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Are we in a News Media Golden Age, or a fragmented era? In this “Generational Divides” episode, Reason editor-at-large Nick Gillespie brings together Baby Boomer, Millennial, and Gen Z voices to debate how our media landscape is changing. Are more platforms expanding truth, or blurring the line between news and entertainment? Are journalists accountable to funders, audiences, or the truth? As industry shakeups like recent Washington Post layoffs signal change, what does the future of news media look like? For Baby Boomers: Kurt Andersen, Novelist, and Former Host of NPR's "Studio 360"; Co-founder of Spy magazine For Millennials: Nellie Bowles, Journalist & Co-Founder of The Free Press For Gen Z: Rachel Janfaza, Journalist & Founder of The Up and Up Substack; Contributor to The Bulwark Nick Gillespie, Editor-at-Large at Reason, is the guest moderator. Join the conversation on Substack—share your perspective on this episode and subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated insights from our debaters, moderators, and staff. Follow us on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and TikTok to stay connected with our mission and ongoing debates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why People Leave After Joining the Church
Stefan Molyneux looks at how mysticism, philosophy, and communication overlap, in response to a listener's question about higher powers, emphasizing the use of reason and precise definitions to cut through vagueness in talks about belief. The discussion covers ideas like consciousness, love, and attachment, with him arguing that genuine moral love goes beyond basic instincts. He points out the problems vague terms create in society and pushes for common definitions to improve how people communicate. On dreams, Molyneux sees them as straightforward experiences from life, not as sources of mystical insight. He wraps up by noting the role of clear thinking and rational talk in dealing with complicated aspects of life, and encourages people to express their thoughts with care.Emails:Hello Stefan,Following your most recent, as of today, FDR podcast.(6292). I wanted to hopefully offer you some perspective that may or may not be helpful. As before, I understand that your time is valuable. I do think though that my perspective, linked to IQ and seeing things very differently to you, might be of aid. The reason I have added this onto an existing email is just for familiarity because I will mildly use this backdrop for additional thoughts. I did talk to you briefly on podcast 6147. But I wanted to offer you my thought process here because it might offer you some insight into your value in a way you had not considered. Firstly, what I believe is important background as to my perspective on this entire mysticism thing. I do believe in the existence of something higher and more powerful and that has communicated with us. Certainly, a little through the bible. But mostly not through the bible. There is channeling, including the human design chart, to back this up. So I do believe the new age at its core has some good concepts. BUT, I also believe that there is a huge, and incredibly powerful toxic element of the new age. There is a mix of non complete understandings and such. For this reason, I do think that your perspective and that of many who have similar perspectives is valuable. In that keeping things to objective reality. To challenge said toxicity. There is more to this understanding. But I think that explains the core of my thoughts. People that are truly inclined to the spiritual stuff I look at will find it. But people that don't really commit and use the bare minimum of it to justify madness. It is good that that is challenged. it is similar in some ways, if you imagine a society that has innovators and Socrates following philosophers. The innovators want to do innovating and the Socrates people want nothing to exist or be real or whatever. Even though philosophy as a discipilne is extremely useful and powerful. Some of those innovators might be best served in dismissing it as the ravings of lunatics and just getting on with Innovating. So I want to describe the dream I had that stopped me talking further about mysticism. I fully acknowledge none of this makes sense since I have no following. But it still might offer an interesting perspective. It is of course not likely that if I offered a genuine challenge to your view on that that evildoers would pick it up and run with it. But apparently the dreams thought it was a suitable fear to highlight. So I went with it. My argument on mysticism would be as follows. This is not something I am committed to or care about but it was what I was thinking. It is now the story in something else I want to express. Firstly, your original statement is that mysticism is the gateway to mental illness. Firstly of course, I wrote to you on the definition of mysticism. Which I would use my own after having defined it due to the problems with yours that I highlighted. I would further refine that now by defining a primary and secondary faith. But anyway, per your argument, I would say, if mysticism is a gateway to mental illness. Then that would assume it would not in general, be used to solve mental illness. I would further refine the use of symbolic things to reach understandings. Such as tarot cards. By asking why do we dream. Why does our subconscious communicate in such a way? I would answer this by saying what is the alternative? The alternative being that without the subtlety and indirectness. The subconscious would communicate more like a dictator. Even giving the information without veil would have this effect. Since once we know the right thing to do we have more responsibility and consequences than before we know that. So what does this sound like? This sounds like schizophrenia! I would then talk about how a possible theory for it, is that if the problem gets too serious. If the subconscious mind is screaming too loudly. It busts through the conscious/ subconscious barrier too loudly, and that's where this comes from. (This is roughly what I think happened with my schizophrenic break, some of my ideas come indirectly from the psychologist Elinor Greenberg who talks about how dreams help low level schizophrenics)This would then correlate schizophrenia, and that kind of non objective, symbolic understandings. More with the symptom of other problems than with it being the cause. I would also define mainstream faith based Christianity as mysticism. As per my earlier example. And show times when this has been used to help people. Such as when the Ukraine war used to go a bit crazy women on Gab used to put loads of Christian sayings out. Women cannot biologically deal with war, but they still have fear, so a tool like mysticism to reduce the fear is perhaps highly positive. So now I get to the point. Like I said and strongly believe. It is unlikely evildoers would take such a reasoning as this and run with it to dent your power. But the dreams still responded like this was the case. The dream I had, (I do not like to tell others my dreams I prefer to interpret but I am making an exception here). I was about to make a few youtube videos on this. But I had a dream with Pearl Davis being aggressively tortured. She has mentioned a few times over the years how she has been sued and things. It was a pretty shocking dream. It felt kind of real. But what I think it could mean, is that your platform and output in this kind of social war, was significantly impacting people like Pearl by pushing back on intensely female and active toxicity we are currently witnessing (Taking us back to the point on mysticism and the Socrates philosophers analogy).I realise you might not interpret it the same way. Like, you might believe that all individuals in our dreams are parts of ourselves along a Family Systems therapy line. But I just wanted to provide that feedback in case it does provide some perspective or help in some way. Best Wishes,Joe ---It has been some years since I listened to your last podcast, 'Why animals can't love.' At that point, I quit Molyneaux. It has occurred and re occurred to me that you continued to make consciousness or choice the mandatory when it comes to capacity to love.This thinking backs exactly into a contradiction. We know that infants have neither consciousness nor choice, yet, any parent knows the infant loves. Toddlers are compelled to love, but they love nonetheless. Teenagers, etc. Not only compelled to love, but can be. Of course, Molyneaux would say, 'But that's no real love.' But some of it is. The child still wants to love the parent even when virtue (lack) seeks to negate. Some part of that child does still love. I always believed that your false philosophy on animals and love conditions backed directly into the right, even obligation, to abort children. The threadline of your 'philosophy' justified abortion. Since the infant has no choice or consciousness. He is more animal, less human. The right to kill seems elementary. That's always deeply concerned me that something is off center in your work. Mean spirited. Resentful. Death-loving. A hint of Crowley, even though 98% of your takes are good. I know you made your cash on bitcoin. Congratulations. Make an atheist like yourself proud. 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German Bishops Elect New Leader — This Is Not Good
Send a textBrothers and sisters, tonight we have Ed Marbrie from the Faith by Reason website breaking down what I call “Revenge of the Nephilim” and how that may play out according to his interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Ed's website is loaded with edifying information for you and I highly suggest you get over there and have a look around and possibly sign up for one of his courses. Ed's April 2026 Spiritual Warfare Course - https://faithbyreason.net/spiritual-warfare-course-pre-launch-sign-up/Ed's Patreon - www.patreon.com/faithbyreasonEd's website: https://faithbyreason.net/SUPPORTBuy Me A Coffee http://buymeacoffee.com/DangerousinfopodcastSubscribeStar http://bit.ly/42Y0qM8Super Chat Tip https://bit.ly/42W7iZHBuzzsprout https://bit.ly/3m50hFTPaypal http://bit.ly/3Gv3ZjpPatreon http://bit.ly/3G3Visit our affiliate, GrubTerra to get 20% off your next order of pet treats: https://bit.ly/436YLVZSupport the show using Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/dangerousinfopodcast SMART is the acronym that was created by technocrats that have setup the "internet of things" that will eventually enslave humanity to their needs. Support the showLeave Voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/DangerousInfoWebsite https://www.dangerousinfopodcast.com/Discord chatroom: https://discord.gg/8feGHQQmwgEmail the show dangerousinfopodcast@protonmail.comJoin mailing list http://bit.ly/3Kku5Yt GrubTerra Pet Treats https://bit.ly/436YLVZ Watch LiveYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@DANGEROUSINFOPODCASTRumble https://bit.ly/4q1Mg7Z Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/dangerousinfopodcastPilled.net https://pilled.net/profile/144176BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/egnticQyZgxD Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dangerousinfo/TwitterX https://twitter.com/jaymz_jesseYouTube https://bit.ly/436VExnFacebook https://bit.ly/4gZbjVa Send stuff: Jesse Jaymz, PO Box 541, Clarkston, MI 48347
