Podcasts about Recognition

Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age (Cambridge University Press, 2026) by Dr. Sidra Hamidi reveals how states contest their nuclear status in the atomic age. By examining the legal structure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, technical ambiguities surrounding nuclear testing, and debates over rights and responsibilities in the global nuclear regime, Dr. Hamidi argues that a state's nuclear status is not simply a function of technical capability. Instead, states actively contest the way they want their nuclear status to be presented to the world, and powerful states like the US, either recognize or reject these formulations. By analysing key diplomatic junctures in Indian, Israeli, Iranian, and North Korean nuclear history, this book presents a theory of when and how states contest their nuclear status which has key policy implications for negotiating with ostensible “rogues” such as Iran and North Korea. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age (Cambridge University Press, 2026) by Dr. Sidra Hamidi reveals how states contest their nuclear status in the atomic age. By examining the legal structure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, technical ambiguities surrounding nuclear testing, and debates over rights and responsibilities in the global nuclear regime, Dr. Hamidi argues that a state's nuclear status is not simply a function of technical capability. Instead, states actively contest the way they want their nuclear status to be presented to the world, and powerful states like the US, either recognize or reject these formulations. By analysing key diplomatic junctures in Indian, Israeli, Iranian, and North Korean nuclear history, this book presents a theory of when and how states contest their nuclear status which has key policy implications for negotiating with ostensible “rogues” such as Iran and North Korea. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Nuclear status is typically treated as a stable feature of a state's capacity to possess, use, or build nuclear weapons. Challenging this view, After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age (Cambridge University Press, 2026) by Dr. Sidra Hamidi reveals how states contest their nuclear status in the atomic age. By examining the legal structure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, technical ambiguities surrounding nuclear testing, and debates over rights and responsibilities in the global nuclear regime, Dr. Hamidi argues that a state's nuclear status is not simply a function of technical capability. Instead, states actively contest the way they want their nuclear status to be presented to the world, and powerful states like the US, either recognize or reject these formulations. By analysing key diplomatic junctures in Indian, Israeli, Iranian, and North Korean nuclear history, this book presents a theory of when and how states contest their nuclear status which has key policy implications for negotiating with ostensible “rogues” such as Iran and North Korea. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Security metrics often fail because they measure activity rather than actual risk, often failing to connect with business impact, making them difficult to explain to boards and executives. How do you build efffective metrics that are actionable, contextual, and valuable? Ben Wilcox, CTO & CISO at ProArch, joins Business Security Weekly to help us speak the language of the board. Ben will cover how to develop measurable, strategic, and AI-ready security metrics. In the leadership and communications segment, Only 30 minutes per quarter on cyber risk: Why CISO-board conversations are falling short, When the Team Gets the Recognition, Your Leadership Is Working, The communication lesson that changed my career, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-439

Security metrics often fail because they measure activity rather than actual risk, often failing to connect with business impact, making them difficult to explain to boards and executives. How do you build efffective metrics that are actionable, contextual, and valuable? Ben Wilcox, CTO & CISO at ProArch, joins Business Security Weekly to help us speak the language of the board. Ben will cover how to develop measurable, strategic, and AI-ready security metrics. In the leadership and communications segment, Only 30 minutes per quarter on cyber risk: Why CISO-board conversations are falling short, When the Team Gets the Recognition, Your Leadership Is Working, The communication lesson that changed my career, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-439

Security metrics often fail because they measure activity rather than actual risk, often failing to connect with business impact, making them difficult to explain to boards and executives. How do you build efffective metrics that are actionable, contextual, and valuable? Ben Wilcox, CTO & CISO at ProArch, joins Business Security Weekly to help us speak the language of the board. Ben will cover how to develop measurable, strategic, and AI-ready security metrics. In the leadership and communications segment, Only 30 minutes per quarter on cyber risk: Why CISO-board conversations are falling short, When the Team Gets the Recognition, Your Leadership Is Working, The communication lesson that changed my career, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-439

Sometimes leaders just want people to do their jobs. In this episode of Reflect Forward, Kerry Siggins shares a moment from a conversation with a group of CEOs that struck a nerve with everyone in the room. After dealing with workplace drama, she said something out loud that many leaders think but rarely say: sometimes we just need people to do their jobs. The response was immediate. Not frustration. Recognition. This episode explores what was really underneath that moment. Leading in uncertain times creates enormous pressure. Leaders are navigating volatility, economic shifts, and constant decisions while trying to maintain strong cultures. At the same time, employees are experiencing their own uncertainty and stress. When that tension rises, workplaces can easily drift into complaint, narratives, and drama. Over the past decade, organizations have worked hard to create more human-centered cultures built on empathy, psychological safety, and awareness of people's lived experiences. Those shifts have been important. But in some environments, the pendulum swings too far, and accountability becomes softened to avoid tension. When that happens, organizations lose sight of the foundation that makes work actually work: contribution. In this conversation, Kerry explores the contract that exists between employees and organizations, why contribution restores agency in uncertain times, and how both leaders and employees play a role in building strong, healthy cultures. Key Takeaways • Contribution is the foundation of the workplace contract. Employees create value through their work while organizations provide compensation, opportunity, and growth. • Empathy and standards must rise together. Compassion for people's experiences should never replace accountability. • Contribution creates agency in uncertain environments by shifting focus toward what individuals can control. • Discomfort is often part of growth. Feedback, challenge, and high expectations are not harmful. They are how people and organizations improve. • Avoidance erodes culture faster than conflict. When accountability is delayed, resentment builds and trust weakens. Mic Drop Moments • “The situation is the situation, and how you decide to show up in it is going to be your experience of that situation.” • “Contribution creates agency. Complaint amplifies helplessness.” • “In difficult seasons, the question becomes simple. Do we default to narrative, or do we default to ownership?” • “When uncertainty rises, the need for clarity and reliability rises with it.” • “Doing your job well is not small. It is stabilizing.” Connect with Kerry Visit her website, kerrysiggins.com, to get more leadership resources or to book her for a speaking engagement Find out more about her book here: https://kerrysiggins.com/the-ownership-mindset/ Connect with Kerry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-siggins/

In this study of Genesis 42–50, Kristian Heal explores themes of chosenness, favoritism, recognition, and reconciliation in the Joseph narrative, examining how hidden identity, repentance, and divine providence shape the theological meaning of the story.

Feeling alone in your own community can create quiet relational strain and identity confusion. This isn't social failure or emotional weakness. It may be a sign of identity-level misalignment — belonging through performance instead of being known.You can be surrounded by people and still feel alone.Not rejected.Not excluded.Just slightly unseen.This episode explores the quiet loneliness that can exist inside belonging — especially for high performers and high-capacity leaders who learned early that usefulness secured connection.If you've ever left a room exhausted not because anything went wrong, but because you were subtly “on,” this conversation will feel familiar.We explore:Why capable people often belong through strength instead of mutualityHow nervous system regulation shapes social bracingWhy identity drift can happen even in healthy communitiesThe external cost of armor in leadership relationships and family systemsThis isn't about communication skills or better social strategies.It's about recognition.When belonging is built on performance — even subtle performance — people begin relating to what you provide, not who you are. Over time, that creates distance. Teams learn that safety equals productivity. Children learn that love equals strength. Spouses stop offering care because you don't look like you need it.And underneath all of that? Often grief.Because the role that secured your belonging also protected you. Letting it soften can feel like risking your place.We gently explore the nervous system layer — how hyper-attunement, micro-adjustments, and social fatigue are not personality flaws, but adaptive strategies. And we name the layer few people speak about calmly: sometimes being the strong one keeps you slightly above needing anyone.Recognition comes before resolution. Awareness without shame is where recalibration begins.Today's Micro Recalibration:In your next relational space, ask gently:Do I exhale here?Not to fix it.Not to judge it.Just to notice.That awareness alone begins the shift.If you've been feeling relational strain, subtle burnout, or an identity shift you can't quite name — you're not broken. You may simply be recalibrating how you belong.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

