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Allow me to share this with some sarcasm. It is sometimes necessary to get a point across. Jesus used sarcasm and satire repeatedly. If you don't think so, then your Bible interpretation is lacking the truth! Jesus had a cutting sense of humor that was often sarcastic against the religious establishment. One good example is where Jesus asks the Pharisees repeatedly if they can even read the Scripture! (Matthew 12:5, 19:4, 21:16, 21:42, 22:29, 31). Also look at John 10:31-39 and note the sarcasm there when Jesus states, “Is it not written in your law?” In modern speech it sounds like this: “What, can’t you imbeciles (the Jewish leaders present there) read out of your own book?” Don’t get me started and say that Jesus would never call anybody a moron or imbecile. Really? How about Him calling people much worse things? “Imbecile” and “moron” are soft toned compared to the following vitriol laid against the bad Pharisees in the Pharisaic movement of the day found in Matthew 23. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! ...“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!   And Jesus was just warming up! ..Do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel! …“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! …Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness. …Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell? (Excerpted from Matthew 23 NLT. Read the whole chapter!) "How readest thou?" (Luke 10:26 KJV) I've used that one a lot! It's a, "What, can't you dummies read" moment! You say you know the Scripture? Are you kidding me? For Jesus to ask a Pharisee if he knew his Bible was akin to asking rocket scientists or astrophysicists if they know that 2+2 equals 4 because they didn't get something you were saying at the moment! Would that be sarcastic and considered highly offensive? Yes, especially to the prideful that thought they were ALL THAT and more! In effect, Jesus was calling the Pharisees He was addressing spiritual morons even though they could quote the Scripture verbatim from the age of ten or so.  At his time in history, a Pharisee could quote the entire Bible from their memory by age ten, or at least they could quote large parts of it. Memorization was highly valued in ancient times, much more than it is today. Why, you ask? Books and scrolls were tedious to produce because they had to be written by hand. The printing press wasn't invented by Gutenberg until around 1440, and so, manuscripts were VERY, VERY, expensive! Consistent repetition and memorization were the keys to learning in those days.  What about Paul’s statement against the Christian false teachers that claimed that all males must be circumcised to be right with God. (Galatians 5:10-12) In Greek vernacular, Paul simply states sarcastically that those that teach that mess should just go ahead and finish the job by cutting off their male member! He was talking sarcastically about self-inflicted mutilation! “Go ahead and cut it off” is rough and very graphic sarcasm! Paul uses sarcasm and satire repeatedly in his epistles, often in very biting terms, and sometimes humorous.    Have you ever heard the term RINO? It is speaking about those Republicans in name only that are registered as Republicans, but their morals are more in line with left leaning policies and they are loose morally in their voting. There are some RINO's among us in Christianity, but they are “Joe- The Christian In Name Only”. This "Joe" promotes what he believes is the “perfect preacher”. I present to you below my sarcasm and satire to get the point across. It's nothing new to those that have heard me before. I use sarcasm in my preaching as did the prophets, Jesus, and let us not forget Paul. All used it to one degree or another to deliver the messages they had burning in their hearts from the Father. R U Ready 4 this? My Perfect Preacher  "If you want to be my perfect preacher, then don’t rebuke, refute, or correct me because I don’t believe any of that is love. I want you to give me an easy listening sermonette that requires me to do nothing. I want my preacher to remove all the harsh and hard words by no longer mentioning sin, iniquity, and rebellion to God. If you can always preach to me heaven and good stuff, and make no mention of hell, eternal punishment, or the lake of fire, then you are my kind of preacher. Don’t tell me that, for example, adultery, fornication, and homosexuality are sins and condemned by God in the Bible. Tell me that the commandments are irrelevant today, because once I receive Jesus, God no longer sees my present or future sin. Tell me that God will never condemn me for my sins as a Christian because they are already forgiven. Tell me I don’t even need to repent or confess my sins because that is a “works mentality.” Tell me that I am free from accountability and that, though I am in an adulterous affair, I will still go to heaven even if I die right in the middle of it. Tell me that my homosexual “Christian” cousin is going to heaven because all their future sins are forgiven. Tell me I can practice fornication, shack up unmarried, and still make heaven. Tell me that that is the truth because God doesn't give forgiveness in installments. Tell me that that is PURE grace and I will swallow it hook, line, sinker, boat, fishing pole, and the fisherman! Tell me I can be blessed, healed and prosperous even if I am living a sloppy and sinful "Christian" life. Tell me that neither holiness nor purity are that important as far as going to heaven is concerned. Tell me that the evil actions of my body are my flesh and that my spirit stays pure because it is righteous no matter what I do. Tell me God winks at my sin because His grace is all I need and it is sufficient! Tell me that God's love for me is unconditional and that Jesus will love and take me to heaven even if I do not repent and confess my sins. Tell me that my continued sin will never affect my righteousness in Christ or my relationship with God. Tell me that keeping the moral commandments of God is bondage and the "works of the law." Tell me that the harsh words of Jesus in the Gospels are not relevant today because they were all under the law. Tell me the Sermon on the Mount was the law on steroids. Tell me that faith is “only believe” without faithfulness and loyalty to the Lord. Tell me that the Old Testament should not even be a part of our Christian Bible, and that it was an unfortunate mistake. Tell me that only the epistles of Paul and what he taught on grace is all that is important to the believer. Tell me that all the other epistles and the book of Revelation were written to the Jews and Gnostics and not to Christians from a gentile background, even though Revelation chapters 2 and 3 were written to 7 churches among the Gentiles. Tell me we can learn ONLY examples and shadows from the Old Testament, but that it was all law, and there are no moral lessons there for me under grace. Tell me there is NEVER judgment for the Christian that continues practicing sin, as for example in the story of Ananias and Saphira, and the man committing incest with his father's wife. Tell me that was for another era and not applicable today under grace, though both incidents are in the book of Acts and 1 Corinthians 5. Tell me that I am always righteous because I can never ever mess up my grace gift of righteousness regardless of the sin I choose to practice. Tell me that, because of grace, once I am saved, I am saved forever even though I live contrary to all of God's commandments and reject the words and commandments of Jesus in the gospels. Tell me that the Holy Spirit will never convict the Christian of sin because there is now no condemnation.  Tell me that PURE grace requires NO faithfulness, accountability, Biblical morality, keeping the commandments, or doing the Word, because that it is all the works of the law. Tell me we are not under any of that old stuff if we have our faith in Jesus. Tell me all that the above and I will make sure to spread your message by telling everybody that you are a faith/pure-grace preacher and give you time on my influential Christian TV programs. Tell me that and we will celebrate your message as the truth! Tell me all that and we will say that you are right in the middle of the greatest revival known to man with your message of PURE grace. Give me PURE grace alone, please, and you will be my preacher and will have gained my financial support because you are the perfect preacher, the man of the hour!" ______________________________ Joe the Christian In Name Only is one very mixed up and deceived individual. This “Joe” represents those believing in a perverted grace message. In our sarcasm he is a fictional character. I am changing the following saying applicable to all the Joe's out there: If the shoe fits... throw it away! Whatever you do, DON'T wear it!  …Our fathers acted arrogantly; they became stubborn and would not listen to Your (God’s) commandments. They refused to listen… So, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. (Nehemiah 9:16, 17) People that rebel and reject God’s moral commandments begin to look for a leader that is also a rejecter of God's commands. They don’t know it, but these leaders are actually leading them back into slavery! Paul taught that some people that have an itch that needs to be scratched, and those are the ones that heap up to themselves teachers. (2 Timothy 3:16 through 4:4) This happens even though these false teachers promise them freedom with their ungodly message. (2 Peter 2:17-19) Back in the 60’s and 70’s, the hippie culture sang long and hard that they were free and lived free from any moral commands, restraints, or government laws. They talked of the freedom of “free love” (sexual encounters with many different people without any commitments whatsoever), doing drugs, getting drunk, being rebellious, disobeying authority, and living any way they wanted to live. That led many to an early grave because of alcoholism, drug abuse, law breaking, and sexually transmitted diseases.  False teachers of a perverted message of grace want us to believe that their commandment-free and no-rules gospel of grace is true freedom. People may experience some euphoria at first because of this “gospel of grace” and its promise of freedom, but if you follow that message, it will lead to BONDAGE and DEATH. A grace message that ignores Biblical moral commands as NECESSARY for real and true freedom in Christ will end up in the dung heap of wallowing again in the mire and filth of this world. (2 Peter 2:20-22) They are headed for destruction! Here is the clincher. Some of these “gospel of grace” preachers once taught and preached good stuff and strong Bible principles. Now their once good messages are sprinkled with an ever-increasing amount of a false message of grace. Some have already run the gamut of this false message. Everything is seen and preached from their false ideas of grace. Many Christians are being fooled into thinking, “Oh they believe just like I do”, because they are hearing the outside without seeing what is inside. Satan is tricky. He does not give you the full error at first. He gives you some of the meat and leaves the poison for later. That is the way some people got rid of bad stray dogs in one neighborhood I lived in many years ago. Give them a big chunk of raw meat with poison in it. To kill a bad rodent or pest you never give them the poison alone. You give them the poison wrapped up in something like peanut butter. That way they will eat all of it and die! Satan transforms himself as an angel of light and he is good at it. (2Corinthians 11:14) It is not a surprise if his ministers do the same!  If this has struck a nerve in your heart, send it to as many people as you can. Read my book below, "Faith that Receives the Grace of God" and see what the Scripture says about faith and grace! It is a free download.  ___________________ Jesus spoke about entering into life through the narrow gate in Matthew 7. Do you know what that means for the believer? Here are some powerful truths! Listen to Part 3 in the podcast below. This is last podcast in the mini series. Be mightily and overwhelmingly blessed!  ___________________   Get A Call to Return: Restoring The Roots of Our Relationship With Jesus as an ebook, softcover, or hardcover book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Christianbook, Westbow Press, or order it through your favorite bookstore. From the Back Cover: A Call to Return—Restoring the Roots of Our Relationship with Jesus explores the depths of the Scriptures to excavate, refine, and lift up its words of power, revealing deep truths that will radically change the lives of believers. By tapping into this rich vein of biblical insight, Dan Alan Rodriguez offers Christians the insights to enable them to set out upon paths of discipleship that follow Jesus closely and that lead to profound experiences of His presence and power. Drawing upon the author’s study of first-century Judaism and Christianity and resting upon a diverse array of sources steeped in the foundational texts of these traditions, the twelve chapters of A Call to Return address a series of interlocking topics: a prophetic call to return; the revival of lawlessness; the revival, purpose, and preexistence of God’s commandments; the church’s commandments and their connections to faith, grace, and good works; the association of works of the law to Jewish tradition and ceremony; holiness; the fear of the Lord; each believer as a temple of the holy; and the meaning of loving the Lord Jesus. If you have a sense that Jesus’s message and ministry are calling you to embark upon a walk with Him that might take you away from all in Christianity that requires no accountability or responsibility before God, then A Call to Return—Restoring the Roots of Our Relationship with Jesus is the right book for you to read. It will give you the keys for understanding and responding to the Lord’s call to return to Him and to follow where He leads. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches” (Rev. 2:29 NASB). The PDF of the entire book is free of charge! Use this link to go to the page and download it. Be mightily blessed! ____________ Faith that Receives the Grace of God is so important for you and me right now! There is an abundance of strange teaching in the area of grace. Grace has become for many a proposition "sin all you want without accountability", and a "do-nothing to receive from God." Grace for many is a rejection of Biblical moral commandments, and for others it is a denial of the words of Jesus. Grace, when it is in its right place Scripturally, is beautiful, abundant, and powerful, but it can be misused and misapplied. Unfortunately, grace is often taught wrongly. Instead of amazing grace, it has become gross, devilish, pseudo “grease” and not the Blood-bought-grace taught in the New Testament! This book was written so the Biblical perspective on faith and grace could be clearly presented by using verses in their context and according to the intent of the writers of the New Testament. If you have questions in this area, this free 266-page book is for you. Download the free PDF file here.     ______________  Tres Días y Tres Noches en el Corazón de la Tierra debe ser una parte necesaria en la vida de todo Cristiano. El libro enseña específicamente acerca del sacrificio de Jesús. Esto incluye la cruz, resurrección, y especialmente lo que tomó lugar durante las horas en que el espíritu de Jesús dejó Su cuerpo, y cuando su cuerpo fue resucitado de entre los muertos. El mundo tiene sus héroes, pero lo que Jesús hizo por nosotros lo hace el Supremo y Máximo Héroe y Conquistador de todo el universo. La derrota de Satanás, y la potestad dada a la iglesia en el Nombre de Jesucristo, fueron actos sin igual en la eternidad. No te pierdas este libro GRATIS. Ninguna película ha mostrado el verdadero sufrimiento del Maestro en el Calvario y en el centro de la tierra. Prepárate para una aventura gloriosa. Descarga el libro PDF completo usando este eslabón.   Documento portátil (PDF) es completamente gratis.  

