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SPECIAL GUEST and Free EBOOKRobert Raymond Riopel is an international Best-Selling author, App Designer, Entrepreneur and Trainer who has spent the past 18+ years travelling around the world sharing his passion. He has also shared the stage with and trained many of the top trainers and thought leaders in the world today.With his high energy and heartfelt style, Robert draws on his journey from humble beginnings to financial freedom at the age of 32, to inspire individuals into tapping into their greatness. Realizing that he is not the only person that struggles, Robert's “Clues” open individuals up to the possibilities that lie within them and that is why he is a highly sought after presenter.www.robertriopel.comMy first book "Success Left A Clue" is something I give as a gift in e-book format Support the show (https://squareup.com/store/ipv-consulting)

SPECIAL GUEST and Free EBOOKRobert Raymond Riopel is an international Best-Selling author, App Designer, Entrepreneur and Trainer who has spent the past 18+ years travelling around the world sharing his passion. He has also shared the stage with and trained many of the top trainers and thought leaders in the world today.With his high energy and heartfelt style, Robert draws on his journey from humble beginnings to financial freedom at the age of 32, to inspire individuals into tapping into their greatness. Realizing that he is not the only person that struggles, Robert's “Clues” open individuals up to the possibilities that lie within them and that is why he is a highly sought after presenter.www.robertriopel.comMy first book "Success Left A Clue" is something I give as a gift in e-book format Support the show (https://squareup.com/store/ipv-consulting)

Connect with Latoya on LinkedInLearn more about Music Meets the BoardroomFollow Latoya and Music Meets the Boardroom on InstagramKey Moments:7:07 - How pageants became a vehicle to having a stage to sing 11:34 - How imposterism manifested during competitions16:12 - Changing her major from music teacher to political science and government23:31 - Launching a pageant coaching business while working full-time and getting MBA28:38 - Trusting her intuition to get out of a bad environment 35:58 - How she creates space to tune into her intuition and gain clarity40:11 - Realizing her job in government was no longer allowing her to show up as her full self52:12 - Seeking internal peace rather than happiness58:25 - Starting Music Meets the Boardroom as a side hustle1:07:53 - Latoya's upcoming book for women in the entertainment industry1:14:26 - One thing to take away from this podcast.

Today's episode will leave you with your jaw dropped! Udo Erasmus, born in Poland during the second World War, found himself starting his life in an orphanage. Realizing at a young age that the world was suffering from a lack of peace and harmony, Udo started down a path of higher education within science, biosciences, psychology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine, and health. He is equipping all of us with the powerful knowledge we likely do not know, and the information he shares with us involving fats, oils, and omegas will give you what you need to make amazing changes for your health. Udo has dominated the industry of preventative health and has a wonderful website full of information revolving oils, fats, omega-3. Visit https://udoerasmus.com for more information!

What if failure is the only way forward? Culturally we avoid the "F" word, but the truth of the matter is that we fail on a daily basis. The only time we fear it, is when we give the failure a false meaning, rather than seeing it for what it is, feedback to take a new step forward. There's always something to be gained in every unsuccessful attempt. Realizing this is what allows you to make advances and achieve your outcome. In this episode we'll talk about what it looks like to fail "smart".