Powerful Repentance and a Rich Man - Luke 19:1-10; Psalm 51:1-12 "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."  Psalm 51:10"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." Luke 19:10 I.   Luke 19: 1-5; Psalm 51:1-2 - Recognition by the Savior II.  Luke 19: 6-8; Psalm 51:3-9 - Realization of SinIII. Luke 19: 9-10; Psalm 51:10-19 - Reversal and Salvation

Summary In this insightful interview, Sherri Combs, Founder of Silver Streak Senior Services, shares her journey from the finance industry to senior care resources and advocacy. She discusses the challenges families face in finding trustworthy resources, the importance of community collaboration, and her innovative platform designed to protect seniors from scams while connecting them with vetted local services. keywordssenior care, elder scams, trusted resources, community collaboration, senior services platform, elder advocacy, family caregiving, aging in place, senior safety, resource hub key topicsThe disconnect in senior care resource searchBuilding trust in elder servicesCommunity collaboration for senior independence and safetysound bites"Seniors are terrified of getting scammed""We're taking back their autonomy and dignity""The honey trap scams target lonely seniors"Chapters00:00 Introduction to Silver Streak Senior Services03:45 Sherry Combs' Background and Motivation07:02 Bridging the Gap for Seniors09:43 The Importance of Collaboration13:08 Understanding Scams Targeting Seniors15:43 Membership and Services Offered19:00 Recognition and Future Plans21:50 The Just in Case Plan Book25:00 Advice for Caregivers27:42 The Urgency of Resources for Seniors39:03 Podcast Intro Music Project (MASTER BOUNCE - OUTRO).mp3 resourcesWebsite - https://silverstreekseniorservices.comDownload the The Just in Case Plan Free Workbook!Purchase the book: THE JUST IN CASE PLAN: SMART STRATEGIES FOR LONG TERM CARE, FAMILY CONVERSATIONS AND LEGACY PROTECTIONArea Office on Aging in NebraskaOutwitting the Devil by Napoleon HillInspired Caring is THE family support & education program that helps families feel calm and confident to make better decisions faster. Inspired Caring is offered as an annual membership tobusinesses to provide for the families they work with.Connect with Michele Magner:⁠Website⁠⁠E-mail⁠Instagram⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠YouTube⁠Custom podcast music written and produced by Colin Roberts. He does custom songs for any occasion.

Who is the daughter in YOUR family? Is she the one who Mom counts on to take her to her doctor appointments? Is she the one who always plans the Family Reunions and Christmas Dinner? Or maybe she's the one who's a listening ear for every family member confiding in her? Reach out to the daughter in your family, and thank them for taking that emotional toll to keep us all connected. Give them the Respect and Recognition they deserve. Dr. Allison Alford is a communication scholar and the author of Good Daughtering: The Work you've always done, the credit you've never gotten, and how to finally feel like enough

*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary This conversation explores the central truth that love is the only foundation upon which spiritual life and ministry can function effectively. While doctrine, discipline, gifting, and structure all have their place, they ultimately fail if they are not rooted in the love of God. The speakers identify frustration in ministry, especially around the recognition of the fivefold ministry, as often stemming from a deeper issue—the absence of love as the driving motivation. Love is not about position or title. Christ alone holds the position. The Body functions properly not when offices are recognized, but when believers operate in His presence and His love. True maturity is not defined by visible roles but by oneness formed through divine love. As believers press into love and unity, everything contrary to it surfaces—division, pride, self-will, and accusation. These exposures are not setbacks but part of God's cleansing process. Love sustains, corrects, humbles, and empowers the Body to function as family. Without it, nothing works. With it, Christ prevails. Show Notes 1. Love as the Core Motivation Change begins with motivation.Ministry, gifts, and discipline fail without love.Love must be the foundation of everything. 2. The House Analogy Structure alone does not make a home livable.Spiritual systems may look perfect but won't function without love.Love is what makes the “house” of God livable. 3. Frustration Around Fivefold Ministry Correct doctrine does not guarantee effectiveness.Recognition of offices does not produce maturity.The missing element is the impartation and appropriation of God's love. 4. No Positions in the Family Christ alone holds the position.The fivefold ministry functions organically within the Body.Grace, not title, brings forth true ministry. 5. Love and Oneness Love cannot be separated from unity or fullness.Maturity comes through shared participation in love.Oneness emerges as love deepens. 6. Love Exposes the Opposite Pressing into love brings hidden division to the surface.Accusations and relational tensions test love.Laying down self-will is necessary for unity. 7. Love Sustains and Prevails The Lord prevails through love, not personal striving.Love keeps believers steady through backlash.Failure becomes an opportunity for cleansing and growth. 8. The Example of Moses Korah operated from position-thinking.Moses responded in humility and worship.Love trusts God to defend and establish. Key Quotes “It's all about motivation.”“If the true motivation of the love of the Lord's not in your heart… things just fail.”“You can have all your doctrines correct… and yet things don't work.”“There are no positions in the family.”“He's the only one with the position.”“Without the love of Christ, you're nothing.”“Take up the banner of love and oneness—we're not going any further.”“The Lord will prevail—not you—but the Lord will prevail through you.”“The love of Christ controls us.”“It's God's love in all aspects of who we are and what we're doing.” Scriptural References 1 Corinthians 13 (1–3) Without love, even spiritual gifts and sacrifice amount to nothing. Ephesians 4 (11–16) Fivefold ministry given for maturity and unity in Christ. Colossians 3 (14) Love as the perfect bond of unity. 2 Corinthians 5 (14) “The love of Christ controls us.” Matthew 22 (37–40) The greatest commandments: love God and love others. 1 John 4 (8) “God is love.” 1 John 1 (9) Faithful forgiveness and cleansing. Numbers 16 Moses and Korah — humility before God versus position-seeking. Takeaway Spiritual growth, unity, and effective ministry cannot be manufactured through structure, recognition, or correct teaching alone. The determining factor is love—God's love imparted, received, and lived out. When love governs: The Body functions without striving.Positions fade and grace emerges.Christ prevails through His people. The real question is not, “Are we structured correctly?” It is, “Are we motivated by love?” Love is not an addition to the foundation. It is the foundation.

What if the ending you've been grieving was actually the answer to a prayer you forgot you prayed?I'm taking three familiar moments from my own story — and looking at them through a completely fresh lens. Because the further down the road you get the more clearly you can see the divine intervention actually going on!WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO: ✦ Why relief about an ending is actually a spiritual signal not a character flaw ✦ Recognition before readiness — and why seeing your destination before you're ready is actually the plan ✦ Being seen before you see yourself — and what to do with that mirror ✦ The alley oop — how every ending is actually a setup Because Friend — no endings are ever wasted. Not one single one.