Learn how real estate pays you up to five ways simultaneously. Should you be playing offense or defense as an investor now? Learn how a return of less than 20 to 25% is disappointing. We’ll add up all five ways you’re paid and see what your Year One return is from: Appreciation, Cash Flow, Return On Amortization, Tax Benefits, Inflation-Profiting. See brand new construction SFRs and duplexes in central Florida at: www.GetRichEducation.com/Orlando Central Florida rent-to-price ratios are about 0.8%. Interest rates are at historic lows. What does late rapper Notorious B.I.G. have to do with real estate investing? You’ll see today. Kind of.  **Complete episode transcript below. Read along as you listen.** Resources mentioned: New construction Orlando income property: GetRichEducation.com/Orlando Mortgage Loans: RidgeLendingGroup.com QRPs: text “QRP” in ALL CAPS to 72000 or: eQRP.co By texting “QRP” to 72000 and opting in, you will receive periodic marketing messages from eQRP Co. Message & data rates may apply. Reply “STOP” to cancel. New Construction Turnkey Property: NewConstructionTurnkey.com Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Top Properties & Providers: GREturnkey.com Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Keith’s personal Instagram: @keithweinhold   Welcome to Get Rich Education. I’m your host, Keith Weinhold. There are seasons in your investor life where you either play offense or defense. What should you be doing now? … as we refresh the “Up To 5 Ways That Real Estate Simultaneously Pays You.”   Anything less than a 20 to 25% rate of return in buy-and-hold real estate investing is disappointing. How can that be? Today, on Get Rich Education. ______________________   Welcome to GRE! From Asmara, (Air-UH-tree-UH) Eritrea to Ashtabula, OH and across 188 nations worldwide. I’m Keith Weinhold. This is Get Rich Education.   Thanks for being here, but you’re not here for me. You’re here for you.   In your investor life, are you playing offense? Or are you playing defense right now?   Or, in general, longer-term, are you a more offensively-oriented investor, which correlates with more risk-taking for higher returns.   Or are you more defensively-minded - where you’d rather have less risk and lower return?   Are your mindset and actions aligned toward offense or defense?   Well, I’ve got an answer for you here, and you’re going to have a really valuable takeaway.   Anything less than a 20 to 25% annual rate of return in real estate is really … actually … disappointing.    “What choo talkin’ ‘about, Willis?”   What I’m talking about … Will - is ...    Really, this all comes back to how - when you buy income property the right way - you are paid up to five ways simultaneously.   A stock typically only pays you one way, perhaps two.   I think that the easiest way for you to understand the five ways you’re paid - and even celebrate these five ways you’re paid - because … this ... is ... pretty compelling - is to use an example.   I’ve discussed this before. So if you’re a longtime listener, I’m going to put “The 5 Ways” through a new filter for you.   And if you’re a newer listener, say in the last year, this could completely change your investing thought paradigm for the rest of your entire life.    In fact, compound interest is lame and rarely, if ever builds real wealth in real life. I’ll tell ya what does here.    And yes, I know that this is abject heresy. It is replete blasphemy to criticize “compound interest” in the finance world.    I am surely guilty of committing financial profanity right there.   This is really fundamental stuff I’m about to share with you here - and yet the real paradox is that most real estate investors don’t even understand this.   This is pretty fun to do. We’re going to add up the five ways you’re paid and determine your total rate of return here.   Let’s say that you purchase a $100,000 property - $100K. And, no worries, if that’s too “small time for you”, this is all based on ratios, so it scales up to a $1M or $10M property.   (Ha!) And sometimes I wonder how much longer a $100K property will even be a feasible example as inflation makes $100K properties less common all the time.  But with your newly-bought $100K rental single-family home, you buy it with a tenant already residing there, where the monthly rent income exceeds the monthly expenses - that’s a big part of “buying right”.    With your 20% down payment, you have $20K out of pocket then, and an $80K loan.   The first of five ways you’re often paid is ...  1 - Appreciation Let’s just say that your property appreciates from $100,000 to $106,000. That is just commensurate with real estate’s historic appreciation rate of 6%. But here’s the big “a-ha” moment.    Your $6,000 gain is based on only your $20,000 down payment.  Well, that’s your ROI formula - your gain divided by how much you have invested. Well, your $6K divided by $20K is a 30% return to you. Really? How did that happen exactly?   How do you have a 30% return from just this first of five ways you’re paid?    This is because you achieved a 6% return on both your $20K of skin-in-the-game and the $80K borrowed from the bank. This is what is known as financial leverage. Financial leverage means that your return is 30%.    No wonder that I’m known for saying that compound interest is lame and leverage builds real wealth. More on that soon.   2 - The second way you’re simultaneously paid is with Cash Flow It’s your monthly rent income minus all the expenses (like mortgage, vacancy, insurance, maintenance, taxes, utilities, management). We’ll be conservative and say that leaves you with only $100 of residual income in this case.   Annually, that’s $1,200 more for you, divided by your $20,000 down payment.    Yes, it’s $1,200 still divided by that same $20K of skin you have in the game.    This another 6% return for you. This portion is what is known as the Cash-On-Cash Return.    So, so far you’ve got a 30% return from leveraged appreciation PLUS a 6% cash-on-cash return from that monthly cash flow & we’re still going.   3 - Loan Paydown Unlike your own home where you pay down your principal mortgage balance with money that you had to earn, well, here, your tenant pays the monthly principal portion of your $80,000 loan on this property!    At a 6% interest rate (and you know you can do better than that today, but we’re being conservative here) on a 30-year mortgage, that’s about $1,000 that the tenant pays down your loan for you annually.    Divided by your (still the same) $20K of “skin-in-the-game” means that’s ANOTHER return for you of: 5%. This portion is known as your ROA - your return on amortization. We are still going - still adding up all the ways you're often paid in real estate.   4 - Tax Benefit You can have a mortgage interest deduction, an ability to pay zero capital gains tax with a 1031 Exchange, and tax depreciation - which can tax-shelter part of your rent income.    This is hard to measure. We’ll conservatively call your investment tailwind another 5%. There’s something else called “bonus depreciation” that can certainly make this 5% tax tailwind higher, but let’s just leave it there.   And the fifth and final way is what I call Inflation-Profiting. Few people understand this.    Like inflation erodes the value of your lump of savings, it also degrades your mortgage debt balance.    How is that? It’s because your $80,000 loan today gets easier to “pay back” as wages and prices escalate over time. Your bank only asks to be repaid in nominal dollars (while your tenant pays the interest), not real, inflation-adjusted dollars.    So just say that over a few years, you had 10% cumulative inflation. Well, then rather than paying back the bank $80K, you really only need to pay them back $72K in inflation-adjusted terms.   Inflation has been low lately. We’ll call this benefit a return of another … just 2% to you.   Well, there were all five ways. Let’s add them up to see what your total rate of return is. You got a return of:   30% from leveraged appreciation, then… 6% from cash flow - which is that portion known as your cash-on-cash return, plus another 5% from your ROA - that Return On Amortization, where you tenant pays down your loan for you. Then another … 5% from tax benefits … 2% from inflation-profiting ...   And your first year total Return On Investment from this income property is 48%   You just achieved a 48% return - and without taking any INORDINATE risk. Now, your real-life return probably won’t be exactly that - it’ll be higher or lower.   A few other caveats here. I think you probably realize this example is simplified.    If we had 18 spreadsheets, then we could probably get an exact number, like rather than a 48% total rate of return for you - then it might be 46.16% or something like that. …   … but eighteen spreadsheets doesn’t work in audio format as we’ve just broken it down here on Get Rich Education Episode 302.    1) Note that in the example, we did not factor in your buyer mortgage loan closing costs (the seller can often help you pay these).    Of course, risk still exists. If you buy property in a losing job market, or hire a disreputable property manager, for example, your return can erode.    3) You will still have SOME inevitable problems along the way. It just happens in real estate.   Also, note that your property insurance premium WAS considered in the example. That hedges you from a lot of major loss types.   And that your management cost was considered here, meaning your income is largely passive.    Also, be mindful that after your 48% return in Year One of this hypothetical example, your return typically DROPS in future years.    Maybe it’s down to 38% in the second year and 29% in the third year.    Why is this? Well, primarily due to the fact that equity accumulates in the property, and equity has zero rate of return.   Compound interest? Well, you’re typically not leveraging other people’s money with compound interest.    In the example we used - you’re not just growing from the return on your own money.   You achieved that return because you got to use BOTH your own money plus three other parties’ money at the same time:   the bank’s for the leverage   the tenants for the income and the return on amortization … and    … the govt’s for the tax incentives - plus, really the government’s policies for the inflation-profiting benefit too … if ya think about it.   With just a 20% down payment, you got access to getting the return on OTHER people’s money all over the place.    Another risk is to be mindful of overleveraging. Overleveraging means that you’ve borrowed so aggressively that, say you get in a situation where the tenants rent income no longer meets or exceeds the monthly property expenses.    That’s negative cash flow from overleveraging.   With these five ways ...   Now you understand how real estate makes ordinary people wealthy!   Now you know how to actually “keep score” with real estate investing.   Now you understand how less than a 20-25% Total Rate Of Return is disappointing.   This is LEVERAGE rather than compound interest.   Long-term, one’s hopes for compound interest get eroded and worn down to nothing after applying - something that longtime listeners can almost repeat after me - applying those deleterious effects of inflation and emotion and taxes and fees and volatility.    If you understand what I just described, you understand something that Billionaire RE investors do NOT understand.   Billionaire real estate investors don’t understand what you now know.   So, when it comes down to, are you playing offense or defense as the theme for your own investing strategy?    The answer is, when you’re paid five ways, you have the ability to constantly do BOTH - you’re playing both offense and defense - at the same time, all the time.   By the way, they say that offense wins games but defense wins championships. It was legendary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant that’s credited with saying some version of that.    I don’t know whether that’s so true or not, but here you have multiple offenses and defenses.   But what I’m talking about here, is, with the 5 ways you’re paid:   Appreciation - That’s playing offense Cash Flow - That’s more predictable than appreciation, and that’s playing offense too Return On Amortization - That’s defense. It’s slow, predictable, and it builds illiquid equity The fourth way, taxes - that’s defense too. It’s kind of built-in, predictable, and really just recurs when you do your annual taxes. And the fifth way, inflation-profiting - That’s defense too.   So, there you go, with one single-family rental home or apartment building, you’ve played offense two ways and defense three ways … all at the same time.    And when you’re paid five ways, if one or two stop providing you with yield, well, then you’ve still got three or four ways that are.   But, yeah, these return sources aren’t apparent to a lot of people.    You know, I was recently doing a review of one of my larger apartment buildings with an experienced investor, because the cash flow basically dried up.   And, for example, this apartment building has $2,100 of tenant-made mortgage principal paydown every month. That’s $25K per year in equity buildup.   $25K divided by my $475K in equity is a Return On Amortization of about 5% on this particular apartment building.   So I think that the real takeaway here is - invest in something where you’re paid multiple ways, where you can invest in offense & defense at the same time, and it pays you income so that you can begin enjoying your life now, not “maybe someday” - which correlates with more of a compound interest approach.   If you think about it, a central theme of this show is how to optimize the 5 Ways You’re Paid - and avoid mistakes.   This is really a huge part of the compelling “why” for real estate that is so often missed.   You want to own the real property yourself to make sure all five of these benefits aren’t diluted.   You also want to be sure to have a good loan on your property to amplify your ROI over the long-term.   As you know, I am “pro-good debt”. I have no interest in paying down low interest rate debt, that the tenant pays down for me and inflation even further debases.   Instead of using that dollar to pay down debt, you could use that dollar as a down payment on another property - expanding your empire.   Gosh, with interest rates this low, it puts an exclamation point on the fact that you don’t want to be paying down your debt … here in the early 2020s decade.    Paying down good debt is one of the last things that I would do with my money. You lose leverage every time you do that.   Turning a liquid dollar into equity just transferred cash into equity.   Financial freedom achieved when you do the opposite - when you transfer equity into cash flow.   The probability that I’m going to wake up tomorrow and start accelerating paydown on low-rate, fixed mortgage debt tied to this cash-flowing property - is about nothing.   It’s about the same as the chance is that my Dad wakes up tomorrow and starts listening to the Notorious BIG with Junior MAFIA.   “I chill … “ to “ … you know”.   Haha! Yeah, not happening!   Not for my Dad, anyway. Not his style. Sounds alright to me. I might drop that in during a workout or something.   You’re listening to a more detailed discussion about the Five Ways That Real Estate Pays You and we’re talking about it through a fresh lens of “offense vs. defensive” investing here on Get Rich Education Episode 302. I strongly believe: It is very difficult to get wealthy without debt. Often won’t achieve freedom without debt. It’s going to be alright ... when your debt is reliably outsourced to others.   You know, at one point in my life, when I still worked for an employer. (The last day job I ever had was working in the QA section for a state DOT, by the way).   At one point, I realized that every dollar I lock in a stock or 401(k) is a dollar that I can’t use to leverage OPM. That epiphany was a real turning point.   Checking the RobinHood app every 15 minutes isn’t going to build real, durable wealth for you.   And, sometime before that, it was the realization that for me - and for you - to get more out of life, you can’t live below your means, you’ve got to expand your means.   To achieve financial freedom, it sure isn’t going to happen by cancelling Netflix $10 for month.   That’s not going to happen if you save $80 on air tickets by adding an extra layover on your trip itinerary. You just added three hours of low-quality time to your life - and you’ll never get that time back.   That’s cheesy. That’s unattractive.   It’s not about saving money on your Butterball turkeys or car gasoline.   I’m not saying you can NEVER do those things. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.   But people need to stop being congratulated for being cheap or even focusing on frugality. Gosh, that stuff can make people miserable.   People that say, “I want to live frugally.”, they don’t REALLY want to live frugally. They actually want to say, “I want to live well.”    But they don’t know how to do that. They don’t have a vehicle to move forward with.    It’s kind of like, when we had T. Harv Eker here on the show here a few years ago - it’s about setting your mental thermostat higher, so that you can get greater wealth & freedom for yourself …   And with the “five ways you’re paid” like I described earlier, hopefully, I’ve charted a substantially clearer path forward for you so that you can do that.   Well, with “The Up To 5 Way That Real Estate Often Pays You”, that’s something that I first started talking about more than five years ago. I’ve never heard anyone else talk about it before. So, as far as I know, I guess I’ve “coined this” or whatever.   But since I began talking about it, I hear other people talking about it too - even other educational platforms.   Now, I do own three real estate trademarks, so what do I think about OTHERS now teaching the “5 Ways You’re Paid”. I’ll discuss that in just a few minutes here.   I’m also going to discuss who influenced ME - and give them some credit. And this includes a couple people that you’ve surely never heard about before.   If you would like to see the “5 Ways You’re Paid” in one easy-to-read infographic - that all fits on one sheet - so that it’s REALLY cear to understand - I’ll send you a colorful electronic “5 Ways Infographic” all you’ve got to do is go to GetRichEducation.com/Book.   That’s got to be one of the greatest deals anywhere. That’s where you can opt-in to get the electronic version of my int’l bestselling book, free, emailed right to you.   Then a few weeks later, the “5 Ways You’re Paid Infographic” is automatically sent to you too.   That’s at GetRichEducation.com/Book   More next. I’m Keith Weinhold. This is Get Rich Education. ________________________   Welcome back to Get Rich Education. I’m Keith Weinhold.   Hope you like our humorous moments to lighten up the show here. Hey, you run a little math on audio and … it begs for some embellishment to spice things up.    When it comes to the up to five ways you’re paid in real estate investing. Yeah, since I first discussed this more than five years ago, I’ve noticed that other REI educators now teach the same thing.   I don’t know whether they credit that to me or not - and you know what - I don’t really care whether they do or not. I mean, it’s cool if they do, but …   … the more important thing to me is that conscientious people get the information. Share it. That is so much more important than anyone getting the credit.   So just … share it.   “Helping the people” is more important than “getting the credit”.    I think that the world would be a better place - imagine if everyone put “helping the people” before “getting the credit”.    I don’t own trademarks so that I can go after people that say the same stuff that I do. That’s just not in my nature. I’d rather do productive things with my time.   The trademarks are thre just because I wouldn’t want someone else to swoop in and tell me that I can’t use something that I might have come up with in the first place.   When it comes to “helping the people” and “getting the credit”, now, everyone has influences - things they learn from others. You & I are no different that way.    Even those that influence you were influenced by someone else before them.   Well, I DO like to give credit to those that I learned from, so ...    Though I know he’s a polarizing figure to some people, credit is due to Robert Kiyosaki and the Rich Dad Company. Learn more about them at RichDad.com   The most important lesson that I learned there is “Don’t live below means. Expand your means.”   It’s more important to increase your income than cut your expenses.    Don’t make a budget. You’re just tearing things down.    Instead, build a cash flow statement. Now you’re constructing. Now you’re making more of yourself, not less. These are really Rich Dad principles and helped develop my mindset.   Now, as for who helped turn this mindset into something actionable? I’ve got to give props to “The Real Estate Guys” - Robert Helms and Russell Gray. Learn more about them at RealEstateGuysRadio.com    That’s the first place that I learned, for example, that in real estate, the market is more important than the property.   Look, you can’t very well be in your crib with your trading app and just order up real estate - even though people are building online marketplaces.    But one mistake people make is that they buy property because the numbers look good based on some YT video they watched on how to crunch the numbers - but they know nothing about the market or the team.    Then they buy it. Then only after they go buy it, NEXT they go looking for a PM and hope there’s a good one that can handle it.    Then next, they try to figure out the market that they already bought in.   That does not work. They’ve got it backwards. If the market and your property manager check out, then & only then do you get the property in that market.   It’s sad when people get that wrong. That’s why people walk away from RE & they say that RE doesn’t work.   Well, no, that investor wasn’t very strategic. But you CAN understand how that happens to people.   And it was great to have both authors of the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” book Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter - and The Real Estate Guys all here on Get Rich Education with us multiple times.    Another set of influencers are two guys that you’ve never heard of before.    Their names are Chris and Raj. They are simply two longtime friends of mine that bought four-plex buildings.   That got me to make my first-ever property that seminal four-plex building where, with a 3.5% down payment I lived in one unit, rented out the other three, and that started it all for me.   These otherwise “regular guys” reinforce the quote from the late Jim Rohn, “You Are The Average Of The Five People That You Spend The Most Time With”.   Today, I’m a collector of real estate - most of it in the United States. Being the geography guy that I am, did you know that I have a world map on the wall of our garage …   … and I have a little red sticker - little red dots on top of those areas where I own property. Yeah, it makes this real estate collecting kind of visual. Maybe you want to try that too.     Well, one part of the world that I’ve been adding more red dots to lately is where I’ve been buying - across Florida.    Areas around Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville all make sense from a cash yield perspective.   A lot of BRAND NEW construction properties have numbers that work there, especially where our Orlando provider - that’s Greater Central Florida really - have been actively sourcing brand new construction property in Sebring, Florida, among other nearby places.    Sebring is pretty much smack dab in the center of peninsular Florida, south of Orlando.   These single-family homes that make great rentals have a metal roof, they’re 3 bed, 2 bath, and the prices really are remarkable - $179,900 and $159,900.    Yes, that’s for new construction in Sebring, Florida.   The rent-to-price ratios are a very attractive eight-tenths of one percent or so. Quite good for new construction, plus you’ve got the tailwind of extremely low interest rates as well.   And when it’s new construction, the PROPERTY INSURANCE premiums are so reasonable too.   If you’d like to learn more about those, you can do so at GetRichEducation.com/Orlando   It isn’t just single-family rental homes. New construction duplexes are available too.    That’s GetRichEducation.com/Orlando   You know that I often like to leave you with something actionable like this at the end of an episode.   And knowing and doing are two very different things.   How do we already know that? Well ...   Many people aren’t at their ideal body weight … and it isn’t because they don’t know what to do, they just aren’t doing it.   You also need time to figure out what you want to do. I like eating pizza, for example,  but it took me eating different foods in order to find that out. I had to try and do.   Learning is best done by trial-and-error but it doesn’t have to be YOUR trial-and-error.    Learn from me. I’ll even eat your pizza for you!   I help give you the information you need to make an informed decision.   I connect you with property teams with proven track records - many of whom I invest with myself.   You ultimately choose your investments.   There’s risk with anything … anything in life.    You either take the risk or lose the chance. I think it’s helpful too, that you follow someone that’s been through a recession.    I’ve been investing for … nearly 18 years … it’ll be 18 years next month … since I bought that landmark four-plex building.   Teach you how to fish or GIVE you a fish? Well, why not do both? You can get the fish at GetRichEducation.com/Orlando   Have you ever wondered where your money is? Well, the world already has your money. You just need to go out and claim it.   I’m Keith Weinhold - grateful, as always for your listenership. I look forward to chatting with you again next week.   Don’t Quit Your Daydream!

Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term, with Michael Santos.  Chapter 8: 1996-1998 Months 103-127 As I cross through another holiday season and into January 1996, I look through a few birthday cards I received from my family.  It’s hard to accept that I’m turning 32 in prison, but I’m not a stranger to these milestones passing.  Not anymore. For years I’ve been climbing toward 1997, hoping that the end of my first decade would mean something special to me.  Now I’m closing in on that milestone, but it no longer seems significant. One year feels the same as the next and I don’t yet foresee any break from the monotony. I rely upon clearly defined goals to stay the course. By studying, writing, and working to earn credentials, I’ve hoped to define myself as something more than a prisoner.  The effort, I believed, would help reclaim my humanity from this so-called system of corrections.  Now I’m not so sure.  It is a system that strikes hard, like a wrecking ball, further dehumanizing me with every passing day. The Bureau of Prisons extinguishes my aspirations of earning a doctorate degree and the pardon attorney has dismissed hopes for a sentence commutation. Accepting that I won’t reach the goals I set for my first decade disorients me. I need to create a new aspiration and redirect my attention toward new goals that are in harmony with my commitment to restoring my dignity.  In time I must show the world that I’m a man, something more than a prisoner, but I don’t know how I’m going to create an identity that separates me from the bad decisions of my early 20s. *  *  *  *  *  *  *        Without the continuous demands of an academic schedule, I accelerate my daily exercise routine, running seven miles each morning, following the run with a thousand crunches and a thousand leg lifts. In the afternoons I work out with weights, training for strength and size. I take advantage of the library, reading for enjoyment, though I’m simply passing time. By the spring of 1996, I feel my physical strength peaking, but my spirit feels empty. When I was working toward my academic degrees I had a solid link to the real world. Similar to my correspondence and visits with mentors, every paper I submitted provided a tangible outside connection. Now, without clear objectives, my sense of meaning or relevance as a man fades away, disappearing like a ship sailing over the horizon. I don’t have a woman to love. I spend my days working out, eating, reading, and sleeping, mirroring the meanderings of other prisoners around me. My frustration increases when I see university students, legislators, attorneys, judges, and other citizens touring the grounds and buildings. FCI Fairton is within driving distance of major cities. Tour groups from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wilmington frequently walk through the prison. Guards flank these tour groups, ensuring that prisoners don’t interact with the visitors. I’m completely alienated from society as I watch them gawking at the fences that have held me for the past 3,000 days. I imagine the inaccurate spiel guards recite to the visitors:   “This is a modern correctional institution, and our professionally trained correctional officers provide numerous opportunities for the inmates to prepare for law-abiding lives––blah, blah, blah.”  I fixate on the women in the tour groups, wondering what it would be like to know them, for them to know me. To them I’m not a man but prisoner in a cage, or worse, an inmate, that dehumanizing term I’ve been hearing for far too long. I have to get out of here.   *  *  *  *  *  *  *   “There’s a mistake in my classification,” I say to Ms. Dobson, my case manager. We’re alone in her brightly lit office and I’m doing my best to ignore the light floral fragrance of her perfume. “I should be classified as a low- rather than medium-security prisoner.” “Let’s see what the computer says. What’s your number?” She’s competent and totally professional.  As such, I wonder what draws her to work in a prison instead of working in a more honorable profession, as a nurse, a teacher, a journalist, or anything other than a functionary of this wretched system. I give her my registration number. She’s fast on the keyboard, clicking my number with the speed and precision of an accountant on a ten-key. When the appropriate screen appears, she studies her computer. “Well, you don’t have a history of violence, and no prior incarceration, so your security points are low enough, but your sentence is too long.  It gives you an automatic management variable that keeps you as a medium-security inmate.”  Despite her assessment of the information on the screen, I know it’s wrong. “You know how much time I’ve already served, don’t you?” I ask. “You’ve served 104 months, but in order to transfer to a low, you need to be within 18 years of your release date. Sorry.” It’s disconcerting to hear how much time I have remaining to serve, but she has miscalculated. “I am within 18 years of my release,” I clarify. “The computer shows that you have 247 months remaining to serve, that you won’t be released until August, 2013.” “Okay, it’s April, 1996. If you do the math, I’m 17 years, four months to release. That’s only 208 months, not 247 months.” “Are you sure?” Ms. Dobson is looking at the monitor, wondering. She writes out the number of months on a BOP notepad, multiplies, and smiles when she confirms that my numbers match hers. She then clicks a few more keys on the keyboard. “Hey, you’re a ‘low’. Congratulations!” I laugh. “You know what that means, don’t you?” “That I’m going to a low?” I venture. “That’s right. I’ve got to submit you for transfer. Where would you like to go?”   *  *  *  *  *  *  * The guards tell me it’s a short drive from Fairton, New Jersey to Fort Dix, New Jersey and I appreciate the smooth ride in the white van as we maneuver through city traffic. From an open front window I feel the breeze and smell the fragrant, blooming cherry blossoms. Children carrying colorful lunch boxes and wearing backpacks meander on sidewalks, savoring their time until school bells ring. I hear horns blasting, dogs barking, and I take in the kaleidoscope of city life. Someday I’ll return to a city, but for now I’m chained and strapped to a bench seat. Nevertheless, I’m filled with optimism that my transition to the low-security FCI in Fort Dix means new opportunities as well as respite from the inescapable pressure, stress and volatility of higher security. In four months I’ll complete my ninth year. I’ve walked through puddles of blood in high- and medium-security prisons. I’ve carefully navigated and deliberately avoided problems that complicate the lives of so many other young prisoners. Still, as eager as I am for life in a low-tension environment, I’m still wrestling with the enigma of figuring out what society expects of me. I wonder what more I can do, given the restrictions this system places on me. Guards roll open the gates and the van drives inside. I’m untroubled by the cyclone fences, by the coils of glistening razor wire, and by the white cars slowly patrolling the perimeter.  I’m desensitized to the ritualistic processing and I shrug off the forms, the fingerprinting, the mug shots, the strip searches, and the staff interviews. I grab my bedroll and walk to building 5702 on the east side of the prison. Despite the fences surrounding Fort Dix it doesn’t feel like a prison. One reason may be the friendlier temperament of the population here. In place of intimidating glares and scowls I see smiles and nods. Even the layout differs, as I walk on what once was an asphalt road, and the long, rectangular-shaped, brick buildings on either side of me have windows without bars that are large enough to pass a sofa through. Fort Dix is part of an active army base. Military jets land on a runway only a stone’s throw away, and the acrid smell of jet fuel lingers in the air. Before the Bureau of Prisons erected fences to enclose the FCI, these buildings were part of the base, serving as officers’ housing and soldiers’ barracks. Military personnel currently live just outside the fences in buildings of the same design. The buildings were erected before World War II and the age shows. As I walk into my housing unit I notice that decades of foot traffic have worn the checkered-pattern ceramic tiles down to the cement on the hallway floors. Without air conditioning, or even a ventilation system, humidity turns the housing unit into a sauna. The guard tells me I’m assigned to room 217, on the second floor. I sweat as I climb the concrete stairs. When I open the steel door on the second-floor landing, the long, narrow hallway reminds me of a low-rent apartment building with concrete-block walls and unadorned wooden doors on each side. I pause at room 217, tap the door twice as a courtesy, and then walk into the 12-bunk room. A man sits at a table against the wall of windows on the far side of the room. He’s writing, but looks up as I close the door. He’s probably in his late 50s, with reading glasses resting halfway down his nose that give him the cerebral look of a professional. “I’m Michael Santos,” I introduce myself. “I’ve been assigned to this room, bunk two, upper.” “Paul Murray,” he stands and walks over to shake my hand. I appreciate the genuine handshake rather than a fist bump. “This is your bunk,” he shows me. “I’m right beneath you. This is your locker.” The metal locker is six feet tall, three feet wide, and two feet deep. He opens the double-door, revealing a spacious interior that is easily four times as large as the lockers I’ve used over the past several years. I’m astonished by the amount of storage I’ll have. “I can’t pick up my belongings until tomorrow, but at least I’ll be able to store everything in here.” “Why can’t you get your property?” he asks. “The guards who processed me said it was too late to inventory.” “I’ve got some things that’ll hold you over until you get your belongings,” he offers, and then he opens his locker to hand me a pair of sweats, a tube of toothpaste, a toothbrush, and a bar of soap. “Thanks. This helps. I’ll get it back to you when I shop.” “No problem. Where’re you coming from?” “I was at FCI Fairton for the past few months. Before that I was at FCI McKean, and USP Atlanta before then.” “Oh, so you’ve been down for awhile.” “I’ll finish my ninth year in August.” “Nine years! My God, are you almost out?” “I wish. I’ve still got more than 17 to go.” “Months?” “No, 17 more years.” “Whoa! I don’t think there’s anyone here with that much time. What’d they get you for?” “I sold cocaine.” It’s always the same question and I always qualify my answer. “No violence or weapons. It’s my first time in prison but my judge sentenced me to 45 years.” Paul shakes his head. “These drug sentences are ungodly. I never realized how bad they were until I got here. The sentences seem more severe than the crimes warrant.  Murderers serve less time.” “How about you? How long have you been here?” Paul shakes his head. “I’m embarrassed to say after listening to you. I’m serving an 18-month sentence for health-care fraud. I’ve been here for nine months.” “Are you a doctor?” “No. I was a lawyer, but I resigned from the bar. The felony would’ve resulted in my disbarment at some point anyway.” “So why does a lawyer serve time for health-care fraud?” “Long story. My practice represented medical clinics and testing labs. Billing problems tangled me up with the law and here I sit. I call it my sabbatical.” *  *  *  *  *  *  * I settle into the Fort Dix community, grateful for the lower volatility levels. My housing unit is one of six on the compound, each holding 400 men. Most prisoners serve time for drugs, but many others like Paul serve short sentences. Thoughts about how I’m going to spend the rest of my time continue to trouble me, especially when administrators confirm that they won’t permit the university library to send me books. “Our policy provides for you to receive hardcover books from a bookstore or a publisher, not libraries.” The supervisor of education doesn’t leave any room for special circumstances. “And I’m not going to make an exception. If I make an exception for you, I’m going to have to make one for everybody.” “Really? How many prisoners do you have here who are candidates for a Ph.D.?” I ask. “That’s not the point. Our policies reflect the need to preserve the security of the institution. If you wanted to pursue a Ph.D., you should’ve thought about that before you came to prison.” It’s the same admonition I’ve heard repeatedly and I don’t see much upside in trying to press for permission. Prison guards find it easy to hide behind the shortsighted “security of the institution” mantra. Frustrated, I search for an activity that will sustain me, something I can pursue on my own without the need for permission from authorities. My exercise regimen continues, though it’s not nearly enough to ease the sense of hopelessness I’m struggling to suppress. I exercise until I exhaust myself physically, running longer distances and lifting weights. In search of something more, I join a therapy group that Dr. Warren, a psychologist, sponsors. She calls it the Long-term Prisoners Group and I agree to attend the two-hour discussion each Wednesday afternoon. Afro-centric art decorates Dr. Warren’s office. Portraits of Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey hang on her wall. I’m curious whether she’s met resistance from BOP colleagues who consider such leaders revolutionaries. Sitting in Dr. Warren’s group is as close as I can come to sitting in a classroom and I admire the soothing way she manages the group. Although I want to emulate her compassion, I have a hard time tolerating the self-pity and hypocrisy expressed by other group members. Eight people participate in our group and we all sit in chairs that form an oval circle in Dr. Warren’s carpeted office. Bored, sometimes I drift into my own thoughts, trying to get a feel for Dr. Warren’s interests by reading the titles on the spines of books that pack her wooden shelves. I see works by Toni Morrison, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates. I’ve continued coming to the meetings because I learn from listening to her. Even though she allows the prisoner participants to rant, I admire the nonjudgmental patience I hear in her questions. Regardless of how frequently some men in the group shift blame for their actions, she kindly nods, indicating agreement or understanding. Despite Dr. Warren’s efforts to engage us, I don’t connect with the other men, and I can’t conceal my contempt when they whine about their circumstances. “I’m only in prison because my best friend snitched me out,” says Eric. “Didn’t you have anything to do with getting caught?” I ask. “He’s the one who got busted. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut and no one would’ve knowed about me.” Eric doesn’t like my challenging him. “But you said you pleaded guilty.” I point out. “Only ̓cause the snitch was gonna testify  ̓gainst me. I’m servin’ 10 years even though the DEA didn’t catch me with nothin’.” “Aren’t you serving 10 years because you sold cocaine, and because you stood in front of the judge and admitted guilt?” “Yeah, but if the snitch wouldn’t  of said nothin’ I wouldn’t of even been charged. Them conspiracy laws ain’t right, they just ain’t fair.” In an effort to advance the discussion, Dr. Warren suggests a creative exercise. “Before we meet next week,” she instructs, “I want you to think about what you value most in life. I’d like each of you to come prepared to discuss what you consider your highest value. And remember, what we say in the group stays in the group.” I know exactly what values drive me, and when I return for our next meeting I’m hopeful that the discussion will advance beyond complaining about sentence lengths and unjust prosecutions. “So why don’t we begin with you, Jim,” Dr. Warren begins. “Have you been able to pinpoint your highest value?” “Yes, I have.” Jim responds. He sits to the immediate right of Dr. Warren. He’s 35 and has served four years of a nine-year sentence, his second time in prison for distributing methamphetamines. Jim shaves his head, but he grows long, red whiskers from his goatee and he’s always twisting them when he talks. We’re in a room with standard lighting, but he insists on wearing sunglasses because his eyes are sensitive, he says. The words “love” and “hate” are tattooed on the knuckles of his left and right hand. “Most important value to me is my relationship with Jesus Christ, my personal Lord and savior.” “Amen!” another group member exclaims, voicing his approval. Dr. Warren nods, encouraging Jim to continue. “And how does your relationship with Jesus help you through each day?” “Well I’m very spiritual,” Jim twists his whiskers as he slouches in the chair. “I hardly ever miss services, and every night I say my prayers.” “What do you pray about?” I ask. “It’s personal.” “Generally, I mean,” prodding him further. “Do you want to share with the group what you pray about, Jim?” Dr. Warren turns her head from Jim to cast me a warning look. “We’ll all understand if you’d prefer to keep your prayers to yourself.” “Mostly I pray that I’ll get out early, and that my ol’ lady don’t sell my Harley ̓fore I get home.” Dr. Warren nods. “That’s very spiritual,” I chuckle. “Michael, do you have something you’d like to share?” It’s clear that Dr. Warren doesn’t approve of my sarcasm. “Sorry, I’ll wait my turn.” Jim glances my way, but he doesn’t say anything and I can’t read his eyes through the dark shades. “Bob, would you care to share your values with the group?” Dr. Warren turns to another prisoner. “I’d like to pass.” He folds his arms and stares at the floor. Dr. Warren nods. “Is everything okay, Bob?” Bob shrugs, “I just don’t know what to say.” “Well, if you feel like talking, we’d like to listen,” she tells him. The room is quiet, except for the tick of the second hand on a wooden clock carved in the shape of the African continent. “Tom, how about you, are you ready?” She encourages him, smiling. “Would you go next?” “The most important thing in the world to me is just gettin’ through this time. I hate bein’ locked up.” Tom is serving his fourth prison term for drugs. He wears an orange cap over greasy hair, and tattoos of three falling tears blemish his face. “Have you thought about anything you can do to ease your way through?” Dr. Warren probes, trying to gauge how constructive he’s being with his time. “There’s nothin’ to do,” Tom opens his hands. “I done finished my GED. Ain’t no college classes. I been sleepin’ a lot, readin’, watching’ TV.” “What do you like to read?” she asks. “I like lookin’ at the Maxim, People, car magazines, anything that lets me know what’s goin’ on in the world.” “Do you ever read books?” Dr. Warren queries, trying to engage him. “Nah. I get bored too easy.” He looks up at the ceiling, stretches his neck from side to side. “And you don’t have any interest in tutoring others or participating in religious services, like Jim?” “I like sleepin’ mostly. When I’m ̓sleep, it’s like I ain’t even in prison.” “Steve, have you thought about what you value most in life?” Dr. Warren moves on. “I’m like Jim. God’s most impor’ant to me. I be readin’ my Bible, goin’ to services. I been in a Bible study group for like two months now and I’m learnin’ a lot. Jesus is helpin’ me get through this.” Steve braids his hair in cornrows and wears a goatee, neatly trimmed. I look at the floor, shaking my head. “I think it’s commendable that you’ve found peace, Steve. We all need to find strength to get us through tough times, and it sounds as if you’ve found yours through religion.” Dr. Warren nods as she compliments Steve. “Amen,” Steve says. “Praise God,” Jim twists his whiskers, nodding in unison. “Bill, how about you? What do you value most highly?” Dr. Warren smiles, inviting Bill to share. Bill is assigned to the room across the hall from me. I see him frequently because he sleeps in the bunk above Al, a guy I sometimes tutor. Bill is in his late 20s. He’s active on the compound, always sitting at a card table, playing dominos, running a gambling pool. “I dunno. I guess I value my wife, and God too.” I slouch, massaging my forehead with one hand. “Why you be hatin’ on the Lord?” Steve challenges me as he tilts his head and scowls. “Is something bothering you, Steve?” Dr. Warren prods, pushing Steve to express himself. “Yes,” I invite him to open up.  “Speak your mind, say something, get us away from the BS in here.” “I’m just sayin’, we’re up in here givin’ praise to Jesus, and he’s all slouchin’ in his chair,” Steve points at me, “like he’s bored or ain’t wanna hear it.” “Michael, do you have anything you’d like to say?” Dr. Warren asks me. “Everything said in the group stays in the group?” I ask, welcoming the confrontation. “Of course. You can speak freely in here,” Dr. Warren confirms, glancing at everyone in the group. The length of time I’ve served has numbed my sense of empathy. I’ve grown less tolerant of listening to whiners week after week. I sit up in my chair. “Okay. It bothers me that Dr. Warren gave us all an opportunity to learn from each other. We’re all serving time, locked inside the same fences, going through the same struggles. She asked us to think about our highest values, what’s most important in our lives, but instead of speaking honestly, talking about what you really feel, you’re talking about what you think she wants to hear. This isn’t an application for parole. No one’s getting a time cut for this. I was hoping something more substantive would come from our meeting today. Instead, it’s the same as always.” “What makes you think you be knowin’ so much?” Steve asks. “I know that God isn’t the highest priority in your life, I know that much.” “How you be knowin’ what I feel?” “Because if God was the highest value in your life, you wouldn’t be whining in here each week about how you don’t belong in prison, about how it’s all a snitch’s fault that you’re here. If God were the highest value in your life, you would accept that you’re exactly where God wants you to be. That’s how I see it.” I turn to Bill. “If your relationship with your wife had the highest value to you, would you really have slutty magazine pictures taped all over your locker? Come on, fellas. Why are we doing this? Who are we trying to impress?” “That’s quite a tirade,” Dr. Warren says. “What the others said really bothered you.” “He ain’t even said what his values is, but he be tryin’ to say that we ain’t bein’ real,” Steve directs his comment to Eric. “My highest value is simple. What I value most is liberty, and I don’t have it. All I’m thinking about is what I can do while I’m in here to make sure that once I get out, I’ll never lose it again.” “Oh, and you ain’t think we wanna get out?” Steve challenges me. “If you want to get out, if that’s what’s most important to you, then I want to hear what you’re doing to get out, and what you’re doing to make sure that once you get out, you never come back.” “But there ain’t nothin’ we can do! Besides, what you doin’ that’s so diff’rent? You sayin’ we be whinin’, but you’s in here ever’ week complainin’ ̓bout how no one’s lettin’ you finish school. Shee-it, you be whinin’ just like every’n else,” Steve says. “You know what? You’re right. I’m changing that, starting now, as of this minute. For 10 years I’ve been trying to build a record so the world would consider me differently from other prisoners. Now I’m finished. Going forward, I’m doing what’s necessary to ensure that when I walk out of here, I walk out as a man with dignity, ready to stand on my own. This system may hold me for 16 more years, but I’m not going to let it condition me for failure and ruin the rest of my life. I suggest you guys do the same.” “So what’re you going to do? What changes are you making?” Jim leans back on the chair, twisting his whiskers. “I’m enrolling in law school.” “Shee-it! You’s in prison yo! Can’t be goin’ to no law school from here. Even if you could, what good it gonna do? Ain’t no one gonna hire no lawyer from prison.” Steve flicks his hand in the air, dismissing my comment. “He has a good point, Michael. Have you thought about the ways your felony might influence a lawyer’s career?” Dr. Warren asks. “I didn’t say I wanted to be a lawyer. I said I’m enrolling in law school. Instead of thinking about what I can’t do, I’m going to think about what I can do. I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I know I’m going to serve 16 more years. I may not be able to become a member of the legal profession, but if I earn a law degree I’ll be able to help other prisoners who want to file their own legal motions.” “So you want to be a jailhouse lawyer?” Jim nods his head, still twisting the whiskers. “Not just a jailhouse lawyer. I’ll study and become the best jailhouse lawyer in the system. It’s one way I can make myself useful in here.” “That’s a plan,” Dr. Warren agrees, smiling.