Picking up where we last left off, it's time to learn about Marvel's second attempt at comics for Christian audiences. Highlights include comic adaptations of "classic" Christian stories and the creation of an evangelical superhero, but the results were decidedly less impressive than the "Saint Series" from the early 80s.  ----more---- Episode 8 Transcription [00:00:00] Jessika: Good, I can see, perfect. No sneaking up on me, Jesus.  Mike: Welcome to Ten Cent Takes, the podcast where we partake in comics' forbidden fruit, one issue at a time. My name is Mike Thompson and I'm joined by my cohost, the muffin of mayhem herself, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: Hello.  Mike: How's it going? Jessika: Oh, pretty good. Even better, now that you're calling me a muffin. I love it. Mike: I mean, it was either that or the scone of scorn and I liked muffin of mayhem better. Jessika: Oh, either way. I mean, it's very close. I do have a cupcake on my shoulder as you know. Mike: Yes.  [00:01:00] Well, as always, the purpose of this podcast is to perform deep dives on comic books in ways that are both fun and informative. We want to look at their coolest, weirdest and silliest moments, as well as examine how they're woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Today, we're picking up where we left off with our last episode and concluding our look at Marvel's short-lived run of Christian comics. Are you ready? Jessika: Yeehaw.  Mike: Well, I'm going to give you a quick break before we actually get into that. What is one cool thing that you have read or watched since we last recorded? Jessika: I started reading the Princeless series by Jeremy Whitley.  Mike: Nice. Jessika: Yeah. The art for the first book was by M Goodwin, but there are other artists involved, including Emily Martin, who is local to our area, which is super neat. Mike: Yeah. I met her at Luma [00:02:00] Con a couple of years ago.  Jessika: Oh, that's rad as heck. Nice, nice.  So, the story follows a princess, Adrienne, who from a young age, is not at all on board with the conventional helpless role she's expected to take as a princess, and is not happy about being locked in a tower alone. So she decides that she doesn't need to continue this path that has been chosen for her and escapes to help others. She's also a person of color and her hair care routines and style reflect that, which is wonderful. And I'm only one issue into the first book, but I'm so excited to see what destiny Adrienne writes for herself.  Mike: I think I read the first volume a couple of years ago and I really enjoyed it. It was a really fresh feeling story. Jessika: That's how I felt about it, it was very refreshing.  Well, what about [00:03:00] you? Whatcha been reading?  Mike: So, one of the series that I have on my pull list at Brian's comics up in Petaluma is We Only Find Them When They're Dead from Boom. It's about six issues. And now it's this really cool sci-fi fantasy sort of series by Al Ewing who has really gotten big while he's been writing the Immortal Hulk, which I also highly recommend because that takes the incredible Hulk storyline and turns it into pretty much a horror story. Jessika: Oh, cool.  Mike: It's really neat. And it's really unnerving and, he's been writing it for over 30 issues now, I think, but it's really solid. And the whole idea is that the Hulk is effectively an immortal being and he can't die. But how that comes into play is genuinely terrifying at times. But Al Ewing did this new series called We Only Find Them When They're Dead. The series is just incredible. And it's set in this weird dystopian future where [00:04:00] the bodies of these giant space gods, for lack of a better term appear out of nowhere. And then humanity is so stretched thin for resources that, that what they've started doing is they have these spaceships that will harvest the bodies for parts. And nobody knows where these gods come from until the crew of one of these harvesting ships decides to solve the mystery. It's this really tight kind of small scale story so far, but it's set against this really insane, massive cosmic backdrop. And it's also very queer, so, I think you would probably enjoy it more so than usual. Jessika: Very nice. Very nice.  Mike: All right. Let's turn back to Marvel's Christian Comics. Would you be so kind as to give us a quick recap of where we left off after the last episode? Jessika: Sure. Last week we went [00:05:00] through the first years of the Marvel Catholic comics, how it got its start printing religious material, cue the power of asking that we keep discussing on this show, and who was involved in making these particular Comics. Our focal comics were the Saint series, comprised of the stories of St. Francis in Francis Brother of the Universe, Pope John Paul. I can't not do it that way.  Mike: It's so good. Jessika: Pope John Paul II, and Mother Teresa. Oh man. Do we want to take a quick second and talk about the recent news? It was so timely about Mother Teresa. You wanna? You want to talk a little bit about that, Mike?   I just had to talk about it. It was so freaking timely.  Mike: Oh, absolutely.  I think this happened a day or two after we recorded the article.  So over the past couple of days there's been a number of stories that have come out, basically highlighting that [00:06:00] Mother Teresa was running a cult and I think the headline that I sent you was, “Are there still people who didn't know Mother Teresa was running an alleged cult?” And.  Jessika: Cue.  Mike: I think.  Jessika: Cue me raising my hand.  Mike: Yeah, I think this was a day or two after, after you and I had recorded and it just felt ridiculously timely. It was really funny. Jessika: Oh, serendipitous.  Mike: No,  she was not a good person by the increasingly numerous accounts that I've been seeing.  She was quote unquote good by a very narrow definition that unfortunately it was kind of like what the media presented her as back then in the eighties. And since then, I mean, if she was operating today, there's no way that she would have received the Nobel Peace Prize. But. Jessika: Oh, no, absolutely not.  Mike: But you know, we're talking, she received that 40 years [00:07:00] ago, so. Jessika: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh gosh. Well, back to what we were talking about last week. After the St. series, after all of that wrapped up, Marvel seemed to decide to walk away from religious content after these winning Comics, we did however, land on a bit of a cliffhanger because Mike, you teased that they took another swing at religious comics in 1992.  Mike: That is correct. So, to set the stage, the late eighties and early nineties were a massive boom for the comic book market.  There was this huge speculation bubble that was going on, and as a result, Marvel and DC and other imprints were just seeing an unprecedented amount of success.  On average, a lot of major books were seeing over a million issues in circulation, which, even today, they don't see.  I think in 1991, X-Men number one, the new series that was [00:08:00] drawn by Jim Lee and written by Chris Claremont had something like 12 million issues move for the.  Jessika: Oh. Mike: For - yeah. It's bonkers. And then shortly thereafter, the rug basically got pulled out from under Marvel's feet. So the early nineties really went from being awesome to really rough in almost no time flat. And that was because the company's top artists were freelancers and they weren't happy with Marvel's compensation plan. So they left and they founded Image Comics back in early '92. And that was essentially the top artists from really well-performing comics, like X-Men, Spiderman, Guardians of the Galaxy, and X-Force just to name a few, became Marvel's competition overnight.  And DC was having some major commercial successes at the same time with events like the death of Superman, and Batman Knightfall, which is when he got his back broken. [00:09:00] So Marvel was suddenly scrambling to keep their share of the market in that light Christian book, publisher, Thomas Nelson, reaching out to former commercial partnership must have seemed like a, uh, well, for lack of a better term, a godsend. And up until that point, Evangelical Christian audiences were a largely untapped demographic outside of their specialty markets.  Now that said, I haven't been able to find any old press releases from when this deal was announced. It honestly seems like both. Marvel and Thomas Nelson, would just like to have everyone forget about this whole venture since neither company mentions the partnerships on their sites. I can't even find them on archive or anything like that.  Jessika: Oh, wow. Mike: That said - Yeah. It's, it's like buried pretty deep, but that said, I did find an article from Christianity Today, of all places, that fills in some of the details. So, it's kind of a long-winded meandering puff [00:10:00] piece, but there are a couple of relevant details. Would you do me a favor and read the first bit explaining why this deal came to be? Jessika: Sure. Some Thomas Nelson staff, whose young children were drawn to comics noticed there was little available from a Christian viewpoint. Realizing they did not have the resources in house, the publisher struck a deal with Marvel comics to produce a series of comics under Nelson's editorial direction. Using Marvel artists and writers that resulting comics would be marketed in Christian markets by Thomas Nelson and in comic bookstores by Marvel.  Mike: Yeah, so, honestly, it sounds more like Thomas Nelson hired Marvel rather than the two were in a legit partnership.  Thomas Nelson was even setting the price point for the books, which wasn't cheap. For reference the average Marvel comic cost $1.25 in 1993.  The least expensive [00:11:00] Nelson comic, for its single issue Life Christ books, that we'll talk about a little bit, and each of those was going for $2.99, a pop. So that's almost $6 in today's money. Illuminator, which we're really going to talk about for a bit, was going for $4.99 a book, which means Thomas Nelson was expecting kids to shell out the equivalent of $10 bucks per issue for a comic with like zero name recognition. Jessika: Right.  Mike: Yeah, and that's actually called out in the same article. Like Christianity today couldn't even give them a complete puff piece, they actually called out how maybe Thomas Nelson was a little bit high on their own fumes. If you'd be so kind to read that section as well. Jessika: The primary difficulty in selling the Illuminator to the secular comic book market is not the subject matter, but the price. As a book publisher, Thomas Nelson wants the comics to look as high quality and [00:12:00] book-like as possible. They have more pages than standard comics, carrying no advertising, and are printed using higher quality paper and ink than standard comics. Thomas Nelson likes to call them illustrated novels, a variation of the comic industry term graphic novel. Because of this, the 48-page Illuminator sells for $4.99. As one comic store owner put it, “that's a pretty stiff price for a comic with no well-known characters, artists or writers”. Yikes.  Mike: When you can't even get to pull its punches for an article like this, that kinda says a lot. I feel, yeah, so I don't know what kind of marketing was done, but I haven't been able to find any ads for the Nelson comics in any of my Marvel issues from 1992 to 94, nor have I been able to track down [00:13:00] anything on the web. I mean, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, but it certainly seems like the partnership got rolling and then nobody really wanted to draw the attention to the end results. Which, based on what we've seen of  the end result of the product, uh, maybe, maybe that's kind of understandable. Jessika: Big sigh.  Mike: Yeah, that said, I do have the Illuminator comics in my collection and they are definitely higher quality in terms of production. Like, you know, the colors still pop they're definitely thicker. But, if I had seen this in the comic store, I would have blown right past it when I was kid.  Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: So speaking of Illuminator, do you want to give us an elevator pitch for that comic? Jessika: Oh my, well, if you insist. I mean, other than calling it a hot mess? Mike: Other than calling it a hot mess. Jessika: Okay. So this high school-aged [00:14:00] kid named Andy Prentiss goes to summer camp, is bullied a lot, and gets tricked into going into the forest in the middle of the night where he is abducted? Mike: It's pretty vague. Jessika: By a beam of light? Yeah.  Mike: It's super vague. Like, they don't ever actually, we'll get into that. Okay.  Jessika: It's very strange. And he, he somehow becomes the light? And has powers for no explicable reason? I know there are a lot of question marks behind my, my sentences, because that's how it feels. He gets semi-brainwashed by a local reverend and convinced that his powers are from God himself.  Mike: Was he actually a reverend was, I thought that dude was just like a… Jessika: I don't know.  Or maybe he was just a janitor. I don't know what he was. Mike: It's never really explained. Like. Jessika: I'm giving him a lot of credit.  Mike: Yeah.  Sorry. I derailed it. Jessika: That's okay. Well, he [00:15:00] convinced him that his power, whoever this dude was who worked at this church. He was always sweeping, he was probably a janitor you're right.  Convince him that his powers are from God himself and that he is acting because God directed him to. But like slippery slope my dude. Thus, the Illuminator was created after that all of the villains are supposed to represent really obvious, evil being demon-like creatures, trying, and being mostly successful at tempting the public into acting sinfully.  There isn't a great explanation as to why any of this happened, like we said, or is being aimed at Prentiss himself, who didn't seem to be very religious in the first place when this thing started? Mike: No, he was just kind of like an earnest, sort of naive teenager. Jessika: Yeah. But I'll tell you what there is, there is a healthy amount of [00:16:00] slut-shaming.  So that's certainly exciting for me because, you know, I hate that bullshit. So.  Mike: Yeah. It's definitely uncomfortable to read.  Also, I wanna note that his superhero design for the Illuminator persona feels like a rip off of Long Shot, who was this popular character in the eighties who palled around with the X-Men for awhile. Like, here's what he looked like. Take a look, tell me what you think. Jessika: Oh, he even has the little star. Okay. This does look really similar to the other comic we read. He's wearing like a black kind of jumpsuit, but it could, it really could be a motorcycle jacket and pants. He's got boots on. He has a little bullet necklace or a bullet sash? Mike: I believe the term is a bandolier. Jessika: A bandolier, thank you. He has a bandolier, I'm cutting all of that bullshit out. He has a bandolier [00:17:00] and he's throwing, like, I don't know, a little, are those knives? Mike: Knives.  Jessika: Oh, okay. Mike: He, like that's Long Shot's thing, is that his power is he's super lucky. He has slightly enhanced strength and hollow bones, which makes him a better acrobat.  Jessika: Got it. Mike: And then his weapon of choice is he throws knives that basically he just can hit anything with. Jessika: The problem is they kind of look like sharp popsicles.  Mike: Kind of yeah.  Jessika: So.  Mike: But yeah, I mean like Long Shot is one of my favorite characters.  Jessika: Nice. Mike: And I was reading this book again and I was just going, oh my God, they added a helmet and then kind of removed the bandolier and added some extra padding and called it a day. He's even got the mullet.  It's just a different color.  Andy's a dirty blonde and. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And Long Shot is platinum.  Jessika: It's like three shades off, real close.  Mike: So you gave a pretty solid summary of the comic itself. I gotta say [00:18:00] the comic series felt very unfocused.  It doesn't feel like it really conveys much of a Christian message.   Andy's powers are so vaguely delivered, as you called out, and there's no real specific link to Jesus or Christianity at that point.  He only becomes the Christian super hero when he retreats into a church to escape, apparently a demonic opponent? Bu, the only reason that we know that he's demonic is because he doesn't want to go in the church.  And then he gets a pep talk from this one-armed wise man who lives there, apparently. I feel like he still approached things in a very standard superhero way: punch first ask questions later.  Did you notice that there was no trying to solve problems in a way that would result in anything other than a fist fight with powers? Jessika: Oh, no, it was just like, oh, there's a problem, I need to go beat someone up. That was absolutely the vibe.  Mike: Yeah, I was genuinely surprised by that. I would have expected a little [00:19:00] more Jesus-inspired approaches such as turning the other cheek, or lifting people up who are suffering, things like that. But no, it was just a superhero fights with people or things that were designated as evil from an evangelical point of view. And I mean, we should talk about that. Like, each of the comics comes across a super victim-blamey.  Like, there's that party where Nightfire, the first demonic entity, shows up and starts draining victims, and it shows they're all drinking or doing drugs or being slutty. Jessika: Yeah. They're at a party and there are girls on guys' laps and apparently, that's not good. Mike: Apparently, but then they all become Nightfire's sort of undead army. So it's that implication that sinful behavior leads to damnation later on. Um. Jessika: Okay.  Mike: And then [00:20:00] in the second issue, the story paints college campuses out as godless places, full of temptation and being devoid of morality. So, they're susceptible to this mad scientist, who's splicing together weird animal human hybrids, which, I mean, that felt like something that was written by someone who has never actually been on a college campus. Jessika: Yes.   Mike: And then the third issue was absolutely trying to link Satanism and Wiccan beliefs.  I'm not crazy, right? Like that actually, that's how it felt. Like, Satanism and crystals, that  they're just hand in hand. Jessika:  Yeah, it was super gross. Mike: Yeah, it was really bad.  I mean, the book only had three issues or illustrated novels or whatever they want to call it before it was canceled. So, I personally think that the probable lack of marketing that we discussed really hurt it, but it also seems like there were some production problems that caused it to be [00:21:00] delayed because the third volume has a cover date of August, 1993, but it turns out it didn't actually hit the shelves until February of 1994. I could not find sales figures for the months that the first two volumes came out, but the third issue doesn't even crack the top 100 issues being sold in the market when it actually hit the shelves. You brought up the slut-shamey aspect to it. And in the end of the third issue, it really felt uncomfortable where Andy was, these days it would be incel kind of logic, where he's really mad that the girl he saved didn't go to him. Jessika: That is so how it felt. I was just like pointing at you viciously right now, like, really aggressively. Mike: Yeah. When you were doing that, I was like, what did I do wrong? Jessika: Ya know that's exactly how it felt. It felt like he's like, well, I saved her and I'm the better guy. So she should just be with me.  Mike: Yeah. And then. Jessika: He just expected it. It was gross.  Mike: And then they kind of have a teaching moment where they're like, well, you know, that's not always how it works, [00:22:00] blah, blah, blah. And then she shows up to be another disciple of Christ or whatever, and blah. Jessika: Yeah. She's like, I broke up with that other guy.  Mike: Oh yeah. That. Jessika: She's wearing a knee length skirt and like. Mike: Yeah. And before that she'd been wearing kind of form-fitting jeans and tank tops and. Well, the other guy, I can't even remember his name, but he was at the party. That's the only time we saw him. And he was basically trying to make it okay that everyone was drinking. So, you know. Jessika: Yeah. And then he was in the mall scene and he was like, trying to convince her like something stupid, something else stupid.  Mike: Yeah. That was after they got returned to their bodies. That's right. I, I actually thought that she was the mom of one of the other characters originally because she had such a mom haircut and it was like, oh, it's kind of the sexy mom. And then oops. It was, the ages of those characters was very [00:23:00] ill-defined. Jessika: Agreed.  Mike: And then, like I said, like this was clearly written by someone who had not experienced really anything of the real world, it felt. Nightfire is a drug dealer who just hangs out outside of high schools and tries to randomly sell drugs to kids? Like, my dude. Do you not understand how drug dealing works? Jessika: That's not how that works. Yeah. Your kids don't have enough money for drug dealers to be interested in them.  And they're definitely not giving your kids free drugs. Like I know I say that a lot, but it's because I believe it a lot. They're not just going to get rid of their revenue. Mike:  It was the same thing with that college campus, with the mad scientist professor who was, he was in a wheelchair for no really defined reason, he just was. And then apparently he's just creating an army of [00:24:00] man-animal hybrids. Which, again, I was sitting there and I'm like, man, I took biology classes in college and they were never this cool, like, are you creating an army of mutant supermen at your college? Yeah, sign me up. I'll pay that tuition. I'll take out a loan. Jessika: Well, and it was happening in this way that wasn't really logical, to where they were kind of meshing into this larger, like alligator with massive arms and walks around like a human, but then I don't know. It was strange. He was making them come apart with his, God-light. Like they could become two separate things. Again, it wasn't like he was chopping things up and sticking them back together or making a new creature. I don't really understand how this was supposed to be happening, from a scientific aspect.  Mike: His powers were really, ill-defined like he, he could fly and he could shoot light. And then I guess, theoretically add super strength, but. Yeah, that whole, like God-light separating the things out, but then it turned out it killed them because they'd been bonded too long to get, I don't know, whatever [00:25:00] it was, it was fucking dumb. Yeah. So that was the thing was Trisha goes to a crystal store where it's apparently a front for a demon cult. And again, I'm like, I don't know, man,  if I went to a crystal store and they told me that I could traffic with demons, I'd be much more likely to buy one of their ridiculously expensive geodes. Because I've been taken on a date to a crystal shop, because I was sick and my date wanted to buy me a healing crystal and I was. Oh, God, Jessika: That's, that is very sweet.  Mike: I did not respond well to this.  Jessika: I'm sure you did not.  Mike: Which. I'm sure does not surprise you, but. Jessika: No. Mike: I'm just saying if he'd instead offered to induct me into a cult where they hung out with demons, I might've actually gone out for a second date with him. Hmm. [00:26:00]  Do you have any more thoughts on Illuminator before we move on to our next entry? Jessika: I mean, I didn't care for this comic. Other than the first one that was establishing his origin story, it felt like the same story in each of the three issues. It was some demon character sucking the life out of people that were making bad choices. It was literally the same story each time, not even well masked. Mike: Yeah, exactly. Jessika: And, it was hard to follow and it was hard to figure out the incredibly vague, read not there, ties to Christianity that this character and his actions and powers were supposed to have, like we were talking about. It felt like a stretch at best.  Mike: Yeah. They were just trying to shoehorn it in at the end where he would go talk to, the guy's name was George, I think, where he would go and talk to his mentor at the church.  It felt like a very kind of vague, well, if you look at it this way, this could be your lesson from Jesus. [00:27:00] Jessika: Yeah, exactly.  And you were bringing up another point that I also didn't like, they were just making fun of other religions, for example, naming someone Chakra, and mocking other spiritual practices with crystals, it was really disrespectful and in poor taste.  Mike: Which, I mean, I can't say I'm really surprised given how evangelical culture typically goes these days.  Jessika:  Christianity, isn't the only religion and I'm tired of mainstream society being okay with Jesus-washing everything, and then being offended when any other religion is given any space.  It's deplorable.  Mike: Yeah. And then also, these stories just felt very lazy and dumb. The big one that I keep on thinking about is, again, that second issue where he's at a college campus and there's the mad scientist and it's revealed the mad scientist kidnapped a football player, like the star football player from the university's team, and then [00:28:00] turned him into, I think, the alligator hybrid that we were talking about.  Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: I was sitting there going my dude. You're mad that they pulled your funding. What do you think they're going to do to you when you remove their giant cash cow of college football from the campus? Jessika: Yeah, exactly. And like, do you not know the cardinal rule of  picking people who don't have people looking for them? Mike: Right? Jessika: But, like, I'm not planning on doing anything bad and even I know that. Yeah. So, yeah. And other than just the audacity that Andy has making assumptions that he and Trisha are gonna get together based on the fact that he saves her from what he perceives as a bad situation.  Mike: He's a nice guy. He is that proverbial nice guy trope. Jessika: Hint to everyone out there: Don't you ever slide into my DMS and say you're a nice guy, because you will be [00:29:00] blocked so quickly.  Mike: On that note, what do you say? We move on to the next books in our discussion.  Jessika: Let's mosey.  Mike: So, I mentioned the Life of Christ comics that were single issues. These are the two issues that were put out to retail; the Christmas and Easter stories. They were both written by Louise Simonson and illustrated by Mary Wilshire, as well as Eisner award winner Coleen Doran, she apparently helped with the Easter issue. Simonson is a major name in comics alongside her husband, Walt. She co-created the character, Cable, from the X-Men; she helped launch the long running series, Superman, the Man of Steel; and she was one of the major stakeholders in the death of Superman storyline. And she also helped out, if I remember right, I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that she was a major [00:30:00] part of Walt Simonson's really acclaimed run on Thor, to the point where both of them appear in cameos in the original Thor movie. Like I think, I  think they're both featured at the end when they're celebrating at the hall of heroes, or whatever it is. But  it was a nice little nod because they created a lot of stuff like Thor: Frog of Thunder, and, Beta Ray bill, if I remember right.    Likewise, Mary Wilshire did a ton of stuff for Marvel in the eighties and nineties. She was best known for her work on Red Sonja and Firestar. And then Colleen Doran, goddamn, she's this incredible illustrator who's worked on a ton of properties. I always associate her with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. So.  Jessika: I just started reading that.  Mike: Yeah, like all three of these women are Legit Big Deals, like capital letters at the start of each of those words.  And that's why it's so weird to see their names in these issues. I can't believe how bland and [00:31:00] boring everything about them felt. Like, is that mean? Am I going out of line?  Jessika: No. No. I'm surprised to hear about the acclaim that these illustrators have, because it felt very elementary. Am I supposed to have received this as a coloring book?  Mike: Yeah, it's really flat, like, okay. So for comparison, here is a painting that Colleen Duran did for Sandman. Check it out.  Jessika:  Oh, wow. This is cool.  Mike: Right? Jessika: Wow. Okay. There's a lot going on. So I'll just describe this really quick.  There's a ton going on. So at the very top, there's a Swan couple swans, a swan and a, some sort of a harp, maybe a harpsichord thing. And you've got some planets and moons and a dude gargling some blood, it looks like. Mike: I [00:32:00] think that's supposed to be Orpheus. Cause he, if I remember right, he was Dream's son and then Orpheus is eventually ripped apart by the Bach the Bachinal. I dunno, whatever there. Jessika:  And then there is a legit goth lady who has this amazing, I'm not too far into it, obviously, as you can tell.  Mike: Right. So  that is death. That is Dreams sister. I mean,  Jessika: That's great.  Mike: Yeah. If, if you're not too familiar with it, I don't want to spoil all the elements for this, but this painting features a ton of major characters from throughout the Sandman series, which she provided a lot of illustration for. And it's a beautiful piece of work. Jessika: It's a feast for the eyes, honestly. I mean, there's so many different elements, I mean, part of it looks like it's supposed to look like stained glass and other parts of it, don't look that same way. It's very interesting.  Mike:  Yeah. So it's very [00:33:00] much not what we got. Likewise, I want you to look at some of Mary Wiltshire's art, here. Jessika: Oh, wow. See, that's fun.  Mike: Right? Jessika: Red Sonia. See, I want to read some Red Sonia.  Mike: Yeah. The 80's series is fun. I think Marvel might have the rights back, because it's part of the Conan properties. Oh no, wait, I think Dynamite has Red Sonia. I don't know. You can probably find some books on Hoopla if nothing else. Jessika: This is great. I mean, the color vibe is great. There's all this shading, which there really wasn't in that other one at all. Mike: Yeah, I noticed that, too. It was just flat color, other than they used some crosshatching within the illustration, but  that was kind of all they did, except for Jesus's hair. That was such a, like, it was a choice, I guess, they just, the only thing that had any sort of shading was, like, Jesus's hair looked like it was a tie dye masterpiece, so, [00:34:00] oh, wow.  Mike: Both of these books feel very, for lack of a better term, very paint by numbers. Jessika: Yes, very much. So.  Mike: I mean, we've all heard these stories before, too. There wasn't really anything new. The most exciting artwork for both of these books was on the cover. And, the one weird thing that really stood out to me, was that the Easter book felt kind of anti-Semitic, I don't know if I was just reading a little too much into that. Jessika: No, you you're. I've I read that too. Yes. Mike: I feel like  there was an abnormal focus on making Pontius Pilate into not being the bad guy. And instead of keeping the blame on the Jewish elders, it felt very weird and very gross.  Jessika: It did. Mike: And it's, I know that is an argument that is somewhat popular with certain extreme right-wing sectors of evangelical Christianity, too, is that the Jews killed Jesus, [00:35:00] which, I don't know how to respond to that. Like it, it just, just. Jessika: It felt very much like they were saying, yes, we know the Romans did it, but it's your fault, Jews. And it's like, what? No, no, no, no. Mike: Yeah. It was very uncomfortable to read. Jessika: Absolutely. Yeah. I agree. A hundred percent.  The other thing that bothered me from the birth issue was the angels. Like, I've read what angels are supposed to look like. If it's not some beautiful human woman with wings floating down gracefully from the clouds. It is a terrifying multi-eyed creature that shows up in some really jarring way. The whole situation seemed way too peaceful for what I've read from the actual Bible. Like, I have read the Bible in its entirety.  I was bored at [00:36:00] 13,  don't ask, but yeah. So, but that's not the vibe. Like, people are always really terrified when angels come down and there is a reason.  Mike: Yeah. And that's something that I remember is that when I was growing up, you know, I was presented with the very, kind of Renaissance style angels. And so I never understood when I was reading as a kid or having the stories read to me, why are people scared of the angels? Because you know, they're just glowing people with wings. And then later on it was, oh, oh, they're fucking monsters. They are, they are straight out of HP Lovecraft. Okay. I get it now. Jessika: Yeah. Because technically the humans are supposed to be the ones that are like, what? In God's image. There's nothing about angels being so. Mike: Nope. We're the, we're the mud people.   Jessika: Yes. Mike: Well, moving on from that, aside from those aforementioned single issues, Nelson Comics published, [00:37:00] what was dubbed the Christian Classic Series, which are comic adaptations of kind of big name Christian literature.  I was able to track down digital copies of the Pilgrim's Progress and In His Steps; What Would Jesus Do? Let's talk about that one first. I had actually heard of iIn His Steps before this, because it took that titular phrase and it kind of brought it into the popular culture. It was originally written in the late 19th century. It's basically about a reverend who is moved to challenge his congregation to use the question when making life decisions. It's a dry book and the comic was super dry as well. It just, it felt like a lot of expository dialogue set in late 19th century settings with a bunch of very prim and proper white people who, for the most part feel pretty monied and pretty privileged.   Jessika: Yeah. Mike: There's occasionally some sort of [00:38:00] over-the-top situations where our Christian heroes are facing persecution, but it's like, it's made up persecution. It's that idea where Christians are like, we're the victims, people don't like us. And I think maybe because you're assholes, I don't know how to respond to that otherwise. Jessika: Yeah. Maybe it's not about your religion. Maybe it's just you. Mike: Yeah. If everyone's telling you you're an asshole, maybe it's not anything else, maybe it's just you. I agree. But yeah, it's just, it's a boring slog and it took me way longer than it should've to get through this. Jessika: They were awful. I'm not gonna lie. I read them, but I skimmed them because I couldn't sit there and like, let that infest my brain.  Mike: No. There's also a sequel novel that they didn't adapt.  Jessika: No. Mike: But basically, I think if I remember right, the sequel novel has Jesus actually showing up, like, it's like the second coming of Jesus. If I remember right. I  Jessika: Man, they already got so close to that in this one, because they had that one [00:39:00] dude show up who is a scraggly stranger.  And then the reverend has a dream that Jesus is actually lying in the bed and he's like, oh my God, it was Jesus all along.  Mike: Yeah. Oh God, that was. Jessika: So heavy handed. Smacked me across the face with that message. Jeez.  Mike: Oh, and what is it? The tramp has a daughter who the reverend and his wife take in to raise as their own. Jessika: Oh yeah.  Mike: On what planet…? Jessika: Because apparently. Mike: Ugh. Jessika: No, it's awful. No, we all know that Christians don't care about the children once they're born. Mike: We, there are so many signs around my town, at least in our area because we live right near a Catholic church where it's the pregnancy crisis centers. And I keep on, resisting the urge to go spray, paint them or something, they're so gross. Jessika: Oh, we have the ones up that have a picture of a baby that say my eyes are formed after blah, [00:40:00] blah, blah days or whatever.  Mike: Gross. Jessika: Yeah, I know they're awful. And every once in a while they do get spray painted.  Mike: Good. Jessika: Obviously I have nothing to do with that, but I walk past and I go, okay. Yep. Yep. Yeah.  Mike: Side tangent, completely unrelated to comics, but there was a Reddit post within the last year, I think, from some guy who was really upset about how his girlfriend would go and deface, the local pro-life billboards that would go up near their house. She would add things like citation needed for some of the claims, or just cross them out, or whatever. And he was saying, would I be justified in breaking up with her? Because I feel like, she's putting herself at legal risk doing all this. And literally every response was yo dude, you should break up with her and then give her my number because she sounds fucking rad. Jessika: Seriously. Oh my gosh. That's great. Mike: Anyway. Jessika: Hero of heroes.  Mike: Yeah, the hero we need. [00:41:00] So, turning to the Pilgrim's Progress. This is a Christian allegory novel from the 1600's that's extremely surreal. I'd actually never heard of this book before now, and I had to do some basic research just to see how close they mirrored the plot. And I'm really bummed that actually, the comic is a pretty faithful adaptation of the source material. Which means there is a giant prose novel that is just this dumb and insane, but without at least the somewhat arresting visuals that we got. Jessika: It's basically Pinocchio.  Mike: Yeah, I mean, it's not far off, except there's a second act where the dude's sinful family follows him, which. Jessika: Oh my God. They just kind of get abducted into the nether though. They don't do anything.  [00:42:00] He's the one that does everything and then they're suddenly just there.  Mike:  Before we get into this discussion. It's about a protagonist named Christian, on his pilgrimage across this metaphorical landscape, where he confronts temptation and he learns, I don't know, moral lessons, I guess. I wasn't entirely certain about a lot of those, but whatever.  And then after he makes it to heaven, his wife and kids follow him, because he couldn't convince them to come with him originally. This was written in the late 1600's, originally it is updated and adapted to what's supposed to be modern day, New York. And there's a lot of like really thinly veiled criticism being leveled at environmentalists for some reason, which I did not understand.  Jessika: It was really strange. I don't know where that came from. I read that, too.  Mike: Yeah. And then in the novel, after he makes it to heaven, confronting all these challenges, [00:43:00] his wife and his kids follow him. And then they have a sort of angelic guardian, who helps protect them along the way, who she shows up in the comic book, it's whatever, the kids, and this was actually kind of a weird diversion from the novel in the novel. The kids become adults throughout the journey, cause it's a long journey and they get married and they have families of their own. And so at the very end, they don't go with the wife, but they stay behind. And, basically they're living Christian lifestyles. And in the comic book for some reason, and it's not really explained well, they're left behind with their aunt who was also on the journey with them.  And then the mom was just like, okay, bye. I'm going to go off to heaven now with your dad. Jessika: Yeah, he just like sticky handed her up there or something, like you earn the right to  snatch your wife from earth. Maybe that was the rapture. Mike: Yeah, maybe. Well, and then at the very end, his friend, who was like, oh no,  [00:44:00] you know, we're, we're doing our part. We're recycling and taking care of the planet. He's denied access to heaven by St. Peter for some reason, that's not really explained. Jessika: Which was so strange. Like, yeah, please, don't recycle friends. What, what a strange takeaway from this whole thing. Mike: It just, it feels kind of like this religious acid trip with occasional detours into misogyny and racism. Correct me if I'm wrong. Jessika: Not at all. Very, very same page as you.  Mike: The one piece of praise that I can offer these books is that they definitely have the best art of the Nelson comics line. Jessika: It was decent. Yeah.   So I found for both of these comics, both In His Steps and the Pilgrim's Progress, unsurprisingly, they keep replaying the same messages that have been consistent with these comics: be faithful against these huge temptations that are supposed to bombard you every day.  I would expect there to be women and men of loose morals [00:45:00] falling at my feet to tempt me constantly is all I'm saying, like, let's make it happen. Disappointment.  Mike: I'm, I always see these things talking about like women have loose morals or, or ill-repute,  I clearly was not hanging out in the right neighborhoods. Jessika: That's what I'm saying.  Mike: Yeah. Bums me out, man. Jessika: There's always some messages about staying on the path of God, which is always very vague and sometimes literally a path, which come on. And Beelzebub constantly shows up, because the only real villains are the devil and your inability to resist temptation, apparently. Once again, though, didn't see any queer people, which is fine because the Bible really doesn't say anything about them anyway. And I guess God didn't really start hating us in mainstream media until later on then. Huh?  Mike: Man, I don't know. I mean, [00:46:00] like, there's that whole thing about Sodom and Gomorrah, and how we're all sodomized or whatever, but I don't know when, when it became really okay for Christian people to hate on the gays. Jessika: Yeah. I don't know. They need to step back. Oh, did I say that out loud? Mike: Yeah.  Jessika: They're right behind me, aren't they?  Mike: Not yet, at least. Jessika: And also, why is it such a theme that these main characters, low key become cult leaders every single time  Mike: Right? Jessika: It's like, yikes, Catholicism, have some awareness about what a cult-vibe you give off, just like, generally. All in all, the religion is so forced in there that the plot lines of these stories rarely made any sense. It felt like the comics were a game of tug of war, trying unsuccessfully to write a cohesive storyline while still shoehorning in religion, which ultimately caused the comics to feel frenzied and disorganized.  Mike: Yeah. On top of that, these are just [00:47:00] so dry. They're so dry. I get the Thomas Nelson was trying to adapt, quote unquote, major works of Christian literature. But, I can't think of anyone who really reads these books, let alone kids. I'm not really familiar with the whole Christian allegory genre of fiction, but there's gotta be better stuff out there than these books. I know the Thomas Nelson for this line, they also had CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters turned into a comic, I couldn't find it to read, but I'm kind of wondering why they didn't try adapting some of his other work, like the Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe, you know, Aslan is very much a Jesus' allegory and - Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: It just, it doesn't make a lot of sense not to do something with more name recognition. I mean, hell, Thomas Nelson has an entire collection of fictional books in their catalog. I just scoped out their website today, and I don't understand why they didn't do a comic adaptation of something from there. But, [00:48:00] don't know, I guess that probably would have required extra effort involving research and the author's permission. And it seems - Jessika: Oh no. Mike: Like no, I mean, that, honestly, that seems like more work than the publisher really was interested in committing to this whole endeavor. Jessika: Fair.  Mike: You know, and unsurprisingly, the Nelson comics imprint wasn't long for this world. And it was abandoned by 1994, reportedly due to low sales. Between the quality and the apparent lack of marketing and also the high price points, I can't say I'm surprised. I did find it really funny when I was looking at their website, they have  some limited edition of Dracula on their website and Shakespeare, and I'm like, those things are not Catholic friendly, or evangelical friendly.  Are these edited, are these just like, did he just decide to do like limited edition reprints? I don't know.  Jessika: That's interesting.  Mike:  Weirdly though, Thomas Nelson's recently gotten [00:49:00] back into comic books with Bible Force, which was a comic or a graphic novel that went on sale this year. Here, take a look at this cover, just check it out and tell me and me what you think. Jessika: Yeah, let's see. Oh, oh, wow.  Mike: Right? Jessika: Okay. So, who's supposed to be the dude in the middle? Mike: I don't know. I don't  Jessika: Okay. So there's like some dude, there's some dude in the middle, he's got a sword, and it's thrusting out towards the viewer. There's. What is it? Joseph and his Technicolor coat, I'm assuming that's what that was. Um,  Mike: That's what it looks like. Jessika: Uh, it's what it looks like. It's a color, her coat there's there's Noah's Ark. There's definitely Jesus with arms outstretched. Although, of course, white Jesus, because why be historically accurate? All of these people are Caucasian. I might add in this entire comic, all of these people were Caucasian, except for a very few in the Jesus [00:50:00] episodes. And those were just  people from far away, quote unquote, everyone else was very, very light-skinned. Mike: Also, if you're going to give us white Jesus, can you at least give a shirtless white Jesus? I want to see some washboard abs. Jessika: That's what I'm saying.  Mike: Right? Jessika: That's what I'm saying. So yes, this is just, it's very exciting. Says, Bible Force, the First Heroes Bible. I think that's Probably. Mary as well on the front. It's a woman also Caucasian, and she's got a head scarf of some sort on, it's pink, which they absolutely had magenta back in Bible days. I am sure, absolutely feasible. I'm there. Believe it.  Isaac Mizrahi's in there like designing, designing Mary's outfit. Oh honey, you're going to look great in this.  Mike: He is all about the [00:51:00] timeless looks, isn't he? Jessika: Yes.  Mike:  So, I mean, that's the Nelson comics. Short-lived imprint. Do you have any final thoughts? Jessika: Well, can't say I'm surprised that these didn't continue on. I can't imagine that they were really keeping kids' attention, or giving them any type of cohesive and thoughtful messages.  Mike: No. I mean, probably not. I don't think many comic retailers were carrying them either because this was right at the height of my teenage collecting years, and I don't remember seeing any of this stuff in any of the shops that I frequented. Jessika: Yeah, it was pretty much like here: look at the colors. Oh, and have some antisemitism, enjoy.  Mike: And some casual misogyny. It's fine. Jessika: Yes. Yes, exactly.  Mike:  If you could sum up the titles from this imprint [00:52:00] in one word, what would you use? Jessika: Confused.  Mike: I was going to go soulless, but that's also good. Jessika: Oh, yours is better.  Mike: Now is the time of the show where we discuss our Brain Wrinkles, which is the one thing comics or comics-adjacent that has been just stuck in our head for the last couple of days that we just want to talk about. I guess we should talk about the recent Highlander casting news. Would you like to take that away? Jessika: Oh, oh certainly. Certainly. Oh my goodness. So, during our Highlander episode, Mike, you mentioned that there has been a Highlander reboot in the works since 2008 Mike: Yep. Jessika: And we were speculating on who would be good to cast. Well, there is a reboot in the works, but we were both incorrect about casting, and sorry about that, Chris Pine and Channing Tatum, because either of you [00:53:00] would have been most fabulous in this role, but it landed and it turned out to be Henry Cavill who will be our new next Highlander. And I'm sure he'll have a new name because that's kind of how we trend with the Highlander series, which is good.  Mike: Yeah, they haven't announced the actual role that he's playing yet, but it's assumed that he's going to be the MacLeod who's the main character. Jessika: I would think so. Wouldn't it be interesting if he was like the Kurgan or something that would be really funny.  Mike: Yeah. I think I mentioned this, supposedly Bautista is going to be the Kurgan, but that he'd signed on, I think back in 2015. So it's been six years since then? Jessika: Well, I have to say though, I'm not all that upset about this turn of events. What about you, Mike?  Mike: No, not at all. I just tore through the Witcher series on Netflix last week, over the course of a couple of days while I was working, I had it on in the background. And it was really nice to see Cavill in a role that wasn't [00:54:00] Superman, which is, you know, I use the term, unfortunately, he is just so associated with that role right now. And, honestly, I like him as Superman, I just wish they gave him better scripts and movies to work with.  Jessika: Yeah. And it's hard to feel typecast as well. You don't, you know, you don't want to be Daniel Radcliffe, you know, playing Harry Potter for 20 years and then not being able to do anything else, although he's done very well. So I, can't say that. Mike: I was going to say I actually really -  Jessika: You know, not a good example, I suppose.  Mike: I love the choices that the Daniel Radcliffe has made since Harry Potter, Jessika: Yeah, me too. Mike: He has chosen so many insane roles. It's great.  Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Um, yeah, no, like, you know, honestly, Cavill. First of all, I just, I really like Henry Cavill, like, he's given the interviews where he's talked about how playing Superman makes him want to be a better person, because he is portraying this character who is a role model for so many, especially the little kids. And that just [00:55:00] makes me really fond of the dude.  Jessika: That's so sweet.  Mike: He seems like another Chris Evans, and I'm, fine with that. That said, he is fucking grumpy in the Witcher, and it's really fun. He basically just has this very surly charisma throughout the entire show. And he's still jacked, but he's not as yoked as he is for the Superman rules. Like he doesn't look like a bodybuilder, he just looks like an incredibly fit dude, and I'm fine with that.  Also, he does action scenes really well. The guy who's handling the reboot is Chad Stahelski, who did the John Wick movies. Dude knows his way around an action scene. And if you ever want to see an example of Henry Cavill in good action scenes, watch the Witcher or the Mission Impossible movie that he was in, where he literally does that thing where he reloads his arms and then puts up his Dukes. I can watch that scene on repeat for hours. It's great. Jessika: Nice. I'll have to watch that. I haven't seen the Witcher [00:56:00] yet.  Mike: Yeah. It's fun. We'll talk about that later on, but it's good. I really liked it even coming into it without having any real familiarity with the games or the books that it's based on. Also, I got to say that Highlander heart group that we were in, some of those people were grumpy at the casting. Jessika: Yes. Some people were very grumpy. It was, it was a mixed bag. Some people were very excited and some people were very, very, very grumpy.  Mike: And even - Jessika: Okay.  Mike: To their credit, even the people who were unhappy, weren't toxic, like in some other groups we've seen. Jessika: Oh, correct. Yes. That was very refreshing, cause, you know. Mike: Yeah. the backstory to your listeners is that we have been a part of other Facebook groups that are just heinously toxic nerd culture groups. And we swipe left pretty quick when we're in there. Jessika: Yeah, I don't want to feel like I can't like things or I don't want somebody telling me the amount of a fan. I am the type of fan I am.  Mike: Exactly.  Jessika: Gatekeeping is awful. Don't do it.  Mike: Yeah, don't be a jerk, [00:57:00] I have to say the news that has been coming out about the reboot for Highlander sounds pretty promising. So fingers crossed that it doesn't suck but, we'll see. Jessika: Yeah.  Mike: I believe that's it for this episode, so we'll be back in two weeks, and until then, we'll see y'all in the stacks. Thanks for listening to Ten Cent Takes. Accessibility is important to us; text transcriptions of each of our published episodes can be found on our website.  This episode was hosted by Jessika Frazer and Mike Thompson, written by Mike Thompson and edited by Jessika Frazer. Our intro theme was written and performed by Jared Emerson-Johnson of Bay Area Sound. Our credits and transition music is Pursuit of Life by Evan MacDonald and it was purchased with a standard license from PremiumBeat. Our banner graphics were designed by Sarah Frank, who goes by cut_thistles on Instagram. Jessika: If you'd [00:58:00] like to get in touch with us, ask us questions or tell us about how we got something wrong, please head over to tencenttakes.com or shoot an email to tencenttakes@gmail.com. You can also find us on Twitter, the official podcast account is @tencenttakes. Jessika is @jessikawitha, and Jessika is spelled with a K, and Mike is @vansau V A N S A U.   Mike: Stay safe out there. Jessika: And support your local comic shop. 

