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Ben and Sawyer sit down for an in-depth look at what coaching actually looks like in practice. They revisit Sawyer's successful cut from the upper 170s to the mid-160s, the challenges of hunger and fear of muscle loss, and how slowing down the transition out of a cut helped him maintain his results.They also discuss the impact of adding steps and cardio, adjusting training frequency and volume, managing joint health, and using autoregulation. Finally, they map out Sawyer's return to coaching as he begins a gradual muscle-building phase focused on making progress without rushing the process or getting caught up in second-guessing every decision.
Before stepping in front of a live audience on Real Time with Bill Maher, Ryan turned to five Stoic reminders to calm his nerves. In today's episode, Ryan takes you behind the scenes and shares highlights from his conversation with Bill about why Stoicism is having a moment. Watch Ryan's segment on Real Time with Bill Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reT_s3jxYBUWatch Overtime with Bill Maher: Ryan Holiday, Andrew Cuomo, Kristen Soltis Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUvynycoi3s
Air Date: 9/18/2026 Today we're doing something new and different but also very old. Occupy Wall Street just hit its 15th anniversary this month and we thought we'd do something that only we can, which is dip into our archives and pull out the best of the Occupy coverage we played in real time as it was happening as well as some other retrospective coverage that aired 10 years later. Full Show Notes Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Support and Get No Ads!) Everything in one place! (Support, contact, follow, books + merch) TOP TAKES KP 1: Keith Olbermann Reads First Collective Statement of Occupy Wall Street - Countdown - Air Date 10-6-11 KP 2: 99% V 1% the Data Behind the Occupy Movement Animation - Library Of Electronic Press - Air Date 11-16-11 KP 3: News Coverage Numbers of the Occupy Protests Vs Tea Party Protests - On the Media - Air Date 10-7-11 KP 4: What the Occupy Wall St Movement Wants Part 1 - Planet Money - Air Date 10-7-11 KP 5: The General Strike in Oakland - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-2-11 KP 6: Keith's Special Comment Why OWS Needs Michael Bloomberg - Countdown - Air Date 11-16-11 KP 7: UC Davis Police Pepper Spray Sitting Protesters at Point Blank Range - David Pakman - Air Date 11-21-11 KP 8: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor Part 1 - The Dig - Air Date 9-25-21 (01:01:34) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Democratic Primary Voters Keep Guessing What Everyone Else Will Do My commentaries on YouTube - Share them! DEEPER DIVES (01:12:59) SECTION A: THE STATE STRIKES BACK A1: Comparing the Occupation to the Bonus Army Encampment - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 10-26-11 A2: Erroneous Reporting on the Occupation - Counterspin - Air Date 10-27-11 A3: Protesting at Berkley, Past and Present - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-15-11 A4: If Cops Use Force Then Your Speech Wasn't Free (to Say the Least) - Matthew Filipowicz - Air Date 12-9-11 A5: Iraq Vet Scott Olsen on What He Hopes the Movement Will Achieve - Countdown - Air Date 12-2-11 (01:49:52) SECTION B: RIGGED SYSTEM, RIGGED COVERAGE B1: The Top 1% Vs YOU - The Young Turks - Air Date 10-31-11 B2: Panic of the Plutocrats - Green News Report - Air Date 10-11-11 B3: Three Quarters of Americans Believe Rich, Corporations Have Too Much Power - The Young Turks - Air Date 12-17-11 B4: World Economy Going to Hell - Dan Carlin - Air Date 9-28-11 B5: Leaked Republicans Scared of Occupy Wall Street - The Young Turks - Air Date 12-2-11 B6: Erin Burnett's Horrible Occupy Wall St Report - The Majority Report - Air Date 10-7-11 B7: The Screaming Majority Song on Occupy Wall St - The Majority Report - Air Date 10-7-11 (02:43:16) SECTION C: WHAT THE MOVEMENT WAS DOING C1: What the Occupy Wall St Movement Wants Part 2 - Planet Money C2: Prophetic Article Calling for the Occupation - The Majority Report - Air Date 10-25-11 C3: Occupying Our Homes - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-2-11 (03:13:08) SECTION D: THE LEGACY, 10 YEARS ON D1: Will Occupy Wall Street Affect 2012 Election Glenn Greenwald Interview - David Pakman - Air Date 11-14-11 D2: The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street, with Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit - Belabored - Air Date 9-24-21 Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Follow BotL: Bluesky | Mastodon | Threads | X Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to former Democratic Party operative Lindy Li and Jordan Schachtel about LindellTV's Alison Steinberg confronting Ilhan Omar about Border Czar Tom Homan's confirmation that Omar is being investigated for potentially marrying her brother to commit immigration fraud; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's outrage over Macklemore being dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after pressure from stadium owner Robert Kraft over his recent "Free Palestine" speech at MetLife Stadium; the "Real Time with Bill Maher" crowd cheering for Bill Maher's brutal takedown of Macklemore's lies about Israel's genocide in Gaza after he was kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour; "The View's" Joy Behar's clueless support of Elizabeth Warren's push for AI regulation after Anthropic whistleblower Jacob Coxon went viral for his warnings about an AI apocalypse and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown of frontier AI model technology; the "All-In Podcast's" Jason Calacanis explaining to Fox News' Jesse Watters how Bernie Sanders' push to regulate AI will only lead to regulatory capture, allowing the already powerful establishment AI companies to prevent new entrants into the market; Gavin Newsom telling Jake Tapper why he wouldn't run for president if Kamala Harris decides to run in the 2028 election; and much more. Today's Sponsors: Cardiff - Cardiff can get your business up to $500,000 in same day funding. Apply in under 5 minutes. If you've been in business for at least one year and make at least $20,000 a month in revenue, you can apply right now for up to $500,000 in same day business funding. Go to: https://Cardiff.co/RUBIN
Peloton has patented AI technology that makes real-time adjustments to your workouts — we break down what the patent actually covers and what it could mean for future Bike and Tread classes.Also this week:Peloton is ending English-language takeovers for its German instructorsNew details on Peloton's partnership with Muse AICallie Gullickson is back teaching at Peloton Studios New York (PSNY)Olivia Amato's Peloton Studios London (PSL) schedule is confirmedEmma Lovewell adds a Foyer class at PSLPeloton instructor Jess Sims partners with Google HealthPeloton instructor Robin Arzón is running the NYC MarathonPeloton instructor Jermaine Johnson celebrates 5 years with the companyOura's IPO valuation turns headsLululemon names a new CEOHYROX changes ownershipThe Spin Wars documentary lands its next film festivalTCO Top 5: listener-recommended classes to check outPeloFondo ends after 8 yearsLatin & Hispanic Heritage Month launches on the Peloton platformPeloton instructor Robin Arzón's new 2-Day Strength SplitPeloton instructor Marcel Dinkins leads a hip-hop run with GunnaThe Peloton Triathlon returnsPeloton instructor Leanne Hainsby-Alldis teaches her first live class since returning from maternity leaveBirthday shoutouts to Peloton instructors Anna Greenberg (9/18), Erik Jäger (9/19), and Robin Arzón (9/20)The Clip Out is the longest-running independent Peloton podcast. New episodes every Friday. Hosted by Crystal O'Keefe and Tom O'Keefe theclipout.com Instagram: @clipoutcrystalSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Was it anxiety, or was it intuition? Sometimes the signs are there long before we have enough information to understand what we're seeing. In this episode, I reflect on an old post, the things I believed then, and what hindsight has taught me about patterns, comparison, and trusting that feeling when something just doesn't add up. Sometimes clarity doesn't come all at once it comes piece by piece, while you're living through it.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Neil Nathan about the intersection between brain symptoms and complex illness. Dr. Nathan has practiced medicine for over 50 years. He is one of the leading experts in complex chronic illness and mold toxicity — author of the bestselling Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and Chronic Environmental Illness and The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide. I am grateful to call Dr. Nathan a mentor and colleague. His pioneering work has been responsible for my healing from chronic illness, as well as that of many patients I've treated. Together, we co-lead a small peer group (within the larger mentoring group he provides with Marie Matheson, ND), supporting practitioners who treat those with complex chronic illness.In this episode we discuss:03:43 – Dr. Nathan's path to understanding complex illness11:20 – Why complex illness is rising and underrecognized19:30 – Why new medical ideas take decades to reach patients23:15 – Mold, Lyme, and long-COVID: the “big three” root causes25:58 – The limbic-vagal-mast cell “trifecta”30:31 – Are some people born more vulnerable?44:39 – The risk in “just do limbic retraining” advice47:35 - Biochemical contributors49:26 – Structural root: jaw and cervical instability53:58 – Differentiating Between Mold, Lyme & Long-COVID58:49 – A message of hope, and where to learn moreFull Transcript belowYou can find Dr. Nathan's books, consultations and mentoring program through his website at neilnathanmd.com. If you'd like to help get this information out into the world, please consider liking, sharing, or commenting.Until next time,CourtneyCourtney Snyder MDDr. Courtney Snyder MD is a holistic and functional child and adult psychiatrist and host of the Holistic Psychiatry Podcast and can be found at courtneysnydermd.comMedical DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult your own physician for any medical issues you may be having.Full TranscriptDr. Nathan's Path to Understanding Complex Illness03:43Courtney: I'm so glad we're doing this, and I feel like it's long overdue. As you know, in the mental health space in psychiatry, there's a lot of recognition of a dysregulated nervous system, threat response in the body, but oftentimes that's attributed to external forces or trauma, and not necessarily internal threats that we see, obviously, in complex chronic illness, which we'll be talking about. There's also not the recognition of the relationship between physical symptoms and brain-related symptoms. So I know you're going to help us connect a lot of these dots. As we sort of just lay the groundwork for what complex chronic illness is — when in your path did you start to recognize the distinction, when was the beginning of your work and appreciation of complex health issues?Neil: Okay, there are two answers to that question. First, when I went to medical school, my hope was to become a healer. And I was very disappointed that when I got there, I realized they weren't going to teach me to be a healer. And back then I used to question my professors at medical school — why do you do it this way, and how is that? And I kept feeling in all of our interactions that we were missing something. And my professors would go, “Okay, Mr. Wise Guy, smart guy, what are we missing?” And I'd go, “I don't know, I just know we're missing something.” Later I would come to recognize that we were missing the emotional and spiritual component to whatever was affecting people in their illnesses. And I have language for it now — I didn't then. The person in medical school who influenced me the most was Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who I view as my main mentor in medical school. She, unlike anyone else, had a one-and-a-half-hour seminar once a week. Back then there weren't video cameras — you were in a small confined room with a two-way mirror, and you're sitting there watching someone do this. And she would simply interview one of her patients. She was a psychiatrist, but she was the only one in medical school who demonstrated how to really listen to people, how to really communicate with them, and not have this standard review of systems — here's my questions, here's your answers, and that's what I do, and this is what I write up. She was really listening. She was trying to really take in, okay, what happened to you, and what's going on with you? So I would want to give her credit as a role model to change how I learn to listen. Okay, that was step one.I'm going to fast forward to the early 1980s. And I am, at that point, the medical director of a regional pain clinic. And we are starting to see a whole bunch of patients who had this complicated process of fatigue, unrefreshed sleep, irritable bowel syndrome, and pain migrating all over their body. And back then we called it fibrositis. Now we call this fibromyalgia. And so whenever medicine encounters a thing that they don't know what they're looking at, it's psychological until proven otherwise. And people would get therapy, and they would take antidepressants and anti-anxiety agents. Didn't help much. And so it became clear to me that we didn't understand what this was at all. It was not psychological. Something was going on in their bodies — now I recognize it as an inflammatory process. Back then there was no concept of that at all. And then, slowly, in the early nineties, we began to find pieces of the puzzle to understand what was triggering fibromyalgia. I was working back then with Jacob Teitelbaum, who did a lot of work with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, and we both independently came up with an understanding that a deficiency of magnesium, DHEA, adrenal issues, thyroid issues, sex hormone deficiencies, GI dysbiosis, and food allergy — if we looked at those and treated those, the majority of people with fibromyalgia got cured. It was different for different patients. It was not like there was one thing that caused it. And as time evolved, we began to realize that there was lots of other biochemical imbalances in the body that would contribute to this kind of a process that represented chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.We discovered that Lyme disease and coinfections was a huge piece of that. And later still we discovered that mold toxicity was a huge piece of that. And so my understanding of the complexity — and it's not really confined to chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia at this point, we're really talking about almost all chronic illness — with a huge psychological component to that. So we've begun to understand this as essentially some version of inflammation. And if we start to really dig into what are the potential causes of that inflammation, we can make a huge impact for them. So this is a multi-year evolving understanding of how a person's genetics, biochemistry, physiology impacts their whole being in every way. And that inflammation extends to the nervous system, contributing greatly, if not causing directly, a large number of what are now called psychiatric diagnoses.Courtney: Right. So even among those patients that you were seeing — you were seeing, I'm assuming, depression, anxiety, brain fog?Neil: Yeah, the vast majority of our patients with mold toxicity have brain fog and anxiety, depression, OCD behaviors, mood swings, depersonalization, derealization. I mean, all of that is super common in our patients.Complex Illness Is Rising — and Underrecognized11:20Courtney: Do you feel like this is more recognized now — or do you feel like the number of people being hit with these complex health issues is increasing — or both?Neil: Both. I would love to say that the medical profession is increasingly recognizing all of this as important, but that recognition is coming very, very slowly. The majority of folks out there, if they were to list the symptoms that they had, their doctors would basically look at them like, “I have no idea what's causing it, so this must be in your head.” And that is the message they're getting from their physicians at this point. So many patients are being gaslighted, so many patients are being told it's in your head. And the repercussions of that are the family is hearing that same message, and the families become less supportive of those people, because they're saying, “This is not real, so why would I support you? This is still in your head, go get your head fixed.” And they're wrong, and it's really a travesty. But so yes, very slowly, this awareness is growing. There are now more medical meetings that I'm aware of where psychiatrists can learn more about this than there were ten, fifteen years ago, for sure. But not enough — it's still not enough.The other part of that is some of the main triggers for this inflammatory process are increasing. So we're seeing more and more mold toxicity, we're seeing more and more Lyme and coinfections, partly because the environment that we are all exposed to has gotten extremely increasingly toxic. So it's now known, for example, that there are 350,000 new chemicals in our environment than existed 70 years ago. The vast majority of those have never been tested for safety in human beings. So human beings have a tremendous amount of chemical exposure that they never had before. Human beings have a tremendous amount of EMF, electromagnetic exposures that they never had before in the history of the human race. So these exposures are cumulative. Our major organs, like our liver and our kidney, that have to deal with toxicity, are overloaded. And so, yes, we are seeing an epidemic of a whole bunch of these conditions. In children, we are aware that autism has skyrocketed — it went from one in several thousand kids to one in thirty kids in many states now have autism. And forgive me, but the pediatric profession is not taking this seriously. It's like, “Yeah, that's sad, it's unfortunate.” It's like — really, you don't want to look at this? This means one in every three kids born are getting autism — does that not concern you? But, forgive me, the medical profession is very slow to embrace new information, and that is really to the detriment.We're seeing an epidemic of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, all of which involve neuroinflammation. We've seen already an epidemic of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. And all of these things are interrelated, because — yes, I'm supposed to be an expert on mold toxicity, and I probably am — but mold toxicity doesn't exist in a vacuum. You have mold toxicity as one of multiple environmental toxins we're being exposed to. It is simply one of the most common, the easiest one to diagnose, because we have tests for it. We don't have tests for the hundreds of thousands of chemicals out there. We're just beginning to be able to have some tests that will tell us what's in someone's body that might be making them sick.Courtney: Right, right. And I would imagine that this typical medical model of looking for one cause to autism, one cause to dementia — it's a completely different way of thinking. When you get away from that and you look at complexity of the human body, that way of thinking holds back the research, it holds back any progress.Neil: What I think is helpful for people to look at is: we are all uniquely, biochemically, genetically different. And so the same inflammation in one person could trigger cardiovascular disease, and another person could trigger Alzheimer's, and another person could trigger chronic fatigue. So we need to take a step back and go, okay — and this is not a brand new idea. For the last ten years, there are many papers in the medical journals that are saying chronic illness is almost certainly an inflammatory process. Now, it hasn't really integrated into what people are being taught in medical school or in their residency program. But this is not a brand new idea, and there's tons of medical research documenting that.What behooves us as physicians is to look at every human being and go, “Okay, this is your named chronic condition — what are the triggers for you?” We have to kind of be like a medical detective and dig in and go, okay, what's triggering your inflammation, so I can treat the cause — not put a band-aid on it, which is, forgive me, in the psychiatric field, taking antidepressants and benzodiazepines. That's a band-aid. It's a helpful band-aid, it could be a very important band-aid, help someone to function. But you really need to be looking at, okay, I have this great band-aid, but wouldn't it be nice to actually cure this? And I think that would be, for me, to your audience, Courtney, my take-home message — which is always look for the root cause, because it is possible that we will find that root cause, and you won't have whatever name you've been given, depression, anxiety, OCD, for the rest of your earthly life. Maybe.And I've treated thousands of people successfully here. So this is not — I've had one or two successes here — we're talking thousands of people that have responded to this way of practicing medicine, with fabulous results. People who've been literally bedridden, incapacitated by their illness, are now out there working again and being with their family and living full lives. So that's the take-home message.Courtney: Right. Which makes it so satisfying to treat. And I mean, I can speak to that, having experienced it personally. But at the same time, you do get pushback from other areas of medicine that don't give it necessarily credibility, even though people, on the other side, are thriving and healing, and it's really amazing.New Medical Ideas & Research Take Decades to Reach Patients19:30Neil: You know, the history of all science, including medicine, is: new technology, new drugs are fast-tracked to get into our lives. Ideas, not so much. Typically it takes a generation — twenty, twenty-five years — for a new idea to come into acceptance. And the first reaction of any science, medicine included, is to get into denial, which is, “There isn't enough data to support this concept, and I can't be perceived as practicing bad medicine by embracing a concept that isn't proven yet.” But that means that all of their patients are going to have to wait twenty years — until suffering — until that person goes, “Now there's enough evidence, now I can learn how to do this, and now I'll begin to help you.” I'm not wired that way. I'm wired that if I have a suffering person, and I have something that I can offer them that might help, I'm going to try it. I'm going to do it in the safest way I know how, but I can't leave someone dangling for twenty years and say, “I'm sorry, I have to wait until my profession figures out what to do.” That's not me.I worked at the medical school at the University of Minnesota Duluth for eleven years. And I was not only on the faculty, but I was on the committee that determined what new information was put into the curriculum. For example, AIDS was just coming into vogue at that particular point, and it was obvious that we needed to have courses on AIDS for the medical students, because this was big. What a lot of people wouldn't understand is that each department in a medical school fiercely guards its time allotment. Everyone gets a certain number of hours, and they're not open to adding new things or giving up any of their time slots for anything new. And so what I would watch is, as new information came into the medical school, each department fiercely refused to add any new lectures in their department, or give up any of the time that they had to anybody else to add that information. So we're talking about university politics now — this is not even medicine, this is people guarding their turf. And I don't even think that would occur to any consumers, that that would happen like that — well, certainly, why would that happen in a medical school? Well, it's because human beings are responsible for each department, and they guard their own turf. So it's a kind of an insidious process about how new information isn't embraced by the profession, to go into the medical school curriculum.Mold, Lyme, and Long-COVID: The “Big Three”23:15Courtney: I want to come back to what you were saying about inflammation being at the core of chronic illness and complex chronic illness. And when it comes to complex chronic illness, whether it's SIRS or mast cell activation from mold or Lyme, we talk about multiple systems being affected — the central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, endocrine, skin, just you name it. If the inflammation then is from a source of oxidative stress or a major insult — would you say that mold toxicity is the most common, or would you put Lyme or now even COVID on a par with that, as far as the deepest roots causing the inflammation? Not that the chemicals, metals, and everything else we're being exposed to aren't at play.Neil: In my experience, those three are the biggies — mold toxicity, Lyme with its co-infections, and long-haul COVID. Those are the three most common. Of those, in my experience, mold is the most common, and the one that has to be treated first if you have some or all of them. So, for example, in people who have long-haul COVID or Lyme, often their body will not respond to that treatment optimally until you first get the mold out. So there's a little hierarchy of what we do, in what order. And then within that hierarchy, there's also an order in which we do things for people to respond optimally. So, for example, mold toxicity will trigger — and Lyme and Bartonella will do the same thing — limbic dysfunction, vagal nerve dysfunction, and mast cell activation in most of our patients. Not all, but in most. And the longer they have it, the more likely those things are going to get triggered. Once somebody does not feel safe — and the systems that we have in our body to monitor that safety and to keep us safe are the limbic system, the vagal system, and mast cell activation — we have to get the body safer, or it will not be able to take what you need to take to treat mold or Lyme or long-haul COVID. People will literally shut down — their limbic system will essentially go, “Mm, I see what you're trying to do there, and I can't let you do it, because I'm not sure that's safe.” And it will literally not allow people to do it.The Limbic-Vagal-Mast Cell “Trifecta”25:58Courtney: So with one of those, or a combination of those, on board, these threat mechanisms would be kicked up — mast cell activation, limbic system dysfunction, autonomic nervous system dysfunction. If they look similar, or a timeline isn't easily helping parse out what might be primary, how able do you feel to make the distinction — versus if mold is present, starting there?Neil: If we look at our patient's symptoms, they will point us clearly to whether there's a limbic or vagal or mast cell piece, to be specific. The limbic system's job involves primarily monitoring and regulating and keeping emotion and sensitivity in check. So any symptoms that involve those two things are limbic almost by definition. So on the sensitivity side, if someone describes an increased sensitivity to light, sound, touch, smell, chemicals, EMFs, food — they're already telling me my limbic system is dysfunctional. In some ways it doesn't matter what the cause is; if someone has this increased sensitivity, regardless of the cause, I know we have to treat their limbic system first.On the vagal side, the symptoms would primarily run into symptoms that involve the autonomic nervous system, which would involve things like temperature dysregulation, palpitations, insomnia, POTS, blood pressure dysregulation, or symptoms that involve the gastrointestinal tract, because the vagus nerve controls almost the entire intestinal tract. So any GI symptoms — gas, bloating, distension, reflux, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain — again, that would lead me to go, the vagus is involved here. So by listening to my patient's symptoms, I can immediately know what's dysregulated here, and what my first treatment arm will be — to get the limbic and vagal systems back up and running again at a safer level, because otherwise our patients aren't going anywhere. They can do binders and antifungals and antibiotics for Lyme, and they will get worse. Their body will basically go, “I know I might need that, but why are you doing that? I can't even get to a place of safety to respond. I'm on self-preservation mode here.”And in the mast cell category — again, all of the same symptoms that could be mold or Lyme or long-haul COVID could also be mast cell. Again, it's a multi-systemic process. A tip-off, which