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Damian Donoghue from SuperHealth joins Mason on the podcast today to discuss and the health implications of the 5G network. Damian is extremely well read in the areas of health, wellness, detoxification and environmental pollutants and has a keen interest in finding solutions against harmful EMF exposure. Tune in for a wildly interesting and eye opening chat. Mason and Damo discuss: The 5G network, what is it? The cellular harm 5G can cause and the strategies we can embody to cultivate resilience against it. The ins and outs of non native EMF exposure. Environmental awareness and community based action as drivers for change. Building biology as a preventative tool. The actions steps you can take to reduce 5G paranoia and anxiety. The importance of distance when protecting against 5G frequencies. Using the pineal gland as a navigational tool. Heavy metal exposure. Data collection and advertising. The importance of detoxication and forest bathing. Health sovereignty and cultivating Qi. Simple tips for blocking non native EMF's and blue light in your home. Melatonin and it's role within the body. Damian's favourite supplements and lifestyle practices for full body protection and potentiation.   Who is Damian Donoghue ? Damian has been researching natural ways to heal the body for the last 20 years. After healing himself of an 8 year bout of chronic fatigue, Damian set out to empower others to reach a peak state of health and wellbeing. Damian loves helping people to optimise their health by flooding the body with nutrition from superfoods and tonic herbs and teaching effective detox strategies for removing heavy metals and toxic chemicals. One of Damian's main areas of focus is helping people to protect themselves from the constant onslaught of the health depleting microwave radiation being emitted from all of our wireless technologies like smart phones, smart meters, WiFi and 5G. Damian is extremely passionate about life and helping others and is a proud health crusader fighting for humanity.   Resources: Damian's Website Damian's Facebook Damian's Instagram Damian's Youtube SuperHealth EMF Protection Pack - 15% Off Discount Code - SF15 Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt Website Iris Blue Light Screen Filter Ra Optics Blue Blocking Glasses How To Block Blue Blue From Your Phone Screen Video 5G Apocalypse Documentary Barrie Trower Ex Royal Navy Microwave Weapons Expert EMF Bed Canopies Ken Rohla - Staying Healthy with 5G Wireless and the Internet of Things, EMF Protection Dr Deitrich Klinghardt – Pineal gland, 5G, Aluminium, Glyphosate, Fluoride and WiFi Dr Mercola's Interviews with Dr Deitrich Klinghardt About EMF's Dr Katherine Horton Speaking About Eye implants, 5G and Depopulation Plan By The Shadow Government   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus we're on Spotify! We got you covered on all bases ;P   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason:   (00:00) All right Damo, let's do it man. So first time on the pod, it's been about, I think it's been like just under 10 years since I met you, Randwick race course when you were doing extreme superfoods. "All the extreme." I remember you saying when you changed over to SuperHealth you were like, "Man, it's too extreme."   Damian:  (00:22) It's too extreme, it's way too extreme.   Mason:   (00:25) That was so good because it goes like that Kirlian electromagnetic ball. Just that Qi, like it was the Dougan, like the style that would suit... Extreme superfoods. ... I've got a bunch of your stuff back in those days and you got me onto the marine phytoplankton and the hydrogens right there back in the day. So man, it's good to be on here chatting now.   Damian:  (00:52) Yeah. Thanks buddy. A pleasure to be here. Hey.   Mason:  (00:55) Yeah man. ... So you're over in your place in Perth, we tuned in a little bit, but for everyone, you rock SuperHealth from there. What else are you up to at the moment?   Damian:   (01:07) So about to release a new range of products. So they've been sitting about eight years now. My product range. So it's been time for a revamp, which I'm super excited about. So they're coming out really soon. But yeah, just really focusing on education, especially the topic we're going to talk about today, is just getting people aware on microwave radiation coming from all our wireless technology. It's probably one of my biggest areas now, more passionate areas because I really just want to educate people and get people switched on and what can we do in this environment now? So that's probably one of my bigger messages at this point of time.   Mason:  (01:46) Well, I mean I'm stoked to talk to you about it. Because you're well read on it, but I like talking to you about these things because you got a real good outlook on life. You've got a real positive... through all the deep dives into all the ways we've been poisoned and microwaved in our environment. For those of you who are on the audio, the smile's beaming right now, which is on the video... But it's important, because it can be such a deep dark space and I don't know, some people might not have been in this world. Maybe Super Feast podcast is maybe the place you like learning about some of the.. The drawbacks and the microwave stuff.   Mason:  (02:26) But most people listening have either been down the rabbit hole themselves or know someone that's formed a bit of a dark outlook on life in terms of just being exacerbated by and just overwhelmed by everything that's been thrown at us. So yeah man, I'm super keen because you're super proactive on what we can do about it as well. So let's dive in because it's been a while you've been talking about it, you got and others great Facebook lives about what to do when you're traveling with the wifi and having the building biologist over to your house. So can you just talk to me about when you started tuning into all this and why it's driving your education platform at the moment?   Damian:  (03:08) For sure. So I think it's very much what you said. You go down these deep dark holes of reality or what a lot call conspiracy and yeah, I just find someone's got to digest this stuff and then someone's got to regurgitate it to the people in a format that they can accept and deal with because as you know, the darker and deeper you go in these holes, the more you uncover and the reality of it all is we're under attack from our environment, from the world we're in. And so really now how do we get strong in that environment? So I think for me, I've studied health for so long and it was all about putting clean food in my mouth. Is it organic food? Am I drinking clean water?   Damian:  (03:56) And we're doing all these things putting through our mouth. But what about the stuff we can't see? And that's what really started to interest me because you've got people coming to... Like yourself, we've got people coming to us all the time with health problems. But it's like, is it just the water? Is it just the food? Is it just the chemicals they're exposed to? And I really understand that now. It's not. It's a lot to do with the frequencies that we're bathing in daily. And the more I looked into wifi back in the day before 5G came out, I just realised we were bathing in a frequency that is harmful to human health. It's harmful to all life. And then the 5G started coming on the scene the last two years and I dug deeper and deeper and it all seemed like a conspiracy theory. It's like, 5G is going to be coming out, microwaving us all."   Damian:  (04:50) And yeah, it was something that you think you'd read about on the internet for many years, but now they're rolling this out. And that's why now I really want to focus on what can we do about it? How can we avoid it? How can we protect ourselves? And my biggest message today about 5G is not just getting into a state of fear and going, "Oh my God, these things are harming us. What are we going to do?" And people become helpless and fearful. It's not about that. It's basically diagnosing and acknowledging who is our enemy? What is the enemy? And how can we avoid it? What can we do to protect ourselves? How can we be proactive and take those action steps to either stop 5G, stop the rollout or protect ourselves in a 5G world. And so that'd be my biggest message today is, how can we be proactive about it?   Mason:  (05:46) When you tuned in, what was it about 5G and in its detrimental effect, what was it specifically that got your interest?   Damian:  (05:56) I think it was just after suffering with ill health myself. Whatever it was, 10 years go now, 15 years ago.. When I started experiencing chronic fatigue. And it was that having your health taken away from you, you never want to go back there and you do everything you can to stay healthy and be vibrant and to even think that there's a frequency, something we can't smell, taste or see in our environment that's taxing me, taking me back to that state of fatigue or depletion in my body. But that really interested me. And that's when I started reading more and more and realised, "Hold on, this silent frequency that we can't smell, taste or see is there taxing our body." And it was that, it was the realisation of it's not just food and water now, it's, could be the device that I'm holding texting every day. It could be that that's actually taxing my body. So it was wanting to know what can we do about that?   Mason:  (06:54) How was it taxing the body did you find? Or will it be taxing the body?   Damian:  (06:59) Yeah, so disturbing your cell metabolism basically. So all your cellular functions in the body are disturbed by these frequencies. So what they're doing is keeping us in a state of fight and flight. Now I'm talking about EMF or electromagnetic fields, but specifically non-native EMF because people say, "Oh, there's EMF coming from the sun, the earth's got EMF coming off it all of the time." Well, yes it does, but we're not focusing on that, we're focusing on non-native EMF. Not native to this earth, which is manmade technology that's emitting these things. And so it was the disturbances it was having on our fertility, the way our energy is produced on the mitochondria in the cell. So it was all of these disturbances coming from the frequencies that were really interesting me more and more.   Mason:  (07:52) Because we're at that point, it was an interesting one for me this year because I've had mates like yourself who have been onto the 5G. A few years ago, I've had other friends, real mates more on an esoteric kind of space, again for years and years training people how to acknowledge that there is this entity that's going to be entering into our sphere and how do we disassociate somewhat spiritually with this entity and not allow that unwanted relationship to come in. But then, the world didn't really click onto it so much. The majority haven't really clicked onto it so much. And it was probably three months ago when we saw everyone really jumping onto this bandwagon, which was amazing because this rush came. I had this really mixed reaction to it for some reason because from the start of the year, I remember seeing a photo of a football field at the start of the year in February and it had Telstra 5G on it.   Mason:  (08:52) And that didn't get people's alarm bells going. Maybe the front runners, people who are breaking the ice, but the level of outrage warranted when you look into a little bit of the data. Which is still... The data is still getting verified, but I know there's a lot of very legitimate studies occurring and then maybe you can help me pull up a bunch and we'll put them in the show notes as well so everyone can just calmly go in and just check through this stuff and make sure we all get informed of what's going on. Outside of it, for or against kind of model.   Mason:  (09:31) It annoyed me the level of emotion and fear and outrage that came at such a late stage when everyone had so much of an opportunity to realise years ago that this was coming. I feel what I got was a lot of people... and you know this is me as well in certain instances. I'm not pointing the finger. We need to acknowledge that you're not awake and aware of the changes and the things that are going on in your environment. You need to be vigilant. And if you're late, and you're too late, maybe cop some of the responsibility that, "Shit maybe we're not going to be able to change or stop the rollout as much as we could have, if we'd got in way earlier." So it was just a wake up call, but as a community we need to be really switched on at these legislative stages of these projects. I don't know what it was like for you up there, whether it was out in the west, if it was the same, like three or four months ago that everyone became aware for the first time and jumped onto it.   Damian:  (10:36) Well, I think you're exactly right Mase, yeah it was a real last minute explosion. And I really feel it's lack of information. People don't understand the severity of it, which is what I want to communicate today is this is really serious. And it's going to take all of us coming together, and it's not just protecting ourselves, it's standing up and going to the rallies, getting these letters into parliament and saying that we're not happy. Will they have any effect? Probably not. It's such a huge industry, $17 trillion industry, we're probably not going to have any effect. We're probably going to have to see a lot of people who suffer before there's big change and that's when we will all-   Mason:  (11:22) Yeah, maybe a couple of decades, few decades even. And we're talking about industries to be fair that I'm not allowing any information to come out. I think I'm talking more about just realising the level that we all need to step up on very individual levels.   Damian:  (11:43) And when you've got... I follow a gentleman called Barrie Trower and we'll put some links in below for your listeners. Barrie Trower was a Royal Navy microwave weapons expert. He specialised in directed energy weapons. Like looking at how can you target an enemy with one of these weapons and just listening to him, he goes through research paper after research paper of all the biological effects of 5G on our environment, on humans. And there's no testing being done, and that's the freaky bit. It's never been tested yet. Somehow it's still rolling out. These groups of scientists from 40 different countries around the world, leading scientists all saying, "No, this cannot happen. We can't allow this to happen." Yet It's still rolling out. So it tells you there's a lot of money involved. So-   Mason:  (12:37) Huge amounts of money. When you look at the opportunity here, and I definitely think there's... I think we've talked about this a lot. There's probably of course... There's always a particular percentage of psychopaths in the world and people that know these things, and how damaging these things are. And will go ahead if there's some kind of game, whether it's power, mostly power, fiscal or just egoic. But then there's like a lot of people who are in that undertow who just see the fact that this is going to connect the world in a way that it's never been. Something like 5G... That's basically every device is going to be connected. You will never ever not be able to instantly upload something. You're not going to have any drop offs.   Mason:  (13:18) And so you've got to remember there's a lot of... I don't know if ignorance is the right word, maybe, because you could say, "I'm ignorant to the possible benefits to humanity." So that's fair. But there's also a lot of ignorance in what this is going to do to the human body. And some people can only see that beautiful side of the coin, and then that's going to be very offensive if you bring up the fact that this grail for something that's going to revolutionise, in their world like the medical industry, you know, the way that you know, the, what, you know, like medicine, like the development of technologies to help humanity. That's kind of that shit that you can hide behind really, really easily here. And so I think it's always important on these ones to make sure you know what it's like, you've got to develop a lot of empathy when you're having these kinds of very tricky conversations eh.   Damian:  (14:10) Yeah, definitely. And yeah, I think you're hitting the nail on the head once again. So just open up. I'd love to just explain 5G, just as a brief. What is 5G? It's the fifth generation solar telecommunications. So we're familiar with 3G and often 4G because we see it on our phones. So anyone who's new to this, you'll see 4G often on your phone next to your reception bars. 4G was what was still current now, and has been for quite some time. And that's the cell towers that we see around the place they are sending out this 4G message. 5G is a whole new game. It's nothing like 3 and 4G, people think it's just another step up. But the deeper you dig, you will realise that it's not. And that's what I wanted to talk about in a moment. But what are they promising? Faster downloads like you said, you can go anywhere, faster downloads, driverless cars, smart homes, walking into your home, everything's intelligent, turns on, all voice activated, your washing machine finishes washing a load and the next thing a notice comes up on your TV screen saying your washing is finished. Or your toast is ready. I mean for God's sake. So these are all the major-   Mason:  (15:33) The other one that's coming is a fridge that can scan what's going in and out of the fridge at any time and develops a shopping list for you based on your input and recipes you want. All this shit that's like dancing towards the virtual reality realms.   Damian:  (15:52) Yes. And the whole toothbrush, where you're using electric toothbrush, it does an oral scan and sends the data back to your dentist, so your dentist calls you when you need to have your teeth checked. It's just crazy, and I don't know if you've seen the Samsung phone, I saw an ad for a long time back, but there's a lady laying there with her pregnant belly and she's holding the phone and it's like an ultrasound of the baby and she can see the baby. So she's using this microwave radiation to take a scan of her baby. And so this is the things that they're promising is all this fast technology that's going to speed things up and make things easier for us, so they say.   Mason:  (16:37) The Jetsons.   Damian:  (16:38) Yeah, definitely. But at what cost? And that's what this is all about, at what cost? So I just want to give a bit of a brief what the 5G world might look like. I've got some notes here of some things I really want to bring up because I really think we have to understand the severity of it and actually acknowledge that, "Oh my God, this is not just something that's going to wash over and we'll forget about it in five years. This is going to impact all of us. And if not us, it's definitely going to harm our children." The exposure to microwave radiation on a child, they're much more delicate than us. So what does it look like? 5G world? Well, 5G millimeter waves don't travel far, they say roughly about 350 meter radius from a transmitter. Now 4G can easily travel 10 kilometers and so it'll cover a big area. But what's happening with 5G, it's beam forming. So if you pick up a device, you're using your phone, instead of just being in this 4G frequency now, you're getting 5G beaming at you like a laser beam specifically at that device.   Damian:  (17:49) So it's very accurate on where it's sending its frequency. Now, because of the 350 meter radius, it doesn't go very far. It doesn't do the 10 kilometer coverage so they are going to need small cells everywhere. These small cell transmitters are going to be on lamppost. We've just seen some go up now in Subiaco near the city in Perth. Now what we're looking at is an LED streetlight, but on top is a little aerial. So this is how they're going to them in everywhere, is you get all new street lights, no one will know anything different, you've got bright LED streetlights, but on top there's a transmitter. And so all these transmitters are emitting a field and will be beaming lasers exactly at every device in that area and they're going to need millions of... There's not just one, two or 10 in a suburb, they're going to have them everywhere. And we're going to be saturated with this stuff. And so that's why I really think we've got to become aware of this so we know what to avoid.   Damian:  (18:55) Now the biggest thing with 5G, there is no safety test done, and that's the scary bit is they're rolling all this out and nothing's been tested for safety on human health. Not only is it harming human health, it's harming all living organisms, plants, trees, insects, animals, aquatic life, microbes in our soil. Now one of the biggest one is the bees. We're seeing it now, you see videos where near a 5G tower, there's bees being wiped out. They're dying, dropping off. Now if we lose our bees, we lose our food. We need the bees to pollinate our food so that we can have fruit and all of these veggies and what have you, all fertilizing and producing food for us. If we don't have bees, we have no food.   Mason:  (19:43) So, even without this massive rollout, I think it's been pretty widely proven now that there's a dramatic drop in insect populations all around the industrialised world. I'm going to throw this on top of it. And that's like... I was listening to actually a comedian''s podcasts, he sometimes brings up some of these issues this morning and they were just commenting on the fact, you know what the problem is with that boomer generation is that they just weren't quite educated about just very simple things like, "Oh the bug..." And this is a very big generalisation of course. But like, "Hey, the bug populations are dropping." And they're like, "Oh cool. That's convenient." They're like, "What are you talking about? This is something that we all learned in year five. That insects are important." And so that's for sure, been like there's this older generation that's just here and it's going like, "Look, it's not that big of a fucking deal guys. Just relax."   Damian:  (20:45) Yeah. And if we don't have these insects, we don't have food, right? It's just crazy. But the worst thing about the 5G and the 4G and all this microwave radiation is it's harmful to all living things except mold, fungus, bacteria, and parasites.   Mason:  (21:07) Where is that data? Is this independent research going on?   Damian:  (21:10) Yeah, definitely. There's a lot of information on that and Barry Trower talks all about that. So catch this, we've all been injected or a lot of us have been injected as a child with god knows what heavy metals and potentially retroviruses, and-   Mason:  (21:27) Even if people aren't tuned into that conversation, there's an accumulation of heavy metals as you move along through life anyway, just through life, living and breathing in our industrial world.   Damian:  (21:35) Yes. And so what they're saying now is these frequencies are going to wake up a lot of these dormant viruses and bring them to life and bacteria thrives in it. So a lot of these bad bacterias will multiply at such a rapid rate, they actually become antibiotic resistant in these fields.   Mason:  (21:56) Antiviral resistant?   Damian:  (21:58) Antibiotic resistance.   Mason:  (22:00) Oh you're talking about the bacterial infections being waken up? Yeah. Right. I thought we're still talking about the retroviruses, sorry.   Damian:  (22:07) Yeah. So they'll become super bugs and they're saying these retroviruses will wake up and start to thrive. Now, if you get mold near a wifi device, a router, and they've measured mold produces up to 600 times the biotoxins in a wifi field. So you think about it, we're seeing people come to us with gut problems, ill health. And they're living in a home with wifi. Now if they've got mold in their body, the mold is just flourishing. It's being potentiated by these fields. And that's the scary thing is, the parasites and molds and viruses, they all love it and they will thrive. And that's why we're going to see more and more of the Lyme's disease sweep through us.   Mason:  (22:50) Spirocetes yeah, because they're really stealth. They can just sit there dormant for decades until there's a little bit of a crack, right?   Damian:  (22:58) Yeah, so they're loving these frequencies and that's the scary thing. Now, the other scary thing is we can't measure it. Right now, a building biologist can come in our home and say, "Right, your phone, your wifi is producing a frequency at such a high level that's basically going to lead you towards being sterile, leukemia, different diseases." Now they can link to the amount of exposure. Even Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, I love him. He's amazing. I don't know if you've heard any of his talks, but-   Mason:  (23:30) I've only heard of him through you, when we spoke last time.   Damian:  (23:34) Yeah. German doctor and yeah, he's describing how basically he's gone into homes of women that have got children with autism and he's gone back to where they slept when they were pregnant. They had to go into homes that they've got new people living in them and they started taking measurements of where mum was sleeping. What they found with the mothers that had children with autism, the EMF exposure in that area where they slept was 20 times higher than someone who hasn't had a child with autism. And now definitively saying, he said, "It's definitive, we now can guarantee that if you've got this certain level of exposure of wifi and EMF, your child is going to become autistic," or stuff with autism or however you word that, which he said up to now they could never link it to heavy metals in the brain and all, they couldn't definitively link it, but he said with this measure of wifi, now they can say, "Yes it is." Without an ounce of doubt.   Mason:  (24:40) What's interesting there, because I'm sure... We'll get the links so people can go down that route and see that connection there. Because of course if you've got that... We can see now, like if these frequencies of interrupting our own indigenous frequencies and about, now if we're electrical beams and we have a collection of Qi and electromagnetic energy on our membranes and our mitochondria instead of producing this energy and how our vital organs have this combined collection of electromagnetic charge in different areas of each major organ. If you're going to throw a new aggressive frequency in there, it doesn't take a genius to know that there's maybe going to be a little bit of interaction there.   Mason:  (25:33) So the problem is then, that we're relying on people who are, some more credible than others but yet independent people to go and get this data because as you said, no one's testing this stuff. And then you get this back and forth debate, which can go on for a long time and people going, "Well that person didn't do this. It's not a true scientific method, that's anecdotal," and they pick a part. It's like, "Yeah, Yeah." Maybe, not all the time, but there's something there. So if there's something, why isn't that bringing up the hypothesis for us as a collection of humanity to then maybe go up and set these double blind placebo full down the line, "Here's the theory and with no bias," which that's not really possible as we know, physics tells us that you're going to have a personal bias on the outcome anyway.   Mason:  (26:32) That's what I feel like with these kinds of things it's like we got to keep the conversation going. ... Like is it all a distraction? Is this whole entire thing just made up by one party or another to distract us from one other big thing that's going on. Whether that be the people who are rolling out this technology or the people who are creating the hype and fear around it. It's just like, just shut up and get real and just keep on the cover, let's go back and forth and have a conversation because something's going on here eh?   Damian:  (27:04) Yeah, that's right. Yeah. No, I agree. And-   Mason:  (27:07) Man, can you just go back and talk to us about what a building biologist is for people because that kind of industry, and Nicole Isma think is the woman who created building biology as an entire science. For me, it developed a lot of credibility for this whole thing. Because you've had quite a bit of experience with building biologists [crosstalk 00:27:30].   Damian:  (27:29) Yes. A building biologist will come into your home or your work space and they will bring in instruments like high-frequency meters that can measure non-native EMF. So electromagnetic fields coming from wireless technology, wifi, phones, earphones, smart TVs, all of these devices, they can measure it and they can tell you that this frequency is at a harmful level. They also can go in and teach you how to shield these frequencies. So if you've got a cell tower in the distance and you're living on a high rise apartment, and I have heard of this and your level with the cell tower, they're beaming it out, the frequencies, and it's smashing straight in through the windows and microwaving you. And they've taken measurements in situations like this and it's been horrific. The level of EMF coming in through the windows. So-   Mason:  (28:28) What you're saying ... Your subconscious programming go like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're hearing something like it's smashing through the window." No, this is a science now and this is the reality, this is happening. And then the next conversation is, is it detrimental? Well that's what everyone we're going down, that deep dive down from now, and if you talk to someone like a building biologist, they will show you some pretty impressive data. And educate you about how it's happening. Sorry, go on.   Damian:  (29:00) Definitely. And if anyone wants scientific documents on this, we can get all, we can dig all that out and put it in the links below. But they will diagnose the source, where it's coming from and then show you ways of shielding it. So it could be curtains that you're hanging that have got silver woven into them, which helps shield that window so you're not being hit. They may find you've got a smart meter and so it could be mounted on the wall of your house or outside the house. So they may put a metallic plate on the back of that wall and they may encase the meter in a metal box to stop those frequencies coming out and they will walk you through all different techniques of reducing that exposure.   Damian:  (29:44) Like my friend Ian, she helped me get wifi out of my home a few years ago and it was the best move I ever made. She went through and showed me, "Right, what we can do is put ethernet points in here. You can plug your devices in." All of my devices, my laptop right now, we're all plugged in. There's no wifi, there's no Bluetooth. And so they will help you design a safe home or a safer environment. But this is where the complications come in. The instruments that are required to measure the 5G frequencies, they can't be tested on these 2, 3, $4,000 meters.   Damian:  (30:22) You need a $250,000 meter and you need probably a degree behind you in that area of how to read these devices. And that's the biggest problem now. And that's really why I want us to talk about all of this because we can't measure it now. We can't say your kids, your family is at risk based on the small cells that are being put out on your lampost. We can't measure that now. Hopefully in the coming years, people will develop things that are much cheaper, but at this point of time we can't. So we're going blind into it. Before-   Mason:  (30:56) And even like a lot of building biologists, even the price of the instruments and just how... It's not a huge paying industry. They're not the most affluent.   Damian:  (31:08) No.   Mason:  (31:08) The biologists. They can't afford it. They can't afford these devices. ... That's not an official thing and I haven't studied the industry, but just from sniffing around.   Damian:  (31:22) Well that's right. And $250,000, I don't know what business could afford that for what you charge for a visit to a home. So yeah, they're very useful at helping diagnose and locate these harmful frequencies, but now things are going to get a lot different as 5G rolls out, the exposure to the millimeter waves and the biggest concern is we can't measure it now. So ultimately it's like we need distance between us and those transmitters. That's the biggest goal now.   Mason:  (31:56) In terms of like distance. If it's going to be a 350 meter radius, that's a difficult task. And we have people who are just not realistic of course, they're just going to be, now we're going to be like... I think about like my mum. There's just no way. She's in the city. How am I going to get her away from like... Someone who's got a permanent disability needing to be close to all those resources, so then we arrive at a crossroads. I think it's something that comes up and doesn't get spoken about much is when you go through these stages of going down the rabbit hole, I feel like people don't stop. You mentioned digesting before, you wanted to be someone to digest this and then share it. I really want to...   Mason:  (32:40) I think that's really good. That's a specific language because quite often when you go down this deep dive and you see people go towards paranoia a little bit quick, it's because they haven't stopped and actually digested. Whether digestion of what's going on looks like, "Hmm. Okay. That's the reality. That's really nice for me to understand that that's what's going on. And I think I'll make sure I get a little bit further in touch with my body, so that I can be aware." That might be one thing or it might be shamefulness or it might be this grief, for what was, or it might be just this other sadness. It might be anxiety.   Mason:  (33:25) Whatever it is. It's generally going to be something that's there anyway. It's like, we all have our own ways of dealing with that... We can keep on going down any route, but I would love to talk about what you're doing, whether it's getting yourself away from these, even having holidays away from this 5G network, which I really want to talk about forest bathing you're doing, because it's right. But even before we get to like, because that's step, that's what people try to, "Okay shit, there's all this bad stuff happening and it's going to destroy me and oh my God, my kids and what are we doing to the planet..."   Mason:  (34:01) It's like the global warming or the climate change anxiety that you see kids getting. What's that stage of digestion? This can be quite... I know this isn't so much of a solid conversation, might be a bit lofty to an extent or maybe psychological, but have you just got any recommendations for how you stay afloat and progressive even in those situations? How do you digest it?   Damian:  (34:28) So we get heading towards the action steps.   Mason:  (34:34) Yeah, first step of the action step in terms of actually digesting this. How do you... At a mindset level even, how do you stay positive with this?   Damian:  (34:44) Yeah, and I think it's not for everyone. The more you research all of these topics, the darker it gets. And I know that there's times I just need time out, and get out in the forest to clear my head. Ultimately, I know we're all here for a purpose and I'm pretty sure you and I are pretty solid on our purpose. You know what we're here to do, and I know for myself it's taking in all this stuff, but there's always solutions and I do want to mention one guy's name, which is Ken Roller. He's a great guy for people to follow because he talks about all this eerie stuff that goes very much into solutions.   Damian:  (35:21) There's always solutions and we've just got to stay focused on them. Taking the time out in nature for me is regrounding myself. You learn some new information and there's been some horrible stuff in the last two years I've uncovered, but it's taking time out to go clear your head and moving forward in a moment. Once we talk about some of these other steps, it's getting a clear mind, cleansing that pineal gland, so we can be divinely guided on how to protect ourselves. And ultimately that's how I do it, is learn about it, digest it, sit with it, when it gets all too much, get out in nature, clear your head, drink some water, get out in the sun, do those things and then come back to it and then basically work on a plan that people can apply to their lives.   Mason:  (36:12) Yeah. Nice. 100% man. And then I had to throw in for me getting right back into comedy. It was just a few years there when I went down the deep dive. I felt I'd lost a little bit of my own sense of humor and getting back that to jestery kind of feel, it brings a lighthearted reality into the fact that there is a bit of a cosmic joke to this whole thing anyway and the world's going to keep on ticking, no matter what. It's like this is really important to humans and we're doing some really bad shit to the earth. But you know, I was talking to Tahnee about it in terms of how much of a human centric view it is that we're destroying the planet and the planet just goes on... Even have millions and millions and millions of years.   Mason:  (36:58) It's just going to be like, "Oh gosh, what was that little spec? That back there that..." So that kind of... Definitely the comedy and taking that real macro view really helps me get some breath and yeah ageed. If you can connect back into the natural world, that is going to be the primary practice that fortifies you and the natural world includes love, loving connection, connection to your own spiritual self. These thing, and dancing in through the elements as a way of living. I think that's what we're going to be talking about now. That's what fortifies you, to an extent it's the beginning and then we've got lots of gadgets and shit as well.   Damian:  (37:43) And Mase, it was when you visited Perth last, when you came over that night and you arrived at that point of doom and gloom for me. And I was like, "Chem trails, this, that... And you were like, "Aah..." I could see you were like, "Far out this dude's way fought up in it all." But you've got to determine who the enemy is, what is the harmful... what is harming us? And that's my process. And I was digging in there and now I know that it's now we plan the steps. But the one thing you said to me that night, and it really motivated me, it actually become a type of some of the talks I did. You said, "Oh, aren't you interested in..." you used the word a moment ago, fortifying your body, like how do we build resilience? And that was your focus.   Damian:  (38:33) Because you're at that point where that's how you roll in your life right now. We are All still digesting all this. And I was like, "We've got to do this, and we're going to do that and this is happening..." But it was those words that you said... Isn't it important for us to look at how we can fortify our body? How do we build that resilience? And that led me into really delving into where we're going to go now with the conversation is, what can we do about it? What are the biggest things we can do to build that resilience to...   Damian:  (39:05) And like you and I have been teaching to our communities for the last eight, nine years, that super hero consciousness. We used to joke about being a superhero, but I feel now, now time to develop superhero consciousness is at an all time peak, this is where we've got to do it now. This is where we've got to step up and actually put the cape on and learn to fly. Because if we don't, we're going to melt. We've got to stand up and inspire others. And so, how do we become that superhero? Ultimately how do we do that? And I'd love to delve into that, now if you're ready, we'll start talking about some remedies and ways to protect...   Mason:  (39:50) Cape is on. I'm ready.   Damian:  (39:55) So number one thing to separate ourselves from 5G is distance. And this is going to be a hard one for a lot of people, but I want to put this as the biggest priority because if you have an opportunity to move away from city areas, populated areas is where the high density 5G is going to be. If you had that opportunity, I would say take it. And even if you don't think you have that opportunity, plant that seed now and plant that seed and water and water, because I've been watering for the last couple of years working out how I can get further away because it's the populated areas that we're going to see a lot of this 5G, intensity of the 5G. So distance is everything. People say, "Oh, if I use a blue a shield device, orgonite, this thing or stick on my phone, they're all great. But distance is number one. If you can get further away from the source of these frequencies, you are going to be safer.   Damian:  (40:53) So I just want to plant that seed and ultimately trees block 5G and this is why we're going to see more and more trees getting logged in city areas because the tree's will block that frequency and interfere with the effectiveness of 5G transferring information. So they're going to drop all the trees, which they're doing now, you can Google 5G trees getting cut down. So we know one thing is they block 5G. Now my whole life, I've never been that ocean person, I've been a tree person. And it all makes sense now, because being in the trees is going to be a lot safer place than being in the cement bound city area.   Damian:  (41:32) Now, not everyone can move, so let's have a look at some other areas, but please plant that seed for yourselves. Work out ways you can maybe get into a more rural location. They're talking about beaming 5G from satellites and when that day comes, there's going to be no safe place for us, but in the interim, let's do everything, fight back now and build the consciousness around each other. Because if we all come together, we're in here, we can take this down, 5G will fall. But, hopefully we can do it before there's too much damage done. So distance number one. Next thing is we need to tap into our inner intelligence, our divine guidance. How do we do that? Through the third eye, our pineal gland.   Damian:  (42:21) Now I remember someone saying to me, "When cyclone Tracey came through Darwin, there's two things you didn't see in Darwin. None of the native Aboriginal people and no animals. They were all gone." Now, you start thinking, "Well, why did they go and all the other white man, everyone else is just hanging around waiting for the cyclone?" Because the animals are tapped in with their pineal gland, their navigation gland. It's like a grizzly bear. Grizzly bear doesn't just hibernate because he thinks it's time. It's when he knows there's all of a sudden changes in the environment, he knows he's got enough food and then he gets the whisper from his pineal gland to say, "It's time to hibernate." Birds do the same, it's their navigation plan. And what they say is there's studies done that if your pineal gland is calcified, you will have a loss of sense of direction. That's interesting because this navigation gland in animals I truly believe is our navigation gland for ourselves and it gets us out of danger. So cyclone Tracy comes in, there's no Aboriginal people or no animals because they're all gone away now.   Damian:  (43:36) Their instinct has said, "Get away, get into safety." And that's what I believe we have to tap into now is tapping into that intuition, decalcify that gland and maximize its ability to guide us. Right now I'm guided to get away, get in a more rural area. That's what my heart is telling me every day. How do we do that with our pineal gland? Well, I'm sure you've got some good tips because we've been focusing on decalcifying the body for years. And we both have been around MSM for many years, so I'll just rattle off some things that you can add in on your day-to-day basis to help cleanse that gland. Because if your pineal gland is working, you have better sense of guidance and you will know what to do in times of need, like what we're heading into now.   Damian:  (44:23) So MSM, great for decalcifying the pineal gland. Boron. Iodine, super important to decalcify and remove the fluoride off your pineal gland. Lemon juice, the citric acid in there, cider vinegar. You've got the malic acid, they all help break up the calcification of the pineal blend. Tamarind fruit, you can have that in a paste or different preparations. That will help decalcify the pineal by removing fluoride off the gland. Getting out in nature, doing... I've started doing a lot more of the Joe Dispenza's listening to his talks and it's all about activating that pineal gland.   Mason:  (45:02) I've never done any Joe Dispenza stuff, but I feel like I've known so many people and gone over it and done his work in Mexico and doing these meditations. I feel like I have.   Damian:  (45:11) I had so many friends talk about him and it's only been the last three months I actually sat down and listened to some of his stuff and I was like, "Oh my God. Well this guy, he's onto it."   Mason:  (45:24) And then, I've got to get back into this. I'll get back to the third eye conversation at some point. I started going down this trippy thing around... Like when you look at the MRI, when you look at the scans and you see that it's just they're the pineal glands, like the soul. That's what they use to test, to really gauge a lot of the time whether there's a brain tumor. I think, I heard that. And that makes sense if it's off center. But it started tripping me out at one point, that level of localised calcification. I started being like how, "How? How the hell can it be that localised?" And so I haven't fall on either side of the fence of whether I think... Because I think our whole environment is like halogen fluoride that goes in and takes in receptors of iodine, which we know is one of the healthiest things possible.   Mason:  (46:17) All these things are going to contribute. This is just a little fire side like note... But how can it be an endogenous... Maybe it's an endogenous calcification, so, are things entering into our body that is forcing our own biology to calcify that kind of localised gland there or is it somehow... I just don't see how toxicity could be, like that's the only thing in that brain tissue that can actually be grabbed onto. But anyway, as you said, I need to dive back into it because it's been years since I've really gone down that rabbit hole. I'm looking forward to doing that actually, but as you said, decalcification is going to be a key thing anyway, like the MSM, the Boron, citric acid, tamarind paste is such a delicious addition anyway, I can get into it... I can definitely not need anymore excuse to get stuck into that but that decalcification process, where you were talking about going away.   Mason:  (47:18) I think we're going to go into it and talking about other things that you do for your body to take you away from the susceptibility that you have to these frequencies which are going to be frequencies that are going to take you towards the earth faster for composting basically right, get you in the death span quicker. And anything that's going to make you less susceptible to that gravitational pull and that slowing down and gumming you up is going to be something like it's a step in the fortification step in the right direction. So there's all these things you're talking about. We're working on joints, arteries, capillaries, all over the entire body.   Damian:  (47:53) Yes. Most definitely. And another thing around the pineal gland, I love Dietrich Klinghardt's work. He talks about-   Mason:  (48:03) Who?   Damian:  (48:05) Dietrich Klinghardt. He talks about glyphosate actually chelates with the aluminum in our body. From, he says it's all from the aerial spraying of aluminum for geoengineering. And it chelates with the aluminum and carries it straight to the pineal and he goes into depth about that. So that's something else we can share.   Mason:  (48:26) Does he?   Damian:  (48:27) Yeah.   Mason:  (48:28) Yeah, share that with me, because the pathways fascinate me so much. Possible pathways. I don't know what they are yet.   Damian:  (48:34) Yeah. So cleaning in that air I think is utmost importance just for our inner guidance. And so we know what to do. As you know, as we've got healthier and healthier over years, you know what herb you need, you know that you need to go to a sauna or you know if you need to go out in the bush. And it's following that instinct. Super important to follow that instinct and trust your heart, listen to that gut feeling. But now the biggest area I think we have to move in is heavy metal cleansing because like you said, it's environmental poisons, car fumes, injections going to the body, foods we're eating, there's all kinds of heavy metals accumulating. Now you've got to think about the TV aerial on your roof. What's it made out? Aluminum.   Damian:  (49:22) What does it do? Receives these frequencies and then transmits them down into your TV and turns it into a picture? Well, the more heavy metals that accumulate within us, the more we become an aerial. And this is what we don't want to be. We don't want to be an antenna. So reducing our heavy metal load is super important. And if you watch that documentary, the 5G apocalypse, they talk about that they, they talk about the accumulation of heavy metals and spraying of the skies is all part of 5G because it's also 5G's surveillance. They can actually see what's going on in everyone's home with all these devices.   Damian:  (50:03) It's data harvesting, all this information, but if you're full of heavy metals, you're going to show up in a 5G grid wherever you are. And people say, "Oh, why would they want to surveil us?" Well they do, they want to keep us in control because we're waking up, we're becoming conscious, we're realising that, "Hey, things aren't right in this world. We've got to make change." So they don't want us doing that. And when people say they will... The elites of this earth, whoever's got the most money, this is obviously one of their goals. So being heavy metal toxic is going to make you more conductive of these frequencies. So how do-   Mason:  (50:41) And about that, like that last scene of The Dark Knight where Batman's going after the Joker and he uses that full cell... That device like Morgan Freeman's like you can't use this, I'll quit, and he uses the cell phones to scan and he can see every single human in the entire city and... And I'm like, and at the end of it, he just like Morgan Freeman s the head of this multibillion dollar company but has the ethics to actually destroy it afterwards. I'm like, "Yeah guys. Morgan Freeman isn't running these companies in real life. They want it. They want the surveillance." As you said, that's data. It's not hard. What is the data for? Advertising.   Mason:  (51:24) It's not... Everyone's like, "Oh my God, I can't believe Facebook's harvesting data and then selling it to other people. That's such an intrusive..." Yeah, what did you expect? Why would this thing exist? How are they going to monetize it? And then once you stop monetizing and you get money invested, you have greedy people investing who want more money, how are you going to do it? You're going to keep on capitalizing on the number one thing, data on humans so you can psychologically either appeal to them or in a sinister sense, really twist them to make them want something that they didn't want before. It's not rocket science.   Damian:  (51:57) Yes, and I think you're dead on the nail again, Mase, that's exactly what's going on, it's companies want to know what we're doing at 5:00 PM, they want to know what we're doing at 7:00 AM. They want to know what we're consuming. What can they market to us next? I was looking for stock images on my computer yesterday, jump on Instagram today and stock images are rocking up. So it's interconnection of all of this data harvesting so they can market to us. I even have heard of 5G being used when you walk into a shopping center. They beam you with 5G and they can put suggestions in your mind with this technology. So you walk in, being you, all of a sudden you think that'd be a great dress over there to buy your wife or you need one of those new shavers. And there's been, Barry Trower talks about, there has been lawsuits against department stores that have used that technology.   Mason:  (52:53) Really? How does that work? I've got no idea, no concept how that could work. I know how crazy the world is. I know how crazy it is, but that's another level.   Damian:  (53:04) Well, he studied the spies in the cold war, he would take them and they'd use microwave directed energy weapons to basically manipulate people, get them to do things. He says basically within 36 hours he can have someone in their custody, they can have someone doing things that they would not normally ever do with microwave frequencies going into the brain that can actually change you and make you do things... They can make you hear things, all kinds of things. He talks all about that. But the department stores is one of the ones he explains and it's just fascinating that they can influence your decision making with this. But let's get back into the heavy metal cleansing. So what are we going to do about heavy metal cleansing? Charcoals, clays, great. But what I want people to understand is these binders passing through your gut are great, but they're only going to absorb heavy metals that are in the gut.   Damian:  (54:07) A lot of them for us are bound up in the brain. So we've got to look at ways of getting some of these metals out of the brain. And what I'm really getting into now is zeolite but not zeolites that we've always used. I'm looking at water soluble zeolites now, nano zeolites, which I did talk to you about when you visited last time. Zeolites that are super fine particles that can get across the blood brain barrier, go in, grab hold the heavy metals and carry them out of your system. Also, how do we squeeze ourselves? So Dr. Chris Shade is an expert on removing heavy metals from the body. And a lot of his detox protocols are squeezing yourselves, purging out the heavy metals, and then you've got them going to the bloodstream, the blood is then dropping it, filtering it out in the liver and it's dumping it into your GI tract when then the binders come through and collect them. And so it's strategies we've got to start to practice. Look at some of Dr. Chris Shade's work is Quicksilver scientific, he's got some great heavy metal cleanses...   Mason:  (55:14) What have you integrated in terms of like every day things that you you be doing to like to keep yourselves been squeezed out or maybe are you... I'm sure you have lots of everyday things you're doing, but then are you having pockets of heavier detoxes to keep you kind of rocking, maybe once a year or every quarter?   Damian:  (55:33) Exactly right. Yes. So you do, possibly it could be a four week process where you heavily purge the metals out of your cells, bind them up and eliminate them. And then we've got your everyday things, which is your charcoals, your clays, your nano zeolites. Another thing I'm using is an ion cleanse. Now there's lots of these cleansing units. You see them in in this shopping malls where the Chinese massage and you see people with their feet in these baths of water. A lot of those units are cheap battery chargers converted into an ion cleanse, but I've got a device that's called ion cleanse by AMD and it's about a $3,000 unit. But Dietrich Klinghardt talks all about this unit. He said, it's not what's going on in the water. It's not your feet being in the water and the ionization process and then toxins being released in the water. It's got nothing to do that. What he observed was for 72 hours after you'd had an iron cleanse, this specific unit, there was an elevation of heavy metals and toxins in your urine and your stools.   Mason:  (56:39) ... Like it was just mobilising heavy metal toxicity.   Damian:  (56:45) It was dropping your body into rest and digest, and the minute you go into rest and digest, all the pathways open. Now all this non-native EMF in our environment is keeping us in fight or flight. Fight or flight is designed for us to get out of danger real fast, we need to come into rest and digest. And so anything that brings you back in a rest and digest meditation, deep breathing, getting out in the forest, all of these things will activate that parasympathetic dominant nervous state. So you are now building that system that's calm and relaxed and you're opening up pathways to eliminate. So ion cleanse, I bought one myself just because I heard they'd reversed autism in a certain number of kids by just using the ion cleanse. And I was like, "Whoa! They're getting these heavy metals out of the kids' brains and that's why they're functioning better." So devices like that-   Mason:  (57:39) There must be some kind of other mechanism, unless it's a real heavy, therapeutic influence on taking the nervous system specifically into a parasympathetic state. Maybe, it must be working on some kind of level there. I don't know. I don't really get it but again, how many times do we come back to living life from, from a place where you were consistently resting and digesting? This is where it gets so hard when you're in the beginning of these stages of learning about this stuff because it's so hectic and sometimes people feel like they need to be like Cypher from Matrix and be asked to be plugged back in. I don't want to know this stuff but I can't forget it and now I just look around and... "Yeah, plug me in," and you see and then you think... And other people don't want to hear about it, "Oh my God, what are you talking about? How can you not listen to me?" You become that crazy person or that anxious person.   Mason:  (58:36) And that in itself is this cosmic giggle that you actually make yourself much more susceptible for having knowing rather than possibly, If you're not taking action steps for having not known. But that's where you need to rest and digest everything you're learning do everything you can to stay... I remember like, I think a few people who heard me talk about Wolfgang, Tanya and Wolfgang that live up in the hinterland. I think that 13 days into battling the fires, I think it's calming, it's calmed down the last two days. So like all the water prayers to them, but Tanya's like for permaculture, we loved going up there... Like springwater and Wolfie is as well... He's a German engineer and he's just... He's not onto us, the obsession we've had with supplements and cleansing. He's just so happy. He's just so relaxed, and we all know these people and we all look around and go, "Gosh, they're going to outlive all of us."   Mason:  (59:34) They just up that swagger. And even when they do know. And that's a great thing as well when you hear all these things to not get swept up straight away, because that's something I'm really aware when you and I have a conversation, that there's the extremes that people go like, "Pff! Get out of here. This is paranoid shit. Get out of here. ... How dare you put this kind of information out." And then the other extreme is like, "Oh my God," and gobbling it all up without running it through any kind of internal filter.   Mason:  (01:00:02) And that middle ground that I think we take for granted sometimes that people can say something and you run it through your internal filter and you can identify how much you're willing to take on at that moment and digest. You're not just going to be like a donkey being led by a carrot. You'll take on what's useful and maybe go do a little bit of your own research, so on and so forth. You manage yourself, right? It's something that's going to make you very successful in being a tripper like us. And I went down that route. So yeah man... In terms of practice, you've been running those forest bathing days. And just alone, is incredible.   Damian:  (01:00:48) So the inspiration probably originated from spending that week in the Byron hinterlands on Tanya and Wolfgang's property that you just spoke about. It was that week of not having any wifi, not having any technology going. Nature spoke to me and I really came home with a strong message that time it was, I just felt this sense of, "I've got to get back, I've got to build community and I've got to purify the people." That was just this message I had in my head. And it was that clarity being out on that land. I'd not experienced no wifi, I hadn't experienced no wifi for years and being out in nature then planted that seed for me. So as I got further and further into researching cannabis, as you know I'm a big fan of cannabis medicine and one of the biggest components of cannabis that makes it so medicinal is the terpenes.   Damian:  (01:01:44) It's the fragrant molecules in the herb. Now those fragrant molecules determine whether cannabis is going to make you feel sleepy and relaxed or make you feel energised and you want to go hiking. And so I become really fascinated with these fragrant molecules, the terpenes, and started researching them more and more. And then I looked into forest bathing, which was a Japanese practice, originated in the early '80s and what they were doing is sending their busy business people in the technological rich world, sending them out in nature to restore their vitality because they're all just being wiped out. And there was a few people that actually started doing science on it and the Japanese people spend a lot of money on researching the actual science of forest bathing.   Damian:  (01:02:33) And this is what they observed, if you got out in the forest for say half a day to a day, there was a profound change in your body. Stress hormones went down. Instantly the stress hormones were reduced and once the stress hormones went down, the natural killer cells, some of your white blood cells would be elevated. Now your natural killer cells are what we use to fight cancer. And what they found is not only did the killer cells go up, but depression melted away, anxiety melted away, confusion dropped away and people become more clear and more energised. And they observed, if you spent a day in the forest, you could go back to the city and you could get 30 days, like about a month of these benefits they observed, because they kept taking blood tests and observing the people and finding that their natural killer cells stay elevated, the depression stayed down and it was about a 30-day process that it hung around for.   Damian:  (01:03:37) And so my whole idea was forest bathing, is getting people out on a monthly basis, getting them off their devices. Now they go into the science of what's happening in the forest. Well, when you're in the forest, you're breathing in all the phytoncides. You know it's like when you're in the forest and you're hunting for medicinal mushrooms and you're looking for your reishi and stuff like that and it's almost like you're in that fairytale kingdom and the nature is talking to you. Well, a lot of that influence is happening from the fragrant molecules you're breathing in, the phytoncides, the terpenes. And you're out in pine forest or conifers and they're all rich in pineen. Pineen is what's known as the terpene that's rich in like your pine cones and pine needles, and it's very stimulating and uplifting. And that particular terpene, people would be familiar with the lemon, you scratch a lemon and you smell the limonene. Lemonade is very uplifting. You smell a lemon and it brings you to life.   Damian:  (01:04:38) Well, those fragrant molecules are out in the nature, we're submerging ourselves in a forest where the is no non-native EMF microwaving us. Our phones are off and all of a sudden you're breathing in deepering all of these fragrant molecules in and uplifting your state. And we have the most profound weekends now when we do the forest bathing, people come out of there totally rejuvenated. We walk into the forest, I do a little talk and then I give them all two hours to go and lay out, do whatever they want, they can journal, meditate. Most people go to sleep within 10, 20 minutes. You've got 80% of the people are asleep on the yoga mats. Everyone's so exhausted and they're so used to being in this fight or flight, you take them out there, deep breathing and then boom! Instant grounding.   Damian:  (01:05:26) And so, I think this is a big part of us dealing with this modern day world now is get out in nature at least once a month. Spend a day in the forest. If you can do