DC's Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss: All terrestrial segments were recorded live on June 5th (Day 156 of 2021), and all podcast segments were recorded live on June 7th (Day 158 of 2021) Part 1 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Sad times when the best thing on a sports Sunday is a PPV boxing exhibition between 2 absolutely terrible and despicable human beings, and a soccer match that was tremendously awful in its play that also featured some of the worst fan behavior on the planet Terrestrial: Hour 1 (begins around 0:28:00) No masks are great for all those who are vaccinated but there's still inconsistencies in the messaging The NBA doesn't need LeBron or the Warriors in the Playoffs with all the young blood showing off, and if you think it does then you're just not a fan of the NBA Noticing the differences between Australian broadcasts and USA broadcasts, and also noticing just how gross fans have been during the NBA playoffs so far Part 2 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Realizing without masks that you can see everyone's full face now, but maybe more importantly everyone can now see your full face. And two more very noticeable differences between Australian broadcasts and USA broadcasts (begins around 1:27:00)  Lachlan MacKinnon's ‘Best of Edition' Let Me Tell You A Story: “Collinwood SVU” (begins around 1:49:00) Terrestrial: Hour 2 (begins around 1:53:00) The Cleveland Baseball Team announces they have come up with 1,198 possible new names for the team, and that they have been asking a bunch of "local influencers" to help with the process... Yeah, talk about pure marketing BS, and we dissect it all thoroughly for you Part 3 of 3 of the Podcast only content – Mollie's Weekly Reports...  (begins around 2:48:00) Terrestrial: Hour 3 (begins around 3:15)  Week 9 of your 2021 Cleveland Baseball Team's Weekly Playoff Probabilities.  Mollie's Weekly Reports, terrestrial edition!  All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ To contribute to this 100% listener supported show please go to our Patreon page by clicking here. Check out Lachlan MacKinnon's best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family'! Thank yous to  91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio. Your recommended listening this week is Can's "Live In Stuttgart 1975" release The intro and outro to Lachlan's segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it's used with permission.