You've recruited dozens. Maybe hundreds. You know the scripts. You know the process. You understand the industry. So why does recruiting anxiety still show up? In this episode of Recruiting Conversations, we get honest about something even high-performing leaders rarely admit: recruiting is personal. And when something is personal, it can feel vulnerable. If you've ever hesitated before making the call or felt resistance before following up, this episode will help you understand why, and what to do about it. Episode Breakdown [00:00] The Real Question Why does recruiting anxiety show up even when I've been doing this for years? [01:00] Recruiting Is Personal You're not just filling a role. You're asking someone to consider a major life change. That carries weight. [01:45] Reason 1: You Care About People Leaders who lead with heart don't want to pressure or manipulate. That care is good. Unchecked, it can turn into hesitation. [02:15] Reason 2: The Stakes Feel Higher When top producers consider joining you, it matters. They're trusting your leadership. Perfectionism can creep in and create paralysis. [02:45] Reason 3: Past Rejection Leaves Scar Tissue Ghosting. Silence. Hard no's. Even experienced leaders carry recruiting wounds they never processed. [03:15] Reason 4: Your Standards Have Grown You're no longer talking to anyone. You're looking for culture carriers. And when the bar rises, the fear of missing it rises too. [03:40] Reason 5: Imposter Syndrome Never Fully Disappears Even successful leaders have days where the voice says: Who am I to invite them into this? That voice doesn't mean you're unqualified. It means you're human. [04:00] What Do We Do About It? Acknowledge it. Normalize it. Build systems that move you forward anyway. Confidence is not the absence of anxiety. It's the presence of clarity. Clarity about what you're building Clarity about your value Clarity about your outreach rhythm Clarity about why your leadership matters [04:45] Final Reframe If recruiting still makes your stomach flip, that's not weakness. It's evidence that what you're doing matters. Start the call anyway. Hit send anyway. Follow up anyway. The best recruiters don't wait to feel confident. They take action and let belief grow along the way. Key Takeaways Recruiting Anxiety Is Normal – Especially for leaders who care deeply High Stakes Create Emotional Weight – That doesn't mean you're not capable Past Rejection Can Linger Quietly – Process it instead of carrying it Raising Your Standards Raises the Pressure – That's maturity, not weakness Clarity Beats Confidence – Build systems that guide action even when emotions fluctuate Recruiting changes lives. It reshapes teams. It creates new futures for people. If it feels weighty sometimes, that's because it is. But don't let the weight stop you. Let it remind you that what you're building matters. Ready to Build a Recruiting System That Reduces the Pressure? If this episode resonated with you and you want help building a recruiting structure that replaces hesitation with clarity, let's talk. You can book time directly on my calendar and we'll walk through: Where anxiety is showing up in your recruiting rhythm What systems might be missing How to build a consistent, confident outreach cadence And how to scale recruiting without carrying the emotional weight alone Go to bookrichardnow.com and grab a time that works for you. You do not have to figure this out by yourself. Let's build a system that makes recruiting feel lighter, clearer, and more powerful.
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In this episode of The Evolution of the Great Cow, Tim Abbott and Mike Duckett of Showbox Sires talk about their new bull Release REASON RC 744HO18232. Their guest for this episode is Trent Hendrickson of Trentway Genetics who talks about the family behind REASON RC. His dam is one of the most talked about cows in the world today due to the great pictures he posts of her. Trent talks about the sire of REASON and how cool it is to have this bull in the Red White population.
1. Regina's Side of the StoryClaims it was one of her best first dates ever.Thought there was chemistry.Says she hasn't heard from Pete since.Expresses genuine interest in seeing him again.2. Pete's PerspectivePete says he's “all set” and not interested.Reason? Regina was rude.Details:Told him to shave his goatee.Suggested changing his haircut.Critiqued his clothes.Continued offering “pointers” throughout dinner.Pete felt judged and uncomfortable — especially on a first date.3. Regina RespondsSays she thought she was being helpful and affectionate.Compares it to how her mom fixes her dad's tie.Claims she was nervous and thought it was playful.Admits she was giving “pointers” to improve his look.Calls his goatee “patchy.”4. The ConfrontationPete pushes back:“It's my face.”“We're not friends.”Hosts question Regina:Would she be okay if he gave her similar critiques?Regina avoids directly answering.Pete ultimately declines a second date.5. Final ThoughtsDouble standard discussion:What if he had critiqued her appearance?Debate:Is offering “pointers” ever okay on a first date?Complimenting someone while asking them to change — contradiction?Light humor about “patchy goatees” and first-date etiquette.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
'Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” 'Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” 'But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”' (Numbers 13.26-31, NKJV) One thing had to happen before they could appropriate all the blessings of God, which had been so clearly promised and prophesied, this was their ‘Iron Curtain', the final barrier. One final step and all that they had longed and prayed for would be theirs. One step and the veil that covered their eyes would be lifted and they would see one of the most beautiful and dramatic things that man has ever seen (and few are allowed to actually see this), the REASON why God works great and powerful miracles! His purpose NOW revealed! After all Abraham only acted in faith, he never saw the fulfilment. But this one final step was not taken! – It was to demand a faith beyond their ability! How often are believers today within sight of everything that they are desiring, often with earnest prayer and with the clear knowledge that God HAS promised... yet that final step is not taken, they don't go in and possess the land. It occurs in the realms of healing, finance, evangelism and missions, possibly even revival, certainly in most areas of our lives and especially our service for God.
Today Kris introduces the 'Mirror of Simple Souls', a work of Christian mysticism from the middle ages. Its author was Marguerite Porete - a French-speaking mystic and member of a Beguine religious community. Using the Christian language of the time, she outlined a path toward transcending Reason and unifying the Soul with God and Love. Here, Kris also shows how Porete's ideas are similar to the Buddhist path and have value to modern spiritual seekers of any faith.
The Age Of Reason was not about reason but about the characterization of reason as a product of phenomenology. The Age of Reason was about looking at rationality as an intrinsic component of nature, that is the conception of reality as a physical substance. But rocks do not think nor are they self aware and if this capacity is not present at the initial state it cannot be inserted at some later point in time.
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Building a successful business isn't just about strategy, sales, or marketing. It's about people. In this episode, Susan Mahaffee, CEO and Founder of People Rise, shares why culture, leadership, and strong HR foundations are the real drivers of long-term growth. Whether you're a solopreneur preparing to hire or a growing business managing a team, you'll learn how to build a people-first organization that attracts, develops, and retains the right talent. If you want to lead with confidence, avoid costly mistakes, and create a workplace where people actually want to stay, this conversation is for you.Episode Topics:Why culture is the deciding factor for employee retention and growthWhen small business owners should start thinking about HRContractors vs. employees and setting clear expectationsThe hidden risks of DIY HR and “ChatGPT handbooks”Building leadership skills as your business growsCreating systems, processes, and compliance from the startThe shift toward people-first workplaces and purpose-driven cultureInside the People Power Masterclass and cohort leadership modelInsights:When your people rise, your business rises.Culture is the primary reason employees choose to stay or leave.Investing early in the right people systems prevents costly “rework tax” later.Many business owners invest in marketing and sales but neglect leadership development.Employees leave when they don't see a future, growth path, or strong leadership.Today's workforce prioritizes purpose, values, and meaningful work over compensation alone.Great leaders create calm confidence, even when navigating difficult situations.Highlights:00:00 Welcome and Intro00:13 Introductions & Setup02:06 FAM Realty Background03:39 Reason for Social Shift08:15 Content Strategy & Execution13:20 Recording Levels & Workflow16:47 Boosting & Profile Strategy18:26 Advice for Individuals22:42 Engagement Tactics26:29 Mindset on Engagement30:11 Closing & Resources31:18 Podcast episode endedResources:Website: https://www.peoplerisellc.com/ Instagram & LinkedIn: @PeopleRiseLLCPeople Power Masterclass (6-month leadership cohort)Upcoming book: When People Rise: HR Secrets for Small...