I find very helpful, is if someone describes a symptom that comes on immediately after eating, sometimes while eating. Nothing causes that kind of reaction that fast except mast cell activation. Allergy — and most people, if they do have some symptom that comes after eating, they're going to be thinking, “It must be what I ate, what did I just eat?” But it's not food allergy, it's mast cell activation. In that context, many of our patients have already observed that they can eat a particular food one day and have a very strong reaction, and the next day, same food, nothing. And they'll go, “That doesn't make sense — if this was allergy, I ought to react the same way every time.” And so that is classical mast cell activation, which fluctuates. So — for the first part of your question — that's what I'm looking for. When I take a history, when I talk with patients, I'm going to really dig into: are they already manifesting symptoms that clearly tell me what we need to do first, to get them safer, so that now they can respond properly to the treatment that will really get at their root cause.Are Some People Born More Vulnerable?30:31Courtney: I know you take deep timelines when you meet with someone, so you're really accounting for a lot. But one of the things that I think about a lot is: who is most vulnerable? Do some of us come into the world already with a vulnerability similar to Elaine Aron's highly sensitive person model? And then maybe there's trauma, early attachment disruption — and already vulnerabilities — but then the toxic load that we're all experiencing. But then something like mold or Lyme then hits. And then, all the years and all the patients you've seen — I'm curious how many you feel already had sort of a vulnerability. Not that they ever had to really become sick necessarily, but already had a vulnerability.Neil: Honestly, I would say most. Our limbic system evolves from the time we were in our mother's uterus, so that almost no one has had a perfect childhood. And so whatever someone has had to deal with in childhood — it could be recurrent ear infections or throat infections, or it could be a surgical procedure, or it could be parents, both of whom worked and they didn't get enough time, or they could be abusive parents, sexually, physically, verbally abusive — whatever someone has been exposed to, that forces their limbic system to have to deal with it. Because that's the job of the limbic system, is to keep you safe. So your limbic system is basically going, “Okay, I'm just a little thing here, what do I need to do to cope with this?” And so their limbic system slowly, inexorably, becomes more and more hypervigilant to protect them. Let's say someone had an alcoholic parent, and they would come home, and you were never sure what their status would be — and so you'd kind of hold yourself back from that, which is, “I've got to see what this person is showing me, is it safe for me to come up and give them a hug, or do I want to hang out in my room for a bit until whatever this is settles down?” That's the beginning of this limbic hypervigilance process. And then it just goes on through life. So that if you've had difficult relationships, or surgeries, or severe infections, or anything in the physical or emotional or spiritual plane, a betrayal of some type — the limbic system becomes slowly more and more and more hypervigilant, when the straw hits the camel's back. And that straw could be COVID, or Lyme, or mold toxicity, or another infection of some type — that's the straw that breaks the camel's back. At that point the limbic system goes into shutdown, which — we know the vagal system goes into shutdown, literally, that's something the vagal system is trained to do. It's “okay, we are so unsafe that I'm shutting down my systems here.” And so that predisposes to illness. But I want to tie that back to inflammation, which — a lot of people don't understand that the vagus nerve, for example, controls inflammation in the body also. There are branches of the vagus that go to the spleen, to the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, and to the thymus, all of which are major immune organs. And if the vagus is dysfunctional, inflammation can rage out of control. So again, this comes back to understanding this complexity of inflammation, and how we need to both understand it and know where it is we want to look to get at that inflammation. So there is a profound interconnected limbic-vagal-mast cell piece. Each totally connects to the other. There's an interaction between the thousand biochemical mediators that mast cells make and the nervous system itself. So I call this interconnection the trifecta, which is: you can't just treat the limbic system in a vacuum, because if you're not also looking at the vagal and mast cell system, your treatment may be a little bit helpful, or it might not even work at all, until you combine all three — so that you really understand this is a package deal here, in terms of how we work with it.There was one more piece I wanted to add, Courtney, to understanding the inflammation piece: whether or not someone gets mold toxicity or Lyme or COVID depends on how robust their immune system is. So you could have a family living in a moldy environment — one person is really sick, several are a little bit sick, and one is not sick at all. And the one who's not sick at all can easily go, “I'm not sure what's wrong with you all, but I'm fine in this environment, it can't be my environment because I'm fine.” And what they're not understanding is: yes, they are fine, as long as their immune system stays robust. For the others, they were at risk for all of these conditions because their immune system took a hit. And for many people who were living in a moldy environment, during COVID, for example, when we isolated and people were spending twenty-four hours in their home rather than the eight hours out, they were many now being exposed to more mold at home than they were before. I don't think people began to think about that or look at that. So in that environment, whether or not they were affected depends on the hit they took. Now, the things that will hit an immune system to weaken it, and allow whatever's there to manifest, are: COVID was a biggie, any severe infection, a surgical procedure, childbirth, menopause, or any emotional upheaval will weaken that immune system, and then the immune system loses containment, and now we are off to the races. So what I try to convince people who are living in a moldy environment who are well is that they're living with a ticking time bomb. Should they take an immune hit, they will be just as sick as their family member who they're kind of lording it over, which is, “I'm not sick, what's wrong with you?” You'll be right there yourself if you take that hit — to try to help them understand, yeah, you're okay for now, but once your immune system weakens. So I'm trying to tie together the immune system, its ability to regulate inflammation, and this whole process here.Courtney: Right, right. Which I guess is why we call it complex, complex illness.Neil: It is the way human beings are. We're not making up a new word of complex illness — illness was always complex. We're just beginning to understand how complex it always has been.The Limits of Treating Symptoms Alone44:39Courtney: Right, so there's communities out there addressing mast cell activation. There's communities out there addressing POTS and dysautonomia. Communities out there addressing OCD and more obvious limbic-type issues. And then there's the whole mental health field. And the dots aren't getting connected. I mean, I've yet to see someone with OCD — I think it's like eighty to ninety-five percent have mold toxicity as part of the picture.Neil: You know, an example — and I won't name names — is there's an eminent pediatric physician who is very well known for his work in autism, who thought he was ADD his whole life until he recognized that he had mold toxicity and started taking antifungals, and all of a sudden his brain went online and he doesn't have it anymore. So that's just a very clear example of what you're talking about. And what we are talking about is: it's absolutely essential that all people who work in the medical field, all healthcare providers, embrace this complexity, because if you're only working on a piece of it, you will help some people to a certain extent, but you will not help people optimally. I mean, that is the absolute bottom line.The understanding that mast cell activation was huge came in 2016, when Larry Afrin wrote his book, Never Bet Against Occam. It was a huge game changer. When I read his book, it was like, “My goodness, I've been missing this in my patients.” And the whole world embraced this information, so that every medical center in the country now has a mast cell activation clinic. However, they're looking at it as a single thing with a label to it, and they're treating it just that way. They have not recognized that if they don't add limbic and vagal work to it, their treatment is not going to be adequate. And so, yes, they're helping people, but absolutely not optimally. And to make it worse, very few of those clinics have recognized that what's causing mast cell activation, which absolutely needs to be treated, is mold toxicity and Lyme. So people go to these clinics and get a certain amount of help, but they're not being treated comprehensively, which is a pet peeve of mine — which is, come on, if you're going to have a clinic, understand the whole interactions of whatever name it is you're working with. If you're going to be an ENT specialist, understand everything that impacts that area. If you're going to be a cardiologist, understand everything that impacts it. And we just don't see that. We see people kind of in their little box — “No, no, I've learned this, this is what I do, this is how I work” — and it's just unfortunate that they're not looking at the bigger picture.Courtney: Right, I think add to that PANS and PANDAS, because in psychiatry, people feel like they're deep diving because they're getting to PANS and PANDAS. It's like, okay, you've got to go deeper than that, because even those conferences, they talk about the need for treating relapse, and it's just going to keep reoccurring.Neil: I mean, they're using IVIG to help. That's nice, but they're not getting to cause. And we know when PANS and PANDAS first emerged on the scene, it was all about strep, and that was the focus for a long time. But as time emerged, it was very clear that this was a neurological inflammation triggered — here we go, broken record — Lyme, mold, other infectious agents had to be looked for. And if we treated those, you could cure PANS. It wasn't something that needed IVIG for the rest of your earthly life.Courtney: Even among those, would you say very often mold is underlying the mycoplasma, the candida?Neil: I think mold is one of the most missed components to illness that I can think of. If I have a goal in life, it would be to raise the consciousness of our profession as to the importance of mold toxicity, how common it is. We're talking millions and millions of people who are not diagnosed, because their doctors don't know about it, and therefore are not making the diagnosis. I'd love to see the consciousness get to the point that someone would present with these complicated stories and a doctor would say, “Why don't we think about mold toxicity?” That would be the most important thing I would have done in my career.Courtney: Yeah, well, you're certainly raising awareness.Neil: I'm working — it is slow. As we said, I'm working on a twenty-year generational issue here.Courtney: You've mentioned that the underlying source needs to be addressed, but the nervous system and immune systems need to be addressed. So one of the things that comes up with limbic system retraining is: I've had people hear the message that if they just address their limbic and autonomic nervous system, then they wouldn't need to address what I see as an ongoing threat, such as a mold toxin. So I'm hoping you can speak to that, and the importance of these programs, despite that.Neil: Sure. A couple of the better-known limbic retraining programs, the coaches get a little bit zealous about — “limbic retraining is so important, this is all you need to do alone, don't even do anything else, just do limbic retraining.” And I suspect that there are a handful, very few, but a handful of people who've gotten well just doing limbic retraining. If, for example, if you had mold toxicity, if it was relatively new, if you had not colonized, and you moved out of your mold exposure soon, it is possible that the limbic retraining would help reboot it to the point that your immune system rebooted itself and you'd be fine. I believe there are a few people like that. The vast majority of people who have limbic dysfunction — you need to do limbic retraining and vagal retraining. You may also need to do mast cell retraining, and please look for the cause of that. Those are downstream effects, those are not named diagnoses that you treat alone and it fixes it. Please look for at least mold and Lyme, which are the two most common things that are triggering this at this point. And people are getting the wrong message if they think they need to do it in a vacuum. To make it worse, they're being told, “No, no, just do limbic retraining, that's all you need.” And the truth is, no, you need to combine limbic retraining and vagal rebooting and mast cell activation most of the time. And of course you've got to get back to cause.Courtney: Right, I mean I try to liken it to — if they were in an abusive relationship or toxic relationship, they wouldn't just limbic-system their way out of that, if there was an external threat.Biochemical Contributors47:35Neil: No, you've got to fix what's primary here. I want to add to this discussion — we're focusing on inflammation from toxins and infections, but there are also other biochemical issues, some of them downstream, that need to be looked for and addressed in order for people to recover completely. So, for example, Lyme and mold will trigger kryptopyrrole issues, or imbalances in the ratio between zinc and copper, or they'll trigger methylation issues super commonly. And I just wanted to expand this discussion — I know it's complicated enough, but I don't want to oversimplify it either — that there are other biochemical things that we want to be looking for, because