In an upcoming article in the Harvard Law Review, Lynn Adelman writes that "the decisions of the Roberts Court are contributing substantially to the fact that ordinary Americans have so little political power." Really? How about when the Court in 1973 and 2015 came up with its own definition of the word "liberty" and used the 14th Amendment to abolish amendments in over 30 state constitutions, amendments democratically passed by a majority of voters in those states? Could that perhaps contribute to "Americans having so little political power?" Let's talk about the Court's political power. Support the show.

 Megan:                            00:01                  Hi there. It's Megan with what's your MO in Healthcare? Today we're going to talk about the power of mentorship. There's something really powerful about having a mentor. Someone who cares about you and wants you to succeed. Someone who teaches you what they know and empowers you to go after your dreams. That person for me is Dorcas. Not only has she been my mentor, she's a great friend. I'd worked with her for more than 10 years in the healthcare field without ever really understanding or appreciating what she did professionally. She was the Director of Quality at the hospital I currently work at until she retired in 2015 but she got her nursing degree in the 1970s when nurses still wore white hats in a white uniform and white hose with the seams in the back and they had to stand up when the doctor entered the room.Megan:                            01:00                  They were different times, but she's always been a fierce Red personality, motivated by power,. So she struggled with living the stereotype of the nurturing passive nurse. That just was not her thing. Dorcas is fiercely independent, opinionated. She's super sharp and does not suffer fools. She once told me she had to be a Red growing up as a tomboy in the 1950s when she was living in an upper middle class suburb of Bellevue, Washington, with a name like Dorcas. She said she had to be a Red to survive that. I love her because she has evolved into an authentic woman through self-work and self-awareness. Much of that self-awareness came about because of her training in Color Code. She mentored me to become a certified Color Code trainer and I learned so much from her and from Jeremy Daniels with Color Code.Megan:                            02:02                  I remember going to salt Lake City for Color Code training with Dorcas and being met by Jeremy. I was so excited that I was getting trained by the son-in -aw of the founder of Color Code, Taylor Hartman. Now Jeremy is a strong Yellow, so he really lived up to the Yellows' motivation to have fun. He took us to his father in law's beautiful home in the hills of Salt Lake with a view overlooking the city. We trained, we did our work. We laughed and we learned. Then he took us to Park City, Utah for lunch. After lunch, we had the opportunity to tour the museum there. I was interested in learning about the area, the history, and there was a connection to Robert Redford and Park City, so I was interested in learning about that. I was enjoying reading and viewing the exhibits, but after just 10 minutes at the museum, Dorcas came up to me to announce she had finished and she was done.Megan:                            03:01                  I was shocked. Really? How could she possibly look at everything in 10 minutes? Should I be done now too? Just because she is, do I need to hurry because she doesn't want to wait? Is she really that impatient? Well, the answer is yes. She is 94% red. Reds are inpatient, so a 94% red is really impatient. They do not need to spend a lot of time studying things in detail. They get the general idea about 51% of the facts on the exhibit and that's good. That's enough. Since that time in Utah with her in 2010, our friendship and mentoring relationship has grown. We never really formally entered into an agreement as mentor and mentee, but it evolved and it also evolved into a friendship as part of that relationship through our honesty and sharing our strengths and limitations. As a strong professional woman working in healthcare, I learned from her stories and her life experiences.Megan:                            04:06                  I shared my most personal stories with her as a good Blue personality does. I don't think that always made her very comfortable because Reds are not typically real comfortable listening to emotional stories but she knew when to ask if I wanted advice and didn't try to solve problems. When she did speak, she was a straight shooter. She told me things I didn't always like to hear but I needed to hear them. Now that she's retired, I don't see her every day, but we always make time to get together a priority. She is still a straight shooter, but she is also very encouraging. Her logic and practical mind tempers my anxieties and concerns. I always walk away with a plan of action because she cuts through all of my angst and my worries and suggests very practical next steps when I share my goals and any perceived barriers that I have. She thoughtfully listens but doesn't let me get away with whining or feeling discouraged.Megan:                            05:10                  I feel very fortunate to have someone who can coach me the way Dorcas does because she knows my MO is to create strong relationships and to build those strong relationships and intimacy with people. So let me ask you this. Do you have a Dorcas in your life? I'd love to hear about a mentor who helped you in your career or in life in general. What did you learn from them? Was it a formal mentor, mentee relationship, or did it just happen? Send your comments to megan@meganguidoblog.com. I love to hear all about your stories of your great mentors and we can share them on future podcasts. So with that, this is Megan with What's your MO in healthcare?