In this episode, I explain why the scale doesn't always reflect true fat loss, even when you're executing perfectly. I break down six common reasons your weight can fluctuate, from menstrual cycles and sodium to stress, travel, and body recomposition. My goal is to help you use the scale as a tool, not let it define you. Chapters: 0:06 Why The Scale Doesn't Tell The Full Story 1:29 The Negative Scale Spiral And Emotional Overcorrection 3:00 Reason 1: Time Of The Month And Hormonal Water Retention 4:27 Reason 2: Muscle Gain And Body Recomposition 6:54 Reason 3: Constipation, Fiber And Digestive Impact 9:30 Reason 4: Sodium Intake And Water Fluctuations 11:03 Reason 5: Stress, Cortisol And Life Load 14:12 Reason 6: Flights, Shift Work And Travel Retention 16:51 The Three Types Of Scale Responders 18:48 Built For Life Newsletter Announcement Next steps: 1) Book a 1-1 strategy session with my team to find out more: https://www.rntfitness.com/applynow 2) Take our free transformation quiz: https://www.rntfitness.com/transform 3) Rate your current health: https://scorecard.rntfitness.com/health Subscribe to the Built for Life newsletter: https://built-for-life.beehiiv.com/subscribe Twice a week emails designed for high performers and busy professionals who want to look good, feel great and perform at their best. Follow RNT Fitness: Website - http://www.rntfitness.com LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/company/rnt-fitness Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/rnt_fitness Follow Akash: LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/akash-vaghela Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/akashvaghela YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@akash_vaghela
Did you miss me? In preparation for the 7th year anniversary of the podcast I'm edging to the month of March just to blow my load of episodes and cry afterwards in the shower. So lets get fancy February going with a movie I'm surprised I enjoyed. Sit back and relax as i get into 2004's Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Enjoy!
5 brutal truths about why you should ignore everything I say (and why that makes me the right mentor for your escape plan) https://DarkHorseEntrepreneur.com/s6e536 Summary In this episode, Tracy breaks the mold of typical success podcasts by revealing why listeners should question conventional success mindset habits. He shares 5 compelling reasons to ignore his advice, from lacking a classic rags-to-riches story to his ongoing struggles with productive mindset habits. This candid approach exposes the manufactured authenticity pervasive in the personal development industry, offering honest insights for corporate professionals planning their entrepreneurial escape. Through his personal failures and hard-won lessons, Allan illustrates how imperfect mentors can provide more valuable guidance than polished gurus flaunting impossible success stories. Tune in for a fresh perspective on authentic success habits and self improvement habits that can truly transform your approach to achieving success. Time Stamps of Key Insights 00:00 - The problem with origin stories in personal development 00:30 - Introduction and Episode Overview 01:05 - The Truth Bomb: Personal Development as Fantasy 02:25 - The Pivotal Moment Story 04:20 - Reason #1: No Rags-to-Riches Story 05:20 - Reason #2: Failed More Than Succeeded 06:25 - Reason #3: Still Has a Day Job 07:20 - Reason #4: Doesn't Always Follow Own Advice 08:20 - Reason #5: Can't Promise Riches 09:40 - Intelligent Elevation: Manufactured Authenticity 11:20 - Whiskered Wisdom: Stop Looking for Perfect Mentors Strategies Shared The Anti-Guru Framework Challenge the Origin Story Myth: Question polished success narratives that seem too perfect Embrace Failure as Education: View setbacks as expensive but necessary learning experiences Value Transition Experience: Seek mentors who understand building while still employed Accept Imperfection: Recognize that consistency isn't about perfection, but about recovery Redefine Success Metrics: Focus on alignment and freedom over just financial outcomes The Five Disqualifications That Actually Qualify No Dramatic Backstory: Relates better to professionals transitioning from success to meaning Multiple Failures: Provides real-world education that success stories can't teach Current Employment: Understands the practical challenges of transition Personal Struggles: Demonstrates humanity and relatability over superhuman discipline Realistic Promises: Offers authentic expectations over false guarantees Mindset Shifts for Escapees From Rags-to-Riches to Riches-to-Meaning: Reframe the entrepreneurial journey for already-successful professionals Golden Handcuffs Recognition: Acknowledge that comfort can be its own prison Failure Reframing: See business failures as education investments, not personal defeats Imperfection Acceptance: Understand that temporary setbacks don't equal permanent failure Authentic Mentorship: Choose guides based on honesty and relatability, not just achievements Resources Mentioned Newsletter AI Escape Plan: Weekly newsletter for aspiring entrepreneurs and 9-to-5 escapees Sign-up: https://DarkHorseInsider.com Content Promise: Real strategies, honest failures, hard-won insights without hype Action Steps to Take Immediate Actions (This Week) Identify Your Perfect Advice Trap: Recognize one area where you've been seeking "perfect" advice or waiting for the "right" mentor Find an Honest Guide: Locate someone 1-3 steps ahead of you who's willing to share real experiences, including failures Reframe Your Story: If you're successful but unfulfilled, shift from seeking rags-to-riches inspiration to riches-to-meaning guidance Ongoing Practices Question Polished Success Stories: Apply healthy skepticism to overly perfect narratives Embrace Your Imperfections: Stop using temporary setbacks as evidence of permanent inadequacy Seek Authentic Community: Connect with others building meaningful work while managing real-world constraints Practice Honest Self-Assessment: Regularly evaluate alignment between your work and your values Mindset Shifts to Adopt Failure as Education: View setbacks as expensive but necessary learning experiences Progress Over Perfection: Focus on consistent forward movement rather than flawless execution Authentic Success Definition: Define success by alignment and freedom, not just financial metrics
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When we disagree with someone, it's tempting to assume the problem is simple: they're irrational, biased, or misinformed. But what if human reasoning doesn't work the way we think it does? What if reasoning isn't primarily about finding the truth on our own, but about exchanging arguments with others? In this episode of TrustTalk, we speak with cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier of the CNRS in Paris and co-author of The Enigma of Reason. He explains why humans may be better at reasoning than we assume, why disagreement often turns on trust rather than logic, and what this means for science communication, polarization, and our ability to reason together. Hugo Mercier also reflects on how confirmation bias can serve a useful function in group deliberation, why personal and local relationships often succeed where institutional messaging fails, and why, despite everything, he remains cautiously optimistic about our collective capacity to reason well.