Recorded 3/10/26. On this episode Coach V talks about some of the great performances from week 4 in Women's College Flag Football. He also revels our new rankings that see the most change to date. Intro 0:00- 1:14Playmaker of the Week 1:15- 7:44Fantasy Point Leaders 7:45- 22:39PMC Fantasy League 22:40- 30:35Week 4 Rankings Update 30:36- 1:06:32Outro 1:06:33-1:07:48https://linktr.ee/PlaymakersCornerSocial Media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlaymakerCornerTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@playmakerscorner?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pcInstagram: https:https://www.instagram.com/playmakerscorner/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlaymakerCornerYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUEcv0BIfXT78kNEtk1pbxQ/featured Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/playmakerscorner Website: https://playmakerscorner.com/ Listen to us on:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rkM8hKtf8eqDPy2xqOPqr Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cycle-365/id1484493484?uo=4 Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/the-cycle-365Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9mODg4MWYwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz

In this episode of the Grit Meets Growth podcast, we start with a simple idea that applies to almost every part of life: consistency is the missing puzzle piece. Whether you are trying to grow your business, improve your health, strengthen relationships, or build better habits, the results rarely come from one big action. They come from small actions done consistently over time.  That conversation quickly leads us into a deeper topic that many high performers overlook: gratitude. For driven people who are wired to solve problems and push forward, it is easy to focus only on what still needs to improve. In this discussion, we explore why gratitude is not soft or optional. It is a leadership discipline that recalibrates our perspective, reminds us what is already working in our lives, and helps us recognize the people walking beside us as we continue pursuing growth. 1. Consistency Drives GrowthReal progress comes from small actions repeated over time. Pick one area of life, choose one habit, and stay consistent.2. Gratitude Is LeadershipGratitude is not soft. It is a leadership discipline that keeps you grounded and strengthens relationships.3. High Performers Focus on GapsDriven people are trained to solve problems, which can lead to only seeing what is missing. Gratitude helps restore balance.4. Gratitude Recalibrates PerspectivePausing to recognize how far you have come helps reset your direction and appreciation for what you already have.5. Acknowledgment MattersTelling someone you see their effort can have a lasting impact. Recognition strengthens trust and connection. One TruthConsistency and gratitude change how you see your life. When you slow down long enough to recognize what is already working and commit to showing up consistently, growth stops feeling heavy and starts gaining momentum.

Identity shift can feel unsettling when money and responsibility are involved. If you carry financial pressure and quiet exhaustion from always being “the safe one,” this may not be about behavior. It may be about a protector identity that formed long ago.Many high achievers did not simply learn how to earn money.They built an identity around protecting it.If you feel pressure, decision fatigue, or subtle relational strain around finances, this episode explores what may be happening beneath the surface. Not budgeting. Not productivity. Identity.Some grew up watching financial chaos. Others absorbed quiet scarcity or anxiety without overt trauma. Even if you say, “My childhood wasn't that bad,” your body may have learned something powerful: security is fragile.From there, a protector identity often forms:The responsible oneThe careful oneThe one who does not miss thingsThe one who keeps everyone safeOver time, that role can harden into identity. Control begins to disguise itself as prudence. Scanning feels like wisdom. Scarcity scripts, often inherited rather than chosen, become operating systems.And beneath it all is a question many leaders never say out loud:If I am not the responsible one, what is my value?This conversation layers identity shift, relational dynamics, and nervous system protection. When money becomes proof, insulation, leverage, or safety in uncertain relationships, it is rarely greed. It is attachment.In marriage, leadership, and parenting, the financial protector role can quietly create hierarchy. Not overt conflict. But distance. Not because you crave power. Because you feel responsible.This episode lives in the Release stage of the pathway. Release does not mean recklessness. It means compassion for the role you built and permission to adjust it.Recognition precedes resolution.Compassion softens shame.Today's Micro Recalibration:Finish this sentence quietly: “I became the one who…”When did you decide that?Who did you learn it from?Was it chosen, or inherited?No fixing. Just awareness.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

Episode 644 features a look at the 911 Goes to Washington conference hosted by NENA through, 1st VP, Roxy Van Gundy, Congresswoman Norma Torres, and James, a 911 professional out of NJ. Sponsored by RapidSOS - Facebook | LinkedIn | X | Web Episode topics – Breakdown of the importance and impact of the 911 Goes to Washington conference. Updates on the Enhancing First Response Act and the push to reclassify 911 dispatchers as first responders. Inspiring words from Roxy Van Gundy emphasizing that every dispatcher's voice matters, no matter where they come from. Recognition of Congresswoman Norma Torres, a former 911 professional, and her ongoing advocacy for emergency communications. Behind-the-scenes perspectives on meeting representatives, engaging in legislative efforts, and what it's like at a national public safety gathering with James. If you have any comments or questions or would like to be a guest on the show, please email me at wttpodcast@gmail.com.

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High performers often feel financial pressure even when the numbers are solid. If you carry responsibility but rarely exhale, this may not be about money at all. It may be about identity, safety, and the weight you've quietly agreed to hold.High performers are rarely afraid of being poor.They are afraid of being responsible and failing.In this episode, we explore why financial pressure lingers even when income is stable and reserves are strong. If you've built success yet still feel a quiet vigilance around money, this conversation names what your body already knows.This is not about budgeting or strategy. It is about identity.We explore how high achievers may unconsciously use money as:Proof of competenceInsulation against exposureLeverage in uncertaintySafety when relational trust feels fragileOver time, financial success can fuse with personal worth. The nervous system learns that control equals protection.That is not greed. It is attachment.For some leaders, money feels more predictable than people. Money responds to effort. Relationships do not always do the same. When trust has felt costly, financial control can become the most reliable stabilizer in the room.This episode lives in the Recognition stage of the Identity-Level Recalibration pathway. Recognition means we do not fix. We notice the subtle hum that says, “Stay ahead. Never again.”Identity-Level Recalibration is not another mindset tactic. It is the root-level recalibration that stabilizes the person holding the outcomes. High performance optimizes results. Recalibration steadies the nervous system carrying responsibility.If you feel:Exhausted by invisible financial pressureConfused by why success does not settle youQuietly strained where money carries unspoken powerThis episode begins the shift from vigilance to grounded stewardship.Recognition precedes resolution.Orientation comes before action.Today's Micro Recalibration:When you think about money, does your body soften or tighten?Where do you feel it?What are you actually trying to protect?No fixing. Just awareness.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

Julia Dhar, Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group and founder of the firm's Behavioral Science Lab, joins us to discuss why most organizational change efforts fail and what leaders can do differently. Drawing on behavioral science and her work advising major organizations, she explains why the challenge of change is rarely about strategy alone and more often about human behavior.  Julia begins with a simple but powerful discipline used by many successful consultants: asking two questions repeatedly. First, "what is true about this situation?" and second, "what do I believe is true because of my perspective?" Confusing facts with assumptions is one of the most common causes of poor decisions, especially when leaders begin to treat their own expectations as evidence.  The conversation explores why roughly seventy percent of organizational change efforts fail to reach their stated objectives. Julia explains that many leadership teams concentrate on defining the strategy but devote far less attention to the conditions required for people to adopt new behaviors. Successful organizations focus on the "how" of change: shaping incentives, clarifying expectations, and reinforcing specific behaviors that make a strategy real in daily work.  Several practical insights emerge from the discussion: Leaders often overestimate how comfortable employees are with change. In surveys, executives typically report feeling positive about change, while most employees feel neutral and a meaningful portion feel anxious. Recognizing this gap is the first step toward leading change effectively. Emotions and incentives must be addressed together. People rarely adopt behaviors that conflict with their incentives, and fear or anxiety makes sustained change unlikely. Leaders who want durable change must create optimism about the future, give people agency in shaping how change unfolds, and offer clarity about expectations. Behavior must be defined precisely. Broad goals such as "be more accountable" or "be more customer centric" are not actionable. Effective change requires specifying the exact behaviors expected and creating routines that make those behaviors repeatable. Recognition plays a powerful role in shaping behavior. Leaders who identify and praise specific actions reinforce the habits they want to see more frequently, often at little cost and with lasting effect. Organizations frequently underestimate the value of listening. Employees are usually willing to provide feedback, but they become disengaged when their input leads to no visible response. Closing the feedback loop—demonstrating that input leads to action—builds credibility and energy for change. Julia also discusses the pressures executives face as organizations adopt new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Rather than framing the challenge as a threat to relevance, she argues that automation may free leaders to focus on neglected responsibilities, including understanding frontline work and strengthening human relationships across the organization.  Throughout the discussion, she returns to a broader principle: effective strategy requires an equally disciplined approach to human behavior. Leaders who combine clear strategy with attention to emotions, incentives, habits, and feedback loops dramatically increase the likelihood that change will succeed. Julia closes with a perspective that reflects both her research and her experience advising organizations around the world. In any team or company, every individual has the ability to "bring joy and inspire hope." That ability, combined with the belief that people and organizations remain capable of change, is often the most powerful force available to leaders. Get Julia's book, How Change Really Works, here: https://tinyurl.com/2zb4p63d Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Action, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