Getting into Harvard isn't easy. The famous university has an acceptance rate of below 5%, according to Prep Expert. But do you know what's way harder? Getting your first business idea off the ground within 12 months. Do you want to know someone who achieved both?Meet Will Nitze. Will studied psychology and neuroscience at Harvard, where he became obsessed with the human brain. While studying the brain, he noticed that most people start having difficulties concentrating at around 14:30 due to brain fog or headaches. During his research, he discovered that all of these brain problems can be traced back to diet. Back in 2016, there were no “grab-and-go” food items geared toward brain function on the market. Realizing this, Will had his “eureka” moment, and the idea was born. Will spent a year in his Boston apartment, perfecting the formula, before coming out with the IQBAR.He successfully funded his idea through Kickstarter raising $73,664 in the process. Less than four years later, his company earns more than $4 million every year, just from IQBAR sales. The campaign was so successful, he wrote a book about it. Join us, as we discuss Will's academic career, his product-first mentality, and his mission of empowering “doers” through healthy nutrition. Key TakeawaysHow did Will get into the health bar business (01:04)When did Will know that he wanted to become an entrepreneur (04:16)The biggest obstacle he faced when he started his business (06:13)How do you pivot from a Kickstarter campaign to launching a brand (11:26)What are IQBAR's short-term and long-term business goals (16:21)Will's advice for other entrepreneurs in the CPG space (20:45)What personal goals Will is hoping to accomplish in the next 12 months (24:18)Additional ResourcesYou can get in touch with Will hereListen to Will's audiobook “Kickstarter Campaign Mastery” hereTo find out more about the IQBAR visit the official website hereYou can find the transcripts and more at http://bizninjaradio.comBe sure to follow me on Instagram @bizninja—Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, YouTube, or anywhere else you listen to your podcasts.If you haven't already, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!

Getting into Harvard isn't easy. The famous university has an acceptance rate of below 5%, according to Prep Expert. But do you know what's way harder? Getting your first business idea off the ground within 12 months. Do you want to know someone who achieved both?Meet Will Nitze. Will studied psychology and neuroscience at Harvard, where he became obsessed with the human brain. While studying the brain, he noticed that most people start having difficulties concentrating at around 14:30 due to brain fog or headaches. During his research, he discovered that all of these brain problems can be traced back to diet. Back in 2016, there were no “grab-and-go” food items geared toward brain function on the market. Realizing this, Will had his “eureka” moment, and the idea was born. Will spent a year in his Boston apartment, perfecting the formula, before coming out with the IQBAR.He successfully funded his idea through Kickstarter raising $73,664 in the process. Less than four years later, his company earns more than $4 million every year, just from IQBAR sales. The campaign was so successful, he wrote a book about it. Join us, as we discuss Will's academic career, his product-first mentality, and his mission of empowering “doers” through healthy nutrition. Key TakeawaysHow did Will get into the health bar business (01:04)When did Will know that he wanted to become an entrepreneur (04:16)The biggest obstacle he faced when he started his business (06:13)How do you pivot from a Kickstarter campaign to launching a brand (11:26)What are IQBAR's short-term and long-term business goals (16:21)Will's advice for other entrepreneurs in the CPG space (20:45)What personal goals Will is hoping to accomplish in the next 12 months (24:18)Additional ResourcesYou can get in touch with Will hereListen to Will's audiobook “Kickstarter Campaign Mastery” hereTo find out more about the IQBAR visit the official website hereYou can find the transcripts and more at http://bizninjaradio.comBe sure to follow me on Instagram @bizninja—Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, YouTube, or anywhere else you listen to your podcasts.If you haven't already, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!

In the 101st Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Mike, Chris and our special guest author of The Oxygen Advantage and The Breathing Cure, Patrick McKeown will talk about hyperventilation, CO2 tolerance, taping your mouth shut, light breathing exercises and The Oxygen Advantage.Join us in this insightful and captivating talk!In this chapter you will discover:.(0:40) Introducing our special guest author of The Oxygen Advantage https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RLU286G/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 and The Breathing Cure, Patrick McKeown @buteykoclinic(1:30) Asthma, Patrick's origin story(2:45) “When you find something that you love to do, you're propelled to continue and to lunch, and sometimes,hating is the best place to discover what you truly love” - Patrick McKeown(4:30) “There's no such as thing as a degree on breathing” - Patrick McKeown(6.00) To improve performance you need to have good concentration, a decent detention, and focus(6:20) Internal and external distractions and the impact in concentration(7:00) “If you're talking about something, have a basic understanding of it, cause you could do more harm than good” - Patrick McKeown(7:10) Hyperventilation and regulation(8:00) “Maximum tension followed by maximum relaxation”(10:20) Mental concentration, Patrcik's new book(12:10) Taping your mouth shut to enhance rest(16:40) The Breathing Cure, book by Patrick McKeown https://www.amazon.com/dp/1630061972?tag=takeadeepbr07-20&keywords=the%20breathing%20cure&geniuslink=true (17:40) Decreasing your CO2 tolerance(23:40) Breath Book by James Nestor @mrjamesnestor https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art/dp/0735213615(24:30) Realizing that is the CO2 resiliency what increases your performance(30:10) The light breathing concept(32:00) 80% of the anxiety population is dysfunctional breathing(33:00) When to do slow breathing as a female(33:30) Changing your breathing mechanics to change your mental focus(36:10) We're built for survival(38:00) Stress handling ability, some people have it naturally, some have to develop(38:10) Brain surgeon, “I stop myself from hyperventilating”(39:00) Harder and faster breathing is ok when you're running away from something, but it's not good if you want to concentrate and focus(43:50) Breathing light exercises(48:50) When in doubt, breathe out. Shout out to Pavel Macek @pavelmacekcom(49.40) Breathing certification courses for coaches(58:50) Where to reach out to Patrick McKeown @buteykoclinic https://buteykoclinic.com/the-breathing-cure/ .#TheBreakthroughSecretsPodcast #strengthtraining #kettlebells #strength #knowledge #education #podcast #strengthshow #fitness #health #strengthhasagreaterpurpose #wellness #coaching #mindsetFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!

We all need help from time to time. Doctors need doctors, nurses need nurses and social workers need social workers. Sometimes, being trained in a certain field doesn't mean that you can always recognize when you need help yourself. Realizing and admitting that you are in need is the first step to making things better. As a social worker and a victim of domestic violence, Sherry realized the need for people to not only unlearn learned behaviors, but also to live in an environment that is healthy and allows for growth, healing and change to occur. Of the many men and women Sherry works with, her message is the same. You can do a new thing and change the trajectory of your life. By staying accountable for your own actions you can increase the self-awareness needed to continue to grow and move forward. Without accountability, you fall into the cycle of not quite beginning your journey because you still have some pre-work to do first. Visit www.lwapllc.com/podcast for all the details. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Eno Sarris welcomes Andrew Perpetua, founder of xSTATS to the show. Andrew explains his unorthodox path into the Mets' front office after an accident kept him out of medical school. Eno and Andrew also discuss why he started xSTATS, what is the future of baseball research and where he's headed next. Rundown 2:27 Andrew's education background and journey into baseball 10:50 Realizing that the data is not perfect 17:25 The three types of people that do baseball analytics 21:12 How baseball front offices need to change 31:45 What Andrew learned once he was "inside the game" 34:00 Improving technology for visual tracking 40:20 The next frontier is meshing all the technology together 47:00 What's coming next for Andrew Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Perpetua on Twitter: @AndrewPerpetua e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Text the word JOURNAL to 202-217-0704 to receive journal prompts & to connect 1:1 with me!! YES that's my # and it's ME! What's Your Money Frequency? Find Out Now Come say hi over on Instagram   In Today's Episode You Will Learn:   Playing like a child  What is abundance How Aaron is cultivating his soul's purpose Getting into alignment with your body and it's physique  Interrupting your mental patterns  Showing up authentically in your life Realizing your body will adapt to your mind Picking up on the body patterns Tapping into you want to feel Tips to start embodying confidence The effects of your body's posture  Taking radical responsibility and pausing  Behind Aaron's book The importance of yoga and micromanaging your breath Shownotes: Today, we are tapping in on all things body with Aaron Alexander. In this episode we talk about getting into alignment with your body, how to interrupt negative patterns, slowing down, body posture and nature baths. We talk about our past experiences in bodybuilding and Aaron shares how he takes radical responsibility every day to make sure he grounds himself.    Meet Aaron:Aaron is a manual therapist, movement coach, and author, as well as the host of the top ranking podcast, Align Podcast. Aaron has helped the world's top athletes and celebrities, and everyone in between, relieve their physical and mental pain and is here to help you, too. After working with clients and spending years traveling around the world, being immersed in various cultures, he has come to the conclusion that the healthiest people are not from gym cultures. Instead, they utilize each moment as an opportunity to move their body, strengthen their mind, and live holistically.Taking the practices he has gathered from these cultures, insights from past podcast guests, and his own clinical practice, Aaron has created a modernized, simplified movement lifestyle for you to easily integrate into your daily life. When you do, every moment becomes an opportunity to develop strength, flexibility, and confidence to live optimally.    Connect with Aaron: Instagram | Podcast

Thank you for tuning into "Starting Small", a podcast about brand development, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world. In this episode, I am joined by Jeremy Howlett, co-founder of Altra Running, one of the top manufactures of road and trail running shoes. Jeremy grew up in Utah, where he was nurtured with an entrepreneurship mindset for discovery and marketing. As contrary as it may sound, Jeremy was not a runner, nor into running growing up. His aunt and uncle owned a running shoe store, where his cousin began to modify customers existing shoes, to fit their stride needs. Realizing the demand for this modification and no existence in the current market, Jeremy proposed to create and sell these shoes from scratch... enter Altra. Altra was launched in 2009, partnering with Pulse Labs, an engineering firm at Brigham Young University, and with contract manufacturers in Asia. They were able to create this shoe that enabled runners to correctly form their stride, with the right heel angle. Jeremy and the team quickly found massive success, winning awards in Runners World Magazine, Competitor Magazine, Men's Journal, and more. The company has grew at a major annual revenue growth rate, and has been fully acquired by VF Corporation in 2018. Make sure to check out Altra at: https://www.altrarunning.com/   Follow Starting Small: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingsmallpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Startingsmallpod/?modal=admin_todo_tour LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/cameronnagle   Support for Starting Small comes from Humanscale, the leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance ergonomic products that help create a healthier work life. All of their products, from chairs to standing desks and more, are comfortable, easy to use, and sustainable. And great for either the office or the work from home environment. With an increase in shifting workplaces, comfort can be especially hard to find. As I run the podcast, I am in front of my desk for hours a day; from scheduling, researching, interviewing, and more. Humanscale allows me to remain productive, without the consequence of body stress to follow.  Make sure to check out Humanscale at humanscale.com, and use code: STARTINGSMALL at checkout to save 20% on your purchase.  