Hello every one, here are the top 10 predictions for 2020 and beyond across tech, politics and more including • Big Tech breakup! Really? • How startups, SaaS and subscription companies will evolve • Unicorns…here, there, everywhere• AI and jobs (Who moved my cheese?) • Climate change…its about time • …and many moreWhat do you think?

MALACHI 3:In chapters 1-2 yesterday, we heard how skeptical and sassy the Israelites had become. This came out in the way Malachi has the people of Israel talk back to God. The first is like this: Mal. 1:2 NLT “I have always loved you,” says the LORD.But you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” Topics for such exchanges included offering sacrifices that don’t show appropriate honor to God, breaking covenants of marriage through divorce, and not honoring God as the God of justice. Two more sassy exchanges happen in today’s reading. ISAIAH 66:I highlight verse 17 from chapter 65, as it foreshadows what we will read in Revelation today and tomorrow: Is. 65:17 NLT “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,and no one will even think about the old ones anymore. And I believe that these moving verses from that same chapter portray the torment of the lake of fire: Is. 65:13 GNT And so I tell you that those who worship and obey me will have plenty to eat and drink, but you will be hungry and thirsty. They will be happy, but you will be disgraced. 14 They will sing for joy, but you will cry with a broken heart. REVELATION 21:In chapter 20, we read about the millennium or the thousand year reign of Christ, the defeat and imprisonment of Satan, his brief release following the 1,000 years, and his eventual eternal judgment in the lake of fire. Death and the Grave were also abolished in the lake of fire.

MALACHI 3: In chapters 1-2 yesterday, we heard how skeptical and sassy the Israelites had become. This came out in the way Malachi has the people of Israel talk back to God. The first is like this: Mal. 1:2 NLT “I have always loved you,” says the LORD. But you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” Topics for such exchanges included offering sacrifices that don’t show appropriate honor to God, breaking covenants of marriage through divorce, and not honoring God as the God of justice. Two more sassy exchanges happen in today’s reading. ISAIAH 66: I highlight verse 17 from chapter 65, as it foreshadows what we will read in Revelation today and tomorrow: Is. 65:17 NLT “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth, and no one will even think about the old ones anymore. And I believe that these moving verses from that same chapter portray the torment of the lake of fire: Is. 65:13 GNT And so I tell you that those who worship and obey me will have plenty to eat and drink, but you will be hungry and thirsty. They will be happy, but you will be disgraced. 14 They will sing for joy, but you will cry with a broken heart. REVELATION 21: In chapter 20, we read about the millennium or the thousand year reign of Christ, the defeat and imprisonment of Satan, his brief release following the 1,000 years, and his eventual eternal judgment in the lake of fire. Death and the Grave were also abolished in the lake of fire.

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Joe Biden’s Revisionist History Tour kicked off in Philadelphia this weekend. Biden goes all in on a middle of the road climate policy? Really? How do you cut a deal with a climate crisis, Joe? Welcome to the gates of Gilead. Extreme abortion bans set the stage for a Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade. 8 states now have passed anti-abortion bills this year, the worst, of course, being this week's bans in Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri. Elizabeth Warren announces one of the most aggressive plan to defend reproductive rights. If you have not read Rebecca Traister’s article in New York Magazine this past week, do yourself a favor and read it. Her piece “Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysteria,” resonates on so many levels. Your anger is an asset and when a political party tells you otherwise, there is a problem with the party. What do you do after you say the president is the biggest threat to American democracy? You fight hard for robocall legislation, of course. Really, Bill de Blasio? Good luck to you and your pals from Montana and Colorado. Beto O’Rourke will certainly be your friend. Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? 23 Democrats now in the race. AOC gives her staff 3 months of paid parental leave. I would love to be a fly on the wall of Congress right now. While we were away, noted Islamophobe Stephanie Borowicz was caught taking selfies with white-nationalists from the American Guard. The Pennsylvania House passed another unconstitutional abortion ban. This time outlawing abortion of fetuses that may have down syndrome. Fifteen Democrats reached across the aisle to support this bill and even though this bill cleared the House, it passed with the lowest vote total an abortion ban has had in decades. And for the legislators who voted against the bill, well, they got an email from Pennsylvanians for Human Life that compared their votes to Hitler and the Holocaust. APSCUF and PA State System approve an early retirement plan outside of the contract. They say this is what “working together” looks like. The public chumminess leaves out the fact that the plan allows for an expansion of the part-time faculty cap. Martin Tower, the former international headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, is no more. The building was imploded on May 19th. I’ll be working the polls in tomorrow’s PA primary election. I’m out there for One Pennridge for the Pennridge School Board election. The team of Kelley Peloquin, Peter Yarnell, Kyle Esposito, Lisa Wilson, and Alex Rajan are the folks to pull the lever for on Tuesday - that’s tomorrow. A new study warns that unless we start setting rules now, future plans to mine the solar system could destroy our little corner of the Milky Way. The study calls for designating 85% of our solar system as protected wilderness. Dogfish Head Brewery merging with Sam Adams. What we were up to during our break.

Count it all Joy! Really? How do you not burn out or flame out really with all the pressure and struggle we put on ourselves. There is a way. His way - taking each day as it is not as we would have it. Knowing that He will make all things right. James 1:2

Have any suggestions for the podcast? Email us at podcast@graceky.org   Why Does The Resurrection Matter? Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:17, 19, 58 It matters because the power of Jesus' resurrection means you are completely forgiven. It matters because the power of Jesus' resurrection gives you hope that He will work in YOU. It matters because the power of Jesus' resurrection gives you purpose. It matters because the power of Jesus' resurrection gives you a new perspective on the goal of parenting. It matters because the power of Jesus' resurrection means that you can pray with HOPE, EXPECTING God to work somehow.   Questions for you: Do I believe that God has the power to work in my parenting? Like, REALLY? How do I need to remind myself every day that this power is real and working? How should I pray for my student because JESUS IS ALIVE? What ways can I pursue my student in this season and remind them of Jesus' power and love?   Announcements: Camp Registration opens THIS SUNDAY!!! (4/28)

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MALACHI 3:In chapters 1-2 yesterday, we heard how skeptical and sassy the Israelites had become. This came out in the way Malachi has the people of Israel talk back to God. The first is like this: Mal. 1:2 NLT “I have always loved you,” says the LORD.But you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” Topics for such exchanges included offering sacrifices that don’t show appropriate honor to God, breaking covenants of marriage through divorce, and not honoring God as the God of justice. Two more sassy exchanges happen in today’s reading. ISAIAH 66:I highlight verse 17 from chapter 65, as it foreshadows what we will read in Revelation today and tomorrow: Is. 65:17 NLT “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,and no one will even think about the old ones anymore. And I believe that these moving verses from that same chapter portray the torment of the lake of fire: Is. 65:13 GNT And so I tell you that those who worship and obey me will have plenty to eat and drink, but you will be hungry and thirsty. They will be happy, but you will be disgraced. 14 They will sing for joy, but you will cry with a broken heart. REVELATION 21:In chapter 20, we read about the millennium or the thousand year reign of Christ, the defeat and imprisonment of Satan, his brief release following the 1,000 years, and his eventual eternal judgment in the lake of fire. Death and the Grave were also abolished in the lake of fire.

Series: 1 John Sunday, November 4, 2018 -- Sermon Questions “DO YOU LOVE GOD, REALLY?” How do you know God loves you? Do you love God / Jesus, really? Read 1 John 2:3-4. What does it mean to know someone? What does it mean to “know” God / Jesus? What is your love language? What is Jesus’ love language? (see 1 John 2:5)? What are the Commandments of Jesus (see Matthew 22:37-40)? Discuss the chart “The Spiritual Journey”. Where are you on the chart, really? Read 1 John 2:6. So, how does one walk as Jesus walked practically in their lives?

On today's podcast, we remember the day we with spent with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the California Women's Conference hosted by Maria Shriver in 2010. Read Lian's original blog post from that day here. We are saddened to hear of Justice O'Connors Alzheimers' diagnosis. What a heartbreak. Also today, travel trends from West Texas - Julie recommends Marfa, the McDonald Observatory and Big Bend National Park. Lian wants to know what's happening in the milk aisle at her supermarket (SO many choices) and Liz has the answer from the business pages. Plus artisanal snacks on airplanes are supposed to make us happy? Really? How about more legroom?Lian will post her Poldark Random Thoughts in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group.NEW Satellite Sisters merch in our Satellite Sisters Shop! Check out our new tees, hats, hoodies, water bottles, stickers, beach towels and more. New collections for Urban Nana and Nana Camp plus classic Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters logo'd gifts.Today's Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls:Molekule Use promo code sistersRitualRothy's Use promo code sistersThirdLoveJoin our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SatSistersFor great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here.Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here.To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here.We are also on Google Podcasts and NPROne.The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellite Sisters Talk TVif you want to listen to Lian and Julie's TV recaps of CBS drama Madam Secretaryand PBS Poldark recap Pol,Dark and Handsome.Check out Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work. This week Liz interviews Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, best friends and co-CEO's of The Skimm. Definitely worth a listen, sisterhood. And thanks for subscribing.

Are you a staunch supporter of conceal carry? Do you carry every day, 24/7? Really? How about when you are in the confine of your home? If you aren't carrying while at home then you are putting your life and the lives of your family at risk. That low probability, high consequence event can happen anywhere. This is not about being paranoid, it's about being prepared - Listen to this show and find out the difference. Enjoy! Show-notes can be found at Wastedammo.com/189/

My question to you this morning - what makes you sing- But, you say, -I don-t sing.- Really- How about at a party with friends- Karaoke- Songs you grew up with- Don McLean-s American Pie- How about Sweet Caroline- Or, your favorite football fight song- War Eagle- Yeah Alabama- Hail Dear Ol- State- Or perhaps your Armed Service Anthem, Happy Birthday, God Bless America, Christmas carols-- Do you sing Rock-a-Bye-Baby to your grandchild- Do you sing in the care- In the shower-----What does this Psalm say---Sing a new song all the earth - a new song by a new creation, the joys of new life - for all who come to the Lord-----John Piper wrote, -We are a singing people. And there is a reason for this. The reality of God and Christ and creation and salvation and heaven and hell are simply too great for mere speaking- they must also be sung. So music and singing are necessary to Christian faith and worship for the simple reason that the realities of God and Christ, creation and salvation, heaven and hell are so great that when they are known truly and felt duly, they demand more than discussion and analysis and description- they demand poetry and song and music. Singing is the Christian's way of saying- God is so great that thinking will not suffice, there must be deep feeling- and talking will not suffice, there must be singing.-

There are five main distortions in NLP seen in the Meta model. They are:  Mind reading  Cause-and-effect  Lost performative  Complex equivalence  Presuppositions Mind Reading We are all guilty of mind reading I know you are! A mind read is categorised by knowing what someone else is thinking or feeling but without any information to support that thought. Mind reading can come in lots of different forms. One of them which is very common is knowing what a person is thinking or feeling. Another is how others should know how we think and feel. And lastly predicting the future or proper sizing what is going to happen. Whenever you hear mind reading type statements you can begin to ask questions using 'how' and 'what.' Examples: "He wants to ask me out" "You don't give me what I want" "I just know Christmas will be a disaster" "I know that you will want to live in the Cotswolds when you see my house" "You have no idea what is going to happen" Meta model challenges to those statements "How do you know he wants to ask you out?" "What do you want specifically?" "Really? How specifically do you know that?" "How do you know that when I see your house in the Cotswolds I want to live there?" "How do you know that I have no idea what is going to happen?" Possible Reply "Well, he's always nervous when he's around me" "I want to feel like wearing this together" "It's just that December has been a nightmare so far so it will probably continue" "Because I did when I visited a friend here" "Because I think it's going to be worse than you given credit for" Cause and Effect Recognising a cause-and-effect Meta model violation is when you spot and X causes why configurations in the language. so much of our life is in a cause-and-effect format that has a tendency to make connections where there is none. "If you do your homework, then you can stay up late on Friday." "If you pass all of your grades at school, you will get a good job." So in the Meta model for cause and effect, we are looking for violations where someone associates X causes Y. Whenever you spot this cause-and-effect violation it's time to begin asking more questions to find out how specifically do they know that X causes Y? Examples: "My boss makes me angry when he doesn't come in early on Monday" "If my daughter fails her dance exam I will be disappointed" "Going to the gym will wear a body out" "If you drink alcohol you will get dementia" "Getting married made my brother the depressive he is today" Meta Model Challenges "How specifically that his lateness make you angry? What about if he's late on Tuesday?" "How will you disappoint yourself?" "How do you know that to be true? do you know of any gym goers who haven't worn at their body? Just how much Gym does it take to wear out your body?" "How much alcohol specifically? Do you know of anyone who does drink alcohol who hasn't got dementia?  I drink some alcohol are you sure I will get dementia?" "What was it about marrying that made your brother begin to depress himself?" Lost Performative Recognising a lost performative is when you hear a person say something like, "We will end up living on Mars by 2050" or "Only weak people stay in relationships." The structure of a lost performative is an opinion stated as a fact and a value judgement that does not say who had that value. You can begin to challenge lost performative type statements by asking "who says, according to whom and how do you know that?" type of questions. Examples:  "It's good to go to the Gym three times per week" "You need to go on as many training courses as you can" "Reading is relaxing" Meta model Challenges to those statements "Who says it's good to go to the gym three times a week?" "Who says you need to go in as many training courses you can, and how do you know that to be true?" "According to whom?" Possible replies to the challenges "I heard it on a podcast about health" "The person who was teaching me NLP!" "Well, I find reading relaxing!" Complex Equivalence A complex equivalence is very similar to cause-and-effect. Just as we, cause-and-effect is when X  causes Y. And complex equivalence can be recognised by hearing a statement that says X means Y. "The fact that you're reading watching or listening to this means that you'll find something new!" it's amazing how often you will hear people attach meaning to something very different. "The fact that you're changing your job means that you are outgrowing your family" Whenever you hear convex equivalent type statements you can challenge them by asking. "So does X have to always equal Y? Could it mean anything else? Does it always have to mean that?" Examples: "You're not coming to bed the same time as me, you don't love me as much anymore" "Bitcoin value is rising our government isn't going to last" "Samsung are late releasing the new phone, so there's tension growing between North and South Korea." Meta model challenges "How does me staying up to finish watching this documentary mean I don't love you as much?" "How does Bitcoin rising mean our government isn't going to last?" "How does Samsung being late to release their new phone mean there's growing tension between North and South Korea?" Possible replies "I think married couples should always go to bed together to show there is a bond."  "Well, Bitcoin is anti-establishment so I think a rise in its value means a fall in the governments holds." "They've never been late to release a new phone so It's obviously a big political reason." Presuppositions If you've been looking into NLP you have heard the word presupposition quite frequently. A presupposition is simply a part of the statement has to be presupposed to be true in order for that sentence to make sense. We challenge presuppositions to allow us to gain more specific detail and get closer to the truth. Let's look at some working examples of presuppositions in NLP. Examples In court, a judge might say "have you stopped beating your wife?" This statement presupposes that the husband was, in fact, beating his wife. "What's your problem?" This presupposes that a person does have a problem. "Are you not intelligent enough to work this out?"  This statement presupposes that there is something to work out, intelligence is required to work it out. "Enjoy your next burger even more" Presupposes that someone has had a burger and they will have another at some point. Meta model challenges You can use any suitable meta model question to dive more deeply into the intention behind any presupposition. "Your honour, are you suggesting I did want to beat my wife? could there be any other explanation to her bruised arm?" You could answer this provocatively. "Well, what's my problem? Depends on how long you've got!" "My next burger? how do you know of had one in the first place?" with everything, practice makes permanent. To save this and come back to this article many times and really begin to notice these distortions in NLP in other people's language and even yours. Have a play around with some of the Meta model challenges and begin to notice how you're able to really open up a person's map to allow you to understand more richly and more deeply.