they're treatable, and they will help people to heal faster, if we're also addressing methylation, the need for zinc, the need for magnesium or B6 — those are common components of this whole process here. And so I just want to kind of tie that all together for a moment.Courtney: No, I'm glad you did, because those are topics that I talk about here, so it's important to connect those. The other thing I see, because I integrate the Walsh approaches with treating people that have complex health issues, is zinc seems so amazing when it comes to mast cell activation — making sure that's optimized. As well as connective tissue — and that was something else I wanted to ask you about — is structural issues that can be impacting the autonomic nervous system. I just see a lot of people — I inquire about it because I had it myself — but who have upper cervical instability as part of this whole picture.Structural Contributors49:26Neil: Again, all of these things are interrelated, and the physical structure can prevent people from moving forward in several different ways. One is the structure of the jaw and the face — the body puts a priority on teeth occluding properly. And if the teeth don't meet just quite right, and the jaw is a little bit out of structure, people often talk about TMJ — the body basically freaks out, it goes into sympathetic overdrive. And for some patients — it's not common, but I've seen several dozen — where the jaw had to be realigned by a combination of dentists specially trained in this work, working with osteopathic physicians, to realign the jaw. Often in those patients, they couldn't respond to the limbic and vagal treatment until their jaw got realigned.Same thing is true with what you're talking about, as cervical cranial instability, which is basically a weakening of the ligaments at the base of the skull, where it attaches to the first cervical vertebra. Now, these are all again intertwined — for example, it begs the question of what weakens those ligaments. And the answer is: if you have mast cell activation, some of the materials that the mast cell makes weakens the ligaments. So the ligaments get weak, and where the skull attaches to the first cervical vertebra, instead of being pulled apart, like ligaments do, it collapses. And that influences the blood flow to the brain, the nerve flow to the brain. And again, the body recognizes that as a priority, and often you can't get that better — you can't get limbic and vagal response until that gets fixed.So there are a bunch of structural issues that also need to be looked at, when people become overly sensitive and are not responding properly. And there's more in that area. So, for example, there's a chapter by Tasha Turzo, who's an expert on the jaw structure. There's a chapter in there by Andy Maxwell on cervical cranial instability. So that book would give people a really good overview of how complicated things are, and they might, chapter by chapter, get a clue of, “I haven't looked at this piece yet.” I mean, we haven't talked about oxalate or salicylate imbalances, which can add to that. So I just think that is a resource for folks that could really help them understand how they've gotten where they are, and understand the path out.Courtney: Right, right, because not everyone has all of these areas, but certainly could be held back or have a unique something that they could be getting relief from early on in the process. So I think it's both, to the degree that people are able to learn, and your book Toxic, too — it's like an encyclopedia, even if someone doesn't read straight through it, they can go to the mast cell section, or they can go to the Bartonella section.Neil: It was intended to be a readable way to understand this complexity, because it basically will talk about almost everything we've talked about today, and help people to get better understanding. I mean, we've talked about the bigger picture today. We didn't talk about, okay, how do you diagnose Lyme, how do you diagnose mold toxicity, how do you diagnose long-haul COVID, and most important, because this is very complicated, how do you decide which of those is the biggest player that you want to address first?Distinguishing Between Mold, Lyme & Long-COVID53:58Courtney: Right, I have shared resources on diagnosing mold toxicity. Would you comment on your last point — how do you recognize, are you using specific testing that you want to reference, the RealTime?Neil: I do. But I would emphasize, we're taught in medical school that if you really listen to patients, ninety-five percent of the time you will make the diagnosis by history alone. And I don't want to get too focused on testing, because listening to the patient and having them describe in detail what they're going through will really give you the little pieces you need to tease it apart to a certain degree. That's only possible to a certain degree, because there's a huge overlap between the symptoms of Lyme and Bartonella and mold and long-haul COVID and mast cell activation. Huge overlap. So there's little teeny pieces that will tend to lean more in one way than another. And honestly, that's what's required from all of us, literally years of study, to really get a handle on — someone will say something, okay, that's much more of a mold symptom than it is a Lyme symptom, something else. So I do encourage people, if they think they might have mold, to get a urine mycotoxin test. That has revolutionized our ability to make these diagnoses.Courtney: Would you still set RealTime as the preferred? That's what I've communicated to this audience.Neil: I would. Any test can help make the diagnosis, but for follow-up testing, the only one that's been really consistent is RealTime. And you want a follow-up test, so you want to know what your baseline starting is, and then you want to know, okay, am I getting these toxins out of my body? From my perspective, you know that you're done treating it when that RealTime comes back reading not present in every category. We have better tests now for Lyme than we've had in the past. Years ago, our tests were inadequate to say the least. And the CDC recognized years ago that the tests were so inadequate that it was basically a diagnosis made by a physician by examining all of the history and information that you had. That was enough — you didn't need a lab report to make the diagnosis of Lyme disease. A new test that I'm particularly fond of is Bruce Patterson's fourteen-panel cytokine test. This is a test that measures cytokines, which are the molecules of inflammation — cytokines are made by your immune system to deal with, or fight, different inflammational causes. And so what Dr. Patterson has discovered is there's a pattern of cytokines that we see with long-haul COVID, which is different than the pattern we see for Lyme. And I'm working with him now on the pattern for mold. So we can literally look at that test and look at, okay, what is inflaming this person primarily now, because I'm looking at that inflammational pattern, and I can literally read that. Some of my patients will have all of those on a particular test, or only one, but it really helps tease apart what is — I call it public enemy number one for my patient, what do I need to address as root cause right now. So our science is improving as we go here.A Message of Hope — and Where to Learn More58:49Courtney: And that's huge. Before we go — I think all of your books, but I'm thinking specifically about Toxic and The Sensitive Patient — all the information you generously share gives people a lot of hope who've been struggling out there. And I think your mentoring and teaching so many of us helps extend some of that reach. Is there anything you'd want to convey to people out there in the throes of chronic illness who are feeling hopeless and not getting the feedback from their doctors that this is something they can get beyond?Neil: Sure. My take-home message is always: everything we talked about today is treatable. Is there hope in there? You bet there is. But if you are not getting the help you need from whoever you are seeing, find someone who understands these things. For example, I do have on my website a list of physicians that I've trained over the years that I'm comfortable that they really know what they're doing — it's a growing list. There's someone like Courtney, who's been trained for years to do this, she's good at it. Find someone who knows what they're talking about, so that you can get someone who does embrace this complexity, and will look at it in its entirety, and then get you moving in the right direction, doing the right things in the right order. To me, this can be done. I mean, I have personally helped to cure four or five thousand people with mold toxicity, and an equal number of people with Lyme disease. So we can help the vast majority of people that we're seeing. So, regardless of how long you've been sick, if you haven't been properly diagnosed and you haven't gotten the right treatment, you can be helped.Courtney: Right, right, that's great. And for physicians out there who are interested in learning more about complex chronic illness — are there resources you would point to? I'll be sharing your books, because I think those are great references — but also how people can find what you're doing currently.Neil: Sure, my books — particularly with this discussion, Toxic and The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide would be the two most appropriate. I would add that I have just finished writing a book on this whole subject of inflammation. It's currently being edited, I hope it'll be out by early next year. So if you stay tuned to my website, I'll let people know when that's going to be available. And I think, Courtney, what you're referring to is: I do have a mentorship program for healthcare providers. We now have three hundred and fifty-plus people in the mentorship program, it keeps growing. You were in one of the first groups — we started with eight, and then people kept wanting to get in on it. So we welcome people to join. If you go to my website, which is simply neilnathanmd.com, there's a whole thing which talks about the mentorship and how to sign up for it. So I certainly welcome people who want to learn more.Courtney: And then you offer consultations and professional consultations also?Neil: I do. My consultations — I am, at this point, since I'm semi-retired, not seeing people directly. But I do offer consultations with a patient and their primary treating physician — so we all get on a Zoom together, and we will go over the details of that person's history and their lab work, and I will help outline a treatment program that looks to me like it will get people well. And actually, Courtney, I actually do a lot of that — I'm not really retired, my wife will tell you. I stay pretty busy. I love helping people. I love being able to take this complicated information and tease it apart, so that I can help people to understand what they need to do, in what order, in order to get better.Courtney: And we're all grateful — grateful that you've followed your path, because so many people have benefited personally and professionally. So thank you for bringing your wisdom and expertise, really appreciate it.Neil: You're very welcome, happy to do that.You can find Dr. Nathan's information, consultations, and mentoring program through his website at neilnathanmd.com. If you'd like to help get this information out into the world, please consider liking, sharing, or commenting.Until next time,CourtneyCourtney Snyder MDDr. Courtney Snyder MD is a holistic, functional, and environmental psychiatrist for children and adults. 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Legendary hitmaker David Foster joins Bill Maher on Club Random with the stories behind some of music's biggest hits—and a few well-kept secrets. Foster explains why even the greatest artists only bat “50 out of 1,000,” reveals how a fake rough mix helped turn Whitney Houston's “I Will Always Love You” into an iconic recording, and recounts the terrifying night he accidentally struck actor Ben Vereen while driving home from a session with Michael Bolton. Foster weighs in on Barbra Streisand's Guilty, puts The Beatles in a league of their own, and shares a hilarious story about trying hash as a teenager in Canada. He and Maher also tackle AI's growing influence on music, age-gap relationships, education, dream dinner guests, and whether Bill changed—or the Democratic Party did.During a lively round of rapid-fire questions about the Beatles versus the Stones and dream dinner guests, Foster and Maher tackle AI's growing influence on music, age-gap relationships, education, and whether Bill changed—or the Democratic Party did. Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Support our Advertisers: Find your next fall favorites at Quince. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers or go to Quince dot com slash RANDOM. Go to One Two Zero L-I-F-E dot com and use the code RANDOM to save twenty percent. Ready to have an AI that can tackle real work? Try Claude Cowork today on any paid plan at Claude.ai slash random. Dose: New customers can save 35% on your first month of subscription by going to dosedaily.co/RANDOM or entering RANDOM at checkout. Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM In Club Random, Bill Maher unleashes his comedic wit on an unpredictable lineup – from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Quentin Tarantino and Neil deGrasse Tyson – digging into everything but politics. It's Maher in his familiar element: one-on-one vibes, unfiltered laughs, and the kind of freewheeling banter only he can deliver. ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last 23 years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 41 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written six bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass", and most recently "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You". FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Erick opens with a progressive tech writer's essay about neighbors named Bob and Van, men whose politics never came up because politics was not the whole of life, and turns it into an argument that social media has catechized both parties out of normalcy. He plays Bill Maher's Real Time monologue on radical Islamism, Osama […]
