time, then the economy takes off again. Q: Where do you think the pain will be specifically? A: Obviously, in the property market. There are a lot of property developments that will not have positive returns. There is also over-capacity in some basic industries, steel and other basic materials. That's where pain will be. Q: What is the biggest risk the economy faces? A: The biggest risk is that credit has grown far more than economic activities. The debt-to-GDP ratio has increased dramatically. Essentially, China is borrowing economic growth from the future. Once the debt reaches a level where it's difficult to maintain the pace of growth, the economy automatically slows down. But what is frequently missing in the discussion of credit is what is credit used for. If you look at Korea and Japan in the 1950s to 1970s, credit was used for capital spending, infrastructure, plants, education, research and development. That credit generates cash flow, which can repay the debt. The worst credit is what the U.S. has, which is consumer credit. People borrow to buy a car or a washing machine. That does not generate income and becomes burdensome to the household. Some people argue that China has overbuilt roads, tunnels, bridges and trains. But I don't see it that way. In the U.S. during the 19th century, the country constructed lots of canals and railroads. All the canal companies, including the Erie Canal, went bankrupt. About 95% of the railroads had to be refinanced or went bankrupt. But the network facilitated the country's trade and commerce significantly. So China is doing the right thing. Q: Sounds like you are not too worried about China's elevated debt level? A: We live in a world with excessive liquidity created by money printing of central banks. That liquidity flows into real estate, stocks, bonds, art and commodities from one place in the world to another. Relative to the U.S., China's stock market has become inexpensive. So, we had recently this huge bull market in Chinese stocks with colossal speculation. It doesn't mean that the whole thing will collapse and make new lows. But after this burst of volume, we could easily see a significant correction. I bought China Life Insurance at HK$21, and now it's close to HK$40. It almost doubled in less than six months. I think it can easily drop 20% to 30%. Q: The U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__tu2rWRew In this episode of China Money Podcast, co-founder of Amalfi Capital, Tristen Langley, talks with our host, Nina Xiang, on Alibaba Group's US$586 million acquisition of an 18% stake of Sina's Weibo, her investment firm's winning and losing bets, and the future challenges facing China's e-commerce industry. Listen to the full-interview in the audio podcast, watch the shortened video version or read an excerpt below. Q: Alibaba Group just bought 18% of Sina's Weibo for US$586 million, valuing the Chinese twitter-like site at US$3 billion. Do you think it's a fair valuation? A: Weibo has almost 500 million users, and is still growing. Compared to Twitter and other U.S. comparable, the valuation is probably modest. But this is a very strategic alliance. So a lot of the valuation is driven by Alibaba's motivation to leverage Weibo's audience. It's estimated that 14% of Weibo's traffic is being pushed onto Alibaba's Taobao site. That sort of potential synergy makes the valuation very reasonable for Alibaba. Q: Sina expects that the new strategic alliance will generate US$380 million in extra revenue over the next 3 years. Do you think users' habits will be changed? A: Any group who communicates on a free platform and doesn't expect to be marketed to can be disengaged (when there is an effort to sell products to them). But by this alliance, Taobao has an opportunity to innovate around product discovery (among Chinese consumers). I think the ways consumers become aware of products still haven't been fully explored in China. Another thing is, Alibaba has a lot of cash. I did a quick tally of Tencent, Netease, Baidu, Focus Media, Qihu, Sina and Alibaba, there are all together US$13 billion of cash sitting on their balance sheet. Q: Where do you see as some good new venues for these companies to invest the cash? A: We've seen (misjudgment) over time. Netease, for example, was putting their cash towards pig farms in 2010. Thank goodness that Netease is now looking to develop their own content and games. So I think the cash should go into their own innovations. It's estimated that about 18% of the options from 2010 to 2012 were given to Weibo's management team as an incentive to create value in essentially a start-up within a big public company. Tencent has proven that this kind of investment (into start-ups within a big company) can have a clear internal rate of return (IRR) and be extremely advantageous. Q: Alibaba is facing competition on all fronts. How do you see China's e-commerce industry's competitive landscape evolving in the next few years? A: The offline and online worlds are going to meet in ways that present unprecedented challenges. For example, Suning Appliance bought Redbaby, an online e-commerce site for baby goods and now expanded to other products. Redbaby