Re-releasing a DAT listener favorite! News flash: Setting goals for yourself isn't selfish! In fact, Kiera encourages you to set personal, then professional goals. In this episode, she talks about why it's important to think about yourself a bit more, why taking personal time helps you AND your team, and the best way to actually set those goals. Say the things you want to have; be clear about the life you want. Episode resources: Subscribe to The Dental A-Team podcast Schedule a Practice Assessment Leave us a review Transcript: Kiera Dent (00:00) Hello, Dental A Team listeners. This is Kiera. And today we are bringing you something so special. I am so excited because this is one of our most popular episodes from the archives. Whether you're hearing this for the first time or catching it again, I am so excited because it's jam packed with a ton of takeaways that you can start using right now in your practice. We have released thousands, literally thousands of episodes. And I wanted to start bringing a few of these amazing episodes back for you. So I hope you enjoy. And as always, thanks for listening and I'll catch you next time. on the Dental A Team podcast. The Dental A Team (00:31) You guys, I hope today's an awesome day for you. I hope you're doing something great for you. Hope you're loving on your teams, giving them compliments, telling them how great they're doing, being very specific and intentional. And I hope you are just remembering that you are working in the best profession, in my opinion, that you could ever, ever, ever ask for. That's right. I believe that dentistry is the greatest profession any of us could ever work in. And I feel truly blessed and honored that we get to work and serve and Give back to a community that I am obsessed with. So with that said, guys, please be sure to leave us a review if you have not done so. Yes, I'm talking to you. I don't know your name, but I'm talking to you. Please go leave us a review. I know you've been a podcast listener for so long. Please help us out. Help us grow our podcast and serve and give to to more people. Guys, it's very simple. Whatever device you're listening to you scroll down to the bottom. There's a spot where you can either write an actual review or just leave the star rating. So please help us out. Keeping us at that five stars and giving back has been really, really beneficial. And then we're able to rank higher on the dental. When people search for dental podcasts, we're able to rank higher and help and serve more people. With that said guys, I want to talk about why as teams and owners, it's important for you to set goals for you. That's right. I think oftentimes we get so obsessed with setting goals for our practice that we forget that it's okay to set goals for the life that we want to have, for the life and the practice that we want to have. Not the one that we think we should have, but the one we genuinely want to have. What happens with that is so often I was actually just talking to a doctor and he said, you know, I really, really, really want to have where I only work three days a week. but I'm concerned that that's going to impact the team's goals of being able to grow and produce more since I'm such a strong producer. Okay. Number one, kudos to this doctor for loving on his team so much that he wanted to make sure his team was successful. Also with that said, I have found that when you are setting goals for yourself personally, you're much happier and you want to work harder. And also docs, if you just tell us what your goal is, we as team members get to become insanely. Yep. You got it. innovative. So we get to come up with it like this office. The office manager said, Hey, that's fine if you want to do this, because guess what? That gives us an opportunity to come up with different ways to change our insurances, to look for ways making sure that we have our fees exactly where they actually should be. It's going to eliminate patients who don't want to be paying for the services that we're offering. I love that this office manager took it on as a challenge. of how she could actually reach the goals that the practice is set while also reaching the goals that the doctor had for themselves. So for you guys, it's really that thought process of how can we actually achieve the goals that we want? Want? Yes, I said it, want. I want you to achieve the goals that you want. ⁓ And so with that said, making sure that you're setting goals for you. Now, sometimes I think that we feel selfish. We feel like, well, who am I to deserve this? But the answer is you're a person. You're a person of worth. You're a person who actually deserves to have the life you want if you want to have it. Or you can sit in a victim mentality and say, well, this is just the life it's going to be and I have to do this and I have to do that. Well, fantastic. You're welcome to stay in that mindset, but that's actually not true. You don't have to do anything. You get to choose the state of life you live in. You get to choose the state of being that you come to work every day in. You get to choose those things. Those are things that you have full control over. You also get to determine the goals that your practice sets together. Doesn't mean you'll necessarily reach them, but guess what? You get to set that. You do. You do. And so because of that, make sure that you actually are setting goals that you want to achieve. And don't worry about being selfish. We often have these stories in our head that aren't real. Guys, if you're a doctor who only wants to work two days a week, Please just say that. Say that because that way we can actually work and create something. We could hire an associate. We could do a lot of different things for you. We just need to know what you actually want. So I recommend setting three personal goals and three professional goals. Yes, tis the season guys for goal setting. I'm obsessed with it. I was just talking with my younger sister and she said, Kiera, I don't know how you have so much passion for setting goals. So if you feel that way too, that's okay. ⁓ but my little sister also told me a few days later, said, Kiera, you ignite thoughts in my mind. You make me think of, should start setting goals. I want to set goals. What am I doing? And she said, so by you saying this, you're actually giving back on such a greater level because she said for me, I don't think like that, but you do. And so if I can actually benefit from listening to you and hearing your passion, I'm then able to set and create goals as well. When that's something that I just don't even think about often. And I loved that. So I thought, okay, let's talk about this, but really getting into the nitty gritty of being okay, setting personal goals ⁓ of what you really want. So number one, I set three personal and three professional goals every single year at a minimum. This last year I had five of the five, I hit four of the five. The only one I didn't have hit was having a baby. ⁓ we can't get pregnant guys. And it's so irritating to me, but I probably shouldn't have set a goal around something I really don't have full control over. So, ⁓ but beyond that, I did hit all the goals that we have and it's actually pushing us to go and start on a journey of IVF. If any of you have tips on that, please email me personally guys, it's not professional. Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. I'm super excited. That's our 2022 journey. ⁓ The bottom line is setting those goals. So because I had a goal of having a baby last year, guys, and even though I didn't, ⁓ It forced me to think of the company differently. It forced me to have our entire company work on getting our SOP manual done, of having people learn to run the business so it wasn't completely dependent on me, of getting it more internal and having a team that could do this for me versus it being dependent on me all the time. It was one of the best goals that I set because it forced the company to innovate, create, and go into a different realm than it's ever been before. So that's why it's a paramount, guys. I hope I'm like drilling this into you to set goals that you actually want. Now, what do you do if you don't know what you Well, let's just go do a dream session. All right. Let's have you go just dream and imagine of anything and everything you've ever kind of even wanted. I'm talking like silly things. Like I've wanted to have a home cooked meal every day. Like silly things. Because what it will do is it will start to generate. an activity that I did that you guys can try is I'm going to give you three minutes, one sheet of paper, only one sided. Yes, you heard right. One sided. You can't write on the backside, only the front side. It has to be at eight and a half by eleven. I can see you guys getting huge poster boards, you overachievers. You got three minutes. You can even do it faster. Do it on two minutes. Set that timer for two minutes. Anything that's written on this paper, you will achieve. If it's not written on this paper, you will not get it for the rest of your life. Yeah, I just made that real serious. The rest of your life. Okay. So it's forcing you to think, I will only get these things if they're written on this piece of paper and I have two minutes to write down what I actually want in life. I don't care if they are materialistic. I don't care if they're relationship. I don't care what the heck they are, but you have two minutes and you get nothing else on this list for the rest of your life. That's a really good way to get you guys to think about what you actually want in your life. Okay, try it out. Then after that, go around and write one three or 10 years next to this. What is it going to be? Are you going to achieve this in one year, three year, five year, 10 year? Because some of those goals might take a little longer to achieve, but that's a great way to really see what do you actually want. Again, like really play by this. If this is all you are going to get for the rest of your life, the rest of your life, some of you might have a few years left. Some of you might have less time. or more time, but this is all you're going to get. That's how you can start to see like, do you actually really want in your life? And then from there, that's how we can start to create these personal goals. I write silly goals. I write awesome goals. I write goals. you guys, every year I get better and better and better at this. I haven't always been good at it I don't think I'm great at it today. I just think I'm willing to consistently do this year over year over year. But I write things that I actually want. This last year. You guys, I love to have savings accounts. You can ask Jason. I've got about like 12. My bookkeeper hates me. Not like hates, hates, but just drives him nuts. And I've got so many bank accounts, but I like to have these because they give me security. I've got my company bam. I've got my personal bam. I've got a fun from traveling. I've got a fun for my house decorations. Like I get crazy guys, but it gives me security. And so I oftentimes will write goals around how much money I want to have in my savings accounts. Guess what? Every year I hit these goals. I write goals. I love cars. love fast cars. I did just