Podcasts about raika

Tem MaterniDelas novinho em folha já disponível, hein? O episódio de hoje trata de um tema delicado e muito importante na vida de muitas mamães e bebês. A informação e o compartilhamento de histórias é uma chave poderosa pra vencermos alguns desafios, e pra isso, hoje trazemos a incrível Romana Novais, mamãe do Ravi e da Raika, pra contar sua experiência com a prematuridade de sua segunda filha. O episódio está lindo, emocionante e muito informativo! Já deixa aqui nos comentários o que vocês estão achando dessa temporada? Nós estamos AMANDO! Começo de ano os gastos são inevitáveis e principalmente para as mamães e papais né? Especialmente com os uniformes que mancham que é uma beleza. Mas relaxa, com Vanish você pode salvar os uniformes para mais um ano e economizar sem ter que comprar novos! Acesse o link e ganhe descontos exclusivos! Acesse agora: https://reckitt.ubpages.com/vanish-bts/ Apresentadoras:

"Within Rajasthan's Raika culture, camels are raised in a system that's cruelty free - the calves are not separated from their mothers, camels walk around and choose their own diets and have a close relationship with humans. It's an alternative model of livestock and food production that has great value. The Raika demonstrate a way of keeping animals that's in tune with the environment and has high animal welfare standards. It should be a model for the rest of the world. Slowly, we are getting to the stage where people are recognising this. Modern India's thinking about livestock needs to be decolonised because India's traditional livestock keeping systems are a treasure. There's enormous heritage value in them and this intangible heritage also creates wealth and has a lot of commercial potential. What's missing is an appreciation of the value of this heritage. I don't regret that I've been here for the last 30 years." - Ilse Kohler-Rollefson, author, Camel Karma talks to Manjula Narayan about her work with the camel herders of Rajasthan, the great health benefits of milk from free-range camels, and why sustainable methods of livestock farming make more sense.

Seite an Seite arbeitete Charly Kleissner vor mehr als 25 Jahren mit Steve Jobs zusammen und trieb die technologische Revolution im Silicon Valley voran. Heute ist Charly Kleissner Impact Investor. Er glaubt, dass die wahre Bedeutung von Reichtum darin besteht, einen positiven Beitrag für die Menschheit und den Planeten zu leisten. Er ist einer der führenden Vertreter der Deep-Impact-Bewegung, die nicht nur die Symptome unseres scheiternden Wirtschaftssystems behandelt, sondern dessen Ursachen. Charly sieht Impact Investing nicht als eine intellektuelle Übung, sondern als Ausdruck dessen, was es wirklich ist. Im Podcast-Interview, das LIVE in der Regionalbank Raiffeisen Schwaz aufgenommen wurde, spricht Charly Kleissner mit Podcast-Host Robert Pacher über das scheiternde System, Spiritualität, seine Werte, Purpose und wie man es schafft, sein Ego beiseite zulegen.  ⬇️ **Charly Kleissner** Impact Investor, Co-Founder Toniic & KL Felicitas Foundation und Mitglied des Club of Rome

Wie wohl fühlst du dich mit deiner Farbenkraft? Gibt sie dir Power, Geborgenheit, Leichtigkeit oder ein Gefühl von Freiheit? Was genau die Farbe in deinem Umfeld, von der Kleidung, über Tapete bis hin zur Haarfarbe alles kann und auch mit dir macht, bespreche ich heute mit der Wunderbaren Raika von Lentz in diesem New Mindset Generation Podcast-Folge. Und Raika ist wahrhaftig ein sehr besonderer Gast in meinem Podcast interviews. Sie ist Expertin für die Wirkung von Farben und buntes Leben - und ja, hier ist der Name auch sowas von das Programm. Sie ist Keynote-Speakerin, Business-Trainerin und Coach, Künstlerin, Interiordesignerin, Moderatorin & Autorin. Doch nicht nur das! Raika von Lentz war ihrer Zeit die jüngste Redakteurin bei einer Tages Zeitung in Deutschland, hat 16 Jahre bei Sat 1 als Redekteurin gearbeitet und u.a. beim Frühstücksfernsehen, im Kinoressort und bei "Genial daneben" mit Hugo Egon Balder gearbeitet. O.O Heute macht sie einge ganze Menge mit Farben und berät Menschen und Unternehmen bei ihrer internen und externen Farbenkommunikation. Es lohnt sich also ein Blick in die Videoaufzeichnung dieses Interviews, den heute wird es bunt und Farbenfroh. Alles was du über Raika wissen solltest findest du natürlich wie immer in den Shownotes zu dieser Podcast-Episode: https://www.plattilorenz.com/sprich-durch-deine-farbenkraft-mit-farbexpertin-raika-von-lentz In diesem Sinne: Play hard. Work playful. F**k Compromise. Deine Platti _____ Mehr über Raika von Lentz: Raikas Website: https://raika-von-lentz.de/ ______ Du wünschst dir mehr Zeit für die wichtigen Dinge? Dann klick hier und erfahre mehr über mein Mentoring "Abundance of Time": https://www.plattilorenz.com --------- Musik: "Rocker (ac/dc Style)" by Jason Shaw ( https://audionautix.com/ ) Folge direkt herunterladen

Lagerleiterin Raika blickt auf das mova zurück | La responsable de camp Raika revient sur le mova | La direttrice del campo Raika guarda indietro al movaOb Lagerleiterin Raika auch Zeit hatte, das mova zu geniessen, oder nur von einem Meeting zum nächsten rannte, erzählt sie uns im Interview und blickt auf das Lager zurück.Raika, la responsable du camp, nous dit dans l'interview si elle a eu le temps de profiter du mova ou si elle s'est contentée de courir d'une réunion à l'autre et revient sur le camp.Se la capocampo Raika ha avuto anche il tempo di godersi la movida o ha semplicemente corso da una riunione all'altra, ce lo racconta nell'intervista e guarda indietro al campo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raika Djalali is the Founder and CEO of Join all. Raika is committed to continuously seeking new opportunities to learn about each individual's experience with third party fertility, from a donor or surrogate's expectations, a physician's expertise and aspiring parent's hopes and dreams for their journey. Tiffany Lewis is also Founder and excels in business development and strategic planning with abilities that cultivate creative solutions to modern challenges.

Stacey Raika grew up in the 70's and 80's around gang members. His late father being a senior member of a gang in those years, he had an incredible God encounter in the year 2001.. a supernatural encounter in one of the local church's (Brethren Church in Otaki). He started to engage and grow with people from all different denominations. To him and his wife Hiraina, they were all brothaz and sistaz in the Lord Christ Jesus. Stacey is passionate about sharing the Gospel of Christ Jesus with everyone and sometimes we get to use words when doing so. He loves to share of the Father's heart for the lost and sharing the narratives within the Bible to enlighten and encourage everyone. Him and his wife have been itinerant ministers for the last 5 or so years. Loving on people in other countries. Coaching With Me: ► iamjosephwilson.com ✅ Subscribe to FUSE LIFE on YouTube Follow us on social media ✅  Facebook   +   Instagram ► Purchase my Bestselling book "The NO B.S. GUIDE TO THE ABUNDANT LIFE" on Amazon NOW!

With the wrap up of the Summer 2021 Anime Season, the hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast are here to give their reviews of 15 amazing titles for the season. Listen to find out what each can offer.. or not offer. Anime Reviewed in this Episode: Remake Our Life, How A Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, Drug Store in Another World, NIGHTHEAD 2041, The Dungeon of Black Company, RE-MAIN, Battle Game in 5 Seconds, Sonny Boy, My Next Life as a Villainess 2, Beastars 2, My Hero Academia Season 5, That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Season 2 Part 2, Higurashi When They Cry SOTSU, Tokyo Revengers, and mid-season thoughts on The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated and The Aquatope On White Sand. The opening song for this episode is the OP for The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace called “Seija no Koushin” by Tatsuya Kitani. The closing song for this episode is the ED for The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace called “Raika” by Akari Nanawo.

With the wrap up of the Summer 2021 Anime Season, the hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast are here to give their reviews of 15 amazing titles for the season. Listen to find out what each can offer.. or not offer. Anime Reviewed in this Episode: Remake Our Life, How A Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, Drug Store in Another World, NIGHTHEAD 2041, The Dungeon of Black Company, RE-MAIN, Battle Game in 5 Seconds, Sonny Boy, My Next Life as a Villainess 2, Beastars 2, My Hero Academia Season 5, That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Season 2 Part 2, Higurashi When They Cry SOTSU, Tokyo Revengers, and mid-season thoughts on The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated and The Aquatope On White Sand. The opening song for this episode is the OP for The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace called “Seija no Koushin” by Tatsuya Kitani. The closing song for this episode is the ED for The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace called “Raika” by Akari Nanawo.

After getting fully invested in the Summer 2021 Anime Season, the hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast are here to dive into 27 titles of the season. Listen in and find out what you might be missing out on! Anime Featured in this Episode: Remake Our Life, Girlfriend Girlfriend, The Case Study of Vanitas, The Detective Is Already Dead, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S, My Next Life as a Villainess X, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom, Sonny Boy, The aquatope on white sand, Seirei Gensouki Spirit Chronicles, The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated, Peach Boy Riverside, Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, The Duke of Death and His Maid, RE-MAIN, Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan, The Dungeon of Black Company, Drug Store in Another World, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, Scarlet Nexus, I'm Standing on a Million Lives Season 2, The Honor Student At Magic High School, Battle Game In 5 Seconds, Kageki Shojo, Love Live Superstar, NIGHT HEAD 2041, and D Cide Traumerei the Animation. The intro music for this episode is the OP for The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace called “Seija no Koushin” by Tatsuya Kitani. The outro music for this episode is the ED for The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace called “Raika” by Akari Nanawo.