Deep down there is a little part of you that knows you need therapy. If you are a caregiver you can find a million reasons why you don't have the time/can't go. This episode is for everyone who wants to know... * What happens in that first therapy session * How therapy is different than a FB Group or an App. * How to navigate the fear of being judged by friends and family. * The benefits of therapy for caregivers. * How therapy can help you become a more effective caregiver. * Learning how to set boundaries. Listen to my conversation with Kayla Estenson Williams (@kaylaestensonwellness), Minnesota based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist here, and find the links Kayla mentions in the show notes below! Show Notes 2:30 How to know if therapy is right for you. 3:11 Benefits of Therapy. 4:00 Reasons therapy is beneficial for caregivers 4:25 Expectations for your first therapy session. 7:30 Vulnerability and feeling uncomfortable is ok. 8:41 Worries about being judged by family and friends 10:00 The Therapist has a plan. No need to worry about having things to talk about. 11:30 Finding a therapist you're comfortable with. 14:40 Making the decision to finally go to therapy. 15:15 The difference between therapy and Facebook groups and phone apps. 23:00 Your own personal cheerleader. 24:00 Knowing you need therapy but living around people who stigmatize therapy. 25:00 Honoring your needs and processing boundaries with your therapist. 28:00 Therapy is more that talk. The tools and skills you can learn with your therapist. 30:00 How therapy can help you become a more effective caregiver. 33:00 Problem solving and processing emotions. 36:00 Therapy is what you need for it to be. 38:03 You don't need to know what you need help with when you go to therapy. Your therapist will help you figure that out. 39:36 Crying 40:00 Therapy is there for YOU. 42:19 Things to think of if you are still hesitating. 44:00How to find a therapist. Links mentioned. Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us Therapy Den:  https://www.therapyden.com/ Open Path Collective: https://openpathcollective.org/ 46:00  Charlotte relates her experiences with therapy. 48:00 Realizing, once you go to therapy, that you should have started a long time ago.   Find Kayla : www.kaylaestenson.com www.facebook.com/kaylaestensonwellness/ www.instagram.com/kaylaestensonwellness/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kayla-estenson-wellness-podcast/id1488846404

We have a special episode for you today. As we were going back through our archives, I found this interview with Shannon Fable back in 2019 for a separate podcast that I used to run called the FITposium podcast. As I was re-listening to this interview, I realized this was such an in depth, powerful interview about marketing and how we chose to market our brand and services, I knew I needed to share this with you. So, let’s dive in. Shannon Fable is a fitness business consultant and serves as chair of the board for American Council on Exercise’s (ACE). Shannon focuses on business development with fitness brands; she helps them dig into where they want to go, who they think their target market is, and help them develop a strategic plan on how to get there. IN THIS EPISODE How the fitness and health industry has changed in the last 3-5 years. The importance of working from an abundance mentality in this industry. Earning the attention of the audience you’re trying to connect with correctly. Realizing that marketing doesn’t get you clients, it gets you awareness. Why having patience in the sales cycle is key. “When their (the customer’s) level of trust lines up with the value they’re putting on what you’re doing, then they will buy.” Not being afraid to give, give, give, and give in order to build relationships. Why content marketing is crucial. To stop selling out of your own pocket. What to do differently when price is an objection. Why you need to set up a business and offer a variety of services/products. The 3 things you can always monetize: A digital product for passive income A group product A one-on-one coaching product Are you a freelancer or an entrepreneur? How and why you need to get really clear about what you want.  “If you’re not willing to give away your information without fear that giving it away will steal from your potential to monetize what you know, you are not going to make it in this business because people can get that information somewhere else.” Connect with Shannon: Website: www.shannonfable.com/ Instagram: @sfable Share this podcast with a friend and remember to leave a 5-star review! BIG NEWS! We have re-opened the Get Amped Mastermind. A little about the Mastermind: Brings together entrepreneurs to connect and support each other. Dozens of entrepreneurs have 4x, 6x, 10x their income since being a part of the mastermind. It’s a brand new and revamped mastermind. A deep dive, strategy session with me followed by 6 months of focused and efficient work with monthly meetings to do work A photoshoot with me so I can help you build marketing materials for your brand and business development. Real work to focus on reaching results. Apply at getampedmastermind.com or text me at 408-605-3254 and book a free discovery call with me so we can chat about your goals and see how I can support you. 

We have been taught to look outside of ourselves for guidance. We have NOT been taught to go within.  Your body is a powerful resource filled with wisdom. When you tap into that inner wisdom and know your truth, you can experience amazing pleasure.  This week on Midlife Love Out Loud I had the pleasure of interviewing Tara Galeano, a sexuality coach. Author Tara Galeano has worked with women for over two decades to get their sexy back. She knows that there is pleasure in the body, beyond our wildest dreams, and every woman can access it. In the "Rediscovering My Body" book, Tara teaches women how to show up for pleasure in their lives. She rediscovered her own body after leaving her twenty five-year marriage. Realizing that she had given so much of herself away, she knew that she needed to come back to the body's inherent wisdom. Through reconnecting with her body, Tara was able to understand what was right and pleasurable for her, how best to proceed from this wisdom, and most importantly, how to teach these lessons to other women who are clamoring for the same truths so that they too could transform their lives and reclaim their sensuality. Now Tara has embodied this path and is moving forward to share this with women everywhere! Body Mapping: Grab her FREE gift HERE. Want to stop going on sucky dates? Grab your MIDLIFE LOVE GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL DATING and learn how you can call in Mr. Right, right now!  If you’d like some one-to-one coaching with Junie, grab your complimentary 30-minute Love Breakthrough Session today so she can support you on your love path. And don’t forget to subscribe to Midlife Love Out Loud so that you don't miss a single episode. While you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to www.CoachJunieMoon.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Romans 12, So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. It’s one of our greatest acts of worship. This is why we should never reduce worship down to just singing songs from emotion. Realizing its our offering, from a humble, reverent heart. And make no mistake, God absolutely loves it when we come to Him with a reverent of love and reliance totally on Him. Jesus told us the Father is seeking those who will worship Him this way. Worship Him in spirit and truth. Those willing to come to Him in a reverent spirit of dependency and gratitude for everything Jesus did for us. And every time we gather around the Lord's table, it provides us this wonderful opportunity of a fresh heart of worship. I personally believe one of the greatest things worship does is keep us more God inside minded. Think about it, the same Spirit that raised Jesus, that hovered over the earth at creation, God’s Spirit, lives in us. And practicing worship around the Lord’s table, really does bring things into proper perspective for us. Remember, I say this all the time, communion is one of the most spiritual things we can do. And for many of us that have walked with Jesus for a little bit, we have the privilege of showing the younger generation how to engage in spiritual realities like communion. Here’s the thing, something all of us have to help each other with is the reality that it’s only in our grace empowered, steadfast, lifelong pursuit of our Savior that we discover God’s nature and character, His love. And in the discovery of His love, we embrace the heart of worship. Coming together like we do during communion helps us to not be so  preoccupied with the cares of the world. It also helps some realize, and others to remember God is bigger than anything we're facing, from challenge to success. Communion really helps all of us with perspective. Psalm 34, Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.” Think about it like this, you ever go out a night a look at the stars? With just our natural vision all we see are twinkling dots of light in the sky. But through a high-powered telescope, we see massive spheres of fire, millions of times larger than our planet, brighter than the human eye can stand. When we come together with a heart of worship, magnifying Jesus, it's like a high-powered telescope in the spirit. Because most of the time, it's usually our view of Him that needs to change. And communion is one of the special times of worship that helps us see the greatness of God through our faith. There's no better place for enlightenment and inspired vision than worshipping around the Lord's table. Not to mention, keeping our relationship fresh. Because in today's fast paced society, constantly being bombarded with everything but the truth, it's way to easy to be distracted, sometimes even forget. Truth is, our heart won't be in what our mind isn't on. And without question, communion absolutely helps get our mind on the things of God. You see, at the heart of worship, nothing magnifies our Savior more powerfully or passionately than acknowledging Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. The reason worship is such a significant part of communion is because ultimately, only Jesus can bring someone into God's presence. And our humble acknowledgement of what Jesus did is what makes our worship acceptable before God. Acts 2:22-24,NIV- “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross. But God raised Him from the dead, freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.  I realize that we are all at different places concerning the realities of Calvary. So as we gather around the Lord's table today, let's be very clear about it; Jesus was no martyr. His life wasn't taken from Him. He was on the planet according to God's fixed, deliberate plan. Jesus said, "No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”  1 Peter 1, For you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, by the precious blood of Christ.Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him, so your faith and hope are in God.  I believe one of the best things communion does is remind us that we will never find our God ordained identity in the things of this world. Remember in Acts, Jesus was handed over to be crucified by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge. And if God had a deliberate plan for Jesus, the first born, make no mistake, He has a deliberate plan for the rest of His kids. Psalm 139:16,NLT- You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.  Communion is that anointed reminder that we are made by God, for God. Let today’s communion motivate a reverent desire to take your next step into the ordained life He has for you. A life that can only be found in Him. A life paid for by His eternal sacrifice. You see, because our worship is joined to Jesus' atoning sacrifice, God accepts our worship as if Jesus we're bringing it Himself. And this is the power of the Lord's Table. Worshiping around His table, in light of what we might be dealing with right now, reminds us that God tells us not to look at the things that are seen, but at the things that are unseen.  Hebrews 12:28,MSG- Do you see what we’ve got? An unshakable kingdom! And do you see how thankful we must be? Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God.  I honestly don’t believe we can come around the Lord's Table without reverence for Him. And make no mistake about it, there is a direct connection between our reverence of God and His manifested presences. I think real reverence is simply our humble acknowledgment of who the living God is. From our own personal revelation of the Him. Psalm 86:11-13,NIV- “Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.” And what better expression of our worship than to gather around the Lord's Table as a family. And as irrational and unreligious as this may sound to some of you, in the middle of your worst times, on the other side of your biggest failure, Jesus' broken body and shed blood still declares everyone who accepts Him, righteous. We have communion Sunday, because sometimes in our humanity, we simply need reminded of the sacrifice of our Savior is. Of God's amazing Grace.  Reminding us that He continually uses imperfect people to reveal Himself to a lost, confused world. Communion gives us the opportunity to acknowledge Jesus for who He is, as well as embracing who He's made us. Joint heirs with Him. I am redeemed. I am forgiven. I am eternal. I am His son. It reminds us that our identity can no longer be found in the things of this world, now our identity is in Christ.  Communion echoes throughout eternity that God's love isn't based on conditions, it's simply who He is. It will always raise us to His level. And one of my favorite things to do as a family of believers is to gather around the Lord's table together. Expressing a heartfelt attitude of worship to our King. Remember we have the underserved privilege of standing in His presences. This is why Jesus told us, every time we take communion we remember His sacrifice. Listen to Paul's words out of his letter in Ephesians, God, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. Then He picked us up and set us down in the highest heaven in company with Jesus.

  Life After Divorce: Friendships, Failings, and Finding Love Again (Hope Series) – with Daniel Herrold   As a marriage coach, I am humbled to have divorced people reach out to me for advice. Many want to know what life after divorce can look like and wonder if they will ever find love again. Today’s guest, Daniel Harrold, shares very openly about his journey of life after divorce. Co-founding a community of friends called Divorced Over 40, Daniel discusses how his marriage fell apart, the mistakes he made and lessons he learned, as well as how he rebounded to overcome the stigma of divorce and build a life he’s proud of.   Daniel’s story isn’t unlike many marriages: he and his wife were college sweethearts and got married right after they graduated. He wasn’t the typical college guy who dated all the freshman girls. Just the opposite, as a matter of fact. His wife was basically his first real relationship. A couple of years into the marriage they had their first child: a daughter, followed shortly by two more daughters. Throughout the course of Daniel’s marriage, he and his wife sought marriage counseling. Sadly, they continued to drift apart. As they both realized the marriage was coming to an end, Daniel and his wife decided to forgo counseling and choose divorce.   The Healing Process Divorce is often likened to death. The stages of grief are similar: anger, denial, sorrow, blame, loneliness, etc. It’s a deep loss that is often compounded by a lack of closure. Daniel went through an 18-month healing process where he had to be honest about what he did right and what he did wrong. He also learned some new lessons about love and relationships as a whole. Far too often, people begin dating after divorce before first completing the healing process. This is a big mistake and oftentimes leads to yet another broken relationship and a bitter and broken heart.   One of the catalysts in Daniel’s healing process was a close group of friends that he developed after his divorce. Realizing he needed close friendships, he co-founded Divorced Over 40 with two female friends to help divorced people heal and find connections.   Divorced Over 40 Being divorced can often lead to being stigmatized. Daniel and his two friends wanted to chronicle their lives as divorcees and create a community where those who walked the difficult road of divorce could find hope and healing. They do this by creating relevant content, support, and events for people to meet and develop friendships. This community has been a lifeline to Daniel as he’s found a new life after divorce.   Hope for the Divorced Throughout this hope series, it is my hope (pun intended) that you will find a safe place of healing if you’ve been through a divorce. You may or may not have been the initiator of your divorce, but you are nonetheless dealing with it now. If you have kids, be intentional about being amicable with your ex. This makes all the difference in a child’s life. Your kids do not need to be put in the middle of your relationship problems. Daniel and his ex-wife have actually grown closer as friends and have a great platonic relationship today.   Focus on self-discovery and finding the lessons God wants to show you through the process. If you need to forgive, do so. It’s imperative. If you need to repent, do so. Your soul depends on it. If you need therapy or coaching, get some! Take your time, and allow yourself to go through the process. No shortcuts. You will win if you contend.   A final word, sometimes, those in the church don’t know how to deal with people who are divorced. They may say the wrong thing or they may say nothing. They may distance themselves or worse, gossip about you. Don’t allow people’s incorrect response to damage your heart. Daniel shares very vulnerably around the 24-minute mark as to his experience with how his faith was rattled after his divorce and how’s he’s on his way back to a deeper faith in spite of it.     Links Mentioned in this Episode     Divorced over 40 Community   Follow Dan on Instagram @thedivorceddad     SUBSCRIBE | SHARE | RATE | COMMENT To ensure you never miss an episode, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Remember, sharing is caring! So, share these episodes with your friends and family via email or social media. Finally, please leave a rating and a comment on Apple Podcasts to let me know how this podcast is helping you and your relationships. I’m always open to guest suggestions and how I can make the show even better!    

Do you feel anxious and overwhelmed in your life as an academic? Are you on the tenure track but feel stuck or like something is wrong but you can’t put your finger on it? My guest on this episode is Dr. Danielle De La Mare, academic life coach and podcaster, and she has been there and back. She is sharing about her journey from cancer diagnosis and the clarity that gave her, her life pre and post tenure, and how she got to where she is now.    Key points discussed: Danielle’s cancer diagnosis and the clarity it gave her in realizing what she truly needed in life. [2:30] Anxiety, overwork, and never feeling good enough. [6:00] Being a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) on the tenure track [9:30] Realizing she wanted to coach and feeling like a “coach posing as a professor”. [15:30] What coaching means, and how Danielle got there. [22:00] Danielle’s coaching focus and bringing out your inner wisdom [24:00] Danielle’s podcast and having more self-compassion [35:00] Key Quotes: “I was not living the life I wanted to be living.” -Danielle De La Mare “I was very much in need of human connection.” -Danielle De La Mare “I need a job that works for me.” -Danielle De La Mare “I was a coach posing as a professor.” -Danielle De La Mare “One of the things I want people to understand...is the difference between teaching and consulting and coaching...and therapy.” -Cathy Mazak “You don’t have to listen to your inner critic.” -Danielle De La Mare “My job as a coach is to say, ‘wait a minute, is that really what you want?’” -Danielle De La Mare “For me, I knew that getting out was the right decision.” -Cathy Mazak “We need to be more self-compassionate.” -Danielle De La Mare Connect with Danielle De La Mare: https://danielledelamare.com/ Connect with me: Website Facebook Group Facebook Page Follow me on Clubhouse: @cathymazak This episode was first published at cathymazak.com/episode80.