started from catalog services, developed into online e-commerce, to telephone ordering. This merger with Suning will present extreme challenges just integrating the back-end systems. But Alibaba and Taobao are still well ahead of the game. It's up for others to catch up, form alliances to take on the gorilla in the room. Q: Tell us some background on Amalfi Capital that you co-founded? A: Amalfi Capital is a global technology investment fund with a long-short equity strategy. Co-founder, Paul Waide, and myself founded the firm in 2010. We interview around 500 entrepreneurs, engineers and CEOs from around the world every year. We build this thematic approach to profile about 50 companies from that group. Then we choose about 20 to 30 companies that we invest in. Our portfolio has a 60% to 80% exposure in China. Q: When you were working at venture capital firm, DFJ (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), you led its investment in Skype. What was the most difficult judgment you had to make at that time? A: Back in 2003 when Skype was launched, Voice-over-IP was nothing new.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5sojx6iXm0&feature=g-all-u In this episode of China Money Podcast, Goodman Group's Hong Kong-based managing director, Philip Pearce, discusses opportunities in China's logistics property market, and why his firm is expanding investments in China ten-fold in the next five years. Listen to the full interview in the audio podcast, watch the shortened video version or read an excerpt. Q: Where is China's logistics property market compared to other places? A: It's not as developed a market as the developed countries around the world. The percentage of outsourcing is very low. A lot of manufacturers, for example, have their small warehouses tagged onto their manufacturing facilities. But we have seen significant growth in the market, and there is significant demand. We are seeing that outsourcing in China is accelerating. And a lot companies are looking at outsourcing their logistics and warehousing to companies that focus and specialize in that area. As a result, we are seeing very strong demand for our warehouse facilities. The other trend that is going on in China is that traditionally, it's been a very much export-focused market. Over the last two or three years, what has been really driving the market is domestic distribution. We see that segment of the market growing very rapidly over the last few years, as urbanization continues at a high rate in China and the middle class' disposable income increases. Q: What are the key drivers for the logistics property market in China? A: Another driver for the market is e-commerce. It's not just in China. It's a global phenomenon. As an organization, we serve companies like Amazon in Europe. We've done about five or six (warehouses) for them over the last four or five years. We've done a few (e-commerce warehouses) in China. We recently announced a build-to-suit project for a company called Moonbasa.com. We have recently signed another local e-commerce company called VIPSHOP.com, which is a NASDAQ listed e-commerce company. We look at our portfolios all around the world, typically in each country, you'll see consistent names. In Australia, DHL is a big customer. They are also a big customer in Hong Kong, China and in Europe. But amongst that, you will see large local companies. In China, for example, our largest customer is Sinotrans, a local freight dealer. Q: In the midst of an economic slowdown, why is Goodman expanding investments in China ten-fold to US$2.5 billion during the next five years? A: I think we can only go (ahead) as what we are seeing in the market. We are very confident despite the slowdown we are seeing out there. But our segment of the market is under-supplied. You are seeing the residential property market, which is obviously very high profile and quite highly publicized, has slowed. That is in some extent overbuilt, so there is an excess of supply. Our segment of the market is very under-supplied, because of the domestic economy and because of e-commerce. I'm seeing demand for (our) product at the moment in our China portfolio the strongest I have ever seen. So well, yes, the export side is slowing down, (but) we are seeing retail side growing – not as high as what the (government) would like, but still growing at 14%, which is pretty strong growth, and the pie (is bigger) at a high base. Q: What is the underlying economic growth rate you are factoring in? A: I would say 7 or 8 percent. We are definitely not going for 9 or 10 percent. That is just not sustainable. Q: What are the biggest challenges for warehouse developers like you going forward? A: Obviously, we are looking at Europe and the U.S. closely. That would be a substantial external challenge. Secondly, securing land in China would become more difficult as the government controls the amount of farmland that can be turned into industrial land. Lastly, human resources. We will expand our team in China to 80 from the current 5...