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We're carrying a lot of emotion right now, but not much surprise, and that matters because surprise is what you feel when your system expects safety, predictability, and repair. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT explores the difference between shock and recognition, how collective and generational trauma live in the body, and why so many women experience harm as familiarity rather than disbelief. We also name why “not all men” is so activating, how the “good guy” archetype can turn defensiveness into avoidance, and why allyship isn't enough anymore. The invitation now is intervention: choosing repair over exemption, and being willing to risk comfort and privilege to protect women and children.Additional ResourcesExplore: VanessaBennett.comBook: The Motherhood MythCommunity: Inner Compass CollectiveTraining: Inner Compass AcademyConnect with Inner CompassFollow on InstagramConnect with Vanessa Bennett:Follow on InstagramFollow on TikTokLearn more on SubstackConnect with Vanessa Bennett on LinkedInSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We all love a good story. But here is the twist. If you are the hero, you are doing it wrong. In this conversation, I chatted with John Elbing, creator of the Story Building Method and author of a new book on the topic. We dug into the difference between storytelling and story building. It is not a play on words. It is a shift in perspective that can change how your marketing connects. John believes storytelling has turned into a coat of paint. Hooks. Tricks. Presentation tips. All fine. But before you polish the story, you need to decide which story you are telling. And here is the big idea. It is not your story. It is your customer's. A few takeaways you can use right away: • Recognition comes first Before someone cares what you do, they need to see themselves in your message. In your words. In your images. In the problems you describe. When they think, “That's me,” you have their attention. Skip this step and they scroll right past you. • Perception shapes your value People want to quickly understand what you do and where you fit. If they cannot put you in a category, they get confused. And confused people do nothing. Be clear about what makes you different and why that difference matters. • Projection closes the gap Help them imagine life after they work with you. What changes? What feels easier? What problem goes away? When they can picture that future, they are already moving toward a yes. One of my favorite examples John shared was about lawn care. You can say, “I mow lawns.” Or you can talk about the exhausted homeowner who wants to feel proud of her yard again. Same service. Completely different story. That is the shift. When you build your story around your customer's aspirations, struggles, and trigger moments, your marketing feels less like a pitch and more like a conversation. And that is when people lean in. If your message is not landing, maybe it is time to stop being the hero and start being the guide.

When relationships begin to feel strained under pressure, it is often not lack of love but identity misalignment. This episode explores how work and contribution can quietly replace connection—and how presence restores what performance cannot.When work starts replacing connection, it rarely happens on purpose. It happens gradually.You build. You provide. You stabilize. You carry.And somewhere along the way, contribution begins to stand in for intimacy.This Saturday episode focuses on Horizontal Alignment—how internal identity shifts show up in marriage, parenting, friendships, leadership, philanthropy, and legacy. Not as theory, but in lived experience.Many high-capacity, responsible adults measure devotion through provision. They equate reliability with love. They become the emotional infrastructure in every room. Over time, being needed can quietly replace being known.This is not burnout in the traditional sense. It is relational misalignment layered over identity conditioning.You may find that:– You feel indispensable but not deeply supported– You are respected for your steadiness but rarely seen in your uncertainty– You confuse being useful with being connected– You struggle to receive without earning itWhen identity fuses with responsibility, output displaces intimacy.In marriage, this can look like parallel competence without vulnerability.In parenting, it can look like providing everything except unhurried presence.In friendships, it can look like being the strong one but never the one held.In leadership, it can look like carrying culture instead of cultivating connection.And sometimes, when contribution loosens its grip, something else surfaces.Grief.Loneliness that hustle once masked.The realization that usefulness became the currency of intimacy.That is not failure.It is clarity.Clarity allows connection to deepen beyond competence.This is orientation before resolution.Recognition before correction.Companionship instead of accusation.Today's Micro Recalibration:Notice one relationship in your life where you tend to contribute more than you connect. Without changing anything, ask yourself: If I stopped proving my value here, what might I allow myself to feel? Sit with the answer gently. Not to fix it. Simply to become aware.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, as we bring you our annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference Preview with Allison, Brian, and Jeanine. However, only one of us will be making an appearance at CSUN.   Way before we get in to our CSUN coverage, we kick things off discussing how do you know when your historic unbelievable bad luck may be turning around for the better? Which then leads back to the theft and hacking Brian went through and discussing that an iPhone hacking tool is now in the hands of Russian spies.   We then discuss the bizarre story of the woman who is dealing with reverse porch piracy.   Brian then discusses finally setting up his ally Glasses and his first experiences with them.   Next up we discuss who is watching the watchers, meaning the peeps wearing the Meta Glasses. And we finally have a name for the facial Recognition feature coming to the Meta Glasses, it's called NameTag.       Which leads to us discussing Royal Caribbean banning Smart Glasses on its cruise ships.   Could using VoiceOver get you kicked off a United airlines flight soon? And here is the entire bullet point on United Airlines of something that could get you kicked off a flight that Brian could not get through. • Passengers or Passengers' Service Animals whose conduct is unlawful; indecent, lewd, or sexual in nature (including viewing offensive content); harassing; disruptive; disorderly; offensive; abusive; unsanitary; or violent.   We then dive in to our CSUN 2026 Preview as Brian will be presenting once again with Dr. Bryan Wolynski at this year's CSUN Conference on Wednesday at 11:20am, it will be one of the most entertaining sessions at this year's CSUN as they discuss Artificial Intelligence, In and On Your Face. Jeanine then fills us in on some of the big stuff coming out of Aira for this year's Conference.   Apple announced a bunch of new products this week, but are any of them worth getting? We start discussing the new M5 Mac Book Pro.  But Allison roles us right on it to the new M5 Mac book Air, as she feels that is the computer in the Mac line up to get. Which then rolls us in to discussing the new Mac Neo versus a Mac Air. Apple also released the budget friendly iPhone 17E.   We then dive in to the Apple 26 feature for the phone app to go unified or old school.   We then discuss two new iPhone apps for the blind Curb to Car and Vision AI Assistant. Are they ready for prime time?   Google Gemini has now joined a lot of the other ChatBots as they have been hit with their first wrongful death suit.   We then discuss the troubling news of what the Department of Defense is doing to Anthropic, and what this could mean for tech companies in the future.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

In this episode, we're talking about the common "recognition trap" in early childhood education and why stopping at identification can limit deeper learning. You'll learn a simple four-stage framework you can use to guide children from basic familiarity with a concept all the way to meaningful application.Let's bring clarity and calmness back to your planning!Topics Discussed:Why recognition is the starting line, not the finish lineThe difference between naming and true recognitionThe four stages of preschool skill developmentThe framework and how it supports differentiationSimple ways to get startedRelated Resources:Skill-Based File Folder GamesConnect with AshleyFollow on Instagram @lovelycommotionJoin the Lovely Preschool Teachers Facebook GroupMore About the Lovely Preschool Teachers PodcastAre you a busy preschool teacher who loves gaining new ideas, perspectives, and inspiration for your classroom? The Lovely Preschool Teachers Podcast is here to help you up your confidence in educating early learners in a quick, actionable way!As an early educator who is still in the classroom, Ashley Rives will share the ins and outs of how she runs her classroom in a play-based, child-centered way. Each week, expect a new episode focused on actionable strategies to level up your abilities and confidence as a preschool teacher.Ashley Rives is an early educator with over 17 years of experience and a strong passion to help teachers implement child-centered learning in preschool classrooms all over the world. You can follow her on Instagram @lovelycommotion or learn more at the Lovely Commotion Preschool Resources website: www.lovelycommotion.com

As workplaces continue to evolve, so does the meaning of employee appreciation. In this special Employee Appreciation Day episode, we explore how organizations can recognize and support their teams in increasingly hybrid and remote environments, while staying mindful of legal risks. Subscribe to our podcast today to stay up to date on employment issues from law experts worldwide.Host: Marcia DePaula (email) (Steptoe & Johnson PLLC)Guest Speakers: Mike Gardner (email) & Fred Schutt (email) (Woods Rogers)Support the showRegister on the ELA website here to receive email invitations to future programs.