In this episode, Lisa explores the tension between control, trust, and surrender in intentional weight loss and in life. Opening with a personal check-in about failing to record on her planned days, she uses her own experience of surrendering to misaligned energy to illustrate the episode's central thesis: true trust means trusting the flow of life itself, not just ourselves. She introduces her framework of total responsibility, partial control — no one can do this work for you, but you don't have complete dominion over your behaviors, biology, or circumstances. Lisa reinforces that the skill set required for sustainable weight loss isn't willpower — it's courage, vulnerability, and the quality of the relationship you hold with yourself in your hardest moments.Topics Include:Total Responsibility, Partial Control Behavior-Oriented vs. Outcome-Oriented GoalsEmotional Eating & the Animal Brain Tender Self-Compassion in Real Time[2:22] Lisa reflects on surrendering her plan to record when the energy wasn't aligned, describing this as no longer being willing to bulldoze her feelings in service of a schedule and naming the episode's core theme: the dance between control, trust, and surrender. She frames control as an illusion that extends beyond the self. [13:30] Lisa returns to the Brené Brown vulnerability framework and her AI conversation about being in the arena, connecting it to the episode's central themes of control, trust, and surrender in intentional weight loss. She reads from her AI conversation and applies Brené's definition of vulnerability (uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure) to the pursuit of intentional weight loss goals.[15:20] Lisa recommends behavior-oriented goals over outcome-oriented goals, noting that outcomes involve factors outside one's control, while behaviors are where real agency lives. She reads that vulnerability is not winning or losing, but "having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome." Lisa emphasizes that to pursue safe, sustainable intentional weight loss, one needs an internal emotional infrastructure to ride the inevitable roller coaster.[21:53] Lisa declares that strengthening the skill of trusting, believing, and surrendering is not about food or weight loss but about reestablishing a secure attachment with God, the universe, and the flow of life itself. She introduces her core framework for the episode: total responsibility, partial control — you are responsible for this journey, but you only have partial control over how it unfolds. [41:01] Lisa reframes the work: the responsibility is not to bulldoze the fear, but to make what is terrifyingly scary feel safe enough to approach — because neglect cycles on itself, making things scarier the longer they're avoided. She brings it back to fierce self-compassion: to be vulnerable, to name the fear — and fierce self-compassion means calling upon your bravery not to fight the fear, but to soften into it.[52:07] Lisa closes the courage section: the question always comes back to "How are you being with yourself to make this happen?" — because if unaddressed fear is running the system, showing up safely and sustainably will remain out of reach. She illustrates that showing remorse without punishment is possible and is precisely what the relationship with the self requires.[1:11:34] Lisa closes with the through-line of the entire episode: "How am I with myself in the hardest moments, when I feel the least in control?" — answering simply: lovingly. That quality of self-relationship is what makes safe, sustainable weight loss a reality, not a theory. Join Us on Patreon! LISA IS NOW ACCEPTING: One-on-One Clients!Purchase the OOTC book of 50 Journal PromptsLeave Questions and Feedback for Lisa via OOTC Pod Feedback Form Email Lisa: lisa@lisaschlosberg.comOut of the Cave Merch - For 10% off use code SCHLOS10Lisa's Socials: Instagram Facebook YouTube
Learn how to JournalSpeak https://www.yourbreakawake.com/journalspeak When Katie first joined our Membership Community last fall, she has already been through the gamut of TMS symptoms since childhood. Raised in a family affected by alcoholism, Katie as the oldest child was parentified from a young age. Although she was stricken with pretty serious TMS growing up, Katie always showed up with a brave face. At home, nothing was discussed. At school, she shined. This, of course, can't last forever - no human can take it. Join us today for a profound and impactful RTH where Katie shares her story thus far, and then we delve together into the places that might be keeping her stuck. I love these opportunities to move the needle on healing, and I feel confident that Katie will continue to ascend up her own mountains. Enjoy! XOOX n. 1:1 COACHING WITH TRAINED COACHES SUPERVISED DIRECTLY BY NICOLE PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW THE PODCAST HERE TO HELP OTHERS FIND IT! Producer: Lisa Eisenpresser ~~~~~ SUPPORT:
Teardown and reverse engineering of the new Rigol RSA800 series Real Time Spectrum Analyser, from 4.5GHz to 13GHz. 4.5GHz RSA804 8.5GHz RSA808 14GHz RSA814 https://www.rigolna.com/products/spectrum-analyzers/rsa800/ 00:00 – Rigol's new RSA800 Real Time Spectrum Analyser 06:48 – Teardown 11:42 – RF front end box teardown. Mad Man Muntz 14:55 – Back side of the RF block …
Bill Maher sits down with OnlyFans star Sophie Rain, who says she's made more than $100 million without ever appearing fully nude—and that she's still a virgin. Naturally, Bill has questions.Sophie breaks down how the business really works, what her fans think they're paying for, and why the fantasy of a personal connection can be worth so much money. They talk about dating when millions of men are watching, the team answering her messages, and the lines she won't cross, even for a bigger payday.Sophie also opens up about growing up with parents struggling with addiction, buying them a house, and wanting to use her fortune to rescue animals. Plus, why neither of them wants kids, what makes a great movie hero, and the question on which they strongly disagree: Team Edward or Team Jacob? Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Support our Advertisers: Try ZipRecruiter to post your job FOR FREE at http://ziprecruiter.com/RANDOM NOBL gives you real travel peace of mind — security, design, and convenience all in one. Head to https://NOBLTravel.com for 46% off your entire order!Get 15% off OneSkin with the code RANDOM at https://www.oneskin.co/RANDOM #oneskinpodRula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/RANDOM #rulapodDon't sleep on @ultrapouches. New customers get 15% Off with code RANDOM at https://takeultra.com! Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM In Club Random, Bill Maher unleashes his comedic wit on an unpredictable lineup – from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Quentin Tarantino and Neil deGrasse Tyson – digging into everything but politics. It's Maher in his familiar element: one-on-one vibes, unfiltered laughs, and the kind of freewheeling banter only he can deliver. ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last 23 years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 41 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written six bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass", and most recently "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You". FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Reviewing this past week in WWE and providing an in-progress review of Sunday Night's Main Event.GO AD-FREE at Patreon.com/WWEPodcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-wwe-podcast--2187791/support.
Happy Mindful Monday! In this week's episode, our host Allie Brooke sits down with Elsa Valentine. Elsa is an entrepreneur, coach and lifelong explorer of what it means to come home to ourselves. Guided by fascination rather than convention, her journey has taken her from nutrition and startups to neuroscience, the unconscious mind and emotional intelligence, all through the lens of one central philosophy: seek within. Inspired by her own lived experience, Elsa is the founder of INNATE, an app exploring how a dialogue between our past, present and future selves can help us build greater self-awareness, emotional agency and a more compassionate relationship with ourselves. When she's not building, she's usually with her beloved Lusitano horses, in the ocean, or contemplating consciousness, space and the extraordinary experience of being human. Episode Topics From a neurological standpoint, why do our brains use staying hyper-busy as a defense mechanism when we are feeling overwhelmed? When we get triggered- whether it's an email from a boss, a boundary we have to set, or a comparison on social media- what is actually happening inside our brains? Why does it feel so impossible to 'think positive' in that moment? Your app, INNATE, focuses on proactive inner dialogue. What is the difference between being reactive to our thoughts versus being proactive with our self-talk? INNATE utilizes video-journaling. Why is speaking our thoughts aloud on video uniquely powerful for the brain compared to traditional pen-and-paper journaling or just thinking to ourselves?" If a listener is feeling a wave of anxiety, self-doubt, or a trigger right now, what is one micro-neuroscience tool they can use in the next 60 seconds to calm their nervous system?" For the woman listening who wants to shift from a survival state into an aligned, thriving state, what is the best way for her to begin engaging with her own 'innate' resilience today? Connect w| Elsa Website Millennial Life Coaches Network The Growth METHOD. FREE Membership◦ Join Here! 1:1 GROWTH MINDSET COACHING PROGRAMS!◦ Application Form What are the coaching sessions like?• Tailored weekly discussion questions and activities to spark introspection and self-discovery.• Guided reflections to help you delve deeper into your thoughts and feelings.• Thoughtfully facilitated sessions to provide maximum support, accountability, and growth.• Please apply for a FREE discovery call with me!• Allie's Socials• Instagram:@thegrowthmindsetgal• TikTok: @growthmindsetgal• Email: thegrowthmindsetgal@gmail.comLinks from the episode• Growth Mindset Gang Instagram Broadcast Channel• Growth Mindset Gang Newsletter • Growth Mindset Gal Website• Better Help Link: Save 10%SubstackDonate to GLOWIGloci 10% off Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Varant Zanoyan was born in Washington DC, and grew up there and in Switzerland as well. He now lives in the Bay Area, specifically San Mateo. He's spent time at Palantir Technologies, as well as a stint building ML tech at AirBnB. But outside of tech, he loves the outdoors, tending to his garden of plants and vegetables. After taking a good hike, he's been digging a good uni pizza for dinner. Prior to his current venture, Varant was working at AirBnB, developing Chronon - an open source data management engine, used to power AI/ML infrastructure. It was then that he and his team realized that building and managing data pipelines was a bottleneck for AI dev, and decided to spin into a standalone platform. This is the creation story of Zipline AI. Linkshttps://zipline.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/vzanoyan Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Our Sponsors:* Check out Perplexity and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://www.perplexity.aiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
How do you give sports fans deeper insight into a live match without covering the action with statistics they never asked for? Two years ago, I spoke with Patrick Mostboeck in episode 2788, How Sportradar Are Revolutionizing Sports with AI. Patrick returns to Tech Talks Daily as Senior Vice President of Fan Engagement at Sportradar for a timely conversation during the U.S. Open about how AI and real-time sports data are changing the way fans follow a match. We begin with the move from scores, schedules, and basic statistics to thousands of data points that can describe what is happening on the court or field. Patrick explains that the value comes from context. In tennis, ball position, shot type and player movement can reveal patterns around fatigue, court positioning and momentum that may be difficult to see from the television picture alone. AI can process those signals quickly enough to help broadcasters and digital services explain why a match may be changing. That creates an obvious temptation to show everything. Patrick is candid about the lesson Sportradar has learned from putting products in front of users: less is often more. A product team may want to display every feature it has built, while the fan simply wants to understand the action. The technology works best when the improvement feels natural and the viewer does not have to fight through a stream of graphics. We also consider the second screen. Many of us now watch sport with a phone or tablet nearby, checking other scores, following another match or looking for an explanation of a moment we have just seen. Patrick argues that media companies and rights holders can support those habits by offering different routes into the same event. A first time tennis viewer may need immediate context, while a fan who has watched the sport for 25 years may want deeper performance data. Personalization can serve both groups without taking away the shared experience of live sport. Patrick explains how Sportradar's 4Sight combines 3D data visualization, contextual data, and real-time insight inside live streams. The aim is to identify relevant moments and provide a clear narrative rather than add graphics for their own sake. He also describes official sports data as infrastructure that rights holders can actively develop and commercialize across media, advertising, coaching analytics and other services. For organizations wondering where to begin, Patrick offers a practical sequence. Start with the fans and identify the information they value before and during an event. Assess the quality and history of the data already available. Then speak with partners who understand how that information can support useful products and sustainable commercial models. We close by discussing prediction. Better data can help systems model possible outcomes for fans, media teams and coaches, but sport still retains the uncertainty that makes it worth watching. Will predictive insight deepen our appreciation of the action, or could too much information remove some of its magic? Listen to the conversation and share your thoughts with me.