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Dr. Veronica Anderson, Host, Functional Medicine Specialist and Medical Intuitive interviews Dr. Tom O'Bryan, an internationally recognized speaker and workshop leader specializing in the impact of celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and the development of autoimmune conditions. He has been in practice for over 32 years and is on the teaching faculty of the institute for functional medicine. While traveling the world, he teaches physicians about developing the big picture as to what's causing the symptoms that patients are coming in with. In this episode, Tom translates complex medical information into simple to understand ideas. We will discuss breakthrough plans to stop autoimmune triggers, restore your health and ways to prevent Alzheimer's and reverse Diabetes. 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Also if you haven’t already, please take a minute to leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and claim your bonus here!     Want to regain your health? Go to http://drveronica.com/   Transcript Female VO: Welcome to Wellness Revolution Podcast, the radio show all about wellness, in your mind, body, spirit, personal growth, sex, and relationships. Stay tuned for weekly interviews featuring guests that have achieved physical, mental, and spiritual health in their lives. If you'd like to have access to our entire back catalog visit drveronica.com for instant access. And here's your host, Dr. Veronica. Dr. Veronica: Thanks again for joining for another episode of Dr. Veronica's Wellness Revolution. We're going to talk today. I want to jump right into this. I want to have enough time to be able to talk to this gentleman who is a guru. The gentleman I have with me today is Dr. Thomas O'Bryan. He is originally a doctor of chiropractic medicine, but you know what I've found? I feel really silly sometimes because I feel like I went to school before medical school with the chiropractors and I was getting really good grades and they weren't doing as well. And I felt like all these people they're not so smart at going into chiropractor. Then I realized on the back half of my career that I was the dumb one and they're the smart one and I better learn from them. So those of us who were the conventional smart doctors have now kind of thrown away a lot of what we learned. We know about the body and all that, and jumped in the pool with our colleagues because we're all colleagues out to help people get well who were the chiropractors of natural path and nutritionists. And we all collectively are out there getting the word out on how you can heal your own body. Dr. Thomas O'Bryan has a new book out there, The Autoimmune Fix. I see so many people every day who say, "I've been told I have autoimmune disease and they haven't quite given it a name but I have autoimmune disease."  The Autoimmune Fix talks about this but also talks about what's been going on in the health care system. What's been going on or not going on when you'd go to your doctor and here's the latest and greenest. And we also have a surprise coming up on some information that you can get where you can go and hear the world experts in autoimmune disease. Dr. Thomas O'Bryan, welcome to Dr. Veronica's Wellness Revolution. Dr. Thomas: Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Dr. Veronica: First define for us what it's meant by autoimmune disease? Because as I told you and I said in the intro I get a lot of people who said, "I've been told I have autoimmune." The big diagnosis these days is, "I have Hashimoto's." Every other person has Hashimoto's. "Oh, you have an autoimmune disease too. Autoimmune disease, give us the definition. Dr. Thomas: Sure. Your immune system is the armed forces in your body. It's the army, the Air Force, the Marines, the Coast Guard, the Navy. It's there to protect you. And it's all we have to protect us. And you have exactly the same immune system that your ancestors had thousands of years ago. We haven't genetically changed.  What was it that our immune system was designed to fight? Parasites, bugs, viruses, molds, and fungus. That's it. There was no Polysorbate 80, or red dye number 3, or Bisphenol A, or mercury in the fish. There weren’t any of the toxins that we're supposed to every day. So our immune system is the same as our ancestors, so it's built to protect us from parasites, bugs, viruses, molds, and fungus. There is no way for it to adapt. When you get exposed to Bisphenol A for example, which is the chemical that softens plastic like water bottles, or pop bottles, or soft contact lenses, or credit card receipts have Bisphenol A. There is just millions and millions of pounds of this stuff being dumped every year here.  But when you're exposed to Bisphenol A this chemical gets into your body and it binds on to your cells. It grabs to on to proteins inside your body like an estrogen cell or a testicular cell. Now the immune system that's there to protect you from bugs, parasites, viruses, molds, and fungus has to attach this molecule that got in there that's not supposed to be there. "This is an invader. What is this thing?"  Your immune system attacks this Bisphenol molecule or lead molecule if you have lead poisoning, where mercury molecule, and you create this inflammation as the immune system is trying to destroy this invader. And the inflammation has collateral damage which damages your own cell that the Bisphenol A grabbed on to. And now your immune system has just damaged your cell. When the immune system attacks yourself it's called an autoimmune mechanism. It's the immune system attacking cells.  In the example I just gave you we make antibodies every day to ourself. There's a normal reference range for thyroid antibodies and brain antibodies. There's a normal range, why? Because your immune system is the garbage collector. It's got to get rid of the old and damaged cells, the ones that are breaking down or just worn out to make room for new cells to be built.  You have a whole new body every 7 years. We regenerate every cell in our body. But to make room for cells to regenerate you've got to get rid of the old and damaged ones. There's a normal level of thyroid antibodies. It's normal. But when you have a chemical binding on to the thyroid for this example, the chemical might be chlorine or it could be Bisphenol A binding to a thyroid cell, and your immune system says, "What is this stuff? That's not good for me. I better attack it.  Your immune system attacks that cell and causes the inflammation that damages the thyroid that the Bisphenol A's grabbed on to. Now the antibodies that your body makes to get rid of old thyroid cells, it has to make some more antibodies to get rid of the damaged thyroid Bisphenol A cell, because the thyroid cell's been damaged you got to get rid of it. So you make some extra antibodies to your thyroid. That's not a problem. But you're exposed to Bisphenol A every day. One hundred percent of the infants born today have Bisphenol A in their urine, 100% of them, because mom has it. Mom's toxic with this stuff, right? It binds on to your cells. And so every day you're exposed to this stuff, and then your body makes more antibodies to your thyroid to get rid of the damaged thyroid cell that the Bisphenol A was grabbing on to. And you make more thyroid cells.  And if you did a blood test you'd see you had a high thyroid antibody levels and you make more thyroid antibodies. Until one day this thyroid antibody production becomes self-perpetuating. It's got a life of its own. Now you develop the autoimmune disease, so you're on the autoimmune spectrum with elevated antibodies, but now it moves into an autoimmune disease because you've killed off enough thyroid cells because of the elevated antibodies, the thyroid can't function very well anymore. That's the autoimmune disease.  Mrs. Patient, you pull at a chain, the chain always breaks at the weakest link. It's at one end, the middle, the other end, your heart, your brain, your liver, your kidneys, wherever your genetic weak link is that's where the chain's going to break when you pull too hard. Inflammation is the pull on the chain.  That's why we here about anti-inflammatory lifestyles. It's that you want to live as much of an anti-inflammatory lifestyle with all that that means. And your show talks about that a lot, about anti-inflammatory lifestyles, so that you don't have that link of the chain break and get an autoimmune disease. What's pulling on the chain? What's pulling on the chain is the gasoline or the kerosene that you're getting in your body, if it's air pollution or if it's food you're eating that aren't good for you. The question is it a kidney or a brain cell, is it gasoline or kerosene? When you want to start fixing these problems you have to ask the questions, "Where is my immune system attacking right now and why is my immune system attacking there?" That's the way you uncover what the mechanism is that's causing the diseases that we have. Dr. Veronica: Talk a little bit about thyroid because I think all of us that are in the functional medicine wellness arena, the thyroid people come in because they just seem for whatever reason they're the most miserable... There's other miserable people, but the thyroid people seem to be miserable and go seek their help. Why thyroid and why mostly women, although there's a lot of men now prop up with it. Dr. Thomas: Yeah, but the ratio of women to men with Hashimoto's is 9:1. It's much more prevalent in women. There's a number of reasons for that. The first reason is receptor sites are catcher's mitts. The pitcher throws the ball to the catcher. You have receptor sites on the outside of your cells facing the bloodstream. So as the blood's going by it goes past these receptor sites. Hormones get inside the cell to do whatever they're supposed to do by going through the receptor site. Estrogen in your bloodstream only goes into an estrogen receptor site. It won't go into a thyroid receptor site. And it goes into the estrogen receptor site, it opens the door and the estrogen goes inside the cell and the body will do what it's going to do. Insulin won't go into an estrogen receptor site, it won't go into a thyroid receptor site. It only goes into an insulin receptor site. All the hormones have specific receptor sites. There are chemicals that we're exposed to now every day, never before in the history of humanity but now every day. And there are three chemicals known to compete on thyroid receptor sites.  Now, back up for a minute. There's only two substances for which there are receptor sites on every cell of your body. No, it's not testosterone, no not estrogen, no not insulin, the only substances for which there are receptor sites on every cell of your body are vitamin D... That's why vitamin D is so important for us because every cell needs it, and thyroid hormone. Because your thyroid hormone is the thermostat on the wall in your house.  At night you turn the thermostat down so the furnace goes down. It's colder in the house, so that you sleep and you save fuel. In the morning it automatically turns back on before you get up, and so it warms up the house but you save fuel during the night. Thyroid hormone controls the thermostat. That's called your metabolism and how hot your cells burn, how many calories you burn, that's your thyroid hormone. Every cell needs control as to how hot it should burn, that's what thyroid hormone does. Thyroid hormones in the bloodstream, and it goes past the thyroid receptor site and it goes right into it. It opens the door and the thyroid hormone goes into the cell. As you know many people will feel like they've got thyroid symptoms. They come in and the doctor does a blood test and sees that their thyroid hormone levels are normal but they've got thyroid symptoms so they write a prescription for thyroid hormone. And we're shot gunning thyroid hormone into someone that has normal levels because it's going to help feel a little better. How is it possible that their thyroid hormone levels are normal but a blood test that many doctors do is called TSH and it's a measure in the brain telling the thyroid how much hormone to make. TSH stands for thyroid stimulating hormone. How come the TSH can be a little high but the thyroid hormone levels are normal? And you see that all the time in practice. We all see that. How does that happen? It's because the thyroid hormone is not getting into the cell, it's in the bloodstream. Your bloodstream's just a highway. There's lots of traffic on the highway so you do a blood test and you're looking for are there Chevrolet's on the highway. Is there a thyroid hormone on the highway. There's enough hormone but it's not getting into the cell, so the brain says, "I need more thyroid hormone in these cells." The TSH goes up to say, "Make more hormone, make hormone." But you've got plenty of hormones. And doctor shot gunned with synthetic hormone and people will feel a little bit better. It doesn't fix them but they feel a little better.  How come the thyroid hormone is not getting into the cell? Because there are three chemicals that compete and will go into thyroid hormone receptor sites. But when they go into thyroid hormone receptor sites they don't open the door. They just sit there. The pitcher throws a fastball to the catcher but the catcher's got three baseballs in the mitt. And so the fastball just bounces out. The thyroid hormone just keeps going down the bloodstream, it can't get in.  What are the chemicals that compete in thyroid receptor sites? The most common one... Mrs. Patient, you're in an elevator in a hotel. The elevator doors open. Can you tell right away the swimming pools on that floor? Oh yeah. They smell it. But everybody else in the elevator can't smell it. But they smell it. Why do they smell it? Because they have a chlorine sensitivity. Their detox capabilities are not breaking down the chlorine, so the chlorine is sitting in the receptor sites of the thyroid hormone.  So the thyroid hormone is going by, it can't get into the cell. The thyroid hormone keeps going by, and yet the brain says, "I need more hormone. I need more hormone," and it's chlorine. It's a very common competitor for thyroid receptor sites. Those women, especially the women, cold hands and feet, sometimes they wear socks to bed, or your husband says you got really cold feet. You can't get up in the morning. You wish you had 20 more minutes in bed. Can't lose that last 5 pounds even if you don't eat for a couple of days. Bowels are sluggish, emotions are kind of sluggish, brain's sluggish, you kind of feel a little depressed, all signs of a sluggish thyroid.  Your thyroid hormone levels are normal but your doctor gives you thyroid hormone anyway because we know it's going to help a little bit. And they haven't had the chance to read about this competitive inhibition of chlorine into the thyroid receptor sites. That's a very common mechanism for thyroid dysfunction. How does that relate in terms of autoimmunity? Dr. Veronica: Let me just interrupt. Because you said there are three things, and you mentioned the chlorine, but tell people the other two that go along with chlorine just because people are going to start connecting the dots and say, "That could be me." Dr. Thomas: You won't like this. Fluoride is very, very common. It's a very common thyroid inhibitor substance. It's in your toothpaste, it's in your mouthwash, it's in your drinking water and it competes on thyroid receptor sites. And the result is your thyroid hormone doesn't work as well as supposed to. You gain weight, you feel sluggish, sometimes you can pack on an extra 20-30 pounds over five years that it just creeps up little by little by little. Fluoride is the second one. The third one is bromide.  So it's chlorine, fluoride, and bromide. Bromide is in baked goods. A lot of bromide is used in baked goods. Those are the three chemicals that will compete on thyroid receptor sites. And they don't breakdown, they just stay there. Dr. Veronica: Okay. That's chemicals. I know you're an expert on another food that everybody loves and when you tell them they have to give it up they want to murder you practically because they're addicted. Talk about that food. You don't have to talk to me about... Dr. Thomas: Unfortunately it's the most common food in America today. It's 132.5 pounds per person per year that we're eating. That's wheat. You have toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, a pasta for dinner, croutons on your salad, a cookie or a muffin, and it goes on a day, after a week, after a month, after year, after year.  Harvard's published another study last year. Hollon and his team published a study and they showed that every single human when they eat wheat gets intestinal permeability. The slang term is leaky gut. And that's the gateway into the development of autoimmune diseases that we'll talk about a little bit later, but that's the gateway. And every single person, every time they eat wheat, not just once in a while, every time. And their language was all humans develop intestinal permeability. Anyone that's watching this interview, if you're a human, I think most of you are, that means every time you eat wheat you get tears in your lining in your gut. It's called pathogenic intestinal permeability. Even for those that don't feel bad. Those that feel bad when they eat wheat they're the blessed ones. Because you can't argue with them, they know when they eat it they get sick. But the ones where the weak link in the chain is their brain they don't want to associate the pasta they had last night with the brain fog they've got today. They just don't want to associate it, or with seizures.  In the Journal of Gastroenterology children with drug resistant seizures, that means that they've been to at least two specialists and they've tried at least three drugs before they can get the classification of drug resistant seizures, 50% of those children go into complete remission on a wheat-free diet. Why don't our neurologists know this? Because it's in the gastroenterology journal, and neurologists don't read gastroenterology journals, they read neurology journals. So they just don't know this. Wheat can affect any tissue of your body. I'm going to give you an example of how it affects the thyroid. When you eat wheat, Mrs. Patient. Proteins are like a pearl necklace, hydrochloric acid made in your stomach undoes the clasp of the pearl necklace. Now you have a string of pearls. Our digestive enzymes are supposed to act like scissors to break the pearl necklace into smaller clumps of pearls, then smaller clumps, and smaller clumps, and smaller clumps. Until they get broken down into each pearl of the pearl necklace. That's called an amino acid. And the amino acids go right through the walls of the intestines, and then your body uses those as building blocks to make a new muscle, or a new bone, or a new nerve hormones called neurotransmitters that your body uses the amino acids.  Your intestines are 20-25 feet long. It starts at the mouth and goes to the other end. It's one long tube. It kind of winds around in your abdomen. It twists around quite a bit, but it's one long tube. If you could take a doughnut and stretch a doughnut straight down and look down the doughnut it's one tube. When you swallow food it's not in your body yet, it's still in the tube. It's got to go through the walls to get into the bloodstream and go everywhere else in your body. But there's a cheesecloth that lines the intestines so that only the single pearls of the pearl necklace can fit through the cheesecloth to get into the bloodstream, only the amino acids. The problem with wheat is that no human can breakdown the pearl necklace in each pearl of the pearl necklace. The best we can do is break it into clumps of pearls. There's a 33-pearl clump, a 17-pearl clump, an 11-pearl clump. And these clumps of pearls are gasoline and the fire in the intestines. They cause inflammation. And it's the inflammation that tears the cheesecloth. When you tear the cheesecloth now larger clunks of the pearl necklace of any food can go through the permeability into the bloodstream before there's been enough time for the digestive enzymes to break that food going down the track until it's small enough to get through. Does that make sense? Dr. Veronica: Yeah. Dr. Thomas: You got these clumps of pearls going through into the bloodstream. They're called macro molecules, big molecules. And your immune system says, "What's this? This is not good for me. I better fight this. If you had prime rib for dinner and you chew it three or four times instead of the 15-20 that you should... You chew a couple of times and swallow it down, we shovel more than we chew and you shovel it down you got this clump of stringy meat that's kind of hard to break down. And the enzymes are trying to cut off each pearl of the pearl necklace but it takes a while. That's why you got 20 feet of intestines for the scissors to work on that.  So it's going down in the first part of the intestines now, but there are tears in the cheesecloth. So these macro molecules of prime rib get into the bloodstream. Your immune systems says, "Whoa, I better fight this." Now you make antibodies to beef, and you're allergic to beef, or to bananas, or to chicken, or to potatoes, or to cantaloupe.  And the doctor that does the 90-food panel to see what foods a person is sensitive to, and it comes back with 20-25 foods and the patient goes, "Oh my god, that's everything I eat." Of course it is, because your body is trying to protect you. You don't shut down the immune system, you stop the tears of the cheesecloth. So you have to find out why is the cheesecloth tearing. And when you find out why the cheesecloth is tearing then 6 months to a year later you check again the 90 foods, now you're sensitive to two or three and not 20. That's the mechanism in the development of intestinal permeability, the leaky gut. Let's tie that now to the thyroid. How does this trigger an autoimmune thyroid disease? When this macro molecule of beef gets into the bloodstream and your immune system says, "Whoa, what's this?" The brain says, "You General, you now are General Beef. Take care of this."  General Beef builds an assembly line. The assembly line starts producing soldiers. They're called antibodies. The soldiers are trained to go after beef, that's all they do. They're in the bloodstream looking for beef. And when they see beef clumps they fire their chemical bullets to destroy the beef clumps. Remember your bloodstream's just a highway. There's no lanes of traffic. Everything's bouncing around in there. It's going in the same direction but it's bouncing around.  Think of the antibodies like Arnold Schwarzenegger and he's got his head out of the big Humvee. He's got those dark glasses on. He's got a big submachine gun. "Over there." And he's firing these chemical bullets at beef because he's been trained to go after beef.  The beef macro molecule may be 15 amino acids long because it hadn't had enough time to be broken down into each pearl of the pearl necklace. So there's 15 amino acids there and Arnold has been trained to go after what anything that looks like that 15 amino acids. I'm going to sat AA, B, C, D, but it really is 15 letters long in this example. Let's say Arnold is going after wheat because wheat got in, it tears the cheesecloth, it gets in as a macro molecule. Your immune system makes antibodies to wheat. I said beef to start with but I'm going to talk about wheat now. Let's say Arnold's looking for AA, B, C, D. Bouncing around in the bloodstream looking for AA, B, C, D. He's got these dark glasses on. The surface of your thyroid facing the bloodstream is made up of proteins and fats. That's what the surface is made of facing the bloodstream. Proteins are made up of amino acids. There are hundreds of amino acids long, the surface of the proteins of the thyroid, hundreds of amino acids long. But part of the thyroid includes AA, B, C, D.  Arnold that's looking for wheat, AA, B, C, D, he's like, "Oh look, over there." And he fires his chemical bullets at the thyroid to damage the thyroid cell because it's got AA, B, C, D. That's called molecular mimicry. And it's a big problem for people today, they just don't know it. It's a big problem as to why autoimmune disease is so prevalent.  Arnold starts firing his chemical bullet at the thyroid damaging the thyroid cell. Remember you have a normal amount of thyroid cells but now you have to make a few extra because there's more damaged thyroid cells than normal. That's after having toast for breakfast. But now you have a sandwich for lunch. More Arnold, more damage to the thyroid, AA, B, C, D, if that's the weak link in your chain.  If it's your brain Arnold goes after your brain with molecular mimicry. If it's your kidneys Arnold goes after your kidneys with molecular mimicry. It just depends on what the weak link is in your chain. With wheat it doesn't matter because AA, B, C, D is very common to the structure of the human body. It's a component of... If you think of proteins like it's big, long brick wall, many colors of bricks in there, but there's this pattern. Any time you see that pattern, "Oh look it's there. Oh look it's over too. Oh, it's there too. And that's AA, B, C, D in our bodies. It's very common in our bodies.  So whoever the weak link is in your chain that's where Arnold's going to go. And then you have to make more antibodies to your thyroid until this antibody production to your thyroid becomes self-perpetuating. Now you're on the autoimmune spectrum, killing off your thyroid in this example or your thyroid, killing off cells, until eventually you've killed off so many cells now you're starting to get cold hands and feet, or it's hard to wake up in the morning. Now your thyroid's not working so well for you. You go to a doctor and they take your thyroid hormone. The hormone levels are normal but you're not functioning very well. And they don't check to look for the autoimmunity that's causing all the inflammation in your thyroid and killing off the cells in your thyroid. That's the autoimmune spectrum. Dr. Veronica: Okay. First of all I love your analogies. They're just so beautiful. Thank you. I'm into this story and I'm just like... When you've heard the story before and explained in the medical health and all the lingo with all the stuff behind it it's like, "I've heard about that." But with the Arnold Schwarzenegger behind it with glasses it's like... Dr. Thomas: Yeah, it helps. Dr. Veronica: Thank you so much for that. I would've jumped over because that's a beautiful explanation. Now you're talking about the autoimmune fix and we talked a little bit before we came on about type 1 diabetes which people think, you just got it. There's nothing you can do about it. And also Alzheimer's, you just get old and you just get it. There's nothing you can do. You got the tangles in your brain. You're going to get it.  Talk a bit about can we fix this. Because most people think, "I'm a victim. I just got it. There's nothing I could do about it. I got the pill. I keep going to the doctor and gets adjusted. I feel miserable. This is just my luck in life. My family had it. My mom was like this. Too bad. Oh well." But that's not true. Dr. Thomas: No. That's not true at all. I was just  looking for something. I can't find them quickly so I'll just skip that. No one gets Alzheimer's in their 60's or 70's. It's a decades long process, slowly killing off brain cells. Until you've killed off enough brain cells that the system doesn't work very well anymore just like your thyroid. Dr. Dale Bredesen is at UCLA. He runs the Buck Institute at UCLA. That's the Alzheimer's Research Center. He published a paper in November of 2014 showing complete reversal of Alzheimer's in 9 out of 10 people within 5 years at UCLA. They reversed it within 5 years. How did he do it? There's a 34-point checklist. "They have this. They have this. Do they have this? Do they have this?" Top of the list, wheat sensitivity. Next, dairy sensitivity. Because AA, B, C, D is so very common with the brain when you have a sensitivity to wheat. When I give my lectures to doctors, there's 200 doctors in the room how many know we're suspecting of a sensitivity to wheat? Let me see a show of hands? And I say, "Hold your hands high for a minute please," and they do. I say, "Look around the room," and it's about 80% of the room. Then I'll say, "How many of you know or suspect if you have an inadvertent exposure to wheat it seems to affect your brain? Let me see your hands again? Come on, hold them up." And about 50%-60% of those people raise their hand again. And I said look around the room. This is a talk to doctors, health care practitioners. This is not a celiac group. This is your practice doctors. This is how often it's in your practice. "How many of you are finding it this often?" And maybe there'll be one person that raises her hand. In other words in clinical practice six to seven out of ten people will test positive if you do the right test, looking for a sensitivity to wheat. And of that number the most common system affected for molecular mimicry AA, B, C, D is the brain. Most common for most people it affects the brain. You've got Arnold firing at your brain causing inflammation in the brain, that's pulling on the chain. And eventually one day you say, "I'm getting old. I don't remember the way I used to. Haha..." "Really? How old are you?" "I'm 38." No, that's not supposed to happen. No, that's not normal, you're getting older. No, it's a brain that's on fire. You've got inflammation in your brain. Why? I don't know why. Let's find out.  But you're on the autoimmune spectrum, and that's what this book is about. The Autoimmune Fix just came out two weeks ago. What it's about is to understand this big picture concept. Everybody wants a cure. May I be gentle and say this to your listeners. Wake up. There's no such thing as a cure. There's no magic pill that fixes your diabetes. Wake up. A cure means you don't have the symptoms anymore. You have no markers of the symptoms like blood test or urine test, and you can do whatever you want. Remission means you don't have the symptoms anymore. There is no markers of the symptoms, urine or blood test. And as long as you live the lifestyle that got you feeling better you're going to stay healthy. There's no cure. You want to read about a cure for diabetes? Go to YouTube and type in Type 2 diabetes and raw food diets. And you'll see the videos of African-American post-menopausal women which is a very high-risk group for diabetes, you'll see a video of them. They go on a raw food diet for 30 days and you see the doctors talk about their blood tests, and this is unbelievable, their diabetes is completely gone. Their cholesterol's come down 85 points. I'm taking them off their cholesterol medication. You see the doctors saying this. The most potent thing you can do for your health is what's at the end of your fork. That's it. It's like, wake up people, wake up. And the reason I'm so direct about this is because for the first time in the history of human species, for the very first time the New England Journal of Medicine tells us today that children born today are going to get sick at an earlier age than their parents. They're going to get diagnosed with diseases at an earlier age than their parents, and they're going to die at an earlier age than when their parent's died.  For the first time in the history of the human species. This has never happened before. We're going down. Now, the statistics are very clear, our health care system is one of the worst. The U.S. is ranked second from the bottom in quality of health care at the World Health Organization, yet we spend more for health than anywhere else on the planet. It's in pharma's big interest to keep us dumbed down and not understanding any of this.  That's why I spent a year with Betrayal, The Autoimmune Disease Solution They're Not Telling You. When you guys wake up to this common sense stuff that's in here and that's in Betrayal you're just going to start asking different questions. And when you ask different questions your doctors are being demanded upon to get more answers. Because the things that I write about in this book just make common sense.  Stop throwing gasoline on the fire. Everybody knows that diseases are inflammatory. Alright, stop throwing gasoline on the fire. "How do I do that?" Well, you have to learn. And so it's going to take a while to learn. There's no cure that you take this pill and you're fine. There's no cure. There is remission. And you can have a wonderfully vibrant, dynamic life you can. But we have to learn how to ask the right kind of questions. Dr. Veronica: You mentioned Betrayal, I think so many people feel betrayed by the health care system, betrayed by their doctors, betrayed by the government, society, just betrayed by everything. We talk about Betrayal and we're going to talk about how people can get access to Betrayal and learn. Dr. Thomas: I've traveled the world, literally. For the last few I put 165,000 air miles now in this last year. Lisbon, Barcelona, Leipzig, Germany, three times in London, Dublin, Sao Paolo, all over the world, interviewing world experts, the godfathers and godmothers of autoimmunity. And they know all of this and it's shocking when you hear them talk about it. They've know about this for years these kinds of concepts, but no one's carrying the message out and putting it together. We put it all together. It's a seven-part series online, everything's free. It's about an hour a day for seven days. And you can register for it here with your website, so people can click on it and register and they can watch Betrayal. They're going to hear from the experts.  You're going to hear from Dr. Marta Vives Pi in Barcelona, Spain who is reversing type 1 diabetes with diet and nutrition, regenerating beta cells of the pancreas. So your body starts making insulin again. What we've been told it's impossible. No, it's not. Read her papers. Here's the evidence. It works. It's simple. It's not a drug, and it works.  You're going to read Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the godfather of predictive autoimmunity. His book is there on the shelf, Vaccines and Autoimmunity. It just came out. Dr. Shoenfeld, to get a sense of who this guy is, 28 of the PhD students who got their PhD's under him, many more than that, but 28 of them share departments of immunology in med schools and hospitals around the world. This is the godfather. I interviewed him three times. And you hear him say, "Dr. O'Bryan, I am very much in favor of vaccinations. They have saved millions of lives. However, if the person carries the gene HLA-DRB1, and 30% of the population does, they are very sensitive to having an acute reaction to the adjuvants in vaccine. Thus, it is of wisdom to perhaps be cautious in administering the vaccines. Perhaps a smaller time scale of administration, not seven in one day, not three in one day to these infants that have a weakened, not developed immune system yet. So you give one and you wait two weeks. You give another one.  Sean tells all four vaccinations but he's saying for these patients that are HLA-DRB1 you got to wake up. You can't throw this toxic poison in them because their bodies can't handle it that well. Other bodies may be able to handle it okay. So it's not saying don't vaccinate, he's just saying vaccinate with caution if they have that weak link in their chain. That's the kind of stuff you're going to hear from these experts. It's just such useful information and it saves lives. It's going to save thousands and thousands of lives. I want everyone to watch this. It's all free. Because if you watch it you're going to ask different questions of your doctor. Dr. Veronica: I just got to share because we're just meeting for the first time a little bit before the podcast of how I personally felt betrayed by my medical education. I also felt betrayed in my health care. I realized that I was sensitive to certain things because my sons, one got depressed and one got bipolar, and we figured out that they were sensitive to wheat and soy. One had thyroid symptoms major. Dr. Thomas: AA, B, C, D. Dr. Veronica: The doctor came to me who was my [Unintelligible 00:38:56] Dr. Veronica who's a chiropractic at... "Come here mom. Let me test you." And then what do you know, I'm sensitive. I'm not eating tons of these food so I would get six sometimes and say, "What's going on. I don't even know what happened?" And all of a sudden it answered questions for me. And the other thing that I will say is as an African-American I used to feel, "That's a white people disease." And I realized it's not a white people disease. And probably everybody in my family is suffering from these things and oh my god we better wake up. My mother and my father has diabetes. I'm an eye surgeon by training. My grandmother went blind from diabetes. This is this betrayal that you're talking about needs to get out there into the whole world. So when people go to my Facebook page, to my website, even if it's after the date don't think that you still can have access to it because the world needs to see this. Dr. Thomas O'Bryan I thank you for your work, your book The Autoimmune Fix. For those of you who like to read go get the book. You need it on your shelves so you can pick it up and read it over and over again, because it takes a while to digest this. Dr. Thomas: May I say something about the book? Dr. Veronica: Yes.  Dr. Thomas: Here's the thing on the book. Right now it's on Amazon for 16 bucks. Amazon is selling it at a loss because it's getting more traffic. More people are coming. And then when you're on Amazon you're likely to buy something else, so that's their philosophy. But it's 16 bucks. If I make The New York Times Best Seller list that means I get invitations. I'm now a candidate for Ellen, Oz, Bill Maher, all these shows where I can carry this message out even further. For 16 bucks I promise if you're not happy I'll give you a refund. You just send me a note and I'll give you a refund. I'm very proud of it. It's 30 years of work. But help me carry this message out. Help me if you would by getting the book. There's no profit in this. You make a couple of bucks a book. This is not for that. This is really to carry the message out to wake the world up because our kids are dying younger than their parents, and that's what this is about. So help me and watch Betrayal. Tell your friends about Betrayal. Help us carry the message out there so we can reach a million people with this. Dr. Veronica: Yay, and I'm going to help you reach those million people with the followers of Dr. Veronica and all my posting on social media. Dr. O'Bryan, again, with much gratitude for your work and your time, those 165,000 miles to get Betrayal put together so we all could figure out what we need to do to heal ourselves. Thank you so much. Dr. Thomas: Thank you. Female VO: Thank you for listening to The Wellness Revolution Podcast. If you want to hear more on how to bring wellness into your life visit drveronica.com. See you all next week. Take care. _______________________________ Dr. Veronica Anderson is an MD, Functional Medicine practitioner, Homeopath. and Medical Intuitive. As a national speaker and designer of the Functional Fix and Rejuvenation Journey programs, she helps people who feel like their doctors have failed them. She advocates science-based natural, holistic, and complementary treatments to address the root cause of disease. Dr. Veronica is a highly-sought guest on national television and syndicated radio and hosts her own radio show, Wellness for the REAL World, on FOX Sports 920 AM “the Jersey” on Mondays at 7:00 pm ET.   To get started transforming your health, schedule a consult HERE.  