**This episode is brought to you by MuteSix and Omnisend**   Maximum flavor with minimum ingredients - that's what Spread the Love wants to give its customers. In the first part of this Feature, we have Val and Zach Fishbain, wife and husband, and Co-Founders of Spread the Love, a food that offers an assortment of clean label nut butter and jams. Val and Zach unknowingly started their business journey eight years ago when they gave out homemade peanut butter as a wedding gift. Zack comes from a background in marketing and sales, while Val has the vision to create with emotions. Val even left her stable job as a social worker in Los Angeles and devoted all the time to Spread the Love. In part 1, we talked about: What they are grateful for; Overview of the brand; How the brand was started; Their Entrepreneurial experience before Spread the Love; Why they have the perfect brand name; Realizing this business is more than a side hustle; How they developed the conviction; and much more. Join Ramon Vela and Val, and Zach Fishbain as they break down the inside story on The Story of a Brand. For more on Spread the Love, visit: https://spreadthelovefoods.com/ * OUR SHOW IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF MUTESIX. MuteSix is the leading agency in performance marketing. They have been in this space for nearly eight years, growing and scaling the world’s most recognizable e-commerce brands with breakthrough creative, targeted media buying, and data-driven results in every step of the funnel. They're currently offering listeners a FREE omnichannel marketing audit. Their team of auditors will perform a deep dive analysis into your current marketing efforts and identify which strategies might be budget wasters and which strategies will improve performance. The audit covers all digital marketing channels, including Facebook, Google, Email, Amazon, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, Influencer, Programmatic, and Website CRO. For your free digital marketing consultation, visit: mutesix.com/storyofabrand * This episode was brought to you by Omnisend. Omnisend is an e-commerce marketing platform that goes above and beyond regular email campaigns - so you can start increasing your sales, not your workload. With Omnisend, you’ll be launching pre-built e-commerce automation in no time, as well as intuitively segmenting customers and even trying out SMS or push notifications - all from the same platform. The best part? Omnisend provides an immediate boost to your revenue while staying as comfortable as drag & drop email building - with automated emails averaging up to 40% of total email revenue. Join Hallmark, Duke Cannon, and 50,000 other high-growth brands who choose Omnisend to grow their e-commerce businesses on autopilot. Start your 14-day free trial today. No credit card is required. Visit https://www.omnisend.com/sob/

"On December 2nd, 2019, I was done. That day, I handed in my resignation for a job I spent my entire career wanting & working for. The truth is ... I didn’t want to stay. My boss didn’t see my value, I wasn’t performing well & the culture, not a fit. At 56, after over thirty years in creative roles as VP at J. Walter Thompson, on the client-side & my last woo hoo as a Managing Consultant, I jumped back into the job market. Realizing all over again how painful & difficult the process was. That's precisely why I started Portfoliorocket.com."If you're in the mood for powerful storytelling full of hope, suspense and drama, then you are in for a treat!Loren Greiff comes from the world of Advertising, Marketing and Recruiting. And has pivoted to entrepreneurship during the biggest pandemic the world has ever seen.How did she do it? What does it take to get hired in Advertising for roles that aren't, well, advertised?Listen to the show to find out!Follow Loren on LinkedIn here.For more on Loren, check her website here.Enjoyed the show? Tell three of your closest friends!And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts, as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover this resource for Job Seekers !https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/how-i-got-hired/id1536817985And finally, connect with me on LinkedIn, I'd love to hear from you: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/

What is the first step to getting better at something? Realizing you suck at it. Recorded live from a blue-skied park in Nashville, Billy Contreras and host, Andy Reiner, discuss shoving off the shore into the River of Suck and paddling through the cycle of learning, practicing, performing, and sucking. Billy speaks to his experience as a seasoned performer always looking to improve. His answer? “Always be on the cutting edge of yourself”. In this very special live episode, Billy expresses the importance of appreciating the journey rather than the destination.

Robert T. managed tens of thousands of Multifamily units, increasing their NOI by millions of dollars and building his nest egg of retirement savings. Realizing the power of Passive Income to REPLACE his paycheck, he tells Del Walmsley how he leveraged his industry knowledge to become a successful Lead Investor™ and gives insights on the 360 unit property he’ll be showcasing on the 2021 Wealth & Passive Income EXPO Master Tour in September! Click to Listen Now Click HERE to Register for EXPO

Robert T. managed tens of thousands of Multifamily units, increasing their NOI by millions of dollars and building his nest egg of retirement savings. Realizing the power of Passive Income to REPLACE his paycheck, he tells Del Walmsley how he leveraged his industry knowledge to become a successful Lead Investor™ and gives insights on the 360 unit property he’ll be showcasing on the 2021 Wealth & Passive Income EXPO Master Tour in September! Click to Listen Now Click HERE to Register for EXPO

Late Drop Big Wave Podcast with Carlos BurleBrazil’s godfather of big-wave surfingPresented by http://futuresfins.com Throughout the course of history, what were once deemed “absolute truths,” are often no so absolute anymore. Stuff like: The world is flat. How certain peoples don’t have the capacity to vote. An electric car will never have the power of a gas-fueled one. Brazilians aren’t a threat in big waves. Then someone comes along and shatters that entire way of thinking. For that last one, it was Carlos Burle. A guy that came on the scene and won the Big Wave World Championships at Todos Santos in 1998, then bagged a world record for biggest wave at Maverick’s in 2001, Carlos paved the way for other Brazilian world champions and record holders like Gabriel Medina, Maya Gabeira, and as of late, Lucas Chumbo. Jamie Mitchell speaks with this very influential and positive human in the newest episode of The Late Drop.   0:00 Making the decision to become a surfer and live that lifestyle as a teenager, Being told he can’t be a pro surfer, Having to leave his home/Brazil to make a living as pro surfer 12:43 Getting the bug for big-wave surfing, Realizing his advantage in Brazil when contests were bigger, Winning a trip to Peru, Traveling to Hawaii in 1986-87 for first season, His dedication to big waves in Hawaii, Losing his sponsors because of his love for big-wave surfing 23:13 Winning the 1998 Todos Santos event and becoming a big wave world champion, Changing people’s minds about Brazilian big-wave surfers  31:14 Breaking the World Record, Being forced to travel around the world since no big waves in Brazil, Pre-Brazilian Storm movement with big-waves 40:10 Mentoring Maya Gabeira, Building up Maya’s image/persona to her winning a World Record 52:25 Mentoring Lucas Chumbo, Connecting the dots between his talents and results, Lucas hooking up with Kai Lenny 59:48 Winning the Big Wave World Title(s), Being first Brazilian to surf the Eddie, His wave at Nazaré, Creating new Futures fins, Dialing in the right equipment   1:08:51 Carlos’ 5-to-Finish

George C. Ladd:1) Brief BiographyI was born April 14, 1958 and raised on a farm near Santa Fe, Tennessee, near Columbia. I was educated in the public schools of Columbia. In college I studied accounting and computer science.Realizing that I was not going to pass the Differential Equations course required for a Computer Science degree, I saw that I could leverage the courses I had taken in Religious Studies to obtain a Degree and graduate quickly. In the late 1970’s at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, you could avoid the requirement of 2 years of a foreign language by studying the culture instead of the language. I was doing that with “Ancient Mediterranean Culture,” an alternative to Greek or Latin, and had taken several courses in Christian and Jewish history. I reasoned I could get a job with a minor in Computer Science, so I changed my major to Religious Studies to graduate as quickly as I could, and stop wasting my parents’ money. I reasoned Religious Studies would teach me the collective wisdom of the world. In this, I believe I was correct. I think it did so more effectively and succinctly than Philosophy would have.I learned the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. I learned the admonition in the Bhagavad Gita to perform what needs to be done, what you are tasked or called to do—your duty, to the best of your ability without attachment to the results. I learned the Eastern concept that suffering is caused by desire, attachment, and craving—an excess of which causes life to be experienced as unsatisfactory. I learned the history of Israel and Christianity from Ivy League professors.A major influence in my life was my studies with Dr. David Dungan, a graduate of  Harvard Divinity School and author of A History of the Synoptic Problem. In his Images of Jesus course, we studied how the portrayal of Jesus in literature and art changes with changes in culture in society. Jesus changes from ruler King in the late Roman Empire to suffering martyr as Christianity moves to Middle Age England and Germany to the ordered machine universe of the Enlightenment to the Jesus that wants you to get rich in the American “Prosperity Gospel.” We studied how the World Wars brought a decline in religiosity in Europe. We saw Jesus portrayed as a black man by African American artists.Another course under Dr. Dungan studied the increase in population since the Black Death and the imminent resource shortages projected by The Global 2000 Report produced by the Carter Administration. For various reasons, mainly technology changes, those debilitating shortages such as “peak oil” didn’t happen yet. But these studies and this awareness invested my life with a Malthusian pessimism that infinite growth on a finite planet will one day soon lead to a global train wreck. I thank the Lord that this has been delayed—possibly until after my death. In this context, we studied a Newsweek article from the late 1970’s that asked whether America would be an island of plenty in a global sea of want. I recently read a New York Times article stating that many of the migrants currently at our southern border are fleeing a Central American drought. I am acutely aware of Climate Change. As long as the weather fits what the climate models predict, I will be concerned.Also, while at UT, I learned “Transcendental Meditation,” which I did off and on all my life, and still do in lieu of a good nap, but now I use a Jewish mantra. I find it an effective means of calming down and refocusing.My plan to get a job as a computer programmer was frustrated by the 1982 recession. I paid an employment agency who found me a job at the J. C. Bradford and Co. regional brokerage firm. Two and half years later I landed a position as an information systems analyst with the State of Tennessee, and retired after 30 years of service, 26 of those with the Treasury Department. My two main bosses there were devout Christians, active in their churches. It was a wonderful place to work. I was honored the year before I retired with the State (Government) of Tennessee Information Technology Management Association’s Outstanding Information Technology Career Achievement Award for 2013.In 1982 I met the love of my life, Sherry Whitaker, in a Unity house church in Nashville. We have progressed, spiritually, together.2) My Spiritual JourneyI believe I am what Dr. Tara Isabella Burton in her book, Strange Rites, calls a “religious hybrid.”  I have explored and partaken of many spiritual paths and communities through the years, progressing from my United Methodist upbringing to Unity, Native American spirituality, the Sufi Order of the West, the Episcopal Church, Religious Science, and Zen Buddhism. For eight years, from 1993 until 2002, I did the basic Tibetan Buddhist practices, and was active in a Nashville Tibetan Buddhist group. The Science of Mind by Dr. Ernest Holmes has been influential on me. Sherry and I took part in a Religious Science (now the Center for Spiritual Living) study group in Nashville in the late 1980’s studying this book. Its core scripture is Matthew 8:13. What you believe is important and, I believe, has an effect upon what you experience. Prayer with faith is important. This notion is sometime abused these days (you got sick because of poor thinking), but I am convinced that faith and belief are existentially important. I pray regularly, and believe I experience abundant blessings as a result. What I pray about tends to work out well. I feel it is most important to pray about that which is worrying or bothering you the most—whatever is keeping you from peace.In 2000 I joined my local Masonic Lodge, and my life changed. Motivated to study and deepen my understanding of the Biblical underpinnings of Masonry, I began attending the Santa Fe C. P. Church where Sherry had attended for several years, and where my Grandmother was a member. After two months regular attendance, I joined that Church and discovered, to my surprise, that my wife was called to the ministry. I realized my call to support her call.Buddhism and the spiritual classics of India contain wisdom. In my view, Ecclesiastes could be a Buddhist text. I realized that Buddhism misses prayer and an active relationship with the Creator via the Holy Spirit. Thus, I “arrived at my destination” and have been an active Cumberland Presbyterian since 2001, doing whatever God has put before me. I discovered the Cumberland Presbyterian Confession of Faith, the most eloquent and elegant statement of Christian belief I have seen. Rev. Keith Johnson taught me the importance of the basic practice: “Read the Bible, study the Bible, and pray.”I enjoyed traveling to various places in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama as Sherry filled pulpits while she was in Seminary. I really enjoyed the Swan C. P. Church in Hickman County the first time we filled in for Robert Heflin. I thought the drive there was so scenic. Robert Heflin took a job with the Denomination and recommended Sherry fill the pulpit at his Churches. Thus, I found my home at Swan Church, where I am now Clerk and Song Leader. Out in the country, it is not close to anywhere but Heaven. I love my churches—I say churches, Sherry leads worship at Swan and Santa Fe (which happens to be Spanish for “Holy faith”) every Sunday. I, no doubt, learn a lot vicariously by being a Pastor’s spouse. Sherry’s sermons are eloquent and well written and researched. Sherry is a voracious reader. I benefit a great deal by being married to such a scholar.Sherry has a gifted intuition—I usually regret it when I go against any intuitive feeling she has about a situation3) My CallingIn the 1990’s I read Your Money or Your Life, which asserted that most people are “making a dying instead of making a living.” It advocated living frugally and retiring early so that you could then do work, including or primarily unpaid, volunteer work, that is fulfilling for one’s self. This I have striven to do.I believe we are called to use our gifts and talents in the service of God’s Kingdom. I am called to support my wife’s ministry, to support my Churches, to perform the duties of Stated Clerk of Columbia Presbytery, and to support the Masonic bodies of which I am a member.I was honored in 2019 to be “coroneted” a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason. Contrary to popular opinion, this does not make me above any other Mason, but it does admonish me to use my skills and talents, and my connection to God that we all possess, to be a leader.In 2014 I was nominated and elected Moderator of Columbia Presbytery. Aware of what had been done in McMinnville, in my report to Presbytery I recommended we start a Hispanic ministry in our Presbytery. When we researched it, we discovered that the Hispanic community was being pretty well served by other denominations in our area, but that there was potential for new church starts in the growing areas of Spring Hill and Williamson County. Our Presbytery created its New Church Development Task Force, and with the help of the Missions Ministry Team, we attempted to start Bible Studies that would eventually grow into Churches in those areas. We discovered just how hard new church development is in 21st Century America.We pray the pandemic ends soon so that we may return to the evangelism called for by The Great Commission. I have hopes for the Worshipping Community concept.As I frequently pray, “Dear Lord, help us to discern Your will, and do it aright.”Music is provided by Punk Rock Opera, I Wanna to be a Machine.  https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/ccCommunity/Punk_Rock_Opera/Punk_Rock_Opera_Vol_II/Punk_Rock_Opera_-_13_-_I_Wanna_be_a_Machine.mp3 (2)Additional Comments: URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Punk_Rock_Opera/Punk_Rock_Opera_Vol_II/Punk_Rock_Opera_-_Punk_Rock_Opera_Vol_II_Album_-_13_I_Wanna_be_a_MachineComments: http://freemusicarchive.org/Curator: Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In the previous episode, I talked about what emotional armor is and the reasons many of us carry this guard to protect ourselves from hurt, pain, or disappointment. But as we already learned, emotional armor is a product of our fear - fear to get hurt or fear to feel pain. We develop this coping mechanism since we haven't healed certain parts of ourselves, haven't overcome our traumas, or haven't felt through emotions we need to heal. Since the last week, we talked about the definition and reasons for our emotional guard. In today's episode, I will teach you five steps on how to let this emotional armor go, put it down, and protect yourself by developing emotional and mental resilience rather than guarding yourself. Step #1 is to acknowledge you are guarded. I know this sounds simplistic to many of us but sometimes admitting that we have this guard that doesn't allow us to receive and enjoy everything we want is the most confronting part of the transformation. Step #2 is to reflect on how was this armor protecting you. Realizing that your guard is nothing but the illusion of safety creates profound insights and understanding that armoring up won't protect you in the first place. Step #3 is to develop a new coping mechanism by allowing yourself to feel your emotions. Step #4 is to confront your fear of pain or hurt. Get into a habit of asking yourself, "What is the worst that can happen if I open up?" Step #5 is to confront your pain and understand that unless you decide to heal and feel the pain that has been stored inside of you for months or even years, you won't allow yourself to feel good emotions either. Think of the armor as a door. Once you close it, once you put it up, nothing can go out in terms of healing, but nothing can go in in terms of love, joy, and happiness.