An Episode in Real Time?Erik, Troy, and Zack are joined by Zack's old pal Derrick (author of "Broken Justice") to talk about the latest gimmicky(?) episode of Star Trek: "Strange New Worlds" - Season 4 - Episode 6 - the one with... Murphy's Law?(Sorta* Edited by Erik Slader)Click here to listen to Zack and Derrick talk about "Starfleet Academy" on the Patreon!Join us on our next voyage: "Strange New Worlds" - Season 4! Sign up for our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/2Young4ThisTrek Talk to Us:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook: @2Young4ThisTrekEmail: TooYoungforthisTrek@gmail.com Tyler:Twitter | InstagramTroy:Twitter | InstagramOther Podcasts: The Power Play-Throughs Podcast & Best Animated Shows Ever... So FarWebsite: TroytlePower.comErik:Twitter | InstagramOther Podcast: Epik Fails of HistoryBook Series: Epic FailsWebsite: ErikSlader.comMC:Twitter | InstagramMC also hosts BASESF.------------Music: https://www.purple-planet.comThe Network:This podcast is a production of the We Can Make This Work (Probably) Network follow us below to keep up with this show and discover our many other podcasts!ProbablyWork.com, it's the place for those with questionable taste!Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Discord: @ProbablyWorkEmail: ProbablyWorkPod@gmail.com
Learn how to JournalSpeak https://www.yourbreakawake.com/journalspeak Every time I do a real time heal it blows me away. The insights which arise from every conversation feel life changing - for both of us. Today, Eric Hissom boldly and bravely addresses his battle with pelvic pain (yes! men get it too, and I hear from them all the time) and shares with us how his pain can move and morph to many areas of his body. Although his TMS work has eliminated the back pain, the pelvic pain lingers and we get down to why. Join us for an enlightening and inspiring (per usual) real time heal! 1:1 COACHING WITH TRAINED COACHES SUPERVISED DIRECTLY BY NICOLE PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW THE PODCAST HERE TO HELP OTHERS FIND IT! Producer: Lisa Eisenpresser ~~~~~ SUPPORT:
The Time Stone is mysteriously absent from several pieces of Avengers: Endgame Encore promotional art—and while that could mean absolutely nothing, it sent Marvel Maniac straight to the conspiracy board. What if Doctor Strange never gave Thanos the real Time Stone in Infinity War? What if the Ancient One recognized exactly what Strange had done when Bruce told her he willingly surrendered it—and used the same trick herself? Eric builds a theory around a possible Sorcerer Supreme “surrender protocol,” asks whether the Reality Stone and Thanos' other Infinity Stones could explain what really happened to Vision, and follows the idea all the way through three universe-altering Snaps. Could Thanos, Hulk, and Tony Stark have all used five genuine Infinity Stones and one magical counterfeit? And if nobody ever truly controlled Time, could there be consequences still waiting for us in Avengers: Doomsday? It's absolutely a theory. It could be completely wrong. But if Marvel wants us to watch Endgame again before Doomsday… maybe we should start asking why. ⭐ Enjoying Marvel Maniac? Follow the show so you never miss an episode. If you listen on Apple Podcasts, leave an honest rating or review to help other Marvel fans discover the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marvel-maniac-an-mcu-aftershow/id1549177829
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Few people sit closer to the epicentre of the sports digital economy than Daniel Kirschner. As co-founder and CEO of Greenfly, he oversees the connective tissue running between rights holders, athletes and fans; the infrastructure that turns a moment on the pitch into content on your phone within seconds. Creator strategy and the platform deals. How rights holders selectively route content to favoured creators (Goldbridge as proxy) and to TikTok/YouTube. Richard presses the FIFA-TikTok/YouTube deals as a "tax" to stop leakage; Kirschner reframes winning as getting the highest-quality version out first.Clips as crown jewel vs top of funnel. The central tension. Richard argues clips are now the product, not the trailer; Kirschner holds that short-form is top-of-funnel for fandom and complements rather than cannibalises live—but concedes it should be a meaningful revenue pillar, not something dumped on social.Who pays. If not the broadcaster, then who? Discussion of separate short-form rights deals (NFL–Bleacher Report), YouTube revenue-sharing, and sponsors/brands paying to attach to viral moments (the Messi Smartwater example) with earned-media-value tracking.US vs Europe market structure. Centralised US leagues vs fragmented European clubs with promotion/relegation instability; more friction means more need for the technology. College sports as the closest US analogue to the European model.Athlete economics and authenticity. Athletes get content free, aren't paid, yet treat access as a favour. Editorial-versus-commercial distinction, and the authenticity question when agencies get involved.Measurement, impressions and AI slop. Richard's scepticism about impression numbers and the YouTube view-counting change; Kirschner on transparency of measurement, the coming flood of AI slop, and live sport's authenticity as the hedge against it (Kushner/Lakers).How the platforms see sport. Whether an eyeball is just an eyeball—Kirschner argues sports content is undervalued because of its emotional resonance and, distinctively, its joy: fans relive wins, not losses, which makes the content more valuable to advertisers.The SportsPro short-form showcase. Closing plug for the awards recognising ~40 short-form producers, and the broader argument that the craft has shifted from throwaway to a properly valued discipline attracting serious marketing budgets (Unilever's 80% shift toward short-form creators).This episode is sponsored by Leaders in SportThe 2026 Leaders Week London agenda is live, and there's already plenty we've got our eye on. Across three stages at Stamford Bridge, Leaders in Sport will bring together senior figures from across the industry to get into the questions, challenges and opportunities shaping where the business of sport goes next. From leadership and commercial growth to creativity and technology, there's a lot packed into the two days and no shortage of sessions worth making time for. We are looking forward to hearing Gary Lineker talk about The Art of the Story: Pitches, Publishing and Podcasts. We'll be there on 7 and 8 October, hopefully we'll see you there too. Visit leadersinsport.com/UP for more information and use UP15 for 15% off your Summit pass.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 500 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner' on Apple, Spotify and every podcast app. If you're interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series and live events, you can reach us via the website.
Johnny Mac covers comedy news for Sept. 1, including backlash to Bill Maher after a Real Time monologue scolding Americans for mourning Dolly Parton too much and joking about tributes. The Minnesota Star Tribune reviews Tom Segura at Acme, noting he's building a new set from scratch and not addressing his split with Christina P. Michael Che's four Minneapolis shows at First Avenue reportedly banned bathroom breaks due to Netflix filming and included material on the R-word and fatherhood. Variety reports growing backlash and a campaign urging cinemas to refuse to screen Ali G: Who Iz I? over claims the character is an outdated racist caricature. Other items: Pete Davidson's new look for crime thriller Tommy Karate, Kenan Thompson substituting for Simon Cowell on AGT, late-night ratings led by Rosie O'Donnell week on Kimmel, Blake Griffin's new show The Stepback, a Judy Gold podcast, George Lopez's Big Boys Comedy Fiesta, and LA Times comedians to watch.00:19 Bill Maher Dolly Backlash01:17 Tom Segura Starts Fresh02:22 Michael Che Netflix Taping03:15 SNL Cast Check In03:43 Ali G Film Controversy05:15 Pete Davidson Movie Look05:57 AGT Simon Out Kenan In06:30 Late Night Ratings Roundup07:26 Blake Griffin Late Night Show09:03 Comedy Podcasts And Festivals09:38 LA Times Comics To Watch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/daily-comedy-news-with-johnny-mac--4522158/support.Today's DCN is brought to you by MyBookie use promo code DCN!Daily Comedy News is hosted by Johnny Mac and releases every weekday. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite app. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network. For transcripts and show notes visit www.dailycomedynews.comDaily Comedy News with Johnny Mac is a daily podcast covering comedians, stand-up comedy, late night television, and the comedy industry. New episodes every morning. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Contact John at John@thesharkdeck dot com For Uninterrupted Listening, use the Apple Podcast App and click the banner that says Uninterrupted Listening. $4.99/month John's Substack about media is free.
Bill Maher sits down with longtime NBC News anchor Brian Williams (AKA the James Bond of nightly news) to talk about what happened to network news—and what America lost along the way. Williams explains how newscasts became consumed with East Coast weather and “water-skiing squirrel” filler, and why he believes Democrats lost touch with working-class voters. Away from the anchor desk, Williams shares the double life few viewers knew about: nearly five decades as a volunteer firefighter in New Jersey, near-broke beginnings in Kansas, and why he has avoided alcohol after losing his brother to alcoholism. He recalls meeting his wife in a television control room, tearing up at his daughter Allison Williams's first Letterman appearance, watching his son build his own career in local news, and returning with Netflix's We're Back! With Brian Williams. Call him 007 – licensed to anchor, fight fires, and make his mother proud. Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Support Our Sponsors: New customers can save 35% on your first month of subscription by going to https://www.dosedaily.co/RANDOM or entering RANDOM at checkout. Visit https://www.hims.com/clubrandom to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. For a limited time only head to https://www.ridge.com and use code RANDOM at checkout for 10% off your order AND a chance to win Ridge's biggest sweepstakes ever—a Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato, a Hennessey Velociraptor, A Ford Bronco or $100,000 in cash. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/random #rulapod For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off for life plus Free Shipping AND 3 Free Gifts at http://mengotomars.com/ Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM In Club Random, Bill Maher unleashes his comedic wit on an unpredictable lineup – from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Quentin Tarantino and Neil deGrasse Tyson – digging into everything but politics. It's Maher in his familiar element: one-on-one vibes, unfiltered laughs, and the kind of freewheeling banter only he can deliver. ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last 23 years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 41 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written six bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass", and most recently "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You". FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kelly joins me for August's Real Time Reading episode where we discuss our current, past, and upcoming reads. Kelly's Selections: Last: Hollow Bones by Jodi Piccoult The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian Now: Minbak by Ela Lee Breathing Under Water by Jaqueline Friedland Next: Fallow by Sarah Anderson The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw DNFs: Land by Maggie O'Farrell (again) It's Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh The Things You'll Never Know by Ashley Audrain Book Mail highlights: Serious Music by Percival Everett Behind Every Face by Charlie Donlea Cindy's Selections: Special shoutouts: Some People by Parini Shroff Two Lives by Alexis Schaitkin Bad Words by Riognach Robinson Last: Proof of Progress by Elizabeth Castellano Miss Archer by Jordan Harrison Now: Briefly, Forever by Sarah Gray The Camino by Anya Niewierra Next: Fallow by Sarah Anderson The Minute Givers by Christine Smonk Didn't Work/DNFs: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Sunrise by Tea Obreht Little Wonder by Sophie Chen Keller The Traveling House by Kristin Cashore Book Mail highlights: Just in Time by Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka Revenge Plot by Stephanie Wrobel Connect with Kelly Hooker on Instagram. Looking for some great summer reads? Check out my printable 18-page Summer Reading Guide here for a tip of your choice or for a set price here via credit card with over 45 new titles vetted by me that will provide great entertainment this summer - a number of books you will not see on other guides. So many fabulous books are coming out in 2026, and you can learn about a bunch of them in my guide. Thanks so much to those of you who have donated to the show. Donate to the podcast here or on Venmo. Want to know which new titles are publishing in June - October of 2026? Check out our sixth Literary Lookbook which contains a comprehensive but not exhaustive list all in one place so you can plan ahead, and we color-code by genre in this one! Sign up for my literary salon in Virginia. Looking for something new to read? Here is my monthly Buzz Reads column with five new recommendations each month. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Threads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join veteran Star Trek, and now Babylon 5 podcasters, Brent Allen and Jeff Akin as they dive into Babylon 5 for a second time! They revisit each episode with fresh insights and deeper analysis, reflecting on their first-time reactions. Perfect for First Ones and people new to the series, this journey offers a deeper connection to the world of Babylon 5!Why does it feel like we've done this before?? Only, I think you looked different last time.For the First Time Episode - https://www.babylon5first.com/episode/intersections-in-real-timeThis show is produced in association with the Akin Collective, Mulberry Entertainment, and Framed Games. Find out how you can support the show and get great bonus content like access to notes, a Discord server, unedited reaction videos, and more: https://www.patreon.com/badnerdsSpecial Thanks to all who support our show through Patreon, including:Executive Producers:Aaron BeckerAddrycAndrewAndy LukeAnthony PowellBecky SparksCalinicusCaz SkellyColin 3of5Colin BlairColin PritchardDaniel AlvesDavidDeb L.DundradalFabio KaseckerJack KitchenJames OkeefeJeffrey HayesJesse PiedfortkatKaterina KalinevichKrystle WrightMartin SvendsenMatt IonMattie GarciaMitsy MarcellaMr KrosisNeil MooreNia is framedPaul HessPaul WalcherPeter SchullerRob BentRon HSarah LScott HelsbySnatcher42Starfury 5470Stuart98Suzanne EggTexas Anla'ShoktheecallieTrekkieTreyTheTrekkerProducers:David BlauGuy KovelJohn KonigesFollow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badnerdsftft/https://www.babylon5first.com/All rights belong to the Prime Time Entertainment Network, WBTV, and TNT. No copyright infringement intended.Copyright Disclaimer, Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for 'fair use' for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Michael Steele is the co-anchor of MS NOW's The Weeknight and previous co-host of The Weekend. Prior to joining MS NOW as a political analyst, he was elected Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2003 and served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011. He was the first African-American to hold either office. Michael has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Real Time with Bill Maher, and The Daily Show and is the author of two books, “Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda” and “The Recovering Politician's Twelve Step Program to Survive Crisis”. He also hosted “The Michael Steele Podcast.” Will Donald Trump spend any of his $400-million war chest to help Republicans get elected or just spend it on himself? Will his efforts to stop mail-in voting hurt the GOP by turning off rural Republicans and keep them from voting? Will the Supreme Court ultimately help him steal the midterms? Will Texas' redistricting scam backfire? Will the Lone Star State finally flip with a James Talarico victory over Ken Paxton? How much impact will DSA have this November? Will Democrats win back the House AND Senate? Michael addresses these critical questions and more. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel
We have Josh Hansen, co-founder of Rolling Insights, joining the pod today. We discuss how their team has created the API highway for real-time sports data. We talk about Rolling Insights' journey from startup to data provider, their COVID-era acquisition, and their focus on supporting smaller fantasy apps and research tools. We dive into the practical use cases — from fantasy projections and betting research to niche sports like darts and emerging women's leagues — and highlight developer-friendly features such as AI skills, integration help, Discord community, and a free 30-day trial.