CW dismemberment; mentions of stabbing.The Tall Girls are granted an audience with MSVO. But what answers- if any- will they discover?Morgan quizzes a deity. Toz loses something. Raina gets a stomachache. Delphi lends a hand.Today's promo is for Little But Fierce by DC Bradshaw. Their kickstarter is live NOW with a special Deck of Many Aces stretch goal allowing us to make a new Splitting the Deck!Music by Chloe Elliott: A New World Dawns (Main Theme) A Temporary Setback (Morgan's Theme)Eyes of the VoidA Fracture in the Glass (Delphi's Theme)Seth's LullabyArtwork by Eiriol Evans.Sound Effects from Zapsplat.Support us by becoming a patron on Patreon.Check out the full original soundtrack here. Music from the main campaign can be found on music streaming platforms.Other projects:Watch Am and Chloe GM as part of TTRPGirls on EUphoriaAP: Am runs Slugblaster on Monday 16th March at 7pm GMT and Chloe runs Shiver on Friday 13th March at 7pm GMT.Listen to Am and Chloe on RWD. You can find them on Twitter and Instagram @RWD_Pod.Listen to Chloe voice Quinn/ Cynthia in C4DAC3U5.Listen to Chloe voice Eadith in Legend of the Bones.Find out what Ellie's up to at elliewebster.co.uk and sign up to their mailing list here to keep updated on all their creative projects.Asexuality and Aromantic Resources:The Asexual Visibility and Education NetworkThe Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and AdvocacyDeck of Many Aces is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. All the characters in this podcast are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deck-of-many-aces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When responsibility begins to feel heavy and pressure never fully lifts, you may not be overwhelmed — you may be losing yourself inside what you carry. This isn't laziness or weakness. It's identity drift. And it can be recalibrated.When responsibility becomes your identity, even strength can start to feel suffocating.In this milestone Episode 300, we explore what happens when commitment slowly turns into consumption — when being dependable, capable, and steady becomes fused with who you are rather than something you do.Many high performers and high-capacity humans do not struggle with effort. They struggle with self-erasure.They say yes quickly.They step in instinctively.They stabilize before anyone asks.And over time, responsibility stops being a role and starts becoming proof of worth.This episode gently explores:• Why over-functioning can feel like maturity• How identity drift hides beneath competence• Why delegating can feel destabilizing, not logistical• The loneliness of being the stabilizer in every room• The subtle fear: “If I'm not the steady one, who am I?”• Why high-capacity humans are allergic to self-deception — and how recalibration is refinement, not avoidanceWe name the deeper tension beneath burnout and stress:Not exhaustion alone, but identity fusion.This is not about doing less.It is about holding responsibility without disappearing inside it.Through Identity-Level Recalibration (ILR), we are not layering on productivity tactics or mindset hacks. We begin at the root — the who. Because identity precedes behavior. When alignment becomes your default, it becomes difficult to live misaligned for long. Not because you are perfect, but because you notice sooner. You adjust sooner. You release shame faster.Pressure creates short-term results.Alignment creates sustainable strength.Three hundred conversations later, the evidence is clear:Alignment scales. Pressure doesn't.This episode offers orientation before resolution.Recognition before force.Companionship instead of correction.Today's Micro Recalibration:Before you say yes, pause.Ask yourself:Is this alignment — or identity maintenance?You don't need to change your answer immediately.Just notice.Reinforcement begins with awareness.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

  1. From Bullying to Black Belt Leadership Dr. Terry's journey began at age 13 after being bullied in school. His father enrolled him in martial arts, which ultimately transformed his confidence and mindset. Martial arts became the foundation for his leadership philosophy. 2. Why Only 5% Reach the Black Belt Level Less than 5% of martial arts students earn a black belt. The same pattern appears in business: 70% of businesses fail within 10 years. The difference between good and great is the discipline to keep going beyond initial success. 3. The Foundation of Leadership: Belief The first principle in Dr. Terry's leadership philosophy is belief. You cannot achieve what you do not believe you are capable of achieving. Leaders must often lend belief to their teams until they develop it themselves. 4. The BLACK BELT Leadership Framework Dr. Terry outlines his leadership acronym: B – Belief Confidence in your potential and vision. L – Learning Commit to becoming a subject matter expert. A – Accountability Take ownership of outcomes and responsibilities. C – Communication Great leaders connect, not just communicate. K – Kinetic (Action) Success requires action, not just intention. B – Boldness Growth requires stepping into the unknown. E – Equipping Train others to eventually replace you. L – Loyalty Build trust and commitment within your team. T – Transformation Commit to becoming a better version of yourself every day. 5. The Leadership Trap: Doing Everything Yourself Many advisors struggle to scale because they refuse to delegate. Dr. Terry teaches the 80/20 rule of leadership: If someone can do a task 80% as well as you, let them do it. Focus 80% of your time on the 20% of activities you're best at. 6. Empowering Teams to Scale Leaders must build organizations of leaders, not followers. Empowering teams means allowing them to fail forward. Growth happens when people step outside their comfort zone. 7. The 1% Rule for Daily Improvement One of Dr. Terry's most practical leadership strategies: Improve just 1% per day in a key area. Over 30 days, that creates 30% improvement. Start with simple questions like: “Is this the best use of my time right now?” 8. The Power of Recognition Celebrating wins creates momentum. As Tony Robbins says: "What gets rewarded gets repeated." Recognition builds: team morale success habits stronger organizational culture. 9. The Danger of Stopping Growth Dr. Terry quotes Ray Kroc: "As long as you're green, you're growing. Once you're ripe, you start to rot." Successful leaders: pursue lifelong learning invest in personal growth continuously improve their mindset and skillset. Key Takeaways Belief is the foundation of leadership. Growth requires stepping into discomfort. Leaders must empower others to scale their impact. Small improvements compound into massive results. Lifelong learning separates elite performers from average professionals. **This is the Optimized Advisor Podcast, where we focus on optimizing the wellbeing and best practices of insurance and financial professionals. Our objective is to help you optimize your life, optimize your profession, and learn from other optimized advisors. If you have questions or would like to be a featured guest, email us at optimizedadvisor@optimizedins.com Optimized Insurance Planning

Recorded on 3/4/2026. On episode 500 we recognize some great performances from week 3 as well as unveil our most chaotic change to our rankings to date following an eventful week of the 2026 Women's College Flag Football season. Make sure to stay for the outro as we have an announcement. Intro 0:00- 1:45Playmaker of the Week 1:46- 4:38  Fantasy Point Leaders 4:39- 18:23PMC Fantasy League Update 18:23- 24:38Week 3 Rankings 24:39- 1:09:50Saying Thank You + Big Announcement 1:09:51- 1:17:30https://linktr.ee/PlaymakersCornerSocial Media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlaymakerCornerTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@playmakerscorner?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pcInstagram: https:https://www.instagram.com/playmakerscorner/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlaymakerCornerYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUEcv0BIfXT78kNEtk1pbxQ/featured Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/playmakerscorner Website: https://playmakerscorner.com/ Listen to us on:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rkM8hKtf8eqDPy2xqOPqr Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cycle-365/id1484493484?uo=4 Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/the-cycle-365Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9mODg4MWYwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Mowbray and Cherina Rowand Co-founders of The Rowand Group and One Stop Taxes, the largest Black-owned virtual tax preparation service in America. The interview highlights their business evolution, scaling strategies, community impact, and the creation of the Black Tax Festival.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Mowbray and Cherina Rowand Co-founders of The Rowand Group and One Stop Taxes, the largest Black-owned virtual tax preparation service in America. The interview highlights their business evolution, scaling strategies, community impact, and the creation of the Black Tax Festival.