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPtqB7yQLxw&feature=plcp In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Chris Brooke, president & CEO at CBRE China, discusses whether China's property market recovery is real, and how can foreign investors make money in the crowded commercial real estate market in China. Listen to the full-interview in the audio podcast, watch the shortened video version or read an excerpt. Q: CBRE entered the Chinese market very early in 1988. Have you seen the commercial real estate part of the market as hot as it is now? A: As we stand here in the middle of 2012, the commercial sector has obviously grown considerably. In terms of investment volume, RMB88 billion of investment properties in the commercial property sector traded, compared to RMB84 billion in 2007. So it’s on a similar level to even the peak of the market. During the first half of this year, we’ve had RMB42 billion. We are expecting this year to turn out similar to 2007, even though it has been a bit subdued during the first half. Q: Since China loosened monetary policy, the overall property market looks to be recovering, is it? Or is this just a temporary blip on the way down? A: Well, you got to distinguish the residential or commercial part of the market. In residential, sentiment has definitely improved with sales and transactions recovered to some extent. I think the government will still remain a restrictive policy around anything that will result in more speculation and a rebound in prices. So residential prices will stay stable at least until the end of this year. Obviously, the leadership transition next year means policy uncertainties, so it’s difficult to see beyond that. On the commercial side, we still see rents increasing in major cities like Beijing. We are also seeing tenant demand moving to the western regions, like Chengdu, Chongqing and Wuhan. Q: Where do you see the biggest risks right now in China’s property sector? There have been lots of commercial building, and there is concern that they might not attract enough people to keep them afloat? A: I think that’s a genuine risk, particular in secondary cities or provincial capital cities. There is definitely a mismatch between the timing of supply and demand. A lot of cities are developing new CBD (Central Business District) areas and new commercial districts, and a lot of that supply are coming on simultaneously. Another broader risk relates to what happens globally. If demand continues to be impacted by uncertainties in the U.S. and Europe, it would mean some organizations might delay decisions on expansions, which will clearly impact the demand of office space. Q: From foreign investors’ perspective, where do you see they could most likely succeed? A: It’s clear that the time when foreign investors can come and buy assets at relatively low price, reposition them and resale them for capital gains – those days are over. Investors need to think about either coming in and pay true market value for high quality assets, or they have to develop their own projects. If you look at strategies employed by some Singaporean funds, such as CapitaLand and Mapletree Investments, they are clearly coming in and buying land for future hold of their fund. Flexibility is what investors need to get into their plan going forward. Q: So they need to get their hands dirtier. But there are another set of challenges in this, particularly when you go into second and third tier cities? A: Absolutely. There is a need for very strong local knowledge and having people on the ground, who understand the dynamics of the market. When you get into developing, there are a whole host of risks surrounding transparency of the market, the land acquisition process and bringing capital onshore, etc. Q: Lastly, is distressed opportunity a safe place for foreign investors to get into? A: There are obviously developers facing funding difficulties right now.

Please take one second and ‘like’, share, or +1 this post, Thank You! I’m excited to share this post with you…. James Penn is someone I’ve followed for a long time, which he doesn’t know. For more than a year now I’ve visited his blog every week or so to see what new case study or technique he’s sharing because they’re always very helpful and fresh. James is a successful blogger, niche marketer, product creator, and affiliate… he’s a  young guy making it happen. I approached him about doing an interview for the Strayblogger readers, and here it is: Q: What got you interested in starting an online business and how did you get started? In 2005, when I was just fifteen, I decided to sell all of my unwanted items on eBay to raise some money to get me through summer. I made about £300 ($500) which was a LOT of money for me at the time. I also got a bit addicted to online auctions. I loved waking up every morning and seeing the increase in bids on my items, and I loved constantly refreshing the last few minutes of an auction and watching the bidding rise. Eventually I ran out of items to sell, but I wanted more so I purchased some wholesale lists for all sorts of different items, such as DVDs, clothes and electronic items. My plan was to use my £300 to buy more items in bulk and then sell the items on eBay for more money. I researched so many different wholesalers trying to find products I could sell and make