In der heutigen Folge des Experten-Podcasts spricht Raika von Lentz, leidenschaftliche Expertin für Buntes Leben, Farben- und Lebenskunst, darüber, wie Du durch Farben Deine Gedanken, Deine Arbeit und Dein Zuhause und so Dein ganzes Leben verändern kannst.Du erfährst außerdem, wie Du Dein eigener Farbklecks in Deinem Leben werden kannst.Außerdem verrät Raika von Lentz ihre besten Strategien, um ein farbenfrohes Leben zu führen.Wenn auch Du wissen willst, welche Farben für Dich in Deiner jetztigen Lebensphase richtig und wichtig sind, dann solltest Du diese Folge des Experten-Podcasts nicht verpassen. Hat Dir der Experte des Tages gefallen, hast Du etwas für Dich mitnehmen können? Weitere Informationen bekommst Du bei Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RaikavonLentz See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Dog Trainers Podcast. Join Brent and Mariano as they interview Denise Fenzi, author of the best selling book “Beyond the BackYard”, “Dog Sports Vol.1-4” and her most recent book “Conversations with Raika”. She is also joined by a returning guest to the Podcast and R+ trainer, Sara Brueske.In this episode, we discuss who influences and motivates us outside of dog training, finding ways to get owners to care more about training their dogs, the upsides and downsides to modern day dog training in the age of social media and much, much more.This is by far one of our longer episodes and it's definitely a podcast you won't want to miss. Thank you again to Denise and Sara for coming on the show to talk with us and having such an engaging dialogue and we hope to have that back again soon. Tune in on Facebook or YouTube and thank you for joining us again!FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dogtrainerspodcastYOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhf53ClKOs&ab_channel=DogTrainer%27sPodcastPODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-trainers-podcast/id1506513829You can reach us here:IG @ DOGTRAINERSPODCASTFacebook @ https://www.facebook.com/dogtrainersp...​YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg2I...​Email @ dogtrainerspodcast@gmail.comDenise FenziIG @denise_fenziwww.fenzidogsportsacademy.comSara BrueskeIG @ZOOMDOG www.zoomdogtraining.comMariano AlvarezIG @UNTAMEDDOGCOwww.untameddogco.comPhoenix, AZBrent LaBradaIG @CANISBEHAVIORwww.canisdogtraining.comLos Angeles, CAEDITORElijah CarrIG @MILO_DSGNwww.milodsgn.comLos Angeles, CA#dogtrainer #workingdog #puppytraining #dogtrainingtips #doggie #dogofinstagram #dogscorner #dogsofinstgram #dogtreats #dogsandpals #dogtrainers #funnydogs #dogtrainingadvice #dogsmile #doggylove #doginstagram #trainyourdog #adventuredog #podcasting #podcastlife #podcasts #podcaster #podcastersofinstagram #podcastshow #podcasters #newpodcast

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Dog Trainers Podcast. Join Brent and Mariano as they interview Denise Fenzi, author of the best selling book “Beyond the BackYard”, “Dog Sports Vol.1-4” and her most recent book “Conversations with Raika”. She is also joined by a returning guest to the Podcast and R+ trainer, Sara Brueske.In this episode, we discuss who influences and motivates us outside of dog training, finding ways to get owners to care more about training their dogs, the upsides and downsides to modern day dog training in the age of social media and much, much more.This is by far one of our longer episodes and it's definitely a podcast you won't want to miss. Thank you again to Denise and Sara for coming on the show to talk with us and having such an engaging dialogue and we hope to have that back again soon. Tune in on Facebook or YouTube and thank you for joining us again!FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dogtrainerspodcastYOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhf53ClKOs&ab_channel=DogTrainer%27sPodcastPODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-trainers-podcast/id1506513829You can reach us here:IG @ DOGTRAINERSPODCASTFacebook @ https://www.facebook.com/dogtrainersp...​YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg2I...​Email @ dogtrainerspodcast@gmail.comDenise FenziIG @denise_fenziwww.fenzidogsportsacademy.comSara BrueskeIG @ZOOMDOG www.zoomdogtraining.comMariano AlvarezIG @UNTAMEDDOGCOwww.untameddogco.comPhoenix, AZBrent LaBradaIG @CANISBEHAVIORwww.canisdogtraining.comLos Angeles, CAEDITORElijah CarrIG @MILO_DSGNwww.milodsgn.comLos Angeles, CA#dogtrainer #workingdog #puppytraining #dogtrainingtips #doggie #dogofinstagram #dogscorner #dogsofinstgram #dogtreats #dogsandpals #dogtrainers #funnydogs #dogtrainingadvice #dogsmile #doggylove #doginstagram #trainyourdog #adventuredog #podcasting #podcastlife #podcasts #podcaster #podcastersofinstagram #podcastshow #podcasters #newpodcast

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Dog Trainers Podcast. Join Brent and Mariano as they interview Denise Fenzi, author of the best selling book “Beyond the BackYard”, “Dog Sports Vol.1-4” and her most recent book “Conversations with Raika”. She is also joined by a returning guest to the Podcast and R+ trainer, Sara Brueske.In this episode, we discuss who influences and motivates us outside of dog training, finding ways to get owners to care more about training their dogs, the upsides and downsides to modern day dog training in the age of social media and much, much more.This is by far one of our longer episodes and it's definitely a podcast you won't want to miss. Thank you again to Denise and Sara for coming on the show to talk with us and having such an engaging dialogue and we hope to have that back again soon. Tune in on Facebook or YouTube and thank you for joining us again!FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/dogtrainerspodcastYOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKhf53ClKOs&ab_channel=DogTrainer%27sPodcastPODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-trainers-podcast/id1506513829You can reach us here:IG @ DOGTRAINERSPODCASTFacebook @ https://www.facebook.com/dogtrainersp...​YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg2I...​Email @ dogtrainerspodcast@gmail.comDenise FenziIG @denise_fenziwww.fenzidogsportsacademy.comSara BrueskeIG @ZOOMDOG www.zoomdogtraining.comMariano AlvarezIG @UNTAMEDDOGCOwww.untameddogco.comPhoenix, AZBrent LaBradaIG @CANISBEHAVIORwww.canisdogtraining.comLos Angeles, CAEDITORElijah CarrIG @MILO_DSGNwww.milodsgn.comLos Angeles, CA#dogtrainer #workingdog #puppytraining #dogtrainingtips #doggie #dogofinstagram #dogscorner #dogsofinstgram #dogtreats #dogsandpals #dogtrainers #funnydogs #dogtrainingadvice #dogsmile #doggylove #doginstagram #trainyourdog #adventuredog #podcasting #podcastlife #podcasts #podcaster #podcastersofinstagram #podcastshow #podcasters #newpodcast

In meinem Gespräch mit Dr. Ilse Köhler-Rollefson (Tierärztin, Anthropologin und Betreiberin einer Kamelmilch-Molkerei in Indien) möchte ich Euch mitnehmen auf eine exotische und abenteuerliche Lebensreise. Ilse wurde in Hamburg geboren, war ein typisches Pferdemädchen, welches große Tiere liebte und deshalb Tiermedizin studierte. Doch bald nach dem Studium bemerkte sie, dass der Beruf der Großtier-Veterinärin nicht zu Ihren Lebensvorstellungen passte. Der Mensch sollte Ihrer Meinung im Einklang mit den Tieren und der Natur stehen und diese nicht nur als wirtschaftliche Objekte betrachten. Von Deutschland zog es sie daher in die Ferne. Erst in die USA, dann nach Mexiko und von dort nach Jordanien und später in den Sudan. Die gelernte Tiermedizinerin brachte sich ein neues Themenfeld bei und arbeitete fortan, in einem neuen Beruf, und zwar als Archäozoologin. In diesem neuen Beruf nahm sie an Ausgrabungen teil und identifizierte Tierknochen, um diese in Verbindung zu bringen mit den Fragen über die Entwicklung der menschlichen Zivilisation und deren Domestizierung von Nutztieren. Sie gewann wichtige Informationen, darüber wovon sich die frühzeitlichen Menschen ernährten, wie sie ihre Tiere betreuten und wie sie sich von Jägern unter anderem zu Hirten veränderten. Als es im Sudan politisch immer brenzliger wurde, zog sie für ein Forschungsprojekt nach Indien. Dort lebt sie nun seit 30 Jahren und entwickelte sich zur Bewahrerin und Hüterin, erst des hinduistischen Hirtenvolks der Raika, später aller Hirtenvölker weltweit. Ab Minute 23 erfahren wir die Entstehungsgeschichte der Raika und bekommen einen Einblick in die Welt der indischen Gottheiten Shiva und seiner Gefährtin Parvati. Anschließend erfahren wir, wie es dazu kam, dass Ilse als emigrierte Deutsche in Indien die erste Molkerei für Kamelmilch aufbaute und wie sie für Ihre wichtige Arbeit mit den Hirtenvölkern und deren maßgebliche Bedeutung für uns alle mehrere Auszeichnungen erhielt. Darunter auch die in Deutschland wichtigste Auszeichnung: das Bundesverdienstkreuz.

O que Tá Bombando nesta sexta-feira são os bebês! A cegonha vai visitar a casa do ator Fábio Assunção pela terceira vez. Esse é o primeiro - ou a primeira, ainda não sabemos - dele com a atual esposa, a advogada Ana Verena. Enquanto isso, chegou ao mundo nesta quinta-feira (03) Raika, filha do DJ Alok e de sua esposa Romana Novais. E, é claro, teve uma homenagem de Marcos Mion em "A Fazenda" ao apresentador Pedro Bial. Por hoje é só, mas não fica triste que segunda-feira tem mais no Tá Bombando!

Description:  Befriending a dog is a special gift — in this weeks podcast, Denise and I talk about her latest book, which takes readers through  the journey of exactly how special that friendship can be.

Cynthia Del'Aria is a thrice exited software entrepreneur who currently runs Raika Technologies, a startup incubator. Raika has been in business for 3 years. They have 7 employees and did 750K in revenue last year. Pre-economic shut down, they were on track to go over 1M this year. She's getting ready to launch a FinTech platform that focuses on payments. Music Credit: Phillip Gross - Fasst and Koresma - Flow