If you struggle to rest, you are not lazy. And you are not bad at slowing down.When your nervous system resists rest, it is often responding to something older than your calendar.Many driven, responsible adults live in low-grade urgency. Not because they love hustle, but because their body learned early that motion meant safety. Achievement meant connection. Stabilizing the room meant belonging.So when things get quiet, the body does not interpret that as peace. It interprets it as unfamiliar.This episode explores: • why high performers feel restless in stillness • how predictive processing reinforces familiar reward loops • why responsibility fuses with identity • how “being the steady one” becomes a nervous system strategy • the grief that surfaces when intensity becomes normalWe are not teaching neuroscience. We are illuminating lived experience.Your brain repeats what reduces uncertainty. If competence calmed tension, your system stored it. If achievement strengthened attachment, your system reinforced it.Over time, adrenaline can feel like clarity. Urgency can feel like maturity. Rest can feel exposed.This is not traditional burnout. It is identity drift layered with nervous system conditioning.Identity-Level Recalibration is not another productivity tactic. It is root-level recalibration that makes every other tool effective. We begin with the who, not the how. Identity precedes behavior.Reclamation does not mean becoming less driven. It means separating commitment from consumption.You can remain sharp without staying strung tight.You can lead without living in low-grade adrenaline.You can care deeply without being consumed.Identity safety feels like breath. Not adrenaline.Like silence that does not accuse you.Like performance flowing from steadiness instead of panic.This is orientation before resolution.Recognition before force.Companionship instead of correction.Today's Micro Recalibration:When rest feels uncomfortable, place a hand on your chest and quietly say, “My body learned that motion meant safety. It is okay that this feels unfamiliar.” Then take one slower breath than usual.Not to fix anything.Just to introduce your system to a new option.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Mowbray and Cherina Rowand Co-founders of The Rowand Group and One Stop Taxes, the largest Black-owned virtual tax preparation service in America. The interview highlights their business evolution, scaling strategies, community impact, and the creation of the Black Tax Festival.

March 2026 Monthly Energy Forecast: Reality Begins to Register Your True Signal — Recognition Before ResponseOverall Theme. Reality Begins to Register Your True Signal — Recognition Before ResponseMarch shifts from stabilization into recognition. The coherence matured within you begins to be registered by the external field — not responded to, not reorganized around, but quietly read.✧ The Nine Themes of March 2026Theme 1. The Quiet Emergence of Signal — When the Field Begins Registering Your Stabilized ToneMarch opens with the first subtle sense that your stabilized tone is being registered — not responded to, not interpreted, but finally seen without the distortions that once obscured it. This foundational shift sets the tone for the entire month. Recognition precedes response.Theme 2. Shifting Absorption Patterns — External Fields Engage You DifferentlyWhere you once absorbed others' emotional or energetic tone, March introduces a new experience: external fields do not enter in the same way. Nothing absolute — but distinctly different. Coherence begins to hold, softening the old absorption patterns.Theme 3. Increasing Clarity of Interpretation — The Field Reads Your Frequency With Greater Accuracy(Dimensional Listening — The World Begins to Learn Your Frequency)Old misreadings soften. Assumptions lessen. People and environments begin responding to the actual meaning of your signal, not the wounded or patterned translation they relied on before. March supports the early stages of accurate reading.Theme 4. Growing Neutral Stability — Interactions Hold Without Pulling You Out of Light FormatNeutrality ceases to be an effort and becomes a byproduct of coherence. This is not perfection — but a noticeable shift in how you remain within yourself during contact.Theme 5. Ongoing Dissolution of Non-Beneficial Echo Fields — Old Feedback Loops Continue to Lose MomentumYou may still see non-beneficial echoes of old loops, but they are either losing their grip or cannot grip. Their momentum is being released or collapses because the frequency they once fed on is no longer present.Theme 6. The Still Point Before Reorganization — Holding Coherence as Recognition DeepensThis is not a pause of uncertainty — it is the natural still-point before April's alignment arc. Recognition must deepen before the field can begin to reorganize around your signal.Theme 7. More Clarity in Contact — Your Tone Is Received With Increasing Fidelity(Communication Begins Matching Your Actual Tone)People hear you more as you actually are — not fully, not perfectly, but with increasingly fewer distortions. The wound filters that once altered contact soften.Theme 8. Softening Contradiction — Mixed Signals Diminish as Coherence StrengthensA dual-signal field forms when the human system emits two signals at once — the Soul-aligned Signal and the non-beneficial survival-based signal. As your coherence stabilizes in March, the secondary signal weakens. Contradiction does not disappear instantly, but it softens. As your stabilized structure holds more consistently, then the external field becomes less oppositional and less erratic because you are no longer sending competing signals into the world.Theme 9. The Coherence Threshold — Preparing the Field for Structural AlignmentMarch closes with the sense that something subtle has clicked. Not reorganization — but the necessary precursor for April's threshold. The field recognizes enough of your structure to begin aligning with it.—

In this episode, Fiorenza Rossini sits down with Sam Kennedy Christian, an accredited executive coach, coach supervisor, and certified Fair Play Method facilitator at The Float Space.Together, they explore the often invisible but overwhelming mental load carried by working mothers. “Sharing the mental load or even just distributing the mental responsibilities can significantly reduce stress and improve mental health. It's about surfacing those invisible tasks and having open conversations about them.”, says Sam.From understanding how societal expectations shape household responsibilities to practical tools for reducing stress, this conversation offers actionable insights to foster balance, belonging, and well-being. Whether you're juggling work, family, or both, you'll find strategies to make space for self-care, creativity, and shared responsibilities in this episode!In particular, I really enjoyed getting to know more about the Fair Play method!It's a game-changing approach developed by Eve Rodsky. It's designed to help couples divide household responsibilities more equitably. The method uses a deck of cards, each representing a task, to make the invisible mental load visible and manageable. It's not just about who does what, but about having clear ownership of tasks from start to finish.Tune in for the full conversation

What are we actually chasing?Likes?Applause?Recognition?Or real impact?In this episode of The H.I.T. Podcast, Dr. Brandi Stankovic, Ed.D. joins us fresh off her recent TED talk to challenge the modern definition of “success” — especially the kind fueled by online praise and performative wins.We explore:• Why fake happiness and surface-level validation are so easy to chase• How leaders unintentionally reward the wrong behaviors• What organizations should really be measuring• How to build cultures rooted in meaningful work — not opticsIf you lead people, influence culture, or care about what your organization is truly optimizing for, this conversation is a must-watch.This one goes deeper than tactics — it's about intention.