buy a Tesla Model 3 performance. So zero to 60 in three seconds guys. And I freaking love it. It's so fun. I love fast cars. So oftentimes I write goals around cars. I also this year my goal is to be in the best shape of my life. So I hired an in-house chef. Guys it's actually cheaper than going grocery shopping. Just so you know I did the math on it. It is cheaper. than grocery shopping to have an in-house chef. I don't know how I found this guy, but it was something that I wanted to have. So I'm hiring somebody. They're going to come cook for me one day a week. They make me three meals with eight servings each. That's 24 meals for me and my husband. They will put it into containers for me. Bada bing, bada boom. I've got dinner, lunch for an entire week and they come in once a week and they go grocery shopping for me. And it's cheaper than if I were to do my own grocery shopping. So things like that. I want to be in the best shape of my life. You guys, I'm terrible. I love to cook. I just don't make the time for it. And then when I do cook, I go to, it's too quote unquote hard for me right now to eat healthy meals. So I said, okay, if I'm going to be in the best shape of my life, what do I need to do about it? So those are some fun goals that I do just so you guys know, I have a goal to not work Mondays and Fridays. I love to have Fridays as my own personal day to do Kiera's things. Monday, I love it to be business dream day. that's not quote unquote work. I just don't want to be scheduled in meetings. I want to have a day where I can dream about the business. And if I want to work, I can. And I can start when I want to start. And I don't have meetings that are scheduled. That's something I want to do. So writing those things, being OK to say the things that you actually want to have. ⁓ In years past, it was that I wanted to travel out of the country one or two times. This next year, it's probably going to be that I have at least four weeks off throughout the year where I can actually just go on vacation with my husband and we can go have a great time. Whatever it is guys, you can create these goals. So really making sure that you write your personal goals. Then you go to your professional goals. Notice I do personal and then professional. Reason being is because if I take care of me, it's just like on an airplane guys, you got to put your oxygen mask on you first. Then you find a way to create it within the business. If you're clear of the life that you want to have, if you're clear about who you want to be, and this goes for owners and team members, guys, this is not just reserved for owners. This is reserved for everybody. Everybody, everybody can have this, you guys, every single person. So with that said, you guys then go to professional. If you want to have this life, what needs to happen professionally? What are the growth goals that the company needs to have? Now you might need to scale it back. It might be unrealistic for you to take four weeks off this year. Maybe it's that we start this year at two weeks and then next year we go four weeks. Just know because you write it down, it does not mean it's written in stone. It can be adaptable. One of my new values that I've created for myself is flexibility. Cause I was like, no, I said four weeks, I will find a way for four weeks. Well, flexibility can really change my life. It can help me be happier and more content with it out of being as hard. So giving myself that permission to have flexibility is something that I really valued. And so. Maybe I'm gonna change it. Maybe two weeks is still gonna give me that excitement and that happiness. But being able to start working towards the life I wanna have. I'll tell you guys, three years ago, I said I wanted the company independent of me. Took me three years, guys. And the only way we were able to actually find out if it was is because I got COVID and I was out for a week. Like down for the count. My head was spinning like a top with helium in there. Like that's literally how I described it. I couldn't do emails. I was stuck in New York. It was crazy. Tiffanie was doing presentations for me. Sissy was running the podcast. Shelbi was running all the meetings. People were talking to sponsors for me. I wasn't around. I wasn't creating content. The other consultants have started to do podcasts where we get consultants information so you guys can hear from a different perspective. Like those were innovative things. Innovative things that took me three years to actually achieve. So don't be afraid if these things don't get done right away. But the biggest piece I wanted to drive home is Be okay setting goals for you. Be okay taking care of you. You've worked hard. You deserve it. You guys trust me. feel selfish often. And then I started thinking, I'm willing to give everybody else their dream life. I care about my team members and I hear about what they want and I work really, really hard to create the life that they want to have. How come I can't be a great employer to myself? How come I don't care about myself as much? How come I don't allow myself the opportunity to succeed and win. Guys, I bust my buns. Why am I not a good employer to myself? I've thought about it. If I was an employee for myself or let me rephrase that. If I was an employee for somebody else who treated me like I do myself, I would probably quit. Think about that. How do you treat yourself? You probably work sunup to sundown. You probably don't get many vacations. So many of you called me during the holiday season, which I freaking loved. It like just fuels my fire. I love talking to you guys. We all get, we all get jittery. We don't know what to do ourselves with that much time off. We, we love to create. We love to work. We love to do these things. So we're like, how can I improve the business? Well, let's work on that. But just think if you worked for somebody else and they had you do that, you'd be livid. But that's how we treat ourselves. So I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying be okay to also treat yourself really well. Be okay to invest in yourself. Be okay to maybe spin the coin and say, hey, if I was truly an employee in this company and I was interviewing myself and I was caring about the goals and aspirations I have, what would I do for myself? How would I do it a little bit differently? How would I view me? Could I maybe show a little more kindness? Cause guess what? The kindness you show yourself, the investment you show yourself is the same investment you give your team. Don't fool yourself. Guys, the kinder I've been to myself, the more giving I've been to my team, shockingly. The more I'm in sync with the life I want to live, the happier I am, and the more my team supports it. It's shocking, guys, because guess what? My team loves me. They want me to have an awesome life. They want me to be successful. They want me to have a family. Sometimes it's okay to accept that people love us. It's okay. to accept that people want us to live our dream lives. It's okay to not want to work in the practice clinically every single day. Those are not wrong things. That's progression. That's growth. If you're not growing, you're dying. So be okay to set those goals. So I want you guys to take this, whatever stuck out to you in this podcast, I want you to go act on it today, not tomorrow, not in five days. I want you to grab a pen or a pencil, grab your phone, whatever you need to do, but write down, what are you going to do for yourself? Are you going to write personal goals? Are you going to be kinder? Are you going to actually treat yourself like an employee and answer those same questions? What are your one, three, five, 10 year goals? Who do you want to become? Because guess what? You as an owner need to be growing and progressing just like your team does. You need to be investing in your success just like you do your team. And I will promise you your life, your relationships, your health, and your work life will all change for the better when you take care of you. So guys, this is Kiera just giving you a big hug, high five, whatever you choose to receive of, it's okay. I want to give you permission, permission to live your best life, permission to be kind to yourself, permission to be crazy, permission to just live full out, permission to go off the rails, permission to be crazy. Guys, it was downright crazy to buy a Tesla. Do you know how much fun it is? Do you know how much I giggle? Going zero to 60, turning on Santa's sleigh and spreading holiday cheer? laughing with my family, letting all of them drive it, going 115 miles an hour. shouldn't say that. Any of you cops, I did it, guys. It was so fun. I can't wait to take it to the racetracks. I can't wait to do these things. It's so fun. Is it any smart? No, but guess what, guys? I could die tomorrow. I'm not saying be crazy. I'm just saying make sure you're living and you're not waiting to live. All right, guys, as always, thank you so much for listening. I'm cheering you on. If I can ever be a help. If I can coach you on these things personally or professionally, please reach out. I'd love to. This is what I geek out over and it just fuels my fire because if I can help you live your dream life while being profitable, while growing your teams and your systems, guess what? You're going to give back to your community, to your teams, to the people around you. And that's how we're going to massively impact this world for good. So please reach Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. Kiera Dent (18:56) I hope you all loved today's episode as much as I did. It is crazy to think that this many episodes have been released since we started the Dental A Team Podcast. And I started looking to say, my goodness, our listeners need to be reminded of some of the things they may have learned a year ago or two years ago or five years ago, because so many things in our practices weren't relevant back then when we heard them, but they are relevant today. And I would be doing you a huge disservice if I didn't re-release some of these episodes for you to remember, to refine. to optimize and really truly if you ever need a topic or you're like, my gosh, I wonder if the Dental A Team has anything like this, go onto our website, TheDentalATeam.com, click on our podcast tab and you can literally search any topic. So whether it's overhead or hiring or firing or team morale or engagement or case acceptance or hygiene or associate onboarding or whatever it is, we have so many episodes for you. And so I am going to intentionally be re-releasing some of the top best episodes for you, pulling back some of the ones that I needed to remember, some of the things that I feel for you to really, really relearn right now and to re-remember, or if it's the first time, welcome. I'm so happy you're listening to it, but I hope you truly enjoyed today's episode. I hope that you share this with somebody. I hope that you go and implement today because we only have one day. We only get today. And so making today the best that it possibly can be. If we can help you in any way, shape or form, reach out Hello@TheDentalATeam.com. And as always, thanks for listening and we'll catch you next time on the Dental A Team Podcast.