a profit, but in the end I didn’t have the guts to part with such a significant amount of money. Then I realised that I’d accumulated the details of so many different wholesalers that I decided to create my own lists of the best for all sorts of different niches – such as DVD Wholesaler Lists, Designer Clothes Wholesaler Lists and iPod Wholesaler Lists. I put these lists on eBay at prices from 99p to £4.99. On a bad day I’d get three or four sales and make around £10 ($16), but on a good day I’d sell 10-15 copies and make around £30 ($50) which was pretty good for a 15 year old. I also bought some eBooks with resale rights and would sell these for low prices. After a customer purchased I automatically had the download sent to them and promoted a Clickbank product in the email. This was my first foray into affiliate marketing and I loved it. Eventually I set up a website (after a lot of stress – I’m technically challenged!) teaching eBay selling and I wrote my first eBook called Hidden eBay Wealth which sold very successfully at $15 for a few years. All of this gave me experience in selling, upselling, setting up websites, getting traffic, affiliate marketing, traffic generation and product creation and gave me a fantastic platform to kick on. Q: What’s the best piece of “big picture” advice you would give to someone just starting their online business? FOCUS is imperative. Pick one business model, whether it be affiliate marketing, email list building, product creation or blogging, pick one and focus on making that work. Don’t jump from idea to idea or website to website and don’t buy all the latest “instant money systems”. Q:What would you tell people just starting out that they should focus on? It depends on each person’s situation as to what business model they should focus on. If you’ve just lost your job, have a family to support and need to replace your income ASAP, then I’d suggest creating your own product, setting up your own affiliate program and spend every waking minute recruiting affiliates. But if you still have a job and a few hours to spare each week, or if you have the luxury of not needing money right away, then I’d suggest blogging. Being a blogger will likely take at least a few months, if not more, of hard work before you get noticeable gains but once you get your blog to a level where it produces income that you’re happy with, you really can live the dream internet lifestyle. Plus, as a blogger you can incorporate all the other methods of making money online in your business. You can create your own product and sell it through the blog (something I’m in the process of doing for my health and beauty blog), you can sell affiliate products, you can build email lists, you can gnat ad revenue and much, much more. If you blog about something you are interested in, then you’ll never get bored. Q:What motivates you to keep going and become even more successful? I’m a big believer that “success breeds success”. If you reach one small goal, such as making $10 in a day, then that will motivate you to go and reach your next goal. My motivation at the moment is just to beat the previous month. If I can grow my traffic every single month then I’ll be very, very happy. I’ve increased traffic to my blog every month since December. In December I got 6,126 visitors to my blog, traffic has risen every month since and last month (May) I got 58,551 visitors in the month. There are also the motivations that everyone else has, such as the ability to buy nice things, to take luxury holidays and just not to worry about money. In the early days, my biggest motivation was just to prove the negative people wrong! Q:What is your favorite software tool that you use in your business and why? I use very few tools in my business. To run my blogs I simply use WordPress which is free, a couple of premium themes and a few plug-ins (mainly free ones). I also have an Aweber account which I use to manage my email lists. Most of the processes I undertake are manual. I don’t do automated directory submissions, or mass article distribution, or anything that Google might frown upon – which is why I was surprised my blog took such a punishment in the Google Panda update. To see all the tools and plug-ins I use to set my blogs up and make money from them take a look at my Ultimate Bloggers Toolkit page. Q:How much of your time do you dedicate to: 1) self-education and learning new skills 2) generating new traffic, leads and customers for your business and 3) generating revenue? I don’t dedicate specific times to any of the above, but I’d estimate that about 5% of my time is dedicated to self-education (more time was spent in my early days, though), 90% to generating traffic, leads and customers and 5% on generating revenue. Revenue generation is already in place (such as Adsense ads, Amazon and affiliate links) so revenue is generated by simply getting more traffic – that’s why so much of my time is dedicated to that. Q:You seem to teach mostly about traffic strategies… What is the top skill that someone needs to learn in order to always be able to generate traffic? I’d say there are two main skills… 1. Creating content that people in your market want to