Not feeling like yourself without work can create quiet pressure and confusion, especially for high achievers who feel most solid when producing. This isn't burnout. It may be identity misalignment — and a gentle invitation back to who you are beneath output.There's a quiet identity shift that doesn't look dramatic from the outside.Your calendar is full. Your responsibilities are real. Your leadership is steady.But when work quiets, something in you feels exposed.Not burned out. Not collapsing. Just… less defined.This episode explores what happens when productivity and identity become braided together — and why rest can feel strangely uncomfortable for high achievers and responsible leaders.We examine:• why usefulness can become tied to self-worth • how responsibility evolves into over-identification • why being “the strong one” feels stabilizing — and exhausting • how the nervous system pairs competence with safety • what identity drift actually isMany high-performing professionals don't struggle with motivation.They struggle with separation.If I'm not producing, who am I? If I'm not needed, do I still matter?Over time, the brain learns:Productivity equals safety. Responsibility equals belonging.That pattern is adaptive — not permanent.Identity-Level Recalibration is not another productivity strategy or mindset tactic. It is the root-level recalibration that makes every other tool effective. When identity precedes behavior, action becomes sustainable instead of performative.This episode also names the quieter fears beneath identity drift:• Is it too late to change? • Will I lose my edge? • Can I be valued without earning it?Recognition is not demolition. It's noticing the braid.Today's Micro Recalibration:When you finish a task and nothing urgent demands your attention:• Pause for ten seconds. • Notice what emotion surfaces first. • Name it quietly.No correction. No optimization. Just awareness.Because awareness is where recalibration begins.Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

In this episode, Junior shares the story of one of his early adventures toward appearing on television. At just twenty-one years old, he made a decision: he was going to be on TV. Instead of wishing for it, he took action. With the help of a kind and patient Bishop from the Mormon Church, Pogo Poge, aka Bishop Morgan White, that opportunity became reality. Junior appeared during the final two months of the beloved Checkers and Pogo show, playing the role of the mailman and stepping into a dream he had declared years earlier.Years later, while working in radio, a producer created a television special about the show. And even though she knew Junior had been part of it, he was somehow left out of the production. It wasn't the first time he had been overlooked. As he explains, he was never part of the popular clique in any field he entered. Recognition didn't always and hardly ever came from the system, but fulfillment did.The deeper lesson is this: you can be in the system without belonging to it. You can live in the world without being defined by it. Gatekeepers, cliques, and control mechanisms do not determine your destiny. Your dreams are not dependent on approval. When you understand that God lives within you, and that divine energy responds to what is embedded in your subconscious, you realize that no external structure can limit what is meant for you.So the question becomes: What are your dreams?As Junior always says, Life is short. Live your dreams, Hawaiians! If you listen to this podcast, you're an honorary Hawaiian. If you'd like to learn how subconscious training and spiritual alignment can help you manifest your own dreams, visit www.hereforyoulifecoaching.com or email junior@hereforyoulifecoaching.com.Here For You Life Coaching is a Voicemaster Enterprises LLC company. © 2026 All rights reserved.

Book your reading now!  www.jilljardineastrology.com Order your book and Oracle cards for Sacred Sound Formulas to Awaken the Modern Mind by Parashakti Jill Jardine:  www.jilljardine.com Welcome to Eclipse Season, March 2026!  Here are the Key Dates:                                    Mercury Retrograde:  2/26-3/20, Lunar Eclipse Virgo Full Moon: 3/3;  Venus transits Aries: 3/6-3/30; Jupiter transits direct in Cancer: 3/10; Pisces New Moon:  3/18; Sun into Aries/ Vernal Equinox: 3/20, Mercury Direct: 3/20 March roars in like a lion on Qualudes with Mercury retrograde in Pisces through March 20 and a Blood Moon Lunar eclipse on 3/3. There will be disturbances in the force, and fear mongering out in the world, with an Eclipse and Mercury Retrograde in early March. Saturn surges through early Aries launching a long-term transit (2026-2028) amplifies themes of structure, discipline, accountability, and defining realistic action plans.  Mars pulses through Pisces until April 9 when he mobilizes in home court Aries. Mars in Pisces through March brings compassion-driven action, creative force, and sometimes diffuse energy — strong for intuitive or healing work. Last full month of Uranus in Taurus: Ongoing revolution of values, finance, and material security frameworks. Before Uranus transits into Gemini in April were feel like we are straddling dimensions, at a crossroads, and perhaps living in multiple dimensions simultaneously. Altered realities and time distortion pervades, and many are feeling the toll of these non-physical energies on their bodies. Timelines are ending and colliding at the same time! Early March feels tentative as if the other shoe is about to drop.  Something is coming and we can feel it, sense it, clarity obscured by the Lunar Eclipse and Mercury Retrograde in Pisces occludes with illusion & confusion .  All our release and shadow work comes in handy now, with Mercury retrograde in Pisces until 3/20.  With Mercury in Pisces you May Experience: Enhanced intuition, Vivid Dreams, Heightened Imagination, Blasts from the Past. Watch for: Blurred Boundaries, Confusing Communications, Active Addictions, Projections onto others. Remember your RE words as in: Resolve relationship issues, Release old narrative, Reassess Clarity vs. Illusions. Remember communications need more clarity - Revise projects from late January–February.. The proverbial sh++ hits the fan right at the get go of March with the Lunar Eclipse on 3/3 exasperated by Mercury Retro. Eclipse Season Continues  Late February into early March carries highly charged energy, with both a Solar Eclipse (Feb 17) and the Lunar Eclipse (Mar 3) activating deep transformation, especially around identity, relationships, emotional truth, endings, and beginnings.  Key Focus Areas Virgo–Pisces Axis (Eclipse Axis): Health routines, work systems, service Emotional discernment and soul integration -Recognition of where perfectionism or avoidance no longer serves  Re-calibration of boundaries between practical life and inner truth Initiation Energies Toward Mid-Month: With the New Moon in Pisces (Mar 18) and the Sun entering Aries (Mar 20), March bridges completion and release with fresh starts in spiritual intention and bold action. Big Eclipse Episode arrives on 3/3 is Blood Moon Full Moon Lunar Eclipse. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Pressure culture did not begin in your company.It began somewhere earlier.In this episode, we slow down and trace leadership stress back to attachment patterns, early responsibility, and the emotional climate of home. Not to analyze. Not to diagnose. Simply to notice.Many driven, high-performing leaders assume urgency is part of their personality. But often, urgency is learned. It was adaptive. It reduced chaos. It stabilized rooms. It protected connection. And what protected you early in life can quietly become the atmosphere you transmit at work.This is not a conversation about productivity or performance optimization. It is not a new leadership tactic.This is identity-level recalibration.In this episode, we gently explore questions such as:• Who carried anxiety in your home growing up?• Who held everything together?• What did love feel like — steady, conditional, earned through responsibility?• Where did urgency first feel necessary?For many leaders who have been in long-term committed relationships, these patterns have surfaced again. Marriage and decade-long partnerships often reveal attachment dynamics we did not see in childhood. Not because something is wrong, but because intimacy exposes what leadership can hide.Workplace culture often mirrors attachment patterns at home. If love once felt connected to performance, leadership may feel fused with responsibility. If stability required vigilance, leadership may default to hyper-responsibility. If chaos decreased when you increased, you may still increase automatically.This episode moves from unconscious repetition to conscious presence.Not to rewrite your past.Not to blame your story.But to integrate it.Because what is learned can be unlearned. Not erased. Integrated.Key takeaways:• Urgency is often inherited, not invented.• Leadership stress may be attachment stress resurfacing.• Compassion increases when you recognize adaptation instead of labeling it flaw.• You are not your survival strategy.• Culture at work mirrors nervous system patterns formed at home.We do not rush to resolution here. Recognition precedes repair. Presence precedes change.Micro Recalibration:Pause and ask yourself gently:Where did urgency first feel necessary?Let a memory surface without analysis.Then say quietly:That was then. This isExplore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