Another Eastern Catholic priest has become Eastern Orthodox — and it's not an isolated case. In this video, I take a closer look at why this keeps happening and explore the deeper dynamics behind these conversions. Why do some Eastern Catholics — including clergy — eventually cross over to Orthodoxy? Is it theological formation, ecclesiology, […]
We're joined by Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities, for a wide-ranging conversation on posthumanism as both a philosophical project and a political orientation.Braidotti's work has constructed one of the most sustained and consequential accounts of what comes after the collapse of Eurocentric 'humanism.' The conversation traces the long arc from her early intervention on nomadic subjectivity, a materialist corrective to postmodernism's drift into linguistic relativism, through the ethical and ontological turn that her posthumanist project represents. Where poststructuralism gave us the critique of the subject as origin, nomadism gave us a subject that is grounded, embodied, multiple, and in motion.Central to the episode is the missing link in the American reception of French theory: the radical materialist tradition of Deleuze and Guattari, which diagnosed capitalism's schizophrenic logic (its ability to deterritorialize and adapt faster than any opposition) long before it became common sense. Braidotti traces the suppression of that critique through the French Communist Party's blacklists, the invention of "French theory" as an exportable product stripped of its political economy, and the consequences for a left that lost the ability to think technogenesis, cognitive capitalism, or the mutation of subjectivity under media saturation.The conversation then turns to fascism as concept rather than historical event: the philosophical move that Deleuze and Guattari made and that Foucault named in his preface to Anti-Oedipus. This allows Braidotti to connect micro-fascism (the cult of negativity, the eroticization of power-as-humiliation, the viral spread of impotence) to the coherent neo-fascist philosophical tradition running from Alain de Benoit through the Heritage Foundation and Budapest to Peter Thiel's Yale dissertation on sacrifice. While the left blocked its own analytical capacities, the right was doing serious philosophical work.Against all of this, Bradiotti proposes affirmative ethics: a Spinozist praxis of activating what a body can do. The episode ends thinking through scale, how affirmative ethics operates from the city to the planetary, and the urgency of the European federalist project as the only existing institutional attempt to participate in decisions about what we could possibly become.Some references:Rosi BraidottiPatterns of Dissonance, Polity Press, 1991Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press, 1994Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, Polity Press, 2002Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Polity Press, 2006The Posthuman, Polity Press, 2013Gilles Deleuze & Félix GuattariAnti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972 (English trans. 1977, preface by Michel Foucault)A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1980Félix GuattariThe Three Ecologies, 1989 (English trans. 1991)Michel FoucaultPreface to the American edition of Anti-Oedipus, 1977SpinozaEthicsTheological-Political TreatiseAntonio NegriThe Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics, 1981Genevieve LloydPart of Nature: Self-Knowledge in Spinoza's Ethics, University of Minnesota Press, 1994Spinoza and the Ethics, Routledge, 1996Antonio DamasioDescartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, 2003Simone de BeauvoirThe Second Sex, 1949Frantz Fanon — mentioned in relation to decolonial thought and the anti-fascist generation Herbert MarcuseOne-Dimensional Man, 1964Eros and Civilization, 1955Rosa Luxemburg — cited as an ecological thinker; the dialogue with Lenin in Zurich narrated by Isaiah Berlin Isaiah Berlin — on Spinoza and radical enlightenment; on Rosa LuxemburgAltiero SpinelliThe Ventotene Manifesto, 1941 — founding document of the European federalist projectDonna Haraway"A Cyborg Manifesto," 1985VNS Matrix"A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century," 1991Alain de Benoist — neo-fascist philosopher, intellectual architect of the European New Right; cited as formative influence on Steve Bannon and the Heritage Foundation / Budapest / Rome foundation networksJulius Evola — philosopher of Italian fascism; cited alongside de Benoist as daily reference for BannonPeter Thiel — PhD dissertation on René Girard and the concept of sacrifice, Stanford / Yale; position papers on technological selection and extinction
"Ever had the rug pulled out from under you—suddenly seeing through illusions, societal programming, or personal deceptions—and felt the emotional tsunami hit? Shock, anger, grief, betrayal… it's intense. But what if that breakthrough train bursting into sunlight is exactly on time? In this episode of TGI Now We welcome back Joe "Zep" Antonelli as we dive into the real experience of spiritual awakenings: why they often arrive unexpectedly, how to honor (but not get lost in) the heavy emotions, and essential grounding practices to regain clarity and stability. We also bring in Dr. David R. Hawkins' renowned Map of Consciousness—a logarithmic scale from 1 to 1000 that calibrates human awareness and energy fields. Discover where fear, anger, and pride sit below the critical 200 threshold… and how crossing into Courage, Acceptance, Reason, Love (500+), Joy, Peace, and even Enlightenment transforms everything. #awakening #hawkins
It's apparently been a secret for ages, but FINALLY it's out, Michael Paynter is playing John Peter Farnham in the musical paying tribute to our national treasure, ‘Whispering Jack: The John Farnham Musical'. Together they'll discuss how long they've both been sitting on this news, how the audition process went, and why this means so much to both of them. Michael is also in the midst of his ‘Great Australian Songbook Tour' performing timeless Australian classics with some very special guests plus a live EP out now too, plus he's also a HUGE nerd when it comes to C.S. Lewis and the fictional realm of Narnia, so Em will quiz him on that too. NEW MERCH ALERT! Get new Emsolation merch NOW https://emrusciano.store Then in our Sealed Section, on our premium service Emsolation Extra, Em and Michael discuss his fitness routine, his love of Elvis and Savage Garden & they duet on JPF's ‘Age of Reason', plus Michael will also sing Savage Garden's ‘To the Moon & Back'. Get access for just $1.87 a week, or watch the full video of both episodes back to back via the Supercast website for $2.50 a week at emsolation.supercast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1. The Prayer of the Believing Child of God 2. The Reason for His Request 3. The Answer From God The sermon centers on the prayer of Agur from Proverbs 30, highlighting a profound spiritual wisdom in praying for neither poverty nor riches, but only the sustenance necessary for life. It emphasizes that true faith involves trusting God with both physical and spiritual needs, recognizing that wealth risks pride and self-reliance, while poverty can lead to bitterness and theft. The preacher underscores that God's provision is always sufficient, and the believer's response, whether in abundance or lack, must be gratitude, contentment, and faithful stewardship rooted in Christ. The prayer is not for luxury or security, but for dependence on God, reflecting a life shaped by humility, trust, and the eternal riches found in Christ. Ultimately, the message calls believers to live in constant awareness of God's sovereignty, finding identity not in possessions but in His grace.
Savage argues that the U.S. and the West are already in a communist socialist revolution, warning that Western civilization is at stake. He compares anti-boomer rhetoric to Bolshevik-era tactics such as branding farmers "Kulaks," condemning the likes of Ilhan Omar and Occasional-Cortex. Savage rips modern media obsessions—especially wall-to-wall coverage of the "Guthrie Saga." He warns about the consequences of possible military intervention in Iran. He pivots to personal survival themes—faith, resilience, and preparedness. He announces that his out-of-print book "God, Faith and Reason" will be reprinted with hopes of release by his March 31 birthday. Savage reminds us that life can change "in the blink of an eye" and that faith and preparedness are what carry people through any storm. Go to get.stash.com/SAVAGE to see how you can receive TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS towards your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures. Protect your wealth with Goldencrest Metals at https://reports.goldencrestmetals.com/savagegold For a limited time only, head to Rugiet.com/SAVAGE to get 15% off your order.
Have you ever looked at your current job and wondered, "how did I end up here?" The good news is, you didn't end up there on accident! God has strategically placed you exactly where you are for a REASON – to share the good news of Jesus Christ with your coworkers, employees, bosses, and clients! 2 Corinthians 5:20 says, "We are Christ's ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us." So next time that you feel burnt out or bored with your job, remember that you are an ambassador for Christ – sent to your workplace to make an appeal on God's behalf! For He created your work, He ordained it, He orchestrated it, and He is the one who will sustain you in it. So, take heart! Your job isn't an accident…. It's an anointing.
If you've been thinking about swapping out your old lead acid batteries for lithium — but you're not sure if it's worth the money or if they're even safe — this episode is for you. Scott walks through his real-world experience after two years running lithium phosphate batteries on his boat, covering the pros, the cons, the gear you'll need, and the mistakes to avoid.In This Episode:Why lithium batteries are far safer than the lithium batteries that gave the technology a bad nameHow lithium nearly doubles your usable capacity at half the weightThe charger, inverter, and DC-to-DC changes you may need to makeWhy some outboard manufacturers (like Yamaha) say not to connect lithium directly — and how to work around itHow the battery management system app lets you monitor charge state and troubleshoot electrical draws in real timeScott's honest two-year review running EPOCH lithium batteries on his boatTimestamps:00:00 – Introduction and Seattle Boat Show recap 01:30 – Anglers Unlimited Gold community update and PSA scholarship announcement 03:30 – North of Falcon salmon season setting preview 04:15 – Lithium battery safety: Why LiFePO4 is different from old lithium tech 06:00 – Pros: Capacity, weight savings, and consistent 14-volt output 08:30 – Cycle life and warranty 09:30 – Cost comparison: Lithium vs. Lead acid 10:00 – Charger upgrades: Why your old charger won't cut it 11:30 – Inverter compatibility and brand options 12:30 – The outboard question: Direct connection vs. DC-to-DC charger 16:00 – Dual-purpose batteries and cold cranking amps 17:30 – Charging best practices: The 20–80% rule 18:30 – The battery management app and real-world monitoring 20:30 – Scott's two-year honest review and final thoughtsKey Takeaways:Lithium phosphate batteries nearly double your usable capacity at roughly half the weight of lead acid.They maintain above 14 volts all the way down — no more anxious voltage watching on long anchor days.Budget around $400 per battery versus $200 for lead acid, but factor in the 11-year warranty and 3,500+ cycle lifespan.Check your outboard manufacturer's stance before connecting lithium directly — a DC-to-DC charger is the safest route for most setups.Your old trickle charger won't work — lithium batteries need a compatible charger that can deliver 30+ amps for bulk charging.The battery management app is a game changer for monitoring charge state and tracking down mystery electrical draws.Keep batteries between 20–80% charge for maximum longevity — and you don't need to leave them plugged in when stored.Resources & Links:Anglers Unlimited Gold Waitlist: https://anglersunlimited.co/goldPSA Fidalgo Scholarship (Deadline March 15): https://www.psafidalgo.org/scholarships-and-grants/WDFW Fishing Regulations: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulationsNorth of Falcon Process: https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/management/north-falconBrands Mentioned: EPOCH, Dakota Lithium, Victron, Ionic, MasterVolt (inverters)Want structured courses, expert seminars, fishing maps, and a community that helps you catch more fish? Join the waitlist for Anglers Unlimited Gold membership at https://anglersunlimited.co/goldAbout the Podcast:Fishing for a Reason is the Pacific Northwest saltwater fishing education podcast for new anglers and families who want to catch more salmon,