read 2. Finding ways to get this content in front of them Here are some ways to get the content in front of them… – Build your distribution channels (email list and social following) and share it with them – Get authorities in your market to share it with their distribution channels. I’ve developed a really clever way to do this and it enabled me to generate over 17,000 visitors to one blog post in just a few weeks by convincing other people that they should share my blog post with their social following. If you want to find out what this method is then download my viral blog post case study. – Guest post on high traffic blogs and funnel readers back to your blog – Increase your rankings in the search engines to capture more visitors. Q:What traffic strategies are working for you right now, and are there any that will always work? My two biggest and best traffic sources right now are Pinterest and Facebook. To take advantage of Pinterest you need to have high quality images on your blog and you need to encourage your readers to pin your content. You can do that by having prominent “Pin It” buttons around (or inside) your images. Here’s a blog post I recently published revealing five tricks to get more people to pin your content (because the more pins you get, the more traffic you’ll get). http://www.bigblogtraffic.com/pinterest-traffic-tricks/ I get traffic from Facebook two ways… One way is my own Facebook fan page which is made up of close to 1,500 very engaged “fans”. I post 2/3 updates to these fans each day with a link to a blog post from the archive. Each update can send 50-200 visitors depending on how many people like and share. The second way is by getting other Facebook fan page owners to share my content. People like to share good content and I’ve got a neat little trick to convince them to share my content which I reveal in my viral blog post case study report. I also get a nice chunk of traffic from guest posting. In fact using only guest posting I got my blog to 1,000 visitors per day from Google alone. After Panda struck me, that dropped to just 200 – but I still get traffic from links in my guest posts. QUICK TIP: Guest post on blogs with BIG Facebook followings (20k+). I noticed that the guest posts sending me the most traffic was because the blogger notified their FB fans of my guest post. Q:If someone only has 20 minutes a day to use social media sites such as Facebook and Pinterest to get more traffic, what is the best use of their time? First of all I’d make sure your site is set up properly. For Facebook, make sure you have lots of calls to action asking your blog readers to like your page on Facebook  and have a Facebook like box in your sidebar of all pages. At the start of each blog post I try to put a paragraph like this… Like Us On Facebook to get updates of new content, to take part in our fun and games and to win prizes in our competitions.  If you can build a big FB fan page that will enable you to generate big traffic and give you incredible leverage. For Pinterest, you need to make sure you have high quality images and display a “Pin It” button in prominent positions as close to your images as possible. If I had just 20 minutes per day I would… On Facebook: Post 2-3 updates to my fans per day with links to blog content Comment on other pages updates as my page rather than personal profile (good way to get authority fan page owners in your market to notice you and increases the chance of them sharing your content) Seek out FB page owners with similar fan sizes and arrange a “content swap” (you share one of their blog posts to your fans, they share one of your blog posts to their fans while also “tagging” each other to grow each other’s fan bases.) On Pinterest: Pin images from around the web (including your own when appropriate) Be active to get followers – e.g. repin images, follow people, like images and comment on them. Similar to FB content swaps, once you have a significant Pinterest following, find other power users and arrange “Pin swaps” – you pin their content, they pin yours. Q:Where can people go to learn more from you? Visit my new blog at BigBlogTraffic.com where I reveal ALL the traffic strategies that are working for me right now. Plus, if you’d like to learn my secret system that I used to generate 17,000 visitors to one blog post using OTHER people’s Facebook fan pages, then download Viral Blog Post Case Study… Q:Final Words: Thanks Nate and all the readers at StrayBlogger for having me. If you have any questions please leave a comment below and I’ll pop in and answer them The post Interview with Savvy Niche Blogger James Penn from Accelerated Niche Profits appeared first on StrayBlogger.