On this episode of the Jason Cavness Experience I talk to Cynthia Del'Aria CEO/COO Raika Technologies cavnessHR website: https://www.cavnessHR.com Jason's email: jasoncavness@cavnessHR.com   @cavnessHR   across social media @jasoncavnessHR across social media We talk about the following His company Raika Technologies. Thunder Puppy K9. Advice for non-tech founders Importance of Product Market fit and Idea Validation. Cynthia's Bio I am a startup ninja. I know how to dig into any idea and find the gold, the killer feature, the thing users absolutely cannot live without... And I know how to help entrepreneurs turn their idea into a business that will make real money. I started coding when I was 8 years old, and over the past several decades have learned what great technology implementations look like from some of the smartest people in the industry. My first two companies were all about web design and development and finding ways to help companies come into the new era of promoting and doing business on the web, and it turns out, I have a natural knack for business. My past experience building my own startups gave me a lens through which to examine what would work for other business types in tech and how to apply those processes and methodologies for other people who have great tech ideas. I developed the curriculum for the Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea.com Startup Program based on what I've done in my own companies and those of our clients, all for one guiding purpose: to help new app and tech entrepreneurs spend as little time and money as possible evaluating their idea, helping them get to a go-no-go decision quickly and efficiently. I also developed a process to help stakeholders, Project Managers, Product Managers and IT professionals at all size companies test new ideas without impacting their teams, road maps and corporate priorities. I help companies and entrepreneurs get things done! Cynthia's Social Media Company Website: https://www.raikatech.com/ Company FB: https://www.facebook.com/raikatech/ Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/raikatech Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raikatechnologies/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/raikatechnologies/ Cynthia's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiadelaria/ Incubate This Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9nb3RhbmFwcGlkZWEuY29tL2luY3ViYXRlX3RoaXNfcG9kY2FzdC9pbmN1YmF0ZV90aGlzX2ZlZWQueG1s?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO6MiptabrAhXYCc0KHTghDO4Q4aUDegQIARAC&hl=en Cynthia's Gift On https://www.raikatech.com/cavness there will be an offer where you can book a one hour free consultation with me. If you own a startup and you're struggling with something. Bring the challenges that you're dealing with, and we can work through those and come up with some solutions. If you're somebody who has been thinking about an idea and you just want to bounce it off me. I'll make myself available, give you a free hour of my time to just chat and dig in and see how I can help. So that's https://www.raikatech.com/cavness Cynthia's Advice Know thyself. Listen to your heart, listen to your intuition. Trust, that if you are called to do a thing or something resonates with you. Trust that there's a reason why we're given visions and there's a reason why we're given dreams and goals. Trust that and don't be afraid to do something new or different to go after something that you really want. Because like I said earlier, you own your future you own every dream that you have. It's up to you, whether you make it come true or not. Especially in this country, we're so incredibly lucky that we have the freedom to pursue whatever we want. That's the pursuit of happiness. So find your happy and go pursue it and don't ever stop. Don't ever let anyone else tell you. You can't. Because I'm telling you, you can. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An interview with Adam Callow and Cynthia Del'Aria, CEO & Co-Founder of Raika Technologies. About Cynthia: Cynthia is a self proclaimed startup ninja. She knows how to dig into any idea and find the gold, the killer feature, the thing users absolutely cannot live without and she helps entrepreneurs turn their idea into a business that will make real money. She began coding at 8 years old, and over the past several decades has learned what great technology implementations look like from some of the smartest people in the industry. Her past experiences building startups have given her a unique lens which allow her to examine what would work for other business types in tech and how to apply those processes and methodologies for other people who have great tech ideas. She’s developed the curriculum for the Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea.com Startup Program based on what she did with her own companies and those of her clients, all for one guiding purpose: to help new app and tech entrepreneurs spend as little time and money as possible evaluating their idea, helping them get to a go-no-go decision quickly and efficiently. She’s even developed a process to help stakeholders, Project Managers, Product Managers and IT professionals at all size companies test new ideas without impacting their teams, road maps and corporate priorities. In short, she helps companies and entrepreneurs get things done! Connect with Cynthia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiadelaria/ Join our Network of likeminded entrepreneurs, get involved in the discussions and help support the show: nbs.fm/network Have a question you want answering on the show? Email us at: startupdiary@nbs.fm Amazon links to the gear we use to podcast: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder: https://amzn.to/2Jp14uA Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Microphone: https://amzn.to/2UqvDq1 Adjustable Mic stands: https://amzn.to/2wNODFI Simple Pop filters: https://amzn.to/3arhONJ XLR Cables: https://amzn.to/2UpMVDs SD Card: https://amzn.to/2UFCzhQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today we have Cynthia Del’Aria, CEO & Co-Founder of Raika Technologies in the hot seat for 600 seconds of rapid fire questions. You’ll hear more from Cynthia, but for now please enjoy this 600 seconds with Cynthia Del’Aria, CEO & Co-Founder of Raika Technologies. Join our Network of likeminded entrepreneurs, get involved in the discussions and help support the show: nbs.fm/network Have a question you want answering on the show? Email us at: startupdiary@nbs.fm Amazon links to the gear we use to podcast: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder: https://amzn.to/2Jp14uA Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Microphone: https://amzn.to/2UqvDq1 Adjustable Mic stands: https://amzn.to/2wNODFI Simple Pop filters: https://amzn.to/3arhONJ XLR Cables: https://amzn.to/2UpMVDs SD Card: https://amzn.to/2UFCzhQ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Startups have many options when it comes to payments... but which are the best options and why? Cynthia Del'Aria, CEO of Raika Technologies, joins to share her perspective after working in and consulting with many startups. Find show notes and more at: https://www.soarpay.com/podcast/

Is there anyone around to help you with the technology aspects of your business especially as it relates to new ideas! The answer is a resounding YES! Cynthia joins me for a transparent, heart felt discussion on her background, businesses she's launched and sold, the importance of family, how technology helps us as people transition thru challenged times, and how Raika Technologies serves as a resource to current and aspiring small business owners in transforming ideas into realities!MORE ABOUT CYNTHIA:Cynthia brings a unique skillset and over 20 years of experience to the Raika executive team. Her background began primarily in UI development, and transitioned throughout her career through the entire stack. However, she discovered early on that she possessed a natural ability to see new business opportunities, build profitable revenue models, discover prime and emerging target markets, and build efficient teams. As a result, she has built, run and sold several companies in her career, as well as consulted for many other companies to take underperforming software teams and products and turn them into cash cows.Connect with Cynthia and her team!www.raikatech.com to learn more about he company, the team, and listen to their podcasts!!! Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiadelaria/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/raikatech/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmo5R8I6yLWNcnC5dsbZPvwTwitter - https://twitter.com/raikatechConnect with the MYB Community at www.facebook.com/groups/entermemphisListen to all episodes and get more content to help your business at www.themybpodcast.comBRANDPOD! Your brand's voice, amplified! Go to www.brandyourpod.com to hire us to be a partner in helping you launch, grow, and monetize your own podcast platform! Intro/Outro - "Minding Your Business" By Eli POverlay music - "Summer in NY" by Ayalia

April 21, 2020 Raika Tech Cynthia DelAria and Negotiation Expert Dr. Mori Taheripour

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Cynthia talk about: * Being 8 years old and writing in VISUAL BASIC! :heart-eyes: * Taking community college classes with mom at age 12 * Geeking out on things that are older than Kendall :) * Selling her first company at age 19 * Cleaning up unicorn poop * What happens after the problem is solved * Helping companies find their path * Feeling responsible for the happiness of your employees * The awkwardness of networking * Troubleshooting at the product level * Constantly being in trouble as a kid :) * What should qualify people to be management * Discovering higher mathematics and panicking Kendall * Reading and racecars You can find Cynthia on LinkedIn, Facebook, and cynthiadelaria.com! Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music

7. In this episode, Will sits down with CEO/COO & Tech Startup Ninja Cynthia Delaria. Together they discuss technology and using it to create successful habits, shining spotlights on your talents, the key to setting goals, how tech companies love failure, and how to overcome that. Are you ready to fire on all cylinders? If so, LET'S GO! MORE ABOUT CYNTHIA DELARIA Cynthia had a $2,000,000 exit with her first company when she was just 19 years old. She exited her second company in her mid-twenties for $4M. Her audience is greater than 3,500 and she is happy to share with her fans! Cynthia brings a unique skillset and over 20 years of experience to the Raika executive team. Her background began primarily in UI development and transitioned throughout her career through the entire stack. However, she discovered early on that she possessed a natural ability to see new business opportunities, build profitable revenue models, discover prime and emerging target markets, and build efficient teams. As a result, she has built, run, and sold several companies in her career, as well as consulted for many other companies to take underperforming software teams and products and turn them into cash cows. www.raikatech.com MORE ABOUT 5 CORE LIFE: The show consists of interviews and discussions with top entrepreneurs, top leaders in their field, and regular folks on what it means to live a #5CoreLife. Click the link to learn more about The 5 Core Life Podcast: www.mooremomentum.com/5-core-life-podcast WHAT'S YOUR CORE SCORE? Take the FREE Life Evaluator Quiz to see where you currently stand in your five cores: www.mooremomentum.com/free-li... Like and subscribe! FIND ME ON FACEBOOK, IG, or TWITTER: @mooremomentum JOIN MY GROUP TO CREATE A MILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS ⬇️ www.facebook.com/groups/buildamilliondollarbiz/ SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY BLOG AS WELL! www.mooremomentum.com/blog --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/5corelife/message

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show, where we talk about our own experience building our startup. We work with a lot of entrepreneurs, and a lot of them are brand new to starting and running a business. It's easy for them to forget that Raika's founders are entrepreneurs too! In this episode, we're talking about our journey (so far) in building a business that builds businesses... The ups, the downs, and how we navigate it all, is exactly why we are passionate about working with other budding startup-pers!

Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea are proud to present this episode of Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show, where we talk about our own experience building our startup. We work with a lot of entrepreneurs, and a lot of them are brand new to starting and running a business. It's easy for them to forget that Raika's founders are entrepreneurs too! In this episode, we're talking about our journey (so far) in building a business that builds businesses... The ups, the downs, and how we navigate it all, is exactly why we are passionate about working with other budding startup-pers!

In November last year we journeyed to India with a small but mighty group of fellow adventurous camel loving people. We had an itinerary planned…. We were to buy 6 camels in India, teach our training course (Camel Connection Trust Based Camel Training® ) to our group, hence the camels got trained, then trek these camels from our Indian village where we stayed to the famous Pushkar Camel Fair. We had it all down pat, but, like with all our international journeys, we create A LOT of room for flexibility and we're sure glad we did! There's a bigger purpose to these types of trips… Before returning home we planned to gift the camels we brought to a village so that they can breed & milk the female camels to help preserve ‘the camel' in India as numbers are declining. Sadly, in India camel numbers are dwindling due to modernisation. This is not good news for the camel or their owners and handlers (Raika people) hence their livelihoods. The whole purpose of this is to inspire you on what's possible for you! We're ordinary people, just like you. We love adventure, camels and giving back and we know we are not alone (or are we crazy…?!) So, What Really Happened during our India Camel Journey? Well, there was the crazy entrance into Pushkar Camel Fair with our camels, amongst many things! Tune in to hear [almost] all the, unexpected, funny, challenging and mesmerising stories about India camel journey 2018. What's the special news...? We're journeying back to India in November (2019) so we thought we'd bring up this episode from the archives to [maybe] inspire you to put your hand up to join us. How'd you know if this Indian camel journey trip is for you? Well, tune in and you'll soon find out - we promise! Don't forget to check out all the details to see if this journey to India is for you: https://camelconnection.com/india-camel-journey We know investing in yourself, heck you can even call it ‘treating yourself,' and committing to travel can be a big, but we PROMISE YOU that you'll be so glad you made the decision to join this trip to India if you're 100% inspired to.

In November last year we journeyed to India with a small but mighty group of fellow adventurous camel loving people. We had an itinerary planned….  We were to buy 6 camels in India, teach our training course (Camel Connection Trust Based Camel Training® ) to our group, hence the camels got trained, then trek these camels from our Indian village where we stayed to the famous Pushkar Camel Fair. We had it all down pat, but, like with all our international journeys, we create A LOT of room for flexibility and we’re sure glad we did! There’s a bigger purpose to these types of trips… Before returning home we planned to gift the camels we brought to a village so that they can breed & milk the female camels to help preserve ‘the camel’ in India as numbers are declining. Sadly, in India camel numbers are dwindling due to modernisation. This is not good news for the camel or their owners and handlers (Raika people) hence their livelihoods.  The whole purpose of this is to inspire you on what’s possible for you! We’re ordinary people, just like you. We love adventure, camels and giving back and we know we are not alone (or are we crazy…?!) So, What Really Happened during our India Camel Journey? Well, there was the crazy entrance into Pushkar Camel Fair with our camels, amongst many things! Tune in to hear [almost] all the, unexpected, funny, challenging and mesmerising stories about India camel journey 2018. What's the special news...? We're journeying back to India in November (2019) so we thought we'd bring up this episode from the archives to [maybe] inspire you to put your hand up to join us. How'd you know if this Indian camel journey trip is for you? Well, tune in and you'll soon find out - we promise!   Don't forget to check out all the details to see if this journey to India is for you: https://camelconnection.com/india-camel-journey  We know investing in yourself, heck you can even call it ‘treating yourself,’  and committing to travel can be a big, but we PROMISE YOU that you’ll be so glad you made the decision to join this trip to India if you're 100% inspired to.

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Cynthia Del'Aria, CEO and Co-Founder. Cynthia started her programming journey very early, as well as her foray into business. Find out more about Cynthia at: https://www.raikatech.com/cynthia

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Cynthia Del'Aria, CEO and Co-Founder. Cynthia started her programming journey very early, as well as her foray into business. Find out more about Cynthia at: https://www.raikatech.com/cynthia

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Darrell Brogdon, CIO and Co-Founder. Darrell is a DevOps wizard (of the Harry Pottery variety) and has mastery with all things responsive mobile. Plus, if you can't figure out why something is the way it is, he almost ALWAYS can. Find out more about Darrell at: https://www.raikatech.com/darrell

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Darrell Brogdon, CIO and Co-Founder. Darrell is a DevOps wizard (of the Harry Pottery variety) and has mastery with all things responsive mobile. Plus, if you can't figure out why something is the way it is, he almost ALWAYS can. Find out more about Darrell at: https://www.raikatech.com/darrell

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Grant Parks, CTO and Co-Founder. Grant is an integral contributor, both via his extensive technical acumen and his wonderfully witty sense of humor! Find out more about Grant at: https://www.raikatech.com/grant

In this series, we will spend a little individual time with each member of the Raika Technologies team to learn more about who is behind the startup magic. Today, we are talking to Grant Parks, CTO and Co-Founder. Grant is an integral contributor, both via his extensive technical acumen and his wonderfully witty sense of humor! Find out more about Grant at: https://www.raikatech.com/grant

In This Episode In this podcast interview, Rob McNealy interviews Cynthia Del’Aria, Darrell Brogdon, and Grant Parks, about their small business incubator and rapid app development program called GotAnAppidea.com.     About Cynthia Del’Aria – CEO/Co-Founder Cynthia brings a unique skillset and over 20 years of experience to the Raika executive team. Her background began...

Back in the day, video games could rock without featuring anything close to a real guitar. It’s actually a testament to those composers’ ingenuity that they could conjure something from those sound processors that sounded unmistakably like an electric guitar. This episode is an eclectic mix of some of those remarkably hard-rocking soundtracks. (Long live Barbara the Bat!) Track listing: 0:17: Launch Octopus / Mega Man X / Setsuo Yamamoto 3:02: Overdrive Ostrich / Mega Man X2 / Yuki Iwai 4:56: Volt Catfish / Mega Man X3 / Kinuyo Yamashita 6:26: Operation Thunder Zone / Thunder Zone (Desert Assault) / Hiroaki Yoshida (a.k.a. Maro) and Akira Takemoto (a.k.a. Raika) 9:56: Burning Heart / Battle Mania Daiginjou / Junichi Masuda 12:34: Ragnarok Canyon / Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (Super NES) / David Wise 17:38: Mission 2 / Carrier Air Wing / Manami Matsumae 19:45: Corneria / Star Fox / Hajime Hirasawa 25:39: Russia / Aero Fighters / Naoki Itamura 28:57: Hurry Up (Ray’s Theme) / Fighter’s History / Gamedelic 31:43: Bluefin Tuna (Galford’s Theme) / Samurai Shodown 2 / SNK Sound Team 34:37: For Metro City / Final Fight 3 / Katsunari Kitajima 39:27: Flugelheim Museum / Batman (Genesis) / Naoki Kodaka 42:03: Epilogue / Heavy Barrel / Azusa Hara and Hiroaki Yoshida 44:00: Bloodlines / Castlevania: Rondo of Blood / Akira Souji (a.k.a. Akiropito) 47:43: The End of Raging Waves / Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City / Yuzo Koshiro 50:10: Dawn of Ys / Ys IV: Mask of the Sun / Naoki Kaneda 53:35: Ginza / Shin Megami Tensei / Tsukasa Masuko 57:19: Gorgeous Musical Castle Part Two (Goe Goe Spark) / Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon / Shigeru Araki, Yusuke Kato, Saiko Miki and Yasumasa Kitagawa 60:39: Southern Island / Wave Race 64 / Kazumi Totaka 63:13: Break Point Champs / Windjammers / Tomoyoshi Sato and Seiichi Hamada 65:32: Ending Theme / F-Zero / Yumiko Kanki and Naoto Ishida Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com Subscribe to the newsletter: https://tablecakesproductions.substack.com/subscribe

In November we journeyed to India with a small but mighty group of fellow camel loving people. We had an itinerary planned. We were to buy 6 camels in India, teach our training course (Camel Connection Trust Based Camel Training®) to our group, hence the camels got trained, then walk these camels 100km from our Indian village where we stayed to the famous Pushkar Camel Fair. We had it all down pat, but, like with all our international journeys, we create A LOT of room for flexibility and we're sure glad we did. Listen in now to hear about all the surprises we got along the way on our India Camel Journey, including new lessons learnt - they were abundant! A big part of this journey was to support a local Raika village's economy and help 'preserve' the camel in India (as numbers are dwindling due to modernisation etc). The 6 camels we brought now have a forever home with an Indian village in Rajasthan in which we fell in love with. Upon returning home Russell wanted to help further, knowing that we were expecting some baby camels from our 6 Indian camels. The village wants to start milking the camels to feed their families, Russell set out to fund them a milking machine to help with this progress, especially when the camel herd grows. Tune in now to find out what happened in the end... Join the conversation: www.australiancamels.com/india-camel-journey-what-really-happened

In November we journeyed to India with a small but mighty group of fellow camel loving people. We had an itinerary planned. We were to buy 6 camels in India, teach our training course (Camel Connection Trust Based Camel Training®) to our group, hence the camels got trained, then walk these camels 100km from our Indian village where we stayed to the famous Pushkar Camel Fair. We had it all down pat, but, like with all our international journeys, we create A LOT of room for flexibility and we're sure glad we did. Listen in now to hear about all the surprises we got along the way on our India Camel Journey, including new lessons learnt - they were abundant! A big part of this journey was to support a local Raika village's economy and help 'preserve' the camel in India (as numbers are dwindling due to modernisation etc). The 6 camels we brought now have a forever home with an Indian village in Rajasthan in which we fell in love with. Upon returning home Russell wanted to help further, knowing that we were expecting some baby camels from our 6 Indian camels. The village wants to start milking the camels to feed their families, Russell set out to fund them a milking machine to help with this progress, especially when the camel herd grows. Tune in now to find out what happened in the end... Join the conversation: www.australiancamels.com/india-camel-journey-what-really-happened

An interview with two fascinating woman about how they navigated the cult, and two very different experiences of discovering they were gay. Listen to life stories of Raika and Suzi, what their lives were like in the cult, how they woke up, how they came out, and how they have managed their lives outside the cult.

For our first Podcast of the year we carry on with our Atuatanga - Angels and Atua series. This week Jay interviews Stacey and Hiraina Raika who live in Ōtaki and are leaders at Raumati Beach Church. In this episode we dig into their understanding and experiences as Māori followers of Christ.

SHOW NOTES: Summary: Denise Fenzi is the founder of the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy (FDSA). She has competed in a wide range of dog sports, titling dogs in obedience, tracking, Schutzhund, Mondioring, herding, conformation, and agility. She is best-known for her flashy and precise obedience work, as demonstrated by two AKC OTCH dogs and perfect scores in both Schutzhund and Mondioring sport obedience. Her specialty is in developing motivation, focus, and relationship in competition dogs, and she has consistently demonstrated the ability to train and compete with dogs using motivational methods in sports where compulsion is the norm. Next Episode:  To be released 2/16/2018, featuring Julie Flanery, talking about all the things you were never taught in puppy class. TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to Denise Fenzi. At this point, Denise probably needs to introduction, and I want to save every minute of this interview that we can for what we're here to talk about today: the benefits of play. So welcome back to the podcast Denise! Denise Fenzi: Hi Melissa. Thank you for having me. Melissa Breau: I'm excited. This is a good topic. To start us out, do you want to just remind listeners who each of the dogs is that you share your life with right now? Denise Fenzi: I have three dogs. Raika is the oldest. She's 13-and-a-half and doing very well. There's Lyra, and I believe she's about 6 now, and she is also doing well. And there is little Brito, my terrier mix. He's 4 now. Melissa Breau: It seems like it was not long ago that you got him. Denise Fenzi: Yeah. Every time I think about it, I'm kind of amazed at how time goes by. Melissa Breau: As I mentioned in the intro, we're going to talk about play today… and I think a lot of people who sign up for your class on the topic, they're thinking about one thing: its benefits for competition. So do you want to just briefly talk about what those are, and how play fits into the competition picture? Denise Fenzi: Sure. My online play class covers personal play, which is interaction without toys and food, and also covers toy play and play with food. Most people, when they talk about play, personal play, are thinking in terms of what they can do when they go in a competition ring with their dog when they don't have their cookies and toys. That's actually pretty understandable and is actually what caused me to explore the issue in the first place. But the longer I've been playing with it, and teaching the class, and exploring the topic, the more I've realized that the question's a little bit premature. It probably makes more sense to think about play in terms of building the underlying relationship, and less energy should be spent on what you are going to do with that play. The reason it matters is because the play you can use in the ring may have absolutely nothing to do with the play you do at home while you are working to develop your relationship. But you can't jump ahead. You have to go through the process. So it's kind of an issue of goal versus process. I have noticed — I've taught this class many times now, I would say maybe five times — and I have noticed that the students come into the class with a different perspective. The very first time I taught the class it was kind of universal. Every person said the same thing, which is, “But how will I use this in competition?” And honestly, this term, so far not one student has actually said that. So change is taking place. I don't know if it's because the reputation of the class has encouraged that, or if it's our student base has developed and they see things differently. I'm not sure, but it certainly has saved me some time writing to people, “Please let's focus on the process for now. We'll get to that later.” Melissa Breau: What kind of benefits can learning to play with your dog really have on that underlying relationship? Denise Fenzi: The one I usually bring up first is that to play well with a dog without food or toys requires an incredible amount of attention to how the dog is responding to what you are doing, kind of on a second-by-second basis, because if you do something that you think is attractive to your dog and your dog has a different opinion, you have about a half a second to figure that out before your dog avoids you. Now I look at this as all a great big learning opportunity, so it's not a problem that your dog runs off when you do something. You say to yourself, “Well, maybe I shouldn't do that again.” What I find is that the process of teaching play is probably the fastest way for me to teach people how to observe their dog's body language, because everything is so immediate. The handler does something, the dog responds, the handler responds, the dog gives a final response, and if you made good decisions at those two junctures, then you will have a good response or a neutral response, and if you misread the dog's behavior, you will get instant feedback, and I find that's invaluable. Melissa Breau: So how does that compare or maybe mix with play's role as a motivator for training? Denise Fenzi: Well, within training, if I still have my food and my toys, I primarily use it as a way to break up sessions. For example, over the last month I've been recording every single session with Lyra and Brito learning to heel on my right-hand side, which is a new thing for all of us. That means I'm spending longer than I should on each training session. So let's say that an ideal training session with a new skill is a minute, which is probably about right. After I've taken the time to set up the video camera and make it happen, just for purely pragmatic reasons I cannot do that. But what I can do is train for a minute, stop, and play with my dog. It can be as little as five seconds. As a matter of fact, it often … that would be normal. Five seconds, 10 seconds, maybe 15 or 20 seconds — that would be unusual — and then I can ask for another minute or two. Those little mini-breaks relax everyone. They relax me and the dog, and they let go of the stress which is invariably part of learning. So while positive reinforcement training is designed to be fun and to be low stress, that doesn't change the fact that sometimes the dog or the human is not getting it right and that builds up stress. So being able to play in the middle of a session is really a fantastic thing for everyone. If nothing else, it reminds the handler of why they have their dog, and it reminds the dog that “Everything's good, mama still loves me even if I make some mistakes, everything is fine here.” Melissa Breau: I know you touched on this a little bit already, but how does learning to play really help people read their dog and why is that beneficial? Denise Fenzi: I think for anybody involved in dog training, being able to read your dog is 90 percent of the game. It's actually so significant that now when people describe to me what is happening with their dog, I almost refuse to answer if I don't have a video, because I find it so common that I see something different than they see. So when people can see what their dog is doing and accurately interpret it, their training is going to skyrocket. It's hard to underestimate the value of accurately reading your dog's behavior. For example, when dogs walk off in the middle of training to sniff, the vast majority of novice trainers see that as the dog finding something better to do. They found a good smell. It takes a lot of time to learn that most of the time the dog is actually avoiding you, and while that's a little uncomfortable, recognizing it for what it is, it's not a condemnation of you as a person. It simply means that whatever you are doing at that moment at that time is causing distress to your dog. It's nothing more than that. So if I'm in a training session and it seems to be going OK, and my dog starts to scratch or shows some other sign of distress, I don't get upset about it. I just change my ways. That is something that play can give to you — that quick ability to in real time instantly identify how your dog is feeling. And while I specifically called that distress, that's equally true of a happy dog. So what are your dog's happy signals? What do the ears do? What does the mouth do? What do the eyes do? What does the tail do? There's a lot to the picture. And there's just the sheer fun of it, right? So for the handler to look at their dog and recognize their dog really wants to be there, and to feel confident in that assessment, that really does amazing things for your training. Melissa Breau: What about specifically for anxious dogs? Are there benefits to learning to play for those dogs? Denise Fenzi: Personally, I don't go in that direction in my classes. What I tell people is, “My job is going to be to help you become a better play partner to your dog.” That is my emphasis. However, I know that, for example, Amy Cook, who also teaches at the Academy, she uses play as a way of relaxing dogs in stressful situations, and also as a barometer for the dog's suitability for the place where it's at. So being able to play with an anxious dog is actually super-critical to behavior work. The other thing is, in my opinion, when you play with your dog, what you're able to tell them is that everything's OK and that you're on their side. To be able to communicate that is a big deal. If I'm with somebody and I'm feeling a little nervous, they can absolutely hand me something to eat, it will certainly distract me. But if they put their hand on my shoulder and tell me, “You know what? It's OK. It's going to be OK. I'm right here with you,” that's a completely different level of support. And I think being able to play with your dog, especially with an anxious dog, will take you in the right direction. Melissa Breau: What about me as the human or handler? Is play really all about the dog, or are there benefits for me, too? Denise Fenzi: A few years ago I was going to give — not a webinar — a presentation on play to an audience, and I thought it might be a tough sell to that particular audience. So I felt the need to have a little bit of background and backup for my assertion that I think play is important — and I sure hope nobody contacts me and asks me for the information now, because I don't have it anymore — but I found quite a few studies which talked about the effects on both the dog and the handler on mutual interaction. In some cases the interaction was simply looking at each other. In other cases it was playing together, sometimes it was about playing ball or whatever. And there was just a lovely thread of discussions about how the hormones on both sides of the picture here, for both the dog and the human, the happy hormones went up, the sad hormones went down, and the end result is a more content picture. Like I said, I don't have that anymore, but I'm sure if somebody wants to investigate it they can find that information again. Melissa Breau: It would be interesting to look up some of that stuff and be able to point to some of those studies. I know that you also teach engagement, obviously, so do you mind just talking a little bit about how play, or being able to play with your dog, can impact or influence your engagement training? And maybe just start out with a little bit of explanation on what engagement training is, for those who may not know. Denise Fenzi: The word engagement is a little bit complicated, because when we say “to engage another,” we simply mean to mutually interact. When I talk about engagement training, I'm actually talking about a very specific training process which teaches the dog that it's their responsibility to let the handler know, first of all, when they're comfortable, and secondly, that they would like to work. The second part of that involves the dog engaging the handler in play or strong interactive behaviors. So an example of play would be that the dog play-bows at the human and the human responds. An example of just a strong behavior might be that the dog jumps on the person. So there's variations. I teach engagement online, and I find that students who already have developed some repertoire of play with their dog have a much easier time with it because, first of all, it actually occurs to their dog to offer play, because engagement is a shaped process. It crosses the dog's mind that maybe they should ask the owner to play and see what happens next. So that's a huge benefit right there. The handlers who don't have play training or some comfort with play, they struggle. Not only do their dogs not think to offer it, but even if their dog does think to offer it, they don't know what to do next, and so now it sort of stops the process of training engagement and we redirect into the process of training play. And while that's not terrible, I just find that most people came into engagement class to learn engagement, and the ones who came in with play already make a lot more progress on that skill, and the ones who have to stop and redirect simply don't go as far. Now that's no emergency, but for sure having play skills will make your engagement training easier. Melissa Breau: Let's assume that some of the folks listening are convinced… they want to give this a go, they want to focus on trying to play more with their dog. Where should they start? What are some good ways to start play, especially if it hasn't been a big part of life with their dog before now? Denise Fenzi: Well, right off the bat, loud and crazy is probably not the direction you want to go. Generally when people think about play, they think they're going to imitate how dogs play with each other. That's a little unrealistic in terms of a place to start. So unless you're 5 years of age, you are not going to run around the back yard like a crazy person with your dog, and even if you did, your dog would think that was so bizarre and out of character that you would actually be likely to frighten your dog. And then I've noticed that people get a little intense and nervous because that's not the response they were looking for, and that's when they start to sort of, for lack of a better word, assault their dogs. They come up and start — they call it “playfully,” but anyway — they start pinching and pulling and doing weird things, and that drives the dog further into avoidance. So Rule Number One: start low key. I find it so much more effective to start with what we would normally call praise rather than play. Pet your dog, scratch their ears, gently and sweet. Now, from there, can you ratchet that up to look something like what happens when you walk in the front door and your dog is glad to see you? So maybe you went from a gentle massaging-type interaction, let's call that a 1 or 2 out of 10, to something a little more “Oh boy, you're home, Mom, I'm so glad to see you.” Let's say that's in your 3 to 6 range, depending on your dog. Can you start to get that behavior you get at the front door in your play session when you don't have that context? What do you do at the front door? How do you interact with your dog? Do you clap? Do you pet them? Do you talk to them? And what happens, and what does your dog look like at that moment? What kind of an expression does your dog have? All of that should feel fairly natural and seamless to most people. From there we can start ratcheting up, and little taps and running away. That brings me to my second rule of thumb: I generally strongly suggest that people try to figure out on a scale of 1 to 10, what energy level is your dog showing you right now, and can you match that plus or minus 1? So if your dog's being kind of crazy, and you don't really want to hang out at a 10 with a Great Dane, the problem is you can't go to a 1 because you're not going to register and your dog's going to leave you. So can you get to a 9, and then quickly to an 8 and a 7 and a 6 and a 5? From my point of view, it's perfectly legitimate to put a toy in the dog's mouth or use food for redirection, if it's really rambunctious and you need to get your dog to a level that's more sustainable for both of you. But using the matching system, the number system, helps a lot. It helps people match their dog and stay in the game without it getting out of control, feeling free to add food and toys if you need to. This is a little bit new for me. A few years ago I tried to do a lot more without that, and I don't do that as much. And also starting on the low end of the scale and working your way up — that is also something I would say is new to me. Over time I have discovered that works much, much better for all parties. The final thing I would mention is really watch for signs that your dog isn't having a good time, and take your dog seriously. Respect that. So if you can get one great minute, that's fantastic. Just stop. Don't go for 5 or 10. And if your dog says they want a little break, honor that. It's not personal. Your dog didn't take a break because they think you're horrible. Your dog took a break because he needed one and he recognized that he was struggling with his own arousal — too high, too low, whatever. If you pursue, you will drive your dog into avoidance. So I think I would start with that package and see where that gets you. Melissa Breau: Do you mind just talking a little bit more about that toy piece? What made you change your mind, or how can people use that in a way that it doesn't become all about the toy? Denise Fenzi: Well, I think a lot of it was simply safety. Dogs can hurt us with their teeth, whether they mean to or not, and if you give the dog a toy, and they chomp on the toy instead of on your arm, that's obviously a lot more pleasant. There's all sorts of other things that go with that, you know — habits, and teaching your dog that it hurts when you bite, and all kinds of stuff. The problem is, asking a dog not to use their mouth in play is a lot like asking a human child not to use their hands. That is how dogs communicate with each other. It's how they communicate in play. And so if we're going to do that, we're going to have to spend a lot of time teaching them how to do that. So in the same way that if you tried to teach a child to play with their hands behind their back, while doable, if you gave them something to hold in their hands behind their back while they were doing that, they would be much more likely to remember, and it would give them something to do with their hands, to grip a thing. If you give the dog something to hold, and they have those urges to bite down or to grab, they have something in their mouth already. With Lyra, I don't think I tried to play with her without a toy in her mouth until she was probably 2 years old, and what I discovered is after that time we had made enough progress that she didn't need it anymore. And so then, when the toy was out of her mouth, she didn't have that desire to grab me. She knew what to do. And the time when the toy was in her mouth gave both of us time to learn how to play with each other and kept us out of over-arousal situations while we were learning the game. So it solves a lot of problems. Now if the dog says, “It's all about the toy. If the toy's in my mouth, then let's play with it,” that's actually not that much of a problem. What I do is I will pull on the toy, let's say every 10 seconds, just enough to keep the dog holding it. But the rest of the time is spent quick little tap, run away, little play bow, clapping, finding ways that the dog keeps the toy in their mouth but redirects their energy to me. When I say the dog holds a toy, I don't mean you never touch the toy, and I don't mean it's not OK to play with the toy a little. It's a balance issue. So let's say the first day it's 50/50: 50 percent of the time you're playing with the toy and 50 percent of the time you're playing with the dog. The next day could you get that to 48/52? So over time can you get it to the point where it's 10 percent toy, 90 percent dog, and eventually can you get it where you take the toy away from the dog, play with the dog for 10 seconds, and then go get the toy together and go back to your 90 percent playing with the dog, 10 percent toy. That's how I'm approaching it these days. Melissa Breau: That's really interesting to hear how you've evolved that concept a little bit. What about those people who want to do this, they try to play with their dog and … their dog just doesn't seem to be interested. What might be going on there? Is there still hope that they can figure this out, that they can do this? Denise Fenzi: Well, there's definitely hope. I'm actually amazed at how many people who go through the play class make significant progress when they were pretty sure they weren't going to get anywhere. And, in fairness, I have read some introductions where my initial reaction was, “This is going to be really hard.” And most people progress. Now I define progress exactly as that word states. It's progress. I'm not a goal-oriented person, so what I'm looking for is did we move forward? If we moved forward, I'm probably pretty happy, and I find most of my students get there. So is there hope? Absolutely positively. Might it look the way you thought it was going to look? Might it look like your neighbor's dog? Well, maybe, but that's not really the point. It doesn't need to look like your neighbor's dog. It needs to work for you and your dog, and honestly, if that never gets past the point where you are able to scratch your dog's head and thump your dog's side, even though you're in the middle of a training session and you have access to food and toys and your dog knows it, I'm happy, because as soon as I can get the dog off that look of “Don't touch me, I want my food and toys,” I'm going to be happy. That to me is a huge success. So rethink your goals, and make sure that you're really being reasonable, and I think you will progress. Melissa Breau: If people want to see some examples of this stuff, if they're having a little trouble picturing it, because some of this stuff is complex and it's hard to visualize, can you talk about where they might be able to go to find some of those examples, which pieces of this you cover in class? Denise Fenzi: This particular class I believe has over a hundred videos. It's incredibly dense and complex. One of the cool things about the class itself is the active students, the ones that are learning. Every term I learn a new way to play with a dog. Somebody does something I've never seen before and I go, “Oh, I never thought to cover the dog with a towel and snap it off. I never thought to cover myself with a towel and let the dog find me.” So little things like that. It's a constant process of evolution. Deb Jones and I did write a book on the topic of play, so the third book in the Dog Sports Skills series is on the topic of play and has an awful lot of detail. Having said that, I would say that between a class and a book, this is something … I think you make a lot more progress if you watch videos, because it is so second-by-second, so that is one place where I think video would serve you well. I've never actually searched YouTube for videos of playing with a dog, but you know what, if you are not interested in taking classes, that's not your cup of tea, and you don't really want to sit down with a book, the first thing I would probably do is go to YouTube and search “playing with a dog,” and something has got to come up. It has to. In this day and age there's so much out there. That's probably where I would start. The second thing I would do, if I really wanted to go it myself, is just go back through this podcast, because I gave you a lot of places to work from and a lot to start with, and just give it a shot. See what you get. If you end this podcast feeling inspired to try it, then you're halfway there already. Melissa Breau: I was actually going to add to that, if you don't mind, that I think that some of the TEAM videos have some really nice examples of engagement, and some of those samples of engagement have really nice pieces of play in them, if people wanted to see some additional examples. That's just on the TEAM site free. Denise Fenzi: Not only that. I forgot about that. The Fenzi TEAM Players Facebook list is very active, and a couple three weeks ago I did do a flash challenge on the topic of engagement. So many people did put up their examples of working on engagement, and because it was a flash challenge, I respond to those videos, so I would have given my input and my thoughts on that. That would have been playing more specifically focused towards engagement and work, but regardless, you got to see play there, so maybe join that list. Melissa Breau: That list is free, right? Anybody can join that. They're welcome to join. Denise Fenzi: Sure. Melissa Breau: Just a last question here. If somebody does want to take the class, is there a dog that's good for the class, or maybe not a good fit for the class? Is there anything they should think about from that stance? Denise Fenzi: This term I probably have the widest variety of dogs, off the top of my head, that I've ever had. Let me think about it. I have a Great Dane, a Mastiff, then I have some more typical dogs, Sheltie, Corgi, then I have some teeny guys. I've got a Chihuahua, a softer. more fragile dog, I have a small mix, I think she said it was 10 or 11 pounds. I do believe there might be an Aussie in there, a Corgi. I have much greater size discrepancies than I've ever seen before, so I've got the tiniest and the largest, which is fun and interesting. I have non-players. I have dogs that have shown no interest whatsoever in a toy. And actually those dogs, the first week's lectures, the ones that have been released this week, are all about toy play. So we are focused on toy play right now, but I've seen the baselines for all types of play. So right off the bat the toy play's going really, really well, and the owners are excited because they're seeing things they hadn't expected. Next week, around the 9th or so, is when I start releasing the personal play lectures, and having seen the baseline, there's going to be a little of everything. There are going to be dogs that tend toward over-arousal, and there are going to be dogs that think it's all kinds of crazy and don't want to stay in the game at all, maybe showing avoidance, and I think there will be some middle ground as well. My personal preference when I teach a class is an incredible variety of dogs, and when people join the class I really try to encourage them to understand that there are no good dogs or bad dogs, there are just dogs. So it's OK, the responses your dog gives you, they're not right responses or wrong responses. They're just the response that the dog gave you, and we can just keep changing direction. That's no problem. We explore and look for what works for a more serious dog, a more anxious dog, not an aggressive dog but an assertive dog, and try to find a way, find a route, that makes you love your dog a little bit more and makes your dog think you're just a wee bit more interesting than they did yesterday. Which does bring up a point I meant to say and I forgot it. In my experience, when I go back and read my survey results for this class, probably the most common thing that people say to me at the end of class is that they're surprised at how much more their dog watches them in life. Without being trained to do so, the dog simply finds them more worth their while than they did before, and the dog checks in more. So when they go on walks, the dog just checks, “Are you coming? What are you doing?” The dog just seems to recognize that they offer more than Pez-dispenser-style training. They're more than a food dispenser or a toy machine. They are a valuable person who means more than the next person, and if I get that feedback, if I get that result, then I have won, and I feel very good about that. Melissa Breau: That's awesome, and I think that's a great point. There's some really great gems in there for people that want to tease them out. Thank you so much, Denise, for coming back on the podcast. It was great to chat again. Denise Fenzi: It's always great to be here, Melissa. Thank you. Melissa Breau: And thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in! We'll be back next week, this time with Julie Flanery, and we'll be talking about the things no one ever told you in puppy class. That is, we'll be diving into some of my favorite topics — handler mechanics, verbal cues, all those types of things. And guys, this week I have a special request. If you listen to the podcasts, or you listen to other podcasts, I'm sure you've heard other people say this, but reviews in iTunes have a HUGE impact on helping new people find the show and letting iTunes know that our show is actually worth listening to. So if you've enjoyed this or any of the previous ones, I would really appreciate it personally if you could take a minute to just go into iTunes and leave us a review. And if you haven't already, subscribe while you're there, and our next episode will automatically download to your phone as soon as it becomes available. CREDITS: Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty-free by BenSound.com; the track featured here is called “Buddy.” Audio editing provided by Chris Lang.  

SHOW NOTES:  Summary: Competitive sports dog trainer and founder of FDSA Denise Fenzi talks about how she got into dog sports, her journey from traditional training to her current all positive approach, and more.  Links mentioned: Fenzi TEAM Training Site FREE Beyond the Backyard Instructors Guide Denise's other books via her website Next Episode:  To be released 1/6/2017, featuring Sarah Stremming    TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau, and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports podcast, brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to FDSA founder Denise Fenzi. Denise has competed in a wide range of dog sports, titling dogs in obedience, tracking, Schutzhund, Mondioring, herding, conformation, and agility. She is best-known for her flashy and precise obedience work, as demonstrated by two AKC OTCH dogs and perfect scores in both Schutzhund and Mondioring sport obedience. Her specialty is in developing motivation, focus, and relationship in competition dogs, and she has consistently demonstrated the ability to train and compete with dogs using motivational methods in sports where compulsion is the norm. Hi Denise, can you tell us a bit about the dogs you have known and what you're working on with them? Denise Fenzi: Hi Melissa, how are you? Melissa: Good. Denise: Good. I'm excited to do this. Yeah, I'll tell you. Let's see, I have three dogs here now. I have Raika, she's my oldest dog, she's 12½ and she is retired and mostly spends her days hanging out with me and going for long walks. That's what she wants to do now. My two younger dogs are Lyra, she's also a Belgian Tervuren, and Brito, who's a little mixed-breed, and I primarily train them to learn new things. So I do a lot of play skills with them, I do a lot of obedience with them. I just use them as, I want to say sample dogs, that's not quite the word I want. But I like to experiment with them and try out new things. And right now I'm sort of in a coaching phase of my life more than a competitive phase of my life, so I'm not actually sure if or when I'll compete. I have done some of the TEAM obedience levels with both of them, and I think they both have a TEAM Two title, [but] I'd have to look. And at some point if I get inspiration I'm going to keep going. So those are my dogs.   Melissa: So I know it wasn't on the list of questions I sent over, but do you want to briefly just tell us a little bit more about TEAM? Denise: Oh, TEAM is Training Excellence Assessment Modules, and it's the new obedience program that we started for people who want to compete via video and with more emphasis on quality of training and less about the competitive environment. So anybody who wants can look it up at fenziteamtitles.com. It's, in my opinion, an extremely well-designed program and worth taking a look at. Denise: Yeah, my parents showed dogs, and I'm 48, so I was sort of born into it. They actually competed with Lhasa Apsos in obedience, which is _____ (3.23).  I know my parents got a CDX on a Lhasa Apso; it took 23 shows. I think their final show was a 171 1/2, but they did it. So I give them credit for that. It was kind of an ugly way of getting titles back then, it was uglier to watch, but they did it. Melissa: So is that what originally got you into dog sports? Denise: Yes, I guess I inherited it. When I was about 10 I raised a couple of guide dog puppies, and my parents said that if I did that then I could have a dog of my own. So my first dogs were Shelties, because they had to be small dogs. And I just sort of went from there. Melissa: What got you started with positive training? Denise Fenzi: Well, I had been competing in AKC obedience for a long time, and then I decided to try IPO. And when I went over and watched the IPO training at that time, which would have been, I don't know, 20 years ago now I guess I started, I was kind of appalled actually, because they were using so much compulsion and such poor training that my reaction was to go the opposite way. And so I felt obligated to use as little as little as possible and to be successful. But I still absolutely would have called myself a balanced trainer, and I absolutely used compulsion with that dog. He did end up a Schutzhund III. But I did my best to minimize it. And then as time went on I found that I became a better trainer, and I wouldn't say I was trying not to use compulsion so much as just becoming a better trainer and needing less and less. Also, I had some good dogs, that really helps, that were cooperative. And I continued to use compulsion with my student dogs well after I stopped myself. And actually I was thinking about that recently, looking back, why was that? I think I was using it to compensate for my lack of ability to communicate with the humans who owned the dogs how to be better trainers, so it was a bit of an out for me. It's much easier to say, “Correct your dog when the dog sniffs,” than to take the time to try to figure out why the dog is sniffing and then adjust your training, i.e. my training, to get the handler to do it correctly. And so I did use compulsion there, and I can actually look back and see why I did that and also really how under the particular circumstances how unfair it was, because both of those corrections almost certainly were the result of the dog showing displacement behaviors. And then I taught seminars as I traveled; because those weren't my personal students I didn't feel as vested in the same way in the entire process. And so it was pretty obvious when I would walk in that the problems were handler-generated, and so I never got around to correcting the dogs, I was pretty busy correcting the handlers. And after a year of that, seminar after seminar realizing I was never correcting the dogs at all, that I never even got around to the dogs, then it started to be a philosophical thing. And that's when I started looking at it and saying, there's something wrong with holding the dog responsible when in every single case I can look at the situation and see how the handler caused it, and that's when I switched. And that was sort of interesting. Because in terms of solving problems, if you come in with a philosophical point of view and you don't decide that you have the option of reverting to compulsion if you get stuck, I can tell you your ability to problem solve will skyrocket, because it's not sitting there any more as an option. And you get a lot more clever, and you learn to think much more broadly. So it's actually a very good thing for me in my training. Melissa: It always seems easier to train the dog than to train the people. Sometimes the people are definitely the hardest part. Denise: That's true. Melissa: So you kind of mentioned your training philosophy now. Do you want to just describe that a little more for us and tell us kind of how you approach training now? Denise: Well, I think most of us continue to evolve over time, and there's no question that I continue to evolve. Right now I really am looking at dogs a little bit differently. For me it's less than what can the dog do for me to humor me, so I like to do dog sports. So rather than thinking, how can I get the dog to do this for me, I'm more in a place of, how can I get to a point where I can enjoy my time with this dog? And instead of thinking, how can [I set up the] environment so that time spent with me is the best part of their day I'm thinking more, how can I become important to this dog so they want to do things with me? And at first it may sound the same, getting the dog on my team as opposed to me joining their team, but if you think about it you start to realize it's not the same. So I'm perfectly happy to spend time with my young terrier who loves to hunt lizards, and I will sit with him in his little lizard territory telling him, “Did you see that one? Did you look over there?” It's a lot of fun, it really is. It sounds odd, but it's a lot of fun. And I think when I do that with him, I think it creates a really nice place for both of us that makes me appreciate him for who he really is. And then I think he's more willing to play my games. And so it's very much a relationship-based way of thinking about dog training, and sometimes this is hard for people to understand. But I really believe that if your dog genuinely likes you because you are interested in them and because you make their life more interesting, I think that skyrockets what the dog is capable of doing for you. So it's not because the rest of your life is miserable that you want to spend time with me. My dogs have great lives, they have a lot of freedom. I think it's because we just like doing stuff together and it's really fun. So if you can get that relationship down, like I tell people, if you can get your dog to play with you, just run and play and be silly, your dog will start to look at you more, which is really interesting. It's not a trained response at all, it's because we look at others that we enjoy. And that's true with people too. So for example with my older son, he's 16 now, and so he's getting into that, well, independent's not the word I want, but perfectly happy to lock himself in his room sort of phase. And recently he sent me by message text a game, and it's pool, billiards. And he had done a turn, and then says, “Next.” And so when I opened it up it showed me his turn, and then I had a chance to play back. So then I played, and then I sent it back to him. And so we do this, and it's not because I have some great interest in playing pool via text with my son. But what means a lot to me is that he wants me to do that with him. It's something we can do together. So while it would not be my first choice, you bet I respond when he sends me those. And then what I find is, it changes how he interacts with me in general. So that when I need things from him, I think because we have that baseline relationship that we're trying to maintain even as he gets older, I think it allows us to have a better relationship in general, not just about what I want or what he wants. And so I think that dogs are very similar, that if you can find a way to just simply be generically important to them, and accepting, and forgiving, and have a little give and take… You don't always have to get your way. What a concept. It's okay. Your dog does not go through life trying to manipulate you. And I think really internalizing that would sum up where I am right now in terms of how I see training. Melissa: So I know that you kind of touched on this a little bit there with your son, but we've talked before about just the impacts that your training beliefs have had on your other relationships. Do you want to talk a little more about that? I know you've said it's influenced almost all of your relationships, including with your parents and things like that. Denise: It's been probably the most significant thing that's happened in my entire life. When I changed how I trained dogs, you have to be pretty obtuse not to recognize that we all learn the same way. And if you're a positive trainer with dogs and you really emphasize catching what they do right and ignoring what they do wrong, I mean, you really have to choose not to think about it, to realize that exactly the same thing is true with people. So for example both of my kids have very good manners, and I know how that came about in part. One thing is, I'm simply a respectful person and I encourage that. But I remember our first outings to restaurants when they were smaller, and if they would order for themselves, and they would say please and show nice manners, the second that person would walk away from the table I would say to my husband who'd be there, “I am so proud that we have kids who are so respectful and have such good manners. It makes me happy to go places with them.” And you could almost see the difference the next time that opportunity came up again, you could almost see them go just a little bit further with their good manners. And it's not something I comment on any more, because they're older, they're 12 and 16, but they do it by habit. And I know that some part of their brain is always aware of it. So I've never said to them “Say please, say thank you,” I don't tell them what to do, but when it happened I really worked to catch those moments and acknowledge them. And I think dog training is a lot easier than child training, that's just my perspective. But I try to work with that, and I try not to think in terms of getting my kids to go to school and do well because I've restricted the rest of their lives, and I try to think in terms of balance and cooperation. Of course with people you can talk things out more. But at the end of the day if you're having any kind of conflict with another person, whether it's a family member or some random person you see on the street, the question I ask myself now is, do I want to feel better or do I want to change behavior? So if I want to feel better I may well behave badly, I may yell. I do yell, by the way. I do yell at my children, I do yell at my dogs. I know some people say, “That's amazing you do, you're not supposed to do that.” Well that's great, I'm glad you're all there. I'm not, so I will yell, “Get off the couch,” or whatever. I'm not really training, I'm expressing my upsetness. So that's, do I want to feel better? Yes, I'm going to yell. Or somebody irritates me on the street because their dog runs up to mine and is off-leash, and so maybe I'm having a particularly bad day, and I might respond inappropriately. But then the second question is, do I want to change behavior? And I think recognizing that those are different things is really important because never, ever, ever am I yelling if I want to change behavior, and never am I talking to somebody like they're dumb, or ignorant, or anything, because it's all perspective, because they just have a different perspective. So maybe they don't understand that their off-leash dog running up to my old dog is a problem. And the reason it's a problem is, my dog is old and she doesn't like other dogs jumping on her. And I've had much better luck saying, “I know your dog is friendly, but my dog is very old and she has a lot of arthritis. And when your dog comes up like that it really scares her, and it hurts her.” And when I say that, without fail they apologize and they put their dogs on a leash. And I smile, I'm not angry. I might be inside, but I don't show it. The next time I see them we continue with a pleasant set of interactions. And that kind of thinking, do I want to feel better or do I want to change behavior, has been really quite impactful, whether in my family or with people. We often talk about with our dogs, sometimes dog trainers are a lot nicer to their dogs than people. I find that very incongruent, and I don't like to live my life that way. I like my life to make sense. And I think we need to be very aware of not only how we treat our pets but show that same courtesy to each other, and I find that from there I am a happier person. Because when you are kind with people instead of getting your emotions from stewing in your, "oh my God, I can't believe how stupid that person is," that I understand that we take pleasure in those periods of time when we feel superior to other people, because I guess that's where that comes from, I understand that. But it is a short-lived and negative form of emotion, and in the long run it leaves you feeling worse about the world. Whereas when you take the time to think about things from somebody else's point of view, I find that that leads to an understanding, and honestly that makes my life a lot better. It makes me a more pleasant and happy person, so that has a lot of value.   Melissa: That kind of transitions us really nicely into my next question, which was going to be, what led you to start FDSA, the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy? And I want to say kind of before you respond to that, that I think that that's part of the reason that there's been such a fantastic community kind of that's grown up around the school, is just because you have that belief and it spreads through the other teachers and the students. It's really created a really welcoming community for dog sports competitors. Now that I've gotten a little ahead of myself, so what did lead you to start the school? Denise: It was a numbers thing. If I spend a half-hour with one person I can work with one person for half an hour. Online, if I can do it well, then I can spend a half-hour with a much greater number of people. And we each have our own drivers in life, and one of my big drivers is, I want to see change in the dog sports community, and that's very important to me. So to be able to affect a large number of people as opposed to a small number of people was very appealing to me. The school in many ways has just sort of exceeded any expectations I could have possibly had, in many ways. But probably one of the most valuable is, I did not recognize what would happen in terms of the culture, not just with each other. There's a second culture that people wouldn't really know about, and that's the one among the instructors. The way they interact with each other, the way they talk on the mailing list, the support they offer is extraordinary. And I see the same thing with the students, the way they interact. And there really is a sense that your accomplishments mean a lot to you, and everybody else is willing to honor that. So if you figured out how to teach your dog to lay down and it's the first time you ever did that, I find that people are just as excited about that for you as another person who went to a dog show and got maybe a high in trial. Because we're each at a different place in what we value. And I think people have really internalized that, and it is extraordinary. I get a fair number of e-mails from people saying thank you for something or the other, maybe with their dog. But the ones I value the most are the ones where people say, “Over time I started to recognize that the same things we do with our dogs work with each other, and I have become kinder to myself, kinder to people around me, and you know, generally I'm just a much happier person.” That's enormous. And starting an online dog training school I really never saw that one coming. I didn't realize how that could work out like that, and it's been really amazing for me. Melissa: Yeah, I mean, the community's probably one of the few places online where even controversial topics are handled very politely. And people honor each other's opinions and honor each other's thoughts, and they don't break down into insults and arguments, at least not that I've seen yet. Denise: No, it's amazing. I mean, it's not that it's perfect. We have a few thousand members, so you're always going to have differences. But I find that people have become quite good at saying, “This has been my experience, and this is my feelings,” as opposed to, “You're dumb and stupid for thinking that.” And I know that people don't mean to come across that way, but sometimes the online communities, all of them, people simply write and don't think too carefully about how what they just said might be interpreted by another person. And within the alumni group or within the Academy group I find an awareness of considering how you phrase things. And anyway the reality is, if you want to change behavior it's the same thing I said earlier. It may make you feel better to say, “You're dumb to think that way,” but you won't change behavior. If you say, “This has been my experience,” now you might actually change behavior, but you have to give up being self-righteous, and that's not always what people have in mind. Melissa: So I know that we wanted to talk about some of the other stuff you've been working on too. FDSA isn't the only thing you've created in the last few years. So you have another new book coming out. I don't know if you want to take a minute and tell us about some of the books that you already have out and then the new book, or if you just want to talk about the new book. I'll leave that up to you. Denise: Oh, so many. I didn't even know I was such a writer until I started writing, and now I can't stop writing. I've written seven, I'm actually looking at them. Four of them I wrote with Deb Jones, that's the Dog Sports Skills Series. Those are all generic to all dog sports but provide a really nice foundation for dog training. I wrote a book called Beyond the Back Yard, which was targeted at the pet market to help them understand how to get from the point of cookie in the hand in the kitchen and hoping for the best to actually getting some very cooperative real-world obedience. That book has done very well, and a lot of people are using it to teach their classes, which makes me very happy. It does have a free instructor's guide to go with it. And then I wrote Blogger Dog, Brito!, which is about Brito. It's, well, I'm going to say a true story, but keep in mind the dog wrote it, so take that with a grain of salt. And it's designed for about a fourth grade audience to read to themself. And if a person reads it they will learn quite a bit about dog behavior without learning that they learned about dog behavior, which was really what I had in mind. And then my newest book is Train the Dog in Front of You. I would call that my personal pet book, and what I mean is, it is how I feel about training and dogs. I feel that every dog is very unique, and I tried hard to find dimensions that people could work with to say, is your dog more secure, more cautious, more handler-focused, more environmental, and then offered suggestions for how to work with a dog based on those qualities. Actually I'm running a class online right now on that topic. And as you might expect there are many, many nontraditional breeds in that class, and I actually find it extremely interesting to watch different dogs behave in different ways under different circumstances. So you can see some of the dogs do a lot with their eyes. They stare when they go to a park. And other dogs' noses never come off the ground when they go to a park. And other dogs air sniff the whole time they're at the park. And other dogs just jump on their owners. And all of these things are really quite relevant to how you train your dog. So if you understand that your dog's dominant sense is going to be sniffing you might be better off training in a shopping center, whereas another dog that has a lot of pressure issues with people in buildings would be much better off in a big open park than in a shopping center. So thinking that way is very interesting to me. And I hope a lot of dog sports people pick this book up, because I think it has a lot to offer. Melissa: I mean, having had a chance to read an advance copy of the book I think it's a fantastic guide, even just as a thought exercise to think through kind of where your dog falls on some of those different meters, and what they are closer to than other things, and what traits are more true for your personal dog than others. Just to kind of give people a little more sense of what's inside the book, do you mind talking about any one of your dogs that you want, just kind of where they fall on some of those spectrums? Denise: In the first chapter I actually did go through the dogs. Well, Brito is, he's the little terrier dog of mine, he's about 10 pounds. He's a small dog. But he's very terrier, he's classic terrier. He's not handler-focused. So if I take him somewhere his nose goes down, he doesn't do a lot of looking with his eyes, he uses his nose. He does very little air sniffing, it's to the ground. Vegetative surfaces, he will not look back at me, it doesn't cross his mind for 15, 20 minutes. He is not what we'd call naturally handler-focused when he's in a new environment. But there's a piece that goes with that. He's also a very confident and social dog, so he likes people, he's confident with people. He's a little careful with dogs. They're big and that makes him nervous. He's also got a little bit of that terrier behavior, so he can get kind of puffed-up. And if he sees aggression around him he'll go there fast, so I keep an eye on that. And in some ways a dog like that is the polar opposite of Raika, my oldest dog who's here. Raika's always liked to be with me, she just does, it doesn't matter where I go. And actually I had to go to some trouble to teach her to look around, which is something I talk about in the book. Why would I do that? Why would I teach her to stop staring at me? It was a very good decision. And she does get nervous about people and dogs, whereas Brito, it just wouldn't happen to him. And knowing these things about them does make a difference, because Raika, I just take her to a park, I can take her anywhere and work with her, and that's easy and makes sense. But it also means that she needs different sorts of preparations for trial than he does. So if I really want to work him around distractions I would be inclined to go to a shopping center, because then I don't have to deal with grass. But at the same time if I want to compete with him outdoors, knowing who he is allows me to pick a middle environment, maybe not grass but maybe not cement, that allow us to go in that direction. So let's say a parking area, which is cement, near a vegetated area like with a forest or field, so that gives us some in-between. That kind of helps me think that way. I don't sit down and actually consciously go through it any more, it's just something that sort of happens in my head. And in the book I talk about case studies, more so in the online class. I put up case studies of specific dogs that I've worked with. But after a while you start to see packages, you just start to notice that dogs that tend to be a little more insecure are a little more likely to look to their owners. You start looking for stuff like that, and it helps you make a plan about which direction to try with the dog. And it also helps you recognize when you've made a bad decision so that you can back up, turn around, and try something else. Melissa: So to kind of bring things to a little bit of a close I have three last questions, kind of quicker questions. So the first one is, what's the dog-related accomplishment that you're proudest of? Denise: My second OTCH dog had a fairly complete meltdown about a third of the way into her OTCH, and I could not resolve that. I didn't know what to do, so I retired her for about a year-and-a-half. And while she was retired I finished an OTCH on a different dog. So she must have been, I don't know, I want to say eight, maybe nine years old. And I just kept thinking about what I now knew, because I had learned a lot, we're always learning, and I decided to try again. And I thought that we had lots of time to actually pursue the OTCH, because it does take a bit of time, and it helps to have a young and very fit dog. And I just felt that her jumping days were going to be wrapping up soon, and so I decided to go back into competition with a different goal. I simply wanted to see if I could stay connected with her and keep the stress out of the picture just for one exercise, and just for two exercises. Could I do this? And I went in with such a different mindset. It was really no longer about finishing the title, I was no longer frustrated, and she finished her OTCH in two months. So just my changing my way of thinking, and it was really amazing. I will tell you that when you hit about 90 points it gets a little hard to say, “Oh gee, I'm just doing this for fun,” but I managed to keep myself under control with it. I'm very proud of that, because it was hard, and I think hard things are always a bigger accomplishment. Melissa: And what's the best piece of training advice that you've ever heard? Denise: It's just behavior. So there's an expression, it's just behavior. When something is happening in front of you it doesn't mean deep and horrible things, it doesn't mean your dog hates you, it doesn't mean you're never going to be successful, it doesn't mean much of anything. It just means it's behavior. The dog just showed you something, and it has roots from where? Maybe an emotion. But it's not more than that. And that is why most of us when we're training our own dogs, everything is so big and magnified. So your dog goes around the broad jump and, "oh my God." "It's oh my God, what am I going to do? It's over." And we obsess and we stress, and we train and we train on the poor thing and the poor dog, and it's very hard to walk away. Whereas an outsider looks at it and says, “I have no idea what you're getting so worked up about. Your dog went around the jump. It's not a big deal, it's not the end of the world, and it doesn't mean it's going to keep happening.” And I think that expression, it's just behavior, really helps us remember that it's not worth quite that much energy. It just happened, it's okay. Move on, train. Melissa: That in some ways seems to sum up your philosophy almost as well as some of your other answers. Denise: That's true. Melissa: So for our last question, who is somebody else in the dog world that you look up to? Denise: There are actually a lot of trainers out there that I really respect. I've often said I don't think I'm a great dog trainer. I think I'm a pretty good dog trainer. I think what I do well is not dig a grave. I mean, if I see I'm starting a hole I back out of it. Whereas there are a lot of other trainers out there who I think are much better than I am at not starting the hole in the first place. So I can't go with just skills, because there's lots of people who are more skilled. So I think I'm going to say Suzanne Clothier, and the reason is, I have a lot of respect for her ability to look at the situation, the dog, the person, the whole picture, and stand back, and get an overview on what's happening, and then communicate that in a way that people can understand. So I really respect that. And she's been around for a long time, much longer than I would say it's been popular to be a force-free trainer. And she's been at it for really some time, and I appreciate that, and I appreciate her honesty and her ability to communicate what I think sometimes people need to hear that might not be very comfortable without getting stuck in how we're supposed to do things. So I think that's my answer. Melissa: All right. Well, thank you so much, Denise. It's been awesome to chat, it's been a lot of fun. Denise: Thank you. I am excited to see who comes after me. Melissa: Well, let me get to that. So for all of our brand-new listeners, since this is our first official podcast, thank you for tuning in, and we'll be back in two weeks. We'll be back with Sarah Stremming. She's the founder of Cognitive Canine, and we'll be talking about over-arousal in sports dogs. If you haven't already, subscribe now on iTunes or the podcast app of your choice, and you'll have our next episode automatically downloaded to your phone as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, happy training. CREDITS: Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. 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