Morri Creech is the winner of the 2025 Rattle Poetry Prize. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently The Sentence. His book Field Knowledge (Waywiser, 2006) received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet's Prize. The Sleep of Reason was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisiana Arts councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte, where he teaches courses in both the undergraduate creative writing program and in the low residency M.F.A. program. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and two children. Find more at his website: https://www.morricreech.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Quick! Write a poem that moves fast. Include as many unique verbs as possible. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem that examines a surprising aspect of a job you otherwise generally love to do. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Archbishop Vigano: The Vatican is in Schism, Not the SSPX
Our 235th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 01/02/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:* Major model launches include Anthropic's Opus 4.6 with a 1M-token context window and “agent teams,” OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex and faster Codex Spark via Cerebras, and Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think posting big jumps on ARC-AGI-2 and other STEM benchmarks amid criticism about missing safety documentation.* Generative media advances feature ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video with high realism and broad prompting inputs, new image models Seedream 5.0 and Alibaba's Qwen Image 2.0, plus xAI's Grok Imagine API for text/image-to-video.* Open and competitive releases expand with Zhipu's GLM-5, DeepSeek's 1M-token context model, Cursor Composer 1.5, and open-weight Qwen3 Coder Next using hybrid attention aimed at efficient local/agentic coding.* Business updates include ElevenLabs raising $500M at an $11B valuation, Runway raising $315M at a $5.3B valuation, humanoid robotics firm Apptronik raising $935M at a $5.3B valuation, Waymo announcing readiness for high-volume production of its 6th-gen hardware, plus industry drama around Anthropic's Super Bowl ad and departures from xAI.Timestamps:(00:00:10) Intro / Banter(00:02:03) Sponsor Break(00:05:33) Response to listener commentsTools & Apps(00:07:27) Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new 'agent teams' | TechCrunch(00:11:28) OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex is 25% faster and goes way beyond coding now - what's new | ZDNET(00:25:30) OpenAI launches new macOS app for agentic coding | TechCrunch(00:26:38) Google Unveils Gemini 3 Deep Think for Science & Engineering | The Tech Buzz(00:31:26) ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Might be the Best AI Video Generator Yet - TechEBlog(00:35:14) China's ByteDance, Alibaba unveil AI image tools to rival Google's popular Nano Banana | South China Morning Post(00:36:54) DeepSeek boosts AI model with 10-fold token addition as Zhipu AI unveils GLM-5 | South China Morning Post(00:43:11) Cursor launches Composer 1.5 with upgrades for complex tasks(00:44:03) xAI launches Grok Imagine API for text and image to videoApplications & Business(00:45:47) Nvidia-backed AI voice startups ElevenLabs hits $11 billion valuation(00:52:04) AI video startup Runway raises $315M at $5.3B valuation, eyes more capable world models | TechCrunch(00:54:02) Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation | TechCrunch(00:57:10) Anthropic says 'Claude will remain ad-free,' unlike an unnamed rival | The Verge(01:00:18) Okay, now exactly half of xAI's founding team has left the company | TechCrunch(01:04:03) Waymo's next-gen robotaxi is ready for passengers — and also 'high-volume production' | The VergeProjects & Open Source(01:04:59) Qwen3-Coder-Next: Pushing Small Hybrid Models on Agentic Coding(01:08:38) OpenClaw's AI 'skill' extensions are a security nightmare | The VergeResearch & Advancements(01:10:40) Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters(01:16:01) Reinforcement World Model Learning for LLM-based Agents(01:20:00) Opus 4.6 on Vending-Bench – Not Just a Helpful AssistantPolicy & Safety(01:22:28) METR GPT-5.2(01:26:59) The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
PULL UP A CHAIR because we need to talk about the part of food freedom that nobody posts about on Instagram. You absolutely CAN say no to food without it being restrictive, but not until these 4 things are handled. If you're stuck in the "I'm allowed to eat everything so I do and then I feel like shit" phase, this one's for you.
Artificial intelligence or the pandemics were two recentcrises framed as almost magical non-human actors. They both reshaped the boundaries of human agency. By now,the language explaining them is often one of rupture and unprecedented transformation. AI or COVID-19 were described as opaque, autonomous and difficult to control. Both were imagined as operating beyond ordinaryaccountability, while still exerting real effects on collective life. In that sense, the anxiety does not result only from the fear of machines or unknown germs. It concerns the displacement of agency and the fragility of human beings tasked with governing forces they did not design and do not fully understand. Humans are unsettled when power seems to migrate beyond the human subject.Yet the fear of the non-human as a destabilising force isnot new. What we would like to pinpoint in our series it that societies, when confronted with such moments of rupture, authorize forms of exclusion and violence based on (ir)rationalism. Our focus throughout this series will fallon the vampire and witchcraft epidemics. European societies once confronted witches, revenants and vampires as threats to moral and political order. These figures emerged at moments of epidemic disease, religious fracture andinstitutional weakness. They offered an explanation for crisis. This new dossier revisits those episodes of collectiveanxiety. Whilst the differences between AI, pandemics and zombies, witches and undead are substantial, these moments reveal the fragile boundary between the rational state and collective hysteria. The imagery resulted can be a finebarometer of the how states respond when agency seems to escape human control or what mechanisms of blame, purification and boundary-drawing are activated.In our first podcast of this series, we discuss with Prof. John Blair, around his latest book Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World, published by Princeton University Press. John Blair reconstructs a world in which the dead were not metaphor but menace. His bookfollows the concept of restless bodies which stirred various social anxieties and created symbolic meanings.Drawing on both archeological sources and written sources,Prof. John Blair traces how reports of revenants and vampires spread across medieval England and later in Saxony, Bohemia and Transylvania. A particular revealing case is masticatione mortuorum (mastication of the dead), which meant the corpses that eat themselves. The book does not treat theseepisodes as a form of superstition. Instead, John Blair sees them as anthropological facts which are embedded in localconflicts and in turn reveal fragile systems of authority.Whilst one of the core tenets of Enlightenment was tofight superstition and Maria Theresa issued a ban on corpse-killing, John Blair underlines that the shifts were much more gradual. Reason did not replace fear.Blair shows that accusations of the undead surfaced where institutions were weak and explanations scarce. The exhumed body became a site of negotiation between fear and governance, even during the Enlightenment. What appearsirrational from a distance emerges, under scrutiny, as a structured response to crisis.
Vatican II CANNOT Be Changed? Vatican Drops Bombshell on SSPX
Grab my breakdown of the 5 Low-Cost Businesses That Make $1 Million: https://www.franchiseempire.com/lowcost?utm_source=TJJan102026Everyone thinks Chick-fil-A is the dream franchise… $10K to start, $9M+ in average sales, and people lining up out the door. But here's the truth: Owning a Chick-fil-A is nothing like owning a real business.In this video, I'm breaking down 5 reasons why I wouldn't buy a Chick-fil-A in 2026, even though I eat there 3x a week. This isn't hate. It's just what most people don't realize until it's too late. If you're serious about building wealth through franchising, you need to understand how this game actually works.
We pick up at Scene XXIX:The Matriarch Sorceress El and her Diabolical Son Loki/Abel have been vanquished by the heroic Goths, breaking the spell of darkness over the old world. Now comes the true golden Age of Reason and prosperity. Mankind has been rescued from the evil sorcerers and their cult of human sacrifice, for now... Become a mid top tier member for only $10 and get Ad-Free Pods and Exclusive Streams, PDFs etc:https://patreon.com/c/KristosCastYou can get our AWESOME Hot Sauces here: https://SemperFryLLC.comand right now you can use code: Foodstar for 6% Off.Many thanks for the channel campaign help. We're still a ways away from the goal. See the links below to help get the stuff we need. Thank You!Use Code BB5 here: https://SemperFryLLC.comClick Picture on the Right for the AZURE WELL products and use code BB5 for your discount.Find clickable portals to Dr Monzo and Dr Glidden on Dan's site.Join Dr. Glidden's Membership site here:https://leavebigpharmabehind.com/?via=pgndhealthCode: baalbusters for 25% OFFMake Dr. Glidden Your DoctorPods & Exclusives AD-FREE!https://patreon.com/c/KristosCasthttps://buymeacoffee.com/BaalBustershttps://paypal.me/BaalBustershttps://GiveSendGo.com/BaalBustersTwitter Account: https://x.com/KristosCasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/0vtEmTteIzD2nB5bdQ8qDRBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ba-al-busters-broadcast--5100262/support.