n this conversation, Glenn Kurtz discusses his book 'Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsman Who Built It,' shedding light on the often-overlooked workers who constructed the iconic skyscraper. He emphasizes the lack of documentation about these laborers, the dangers they faced, and the diverse backgrounds they came from, primarily as immigrants. The discussion also highlights the role of photographer Lewis Hine in documenting these workers and the racial dynamics present in the workforce. Ultimately, Kurtz aims to give recognition to these individuals and their contributions to one of America's most famous landmarks.Guest InformationGlenn KurtzWebsiteSocial:Facebook InstagramGet your copy of Men At Work by Glenn KurtzAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything may earn a commission from qualifying purchases.Chapters:00:00 Introduction to the Empire State Building's Builders03:10 The Unsung Heroes: The Workers Behind the Construction06:05 The Dangers Faced by Workers09:03 The Diverse Workforce: Immigrants and Their Stories1:46 The Challenge of Documenting Workers' Lives14:51 Lewis Hine: The Photographer of the Workers17:59 The Changing Perception of Immigrant Labor21:05 Recognition and Legacy of the Workers24:09 Conclusion: The Importance of Remembering the BuildersFor more intriguing and engaging interviews each week, subscribe now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. and now on YouTube

We walk you through what Emergency Physicians need to know to recognize, risk stratify, and manage endometriosis safely and pragmatically. We answer question such as: When should endometriosis rise to the top of the differential for pelvic pain? How do we distinguish an endometriosis flare from a  dangerous endometriosis complication? from Pelvic Inflammatory Disease? Why hemorrhagic cyst the most common misdiagnosis for endometriosis and how can we tell the difference between hemorrhagic cyst and endometrioma? Which hormonal therapy is safe, reasonable and effective to start in the ED? What are the most common life-threatening complications of endometriosis we should be on the lookout for in the ED? How do we discharge patients with suspected endometriosis safely and reduce repeat visits? and many more... Please consider a donation to EM Cases to ensure continued free open access medical education here: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/donation/

Nervous system regulation in leadership becomes critical when pressure and confusion quietly shape team culture. If your presence feels heavier than you intend, this isn't failure. It may be identity-level misalignment, not lack of skill.You've likely felt it before.You walk into a room tense, and the room tightens.You walk in steady, and something shifts.Conversations soften.People breathe.Thinking expands.This episode explores nervous system regulation in leadership — not as theory, but as lived reality.In Season 4, we're walking the Identity-Level Recalibration pathway slowly and relationally. This week, we've recognized tension and released shame. Today, we reclaim something powerful:Your regulation is not softness.It is infrastructure.For high-capacity leaders, urgency often feels productive. Tightness feels sharp. Speed feels strong. But over time, pressure can quietly become culture. Not because you lack character. Because your nervous system learned to equate vigilance with safety.And what shaped your nervous system long before you shaped your team?Most high-capacity leaders did not inherit steadiness. They became it.Culture is not only defined by strategy, vision statements, or KPIs. Culture is a shared autonomic state. It is what nervous systems do together. When a leader is braced, others brace. When a leader is steady, others settle.Identity-Level Recalibration is not mindset work.It is not performance optimization.It is not about becoming more impressive.In this episode, we explore:• Why your nervous system shapes leadership relationships more than you realize• The hidden confusion high achievers feel when steadiness seems “too soft”• How burnout and pressure culture often stem from inherited vigilance• Why regulation is not passivity, but grounded authority• How reclaiming your steadiness changes team culture without announcementsThis is about orientation before resolution.Recognition before reaction.Embodiment before instruction.If you've ever wondered why your team mirrors your mood — this conversation will help you see clearly without turning on yourself.Today's Micro Recalibration:Before your next interaction, take one steady breath. Feel your feet on the ground. Enter the room without rushing to fill silence. Notice what shifts when you stop interrupting Explore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

Leadership pressure can quietly shape culture long before burnout shows up. If you feel exhaustion beneath competence, this may not be failure — but identity-level misalignment. Today we release shame and soften the grip.Leadership pressure rarely announces itself.It often looks like competence.Responsibility.High standards.And over time, it becomes culture.In this episode, we explore how pressure can move from personal strategy to collective atmosphere — and why releasing it requires compassion, not shame.This conversation sits inside burnout and pressure, while layering identity shift and leadership relationships. Because pressure is rarely just about workload. It is often about identity — who you believe you must be in order for things to stay stable.Many high-performing leaders learned early that safety meant vigilance. That love meant competence. That stability meant holding everything together. That strategy built excellence. It built trust. It built companies.But what once stabilized can eventually constrict.When urgency becomes default, teams feel it — even if they cannot name it. Culture absorbs nervous system patterns long before it absorbs strategy.Pressure culture does not begin with ego. It begins with protection.And when you begin to see that your urgency might be shaping the room, shame often follows.This episode gently interrupts that shame.You did not create pressure culture because you are broken.You created it because you learned it.Clear Takeaways:• Pressure once created stability — and acknowledging that matters.• You are not your coping strategy. Responsibility is something you learned, not who you are.• Pressure can keep you competent — but it can quietly keep you alone.• Releasing urgency does not lower standards; it removes fear from the room.• Compassion, not criticism, is what allows pressure patterns to soften.This is not about dismantling excellence.It is about releasing unnecessary tension.Recognition allowed you to see the pattern.Release allows you to soften it.Today's Micro Recalibration:When you feel the impulse to step in quickly, exhale.Let your shoulders drop slightly.Ask gently: “Is this mine to carry?”If yes, respond steadily.If no, let it stay where it belongs.Release is rarely dramatic.It is the quieExplore Identity-Level Recalibration → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Learn about The Recalibration Cohort→ Join the next Friday Recalibration Live experience → Take your listening deeper! Subscribe to The Weekly Recalibration Companion to receive reflections and extensions to each week's podcast episodes. → Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Books to read (Tidy categories on Amazon- I've read/listened to each recommended title.) → One link to all things...

Men have lost initiation. There was a time when boys were tested before becoming men. They faced hardship. They endured pain. They returned changed - recognized as men. Today, that process is gone. In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler breaks down: Why modern men feel lost The three elements of ancient initiation Why pain is necessary How comfort culture is weakening men Why nobody is coming to initiate you How to initiate yourself If you feel stuck, drifting, or chasing validation - this episode is for you. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Men Have Lost Initiation 00:26 When Boys Knew They Became Men 02:50 The Cost of Extended Adolescence 05:10 Comfort Culture Is Weakening Men 07:25 "Where Have All the Real Men Gone?" 08:05 The Three Elements of Initiation 08:30 Removed From Comfort 09:24 The Benefit of Pain 11:15 The Trial: Facing Fear 12:56 Recognition and Acknowledgment 14:49 Drifting, Chasing, and the Integrity Gap 16:35 Nobody Is Coming to Initiate You 17:14 Voluntary Hardship 18:45 What Initiation Looks Like Today 19:45 Brotherhood Is Modern Initiation 20:51 The World Needs Grounded Men 21:15 Questions Every Man Must Ask Himself 22:21 Do Something Difficult This Week 23:47 Steadiness Over Loudness 24:35 Choose the Fire 25:00 Join the Iron Council 25:20 The Men's Forge Event 26:00 Final Challenge   Battle Planners: Pick yours up today! Order Ryan's new book, The Masculinity Manifesto. For more information on the Iron Council brotherhood. Want maximum health, wealth, relationships, and abundance in your life? Sign up for our free course, 30 Days to Battle Ready  

On today's episode, Andy answers your questions on how big your success needs to before getting appreciated by others, how to stay in charge of your business without becoming trapped by it, and how to break out of "feeling stuck" when the path ahead feels unclear and risky.