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This weeks podcast is a special, epic length chat session. Matt and Gareth quiz industry specialist Tom Monetto on exciting new screen technology from Sharp, Matt’s better half, Tracy, has her say on the HTC Wildfire, Andy doesn’t get his iPhone quite as planned, Vodafone takes a bashing and Direct Download iTunes RSS Feed Regulars: Howling Mad Richardson, Hannibal Davis, Faceman Myles and BA Lee Guests: Tom Monetto and Tracy Davis Show Notes HTC Wildfire Review Andy and James have iPhone4 iPhone issues MSN Live issues on iPhone perhaps?! Tom Monetto has been working in the TV industry since the introduction of Plasma TVs. He has worked in a number of European and country-specific roles within the TV sector before taking on his current position of AQUOS Product Manager for Sharp UK. What is Quattron technology? Why yellow? If the signal coming in was recorded in RGB, then how can the Quattron reproduce the colour? Why has Sharp chosen Edge LED as opposed to Backlit LED? Does Edge LED lighting make a difference in picture quality? Cost and rejectection rates. Who is the target market for a TV with Quattron technology? Can you tell us anything about Sharp’s development of 3D technology? Why has Sharp chosen to develop their 2D Quattron technology instead of 3D? How does Sharp see 3D technology developing in the future? Will we see this technology come to smaller screens like mobiles? What is the most popular product line for Sharp Finally what phone have you got!? VODAFONE to poor people, die die die SE Aspen Hero update HTC Vision SE X10 Mini Skyfire - Android Skyfire - KILLS ITSELF:) ? Matt rants about Orange this week! Bargain corner: iPhone 4 deal: For the 32GB Handset: Handset cost - £429 Upfront Monthly cost - £20 TOTAL - £669.00 For the 16GB Handset: Handset cost - £349 Upfront Monthly cost - £20 TOTAL - £589 Feedback: Dear  mobile tech addicts. I am writing to you guys again in response to my phone the c905. I am on 02 pay monthly(£30).With unlimited internet data.I originally wrote to you two weeks ago,thank you for reading my email. I am unable to view video on mobile,ie you tube etc..In your reply you said that i should find out which access point i am on/using. (Q)Where do i find this information from,do i need to go to there website(02). or do i call 02 customer service or visit a 02 shop. My contract is via Carphone warehouse. What do I say to them, how can I best explain it to them.please advice. Thank You. Amin Khan Chris Writes: Hi Andy, i know your a helpful guy so I wondered  if you could help me out with Vodafone? Following your great advice from a podcast I managed to cancel my Vodafone contract early due to the unlimited data bundles being capped at 500mb. I wrote a letter (from template) and then called a few days later as I had not had a response. The lady I spoke to cancelled my contract without much fuss and I was very happy. 2 days later a guy called me about the letter I sent and I said no need as it had been cancelled already. Now I just got a final bill from Vodafone that includes £168.61  charge for cancellation prior to contract end date. I just spoke to customer services and they said I cancelled my contract before the changes took affect so I have been charged for cancellation. They say that the announcement was just advisory. Any Idea's to where to go next?  The Swansea call centre would not budge even after being bumped up to the manager. Lauren Hi, I was just wondering if you could help me im wonting a new phone but im not sure on what to get and i need it on pay as you go and i dont wont nothing too expensive no more then £120 so if you could help me i would love it p.s love the website and the clips very helpful Limerick Time! - I have 2 ------ Gareth Myles – twitter.com/klonricket Andy Lee – twitter.com/weirdshanghai James Richardson – twitter.com/jpr7373 Matt and Tracy (and James) Davis -     twitter.com/tracyandmatt Twitter @mtaddicts Email : mobiletechaddicts@gmail.com Many thanks to The Stetz for the music Subscribe in iTunes to our weekly podcast RSS Feed for our weekly podcast Download the iPhone App

Feature GRIT storyteller: Jeremy Kredlo --------------------------------------- Sean & Kurt's Q: Where do we even begin? ---------------------------------------- Jeremy Kredlo is a writer, storyteller, public speaker, trainer, self-defense instructor and fierce ally and advocate in the disabilities community. He has been featured on Speak Up, and the upcoming SepTogs Storytellers Lunar New Year show (as well as GRIT's 7 by 7 and 99-Second Story SLAM.) He has also been featured on the Once Upon a Gene ( https://l.facebook.com/l.php?h=AT3Mj7GgdcnHlx8N2YuxGDBat2fu08DVVB4gDn9hgpmrz3yzDQOjKUmlW4Ra6Udvx2tbnKecFELqYwYiGB7VojipDgoW3qKdiGlzAm1lJkV36x329jba4GxKrtrFdS22_l0&u=https%3A%2F%2Feffieparks.com%2Fpodcast%2F008-tanjs-akayy-jr78y-ja2e8-zanza-njkxy-83esr-z2wkz-kx2a4-3zgjf-9n7e6-f4dl9-34pey-khhl4-plbpy-y5jw6%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2XJr98rQ889H_CeJ97ds2kYsLGL9mBaKTDTjphO0AjO2s4JWoXbpNvlew ) and Dat to Dad podcasts. Jeremy volunteers regularly in the intellectual and developmental disabilities community, through the Washington State Father’s Network and The Arc of King County. He teaches “Telling Your Story with a Purpose”, an advocacy class for parents of children with disabilities, helping them learn to use storytelling techniques to harness the power of their personal experiences with their children to drive systems and policy changes. He also volunteers as a “Helping Parent”, acting as a mentor and support for parents of children with disabilities. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/grit/donations