Is there references to modern day or higher technology recorded in the writings of this 5,000 year old battle between the Noble Goths and the Saturnal Serpent-Wolf Cult? This event in history was etched in stone, written of, and retold from Cappadocia & Carchemish to Sumer, Persia, India as recorded in the Vedas, Egypt, and the ancient Britons. The evidence is undeniable, and stands as the most important incident in mankind's history. This was the battle for the establishment of Civilization, a Reign of Reason and brotherly love against a wickedly EVIL cult of human sacrificers who opposed the elevation of mankind. They were having too much fun dominating and terrorizing the people of the Earth, and despised our ancestors for their liberation and protection of the people of the early world. This hatred for all that is good has remained the defining characteristic of these descendants of the Serpent cult to this very day. This Saturn cult established the 3 Abrahamic religions as masks of morality to lure in the unsupecting and control them through their belief systems. But really, the followers are unwittingly paying tribute and devotion to the demonic forces and most wickedly evil people ever to disgrace the realm. We pick up at Scene XVIII: Loki/Baldr/Typhon/Abel/Baal/Lucifer is cast out of "Heaven" banquet hall of Thor by Miok/Cain/Kon aka Archangel Michael, Thor's powerful son. The roots of every story retold in the Old Testament/Tanakh are rooted in a Gothic Arya conquest from 3,000 years prior to the Moon Cult's inverted retelling. The cult of human sacrifice and pharmakeia or poisoning and witchcraft are telling the biblical stories from their perspective. We were misled, but we are breaking the spell.Become a mid tier member:https://patreon.com/c/KristosCastYou can get our AWESOME Hot Sauces here: https://SemperFryLLC.comand right now you can use code: Foodstar for 6% Off.Many thanks for the channel campaign help. We're still a ways away from the goal. See the links below to help get the stuff we need. Thank You!Use Code BB5 here: https://SemperFryLLC.comClick Picture on the Right for the AZURE WELL products and use code BB5 for your discount.Find clickable portals to Dr Monzo and Dr Glidden on Dan's site.Join Dr. Glidden's Membership site here:https://leavebigpharmabehind.com/?via=pgndhealthCode: baalbusters for 25% OFFMake Dr. Glidden Your DoctorPods & Exclusives AD-FREE!https://patreon.com/c/KristosCasthttps://buymeacoffee.com/BaalBustershttps://paypal.me/BaalBustershttps://GiveSendGo.com/BaalBustersTwitter Account: https://x.com/KristosCasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/0vtEmTteIzD2nB5bdQ8qDRBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ba-al-busters-broadcast--5100262/support.
Judd and AJ discuss the recent Olympic games and Sweden's loss to Finald in what some would say was another tough game for Filip Gustavsson. Reason to worry or just a small blip in international play? USA handled Latvia and looks ahead to Denmark, plus a look around the rest of the games!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Judd and AJ discuss the recent Olympic games and Sweden's loss to Finald in what some would say was another tough game for Filip Gustavsson. Reason to worry or just a small blip in international play? USA handled Latvia and looks ahead to Denmark, plus a look around the rest of the games!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
One of the most challenging and controversial topics in the discussion of predestination is the nature of evil and suffering. Did God predestine these things? And if so why? These are weighty matters that require spiritual maturity, and today we will begin to explore them in great depth. * 00:00 - Introduction * 09:43 - Evil & The Cross* 26:39 - The Problem with the Arminian View of Evil* 33:34 - God is What Defines Good* 38:50 - Fate vs Biblical Predestination* 50:56 - Reason #1: To Reveal God's Power* 1:04:46 - Reason #2: To Reveal God's Justice* 1:13:49 - CHALLENGE: Women & Children in Judgments* 1:47:05 - Reason #3: To Reveal God's Mercy* 1:59:35 - Reason #4: To Reveal God's Redemption* 2:15:51 - Reason #5: To Accomplish God's Purposes* 3:00:25 - Reason #6: Typology* 3:03:29 - Reason #7: To Conform the Elect* 3:47:58 - How Evil & Suffering Glorify God* 4:00:25 - The Dual Perspective* 4:26:24 - Quick Summary* 4:28:26 - CHALLENGE: Why didn't God destroy the devil at Eden? * 4:51:19 - Final Thoughts This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.danceoflife.com/subscribe
The Summer of 94 was long and hot, just not long enough. The Reds and Astros were in a pennant race, so were about 6 other teams across baseball. Sadly, we know how this story ends. Join Bags, Kevin Mitchell, Hal Morris, a newly to the Reds Deion Sanders, and for some Reason, a very sexually open Ray Knight. Right Here on the Whole Ballgame. Its Baseball Night in America, after all. Watch with us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-PM7HYwWbMJoin us on PATREON: www.patreon.com/thewholeballgame Email us: thewholeballgame@mail.com Follow on Twitter/X : www.x.com/wholeballgameTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wholeballgame Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewholeballgame Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Whole-Ballgame/61576876146889/
BREAKING: Vatican Publishes Statement on SSPX Negotiations
Welcome to Madang.Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renowned authors, leaders, public figures, and scholars on religion, culture, and everything in between.This is the 56th episode featuring Robert G. Callahan, II. Robert is an accomplished attorney and author, dedicated to fighting for justice in his practice at Callahan & King, PLLC in Waco, Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Gonzaga University and a Juris Doctorate at Baylor University School of Law where he teaches a course entitled Integrating Faith and Legal Practice. In 2020, Robert was named Lawyer of the Year by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association. Robert's book, FIRE IN THE WHOLE: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness, tackles spiritual abuse via the church's complicity with racism, patriarchy, and bigotry while encouraging survivors that their anger is justified and path to healing does exist.On this episode of Madang Podcast hosted by Faith and Reason, Callahan and I talk about his book, Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness. We discuss Black history, color-blind church, racism, whiteness, anger, reconciliation, and much more.I am grateful to the many sponsors of this episode.1)I want to tell you about a Lenten resource from The Upper Room that I think a lot of you will really appreciate. It's called When Did We See You? A Lenten Exploration of Poverty & Wealth, and it takes on something many churches struggle to talk about honestly—money. Written by pastor and justice advocate Elizabeth Mae Magill, When Did We See You? is a thoughtful, deeply pastoral Lenten study that wrestles with poverty, wealth, and what it means to follow Jesus in an economically divided world. In a world of both abundance and inequality, When Did We See You? guides us through a crucial and timely conversation about our money, economic justice, and God's call for a world with enough for all. Learn more at store/upperroom.org/Madang and save 20% on your copies today with promo code MADANG at checkout. This Lent, may we have eyes to truly see Christ in our neighbors and respond with love and action.2)This episode is presented by Central Seminary – a historic, accredited, diverse, cross-cultural, and ecumenical seminary. Central Seminary equips students with the theological knowledge, spiritual insight, and practical skills needed to lead in an ever-changing world. Central offer numerous graduate degrees and certificates including our Certificate in Peace and Justice Ministry, which is facilitated in live, online classrooms. The Certificate in Peace and Justice Ministry will prepare you to lead and serve through social change in areas such as racial injustice, economic injustice, the climate crisis, war and violence, and more. To learn more, visit www.CBTS.edu or search for Central Seminary Kansas City.3)I am grateful to WJK PRESS for sponsoring this episode. Fire in the Whole equips Black Christians to make empowered decisions about their faith—whether that means leaving toxic spaces, building new communities, or reclaiming a liberating faith. Discussion questions and a personal inventory help readers decide what's next. Learn more at wjkbooks.com.4) PANAAWTM has 2 wonderful upcoming events: a) Vocational Discernment Gathering (tentative late March/April) will create space for reflection, conversation, and communal wisdom around calling, leadership, and faithful imagination—especially for those navigating ministry, academia, and public life in complex times. b) PANAAWTM will be hosting an upcoming virtual annual business meeting, tentatively planned for March. This gathering is an opportunity for our community to come together, share key updates, and participate in the work of sustaining PANAAWTM's mission and leadership.
Andy Hooser, The Voice of Reason sits in and guest hosts for Mark today. Andy covers the days events in real time.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with senior editor at Reason, Robby Soave, about the long-awaited release of the Epstein Files and the fallout following the disclosure. Has the dump of millions of unverified documents sparked a modern-day witch hunt, where gossip is mistaken for evidence and guilt by association replaces due process? They explore how both ends of the political spectrum have weaponised the files to smear opponents, the high cost of sacrificing privacy, and why the lone “no” vote in Congress may have been the most prescient voice of all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Show Erupts Massive Culture War