Hello my beautiful friends! This week I’m so excited to welcome Ashley Kirkwood to the show. Ashley is a successful attorney who owns an innovative subscription based law firm, Mobile General Counsel, and her firm has negotiated and landed several multi six-figure licensing deals and corporate contracts.After being consistently asked how her company landed such deals, she launched the Speak Your Way To Cash brand, with the book launching at the end of this year! Speak Your Way To Cash is one of the most unique and successful speaker training programs on the planet. Inside, Ashley teaches speakers how to start at the top of their speaking market with a five or six-figure corporate speaking offer.Ashley is extremely passionate about her business and truly loves her life’s work and what it has afforded her. She loves impacting listeners both internally with her employees and team members as well as externally. The Short Story…Ashley has always thrived on certainty. She liked knowing that if she did A, B, and C, she would get D. She likes progression and felt that corporate was the way to go. However, she wanted to figure out how to make more money in the corporate world. Once she learned the art of salary negotiation it became easy for her to make more money as a corporate professional. Around the age of 25-26, Ashley’s salary was already at $200K and with her savvy skills she negotiated a $100K raise, bringing her salary to $300K per year. She began working for someone who had been recruiting her for years, but after starting to work together, it just didn’t align; ‘It was like straight out of Horrible Bosses’. It was just not the best dynamic.Knowing that it wasn’t a good fit, Ashley began to hype herself up, knowing what her worth was and trying to get her brain to realize that no matter what they were already paying her, she was worth more. They were just paying her to keep her there.While working in the corporate world Ashley began putting herself up for awards and national publications and also had her own YouTube show. On her production level quality YouTube show, Passion, Purpose & Paychecks, she interviewed entrepreneurs who had left their jobs to do something they were passionate about - but they also dove into their financial journey and how much they were making.Ashley put a lot into her YouTube channel working with producers from the Steve Harvey Show and NBC Universal as well as having a professional videographer, cue cards, call times, and a full hair and makeup team. “One of my goals was to be Oprah. I want to have my own talk show.”Despite already working in corporate, Ashley knew there was something else she wanted to do, but just couldn’t determine how to monetize it or what it actually looked like. Realizing that she was becoming stagnant, she decided to make a change, put her money where her mouth is and go all in. However, people still saw her as a lawyer and didn’t know they could actually do business with her because she wasn’t selling anything, just connecting to and meeting people.  The Tipping PointFeeling tired of being unheard and disrespected at work Ashley began to really look outside her corporate bubble to see where she could go, how she could build and grow a business, and do what she was passionate about. She had seen so many of her mentors, peers and people whom she admired take the disrespect because they were trapped by the money. When she had become consistently unheard and brushed off when bringing up concerns Ashley decided she did not want that life, or the life of those at the top either.Ashley had written a book in college called The Law School Hustle, all about her journey becoming an attorney. At some point in her time in college she nearly gave up but pushed her way through and wound up graduating at the top of her class from Northwestern Law School. She took her speaking experience as a trial lawyer, her experience from writing her book, and started speaking while building her own law firm.It took roughly six months for her law firm to start generating any revenue, but in the last six months of her first year in business her gamble had paid off and she had generated over $100,000 in revenue. The following year her business grew 400%, and again the year after that. She continued on with her momentum building her law firm and landing speaking contracts. Ashley took what she knew she was good at and her transferable skills to create something she truly was passionate about.Ashley and her team are hosting their 6th Speak Your Way To Cash (virtual) event this year and offers a high-level six-month coaching program called The Academy, where she builds out five and six figure offers with her clients. They continue to evolve the business by listening to exactly what their clients want and need and never resting on their laurels.One thing Ashley does admit to wishing she would have done sooner was offer people a way to work with her after speaking engagements. At the time she would offer paid speaking engagements where she would give people the tools they needed but in many cases they still felt stuck on where to start after that. Looking back, Ashley wishes she would have offered some kind of coaching to those people because they were walking away with all of this high-level information and super excited about their journey, but felt stuck and needed that push and validation to get started.  The PAID Method (Ashley’s Proprietary Coaching Method)P = PressIt's great to have a brand, all corporate clients will Google you and they're not going to just look at what you send them. They're going to go to Google and Google something. So it's great if you have a press strategy and a way to showcase what other people are saying about how great you are. A = AssembleThen you want to assemble your offer. It should be a package - the ultimate package. Don't just sell someone on one speech. They may need two or three speeches to get their end result, or they may need a couple of consulting sessions to get their end result. Assemble that offer together and have it ready to go for your clients. They know that you can't just do one thing, you can do a lot of different things and continue to serve them for a long time. I = InviteHave a strategy for inviting people to work with you. Know your sales plan, how you plan to sell your service, and what you want to make money on. D = DeliverDeliver amazing service and a really good product that is memorable and impactful. Have a way to deliver that information that you've thought out and formulate in a way you’re confident in. Ashley now lives a modest lifestyle, but the one thing she and her family love to splurge on is travel (especially to Thailand!). Having a business that has afforded her the ability to mold her lifestyle so it fits how she and her family want to live has been something that makes her never look back. It motivates her to keep moving forward and helps her business continue to thrive. Want to hear more about Ashley’s upcoming book launch or connect with her one-on-one? Check out her website or email her directly (she still loves to handle her own emails!).Until next time, friends, keep doing it your way!  Insights:“She began working for someone who had been recruiting her for years, but after starting to work together, it just didn’t align; ‘It was like straight out of Horrible Bosses’.”“Cultivate that confidence.”“One thing Ashley does admit to wishing she would have done sooner was offer people a way to work with her after speaking engagements.”“Your price is always talking. I didn't like what my prices were saying to my clients, when my prices were lower. I wanted them to know they're getting the best of the best. We are world class. We have trained all over the world. I have spoken in other countries, like they needed to know that and not from just what I said, but from the price they were paying me to do business with them.” Resources:Check out Speak Your Way To CashJoin the Speak Your Way To Cash Facebook groupGrab Your Copy of The Law School Hustle by Ashley Nicole KirkwoodContact Ashley via Email

My guest on the show this week is professional magician Mike Pilkey. Mike found the church and was baptized while in high school. After getting married at a young age, Mike was on top of the world. Soon though, Mike found himself divorced and wrestling with a pornography addiction. This led to bitterness and ultimately, Mike leaving the church and having his records removed. Realizing what he was missing, Mike began the path back to activity, finding love and marriage along the way. Mike is a humble and inspiring man. His story shows that there is always a path back through Christ.

The fact that ChinesePod's size 12 foot gets laughed out of every shop in town should clue you into something…you're big, they are not. Realizing that, we couldn't pass on doing a lesson on a domicile being diminutive. In this podcast, learn how to talk about housing and the size thereof in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0153

The fact that ChinesePod’s size 12 foot gets laughed out of every shop in town should clue you into something…you’re big, they are not. Realizing that, we couldn’t pass on doing a lesson on a domicile being diminutive. In this podcast, learn how to talk about housing and the size thereof in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0153

Realizing she has few people left to turn to, Benny opens up to Tara and reveals a troubling journal. Tara and Jet see obvious concerns of pending doom. 

We are having real talk today with Girl Confidence herself, Rachel Luna.  Rachel discusses how she navigated her mil to mil marriage, as well as lessons learned from life and marriage.  Rachel is  a Certified Master Coach, International Speaker, Forbes rated Top 11 Inspiring Female Entrepreneurs to Follow on Instagram (@GirlConfident) + Chief Confidence Creator.  She is a proud  Marine Corps veteran and is here with us to share her heart. On this Heart to Heart we discuss: Mil to mil doesn't have to be "hard".  She encourages us to reframe our mindset on what hard  means to us and how rising to a challenge can be fun. Rachel suffered from identity loss when she separated and became a milspouse and mom. Thinking that she possibly wouldn't have the opportunity to be a mom, when it became her primary role she struggled.  Rachel learned to surrender the emotional attachment and embrace her present season. We, in the military community, get the gift of learning how to be agile, nimble and flexible. We need to put our own oxygen mask on first.  Realizing that we can cross the same finish line and want the same things, but you may be in different points on the race.  If the finish line still looks the same, its okay for one person t be sprinting or in different lanes.   (This echoes Ep. 71 Different Seasons, take a listen!)  Communicate your needs, wants and desires to your spouse. Comparison is the thief of joy. "They need me" went from a feeling of dread to one of joy when Rachel received perspective after she successfully beat breast cancer.  She encourages us to find the joy in your present works & journey. Finding joy in the midst of uncertainty & in little moments. Strengthen yourself mentally, emotionally & spiritually to be .  Condition yourself.  What would it look like to do things with intention to run the race we desire and be able to care your family.  Rachel's Podcast : Permission to Offend RachelLuna.biz Today's Heart Track:  All I Do is Win By DJ Khaled Listen to our Heart Tracks II playlist on Spotify   Military Marriage Day Summit info here!!   To get even more on Hearts & Stripes podcast, resources, coaching and more head to https://breecarroll.com/ Connects with us on IG https://www.instagram.com/itsbreecarroll/ Connect with us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsbreecarroll    

Are we experiencing a fundamental failure in leadership during this time of Covid? Just as leaders have been judging their populations willingness to comply, we the people have been assessing their level of competence and integrity. Realizing that leaders have been, and are still facing into what is a no-win situation, it's important to acknowledge the complexities and the profound challenges facing decision makers at every level of society.Duration - 36:40Credit: Diana Ross - The Boss

In this episode, Charlie discusses what living authentically. Realizing that we have the ability to focus on what we CAN do rather than on our fears allows us to see our challenges as opportunities, take them on, and be real with ourselves and the people around us. For more content from Charlie, and/or to order Charlie's book Unlocking Greatness, please visit http://www.charlieharary.com This podcast is powered by JewishPodcasts.org. Start your own podcast today and share your content with the world. Click jewishpodcasts.fm/signup to get started.

Charlie Harary discusses what living authentically. Realizing that we have the ability to focus on what we CAN do rather than on our fears allows us to see our challenges as opportunities, take them on, and be real with ourselves and the people around us.

Allison Hainlen joins us to discuss her multifaceted career from lawyer to 3rd generation owner of her family's business, Gardner Insurance Agency. Allison is the first woman to own and manage Gardner Insurance Agency and in doing so has ushered in a new age for the company. From creating a maternity leave policy, to accommodating the developing needs of working women, to implementing her legal knowledge to helming a team of experience, professional, community-driven and bi-lingual insurance agents. It is refreshing and liberating to hear Allison's straight talk with her children to her team of employees "with plenty of respect but with very little sugar-coating". Allison highlights how you don't have to be warm and fuzzy but every perspective is worth hearing and considering. 01:11 min: How straight talk helps you to run your own business.01:53 min: Allison details how you can embrace your career and motherhood separately, that our drive for work can be for ourselves. "I also want something that's mine too. I'm a person walking around this earth too [...] It feels like something that really energizes me to be a better mom when I get home."06:14 min: "There's just so much pressure on moms [...] it's such a reoccurring theme, and it's not coming from a place of victimhood [...] there is a lot of pressure and the only way that comes off your shoulders is to take it off."07:11 min: "Self-care to me is have your career if you want it [...] once you start talking to other women they say yeah, I really do like my career."08:33 min: Allison on taking over her dad's business and merging her law knowledge with running Gardner Insurance Agency, a community, people-serving business where "doing a good job for people [...] and being available [...] doing right by the clients" is her company's core strength.11:01 min: How adding more technology benefits companies today.13:42 min: Allison explains how her own goals to balance work and home life drove her to implement policies and procedures that she would want from an employer. 18:44 min: Realizing "I can solve almost everything if I step back and I take a breath and I regroup" as a way to overcome obstacles.19:39 min: "A good day is just always going to come back for to balance. [...] For so long it was I want to be the best at my business" the best at everything we do " and that was unattainable. And it's exhausting [...] Once I started to let myself off the hook for the A+ report card every day I can be happier. I can enjoy every part of my life a little bit more."22:06 min: On being a straight talker and straight forward with language. "I want to consider everybody's input, everybody's ideas, but at the end of the day I want to be straight forward about how I feel, what I need, what my expectations are. [...] The truth is simple."24:37 min: Goals for the company moving forward are rebranding the business for younger consumers, taking their needs and wants into consideration and recognizing their influence.25: 29 min: Allison's quote to send out for listeners is "Do it from love, not for love. [...] Do something because you want to do it. [...] Ask yourself: Do I want to be doing this?"

Eight years ago, Chip was working crazy hours as a CPA and Kelly was being pushed back down the corporate ladder. Realizing their financial status had stagnated, they tell Al Gordon how turning to real estate investing allowed them to BOTH RETIRE and reach Financially Freedom, sharing numbers behind both their Single Family and Multifamily properties.   Click to Listen Now

Eight years ago, Chip was working crazy hours as a CPA and Kelly was being pushed back down the corporate ladder. Realizing their financial status had stagnated, they tell Al Gordon how turning to real estate investing allowed them to BOTH RETIRE and reach Financially Freedom, sharing numbers behind both their Single Family and Multifamily properties.   Click to Listen Now

On today's episode of the Learning from Smart People Podcast, Tonya Thomas talks about how to grow your business using a virtual assistant. She talks with Rob Oliver about her virtual assistant company, the services they provide and the impact that it has on her clients. If you have considered the need for delegating some of your responsibilities, check out what she has to say. Rob Oliver and Tonya Thomas discuss the following concepts during this episode of the Learning from Smart People Podcast: · Keeping your “why” in mind when delegating · The value of starting small · Figuring out what you can delegate · Identifying your “zone of genius” · Suggestions for delegating to open up your time · Choosing how you delegate, by project or by the hour · Developing delegation checkpoints · How small is too small? · Realizing the value of the time you are investing in your business · The value of using outside experts · Real life examples of things that a virtual assistant can do · Who are the virtual assistants? · Using a virtual assistant as the first step in hiring a staff · Building a relationship with your virtual assistant · Finding balance in your relationship with your remote employee · Defining boundaries, roles and tasks · The onboarding process · The importance of proper expectations Check out Tonya Thomas's podcast “Unbottlenecking Your Business” and take a look at her website and social media. Website: https://www.teamdelegate.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/446139829909656/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyabthomas/ Thanks for listening to the Learning from Smart People Podcast! Please Subscribe, leave a comment and follow us on social media: · Twitter: http://twitter.com/LFSPPodcast · Instagram: http://instagram.com/LFSPPodcast · Facebook: http://facebook.com/LFSPPodcast · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lfsppodcast/ · YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbWV_LuUad7ZWuE9j5D9v-w You can also use the “Contact” page on the “Learning from Smart People” website: https://www.learningfromsmartpeople.com/

My guest today is Karla Raines. Karla is an accomplished strategist serving purpose-driven organizations in dynamically competitive industries. Her commitment to mastering the art of strategy led her to a career-defining eureka moment. Her "aha" moment in 2018 occurred when she saw something she'd never seen before. The experience crystallized her intuitive process and inspired her to reverse engineer what she'd taught herself to do over years of hands-on practice. Karla co-owns an international research and strategy firm, Corona Insights, where she's led countless empathy-based and data-driven strategy processes. She recognizes that creativity and imagination are crucial to the strategy process. With a unique ability to see beyond what is, Karla leads her clients to discover authentic differentiation and craft plans to realize a competitive advantage. Abstract painting propels Karla's professional creativity and risk-taking as it fuels her soul. Artists look at the world differently, and creativity opens a new portal. Years of painting have taught Karla to get out of her own way, not to tell herself no, and be open to the power of flow. She wouldn't have discovered Differentiation Zone without it and her insights about the strategy process. Karla’s book Differentiated shares the story of her inventive strategy process, Differentiation Zone®, through real-life vignettes and powerful lessons pulled from over two decades of consulting experience. Here’s what to expect during the episode: Realizing that we can’t just dust off our plans from 2019. Things have changed significantly now! Because things are now different, thinking outside the box is now more essential than ever. Our customers and clients have the power to choose. It’s up to us to create solutions based on their choices. Trends that nonprofit executives may want to be aware of. These may very well shape the way you do business. ~ You can see Karla on her website https://karlarainesart.com Check her out on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlaraines/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/karla.raines.5) Get her book, Differentiated, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Differentiated-Breakthrough-Approach-Strategy-Organizations/dp/1736477013 You can also see the Differentiated Zone website here: https://differentiationzone.com/ Check them out on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/yourorgmatters) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/yourorgmatters/) Get Mary’s Trust Building Action Plan for free by going to https://hilandconsulting.org/trustbuilding Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don’t miss a single episode, and while you’re at it, won’t you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated!   Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook. Connect with Mary! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

Welcome back to Happy Half Hour! This week's special guest is Gustavo Tonella of Doggos Gus in Imperial Beach. Gustavo started his catering company in 2010, serving up Sonoran-style bacon-wrapped hot dogs in brioche buns. Then in 2019, he opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant right across from the IB pier, and introduced micheladas and White Claws topped with chamoy to his menu. Gustavo grew up eating street hot dogs in Mexicali, where they’re wrapped in bacon and topped with chipotle, vegetables, and meats like carnitas—what he says is a far cry from the hot dog offerings in the US. Realizing the missed opportunity, Gustavo started his catering business serving this specialty. He saw a lot of success in the wedding industry, as hot dogs are a popular late-night snack after all the pomp and circumstance is over. Two of his favorite menu items are the Sonoran, topped with queso, Soyrizo, and Ruffles chips, and the Surf and Turf, loaded with shrimp, bell peppers, and chipotle sauce. Like many businesses, the pandemic brought major challenges for Doggos Gus. Even though it’s now operating out of a storefront in Imperial Beach, a chunk of their income still came from catering, and 92 weddings and events cancelled practically overnight, resulting in a loss of nearly $100,000. In order to keep his staff employed, Gustavo started the Help the Helpers campaign, where customers could buy a catered meal for a front-line worker and he would match it with a second—and personally deliver the meals to the hospitals with the help of his employees. Gustavo credits this and a few other things with his being able to keep his team together even while restaurants are struggling to find help: He aims to create a fun, family-like atmosphere where his staff enjoys coming to work and gets to have fun experimenting with new ideas. Splitting tips evenly between front- and back-of-house staff was another incentive to keep his cooks motivated. Doggos Gus has been seeing some increase in business as weddings are starting to book catering again, and Gustavo experienced a little bit of normalcy as he recently catered for an outdoor concert and saw people enjoying themselves outside without masks on. In Hot Plates, An’s Dry Cleaning, whom we voted best gelato in San Diego, is opening a second location in Del Mar Plaza in June. Two new food-and-drink spots are coming to Seaport Village: Zytoun Gourmet Mediterranean, from the owners of Aladdin in Clairemont; and a distillery and seafood restaurant by Old Harbor Distilling. Scoop San Diego is hosting a drive-thru ice cream festival this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with 23 samples of ice cream and gelato available. The event is a fundraiser for Feeding San Diego, and tickets are $45 for a carload of up to four people. In Two People for Takeout / Two People for $50, Gustavo’s pick is Madison in North Park, where he always orders the pork chop. Noah’s pick for the week is Bánh Mì Hôi An in Point Loma for their Hôi An special, a fresh, inexpensive sandwich. Troy chose the recently redesigned Neighborhood for their new atmosphere and crispy potato served “animal style.” David tried out the brunch at Civico by the Park, where he got the French toast and tableside gelato. Thank you for listening! As always, we want to hear from our listeners. Need a recommendation for takeout? Is there a guest you want us to book on the show? Let us know! You can call us at 619-744-0535 and leave a voicemail, or if you’re too shy, you can email us at happyhalfhour@sdmag.com. See you next week!

PIVOTING - it’s a process that many entrepreneurs are familiar with. In today’s episode, I’m taking you behind-the-scenes of my pivot while introducing you to the Amp-ire Collective.   I talk about the moments when I lost my passion, the moments that made me want to run away, and how all those realizations led me to create the Amp-ire Collective. I also reveal what the Amp-ire Collective is all about, what it is, and who it serves. Tune in to this episode and find out why I decided to pivot, and where my new path is taking me. Or tune in just to find out what my Real Housewives tagline is.   In this episode, we cover: Why I don’t just want to be known as an Instagram coach Realizing my lack of passion and why I needed to pivot Introducing the Amp-ire Collective How you can join my inner circle   IG Quotes:   “I started to question why I wasn't really passionate about it. I was going through the motions. I was trying to follow what I was supposed to be doing the whole process. And what happened is I started to find that I wasn't really feeling aligned with it.” - Dana Bowling   “The Amp-ire Collective is a community of incredible entrepreneurs who are already on their way, but they may need some clarity in terms of a pivot. Because we all do when we’re just feeling a little stuck.” - Dana Bowling   “The Collective is basically a six month minimum program where I take entrepreneurs who are ready to level up from feeling stuck, who want to make more money, who want to do other things, get more clients, and also just keep learning more and more and more and increase their network.” - Dana Bowling   “The Amp-ire Collective is filled with people who are like minded, who are like me, who have energy, who are motivated, who are positive and who are go getters and you will be surrounded by incredible entrepreneurs getting ready to level up including myself. ” - Dana Bowling   “You want to be surrounded by people who are your people. They don’t have to look the same. They don't have to act the same. But they have the same values. ” - Dana Bowling    Links mentioned:  Amp Up Your IG: https://my.danabowling.com/Amp-Up-Your-IG?r_done=1  Dana’s Instagram: @thisisdanabowling Dana’s Website: danabowling.com  

Favorite quotes of the episode:  “It all comes down to people process and technology.” “Healthcare has to realize that if you don’t start running your business like a business then it won’t be relevant.” “Price transparency is important for the consumer too.” “One thing that COVID has taught us is that we need to be as lean and efficient as possible.” “I don’t control outcomes, I only control actions, so what are my actions going to be?” “It’s amazing what happens when we get the lifestyle and the mission aligned with our values!” Episode Overview In this episode, I talk with Matt Seefeld. Matt is the Executive Vice President at MedEvolve, responsible for all RCM operations, data science, and workflow automation solutions and business development. He brings over 20 years of management consulting experience in the healthcare industry with extensive expertise in process improvement programs and technology across the entire revenue cycle. Matt began his career with Stock & Associates and worked for both PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Consulting in their healthcare and life sciences practice lines. In 2007, he developed a business intelligence solution and founded Interpoint Partners, LLC, where he served as Chairman and CEO. In 2011, he sold his business to Streamline Health Solutions where he then served as Chief Strategist of Revenue Cycle and SVP of Solutions Strategy until 2014. Immediately prior to joining MedEvolve, Matt ran global sales for NantHealth. Additionally, Matt is the founder of myLifeLink, a virtual, global addiction and recovery community, and mobile application. He is also a board member and strategic advisor for a number of healthcare technology companies. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California-San Diego where he also achieved NCAA All-American honors three times during his collegiate track and field career.  TOPICS Matt’s unique career path. You have this incredible expertise and skill set in data science, workflow automation, and process improvement throughout the revenue cycle. How do you make this tangible to those of us who aren’t revenue cycle consultants?  What’s a revenue cycle? What are some really quick tangible solutions or quick checks that practices and businesses can do to see if they are on the right track or need to do some extra digging? What are the most common mistakes you see business owners make in this area? MyLifeLink Addiction Recovery Community   5 Questions Segment Q1. We know that the most successful and happy people have a morning routine, what do you do each morning or evening that sets your day up for success? The first thing I do is set my morning intentions and give myself 15 minutes to sit without technology, to meditate, say a prayer, and center myself for the day. Q2. What's your definition of Success? You grow when your opportunities exceed your capabilities.  Be in a career where you want to stretch yourself and continue to learn and grow.  Another big piece is balance, there’s more to life than just work. Q3. What's your definition of Happiness? It’s realizing that I’m perfect the way I am. Q4. What do you know now that you wish you would have known 10 years ago? You control actions you don’t control outcomes and learning to listen more and speak less.  I can be equally or more effective without traveling. Realizing that what I thought I was supposed to do wasn’t what I needed to do. Q5. What do you think is the biggest issue facing busy professionals today? Practice slowing down.  It’s not true that the harder you work the better the outcomes you are going to get. The other thing is balance between personal and professional life.  You don’t have to work a 10-hour day.  What does 5 hours of productive time look like? RESOURCES Connect with Matt at https://medevolve.com/ LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-seefeld-521319/ A Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman Join our email list and never miss another insight at https://www.pawsconsulting.com/shownotes Learn Strategies for Overcoming Overwhelm at https://www.pawsconsulting.com/overwhelm   “This program has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit for veterinarians and veterinary nurses/technicians in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.” Sign up for a free Strategy Session to overcome overwhelm and get unstuck at https://www.pawsconsulting.com/podcast  Thinking of running for office?  Get your copy of Candidate Survival Guide or Join one of Angela’s Campaign Accelerator Programs at https://www.pawsconsulting.com/candidate Connect with Angela at www.pawsconsulting.com or on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram @DemareeDVM. How to leave a review on iTunes: Go to https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-stethoscope/id1354281411 or open iTunes. Click 'View in iTunes' (or maybe you are already there)                   Click 'Subscribe' Then Click 'Ratings and Reviews' Then Click 'Write a Review'  

Lloyd Wolf started his consulting business in 1989. Over 30 years he grew Wolf Consulting from a one-man show to a leading regional provider of computer support and cloud services. Lloyd talked with me about his slow and steady philosophy to growth and avoiding risks like customer concentration. But one thing was standing in his way - himself. Realizing that he had to let go of the vine for the company to grow, Lloyd eventually delegated sales and delivery roles. Lloyd shared his experience selling the company and celebrating his retirement. Finding his next passion was an important part of the story. Today Lloyd coaches business owners how to run better businesses and live better lives as a Professional EOS Implementer, a system that was pivotal to his success. Listen in to learn more about: Getting around the challenge of customer concentration Enhancing your core business focus to drive value The importance of culture in advancing your business Knowing when and how to make your exit   Show Links: Lloyd Wolf on LinkedIn Achieve Business Services https://www.achieve-services.com/ Connect with the show host, Laurie Barkman at https://www.smalldotbig.com/contact and sign-up for an insights newsletter to build value in your company. Subscribe to Succession Stories and please share a rating and review!

If you have 5 minuets, you can destress with a quick yoga practice. Yoga practice is probably something you think you don't have time to start. If you have five minutes, my guest can show you ways to help relieve stress, anxiety, and more. As with most of us, my guest, Jo Bregnard, had to learn about caregiver self-care the hard way. Despite a healthy lifestyle, and just three months after her husband suffered a severe burn injury, Jo was diagnosed with breast cancer. While her health issues were a challenge, her yoga practice didn't take off until her husband suffered a frightening heart issue. Following this new situation, Jo learned to find true comfort on her yoga mat. This joy encouraged her to start teaching in 2014. Her yoga classes include beginners, prenatal, restorative, meditation, and Fluid yoga. That's just for starters! As we all know, when we think we've got our lives under control, something happens to change it all. Jo's life took another turn in when she started helping to care for her Dad, making long drives on the weekends to get to his home. Realizing that how she was living was not sustainable, Jo added yoga for caregivers to her offerings. You can find peace, relaxation, and more with simple practices that you can complete in just a few minutes. Jo's Website https://www.jobregnard.com/online-studio Be sure to check out our website for more resources, partners, recipes, and more.  www.fadingmemoriespodcast.com Don't get locked out of digital accounts.   Join Fading Memories On Social Media! If you've enjoyed this episode, please share this podcast with other caregivers!  You'll find us on social media at the following links. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AlzheimersPodcast/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alzheimerspodcast/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Jennifer_Fink LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-fink-338957/ Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3X7ufUPUrq5j1aNcW_ELg There you can see me in "action" and watch the bonus videos I share. Want to learn from Jennifer in person (or virtually)? Wherever you'd like a training session, Jen is available. Contact her at fadingmemoriespodcast@gmail.com  

WELCOME BACK! Human Vibration and mymaria777 present a new podcast, Mating in the Matrix. We absolutely love regularly melting your brains with mind bending discussions on psyops, false flags, simulation theory, synchronicities, and loosh. Realizing that all the world's a stage and the men and women merely players can be rather heavy, let's have some fun. Join now for weekly podcasts about dating, relationships, love, finding new friends, traveling, starting over, sex, and more. If you were a fan of maria's tinder escapade insta stories, you are going to love hearing about our comedy of dating errors. Each week, your favorites will catch up, take questions and comments from the class, and interview guests. The podcasts will include video soon. You will also have access to behind the scenes pictures, videos, recordings, and more that will not be posted anywhere else! Simulated or not, we are the real fucking deal. Subscribe now for premium content: www.patreon.com/matinginthematrixFollow my guest:Instagram: humanvibration_instaTwitter: humanvibrationPodcast: realeyesradio Instagram: mymariaa777Twitter: mymaria777Telegram channel:https://t.me/joinchat/_TJTEOL6PWk1ZDIxTelegram chat:https://t.me/joinchat/ii4ZfC2_JidlYTkxSubscribe please! Stay connected by signing up for my e-mail list: www.mymaria777.com ILYSFM 

What begins as a meeting with beloved friend and comedian Meg Stalter immediately devolves into an episode of depravity and psychosis. Shelby leaves the recording, seemingly out of rage. Caleb exposes himself repeatedly. Meg says the c-word. Producer Mike becomes Producer Michael. Quite simply, it's insanity.But, aside from all that madness, Meg's Golden Record is angelic in its innocence.Meg's Golden Record:Girls, Season 3, Episode 7 "Beach House" (audio-visual)Knowledge of Dolly Parton's Existence (audio-visual)Laughing hysterically at a restaurant with friends (multisensory experience)The smell of poolside sunscreen and chlorine (multisensory experience) Realizing you have a crush on someone (multisensory experience)Follow Meg!TwitterInstagramFollow the show @keepingrecordspodAdvertise on Keeping Records via Gumball.fm

Thank you for tuning into "Starting Small", a podcast about brand development, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world. In this episode, I am joined by Edgar Blazona, Founder of BenchMade Modern, custom sofas and sectionals, without the typical extensive build time. Edgar grew up into a family surrounded by construction, which ultimately had a direct impact on his future endeavors into design. Not following the tratidtional education route,  he then ended up dropping out of high school and pursuing his passion at the time... graffiti art.  Edgar went on to create multiple companies such as Modular Dwellings (prefab buildings for the DIY consumer) and True Modern (a wholesale furniture model). Realizing the issue of custom furniture having extensive build to delivery times, he continued his passion for modernism by creating BenchMade Modern, custom sofas delivered within one month. Choose your desired size, design, and material, and expect a custom sofa to be delivered to your doorstep in no time.  Make sure to check out BenchMade Modern at: https://benchmademodern.com/   Follow Starting Small: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startingsmallpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Startingsmallpod/?modal=admin_todo_tour LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/cameronnagle   Support for Starting Small comes from Humanscale, the leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance ergonomic products that help create a healthier work life. All of their products, from chairs to standing desks and more, are comfortable, easy to use, and sustainable. And great for either the office or the work from home environment. With an increase in shifting workplaces, comfort can be especially hard to find. As I run the podcast, I am in front of my desk for hours a day; from scheduling, researching, interviewing, and more. Humanscale allows me to remain productive, without the consequence of body stress to follow.  Make sure to check out Humanscale at humanscale.com, and use code: STARTINGSMALL at checkout to save 20% on your purchase.