Good marriage counselors are worth their weight in gold.The others...let's just say they aren't. (If you've had a bad experience with a marriage counselor, you likely already inserted your own negative sentence.)We hear from thousands of people every year about their marriages. From those who convinced their spouses to go to marriage counseling, we very often hear how the experience hurt their marriage rather than helped.Is that the fault of the couple or at least one of the spouses? Obviously, it could be. But could it be the fault of the counselor? Yes.We hear people say their counselor told them they should divorce because their problems aren't solvable. Others say that the counselor told them that s/he will help them figure out how to divorce amicably but there is no need to try to save the marriage because one of them doesn't want that. One woman told us that her counselor very early in their sessions told the husband he should divorce her. When the woman confronted the counselor about that advice in a private session, the counselor said that she thought it was the best way to make the husband realize how much he would lose and that maybe then he would come back to the marriage.Really? How could she think THAT will make things better?In this program, Dr. Joe Beam and Kimberly Holmes, Executive Director of Marriage Helper, discuss what to do when marriage counseling doesn't work or if counseling did more harm to your marriage than good. Also, they give suggestions on how to find the right counselor to help you with your marriage. They also explain the difference in a turn-around intensive and traditional counseling.For those whose spouses won't go to marriage counseling, they share how to convince your spouse to go with you for marriage help. During the program you may ask your questions or share your comments by calling 646-378-0424. 

Good marriage counselors are worth their weight in gold.The others...let's just say they aren't. (If you've had a bad experience with a marriage counselor, you likely already inserted your own negative sentence.)We hear from thousands of people every year about their marriages. From those who convinced their spouses to go to marriage counseling, we very often hear how the experience hurt their marriage rather than helped.Is that the fault of the couple or at least one of the spouses? Obviously, it could be. But could it be the fault of the counselor? Yes.We hear people say their counselor told them they should divorce because their problems aren't solvable. Others say that the counselor told them that s/he will help them figure out how to divorce amicably but there is no need to try to save the marriage because one of them doesn't want that. One woman told us that her counselor very early in their sessions told the husband he should divorce her. When the woman confronted the counselor about that advice in a private session, the counselor said that she thought it was the best way to make the husband realize how much he would lose and that maybe then he would come back to the marriage.Really? How could she think THAT will make things better?In this program, Dr. Joe Beam and Kimberly Holmes, Executive Director of Marriage Helper, discuss what to do when marriage counseling doesn't work or if counseling did more harm to your marriage than good. Also, they give suggestions on how to find the right counselor to help you with your marriage. They also explain the difference in a turn-around intensive and traditional counseling.For those whose spouses won't go to marriage counseling, they share how to convince your spouse to go with you for marriage help. During the program you may ask your questions or share your comments by calling 646-378-0424. 

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How showing us consume our own products is driving revenue. On today’s episode Russell talks about how doing Funnel Fridays has helped show people how to consume Funnel Scripts and has ended up helping tremendously with sales. He also tells a funny story about a product launch with an unexpected problem. Here are some cool things to listen for in this episode: How Funnel Fridays have helped sell Funnel Scripts. Why it’s important for your customers to become engaged with your company. And find out the details of a funny story involving Anik Singal and a product launch. So listen below to find out why you should be watching Funnel Fridays and why you should be doing something similar with your own business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell. I hope you guys are doing amazing. Welcome to Marketing In Your Car. Alright my friends, I’m on the way to the office for a quick one hour session. It was 4th of July yesterday, we had an amazing time blowing up more fireworks than most people should probably ever buy. Someone told me that that’s the closest thing to lighting money on fire, but I tell you what, it was worth it. We had a great time, we survived. All of my 50+ family members, almost all of them left now. There’s a moment when things just slowed down, so I’m heading to the office to bust out a quick few projects real quick. Then I’m back to playing with the fam. But as I was heading out I wanted to share with you guys something that’s really, really cool. Amazingly cool. Something that I think all of you guys should, really should be doing in your business. It was something we kind of stumbled upon. Let me tell you the back story. So here’s the epiphany bridge for those that pay attention. I always talk about my webinar model, where it’s like, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday promote the webinar. Thursday do the webinar. Friday, Saturday, Sunday follow up and keep that process, right? What about all the unconverted leads, people that don’t buy, what should you do with them? So that’s kind of what this concept stems from. People didn’t buy the webinar for whatever reason. Sometimes they come around and buy later and things like that. But how do we get them so that they’re buying all the time? So that was kind of the initial question and I heard John Lee Dumas talk about how he does these webinars on Friday, he just talks all day Friday. Talks for 2 or 3 hours and just pitches all those unconverted leads on this thing and makes a hundred grand every single time. And I was like, or you know, I don’t know. Maybe it was 50 grand or 10 grand. I don’t know, but that’s what he was doing every Friday for a while and I was like, that’s kind of cool. So we bought the domain funnelfridays.com and got a sweet logo made and I was like, “Every Friday I’m going to do some Funnel Friday thing.” And that was kind of the idea and then it sat there for like 8 months. Logo design and everything, it just didn’t do anything. And then one day Jim Edwards called me on the phone and was like, “Hey we sold a lot of Funnel Scripts, we should keep selling Funnel Scripts, because right now nobody’s buying it. What’s the best way to sell more?” and I was like, I don’t know and we were kind of trying to think through things. And then I was like, “We’re thinking about doing this thing Funnel Friday where I was just going to build funnels and let people watch me. Do you want to be on that show and then you can do the script part of it and just I don’t know? It’d be kind of fun.” And he’s like, “Yes, let’s do this. Let’s set a date.” Which was a good thing we did, because the day was like 6 weeks later, but we put it on a Friday. We were like, “We’re going to do this Friday Funnels.” Yeah Friday Funnels. I get the domain messed up. Anyway, 6 weeks later, finally I show up that day and it’s like the day before and it’s like, “Oh crap, we’re doing this tomorrow.” “What should we do.” I’m like, “Let’s build a funnel. I’m going to build it in Clickfunnels, you’ll write the script in Funnel Scripts, you’ll give it to me and we’ll plug it all in, and we’ll show people us building a funnel.” And he’s like, “How long is it going to be?” And I was like, “I don’t know. It’d probably be cool if we made it like we had some kind of limits on it. So it wasn’t just Russell building a funnel for 3 hours, because as cool as that would be for me and the two people that would like to watch me build funnels for 3 hours a day. Oh man, I think I just got walkie-talkie’d by the construction lady with the sign. Hope there’s not a cop on the back end of that. Anyway, sorry. There’s construction, I’m just driving too fast through it. So anyway, I was like, “I think it’d be better if we had constraints, because constraints make things interesting.” When there’s no constraints on it and you’re just doing something, it’s not as interesting. So I was like, “Let’s do a 30 minute timer and let’s try to build a funnel. So that was kind of the concept. So we went the first time and we started building a funnel and I did it in 30 minutes. Anyway, I got one of the 6 pages in the funnel done and it was really, really hard. The next week we did another one and I got a little bit closer. And the third week, I think we’ve done…….I can’t remember if it’s 3 or 4 weeks now. I think we’re on 4, I think this is our 4th week. We’ve had people send packages of what they want us to build. And we’ve done Facebook Live ahead of time and opening up packages and letting people vote on which product they wanted to see on Funnel Fridays. Just a whole bunch of fun things around that concept and every Friday we’re like, “Hey we’re building a funnel, come hang out with us live.” And people would show up, and it’s pretty cool. Now a couple of little tweaks. W’re doing ours on Google Hangouts. If you go to the page you’ll see it there and all the back shows are there as well. So it’s happening on Google Hangout, and we drive our email list to promote to that. So there’s traffic coming from that. And now that we’re kind of building our YouTube subscribers, there’s a little traffic coming from that. And the other things is Facebook Live and Periscope. For some reason, I don’t know why, but I’m grateful for it. Facebook Live is amazing right now. I did a Facebook Live yesterday and within 24 hours we had over a million people reached, it’s crazy. I think that they’re really rewarding people right now, because they want people on Facebook Live because they are trying to beat out Periscope and the other ones. Anyway, there’s a little hint. Strike while the iron’s hot, because that window won’t be there forever. I remember with Google Hangouts for a while it was the same thing. You do a Google Hangout on any topic and you’d be ranked on page one of Google the next day. So that window, that ship kind of sailed and disappeared, but that’s how they were trying to get people to do hangouts back then. Same thing, they’re trying to do with Facebook Live. So they promote things. So what we do is, I’m doing it live on Google Hangouts, then Steven on my team, he’s got Periscope and Facebook Live recording on my phone, so he’s recording behind the scenes of us doing it. So we’re recording that, a piece of it. What’s crazy is that Facebook Live version goes crazy viral. Part of it’s because we’re on for about an hour. 30 minutes of me building, but there’s build up time and post time and talking and having fun and banter. So it’s about an hour. So because of that there’s so much interaction that happens during that hour that Facebook boosts it high. Anyway, it’s crazy. So we do it, basically, Google Hangouts is showing us using the product, Facebook Live and Periscope show behind the scenes of us doing it. And we kind of promote all those things like crazy. And when all is said and done, after Friday’s show is done, we’re getting half a million + people to see it on Friday, between the reach and emails and everything like that. It’s just crazy. So we’ve done it for 4 weeks now. Is that what I said? 4 weeks, 1,2,3,4. And I have no idea if it’s sales were good or bad. We’re doing it because it’s fun and hopefully people will like it. Luckily every single week it’s been more people showing up. So there’s some cool stuff there. But after Friday’s last show, Jim was like, because Jim and I are partners on Funnel Scripts, so he gets half the money on everything it makes. And he was just, he said something like, “Man, I’m glad I hitched myself to you and to the Clickfunnels bandwagon.” Or whatever. And I was like, “Oh yeah. How are sales doing? I haven’t even looked yet.” And he said something like, “Mama’s really happy.” And I was like, “Really? How are we doing? I have no idea. We haven’t promoted it, been in a webinar. There’s an auto webinar page there and we talk about it during these shows.” So I went back to look at the stats, and that product alone had sold over $117,000 worth in the last 30 days. Primarily, I mean we drive a little bit of Facebook ads and stuff, but primarily from this live show. And it’s crazy. I don’t even know how much Clickfunnels sells, or Funnel University or the things we talk about, but that one specific, $117,000 came from us not selling, just consuming the product and showing people how we consume the product. Is that crazy? So my big moral, I hope you guys are seeing this trend in the back side of my marketing, because we’re doing it a lot. We’re trying to show behind the scenes of everything. As you know we’re doing a reality show, filming behind the scenes of behind the scenes. The more I’m trying to get people engaged in the process of what we do and not just the end product of what we do, but engaging people in the process, the better it’s been. How do we let them experience us consuming our products? Because we’re the hyper users so far. I’m consuming this product and I’m obsessed with it and I’m showing you how excited I am. And I’m actually consuming it on a regular basis and they get to peer through the screen, look over my shoulder and watch that process. It gets them wanting to consume, it gets them wanting to use it. So instead, for us not selling anything, just showing people how we consume our own products, that one product alone $117,000. My guess between Clickfunnels and some other stuff we’re probably a quarter of a million dollars or more and we haven’t sold anything yet. We’re just showing us consume things. So I want all you guys thinking about that. What is it in your business that you do? Most of your customers probably see the end result. The product that you are handing them or the software tool your handing them or whatever. They don’t get to see the process. So how can you show them the process? How can you use something like a weekly show where you consume your products and show you actually using them? Anyway, it’s doing some amazing things for us and that’s why I’m excited. I wanted to share that with you guys. So if you want to see the process we’re doing, go to funnelfridays.com to kind of watch the process and be engaged with it. But then feel free to model it, funnel hack it, whatever you want to call it in your own market because it’s working like crazy. Bring them in behind the scenes you guys. I started saying this a couple of months ago and I’m going to keep saying it, the more we open up the back end of what we’re doing, the more people will become engaged in the process. At the mastermind meeting I mentioned that this whole concept. We’re talking about building our culture and how do we open things up and I talked about how when your customers are experiencing, are part of the process of your creations or the things you are making, the big takeaway is that now it’s not like, “Oh this is Russell’s company.” They look at it differently like, “This is our company. This is part of what we are. This is our movement.” It’s making them engaged. I remember thinking about this. This is probably 8 or 9 years ago. One of my buddies, Anik Singal and I had both, I hope he hears this it’ll be kind of funny, had an idea for a product and both of us, we called ours Affiliate Inferno and he called his Affiliate Manager something, and both of them are the same concept like, how to build an affiliate program to drive traffic. The greatest way to drive traffic in the world is building an affiliate program. So we both had this idea and I think we both knew we were going to create something but we didn’t know when, and I remember, Stu McClarin was my partner on the project and we had had a call that day. Me and Stu picked a day. We’re going to do our pre-launch here and our launch here and had everything mapped out. And that same day Anik Singal called me and was like, “Hey man, I’m launching my thing, here’s my day and my thing.” And it was the exact same day as mine. I was like, “Oh dude, we honestly have the exact same dates for the exact same product and we’re competing for the same affiliates.” I was like, “I don’t know what to do. I can’t move mine. It’s in process.” He’s like, “I can’t move mine either.” And I’m like, “Well, this sucks.”  I was like, “Alright, well good luck.” And he’s like, “Good luck to you too.” And we were both competing for primarily similar products, but going after the same partners to help us promote it. So I didn’t know what to do I was just like, this is going to suck. So what I did, I called a couple of my friends up. I didn’t get…..it’d be fun to actually look back in the books now and see how much our launch did vs Anik’s and just see who ended up getting more or less. I mean, I don’t know. He had a lot of people on his side,  I had a lot of people on my side. Everyone kind of took sides and did it. The one interesting thing, I remember I called a bunch of my friends. Mike Filsaime was one of them for example, I was like, “Hey Mike, this is what happened. What would you do?” So Mike went and consulted me through what he would do if he was me in this situation, which was awesome. I got consulting from him and I was like, oh cool. But what was cool is because he was consulting me and he was the one coaching me through this process, when it came to who was he going to promote, he promoted me. I believe it was because he felt part of the process of my product and not Anik’s. He had this piece of that role out, and because he felt ownership in that, he participated in it. So the lesson I’m trying to share with you guys is if your customers feel ownership in the creative process you’re going through as you create your products and services and you’re doing things, they are going to be way more likely to purchase those things in the future. They are going to be more likely to view you and your company not as your company vs. their…customer vs. whatever it’s going to be their company with you, which is cool. Anyway, I hope that gave you guys some value. It’s some of the ninja cool stuff I’m thinking about a lot recently and having a ton of success with it. I think it’s exciting. So that’s it. I’m at the office; I’m going to go get some stuff done. Have an amazing day you guys and I’ll talk to you all again very soon, bye.

We review the hit single 4' 33", John Cage's experimental song consisting of only silence. Could your 5 year old do that? Really? How about the other experimental song that involved butterflies...

**WARNING** if easily offended please don't listen. If you watched sex everyday of your life how would it affect your sex life ? How much to porn stars get paid? How do people become porn stars? Could Glenn do porn? Some men like getting kicked in the balls? Really? How did the internet affect the industry? We get all the answers Fascinating podcast speaking to 1 of the biggest names in the porn industry Holly Randall , talks everything porn and her crazy experiences. HollyRandall-InsidethePornindustryEverythingyouneverknewsexdirectorhornypenisIfwatchedeverydayofyourlifehowwould

Fossil fuels are at the core of the climate challenge. Even Saudi Arabia’s oil minister has said the fossil fuel merry-go-round will wind down one day. But are companies actually going to leave their oil, coal and gas assets in the ground? That won’t make stock holders very happy. As we look for ways to reduce our carbon footprint familiar culprits come to mind: the car’s tailpipe, the air conditioner, even our hamburger. But our laptops? Really? How much of a carbon impact are we making from posting, liking, tweeting and buying online? Climate One explores the path to a clean and cool planet.

New Year, new you! Really? How many times have you made new resolutions? Hmmm…. maybe loads? Now, how many times have you actually kept them? Hmmm……. probably less? And when you didn’t, how did it make you feel? And who first came up with the idea for resolutions anyway? What if every second is an opportunity to create something new – not just at new year…….but here’s the thing do you do it from judgement or joy? The choice is yours….  

8/26/2013 What can you do as a parent to make yourself a great employee? Really? How do you come to the workplace? Don't bring IT to work. Sylvia Lafair is author of award winning book ''Don't Bring It to Work'' 20 Best Books for Emerging Leaders 2012 and it was voted as one of the top 20 books for emerging leaders and awarded the GUTSY first place in ''How to'' Books. Sylvia talks about the 13 most common patterns we bring to the workplace. Listen and learn.