When navigating personal growth, nervous system sovereignty, and spiritual ascension for spiritual leaders, true self-leadership is not built on forced willpower—it is grounded in real-time capacity.Bridging high-level conscious leadership into daily reality requires a practical, repeatable practice. It isn't just about stepping out of survival-defensive loops; it's about actively building the internal architecture for personal sovereignty, emotional mastery, and continuous integration.In the episode we look at aspects of the article "What Is a Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habit? And How to Scale It to Your Capacity," we break down the practical shift from theoretical growth to embodied execution.Core Pillars Covered in the Article (and discussed in the episode):The Architecture of Dual-Tracking Capacity: How to hold clear internal somatic awareness while actively directing mental focus and cognitive strategy.Scaling to Real-Time Capacity: Why micro-habits allow you to adjust practices to meet your current state without breaking momentum.Embodied Sovereignty: Grounding conscious leadership, emotional intelligence, and self-regulation into daily habits that actually stick.Real transformation happens when state meets strategy, and strategy meets state.Read the full article and explore how to apply these somatic-mindset protocols to your self-growth journey: https://inspiringhumanpotential.com/emotional-intelligence/what-is-a-somatic-mindset-micro-habit-and-how-to-determine-your-nervous-system-capacity/Download the Free SMART MICRO-HABIT Practice Guide on Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/7PdoGTimestamps:(0:00) - Intro: Why Authentic Leaders Stand Out(2:08) - What Is Dual-Tracking Capacity?(3:58) - How to Scale Capacity with Somatic Micro-Habits(5:10) - Somatic-Mindset Micro-Habit Example & Composure(6:00) - Aligning Nervous System State with Strategy(7:24) - The 3 Levels of Compassion in Conscious Leadership(10:28) - Embodied Sovereignty & Self-Regulation(14:05) - How to Spot Activated States & Master Thoughts(16:26) - Relational & Nervous System Sovereignty(18:51) - Grounded Leadership: Testing Beliefs & Opinions-------------Bringing Together Human, Spiritual & Spirituality Elements to Explore Human Evolution & ConsciousnessMaria brings together sciences & spirituality to support human evolution & consciousness, to shed light on love & you being able to be you, the authentic you - a functional inner child adult - who lives an abundant life thanks to secure attachment, integration, intelligence, emotional resilience, mental mastery & restorative embodiment.“I almost reacted.Then I remembered—sovereignty and integrity are choices.”Love, Maria5D Mystic Mentor, Content Creator & Podcast Host#emotionalintelligence #personalgrowth #spiritualgrowth #selfempowerment #loveContent shared here offers non-clinical tools for self-leadership and expansion and is not a substitute for therapy or medical care.
In part 1 of this episode of The Phoenix Cast, Violence Prevention Educator Cassandra Carmona-Wayman (she/hers/ella) is joined by Survivor Advocates Jenae McCall (they/them) and Marissa Moreno (she/hers) for a spirited conversation about Love Island USA and the relationship dynamics playing out on and off screen. Using examples from recent seasons, they explore issues including forced intimacy, consent, boundaries, and power and control.Content warnings: This episode includes discussions of interpersonal violence such as: intimate partner violence, emotional and psychological abuse, manipulation and coercive control, sexual violence and assault, sexual coercion and pressured intimacy. There are also themes addresses around victim-blaming, survivor experiences, trauma, mental health, sex work and survival sex work, and sexualized/kink-related content. Strong language is also used.Sources and Resources mentioned in the episode:Is Love Island USA Filmed in Real Time? What to Know About Production (DETAILS)Love Island USA Season 7 Week 1 Recap: Episodes 1-7A Guide to Love Island USA Season 8, Week 1: Dumpings, Bombshells, Voting, and More! (RECAP)‘Love Island USA' Season 8 Power Rankings: Casa Amor's Winners, Losers and Surprises‘Love Island USA' Season 7 Secrets: Missed Connections, Life in the Villa and More of What You Didn't See on TV (Exclusive)Behind-the-scenes of Love Island: former winners dish all on the villa's best-kept secretsAre ‘Love Island USA' Stars Allowed to Have Phones in the Villa? Behind-the-Scenes Rule ExplainedCan I Pull You for a Chat? A Look Into Love Island USA's Mental Health Team Leah Kateb Says Love Island Producers BRIBED Her With Wine in Podcast: "Leah Kateb: Life After Love Island." Not Skinny But Not Fat, August 11, 2026.‘Love Island USA' winners are using their $100,000 prize money to pay bills and student loans. Many Americans can relate.Leah Kateb Claims ‘Love Island USA' Producer Lied to Her About Miguel to Create a ‘Reality TV Moment' (Exclusive)If you are in crisis and need immediate support, please call our 24/7 interpersonal violence helpline at 303-556-2255.Request an Appointment with an Advocate athttps://www.thepca.org/online-appointment-requestRequest a Violence Prevention Presentation at https://www.thepca.org/prevention-educationInstagram @phoenixauraria
Open your fridge and grab a beer without knocking anything else over. It’s usually not hard for a human to do it. But getting a robot to do the same task can take an engineer weeks or months. George Konidaris is a professor of computer science at Brown University, director of the Intelligent Robot Lab, and cofounder of Realtime Robotics. Their technology does that kind of motion planning in minutes instead of weeks, and it’s running on the manufacturing lines of major automakers right now. He was on the show three years ago, when the technology worked in the lab. A lot has changed. The company closed a 45 million dollar Series B and is cash flow positive. (Blog continues below video) ******** Listen on your favorite podcast app using pod.link. . View the podcast at the bottom of this post or on our YouTube Channel. Follow us on Social and never miss an update! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swarfcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swarfcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/todays-machining-world Twitter: https://twitter.com/tmwswarfblog ************* Link to Graff-Pinkert's Acquisitions and Sales promotion! ************* Main Points Grabbing a beer is harder than it looks Real Time came out of research George and his colleagues did on robot motion planning, which is how a robot decides on its own how to move without hitting anything. “There are many ways in which you could reach into your fridge and grab a beer where you would hit the fridge or a beer or knock something over and you don’t do any of those.” You solve that without thinking. For a robot it’s a hard computational problem, and the first paper posing it was written in 1979. What George and his collaborator found was a way to solve it in milliseconds instead of seconds or minutes. The original breakthrough needed a custom processor. It runs in software now. Robots are still stupid, but less so Last time he was on, he told me robots are stupid. I asked if that’s still true. They’re getting smarter and still stupid in surprising ways. Computer vision has genuinely improved. Put a robot in one room and ask it to find the door, then put it in a different room and ask again, and that works now. It used to be brittle. Two and a half years versus five Going from a car design to selling the first hundred thousand units takes an American or European automaker about five years. Chinese automakers do it in two and a half, regularly. The fastest Western car ever was the Tesla Model 3 at roughly three, and George points out that Tesla pre-sold the hundred thousand units and built the factory from scratch. He says the gap has almost nothing to do with robots. “It’s not that they’re using more robots, it’s not that they’re using less people. It’s that the design process of taking the car design and turning it into a factory that produces that car was not efficient.” Western manufacturers work sequentially. Design the car, finish it, then design the factory, then iterate on the work cells. Chinese manufacturers start designing the work cell as soon as the car sketch takes shape and accept that a lot of the work gets thrown out. There are already plenty of robots in traditional American plants. His point is they’re used the same way they were used thirty years ago, because those plants were designed thirty years ago. And established manufacturers aren’t building new plants. Every model means retooling an existing one, which he says is harder than building from nothing. The plan never works the first time This part will sound familiar to anyone who has watched a job go from print to spindle. The work cell gets designed in an office in CAD. Real Time runs the motion planning and tells them what performance to expect. Then it ships to commissioning, where somebody local assembles it with a screwdriver. “Of course it’s not exactly the same as the one in the CAD model. That’s never going to be exactly the same.” The robot moves a little differently than the one in the simulation. You run it and it doesn’t quite work. What changes is what happens next. Instead of bouncing it back to the engineer and waiting weeks, the person standing there adjusts it and reprograms in a few minutes. Will ChatGPT just do this? He gets asked constantly whether an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude will just solve motion planning. His answer is no. That kind of AI learns by studying huge piles of examples and producing something close to what it has seen. Nobody has a pile of examples of robots moving at the absolute edge of what they can do. And close isn’t the standard anyway. “You can’t like mostly not hit stuff. You have to always never hit stuff.” On a line where downtime costs tens of thousands of dollars a minute, a robot that crashes one percent of the time is not one you can install. George’s rule of automation in a factory I asked George what happens to the people in factories as this new technology comes in. He has a rule for it. The more repetitive and predictable a job is, the sooner a robot takes it. That’s why spot welding in a car plant is done by robots but a person still sticks in the cables. It’s why Amazon has machines carry the box to the packing station, but a person packs it, because nobody knows what’s going to be in the next tote. His timeline is slower than most of what you hear. Three to five years before factory design gets partly automated, with no change in what people do versus what robots do. Ten to fifteen years before jobs people do today start moving over. He doesn’t think it’s going to be fast or scary. Slow and incremental, and worth a lot. Serendipity at the MIT Press bookstore, December 8, 2000 For his twenty-first birthday, growing up in Johannesburg, George asked to visit America to look at grad schools. His sister took him. They went to Boston because he wanted to see MIT, and he wandered into the MIT Press bookstore, where his sister told him he could afford to buy one book. He found a book on AI and robotics. He remembers being there on December 8, 2000, because the book’s publication date was December 14. It was an MIT Press book, so the store had it early. He was one of the first few people to buy it. He read it on the flight home and decided he wanted to do a PhD in robotics. Years later he did his postdoc at MIT, and once a week he’d walk into that same bookstore and buy a book, because by then he could buy as many as he wanted. Question: Are you excited about more AI in your shop? The post This Robot Can Grab a Beer, with George Konidaris-EP 272 appeared first on Today's Machining World.
If you've been following my Anatomy Breakdown videos on social media this summer and loving the format and content, this short bonus episode is for you. I'm sharing why those videos inspired something new I'm launching this September (2026)—and why learning how to think through movement is far more valuable than memorizing anatomy or repeating cues. In this special announcement episode, I'm sharing a new way for you to up level your confidence- it's called September Sessions, a new series of Live Teaching Labs designed to help you learn how to apply anatomy to movement without having to memorize anatomy or feel like you're just repeating what you were told in teacher training. You can discover the exciting details in the episode and of course, you'll need the link to the Yoga Anatomy Accelerator which you can find here: https://barebonesyoga.thinkific.com/courses/Yoga-Anatomy-Accelerator
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Scott Galloway joins Bill Maher for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of American men, modern dating, AI, and the economy. The bestselling author, host of The Prof G Pod, and co-host of Pivot argues that young men have more agency than they think, and that learning to handle rejection is part of moving forward. He and Bill get into porn, the incel movement, the manosphere, why humor and kindness still matter, and why men should pick up the check. Galloway tells the story of meeting his wife, debates Bill on the existential risks of AI, and weighs in on China's growing AI advantage, tariffs, capitalism, the shrinking middle class, inherited wealth, and whether older generations have tilted the economy too far in their own favor.. Support our Advertisers: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code RANDOM at https://www.oneskin.co/RANDOM #oneskinpod Head to https://www.Superpower.com and use code RANDOM at checkout for $20 off your membership. #sponsored Visit https://www.hims.com slash clubrandom to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. Download the Kalshi app and use code RANDOM to get $10 when you trade $10. Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There's a whole big world out there that isn't about politics and Bill and his guests—from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Jordan Peterson, Quentin Tarantino and Neil DeGrasse Tyson—talk about all of it. For advertising opportunities please email: PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last fourteen years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 40 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Australia to London: The Global World of Realtime ReportingWhat happens when a childhood fascination with a court reporter on television turns into a 30+ year international career?In this episode, I sit down with Leah Willisdorf, an accomplished international realtime reporter who takes us from her beginnings in Australia to her current home in London.Leah shares how a fictional court reporter on a television show sparked her interest in the profession and ultimately led her to a career spanning more than three decades. She explains why realtime reporting has become such an important skill in today's legal industry and why reporters who master it are increasingly valuable.We also dive into Leah's experience working on international arbitrations and corporate depositions, where the expectations for speed, accuracy, and professionalism are exceptionally high. Leah opens up about the pressures of working in these environments and the reality of burnout in a demanding profession.One of the most valuable parts of our conversation is Leah's advice for creating a sustainable career. She discusses the importance of building a strong support network—including scopists and proofreaders—and finding ways to maintain a healthy work-life balance while working at a high level.Leah's enthusiasm for court reporting is contagious. From international travel and unique assignments to developing highly sought-after skills, she makes a compelling case for why court reporting can be an incredibly rewarding career.This is another episode that was recorded live at the NCRA convention expo hall.In this episode:How a television show inspired Leah to become a court reporterLeah's journey from Australia to LondonBuilding a 30+ year career in court reportingWhy realtime reporting is becoming increasingly importantWorking on international arbitrationsThe demands of corporate depositionsHandling high-pressure assignmentsBurnout and the challenges of the professionWhy scopists and proofreaders are so importantBuilding a sustainable work-life balanceThe opportunities for travel and international workWhy aspiring reporters should develop their realtime skillsTakeawaysInspiration can come from the most unexpected places—even television.Realtime reporting is one of the most valuable skills a modern court reporter can develop.International arbitrations and corporate depositions demand exceptional speed, accuracy, and preparation.A strong support network can make a demanding career much more sustainable.Burnout is a real challenge, and maintaining balance is essential for a long career.Developing realtime skills can open the door to unique assignments and international opportunities.Court reporting can provide a career filled with travel, variety, and continuous professional growth.
Mark the summer of 2026 as the moment when an unlikely supermajority of Americans came together on one issue: their opposition to data centers. This new, big, messy coalition spans the political spectrum and is rooted in a fear that the sociopaths of Silicon Valley will determine the future of our lives, our communities, and our economic prospects. And (most) politicians have noticed which way the wind is blowing. Plus: Carbon emissions are getting better but the planet is still getting warmer, the coming El Niño may be the strongest ever, and ICE arrests are dramatically up because Stephen Miller is siccing agents on immigrants who are following the rules.The New York Times' David Wallace-Wells joins Tim Miller.show notes: David's recent newsletter on keeping the world safe from AI David on Trump's deportation machine ramping up Derek Thompson's recent "Plain English" pod on AI that Tim referenced Bulwark LIVE: GOOD FIGHT TOUR with Tim, Sarah, Sam and JVL is coming to the Southeast in October. Tickets go on sale August 21. Bulwark+ members get early access via our presale NOW. Head to TheBulwark.com/Events for details and to get your tickets.
On this month's Club Random Classics, Bill Maher revisits one of his most electric sit-downs with comedian Kathy Griffin. The two dig into why Kathy turns everything into a fight, her explosive war with MAGA nation, and what actually happens when the internet decides to cancel you. Kathy breaks down the real story behind that infamous Trump photo, the fallout it caused, and the long list of people who sued her over it. She and Bill also geek out on Joe Rogan's brilliance, revisit the upsetting Kennedy scene from the Marilyn Monroe biopic, and Bill pitches Kathy an entire TV show idea on the spot. This episode first aired on May 21, 2023. Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There's a whole big world out there that isn't about politics and Bill and his guests—from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Jordan Peterson, Quentin Tarantino and Neil DeGrasse Tyson—talk about all of it. For advertising opportunities please email: PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last fourteen years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 40 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ProjectME with Tiffany Carter – Entrepreneurship & Millionaire Mindset
What do you do when everything seems to go wrong at once, and you have absolutely no idea how it's all going to work out? I was supposed to release a completely different episode today. It was already recorded. Everything was planned. Then I woke up to some major fucking bullshit...followed almost immediately by more bullshit. So I scrapped the plan and hit record while I was still in it. This isn't an episode about resilience from the other side, when everything has worked out and you can package the experience into a beautiful lesson. I'm taking you behind the scenes of how I handle stress, uncertainty, business setbacks and unexpected life problems in REAL TIME, before I know the outcome. Because when multiple things go wrong at once, your brain loves to take individual problems and turn them into one giant story: Everything is falling apart. RESOURCES MENTIONED: {End of Summer Applications-CLOSING SOON} Exclusive 2-Month Private Customized Business Coaching Program: APPLY HERE (both established and new entrepreneurs use the same application) *serious applicants only JOIN THE POSSE with my brand-new Gift of Gab series, where I break down per type of content how to create each one, so you don't just get views, you get SALES. You will be trained how to use my proprietary profitable-content formulas and emotional sales techniques to your own business >> JOIN HERE CONNECT WITH TIFF: Tiffany on Instagram @projectme_with_tiffany Tiffany on TikTok @projectme_with_tiffany Tiffany on YouTube: ProjectME TV Tiffany's FREE Email Community: JOIN HERE > The Secret Posse Digest In this episode, I'm sharing:
Have you been feeling grayed out lately? Numbed up? Like you're going through the motions of your own life but no longer quite feel like yourself? What if that slow, quiet malaise isn't something you have to live with, and what if healing it doesn't require years of work, but simply showing up in the right room, at the right frequency, with the right people? Michael steps outside his usual format to do something he's never done on air before: bring the audience directly into a live group energy healing experience, the same kind of work that's produced what participants are calling miraculous results in his Come Back to Life summer program. From a guided "wall" visualization for shattering limiting beliefs to a full live attunement, this episode is part teaching, part experiential healing session, and part invitation into a small, intimate fall program built entirely around this same energy. This isn't about hoping for a slow, gradual improvement someday. This is about stepping directly into a healing bubble together, right now, and discovering just how much can shift in a single sacred hour. Key Topics: Why the most overlooked kind of healing isn't physical; it's the slow, gray malaise of feeling numbed out and disconnected from your own aliveness. The science behind group healing: Lynne McTaggart's research in The Power of Eight, showing that when a group prays or sets intention for one person, spontaneous healings ripple outward to others in the circle as well. A live group healing circle at Michael's Vermont "mirror pool," setting both a collective healing intention and a deeply personal one for each listener. Why it's essential to ask boldly for what you truly want - not the small, safe version, but the real desire sitting underneath, whether that's physical healing, freedom, abundance, or a life partner. The "wall" visualization: carving your intention into an immovable wall with a magic pen of golden light, then leaping, springs on your feet and all, to the other side, into the life already realized. Why a single anchor word (Michael uses "yes") can instantly return you to a felt sense of your desired future, the same way scent or a hotel key code unlocks something instantly. The origin story of Come Back to Life: how Michael's summer experiment in group energetic healing led to reported miracles - including reduced A1C, resolved back pain, phantom limb pain disappearing, and people coming off pain medication entirely. You don't need to wait for permission to come back to life. The wall you think is holding you back - the diagnosis, the doubt, the "you're too old" or "you'll never", was never as solid as it seemed. Carve your intention into it, leap to the other side, and remember: you are not broken and waiting to be fixed. You are a divine being already whole, simply waiting to reconnect with your own true, healed essence.
Sharad Kumar lives in Pleasanton, California with his wife and 2 kids. He enjoys playing all musical instruments, and spending time with his family. He has a 2 year old daughter, and a 14 year old son into robotics. He is also passionate about giving back to the community, through their company foundation.Harshit Omar lives in San Francisco, and is married with a 4 year old son. He used to be a street racer in his college days, loving fast cars and taking risk. Nowadays, he is a big marvel and comic book fan, along side his son. In fact, his son thinks he is Captain America, regularly wielding his shield and mask.A fun fact about both of these gentlemen: this is their third company to work together in, their second startup, and their wives are sisters. So they are connected by wives, and united by startups.In their previous startups, Sharad was leading sales and ops and Harshit was leading on the product side. When the company got acquired, it took them 8-9 months to integrate to a different cloud provider. They realized the model was broken, requiring expensive consulting services, and not convenient at all - and they wanted to figure out a better way.This is the creation story of Fluidcloud.SponsorsUnblocked (https://getunblocked.com/codestory)TECH Domains (https://get.tech/codestory)Mezmo (https://mezmo.com/codestory)Braingrid.ai (https://braingrid.link/code-story)Alcor (https://alcor.com/podcast)Equitybee (http://codestory.co/equitybee)Terms and conditions: Equitybee executes private financing contracts (PFCs) allowing investors a certain claim to ESO upon liquidation event; Could limit your profits. Funding in not guaranteed. PFCs brokered by EquityBee Securities, member FINRA.Linkshttps://www.fluidcloud.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharadkumar123/https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshito/Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Bill Maher sits down with Iranian-American comedian Max Amini, a global comedy powerhouse who sells out shows around the world, for a conversation that swings from religion to revolution. Max opens up about growing up as an “American kid” in Iran, getting bullied at school, and quietly whispering that he was American while classmates chanted “Death to America.” The two trade faith stories: Bill admits he still gets sweaty palms walking into a church, while Max shares his father's Sufi belief that “our religion is love.” They get into Max's complicated relationship with Iran, the Shah's legacy, and what life under the country's religious regime has meant for generations of Iranians. And comedy is never far away, as Max shares his Jay Leno origin story and the best advice he ever received: “It's never too late, but it always could be too early." Support our Advertisers: Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/RANDOM #rulapod #ad Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There's a whole big world out there that isn't about politics and Bill and his guests—from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Jordan Peterson, Quentin Tarantino and Neil DeGrasse Tyson—talk about all of it. For advertising opportunities please email: PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last fourteen years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 40 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Bill Maher reunites with his former Tomcats co-star Shannon Elizabeth for a revealing conversation about fame, fantasy, and the unexpected path her life took after American Pie. Shannon explains why she joined OnlyFans, where she draws the line, and why Bill still can't quite understand the appeal of an online fantasy. The conversation turns personal as Shannon shares why she left Hollywood for South Africa and devoted her life to animal conservation—including the heartbreaking moment that changed her path and inspired her work protecting endangered rhinos and elephants.Along the way, Bill and Shannon debate cosmetic procedures, relationships, and why sex before dinner simply makes more sense. Support our Advertisers: -Try Claude for free at https://www.claude.ai/clubrandom -Try ZipRecruiter for free at https://www.ziprecruiter.com/random -Get 50% off plus 1 free breakfast item per box at https://www.factormeals.com/random50off with code random50off Subscribe to the Club Random YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/clubrandompodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Watch episodes ad-free – subscribe to Bill Maher's Substack: https://billmaher.substack.com Subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you listen: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Buy Club Random Merch: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices ABOUT CLUB RANDOM Bill Maher rewrites the rules of podcasting the way he did in television in this series of one on one, hour long conversations with a wide variety of unexpected guests in the undisclosed location called Club Random. There's a whole big world out there that isn't about politics and Bill and his guests—from Bill Burr and Jerry Seinfeld to Jordan Peterson, Quentin Tarantino and Neil DeGrasse Tyson—talk about all of it. For advertising opportunities please email: PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com ABOUT BILL MAHER Bill Maher was the host of “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC) from 1993-2002, and for the last fourteen years on HBO's “Real Time,” Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 40 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher's uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous.” Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” FOLLOW CLUB RANDOM https://www.clubrandom.com https://www.facebook.com/Club-Random-101776489118185 https://twitter.com/clubrandom_ https://www.instagram.com/clubrandompodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@clubrandompodcast FOLLOW BILL MAHER https://www.billmaher.com https://twitter.com/billmaher https://www.instagram.com/billmaher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices